Story: Fly through a Jimi Hendrix album cover in a space ship shooting enemies coming from all directions until blasting an alien boss at the end.
As a huge fan of the arcade game, I was very reluctant to even try the Atari 2600 version. Not only did the arcade game have stellar (ahem) graphics in comparison, excellent sound quality, but it also had four buttons to fire left, right, up and down. The Atari, well, one button on the joystick. How did the Atari game solve this problem? When moving your ship, the guns auto-fire in that direction. If you roll the stick in a circle, you can sweep your guns the four directions around to defend yourself.
Like the arcade, there is an energy station to make your ship invincible. Ram all the enemies you like. Two differences exist in the invincible state. In the arcade version you could also destroy bits of scenery by flying through it, but the Atari version advantage is there is a meter to tell you when the invincibility is about to wear off.
Overall, the arcade experience is flashy, thrilling (for 1981), but can be a difficult quarter-muncher. The 2600 cartridge took a different route. Although the ship moves sluggishly, one cannot deny the seemingly omni-directional firepower like in that berserk scene of The Last Starfighter.
Sounds were kept basic and faithful to the serious scenes of the arcade. For some reason the arcade version had tunes in a few of the stages that suggested a circus was coming to town. Good omission there for the home game. Although the boss fight isn't long or difficult, there's a great sense of accomplishment in completing the stages even if it does bump you back to starting again.


Aurora Escalades is the first Robinsons Communities project that allows income generation through short-or long-term lease providing its residents both a HOME and a VENTURE.
The property is Robinsons Communities' first project that allows income generation through short-or long-term lease, with value that grows over time. Use it as an Airbnb to monetize your extra space or make it your first solid home and asset purchase. Aurora Escalades, your Home-Vestment.
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Today, on World Animal Day, Intel innovation reaches new heights in science exploration, with the announcement of two successful wildlife research expeditions, powered by Intel artificial intelligence (AI) and drone technologies. In two separate collaborations with a wildlife photographer and conservationist, and nonprofit organizations Parley for the Oceans and Ocean Alliance, Intel's innovations are powering science exploration to help better understand the world around us in safer, more efficient and less invasive ways allowing researchers to quickly act upon data that informs the longer-term health of our environment and humanity. Leveraging Intel drone and AI technologies for science exploration provides researchers with powerful tools to better inform their findings, granting them access to critical data that is otherwise difficult, costly or dangerous to obtain.
Traditional methods involving helicopters for exploration are invasive and costly. Paired with the treacherous arctic conditions, including freezing temperatures and heavy winds, exploration from a boat in these remote areas is challenging even for the most experienced researchers. In addition, the steel found in most boats can cause magnetic fields that challenge drone compasses making it extremely difficult to take off and land on a moving boat. Deploying drones is an alternative which provides greater access to researchers and wild life experts.
Working with renowned wildlife photographer and conservationist, Ole Jørgen Liodden, the Intel Falcon ™ 8+ system is helping him track polar bear communities in the arctic, capturing information on their behavior patterns, which will provide wildlife and environmental researchers with accurate, more reliable data, that was captured in a safer and more efficient way. Tracking the polar bears' behavior, breeding, feeding and migration habits helps scientists not only understand the effects of climate change on the Arctic, but also the health of the entire planet.
A recent expedition in the arctic found that polar bears did not show any signs of distress or changes in behavior when flying the Intel Falcon ™ 8+ drone approximately 50-100 meters from the animals. The thermal camera payload made it easy to spot the bears against the colder background. This progress in studying polar bears with the Intel Falcon ™ 8+ system creates new research opportunities, powering science exploration in ways never thought possible.
Intel is working in partnership with Parley for the Oceans and Oceans Alliance to advance scientific understanding on the health of our oceans using artificial intelligence to analyze the condition of whales and the environment. Project SnotBot uses Intel machine learning technology to help the alliance improve data analysis by running algorithms that can identify a particular whale and assess its health in real-time, regardless of the presence of confounding factors, such as the whale's unpredictable movements and limited ocean visibility. Through this advanced technology, researchers can make more timely decisions in the field and better understand the rich biological data that whale snot holds, including DNA, stress and pregnancy hormones, viruses, bacteria and toxins. So far, the SnotBot has been used to collect spout water from blue whales, right whales, gray whales, humpbacks and orcas in oceans around the world. Artificial Intelligence gives whales a voice to share the health of our oceans and the environment.
For almost 50 years, Intel has been behind some of the most amazing technology and innovation to improve the world. Working alongside researchers to develop innovative methods to capture, process and analyze information about the environment, Intel is amplifying human capabilities and transforming the way people engage with the world.
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Hacker Wololo has stated that updating your PS Vita to 1.66 completely gets rid of the famous PSP kernel exploit.
This firmware patches both Motorstorm and Everybody's tennis exploits used to run VHBL(I haven't tested yet). Update at your own risk.
So it turns out that Sony have definitely been keeping a watchful eye on the PS Vita hacking scene, most likely making sure that no massive exploit arises as piracy was one of the main reasons 3rd party support was not visible for the PS Vita.
Let us know what you think of PS Vita hacking in the comments below!


Marriage – Marriage is the union of two people as well as two families. It is a contract between husband and wife for future and celebrates as a marriage ceremony.
Is marriage necessary or not – My opinion is marriage is not necessary for our life. In bachelor you can more enjoy the life than married life. Marriage is the union of two individuals with different natures. At present, the case of divorce is increases due to the money matter, misunderstanding and not adjustment between us. Is two individual of different nature live together for the whole life? Is it possible? No it is not possible at present. Marriage is also unification of two families. The members in two families are of different nature. Why we marry with an unknown person and create unnecessary huge problems in our life. This different of nature of partner and members in families increases the divorce cases. The divorce raises the depression in life because whole life in court in fighting the divorce case with partner.. In this way, the marriage increases the depression for the whole life. The marriage increases dependency on each other while in bachelor it is independent life. The progress in life is possible in bachelor life as compared to married life.
The more enjoyment and progress in bachelor life as compared to married life. The expenditure in married is very high so the progress is disrupting in future life. There are several problems in making a career and if marry then it disrupts the career and creates another unnecessary big problem in life. Now days there were shortage of jobs in our country then how to manage money after married and during becoming parents.
At present, the cheating cases are also increases in married life. After married, you always worried about partners as he or she cheating or not. If the partner cheats then then the life get disturbed and also get depressed for whole life. Married life increased the depression in life. In bachelor life, a bachelor individual can live anywhere is non-expensive bur after married, live in a private home is very expensive. After becoming a parent, the tension also increased with the raises demanding and expenditure of child in future life.
Now days, the laws get tight for dowry cases. But this law is misused by the girl families. If a girl fake complaint against husband and her families then all of the family members including mother, father, sister, brother and many more quickly arrested and resulting a jail. The family insulted in the society without reason due to fake complaint. The girl also blackmail to boy's family for demanding her wish otherwise fake complaint in police station. The question arises again why we marry with an unknown person. An individual afraid the name of the marriage due to these major problems creates in our life.
There is no responsibility and full enjoyment in bachelor life. No tension about partner activities, not making funding programs for future and progress is unlimited in bachelor life. The main advantage of the bachelor life is that population decreases which is the mother problem of the problems.
In the whole discussion, we prove that marriage creates unnecessary big problem and depression in life. Marriage disrupts the life for the whole life and it is worst tradition system. So I am enjoyed and staying single. It's better for me.
Sure. I don't want to get married either. I'd rather live on my own with myself than with making promises to someone whom I barely know.
That's so true. It's better to be independent than to live a life worrying about a stranger.
Yes why marriage with unknown person and creates unwanted problems in future life.
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Yes mam but parents and members of families and society are forced to marry that why i wrote a article.
There can be commitments without papers and ceremonies..
I read that Anil Kapoor did not want Sonam Kapoor to marry. He thinks there is no need for marriage. If I could do it over, I would remain single but married here now for decades and two beautiful my grown semi adults to show for it, increased and devoted family life, harmony and excitement to share in the children's future however they decide. Ps, my husband was introduced to me, we grew to care for each other. Not all days are perfect but we respect and value each other and the extended family.
