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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 11
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 145, in _generate_tables
dataset = json.load(f)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 11498)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 148, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 122, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 11
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, talks the competition and the future
"As I look forward, right now the conversation is about beginning of momentum. We have a range of devices, we've got some unique applications, the developers are moving in our direction, we are seeing this accelerating momentum, and that is all good."
Those are the calm words of Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, to Pocket-lint at this year's CES in Las Vegas when we convinced him to squeeze a 30-minute interview into in his ludicrously busy schedule.
This time last year most pundits had written off Nokia. While hugely successful in the emerging markets, there was trouble at the top. The company's flagship phones weren't selling, stock was down, and Stephen Elop, the new CEO installed in September 2010, was probably wondering why he'd left Microsoft at all.
Then came the, now famous, leaked "burning platform" memo that highlighted just how dire those straights were that the once great phone maker was in, and, if they didn't do something about it, that the company would be in some serious trouble indeed. Elop had been parachuted in to save Nokia, to turn it around, to bring it kicking and screaming into the new era - the new ear that now sees fierce competition from Apple, Samsung and HTC.
Nokia's old sparing partners are all but dried up. Sony Ericsson has become just Sony, Motorola has been bought by Google and Palm has finally been closed. Not that that phases Elop.
"A year from now, I want the story to be a bit more about, OK, this third eco-system, it's in play, this is happening. There will be a big raging debate about it, but having a more balanced perspective that there is a third contender that clearly is in the game."
That's possible, Elop believes, because of the devices they are producing and releasing, and the products he knows they've got coming up. That and some help from a certain mobile OS with a certain large player in the tech world behind it.
Stephen Elop presents his vision at the Qualcomm keynote at CES
"Right now my senses tell me that people look at the devices and look at the ecosystem and say 'OK we see it, we understand it, we can now visualise what it means and we're impressed.' I am hearing that a lot, and I am pleased with that. We now need to go to the next step which is 'OK, we are seeing it built, seeing the growth in it,' and that's what we should be talking about a year from now. And of course I hope to be talking about the next wave of this, and the new products for that, and new services, so innovation constantly, we'll be talking about a year from now."
The products that will allow him to do that are the Nokia Lumia 800, already on sale in the UK, the Nokia Lumia 710, on sale in the US and due in the UK at the start of February, and the Nokia Nokia Lumia 900 announced at the show and set for launch in the US in March.
"We have not announced the 900 in other countries. One of the things you should notice though is that we clearly have a pattern of this rolling thunder of announcements one after another and what we are doing more and more is making sure that we are targeting specific devices and specific price points for specific markets."
This laser focus is something it seems Nokia followers should expect more of.
"For example," Elop tells us as the crash of a waiter emptying a large ice bucket in the hospitality suite next door breaks the conversation. Oddly embarrassed by the interruption, as if it is his fault, he apologises and carries on. "In the US, one of the things that was actually one of the most important things we did with the Lumia 900 was LTE support. LTE support costs. It costs in terms money for the radio, extra battery life requirement and so forth. LTE in Europe is not so important. It will be, but not today. We haven't announced anything specific, but clearly there is going to be a steady pattern of new devices and a full portfolio of capabilities in Europe and around the world. There is lots more to watch."
But it isn't just about launching new products and hoping that is enough. Elop believes, for Nokia to be successful, it will have to prove that it is very different from what is already on the market.
"Our first priority, always, always, is to differentiate our experience from Android and iPhone. That is job one, two and three quite frankly."
But what about Samsung, HTC, LG and others that also make phones? While the rumours continue that Elop is a mole for Microsoft and that the company is about to be bought by the creator of Windows Phone 7, in reality, for the time being, those remain just rumours and, with such strong guidelines, how can Nokia stand apart from the other companies that also use Windows Phone 7?
Nokia Drive, exclusive to Nokia Lumia phones is leading the app charge for the company
Elop believes services like the Nokia Drive app is a great start allowing them to stand apart from what is offered elsewhere in the market and the WP7 ecosystem.
"With a Lumia you have access to the Nokia Drive application for free as part of the device. Whereas others have mapping and some other things, that full personal navigation device experience is something that is unique in our platform."
You'll note that Nokia Drive is an app, not an embedded feature and that's important to Elop, clearly worried that by tinkering too much with the OS will cause fragmentation. He believes he has it covered.
"I pick that example because it is one where there is a common platform for mapping on a Windows Phone device that everyone shares and we are actually contributing to that for everybody, but we still have the ability to build more on top. We want to be very careful that we don't do something that makes an application that someone else has built work on our devices but not on others."
Elop adds:
"We don't want that fragmentation introduced into Windows Phone because we are beginning to see how in a certain other ecosystem that fragmentation becomes a problem," Elop says knowing that we know exactly who he is taking about.
Of course it's not all just about apps, Nokia has said that it believes design will also help them stand out from the crowd - it is the first to launch a bright cyan and pink phone in the UK in a long time, although it's not a move it's opted for in the US with the launch of the Lumia 900.
"We work with our operator partner, in this case AT&T, and jointly there is an assessment done as to which colours will move initially and which ones won't," Elop says after a chuckle when caught off guard by our slightly fatuous question of why no Magenta (pink) Lumia 900 in the US.
"I wouldn't be surprised if we saw other colours at other times."
Elop turns his 900, cyan in case you're wondering, over and over in his palm between waving it around like a proud school kid. You like the cyan we ask?
"I do, actually. I like all the colours. One of the advantages of testing devices is that I get to see these crazy colours that the market hasn't seen yet, which is fun."
Stephen Elop carries three phones with him; the Lumia 900, the Lumia 800, and a competitor's device
It's the last he says on the colours, but it bodes well, especially if you are looking for something a little more exciting than black or white, the industry favourites.
But Elop also likes the black Nokia Lumia 800 as well - he carries both - and a third competitor handset so he can "learn". He might be the CEO of Nokia, but that doesn't mean he wants to isolate himself too much, it seems. It's also a handy way for him to fend off our next question. Will those that bought the Lumia 800 feel cheated that the 900, a better spec'ed model, is about to come out less than 6 months later?
"No," is the quick response before Elop adds, "I will absolutely continue to carry an 800 because it is a beautiful device and I like the form factor and the size. The 800 is going to continue to sell in markets around the world for a great deal of time to come, so I think people should be very proud of the device they have because in itself it is a unique experience."
Consider yourself told.
Those perhaps more fickle will likely be excited by the news that, although initial sales of the 900 will be through AT&T with a contract, there "are there going to be successor devices, different shapes, sizes, different configurations, of course."
That, to us, reading between the lines, suggests that we will be seeing a 900 variant for other parts of the world in due course. The Americans don't get to have all the fun, just like the Brits didn't with the 800.
"As much as I don't like a customer saying 'hey I want that phone that's over there' I kind of like the fact that it was just a few weeks ago that people in the United States were writing me emails saying 'Why can't I get the 800 in the US?' Well, now you've got the 900, and people in the UK are going to ask 'Why can't I get the 900?' so a bit of excitement helps as well.
"The message we are trying to deliver is: 710, 800, 900, and there is going to be more."
The conversation moves on from phones to apps and the one sticking point opponents always bring up when compared to Apple and Android. The lack of them. There might be 50,000 and counting but the operating system is still missing plenty of big names, like Skype.
Skype for WP7 was announced at Mix'11 but as yet to land on the OS - Image credit Long Zheng
Rumours are abound that we shouldn't have to wait long (our guess is MWC at the end of February) and it's something that doesn't seem to worry Elop either.
"I worry a bit less about that one, because I can imagine that the work is going to get done," Elop tells Pocket-lint as he fixes his stare on the Microsoft logo, but he doesn't slip off the hook so easily when we ask him to detail the app he most enjoys, and the app that he most wants.
"It's not an app but something that I love about Windows Phone. I am trying not to make this the sales pitch, but it is a sales pitch. It's the fact that I can hit 'Me' and all of my kids Facebook information, all the Twitter feeds, good, bad, different, whatever they are, it's all there. Similarly around People hub, 'hey Susan, let's have dinner, look at Susan, boom I've got it' and there, I'm not using an app, I'm not using Twitter, and Facebook, and LinkedIn, and email, or SMS, but it is all packaged for me. I truly do enjoy that integrated experience.
"Only occasionally do I go as far going into the Facebook app or the Twitter app, because generally I don't need to. Now, in terms of apps that I enjoy, I am enjoying the new ESPN app, I am following my favourite sports teams to see what they are doing. I am all over the world in crazy time zones, so to be able to get access to that video feed or whatever is really good."
And the app that he most wants?
"This is a personal answer. I am a pilot, there are certain applications that have been popularised on the Apple platforms for pilots, both on the iPad and the iPhone that have really affected how people fly airplanes. Those apps aren't yet available on Windows Phone but, you know, I have a personal interest. We'll see how we do."
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Home » Commentary » Arsenal Analysis » What took so long? Washington NFL team loses trademark for racial slur.
What took so long? Washington NFL team loses trademark for racial slur.
By Greg June 18, 2014 - 4:01 pm June 18, 2014 Arsenal Analysis
Past Arsenal For Democracy co-host Greg on the significance of today’s trademark ruling against Washington’s NFL team.
This morning, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled in favor of Amanda Blackhorse, a psychiatric social worker and Navajo woman who, along with four other Native Americans, challenged the “Washington Redskins” trademark in court this Wednesday. The ruling cancels six federal trademarks registered by the professional football franchise from Washington, D.C. between the late 1960s and 2000.
Blackhorse, et al. challenged the trademark under Section 2(a), 15 U.S.C. §1052(a) which prevents the issuance of trademarks that “may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.” That the name “redskins” is disparaging has been fairly well established over the past several decades–the USPTO had already cancelled the “redskins” trademark in 1992 because of its disparaging nature, a decision that was only reversed in federal appeals court because of a technicality–and does not warrant reexamination here (you either get it or you don’t). More telling are the USPTO’s selections from this enormous evidence body of evidence:
Some highlights from the official 177 page opinion document include…
Offensive cheerleaders
Offensive marching bands
Offensive programs
Multiple dictionary definitions.
And many more.
Far from tyrannical (as some in the #tcot echo chamber on Twitter have suggested today), this decision is well within the purview of the federal government, the guarantor of Intellectual Property. Protection of intellectual property, that is, in a manner that prevents individuals from using others’ proprietary ideas to make money, is not an inalienable right. The government has not banned Washington’s football franchise from calling themselves the “Redskins.” Instead, they have reevaluated the value of protecting such a trademark and determined that its harm (the marginalization of an entire race) exceeds its benefit (preventing individuals from profiting from ideas that are not their own).
It is unlikely that this decision alone will precipitate a name change. The team will, undoubtedly, appeal the decision and there is a chance an appeals court could once again rule in its favor. However, the movement to change the name is near critical mass. Now that the USPTO will no longer enforce the “Redskins” trademark individuals are free to create their own Redskins merchandise to sell for profit.
In fact, they have always been free to do so, but the Washington Redskins now have fewer tools at their disposal to go after trademark infringement. Which is not to say we condone or recommend such an action. Not only is still remarkably offensive, but Washington Redskins owner, Dan Snyder, has never been one to shy away from a lawsuit.
Unfortunately, loss of revenue from unofficial merchandise sales are probably of little concern to an organization worth a reported $1.7 billion. Yet the USPTO decision is one of great symbolic importance and illustrates an ongoing trend: if public opinion continues to move against using an obvious racial slur as a mascot, Washington owner, Dan Snyder, may need to reconsider the declaration he made in May 2013:
“We’ll never change the name…It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”
Greg (contributor) is a public health policy professional and a recurring guest commentator on the Arsenal For Democracy radio show.
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Tagged intellectual property, NFL, sports, trademarks.
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Source: cover of the brochure of the "Entartete Musik exhibition
Caricature of an obese man
Illustration: Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, illustrated by Gustave Doré in 1873
"What’s heaven? Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and the bankers are Swiss.
So then, what’s hell? Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and the bankers are Italian." [...]
