The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the 2-day 11th Annual Convention of Central Information Commission (CIC) here today.
While delivering the inaugural address, Shri Rajnath Singh said that Right to Information (RTI) Act is a powerful medium of two-way communication between the citizens and the Government. On the one hand, the citizens get information through this act and on the other hand, the Government gets new ideas for formulating people-friendly policy and to reform the governance system, when people ask such information. The Government system should use it effectively, he added. He also said that our system needs to be corruption-free, smart, sensitive, transparent and answerable for making all the programmes of the Government a success and RTI can play an important role in it. RTI Act provides a strong foundation to the feeling of trust and cooperation which is important for the governance based upon trust.
Shri Rajnath Singh said that programmes like 'My Gov.in' website provide a platform for two-way communication between the Government and the citizens. This benefits both – the citizens and the Government, he added. He also said that the 'Top-down' approach is now getting converted into 'Bottom-up' approach. The Home Minister said that now maximum possible information is being made available on the websites of Government departments and agencies. This transformation has gained momentum after the advent of RTI Act. He also recalled that the Prime Minister had said last year that the dream of 'Digital India' is closely linked with the transparent government. This means that the maximum information the Government makes available online, the transparency of the Government increases to that extent. The Union Home Minister also emphasised on the need of an 'Integrated Response System', where every citizen has a Single Window to reach the Government for fulfilment of his needs.
During the day, the Convention had arranged four technical sessions covering various aspects of institutional governance in India and its implications on RTI.
The technical session on RTI in Railways was chaired by Shri Bimal Julka, Information Commissioner and Shri Amitava Bhattacharyya, Information Commissioner along with Shri Mohd. Jamshed, Member (Traffic), Ministry of Railways. The speakers from Railways mainly stressed on proactive disclosure under section 4 of the Act to minimise the use of public resources in information dissemination.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) convened a session on the RTI online web portal. This portal is expected to cover almost half the public authorities in near future.
Another technical session on RTI in Public Sector Undertakings was chaired by Shri Sudhir Bhargava, Information Commissioner and Shri Divya Prakash Sinha, Information Commissioner along with Dr. U.D Choubey, Director General, SCOPE. In this session PSUs namely National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited (REIL) and South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) deliberated on key issues concerning the implementation of the RTI Act in their respective Public Sector Undertakings.
Today's last technical session on RTI in Regulators such as RBI and IRDAI, Banks and Insurance companies was chaired by Shri Sharat Sabharwal, Information Commissioner and Smt. Manjula Prasher, Information Commissioner. In this session, the deliberations were centred on the broad channels of public interaction by banks in the country and the mediums of dissemination of information related to public at large which consists of branch network, press releases, digital signage, town hall meetings etc.
The technical sessions broadly focussed on the status of RTI implementation in Railways, PSUs and the Financial Sector public authorities and their efforts towards ensuring timely and accurate replies, improvements in suo- motu disclosures, use of technology to expedite processes and governance reforms based on analysis of RTI requests.
Tomorrow, Academic papers on topics like Success and Failure of the Right to Information Act, Harnessing IT for RTI in an Institute of Higher Learning, RTI as an instrument of Change, Right to Petition to Right to Information etc. will be discussed.


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Encino Motorcars v. Navarro, 579 U.S. ___ (2016), 584 U.S. ___ (2018), was a Supreme Court of the United States case addressing overtime pay. Specifically at issue is whether automotive service advisors are eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The case had been heard twice by the Supreme Court. In the first pass, the Court had vacated a previous decision by the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court which relied on an interpretive ruling on the Fair Labor Standards Act provided by the United States Department of Labor to states that service advisors were not exempt, and remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit. On rehearing, the Ninth Circuit still found the same; its decision was reversed in the Supreme Court's 2018 ruling.

Facts and prior history
Respondents are "service advisors" at Mercedes-Benz of Encino (California). Their primary job responsibilities involve identifying service needs and selling service solutions to the dealership's customers. Respondents brought suit against the dealership under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), seeking time-and-a-half overtime pay for working more than 40 hours per week.

The FLSA exempts from its overtime requirements "any salesman, partsman, or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles." The district court denied the claims, concluding that a service advisor is a "salesman . . . engaged in ... servicing automobiles" and therefore exempt from the FLSA's overtime requirements. The Ninth Circuit reversed, citing a 2011 Department of Labor interpretive regulation stating that service advisors are not exempt under §213(b)(10)(A) because they do not personally service automobiles. This finding was contrary for findings from the Fourth and Fifth Circuits, several district courts, and the Supreme Court of Montana," all of which held that service advisors are exempt employees.

First Supreme Court opinion
Encino petitioned to the Supreme Court, who granted certiorari, and heard the case on April 20, 2016. The Court ruled on June 20, 2016, giving a 6-2 decision to vacate the Ninth Circuit's decision and remanded the case back to that court. The majority decision was provided by Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Justices Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Kennedy's opinion focused on whether the 2011 DOL regulation qualified for the "Chevron deference", defined by Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. and which states that courts must defer to regulations made by the appropriate administrative agency granted powers by Congress on some matters. Kennedy stated that past cases related to the Chevron deference, such as FCC v. Fox (2009) and National Cable & Telecommunications Ass'n v. Brand X Internet Services (2005), determined that this deference is only allowable when agencies make these regulations with "good reasons for the new policy"; the 2011 DOL policy change, the Court determined, was a complete change from a 1978 DOL policy, and the DOL did not provide adequete rationale for its change. As such, the Court ruled that the Ninth could not consider the 2011 DOL ruling as part of its decision. Kennedy's decision otherwise did not rule on the other merits of the case.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justice Alito. In the dissent, Thomas agreed that the 2011 DOL ruling did not enjoy Chevron deference, but believed that the Supreme Court should evaluate the other merits of the case at that time, and in his opinion, the FLSA should be read to have service advisers as exempt from overtime as they are "primarily engaged in ... servicing automobiles", and suggested reversal of the Ninth Circuit's decision on this basis.

Remand to Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit still found against Encino during the rehearing, ruling that the service advisors were not exempt, basing their decision primarily on the legislative history of FLSA.

