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Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor's "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" makes a strong impression for a directorial debut.
By Thomas Manning on March 26, 2019 • ( 2 )
Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor makes his screenwriting and directorial debut with The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, based on the autobiographical book from William Kamkwamba. Detailing the remarkable story of a young man in an extremely poverty-stricken region of Malawi on the continent of Africa, this narrative follows William (Maxwell Simba) as he overcomes starvation, lack of education, a tumultuous family life, and every other obstacle imaginable for a child living in a third-world country.
Maxwell Simba as William Kamkwamba in THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND.
In this particular region of Africa, the seasons alternate between periods of abundant rain and flooding, and those of severe drought and dryness. In the year of 2001, there is a notably difficult cycle lacking rain and precipitation which results in widespread hunger, as the crops are impacted. The people of Malawi are totally on their own, as the government in the country is riddled with corruption and malfeasance, and the worldwide economy takes a massive hit with the tragic September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Neighbors and friends in the region become thieves and swindlers, for the sole purpose of survival. Families are torn apart from their very cores. In the midst of this inconceivably horrendous situation, young William Kamkwamba moves forward with unbelievable determination, resolve, and wisdom. Making do with limited resources from junk piles and the surrounding environment, the young boy recognizes that there may yet be a solution to this famine by means of renewable energy. Although there is no natural rainwater to be found, the power found in the strong winds of the region can possibly be utilized as a means of pumping water from deep within the water wells of the village. The ingenuity and cleverness that William displays is truly magnificent.
Maxwell Simba produces a stellar performance in his feature film debut, showcasing all of the incredible qualities found in this young boy. Through his portrayal, the audience gains a glimpse into the brilliance, compassion, and courage of the child, while they are also reminded, consistently, that he is indeed an innocent juvenile who lacks true experience and knowledge of many of the world's cruder elements. William's father, Trywell Kamkwamba (Ejiofor), approaches the famine and its associated issues with a straightforward, "tough-it-out" approach. He believes that physical strength and sheer will can solve the problems. This stark contrast in ideals from William and his father leads to the development of dangerous friction in their relationship, as well as a hindrance in William's progress on his special project. This challenging family dynamic ensures still another speed bump on William's road to the objective of ending the village's hunger.
L-R: Maxwell Simba as William Kamkwamba, Lilly Banda as Annie Kamkwamba, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Trywell Kamkwamba, and Aïssa Maïga as Agnes Kamkwamba in THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND.
Audience members from all walks of life can surely be touched by the essence of this narrative's themes. Chances are, if the audience gets the opportunity to watch this film through Netflix, it probably comes from a relatively stable socio-economic situation. The ability to engage in entertainment, such as this film, at one's fingertips is definitely not a privilege that other people around the world possess. A viewer may watch this film and recognize that they are sitting at home comfortably on their couch, feeling deeply impacted by the emotion of this story. Just imagine how exponentially greater the emotion is of those actually experiencing the hardships in real life. Audience members can have their eyes opened to the ever-present societal issues that are faced by the less-fortunate around the world. Better still, they may even be motivated and convicted to approach these problems with direct intention and proactivity. While they cannot solve these deeply-rooted complications by themselves, they can do their own part on a smaller scale, through programs such as food drives, or even donations to charitable organizations focused on fighting world hunger.
L-R: Chiwetel Ejiofor as Trywell Kamkwamba and Maxwell Simba as William Kamkwamba in THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND.
Examining some of the technical elements that make the dynamics of this film all the more palpable and effective, everything blends together beautifully to produce a gorgeous aesthetic and engrossing movie-watching experience. The stellar cinematography from Dick Pope incorporates everything from sweeping scene-setting shots, to intimate, personal, emotionally-poignant close-ups. The exceptional sound design offers an immersive glimpse into the plains of Malawi, ranging from the power of overwhelming floods during the rainy season to the strong winds rustling the dry brush in the worst of the drought. All of the sounds from the birds and other creatures of the wilderness provide foundational ambiance and depth to this audible design as well. Antonio Pinto's versatile score, equal parts majestic and tribal, is everything one would expect in this style of narrative. The art direction (João Bueno), production design/set decoration, and costume design (Bia Salgado) are masterfully handled, breathing life and realism into the Malawi villages and African environment. Film Editor Valerio Bonelli provides a smooth stability to the story's flow, neatly tying all of the other technical aspects together.
L-R: Aïssa Maïga as Agnes Kamkwamba, Lilly Banda as Annie Kamkwamba, Maxwell Simba as William Kamkwamba, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Trywell Kamkwamba in THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND.
Ejiofor's talents as an actor have never been in question, but his debut as a director and screenwriter has displayed the incredible diversity of his chops in the filmmaking industry. Although he's spent most of his career in front of the camera, do not be surprised to see more projects down the line with Ejiofor at the helm behind the scenes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is likely only the first step into a wider world for him as a writer and director.
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A SENIOR police officer has been stabbed while trying to disarm a knife-wielding man in Western Australia.
The 46-year-old man was allegedly armed with several knives and had reportedly been threatening to harm himself outside the Gosnells Police Station, off the Albany Highway in Perth's southeast around 3am on Friday.
Officers tried to talk the man into dropping the weapons however he refused to surrender and instead allegedly lunged at them with the knives.
Police tasered the agitated assailant and moved in to try and disarm him when the Sergeant from the South East Metropolitan Response unit was knifed.
In a statement, WA Police said the Sergeant suffered a serious stab wound to his lower leg. It's understood the blade went all the way through the officer's calf muscle.
He was rushed to Armadale Hospital where he was treated and received several stitches to close the wound.
"He has since been released from hospital and while being in pain is in good spirits at home with his family," police said in a statement.
"The Sergeant has thanked the officers who assisted him this morning for their professionalism. He will require ongoing medical treatment and will be given the full support of the WA Police."
The Sergeant's attacker was arrested at the scene and has since been charged with one count each of going armed in public as to cause fear and unlawful wounding.
The Maddington man will appear before Northbridge Magistrates Court on Saturday, May 20.
