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Artist Steve Walden
We've all heard the phrase, "money doesn't buy happiness," and though a stable income does provide the necessities (a roof over our head, food to eat, clothes for our families—the list goes on), reaching this level of comfort isn't always enough. For artist Steven Walden, this realization was the catalyst that changed his life forever.
It's possible you've seen Steven's art around St. Louis. If so, you'd recognize his vibrant use of color and his ability to capture a moment sports history that just leap off the canvas with the intensity and emotion of the event. We picture artists with his level of talent taking the steps to painstakingly build their skills and perfect their craft over many years, slowly growing into a successful station as a full-time artist, but that's what's so surprising about Steven. He only just began painting a mere two years ago after picking up a paintbrush for the first time in 2014.
After college, Walden worked as a copywriter. He was successful and made a decent living, but over time, a feeling of malaise took hold. Looking around, he wondered if there wasn't more to life than the regular nine to five. What was his grand motivation and primary reason to work? At the time, it all came down to money and maintaining his standard of living, and for Steven, that simply wasn't good enough.
He found guidance from, Man's Search for Meaning, a book written by Viktor E. Frankl, a neurologist and psychologist from Austria. Frankl was one of the few members of his family who survived the Holocaust, and his time at the concentration camp, Auschwitz, eventually lead to his becoming the founder of logotherapy. This form of existential analysis gave Steven Walden a mantra from which he based his decision to visit a therapist and ultimately quit his job as a copywriter.
"I can't control my situation," said Walden, "but I always have a choice how I respond to it."
At his core, Steven found he needed to feel like he was helping people and making a difference to find true fulfillment in his life, prompting his enrollment in Webster University's professional counseling program. It was during his time at Webster that he stumbled across his talent for painting in an art therapy elective. From here, the rest unfolds like pages in a well-written book.
Art can be a very self-serving activity, but he found a way to use his talents to reach his biggest goal—to help others. From first painting commissioned work for less than $200, Walden now works on pieces that can sell for as much as $8,000, with proceeds benefiting charities founded by prominent athletes such as Kurt Warner, Adam Wainwright, and Ozzy Smith.
His unique method of painting over canvas prints created from his original paintings allows Steven to re-create popular pieces over and over and paint at live sporting events in the area. While the St. Louis Blues were in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Steven was at every home game live-painting a portrait of one of the players. Proceeds from these portraits
went to Blues for Kids, a foundation dedicated to helping programs that improve health and wellness in St. Louis youth.
Steven's success in the art world came to him early on, and it doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. He'll continue partnering with the St. Louis Blues for the 50th anniversary season and will be a part of this year's Winter Classic between the Blues and the Blackhawks held at Busch Stadium. He'll also be hitting the road to work with players from the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. Plus, he'll be traveling to various events for Wainwright's Big League Impact organization.
Even with his already busy schedule, Steven is always open to commissioned work with most pieces starting at around $3,000. If you're a fan of Steven's work but can't afford an original Walden, no worries! You can find high-quality post prints for a very affordable price on his website. Though writing may not seem like a good background for an artist, Steven's career as a copywriter allowed him to use his marketing knowledge to better sell his art, and ultimately, help more people in the process.
To view more of Steven's artwork or to contact him about a commissioned piece, please
visit stevenwalden.com.
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GTF calls for deproscription of all groups, individuals
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) yesterday called for delisting of all proscribed organisations and individuals in Sri Lanka.
UK based spokesperson and Director for Strategic Initiatives of the GTF, Suren Surendiran told The Island that the grouping would continue to press for its demand.
Surendiran was responding to government declaration that eight organisations and 157 individuals continuing to espouse separatism would remain proscribed.
The previous government proscribed 16 organizations and 424 individuals under Gazette Extraordinary No. 1854/41 on 21 March 2014 in accordance with powers under the United Nations Act No. 45 of 1968.
The government issued a special gazette last Friday clearing eight organizations and 267 persons. The GTF is among the deproscribed list.
Surendiran said: ""Global Tamil Forum, whilst appreciating this important step that the new Government of Sri Lanka has taken, as we said at the time of listing in February 2014, the original listing itself was arbitrary, irrational and a blatant attempt to suppress freedom of speech and dissent by the former Government of Mahinda Rajapaksa. GTF has actively campaigned since then for the entire list of organizations and individuals to be de-listed. Our campaign will continue until that goal is achieved "
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Collegiate Baseball Div. 1 Poll (12-20-21)
TEXAS NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Texas is ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball's Fabulous 50 NCAA Division I pre-season baseball poll presented by Big League Chew bubble gum.
Last season the Longhorns finished third at the College World Series and return seven position player starters and a stable of incredible pitchers including four Collegiate Baseball Pre-Season All-Americans in LHP Pete Hansen (7-5, 2.45 ERA, 80 K, 23 BB), RHP Tristan Stevens (11-3, 3.31 ERA, 77 K, 23 BB), RHP Tanner Witt (5-0, 5 SV, 3.16 ERA, 28 AP, 73 K, 25 BB) and relief pitcher Aaron Nixon (9 SV, 4-3, 2.12 ERA, 27 AP, 35 K, 10 BB).
Texas features a number of other superb pitchers as well.
Last season the Longhorns led the nation with a team ERA of 2.93 and were fourth in hits allowed per nine innings by their staff (7.05).
The Longhorns also return a talented defense that had the 10th best fielding percentage in the nation at .980. Texas had the second most double plays of any NCAA Division I team in the nation with 57.
One of the top defensive catchers in the nation is back in Silas Ardoin. In 48 base stealing attempts last season, he threw out 20 runners.
Offensively, Texas is led by Collegiate Baseball pre-season All-Americans 1B Ivan Melendez (.319, 13 HR, 13 2B, 51 RBI), 2B Mitchell Daly (.316, 15 2B, 31 RBI) and SS Trey Faltine (.249, 5 HR, 18 2B, 37 RBI).
Texas led the nation in walks on offense with 379 and were hit by pitches 74 times which helped Longhorn hitters have an impressive on-base percentage of .394. The Longhorns were skilled at small ball with 51 sacrifice bunts which ranked sixth in the nation. Texas has the ability to score runs in multiple ways (6.7 runs per game last season).
The Longhorns also have a number of pro prospects on the team led by Hansen, Melendez, Faltine and Ardoin who could all be chosen in the top five rounds of the 2022 MLB Draft.
When you factor in a superb 18-man recruiting class that came in last fall, it is yet another reason Texas is the favorite to win it all in 2022. The class features 9 freshmen, 4 junior college transfers and five 4-year transfers.
Poll Note: The Southeastern Conference led all leagues with four teams in the top 10 and 10 teams in the top 50.
The Jan. 7, 2022 College Preview edition of Collegiate Baseball newspaper is now available which features top players from every NCAA Division I Conference and projected Players and Pitchers Of The Year in each league.
Plus, Collegiate Baseball has an in-depth report on the top 40 pre-season teams in NCAA Division I, the top 93 draft eligible college players projected to be chosen in the top two rounds of the 2022 MLB Draft and rundowns on each level of college baseball.
