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Home All issues Volume 450 / No 1 (April IV 2006) A&A, 450 1 (2006) 59-68 Abstract
Volume 450, Number 1, April IV 2006
Extragalactic astronomy
A&A 450, 59-68 (2006)
X-ray flare in XRF 050406: evidence for prolonged engine activity
P. Romano1, A. Moretti1, P. L. Banat1, D. N. Burrows2, S. Campana1, G. Chincarini1, S. Covino1, D. Malesani3, G. Tagliaferri1, S. Kobayashi2,4, B. Zhang5, A. D. Falcone2, L. Angelini6,7, S. Barthelmy6, A. P. Beardmore8, M. Capalbi9, G. Cusumano10, P. Giommi11, M. R. Goad8, O. Godet8, D. Grupe2, J. E. Hill6,12, J. A. Kennea2, V. La Parola10, V. Mangano10, P. Mészáros2, D. C. Morris2, J. A. Nousek2, P. T. O'Brien8, J. P. Osborne8, A. Parsons6, M. Perri9, C. Pagani2,1, K. L. Page8, A. A. Wells8 and N. Gehrels6
1 INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, 23807 Merate (LC), Italy e-mail: romano@merate.mi.astro.it
2 Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
3 International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy
4 Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
5 Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4002, USA
6 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
7 Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21218 USA
8 X-Ray and Observational Astronomy Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
9 ASI Science Data Center, via G. Galilei, 00044 Frascati, Roma, Italy
10 INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica Sezione di Palermo, via U. La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy
11 Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Unità Osservazione dell'Universo, Viale Liegi 26, 00198 Roma, Italy
12 Universities Space Research Association, 10211 Wincopin Circle, Suite 500, Columbia, MD, 21044-3432, USA
Received: 7 September 2005
Accepted: 3 January 2006
We present observations of XRF 050406, the first burst detected by Swift showing a flare in its X-ray light curve. During this flare, which peaks at s after the BAT trigger, a flux variation of in a very short time was observed. Its measured fluence in the 0.2-10 keV band was ~ erg cm-2, which corresponds to 1-15% of the prompt fluence. We present indications of spectral variations during the flare. We argue that the producing mechanism is late internal shocks, which implies that the central engine is still active at 210 s, though with a reduced power with respect to the prompt emission. The X-ray light curve flattens to a very shallow slope with decay index of ~0.5 after ~4400 s, which also supports continued central engine activity at late times. This burst is classified as an X-ray flash, with a relatively low fluence (~10-7 erg cm-2 in the 15-350 keV band, erg), a soft spectrum (photon index 2.65), no significant flux above ~50 keV and a peak energy keV. XRF 050406 is one of the first examples of a well-studied X-ray light curve of an XRF. We show that the main afterglow characteristics are qualitatively similar to those of normal GRBs. In particular, X-ray flares superimposed on a power-law light curve have now been seen in both XRFs and GRBs. This indicates that a similar mechanism may be at work for both kinds of events.
Key words: gamma rays: bursts / X-rays: bursts / X-rays: individuals: XRF 050406
X-ray flares in the early Swift observations of the possible naked gamma-ray burst 050421
GRB 050822: detailed analysis of an XRF observed by Swift
The X-ray afterglow of the short gamma ray burst 050724
The variable X-ray light curve of GRB 050713A: the case of refreshed shocks
A&A 461, 95-101 (2007)
XRF 050406 late-time flattening: an inverse Compton component?


Reuters has reported that Papua New Guinea will be allowing Huawei to continue rolling out its telecommunications submarine cable network despite pressure from Australia and the US.
Huawei will continue building out a submarine cable network interconnecting Papua New Guinea despite pressure from Australia, the United States, and Japan, according to a report by Reuters.
The report said PNG's Public Enterprise and State Investment Minister William Duma told Reuters that the nation had "an existing agreement" with Huawei.
"It's about honour and integrity; once you enter into a deal and an arrangement, you go with it," Duma reportedly told Reuters, adding that Huawei has already completed around 60 percent of the project.
"It's a bit patronising", he reportedly added in relation to counter-offers allegedly being pushed by Australia, Japan, and the US.
Huawei Marine had in October 2016 announced that it would be helping PNG build out an 8Tbps, 5,457km national submarine broadband cable network alongside the government's telco PNG DataCo across 14 main cities and population centres, along with a link to Jayapura, Indonesia.
Earlier this year, the Australian government had used AU$200 million in foreign aid to lock Huawei out of supplying a subsea cable connecting Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands with Australia.
Vocus was subsequently awarded the AU$137 million contract by the Australian government to construct the cable.
"Awarding the AU$136.6 million contract to delivery partner Vocus is a major milestone and signals the start of the physical installation of the Coral Sea Cable System," former Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop said in June.
The telco is also set to build out a domestic submarine cable network in the Solomon Islands to link Auki in the Malaita Province, Noro in the Western Province, and Taro in the Choiseul Province with the Honiara landing point, which will be jointly funded by Australia and the Solomon Islands.
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had in April confirmed the subsea cable would be built, saying that the federal government would provide the "majority" of the funding for the project, which will also land in Port Moresby.
During the week of political turmoil that saw Turnbull and Bishop step down from their roles, and Scott Morrison installed as Prime Minister of Australia, Huawei was then banned from participating in any 5G deployments across the nation due to supposed national security issues stemming from concerns of foreign government interference in critical communications infrastructure.
US President Donald Trump has also been cracking down on Chinese involvement in the American tech sphere, including through draft legislation barring the sale of national security-sensitive technology to China, and blocking government or contractors from buying telecommunications equipment and services from Huawei and ZTE.
Huawei in July told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that the US should not miss out on its world-leading technology, pointing out that its exclusion would drive up consumer costs.
United States Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Warner then reportedly told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ban Huawei from taking part in its 5G networks.
Huawei in September denied similar reports that the Indian government had excluded it from taking part in joint 5G trials, saying it is currently proposing a set of solutions to support the government's requirements for a nationwide 5G rollout.
Huawei is still actively participating in 5G across the United Kingdom and New Zealand, however.


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INVESTOR ALERT: Kirby McInerney LLP Reminds Investors That a Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed on Behalf of Owlet, Inc. f/k/a Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation (OWLT) Investors and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm Before January 18, 2022
Kirby McInerney LLP
NEW YORK, Dec. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The law firm of Kirby McInerney LLP reminds investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of those who (a) acquired Owlet, Inc. ("Owlet" or the "Company") (NYSE: OWLT) securities from March 31, 2021 through October 4, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (b) held Sandbridge Acquisition Corporation ("Sandbridge") common stock as of June 1, 2021 and were eligible to vote at Sandbridge's special meeting on July 14, 2021. Investors have until January 18, 2022 to apply to the Court to be appointed as lead plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Sandbridge was a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. On July 15, 2021, Sandbridge combined with Owlet Baby Care Inc., a company that designs and sells products and services for parents to proactively monitor the health and wellness of their children, and the combined company was renamed Owlet (the "Business Combination"). Owlet's flagship product is called Smart Sock, which is a baby monitor that allows parents to track an infant's oxygen levels, heart rate, and sleep trends in real time using the Owlet application.
On October 4, 2021, Owlet revealed that it had received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), which stated that "the Company's marketing of its Owlet Smart Sock product . . . renders [it] a medical device requiring premarket clearance or approval from FDA." Owlet has not obtained such clearance or approval. Moreover, the FDA "requests the Company cease commercial distribution of the Smart Sock for uses in measuring blood oxygen saturation and pulse rate where such metrics are intended to identify or diagnose desaturation and bradycardia using an alarm functionality to notify users that measurements are outside of preset values." On this news, Owlet's stock price declined by $1.29 per share, or approximately 23.5%, from $5.48 per share to close at $4.19 per share on October 4, 2021.
The lawsuit alleges throughout the Class Period, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Owlet was reasonably likely to be required to obtain marketing authorization for the Smart Sock because the FDA concluded it was a medical device; (2) as a result, Owlet was reasonably likely to cease commercial distribution of the Smart Sock in the U.S. until it obtained the requisite approval; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
If you purchased or otherwise acquired Owlet securities, have information, or would like to learn more about these claims, please contact Thomas W. Elrod of Kirby McInerney LLP at 212-371-6600, by email at investigations@kmllp.com, or by filling out this contact form, to discuss your rights or interests with respect to these matters without any cost to you.
Kirby McInerney LLP is a New York-based plaintiffs' law firm concentrating in securities, antitrust, whistleblower, and consumer litigation. The firm's efforts on behalf of shareholders in securities litigation have resulted in recoveries totaling billions of dollars. Additional information about the firm can be found at Kirby McInerney LLP's website: http://www.kmllp.com.
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Shielders say lifting of England's Plan B restrictions 'complete nightmare'. Among the 3.7 million clinically extremely vulnerable people in England, the removal of Covid restrictions has raised concerns
'More people will die': fears for clinically vulnerable as England axes plan B. Coronavirus pandemic's finishing line has not yet come clearly into focus for millions of people
The sweeping "zero-tolerance" policies that China has employed to protect its people and economy from COVID-19 may, paradoxically, make it harder for the country to exit the pandemic
With tens of thousands of Russian troops positioned near Ukraine, the Kremlin has kept the U.S. and its allies guessing about its next moves in the worst security crisis to emerge between Moscow and the West since the Cold War