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The SRDG is an annual program at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Professor Perez and up to twelve students will meet six times during the academic year (fall and winter terms), over dinner from the Marketplace provided by SOAN. For an hour, the group will have an informal conversation about a book designated in advance. The goal is to provide students an opportunity to connect with each other and faculty, read books with a social science perspective in mind, and further develop their analytical skills.
The theme for the 2021/2022 academic year is "Graphic Novels and Social Criticism."
Students can apply to be a fellow by completing the brief questionnaire at the bottom of this page. The deadline for applications is July 15th, 2021. Decisions about admission to the group will be announced shortly after that date.
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Long downplayed as a minor fictional genre, in the past few decades comics have gained much-deserved recognition as tools to explore complex social problems. In particular, the combination of visual arts, powerful narratives, and compelling testimonies have allowed cartoonists to examine some of the most consequential events in recent history. The third cohort of fellows in the Social Research and Discussion Group will read leading cases of historical graphic novels.
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Hello, I'm a freelance illustrator based in the UK.
I was born in London, and started out in illustration with work for fantasy & horror small press magazines in the '80s, in particular the H.P. Lovecraft-devoted Dagon. My first professional commissions came from Games Workshop for their magazine White Dwarf, and this began a long relationship with the company, illustrating lots of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay publications and the very first Warhammer 40,000 book, as well as many other GW books and boardgames. I've also done game-related material for other publishers, including covers and internal illustrations for twenty-two (I think) of the Fighting Fantasy series from Puffin Books/Wizard Books, and card art for Magic: The Gathering from Wizards of the Coast.
I've also produced artwork for various publishers around the world including Scholastic, Time-Warner, HarperCollins and Oxford University Press, illustrating popular authors such as Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist and Harry Turtledove, as well as some classics including Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and The Silver Sword. I was fortunate enough to receive the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist.
I illustrated the book accompanying the album release of Misterstourworm & the Kelpie's Gift, an orchestral work based on stories and characters from Scottish legend. My artwork was used as large-scale backdrops for live performances of the work by The Orchestra of Scottish Opera, with narration by Lord of the Rings actor Billy Boyd.
As an author, I've written some books about digital art including Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop and Digital Horror Art, and edited Fantasy Art Now published by Collins. In addition to work in publishing, I occasionally do concept and production art for computer games (following two years as an in-house artist at Eidos Interactive), and film and television productions which have included the BAFTA-nominated The Magician of Samarkand for the BBC, and most recently Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Fox.
Currently: October 2015: My latest picture book The Crocodolly was published in hardback by Scholastic last month, and is available in Australia, New Zealand, and soon to be released throughout Asia in English, also with a translation into Chinese. The Crocodolly is something of a companion to my earlier picture book The Octopuppy which has been doing pretty well internationally -- more info at www.theoctopuppy.com Right now I'm working on my next picture book; so most of my energies have been directed towards my books for children. But I've also just finished another album cover for Axel Rudi Pell, which is the fifth sleeve I've done for his records. I've also been doing a little bit of work on the Game of Thrones computer game.
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As there's been some interest in this lately, I thought I'd present my old artwork for Fighting Fantasy books that ran up against editorial issues at the time. An anomaly for children's publisher Puffin, the 'grittier' FF stuff inevitably caused them problems.
Dead of Night (1989). Two filler illustrations that went unused. In the '80s & '90s the editors at Puffin were very sensitive about the inclusion of any religious iconography, so how I was briefed to do these in the first place I'm not sure now, but due to the crucifixes they had to go.
Moonrunner (1991). These hanging corpses had to be trimmed so less of their bodies were visible. I remember the scene was referred to as being "too morbid". In the olden days before easy digital editing it was a bit of a bugger, but I drew an extention to the picture at the bottom so that it could be cropped at the top. The scan on the left shows the original drawing; the central scan shows the extended section with my crop marks near the top; and on the right the picture as it appeared in print. As a result, thank goodness we now have less dead leg and a better view of the legs of the fascinating bench.
Revenge of the Vampire (1995). I remember the editor at Puffin at the time, Richard Scrivener, phoning me to tell me we couldn't have blood on breasts. Rather than go to the trouble of posting the original back to me for adjustment, he realised he had a bottle of Tipp-Ex next to him so he decided to deal with the problem himself while he was on the phone. An example of the power exerted by a thrusting and dynamic publishing executive in action; his rise to the top unassailable. As you can see, he daubed over the worst of the boob rivulets and the curve of flesh, and raised the neckline using black felt tip (I could almost hear his tongue poking out in concentration over the phone as he worked). This is how it appeared in print, but more recently I reinstated these forbidden details digitally, as you can see on the right. An uncensored print is available here, kids.
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Forests Ontario Receives Support for Flagship Tree Planting Program
Toronto, ON (December 3, 2019) - Forests Ontario announced new support for its 50 Million Tree Program (50 MTP) today. The 50 MTP is a large-scale tree planting program for property owners with the goal of increasing forest cover in Ontario.
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Twitter user @muffinista has created @wayback_exe, a bot that posts images of early web pages, taken from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
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Historians have already noted that the last traces of the early web are disappearing at a fantastic rate, despite the work of groups such as the Internet Archive. Even award-winning digital reportage produced by news organisations has struggled to stay online, while the ephemeral details of ordinary lives, hobbies and pets that once lived on free web space providers such as GeoCities, Angelfire and Tripod are either long gone or have been abandoned by creators who've forgotten that they ever existed.
The Internet Archive's own Wayback Machine FAQ captures a snapshot of the past, telling us that "the original idea for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine began in 1996, when the Internet Archive first began archiving the web. Now, five years later, with over 100 terabytes and a dozen web crawls completed, the Internet Archive has made the Internet Archive Wayback Machine available to the public."
By July this year, the Wayback Machine contained 23 petabytes of data and was growing by 50-60 terabytes every week. "This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress," the group now states.
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Dani Laidley sues Victoria Police
Dani Laidley is suing Victoria Police over leaked photos of her while in custody last year, claiming they breached a duty of care.