May you grow from strength to strength in all your life choices. Kind regards from Kavitha in Sunshiny South Africa.
You are very lucky person to marry with good person. The question arises why marriage is so important for individual. Bachelor is also good for people. You ask people who were in court for divorce, justice,real and fake dowry cases, real and fake harassment cases and whole life is passing in court.


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This post is about the Amazon Fire TV setup, we will show you the process of setting up your Amazon Fire TV and provide some reviews on the device.
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If you are from countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, most concerning question you may ask before purchase will be "Does Amazon Fire TV supported in the countries using the 240V current?" We took a picture of the its power adapter so that you can look at its specifications. Watt:16W, Input: 100-240V – 0.5A 50/60Hz, Output: 6.25V~2.5A. So, this in not a concern anymore.
The hardware setup is very simple, you need to have a HDMI cable, which is not included in the package, you can order one for under US$10 when you buy the Amazon Fire TV.
Just connect the HDMI cable to the HDMI port behind the Fire TV and connect the other end to your TV's HDMI port. Connect the device to the power point and switch on the power.
On your TV, select the HDMI video source to begin the Amazon Fire TV setup.
Placing the remote closer to Amazon Fire TV.
Pressing the home button on the remote for 5 seconds.
Inserting fresh batteries into the remote.
First, it will ask for internet connection. Use the navigation button on the remote controller to perform the selection and enter your network password.
After the internet connection is successfully established, it will check if your Amazon Fire TV needs any software update. If your Amazon Fire TV needs an update, do not disconnect from the network or unplug the power cable while it downloads the update.
Once the update is completed. Your Amazon Fire TV is now ready. If you have purchased the Amazon Fire TV under your own Amazon account, then the device is already pre-registered to your Amazon account. If not, you just have to login with your Amazon account and it will auto register the Fire TV to your Amazon account during the Amazon Fire TV setup process.
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After the Amazon Fire TV setup is completed, it will start with an animation presentation to guide on how to operate the Amazon Fire TV.
The Amazon Fire TV interface is quite simple and neat. The menu is on the right side of the screen, and the menu contents are on the left. The menu consists of: Search, Home, Movies, TV, Watch-list, Video Library, Games, Apps, Photos and Settings.
Amazon Fire TV setup screen.
We did a simple test on network connection without VPN and network connection with VPN.
– play only the trailer in Amazon Prime contents, and selected promotion video contents.
Connect Amazon Fire TV to a VPN Network.
There are few ways to connect your Amazon Fire TV to a VPN network. The best way is to use a VPN router and connect it to your Amazon Fire TV with a LAN cable. PureVPN and PrivateInterneAccess are two VPN service provider that offer quality VPN service at competitive rates. The VPN speed is very much depends on your router, you can click the link above and check with these two service provider for further inquiry. Do checkout our upcoming post on how we connect Amazon Fire TV to a VPN in Singapore. Once you have connected the Fire TV to a VPN network, and of course it have to be a USA server, then you can enjoy the full features of your Amazon Fire TV. So, no worry that you cannot use Amazon Fire TV in Singapore or Malaysia.
Amazon Fire TV Voice Search.
We tested the controller voice search, it only applicable to Amazon Prime contents and to call out the apps. When using the voice search, you need to know the exact title of the movie you want to search in order to get an accurate result. Just press the microphone button on the controller and tell it what you want to search for. In the video, we tested the voice search for 'Ironman 3' through Singapore accent's English. At first, it shows 'Hi Inman Three', 'I Am In Three' and 'Hi Inminente Three'. You may need some practices on this, we did it right on the second attempt.
YouTube App on Amazon Fire TV.
We tested the YouTube video. Due to the limitation of Amazon Fire TV's voice search, you cannot use the voice search to search for YouTube video. Instead, you can use the 'Search Faster' feature in the YouTube app, this allow you to find YouTube video with your mobile device or laptop and watch them on the Fire TV. Simply pairing your mobile device by visit youtube.com/pair on your device and enter the code provided on the screen. In the demonstration video, we use the Amazon manual search instead, you need to press the navigation button on the controller to select the alphabets, luckily the search function is smart enough to predict what you are searching for. The video quality will automatically be adjusted to High Definition after you play the video.
Amazon Fire TV as Game Console.
We also tested the game play, we were using the default remote controller because the Amazon Fire Game Controller is still on its way. Given the specification of the Amazon Fire TV, the game video quality is very impressive, and the game ran smoothly. However, the remote control may not be very ideal for game play, most of the control lie on the navigation button which we felt that it is too big if you want to control the movement using only your thumb; and if you are controlling using two hands, it will be too small to hold. Although Amazon Fire TV may not be comparable to those high-end game consoles like Playstation 4 and xbox, it is still a very decent piece of game console for your family members because of its small size, easy operation and high performance. Games titles are easily available on Amazon's Android App Store. The Fire TV allows you to connect up to 7 game controller for multi-players gaming, it can be a mixture of Amazon Fire Game Controller and the remotes. The Amazon Fire Game Controller will definitely complete the gaming experience on Amazon Fire TV. If you order the Game Controller before 2nd May 2014, you will get 1,000 Amazon Coins (equivalent to US$10) and Sev Zero game title worth $6.99.
Something Interesting for Future Developments.
Although the Amazon Fire TV is built on Android platform, at this point of time, you can't really install your existing Android onto the Amazon Fire TV. There is a USB 2. port behind the device but you cannot use it to load anything onto the device.
There is not much controls in the settings menu, there is no VPN settings for you to get connected to a VPN network like Kindle Fire HDX, but there is an interesting feature, that is 'Developer Options: ADB debugging'. If turn on, it will enable ADB connection over the network. Warning: This will allow anyone on your network to install applications from untrusted sources.
So, we do expect that there will be some interesting developments on the USB port and the 'Developer Options' in the future, either by the Amazon or third party.
Updated: you can now install 3rd party app onto Fire TV, refer to this post.
That's all for our initial hands on and demonstration reviews on Amazon Fire TV setup. We may be doing more post on this topic if there is a demand in future. If you have time (it is a 30 minutes video), you can refer to the below video demonstration. Apologize for the no-sound video because it was shot with a malfunction iPhone ;-). Do checkout this link for the latest price of Amazon Fire TV.
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The Booklyn Artist Alliance is pleased to announce the publication of Haiku Not Bombs. Haiku Not Bombs is an outgrowth of the haiku year, published by Soft Skull Press in 1998. In 1996, a group of friends made a commitment to write one haiku a day and mail them to each other. At the end of the year, they realized that their collection of simple, critical observations had given them a new way to look at the details of their lives. Original members of the project included Michael Stipe, Grant-Lee Phillips, Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay, Anna Grace and other contributors from diverse artistic backgrounds ranging from pop music and theater to independent film.
In the current incarnation of the haiku year project, several of the project's founding members decided to continue with their haiku practice, inviting new writers to take part in a new collaborative project. The challenge was reduced to writing one haiku poem for every week of the year. The collection of contributors to the current manuscript, include Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay, Grant-Lee Phillips, Denise Siegel, Biskit Roth, Alison Roth, Patrick So, and Shin Yu Pai. The poems in Haiku Not Bombs range from the one-line hokku form and the Filipino hay(na)ku to linked verses (renga) and the loose western style haiku favored by writers like Jack Kerouac and American practitioners of the craft. Some emergent themes include modernity, urban life and the everyday.
Tom Gilroy lives in New York City where he works in film and theatre. In the last few years he has released the feature film Spring Forward, the books Spring Forward and the haiku year. He currently writes for the political blog The Huffington Post and the comedy revue Wake Up, World, which he created with Lizz Winstead. In the works are the publication of his collected plays and theatre pieces, his new book of haiku Volunteer Geraniums, and principal photography on his new film Bad Muslim.
Jim McKay is a filmmaker, husband, and father. He lives in Brooklyn, USA. His haiku have appeared in the haiku year, Snapshots 12, and Noon.
Shin Yu Pai lives and works in Seattle. She is a poet, photographer, bookmaker, and editor. Her works include Works on Paper, Sightings: Selected Works, The Love Hotel Poems, Unnecessary Roughness, Equivalence, and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers. Visit www.shinyupai.com for more information.