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Q: Selecting Windows in grub redirects to bootmgr About a year ago I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Lenovo Computer Running Windows 7 using wubi. I selected the OS using bootmgr during startup and everything was fine and dandy.
Then, I attempted to upgrade to 12.04.  The upgrade failed for reasons not relevant to this question, and left me with a 'dead' linux install.  So today I decided to wipe the old and reinstall 12.04 from scratch.  I removed wubi, and created a new partition on my disk.
The install itself went ok, but the grub/bootmgr config is slightly messed up.  When the machine is booting, it first presents me with the Grub startup screen.  If I select linux, the ubuntu installation starts up.
However, if I select windows 7, grub then sends me to the bootmgr o/s selection screen, which lets me choose either windows 7 or the old, dead ubuntu/wubi installation. Win7 starts fine when selected from this menu.
How can I fix the configuration so that grub starts windows directly without sending me to bootmgr?

A: Looks like you have not cleaned wubi.

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*Boot into Windows

*Open Add/Remove programs

*Search for Ubuntu, and uninstall it.

*Reboot.

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Seven's ratings revival: Angus Ross on Big Brother's big difference
HoleyMoley: "This year is going to be closer than people think"
Seven was expecting the arrival of Big Brother would make a big difference, especially after the disappointing performance of My Kitchen Rules and then House Rules to start the year.
The product mix of what Big Brother delivered has combined well with Seven's best other assets.
"We certainly had the bricks in the wall," Seven's director of network programming Angus Ross told Mediaweek. "We have the #1 news, #1 sport plus Sunrise and Home and Away doing well. We had spoken about the need to improve our 7.30pm tentpole performance.
"Big Brother represents the first step to make Seven more outward focussed in terms of its commissions. And we are looking at established and proven formats for those tentpoles rather than creating our own IP. It can be a very difficult thing to achieve and quite a stressful process…I am now an 80-year-old in a 40-year-old body!"
When Seven got it right regarding building a format, as it did with My Kitchen Rules, the results were impressive, but not everything struck gold.
Ross said Big Brother was the channel's biggest new series launch in two years. "Within the space of a week it has changed our demographic profile completely. We are clean-sweeping everything – 25-54, 18-49 and 16-39. It has given us the best 16-39 result in 10 years.
"To put that in context it is a bigger show than I'm a Celebrity, Survivor, Amazing Race or The Bachelor. And it is beating The Voice too in some key demos."
As well as the broadcast result, Ross noted it is the most talked about show on social and the biggest in the streaming space. "Each episode is adding in excess of 200,000 viewers to our 7plus service. We are looking at another record month for 7plus which has been leading the BVOD space for three months and I can't see that leadership stopping anytime soon."
Ross said 7plus is attracting audience for broadcast hits (including dramas like 9-1-1 and The Good Doctor) and classic Australian drama. "When we have something like Big Brother arrive on the platform it becomes the icing on the cake for 7plus."
Seven picked up the Big Brother franchise after Nine decided not to renew the option it had on the format. "Much kudos to the production team at Endemol Shine Australia – Mark and Carl Fennessy, Peter Newman and Amelia Fisk. They pitched us a version of the show for 2020 and they have delivered. None of us believed that the original Big Brother format could return. It had been cancelled twice in this marketplace. The reboot really had to work at attracting a new audience. It has evolved and has the storytelling techniques the marketplace now demands. They have delivered that in spades."
After Big Brother screens across three nights, the shows asked to do the heavy lifting at present for Seven are three nights of live AFL, The Front Bar and America's Got Talent.
For the football, Ross noted the improved numbers, and not just from the tradition southern AFL markets. Regarding America's Got Talent, he said: "In the past America's Got Talent had been with Foxtel. This is the first time it has been on FTA TV. With our deal to make Australia's Got Talent, we have an option to look at the UK and US versions."
When Big Brother wraps early next month it will hand over the slot to Farmer Wants a Wife. As to commissioning Endemol Shine to make more Big Brother for 2021, it's on!
"If I was a betting man I'd put my house on it," Ross laughed.
As to recommissions for MKR or House Rules, Seven's programming chief replied: "The format change for MKR didn't resonate as well as we'd hoped it would. MKR remains a power brand that has been the biggest show in this market for the last 10 years. It is not something we would dismiss, but we will look carefully as to when is the right time for the show to return."
In defence of the MKR format, the show that screened this year was supposed to run at the end of 2019, with a regular version with new contestants to start 2020. "A confluence of events meant we couldn't do that," explained Ross.
If Seven manages to get away a reboot of Farmer Wants a Wife it will be known as the turnaround specialists. The show had nine seasons elsewhere before Seven picked it up. Ross: "If we get a reputation as turnaround specialists we'd happily take that title."
In former seasons, Farmer often ran just once a week. Seven will be running it several times each week. "It's a proven format that worked in the past and we think it will engage audiences. [It is] perhaps better than some other formats we had where perhaps we pushed the boat out a little too far in the relationship space."
Seven's back half 2020
Ross: "We have had to do some juggling because of COVID-19 as have all the networks. We still have The All New Monty Guys and Gals, Farmer plus Plate of Origin and SAS Australia. We will now be shooting SAS Australia in the snowy mountains rather than New Zealand. The UK version, called Celebrity SAS, has just gone out and has been a major hit in that market. We think it could surprise a few people here – we have an absolutely killer cast. The best I've seen in a long time in terms of celebrity reality."
The program is being made for Seven by Screentime and is scheduled to end Seven's survey year in Q4.
Plate of Origin was impacted by COVID-19 in that there will only be 10 episodes. "We had to modify what we were doing in order to get something to air. We are quite happy with the way it has worked out."
While Seven has sorted out local production for Holey Moley, it means it won't screen until early in 2021. "We are still deciding which state we will produce it in." The show is being made for Seven by Eureka Productions. Building the sets is a big undertaking, with Ross confirming they are doing the complete 18 holes. "We think we will also attract other countries who want to come and use the sets we build in Australia."
Seven's ratings guide
"Being #1 is still important," said Ross. "James Warburton has a very clear strategy of refocusing our performance on demographics. In the past we have won all people and won the demographics as well. We are improving our performance 25-54. If we are winning the week in that demo and a close second all people, I would take that. Ideally, I want to win both which is what we are doing at the moment.
"This year is going to be closer than people think. We will be winning more weeks for a while yet. In the back half we will be extremely competitive."
See also: Seven's 2020 back on track with new SAS and Holey Moley plans. Andrew Backwell on how Seven will deliver programming in 2020
Related Items:Angus Ross, Big Brother, Seven
Mediaweek Roundup: ABC cost cutting, Ryan Phelan, Jackie O + more
TV Demand: The 100 and Paw Patrol top the chart + Spongebob


