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Iggy Pop, Siouxsie & The Banshees
THE DISCO THAT WAS DIFFERENT
A killer riff, the perfect punk rock 'n' roll riff, written by Ricky Gardiner. Iggy, narrator and punk outsider, riding around Mitteleuropa in David Bowie's car, seeing the city's ripped backside, the hollow sky and everything else, through the window of the car. Little touches can make such a difference in recordings- note the bell ringing at the start. I read somewhere that The Passenger is Johnny Marr's favourite song. A song that is both impossibly exciting and as numb as it can be.
I really can't better Swiss Adam's description from the Iggy Pop ICA.
mp3 : Iggy Pop – The Passenger
I will always associate The Passenger with Friday and Saturday nights in the Student Union of Strathclyde University, 1982-1985. Please indulge me… and some of the details may be slightly wrong as it is now almost 35 years since I last set foot in the building (except on one occasion in 1995 when I had reason to visit with a politician whom I was working for at the time).
The building is eight levels in height. The first level had a games room, the second level had a bar and shop, immediately below a large canteen known officially as the dining room. Floors 4-7 were a mixture of bars, meeting rooms, a debating chamber, staff offices and places from where the likes of the student newspaper was produced. Level 8 was the home of a purpose built venue where bands played and discos took place….it was imaginatively called 'Level 8'.
In my first year at uni, I never ventured much beyond the dining hall/canteen, shop and bars. I was still living at home and a lot of my social life was based around where I stayed. I began to venture out a bit more in second year and then I was never away from the place in third and fourth years, thanks to my moving out of the parental home and into a flat less than 800 yards away from the front door of the union.
Level 8 was a great venue for bands and almost as good for the disco nights, where the music was a mix of the current chart stuff, disco classics, bands who were on the student union circuits and the occasional bit of what we were increasingly referring to as indie. The gender mix was 50/50 and it was the type of place where blokes plucked up the courage to ask an already gyrating female if they could temporarily invade their space – no words needed to be exchanged, and if the female wasn't up for it, she would simply turn her back on the bloke who would then shuffle awkwardly off to the side of the space and return to his drink. It was through such a method that I found myself of an evening when my 'asking' was accepted for a boogie by none other than Clare Grogan, only for me to blow it big time by talking to her during which I drunkenly asked for her hand in marriage, with my proposal turned down with the words 'Fuck off creep'.
But Level 8 wasn't the only place where you could enjoy a dance. As soon as the last student vacated the canteen on a Friday evening at 6pm, the tables and chairs were folded away and space was cleared for a decent sized dance floor with a raised platform brought in to host temporary DJ decks, all of which would remain in situ on the Saturday night, being put back into place by staff on a Sunday afternoon in time for Monday morning breakfasts.
Unlike up the stair on Level 8, there was no great lighting available and so the Dining Hall disco took on a cave-like appearance and feel, with the DJ making the conscious decision to play music that matched the ambience and atmosphere. It was also a venue where anything went as far as dancing, with no awkward shuffling up towards someone of the opposite sex and hoping they will take notice and/or pity on you. It wasn't too long before I found myself being wholly attracted by its charms.
The thing is with the DJ, he knew what his audience liked and wanted. It was as if he was a finely-honed band out on a world tour with what felt like the same set-list being churned out night after night after night after night. – A Forest, Love Will Tear Us Apart, I Travel, Heroes, Enola Gay, Hanging on The Telephone, The Cutter, London Calling, Ever Fallen In Love and The Passenger were guaranteed among many others….and quite often he would play the songs more than once on the same evening with folk coming in, maybe after having watched a band upstairs, and complaining that they had missed out on a particular favourite. It was within these confines where I learned that dancing alone is no crime and carries no shame…..a trait I've continued to adopt ever since, often to the horror of work colleagues at Christmas nights out who just think it is weird behaviour, especially by a 50+ fat, balding bloke…..
I love dancing to The Passenger. It's perfect for throwing all sorts of strange and awkward shapes, depending on whether you're keeping time with the riff or reacting to Iggy's vocal. It's just magical.
Not too many folk will be aware of the fact that it wasn't ever released as a stand-alone single in the UK until 1998, when it reached #22. It was only a b-side back in 1977 on the reverse side of this:-
mp3 : Iggy Pop – Success
Here's a cover version, from 1987, by another of the bands who were given a regular spin in the Dining Hall Disco:-
mp3 : Siouxsie & the Banshees – The Passenger
Iggy is known to like this version, having said during an interview with MTV in 1990 : "She sings it well and she threw a little note in when she sings it, that I wish I had thought of, it's kind of improved it…the horn thing is good."
Sorry Mr Osterberg, we will need to differ on this occasion.
IMPORTANT, YET INSIGNIFICANT
Fun 4 are an important and yet insignificant footnote in the development of indie-pop round these parts. The importance comes via who was involved in the band, the insignificance comes from the fact that their sole release wasn't very good.
Rev Thomas was the vocalist, James King played guitar, Colin McNeill was on bass and Steven Daly was the drummer. Their sole single was released on NMC Records in 1980:-
mp3 : Fun 4 – Singing In The Showers
I've only recently picked up a copy of the track, courtesy of its inclusion in the Big Gold Dreams boxset, with the accompanying booklet offering up some priceless info:-
Originally known as Rev Volting and the Backstabbers, The Fun 4's only gift to the world featured James King and Steven Daly, plus Colin McNeill and vocalist Rev Thomas. While King and McNeill went on to form James King and The Lone Wolves, Daly joined The Machetes. Along with that band's guitarist James Kirk, he wound up drumming in The Nu-Sonics, who eventually morphed into Orange Juice, who subsequently invented indie-pop as we know it. Daly and Kirk went on to form Memphis, before a move into journalism saw Daly write for Rolling Stone and becoming music editor of Spin magazine. Daly became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and has also written two books, Alt.Culture and The Rock Snob's Dictionary.
Simon Goddard's book on the birth and development of Postcard Records makes passing reference to the single, observing that Steven Daly had gone down with Alan Horne to London to catch Subway Sect play live after which the plan had been to take Grant McLennan and Robert Foster of The Go-Betweens back to Glasgow to get them involved with the label. In doing so, Steven also took down some boxes of the Fun 4 single in the hope that the Rough Trade record shop would agree to stock and sell it. The shop did take a small number of copies but the record was doomed after very lukewarm reviews in the music press in which the band were written off as very poor Ramones imitators, which is fair enough; it was probably also tedious to listen to such an obvious effort to offer up a shock factor that these weren't the type of showers in which people would want to sing.
Like many other bands of the era, there's a lot more myth than truth surrounding them, albeit the story provided in the press release that accompanied the single makes for entertaining reading:-
The original Fun 4 were formed two years ago. The history of the band reads like a trash short story. On their debut, supporting the Rezillos, Bob Last was so moved he tried to strangle the drummer and Faye Fife thought it was the most unpleasant night she'd experienced.
Then Sham 69 had the misfortune to play top over the Fun 4 on Jimmy Pursey's birthday. The Fun 4 must be one of the few bands to terrorise a Sham audience. Reacting to a stage invasion with cans and guitars reducing poor little Jimmy's celebration to chaos with the bizarre twist of audience as the victim.
Inevitably John Cale was drawn to these scenes of weirdness and demo tapes were submitted. However, since these tapes were bedroom cassette studio quality, it was just a little too off the wall for Mr. Cale.
In the best trash tradition, the Fun 4 burnt themselves out. After an April Fool's gig in 1978 in Edinburgh, certain members were ejected from the van and the band at 3am, 50 miles from Glasgow.
And so to 1979.
The Fun 4 reunited and determined to wipe out the 70's ties, locked themselves in the cheapest studio available and emerged with three trash classics. The recording quality might leave little to be desired but the band commandeered the mix and accept the blame. The results are available on their own label NMC Records, named after a famous book about Glasgow (No Mean City).
To sum up The Fun 4 sound, it is straight from the streets of Glasgow with all that entails.
I've dug very deep to find copies of the two tracks that made up the b-side, but alas, could only come up with one of them:-
mp3 : Fun 4 – Elevator Crash
At the risk of boring you with repeated sayings, important yet insignificant.
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THE GREATEST B-SIDE OF ALL TIME?