Ms Laidley's legal team alleges the distribution of a mugshot and another of her in an interview room subjected her to "humiliation and ridicule".
In a document released by the Supreme Court of Victoria today, it is alleged Detective Senior Constable Murray Gentner distributed the first photo of Ms Laidley to a WhatsApp Group called the "SD1 Gentleman's Club which comprised approximately nine police officers."
Dani Laidley is suing Victoria Police over leaked photos of her while in custody last year, claiming they breached a duty of care. (Nine)
Ms Laidley's lawyers are accusing the police officers involved of using derogatory language while spreading the images across social media, which ultimately lead to her credit and reputation being brought into public ridicule.
The writ also names Senior Constable Shane Reid, who allegedly showed the photo taken in an interview room of Ms Laidley and allowed a third unnamed officer to make a copy.
"Publication of the first and second photographs and the words by Gentner, Reid, Hall and other police officers whose identities are presently unknown to the plaintiff was actuated by malice," the document states.
Court documents also allege that police officer David Hall sent photos to two other people which were then published on social media.
The 54-year old is suing the state government for aggravated and exemplary compensation.
Three police officers are currently facing criminal charges, while 36 more have faced internal disciplinary action.
Within hours, her mugshot was shared widely on social media, along with a photo taken inside the police station of Laidley inside an interview room.
Dozens of police officers and public servants have faced internal disciplinary action as a result of alleged privacy breach.
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So, what is the 'Ultimate' car? Well, surprisingly it's fairly easy to define, on paper at least, because technology is driven by desire. Our desire to go faster means that the machines performance will ultimately be limited, not by technology, but by what us humans can cope with. We already have 1000 bhp road cars, and drag racers are running over 8000bhp and doing 0-100 mph in 0.3 of a second, so soon there will be more power available than you could ever cope with.
Looking deep into my industrial strength yet slightly dented and oily crystal ball 70 years ahead into the year 2079, where very little of today's way of life will exist; All cars have a fully automatic robot driver mode and most countries have put a ban on people driving cars themselves. This may sound extreme but in a world where there is no road rage, no speeding and no tragic lapses of concentration all those thousand of lives that are annually lost are now saved, plus with more economical driving, and electronically interlinked vehicles negating the need for delays at traffic lights the efficiency and emissions gains are utterly compelling. But for a special one off article we find our fictional road tester, Figaro Flashbgure – the only person left who knows how to drive, has just been given permission to drive the latest supercar from the last independent car manufacturer in the world (naturally this will be Morgan) on the last road in the world where you are allowed to drive manually (naturally this will be the Isle of Man).
As Figaro approaches the car it recognises him, the aperture opens and the seat swings out of the car and is presented to him – as he sits down the seat and aperture slide back into place, leaving no evidence of shut lines, and the seat gently folds around him.
Inside the cabin there are two hand grips, but they are just to hold on to much like on a roller coaster, there are no visible instruments or controls. Instead the car transmits options directly into his brain, which appear as if on an inbuilt head up display. This is the same technology most people will have so they can seamlessly play their music, watch films, surf the web and be part of a totally connected world. Figaro selects the 'lets just go for a drive' fully automatic option and the car sets off, with a computer generated soundtrack specifically calculated to set Figaro's senses tingling.
Turning out into the road, the windscreen dims a little to prevent glare, our man selects the old TT route and sets the desired speed as 'as fast as possible', which is a balance of what is physically possible and safety limits, so through the historic narrow town streets turns out to be well below 20 mph.
But once out in the hills, the car detects that there is no traffic for miles, linked into all the roadside cameras it can see round bends and see there are no dangers, and then gives it the absolute maximum attack, the total traction system delivers over 10000 bhp sling-shotting the car with a force that nearly causes Figaro to black out, as nausea builds and is detected, the car mercifully eases off. The first corner leaps into view at terrifying speed, seemingly too late the system slashes 100 mph off the speed and throws our man harshly forward, thankfully the adaptive seat firmly holds him.
The car plunges into the corner, still blindingly fast, and the seat adapts again as he is thrust hard against the side, the car calculates the maximum force he can take whilst balancing the force delivery to push the car round the corner in perfect control. The corner has come and gone in a fraction of a second, leaving no time for his brain to come to terms with it all.
The scenery is blurred by the mixture of speeds well above 300 mph and the effect the G forces are having on his brain, looking through the windscreen is like watching a film of the TT race on fast forward. Soon our man has had enough and selects cruise mode, the speed tumbles and the seat releases its vice like grip, peace is restored and the car wafts effortlessly back into town.
After a brief stop at the café to recover, its time to head out again and sample 'manual' mode. He settles in and the car gives him a cursor which he simply places on the road indicating roughly where he wants to go, placing it close to the front of the car makes it over sensitive and twitchy, constantly reacting to his small inputs, but placing the cursor further up ahead allows the car to work out the best way of getting there and things smooth out.
He now controls the speed, and as a hump back bridge looms our man really goes for it. The compression as the car goes up pushes him down very hard, the seat grips his legs to force blood up to his brain, much like present day fighter pilots G suits. At the crest, the car pulls strong negative G, flinging Figaro upwards and his stomach threatens to come out of his mouth.
A corner allows him to see how much braking force he can cope with before powering out riding a tidal wave of thrust, sending him dizzy.
After a few minutes of high speed body abuse, our man is badly fatigued from the high G forces sheer concentration. So once again he selects cruise mode, and nearly passes out with relief as calm is restored, and the ultimate test drive comes to an end.
So there will never be a car with higher performance, not until there are better humans who can take higher G forces. Truly the Ultimate car.
Seat adapts to support the driver when generating huge G forces, left, right, braking and acceleration, before reverting to comfort mode when cruising.
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Mind control does away with the need for controls and instruments, making the cabin more spacious and safer. Just looking at where you want to go tells the car where to steer. Most people in this year have tiny implants to connect to the internet, sound systems and most domestic devices. But even without that, Honda have already demonstrated an electric wheel chair controlled by thought.
