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Good morning! Today's Smart Brevity count: 1,097/< 5 min. read.
Situational awareness: President Trump again refused to accept the scientific consensus on human-driven climate change in his interview with Piers Morgan. Watch the clip
Finally, at this moment in 1996, The Fugees were atop Billboard's album charts with "The Score," a classic which provides today's intro tune...
1 big thing: The U.K.'s 18 coal-free days
Data: IEA; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios
The United Kingdom broke its record for the number of days without using any coal-fired electricity — thanks largely to natural gas, Axios' Amy Harder reports.
Driving the news: The 18-day streak snapped late yesterday, according to the U.K.'s electricity operator.
Why it matters: Coal has historically been the nation's dominant electricity source but natural gas burns 50% less carbon emissions than coal.
Due to several factors — notably a carbon price policy implemented in 2013 — U.K.'s coal use has plummeted, natural gas has risen to make up most of the difference, and emissions have dropped.
The big picture: Natural gas is controversial in the world's energy and climate debate. It's still a fossil fuel, but the cleanest-burning kind, so when it's displacing coal, it reduces greenhouse gas emissions as the accompanying chart shows.
The U.K. experience shows what an outsized role natural gas can fill in countries seeking to reduce or eliminate coal altogether.
The intrigue: Via The Guardian: "Coal has been used for electricity generation since 1882, when a plant opened in Holborn, London. However in 2018 the fuel made up just 5% of Britain's electricity generation, a big decline from about 40% in 2012, according to [government] figures."
Yes, but: Longer term — as in many, many decades — remaining heavily dependent on natural gas is likely going to make it a lot harder (some experts suggest impossible) to cut GHG emissions to a level scientists say will avert the worst impacts of a warmer world.
That's because, while cleaner than coal, natural gas still emits GHGs. To the extent it remains in place for decades, that means less zero-emitting renewable energy.
Technology that captures emissions could allow for aggressive gas usage in a world drastically reducing emissions, but it's expensive and not broadly employed.
What we're watching: The International Energy Agency is set to issue a study in July looking at fuel switching between coal and natural gas and the latter's role in a transition to cleaner energy.
Go deeper: Tale of four countries: The world's evolving energy mixes
2. Toyota's electric plans
Toyota Mirai. Photo: Anadolu Agency
Toyota plans to unveil a new type of "personal electric vehicle" this week and will outline a broad electrification strategy heavily reliant on partnerships with Chinese manufacturers, Axios' Joann Muller scooped yesterday.
Why it matters: Despite its longtime lead in hybrids like the Prius, Toyota is seen as lagging on the industry-wide shift to battery-electric vehicles, especially as China and Europe have moved to mandate more zero-emission vehicles.
What's new: On Friday in Japan, Toyota senior executives will share details of the company's EV pipeline and future business model, according to a source with knowledge of the plan.
New products will include "personal EVs" and other battery-powered passenger cars.
The company also plans to discuss other aspects of its electrification effort, including collaboration with unnamed Chinese partners on batteries and future battery-powered vehicles.
The strategy is not being widely publicized in the U.S. because of sensitivity to strained U.S.-China trade relations.
3. Busy moment in energy and climate politics
Diplomacy: Gov. Jay Inslee today unveiled the foreign policy side of his climate-focused platform, which is important because the U.S. is responsible for about 15% of global emissions so spurring cuts by other nations is crucial. Details...
Boost the U.S. pledge to the Paris agreement with a new target of cutting emissions by 50% by 2030.
Launch efforts with other countries to address climate-fueled migration and resettle more refugees in the U.S.
Apply an enforceable "climate standard" in trade deals, "increase trade barriers for fossil fuel products," and seek to boost trade in low-carbon tech.
Expand U.S. development aid for clean energy deployment.
Trend spotting: Wide-ranging plans unveiled yesterday by frontrunner Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (which we covered here and here) both call for standing up new federal agencies.
Where it stands: Warren's $2 trillion "green manufacturing" plan would form a National Institutes of Clean Energy. Biden wants to create a cross-agency Advanced Research Projects Agency for climate (ARPA-C).
There are other examples. Inslee's platform, for instance, revives the idea of creating a federal Clean Energy Deployment Authority (or "green bank").