Grant-Lee Phillips is best known as a songwriter and vocalist. The former leader of the seminal '90s group, Grant Lee Buffalo, Phillips continues to garner international acclaim as a solo artist. A resident of Los Angeles, Grant-Lee Phillips enjoys a diverse career which extends to music, acting, film composing, visual art and poetry.
Allison Roth is a graduate student at Cal Poly Pomona, studying the effects of climate change on desert plants. She wrote many of these haiku as a student at Whittier College and as an intern for the National Park Service.
Rick "Biskit" Roth has been a human rights activist for more than 20 years, coordinating a dedicated group of Amnesty International volunteers in Somerville, MA. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Students for a Free Tibet. He is owner of Mirror Image, an award-winning T-shirt screenprinting factory, known for its creative designs and innovative printing techniques. He is the proud father of eight children.
Denise Siegel is an alumni of CalArts. Her one-act play, Where the Chips Fall, was produced by Theater Unlimited. Her novel Americhrist won an editor's choice award at the SDSU Writer's Conference and is currently in the quarterfinals for the 14th Annual Writer's Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition. Denise's visual art is currently represented by Gallery 825 in Los Angeles.
Patrick So is a man of science, a lover of the arts, and a student of life. He lives in New York City.
Get your copy from Booklyn here.
However, there's a price for entering such a spectacular marketplace; one so steep that it could be argued that all the economic advantage goes to Amazon alone. The standard fee for small presses working through the Advantage programme is a staggering 55% of a book's cover price. In addition, publishers are also responsible for the cost of shipping their books to Amazon warehouses. This puts these publishers in the horrible position of having access to arguably the best book distribution system ever devised, while being charged so much for the privilege that it becomes difficult to impossible for them to make any money.
This 55% charge comes on top of the considerably higher production costs smaller houses face in comparison to larger houses (who also have the power to negotiate lower fees from Amazon). The rice structure of the book printing industry usually rewards high volume jobs, which means that since small publishers on average print far fewer books they are charged much more per book than their larger counterparts. So between these printing and shipping costs and the high fees, it's possible in some cases for small publishers to actually lose money when working through Amazon.


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INTERMAP ANNOUNCES NEW CONTRACT FOR 3D DIGITAL MAP DATA OF HAWAII
28 Sep, 2005 Denver, Colorado (September 28, 2005): Intermap Technologies Inc. (IMP-TSX) today announced a new contract for its digital topographic mapping data totaling approximately US$340,000.
Intermap, in conjunction with The Sanborn Mapping Company reported that it has received a contract to map eight of the Hawaiian Islands for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The islands to be mapped include Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Hawaii, Molokai, Nihau, Lania and Kahoolawe with the window for data collection commencing immediately with all data to be collected by May 2006. In addition to providing terrain data and radar imagery to NOAA, the data will also be licensed to all state and local agencies within the state of Hawaii.
"The constant haze and cloudy conditions covering the islands makes Intermap's STAR technology an optimal solution for this mapping project," explained Michael Bullock, Intermap's vice president of sales and marketing. "We have the ability to not only map an area and produce high-resolution elevation models, but our technology is uniquely suited to mapping areas like Hawaii because we have the ability to acquire data through clouds and in adverse weather conditions."
Over the last year, Intermap has sold coastal data of the continental United States, providing NEXTMap USA imagery and elevation map data for regions in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. The sales have been part of a planned multi-year purchase program that is anticipated to include selling NEXTMap coastal data for the entire continental United States.
Mr. Bullock added, "We can provide highly accurate coastal data for large regions of the country at an affordable price. It is our NEXTMap USA program that makes it all work. This is one of the largest coastal mapping programs ever conducted in the United States, and it provides valuable data to help manage and protect the nation's coastlines."
About Sanborn
With a rich tradition of mapping dating back to 1866, Sanborn offers end-to-end spatial solutions to GIS and photogrammetric mapping customers. The company's combined product and service offerings include consulting, off-the-shelf products, analog, digital and LiDAR data acquisition, photogrammetric mapping, geospatial solutions, remote sensing solutions and data conversion. Sanborn offers product solutions for government and commercial customers. A nationally recognized company, Sanborn has multiple offices within the United States. For more information, visit www.sanborn.com.
About Intermap
Intermap is digitally remapping entire countries, building unprecedented national databases, called NEXTMap, of highly accurate digital topographic maps (including elevation). Customers purchase Intermap's high-quality, low-cost data to facilitate better decision-making for numerous commercial, governmental, military and consumer applications.
Demand for NEXTMap data is growing as new commercial applications are emerging, including geographical information systems (GIS), engineering planning, transportation, automotive, navigation, flood, irrigation, environmental management and planning, telecommunications network planning, aviation, simulation and 3D visualization. Internet applications include virtual tours, topographic maps and computer games. The products are also used to add interactive intelligence to airborne and satellite images.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap employs more than 250 people worldwide, with offices in Calgary, Ottawa, Munich and Jakarta. Intermap is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol IMP. For more information, visit www.intermap.com.
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Call for justice made at Remembrance Day service
Paul Morden
A crowd gathered Saturday at Sarnia's cenotaph heard a call to action.
In his remarks during the city's Remembrance Day service, Rev. Gord Simmons said he was a proud Canadian who "sometimes feels ashamed" when he considers the nation's record.
"All too often, we have failed to give our veterans and those who served, the protections they deserve," Simmons said.
"We've failed to give them the freedom and the justice for which they served."
Simmons spoke about the experiences of First Nations military members when they returned from the First World War and Second World War.
"In the First World War, aboriginal servicemen were given the right to vote as long as they were serving overseas," Simmons said.
"When they returned home, that right to vote was lifted."
He said there were also First Nations servicemen who returned to find their homes were gone, he said.
Simmons told those in the crowd they have a responsibility "to catch the torch, to carry it high, to see that freedom, justice, peace and equality remain."
"We gather this day to remember those who gave their lives for freedom, the freedoms we enjoy," he said.
"We need to remember the sacrifices they made, and the reasons they made those sacrifices."
A parade made its way through downtown Saturday morning from the Royal Canadian Legion hall on Front Street to the cenotaph on Wellington Street for a ceremony that included the playing of Last Post, a moment of silence, a reading of In Flanders Fields, prayers and the laying of wreaths.
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Home» Blog» Is Delhi government concerned about the rising air pollution in the state?
Is Delhi government concerned about the rising air pollution in the state?
To begin with, let's focus on the two main green bodies operating from Delhi.
Central Pollution Control Board
It is the seat of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) since 1974 which is "entrusted" with the powers and functions under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. It not just advises the Central Government on how to prevent and control water and air pollution and improve the quality of air, but also lays down standards for the quality of air and water in consultation with the respective state governments. In the national capital, it even has a dedicated station to monitor the air quality at the busy ITO Intersection in New Delhi as part of its overall objective to determine the present air quality status and trends, control and regulate pollution from industries and other source, and to provide background air quality data needed for industrial siting and town planning.
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Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC)
The DPCC is the key body to monitor and improve the "Environmental Quality" of Delhi. The CPCB delegates all its powers and functions to the DPCC as a State Board in respect of the UT of Delhi as specified by the Central Government in March, 1991. The DPCC was reconstituted on 14 June 2002.
Now some hard facts:
Delhi's air is the dirtiest in the world among all the other capital cities!
The World Health Organization's (WHO) report on ambient air pollution in May 2014 finds the particulate matters in air at alarmingly high levels – the highest among some 1,600 cities across 91 countries of the world!
Recent studies have shown 11-time rise in respiratory disease cases that required intensive care at Delhi's Patel Chest Institute in the last one decade between 2004 and 2014. It is no different at other city hospitals, too. Surveys have shown that Delhi's children have the "weakest" lungs because of contaminated air. Gardiner Harris, the South Asia correspondent of New York Times recently left Delhi when he found his son's lung function had reduced 50 per cent in Delhi's toxic air!
Reports of American scientist Joshua Apte, working with partners from the University of California, Berkeley and Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology, suggest that in fact on city roads, the average pollution levels were actually up to eight times higher!