Wheels are still hard to beat, but these tyres are based on the same principle that Geckos use to cling on to walls, covered in microscopic hairs they look fuzzy, slightly flat and never wear down. They bind with the road surface allowing negative G over hump back bridges. Info from the hair sensors feeds back to the computer telling how the road surface 'feels' and precisely how much grip is available.
Active suspension allows the computer to simulate any desired handling characteristic, if you want it to feel like an Allegro then just select the option for a nostalgia trip, or select max to explore the limits of physics.
To generate over 5G of acceleration the electric powertrain is capable of delivering well over 10000 bhp. Each wheel is a motor, delivering total control of power delivery to each wheel for the maximum traction physically possible. Biasing the torque left and right delivers power steering effect and yaw control.
Fuel is a thing of the past, the battery is also the vehicle structure, providing strength as well as power, and this combined with the wheel motors means that all the space in the car is available for occupants or luggage, no engines, radiators, drive shafts or gearboxes cluttering up the space.
The outer body also acts as a solar cell generating all of the car's normal requirement of energy.
Brake discs are a thing of the past, the motors can haul the car to a perfectly controlled stop as quickly as the tyres and road can allow. Back in our present day drag racers suffer from the hard deceleration of deploying parachutes at over 300mph, some suffering from retinas detaching, but our car of the future doesn't brake quite that hard in order to save our man's eyes.
Steering is on all four wheels and adjusts for stability at high speed and manoeuvrability at low speeds, when parking it can crab sideways. Torque biasing on each wheel gives power steering effect and high degree of yaw control. Running wheels on one side backwards when parking allows the car to turn on the spot.
Sound is an integral part of a thrilling drive, a screaming race engine can spur you on to drive faster, and a gentle wafting luxury motor can sooth you into driving more gently. As the drive motors make very little noise, a computer generates a synthesised soundtrack to suit the mood. Sound is also broadcast outside to alert pedestrians and animals to the oncoming car.
Instead of an accelerator pedal he can simply will the car to go at any speed, but the car will still not enter a corner too fast or pile into oncoming traffic and so gives a safe operational envelope within which to play and explore the cars awesome capability.
The car communicates with other traffic and mingles effortlessly in total safety, if a kid runs out in front of a car up ahead the whole line of cars slows in unison, preserving safe distances. Ground penetrating radar and other sensors detect the road surface ahead, so the car is constantly 'aware' of all the potential dangers around it.
This article was originally written in 2000, then updated for Evo in '09, and finally taken from the fridge and reheated for this blog '10.


We've recently installed/setup navision on the cloud through a partner and everything is working fine apart from the send to excel feature!
Our setup uses Office 365 for Office suite licenses and we have computers joined to a domain and some not. We also use navision user/password for authentication.
I did manage to solve it for an hour or so, I updated excel/office suite, and then I was prompted with the typical prompt of opening the excel sheet from navision.
However it stopped working again and I've found no way to make it work..
The error image is not visible... can you post it again?
have you solved your problem? I think we have the same Problem.
Yes, I disabled the navision add-in from Excel. That seemed to have fixed it and nobody complained.
If I understand you correctly, you have "solved" the problem by disabling the functionality and exporting to Excel is no longer available.
Or does the Export to Excel work through the Action?
Yep, I disabled the add-in from excel, however the action window of export to Excel still comes up and works fine. It was actually the plug-in causing the error.


Tina Dabi, Athar Aamir Ul Shafi Khan and Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, the three toppers of IAS / Civil Services 2015 examination, today called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh at his DoPT office in North Block here today. Congratulating the three youngsters for achieving the meritorious distinction, Dr Jitendra Singh said, it is a pleasant coincidence that ever since the Modi government took over two years ago, there has been a sudden upsurge of women power in Civil Services. For example, he said, in the last year's exam, 4 out of 6 toppers were girls while in this year's exam, 2 out of 4 toppers are also girls. Besides Tina, Artika Shukla is the girl who has stood fourth, he informed.
Another notable trend in the last few years, Dr Jitendra Singh said, is that more and more candidates were making it to Civil Services from those sections of society which were hitherto not adequately represented. The profile of the three toppers of this year is also a testimony to this trend, he said. Dr Jitendra Singh said that the present government's thrust on citizen centric governance can be achieved by such young civil servants who come from the average common man's background and can easily identify with the aspirations of the common youth of India who comprise more than 65% of the country's population today.
In addition, he said, States like Jammu & Kashmir which, till few years ago, complained of not having enough number of direct IAS officers, will also feel gratified as more and more number of candidates from J&K are now making it to the Civil Services and also requesting for home cadre. Also present on the occasion were Secretary Personnel Sanjay Kothari, Establishment Officer Rajiv Kumar, Additional Secretaries T. Jacob & Sanjeevani Kutty and other senior officers.


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Q: In React Native how to respond incoming call with recorded voice I'm developing an application and I want to respond the incoming call with pre-recorded voice.
I have searched on Stack Overflow and found this answer [1]. I have also found this source from developer site [2].
Does we can play the audio file for incoming calls?
Is this a good approach to bind native code with react-native to respond incoming call as mentioned in this [1] example?
[1] Android: Incoming call auto answer, play a audio file
[2] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/telecom/selfManaged

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Orange County Supervisors and CalOptima Under FPPC Investigation
By NORBERTO SANTANA JR., TRACY WOODand NICK GERDA | June 19, 2013
The state's Fair Political Practices Commission confirmed Tuesday that the agency is investigating a majority of Orange County supervisors along with the CalOptima board of directors for potential conflict of interest violations of the Political Reform Act, based on the findings of two Orange County Grand Jury reports filed earlier this year alleging corruption at the highest levels of county government.
The revelation about the FPPC probe spilled out from an emotional public meeting Tuesday where all five county supervisors lashed out publicly at Orange County grand jurors, accusing them of using irresponsible headlines to cover badly focused probes that had now triggered state reviews.