In addition, a special in-depth story explains why Texas is No. 1, plus much more.
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Rank Team (2021 Final Record) Points
1. Texas (50-17) 498
4. Texas Tech. (39-17) 487
5. Stanford (39-17) 484
7. Oklahoma St. (36-19-1) 480
8. East Carolina (44-17) 476
9. Mississippi St. (50-18) 474
10. Notre Dame (34-13) 473
12. Florida St. (31-24) 468
13. Texas Christian (41-19) 464
14. U.C. Irvine (43-18) 462
15. Louisiana Tech. (42-20) 461
16. Central Michigan (42-18) 458
17. U.C. Santa Barbara (41-20) 454
18. UCLA (37-20) 453
20. Arkansas (50-13) 448
21. Oregon (39-16) 447
22. Arizona (45-18) 445
23. Miami, Fla. (33-21) 441
28. Duke (33-22) 430
29. Campbell (37-18) 429
33. Georgia (31-25) 418
34. Tennessee (50-18) 415
36. South Alabama (36-22) 409
37. Liberty (41-18) 404
38. Maryland (30-18) 402
39. Connecticut (34-19) 399
40. Alabama (32-26) 397
41. Fairfield (39-5) 394
42. Oregon St. (37-24) 391
44. South Carolina (34-23) 386
45. Oklahoma (27-28) 382
47. Cal Poly (31-25) 373
48. Southern Miss. (40-21) 370
49. Old Dominion (44-16) 367
50. Nevada (25-20) 364
Other Teams Receiving Votes: Clemson (25-27), Baylor (31-20), Washington St. (26-23), California (29-26), Grand Canyon (39-21-1), California Baptist (40-16), Brigham Young (23-27), Abilene Christian (36-21), Sam Houston St. (30-25), San Diego (33-12), Auburn (25-27), Texas A&M (29-27), Kentucky (29-23), Coastal Carolina (27-24), Georgia Southern (34-23), Louisiana-Lafayette (32-23), Creighton (24-15), Tulane (31-24), Wichita St. (31-23), San Diego St. (30-16), Nevada-Las Vegas (20-13), Fresno St. (20-25), Kent St. (30-26), Ball St. (38-18), Wright St. (35-13), Florida Atlantic (32-25), Iowa (26-18), Ohio St. (22-20), North Florida (22-23), Stetson (26-23), Central Florida (31-30), South Florida (31-30), Stony Brook (31-18), Northeastern (36-12), N.C. Wilmington (32-22), Charlotte (40-21), Indiana St. (31-21), Bradley (20-22), Samford (35-24), East Tennessee St. (24-25), Mercer (35-22), Wofford (36-21), Western Carolina (28-21), Southeastern Louisiana (32-24), Northwestern St. (27-26), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (25-29), Oral Roberts (31-23), North Dakota St. (42-19), Texas-Arlington (27-30), Louisiana-Monroe (26-26), Florida Gulf Coast (28-20), Southeast Missouri St. (30-22), Murray St. (33-25), Bryant (27-14-1), Monmouth (24-13), Rider (23-18), S.C. Upstate (37-16), Seton Hall (23-25), Virginia Commonwealth (38-16), Rhode Island (28-26-1).
Source: Collegiate Baseball


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Nicole Brenez – Investigating the Movement
Violeta Kovacsics 2020
Stefanie Nijs
Sur la terre / Au fond du cœur
Nicole Brenez is an essential figure in film criticism and contemporary cinema studies. Her analytical and passionate approach to cinema, emerging from her extraordinary creative freedom, has earned her the respect and admiration of critics all over the world. Her widely followed work has never ceased to highlight the exciting challenges of engaged cinema, the kind that commits to artistic investigation as well as to the urgent social and political issues that concern us all.
In an interview in Cahiers du Cinéma, Jacques Rivette explained how, throughout the 1970s, the cinema made in the margins or from the need to express itself from the most profound creative freedom benefitted from the impetus of May 1968. In the years following the protests, some very audacious projects have come to light, such as Out 1, Céline et Julie vont en bateau, and the tetralogy first named Les filles du feu and later Scènes de la vie parallèle, all films by Rivette himself. It was in that same decade that Jean Eustache filmed one of the most striking works of French cinema, La maman et la putain, and that Philippe Garrel returned to the origins of cinema by means of the singer Nico's face. A little later, at the beginning of the 1980s, this momentum of possibilities had reached its end, leaving behind some of the most prosperous years in French cinema and the most extraordinary phase in the oeuvre of Rivette.
In Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia (the correspondence between a group of critics and film writers of diverse backgrounds, between the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the years 2000), Nicole Brenez contested a fellow critic's letter invoking this splendour of French cinema in the 1970s. "After the New Wave came the essential," she wrote, "a cinematography which, in its totality, was permeated by a vital need to experiment[.]" And finally, she pointed out: "I could never call [the cinema of the 70s] 'post-New Wave.'" For the French professor and critic, that period could not be named after another one, since it had sufficient importance of its own. This reappraisal reminds me of a previous urge to avoid the description "primitive cinema" for the first decades in the history of filmmaking, because such a label would imply an idea of a cinema still unformed, still awaiting narrative development. Or that phrase by Richard Koszarski, to whom it seemed more fair to consider the decade of the 1920s as an autonomous era in the history of cinema, instead of tying it to classicism.
It is worth recalling that, when Brenez asserts this in Movie Mutations, the twentieth century is coming to its end. In her reappraisal of the 1970s, Brenez makes reference to two other decades, the last one of the nineteenth and the second one of the twentieth century, in a statement coherent with the kind of cinema she has defended (and which she has thoroughly investigated with as much cinephile passion as perseverant study), always close to the avant-garde. It is no surprise then that this first decade was an era clearly determined by the impulse of trial, attempt, liberty, experiment – wherein there is luckily still no trace of narrative cinema. The second decade contemplates the heyday of the avant-garde and its experiments with the cinematographic possibilities of speed (which is very relevant in the work of an author like Jean Epstein, whom Brenez also discussed in a book together with Ralph Eue).
One of Nicole Brenez's texts that I always return to is the one she wrote for the monograph dedicated to Philippe Garrel, on the occasion of his retrospective at the San Sebastián festival. The article delves into a decisive moment in the filmography of the director: the transition from a phase that revolves around the figure of Nico and dispenses with storytelling to a narrative cinema with defined characters, dialogues, and obvious conflicts. By discussing Garrel's oeuvre, Brenez basically explains the transition from the 1970s cinema into the cinema of the following decades. She exposes her perspective on cinema, which always carries an encounter between liberty, experiment, and creative viscerality.
Brenez wrote that the encounter with Nico allowed Garrel to "concentrate in a single figure the archetypes that were until then only explored in a scattered manner – poetess, muse, archangel, sphinx, doll, priestess, goddess. Nico embodies the primitive idol that causes figurative declines, the Ur-Idol of an exclusive but pantheistic pagan cult." She exposes a fundamental break in the work of Garrel. Le bleu des origines was Garrel's last film with Nico. The singer, actress, and lover would subsequently become a phantasm whose absence is constantly present. At the same time, the filmmaker would embrace a narrativity that, as Brenez puts it, had been foreign to him until that moment.
