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London - museums not to miss by Mark Sukhija
London has some of the worlds most celebrated museums and justifiably so. Not only is there a great variety of museums but some of the most important historical artefacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, or the most controversial, like the Elgin Marbles, are in London. Covering all the museums that London has to offer is a task for another time - but these are the must sees for museums buffs in London. Many of the museums have regular temporary exhibitions to compliment their permanant exhibitions - so be sure to check schedules to find out whats on.
British Museum (Great Russell Street) - The British Museum is one of the most impressive museums I've ever been to. The central courtyard, controversially remodelled, is home to the Rosetta Stone, which helped decipher hieroglyphics, and the controversial Elgin or Parthenon Marbles from the which Greece would like returned.
National Portrait Gallery (St Martin's Place) - The National Portrait Gallery, along with the nearby National Gallery, are must visits any paiting buff. With a primary collection of over 4,000 paintings, sculptures and minatures, of which 60% are regularly exhibited, there's no shortage of works. Works by Caravaggio, Rubens and van Dyck are displayed. One of the finest, if not the finest, portrait gallery you could visit.
National Gallery (Trafalgar Square) - One of the most impressive collections of paintings in the world, The National Gallery plays host to paintings by English greats such as Constable and Turner as well as internationally acclaimed greats such as Botticelli, Van Gogh and Rubens.
Victoria and Albert Museum (Cromwell Road, Kensington) - The V&A has one of the most diverse collections in London covering Asia, ceramics, fashion, photography, theatre and textiles as well as contempory items from todays modern art.
Natural History Museum (Cromwell Road, South Kensington) and Science Museum (Exhibition Road, South Kensington) - The Natural History Museum, best combined with the adjacent Science Museum, is one of the most impressive buildings in London. With dinosaur skeletons in Natural History museum and reproduction flying devices from bygone ages in the Science Museum, both museums boast an excellent array of interactive displays which make both museums ideal for all ages.
Greenwich National Maritime Museum (Romney Road, Greenwich) - In the east of London, the National Maritime Museum charts not only the nautical history of a great sea-faring nation but also takes you on a journey through astronomy and telescopes - which played such an important part in early naval navigation.
Imperial War Museum (Lambeth Road) and Churchill Rooms (King Charles) - The Imperial War Museum and Churchill War Rooms are mandatory for history buffs. The two museums compliment each other perfectly as they take you through the British experience during the Second World War. The Churchill War Rooms are a fine exhibit where the actual war rooms where war-leader Winston Churchill and his chiefs-of-staff worked during the war.
Tate Britain (Millbank) - The most impressive collection of British art you're likely to encounter. Covering Constable to comics, sculpture and constructions - Tate Britain has a broad variety of works on display with regularly changing exhibitions.
Tate Modern (53 Bankside) - On the south side of the Thames, in sight of St Pauls Cathedral on the other side of the river, the Tate Modern occupies a disused power station. Entering the cavernous interior through the former turbine hall is an experience in itself although the uber-modern exhibitions are almost certainly not to everyones taste.
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Treasures to be taken from inside Titanic for first time after landmark court ruling
A judge has given permission for a US salvage firm to cut into the wreck of Titanic to retrieve a precious Marconi wireless
By Bill Gardner 19 May 2020 • 5:55pm
Hidden treasures will be taken from inside the wreck of RMS Titanic for the first time after the US government and leading UK archaeologists were defeated in a landmark court case.
In an order released on Monday, a US judge granted permission for a salvage firm to cut into the sunken wreck and retrieve a precious Marconi wireless set known as the 'voice of Titanic'.
The controversial project revealed by the Telegraph earlier this year had been fiercely opposed by the UK and US governments, as well as leading archaeologists who argued the wreck was a mass grave and should be left in peace.
However RMS Titanic Inc, the US salvage firm behind the plans, said the Titanic is deteriorating so quickly that precious items inside the sunken vessel - including the Marconi wireless - must now be "rescued" for future generations before they are lost forever.
The Marconi wireless as it looks today... Credit: RMST/RMST
And in the most significant court ruling since the sunken liner was rediscovered in 1985, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith agreed that the Marconi was historically and culturally important, and should be brought to the surface.
Granting permission for RMST to "minimally to cut into the wreck", the judge said the recovered wireless would "contribute to the legacy left by the indelible loss of the Titanic, those who survived, and those who gave their lives in the sinking."
Her ruling modifies a previous judge's order from the year 2000 that forbids cutting into the shipwreck or detaching any part of it.
RMS Titanic Inc is the court-recognised salvor, or steward, of the Titanic's artifacts, and has brought up thousands of artifacts lying on the seabed around the wreck over the past 20 years. Most are displayed at major RMST attractions around the world, including at a Las Vegas casino. The Marconi, however, would be the first treasure ever taken from inside the wreck itself.
How the radio room would have looked in 1912 Credit: RMST/RMST
Bretton Hunchak, president of RMST, denied that the landmark ruling would give RMST "carte blanche" to dig deeper inside the Titanic for other items, including gold and diamonds reportedly left behind by passengers.
"That's not what this is about," he told the Telegraph.
"The Marconi has such a great story to tell. It shouldn't be left at the bottom of the ocean, where only scientists can see it.
"Once the wireless has been brought up and conserved, we plan to use it as part of an educational outreach programme in schools. That's the magic sauce - the ability to use the Marconi to bring Titanic to a new generation."
RMST submitted a 60-page plan to retrieve the Marconi, which is believed to still sit in a deck house near the doomed ocean liner's grand staircase.
The firm plans to use an unmanned submersible to slip through a skylight and retrieve the Marconi, which sent out Titanic's frantic distress signals as it sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912. If the robot will not fit, the firm plans to cut away a section of corroded roof to gain better access.
How US firm will salvage Titanic's treasure
The ruling is a major blow for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a US government agency, who argued in court documents that the Marconi is likely surrounded "by the mortal remains of more than 1500 people," and should be left alone.
"Just like a lion is much better appreciated in the wilds of the African savannahs than it is stuffed in a museum, so too does the Marconi apparatus best tell its story and share its value where it is," said one letter submitted to the court by the National Park Service.
Lawyers for NOAA also submitted a letter from the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee, representing leading UK archaeologists and museums including the National Maritime Museum, Council for British Archaeology and the Society for Nautical Research.
In the letter, copied to the Department of Transport, the group attacked RMST's "exaggerated" claims that the recovered Marconi would reveal new facts about the sinking, and said the wireless should be left where it lies.
RMST lawyers responded by attacking the UK letter, claiming that "asking the JNPAC for its opinion on plans to salvage the Titanic is like asking the Taliban if it is acceptable to serve wine at a Catholic wedding".
Titanic wreck site
NOAA also claimed the expedition was prohibited under federal law and an international agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom.
But the judge said NOAA was not a formal party in the case, adding that RMST's plan met most of the requirements set forth in the international agreement.
A RMST source said the firm believed there was no legal route by which the US government or its backers could launch an appeal.
The Titanic had been traveling from England to New York when it struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing all but about 700 of the 2,208 passengers and crew. RMST plans to set sail to retrieve the Marconi later this year.
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Hollywood Survival: The Best and Worst Survival Movies
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When Hollywood isn't recycling and "reimagining" movies from yesteryear with unlikely cast lead actors/actresses like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as everyone, they occasionally get something right in the survival genre. Hollywood films have incredible reach, and one blockbuster has the potential to create a whole generation of new outdoorsmen from its viewers. But for all the good influence survival movies can have on inspiring the audience, there's also plenty of bad as the collective efforts of writers, directors, and technical advisors frequently fail to hit their mark with respect to accuracy, safety, or plausibility. We've taken six Hollywood survival movies and broken them down for their solid survival practices as well as the scenes that make us cringe.
Survival Movies that Got it Right
The Edge (1997)
"What one man can do, another man can do!" That line has resonated with us ever since we watched Anthony Hopkins (millionaire Charles Morse) and Alec Baldwin (photographer Robert "Bob" Green) trek through the Alaskan Wilderness after their bush plane crashed in this badass movie. We have to watch it all the way through even if it comes on at 1 a.m. when we're flipping through the channels. The Edge does it right, well mostly right, and we were terrified when the dark ominous music played as Bart the Bear showed up to eat the photography assistant character and let the audience know the two stars would be fighting off a "man killer" as Charles put it.
In the movie, Charles is a brilliant wealthy man whose knowledge is mostly theoretical. Prior to his ordeal in the wilderness, he is gifted a pocket watch, a survival manual, and folding knife by his supermodel wife played by actual supermodel Elle MacPherson. Everyone's favorite pro-2A actor, Alec Baldwin, plays the photographer with a vision to capture the right look of the photo shoot by traveling deeper into the wilderness. As they're traveling in the DeHavilland Beaver plane, it strikes a flock of birds and crashes into a lake. This is where the survival theme really takes over and the movie got it right.
The protagonists in the movie struggle to make a fire until Bob uses a flare to jump start their effort. They suffer from circling around and finding their campfire, which only adds to their despair. Charles uses a link from his pocket watch to attract a trout and he builds a bird cage trap to capture a squirrel. The movie places importance on the knife as a tool to create "a f*#king spear," to emergency egress from the sinking plane, and chop evergreen boughs later in the film. We've never killed a bear the way the characters did in the movie, but it was by far one of the most plausible ways we could imagine.