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think [...]."-- Hegel
"Arabs are the most maligned group in the history of Hollywood. They’re portrayed basically as sub-humans – ‘Untermenschen’, a term used by Nazis to vilify gypsies and Jews. [...] And what I tried to do is to make visible what too many of us seem not to see: a dangerously consistent pattern of hateful Arab stereotypes, stereotypes that rob an entire people of their humanity." --Reel Bad Arabs, 2001
"[Through Aesop] [...] we acquire certain opinions of the several animals and think of some of them as royal animals, of others as silly, of others as witty, of others as innocent." --The life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus
Les Poires, a caricature of French king Charles Philipon
Stereotypes are generalized ideas and representations about members of particular groups, based primarily on membership in that group. They may be positive or negative prejudicial, and may be used to justify certain discriminatory behaviours. Some people consider all stereotypes to be negative. Stereotypes connect with stock characters, clichés and tropes and are contrasted with individuality, originality and unicity.
2 Role in art and culture
3 Stereotypes of groups
4 By region
5.1 Examples of stereotypes
Stereotypes are assumed characteristics based on a large group of individuals whose beliefs, habits, and actions are perceived to be similar.
Stereotype production can be based on
Exaggeration
Presentation of cultural attributes as being 'natural'
Unshakable belief in stability of stereotype
Racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination
Historical factors
Stereotypes are seen by many as undesirable beliefs imposed to justify the acts of discrimination and oppression. It is thought that education and/or familiarization can change these misbeliefs. Other negative effects are:
justification of ill-founded prejudices or ignorance
unwillingness to rethink one's attitudes and behavior towards stereotyped group
self-fulfilling prophecy for both stereotyping and stereotyped group (white people treat black people in a more hostile way because they are afraid of them; black people accordingly react more aggressively, thus confirming the stereotype...)
Unhealthy stereotypes can be negative or positive, even for the same group: Black men are generally supposed to be good musicians and basketball players, but at the same time seen as aggressive, prone to lives of crime, and likely to be on drugs. The effects of stereotypes can have positive and negative effects: Students who were implicitly made aware of their gender behaved as the stereotype suggested:
Asian-American women performed better in math tests when being aware of being Asian, and did worse when being reminded of being women.
Stereotyping can also be created by the media, showing an incorrect judgment of a culture or place.
Often the terms stereotype and prejudice are confused:
Stereotypes are a generalization of characteristics; they reduce complexity, provide stability, and offer opportunities to identify oneself with others.
Prejudices are either an abstract-general preconception or an attitude towards individuals.
Role in art and culture
Stereotypes are common in various cultural media, where they take the form of dramatic stock characters. These characters are found in the works of playwright Bertolt Brecht, Dario Fo, and Jacques Lecoq, who characterize their actors as stereotypes for theatrical effect. In commedia dell'arte this is similarly common. The instantly recognizable nature of stereotypes mean that they are effective in advertising and situation comedy. These stereotypes change, and in modern times only a few of the stereotyped characters shown in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress would be recognizable.
In literature and art, stereotypes are clichéd or predictable characters or situations. Throughout history, storytellers have drawn from stereotypical characters and situations, in order to connect the audience with new tales immediately. Sometimes such stereotypes can be sophisticated, such as Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Arguably a stereotype that becomes complex and sophisticated ceases to be a stereotype per se by its unique characterization. Thus while Shylock remains politically unstable in being a stereotypical Jew, the subject of prejudicial derision in Shakespeare's era, his many other detailed features raise him above a simple stereotype and into a unique character, worthy of modern performance. Simply because one feature of a character can be categorized as being typical does not make the entire character a stereotype.
Despite their proximity in etymological roots, cliché and stereotype are not used synonymously in cultural spheres. For example a cliché is a high criticism in narratology where genre and categorization automatically associates a story within its recognizable group. Labeling a situation or character in a story as typical suggests it is fitting for its genre or category. Whereas declaring that a storyteller has relied on cliché is to pejoratively observe a simplicity and lack of originality in the tale. To criticize Ian Fleming for a stereotypically unlikely escape for James Bond would be understood by the reader or listener, but it would be more appropriately criticized as a cliché in that it is overused and reproduced. Narrative genre relies heavily on typical features to remain recognizable and generate meaning in the reader/viewer.
In movies and TV the halo effect is often used. This is when, for example, attractive men and women are assumed to be happier, stronger, nicer people.
Stereotypes of groups
Common stereotypes include a variety of allegations about groups based on age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, dis/ability, profession, sexual orientation, race, religious belief, size, physical appearance, social class (see social stereotype). Stereotypes can also be based on individual impairments.
Stereotypes of Americans, Stereotypes of Africans, stereotypes of British people, stereotypes of French people, stereotype of Germans, stereotype of Irish people, stereotype of Scottish people, stereotype of Russian people
List of basic stereotype topics
Attribute substitution
Attributional bias
Statistical syllogism
Counterstereotype (antonym)
Face-ism
Implicit stereotypes
Labeling theory
Positive stereotype
Scapegoating
Negativity effect
Outgroup homogeneity bias
Trait ascription bias
Stigma management
Gender role
Masculinity, male stereotype
Femininity, female stereotype
Examples of stereotypes
Cultural and ethnic
List of anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic terms
Stereotypes of white people
Stereotypes of Americans
Stereotypes of groups within the United States
Stereotypes of Argentines
Stereotypes of South Asians
Stereotypes of Jews
Sexuality related
LGBT stereotypes
List of sexuality related phobias
Stereotypes of animals
Blonde stereotypes
Nurse stereotypes
Physical attractiveness stereotype
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Stereotype" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
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Artwatch Protecting Art
Trouble at Yale University Press London
This week Yale University Press published Art History and Emergency, a book of essays assessing art history’s role and responsibilities in what has been described as today’s “humanities crisis”. It explores how artists, art historians and related professionals respond to pressures and demonstrate worth.
It considers how it might be possible to think deeply about art objects and images without losing the intellectual intensity of the best works being studied. (We are tempted to hold that a clear distinction should always be drawn between making and appraising art. Fuseli held it desirable to maintain such a division even within the production of art when he advised artists to conceive with fire but to execute with phlegm.)
The content and timing of Art History and Emergency must coincide embarrassingly for its publisher with the profound collapse of scholarly confidence triggered by a radical restructuring of Yale University Press’s own art historical programme. There is also irony in the fact that this particular examination of the “humanities crisis” is published in the “Clark Studies in the Visual Arts” series. ArtWatchers will be familiar with the Clark Institute’s own contribution to that crisis through mistreatment of paintings and breaches of its founder’s terms of bequest. (See “Taking Renoir, Sterling and Francine Clark to the Cleaners” and “From Veronese to Turner, Celebrating Restoration-Wrecked Pictures”.)
Art is perpetually vulnerable to wrong-headed, impetuous and destructive administrative impulses. Its traditions are slow to build but all too easy to dismantle – an architect in revolutionary France devised a way of destroying Gothic churches in an afternoon. When Sterling Clark’s widow died the Institute’s staff rushed to “restore” paintings against Clark’s explicit terms and despite the fact that he had carefully bought un-restored works in excellent condition. Paintings are not the only victims of administrators wishing to make their mark.
A LETTER OF MASS PROTEST BY SCHOLARS
On 8 July a letter signed by more than 290 scholars from 77 universities, and 30 museums and institutions in 9 countries, was sent to Peter Salovey, the President of Yale University; Susan Gibbons, the Librarian and Deputy Provost for libraries and scholarly communications, Yale University; and John Donatich, the Director of Yale University Press. The letter had been framed by two scholars, Professor Andrew Saint and Professor Jules Lubbock, in protest against what has been widely taken to be:
“[A] grave threat to the future of excellence in publishing books on art, architecture and design in Britain, the United States and around the world.”
This threat is seen to come from a “restructuring” of the Yale University Press (London)’s art books under the Managing Director, Heather McCallum, whose actions are supported by the (interlocking) directors and trustees.
Over the past forty years this university press is widely regarded as having built an unparalleled record for first-class, good-looking and scholarly books on the visual arts. This much-admired tradition was established by John Nicoll in the early 1970s and has continued under two outstanding editors, Gillian Malpass and Sally Salvesen, whose experience, scholarship and eye for design earned international acclaim, the gratitude of many eminent authors, and many awards.
Malpass and Salvesen are being sacked to make way for an editorial director (on whom, see below). This restructuring – for which no financial requirement or other necessity has been demonstrated – has caught the art world unawares. No one had been consulted in London – not even The Paul Mellon Centre in London whose generous financial support, together with that of The Yale Centre for British Art, lies behind much of this outstanding publishing. Although the top-down restructuring operation was hatched in secrecy and executed by fiat, its intended means and underlying rationale had peeped out two years ago.
A BAD IDEA IN THE MAKING
In the absence of consultation and transparent policy-making, institutional players put the spotlight on their own standing and tastes. At a conference in Berlin in 2014, Francis Bennett, the deputy chairman of Yale University Press, issued a “Positioning statement” that was both portentous and alarming. (It is to be found in full here.) Mr Bennett’s c.v. seemed to have run into the sand when, after a mixed career in publishing (“My first managing directorship [was] an unhappy time at WH Allen, but I learned to run a company”), he became an electronic publisher and set up a company, Book Data, that was sold in 2002.
Today, as deputy chairman of Yale University Press, Mr Bennet’s views and his declared “vision for the future of academic publishing (2020)” merit close examination. He prides himself on a commitment to professionalism and “a questioning of orthodoxies” when his own views betray prevalent patterns of banal management-speak and received wisdom. He fixates on “trends which will force change on university presses” when Yale University Press is anything but a run of the mill university press. He sees university education as “becoming a global trading commodity, aka the knowledge economy”.
In other generations such over-heating and simplistic techno-Futurist visions might well have been taken as disqualifications for a leading role in venerable and high-minded cultural institutions. Mr Bennett thrills that “Communication is instant” and that “Market expectations are immediate”, seemingly without awareness that current trends are never irreversible escalators to the future and that the chief distinguishing traits of markets are volatility and unpredictability. As for the supposedly irresistible force of techno-determinism, far from knocking out hard-copy books, e-book tablet sales have already levelled off. Television did not kill off cinema or radio. The world, for the imaginative and the enterprising, remains full of niches and opportunities, and books remain phenomenally attractive and enduringly user-friendly artefacts.
BRAVE NEW ACADEMIC WORLD AND THE DEMISE OF PEER REVIEW
Mr Bennett betrays a strikingly short term view of the future and confidently predicts that within four years we will occupy “A new academic publishing world” in which the printed book with a high price and a small market will have vanished. Peer review will also have gone on grounds of being too slow. To survive at all, university presses must now accept that their “traditional methods must change”. Under the Bennett Prescription, change means becoming “brands” that support the “extended reach of their owners”. One word is absent in Bennett’s programme. It is scholarship.
On the internal evidence of this particular positioning statement it might seem that the lacuna is the product of a personal aversion as much as a reflection of institutional policy. The deputy chairman of Yale University Press came from an academically distinguished family. His father was a Cambridge don. His mother was an author of biographies. An aunt was principal of St Hilda’s Oxford. One uncle was a don and then a civil servant; another was a don and then the Astronomer Royal. This Bennett confesses that he “couldn’t compete, so became a publisher.” Also absent is the term “charitable mission” which notion is central to Yale University purposes and is stated like this:
“Yale is committed to improving the world today and for future generations through outstanding research and scholarship, education, preservation, and practice. Yale educates aspiring leaders worldwide who serve all sectors of society. We carry out this mission through the free exchange of ideas in an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.”
For Mr Bennett the future is pre-ordained and it’s anticipated imminent impositions are relished in business-speak:
“The academic publishing process must respond by creating a new model. The present system is too slow at experimenting and adopting new models – and will be left behind if it doesn’t change.”
Left behind what? The publishing world is various and serves many purposes well and simultaneously. What law says that academic publishing must travel in tandem with cut-throat commercial publishing where economies can be made through skilful mass-marketing? Why must great, richly-endowed and tax-favoured universities cease to give succour to scholars?