It was hearing this song coming out of a radio as I passed a local shop the other day that inspired the posting. I have always associated A Change Is Gonna Come with my days in student activism, thinking it was the perfect soundtrack to my miniscule role in ridding the world of atomic weapons and bringing about the end of the despicable system of apartheid in South Africa. It was a song that, when I was particularly drunk, could bring tears to my eyes, given the seemingly simple nature of its message against the seemingly impossible task of achieving significant change.
mp3 : Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
My intention was to have this posting headed up 'NEVER SETTLE FOR STATUS QUO' which I thought worked on a couple of levels. It was only when I looked into the history of the song did I learn that it was only issued as a b-side in the USA in 1964 and similarly in the UK in 1965. As such, there is surely some justification for calling it the greatest of all time in respect of that genre.
The other thing I hadn't realised was that Sam Cooke only ever performed the song once in his lifetime. It had been recorded on 30 January 1964 and just a week later was aired on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The singer hadn't been keen to do so, but was persuaded by his manager after the promise that it would involve a full string section performing in the TV studio. Sadly, NBC did not keep a tape of this truly historic performance.
The album for which the track had been recorded, Ain't That The Good News, was released on 1 March 1994. The fact that Sam Cooke wasn't keen to perform the song, in part because of the complexity of its arrangement, most likely had a lot to do with the fact that it remained an album track only throughout the year, albeit it received a great number of radio plays and had been picked up as an anthem by the civil rights movement.
RCA decided that it should be be the b-side to a new song that Sam Cooke had just recorded with it to be released just before Christmas 1964.
mp3 : Sam Cooke – Shake
We will never know if the singer had changed his mind about performing A Change…in the live setting or within the confines of a TV studio as he was shot dead in tragic and bewildering circumstances in a Los Angeles motel on 11 December 1964.
The release of the single went ahead and it became a posthumous Top Ten hit in the USA in February 1965.
YOU'VE GOT TO TOLERATE ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT YOU HATE
From wiki:-
Juxtapozed with U" is the thirteenth single by Super Furry Animals. It was the first single to be taken from the Rings Around the World album and reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart on its release in July 2001.
It was inspired by the Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder track "Ebony and Ivory" as well as the work of Marvin Gaye and Caetano Veloso. The track was originally conceived as a duet, with the band approaching both Brian Harvey from East 17, and Bobby Brown to sing alongside Gruff Rhys. Both turned the band down so Rhys sang the verses through a vocoder to imitate another person, something which he has described as a "very schizophrenic thing to do".
Rhys has claimed his lyrics address social injustice and are about "house prices going up, and people being left behind by the super rich". The song has echoes of the Philadelphia soul music of the 1970s as well as David Bowie's "plastic" approximation of the sound on his 1975 album Young Americans. The group tried to make the song as "plastic" as possible: "if we'd tried to make it sound authentic, it would have been awful."
According to Rhys the band were keen to challenge people's opinions of them with the track which is a "shocking song, because you can't shock with loud guitars any more" and, as a polished uplifting pop song, is "fairly subversive" when contrasted with the macho guitar music which the band felt was prevalent in 2001.
It's a song that got a lot of critical acclaim and in reaching #14, it provided the band with their second biggest hit to that point in time (Northern Lites had got to #11 two years previously while Golden Retriever would later become the second-best performing single, hitting #13 in 2003).
mp3 : Super Furry Animals – Juxtaposed With U
Having said that, it wasn't one which found much favour with our old friend and native of Wales, the Robster, who made the observation that both of its b-sides were better:-
mp3 : Super Furry Animals – Tradewinds
mp3 : Super Furry Animals – Happiness Is A Worn Pun
Indeed, Robster included both songs in his Super Furry Animals ICA, which appeared as far back as June 2015. It was an ICA with a difference as it consisted solely of b-sides, all of which were top quality. Here's what he said about the above two songs:-
Tradewinds : A cool funky reggae sound with a hazy psychedeleic bent. It was the b-side of what was at the time my least favourite Furries single. While the a-side has grown on me over time, I was always a fan of Tradewinds
Happiness Is A Warm Pun : Bowie circa Aladdin Sane could have written this. He'd have probably left out the Sasquatch though. Bit too strange for Dave, I reckon. Both b-sides of Juxtaposed With U are still better than the lead track.
I miss the Robster. He's a great writer with a real love for his music, never afraid to offer an opinion that goes against the grain.
I've sent him a link to this posting in the hope that he reads it and perhaps gets him in the mood for another guest posting or two
Auteurs, Luke Haines
BONUS POSTING : ESPECIALLY FOR ECHORICH : A FURTHER SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF LUKE HAINES
Echorich is an incredibly valued member of the TVV community, and when I picked up this comment just a few minutes ago, I really had to respons in the only way possible:-
All the songs that surround the release of Now I'm A Cowboy are what I go back to when listening to The Auteurs. There is so many songs that remind me of the sounds I heard growing up on music from the Downtown NYC music scene. Bits of Johnny Thunders, lots of Television, but filtered through what was then current music tropes. I think back and wonder how legendary The Auteurs might have been if they were around playing CBGB's in '76 or '77.
Not sure if you will include this, but my favorite track from Now I'm A Cowboy, Underground Movies, was only released as a single in either France or Germany. I can't believe it wasn't release EVERYWHERE as an album single. Listening to it again today reminds me of how engaging and timeless it is. It also contains one of the best lyrics I have ever heard –
Four weeks later in April
I took her to the doctors
Said, "I've no prescription
For compromised solution" – MAGIC!
I hadn't intended to feature it in the series as, to the best of my knowledge, it was only a CD promo single in France, a country where The Auteurs were highly popular, even more so than they were in the UK. But for Echorich, and also reflecting that two different mixes (more rock orientated and radio-friendly!!) had been made available:-
mp3 : The Auteurs – Underground Movies (alternative version)
mp3 : The Auteurs – Brainchild (alternative version)
THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF LUKE HAINES (8)
Oasis go top 10 with their new single Cigarettes & Alcohol. But the chart isn't quite Britpop crazy just yet. The Top 5 slots are held by Take That, Pato Banton, Whigfield, Bon Jovi and Cyndi Lauper. Elsewhere, singles by Madonna, Elton John, Wet Wet Wet, Boyz II Men, Gloria Estefan, Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey, R Kelly and East 17 are riding high. It's not a vintage week and Luke Haines is probably very glad not being asked by his label to compete.
But in the absence of a third single from Now I'm A Cowboy, he comes up with an idea to get The Auteurs noticed in a completely different market place. And Hut Records go for it.
Here's wiki:-
The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq is a remix EP from British intelligent dance music producer μ-Ziq (a.k.a. Mike Paradinas). It was released October 1994, on Hut Records in the UK then released as μ-Ziq vs. the Auteurs on Astralwerks in the US during February 1995. μ-Ziq remixes tracks from the "Now I'm a Cowboy" album by The Auteurs, about which in his memoir Bad Vibes, singer Luke Haines claimed this album to be his version of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music —that it was deliberately unlistenable and mocking the critics who gave it great reviews.
μ-Ziq at this point was still very much an underground name, whose work was incredibly experimental (in later years he would come to the fore as one of the pioneers of mixing electronic music with drum'n'bass and creating a different sort of sound for clubbers). His work with The Auteurs was the first time he has been commissioned by a mainstream label, and I've no doubt that he was selected specifically by Luke Haines for his uncompromising approach to the project. Judge for yourself:-
mp3 : The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq – Lenny Valentino 3 (8:09)
mp3 : The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq – Daughter of A Child (6:10)
mp3 : The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq – Chinese Bakery (4:51)
mp3 : The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq – Underground Movies (4:40)
mp3 : The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq – Lenny Valentino 1 (12:27)
I've put the times in of each track….you'll see that the two-minute masterpiece that was Lenny Valentino got stretched out a fair bit. I can't imagine the EP got any plays on BBC Radio 1………
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SATURDAY'S SCOTTISH SONG : #181 : THE LANTERNS
Today's song must have been one that I picked up from another blog at some point in the dim and distant past as I have no recollection of The Lanterns, despite them being singed to Columbia Records and releasing three singles and an album in 1999. They group was centred around songwriter/musician Jim Sutherland and vocalists Sylvia and Gina Rae.
