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Penny Choong, Founder of Penny Essentials, Malaysia
Penny Choong of Malaysia is this week's guest. She is the founder of Penny Essentials, a business that helps people enjoy being healthy.
Yet years ago, she was suffering from such severe migraine attacks that she couldn't even get out of bed!
Her story is quite unique in that she was focused on teaching financial education when she came back from the Middle East.
Yet life sometimes throws us curve balls and she came to a realization that she herself needed to be well first. She couldn't help others if she herself wasn't feeling absolutely her best.
Thanks to solving her own migraine attacks, she has improved her health to the extent that "my health is better now in my 40s compared to my 20s".
Penny is proud of her bounce back to wellness and now endeavours to share what she knows with her customers and her community of 40,000 people.
For show notes and more, visit womenpreneurasia.com
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Tina Kekoolani, Creator & Owner of Haleakala Supah Shots, Hawaii
Today's BONUS and final episode of Season 5 is with a food entrepreneur from Hawaii, Tina Kekoolani. Tina is the creator and owner of Haleakala Supah Shots. Her Haleakala Supah Shots is a healthy re-imagination of the classic Hawaiian chili pepper water. Her immune-boosting elixir is made with Hawaiian chili pepper water, fruit juice, vinegar, organic agave and hand-harvested Hawaiian sea salt. Tina lives as a teacher and farmer on the island of Maui, having moved to Maui from Oahu where she grew up. Tina moved to Maui in 2000 to work on a Kahoolawe bomb clearance project and has been on the island ever since. When the Kahoolawe project ended, Tina began teaching and connecting with her community. At school, she teaches Hawaiian Studies to local children. When she is not teaching, she is growing food and making raw, vegan elixirs. Tina founded Haleakala Supah Shots in October 2016 and at the local community fair, sold out of her first batch of 40 bottles. In 2019, her elixirs were named the best new food product at the Made in Maui County Festival. She experienced a rush of orders during the pandemic lockdown in March 2020 because everyone was concerned about boosting their immunity. Tina speaks of her products in a way that's totally different from other entrepreneurs I've spoken to. She brings reverence to her products and imbues them with spirituality which I appreciate. We don't speak enough about spirituality and particularly in the entrepreneurial context. I am also delighted that I cap the season with an episode with a Hawaiian entrepreneur who believes deeply that community health is community wealth. As we have experienced over the past 3 years, we are nothing without our health. As I wrap up my podcasting year (and a total of 72 published episodes as of December 2022), I look forward to taking a break and enjoying the holiday season. Season 6 begins in March next year and I hope you will continue to share my podcast with friends who are on their entrepreneurial journey. Each of us needs that one story that lifts us and I hope my podcast gives you a buffet of stories that you can listen to over and over! Thank you for being with me on this journey as I podcast my way into more stories and experiences from Asian women in Asia. I am already preparing for Season 6 and I can tell you, my guests for Season 7 are incredible indeed. Stay tuned for their stories and strategies. Remember to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast wherever you are. And that's it, my friend. I'll see you in 2023. Be well, be happy and appreciate your business journey! ======================= Get the full show notes: WomenpreneurAsia.com Subscribe to the Youtube channel Follow us on Instagram =======================
Kaniza Shafie, Co-founder of Kebun Kota, Malaysia
Today's episode is with an entrepreneur from Malaysia, Kaniza Shafie. She is the co-founder of Kebun Kota in Kuantan, Pahang. She is also an architect and mother of five. We started by talking about her farm, Kebun Kota which supplies fresh harvest her cafe, Roots. Kebun Kota is a 14-acre farm that was once a quarry. Kaniza is proud that she and her husband, Dr Muhklis Chua, regenerated this brownfield into an eco-friendly urban farm and agriculture research centre that she lovingly calls Kebun Kota (which means "city farm" in Malay) She believes that micro-farming and smart farming are the way of the future. We also spoke about women, technology, intentionality, learning how to say no, being true to ourselves and getting back to the core of our humanity. In this interview, Kaniza talks about her childhood as well as motherhood. She also speaks about being more intentional about her life now that she's two years from 60 and what she truly desires to do with her life and business. Get the show notes at WomenpreneurAsia.com Do rate, review and subscribe to the podcast and share this episode with a friend.
Debbie Edirisinghe, Founding Director, Child Action Lanka, Sri Lanka
Today's episode is with a founding director of a non-profit from Sri Lanka, Debbie Edirisinghe. Debbie is with Child Action Lanka. Child Action Lanka began in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka in 2006. She started it with her husband, Dilshan, when she was asked to take over from a woman teaching 8 street children. (Listen to her story in the episode.) Some 16 years later, her organization has grown to reach over 1,500 children in 8 districts in Sri Lanka. Her organization offers housing and food, schooling and education resources, as well as counselling to ensure lower school dropout rates. In our conversation today, Debbie spoke about the need to give children a second chance and to transform their lives. In our heartwarming interview, she spoke about the lessons she had learnt over the years in running a non-profit and her leadership style. Despite what has happened in Sri Lanka this year, she is even more determined to help the children whose lives are the most affected. She talks about making a difference through her work with women and children through various initiatives but what strikes me most is that she reminds her own daughters that she is raising them to be strong women. Get the show notes at WomenpreneurAsia.com Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast for more inspiring stories and strategies from Asian women entrepreneurs in Asia.


Dr. Mayer's teaching interests include groundwater flow and transport and subsurface remediation. Research projects Dr. Mayer is currently involved in include: "Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Contaminant Transport in Groundwater Vadose Zones," "Mathematical Optimization of Groundwater Remediation Systems: Multi-Objective and Uncertainty Problems," "Surfactant-Enhanced Dissolution of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids in Subsurface Systems," "Groundwater Flow in a Fault Zone in the Vicinity of Desert Hot Springs, California," and "Simulation of Saltwater Intrusion in the Guaymas Valley, Sonora, Mexico California." Dr. Mayer has published in journals such as the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Transport in Porous Media, and Water Resources Research.