Brenez exposes the connection between Nico's face in Garrel's cinema, and her music. Similarly, she has called attention to the cinema of Jean-François Richet (a director she has vindicated despite the silence of a good part of French criticism) for its connection with reality, established through the editing and through rap. Yet again, music. And, fundamentally, the political act: Richet's Ma 6-t va crack-er anticipates the uproars in the banlieue, but does so from its very own perspective and from an approach so close to reality that its strength lies as much in the rhythm of rap as in documentary ethics. What Brenez encounters in Richet's cinema (I realise we could find an equivalent of a filmmaker linked to Spanish film history, such as Kikol Grau), reveals another axis of her critical view: a political positioning clearly related to her engagement with the kind of cinema that, if it does not emerge out of the margins of society, at least emanates from the depths.
In Bad Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara clearly shows the continuous tension between the familiar and the abyss. If there is a line between the two, it diffuses rapidly. As a matter of fact, there is not that much distance between the first scene, in which the policeman (Harvey Keitel) takes his children to school to end up sniffing cocaine at the school gate, and the final part, where the lieutenant sits down beside two rapists to smoke crack and later accompanies them to the bus, exactly as if they were his sons. In her book on Ferrara, Brenez delves into this idea of duality. Entitled Le mal mais sans fleurs, the volume begins by showing her interest for one of the themes she has most insisted on studying: the figurative, the bodies. Brenez writes, in relation to Body Snatchers (Ferrara, 1993): "The 'snatching' principle (replacing a human being by its clone, drained of its emotions and therefore controllable) lends itself, in Ferrara's own terms, to an infinite play of metaphors." From the visual figure to deeper layers: "The destruction of intimacy by collective evil."
Thinking of the body leads us to the films of John Cassavetes, whose The Killing of a Chinese Bookie Brenez fervently advocates for. She also wrote a book dedicated to Shadows, in which she states: "Cassavetes defends 'the individual expression,' which radically distinguishes itself from the 'point-of-view film' or the 'thought-provoking film.' That is because 'individual expression' means much more than aesthetic orientation: it is based on a civil understanding of the artist's role in society. In that sense, 'individual' is not to be confused with 'subjective' and positions the artist, not as a private person but as a citizen." Once more, this is as much an aesthetic as a political stance.
As for the avant-garde, Brenez reinstates some of the filmmakers who contributed to a new dawn of French cinema at the turn of the millennium, gravitating towards experimentation. As she puts it in Movie Mutations: "It started with the release of Sombre, the magnum opus of Philippe Grandieux, who has masterfully reinvigorated the great avant-garde tradition that had disappeared with Jean Epstein."
For many people, the discovery of Grandieux's work occurred during one of the strangest screenings in the context of a festival: when La vie nouvelle was screened in Sitges, in 2002. That revealing experience would however lead to another: the immersion into Brenez's texts that accompanied the film, up to the point where, at times, text and images seemed to become one.
Brenez studied literature, and has affirmed that she had to study cinema on her own. As a professor at Université Paris-III, her career balances between film criticism in journals and monographs and the academic world. In fact, she has embodied – from the position of the sniper – one of film criticism's defining traits: the rehabilitation of those filmmakers who are essential to understand contemporary cinema, creators who sometimes go unnoticed by the eyes of mainstream press.
She also features in some recent films. With that same Grandrieux she participated in the making of the collection It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve, which starts with an episode directed by Grandrieux and is dedicated to the filmmaker Masao Adachi. Recently, Brenez contributed to Le Livre d'image, in which she carried out a job of filmic archaeology for the director of the film, Jean-Luc Godard. The film opens with the image of a hand with a raised finger. The idea of manipulation through editing (a beautiful interest of Godard ever since his younger years as a critic) imposes itself firmly. Almost none of the images are what they appear to be, since Godard saturates the colours and maximizes the textures. He has turned the digital image into a canvas that can seem like an oil painting. The film is assembled from fragments of films, paintings and internet clips.
That is where Brenez's influence shines through. Already in her text in Movie Mutations, she had predicted the death of VHS in favour of other formats that enable sharing moving images. In Le livre d'image, the director's voice echoes in the background every once in a while, as if it were a whisper. As he says goodbye, delving into a present determined by a lack of knowledge of the Arab world, Godard retakes one of his favourite themes: film language. In the style of Aby Warburg, who created an atlas of images that spark thought by their interconnection, Godard proposes shots that rhyme: from the arrival of a train to a body that falls in the water. The gesture in space, the organisms, the physicality of bodies as well as images,…. are all present throughout the entire film – and they are Brenez's points of attention as well.
In one of the most famous passages of her text in Movie Mutations, Brenez shared an anecdote of a student asking her what you need to do to analyse a film. The answer starts by pointing to films that are not fully understandable at first viewing, or those that invite us to make an effort (among them, Mission: Impossible, a film that invites you to rewatch and reconsider it before it is forever engraved in your memory). She goes on to recount other categories, defined by her cinephile passion: "There are also appetizing films […] which allow you to unexpectedly uncover a new world," others that "accompany you through your life," the film "to which you instinctively compare all the others," the one that "runs through your head like a popular song," "those you can't watch again because you've loved them too much" (a beautiful category: Brenez mentions Godard's Le mépris), the ones "you hope to understand one day," those that you hope "will strengthen you," or those that "suddenly offer you everything you needed." After giving away a little quiz that generated cheerfulness and joy among the cinephiles, she concludes on an affectionate note: "Cinema seems to me above all inexhaustibly generous."
Joyful words from someone who, by sharing her singular gaze, invites us to discover, to think through, to submerge ourselves into the depths – in a gesture that is just as generous.
Originally published as 'Nicole Brenez. Investigar el movimiento' in Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, nº 100 (151), January 2021.
Thanks to Violeta Kovacsics and Carlos F. Heredero
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Dr Liz Charman
Dr Liz Charman is a highly experienced academic with a background in psychology and in social policy research.
As Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Outcomes, Liz is responsible for student retention, progression, achievement and student satisfaction at London Met – issues she cares deeply about.
"Student success is at the heart of absolutely everything we do," she said. "As well as providing high-quality education, we also seek to raise aspirations of all our students. That means thinking about every one of our students in all the areas of our work. If this means changing the way we do things, then that is what we will do."
Liz studied Psychology BSc at the University of Wales where she also completed her PhD. She also has an MSc in Forensic Psychology from the University of Leicester.
Social policy was Liz's first calling after her studies and she worked on a wide range of projects with the Welsh Office and Home Office, among other public sector organisations. She then moved into teaching, taking up a Lecturer in Psychology position at London Guildhall University – a predecessor to London Met.
Liz quickly progressed through the ranks of academic leadership, including Head of the School of Psychology at London Met and most recently Dean of the School of Social Sciences. She therefore has a wealth of academic leadership experience to bring to the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Outcomes.