Here's a link to a piece in The Guardian, from July 1999, which provides a detailed backstory.
mp3 : The Lanterns – High Rise Town
In a nutshell, it's two girls with distinctive Scottish brogues, singing about their own urban surroundings in a less salubrious part of Edinburgh, over the sort of mid-paced dance tune that was all the rage at the tail end of the 20th Century. I have no idea what became of the Rae sisters, but Jim Sutherland remains heavily involved in music and culture in Scotland, especially in the field of traditional and folk music, as well as the composition of scores for films, tv and theatre productions.


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DVD of the Week: Colin (2008)
Posted on November 1, 2010 February 3, 2019 by Kenneth George Godwin
I recently opined about the trend in "found-footage" horror movies, a sub-genre which makes explicit reference to its own origins in the availability of inexpensive video equipment. But of course, not all filmmakers who pick up a small camcorder are interested in that kind of self-reflexive activity. Some just want to make a movie.
This week I stumbled on a very low budget British horror film (the filmmakers claim a £45 budget) called Colin (2008), which turns out to be one of the best non-George Romero zombie movies of recent years. I'm not sure that this kind of thing is what Coppola had in mind with his comment about the future of film being adolescent girls with camcorders, but writer-director Marc Price and his collaborators seem to have a cheerful do-it-yourself attitude which, combined with a genuine awareness of genre conventions and how to play with them, give Colin a freshness and emotional weight rare in this kind of filmmaking.
Given that mainstream movies in general have become flashier and slicker in the past couple of decades, with audiences primed for technical polish (which often obscures conceptual and narrative weaknesses), it's interesting to ask just where a movie like Colin fits in. It's so relentlessly lo-fi that the images are often a real eyesore – this has nothing of the aesthetic richness of David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE for instance, a major feature also shot on low-end video equipment. Colin's images frequently break up into a blurry mess of pixels. In fact, a friend I recommended the DVD to turned it off after a few minutes because he found it unwatchable.
But paradoxically, this coarseness is one of the film's strengths. The seeming amateurishness of the imagery when combined with the strength of the narrative and the conception of the central character, gives it the peculiar sense of unmediated realism we get from watching home movies, the impression of direct access to the events being depicted. But Price's film differs from the found-footage genre because he's using his camera in a traditional story-telling way, not as an active participant in the film but as a detached observer of the story.
While the technical quality of Colin, at least for me, adds to the conviction of the storytelling, what I really like about the film is the story itself. Price has chosen to remake the standard zombie film from the point-of-view of the zombie, and in so doing has gone one better than the masterful Romero, who has only hinted at the existential condition of the undead in his works (which are all more interested in the behaviour of the human characters in extreme situations). Colin is the grown-up stepchild of Bub from Day of the Dead, and Price's unforced observation of the character (in a nuanced performance by Alastair Kirton) creates a poignant drama of loss and hopelessness.
It`s a shock when we get to the big sequence in which an organized group of survivors attack and destroy a shambling cluster of zombies, among whom Colin briefly finds himself, to realize that we now completely empathize with the zombie rather than the humans. When the film comes full circle to show us in flashback how Colin himself became a zombie, we get a strangely tender scene in which it`s a very human act of love and compassion that condemns him.
I suppose my point here is actually the same one I've held to for years: it's not the technology used by filmmakers, the production values that money can buy, that makes a movie worthwhile. In the end, what really matters is the story being told and the narrative skills of the storyteller.
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Rocking hard is what The Unforgiven does best. They take their audiences on a trip through 25 years of history of the most influential metalband in the world. Both the most beautiful ballads (Nothing Else Matters/The Unforgiven) and the fastest songs (Blackened/Damage Inc.) will be played. Apart from the biggest hits (One/Enter Sandman) The Unforgiven also plays it's very own Metallica Medley. Both the most dedicated Metallica fans and the true music lovers will enjoy this trip.


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Free Baseball
On May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019 By K. S. WattsIn Mom Life, SportsLeave a comment
When most fans talk about free baseball, they mean the game has gone into extra innings. For those of you who are not fans of "the sportsball" that's the equivalent of overtime in baseball speak. But this week, my experience with free baseball was a little different.
My alma mater (Mississippi State University) has a storied baseball program. We also have a shiny, newly rebuilt and redesigned stadium. Dudy Noble Field has been the home of Bulldog baseball for decades, and its latest incarnation–lovingly called The New Dude–is a thing of wonder. We have been itching to take the kids to a game there all season, but until this week hadn't quite made it work.
On Tuesday night, the Bulldogs played an extra game. It was added to the schedule only two weeks ago. Admission was entirely free for everyone. Instead, the university asked for something a little different. Let me back up a minute.
Last month, Ruston, Louisiana and the college that calls it home (Louisiana Tech) suffered significant damage thanks to a tornado. The south has experienced quite a few tornados this spring and there are several areas in need. Unfortunately, that means that the aid is spread pretty thin.
Now, I've talked about the chainsaw and casseroles brigade that marches through the south when people are in need of help. But sometimes, you still need something more. The baseball game this week aimed to provide that something.
The game was a fundraiser. Instead of admission, each fan was asked if they would or could donate a little something to the Salvation Army who is leading relief efforts in Ruston. No donation was too small (none was required, because we know not everyone can).
It was too much for us to pass up. My husband and I picked our kids up from school and drove down. We donated to the Salvation Army on the way into the park, got to experience the New Dude, ate hot dogs and nachos, and the kids even got a foul ball. A great time was had by all. I don't know what the totals were for donations that night, but I know they were changing out the donation buckets when we arrived at the field–a full forty-five minutes before the first pitch. Hopefully that means it was well worth it.
It certainly was for us.
My 5yo putting his donation in the bucket.
Free baseball at the New Dude and a valuable lesson on giving what we can to help those in need–priceless.


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Mr. Salil Mohanty
Mr. Salil Mohanty is a Senior Vice President at one of the world's leading investment banking, securities and investment management firms. He has over 22 years of experience in Operational transformation in the manufacturing, technology infrastructure and financial services domains.
Since the past 2 years he has been working with people from the LGBTQ+ community through his role as a leader of the LGBTQ+ Network in his firm, where he is focused on empowering the people from the community through training and employment opportunities.
Salil has roots in Odisha, was born and raised in Gujarat and has been living in South India since 2004.
Shri EL YANGER AIER
IFS (Retd.)
Mr. El Yanger Aier is a 'forester' by profession. After a short stint of working with the Govt. of Nagaland and Banking service (2 years in SBI as PO), he joined the Indian Forest Service in 1988.
Allotted to Odisha cadre, he worked in Odisha for the past 33 years (covering all the districts of Odisha), before his retirement on 31st December 2020. His favorite area of work is the community empowerment & community participation in biodiversity conservation. When he was a DFO, he spearheaded a team of community in successfully conserving and managing Blackbucks and peacocks in Ganjam district of Odisha.
Recognising their commendable efforts, the Government of Odisha awarded them the highest Forestry Award during the year 2005 & 2006 consecutively. At the time of his retirement, Sri Aier was the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests – cum – Director (Commercial) and Director (Operation) of Odisha Forest Development Corporation – the oldest and the largest Forest Corporation in India.
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Director, Corporate Social Responsibility – CGI, Asia Pacific Region
Mr. Lumde serves as the Corporate Social Responsibility Lead for CGI Asia Pacific. A professional with over 19 years of work experience in the areas of technology, education, women empowerment and sustainable initiatives. A graduate in Political Science and an alumnus of IIT Bombay.
Mr. Lumde is a Certified 'Systems Thinking' leader from Cornell University. And an author of a book: 'Corporate Social Responsibility in India: A Practitioner's Perspective' and contributed multiple chapters in the areas of Tech4Good and Tech4Education He is also an eminent Columnist with CSR journals: CSRTimes.Com, IndiaCSR.In and TheCSRJournal.
He has been a prestigious awardee of the CSR Author of the Year Award 2018 & CSR Professional of the Year Award 2016.
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Dr. Pankaj Khora is a highly respected luminary for his ingenious ideas for reforms in general medicine. His visionary leadership to make quality healthcare affordable for all has drawn much recognition.