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Sharing your research with communities? Be ready to lose control
By AuthorAID Team | July 3, 2018 |
AuthorAID mentor Ayo Ojebode shares his experiences of how research uptake can happen in unexpected ways
Having taught research uptake to 16 cohorts of experienced African researchers across four years, I thought I knew a lot about research communication and uptake. I taught many research communication tools such as the Message Box, an amazing tool that helps researchers organize their thoughts and plan their messages. I taught the inverted pyramid, blogs and blogging, op-eds, policy briefs, and elevator pitching among others. The hitting point on the anvil has always been how to take your research to the users – the methods, the tools!
However, one thing I never taught – because I never knew it – was that taking your research to its users means losing control of it. I never knew that until a recent experience brought it home to me.
With some of my colleagues at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, I was involved in a South-South research project, the Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA) Phase II. The theme of our study was community-based crime prevention in Nigeria and El Salvador. Our research showed that, in Nigeria, this crime prevention practice worked only in communities where the members surrendered certain fundamental rights to community associations. In such communities, there was also an informal, sometimes nondescript, relationship between the community leaders and police authorities.
A research dissemination event held as part of the the ELLA project
For uptake, we developed and distributed four policy briefs including one in Yoruba for community members; these were designed to share our research findings with stakeholders. Also as part of the uptake, the funders assembled a group of research users across Africa and took them on a study tour to El- Salvador.
Three months after our study was completed, we went back to the communities where we had conducted the study. We wanted to know if our study (and policy briefs) was having any impact. What we met was an eye opener.
We met Ms Mbakeren Ikeseh who had recruited about 100 unemployed youths for vocational training such as dressmaking, interior decoration and events management, computer operation and hairdressing. Though our work had nothing to do with vocational training, she told us that her intervention was a direct product of our study. But it was much more connected to her study tour experience than to our study.
In another community, we met Demola Atanda, an activist who was busy raising funds to equip the police and organising peace meetings between warring farmers and herdsmen. Demola spoke a lot about our study and distributed our policy briefs at those meetings. Yet, our study had nothing to do with equipping the police.
In nearly all the communities, we encountered a unique adaptation of our study, some of which transcended our original findings and contents of our policy briefs by a mile.
Our initial reaction was despair: have we not set in motion a machinery and then lost its control? On a second thought, however, we realized our arrogance in always thinking that as researchers, we knew what was good for the people and expected them to take and apply our findings unreflectively.
We learnt that research uptake means releasing the content, the motion and control of your findings to the communities. In fact, it means losing control. The Yoruba saying is instructive: when you offer a ram to the gods, let go of the leash!


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We are passionate about utilising technology to create learning opportunities, and we want like-minded, ambitious and inquisitive people to join our business and work alongside us. If you like the sound of our culture and believe you would be the perfect fit, check out our available roles and apply today!
Pamoja is passionate about promoting employee wellbeing through a positive work-life balance. We believe our people perform at their best when given autonomy and flexibility over their working hours.
We operate a 35-hour week, giving employees the freedom to choose their daily 7 working hours between 8am and 6pm (including an hour lunch break). We also encourage working from home when life and/or business requirements call for it! Our standard annual holiday allowance includes 25 days plus bank holidays. Those who need a little extra have the option to buy an additional 5 days per year.
To further support our focus on wellbeing, our two qualified Mental Health First Aiders run regular in-house Mental Health Awareness sessions and related workshops.
We are incredibly proud of our vibrant workplace culture, set in a modern, open-plan office with multiple communal areas for team chats or the option to work away from your desk.
Fresh fruit, snacks and beverages are delivered weekly to our kitchen. We hold regular lunchtime socials including bake-offs, cultural food days and Monthly Mingles at our local pub.
You can even bring your furry friend to work every Four-Legged Friday, where pets are encouraged to join us in the office!
Pamoja consists of teachers around the world and employees based in our Oxford office with a variety of skill sets adapted to our departments: Academics, School Services, Product Development, Marketing & Sales, Finance, and Human Resources.
We're also looking for part-time Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge AS and A Level, and IB Diploma teachers who have the ability to unlock creativity and curiosity in their classroom and are passionate about helping students to succeed, encouraging them to ask questions rather than recite answers.
We welcome applications for short or longer term internships in our Oxford office and across all our departments. Our interns are undergraduates or postgraduates studying at various universities, including Oxford Brookes University and the University of Oxford.
As a Pamoja teacher I have worked in many locations: at home, in hotels, in airplanes, on beaches and even on my grandmother's ancient PC in Belarus. My favourite one was being on a hotel balcony overlooking Cusco, Peru. I was going to Machu Picchu the next day and I was thinking to myself: I am living the life!
Not only am I the only woman in my team, but I am considerably younger than my fellow senior Academics. To me, this demonstrates that my skillset is recognised and my experiences are valued for their worth, not simply how long I had been in a previous role.
During my time with Pamoja, I have been very privileged to work alongside some amazing and highly motivated people across all departments, which has broadened my knowledge and skills set I had developed at university.
I'd been looking forward to working in the dev team as it allows me to develop skills that are easily transferable to my Computer Science degree at Oxford Brookes when I go back to uni in September 2018.
Our teachers communicate on a daily basis with department heads and colleagues. They have access to each of the subject and help forums and a variety of other communication channels such as wikis and blogs, as well as online meetings through Skype or Google Hangout, or webinars.
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The U.S. flag flies at half mast in honor of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who succumbed to injuries sustained engaging with rioters in support of President Donald Trump who descended on the nation's Capitol, breaching the building while Congress voted to certify the 2020 election results, on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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Cathy O'Neil: America is making me feel like Sarah Connor
Cathy O'Neil, Bloomberg Opinion
Lately I've been thinking about Sarah Connor and motherhood. She's the Los Angeles waitress in the "Terminator" film series who, upon learning that her as-yet-unborn son must survive in a dystopic future and save humanity from destruction by artificial intelligence, dedicates herself to preparing him for the terrifying role.
As a natural-born citizen of what I believed to be a largely benign and prosperous democracy, I have prepared my two sons for nothing of the sort. I'm beginning to wonder whether I should reconsider.
In "Terminator," it takes only a few minutes for a traveler from the future to convince Connor that she's the mother of the savior of the human race. She's like, OK what next? Gullible as this might seem, it's the most believable part of the movie for me. She's ready to do anything to protect her kid. She goes on to teach him how to become a fearless leader and to fight like hell for his beliefs.
In a sense, Sarah was lucky: She knew what was coming. The real world is less certain, but looking increasingly ominous. The past year has brought a global pandemic, life-threatening shortages, ugly hoarding, violent clashes between protesters and police, the spectacle of a U.S. president seeking to undermine the peaceful transfer of power and, most recently, a mob invading the Capitol. Even if vaccination conquers the virus, the country seems woefully unprepared to address the problems that were festering before it arrived. We're deeply divided by race, income, resources and the realities in which people choose to believe.
Where will Americans find common ground when, with the help of social media, it will be all too easy to ignore people waiting in food lines and be glad to finally get back to the opera? Who needs an evil AI when we intentionally program computers to deliver the news we want to hear and the outrage we have become addicted to?
Having kids is an inherently optimistic act. Parents want to believe in a bright future. We tell them tales about studying hard, going to college, getting a good job, and having a good life. We train them to expect reasonable rewards for reasonable work, and to expect others to adhere to shared principles. But that's hardly responsible if we think there's even a small possibility that they will encounter civil unrest, widespread economic strife or even war. In that future, they'd be better off knowing how to use a handgun, build a fire or forage for edible weeds.
My father actually prepared me pretty well for today's world, albeit unintentionally. He was a narcissist, so he bestowed upon me an intuitive understanding of Trump. (Short version: If everyone's talking about him, he's winning his particular game, which is all about attention. Stop looking for deeper meaning.) I predict that the malaise of Trumpism will persist even after the president leaves office, because he's more a result than a cause of our national narcissism — of our relentless pursuit of unenlightened self-interest. This particular personality disorder is really hard to treat, and I'm worried that I haven't prepared my kids for the arbitrary cruelty it inflicts.
Does that mean I'm going to fill up a hangar with automatic rifles, to collect after my son and a robot break me free from the asylum? No, I'm not there yet. I'm not even willing to go pandemic bean dad on my kids. I still hold out hope that the world I've been conjuring their entire childhoods can somehow still exist — that if they do what's expected of them they'll end up OK, with a decent chance at a happy life. I'm not as quick as Sarah Connor was to accept a new vision of the future. I hope I'm not making a mistake.
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I do love a good historic house and thought I'd seen all the best ones in London already, but how wrong I was! I went in for the Ruskin exhibition and walked out as a Gothic revival fan. Two Temple Place has it all! Mahogany carvings: check. Grand staircase: check. Stained glass windows and ceiling: check. A giant fireplace: check! Marbled floors: check! I mean look at it!
Just when you think the stained-glass ceiling is as impressive as it gets, you'll walk into the Great Hall to spot not one but two glass stained windows: one designed for sunset and the other for sunrise. You might also recognise The Great Hall from The BBC's The Bodyguard where it stood in for House of Commons reading room. The Mahogany carvings and golden details also continue in this space.
So who can we thank for this beautiful place? William Waldorf Astor, an American attorney, politician, businessman, and newspaper publisher (also the same guy who restored Hever Castle) who bought and renovated the place and used it as his office space. I can think of worse places to work from.
The place is only open to the public during Open House and their annual exhibition, which is happening now until 22nd April. So you have little less than a month to make it down to Thames Embankment and see for yourself. And don't forget to go to the Ladies toilets on the first floor … you'll be in for a treat.