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Faster-than-light travel makes the science-fiction world go round. Especially space opera, with its galaxy wide empires, space wars and alien civilizations. FTL travel has many faces, though, depending on the technology of its world (and the writer's creativity), and with those many faces come many perils. It has undoubtedly more advantages than disadvantages in fiction, but let's talk about the flipside of it for a change.
The most common downside of FTL travel in fiction is caused by good old relativity. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, any object flying at or above the speed of light suffers a time dilation proportional to its speed. That means that for people on a ship traveling faster than light, time flows "slower" than for the people on a planet. You can imagine it this way: the tremendous speed at which the space ship moves, rips the ship and those aboard it from the normal space-time continuum and 'envelops' them in a temporal bubble.
That means that for a ship traveling at FTL speeds, a trip from A to B might take a month, but when it arrives, the time that passed on A and B can be much greater, from a couple of years to decades and even centuries, depending on the distance between them and the speed of the ship.
This creates awesome story potential, of course. You couldn't just visit your parents on another colony every month, or you'd see them age by decades every time. Or arrive to find their world already centuries ahead of yours.
The most recent book I've read that played on time dilation for FTL travelers was Joe Haldeman's Forever War.
A group of soldiers are sent out to fight a war against an alien force, flying from one stage of battle to the next, each time losing centuries in 'normal time'. The story's main conflict is based around the fact that time dilation causes these soldiers to be completely removed from human society, suffering of enormous cultural clashes each time they have "shore leave". Also, the technological development that takes place while they are in transit to their destinations creates big differences between their weapons and defenses, and those of the aliens they clash with.
FTL travel mustn't follow Einstein's rule at all. That's one of the awesome things about science-fiction. So if you ignore relativity and assume time always flows the same for everyone all the time (heh), there are still plenty of dangers you can envision for FTL travelers. One of these is physical damage.
The acceleration needed to propel a ship at faster-than-light speeds is enormous. Gigantic. Humongosaurian! The forces acting upon the tender flesh of the humans aboard such a ship are equally fantastic. Ever seen a pilot's face in G training? Yeah. And that's at 7 Gs. Imagine how the human body reacts to hundreds, even thousands of Gs. Welcome to hell.
FTL travelers need technology to prevent them from turning into pulp the instant someone says "Engage!". In Haldeman's Forever War, they had man-sized bubble-suits filled with a special gelatinous substance that flooded all their bodily cavities (even their lungs), and that prevented them from massive compression. These bubbles could, of course, malfunction. You can create awesome story conflicts around the technology necessary to keep FTL travelers intact, or at least alive.
But the most ingenious use of the physical damage potential in FTL travel I've read so far, was in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.
FTL ships accelerated so fast, that light-year distances were covered almost instantaneously. The humans aboard these ships, however, were destroyed by the forces acting upon them. They died horribly, and upon arrival of the ship at destination and decelerating to normal speeds, they were reassembled and resurrected by a Resurrection Cache, in a long and painful process that diminished their physical and mental abilities with each time and left them deeply 'scarred'. Also, to be eligible for resurrection, they had to be wearing a cruciform—a parasitic alien organism that attached itself permanently to their chests, copied their DNA, and granted them immortality by not allowing them to die. An apparent gift, but in fact a terrible curse.
Humans are fairly frail in terms of mental stability when they are exposed to situations of extreme physical strain, high risk and responsibility. FTL flight bears all of these, and then some. Just like airplane pilots are under a lot of stress (even despite automatic flight control), space ship pilots will be stressed too, even if their ships have AIs to help them fly.
But apart from stress—which is kiddie stuff, right?—FTL flight might harbor additional psychological dangers, depending on what type of FTL travel you develop for your storyworld. Maybe extreme acceleration causes hallucinations; maybe an artificial suspension during flight causes amnesia; maybe it even causes people to have dreams about past lives, or suffer outer body experiences; maybe the disintegration and reassembly involved in FTL travel changes their personality, or severely traumatizes them.
Actually, I've chosen the latter effect for my novel The Deeplink. In my version of FTL flight, ships and their crews are dissolved on a subatomic level and propagated through space in the form of information (quark spin), then reassembled upon arrival. Because this process is extremely fast, people's brains are reassembled almost instantaneously and 'fire up' violently, resuming life. This causes the characters to suffer from traumatic seizures accompanied by fugue states and temporary insanity, in a calculated timeframe upon arrival. Time in which the ships are entirely under the control of AIs. I won't say more, lest I spill out spoilers, but that's the gist of it.
Think our good old gasoline costs much? How about antimatter? Zero-point modules? Tylium ore? Infinite improbability drive batteries (or whatever the hell that contraption works with)?
Fictional fuels for fictional drives are pretty damn expensive, as they should be. Characters might have to do a lot of dangerous things to get them. Risk their ships and their lives. Fight wars. Destroy entire worlds, or suffer from destruction.
Also, you probably can't roam the heavens in a tin can. The materials needed to construct ship hulls that can withstand FTL flight, radiation, and stardust with speeds that render it deadly, won't be easy to get by. Expensive, rare materials may be needed to construct FTL engines, shields, life support, recycling units, computer systems and AI cores, etc.
FTL capacity can make THE difference for a civilization's survival and thriving in the future. Thus, if there are means to strangle the access to FTL for your competitors, you have yourself an awesome story conflict potential right there.