Why it matters: The plans signal acknowledgment that the federal government's existing structures are imperfectly aligned to spur deep emissions cuts.
But, but, but: There are tradeoffs. Standing up new bureaucracies takes time and often congressional authorization.
Controversy: "Biden's Democratic presidential campaign amended his climate policy plan hours after it was released Tuesday because a handful of passages did not credit some of the sources in the proposal," AP reports.
One more thing! NYT's Brad Plumer tweeted helpful comparisons of the price tag of candidates' plans.
4. Catch up fast: gas, Big Oil, nuclear power
Natural gas: Via The Houston Chronicle, "The flaring of natural gas in West Texas' booming Permian Basin has exceeded previous estimates and is now contributing to far more "widespread waste" and pollution than ever before, according to a new report."
Big Oil: "The global crackdown on plastic trash threatens to take a big chunk out of demand growth just as oil companies like Saudi Aramco sink billions into plastic and chemicals assets," Bloomberg reports.
Shell, BP, Total and ExxonMobil "are all ramping up investments in the sector," they note.
Nuclear: The DOE approved the transfer of nuclear information from U.S. companies to Saudi Arabia 7 times under Trump, including twice after the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi government, per a statement from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.).
Read more by Axios' Zachary Basu here.
5. Two renewable things: Beer and VC
Finance: LevelTen, a startup that helps commercial and industrial customers procure renewable power, has raised $20.5 million in Series B funding.
Prelude Ventures led the funding round but it also includes the VC arms of heavyweight Exelon and oil giants Equinor and Total Ventures.
Go deeper: TechCrunch has more here.
Beer: "Anheuser-Busch announced Tuesday the signing of a 15-year virtual power-purchase agreement with Recurrent Energy for a 222-megawatt (AC) project in West Texas," Greentech Media reports.
Why it matters: Per Greentech, it's the latest of multiple deals that will help the beer giant meet its 2025 target to buy 100% renewable energy several years early.
6. Highest CO2 level in human history
The monthly peak amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere in 2019 jumped by a near-record amount to reach 414.8 parts per million (ppm) in May, Axios' Andrew Freedman reports.
Why it matters: It's the highest level in human history and likely the highest level in the past 3 million years.
CO2 is the most important long-lived greenhouse gas, with a single molecule lasting in the air for up to 1,000 years.
The buildup of CO2 due to human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, is driving temperatures up and creating harmful effects worldwide.
Threat level: The sharp rise of of 3.5 ppm in just 1 year shows that we're headed in the opposite direction from what scientists have shown is needed to avoid the worst consequences of global warming.


An event at a major french TV channel September 16, 2012 (8:40 pm): an exclusive 1 hour documentary about WestCoast Music / AOR : StarStory "Le rêve californien" (California Dreaming) on DirectStar TV Channel. You can try this live video feed to see it. The video replay will be available at this address.
What will be featured? A story about Westcoast Music / Californian Rock since The Sixties 'til nowadays. The documentary has been shot in 2011 and 2012 in California, in The USA as well as in France by Stephane Basset as a director. See the video teasers at the end of this article.
"Star Story: California Dreamin' " will be broadcasted again on September 19, 2012 at 2:45 pm (french hour).
Crédit images : PylaProd : Christopher Cross, Bobby Kimball (Toto), Jat Graydon and Bill Champlin featured in the documentary.


It's been about 2 weeks since I last written a love diary. I shall start recalling my memories from yesterday (Monday).
Yesterday morning, when I was about to leave my house to go to work, I could feel myself getting kinda whiny and energy-less when I talked to Taenggu. But I was confused over whether it was because of her mood or my own mood because honestly, I was still feeling a little angry about what happened the night before when things did not happen at the right time between us. I also felt like whining to her because of this. But if it was because of her mood, I didn't understand why she was feeling this way either. It was Monday and I originally planned to go to the gym. But I thought for awhile and decided that I probably should go for a swim instead. I had stopped swimming on Mondays for the past 3 weeks because I had my period and also fell sick for the next couple of weeks. Now that I had recovered, I thought I should resume my swimming routine with Taenggu. So I messaged her telling her I was thinking of going for a swim later that night and asked if she wanted to come with me. But somehow I noticed that after I left that message, there wasn't seem to be any definite response from her. It wasn't like the previous times when I would feel some positive energy or excitement from her when I told her I would be bringing her for a swim. The feeling this time was rather empty but I didn't understand why. When I got off from work that day, I got the same whiny and sad expression from her again. But I still didn't understand why.