This movie gets it mostly right. We can't forgive the fact the only place Charles could think of to draw blood to "lure" the bear was from his finger pad. We need our hands for utility, and there are other spots on the body to get blood from that make a better sacrifice. From start to finish, this movie spotlights good practices. The characters locate a cabin, secure a rifle, apply a tourniquet to a traumatic wound, escape the area in a canoe, and signal for help by making a smoke generator with greens over a shoreline fire. To top it all off, the ending is incredible and you're left knowing Charles will survive after calling out his wife with a badass mic-drop moment.
The Way Back (2010)
When you were in high school, you probably learned that in the Soviet Era of Russia, political prisoners were sent to the Gulag. Located in the harsh Siberian wilderness, the environment was used as a deterrent and working was considered the only way to stay warm and stay alive. In The Way Back, a handful of prisoners decided to escape the wilderness and walk to freedom. The only problem, and one that plays out over and over in the film, is the physical distance the characters have to cover to escape the grasp of the communists. Just when you think the ragtag crew of escapees get a break, they have to find the strength to keep going. All told, the walk from captivity to freedom covers 4,000 miles or roughly the distance from New York to Los Angeles to Seattle with plenty of miles to spare.
This movie captures the reality of survival in multiple climates. Immediately as the prisoners escape, they fashion winter goggles out of birch bark to deal with whiteout conditions. They later walk along Lake Baikal, which is known for its thick flies, and they're plagued by them until they notice locals using an apparent repellent necklace made from the local vegetation. As they travel further east, they encounter desert conditions and the relentless heat of the sun. The characters find food where they can and celebrate it as the blessing it always feels like when you're stuck in the wilderness without it. Another aspect the filmmakers got right was the importance of morale; the characters go through phases of elation, despair, and boredom in different scenes.
Something that captured our imagination was the concept of adding another member to a survival group. In a very real discussion, the characters must decide if they want to support a young girl who follows them or leave her behind. In a real-life scenario, a two-day food supply for one becomes a one-day supply for two. The moral dilemma is very real in Hollywood as well as in emergency scenarios where one neighbor must decide to welcome in the family of another neighbor.
Perhaps the best aspect of the movie in terms of survival realism is the ever-present concept of motivation. This glimpse into positive mental attitude and survival psychology is the section most people skip over in survival manuals, but it's also the most interesting part of this movie as the actors' expressions convey the grueling task of putting one foot in front of the other. This movie doesn't win awards for cool gear, but it definitely is on our watch list for realism.
The Martian (2015)
When astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed and left for dead, he must fend for himself on the planet Mars in The Martian. This movie hits the survival nerve in a different way for us. You see, in most movies, the challenge is dealing with the wilderness of this planet. This one is out of this world, quite literally, and while we haven't yet stepped foot on the red planet, we can appreciate the survival concepts that transcend the galaxy in this movie.
From the moment the rest of his crew escapes Mars, Watney needs to deal with a ruptured space suit, and more importantly, a punctured body. He returns to the base station and administers self-aid. We appreciate that the filmmakers didn't give his character the superhuman ability to ignore pain and carry on. Survival priorities are always in flux and sometimes you need to address your first-aid and trauma needs before working toward putting food on the table.
Speaking of which, we like how the stranded astronaut took store of his supplies and quite logically determined how he needed to extend his food rations. We aren't sure if using rehydrated human feces and Martian dirt in a makeshift greenhouse would yield potatoes, but it's OK to suspend disbelief for a while. Later in the film, Watney is shown shirtless and physically weakened from a calorie-restricted diet. Other actors like Christian Bale are known for physical transformations but in this movie, the shock of comparing the shirtless actor at the end of the film to earlier when he sutured himself sold the idea he was truly surviving.
Hunger aside, The Martian does a great job of showing how a person can be resourceful with limited resources. Even thousands of miles away, at one point, good ol' duct tape (or some astronaut equivalent) comes into play to seal his helmet. When a fire was needed, he shaved wood from a crucifix left behind from one of his colleagues. When a signal was needed, he recalled where a camera was and used hexadecimals to communicate with Earth. Watney embodied the spirit of improv.
Much like the psychological lesson of pressing on in The Way Back, another lesson of the mind is apparent in The Martian. Watney records a daily journal of his efforts for prosperity. Sometimes, journaling and speaking out loud help take ideas and put them somewhere physical. It's easy to think about your problems. Writing out a plan that leads to an attainable goal is better than thoughts alone. Another aspect of this film we appreciate is the ending. Spoiler alert: When Watney gets back to earth he decides to educate the next generation in a college classroom. That hits me right in the survival instructor feels.
Survival Movies that Missed the Mark
Survival Island (2005)
Perhaps the least-known movie in this collection, Survival Island stars Billy Zane (Jack) and Kelly Brook (Jennifer) in a tale of desert survival, a wicked love triangle with a deckhand named Manuel played by Juan Pablo Di Pace, and no shortage of questionable survival actions. The plot is simple. An extremely wealthy couple takes a cruise, but the ship catches fire and forces the occupants into the ocean before the three previously mentioned characters wash up on an island. At first, only Manuel and Jennifer locate one another but a couple days later, Jack shows up unconscious. When he wakes, the deception, allegations, and violence begin.
As the predictable tension creates a ridiculous story line, there are pearls of decent survival skills shown. At one point, a sunken dinghy is pulled ashore and fixed by Jack only to be stolen by Jennifer and Manuel later. At another point in the film, goggles are used for spear fishing, and when they prove to be useful by one of the parties, a bottle is turned into a diving mask for spearfishing by another party. True to the idea of scarcity, when resources are in short supply, demand will be high. When Jennifer realizes her husband can't provide food as easily as Manuel can, her wedded allegiance starts to fade. She moves from one terribly built survival shelter to another and plays the little spoon with another guy right in front of her husband.
If we look at this movie as a commentary on human nature, it makes us wonder if three strangers would collaborate to survive or live in conflict like the script called for. Let's face it, guys have made very stupid decisions over women and vice versa for centuries. The concept of infidelity isn't new but what makes this movie really awkward is the idea that it plays out on a sandy open stretch of beach for the cheated-on to witness himself. Maybe the movie wasn't inaccurate to show the homicidal rage later in the film. What makes us scratch our head is the time line. So much happens in such a short window of time.
At the risk of sounding doggish, we take issue with the insatiable libido of the characters on the island despite the hunger, stress, and general discomfort of not showering, living in the sand, and being without simple toilet paper. Even though Jennifer is played by a British supermodel, we wonder if anyone could take their mind off the very likelihood of starvation on an island to muster up some blood flow to the brain that isn't thinking of life and death. Maybe Jennifer's bikini (which by the way remains perfectly stark white) serves as a smoke screen to the doubtful sex drive these characters demonstrate.
I Am Legend (2007)
When the trailer to this movie came out, we were excited at the reboot of The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price and The Omega Man with Charlton Heston. We liked the poacher's dream of hunting down deer in the middle of Manhattan with a cherry red Mustang and an AR-15. This movie, starring Will Smith as Army Medical Doctor Robert Neville, follows the story of the lone survivor of a global killer as he methodically tests vaccines for the ailment that has turned the rest of the population into superhuman track stars. This movie had so much potential with some pretty good prepper habits. Dr. Neville does regular PT, he searches apartments for supplies, he has weapons staged throughout his home, he rotates food and grows crops in open spaces. This movie had the right survival recipe, but a few bad ingredients made us scratch our heads.
Each night, Dr. Neville poured bleach to cover his scent on his front doorsteps. He set his watch to track the remaining sunlight of the day. He took care of the basic survival need of protection. But, did he do enough? We don't think so. In the world the movie was set in, he could've easily relocated to a more secure facility each night. Imagine laying claim to a bank vault, a police station or prison, or even a boat he could anchor offshore each night. Sure, he'd have to rummage through dead mens' pockets for keys, but he could have had any vehicle he wanted to drive around in. If we were in that scenario, we'd have our own personal tank, MRAP, or even an armored truck. No disrespect to his choice of bug-out vehicle, a Ford Expedition, but there are better trucks out there. Remember, this character is supposed to be a doctor with incredible luck to be the only one immune and supposed above-average intelligence. Come on, doc, make better choices.
Spoiler alert: Skip to the next movie if you don't want the ending revealed here. Perhaps what chaps our ass most is the way this movie ends. Throughout the movie he does what he can to maintain his sanity. He stages mannequins like "Wilsons," but this is used against him when the dark seekers move one. He gets trapped, his dog is bitten, and he's forced to kill it and then he seems to simply give up. After discovering he isn't alone, he takes in a woman and a child. His house is overrun and after giving the safe room space away to his new friends he performs seppuku by hand grenade. We actually prefer the alternate ending you can find online to this self-destructing display of weakness. Come on, doc!
The Revenant (2015)
Revenge, wilderness survival, the kid from We're the Millers with the nut sack spider bite playing Jim Bridger, what more could you ask for in a movie? Well, in the case of the "cinematic masterpiece" as it has been called, more historical accuracy was needed. Don't take this the wrong way, the movie was entertaining, but it shouldn't be used the night before a test on long hunters if you planned on watching a documentary instead of reading a book. This movie follows the story of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), an actual famous American frontiersman. He was mauled by a bear and left for dead by John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). Glass recovers from his injuries and seeks out the man who left him for dead. Sounds pretty awesome right? Hold your horses.