You can fight over fuel, or special materials needed to build ships, or alien parasites that resurrect you. Or you can fight over particular territories, Mass Relays, or access to wormholes as they do in Lois McMaster Bujold's The Vor Game.
The strategic position or possession of a means of FTL travel will be very coveted, and thus it can mean competition and war, betrayal and death. Plenty conflict potential!
That's one thing I enjoy about science fiction especially speculative scifi, because everyone could be a potential conflict. Yay aliens, oh they want to eat our brain stems. We can travel to distant places, and now we have plenty of resources. Oh, those distant places are full of bacteria that slowly warps our minds and turns us into zombies. Earth is running out of space we have to leave, but only mode of transportation crushes our bones to a pulp.
You could even do all three things, cause why not? When the solution is as much as threat as the original problem that's kind of cool.
Not so much a spoiler as a first class 'teaser'. I'm looking forward to reading Deep Link, Vero.
Thanks, Mike. 🙂 I hope it'll do the expectations justice.
Wow — a lot to think about in terms of plot development! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome post. It's not too often authors are willing to look at the costs of their technological magic, especially when it's something like FTL that's just become an accepted sort of plot device. Peter Watts has some interesting things to say about the cost in his Beyond the Rift collection.
Thanks Bob. I've had an eye on Beyond The Rift for some time, now. Didn't get around to it yet.
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I don't read a lot of Sci-Fi, but the theory you discuss about time travel and its hazards is rather fascinating.
You're awesome for mentioning mass relays. Mass Effect is a favorite of mine. The Forever War is also a favorite. I learned a lot about FTL from that book, and it's a really influential scifi story for me, next to Dune.
Einstein's theory only applies as you approach the speed of light, not if you go beyond it; he said faster than light travel is impossible. That's part of the reliance on things like worm holes in sci-fi, they approximate FTL travel without actually doing it. Warping space, which we're doing, is another way of creating the effect of travelling faster than light without actually doing it.
Einstein might not have discussed objects actually flying faster than light, but science-fiction has. There's not only space warping and wormholes out there. They're definitely the most common ones, especially in TV sci-fi, but they're not the sole means of FTL travel. Various, conveniently unexplained technologies are found in novels which succeed to propel ships to faster than light speeds without doing anything to the environment of the galaxy (or "space-time", or whatever is chosen as the backdrop, depending on the theory).
Very interesting, Veronica. I like science fiction — last I read was Wool — and all this makes a lot of sense. Thanks for braking it down for us, or me, with such expertise. I see you have ten chs. edited. Nice work. Hope to take a look at it soon.
Wool was a fun read. I enjoyed it, despite the occasional scientific blunder.
I wish that you could have been my tutor as I floundered helplessly in Astronomy and Physics class. I'm only now beginning to loosely grasp such things as time dilation, anti-matter and string theory.
Aw. Now I'm embarrassed I don't know as much as I let on.
I am actually working on a SciFi book at the moment and have had to look at this issue. This is a great post for me.
Cool, Brandon! I'm glad you liked it.
I so love reading SciFi but know I could never write it…too many obscure things you need to be aware of. Great post!!
In Battletech/Mechwarrior, there was a condition called Transit Disorientation Syndrome, which seems universal in many sci-fi, but in MW, it appeared that some felt sick after traveling through hyperspace. Similar to getting sea sick on a boat.
Hmm… to me it the method of FTL matters little. Since the author can make up whatever he/she wishes. What I am interested in is the method of navigation. For example, if one wanted a very realistic form of navigation, you could use lightspeed sensors (no FTL,sensors sorry Star Trek fans). In so doing, the moment your ship popped out of hyperspace/FTL, it could only rely on astrometrics (measuring distance by viewing stellar bodies) to figure out the ship's location. Due to light lag, the stellar images are old, which means that the farther one travels, the MORE course adjustments one will have to make if they are going to uncharted territory like Star Trek. The best navigators would be adept at using the FTL/hyperdrive LESS to reach destinations, while less skilled pilots would have to use it more, which might lower FTL engine life expectancy. For well traveled routes, computers would already know the orbital paths of planets and could warp right to them.
Navigation is certainly crucial, and unfortunately often overlooked in worldbuilding. Thanks for the comment!


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Reply to letters to the editor from Peter Karlsson
Theodore Rappaport, A. Annamalai, R. M. Buehrer, William H. Tranter
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Rappaport, T., Annamalai, A., Buehrer, R. M., & Tranter, W. H. (2002). Reply to letters to the editor from Peter Karlsson. IEEE Communications Magazine, 40(11), 16.
Reply to letters to the editor from Peter Karlsson. / Rappaport, Theodore; Annamalai, A.; Buehrer, R. M. et al.
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Keep your blog short and simple, straight to the point and captivating. People will get bored when reading long review. Make it average 250-350 words will be enough to fascinate people. And most of all, use the right keyword for your blog title, because google will use the keyword and phrase to place the blog into search result. If Google cannot find our blog, it's just a waste of a beautifully created blog.
So, if you love blogging, take advantage from it. As the saying goes, killing two birds with one stone. Happy blogging!
If you have more than 8 months computer/laptop, then you will experience this slowness, hangs and much more irritating thing by our lappy..Plus if you are someone who loves to install new software or applications.
Here..Get some info on how to fix this problem.
Chicken Ala Carte..That's the title for this very touching short video, done by a Ferdinand Dimadura.
It was really touching and it shows us the meaning of appreciation. Do we appreciate the things or people we have around us.. Do we appreciate the family, the blessing or the surrounding that keeps us smiling.
I was about to blog about my hectic working day, how i hate my days and all…but having watched this, well…i am very grateful for what i have now..I cant imagine having to live like those children, and some dying in hunger..