YALE UNIVERSITY’S MISSION
Yale University Press happens to have its own mission. Its purpose is to play a key role in the university’s core mission of “improving the world today and for future generations through outstanding research and scholarship, education, preservation, and practice” and, specifically, to do so by publishing “books and other materials that further scholarly investigation, advance interdisciplinary inquiry, stimulate public debate, educate both within and outside the classroom, and enhance cultural life.”
AN EGREGIOUS REPLY
How, then, did this month’s appeal from Professors Lubbock and Saint and their many scholarly associates go down when sent to Salovey, Gibbons and Donatich? The reply came only from John Donatich, who is both the Director of Yale University Press and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Yale University Press London, and Heather McCallum, the Managing Editor of Yale University Press London.
John Donatich’s appointment in 2003 was highly welcomed. He arrived as the departing publisher and vice president of Basic Books, having previously served at HarperCollins from 1992-1996 and before that from 1989-1992 as the director of national accounts for the Putnam Publishing Group. All was auspicious in that now long ago-seeming world. Anthony Kronman, the dean of Yale Law School and the chair of the search committee, said of him: “John has a scholar’s taste, an editor’s eye and bookseller’s experience and judgment,” and, “He possesses just the combination of qualities we sought when we began our search and he brings to the Press great vitality, high idealism and a profound love of books.” Mr Donatich responded graciously and fittingly:
“I am thrilled to be joining this prestigious press and invited to help shape its future. Yale University Press commands a unique and leading position among university presses. I can’t imagine a better place for scholars and intellectuals to publish books.”
Quite so – but today Donatich’s and McCallum’s (seemingly “lawyered”) joint reply to the anxious scholars insults their intelligence. It describes their anxieties as products of (a mass) confusion. It contends that, on the one hand, they have nothing to fear, and that on the other, they can do nothing to reverse the done deal. In a torrent of blather about seeking to help YUPL to “flourish and lead in the years ahead” by a reorganisation that “is by no means confined to the Art department [because] it is part of a company-wide initiative” the pair insist that the restructuring “was thoroughly researched and discussed at great length” and, besides, that “it has the full support of the YUPL Trustees, Yale University Press and Yale University leadership”. On the nature and purpose of the restructuring, we find echo of Bennett: “However, in the context of the ever-changing publishing arena, maintaining these standards requires a fundamental reappraisal of YUPL’s entire operation”.
Logic escapes the twin authors who insist that the restructuring has been discussed at great length while justifying their own secrecy about it and its consequences: “As we hope you will appreciate, a complex company-wide restructure of this magnitude is a confidential process and it would not be appropriate for us to enter into discussions about individual members of staff.” At the same time there is a brass-faced insistence that “We have fully apprised both the Yale Centre for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre about the reorganisation of YUPL and have regularly informed them about the changes of personnel that have followed…”
The facts must speak for themselves. Two principal and outstanding editors at Yale University Press (London), Gillian Malpass and Sally Salvesen – who have established the very qualities at issue – are to be replaced by an Editorial Director for Art and Architecture, Mark Eastment, under whose direction “we will develop exciting and innovative books which lead agendas…” When asked last year what he most enjoyed about his job as director of publishing at the V&A, Mr Eastment replied “the challenge of balancing the financial expectations of the museum, by generating as much revenue as possible (all our end-year profits are given back to the museum) along with the academic wishes of curators.”
It would thus seem that proven and acclaimed excellence is being put at risk on an opaque, non-discussable promise of changes being made within some vaguely perceived “ever-changing” and economically-menacing publishing arena. On such an inadequate prospectus, scholars have very clear cause for alarm. To indicate the potential loss we now face under an apparently panicked and insecure Yale Administration, we cite an earlier demonstration that serious scholarship is a collective, slow-running cumulative process. (See Art’s Toxic Assets and a Crisis of Connoisseurship ~ Part II: Paper (sometimes photographic) Fakes and the Demise of the Educated Eye.)
HOW SCHOLARSHIP WORKS
In her magnificent 2005 Yale University Press monograph The Pollaiuolo Brothers – The Arts of Florence and Rome, Alison Wright describes a particularly vexing “market for copies, fakes and over-ambitious attributions” but gives gratitude for the fact that she need not re-invent a particular wheel by sifting it all afresh. Instead, she cites Professor Hellmut Wohl’s 1980 New York University monograph The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano – A Study in Florentine Art of the Early Renaissance in which he had, as Dr Wright acknowledges, “listed the myriad attributions under which surviving Florentine female profiles have passed…” Writing a full generation on, she gives specific thanks that “Wohl’s study absolves me from a repetition of this unrewarding task.” Prof. Wohl had taught art history at Yale University before his Professorship at Boston University and he had studied Domenico for three decades. Dr Wright is Reader in the History of Art at University College, London. Such books as theirs are bricks in civilisation’s walls. They should be cherished, not implicitly slighted – and other scholars should not be denied the opportunity to produce such books through a major university’s press.
The President of Yale University, Peter Salovey, may prove wise not to have attached his own name to so egregious and unsatisfactory a reply as that sent by two of his officers to an esteemed body of appropriately anxious scholars. Evidence is everywhere to be seen that Yale University Press have created a self-fulfilling prophesy without the crisis that might have triggered it.
Michael Daley ~ 28 July 2016
This entry was posted on July 28, 2016. It was filed under news and was tagged with "The Paintings of Dominico Veneziano", "The Pollaiuolo Brothers", 'Art History and Emergency', 'Clark Studies in the Visual Arts, Alison Wright, Francis Bennett, Fuseli, Gillian Malpass, Heather McCallum, Hellmut Wohl, John Donatich, Mark Eastment, Michael Daley, Peter Salovey, Prof. Andrew Saint, Prof. Jules Lubbock, Sally Salvesen, Sterling Clark, Susan Gibbons, The Clark Institute, The Paul Mellon Centre, The Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University Press, Yale University Press (London).
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For the biological description of Buttocks, see hip.
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Buttocks of a female (upper) and a male (lower).
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The buttocks (singular: buttock) are two rounded portions of the anatomy, located on the posterior of the pelvic region of primates (including humans), and many other bipeds or quadrupeds, and comprise a layer of fat superimposed on the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius muscles. The two gluteus maximus muscles stabilise the hip joint and are the largest muscles in the entire human body; responsible for propelling the entire body forward when running and walking, ensuring the proper functioning of the entire leg.[1] Physiologically, the buttocks enable weight to be taken off the feet while sitting. In many cultures, they play a role in sexual attraction.[2] Some cultures, such as that of Victorian England, have also used the buttocks as a primary target for corporal punishment,[3] as the buttocks' layer of subcutaneous fat offers protection against injury while still allowing for the infliction of pain. There are several connotations of buttocks in art, fashion, culture and humor, and the English language is replete with many popular synonyms that range from polite colloquialisms ("posterior", "backside" or "bottom") to vulgar slang ("arse," "ass," "bum," "butt," "booty," "prat"). In humans the buttocks are located between the lower back and the perineum.
2 Society and culture
2.1 Connotations
2.2 Synonyms
2.3 Related terms
2.5 In popular culture
The buttocks are formed by the masses of the gluteal muscles or "glutes" (the gluteus maximus muscle and the gluteus medius muscle) superimposed by a layer of fat. The superior aspect of the buttock ends at the iliac crest, and the lower aspect is outlined by the horizontal gluteal crease. The gluteus maximus has two insertion points: 1⁄3 superior portion of the linea aspera of the femur, and the superior portion of the iliotibial tractus. The masses of the gluteus maximus muscle are separated by an intermediate intergluteal cleft or "crack" in which the anus is situated.
The buttocks allow primates to sit upright without needing to rest their weight on their feet as four-legged animals do. Females of certain species of baboon have red buttocks that blush to attract males. In the case of humans, females tend to have proportionally wider and thicker buttocks due to higher subcutaneous fat and proportionally wider hips. In humans they also have a role in propelling the body in a forward motion and aiding bowel movement.[4][5]
Some baboons and all gibbons, though otherwise fur-covered, have characteristic naked callosities on their buttocks. While human children generally have smooth buttocks, mature males and females have varying degrees of hair growth, as on other parts of their body. Females may have hair growth in the gluteal cleft (including around the anus), sometimes extending laterally onto the lower aspect of the cheeks. Males may have hair growth over some or all of the buttocks.
Connotations
Main article: Cultural history of the buttocks
Students at Stanford University conduct a "mass-mooning" in May 1995
The English word of Greek origin "callipygian" indicates someone who has beautiful buttocks.
Depending on the context, exposure of the buttocks in non-intimate situations can cause feelings of embarrassment or humiliation, and embarrassment or amusement in an onlooker (see pantsing). Willfully exposing one's own bare buttocks as a protest, a provocation, or just for fun is called mooning.
In many punitive traditions, the buttocks are a common target for corporal punishment, which can be meted out with no risk of long-term physical harm compared with the dangers of applying it to other parts of the body, such as the hands, which could easily be damaged.[6] Within the Victorian school system in England, the buttocks have been described as "the place provided by nature" for this purpose.[3] A modern-day example can be seen in some Southeast Asian countries, such as Singapore. Caning in Singapore is widely used as a form of judicial corporal punishment, with male convicts being sentenced to a caning on their bare buttocks.
In Western and some other cultures, many comedians, writers and others rely on the buttocks as a source of amusement, camaraderie and fun. There are numerous colloquial terms for the buttocks.
In American English, phrases use the buttocks or synonyms (especially "butt" and "ass") as a synecdoche or pars pro toto for a whole person, often with a negative connotation. For example, terminating an employee may be described as "firing his ass". One might say "move your ass" or "haul ass" as an exhortation to greater haste or urgency. Expressed as a function of punishment, defeat or assault becomes "kicking one's ass". Such phrases also may suggest a person's characteristics, e.g. difficult people are termed "hard asses". In America an annoying person or any source of frustration may be termed "a pain in the ass" (a synonym for "a pain in the neck"). People deemed excessively puritanical or proper may be termed "tight asses" (in Australia and New Zealand, "tight arse" refers to someone who is excessively miserly).
Certain physical dispositions of the buttocks—particularly size—are sometimes identified, controversially, as a racial characteristic (see race). A famous example was the case of Saartjie Baartman, the so-called "Hottentot Venus".
See WikiSaurus:buttocks for a list of synonyms and slang words for buttocks in many languages. For unrelated homophones of butt(ocks), see also butt (disambiguation) and bud (disambiguation).
A burlesque stage show with three men in Las Vegas
Seattle's nudist cyclists with painted buttocks
Japanese man in a traditional swimwear Fundoshi-rokushaku
Posterior view of human female and male to show the comparison of their buttocks
Some female clothing, such as the bikini or panties, show part of the female buttocks (woman on left). Thongs, in particular, leave almost all of the buttocks exposed (woman on right). Photo is of a beach in Holland, 1999.
The Latin name for the buttocks is nates (English pronunciation /ˈneɪtiːz/ NAY-teez,[7] classical pronunciation nătes [ˈnateːs][8]) which is plural; the singular, natis (buttock), is rarely used. There are many colloquial terms to refer to them, including:
Backside, posterior, behind and its derivates (hind-quarters, hinder or the childish diminutive "heinie" (US usage only), strictly the whole body behind the hind leg-trunk attachment), rear or rear-end, derrière (French for "behind")—all strictly positional descriptions, as the inaccurate use of rump (as in 'rump roast', after a 'hot' spanking), thighs, upper legs; analogous are:
Aft, stern and poop, naval in origin; in nautical jargon, buttocks also designates the aftermost portion of a hull above the water line and in front of the rudder, merging with the run below the water line
Caboose, originally a ship's galley in wooden cabin on deck; also the "rear end" car of a freight train, considered a cute synonym suitable for any audience
Bottom (and the shortening "bot" as well as childish diminutives "bottie" or "botty"), but the use of similar-sounding "booty" or "bootie" may be related.