He has done his MBBS from MKCG Medical College, Berhampur and MD in General Medicine from CMC Ludhiana , Punjab. He is currently serving as the professor in KIMS hospital; continuous in making tremendous reforms for about 34 years in his career acrossvarious non-commercial and commercial hospitals in Odisha. A philanthropist at heart, Dr.Khora contributes substantially to ORF in facilitating imparting quality healthcare facilities to the marginalized communities. Along with that he specializes in treating Lifestyle disorders and Geriatric patients.
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Ms Saira Achsah Sunny is a passionate volunteer and compassionate human being. She always looks for opportunities to serve the communities with her available resources, skills, and time. She holds a master's degree in Tourism Administration from Garden City Deemed to be University Bangalore. Though she has studied tourism but always lean towards education and training and that leads her to work in one of the reputed educational institutions in Bhubaneswar. She is an experienced trainer, content writer and a good communicator. She loves travelling, cooking and baking. She is striving hard to bridge the digital divide and promote STEM education for girls.
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Ketoki is a Registered Valuer, IBBI, Independent Director, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with a specialization in Financial Strategy from the Open University Business School, UK.
She has more than 3 decades of experience in Accounting, Management Consultancy and Training, having held various positions in corporate houses, consulting firms, and educational institutions.
She is currently an Independent Director, Raichur Power Corporation Ltd (a joint venture between BHEL and KPCL). She has successfully cleared the proficiency examination conducted by Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA). Ketoki is a speaker at conferences and workshops organized by professional bodies besides being a regular faculty for courses at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. For the last few years, she has been a jury member for FKCCI's business plan competition MANTHAN. She also trains corporate executives at various levels of management in different aspects of Finance and Accounting.
Ketoki, is Founder, Ketoki Basu & Associates (www.ketokibassociates.com), a Bangalore based firm that deals with financial strategy, product costing, business planning besides other financial support functions. The firm works with organizations of diverse functions, from start-ups to mid-size and assists organizations in the finance function.
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I'm a polymath with an obsession for learning. Professionally, I've been a software engineer, writer, and photographer. I've started 7 businesses, two of which are still operating – Power Level Studios and Forest Co. Most of my work experience resolves around my software engineering career and more recently around my writing career.
With software engineering, I've touched on all aspects, but mostly specialized in backend, data, and video games. You can find out more on my LinkedIn page.


Are Acne issues giving you a hard time? Are your Dark Circles not leaving your face? Are you facing a Pimple outbreak? Sick of your scars?
Obviously, you have made an effort to alleviate your issues with OTC medications, gels or creams purchased online or even home-based treatments and remedies. These approaches, even when they work, are just temporary solutions to skin issues that aren't always just skin-deep.
For these reasons and more, you need to consult with a reputable Skin Doctor in Gwalior today, with Cure Skin. But how can Cure Skin help? Read on!
Despite it being the largest organ of the human anatomy, our skin often gets ignored the most. Skin issues can end up causing an unpleasant appearance, perpetual discomfort, needless embarrassment as well as long-term health complications.
Gwalior, which is a Tier 1 city in Madhya Pradesh, is famous for its' tasty Kachori and for the Gwalior Fort that is popular amongst Gwaliorites and tourists alike. The Humid Subtropical climate conditions of Gwalior can trigger a host of unwanted skin problems and Gwaliorites are left struggling with looking to locate the right treatment for their issues.
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In Arunachal's rich and colourful flora and fauna orchids find a place of pride. Out of about a thousand species of orchids in India, over 500 are to be found in Arunachal Pradesh alone. These are colourful, spectacular and some bear exotic names such as Sita-Pushpa and Draupadi-Pushpa which were believed to have been worn by Sita and Draupadi for ornamentation.
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Palazzo della Mercanzia is located in the area where the old city customs used to be. On its left, the ancient palaces with wooden porticoes may be found (they recall the medieval aspect of Bologna) and from there, Torre Alberici (Alberici Tower) may be seen. The Alberici family built the tower in the 13th century. Unfortunately, its height (27 metres) has been hidden for a long time by a big and obscuring building. It was only in 1928 that the nearby houses were renovated thus giving the Tower the old visibility.
Fortunately, at present the evocative shop with wooden enclosures may be seen as well. According to some historians, it is the oldest one in Bologna, dating back to 1273. The walls of the tower were impoverished to make the inner area bigger than before. This let us think that the tower was even higher in the beginning. It may be possible that it was later reduced to make it lighter, when also its peak was turned into a turret. On the tower façade the traditional putlog holes may be seen: some of them were used for scaffolding, others were used to support the wooden beams on which walkways, staircases and attics were built; their purpose was to connect the various floors of the tower, or to connect the tower with the nearby houses and towers belonging to spouses or other families.


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Fed to take historic leap into the unknown
September 18, 2017 By Staff Editor
Move to sell assets from its balance sheet is a turning point for monetary policy
The Federal Reserve is set to take a leap into the unknown this week by beginning to sell some of the roughly $3.7 trillion of bonds and mortgage securities it amassed during the financial crisis.
The Fed will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday and is widely expected at the end of the meeting to announce it plans to allow the run-off of its massive balance sheet beginning sometime in October. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen will hold a press conference afterwards to explain the decision.
"It will be an historic day" for the Fed, said Lewis Alexander, chief U.S. economist at Nomura Securities, one the central bank has long thought about but was unsure when it would come.
And still the final destination is unknown.
"We are heading for a place that is very different from where we are now. It will take years to get there and figure out where we are," Alexander said.
Trying to keep financial markets calm, the Fed is not celebrating this turning point. Officials have openly admitting they have designed the first steps to be so small it will be like watching paint dry.
But economists have no doubt that bond yields will eventually move higher.
"The Fed is just hoping desperately it has been transparent enough so that the adjustment will be orderly," said Jim Glassman, head economist for the commercial bank at J.P. Morgan Chase.
The central bank is trying to avoid a repeat "taper tantrum," the swift run up of nearly 1 percentage point on the yield of the 10-year Treasury in 2013 after then-Chairman Ben Bernanke discussed the tapering of bond purchases for the first time.
Fed officials have known they would have to reverse course eventually. Hawks and doves agree the policy is not sustainable over the medium term because it potentially adds too much stimulus to a healthy economy.
Fed officials have concluded the economy is strong enough to withstand the tighter policy stance.
The Fed has put off the a key decision on how small the massive $4.5 trillion balance sheet should eventually be. This impacts the mechanics of how the Fed will conduct monetary policy in the future.
A small balance sheet would allow the Fed to return to the policy practice in place since the 1980s to target the Fed funds rate. The central bank would make small adjustments in reserves to fine-tune the federal funds rate..
A larger funds rate means the Fed has to use a reverse-repo rate to set a floor for policy.
A reverse repo is when the Fed accepts cash from counterparties such as banks and money-market funds on an overnight basis in return for a security. The Fed effectively uses the transactions to set a floor for rates.
Dudley said he expects the Fed will ultimately favor maintaining a floor-system. The temporary reverse-repo program had initially been seen as temporary but may be a permanent aspect of the operating regime.
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Energy And Information In Nature
Download Energy And Information In Nature Full eBooks in PDF, EPUB, and kindle. Energy And Information In Nature is one my favorite book and give us some inspiration, very enjoy to read. you could read this book anywhere anytime directly from your device.
The Energy of Nature
Author : E. C. Pielou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Filled with fascinating information and illustrations hand-drawn by the author, this volume opens readers' eyes to the myriad ways in which energy and its transfer affect the Earth and its inhabitants. 76 line drawings.
Energy Entropy and the Flow of Nature
Author : Thomas Fairchild Sherman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Energy, Entropy, and the Flow of Nature presents the essential principles of energetics (thermodynamics) in a straight-forward, easy to understand, and logically-consistent manner. As a student of physical chemistry and as a professor and researcher in biochemistry, physiology, and general biology, the author has seen the problems that arise for students, teachers, and researchers in mastering the laws of thermodynamics. These difficulties can be alleviated by a careful consideration of the historical roots of the ideas involved, and by recognizing that all natural change can be understood as a flow across a gradient of some kind. Part of the effect of every flow is to diminish its own gradient, but the decrease of one gradient can drive an increase in another. The book's mission is to build a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts of energetics and a confidence in going forth into the many areas that the study of energy opens up. In their applications, the laws of energy and entropy can often involve highly challenging problems and calculations, but the fundamental concepts addressed in this book are easy to understand and require relatively little mathematics.