Thousands of old cellular phones are replaced with newer models. The old ones are then placed in boxes and never used again. That's too bad, because phones are useful, and the batteries contain toxic material. They should be recycled.
Why do we need to recycle our phone batteries?
Well, mobile phone batteries contain toxic materials such as lithium, cadmium, nickel, lead and hydrate metals that could pollute the earth if not disposed of properly. These batteries cannot be disposed of by throwing them together with your household rubbish, as chemicals can seep into the rivers and eventually into our rivers and oceans. By recycling your used cell phone batteries, you are helping to create a cleaner and safer environment.
Furthermore, toxic waste cannot be incinerated.
Please be kind to the environment and not throw your batteries in the trash. The environmental protection agency (EPA) in America estimates that 200 tons of cadmium and 260,000 tonnes of lead enter the waste stream annually. We're sure that quite a large percentage comes from batteries.
Not all cell phone batteries are recyclable. The following rechargeable battery chemistries can be recycled – Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion), and Small Sealed Lead (Pb). Look for the Battery Recycling Seal on the battery.
Who is involved in the battery recycling campaign in Malaysia?
Right now, there are a few companies in Malaysia that is doing their best to help promote the recycling of phone batteries. Private mobile phone companies have placed special transparent bins on their premises. The Department of Environment in all states will also place the special bins at public places such as shopping complexes to encourage the public to recycle their old batteries.
Alam Flora Sdn. Bhd. and Kualiti Alam Sdn. Bhd would then collect these batteries. They are sent to Korea, Taiwan and France for recycling, as Malaysia currently does not have the technology to recycle batteries.
Been busy with the new advertising content, im devoting myself with all Recycle article in the net. The theme for this year for our advertising is about Recycle..Recycle everything we can! And im so into it now, haha…Like everything can be recycle, everything need to be recycle, and indeed, recycling can helps a lot in our environment, increase our health , well when the environment getting better, it will eventually making us getting healthier ..:)..
Imagine a world with no pollution..Well guys there's a lot of ways to help Earth..Please start recycling..Please stop adding more and more unwanted stuffs to our beloved earth..Hehe, see, as i told ya, im really into Recycling now..
It is not as big as boasting words or fake beautiful smiles, but it can make a big difference in one's life..
Lazy weekend…am doing my research on our advertising network, which i really have no perfect idea on how to improve our advertising content. So much to learn so much to research. I feel like want to know everything at once, so i can complete my work quickly..
Keep It short and simple news.
Tons of work, lesser time everyday, frustrations, it maybe a good summary of hectic life.
It prevents us from being updated with what's going on around us. No time for papers, for news in TV or even the so many news in internet. All we need is to spare whatever time we can to get some rest or enjoying it with our love one.
If only we can hire an assistant who can summarize everything to us, it would be a bless!Imagine everything from business news, health news or even entertainment updates being served to us everyday.
All we need is a short and straight presentation of the news. we need to know the content as quick as possible and understand it. I found this very nice blog about everything related to news, and it is written in a very short and simple yet fantastic way. Anything i need to know, especially about high tech news, i could easily find them here. Worth reading guys!


I loved this short story. I loved all the old and new traditions they made. A great way to catch up on the gang! It left me wanting for more! I can't believe how they have grown as a family!
Fact One: the adage is "write what you know", and for most people the goings on in the house they live in is something with which they are at least vaguely familiar. Fact Two: for many people the holidays are all about family and things that the family does together; their family traditions. So when Zig's teacher assigns an essay/presentation all about family holiday traditions, it seemed on the surface like it would be a safe bet. PROBLEM -- before Deacon (and by later extension Lang) Zig didn't really have much to call family.. Things were dicey enough that family time was something to be survived, not enjoyed. Holidays were to be dealt with, not celebrated. Zig has no family traditions to write and talk about. The whole concept is foreign to her. What's a kid to do? Well, necessity is the mother of invention.
Zig, Deacon and Lang come up with a plan to try-out various Christmas-themed holiday traditions. Zig's report will then be about the trials and errors of their experiences. It will be half writing assignment, half social sciences experiment. Most of this book is the hilarity that ensues as the merry trio test-drives a list of varied activities, trying to decide what which ones will become their family traditions.
By the end of the book though, there are a couple of realizations that come come out of the experience. One, family isn't necessarily defined as those one is biologically (or legally, such as in the case of marriage or adoption) connected to. Two, what makes a really special "tradition" isn't necessarily what you are doing or why, but who you are doing it with.
There is no suspenseful creepy happenings, and the hijinks are of the fun kind as opposed to the criminal kind. In that sense this is NOT the typical Rhys Ford book. What this book DOES have in common with the rest of Rhys' work though, is heart. It's a fun little romp of fly-on-the-wallness, watching a group of people coming together and finding what it takes to both make and be a family.
It was wonderful to revisit these guys from the previous stories without the same level of drama. We get more of Deacon's back story. But Zig is really the star of the story. I loved her presentation she made. They are such a beautiful family that has overcome so much.
Love this novella! A family that hasn't been a family for very long, figuring out what Christmas is for them, and what their traditions should be. Sometimes it's a little hard because life wasn't kind to them before they became a family, but they're figuring it out with Humour, friends, and graham crackers. A true Christmas story!


The bylanes around Yashraj Studios in Andheri gives you a laid-back feeling but inside those big gates, it's a whole new world. One of the busiest guys at this studio is senior sound engineer Shantanu Hudlikar.
Working for Yashraj Studios since 2005, Hudlikar has worked with the crème de la crème from the music industry. He has had the chance of working with globally-known artists such as Chaka Khan, composer Ilaiyaraaja, The Bombay Dub Orchestra, Deep Forest, Ranjit Barot, Indus Creed, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Vishal & Shekhar, Pritam and many more.