"I'm very pleased to have been offered the opportunity to play such a big role in improving academic outcomes at London Met. It is a challenging role, but one that I know will be very rewarding. I am looking forward to working with colleagues across all areas of the University to improve our student experience and celebrate their success."
"We have some amazing lecturers at London Met who bring a wealth of experience to teaching and supporting our students through their journey with us and helping them to achieve to the very best of their ability. At the same time, we have excellent teams of staff within the professional services who support the student experience in a variety of ways – from library and IT services, to student counselling and financial advice."
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of Henri Matisse
Bathers by a River
Carmelina, 1903
Luxury, Serenity and Pleasure, 1904
Joy of Life (Bonheur de Vivre), 1905
Open Window, Collioure, 1905
Woman with a Hat (Femme au chapeau), 1905
Green Stripe, 1905
Young Sailor, 1906
The Blue Nude, 1907
Le Luxe I, 1907
The Dessert: Harmony in Red, 1908
The Conversation, 1908-1912
Music, 1910
The Pink Studio, 1911
L'Atelier Rouge, 1911
The Goldfish, 1912
Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1913
Goldfish and Palette, 1915
Sleeping Nude, 1916
Interior at Nice, 1921
Pink Nude, 1935
Woman in a Purple Coat, 1937
Lady in Blue, 1938
The Music (La Musique), 1939
Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya, 1947
Sorrow of the King, 1952
Nu bleu IV, 1952
The Snail, 1953
The Sheaf, 1953
Henri Matisse Painting Gallery 1
Young Sailor, 1906 by Henri Matisse
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During his short career as a clerk in a law office, Henri Matisse secretly took painting classes, eventually devoting himself to the pursuit of art full-time. He went to study in Paris, first at the Académie Julian and then at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he trained in the traditional academic style of his teachers Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau. Under the influence of painters such as the Impressionists and Cézanne, as well as the light-filled landscapes of the French Riviera, Matisse forsook these conservative roots and developed a new style based on flat shapes of vivid color. In 1905, he exhibited work at the Salon d'Automne in Paris as the leader of the Fauves (French for "wild beasts"). This was an avant-garde movement that reduced painting to a bright palette, simple forms, and exuberant brushwork in order to communicate the fundamental elements of reality and sensation.
Matisse painted The Young Sailor in 1906, at the height of his involvement with the Fauves. The sitter of this picture is an eighteen-year-old fisherman, Germain Augustin Barthélémy Montargès, from the small Mediterranean village of Collioure, near the Spanish border. Against the flat, bright pink background, Germain wears typical fisherman's garb: a navy blue cap, a pullover over a white undershirt and blue-and-pink striped jersey, baggy green pants, green-and-white checked socks, and sturdy, laced-up shoes with rubber soles. His broad face is flat and mask-like, and the contours of his rounded limbs are crisp and defined, creating a sharp contrast to the loose brushstrokes that constitute them. Germain's rather theatrical looks and the work's bold palette, in which the figure's green and blue outfit is set against the pink, candy-colored ground, combine to make this painting one of Matisse's most decorative portraits in the Fauve manner.
Woman with a Hat
The Goldfish
Goldfish and Pallet
Nu Bleu IV
Sorrow of the King
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Cybersecurity is both an economic and national security threat to the United States. The Center for Excellence in Information Assurance and CyberDefense (CEIAC) at Bay Path University is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to educating students and cybersecurity professionals and to shaping public understanding, policy, and technological future on issues of cybersecurity.
Learn more about our programs for undergraduate and graduate students.
Cyber Club: Cyber Club's goal is to encourage interest in cybersecurity through hands-on activities (upgrading RAM/hard drives, minor repairs, forensic exercises, virtualization, etc.), speakers, field trips and other events applicable to digital technology. This club is open to all Bay Path University students staff, and faculty.
WiCys Student Chapter: The mission of the WiCyS Student Chapter is to build a community within Bay Path University that promotes women's education, participation, and leadership in the field of cybersecurity.
Institutional Security
We all have a shared responsibility to protect resources. We need to ensure the accuracy, security and protection of information in the University's custody, prevent and protect against any anticipated threats, hazard and unauthorized access to or use of University information, and ensure compliance to applicable laws, regulations, policies and practices.
For Bay Path University Staff & Faculty
Cyber Students Share Internship Experience
Students Magen, Lauren, & Julia took the stage at the 7th annual Cybersecurity Summit to share their internship work with local businesses.
Digital Forensics: A Brief Overview
A blog post written by Amy Zimmermann '18, a security intern at ADNET Technologies.
Matthew J. Smith, MBA
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SACRED GEOMERTY: 'Mysterious Kybalion', The Secret Science of Mind – By Richard Smoley
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– "…The first text of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Poimandres, tells us that the source of the universe was nous – consciousness or mind – much as The Kybalion asserts the principle of "Mentalism." Moreover, this divine mind is described as "being androgyne and existing as light and life":
(The Mysterious Kybalion an the Secret Science of Mind – By Richard Smoley)
People who have spent time grazing in metaphysical bookshops may have come across a mysterious volume called The Kybalion, written by "Three Initiates" and first issued by the Yogi Publication Society of Chicago in 1908.
The most familiar edition is a plain volume bound in blue cloth and stamped with gold, in a format like those of other books from the same publisher, including various works on yoga by one Swami Ramacharaka.
The Kybalion claims to be a brief introduction to a mystical tradition that has survived from antiquity. The core of the work is a series of aphorisms that, the authors contend, go back to the "early days" and were "passed on from teacher to student,…the exact signification and meaning of the terms having been lost for several centuries."
The word, taken at face value, looks vaguely Greek, but it has no meaning in this language (the closest Greek word to it, curiously, is kybeia, meaning "dice game" or "trickery"). It is also tempting to connect this work with the Jewish mystical tradition known as the Kabbalah, but as a matter of fact the Kabbalah is never mentioned in The Kybalion.
Rather it presents itself as the essence of the teaching of Hermes Trismegistus ("Thrice-Greatest Hermes"), a legendary, semidivine figure who is said to have brought learning to Egypt in the remotest past. Hermes Trismegistus (pictured at top, right side) is often identified both with the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth (pictured at top, left side).
The Kybalion is organised according to seven basic principles, which, it says, form the basis of occult philosophy:
1. Mentalism. "The All is Mind; the Universe is mental."
2. Correspondence. "As above, so below; as below, so above."
3. Vibration. "Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."
4. Polarity. "Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites."
5. Rhythm. "Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall."
6. Cause and Effect. "Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law."
7. Gender. "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."
The origins of this book are difficult to trace. As I noted in the accompanying article, "The Secret Science of Mind," it is believed to have been written by William Walker Atkinson, who operated the Yogi Publication Society in Chicago (he is generally acknowledged to be "Swami Ramacharaka").
As the first principle – "Mentalism" – suggests, the ideas of The Kybalion bear some resemblance to New Thought, a movement to which Atkinson was closely connected.
The universe, The Kybalion tells us, is contained in "the Mind of the All": "The All creates the Universe mentally, in a manner akin to the process whereby Man creates Mental Images." This idea is central to practically all New Thought teachings.