Second Supreme Court opinion

Encino again appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case in September 2017. The case provides the unusual example of the same case being heard a second time, allowing a view into the new court's attitude toward federal rulemaking.

The Court heard oral arguments January 17, 2018. The court issued its ruling on April 2, 2018, in a 5–4 decision that reversed the Ninth Circuit and affirmed that service advisors are to be considered exempt under FLSA. The majority opinion was written by Justice Clarence Thomas joined by Justices Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, and Gorsuch, while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the dissenting opinion joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.

See also

 Fair Labor Standards Act

References

External links

United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court
United States labor case law

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Matt Pond: The Lives Inside The Lines Of Your Hand
Darryl Norrell
It's entirely possible that I'm the wrong person to review this record. Matt Pond has been churning out music since the '90s, and I could never fully devote myself to it, but you know—I liked that Neutral Milk Hotel cover. Didn't everyone? Pond's albums may not have rearranged my world, but they weren't boring, and his experience and songwriting ability put him in my mind as a capable guy whose music was always worth checking out. Now, I am perplexed: The straightforward pop of The Lives Inside The Lines In Your Hand must be targeting an audience I'm not a part of, as I'm not sure it made me feel a thing.
There are loads of modern indie band conventions peppered about: four-to-the-floor kick drum, fuzz bass, sunny synth textures paired with chiming clean guitars, an obligatory song with banjo. The new wave tilt and relentless beat of "Go Where The Leaves Go" feel inspired, as does the soaring chorus in "Love To Get Used," but standout band moments are infrequent—arrangements are detailed and pretty, but too uneventful to be anything but a pleasant backdrop for Pond's vocals. It's difficult to find the words for how I feel about this album's lyrics, so perhaps I should just be frank: They're heavy-handed, stuffed with clichés, and always delivered with the same affectation. A remarkable voice like Pond's feels lost on all this generic soap. There's a sort of believable quality on older releases like Emblems that is, on this romcom-ready soundtrack, nowhere to be found.
Songs like the title-track swing dramatically for the fences, but for me, this was an unrewarding listen that felt distant and bereft of anything daring. I doubt Pond expects that reducing his sound into safe rock-pop is the way to get another slice of sync-license pie (written to quiet my inner cynic). More likely, the grind of recording and touring has culminated in a pleasant-sounding snooze from a hard-working vet—certainly wouldn't be the first time.
In A Word: Uninspiring
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Well it was bound to happen. Unlike yourself, I actually own and get into most all of this man's work. Even the dark leaves, which I didn't enjoy upon first listen, grew on me and I really like that one. Unfortunately, the new album is by FAR my least fav recording of his…..I don't think it needed to be more daring per se. It's just that the songs sound watered down and as a whole the record sounds like an unfocused attempt at appeasing the new major label as well as a more mainstream audience. It says something that the first single off the album(and the records best track imo) was already released on an ep in spring of 2011! I love Mr Pond's music and songwriting ability(check out Nature of Maps), but I think you summed this up perfectly, unispiring….oh well…

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Пошлый мужчина возбудился от вида полуобнаженной жены в сексуальном черном белье и заметив это, дама сразу же начала ублажать красавчика с эрегированным членом и в итоге довела его до апогея.
Mandalay Bay is one of the larger and more upscale MGM properties, and is often considered the southernmost casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
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For seating, there are 96 cubicles 24 of which are non-smoking and "student desks". The lounge has 30 tables, each of which has 4 chairs. There is 1 huge screen, 6 large, and 8 small. Race and sports tickets expire after days. The poker room at Mandalay has 10 tables, all of which are non-smoking.
Both the player's club and the cashier have McDonald's-style lines free-for-all chaos. To their credit, at one time there was one window at the cashier which was dedicated solely to redeeming gaming chips.
My hotel room at Mandalay Bay was impressive. The dimensions were 15' by 30'. A flat-screen TV and mini-bar were available. The bathroom had a separate tub and shower, and the toilet was located within a smaller closet off the main bathroom. There was also a small TV in the bathroom. The pool at Mandalay Bay has been featured on the Travel Channel. It is called The Beach because it generates its own waves. The waterfalls and other scenerey make the pool at Mandalay Bay one of the best pools in Vegas, if not the best.
Playing craps is a challenge. The dice are constantly changing. For me, making money at craps is what makes the game truly enjoyable. I like nothing better than to beat the odds and walk away a winner. To do this with any consistency you need to know how the game is played and you need a playing strategy. When I first started to play, I would bet the pass line and make 2 come bets. I learned very quickly that you had to be able to bet both sides of the dice if you wanted to survive at the table.
I bought various strategy books and watched how other people played. I took a good look at how I played and changed it to better suit what was happening during the game. I started to play both sides during the course of a shooters roll. I started to lose less and win more. It is a mostly conservative and adaptable way of playing. I want to get the feel of the craps table , see which way the dice are running and then bet accordingly.
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Then replace those numbers you have taken down one at a time with the next two hits. With the two remaining numbers still working you can build up the bets you took down till you have all the inside numbers covered again. This method is good for a choppy to hot table. After a day of consistent and fast losing at the tables in Reno, I tried to come up with some method that might stem the tide.