Tail (strictly anatomically a zoomorphism, humans only have a tail-bone, yet the illogical "tail feather" was popularized by musicians. When used to refer to a woman or to women in general, the term is derogatory; also used for the even more sensual phallus) and tail-end
Trunk, in American English, particularly when describing large buttocks: "junk in the trunk"
Apple, referring to the similar shape of the fruit, derived from the 1970s. Also likened to an upside-down heart, attributed from various, popular ads of the 1970s.
Arse or ass, arsehole or asshole, and (butt-)hole: a pars pro toto (strictly only the actual body cavity and directly adjoining anal region); also used as an insult for a person. The term arse or ass is Anglo-Saxon, and over a thousand years old.
Badonkadonk: onomatopoeic US slang meaning the voluptuously bouncing, large yet firm buttocks of a woman
Booty, US slang, used in the popular slang expression "booty call". It has been suggested that the word derives from a Bambara (West African) word for anus, buda.[9]
Breech, a metaphorical sense derived from on older form of the garment breeches (as the French culotte meaning pantoloons, via cul from Latin culus "butt"), so 'bare breech' means without breeches, i.e., trouserless butt
Bum: in British English, used frequently in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many other English-speaking Commonwealth countries, also historically in the United States, is a mild often humorous term for buttocks, not necessarily in a vulgar or sexual context: "I've a boil on my bum, thrice as large as my thumb" (The Judge With The Sore Rump, St. George Tucker). A bum boy is an insulting term for a male homosexual.
Bumpy: a euphemistic term for the buttocks, used primarily with children
Buns, from Gaelic bun "bottom, base", mounds (cfr. Butte, a geographical mound, known since 1805 in American English, from (Old) French butte "mound, knoll") and orbs—shape-metaphors.
Bund: derived from Punjabi
Bunda: Brazilian Portuguese slang for buttocks, from Kimbundu mbunda, with same meaning.
Butt: the common term for a pair of buttocks in the US (singular, as one body-part; cognate but neither its root nor an abbreviation), used in everyday speech.
Cakes: slang word for buttocks
Can (a container) had an unusual development: the slang meaning "toilet" is recorded c. 1900, said to be a shortening of piss-can, the meaning "buttocks" from c. 1910, and the verb meaning "fire an employee" (to flush=dump?) from 1905.
Cheeks, a shape-metaphor within human anatomy, but also used in the singular: left cheek and right cheek; sounds particularly naughty because of the homonym and the adjective cheeky, lending themselves to word puns
Culo: (From Spanish/Italian) slang, usually meaning a woman's voluptuous, round and firm buttocks. Derived from a term for booty; in Spanish the term is considered vulgar and offensive, but less so in Spain than in Latin America.
Duffs: Ulster Irish origin
Dumper sometimes denotes the buttocks, especially when they are large.
Fanny: a socially acceptable term in print, in Canada and the United States at least, for many years before some of the bolder terms came along; and a subject of jokes, since "Fannie" can be a woman's name, diminutive of "Frances"; however, in British English fanny refers to the female genitals or vulva and is considered vulgar. The figure of a bare-bottomed lass named Fanny is ubiquitous in Provence (the southeast of France) wherever pétanque is played: traditionally when a player loses 13 to 0 it is said that “il est fanny” (he's fanny), and he has to kiss the bottom of a girl called Fanny; as there is rarely an obliging Fanny, there is always a substitute picture, woodcarving or pottery so that Fanny’s bottom is always available.[10]
Fourth point of contact: in military slang, because of the sequence of textbook parachute jump landing
Fundament (literally "foundation", not common in this general sense in English, but for the buttocks since 1297)
Gand or Gaand: a Hindi derivative
Hams, like buttocks generally as a plural, after the meat cut from the analogous part of a hog ; pressed ham refers to mooning against a window; brawn, a singular derived from the Frankish for ham or roast, is also used for both a muscular body part (but either on arms or legs) or boar meat, especially roast
Hurdies: Scots, origin unknown, also applied to the whole rump
Haunches
Moon was a common shape-metaphor for the butt in English since 1756, and the verb to moon meant 'to expose to (moon)light' since 1601, long before they were combined in US student slang in the verb (al expression) mooning "to flash the buttocks" in 1968.
Prat (British English, origin unknown; as in pratfall, a music hall term; also a term of abuse for a person)
Seat (of the trousers; or metaphorically): another long-standing socially acceptable term, referring to the use for sitting—but compare the sarcastic use of seat of wisdom and similar expressions, such as 'seat of learning', referring to use as target for an 'educational' spanking.
Sit-upon; has various independent counterparts in other languages, e.g., Dutch zitvlak ("sitting plain"), German Gesäß Italian sedere
Six; in military terminology, particularly in the United States Navy, it refers to the term "six o'clock", i.e., a point directly behind the referenced person.
Tuchis: Yiddish.
Tush or tushy (from the Yiddish language "tuchis" or "tochis" meaning "under" or "beneath")
Ultimatum (Latin, literally 'the furthest part') was used in slang c.1820s.
The word "callipygian" is sometimes used to describe someone with notably attractive buttocks. The term comes from the Greek kallipygos, (first used for the Venus Kallipygos) which literally means "beautiful buttocks"; the prefix is also a root of "calligraphy" (beautiful writing) and "calliope" (beautiful voice); callimammapygian means having both beautiful breasts and buttocks.
Both the English (in) tails and the Dutch billentikker ('tapping the buttocks') are ironic terms for very formal coats with a significantly longer tail end as part of festive (especially wedding party) dress
Macropygia means 'heaving large buttocks, hindquarter', and occurs in biological species names,
A pygopag(ous) (from the Greek pygè 'buttock' and pagein 'attached') was a monster in Ancient (Greek) mythology consisting of two bodies joint by common buttocks, now a medical term for 'Siamese' twins thus joint back-to-back
Pygophilia is sexual arousal or excitement caused by seeing, playing with or touching the buttocks; people who have strong attraction to buttocks are called pygophilists.
Pygoscopia means observing someone's rear; pygoscopophobia a pathological fear to be its unwilling object
Pygalgia is soreness in the buttocks, i.e. a pain in the rump.
Steatopygia is a marked accumulation of fat in and around the buttocks.
Uropygial in ornithology means situated on or belonging to the uropygium, i.e. the rump of a bird.
"Bubble butt" has at least two connotations, which are at odds with each other: either a small, round and firm pair of buttocks resembling a pair of soap bubbles next to each other, or a large rear end, seemingly about to burst from the strain. In both cases, the term implies an appealing shapeliness about the buttocks.
George Seurat's 1884 painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte depicts a woman on the right with a prominent bustle under her dress.
The 1880s were well known for the fashion trend among women called the bustle, which made even the smallest buttocks appear huge. The popularity of this fashion is shown in the famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in the two women to the far left and right. Like long underwear with the ubiquitous "butt flap" (used to allow baring only the bottom with a simple gesture, as for hygiene), this clothing style was acknowledged in popular media such as cartoons and comics for generations afterward.
More recently, the cleavage of the buttocks is sometimes exposed by some women, deliberately or accidentally, as fashion dictated trousers be worn lower, as with hip-hugger pants.
An example of another attitude in an otherwise hardly exhibitionist culture is the Japanese fundoshi.
Models participate in "got ass?", a competition to judge the woman with best buttocks, at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Las Vegas, 2014.
In 1966 Yoko Ono made a roughly 90 minute-long experimental film called No. 4, which is colloquially known as Bottoms. It consists of footage of human buttocks in motion while the person walks on a turntable.
The 1984 Heavy metal music mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap contained the song "Big Bottom" featuring the lyrics Big bottom, big bottom, Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em, Big bottom drive me out of my mind, How could I leave this behind? The band performs the song using three simultaneous bass guitars, a pun on the song title, as the bass is often colloquially referred to as the "bottom end" of the rock sound.
Numerous songs have been released which glorify this body part. As early as 1961, the American Folk band The Limeliters recorded the song "Vicki Dougan" [sic], which pays a humorous tribute to the pin-up star Vikki Dougan who wore infamously low-cut, backless dresses. A risque song for the time, the lyrics mention her "callipygian cleft" by name. Other English-language examples include:
"(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" by KC and the Sunshine Band (1976)
"Peaches" by The Stranglers (1977)
The singles "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race" by Queen (1978)
"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot (1992)
"I See You Baby (Shakin' That Ass)" by Groove Armada (1999)
"Bootylicious" by Destiny's Child (2001)
"Pop That Booty" by Marques Houston (2003)
"My Humps" (in the back and in the front) by The Black Eyed Peas (2005)
"Ms. New Booty" by Bubba Sparxxx and Ying Yang Twins (2005)
"All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor (2014)
Rolling Stone magazine named the 1990s the "Decade of the Butt" because many buttock-related songs were released in that decade.
In the United Kingdom there is an annual award given to the male and female winners of the celebrity voted to have the Rear of the Year for that year. Past Winners have included Sarah Lancashire and Jane Danson.
In 2008, Hong Kong lifestyle retail store G.O.D. collaborated with Kee Wah Bakery to design mooncakes for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. They presented the traditional treats in the shape of bottoms in eight different designs, but still filled with traditional white lotus seed paste and salted yolks.[11]
Beauty pageants exist globally to judge the females with the best buttocks, such as Miss Bum Bum (Brazil), Miss Reef (South American countries) and got ass? (USA).
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (c. 1785).
Félix Vallotton (c. 1884).
Buttock cleavage
Cultural history of the buttocks
Dimples of Venus
Hip and buttock padding
Intimate part
Waist–hip ratio
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^ a b "Police". The Times. London. 22 March 1894. "Mr. Curtis Bennett deprecated caning on the hands and boxing the ears, and said they were exceedingly dangerous forms of punishment. Nature provided a special place for boys to be punished upon and it should be used.
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^ Recent Advances in Pediatrics, 2013 Suraj Gupte, p 141
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^ Elijah Wald, Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of Rap, Oxford University Press, 2012, p.206
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"The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Thigh" (by Henry Gray) at "Anatomy of the Human Body", 1918.
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Torso (Trunk)
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internal obturator
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Femoral canal
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fascia lata
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Cribriform fascia
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abductor hallucis
flexor digitorum brevis
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2nd layer
quadratus plantae
lumbrical muscle
3rd layer
flexor hallucis brevis
adductor hallucis
flexor digiti minimi brevis
4th layer
dorsal interossei
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retinacula
Inferior extensor
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Surface anatomy and general regions of limbs
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File: EPUB, 249 KB. Doris Lessing (Doris May Tayler, 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British writer.In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Reporters told Doris that she had won the Nobel prize and they asked her "Are you not surprised?". As a result, her work veered away from realism in The Four-Gated City (1969), Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974), and especially the science-fiction novel series, Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979-1982), to the dismay of. (1971) and The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974). Genre: Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwin-dling. The Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris Lessing The Memoirs of a Survivor is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing. A fascination insight into https://dev.lilyrosechildrensmusic.com/cmb/uncategorized/football-recruit-cover-letter-examples what is possible and can still only be descibed as "human"behavious Apocalypse now. With the help of her teenage companion Emily. It was first published in 1974 by Octagon Press. The article examines the rhetoric in the short story "Each Other," by Doris Lessing Memoirs of a Survivor Doris Lessing SKU: 9780006493259 Category: Paperback Fiction Tags: Doris, Lessing, FLAMINGO, 0006493254. The Doris Lessing Reader (1988) Nonfiction. Paragraph 823 Absatz 1 Bgb
Doris Lessing’s many books include poetry, memoirs, reportage, plays, essays, and reviews. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? (1971) and The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974). Her works have been translated. Many years in the future, city life has Thesis About Ice Cream broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. The narrator, a …. Memoirs of a Survivor Doris Lessing SKU: 9780006493259 Category: Paperback Fiction Tags: Doris, Lessing, FLAMINGO, 0006493254. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. Thematical Study of “Memoirs of a Survivor” The Memoirs of a Survivoris a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing. Lessing has described as her “unrealistic stories”.1The “real” setting of the. It was first published in 1974 by Octagon Press.