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Accueil > Newsletters > Newsletter n° 106 [ENG]
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publié by Admin 2, le Monday 3 December 2018
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LAND ISSUE AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
IN MADAGASCAR
As lands are of great importance for Malagasy people, the majority of which live in rural areas, the TANY Collective calls all citizens to take into account the candidates positions and projects relating to lands for their choice on the voting day.
Various types of land grabbers exist in Madagascar and they despoil the rights of local communities : Malagasy citizens, economic operators of various nationalities who are residing in Madagascar since long time, companies often with mostly foreign shares which rent lands, but since 2003, laws authorise land selling to foreign companies. Citizens should elect a candidate who is committed in the protection of Malagasy lands, particularly for peasants with a view to developing family agriculture.
Victimised populations resist in various ways in order to protect their goods and to defend their legitimate rights, but new laws raise many problems. According to the TANY Collective, one of the first important steps which should appear in the projects of the next president to be elected should be a change in the current Constitution, voted in 2010 during the Transition regime. The point to be removed in priority will be a sentence in the article number 1 according to which :"The modalities and conditions relating to land sale and long lease to foreigners are determined by law.". This opens the door to legalising the sale of ancestors' lands and expelling local communities from lands which bring them food and revenue sources. The content of the future Constitution must be subject to a debate including all citizens.
While media and public opinion focus presently on the presidential election which will take place in a few days, citizens in several regions are subject to impending threats of losing their lands, and risk to share the situation of those who have been subject to this in the past months and years. Whatever be the beautiful talking brought by various candidates aiming to be elected, the TANY Collective is willing to underline that their position and their projects on Malagasy lands, or their silence about it, are of capital importance for the country's development and the future of each family, and calls each and everybody to be vigilant about this issue when preparing to realise his citizen obligation.
Various types of land grabbers in Madagascar
- Citizens in all regions are aware of cases or are victims of land grabbing by Malagasy people of neighbourhood origin or not, descendents of great families or persons who got rich very quickly or got power, or even possibly impunity, thanks to getting political position. The conflict opposing 300 families in Soavinandriana in the Itasy region to a former Minister is the better known (1), while the Amparihibe community in the Analanjirofo region is opposing the Mayor and other local authorities (2).
- Economic operators of various nationalities, living since long time in Madagascar, in complicity with successive leaders, control and lock since long time almost all sectors of the country's economy and despoil citizens' rights on lands. If the collective memory evokes often the Filatex case (3) in various regions, proceedings are presently opposing the Salazamay fokonolona in Tamatave to the Telma company (4).
- Land renting by the State to companies often with a majority of foreign shares in the frame of long lease contracts are numerous and risk to increase, because of the policy of leaders and candidates who give priority to investors in their development projects. The negative consequences for expelled populations are the same as those due to selling (5). Nevertheless one must see that the repercussions of development projects do not bring profit at all to local population and bring very small profits to the country.
- Land selling to foreign companies exist also since 2003 as laws allow selling which was formerly forbidden by traditional culture and laws. Officially leaders swear to God that they do not sell ancestors' lands but the number and efficiency of investigations are increasing these last months and will bring proofs of these wrongdoings realised under cover subterfuges as using Malagasy frontmen.
The majority of Malagasy people live in rural areas and practice agriculture, breeding and fishing. The land insecurity is increasing as crime is pouring out over the whole country (6), and because of the climate deregulation, of which Madagascar is recognised as a main victim (7). This increases the fears of the rural people and deteriorates work conditions. The impoverishment of a majority of Malagasy people is in contrast with the incredible enrichment of a very small minority whose names of the 10 most rich persons according to Forbes are published (8), and in first ranks appear a candidate and very close associates of candidates to the presidential election of November 7.
For choosing a leader committed to protecting Malagasy lands
In Madagascar, legal owners are those who detain land titles and certificates, which equivalence has just been reinforced by decision makers (9) following several years of conflicts over their respective value. But the real question on the ground, facing corruption (10) and problems of data updating and encroachment (9) do not guarantee firmly land security for those who detain these formal documents. In spite of operations of titles delivery by the Ministry (11) and acceleration of opening land offices, with a view to delivering in group land certificates (12), the percentage of lands with a title or a certificate remains low.
Those who occupy since generations non titled private properties in the 1000 municipalities which do not have a land office – and then do not have titles – are in the risk of losing their lands without rights recognition. Furthermore large superficies areas in several regions are still qualified as "colonial lands" and "indigenous reserves", and families which operated them since several tens of years cannot request neither titles nor certificates. Large pastures for which the 2005 land reform anticipated to get a law about lands with specific status are allocated to foreigners by long lease without recognition of breeders' rights who use them but are not included in the state priority subjects for regulation.
Because successive leaders made the choice of liberalisation and priority to investors as development model for the country, and as they call for foreigners to rent and occupy lands since the Daewoo project in 2008, the land owning according to ancestors use in various regions is considered as inexistent, citizens who do not get formal rights on lands through one of the two documents, for various reasons, sometimes out of their will, are qualified as "squatters" by rich and powerful people, which is not acceptable from various points of view.
When thinking about voting on November 7, each voter should take as a criteria the contempt expressed for a majority of citizens by some candidates who authorised in the past or in future visions and programs expelling families from lands and destroying houses, which will imply losing the unique way of production which they have to live, as this is not a development program but an impoverishment program.
Looking actively for solutions and conceiving laws in favour of the majority, aiming at recognising legally customary rights and community lands and to end the colonial system are urgent in the coming years. Candidates advocating visions and society projects aiming at getting Madagascar as a new colony for foreign companies and states should be put aside. (13)
Facing the national population growth and the small superficies of lands for Malagasy peasants – less than one hectare in average (14) – future leaders should facilitate and multiply land allocations to Malagasy families instead of praising the availability of millions of hectares outside the country to attract investors.
For a family agriculture ensuring first the people feeding and export afterwards
Families expelled from their lands and discouraged by insecurity migrate to other places, particularly to urban areas where they hope finding work (15). But survival there remains precarious as cities are already crammed with poor citizens without lands or housing, and the number of small jobs is limited. This situation in many places leads some candidates to announce that they will allocate lands to Malagasy. But they did not all give precision
If it would be an exceptional or a long term public policy
And who will benefit : Malagasy peasants doing family agriculture or investors whether be Malagasy or foreigners ?
The future president should pay attention to food self sufficiency in his economic policy in order to eradicate poverty and malnutrition.
As soon as 2012, the Tany Collective recommended in each municipality the allocation of lands dedicated to local development and particularly to family agriculture, which is for us the only way to guarantee food security and ensure food sovereignty for present and future generation. (16)
Land allocation to Malagasy people, young and less young, according to various modalities, should help increasing cultivated surfaces with a view to family subsistence and national market in priority, and export next. Programs of installing families on new lands should take lessons of past and present successes and failures (17) in terms of training/ advising and coaching for the availability of various basic public services. The state responsibility in securing rural areas in order to not remove motivation of newly installed is fundamental.
Malagasy peasants life and work conditions are difficult while they must meet food needs of peoples in towns and country sides. Their efforts merit being supported by all citizens, and firstly the future President. So the presidential projects which threaten to destroy lands and housing over thousands of hectares, as the Sahanivotry project of the Hydelec/Tozzi Green company in the Vakinankaratra region (18), as well as the State approved declarations for companies such as Toliara Sands/Base Toliara (19) in the South West region should be questioned as they destroy and wreck several generations work.
The Tany Collective underlines since many years the need for each citizen to be vigilant and to contribute actively in the management and follow up of Malagasy lands. Our proposals to include the analysis of principles and projects of candidates about land and agriculture in the decision of each voter are part of this position. Only participation and expression of all citizens by voting and after their vigilance all along the year, will lead decision makers to act more for the interests of the majority of population. The Tany Collective hopes that inhabitants risking to be expelled from lands who are mentioned in this document, as well as those were not mentioned, will win in their fight for a better social justice.
Unfortunately all Malagasy natural resources are subject to "agreements", to the detriment of the population, between Malagasy responsible persons and foreign investors. As all institutions and organisations who request cancelling the project of operating sea resources on Malagasy coasts by a Chinese consortium with a 330 boats float, the Tany Collective considers that this project should be banned as it will surely destroy environment and reduce revenues of Malagasy fishermen (20). Many countries in the world prepare the future of their population food by looking for natural resources outside their territory ; let us not select leaders who are in a risk of selling off the content of our seas, as well as our lands, one of our most precious common goods. These projects are threatening to bring further hunger to Malagasy people in the coming years.
Paris November 5, 2018	(translated on 02 Dec 2018)
The TANY Collective for the Defense of Malagasy lands
(1)	https://www.lexpressmada.com/16/01/...
(2)	http://matv.mg/andranofotsy-maroant... et http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi...
(3)	http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi... et https://www.madagascar-tribune.com/...
(4)	http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi...
(5)	http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi... et http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi...
(6)	http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20180306-...
(8)	http://www.tresorpublic.mg/?revue-d...
(9)	http://lalignedemire.info/article/C...
(10)	http://www.newsmada.com/2018/10/18/...
(11) http://www.newsmada.com/2018/10/30/...
(12)	http://www.midi-madagasikara.mg/eco...
(13) http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi...
(14) http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20171118-...
(15) https://les-yeux-du-monde.fr/actual... et http://blogs.worldbank.org/nasikili...
(17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAs... ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0h... ; https://www.fert.fr/v2/wp-content/u... ;
(18) https://www.lakroa.mg/item-1501_art... et http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi...
(19) http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi... et http://www.terresmalgaches.info/spi...
(20) http://www.midi-madagasikara.mg/eco... ; http://matv.mg/accord-sur-la-peche-...