Still worse- Experts point out that air pollution is the "fifth largest killer" in India since tiny particles (PM10 and PM2.5) affect the lungs and besides causing respiratory and cardiac problems, also cause lung cancer!
Yet what raises concern is the lack of willingness of Delhi authorities to even acknowledge the seriousness of the matter. Within hours of the publication of the WHO report, New Delhi summarily junked its finding on grounds that it had "overestimated" levels in the Indian capital city. "Delhi is not the dirtiest … certainly it is not that dangerous as projected," A.B. Akolkar, Member Secretary of the CPCB was quoted as saying in media.
Gufran Beig, chief project scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, too, made a similar claim stating: "The value which has been given in this (WHO) report is overestimating (pollution levels) for Delhi…" Beig's argument was that pollution levels in winter were always relatively higher in New Delhi because of extreme weather events.
But even the government has not taken such official explanations seriously and this indeed reflects poorly on the credibility of the institutions working to check pollution. Consider a recent statement by Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar who had made it loud and clear: "…scientifically you can say that Delhi's air is three times, four times bad but let's not quibble over that. The truth is Delhi's air quality is bad."
Even the Delhi High Court took suo motu cognizance of the WHO report, and on 25 March this year, wondered why the DPCC was "not concerned over the high concentration of pollutants". During the hearing, it even expressed its unhappiness that no lawyer had appeared to represent the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and directed that the board and Centre must ensure they are represented properly at the next hearing. During the hearing, the court asked for a detailed action plan from the Delhi government and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to tackle pollution, which it termed as "terrible" and "out of control". It also directed amicus curie Kailash Vasudev and the environment ministry to come up with suggestions.
It may be mentioned that following a Supreme Court order of 1998 that led to public transport vehicles switching to the CNG fuel, pollution level had dipped considerably. Even records at Delhi's leading hospitals suggest that there was a drastic fall in the complaints of respiratory ailments.
However, over the years, the plot was lost in the midst of lopsided planning and experts say the situation started worsening after 2007. Consider some facts:
a) Delhi High Court has expressed concerns that the city has only 11 monitoring stations for its over 1.5 crore population.
b) The forest cover in Delhi has been reduced to just 15 per cent as more green areas are getting de-notified.
c) The National Green Tribunal has identified vehicular pollution and burning of plastics as a big reason for the air pollution in Delhi.
d) There are no restraints on commercial trucks coming in to the city. An estimated 50,000 trucks enter Delhi every day and they emit poisonous smoke. Way back in 2004, the Supreme Court had asked for bypasses to the city but still these roads have not come up.
e) There has been a phenomenal rise in diesel vehicles in the city. Delhi government points out that vehicular emissions contribute 78 per cent of city's air pollution.
Besides, construction dust, garbage burning, thermal power plants and unchecked growth of polluting industries in the National Capital Region have all contributed to the alarming rise in air pollution in Delhi.
Yet most of the checks have been imposed largely by the courts rather than the government. It was the court that ordered vehicles older than 15 years to be taken off Delhi's roads, or ban 10-year old diesel vehicles, which has created a row at present. The government has failed to check the blatant violation of the existing rules by motorists, builders, industrialists and even by the 'sarkari' cleaners and sweepers.
Delhi government has decided to adopt a few measures, which include making all the main roads dust-free, congestion-free and clean, and introduce pollution-free buses. It has claimed that by this initiative, 25 percent pollution can be decreased in the national capital. But it needs to implement the 14-point clean up order issued by the National Green Tribunal to the Delhi government in late November last year that included check on vehicular pollution and taking all vehicles older than 15 years off the road. However, such old vehicles continue to ply. In view of this the government now plans to deploy Mobile Enforcement teams on regular basis at road locations for prosecution of all polluting vehicles and ones not having the PUC Certificates.
Yet, Delhi is just the window. Consider that India has thirteen of the dirtiest 20 cities of the world, as per the said WHO report! But if Beijing, which till now was the world's most polluted city, can improve its air, why can't we?
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Americans Abroad Ticker: Jordan Pefok, DeAndre Yedlin, and more
Jordan Pefok, David Wagner, and Young Boys have advanced into the final stage of UEFA Champions League qualifying following a second leg victory in Switzerland on Wednesday.
Pefok scored his third goal of the new season, helping Young Boys to a 3-2 second leg victory over Slovenian side Slovan Bratislava. The club will next face off with CFR Cluj in the third round of qualifying, and should they win, will advance to the group stage.
Pefok's 10th minute penalty kick broke the deadlock from Bern before Ulisses Garcia finished off Pefok's assist in the 24th minute for a 2-0 Young Boys lead. Michel Aebischer extended Young Boys lead to 3-0 in the 39th minute before two quick goals from Slovan Bratislava cut the deficit to 3-2.
Siebatcheu bringt YB gegen Slovan Bratislava in Führung. #Bscyb pic.twitter.com/6TpEXAJHOI
— Zum Runden Leder (@zumrundenleder) July 28, 2021
Pefok played 58 minutes in the match, watching from the bench as his teammates held on for the victory. He now has three goals and two assists across all competitions this season and will next prepare for a league clash with Grasshopper on July 31.
Here's a closer look at more of today's Americans Abroad news:
DeAndre Yedlin makes season debut in UCL defeat
DeAndre Yedlin made his season debut for Turkish club Galatasaray on Wednesday, playing 90 minutes in a 2-1 second leg loss to PSV.
Yedlin returned to his traditional right back position for Fatih Terim's side, completing 98% of his passes and making one interception in the loss. Galatasaray was eliminated by a 7-2 aggregate scoreline and will now continue preparations for an August 15 league opener at Giresunspor.
Yedlin missed the first leg due to reportedly testing positive for COVID-19, but the defender has also found it tough connecting with manager Terim during his time in Turkey.
Despite being linked with a move away this summer, Yedlin's focus remained on fighting for a first team role with the club, his agent confirmed to SBI in early July.
Galatasaray finished second in the Super Lig last season behind rivals Besiktas.
Antalyaspor acquires Haji Wright on loan
Haji Wright's loan to Turkish Super Lig side Antalyaspor is officially complete.
Wright's parent club Sonderjyske announced Wednesday that Wright signed a one-year extension and was subsequently loaned to Antalyaspor for the 2021-22 campaign. His contract with Sonderjyske now runs until June 2024.
"It has been obvious to everyone that Haji Wright has wanted to try himself in another league, but we are also in a favorable situation where we do not let ourselves be pressured to sell by players, agents or other clubs," Sonderjyske CEO Jonas Lygaard said. "On the other hand, we cherish our club identity and only want employees who live up to our values with humility, unity, hard work and responsibility, which is why we are now hiring Haji Wright and at the same time extending the contract."
The 24-year-old scored 13 goals in 37 appearances for Sonderjyske last season, helping the club fight off relegation from the top tier. The former Schalke forward arrived in Turkey last week, prior to any official agreement between the two clubs, but now officially can appear for Antalyaspor in competitive action.
Antalyaspor finished in 16th place out of 21 clubs in the Turkish Super Lig, four points clear of the relegation zone. Wright's move to Turkey sees him join DeAndre Yedlin and Tyler Boyd as American players to be under contract in Turkey this Fall.
Source: Marlon Fossey training with Rotherham United
Marlon Fossey signed a new contract with Fulham earlier this year, but looks set for a loan spell away in League One this season.
The 22-year-old Fossey is currently training with Rotherham United ahead of a possible loan to the third tier, a source close to the player confirmed to SBI on Wednesday. Fossey spent half of last season on loan at Shrewsbury Town before returning to Fulham to rehab a knee injury.
The full back played in five matches for Fulham's Under-23 side during the second half of the season, going the distance in two of those five matches. His new contract with Fulham runs until June 2023, but a move to Rotherham United could see Fossey earn important first team minutes rather than remain with Fulham's U-23 side.
The California native has made 18 combined appearances between the U.S. Under-20 and Under-19 Men's National Teams, but has yet to debut for the Under-23 or the senior team.
Rotherham United suffered relegation from the EFL Championship in May and also saw American defender Matthew Olosunde among others leave the club.
Konrad De La Fuente scores golazo in Marseille friendly
Konrad De La Fuente continue his impressive first preseason with Ligue 1 side Marseille, scoring the opening goal in a 2-1 win over Saint-Etienne.