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Ford F-150 Lightning Pricing Announced
Ford announced pricing and more details about the Ford F-150 Lightning, which later this week will be available for order (by reservation holders, in batches).
As we know, there are four versions of the truck, Pro, XLT, Lariat and Platinum. Production of all four types will begin in Spring.
MSRP price of Ford F-150 Lightning in the U.S.:
Pro: $39,974
XLT: $52,974
Lariat: $67,474
* Destination charges are $1,695. The vehicle is eligible for up to $7,500 of the federal tax credit.
EPA range and battery options
All versions are dual-motor, all-wheel-drive. The Pro version comes with the Standard Range Battery for up to 230 miles (370 km) of expected EPA range. There is also the Extended Range Battery that extends the range up to 300 miles (483 km) – optional in the case of XLT and Lariat ($10,000), and standard in the Platinum trim.
Actually, there is a Pro version with the Extended Range Battery ($10,000 option) but it's envisioned only for fleets.
Ford F-150 Lightning expected EPA range:
Pro (SR): 230 miles (370 km)
(SR): 230 miles (370 km)
(ER): 300 miles (483 km)
Platinum (ER): 280 miles (451 km)
According to the previous report, the difference between the two battery options is 33 kWh of usable battery capacity:
Standard Range Battery: 98 kWh
Extended Range Battery: 131 kWh
The difference is 33 kWh
We are in the process of collecting more info and details, so stay tuned for more reports on the Ford F-150 Lightning.
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Many reservation holders are afraid that the disproportion between the demand and supply of the Ford F-150 Lightning will cause high market adjustments by dealers. Some reports indicate up to $30,000. Mike Levine, Ford North America Product Communications director, has a piece of advice:
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Rebecca Martin is a unmarried mom with an condominium to hire and a feeling that she has used up her illusions. I had the romantic factor with my first husband, thanks greatly, she tells a hapless suitor. i am thirty-eight years outdated, and i have acquired a daughter studying to learn and a role i do not fairly like.
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The extreme novel that introduces the unforgettable Coleman family—and the bright heroine who begun a robust American dynasty younger Billie Ames naively fell for the interesting pilot Moss Coleman on the Philadelphia army backyard in the course of global battle II. inside of a number of months she used to be pregnant, married, and touring around the kingdom to Austin .
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Sure, it truly is. And through your personal selection, it's mine too. " She had her enamel into it now, her jaws snapped tight, like a wolf's over a fleshy bone. Her will rose as much as tangle with Eve's, muscle groups flexed. Nerves smoldered like vivid embers in her abdominal. "If you will want anyone who'll bow for those who pull the strings, we'll cease this now. I'll return to Connecticut and we'll enable our legal professionals hash it out. " She began to upward push. "Sit down. " Eve's voice quivered with mood. "Sit down, dammit. You made your aspect. " With an acknowledging nod, Julia settled back.


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The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare nutrient concentrations and total alkalinity in summer and winter and along the marine, estuarine and riverine portions of the mond estuary ecosystem in the Persian Gulf. Sampling was conducted in warm and cold seasons. The concentrations of nutrients were measured by MOOPAM standard method and total alkalinity was measured by potentiometric titration method. The results showed that there was not significant difference in measured alkalinity along the marine, estuarine and riverine stations between summer and winter. The results showed that the average concentration of nitrate and nitrite in estuarine stations were more than marine and riverine stations. Also, seasonal variations and increased rainfall caused higher average concentration of nitrate and nitrite in winter and lower average concentration of phosphate and silicate.
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2 edition of Gustav Mahler: song-symphonist. found in the catalog.
Gustav Mahler: song-symphonist.
Gabriel Engel
by Gabriel Engel
Published 1970 by David Lewis in New York .
Mahler, Gustav, -- 1860-1911
Bibliography: p. [127-128]
Statement Preface by Jack Diether
Pagination [136] p.
The benefit of this to us is that many of these books are long out of copyright, in the public domain and are thus freely available to anyone that wishes to read them. Of course producing and distributing print books still retains a cost and this must be paid for. "Gustav Mahler, Song Symphonist" - Gabriel Engel. The Case Of Wagner. Günther Weiss has published books and essays on, among others, Bartók, Pfitzner, Reger, and Strauss. Knud Martner, a Danish music researcher, is the editor of Selected Letters of Gustav Mahler. Antony Beaumont is the author of Zemlinsky and coeditor with Susanne Rode-Breymann and translator of Alma Mahler-Werfel's Diaries (both from.
The book goes on to identify a fundamental tension between the music's episodic nature and its often-noted narrative impulse and suggests that Mahler's symphonic dramaturgy can be understood as a form of abstract theatre. According to Gabriel Engel in his book, "Gustav Mahler: Song-Symphonist" (The Bruckner Society of America, ), even when a conservatory student " His mind had lightning-like grasp and analytic power Thus a mere hint was sufficient to whirl him unerringly through a whole chapter of complicated musical theory.
"When Mahler is sad, it's a complete sadness. Nothing can comfort him; it's like a weeping child. And when he's happy, he's happy the way a child is, all the way. That's one of the keys to this Mahler puzzle: His feelings are extreme, exaggerated, like young people's feelings. Once you understand that secret of his music—the voice of a child—you can really love his music". Adagietto from Symphony No. 5. Publisher: Southern Music Co. Paste link into a browser window Series: Southern Music. Full Score. Format: Full Score. The original key of F has been retained, and the optional harp part is embraced by the celli in definitive Rating: % positive.
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He draws on important primary resources—some unavailable to previous biographers—and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler's diaries; and the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechne/5(12). Gustav Mahler thought of his symphonic writing as being based on personal experience, as autobiographical, and as an Gustav Mahler: song-symphonist.
book of his philosophy of life. Thus his symphonies deal with profound existential questions and with programmatic ideas that the composer was at first willing to reveal but later preferred to keep to himself.
Important references to musical meaning in Mahler's. Gustav Mahler (German: ; 7 July – 18 May ) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.
While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity. Gustav Mahler: Selected full-text books and articles. Mahler's Voices: Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies By Julian Johnson Oxford University Press, Read preview Overview.
Bruckner and Mahler By H. Redlich J. Dent and Sons. Mahler, Gustav, Gustav Mahler: Letters To His Wife, ed. Henry-Louis de La Grange and Gunther Weiss, (Cornell University Press, ) p Gustav Mahler, in his younger days, was a vegetarian.
There's a story, recounted by one of his biographers, about how the composer was teased by fellow musicians in a restaurant when he refused meat.
Recordings, books and sheet music Project Gutenberg Australia has a biography of Gustav Mahler by Gabriel Engel (), Gustav Mahler, Song Symphonist Musik gratis oleh Mahler di International Music Score Library Project. I nright at the end of his life, Gustav Mahler finally made his breakthrough as a composer.
Until then, music-lovers across the Western world saw him as a. Gustav Mahler, Austrian Jewish composer and conductor, noted for his 10 symphonies and various songs with orchestra, which drew together many different strands of Romanticism.
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The U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has decided to dissolve the Donald J. Trump (DJT) Foundation. Trump informed that his Foundation has done enormous good work over the years in contributing millions of dollars to countless worthy groups, including supporting veterans, law enforcement officers and children.
"However, to avoid even the appearance of any conflict with my role as President I have decided to continue to pursue my strong interest in philanthropy in other ways," Trump said.
Trump added that he has given millions of dollars to DJT Foundation, raised or received millions more, all of which is given to charity, and media won't report about his charity work.
I gave millions of dollars to DJT Foundation, raised or recieved millions more, ALL of which is given to charity, and media won't report!
Meanwhile, he has directed his counsel to take the necessary steps to effectuate the dissolution. He also said that the Foundation has operated at essentially no cost for decades, with 100% of the money going to charity.
"Because I will be devoting so much time and energy to the Presidency and solving the many problems facing our country and the world, I don't want to allow good work to be associated with a possible conflict of interest," Trump expressed.
Although Trump has praised the work of his DJT Foundation, it is mired in extreme controversy, criticism, and scrutiny. The Foundation has been fined for making political contributions and admitted engaging in self-dealing practices to benefit Trump, his family, and businesses.
The Inauguration Day ceremony will take place on January 20, 2017 when Trump is scheduled to begin his four-year term as President.
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The first two-year public engagement training programme for graduate students entitled 'Communicating Ancient Greece and Rome' (CAGR), run by the APGRD, was awarded funds by the AHRC in 2010.
20 doctoral students were selected from CRSN (Classical Reception Studies Network) institutions nationwide through competitive application to participate in the programme. The students travelled to venues around the country to learn about and to practise public engagement techniques that enabled them to communicate their research to the general public in innovative, exciting and accessible ways.
Sessions covered print, broadcast and digital media, as well as the fostering of partnerships with industries and institutions through public programmes. The participants had the opportunity to explore their ideas further through workshops and continued contact with a team of experts. Over the course of the two-year programme, participants devised and undertook their own public engagement programme with the help of our experts. In the final session, participants presented their projects, their processes and results.
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Daniel Rosenthal (writer, critic and journalist) and Gavin Clarke (National Theatre Archivist) explored the principles and processes of using primary research materials in writing accessible scholarly literature for a general audience.
Popular journalism - 10 January 2011, National Theatre archive, London
Daniel Rosenthal (writer, critic and journalist) explored the principles of research and writing concise, accessible articles for newspapers and popular journals, including interview techniques and understanding your audience.
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Audio recording, oral history and digital preservation - 28 April 2011, Nottingham
Cynthia Brown (Oral History Society accredited practitioner and trainer) explored the practicalities of independently recording and safeguarding your interviews, lectures, programmes or oral histories in order to make them widely available, including copyright issues, digital editing and an introduction to oral history projects in the community.
Introduction to digital media
Web 2.0: websites, podcasts, blogs, You Tube, Twitter - 27 June, Oxford
Tom Wrobel (Website and database developer) and Elton Barker (lecturer in Classical Studies, Open University) explored the practical and creative considerations involved in using a website and social-web applications to disseminate information and engage the public effectively with new research.
How to make your research live - 12 December 2011, Liverpool
Tom Wrobel (Website and database developer) offered an introduction to copyright, Open Access, and Creative Commons licensing; followed by a practical session by Sara Morgan (Wetherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University) on creating effective research posters.
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Working with museums, archives and the heritage sector - 11 January 2012, Kedleston Hall, Derby
Simon McCormack (House & Collections Manager, Kedleston Hall, Derby) and Daniele Westerhof (freelance rare books cataloguer and historian) explored the role of the academic in archival and curatorial work, including curating a public exhibition and developing a public programme based around source material.
Working with schools - 19 March 2012, Oxford
Bob Lister (Faculty of Education, Cambridge University) explored the practical and creative considerations of working with schools and communicating effectively with young people.
Working with the creative industry/practitioners - 27 April 2012, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon
Struan Leslie (RSC Head of Movement), Michael Boyd (RSC Artistic Director), Jacqui O'Hanlon (RSC Director of Education), Lyn Darnley (RSC Head of Artists' Development), Pippa Hill (RSC Literary Manager) and Michelle Morton (RSC Programmes Editor) explored the role of the academic in producing creative work to engage the public with research on stage.


