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Originally formed in 1969 by Rudolf Schenker, the original lineup consisted of rhythm guitarist/vocalist Schenker, lead guitarist Karl-Heinz Follmer, bassist Lothar Heimberg, and drummer Wolfgang Dziony. In 1971, Schenker's younger brother Michael joined the band to play lead guitar and good friend Klaus Meine became the new vocalist. The group recorded Lonesome Crow in 1972, which was used as the soundtrack to the German movie Das Kalte Paradies. Although they failed to get into the public's eye, the early formation of '70s rock band UFO noticed Michael Schenker's guitar playing and hired him as their lead guitarist; Michael, therefore, would leave the band in 1973. Guitarist Uli Jon Roth replaced him, and under his guidance the group released four consecutive albums under the RCA record label: Fly to the Rainbow (1974), In Trance (1975), Virgin Killer (1976), and Taken by Force (1977). Although these albums failed to attain any serious attention in the United States, they were all quite popular in Japan. By the time Taken by Force was released, Roth made the decision to leave the band and form Electric Sun after feeling that his musical ideas would take the group in an entirely different direction. Tokyo Tapes, a double live album that the group recorded in Tokyo with Roth, was released in 1978. Shortly after Roth's departure, Michael Schenker was kicked out of UFO for his constant alcohol abuse and came back to play with the Scorpions in 1979, who had recently signed with Mercury Records. The group released Lovedrive that same year and played their first American tour, but Lovedrive failed to attract attention, being banned in the United States because of its sexually explicit cover. Still coping with his drugs and alcohol addiction, Michael missed tour dates repeatedly and guitarist Matthias Jabs was hired to fill in for him on nights when he was absent. Michael eventually would leave the band a second time after realizing that he was failing to meet their expectations.
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Adult Life Skills Starring Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker gets US Release in January 2019
Posted on December 26, 2018 | by Adi Tantimedh | Comments
Adult Life Skills, the quirky indie comedy-drama starring Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker, is getting a US release on January 18th 2019 in theatres and VOD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk6OxjwL5Ho
Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Adult Life Skills – Official Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk6OxjwL5Ho)
The movie was originally made back in 2016 and released in the UK in 2017, way before Whittaker was cast as the 13th Doctor. It got good reviews and played at film festivals across the world, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, and seemed to fade from sight. Now, with Jodie Whittaker's newfound popularity in Doctor Who, the movie has been picked up for US distribution.
The story is everything you expect from a quirky little British indie movie. Jodie Whittaker plays Anna, an oddball who lives in her mother's garden shed making odd little videos, refusing to grow up, get a boyfriend or stop driving her mother and grandmother crazy with her slackerdom. Her job at the local park is barely real life. She's in mourning for her twin brother and the movie is a coming-of-age story about living through grief and depression.
Whittaker has said the movie was a personal favourite of hers. There's a sense of how this is what her career was like before Doctor Who. She was still a regular on Broadchurch, the crime drama created and run by Chris Chibnall, and played Beth Latimer, the woman whose son's murder kicks off the entire series. Broadchurch became the biggest show in the UK, made Chibnall the hottest showrunner there, and ultimately led to him getting offered the job of showrunner of Doctor Who, which also led to him offering the role to Whittaker.
What's especially interesting is that Whittaker did most of the emotional heavy-lifting on Broadchurch as a mother dealing with grief and rage, and many of her roles up to that point had been as dark, emotional characters, despite her reputation off-screen as someone with a chirpy, quirky sense of humour, a quality she has finally brought to Doctor Who. You can tell which period this movie is from because it was made before Whittaker went blonde. After Broadchurch its three-season run, Whittaker starred in the BBC medical thriller Trust Me, playing a nurse from London who takes on a new identity as a fake doctor at a hospital in Scotland. Then she was cast as the 13th Doctor and everything changed. You could say Adult Life Skills is one of the stops on her path to Doctor Who.
Note that the trailer mentions Whittaker as the new star of Doctor Who to capitalize on fan awareness of the show. That's who they expect to be interested in seeing the movie in the US. Movies that aren't big studio blockbusters with massive marketing budgets have a hard time finding an audience or getting attention these days. Whoever is in charge of the marketing at Screen Media Films, the US distributor, is making a smart call with identifying a presold audience of Doctor Who and Jodie Whittaker fans for the movie.
About Adi Tantimedh
Adi Tantimedh is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist who just likes to writer. He wrote radio plays for the BBC Radio, “JLA: Age of Wonder” for DC Comics, “Blackshirt” for Moonstone Books, and “La Muse” for Big Head Press. Most recently, he wrote “Her Nightly Embrace”, “Her Beautiful Monster” and “Her Fugitive Heart”, a trilogy of novels featuring a British-Indian private eye published by Atria Books, a division Simon & Schuster.
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Warning to parents after 31 child deaths caused by blind cords.
March 8, 2017 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
WARNING: SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND THIS VIDEO DISTURBING.
This harrowing video has been released showing how easily toddlers can be strangled by window blind cords, in a bid to cut the tragic number of deaths every year. At least 31 children in the UK have died as a result of blinds cords since 1999.
The message is that no parent can watch a child 24/7. New window blind safety legislation came into force in 2014. However many homes have blinds fitted before that date and older blinds need to be checked.
Dr Michael McBride, Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland, said: “The video aims to highlight the dangers of looped blind cords and look at ways in which blind cord injuries and deaths can be reduced.”
ADVICE TO PARENTS OVER BLIND CORDS
If they have a looped control chain or cord and do not have a safety device fitted, then you can easily install one of the many devices available.
Ensure that all operating blind cords and chains cannot be reached by children.
Move cots, beds and any furniture away from windows and blinds – remember children love to climb.
When buying a new blind, always look for one that does not contain cords, has concealed cords or has an in-built safety device and that complies with the new European Standards.
Dr McBride continued: “New blinds are covered by improved European safety legislation that came into force in 2014. However many homes have blinds fitted before this, so it is important to check them all.”
Mary Black, assistant director of health and social well-being improvement with the PHA, said: “It is impossible to watch over our children 24 hours a day, so it is essential that we take time to make the home environment as safe as possible.
“As the video highlights, it can take as little as seconds for a toddler to lose their life after becoming entangled in a window blind cord or chain.
“Simple steps – such as securing cords and chains with safety devices and keeping furniture away from windows so that children cannot climb on them – can help prevent deaths.
“It is important that parents, relatives and carers check their homes and proactively take steps to make sure that children are kept safe.
“Don’t leave it until it is too late – taking simple steps to make our homes safer for children is the best way to help prevent accidents.”
Read more at http://www.devonlive.com/warning-to-parents-about-window-bl-ind-cords/story-30185977-detail/story.html#FqkCLtMV2Ib4q5kV.99
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Determining the best window coverings
Q) Hi Deb. I’m in a new home and wondering how I can determine the best window coverings for each room? The house feels empty without anything on the windows. What are the best ways to approach each room and determine the best options? Thanks!
A) Window treatments in a new home can be very important. They are a finishing touch that can make a room. In many cases it’s a combination of the style of the house, and functionality required, in terms of privacy and light control.
Window treatment options
There are many choices available in window treatments, such as drapery, blinds and shutters. There are also many material options like wood, fabrics, faux wood, etc. The most popular window coverings are drapery panels or blinds.
In some homes, it makes sense to cover all the windows in one consistent type of treatment. For instance, this may be a blind or a shutter in one colour, that is used throughout the home. This adds light control and privacy to every room, and it gives your home a uniform look on the exterior.
Drapery vs. blinds
In some rooms, even with a blind, you may want to add drapery to soften the room or add some extra fullness. This might be in a living room or bedroom where you want additional style or decor — you can coordinate fabrics and textiles and really bring a room together. When you have more than one window in a room, like a living room, it’s important to give them the same coverings.
The style of your home may also influence the window treatments; a more modern, sleek home may have fitted, streamlined, blinds. A traditional, formal home may have more ornate window treatment like blinds with full-length drapery, or customized roman shades to add pattern and colour to each room.
Tip: The more customized window treatments are more expensive and usually require a professional. When on a budget, look for inexpensive ready-made options that can be cut or fit to size to give a more custom feel.
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January 11, 2017 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
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Attraction after son’s blind twine demise
December 13, 2016 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
The parents of a toddler who died in a window blind cord accident have made an emotional bid to raise awareness of the dangers that blinds pose to children.
Feliciano and Maria Saba’s two-year-old son, Bryan, died 11 weeks ago after he became tangled in a looped cord at their home in Portadown, County Armagh.
Mrs Saba described the looped cords as a “silent killer” and called for a new, safer system to be introduced.
The couple have taken part in a safety campaign by the Southern Health Trust.
In an interview filmed for the trust, the couple described Bryan as a lively and loveable child who loved being outdoors.
Mrs and Mrs Saba are originally from Guinea-Bissau in west Africa but left their homeland to study and work in Italy, where they got married.
They and their seven children left Italy and moved to Northern Ireland only a short time before the tragedy.
In September, Bryan was being looked after by his adult sister and brother in their Portadown home, while the rest of the family were at work and at school.
The child had just been fed, and his sister left him to play in their living room while she walked a few steps into the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Mrs Saba said Bryan had only been left alone for a few moments but after noticing that the child was not making any noise in the next room, his sister went to check on him and found him caught up in the blind cord.
“She took him down and put him on the floor. She called out for her brother who was upstairs, he came down. Being in a country a short time, they couldn’t speak English,” Mrs Saba said.
“My daughter ran to my sister’s shop 100 metres [109 yards] away to call her and get her to call an ambulance to help him.”
Despite their attempts to save him, Bryan died on 25 September.
The grieving family has shared their story as a warning to others, as part of the trust’s campaign to reduce window blind cord accidents.
‘Death trap’
“Children like playing with things, blind cords have little pearl balls that attract the attention of toddlers,” Mrs Saba said.
“We need to have at least some form of safety device on the cord, we need to make them secure. We don’t want to see another child like Bryan die.”
Mr Saba said: “For us, the living room was the safest room in the house. We never thought that the living room would be a death trap because it had practically nothing in it. It only had a television, a sofa, a small table, that was all.”
The couple’s recorded interview was shown at a recent safety workshop in Craigavon, County Armagh, organised by the trust’s accident prevention officer, Nina Daly.
‘Lasting legacy’
“Many people still remain unaware of the danger that looped cords present to babies and young children,” Ms Daly said.
“If a child’s neck gets entangled in a cord even for a few seconds they can be left permanently brain damaged or die. It really does happen that quickly, without warning and with the child often not able to cry out for help.”
She praised the Saba family’s “courage and determination to warn others of this danger” and said the video will be “a lasting legacy to their son and form part of the trust’s ongoing efforts to address blind cord accidents”.
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Playing toddler ‘went limp’ after being strangled by window blind cord in front of horrified mum
December 1, 2016 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
Karen Shelley, 42, thought her son had died when she saw him hang “in slow motion” as his eyes bulged and he lost colour in his face
A mother told how she watched her son “in slow motion” as he became entangled in a window blind cord and hung himself as he “went limp” before her eyes.
Karen Shelley, 42, was watching her son Riley, 2, play with his younger brother Louis, 1, when he became trapped with the cord around his neck.
She was at home in Sheerness, Kent, when Riley stood up on a windowsill and fell through the plastic cord.
His 16-year-old sister Sammy rushed to his aid and pulled him up to save him from hanging.
He was rushed to hospital where doctors ran tests to check his oxygen levels.
The little lad is now recovering at home, and the bruising on his neck has disappeared.
But his mum wants to remind other parents of the dangers of leaving a blind cord free – and said how “lucky” she is that her son is still alive.
Karen told how she ran in slow motion towards her son, as her legs “turned to jelly” and she collapsed on the sofa in front of him.
The window blind cord as Karen would usually wrap it around the pole (Photo: Facebook)
Riley hung for seconds from the window blind cord (Photo: Facebook)
She said: “It just happened so quickly. I honestly thought he was dead. My legs just collapsed under me as I crawled up the settee.
“He had hold of the cord on both sides of the loop and as he jumped down it went round his neck and pulled him back up a little – then he was just hanging there, limp.
“Sammy grabbed him, she got there before me and pulled him up.
“I just kept screaming ‘no, no, no, no’ – I thought he had died.
“His eyes started bulging out from his head and he turned this funny colour.
Karen has cut the cord off and is warning other parents of the dangers (Photo: SWNS)
“It’s amazing how quickly the colour went, it only took two or three seconds and he was completely pale.
“It’s just something you never want to see – your child just hanging there lifeless.
“The doctor actually said to me it only takes five seconds for this sort of fatality to happen.
“He said Riley had been extremely lucky and that if it had been a couple of inches lower and the cord had hit his windpipe it could have been a lot worse.
“It doesn’t even bear thinking about.”
Riley, who suffers from autism, was sat in his favourite place in the house – the windowsill – where he likes to watch the cars speeding past.
She was told that if the cord was lower, it could have been a fatal accident (Photo: Facebook)
Karen, who is also mum to 22-year-old Luke, told how she usually wraps the cord of her second-hand blind around the top of the pole.
The teacher’s assistant was aware of the risk of accidents around her children and said that morning, she had forgotten to wrap it around.
Karen said: “It’s so dangerous. It goes to show it only takes one day for something like this to happen.
Karen Shelley with son Riley Stuart (Photo: SWNS)
“I’ve been so lucky and I know I was lucky. I just feel so sorry for the parents that have lost their children in this way.
“I did cut the cord in half but I can’t bear looking at it anymore so I cut it all off.”
Karen wants to raise awareness of the dangers of using blinds with a cord pull.
She said she wanted to share Riley’s story so that other parents will think before leaving their cord dangling free.
Karen said: “It just show how easily it can happen. I was 12 feet away from Riley but if my child was out of the room, it could have ended differently.
“If the cord was a few inches longer, it could have ended differently. We might not have been so lucky.”
This comes as another toddler was caught on camera silently strangling on a window blind cord as his mother filmed the rest of the family playing together in the living room.
Gavin Walla, from Wisconsin, US, can be seen in the horrifying home video hanging limply from the looped window blind cord, which is wrapped around his neck.
Gavin’s mother was filming a home video of her children playing together in their front room when she suddenly notices the toddler has stopped breathing.
Immediately, she drops the camera, screaming her son’s name as she desperately tries to untangle the cord.
Horror: Gavin stands limply in the corner (Photo: ABC)
Thankfully, her quick actions saved Gavin’s life and he’s heard in the video coughing and spluttering as he gasps for breath.
Gavin, who is now 17, wants people to see his home video in the hope of raising awareness about the very real dangers of window blind cords.
He told ABC News: “I’m glad that it’s out there. It saved the lives of other children that have been fortunate enough to have parents who have seen the video.”
It is thought more than 100 children have died in window blind cord accidents since Gavin’s.
Now: Gavin wants his home video to serve as a warning to other parents (Photo: ABC)
Elliot Kaye, chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission told ABC: “I see decades, and I’m talking decades, about children once a month getting hanged to death by these products and it’s got to stop.”
The government first identify the window blinds as a hidden danger over 30 years ago.
But the cords remain a potentially deadly hazard to this day with many manufacturers still using them on many of their products.
IKEA and Target have already removed corded window blinds from their shelves due to safety concerns.
Family: The Walla family want to share their story (Photo: ABC)
Walmart and several other stores have announced they will stop selling the products by 2018.
Ralph Vasami, the head of the Window Covering Association, an industry trade group, admitted that the hazard is still present but has been reduced by new safety features including breakaway cords and string that can be tied at a height children can’t reach.
They however do not recommend that corded window blinds should be used in homes with children.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/playing-toddler-strangled-window-blind-9363464
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October 21, 2016 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
Dear Heloise: I have wooden-slat blinds. I have tried oil soap and baby wipes, but I cannot get them clean. Can you please help? — Marie M., via fax
Help is here. Cleaning wooden blinds shouldn’t be hard! Baby wipes are OK, but may leave a residue. The oil “soap” is what I use, and it’s never failed me.
Are they just dusty? Coated with a gummy sort of residue? Are they painted, or raw wood? Painted should be a zip to clean. If they are unpainted wood, try this: Use a microfiber cloth dipped into just warm water. Wring it out, and run it over one slat. Go both ways, back and forth. If you see “dirt” on the cloth, then proceed.
If it’s that sticky stuff, then go back to the wood soap. Don’t overwet, and be sure to rinse off, then dry well. Test one-half of a blind and see which method works best for you! — Heloise
P.S.: Use the upholstery attachment with the brush to “suck” dust off the blinds!
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Innovation awards: Bloc Blinds gives new life to roller blinds
July 22, 2016 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
Anyone who has ever had roller blinds installed in their home will be aware of the problems that arise when they start to age. You can’t really take them down to wash them and the only solution for worn or discoloured blinds is to replace the complete unit.
But you can’t just do it for one window, the whole house needs to be done at considerable expense.
Changing the blinds themselves isn’t an option either, the whole mechanical assembly for each one must be replaced as well.
A simpler and much more cost-effective solution is now at hand thanks to an invention by Belfast based Bloc Blinds. The company is responsible for a number of patented and patent-pending products since breaking into the window blinds market but its most striking innovation is the fabric changing roller blind.
This clever design allows the user to swap the fabric of the blind as often as they like without replacing or even removing the complete system from the window.
The barrel, fixtures and fittings of the blind all remain in situ, only the fabric is changed.
This has considerable advantages beyond simple cost savings as Bloc Blinds marketing manager Kiera Scullion explains.
“The ease with which fabrics can be swapped means that consumers no longer need to think of their blinds as stagnant pieces in their room which can only be of neutral colour so as to match all possible colours schemes over the coming years,” she says.
“This means that consumers can be as daring as they like with their colour and pattern choices, safe in the knowledge that if they redecorate or have a change of heart down the line the fabric can be quickly and inexpensively swapped.”
As well as increased design flexibility there is also the practical element with the option to replace tired or worn fabrics as needed without replacing all the other elements of the blind which are still perfectly functional. “The components used to build our blinds are extremely hard wearing so that they will last for many years, and fabric changes to come,” she adds.
The blind has been designed with simplicity in mind. Users can swap the fabric of their blinds in seconds by simply hooking off one and hooking on another.
“The re-ordering process has also been simplified. By scanning the QR code on the barrel of the blind the customer is taken to the reorder page on the Bloc Blinds website.
“The measurements from their original order are already stored so all the customer has to do is choose a fabric and wait for it to be sent out to them ready to be hooked into place.
The blind’s origins date back some years to when Cormac Diamond, inventor of the fabric changing roller blind, was working in Poland for window manufacturing firm. He realised that there was a gap for high quality and visually appealing blinds.
Easily interchangeable
“As a solution to this gap, you could say the ‘lightbulb’ moment came when he looked at other household items which were easily interchangeable such as printer cartridges and razor blades,” says Scullion.
“Cormac wanted to offer this same level of flexibility to window blinds and as a result move them into the home accessories market.”
The blind was launched in 2014 and was quickly picked up by the John Lewis Partnership. It is currently available as a category brand product throughout its nationwide network of stores in the UK and on its online platform. It is also available and selling well throughout Europe and has recently been launched on the US market.
“It has been really well received with 10 per cent of customers reordering fabrics to date as well as several recognitions for design innovation both in the consumer and trade sectors,” Scullion says.
“Given that it is an environmentally friendlier option which reduces the amount of aluminium going to landfills, the fabric changing roller blind has been particularly well received by the public sector as well as environmentally and sustainability aware consumers.”
Founded in 2006, Bloc Blinds originally manufactured skylight blinds, with a handful of people in Diamond’s father-in-law’s shed.
“We have come quite a way since then with over 100 employees and a recent move into our new, custom-built factory,” she says. “We now design and manufacture a wide range of award-winning window dressing options and deliver them all over the world.”
Continued growth is very much on the agenda for the future. A new factory was completed at the beginning of this year and the company is engaged in an ongoing recruitment drive to increase staff numbers by nearly 50 per cent over the next two years.
“We have worked hard to expand our retailer network in the UK and Irelandand will continue to do so in the coming years. We have recently opened our first office in the US, in Boston, to service our US website and customer base.
“We hope to increase consumer sales as well as exploring long-term growth plans in the market. The overall goal is to increase the number of our products in the market so that we can subsequently increase repeat fabric sales.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation-awards-bloc-blinds-gives-new-life-to-roller-blinds-1.2728306
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Toddler Tianna Mooney died after getting tangled in blind, just 45 minutes after she was put to bed .
PARENTS are being warned about the dangers posed by window blind cords after the death of an 18-month-old girl.
Little Tianna Mooney died after becoming entangled in a blind in her bedroom.
The toddler had been put to bed as normal at her Basford home.
But less than an hour later her mother, Stacey Clarke, found her unresponsive, with the cord loop around her neck.
Now – after finding Tianna’s death in June last year was accidental – assistant coroner David James said he was ‘astounded’ to discover how many children have died in similar circumstances.
Read more: Parents of Bronwyn Taylor raise money for awareness leaflets
He said: “Tianna’s death was not an isolated death. I can’t say enough how important it is for parents, grandparents and carers of young children to ensure looped blind cords are kept out of the reach of children.
“This was an utter tragedy.”
An inquest at North Staffordshire Coroners’ Court yesterday heard Miss Clarke put Tianna to bed at around 7.30pm on June 16 last year.
The tot’s cot was by a window fitted with a vertical blind – which had some slats missing – and she would often stand and look out of the window before settling down to sleep. The inquest heard Miss Clarke, who lived in Victoria Street with Tianna and her older son, went upstairs 45 minutes later.
She described seeing Tianna ‘standing in her cot, with the cord around her neck’.
Read more: Hundreds attend funeral of Bronwyn Taylor who died after getting tangled in blinds
Miss Clarke picked up her daughter and ran outside calling for help. One neighbour called an ambulance while another – a teacher – tried to resuscitate Tianna. Paramedics quickly arrived but the toddler was pronounced dead in hospital.
Pathologists concluded Tianna died from ‘compression of the neck, consistent with hanging’.
The inquest comes three months after 16-month-old Bronwyn Taylor died when she became entangled in her grandparents’ window blinds in Fegg Hayes.
Her parents Matt and Cathy, from Basford, have since launched a campaign to raise awareness of hidden dangers in the home which will see thousands of leaflets distributed to new parents, as well as extended family members such as grandparents, and in libraries, nurseries, doctors and dental surgeries.
Matt, aged 41, said: “It is tragic that this has happened to another little girl. There are lots of accidents happening every day, which is why we are campaigning and getting these leaflets out.”
The inquest heard current blind cord standards ensure new blinds are child-safe, but older blinds remain a danger in many homes.
During the inquest, Mr James said: “Although these standards are there now for new installations, many homes are still fitted with blinds that will not incorporate these requirements.
“Children of this age are prone not to be able to free themselves, and their windpipes are not fully developed, which means they suffocate.”
Read more: Tragedy as little girl dies after getting tangled in blinds
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THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY TO CLEAN WINDOW BLINDS
May 21, 2016 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
Blinds. There is no quicker or more effective way to switch from natural light to privacy please! Just a twist of the wrist and the magic happens. Surely, this is why just about every window in just about every house and apartment in the U.S. comes dressed with BLINDS. We have come to expect them. We have come to depend on them. Curtains and the like are just decorative bonuses; blinds do the grunt work.
But speaking of work, they sure are a lot of work to clean. Blinds collect dust like nobody’s business, and getting that dust off is a pain. It is time consuming, and I know I’ve never felt like I’ve gotten minecompletely dust-free–even after a day devoted to cleaning them.
Well, that was before I knew THIS awesome hack. The only hack you’ll ever need for cleaning your blinds. Are you ready? Let’s figure out how to clean window blinds together!
(This post contains affiliate links that support this blog.)
Here are the things you’ll need: tongs, two microfiber dust cloths (you may want to have some extra for swapping out when the originals get dusty), and four rubber bands.
Let’s go to work!
Wrap your dust cloths around each side of your tongs and secure with two rubber bands a piece. Make sure that the smooth side of the dust cloth faces in and the seam is on the side or back for the most effective dusting.
Clasp your tongs around each individual blind and just LOOK at all of the dust that comes back! This is seriously the most efficient way anyone has ever cleaned their blinds. Ever.
If your dry cloths aren’t getting the job done, spray your favorite cleaner on the blinds as you go. We love making our own and use these DIY household cleaner recipes on this list to do it!
Now, if your blinds are anything like mine, you’ll need to change your microfiber cloths out a few times over before you’re done. Just do it, you’re still saving mad amounts of time by using this hack!
I appreciate that this method doesn’t require me to donate my favorite pair of tongs to the cleaning closet either. Just remove the cloths when you’re done, send the tongs through the dishwasher, and they’re ready to hang out with the kitchen utensils once again.
So, happy cleaning, friends! We’d love to hear how it goes for you in the comments!
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The last hearings on Council redistricting
By Charles Kuffner on April 22, 2011 at 9:29 PM
Lots of action, and lots of alternatives, at the two Council meetings on Wednesday.
Hispanic civic leaders on Wednesday presented an alternative redistricting map for the Houston City Council that creates a third district on the city’s southwest side where they said a Latino would have “a fighting chance” to win.
Fifteen other alternatives to the map Mayor Annise Parker’s administration unveiled two weeks ago had been submitted to city planning staff as of Wednesday afternoon, including one that would scrap the city’s five at-large seats in favor of 16 single-member districts, department spokeswoman Suzy Hartgrove said.
More than 40 Latino civic groups backed the map, which includes a District K based around Gulfton and Sharpstown.
That proposed district would have a voting-age Hispanic population of 59.4 percent, better than the 51 percent figures that represent Latinos’ best chance for a third seat in the administration’s map.
“This whole process is about putting a community of interest together so that they can have the opportunity to elect – there’s no guarantee – the candidate of their choice,” said political consultant Robert Jara, who presented the map. “It would give a Latino in that district a fighting chance to win.”
You can see the Jara map here, or if you prefer a Google Map view, here. For and analysis of this map, I refer you to Greg, who liveblogged both the morning and evening sessions in great detail, and provided links to a couple of other alternatives, including one of his own. At this point I think it’s likely that some map other than the city’s original one gets adopted, though we probably haven’t seen that exact map yet. Jara’s map did draw some opposition:
Rogene Calvert, president of the Asian Chamber of Commerce, said her community supports Latinos’ push for a third district, but said Jara’s proposal splits “Asiatown,” in the Bellaire Boulevard corridor.
“We can work out a plausible and workable solution,” she said. But the proposal “as of this morning is not acceptable to the Asian-American community.”
Jara said his group was discussing a change that could address Calvert’s concerns.
A modified version of the Jara map that resolves this issue could well have enough support to get adopted. Whether it really does give a Latino candidate a “fighting chance” – check those CVAP numbers in Greg’s post – remains to be seen. I believe May 11 is the target date for a map to be formally proposed and discussed by Council, and the 18th is the final vote. Houston Politics has more.
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How to Find Almost Anyone's Email Address (Without Being Creepy)
Written by Meg Prater @Meg_Prater
Admit it, you hate getting emails from strangers. In fact, a recent experiment showed most people do. While cold outreach can have impressive open rates, the reply rate is less than 2%. So, what does this tell us? Cold outreach might be salespeople's past, but it's not their present or future. And it's not the only way to source new leads.
Building a relationship with prospects -- before reaching out over email -- allows you to foster trust, provide value, and ask for their email personally, which skyrockets your chances of a reply.
Need more convincing? I've rounded up a few reasons why you should kick cold outreach to the curb, and how to responsibly find almost anyone's email address -- because buying lists is so Glengarry Glen Ross.
Why You Shouldn't Conduct Cold Outreach
There are a host of tools available to help you find any email address you wish. And, who are we kidding, we've all looked up the email address for someone at Company X and replicated the formatting to reach the person we have in our view.
But is this really the best way to reach prospects? You only have one chance to make a first -- and possibly only -- impression. To avoid the open > blank stare > delete cycle, consider how to earn your prospect's attention. Create content, useful materials, and videos targeted toward their unique needs.
How not to find email addresses
Think buying emails sounds like an easy way to infuse your pipeline with new leads? It is, but it also comes with some big downsides.
One of which is that you may buy a list with spam traps, which are fake email addresses that have never been used and are included with the purpose of trapping spammers who buy robotically harvested email lists.
These email addresses have been gathered without user permission. If you're caught in a spam trap, your sender reputation can be damaged causing bounce rates to increase, your IP address can be blacklisted, or your sending domain can be blacklisted.
What to do instead
If Mary works at a manufacturing company you'd like to do business with, find or create a piece of content that speaks to how your product has reduced widget machine mistakes by up to 45%. Share that content with Mary over LinkedIn, a professional group you're both active in, or Twitter.
Once you've provided value and engaged in casual conversation, gauge the situation to discern when to ask for Mary's email. For example, you might send Mary a LinkedIn message saying:
"Hi Mary,
We've been exchanging comments about my article on error reduction for widget manufacturing machines for a while now. I'd love to tell you more about how our product works, because I think we could produce similar results for your company. If you'd like to share your email, I'll follow up with you directly.
Thanks, Meg"
If you've provided enough value to Mary and you have a product she's interested in, she should be open to sharing her email address with you. If not, Mary might need more time interacting with you and your product from a distance -- or she might not be the right person for you to speak with at Company X.
How to Find Someone's Email Address
View the "Contact Us" page of their company website.
View their author page.
Use LinkedIn to build rapport.
Reach out on Twitter.
Subscribe to your prospect's email list.
Use HubSpot's CRM and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
Pick up the phone.
Of course, there are times when all you need is an email address. You might have lost a prospect's contact information or you might be conducting warm outreach to a prospect you've made initial contact with already.
Regardless, there are appropriate ways to access a person's email address that won't make your skin crawl.
1. View the "Contact Us" page of their company website.
Every company has a "Contact Us" page. Use the contact information listed there to call the company directly or send an exploratory email to their main mailbox. With either approach, try a message that goes something like this:
"Hello,
My name is Meg and I work with XYZ Widget Solutions. I wonder if you could help me? I'm hoping to learn more about how you manage your widget manufacturing machines, would you be able to connect me with the right person to talk to about that?
People love to help other people. And, chances are, the administrative coordinator monitoring this inbox or voice mailbox will have no problem connecting you with the appropriate stakeholder. Plus, because you've kept your email vague and non-salesy, you should pique the interest of your audience and earn a reply.
2. View their author page.
Has your prospect written for their company blog? View their author bio and check for "contact me" information. At the very least, you'll learn more about them and perhaps gain access to their LinkedIn or Twitter accounts to begin relationship-building. At the most, they'll include their email address or other contact information, making it easy for you to reach out and share just how much you've enjoyed their work.
3. Use LinkedIn to build rapport.
As a writer for HubSpot, I get lots of LinkedIn spam I open and immediately delete. The messages I respond to are not necessarily from people I know, but are thoughtful, personalized, and don't include a pitch.
If you're asking to connect with a prospect on LinkedIn, include a message that tells them why you're a fan or their business or work, share a valuable piece of information, and tell them why you'd appreciate a connection. Here's what that looks like:
I'm a big fan of the work you do with Company X. I saw your recent comments on an article about widget machine errors and they really resonated with me (I've seen my fair share of terrifying widget errors).
Just wanted to say hello and that I'd love to connect here. Thanks for the work you're doing!
Best, Meg"
You've flattered the prospect's work, asked for a simple "close" (i.e., "Can we connect?"), and left things friendly and balanced. Once you've connected, share articles you know are relevant to your prospect and continue to engage with the content she shares. Once you've built enough rapport, reach out and close for Mary's email address.
4. Reach out on Twitter.
Does your contact have a Twitter handle? Google search: "Mary Smith Twitter" to find out. Then, check out Mary's Twitter description for clues to other websites she may be active on -- in case you want to engage with her there. If that doesn't work, follow your contact and tweet at them directly.
A simple introductory message like, "@MarySmith, I Loved your recent post on widget error reduction. Do you have any other posts to share on the topic?"
You've flattered your prospect (in a non-creepy way) and asked for them to share more information with you, thus engaging them in casual conversation. If Mary replies with another article link, it might be time to share a few of her most salient points through a Direct Message.
If that conversation goes well, consider popping the question: "Mary, could we continue this conversation over email?"
5. Subscribe to their email list.
Most companies today send a daily or weekly email newsletter. Subscribe to these emails, read them, and reply to the authors via email, Twitter, or LinkedIn with your praise, thoughts, and questions.
They might not be the prospect you're trying to reach but building a relationship with these company employees can help you get your foot in the door. Once you've built rapport with the authors, it's easy to ask for an email introduction to key stakeholder(s).
6. Use HubSpot's CRM and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
For every CRM record pulled, you need a tab to track down that lead or LinkedIn profile. And is the answer to any of life's problems ever "more tabs?" No. LinkedIn Sales Navigator now lives directly inside contact and company records in HubSpot's CRM which means no new tabs, no hassle, and less time wasted.
Track related leads, mutual connections, common interests, and -- yep -- email addresses without ever leaving your CRM. It keeps data entry at a minimum and ensures you're sourcing quality leads responsibly and efficiently.
Once you've set up the integration, navigate to any contact or company record in the CRM to see the person's job title, company, time in role, location, and industry. You'll also have access to three additional tabs (in this case, a good thing) including "Icebreakers," "Get Introduced," and "Related leads."
The "Icebreakers" tab highlights shared connections, experiences, and interests and includes a link to the lead's recent activity stream. "Get Introduced" makes it easy to ask a mutual connection to make a quick introduction. And "Related Leads" allows you to find and save other leads at the company to your leads list.
7. Pick up the phone.
Before you try this strategy, make sure you've tried all the methods below to get in touch with someone electronically. If you're not getting responses through this manner, and you have reason to believe the person you're trying to reach hasn't received those messages, you can try picking up the phone. However, if they've expressed that they're not interested in your outreach, or if they've read your emails or social media messages and haven't replied, this is probably a sign that you should continue outreach.
If not, contact the main company line, and ask if you can be connected with the person you're trying to contact, or if you can leave your email address for them to reach out to you.
How to Find Company Email Addresses
If you're trying to catch the attention of a specific company, consider account-based marketing (ABM). For this approach, you'll work with your marketing department to create a personalized outreach strategy for specific companies you wish to reach. This is especially helpful if your addressable market is small and you offer a highly specialized or enterprise-level product. Here's how it works:
1. Identify relevant accounts
Sales and Marketing should work together to identify and select relevant accounts. Company size, number of employees, location, and annual revenue help you decide which accounts to target. Buyer personas are also great for determining what type of content and channels to use to approach them.
2. Expand your content
When making account-based sales, buying decisions are often made by numerous stakeholders in the company. The expand stage allows you to create unique, company-specific content that speaks to each stakeholder you'll be selling to. If finance is concerned with pricing and Operations is focused on user access, you'll create targeted content that speaks to each person's unique concerns and goals.
3. Engage with your stakeholders
If one stakeholder prefers email, marketing should equip salespeople to provide helpful, relevant messaging through the channel. The engage stage is all about getting to know your prospects and developing valuable relationships with each one.
4. Advocate
Modern buyers don't need you to drone on about your product -- they have the internet for that kind of research. Instead, the advocate stage is about providing value to the prospect and discussing the product/service only when necessary.
For example, if I'm a salesperson for XYZ Widget Solutions, I might focus my messaging on how much time and money my prospects will save by experiencing fewer widget machine malfunctions -- instead of listing out a roster of features XYZ Widgets can offer.
5. Measure your results
Reporting is crucial to understanding what's working and what's not. Reporting on company growth, revenue, job titles, and engagement at the account level gives you important insight into whether ABM is working.
Tips for When You Just Need to Fill Your Pipeline
And if you're just trying to fill your pipeline, turn to good ol' inbound prospecting. The steps are as follows:
Determine the quality of your lead by reviewing qualifying dimensions (a set of criteria used to evaluate how probable it is this lead or prospect will become a customer), and enter the information into your CRM.
2. Prospect
Connect with your leads by identifying and making contact with the gatekeeper and decision maker at your prospective company. The gatekeeper is generally the person in charge of communication or preventing information from reaching the decision maker -- most likely, this person is a receptionist or executive assistant.
Close for that next meeting. You want to set up a discovery call, which is the first contact a rep makes with a prospect to qualify them as a lead for the next step in their sales cycle -- usually, a demo.
4. Educate and evaluate
It's time to evaluate and qualify needs by identifying your prospect's pain points and business goals. This information allows you to tailor your sales approach and communication to provide value to your prospect. This is also the stage in which objections begin to arise.
Objections often sound like, "We just don't have the budget," "I don't have the time to implement this," or "This isn't a priority right now." Your job is to answer and counter those objections and provide value to your prospect in these areas.
5. Close
Turn your opportunities into customers by asking for your prospect's business. The outcome will be one of two possibilities: Closed-won is when the buyer purchases your product/service, and closed-lost is when the buyer does not purchase the product/service. If your prospect doesn't close, it might be time to walk away from the deal and consider revisiting it when the company is in a better place to buy.
There's a type of virtual currency that's highly guarded, rarely provided, and coveted by all. And it's not bitcoin, it's the email address.
It seems like it will solve all the salespeople's problems -- but it will only create more if you attain and use it in an unprofessional way.
Do the research, build the relationships, and ask for the email. The results will speak for themselves and your sales career will be built on a strong foundation of honesty, trust, and sweat.
To learn more, read how to improve your email prospecting strategy next.
Originally published Sep 4, 2019 1:12:00 AM, updated September 04 2019
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Posted on September 6, 2012 by Regan Dickinson Posted in Case Studies & Profiles
Prints that Win: Photography in the Twilight Zone
Michael Zerivitz, DDS is a Deltona, Fla.-based dentist who’s had a lifelong fascination with photography. Though his photography is a sideline to his successful practice, Zerivitz has been practicing photography since high school.
That continual practice, plus the help of his professional photographer friends in the Orlando area, helped make Dr. Zerivitz a distinguished award-winning photographer.
“I set photography aside after college while I raised a family and started a practice. Then I went to back to school at Daytona State College, which has a great photography program, and started getting together with mentors in the Orlando area,” says Zerivitz. “I have some really good professional photographer friends who have a group called the Portrait Artists Group and I was fortunate enough to be invited to join them. I have to give credit to my friends and mentors in the Orlando area who have helped me become a better photographer.”
Zerivitz was recently honored with a Distinguished Award in the Architecture category and a LexJet Sunset Award at the recent Florida Professional Photographers convention for his work entitled Twilight Zone.
Zerivitz captured the image while touring the Israeli Supreme Court building. A certain passageway with windows lining the corridor leading to an interior courtyard caught his fancy so he stopped and took a frame. Later, the image caught his eye again.
Though it’s not the type of shot he usually takes or enters in competition, he did some minor adjustments to it in Photoshop and Nik Software to make it more high key and had the image printed by photographer Tim Kelly.
“We mounted it and matted the print, and then hand-cut the deckling along the edges. There was a little exit sign that was visible in the corner we took out, but other than that it’s a straight shot,” says Zerivitz. “I call it the Twilight Zone because it reminds me of the opening of the old TV show. I think the judges liked the monochromatic image with tones that are all in similar ranges.”
Despite his busy schedule fixing and fine-tuning teeth, Zerivitz is pursuing Certified Professional Photographer and Master Photographer degrees and had one of his images accepted into the PPA Loan Collection this year. Last year Zerivitz was among the Top 10 Florida Professional Photographers and was Photographer of the Year in his local guild.
Here are some of the stories (Prints that Win) of other LexJet Sunset Award winners:
Printing to Win with Sunset Photo Metallic and eSatin Inkjet Media
Bridging the Realism Gap
Old West Shootout in the Southeast
Bridge over Water
Walking the Lonely Street
The Artisan’s Workbench
The Perfect Image with the Perfect Paper and Laminate
David Ziser Wins Sunset Award for Print on Sunset Photo eSatin
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Pat Blythe: CMW 2015 Over and Out – Part One
Ahhhh….CMW….ten days that will be permanently etched in my mind, my feet, my body, my bones. What a veritable whirlwind of dinners, dancing, concerts, clubs, conferences, more dancing…. Thank you Sasha Miller and Chole Stelmanis at Audio Blood (Newly christened AB) for providing the DBAWIS team our requisite passes and wristbands to the best music conference….ever.
As well, a big round of applause goes to Greg Simpson for booking, arranging, co-ordinating, timekeeping and the general order of all the sessions and keynotes. I know….it’s like herding cats and then keeping them under control. A virtual impossibility but somehow Greg gets the job done with good humour and aplomb. Also, thank you to Neil Dixon who keeps this baby going, year after musical year….you and your team have created a truly marvelous and exciting “happening” that gives so many the opportunity to showcase their talent, network and generally have a raucous good time. We Canadians know how to do it right!
Greg Simpson speaking at the Newcomer’s Orientation
Now….let’s see if I can remember exactly what I did and where I went (and when I got home each night/morning). Ah yes, I think I dropped you off at the Jully Black concert May 5. That was quite a show!
Jully Black
Wednesday, May 6 — Worked furiously on the column due today, my brain behind the eight ball and not quite firing on all cylinders. Finally filed, albeit a tad late but…. Now to prep for the evening’s events as I venture out into the night with friend and fellow DBAWIS columnist Roxanne Tellier. First on the agenda was Walk off The Earth at the Danforth Music Hall. We arrived spot on time but apparently the only media allowed in were of the publicist’s choosing. There was nothing in the CMW show guide indicating this. Very poor communication on somebody’s part. It was a show we had both been looking forward to seeing and writing about. Pity.
Roxanne decided to head back to Scarborough so I taxied over to the Phoenix event in support of the UNISON Benevolent Fund. A stellar turnout in support of our musical family. Hosted by Tom Wilson, many performers, engineers, roadies, electricians, etc. donated their time and talent including (but not limited to) Finger Eleven, Kim Mitchell, I Mother Earth, Jason McCoy, Tomi Swick and The Trews. A first-rate show, the audience was grooving and moving. Even the talent was having a good time entertaining each other as well as the crowd. The show was over by 11pm so I managed to have a reasonably early night. It proved to be the last for several days. To find out more about UNISON and how they assist the community you can find them at unison.ca
A medley of UNISON performers….
Finger Eleven
Kim Mitchell with the Trews
Emcee Tom Wilson
Tomi Swick
I Mother Earth
It’s Thursday, May 7 and the conferences begin….the first of the three-day Canadian Music Summit. My first session was View From the Top: The State of the Music Industry, presented by David Bakula, SVP, The Neilson Company and Russ Crupnick, Managing Partner, Music Watch. It was a lot of numbers (which is usually a snore fest for me) but I found it surprisingly interesting and informative. Our time spent listening to music is increasing but, for teens, more time is spent streaming or with their own digital libraries. I know my “library” of music includes my entire CD collection and then some and the last time I checked, it’s been a couple of years since I was in my teens. The most popular devices used for plugging into? Smartphone and tablets. But the highest (I was surprised at this), at 71%, is still the computer. Also, for the radio folk, I’m sure they found it rather comforting music lovers still rely heavily on the radio to discover new music — it’s still the number one choice overall. As for streaming, we’re all aware there is some dissent in the troops and an ongoing controversy regarding streaming. However, it’s used by 71% of listeners, led by YouTube and Vevo, and has increased 94% by volume just since mid-2014! Are we willing to pay for it….not quite yet but some are seriously considering.
David Bakula
Russ Crupnick
Next on the menu was a panel discussion — The Social Conversion Formula: Turning Fans Into Customers Online. This was a hot ticket. The room was packed. The only seat left in the house was the floor. People were lined up against the walls and crowding in at the back of the room. Reps from GigSalad, Kickstarter, Music Glue, Famehouse and Bandzoogle were all here to enlighten and inform young artists how friends and followers develop into a fan base, building a groundswell of support so that by the time the media “discovers” you you’ve already “arrived”. There were lots of eager ears and questions and not nearly enough time.
and the Trade Show….
The ladies at the Monster booth kept us hydrated….while we traipsed around the trade show checking out the assortment of offerings and chatting with folks that had come in from all over the world — Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., Europe, Croatia, etc. The stack of CDs and along with all the flotsam and jetsam collected at the show have now taken up residence on my desk….and I can’t find my desk. There is some serious listening ahead as I rip all this lovely music and plug myself in for a while.
A Tradeshow Visitor (is Marvel around somewhere?)
Sign Up for Mentors Cafe (musical speed dating)
Rox and I met up with Xprime members Phil and Neil who invited us to an event at The Cloak and Dagger. We piled into Phil’s car and headed west. Patio BBQ….drink tickets….everybody’s happy on this glorious, sunny day. Many, many introductions so here’s my memory test. Met Peter Grutta who is currently managing singer/songwriter Adam Langley. Langley, who is from Scarborough, was the winner of Q107’s Rock Out With Randy Bachman contest and performed with Bachman at the Mod Club April 15 of this year. We actually ended up running into Gutta and Langley again at the eOne bash on Saturday afternoon at the Gibson Artists Showroom. They were leaving as we were getting there so we ended up with a parking spot and free parking (a rarity in Toronto)….perfect timing.
Here’s a clip of Adam’s entry for the contest. An amazing guitar player!
….and his performance with Randy Bachman. I laud Bachman for encouraging young, local talent and giving them the experience of a lifetime. Every successful musician in the industry should be doing this.
Randy Bachman & Adam Langley
As Rox noted in her Sunday column, we also chatted with the lovely ladies from Isobel Trigger — Felicia Harding and Ariel Tseng — who were playing at Cherry Cola’s that evening. All this while being beautifully serenaded by Sam Weber.
Fed and watered, we headed back to the Sheraton where we parted ways. I headed home for a very brief respite and a change of clothes….all in preparation for the concert I have been waiting for these past months.
THE concert….
To use the ever popular OMG, OMG, OMG!!!! The Phoenix was jammed….tight….packed like sardines in a very small tin can. I haven’t been that squeezed in….forever. Hot, sweaty, palpitating bodies. Why did I even bother changing?! I circled the main floor twice trying figure out how the hell I was ever going to get close enough to pop off at least a couple of decent shots. Bodies were compressed right up against the stage.
Stage right….I met Frank and his lovely wife Jessie. Now, if you two are reading this and I have Jessie’s name wrong, please accept my apology (and correct me at the bottom of this column). The name Frank I remember because he’s the 9th or 10th Frank I’ve met/gotten to know in the past four months. After conversing with them for a bit, explaining who I was and what I was doing, Jessie immediately volunteered to forge a path through the crowd to get me as close to the stage as possible….and off she went….and she did. Now I was part of the sweltering, seething mass and wishing I could ditch my jacket (among other things). I stood in that spot, in 3-inch heels, for over three hours, through three bands plus an encore, until I could feel the crowd start to surge forward. Then I got my ass out of there. But….THANK YOU Jessie. My feet are still trying to recover.
First up from Montreal, rock band The Damn Truth.
Lee-La Baum (lead vocals, guitar), Tom Shemer (guitars), Davie Masse (bass) and Dave Traina (drums). These guys could give any hard rock back a run for their money. Lee-La struts her stuff, has the curves and moves of a burlesque dancer (and that’s a compliment) and uses them at every turn. Live, her voice has the growl of Janis and clarity of Pat and will sear right through you. In control and completely at home on stage. Absolutely no pussyfooting around. These guys meant business.
Lee-La Baum of The Damn Truth
The Damn Truth – Get With You
Up next, The Lazys, all the way from New South Wales, Australia. Lead guitar player Matty Lazy (Matt Morris) has got to have one of the most expressive faces on the planet. He is completely fearless as he prowls around on stage, at one point, leaving the stage and climbing up on back the bar to play. Ahhh….wireless technology and the freedom to roam. The Lazys had a rockin’ good time on stage. They reminded me of the Gasworks days where you could go to hear solid, pounding, raunchy rock and roll. With Leon Harrison on vocals, Glenn Williams on bass, Liam Shearer on guitar, Jay Braslin on drums, and of course Matt Morris on lead guitar, these five lads have earned a solid reputation as a hard-working, hard rock band. Their high energy live shows, Morris is like an exploding firecracker the minute he strikes the first chord, keep the audience pumping and jumping from beginning to end.
Gritty, almost deafening, and certainly edgy, they developed a Toronto fan base very quickly, impressing both Ralph James, President of The Agency and Larry Wanagas of Bumstead Productions (The Trews/k.d. lang). As bumstead.com states, “they deliver a fistful of rock ‘n roll“. Look for The Lazys October 2015 as they tour Canada and the U.S.
Matt (Lazy) Morris at full throttle
Vocalist Leon Harrison — drenched. These guys work their asses off.
….and keeping the beat, the one player we rarely get to see….the drummer….ladies and gents….Jay Braslin
The Lazys – Shake It Like You Mean It
….and now for the band of the hour, the day, the night….
These five musicians play stripped to the bone rock ‘n roll and are at the very top of Jimmy Page’s “hit list”. Immediately breaking into Electric Man, Rival Sons had the crowd in the palm of their collective hands instantly.
The music just pulsates right through you, fills you up and just busts out like an explosion….both on and off stage. Hands were in the air, reaching for lead singer Jay Buchanan (who at one point had many hands on his head as he knelt down during one of the songs). I wasn’t sure how that was going to turn out.
Buchanan is undoubtedly a blues singer. You can hear the blues in his voice. The music wells up from deep in his soul and he feels every note. His voice has a very distinctive edge, sounding like no one else, and is instantly recognizable. As rock singer, in today’s world, I’d say he’s unparalleled. Powerful, controlled, evocative and at times even haunting.
As performers and songwriters, Rival Sons are indeed in front of the pack. Their sound is “big, bold and totally badass”. They play “kick the door in, take no prisoners, ask no questions” rock ‘n roll.” Adjectives aside, as one reviewer put it, “Rival Sons creates music from something old, making it new again. ….my friends, you’re going to like it.”
Don Lawson of The Guardian states, ” It takes a degree of skill to make music that ticks all the classic rock boxes without sounding like a shameless exercise in nostalgia, but despite impeccable retro credentials Rival Sons are doggedly establishing themselves as a vital force for the modern age, too. If you thrilled to the Black Keys’ El Camino, it’s time to meet your new favourite band.”
….and the Rival Sons are….
Scott Holiday, lead guitar
David Beste on bass
Todd E. Ögren-Brooks on Keys
Mike Miley on drums
Jay Buchanan – Lead vocals
Rival Sons – Open My Eyes
Rival Sons – Live at Rock am Ring (2014)
Rival Sons takes us up to May 7 with May 8, 9 and 10 still to go. I can’t seem to fit everything into one column. More shows, concerts and a very special dinner. There was simply so much to see and do at CMW, so very many people to meet and greet, and so many thank you’s still left unsaid. To be continued……..
All Photos by Pat Blythe with the exception of the one of Todd E. Ögren-Brooks
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In “real” life Pat Blythe has spent the past 32 years as a consultant and design specialist in the telecommunications industry. After an extended absence Pat is now heading back to the GTA clubs, immersing herself in the local music scene, tasting what’s on offer, talking to people and writing once again — sharing her passions and her deep love of music. Together for 34 years, Pat also worked alongside her late husband Christopher Blythe, The PictureTaker©, who shot much of the local talent (think Goddo, Frank Soda and the Imps, Plateau, Buzzsaw, Hellfield….) as well as national and international acts, Currently making her way through 40 years of Chris’s archives, Pat is currently compiling a photographic history of the local GTA music scene from 1975 to 1985. It continues to be a work in progress. Oh…..and she LOVES to dance….
This entry was posted on May 13, 2015 at 3:47 pm and is filed under Opinion with tags Adam Langley, Ann James Joles, Audio Blood, Bumstead Productions, Canadian Music Week, Cherry Cola's, Chole Stelmanis, Cloak and Dagger, CMW, Danforth Music Hall, Dave Traina, David Bakula, David Beste, Davie Masse, DBAWIS, Don Lawson, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Electric Man, Famehouse and Bandzoogle, Finger Eleven, Gibson Artists Showroom, GigSalad, Glenn Williams, Greg Simpson, Horseshoe Tavern, I Mother Earth, Jason McCoy, Jay Braslin, Jay Buchanan, Jully Black, Kickstarter, Kim Mitchell, Larry Wanagas, Lee-La Baum, Leon Harrison, Liam Shearer, Main Music News, Matt Morris, Mike Miley, Monster, Music Glue, Music Watch, Neil Dixon, Open My Eyes, Pat Blythe, Peter Grutta, Q107, Ralph James, randy bachman, Rival Sons, Roxanne Tellier, Russ Crupnick, Sam Weber, Sasha Miller, Scott Holiday, segarini, The Agency, The Damn Truth, The Guardian, The Lazys, The Neilson Company, The Trews, Tom Shemer, Tom Wilson, Tomi Swick, Unison Benevolent Fund, Vevo, Walk Off the Earth, Xprime. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
2 Responses to “Pat Blythe: CMW 2015 Over and Out – Part One”
greg simpson Says:
Thank you for the photo and the kind words Pat, and for covering so well the one aspect of CMW I never get a chance to get to…the festival…too much going on at the hotel for me to go out checking out the bands I’m afraid…I also want to use this space to tip my hat to all the others who program CMW who are numerous…my responsibility is limited to programming the Radio Interactive stream, but others like Gary Taylor, Danya Dixon and many others all have their responsibilities and streams as well…then it becomes my job to collate them all in real time…CMW is MY New Year’s Eve…my work year begins and ends with it, and, in two weeks I’ll be in California monitoring another to hopefully get fresh ideas and scout speakers for our 2016 version, as the boss, Neill Dixon is now on the road checking out another. Now, three days after I’ve come home, I’m beginning to get some feeling back in the soles of my feet, and have cut back my cat naps to about ten a day. Great getting to meet you and to hang out with others from the DBAWIS team. See you next year if not sooner.
Mykey Says:
Great coverage.Photographic and written!
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Dayspired – Rover [Arlia Recordings]
Made in the solitude of rural and coastal Massachusetts, Dayspired comes forth with their latest EP “Rover” on Arlia Recording, a ghostly and rhythm-heavy affair. The title track begins with a repeated hang drum fragment which appears to rise out of the surrounding fog, lifted by synth flourishes, engulfing vocals, and a hypnotic bass groove that runs throughout. It would seem to be a song most fit to be played on a ghost ship.“Rover” is followed with the second track on the EP, “Sometimes You Don’t Sleep,” which is equally poignant, but with a fiercer drum section and a more uplifting vibe. Light piano improvisations interact with heavy kick patterns, tightly chopped vocals weave with arpeggiated synths, culminating into a driving, and yet deeply personal lofi experience.
One of Bradley Zero’s latest mentees, Dayspired is a young audio-visual duo hailing from Boston. The group has already collaborated with an eclectic range of artists, including bassist Hash Vyas (of the acclaimed Thievery Corporation), jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander, and vocalist Harrison Lipton, as well as remixed songs from the likes of Haulm and GoGo Penguin. Previous releases have received support from tastemakers around the globe, including the Apple Music editorial team, Indie Shuffle, Stereofox and Nest HQ. The duo has released music independently and through various imprints — Eton Messy Records, Grand Jury Music, and Dusted Wax Kingdom.
The duo is sitting on an arsenal of new unreleased music. Building off this autumn release, 2021 could be a big year for them.
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
Rave Michael Upchurch,
... magnificent ... Sea People does a marvelous job of covering every line of inquiry into [the phenomenon of how a single culture spread across a 10-million-square-mile area]. It’s a grand, symphonic, beautifully written book, drawing on findings in anthropology, archaeology, oceanography, linguistics, DNA research, radiocarbon dating, and Polynesian myth and folklore as it examines a reality that, when first apprehended by Westerners, seemed to defy explanation.
Rave Becky Libourel Diamond,
Christina Thompson weaves together history, science, folklore and the islands’ ancient oral traditions, archeology and genealogy, creating a mesmerizing, page-turning account of Polynesia. Thompson includes an intriguing cast of characters ... Thompson’s personal interest in the subject was piqued by her Maori husband and sons, who are direct descendants of Polynesians. This deep curiosity shines through in the meticulous background and details she provides ... Thompson’s book sheds light on a fascinating region. Sea People is a revelatory summation of this vast area steeped in culture and tradition.
Mixed Ilana Masad,
Thompson is certainly an engaging writer, deftly weaving her fascinating narrative of European travels and the newcomers' attempts to understand and 'crack' the Polynesian puzzle... But issues of European colonization are often glossed over ... Such eliding is perhaps a matter of length and focus, as well as a decision to move chronologically from the European perspective, but it's a shame that it isn't until the third part of the book (titled somewhat glibly 'Why Not Just Ask Them?') that Thompson begins to deeply explore the various Polynesian oral traditions that relate (often in tandem) genealogies, histories, myths, navigational lessons and practical skills and which have, in most recent scientific discovers, proved to be quite accurate in terms of timeline and historical voyaging.
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Mo…
Simon Winchester
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Andrea Pitzer
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fa…
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocr…
Robin Lane Fox
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from …
John Fabian Witt
What did you think of Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia?
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NFL Monday Morning Madness: Week 10
Posted on November 13, 2017 November 13, 2017 by Brent Schwartz
On a cold November Sunday night in Denver, Tom Brady stared Von Miller and the Broncos defense in the face knowing that a victory would keep them in prime position for home field advantage in the AFC, while a loss would cripple them in that very same race.
Of course, this season things were different. This was not 2015, a year in which this same scenario invoked a Brock Osweiler-led comeback by the Broncos to win 30-24 in overtime, to eventually win the AFC’s No. 1 seed and Super Bowl 50.
In the 2017 version of this story, special teamer Chris Harper is not muffing kicks for the Patriots. Osweiler has left and returned to Denver after joining the Houston Texans. A one-year stint that ended with a Texans playoff loss to the Patriots in Foxboro last January.
For Osweiler, it was again Brady that virtually ended his season. For Brady, a game in Denver always comes with extra motivation. The Broncos eliminated the Patriots twice in Rocky Mountain AFC Title Games in 2013 and 2015. The same happened in a 2005 AFC divisional playoff bout. That was Brady’s first postseason loss of his career after starting 10-0 in such games.
After a 41-16 victory over the Broncos (3-6) this time around, Brady has left Denver on a five-game losing streak, essentially ending their season. With 266 passing yards and three touchdowns, Brady was still throwing with a 25-point lead with less than seven minutes to play. He looked for Brandin Cooks deep twice. This was personal for Brady. He wanted this.
I get the sense Tom Brady smells blood in Denver right now. #Broncos have always been his kryptonite. He should bury them tonight. #SNF
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) November 13, 2017
Tom Brady always at 💯 pic.twitter.com/3GJtNqmXSz
— Paige Dimakos (@The_SportsPaige) November 13, 2017
This is just another corpse of a former AFC contender. Another destroyed rival empire in the wasteland that is a prolonged territorial dominance for the Patriots in the conference.
Brady and Bill Belichick have survived every forceful challenge that has come their way in the AFC in their existence. The Peyton Manning-led Colts. The Manning-led Broncos. The mentally-tough, no-nonsense Baltimore Ravens from 2008-2014. The talented Chargers led by LaDanian Tomlinson. Rex Ryan and the Jets had even come and gone with some success against the New England empire.
A few scars have been dealt in these rivalries. The Patriots have been tripped up by foes multiple times in big games, but they always get the last laugh.
It seems every other year is equipped with such revenge wins for Brady. Even with his second consecutive win in Denver, Brady is still just 4-7 at Invesco Field at Mile High.
Michael Jordan, widely considered the greatest NBA player of all-time, used past losses and opponents’ remarks as fuel for victories, much like Brady.
Like NBA great Michael Jordan, who routinely fed off bulletin board material to avenge silly quotes by opponents with his play on the court, Brady takes things personally, even if it doesn’t appear so.
Even teammate and friend Julian Edelman is on record recently admitting Brady is “sensitive.” Likewise, Danny Amendola has said Brady has gotten mad when he’s lost in ping pong, and has broken paddles over such losses. He’s as competitive as they come.
So it’s imaginable that a win in Denver might be more special to Brady than a win over the Chargers at home two weeks ago.
Of course, regular season wins over the inferior present-day Broncos teams won’t change past results, or make up for AFC Championship Game losses.
Brady gears up for a snap versus the Broncos in the 2015 AFC Championship Game in Denver. The Broncos won 20-18. (Screenshot: NFL Films)
The same rings true for Brady’s clutch comeback win in New York over Eli Manning and the Giants in 2015. His game-winning drive to best his prime Super Bowl nemesis doesn’t change the fact that Eli Manning will most likely always be 2-0 versus him in Super Bowls, but it’s still something.
Brady’s arch nemesis (and also friend off the field, sort of) had always been Eli’s older brother Peyton Manning. Despite beginning his career 6-0 versus the older Manning, Brady will most likely finish his career with a combined 2-5 record against the Manning brothers in championship games. That’s not counting two of Brady’s worst teams that fell to Peyton on the road in AFC Championship Games in 2006 and 2013.
But Brady most likely–although he won’t admit it–takes solace in the fact that he has five rings to the Mannings’ combined four. It’s ironic that in the win on Sunday, Brady became the all-timer leader in road victories with 86 wins, passing Peyton for the mark in the stadium of the last team he played for.
Tom Brady picked up a record-breaking win in Denver tonight. pic.twitter.com/aHiVQUJMig
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 13, 2017
In the NFL, Brady is like the aforementioned Jordan in the NBA. He’s now the undisputed GOAT (greatest of all time). He’s the Wayne Gretzky, the Serena Williams or Steven Spielberg (I’d argue Christopher Nolan or Martin Scorsese, but that’s for another time) of pro football. Simply put, he’s the best ever.
Since turning 37 years old in 2014, and his future being questioned in a 41-14 loss to the Chiefs that season, Brady has won two Super Bowls and is in the midst of the best four-year stretch of his career, or any quarterback’s career for that matter. His play has improved each season since 2013, which is absurd considering the fall off of every quarterback ever at his age. The same cliff-diving that ESPN First Take’s Max Kellerman has countlessly predicted for him prematurely.
Tom Brady since turning 39 a month before the 2016 season:
TD passes 47
Interceptions 4
(Regular-season only)
— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) November 13, 2017
Of course, the time will come when Brady will retire like every other player in the history of this league. But that time is not now. Not after this season, and maybe not even after the next. It will never be when his critics say he’s done, because he hears those things despite the notion that he may be unaware of them.
Brady feeds off being doubted. He lives for conquering his foes. During the DeflateGate saga, when Brady’s private e-mails were leaked in 2015, one message in particular stood above the rest.
“I’ve got another 7 or 8 years, He has 2,” Brady said of Peyton Manning in an e-mail sent to a close friend.
After word got out and Brady was forced to address the e-mail, he played them off of course. But he meant what he said. He likes Manning, but his competitiveness takes over. The same competitiveness that has led him to two Super Bowls wins since DeflateGate, not to mention Spygate.
Brady heard what critics had to say then, and he heard them earlier in the season after another brutal early-season loss to the Chiefs.
But thanks to Brady the Patriots (7-2) are back in business. They’re tied atop the AFC with the Steelers and are the favorite to return to the Super Bowl in February.
The win in Denver began the second half of the season with one of Brady’s age-old victories: the revenge win.
The victory over Osweiler’s Broncos won’t erase the loss to them on Sunday Night Football two years ago that began the downward spiral of the 2015 season. But it can serve as the catalyst for a second half run to Super Bowl LII.
40-year-old Tom Brady
231-341 (67.7%)
2,807 yards
19 TD
111 rating
Greatest there's ever been and he's still without question the greatest there is right now
— Michael Dyer (@Mike_Dyer13) November 13, 2017
Once again, Brady is in the thick of the NFL MVP race and has the Patriots rolling into November and beyond just like many past winters, with a little help from his competitive edge, which is often satisfied with a little revenge.
New-look Saints make statement in Buffalo
In a weekend that featured great stories such as another explosive outing by the Rams (7-2) and a huge road win over Washington for the Vikings (7-2), it was the Saints (7-2) who made the biggest statement in the NFC with a 47-10 pounding of the Bills in Buffalo.
With seven straight wins, the Saints are no longer quietly winning. This one was defiant and unusual of the Sean Payton-Drew Brees tenure.
Sunday was the 25th time in the Drew Brees era that The @Saints have scored at least 40 points in a game. It was also the 1st time they did it without Brees throwing at TD pass
— trey wingo (@wingoz) November 13, 2017
The Saints ran 48 times for 298 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns. The two-back attack of Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara each ran for over 100 yards, with Ingram running for three scores.
The @Saints are the 1st team to rush for 295+ yards & 6+ TDs in a single game since the 1957 Cleveland Browns (11/24/57) pic.twitter.com/7V0tvZY7g1
— Randall Liu (@RLiuNFL) November 12, 2017
At one point the Saints ran the ball 24 straight times, the most in consecutive plays in almost 30 years.
The Saints ran the ball on 24 consecutive plays today against Buffalo. According to @EliasSports, that has not happened in any NFL game since 1989.
— Mike Rodak (@mikerodak) November 13, 2017
With an amped-up running game and a defense that has allowed just 14.3 points per game during their seven-game winning streak, the Saints are a contender and should be labeled as such.
Their play on the road has dramatically improved in 2017, but they still love it at home. If the Saints can earn the No. 1 or 2 seed in the NFC, they have a realistic shot to make Super Bowl LII in Minnesota on February 4.
Brees is already looked at as one of the 10 or 15 best quarterbacks of all-time. But with just one Super Bowl ring, a second would go a long way in thrusting him much higher on that list.
After years of dealing with a broken defense and running game, Brees now has help. He no longer needs to be an annual 5,000 yard passer for the Saints to win games, and that’s a good thing.
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By Cherie Messore
Get Spooked at The Kav
By Buffalo Theatre Guide on October 18, 2017
When you buy a theatre ticket, the price you’re paying only covers a portion of the expense of mounting the production. This means theatre companies have to be resourceful and creative when it comes to fundraising. Sure, corporate sponsorships are important, and the annual fund campaigns can’t be ignored, and grants can and do help. It’s the extra things, the special events, that give the theatre an extra pop of revenue while engaging audiences in new ways.
The Kavinoky Theatre found a new way to celebrate its glorious Edwardian space, and connect theatre, literature, and local lore. “A Literary Haunted House, “ Saturday, October 21, beginning at 7pm, features live readings by already-been-on-this-planet authors in this 143-year old building on the D’Youville College campus. Experts think it’s one of the most ‘active’ haunted buildings in the city. The theatre is located in the Koessler Administration Building, originally constructed in 1874, as the original location of Holy Angels Academy and a residence for Grey nuns and students. A fire in 1879 gutted part of the building: one nun didn’t believe the fire would take the down building and had to be forcibly removed. Experts think she may be the apparition that leads to mysterious lights, sights, and sounds.
But come Saturday, the likes of Bram Stoker, Edger Allen Poe, Edith Wharton, Mary Shelley and others (we know them as Chris Evans, John Fredo, Pamela Rose Mangus, and Kristen Tripp Kelley respectively) will read from their literary genius in different spaces throughout this grand old building. Listen for the dragging of chains across the hardwood floors, too, and other ghostly surprises.
Tickets are only $25 per person will support the Kav’s outstanding line up of productions that give you chills throughout the theatre season! Call 829 7668 (if you dare…)
Categories: By Cherie Messore
Tagged as: A Literary Haunted House, Kavinoky Theatre
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Public consultation reopens for controversial third runway at Heathrow
The previously shelved public consultation on the planned third runway at Heathrow has been reopened due to new evidence, according to the Department of Transport (DoT). It will seek to gauge public support for the plans in light of the new findings.