Nevertheless, the book does echo a more remote past. The term "The All," for example, resembles the Greek to pan – which also means "the all" and which appears in some Hermetic maxims, most famously Hen to pan: "All is one."
Given the claims made for it, the most obvious source to examine for the roots of The Kybalion is the Corpus Hermeticum or "Hermetic body" of texts. These were composed in the early centuries CE and purport to expound the wisdom of Egypt as narrated in a series of discourses and dialogues including Hermes and his son Tat (a version of "Thoth"). And indeed there are intriguing resemblances between these works and The Kybalion.
The first text of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Poimandres (whose name is probably a Greek adaptation of the Egyptian p-eime-n-re or "mind of authority"), tells us that the source of the universe was nous – consciousness or mind – much as The Kybalion asserts the principle of "Mentalism." Moreover, this divine mind is described as "being androgyne and existing as light and life" – which parallels the concept of "Gender" as set out in The Kybalion.
The Kybalion also speaks of the principle of correspondence. This idea appears in another ancient Hermetic text: the extremely brief and elliptical Emerald Tablet, which says, "Quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, et quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius": "What is above is like what is below, and what is below is like what is above, to enact the wonders of the one thing." (The Emerald Tablet is said to have originally been written in Syriac, a Semitic language spoken in antiquity in the eastern Mediterranean world, but it survives only in somewhat dissimilar translations in Latin and Arabic.)
Whether there really was a collection of aphorisms known as The Kybalion that was passed down from master to pupil from ancient times is hard to say. There are, to my knowledge, no copies of it in any form that predate the 1908 edition, but that does not mean there were none.
And there are claims of similarly hidden texts in other traditions. The Russian esotericist Boris Mouravieff claimed that esoteric Christianity has an unpublished set of aphorisms called The Golden Book, some of which he quotes in his three-volume work Gnosis: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy (although these do not resemble the maxims of The Kybalion to any great degree).
In a blog posting, Tarot scholar Mary K. Greer suggests a plausible direct source for The Kybalion. In 1884, Anna Kingsford, an Englishwoman who founded an organisation called the Hermetic Society, published a book entitled The Virgin of the World of Hermes Trismegistus, which presents an adaptation of the Hermetic texts. As Greer points out, the introduction to this book bears a strong similarity to many of the ideas in The Kybalion. And in fact the introduction to The Virgin of the World, written by Kingsford's associate Edward Maitland, does contain a number of things that are echoed in The Kybalion.
For example, Maitland asserts that consciousness is "the indispensable condition of existence," and that matter "is a mode of consciousness," which certainly resonates with The Kybalion's doctrine of mentalism. Maitland also mentions "the law of correspondence between all planes, or spheres, of existence." He also speaks of "the doctrine of Karma," which dictates "the impossibility either of getting good by doing evil, or of escaping the penalty of the latter" – an obvious parallel to The Kybalion's "law of cause and effect." In light of these resemblances and The Kybalion's insistence that it contains the essence of Hermetic teaching, it is very likely that Kingsford and Maitland's work was at least one of The Kybalion's sources.
Thus it is possible to trace out a lineage for The Kybalion: the original Hermetic texts, which have been known in the Western world since the fifteenth century and which have existed in English versions since at least the seventeenth; and the digest of these texts as presented by Kingsford and Maitland in Victorian London.
But there is a major difference between the original Hermetic teachings and the New Thought–flavoured doctrines of The Kybalion. The Corpus Hermeticum did not exist in a philosophical vacuum; its elevated and abstruse dialogues form only a part of the ancient Hermetic literature. Much of the rest consists of magical texts, and scholars have become increasingly aware that these cannot be so easily divorced in content or inspiration from the Hermetic writings.
What does this mean in short? It means that the ancient Hermetists probably did not use a type of New Thought-like mind power in their practice. Rather they probably made use of such things as magical rituals, divination, and invocations of the gods, just as we see in most ancient religions. The use of mind power as we find it in New Thought seems to be very much an innovation of the nineteenth century.
Hence the aphorisms in The Kybalion are very likely a pious fraud. Certainly their style and mode of thought are more evocative of twentieth-century America than of ancient Egypt or Greece. Even so, it would be mistaken to conclude that this work is unfaithful to the tradition it invokes. A spiritual tradition is based, certainly, on timeless and unchanging truths; but the application to which these truths are put will vary from age to age, in accordance with that age's need. In this sense, The Kybalion can lay genuine claim to the Hermetic heritage.
Brian P. Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation with Notes and an Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Mary K. Greer, "Sources of The Kybalion in Anna Kingsford's Hermetic System," http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/source-of-the-kybalion-in-anna-kingsford%E2%80%99s-hermetic-system (Accessed Nov. 11, 2010).
Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, www.sacred-texts.com/eso/vow/index.htm (Accessed Nov. 11, 2010).
Walter Scott, Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, Boston: Shambhala, 1985 [1924].
"Three Initiates," The Kybalion, Clayton, Ga.: Tri-State Press, 1988 [1908].
Roelof Van den Broek, "Hermetic Literature I: Antiquity," in Wouter J. Hanegraaff et al, eds., Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 1:487-99.
RICHARD SMOLEY has over thirty years of experience of studying and practicing esoteric spirituality. His latest book is The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe. He is also the author of Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition; Conscious Love: Insights from Mystical Christianity; The Essential Nostradamus; Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism; and Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions (with Jay Kinney). Smoley is also the former editor of Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions. Currently he is editor of Quest: Journal of the Theosophical Society in America and of Quest Books. His website is www.innerchristianity.com.
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Voters could overhaul Florida's regime of mass disenfranchisement
No state disenfranchises as many of its residents as Florida. A staggering 10 percent of its voting-age population is stripped of the right to vote because of a felony conviction, according to a report the Sentencing Project released in 2016. More than 20 percent of Black adults are affected, an unsurprising racial disparity given the Jim Crow roots of the state's statutes.
Florida is one of four states that disenfranchise people even after they complete a felony sentence. Floridians must wait for at least five years after the completion of their sentence to even apply for their voting rights to be restored. The application process itself takes many more years, and culminates in a hearing in front of the governor and other statewide officials. The board enjoys full discretion over what and how to decide, and over what questions to ask applicants, and it only hears a few hundred cases a year. Under Governor Rick Scott's tenure, which began in 2011, Florida has restored the voting rights of approximately only 3,000 people.
Amendment 4 would overhaul this system. It would enfranchise an estimated 1.5 million people by automatically restoring people's voting rights once they complete a felony sentence, except for people convicted of murder or a sexual offense. The amendment needs the support of 60 percent of voters, a threshold that polls suggests is realistic.
But of course a significant share of Floridians—the very people whose rights are being decided—are barred from participating.
This referendum is the culmination of organizing efforts led by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and its president Desmond Meade, who is himself disenfranchised. Mother Jones and the New York Times Magazine recently published in-depth profiles of the coalition's work.
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Update: Floridians adopted Amendment 4, which received the support of 64.5 percent of the vote.