De La Fuente needed only two minutes to get behind the Saint-Etienne backline, before sending a low drive into the back of the net. The winger showed great skill to keep the ball from scattering away, before setting himself up for the shot on goal.
L'ouverture du score pour les marseillais signée Konrad de la Fuente🔥🔥⚪🔵 (📽@walterWhte13003) #OMASSE #TeamOM pic.twitter.com/f9vJSKDyDV
— Actu OM (@ActuOM__) July 28, 2021
Marseille would pick up the victory, giving De La Fuente a victory in his first match in which he scored a goal. The club's final tune-up in on July 31 against Villarreal before opening their Ligue 1 schedule on August 8 at Montpellier.
Scally assists once in Gladback friendly win over Bayern Munich
Joe Scally continued his preseason training with Bundesliga club Borussia Monchengladbach and the American defender delivered his best performance yet.
Scally assisted once in Gladbach's 2-0 friendly win over Bayern Munich on Wednesday, playing 70 minutes at right back. Fellow American Michael Wentzel scored his first goal for the senior team in the triumph.
The 19-year-old Scally served in a cross in the 60th minute, which Hannes Wolf finished inside of the Bayern box. It was Scally's second assist for the first team this preseason.
0 – 1 Gladbach v Bayern
⚽ Hannes Wolf
🅰 Joe Scally pic.twitter.com/0uFry0h4mq
— ⚽ (@futprofeta) July 28, 2021
Scally would be substituted off in the 70th minute, logging his most minutes yet in the new preseason. The former NYCFC player spent most of last season with Gladbach's Under-23 team, but could earn a spot with the first team following Michael Lang's transfer to FC Basel.
Gladbach has one final friendly on July 31 against FC Groningen before traveling to FC Kaiserslautern in the opening round of the German Cup.
Um, Slovan Bratislava is from Slovakia, not Slovenia. Big difference.
Next, you'll be telling me Andorra and Angola aren't the same country! Nice try!
Malik Tillman, Chris Richards, and Taylor Booth all played for Bayern.
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Is it just me or is this sentence not receiving enough context in the description of the Gladbach – Bayern Munich game? "Fellow American Michael Wentzel scored his first goal for the senior team in the triumph." It seems we are very excited in this article about a player who assisted on a cross, and by the way, another American scored.
Wentzel is a dual national, has never represented the US or Germany. He also isn't likely to make the BM first team to start the season whereas Scally seemingly has a chance.
Berhalter talked about having reached a "critical mass" of Americans abroad and I tend to think he's right. Now that the U.S. is considered a viable market, more clubs are going to be willing to take a chance on our players, thereby giving more of our players the opportunity to develop and grow in top leagues. Even if our starting XI doesn't change too much between now and 2026, we're going to have a heck of a lot more depth to draw upon.


The Open Sound Control protocol is a network protocol to control Musical Devices and instruments. If you are unfamiliar with it, think of it as the idea of MIDI, with a higher data-rate and distribution via network instead of DIN-cables.
It is around since more than a decade now, and is becoming more and more popular in the last time thanks to WiFi-connected touch devices.
OSC is designed to operate open and device independent.
Touch OSC is a very popular OSC control app for iPhone and iPad. Click the button to download layouts for Horae.


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The Innovation Box needs your attention!
Whether or not you have already used the innovation box, there are opportunities and items for consideration for everyone. Below we provide you with a quick recap of the innovation box, the expected changes and a call for action.
Innovation box: what was that again?
The innovation box is a scheme in the corporate income tax law where profits that arise from innovative activities are effectively taxed at only 5% instead of the normal rates of 20% and 25%. For innovative activities to qualify for this scheme, one of the following is required: R&D declaration (WBSO), patents or plant variety rights.
As of 2017, the innovation box is expected to be adjusted as a consequence of the OECD BEPS Action Plan and developments within the EU. On Budget Day 2016, it will become clear what the scheme will look like.
However, for companies that concluded a ruling for the innovation box before 1 July 2016, the current scheme will probably continue to apply until 1 July 2021. Thus, in many cases, we recommend the quick renewal of the current ruling.
IA protected by a patent or similar rights (including plant variety rights).
IA with a certificate for the innovative content, which may include the current R&D declaration (WBSO). This category only applies to SMEs, where a SME is eligible that has a turnover at the group level of less than € 50 million and the turnover earned with the qualifying IA of the company itself is less than € 7.5 million. This applies to an average based on five years.
The qualifying entity benefits will change based on the nexus approach. This means that in order to assess the value created with respect to the IA, one needs to check where the development costs are incurred.. As an example of non-qualifying development costs, the OECD cites the cost of contracted R&D performed by group entities.
If you do not use the innovation box, but have a right to do so, we recommend you obtain a ruling from the Dutch tax authorities as soon as possible regarding the use of the innovation box in your case.
If you use the innovation box, but not all of your IAs are protected by patents (or copyright for software) and you do not qualify as SME, we suggest you consult with the Dutch tax authorities to renew your ruling until 1 July 2021. In this case, one concern is what the effect of the nexus approach will be in your situation.
If you use the innovation box and all of your IAs are protected by patents (or copyright for software), we recommend you assess what the effect of the nexus approach will be in your case. Depending on this, it may be a good idea to consult with the Dutch tax authorities to extend your ruling until 1 July 2021.
If you use the innovation box and qualify as an SME, it may nonetheless still be a good idea to extend your ruling until 1 July 2021. For example, it is not certain that the current R&D declaration (WBSO) will provide access to the innovation box in the same manner, although that is our expectation. In addition, we recommend you assess what the effect of the nexus approach will be in your case. This may also be a reason to extend your ruling until 1 July 2021.
If you have any questions about this matter, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are happy to assess your current situation at no cost to you.


Here are graceful and timeless poems by one of Japan's greatest modern writers, rendered by a master translator. Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) is credited with modernizing Japan's two traditional verse forms, haiku and tanka. Born at a time of social and cultural change in Japan, Shiki welcomed the new influences from the West and responded to them by reinvigorating the native haiku and tanka forms. He freed them from outdated conventions, made them viable for artistic expression in modern Japan, and paved the way for the haiku to become one of his nation's most influential cultural exports.
Burton Watson's excellent introduction explores the course of Shiki's life: his poverty-stricken childhood, his early love for literature, his education, and his work as a haiku editor for the newspaper Nippon, and as a correspondent during the Sino-Japanese war. Watson details Shiki's long struggle with tuberculosis and its poignant expression in his poetry. Confined to bed for months before his death, Shiki continued to devote his energies to literary pursuits: writing poems and critical essays, and joining with friends and followers who gathered in his sickroom to discuss literature. He died a few weeks before his thirty-fifth birthday. These poems—more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi—are arranged chronologically within each genre, revealing the development of Shiki's art and the seamless way in which he wove his life and illness into his poetry.
Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia.


"I come from Greece and I've completed a BA on Molecular Biology & Genetics in my home country. Shortly after, I departed to Edinburgh University for a one year MSc in Integrative Neuroscience and subsequently I worked as a research assistant in a Neurobiology Laboratory in Vienna. Throughout my journey in the natural sciences I was constantly asking questions that exceeded the borders of the lab. I was curious to explore what is the role of the natural sciences in a societal context. When I found the STS master in Vienna I applied without second thoughts; they were asking the same questions I was interested in!
At the beginning I was not sure what to expect but after a year and a half in the master I am very happy to be here. The department is not very big which gives the opportunity for everyday interaction with the lectures and other students. I really like the feeling that I can always approach people and ask them questions or have a discussion. I am also working part time so sometimes it can be demanding therefore I really need to have a good planning of the semester. Overall, I am very happy I started the STS master, in many ways it has really changed who I am."
"I am from Graz, Austria and I graduated in Technical Physics at the Technical University of Graz. After finishing my Bachelor's thesis at the Department of Theoretical Physics, I applied for the STS Master right away. To be honest, the question for me was never IF I should do a master, but rather WHICH one interests me the most. There would have been many possible directions for me and it was not an easy choice. Most of my former colleagues stayed in physics for their Masters. But I decided to go for a more interdisciplinary direction.