DoT has published a series of new reports relating to the environmental and human cost of expanding an already-bustling airport in a heavily populated area.
The government’s sustainability appraisal expects the plans to have a negative effect on air quality, noise and biodiversity. It also says that the Gatwick second runway scheme would cause less damage than either potential scheme at Heathrow. The plans will have to mitigate against any significant deterioration in air quality or the whole scheme could be thrown into jeopardy.
To build or not to build…
London’s airports are forecast to be full by the mid-2030s with Heathrow already operating at capacity and Gatwick at capacity during peak times.
This has left the government with the dilemma of either being framed as anti-business if it does not act to address capacity, or anti-environment if it goes ahead with expansion. It is worth noting that should they go ahead with construction, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% on 1990 levels by 2050, as legislated by the Climate Change Act, will be seriously undermined.
A Heathrow spokesperson said “Expansion will support our plan to make Heathrow a great place to live and work, doubling the number of apprenticeships at Heathrow to 10,000, with fewer people impacted by noise than today, and an ambition for carbon-neutral growth.”
Attracting Controversy
A third runway at Heathrow would result in an extra 700 planes a day would pass through it. This equates to an extra 260,000 flights each year, increasing flights by 54% to 740,000 a year.
Paul Mcguiness, Chair of the ‘No 3rd Runway Coalition’ said “We are horrified that the government has even considered succumbing to the shameless, no-expense-spared browbeating of Heathrow, as the airport pursues its own narrow, financial self-interest.”
Friends of the Earth London campaigner Sophie Neuburg said “Airport expansion will bring more noise, pollution and misery to local communities.
“Bold and urgent measures are needed to head off the looming threat of catastrophic climate change. It’s simply pie in the sky to think we can build a third runway at Heathrow while keeping UK targets for slashing emissions.
“These short-sighted plans will also add to London’s pollution crisis. The courts have already warned the government to clean up London’s illegally dirty air as soon as possible – we need action now, not more empty promises tomorrow.”
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The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society
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[An inquiry directed to ascertain the supply of skilled labour obtainable from unskilled workmen's children; concluding in favour of better education and a more flexible industrial system.]
LOWENFELD (HENRY). The Birthright of Man. London: Parsons. 1923. Pp. 160.
(Plans for the abolition of unemployment, without disturbance of existing institutions, are proposed.]
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(The volume is one of the Resources of the Empire Series; to which the Prince of Wales contributos a foreword and the Right Hon. Sir Eric Geddes a general Introduction.]
MARTIN (P. W.). The Flaw in the Price System. London: King. 1924. Pp. 109.
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PENSON (LILIAN M.). The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies : a Study in Colonial Adminstration mainly in the Eighteenth Century. London: University Press. 1924. Pp. 318.
PROTEDICOS (D. E.). The Financial Position of Greece. The public debt, the physical assets, and other aspects of the financial system are examined in detail. By the Secretary of the National Bank of Greece.
RATHBONE (ELEANOR F.). The disinherited family. A plea for the endowment of the family. London: Arnold. 1924.
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TEMPERLEY (H. W. V.). A History of the Peace Conference of Paris. Vol. VI. (British Institute of International Affairs.) London : Frowde. 1924. Pp. 709.
[The sixth and final volume, like its predecessor, is the work of many hands. Mr. Temperley, Reader in Modern History in the University of Cambridge, is the Editor.]
UNWIN (GEORGE), HULME (A.), and TAYLOR (G.). Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights. The industrial revolution at Stockport and Marple. Manchester : University Press. 1924. Pp. 259.
(Mr. Hulme and Mr. Taylor contribute chapters.]
WATTAL (P. K.). The system of Financial Administration in British India. Bombay: Times of India. 1923. Pp. 412.
[A general description of the financial machinery is followed by chapters on the preparation, the voting, and the execution of the budget.
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[The volume emanates from the Graduate School of Social Service adminis. tration; an institution of which Miss Abbot is Dean. As a Director of the Immigrants' Protection League she has a first-hand knowledge of relevant facts. The documents numbering more than two hundred, beginning with a colonial steerage act dated 1751-appear to have been selected judiciously and impartially.]
BRISSENDEN (PAUL FREDERICK) and FRANKEL (EMIL). Labor Turnover in Industry : a Statistical Analysis. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1922. Pp. 216.
[A valuable examination of the method of measuring labour turnover, important to all students of the subject. Rather scanty American records are analysed in an effort to relate “accessions” to and “separations " from the labour staffs of firms to length of service, degree of skill, etc.; the results will be useful for comparison, but the book might advantageously have been compressed to half its length.]
COMMONS. Legal Foundations of Capitalism. New York : Macmillan Co. 1924. Pp. 394.
COUCHMAN (CHARLES B.). The Balance-sheet: its Preparation, Content and Interpretation. New York: Journal of Accountancy. 1924. Pp. 288.
FISK (HENRY E.). The Inter-ally Debts. An analysis of war and post-war public finance, 1914–1923. New York : Banker Trust Company. 1924. Pp. 367.
KAHN (OTTO H.). Why I favour the Mellon Tax Plan. New York: Citizen's National Committee. 1924. Pp. 42.
[Secretary Mellon's proposal to reduce surtaxes to a maximum of 25% is advocated on the ground that extreme taxes increase the advantages which large and established concerns have over the venturesome enterprising newcomer and pioneer; it puts a premium on idle timorous capital, instead of stimulating and rewarding active constructive venture.]
MILLER (EARL J.). Workmen's Representation in Industrial Government (University of Illinois Studies). Urbana : University of Illinois. 1922. Pp. 182.
The Council Movement in Foreign countries, the Non-Union Council Movement in the United States, the Theory of the Council Movement, are among the topics treated in separate chapters.]
NUSSBAUM (F. L.). Commercial Policy of the French Revolution : a Study of the Career of G. J. A. Ducher. Washington : Amer. Historical Association. 1923. Pp. 388.
[Reviewed above.]
SULZBERGER (M.). The Status of Labor in Ancient Israel. Philadelphia : Dropsie College. 1923. Pp. 128.
(Skilfully interpreting many hundreds of texts, the learned writer argues that the natives subjugated by the invading Israelites and their descendants were well treated. The ideals of democracy were first developed by the Hebrews.]
French. BADULESCO (VICTOR V.). Les finances publiques de la Roumanie. Paris : Marcel Giard. 1923. Pp. 74, 8vo.
[A reprint of the article in the Revue de Science et de législation financière, in which the author gives a lucid account of the past and present finance of Roumania and takes a sanguine view of its future.)
CALMETTE (GERMAIN). Recueil des documents sur l'histoire de la question des Réparations (1919–5 Mai 1921). Paris : Costes. 1924. Pp. 539.
(A large collection of documents numbering more than 150 is preceded by an introduction dealing with the Peace Conference, the negotiations of 1920, and the resolutions of 1921.)
GOODMAN (S.). Le grand vol des titres. Paris : Giard. 1924. Pp. 119.
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GIGNOUX (C. J.). L'après-Guerre et la politique Sociale. Paris : Colin. 1924. Pp. 200.
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(The Fribourg Professor's second edition is translated by H. Stelz and J. Loussert. The subject includes Co-operation and “ Socialisation."
VARKE (ALBERT). Le droit international du travail. Preface par G. ANTONELLI. Paris : Giard. 1923. Pp. 310.
[An analysis of the Labour clauses in the Treaty of Versailles and of the International Labour Organisation occupies a great part of the book.]
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BERL (O.). Die Chinesische Mauer. Vienna : Berl. 1923. Pp. 63.
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[A collection of lectures and articles.]
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(Six articles covering an immense range of subjects and periods, beginning with the agriculture of the ancient world, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, etc.)
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[Among features special to his treatise on a familiar subject the author announces his treatment of international exchange in a regime of depreciated and unstable money and his study of two particular types of customs duties, counter. vailing imports (against “ dumping ") and retaliation.)
EINAUDI (LUIGI). Le lotte del lavoro. Turin: Gobetti. 1924. Pp. 276.
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GANGEMI (L.). La politica economica e Finanziaria del Governo Fascista. Bologna : Zamchelli. 1904. Pp. 507.
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[A general treatise covering evenly a large extent of familiar ground.]
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[This volume, following on a similar publication last year, contains very useful summaries of the world's production of and trade in the principal com. modities in which Italy is interested. Professor Mortara is hopeful for the economic future of Italy. “ Italy, who may be said to have become convalescent in 1921 after the crisis of the passage from war to peace, has prosecuted energetically in 1923 her efforts towards economic recovery." Her financial position has been greatly strengthened by the excellent harvests last year.)
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Home Nomad (Book Two)
Nomad (Book Two)
R.J. Anderson (Author)
Vendor: Enclave Escape
Cast into exile, she must return to free her people.
Banished from her underground home by Betony, the queen of the Cornish piskeys, young Ivy sets out to forge a new life for herself in the world above. But a deadly threat lingers in the mine, and Ivy cannot bear to see her people suffer while Betony refuses to believe. Somehow she must convince the queen to let them go.
Her mission only becomes more complicated when Ivy starts to dream of the ancient battles between her ancestors and the spriggan folk. Who is the strange boy in her visions? Could her glimpses of his past help Ivy find a new home for her fellow piskeys?
To find the answers, Ivy must outfly vicious predators, outwit cunning enemies, and overcome her own greatest fears. And when evil threatens the people Ivy loves best, it will take all her courage, faith, and determination to save them.
Born in Uganda to missionary parents, R.J. (Rebecca Joan) Anderson is a women's Bible teacher, a wife and mother of three sons, and a bestselling fantasy author for older children and teens. Her debut novel sold more than 120,000 copies worldwide, while her other books have been shortlisted for the Nebula Award, the Christy Award, and the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Science Fiction. She lives in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
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Matthew Maran
Hampstead Heath, London’s Countryside
4th - 23rd December
Matthew's large format panoramic images centre on the Heath's familiar and hidden landscapes and feature in his forthcoming book 'Hampstead Heath, London's Countryside'.
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Biography | Matthew Maran
Since 2000 Matthew Maran has travelled the world - winning awards for his landscape and wildlife photography in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year, British Wildlife Photography Awards and Travel Photographer of the Year competitions. His work has been published worldwide in films, books, conservation journals and magazines including Outdoor Photography, BBC Wildlife and National Geographic.
Matthew is a London based photographer currently specialising in recording the urban wildlife and landscapes of Hampstead Heath.
Matthew says: "Hampstead Heath is a place to engage with nature, somewhere close to home to sharpen my photography skills and produce inspiring images of a place I have been connected to since my childhood.
At just five kilometres from the city centre and dubbed the 'Countryside for Londoners' the Heath is a great place to escape the busy city, breathe fresh air, stand among old growth trees and take in the spectacular views".
Matthew's large format panoramic images centre on the Heath's familiar and hidden landscapes and feature in his forthcoming book 'Hampstead Heath, London's Countryside' by Hemisphere Publishing.
Hampstead Heath is a place to engage with nature...and produce inspiring images of a place I have been connected to since my childhood."
Hampstead Heath - London's Countryside
By Matthew Maran
Award-winning wildlife photographer Mathew Maran’s new book Hampstead Heath, London’s Countryside is on sale at the gallery.
Matthew spent countless hours roaming the Heath’s beautiful grasslands and forests, capturing images of the wildlife and landscapes of this ancient London park.
Large format Diasec-mounted prints of photographs from the book are also on display and available for sale.
To celebrate the release of Matthew's new book - Hampstead Heath, London's Countryside Matthew has released this film shot over the seasons which shows behind the scenes footage and features interviews with City of London Corporation staff and people strongly connected to the Heath.
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Racine Zoo's beloved emperor tamarin, Bella, moves to Dallas Zoo to start family of her own
By: CBS 58 Newsroom
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 4:18 PM CST
RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The Racine Zoo's beloved emperor tamarin, Bella, has moved on to start a family of her own.
Bella was born in January of 2019, according to the zoo, and staff stepped in to hand raise her after her mother tragically passed away just days after her birth.
Now, the zoo says Bella, nearing two years old, has moved to Dallas Zoo to be with her new boyfriend, Finn.
Staff members say Bella learned from watching her sister, Amelie, raise her nephews, Valentino and Vinny. They say this is the time a wild emperor tamarin would be moving on to find their own mate.
The move happened in cooperation with the Emperor Tamarin Species Survival Plan (SSP).
“While we will miss Bella, we are excited that she will be able to contribute to emperor tamarin populations,” says Aszya Summers, Curator of Animal Care and Conservation Education at the Racine Zoo. “We cannot wait to see what is next for this little one.”
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In recent months, California and our nation has been no stranger to devastating natural and man-made emergencies. So, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) joined the California National Guard’s Homeland Response Force (HRF) and 95th Civil Support Team, along with multiple State/Federal Urban Search & Rescue Task Forces, CAL FIRE, FBI, the Department of Energy, and several other elite emergency response agencies for a full-scale terrorism response exercise at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena.
“In just the last year we’ve seen our highly trained emergency response and recovery teams deployed across the nation to lead critical lifesaving missions,” said Cal OES Director Mark Ghilarducci. “This exercise will test those critical rescue and response skills, as well as enhance our ability to respond to real world events that could happen anywhere in California, our nation or in other parts of the world."
The training scenario involved a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks across Northern California following a 6.5-magnitude earthquake. The attacks include simulated improvised explosive devices (IED), the detonation of a simulated radiation-dispersal device (RDD) and firearms. Sleep Train Arena will serve as the training site for IED and RDD response, while Sonoma Raceway served as the site for active shooter response training. Hundreds of emergency-response personnel, vehicles, and aircraft participated.
“It’s only through regular, realistic training alongside our partner agencies that we keep our skills sharp and response times low,” said Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, Adjutant General for the California National Guard. “These exercises establish the relationships and interagency coordination that is fundamental to an effective response during emergency incidents.”
In this episode we pull SGM Gerald Davis, of the California National Guard, to talk about organizing such a large and complex training exercise and why they're so important, and so important to make as real as possible.
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ARGUS Jun 09: Resident's Plans Causes Tension
A storm is brewing between a Bakoven homeowner and his neighbours over his proposals to extend his house in the expensive seaside suburb which they claim will wreck their picturesque views.
Bertrand Phillips's neighbours in Kreef Lane have slammed the proposed extension which, so far, is a temporary framework of wooden poles that give an idea of the extent of building.
Phillips has missed the five-day deadline - set out in a lawyer's letter on behalf of four residents - to remove the structure.
The city council, the neighbours say, does not allow residents to change the structures of their homes. If the extension went ahead, their sea views would be ruined.
House prices in the scenic enclave start at about R5-million, spiralling to as high as R30m. A local estate agent said a similar bungalow to Phil-lips's, with no drastic alterations, had been sold recently for R12m.
The city confirmed that when the owner approached the Environmental Heritage Management Section about the proposed extensions, they had asked him to build a profile of the planned alteration.
He had since been informed that the proposal was "outside the certified maximum development envelope", and would not be supported by the city.
The lawyers' letter from the four neighbours formally records their objections to the proposed alterations and gives Phillips five days in which to remove the structure.
The letter was dated May 29, but now, almost two weeks later, the frame remains intact.
One resident called for the structure to be removed urgently.
Another, who did not wish to be named, said they had told the owner verbally that they did not approve, but were told that the structure was only in order to effect a small alteration to the roof of the house.
Another neighbour said their fear was that if the development was allowed, it would start a "scary trend".
"What if he gets away with this and it sets a precedent? It will kill the whole feel of the area. We just think this is totally wrong."
The estate agent said the proposed alteration would be a "real scar" in the area.
"The place will lose its charm.
"This simply can't happen. There is no question about it."
Chris Willemse, chairperson of the Camps Bay Ratepayers' Association's development body, said the association was aware of the residents' concerns. But he pointed out that the extension was only a proposal at this stage, so they had not yet taken any action.
"When we are officially notified, we will bring the applicant and the affected neighbours together.
"If the neighbours are rightfully outraged, we will hopefully try to reach some kind of compromise," he said.
The City of Cape Town's Charles Cooper confirmed that a portion of the lawyer's letter, relating to Section 112 of the Municipality of the City of Cape Town: Zoning Scheme Regulations, was in fact correct.
It said that "no point on any structure erected or to be erected on any site shall project or extend beyond the maximum development envelope".
Cooper said the bungalow fell within the declared Heritage Area.
The city had inspected the mock-up of the planned alteration on June 2 and had informed Phillips that his proposal was outside the certified maximum development envelope and would not be supported by the city.
He emphasised that the existing structure was there "only for discussion purposes", and that the city had not yet received an application in respect of this property.
Homeowner Phillips, however, has confirmed that he will apply to the city for the alteration to the maximum development envelope.
"Those are temporary poles that show what the intended full structure will look like," he said, adding that he had followed all the correct procedures because he wanted to extend his home for his family.
"I have three children, and I need more space for my family," Phillips said.
By Ziyanda Sidumo and Bronwynne Jooste
Read the Article online ‹‹ here ››
NEWS Jun 09: Oudekraal
REPORT TO THE JUNE 2009 CBRRA AGM ON THE POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE WIEHAHN OUDEKRAAL PROPERTIES
“The Oudekraal property on the western slopes of Table Mountain is one of the top handful of undeveloped urban land parcels anywhere in the world and its future is a matter of international and not just local concern”. So stated the Argus newspaper on 5 June 2009 after a recent meeting held by a possible Developer with important conservationalists and stakeholders.
This pristine property, with the exception of the Oudekraal Hotel, between the southern border of Camps Bay and the northern boundary of Llandudno, is owned by Mr. Kasper Wiehahn. He has been involved in litigation against the Cape Town City Council for many years in an attempt to enable him to develop them after his father’s applications to do so were turned down in the 1950s on technicalities and the presence of Muslim graves.
At present, Mr. Wiehahn has appealed to the Supreme Court to have judgments in previous court cases against him overturned and this case is currently still ongoing.
Recently, Mr. Wiehahn has entered into an agreement with a Developer, Property Promotions and Management (Pty) Ltd, that it be given an option to purchase all the erven, regardless of the outcome of the present court case, should it consider the properties financially viable to develop.
Whereas Mr, Wiehahn is bound by the agreement to sell, depending on the price offered being acceptable, the Developer can elect not to make an offer to purchase, should he find that the financial feasibility is not favourable or public reaction is insuperable.
To this end, the potential Developer has been given permission by Mr. Wiehahn’s company, Oudekraal Estates, to make an environmental investigation of the site and examine all the issues and characteristics thereof. It is currently appointing expert consultants over a wide range of disciplines to complete a preliminary report to enable the Developer to decide as to whether to invest a considerable mount of risk capital to convince it of its feasibility and possibility.
5 JUNE 2009 NON-PUBLIC MEETING WITH INVITED STAKEHOLDERS
To this end, Messrs. Doug Jeffery Environmental Consultants, acting for the Developer, held a meeting with important invited stakeholders and conservationalists on 4 June 2009 to brief them and to obtain an initial reaction from them. CBRRA was invited as a stakeholder.
The Consultants stressed that no development plans were on the table, that no formal statutory EIA study or application process for development had started and that over the next six months the Developer would concentrate on a range of specialist studies on issues like flora, fauna, geology, water, heritage and Muslim graves existing on the sites.
The whole area was divided into seven sub-erven, each with agricultural zoning with one single dwelling being permitted on each sub-erf.
The Wiehahns had applied for the development of the 44 hectare sub-erf (Portion 7) nearest to Camps Bay being developed into a township, which had been disallowed by the Council.
This information gathering initiative was aimed at gathering sufficient baseline material to see whether any of the total 370 hectares were suitable for possible development.
After completion of the technical report, the Developer would then take a decision on whether and how to proceed or not. The Developer had the right not to take up its option if it so decided.
The meeting cautioned the Developer that there could be massive opposition to any development on the site, even if the specialist studies did indicate that development was feasible and it was not a logical conclusion that development would automatically follow a positive environmental report.
Furthermore, the invited audience also advised the Developer that their presence at these meetings did not bind them to the support of any development, regardless of their advice as to whether the site was suitable for development or not.
The Environmental Consultants hope to have the environmental report finished before the end of this year (2009) and in due course, CBRRA hopes to bring their presentation of the report to one of our future public meetings.
This meeting, therefore will not be asked to vote on what it thinks should or should not be done on the site. This will be left to future meetings once the whole investigatory process is further down the line or is completed. A full public participation process has been promised should the Developer decide to proceed with a proposal in due course.
As the closest stakeholder to the site, CBRRA is determined to keep a careful watching brief on all stages of the present investigatory process and will keep its public fully informed every step along the way.
Read a copy of the judgement ‹‹here››.
PROPERTY Mar 09: Beauty and the Beach
Affectionately known as The Strip, the Camps Bay beachfront has it all – perfect palms, a crescent of white sand where bronzed beach-goers glisten in the sun while sipping cocktails behind Gucci shades, and a beautiful, yacht-filled, turquoise bay.
This golden view fronts a suburb that is the envy of beach destinations worldwide. To visitors, Camps Bay is a dazzling, self-contained holiday resort where you can shop at exclusive boutiques, dine at a vast selection of restaurants, party in glamorous style, tan, paraglide, enjoy matchless mountain walks and view cutting-edge architecture – all under the breathtaking gaze of Cape Town’s towering sphinx and against the backdrop of the exquisite Twelve Apostles mountains.
But Camps Bay wasn’t always a playground for local and international glitterati; this is just one of its alluring personalities, and its newest. From the 1940s to the ’60s, it was literally a one-horse town. A white mare named Philly was the village pet. She roamed the streets freely, and in 1957 was made an official freeman of Camps Bay. Philly belonged to Roy de Beer (known by locals as Bak-Beentjies), a well-remembered Camps Bay character who worked from two huge sheds that stood almost exactly where the parking lot behind Pick n Pay is today. His land was essentially a car graveyard.
A resident who grew up in Camps Bay recalls: ‘Bak-Beentjies had a scrapyard full of cars that he kept meaning to work on, plus every other broken object one could possibly imagine, and living in amongst this metal playground were his 40 or 50 cats and dogs. They seemed to spend all day sleeping under the cars and in old doll prams, enjoying the full attention of their owner. Philly, on the other hand, would wander around, eating people’s flowers and getting fed delicious treats by housewives, who adored her.’
The one-horse town later became a one-horse, one-donkey town when Roy adopted scruffy Nellie. Local children would ride on his back until he’d tire of them; then he’d simply walk under a low branch and knock them off. These hoofed residents are still making Camps Bay’s children smile and watching their village grow – they grin from a huge mural in the entrance hall of Camps Bay High School, as a constant loving reminder of the suburb’s earlier days.
In the early 1800s, when Camps Bay was a backwater suburb that few Capetonians even knew how to get to, lion, leopard and antelope roamed free on the verdant slopes beneath Lion’s Head. Lord Charles Somerset used The Round House (a small building at the foot of Lion’s Head that was originally a guardhouse and later a farmhouse) as his hunting lodge. His tastes were extravagant and he had it fitted with the finest luxuries of the time. Since then, The Round House has been used for various hospitality endeavours. Today the building has been beautifully restored and houses the exquisite Roundhouse Restaurant.
Nightlife and entertainment in Camps Bay began in the Rotunda, which now forms part of the five-star Bay Hotel. The landmark green-roofed, round building was built in 1904 and was used for roller-skating, dancing, silent-movie viewings and, sometimes, even boxing matches. Today, people find their fun a few metres closer to the sea. On the south side of The Strip is Cape Town’s beautiful Theatre on the Bay, where an excellent variety of local and international productions are staged.
Restaurants and bars are dotted all along the beachfront and spill onto the pavement, creating a real café-culture, cocktails-in-the-sun feel.
Owners don’t have it as easy as it may appear, though. Edmonton block, the restaurant block opposite the famous Café Caprice, recently sold on auction for R44-million, and it’s just over 400m2 – a whopping R110 000 a square metre. This exceedingly high value makes it difficult for any commercial venture to be profitable, and restaurants in Camps Bay have a tendency to frequently change hands. Those notable for their staying power include The Bayside Café, The Sandbar, Café Caprice and Blues.
The up side of the situation: there are always new little gems to be discovered. The most recent summer additions are Bungalow and The Kove, which have brought a crisp sense of style to the previously drab ‘petrol-station side’ of Main Road.
The name ‘Camps Bay’ has been around since the 1700s, when Dutch sailor Fredrik Ernst von Kamptz envisaged a relaxing life for himself on a farm where he could look out over the vast ocean rather than scrub the decks of his ship Holland. Von Kamptz found a lonely widow, Anna Koekemoer, who owned a piece of land with an idyllic view. He married her and became the owner of Ravensteyn, the first farm in the area. Despite only living there for 10 years, he managed to make his mark, with the area becoming known as ‘de Baai van Von Kamptz’.
Perceptions change all the time: Cohen’s Folly was the name given to Isidore Cohen’s swift purchase of a large portion of Camps Bay in the 1920s, when it was known as a bushy waste battered by the southeast and northwest winds. He was one of the very few who saw any potential in the area.
Investment folly? Hardly so. The last few decades tell a very different story.
‘I’ve been working in the area for 15 years and have witnessed its meteoric rise from a sleepy suburb to one of Cape Town’s most desirable areas,’ says Barbara Rogers of Pam Golding Properties. ‘It has proved to be a very good investment area. Even in difficult times, Camps Bay has held property values far better than other areas.’
Careen Bernstein of Dogon Group Properties agrees: ‘I’ve spent most of my adult life selling property in Camps Bay; it has certainly been a good investment area for many people. Three years ago we sold a bungalow on Glen Beach for R21-million and it didn’t even have a garage or off-street parking! More recently we sold a property on a very large erf for R20-million. The purchaser knocked down the house that was there and is now building a mansion of note.’
The numbers rise. A two-storey house recently sold for over R30-million, and this on the previously lower-valued, south side of Camps Bay, closest to Hout Bay. ‘Traditionally, The Glen – at the foot of Lion’s Head, on the north side of Camps Bay – was the most sought-after area because it’s more protected from the wind,’ says a property developer in Camps Bay. ‘But in recent years, high prices have been achieved anywhere in the area. People are far more interested in the house and the quality of the views than the location. Anywhere in Camps Bay is prime.’
Ian Slot, managing director of Seeff Properties, says, ‘Years ago, houses in the Rontree area above Camps Bay Drive as well as the area below it were less sought-after. However, with all the magnificent homes around today, there seems to be little differentiation between areas. Investment doubles every five years and is continuing to do so. Entry-level is around R5-million.’
Architecture has embraced the fact that a house and its views are the factors that fetch high prices. Camps Bay is the ideal canvas for architectural firms, like Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects, Greg Wright Architects, Archilab Architects and Arthur Quinton Darryl Croome Architects; they can capture the natural splendour, reflect it in their designs and ‘bring the outdoors in’.
One building whose design contrasts with the architectural styles emerging in the area is Sonnekus, the only high-rise building on the beachfront. It was completed in the early 1970s, when new developments were hardly questioned. Once it was up, residents panicked as they realised that the beachfront was legally zoned for towering blocks of flats. The potential for a concrete uprising on the beachfront was quickly squashed when Section 98 of the Zoning Scheme Regulations was introduced; it prescribed that future buildings in Camps Bay were to be restricted to 10 metres in height and could only comprise three storeys.
‘To this day, nobody can tell you with any certainty what this actually means,’ sighs Camps Bay resident Chris Willemse, the head of planning for Camps Bay Ratepayers and Residents Association (CBRRA). ‘We’ve fought many court cases and are willing to keep doing so to keep Camps Bay looking like a residential area. The city’s development approval process is abysmal, mostly favouring unacceptable and often illegal development, but we’re working hard to keep a village feel. The CBRRA is not anti-development, but we’re not prepared to allow our very special suburb to be destroyed for anybody’s short-term gain. The three words we keep in mind when development decisions arise are: “sensitive, sensible, sustainable”.’
Brenda Herbert of Herbert Properties has worked as an estate agent in Camps Bay for 33 years. She has lived in the area for 45 years and is an executive member of the CBRRA. She says, ‘Many developments have been legally “trimmed” to comply with the regulations and to avoid dropping the values of neighbouring properties. Development must obviously happen, but it has to blend in with, not mar, the beauty of the surroundings.’
For those looking to move to the area, the community feel is a draw card, as is the community’s efforts to reduce crime. Bernard Shäfer started Camps Bay Watch in February 2008 as an anti-crime initiative under the auspices of the Camps Bay Community Policing Forum. ‘We’ve had a tremendous impact on crime,’ he says, ‘but as a public organisation we intend to continue changing the way residents co-exist and interact in order to restore a cleaner, safer and better functioning suburb for all.’ Does he think Camps Bay is a safe place to live? ‘Yes, definitely; compared with other areas we are relatively safe.’
Some residents are keen for Camps Bay to become a City Improvement District (CID), Bernard says. ‘We’ve had an introductory meeting to educate residents on what a CID entails, but no decision or direction has been taken yet.’
‘Becoming a CID would be very positive and is probably inevitable,’ comments Chris Willemse.
NEWS Mar 09: Oudekraal
New and as yet undetermined development possibilities are in the air for Oudekraal - probably the most valuable and hotly contested undeveloped land on the Peninsula.
Key authorities and environmental and ratepayers' groups have been invited to a private meeting next month as part of a new process to explore development opportunities for this privately-owned property that stretches along the slopes of the Twelve Apostles between Camps Bay and Llandudno.
This is despite the continuing legal battle over earlier development rights there that started in 2002.
This long-running case will culminate in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, possibly later this year, when property owner Oudekraal Estates (Pty) Ltd - represented by wealthy businessman Kasper Wiehahn who is the principal director - seeks to overturn a Cape High Court ruling that development rights dating from 1957 are invalid.
Lawyers also say that because constitutional issues have been raised in these proceedings, it's possible that this case will still go all the way to the Constitutional Court.
But in the meantime, another development company, Property Promotions and Management (Pty) Ltd, has struck a deal with Wiehahn to look at development options for Oudekraal which consists of five separate erven: Portions 4, 5, 6 and 7 and the Remainder of Portion 902 of the Farm Oudekraal.
The property is zoned agricultural, and in terms of this current zoning a substantial house and appropriate outbuildings could possibly be allowed on each of the five portions.
The director of this second company is Bishop's Court businessmen Ivor Stratford, a former chairman of the Pinnacle Point luxury beach, golf and country estate development at Mossel Bay, although Pinnacle Point is not involved here in any way.
Stratford has in turn appointed a local environmental consultancy, Doug Jeffery Environmental Consultants, to start an "information-gathering" initiative for the "possible development" of some part of Oudekraal.
The consultancy has invited various "key stakeholders" to a meeting to discuss the issue. Originally scheduled for last Thursday but then cancelled, the meeting has now been rescheduled for June 4 at Century City.
Those invited include the three authorities that took on Wiehahn and won the Cape High Court ruling over the 1957 development rights that is now on appeal - the City of Cape Town, SA National Parks and SA Heritage Resources Agency - and some ratepayers' groups and environmental organisations like Wessa and the Botanical Society of SA.
Stratford yesterday confirmed a possible deal with Wiehahn.
"I was approached to look at it and yes, we have looked at a deal with Mr Wiehahn. But obviously we want to look at it first from its environmental sensitivity."
He confirmed that he had appointed the environmental consultants who were in turn commissioning specialist studies.
"I'm going to make no decisions until they report back to me as a professional team," he said.
Jeffery told the Cape Argus that a media statement was planned for after the June 4 meeting, and that the public had not been invited for logistical reasons.
"I understand fully the sensitivities of this site. It is our intention to do a huge amount of work upfront, before any application, to understand if anything can even be done on this site. I might just walk away - it depends on what comes out."
The June 4 meeting was not an attempt to go outside the law relating to public participation in EIAs, he said.
"I felt we needed to tell the stakeholders because rumours spread and misinformation gets out.
"We're not trying to scare the hell out of people, we don't want them jumping up and down." Wiehahn had nothing to do with this initiative, Jeffery added.
Asked to comment, Wiehahn referred the Cape Argus to his attorney, Milton Koumbatis, who said he had not been briefed about the June 4 meeting.
Jeffery's initial invitation to the meeting stated:
"A substantial period of time has passed since the previous development of the Oudekraal site was in the public eye. Numerous events have occurred in the interim, the most notable being an agreement that introduces a new applicant for possible development.
"The complex and sensitive nature of Portions 4, 5, 6 and 7 and Remainder of Portion 902 of the Farm Oudekraal and the associated history demands a cautious approach in terms of any potential development of the site.
"Please be advised, this is not a public process as it falls outside the formal EIA process. As such, your personal attendance and respect for confidentiality at this stage would be greatly appreciated."
John Yeld
Find the article at The Argus online here:
http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4976668
MINUTES Feb 09: Public Meeting
Minutes of a CBRRA Public Meeting held on 23 February 2009 at Rotunda Ballroom, Camps Bay
Present: Trudi Groenewald – chair
Michael Williams – minutes
45 supporters and members of the public
Apologies Cllr J – P Smith Inspector Hudson SAPS station commissioner
REPORTS AND REQUESTS
CBRRA secretary: Anne Caras has retired and a replacement is badly needed. The chairperson called for volunteers.
CBRRA Harrison court case: The Harrison case (cnr Geneva and Blinkwater) CBRRA appeal is proceeding. We do not know whether the City Council is involved or not.
Rates Revaluation: Council is proposing to revalue all properties on 1 July 2009 and to implement rateable values on this base from 1 July 2010.
CBRRA PLANNING:
Planning meetings are “open” and anyone is welcome. The following are identified as key issues:
6 Lincoln Road - two or three stories double dwelling ·
17 Ottawa Avenue - garage underneath
24 Geneva Drive - one of three CBRRA court cases - a six level apartment block ·
2 Woodford Avenue - Crystal five level apartment block ·
17 Geneva Drive - three flats ·
2 Woodhead Close - five stories in a three story area, due to go to the High Court on 24 February 2009 ·
House Bailes in Kloof Rd, Clifton - pool is illegal
CBRRA has had a meeting with Pieter van Zyl, the Council’s Executive Director of Planning in November 2008. Noted that the Council seems to be defensive and that some of their interpretations of the regulations are very difficult to understand. They are very short of staff though training of new staff has begun.
Police station is being upgraded.
Crime reports January -
Theft from car – Clifton
Muggings – Bakoven and Clifton
Housebreaking – two active groups in Bakoven and Glen Housebreaking
Gang - Still in jail. Objections to bail from CBW TV
Camera project - R650,000 raised as a loan. Final decision in 2 weeks
Vagrants - Usual increase in numbers in December to February with the accompanying increase in crime
CB Security Initiative - Closer working between SAPS, ADT, Baywatch and CBW being implemented. Details to follow.
Camps Bay Watch - Now up to 603 members of whom 115 are active. Ian Merrington is now the chairman.
QUERIES AND COMMENTS FROM THE FLOOR:
Clive Davies - SAPS radios handheld only during the station refurbishment. SAPS have replaced officers cars with vans
Brenda Gibbs - Request for more lighting on the sportsfield.
Roundhouse – off license application has been opposed.
Kevin Tucker - Trees in the Glen have been cut down – who permitted it? Pedestrian traffic through the Glen increasing.
Tony Hare - Film crews in Bakoven are becoming a nuisance. Closer supervision of them is required.
Chairman thanked the Bay Hotel for the use of the Rotunda and the refreshments provided.
The meeting ended at 21h40.
ARGUS Nov 06: Camps Bay Cleans Up After Council
Rubbish that filled three trucks, totalling 16 tonnes, was cleared out of Camps Bay by local organisations on Monday, 4 December. The Camps Bay Community Police Forum, which organised the clean-up, says that most of the rubbish was collected on council property.
"The question it raises is why these areas are not being cleaned regularly - is it merely out of sight, out of mind, or is it just that services are slipping in general?" asks Bernard Schäfer, chairperson of the Camps Bay CPF.
The operation also saw 12 vagrants being moved to various shelters. These 12 were vagrants who agreed to being relocated, while a number refused to leave.
In addition to the CPF, organisations involved in the operation were Bay Response, ADT, the SA Police Service, Law Enforcement, Metro Police, City of Cape Town Solid Waste Department, as well as the Cape Town Central City Improvement District. Three trucks - a 10 tonne, five tonne and a one tonner - were filled with rubbish.
Almost two-thirds of the Camps Bay precinct was covered, from the Camps Bay Police Station to Clifton Third Beach, as well as the area around Kloof Street, Camps Bay High, Central Drive and the preparatory school and crèche.
"The operation was organised in an attempt to kick-start the Camps Bay SAPS, other law enforcement bodies and the council into regularly undertaking exercises of this nature.
"It is necessary to properly cleanse what is fast becoming a dirty embarrassment to one of the best tourist attractions in the world," Schäfer says.
Derek Bock, chief operations officer of the Cape Town Central CID, says they were happy to help out as it shows the value of a CID.
"We will support anyone, from Camps Bay to Woodstock, who is battling with crime-related issues because we are closely affiliated with the Cape Town CPF, so we understand the situation."
Atlantic Seaboard Councillor JP Smith concedes that council's cleansing resources have not been sufficient, with an "inadequate" budget this year.
However, he hopes that next year?s budget will be more promising.
Smith says, though, that the beach is cleaned mechanically quite frequently during the peak season, and areas surrounding the beach are cleaned as complaints are received.
"The problem is that, after such a clean-up, only days later it looks the way it used to and people then assume the job is not being done," he says.
Smith says that since Camps Bay does not have a city improvement district of its own, criminals and vagrants come from other areas to make themselves at home locally.
There is no regular, proactive action to prevent this. Schäfer says that vagrants and even workers on building sites are regularly using bushes near the beach for their ablutions. Certain building sites do not provide their workers with the necessary ablution facilities.
"No wonder Bakoven, Camps Bay and Clifton beaches made headline news recently because of unacceptable e-coli levels being recorded consistently during routine council water testing."
The City of Cape Town stated in November that it would be erecting signs at local beaches to warn water-users of the abnormally high e-coli levels in the water.
Schäfer fears that the erection of such signs could cost beaches such as Clifton Fourth their Blue Flag status.
Abdulla Parker, head of the city catchment planning department with jurisdiction over the Atlantic Seaboard, says that 15 signs will be erected in the area by the end of the week.
Chris Willemse, chairperson of the Camps Bay Ratepayers and Residents Association, says residents of Camps Bay should be thankful to the CPF, as the clean-up project they held was "an incredibly worthwhile" operation.
Estate Agents’ illegal signs
In its efforts to prevent Camps Bay and environs from the unacceptable disfigurement by Estate Agents’ advertising boards, CBRRA has, in the past, approached Estate Agents to request the removal of their illegal advertising sign boards – with a remarkable lack of success!
The Council has published draft new municipal signage regulations which, predictably, has caused consternation amongst Estate Agents.
The dilemma here is that, in the past, the majority of Estate Agents have ignored the previous regulations and when approached by CBRRA, made the almost universal response, “Well, if everyone else is doing it I will continue doing it and I will only conform to the regulations once all the other Agents have done so”.
This demonstrates an irresponsible, selfish and anti-social attitude on the part of such Agents. What this means is that Agents will gladly transgress the municipal regulations to further their businesses with no consideration at all for the community at large.
The most notable transgressions are:
More than one signboard per property – signs on Council land (pavements) – signs on a scenic drive (eg Camps Bay Drive) – “SOLD” signs which remain in position longer than the Municipal legal requirement of a maximum of TWO WEEKS after the date of a sale.
Agents should be reminded that they cannot legally make a contract with a seller which is in conflict with the law (ie defining the permissible length of time allowed for a “SOLD” sign longer than two weeks).
What can YOU do about this?
1. Do not sign a mandate /deed of sale with an Agent permitting the “SOLD “ sign on your property to remain longer than two weeks after the date of the deed of sale.
2. Report the following illegal “FOR SALE” or “SOLD” signs:
Signs exceeding 0,3sqm (600 X 550 mm) in area
More than one sign per property
Self supporting signs on Council property (especially pavements)
“SOLD” signs up longer than two weeks after date of sale
Signs on scenic drives (eg Camps Bay Drive)
You get the neighbourhood you deserve. So if you want to help keep our suburbs as sign-free and as tidy as possible, telephone the Council to report all signage Agents’ transgressions on tel 021 400 5341 or fax 021 425 4448. The Council will remove the illegal signs at the Agent’s cost and fine it.
CBBRA regularly gets calls from residents complaining about the behaviour of property owners and their building contractors who seem to totally ignore the inconveniences they cause to adjacent neighbours by working well into the night, littering pavements with rubbish and executing very intrusive excavating operations, including blasting, causing wall cracks, building without passed plans or not in accordance with passed plans, etc.
CBRRA often gets complaints about all the above with the request that CBRRA do something about them – immediately. Bearing in mind that these problems are endemic and widespread, CBRRA cannot be expected to act as the trouble shooter for all of them. It just doesn’t have the manpower and, in any event, should not be doing this kind of thing in the first instance..
The correct procedure is for residents to first contact the relevant department at the Council to try and obtain help and satisfaction. Only if this is not readily forthcoming, should they then contact CBRRA which can then strengthen their representations to Council officials with a follow up.
Generally you will get most of these problems sorted out by Roads and Drainage, Cleansing and the Building Inspector (before 10-00 am) at 021 4001111 (the Council’s central swithboard).
It is worth noting that a blasting permit is required before any such operation can commence. Similarly a permit is also needed before demolitions can commence. This also ensures that buildings older than sixty years of architectural, historic or aesthetic merit are not pulled down, thus depriving the area of its built environment heritage.
Great uncertainty is generated on the part of residents on occasions by guest accommodation in this area. It is important that property owners who intend creating guest accommodation conform to the legal requirements for same as published by the Cape Town City Council. It has a brochure clearly defining the procedures for guest accommodation and it is essential, no, a legal requirement, that property owners legally conform to these regulations - otherwise their business can be closed down. Extracts from this brochure are as follows:
“There are three types of accommodation, each of which involves a degree of consultation with CBRRA, the surrounding residents and the local community. The canvassing (or advertising) is done by the Council once your application is lodged.
1) Family guests - informal lodger accommodation in a family home.
Any family can have not exceeding five paying guests LODGING WITH THEM without special permission. This method does not entitle the resident family to display any signage or to have employees in connection with the activity.
2) “Bed and Breakfast” (B & B) - the home industry option.
If a family, LIVING ON A PROPERTY, intends having five to ten (maximum) paying guests at any one time, it requires a business licence in terms of the Business Licence Act for the sale and supply of food and drinks to guests. If the family wants to put up a B & B sign, or wants to employ staff in connection with the business, then the permanent resident can apply to run a B & B from home as a “home industry”.
The number of rooms and guests allowed depends on the size of the property. While there is no particular parking requirement, Council does consider the site’s location, public transport and the market niche aimed at (eg. backpackers). Lack of on-site parking is a common reason for Council rejecting an application.
If you have to alter or rebuild your house, plans for these alteration or rebuilding must first be submitted and approved before your application for a B & B can be dealt with. The proposed alterations must always be considered to be part of the extension to a normal dwelling house. The proposed alterations must not change the dwelling to such an extent that it is no longer considered to be a single dwelling unit ie. one front entrance and one kitchen with all rooms connected with interleading passages.
If the proposed accommodation facility does not fall into either of the two options described above, then it is necessary that the property has, or acquires, the appropriate land use zoning permission to fall into the following category :
3) Hotel / guest house - full range of accommodation (exceeding ten guests).
Permanent rights for a hotel / guest house require that the property has a General Residential Use Zoning. However, even in a General Residential Use Zone, if you intend converting or rebuilding an existing dwelling house into an hotel, a building plan must be submitted for approval showing the conversion or rebuilding of a dwelling house into an hotel. This is necessary in order that regulations such as three on site parking bays for every five bedrooms are met. This is also needed to ensure that no building departures are required as “residential buildings” have different requirements in terms of setbacks than dwelling houses. The size of the facility is limited by the size of the site and the on-site parking you can provide. Departures from coverage and setback regulations are often required. These need the approval of the surrounding community”.
An owner DOES NOT NEED TO LIVE IN a hotel.
If your property is not zoned for General Residential Use, then a rezoning application, also needing the approval of the surrounding community, is required.
Applications must be properly motivated relative to the potential impact of them on the immediate neighbours and the surrounding neighbourhood, with reference made to the impact on streetscapes, traffic and parking, aesthetics, neighbour privacy, noise, derogation of value of surrounding properties, etc.
Before submitting applications to the Council, property owners are well advised to first test the reaction of adjacent neighbours and CBRRA.
SO YOU WANT TO BUY A HOUSE?
What should you be doing if you have decided to buy a house in Camps Bay and environs as an existing resident or a prospective property owner ? The following is a sensible modus operandi for someone who wants to buy, alter or build a home in this best of all possible places:
Here are some handy tips for the unwary. “Caveat emptor” (Buyer beware”) is really what this is all about.
1) Decide how much you can afford and get your finances in order.
2) Are you paying cash or getting a bond?
3) Can you afford the repayments plus interest?
4) Are you buying to live in or develop and sell the property?
5) Decide what area you are looking to live or redevelop in.
6) Get some Estate Agents to show you some properties and, very importantly, the terms of their prospective Deed of Sale – especially the transfer date.
7) Get the services of a Conveyancing Lawyer, an Architect, a Planner, a Structural Engineer and a Quantity Surveyor to help you decide upon your options – especially if you want to alter or rebuild.
8) Obtain a copy of the current Title Deeds – get your professional team to scrutinize and advise you on all the ramifications thereof.
9) Get to understand the City Council Zoning scheme restrictions applicable to your prospective purchase – same as last. Title Deeds and Zoning Schemes often contradict each other!
10) Find out from the Seller / Agent whether the house as it presently stands reflects the passed plans in the possession of the Council. You may be buying illegally built work which will be picked up by the council should you want to alter the building.
11) Get advice on the state of the electrical and mechanical installations and hopefully the state of the existing timbers (especially in the roof). Get a beetle-free certificate.
12) Compare the last two to ascertain whether you are inheriting illegal work not previously passed by the Council for which you will become responsible once you have completed your purchase as you will certainly be purchasing the property “voetstoots” (“as is”).
13) Look at the properties immediately surrounding your possible purchase. Is there a possibility that any of the adjacent properties could be altered / rebuilt to alter / obscure that lovely view for which you are prepared to pay a fortune? If there is, what are your rights?
14) Is there, as in Fulham Road, the possibility of a major dual carriageway freeway passing right in front of your property in due course?!
15) What are the legal / time ramifications if you want to run a business (guesthouse, hairdresser etc.) from your property – or subdivide, build a granny-flat or double / second dwelling etc. etc.?
You need professional advice here and be prepared to pay some up-front money to assist you in your decision-making process. Money thus spent may save you plenty later on if you have rushed in without fully acquainting yourself with all the issues, costs and time involved.
16) What is the rates valuation status of the property? – this is very relevant at the present time. For example: The present Owner received a revaluation from the Council in February 2007 for R6 000 000 and has objected to this and has asked for it to be reduced to R4 000 000. His objection may not yet have been adjudicated. So, even although you managed to buy the property for R4 200 000, you will still pay the 8% transfer duty on the Council revaluation of R6 000 000 and not on the sales price – ie. R480 000 in lieu of R336 000! This will apply unless the Council has agreed to reduce the new valuation down to the R4 000 000 the present owner has asked for. Should the objection situation have been resolved before your transfer, you will only pay rates on the R4 200 000 sales price. Just to remind you, your annual rates bill on R4 200 000 property will be R 4 200 000 minus R88 000 equals R4 112 000 X R0,00459 in the Rand = R18 874 per annum = R1573 per month plus sewage, garbage removal, water and electricity.
17) Lastly, find out whether you are going to be sheltered from the wind or are you going to always be walking at 80 degrees?!
Still want to buy ? Enjoy !
SO YOU WANT TO BUILD YOURSELF A HOUSE?!
Building a home for yourself is a long and complicated journey, with many stages, each of which follow logically on one another and some of which overlap. In simple terms, this is what you, the client in a building contract need to do or organize:
1. Appoint an Estate Agent and professional consultants (Architect, Engineer, Land Surveyor, Quantity Surveyor).
2. In conjunction with the above persons, appraise and define the project (eg. the site and planning and statutory regulations pertaining to it).
3. Prepare a preliminary target budget and consider all the economic and financial issues pertaining to your intentions (including furnishing!).
4. Prepare a holistic programme of every process - not only the construction process.
5. Assess your ability to finance the project and, if necessary, talk to your financial adviser and bank manager.
6. Investigate the locality and availability of prospective properties, which conform to your aspirations. Check the Title Deed restrictions and Town Planning Zoning Scheme regulations applicable to the property or properties under consideration and be on the lookout for Council Servitudes.
7. Prepare a rough preliminary design (or designs) to decide which design/property is suitable for you.
8. Check the Title Deed restrictions and Town Planning Scheme regulations related to your preliminary design/s. Obtain advice from a Conveyancing Lawyer and a Town Planner that there are no title deed restrictions or townplanning zoning scheme regulations which will prevent you doing what you wish to do on the property.
9. Purchase the land (or, as some people are now doing, buy the property and demolish the house – another, very expensive way of acquiring the plot of your dreams!).
10. Prepare a more developed and realistic design concept in preliminary sketch plan form. Check the budget and programme for this developed preliminary design concept against your original target budget and programme and change any or all components of either of these accordingly. At this stage you have already committed yourself to a portion of your consultants’ fees. However this is probably not more than about 25% of your final overall fee.
11. You must now commit yourself to instructing your design and cost consultants to develop the previous conceptual sketch plans into preliminary working drawings for the purpose of reviewing the design with the relevant authorities.
12. Submit preliminary working drawings to the authorities for their preliminary plan scrutiny and approval.
13. Proceed through the process of obtaining community and authority permission for Title Deed amendments and / or Town Planning Zoning Scheme departures should these be necessary. (These can be very time-consuming).
14. Prepare final construction working drawings for tender purposes.
15. Submit developed working drawings to the authorities for scrutiny and approval.
16. Recheck your original budget against the tender documentation and amend either as and if necessary.
17. Call for tenders or negotiate with one Contractor - or decide to go owner building (if you can spare the time) - not always your cheapest option!
18. Obtain all approved plans from the authorities.
19. Assess tenders received or negotiations finalised against the current budget, adjust either as and if necessary. Accept one tender and sign a contract agreement with a contractor or commence with your own owner building process. If you sign a contract agreement with a contractor, you will need to finalise various issues, such as the construction period, penalty for late completion, construction guarantee or retention fund, waiver of builder’s lien or client’s payment guarantee, signing powers, insurances and payments, for work done and work still to be done (such as when subcontractors request large up-front deposits on order, a practice much to be discouraged!).
20. Register the project with the NHBRC (The National Home Builders Registration Council) and in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, as the ultimate responsibilty for the safety of all persons on your construction site is now yours, not the contractor’s.
21. Notify the authorities, the NHBRC and the Occupational Health and Safety Department and commence construction on site in accordance with a construction programme prepared by the contractor and presented by him at the first site meeting. At this stage, before commencement of construction, you will now have been obliged to pay in the vicinity of about 75% of your consultants’ overall fees.
22. Finalise all documentation and decisions which have to be made on all contracts/subcontracts, the design and costs for which were not finalised at the time that tenders were called for and therefore were included in the accepted tender by means of Prime Cost Items and Provisional Sums. This process must be done strictly in accordance with the contractor’s construction programme. Failure to keep to this programme will entitle the contractor to claim an extension of his construction period with increased costs for this extension of time having to be paid for by you.
23. Instruct any alterations to the design brief in consultation with the design and cost consultants.
24. Check interim cost reports against the latest budget and either alter the budget and financing to cater for reported cost overruns or alter the design / specifications of work still to be constructed to offset the reported additional costs. Alternatively, should the reports reflect anticipated savings on the previous budget, decide whether you wish to pocket these savings or add to the extent or specifications of uncompleted work. All the instructions emanating from these decisions must be issued timeously to avoid extension of construction period claims from the contractor.
25. Pay the contractor/s and professional consultants timeously within the contracted time periods on an interim basis.
26. Conclude the construction process by:
26.1 Properly insuring the new about-to-be-occupied building, works on site and contents.
26.2 Taking beneficial occupation.
26.3 Pointing out patent defects that you have noticed once you have taken beneficial occupation.
26.4 Receiving and commenting on the design and cost consultants’ final reports and final account.
26.5. Receiving and responding to the design and cost consultants’ reports and recommendations on any disputes which may have arisen in terms of the contract agreement - intermediately and at the end of the construction period.
26.6 Finally accepting that all defects which have been pointed out by you have been made good by the contractor/s.
26.7 Making final payments to the contractor/s and all consultants.
26.8 Receiving “as-built” drawings, guarantees, operating instructions manuals.
What the above is demonstrating is that there is a huge amount of work to be done by a lot of people, especially by you, the client, before, during and after the construction period. This whole process can take a considerable time, regardless of the size of the building. It depends on a vast amount of circumstances and challenges, all of which must be considered and solved on a continuous basis in order that your costs do not run entirely out of control and you achieve what you originally wanted. When it comes to the overall budgeting, procurement, contract agreement, construction and financial control processes, it is vital that you employ a Quantity Surveyor in some form or other (whether for full or partial services) - at least simultaneously with your Architect - as he/she will have a major influence in enabling you to be aware, at all times, whether you are able to afford what you have had designed for you on the property which you have purchased.
Building your own home will probably be the biggest investment you will make in your whole life. You cannot afford to take short cuts and make expensive mistakes. Employ the right professional consultants and reputable contractor /s with proven track records at fair prices and enjoy the ride!
Camps Bay’s changing face
Camps Bay and environs, in their modern form, really started in the first quarter of the last century. However, it was only in about the beginning of the ‘80’s that the world started to realise that Camps Bay was more than a windy backwater with ice cold sea water which one hurried through to somewhere else. In the beginning, Camps Bay was mainly single-storied and the occasional double-storey with one house per erf. As the area developed and the hunt for seaside properties accelerated, the land value increased exponentially and the older houses became a luxury for such valuable real estate.
This is why you will see all round you, now that nearly all the vacant sites have been sold, demolitions of houses to make way for bigger single dwellings or double dwellings, usually three storeys high and sometimes with more floor levels (as basements and mezzanine floors are not defined as storeys in the Council’s zoning Scheme).
Whereas Camps Bay has doubled in population since say the 1960’s, it will double again in the next twenty years or so due to the frenzied pace of the current construction work which will last for a considerable time into the future. The houses of the future here will most certainly be at least three-storied, as a height of 10 metres is currently permitted from (finished) ground level to eaves plus a pitched roof if desired.
So the landscape and the built environment around you is going to alter considerably in the foreseeable future.
REPORT: FAQ on Special Rating Areas
(including City Improvement Districts)
What is an SRA?
A Special Rating Area (SRA) refers to a clearly defined geographical area, approved by the City of Cape Town, in which property owners can raise levies to fund ‘top up’ services for that specific area.
What is the regulatory framework governing SRAs?
SRAs are governed by Section 22 of the Municipal Property Rates Act (MPRA), the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA), Section 21 of the Companies Act, the SA Constitution, and the Cape Town’s City Improvement District By-law of 2004.
Why establish an SRA?
According to the SA Constitution (Sections 152 & 153), the objective of a local authority is to provide all its residents with certain basic services such as water, electricity, sanitation and refuse removal, etc – up to an equitable standard. For communities who wish to enjoy municipal services of a higher level, an SRA provides them with the option of paying for these additional services, which should be affordable and sustainable.
What types of ‘top-up’ services are provided in a SRA?
Typically, these would be services dealing with issues of ‘crime and grime’ such as additional public safety measures, cleansing services, maintenance of infrastructure, upgrading of the environment, and social services to deal with vagrancy, etc.
What are the benefits for SRA members?
By pooling their resources in an SRA, individual property owners can enjoy the collective benefits of a well managed area, a shared sense of communal pride, safety and social responsibility, and access to joint initiatives such as waste recycling, energy-efficiency programmes, etc. In the end, these all translate into a tangible boost in property values and capital investments.
Are there different types of SRAs?
No, but an SRA can consist of industrial, commercial and residential components, or a combination of all three.
How many SRAs are there in Cape Town?
There are currently 16 SRAs in the City of Cape Town. Four communities have applied for establishment, and another 25 have expressed interest in establishing an SRA.
How does one establish an SRA?
An SRA is always initiated by a community, and not by the City.
It usually starts with ‘champions’ within a community who feel the necessity to upgrade the environment within the boundaries of a certain area. They then compile a business plan indicating how the improvements are to be achieved, and present this to the community at a public meeting. Thereafter property owners are lobbied for their support. A majority of more than 50% has to give written consent to the formation of an SRA.
Once this has been obtained, the steering group has to submit the business plan, motivation report and implementation plan, as an application to the City. The proposal is then advertised in the media to allow affected parties at least 30 days to render any comments or objections. The City then considers the application and the objections.
After the City has approved the application, a board is elected and a Section 21 company is set up with VAT registration, a bank account, Tradeworld accreditation, etc. This must all be in place before the City bills the property owners and pays over the levies to the SRA.
Who manages the SRA?
An SRA is a Section 21 company managed by a board elected by its members, and operated by a management team appointed by the board. The City is not involved in their day-to-day operations, but merely exercises financial oversight and legal compliance.
Who monitors the finances?
An SRA manages its own finances and appoints its own auditors. The audited financial statements form part of the City’s consolidated accounts, which are reviewed by the Auditor-General. In addition, monthly financial reports are submitted to the City to monitor that expenditure is incurred according to the business plan.
How is an SRA funded?
An SRA is funded entirely from the levies paid by its members. It does not receive any subsidies from the City, but does have the powers to raise additional loans and sponsorships.
How is the SRA levy calculated?
The SRA management confirms the details of the database of property owners within the boundaries of the SRA, which is then linked by the City to the municipal valuations according to the most recent general valuation roll.
The SRA management prepares an overall budget for the year based on the specific needs of the area. The individual levies are then calculated by dividing up the budget total according to the municipal valuations of each SRA member proportional to the total valuation of the SRA.
The budget formula allows for a differentiation in levies for the different types of properties – be it residential, commercial or industrial.
This levy is then expressed as a cent in the rand and is applicable over a financial year, which starts on 1 July.
The SRA budget and proposed levy have to be approved by the City, and advertised for comments and objections prior to implementation on 1 July.
How is the SRA levy collected?
The City collects the levy on behalf of the SRA. The levy income goes to the SRA for the services it provides. It does not go to the City, although they share an invoice to save on collection costs. The levy appears as a separate item on the monthly municipal account of each SRA member. Each month, the City pays over a twelfth of the SRA budget after retaining 3% of the budget as a provision for bad debts.
Is the SRA levy mandatory for all properties within the SRA?
Yes. Once the City has approved an SRA, the participation of all property owners within the boundaries of the SRA is mandatory.
How does the SRA budget work?
The SRA sets its own 3 year budget according to input from its members. The City does not get involved in this process. Each year, the SRA board has to submit a detailed budget to the City by 31 January. The proposed budget may not deviate materially from the approved business plan and three-year budget. If there is a material deviation, an application in terms of Section 11 of the SRA By-Law is required.
What if the valuation base changes within a financial year?
The valuation base is a snapshot at a point in time (end February) and is used to calculate the cent-in-the-rand for the following financial year. However, municipal valuations can change within a financial year due to interim valuations, Valuation Court rulings, sub-divisions, rezoning or other technical adjustments. Should the valuation base decrease or increase substantially, the City must inform the SRA in order to recalculate the levy.
Can my SRA levy be spent anywhere in the City?
No, levy income is ring-fenced to be ploughed back exclusively into the SRA.
How does the City resolve levy arrears?
The City provides the SRA board with a regular update of levy payments so that the board can assist in pursuing those who are in arrears. Defaulters are subject to the City’s credit control and debt collection policies. As such, they can have their water and electricity services suspended or their rates clearance certificates withheld.
Does the formation of an SRA mean that the City can reduce the level and quality of its services?
No. The City is obligated to sustain existing service levels. It has to conclude a Memorandum of Understanding with each SRA indicating the level of services to be provided by the municipality. This enables the SRA to decide on the ‘top up’ services required.
Do members have a say in an SRA?
Absolutely! Every property owner should register for membership of the Section 21 company once it has been established, attend annual general meetings, get involved in the election of board members and provide input in the SRA budget.
What is the relationship between the City, SRA and members
· Approval *Billing
· Finance *Receipting
· SLA/Memorandum of understanding
· Compliance
SRA MEMBER
· Mandate
· Section 21 Company
* Eddie Scott, Manager: Inter-Services Liaison, Directorate of Finance, City of Cape Town, Tel: (021) 400 1872
*Joepie Joubert, Inter-Services Liaison, City of Cape Town,
*Runan Rossouw, Economic & Human Development Directorate, City of Cape Town, Tel: (021) 400 5148
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Appeal to Camps Bay residents
Dear Camps Bay resident / owner
Many of you may not know about the CBRRA or what it does. The CBRRA has been around for many years. The Executive Committee offers their time and expertise free of charge for the mutual benefit of ALL owners and residents of Camps Bay. It is through the tireless work of Exco Members over many years that Camps Bay is what it is today – arguably the most desirable place to live in South Africa. You should consider the CBRRA as your community friend looking after your interests in the Camps Bay community.
Some of the main objectives of the CBRRA are:
To bring back a sense of community to residents.
To work in the best interests of all residents and owners.
To assist and guide owners with planning matters.
To work with Council and Councillors in order to preserve / enhance the beauty of Camps Bay (eg maintenance of open spaces) for all residents and owners and restrict control of Liquor Outlets.
To ensure only suitable events within the community are held.
To work hand-in-hand with Camps Bay Watch (CBW) and other community bodies.
We would like to invite you all to join CBRRA and assist Exco in making the Camps Bay community even better. It is only with the support of the community that we are able to achieve our objectives and protect your interests.
If you would like to join, please can you e-mail us and we would be pleased to welcome you. All we ask for is a nominal contribution of R300 per annum. Alternatively, you can make a combined contribution of R500 for 2014 and 2015. This can be paid either in cash at Herbert Properties office or alternatively by means of an EFT. The bank details are as follows:
Account No: 62062797934
For those of you who are already Members, we would like to thank you. If you could forward this post to anyone you may know that would like to join, we would be most grateful.
The Future of Camps Bay & Clifton in Your Hands
Have you ever needed advice with Building Plans?
Have you ever needed help with controversial issues with neighbours?
Have you ever wondered how the Beaches, Parks and Green Open Spaces are improved?
Do you know who to contact at the Municipality with issues you are experiencing in its jurisdiction?
Camps Bay Ratepayers and Residents Association
incorporating Clifton
Visit www.cbrra.co.za
or call Gus Millner (021) 438 8983 or 072175 5458
to find out how you can help.
RIP Current Claims Another Life
CAPE TOWN – The City of Cape Town has urged the public to get involved in lifesaving.
Municipal officials met with their counterparts at Western Province Lifesaving on Tuesday to renew a contract which will see more lifeguards on duty on the provinces beaches.
The city's Belinda Walker explained some details of the contract.
“To develop the sport of lifesaving, to establish clubs in areas where they don’t currently exist, arrange for lifesavers to be provided by the lifesaving body to do work on the city’s beaches.”
ANOTHER DROWNING
A seven-year-old boy drowned off the West coast at Melkbosstrand.
The boy, who is from Atlantis, was swimming with friends when he was swept out to sea by a strong rip current on Monday afternoon.
Emergency officials found his body after an extensive search.
This incident follows the drowning of two teenage boys from the North West who were swimming in Camps Bay last week.
The boys, who were trying to save a fellow classmate in distress, were also caught in a rip current.
While the classmate and one of the boys trying to save him drowned, the other was saved by a Johannesburg man.
There were no lifeguards on duty at the time.
On Monday, Cape Town city bosses signed an agreement which will ensure paid lifeguards are present on beaches from this week.
Walker said, “It would enable Western Province Lifesaving to provide the lifesavers, which they have been providing for the last three years on 29 beaches throughout the city. This during school holidays, public holidays and on days we expect the beach to be busy.”
(Edited by Tamsin Wort)
http://ewn.co.za/2013/10/01/Boy-drowns-at-CT-beach
Clifton teacher fought off an attempted rape
Federica Bacecci, 33, a translator and teacher from Italy, was getting out of her car outside her home when she was approached by a man asking for money.“I told him I did not have any coins. Then he looked around to check if there was anyone there and grabbed me from behind,” said Bacecci.
He pushed her down on to the tarmac of her driveway and dropped on top of her.
“I realised he didn’t want the money, otherwise he could have taken my wallet. I even had my computer with me.” He began touching and kissing her. Bacecci screamed, hoping a security guard would come, “but there was no one”.
Despite the weight of the man on top of her, Bacecci crawled into the middle of the road, still struggling. “That’s when a car suddenly stopped next to us and a woman jumped out.” The attacker fled.
“The man (in the car) kept telling her not to get involved,” said Bacecci. “And then they left me there - I don’t think they could understand me because I was crying and I have an accent.”
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said a charge of sexual assault had been laid at Camps Bay police station. No arrest had been made. Clifton has been plagued in the past by crime, much of it linked to the vagrants living in the caves. According to the annual figures released last month, crime in Camps Bay has dropped significantly across the board, but there has been an increase in the number of sexual crimes reported.
kieran.legg@inl.co.za
Cape Argus
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/woman-foils-would-be-rapist-in-cape-1.1589306#.UwSAZZFWwpE
Der Bachelor Season 4 Camps Bay
From: Chris Willemse
Subject: Re: Der Bachelor Season 4 Camps Bay
Date: 09 October 2013 at 5:06:08 PM SAST
To: Giles Harris
Hi Giles
The CBRRA has carefully discussed the filming of the Bachelor in Fulham Rd and, after discussions with certain affected neighbours, has resolved that it cannot support this shoot.
The primary objection is to the legality of the operation.
There exist title deed restrictions and Zoning Scheme regulations that will be transgressed by this operation. Whereas the City are empowered to consider temporary relaxations of the ZS, the same is not applicable to title deed restrictions which are praedial servitudinal rights enjoyed by the owners of property in the area on a reciprocal basis. These rights may only be relaxed by the Provincial Minister of Planning after extensive public participation, which clearly has not occurred, or by the neighbours themselves, which has also not been forthcoming.
In the circumstances, the CBRRA cannot support any undertaking that is not in conformity with the law - and is of the opinion that the City would be erring on the side of expediency if it grants the filming permit.
Given that it is, ultimately, the City that grants permission for this film shoot, please keep the CBRRA in the loop as to the progress of your application.
cnwillemse@gmail.com
On 09 Oct 2013, at 4:34 PM, Giles Harris wrote:
Good afternoon Marga and Chris
I hope everyone has been considering my request in a very positive light. I haven't heard anything negative yet and I'm hopeful that no news is good news.
I have been able to arrange a demo of our Octocopter for in the driveway of 21 Fulham Rd at 20h00 on Tuesday 15 October and I've invited all the neighbours to attend in a letter that I distributed last night.
I have also knocked on all the neighbours doors and spoken with whomever will speak to me regarding our shoot in an attempt to sell our shoot.
Please let me know if there is anything else that you feel I could do to help this on and remove obstacles.