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Political endorsements by preachers have been few and far between this election season.
A new report from Nashville-based LifeWay Research found 4 out of 10 Protestant pastors are undecided about which candidate to vote for. A third (32 percent) plan to vote for Donald Trump. One in 5 (19 percent) plans to vote for Hillary Clinton. Four percent support Gary Johnson. Three percent do not plan to vote.
Few pastors believe Christians who vote their conscience will all support the same candidate. And few say Christians should vote only for a candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning.
Meanwhile, only one preacher in 100 has endorsed a candidate from the pulpit.
Those are among the findings of a new survey of 1,000 Protestant senior pastors conducted Aug. 22-Sept. 16, 2016. Most are ambivalent about the major party candidates, said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research.
Researchers found wide support for voting among Protestant pastors. Eighty-eight percent of pastors say American Christians have a biblical responsibility to vote. That includes pastors of all denominational stripes—from Pentecostal (98 percent) and Baptist pastors (95 percent) to Presbyterian/Reformed pastors (81 percent) and Church of Christ ministers (79 percent).
But pastors don't expect all Christians to vote the same way. And few believe Christians should support only candidates who can win. Two-thirds (65 percent) disagree with the statement, "Christians who truly vote their conscience will vote for the same candidate." Less than a third (29 percent) agree. Six percent are not sure.
Two-thirds also disagree with the statement, "American Christians should vote for a candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning." Twenty-nine percent agree. Six percent are not sure.
While they believe voting is important, Protestant pastors have been extremely reluctant to make political endorsements during church services. Ninety-eight percent of pastors surveyed have not endorsed a candidate during a church service this year. One percent have endorsed a candidate during a service, and one percent are not sure.
Endorsements outside church are more common. Twenty-two percent of Protestant pastors have endorsed a candidate outside of their church role. Seventy-seven percent have not. One percent are not sure.
A similar survey in 2012 found 10 percent of Protestant pastors agreed when asked whether pastors should endorse a candidate from the pulpit. Eighty-seven percent disagreed. In 2012, 44 percent agreed they had endorsed candidates outside of their church role. Fifty-two percent disagreed.
"Enthusiasm for endorsements appears to be waning this year," said McConnell.
This article originally appeared on lifeway.com.
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Emily King – February 18, 2015
A radical new style of ultra-personalized content delivery is emerging. We look at what the advent of "intelligent" or "adaptive" content will mean for B2B copywriters.
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Content marketing is on the move. The next stage in its evolution will be "intelligent" content, according to Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute, and a host of other luminaries slated to speak at next month's Intelligent Content Conference in San Francisco.
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It seems that intelligent content is content that adapts itself on the fly to the needs and wishes of the person consuming it. It's guided partly by what the user is doing at the moment of consuming the content, partly by the device they're using, and partly by what the content delivery platform already 'knows' about the user and what they've done previously.
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"We're saying here in New York, women's lives matter. We're saying here in New York, women's decisions matter," Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said.
Sarah Weddington, the Texas attorney who successfully argued Roe before Supreme Court, was at Cuomo's side when he signed the Reproductive Health Act into law.
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The Reproductive Health Act replaces a 1970 state abortion law that was passed three years before Roe legalized abortion nationwide.
The new law moves the section of state law dealing with abortion from the penal code to health statutes. It also authorizes midwives and physician assistants to perform some abortions, CBS New York reports.
Abortion rights supporters pushed for years to update the law. When Democrats gained control of the state Senate this year, the act became easier to pass in both chambers. Supporters said the election of President Donald Trump and the nomination of conservative justices helped galvanize efforts to pass this law.
Republicans who opposed the bill offered proposals to create new legal penalties for harming pregnant women. Some critics argued the bill could make it harder for prosecutors to bring charges when a woman is assaulted and loses her pregnancy, the AP reports, although Democrats disputed that. Some opponents also predicted the bill will lead to more late-term abortions.
According to the New York State Department of Health, 285,127 induced abortions occurred in the state between 2012 and 2014. The average number of live births for the same three years was 237,499. Nationwide, the vast majority of abortions take place in the first trimester.
The AP reports nine other states including California, Washington and Oregon have also put protections for abortion rights in their state statutes, to preserve legal access in those states if Roe is overturned.
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I made my first crustless quiche yesterday—my first quiche in fact—in my first pie dish. Again, I didn't do enough research before making it, and it ended up soggy. You can read more about it here. I found this Bon Appétit article after my little failure, and I recommend every quiche virgin and enthusiast to read it before their first or next attempt.
My boyfriend also gave me sage advice: buy a smaller pie dish before you know what you're doing. My sister jokingly said the same thing when we were browsing the kitchenware section in the mall a couple of weeks ago and I picked up a big loaf pan and told her that I wanted to buy one of these to make banana bread soon. She picked up a teeny-tiny metal one and said, "Start with this just in case you screw up. Then you can just give the food to the cats." I don't know where the cat part came from, or which cats she was referring to exactly, but yes, her suggestion (the first part) makes perfect sense.