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namespace Charity.Web.App_Start
{
    using System;
    using System.Security.Principal;
    using System.Web;
    using Charity.Data;
    using Charity.Data.Common;
    using Charity.Data.Common.Repositories;
    using Charity.Data.Repositories;
    using Charity.Services;
    using Charity.Services.Common;
    using Charity.Web.Infrastructure.Identity;
    using Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.DynamicModuleHelper;
    using Ninject;
    using Ninject.Web.Common;

    public static class NinjectWebCommon
    {
        private static readonly Bootstrapper bootstrapper = new Bootstrapper();

        /// <summary>
        /// Starts the application
        /// </summary>
        public static void Start()
        {
            DynamicModuleUtility.RegisterModule(typeof(OnePerRequestHttpModule));
            DynamicModuleUtility.RegisterModule(typeof(NinjectHttpModule));
            bootstrapper.Initialize(CreateKernel);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Stops the application.
        /// </summary>
        public static void Stop()
        {
            bootstrapper.ShutDown();
        }

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        /// Creates the kernel that will manage your application.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The created kernel.</returns>
        private static IKernel CreateKernel()
        {
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            {
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                kernel.Bind<IHttpModule>().To<HttpApplicationInitializationHttpModule>();

                RegisterServices(kernel);
                return kernel;
            }
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            {
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                throw;
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        private static void RegisterServices(IKernel kernel)
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            RegisterIdentity(kernel);

            RegisterRepositories(kernel);

            RegisterApplicationServices(kernel);
        }

        private static void RegisterDbContext(IKernel kernel)
        {
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            //kernel.Bind<DbContext>().To<ApplicationDbContext>();

            kernel.Bind<IApplicationDbContext>().To<ApplicationDbContext>().InRequestScope();
        }

        private static void RegisterIdentity(IKernel kernel)
        {
            kernel.Bind<IIdentity>().ToMethod(c => HttpContext.Current.User.Identity);

            kernel.Bind<ICurrentUser>().To<CurrentUser>();
        }

        private static void RegisterRepositories(IKernel kernel)
        {
            kernel.Bind(typeof(IRepository<>)).To(typeof(GenericRepository<>));

            kernel.Bind(typeof(IDeletableEntityRepository<>)).To(typeof(DeletableEntityRepository<>));

            kernel.Bind<ICityRepository>().To<CityRepository>();

            kernel.Bind<IApplicationUserRepository>().To<ApplicationUserRepository>();

            kernel.Bind<IAdministratorRepository>().To<AdministratorRepository>();

            kernel.Bind<IDonorRepository>().To<DonorRepository>();

            kernel.Bind<IRecipientTypeRepository>().To<RecipientTypeRepository>();
            kernel.Bind<IRecipientRepository>().To<RecipientRepository>();

            kernel.Bind<IFoodCategoryRepository>().To<FoodCategoryRepository>();

            kernel.Bind<IFoodDonationRepository>().To<FoodDonationRepository>();

            kernel.Bind<IFoodRequestRepository>().To<FoodRequestRepository>();
            kernel.Bind<IFoodRequestCommentRepository>().To<FoodRequestCommentRepository>();
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        private static void RegisterApplicationServices(IKernel kernel)
        {
            kernel.Bind<ICityService>().To<CityService>();

            kernel.Bind<IDonorProfileService>().To<DonorProfileService>();

            kernel.Bind<IRecipientTypeService>().To<RecipientTypeService>();
            kernel.Bind<IRecipientProfileService>().To<RecipientProfileService>();

            kernel.Bind<IFoodCategoryService>().To<FoodCategoryService>();

            kernel.Bind<IFoodDonationService>().To<FoodDonationService>();