Giles Harris
Unit?Locations for Triosphere
doonit@gmail.com
On 8 October 2013 10:27, Giles Harris wrote:
Good morning Marga and Chris,
Thanks once again for having me at your meeting last night. I really appreciate it.
I have spoken to Camps Bay Primary School this morning regarding the parking situation and they have agreed that we may park between the tennis court and the actual soccer(?) field. Pat Readman from the school assures me that that is what has been done in the past and it has worked out fine. Also, the tent (9x18m) has always been placed between the tennis court and the building there and has been out of the way of anyone wanting to use the field.
We will be parking our standby generator truck in that car park on these Night Of The Roses, though. This will be the only bay that we need and I will be sure to put in a film permit application for this with the CTFPO as well as speak to the Hussar as a courtesy.
I have spoken to our executive producer regarding the Octocopter Camera Drone and asked that we never use it after 10pm. He agrees with me that that would be a better idea.
I have ,unfortunately, not yet set up an alternative time for the test of the drone. It is coming from Germany and will only arrive on Monday 14 October. If it is alright with you, I'll come back to you at a later stage with something concrete about when we can test this thing for noise.
So the only possible big issue that I still face is the generator truck that we would like to park in the cul-de-sac on Ottawa Rd.
I will be knocking on the residents doors this evening and leaving everyone in both Ottawa and Fulham roads with a letter with all the dates and possibly all the difficulties laid out. I guess that if there are any concerns, we should start to hear about them from tomorrow onwards.
Dates for filming in Camps Bay and 21 Fulham Rd are as follows:
15/10 Interview with the Bachelor interior at 21 Fulham. Small crew.
16/10 Helicopter arrival CB High School. Tracking shots and Octocopter motorbike ride from school to 21 Fulham
17/10 Rehearsals of Night Of The Roses (NOR).
18/10 Film NOR
24/10 Possible beauty shots of Camps Bay using Octocopter (new addition, not confirmed)
25/11 Film final NOR
We do expect the first Night Of The Roses to finish later than the subsequent ones, as we iron through some of the teething problems. Normally, though, I believe that we can be looking at 3am as a realistic time for all crew and activity to be finished.
Please let me assure you once again that I will take every care to keep crew silent and low key at all times.
Please don't hesitate to get hold of me should you need any additional information or if there is any problem that I should be dealing with.
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Sijadu Mzozoyana saved a teenager from drowning at Camps Bay Beach and received an award from Western Province Lifesaving for his bravery on 28 September 2013. Picture: Chanel September/EWN
CAPE TOWN – A Johannesburg man who saved a North West teenager from drowning at Camps Bay beach has received a special certificate for his brave rescue.
Two other pupils were swept out to sea in a strong rip current while trying to save a fellow classmate this week.
The search for the two continues.
The boys were part of a group who went to the beach for a swim as part of a school tour.
With cameras flashing Sijadu Mzozoyana accepted his certificate from Western Province Lifesaving President Jurie Wessels.
Wessels said even though the 28-year-old wanted to remain anonymous he had to be honoured for his bravery.
But while his actions were described as courageous Mzozoyana said he is not a hero, but simply helped someone in need.
“I stand here with mixed emotions because I am not the hero here.”
He said he accepted the award on the behalf of the two teenagers who are presumed to have drowned.
Mzozoyana said they were the real heroes.
http://ewn.co.za/2013/09/28/Beach-rescuer-becomes-a-hero
CCT to sign Lifeguard Agreement
Learners of a North West school at the Camps Bay beach where two classmates drowned. Picture: Chanel September/EWN
CAPE TOWN – Cape Town city bosses are expected to sign an agreement today which will ensure paid lifeguards are present on beaches from this week.
The agreement comes in the wake of the drowning of two North West school pupils at Camps Bay Beach last week.
The boys were swept out to sea by a strong rip-current while trying to save a fellow classmate.
One of the boys was saved by a member of the public.
The City of Cape Town’s Belinda Walker said, “It would enable Western Province Lifesaving to provide the lifesavers, which they have been providing for the last three years on 29 beaches throughout the city. This during school holidays, public holidays and on days we expect the beach to be busy.”
http://ewn.co.za/2013/09/30/CT-to-sign-beach-lifeguard-agreement
Friends of Camps Bay Committee volunteers?
We have achieved our first goal, which is to have Camps Bay beaches officially open to dogs at certain times:
From 1 November to 31 March: Up to 9 am (no afternoons)
From 1 April to 31 October: All day.
Please remember to be vigilant about dog poos. I have already noticed some new arrivals, and regrettably have had to deal with three rogue poos this last week. Please, when you see someone not picking up their dog poo, approach them politely and offer them a bag so we can continue to educate people who don’t take responsibility for their dogs.
Because we now have official standing in the Council, Byron suggested we strengthen our position by forming a steering committee.So far it has been suggested that I (Mikki van Zyl), Byron Herbert as the CBRRA representative for beaches, Dorly Viollier (the original campaigner for this lobby) and Sonja Rees form part of that committee. Please volunteer or send your nominations for any others (with seconds) to me, so we can set up a meeting.
The earth has enough for people's needs, but not people's greed. (Mahatma Ghandi)
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Tel: +27-(0)21 4243789
Contact for Byron
Byron Herbert
Herbert Properties
Office: +27 (0)21 438 3888
Mobile: +27 (0)83 625 0430
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Tag: American Music Awards
Bounty Killer Still Cross Angry Miserable About No Doubt Naked Man In Video
Two decades later and Bounty Killer is still cross, angry and miserable about No Doubt putting a naked man in their “Hey Baby” music video.
The 2001 track is arguably Bounty Killer’s biggest hit to date with massive commercial success. The single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and reached the top ten in several countries around the world. But the nude scene played by Adrian Young during a Bounty Killer’s line that says “The way you rock your hips, you know that it amaze me” drove a wedge between the dancehall legend and the pop group.
The scene portrayed Bounty Killer as gay and being a gangster dancehall artist, that didn’t sit well with him. Killer canceled all further performances with the band and get them loose. Turns out that he is still very upset about it. During an interview with Quizz & Macedon last weekend, he opened up about how angry he was when he first saw the video.
“When I saw that naked man in the video I wanted to kill No Doubt literally,” Bounty said. “It caused a big problem, it caused publishing problems, it caused relationship problems, everything broke down because that sh*t wasn’t in the video. It was a two-day shoot in California and Mike Myers shoot the f***ing video and no naked guy was in it, a naked guy has nothing to do with the storyline of the f***ing song. So when I saw it I told them take that sh*t out. Because that sh*t is going to cause me problems in my culture.”
Bounty Killer said that No Doubt agreed to remove Adrian Young young naked scene where he was on gymnastics rings and they agreed but then still released the video with that scene. Killer said his relationship with No Doubt instantly broke down and that resulted in him not performing with the band at the American Music Awards that year.
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CERTO progress meeting
The first CERTO progress meeting was held online, 30-31 July 2020, due to current travel restrictions. The online platform worked well and it enabled more participants to be able to attend than might have otherwise been possible, with representatives from all the workpackages and over 20 people in attendance.
The meeting started with an introduction from project coordinator Prof Steve Groom. He reported that 11 deliverables had already been reviewed by the management workpackage and submitted to the EU. However, there were some minor delays with some aspects of the projects work due to COVID-19. He led a discussion on the most effective means of communication within the project at the current time and the possible future impact of any COVID-related restrictions.
This was followed by an update from each of the workpackages. Dawn Ashby reported that all four deliverables from the Communications workpackage had been submitted on time, which included the Communications Plan, project website, contacts database and overview leaflet.
The first version of the Dissemination Plan has been produced by Eirini Politi and she gave an overview of dissemination activities that have been able to take place over the past few months. There was a discussion on how the Climate-KIC can help with dissemination and how CERTO could contribute to the KIC Deep Demonstrations.
Federico Falcini reported on community requirements, he had found that users required detailed and varied data. It was discussed that CERTO was constructed to focus on water quality and cannot offer everything. Users should be directed to other services which are beyond the scope of the programme.
It was reported by Andrew Tyler that fieldwork had been able to take place in the Venice Lagoon in February and that some data collection has taken place in the Plymouth Sound. Some other fieldwork has been delayed until next year, however there is still a risk of travel not being allowed.
Tom Jackson said that so far COVID-19 hadn’t had a big impact on the optical water type classification work, but it may play a role in what in situ data is available in the future. He hopes to have the first test cases available by the end of the year.
Francois Steinmetz and Didier Ramon reported on the land-sea interface and atmospheric correction workpackage. It was agreed that a local approach is needed to understand the variation in optical water types, and that careful planning is need for sampling to ensure the in situ data collected covers all areas of interest. Data collected from Venice and Plymouth will be used to validate the optical water type approach.
There were further discussions regarding potential delays to deliverables, mostly due to the difficulty in performing fieldwork with current travel restrictions. A plan was put in place for continued online meetings and to assess dependencies between different aspects of the project to ensure any delays are kept to a minimum.
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Idris Khan: Words Beneath Words / 65,000 Photographs
By Sedition
Date November 5th, 2019
A solo exhibition by Idris Khan is on display at Victoria Miro in Venice until 14 December. A major sculptural commission by the artist has also recently been unveiled in London.
Words Beneath Words showcases a series of paintings by Khan which continue the artist’s work with text layering. The works comprise dense layers of words, applied to glass panels using woodblocks coated with oil based ink. The texts are written by the artist, with many influenced by philosophy and poetry, but are generally illegible as the layering process shifts their format from words to image.
The works in the exhibition exist in the space between abstraction and meaning-making. This is evidenced not only by the dense and partially-intelligible layers of words, but also by the way the artworks were made. Repetition of gesture and action are key to Khan’s practice, and the process behind the works exists somewhere between painting and performance, artisan and factory, religious ritual and industrial production. Words Beneath Words mediates on the moment where the ordinary transcends to the spiritual, defined meaning becomes indefinable void, fragment becomes (more than) whole. Located in Venice, the exhibition starts a further layer of dialogue with the city’s tradition of glass making.
65,000 Photographs by Idris Khan at One Blackfriars. Photo by Stephen White. Image via Wallpaper
Khan has also been commissioned to make his first UK public sculpture in London. The piece, located at One Blackfriars Square, is a monument to, and critique of, our collective obsession with capturing our lives through digital photography, and a reference to the artist’s own archive of around 65000 photos.
The sculpture is a reflection on the materiality of digital images. Recorded onto SD cards or in the cloud, stored in server farms or within digital cameras, desktop computers and mobile devices, today’s photo albums seemingly take up no physical space, yet have a material impact on the way we define ourselves within, and move through, the world. Digital images create communities, carry forward political messages, and inform and create epoch-defining artworks. The physical imprint of the digital photograph is immense but unseen.
Khan’s 65,000 Photographs is an imposing, towering structure in a busy public square forming part of a new residential development in the city. The sculpture is in the shape of an exclamation mark, tapering outwards in defined blocks the taller it gets (each block references a standard photographic print size).
The eight metre tall aluminium statue echoes the shape of the buildings around it as well as the way new residents will build images of themselves in the area, their digitally mediated identities making physical marks on the landscape. Khan was inspired by his own collection of digital images, which shapes both his family life and his art.
65,000 Photographs was made in collaboration with the design and fabrication studio UAP and was commissioned by St George City Ltd and the London Borough of Southwark.
Top image: Words Beneath Words, Idris Khan at Victoria Miro Venice
Words Beneath Words is at Victoria Miro, Il Capricorno, San Marco 1994, 30124 Venice, IT until 14 December. 65,000 Photographs is on permanent display at One Blackfriars in London, UK.
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To Stay and Deliver
Providing humanitarian assistance amid conflict has always been a dangerous and difficult endevour; however, over the last decade aid worker casualties tripled, reaching over 100 deaths per year. From 2005 onwards the largest numbers of violent attacks on humanitarian personnel have been concentrated in a small number of countries representing the most difficult and volatile operating environments. Attacks in some of these settings have also grown more lethal and sophisticated and the number of kidnappings has risen dramatically.
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2011
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Jan Egeland
Region/Country: East Asia, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises
The State of the Humanitarian System | Assessing Performance and Progress (2010)
o The ability to monitor and report on performance is increasingly important for any successful sector. Individuals, organisations or systems cannot improve unless their shortcomings are identified and practical and creative solutions for improvements are put forward. This report aims to provide a system-level mapping and assessment of international humanitarian assistance.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Abby Stoddard, Paul Harvey, Adele Harmer, Victoria DiDomenico, Lauren Brander
Topic(s): Crises, Fragile States, Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises
The Aid Worker Security Database
The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) records major incidents of violence against aid workers, with incident reports from 1997 through the present. Initiated in 2005, to date the AWSD remains the single most comprehensive global source of this data, providing a much-needed quantitative evidence base for analysis of the changing security environment for civilian aid operations. For more detail on the AWSD click here.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Katherine Haver
Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Bin Laden's Backers Want to Destroy Islamic State in Afghanistan
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The UN Global Goals: Treasure the Vision, Demand Implementation.
Libya to Europe: Please Don’t Come to Our Rescue
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How the AU can Promote Transitional Justice in South Sudan
The African Union is mandated to help South Sudan to ensure accountability for past human rights abuses through the establishment of a hybrid court. This mandate is derived from the Agreement for the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan, signed in 2015. The agreement also makes provision for a Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing and a Compensation and Reparation Authority. In the face of continued violence in South Sudan, how can the African Union assist in enabling an effective transitional justice strategy for the country?
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Liezelle Kumalo, Amanda Lucey
Region/Country: Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, United Nations
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The implementation of South Sudan’s latest peace agreement appears to be at a standstill. Insecurity, food shortages and the breakdown in governance have forced more than 1.5 million people to flee the country. President Salva Kiir’s announcement of a forthcoming national dialogue offers some hope. Yet people are divided on the legitimacy of the process: is this a ruse to detract attention from important reforms, or is it an opportunity to finally broaden the political process in South Sudan? External actors, including the African Union (AU), are also at odds with one another.
Publication Date: Mar 22, 2017
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Amanda Lucey, Liezelle Kumalo
Indonesia calls for a pause in global conflict to ensure pandemic relief
Oltman on Aleinikoff and Zamore, "The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime"
COVID-19 on the African Continent
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The Wife (2017). Film review of the drama starring Glenn Close
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EU Proposes to Curb Oversupply of Carbon Credits
Carbon credits are created by emissions controls and by other manufacturing practices and they can be sold to other facilities to offset emissions that cannot be economically reduced. These are attractive when a facility cannot meet a new regulation, and is near the end of its useful life, making it uneconomic to install expensive new emissions controls. Carbon credits can also be held or eliminated to reduce available credits. This results in a loss of potential value to those who created them, but is good for the environment since this reduces total carbon emissions. The EU is proposing to temporarily curb an oversupply in carbon credits.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the move by the European Parliament to support the proposal to backload permits from the European Union’s carbon market.
“The vote sends a clear signal that the European Union remains committed to carbon pricing,” the Secretary-General’s spokesperson said in a statement.
On 3 July, EU politicians in Strasbourg voted 344-311 in favor of temporarily removing a maximum of 900 million permits, out a total surplus of around 1.7 billion, from trade. The move is meant to drive up carbon prices which have been at a record low.
According to today’s statement, Mr. Ban’s spokesperson said the UN chief hopes more structural reforms will now follow in order to strengthen the EU’s carbon market “as a driver for innovation and energy efficient solutions.”
The Secretary-General added that the EU’s carbon market is an inspiration to the development of similar markets in China, Australia, South Korea and the United States.
“Europe must continue its fight against climate change,” Mr. Ban said. “An effective and well-functioning carbon market is a key tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions cost-effectively.”
Read more at UN News Center.
Article by Roger Greenway, appearing courtesy Environmental News Network.
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201. TW Thomas and Co. Limited v The Portsea Steamship Company, Limited (The “Portsmouth”) [1910] P.293; [1911] P.55; [1912] A.C. 1
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594. MVV Environment Devonport Ltd v NTO Shipping GMBH (the “MV Nortrader”) [2020] EWHC 1371 (Comm)
593. Trafigura Maritime Logistics Pte Ltd v Clearlake Shipping Pte Ltd (the “Miracle Hope”) [2020] EWHC 726 (Comm)
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591. Quiana Navigation SA v Pacific Gulf Shipping (Singapore) Pte Ltd (the “Caravos Liberty”) [2019] EWHC 3171 (Comm)
590. Bilgent Shipping PTE/ADM International SARL/ Oldendorff Carriers GmbH (the “Alpha Harmony”) [2019] EWHC 2522 (Comm)
589. Rubicon Vantage International Pte Ltd v Krisenergy Ltd [2019] EWHC 2012 (Comm)
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The AcuMedic Digestive Health Clinic provides specialist acupuncture treatment and powerful Chinese herbal medicine specifically tailored to treat a wide variety of digestive conditions.
This is a natural and effective treatment for acute to chronic conditions.
Treatment is performed by a fully qualified CMIR-registered doctor with extensive Western medical training.
Treatment at our Digestive Health Clinic includes:
A full Chinese Medical diagnosis with personalised lifestyle advice
A session of authentic syndrome acupuncture tailored to your needs
An individualised herbal prescription from our doctors tailored to your needs and digestive issues. If you wish to take the prescription then the herbs are charged separately. We do not put any pressure on our valued clients to buy prescriptions but the doctor will always be trying to maximise your health (that is their job) and this may involve herbs. For prices of our herbal prescriptions please look at our prices on the right of this page.
The AcuMedic Digestive Health Clinic offers Chinese Medical treatment for conditions such as:
Bloating (Abdominal Distension)
Acid Indigestion (Dyspepsia)
Nausea; Food Sensitivity
Inflammation (Gastritis)
Dysmotility
Stomach Ulcer (Gastric/Duodenal Ulcer)
Acid Reflux (Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease GORD, also a cause of Heartburn)
Oesophagitis
Excessive Mucus
If your condition is not on this list, just ask for Free Health Advice and our Doctors will let you know if, and how, they can help. You can also visit our centre and one of our doctors will speak to you for free as a walk-in service.
+ About the Acupuncture at AcuMedic
Acupuncture treatment is available all over the world but not all acupuncturists are the same. Many acupuncturists in the West are only trained in a small modality of acupuncture such as trigger point acupuncture or perhaps 5 Element acupuncture. AcuMedicin London treats with syndrome acupuncture which is based on the complete system of theories in Chinese Medicine (including trigger point and 5 Element). This is authentic acupuncture treatment as practised in China and is based on Syndrome Differentiation diagnosis.
+How we can help
Using Chinese Medicine, the AcuMedic Digestive Health Clinic in London has a high success rate in treating digestive problems, and aims not only to relieve the symptoms but also to deal with the root problem.
Almost every facet of your health starts with a good digestion. Your energy levels, immune resistance, sexual health, mood and appearance are directly linked to your digestive health.
Your digestion is probably the most important biological process for determining your general health. The ability of your body to digest, absorb and excrete your food will dramatically affect the quality of your life.
+ How it works
Digestive disorders in Chinese Medicine are generally regarded as a result of imbalances in Stomach and Spleen, the two main organs responsible for digesting, absorbing, transporting, and transforming food into Qi (the body’s essential energy) and blood which nourish the body and support all other bodily functions. The Stomach governs the acceptance, digestion and passage of food and its normal movements downwards. If the Stomach energy moves the wrong way (upwards), symptoms will occur such as fullness, pain, nausea and vomiting.
The Spleen’s main functions are to transform food into energy and transport it to all parts of the body. The Spleen also shares with the Kidney the function of processing water and body liquids. A weakness of the Spleen, therefore, can lead to water retention as well as fatigue and lack of energy.
Imbalance in other organs can also affect the digestive process, for example, the Stagnation of Liver energy as seen in long-term stress and anxiety will lead to digestive problems, such as poor appetite, indigestion, abdominal pain and distension (bloating).
Chinese Medicine does not treat just the digestive condition but its root causes, which often lie away from the stomach and can be found in the person’s mental state and their environment. For example, in the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) acupuncture and Chinese herbs are selected to tonify the Liver. The Liver is targeted because its essential energy (the Liver-Qi) stagnates and consequently unsettles the Spleen, which in turn leads to IBS symptoms. However, the treatment for this condition should be more holistic and treat not just your stomach but other related aspects of your health, such as your levels of stress and anxiety, which directly influence your digestive system.
Therefore, the Chinese medical doctors at our Digestive Health Clinic will modify the treatment according to your individual health needs to help you to relax and to better control your stress, anxiety and improve the digestive system, thus helping you to keep the IBS and its triggers under control.
To find out more read our brief Introduction to Chinese Medicine.
+What to Expect
During your appointment at the Digestive Health Clinic, an AcuMedic doctor will carry out a full Chinese Medical diagnosis (including tongue- and pulse-diagnoses to check internal health) and will talk to you to learn a bit about your digestive issues.
A Digestive Health Clinic appointment usually lasts between 25-40 minutes. This includes consultation, diagnosis and acupuncture treatment. If you are prescribed raw Chinese herbs then this can take up to half an hour to prepare after your appointment.
+ Diagnosis and Consultation
There are four main diagnostic methods in Chinese Medicine which are observing, pulse diagnosis, questioning and listening. Each method has a unique function in the process of collecting different clinical information and understanding the root cause of your digestive problems. Therefore all four diagnostic methods must be used to make an accurate diagnosis of your overall health and individualise the treatment so that your digestive health can be improved.
Observing involves looking at all the outward manifestations of your digestive system. This is done by observing your general vitality, complexion, figure and skin. One of the most well known parts of observing is tongue diagnosis. The tongue is like a mirror showing the state of your internal organs. The AcuMedic doctor will be able to judge the condition of your essential energy (Qi), identify the location of the affected parts inside your body, determine what is exactly is wrong and identify how your digestive condition might progress just from looking at your tongue.
There are over 50 different pulse types and the AcuMedic doctor will take your pulse on both wrists to determine which pulse type you have. Your pulse is identified in terms of depth, speed, strength, shape and rhythm. Your pulse is an indicator of how Qi and blood are moving around your body, therefore how well your internal organs are functioning. From your pulse the doctor can determine a great deal about your physical and emotional condition and the root cause of your digestive issues. This information is very important for determining the right treatment for you.
The doctor will ask you a huge variety of questions to learn about your general lifestyle and digestive health, for example eating habits and toilet patterns. It may seem like some of these questions are odd, but it all goes towards building a complete picture of you and your health. No matter how trivial something might seem to you, tell your doctor. No symptom that you have is unrelated or unimportant to the health of your stomach and diagnosis. It is also very useful for your doctor to see the results of any medical tests you have had so make sure you bring them along to your first consultation and whenever you get new results through.
Once the doctor has finished diagnosing you, they will tell you about your particular Chinese Medical syndrome. These syndromes often have funny sounding names, like Liver Qi Stagnation or Kidney Yin Deficiency, but do not let that put you off. They will accurately explain why you have the symptoms you have and therefore what treatment you need to alleviate your digestive issues.
The doctor will then suggest an acupuncture treatment plan based on the diagnosis to return you to good health, thereby easing all of the different symptoms at the same time while tackling the stomach condition at its root.
If the doctor feels that you should take some Chinese herbal medicines in addition to acupuncture then a prescription will be written for you. This is charged separately to your treatment. The prescription may be in the form of raw Chinese herbs or herbal extract capsules which are assembled and dispensed by our expert dispensary on our premises.
+ Treatment
After consultation for digestive health treatment, you will be asked to lie on the bed and remove some clothing to receive acupuncture. The doctor will provide you with a blanket to cover yourself. Micro-fine needles will be inserted and you will be left alone to relax for about 20-40 minutes.
Please be aware that this is crucial treatment time for the acupuncture to have a therapeutic effect and you have not been forgotten. Just relax and enjoy the sensation of the acupuncture treatment (many patients will fall asleep). If you need to call the Clinic reception then there is a bell to alert us to come and talk with you.
Usually, the acupuncture needles do not hurt when they are inserted, although if a lot of blocked energy has built up at one area of your body, you may feel a pricking and pulling sensation as the Qi begins to flow again in there. Most people find acupuncture incredibly relaxing.
AcuMedic doctors only use sterile disposable acupuncture needles. AcuMedic actually invented the disposable acupuncture needle.
For people who are afraid of acupuncture needles, please speak to your doctor who may recommend a different treatment based on electro-acupuncture instead of needles. Electro-acupuncture works in the same way as conventional acupuncture, but instead of using needles, an electronic pointer is used to stimulate the acupuncture points on the body.
+After the Treatment
After the treatment, you should notice an improvement in your symptoms and you should also notice that you are feeling better after meals. Your overall health should benefit from treatment, too. For example, you should find yourself having more energy during the day, less stress and better sleep at night. You should also notice an improvement in the appearance of your skin.
To find out more about the Chinese medical approach to digestive health please take a look at our guide Regulate Your Digestion.
+ Other Questions?
For any other questions please review our FAQ and if you cannot find an answer then please email us.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends acupuncture for digestive health treatment
Clinical trials have demonstrated its use for various symptoms and conditions of digestive disorders.
Clinical trials have shown acupuncture to be effective for:
Diarrhoea (Dysentery – acute bacillary)
Nausea and vomiting; Gall stones (Biliary colic)
Epigastralgia (acute, in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Gastrointestinal spasm
Renal colic.*
Clinical trials have shown acupuncture to have a therapeutic effect on:
Ulcerative colitis (chronic)
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Gastrokinetic disturbance.*
WHO recommends acupuncture for irritable colon syndrome (Irritable Bowel Syndrome – IBS). This is because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult. For this condition, clinical trials have reported acupuncture producing some therapeutic effects*.
+ *CLINICAL TRIALS
Li KR. [Analysis on the effect of acupuncture treatment in 1383 adults with bacillary dysentery.] Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1990, 10(4):113-114 [in Chinese].
Qiu ML et al. [A clinical study on acupuncture treatment of acute bacillary dysentery.] In: Zhang XT, ed. [Researches on acupuncture-moxibustion and acupuncture-anaesthesia.] Beijing, Science Press, 1986: 567-572 [in Chinese].
Yu SZ et al. Clinical observation of 162 cases of acute bacillary dysentery treated by acupuncture. World Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion, 1992, 2(3):13-14.
Dundee JW et al. Traditional Chinese acupuncture: a potentially useful antiemetic? British Medical Journal, 1986, 293:383-384.
Dundee JW et al. Acupuncture to prevent cisplatin-associated vomiting. Lancet, 1987, 1:1083.
Ghaly RG et al. A comparison of manual needling with electrical stimulation and commonly used antiemetics. Anaesthesia, 1987, 45:1108-1110.
Weightman WM et al. Traditional Chinese acupuncture as an antiemetic. British Medical Journal, 1987, 295(6610):1379-1380.
Dundee JW et al. Acupuncture prophylaxis of cancer chemotherapy-induced sickness. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1989, 82:268-271.
Barsoum G et al. Postoperative nausea is relieved by acupressure. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1990, 83(2):86-89.
Ho RT et al. Electro-acupuncture and postoperative emesis. Anaesthesia, 1990, 45:327-329.
Ho CM et al. Effect of PC 6 acupressure on prevention of nausea and vomiting after epidural morphine for post-cesarean section pain relief. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 1996, 40(3):372-375.
Andrzejowski J et al. Semi-permanent acupuncture needles in the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting. Acupuncture-Medicine, 1996, 14(2):68-70.
McConaghy P et al. Acupuncture in the management of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients receiving morphine via a patient-controlled analgesia system. Acupuncture-Medicine, 1996, 14(1):2-5.
Schwager KL et al. Acupuncture and postoperative vomiting in day-stay paediatric patients. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 1996, 24(6):674-677.
Liu SX et al. Magnetotherapy of neiguan in preventing vomiting induced by cisplatin. International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture, 1997, 8(1):39-41.
Al-Sadi M et al. Acupuncture in the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting. Anaesthesia, 1997, 52(7):658-661.
Stein DJ et al. Acupressure versus intravenous metoclopramide to prevent nausea and vomiting during spinal anesthesia for cesarean section. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 1997, 84(2):342-345.
Schlager A et al. Laser stimulation of acupuncture point P6 reduces postoperative vomiting in children undergoing strabismus surgery. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1998, 8(4):529-532.
Chu YC et al. Effect of BL10 (tianzhu), BL11 (dazhu) and GB34 (yanglingquan) acuplaster for prevention of vomiting after strabismus surgery in children. Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica, 1998, 36(1):11-16.
Alkaissi A et al. Effect and placebo effect of acupressure (P6) on nausea and vomiting after outpatient gynaecological surgery. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 1999, 43(3):270-274.
Shenkman Z et al. Acupressure-acupuncture antiemetic prophylaxis in children undergoing tonsillectomy. Anesthesiology, 1999, 90(5):1311-1316.
GALL STONES (BILIARY COLIC)
Mo TW. [Observation of 70 cases of biliary ascariasis treated by acupuncture.] Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1987, 7(5):237-238 [in Chinese].
Yang TG et al. [Clinical report of electro-acupuncture analgesia in the treatment of abdominal colics.] Jiangsu Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1990, 11(12):31 [in Chinese].
Wu XL et al. Observation of acupuncture treatment of biliary colic in 142 cases. Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion, 1992, 8(6):8.
Xu PC et al. Clinical observation of treatment of acute epigastralgia by puncturing liangqiu and weishu acupoints. International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture, 1991, 2(2):127-130.
Yu YM. [Therapeutic effect and mechanism of needling ST36 in the treatment of epigastric pain.] Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1997, 16(3):10-11 [in Chinese].
Shi XL et al. [Acupuncture treatment of gastrointestinal spasm.] Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1995, 15(4):192 [in Chinese].
Lee YH et al. Acupuncture in the treatment of renal colic. Journal of Urology, 1992, 147:16-18.
Zhang WR et al. [Clinical observation of acupuncture in treating kidney and ureter stones.] Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1992, 12(3):5-6 [in Chinese].
Li JX et al. [Observation of the therapeutic effect of acupuncture treatment of renal colic.] Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1993, 13(2):65-66 [in Chinese].
ABDOMINAL PAIN (in ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS or due to GASTROINTESTINAL SPASM)
Shu X, et al. [Observation of acupuncture treatment of abdominal pain in acute gastroenteritis.] Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1997, 17(11):653-654 [in Chinese].
Wu HG et al. [Therapeutic effect of herbal partition-moxibustion for chronic diarrhoea and its immunological mechanism.] Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1995, 36(1):25-27 [in Chinese].
Ma S et al. [Observation of combined acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of 60 cases of ulcerative colitis.] Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1997, 17(5):275-276 [in Chinese].
Wang HH et al. A study in the effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia for colonoscopic examination compared with conventional premedication. American Journal of Acupuncture, 1992, 20:217-221.
Wang HH et al. A clinical study on physiological response in electroacupuncture analgesia and meperidine analgesia for colonoscopy. American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 1997, 25(1):13-20.
GASTROKINETIC DISTURBANCE
Zhang AL et al. Clinical effect of acupuncture in the treatment of gastrokinetic disturbance. World Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion, 1996, 6(1):3-8.
IRRITABLE COLON SYNDROME (IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME – IBS)
Wu HG et al. Preliminary study on therapeutic effects and immunologic mechanisms of herbal-moxibustion treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, 1996, 16(2):43-45 [in Chinese].
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Over five years ago I went to AcuMedic as I was suffering from oesophageal spasms, having been diagnosed by my GP. I did have medication for this but was still having problems. However, the doctor at AcuMedic put me on a special treatment and within a month I was much better. Now there is no sign of the spasms. - Mrs. G. M. R. read more
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UPDATE 1-EXCLUSIVE-EU seeks more Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, eyes deals with Valneva, Novavax
Francesco Guarascio, Elvira Pollina
* EU in talks for more Moderna COVID-19 vaccines - sources
* Moderna seeks higher price than EU’s first contract-source
* EU in talks for Valneva’s vaccine candidate - sources
* Close to ordering 200 mln doses of Novavax shot - source (Adds that the EU and Moderna declined to comment)
BRUSSELS/MILAN, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The European Union is in talks with Moderna to order more of its COVID-19 vaccine despite the company seeking a higher price, and is also trying to close COVID-19 vaccine deals with Valneva and Novavax, according to two EU officials and an internal document.
The bloc, with a population of nearly 450 million, has already booked a total of almost 2.3 billion doses from six vaccine makers. Most vaccines require two doses and only two vaccines have so far been authorised for use in the EU.
U.S. biotech company Moderna produces one of the two shots approved by the EU - the other being from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech - and has already signed a contract with the bloc to supply 160 million doses.
Despite deliveries not having started, the EU is already seeking additional doses from Moderna, according to an internal document prepared by the German health ministry and reviewed by Reuters, as the bloc scrambles to vaccinate as many people as possible amid a surge in infections.
Two EU officials, on condition of anonymity, confirmed talks were under way with Moderna for additional doses, but one added that the price demanded by the company was twice as high as that agreed in the first contract.
That complicated negotiations, the official said.
Neither official said how many doses the EU was seeking.
Moderna and the European Commission, which coordinates EU talks with vaccine makers, declined to comment.
The EU sought a price of below $25 per dose for its first contract with Moderna, an EU negotiator told Reuters in November. The agreed price has not been disclosed.
Some EU countries have opted not to take up their share of Moderna vaccines under the first EU order, the German document says, despite each of the 27 EU states having the right to a portion of shots equal to its share of the EU population.
It is not clear why some governments have done this.
The Moderna vaccine is the most expensive negotiated by the EU, with the company saying prior to its November deal with the bloc that it would sell shots for between $25 and $37 per dose, depending on the volumes ordered.
The document says that Germany has secured 50 million doses, or almost a third of the Moderna shots booked so far by the EU, despite having a population of less than 20% of the EU’s total.
The EU is also talking to French pharmaceuticals company Valneva about a potential deal for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, said two EU officials involved in the negotiations.
Millions of doses of the Valneva vaccine, which started Phase I and II clinical trials in December, have already been booked by Britain. Before applying for approval, vaccines must prove safe and effective in large-scale Phase III trials.
Valneva did not respond to requests for comment and the European Commission declined to comment.
The EU is also close to signing a contract with U.S. company Novavax for up to 200 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, one of the EU officials said, adding that a deal was “imminent”.
In December the European Commission said it had concluded preliminary talks with Novavax, a move that usually precedes the signing of a contract.
Novavax was not immediately available to comment. (Reporting by Francesco Guarascio @fraguarascio in Brussels and Elvira Pollina in Milan Additional reporting by Sabine Siebold and Andreas Rinke in Berlin and Matthis Blamont in Paris Editing by Mark Potter and David Goodman)
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UPDATE 2-U.S. hits Iran with fresh sanctions as Trump term nears end
(Adds attempt to reach KFCC, parent company comment and background, paragraphs 3 and 4)
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a Chinese company that makes elements for steel production, 12 Iranian steel and metals makers and three foreign-based sales agents of an Iranian metals and mining holding company, seeking to deprive Iran of revenues as U.S. President Donald Trump’s term winds down.
The U.S. Treasury Department, in a statement, named the China-based company as Kaifeng Pingmei New Carbon Materials Technology Co Ltd. (KFCC), saying it specialized in the manufacture of carbon materials and provided thousands of metric tonnes of materials to Iranian steel companies between December 2019 and June 2020.
No one at KFCC, which makes graphite electrodes, was available for comment on Wednesday. Filings show the company is owned by Henan Yicheng New Energy, which said it was unaware of the situation.
Shares in Yicheng, which is ultimately controlled by China’s Henan province, fell as much as 6.7% to a two-week low on Wednesday. When Yicheng was buying KFCC in 2019, it said exports - to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe - accounted for about half of KFCC’s core business.
Among the 12 Iranian companies blacklisted are the Pasargad Steel Complex and the Gilan Steel Complex Co, both of which were designated under Executive Order 13871 for operating in the Iranian steel sector.
The others are: Iran-based Middle East Mines and Mineral Industries Development Holding Co (MIDHCO), Khazar Steel Co, Vian Steel Complex, South Rouhina Steel Complex, Yazd Industrial Constructional Steel Rolling Mill, West Alborz Steel Complex, Esfarayen Industrial Complex, Bonab Steel Industry Complex, Sirjan Iranian Steel and Zarand Iranian Steel Co.
The Treasury said it was also designating MIDHCO’s Germany-based subsidiary GMI Projects Hamburg GmbH, its China-based World Mining Industry Co Ltd and U.K.-based GMI Projects Ltd for being owned or controlled by MIDHCO.
“The Trump Administration remains committed to denying revenue flowing to the Iranian regime as it continues to sponsor terrorist groups, support oppressive regimes, and seek weapons of mass destruction,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the statement.
Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20, when Democrat President-elect Joe Biden is to be sworn in to succeed him. (Reporting by Arshad Mohammed, Daphne Psaledakis and Doina Chiacu; additional reporting by Zhang Min and Tom Daly; writing by Arshad Mohammed; editing by Doina Chiacu and Jonathan Oatis)
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David Bowie – …hours
Adult contemporary Bowie REALLY sucks | Music / Reviews | Coagulopath
Every culture has a beloved national dish that amounts to “take all the leftovers and put it in a pot”. Hours is David Bowie’s version of that, an unfocused collection of tracks from a videogame, an unfinished Reeves Gabrels solo album, plus some other crap, with a production job so lame it ruptured time and space.
Look at the cover. You already know how it sounds. Tepid, breezy, housewife-hooking AOR pop rock with no edge or bite. Bowie tried to get TLC to guest on “Thursday’s Child”. I don’t know what’s sadder: that he seriously had that idea or that it probably would have worked.
“Thursday’s Child” is the first single. It features a lame R&B-inspired backbeat, gratuitous female backing vocals, and greasy, syrupy synths. Someone once said that synths are to American musicians what firewater was to the Native Americans. I agree, and wish they were what smallpox blankets were for the Indians.
“Something in the Air” is six minutes of boredom and glitchy sound effects. I don’t know what Reeves Gabrels is playing on guitar. It doesn’t relate to the music in any way. It’s like they recorded him noodling at soundcheck time and put it on the record. This was Gabrels’ final studio release with Bowie, quitting while he was behind.
“Seven” is an acoustic song with very loud slide guitar parts. Not bad, but anyone could have written it.
“What’s Really Crappening” is Bowie’s infamous “cyber-song”, meaning its recording was broadcast via livestream. There were probably people who racked up a $40 phone bill over their 56ks listening to Bowie make this – they should have watched the video of the dancing baby instead. The lyrics were partially written by a fan, Alex Grant, who won a contest on Bowie’s website. Nobody can find any trace of Grant now. He may have entered the witness protection program.
“Brilliant Adventure” is etc…
You get the idea. I dislike hours greatly, there’s something cold and dead about it that I don’t hear in any of the other “bad” Bowie albums. Even Never Let Me Down and Tin Machine I have odd charm that renders them lovable from a certain perspective, but this has none (and no artistry either). This is a strong contender for the worst thing Bowie ever recorded on a major label.
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The Superman #4, which came on screen in 1940, had a logo with a completely different color scheme featuring black, red, and white. However, they are not always the same shades: in some versions the colors go brighter and acquire an almost electrical quality, while in other versions they look less energetic. 5.0 out of 5 stars 17. The iconic combination of yellow and red is featured in most versions of the Superman logo. Who is stronger goku or superman? That being said, often we don't find what we're looking for, or the list seems to be missing a certain character we remember seeing, but can no longer locate. Probably one of the largest (if not the largest) version can be seen on the Dean Cain costume in The New Adventures of Superman. Apparently, Supermanâs logo as we know it now looked not from the beginning like that. Shawâs Man and Superman can be supplemented by âThe Revolutionistâs Handbook,â a political manuscript written by the protagonist of the play, John (AKA Jack) Tanner. Learn how your comment data is processed. The changes in the color scheme, as well as the shape of the emblem, were connected with the new Superman costumes and powers. However, that was the last time when Superman could be seen without the diamond logo: all the following logotypes were based on the diamond shape. About fonts: Designers: Frantisek Storm. That was why the designers went on experimenting with the character until they created the shape that appeared in The Adventures of Superman film in 1952. In the mid-1990s, when Superman's costume and powers changed briefly, during the "Superman Red/Superman Blue" comic book storylines, the shield changed colors and slightly changed shape, in accordance with the changes in the costume. The Superman logo has been tweaked not less than 25 times throughout its 75-year history. Textcraft is a free online text and logo maker, and is also compatible with iPad and Android tablets. The first logo was a red âSâ on the uncommon black background in Max Fleischerâs animated series 1941 - 1942. How can i draw superman in fb chat? More Details. One of the smallest emblems can be seen in the Superman Returns movie, which came on screen in 2006. I get these creations to complete more collection of other that are here. Superman logo svg, Superman vector layered, Superhero digital print-cut file, Superdad Clipart for Cricut Silhouetteâeps,dxf,png,pdf,JpG 025 DigitalArtStudio2020. The difference between emoji pictures and ASCII are is simply that emoji pictures have a much stronger emphasis on the emoji characters. Large font sizes do not auto-update. The difference in thickness creates a specified visual outcome. Emoji art may also use other Unicode symbols as well - text art with emojis is fairly common because there aren't enough emojis to represent all the different shapes required to do good emoji art. The Superman font, designed by way of Daniel Hernández, is a display typeface that has neo-humanist characteristics. I have watched all its movies and animated episodes from DC.So, I am here to give a tribute to my favorite superhero Superman. Other explanations claim that the letter stands for slogans like âStopping Crimesâ or âSaving Livesâ. It appeared in the 26th issue of Action Comics, looking very close to what it is now. Pokémon unveils the 25th anniversary logo, teasing the celebration next year, Pentagram creates new brand identity for Virgin Money, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas rolls out new logo invoking criticism, Mutual of Omaha changes Indian chief logo to African lion, Sydney Swans adopt new logo, getting rid of the Sydney Opera House. Pricing. How to fly like superman or levitate like chris angel? However, it existed for as little as two episodes and was replaced by the familiar combination of yellow and red. The colors were inverted, while the diamond shape was replaced by a simple shield. Yet, starting from the first episode of the Season Six, the familiar yellow-and-red shield with the âSâ was used.
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E-News 3rd May
For your convenience we have now added SIMs Parent Lite to our school management system. Once you have downloaded the free App, you will be able to edit your child’s information simply and securely from home, submitting changes such as contact details, nominated medical/dietary needs and consent at the touch of a button.
#CHSgoeslive, Officially
We have decided to embrace social media, and invite you to follow and like our first official Facebook page. We hope to create an online hub for all things CHS! With your permission – please indicate via SIMs Parent Lite, we hope to post photographs of school events on here, and for this to be a communal space for CHS families, past and present. As always, your data will be securely managed and protected under the tightest privacy settings.
Staff Change
We are sure parents will wish to join us in wishing Miss Rollins all the best next September as she moves on to Dulwich College to take up a post as a Year Three Form Teacher and their new Head of IT. Miss Rollins began her teaching career at Chatsworth Primary School as a Year Two teacher. She then joined CHS in 2013 and quickly established herself as a successful and caring Year Two form teacher, commendably efficient in the classroom and always ready to organise a school project or event. In 2015, Miss Rollins was asked to take on the newly created position of IT Coordinator, a challenging role but, utilising her usual energy and zest, one that she has embraced with great success. More recently she has held the post of Assistant Academic Coordinator, supporting Ms Grunewald in setting up new initiatives throughout the school. After six very successful years at CHS it is the right time for Miss Rollins to further her career at a larger establishment, one that we are very pleased to be developing links with. However, we will miss her terribly.
Taking on Form Two and the role of IT Coordinator, we are looking forward to welcoming Cecily Evans to the CHS team. In her fifth year of teaching, Miss Evans has excellent references from St Mary’s First School and plenty of experience teaching in both Key Stage One and lower Key Stage Two. With a passion for engineering, having trained at technical college, Miss Evans set up and ran successful Engineering and Coding Clubs and was appointed Head of IT in 2017.
Having already met the children in Form One and Form Two last term, Miss Evans is joining us on 22nd May where we will introduce her to next year’s Form Two parents.
F5 & 6 to Royal Academy
On Tuesday, 5th May, Miss Caroll will be taking Forms 5 & 6 to the Phyllida Barlow exhibition, cul-de-sac at The Royal Academy, using this as inspiration for their own sculptures. Look out for these, later in the term, at our pop up gallery in Connaught Village.
Given the Green light
You may remember that Mrs Hampton asked for parents’ support in petitioning for safer crossings in the area. We are very pleased that the Mayor of London has agreed safety improvements to five junctions along Edgware Road. For more information, see
https://marble-arch.london/news/green-light-for-green-man-junctions-on-edgware-road/.
Banksy Drops by
Artwork believed to be by Banksy, one of the most controversial street artists in the world, has been revealed at Marble Arch. We are looking forward to taking the children to view this next week.
Please be aware that there will be no down escalator at Marble Arch station from Friday 3 May until early June due to planned maintenance work. The staircase has over 100 steps – not for the faint hearted.
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DYNAMICS OF ORGANIC MATTER IN ESTUARIES IMPACTED BY AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Periodic Report Summary 1 - DYNAMITE (DYNAMICS OF ORGANIC MATTER IN ESTUARIES IMPACTED BY AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES)
The "DYNAMIT " project was set up to study the agricultural impact on the biogeochemical cycling of organic matter (OM) in natural waters and its fate in the freshwater - seawater mixing zone. Three main reasons are behind this choice: (i) agricultural activities are obviously a major threat to human water security and biodiversity, (ii) the composition of the organic matter is still poorly characterized and (iii) its behavior in the coastal aquatic system is far from being understood. This project was developed on Brittany since this is the first agricultural region in France, the largest agricultural exporter countries of the world and the second leading agricultural power of the European Union.
The Penzé River (NW Brittany, France), was sampled during one hydrological year from 05/01/2012 to 09/01/2013 with an 8 day frequency at Prat Guen (3°54′42.5″ W–48°31′18.8″N) 1 km from the village of Saint Thégonnec, outside the turbid area and upstream of the salty zone of the estuary. We have examined the dynamics and sources of reduced sulfur, humic substances (HS) and DOC in this river system affected by agricultural practices. New differential pulse cathodic stripping voltammetry method (DP-AdCSV) (Pernet-Coudrier et al., 2013), was successfully applied to measure glutathione-like compounds (GSHs), thioacetamide-like compounds (TAs) and a liquid chromatography coupled to organic detector (LC-OCD-OND) to analyze HS and DOC at high frequency. The streamflow-concentration patterns, principal components analysis and flux analysis allowed discrimination of the source of each organic compound type. Surprisingly, the two RSS and HS detected in all samples, displayed different behavior. As previously shown, manuring practice is the main source of DOC and HS in this watershed where agricultural activity is predominant (Waeles et al., 2013). The HS were then transferred to the river systems via runoff, particularly during the spring and autumn floods, which are responsible of >60% of the annual flux. TAs had a clear groundwater source and may be formed underground, whereas GSHs displayed two sources: one aquagenic in spring and summer probably linked to the primary productivity and a second, which may be related to bacterial degradation. High sampling frequency allowed a more accurate assessment of the flux values which were 280 tC y-1 for DOC representing 20 kgC ha-1 y-1. HS, TAs and GSHs fluxes represented 60, 13, and 4% of the total annual DOC export, respectively (Marie et al., 2015).
Marie, L ; Pernet-Coudrier,B ; Waeles,M ; Gabon,M ; Riso,R (2015).Dynamics and sources of reduced sulfur, humic substances and dissolved organic carbon in a temperate river system affected by agricultural practices. Sci.Total Environ. 537, 23 - 32.
Pernet-Coudrier, B., Waeles, M., Filella, M., Quentel, F., Riso, R.D. 2013. Simple and simultaneous determination of glutathione, thioacetamide and refractory organic matter in natural waters by DP-CSV. Sci. Total Environ. 463–464, 997–1005.
Waeles, M., Riso, R., Pernet-Coudrier, B., Quentel, F., Durrieu, G., Tissot, C., 2013. Annual cycle of humic substances in a temperate estuarine system affected by agricultural practices. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 106, 231–246.
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Volvo Group sales, profitability up in Q2
GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The Volvo Group saw increased sales and profitability during the second quarter compared with the same time period one year ago, the company reported.
The company produces engines and transmissions at its powertrain plant off Interstate 81 just north of Hagerstown.
Martin Lundstedt, president and CEO, said in a news release that net sales increased by 12 percent. The company reported an operating margin of 9.7 percent, he said.
“All our business areas improved their operating income,” he said.
In comments included with the company’s quarterly report, Lundstedt said recent trends in truck markets continue with “good demand in Europe, including a distinct recovery in Russia and a gradual improvement in North and South America, with increased order intake.”
He said total truck deliveries were down 1 percent in the quarter, driven by lower deliveries in North America. But he added that the company “took a very important step” in North America in July with the announcement of the new Volvo VNL series long-haul tractor. The truck has “cutting-edge innovations in fuel efficiency, driver productivity, safety and connectivity solutions to maximize uptime,” he wrote.
Volvo Buses’ profitability was stable, with an adjusted operating margin of 4.6 percent.
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Antony Beevor wins 2014 Prizker Lifetime Literature Award
24th June 2014 /in Live /by [email protected]
Today it has been announced that British historian and author Antony Beevor is the winner of the prestigious 2014 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
The Pritzker Literature Award, which includes a medallion, citation, and $100,000 honorarium, recognizes and honours the contributions of a living author for a body of work dedicated to enriching the understanding of military history.
“Winning this award is, for me, the greatest honor imaginable—partly because of the reputation of the prize, but also because on the panel of judges are some of the historians that I admire most in the world,”
Beevor – one of the patrons at the Chalke Valley History Festival – said.
“It may be for lifetime achievement, which has a retrospective air in some ways, but I think the wonderful idea is that it is the greatest carrot imaginable to push you forward and keep you writing.”
Beevor is speaking at CVHF on Thursday evening about D-Day.
Click here if you want tickets to this event as they are going fast!
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Ronnie Spector On Phil Spector: “A Brilliant Producer, But A Lousy Husband”
HBO Sets Premiere Dates For 'Bored To Death' & 'Eastbound & Down'
By Nellie Andreeva
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The second seasons of two underrated HBO comedy series, Bored to Death and Eastbound & Down, will premiere on Sept. 26. Bored to Death, starring Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis, will air at 10PM, followed by Danny McBride’s Eastbound & Down at 10:30 PM.
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Swire future
I am a gamer for more than 30 years and hate the game of changing skins.
I currently have a lot of problems developing this game, and I developed it by myself while working.
I still hope to get everyone's support so that I have the strength to improve it.
I want to create a high degree of freedom open world game from the age of ancient mythology to the era of future science fiction.
1: Unique operation mode, animation system based on physics engine, action system is no longer a copy every time, characters can freely control the body, hands, etc. The operation mode mainly controls the three attack methods of both hands for melee and long-range skills.
2: The currently constructed framework includes 10 occupations, random characters account for 6 occupations, fixed characters are Chinese mythological characters, fairy, monsters, ghosts, and beasts. All-character npc has the same various systems as the player-controlled characters, including equipment system, skill system, prop system, disease system, physiology System, professional skill system, character relationship system, will determine their behavior according to the character’s physical state, psychological state, family condition, and intimate relationship.
3: Build vehicles of various shapes, configure different vehicle weapons and vehicle power, connect various vehicles with physical links to form a powerful combined vehicle to attack other people’s villages,
4: Scripture learning system, a scripture book named Journey to the West is divided into more than 3000 pages and randomly assigned to all characters. Killing them will drop scriptures. Collect scriptures to improve cultivation, planting and breeding to build a management system, which can occupy an endless world As long as your hard disk is large enough, you can edit all the plots. You can attack and occupy nearly 400 villages. After the occupation is successful, you can edit the map, plant and breed, construct government buildings, and configure buildings in your village. A variety of business models, brothels, hotels, hospitals, etc., can be configured with a variety of furniture characters, and can interact with the characters, such as gambling, you can gamble with the characters to get money,
5: The demon king system. A demon king constantly invades the village randomly. The characters in the invaded village will maliciously attack the player. The player needs to keep attacking the village until his defense is 0. After the village is rescued, the demon king will find a new one. The village, and will become stronger, this is an endless war,
6: Interactive system. Each npc has good and evil professional life. A total of 28 interaction methods. When people's eating, drinking, sleepiness deteriorates, they need to interact in life. When people don’t have enough money, they will have professional interaction, and people’s mood and morality. Factors such as those will prompt him to carry out different interactions between good and evil,
7: Diablo type arpg system characters have 3 kinds of attack methods, 5 kinds of melee attacks, 30 kinds of long-range attacks, 40 kinds of skill attacks, left and right hands freely choose which kind of attack, 850 kinds of equipment, including ordinary blue gold and dark gold and the strongest shining level of synthesis, Equipment attributes include strength, intelligence, Minjie, critical strike, critical damage, elemental attack, elemental resistance skill bonus, etc., gem system skill stone, teleport stone can be teleported in the hell of the earth, fairy world, beasts, and hell. The stone can travel from the ancient times to the future. Add system and skills Add some interactive skills, add some attributes, add some mercenary system, you can recruit 10 kinds of mercenaries in the hotel building, team system, you can recruit any character to enter your team through the recruitment in interactive behavior, and you can click on the avatar to switch the characters in the operation team.
8: Village management system The village chief can specify the management policy of the village, defense money agriculture can specify the policy according to the needs, and can extract the village money to improve the village defense. The village treasury cannot be withdrawn excessively, because the role has a wage system and is issued according to different roles. The improvement of the village’s money is determined by the management and construction of the village. Poor management by the manager will result in the inability to pay wages, the villagers’ loyalty will drop sharply, and the villagers will betray the village.
9: Mission system Fixed missions include learning from experience and defeat, collecting equipment and attacking the village devil. Random missions allow players to compete with multiple characters on the same stage in game mode, including true and false plantain fans, Cuju contest, compass survival, and help the Supreme Master find the elixir. Help Bi Mawen collect animals and plants.
Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 64 bit
12000 MB available space
"Swire Future" is a high degree of freedom game from the era of ancient mythology to the future era. Players can choose any character in this world to play. The Age of Archaic Mythology includes 10 professions, random characters account for 6 professions.
Developer: 王小波
Publisher: 王小波
Adventure, Virtual Reality
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Société de transport de Montréal 28-701 to 28-708 are Nova Bus LFS HEV buses built in 2008 with the first one delivered on February 13, 2008. They were purchased as part of a program in partnership with the STO to test the feasibility of hybrid buses and the reduction in greenhouse gasses.
The hybrid buses and the six control buses were fitted with data collecting equipment from ISAAC instruments which measured items such as average speed, acceleration, fuel consumption, and distance traveled. Tests were carried out in controlled environments at the Environment Canada laboratories. The tests consisted of ten tests of the control STM and STO buses against the hybrid STM and STO buses in varying operating conditions. In August 2008, outdoor track tests were carried out at PMG Proving Ground in Blainville. This test allowed for the investigation of fuel consumption related to the number of stops and/or load, ability to obtain comparable results for both buses, and identify other aspects that may be observed. The eight STM buses were then put against six standard diesel (control) buses on the same route for one year. Surveys were also taken from drivers of the buses and passengers. This was done in winter 2009.
The trial found an average of 30% fuel savings with the hybrid bus in low average running speed and when distance between stops is short. The tests at Environment Canada concluded that temperature had an effect on fuel consumption. At a temperature of over 20°C, the hybrid bus consumed 37% less fuel than the control bus at 62 litres per 100 kilometres and 92 litres per 100 kilometres respectively. At a temperature of less than 20°C, the hybrid bus's fuel consumption became 75 litres per 100 kilometres where the control bus experienced less aeration. This is can be explained by potential decrease in battery performance, by the rate of the use of the hydraulic fan, or by engine performance. Tests at the PMG Proving Ground showed that the rate of acceleration had a greater impact on the control buses than the hybrid buses. Testing in service showed that hybrid buses did better than the control buses when the number of stops per kilometre increased because with the hybrid system, energy captured during deceleration is used during acceleration resulting in lower demand of the engine. It was also seen that as average speed increases fuel consumption of the hybrid bus and control bus become very similar and fuel consumption goes up as the temperature drops as seen at the Environment Canada test. The auxiliary heating is used more on the hybrid bus as less heat is created by the engine at lower speeds. It was found that gentle acceleration produced better fuel economy in both bus types, but there is much less of an impact on hybrid buses because of the extra energy captured from deceleration and the optimized programming with the hybrid system.
As shown in the Environment Canada test, hybrid buses were found to emit 36% less carbon dioxide emissions, but emitted 5% more nitrogen oxide emissions. For a bus traveling around 70,000 kilometres per year, this translated to a reduction of around 36 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. While the cost of a hybrid bus compared to a control bus was high, it was concluded that engine wear should be lower as the engine does not work as hard.
One bus, 28-702, received some modifications to further reduce greenhouse gasses and improve fuel economy. The hydraulic cooling system on this bus was replaced with an electric array of small fans developed by EMP. A hydraulic cooling system has a relatively low energy efficiency and consists of one fan cooling different areas with different needs. The electric system reduces heat loss in the electric transfer from the engine and with a number of fans, different areas can received the optimized cooling they need. A section of additional cooling for the hybrid transmission was added to the roof as there was limited space in the engine compartment and a lack of time to better integrate the system. 28-702 is easily identifiable because of the large aluminum rectangular box on the roof at the rear. The electric cooling system was found to reduce fuel consumption by around 16%.
Hybrid system
Cummins ISL Allison EP40 System 31: American Seating 6468 Axion Orange LED
28-701 2008 2NVYL82W383000039 A 59264 LaSalle Active Received new livery in late 2010.
28-702 2008 2NVYL82WX83000040 A 59265 LaSalle Active Fitted with rooftop cooling system in February 2009.
28-703 2008 2NVYL82W183000041 A 59266 LaSalle Active
↑ Bus History Association 2013 Convention
Technical Report – Hybrid Technology, stm.info, retreived on 2010-11-28
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Management strategies Safe transfer of germplasm STOG clonal crops CIP case studies Protocols potato Fungi
Fungi - potato
Contributors to this section: CIP, Lima, Peru (Carols Chuquillanqui, Segundo Fuentes, Ivan Manrique, Giovanna Muller, Willmer Pérez, Reinhard Simon, David Tay, Liliam Gutarra); CIP, Nairobi, Kenya (Ian Barker); FERA, UK (Derek Tomlinson, Julian Smith, David Galsworthy, James Woodhall).
Potato scab
Wart disease of potato
Potato_smut
Streptomyces scabiei (ex Thaxter 1892) Lambert & Loria, 1989
The disease occurs in all potato growing regions throughout the world and reduces marketability of table, processing and seed potatoes (Loria et al., 1997; Wale et al., 2008)) and was ranked as the fourth most important disease in a 1991 survey of potato growers (Loria et al., 1997). S. scabiei has not been reported in Peru (CABI, 2007).
Foliage: No symptoms are visible.
Tubers: S. scabiei (formerly S. scabies) causes variable symptoms on the surface of potato tubers including erumpent, russet, and pitted lesions. Superficial lesions are usually circular, raised, tan to brown, cork-like in appearance and 5-10 mm in diameter, some cases are irregular in shape and larger especially when infections coalescence (Hooker, 1981). Erumpent lesions are raised lesions whereas pitted lesions are dark-colored sunken areas up to ½ in deep and crater-like (Loria et al., 1997; Hooker, 1981, Wale et al., 2008). Scab lesions can occur anywhere on the tuber surface and more than one type of lesion may be present on a single tuber. Small brown, water-soaked, circular lesions are visible on immature tubers associated with lenticels within a few weeks after infection (Lapwood, 1973). Scab affects young tubers with the lesions expanding as the tuber matures.
Sugar beet, carrot, turnip, parsnip, rutabaga and radish, groundnut (peanut).
Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, Central America, South America, Oceania
Biology and transmission
S. scabiei survives for long periods on decaying plant parts in the soil or possibly on roots of living plants, in old feed lots, or fields heavily manured with animal wastes (Hooker, 1981). S. scabiei infects immature lenticels and gains access to older tissue through wounds and natural openings (Hooker, 1981; Wale et al., 2008; CABI, 2007). Once S. scabiei has entered the host, it grows both between and through cells and incites multiple cork layer formation, which results in the scabby appearance of the lesions. Common scab does not spread in storage. Micropropagated plants have not been reported to transport S. scabiei propagules (CABI, 2007).
Detection/indexing method in place at CIP
Isolating on semi-selective media.
Treatment/control
In seed certification schemes, stocks of in vitro cultures used for propagation should be from pathogen-free plants and maintained under conditions designed to prevent infection and contamination.
Only in vitro cultures must be used for transport or germplasm movement.
Procedure followed at the centers in case of positive test
If pathogen is detected and cannot be erradicated, the germplasm must be destroyed. If the germplasm is scarce or unique, maintain it separately under containment so as not to present a risk to other germplasm.
References of protocols at EPPO, NAPPO or other similar organization
NAPPO. 2003. Regional standard for Phytosanitary Measures (RSPM) No.3. Requirements for importation of potatoes into a NAPPO member country. 53 pp.
CABI. 2007. Crop Protection Compendium [online] Available from URL: www.cabi.org/compendia/cpc/ Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International (CABI), Wallingford, UK. Date accessed 07 May 2010
Hooker WJ. 1981. Compendium of potato diseases. St. Paul, Minn., USA: American Phytopathological Society.
Loria R. Bukhalid RA, Fry BA, King RR. 1997. Plant pathogenicity in the genus Streptomyces. Plant Disease, 81(8):836-846.
Lapwood DH, Wellings LW, Hawkins JH.1973. Irrigation as a practical means to control potato common scab (Streptomyces scabies): final experiment and conclusions. Plant Pathology, 22(1):35-41.
Schaad NW. (ed.). 1988. Laboratory guide for identification of plant pathogenic bacteria. The American Phytopathological Society.St. Paul (USA). 2nd. ed. pp114-127.
Wale S, Platt HW (Bud), Cattlin N. 2008. Diseases, Pests and Disorders of Potatoes. A color Handbook.Manson Publishing, London, UK.176 pp.
Seed Health General Publication Published by the Center or CGIAR
Jeffries C. 1998. FAO/IPGRI Technical guidelines for the safe movement of Germplasm. No. 19. Potato. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome/International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome.
Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Percival
S. endobioticum is on the A2 quarantine list of EPPO.
Aerial symptoms: Ocasionally warts can be found on stems, leaves and flowers during severe attacks (Noble et al., 1970; Hampson, 1981 and Torres, 2002). Subterranean symptoms may cause a reduction in vigor of plants.
Subterranean symptoms: Below ground galls
Galls vary in shape but are mostly spherical, with corrugated surfaces, and range from pea-size to fist-size (<1 cm to >8 cm diam.). Below ground galls are white to brown, turning black as they decay. These galls appear at stem bases, stolon tips and tuber eyes. They may not be evident until harvest-time (Wale et al., 2008). At harvest, galls may desiccate or decay. Tubers may be disfigured or completely replaced by galls (Torres, 2002). Tuber galls may develop after harvest, in storage. The host potato may not be killed but the meristematic tissue of sprouts may be so severely attacked that plants may fail to emerge from seed tubers. S. endobioticum does not attack the roots of potato but it does attack the roots of other hosts (e.g., tomato).
Solanum tuberosum (potato) and Solanum (nightshade)
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S. endobioticum has a very limited means of spread and dispersal. Spread in soil by zoospores is limited (50 mm or less) to the infection zones of the plant. Soil water can carry zoospores downstream, although the lifespan of a released zoospore is 1-2 hours (Hooker, 1981; Harrison et al., 1997). Earthworms can move resting spores short distances (Hampson and Coombes, 1989. Wind is an active dispersal agent in regions of strong dry summer winds. Local dispersal has been shown in resting spores in soil attached to vehicles and contaminated manure. Long-range dispersal by tuber movement, especially in international trade, attached soil and plants present problems of control. Machinery, sacks, crates and boots should be sanitized to avoid the spread of pathogen inoculum (cysts) (Harrison et al., 1997). In some locations, potato tubers are only susceptible to infection by S. subterranea f.sp. subterranea during lenticel formation and proliferation; thus, apparently healthy seed tubers could carry low levels of latent infection without any obvious symptoms that would reject them as seed. This could result in long distance shipment of the pathogen; thereby introducing the disease to new potato-growing areas (Hampson, et al., 1996).Control through statutory methods has been largely successful due to the fungus' self-limited means of dispersal. The disease is essentially social, dependant on commercial crop and soil movement. Seedlings and micropropagated plants are not liable to carry propagules in trade and transport (CABI, 2007).
Visual observations at stereoscope.
In seed certification schemes, stocks of in vitro cultures used for propagation should be from pathogen-free plants and maintained under conditions designed to prevent infection and contamination. Only in vitro cultures must be used for transport or germplasm movement.
CABI/EPPO, 1998. Synchytrium endobioticum. Distribution Maps of Quarantine Pests for Europe No. 243. Wallingford, UK, CAB International.
OEPP/EPPO. 1954-1968. Potato wart disease in Europe. EPPO Publications Series B Nos 8, 48, 52, 63, 65.
OEPP/EPPO. 1977. First report of the working party on potato wart disease. EPPO Publications Series C No. 50.
OEPP/EPPO. 1982. Data sheets on quarantine organisms No. 82, Synchytrium endobioticum. Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin, 12:1.
OEPP/EPPO. 1983. Second meeting of the EPPO panel on potato wart disease. EPPO Document No. 5205.
OEPP/EPPO. 1990. Specific quarantine requirements. EPPO Technical Documents, No. 1008. Paris, France: EPPO.
Hampson MC, Coombes JW.1989. Pathogenesis of Synchytrium endobioticum VII. Earthworms as vectors of wart disease of potato. Plant and Soil, 116(2):147-150
Hampson MC, Wood SL, Coombes JW.1996. Detection of resting spores of Synchytrium endobioticum in soil from vehicles at Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 18(1):59-63.
Noble M, Glynne MD. 1970. Wart disease of potatoes. FAO Plant Protection Bulletin, 18:125-135.
Torres H. 2002. Manual de las enfermedades más importantes de la papa en el Peru. Centro Internacional de la Papa, Lima, Perú. 59 pp.
Potato smut
Thecaphora solani (Thirum & M.J. O'Brien) Mordue
EPPO lists T. solani as an A1 quarantine pest (OEPP/EPPO, 1979).
No symptoms are visible above ground. Infected tubers are misshapen, or have warty swellings on the surface, and are hard. The whole or part of the tuber may be infected. Numerous brown-black specks, interspersed with lighter brown specks, occur in the flesh (Mordue, 1988). The specks (spore sori) are about 1 mm diameter and are filled with rusty brown spore balls (Bazan, 1960; . Infected tubers later become a dry brown powdery mass containing numerous spores (O'Brien and Thirumalachar, 1972). Galls resembling deformed tubers develop on the stems or stolons underground (Torres, 2002; Wale et al., 2008).
Solanum tuberosum (potato), Solanum (nightshade), Datura stramonium (jimsonweed), Lycopersicum (Wale et al., 2008)
North America, Central America and South America
T. solani survives in soil or in tuber debris. Infection starts a few days after planting, especially in young sprouts, underground stems, stolons or eventually in tubers (Zachmann and Baumann, 1975).The infection is generally stimulated by high humidity in the soil during the first stages of growth (Hooker, 1981; Wale et al., 2008). Seedlings and micropropagated plants are not liable to carry propagules in trade and transport (CABI, 2007).