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Bisbrooke is a small village in the small, picturesque county of Rutland. It lies amidst a landscape of gentle hills dotted with rolling farmlands, rivers, reservoirs and woodland. The village's most prominent feature is it's church, this is dedicated to St.John the Baptist and although it looks as though it's history began back in the mist of time, the present church was only built in the 19th century as a replacement for a previous church belonging to the 13th century.
The church is built in the style of 14th century Gothic, it does though have medieval features and these can be seen in the clerestory windows saved from the old church to be incorporated into the new. It also has some 19th century floor slabs which are believed to have been taken from the churchyard, and at the entrance to the churchyard visitors can see two medieval stone coffins. The churchyard holds several interesting headstones, one of the most noted depicts a wagon being drawn by four horses in single file, a Wagoner wearing a slouch hat with whip in hand is to the foreground, with the rest of the headstone being covered in farming implements.
A short way from the church is Bisbrooke Hall, a handsome house mentioned in Pevsner's "The Buildings of England". The house occupies an outstanding park location surrounded by mature trees. This is the second house to be built on this site, it has parts from 1740. In 1840, Lord Carbery substantially renovated the house and in the 1960's further alterations included the former brewhouse and laundry being turned into a baronial hall by Mr. George Boyle whose descendents still reside in the property today.
The village has several cottages from the latter part of the 1800's, these mingle well with properties of a newer build. There are also a couple of scattered farms, orchards, and a market garden.
Located on the side of a hill, the village is quite off the beaten track, it straddles an ironstone ridge between two brooks from which it is possible the village takes its name.
This is an ideal place to stay to explore the numerous tiny hamlets, small villages and towns of the inviting Rutland/Leicestershire countryside. Excellent accommodation can be sought out and for those touring with a caravan why not stay in the tranquil, scenic surroundings of historic Bisbrooke Hall? This has pitches for Tourers, Motor-homes and Tents, it is close to the village pub and all other usual village amenities.
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3 (Not bad. Did everything I asked of them)
2 (15 - 25 mins - Where's the food? Might have asked a staff member)
2 (Quite disappointing - seems rushed, may have some parts burnt)
After the crowded messes that were Croydon and Finchley Nando's, I must admit that the sight of number 104 on Wembley High Road seemed almost like a mirage. No crowds, no noise, and no hour+ wait for a table. Can this be real?
Five of us arrived after work on a Wednesday. The closest station (about five minutes away, along the High Street) is Wembley Central, but I came from Wembley Park station, which is either a 25 minute walk, or a 45 minute traffic jam away from the Nando's. We walked in to the almost entirely empty restaurant and were soon greeted, and shown to two pushed-together tables in the far corner, near the toilets. Other than a cute elephant ornament by the door, there's little to write home about, as far as interior is concerned. There are a couple of booths with art hung beside them, but these were (confusingly) both given to groups of two that turned up later (while our group of five were seated at regular tables).
Queuing to order, a member of staff came out the back and asked if we were waiting for a table. The person at the back of the queue then said exactly what food she was waiting to order. I was slightly astonished when the staff member then went and opened a till for the person at the back of the queue!
Once I finally got served, I gave over a gift card (that I'd won from RYN) to part pay for the meal. The guy at the till went to put it in the chip and pin reader, then looked back at me in confusion and asked "what is this?". "It's a Nando's gift card", I replied. "A what?". "A gift card, it has money on it". Without apology, he then called over somebody else who also admitted she wasn't sure what it was. Eventually, the THIRD person to come over confirmed that Nando's gift cards existed and showed the first two how to swipe them on the till. I can see that training is not very thorough here in Wembley.
Considering how quiet the restaurant was, we had to wait a long time for the food to start arriving. 20 minutes or more. When the food did arrive, we noticed that all of us had been given peri salt on our chips, whether we'd ordered it or not. Not only that, but it was just a little dusting. So little that those who didn't want it weren't too fussed, but those who did required more. My dry chips and half burnt corn was served with the new sunset burger, which I have to say is great. The sweet and savoury combination works a treat. Just like the churrasco thigh burger, it's a sloppy mess, but it's a delicious one and I'll be ordering it again!
While Wembley Nando's isn't very organised, it's nice that we were able to get a table at the time of our convenience, something that can't be said for a lot of other London branches.