Current, former and future grand jurors stepped to the public podium and steadfastly defending the integrity of their reports and volunteer efforts. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas also defended the efforts of grand jurors.
At one point during Tuesday's meeting, Supervisor John Moorlach angrily stared grand jurors down as the board debated a motion brought by Supervisor Todd Spitzer to slash future panelists individual stipends from $50 a day down to $15. Last month, supervisors rejected a request from the grand jury for $20,000 in supplemental spending.
Orange County's Superior Court budgeted $209,000 for the grand jury this year, with $180,000 of that for salaries and benefits and $29,000 for services and supplies.
Ray Garcia, the grand jury foreman, defended the legitimacy of his panel's previous reports and told supervisors that the two final reports of this term would be released Wednesday.
Orange County grand jurors first provoked county supervisors in January when they issued their first report of the year, evocatively titled "CalOptima Burns While Majority of Supervisors Fiddle."
That report questioned fundraising connections between hospital lobbyists, Supervisor Janet Nguyen and a county ordinance adoption that increased hospital influence on the governing board of CalOptima, the county's managed health care plan that covers more than 400,000 poor and elderly residents.
In April, the panel followed with "A Call for Ethical Standards: Corruption in Orange County." It gave a recap of corruption cases stretching back as far as the 1970s and urged the formation of an ethics commission, such as those in Los Angeles and San Diego.
Apparently the day after that report was released, the FPPC, political watchdog for the state, launched investigations into county supervisors — except Supervisor Todd Spitzer, who was not on the board during the ordinance change — along with many of the members that Nguyen moved onto the CalOptima board of directors.
"We opened the investigation based on the Orange County report," said Gary Winuk, chief of the Enforcement Division for the FPPC late Tuesday.
"We are investigating violations of the Political Reform Act based on the findings of the grand jury," Winuk said. "We were made aware of it through the district attorney's office," he added.
District attorney Chief of Staff Susan Kang Schroeder declined to comment.
Not much is known beyond that, other than the probe is expected to take 18 to 24 months, Winuk said. The FPPC's subpoena authority has been used to interview witnesses, signaling that this is more than a routine audit of campaign accounts.
Supervisors likely began receiving letters from the FPPC in early May, about the time Spitzer suggested rejecting the grand jury supplemental funding request.
The probe also seems to have already triggered a change at CalOptima board meetings. In the past year, CalOptima board members rarely declared a conflict or abstained on issues.
But in May, there were two abstentions among the 10 board members and the June 6 meeting saw an unusual flurry of members abstaining and even leaving the room because of conflict concerns.
At one point when the board was discussing contracts with health networks, four of the 10 board members abstained. On another item that covered rate payments to providers, Nguyen abstained and two other board members — Samara Cardenas and Viet Van Dang — left the room.
Peter Agarwal abstained on a third issue involving teleworking and use of the CalOptima building.
The state constitution mandates that every county is required to impanel a grand jury each fiscal year, which is the reason they typically are sworn in during July. A grand jury typically comprises nearly two-dozen retirees.
Along with working with local prosecutors, the panel is a civilian watchdog of sorts required to consider issues of good governance, though with limited public funding. Public agencies are required to publicly respond to the jury's criticisms.
Elected officials often complain that the panel lacks diversity or recruitment standards and can often go off the mark because it rarely has the resources, expertise or staff to effectively analyze local government in real time.
"I've been very disappointed with the work product of the grand jury for years," Moorlach said from the dais Tuesday. "I wish I would get a grand jury that got it and gave something of value."
Moorlach was visibility irritated on Tuesday as he discussed the panel's report on an ethics panel saying that "calling us corrupt" was "unbelievable."
"Then I get a letter from the FPPC because our grand jury issued a report, therefore I must be doing something wrong and I'm under investigation." added Moorlach. Ironically, Moorlach voted against the CalOptima ordinance change sought by Nguyen and the Hospital Association of Southern California.
"I love baseball, and I love to go to baseball games, and I love watching baseball," Moorlach said. "But, boy, when there's an umpire that makes a bad call, it ruins the game. It demoralizes the players. It disturbs the fans.
"All I'm asking for is umpires that call balls and strikes right. They don't overembellish, they're not arrogant about who or what they are. And they should be respected. But respect is earned."
"I want so badly to just be excited about the grand jury and their work project," Moorlach said. "But inflammatory titles, shoddy workmanship — that isn't fair to the grand jury, that isn't fair to the Board of Supervisors, it isn't fair to the employees of this county, it isn't fair to the taxpayers."
Moorlach ultimately voted against many of the county's responses to the grand jury report. Supervisors also delayed any action to reduce grand jury stipends, opting instead for a Spitzer proposal to have staff study the grand jury process in Orange County and report back periodically.
Despite the ultimate delay of action, consideration of the stipend issue allowed supervisors to publicly vent their grievances about grand jurors. Each supervisor criticized the panel from a different direction. They all insisted that their grievances and the stipend issue are not connected.
Board Chairman Shawn Nelson slammed the panel on the CalOptima report, saying he supported keeping the stipend at the state rate of $15 daily. "I'm not sent any extra budget for grand jury service," Nelson said.
Nguyen also slammed the group for slamming her and for not granting her requests to be interviewed. She also repeated her allegation that the grand jury made factual mistakes in its report.
"I have never had to do a press conference to show you the evidence that was public record. … You were so wrong," Nguyen said.
She also took issue with the lack of comment from the panel about her opposition to lucrative bonuses granted to top executives just as CalOptima was raising copays on vulnerable groups.
Spitzer took aim at the panel, saying it should consider a higher threshold for issuing reports. "I think there should be a probable cause requirement for issuing a civil report."
He discussed how frustrated he was by the grand jury's report on corruption in Orange County, saying about Foreman Garcia, "I wrote him two letters on that report, the corruption report. I wrote seven pages of notes."
Nelson at one point admonished Spitzer to avoid talking publicly about grand jury proceedings, given their protected confidentiality status.
Bates later suggested that grand jurors needed more training and were being overly influenced by local blogs. She declined to identify the blogs by name.