Visual observations at stereomicroscope
EPPO, 2006. PQR database (version 4.5). Paris, France: European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. [online] Available from URL: www.eppo.org/ Date accessed 07 May 2010
OEPP/EPPO. 1979. Data sheets on quarantine organisms. No. 4, Angiosorus solani. Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin, 9(2).
Bazan de Segura C. 1960. The gangrena disease of potato in Peru. Plant Disease Reporter, 44:257.
Mordue JEM. 1988. Thecaphora solani. CMI Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria, No. 966. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.
O'Brien MJ, Thirumalachar MJ. 1972. The identity of the potato smut. Sydowia, 26(1/6):199-203.
Zachmann R, Baumann D.1975. Thecaphora solani on potatoes in Peru: present distribution and varietal resistance. Plant Disease Reporter, 59(11):928-931.
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Daniela Ryf to race the TIME Triathlon Alpe d'Huez for the first time
On 25 July 2019 Daniela Ryf will start for the first time at the TIME Triathlon Alpe d'Huez in France. The myth of the Alpe d'Huez, world-famous from the Tour de France and 21 legendary hairpin bends on an 1120-meter-long track, seems the perfect challenge for Daniela Ryf.
However, it was the opportunity to compete beside her team, the «Daniela Ryf Birds» that confirmed her decision. Together with Baptiste Neveu, Flora Colledge, Sarah Straub and Arnaud Margot, Ryf will be able to test herself on the tough course and also motivate her team, one of six teams in the European Triathlon League. The teams are competing for points across four events in the Spirit Tri Series.
Ryf said: «I am very proud to be competing alongside my teammates in this triathlon. The series and this race are about supporting young athletes and building grass roots triathlon in Europe – something that I support 100 percent.»
The Daniela Ryf Birds have already competed in two events in the Spirit Tri Series this year, the first in Portocolom, Mallorca and the second in Chiemsee, Germany. The TIME Alpe D'Huez Triathlon is the third race of the series. With 3000 points from the first two races the Daniela Ryf Birds are currently in fifth position. The final competition of the four-part Spirit Tri Series will be the Trans Vorarlberg Triathlon in Vorarlberg in August.
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Triathlete Daniela Ryf resumed her Food Science & Management studies at the HAFL in Zolikofen, Switzerland, on Monday.
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Taking a close look at Facebook
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/603.html
Well this certainly does give one pause. Nothing is what it seems these days, all is sinister, deeper. Too late for me, I have had FB for awhile. But I also refuse to live a life of fear or self -censorship. I started to assume my phone was tapped soon's I became friends with Carl Oglesby in 1973. C'est la vie. Thouhg it does get maddening. Big Brother is everywhere.
Myra Bronstein
Yet another strong link between the Washington Post (crown jewel in the CIA/Mockingbird propaganda tower) and Facebook (CIA data mining operation). Emphasis in article mine.
http://gawker.com/5546687/why-is-faceboo...ngton-post
"Why is Facebook's Propaganda in the Washington Post?
The Washington Post ran a de facto Facebook press release in its op-ed section today. It was a bizarre decision; the newspaper's already embroiled in one ethics scandal, so why cuddle up to a close, public friend of the paper?
It's hard to dispute that Mark Zuckerberg's op-ed was a softball, long on propaganda and short on news. As we reported earlier, the Facebook CEO sidestepped many of the recent, news-making controversies his company has sparked. Instead, he said the social network should do a better job of organizing privacy settings and would get to work on some unspecified changes to the settings. He didn't address Facebook's recent accidental privacy breaches, or the numerous instances in which Facebook has pushed, and in some cases forced, users to take some of their personal information public.
But don't take our word for it. Here's what some other commentators said: "Nonapology" was how Peter Kafka at All Things D described the piece. "What's more important is what's not being said," said Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb. "Something's amiss," said Jared Newman at PC World. TechCrunch noticed a decided lack of meat. "More of an acknowledgment that Facebook has heard the criticism and will be responding to it," was Jason Kincaid's verdict there. "PR-speaky," said Rachel Sklar at Mediaite.
Sure, Zuckerberg's piece had a few fans, like former Valleywagger Paul Boutin at VentureBeat, who said Post editors got Zuckerberg to "whittle" his thoughts "down to one breath."
But even by the partisan standards of the Washington, DC Beltway, where mutual back-scratching and puffed-up propaganda are par for the course, the piece seemed awfully empty.
While the op-ed might not have done much for Washington Post readers, it certainly helped Facebook. An opinion piece in one of the nation's most prestigious newspapers carries more moral authority than a blog post on Facebook.com. And Facebook doesn't want for anything so much as moral authority these days.
But why did WaPo play along? Well, the most obvious answer is the least polite one: Donald Graham, the CEO of the Washington Post Company, enjoys an awfully close relationship with Zuckerberg. He sits on Facebook's board. But more than that, he's been a mentor to the 26-year-old CEO, as documented repeatedly in Facebook news articles and books, including, most recently, David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect. That book has a passage in which Zuckerberg breaks down on a bathroom floor at the thought of turning down an investment from Graham, whom he idolizes (the scene is quoted here)
And it appears Graham has been plenty eager to help Zuckerberg's company. Reading press clippings last year, one could even get the impression the WaPo honcho was a sort of press consigliere for the startup founder. There he was last year in Fortune, accompanying Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and investor Alexander Tamas on an interview with Jessi Hempel. There he was accompanying the same duo to a meeting with PaidContent. And why not? As Kirkpatrick has reported in Fortune, Zuckerberg "counts Washington Post Co. CEO Don Graham as a friend."
Fair enough. But wouldn't Zuckerberg's op-ed have all the more credibility in another newspaper, then? And wouldn't the Washington Post, which just emerged from another ethical scandal, have all the more credibility if that had happened as well?
Yes, the Post tacked a small disclosure underneath Zuckerberg's op-ed, mentioning that Graham sat on the Facebook board. But disclosing a conflict of interest that's plain as day doesn't make it any less disturbing, especially by the WaPo's historically high editorial standards (longtime editor Len Downie was famous for refusing to even vote, lest it sully his objectivity). The conflict looks especially egregious wrapped around such puffy content.
Of course, Don Graham is free to run whatever content he wants in his family's newspaper. But if he's going to advise Zuckerberg on how to beat an ethical path into the future, he might consider setting a better example.
Send an email to Ryan Tate, the author of this post, at ryan@gawker.com.
Looks like Facebook is tipping their hand. It's a mistake to organize there and give them the power to shut the organization down. We need a legit (non CIA) alternative to FB.
Is Facebook trying to silence the BP Boycott?
June 29, 2010 by Joe Newman
A few hours ago, Facebook censors removed the Boycott BP fan page, which had almost 800,000 members. It’s unclear why Facebook took the boycott page down. The page’s creator Lee Perkins, who goes by the moniker “Bayou Lee,” immediately created a new page, calling it Boycott bp/Arco. Bayou Lee wrote:
I can’t believe they shut us down with no explanation. I could not even say goodbye to my friends. We must have been doing something right.
Bayou Lee’s page was the largest of many Facebook campaigns aimed against BP for its role in causing the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The question many people were asking Monday night was whether this was a deliberate effort by Facebook to silence BP’s biggest critic.
PLFP a Palestinian solidarity group had their Facebook page shut down the other day also. Here is their press release:
Press Release: Workers Party of New Zealand
Facebook Shuts Down Palestinian Solidarity Group
The US-based social networking site Facebook has shut down a New Zealand based PFLP Solidarity group, as well as permanently closing the accounts of all four group administrators with no right of appeal. The group, which had approximately 500 members, was established after the recent Flotilla attacks to show solidarity with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and raise awareness of the solidarity campaign led by the Workers Party of New Zealand, who are fundraising for the PFLP.
None of the administrators of the PFLP Solidarity group were given any notice from Facebook that they had violated terms or conditions, and were given no direct reason as to why they had had their accounts disabled. “They did not even send an email to me explaining why my account was disabled”, said one of the group’s administrators.
Marika Pratley, PFLP Solidarity Campaign coordinator and group administrator in Wellington said, “This was clearly a political attack against the PFLP and an attempt by Facebook to censor and shut down the solidarity campaign”.
The PFLP advocates a single secular state in all of Palestine, with equal rights for all, regardless of race or religion, and is the second largest group in the PLO. Facebook have deemed that support for the PFLP violates its terms and conditions while allowing many blatantly racist anti-Palestinian groups to continue to exist without such censorship.
The Workers Party believes that all political ideas and discussion should be free of censorship on the internet, but wishes to expose this hypocrisy, which often surrounds debate of the Palestine issue. Palestinian groups are frequently censored and branded as terrorists while supporters of the racist state of Israel are not.
The PFLP Solidarity Campaign is determined to continue on, despite Facebook's censorship. “We have already raised over $1000 through selling T Shirts. Deleting a Facebook group is not going to stop us showing solidarity with Palestine or the PFLP”, said Christchurch administrator Mike Walker.
http://wpnz-pflp-solidarity.blogspot...lestinian.html
What is a good alternative to Facebook?
I thought I read something the other day about Google starting a social network as an alternative to FB. Now I can't find info. Hope it's true.
Yes, I think that is correct. Thanks for reminding me.
More and more I think massive boycotts are the way to go. And this reinforces it.
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Dell Australia hit by Epsilon breach
The Australian division of technology giant Dell yesterday warned that some local consumer and small business customers had had their email addresses and first and last names exposed in the giant security breach suffered by US email marketing giant Epsilon.
“Dell’s global email service provider, Epsilon, recently informed us that their email system was exposed to unauthorised entry,” the company’s consumer and small business executive director for Australia, Deborah Harrigan, wrote in an email to what appeared to be affected customers.
“As a result, your email address, and your first name and last name may have been accessed by an unauthorised party. Epsilon took immediate action to close the vulnerability and notify US law enforcement officials.”
The executive noted that no credit card, banking or other personal information was disclosed in the hack, but warned customers to be alert to suspicious emails requesting further personal details from customers. In addition, Harrigan wrote that Dell had notified the Australian privacy commissioner and the Australian Communications and Media Authority of the breach.
“Dell Australia takes its commitment to protecting customer data very seriously,” Harrigan wrote. “We sincerely regret that this incident has taken place and we will continue to work with Epsilon to ensure that all appropriate measures are taken to protect your personal information.”
Asked to comment, a Dell spokesperson issued a similar statement to that sent by Harrigan directly to customers.
The list of companies affected has grown rapidly since the breach was disclosed this week, with a large number of primarily US-based companies affected — with top tier names like Citigroup, Disney, L. L. Bean, TiVo and others notifying their customers of the hack.
Security experts have warned that the breach has the potential to fuel further attempts to breach the privacy and security of customers who have had their email address stolen, as attackers may seek to contact affected email addresses to request further information such as credit card details.
However, Epsilon yesterday in the US said that the affected clients represented only approximately two percent of its total client base.
“We are extremely regretful that this incident has impacted a portion of Epsilon’s clients and their customers. We take consumer privacy very seriously and work diligently to protect customer information,” said Bryan J. Kennedy, president of Epsilon, in a statement. “We apologise for the inconvenience that this matter has caused consumers and for the potential unsolicited emails that may occur as a result of this incident. We are taking immediate action to develop corrective measures intended to restore client confidence in our business and in turn regain their customers’ confidence.”
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Michael H 07/04/2011 At 2:06 pm
2% of their client base must be a pretty sizable number – considering at least five companies I deal with (primarily in the Loyalty space) have been breached and sent me similar emails.
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Catalysts for the Positional Isomerization of Internal, Long-Chain Olefins
James Edward Bruno, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeFollow
Double-bond isomerization of internal C16-C18 olefins is a necessary step in the production of paper sizing agents. In this work, the properties that enable long-lasting solid acid catalysts (both commercial and lab-synthesized) were identified, the efficacy of regenerated solid acid catalysts was tested, and the feasibility of organometallic chain-walking catalysts (both homogeneous and polymer-supported) for olefin isomerization was evaluated. Hexadecene isomerization was investigated using perfluorinated ion exchange resins (Nafion®) supported on SiO2 or Al2O3, sulfonated poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) resins (PS-DVBs), tungstated zirconias, and acidic zeolites. Selected catalysts underwent lifetime studies. Oversulfonated PS-DVBs (e.g., Amberlyst 35) were reasonably selective with long lifetimes, only gradually deactivating due to poisoning by surface oligomers. Amberlyst® 70, Amberlyst® XN1010, ZSM-35 and SAPO-11 were evaluated because of their lower acid site densities and degree of crosslinking (for the PS-DVBs). None of these catalysts were optimal for various reasons. Both beneficial and harmful effects arising from the cooperativity of acid sites in close proximity were observed. Enhanced acid strength was associated with multiple adjacent sites, but at the expense of more rapid deactivation due to olefin oligomerization. Used SAC-13 catalysts were regenerated by solvent extraction. Nonpolar m-xylene was the most effective in reopening pore volume. The catalysts regenerated by ethanol were active in octadecene isomerization, but deactivation was relatively rapid. Small pores volumes and a small fraction of surface sites resulted in both a diffusion limitation within the catalyst and enhanced deactivation from fewer oligomerization events. Homogeneous Fe(CO)5 was an extremely effective catalyst capable of highly selective double bond isomerization (100% selective) with a high (80%) conversion of alpha olefins to internal olefins. The optimal batch reactor conditions to isomerize 2 L of 1-hexadecene were 500 ppm of Fe(CO)5 at 180°C for 1-4 h. Iron pentacarbonyl was also immobilized on a functionalized PS-DVB. Iron carbonyls were detected on the surface, though it was unclear whether they were physisorbed or bonded to surface groups. The catalyzed reactions of octadecenes were slow with a very low conversion and internal olefins were being removed from the product. Therefore, the heterogeneous iron carbonyls synthesized here were ineffective for generating internal double bonds.
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Bruno, James Edward, "Catalysts for the Positional Isomerization of Internal, Long-Chain Olefins" (2015). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 278.
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KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS
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DeVry University Wikipedia. Dennis Keller and Ronald Taylor met one another in the early 1970s when the two were teachers at DeVry. Keller and Taylor learned the economics of for-profit education while at DeVry and, in 1973, the two founded the Keller Graduate School of Management with $150,000 in loans from friends and family., The mission of DeVry University's Keller Graduate School of Management is to foster student learning through high-quality, career-oriented graduate programs in technology, business, and management.. Tuition Assistance: A substantial number of students receive tuition reimbursement from their employers. For those students whose companies finance their education, a direct billing arrangement.
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03/03/2018В В· Keller and Taylor learned the economics of for-profit education while at DeVry and, in 1973, the two founded the Keller Graduate School of Management with $150,000 in loans from friends and family. The school was originally conceived as a day school that granted certificates. The Keller School later became an evening program offering MBAs The Keller Graduate School of Management was founded in July 1973 and was originally known as the CBA Institute, which initially offered a Certificate in Business Administration, a program that would later become the forerunner of the Executive MBA.
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Keller is a decent school but if I had had the choice, I would have gone to a state university. I recently graduated with my MBA and was a little disappointed when I got an e-mail letting me know I had additional funds available that would only be dispersed with my written consent since I had graduated. Learn what other students are saying! Read reviews about Keller Graduate School of Management Online and find out why Keller Graduate School of Management Online received an overall rating of out of 5 stars from online college reviews on Distance-Education.org.
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The Keller Graduate School of Management was founded in July 1973 and was originally known as the CBA Institute, which initially offered a Certificate in Business Administration, a program that would later become the forerunner of the Executive MBA. Restaurants near Keller Graduate School of Management- Arlington Center, Arlington on TripAdvisor: Find traveler reviews and candid photos of dining near Keller Graduate School of Management- Arlington Center in Arlington, Virginia.
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" Keller Graduate School of Management has been wonderful. Christine Ridge (Naperville Campus) and Justin Shook (Addison Campus) have been wonderful. Not only did they get me back into school, they were able to get my financial aid going, but they were also able to get me grandfathered in so I could still finish my degree in the expected amount Keller Graduate School of Management Reviews - Master's in Project Management. All Reviews Keller Graduate School of Management Reviews Keller Graduate School of Management Master's in Project Management Reviews . All Reviews Reviews in Reviews . Write a Review . 3.33 out of 5 stars out of 5 stars (4 Reviews) Nationwide ; Annual Tuition: ---67 % of 4 students said this degree improved their
03/03/2018В В· Keller and Taylor learned the economics of for-profit education while at DeVry and, in 1973, the two founded the Keller Graduate School of Management with $150,000 in loans from friends and family. The school was originally conceived as a day school that granted certificates. The Keller School later became an evening program offering MBAs Restaurants near Keller Graduate School of Management- Pomona Center, Pomona on TripAdvisor: Find traveler reviews and candid photos of dining near Keller Graduate School of Management- Pomona Center in Pomona, California.
Whether you're interested in earning an MBA, a specialized master's degree or a graduate certificate in a focused field, you can discover a range of graduate degrees in business, technology and accounting through DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management. Keller Graduate School of Management Reviews - Master's in Project Management. All Reviews Keller Graduate School of Management Reviews Keller Graduate School of Management Master's in Project Management Reviews . All Reviews Reviews in Reviews . Write a Review . 3.33 out of 5 stars out of 5 stars (4 Reviews) Nationwide ; Annual Tuition: ---67 % of 4 students said this degree improved their
03/03/2018В В· Keller and Taylor learned the economics of for-profit education while at DeVry and, in 1973, the two founded the Keller Graduate School of Management with $150,000 in loans from friends and family. The school was originally conceived as a day school that granted certificates. The Keller School later became an evening program offering MBAs Keller Graduate School of Management offers Schools, and Higher Education services in Atlanta GA, GA area.
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1 review of Keller Graduate School of Management - Manhattan Center "I can't speak for all Keller locations, but my complaint is about Keller in NYC. My complaint is more about the administration rather than the courses and professors. This has to… Keller Graduate School Of Management is a Minnesota Assumed Name filed on December 23, 2004. The company's filing status is listed as Active / In Good Standing and its File Number is 1165489-2.The company's principal address is 1 Tower Ln, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181.
About KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: Keller Graduate School of Management is located at 1800 PEMBROOK DR STE 160 in ORLANDO, fl - Brevard County and is a business listed in the categories Colleges & Universities, Hospitals, Colleges, Universities, And Professional Schools, General Medical And Surgical Hospitals, Colleges, Universities, & Professional Schools and School Colleges Original review: Dec. 5, 2018. From the time you first apply till you graduate, Keller Graduate School of Management will always be there to assist.
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Welcome to the Official App for Keller Graduate School of Management. Keller Mobile is your connection to the Keller Graduate School of Management Learning Platform. _____ Feature Highlights: - View your Lectures and Assignments - Posting to Threaded Discussions - Course Announcements - View your Schedule - Check your Grades - Access your eBooks - School Email Access - Important Messages Learn what other students are saying! Read reviews about Keller Graduate School of Management Online and find out why Keller Graduate School of Management Online received an overall rating of out of 5 stars from online college reviews on Distance-Education.org.
Learn what other students are saying! Read reviews about Keller Graduate School of Management Online and find out why Keller Graduate School of Management Online received an overall rating of out of 5 stars from online college reviews on Distance-Education.org. Keller graduate School of Management is a division of the DeVry family of educational programs. Keller has been providing high quality business education to graduate students from the nation and all over the world, and the quality of education is as high as the one imparted at any DeVry institute. There are more than 75 locations throughout the nation where students can join on-campus classes. Keller also has an …
Glassdoor has 17 Keller Graduate School of Management reviews submitted anonymously by Keller Graduate School of Management employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Keller Graduate School of Management is right for you. 1 review of Keller Graduate School of Management - Manhattan Center "I can't speak for all Keller locations, but my complaint is about Keller in NYC. My complaint is more about the administration rather than the courses and professors. This has to…
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Original review: Dec. 5, 2018. From the time you first apply till you graduate, Keller Graduate School of Management will always be there to assist. 1 review of Keller Graduate School of Management - Manhattan Center "I can't speak for all Keller locations, but my complaint is about Keller in NYC. My complaint is more about the administration rather than the courses and professors. This has to…
I was a self starter at Keller Graduate School of Management, only saw Supervisor at beginning of day, we were trained on what to do and we did it, the hardest part of the job was if we had a question, no one was around to answer, we would have to send a email, workplace was a smal room with a samall group of people. The most enjoyable part of the job was no one was standing over your shoulder, we knew … About KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: Keller Graduate School of Management is located at 1800 PEMBROOK DR STE 160 in ORLANDO, fl - Brevard County and is a business listed in the categories Colleges & Universities, Hospitals, Colleges, Universities, And Professional Schools, General Medical And Surgical Hospitals, Colleges, Universities, & Professional Schools and School Colleges
03/03/2018В В· Keller and Taylor learned the economics of for-profit education while at DeVry and, in 1973, the two founded the Keller Graduate School of Management with $150,000 in loans from friends and family. The school was originally conceived as a day school that granted certificates. The Keller School later became an evening program offering MBAs Dennis Keller and Ronald Taylor met one another in the early 1970s when the two were teachers at DeVry. Keller and Taylor learned the economics of for-profit education while at DeVry and, in 1973, the two founded the Keller Graduate School of Management with $150,000 in loans from friends and family.
Keller Graduate School Of Management is a Minnesota Assumed Name filed on December 23, 2004. The company's filing status is listed as Active / In Good Standing and its File Number is 1165489-2.The company's principal address is 1 Tower Ln, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181. Keller Graduate School of Management has an excellent instructional platform in their ecollege site. They give you the opportunity to learn either online or in the classroom. You can do classes in either platform or choose a mixture of both.
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Original review: Dec. 5, 2018. From the time you first apply till you graduate, Keller Graduate School of Management will always be there to assist. Welcome to the Official App for Keller Graduate School of Management. Keller Mobile is your connection to the Keller Graduate School of Management Learning Platform. _____ Feature Highlights: - View your Lectures and Assignments - Posting to Threaded Discussions - Course Announcements - View your Schedule - Check your Grades - Access your eBooks - School Email Access - Important Messages
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A simple, passive investment can earn foreign nationals the right to live, work, and study freely in the United States for the rest of their life. This is the offer of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, which has been attracting foreign capital to the U.S. economy in exchange for U.S. green cards since 1990. Largely considered one of the quickest and easiest ways to permanently immigrate to the United States, the EB-5 program is a favorite among foreign investors around the world, who overwhelmingly elect to funnel their EB-5 investment through an EB-5 regional center as opposed to the more labor-intensive direct investment route. The advantages of EB-5 regional center investment—comparative security through the experienced EB-5 professionals running the center, relative freedom due to the elimination of the requirement for the investor to be directly involved in management work, and relaxed job creation criteria, making it easier to qualify for a U.S. green card—entice a vast portion of EB-5 investors, who generally place a higher value on immigration than financial return.
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The EB-5 Regional Center Program was extended on September 30, 2020, as expected, but disappointingly, the reauthorization was only valid for two and a half months. The short extension until December 11, 2020, was hypothesized to be due to Congress’s inability to determine government spending details for the multitude of programs considered in conjunction with the EB-5 Regional Center Program. Considering that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on as 2020 comes to a close, having wreaked untold havoc throughout the year, the government can hardly be blamed for its delays on government funding determinations as we prepare to enter 2021.
But Congress didn’t buy itself enough time. When December 11, 2020, came around, Congress pushed the extension deadline forward by one week to December 18, 2020, giving itself one more week to smooth out the issues in its 2021 funding plan. And this time, it was enough—the EB-5 Regional Center Program reauthorization on December 18, 2020, pushed the program’s sunset date all the way to June 30, 2021. Although the reauthorization period is shorter than some EB5 investment participants may like, it offers several months of regional center security, a far cry from the instability in late 2020.
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A Great Reckoning
Little Brown Book Group Digital 30 Août 2016
Former Chief Inspector Gamache has been hunting killers his entire career and as the new commander of the Súreté Academy, he is given the chance to combat the corruption and brutality that has been rife throughout the force. But when a former colleague and professor of the Súreté Academy is found murdered, with a mysterious map of Three Pines in his possession, Gamache has an even tougher task ahead of him.When suspicion turns to Gamache himself, and his possible involvement in the crime, the frantic search for answers takes the investigation to the village of Three Pines, where a series of shattering secrets are poised to be revealed . . .Ingenious, gripping, and powerful, A Great Reckoning is the new spellbinding novel from number one bestseller, Louise Penny. Evocative and atmospheric, this magnificent work of crime fiction will stay with you long after you turn the final page.
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The Cinema of the Balkans (24 Frames)
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Another in the 24 Frames series, each of these twenty-fouressays discusses an individual film from the Balkan region(Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Albania, and the formerYugoslavia-Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia, andSlovenia). These films represent the rich and diverse culture ofthe Balkans and reveal the stylistic and thematic affinities of aregion often perceived as a disconnected cultural space. Filmsinclude:Stella (Greece, 1955),Goat's Horn (Bulgaria, 1972),When I Am Dead and Pale (Yugoslavia, 1969),The Red Horse (Yugoslavia, 1984),Stone Wedding (Romania, 1971),and Walter Defends Sarajevo (Yugoslavia, 1972).OCR with Table of Contents and improved scan.
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January 10, 2019 by Dr. Joseph Suglia - 5 Comments
ROBINSON ALONE by Kathleen Rooney / Kathleen Rooney, ROBINSON ALONE
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An Analysis of Robinson Alone (2012) by Kathleen Rooney
by Joseph Suglia
“Robinson” was a mask that poet Weldon Kees wore. He knew, as all poets and poetesses do, that literature begins where autobiography ends. He knew, as all poets and poetesses do, that literature is not confession, but impersonation.
Literature is not auto-bio-graphy, but auto-thanoto-graphy. Literature is not the writing of the self that lives, but the writing of the self that dies.
Weldon Kees wore the mask, the persona, of “Robinson” in all of four poems.
And then he disappeared–literally.
I encourage you to read, if you have not yet done so, Kees’ poem “Robinson.” It begins thus: “The dog stops barking after Robinson has gone. / His act is over.”
The poet disappears, and no one cares. Did anyone ever really care?
These are the final verses of the poem:
“Outside, white buildings yellow in the sun. / Outside, the birds circle continuously. / Where trees are actual and take no holiday.”
The poet dematerializes, but reality? Reality always stays the same. As Lacan said of the real: “The real is what always stays in place.”
It might be tempting to say–and this has been said–that Kees disappeared much like his predecessor, Rimbaud. But Kees’s silence is not Rimbaud’s (alleged) silence. Because Rimbaud was never really silent. Rimbaud never stopped writing. Even when he trafficked in ivory, Rimbaud was a writer. Rimbaud stopped writing “poetry” (as one would ordinarily understand this term) and started writing inventories. Only Rimbaud’s job title changed. He stopped calling himself a “poet” and starting calling himself an “ivory trader.” But even in Rimbaud’s inventories, one can hear the insistent, susurrant, violent rhythms of poetic language.
Kees’s self-vanishing was absolute.
Kathleen Rooney’s 2012 lyrical novel, Robinson Alone, derives its title from the Robinson poems of Weldon Kees.
It would be a mistake to say that these are poems about Weldon Kees. Nor are they merely poems about solitude, even about poetic solitude.
They are poems of solitude, poetologies of solitude, and phenomenologies of solitude, written in verse of lapidary smoothness. They display a total mastery of the English language. One must have mastered the English language to create assonances between “potroast” and “topcoat,” between “crisp” and “perspicuous.”
Though it would be impossible for me to do justice to all of the tropes and flows of this heartbreaking book, let me pause over a few verses.
Robinson is dragged to a Western-themed honky-tonk, though he moved from Nebraska to Missouri in order to escape the West (and to enter a writing program). At the close of the poem:
“Something’s being learned here, but not a lesson” (22).
Robinson walks down Fifth Avenue. Perhaps he passes a museum advertisement that uses the words “camera obscura”:
“Robinson’s not sure what a camera obscura / is for, but he thinks he should have / his portrait done with one… Something used to photograph the obscure” (27-28).
Of course, that isn’t what a “camera obscura” (“dark room”) is. But his musings raise the questions: How does one phenomenalize darkness? Can there be a “negative phenomenology,” as Gerald Bruns once unfortunately phrased it? Is poetry ever a phenomenon?
“Consider consider consider the oyster” (37).
Consider the oyster, not the lobster. The oyster is a solitary creature. An auto-inseminating, auto-sexual, solipsistic creature. The oyster is a hermaphrodite, both female and male at the same time, and requires no sexual partner.
Robinson is staring down from the Brooklyn Bridge. He considers hurtling himself into the abyss. He catches a stranger’s glance and changes his mind:
“There’s something sexy about desolation” (42).
The interesting thing about this thought is that it could be everted and still be accurate: “There’s nothing sexy about desolation.” The word “desolation” co mes from the Latin, de- (“thoroughly”) and solus (“alone”). To be desolate is to be thoroughly alone.
“Sexiness” refers to the possibility of being-with-others (Mitsein, to use Heidegger’s term). Desolation, then, is receptivity to the possibility of being-with-others. Aloneness affords the possibility of a relation to another human being.
Kathleen Rooney’s “Robinson” is a castaway marooned in a debased modernity. Much as the marooning of the main character of J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island, her Robinson’s marooning is self-imposed. Why is this? Why must this be?
It must be because Robinson is a poet. To poeticize is to withdraw from all significant relations. Every poet must vanish, must withdraw from the world in order for poetry to be possible.
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#MeToo – But I’m Not A Woman!…
The #MeToo campaign has again taken the limelight. Many women coming forward to tell the nightmares they’ve been through. We as a third-person watching it put our judgement giving sympathy to a particular gender. We don’t even try to understand another side of the story. We spoke of gender equality, so justice must be served in that way only. In our society, a man is guilty until proven innocent and a woman is innocent until proven guilty. I genuinely feel that justice need to be served to the one holding the truth.
The saddest and most unheard truth is men too get harassed. If you go and check the stats of male sexual harassments, you will be shocked. Men also get harassed right from the teenage till to the workplace. Men do go through all this and the worst thing is they can’t even come up to complain because they know that it’ll be the only who will be taken as a guilty. We have developed a mentality of a soft corner for gender in such cases. But this needs to be changed. Every man should stand by the women in such case and every woman should do the same as well. That’s only how it’ll work. If we are against rape, then there shouldn’t be any discrimination of gender as the criminal can be anybody with sick mentality irrespective of gender. Women cases have strong law and which is a thing to be appreciated but there is no such strict law for men. We see only figures which are recorded. But there are so many cases in which the victim don’t even dare to report because of the fear of getting proven guilty. This need to change. Nobody should live with this fear. Men and women are made by god. God made us to support each other through thicks and thins. But we end up taking the easiest judgement and assumption proving the innocent guilty. Rather if we stay by the side of truth to the best of our knowledge then only justice will have some value. Justice comes only with a fight and we need to stick together for the right. We, men and women together can eradicate this. The only thing we need is to support each other and fight for the right!…
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Miranda has a misconceived notion that she is fat and begins to skip meals to look slim for a music video directed by Gordo. Miranda begins to develop an eating disorder and Lizzie and Gordo are concerned about it. However, in the end Lizzie convinces Miranda to be comfortable with her body and persuades her to stop dieting. Meanwhile, Matt shows a great artistic potential and his parents encourage him to pursue it. However, he gets into trouble when he trashes their house and uses their family car as canvas for his paintings.
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Historic win of the Nzalang against Gabon
The Nzalang Nacional achieved in the afternoon of January 25 a historic victory by two goals to nil against the national team of Gabon. Thus, the national team passes to the quarterfinals and awaits the rival that will come from Group B, consisting of Tunisia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cape Verde and Zambia.
The national team had the starting lineup of Ovono, Randy, Rui, Evuy, Sipoto, Zarandona, Doualla, Kike Boula, Balboa, Emilio Nsue and Bosio. There were two changes compared to the game played against Burkina Faso. Evuy entered for the sanctioned Mbele, and Bosio for Ibán Edu.
The decision of the Nzalang coach of placing Bosio as a striker was one of the keys to the victory, adding to it the stops made by Ovono. The local coach, despite not having barely any time to prepare for this CAN, has managed to put together a solid team, committed and having the best goalkeeper in this African Cup of Nations. Felipe Ovono again played a spectacular match: at the 17th minute he cleared a close range header by the captain of Gabon, Aubameyang, and a few minutes later he made another great stop of a shot by Evouna.
The Nzalang played with order, controlling the attacks by Gabon and using speed and dribbling of Kike Boula to try to break the Gabonese defense. Boula’s feet created two passes, one that was intercepted before it could be reached by Nsue, and another that Doualla shot over the crossbar.
The second half began with Gabon launching the attack. Two fouls in the first minutes shot by Aubamenyang and Bulot tested the reflexes of Ovono, who managed them both times, clearing the ball to the corner.
And at the tenth minute, a great breakaway by Balboa, who made a good wall with Bosio, ends in a penalty. The maximum penalty is shot by Balboa himself to the right of the Gabonese goalkeeper, who despite his great dive fails to stop the ball.
Gabon continued to attack, and in the counterattack, Bosio had the opportunity to decide the game, but the goalkeeper stopped the ball. The Panthers of Gabon would also had an opportunity a few minutes later with a shot by Bulot when Ovono was already down, which fortunately went over the bar.
The Nzalang continued to playing its game and at 25 minutes, a good shot by Doualla is stopped, not without difficulty, by Didier Ovono. Esteban Becker made his first change and Ibán Edu replaces Kike Boula. Minutes later, Juvenal also enters for Bosio, who did an extraordinary job.
Gabon kept charging the goal of Equatorial Guinea and in a new counterattack, Ibán Edu made a great pass to Balboa, who shot, but the Gabonese goalkeeper managed to clear the ball with his feet.
And when the match was reaching its end, at the 85th minute, Ibán Edu passes to Balboa, who managed to get away from his shadow and makes a perfect pass, which was finished off by Nsue. It was rejected by Didier Ovono, and Ibán Edu, following the play, turns it into a goal. A goal that unleashed madness in the stands of Nkoantoma.
At the press conference after the match, Esteban Becker congratulated the national team of Gabon, saying they were the Cinderella of the group, but sometimes the poor win against the rich. Referring to Balboa, he said he is a player of great proven quality, of whom he is asking for the maximum effort and he is providing it.
He also had words of thanks for the President of the FEGUIFUT, Andres Jorge Mbomio “Lindo”, who -he said- brought him three years ago to Equatorial Guinea and has given him the opportunity to train the Nzalang.
In the other match in Group A, the national team of Congo Brazzaville won against Burkina Faso by two goals to one. Thus, Congo Brazzaville passes as first in the group with seven points and Equatorial Guinea is second with five points. Gabon, with three points, and Burkina Faso, with one, are eliminated.
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Dark Judges
"Sisters of Death" redirects here. For the film Sisters of Death, see Sisters of Death (film).
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Judge Death by Frazer Irving
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The Dark Judges are recurring villains in the Judge Dredd science fiction comic strip in the UK comic 2000 AD. They also appear in the 2003 computer game Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death. They are Judge Death, Judge Fire, Judge Fear, and Judge Mortis. Later storylines added the "Sisters of Death" (Phobia and Nausea) to their ranks. Former Judge Kraken was also a Dark Judge for a brief time during the Necropolis story.
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The Dark Judges were originally a group of four lawkeepers from a parallel dimension. They were led by Judge Death, who had determined that all crime was committed by the living - thus, by his logic, all life was a crime. The other three were slavishly devoted to him and his philosophy, and the four went around killing people on whatever justification they could find (Judge Fire sentenced a whole school to death for noise pollution). The society of the parallel universe they inhabited placed very little value on human life and many inhabitants were sadistic and violent, but even by the standards of their people the Dark Judges were vicious.
Things changed when Death encountered Phobia and Nausea (the future Sisters of Death) in a cave. The Sisters were death cultists and mass murderers with supernatural powers, and Death fell in love; the three of them committed acts on victims that he admitted sickened even him. With their help, he and his acolytes were able to become undead beings, thus being 'pure' to judge without hypocrisy. The Sisters would themselves become ethereal beings with hideous magical powers. The Dark Judges subsequently murdered the entire population of their world.
Dimension-travelling visitors chanced upon the now 'Deadworld' and found the Dark Judges. After 'judging' (i.e., killing) them and taking their dimension jumping warp devices, Judge Death travelled to Mega-City One, against the opinions of his colleagues, in order to 'dispense justice'. Death was eventually defeated by the combined efforts of Judges Dredd and Anderson, his body having been destroyed, and his spirit form held inside Judge Anderson, herself encased in the miracle plastic Boing on display in the Justice Department's Hall of Heroes.
Having sensed Death's peril, his comrades Fear, Fire and Mortis crossed the dimension warp to rescue him. Released from imprisonment and with a new body created, the four Dark Judges continued their 'judgement' upon Mega-City One claiming thousands of victims. Dredd and Anderson intervened, and pursued the Dark Judges back to Deadworld using a Dimension Jump Globe liberated from the Dark Judges. There, the spirits of the Dark Judges' millions of victims flowed through Anderson and seemingly extinguished their spirits forever.
However, the Dark Judges were not destroyed but merely weakened, and, four years later, Judge Anderson was duped into returning to Deadworld, where she was forced to resurrect them. Armed with teleporter technologies, the four returned to Mega-City One, leaving Anderson for dead. Anderson survived, however, and used the dimension warp technology against the Dark Judges, consigning them to limbo, the void between dimensions. This is where they were to remain for the next few years.
Following Judge Dredd's resignation and his replacement by the ex-Judge Kraken (recounted in the Judge Dredd stories Tale of the Dead Man and Countdown to Necropolis respectively), the sisters of Death - Phobia and Nausea - used their powers to influence Kraken and rescue the Dark Judges from Limbo. With the Mega-City One judge force under their control, the Dark Judges created Necropolis - the city of the dead, killing 60 million citizens. Judges Dredd, Anderson and Chief Judge McGruder, together with a handful of cadet judges, returned via The Undercity to defeat them - returning the Sisters of Death to Deadworld, imprisoning Fear, Fire and Mortis within secure containment, and executing Kraken, who had become a fifth Dark Judge.
Judge Death eluded capture by hiding in the burial pits of the Cursed Earth and departed for another dimension, but was eventually captured by Dredd with the aid of Batman (see Judgement on Gotham). Judge Death would escape several other times, with the most significant being when the Joker (see below) dimension-jumped to Mega-City One and freed the four prisoners when they were being transferred to a more secure prison. They entered a sealed hedonist community and slaughtered their way through it before Dredd, Anderson, and Batman could stop them again.
In 2124, Death was released again - after a series of child murders to bring out Anderson, he beat her into a coma so she couldn't track him, infected her with the supernatural Half-Life virus, and escaped into the Cursed Earth. He then went on a killing spree and searched for weapons of mass destruction, finally taking out Las Vegas before seemingly being destroyed by the angry ghosts of his victims. However, the Sisters of Death - now with three extra members - attacked again in 2127, striking blocks with poltergeist activity and plagues before Psi-Division drove them back; and during Death's time in the Cursed Earth, he created another undead killer named Mordechai to carry on after him.
In 2134, during a major Soviet-backed attack on Mega-City One, Soviet sleeper agent Judge Haldane used a forged warrant to enter the Dark Judge containment vault and open the containment vessels. He stole the imprisoned Fear, Fire, and Mortis, and with another sleeper agent he gave the Dark Judges physical form again. (They promptly killed the agents, to Haldane's horror.)[1] They were later captured by genius serial killer PJ Maybe.[2]
Later Death was freed from Hell by the Sisters of Death.[3] He entered the home of PJ Maybe and rescued his brothers. They escaped from Earth on a spaceship, the Mayflower, and killed most of the passengers and crew. They were pursued by Dredd and Anderson, who managed to defeat them and left them stranded in space.[4]
Character details[edit]
The Dark Judges are undead, and as such, cannot be conventionally killed. Their true forms are incorporeal spirits that must inhabit corpses in order to cause physical harm. This involves obtaining recently deceased cadavers, which are subsequently processed by machinery that produces "dead fluids". These fluids bring the corpses to "full ripeness", prefatory for the spirits to inhabit and animate. The incarnate Dark Judges are emaciated, zombie-like humanoids with sharp claws that frequently serve for them to injure their victims. All four speak with a hiss.
Once incarnated, the Dark Judges don uniforms (or "robes of office") which reflect their identities. The uniforms are variants of the traditional judge uniforms, with specific modifications based upon the judges' personalities.
Judge Death wears a helmet similar to that of a traditional Judge, with a modified visor resembling a portcullis. His mouth is pulled into a rictus. In place of the Judges' eagle-shaped shoulder pauldrons, Death sports a pterodactyl on his right shoulder; his left shoulder and elbow pads are festooned with bones. His jacket is fastened with crude stitches rather than a zipper, and his badge and belt buckle are each shaped like a human skull with extended fangs, the latter is also adorned with bat wings. Death most often kills his victims by reaching directly into their chests (in an intangible state) and squeezing their hearts until they burst, without ever breaking the skin.
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"Gaze into the fist of Dredd!" - Judge Dredd smashing his hand through Judge Fear's head, artwork by Brian Bolland
Judge Fear is an imposing figure who wears a black great helm accented with large, bat-like wings. When passing judgement, he opens his helmet's faceplate and frightens the accused to death with whatever lies within, whilst reciting his catch phrase, "Gaze into the face of Fear!" The actual face under the helmet has only been revealed twice: once as a mass of eyeballs,[5] and on another occasion as several grotesque mandibles.[6] No explanation has been given as to whether these monstrosities are indicative of Fear's physical face, or if they are simply manifestations of his victims' fears. Fear sports an assortment of tools on his belt, notably miniature bear traps, which he is known to throw at his enemies in order to immobilize them; and an enormous padlock which he uses to secure his victims' potential exit routes. His belt buckle is a shrunken head. In "Die laughing" the shrunken head was revealed to be an explosive weapon, similar in effect to a hand grenade, when Judge Fear used it in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Batman. He wears a heavy black cape with large, bear trap shoulder pauldrons. In Progs. 421 and 423, Judge Fear is seen to exhibit powers similar to Judge Death's "phasing" ability, thrusting his hands through victims' bodies.
Judge Fire is immersed head-to-toe in ethereal flame. He wears no helmet, and instead has a human skull for a head. He wields a flame-spewing trident. He earned the name "Judge Fire" when he was still alive, after he burned down a school for violating noise regulations.
Judge Mortis is in a perpetual state of disintegration, and his touch can cause spontaneous decay at a rapid rate. His head is a sheep skull and he has a bony tail. His uniform's right shoulder pauldron is a bird skeleton, and his left shoulder is protected by a perforated mantle. His badge is a stylized sheep skull with his name emblazoned in wood. Like Fire and Fear, Mortis spent his early years as a rookie Judge at Law School, Deadworld's equivalent to Mega-City One's Academy of Law, and graduated after Sidney De'ath. He developed an admiration for Sidney's methods and beliefs, and shares his comrades' zeal for passing arbitrary death sentences. He is sometimes employed by Judge Death to prepare the Dark Judges' host bodies.
Additional characters[edit]
Nausea is a haglike, decayed humanoid with an assortment of gory tentacles, claws and eyeballs on her right shoulder and elbows. Her left shoulder has two apparently live human heads on it. Her badge is a human skull, much like Death's. Both she and Phobia have supernatural and psychic powers, including the power to increase decay and darken the sun in areas. As spectral beings, they cannot be physically damaged and need only a psychic anchor in Mega-City One to attack.
Phobia looks much like her sister, but has an extended proboscis and live heads as earrings. Her right shoulder is covered by a large scorpion, and her elbows and knees by spiders. Snakes wrap around her arms. Her left shoulder is a mass of worms, and her badge is a spider.
The undead incarnations of Nausea and Phobia normally only appear as spirits, although they do appear in their mortal form in the Judge Death prequel story, Young Death: Boyhood of a Superfiend.
Judge Kraken (using the name Dredd), while a Dark Judge, was appropriately decayed. He suffered the loss of his right hand by inadvertently trying to use another judge's lawgiver, thereby setting off its self-destruct mechanism. He wore the usual Judge's uniform, though it was cracked and deformed. Unlike the others, he was forcibly turned into a Dark Judge by Death and made to kill people against his will, while being allowed his normal feeling and remorse as "a final twist of the knife".
Pustula, Ephemera and Dementia are three "cousins" of the Sisters. Pustula is an obese, boil and pus-ridden monster who spreads the "blisteria-101" virus, which turns its victims, including robots, into a mass of boils. Ephemera is a naked ghostly figure with a mane of hair, who creates heavy poltergeist activity. Dementia resembles a normal human, naked, and surrounded by bats - covering her breasts and genitalia - and toxic mud on her hands, who inspires waves of suicidal dementia. Where they came from is unknown.
Half Life was a formerly human victim of the Sisters, before being turned into an insect-headed, poison-spreading monster. His toxic, disease-ridden spirit was turned into a psychic virus, one that Judge Death infected Anderson's mind with when he defeated her in 2124. When modified by the insane Judge Fauster of Psi Division's Department of Magic, it became a psychic infection, inspiring a wave of mass murder across Mega-City One.
Mordechai, while not said to be a Dark Judge, was another one of Death's creations and possessed similar powers and motive. A walking corpse, he possessed telekinesis and plants rotted at his passing. He considered himself working for the Cursed Earth itself, keeping it free of life.
In February 2014, IDW announced that nine new Dark Judges were to premiere in a forthcoming Judge Dredd title.[7] The IDW Dredd is usually considered non-canonical. The new judges were:
Judge Choke, a skeleton surrounded by fog that choked its victims.
Judge Sleep, a female dark judge that put her victims into an endless sleep.
Judge Stigmata, a humanoid covered in cuts and carrying a knife in its stomach who induced its victims to self-harm.
Judge Burroughs, a mole-like creature that created tunnels that destroyed buildings.
Judge Sludge, capable of spraying victims in a thick ooze.
Judge Fistula, a walking, talking tumor that stabbed victims with extruded tendrils.
Judge Skinner, a humanoid with transparent skin who could magically remove its victims' skins.
Judge Metastasis, a conglomerate being composed of many victims, each of whom it summoned to join the whole, forming a human-shaped giant.
Judge Blank, a creature of pure void that could teleport victims. Judge Blank was not in league with the others and was implied to be Judge Anderson.
The Dreams of Deadworld[8] arc in the September 2015 2000 ADs introduced dark judges that existed on Deadworld prior to a coup by Death and his three lieutenants. They were:
Judge Reaper, a large, male human with a dark, empty face.
Sister Despair, a female who teams up with Judge Reaper.
Judge Omen, who was precognitive.
Judge Flyblown, an obese man with digitigrade legs.
Judge Ossify, a misshapen giant with protruding bones.
Sister Bedlam, a female with a vertically-oriented mouth.
Judge Silence, who held his hands over his mouth and said nothing.
Judge Scourge, who attacked with spike-studded tentacles.
In the 2019 series "The Torture Garden" a new dark judge was created, Judge Whisper. A psi judge from Mega City One becomes corrupted by Judge Fear and helps Fear escape from his prison to rejoin his brothers on a distant planet they have conquered. Eager to become a dark judge himself, he is killed by Judge Fear and resurrected as "Dark Judge Whisper". Using his psi powers, Judge Whisper can find a person's darkest and most unbearable secrets and whisper them to him or her, causing suicide on most people. It is currently unknown if Dark Judge Whisper survived the detonation of a Doomsday bomb that destroyed the planet he and the original dark judges were on.
The Joker as a Dark Judge[edit]
For a very brief time, DC comic's "The Joker" character was a Dark Judge, in the original graphic novel Die Laughing (1998). The Joker helped free the original Dark Judges in exchange for immortality. He received his payment by having his spirit merged into a corpse (which was not quite the "immortality" he'd sought), creating "Judge Joker". As a Dark Judge, the Joker could kill masses of people with his laugh, which caused human heads to explode.[9]
His tenure was a brief one, as he quickly became bored with slaughter simply for its own sake and did not share the original Dark Judge's fanatical zeal for their "sacred mission" of purging all life. The Joker was restored to his normal, mortal form upon returning to Gotham City via a defective dimensional jump device.
Deadworld Judges[edit]
The Judges of Deadworld wore similar uniforms to those of Mega-City One judges, coloured black with red trim; and a pterodactyl device on the right shoulderpad. They were brutal and a law unto themselves: a recruitment poster exhorted candidates to join the Judges and offered such incentives as "Beat people up. Kill anyone you like (within reason). Good rates of pay. Plenty of graft. Vicious nature a plus. LUNCHEON VOUCHERS."[10] Unsurprisingly they easily attracted psychopaths such as the future Dark Judges; and in their last days applied the death penalty for even the slightest of misdemeanors. When the Dark Judges seized power, the Deadworld Judges were inspired to join them and assisted in the massacre of the entire population before being killed themselves.
Deadworld, despite having a Judge system and having some degree of future tech, did not possess City Blocks or most of the features the Mega-Cities do, instead being very much like 20th Century Earth. Dreaming was considered abnormal and dangerous, and those who dreamt repeatedly were often Psis, who were rounded up by the Judges. Instead of the Academy of Law, they had Law School overseen by a Principal. Trainee Judges would spend a day in court, sentencing minor offenders (a young Death would be told that it would be "fine" to sentence a minor offender to death and borderline acceptable to kill two or three).
"Judge Death" (by John Wagner and Brian Bolland, 2000 AD #149-151, 1980)
Story features Judge Death only.
"Judge Death Lives" (by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Brian Bolland, 2000 AD #224-228, 1981)
First appearance of Fear, Fire and Mortis.
Anderson, Psi-Division
"Revenge" (by Alan Grant (writer) and Brett Ewins and Cliff Robinson (artists), 2000 AD #416-427, 1985; story also called "Four Dark Judges" in reprints)
"Aftermath Ron Reagan" (by John Wagner and Alan Grant (writers) and Ian Gibson (artist), 2000 AD #420, 1985)
"House of Death" (by John Wagner and Pat Mills (writers) and Bryan Talbot (artist), Dice Man #1, 1986)
"Dear Annie" (by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, 2000 AD #672-673, 1990)
"Necropolis" (by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, 2000 AD #674-699, 1990)
Young Death
"Boyhood of a Superfiend" (by John Wagner and Peter Doherty, Judge Dredd Megazine volume 1 #1-12, 1990–91; collected in Young Death: Boyhood of a Superfiend, May 2008, ISBN 1-905437-65-X Search this book on .)
"Return Of The King" (by Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra, 2000 AD #733-735, 1991)
"Judge Death: The True Story" (by John Wagner and Ian Gibson, 2000 AD #901-902, 1994)
"The Three Amigos" (by John Wagner and Trevor Hairsine, Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #2-7, 1995)
"Dead Reckoning" (by John Wagner and Greg Staples, 2000 AD #1000-1006, 1996)
Batman / Judge Dredd
"Die Laughing" (by John Wagner and Alan Grant (writers) and Glenn Fabry and Jim Murray (artists), graphic novel, 1998)
"Day of Chaos" (by John Wagner (writer) and Henry Flint and Colin MacNeil (artists), 2000 AD #1779-1782 and 1786, 2012)
"Dark Justice" (by John Wagner and Greg Staples, 2000 AD Prog 2015 and #1912–1921, 2014–2015)
Dreams of Deadworld
"Fire" (by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, 2000 AD #1946, 2015)
"Mortis" (by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, 2000 AD #1947, 2015)
"Fear" (by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, 2000 AD #1948, 2015)
"Death" (by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, 2000 AD #1949, 2015)
The Dark Judges
"Dominion" (by John Wagner and Nick Percival, Judge Dredd Megazine #386-391, 2017)
The Fall of Deadworld
"Home" (by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, 2000 AD #2050, 2017)
"No Future" (by Kek-W and Patrick Goddard, New Scientist #3157/8, 2017)[11]
Judge Fear
"Memories Are Made of This" (by Ken-W and Dan Cornwell, 2000 AD #2073, 2018)
Another version of the Dark Judges appear in Dredd: The Dead World, a comic strip sequel to the 2012 film Dredd.
"The Dead World" (written by Arthur Wyatt and Alex de Campi, art by Henry Flint and Chris Blythe, Judge Dredd Megazine #392–396, 2018)
"Damned" (by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, 2000 AD #2081–2092, 2018)
"The Torture Garden" (by David Hine and Nick Percival, Judge Dredd Megazine #400–409, 2018–2019)
↑ Progs 1779-1781, "Day of Chaos: Eve Of Destruction"
↑ 2000 AD #1786
↑ 2000 AD #2015 and #1912-1921
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↑ flickeringmyth.com "The Dark Judges returning to 2000 AD for Dreams of Deadworld"
↑ Review Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine at Every Day is Like Wednesday website (retrieved 4 July 2016)
↑ Young Death: Boyhood of a Superfiend, Judge Dredd Megazine issues 1-12
↑ New Scientist website Archived 2017-12-23 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved 23 December 2017)
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Cultural management and policy in a post-digital world – navigating uncertainty
“There is today a desire to reconstruct tomorrow and the days after in a different way not knowing what this tomorrow will look like. This feeling of uncertainty is linked to the difficulty to project ourselves” – Dominique Kalifa
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The cultural field being marked by constant evolution and self-questioning, the current times, under the threat of the coronavirus outbreak, find the different cultural agents – in a conscious or rather unconscious process for – (re)positioning themselves in a post-digital context.
What do we mean by ‘post-digital’? The definition by Florian Cramer is endorsed here, according to which ‘post-digital’ does not refer to a situation where digital has been left behind, but rather to a context where digitisation is embedded in all spheres of life and profoundly marks cultural shifts and ongoing mutations – in a way that is remarkably different from how it did when it first broke into our societies. Furthermore, scholar and novelist Dominique Kalifa suggests that ‘post-‘ is inherently linked to uncertainty, which makes the exploration of the post-digital world possibly more timely than even before.
During the Congress we will explore 5 innovative topics:
Media convergence and audience development in a post-digital context
Media convergence – understood, following Henry Jenkins, as the flow of content across multiple media platforms – acquires new meanings and has new potential implications in the current post-digital context. During confinement, we have witnessed an exponential growth of search and offer of entertainment linked to the arts and culture via different, mostly digital, media. This in turn has an impact on audience development.
Do we know why people do or do not participate in arts and culture in a post-digital context? Who are they and what are their main drives? And how to find out while securing necessary and important data protection? How big data and data analysis can be helpful? How can digital tools help a post-digital culture identify its post-digital audience? These questions need to be addressed through renewed critical lenses in the current global context.
Education in a post-digital context
Cultural management and policy education have been particularly shaken by the coronavirus outbreak. Most programmes across Europe being strongly focused on face-to-face formats of teaching, a swift adaptation from both teachers and students has been needed. After the initial turbulence, this conjunctural challenge opens up new perspectives: what does this experience tell us about the way cultural management and policy was/is taught and learnt? What is to be kept as good practices? To what extent is the human dimension in education substitutable? How to make the most of modern online learning tools, e-learning methods, MOOC’s combined with personal, ‘offline’ contact between teacher and student and peer-to-peer learning? How will internationalization look like in a context mobility restriction? What can we learn from critical pedagogy in its intersections with digital technologies?
However, not only the act of teaching has been challenged, but also the curricula may be reviewed in the light of the most recent developments. The current global health crisis has revealed that future cultural managers, policymakers and researchers will most probably face very different challenges than those which were usual in recent times. To what extent do our experiences and historical examples provide relevant lessons for the future of cultural management and politics?
Post-digital Cultural Policy
The ENCATC Congress proposes a joint reflection on the changing environment and context that post-digital culture has brought to cultural policies. In addition to that, cultural policy across the world faces the challenge of responding effectively to ongoing changes. By way of example, more than ever, trust emerges as a crucial concept in a post-digital world. Will cultural policies be able to help build trust among cultural actors in an uncertain future? What other challenges emerge for the arts in a post-digital world? How may cultural policy help face those challenges?
Furthermore, it is to be highlighted that, in addition to the agenda of the Cultural ministries and state departments, culture and the arts are or can be used as an instrument in other areas. What are the benefits and impacts of the practical use of concept of cultural and creative industries on culture itself? Or what’s the role of creativity and artistic expression in achieving global political and social goals such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals? At the same time, however, there may be concerns about maximizing the use of the positive influence of culture – i.e. its utilitarian exploitation –, while limiting its natural development and jeopardizing its basic, immanent value. Should we be on guard?
Culture, Arts and Ethics in a post-digital context
The ENCATC Congress also want to provide a forum where digital technologies can be explored through the lens of arts and culture, particularly considering ethical issues for the sector in the post-digital world.
Ethical issues emerge in the post-digital context related to the issues of ownership and copyright. These have become very evident in COVID-19 times, with cultural and artistic productions being shared massively online, and some cultural actors making the decision not to engage in practices that may not be able to guarantee artists’ rights. How can we feed – and learn from – these topical debates?
Digitisation and new business models for cultural institutions
Institutions and the ways they are managed are obviously significantly pre-determined not only by their missions, but also by external influences. In light of all the above changes, it is not easy to choose an appropriate strategy, offer relevant products and services, and operate efficiently. But still, there are also new tools that can facilitate the administration of cultural organizations and projects. The benefits of digitization in archiving and preserving the cultural heritage are evident, but new tools and practices are also available for live arts organizations.
But the more fundamental question is whether – or rather what kind – the process of digitization or the development of artificial intelligence has or will have an impact on cultural production and distribution in its different, very specific areas. The impact of current trends on business models of existing organizations is therefore one of the actual topics we want to address during the Congress. After the media convergence process, can we expect a similar shift in cultural infrastructure? And how to prepare for it?
What new, unforeseen challenges emerge for the cultural sector in a post-digital context and, in particular, after the coronavirus outbreak? How could cultural management and policy education prepare itself to adapt to a new scenario? What new political strategies and specific policies will be needed in this post-digital, uncertain times? How do audiences evolve in a post-digital environment? How can the arts and culture bring new perspectives that go beyond purely technological approaches into different spheres of life? What ethical issues arise in this context?
The ENCATC Congress aims to provide a space for encounter, to learn from leading experts, get to common questions and look for common answers that may help all actors in the cultural management and policy sphere navigate uncharted waters.
Today’s social processes bring tons of unsuspected, thrilling opportunities to explore, and a flood of new questions to which we need to find answers. With some luck, at least some of them can be found at ENCATC 2020 Congress.
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IOC, Odisha strike deal on tax incentives for Paradip refinery
Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and the state government agreed to the revised terms at the meeting called at the behest of Pradhan.
New Delhi: Odisha government, which had withdrawn tax incentives to the Rs 34,555-crore Paradip refinery of IOC, has agreed to restore some of the tax breaks including a Rs 700-crore per annum of interest-free loan, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today.
The breakthrough came after Pradhan met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here yesterday.
"It is agreed that state government will give Rs 700 crore per annum interest-free loan for 15 years; earlier state head agreed to provide total deferment of VAT," Pradhan said in a twitter post.
The Odisha government had on February 22 written to IOC, its single-biggest investor, saying it is withdrawing the promised 11-year deferment on payment of sales tax on Paradip refinery products sold in the state.
The withdrawal was to cost Rs 2,000 crore to IOC this year and will progressively increase every year as more petrol, diesel and petrochemicals are sold within the state.
The company dragged the state government to court for walking back on its commitment and has not paid VAT on products sold in the state since commissioning of the refinery last year.
The agreement on interest-free loan for 15 years would give additional revenue to the state, Pradhan said.
"This would give a substantial amount of additional #revenue (Around Rs 1,500 crore per year) to the state of #Odisha. #ParadipRefinery," he said in another tweet.
"This is a historic day for people of #Odisha; dwellers of the state have got their dues without spoiling the industrial atmosphere of the state," he added.
Sources said, in the latest agreement reached, the viability gap funding for Paradip refinery project will be revised to Rs 700 crore per annum payable in four equal instalments in each quarter in the form of interest-free loan for 15 years starting from financial year 2016-17.
IOC will deposit applicable VAT or GST on products sold.
Odisha government will pay the viability gap fund in the form of interest-free loan in each quarter. The repayment of the amount will start in 16th year for each instalment, they said.
VAT collected and not paid in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017 -18 will be deposited by IOC immediately. Odisha government will provide interest-fee loan to IOC for 2016-17 and 3 quarters of current year by December 2017 or January 2018 and every quarter thereafter.
Sources said the state government has also agreed to waive interest/penalty for the VAT withheld by IOC.
A joint petition will be filed in the Orissa High Court, Cuttack informing about the agreement, they said.
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The Taipei City YouBike system was implemented city-wide in 2011, providing citizens with the first and last-mile transit service. To further enhance citizens’ convenience, the pilot program of YouBike 2.0 will be implemented at the Gongguan area starting from January 15, offering a total of 1,800 docks and 500 new YouBikes across 102 stations for the public to experience and use.
According to Taipei City Government’s Department of Transportation, the number of YouBike stations in Taipei City reached 400 in late 2017, totaling 13,072 YouBikes. Each station’s service radius is about 200-500m, allowing the system to service at least 90% of the city’s plains, meaning that citizens may reach a YouBike station within a 5 to 10-minute walking distance. Considering the fact that the YouBike stations require access to municipal power, and an economy of scale must be reached in order to establish a station, the existing conditions are not conducive for expanding the number of stations.
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Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK.
Career background
Dr Guilherme Costa received his PhD in 2011 from the University of Manchester for his studies on the haemogenic endothelium in Dr Valerie’s Kouskoff lab. Deciphering mechanisms that regulate the development of this particular type of endothelial cells prompted his interest in angiogenesis. He then moved on to a postdoctoral position in Dr Shane Herbert’s lab to study molecular and cellular mechanisms of vascular development. While studying aspects of asymmetric endothelial cell division during blood vessel sprouting, he developed a new line of research that investigates the subcellular distribution of mRNAs in endothelial cells. In 2019 he joined Queen’s University of Belfast to establish his lab at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine (WWIEM).
Dr Guilherme Costa is interested in RNA localisation during angiogenesis. His lab explores 1) how RNAs are transported within endothelial cells, 2) how the translation of messenger (m)RNAs is regulated in distinct subcellular domains and 3) how these mechanisms regulate blood vessel development and function.
Specialist techniques
In vitro models of angiogenesis,single molecule fluorescent in situ hybridisation (smFISH), live imaging of RNA localisation.
Career highlight
In 2017, Dr Guilherme Costa was awarded the Dean’s Prize: Early Career Researcher Award from the University of Manchester. With this award, he initiated an independent research career focusing on the spatial regulation of gene expression in the context of endothelial biology.
At the WWIEM, Dr Guilherme Costa is expanding his interests in RNA localisation towards the fields of blood vessel maintenance, pathology and potential therapies for vascular disorders.
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Bipartisan bill seeks to declare China’s Uyghur policy “genocide”
10/30/2020 / By Cassie B.
In a move that could place more pressure on Beijing about the plight of the millions of people being held in Chinese detention camps, a group of U.S. senators is looking to declare that China is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims and other Turkic-speaking Muslims.
The bipartisan bill was introduced on Tuesday by Republican Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Jim Risch of Idaho, and John Cornyn of Texas. They were joined in introducing the legislation by Democratic Senators Ben Cardin of Maryland, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
The resolution, which will now work its way through the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, asks the executive branch to do everything in its power to stop China from abusing the Uyghur people. To date, more than 1.8 million Uyghurs have been imprisoned in labor camps in the Xinjiang region of China and subjected to horrors such as physical and sexual abuse, slave labor and forced sterilizations and abortions.
It declares that China is violating the norms set out in the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 and would inspire an international response to the actions of the Chinese government.
The resolution also points out that the Chinese Communist Party has separated half a million Chinese Muslim children from their parents and placed them in boarding schools run by the state, where they are indoctrinated with communist beliefs and forced to leave their culture behind.
It states that China’s campaign “against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region constitutes genocide.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has likened China’s actions to what happened in 1930s Germany.
With an official designation of genocide, the U.S.’s legal response to China would change, and there would be greater opportunities for international recourse.
Senator Rubio said that he feels that making this designation would allow us to be “clear about the nature of these atrocities.” He said: “Free nations must urgently come together and press for an end to these crimes and seek accountability and justice.”
Senator Menendez said that stopping genocide is something that is consistent with America’s values and national security, and speaking the truth about it is the first step. Senator Risch said that he was proud to join with senators from both sides of the aisle in introducing this resolution and drawing attention to what is going on there.
The Trump administration has already been taking some action in this regard, pursuing sanctions against people and businesses complicit in labor camps that have cost Beijing millions of dollars. In addition, President Trump has withdrawn funding from international organizations like the United Nations Population Fund, which some believe is complicit in China’s forced sterilization of Uyghurs. However, the abuses have yet to be officially labeled genocide.
China accuses U.S. senators of telling “all sorts of lies”
Of course, China did not take the news of the resolution very well, with a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry accusing the U.S. senators involved of lying.
The spokesman, Wang Wenbin, said: “The U.S. Senators you mentioned are entrenched in their anti-China bias and obsessed with making up all sorts of lies to vilify China and seek selfish political gains. You will not find any trace of political integrity in them.”
The world is well aware of China’s human rights abuses, even if some are too scared or intimidated to speak up about it. Accusing those who expose them of being liars is pretty typical behavior from the CCP. Hopefully, the new resolution will have its intended effect and something will finally be done to stop the abuse and killing.
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'American Idol' leads, ABC comedies keep up laughs
By Lynette Rice
Updated January 23, 2014 at 05:12 PM EST
Credit: Michael Becker/Fox
Though initially dogged by Ratings are Down! headlines, American Idol kept up the good fight Wednesday and still did what it does best — beat the competition. The third night of the talent show earned a 4.0 rating in adults 18-49, according to Nielsen.
The show also ruled in viewers (13.2 million) and the obvious demos like teens (2.5), despite enduring a 13% drop from last week’s premiere in 18-49. For what it’s worth, Fox expects its 18-49 performance to jump at least 20% to a 5.0, once folks start playing back those DVRs. (Make sure to fast-forward to the chick who started her audition with an accent, then lost it, then STILL got to go to Hollywood. An outrage!)
ABC came in second with a nifty 2.0 rating, with all of its comedies showing gains from last week. The Middle was up 22% to 2.2; Suburgatory, up 13% to a 1.8;
Modern Family up 9% to a 3.5;
Super Fun Night, up 13% to a 1.7; and Nashville, up 8% to a 1.4.
NBC came in third with a 1.7, and also boasted gains across the board. Revolution was up 15% to a 1.5; Law & Order: SVU, up 29% to a 1.8; and Chicago P.D., up 7% to a 1.6. CBS finished fourth with a pair of repeat comedies, followed by Criminal Minds (2.2) and CSI (1.6).
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Money in Qatar
The currency used in Qatar is the riyal (QAR), which is subdivided into 100 dirhams. Riyals can be found in the following denominations:
Notes: QAR 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500
Coins: 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 dirhams
The riyal is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 1 USD to 3.64 QAR for the Qatar Central Bank's sales and purchases of USD with banks that operate in the country. New arrivals can easily get local cash at the airport and banks. Remember, though, that when exchanging currency, banks charge for the service, so the rate may vary.
Banking in Qatar
The banking industry is supervised by the Qatar Central Bank, which oversees commercial banks such as Ahli Bank, the Commercial Bank of Qatar, Doha Bank, Qatar Islamic Bank, International Bank of Qatar and the Qatar National Bank (QNB). These offer comprehensive online banking services.