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Key word signing, an unaided augmentative, and alternative communication (AAC) system is commonly used by children with Down syndrome who attend mainstream primary schools. To ensure the successful use of key word signing within a mainstream environment, a meaningful, contextually appropriate sign vocabulary must be available to all communication partners. The aim of this study was to develop a core school-based key word signing vocabulary to facilitate effective communication between children with Down syndrome and their communication partners in the first year of mainstream primary school. Four key groups-participants with Down syndrome, their peers, teachers, and special needs assistants-and a speech-language pathologist contributed to the vocabulary over the course of an academic year, through observations, semi-structured interviews, and guided tours of the school environment. Based on criteria of frequency and commonality, 140 words were considered to be core vocabulary. The current study provides new insights into the complex process of vocabulary selection for children who use key word signing at school and highlights the importance of access to a functional sign vocabulary in facilitating inclusive education practices.
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As the Covid-19 cases continue to decline across the country, the central government is considering resuming tourist visas very soon, in a bid to boost the economy. The report citing sources close to the matter confirmed the matter.
A senior MHA official confirmed that things are formalized and a meeting has been called in the Ministry of Home Affairs that will be chaired by the Home Secretary on Thursday to discuss plans to resume tourist visas.
The official said that it'll be done in a phased manner and as per the feasibility, it'll be open to all. The Government of India is probably going to permit only vaccinated people to apply for tourist visas.
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It must be noted that tourist visas are suspended since March 2020, from the day the first lockdown was announced.
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Before the suspension of tourist visas, around 7-8 lakh tourists used to come to India every month. India recorded 27,176 new Covid-19 cases and 284 deaths in the last 24 hours on Wednesday.
The active cases have come all the way down to 3.51 lakh. less than 50,000 daily cases are reported for 80 consecutive days now. Covid-19 has severely affected the tourism industry, resulting in job losses and shutdowns of hotels and restaurants.
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Parenting coordinator in divorce matters
The appointment of a parenting coordinator or facilitator has become a regular feature of divorce litigation where the interests of children are in issue. In TC v SC (2018) ZAWCHC 46, a recent Western Cape High Court case, decided by Acting Judge Diane Davis on 18 April 2018, the Judge noted the sad reality in divorce cases that conflict generated by the breakdown of the marital relationship often spills over into the parenting relationship. The children enter the arena of conflict and become the subject of disputes about care and contact and other parenting issues.
To manage the negative impact on children, the court appoints a parenting coordinator to provide a non-adversarial dispute resolution service. The persons appointed are often child psychologists or family law practitioners, who assist to resolve child-related disputes in an expeditious and child-focused manner, to minimise the risks that the parental conflict hold for children.
In South Africa there is currently no statute or rule of court governing the appointment of a parenting coordinator, but a practice has developed in the Western Cape which entails that the divorcing parents consent to the appointment of a parenting coordinator to mediate parenting disputes. The court also authorises the coordinator to give directives on the child-related issues in dispute, if the mediation is not successful. These directives are binding unless set aside by the court on review.
The main issue in TC v SC was whether the High Court has the power, by virtue of its inherent jurisdiction as the upper guardian of minor children, to make an interim order appointing a facilitator to deal with parenting disputes, even if one of the parents objects. Acting Judge Davis stated that the court-assigned role for the parenting coordinator can be crafted in a manner which will not constitute an unlawful delegation of the Court's decision-making authority. She proposed that the following limitations be placed on the powers of a parenting coordinator:
Agreement between the parties must have been reached and set out in a parenting plan, whether interim or final, and must have been made an order of court. The parenting coordinator's role must be limited to ensuring implementation of or compliance with the existing court order. This eliminates the risk of an improper delegation of judicial decision-making power.
The parenting coordinator's decision-making power must be confined to ancillary rulings that may be necessary to implement the court order, without altering the substance of the court order or involving a permanent change to any of the rights and obligations defined in the court order, so ensuring that the parenting coordinator does not trespass on the Court's exclusive jurisdiction.
All decisions made by the parenting coordinator must be subject to comprehensive judicial oversight in the form of a full reconsideration of the decision, accordingly suspending the finality of the decision and giving the Court the authority to alter the decision.
In terms of this judgment parenting coordinators may only issue directives directly implementing the terms of a parenting plan which has been made an order of court, without altering its substance or changing the rights and obligations set out in the Court Order. The practical impact of this ruling is that the parenting coordinator's ability to manage high-conflict divorce situations is limited and, for example, he/she will not be able to amend the parenting plan in the event of a change in circumstances which impact on the maintenance to be paid for the minor child or the care and contact arrangements or other safety measures designed to serve the best interest of a minor child. In view of the significant role played by parenting coordinators in divorce matters, these limitations and the Court's formulation of the powers of the parenting coordinator is of great importance.


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With the battle lines being drawn up by both the BBC and Channel 4 over the upcoming Great British Bake Off vs Britain's Best Cook tête-à-tête, William Hill have opened betting on which show will be the most popular with punters. The BBC looks set to win out with Hills offering 1/3 that the Britain's Best Cook final brings in more viewers than its predecessor on Channel 4.
"There will no doubt be plenty of hardcore Bake Off fans that follow the show as it moves onto Channel Four but the BBC's market share looks likely to see it win this particular battle," said William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly.
Which show's final will attract the most viewers: 1/3 Britain's Best Cook; 9/4 Great British Bake Off
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Right to Information (RTI) is an Act of the Parliament of India to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens and replaces the erstwhile Freedom of information Act, 2002. Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen of India may request information from a "public authority" (a body of Government or "instrumentality of State") which is required to reply expeditiously.
RTI official Website
RTI Request Submission
Suo-Moto RTI Disclosure
ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION
Details of disclosure
Remarks / Reference Points (Fully met /partially met / not met-not applicable will be treated as fully met / partially met)
Particulars of its organization, functions and duties [Section 4(1)(b)(i)]
i. Name and address of the Organization
Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology
PO- Narayanpur,Dist: Malda, State: West Bengal, India - 732141
Fully met
ii. Head of the organization
iii. Vision, Mission and Key objectives
iv. Function and duties
Memorandum of Association (MoA) With MHRD, Govt. of India
v. Organization Chart
Any other details-the genesis, inception, formation of the department and the HoDs from time to time as well as the committees/ Commissions constituted from time to time have been dealt
General Science and Humanities
Office and Sections
Power and duties of its officers and employees [Section 4(1) (b)(ii)]
i. Powers and duties of officers (administrative, financial and judicial)
Memorandum of Association (MoA)With MHRD, Govt. of India
ii. Power and duties of other employees
iii. Rules/ orders under which powers and duty are derived and
iv. Exercised
v. Work allocation
Procedure followed in decision making process [Section 4(1)(b)(iii)]
i. Process of decision making Identify key decision making points
ii. Final decision making authority
iii. Related provisions, acts, rules etc.
iv. Time limit for taking a decisions, if any
v. Channel of supervision and accountability 1.4
Norms for discharge of functions [Section 4(1)(b)(iv)]
i. Nature of functions/ services offered
ii. Norms/ standards for functions/ service delivery
Admission through
https://wbjeeb.nic.in, https://jeemain.nta.nic.in,https://josaa.nic.in
https://csab.nic.in, https://webscte.co.in, https://webscte.co.in
www.gkciet.ac.in
Programme calendar as per affiliating university and West Bengal State Council of Technical &
Vocational Education and Skill Development. For details please visit https://makautwb.ac.in/ and https://webscte.co.in
iii. Process by which these services can be accessed
iv. Time-limit for achieving the targets
v. Process of redress of grievances
Complain Box and central public grievance portal and GKCIET grievance portal
https://pgportal.gov.in/ http://gkciet.edugrievance.com/
https://gkciet.ac.in/facility/Grievance
Rules, regulations, instructions manual and records for discharging functions [Section 4(1)(b)(v)]
i. Title and nature of the record/ manual /instruction
ii. List of Rules, regulations, instructions manuals and records.