"My discomfort with the reports was the matter in which the evidence was reviewed," Bates said.
Supervisors were met with significant opposition in their bid to penalize grand jurors by cutting back stipends.
"If you do this, you're un-American," said Westminster resident Darryl Nolta. He added, however, that he too saw the holes in the grand jury's CalOptima report.
However, Nolta reminded supervisors, "it was a fundamentally important document, because it shook you up."
Please contact Norberto Santana Jr. directly at nsantana@voiceofoc.org and follow him on Twitter: twitter.com/norbertosanana; Tracy Wood at twood@voiceofoc.org and on Twitter: twitter.com/tracyVOC; and Nick Gerda at ngerda@gmail.com and on Twitter: @nicholasgerda.
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Steel and Do Are Chosen as OC Supervisors' Chair, Vice Chair for 2020
Andrew Do and Michelle Steel are running this year for what are considered the toughest election races that any of the five supervisors are seeking.
Orange County Draws Criticism For Over 200 Homeless Deaths This Year
The deaths have drawn unanswered questions from activists about why the county's main strategy to end homelessness has gone mostly unfunded.


A great deal of research has looked at the spelling development of children, but comparatively little has focused on ways adult literacy students develop as spellers. Neva M. Viise, in her article "A Study of the Spelling Development of Adult Literacy Learners Compared with that of Classroom Children," examines some interesting aspects of adults' and children's spelling development. This study "compared the spelling development of 195 child and 124 adult literacy learners through a comparison of spelling errors" (p. 561). The author asks two important questions in this research. First, will adult literacy students progress through the same stages of learning as children who are reading at comparable levels? And, "are the adults who are experiencing severe reading problems caught at some early level of reading-spelling knowledge which must be identified for instruction the same way that children's reading knowledge is assessed?" (p. 564).
Bardine, Bryan, "A Review of 'A Study of the Spelling Development of Adult Literacy Learners Compared with that of Classroom Children'" (1997). English Faculty Publications. 73.


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By default, the Honeycomb Home screen offers you five areas on which you can position, add and remove your shortcuts and widgets, providing you with a useful mobile workplace. With this knowledge, and the tips and tricks in this article, you should be able to customize your tablet's Home screen to make things as easy and efficient for you to use as possible.
While there is nothing wrong with the default positioning of the apps that your tablet manufacturer might have added to the Home screen on your behalf, these are placed prominently so that you can see what is on offer when you first start your Android device, rather than as a design for the way you should use the tablet.
There are various gestures and tips that you will need to know before proceeding, however, related to the successful use and customization of your Android Honeycomb slate.
In order to take advantage of the display customization options in Honeycomb, you will need to know how to manipulate the app shortcuts and widgets that are already on offer, as well as how to add and remove other tools.
The first thing to do is learn how to move an app shortcut; this might be something you have stumbled upon already by tapping a shortcut for longer than necessary, and is done by tapping the app, holding your finger down until lots of small + symbols appear and then dragging the shortcut to its new position. If you decide that you don't want that shortcut or app any longer, drag it to the top-right corner, where you will see the Remove area, and drop the shortcut here; the app will remain installed and accessible via Apps, but is discarded from your Home screen.
To add new shortcuts and widgets, or even to change the background, use the large + symbol which can be found in the top-right corner in normal circumstances, or tap and hold a blank area of the screen. Here you will find options for adding widgets and apps, something that can easily be done by selecting the item required from the Widgets or App shortcuts list and dragging it to the chosen Home screen; each of the Home screens are previewed in the top half of the display, so this should be easy to achieve. Further adjustment of the position of the widget or shortcut can be performed using the instructions above.
You can also adjust the Home screen background using the Wallpapers option. Different options are available from standard static backgrounds to the more interesting (and battery draining) live backgrounds that feature small amounts of animation.
Note that some new apps will also add to the list of available widgets; the selection that is available to you will keep on growing. Using the gestures shown here you should be able to manipulate your Honeycomb Home screen to enable you quick and efficient access to your most oft-used apps.


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Jon Thiem
Rabbit Creek
Burning the Alexandrian Library
Intertextual Lives
Letters from Ghana
Rudolph Thiem, Sculptor
My Father's Pipe
Letter on the Thiems
A Perambulation of Kent
Additional Poems
India Journal
A Select List of Published Works by Jon Thiem
Letters from Ghana 1968-1970: A Peace Corps Chronicle (Peace Corps Worldwide, 2013).
Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West (University of New Mexico Press, 2008). With Deborah Dimon, research assistant.
Nine Waves (Sutter House: Lititz, PA, 2003). A second collection of poems by Jon Thiem, Bettie Anne Doebler, and Ralph Slotten.
Book of the Mermaid (Sutter House: Lititz, PA, 2001). A collection of poems by Jon Thiem, Bettie Anne Doebler, and Ralph Slotten.
Real Life: Ten Stories of Aging (University Press of Colorado, 1994). An anthology of short stories about aging by major writers. With Patrick McKee.
Lorenzo de' Medici: Selected Poems and Prose (Penn State University Press, 1991).
Articles, Book Chapters, etc.
"Reading and Rereading: A Twenty-First Century Perspective." In The Yearbook of Comparative Literature. Matei Calinescu Festschrift. Vol. 59 (2013), 163-193.
"Die Bibliothek von Alexandria brennt—wieder und wieder." Translated by Dr. Mona Koerte. In Verbergen. Ueberschreiben. Zerreissen: Formen der Buecherzerstoerung in Literatur, Kunst und Religion Hg. Koerte und Ortlieb (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2007), 31-45. The original English version is reproduced on my website, under Essays.
"Intertextual Lives: the Novel of Biographical Quest as a Postmodern Genre." In Sincronie III.5 (Milano, 1999), 137-150. This essay is reproduced on my website, under Essays.
"Myths of the Universal Library from Alexandria to the Postmodern Age" (rpt. from Serials Librarian—see below). In Cyberspace Textuality. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan (Indiana University Press,1999), 256-266.