Most local banks have services in both English and Arabic and offer the familiar account types found in most global destinations.
Alternatively, expats can open an international account for use in Qatar, with banks such as HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank having established a presence in the country. This kind of account may be of benefit to those who would like to consider offshore account options or who already have an account with one of the service providers in their home country.
Some expats also report that they prefer the convenience and security of having their finances centralised in this way.
Banks in Qatar are generally open from Sunday to Thursday between 7.30am or 9am and 1pm, but many are also open in the afternoon and on Saturday mornings.
Opening a bank account in Qatar
For those who don't go the international account route, opening a bank account in Qatar is a relatively simple, stress-free process. Expats will generally need to apply in person with the following:
Valid residency/work permit and Qatar ID card
A certificate/letter from the Qatari employer stating monthly salary
Banks may require either a minimum balance or salary, often of QAR 5,000 or more
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Once the application has been approved, the bank will provide the applicant with a letter for their employer, confirming that they are happy to receive salary payments into the new account.
Qatar also has an officially appointed banking ombudsman affiliated with Qatar's Central Bank, accessible to anyone who has a complaint against a bank and needs assistance.
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ATMs are readily available in Qatar and, more often than not, accept both local and international credit- and debit cards. While most ATMs function 24 hours, it may not be guaranteed, and using ATMs operated by banks other than one's own or using a credit card to withdraw cash normally incurs extra charges.
Taxes in Qatar
One of the great attractions of relocating to Qatar is that no personal or income tax is levied against individual salaries or allowances, even as an expat. This means that, while in Qatar, an expat's gross salary will be paid to them without any deductions whatsoever.
However, expats are strongly advised to research whether a double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) exists between Qatar and their country of origin; if there isn't, they will be liable to pay tax in their country of origin on the money earned in Qatar. We recommend that expats working in Qatar check this online and consult with tax specialists if necessary.
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Doutzen Kroes on Why Photoshop is Essential: 'People Still Want to Believe in the Fantasy'
An Angel appeared to me in the abandoned high rise where last night's Maison Martin Margiela x H&M arty party was held: It was the heavenly Doutzen Kroes, who was more than obliging to chat with me (a mere mortal) about the recently leaked, unretouched photos of her modeling bikinis for Victoria's Secret. While Kroes is arguably one of the most beautiful women in the world without retouching, it can't be easy to have slews of before-and-after comparison shots plastering the Internet and showing your every wrinkle, lump and bump. But according to Kroes, these kinds of mishaps come with the territory--and are actually a good thing.
Nora Crotty
An Angel appeared to me in the abandoned high rise where last night's Maison Martin Margiela x H&M arty party was held: It was the heavenly Doutzen Kroes, who was more than obliging to chat with me (a mere mortal) about the recently leaked, unretouched photos of her modeling bikinis for Victoria's Secret.
While Kroes is arguably one of the most beautiful women in the world without retouching, it can't be easy to have slews of before-and-after comparison shots plastering the Internet and showing your every wrinkle, lump and bump. But according to Kroes, these kinds of mishaps come with the territory--and are actually a good thing.
"There's always paparazzi and stuff on the beach when we're shooting, and it's just part of the job. It happens," she told me, adding, "but like, with the retouched pictures...then you can see that even I don't look like I do in the pictures, you know?"
Actually, Kroes does look a lot like she does in the pictures--but I got her point. So would the VS Angel prefer that retouching be left out of the modeling process entirely? "No," she said, "I think people still want to believe in the fantasy and they just have to know that that's not always the way it is [in real life]. You know like, I look at the pictures, and I know I don't look like the pictures."
Kroes's opinion on the Photoshop-as-fantasy issue lines up with fellow Angel Erin Heatherton's stance: That fashion is about "selling a story, creating a fantasy"--one that almost certainly couldn't exist without the help of photoshop.
Do you agree with Kroes and Heatherton; Is it time now to just accept that retouching is more about creating fantasy than recreating reality? What do you think?
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Trio of property investment firms enter provisional liquidation
Rationale Asset Management, Value Asset Management and Merydion Corporation have been placed into provisional liquidation, following a high court hearing in August after it received an application from the UK Insolvency Service.
This is a ‘middle stage’ process that follows a winding up petition, but precedes a court decision.
The three companies were involved in property investments.
A provisional liquidator was named and the Official Receiver is now responsible for protecting the assets in possession or under the control of the three firms until a decision is made on the winding up petitions presented by the secretary of state of business, energy and industrial strategy.
The Official Reviewer invited investors, creditors and shareholders of the companies to get in touch and assist with the process.
Awaiting decisions
The provisional liquidation orders follow a high court hearing on 27 August 2020, the Insolvency Service said.
“The provisional liquidator has the power to investigate the affairs of the companies as necessary to protect assets including any third party, or trust monies, or assets in the possession of, or under the control of the companies.
“The case is now subject to high court action and no further information will be made available until petitions to wind up the companies are heard in the high court on 12 January 2021,” it added.
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The Bechdel, Russo, and Race Test: Wayward Pines, “Where Paradise Is Home” – Season 1, Episode 1
On Wayward Pines, “Where Paradise Is Home,” Special Agent Ethan Burke searched for two missing agents, but when he wound up in a car accident in middle of his search, he get stuck in a city called Wayward Pines where strange things were amok.
The Bechdel, Russo, and Race Test
“Where Paradise Is Home” did not pass the Bechdel, Russo or race test. The episode failed to pass all three of the diversity tests because there were no LGBTI characters in the episode, and because while there were named women and non-White characters in the episode, women never actually talked to each other and non-White characters never talked to each other.
*The Bechdel test entails three requirements:
1. It has to have at least two (named) women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man
**The Vito Russo test entails three requirements:
1. The show contains a character that is identifiably lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and/or transgender
2. The character must not be solely or predominately defined by her sexual orientation, gender identity and/or as being intersex
3.The character must be tied into the plot in such a way that her removal would have a significant effect
***The race or people of color (POC) test has three requirements:
1. It has two people of color in it
3. About something other than a White person
****Just because a show passes the Bechdel, Russo and race test does not mean that it is not sexist, heterosexist, racist and/or cissexist, etc. The Bechdel, Russo and race test is only a bare minimum qualifier for the representation of LGBTI individuals, women and people of color in television. The failure to pass these tests also does not identify whether the central character was a woman, a person of color or a LGBTQI individual and it does not dictate the quality of the show.
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Wide Receiver #12
Team: Miami Dolphins
Ht / Wt: 5'9" / 202 lb.
College: Georgia State
Drafted: 2014 / UDFA
Albert Wilson: Opting out
Wilson is opting out of the 2020 season, Cameron Wolfe of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Wilson joins teammate Allen Hurns, who made the same announcement a day earlier. The Dolphins are left with a shaky group behind DeVante Parker at wide receiver, as Preston Williams is coming back from an ACL tear and nobody else among the group has ever caught more than 23 passes in a season. Isaiah Ford and Jakeem Grant figure to be in the mix for a starting job, while the 28-year-old Wilson will look to rejoin the Dolphins next offseason.
August 5, 2020 8:21 AM EST
Albert Wilson: Restructures deal
Wilson agreed Tuesday with the Dolphins on a restructured contract for the 2020 season, Field Yates of ESPN reports.
Analysis: Entering the final season of the three-year, $24 million deal he inked in March 2018, Wilson likely would have been a cap casualty had he not agreed to the restructure. Under the new terms of his deal, Wilson will earn a maximum of $4 million ($3 million in base salary and up to $1 million in incentives) in what amounts to a pay cut of $5.5 million. Wilson has largely disappointed during his time in Miami, but he at least finished the 2019 season on a high note by hauling in 17 of 23 targets for 197 yards between Weeks 15 and 17.
May 5, 2020 10:45 AM EST
Albert Wilson: Could get No. 3 role again
Wilson currently projects as Miami's No. 3 receiver, Armando Salguero of The Miami Herald reports.
Analysis: Wilson could end up benefiting from an offseason that saw the Dolphins revamp their roster at nearly every position besides wide receiver and tight end. The team essentially is bringing back its same group of pass catchers from 2019, including Preston Williams coming back from the ACL tear he suffered in early November. Wilson struggled to regain his form after he suffered a severe hip injury in 2018, but he did show signs of life at the end of last season with 197 receiving yards over the final three weeks. Granted, his future with the Dolphins may depend on accepting a pay cut, as he's scheduled for a non-guaranteed $9.48 million base salary in the final season of a three-year contract.
April 30, 2020 5:44 AM EST
Albert Wilson: Future uncertain in Miami
Wilson said Monday that he hopes to remain with the Dolphins in 2020, though his non-guaranteed $9.48 million base salary could make him a candidate to get cut, Cameron Wolfe of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Wilson's 2019 debut was delayed while he worked back from a torn labrum and fractured hip suffered late in the prior season, but he was able to round into form and make an impact in the passing game down the stretch. Over the Dolphins' final four games, Wilson hauled in 18 of 25 targets for 202 yards, serving as a viable complement to No. 1 wideout Devante Parker. Given Wilson's willingness to return to Miami, it's possible he could be receptive to taking a pay cut if the Dolphins inform him they're not willing to retain him at his current rate.
December 30, 2019 12:36 PM EST
Albert Wilson: Solid finish to season
Wilson caught five of eight targets for 59 yards during Sunday's 27-24 divisional win over the Patriots.
Analysis: Wilson concludes the 2019 campaign with 43 catches for 351 yards and one touchdown across 13 contests. He also carried the ball five times for 45 yards. The 27-year-old came into the year working his way back from a torn labrum and fractured hip, and setbacks in his recovery plus additional minor injuries marred his effectiveness for much of the season. He did close out the year with some momentum, exceeding 55 yards with at least five catches in each of the final three contests. He's under contract with the Dolphins through 2020 and should benefit from a healthy offseason.
Albert Wilson: Season-best effort in OT win
Wilson secured all seven targets for 79 yards in the Dolphins' 38-35 overtime win against the Bengals on Sunday. He also rushed once for nine yards.
Analysis: Wilson paced the Dolphins in receptions on the afternoon, a rare feat for the slot receiver, who hadn't logged more than five catches in nine of his previous 10 contests. Wilson has 12 receptions (15 targets) for 138 yards over the last pair of contests combined, providing a glimpse of what might have been had he remained healthy all season and Miami enjoyed better quarterback play from start to finish. Wilson will look to put together another productive performance to close out the campaign against the Patriots in Week 17.
December 22, 2019 3:46 PM EST
Albert Wilson: Practices without limitations
Wilson (hip) was a full participant in Thursday's practice.
Analysis: Wilson was limited in Wednesday's practice, so Thursday's full participation serves to shed any doubts about his Week 16 availability. The 27-year-old is set to serve as the No. 2 wideout in Miami's receiving corps, behind DeVante Parker, during Sunday's game against the Bengals.
Albert Wilson: Hip injury resurfaces
Wilson was limited in Wednesday's practice due to a hip injury, Adam H. Beasley of the Miami Herald reports.
Analysis: Wilson was been battling a lingering hip injury for much of the year, but there's not any reason to worry that he's in danger of missing time. The shifty slot receiver logged his best game of the season Week 15 against the Giants, catching five of eight targets for 59 yards. He's on track to operate behind DeVante Parker (hip) during Sunday's tilt against the Bengals barring any setbacks.
Albert Wilson: Finally tops 50 yards
Wilson caught five of eight targets for 59 yards in Sunday's 36-20 loss to the Giants.
Analysis: It's hard to trust any Dolphins player outside of DeVante Parker in fantasy. Parker had another two receiving scores, giving him eight this season to Wilson's one. Wilson set a new season high in receiving yards in this game, as he hadn't notched more than 33 in any previous 2019 contest.
Albert Wilson: Clears concussion protocol
Wilson (concussion) will play Sunday against the Giants after clearing concussion protocol, Joe Schad of The Palm Beach Post reports.
Analysis: Both Wilson and Devante Parker cleared concussion protocol Saturday, and as a result both wide receivers will suit up in an excellent matchup against the porous Giants secondary. Following the season-ending injury to Preston Williams (knee), Wilson was gradually beginning to get more involved in the offense, posting two consecutive games with at least five catches before leaving the Week 14 contest early, and should be a factor out of the slot Sunday.
Albert Wilson: Questionable for Week 15
Wilson (concussion) is officially listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Giants, Omar Kelly of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
Analysis: Wilson practiced in full Friday, according to Cameron Wolfe of ESPN.com, which represents substantial progress after beginning the week with two consecutive limited sessions. The 27-year-old will still need to fully clear the concussion protocol before retaking the field, the final step of which includes meeting with an independent neurologist.
December 13, 2019 10:57 AM EST
Albert Wilson: Limited again Thursday
Wilson (concussion) was limited in Thursday's practice, Cameron Wolfe of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Wilson has now logged two consecutive limited practice sessions. He'll need to fully clear the league's protocol for head injuries, including meeting with an independent neurologist, before retaking the field. If Wilson were forced to miss any time, added targets would become available for depth receivers Allen Hurns, Isaiah Ford, Mack Hollins and Trevor Davis.
Albert Wilson: Still in protocol
Coach Brian Flores said Thursday that Wilson will stay in the league's concussion protocol "through the end of the week" at least, Safid Deen of the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.
Analysis: Wilson can't be considered a lock to clear the league's protocol for head injuries in time to suit up Sunday against the Giants, and the same holds true for top wideout DeVante Parker (concussion). Still, it's encouraging that both receivers have already resumed handling non-contact drills. In any case, Wilson has scored just once this season and has yet to exceed 33 receiving yards in a single contest, so he remains off the fantasy radar in all but the deepest of leagues.
Albert Wilson: Wearing non-contact jersey
Wilson (concussion) is participating in non-contact drills during Wednesday's practice, Hal Habib of The Palm Beach Post reports.
Analysis: Wilson was forced to enter the league's concussion protocol during Sunday's divisional loss to the Jets. The slot receiver will need to fully clear the league's protocol for head injuries before retaking the field, the final step of which includes meeting with an independent neurologist, but it's encouraging to see that he's already made enough progress to participate in some drills. With No. 1 wideout DeVante Parker also nursing a concussion, the Dolphins' receiver corps could be short-handed to face the Giants in Week 15.
Albert Wilson: Won't return Sunday
Wilson suffered a concussion during Sunday's contest against the Jets and is ruled out to return,Joe Schad of The Palm Beach Post reports.
Analysis: Wilson joins No. 1 wideout DeVante Parker in the league's five-step protocol for head injuries Sunday. As a result, the Dolphins will be forced to proceed with a wide receiver corps consisting of only Allen Hurns, Mack Hollins and Isaiah Ford for the remainder of Week 14.
December 8, 2019 12:10 PM EST
Albert Wilson: Evaluated for head injury
Wilson is questionable to return to Sunday's divisional contest against the Jets while being evaluated for a concussion.
Analysis: Wilson did not take the field to begin the second half of Sunday's matchup. He caught one of two targets for five yards before leaving the field. With DeVante Parker (concussion) already ruled out to retake the field, the Dolphins' only healthy wide receivers will be Allen Hurns, Mack Hollins and Isaiah Ford if Wilson is ultimately diagnosed with a concussion.
December 8, 2019 11:52 AM EST
Albert Wilson: Splash plays help spur Week 13 win
Wilson caught all five of his targets for 32 yards and ran for 31 yards on two rush attempts during Sunday's 37-31 win against Philadelphia.
Analysis: Though Wilson's 6.4 yards-per-catch average doesn't exactly scream out "explosive," the 27-year-old made a couple plays in Week 13 that likely shifted the outcome of the game. His 28-yard scamper on Miami's fourth offensive drive helped set up his team's first score of the day, and his two third-down receptions spurred touchdowns on separate second and fourth quarter possessions for the Dolphins. Wilson now has six targets per game over his past three outings heading into a Week 14 matchup against the Jets' No. 19 pass defense.
December 1, 2019 4:07 PM EST
Albert Wilson: Ready to rock
Wilson (hip/chest) practiced in full Friday, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports.
Analysis: Wilson was forced out of Week 12's loss to the Browns and battled hip and chest injuries throughout practice this week, and he now looks back to full health. The 27-year-old can be considered on track for Sunday's tilt against the Eagles, barring any setbacks. As one of only four available wide receivers on the Dolphins' roster, Wilson could be in line to garner a significant amount of targets down the stretch.
November 29, 2019 10:47 AM EST
Albert Wilson: Limited Wednesday
Wilson (hip/chest) was a limited participant in Wednesday's practice, Safid Deen of the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.
Analysis: Wilson exited Sunday's loss to the Browns due to what initially disclosed as a ribs injury, but he's now been revealed to be dealing with hip and chest issues. The fact that Wilson wasn't held out of Wednesday's practice entirely is a good sign for his chances of suiting up Week 13 against the Eagles. The 27-year-old hasn't been a worthwhile fantasy option this season, having accumulated just 20 catches for 117 yards and one touchdown across eight contests, but he'll at least benefit from plenty of opportunity going forward. Behind No. 1 wide receiver Devante Parker, the Dolphins only have Wilson, Allen Hurns and Isaiah Ford as healthy options.
November 27, 2019 1:13 PM EST
Albert Wilson: Present for Wednesday's practice
Wilson (ribs) is working through drills at Wednesday's practice, Cameron Wolfe of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Wilson was forced out of Sunday's loss to the Browns due to a ribs injury. It appears as though the 27-year-old will manage to at least participate in a limited capacity Wednesday, and he'll have two more opportunities this week to up his level of activity. With Jakeem Grant (ankle) now on injured reserve, DeVante Parker and Allen Hurns are currently the only healthy wide receivers on Miami's active roster.
November 27, 2019 9:10 AM EST
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Home >> Blogs >> Editor's blog >> Rotterdam Hubert Bals Fund selects 27 projects
Rotterdam Hubert Bals Fund selects 27 projects
The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected twenty-seven film projects that receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction, distribution or workshops. In its Fall 2009 selection, the Fund gives 385 thousand Euro to projects from nineteen countries. The selection includes new films by acclaimed filmmakers such as Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Edwin and many first time filmmakers. (See full list below)
Six of the eight projects selected for postproduction and final financing support are expected to premiere during IFFR's upcoming edition (January 27 - February 7, 2010): among these are Agua fría de mar (Cold Sea) from Costa Rica, Qarantina from Iraq, Jean Gentil from the Dominican Republic and Soul Boy from Kenya.
Agua fría de mar is Paz Fábrega's début feature, set on the beaches of the Pacific during Christmas holiday season, and deals with the subtleties of femininity, class and identity in contemporary Costa Rica. The project received Hubert Bals Fund script development support in 2007 and was selected for the Hubert Bals Fund Plus programme in 2008 (with Dutch coproducer Isabella Films).
Qarantina, second film by Iraqi filmmaker and writer Oday Rasheed, tells of an Iraqi hit-man, hiding out at a poor family's house. Sophomore effort by Cochochi-directors Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde & Israel Cárdenas, Jean Gentil received script development support in 2008. The film follows a Haitian professor on a quest for work in a Dominican town. When he does not find any, he leaves for the countryside armed with his faith.
Soul Boy, first film by Kenyan filmmaker Hawa Essuman, will be part of the 39th IFFR theme section ‘Where is Africa?' Soul Boy tells of a child living in the Kibera ghetto of Nairobi, who has one day and one night to retrieve his father´s soul.
Thirteen filmmakers are selected to receive script development grants from the Hubert Bals Fund. Among them is acclaimed filmmaker Yeşim Ustaoğlu who is preparing her new project Limbo after her international hit Pandora's Box. While Satish Manwar's The Damned Rain (IFFR 2009) still travels the festival circuit, he is working on his new project What's Your Religion?
Promising projects from first time feature film makers include Remote Control (which was selected for CineMart 2009) from Mongolian director Byamba Sakhya and Lobo en medio de lobos (Wolf among Wolves) from Mexican director Natalia López.
The Hubert Bals Fund has selected two alternative distribution initiatives, which both work with mobile cinemas and bring art film to large audiences outside the bigger cities. Efecto Cine (Uruguay) organizes screenings of national and Latin-American films in Uruguay, eastern Argentina and the south of Brazil. Philippine initiative Cinemanila Sine Barangay tours the country with national films and their makers, organizing seminars and establishing film libraries on their way.
The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam has a successful track record of discovering and supporting creative, independent filmmakers and stimulating film culture in developing countries. Twice a year, the fund makes contributions to a total of around sixty film projects. The contributions often act as seal of approval which helps finding additional investors. Many Hubert Bals Fund supported films have gained international acclaim at major film festivals and have found distribution in numerous countries. Fall 2009, Ahasin wetei (Between Two Worlds) by Vimukthi Jayasundara screened in Venice's Competition and Choi voi (Adrift) by Thac Chuyen Bui won the Venice FIPRESCI prize. Turkish 10 to 11 by Pelin Esmer screened in San Sebastian's Competition and Ho Yuhang's At the End of Daybreak won the NETPAC award during the Locarno festival.
The line up of the IFFR's Hubert Bals Fund Fall 2009 Selection Round in full:
Postproduction & final financing
Cold Sea (Agua fría de mar) by Paz Fábrega, Costa Rica
Jean Gentil by Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde & Israel Cárdenas, Dominican Republic/Mexico
Qarantina by Oday Rasheed, Iran
Soul Boy by Hawa Essuman, Kenya
Stone is the Earth (Ang Mundo sa Panahon ng Bato) by Ramon Mes De Guzman, Philippines
Susa by Rusudan Pirveli, Georgia
La vida útil by Federico Veiroj, Uruguay
Virgin Goat by Murali Nair, India
Summer of Goliath (Verano de Goliat) by Nicolás Pereda, Mexico
Script and Project development
The Drummer (Jibondhuli) by Tanvir Mokammel, Bangladesh
Limbo (Araf) by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Turkey
Wolf among Wolves (Lobo en medio de lobos) by Natalia López, Mexico
Lucía by Rubén Sierra Salles, Venezuela
Modest Reception (Paziraee Saadeh) by Mani Haghighi, Iran
Night Train by Koutaiba Al-Janabi, Iraq
NN by Héctor Gálves Campos, Peru
The Old Donkey (Lao Lv Tou) by Li Ruijun, China
Postcards from the Zoo by Edwin, Indonesia
Remote Control (Shuvuukhai) by Byamba Sakhya, Mongolia
Villegas by Gonzalo Tobal, Argentina
What's Your Religion? (Tuhya Dharm Koncha?) by Satish Manwar, India
The Winds (Ruzgarlar) by Selim Evci, Turkey
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly by Edwin, Babibutafilm, Indonesia
Efecto Cine, Coral Films, Uruguay
Sine Baranguay, Cinemanila International Film Festival, Philippines
Maisha Screenwriting Lab, Maisha Foundation, Uganda
Hubert Bals Fund Award at Goa Film Bazaar, India
(end of list)
Profile of the Hubert Bals Fund
Along with CineMart, the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) is part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The 39th IFFR will take place January 27 - February 7, 2010. Year-round news on IFFR, HBF and CineMart can be found on the festival website http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/.
The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable or urgent feature films and feature-length creative documentaries by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion. The Hubert Bals Fund provides grants that often turn out to play a crucial role in enabling these filmmakers to realize their projects. Although the Fund looks closely at the financial aspects of a project, the decisive factors remain its content and artistic value. Since the Fund started in 1988, close to 850 projects from independent filmmakers in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America have received support. Approximately 80% of these projects have been realised or are currently in production. Every year, the IFFR screens completed films supported by the Fund. The audience favorite among the HBF supported films screening in the festival receives the Dioraphte Award of 10,000 Euro.
The Hubert Bals Fund is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dutch non-governmental development organisations Hivos-NCDO Culture Foundation, the DOEN Foundation, Dioraphte Foundation and Dutch public broadcasting network NPS.
Grants and selection rounds
Annually, the Hubert Bals Fund has close to Euro 1.2 million at its disposal and is able to make individual grants of up to Euro 10,000 for script and project development, Euro 20,000 for digital production, Euro 30,000 for post-production or Euro 15,000 towards distribution costs in the country of origin. Selection rounds take place twice a year and have application deadlines on March 1 and August 1.
Training, workshops, the Hubert Bals Fund Awards
The Fund supports training initiatives for filmmakers in Ethiopia, Vietnam and Costa Rica. In Armenia and India, the Hubert Bals Fund participates in co-production meetings. On these occasions, Hubert Bals Fund Awards are granted to the most promising film projects.
Cat. : 4 Africa Al-Janabi Argentina Armenia Arts Asia Babibutafilm Bangladesh Blind Pig Byamba Sakhya China Cine Cinema of Turkey Cinemanila Cinemanila International Film Festival Company Location Contact Details Coral Films Costa Rica Director Dominican Republic drummer Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs eastern Argentina Eastern Europe Entertainment Entertainment Ethiopia Federico Veiroj Film Festival Films FIPRESCI Prize Gabhricha Paus Georgia Goa Gonzalo Tobal Guzman Héctor Gálves Campos http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com India Indian films Indonesia International Film Festival Rotterdam Iran Iraq Isabella Films Kenya Latin America Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde Li Ruijun Maisha Screenwriting Lab Major Mani Haghighi Many Hubert Bals Fund Mexico Middle East Mongolia Murali Nair Nairobi Natalia López National Park Service Nicolas Pereda Oday Rasheed Oday Rasheed Pandora's Box Paz Fábrega Person Career Peru Philippines professor Ramon Mes De Rotterdam Rotterdam Rotterdam Ruben Sierra Salles Rusudan Pirveli Satish Manwar Selim Evci Soul Boy Tanvir Mokammel Technology Technology The Hubert Bals Fund the International Film Festival Rotterdam Turkey Uganda Uruguay Venezuela Venice Vietnam writer Yeşim Ustaoğlu Yeşim Ustaoğlu FESTIVALS
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Labour says it has experienced a “large scale” cyber attack – latest news
Home Financial news Labour says it has experienced a “large scale” cyber attack – latest news
Via Financial Times
Labour says there was no data breach from cyber attack
The FT’s Jim Pickard and Sebastian Payne report:
Britain’s Labour party experienced a “sophisticated and large-scale cyber-attack” on its digital platforms on Monday, it has revealed.
The party said it was confident that its security systems ensured there had been no data breach but said it had reported the attack to the National Cyber Security Centre.
“We have experienced a sophisticated and large-scale cyber-attack on Labour digital platforms. We took swift action and these attempts failed due to our robust security systems. The integrity of all our platforms was maintained and we are confident that no data breach occurred,” a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
“Our security procedures have slowed down some of our campaign activities, but these were restored this morning and we are back up to full speed. We have reported the matter to the National Cyber Security Centre.”
Although the party has not said which digital platforms were targeted it is thought that some involved election tools which could contain details about voters.
Niall Sookoo, Labour’s executive director of elections, wrote to campaigners to explain why systems were working slowly on Monday.
“Yesterday afternoon our security systems identified that, in a very short period of time, there were large-scale and sophisticated attacks on Labour Party platforms which had the intention of taking our systems entirely offline,” he wrote.
“I would I like to pay tribute to all the teams at Labour HQ who identified this risk and acted quickly to protect us.”
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Separately The Times revealed on Tuesday that Labour had published the names of people who had donated through its website in what could – according to experts – be a breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules.
Labour removed the information from its website after being alerted by journalists.
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Dedicate a Flag
Find Your Flag
Virtual Flag Dedication
Flags for Honor 2020
For our 2020 Flags for Honor event, participants joined us over Patriot Day Weekend (Sept. 11 – 13) to celebrate distinguished members of our community. We created an awe-inspiring display of American flags based on the donations of community members, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and more. Honorees included:
COVID-19 First Responders
Law Enforcement Officers
Active or Reserve U.S. Military Personnel
Mentors, Teachers, and Coaches
And many other heroes!
The American flags were displayed at Edgewater Park in Cleveland, Ohio from Sept. 11 – 13 in honor of the individuals who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. In the park, they were located along the walk to the pavilion, providing a beautiful drive-by viewing opportunity down Route 2.
Click Here to find a helpful guide of who was honored at Edgewater Park as part of our 2020 Flags for Honor program. The honorees are also recognized year-round in our Virtual Flag Dedication where they are acknowledged on the interactive Honoree Map. The flags were also live-streamed on the FBICLECAAA’s Facebook page, providing a terrific opportunity to observe and enjoy the patriotic display from anywhere in the world.
Proceeds helped us raise $6,000 for both MedWish and Medworks, two local nonprofit organizations that support our local communities on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing essential medical supplies, protective gear, food, and healthcare services. We are proud to have helped support their missions!
What is Flags for Honor?
Flags for Honor is an annual event where you can dedicate a beautiful American flag to show your appreciation for those who have made an impact in your life by helping, guiding, or inspiring you. The vibrant display of American Flags is erected as a patriotic tribute to honorees. A postponement date will be announced in the near future. Current and past honorees are also acknowledged in our Virtual Flag Dedication with an interactive Honoree Map that displays the name, location, and description of each year’s honorees.
Who Are the Honorees?
Community members, businesses, and organizations love honoring their heroes, mentors, and loved ones with Flags for Honor. Each year, flags are placed in honor of local heroes, including servicemen and women, first responders, teachers, family members, EMTs, doctors and hospital workers, or anyone who has been a source of inspiration. The 2020 Flags for Honor event will certainly thank and salute those on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Where Can I View the Flags in 2020?
The flags will be proudly erected in Edgewater Park in Cleveland, Ohio. The patriotic display of American flags can also be observed while driving down Route 2. The flags will also be live-streamed on the FBICLECAAA Facebook page.
What Do Proceeds Benefit?
50% of all proceeds will be split equally between MedWish and Medworks. MedWish and Medworks are supporting our local communities on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing essential medical supplies, protective gear, food, and healthcare services. We are proud to help support their mission! The remaining 50% will benefit the FBI Cleveland Citizens Academy Alumni Association to cover event costs, along with supporting our mission of creating safer communities in Northeast Ohio and helping to encourage appreciation for law enforcement.
How Can I Set Up My Own “Flags for Honor” Event?
Please contact us if you would like to set up your own Flags for Honor event. We’d be happy to help!
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What’s a Dogger? A Cromarty? And would a German Bight mean Rockall to you?
In the UK we discovered the importance of Suffolk’s role in maritime history!
We also demystified the Shipping Forecast and found out where radar was developed.
Our first weekend was idyllic, spent on the coast of Suffolk re-living Jamie’s childhood holidays. We walked along the shore and played on the pebbly beach at Sizewell with his brothers and nephews, just like he used to as a young boy.
Beautiful Orford
And we visited Orford, a quintessential English seaside village with a castle, an allotment, biscuit-tin houses, olde Englishe pubs and a smokery. Made of fragile vegetated shingle, Orford Ness is operated by the National Trust. It lies opposite Orford and is an internationally renowned site for nature conservation.
Formerly administered by the Ministry of Defence, which conducted secret military tests during both world wars and the cold war, it also houses the Orfordness Beacon – one of the earliest experiments in long-range radio navigation now known as radar. That pretty lighthouse you see in the photo montage was discontinued as an aid to navigation in 2013.
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The Shipping Forecast
The BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast is as English as tea with the Queen, cricket on the village green, warm beer in the pub or fish ‘n’ chips wrapped in paper. Both of us grew up listening to the lyrical words and sounds which are known for aiding sleep but it was only later in life as sailors that it began to mean anything to us.
In 1859 Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was so shocked by the loss of 450 lives when the steam clipper, Royal Charter, was wrecked in a storm off Anglesey, that he resolved to do something about it. With better weather prediction (the term ‘forecast’ had yet to be coined), he knew those people could have been saved.
Royal Charter foundering off Anglesey
So in 1861 he introduced a warning system to the British Isles using telegraph communications, with the result that the Meteorological Office was created to continue this tradition to the present day.
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy
But this wasn’t Fitzroy’s only claim to fame. As well as being an English officer of the Royal Navy, he was a keen amateur scientist. When appointed Captain of HMS Beagle, and conscious of the mental problems associated with the isolation of command, he invited one Charles Darwin to accompany him on the famous exploratory mission.
Shipping Forecast Regions
The waters around the British Isles are divided into 31 sea areas, with poetic names steeped in history and tradition. Try saying them with your best, cut-glass BBC accent:
Viking, Forties, Dogger, Fisher, Sole and Bailey are named after sandbanks.
Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Humber, Thames and Shannon are named after estuaries.
Wight, Lundy, Fair Isle, Faeroes, Portland, Hebrides, South-East Iceland and North and South Utsire are named after islands.
The German Bight is an indentation on the Northern European shoreline.
Dover and Plymouth are named after towns.
Rockall and Fastnet are both named after islets.
Malin is named after Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland.
Biscay is named after the Bay of Biscay, and Trafalgar after Cape Trafalgar.
FitzRoy (up until 2001 known as Finisterre) is named after Robert FitzRoy.
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The forecast is limited to 350 words and starts with a general synopsis giving position, pressure in millibars and the track of pressure:
“Low, Rockall, 987, deepening rapidly, expected Fair Isle 964 by 0700 tomorrow.”
Then each area is listed (sometimes combined if the forecast is similar) giving wind direction, strength on the Beaufort scale, precipitation (if any), and ending with visibility:
“Tyne, Dogger. Northeast 3 or 4. Occasional rain. Moderate or poor.”
It’s easy once you know what it all means, isn’t it?!
We hope you enjoy this little slice of England and potted history of a British institution.
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Buterin, a former Thiel fellow, is the 24-year-old creator of blockchain platform Ethereum, which has fueled the initial coin offering trend and now has a $100 billion market cap. He now collaborates with the likes of Microsoft, BP and JPMorgan.
Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin’s Utopian Dream Created A Nine-Figure Fortune
Crypto Net Worth: $400 million-$500 million*
Gaunt and boyish, with close-cropped blond hair and piercing blue eyes, Ethereum creator Buterin might be the most recognizable person in crypto. As a teenager, he launched Bitcoin Magazine , dropped out of college to accept a Thiel Fellowship, then began traveling on his Bitcoin–and ruminated on its limitations.
Those travels inspired him to write the Ethereum white paper, which proposed an open source platform for more complex financial instruments aimed at the economically marginalized rather than just a currency like Bitcoin. Some $100 billion of market cap later, Ethereum is believed to have a greater number of developers building on it than any other blockchain community.
Utopian visions come with a cost: Buterin, 24, says he has less than 0.4% of the circulating supply of Ether. “A lot of people cheer the wealth redistribution that’s coming from cryptocurrency because they think, oh, it’s old money that’s being disempowered and flashy new tech money that’s being empowered,” says Buterin, whose invention now collaborates with the likes of Microsoft, BP and JPMorgan Chase. “But I’m skeptical that people involved in cryptocurrency are better people than people involved in the banking system.”
He adds, “If crypto succeeds, it’s not because it empowers better people. It’s because it empowers better institutions.”
*All cryptocurrency/U.S. dollar conversions are as of January 19, 2018.
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Skepticism over Covid-19 response growing
By Peter Menzies on November 19, 2020 No Comment
Science is messy, and its bewilderment as to how to respond to Covid-19 is beginning to wear on people
News that not one but two COVID-19 vaccines have tested 95 per cent effective casts a welcome burst of light into Canada’s gloomy COVID-19 narrative, amid signs the pandemic is ripping into the nation’s social fabric.
Moderna announced that its vaccine candidate proved 94.5 per cent effective in trials. Meanwhile, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech followed up their earlier announcement by confirming final results are five per cent higher than the 90 per cent originally announced.
Further review and regulatory approvals still await, including here in Canada. But the companies say first doses could ship as early as the end of November.
But hold the rooftop cheering.
According to Angus Reid polling, only 39 per cent of Canadians say they would get an approved vaccine injection right away if one became available. And 23 per cent believe the threat of COVID-19 has been exaggerated, assumedly by distrusted media and public officials.
When you consider that 66 per cent of the population must be vaccinated for the virus to be successfully suppressed, that’s a problem.
Such skepticism is growing globally, according to Timothy Caulfield of the University of Alberta. He’s a professor of law, research director of its Health Law Institute, and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy.
“We knew that the spread of misinformation was going to be bad, but I was naively optimistic that people would recognize the value of science and the harm of misinformation and it wouldn’t deteriorate as badly as it has,” Caulfield told CBC.
“People are now watching science unfold … so they’re seeing the uncertainty. They’re seeing how studies don’t always go in the same direction. That’s how science normally happens but people are watching this sausage being made and they don’t like what they see.”
Nor do they like the idea that – even in a good cause – the state’s power over them is being expanded. Rallies by anti-maskers continue to pop up across the country. An alarming number of otherwise sensible people seem convinced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to place thousands of us in COVID-19 concentration camps. The PM’s apparent conviction that it’s up to him whether Christmas occurs doesn’t help.
Tom Sampson, the head of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency, compared the pandemic to a tsunami. He described on Twitter how while some people will stand and watch as the wave approaches, “the enlightened” head for the hills at the first warning.
No doubt well-intended, Sampson seemed oblivious to the fact that bankruptcies in Canada grew by 20 per cent in September. Many of those on the beach may be among the 700,000 who have lost their jobs this year. They need to pay the rent and have no place else to go.
Then there’s Alberta Senator Paula Simons, who recently let the Twitterverse know she isolated herself for the past eight months. A self-described model COVID-19 citizen, she too appeared blind to the reality that her circumstances are profoundly different from those afforded the privilege of delivering her groceries.
How did we – the most highly educated cohort in the history of humanity – get here?
It’s worth considering whether it’s not so much the message but the messengers who are struggling here.
Maybe it’s because the same experts and media who are shouting at us to wear our masks were telling us as recently as April that wearing a mask is not the way to go and might actually increase the risk of transmission.
Or that the very voices who reported it was safe to go back to work are now telling us to work from home again.
Or that while it’s not safe to be in groups of more than 15, it’s just fine for 30 or more people to gather for several hours every day in classrooms.
Or that well-spaced, well-ventilated church services and little kids’ hockey are life-threatening when kindergarten and daycare aren’t.
Whatever little wedges of mistrust were placed by these and similar events, it’s increasingly clear that while, yes, we’re all supposed to be in this together, we’re actually not. At all.
As the voices of those who will never miss a paycheque or rent payment grow ever louder and more empathetic in demanding that others (but not them) sacrifice their livelihoods, and blame them for rising COVID-19 deaths, the schism of anger and distrust risks widening.
This is an incredibly difficult challenge for public health authorities, who need our support as they work to up their messaging game or suffer an increasing number of people tuning them out.
More and more, after all, are making fun of them. Commenting on restricted alcohol serving hours, one social media wit noted “last call is now at 10 p.m. because that’s what time the COVID comes out.” A father, responding to the suspension of team sports, tweeted: “Hockey is cancelled so this afternoon I’m taking my son’s U9 team to the bar.”
Mockery is a poor foundation for stability, which we need to truly absorb even great news. Surely even the enlightened will see that.
Peter Menzies is a senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, past CRTC vice-chair and a former newspaper publisher. A longer version of this article appeared originally in Convivium, a publication of the think-tank Cardus.
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Posted on March 17, 2017 - Uncategorized
Day One – Night flight from Paris having just spent last 24 hours in Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, and London. Not sure what time it is in my body. I guess I’ll just go with the flow. The cultural changes are starting to warmly tickle my toes, I will be awash by tomorrow. Before you know it, I’ll probably be bathing in the Ganges.
Arrived to the WaterAid board meeting at the Center for World Solidarity and was enlightened by many aspects of the vital work they are doing. How they lobby the govt for funds, install water and toilet facilities as well as help create sustainable hygiene processes and access to clean healthy water.
They working on the WASH project which focuses on water, sanitation and hygiene (changing attitudes towards menstrual hygiene management).
I learned that 1 out of 3 people in the world do not have access to a toilet and that 60% of the worlds open deification exists in India.
Wow! Grateful for this opportunity to visit India in a way that I couldn’t have seen without the help of WaterAid and Aveda. So eye opening to meet the local advocates bringing real change for economic and social developments into these desperate communities.
Community Leader with Gina
This lady is the leader of the community. She didn’t stop smiling the whole time we were there.
Day Two – Yummy spicy curries for breakfast! Heading to a rural community today to see what a pre-intervention village is like.
We met the head of education, community leaders, health workers and local children who told us stories of how they live and the social stigmas and dangers associated with outdoor toilets.
They told us how women are only allowed to go outside to the toilet in the early morning or after dark to preserve their dignity. This causes many health issues as well aside from the threat of snakes, scorpions and sexual predators.
Ambitious youth in India
One girl spoke up about menstruation and told us how they are not allowed to leave the house when menstruating as they are considered unclean. They cannot touch anyone during this week, bathe or go to religious temples.
This 15 year old girl is beautiful and now of marrying age. Her hopes are to go to college and become a web developer. The chance to succeed with their dreams quickly diminishes for older girls as 20% don’t receive an education past 14.
The children at the school were so happy and excited to see us!! They were desperate to share their stories. How I hope we can help them.
School children at pre-intervention village
We must give these children reasons to smile as over 140K children die every year due to poor sanitation and unsafe water in India.
Local Shopkeeper
I just fell in love with these two. A great great grandmother so deliciously cuddling her angel
Great Grandmother love
I have to tell the story of the passionate girls that have started a grass roots movement called CORE. The aim of this is to teach young girls about menstruation (MHM – menstrual hygiene management) and the conception of children.
They have worked with over 1200 youths so far moving from school and community centers in their region. They use games and creative play to get across safe and sanitary menstruation practices and break the taboos that they have lived with all their lives.
One girl was told by her grandmother to stay away from the temple during menses or she would die! As a result of the CORE group she challenged this and went into the temple. She came home bravely and told her grandmother that she did it and did not die. Her grandmother then realised the importance of challenging these myths.
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They fed us homemade regional cuisine for lunch. They were gracious hosts.
Home cooked meal
Day Three –
Early start again to beat the heat of the day and meet many people from a village called Ibrahimpoor that has benefited from having clean water and toilets in every household. This village was in desperate need and it took two years to implement these changes.
Fresh water pump
All the villagers were so proud to show off their homes and invited us in for a visit. The homes were immaculate. The roads were swept and they had transformed an open deification area into a lovely lush garden.
So wonderful to visit a new school that was built for 100 children. They welcomed us with beautiful flowers and leaf decorations.
Post Intervention school
One of the biggest celebrations for this village was the fact that they only needed one health care worker instead of four. Before they had access to clean water and sanitary spaces they had so much illness.
A community centre was also built to deliver nutritious food for children and pregnant mothers.
Post Intervention classroom
We spoke to a group of women who were being beaten by their husbands because they had to walk 1-1.5 hours each way to find a safe, private place to go to the bathroom.
The second village we went to today is in the middle of making changes through the support of WaterAid.
A very spirited entrepreneur named Radha from Ragharapur told us how her time is now spent looking after her buffalo to earn a living rather than walking 5 hours a day to find a private place to use the toilet. As a widow she can now stay home and look after her elderly mother.
Post intervention pride
One of the observations I’ve made is that the mindset is hard to shift about people not wanting to have a toilet in their homes as it will spoil the house. It is necessary to teach hygiene management to all generations to create disease free environments.
Off on another flight to Bangaluru tonight and have long transfer to hotel. A new adventure starts tomorrow.
Changing lifestyles
Day Four –
I had no idea, by day’s end that I would have the richest day with the poorest people.
First I sat in on a meeting with the People’s Organization for Rural Development (PORD) and listened to Ms Malleshwari’s personal journey to challenge the myths about menstruation.
I was sad to hear that she was made to sleep for 10 days in the cattle shed during her period and not allowed in the home. And that after girls in her community had started menstruating, they were no longer allowed to attend school so most of them stopped at age 10.
She persevered and negotiated with her very traditional family to marry at 15 so she could finish school. She came to marry an activist who supported her and helped her to shape her future in a way that would help many women and communities. She started the NGO PORD. Their son is now a software developer and she also is a journalist. A true success story!
PORD headquarters and the team
The next stop was to a post intervention village where we were warmly welcomed with a ceremony of flower giving, with bright yellow garlands made of marigolds, turmeric face painting and vermilion dots to symbolise a bindi.
The village children did a gorgeous dance which focused on health. Then the head of the Village Water and Sanitation Committee gave a presentation – quoting that only 10% of the village had toilets and then within a year they had reached 95%.
Village water and sanitation committee presentation
Mortar and pestle in the kitchen
They were so proud and excited to see us. I felt like a celebrity. They all wanted to shake my hand, like I was a savior. But it’s not me, it’s you, WaterAid and Aveda to thank.
They welcomed us into their homes again to show us that they had a better quality of life. The made us sweet chai tea and told stories of the hardships they had endured. We laughed and cried.
4 people live & sleep in this room
The last stop of the day was at a state run school of all girls and they did a beautiful traditional dance for us and wanted us to join in.
They wore no shoes and had dirty purple uniforms but for the festival they planned so many wonderful surprises and gifts for us!
They prepared a sari ceremony for us and gave us hand stitched sari’s and vests that the elders helped us to put on.
Brave and bold they staged plays to protest in a society that sees them as having next to no rights at all. They wrapped up the performance with asking us questions about what we take for granted.
The lump in my throat hurt telling them that we have equal rights as women, we can vote, work, attain higher education and have all the freedoms that men do. I had to tell them this even though it was hard. I wanted them to know they should fight for these things too!
Performance in the courtyard
Hindu Alter
Hindu painting
We enjoyed some lovely customs of the culture such as Henna tattoo’s and on the last day we visited an ashram.
I’m always keen to further my Ayurvedic knowledge with a treatment in a new country to bring back new ideas and influences. And as always, I’m happy to say that our talented therapists are always spot on with providing services that exceptional.
I’ve made some good friends on this trip. I think you see and share experiences that are so out of this world that you connect to the core. It’s made me humble and steadfast that I am not an island.
WaterAid Team & Aveda
I am capable of helping create change for the better. Twenty years ago I proclaimed that I wanted to help make the world a better place on a large scale. And every day since then I do my part to chip away and build my dream. It’s nice to see that what you and I give actually does make a huge impact on people. The glaring difference between the pre and post intervention villages is HUGE. From hunger, illness and shame, to equality, pride and freedom!
Raising money for water, toilets and MHM isn’t very sexy I know. But these humble proud people are desperate, and grateful for your help. And I am too.
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Do you love soccer, both watching and playing? How about watching or participating in a demolition derby where cars try to destroy each other? What do you think would happen if you combine both soccer and demolition derby? Well, you’d get Rocket Car Ball. It’s a sports action-driving game where you get to drive cars and shoot rockets at other vehicles. But that’s not all you will have to do.
Your overall goal is to shoot the gigantic ball towards the goal post using your car. That’s right! You will play soccer using vehicles. But you can also destroy other cars which will again try to ram the giant ball towards your goal post and win for their team. It’s an exciting game to play that you will enjoy. But how do you play this game? Check out the step-by-step guide below.
How to Play Rocket Car Ball?
You can choose to play Rocket Car Ball in Story Mode, Quick Play, or League. Regardless of the game mode, the gameplay would be similar. It’s three vehicles against three vehicles inside a caged arena, and the objective is to score more goals than the opponents.
Please take note that the match will start with each team in front of their goal. A giant ball will be dropped in the middle. Both teams will try to go for the ball to see who can push it first towards the enemy’s goal post. You can shoot your weapon towards the enemy to lessen their health. If you happen to hit them again, you will kill them and put them out of commission for a short while, providing your team with a slight advantage.
Moreover, just like in real soccer, the game will have two halves that will have 1 minute and 30 seconds each (depending on the match that you are playing). That’s the time that you will have to score goals. You need to ram or shoot the ball to make it move. It sounds easy, but it will be a bit challenging first since you can’t have full control over the ball.
Lastly, the team with the most goals at the end of the match will win. You can upgrade your weapons and vehicles or even get new ones to help you perform better during the game.
You can see from the guide that this game is very simple and easy to learn, but also a bit challenging to master. It’s an exciting game to play, and you won’t regret downloading it. But what else does Rocket Car Ball have to offer? Let’s check out its main features.
Rocket Car Ball Features
Numerous weapons and vehicles are available to use! .
Realistic 3D graphics to enhance your gaming experience.
Various game modes to enjoy.
Try out heavy weapons including missiles!
Free to play and download.
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Top Songs of 2013: Best Dance Music TOP TEN
April 3, 2014 Karma
While we’re talking favorites of 2013, Kukula was the best artist I discovered last year.
The Top Songs of 2013 playlist continues, with the ten best dance songs playlist. By “best dance songs” I don’t mean “biggest bangers.” Anyone quality producer can lay down a floor shaker and even anthemic crescendos a la David Guetta and Calvin Harris are starting to sound tired. While the tracks below will make your hips shake, they also combine the zeitgeist of EDM right now and the direction dance music is heading.
The Best Dance Music of 2013
10. Smokey Robinson – Being With You (Clark Kent Remix) (4:34)
First posted August 2013 by Earmilk
As I mentioned in the previous post, this year’s crop of best dance tunes had a lot of retro remixes, but you’d not confuse this Clark Kent remix with an earlier dance era. Sure it opens with a ghostly a capella and follows that with a synth that could have come from 1984, but when the dubstep drops in you know this to be firmly 21st century. The washes and the thick bass make the song sick, and I’m just as impressed how he mixed Robinson’s simple piano melody with that very different-sounding synth. But mostly, somehow the Clark Kent remix makes this song sound so much more haunting than I ever thought Smokey Robinson could.
9. Miguel – Do You… (Cashmere Cat Remix) (5:07)
First posted April 2013 by the Astral Plane
I promised Cashmere Cat would make this list and here he is at number nine. I listened to this remix so much that I went and checked out Miguel, but it turns out what I really like about this song is 100% due to Cashmere Cat. Those looking for bangers may be disappointed to see this track on the list, it’s really an early-evening song. But the best isn’t always the hardest, and I think Miguel is doing unexpected things with his mixes. I love his use of the squeaky bed springs, a tongue-in-cheek reference to sex that’s much fresher than the clichéd sound of a woman moaning. One of the growing trends of 2014 is slowed-down vocals, and this mix demonstrates this nicely. When you first learn mixing, playing with pitch is an easy way to kill a party so I’m doubly impressed to see it done effectively. I also like the way he picked out the particularly fun couplet of this song and focused on it, without making the vocals sound repetitive. Probably because of all that synthy magic he’s mixed together to make this into one delicious soup.
8. Wild Belle – It’s Too Late (Employee Of The Year Remix) (3:13)
First posted in January 2013 by Disco Demons
Speaking of early-evening songs, this Wild Belle remix is probably the slowest jam on the list. Yet I can’t help but want to sway when that disco groove kicks in at :50. What’s sophisticated about this remix is how he perfects the original. It’s a good song, but a little repetitve, and Employee of the Year drops some of that, focusing on the strongest lines of the song. “It’s Too Late” would make a great closer (or opener), or a funny ditty for washing dishes, walking the dog, or romancing a first date. Probably too short at just over three minutes, which is all the reason to play it again. If you like this low-tempo number, you should probably check out my best indie pop list.
7. RESET! – Stealin your soul (Original Vocal Mix) (4:15)
First posted January 2013 by Manalogue
Let’s pick up the pace a little with some house music. What really grabs me about this song is the fantastic vocals. His gospel-worthy voice combined with the short trumpet frill makes this 2013 song sound like it could have been a remix of some old 70s vinyl from the rummage bin. The group is Italian, so I can’t tell you much about them, all I know is that his enthusiasm is infectious.
6. Phoenix – Entertainment (Kastra Remix) (5:12)
First posted May 2013 by Surviving the Golden Age
I was disappointed by Phoenix’s newest effort after their breakout fourth album. The songs didn’t have that addictive quality that made me want to sing along despite the inexplicable lyrics (to be fair, they’re French). All that is quickly forgotten with Kastra’s irresistible electro remix. The song peaked at number 11 on the US alternative charts, but it’s Kastra’s remix that reminds me what makes electro so exciting and fun. Continue reading Top Songs of 2013: Best Dance Music TOP TEN →
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Pentagon tweaks MASINT methods
By Wilson P. Dizard III
The Defense Department has issued new directives on how it builds Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) projects, which typically use advanced systems to glean data from merged sensor information.
Meanwhile, computer scientists at Teheran University also are studying how MASINT and the Internet pose new challenges for intelligence agencies.
DOD agencies rarely comment on their MASINT activities publicly except in general terms. Representatives of the Iranian intelligence agencies were not available for comment on this story.
However, a March 18 DOD directive and a related June 12 instruction document have shifted the technology development methods for MASINT projects and possibly disclosed hitherto unpublicized intelligence activities.
The March directive assigns responsibility for implementing MASINT and related technical intelligence projects jointly to the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Director of National Intelligence.
The directive calls for the two organizations to oversee MASINT missions from beginning to end, including their collection, processing, exploitation, reporting and customer satisfaction phases.
The directive exempts the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from the MASINT oversight authority specified for DIA and DNI.
It calls for the oversight agencies to use air-, ground- and sea-based systems in addition to what it calls persistent or long-term methods to provide MASINT to customer organizations. The directive also gives DIA and DNI authority over DOD's little-known National Signatures Program.
MASINT systems frequently identify and characterize enemy assets, including weapons and underground structures, by gathering and analyzing the distinctive signatures associated with those entities.
Those signatures frequently are gleaned by combining data from two or more types of existing sensors. The intelligence discipline traditionally is divided into five phases that reflect data available through sensors pointed at various chunks of the electromagnetic spectrum in addition to sound data and chemical emissions.
The department's June 12 instruction covers MASINT training standards and methods. It also assigns responsibility for the development of technical intelligence curricula to various DOD organizations. DIA and the department's undersecretary of intelligence will develop and review various technical aspects of the MASINT training regime, according to the instruction.
On the other side of the globe, Iranian computer scientist Nader Naghshineh of the Information Studies Lab of the Faculty of Psychology and Education at Teheran University presented a briefing about MASINT and related concepts April 13.
The Iranian scholar's approach to exploiting technical intelligence bore the title 'Humint or Webint' ' human intelligence or Web intelligence. It was a PowerPoint presentation outlining a broad-brush or introductory approach to topics such as the effect of the Internet and similar entities on methods of information discovery.
A notable feature of the Teheran University presentation was a section that cites information-sharing problems among researchers caused by increasing technical specialization.
Naghshineh also noted that the vast increase in information creation has made it harder to pinpoint 'pockets or islands of relevant knowledge within the public domain that remain undiscovered due to the sheer volume of information one has to sift through.'
That problem of connecting the dots, or extracting useful intelligence from swelling torrents of intelligence data, has prompted many data-mining and advanced analytic information technology projects across the federal government.
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AT&T expands IoT portfolio
By Amanda Ziadeh
AT&T recently rolled out a number of innovations for smart cities, including an Internet of Things smart city framework and a new set of IoT developer tools.
Working with a broad range of industry partners, AT&T is bringing its smart cities framework to Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas. While the company already supports connected utility meters, street lights and water system solutions, the new framework adds:
Infrastructure services that allow cities to remotely monitor the conditions of the roads, bridges, buildings and parks so maintenance crews can easily detect areas in need of repairs or attention.
Mobile applications, with real-time information about city services and traffic issues
Transportation services including digital street signs for commuters about public transportation arrivals. The company also plans to build rentable electric bike stations across the city.
Public safety solutions that address traffic patterns around stadiums, parks and busy intersections and that deploy gun fire detection technology to let law enforcement know where a shooting occurred.
AT&T’s Smart City Network Operation Center features a digital dashboard that will show how these assets are performing in near-real time, in addition to showing information on power outages, water leaks and traffic issues.
In order to help developers build IoT apps, AT&T announced commercial availability of AT&T Flow Designer cloud-based prototyping tools, to help developers in various fields easily create IoT applications.
The Flow Designer offers features like AT&T Flow Edge, which allows apps built in the designer to run both at the network edge and in the cloud, and AT&T M2X Context to allow users to set rules for what kinds of data should reach specific groups of users.
A&T is also working to connect its IoT data from its solutions to Salesforce’s Customer Success Platform to integrate technology services and make it easier for users to route service requests, cases and tickets through pre-built workflows.
Amanda Ziadeh is a former reporter/producer for GCN.
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Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -II
brihaspati
Re: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -II
Postby brihaspati » 09 Jan 2010 19:46
Hinton's views and descriptions are based on actual participation in land-reform teams in China and from teaching work in "liberated areas".
From wiki :
"At the time of Hinton's first visit to China in the mid-1930s, a handful of U.S journalists, such as Edgar Snow, Helen Foster Snow, and Owen Lattimore, had sneaked through the KMT blockade into Communist territory. All praised the high morale, social reform, and commitment to fighting Japan that they observed.
Along with academic colleagues, Hinton made similar observations when he served from 1945-1953 during his subsequent visit to China. Hinton was a staff member of the U.S. Office of War Information and was present at the Chongqing peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, where he met Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. Hinton later accepted a post as an English teacher at the Northern University in Southeast Shanxi province, near Changzhi City, in a liberated district. In 1948 he asked to join the university-staffed land reform work team in the village of Long Bow on the outskirts of Changzhi.
Hinton spent eight months working in the fields in the day and attending land reform meetings both day and night, and during this time he took careful notes on the land reform process. He assisted in the development of mechanized agriculture and education, and mainly stayed in the CPC-ruled northern Chinese village of Long Bow, forging close bonds with the inhabitants. Hinton aided the locals with complicated CPC initiatives, especially literacy projects, the breaking up of the feudal estates, ensuring the equality of women, and the replacement of the imperial-era magistrates that governed the village with councils in a symbiotic relationship with the landed gentry class. Hinton took more than one thousand pages of notes during his time in China."
Hinton actually revisited China, after Deng returned to power and actually stayed at Dazhai, based on which his later work on "reversal" was published. This was critical of Deng, and supported the claims based on his actual collections of data on spot. His sister Joan, who has stayed in China since late 40's (and was a nuclear physicist and part of the Manhattan Project) in a small agricultural commune - farming - would be an equally interesting character and is equally critical and openly so about Dengian reforms. She is on-spot too and a participant in the daily life.
The question really is about two differnt viewpoints about "grassroots democracy" and how it should affect the structures of power. The same question will become significant for China and India in two different ways. For the strategic future of India, the connections cannot be ignored. Promotion of such a democracy in China, can be a significant factor in diluting the "imperialistic" ambitions of the Chinese elite in power now (many direct descendants and sons or daughters of previous party elite - and hence as in India - showing similar signs of dynasty).
India can have a two pronged stratgey for this in China - just as what I have proposed tentatively for TSP. Target the "elite" and separate them from the "masses" in propaganda. Help in promoting the traditional resentment towards the hierarchical elite that seems to consolidate itself and recapture power after every "transition" - just as in India. Parts of the elite always collaborates with invading forces in both countries to hold on to their powers and privileges - and sacrifice the "masses". Others in the elite ride waves of popular resentment to re-establish their hold on the power when unpopular regimes or foreigners are expelled - and continue to deny the mass representation in power.
Elite propaganda in both countries do not reflect naturally and necessarily the feelings of the "people". For both TSP and China, it is important to distinguish, even from a tactical viewpoint to focus hostility and delegitimization efforts against the elite in power - while fostering hopes of collaboration and empowerment to the "people".
RayC
Postby RayC » 10 Jan 2010 18:15
Tradition, Modernity, and Communism
Jarita
Location: Andromeda
Postby Jarita » 11 Jan 2010 00:08
At a certain level one admires the Pakistanis for having the conviction to fight for what they want. They want Kashmir and have made such a noise about it that today the world believes that Pakistan has a claim on Indian Kashmir but does not question pakistans claim on POK.
We have consistently lost territory since indep. both through war and otherwise - the recent report of whittling of our territory at chinese hands should be a wakeup call if nothing else. We did not even fight a war to face that loss. China occupied our territory in 1962 but it is shown as part of China today across the world. No one questions that. Tibet is also shown as China across the world.
While we may tote our success vis a vis Pakistan, all things being equal we have failed. Pakistan has lesser territory, lesser population but still able to orchestrate world opinion around Kashmir.
There is something seriously wrong with our leadership. All the hot air 'India superpower" etc are just to obfuscate the issue.
Unless something happens soon we will be left like "Happy Idiots" with nothing but believing we have everything like the "emporers new clothes"
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^^^err -"Pakistani thread"!!! Maybe you wanted to say "we also discuss Pakistan"?
Postby svinayak » 11 Jan 2010 02:10
Jarita wrote: At a certain level one admires the Pakistanis for having the conviction to fight for what they want. They want Kashmir and have made such a noise about it that today
It is a question of survival. That survival instinct keeps them awake all night. They dont have any real genuine supporters in the world.
Models suggested for consideration as way forward for J&K
The various references for so-called resolving the J&K dispute with TSP along preexisting and mostly European cases are increasing. As a slight departure from the standard "Northern Ireland -Good Friday" model mostly proposed in seminars and by researchers: we have this list of alternatives.
The Aland Islands model
Sweden , Finland
Swedish nationals in Finland controlled territory. The former wants to join Sweden , but Finland would not agree.
The status of an autonomous territory was given, but Finland retains sovereignty over the Islands . Helsinki was to ensure linguistic rights (Swedish language) as well as culture and heritage of Aland residents: The Islands were given a neutral and demilitarised status with their own flag, own postage stamps, and own police force.
The Trieste model
Italy , Yugoslavia
Predominant presence of Slovenians around the city of Trieste (inhabited by Italians), which was controlled by Anglo-American and Yugoslavian forces respectively, known as Zone A and Zone B during the Second World War.
Free Territory of Trieste was established in 1947 under the protection of the UNSC as a neutral state which comprised the city of Trieste , a narrow strip of coastal territory connecting it to Italy , Slovenia and Istria . Later, under the Treaty of Osimo (1954), the territory was formally divided along the zonal border between Italy and Yugoslavia .
The South Tyrol model
Italy , Austria
Formerly part of Austria . Presence of three linguistic groups viz., Germans (70%), Italian (26%) and Ladin (4%). Annexed by Italy in 1919. Struggle by German majority against Italianisation. Failure of Paris Agreement (1946) and lack of implementation of the South Tyrol Package (1969)
Settled in 1992 with acceptance of the implementation of the South Tyrol Package (1969). Under Italian sovereignty, but with greater autonomy: recognition of cultural diversity; autonomy of legislation and administration; minority veto on issues of fundamental importance; and proportional ethnic representation. The autonomy package is overseen by Austria .
The Andorra model
France , Spain
Andorra was under a unique co-principality, ruled by the French chief of state and the Spanish bishop of Urgel for 715 years (1278 to 1993).
Through a Constitution enacted in 1993 the government was transformed into a parliamentary democracy with both French and Spanish heads of states jointly wielding executive powers as "co-princes". Andorra 's defence is ensured by France and Spain .
Sami parliamentary model
Norway , Finland , Sweden , Sami indigenous population
Inhabiting northern Fennoscandia (northern parts of Finland , Norway and Sweden ) Samis are pastoral nomadic people, whose way of life contradicts territoriality. They waged a protracted struggle for their indigenous rights in all three countries.
The cultural rights of Samis were recognized in the constitutions of each of the three countries. This apart, a separate Sami Parliament was established in each of these countries to act as advisory bodies on issues affecting Samis.
Postby ramana » 13 Jan 2010 22:23
All those models are co-religionists. Point out a model with different religions and then we can look at it.
Cyprus is still a dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
ramana wrote: All those models are co-religionists. Point out a model with different religions and then we can look at it.
India , region and asia cannot have European model. Europe has been thru many social changes in the last few centuries and more in the last 100 years. THey have the same religion with only the race/ethnicity difference.
Indian subcontinent the race is the same but the religion ideology/political power structure difference comes into place. Islamist ideology cannot work with any formula.
ramanaji and Acharyaji,
those were not my suggestions actually. I just requoted it from the article. Explore the link provided. Quite a few of them are involved in this research on "models". Sumantra Bose, I think is another "stalwart" in suggesting such models. I wanted to point out that a growing number of Indian "scholarly" voices are talking about such ideas. This is a standard technique nowadays - to introduce and create political consensus in phases, starting with "intellectuals" broaching the idea.
None of the models are applicable, from my viewpoint. Moreover, any such model is dependent on "objectives" and "desired outcomes". Those "objectives" and "outcomes" are not yet fixed. This is what I wanted highlight. All these models appear to assume certain definite objectives. "Peace" is not a well-defined "objective" since "peace" can mean different things to different entities. For TSP, the very existence of a non-Muslim dominated India is distrurbance of "peace".
One of the reasons perhaps scholars find no problem in using such models as templates for J&K and ignore the simpler sectarian nature of co-religionist conflict in the European models - is perhaps because there has been a conscious attempt to suppress the obvious role of inter-faith conflicts. Everything is made out on the basis of supposed economic motivation and the assumption that fundamentalism is an external and not internal or intrinsic part of "faith". Therefore pure economic measures backed up by political top-dressing is claimed to be able to wish away the fundamentalist/sectarian bit.
The models are from IPCS run by Mr PC Chari along with Michael Krepon (other variations of spelling are there too).
The ignoring the inter-religious nature is due to modernity of the scholars. They think Peace of Westphalia is universal. Its not when one side does ignores it. Infact this is the same failing that early Indians had wrt to Afghano-Turkic hordes of observing one set of rules while the others were using another set.
It all very fine and 'intellectual' to give European models.
The cultural and the psyche are not the same. At least, that is what I think since I am no intellectual or pseudo intellectual.
This is an Indian issue.
What is the answer in the Indian mould?
Contested Lands - article by Sumantra Bose on OpenDemocracy
Contested Lands argues that contrary to much conventional wisdom, the incremental approach is rife with risks, even perils. The window of opportunity represented by the onset and early stages of a peace process is both precious and tenuous, and time is not necessarily on the side of the supporters of peace. If the incremental process fails to deliver on its promise of piecemeal yet tangible progress, confidence-building can be turned on its head and become an exercise in confidence-destroying, as exemplified by the steady decline of the Israeli-Palestinian process through the 1990s. The gradualist approach also has the effect of giving "spoilers" on various sides - elements opposed to a negotiated peace - the time to mobilise, and prepare and implement destructive interventions. In addition, the incremental approach may in fact be, or become, a pretext for the more powerful party in a peace process to dictate its agenda, as some influential critics of the Oslo paradigm have argued.
There is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to making peace. But in some situations at least, a better strategy may be to aim for a comprehensive settlement to the dispute in all its dimensions, while staggering the implementation of such an agreement over time, as is inevitable due to practical and logistical compulsions. Apart from avoiding the pitfalls of incrementalism, such a strategy "locks in" the adversaries - however grudgingly and reluctantly - into the framework of a substantive settlement, and makes a total relapse into renewed warfare less likely.
This is, broadly, the experience of Northern Ireland since the Good Friday agreement of April 1998, and of Bosnia since the Dayton agreement of November-December 1995. In contrast, the absence of such a "locking in" mechanism has been a major factor in the unravelling and breakdown between 2002 and 2006 of Sri Lanka's peace process - which was premised, even if implicitly, on the incremental approach to peace-building - while the India-Pakistan peace process underway since 2004, based on the same evasive paradigm, is stalled. There is something to be said for the "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" formula - the motto of the United Nations's heroic if ultimately unsuccessful attempt, between 2000 and 2004, to mediate a solution to the Cyprus conflict.