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Kolb Reflective Cycle Essay Scholarships …. …. Send-to-Kindle or Email . Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. Doris Lessing was a prolific Nobel Prize winning writer, who penned more than fifty books. In this dystopian rendering of the “near future,” the unnamed first-person narrator records her observations of a world in a state of cultural and social decline following an unexplained catastrophe That's a Burial Rites Character Summary good starting place for a review, because Memoirs of a Survivor describes a world where neat chapters and paragraphs are things of the past. Doris Lessing CH, nascida Doris May Tayler (Kermanshah, 22 de outubro de 1919 — Londres, 17 de novembro de 2013), foi uma escritora britânica Autora de obra prolífica, que inclui trabalhos como as novelas The Grass is Singing e The Golden Notebook, sua obra cobre um vasto leque estilístico, indo da autobiografia à ficção científica, com claras influências do modernismo.. In Doris Lessing The Memoirs of a Survivor (1975) is a prophetic fantasy that explores psychological and social breakdown. With Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie Hutchings. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing.
Reviews: 33 Format: Hardcover Author: Doris Lessing [PDF] The Memoirs Of A Survivor (Picador Books) By Doris Lessing https://mooneyfootballphotos.com/the/the_memoirs Published May 1st 1976 by Picador Books (first published 1974) More Details [PDF] Trees Of Wisconsin Field Guide.pdf Memoirs of a survivor - wikipedia The Memoirs of a Survivor is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing Doris Lessing’s many books include poetry, memoirs, reportage, plays, essays, and reviews. In the mid-1980’s, she returned to more realistic. It is based on the novel of the same name by Doris Lessing Analysis of Doris Lessing’s Novel The Memoirs of a Survivor. [9780394757599] Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. Memoirs of a Survivor Doris Lessing SKU: 9780006493259 Category: Paperback Fiction Tags: Doris, Lessing, FLAMINGO, 0006493254. (1971) and The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974). …. Alfred A. Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. Introduction. Doris Lessing, a British novelist who was raised and lived as an adult in Rhodesia, has very deliberate designs in the characterizations in her novels. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses’.
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Virtual Grand National: Tiger Roll leads the betting ahead.
First reaction from Tiger Roll jockey Davy Russell after winning historic second Grand National in a row Gordon Elliott's gelding became the first horse since Red Rum to win back-to-back Grand.
The winning jockey in the 2018 Grand National achieved a lifelong dream. The oldest jockey in the race on the smallest horse. That was the partnership which won the 2018 Grand National at Aintree.
Tiger Roll odds to win Grand National 2020 revealed for.
Tiger Roll's win in 2019 made him the first horse since Red Rum in 1974 to win back-to-back Grand Nationals. Two-time Grand National winner Tiger Roll will compete for a historic third successive.Tiger Roll became the first horse to win the Grand National in consecutive seasons since the legendary Red Rum in 1973-74. Trainer Gordon Elliott has confirmed that his runner would be looking for a hat-trick of wins on April 4th 2020 although O’Leary is remaining tight-lipped with regard to the long-term plans and is keen just to get him through the current situation.When Tiger Roll romped home to win the Grand National earlier this year, it solidified an epic seasonal campaign for trainer Gordon Elliott. Not only did he have a superb Cheltenham Festival but he also won the Irish Grand National. What he did not do, however, was win the Irish Trainers Championship. That went, once again, to Willie Mullins.
The last 12-year-old to win the race was Amberleigh House in 2004 but he has a 13lbs pull with Tiger Roll from 12 months ago and he has been laid out for today’s contest. Looks sure to run.What is your Grand National name? Tiger Roll had been due to seek an unprecedented third consecutive win in Saturday's big race before it was called off on 16 March. The animated version had much.
Grand National champion Tiger Roll is still on course to attempt a hat-trick of wins at the Grand National at Aintree next April even amid the difficulties posed by a recent fitness setback. The nine-year-old is the first horse to win the Grand National back to back since Red Rum completed the feat in 1973 and 1974; another win will see him make history as the first to win the competition for.
Tiger Roll will carry a top weight of 11st 10lb over the 30 fences in the Grand National at Aintree on 4 April. Tiger Roll finished fifth at the Boyne Hurdle in Navan, Ireland, as the two-time.
The world famous Red Rum is the most successful horse in the race's history, winning the Grand National three times: in 1973, 1974 and 1977, and Tiger Roll would be seeking to join a list of just four horses who have managed to win it back-to-back.
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Tiger Roll was the first back-to-back Grand National winner since Red Rum in the 1970s. Tiger Roll will attempt to win a record third successive Grand National at Aintree on 4 April, the owner's.
Tiger Roll, without a run since winning last year's Grand National by two and a half lengths from Magic of Light, is due to run in Sunday's Boyne Hurdle at Navan, having recovered from a minor.
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Tiger Roll won two consecutive Grand Nationals and he is the first winner to have done that since Red Rum back in the 1970s. These back-to-back wins are a testament to the quality that Tiger Roll currently possesses and if he goes again in the 2020 Grand National, punters should definitely consider backing him. Clear Favourite with Bookmakers. This is because his 2019 victory was even more.
Tiger Roll secured his place in sporting history by becoming the first horse since Red Rum to win back-to-back Grand Nationals. The Gordon Elliott-trained star was sent off 4-1 favourite to defend.
Tiger Roll is an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competes in National Hunt racing and won the Grand National in 2018 and 2019. He has also won four times at the Cheltenham Festival: the Triumph Hurdle in 2014, the National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup in 2017 and the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase in 2018 and 2019. Although bred for the flat, his first race was as a three-year-old gelding.
Grand National Weights 2019 - 2018 winner Tiger Roll has.
Tiger Roll fans will undoubtedly argue that their champion has a 100% win record in the race whereas Red Rum’s is “only” 60% but for any horse to even compete in the Grand National in five consecutive years, let alone never finish out of the first two, surely has to be one of the remarkable achievements in National Hunt horse racing.
Before Tiger Roll, a son of the 2007 Epsom winner Authorized (by Sadler’s Wells’ son Montjeu), won at Aintree last year, the last Grand National winner with a Derby-winning sire had been Voluptuary in 1884. Like Tiger Roll, Voluptuary was evidently something of a one-off, having contested the Derby himself three years earlier, while he won the Grand National on his very first start over.
Aintree hero Tiger Roll has been allotted top weight of 11st 10lb for the Randox Health Grand National on 4 April if he attempts to make history by winning the famous race for three consecutive.
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DeLoof | Dever | Eby | Wright, Milliman, Bourque & Issa PLLC
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THOMAS E. DEW has extensive experience in advising clients in all areas of federal tax law, including income tax, corporate tax, partnership tax, employee benefits, estate and gift taxation and the organization and operation of tax-exempt organizations (both private foundations and public charities). Mr. Dew has over 30 years’ experience handling tax disputes, appeals and United States Tax Court litigation. Mr. Dew also has extensive experience in counseling “start-up” and emerging business entities; arranging business financing (including venture capital negotiations and equity private placements); mergers and acquisitions; business purchases and sales and business succession planning. He also serves as general counsel to numerous small and mid-size corporations and limited liability companies. In addition to his business and tax practice, Mr. Dew has extensive experience in estate and trust administration; assists clients in asset protection planning; and designs and implements highly sophisticated estate planning of all kinds. Mr. Dew has over five years’ experience with the Internal Revenue Service; serving both as a Revenue Officer responsible for the collection of unpaid federal taxes and later as a Revenue Agent, specializing in the examination of federal estate tax and gift tax returns. He also has six years’ experience as a Vice-President at the Ann Arbor Trust Company (now KeyBank), handling estate planning, estate administration and trust tax matters.
Mr. Dew is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Washtenaw County Bar Association (where he is a past Chairperson of the Tax Section), the Washtenaw Estate Planning Council (where he is a past President), and the New Enterprise Forum. He also has served as an investigator for the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission and is the Chairman of a Washtenaw County discipline hearing panel of the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board. He is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation and his biography is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in America. He also has served as the President of the Ann Arbor Public Housing Commission as is a former Trustee of the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor and at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Mr. Dew frequently lectures for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education and other groups on various tax and estate planning subjects.
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Release the Ayer Cut: Jared Leto Wants “Another Swing” at Suicide Squad
January 2, 2021 by admin 0 Comments
Jared Leto hopes to see studio Warner Bros. Release the Ayer Cut and take “another swing” at the David Ayer-directed Suicide Squad after the coming director’s cut of Zack Snyder’s Justice League. In May, after Warner Bros. announced the long-fabled Snyder Cut would release on HBO Max, Ayer reaffirmed his version of Suicide Squad exists and is “almost complete except for some visual effects.” The writer-director claimed ownership of the studio-meddled Suicide Squad released into theaters in 2016 but later said his movie was “ripped to pieces” and that he “took the hits like a good soldier when the studio cut hit the streets.”
“I would love for him to be able to work on that and make the film of his dreams,” Leto said about the Ayer Cut on the Variety Awards Circuit podcast. “It’s always hard when you make these movies because it’s such a pressure cooker. There are so many decisions that have to be made in a short amount of time. My hat’s off to the directors, the producers, and the studios. It’s not easy.”
The Joker actor added, “You never start with something that’s perfect. It’s a race to try to make it as good as you can in a short amount of time. And having another swing at things? I’m sure we all can use that.”
And Leto, who reprises his Suicide Squad role in Zack Snyder’s Justice League releasing in March, told Variety it’s “hard to say no” to future appearances as the Joker of the DC Extended Universe. The theatrical version of Suicide Squad so infamously pared-down Leto’s role that the Academy Award-winning actor openly questioned whether there were “any [scenes] that didn’t get cut.”
“There are a lot of scenes that didn’t make it to the final film,” Leto told Telestar in 2017. “Hopefully, they will see the light of day. Who knows.”
Amid a fan-driven campaign urging WarnerMedia to restore and #ReleaseTheAyerCut on HBO Max, Ayer tweeted in October: “I took the hits like a good soldier when the studio cut hit the streets. It’s who I am. I watched my cut for the first time since it was abandoned. It is f*cking amazing. On God. I felt guilty for years like I f*cked [up]. Nope. It’s fire.”
Ayer added his cut of Suicide Squad is “100%” faithful to the well-received first trailer released during San Diego Comic-Con 2015.
Leto’s Joker returns in Zack Snyder’s Justice League when it premieres on HBO Max in March 2021.
This article was originally published by Comicbook.com. Read the original article here.
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The study of attitude and motivation towards learning English as foreign language to public and private secondary and higher secondary school students in Pakistan: A comparative study
Bajwa, Imran*
Iqra University, Karachi, Pakistan (linguisticscholar@gmail.com)
Younas, Muhammad
Iqra University, Karachi, Pakistan (Younis.farid@gmail.com)
The present comparative exploratory study aimed to discover and compare the attitudes and motivational orientation of secondary and higher secondary public and private school students in Pakistan in learning English as foreign language. The study was based on the socio-educational model proposed by Gardner (2010) exploiting the psychological aspects like attitude and motivation of human cognition in learning English as a second or foreign language. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select 400 participants for the study, 200 each from public and private sector. Data collection tool was adopted from Gardner’s attitude and motivation test battery (AMTB) with 38 items on a six point Likert scale. Collected data from the survey was statistically analyzed using SPSS 22 to check the favorable patterns. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to check the co-linearity among the variable items and the reliability of the scale was ensured through the reliability statistics (reported Alpha .903). Independent-sample t-test was performed to compare the mean values of motivation and attitude of the public and private sector students. In addition to that, a similar comparison was made on the basis of students’ gender. The result of the t-test indicated that the private sector students possessed higher level of attitude and motivation in learning English as foreign language as compared to the public sector students. Similarly, the motivational orientation and attitude towards learning English of female students were higher than that of male students. Furthermore, the overall level of motivation and attitude of the students in both sectors found high. The study bears implications for different stakeholders with a lead for future researchers in the same field.
Keywords: attitude; motivation; public; private; secondary schools; Pakistan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsll.2019.3007
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4TROOPS UPDATE
4TROOPS donates $12,500
to American Legion
Washington (Dec. 2, 2010) -- 4TROOPS, The American Legion’s official vocal group, took center stage Nov. 29 on the popular TV game show “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” when they won the top prize of $50,000 for the charities of their choice.