            kernel.Bind<IFoodRequestService>().To<FoodRequestService>();
            kernel.Bind<IFoodRequestCommentService>().To<FoodRequestCommentService>();
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Behind the scenes of Fresh Paint on Windows 8
November 15, 2012 |	Steve Clayton - Editor - Microsoft News Center Staff
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A few weeks ago I got the chance to chat with Ira Snyder, General Manager of Fresh Paint. If you've not yet had the chance to try Fresh Paint, the new painting app for Windows 8, it's available for free in the Windows Store and has over a 4 star rating (out of 5). In short though, it's a revolutionary paint application that has a level of realism that has to be seen to be believed. I blogged about it back in August but having played with it more, and seen my daughter fall in love with it, I wanted to know some more about the magic behind the application.
Before I dive in to that, I'd like to share some context for why I think Fresh Paint is (and will continue to be) a hit.
Fresh Paint is about tapping into and expressing your creativity. Whether it's through our online posts, blogs like this one, photos, doodles and sketches, or something else, we all have an inner creative. The Fresh Paint team was curious though about just how many people felt like they were missing a creative outlet, a way to express their ideas, inspirations and thoughts. So we commissioned a global survey designed to find out how many people are looking for ways to express their creativity. The research shows that a large number of people are looking for creative outlets in their lives. The majority of people surveyed wish they had a creative outlet. In the U.S. alone, 87% of people surveyed said they wish they had a creative outlet. Similarly, the majority of people in Italy, Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan and France said the same:
From my own experience with Fresh Paint, it's a creative outlet that kids in particular love – just last night I had my Surface tablet "stolen" from my lap by my daughter who insisted it was time to paint. The same research noted above found that 96% of U.S. parents wish they had better ways to develop creativity in their kids. Again, respondents in other countries agreed. You can get a sense of why in this video.
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With that said, back to my conversation with Ira.
The history of Fresh Paint is that it drew on earlier work from Microsoft Research known as Project Gustav, a project to model behavior of physical oil in a digital manner. But the team wanted to go beyond that to explore how to simulate oil on canvas and how that oil interacted with tools such as a paintbrush. The team built a prototype that critically treated oil as "wet" so that when it was dynamically mixed, a physics model would precisely replicate on the screen what would happen in the real world when you combine oil, a surface and a tool. With that prototype built, the team invited kids from their own families in to the office for what they called "Art Jams" and observed how these creative minds were unleashed on their prototype. "Kids are the best way to test and learn about this stuff," Ira said.
Not long after these sessions, the team decided it wanted to get some feedback from outside of the Seattle community and sought to seed the app, then codenamed Digital Art, with some of the best experts they could find to get their take on Fresh Paint. Who better than The Museum of Modern Art? Wendy Woon, MoMA's Deputy Director of Education, and her team were impressed enough with the app that they invited Microsoft to be a part of a new educational activity lab at the museum.
At that point, Ira knew they were heading in the right direction and agreed to Wendy's request to make Digital Art a part of MoMA's Material Lab. Encouraged by this and the overwhelmingly positive feedback during the lab, Ira and the team doubled down on building out a prototype and the app was embedded in the Materials Labs at MoMA for over a year. During that time, over 60,000 people created and painted. Ira shared that feedback was "uncomfortably positive," but that the team also learned a lot during and from the time at the museum. For example, they heard and saw that the original UI wasn't as intuitive for some museum visitors. So the team made the palette easier to find, enabling a more seamless experience. As more and more people played with the app, the team heard that they wanted to be able to do things like paint on top of paint, say put a sun in the sky they just brushed on their canvas. Ira and team listened and created the app's "dry" button, bringing smiles along with the spinning fan. The experience and the feedback was not only a testament to the capability even within the prototype—it was the encouragement that was needed to take things further.
The team undertook further studies too – they gave nine families a touch based PC with Digital Art and asked them to use it for one month. The interviews that followed were revealing – for kids between two and eight, finding the "undo" button for them was an 'aha' moment that gave them a sense of freedom to create, and they created enormous amounts of art. Teenagers on the other hand would come back to the same piece over and over in the quest to create something inspiring enough to share with their friends. Elder generations created work that simply blew the team away – so much so that they printed out some of the creations on canvas with a matte finish and were astonished at how good the art looked. Truly a blending of the physical and digital worlds. Ira remarked that once you get the interface out of the way and let people imagine and create wonderful things start to happen.
With all of this positive feedback, the team embarked on a heads down mission to reimagine Digital Art in to what would become Fresh Paint. With feedback culled from experience at a world class museum, the team rolled up their sleeves, literally, and started enhancing and perfecting the experience. Developers starting playing with paints, experimenting with how real oil paints blended and reacted to the texture of a canvas and adjusting that physics model to model it – they pinned their works to the hallway walls for inspiration. Their intention was to build the best in class touch application for the Windows 8 environment, and judging by the reaction to date, they've hit the mark. Fresh Paint is back at MoMA in the Art Lab and mommy bloggers are raving about the interactive experience it provides for kids of all ages. My own daughter is a fan, and just today I spoke with a friend who told me his daughter demanded last weekend that they buy a Windows 8 touch PC. Why? She's fallen in love with Fresh Paint while playing with it at a Microsoft Store.
If you have a Microsoft Store near you, or any store selling Windows 8 PCs, or a friends with a Windows 8 PC, go take a look at Fresh Paint. Grab a brush, paint on the canvas and then grab another ink and brush through that first stroke. I guarantee you'll be impressed at the reaction and from there on, it becomes quite addictive. Try out some of the latest features such as the Fun Pack – templates and starter paintings that can be downloaded within the app. Or my favorite feature, the ability to take a photo and use it as you may use tracing paper – you draw on top of the photo and then magically remove it to reveal your masterpiece.
To hear more from the Fresh Paint team, follow them on Twitter but for now, it's time to go paint!


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The year before, Tsuburaya had forced Tanaka to go see his beloved King Kong, which had just earned four times as much in its worldwide re-release as it had originally, and Tanaka had also been impressed by the global numbers for Warner Brothers' The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the story of a dinosaur thawed from its hibernation by American nuclear testing in Baffin Bay.
The United States government estimated that 856 ships in the Japanese fishing fleet had been exposed to radiation, and that more than five hundred tons of fish had to be destroyed, and offered a settlement for the survivors that the Japanese government declined to accept. Tanaka recounted that it struck him as he looked out over the Pacific below that the stories could be combined; and for the rest of the flight he scribbled on the back of a folder that his seatmate had lent him the outline of a story in which a prehistoric creature was awakened by an H-bomb test in the Pacific and then went on to destroy Tokyo.
Prior to receiving a copy of his short novella, Master of Miniatures (New York NY: Solid Objects, 2010), I'd not heard of American writer Jim Shepard, author of more than a half-dozen titles of prose (including, apparently, the novel Nosferatu, which imagines the life of filmmaker F.W. Murnau). Emotionally complex, haunting and deceptively straightforward in terms of narrative prose style, Master of Miniatures writes out the story of the filmmaker Eiji Tsuburaya who, almost immediately after the ends of the Second World War, wrote and directed the original version of the now-legendary Godzilla, released as Gojira (1954). While imagining the details of the protagonist, Shepard's novel manages to encompass in a remarkably short space the details of the film's creation, which itself works through the savage trauma of an entire culture and country, and that of a single character, from Tsuburaya recollecting his father's survival of the "great earthquake" to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the Second World War. Through his own attention to miniature, Shepard writes out Tsuburaya's miniatures, through which the filmmaker was able to respond to the large wounds that existed across both him and his country, even while managing to lose sight of his own life, and that of his wife and children. Through attempting to remove a dark stain or shadow that couldn't be removed, it is as though Tsuburaya simply created yet another, even while managing to create a new cinematic form, still deeply embedded in American culture. Shepard's descriptions of the 1923 earthquake is quite chilling, and it is interesting that it is here that Shepard decides to focus some of the worst images on this event, as opposed to possibly-expected depictions of post-bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Two policemen agape on a refugee's cart were blown away. Tsuburaya's father was knocked down and blasted along the ground until his hand caught onto something. A teenaged girl on fire flew by over his head. Human beings all around him were sucked into the air like sparks. He shut his eyes against the wind and heat. A tree was wrenched from the ground, roots and all, before him, and he crawled into the loose earth and was able to breathe. Some ruptured water mains there had created a bog, and he tunneled into the mud.
When he revived, the backs of his hands had been turned to the bone. Everyone was gone. The skin atop his head was gone. His ears were gone. Something beside him he couldn't recognize was still squirming.
Through Master of Miniatures, Shepard writes out a man who masters both filmmaking and miniatures, as well as a number of personal losses from which he can never recover. Shepard shows just how much the trauma of what Tsuburaya had lived through had permanently changed him, a realization he doesn't entirely comprehend, and one that he begins to suspect far too late. This is a deeply fulfilling and unsettling novel, one that doesn't end well or let easily go.
In the rushes of the final scenes, Honda noted how sad Gojira looked when he turned from the camera.
"That's the way I made the mask," Tsuburaya reminded him.
"No," Honda said. "The face itself is changing through the context of what we've seen him go through. By the time the movie ends he's like a hero whose departure we regret. The paradox of fearsomeness and longing is what the whole thing's about."
"I wouldn't know about that," Tsuburaya told him.
"It's like part of us leaving," Honda said. "That's what makes it so hard. The monster the child knows best is the monster he feels himself to be." After Tsuburaya didn't respond, he added, "That's why I love those shots of the city after the monster's gone. All that emptiness, like a no-man's land in which eloquence and silence are joined. If you don't have both, the dread evaporates."
That was true, Tsuburaya conceded. He volunteered that he was particularly proud of the shots of the harbor at night before the creature's eruption from the sea: all along the waterfront, silence. Silence like thunder.
Labels: Godzilla, Jim Shepard, Solid Objects