Despite the way the movie seems to convey the cold of the environment, that cold doesn't seem to affect Glass as he evades Native Americans by swimming in an icy river. No apparent shock from icy immersion, just your average day. In fact, Glass finds warmth at one point in the movie after riding a horse off a cliff, through a tree à la John Rambo, and slicing open his trusty steed and jumping inside it like Luke did inside the tauntaun on the planet Hoth. If you're following this ridiculousness after two movie references, you'll probably be surprised to find out much of the exploits of the actual Glass happened in late summer.
One of the chuckle moments in this film is Glass starts a fire with traditional flint and steel that seemed to erupt into a roaring fire by skipping the stages of fire progression. Perhaps it was helped along with some flammable liquid by some technical advisor, but that isn't how it happens in real life. We know char cloth is very prone to failure with any moisture and this miracle of fire isn't how it would've played out without a little Hollywood magic.
Many of the readers of this magazine are firearm enthusiasts and The Revenant features plenty of muzzle-loading action to whet your appetite. That said, it's amazing to us how characters in movies set in the early 19th century display marksmanship skills that the greatest shooting instructors of the present day would kill for. Even though American marksmanship and firearms technology was used with incredible guerilla tactics to defeat the British less than a century before this event took place, we want to throw a penalty flag for an almost impossible shot every time we see one, and this movie has plenty.
Hollywood films should be viewed more for entertainment than educational value. They offer an escape from the real world by providing 90-plus minutes of make-believe with actors pretending to be in harm's way. We have the ability to rewind, pause, and stop this world we immerse ourselves in with the click of the remote. Let them inspire you but remember, it's just a movie. The problem with trusting any film for survival education is getting too involved in the story line, the back plot, or the drama and believing your reality will play out like it did for the hero. Keep in mind, if a shot doesn't work out in the film industry, the director can yell "cut" and try again. If something doesn't work out for you in the wilderness, you won't be as fortunate with the ability to do a retake.
Kevin Estela is the Director of Training for Fieldcraft Survival, with over two decades of outdoor skill teaching experience. His dynamic work environment involves new survival skill education projects and tasks on a regular basis. One day, he might be scouting land for upcoming courses, the next flying to another state to teach a defensive handgun class, and the next filming content in the mountains for a 72-hour Ziploc bag survival challenge.
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About SAS Hyderabad
Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Sri Aurobindo Society, Hyderabad
AuroYouth Youth Camps
Darshan Days
Study Circles Across Hyderabad
Womens wing
Ashram, Pondicherry
Auroville, Pondicherry
Integral Yoga
Vision & Symbols
Activities Flower Meditation Lecture Musheerabad(Hyderabad) Center The Mothers Prayers & Meditations youth group session
Sri Aurobindo Society, Hyderabad provides an oasis of peace for spiritual seekers of the twin-cities of Hyderabad & Secunderabad. Located right in the middle of the city, at Musheerabad, the Society branch has a meditation room, a well-stocked library and most importantly the relics of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
This facility, makes available to spiritual seekers, the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The message of Integral Yoga, applying spirituality in daily life, is propagated by this branch, through talks and sat-sangs.
This website is primarily designed for informational purposes.
For any communication, please send an email to: sashyderabad@aurosociety.org.
Please note that we do NOT have accommodation for a stay at the premises.
Introduction to SAS, Hyderabad
This center was founded in 1972 by Dadaji (Sri Manmohan Reddy), a direct disciple of Sri Aurobindo and a Sanskrit scholar. It provides the ambience and facilitates spreading the teachings and messages of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother and aspires to inspire people to grow Spiritually and come closer towards the divine.
The activities at the center include weekly sessions for study of the works of Sri Aurobindo, collective meditation, Darshan Day programs, conducting workshops for youth and hosting of cultural events.
We have a library, a meditation room, a sales section where you can buy books, incense, photos & other miscellaneous items procured from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Hyderabad, on February 23, 2015 at 1:24 pm said:
Please do visit us Rashmi. Contact number is 040-27615401.
Nikhil Kumar, on September 7, 2014 at 8:27 pm said:
Please let me know whether you publish some journal on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
Nikhil Kumar
drnikhilkumar18@gmail.com
sukanya, on May 5, 2014 at 1:54 am said:
maa bless me always….
8908598974, on May 5, 2014 at 1:50 am said:
maa bless me always……
Aruna Sharma, on April 2, 2014 at 9:33 pm said:
Checking availability of letters on yoga by aurobindo ji
Anitaraman, on April 18, 2014 at 1:44 pm said:
Hi Aruna,
It is available in our library.
Anita Raman
Aruna, on April 19, 2014 at 10:32 am said:
Thank younAnita…how do I become a member of your library
A.Venkateswara Rao, Punjagutta, Hyderabad - 500 082, on November 9, 2013 at 9:49 pm said:
Aatma Namaste. I want to attend discourses, meditations etc. in Hyderabad – Please provide/ inform Hyderabad address & Phone Nos at the earliest, if available/ possible.
AVRao, Punjagutta, Hyderabad – 500 082
srinivas, on November 26, 2013 at 12:49 pm said:
Sri Venkateswara rao garu :
The address is Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Musheerabad Cross Roads.
Phone number is 2761-5401.
Vsn Raju, on November 8, 2013 at 8:30 am said:
will anybody provide me details of telugu translation of Life Devine
kumar, on November 18, 2013 at 7:09 pm said:
the telugu translation has been done by Sri T.Poornachandra Rao garu…..an excellent work……you can get the copies from Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, musheerabad.
hardi, on October 14, 2013 at 6:06 pm said:
hello, I have seen your mesage about sale price of agarbattisthe selling price shpuld be less than MRP since discount is given and packing carges to be born by local centre this was specific understanding sine 1992.Donot forgey thst the people who buy are devotees who also conribute in the offering box. hence this was decided then.As for newletter you may send it to my friends adress
yogesh bhatt, plot 12 bhagyalaxminager Kavadiguda Hyderabad 500080
hardi, on May 26, 2013 at 5:38 pm said:
the price for incense stick 50gm pack is very high is about 50 to60 in cottage price list whereas here we pay 60 to 70.normally the practice is to charge10% less thanthe cottage..will u pl look intgo .I feel the care takr has no clear instruction do we have any management here.libraryis in shambles . people who have taken books in2008/9including ref are yet to return.Nosupervision caretaker doesnot know much no management verysorry state of affairs this has started since subbarao took over in 2006 nodevotion in management hardi
sailu, on March 30, 2013 at 4:29 pm said:
i want details to join or paticipating in ur ashramam..what is the process and conditions..thank u
Nilamani Maharana, on February 21, 2013 at 10:56 pm said:
Please intimate any forthcoming events at SAS Hyderabad.
Indrajeet Singh, on January 12, 2013 at 10:23 pm said:
Sri Aurobindo Bhavan
Musheerabad Cross Road
Hyderabad – 500048
Tel – (040) 27615401
Rajat Roy, on August 6, 2010 at 2:25 pm said:
Having no words to say about Sri Aurobindo Society Hydrabad… Out standing……..
Victory to the Maother & Sri Aurobindo…..
shakul tewari, on July 11, 2010 at 9:38 pm said:
i will be visiting hydrabad on 23.7.10 . can i stay in ashram for 2/3 days . i am a devotee of mother and coming from kolkata
T.A.Sridharan, on March 2, 2010 at 3:12 pm said:
Hi all..,
Those who were unable to attend the ashram on feb 21st on the eve of mother's birthday… here is a small brief of the programs held in our musheerabad ashram…
The day before 21st….. i,e on the 20th evening, some of us from our youth group came collectively, cleaned the hall and decorated with design clothes etc..I specially thank Preethi, Prabha, Anitha, sailesh and all of them who made their time and we enjoyed that evening with our innovative ideas to decorate the hall…
On 21st, morning…many of them came early in the morning…decorated the samadhi, photos in the hall with flowers…followed by a brief meditation with mother's organ music for about 25 min (appr.). After that we have been distributed with mother's blessings message..followed by the video on mother… and by 1pm the program ended.
Also…its an open request to all.. pls do come to ashram, meditate and obtain the blessings of mother..
thx and regards
sailesh balodia, on January 9, 2010 at 8:03 pm said:
सभी पाठको को ,
मेरा नमस्ते ,
आप सभी के लिए मेरा एक छोटा सा अनुभव हैं,
श्री औरोबिन्दो और श्री माँ के सनिद्य मैं, जब पहली बार आया मेरा मन अन्नत शांति से भर गया. मैं कभी चमत्कार मैं विश्वाश नहीं करता था,पर उस पल से मुझे कुछ चमत्कार होता हैं ,यह अनुभव हुआ. मेरे मन के कई अनसुलझे सवाल थे, उनका जवाब मुझे बिन पूछे ही मिल गए. और
यहाँ आकर मुझे योग के द्वारा ब्रह्म तेज की प्राप्ति हो सकती हैं इसका भी अनुभव हुआ.
सभी युवायों को मेरा सुझाव हैं
," गलती करके सिखने से अच्छा दुसरो की गलतियो से सिख ले."
युवा पाठ्य चक्र (youth study circle) मैं आकर अपना अनुभव को साकार दे.
youth study circle conducted on every sunday
11.15am to 01.00pm. at sri aurobindo bhawan.
सैलेश…..
T.A.Sridharan, on November 24, 2009 at 8:19 pm said:
Those who had not able to make up for the Darshan day evening on 24th November (tuesday), here is an overview of the programs held on the evening.
First of all, we had a 15 minutes meditation from 6:00pm to 6:15pm.
Then we had video speech from 6:15pm to 7:00pm by Dr. Debashish Banerjee from Los angeles (USA) on "Love conquerring death" which had the synnopsis of "Part three– Canto III, The debate of love and death" from the book "The Savitri".
The speech also includes small passages by Sri Aurobindo and mother.
Finally, we had the blessings letter of Sri Aurobindo and mother.
Sri..
aurohyd, on December 7, 2009 at 5:00 pm said:
Thanks Sridhar appreciate the effort to give a 24 November update – would you like to contribute regularly – we can add you as a contributor.
Vipin, on October 13, 2009 at 2:27 pm said:
whoever belongs to Hyderabad, I would ask them to attend the Sunday sessions at 11:00 AM at Musheerabad Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Hyderabad.
All the Youth – This is a place where you can actually build up your character by realizing your inner nature.
Vipin
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Home/Guitarist/Gary Kemp of Saucerful Of Secrets: "Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was totally intimidating"
Gary Kemp of Saucerful Of Secrets: "Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was totally intimidating"
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This is a brave group that takes over the back catalog of Pink Floyd, even though it features a member of Pink Floyd himself. But Saucerful Of Secrets by Nick Mason, the band formed in 2018 by Floyd's founding drummer and longest-serving member, played it smartly. Their live shows found themselves forgoing the obvious big hitters to focus exclusively on the deep cuts from the start, pre-The dark side of the moon catalog, drawing heavily on the Syd Barrett era. That means See Emily play, Interstellar overdrive, The song of the Nile and Intrepid rather than comfortably Numb, Money and Another Brick in the Wall. "Everything David Gilmour and Roger Waters don't play," says Gary Kemp, singer and guitarist of Saucerful Of Secrets.