With a Master's degree in Bio Chemistry, this would be an odd place for a man like him.
"I was fed up with my academic research work with pharmaceutical companies. My friends who are currently the top professional musicians in the country urged me to pursue music. That was the beginning and I was lucky to have friends in the music business who ran studios and offered me a job," said Hudlikar.
Having started his musical career as a tea boy who ran errands, he became one of the most sought after sound engineers in the country.
"My journey in the music world is a philosophy. Times and circumstances change but the basic principal of why I got into this field has remained the same," he said.
Hudlikar has also worked with some of the finest names in advertising and film industry which include Highlight Films, Whitelight, Genesis, Yashraj Films, Dharma Productions, Excel Entertainment, Aamir Khan Productions and Vinod Chopra Productions.
Having completed close to 31 years in the profession, Hudlikar mastered the tricks of the trade while on the job and his work was recommended by his seniors.
"I don't know where these 30 years have gone because I love my work so much. I love being around music and musicians. What I have learnt from my seniors and mentors I have tried to pass on to the next generation, hopefully I can continue the tradition of uplifting the criteria and benchmark of sound in this country. That is my main aim," said the esteemed sound engineer.
Hudlikar is the sort of man who would not take his job for granted despite all the amount of work he has done. Spirituality and philosophy are two pillars of his life, the other two being dedication and of course, music. The man still walks into the studio each day as excited as his first day.
There is a rainy day after a sun kissed one, not every day at work would be a as good as he makes it sound.
"There have been difficult times when you have to work with sub-standard musicians. Music should not be a chore or a laborious effort. When it becomes that you either take a break and analyse that has it become so because of yourself or due to external forces," he added.
He also opined that if music makes you feel burdened, obviously then there is something wrong. One cannot keep blaming the world. We need to take responsibilities for all our actions. If you have erred, it is better to raise your hand and admit. Everybody makes mistakes. But the thing is not to repeat those mistakes.
With postivity as his biggest asset, Shantanu believes that every professional is as good as his last job and his next job should be better than his last. The time he finds a smile on the faces of the artistes and the 'powers to be', as he likes to address them, of the music industry is the award he works for. Being a true team man, he acknowledges the roles of every composer, musician, lyricist, producer and the arrangers. But most of them are unknown to the world outside the four walls of the studio. Though being a core component to the songs we sing or dance to, these names were and shall always be unknown to the people.
"We knew what we are getting into. We have chosen to be the backstreet, backstage and the behind the lines people. We may be behind the scenes but the 'powers to be' know that without us they won't be able to get anywhere. We take pride and comfort in that fact," he adds.
Well that is Gospel's truth because if wanted the limelight they would have taken up some other profession.
In his journey, as a sound engineer, Shantanu has witnessed a tidal change in the way music is made. Times and circumstances shall always change, but the basics are constant. Staying relevant is the game.
"When they say contemporary sound, it means sound of today. Good sound is good sound, whether it is made now or 100 years ago. It is just that people's taste seem to change." Shantanu states as a matter of fact.
We have straddled many eras, genres, forms, sounds and we seem to have hit a plateau where we have seen it all and now boredom has set in. If you recall the last 7-8 years of top genres across the world not just film music or any particular genre, every song sounds pretty much the same. There are exceptions but few and far in between. In the past, every now and then a great artist would come up. Now there is a void.
"Because they were all musicians. They were writing songs in their bedroom, garages or wherever they found a place. Today there are hardly any singer songwriters. There are 'hit-makers'. They select an artist and ask 10 songs to be written and make the artiste into a star but the artiste has not even written the songs. He doesn't know the soul of the song. It is same with Indian playback singing in Bollywood today," explains Shantanu.
When asked if this age call be called as 'producer's era' and not the 'composer's era', he had an interesting take.
"Definitely. The producers and arrangers do fancy things to cover the inadequacies of a bad song. In the end it is just mechanical, just some notes strung together and it becomes a song. Somebody has written the lyrics, someone has the melody and this is all alien to the person who is going to sing it. It comes out as fake and plastic," Hudlikar said bluntly.
This will and should change very soon because people have gotten wiser about this fact and are not really appreciating it. This might be the reason why audience now prefer attending live shows and not buy the music. Which is sad because they need to buy music. Only when they spend will the artists and musicians get a well-equipped studio to make the songs sound good. Music is meant for entertainment. This led us to the hottest form of music entertainment in the world right now, K-Pop.
"K-pop is great business model. They are giving entertainment and having fun doing so. They have learnt to remain relevant. If Metallica, The Rolling Stones, U2 and similar artistes can adapt themselves to the times and be relevant so can we," he said.
Adding "We were innovators at a time, why can't we be now when we have the world at our feet right now." Well, not many would disagree with him. The music industry needs to increase its benchmark because India is not our benchmark anymore. Now our benchmark has been set globally, thanks to the world wide web feels Shantanu.
A question had been bugging mew throughout the interaction. In the past, there was thing termed as the 'second album curse'. Any artist with a great debut album was faced with a massive expectation for the follow up album. Not many survived this curse. Now is the time of singles and not albums. When asked about the 'second album curse' is now the 'second single curse'?
"Good question." smiles the philosophical bio chemist. "My problem is not the second single, mine is the first," he signs off.


Suzuki Australia is pleased to announce the arrival of the latest version of its automatic touring cycle masterpiece - the 2014 Burgman 650.
The 2007-model of Suzuki's popular Burgman 650 maxi-scooter is now available in Australia.
Suzuki Australia today announced the local launch the world's biggest super-scooter, the Burgman 650.