A "Bikeway Village" for Imperial Beach?
More interesting bike news from the mainstream press! The Union-Tribune reports on a proposed "Bikeway Village" along the Bayshore Bikeway. Sounds like a good idea to us!
The owner of two Imperial Beach warehouses hopes to convert his bayfront property into a rest stop and haven for bicyclists along the 24-mile Bayshore Bikeway.
Rex Butler, who has owned the two 15,000-square-foot warehouses for nearly a year, hopes his "Bikeway Village" concept will capitalize on the halfway point of the nearby bike trail and views of San Diego Bay with proposed amenities such as a cafe, bike shop, day spa, ice cream shop, bookstore or perhaps a youth hostel.
Check out the story for more information and an artist's rendering of the proposed site.
The Union-Tribune reports today that the Uptown Partnership, a "community group" that manages the Uptown Community Parking District for the City of San Diego is considering two options for increasing the amount of available parking in Hillcrest, including investing in a parking garage structure under the Mission Hills-Hillcrest public library branch; or purchasing or leasing part of the AT&T lot on Robinson Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets.
There are significant problems with both locations, but neither the Union-Tribune, nor the Uptown Partnership seems especially concerned with the main issue of sustainability. Each project would add only about 90 parking spaces in the neighborhood, certainly not enough to significantly alleviate the parking situation, but enough to bring in more cars hunting for spaces.
As an entity that subsists on parking revenues, the Uptown Partnership is concerned primarily with increasing parking spaces, not decreasing the need for those spaces by promoting walkable, bikeable, or transit-friendly neighborhoods. If the Uptown Partnership or the City of San Diego cared to notice, they would see that Hillcrest is already a pedestrian- and bicycle-heavy neighborhood, but certainly not a friendly one. Adding more parking spaces, and thus more cars, will only make Hillcrest less friendly to everyone who doesn't travel by automobile. It's a step in the wrong direction if we want San Diego to be a more bikeable, and a more sustainable city.
San Diegan rider T.J. alerted us to the Union Tribune's coverage of this weekend's Bicycle Film Festival.
The L.A. Times covers a monthly ride, Get Sum Dim Sum. The organizers of the ride focus on transportational cycling in Southern California.
Meanwhile far away in Manchester, academics are setting the pace in cycling to work.
San Diego bicyclist William Karstens having gotten fed up with San Diego County stalling in making any progress in removing the k-rails on Jamacha Blvd took his grievances to the media. The k-rails that were placed on Jamacha Boulevard were placed by developer Pointe International. Pointe International purchased a large tract of land that was originally owned by Fred Hansen's estate with the intention of continuing Hansen's vision of creating a resort community. Much of the land surrounding the Streetwater Reservoir was originally purchased by Pointe in 1982.
Meanwhile as the various county officials, developers and contractors debate on various issues relating to the resort community, bicyclists riding along Jamacha Boulevard have to ride in dangerous 50 mph conditions. In the video below, Karstens shows the NBC reporter exactly how dangerous the conditions are for riding.
While the various concerns raised by the county and developers may well be legitimate issues, we here at Bike San Diego wonder why a temporary slower speed limit is not being implemented as a much more safer and cost effective solution. Would the $300,000 still be an issue if the k-rails were blocking access to automobiles?
Are new pedicab regulations a slippery slope for bicyclists?
The San Diego City Council approved new regulations for pedicabs today, which will limit the number of pedicab permits to 250, down from 400. The new city ordinance will also ban pedicabs from sidewalks as well as public roadways with speed limits of more than 25 mph, and establishes restricted operating zones downtown and in some beach areas. Pedicab operators will also be required to clearly post fare information and provide seat belts for customers. The tougher regulations, which will go into effect October 2, were championed by District 7 Councilwoman Marti Emerald after the death of Sharon Miller of Illinois, who sustained a fatal brain injury after falling from a pedicab in July.
The issue for bicyclists is that by writing all of these regulations into a city ordinance, the council doesn't seem to be distinguishing what should be industry regulations, such as requiring fare information, seat belts, and setting permit limits, from traffic issues, like street and zone prohibitions. This potentially establishes a precedent for the council to restrict all pedal-powered traffic on certain streets or in certain zones as long as they do so under the veil of public safety. Industry regulations are fine, but shouldn't all legal vehicles be able to travel legally on all public roadways?
Ask your council member what they think.