Kemp is the wild card on the SOS frontline. Where bassist / co-singer Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris, and keyboardist Dom Beken all have direct or indirect connections to Floyd, Kemp is best known as a member of the New Romantic dandies Spandau Ballet. But like anyone who saw the band's shows in 2018 and 2019 – or listened to the following ones Living in the rotunda album, recorded in the eponymous location in north London – can attest, he is a key factor in helping to make Saucerful Of Secrets more than a Pink Floyd tribute band that features the Pink Floyd drummer in their line-up . "Yeah, we play those old songs," Kemp says, "but we play them with youthful energy, despite the age we're all adding to. I think there is a feeling of fun and fury in what we do.
Planned dates for Saucerful Of Secrets in Spring 2020 have inevitably been postponed, with shows now taking place in early 2022. It's enticingly called The Echoes Tour, which suggests that they'll bring the epic track that makes up the second. opposite Mingle generally. "It's not as intimidating as you might think, but you still have to get it right," Kemp says. "I'm just lucky I'm up there playing with Nick."
The very first Saucerful Of Secrets concert took place at the Dingwalls club in London in May 2018. What did you take away from this show?
There was a lot to think about. You're just trying to hang on to the parts of the song in your head. But what I remember the most is the look on people's faces. They were stuck together, amazed to hear Nick play that, with a small group, in a small club. We were there making these psychedelic noises, and you could see the joy on the faces of the people.
A friend of mine who was going to [legendary late 60s London hangout] the UFO Club was there. I spoke to him afterwards, and he said he just closed his eyes and was over there. I like to think that we probably played the songs better than they originally were [laughs].
Well, you were probably on different substances …
True. But we started with Interstellar overdrive which aside from the big riffs is a really broken down, atonal, freeform track. I think we immediately said to our audience, "This is the heart of our destination, it is very different from what David and Roger have been doing for 20 years."
Were you nervous about hitting the back catalog of a band that is so sacred to so many people?
You have to have confidence in yourself. Everyone's nervous, but if you don't have the balls, you'll never get along. I compare it to when it was announced that I was going to play Ronnie Kray [in the 1990 movie The Krays], and there was so much shit in the press, "How can that guy from Spandau Ballet play Ronnie Kray?" I knew I could handle that one and I knew I could handle that one too.
But, yes, there will always be apprehension, and probably especially for Nick. He had more to lose than anyone, because his reputation was so strong and powerful: was this band going to live up to that? But I think having him in the band really gave Floyd's freaks validation. And that's the Floyd rhythm section of two big tours, so I think that helped too.
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How is Nick? Is he the one pulling the strings?
Nick is very open to ideas. We were all experimenting. When we started rehearsing, I had never sat down or made that kind of noises with my guitar, the kind of atonal stuff we really wanted, and Nick was really ready to go with it. It must have taken him back to those early days where Syd and Roger were just fucking with guitar curls.
The best thing about this band are the gags. There is a contest to see who can make the most jokes. And it continues on stage, which I think is a revelation for Floyd fans. If you're going to see a Floyd tribute act or if you watch it on YouTube, there is utter poetry in what they do. This seriousness has forever become the image of Floyd. We wanted a sense of fun, a sense of dynamics. Oddly enough, Roger moves on stage a lot now – he's pretty theatrical.
On the live album, you drop a cheeky little line of the Sex Pistols' Vacation in the sun in The song of the Nile…
As a group we have had the music has filtered us through so many layers of reverence for other acts. We are the sum of many parts, many genres, and that comes naturally from your work. We never went, "We're trying to emulate the source, and get this just like the record." We don't need to be because we are not an act of homage; we have Nick in the group, so we can push him in any direction as long as it suits him.
At another point on the album, you yell "You're my guitar hero," which is a nod to The Clash. Is there any connection between Syd's day Floyd and punk, in terms of the way the two did things their own way and no one else's?
I think there is a direct line from Syd to Bowie to punk, although there were very few punk type songs. But Syd definitely had that brooding punk energy in him – very Londoner. And it spreads through all the things that I love, personally. When I do See Emily play, there is a little [Bowie guitarist] Mick Ronson in there.
So which era Floyd is your era?
My first introduction to Floyd was definitely Dark side, but the first time I introduced myself to Syd was when I heard Bowie do See Emily play at Pinups. I can look back and take in all the cannon, but for me, what they were doing with Syd in the beginning really pushed the boundaries so much.
My fantasy would be to go back to the UFO club, and not just to see the band perform on stage, but to feel the youth culture that was booming there. It was a large tribe to belong to, and Floyd was the head of it; they were the house group. So really, in my heart, this is my time.
When you and Spandau Ballet were with the New Romantics at the Blitz club, were you allowed to admit that you loved Pink Floyd?
[Laughs] No, it certainly wasn't. Any group, when they get huge, people are going to be against them, but without a doubt, we were all listening to them in secret.
But the era we're dealing with, the Syd era, has always been trendy. The first thing I played in my life with a band was Set the controls for the heart of the sun. It was in [boho publisher/author] Jay Landesman's counter-cultural home in Islington. We were in the basement, jamming this song with [actor] Phil Daniels and a few other guys. It went on for hours and hours.
When we made the second Spandau Ballet album [1982's Diamond], we didn't know what we were going with – on the one hand there was [hit single] Song: n ° 1, but on the other hand, we were totally trying to make a Floyd record, with soundscapes and the like. We weren't sure if we were going to go prog or not. [Laughs] Obviously, things turned out very differently.
But Syd has never been more than an icon in the world of fashion and art. He was forever connected. I think Roger was right to hang on to him as an icon in the band as some sort of invisible fifth member, and write albums and songs about him. It was a very smart thing to do, even if it had been done for emotional reasons.
Speaking of Roger, he joined Saucerful Of Secrets on stage in New York to star Set the controls for the heart of the sun. What was it like being up there with two Pink Floyd members?
One of the highlights of my musical career, but also quite intimidating. [Laughs] I didn't want him to look me in the eye. Me and Guy are musical control freaks, and it was kinda out of control. We hadn't checked the sound, which worried me a bit. But Roger is such a pro, plus it's a song you can stretch out – it's not, like, "Oh, we have to go to the bridge."
But yeah, it was a great moment, because he and Nick were there from the start. They have these memories of going to America the first time with Syd, and what it must have been – a bunch of kids experimenting and trying to sell something that was bigger than the bunch, this youth movement. So there was a huge smile on my face. Obviously, it's not very Floyd to smile on stage, is it?
So, did you try to get David Gilmour to join you on stage?
[Laughs] We would be more than happy. Obviously Guy knows him. But we don't need to ask him. If he wants to, I'm sure he will ask us.
Never think, "I wanna have a crack in Money or comfortably Numb"?
All the solos that I do, or Lee [Harris, co-guitarist] made, are made by us. They don't copy anything that Syd or David have done before. In fact, there are solos where there weren't any before – I do a solo at the end of A saucer of secrets, which was not even there on the disk
With songs like comfortably Numb, the solos turn purple, a phrase people use in the theater for lines like "to be or not to be," that everyone knows and people can't stand to hear it any other way. Everyone knows every language of these songs, so if we played them that would make us a bunch of session players, which we are not. So we tried to avoid that.
Also, they were a much bigger group when they started doing these songs, in terms of the number of people on stage. They dated double keyboardists and three backing vocals and plenty of saxophones. There are only five of us and we want to keep the kind of sound we have.
The flip side is, could you imagine writing new material with this line-up?
I told Nick about it, and it's something I'd be willing to talk about, but it really has to come from him. If David writes a song, or Roger writes a song, it's different because they're going to get up and sing it, but with us, it would have to be something that Nick would be heavily involved in. But I'm not closing any doors on it.
Live At The Roundhouse from Saucerful Of Secrets is now available. Gary Kemp's new solo album, Insolo, is released on June 25.
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I just was in Gatlinburg, TN this past week and I LOVE the APPLEBARN!! Applewood Farmhouse Grill and Applewood Farmhouse Restaurant are the best places I have eaten in a long long time! It has been a favorite of mine over the years and I often order AppleBarn Pancake Mix for Christmas Eve morning. It is the best home cooking ever! The chicken and dumplings are to die for! I recommend everyone eat there that visits Gatlinburg, TN, or the surrounding areas.
Above is a picture of the Applewood Julep. It is my favorite! This is the Applewood recipe. They serve this with every meal. It tastes delicious and is a family favorite at breakfast and brunch at our house.
Awwwww… we love it too. We actually got married beside the creek across from the restaurants. Your post made me smile just thinking about it. I have never left either restaurant disappointed with the food we had. It is a must stop every time we are in the mountains. Thanks for the recipe, maybe it will help get me through until this fall! Have you ever tried to make their chicken and dumplings?
I haven't tried those! I make them the way my Grandma did and that is not far from theirs!!!! Loved your comment! I got married in Gatlinburg and the Apple Barn always makes me smile!!!
I think this will go great opposite of your Hot Cranberry Punch at our Christmas Eve family get-together. Thanks.
This looks so easy and I have everything at home. Should maybe try this for my next party.
I have got to make this one!
Love the Applebarn! It's a must stop for us when we visit the Smokies.
My magnet I bought down there many moons ago says to use unsweeted apple and pineapple juices. I love that place. We go to the Smokies every year and eat there at least once every time. I love the fried chicken, green beans, fritters, soup, etc. I have not fount anything I do not like.
We went for the first time last week on Spring Break. Do you have a recipe for the applesauce muffins? My son loved those!
Looks good, thanks for sharing at the #WWDParty.
I just got back from Gatlinburg a few days ago. We took 16 people with us for my nephew's 21st birthday. We have been going down there at least once a year for the past 41 years. We always go to Applewood Farmhouse for their delicious country meals. Thank you for the recipe for the Applewood Julep. By the way, I noticed they don't serve fried biscuits anymore. We really loved those with our meal.