We are grateful for your spirit, drive and commitment that made this year's Fairy Walk so magical on Sunday, October 21, 2018.
We had over 175 volunteers that pulled everything together with grace - from the unseen bakers and imaginative set designers and fantastic floral arrangers to our musical talents that captivated in three different locations, to our fortune tellers who told untold fortunes, to our myriad helpers in feeding the hungry crowds, pressing apples, passing out pumpkins, selling craft kits, painting faces, managing arrivals and departures, dressing volunteers, and to those who put on spectacular performances as sleeping princesses, wandering kings, bubbling witches and knights, knaves and queens. And those who magically returned the school to its proper order.
Over 500 of you attended, walking through the maze in Dakin Hall to witness performances of Briar Rose, the Queen of Hearts, Double Trouble Witchery and the Midsummer Royal Court to surface into festive autumnal air filled with music by our own very local and elusive band - the Dusty Gnomes - and surrounded by hearty nourishment of soup by Joe Manzare, bread graciously donated by our own Jodie Geren from The Mill and savory (and some sweet) bites made by our community. After all that food, apple cider made by kids, parents and volunteers from apples graciously donated by Hidden Star Orchard via the ingenuity of Jackie Schwartz and coffee donated by Four Barrel Coffee (thanks again Jodie!) quenched your thirst. Finally, all were bid a fair adieu by persevering wizards at the end of the rainbow tunnel.
We give thanks to you all.
Cory Powers - for her tireless efforts at the Grade School everyday, and especially this past weekend from lighting design on very tall ladders, to ticket management, troubleshooting and knowing where everything was and should be returned to. Her knowledge, calm and smile got us through.
The Royal Court performers made up solely of high school and grade school kids that for the first time at Fairy Walk put on a full production, reciting lines from A Midsummer's Night Dream, dancing across the stage and all around enchanting visitors. You were amazing!
Dana Castro for filling in wherever needed, sewing capes, procuring sumptuous fabric for the entry, hanging it, braving the costume closet and committing Kevin to construct the rainbow tunnel.
Jodie Geren for donating such delicious bread and coffee each year.
Deborah Hull for stepping in at the last minute as we all became aware the Royal Court actually needed a stage director and then staying with and directing the Court the entire day.
Joe Manzare for making soup for 500 year after year and managing so much more that happens in the kitchen that we sorely underestimate.
Monika Leitz for her tireless support of the Fairy Walk since its beginning, for pulling together the Eurythmy witch performances a week earlier this year, and encouraging kids to display their theatrical talents in the Royal Court.
Yoriko Yamamoto for dreaming up our new craft kit - the knit bird and providing the beautiful handwritten instructions and her own naturally dyed organic yarn.
Aly Dinsmore, Janice Lucena, Jackie Schwartz and Mercy Manning for hauling large quantities of cornstalks, flowers, pumpkins, apples and cider and also volunteering on the day.