"The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction." In Magical Realism. Ed. Wendy Faris and Lois Zamora (Duke University Press, 1995), 235-247.
"The Translator as Hero in Postmodern Fiction," Translation and Literature. Vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1995), 207-218.
"Myths of the Universal Library from Alexandria to the Postmodern Age," The Serials Librarian Vol. 26 (1995), 63-74.
"The Return to Cosmology in Postmodern Writing," Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Munich: Iudicium Verlag, 1990), 68-73.
"Borges, Dante, and the Poetics of Total Vision," Comparative Literature (Spring 1988), 97-121.
"Anti-Intellectualism," Dictionary of Literary Themes (Greenwood Press, 1988), 65-73.
"Isak Dinesen and her Precursors: The Case of Heine. " In Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen: Conference Proceedings (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1985), 23-28.
"Humanism and Bibliomania," Res Publica Litterarum: Studies in the Classical Tradition (1982), 227-246.
"The Dissent against Dissent," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (1982), 36-43.
"L' essor de l' intellectuel dans l' Europe de la Renaissance," Cadmos (Geneva: Été, 1980), 47-71.
"The Great Library of Alexandria Burnt: Towards the History of a Symbol," The Journal of the History of Ideas (Oct.-Dec., 1979), 507-526.
"Apaeε: Heroic Poems of the Ashanti Court," Translation (Winter, 1978-79), 222-228. A translation with introduction and notes, in collaboration with E. W. Owoahene-Akyeampong.
"Le roman post-utopique et la revolte contre la depersonnalisation," Cadmos (Geneva: Automne, 1978), 64-86.
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Home health kids with older brothers learn language slower: study
kids with older brothers learn language slower: study
Category:	health
Children with older brothers have, on average, a somewhat slower linguistic development, found French scientists associated with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Children's language has been studied for many years, and most of the research to date on the subject shows that cadets perform poorly in language skills than their elders.
Researchers Naomi Havron and her colleagues point out that only big brothers affect the language skills of their cadets.
Children who have a big sister have the same development as children without seniors.
Intuitively, it is tempting to think that a child with a senior sibling will grow up in a stimulating linguistic environment and develop language skills faster than the first born in the family.
The authors of the study
But studies show the opposite. The acquisition of language in a sibling is slower than in a child with no older brother.
In the present work, more than 1000 children were followed from birth until they were five and a half years old.
Their language skills were assessed at 2, 3 and 5 and a half years by tests measuring several aspects of language, including:
the vocabulary;
the syntax;
verbal reasoning.
The results show that children with older siblings are, on average, two months behind their language development compared to other children with a big sister.
Why? Nothing is certain for the moment, but two hypotheses are advanced to explain this delay.
The first is that older sisters speak more to their younger siblings than brothers, which would compensate for the reduced availability of parents.
The second: older sisters argue less for parental attention than older brothers.
If the present works highlight that the development of the early language of the younger brother tends to be slowed when the elder is a boy, they do not allow to separate these two explanations. More studies need to be done to get there.
The authors, whose work is published in the journal Psychological Science , also want to examine the impact of culture – especially geographical origin – on these results.
Last year, researchers determined that the crying tone of a three-month-old baby gives a very good idea of how loud the child's voice is at age five.
Dean Prust
Dean Prust was a reporter for Nebula Electronics, before becoming the lead editor. Dominic has over fifty bylines and has reported on countless stories concerning all things related to technology. Dean studied at Caltech.
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Researchers led by Ian Young of Swinburne University of Technology in Australia report in the journal Science that over a 23-year period, average wind speed over the oceans rose by 0.25 percent per year.
But Eugene S. Takle, director of the climate science program at Iowa State University, and not part of Young's research team, noted that evaporation rises with higher wind speeds, so the result would be more moisture in the air even without global warming. And the warming shown in many studies would also increase evaporation.
He noted that the day-to-night changes in temperature are different over land than over water and the boundary layer - the portion of the atmosphere that most closely interacts with the surface - is generally thicker over land than water.
"compounding any increase from global warming"
Translation: This could explain any claimed warming without the need for CO2, but I'll lose my grant if I say it explicitly.
Those who genuinely wish to explore this further could look for articles on "pan evaporation". Scientists are puzzled as to why pan evaporation has changed. An increase in wind speeds or an increase in sunshine hours could be some of the explanations.
"Pan evaporation, an indicator of potential evaporation, has decreased during the last several decades in many parts of the world. This trend is contrary to the expectation that global warming will be accompanied by an increase in terrestrial evaporation, known as the pan evaporation paradox."
Openmindedness and skepticism are healthy. Those who insist "the science is settled" are always wrong.
I agree that Open Mindedness and skepticism are healthy. However, I would also point out that scientific progress is completely blocked without depending on the prior 'settled' science because it means always continuously starting fresh.
But more to the point, what would cause an increase in wind velocity? This is likely caused by changes in temperature gradients, which is likely caused by global warming. It is an unproven link, but this certainly shouldn't be taken as evidence that global warming isn't happening.
The "settled science" often blocks newcomers with new ideas.
"Wind results from a horizontal difference in air pressure and since the sun heats different parts of the Earth differently, causing pressure differences, the Sun is the driving force for most winds."
More bright sunshine hours, due to cleaner air caused by changes in cooking fuels and cleanup of industry would be one suggestion.
Sunshine hours are up 4% in the UK since 1929 (when more weather stations started measuring).
In Japan, bright sunshine hours are up 10% during the 20th century.
Many other countries show rises in bright sunshine hours.
Those who insist "the science is settled" are always wrong.
The science of how babies are made is settled.
The Sun shines on all of Earth equally. The driving force for most winds is the differing properties of the Earth's surface and atmosphere at different locations, which differentially affect the rates at which solar heat penetrates to the surface and is absorbed there.
Where? The air over Europe and NA may be cleaner than in recent past; the air over Asia, Africa, and SA is surely dirtier now and in all likelihood getting progressively dirtier with every passing year.