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Regional Israel, Queens Museum Agree on Event to Mark 1947 U.N. Vote
Israel, Queens Museum Agree on Event to Mark 1947 U.N. Vote
Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 2:58 pm | כ"ה אב תשע"ז
NEW YORK (AP) -
(Queens Museum)
Israel and a New York City museum have made peace after an event marking the 70th anniversary of the nation's founding was canceled, then reinstated.
Statements from the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and the Queens Museum both say a ceremony will be held on Nov. 29.
Prior to becoming a museum, the site was the temporary home to the United Nations General Assembly. A U.N. vote there in 1947 recommended establishing the state of Israel.
The Israelis and the museum agreed on the celebration in June. But Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the U.N., said museum officials later reneged, citing feedback from Palestinian supporters.
Following an outcry, the museum said in a statement on Thursday that the proposed commemoration of the 1947 vote is back on.
Queens Museum, Site of Historic Vote on Israel, Joins BDS
Israel Slams UNESCO Vote That Calls It 'Occupying Power'
Israel Cuts $6M in U.N. Funding Over Anti-Israel Resolution
Knesset Honors Guatemala for Role in 1947 U.N. Partition Vote
Report: U.N. Ambassador Danon Was in Dubai


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using testing::_;
using testing::NiceMock;
using testing::Return;

namespace Envoy {
namespace Extensions {
namespace Tracers {
namespace Datadog {
namespace {

TEST(DatadogTracerConfigTest, DatadogHttpTracer) {
  NiceMock<Server::MockInstance> server;
  EXPECT_CALL(server.cluster_manager_, get("fake_cluster"))
      .WillRepeatedly(Return(&server.cluster_manager_.thread_local_cluster_));
  ON_CALL(*server.cluster_manager_.thread_local_cluster_.cluster_.info_, features())
      .WillByDefault(Return(Upstream::ClusterInfo::Features::HTTP2));

  const std::string yaml_string = R"EOF(
  http:
    name: envoy.tracers.datadog
    config:
      collector_cluster: fake_cluster
      service_name: fake_file
   )EOF";
  envoy::config::trace::v2::Tracing configuration;
  MessageUtil::loadFromYaml(yaml_string, configuration);

  DatadogTracerFactory factory;
  auto message = Config::Utility::translateToFactoryConfig(configuration.http(), factory);
  Tracing::HttpTracerPtr datadog_tracer = factory.createHttpTracer(*message, server);
  EXPECT_NE(nullptr, datadog_tracer);
}

} // namespace
} // namespace Datadog
} // namespace Tracers
} // namespace Extensions
} // namespace Envoy

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Microsoft had to find a way to convince enterprise users that updating their machines regularly and applying all those "annoying" patches is a good idea. VMG is never daunted by the impossible. We created a series of animated videos that easily explains why you should install recommended updates … and like it.


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Gun Violence, Stigma, and Mental Illness: Clinical Implications
Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD
Psychiatric Times, Vol 32 No 3, Volume 32, Issue 3
This review critically addresses 4 central assumptions that underlie many US political and popular associations between gun violence and mental illness.
New legislation in a number of states requires mental health professionals to assess their patients for the potential to commit gun crimes. For instance, New York state law mandates that mental health professionals report anyone who "is likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others" to the state's Division of Criminal Justice Services, which then alerts local authorities to revoke the person's firearms license and confiscate his or her weapons. Similarly, a recently passed bill in Tennessee requires mental health professionals to report "threatening patients" to local law enforcement.
Supporters of these types of laws argue that they provide important tools for law enforcement officials to identify potentially violent persons-and understandably so. US policymakers and the general public look to psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, and related disciplines as sources of certainty in the face of the often incomprehensible terror and loss that gun violence inevitably produces. And to be sure, persons with mental illness who have shown violent tendencies should not have access to weapons that could be used to harm themselves or others.
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Our review critically addresses 4 central assumptions that underlie many US political and popular associations between gun violence and mental illness:
• That mental illness causes gun violence
• That psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime before it happens
• That US mass shootings teach us to fear mentally ill loners
• That because of the complex psychiatric histories of mass shooters, gun control "won't prevent" another Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, or Navy Yard
Each of these statements is certainly true in particular instances. At the same time, our research shows how these seemingly self-evident assumptions are replete with complicated and at times contradictory assumptions. At the aggregate level, the notion that mental illness causes gun violence stereotypes a diverse population of persons with psychiatric conditions and oversimplifies links between violence and mental illness. Moreover, notions of mental illness that emerge in relation to gun violence frequently reflect larger cultural issues that become obscured when mass shootings come to stand for all gun crime and when "mentally ill" ceases to be a medical designation and becomes a sign of violent threat.
Our research also shows how anxieties about insanity and gun violence are imbued with often unspoken anxieties about race, politics, and the unequal distribution of violence in American society. In the current American landscape, these tensions play out most clearly in differing cultural responses to, for instance, high-profile shootings in places like Newtown (where headlines located pathology in the perpetrator's brain) and New York City (where news commentators wondered whether murderous actions were motivated by "black politics."5)
Our analysis suggests that similar, if less overt, tensions suffuse discourses linking guns and mental illness more broadly, in ways that subtly connect "insane" gun crimes with often unspoken assumptions about "white" individualism or "black" communal aggression.
Ultimately, our research challenges psychiatry to think deeply about potentially untenable situations in which mental health practitioners become the persons most empowered to make decisions about gun ownership-and most liable for failures to predict gun violence-if these situations are not accompanied by larger reforms that address the social, structural, and indeed psychological implications of gun violence in the US.
Our findings appear in the February 2015 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.1 By way of a summary, the following 4 assumptions are examined.