Bose raises immensely perceptive pointers. But does he realize that by mentioning the failure of the UN's "heroic attempt" in Cyprus for the "everything together or none at all" approach - he is opening up an interesting angle. Why does such approaches fail and under what conditions? Cyprus is not only about ethno-nationalistic divides - but also about ideological/faith/religious divides. Is it possible that certain ideologies make them impossible to "agree on everything" unless those points are exactly what they initially demanded? That ithe basic power and identity of such ideologies are based on "distinctions" from the "other" - so that even the minutest agreements on some aspect with another group is an ideological threat to the identity itself? Acknowledgements of commonness with "others" on a wide front of aspects is destructive to the very identity that is driving the agenda of "self-rule/determination/nationhood"?
If that is true - the lock-down mechanism will fail in Israel-Palestine and India-Pakistan.
The ethno-national problem
Other challenges remain. Self-determination disputes - the most intractable genre of political disagreement - have virtually no chance of progressing toward settlement in the absence of third-party intervention, although the presence and activity of a third party is in itself no guarantee of a success. But the role of the third party, whilst essential, can have a very variable impact on the prospects of peace processes - constructive, ineffective, or even destructive.
The American role in the Oslo process, hobbled by the structural bias of United States policy towards Israel, deepened, instead of diluting, the massive power-differential between Israel and the Palestinians, and contributed to the eventual demise of that process. As a genuinely neutral third party, Norway played a pivotal role in the origins of Sri Lanka's peace process, bringing about the now-collapsed ceasefire agreement of 2002. But when the peace process became bogged down from 2003 onward, Norway, because it is a small, "do-gooder" country not taken too seriously by either belligerent, proved incapable of extricating the process from ruinous logjam.
Even if a country appears security-neutral what guarantees that it is really security neutral? How can we do so in a globally interconnected socio-economic and militarily collective of real and pseudo-nationhoods? What will be such an effective but neutral entity in case of India-Pakistan?
There is also no easy or uniform answer to the "spoiler problem". The most effective strategy to combat spoiler elements depends on the context, and ranges from politically marginalising Sinhalese ultra-nationalists in Sri Lanka to - possibly - co-opting Hamas in Israel-Palestine. The most fundamental impediment to peace processes and accords often comes, however, not from political movements commonly derided as "extremist" and "terrorist" - such as Hamas, or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka (LTTE) - but from ethno-national majority populations (Sinhalese-Buddhists in Sri Lanka, Protestants in Northern Ireland, Greek Cypriots on Cyprus) among whom ideas of hegemonic dominance continue to hold sway, or from states, such as Israel, trapped in a militarist ethos and fortified by superpower patronage.
Is this the reason that there is such an overwhelming intellectual and political concern about deconstructing and marginalizing or delegtimizing the "usual suspects" on the Indian subcontinent - the non-Muslim majority of India? And why not even a fraction of the same effort is mounted against the Muslim majority in subregions and politically independent territories on the Indian subcontinent?
But the power of the majority is not determined by how numerous they are physically - but how many of them feel themselves as part of such a homogeneous "majority". That majorities do not determine actual confrontational outcomes is stark and glaring in the Partition of India. All scholars/intellectuals/apologists/politicains/hagiographers acknowledge that successful Partition variously as the determined actions by a "minority" or even admired "determination" of charismatic individuals! Maybe Prof. Bose and others of his opinion should look at formulating some concept of an "effective and determined" group hellbent on domination and separation rather than strictly thinking in terms of numerical strength. Lenin was prophetic when he opined that his "Bolshevik" faction would win - not because they were a numerical minority in the conclave of the socialists - but they were the "majority" (Bolshevik) in "agreeing on the maximum of points and agendas" among themselves!
brihaspati wrote: Lenin was prophetic when he opined that his "Bolshevik" faction would win - not because they were a numerical minority in the conclave of the socialists - but they were the "majority" (Bolshevik) in "agreeing on the maximum of points and agendas" among themselves!
This is what it is all about . Homogeneity in values.
Location: Weighing and Waiting 8T Yconomy
Postby Prem » 16 Jan 2010 01:59
="Acharya"]
This is what it is all about . Homogeneity in values
This is the reason the worst abomination is committed when few entities or people propogate grouping , creating fault lines and giving the precetion that majority Indians are just a collections of groups . Spiritual refrences conencted with the holy soil provide this homogeneity and no secret this aspect is under constant attack by not onlee outsiders but few well meanings groups inside India. The line of thought that majority will some how steam roll the minority or why look back and learn from past and make future onlee are just the tools to hinder building critical values mass among Indics to gain its rightfull natural space .
History and civilisational heritage helps shape the future. It has to mould pragmatically into the environment of the present and the requirement of the future (as far as it can be foreseen).
To merely lean onto history and civilisation cannot produce desired results.
A case in point is the fundamentalist Islamic forces who delve into their scriptures to understand their present. Their state of affairs bear witness to this type of mindset!
They are as ardent and fiercely avowed to their 'glorious' past as any other. One wonders if it has given them a 'glorious' present or will give them a 'glorious' future!
A very complex conundrum!
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RayC wrote: A case in point is the fundamentalist Islamic forces who delve into their scriptures to understand their present. Their state of affairs bear witness to this type of mindset!
Dont compare Islamic history which never allows outsiders to interpret and change it.
Indic history and civilization memory has been trampled and abused for centuries and will be difficult to revive back. There is a spacial distance between the two.
Acharya wrote:
I beg to disagree. All history of all mankind has been trampled on at will.
Ask the Jews, Hindus, Sikhs or anyone. They all have good reasons to believe so.
The terrorism that has been spawned by Islamic fundamentalists are but their view that their Islamic history and thought is being trampled upon! They claim that their glorious days of the Islamic Empire was trampled up and was reduced to a postage stamp because of conspiracies. That is their view. One does not know how far that is right.
This is what a Muslim told me:
Tera gam gam,
Mera gam kahani,
Tera khoon khoon
aur Mera Khoon pani?
I am not here to change views.
You are welcome to have yours.
RayC wrote:
Wrong. Check out Koran. Find out how many revision and changes have happened in history.
Their glory days are tyranny for others. There is nothing which other countries faced have to say good things about it.
Rather extreme a view.
Till 10th Century, interpretation was allowed.
However, do let me know has the Bible or the Hindu mythologies ever been changed to suit the situation?
Interpretation has been entirely an individual choice. I presume the same is applicable to many Muslims too. Jinnah ate pork!
One must attempt to change the mindset and not drive chaps up the wall so that they get belligerent and obtuse!
Modi has been made a villain. The more they do so, the more successful he becomes since all Gujaratis close rank.
The ideal mode is Speak softly, but carry a Big Stick!
In spite of all the effort by various agencies, media, politicians et al to get Modi to do things that are not PC, but have they been able to do so? He speaks softly, but ensures that what he wants, he gets!
Jyoti Basu passes away. What does it signify for the eastern part of the subcontinent? On the surface - not much. There will be outpouring of public grief, and expressions and visibility in the last rites from all across the political spectrum.
The passing away of a politician who has dominated the regional scene can appear to consolidate the political fortunes of the regime he was associated with. But in WB, a similar thing happened when B.C Roy passed away. Within five years of that the Congress government was tottering in WB. Yes, it also coincided with a change of generational guard within the Congress coteries at Delhi - so its impact was much higher. In the case of JB, the situation is radically different. The left is no longer formally a part of the Congress led grouping and therefore no central extension of the "stability" (smooth transition in sight for the generational leadership change as far as Congress is concerned) assurance to the Left Front.
What will be significant will be the possible visits or representations from BD on occasion of the funeral. And JB's passing away can be an occasion for political forces in the eastern region, including from BD and the "centre" to come to an exchange of assurances.
Politically, the Congress gameplan appears to be to bring back regional alignments into direct central control. For this they have to encourage both MB and the Left, while keeping the Congress slightly in the background (also ground conditions rule out any solo performance). Formally, the central leadership will back MB to bid for power, while they will keep the Left hanging too with what could be called "back channel diplomacy" to keep MB occupied. So the elections will probably throw up a reduced Left - but not necessarily a wiped off Left. The best possible scenario will be where MB and Left are equally balanced - and Congress can play the spoiler for both. Ultimately they would want MB to become a regional leader only, and in time - her legacy is likely to fade. The Left in the current hybrid Stalinist-parliamentary form is on the way out. Either it reinvents itself along a more open Labour/Socialist model or it concedes the ideological leadership to the Maoists. Congress probably hopes to restrict the troublesome "Bengali" like it did throughout Congress history - to WB. This is the long tragic history of North+Western interest dominated Congress's interaction with Bengal - its dominat coterie always appear to be uneasy and see rivals for power in the Bengali "radicals" - from armed insurrectionists, to Bose, to B.C.Roy to Atulya Ghosh, to the first United Front, to the Left Front - and including MB - even if it does not immediately appear to be so. And this is how historically Congress has always lost the people of the region.
There are opportunities for alternatives here. The alliance and understanding now existing between MB and the Congress may not remain unchanged in character over the long term. Bengal is always "subversive" and "radical" and like the Deccan and Punjab has always been a source of trouble for the "northerners".
^^ What is your read on Aman Ka Tamasha
Notwithstanding the emotionalism associated with Indians in general and Bengalis in particular. The truth is here:
Destroyer of West Bengal
Kanchan Gupta
Had it been Jyoti Banerjee lying unattended in a filthy general ward of SSKM Hospital in Kolkata and not Jyoti Basu in the state-of-the-art ICCU of AMRI Hospital, among the swankiest and most expensive super-speciality healthcare facilities in West Bengal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would not have bothered to arrange for a video-conference for top doctors at AIIMS to compare notes with those attending on the former Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Jyoti Banerjee, like most of us, spent his working life paying taxes to the Government. Jyoti Basu spent the better part of his life living off tax-payers’ money — the conscience of the veteran Marxist was never pricked by the fact that he appropriated for himself a lifestyle shunned by his comrades and denied to the people of a State whose fate he presided over for a quarter century. Kalachand Roy laid what we know today as Odisha to waste in the 16th century; Jyoti Basu was the 20th century’s Kala Pahad who led West Bengal from despair to darkness, literally and metaphorically.
Uncharitable as it may sound, but there really is no reason to nurse fond memories of Jyoti Basu. In fact, there are no fond memories to recall of those days when hopelessness permeated the present and the future appeared bleak. Entire generations of educated middle-class Bengalis were forced to seek refuge in other States or migrate to America as Jyoti Basu worked overtime to first destroy West Bengal’s economy, chase out Bengali talent and then hand over a disinherited State to Burrabazar traders and wholesale merchants who overnight became ‘industrialists’ with a passion for asset-stripping and investing their ‘profits’ elsewhere. A State that was earlier referred to as ‘Sheffield of the East’ was rendered by Jyoti Basu into a vast stretch of wasteland; the Oxford English Dictionary would have been poorer by a word had he not made ‘gherao’ into an officially-sanctioned instrument of coercion; ‘load-shedding’ would have never entered into our popular lexicon had he not made it a part of daily life in West Bengal though he ensured Hindustan Park, where he stayed, was spared power cuts. It would have been churlish to grudge him the good life had he not exerted to deny it to others, except of course his son Chandan Basu who was last in the news for cheating on taxes that should have been paid on his imported fancy car.
Let it be said, and said bluntly, that Jyoti Basu’s record in office, first as Deputy Chief Minister in two successive United Front Governments beginning 1967 (for all practical purposes he was the de facto Chief Minister with a hapless Ajoy Mukherjee reduced to indulging in Gandhigiri to make his presence felt) and later as Chief Minister for nearly 25 years at the head of the Left Front Government which has been in power for 32 years now, the “longest elected Communist Government” as party commissars untiringly point out to the naïve and the novitiate, is a terrible tale of calculated destruction of West Bengal in the name of ideology. It’s easy to criticise the CPI(M) for politicising the police force and converting it into a goons brigade, but it was Jyoti Basu who initiated the process. It was he who instructed them, as Deputy Chief Minister during the disastrous UF regime, to play the role of foot soldiers of the CPI(M), first by not acting against party cadre on the rampage, and then by playing an unabashedly partisan role in industrial and agrarian disputes.
The fulsome praise that is heaped on Jyoti Basu today — he is variously described by party loyalists and those enamoured of bhadralok Marxists as a ‘humane administrator’ and ‘farsighted leader’ — is entirely misleading if not undeserving. Within the first seven months of the United Front coming to power, 43,947 workers were laid off and thousands more rendered jobless as factories were shut down following gheraos and strikes instigated and endorsed by him. The flight of capital in those initial days of emergent Marxist power amounted to Rs 2,500 million. In 1967, there were 438 ‘industrial disputes’ involving 165,000 workers and resulting in the loss of five million man hours. By 1969, there were 710 ‘industrial disputes’ involving 645,000 workers and a loss of 8.5 million man hours. That was a taste of things to come in the following decades. By the time Jyoti Basu demitted office, West Bengal had nothing to boast of except closed mills and shuttered factories; every institution and agency of the State had been subverted under his tutelage; and, the civil administration had been converted into an extension counter of the CPI(M) with babus happy to be used as doormats.
After every outrage, every criminal misdeed committed by Marxist goons or the police while he was Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu would crudely respond with a brusque “Emon to hoyei thaakey” (or, as Donald Rumsfeld would famously say, “Stuff happens!”). He did not brook any criticism of the Marich Jhapi massacre by his police in 1979 when refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan were shot dead in cold blood. Till date, nobody knows for sure how many died in that slaughter for Jyoti Basu never allowed an independent inquiry. Neither did the man whose heart bled so profusely for the lost souls of Nandigram hesitate to justify the butchery of April 30, 1982 when 16 monks and a nun of the Ananda Marg order were set ablaze in south Kolkata by a mob of Marxist thugs. The man who led that murderous lot was known for his proximity to Jyoti Basu, a fact that the CPI(M) would now hasten to deny. Nor did Jyoti Basu wince when the police shot dead 13 Congress activists a short distance from Writers’ Building on July 21, 1993; he later justified the police action, saying it was necessary to enforce the writ of the state. Yet, he wouldn’t allow the police to act every time Muslims ran riot, most infamously after Mohammedan Sporting Club lost a football match.
Did Jyoti Basu, who never smiled in public lest he was accused of displaying human emotions, ever spare a thought for those who suffered terribly during his rule? Was he sensitive to the plight of those who were robbed of their lives, limbs and dignity by the lumpen proletariat which kept him in power? Did his heart cry out when women health workers were gang-raped and then two of them murdered by his party cadre on May 17, 1990 at Bantala on the eastern margins of Kolkata? Or when office-bearers of the Kolkata Police Association, set up under his patronage, raped Nehar Banu, a poor pavement dweller, at Phulbagan police station in 1992? “Emon to hoyei thaakey,” the revered Marxist would say, and then go on to slyly insinuate that the victims deserved what they got.
As a Bengali, I grieve for the wasted decades but for which West Bengal, with its huge pool of talent, could have led India from the front. I feel nothing for Jyoti Basu.
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Bullet destoyer of West Bengal
By velcheti on 1/16/2010 9:10:45 AM
Kudos to Shri Kanchan Gupata for unmasking this bogus Marxist, who ruined West Bengal. No tears for Jyothi Basu, his end is a sigh of relief for true Bengalies.
Bullet The hypocrite
By Debashis on 1/15/2010 3:26:28 PM
So very true Kanchanda, its a classic example of the slow poisining of a state, depriving people of human rights and outraging the modesty of a million aspirations that he should be tried for!
Bullet Jyoti Basu, the aparatchik communist leader
By Shyamal on 1/15/2010 12:22:39 AM
It wasn’t that the people of Bengal did not admire Basu’s stature — it was the rest of him that they disapproved of. The general view then was that while he was a well-educated bhadralok (unlike the north Indian politicians whom Bengalis love to despise), his reputation outside the state was based on hot air. His credentials as a man of the people were dented by his love of the good life, by the annual trip to London in the summer (always on some pretext; it was never described as a holiday).
I wont be uncharitable. He did land reforms!
Declassified documents on treason by Indian Communists - Jyoti Basu is mentioned
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25337909/Decl ... Communists
Well China does not seem to be giving too much patta to the guy
KanchanGupta Ironically Radio Peking described JB as 'running dog of imperialism'.
For the future interest in India, China cannot rely much on the "Parliamentarian Left". The Left has failed crucially in preventing the US-connection and strategic understanding with GOI. The nuclear "understanding" also could not be jeopardized. The Left's future power over any future GOI is dubious. Its regional powerbase is also becoming unreliable. For China, the Maoists represent a better "leftist" choice to destabilize or weaken those areas of the Indian rashtra that suits Chinese elites' imperialist agenda. China is more likely to encourage ethnic and religious separatists and Maoist violence through indirect means as it impedes economic growth, ties up rashtryia security apparatus and in general creates trauma in subgroups - so crucial to disconnect the people from their "rashtra".
Looks like this govt. is hell bent on dividing the country into bits and pieces
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Mi ... st/568820/
I think MKN being appointed governor of WB has something to do with post-Basu politics of the state. Lets see or parkalaam.
Politico-Econmic Op-Ed in Pioneer by Arun Nehru...
EDITS | Monday, January 18, 2010 | Email | Print |
Arun Nehru
The global economy is showing signs of recovery and 2010 may turn out to be a very good year. Instinct tells me that both India and China will produce surprising results in 2010 and we may well be heading for eight per cent-plus growth in the current year and nine per cent-plus in 2011. The challenges are many and, as I have mentioned earlier, the distribution of power, both political and economic, between the West and the East will acquire greater parity. Sadly, there is a sense of denial regarding this ground reality which is manifesting itself in the form of pressure points.
The changes will be dramatic as the GDP in India will grow at four to five per cent higher than the GDP in the West. By taking into account our saving rate of 35 to 40 per cent and the upward migration of 30 to 40 million into the middle class every year, we may be looking at a middle class market in the excess of 600 million in the next decade. This exceeds the population of the US and the Western world. The sensible and mature view is that in a globalised economy every country benefits from each other. In that sense it is heartening to see the developed world make significant cross investments. India too is making huge investments in acquiring assets abroad.
We must always keep the big picture in mind and try to understand the implications of change and not give in to arrogance. The challenges are many. A GDP growth of nine per cent over the next five years has serious implications for the future. We will witness an explosion of demand in every field and I will be surprised if this demand does not outstrip supply. Along with China, we will emerge as the biggest market for the global community. We have a favorable demographic ratio and for our youngsters the opportunities which exist today are limitless. We must take full advantage of the benefits of globalisation. The reality today is that no country can benefit by adopting protectionist policies. A global shift in political power has already taken place in many fields and economic and social change will soon follow.
And will alos x-post Theo-Fidel's map of migration and per captia income.
Think about this....
Brilliant Theo! Explains the Bangla Deshi migration into India. We can soon expect a flood from TSP as they collapse. No wonder Aman ki Tamasha is going on.
Again shows need for peaceful implosion of Pakistan ideology is needed.
Theo_Fidel wrote: This is a much more legitimate question than many here may realize.
In under 5 years the per Capita GDP of India, esp. the prosperous west will be 5-6 times the per capita GDP of Pakistan. Presently it is about 2.5 - 3 times.
Some thing strange happens to the migration patterns of people once the imbalance reaches 5 times. The opportunity pull becomes too strong.
Take a look at this map of the present migration pattern around the world.
Also look at the NY times map.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/world/200706 ... APHIC.html
Take special note of the Mexico to US, East Europe to West Europe, Africa to South Africa and Indonesia to Malaysia dynamics.
All of these are in the 5-10 times GDP imbalance w/ cultural familiarity.
Once the "mental map" is created by the vanguard it will be almost impossible to stop.
Existing population density is disregarded almost completely.
So in the period of tenth century through the seventeenth centuries, India with its large wealth must have been the magnet attracting the hordes for the very same reasons.
The GDP share (India relative to the world) has been steadily decreasing from the Mauryan times according to current estimates. China has also kept pace more or less following Indian GDP estimates quite closely. But it has been much more successful at reversing invasions and colonization attempts. For India, a high GDP growth appears to come before destructive invasions and stagnation.
Approximate share in world GDP - Mauryan -33%, 1st century - (after central Asian visitors) - 32%, Gupta-Vakataka period - 28% (post Kushan), but remarkabley still around 28% for the Palas ! Even after supposed Hunas overran north and west. But then comes 24% around the 1000 CE - after glorious peaceful migrations of Turko-Afghans. The Maurya -Gupta decline can be partially accounted for by a reduction of territory. But the decline from Palas to the Ghaznavids comes without much reduction in comparative territory (GDP from the same area).The Delhi Sultans manage to reduce further to around 22% by the 1500's even though they expand back in territiory to a certain extent. By 1600's territory under Mughals increase further and share goes slightly up to around 24%. But then again declines over the span of the rule of glorious Mughals by 1700's to 22% even though territory continues to increase. Goes on declining till 1800's with the steep drop under the Brits to the 10-20 range. But part of that is also explained by a phenomenal rise in world productivity in some other regions.
What would be crucial is that India simultaneously develops the capacity to impose its will on the neighbourhood from which destabilizing/invading forces are likely to come. Almost always, there appears to be an inability to project power beyond its existing territory - while developing the economy - and this has inevitably cuased the ultimate retreat and folding back of the economic growth.
It can perhaps be compared to the tactic of human management of beehives for extraction of honey. Indians, like the bees, gather and accumulate the honey in the hive. When the hive is ripe and full, the humans in the neighbourhood who have been watching and waiting and allowing the bees to work away, smoke the bees out.
Postby Rony » 21 Jan 2010 13:18
If i am not wrong, brihaspati garu was alluding to this point some time back. Giving more importance to our "diversity" compared to the underlying uniformity beneath it is not in our interests.
India needs strong brand strategy, says Oxford expert
The brand challenge for India is to develop a strategy that presents a uniform national identity alongside internal diversity ... A fragmented image is not a powerful one, and the image of any country needs strong brand management led from the top," he wrote
Rony ji, many thanks for the link! Underlying uniformity actually creates the image of reliability, stability and consistency. My only objection is to diversity being stretched infinitely to create space for any and everything. There has to be boundaries beyond which compromises are unacceptable.
Rony wrote: If i am not wrong, brihaspati garu was alluding to this point some time back. Giving more importance to our "diversity" compared to the underlying uniformity beneath it is not in our interests.
Prasun Sonwalkar/PTI / London January 20, 2010, 17:28 IST
India needs to develop a strong brand strategy now to benefit from its growing importance in the global economy, according to a senior academic at the University of Oxford.
Paul Temporal, based at the university’s Said Business School, wrote in a research paper that India needs to differentiate itself from China, ASEAN, Japan and other countries and clusters that were competing for investment, talent, tourism and exports.
"The brand challenge for India is to develop a strategy that presents a uniform national identity alongside internal diversity ... A fragmented image is not a powerful one, and the image of any country needs strong brand management led from the top," he wrote.
Stating that the branding of countries was now fast becoming a constant agenda item in cabinet meetings, Temporal said although India has positive growth and massive potential, it will continue to be faced with intense competition from China and others.
India, he said, had not been immune to the global recession but had not been "badly wounded" by it. "So, efforts to brand India now will ensure that when global markets recover, as they undoubtedly will, India will be first out of the blocks.
To delay will not be catastrophic, but it may place India further behind the competition in the longer term," he wrote. Image, he wrote, cannot be built by advertising and promotions but via astute policy change management based on the needs of 'customers'.
These include greater ease of doing business, less bureaucracy, visa facilitation, improved security and improvements to infrastructure are among the policy issues that countries.
"All such 'touch points' a nation has with the outside world influence the total perceptions that make up its image. Policies and diplomacy change a country's national image, not tactical communications campaigns," Temporal wrote.
According to him, India's diversity can be advantageous for areas such as tourism. India's rising industries such as automobiles, IT and pharmaceuticals were powerful brand image vectors while its corporations were strong brand ambassadors.
"Beyond the obvious there are also substantial opportunities for branding in more traditional product categories such as Kashmiri clothing and basmati rice, but the strengths of all these 'sub-brands' need to be channelled into, and driven by, a master brand strategy required to build the India of the future," Temporal wrote.
Even though its written by a business school professor, the lessons do apply in strategic areas too. And Indian leaders were aware of creating a new identity "India that is Bharat" and "Unity in diversity", soon after Independence when they got derailed by the 1962 China war and then the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in West Asia led to competing visions of Indian identity. Right now there is tussle between pseudo-secular and Hindutva identity both of which regardless of the grand schemes have to face the ground reality of the diversty in language, religion and culture in Indian sub-continent.
All the examples he gives: China et al, are of homogenous or dominant population groups so those examples dont hold water for India. Infact India was unique in modern times to create a new idenity over such diversity without the tyranny of a dominant social group. It is only after the rise of India that EU is getting some traction as are NAFTA and other economci groupings.
The Chinese homogeneity could be a post Communist takeover myth - deliberately reconstructed. There were fierce contests over cultural identities before. The CPC had a policy of explicitly suppressing any references to "heterogeneity" from their propaganda material - from 1934-37.
Their only advantage appears to be freedom from "religious conflict". But according to current theory - there was never any religious conflict between the largest and the second largest faith communities in India. If that was happening for almost a thousand years, surely just 200 odd years of British induced "divisions" - could not disrupt the essentially amicable, syncretic identity that had been so firmly entrenched. There has been no known large scale sectarian violences either, within the majority community for centuries. So religious diversity could not be an excuse for India.
Not much violence about language issues either as long as the Brits were there. The drama seems to be intensified only after Indpendence.
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Postby RamaY » 21 Jan 2010 22:27
Taking it to a different plane, Bharat offers a unique solution to Pak-Af problem. It offers the ideology, leadership-will, capabilities, and space to counter the chaos that are emanating from paki-lands destabilizing entire world. India’s solution to Pak-Af quagmire could be (in that order)
1. De-nuclearization of TSP
2. Balkanization of TSP
3. De-drafting of TSPA (similar to Iraqui Army)
4. Balkanization of Afghanistan
5. Economic and cultural unification of Pakthunwa and Pashtun-afghan regions
6. Economic unification of Sindh and Balochistan
7. Economic + Geographical unification of POK+NA with Indian state of J&K
8. Economic and political integration of all these semi-autonomous regions with Bharat.
ramana wrote:
Even though its written by a business school professor, the lessons do apply in strategic areas too. And Indian leaders were aware of creating a new identity "India that is Bharat"
India does not need a British to give them advice on Indian identity and brand. Colonial British have created their own version of the India brand and India/Hinduism image which they have spread to the rest of the world for their global benefit and global trade. WASP world has used the India image for the last 200 years for their benefit.
RamaY wrote
Ideology maybe, but leadership-will, capabilities? Where do you see it?
1. De-nuclearization of TSP
2. Balkanization of TSP
3. De-drafting of TSPA (similar to Iraqui Army)
Probably has to be simultaneous if to be at all succesful. Doing anyone of them with out the other two will be much too costly for India - as she will be pressurized to give heavy concessions.
4. Balkanization of Afghanistan
Good tactical point. But we do not have the means to really effect this without contiguous land borders. That means dissolution of TSP altogether and Indian borders reaching AFG in the west.
5. Economic and cultural unification of Pakthunwa and Pashtun-afghan regions
6. Economic unification of Sindh and Balochistan
7. Economic + Geographical unification of POK+NA with Indian state of J&K
8. Economic and political integration of all these semi-autonomous regions with Bharat.
Again, will they be possible without total military emasculation of TSP? As long as it exists as a rashtra it will be too costly in terms of concessions from India. Even the most liberal of TSP commentators typicaly insist on "Muslim nationalism" as the foundational principle of TSP being correct even though they formally reject "Muslim fundamentalism/extremism". That mentality can never accommodate coexistence with a non-Muslim-nationalist neighbour with a large Muslim subpopulation. Moreover as long as the rashtra continues to exist it will protect the reproduction of this mentality through religious education, standard education and the media.
And they have also created two brands of "economics" one for themselves and one for the third world where they want to invest. Let me explain
Free market is good - trade should move freely
- Themselves - Farmer subsidies and incentives.
- Others - you are hurting trade by not letting us in into your piss poor countries where farmers can barely make ends meet by growing the most beautiful cotton in the world. We will swap that for our defective GMOed cotton at dirt cheap prices (since it is subsidiezed + cost of entry). Later when we buy your land to build more of our types of firms we will increase the price.
You should privitise. Privitization will allow greater efficiencies, more moolah, trickle down effec through skills and money blah! blah! blah!
- Themselves - US govt owns large swathes of land in US with oil and gas. The private cos are heavily regulated.The oil and gas is not being extracted right now. This is all over Europe etc
- Others - Sell off your mineral and oil reserves under swathes of virgin forests. We will use militias to intimidate and get rid of the native people. You will get dirt cheap prices for the resources. We will make huge profits by converting ores into finished products sold at 30 times the price in our country.
I could go on and on about this. What is funny is how many Indians have bought into this hypocrisy. They will keep quoting free market etc without a real comprehension of issues. Free market does not exist buddy.
Even some supercilious media persons and bloggers wll throw this nonsense around.
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MayGodHaveMercy Registered User regular
Wow, Genki speaks english very well. I'm a bit surprised. I also hate watching Christiane "MAN FACE CYBORG" Santos beat the shit out of women. Call me sexist, I don't give a shit. It's goddamn uncomfortable.
MayGodHaveMercy on September 2010
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doug_grammar Registered User
No no, I don't know why people think it's sexist to not like seeing women beat up. You just don't like seeing ladies getting hurt. Not rare.
It's just that violence involving vaginas isn't new. Get used to the idea. No need to get used to the deal.
doug_grammar on September 2010
Yougottawanna Registered User regular
MayGodHaveMercy wrote: »
Not wanting to see women get beat on might not be sexist, but the "MAN FACE CYBORG" bit is a little unnecessary IMO
Yougottawanna on September 2010
Yougottawanna wrote: »
She kind of has a man face. I don't know where you're going with this. She has a face, and it resembles a man's face.
Well, this isn't exactly Miss Beauty Pageant. No one's stopping you from checking out the women, but what do you honestly expect?
Look, guys... I'm not saying Christiane "Cyborg" Santos is ugly (she is), I'm saying she looks like a man. That's not sexist. She looks like a fucking dude. Jesus christ.
BubbaT Registered User regular
My god, even the way Paris Hilton punches a heavy bag is cutesy and irritating.
I heard that DREAM news, my reaction is noooooooooooo
I hope they pull through. There's rumors that there are fighters from recent DREAM events that are still owed money, though I can't find anything firsthand about that.
They haven't paid a number of fairly big-name guys. I posted about it in the last thread.
BubbaT wrote: »
adytum wrote: »
I just saw on InsideMMA that Impact FC hasn't been able to pay its fighters from the events 3 weeks ago..
FEG's worse.
TATAME called Dream featherweight champion Bibiano Fernandes this morning to know more about his return to the rings, but was surprised by an unbelievable answer. “Dream called me two days ago to offer me a fight at September 21, but I said I won’t fight until they pay me for my last fight (against Joachim Hansen)”, Bibiano told TATAME, revealing that he hasn’t been paid yet for the fight, which took place five months ago in Japan. “I have family, I have a wife and I can’t work without getting paid. I’ll only fight against when they pay me for my last fight”.
http://www.tatame.com/2010/08/16/Dream-hasnt-paid-Bibiano-after-5-months
TATAME confirms that Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza still hasn't been paid for his May 2009 DREAM 9 fight with Jason "Mayhem" Miller
http://www.cagepotato.com/dream-featherweight-champ-bibiano-fernandes-turns-down-september-title-defense-until-promotion-pays-
It's a little more than eight months since MMA veteran Gary Goodridge fought Gegard Mousasi at FEG's Dynamite!! 2009 New Year's Eve show in Japan. Eight months, and still he hasn't seen a single penny of the money he's owed for that bout, Goodridge told MMA Fighting earlier Wednesday.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/08/11/gary-goodridge-says-he-still-hasnt-been-paid-for-new-years-eve/
There have been rumors all summer that Diaz would face "Mach" Sakurai for the DREAM welterweight title during his next trip out there, but Diaz had problems getting paid for his last fight with the promotion against Katsuya Inoue at DREAM 3 on May 11.
He was reportedly owed $100,000 by the Japanese mixed martial arts promotion for the first round technical knockout win over Inoue. He is now clearly skeptical about doing business with them again.
Here's a report posted on GracieFighter.com dating back to August 1:
"Diaz could be cleared to fight Mach Sakurai in Dream at the end of September. Diaz has wanted to fight Sakurai for the Dream Champioship Belt, but a stumbling block to this fight has been that as of now Dream has still not paid him a cent for the last fight he participated in for their organization almost 3 months ago."
Obviously the "Mach" fight didn't happen in September, but isn't completely out of the question for a future DREAM event now that they finally coughed up the money ... even if it was five months late.
http://www.mmamania.com/2008/10/15/nick-diaz-gets-paid-by-dream-and-agrees-to-fight-in-japan/
BubbaT on September 2010
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I think Mayhem said Dream still owed him money when he was last on the Joe Rogan podcast.
815165 on September 2010
Neli Registered User regular
Spectrum wrote: »
doug_grammar wrote: »
dlinfiniti wrote: »
the last two events were painful
Oh come on, guys get brutalized all the time by others much better than them, and we love that.
At least these events have some vague semblance of competitiveness.
Cyborg's matches? Nope.
That's not really true. Just in the last UFC event we had Lauzon utterly destroying a guy. It wasn't even remotely competitive and everyone loved it.
Personally I have no problem watching Cyborg beat the shit out of her opponents. At the end of the day, all women involved made a choice to step into the ring and throw fists at eachother, and I am totally okay with it.
Neli on September 2010
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Metal Jared Mulligan Wizard Rhode IslandRegistered User regular
Yeah I don't know why anyone is complaining about WGHM said, he stated his opinion. If we said that Mickey Rourke looked like he lost a battle with a sandpaper monster would anyone care? I would imagine not (Because that is a hilarious visual). Stating your personal preference for attractiveness, while maybe not needed in the thread, isn't akin to sexism.
Metal Jared on September 2010
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Metal Jared wrote: »
Mickey Rourke looked like he lost a battle with a sandpaper monster
You keep pulling out that word alot. Nobody here was implying in any way what you said was sexist.
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has recently joined the Huntington Beach Training Center which is host to also Tiki Ghosn, “Razor” Rob McCullough, Team Punishment, and Ricco Rodriguez.
Well, this group certainly is no Black House, but it seems alot better for Rampage than Wolfslair. Hopefully, it'll be enough against Lyoto Machida soon.
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Just wanted to say great OP. Except for the ginormous font size. Also, the color. Other than that, great OP.
Also, I think we can all agree that for most people, Cyborg is an unattractive woman. She's also a pretty damn good fighter. It's just too bad that she's in a 3-person weight class...
Inquisitor77 on September 2010
You are correct, sir. I probably misunderstood yougottawanna's post.
Yougottawanna wrote:
Also I was slightly inebriated last night.
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fmz65 Registered User regular
When's the Rampage fight set for?
fmz65 on September 2010
fmz65 wrote: »
last I checked, UFC 123 in November
I wonder how much Lyoto has changed. Not much news about him other than he started training with Black House a while back.
Obviously, the man has been working on his wrestling, but that won't come into play until after Rampage stands with him first.
I wonder how much Rampage has changed too. I want to see the Jackson that buried Wanderlei Silva back when he was a LHW.
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http://blog.fightmetric.com/2010/09/fightmetric-now-official-statistics.html
FightMetric is going to be providing statistics for the UFC. And they've apparently got quite the database of statistics. If you go to sportsnet.ca, you can see some interesting stats there provided by FightMetric. Here's GSP's bio:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/mma/fighters/Georges_St._Pierre/
Comparing that to Fitch's, GSP lands 50% more strikes, 33% more takedowns, and attempts 100% more submissions. And fortunately for Fitch, there's no easy comparison in terms of ground passes. But real quick and easy, GSP passed Hardy 26 times. In Fitch's last five decisions, he's made a total of 16 passes combined. That's about half the number of passes in three times the cage time.
I hope the UFC really leverages this sort of stuff for their broadcasts.
Wet Bandit on September 2010
Dranyth Surf ColoradoRegistered User regular
I think the difference, particularly in this case, was that in most male one-sided fights, the fights *end* appropriately. In Cyborg vs. the blonde punching bag, the fight *should've* ended a long long time before it did, but apparently the ref had something against the blonde. The one-sided fighting just drug on for much longer than it should have and I think that's what made it so uncomfortable.
In the previous fight of hers I saw against Gina, it wasn't that bad, at least it was over in a round. I didn't realize she'd fought someone in between there.
Dranyth on September 2010
Peen tw1tch0rz occasionallyRegistered User regular
Wet Bandit wrote: »
I've got to admit, I don't understand the fascination with these kinds of stats. Does it really tell you anything that you can't see yourself watching the fight?
Peen on September 2010
Inquisitor77 wrote: »
Thanks for the compliment. Be thankful for the color, it used to be Lime green (To match the formatting of PAFC). As for the size, I felt that if you're going to have a ton of stuff to read, it would be better if it wasn't in microfont.
Peen wrote:
I think the point of stats being important is due to the fact that they are very prevalent in the other major sports major sports. There is even a convention that discusses sports statistics. If the UFC can have consistent stats that people can discuss and dissect it will be helpful for new fans to understand things about new fighters, and even how great current fighters are.
I'll be honest, I don't know alot about people who fight in UFC/WEC undercards. However, if I was able to see some comprehensive statistical analysis I would have a better idea of what a given fighter is about. If I see he has a very high striking percentage and high number of strike attempts I may feel he has a good matchup with a fighter who has a very low strike evasion percentage. I like to have some idea what's going to happen in a fight. I like to be able to look for specific things from each fighter. But it's very hard to do so when your only option is to read biased commentary and watch fight videos (not to mention time consuming)
If I could spend a few minutes looking at their stats I feel I would have a better understanding of what a fighter wants to do in their fight and be more apt to be invested in that fighter fighting. Like if I really like fighters who throw leg kicks, or attempt kimura's, and I see that there is a fighter who does both of those things, I may be more apt to want to see him fight.
I love statistics, I love number, the more information you give me, the happier I am. I know that it will all come out in the cage but having some insight beforehand breeds more intelligent fans which is good for everyone.
adytum Registered User regular
Peen wrote: »
If it becomes like compustrike, I'm going to be pissed. It's the most annoying part of StrikeForce broadcasts for me and really turns me off of wanting to watch them.
adytum on September 2010
In most sports they give you something to put on the screen during stoppages in play. MMA doesn't really have any in-round stoppages, though. Still, it can be useful for looking at stats between rounds, they way it's used in boxing. One of the nice things about stats is they count the 1st minute as much as the last minute, whereas with memory there's a natural tendency to over-value what you saw in the last minute of the round.
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Yeah the Compustrike stuff in StrikeForce is maddening... they just spew out numbers that have really no bearing on the fight without some analysis.
midgetspy on September 2010
I was okay with this at first, but then I watched that last Strikeforce where the guy who lost says "Well, I should have won. Look at the numbers! They show that I'm better!" (Paraphrased)
The dude landed, I think, 7 more strikes total, and a large portion of them were leg kicks that had no noticeable effect on the opponent. He didn't win at all, regardless of what the stupid numbers say.
Venkman90 Registered User regular
Marcus Davis tried the same thing after Hardy beat him, "look at the numbers!" but the judges looked at their faces, Davis looked like he had been raped by a bear, Dan looked like he was modelling for Gillette. Damage > Control imho.
Davis also went on to say he hates LnP but that is exactly what he tried with Dan after getting rocked a few times.
Venkman90 on September 2010
You're looking at this very wrong. I don't like these stats because they tell me what I'm watching, I like the stats because they tell me about fights I missed or fights I forgot about. I don't remember how many times Jon Fitch passed Mike Pierce, but I can look it up real quick.
Also it is interesting when it's a fairly close fight and one guy bursts at the end. The tendency is to go, "Oh, that guy burst'd at the end, he wins," but then you see the stats, and the other guy out-hit him each round. Gives perspective.
So it doesn't need to be part of the broadcast.
Yeah, this here. Numbers are important in other sports because they provide a meaningful context for a player or team's performance. If I don't know a guy on a baseball team but I see that he's batting .233, that tells me with reasonable accuracy that he's not good at batting. I've not seen a statistic that really tells me more about a fighter's performance aside from his win/loss record; I'm not trying to end the debate, I'm just saying what I think.
As to it helping you analyze a whole fight, if you can't remember what happened ten minutes ago then you might want to work on some kind of brain exercises.
Wet I get that you like them for fights you haven't seen but again can you really break a fight down into numbers in a meaningful way?
Statistics provide a tool for combating bias or inaccuracies in how you remember a fight. It's not that you entirely forget what happened ten minutes ago, but you might not remember it in detail. Would you remember the exact number of strikes? People's memories are imperfect, especially when remembering a complex set of events many of which happened simultaneously. Without specifics, the gaps in memory are often filled in by bias or by the expected outcome. This is a well-established principle in refereeing for instance: research shows the most common referee bias is towards the team they think is supposed to win, and referees (when questioned afterwards about certain plays) demonstrate this bias through their recollections.
The most common arguments I see against using statistics (across all sports) is that they can be misinterpreted. But IMO the only thing that's more consistently misinterpreted than statistics is a lack of them. One recent fight whose analysis would have benefited (IMO) from some immediately available numbers was Shogun/Machida I.
Let's say someone didn't see GSP/Hardy. How do they know what happened? If they look at Sherdog, they'll see that GSP won a unanimous decision. Okay, that's obviously important, but that doesn't really tell the story of the fight.
Maybe they look on Wikipedia and see the judges' scores. That will tell that person that the fight was one-sided, but it does nothing to help them understand how GSP won. Did he stand and trade? Did he ground and pound? Did he work for submissions? How much resistance did he face? That is all unanswered.
Now let's look at FightMetric's report.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/mma/events/UFC_111__St._Pierre_vs._Hardy/St._Pierre_vs_Hardy/
Strike totals were low from both fighters, so there probably wasn't much action on the feet. GSP went 11 for 11 on takedowns, so that was obviously his gameplan and the source of his effectiveness. He landed relatively few strikes, though, so he didn't focus on ground-and-pound the way he did against BJ. But his 26 passes and six submission attempts tells us that his focus was on passing into a dominant position and getting a sub.
So yeah, you can use numbers to break a fight down in a meaningful way.
I really dislike that they score the fights by rounds, hearing corners shout, "steal the round!" with thirty seconds to go really annoys me.
edit: six sub attempts seems low for GSP/Hardy but I'm going solely off memory here. just over one attempt every five minutes isn't a lot considering the positional dominance GSP had
You seriously think no one goes, "Oh man, he TOTALLY won the fight in round three!" and forgets that the other two rounds were pretty obviously in the other guy's favor, but not by a huge margin? Why would you be against meaningful stats in any sport?
815165 wrote: »
It is when you factor in FightMetric's threshold for counting a submission attempt. It's gotta be a pretty serious attempt for them to count it.
sportzboytjw wrote: »
Why would you be against meaningful stats in any sport?
I don't think anyone is against meaningful stats, but there are some sports where it is very hard to apply statistics in a meaningful way.
How many takedowns is a knockdown worth? Is a jab better than a teep?
I think stats in MMA are a good way of saying who did what more, but not a way of saying who did what better.
And do they count "chaining" sub attempts together as one? Or is each serious attempt from the same mount or whatever different? Think RNC - Armbar - Americana or something goofy like that.
40 rods to the hogshead, obviously.
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"A Global Currency Without National Boundaries Needs A Global Payments Solution" - Steven Parker by@Sergeenkov
"A Global Currency Without National Boundaries Needs A Global Payments Solution" - Steven Parker
July 26th 2020 538 reads
@SergeenkovAndrey Sergeenkov
Cryptocurrency analyst. Founder and editor at btcpeers.com
For a while now, the fintech sector has taken center stage as consumers are flooded with thousands of tools looking to finetune the way we execute banking processes and communicate with financial institutions.
Earlier this year, KPMG reported that the sector attracted over $135.7 billion worth of investments in 2019, which is just shy of the figure recorded in 2018.
As such, there is no doubt that the quest for introducing and implementing infrastructures designed to fit into the growing demand for speed, inclusive, transparent, diverse, and cheap financial processes is in full force.
However, regardless of this narrative and the billions of dollars invested into enabling it, the fintech sector still reeks of some of the limitations attributed to the traditional banking processes it looks to replace.
For one, there is no real attempt to ensure that transparency serves as the bedrock of the operations of fintech tools or companies.
For instance, the crisis that rocked the German financial landscape in the form of Wirecard’s insolvency proves that the emergence of fintech does not automatically eliminate the age-long deficiencies of the banking and payment sectors.
Although it has become easier to access and transfer funds, the intermediate-based architecture prevalent in the traditional banking world still governs these systems. And so, the cost for executing such processes remains on the high side, especially when it involves cross-border payments.
The same sentiment applies to the restrictive nature of fintech-based transactions as regards the geo-selectiveness of such systems. Hence, there is a need to reimagine the current models for fintech infrastructures and, if possible, reinvent them to fully capture a dynamic and robust architecture suitable for current financial demands.
Fortunately, we have few entities aligning their businesses and operations towards this singular goal. One of the companies that meet this criterion is Crypterium.
By infusing the censorship resistance, and transparent capabilities of cryptocurrency with traditional banking infrastructure, Crypterium is currently carving out new paradigms that can reinforce all of fintech’s core values. Already, this platform has introduced a two-pronged solution framework that appeals to both new and experienced crypto participants.
One the one hand, crypto holders, who had previously had to rely on rigid crypto payment platforms, can now access various avenues to spend, transfer, and exchange their cryptocurrency.
On the other, newbies have access to easy-to-understand user interfaces suitable for seamless convergence of traditional bank features and advanced crypto functionalities. The seamlessness of this crypto gateway has endeared it to a growing community of over 500,000 users.
Besides, it has just introduced a new payment card — the Crypterium Card VISA Edition. This product is an alternative to Crypterium Card UnionPay already used by 30,000 crypto holders in over 150 countries.
If Crypterium continues on this upward trajectory, then chances that its native token, which is integral to its crypto gateway infrastructures, will follow a similar path.
In light of the compelling narrative surrounding the emergence of this startup, I decided to interview Steven Parker, CEO of Crypterium and a former Visa executive.
During this interview session, we explored the current state of the fintech sector, the impact that the budding crypto industry has made thus far, and how Crypterium became a dominant player.
Andrey Sergeenkov: You have amassed a ton of experience working with some of the most established names in the fintech sector. What do you think of Crypterium’s progress so far?
Steven Parker: It is very important to put all of our progress into perspective. Cryptocurrencies are still very much seen as the future of money, but it has become clear that, for the moment, they need to fit into the existing global money infrastructure - they cannot easily break the status quo and they can benefit from existing network effects. In short, “if you can’t beat them, join them.” Since I started with Crypterium at the end of 2018, I believe that our own progress has been remarkable. Within a little over 18 months, the service has gone from a good-looking digital wallet that provided a few essential features into a truly convenient, all-in-one service for cryptocurrency holders.
Now, our customers can store, buy, cash out, exchange, transfer, and even spend cryptocurrencies from a single, very easy-to-use platform.
Andrey Sergeenkov: Do you think fintech has done enough to alleviate the pain points associated with legacy banking systems?
Steven Parker: The traditional banks have been through a tough period in the past decade or so. This has been partly due to the economic crisis and regulatory backlash that followed but, then, also from some of their own errors, for example, mis-selling products like personal loan insurance. They are also unwieldy institutions, often brought about through years of mergers and acquisitions. As a result, we see banks applying overly restrictive customer practices, with products and processes hampered by aging, complex and inflexible IT systems. It is therefore no wonder that customers are turning to a new breed of challenger banks and fintechs.
One of the things that I love about today’s fintechs is that they are extremely customer-focused. And because they are not burdened by legacy IT systems and are often mobile-centric, they can build processes around the customer experience. Fintechs are either replacing traditional players or forcing them to improve their services and product offerings.
Andrey Sergeenkov: You could have chased a different path when you left Visa. Why did you make the switch to the crypto world?
Steven Parker: The jump was not immediate, there were a few steps in between, but I love the thought of being part of such a potentially world changing phenomenon. I have also spent my working career trying to make managing money easier for consumers – that has been my passion. Despite the idea of digital money being criticized by media and politicians, over the past decade, I honestly believe that digital currencies are the future. Otherwise, why would the International Monetary Fund suggest that central bankers adopt and implement so-called Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)? Cryptocurrencies are a great way to democratize financial services and break out of the constrained “account-model” paradigm. Digital currencies allow anyone, with just a mobile, to access and control their money – financial freedom - and avoids them being forced to deal with big, cumbersome institutions such as banks. Cryptocurrencies and digital money can help do that.
Andrey Sergeenkov: What’s your thought on the push for a cashless society and how crypto may or may not have capitalized on this trend?
Steven Parker: I wouldn’t say the concept of “cashless society” is a trend, but rather the future. Some countries, like Sweden or Norway, are expected to go cashless by 2023. However, developed countries represent only a small part of the world. Back in 2018, the Central Bank of Brazil released a study showing that half of the country still gets paid in cash and 60% of businesses don’t accept payment cards. The question is: why such a difference? I believe that it all comes down to the availability of financial services.
In Brazil and other developing countries, accessing a bank account can require multiple documents and takes a considerable amount of time. Moreover, basic operations like account opening, balance checks, and even withdrawals happen face-to-face in bank branches. That’s incredibly inconvenient, especially for those that don’t live near big cities or don’t have access to all the paperwork to identify and validate themselves.
Cryptocurrencies offer high-quality services, without all the costs of bureaucracy. For example, the Crypterium Wallet allows you to send money to anyone using just the recipient’s phone number. And the best part? It’s a zero-fee service. No need for a bank branch, no need for Western Union, all done in seconds, just with any smartphone.
Andrey Sergeenkov: How has global health pandemic affected crypto fintech? Has it spurred growth?
Steven Parker: The world did not know how to react to the pandemic. We have had very different approaches from different countries, with mixed success. We had a market crash and then rebound. And cryptocurrency was no different. It followed a similar cycle. But what I think it has proven is that cryptocurrency is not a “bubble”, as some people were predicting. A bubble would not survive the past 9 months. In fact, digital money is stronger today than it was pre-pandemic. So, at the very least, crypto has proven that it is here to stay, and that it is a realistic alternative for the storage of wealth - a form of digital gold. In fact, with the massive monetary stimuli around the world, crypto may be a better place to store your money, in the longer term, than traditional “fiat” currencies which will ultimately be inflated and devalued.
Andrey Sergeenkov: One of the major stumbling blocks for crypto fintech solutions is the onboarding and payment bridging processes for new users. Can you explain why this has remained a hurdle? Has Crypterium been able to tackle this challenge?
Steven Parker: Indeed, traditional and cryptocurrency infrastructures have been built somewhat in parallel. I believe that there are three paths that money innovation can take. The first is to take an existing well-used solution and add a layer of value to it. PayPal is a perfect example; it saw an opportunity to use the existing payments infrastructure, for example clearing systems and cards, and use them for more convenient payments. The other extreme is to introduce something completely new. Alipay and WeChat in China have proven that this is possible. In less than 10 years, their QR payment apps overtook all other forms of payment in China. Anyone can now display his own QR code for payments. There are a few companies in crypto that have tried this path, for example they introduced their own payment terminals. But this is “reinventing the wheel” and adds no value. The final option sits between the two extremes. A brand-new solution that integrates with the old-world infrastructure. That is what most cryptocurrency companies, including Crypterium, have attempted to do. And we have made great progress in the past couple of years. When Crypterium first launched, it faced resistance from every avenue, including the card schemes. But that is changing with both Visa and MasterCard now embracing crypto players. Now Crypterium can provides a “best of all worlds” solution. It has all the benefits of cryptocurrency, such as near-instant transfer of money to anywhere in the world, coupled with the ability to use that cryptocurrency in an everyday environment by using the existing payments infrastructure. I therefore believe that the gap is being bridged and may disappear completely.
Andrey Sergeenkov: Apart from enabling a seamless crypto onboarding user interface, can you tell us more about the functionalities distinguishing Crypterium’s offerings?
Steven Parker: The Crypterium Wallet was designed from scratch to provide a seamless experience to our customers, enabling them to manage their digital finances from a single-access platform. I think sometimes we gloss over just how good our solutions are. For example, any of our users can send their cryptocurrency to any Visa or Mastercard anywhere in the world, often within just minutes, and when it arrives on the card, it does so in the card currency. Or our ability to send cryptocurrency to any mobile phone number anywhere in the world in the same speed as a text message. Ping, and the money leaves your wallet and arrives on their phone. For almost no cost. The person receiving that money can instantly spend though the Apps payment features, including an instant allocation to their Visa card. Our users can send or receive a payment in cryptocurrency, from anywhere on the planet to anywhere on the planet, within a minute of requesting it, and one minute later they can allocate it onto their own personal Crypterium provided Visa card and spend it in Starbucks, right away. This is amazingly convenient, and these types of service are just inconceivable with traditional players.
But not everybody wants to spend money, some want to save or speculate, and for those customers we provide a purpose-built exchange function that finds the best rates on the market, and within the coming weeks, we shall provide a service to let people earn interest on their cryptocurrency balances.
Andrey Sergeenkov: You recently launched the Visa edition of your crypto card. How does that play into the startup’s long-term goal as a major portal for crypto payments?
Steven Parker: A global currency without national boundaries needs a global payments solution. We can do that within the crypto eco-system but many people still want their own national currencies. This means that we have to bridge the gap between crypto and traditional “fiat” money and the best way to do that is via a partnership with the world’s leading payment institutions, and Visa is clearly on that list.
After long negotiations, Crypterium has recently become an official “fast-track” partner of Visa — a partnership that enables us to create such a unique solution. Technology aside, the greatest thing about this card is that it is absolutely free which is completely aligned with our long-term goal to lower the entry barriers for anyone to be able to access money and payments.
Andrey Sergeenkov: Do you think that, at a point, crypto banks must do away with all intermediate entities and processes? Or will such a move limit the availability of crypto cards, since mainstream adoption seems to be the unifying goal?
Steven Parker: As I mentioned before, the path to change is possible. Alipay proved that, but right now, integration with traditional systems is necessary. After initial hostility towards cryptocurrency, financial leaders, international monetary policy makers, regulators and even major banks are starting to adopt it as part of their portfolio. But it has not yet had a “Eureka!” moment - that point when it stops being a niche and turns mainstream. I thought Facebook may have been that moment, but that project has been greatly diminished. Maybe Telegram could have been it, but they have fallen foul of US regulators. Nevertheless, I remain confident that a game changing moment is out there somewhere and when it arrives, it will change the whole game.
Andrey Sergeenkov: How important is the CRPT token to Crypterium’s crypto payment gateways?
Steven Parker: CRPT is a utility token and it’s embedded into everything we do. We call it our “fuel”. Practically every transaction has a cost, even a simple transaction on the blockchain has a cost. Our token is our way of paying for those costs. Without it there would be no Crypterium. It is also a self-balancing mechanism since the more the Crypterium wallet is used, the more CRPT tokens will be “burnt” and become scarcer and therefore, in theory, more valuable.
Andrey Sergeenkov: I am particularly impressed with Crypterium’s mobile app and the fact that its design reflects the company’s business principles. Why have your company gone all out to deliver a premium mobile experience to users?
Steven Parker: At the end of the day, a cryptocurrency wallet is exactly that — a wallet. Part of our job is keeping the customers' money well protected. Educating our customers as much as possible and enabling security features such as two-factor authentication protocols helps a lot. A great user experience is also vital to ensure that our customers find the things they need to quickly and to reduce any risk of customers “pressing the wrong button.”
Andrey Sergeenkov: What are your expectations for the fintech sector for the rest of the year and what should we be expecting from Crypterium in the same timeframe?
Steven Parker: This may well be a hard year for fintechs with knock-on effects from the pandemic. The good news is that the era of frothy “unicorns” is over, for the moment. However, customers have initially retreated to “safety”, which means banks and with payment transaction volumes declining, due to lockdowns, some fintechs have lost their key revenue stream. As a result, fintech players with insufficient cash have had to scale back, such as Monzo. For those with plenty of cash, such as Revolut, they have stated that they are now looking at acquisitions, so we may well also see some consolidation. Very recently, we have seen fascinating new partnerships emerging between “fiat” and crypto players – such as PayPal with Paxos and Western Union moving towards Ripple.
For Crypterium, we are in a good place, with our new Visa card and other card projects in the pipeline. We shall continue to enhance our services with new features, such as savings, investments and lending, all close to launch in coming months. Once we manage all of that and coupled with all the great payment features that we already provide, our users will have no reason to use any other App and will be doing everything they need with us.
Whichever way, at Crypterium, we believe it’s going to be an exciting time and we are happy to be pioneers in this exciting new financial world.
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Workshop Boosts Dissertation Writing and Completion
June 4, 2015 Darren White
In the Hunt Library's Creativity Studio, Ph.D. students map out plans for their dissertations. (Brent Brafford photo, NCSU Libraries)
It’s free! It’s interactive! And best of all, it’s designed to boost dissertation completion.
In May, 15 doctoral students jump-started their dissertations with the help of expert advice and professional coaching at the Graduate School’s third Dissertation Institute.
According to Meagan Kittle Autry, director of the Graduate School’s Thesis and Dissertation Support Services, the five-day “boot camp” combines highly productive writing time, scholarly writing instruction and group goal-setting with motivational strategies. The institute sessions teach writing and editing techniques, helping students to better articulate their research, identify their sources and manage their writing.
“The Graduate School has many functions, and one is actively supporting dissertation completion,” says Graduate School Dean Maureen Grasso. “We want to promote the institute as one of our services—one every graduate student should know about and consider using.”
The workshop is held twice annually in the Hunt Library, making effective use of the Creativity Studio. “Even the modern and inventive space itself,” says Grasso, “is clearly configured to support creative thinking.” She says libraries are traditionally the nexus of dissertation research and a natural setting for the event.
In creating the “boot camp,” Kittle Autry developed and leads a workshop activity called project mapping. Using white boards, students visually map and organize various aspects of their academic research.
Kittle Autry also collaborates with Scholar Shape, a consulting firm, to present editing tools and insights to strengthen the students’ academic writing during the institute. The consultant provides coaching and one-on-one critiques with the students during the event.
Doctoral student Keon Pettiway, who attended the Dissertation Institute in May, discussed how project mapping helped him better organize his research. Pettiway created elaborate diagrams relating the various themes and research areas of his doctoral investigations—the results were creative, labyrinthine but useful. In the end, he feels he may have mapped out a clearer direction for his dissertation to follow.
“I mapped out how to make an argument,” Pettiway says.
Diagramming the work he has done concerning communication and rhetoric, Pettiway depicts “nation branding in the post-Colonial identity of Ghana.” Now he plans to complete his dissertation writing in December and to submit his dissertation in March of next year.
Will tools such as project mapping make a significance difference in organizing his research? Pettiway believes that they will.
The Graduate School will conduct its next Dissertation Institute in December 2015. For further information, contact Kittle Autry at Thesis and Dissertation Support Services via her email: makittle@ncsu.edu.
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Kartarpur Corridor – ISI’s Bridge To Khalistan
The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor has been a long-standing demand by India to meet the aspirations of the Sikh community, which considers the Kartarpur Gurdwara as amongst its holiest shrines. The Gurdwara is located inside Pakistan, approximately 3–4 Kms from the international border. The Gurdwara was established in 1522 by the First Sikh Guru on the banks of the river Ravi. It is an important place of pilgrimage as Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji spent his last 18 years there.
India first proposed the opening of the corridor in 1988, but to no avail. The present announcement by Pak followed the decision of the Indian cabinet which met on 22 Nov and announced the opening of the corridor. Thus, there would have been diplomatic moves which would have preceded the announcement as the timings of both countries were near synchronised. Pak may have insisted that India first announce before they follow.
It is also possible that this message could have come from Pak stating that they are ready to announce, hence India was forced to act. Had India rejected the demand, the government could have faced a political backlash. Hence the comment by the Pak foreign minister of Imran bowling a googly could be partially correct.
The first indication of Pak’s decision flowed from Navjot Sidhu, when he attended the swearing in ceremony of Imran Khan. He stated, in defence of his hugging the Pak army chief, that it was General Bajwa who had mentioned that Pak was considering opening the corridor. Therefore, the decision was neither that of the Pak government nor of Imran Khan, but bulldozed by the ISI.
How the Pakistani Disinformation Campaign was launched against India at the height of India-Pak conflict.https://t.co/5uh53bumLY
— GreatGameIndia (@GreatGameIndia) June 19, 2019
Since it concerns religious sentiments of the Sikh community, no government in India could have ever considered anything else but accepting the same. This is therefore a victory for the Pak army. Some ulterior motives were evident even at the ground-breaking ceremony.
The presence of Pak based Khalistan supporter, Gopal Singh Chawla, at the ceremony and his interaction with the Pak army chief indicates that there are designs behind this decision. The Gurdwara was adorned with posters of the Khalistan Referendum 2020, none of which were removed, even in the presence of Indian ministers. Most posters depicted his photograph. Even when Indian Sikhs visited the Gurdwara recently, members of the Indian consulate were prevented from entering by Chawla and his supporters, not Pak security personnel.
Navjot Singh Sidhu with Gopal Singh Chawla at ground-breaking ceremony of Kartarpur Corridor
Chawla in a video has also termed the corridor as ‘a bridge to Khalistan’. This alongside a statement issued by the Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) is indicative of their interest to exploit the corridor for furthering the cause for Khalistan, in league with the ISI. They plan to conduct a “Kartarpur Sahib Convention – 2019” in Pak coinciding with the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
During this convention they have announced to open voter registration at Kartarpur Sahib as also provide inputs on the referendum which it plans for 2020. SFJ legal advisor, Pannun, stated ‘Kartarpur sahib convention will be the first ever gathering of Sikh separatists from foreign countries with Sikhs from Punjab.’ SFJ plans to sponsor and host 10,000 Sikhs from Punjab. While presently, India has few takers for Khalistan, the future may be different.
There are a growing number of Khalistan supporters in Punjab all supported by Pak. The breaking of over 80 Pak created Khalistan modules and the recent grenade attack on a peaceful congregation in Amritsar are examples. It was with this anger that Captain Amarinder Singh, the Punjab CM, attacked Pak during the path breaking ceremony on the Indian side on 26th Nov.
The Kashmir problem, an Anglo-American operation against India provides the culminating illustration of the hostility between India and Pakistan and the imperialistic ambition to rule over the sub-continent under the trusteeship of the United Nations.https://t.co/4wg0oUEKXF
Further, Pak had initially stated that the opening of the corridor would be dependent on India commencing talks with Pak. Its foreign office spokesperson had mentioned the same in early Oct. He stated that the decision to open the corridor, ‘will not see any forward movement if India does not hold talks with Pakistan’. Their sudden change would have reasons, none of which could be solely to meet the religious demand of Sikhs.
The adorning of the Gurdwara with referendum posters, despite the presence of Indian ministers only added to misuse of the religious significance of the event. Pak attempted to convert a religious event into a political one, when Imran raised the issue of Kashmir and talks with India, all of which was rebuked. The Indian army chief also delinked the issue of talks and stated that the opening of the corridor should be viewed as a stand-alone event.
The raising of talks has now gained significance for Pak. Its terrorists are being systematically being gunned down in Kashmir. Their influence on the local population is receding. Stone throwing and joining militant ranks is on the wane. Militants are now being compelled to scout universities for recruits as locals appear to shun them. Thus, Punjab appears as the next target, as Kashmir recedes.
The corridor would open doors to formally interact with those whom they manage to recruit through social media and through their few existing cells. It would aim to open a new route for movement of funds to finance anti-India activities in Punjab. It will not be a conduit for arms and ammunition, as the BSF would impose its own checks.
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— GreatGameIndia (@GreatGameIndia) September 16, 2019
While the intention appears noble and should have been so, Pak seems to be seeking to exploit the same. The opening of the corridor has been warmly welcomed by the Indian government as it desires to meet the aspirations of the Indian Sikh community, however it needs to keep possible Pak intentions under consideration. It has rightfully turned away all suggestions of talks as also of participation in the SAARC summit. It may need to implement strict security measures to continue to thwart possible Pak intentions. For the Sikh community it is a welcome step and should be seen as such.
MAJ GEN HARSHA KAKAR (RETD), Centre for Joint Waefare Studies
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HEFMA tackles the big issues facing E&F in new strategy
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Is It Safe to Donate Blood While Breastfeeding?
Pros & Cons of Giving Blood
About Nerve Damage Due to Donating Blood
Side Effects From a Blood Transfusion
Requirements to Donate Plasma
What Are the Side Effects of Giving Blood?
Local Bruising
Feeling Faint
Fainting Injuries
Written by Carole Wegner
Donating blood is a generous life-saving gift which is tolerated very well by most donors. But some donors, especially teen donors, may experience side effects from donating blood. Most effects are minor but less than 1 percent of blood donors may experience more severe side effects.
Only 1.2 percent of 5,000 donors experienced a reaction from blood donation, according to Doctors Antonio Crocco and Domenico D’Elia in their article, "Adverse reactions during voluntary donation of blood and/or blood components 12. A statistical-epidemiological study" published in the July 2007 journal Blood Transfusion 2. Of the 1 percent of donors who experienced a negative reaction, the vast majority of reactions they had were classified as minor. Minor side effects were typically localized skin effects from improper insertion of the needle. If the needle is inserted so that it slips through the vein, it can cause local bleeding under the skin resulting in a bruise (also called a hematoma). Usually, a hematoma will slowly resolve over a few days, as the pooled blood breaks down and is removed from the area.**
Other mild reactions described by Doctors Crocco and D’Elia included systemic reactions reported by donors including feelings of agitation or concern about donation. Some donors experienced other systemic side effects such a sweating, becoming pale, feeling cold, weak or nauseous. Usually, these symptoms subsided soon after donation. Rarely, these systemic systems progressed to feeling light-headed. According to the American Red Cross, feeling faint is a minor side effect which generally passes in a few minutes after donation. Infrequently, these pre-fainting symptoms can progress to actual loss of consciousness.
Other mild reactions described by Doctors Crocco and D’Elia included systemic reactions reported by donors including feelings of agitation or concern about donation.
Infrequently, these pre-fainting symptoms can progress to actual loss of consciousness.
In their study, Doctors Crococ and D'Elia reported that only four blood donors out of nearly 5,000 studied had side effects classified as severe. These four donors experienced reactions including vomiting, losing consciousness temporarily due to low oxygen levels to the brain and brief muscle spasms.
Indirect injuries from losing consciousness and falling caused more serious physical harm than the actual donation, according to Dr. Anne F. Eder and colleagues who reported an increased risk of fainting in teen donors compared to older donors in their article "Adverse Reactions to Allogeneic Whole Blood Donation by 16- and 17-Year-Olds" reported in the May 21, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association 1. Their study analyzed over 150,000 donations by teenagers across nine American Red Cross Donation Centers. Teen donations account for between 4 and 11 percent of all American Red Cross donations. About four donors per 100 had side effects, but 10 percent of these side effects were experienced in the 16 and 17 year olds, compared to only 3 percent in donors aged 20 or older. The study could not explain this age-related difference in experiencing side effects from blood donation.
In their study, Doctors Crococ and D'Elia reported that only four blood donors out of nearly 5,000 studied had side effects classified as severe.