Portrait of Master Hu, an expert in the ancient discipline of Shaolin kung fu, during a recent visit to Macau.
The first challenge when shooting a portrait on location is finding the right place to place to do the shoot. For these types of shoots I always try to arrive early to scout the location for potential backgrounds. For this shoot with Master Hu, an expert in the ancient discipline of Shaolin kung fu, I was assigned to photograph him at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Macau where he was holding some special workshops on relaxing the mind and reviving the senses. Since the weather was bad I had no choice but to shoot indoors. The only place that seemed to offer anything that seemed appropriate for the shoot was in the spa area. I wanted to keep the shot simple and emphasize Master Hu's discipline. A tiled wall at the end of the corridor in front of the elevators seemed to offer what I needed. The tiles added some depth to the background without distracting form Master Hu. Space was tight and in order to achieve the lighting I wanted we had to place the lights within the small space in front of the elevators. If any guests tried to come in using one those elevators they would be confronted with my lights. That meant I had to work fast.
For this shot I used two Paul Buff Einstein strobes, each fitted with a small Chimera softbox and honeycomb grid. The lights were positioned to create side light on Master Hu and each were to set to approximately the same power. I then asked Master Hu to go through a variety of kung fu stances and it was this shot, with the fan being backlit, that seemed to have the most impact.