The group has announced it will donate $12,500 of their winnings to The American Legion’s Legacy Scholarship fund, which awards college scholarships to children of servicemembers who have died on active duty since Sept. 11, 2001.
4TROOPS sang the correct lyrics to “Larger Than Life” by Backstreet Boys, “I Like It, I Love It” by Tim McGraw, “Apologize” by OneRepublic, and “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” by Great White. But it was their lyrical knowledge of “This Love” by Maroon 5 that bagged the $50,000.
All four singers – David Clemo, Ron Henry, Meredith Melcher and Daniel Jens – are Iraq war veterans and members of The American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans organization.
Clemo served in the 18th Airborne Division, providing communications and logistics support in Afghanistan. Henry served with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. Melcher was a platoon leader in Iraq, overseeing ambulance evacuations of wounded Americans and Iraqis. Jens enlisted after 9/11 and served one tour in Iraq; as a civilian, he went on to become a finalist on NBC's "America's Got Talent."
4TROOPS performed a live concert last August at The American Legion’s 92nd annual convention in Milwaukee. The group has also appeared on “Fox & Friends,” ABC’s “Good Morning America,” CNN’s “Larry King Live,” and CBS’s “Early Show.” Their first album, “4TROOPS,” went on sale May 11.
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Austin is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in western Manitoba on the Trans-Canada Highway about 110 km (68 mi) west of Winnipeg. It is part of the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk. It sits at the western edge of the table-flat Portage Plains, but to the south and west is surrounded by miles of low wooded hills known as the Carberry sandhills. The biggest attraction is the annual rodeo and Threshermen's Reunion held at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum the last four business days of July.
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Austin is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in western Manitoba on the Trans-Canada Highway about 110 km (68 mi) west of Winnipeg. It is part of the Municipality of North Norfolk. It sits at the western edge of the table-flat Portage Plains, but to the south and west is surrounded by miles of low wooded hills known as the Carberry sandhills. The biggest attraction is the annual rodeo and Threshermen's Reunion held at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum the last four business days of July.
Austin is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in western Manitoba on the Trans-Canada Highway about 110 km (68 mi) west of Winnipeg. It is part of the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk. It sits at the western edge of the table-flat Portage Plains, but to the south and west is surrounded by miles of low wooded hills known as the Carberry sandhills. The biggest attraction is the annual rodeo and Threshermen's Reunion held at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum the last four business days of July. Austin received its name in 1881 from the Marquis of Lorne, then Governor General of Canada while he was on a western tour during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Many German immigrants of Mennonite religion moved into the Austin Manitoba area. Austin has an elementary school, a postal office, a curling/hockey rink, two grocery stores and a credit union. One of the main highlights for the community is the Austin Amateur Hockey League. This is a hockey league that was founded in 2011 with 8 teams. There are currently 12 teams playing in the Austin Amateur Hockey League. Teams in the AAHL play through the season to win the Corner Cup. Teams that have won the Corner Cup include the Flames, (2012, 2014), the Oliers, (2013), and the Royals, (2015).
Austin is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in western Manitoba on the Trans-Canada Highway about 110 km (68 mi) west of Winnipeg. It is part of the Municipality of North Norfolk. It sits at the western edge of the table-flat Portage Plains, but to the south and west is surrounded by miles of low wooded hills known as the Carberry sandhills. The biggest attraction is the annual rodeo and Threshermen's Reunion held at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum the last four business days of July. Austin received its name in 1881 from the Marquis of Lorne, then Governor General of Canada while he was on a western tour during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Many German immigrants of Mennonite religion moved into the Austin Manitoba area. Austin has an elementary school, a postal office, a curling/hockey rink, two grocery stores and a credit union. One of the main highlights for the community is the Austin Amateur Hockey League. This is a hockey league that was founded in 2011 with 8 teams. There are currently 12 teams playing in the Austin Amateur Hockey League. Teams in the AAHL play through the season to win the Corner Cup. Teams that have won the Corner Cup include the Flames, (2012, 2014), the Oilers, (2013), and the Royals, (2015).
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The wealth declaration system in Kenya: a Critical study
Mungai, Moses Kahiga
The culture of corruption is rooted deeply in Kenya. It may be described as an incurable infectious disease.1 Kenya has been ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. For the last three years, Kenya has scored less than 27 percent in the Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International. Corruption persists mainly because those in public office benefit from it and the existing institutions lack both the will and capacity to stop it. It persists despite the legislation, institutions and measures that have been put in place to fight it.3 The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is the main institution mandated to combat corruption in Kenya. The primary anti-corruption laws are the Public Officer Ethics Act No 4 of 2003, the Leadership and Integrity Act No 18 of 2014, the Public Officer Ethics (Management, Verification and Access to Financial Declaration) Regulations of 2011 and the Kenyan Constitution of 2010. One of the key anti-corruption measures is the system of wealth declarations by public officials established by the Public Officer Ethics Act (POEA). The POEA did not have an easy passage into law. When it was introduced in 2002, Kenya was governed by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), led by President Moi. The regime was characterised by autocratic rule, high levels of politically sanctioned corruption, rapid economic decline and massive accumulation of wealth for the politically connected.4 Unsurprisingly, President Moi did not assent to the enactment of the POEA. The National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) came into power in 2003 and re-commenced the process to pass the POEA into law. This was done with a view to curbing corruption and bolstering donor confidence.5 Regrettably, the NARC administration quickly replicated the corrupt practices of its predecessor, despite being elected on a platform of zero tolerance towards corruption. The new administration, which had promised war on corruption, instead was embracing corruption and denying citizens constitutional reforms.
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Grunt – Europe After Storm CD
30 September 2013 xdementia No Comment
Industrial Recollections/Force Majeure
This album represents the second re-issue of Europe After Storm. Tracks 01-04 re-mastered from the original Europe After Storm tape released by Spite Recordings USA in 1998 limited to 50 copies. Tracks 05-07 unreleased studio material, tracks 08-11 live at S-Osis/Turku/Finland, 1999. The first re-issue was of the same titled CD released in a limited edition of 489 copies in 2001. This edition features the same artwork as the 2001 re-issue but is instead packaged in a jewel-case and limited to 500 copies.
I feel like I have to transport myself back to 1998 to truly write an effective review of this material. In the top 40 charts it was the ladies taking over in both the US and Europe; Celine Dion, Madonna and Natalie Imbruglia. In noise/power electronics of 1998 Merzbow released both Aqua Necromancer and Tauromachine, Sutcliffe Jugend released When Pornography is No Longer Enough and Brighter Death Now released Greatest Death; the seminal death industrial greatest hits album. Also important is that Grunt released his Someone Is Watching tape. In political news US President Clinton was accused of sex scandals in the White House, but possibly most importantly in Europe the Serbs battled ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
It’s probably the latter point that has the most to do with Europe After Storm but 1998 was a time when styles were still being defined, clarity had not yet formed in noise/industrial in the same way that it has today and current landmark albums were still being minted. Is Europe After Storm one of those albums? Well I can say it certainly is for Grunt.
Obviously the album has most in common with Someone Is Watching, a tape which was released in the same year and has very similar production and style as Europe After Storm. Somehow Europe After Storm stands out to me as more massive, more epic and more genre defining than it’s companion release Someone Is Watching. Perhaps it’s the subject matter which can’t be separated from it’s time and place as much, or maybe it’s the less variety in the tracks and the more unwavering auditory experience. The live tracks also add an intensity to the album that is tough to match in a pure studio effort.
Certainly one thing can be said for Europe After Storm is that it is a mandatory release for any fan of power electronics history to have in their collection. As far as political PE goes this is the top of the heap. A well needed re-issue and even today it’s as relevant as ever in sound and concept and should be heard by all aspiring power electronics artist before they embark on their own journey into this sordid world.
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Doctoral Student’s Paper Places Second in Excellence in Highway Safety Information Systems Data Competition
Alyssa Ryan (left)
Doctoral student Alyssa Ryan of the UMass Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has been awarded second place in the 2019 Excellence in Highway Safety Information Systems (HSIS) Data competition for her paper: “Evaluating Crash Type Likelihood at Various Traffic Control Devices: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Approach Using HSIS Data.”
Kwon Obtains Army Research Office Grant to Develop Invisibility and Cloaking Approaches
Do-Hoon Kwon
Associate Professor Do-Hoon Kwon of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department has received a research award of $367,004 over three years from the Army Research Office. Kwon’s project, "Single and dual polarized metasurface cloaks for microwave invisibility and low observability,” introduces and demonstrates a new electromagnetic cloaking physics applicable to large free-standing scatterers.
Palmer Stepping Down as CEE Department Head After More Than a Decade of Outstanding Service
Richard Palmer
In September of 2019 Dr. Richard N. Palmer, P.E., is stepping down as head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department at UMass Amherst after 11 successful and productive years. He is also the university director of the Northeast Climate Science Center (NE CASC), which he helped to establish in 2012 with a $7.5-million grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior to study how climate change affects ecosystems, wildlife, water, and other natural resources. Palmer was inducted by the American Society of Civil Engineering as a Distinguished Member in 2017 and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal in 2014 by UMass Amherst.
Du’s NSF Project Proposes to Develop Novel Sensing and Control Technology for a Roll-to-roll Printing Process
Xian Du
Xian Du of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department has received a two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $498,764 to support his research into a novel sensing and control technology for a roll-to-roll printing process.
Beltramo Receives $110,000 American Chemical Society Grant for Research That Could Lead to New Oil Extraction Techniques
Peter Beltramo
Peter Beltramo of the Chemical Engineering Department has received a grant of $110,000 over two years for his research project on "Interferometric Imaging and Assembly of Nanoparticles at Fluid Interfaces" from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund. As he says, “We will develop new imaging techniques to understand the electric field response of colloidal particles pinned at liquid-liquid interfaces. This work could lead to new strategies for oil extraction, where electric fields could be used to break down and separate water-in-oil emulsions, which is of great interest to the petroleum field.”
Media Cover Kulkarni’s Research to Outsmart Cancer by Reprogramming Immune System Cells
Ashish Kulkarni
Assistant Professor Ashish Kulkarni of the Chemical Engineering (ChE) Department has been attracting media attention for his four-year, $792,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to advance his interdisciplinary lab’s promising cancer immunotherapy research. The new preclinical research focuses on urothelial bladder cancer, which has a high recurrence rate and has seen limited treatment breakthroughs in recent decades.
UMaXX Radar Providing Invaluable Weather Data to National Weather Service Regional Headquarters
UMaXX
The UMass eXperimental X-band radar (UMaXX), a collaborative effort between the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) and the Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), is now providing a groundbreaking data feed from the UMaXX radar on Orchard Hill to the National Weather Service's (NWS) Eastern Regional Headquarters. The radar data will be used by NWS regional forecast offices – principally in the Boston, Albany, and Portland areas – and are viewable in near real time.
Announcement of Tenure & Promotion
The College of Engineering is delighted to announce our newly-tenured and/or promoted faculty members, as voted by the UMass Board of Trustees on August 2, 2019.
Engineering Equity and Inclusion Office Awarded Bronze Level Exemplar Diversity Status by American Society for Engineering Education
The College of Engineering Equity and Inclusion Office, led by Assistant Dean for Diversity Paula Rees, has been awarded Bronze Level Exemplar status, the highest level issued this submission cycle, by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Diversity Recognition Program. “You are to be commended for your great achievement,” said ASEE Manager of Strategic Projects Geraldine E. Gooding.
Mangalore Wins Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Honorable Mention
Third from right: Ganesh Pai Mangalore
The 10th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design (also known as the Driving Assessment Conference) has announced that Ganesh Pai Mangalore of our Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department (MIE) has been awarded a 2019 Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award honorable mention.
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Two Years of Free Wi-Fi for Singapore
Source: www.ida.gov.sg
Come 2007, Singaporeans will be ushering the new year with at least 24 months, or two years, of free (basic tier) wireless connectivity at up to 512 kbps speeds almost everywhere - thanks to IDA's 'Wireless@SG' programme.