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Back to the land for Highdowns residents
TOPICS:care and supportregard
Posted By: Press Release 7 June, 2013
Regard service user, Ivan Keast, with Ryeland Sheep
Residents at Highdowns, near Camborne, raised enough money by collecting discarded scrap metal collected from around the farm to buy a flock of sheep.
They intend to breed the animals on the 10-acres site and are hoping to see their first lambs born next spring.
In preparation for the arrival of the two rams and five ewes from a nearby farm, service users spent a week building fences.
Highdowns, which was last a working farm in 2005, is run by independent care provider Regard and is home to 14 residents.
"We're thrilled to have livestock here again," said Highdowns' manager Jenna Betts. "It's really starting to feel like a farm again.
"Together with our residents, we researched different breeds of sheep and visited several farms in the area and found Ryelands the most suitable.
"They are a minority breed and are small, docile and ideal for small sites as they're easy on fences compared with many sheep breeds."
Jenna says the Ryelands have had a major impact on the care community who live in four properties on the site.
"It has given them motivation and self-esteem. They now have responsibility for putting sheep out on certain mornings, feeding them and providing them with clean water and putting them to bed in the barn."
Next year's lambs will be registered as Highdowns stock with the Ryeland Flock Book Society and will be exhibited at local agricultural shows.
Highdowns already boasts 28 ducks, numerous rabbits and three peacocks and sells eggs laid by the farm's 40 free range chickens.
"We will increase the sheep to an optimum flock of around 25 in the next three years with our own lambs and new blood lines through stock purchase," says Highdowns' farm officer Nick Colebourn-Morris.
"We also plan to maintain and increase our poultry flock to ensure the supply and demand chain of our eggs, and have plans for a small piggery with the heritage breed Cornish Lop."
"We're also looking to put up a polytunnel to produce vegetables and eventually to sell them at a farm shop."
Ryeland sheep are among the oldest established British sheep breeds and are believed to be derived from the Spanish Merino.
Queen Elizabeth I was reputedly a fan of Ryeland wool. A pair of stockings given her as a gift pleased her so much she swore from then on she would only wear clothing woven from their fleece.
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Wednesday Book Club: The Gunslinger
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 — 12:04am | Book Club, Literature
This week's selection: The Gunslinger (1982) by Stephen King.
In brief: The first volume of The Dark Tower is an ambiguous gothic western laced with pretensions of genre-crossing, multiverse-spanning fantasy. The concept is promising, but the execution is an incoherent mess. If the rest of the seven-book series is anything like this plodding trudge through a sandbox of unrelated metaphors, consider me completely incurious.
(The Wednesday Book Club is an ongoing initiative of mine to write a book review every week. I invite you to peruse the index. For more on The Gunslinger, keep reading below.)
It may surprise some of you, or more likely none of you, that up to this point I had never read Stephen King. I wasn't avoiding him, necessarily; you can't go out of your way to avoid someone if you've never given him any thought. Though I was vaguely aware that he had a reputation in the imagination of the general public as a Bigshot Author, like many Bigshot Authors with household names like James Patterson and Danielle Steel, I'd be hard-pressed to name anyone of my acquaintance who was familiar with his work and was in a position to recommend it to me. I admired the Frank Darabont films of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, and I remember how King was consistently among the Harry Potter series' most vocal and sensible proponents in the mainstream press. Other than that, the sum of my exposure to Stephen King was a minute awareness that he makes a lot of money and is filed under "horror", a genre that I often forget exists.
Now that I've given him a try, I don't see what the fuss is all about.
What is The Gunslinger? Choose one of the following:
A five-part serial published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1978 to 1981, compiled into a book in 1982, and revised again upon the completion of The Dark Tower in 2003.
In one sentence (the first sentence): "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." The man in black is dressed in a hood and cassock; there is some suggestion he represents Death, in case you haven't clued in already. The gunslinger's name is Roland, or so his flashbacks tell us, though he answers to "the gunslinger" these days. He's looking for a Tower. It's Dark.
An extended drive-by allusion to "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", a poem by Robert Browning based on a line from King Lear.
Dull, dull, dull.
The setting has the flavour of an imagined Old West, but with the odd burger joint and the distant piano strains of "Hey Jude". There is some suggestion that the gunslinger's world is a cross between a post-apocalyptic afterlife and a fragmented parallel existence, which sounds like the formula for a cosmic joke. His journey is the latest stage of an aeons-long grail-quest for the Tower, the spine of the universe and, indeed, all universes. Somewhere along the way he shoots up a hick town that thinks he is the Antichrist, and a boy named Jake with fading memories of being run over by a car in New York decides to tag along. Near the end, he catches up with the man in black, who pulls out a deck of Tarot cards and tells him that the universe is really big.
In the relative scheme of things, those are the good parts.
I like the idea of experiments in genre recombination, and I like it a lot. The problem with King's attempt at doing just that is his propensity for arbitrarily tossing tropes into a pot and hoping they mix. (I'm hesitant to call it the "shotgun approach".) Time and again, The Gunslinger merely invokes a genre, a familiar symbol, or an appeal to Biblical mythology, and takes its entire semantic network as a given.
Yes, it's a western, and the western has an extensive history as a genre about sin, redemption, and the moral conscience of violence as an instrument of judgment or deliverance or blood-soaked audience satisfaction. But being a western isn't sufficient to make a novel about the moral order of the universe merely by association.
The whole book is like this: a hodgepodge of common literary tropes that show up, stand around awkwardly with their hands in their pockets, and act like they inherently mean something by virtue of being there. We find out that the number nineteen is important, and that the number three is also important, but not as important as the number nineteen; mythology tells us prime numbers are mystical, QED. And there's a talking raven that doesn't do much other than remind us of Edgar Allan Poe, because didn't he write about ravens?
It's funny: the dominant stereotype of mainstream fiction by Bigshot Authors is that it might be thin on figurative meaning, and the prose style may be clunky, but at least it tells a clear story that keeps the pages turning. The Gunslinger is the opposite on all counts.
King's prose is functional enough—atmospheric, even, with keen attention to voice—and he is certainly no hack (though his indulgence in adverbs has made me realize, for the first time, why some literary critics hold a grudge against adverbs). The plot, however, is not the casually coherent procession of decisions and consequences that a novel-reader has the right to expect, but an ambiguous stew of vagaries. Strange as it sounds, Stephen King makes the cubism of The English Patient resemble a declarative, linear walk in the park. I kid you not: Ondaatje is the easier read.
Maybe The Gunslinger sounds a dog whistle of Christian allegory I'm just not hearing—there's a lot of God this and God that, and the fifth and final segment is a play on the Book of Genesis—but if a novel has little to no significance beyond its allegorical function, I'm not about to give it much credit.
Much of the novel suffers from what comes off as a strict aversion to exposition. When playing in an imagined world, an author has a certain responsibility to tell us what is going on, or at least reveal it in a tandem of questions and discoveries. For most of The Gunslinger, all we get are ad hoc conflicts between characters we neither know nor care about, sometimes in the form of flashbacks. Ambiguous things happen to ambiguous people page after page, and they don't inspire enough curiosity to compel the reader to string them together.
I see this as further evidence of what happens when one follows the "show, don't tell" mantra for beginning writers to its logical extreme while ignoring the complexity of how literature empirically works—an odd thing for King to do, as he is evidently well read. It is a tremendous relief to reach the last chapter and listen to the man in black give a speech on where we are and what we just put up with for 250-some pages, a device that would be hackneyed in most circumstances but is here an unfortunate necessity. Not that there's much of a payoff: as we know, the story doesn't end here, and Roland gets to do it all over again for six more books.