I first got aware of the STS department in Vienna University, when I stumbled across an article from Ulrike Felt and Maximilian Fochler titled "What Science Stories do: Rethinking the Multiple Consequences of intensified science communication", which I found very inspiring as I was active in Science Communication back in Graz. As I browsed the website, I was happy to find out that there is a Master at the department. Looking back now, I realize that I didn't really know what STS was. I was interested to learn more about topics they raised in their publications/website and find answers to bigger questions about science and its relationships with society. I felt that it was the space to reflect on many issues didn't have place in my previous studies, such as reflections on the history and context of science or systemic changes in academia and knowledge production. Above all, I hoped to find a critical, and reflexive studying environment, where multi-perceptivity was held up as an important potential.
Years later, I can now confirm that I found what I was looking for and even more. I found answers to questions, but actually the longer I study it the more questions arise. STS is more than just knowledge about science, technology & society relations, but rather method, a lens, on how to approach the world.
Moreover, the students you meet come from everywhere, geographically and regarding to discipline, which often leads to inspiring discussions. I know most of my best friends in Vienna from the course. We organize regular meetings and Christmas Parties and it is a really nice studying atmosphere.
The first semester is time and work intensive. All the courses should teach you the skills and knowledge (Key Questions of STS, Theories, Methods and Knowledge management) to propose and conduct an STS project. After the first semester, it gets more flexible and you can choose your own research specializations and the seminars. Most of the seminars are held by international guest professors, which is always exciting. The structure of the master allows a rather flexible time management and the lecturers are eager to support us as good as they can. All in all, the Master was a really valuable studying experience."
"I come from Düsseldorf, Germany. And I am a graduate in "Organic Agriculture and Marketing" from Eberswalde University in the department of Sustainable Development. For my BA thesis I inquired a research in finding out the relation of masculinities and tractors, or rather how masculinities are inscribed into tractors. Throughout the study, I was not satisfied the most scholarly discussions concerning with organic agriculture. Accordingly, I decided to expand my knowledge of the relation of human and technology in the field of food production and beyond. So, I decided to start a master's degree right away and find out what would be the best MA for me. I gradually became interested in STS field of studies. I applied for three different universities, and got accepted at all of them. In the end, I found Vienna the best option since it offers a two-year programme, which is a good time for getting a grasp of what STS is about. It turned out to be true. I am genuinely happy for the decision that I have made and the time that I have for reading of all the literature during the programme as well as the studying experience. Studying STS somehow changed how I can look at and talk about the world. The concepts and theories we learned seem applicable to so many relevant issues and topics. This feels very empowering somehow. I am currently writing my thesis on ambivalences within valuing processes of organic food. So, the focus on agriculture remained strong and I am wishing to expand it further into higher academic levels in the near future."
"I am from Albania and I have graduated from University of Tirana, Faculty of Social Sciences. I have a joint major on Philosophy with a special direction in Sociology. I started the STS master programme almost 7 years after my graduation in BA level in where I worked in different fields. The main reason that I enrolled in this Master program was to pursue a career in academia, especially in qualitative oriented research in social sciences. Also, I had an urge to expand my knowledge and understanding of philosophy of science and sociology, which STS master does that best.
Another advantage of the master is the quality of the city host– Vienna. This city is such an amazing place to study and it is beautiful. Additionally, it is quite affordable specially for non-EU students like myself.
I really enjoyed the subjects and topics in the program and the ways in which the master focuses on the correlation of science-technology and social studies. During the programme, we were initially given tasks to work in groups for different classes, which I really enjoyed it. This helped me to get to know more the fellow students as well as get a taste of how STS works in practice. The case-base exercises in the first semester is the perfect example for how to qualitatively analyse the correlation of science-technology and society. Accordingly, the modules are very efficient in delineating theories and methodologies in STS programme. The master shows how to engage with theory and method in the field, as well as, how to manage and conduct a research project from scratch to the final phase.
"I was born in Tehran, Iran. I studied restoration of historical buildings in Tehran University in bachelor level and then I received a master's in international development studies at Oxford Brookes University. Thereafter, I went back to Iran and worked in several development related projects all around the country and beyond. A great part of my work experience focused on urban and rural development with an emphasis on democratisation of planning processes. I am in general interested in participatory democracies and participatory decision making which might be a very difficult task in many countries. Throughout my work experience I always had a contradictory feeling about the role of experts and the scientific knowledge making processes that leads to decision making. Such rather frustrating situation led me to seek for opportunities to update my academic knowledge and get the chance to reflect on what I had been doing for over 6 years.
I first went to Germany and then to Vienna to search for suitable PhD courses. During my research for possible courses and institutes I got to know the STS department here in Vienna. I right away found it a fascinating field of study. I was lucky that I have had the chance to visit the department and discuss with Dr. Maximilian Fochler, the head of the department, the different topics and subjects of studies in STS with him. That conversation convinced me that the STS master programme is just the right choice for me.
The programme in the first year offers a range of progressive theories and methods within STS and social sciences which I got the benefit of learning about them and finding new interests along the MA programme in the second year. I particularly enjoyed the varied topics and lectures that we received not just in the STS department but from other faculties in the university. It truly expanded my knowledge of the world and entanglement of science, technology and society. Having finished the master programme now I am in a new path in the academia to start a PhD in STS driven research regarding techno-science in an urban context at the department. The programme has changed my life and the way I think about the world in turn."
"The master's programme Science-Technology-Society at the University of Vienna has been an incredibly rewarding experience for me. The programme nicely integrates empirical work and theoretical reflection, thus providing me with a comprehensive insight into today's society, whose development is intimately entangled with science and technology. Moreover, the programme's focus to develop students' ability to manage projects by themselves impels me to grow in many other areas such as presentation and interpersonal skills. The broad structure of the programme appeals to me very much for it covers a diverse range of subjects and knowledge that cater to today's job market. And importantly, the truly international environment in the STS department opens up a diverse and cooperative space for each student, which makes it an additional gift to study here!"
"I was born in Austria and graduated in MultiMediaArt at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, with a major in auditive design. Thereafter I moved to Vienna and enrolled in the bachelor's program of Sociology at the University of Vienna. I wrote my thesis on self-quantification and the technologically mediated production of an entrepreneurial self, which already led me to engage with questions central to Science and Technology Studies.
I first learned about the STS department through the elective courses I took during my bachelor and it was there that I got in touch with Master students, who convinced me that doing a Master's in STS would be the best way to further my set of interests. After having received a broad education in two relatively distinct disciplines, the interdisciplinary focus of the STS program in combination with a strong topical focus on Science-Technology-Society relations was just what I was looking for.
The program enabled me to engage with a wide range of questions that deepened both my understanding, but more importantly my interest in STS, which has made studying STS in Vienna the most rewarding experience I could have wished for, both in terms of academic input and the people that I have had the privilege of getting to know.
The courses that are offered at the department of Science and Technology Studies have been fascinating and inspiring, providing me with innumerable new threads to follow up on. The themes of the courses were always timely and highly relevant to contemporary socio-technical developments. What was especially important to me is that in their concern with the topics at hand, the seminars usually where sensitive to questions of intersectionality, especially when dealing with questions of in/exclusion of social positions in techno-scientific contexts.
Furthermore, the strong focus on internationality, attracting a diverse student body and numerous international guest lecturers has been extremely valuable in providing a multiplicity of backgrounds and perspectives that are indispensable for such a multifaceted discipline. Thus, I would recommend anyone, who is looking for a program with a strong international and inclusive focus to stop looking further and apply the University of Vienna's STS Master's program."


What are the "stations" of our work, interactions, and play? When our networks are not only local but also regional, global, and frequently "virtual," where is activity situated? Do we yearn for both fixity of place and transitory freedom? What are the tensions, if any, between these extremes? The more that mobility is privileged, does place matter less? How might stations—their locations, design, histories, and potential—benefit and/or hamper relationships and professional practices?
DesignInquiry considers the "place" of life and work—the stops, or nodes, perhaps, within living networks that are sometimes fixed, but that are also, more and more, variable. We are served by work stations, train stations, radio stations, gas stations, and server stations. We occupy these places somewhere between the extremes of permanence and impermanence, between rootedness and nomadism.