Assumption 1: mental illness causes gun violence
The focus on mental illness in the wake of recent mass shootings in the US reflects a decades-long history of psychiatric and legal debates about guns, gun violence, and mental competence. Psychiatric articles in the 1960s deliberated ways to assess whether mental patients were "of sound mind enough" to possess firearms.6 Following the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School, psychiatrist Peter Breggin decried the toxic combination of mental illness, guns, and psychotropic medications that contributed to the perpetrators' actions. After the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey claimed that "about half of . . . mass killings are being done by people with severe mental illness, mostly schizophrenia, and if they were being treated they would have been preventable."7
Yet surprisingly little population-level evidence supports the notion that individuals with mental illness are more likely than anyone else to commit gun crimes. According to psychiatrist Paul Appelbaum,8 fewer than 3% to 5% of American crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of crimes that involve guns are lower than the national average for persons without a diagnosis of mental illness. Databases that track gun homicides, such as the National Center for Health Statistics, similarly show that fewer than 5% of the 120,000 gun-related killings in the US between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people with mental illness.9
Moreover, a growing body of research suggests that mass shootings represent anecdotal distortions of, rather than representations of, the actions of "mentally ill" people as an aggregate group. By most estimates, there were fewer than 100 mass shootings reported in the US-defined as crimes "when four or more people are shot in an event, or related series of events"-between 1982 and 2012.10 Rates of reported mass shootings rose in 2013 and 2014.
Scholars who study violence prevention contend that mass shootings occur far too infrequently to allow for statistical modeling and predictability-factors that lie at the heart of effective public health interventions. Psychologist Jeffrey Swanson11 argues that mass shootings denote "rare acts of violence" that have little predictive or preventive validity in relation to the bigger picture of the 32,000 fatalities and 74,000 injuries caused on average by gun violence and gun suicide each year in the US.
Links between mental illness and other types of violence are similarly contentious among researchers who study such trends. Study findings suggest that subgroups of persons with severe or untreated mental illness might be at increased risk for violence during periods surrounding psychotic episodes or psychiatric hospitalizations.12 At the same time, a number of seminal studies asserting links between violence and mental illness have been critiqued for overstating connections between serious mental illness and violent acts.13
Media reports often assume a binary between mild and severe mental illness, and they connect the latter form to unpredictability and lack of self-control. However, this distinction is called into question by mental health research. To be sure, a number of the most common psychiatric diagnoses, including depressive, anxiety, and attention-deficit disorders, have no correlation with violence whatsoever. Community studies find that serious mental illness without substance abuse is also "statistically unrelated" to community violence. At the aggregate level, the vast majority of people with psychiatric disorders do not commit violent acts-only about 4% of violence in the US is attributable to persons with mental illness.14
This is not to suggest that researchers know nothing about predictive factors for gun violence. However, credible studies suggest that a number of risk factors more strongly correlate with gun violence than mental illness alone. For instance, alcohol and drug use increase the risk of violent crime by as much as 7-fold, even among persons with no history of mental illness-a concerning statistic in the face of recent legislation that allows persons in certain states to bring loaded handguns into bars and nightclubs. According to Van Dorn and colleagues,15 male sex and a history of childhood abuse and binge drinking are all predictive risk factors for serious violence. Belying Lott's16 argument that "more guns" lead to "less crime," Miller and colleagues17 found that homicide was more common in areas in which household firearms ownership was higher. The rate of interpersonal conflicts resolved by fatal shootings jumped by 200% after Florida passed "stand your ground" in 2005.18 The availability of guns is also considered a more predictive factor than is psychiatric diagnosis in many of the 19,000 completed suicides by gun each year in the US.
Some persons with mental illness undoubtedly commit violent acts. Yet growing evidence suggests that mass shootings on which gun legislation is often based represent statistical aberrations that reveal more about particularly horrible instances than they do about population-level events. To use Swanson's11 phrasing, basing gun-crime prevention efforts on the mental health histories of mass shooters risks building "common evidence" from "uncommon things." This type of approach loses the opportunity to build common evidence from common things-such as the types of evidence that clinicians of many medical specialties might catalogue, in alliance with communities, about substance abuse, domestic violence, availability of firearms, suicidality, social networks, economic stress, and other factors.
Assumption 2: psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime before it happens
Legislation in a number of states mandates that psychiatrists assess their patients for the potential to commit violent gun crime. History suggests, however, that psychiatrists are inefficient gatekeepers in this regard. Data that support the predictive value of psychiatric diagnosis in matters of gun violence are thin at best. Psychiatric diagnosis is largely an observational tool, not an extrapolative one. Largely for this reason, research dating back to the 1970s suggests that psychiatrists using clinical judgment have difficulty in predicting which patients will commit a violent crime.
The lack of prognostic specificity is in large part a matter of simple math. Psychiatric diagnosis is in and of itself not predictive of violence, and the overwhelming majority of psychiatric patients do not commit crimes.
In this sense, population-based literature on guns and mental illness suggests that legislatures risk drawing the wrong lessons from gun crimes and mass shootings if their responses focus on asking psychiatrists to predict future events. Although rooted in valid concerns about public safety, legislation that expands mental health criteria for revoking gun rights puts psychiatrists in potentially untenable positions, not because they are poor judges of character, but because the urgent political and social conditions psychiatrists are asked to diagnose are at times at odds with the capabilities of their diagnostic tools and prognostic technologies.
Assumption 3: look out for dangerous loners
Mass shootings in the US are often framed as the work of loners-unstable, angry white men who never should have had access to firearms.19 "Gunman a Loner Who Felt No Pain" read a headline in the wake of the Newtown shooting. And to be sure, a number of other recent shooters undoubtedly led troubled, solitary lives.