Wireless@SG is Singapore's new wireless broadband programme that will be developed and run in the next two years by three local wireless operators.
This October, IDA accepted the proposals from iCELL Network Pte Ltd, QMAX Communications and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd to the government's two-year Call-For-Collaboration (CFC) to kick-start the nation's progressive deployment of a widely-available wireless broadband network by Sep 2007.
This network will complement and extend broadband access currently available in the homes, offices and schools, to public places.
Today, while Singaporeans on-the-go have ready access to voice connectivity (e.g. through mobile phones), connectivity for data-centric devices (e.g. PDAs and laptops) is readily available only in Wi-Fi hotspots run by individual service providers.
The CFC changes this. With the two-year Wireless@SG programme, the number of public 'hotspots' will grow 5-fold from the current 900 to about 5,000.
The three operators will bump up the number of Wireless@SG 'hotzones' in high-traffic, public areas, such as the Central Business District, downtown shopping belts like Orchard Road, and HDB Town Centres, to make wireless broadband a ubiquitous access mode by September 2007.
With this, Singaporeans can truly enjoy seamless broadband on-the-go - we need not be home or in the office to now access all our favorite Internet-based services like emails, instant messages, online games and VOIP calls.
The three operators are extending this two-year free offering with unlimited usage to all residents and visitors in Singapore, including tourists and business travellers. The sign-up details will be made known from December 2006 by the operators.
Meanwhile, Singaporeans and other users in Singapore will be pleased to know that they do not have to be existing subscribers of these operators to enjoy the free service.
In fact, they can choose to sign up at any time with any one of the three operators, and be able to access all the three operators' networks with one account.
For those hungrier for bandwidth beyond 512 kbps or connectivity options with higher quality of service, the three operators will also offer premium services at a fee.
These will come with differentiated value-added operator-based services such as premium contents, bundled video conferencing, VoIP and video streaming applications, online gaming and location-based services.
More details of these will be made available by the operators by the end of this year.
About the Call-For-Collaboration (CFC)
IDA called the Wireless Broadband Market Development (WBMD) CFC in March 2006, to invite interested operators to deploy the Wireless@SG networks and services for two years.
Through the CFC, IDA seeks to grow Singapore's wireless broadband market and catalyse broadband adoption.
Recognising that true nation-wide, pervasive wireless connectivity can only be achieved progressively as wireless technologies mature1, the CFC is just the first phase towards this goal.
In the meantime, the CFC utilises existing wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, to meet the needs of the growing number of data-centric device users that require wireless access to Internet.
The three operators will be investing about $100 mil over the next two years to deploy Wireless@SG. IDA is prepared to defray up to $30 mil of the deployment cost.
1. Other wireless technologies, e.g. WiMax, potentially provide more extensive coverage. However, WiMax is expected to be available for widespread commercial rollout only from 2008.
There is also already a large number of Wi-Fi enabled devices like notebooks, tablet PCs, PDAs and increasingly mobile phones with built-in Wi-Fi capability today, with Wi-Fi support built into many operating systems. In addition, many offices and home users are already accessing office and home applications over private Wi-Fi networks.
Source: www.ida.gov.sg News 11 Oct 2006
- Three years of free Wi-Fi for Singapore from 1 Dec 2006
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Al Roker Shows How To Weather Life’s Storms In New Book
Al Roker is a household name. The weatherman and Today Show co-host whom is well loved by many, is sharing with all of us how the multitude of battles we all have in life can be overcome in his new book titled YOU LOOK SO MUCH BETTER IN PERSON: True Stories of Absurdity and Success.
YOU LOOK SO MUCH BETTER IN PERSON is to release officially on July 28, 2020 under Hatchette Go under Hachette Books.
In You Look So Much Better in Person, Al teaches us how we can weather the storm of life, no matter how torrential the downpour, and shares anecdotes from his own treasure trove of memories in the spotlight. And it hasn’t always been easy-believe it or not, even Al has been yelled at by his boss, suffered an emotional breakdown at work, and told he’d be better suited in another position. Within these pages, he looks back on his own career and shares valuable “Altruisms” that can be applied to our own endeavors, such as how to:
Navigate the special hell that is socializing, craft the perfect comeback line during a confrontation-and know when to use it, get up early and actually make the most of your time, cry at work without freaking people out, and much, much more!
Now, what many may not realize is that Al Roker has authored and co-authored books prior to this latest project. He and co-author David Lochte are known for The Morning Show Murders that was made into a movie.
Throughout his life and career, he has had troubles, from being misunderstood by many, to having to battle with health issues, but through it all, he continued to say YES to life.
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exist†trace announces new look and new single “Spiral Daisakusen” for May 14
March 28, 2014 – All-girl Japanese rock band exist†trace announced their new single “Spiral Daisakusen” today, along with striking new photographs of the band members. The three-track single, due May 14, 2014, is the band’s first release since last year’s “Diamond”. Album jacket and music video information will be revealed soon.
exist†trace – “Spiral Daisakusen”
1. Spiral Daisakusen
2. Antique Doll
3. Yume ni Kiss wo
Earlier this year, exist†trace announced the formation of Archangel Diamond, the official exist†trace international fan club open to exist†trace fans worldwide. Official start date plus details about membership benefits and exclusive merchandise will be announced soon via the fan club’s website.
http://archangel-diamond.com
https://www.facebook.com/ArchangelDiamond
exist†trace has performed overseas several times with appearances in Berlin, Helsinki, Moscow, Paris, London, and Barcelona. The band performed live concerts in America three years in a row from 2011 to 2013, with stops in Seattle, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, and Dallas.
exist†trace official website: http://www.exist-trace.com
exist†trace on Spotify – https://play.spotify.com/artist/2qrNC9noTTHFbNw5SQTh52
exist†trace on iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/exist-trace/id205643349
exist†trace official goods – http://www.jrockshop.com
VOCAL：Jyou
GUITAR and VOCAL：miko
GUITAR: Omi
BASS：Naoto
DRUMS：Mally
exist†trace is one of Japan’s first all-female Visual Kei rock bands.
Along with multiple tours of Japan, exist†trace has performed twice in Europe, making appearances in Berlin, Helsinki, Moscow, Paris, London, and Barcelona. In 2009, the band performed at the 2-day V-ROCK FESTIVAL in Chiba, Japan.
In November 2010, exist†trace released their album “TWIN GATE” in Japan and America, followed by their first American live show for 3000 fans at Sakura-Con in Seattle in April 2011. In June of the same year, they made their major-label debut with the “TRUE” EP on Tokuma Japan, and released a second 5-song EP “THE LAST DAYBREAK” in October 2011.
In March 2012, exist†trace performed their first live-house tour of America, playing New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh (Hard Rock Cafe), and a special 1000-person show at Japanese culture event Tekkoshocon.
In April 2012, exist†trace’s “I feel you” was selected as the main theme for Olympic champion Nadeshiko Japan’s official guidebook. Their first full-length major-label album “VIRGIN” was released May 23, 2012.
In June 2012, over 27,000 viewers from around the world tuned in to Nico Nico Douga to watch exist†trace’s live-show event “Just Like a Virgin” from Tokyo’s renowned live house Shibuya O-WEST.
In June 2013, exist†trace returned to America for the third time in three years to perform at A-Kon in Dallas, TX. Their latest single, “DIAMOND,” was released in July 2013, followed by a worldwide digital release on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.
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Sweden’s Foreign Professionals Suffer a Multicultural Learning Curve
February 14, 2014 | Filed under: Professional,Scandinavia,Sweden | Posted by: kenyans.eu
Despite Sweden being an increasingly multicultural country, too many highly-educated foreign professionals remain out of work due to hang-ups about language and background, argues contributor Lisa Mikulski.
Sweden is on a multicultural learning curve. Despite the lasting stereotype that all Swedes are blond and blue-eyed, Sweden is increasingly a multicultural country. With a liberal and accepting policy on immigration, Sweden opens its arms to thousands of migrants and refugees from around the world. People flock here to find relief, a better life, work, or to be with their Swedish partners. But building a life in Sweden isn’t easy, and many immigrants flounder, despite trying to master the language and their unceasing efforts to find employment.
What does it take to procure a job in Sweden? Many believe that hard work and persistence ultimately pay off. However, many frustrated immigrant job seekers get the sense that the only way to get a job in Sweden is to be Swedish. Or very lucky.
While that conclusion may a bit harsh, Swedish authorities can be seen as sending mixed messages to those arriving to start a life in Sweden. If you arrive in Sweden as a refugee, the state often provides an apartment as well as economic support. That’s lovely. And a very humane thing to do.
But what about college educated professionals from Spain, the US, or South Africa? What if you’re not a refugee and have come instead as a trailing spouse or for the love of a good Swedish partner? In that case, there isn’t much help for you.
Too many trailing spouses and partners of Swedish citizens who come here for love aren’t working, leaving them dependent on support (financial and otherwise) from their partners. For many, the situation persists for years, resulting in frustration that can infect all aspects of their lives.
When I visited my advisor at the Swedish employment service, Arbetsförmedlingen, and explained what I’d been doing to start my business in Gothenburg, he looked at me at said he’d have advised me to do everything I’ve already done.
“Is there anything else Arbetsförmedlingen can help me with?” I asked. “Do you have any other resources or suggestions?”
“We can’t help you with that,” he replied. “Perhaps you should Google it.”
In the 18 months I’ve spent in Gothenburg so far, I’ve met plenty of highly-educated professionals – doctors, engineers, teachers – from other countries who cannot find work in their chosen fields. Moreover, many of these capable and competent people are told they’d even have a hard time washing dishes if they don’t speak Swedish fluently.
These people are trying, as I have, by enrolling in Swedish for immigrant (SFI) language classes. But that doesn’t seem to be enough to entice Swedish employers to get past these immigrants’ less-than-perfect Swedish and see the other skills they have to offer.
This restrictive attitude among hiring managers poses a major problem for Sweden’s efforts to paint itself as a place eager to attract and keep foreign talent. If Sweden truly wants new residents to succeed, companies need to learn to stop using knowledge of the Swedish language as a measuring stick for what talented immigrants have to offer.
I’ve heard too many stories from expats who’ve sent hundreds of resumes without getting so much as a call back. They are confused, frustrated, and starting to get angry. The longer that educated and talented foreign professionals remain un- (or under-) employed in Sweden, the more everyone stands to lose.
One woman I met at SFI taught English for several years in Japan. She moved to Gothenburg and after 15 months could still not find work. She has since moved to Kuwait where she teaches English. Who knows what she might have been able to contribute to Sweden had she been given a chance to shine?
Sweden can’t afford to have a population of highly educated and unemployed immigrants. The country has done a wonderful job at opening its heart to foreigners, but now Swedes must open their eyes. This country is a multicultural one, but to make it work, everyone – those born in Sweden, those born abroad, everyone who lives here – must make the journey on Sweden’s multicultural learning curve together. Together we can all benefit from our diverse range of knowledge, cultures, and varying. The journey will only make Sweden, and all its residents, stronger. But everyone must embrace the opportunity together.
Lisa Mikulski was born and raised in the United States and currently lives in Gothenburg where she works as a freelance writer and photographer. Follow her on Twitter here.
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Dianne Reeves: "This Is A New Time"
From WBUR
‘This Is A New Time’ ‘” And Dianne Reeves Finds Her Place In It
By: Claire Dickson
Last February, vocalist Dianne Reeves graced the world of recorded music with her rich voice and crystal clear vocal interpretations for the first time in five years. Every track on her new album, ‘Beautiful Life,’ produced by Terri Lyne Carrington, features a different ensemble.
Collectively, the musicians (including Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Lalah Hathaway), read like a modern ‘who’s who’ of jazz musicians. Each supports Reeves as she brings her versatility and creativity to new arrangements of pop hits like Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ and standards like Harold Arlen’s ‘Stormy Weather’ as well as originals by Reeves, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, and Geri Allen.
World Music/CRASHarts will be presenting Reeves at the Berklee Performance Center Oct. 18. She’ll be performing music from her new album with Gerald Clayton on piano, Romero Lubambo on guitar, James Genus on bass, and Terreon Gully on drums.