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namespace SpsBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Doctrine\ORM\Event\LifecycleEventArgs;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use SpsBundle\Entity\Histori;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\NotBlank;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Doctrine\Common\Collections;
/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="SpsBundle\Entity\Repository\RejonRepository")
 * @ORM\Table(name="rejon")
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks()
 */
class Rejon {

	private static $historiInstance = false;

	public static function getInstance()
	{
		if( self::$historiInstance == false )
		{
			self::$historiInstance = new Histori();

		}
		return self::$historiInstance;
	}

	public function __construct()
	{
		//self::$historiInstance = new Histori($user,'tsdasd');
		$this->histori = new \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection();
		$this->inverseIdRejon = new ArrayCollection();
		$this->id_wezel = new ArrayCollection();
	}

	public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
	{

		$metadata->addPropertyConstraint('kod', new Assert\Length(array(
				'min'        => 6,
				'max'        => 100,
				'minMessage' => 'Your first name must be at least {{ limit }} characters length',
				'maxMessage' => 'Your first name cannot be longer than {{ limit }} characters length',
		)));

		$metadata->addPropertyConstraint('nazwa', new Assert\Length(array(
				'min'        => 6,
				'max'        => 100,
				'minMessage' => 'Your first name must be at least {{ limit }} characters length',
				'maxMessage' => 'Your first name cannot be longer than {{ limit }} characters length',
		)));

		$metadata->addPropertyConstraint('kod', new Assert\NotBlank(array(
				'message' => 'Uzupełnij pole Kod!'
		)));
		$metadata->addPropertyConstraint('nazwa', new Assert\NotBlank(array(
				'message' => 'Uzupełnij pole Nazwa!'
		)));

	}

	/**
	 * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Wezel", mappedBy="id_rejon")
	 */
	protected  $id_wezel;

	/**
	 * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Mufa", mappedBy="id_rejon")
	 */
	protected  $inverseIdRejon;

	/**
	* @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="SpsBundle\Entity\Histori", mappedBy="id_rejon")
	*/
	private $histori;

	/**
	 * @ORM\Id
	 * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
	 * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
	 */
	protected $id;

	/**
	 *
	 * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=100)
	 */
	protected $nazwa;

	/**
	 * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=100)
	 */
	protected $kod;

    /**
     * Get id
     *
     * @return integer
     */
    public function getId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    /**
     * Set nazwa
     *
     * @param string $nazwa
     * @return Rejon
     */
    public function setNazwa($nazwa)
    {
        $this->nazwa = $nazwa;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get nazwa
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getNazwa()
    {
        return $this->nazwa;
    }

    /**
     * Set kod
     *
     * @param string $kod
     * @return Rejon
     */
    public function setKod($kod)
    {
        $this->kod = $kod;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get kod
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getKod()
    {
        return $this->kod;
    }

    /**
     * Set id_histori
     *
     * @param \SpsBundle\Entity\Histori $idHistori
     * @return Rejon
     */
    public function setIdHistori(\SpsBundle\Entity\Histori $idHistori = null)
    {
        $this->id_histori = $idHistori;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get id_histori
     *
     * @return \SpsBundle\Entity\Histori
     */
    public function getIdHistori()
    {
        return $this->id_histori;
    }
    public function __toString()
    {
    	return $this->nazwa;
    }

}

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Blount County Chamber members have access to two meeting spaces located in the Chamber building.
Board Room: The capacity for the board room is 60 people. The rental fee for this room is $100 for four hours or less and $200 for all day.
Conference Room: A conference room accommodates 15 people. The rental fee for this room is $75 for four hours or less if used before 5:00 p.m. and $150 for all day.
See below for Chamber member businesses who offer meeting spaces. For more information please see contact information.
If you are a Blount Chamber member and would like your business listed as a resource for meetings and special events contact Amy Lawson at 865-273-1206.


The Bank of Nanjing, one of China's leading city commercial banks, has selected SunGard's Ambit Treasury Management solution to provide an integrated treasury management approach across its domestic and foreign currency products, and to help improve its risk management practices.
Bank of Nanjing selected SunGard to help streamline its treasury operations. The Ambit Treasury Management solution will replace its existing systems and manage its local money market and fixed income products, as well as its foreign exchange deals. Ambit Treasury Management will also help the bank to manage its derivatives, helping it to maintain its trading book on a single system.
Risk management capabilities have taken on increased importance for all banks in China. The Ambit Treasury Management system will provide the Bank of Nanjing with a market risk management tool kit that includes scenario simulation and VAR for the bank's traditional financial instruments as well as the new derivatives it wants to trade. The solution's limit management capability will also help the bank ensure its interbank credit risk remains within controllable boundaries.