GFR 2017, CCS , Academic rules and regulations as per affiliating university Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal and West Bengal State Council of Technical &
Vocational Education and Skill Development.
iii. Acts/ Rules manuals etc.
As above
iv. Transfer policy and transfer orders
Transfer of staff and officials are done as per the need basis.
Categories of documents held by the authority under its control [Section 4(1)(b) (vi)]
i. Categories of documents
Record Retention Schedule of Govt. of India
(to be uploaded)
ii. Custodian of documents/categories
Boards, Councils, Committees and other Bodies constituted as part of the Public Authority [Section 4(1)(b)(viii)]
i. Name of Boards, Council, Committee etc.
1. Society, GKCIET, Malda
2. Board of Governors, GKCIET, Malda
3. Finance Committee, GKCIET, Malda
4. Building and Works Committee, GKCIET, Malda
5. Academic Council, GKCIET, Malda
Composition of members will be available at new website
ii. Composition
iii. Dates from which constituted
iv. Term/ Tenure
v. Powers and functions
vi. Whether their meetings are open to the public
vii. Whether the minutes of the meetings are open to the public?
viii. Place where the minutes if open to the public are available?
Will be available in new website
Directory of officers and employees
[Section 4(1) (b)]
i. Name and designation
ii. Telephone, fax and email ID
Monthly Remuneration received by officers & employees including system of compensation [Section 4(1) (b) (x)]
i. List of employees with Gross monthly remuneration
ii. System of compensation as provided in its regulations
Compensation is given as per the GOI guidelines approved by the Board of Governors GKCIET, Malda.
Name, designation and other particulars of public information officers [Section 4(1) (b) (xvi)]
i. Name and designation of the public information officer (PIO), Assistant Public Information (s) & Appellate Authority
RTI Information Link
ii. Address, telephone numbers and email ID of each designated official.
No. of employees against whom Disciplinary action has been proposed/ taken (Section 4(2))
No. of employees against whom disciplinary action has been
i. Pending for Minor penalty or major penalty proceedings
ii. Finalised for Minor penalty or major penalty proceedings
Programmes to advance understanding of RTI (Section 26)
i. Educational programmes
To be conducted
ii. Efforts to encourage public authority to participate in these programmes
Institute conducts periodic meetings / workshops at the Institute to educate PIO / NO and other employee(s) about the provisions of RTI Act, 2005.
iii. Training of CPIO/APIO
Attends regular training at CIC
iv. Update & publish guidelines on RTI by the Public Authorities concerned
As per CIC
Transfer policy and transfer orders [F No. 1/6/2011- IR dt. 15.4.2013]
Transfer of staff and officials are done as per the need basis
Budget allocated to each agency including all plans, proposed expenditure and reports on disbursements made etc.
[Section 4(1)(b)(xi)]
i. Total Budget for the public authority
http://gkciet.ac.in/information_center/miscellaneous/annual_report 2018-19.pdf
ii. Budget for each agency and plan & programmes
http://gkciet.ac.in/information_center/miscellaneous/Annual_Report_2018-19.pdf
iii. Proposed expenditures
iv. Revised budget for each agency, if any
v. Report on disbursements made and place where the related reports are available
Foreign and domestic tours
(F. No. 1/8/2012- IR dt. 11.9.2012)
i. Budget
As per CPDA notification
Link 1 and Link 2
ii. Foreign and domestic Tours by ministries and officials of the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government and above, as well as the heads of the Department.
a) Places visited
b) The period of visit
c) The number of members in the official delegation
d) Expenditure on the visit
To be uploaded as avaliable
iii. Information related to procurements
a) Notice/tender enquires, and corrigenda if any thereon,
b) Details of the bids awarded comprising the names of the suppliers of goods/ services being procured,
c) The works contracts concluded – in any such combination of the aboveand
d) The rate /rates and the total amount at which such procurement or works contract is to be executed.
PUBLICITY BAND PUBLIC INTERFACE
Particulars for any arrangement for consultation with or representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of policy or implementation there of
[Section 4(1)(b)(vii)] [F No 1/6/2011- IR dt. 15.04.2013]
Arrangement for consultations with or representation by the members of the public
i. Relevant Acts, Rules, Forms and other documents which are normally accessed by citizens
ii. Arrangements for consultation with or representation by
a) Members of the public in policy formulation/ policy implementation
b) Day & time allotted for visitors
c) Contact details of Information & Facilitation Counter (IFC) to provide publications frequently sought by RTI applicants
Public- private partnerships (PPP)
i. Details of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), if any
ii. Detailed project reports (DPRs)
iii. Concession agreements.
iv. Operation and maintenance manuals
v. Other documents generated as part of the implementation of the PPP
vi. Information relating to fees, tolls, or the other kinds of revenues that may be collected under authorisation from the government
vii. Information relating to outputs and outcomes
viii. The process of the selection of the private sector party (concessionaire etc.)
ix. All payment made under the PPP project
Are the details of policies / decisions, which affect public, informed to them [Section 4(1) (c)]
Publish all relevant facts while formulating important policies or announcing decisions which affect public to make the process more interactive;
i. Policy decisions/ legislations taken in the previous one year
GFR 2017, CCS, Academic rules and regulations as per affiliating university Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal and West Bengal State Council of Technical & Vocational Education and Skill Development.