Indirect injuries from losing consciousness and falling caused more serious physical harm than the actual donation, according to Dr. Anne F. Eder and colleagues who reported an increased risk of fainting in teen donors compared to older donors in their article "Adverse Reactions to Allogeneic Whole Blood Donation by 16- and 17-Year-Olds" reported in the May 21, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association 1.
Why Do People Pass Out While Giving Blood?
Disadvantages to Donating Plasma
Difference Between O Positive & O Negative Blood
Why Is Iron Added to Cereal?
Increased Blood Volume From Exercise
JAMA: Adverse Reactions to Allogeneic Whole Blood Donation by 16- and 17-Year-Olds
Blood Transfusion: Adverse reactions during voluntary donation of blood and/or blood components. A statistical-epidemiological study
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American Red Cross. Frequently asked questions.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Medical conditions affecting donation.
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Mayo Clinic. Rheumatoid arthritis. Updated March 1, 2019.
American Red Cross. Frequently asked questions: Medications and vaccinations.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Anemia of inflammation or chronic disease. Updated September 2018.
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American Red Cross. Frequently asked questions about iron and blood donation.
American Red Cross. Eligibility requirements.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Revised recommendations for reducing the risk of human immunodeficiency virus transmission by blood and blood products. Updated April 2020.
Carole Wegner is a Ph.D. scientist and in-vitro fertilization lab director in the Midwest. For more than 20 years, she has published scientific findings in peer-reviewed journals such as "Endocrinology" and "Fertility & Sterility" and also written on the topic of ethics in reproductive medicine.
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History will repay your love. You don’t have to be a jerk.
May 27, 2017 May 27, 2017 / Historiann
Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1973), Republican U.S. Senator from Maine from 1949 until her death and the subject of numerous biographies.
Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, “Why History Will Repay Your Love” (sorry–paywalled!) is an extended advertisement for David McCullough’s latest book, and only secondarily an advertisement for McCullough’s totally original observations about history and its importance. (Get this! John Adams and Thomas Jefferson lived in their present, not our past! Also, “nothing had to happen the way it happened,” and “knowing history will make you a better person.”)
I pretty much agree with all of McCullough’s bromides, but this one set off my B.S. detector:
We make more of the wicked than the great. The most-written about senator of the 20th century is Joe McCarthy. “Yet there is no biography of the Senator who had the backbone to stand up to him first–Margaret Chase Smith,” a Maine Republican who served for 24 years,
Could that possibly be true? I doubted it, especially because McCullough had written his 2001 biography of John Adams in immaculate ignorance of what one distinguished Abigail Adams scholar had called more than a decade earlier “the Abigail Industry.” In short, McCullough’s knowledge of women’s history and feminist scholarship runs the gamut from A to B, and it still doesn’t include anything on Abigail Adams.
So I immediately went to my university’s terrible new library catalog (which has ditched entirely the old card-catalog derived system of author/title/subject searches and is instead trying to compete with Google for boolean searches, and failing), and even that craptastic software for our minimalist collection of books turned up half a dozen bios of Smith published in the past two decades or so. (One was a juvenile biography, the rest were scholarly bios.) The period 1995-2004 was a rich period for MCS biographies, which were probably inspired by the turn-of-the-century frenzy to wrap up the twentieth century and put a bow on the package.
Why was all of this scholarship utterly invisible to McCullough? I wonder. I’m sure it’s because these books weren’t written by him or Doris Kearns Goodwin, and none of them were published by trade presses like Knopf or Doubleday, or even Basic, therefore they don’t exist. Also–they’re mostly feminist biographies, because (duh!) who else writes books about women, whether or not they ever identified as feminists?
There’s a rich irony here that the Great Historian of Great Men who is so desperately worried about the tragic ignorance of the Kids These Days can’t have bothered to enter “Margaret Chase Smith biography” at books.google.com. Noonan’s column begins with a story meant to flatter the convictions of the WSJ readership about the stupidity of youth today and their even dumber teachers and professors. She notes McCullough’s deep dismay that “a bright Missouri college student. . . thanked him for coming to the campus, because, she said, ‘until now I never understood that the original 13 colonies were all on the East Coast.’ Another student once asked him: ‘Aside from Harry Truman and John Adams, how many other presidents have you interviewed?'”
I’m betting that those of us who actually work with young people could tell stories like this–but that would be unkind and ungracious to those who trust us to work with them where they are and make them more informed and better readers and writers than when they walked into our classrooms the first time. I wonder how those students–if they actually exist–feel now being mocked in McCullough’s book and now the Wall Street Journal for (maybe) using the the word “interviewed” in his question instead of “written about?” Or who may have grown up in Missouri and never really thought about the history and geography of the Anglo-American Atlantic World before she got to college?
Increasingly, I feel like my charge–our charge as educators–is to serve and protect the young against the insults and arrogance of my peers and elders.
Perhaps it’s a good job McCullough never sullied himself as a classroom teacher or professor, because any professor or teacher who would mock students for venial intellectual sins like these is an obnoxious jerk. But we should not be surprised that McCullough acts like a jerk and a bully, because he writes the kinds of books that would lead us to believe he identifies strongly with the powerful and the privileged–mostly biographies of presidents and inventors.
As I write in my latest book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright, “It’s better business to write about the rich and famous, because there’s already a built-in audience of book buyers for that latest biography of John Adams, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, or Abraham Lincoln [or one might add, Harry Truman or the Wright Brothers, &c.]. It’s easier and more fun for middle-class North American readers to identify with rich and powerful individuals rather than the victims of history. Schoolyard bullies know this instinctively: we all want to identify with winners instead of losers,” 10.
I’m sure the plutocrats who read the WSJ Weekend felt very satisfied with themselves after reading Noonan’s advertorial for McCullough’s book. (You can Google it yourself if you’re curious–this is an advertisement-free blog, so I won’t post a link to it.) We olds have to imagine ourselves superior to the young in some ways, because they have all of the beauty, strength, creativity, and optimism that we no longer have in great measure, because life beats most of that out of us by age 40 or 50. And time! Alas, they have all the time, and we–we don’t. We hear the clock’s insistent ticking. We can see the sand streaming to the bottom of the hour glass. We have knowledge, but knowledge isn’t wisdom if you’re using it as a weapon, or a marketing tool to sell your books to old snowflakes who want history as therapy, or as a flattering mirror rather than naked truth-telling.
The olds these days! If only we would learn some real history, it might eventually make us better people.
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Jessica Parr
Spot on! Thank you for this!
Marty Olliff
“but knowledge isn’t wisdom if you’re using it as a weapon, or a marketing tool to sell your books to old snowflakes who want history as therapy, or as a flattering mirror rather than naked truth-telling.” Yipes! That’s going to leave a mark! Good.
I love the WSJ Weekend – I disagree with it 96% of the time, but they employ great writers. I frequently love Peggy Noonan, who is a fantastic writer whatever you think of her opinions. This week’s column was such a disappointment – almost an “I opened the press packet myself” that is truly unworthy of her, esp. with that bagatelle of cruelty at the expense of a few unsophisticated college students in Missouri.
It was unworthy of her, although I’m afraid the column was pretty worthy of McCullough, who’s just a jerk and a bully.
McCullough’s mockery of these students reminds me of certain professors who publish malapropisms from their students’ exams on Facebook and elsewhere. Even though they don’t use names, it’s such a gross violation of these students’ trust. And what’s the point? To show off that we know something that other people don’t? Are we so desperate to justify our existence that we have to demean those who don’t know things we know?
I’m sure these bullies would say no–they’re calling out people who *should* know certain things. I guess they think these students are ignorant because of their own laziness, and not because–I don’t know–they’ve been let down by the system that was supposed to educate them.
In any case, historians mocking them on Facebook or in the Wall Street Journal does not help them at all. Maybe we should teach them instead!
There’s an old joke that should be a mantra for all historians and educators: “An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.”
Full confession: when I first started blogging (10 years ago, almost!), I was a regular reader and fan of Rate Your Students, which was a mean-spirited blog that was an outlet for faculty complaints about students. I guess it scratched an itch I didn’t know I had for a little while. (If any of you remember, RYS was too cool for school, and probably written by a bunch of Ivy Leaguers or Ivy-Leaguer wannabes who took unseemly pleasure in putting their students down. I’m not proud of my RYS-reading days, but as I recall they also published a lot of bitching about colleagues & administrators too, but maybe that’s a self-serving memory.)
Then, RYS went after a fellow blogger who became an online friend of mine because she 1) is proud of teaching at a “directional” public university where she knows her work makes a difference in people’s lives, 2) was a working-class kid and a graduate of similar kinds of institutions and was proud of it, and 3) wrote posts in which she was optimistic about the power of education to change people’s lives. I know–how ridiculous, right? I got over RYS pretty fast at that point–they were just being mean.
Maybe I’m just extra-sensitive to faculty bullying because of my experience with this blog, but even before and during my RYS-reading days, I never liked the blogs by faculty who just bitched about their students. I mean, how interesting is that? Is it really so satisfying to remind yourself that you know more than the average undergrad at your institution? Like, wow.
Faculty Jacobin
I was a reader and very occasional commenter at RYS. I don’t disagree with you about the ickiness of mocking students (I taught freshman history at the University of Missouri; yes the students were provincial. No, that wasn’t their fault. My job was to help them broaden their worldviews, not insult and discourage them. I enjoyed working with them and felt that my work was important and meaningful.)
But in fairness to RYS, a lot of the griping there was about student behavior, not intellect. I saw it as a water cooler for professors frustrated with and hobbled by administrations plagued by a student-as-consumer mentality. That mentality makes it hard for professors to teach and encourage basic life skills like responsibility for deadlines, appropriate communication with professors, and handling feedback and criticism. In short, I saw good people exasperated by the system within which they were forced to work rather than mean-spirited professors going for the student jugular. Of course, I’m generalizing, and I’m sure there were posts that you and I would be equally appalled by.
Thank you for this excellent post; I really enjoyed it and admire your work. Best wishes.
On its better days, yes, RYS was about behavior of students AND colleagues, who can most def. be asses. On its worse days, it was just mean and cynical (but like eating potato chips, I couldn’t stop once I was in the bag). In the end, I thought its schtick wore a little thin. I will say this: RYS taught me a lot about the kind of blog persona I did and did not want to cop!
I wonder if we get more forgiving of our students foibles or less as we age. I remember feeling much more irritation at students and their antics when I was younger, so I wonder if that wasn’t a kind of defensive move on my part–that I had to insist even to myself that I was not like my students. Now I find them only occasionally irritating, and mostly endearing in their goofiness.
I don’t (yet) have a college-aged kid, but I remember hearing once from a former proffie that once his daughter went to college, he started seeing his students as someone else’s children & so had more sympathy for their struggles and learning curves. I remember thinking (at the very wise age of 22) that that seemed kind of pathetic and solipsistic–that he couldn’t see his students as other people’s kids until his own kids got to that age, but now I kind of identify. Maybe raising middle schoolers/teenagers softens us up. Maybe it’s just age and exhaustion that prevents us from feeling the irritation we may have once felt.
Matt_L
I never read Rate Your Students, but I was certainly guilty of complaining about my students on FB and liking the same when my friends posted their gripes. I didn’t do it a lot, and I did not make fun of their ignorance, but mainly their behavior. But in retrospect, this was wrong for the reasons Bill Black and Historiann articulate here. Students don’t know how to write professional emails, they don’t know how to take notes, they have a hard time interacting with adults and its our job to help them figure that out.
I think becoming a parent might have helped me see my students in a different light. (Watching a newborn try to poop during their first couple of days life made me realize that humans have to learn how to do _everything_). But you know what really helped was realizing that I was still learning to do my job as a teacher during my first five to seven years at Lake Woebegone State. After five years, I realized I didn’t know half as much as I thought about teaching. It took me two more years to learn how to learn about teaching. Finally, my non-academic spouse helped me realize that getting mad at students for what they didn’t know already, or failed to learn over the semester was ultimately counter productive. I feel lucky to have learned this lesson and I hope I have the ability to keep learning it, because not everyone does.
Compassion and kindness has made my teaching a lot better and reduced my stress levels immensely. I hand out extensions and make up exams freely but I don’t have any more late papers or weird excuses for missing exams, than in semesters past. Every semester a couple more students manage finish the work they needed to do to pass my class. I don’t feel the need to complain about their behavior or mistakes. In fact, I am excited to share their successes with friends and colleagues.
Thanks for sharing part of your journey, Matt. I identify with what you say about the 5- and 7-year marks of your career!
IMHO, effective teaching means always evolving and rethinking everything. As my friend Jonathan Rees always says over at More or Less Bunk (paraphrasing here): if you can be replaced by a computer, you’re doing it wrong. Professors and teachers need to be active in the argument as to why we can’t be replaced with software or AI.
Wes Bishop
Excellent piece. Thank you for this. This is a point worth making in our introductory level classes.
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An aside: Your library has also ditched the functional *library catalog* for a New, Super Shiny, Google-type search box that actually works even less effectively than the real Google Scholar? Ours did too, apparently without any consultation with librarians. How did this travesty happen? Did all the IT directors go to the same conference where Whatever Edutech Inc. gave a flashy presentation and immediately run home to buy it? How can we fight back?
I keep asking our subject area librarian to bring back a simple author/subject/title function box to the book searches, but haven’t gotten anywhere yet. Too many libraries are run by people who now see books as tiresome nuisances, rather than the single best technology for preserving scholarship ever invented.
I know some will complain that books are not convenient and instantly accessible. But this bug is a feature: it also means that they can’t be eliminated by a hacker or with the push of a few buttons the way that digital libraries can be. Ever since we solved the problem of fire 150 years ago or so, paper (& books as compact and indexed as they are) is the best storage technology out there.
Midprof
same here, to the point where there are several items I can find only because I have saved the overdue notices with call numbers. Our catalog was actually quite good, increasingly even incorporating several databases so as not to necessitate as many separate searches. All of the sudden, it’s a pos. Now my process is: search for book I ordered myself and have previously used, find jackshit, buy book from amazon. Major works are buried deep or not findable at all. And I have decades of experience sorting through this kind of mess: how on earth can I ask students to use this tool to create anything with scholarly integrity? Librarian offered to train me. Like that isn’t a giant warning flag all by itself: if you need to train profs to use the new library catalog, how will students operate it? Shocking downgrade
Oh, I’m so sorry. I totally get where you’re coming from because YOUR SCREAMS ARE COMING FROM WITHIN MY HOUSE! Sadly!
“And I have decades of experience sorting through this kind of mess: how on earth can I ask students to use this tool to create anything with scholarly integrity?”
YES YES YES YES YES!!!!
To be fair, our librarians were totally sideswiped by the change, and they are as frustrated as faculty. Our system does at least have a “browse” search that functions somewhat like the old catalog (at least allows basic AU, TI, SU searches that are mostly but not entirely reliable), but it is buried so deep in the various advanced settings that you would never ever find it on your own. It makes teaching students how to use the library into a farce.
Since posting this yesterday, I’ve had a private email from a librarian at a university who has been labeled “reactionary” because he’s pointed out the very problems we’re talking about. Here’s what he reported when trying to look up my bibliography, which is pretty much what I’ve observed too:
We too are using the same systems as you and they are made by Ex Libris which is “a ProQuest Company.” Rather than teaching people to think about information, we overload them with a host of results, the googlization of library catalogs. I typed in your name as an author without your middle initial and using contains (rather than exact or starts with) and got 223 results. When I added the M, I got 83. One can only hope any evaluation of your work uses this same library catalog and decides that you are exceptionally prolific!
Alan Christy
A beautiful piece in all ways. I especially share your despair at the mockery of the students. I’ve taken on a new position at my university that has me handling academic misconduct charges (one of the things I have to do, and not the thing I took the job for) and what throws me into either rage or depression is the contempt, vindictiveness and callousness of some of the professors who report charges.
Thanks! And dog bless for taking on that assignment. It sounds like you believe that a large proportion of cases of academic dishonesty you investigate are due to professors not explaining their expectations & assignment directions clearly enough. I think that’s something most of us need to think about and work on.
Yes, all current and future college professors could use a faculty development day devoted to writing instructions and explaining what the goals of an assignment are. Some of the assignment sheets I have seen rolling off the department printers look like they came from the desk of the Unabomber. (Rule of thumb, do not use ALL CAPS and single spaced paragraphs on your essay assignment sheets unless you want to see this in your students’ papers.)
Focus on the feelings of unnamed (perhaps nonexistent) students has led your attention away from the substance of the article. The point of the piece is that we must redouble our efforts to teach history to our kids. The comments are not intended to demean any specific person or group, they were used to highlight a need to increase efforts to educate our kids and all generations about historical events and the ideas and concepts that flow from these events. Whether one writes about George Washington or Harriet Tubman, it is unlikely there would be much argument from a true historian regarding expanding the coverage of history study. However, you cannot blame one for focusing on those areas that particularly interest the historian. Thankfully, we have many historians with different interests and perspectives to help broaden our knowledge. We should be receptive to and accept attempts to help us expand our knowledge. If we don’t, are we not closing our mind and are we not guilty of the same alleged bullying.
Ed, but the point is that at the same time they are ridiculing 18-20 year olds for not knowing what they know (shocking!) McCullough and company are literally ignorant of their own ignorance. Perhaps it would be better instead of mocking someone with less experience that they use their own ignorance as an example. But they won’t, and that is the point. Knowledge to McCullough and others is a tool to amass and worship power.
There have been departments that put these kinds of snide things about students as a regular feature in their annual departmental newsletter, where it is circulated among at least alums who were majors, as well as internally to colleagues. We should do a call-out on ourselves as undergraduates, i.e., disembed from the actual or virtual archive some of our own cringe-worthy displays of unguarded ignorance, which did not prevent us from ascending into the professoriate, or into distributors of historical knowledge. So here’s mine: In a freshman geology course, on a field trip report, I misspelled the name of the town in which my school was located, repeatedly, which also meant misspelling the name of the creek through which we had splashed the previous week gathering up knowledge about sedimentary sequences, along with the occasional fossilized trilobite. The prof. put a marginal tic next to each misspelling, which my eye or ear translated into at worst a raised eyebrow or a tisk, tisk, but took off no “points,” the currency-of-the realm in that eco-system. He even gratuitously praised a few of my puerile observations about interesting shale conformities and dolomite intrusions. I toyed with majoring in the subject!
On library information systems, it’s definitely a case of technology acquisitions people (but also a few management-level librarians) running wild at Vendocracy conferences, that lead to this lamentable situation. The death of the author was the easy part. Now title and subject have leaped onto the funeral pyre. It’s all content now, and literacies about content, and the husk (i.e., the cover) is just so much irrelevance. The ag or vet schools can paint their cutting-edge findings on the sides of Jersey cows (but not Holsteins). Crim. can machine gun the latest wisdom about recidivism into the windshields of 1930s gangster black cars. Who cares? Relevance is where it’s at when it comes to search. (Which anyone who lived through the ’60s knows is a sorry joke). Of relevance, now that I think about it, I also forgot to mention McCullough here, because…. I forget!! A trenchant post!
Most of us have enjoyed the suffrance (if not the actual suffering) of former proffies who indulged our youthful enthusiasms and pretensions and bouts of solipsistic ignorance. Just as we indulged their terrible fashion sense, bad breath, weird hairdos, and the like because they were mostly really smart, and some were even fun and kind of cool.
It’s an intergenerational pact that will hold only if the adults who are paid to show up can keep it together and try to be kind and understanding. I am doing my level best, now that I’m the one with the horrible clothes, bad breath, and weird hair!
We also just got a new “discover platform” – style catalog, and you can get author/title/subject if you go into “Advanced Search.” Not sure if you have something similar.
We have something similar but IIRC I always have to search around and produce needless, pointless clicks to get there. And then it still doesn’t work as well as the old catalog!
Midprof’s comments above totally describe my experiences w/this new system, and my emotional breakdown over it. Blargh.
Historical SciArt
McCullough is a revered icon where I currently live (Charleston, SC). I’ve never read anything he’s written because I’m not interested in the subjects that he covers. From my time in public schools here to my first experience in college learning about world history, I am now careful in scrutinizing anything to do with the history of the South. Why? Because I was one of those students mislead in high school to believe in “heritage not hate” and the other “alternative facts” of the Civil War. (I’m not suggesting McCullough is one of those, but I wouldn’t know because I haven’t read his work). That said, I was definitely one of those students that asked “stupid” questions in college because I had no clue about critical thinking and the history of SC. I am eternally grateful for the thoughtful care and responses that my professors took with me then and even on into my graduate studies because I honestly didn’t know enough to phrase it right or to know what to say in an intelligent manner. I would be deeply hurt if I knew that they had made fun of me, especially in a public fashion. I feel like that kind of mockery leads to people wanting to stop learning and asking questions and to stick to their misunderstood ideas.
Anyhow, that’s all. Excellent post! Glad I found you 🙂
Thanks for your comment. I’m glad your professors were kind and helpful. I think most of us are, or at least try to be. Your story shows how being thoughtful and helping students ask different/better questions can lead them to better historical thinking.
Having grown up in Maine, the Notorious MCS is well-known to me, so my eyebrows also shot upward at the reference to zero biographies about her. “That doesn’t seem right!” And as you pointed out, it’s not…but she’s also far from a household name.
At the risk of raising the ire of your readers, I must point out David McCullough’s overall point was quite respectful and reverent to Senator Smith: “who had the backbone to stand up to [McCarthy] first.”
Sure – but doesn’t respect for the woman also entail doing a minimal amount of due diligence? Srsly! As I say in the blog post, this is all of a piece in which McCullough likes to pretend that he’s discovered something (esp. re: women’s history) all by himself, rather than acknowledging the existence of any scholarship on the subject.
I remember hearing Garrison Keillor say something to the effect that there is nobody on the planet more parochial than a denizen of the Five Boroughs of New York City. I think that this applies to David McCullough and historians of his ilk. What he meant to say was that David McCullough hadn’t written a biography of Margaret Chase Smith yet, therefore the definitive biography has yet to be written.
I can’t stand the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. They are just as dishonest and ideologically blinkered as Pravda and Izvestia were in the Brezhnev years. I suppose they are worth reading so that you can get insight into the official mind or to watch the tacking to and fro of the party line, but I can’t stomach it anymore and won’t subscribe.
What he meant to say was that David McCullough hadn’t written a biography of Margaret Chase Smith yet, therefore the definitive biography has yet to be written.
HAhaha! Yes.
My spouse & I subscribe to the Weekend WSJ mostly because the writing is terrific, and I want to reward a newspaper that hires and pays for great writers & writing. Yes, the editorial page is garbage, and as you say, like Pravda or Izvestia in their predictability, BUT Peggy Noonan is a great writer! The news reporters are great reporters and writers, too. The book review section is the best of any U.S. publication, and Dan Neill is so brilliant and entertaining that I TURN FIRST to the car & motorcycle reviews, if I can grab that section before my husband gets his mitts on it! (And I drive a banged up 2008 Prius, which tells you how much I care IRL about cars and coolness.) The fancy watch reviews are pretty hilarious, and I even love their obits and the M.S. Rau antiques advertisements. It’s a full-service newspaper in one slim weekly.
Seriously, Matt–you should give it a read sometime. Although their reviews of books on the war of the Revolution and the U.S.Civil War are pretty tiresome in their regularity, they also review serious European histories too. (True, a load of WWI books these days, as you might expect, and lots of Churchill/WWII from the British-inflected allies’ perspective.) But do you get that in the WaPo or even the NYT Sunday Book review?
I have not gotten either WaPo or NYTimes since around 2006-07. I look at them oin-line when friends or family share specific stories. I used to subscribe to the New York Review of Books, but its way to clubby in that NYC way.
You are right, we should pony up for great writing. The missus and I subscribe to The New Yorker, but they don’t have car or motorcycle reviews! (I’m an unrepentant gear-head. Before I went to grad school I used to subscribe to a journal called “Race Car Engineering” so I am a sucker for good writing about cars and motorcycles.) Maybe I’ll give the weekend WSJ a try. I appreciate the recommendation.
What is it with the White American Male Churchill fetish? Its especially pronounced among right wingers, but even the center left democrat cannot not resist a little Churchill frottage when the opportunity presents itself. Men and teen age boys on the left have a similar problem with George Orwell. Thomas Ricks was on Fresh Air the other night plumping his double biography on Orwell and Churchill. I guess he can really cash in on that one.
You will LOVE Dan Neill. The subscription will be worth it for his reviews alone. This is the guy who won a Pulitzer Prize for his CAR REVIEWS when he was at the LA Times, another newspaper that still employs great writers.
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As one library administrator reportedly said (I didn’t hear it directly): “Books are an underperforming asset class.” The emphasis is on speed and gratification. Books sent to offsite storage, foreign language acquisitions declining, the library becoming a space for people to acquire office supplies
…or just to have coffee and access the wifi, right? Sheesh.
Jeremy Greene
David McCullough’s son David McCullough is a teacher – a hs English teacher who had a little fame for a commencement speech that became a book: https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Special-Encouragements/dp/0062393340
I remember that from a few years back.
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Are there historical texts in England querying where Roman structures came from?
I watched a film recently called King Arthur, showing London post Rome (guessing set in Middle Ages with modern-ish buildings but still with some Roman buildings / walls showing.
It got me thinking: are there historical texts in England querying where these structures came from?
Post Rome I know we reverted to timber structures and lost a lot of knowledge in construction, especially road building.
It would be surely like finding a skyscraper in 1600, in that it would amaze and confuse people, or did they retain verbal knowledge passed down or via church like: "there was once a great empire that ruled this land"?
Looking at Rome itself, the Colosseum still stands so people must have retained respect for structures - I’m guessing - otherwise they would reuse the stone for other things.
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They did reuse the stones from many of the buildings. See Were there any Roman villas in Britain which were used rather than destroyed after the Romans left?. You may also be interested in Did Anglo-Saxons make use of large-scale, non-military Roman ruins?. – Lars Bosteen Jul 14 '20 at 23:02
The accepted answer here may also be of interest: Were Medieval Britons aware of the existence of the Roman Empire?. – Lars Bosteen Jul 14 '20 at 23:04
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Perhaps a better question would be knowledge of the many neolithic structures (Stonehenge &c), whose builders were as distant in time from the Romans as the Romans are from us. – jamesqf Jul 15 '20 at 4:34
Lost knowledge in road building? That's quite an oversimplification. It was not like someone in the middle ages thought "gee I want to construct a road but I have no idea how to do it". It was more in the style of not having the need, the motivation, and the spare resources to do it. There is no industrial technology required for those buildings and roads which couldn't have been made available if they really had the motivation and the money to do it. (they have built gigantic cathedrals in that time period, so you can't say they didn't know how to build stuff) – vsz Jul 16 '20 at 4:25
For the Anglo-Saxons, the knowledge that it was the Romans whose city it was is less relevant than why those cities were there no more, or, well, why they were in such a poor state. However, for a direct answer, Gildas and Bede describe Britain as part of Rome (though possibly not with a specific statement that "The Romans built these") and this would have been understood by the educated people.
However, there was also an allegoric understanding where these came from and I wanted to focus on that.
Poetic Description
I recommend 'The Ruin', a splendid Anglo-Saxon poem. It features a lament on the state of the present as opposed to a glorious past, based on a township. The featured city is believed to be Bath.
... The halls of the city
once were bright: there were many bath-houses,
a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls
filled with human-joys until Fate the mighty changed all that. ...
—'The Ruin'
Note I modified that links' "terrible chance" to "Fate the mighty" as in the Wikipedia translation. Wyrd (as in the original) had a specific meaning and "chance" doesn't really represent it.
Anglo-Saxon Worldview
Christian doctrine was primarily influenced by a few select works for the Anglo-Saxons.
Implicit in The Ruin is a philosophy of history, a way of looking at historical events—especially, an explanation for the fall and ruin of cities and empires.
—Doubleday, '"The Ruin": Structure and Theme'
Augustine, whose De civitate Dei was one of the most influential works for contemporary Anglo-Saxons, featured heavily and he was intent on explaining "the ways of God to man".
Orosius' Historiae adversus paganos tried to explain that "the prevalence of disasters in human history is the just punishment for sin, provided by a God who rules history and uses it to carry out His will".
Additionally, Gildas was able to construct history to fit what had happened:
In reproaching kings and clergy for their wickedness and threatening them with deserved punishment, Gildas draws on the Old Testament prophecies and on New Testament warnings. The history of the fall of Britain at the beginning of the work seems primarily intended as an exemplum for the sinners reproached in the latter part, showing them the end of their wickedness.
So the glorious Romans were thrown down because they were not fervent enough in their belief. The fall of a civilization was guaranteed by the people not giving thanks for their success, and vices and sin always abound in such times.
After the destruction, the desolate cities remain as monuments of the Lord's vengeance.
Reasons for the Fall
... Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste—
the city-steads perished. Their maintaining multitudes fell to the earth.
For that the houses of red vaulting have drearied and shed their tiles,
these roofs of ringed wood. This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
There once many men, glad-minded and gold-bright,
adorned in gleaming, proud and wine-flushed, shone in war-tackle;
There one could look upon treasure, upon silver, upon ornate jewelry,
upon prosperity, upon possession, upon precious stones,
upon the illustrious city of the broad realm.
Stone houses standing here, where a hot stream was cast
in a wide welling; a wall enfolding everything in its bright bosom,
where there were baths, heated at its heart. ... —'The Ruin'
... implicit in these three descriptions are the three worldly loves that St. John counsels against: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
Baths were, of course, the cesspit of all sin, a place of fornication, and a promotion of luxuries. Bathing thrice a year was the hallmark of a saint while bathing plenty was only an indication that the people were avaricious, greedy, and lustful.
In other words, the city (and Rome in general) was ripe for falling because its inhabitants loved too much the worldly and not enough the otherworldly. The Lord was driven to smite the Roman (Britons) down as they had to be punished for their sin.
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Don't understand the down votes, tbh. It seems the OP is trying to give a flavour of post-Roman views of Roman civilisation in Britain. The fact that much of the extant literature is Christian is just that, a fact. I see no evangelising here! – TheHonRose Jul 15 '20 at 10:20
Minor comment: Gildas was not "Anglo-Saxon"; he is writing during the Anglo-Saxon invasions and complains about them. (But he's certainly valid as an example of what people in post-Roman Britain were thinking.) – Peter Erwin Jul 15 '20 at 13:00
Question: were cities like Bath actually depopulated when Rome ceased to rule Britain? I know this happened along the Adriatic sea. This would mean there was no continuity in culture for common people, and post-Rome people were looking 'from the outside' so to speak at Roman city ruins. – Ivana Jul 15 '20 at 16:32
@Ivana That sounds like a great question for this site :-) – Kryten Jul 15 '20 at 17:00
@Ivana, one major problem with determining post-Roman continuity in most cities both in Britain & the Continent is that the relevant archeological evidence has been destroyed. one way is that when new houses & structures are built, older ones are dismantled or destroyed; water, sewage & electrical trenches also remove evidence. And then there is the issue that earlier archeologists -- who were learning the science -- either destroyed the later evidence in their quest to find the earliest, or failed to document their findings completely. So in many case, we won't ever know. – llywrch Jul 17 '20 at 16:34
The authors of historical texts which reached us knew that Britain was ruled by the Roman empire some time ago. Educated people who wrote historical texts read Latin books, knew some history and knew about Roman empire. But this was a very tiny minority. Most of people were illiterate, and even those who could read have not seen many books, they saw Roman ruins, probably were amazed and could tell legends about them. Since history did not preserve opinions of non-educated people, we can only guess what they thought.
In other places, the situation was similar. Here is what an educated Persian traveler writes in 11th century:
Everywhere in Syria I saw about 500,000 columns and no living soul knows what are they and where did they come from..."
I saw a column of stone there was some inscription on it, not in Arabic, but in some other script. I asked someone what is this. - "This is a talisman against scorpions. There are no scorpions in this city, and even if someone brings one, it escapes". The height of this column I determined as 10 arash.
By the way, Persia and Syria were probably much more literate countries than England, and the Roman empire still existed and was well known to Persians and Syrians at Khusraw's time. And there is no doubt that Khusraw himself was literate.
Even in the ancient Greece the situation was somewhat similar. They marveled about enormous walls of palaces of Mycenaean civilization and could only tell legends about it. These legends they recorded for us, and this is the only reason we give these palaces names like "Agamemnon's palace".
Ref. Nasir i Khusraw, Safar-name. The book of travels (Russian transl. Moscow 1933.
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The difference between Britain and Persia & Syria at that time was perhaps cultural. The Christians inherited fairly directly from Rome, used Latin as their lingua franca, and so had access to all of Roman history that survived. Islam, by contrast, was a religion largely imposed from outside, Arabic was a much different language from either Latin, Greek, or the middle Persian of the Sassanids, so pre-Islamic history would not have been as easily accessible. – jamesqf Jul 15 '20 at 4:31
Sorry, but I don't think this answers the question about historical texts in England. Syria is interesting but it isn't England. – Stew Jul 15 '20 at 7:57
Another analogy, perhaps closer, is what the European crusaders called the ruins they found in the Middle East – such as Solomon's temple for Al-Aqsa mosque. But I agree with the others that analogy isn't great for establishing particular history. – Luke Sawczak Jul 15 '20 at 13:27
@Luaan That statement may depend on time and place. I suspect literacy in what is now England was close to zero in any language in the period about 400-600 AD – Henry Jul 17 '20 at 10:43
Being illiterate (not being able to read or write Greek, Latin or another language) is not the same as being uneducated or without knowledge. For most of history, culture and knowledge were transmitted orally. The written sources that we are lucky enough to have inherited, are the result of communities and individuals decided that particular parts of their oral knowledge was worth the investment of writing it down. That goes for Homer, Greek philosophy, the Jewish and Christian bible books, Beowulf etc. – Elise van Looij Jul 17 '20 at 15:45
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Analysing Abdul Qādir Badāuni And his Muntakhab ut Tawārīkh
The Centre of Advanced Study Department of History has recently reprinted the Persian text of Muntakhab ut Tawārīkh which had earlier been published during late 19th Century from Calcutta. Since more than a century it is not available to the public being out of print since long. No publisher was ready to take up it’s reprint as, according to them, it had no “market”! It wouldn’t sell! Thus we took up the challenge. All the three volumes have been printed afresh in collaboration with the Publications Division, AMU. I am really thankful to the former Director Sir Syed Academy and Incharge Publications, Professor Tariq Ahmad, and his Deputy, Dr Husain Haider for facilitating the publication of all the three volumes. I am also thankful to the present Director & Incharge Maulana Ali Muhammad Naqavi.
Thanks are also due to Professor Emeritus Irfan Habib for agreeing to write a fairly detailed and thoroughly researched Introduction to the text. It adds to the value of this edition of the Muntakhab ut Tawārīkh.
Here I present to you my analysis of Badauni and his history.
Mulla Abdul Qadir Badauni’s work is a history of the Muslim rule in India from the Ghorian invasion down to the end of Akbar’s reign written from a religious bias. Thus in this work, the history of Akbar’s reign is written from the orthodox Sunni point of view. Naturally it tends to become a critic of Akbar’s policies based on principles of Sulh i kul. This kind of version with such bias is important and useful in our study of the political history of the reign as it serves as a balancing narrative to the account furnished by Abul Fazl in the Akbarnama, which as we know, is an account written with a bias to justify Akbar’s policies that were framed in the light of the policy of Sulh i kul. It is also written from the point of view of projecting Akbar as an insan-i kamil whose mission was to establish peace amongst people, unity of purpose in the state, and extend state patronage to a large group of people.
This view forwarded by Abul Fazl stands corrected by the sharp criticism which Badauni offers for the policies of Akbar.
We know from the notings which Badauni had made in volume III that he completed the book in 1004 AH / 1596. But the work could come out in the public only around 1616. For about twenty years after its completion, the book was not released for circulation. It is understandable why Badauni was hesitant to have it circulated during his lifetime. He knew if the book went into circulation, it would attract hostility of the Mughal authorities. We may assume, it was not in circulation till 1614, at least on the basis of the fact that in the list of different sources available, say that of Abdul Baqi Nahawandi (Ma’asir-i Rahimi), the name of Muntakhab ut Tawarikh is missing – a significant negative piece of evidence pointing towards the fact that till 1614-16 this was not in circulation. Subsequently, when the book did come in circulation, Jahangir made enquiries about the hostile remarks against his father.
Thus it was not for the perusal of the King. His style as a result, is not constrained by any fear of punishment or reprisal.
So far as the structure of the book is concerned, it is divided into three volumes. The first volume deals with the history of the Muslim rule in North India from the Ghorian invasion down to the end of Humayun’s reign, i.e., 1556.
An internal examination of the book reveals that Badauni derived information from two sources: the Tarikh-i Mubarakshahi (Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi) and the Tabaqat-i Akbar. For the later Sur period, Badauni bases on personal information and partly on information available to him through other sources.
Badauni’s account of the Sur Empire, for the period between 1553-56 is very significant and original. This is the only detailed account we have which gives the political developments under Adil Shah Sur and others who put forward their claims to the Sur throne.
The second volume of the Muntakhab deals with the history of Akbar’s reign down to the 40th RY (1595). The last event which Badauni records in this volume is Faizi’s death which took place in 1595. He adds a cruel note to this event.
The third volume comprises a large number of biographies of the mashaikh, ulema, physicians and poets: he gives biographic details of 38 important mashaikh, 49 leading ulema, 15 reknowned physicians and 167 well known poets of his own time. For this he borrowed much material from the Tazkiras of the poets that were compiled by Alauddaulah Qazwini as part of his Nafais ul Ma’asir.
Badauni, as against what his name suggests, did not hail from Badaun: he hailed from Kota Bhim in Rajasthan, which at that time was included in the Kachhwaha principality of Amber. He was born in 1541. His father, Muluk Shah, shifted to Agra in early 1550’s and stayed there down to 1561. It was after 1561 that the family shifted to Badaun and settled there.
Abdul Qadir Badauni received his early education at Agra under Shaikh Mubarak, who was at that time, known for his learnings towards Mahdavism. For some time, he also studied with Miya Hatim Sambhali, an orthodox teacher of early ‘60’s.
Badauni had become accomplished in a number of arts and sciences. In a letter written by Faizi to Akbar regarding Badauni, it is stated that he was proficient in history, astronomy, art of qir’at, music – especially Indian music and was a player of bīn. He also had expertise in chess. So Badauni was not only an ālim but otherwise also he was an accomplished person. Badauni himself does not refer to his proficiency in chess and music while writing his book.
So far as the history of his service career is concerned, he took up service under Husain Khan Tukriya in 1564, in which he continued down to 1574. In 1574 Badauni entered the Imperial service as the imam of the army for one of the days of the week. He was appointed to this minor position simultaneously with the appointment of Abul Fazl who took up the same position.
In fact Badauni laments that while Abul Fazl used flattery and readiness to agree with superiors to rise to the position of a high noble – a position which Badauni did not, as he did not worry about worldly gains. His bitterness is obvious in this statement. It is obvious even in vol. III when he writes about Abul Fazl and Faizi.
So far as the significance of the Muntakhab ut Tawarikh as a source is concerned, the problem has been discussed in at least three modern writings:
a. Elliot’s Introduction on Badauni with his translation.
b. Prof Muhammad Mujib’s paper in the edited work of Prof Muhibbul Hasan published from Jamia.
c. Discussion of Badauni’s approach to interpret history of Akbar’s reign by S Athar Abbas Rizvi in two of his works, viz., Muslim Revivalist Movements and the Intellectual Life under Akbar.
Still, here one would like to highlight some aspects of Badauni’s approach in interpreting Akbar’s reign missed in the above mentioned works.
A serious contradiction seems to have run through the entire narrative of Badauni in volume II & III of his work. This contradiction is that he gives conflicting assessments of Akbar as well as his policies and the role played by persons close to Akbar. Such contradictions are found within different parts of volume II itself as well.
We find that while at most places in volume III – and in certain places in volume II – Badauni refers to Akbar with great respect. He calls him khalifat uz zamān. But then on the other hand, in the major part of volume II, from 1575 onwards, he seems to be so annoyed with Akbar that he does not refer to him with name. He is found levelling charges in this part and he seems to have forgotten his respectful attitude depicted elsewhere. He charges Akbar of prohibiting namaz of the Muslims – a charge which on face appears to be unsubstantiated. He also accuses Akbar of forcing ulema to shave their beards; of enslaving ulema and mashaikh in large numbers nd exchanging them with horses and donkeys in the markets of Qandahar and Bhakkar. He also alleges that Akbar tried to impose ban on the learning of Arabic language. In general, in this part, he shows his disrespectful attitude towards Akbar. So one can very well see that the author had described the same person as a khalifat uz Zaman and, as a heretic.
Then there are other specific cases of contradiction: for example, the manner in which he assesses the role of Shaikh Salim Chishti in volume II and then in volume III. In volume III, when he gives a biographical sketch of the Chishti saint, Badauni gives a positive assessment of Salim Chishti’s character from the Islamic point of view.
But then in volume II, Badauni says:
And such was the disposition of that paragon of excellence, His Grace, the Shaikh, that he allowed the emperor entry to all his most private apartments, and however much his sons and nephews kept saying ‘Our wives are becoming estranged from us’, the Shaikh would answer, ‘There is no dearth of women in this world, since I have made you Amirs, seek other wives, what does it matter?’
(verse) Either make no friendship with an elephant driver,
Or make a house fit for an elephant.
The assessment of Shaikh Mubarak and his beliefs is given in volume III and II.
In volume II Badauni says that at one occasion Shaikh Mubarak told Birbal:
‘Just as there are interpolations in your Holy Books, so there are in ours. Hence it is impossible to trust either’.
Could this be said even by a ‘bad’ Muslim?
But then in volume III, Badauni contrarily noted:
He (Sh. Mubarak) was one of the great sages of the age and was distinguished amongst men of his time for his piety, devotion and trust in God. In early life he observed many austerities and strove much in the way of holiness and was zealous in enforcing commands and prohibitions of the Holy Law that if any body present was wearing a gold ring, or silk clothing, or red hose or red or yellow garments, he at once made him remove them, and if anyone appeared with long breeches, descending below the hell, he immediately had them torn to proper length.
Badauni accuses him of joining heretics, but does not charge him of being an apostate. Thus he says:
…and the pity is that his love of the world with its pomps, concealed under the garment of hiding poverty, left no room for the love of faith of Islam. [III, 120]
Similar contradictions are there about Shaikh Faizi: In volume III he has abuses reserved for him. At one place he acknowledges that favours were done to him by Faizi by giving him letters favouring him and introducing him. But then at other places, he makes fantastic accusations against Faizi: says Faizi’s poetry was not appreciated by contemporaries and his books were not considered as worthy by literary people.
Lastly, let us quote one observation about Faizi which he made while giving the biography of Shaikh Abdul Haq Muhadis Dehlavi and his great affection for Faizi:
Glory be to God! Shaikh Faizi has passed away and become a by-word; and as far these, the mention of whom is still among us for a few days, or rather for a few hours, who are they that we waste time in addressing them where preparation is even now being made for our departure hence? All that remains to them is the wind of speech. How long shall we waste our time in measuring it?
From these examples, it becomes evident that
(1) Badauni had more unbalanced views and assessments of contemporaries when writing volume II.
(2) The nature of criticism in volume III is sometimes qualitatively different from the kind of accusations in volume II.
(3) In the volume II the views are more balanced.
This goes to suggest that most probably Badauni compiled volume III at a time when he had not yet developed that kind of imbalanced view of the situation reflected in volume II.
At the end of volume III, treated by us as the final volume, Badauni says, it was compled in 1595. In the light of inferences drawn from the internal evidence, we would be justified in making the bold suggestion that the volume treated as volume II was compiled by Badauni after 1595 (that is, after volume III).
It is significant to note that at the end of volume I, Badauni actually has given an epilogue in which he states clearly that it was his plan to write the next volume comprising the biographies of contemporary poets:
Should this inconsistent and transitory life give (the author) a few days respite, and should the days in opposition to the usual habit afford assistance and should fate give its help, he (i.e., Badauni, the author) will make mention of poets of former times and of the contemporary poets of Hindustan, especially of those whom he had seen or heard or appreciated in his own lifetime together with extracts from their poems included in the tazkiras.
What, through these internal evidences we are trying to suggest and establish is that most probably, the volume which is now considered as volume II, containing the history of Akbar’s reign, was written sometime after the completion of History of Muslim Rule from earliest time in Humayun’s reign, and also after the penning of the biographical sketches of the contemporaries in volume III.
Perhaps Badauni compiled this second volume at a time when his assessment of the situation had undergone a considerable shift since the time he had completed the other two volumes.
This is borne out by the contradictory assessments that he gives of Akbar’s policies, Akbar’s character and the role of contemporaries in the two places ~ the second volume and the first and third volumes. It seems that by the time he started finalising vol II, his views had become rather extremist. By that he had come to the conclusion that the position of Islam in India had become untenable due to many factors including Akbar’s policy, and he was trying to put it straight by apportioning the blame of the catastrophe.
But then, in vol II as well, we find that in the first portion, he is not having an alarmist position which he has in the second half. In the portion relating to the post 1574-75 period, his views are most extremist.
In the first part of Vol II, he is calling Akbar as Khalifat al zaman, while in the second half, he charges him of heresy. This gives an impression that the account presented in Vol II is based on some journal which he maintained reflecting his changing assessment of the situation when he is becoming extremely critical.
His unbalanced attitude and state of mind is reflected in vol III also when he tries to revise and appends additional paras in individual biographies. To give an example: in the biography of Shaikh Mubarak, when he is beginning, he is praising and is not critical, as in the last paragraph which seems to have been added afterwards when his views had radically changed.
Then he also gives a number of chronograms giving dates of important events.
Thus in 1562, Pir Muhammad Khan Sherwani died during a campaign in Malwa by drowing in Narbada. Badauni writes:
“ba rāh-i āb ba jahannum raft”
When Muzaffar Kahn Turbati (a Khurasani) was appointed as the wakil in 971 AH, the fact is given by Badauni by the chronogram “zālim” (971) [oppressor]. Similarly on the death of Shaikh Gadai Kanboh, the sadr: murda khūk-i kalān [You are dead you great hog!]
When in 971 Ah, a certain Qazi of Baran was given capital punishment, Badauni found the chronogram of this event as “qāzi lāl”. And when Shaikh Ibrahim Chishti of Fathpur Sikri died in 999 AH, Badauni wrote that “since he was noted and notorious for avarice and vice, and was accursed”, his chronogram found was ‘Shaikh laīm’ [ “Base of disposition” or “Vile Shaikh”].
On the death of Urfi Shirazi, the famous poet the same year, he uses the term dushman-i Khuda.
Similarly on the execution of Ali Quli Khan Uzbek Khan-i Zaman and Bahadur Khan, after their rebellion in 1567 (974 AH), one of the chronograms found was “qatl-i du namak harām be dīn”
Incidentally all these persons were Shias.
One can see that all these chronograms have a common quality of being cruel, pungent and in bad taste. Badauni doesn’t say that they were compiled by him but it is obvious that they are of him only, having the dame pungent effect as in his prose. Probably he composed them when he was preparing the journal which ultimately was used to draft vol II.
An additional indication of this journal being maintained by Badauni is supported by other evidences as well.
He is becoming more and more hysterical in denouncing Akbar. If he would have been such in the earlier period as well, it would have reflected in the earlier period as well.
It is true that Badauni was very orthodox, but what he had to say regarding the role played by the Mahdavi leaders during Islam Khan’s reign, shows that he not only had very great respect and admiration for them, but he also shared the harsh cricism which Mahdavi leaders were making of the orthodox Ulema. So far as his admiration for Mahdavi saints is concerned, it is borne out by the chronogram he gives of Shaikh Alai’s death in 978 AH: zikr Allah.
Regarding Shaikh Alai, he says:
“Shaikh Alai who was the most orthodox of the sons of Shaikh Hasan, the tablet of whose forehead was from early boyhood distinguished by marks of nobility and uprightness and evidences of a youth to be spent in the worship of God and in following the ordinances of the Prophet of God.”
Badauni also praises Shaikh Alai’s piety, his indifference to worldliness and goes on to reproduce with much gusto and glee the denunciation of Makhdum ul Mulk Abdullah Sultanpuri by Sh. Alai at Islam Shah’s court. He puts the following words in Sh. Alai’s mouth in his vol I:
“You are one of the learned men of the world, a thief of religion, and you are engaged in so many illegal practices that you have put yourself outside the pale of equity so that even to this time the sound of pipe (nafiri: music) and tambur may be plainly heard issueing from your house, and in accordance with the true traditions of the Prophet, Upon Whom Be Peace and Blessing, a fly which settles upon filth is by degrees better than learned men who have made kings and emperors the object of their ambition and go from door to door.
Verse: Learning which exists for the sake of palace & garden
Is like a lamp to the loving thief.
This point is important from two angles: Badauni is not that sort of an orthodox as is generally conceived. He is espousing the cause of an Islamic sect regarded as heretic by majority ulema. This also helps us to see as to what was the source which influenced him in forming a very hotile and critical view of the contemporary ulema reflected in vol II where he says for the decline of Islam during his time, hypocrisy of orthodox ulema was as much responsible as the heretical views of Akbar and his advisors. In vol III he denounces ulema for the persecution of Mahdavis and writes about all types of discrepancies of the ulema.
It is much propagated that Badauni was a very intolerant person. At the same time, it is significant that when it comes to relating the role of Kachhwahas – Bhar Mal, Man Singh etc, he never uses that kind of hostile language which he employs for other nobles. He never uses an obscene language towards them. He also goes out of his way in condoning many of Akbar’s actions giving concessions to non-Muslims, especially those in which these actions and concessions are meted out to the Kachhwahas.
In 1576, when Man Singh was appointed as the commander of the expedition which was proceeding against Rana Pratap, Badauni decided to join it to fulfil obligations of jihad. Before he set out for Ajmer, one friend raised a question: ‘If you are really going from a purely religious angle, then how can you justify fighting under the command of a Hindu?’ Badauni was puzzled. Then he said that he had been appointed by a Muslim king, so it would remain a jihad! Shoot whatever side you want, all are non-Muslims.
Regarding Salim’s marriage to the daughter of Bhagwandas, he reports that the marriage ceremony was solemnised twice, first through Muslim, and then the Hindu rites: but he never makes any adverse comment, which is significant. Reason lies in the fact that Badauni had great respect for both Bhagwandas and Man Singh due to the fact that they refused to compromise their religion and accept the new creed that Akbar was trying to project. This is borne out by the approving manner in which he quotes two conversations, one between Akbar and Bhagwandas, and the other between Akbar and Man Singh.
When Akbar proposed to Bhagwandas to enrol as a member of Tauhid-i Ilahi, Badauni reports that Bhagwandas retorted:
‘I would willingly believe that Hindus and Muslims each have a bad religion. But only tell us what this new sect is and what opinion they (its members) hold, so that I may believe!’
Badauni then goes on to add: ‘His Majesty reflected a little and ceased to urge the raja!’
According to Badauni, the real culprits were those who sided with Akbar’s new religion based on principles of Sulh-i Kul, who were compromising their religion.
From this it is clear, his grouse was against those who thus compromised their faith and became a threat for the existence of Islam in India. He appreciated any one who was not impressed by the principles of the new belief.
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'Need to adapt to changing customer behaviour'
McDonald's in India currently has close to 85 percent of their restaurants open, and is working with local authorities to open the remaining very soon.
As India moves forward in the Unlock phases, there is a need to adapt to changing customer behaviour and align business operations with safety reassurance at the core, feels Robert Hunghanfoo, Head of CPRL, which operates McDonald's restaurants in North and East India. Noting a gradual, but slow return to normalcy, he says customers remain cautious about stepping out.
"The pandemic has had profound consequences on people at large and the pandemic induced lockdown has severely impacted many industries with restaurants being one of the worst affected businesses. Customer behaviour has changed significantly and they have remained cautious of stepping out to avoid risk of exposure. It will still take some more time for the F&B industry to get back to its pre-Covid-19 level," Hunghanfoo said.
The popular fast food chain in India currently has close to 85 percent of their restaurants open, and is working with local authorities to open the remaining very soon. It has implemented nearly 50-plus process changes in its restaurant operations including temperature checks, PPEs (masks, gloves and face shields) for employees, social distancing and regular disinfection.
As 'contactless' becomes the new normal, the brand says it has also introduced 100 percent Contactless Ordering across select restaurants in Delhi NCR to ensure zero contact experience in dine-in and takeaway orders, by enabling access to the menu on mobile phones by scanning a QR code, offering pre-ordering option and cashless payment.
"At McDonald's, the decisions we have made through this unprecedented time has and will continue to define our business for years to come. We continue to operate with a long-term mindset," he concluded.
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Call for Papers | “Reinforcing, Crossing, and Transcending Borders: Soccer in a Globalized World” | International conference, September 5–6 2017, Athens, Greece. Call ends May 20, 2017
Following up on its 2016 conference, “Soccer as a Global Phenomenon,” The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University is happy to announce a second event, “Reinforcing, Crossing, and Transcending Borders: Soccer in a Globalized World,” hosted by Olympiacos F.C. in Athens, Greece.
Austria v. Congo, 2007.
Referred to as the global game and embodying many different aspects of globalization, soccer has increasingly become the focus of scholarly research, the topic of media inquiry and the subject of creative work looking to understand the sport from both a local and a global perspective. Recognizing the importance of borders and border crossings to soccer’s growth into a major sport and to soccer’s relation to cultural, economic, political and social issues, this conference will look to examine how borders, boundaries and international movement have influenced the sport’s development. In hopes of gaining a broad perspective, we are interested in submissions that include but are not exclusive to subjects such as: players and coaches who have played and coached abroad, fans who root from a distance, clubs who are concerned with global justice, the impact social media has had on the game’s international allure, and the influence national and local teams and regional and international governing bodies have had on immigration discussions. The conference will focus on these types of issues with the hopes of better understanding how soccer’s institutional framework, governing practices and international reach both facilitate border crossings, reify boundaries, and create global spaces.
We are seeking proposals from scholars at all stages of their academic career, including graduate students, who wish to present their original research on a variety of topics dealing with different cultural, economic, political and social issues related to soccer and borders. We are also open to groups who would like to propose roundtable topics and to filmmakers or video producers who would like to preview work related to these subjects. In order to ensure that we have global coverage of these topics, we especially welcome contributions from individuals outside North America and Europe.
Please submit a single combined doc or pdf file including an abstract of no more than 500 words and a brief CV to wigh@fas.harvard.eduwith the subject line “Borders2017.”
In the body of the email, please include your name, affiliation, and the title of your project.
If you would like to propose a screening, please send us a proposal, and, if we are interested in your film, we will a request a production submission.
We recommend including a header with your name on every page of your submission.
In the case of papers or films with multiple contributors, we are only able to cover transportation costs for one person.
Paper Proposals are due May 20th, 2017. Late proposals will not be accepted.
Applicants will be notified in June 2017. If accepted, you will be asked for a draft paper by August 15th. We hope to cover all (economy class) travel costs, accommodation and meals, pending the availability of funds.
Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University
Stephen Ortega, Associate Professor of History, Simmons College
Yağmur Nuhrat, Instructor of Sociology, Bilgi University
Daren Graves, Associate Professor of Education, Simmons College
Initiator of Conference Series: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies,
Contact Email: wigh@fas.harvard.edu
URL: http://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/reinforcing-crossing-and-transcending-borders-soccer-globalized-world?delta=0
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13 Benefits of Kanban for Software Development
Alexander Sergeev / Jan 4, 2018
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What is Kanban?
What is the impact of Kanban on software development?
1. Detection of weak spots
2. Precise order of features release
3. All attention goes to the most important things
4. Focus on work
5. Panoramic view
6. More flexibility
7. There’s no need to assess features
When using Scrum a lot of time went to features assessment before sprint’s start. Now there’s no need in the assessment, we just do a feature asap.
8. More work less talk
9. Team cohesion
10. More frequent mistakes
11. More flows
12. I want to know everything
13. Focus on one task
Imagine a Toyota center. You liked that Toyota Camry and paid a deposit. There was no car in a color you wanted and therefore your order went to a Toyota factory in Houston. You were notified when your car would be delivered, and the car is being produced for you starting from this moment. So they work according to the “sell first then produce” rule, in other words it’s the “Just In Time” rule. First you come up with the time and goal, then a work plan for achieving the goal.
There is almost no stock in Toyota warehouses and there’s no need to store pre-made spare parts. Why? Because everything that is being produced now is already a part of a pre-sold car. One of the key elements in the JIT system is Kanban. KAN means visual and BAN means cards so that means visual cards. These cards are the traffic lights for the JIT system.
Let’s say you are installing a transmission for a Toyota Camry on an assembly line. There are 8 transmissions near your stations. You’re installing one transmission, then another one, then the third one. When you have only 4 of them left you take a Kanban card and write down an order for 8 new gearboxes and give it to the manufacturer since you know that your colleague will assemble and deliver those 8 gearboxes by the time you will be putting the last transmission in a car. Then everything repeats itself and you order new transmissions only when you need to. Do you recall the Toyota center? Where they order a car from the factory only after you have paid for it.
In fact, Kanban software development gives businesses an opportunity to be reactive towards customers’ demands instead of trying to predict the needs.
My example was from a production viewpoint, now let’s see how it works with software development. As auto parts we take tasks for development or bugs. A tester takes some tasks from a developer for testing (similarly to the assembly line when a master took transmissions for installing them in cars). When a QA is out of tasks for testing he/she needs to notify it to developers so they could hurry up and give them new tasks. If developers can’t finish new tasks then a tester is left without any work and stays idle. There’s also an opposite situation when a tester is overwhelmed by the workload and he/she can’t test everything in time. In this case a product’s date of manufacture (of a car) is delayed as a tester isn’t able to test every task properly.
It’s more difficult to balance Kanban in software development than in production due to work specifics. Machines as a rule make details of the same type whereas developers code with their own heads which has approximately 100.000.000.000 neurons and one big but notorious human factor.
I tried Kanban in 2008 and have been using it since then both for my private life and for software development. There was also a time when we used Kanban software development boards for the ceramic studio of my beloved wife.
But most of my experience I’ve gained from different IT projects for website, mobile and web applications development. And now I want to share this experience with you.
In the following list I will mention the advantages of Kanban implementation in IT companies which develop software.
After switching from a usual list of tasks to Kanban boards we found out our weak spots straight away. In the Testing column there was a big queue of tasks as our tester wasn’t able to cope with them. He started working on them with a long delay. As a result, when a tester was returning a task for further improvements a developer had forgotten it already. Meaning that he had to look at a code and remember what it was about, and this takes a lot of time. So we came up with the idea of taking a second tester. Bingo! Kanban board allows you to see those spots in your process where there’s a tendency for tasks to queue up. WIP limits let you find such weak spots on Kanban board.
As a rule features release order plays a big role in software development. It’s pretty difficult to manage the order precisely in lists based on priorities (like major, minor, critical, etc.). Let’s take a developer which has 5 tasks with major priority, which of these 5 tasks does he need to start working on?
When the order matters then Kanban offers an elegant visual solution in a form of vertical columns with tasks. The higher a task in those columns the more important it is. By the way, within Kanban framework defining the priorities in working process is one of the main task of a manager. Requirements as well as our reality change constantly. Some tasks after being in a queue for a while lose their significance and go down. They go down to that place where no one could ever see them. Some of the tasks do the opposite and they go up. In order for developers to work on the things that matter the most a manager has to always keep track of the tasks’ order.
After switching to Kanban software development we started to do only the things that added value to the product. We managed to keep tonnes of useless bugs and modifications out of sight from our developers. Anyway where do these useless bugs come from? Obviously there are testers who are doing a good job and find them. But to define a bug from a bug is a task for a person who can reflect the needs of both users and business. Usually this person is a product manager.
To separate the wheat from the chaff we are using Swimlanes in other words horizontal columns on Kanban Board. As a rule developers usually have the following Swimlanes as:
Blockers – it’s for tasks and bugs which need to be fixed in real time. I.e. a broken registration form.
Tasks and Bugs – common tasks and bugs
Someday – tasks that became irrelevant or have never been relevant.
Our system somehow reminds the Eisenhower matrix. Urgent and important tasks are the Blockers. Urgent and less important ones are Tasks and Bugs. Less important + urgent and less important + less urgent that’s all Someday.
Swimlanes are horizontal columns on Kanban board
A developer sees his queue and doesn’t think what to do next as a manager has decided it for him. There’s no need to spend time for choosing the next task. No more questions like “Should I fix this bug or work on that task first?” But there are different types of Kanban. You may decide for developers what they do and assign tasks to people beforehand. Or you may give people the opportunity to take any tasks from the top. But in this case your people should have quite similar skill level, otherwise, a junior may take a difficult task which he won’t manage to handle and that will only undermine his/her confidence.
My Tasks filter helps to focus only on those tasks that are assigned to you:
You can have a whole picture of your project lying open before you. You can go to a board and quickly get answers to the important questions:
Who is busy now?
What are they going to do next?
What tasks were reopened due to bugs?
Who is left without work?
Where is a big queue of tasks?
Which tasks have any changes during the last day?
When the task X will be finished?
How soon an employee will run out of tasks? (how soon you need to assign him/her new tasks?)
Which tasks have already taken more time than it was planned for?
We became more flexible in software development. We started changing requirements on the fly without any resistance from our developers. This attitude is pretty important especially when the product is released and you receive a lot of useful feedback. Such things as behavioral analytics, requests to support center, A/B test results, reviews and etc. Therefore as soon as we implement a new feature for production we start to change it according to the feedback. Earlier the developers didn’t want to do extra tasks, out of the fear of not coping with sprint deadline. With Kanban a developer works like a processor with clock signals. One clock signal equals to one task. The more frequent clock signals the more flexible the development team is. 8-12 hours is the perfect clock signal for our team. That’s when we always decompose big tasks.
In scrum a lot of time goes to communication. Before sprint starts there’s its planning such as tasks analysis, tasks assessment. During a sprint there’re daily standups. And retrospective occurs after a sprint ends. As a result all costs on communication takes about 30% of time which a team could have invested on development.
Testers started working on features almost immediately after they have been finished by developers. Before QA tested a feature not when it was completed but long time after that. A developer could hardly remember that feature by that time and was spending a lot of time trying to catch up with a task. Now in Kanban a QA tests a feature almost after it was finished. The same works in other segments like with designers, editors and salesmen. Teams start working more consistently like a metronome that produces regular beats: one-two-three, one-two-three.
When we work with Scrum we launch a feature only at the end of a sprint, like once in 3 weeks. With Kanban we’re launching them almost after a testing period is finished, that’s like once in a few days. In that way we’ll find out more quickly whether the users like the feature or not. If they don’t – that means we’ve made a mistake somewhere. And we want to be the first ones who are mistaken. That doesn’t mean that we like to make mistakes but if we are the first who make them means that we will also be the first ones who get the experience and will know in which direction to go.
There’s no need to keep nagging developers with a question “what are you working on now?”. Just open a Kanban board, take a look at what people are doing and continue working on your own managerial tasks, let a developer stay undisturbed and enjoy the working process.
Developers had no idea what their colleagues were busy with. Now a developer just like a manager can open a Kanban board and to see what their co-workers are working on. As a rule they need to know it for a better coordination of joint efforts on a project.
Earlier a developer could work on a few tasks at the same time. Either he chose tasks depending on his mood or on Mondays he just forgot which task he was working on last Friday. What I want to say is that a developer switched from one task to another one and spent huge amount of time switching. Why huge? Can you imagine what developers should bear in their head for coding? Name of variables and data structures, API calls and algorithms and much more detail. And each time you need to go into a task: to review terms of reference and a prototype, to read a current code and build its inside representation, so later on you could operate with it in your head. Now thanks to WIP limits and a panoramic view a developer can’t work on more than one task at a time.
You might think that Kanban is cooler than Scrum but it’s not like that. Let the cobbler stick to his last.: Scrum fits well at the start of a product development and Kanban when the product has been already released.
Kanban software isn’t a panacea and a silver-bullet. If you lean a ladder against a wrong wall no matter how hard you climbing it up you won’t end up where you want to be. Therefore Kanban is an essential but is an insufficient condition for the success of your project.
Kanban is that thing which helps your IT team to work coherently and maximum effectively.
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The Bruise You Can’t See
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We are a theatre in education dedicated to bringing interactive theatre experiences to
A show and a workshop all in one.
interactive from beginning to end, where the audience actively explore important issues relevant to them and ‘try out’ solutions in a safe atmosphere.
Their voices are heard.
Their solutions explored.
Maximum impact is achieved through the natural differentiation this interaction brings. The audience ‘own’ the outcome and adopt embedded behavioural change long after we have gone away.
We are forum theatre specialists and it is our passion and always will be. Forum fuses live theatre performance with an interactive workshop. Four actors/facilitator turn up in an empty space with chairs, plug point and audience. With just this we create outstanding theatre that makes a difference and pushes the boundaries of ‘normal’ theatre.
Our interactive element makes us unique in theatre-in-education (TIE) and is a vital to our work. We educate, challenge and stimulate discussion on important issues that affect our young people. Our main area is healthy relationships and breaks down into our main (but by no means only) specialist areas: HBT (homophobic, biphobic and transphobic) and identity based bullying, domestic abuse and sexual health/relationships.
Our work is ground breaking and can ‘pop up’ in a diverse variety of settings. There are no boundaries on where our work is performed to maximise the reach of our vital messages, ensuring accessibility to all. We have performed in schools, colleges, theatres, community halls, concert halls, pupil referral units, conferences, meetings, churches, places of worship, Parliament, outside spaces and are increasing this list to include festivals and prisons. This all-inclusive approach is vitally important to us as we want our message of equality to be shared everywhere.
Forum theatre is a form of interactive theatre from Brazil and was created by practitioner Augustus Boal, who used this theatre to go in to oppressed villages and teach people the strategies to challenge the dictatorship and address inequality.
Our audience watch the 4 actor play as the drama unfolds and are split into groups with one character each to ‘advise’ as to how to deal with the situation they find themselves in. The audience tell the actors exactly what to do and send them back into the scenario to watch the consequences. This allows the audience to look beyond just the obvious ‘right answers’ and to see in detail the reality and consequences. We call this a rehearsal for life and it repeats many times. By ‘being’ the character, they are invested to make positive change and empowered with positive choices to use for their own future. The difference between ‘watching’ and ‘feeling’ is vast and leaves our audiences with an embedded understanding of what it is like to walk in someone’s shoes and what they can do about it.
It Won’t Happen To Me and Love, Lies and Lullabies end with characters being HIV positive or pregnant so our audience is asked to go back in time and work out where they could have made different choices.
BOY ends with the main character leaving the school and taking his own life. The audience is tasked with finding points in the play to intervene and get help from his teachers, outside providers and friends.
The Bruise You Can’t See (our play on domestic abuse) the audience look at the early warning signs of controlling behaviour and look at how to communicate to change it within th
Award winning HyperFusion:
shortlisted at National Diversity Awards 2017.
nominated at European Diversity Awards 2017.
finalist at Best Women’s Business Awards 2017.
shortlisted at the European Diversity Awards 2016.
worked with over 25,000 people in over 87 educational organisations throughout the last ten years of touring.
nominated for National Diversity Awards (2016 & 2017.)
winner of High Sheriff’s Award.
partnered with Show Racism the Red Card delivering teacher training.
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Parliament performance of BOY during Parliament Week Nov 2016 in collaboration with Parliout.
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BOY invited to adapt the play for the West End.