I don't know if The Gunslinger is representative of the Stephen King oeuvre. I don't even know if it is representative of The Dark Tower. In many cases, early works are uneven, and authors improve with age. But I closed the book with the impression that King is, for my reading purposes, an inconsequential author to whom I have no desire to return. There's no doubt The Gunslinger overflows with ambition, but I already know where to look if I want to see that ambition fulfilled: in some re-read combination of Philip Pullman and Cormac McCarthy, which would have retained everything that works in King while amounting to a better use of my time.
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6 rejoinders to "Wednesday Book Club: The Gunslinger"
# Daniel Kaszor
I don't think The Gunslinger is a great work to judge King by. In many ways it's more of a hodgepodge of ideas that came spewing forth from his many years of writing.
It's a bit better if you imagine that all of the fictional worlds and influences in King's head had to burst their way out onto the page. (And I'm told that this idea actually becomes part of the narrative later in the series. I'm also told that the work gets more linear and exposition driven as the series goes on.)
I think that The Gunslinger is a product of a writer who regiments himself to write 10,000(!) words a day. If you keep doing that eventually you get something personal, experimental and post-modern that doesn't quite work perfectly.
For a more indicative example of King's work read The Shining. It's quite different from Kubrick's movie, so you shouldn't go in with expectations.
Alternatively you should read King's non-fiction Danse Macabre, which one of the best books about horror (and genre in general) I've read.
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 at 12:33am
# Jamie
The Gunslinger bears almost no resemblance to the rest of the Dark Tower books, so you can't use it as a representative sample. King literally started writing it as a young man before he cut his teeth and really became a writer. He then set it aside for decades and came back to it as a springboard for his desire to do something epic. It's like it's written by a totally different author. The second and third books are easily the best, with the last few just kind of getting wonky again.
And actually, I like The Gunslinger. It's not great writing, but it's a fun experimentation with genre mixing and style. Roland is that archetypal Western badass and it's fun to just roll with it. But I'm a King fanboy. He's the only literary vice I have left.
If you want a better book to use as a sample of his work, I'd second The Shining, or try It or Christine. They're better books from earlier in his career.
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 at 8:54am
# Nick
Yeah – in retrospect, I think I should have picked something standalone for my first sample of King. But The Dark Tower sounded interesting to me (all I knew going in was that it was a genre mash-up), and I figured that if I liked the first one I had something to look forward to.
I can also understand the justification of why he's doing a big idea-dump in this book – namely, the relation to the concept of the Tower as an all-worlds nexus across space and time (and therefore genre). That's my impression, anyway. I'm not surprised to hear that King was out of his usual element in this book; it's a common sign of youthful writing to confuse ambiguous prose with pretty prose, and it's not every author who can pull off a style-driven composition.
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 at 2:39pm
# Josh Bazin
The Dark Tower really isn't that good unless you've read some (dare I say all) of King's novels that are connected to the Tower. Characters and places you've already visited show up throughout the Dark Tower series, which help to give the story a bit more life (unfortunately, King does little to introduce these people and places, relying on the fact that you already know them). At least, that was my feeling during the reading experience.
The Gunslinger would not be my choice for a starting book by King. While I still haven't read the recommendations by your other commenters, those are books on my 'to read' list. It's a bit of a beast, but I'd recommend The Stand, or The Dark Half.
Thursday, 20 November 2008 at 9:20am
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For creating and commercialising technologies that underpin the global internet, Dr Simon Poole, Mr Andrew Bartos, Dr Glenn Baxter and Dr Steven Frisken received the $250,000 Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation. Their company, Finisar Australia, is based in Sydney.
In 1666 Isaac Newton used a prism to split white light into its constituent colours.
Today, a small optical device invented in Sydney uses high-tech prisms to split light into more than 100 coloured beams of light and switch them from one optical fibre to another allowing the devices to handle 10 terabits per second.
Finisar's Flexgrid Wavelength Selectable Switches are used by the world's major telecommunication companies wherever people need high-speed internet and mobile phone access, from Sydney and New York to the mountains of Kenya, the deserts of the United Arab Emirates, and the jungles of Peru. The switches allow optical fibres—once only used for the inflexible long-haul conduits joining cities and countries—to handle more data more nimbly, as well as making them more efficient and reliable.
Finisar's devices have made fibre optics cheap to use over short connections, and allowed internet traffic to grow in volume and drop in price. By carrying many signals at the same time and switching rapidly between fibres, they have transformed point-to-point optical fibres into adaptable mesh networks. Because the switches are controlled by software, they let network managers rapidly reroute traffic when there's a network fault. The Flexgrid concept has also been adopted into international standards.
The patented technology was created by a team of four engineers in Sydney who thought they could beat the world's biggest telecommunications companies and solve a problem that was holding back the growth of the internet.
Back in 2001 the capacity of the internet was limited. Optical fibres carried data from point to point, for example from Sydney to Los Angeles, or Melbourne to Canberra, and plugged into slower electric signal networks for local connections.
Simon Poole says there were problems with both capacity and reliability.
"Large companies were spending billions of dollars looking for solutions. The four of us had all worked in optics, and we were looking for something to contribute after the dot-com collapse," he says.
"We could see that there was huge scope for optics in the network, as a lot of other people could," says Andrew Bartos.
"But we could see that the networks were too inefficient, too inflexible. So we took a contrarian view. We looked for something completely different, something unorthodox, and we came up with this idea." The initial inspiration came from a data projector that was available at the time, which used a technology called Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS).
"This technology was great for projecting images up onto a screen and I thought I could see a way that we could use it to project different colours of light into different fibres," Steven Frisken says.
The device has three major components: a prism that's able to divide the light into many different colours, a Liquid Crystal on Silicon chip that can steer the light into different optical fibres, and the algorithms that manage the device.
It took a significant effort to persuade their customers—manufacturers of networking equipment that incorporates Finisar's switches—that such a small company in Sydney could take on a problem this big. Members of the team spent a lot of time in aircraft flying not just to the customers but also to the end users, the telecommunications companies who were working with the devices in their networks.
The company was originally called Engana. Today it is part of Finisar, a Nasdaq-listed company in the US. They have 230 people at their Sydney base, where they design, assemble, sell and support the devices with the aid of teams in China, Korea and America. All the devices are exported from Australia for integration into systems sold by the world's telecommunication companies.
The Finisar team aren't done with innovating. They've recently introduced a product that not only switches light in networks but also measures signal quality, and they're continuing to work on ways of pushing still more data through the optical fibres.
The team's innovations and mentoring are now seeding a new generation of optics-based companies, including Cylite, which is developing eye care diagnostics, Baraja for autonomous vehicles, and Terra15 for geophysical sensing.