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Q: Add VideoView in Android views according to number of files How can I add VideoView programmatically according to the number of videos in specified folder? Any suggestions please or some links to learn from. I am new to Android. I don't want to add VideoView in activity layout.

A: you can add video view pragmatically like this:
RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.layout);
VideoView video = new VideoView(this);
video.setVideoURI("yourURI");
video.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(550, 550));
layout.addView(video);

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I've no fears returning to UNILAG after 'five-year' rustication –Student activist, Adeyeye
Femi Adeyeye, a 500 Level student of the Department of Building, University of Lagos, who was rusticated by the institution since 2016 for embarking on a protest against the poor condition of living and learning, tells GODFREY GEORGE he has finally been reinstated by the university five years later
My name is Femi Adeyeye. I am 27 years old. I am a student of Building at the University of Lagos. I am from Ondo State. I gained admission into UNILAG in 2012 and I would have graduated in 2017 if the university's management hadn't rusticated me in 2016. The unfortunate incident happened just a year to my graduation.
What really led to your rustication?
There was a series of protests on campus for three days – April 6, 7 and 8, 2016 under the leadership of Professor Rahman Bello. These protests were about the conditions of living and learning at the University of Lagos. There were poor electricity and water supplies. The situation was so bad at that time that students used to buy sachet water to have a bath on campus. And even at a point, pure water was no longer available, because demand was more than supply.
On April 4 and 5, we, as students, agreed to take a walk to the office of the Dean of Students' Affairs. On getting there, one professor, who attended to the students, spoke badly to the students, telling them that they didn't know what they were doing staging a walk instead of reading for their exams. He said a lot of things that infuriated the students and sparked a protest. What you would expect from a 21st century cosmopolitan university is that the management should have come out to address the issue, but that did not happen for three days.
On the third day, the whole campus was shut down and there was no movement. The management then sent a notice that every student must vacate the campus before 10am. They also brought in heavily-armed anti-riot policemen to effect that eviction.
Did you leave the campus following the management's directive?
Some of us felt this was so wrong and we couldn't allow that to happen. Students then held the police to ransom and they had to escape at some point. They broke the gate of the university with their armoured tank and drove away.
What exactly did the students do to these policemen who were armed that made them 'escape'?
The students were not violent at all. We are talking about a large crowd of students here. They were many and were in front of the armoured tanks and at that point, the police could not drive in except they wanted to run over the students. Although something like that nearly happened, knowing the nature of the Nigeria Police, they could not do much because of the large number of students, so they had to look for a way to get out of the university campus that day.
What was the reaction of the management to this development?
They were not pleased. Everyone eventually left the campus as it was shut for two weeks. After then, the management said they had a meeting and reached a resolution that everyone must come back to campus with an indemnity form signed, which contained, in my view, some obnoxious policies and rules. One read that one must be of good character. Being of 'good character' would mean that you would not protest. They said everyone must take a re-absorption oath. In other words, they suspended everyone, and for one to come back, it would have to be on these new terms.
They also said the electricity on campus would be rationed from 7am to 7pm every day. They said anytime after that we should not expect power supply. These conditions were written and one had to accept them. Funnily enough, this was happening during the examination period.
Did you sign this indemnity form?
I felt that this was infringing on my rights and even though I was not in the Students' Union Government, I was leading students in the faculty and department. In the light of this, I took to my Facebook and published an article which I titled: 'The Senate of the University of Lagos: A conglomeration of academic ignorami'. It is still online, I would want to believe.
I wrote that article sometime in April 2016. Shortly after I made the post, I got a text message on my phone stating that I should pick up a letter in my department. I knew that it won't be good news. I got to the department and I saw some other student leaders, and I knew it was an attempt by the management to make an example of us.
After some time, I was invited to appear before the university panel and I did. This was after I wrote them a letter to state exactly what they wanted us to discuss because their letter only said we'd have a 'discussion'. In their reply to my letter, they stated that my Facebook post brought the university into disrepute.
On meeting the panel, how did the 'discussion' go?
It was a heated conversation, and till today, I have been asking them for the recording, but I haven't been able to get that. I said the protest was not violent but they said they had pictorial evidence to prove to me that it was. I was part of the protest from the beginning to the end, and we made sure that no destruction happened on campus.
The chairman of the panel also said I talked about sexual harassment in my Facebook post, and I said I did. This was even before the BBC #SexForGrades documentary, which exposed the issue of sexual relations between lecturers and students in the university. We knew about these things. The session ended more like a moral talk – "You shouldn't insult your elders…"
But on July 29, 2016, I received a letter stating that I had been rusticated for four semesters. They stated in the letter that they would have expelled me but some people had come to beg them to temper justice with mercy. Some other student leaders were rusticated for two semesters.
What was your reaction to that decision?
We went to court at some point, but the case was struck out on technical grounds. It was a class action filed before the Federal High Court in Ikoyi. At that time, we couldn't re-file because it was more of an intention. For some of these student leaders, knowing the slow pace of the justice system in this country, they decided to take it in good fate as the rustication was already elapsing. But I had four semesters so I had to just keep fighting. At a point in 2016, I became the National Secretary of the Alliance of Nigerian Students Against Neoliberal Attacks. We used the organisation to fight for rights of student activists all around Nigeria. After I was suspended, comedian Debo Macaroni was also suspended from Redeemers' University. We had about 33 other student activists who were suspended from FUTO in 2017. We were the ones who led the popular 'Constituted Authority' protest of the former Oyo State governor, (the late Abiola) Ajimobi. We mobilised students of LAUTECH down to that place. UNILAG also suspended two student activists – one visually-impaired and one who had already graduated and collected his certificate. They were suspended in 2017 for participating in a protest that was held in 2015. So, it was more of authoritarianism on the part of the university management. Some other activists and I were arrested on Saturday, May 31, 2017 and taken before a mobile court and remanded in Kirikiri Prison where we spent seven days.
How did you regain freedom?
Everywhere in the country was boiling at the time because of the issue and the government had no other choice than to withdraw the charges and we were freed.
At the point you were being arrested and remanded in prison for your activism, were you not scared for your life?
(Laughs) There is nothing to be scared of at all. There is no safe place anywhere in this country. Be you an activist or not, you will still die. People die every day in this country not because they are protesting. It was more of personal conviction than any other thing for me.
When was the expiration of the four-semester rustication?
It came in 2018. Four semesters meant two academic sessions. I wrote to the management at the beginning of the semester, they did not reply. They tactically added another session to the already served two sessions. They sent me a letter of reinstatement four days to the end of the session, which I was supposed to resume. That means I was sent away for three sessions. The interesting twist is that on that same day I received my reinstatement letter, I picked up another letter to appear before another panel. In this new letter, I had seven charges revolving around me protesting and bringing people to campus. All the protests that happened while I was suspended, they listed them out there and linked them to me. Even those I didn't attend, they said I instigated people to attend. I was there in the company of activist and lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, who briefed me before I entered the panel room. When I got in, my defence was that I do not know why I was invited again as I was not a student while all these protests happened and could not appear before a university panel where I was not a student. I knew they can only invite to the panel a member of the university community. They agreed with me that my defence was correct and I should go ahead and register but they may invite me later.
How come you still couldn't register online until days ago?
My portal was deactivated for those years. I kept writing letters and visiting the office of the Dean of Students' Affairs who'd refer me to someone else. There was even a time I wrote a letter to the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, through a senator.
What went through your mind during those years when your portal remained inaccessible?
I knew the game, knowing full well how these things worked. I was fully prepared. I won't lie about that.
Were your parents aware of all this? What was their disposition?
As African parents, you can imagine their reaction. They kept saying I had killed them, but they had to leave me alone when it even involved national politics.
Were you still getting money from your parents?
That ended a long time ago.
How then did you cope?
I did different legal things. I used to teach in tutorials but so many activities were taking my time so I decided to focus more on what I was studying. I used to draw plans for people and get paid and I also had friends who supported me.
How did you know your portal had become active that Monday?
There were renewed efforts. If I told you I went there to check every day, I would be lying. I had even given up hope. I would not fail to thank Comrade Rashida who had a similar issue in UNIILORIN which spanned for almost 20 years. My father also came into the picture. At some point, I was looking at getting out of the country, because I knew that any federal school I applied to would not take me because of the issue. I also involved an activist lecturer who also helped to plead my cause. This was in December. On January 10, I called him to ask him for an update and he told me to check my portal. After the back and forth with the ICT team, I could now log in.
How did you feel?
I cannot even tell how I felt. I think I felt happy that, at least, I would get this over and done with.
Do you have any concerns as you are going back to the university environment?
To be honest, I have no fears at all. I met with the Head of the Department yesterday (Wednesday). He is now a professor. He was an Associate Professor or so at the time I was rusticated. He was very welcoming and he advised me to focus on my studies. It is a good place. Those I could not meet, I sent them text messages.