ii. Outline the Public consultation process
iii. Outline the arrangement for consultation before formulation of 30 policy
Dissemination of information widely and in such form and manner which is easily accessible to the public [Section 4(3)]
Use of the most effective means of communication
i. Internet (website)
Form of accessibility of information manual/ handbook [Section 4(1)(b)]
Information manual/handbook available in
i. Electronic format
ii. Printed format
5 Whether information manual/ handbook available free of cost or not [Section 4(1)(b)]
List of materials available
i. Free of cost
ii. At a reasonable cost of the medium
Language in which Information Manual/Handbook Available [F No. 1/6/2011- IR dt. 15.4.2013]
i. English
ii. Vernacular/ Local Language
partially met
When was the information Manual/Handbook last updated? [F No. 1/6/2011- IR dt 15.4.2013]
Last date of Annual updation
Information available in electronic form [Section 4(1)(b)(xiv)]
i. Details of information available in electronic form
ii. Name/ title of the document/record/ other information
As displayed inn the institute website
iii. Location where available
http://gkciet.ac.in/
Particulars of facilities available to citizen for obtaining information [Section 4(1)(b)(xv)]
i. Name & location of the facility
ii. Details of information made available
iii. Working hours of the facility
iv. Contact person & contact details (Phone, fax email)
Such other information as may be prescribed under section 4(i) (b)(xvii)
i. Grievance redressal mechanism
https://pgportal.gov.in/
GKCIET Grievance Portal
ii. Details of applications received under RTI and information provided
RTI Transaction
iii. List of completed schemes/ projects/ Programmes
iv. Details of all contracts entered into including name of the contractor, amount of contract and period of completion of contract
v. Annual Report
vi. Frequently Asked Question (FAQs) 32
vii. Any other information such as
a) Citizen's Charter
b) Result Framework Document (RFD)
c) Six monthly reports on the
d) Performance against the benchmarks set in the Citizen's Charter
The point is not applicable since no Citizen Charter is appointed
Receipt & Disposal of RTI applications & appeals [F.No 1/6/2011-IR dt. 15.04.2013]
i. Details of applications received and disposed
ii. Details of appeals received and orders issued
Replies to questions asked in the parliament [Section 4(1)(d)(2)]
Details of questions asked and replies given
INFORMATION AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED
Such other information as may be prescribed [F.No. 1/2/2016- IR dt. 17.8.2016, F No. 1/6/2011- IR dt. 15.4.2013]
i. Name & details of
a) Current CPIOs & FAAs
b) Earlier CPIO & FAAs from 1.1.2015
ii. Details of third party audit of voluntary disclosure
a) Dates of audit carried out
b) Report of the audit carried out
iii. Appointment of Nodal Officers not below the rank of Joint Secretary/ Additional HoD
a) Date of appointment
b) Name & Designation of the officers
iv. Consultancy committee of key stake holders for advice on suo-motu disclosure
a) Dates from which constituted
v. Committee of PIOs/FAAs with rich experience in RTI to identify frequently sought information under RTI
To be constituted
INFORMATION DISCLOSED ON OWN INITIATIVE
Item / information disclosed so that public have minimum resort to use of RTI Act to obtain information
(www.gkciet.ac.in)
Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) is followed (released in February 2009 and included in the Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedures (CSMOP) by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Govt. Of India)
i. Whether STQC certification obtained and its validity.
ii. Does the website show the certificate on the Website?
Will be processed
Name &
First Appellate Authority (FAA)
Dr.Parameswara Rao Alapati
Director, GKCIET, Malda
Address: GKCIET, Narayanpur Campus,P.O-Narayanpur,Dist- Malda(West Bengal).Pin No:732141
Mob: 03512-268780
Email: director@gkciet.ac.in
Central Public Informatics Officer (CPIO)
Gopal Bandyopadhyay
Address: GKCIET, Narayanpur Campus, P.O-Narayanpur,Dist- Malda(West Bengal). Pin No: 732141
Email: sm@gkciet.ac.in
Md. Abdure RajjaqueAssistant
Registrar (A&E)
Address: GKCIET, Narayanpur Campus, P.O-Narayanpur, Dist- Malda(West Bengal), Pin No: 732141
Email: ar_est@gkciet.ac.in
RTI Authority Office Order Details
Sl No
Order Copy Memo No & Date Remark
1 RTI Office Order 1 GKCIET/10,07/04/2017
2 RTI Office Order 2 GKCIET/111, 16/08/2017
2 RTI Office Order 3 GKCIET/111, 03/02/2022 Latest Order


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Public-Private Partnerships in Homeland Security: Opportunities and Challenges
Homeland Security Affairs, Volume VIII / October 2012 May 2022 / Leave a Comment
This article begins to fill a gap in homeland security scholarship by identifying the essential role that public-private partnerships are now taking in homeland security and by examining opportunities and challenges for this transformative shift in the field.
By Nathan E. Busch and Austen D. Givens
Network Fusion: Information and Intelligence Sharing for a Networked World
Volume VIII / October 2012 April 2022 / 1 Comment
An innovative design for sharing information and intelligence is found in the form of network fusion, which encourages collaboration across multiple disciplines by leveraging technology to connect the unconnected at classified and unclassified levels.
By Joseph W. Pfeifer
Waiting For Homeland Security Theory
Volume VIII / August 2012 April 2022 / Leave a Comment
Where is the theory supporting the academic discipline of homeland security? Does homeland security need a single unifying theory? Does the lack of a "grand" theory mean the discipline lacks conceptual precision?
By Christopher Bellavita
Perceptual Framing of Homeland Security
Volume VIII / August 2012 May 2022 / Leave a Comment
This article analyzes the phenomenon of homeland security through the development of four conceptual lenses that were created out of the existing literatures in criminal justice, public administration, organization behavior, risk management, international relations, and the overlap between them.
By Linda Kiltz and James D. Ramsay
Homeland Security: Advancing the National Strategic Position
Homeland Security Affairs, Volume VIII / August 2012 May 2022 / Leave a Comment
In March 2011, President Obama issued Presidential Policy Directive 8: National Preparedness that began a new chapter in the intent and scope of preparedness.
By Sharon Caudle
How to Quantify Deterrence and Reduce Critical Infrastructure Risk
We propose a definition of critical infrastructure deterrence and develop a methodology to explicitly quantify the deterrent effects of critical infrastructure security strategies. We leverage historical work on analyzing deterrence, game theory and utility theory.
By Eric F. Taquechel and Ted G. Lewis
A Maritime Threat Assessment of Sea Based Criminal Organizations and Terrorist Operations
Homeland Security Affairs, Volume VIII / August 2012 May 2022 / 1 Comment
This article reviews the United States Department of Defense, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies' use of the Maritime Strategic Doctrine and the Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act to combat drug smuggling vessels and boats during counter-drug smuggling operations.
By Terrance G. Lichtenwald, Mara H. Steinhour, and Frank S. Perri
Integration of Social Determinants of Community Preparedness and Resiliency in 21st Century Emergency Management Planning
Volume VIII / August 2012 May 2022 / 2 Comments
The United States Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has recently adopted a "whole of community" approach in its strategic planning and response to catastrophic events.
By Paul A. Biedrzycki and Raisa Koltun
The Missing Piece of NIMS: Teaching Incident Commanders How to Function in the Edge of Chaos
Homeland Security Affairs, Volume VIII / June 2012 May 2022 / 7 Comments
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) has become a subject of controversy, as many practitioners find severe limitations with the system's field effectiveness.
By Cynthia Renaud
Strengthening the Value of the National Network of Fusion Centers by Leveraging Specialization: Defining "Centers of Analytical Excellence"
Volume VIII / June 2012 May 2022 / 1 Comment
This article reports on the main findings of a project sponsored by the National Fusion Center Association to more precisely define the term "Centers of Analytic Excellence."
By Justin Lewis Abold, Ray Guidetti, and Douglas Keyer