Energy in Nature and Society
Author : Vaclav Smil
A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization and its environmental consequences. Energy in Nature and Society is a systematic and exhaustive analysis of all the major energy sources, storages, flows, and conversions that have shaped the evolution of the biosphere and civilization. Vaclav Smil uses fundamental unifying metrics (most notably for power density and energy intensity) to provide an integrated framework for analyzing all segments of energetics (the study of energy flows and their transformations). The book explores not only planetary energetics (such as solar radiation and geomorphic processes) and bioenergetics (photosynthesis, for example) but also human energetics (such as metabolism and thermoregulation), tracing them from hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies through modern-day industrial civilization. Included are chapters on heterotrophic conversions, traditional agriculture, preindustrial complexification, fossil fuels, fossil-fueled civilization, the energetics of food, and the implications of energetics for the environment. The book concludes with an examination of general patterns, trends, and socioeconomic considerations of energy use today, looking at correlations between energy and value, energy and the economy, energy and quality of life, and energy futures. Throughout the book, Smil chooses to emphasize the complexities and peculiarities of the real world, and the counterintuitive outcomes of many of its processes, over abstract models. Energy in Nature and Society provides a unique, comprehensive, single-volume analysis and reference source on all important energy matters, from natural to industrial energy flows, from fuels to food, from the Earth's formation to possible energy futures, and can serve as a text for courses in energy studies, global ecology, earth systems science, biology, and chemistry.
Civilization Critical
Author : Darrin Qualman
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Release : 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
The modern world is wondrous. Its factories produce ten thousand cars every hour and ten trillion transistors every second. We carry supercomputers in our pockets, and nearly a million people are in the air at any time. In Civilization Critical, Darrin Qualman takes readers on a tour of the wonders of the 21st century. But the great strength of our modern word is also its great weakness. Our immense powers to turn resources and nature into products and waste imperil our future. And plans to double and redouble the size of the global economy veto sustainability. So, is our civilization doomed? No. Doom is a choice. We can make different choices. Qualman demonstrates that a 19th- and 20th-century transition to linear systems and away from the circular patterns of nature (and of all previous civilizations) is the foundational error—the underlying problem, the root cause of climate change, resource depletion, ocean's full of plastics, and a host of mega-problems now intensifying and merging, with potentially civilization-cracking results. In this sweeping work, Qualman reinterprets and re-explains the problems we face today, and charts a clear, hopeful path into the future.
Frontiers in Water Energy Nexus Nature Based Solutions Advanced Technologies and Best Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Author : Vincenzo Naddeo,Malini Balakrishnan,Kwang-Ho Choo
This volume includes selected contributions presented during the 2nd edition of the international conference on WaterEnergyNEXUS which was held in Salerno, Italy in November 2018. This conference was organized by the Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED) of the University of Salerno (Italy) in cooperation with Advanced Institute of Water Industry at Kyungpook National University (Korea) and with The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI (India). The initiative received the patronage of UNESCO – World Water Association Programme (WWAP) and of the International Water Association (IWA) and was organized with the support of Springer (MENA Publishing Program), Arab Water Council (AWC), Korean Society of Environmental Engineering (KSEE) and Italian Society of Sanitary Environmental Engineering Professors (GITISA). With the support of international experts invited as plenary and keynote speakers, the conference aimed to give a platform for Euro-Mediterranean countries to share and discuss key topics on such water-energy issues through the presentation of nature-based solutions, advanced technologies and best practices for a more sustainable environment. This volume gives a general and brief overview on current research focusing on emerging Water-Energy-Nexus issues and challenges and its potential applications to a variety of environmental problems that are impacting the Euro-Mediterranean zone and surrounding regions. A selection of novel and alternative solutions applied worldwide are included. The volume contains over about one hundred carefully refereed contributions from 44 countries worldwide selected for the conference. Topics covered include (1) Nexus framework and governance, (2) Environmental solutions for the sustainable development of the water sector, (3) future clean energy technologies and systems under water constraints, (4) environmental engineering and management, (5) Implementation and best practices Intended for researchers in environmental engineering, environmental science, chemistry, and civil engineering. This volume is also an invaluable guide for industry professionals working in both water and energy sectors.
The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses. "There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil." —Bill Gates In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables. Power density—the rate of energy flux per unit of area—is an important but largely overlooked measure. Smil provides the first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of the power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, thermal electricity generation, and all common energy uses. Smil shows that careful quantification, critical appraisals, and revealing comparisons of power densities make possible a deeper understanding of the ways we harness, convert, and use energies. Conscientious assessment of power densities, he argues, proves particularly revealing when contrasting the fossil fuel–based energy system with renewable energy conversions. Smil explains that modern civilization has evolved as a direct expression of the high power densities of fossil fuel extraction. He argues that our inevitable (and desirable) move to new energy arrangements involving conversions of lower-density renewable energy sources will require our society—currently dominated by megacities and concentrated industrial production—to undergo a profound spatial restructuring of its energy system.
Applications of Nature Inspired Computing in Renewable Energy Systems
Author : Mohamed Arezki Mellal
Publisher : Engineering Science Reference
Renewable energy is crucial to preserve the environment. This energy involves various systems that must be optimized and assessed to provide better performance; however, the design and development of renewable energy systems remains a challenge. It is crucial to implement the latest innovative research in the field in order to develop and improve renewable energy systems. Applications of Nature-Inspired Computing in Renewable Energy Systems discusses the latest research on nature-inspired computing approaches applied to the design and development of renewable energy systems and provides new solutions to the renewable energy domain. Covering topics such as microgrids, wind power, and artificial neural networks, it is ideal for engineers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, practitioners, teachers, and students.
Possible Minds
Author : John Brockman
Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means to be human. "Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time: Good AI versus evil AI." --John Brockman More than sixty years ago, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener published a book on the place of machines in society that ended with a warning: "we shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions.... The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door." In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener's words again. In Possible Minds, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman's profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI--from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram--Possible Minds is an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The collision between opposing perspectives is salutary and exhilarating; some of these figures, such as computer scientist Stuart Russell, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and physicist Max Tegmark, are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others, notably robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and bestselling author Steven Pinker, have a very different view. Serious, searching and authoritative, Possible Minds lays out the intellectual landscape of one of the most important topics of our time.
The Nature of Information
Author : Paul Young
Publisher : Praeger Pub Text
ISBN : 0987650XXX
Young traces the evolution of the term information from its general linguistic use into the mainstream of modern science, proposing an entirely new definition of information as a mass-energy phenomenon. He demonstrates that: information is in all cases a form phenomenon; both form and information are mass-energy rather than abstract phenomena; mind can be viewed as a mass-energy rather form-manipulating process; form constitutes a mechanism immanent in the physical universe via which mass-energy systems can communicate informationally and control their own energetic activities.
Directing Mental Energy
Author : Francis M. Aveling
Release : 2013-08
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Cosmology 2020
Author : Michael L. Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Cosmology 2020 – The Current State offers the reader several fresh ideas on this topic. The first chapter presents an argument that, both in theory and in reality, one cannot ignore the microscopic world to concentrate on the Universe at only the galactic level. Then we have several chapters presenting new explanations for dark energy and dark matter based on reasonable physics at the atomic level. We cover the beginnings of artificial intelligence to model a cosmological phenomenon and a chapter pointing out that better results can be culled from SNe Ia and HII data when appropriate computerised analyses are applied. We think this book will add some new ideas to the libraries of many cosmologists and astrophysicists.
Maxwell s Demon 2 Entropy Classical and Quantum Information Computing
Author : Harvey Leff,Andrew F. Rex
Over 130 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the scope of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science, and links have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of
The Economic Superorganism
Author : Carey W. King
Energy drives the economy, economics informs policy, and policy affects social outcomes. Since the oil crises of the 1970s, pundits have debated the validity of this sequence, but most economists and politicians still ignore it. Thus, they delude the public about the underlying influence of energy costs and constraints on economic policies that address such pressing contemporary issues as income inequality, growth, debt, and climate change. To understand why, Carey King explores the scientific and rhetorical basis of the competing narratives both within and between energy technology and economics. Energy and economic discourse seems to mirror Newton's 3rd Law of Motion: For every narrative there is an equal and opposite counter-narrative. The competing energy narratives pit "drill, baby, drill!" against renewable technologies such as wind and solar. Both claim to provide secure, reliable, clean, and affordable energy to support economic growth with the most benefit to society, but how? To answer this question, we need to understand the competing economic narratives, techno-optimism and techno-realism. Techno-optimism claims that innovation overcomes any physical resource constraints and enables the social outcomes and economic growth we desire. Techno-realism, in contrast, states that no matter what energy technologies we use, feedbacks from physical growth on a finite planet constrain economic growth and create an uneven distribution of social impacts. In The Economic Superorganism, you will discover stories, data, science, and philosophy to guide you through the arguments from competing narratives on energy, growth, and policy. You will be able to distinguish the technically possible from the socially viable, and understand how our future depends on this distinction.