I spoke with Reeves about her new album, her voice, and how she keeps her music relevant.
To read the interview click here
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Great Deals on New and Used Apple iPhones
The Apple iPhone
Apple has released ten generations of their iPhone smartphone. Each generation has been accompanied by a major releases of the Apple iOS or operating system. Millions of iPhones have been sold and the popularity of the device has spurred a strong market of used devices that range from $25 to $1000.
The original 1st-generation iPhone was a GSM phone and established core design precedents, such as the button placement and screen size. And hose persisted throughout all releases for the first four generations. The iPhone 3G added 3G network support, and was followed by the 3GS with improved hardware, the iPhone 4 saw the introduction of a metal chassis, higher display resolution and a front-facing camera. The iPhone 4S continued with improved hardware and the introduction of the Siri voice assistant. The iPhone 5 featured a taller, 4-inch display and Apple’s newly introduced Lightning connector. In 2013, Apple released the 5S with improved hardware and a fingerprint reader. Apple also introduced a lower cost iPhone 5C, which was a version of the 5 with colored plastic casings instead of metal. The next generation was the larger iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, with models featuring 4.7 and 5.5-inch displays. The iPhone 6S was introduced the following year, which featured hardware upgrades and support for pressure-sensitive touch inputs. The iPhone SE featured hardware from the 6S but used the smaller form factor of the iPhone 5S. In 2016, Apple unveiled the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which added water resistance, improved system and graphics performance. A new rear dual-camera setup was included on the Plus model along with new color options, Apple also removed the 3.5 mm headphone that was used on previous models in favor of using the lightning connector.
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Plymouth Rock Technologies Appoints Gianluca De Novi to Advisory Board
Plymouth, Massachusetts–(Newsfile Corp. – January 14, 2021) – Plymouth Rock Technologies Inc. (CSE: PRT) (OTCQB: PLRTF) (FSE: 4XA) (WKN: A2N8RH) (“Plymouth Rock“, “PRT“, or the “Company“) a leader in the development of cutting-edge threat detection technologies, announced today that Gianluca De Novi has been appointed to PRT’s Board of Advisors.
Gianluca De Novi, Ph.D., a native of Bernalda, Basilicata (Italy), brings a strong background in engineering and science to this role. A faculty member at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Extension School, he earned his master’s degree in electronics engineering and his Ph.D. in robotics and control systems from the University of Bologna in Italy. While there, he also worked at the Laboratory of Automation and Robotics and Computer Vision. After spending one year as a visiting researcher at the bio-robotics laboratory of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, he completed his postdoctoral fellowship in medical simulation at the Department of Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA working mainly on DoD funded projects and today he is Director of the Medical Device and Simulations Laboratory.
Dr. De Novi has also acted as scientific/engineering consultant and advisor to many leading corporations and research institutions in the MedTech, Hitech and Automation fields.
His interests and skills in advanced technologies going from Graphic Rendering, to xR, Simulation, Computer Vision, AI and Robotics, brought Dr. De Novi to be involved and lead in a number of cutting-edge entrepreneurial projects.
In 2013 the PrimiDieci Society and the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce recognized Dr. De Novi as one of the ten most distinguished Italian Professionals in the United States under the age of 40.
“Dr. De Novi’s extensive relative technical experience and proven leadership will provide key strategic guidance and direction to the board and executive team of Plymouth Rock Technologies at this critical time in our company’s growth cycle. He will provide valuable scientific/engineering knowledge and hands-on experience to PRT as we commercialize our products,” commented Dana Wheeler, CEO & President of Plymouth Rock Technologies.
“I have been impressed by the high quality of technology developed at PRT and I am delighted to join the team and help this bright gem to fly high like its drone. I am looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and working with this group,” concluded Dr. De Novi.
About Plymouth Rock Technologies Inc.
We are on a mission to bring engineering-driven answers to the most critical problems that threaten our safety. We work with government, law enforcement and military to innovate solutions for national security, defence and space systems.
The Company is developing the next generation of threat detection solutions and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).
The PRT X1 is a purpose-built multirotor UAS, utilizing Artificial Intelligence, cutting-edge sensors and the latest FLIR dual-camera module as standard, offering thermal capabilities alongside 1080p HD real-time air-to-ground streaming and 4K video recording, with the ability to mount multiple, various sensors, modules and payloads.
Our advanced threat detection methods fuse artificial intelligence with augmented reality interfaces to eliminate human operating error. Plymouth Rock products, both airborne and land-based, will scan for threat items at greater ‘stand-off’ distances than current existing technologies. Our unique radar imaging and signal processing technology creates new opportunities for remotely operated, non-intrusive screening of crowds in real time.
Plymouth Rock’s core technologies include: (1) UAS platforms engineered to conform to H.R.4753 – Drone Origin Security Enhancement Act (“X1“) (“XV“); (2) Millimeter Remote Imaging from Airborne Drone (“MIRIAD“); (3) A compact microwave radar system for scanning shoe’s (“Shoe Scanner“); (4) A compact modular radar utilized for a variety of applications, from aircraft to weapon detection (“CODA“).
www.plyrotech.com
Dana Wheeler
info@plyrotech.com
Investor Information:
Tasso Baras
tasso@plyrotech.com
Certain information set forth in this news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding future financial position, business strategy, use of proceeds, corporate vision, proposed acquisitions, partnerships, joint-ventures and strategic alliances and co-operations, budgets, cost and plans and objectives of or involving the Company. Such forward looking information reflects management’s current beliefs and is based on information currently available to management. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “plans”, “expects”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “predicts”, “intends”, “targets”, “aims”, “anticipates” or “believes” or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases or may be identified by statements to the effect that certain actions “may”, “could”, “should”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or be achieved. A number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause the actual results or performance to materially differ from any future results or performance expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the control of the Company including, but not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions and dependence upon regulatory approvals. Readers are cautioned that the assumptions used in the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable at the time of preparation, may prove to be imprecise and, as such, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements. The Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by securities laws.
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Arya Samaj
Arya Samaj/Arya Pratinidhi Sabha was founded by Mula Sankara or Dayananda who took a reform view on traditional Hinduism by rejecting such practices and beliefs as polytheism, idol worship, animal sacrifice, ancestor veneration, pilgrimage, caste system, divine avatars and child marriage all of which lack Vedic sanctions.
However there are observances which are recognized by Arya Samaj which are considered borderline in respect to these abolished practices such as oblations to the fire (Havan) and the sanctity of the cow.
Anyway Swami Dayananda Saraswati had an exclusive view regarding the absolute authority of the Vedas which caused him to forsake many of these traditional beliefs and rituals; yet contrary to his own position he took a post-Vedic view of certain doctrines as it applies to karma and reincarnation. Thus if the Vedas are the ultimate source of truth as being the inspiration of god then he is no different than those who have supposedly polluted the sacred waters of Hinduism with their extra Vedic doctrinal views. If the Vedas are perfect and infallible then adding ones recipe to the pot only makes it just another dish being served in the smorgasbord of spiritually based on personal taste. Furthermore there have been so many gurus with various ideas of do’s and dont’s that my question is which one is right if any of them. Additionally his concept of removing the caste system is personally challenged as he assumes his role as the overseer of this sect and in this sense he has exercised the priestly craft even though he was a renunciate to his Brahmin heritage. After all why not allow someone else to be his mouthpiece or spokesperson to propagate the faith? So instead of setting himself apart “from” the priestly duties he has set himself apart “unto” the priesthood to become an elitist among other gurus or spiritual leaders.
In respect to this being a social movement there have been many positive changes made by Arya Samaj which supports a moral agenda that is pragmatic in its humanitarian efforts contrary to certain oppressive practices of traditional Hinduism. However its actions to remove the caste system is praiseworthy but practically speaking it has been difficult to “cast” off this label from among its own membership. Furthermore in respect to Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati’s views of tolerance concerning universalism towards other faiths; this is primarily recognized by conversions into the brotherhood of its own movement and for those who are considered non members they are targeted and discriminated against just like those who are under the varna system.
Ironically their platform for social reform is limited due to their nationalistic allegiance to obtain cultural purity.This stance has even caused them to violate some of the tenets of the faith in respect to their 10 basic principles which in essence is supposed to promote the goodness and love for all humanity. Unfortunately this zeal for religious supremacy has resulted in the persecution of Christians and Muslims. Thus they have idolized the concept of patriotism to such a point that acts of terrorism and hostility have been integrated within the scope of their religious expression especially towards those movements which are considered non Indian in origin.
This aggressive intolerance promotes an ideology that the institution and cultural preference is more important than the sanctity of human life. Moreover to bow down and worship this extremist view is immoral, unsocial and inhumane. Finally we must remember that ethnically many of these people are culturally related as brothers and sisters; who share a common heritage even if they are of a different faith. Furthermore Arya Samaj is a small group in respect to the size of the orthodox Hindu community and as much is it wrong for them to feel isolated and rejected by mainstream Hinduism it is equally as erroneous to treat others who also suffer under their non-traditional ways.
Anyway the bigger question to these arguments or controversies is whether or not this movement measures up to the standard as being the ultimate source of truth especially since the founder and his followers have been inconsistent in areas of their belief system?
I think it would be wise to consider the words of Dayananda who claimed that he is only human in having a limited amount of knowledge. He further states that his information and material may be wrong and therefore alterable by future generations.
So even though this may be a humble and honest statement; what confidence does a person have with this kind of message? I think this opens the door to the possibility of self deception which may have started with his mentor Swami Virajananda and has carried all the way down to the present day movement. I am not saying that there is no truth to his positions or that there aren’t some benefits to his views but how can a person make such exclusive claims about truth with these kind of doubtful statements and therefore perhaps his beliefs are as fallacious as his comment about the Vedas mentioning electricity.
Anyway I am not versed on the particulars of Dayananda’s views on karma and reincarnation but it seems that it would be difficult to prove that this philosophy does not attribute to or promote the caste system since being a social misfit or outcast could be a result of reaping the effects of a former or previous life. Therefore what right does Dayananda have in eliminating the caste system if he is acting contrary to the debt of karmic forces? Furthermore his brand of karma states that enlightenment or moksha is really only temporal in which the individual is eventually recycled back into the same system. So what freedom is there in this momentary liberation knowing that one day you will return to the hamster wheel of life?
I have previously written a blog about the shortcomings of reincarnation which may not necessarily represent the views of Dayananda but maybe it shares some similar points.
jesusandjews.com/wordpress/2010/02/16/hinduism-and-reincarnation/
Anyway contrary to this the bible indicates that a person dies and then faces the judgment and thou at first this may seem like a devastating statement for someone who has messed up their present life; it is really only a judgment against those who have rejected the provisional grace of God who helps others clean up their mess. That’s because there is no act or sin which is so great as to exhaust the willingness of God who is able to completely and efficaciously bring eternal salvation or moksha. It is through Jesus that you can be redeemed in the here and now and therefore there is no excuse for condemnation as a moral failure when the gift of God’s forgiveness and restoration is freely received and actualized apart from being earned or merited.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
In closing a noble or honorable person should be willing to follow the path of truth wherever the evidence may lead them even if it contrary to ones preconceived ideas or bias towards their cultural preferences.
Furthermore I would simply ask that you would pray to the Supreme Being or God to decisively show you if Jesus really is the source of ultimate truth.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.
Arya Samaj Resources
Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices/ J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, editors; Todd M. Johnson, World Religious Statistics; Donald Wiebe, Introduction-2nd ed., Copyright 2010 by ABC-CLIO, LLC. Reproduced with permission of ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
Encyclopedia of Religion Second Edition, copyright 2005 Thomson Gale a part of The Thomson Corporation, Lindsay Jones Editor in Chief, Vol.1, pgs.515-516, Thomas J. Hopkins
Encyclopaedia Britannica,Inc., copyright 1993, Vol.1, pg.611, Arya Samaj
Encyclopaedia Britannica,Inc., copyright 1993, Vol.3, pg.925, Dayananda Sarasvati
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