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With equal parts Orange County punk, honky tonk country, and a tip-jar full of rockabilly swagger, Reno Divorce strikes a unique chord of their own. For the last 19 years, Reno Divorce has methodically honed their craft in the seediest of speakeasies and on the biggest stages across America and Europe. Propped up by a faithful following and with four acclaimed full-length albums under their belt, their renown live performances bring energy and excitement to any venue they grace. Based in Denver, CO
"Wounded and wounding laments from the gutters and streets of Denver. The guitars are raw and low-slung, the vocals are a perfect mix of whiskey-sour kisses and brattish pout and sneer. Yes it's more punk rock'n'roll, but this is the kind with dirt under its nails, lurching out of the working class dives frequented by the likes of Social Distortion rather than the (admittedly no less thrilling) dandies clubs preferred by The Strokes and their ilk. Yet while there's attitude and energy aplenty on "Naysayers And Yesmen", Reno Divorce sound like they're classicists at heart, and most of these songs would be equally as effective stripped down to a lone voice and acoustic guitar. Add a story- telling lyrical style that is socially aware, seedy and poetic all at the same time, and you have an oddly-moving brand of punk rock that wears its cynical, discontented heart brazenly on its sleeve like a wrecked romantic."
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"Besides, the musicianship and writing speak for themselves. As a songwriter Loveday possesses a sensitivity to the human condition and an empathy for the underdog that never waxes into the misplaced bravado found in some other bands' lyric's"
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"It is both beautiful and tragic that the best OC punk album in years comes from half the country away. Lover's Leapfrom Denver's Reno Divorce delivers the sound we have all been waiting around for, but didn't get. This is the record Mike Ness wished he would have written. From the opening bars of "Rep to Protect", you know exactly what you're in for. "I'd love to sit and chat about all the times I let you down, but now I'm all done with that." It's a bold and plaintive statement, accompanied by a "come at me bro" old school sound that is both reassuring in its familiarity, yet cleaned up with just enough polish to make it shine. It's like the hot rod in your old man's garage that just needed a tune up to roar down the road."
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"The new Reno Divorce album… Where the bear shit in the buckwheat. I like it. I like it a lot. It restored my faith in mankind. I don't feel like killing everyone I meet. A great album that sees thru the bullshit."
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"Denver's RD have released impassioned punk records since 1997, and their anachronistic name refers to Nevada (no one "establishes residency" there just to get a divorce any more), but on their fourth album, their heart's still in L.A., 1979-1983. Brent Loveday is a next generation Mike Ness and Lovers digs Social Distortion from "1945" to Mommy's Little Monster to "So Far Away." But they're so ablaze, as opposed to pallid parody, let's bet Ness loved them when Reno supported Social D! They also have a little Bad Religion in them ("Make Sure You're Sure"'s bridge sounds like "American Jesus"'s), Adolescents, Youth Brigade (faster tracks), San Francisco's No Alternative and Social Unrest, and Stiff Little Fingers (whom they've also supported), yet with their mandatory thick guitar licks, tunes, mature lyrics, and commitment, they're right there with such second wave descendants. Third wave, A-OK"
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Kazakhstan Erupts Into Widespread Civil Unrest [Video]
January 5, 2022 Civil Unrest, Politics
The New York Times reports:
The revolt began on Sunday in western Kazakhstan as a protest against a surge in fuel prices. Four days later, with government buildings, TV stations, the airport and numerous businesses stormed by thousands of anti-government protesters, the uprising has expanded into a full-throated attack on an entrenched Kazakh elite widely reviled as autocratic and corrupt.
Footage posted online on Wednesday showed thousands of people storming the main government building in the country's largest city, Almaty. Apparently unsatisfied by an announcement early Wednesday that the entire government would be sacked and that new parliamentary elections were possible, protesters took control of the country's main airport.
The protests reverberated across the continent to Moscow, where President Vladimir V. Putin was forced to witness another uprising against an authoritarian, Kremlin-aligned nation, following pro-democracy protests in Ukraine in 2014 and in Belarus in 2020.
Read the full article. Kazakhstan has a population of 20 million and is nearly four times the size of Texas.
Kazakh Protesters Burn Government Offices as Unrest Sweeps Country https://t.co/2eRMbvOgav
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) January 5, 2022
Local news reports say the presidential residence in Kazakhstan's largest city is engulfed in flames and armed protesters have stormed another government building. The demonstrations were sparked by a rise in fuel prices and have escalated sharply. https://t.co/5q3jQ25f16
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 5, 2022
Staff flee as protesters enter Kazakhstan airport https://t.co/PXaszzW2HR
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 5, 2022
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THE 2008 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA STATEHOOD ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT EVENT
Posted on November 12, 2008 by By Philip Simmons
By maestro Philip Simmons
The 2008 Bosnia and Herzegovina Statehood Anniversary Concert Celebration will be held on Saturday, November 22, 7:00 PM, in the Auditorium of Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. It is presented by the Congress of North American Bosniaks in collaboration with American Music Festivals, and is open to the public. The program follows the success of last year's celebration in Lake Forest which featured guest artist Emir Nuhanovic, Music Director of the Sarajevo Philharmonic.
Change is in the air. The recent U.S. election demonstrates how as a unified people we can free ourselves of old thinking and embrace the possibility of the new.
Today I write with great enthusiasm about the transformation of the Bosniak community in Chicago, as I witness it firsthand. I am present to a sense of purpose, a call to united action, a bringing together of the community for the common good. The Chicago Chapter of the Congress of North American Bosniaks is a dedicated team with an unwavering commitment to the future. Despite many unfortunate obstacles this team has moved forward and is poised for success, ready to make meaningful and lasting change in the community.
The team speaks for many–some unsure, others who have come to believe that their opinions do not matter. But this is America! Each member of the team deserves a big thank you for their hard work and individual contributions to the success of the upcoming Statehood Celebration event. I would like to personally thank Jeff Kulenovic, for his leadership role through this difficult transitional period.
Now we have the big event coming up in less than two weeks. There are many details to confirm and a great deal of work left to be done. Your personal support of the Anniversary Celebration on November 22 at Northeastern Illinois University is so very important at this time. We are reaching out to the entire Chicago community, and below is how we are articulating the event. As you read this, we know that you are a part of the transformation and we thank you for your role, be it large or small.
Next week: The Future.
2008 Bosnia and Herzegovina Statehood Anniversary Concert Celebration
Philip Simmons and Jonathan Moore, Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Sarajevo, starting August 2009. Mr. Moore will be an honorary guest at the Anniversary Event.
The Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Philip Simmons, will perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo with guitarist Denis Azabagic, and "Sevdah Medley," a new work of traditional Bosnian folk music arranged for orchestra by Chicago composer Ilya Levinson. The program will bring together international dignitaries, local community leaders, Bosniaks from across the U.S. and Canada, and concert-goers alike.
As the premier Bosnian organization in North America, the Congress serves the needs of over 350,000 Bosnian immigrants. Around 50,000 live in Chicagoland, and this constituency has and continues to make many important contributions to the area. The Statehood Anniversary Celebration allows the Bosniak community the opportunity to share and promote their history and cultural traditions. It is an inclusive event that reaches out to all people regardless of ethnicity or religion, and an invitation for cooperation with the desire for us all to live together in peace and prosperity.
For many Americans the former Yugoslavia is a confusing place, with many emerging nations competing for stability and economic development. Upon closer examination it is clear that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have suffered greatly since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In America the Bosniak community can now celebrate, and allow for this public discovery of its music, artists, and traditions. This collaborative program also strives to call to our attention the successful coalition building today in Sarajevo, and the generosity of the Bosniaks throughout history in reaching out and helping others in need. This includes assisting the Jewish people during the Inquisition and Holocaust.
American Music Festivals is a nonprofit based in Chicago's North Shore and is the presenter of the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra. The organization promotes cultural exchange locally and throughout the world, working primarily with organizations in a variety of Eastern European countries. Collaboration with the Congress of North American Bosniaks began when Philip Simmons walked into the Islamic Cultural Center in Northbrook, with the idea of creating a musical program which would lead to greater understanding. Despite many challenges, our Bosnian neighbors are striving to preserve and promote their heritage while integrating into the American mainstream.
The evening's musical program reflects international diversity, the possibility of respecting the past amidst changing values, and humanism. Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 is fresh with new ideas which ask us to confront the status quo. Rodrigo's Concierto, possibly the most famous work of the 20th century, is fresh with the sounds of nature, harkening back to a simpler time, with moments of profound tragedy as well. Ilya Levinson's "Sevdah Medley" is both seductive and reflective, exposing the true heart of the Bosnian people.
Denis Azabagic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is considered one of the best guitarists of his generation. He performs around the globe, including solo recitals, chamber music with the Cavatina Duo, and solo engagements with orchestra. In 1993, at age 20, he became the youngest winner of one of the most prestigious International Guitar Competitions, "Jacinto e Inocencio Guerrero," in Madrid, Spain. He has won eleven first prizes at international competitions and has written the book, "On Competitions", published by Mel Bay. Mr. Azabagic has recorded seven CDs and two DVD's. He has appeared as a guest performer in venues and festivals including the Masters of the Guitar at the Royal Concertgebouw in the Netherlands, Radio France in Paris, El Palau de la Musica, Valencia-Spain, Savannah on Stage, and the Omni Foundation. His performances have been broadcast live on radio and television throughout Europe and the USA.
Philip Simmons is Artistic Director of American Music Festivals and Music Director of the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra. He has conducted over 300 concerts, performing in eighteen countries at venues including Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Center, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, and the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is currently Chair of the Wilmette Fine Arts Commission, and a passionate advocate for community arts and educational outreach. The Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1990 and was named Chamber Ensemble of the Year 2000 by the Illinois Council of Orchestras. The orchestra appears on a variety of performing arts series and at venues throughout Lincolnwood and the Chicago area, maintaining close ties with the Village and Mayor Jerry Turry.
Accompanying the music and other festivities will be an exhibit of photographs by Ivica Jurisic of the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics. Artist David Zoberis, who recently collaborated with the orchestra in the Lincolnwood Day of the Arts on November 2 (and whose works are currently in exhibit at the Lincolnwood Village Hall) will again create a new painting inspired by the occasion, to be displayed at the Anniversary Celebration on November 22.
Dignitaries from Bosnia and Herzegovina will include Eldin Kajevic, the Consul General of Bosnia & Herzegovina, and a representative from the office of President Zeljko Komsic. Numerous US officials have been invited, and last year a letter of good will was received from Vice President-Elect Joseph Biden, at the time Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a long time friend of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event promises to be an evening of great music, culture, and mutual respect.
Tickets for the 2008 Bosnia and Herzegovina Statehood Anniversary Concert Celebration are available in advance or at the door. Admission is $25.
Northeastern Illinois University is located at 5500 N. St. Louis, with auditorium parking accessible at 3701 W. Bryn Mawr. For tickets or further information call 847-920-9569.