The Physiological Effects of Radiant Energy
Author : Henry Laurens
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Author : Daniel Yergin
"A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . ." —Wall Street Journal "It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here." —The Financial Times This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.
Author : William McDonough,Michael Braungart
Publisher : North Point Press
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are). Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, William McDonough and Michael Braungart make an exciting and viable case for change.
The True Nature of Energy Transforming Anxiety into Tranquility
Author : Diane Wing
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Gain a fresh perspective using the energies around you Have you ever walked into a room and felt like you wanted to leave right away? Ever met a person for whom you had an instant dislike for no apparent reason? Been around certain people and suddenly feel exhausted? People, animals, situations, objects, and environments contain and give off energy. The energies within and around you can be a major source of anxiety. To discover how to observe, interpret, and direct this abundant energy is to harness the power at your fingertips and create tranquility in your life. This book can guide you in that discovery. In "The True Nature of Energy," you will: Improve your relationship with yourself and others Remove unnecessary emotions and see more objectively Attract the right people and circumstances Clear old, outmoded energies from your life Increase self-trust, self-esteem, and self-confidence Learn to sense and direct the energies around you Enhance your natural intuitive ability Find out your vibrational level by taking the Wing Vibrational Scale Quiz Learn simple techniques to fully take charge of your life and your destiny. Acclaim for "The True Nature of Energy" "Clearly written and easy to understand. A tall order for a complex topic like this. Diane Wing's skills as a writer and energy worker are phenomenal. Highly recommended." --Lana McAra, best-selling, award-winning author writing as Rosey Dow. "I can thoroughly recommend this book as a guide to living. If Diane's way of seeing the world resonates with you, she will be able to help you to transform your life. In fact, reading the book in the process of editing it has changed me in positive ways. Her writing will do the same for you." --Bob Rich, PhD, author of "Ascending Spiral" Learn more at www.DianeWing.com From Marvelous Spirit Press www.MarvelousSpirit.com
Harnessing the Wheelwork of Nature
Author : Thomas Valone
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
Presents the compelling argument for Tesla's most ambitious project, the wireless transmission of power. A possible solution to the world power crisis.
Mother Nature s Two Laws Ringmasters for Circus Earth
Author : A D Kirwan Jr.
Every day brings a fresh barrage of bewildering claims about science and technology. How non-scientists tell the difference between the hyperbole and those developments that are important? With a modest amount of critical thinking, an understanding of how science is practiced, and a qualitative understanding of the two most sacred principles in science — the first and second laws of thermodynamics — anyone can make the distinction. Critical thinking and the practice of science are not emphasized in undergraduate science courses for non-scientists, while exposure to the first and second laws is usually reserved for physical science and engineering majors. This book introduces non-scientists to these topics and provides detailed applications to a variety of topics. Contents:Mother Nature's Two Laws: What Are They and Why Must We Heed Them?The Faces of EnergyThe Faces of EntropyThe Scientific Protocol and Critical ThinkingE4: Energy, Entropy, Economics, EnvironmentGlobal Warming?Circus Earth Follies, Critical Thinking, and the Scientific Protocol Readership: General. Keywords:Entropy;Energy;First and Second Laws;Thermodynamics;Laws of Thermodynamics;Distinguishability;Critical Thinking;Scientific Method;Scientific Protocol;Negentropy;Global Change;Ben & Jerry's Ice CreamReviews:"This book provides excellent examples of scientific critical thinking and a significant bibliography as a starting point for further study. Highly recommended for general reading, and required reading for undergraduate science majors."Choice
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Q: How to add 'requireNativeComponent' to exports? This is my first ever React Native app. I am trying to use MapView from react-native-maps, but am running into this error: "Attempted import error: 'requireNativeComponent' is not exported from 'react-native-web/dist/index'." I am viewing my app in web view (if that matters). I have installed and linked react-native-maps. Here is my current code:
import React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import MapView from 'react-native-maps';
import { requireNativeComponent } from 'react-native';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Text>Open up App.js to start working on your app!</Text>
    </View>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
});

And the errors:
C:/React/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native-maps/lib/components/MapView.js
Attempted import error: 'requireNativeComponent' is not exported from 'react-native-web/dist/index'.

C:/React/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native-maps/lib/components/decorateMapComponent.js
Attempted import error: 'requireNativeComponent' is not exported from 'react-native-web/dist/index'.

C:/React/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native-maps/lib/components/decorateMapComponent.js
Attempted import error: 'requireNativeComponent' is not exported from 'react-native-web/dist/index'.

A: I had the same problem, and finally i realised that this is due to the compatibility of MapView with web browser, you can check it in Platform Compatibility.
Probably you are trying to run this code in the web browser, so you will have this error due to the MapView import.
I suggest two options:
1- try to add this script to your index.html, replace the API_KEY with your Google Maps API:
<script
  async
  defer
  src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=API_KEY"
  type="text/javascript"
></script>

2-Change the way you test and run the app in some mobile device using expo, normally it will work well.


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Netflix Increasing US, Canada Prices With Competition GrowingNetflix is raising prices for its video streaming customers in the U.S. and Canada, less than a year and a half since its last price increase, as competition from other streaming services increases.
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Settlement Reached In Michigan Housing Discrimination Case
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DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – Federal officials say they've reached an agreement with owners and operators of seven Michigan apartment complexes to resolve allegations that they discriminated against families with children.
The Justice Department and the U.S. attorney's offices in Detroit and Grand Rapids announced the agreement on Thursday. It requires court approval and includes a settlement fund of $20,000 for victims and $5,000 in civil penalties paid to the government.
A federal lawsuit filed last year alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act in Lansing, East Lansing and other Lansing-area communities. It said that the rental manager and owners prohibited families with children from renting one-bedroom units in the apartment complexes.
The case came after the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan sent people to ask about rentals. Testers who said that they wanted to rent an apartment with their child were told that children were not allowed in one-bedroom units. The Fair Housing Center filed a lawsuit, which was resolved separately.
Complexes included in the suit are: Parkside East Apartments in East Lansing; Holt Manor Apartments and C and H Apartments in Holt; Kelly Manor Apartments in Owosso; Camelot Apartments in Lansing; Pine Cove Apartments in DeWitt; and Park Place Apartments in Williamston. The agreement also requires that defendants inform tenants of their new nondiscriminatory policies and provide training on the Fair Housing Act to their staff and agents.
"Adequate housing is a fundamental need for families and equal access to that housing must be protected," U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles Jr. said in a statement. "Our ongoing actions to enforce the Fair Housing Act provide that protection."
This case was handled jointly by the Civil Rights Division's Housing and Civil Enforcement Section and the U.S. Attorneys' Offices of the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan.
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Are you looking for mediator or has your attorney set up a mediation with a mediator? Should you care if this mediator is Qualified by the Court?
You can be sure they have specific training in mediation skills.
They are held to an Ethical Code for mediators.
You can be assured they have recent training and experience conducting mediation.
They are part of the mediation community and are giving back to the community by providing pro bono work each year.
In truth the standards are not extremely high, but they have been set as a minimum standard for those being qualified by the court to mediate. There are many mediators in the community who have not completed the required training and are therefore not included on the roster. Some of these providers are experienced attorneys, therapists or retired judges or commissioners. The questions is, why should someone who has experience in another field be required to complete training in mediation? The answer is simple….. Mediation is Mediation, it is not acting as an advocate, therapist or judge and the skills used in those professions are often antithetical to the skills used by a mediator.