Increase in kinetic energy stored in the system. We're letting more energy in and less out. It has to go _somewhere_. Although it's nice to see the data, it sure isn't a surprise.
The Sun shines on all of Earth equally.
No it doesn't. Thats why we have seasons in the NH and SH. And that why the SH winter is at the time of the NH summer.
And because of clouds and aerosols there have been significant decadal changes in bright sunshine reaching the earth.
For example Japan now recieves 10% more bright sunshine than it did in 1900. The UK is up 4% since 1929.
There is a lot more energy in bright sunshine than sunshine diffused and blocked by clouds.
For the especially thick, I guess I'll qualify the obvious: the sun shines on all of Earth equally over any given latitude and time of day.
That's what I said. The Sun isn't the driver; the changing properties of Earth's surface and atmosphere are the driver. And those changes are not in the same direction everywhere; like I mentioned already, air over the developing world has been getting progressively dirtier even as air over the developed world gets marginally cleaner.
Depends on the type of clouds, and on the time of day. Low-lying cumulus clouds cool the surface during the DAY. High cirrus clouds actually warm the surface during the DAY. All types of clouds warm the surface during the NIGHT.
the sun shines on all of Earth equally over any given latitude and time of day.
Some places are cloudier than others. Clouds reflect sunlight back into space before it can impart up to 1000 Watts per square meter into the ocean and onto land.
The difference between clouds and bright sunshine can be 200, 300 or 400 Watts per square meter depending on lattitude longitude and time of day/year.
Thats a huge amount of energy.
The air quality is vastly superior compared to the beginning of the 20th century -- and even compare to the 1940s and 1950s.
"Coal smoke, in particular, has been recognized as a pollution problem in England and elsewhere in Europe for centuries, since at least 1500."
Some places are cloudier than others.
That's a property of the atmosphere, not the Sun. Again, the Sun is not the driver. The changing properties of atmosphere and the planet's surface are the driver. How many times must I repeat it before it sinks in?
Yes, marginally. In the last 2-3 decades, the improvement in the developed world has been marginal. And even despite that improvement, lots of places in the developed world still suffer from severe air pollution and smog events (e.g. Japan, and some locations in US such as Los Angeles or Houston.) It's pointless comparing current trends to "beginning of 20th century", never mind the 1500s. Global economic development has been accelerating exponentially throughout the 20th century, and still is today.
The Sun is the driver. The orbit of the earth modulates how much energy reaches parts of the earth depending on the time of year and day.
Clouds reflect some of the energy back to space.
Yes, marginally. In the last 2-3 decades, the improvement in the developed world has been marginal.
"In Canada ... Emissions of sulphur oxides (SOx) declined by about 54%, mainly due to reductions from base metal smelters which were down 72% and fossil fuel-fired electricity generating utilities which decreased by 45%.
Since the addition of the Ozone Annex to the agreement in 2000, Canada has been able to reduce nitrogen oxides emissions by a third in the southern and central Ontario and southern Quebec transboundary region defined under the agreement.
As of 2010, the U.S. national Acid Rain Program has reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide by 67% from 1990 levels.
The Sun is the driver.
The Sun's output remains relatively constant; it fluctuates only by small fractions of a percent from top to bottom of solar cycles. It's not the driver of any modern climate change.
Also not the driver. The orbit of the Earth is not changing.
And some of the energy emitted from the ground into space, they reflect back to the ground. The clouds are indeed subject to change as part of the overall climate change.
By the '90s, emissions were already dramatically lower than, say, in the 50s or 60s. And they couldn't even be compared to the violent smog events caused by coal burning in places like London and New York, in the 19th century. Cutting already small emissions of the 90s by another 50% constitutes a marginal improvement in the grand scheme of things.
By the '90s, emissions were already dramatically lower than, say, in the 50s or 60s.
"The Acid Rain Program was established under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and requires significant emission reductions of SO2 and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the electric power industry."
"The largest single-year reduction (20 percent) occurred in the first year of the ARP, between 1994 and 1995. The second largest single-year reduction (16 percent) occurred most recently between 2008 and 2009."
And they couldn't even be compared to the violent smog events caused by coal burning in places like London and New York, in the 19th century.
You mean London in the 1950s don't you?
I do appreciate your attempts at make yourself look even dumber than usual.
The Sun does drive the climate.
Sometimes the earth receives 1000W/sqm, sometimes nothing depending on season, time of day, clouds, cleaner air.
Mt Pinatubo's eruption dropped temperature .5C due to SO2 injected into the atmosphere and then the temperature went backup after the SO2 fell to earth over a couple of years.
The USA alone cleaned more SO2 out of the atmosphere since 1990 ... which is when the slight noticable warming started. And then ended after the clean air act worked.
You somehow (and I suspect, rather skillfully) managed to miss the words "modern" and "change" in the phrase "modern climate change".
...than what? More than China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, etc. have added and continue to add since then?
I tried to explain the theory to you, at a level you might understand. I tried to provide you with the data, which shows unambiguous signature of AGW.
But you have predetermined your opinion long before any information was presented, and looks like nothing will change your mind. Looks like talking to you is about as pointless as talking to marjon/ryggesogn2. I give up.
Admit it. You are a denier. No matter how much proof I offer you, you stick your fingers in your ears, close your eyes and chant the CO2 mantra. Cults do that to brainwash their disciples. You are a good cult member, but a lousy scientist.


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Listening to SGI leaders, you would think that fundamental darkness is all that Nichiren talked about. They go on and on about your fundamental darkness [it's always your fundamental darkness, never their's]. Nichiren mentioned "fundamental darkness" ten times, "fundamental delusions" twice, "possessed by devils" once; and "fighting evil" never once in ~ 1500 pages of writings.
Shakubuku, on the other hand is mentioned, deconstructed, and analyzed by Nichiren at length hundreds of times in many dozens of writings. "Break and subdue" is one translation of shakubuku, another is "forceful practices", and still another, "to refute." Nichiren rarely performed the forceful practices on his own believers. Compare this to SGI leaders who, drunk on power and ego, are always performing the forceful practices on their members.