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Tag Archives: Dhoni
Posted on 12 January 2017 by mohankaus | Leave a comment
Tagged Australia, Cricket, Dhoni, Pakistan, podcast, Yuvraj
India lost 0-4 to England in England 2011 through poor preparation, a wrong team, a sudden and indescribable inability to play the seaming ball, injuries and overall fatigue. Oh! And the opposition played brilliantly too.
India then went on to lose 0-4 to Australia in Australia. Injuries and fatigue could not be blamed for that loss. India had prepared reasonably well too. One or two players had warmed the bench right through the tour — somewhat surprisingly and with some inflexible obstinacy on the part of team management. But overall, the touring party was perhaps the best that India could have fielded. Yet India had lost. Badly.
The captain, Dhoni was blamed for his wrong selections. Dhoni was also blamed for his ultra-defensive field placings. ‘Rift’ remained a recurring refrain. Aging seniors in the team were blamed. Two of these seniors subsequently retired.
The team spoke in many tongues on that disastrous tour of Australia. In one of the one-day games, Dhoni achieved a victory with a few balls to spare and with many hearts in mouths. In the press conference after the game, Gautam Gambhir, who had scored 92 in that game, said that the game ought to have been closed off in the 48th over itself. On another occasion, Dhoni responded to a team selection issue and indicated that some of the seniors were too slow and cost the team 20 runs on the field. Sehwag responded to that statement with surprise.
All was not well with the team. Or so it appeared.
Mohinder Amarnath, the then chairman of selection committee, wanted Dhoni removed as captain. The BCCI President, N. Srinivasan, vetoed that decision. Much band-aid was needed, and applied. Much sand-papering was needed, and performed. Much shoving-under-carpet was required, and accomplished.
India looked to rebuilding a tired, aging and weary team that appeared unready for transition. Just as everything else, we do not plan a transition. It just happens. We are like that only. Some felt that the transition process had already been delayed. Yet, India had the perfect opportunity to rebuild at home over a one year period. And India did that through a mix of worthy retirements and good luck through injuries and bad form. Slowly, but surprisingly effectively, under the watchful eyes of a new selection committee headed by Sandeep Patil, the team transitioned.
Ishant Sharma had sledged David Warner in the Perth Test of the Australia series: “Come to India, we will show you,” he had said. Gautam Gambhir, the then team India opening batsman, issued a similar challenge to the Australians and added that India had to prepare “rank turners” for visiting teams. Gambhir and Ishant Sharma betrayed a defensive mindset. They also provided much fodder for the Indian press corps that visited Australia with the India team. The press was more interested in blood, blame and bludgeoning than they were in understanding what exactly was going on with and within the team.
Gambhir was right in asking for “rank turners” to be prepared. I am not sure why there is much disdain for “dust bowls” and “rank turners”. I haven’t heard too many people say, “Disgraceful pitch. Look at that bounce and lateral movement on day-one itself,” but have heard many a person say “What a disgrace! Turn and bounce on day-one itself?” Spinners are as much a part of cricket as pace bowlers are. The game, particularly in Australia, needs to embrace spin as much as it does, pace. Words like “dust bowl” and “pitch doctoring” have been used as pejoratives for far too long in our game. There is nothing wrong with a turning track.
And so, a few turning tracks were prepared to welcome the Australian team. The visiting Australians did not have the skill or the capabilities to cope with the turning ball. Suddenly, the shoe was on the other foot.
The captain, Clarke, was blamed for his wrong team selections. He was also blamed for his somewhat strange captaincy decisions. ‘Rift’ remained a recurring refrain. Immature juniors in the team were blamed.
The point is that just as India needs to prepare more seaming tracks for the domestic Ranji Trophy competition, Australia has to prepare spinning “dust bowls” for some of their domestic games. Dust is not hard to find. And a bowl ought to be available in Australia. Several of the leading talents in the Australian team were badly exposed after coping very poorly with spin, and this showed in Australia’s poor returns from the series.
When India toured England and Australia, there was a sense that there were a few players who had been left behind who ought to have made the team. There were certainly a few players who warmed the bench during those two tours who, perhaps, ought to have got a game. Injury and fatigue plagued at least one of those tours. The real worry for Australia is that the team that they brought over to India was probably their best team. It is likely, therefore, that the rebuilding process will take just that little bit longer for the Australian team.
This is not to say that India has rebuilt the team completely. No. The work has just begun. And as Sameer Chopra says in his blog article, “I am reluctant to draw too many conclusions about the future of Indian cricket based on one series win, at home, against a team undergoing a transition of its own. South Africa, at home, awaits. But the presence of young batsmen who show a hunger for runs, spinners who show aggression, and most importantly, a winning feeling whose memory will, hopefully, stick around and provide some wind beneath their sails in that land. On its pitches, against names like Steyn, Morkel and Philander, there is sufficient cause to hope that no more inversions of this present score lie around the corner.”
A stern test awaits this Indian team now. However, the 4-0 win over Australia was no ordinary feat. And it was delivered by captain M. S. Dhoni leading from the front in the first Test of the series. In his forceful wake came telling contributions from M. Vijay (16 Tests), Ravichandran Ashwin (16 Tests), Cheteshwar Pujara (13 Tests), Shikar Dhawan (1 Test), Ravindra Jadeja (5 Tests), Bhuvaneshwar Kumar (4 Tests), Virat Kohli (18 Tests) and Pragyan Ojha (22 Tests) and Ishant Sharma (51 Tests). This was a significant series win achieved by the above nine players with a total experience total of 146 Tests between them; one in which a particular player with an experience of 198 Tests hadn’t really contributed much.
Barring the introduction of Ajinkya Rahane, most of India’s selection decisions were good and more importantly, paid off. Will Rahane get the benefit of doubt? Subash Jayaraman thinks he should not. That apart, the right players were picked at the right time. And the right players were dropped at the right time. It would appear that this team now responds to the captain much more than the team which represented the worrying transition between 0-8 and 4-0.
I wish India was heading to South Africa next week; a tour that will separate the men from the boys, wheat from chaff. But we have to endure the IPL and a stunning array of meaningless ODIs before India goes head to head against South Africa. And it will be a while yet before we can say “Come to India, we will show you,” as the next domestic Test series is some time away…
— Mohan (@mohank)
Tagged Australia, Cricket, Dhoni, India, MS Dhoni
Defeat and the Cricketing Experience
Posted on 10 September 2011 by mohankaus | 8 comments
By Rohit Naimpally (Guest Contributor, i3j3cricket)
The immediate aftermath of Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s World Cup-winning six is a blur to me. I have watched the highlights from that night umpteen times over the past few months, but the moment itself? That is a blur; as soon as MS Dhoni hit the shot, all I remember is a sudden release. And tears. My next memory is of Yuvraj Singh crying into Sachin Tendulkar’s shoulder.
It is impossible to describe the intensity of those World Cup winning moments, and in many ways it is unnecessary. Those that could comprehend would not need any explanation; those that could not, would never be able to. A lot of that intensity was owed to the compression of memory, an idea that requires going beyond the effervescence of victory.
By way of explanation, I need to return us to another World Cup final eight years ago, to the eve of my economics board exam. That team did not carry with it the air of destiny that the 2011 outfit would, but this did not preclude hope and desire on our part. Every Indian fan will be familiar with what followed; memories of Zaheer getting tonked all over the park stayed with me for a long time. No roller-coaster could ever make my stomach sink more than it did when Sachin miscued that pull of Glenn McGrath.
Fast forward to 2011 at The Motera: a much cannier Zaheer Khan, almost unrecognizable as the bowler from that final eight years ago, totally bamboozles Michael Hussey. Sachin pulls a 91 mph ball from Mitchell Johnson somewhere towards cow corner on his way to a neat half-century. I do not like to talk in binaries, but the symmetry of the Motera encounter with the Wanderers one was undeniable. Watching this team expiate the sins of 2003 was cathartic; a catharsis that would have been impossible had it not been for the 2003 trauma. This was the compression of memory, images both good and bad all feeding into each other and enabling a nationwide collective effervescence of historic proportions.
It is necessary to look beyond the moment of victory to see the crucial role played by defeat in our experience of victory. Wanderers 2003 and Motera 2011. Eden Gardens 1996 and Wankhede 2011. Victory cannot mean as much without defeat, for highs are most accurately measured against the lows.
The value of troughs in one’s cricketing experience goes even beyond the heightened enjoyment of subsequent peaks. Sticking with a team through the tough times lends greater weight to the very meaning of fandom. It signifies a commitment to an ideal, a commitment to a cause. It is cliché to say that the true fan sticks with his team through thick and thin; while laudable, this is a normative statement that I am not concerned with here.
My questions are: What does it even mean to be a fan only when one’s team is winning? How does one then distinguish support for a team from support of simple victory, no matter the vehicle? Does one support the pursuit of excellence as an abstract ideal, or does one root that support in a specific context?
It has been wonderful to chart Zaheer Khan’s rise to the status of premier fast bowler, from his early excellence, to the falling-off and injuries through the Worcestershire stint and the ascension starting with the England tour of 2007. So much of that experience has been about seeing Zaheer’s evolution and growth. About the journey, not just the destination. Cricket has always been a sport about flows, not static moments. Do not let the apparent singularity of victory fool you into omitting the process that led up to it. As great as that picture of Brett Lee and Andrew Flintoff at Edgbaston in 2005 was, it would be empty without the context of the events that preceded it. The tough times lend us context, they lend us starting points.
I have been part of a privileged Indian generation: the majority of my cricketing memories were forged over the last decade, when the Indian team fully emerged from an age of diminished expectations. We have gone from hoping that Ganguly’s men could be contenders to criticising Dhoni’s backups for not seizing greatness. We react in the way we do because the process thus far has been largely a pleasant one. It may sound counter-intuitive, but this England tour has gone towards rounding out our experiences as fans. I often think of cricket as a wonderful metaphor for life, in all its dimensions (that is a post for another day). From that perspective, the tribulations of this tour have merely added to the wealth of experiences that I can draw on as an Indian cricket fan. Support this team, draw on your stock of wonderful memories associated with this crew (see the symmetry of victory and defeat again?) and just go with the turbulent flow that is the life of the cricket fan.
The BCCI and the team are not the only parties that can stand to take lessons away from this tour.
— @noompa
Tagged Cricket, Dhoni, India, Indian Cricket
Hit me, I deserve it
Posted on 15 August 2011 by mohankaus | 9 comments
Long post alert!
That is what I have been saying for the last few weeks repeatedly: Hit me, I deserve it… H-MIDI.
Team India went to face England in a hugely important Test series. To me, this was an important series not because the #1 Test Rank was at stake. Like trousers, shoes and underwear, rankings come and go. Rankings are not a reflection of the state of health of a nations’ cricket. To me, the ICC rankings are as important to the game of cricket as the ICC itself is. In other words, the rankings are irrelevant to me. It didn’t matter to me when India was #8 in the table. (Was it ever #8 in the rankings? Do I care?) It mattered even less to me when India was #1 in the rankings. And that India was! I know that. As far as I am concerned, when the ICC starts governing the game properly, perhaps I might start to care about the rankings it puts out.
It does irritate me, however, when Michael Vaughan and Johnathan Agnew and the rest of their tribe preen about the England team. Their preening is irrelevant. The manner of their preening grates. Subsequent to his unfortunate “Vaseline” comment, instead of retracting it, Vaughan asked me to develop a sense of humor. Sure, I can develop a sense of humor or even buy one in the local market. That would be way too simple! There are a few larger issues at play here in my view.
Do not get me wrong! The English have won the bragging rights. Of that I have no doubt and I will not deny England her brag-rights. England has played outstanding cricket that has been as resolute and dogged as it has been brutal and attractive. England has bullied India in this series and I am willing to call this spade a shovel if necessary. England has been the better team in this series… by a long distance.
So the English have the right to preen and brag. But no team and no press has the right to trash talk and belittle. In the last few weeks, writers like Stephen Brenkley and Steve James have made Malcolm Conn look like Mother Theresa! The English cricket press has made me yearn for the decency and integrity of the Australian cricket press; and I thought that those were two adjectives I would never ever use to describe the Australian cricket press!
There have been many statements about India not being deserving of the top of the tree ICC ranking. In this article, the author tries to disentangle the chest-thumping hyperbole from the ground realities.
However there is a palpable, distinct and glaring disquiet about the manner in which the English press has set about their trash-talk of the Indian team and her fans. This has left me wondering whether there is an unresolved undercurrent of larger issues that roughly answers to: “This will teach you little, impish scoundrels to mess with the game that rightly belongs to us and no one else!”
My hypothesis is that one cannot go into such paroxysmal manifestations of extreme hysteria if there is no undercurrent of unresolved issues.
But did I expect anything else from the England press? After all, the sub-continent took ‘their’ game and became better at it than England has been for a long time now. My view is that England had been itching to get back at teams from the sub-continent. Particularly India. If Pakistan had taught the sub-continent flair, and if Sri Lanka had taught the sub-continent aggression, India had, after all, combined flair and aggression in a package that included cash! The power-base had irrevocably shifted. England itched at the opportunity to punch back on the field and off it.
I had hoped that England would not resort to the off-field histrionics that it has resorted to.
But I was wrong. Hit me, I deserve it (H-MIDI).
To me, this series was important, not because of the ICC rankings, but because it would probably (almost definitely) be the last time we see Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman playing together for Team India in England. These three are the Tireless Trinity, which is a subset of the Famous Five, which itself was a super-set of the Fab Four. For Dravid and Tendulkar, England has a special significance in their careers. It was here that a young Rahul Dravid made his debut for India. It was here that a curly-haired Sachin Tendulkar really hit his straps. After playing 9 Test matches for India and after showing tremendous promise, it was at Manchester, in 1990 that Tendulkar scored his debut Test century; a brilliant century in the second innings. I watched that innings and have followed his career closely ever since that day. He deserved a rousing farewell to England. He was denied that.
This series was important to these three players. I had hoped — nay, expected — that the younger India would carry these players on their shoulders; just as Virat Kohli said they wanted to, “for Sachin”, on winning the World Cup! The younger players had a responsibility to afford the “Tireless Trinity” that farewell. This tour would tell me that, in the absence of a few key players, India would still be able to be tough and uncompromising in its pursuit of excellence.
I expected the younger players to stand up and deliver. I was disappointed in the end. But was it right for me to have these expectations in the first place?
So, hit me, I deserve it (H-MIDI).
What matters most to me is how a team plays the game! The West Indies played the game incredibly well as champions. From the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, West Indies was the most attractive team going around. They played with an incredible flair, fun and poise. They were entertainers first and champion players next. I admired her players and knew their dates of birth by heart! I admired them more than I did, India!
Later on, the Australians started taking over. The transition was slow and painful. In the 1990s the Australian side was the one to beat. In my view, however, except under Mark Taylor, Australia played the game badly. I hated her teams because of the boorish behavior that accompanied her wins and, more importantly, her losses.
India’s reign at the top has been too short for this team to develop a championship habit and character. However, the team under Anil Kumble and MS Dhoni had tried to play well; tried to play attractive cricket; correct cricket. MS Dhoni even publicly reprimanded and rebuked his star bowler, Sreesanth, for his antics whenever he crossed the line.
India played like a champion side till Dominica happened. Since then, it has played like a tired team that did not want to be on the park!
The first signs of something amiss came at Dominica. For me, this was an eerie mile marker on an important journey. Dominica was, to me, less about the handshake. To me, it reflected the mood, the state of mind and state of readiness of players in the dressing room. It told me that the players wanted to go to the comfort of the Hotel room. It told me that the players were a fatigued lot. Dhoni had already mentioned his Hotel room in the previous Test match in his post-match interview. It seemed to me that that was his refuge; his escape from it all. The draw offer talked to a captain’s (and his team’s) intent in a fight.
To me intent is a powerful phrase. It talks to more than just aims, purpose and objectives. It talks more to the state of one’s mind at the time when one carries out an action or makes a decision. It talks to a goal that is so firmly affixed that one can only approach it with an uncompromising, unwavering and an unrelenting desire.
To me, Dominica had compromised the captain and his team.
I should have reset my expectations for Team India from the England series right then and there. I did not. I hoped that the players that had sat out the West Indies series would bring a freshness to what I saw as a mentally fatigued dressing room.
I was wrong. So, hit me, for I deserve it (H-MIDI).
Upon arrival in England, I admit to being totally alarmed when Rahul Dravid said in his first interview in England on 12 July 2011: “We will be competitive if we can keep our pacers fit.”
I was aghast when I read this. Competitive? Is that what he said? Is that what he actually meant? Competitive? As in “we will put up a good fight”?
But that is not champion speak? Surely! “It cannot be,” I said to myself.
I ignored that warning sign too. I said to myself that India will be more than competitive. India will more than just “make up the numbers and rock up on the park”. I convinced myself that Team India was going to win, regardless! After all, it always has overcome the odds in recent series! So also this time.
Did it? No. So, hit me, for I deserve it (H-MIDI).
India went into the England series with a few players resting from the extreme physical turbulence that the IPL represents. The IPL is an unforgiving tournament. It is not just about 16 games in 45 days. It is just that IPL games come at players with remarkable regularity like a steam train that just will not stop.
And to lay the blame for India’s poor showing at the doorstep of the IPL is just being too lazy!
However, I am also saying that the IPL is an unrelenting, uncompromising and brutal menace. The franchise owners are investors first and their first and foremost responsibility is to their shareholders. They must want the best that their investment can get them. To the investors and franchise-owners, return on investment cannot be unimportant! And if that means Sachin Tendulkar has to do away with an hour’s sleep (or more importantly, an hour’s worth of throw downs) in order to attend to ‘sponsor commitments’, then, that is the way it is. Sponsor commitments will win over cricketing logic!
The IPL is not about 4 overs per bowler or 20 overs on the field or a few overs of biff-bang for batsmen. It is not even about the routine of getting up each day, dusting off the ordeals of the previous days’ game, the after-party, the obligatory late-night booze-up (or other late-night non-mentionables). It is not even about the physical tiredness of finishing off a game, packing up at the ground, traveling to the hotel, washing up, attending the compulsory after-party, sleeping for a few hours, packing up, checking out, travelling to the airport, the 1-hour airport wait, the 2-hour flight, disembarking, collecting your baggage, travelling to the hotel, signing autographs, checking in, settling in, sleeping, waking up the next day, playing another game…
It is not about that at all. It is just that in those 7 weeks, a player does not have the time to focus on the basics of his game. If Irfan Pathan has a problem with the positioning of his right arm while bowling, the 7-week IPL is not one in which he will get this rectified or even looked into! The team is looking to put its players on the park; not to work on rectifying errors that may have crept into his game. The IPL just does not afford a player the opportunity to think, plan and act in a strategic manner, particularly with respect to his fundamentals.
There is no wonder, therefore, that the IPL converts minor niggles into major injuries.
But I am to blame for this too. I go to IPL games. These games represent 3 hours of “paisa vasool” (return on my investment!). The games represent leave-your-mind-at-home fun. I see the advertisements that are on TV when IPL games are on! I buy the products that are advertised during the IPL. I am responsible for providing the BCCI with the cash it earns from the IPL!
So, hit me, for I deserve it (H-MIDI).
Every team aims to be better than it was. India too. Of that, I have no doubt. There is no reason to doubt the commitment of the Team India players. They play with pride and determination. This team has been around for far too long to fall together in a heap at the first sign of trouble. But what we fans must realize is that every other team is looking to improve too. Every other team wants to close the gap on the best team.
And in this regard, I must doff my hat to the way England has played. Every aspect of their game has been exceptionally professional and clinical. Everyone has contributed to the series win. Even Graeme Swann contributed with bat and marginally, with ball. In direct contrast, nothing has gone right for the Indians. Injuries. Bad form. Spirit of Cricket. Last season’s ball. The toss. The toss decisions. Nothing. Just nothing has gone right for India. India has been out-planned and out-played in every single aspect in this series: selections, planning, tactics, batting, bowling, fielding, injury-management…
Take injury-management: England presented themselves as an excellently prepared unit. On the contrary, India presented themselves as a ragged unit that was mentally and physically under-prepared. England had a few injuries too. The replacements were not only adequate. In the case of Tim Bresnan replacing Chris Tremlett, the replacement was actually better! Not only that. The fact that Chris Tremlett was not going to be able to play was transmitted way in advance of the Test match in which Bresnan played. The under-study was ready; he was prepared.
The Indian injuries left the team bereft of options, ideas or purpose. India’s approach to injury-management was immature at best and cavalier at worst. This is a point that has been brought out sharply by other authors. I do not know if this cavalier attitude percolated through the team. And it is incorrect of me to vault into the realm of speculation. However, given the inexplicable manner of the violent capitulation, we are necessarily into the realms of speculation when all other logic fails!
India has always tended to rush its players back from an injury-inflicted lay-off straight into important games. In this series against England Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan were moved into important matches without adequate testing of match fitness. But the injury that hurt India the most was that sustained by Zaheer Khan.
Zaheer Khan is the most important bowler in the team for more than his bowling. He is the commander of the bowling attack. He plans out the bowling. He maps out strategies. He is the go-to player when things do not go right. And when he limped off with a strained hamstring on the first day of the series at Lord’s, it was as though the team had no Plan-B. The air was sucked out of the team as well as the blimp that hung over it. The team was reduced to a rudderless ship when it came to the bowling. And it looked like that malaise had affected the batting too. There were no plans. There was no team. We only saw capitulation after capitulation.
So, while it is easy to admit that England played a superior style of cricket, it is impossible to unpack the capitulation.
The way the team played from the moment it faced its first injury is best captured by this brilliant article by Sriram Dayanad who endured much of this pain first-hand.
But every time there was a setback to this team, I continued to believe. I continued to be positive. I requested and pleaded with everyone to be positive. After all, this team has risen from the dust in the past; none more gruesome than Sydney in 2008! After all this team had risen from 0-1 and 0-2 deficits to claim victory. I had to keep believing. I had to keep the faith.
Instead of admitting the inevitable after seeing the well-oiled England machinery and instead of admiring the thoroughness of England’s approach, I kept hoping for the miracle bounce-back. Did that miracle happen?
No. So hit me, I deserve it (H-MIDI).
This tour represents an important marker in Team India’s journey. MS Dhoni has been tested thoroughly. So far, in my books, he has failed the test. But my view is that he is too good a player and too good a leader to let this be anything other than a big learning experience for him. Dominica was completely in his control. I still believe he stuffed it up. Since then, everything has gone pear-shaped for him. Sometimes you just make your own luck. He chose not to. From then on, hurt and pain have been inflicted on him (and his team) by a team that was just better prepared.
His cause has not been helped by the fact that an anti-BCCI feeling has continued to torment this tour. And in the midst of an awesome revival by England at Nottingham, he was tested by the “Spirit of Cricket” and by Nasser Hussain’s Underpants! In all of this, the DRS-cloud has just not gone away. The BCCI does not deem it necessary to have a media manager to explain its position adequately. The BCCI position can be explained with remarkable aplomb! All it takes is the appointment of a suave, well-informed, articulate media manager. Just look at the VVS Laxman “Vaseline” decision and the Rahul Dravid “Shoe Lace” decisions in this series itself! One can point to the BCCI stance just on the basis of these two decisions! And if that fails, all that the media manager needs to do is brush up on the incredible amount of work that someone like Kartikeya Date has put in to accumulate a defense of BCCI’s position on DRS!
But then the BCCI does not seem to have any credible media policy that adequately manages its position on any aspect of its approach to the game and its responsibility to the game. Instead the BCCI has determined that it is sufficient if it pays two gentlemen — no doubt extremely honorable gentlemen — an awful lot of money, thereby, abrogating itself of its responsibilities at opinion management and opinion leadership!
The team was burdened with bearing the cross of the collective envy of others who saw the team as an extension of a rich and boorish Board. The team was burdened with having to explain the stance of its Board on most things to do with the game on which the Board has a legitimate view! All this when one of the honorable men honored his commitment to his employer by way of a most undesirable spat on live TV that was straight out of a B-Grade Bollywood movie!
But despite these limitations (or perceived limitations), I will continue to believe in this team.
Heck! I believe now that this team will win the 4th Test at The Oval!
And if it does not, well… Hit me, for I will deserve it (H-MIDI).
But remember, the more you hit me, the more I will believe in this team. For I always have!
Posted in BCCI, Cricket, Dhoni
Tagged BCCI, Cricket, Dhoni, England, India
Nasser Hussain’s underpants…
Posted on 1 August 2011 by mohankaus | 22 comments
I like former England captain Nasser Hussain. He played the game with passion. He has a sharp mind and brings it to the commentary box. He has an excellent sense of humour and gets most things right most of the time.
He has played 96 Test matches for England too. He told Ravi Shastri this.
Good bloke. Nasser Hussain. Top bloke.
Nasser Hussain wants DRS implemented so that his kids will not be confused when they are watching the cricket. Fair enough. Often, a good test for something that needs a change is if you can explain the status quo in simple terms to a kid. They need to get it. It is not the only test. But it is a good test. For example, I would not personally try to explain the free trade agreement to kids before deciding that it is in urgent need of a thorough overhaul. However, kids do not need to know the free trade agreement. Kids are cricket’s future fans or players. They need to understand the rules of the game. Fair enough.
Nasser Hussain, said he tried to explain the Harbhajan Singh “out” decision to his kids and got his undies in a terrible, terrible knot.
I don’t know about him. But I may have tried this:
Harbhajan Singh was out because the on-field umpire gave him out even though replays suggested he was not out. It was a genuine case of an error in judgement; human error. Human errors happen in every walk of life. It happens on the cricket field too.
This may have been an important moment for Nasser Hussain to seize to educate his kids on a very important lesson in life. Mistakes happen. We need to learn to accept them.
Instead, he may have tried explaining the “out” decision to his poor, unsuspecting kids by saying,
Harbhajan Singh wasn’t actually out, but was given out because the technology that would have otherwise reversed the original on-field decision was not available, and that was because BCCI blocked the use of that technology due to error-percentage, price, lack of clarity on “who pays”, sheer obstinacy, pig-headedness and other reasons, including the fact that we did terrible things to the BCCI when we were “in power” and, before that, we ruled India and overstayed our welcome in that land by many, many years and were finally driven out by a small man in a loin cloth about whom Attenborough made a highly acclaimed movie that went on to win…”
The kids had heard a bedtime story. They went to bed.
Poor Nasser Hussain though. He had gotten his underpants in a terrible knot. He had to make a late-night dash to Marks & Spencer to purchase a new pair of underpants!
But, Nasser Hussain is a good man. He played the game with passion. He reminded us yesterday that he had played 96 Tests and this gives him the right to call the BCCI approach to DRS “a disgrace”!
Someone should tell him that people who have played far fewer games (than he has) have called the BCCI a disgrace. I haven’t played at all and I have called the BCCI’s stand on DRS a disgrace! Nasser Hussain need not have played 96 Tests to voice his opinion on anything.
The fact, however, is that he could not explain the Harbhajan Singh “not out” decision to his kids. He wants the DRS so that he can be more effective in explaining cricket’s already complex rules to his kids. This is his rationale (not his primary rationale, but an important one) for his disgust at The BCCI for not wanting the DRS.
Well, if his Saturday was bad, he is probably whipping himself into a fit of uncontrollable rage on Sunday! Imagine the state of his new underpants as he explained to his kids what happened on Sunday to his former team mate, Ian Bell.
Try and imagine Nasser Hussain saying to his kids…
See… What happened was this:
this batting bloke hit a shot
the fielder bloke dived on the boundary line
the batting bloke thought the fielder bloke made a hash of it
the fielder bloke was sure he had made a hash of it
the viewing blokes all thought that the fielder bloke had made a hash of it
the batting bloke signaled to the scorer bloke to add 4 runs to his score
the batting bloke felt he needed a cup of tea and a leak
the non-batting bloke pointed out to the batting bloke that self-declaration of a boundary and self-declaration of a tea-break are not according to any agreed protocol
the batting bloke said to non-batting bloke that it was too late and that he had already signaled 4 runs to the scorer bloke
the batting bloke admitted that he had also become TV producer bloke’s boss bloke and requested the TV blokes to cut to tea-time ad breaks
the non-batting bloke asked the batting bloke if the umpire blokes had any role to play in this at all
the batting bloke suddenly remembered something was awry and hit himself on his forehead with his bat, but by then, both the batting bloke and the non-batting bloke had reached the boundary line
the umpires side-kick bloke asked the batting bloke and the non-batting bloke to go back onto the field of play
meanwhile the fielding bloke had gently ambled across the ropes and non-urgently lobbed the ball back to the field of play
the fielding bloke wanted a cup of tea too
one of the the fielding bloke’s team mates, the bail-breaker bloke, collected the ball and took the bails off
the bail-breaker bloke asks the umpire bloke, “hey! are you in charge of this gig, or what?”
the umpire bloke says to the bowling bloke, “Naah, I am just a sweater hanger.” points to the batting bloke and says, “Looks like that guy is in charge of this gig”
all blokes then stand around worrying about when they might have a cup of tea
suddenly the TV umpire bloke, who has had several cups of tea already lets out a big laugh and presses the “out” button
the batting bloke remembers his acting lessons from 8th grade and does a good Russell Crowe bloke “shock” impersonation
the batting bloke overdoes the shock impersonation a bit too much and his jaw detaches from his face and lies on the ground
the crowd blokes go mad and start boo-ing — it is a funny English tradition quite similar to throwing plastic bottles in Kolkata, I am told
the crowd blokes have had lots to drink too — not much tea but a similar looking brown liquid in plastic cups
the umpires say they have had enough and walk off to have tea, although no one is really sure really whether they asked everyone to have tea
the TV blokes do not know what is going on, but the producer bloke too has started taking instructions from the batting bloke
by now the bartender at the ground has made his way to the dressing room to ask how much he should charge for a pint of brown liquid in a plastic glass. every one at the ground thinks the batting bloke is in charge of everything
the prime minister of england rings the batting bloke and asks if interest rates ought to increase this month
by now, the batting bloke is in charge of everything
but the batting bloke can’t talk because his jaw is still on the ground
the fielding blokes, meanwhile, make their way back to the pavilion
no one is sure if the batting bloke is really out and no one knows if it is tea time even, but everyone can see the batting bloke’s jaw on the field
the twitter blokes start arguing viciously
everyone is either against the BCCI or the queen, it seems
the TV producer bloke asks the batting bloke if he has cricket’s rule book, gets it and brings it to the studio
but the TV studio is a bit cramped, like some studio in some 3rd world country so no space for rule book
so the studio expert blokes cannot refer to rule books. so, a cliche bloke and former cliche bloke argue about cliches
the batting bloke’s jaw is still on the ground
the batting bloke starts crying in the meanwhile
so the batting bloke’s captain bloke and the coach bloke wander across to the fielding blokes’ dressing room
this coach bloke is a bit of a funny bloke
coach bloke had just finished reprimanding one of his players, a turban bloke, for bowling to god bloke in the nets
coach bloke thought that it was not in the “spirit of cricket” to have non-team turban bloke bowl to god bloke especially when god bloke’s team already has a turban bloke in it
coach bloke says to his own team’s turban bloke, “you cannot bowl to god bloke”
turban bloke asks, “why coach bloke?”
coach bloke says, “against spirit of cricket… bloke”
but that was yesterday.
today, coach bloke looked to re-define “spirit of cricket”
now, coach bloke and captain bloke knock on fielding bloke’s dressing room
all blokes having tea
coach bloke says to fielding captain bloke, “spirit of cricket, anyone?”
fielding captain bloke says “well of course… bloke”, and turns to all his player blokes
nod blokes
batting bloke is asked to collect his jaw
play commences
the umpire blokes are booed by drunk blokes
the fielding blokes are booed by drunk blokes
the batting bloke re-affixes jaw and becomes full batting bloke again
the umpire blokes say, “good then! we continue not to be in charge of this gig, but we had a nice cuppa tea at least”
icc says “spirit of cricket”
ecb says “spirit of cricket”
bcci says “where is lalit modi?”
And so the play resumed…
The kids are asleep already, none the wiser!
Nasser Hussain needs another pair of undies.
Poor bloke.
Tagged Cricket, Dhoni, England, Ian Bell, India, Nasser Hussain
MS Dhoni: An Assured Level-5 Leader…
Posted on 17 April 2011 by mohankaus | 6 comments
This post first appeared in Clearcricket. The idea of a piece on MS Dhoni was initiated by Subash Jayaraman, founder and contributor to Clearcricket (@thecricketcouch on Twitter).
I remember the day very very clearly.
It was the 8th of November 2008. A Saturday. It was the third day of the final Test match of the series (at Nagpur) between India and Australia. I had watched the most gripping session of Test cricket in my Melbourne home. Having commenced the day on 189 for 2 off just 49 overs (at 3.85 runs per over), chasing India’s first innings total of 441 all out, Australia had ended the previous day on an aggressive high. The first few balls of that first session of play on day-3 set the scene for that session, and that day.
My jaw hit the floor. “Was this Team India I was seeing?”, I asked myself.
I did not move from my place on the couch in that session — it produced just 42 runs from 25 overs at a run-rate of 1.68 runs per over! Dull cricket? Yet, I remember that session so vividly.
So what made it a gripping session?
Through the morning session India captain MS Dhoni set a 8-1 field with 8 fielders on the off-side and a lone leg-side fielder at square-leg. The bowlers who had been slapped around the previous evening, curbed their attacking lines and bowled a disciplined line to Mike Hussey and Simon Katich the two Australian left-handers. At the time this was thought of as a “defensive” tactic. The Australians were shackled. Their attacking shots were curbed. And they did not quite know how to combat India’s strategy — it took them a while to figure out that there was, indeed, a strategy! An Indian team did not just “rock up”. They were playing “thinking cricket”. The Australians were like rabbits caught in the headlights. In the process, Australia had lost a wicket too; Simon Katich lost his composure and got out — he had been out-foxed.
Rather than remove his foot from the pedal, in the post-lunch session, Dhoni continued his strategy in a ruthless and clinical manner. For Clarke he set a 6-3 field but still bowled a “defensive line”. In that post-lunch session, Australia scored 49 runs in 29 overs and had lost 3 wickets.
Many commentators — including Ian Chappell and Alan Border — attribute the loss in this Nagpur Test match to Ricky Ponting’s strange captaincy in the India second innings, when he had Michael Hussey and Cameron White bowling in tandem in a bid to catch up on Australia’s bad over-rate! However, I strongly believe that it was those opening sessions of Day-3 that led to Australia losing that Test Match. India acquired an Australia-like attitude, caught the match by the scruff of its neck, and did not let go. It called for mean-mindedness; an Australia-like bloody-mindedness. It called for a surrender of ego and pride. It called for discipline.
MS Dhoni’s tactics were rubbished by Ian Chappel, who asked for a rule-change to curb defensive and “boring cricket”.
For me, that was “exciting and gripping cricket” and not “boring cricket”. I had watched every single ball. There was drama and emotion. There was a battle; a battle of nerves; a battle for survival; a battle for supremacy; a battle to ascertain who would blink first. They remain the most gripping sessions of Test cricket I have seen in the last two years! Both sessions were “attacking sessions” in my view.
Dhoni had a clear strategy. He had a firm plan in his mind. He appeared to have communicated his plan very clearly to his personnel and got them to buy into his vision. His players responded to his plan, even though it meant that they had to swallow their ego and pride. The plan could backfire badly if it failed. Dhoni had to ensure that it was executed to perfection. Whether Dhoni had a plan-B or not, we never know. But his plan-A worked to perfection. And once he saw that it was working, he did not relent. He had placed his foot on the jugular and kept it pressed there. He had done to the Australians what they did to so many teams in the previous 15 years!
This was Test match cricket at its very best.
A few years back, in 2001, in that series, Sourav Ganguly had asked left-arm spinner, Nilesh Kulkarni, to bowl a negative line outside leg-stump from one end (especially in the second innings) while he attacked the Australians with Harbhajan Singh at the opposite end, in a must-win match at Chennai.
This was similar. Only better!
MS Dhoni seems to have an astute, canny, discerning and incisive sense of his place in Indian cricket history. He comes across as an extremely perspicacious individual. Perhaps it is because of his small-town upbringing. Perhaps it is because a sense of sagacious, earthy and incisive unpretentiousness is ingrained in him due to his roots and upbringing.
That Test match in Nagpur witnessed two other moments that are enduring, stirring and indelible in my memory.
Towards the end of the Nagpur Test match, MS Dhoni handed over the captaincy reins to a man who had started India’s march towards the top of the tree at the start of the decade. Sourav Ganguly marshaled the troops and rang in the bowling changes as India marched towards a Test and series victory in that 2008 series. It was a wonderful and honest gesture of extreme appreciation and perhaps even respect by Dhoni towards a man who had been nudged towards retirement. Ganguly was playing in his last Test Match. The match report reads, “A less secure man would have wanted to hog the limelight, but by ceding space to one of Indian cricket’s all-time greats for a couple of overs, Dhoni showed just how aware he was of the bigger picture.”
If that was emotionally stirring and if that was a signal of a man who was totally self-assured, what followed at the post-match ceremony tugged at the heart-strings even more. Dhoni called Anil Kumble to the victory dais to accept the Boarder-Gavaskar trophy. After all, it was during the series that Anil Kumble had retired.
Dhoni had scripted the strongest and most compelling farewell gestures to Ganguly and Kumble. This wasn’t, in my view, false humility. This wasn’t, in my view the act of a man devaluing his own accomplishments for the sake of receiving applause, accolade or adulation from others. His humility in these actions were real. He expected neither praise nor favors. These were, I believe, anchored in a strong and calm sense of assuredness.
And so, the baton had passed so wonderfully during that exciting Test match at Nagpur. India had commenced the decade with a strong statement against the Australians in 2001. In 2008, the baton passed to a man who would take the team from being just good to perhaps being great.
I have long held the view that Sourav Ganguly was the first leader of men in Indian cricket. He had a vision for the Indian cricket team. He developed short-term and longer-term goals for the team. He wanted India to be competitive in world cricket; not just good at ‘home’. He believed passionately in this vision and committed to it with fervor. He had a road map to get him to the goals along the way. This included a professional coaching setup and an army of support staff. He was able to argue his case for adequate resources and quickly established himself as the leader of the team. He was able to rise above regional politics and demonstrated his will and commitment through his actions. He demonstrated that he was unbiased. He was quick in identifying talent and supported players through (sometimes multiple) failures. What he built was a systematic meritocracy where players would go to many lengths to give their all for him and for the team cause.
Of course, he did build his team at a time when Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman and Saourav Ganguly himself formed the backbone of an evolving good team. There were still questions on how they would be “replaced” to affect a transition from short-term good to long-term great!
Meanwhile, all of Ganguly’s good work was somewhat undone in his latter years through a dip in his own personal form, which coincided with the arrival of Greg Chappell — right man at the wrong time and at a very, very wrong place.
Indian cricket, which had started the decade with much promise and hope, was suddenly hopeless again. Through Anil Kumble, some balance was restored.
It was in this context that MS Dhoni took over the captaincy of the T20 and ODI teams and finally the Test team.
The road from good to great had not yet been traversed. The plan for this road was yet to be developed. What was urgently required was assured leadership, a vision and an organisational setup.
As a player, Dhoni had transformed from being a flamboyant thumper to being an ungainly, yet effective artiste. His wicket-keeping was steady, if not brilliant. It was as a batsman, though, that he made his mark.
Initially, he was type-cast as an ODI player. After announcing himself with a 123-ball 148 against Pakistan, he made his big announcement with a massive 183 against Sri Lanka. Pundits wrote him off as a failure in Tests even before he had started. But then he made a terrific century in a high-scoring drawn-match in Faisalabad against Pakistan. He then made a fighting knock against England at Lords’ to save a Test match. Suddenly, he was a Test match player too.
From there on, a new and re-invented Dhoni played with maturity and calmness. It seemed as though he was comfortable in the team. He became a player who was able to play in many gears. He sometimes curbed his natural instincts to become a grafter, but young-India identified with the buccaneering marauder in him. They wanted him to play his trademark helicopter shot every match, every over, every ball.
That shot itself became symbolic of the rural rustic fighting for his space in a complex modern milieu, fully armed with a sackful of attitude, a satellite TV and many mobile phones! Dhoni represented the man he wanted to be. They wanted Dhoni to be the pillager that would plunder and raid runs from the opposition. They saw in Dhoni the big-city boldness and brashness that they aspired to.
But he was equally at home in the bright lights. He had the flamboyance, the long hair and the party life-style of a city lad. He even spoke English with the panache and confidence of a city lad! When his “Well of course” opener to any question became a trademark, he was assured enough to realize it and use it to mock himself! Today, he uses “Wellofcourse” in self-deprecation and smiles through it, knowing that many out there are having a guffaw. He blended into the city and the city men wanted to be like him.
Here was a common man from rural India who led a massive team with an earthy and grounded set of pragmatic sensibilities. Yet, he was a shining and suave diplomat under bright lights on the world stage. He had become a hero to both rural India and urban India.
Slowly, India accepted him as a very clever cricketer who could sum up the situation and play the way the game needed him to play. They enjoyed his barbs and exhortations from behind the stumps. They loved it when he asked Amit Mishra to bowl “udhar se” (round the wicket) in the Mohali Test against the Australians in 2008 to Michael Clarke. Clarke was out off that last ball of the day, leaving the Australians in disarray! They loved it when he said to Sreesanth to move in the field and when the speedster didn’t pay attention, he said, “Your girlfriend is not there… just move a bit” (or words to that effect) in a Test match. They loved it when he announced to the world and also exhorted his team to put in extra effort because Badrinath’s wife had just had a baby in Chennai!
So, slowly, one could see his steady and assured ascent to a leadership role. It is true that he seemed to posses that special Midas Touch that leaders crave for. Perhaps he had that auto loan calculator luck. Perhaps he made his luck. I never saw him as an accidental tourist. His was, in my view, a calculated assault at the top job in the Team India. In Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, he had his ‘seniors’ in the team. He first became ‘one of them’ and then surged ahead as a perceived leader. It helped that while Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh had occasional lapses in ‘form’ and/or focus, Dhoni kept improving as a player and a potential leader.
When the time came, it was almost natural that he would be anointed leader of the ODI team and the T20 team. The victories came… He led India to a famous victory in ICC’s inaugural T20 World Championships. It came at a desperate and desolate time in the post-Chappell and post-Dravid months and a few months after India had been knocked out of the 2007 ICC World Cup!
It was an important time and an important victory for Team India.
That T20 victory gave birth to the IPL — admittedly, some fans may not agree that this was a desirous outcome. However, in a year that was a disaster from most other perspectives, the rise of Dhoni as a leader in the T20 world cup was an unmistakable positive. He was the future. He was the alternative. Even though Yuvraj Singh had smashed six 6s off a hapless Stuart Broad over and despite all the machismo surrounding that, Dhoni emerged tall as the leader of a young-bold India.
From then, his ascent to the top of the summit was strong, assured, dignified and steady. He was marked as an under study to Anil Kumble, the statesman. When the time was right, the reins were handed over.
Today, Dhoni is the leader of three India teams: Test, ODI and T20.
Over the last many months, I have had many debates with friends — fans of Indian cricket — who maintained that MS Dhoni, the captain of Team India, has been extremely lucky as captain.
Initially, I would have been quite happy to agree with them. Not lately. Not now.
He is, to me a Level-5 Leader who works hard at identifying where he wants to be and works harder at getting there!
Jim Collins, in his article, “Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve”, [The Best Of HBR, HBR July-August, 2005, p.136-146] studies many successful companies. Collins concludes that perhaps the most important component of the transition from “good-to-great” is what he termed “Level 5 Leadership“. [I have extracted the concise summary below from here]
Level 1 is a Highly Capable Individual who “makes productive contributions through talent, knowledge, skills and good work habits.”
Level 2 is a Contributing Team Member who “contributes individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives and works effectively with others in a group setting.”
Level 3 is the Competent Manager who “organizes people and resources toward the effective and efficient pursuit of predetermined objectives.”
Level 4 is an Effective Leader who “catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear and compelling vision, stimulating higher performance standards.”
Level 5 is the Self-assured Executive Leader who “builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and strong professional will.”
In his study, Jim Collins found that every one of his “good-to-great” companies had Level-5 leaders in the critical transition phase. Interestingly, none of the comparison companies did!
To me, though, a Level-5 leader is one that has many paradoxes embodied in the one person. They can be timid and ferocious, hesitant and fearlessly-adventurous, modest and pompous, diffident and audacious. More importantly, they might demonstrate an ability to focus on the small things while demonstrating a fierce, unwavering and uncompromising commitment to big goals, large vision and high standards.
Dhoni has demonstrated that he is highly capable. He has a strong work ethic and makes stunning and compelling contributions to the team. He contributes as an individual and sets an example for everyone else in the team to follow. They do. He ensures that he has the people and the resources and backs them. He backed Yuvraj Singh through all his troubles. He sometimes backs players a bit too much, but that is his method of catalyzing commitment. He is a big vision guy for whom the smaller details are important too.
The way MS Dhoni has gone about his task of leading this team is, in my view, a living example of an evolving Level-5 Leader. Even during the World Cup 2011 journey, he was at times shy-audacious, modest-brash, hesitant-bold. He was honest enough to admit his mistakes — and that effectively shut up the pack of loud jackals that were baying for his blood when they were not singing paeans of acclamation! By the end of the tournament, when the cup was won, there was no doubt that it was his team and he had done it his way.
He made decisions and made it clear that these were his decisions. After experimenting with several team-balance-options, he was certain that he wanted 3 pace bowlers for his team. He stuck to that format. He admitted that he experimented with various options along the way. He demonstrated honesty, when there was no need to do so. He demonstrated that he wasn’t quite sure of how to do it although it was quite clear what he wanted. In the end, he demonstrated immense personal courage and personal responsibility by coming up the batting order in the final match, at a time when the spinners were on. He didn’t place his gun on someone else’s shoulder and fire. He demonstrated extreme personal courage in the line of fire. It was a bold decision. It could have backfired like the 8-1 field. But he was determined to leave his stamp on the win. And if you doubted that, see the look in his eyes as he hits those winning runs, followed by that bat twirl.
He was very clear that he stood on broad and impressive shoulders when he thanked Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble, for building the solid platform on which he stands today (although I would have liked it more if he had added Laxman’s name to make it a quintet rather than a quartet, but that is only a minor quibble).
Today Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly have already acknowledged Dhoni’s exemplary leadership. In Ian Chappell’s view Dhoni is amongst the great modern captains.
The World-Cup victory did not actually mean much to me! At the risk of being stoned to death by unforgiving Team India fans, let me state again that it would not have mattered to me if India had lost in the quarters or the semis or indeed, the finals.
For me, it was a small — albeit important — step in a much more important journey. The road ahead for this team is hard and there are significant challenges as Dhoni takes this team from good to great. I am much more interested in seeing how this wonderful leader is going to take Indian cricket along that important journey. For, unlike Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting, other outstanding leaders of excellent cricket teams in the recent past, Dhoni leads a team of committed players rather than a set of some alarmingly stunning players who could win a match on their own, if the situation demanded it!
In that sense, he is cut from the cloth that Imran Khan and Alan Border were made of. And that excites me tremendously. He seems to posses the dogged and unwavering occidental determination of Alan Border that allows Dhoni to focus so intensely on “methodology, standards and process” while retaining the oriental mystique of Imran Khan, which allows him to focus on the “absolute value of and need for individual expression”. This is a heady mix.
And that is why I have hope. I think back to that day when I watched two gripping sessions of Test cricket when an Indian captain was calm, mean-minded, inventive and fiercely determined. For that was the day my admiration for MS Dhoni commenced.
I think back to that 8-1 field that started the journey of fascination that I undertook with him. I also look at everything he has achieved in the 2 and a half years since that day. I then say to myself, “With Dhoni around as a Level-5 leader, there is much hope for this Team India fan.”
Tagged Anil Kumble, Australia, Dhoni, ICC World Cup 2011, ICC World Twenty20, India national cricket team, IPL, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, MS Dhoni, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Simon Katich, Sourav Ganguly
IPL-4 will start tentatively…
Posted on 8 April 2011 by mohankaus | 4 comments
The 4th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL4) is now a few hours away from a mild kick-off. I say mild because India is yet to recover from the World-Cup-2011 victory celebrations. Even as those celebrations were on, much of the attention in India has been directed at a hunger fast against corruption.
So it is against this backdrop that IPL4 kicks off this evening.
After 6 weeks of non-stop World Cup action, the 50-over variety of cricket gives way to the 20-over circus. With India’s win in the World Cup 2011, and with the resulting outpouring of national frenzy in India, the organizers of IPL will perhaps be a bit tentative in the first few days of IPL4.
The next 6 weeks will tell us whether IPL has a future in this country. The BCCI will need to combat the post-World-Cup fan hangover, a swelling anti-corruption movement and much more.
The last year has been annus horribilis for the IPL in which we saw a litany of disasters for a league that had become the fastest growing sports brand in the world! Suddenly, lawyers made a lot of money mounting cases or fending them off. If the manner of Lalit Modi’s ouster was bizarre, it was balanced wonderfully by the many conflicts of interest of the key players in the drama that unfolded. It appeared that much of the Board was asleep at the wheel — a practice that many in the BCCI are quite adept at — in the years that preceded the unfolding drama. There were more raids on offices than mosquito-repellent cans on a supermarket shelf.
Suddenly, two teams were axed; Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab were barred. More lawyers were dragged in. More fighting through the media.
Kochi, the new team in the IPL, and incidentally, the team that started IPL’s slide towards apparent obscurity, was suddenly back in the news. Its formation had already led to the resignation of a cabinet minister after “much sweat and not that much equity” — I read that lovely phrase on Twitter, but cannot remember who to credit it to! Ironically, it was a simple Tweet that signified the beginning of the slide for the IPL! Team Kochi could not pull together a governance team or its investment assurances. And then suddenly they did, a few days before the auction took place.
The auction itself was a bit of a farce! The order in which player-groups would be opened up for auction was changed at the very last minute — apparently to suit one team. Indian domestic players were unfairly disadvantaged in the process.
Brand IPL had suffered through the year and took a severe beating. Up until then, the IPL property had grown into a marketer’s delight. There were more eye-ball opportunities than you could poke a stick at. IPL had become a heady and intoxicating mix of Bollywood, late night parties, head-banging music, peanut throwing ladies trying to attract the attention of able-bodied men and of course, some on-field cricket action too.
Fan Loyalty programs were being carefully developed. It was possible for a Team India fan to support Rahul Dravid against Sachin Tendulkar! Previous editions of IPL had busted the myth that city-based rivalry could not flourish when faced with the pressure of fierce national loyalties.
But all that was undone by a terrible year for the IPL. The organizers and team owners must climb that mountain again. And they will need to do it without the biggest lisp in the business.
Set against that backdrop, I believe IPL4 will start tentatively. It cannot afford a loud start especially after the hangover from 2 April still lingers and especially as Anna Hazare appears to be mounting an austere campaign against the parliamentary establishment in the land. But over the initial few weeks of IPL4, we will know if these tentative steps reach the cacophonous chest-thump levels of IPL-3.
CSK versus KKR:
Tonight, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will take on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) after an opening ceremony.
The KKR Team that is likely to play today is (in batting order):
Gautam Gambhir*
Shreevats Goswami (wk)
Jacques Kallis
Manoj Tiwary / Manvinder Bisla
Ryan ten Doeschate
Eoin Morgan
Yusuf Pathan
Rajat Bhatia / Laxmi Shukla
Iqbal Abdulla / Sarabjit Ladda
Pradeep Sangwan
Jaidev Unadkat / Lakshmipathy Balaji / James Pattinson
Not available because of national duties: Brad Haddin, Brett Lee, Shakib Al Hasan
Others: Shami Ahmed
This is not really a bad team in my view. In Sangwan and Unadkat, the team has a decent new-ball attack. I am looking forward to seeing Shreevats Goswami have a good season. In previous editions, he struggled to get a game at Royal Challengers Bangalore. He should shine at KKR, at least for the initial few weeks when Brad Haddin dons the green-and-gold for Australia. I’d also like to see how Iqbal Abdulla shapes up. In terms of batting, this is going to be a make-or-break season for Manoj Tiwary — a batsman who has always over-promised and under-delivered. The overseas players in the team select themselves for the initial few games — Kallis, Doeschate, Eoin Morgan and James Pattinson will probably play all initial games; and that is not a bad lot of players!
The good thing about this team (as listed above) is that all of Jacques Kallis, Manoj Tiwary, Ryan ten Doeschate, Eoin Morgan, Yusuf Pathan, Rajat Bhatia, Iqbal Abdulla, Pradeep Sangwan and Jaidev Unadkat can bowl!
The CSK team remains largely unchanged. Its owner, who is also a BCCI chief poo-bah, went to great lengths to ensure that the winning team composition from IPL3 was largely undisturbed. The fact that it remains undisturbed is disturbing because of the manner in which the potential disturbance was unerringly protected. But that is the subject of another debate for another day.
The CSK squad is likely to be:
M Vijay
S Anirudha / A Mukund
SK Raina
S Badrinath
F du Plessis
MS Dhoni*
JA Morkel / SB Styris
R Ashwin
SB Jakati
KMDN Kulasekara / TG Southee / S Randiv
VY Mahesh / Joginder Sharma / S Tyagi
Others: GJ Bailey, WP Saha (wk), K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh
Not available: DE Bollinger, MEK Hussey, DJ Bravo, BW Hilfenhaus,
In my view, a lot will depend on how S. Anirudha and Yo Mahesh (or Sudeep Tyagi) go. The third pace bowler weakness in earlier editions had been sandpapered somewhat by the collective brilliance of the rest of the team. However, with Bollinger and Hussey absent for the first few weeks and Bravo still under an injury cloud, a lot will depend on the local players to come to the party.
Well, the scene is set for yet another edition of the IPL. Let the games commence…
Tagged BCCI, Dhoni, IPL, IPL4, Lalit Modi
Team India coach after Gary Kirsten
Gary Kirsten has decided to return to South Africa at the end of the ICC World Cup, 2011. He was the exactly that Indian cricket needed at the time he was appointed. As Ravi Shastri might say, “He was exactly what the doctor ordered!”
When Gary Kirsten took over the controls as coach, India had suffered an embarrassing first-round exit in the 2007 World Cup.
Greg Chappell, the then coach, may have been the right man for a job that was about 10 years ahead of its time. India was not ready for Greg Chappell — “Guru Greg” as he was known in the Indian media — and Greg Chappell wasn’t ready for India. His reign started off with the drafting, declaration and acceptance of a “strategic blueprint for the future of Indian cricket”.
In my view — and I my be in a minority here — that blueprint was about 10 years ahead of its time!
What Greg Chappell started with was visionary. What he had left behind in his wake was a dogs’ breakfast!
Interestingly, MS Dhoni is saying exactly what Guru Greg tried to instill in his players! Today, Dhoni says that it is important to pay more attention to the processes and less on the results/outcomes. That was Guru Greg’s approach too!
However, let it be said that Greg Chappell had indeed left a mess behind; a mess that needed cleaning up. Numerous leaks and counter-leaks had messed up the minds of players. Trust was lost. Systems and processes — the very pillars of Greg Chappell’s method — lay crumpled.
A restoration was required. And soon.
India traveled to Bangladesh with Ravi Shastri as temporary “manager”. India then traveled to England with Chandu Borde as coach/mentor. The choice of Borde was ridiculed by many, including us at i3j3Cricket. We even carried out a satirical piece, called “Ford Gate” on how Chandu Borde may have been selected — remember that Graham Ford was the front runner for the post of Team India coach at that time!
India won in England, Rahul Dravid resigned as captain. India won the ICC World T20 Championship. Anil Kumble was appointed captain of India. India then played Pakistan in a home series. India was just about to embark on a tough tour of Australia. Throughout the year, there were a series of speculations, leaks and counter-leaks on who would be coach of Team India. Yet there were no announcements. Other teams had made their appointments quietly and thoughtfully. Sri Lanka appointed Tom Moody. Pakistan appointed Geoff Lawson. India traveled at India’s pace.
Ultimately, Gary Kirsten was appointed.
And what an appointment it has been. From early-2008 onwards, Gary Kirsten has worked with Anil Kumble and with MS Dhoni to help build a Team India that is strong, resilient and robust. India has slowly climbed to the top of the ICC Test rankings and is close to the top of the ICC ODI rankings.
Now, some three years later, the end of Gary Kirsten’s tenure could be anything from 1 match to 3 matches away.
It is appropriate that we salute a man who has quietly achieved what his predecessor could not do. He brought method to his coaching. He afforded players much rope. The results are there for all to see. Many players have gone on record to say that they owed their recent successes to the coach.
At the end of his tenure, it is likely that Kirsten will take up the job of coaching South Africa (although there is no word on that from anyone) once Corrie van Zyl departs as coach of RSA — Corrie van Zyl also quits the scene after the ICC World Cup 2011.
But what of India?
I hope we do not see another period of dithering uncertainty when a sequence of band aids are applied. I am not aware of the establishment of a BCCI search committee for scouting and sounding out appropriate candidates for cricket’s most prestigious — and risky — post. I am not aware of a job description that lists out the key qualities of an ideal coach. As with anything BCCI, we cannot do anything other than assume that someone is “looking into the matter” somewhere and that “some appropriate modalities” are being “worked out” by the “responsible person”.
If the BCCI wants to draw up a position description (PD) it ought to be easy. The BCCI should copy everything contained in the “Key Attributes and Qualities” section from the CVs of John Wright and Gary Kirsten. They will then have many of the elements of the PD. They would also need to ensure that the PD does not contain any elements that might also be contained in Greg Chappel’s CV! They would then have an optimized PD to work with and they could then look for people who display those characteristics.
It is likely that the search space is small and terribly finite. I can think of a few coaches who might fit the bill. Stephen Fleming and Tom Moody spring to mind immediately.
However, an early indication is that Justin Langer might be coach.
All of the recent attention has been on the World Cup. Soon, the BCCI functionaries will be absorbed in counting the money that flows in as a result of IPL-4. In all of this, my hope this that the BCCI occasionally takes its hands off the till and trains its collective eye on a suitable Team India coach. India has an extremely busy year ahead and needs a smooth transition from Gary Kirsten to the successor.
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AU-ECOSOCC Chairman Speaks on Corruption, Refugees and Forced Migration
AU-ECOSOCC Chairman Speaks on Corruption, Refugees and Forced Migration – African Leaders should fight corruption and provide against conditions for refugees – Saffa Abdulai
Sierra Leone’s renown lawyer and humanitarian activist who doubles as chairperson of African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Committee, Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai Esq, has called on African leaders to fight against corruption and provide better conditions for refugees and displaced persons within the continent at the AU-ECOSOCC conference for civil societies and African political heads on 5th and 6th August, 2019 in Casablanca, Morocco.
In his opening statement on 5th August, Chairman Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai Esq said, the AU-ECOSOCC must at first thank the host nation (Morocco) of the conference for taking the major role in pushing the AU’s agenda on forced migration, internally displaced persons and refugees.
Mr Abdulai said, Morocco is leading the policy reforms and implementation of the African Union Refugees, Returnees, and Internally Displaced Persons, which was the theme for this year’s AU-ECOSOCC conference.
“Morocco has established the laboratory to gather data on forced migration, internally displaced persons and refugees. “We therefore urge the Moroccan government to expedite these processes for speedy reforms”, he stated.
He said the AU’s framework on refugee and internally displaced persons calls for action to eradicate the root cause of humanitarian situation. A situation all must look behind and examine the causes of civil war, forced migration and lack of economic opportunities.
“The African continent is plagued with corruption and the absence of good governance”, he said “African leaders know the problems and are now stepping out of the cold to highlight them as the AU the past year, centralised the fight against corruption as its annual theme.
He explained how corruption have badly imploded and exploded nations, which has been key reasons forcing the young and old
to flee.
“Corruption has perverted national resources, denying millions the opportunity to get food on the table.
“Corruption has starved nations from foreign investments, wrangled local investments and deprived the people of Africa economic growth that provides jobs and opportunities.
Certainly, corruption has led many young people to flee even at the risk of crossing the Mediterranean sea in unsafe means”, Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai Esq explains.
Mr Abdulai said, African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance would be a good framework towards addressing the root causes behind refugees, returnees and displaced persons.
“The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance is a great document and needs to be implemented wholesomely”, he noted. He added that democracy that focuses on the provision of social services such as clean water, food, education for the young, the poor and the needed, needs to be the order of the day.
He called on the unconstitutional change of government and asked sitting governments avoid changing constitutions to prolong their stay governance.
“Sitting governments should be discouraged, punished where necessary, for changing constitutions in a bid to have long stay in power”, he continued.
He begs for the aggressive minimisation of corruption by African leaders using the “African Convention Against Corruption” urging member states to domesticate the document and provide political will to fight the graft.
He said AU-ECOSOCC is geared towards promoting continuous dialogues between all segments of the African people on issues concerning Africa;
Forge strong partnership between governments and all segments of civil society, women in particular, the youth, children, the diaspora, organised labour, private sector and professional groups.
The AU-ECOSOCC in furthered, will promote the participation of African civil society in the implementation of policies and program of the Union. Support policies and programs that will promote peace, security and stability in Africa, and foster development and integration in the continent.
The AU-ECOSOCC he also said, promote and defend the culture of good governance, democratic principles and institutions, popular participation, human rights and freedoms as well as social justice; and also promote, advocate and defend a culture of gender equality.
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Some Struggles Teachers Face Using Games in the Classroom
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Although many educators are starting to see the potential of using digital games in the classroom, there is still several barriers they must overcome they are accepted as mainstream classroom tools for deep and meaningful learning. Katrina Schwartz at MindShift offers a teacher’s accounts of the challenges they face using gaming in the classroom.
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Teachers have long known that making content more playful can be a great way to engage students and add diversity to classroom activities. As technology becomes an ever more significant part of modern classrooms, it makes sense that teachers are using video games for everything from teaching content, to keeping tabs on learning progress, and for skills practice. In a recent survey, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center found that 74 percent of K-8 use digital games for instruction in some way and 55 percent use them weekly.
While digital games are becoming more common, many teachers still use them primarily as supplemental material or as a reward when the “real work” has been accomplished, not as the main instructional tool. Many teachers are still skeptical that students will learn mandated content from digital games well enough to prove mastery on state exams.
TIME IS THE BIGGEST BARRIER
Tony Mai experimented with some digital games in his middle school English Language Arts classroom as part of a pilot project at William McKinley IS 259, a junior high school in New York City. His principal chose him to participate because he’s comfortable with technology and likes to play video games himself. The game, The Sports Network 2, required students to take on the roles of employees at a media company trying to market a product to a younger audience.
In addition to the virtual gameplay, students had to do offline research on solutions they could use within the game. The Sports Network 2 is aligned with Common Core ELA standards but places the skills within the context of real-life tasks. “They had to read fake email and highlight important things on screen,” Mai said. “I saw improvement with students’ ability to figure out difficult vocabulary words using context clues.” He also said students stayed more motivated.
Still, playing the game took precious time and Mai slowly started to fall behind the other eighth-grade ELA teachers on the mandated curriculum. “It does take someone who’s willing to make sure the rest of the curriculum is covered while using these games in the classroom,” Mai said. Teachers are under a lot of pressure to make sure they cover a jampacked curriculum, and that can make any game feel like one more thing to do, something extra or supplemental.
“At the end of the day, if the teachers know that their curriculum already addresses all the other standards, then they won’t feel there’s a need for the game in the classroom,” Mai said. That’s why he thinks games that have robust data tracking and clear corollaries to standards will get the most teacher buy-in. “Teachers want to be able to see the gains that students are making on a specific skill and be able to link it to a specific question or part of the game,” Mai said.
The immersive quality of the game deeply engaged students and showed them how the skills they were learning applied to the real world, Mai said. But it was those same game qualities that made him worry that he wasn’t covering the basics. The more that a game maps exactly to the standards, the less game-like it becomes, he acknowledged, and the more it resembles educational software, not a game.
Concerns about time and explicit instructional standards being met are mirrored in the Cooney Center report. “Few teachers are using learning games of the immersive variety, the kind that lend themselves to deep exploration and participation in the types of activities that set digital games apart from more didactic forms of instruction,” writes Lori Takeuchi in the report’s executive summary. “Most teachers instead report using short-form games that students can finish within a single class period. While lack of time is a likely explanation, teachers may also find shorter-form games to be easier to map to curriculum standards.”
Heather Robertson teaches English language learners (ELL) in a K-5 school in Wisconsin.
The district has great access to technology — they’ve gone one-to-one with Chromebooks, but the devices are mainly used for what Robertson calls “worksheets on a computer.” She’d like those setting policies and vision in schools to recognize that while online testing may have brought the devices into schools, they can be used for far more than that. “We’re so focused on our testing and we’re not going deep in our learning,” Robertson said. “We’re just really trying to get through the surface of it.”
Robertson used to teach in a less conventional district in Madison where she had more freedom to explore different teaching strategies. “The most exciting thing is that research around ELLs shows that concrete experiences are the best way for them to learn,” Robertson said. But how can teachers give students concrete experiences of abstract ideas like government? Robertson has used the digital game iCivics to help give students that virtual experience.
“Games like that allow kids to interact in an almost concrete way that is very powerful,” she said. “They take on the role of the characters and understand it in a much deeper way than they would otherwise.”
That virtual experience, paired with conversation, can be very powerful for students who are having trouble accessing the content. “I believe what English language learners need more than anything is a lot of talking and interaction,” Robertson said. “Game-playing is actually a key component of that.” She treats games a bit like she would a text, scaffolding learning around gameplay, and using students’ excitement about the game to connect more meaningfully. Kids play the game for a while and then stop and talk about it with Robertson.
“I think [games are] best when paired with reflective conversation,” Robertson said. “It’s developing the awareness of what you’re doing. The only way to really develop metacognition is to have a conversation with someone who can ask Socratic questions.”
Robertson still uses games in her classroom, because she has support from her principal, but she doesn’t feel that same commitment from the district leadership. “Localized leadership allows me to use games during intervention time, but it’s not something that’s supported broadly,” Richardson said. Despite the barriers, she pushes on with the practice because she has experienced how motivated struggling learners can be by games and how much that inspires her.
But without support it’s getting harder to hold onto that conviction. For example, this year Robertson put MinecraftEDU on her supplies list and got it approved by her principal, only to have the request held up at the district level. Another time, Robertson was invited to help develop a game-based assessment by World-Class Instructional Design and Assessement (WIDA), an assessment consortium focused on English Language Learner growth. “Which seems to me like an incredible learning experience, but I was told no because I’d already used my three professional development days,” Robertson said.
It’s these experiences that make Robertson understand why so many teachers are reluctant to step out of line or try something new. Most teacher professional development focuses on the subjects that are tested — reading, writing and math — not tools like digital games that could provide a more engaging way of teaching those things. And teachers don’t have a lot of extra time to experiment and play with unfamiliar games, let alone find quality games that suit their needs.
There are some good game-rating sites now available, but too few teachers know about them. And, when districts are actively encouraging teachers to focus on prescribed curriculum, there’s little incentive to put in the time to play around and test out more immersive games.
The obstacles to widespread teacher adoption of games as the primary means of instruction are many, but despite the struggles, many teachers do use digital games creatively to push students to think critically. Those early-adopting teachers will be the ones to inspire and teach their colleagues about what works and where the pitfalls lie as this trend grows.
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