In most training programs for mediators, those being trained are encouraged to refrain from inserting their opinions or ideas into the disputes in which they are serving as mediator. For those who have spent their careers doing the opposite, training and practice is needed to develop new skills. With training, mediators are exposed to new skills and ways to facilitate negotiation and they practice these new skills in the training program as well as when getting the required experience to qualify for the court roster. Without this training and experience, many of those who practice mediation and have never been trained as a mediator are a "one trick pony." I was recently talking with a local family law attorney who has attended mediation with me and with a mediator who is not qualified on the court roster (this person was a retired judicial officer). The family law attorney expressed to me that the other mediator only had one intervention to try to get parties to settle and that was to tell them what they believed would happen in court and scare them into settlement. In comparison, a mediator who has training has many different interventions they are taught to try to get parties to settle, non of which are to tell the parties what to do. Mediation is a process which is built on party self-determination, when parties are scared by a possible outcome in court, their self-determination is taken away and fear of the unknown takes over.
One of the requirements to be qualified as a mediator in Utah is to take and pass an exam on the Ethical Code for mediators Ethical Code for Mediators in Utah. In addition, mediators on the Utah court roster are putting themselves under the scrutiny of the Court ADR Director to ensure they follow the Ethical Code. Why in the world would you want to work with someone who is not willing to follow their professions Ethical Code and be held to those standards? As a mediator, I have heard horror stories about things a non-court roster mediator has done, and there is no action that can be taken to help correct as issue if it arises in your case. Basically, if you work with a mediator who is not on the court roster, you run the risk of having no recourse if they act unethically (other than to pursue something civilly). If a mediator who is on the court roster has Public or Private sanctions imposed for ethical violations, those must be made public and are noted on the Utah State Court Roster; Public Sanctions Private Sanctions. Mediators not on the roster can hide behind any breach of the ethical code and by doing this may continue to engage in unethical behavior with no recourse or public notice. By working with a mediator on the court roster, you can be assured they are familiar with the ethical code and if they breach it, will be held accountable for this and not be allowed to continue this behavior unchecked.
For a mediator to re-qualify for the Utah State Court Roster each year they must complete a minimum of 6 hours of training in the field of mediation or conflict resolution. The field of mediation is in it's beginning stages and new findings and ideas come out every year. The Court requires that mediators complete a minimum of 6 hours of continuing education each year; this helps ensure that mediators stay current in the field and encourages them to learn and develop new skills.
When you choose a mediator who is not on the Court Roster, you run the risk of working with some one who is behind the times. There is so much research coming out regarding neuroscience, how the brain works and how people make decisions. Mediators should keep up on these new findings so they can grow along with the field instead of staying stuck in the past.
Mediators who are on the court roster are required to document a minimum of 3 pro bono ( done for the public good without compensation) cases each year. This requires mediators to not only make a living in the community but give back to the community as well. Ask mediators you are considering hiring if they do volunteer work as a mediator, are they giving back to the community or just taking?
So, the choice is yours. Do you want to work with a mediator who meets the Utah State Court requirements to qualify as a mediator? Or are you OK working with someone who is calling themselves a "mediator" because it is a popular term and yet they have no training or skills?
I agree. I recall facilitating a mediation for a client who had attended a previous mediation. Her first experience was much different. When she described that process, I would not have called it mediation.
I do think some mediators have the training but don't bother to become placed on the court roster. The requirements for the roster do go quite a ways to filter out the untrained and keep mediators growing in their skills. I think basic mediation training programs should emphasize the points you have made and be encouraged to help their graduates apply for the court roster.


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Bertram & Castlefield Vegas Complete the Double with Win in $137,000 IDA Development Grand Prix CSI 3*
By jumpernews01 on 22 22America/Sao_Paulo February 22America/Sao_Paulo 2021
Wellington, Florida, USA – February 21, 2021 – Opening the final day of week six at the 2021 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), it was Bertram Allen (IRL) and Castlefield Vegas, owned by Martin Egan, taking the top spot in the $137,000 IDA Development Grand Prix CSI 3* held on the grass Derby Field at Equestrian Village, a part of the Palm Beach Interntional Equestrian Center (PBIEC).
In the first round of Sunday's grand prix, the final line on course featured a triple combination [vertical, oxer, vertical] followed by five strides down to the IDA Developments oxer, the final jump on course. This combination of jumps proved to be one of the most difficult sections of the track designed by Catsy Cruz (MEX). A starting field of 45 combinations challenged the course, with 18 qualifying to return for the jump-off.
Fresh off their victory in the Adequan® WEF Challenge Cup on Friday, Allen and the 11-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding (Cassino x Lux Z) did it again, putting forth a blistering double-clear effort to stop the clock in 37.10 seconds.
"I knew I just had to give it everything I had," said the 26-year-old rider. "I didn't watch Nayel's round, but I was talking to a few people and they said it was very fast and my guy is naturally fast, so my plan was to just be as fast as I could be without doing anything crazy. It all came up great. Friday was the biggest class he's [Castlefield Vegas] jumped so far, and he won that, so I was delighted. Today I was interested to see how he would go along with that. He jumped great, and I had a good feeling."
Nayel Nassar (EGY) & Igor van de Wittemoere
Less than three-tenths of a second off the leader, Egypt's Nayel Nassar (EGY) rode Igor van de Wittemoere, owned by Evergate Stables, LLC, to a second-place finish. Nassar and the 13-year-old gelding (Cooper VD Heffinck x Orlando 96), also posted a double-clear round in 37.39 seconds. The pair has been together for about a year now so their success on Sunday comes as a very exciting step in the right direction.
"It has been a bit of a process trying to get him going the way I would like him to," said the 30-year-old rider. "He has a ton of energy and so much blood, and sometimes he tends to rush the jumps a bit. We've been messing around with bridles and doing a lot of flatwork just to try to get him to switch a few gears, and I was so pleased with him today. He jumped the first round spectacularly and came back to jump the jump-off even better. I thought we had it won, but this guy [Bertram] is pretty darn fast. We are so happy with the result and just very pleased with how he's coming along."
Paul O'Shea (IRL) & Skara Glen's Chancelloress
Rounding out the top three it was Paul O'Shea (IRL) and Skara Glen's Chancelloress, owned by Skara Glen Stables, leaving all the jumps in their cups in a time of 38.35 seconds. O'Shea and the 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare (Chacco Blue x Balou du Rouet) had a successful week overall, after also finishing third in Friday's qualifier.
"I thought it was a great course," said O'Shea, who is ranked 40th in the world. "I was very happy with my mare. She was good the other day too, so I think we went as quick as we could. I'm very happy with her, and at least another Irishman won! Bertram's horse is co-owned by a very good friend of mine, so it's great to see them going so well."
Bertram Allen (IRL) & Castlefield Vegas
Allen, who sits 46th in the world rankings, echoed the praise of other international competitors of the quality of the turf, after racking up three wins to date with Castlefield Vegas on the grass Derby Field during the 2021 WEF.
"Everyone is delighted to be able to jump on the grass," he said with a smile. "There is so much space and everyone loves jumping out here, so it's nice."
Hunters will be featured on the grass Derby Field at Equestrian Village on Friday, February 26, in the $10,000 USHJA National Hunter Derby, with the professional section presented by Restylane and a junior/amateur section. Spectators can watch feature classes live and on demand for free using the livestream.
WEF 7 brings CSI5* competition, along with a concurrent CSI2*, back to the International Arena at PBIEC on February 24-28 sponsored by Lugano Diamonds with weekly highlights including: the $37,000 Douglas Elliman Real Estate 1.45m CSI5* on Wednesday, Thursday's $73,000 Adequan® WEF Challenge Cup Round 7, the $37,000 Bainbridge Companies 1.45m Classic CSI5* and $37,000 Griffis Residential 1.45m Qualifier CSI2* on Friday, the $401,000 Lugano Diamonds Grand Prix CSI5* as part of "Saturday Night Lights," and the $73,000 CaptiveOne Advisors 1.50m Classic CSI5* and $50,000 Griffis Residential Grand Prix CSI2* on Sunday.