Work life, to say nothing of social life, is increasingly portable, interdisciplinary, linked, and multi-faceted. How is our sense of place shifting from the office or studio or home to the stations in between? How is this state of "multi-settlement" refiguring our alliance to, for instance, the studio—that long-established hub of creativity in design—or the place of business, or the place of social connection?
Where is production situated today, and where might it reside in the future? Are there places of work and production that we still regard as sacred, or at least exclusively reserved for certain purposes? Nodes where things gather, and through which energies flow? What part of actual place is ceremonial, over and above functional? Do these parts constitute a building or a gathering? Are they fixed or transient? Are stations places of production or places where one pauses amidst production? What effect do these places have on advancing and realizing ideas?
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Contact us at info@designinquiry.net and we will send you a questionnaire in which you may propose anything you think is appropriate to inform/to question/to develop/to inspire the selected topic. Thoughts, ideas, experiences and observations will ideally become the starting point for a contribution to the STATION gathering in Vinalhaven and subsequent publishing. We will contact you to indicate if your proposal has been accepted, i.e. expands the mix of contributions to the topic during and after the gathering. Participants will be accepted until STATION fills. Apply early, it's a small group of only 24 on Vinalhaven for the STATION inquiry.


Retired, young at heart man. I work outdoors, tend 49 sheep, chickens, Kitty the cat, and Sarge the dog, and ride my horses every day on my 100 acres of fields, woods, and trails. I enjoy conversation and watching films, but also respect personal space and privacy. I host my guests with the help of, Will, a college student who helps out on the farm.
Two other rooms in the house and a small cottage are also available along with multiple tent sites.
Bring your cross-country skis, snowshoes, snow mobiles and horses if you wish. Swim in the pond or explore the property au natural if preferred.
An 1820 farm house, situated back from the road, ensures peace and privacy. My home offers a rustic elegance with hand hewn beams, antique furnishings, Persian carpets, and spectacular views. Accommodations include a standard double bed in a private room, your own private bath, including a sink and toilet, and breakfast. Other meals and small bar optional on donation.
Free WiFi, satellite television, and the use of living room and kitchen are included.


His imagination ended by a jerk. Naksh asked Naira to let him drive, but Naira denied. Naira asked everyone if they were fine. Kartik asked Naira not to say anything to them as they were drunk and thought to avoid them.
Naksh and Kartik stated that they would have taught them a lesson if the family would not have been traveling with them. The men raced with Naira. Naira too speeded up the jeep. They commented on Naira and everyone else. Naira was speeding more and more and was furious. Kartik and Naksh asked her to stop.
Kartik moved the wheel and scolded Naira. Naksh asked Mishti if she was okay. He asked her to be in her sense and not get angry just because those stupid men were provoking her. He asked her to go alone and hit if she wanted to prove her but they were not going to risk their lives.
She scolded him and asked if he felt he was superior to her. He replied that they trusted her and gave the car keys to her. What would have happened of car brakes were not applied at the right time? He said that she had no right to risk everyone's life.
He said that anger should be in control when one drives as it was a mobile game but a life match.
He asked her to stop and stated that she had no control over her tongue and mind. They kept on arguing. She asked him to shut up and stop insulting her in front of her family. He said that he was just showing her the right way for the things. She started crying and stated that she got angry as those men were commenting on her family. She then said sorry to everyone for her mistake.
Kartik smiled and held her. Naksh came to her and tried to console her. He said that she was doing all that just because they were commenting on her family. But such love was not at all good that made a person lose his all senses.
Everyone asked Naira to calm down and not to think about that. Naksh saw Mishti crying and asked her to calm down and not cry. He said that they were not going to tell at home about the incident. Naira holds her ears and then said sorry to Kartik.
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The other day I was reading an article about Jack Abramoff, the notorious Republican lobbyist at the middle of a bribery scandal that's dragging down Tom Delay and supposedly ties in to at least 30 other DC ho's. The whole thing is real complicated and the charge right now is for wire fraud but the investigation has brought to light all kinds of payoffs, exploitation of Native Americans, embarrassing racist emails and a supposedly coincidental death that anybody with at least one eye will notice appears to be a mafia style hit. We're talking more corruption than even Senator Billy Jack probaly knew about.
Anyway, the particular article I read referred to Abramoff as a "former b-movie producer." Holy shit! I thought. I guess I hadn't been following this closely enough because I hadn't heard that before. The trusty ol' internet movie database explained that Abramoff had produced and wrote the story for the Dolph Lundgren picture RED SCORPION, not to be confused with RED SONJA, RED DAWN, RED SUN, RED EYE, THE RED VIOLIN, THE RED BALLOON, or Krysztof Kieslowski's THREE COLORS: RED. He's also credited as executive producer on RED SCORPION 2. That's it although his brother Robert went on to produce a bunch of other movies I never heard of.
Further research brought me to this article from Salon all about Abramoff and RED SCORPION. It's an interesting story, well worth clicking through the ads.
Now, I've always been real interested in action movies with a left wing subtext, because you don't get it too much. There's Billy Jack and there's some Paul Verhoeven and John Carpenter movies. But mostly in this genre, especially in the '80s, you had movies that bought into the Reaganite worldview, glorifying the blowing away of commies or inhuman street scum crooks. You got all the cop movies about those god damn liberals with their red tape, always going around and coddling serial killers, giving them a back rub and telling us we gotta be careful not to bruise their wrists when we cuff 'em. I always figured these attitudes came from copying the undeniably great DIRTY HARRY and the freakishly popular RAMBO 2, not from an actual political bias among creators of action movies. But here is one documented case of a right wing political operative deliberately using a Dolph Lundgren movie as propaganda for one of his pet causes.
Lundgren plays Nikolai, a Russian "killing machine" sent in to assassinate an anti-communist rebel leader in an unnamed (as far as I could tell) African country. To be frankly honest I was not entirely clear what was going on but I believe the Cubans are controlling this African country in conjunction with the Soviets and the African rebels are resisting.
I'm not sure what Nikolai's plan is exactly, but he storms into a bar already drunk. When he loudly kicks the door open nobody notices, but when he burps the whole bar goes silent. Then he goes around shoving people in the face, steals a soldier's machine gun and shoots the whole place up. (Property damage only.) He ends up in jail coincidentally in the same cell with an African rebel leader and a redneck American journalist played by the great M. Emmet Walsh. I'm not sure if he's supposed to kill the rebel leader or get in good with him but at any rate he sees his fellow communist comrades trying to execute him and suddenly decides to beat them up and help the two capitalists escape.
Right away we discover the weirdest motif in this picture: for some reason Little Richard music is like Kryptonite to commies. They hate the shit. All freedom loving Americans and African rebels like to play "Good Golly Miss Molly" and shit like that all the time. M. Emmet Walsh even plays it over a loudspeaker on a truck as they escape, which seems to help. The end credits plays Little Richard's "All Around the World," but they added in machine gun sounds and explosions. So it's a not so subtle warning that we are gonna import our rock 'n roll to every last corner of the earth. The rock 'n roll is a metaphor for capitalism and freedom, and the machine gun and bomb sound effects are a metaphor for actual machine guns and bombs.
Walsh plays an obnoxious character like usual but I think he's supposed to be your buddy because he's always talking about things like how you're allowed to fucking curse all the time in America because of freedom of speech. So he's a good American but as a journalist he seems a little suspect though, he goes around making recordings not talking about the facts of what's going on so much as stating his opinion that it's an outrage. God bless him for putting in 110% but you'd think maybe it would be smarter to stay at home if he's just writing editorials.
The African and the American don't trust Nikolai at first, even after multiple instances of running around Rambo style, killing entire platoons that are after him. Vast differences in marksmanship are always a key factor in these types of movies and fortunately it's the good guys who have the miraculous shooting skills and the bad guys who shoot like they got no hands and they can only use their stumps. It's not really explained why Nikolai is so fuckin badass, but his evil commie bosses expect alot of him, as if he's an android or something. I thought communism was supposed to be about the commune working together at the expense of the individual, but they always expect Dolph Lundgren to do everything by himself. And when he doesn't, they chain him up and beat him. Ironically, right wingers in the '80s imagined commies doing the same type of pervy shit that they themselves are known for now.