It is important to note, however, that the seemingly self-evident images of the mentally disturbed, gun-obsessed, white male loner are relatively recent phenomena. In the 1960s and 1970s, by contrast, many of the men labeled as violent and mentally ill were also, it turned out, African American. And, when the potential assailants were black, American psychiatric and popular culture frequently blamed "black culture" or black activist politics-not individual, lone shooters-for the threats such men were imagined to pose.2
For instance, anxieties about race and politics shaped many 1960s-era American political associations between schizophrenia and gun violence. FBI profilers spuriously gave diagnoses of militant forms of schizophrenia to many "pro-gun" black political leaders as a way of highlighting the insanity of their political activism. According to declassified documents, the FBI diagnosed "pre-psychotic paranoid schizophrenia" in Malcolm X while highlighting his attempts to obtain firearms and his "plots" to overthrow the government.2 The FBI also gave Robert Williams, the head of the Monroe, North Carolina, chapter of the NAACP, the diagnosis of "schizophrenic, armed, and dangerous" during his flight from trumped-up gun charges in the early 1960s.20 Malcolm X, Robert Williams, and other leaders of African American political groups were far from schizophrenic. But fears about their political sentiments, guns, and sanity mobilized substantial response.
During this era, US psychiatry also spoke out in favor of gun control-articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry urged psychiatrists to address "the urgent social issue" of firearms in response to "the threat of civil disorder"-while Congress began serious debate about gun control legislation leading to the Gun Control Act of 1968.6
Recent history suggests that cultural politics underlie anxieties about whether guns and mental illness represent individual or communal etiologies. In the 1960s and 1970s, widespread concerns about black "cultural" and political violence fomented calls for widespread reforms in gun ownership. As this played out, politicians, FBI profilers, and psychiatric authors argued for the right to use mental health criteria to limit gun access. However, in the present day, the actions of "lone" white male shooters go hand in hand with calls to expand gun rights, or limit gun rights only for the severely mentally ill. Indeed it would seem political suicide for a legislator or doctor to hint at restricting the gun rights of white Americans, private citizens, or men, although these groups are frequently linked to high-profile mass shootings.21
Assumption 4: gun control "won't prevent" another Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, or Navy Yard
The mantra that gun control "would not have prevented Newtown" is frequently cited by opponents of such efforts. This contention generally assumes that because none of the recent mass shooters in Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, or Isla Vista used weapons purchased through unregulated private sale or gun shows, gun control in itself would be ineffective in stopping gun crime, and that gun purchase restrictions or background checks are in any case rendered moot when shooters have mental illness.
No one wants another tragedy like Newtown-on this point all sides of the gun debate agree. Moreover, it is widely acknowledged by persons on all sides of that debate that there is no guarantee that the types of restrictions voted down by the US Senate in April 2013, based largely on background checks, would prevent the next mass crime. Yet, as discussed above, many scholars who study violence prevention hold that mass shootings occur too infrequently to allow for statistical modeling, and as such serve as poor jumping off points for effective public health interventions.
The focus on individual crimes or the psychologies of individual shooters obfuscates attention to community-level everyday violence and the widespread symptoms produced by living in an environment engulfed by fear of guns and shootings. Far from the national glare, this everyday violence disproportionally affects lower-income areas and communities of color, and is held to be the cause of widespread anxiety disorders and traumatic stress symptoms as a result.22
Given this terrain, it is increasingly the case that when violence prevention experts talk about ebbing gun crime linked to mental illness, they do not mean that mental health practitioners will avert the next random act of violence such as Newtown, although of course stopping mass crime remains a vital goal. Instead, they contend that the insanity of urban gun violence all too often reflects the larger madness of not investing more resources to support social and economic infrastructures and support systems.
Conclusion: implications for clinicians
Questioning the associations between guns and mental illness in no way detracts from the dire need to stem gun crime. Yet as the fractious US debate about gun rights plays out in ever-more divisive ways, it seems incumbent to find common ground beyond assumptions about whether particular assailants meet criteria for specific mental illnesses, or whether mental health experts can predict violence before it occurs. Of course, understanding a person's mental state is vital to understanding his actions. At the same time, our research suggests that focusing legislative policy and popular discourse so centrally on mental illness is rife with potential problems if, as seems increasingly the case, those policies are not embedded in larger societal strategies and structural-level interventions.
Research also suggests that agendas that hold mental health workers accountable for identifying dangerous assailants puts these workers in potentially untenable positions because the legal duties they are asked to perform misalign with the predictive value of their expertise. In this sense, instead of accepting the expanded authority provided by current gun legislation, mental health workers and organizations might be bet-ter served by identifying and promoting areas of common cause between clinic and community, or between the social/community and psychological/individual dimensions of gun violence.23
Connections between loaded handguns and alcohol; the mental health effects of gun violence in low-income communities; or the relationships between gun violence and family, social, or socioeconomic net- works are but a few of the topics in which mental health expertise might productively join community and legislative discourses to promote more effective medical and moral arguments for sensible gun policy than currently arise amongst the partisan rancor.
Put another way, perhaps psychiatric expertise might be put to better use by enhancing understanding of the complex anxieties, social and economic formations, and blind assumptions that make people fear each other in the first place. Psychiatry could help society interrogate what guns mean to everyday people, and why people feel they need guns or reject guns out of hand. By addressing gun discord as symptomatic of deeper concerns, psychiatry could, ideally, promote more meaningful public conversations about the impact of guns on civic life. And, it could join with public health researchers, community activists, law enforcement officers, or business leaders to identify, promote meaningful conversation about, and empathically address the underlying structural and infrastructural issues that foster real or imagined notions of mortal fear in our minds, our streets, and our society.
Dr Metzl is Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society; Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society; and Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He reports no conflicts of interest concerning the subject matter of this article.
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