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Interstitial art is any work of art the basic nature of which falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or media, thus making the work difficult to categorize or describe within a single artistic discipline.

The concept of interstitiality

The word interstitial means "between spaces", and is commonly used to denote "in-betweenness" in several different cultural contexts. Architects refer to the leftover gaps between building walls as "interstitial space", being neither inside any room nor outside the building. Medical doctors have used  the term for hundreds of years to refer to a space within the human body that lies in between blood vessels and organs, or in between individual cells. Television station programmers refer to any short piece of content that is neither a show nor a commercial, but is sandwiched between them, as "an interstitial".

The interstitial arts movement

In the mid-1990s, Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner, Terri Windling, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Midori Snyder, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, Gregory Frost, Theodora Goss, Veronica Schanoes, Carolyn Dunn, Colson Whitehead, and other American writers interested in fantastic literature found themselves commiserating over the common perception that the genre-oriented publishing industry found it difficult to market truly innovative fiction involving unusual, fantastical, or cross-genre elements—because the mainstream literary fiction field demanded stories based in realism, while the fantasy field demanded stories that mostly followed the standard conventions of sword and sorcery or high fantasy. Yet it seemed to the authors that some of the best literature was that which didn't quite fit tidily into either category but instead was being discussed in terms of more amorphous, "in-between" descriptors such as "magic realism", "mythic fiction", or "the New Weird". Further, the idea of interstitiality applied to other kinds of "in-between" fiction (unrelated to fantasy) and other "in-between" arts.

Over a period of several years, Kushner and Sherman prompted ongoing discussion about the importance of cultivating artistic "in-betweenness" led to the formulation of the broad concept of interstitial art. In 2002, literary scholar Heinz Insu Fenkl founded ISIS: The Interstitial Studies Institute at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and in 2003–04, Sherman & Kushner and some of their colleagues established the Interstitial Arts Foundation, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to developing community and support for artists, arts-industry professionals and audiences whose creative pursuits are interstitial in nature.

Interstitial arts projects

Interfictions
In 2007, the Interstitial Arts Foundation published an anthology of interstitial fiction through Small Beer Press titled Interfictions.  It features 19 stories from new and established writers in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK, and fiction translated from Spanish, Hungarian, and French.  The anthology strives to "change your mind about what stories can and should do as they explore the imaginative space between conventional genres".

The anthology raised several questions and started many debates on the nature of interstitiality as applied to fiction.  Reviewers raised the question of how important the definition, or lack thereof, was to understanding the anthology as a whole and the stories individually.  "The 19 stories contained within Interfictions serve as examples but not as points of an argument that could lead to a listing in a Funk and Wagnalls."

Though many of the stories are written by science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers and contain fantastic or supernatural elements, Interfictions is not a genre anthology.  "...interstitial fiction mixes and matches these precepts—ghost stories, science fiction, nursery rhymes, detective story, whatever may be handy—as part of a variegated prism to focus on the psychology of existence even while bending its collectively recognized state. ...each 'interfiction' shares this sense of disjointed narrative, but in very different ways that do not lend themselves to easy genre categorization."

Notes

Film genres
Literature
Visual arts genres

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Has anyone else noticed a recent price hike on this gas, last time we bought some it was £60, now our local suppliers are wanting £240-£260?
Posted by andrew young on January 18, 2018, 12:19 pm, in reply to "R134 aircon gas price hike"
I was paying around £100 a bottle last year.My usual supplier wants £225+ now.So who is going to recharge a system now for £40???
Posted by Ian Baxter on January 18, 2018, 7:32 pm, in reply to "Re: R134 aircon gas price hike"


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(4151) Alanhale est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale.

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(4151) Alanhale est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à l'Observatoire Palomar par Carolyn S. Shoemaker et Eugene M. Shoemaker. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 3,15 UA, une excentricité de 0,14 et une inclinaison de 1,0° par rapport à l'écliptique.

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THE HIGH LEARYS
The High Learys – Friday In Mind
The High Learys launch their new single, Clear My Mind, this Friday, October 3, at The Bakery with help from Custom Royal and Thee Gold Blooms. BOB GORDON checks in with vocalist/bassist, Jamie Turner.
The High Learys have just released a new single, Clear My Mind, their first recorded outing since 2013's Here Come The High Learys album.
"It took our sound in a slightly different direction to Here Come the High Learys," says vocalist/bassist, Jamie Turner, of the new single. "We experimented a lot more with different sounds and techniques when in the studio recording it in April. It was a great atmosphere during the two weeks it took to complete, the collaboration between us when writing the song was brilliant, with everyone having a part in the making, the way it was approached made it so much easier to finish.
"Shortly after we headed to Poons Head Studios in Fremantle to record and master both tracks with producer Rob Grant.
I'm A Fool For You is the b-side of this release, but by definition only. One wonders what thinking goes into choosing the song that ends up as the b-side of a single?
"Even though I'm A Fool For You is more upbeat than the a-side we all felt that Clear My Mind had more commercial potential," Turner explains. "It's always hard choosing between the two but for a lot of our favourite artists we enjoy the b-sides just as much as the 'a'."
With the release of a new single, comes news that the band are indeed heading towards work on another album.
"We'll be looking at recording our next album at some point in 2015," Turner says. "We've been working on quite a lot of new material that we're really excited to record, we can't wait to get back into the studio."
The High Learys have strong retro leanings, which can sometimes be confused for mere nostalgia by some. Turner is unfussed.
"I guess we don't mind if people think either way," he says. "A lot of reviews that are written about us mention that we are bringing back the sounds of the '60s, which isn't hard to miss, as a lot of our main influences are artists from that time."
Even so, many of the band's stated influences go back to the American source, rather than the bands they'd often be compared to.
"America has some amazing music history that we as a band love," Turner says. "Everything from the early delta blues players and the Harlem jazz scene in the '30s, all the way to the doo-wop and rock'n'roll of the '50s and the amount of amazing artists that emerged in the '60s as well. We also take a massive influence from artists out of the UK around the same time and even some great Aussie bands too."
Once Clear My Mind is launched at The Bakery on Friday, there's still plenty left to do in 2014 – and onwards – for The High Learys.
"At the end of this year we'll be heading to Europe to tour through Germany, Spain and the UK," Turner says. "We'll be getting home from that in January. From there, we'll be getting ready to record our next album. Once the album is recorded we'll be setting out on an Australian tour which we've been wanting to do for a while now."