Of course I am a man who would be proud to enjoy a Dolph Lundgren picture, but I can't deny that this one is mostly a snoozefest. Most of the action doesn't have too much momentum to it, it's just spraying machine gun fire and various vehicles exploding. More importantly though there's just these long drawn out scenes where not much is happening. You have to see tired-eyed Dolph stumbling drunk, stumbling tortured, stumbling dazed through the desert, etc. Also one thing about Dolph, he doesn't have all that much charisma. I mean honestly, I bet this guy is fascinating in real life. He's highly educated with degrees in everything from martial arts to chemical engineering. It's gotta be interesting to talk to a guy that is actually smart but seems dumb enough that he could play Ivan Drago and Red Scorpion. And at the very least he's gotta have some good stories to tell about dating Grace Jones and maybe James Brown on the set of ROCKY IV and of course Jack Abramoff.
But on film he's just a real tall piece of meat. Especially when he has to fake a Russian accent. He does better than most of the other guys in the movie, though. How are you supposed to believe Brion James is Russian? And even he does better than the guys playing Cubans. Except for Walsh and some genuine Africans, EVERYBODY in this movie is badly faking an accent, and that can be tedious.
There's a couple good bits though. One part, he's acting all sexy taking his shirt off to go swimming and all the sudden a bomb drops behind him causing him to flip into the water. But silly shit like that is the exception to the rule. The movie only picks up about 2/3 of the way through when he has a Billy Jack experience in the desert. I figured RED SCORPION was just supposed to be a badass title, but then he literally gets stung by a scorpion and passes out in the desert, hangs out with some bushmen and then they trick him into drinking scorpion juice and carve a scorpion design onto his chest while he's passed out, possibly experiencing some sort of African vision quest. So I guess that's why he's the Red Scorpion, he comes from Russia and he drank scorpion juice once. I guess it is also possible that the actual scorpion who stung Dolph is the red scorpion, but if he is red I don't know why he would sting a fellow red like Dolph. Especially if he knew it was going to help Dolph undergo a complete transformation of morals and economic systems. Come to think of it neither the scorpion or Dolph are red by the end of this adventure. So it should probaly just be called Scorpion.
Also by the way, commies are also called pinkos, so it could also be called PINK SCORPION. I wonder if they ever considered that.
After his scorpionation, he emerges from the desert to lead a rebellion against the Cubans and Soviets and whoever else it is that is the bad guys. You're not really able to see his new scorpion scar but he is clearly a changed man because now he wears really short shorts. Who wears short shorts? Dolph Lundgren wears short shorts. One of the communists he fights is wearing no shirt, so it is really kind of tragic, I bet these two inappropriately dressed Russians have alot in common. But instead of sitting down in a bar together and telling stories about the battles they've fought and the strange juices they've drunk, they find themselves eyeball to eyeball in the battlefield, or actually in this case, in a hallway.
I should mention that at this point M. Emmet Walsh has driven in in a vehicle to lend a good ol' American helping hand in the battle, but he is not present during the short-shorts vs. shirtless fight. If he was I bet he would say some shit like "no shoes, no shirt – no mercy."
On the surface the movie is pretty harmless. We've all seen the overblown communist threat action movies of the '80s, and this isn't as over the top as RED DAWN or something. But the movie's subject matter is another example of short sighted foreign policy, obsessing over one bad guy so much that we end up supporting a different bad guy that will later come bite us on the ass. RED SCORPION doesn't have to be as embarassed as Rambo must be about working with the mujahadeen in part 3. But according to Salon the Abramoff brothers (who wrote the story and hired first time writer Arne Olsen, who would go on to write COP AND A HALF starring Burt Reynolds) based their fictional African country on Angola and their rebel leader on Jonas Savimbi. In the movie he's a straight forward hero, in real life he was blamed for murders and later for a civil war that cost thousands of lives. And really you've got to be suspicious of any black movement propped up by apartheid South Africa. Because that's fishy, in my opinion.
Which brings me to the truly sinister side of RED SCORPION revealed in the Salon article. No one disputes that the tanks and other military props in the movie were supplied by South Africa. The article also says that no one knows where the Abramoffs got the funding for the movie, but many (including members of the cast) believe it came from South Africa. Abramoff and guys like him worked with the South African government because they thought they were the last chance to stop communism from spreading through Africa. That's why Dick Cheney for example would vote against a resolution condemning apartheid. Not because he HATES black people. Just because he hates communism, and doesn't CARE about black people. So don't worry, he is not a bigot – just a horrible, heartless, inhuman sonofabitch with no soul or morals, who maybe saw Rocky 4 a couple too many times.
I think this story is worth remembering because looking back, it's hard to believe that even a piece of shit like Dick Cheney would've openly supported the South African government back then. But they did. They wanted to stop communism and they were willing to overlook fucking apartheid in their quest. If you can keep that in mind you can understand a little better why if he's really trying to stop the spread of Islamic fundamentalism he would do it by burning people alive with chemicals, raping children in prisons and other unorthodox/insane/counterproductive methods. Because you can't make an omelette without shoving electrodes up an egg's ass and throwing its son naked in the back of a pickup truck and driving it around town in the cold night. Well actually you can but remember this guy likes apartheid so he makes weird omelettes.
And that's how the making of RED SCORPION is relevant today. Somebody call the Criterion company, this is a behind the scenes featurette I need to see.
In the Salon article Olsen says of the Abramoff brothers, "They wanted to get a message across, but at the same time they were going for exploitation and of course trying to make some money." Which is also a perfect description of Jack's later career as a lobbyist.
Abramoff apparently had little to do with the sequel, and one IMDB reviewer claims it has a pro-communist storyline. It's only on VHS and my video store doesn't have it so I'm shit out of luck. Anyway, maybe if that fucker gets out of jail alive he'll come back to Hollywood and make part 3. I'm not sure the current South African government would warm up to him as much as the old one, though.
UPDATE FROM THE FUTURISTIC YEAR OF 2018: Abramoff is no longer the only RED SCORPION producer/Republican operative to be connected to a huge scandal. Paul Erickson (who has no other credits) has been named (but not charged) in the indictment of accused Russian spy Maria Butina. He allegedly worked as a conduit between the alleged spy and alleged Republican politicians.
VERN has been reviewing movies since 1999 and is the author of the books SEAGALOGY: A STUDY OF THE ASS-KICKING FILMS OF STEVEN SEAGAL, YIPPEE KI-YAY MOVIEGOER!: WRITINGS ON BRUCE WILLIS, BADASS CINEMA AND OTHER IMPORTANT TOPICS and NIKETOWN: A NOVEL. His horror-action novel WORM ON A HOOK will arrive later this year.
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3 Responses to "Red Scorpion"
Indeed that Salon article was fascinating, the actor who wanted to remain unnamed but provided some details was i'm guessing Dolph. Because through his female agent spoke about payments and stuff. Like I said you can't blame the cast for the movie, the movie itself is a fairly lame movie but on the other than that I can't call Red Scorpion evil. It is ultimately fascinating though to see the villains you speak of (Cheney, and Rumsfield, well you didn't bring him up but he's still a villain) in 2006, and now 3 years later, it's become so universally accepted at just how evil the republican regime was. Indeed, the Abramoff scandal is really what compounded the reputation of how much of a crook these Republicans were. Of course, the true despicable part in Bush's whole presidency (Once again we survived, thank god.) isn't Abramoff, but rather the countless killed for big business profit, the wiretapping, Huricane Katrina's response and of course a president on vacation half of the time. In that regard, we were like the Detroit Lions, and W was Matt Millen. Like them, it took a bottoming out before we finally realized something was a miss, despite the writing was there much sooner. Like I said, sorry to get political, this is your only review that put me off from my neutral stand in politics in writing.
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these right wing fantasies from the 80's are just great. is there any '-sploitation' label for these?
highlight must be the final battle announcement "let's kick some ass". dolph acts so wooden in this one it's just art, literally big piece of meat. this one is directed by joseph zito and if you are a fan of his work with chuck norris, you just love this too.
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