Final Results – $137,000 IDA Development Grand Prix CSI 3*
1) Bertram Allen (IRL) & Castlefield Vegas – 0 / 0 – 37.101
2) Nayel Nassar (EGY) & Igor van de Wittemoere – 0 / 0 – 37.399
3) Paul O'Shea (IRL) & Skara Glen's Chancelloress – 0 / 0 – 38.350
Source: Press release by Jennifer Wood & Sabrina Bashares / Jennifer Wood Media Inc. for ESP – Equestrian Sports Productions / PBIEC – Palm Beach International Equestrian Center
Photos: © Sportfot
Categories: CSI 3*, English, Jumper News Ireland, Winter Equestrian Festival
Tagged as: 2021 WEF, 2021 Winter Equestrian Festival, Bertram Allen, Castlefield Vegas, CSI 3*, Equestrian, Horse Sport Ireland, Horses, Igor van de Wittemoere, Irish Sport Horse, ISH, Jumper News, Jumper News Ireland, Nayel Nassar, Palm Beach International Equestrian Center, Paul O'Shea, PBIEC, Results, Showjumping, Skara Glen's Chancelloress, Team Ireland Equestrian, WEF, Winter Equestrian Festival
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Doctors Prescribing THC or CBD
Delivered January 27, 2020. Contributor: Mik W.
To identify reputable US-based doctors (or Canada) who have publicly prescribed or supported the prescription of CBD- or THC — based products as well as any brand marketing materials, case studies, or articles that help portray how they went about marketing this to the public.
"To date, the FDA has not approved a marketing application for cannabis for the treatment of any disease or condition."
However, the FDA "has approved one cannabis-derived and three cannabis-related drug products." These are Epidiolex, Marinol and Syndros, and Cesamet, which are only available with a prescription from a licensed healthcare provider.
"There are no other FDA-approved drug products that contain CBD."
The FDA's drug approval process includes a careful review through controlled clinical trials that test the safety and efficacy of a drug and is the most appropriate way to bring cannabis-derived treatments to patients.
The FDA has not approved "Nabiximols (Sativex), an oral spray with two cannabinoids (THC and CBD), but it is endorsed by the American Academy of Neurology for treatment of spasticity (muscle rigidity) and nerve pain in patients with multiple sclerosis."
"FDA has approved Epidiolex, which contains a purified form of the drug substance CBD for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome or Dravet syndrome in patients 2 years of age and older."
This particular drug product is described as safe and effective for its intended use, based on FDA approval.
Epidiolex was approved because of well-controlled clinical studies and the assurance of manufacturing quality standards. Doctors can "confidently prescribe this drug to treat patients with complex and serious epilepsy syndromes."
Marinol and Syndros
The United States FDA has also approved "Marinol and Syndros for therapeutic uses, including the treatment of anorexia associated with weight loss in AIDS patients."
Marinol is also approved for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
"Marinol and Syndros include the active ingredient dronabinol, a synthetic delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is considered the psychoactive component of cannabis."
Cesamet is another FDA-approved drug, which "contains the active ingredient nabilone, which has a chemical structure similar to THC and is synthetically derived."
Dr. Sharon Orrange, MD, MPH is an "Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Geriatric, Hospitalist and General Internal Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC." She is also an Internal Medicine specialist. She has written articles about Cesamet, Marinol, Syndros, and Epidiolex.
Dr. Gary Cohan, MD has specialties and subspecialties in Internal Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine, HIV/AIDS Medicine, and others.
Dr. David Smith is an HIV specialist who founded the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco. His specialties and subspecialties are in Infectious Disease, General Infectious Disease, and HIV/AIDS Medicine.
Dr. Lonnie Bristow, was the first African American president of the American Medical Association (AMA). He specializes in Internal Medicine and was also an appointed member of the Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on the Prevention of HIV Infection from 1987 to 94.
Drs. Cohan, Smith, and Bristow have all advocated the use of Marinol.


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Agate Pendant
This pendant is special for a few reasons. It was handmade using genuine stones that were either melted down, and cut into small pieces. It then was put together(I wish I knew how!) using an eye for detail and skill to make such a seamless cabochon. I was gifted this cabochon by the husband of a customer. I have held onto it for 3 years, just not knowing what to do with it.
When making this pendant, I did not want to take away from the unique beauty. So I kept it simple, fitting a gold bail to match the gold flakes in the cabochon. So simple and dainty, perfect for everyday wear.
Agate belongs to the quartz family, which makes it a popular crystal for healing, especially due to its composition of silicon dioxide, a mineral that is also found in the human body. The variety of chalcedony bands also help enhance your feelings of stability, which can be incredibly balancing if you're caught in a cycle of worry and overthinking. It works by connecting you with the gentle vibrations of the Earth, making it a gentle stone with a light, diffused energy. This is why many beginners start with Agate stone in their first collection. With mellow vibrations and a steady rhythm, Agate can bring you a sense of peace and support when you feel scattered or overwhelmed by modern life. Known as the stabilizer, Agate is the stone to call on for support when you need stability and grounding in your life. Along with its supportive energy, the Agate stone has been long admired for its incredible beauty. Agate has a dreamy quality with signature bands made up of mineral deposits layered in a perfectly circular symmetry around its circumference. A combination of igneous rock with silica deposits found in groundwater, the otherworldly bands give this semi-precious stone its trademark appearance. What gives the Agate stone its incredibly powerful grounding abilities is its availability in different colours, including a palette of white, purple, black, gray, yellow, pink, red, and brown. Agate's soothing and stress-relieving properties help you connect with the energy of the Earth by bringing harmony to your mind, body, and spirit. When you feel unbalanced, Agate healing properties have soft vibrations that can recalibrate and realign you.


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I'm sure you're first thought upon reading the title, there goes ole DT, off on another weird subject. Can't help it, I like unusual subject matter, especially if it can relate to the dystopian, apocalyptic stories I write. Summer is nearly over, but the Culicidae parasite is still in high season. Plenty of biting insects fill the roster of least favorite critters in this world, but none are as universally despised by the global community than mosquitoes, or mozzies as the Aussies like to say. In my latest tale, a future where humans teeter on the edge of extinction, our hero ponders why mosquitoes continue to have free reign of the environment when 95% of the human race has perished from a plague virus.
Some things in life just aren't fair.
A recent Burning Question article by Heidi Mitchell of the Wall Street Journal, Who Gets More Mosquito Bites – Why some people are itching and scratching while others seem unaffected, reviews a basic primer on the bloodsucker. Heidi reminds us that mosquitoes are attracted to heat, carbon dioxide, and our body odor.
Any creature that pumps warm blood can be a filling station for mozzies, but those who feel their body is an aircraft carrier in a conflict zone, it isn't because you're blood is any better tasting than the next guy. It's our human funk wafting in the breeze, our skin an incubus of bacteria and microscopic flora swimming in perspiration rapids. Humans just happen to offer greater surface area by not having fur.
Caught in rousing game of slap and scratch, my intrepid hero in the story, Ryan, became an odoriferous flare the minute he walked into the woods, advertising an all you can eat buffet with a body odor redolent of stinky cheese. If he's lucky, his parasitical patron won't leave a generous tip by injecting one of many diseases as thanks.
Ryan is more concerned with the impending end of earth's anthropogenic era. As for the mosquito, it'll get a hall pass to man's extinction, and will be right there when it happens, waving goodbye as it heads out to feast on the increased animal population.
Funny post, DT! Mozzies love me, especially those ones we affectionately call "no-see-ums". Must be my perfume, LOL.
And I always wondered why "skin-so-soft" was considered a repellent. Keep slapping. Thanks, Marlo.
Hey, you're speaking to someone who has an outside screened tent for writing. There is NEVER a time you can sit outside here without being bothered by moskies. I have it on good authority that alligators don't mind them at all.
You are truly in mozzie world down there on the bayou. I read somewhere it's your state bird. I have to believe mozzies can't penetrate alligator hides, but I could be wrong. Even then, gators have the option to dive under. Thanks, Liv.
"our skin an incubus of bacteria and microscopic flora swimming in perspiration rapids". I wonder if I should ever want to shake a hand ever again. BTW, skin-so- soft repels ticks. Thanks for another great read.
You remind me of "Good as it Gets", with Nicholson's character using handkerchiefs to open doors. Actually Don, sometimes I wonder if our kids shouldn't have rolled in the mud more often like we did. Too many allergies today. Thanks for reading.
Great article! Love the cover!
I try to keep it a bit on the lighter side with such serious subject matters, LOL. Thanks, Mary.