When I got home, I felt kinda reluctant to go out for a swim. I guess I somehow knew she wasn't really keen on going for a swim with me that day but I wasn't sure if it was really true. I told her I would take a rest first until 7pm before going out again for the swim. While I was on my bed, taking my time to laze around, she updated her Instagram with the following photo and also left a comment.
At that time, because the translations were not out yet, I didn't understand what her caption and comment were saying. About 7pm, I decided to go ahead with the plan just to fulfil my promise to swim with her. During the swim, I felt less energetic than last time and I got tired easily. I also panicked easily when I swam in the water, causing me to stop in the middle of each lap. I ended our swim earlier than I wanted and went for a shower. I noticed I got startled easily by loud sounds and had the sensation as if there was someone from the back looking at me when I was in the shower. I also felt restless and disturbed by the water which was splashing hard on my face from the shower head. I guess I wasn't in a stable mental state at that time so I quickly finished and hurried home.
Back home, while resting, I saw the translations of Taenggu's Instagram caption and comment already came out. I read them and finally understood why she was feeling like that in my mind!
It turned out she was feeling drowsy and energy-less the whole day. She said she wanted to take a nap first before the teaser of "Make Me Love You" would come out at 11pm SGT (12am KST). I immediately regretted my decision on going for the swim. I should have followed my intuition. I should have stayed at home to take care of her while she slept. I guess she must have felt the same like how I felt on Sunday after I came back home from Coldplay's concert on Saturday night. I was so tired that I practically slept at home the whole Sunday afternoon. I think I used up most of my energy at the concert already. She was probably feeling the same kind of drowsiness I had. I had no idea why she was feeling this way but I was guessing that she might have fallen sick. So I immediately stayed by her side and took care of her as she was sleeping. At around 10.30pm SGT, she cutely left a comment on Instagram, saying that she had already woken up.
This morning, I got the same vibes from her again, that whiny and energy-less feeling. I didn't know how to describe that expression she had when she was inside of me until Sunny posted the following photo on Instagram that gave me an idea.
I realised Gudetama would be the best character to describe how Taenggu's expression looked like! That lazy vibes like Gudetama's. It was funny because whenever she was "whining" to me, I didn't understand why and what happened to her so I ended up getting affected by her mood too. So, when I got the same whiny expression again on my face and feeling lazy, I would make fun of her and ask her, "Are you Gudetama?" Hahaha. But jokes aside, I was also worried about her. While I still had to go to work, I asked her to take a good rest if she was still feeling tired.
In the evening, I went for a jog at the Woodlands stadium. Before that, I was a little hesitant about going for the run. I wondered if I should stay at home to take care of her just in case she was still not feeling well. In the end, I decided to go ahead and told her I was going to exercise for both of our health because I knew she actually did the same for me when I was sick.
While running around the track, I was reminded of the mind images I had during my last run here about 2 weeks ago. At that time, I brought my mum and my aunt from Sarawak who was here for a holiday, to exercise at the stadium near our house. While I was running alone, I saw Taenggu who was wearing a grey tracksuit and running in front of me. She turned and smiled at me, signalling to me to come towards her to encourage me to keep running. At one point of time, I told her I couldn't run anymore and started walking. She just smiled and continued running in front of me. It was one of the most vivid imagination (or you could say hallucination) that I ever had. After that, I messaged her to tell her what I saw and thanked her for "running" with me.
Today, I ran 3 rounds and walked 1 round around the track. It was good enough for me so I left and went to buy some groceries from the supermarkets for my mother. By the time I reached home, I managed to clock in 10,444 steps on my fitness watch. It was such a unique number, wasn't it?


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'Elsewhere' by Richard Russo
By Jay Atkinson Globe Correspondent,November 20, 2012, 12:00 a.m.
"Elsewhere" by Richard Russo
In 1967, Richard Russo left central New York in an old Ford nicknamed the Gray Death, heading for the University of Arizona. By going away to school, Russo, an only child, began a decades-long journey toward his future as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. But when the young Russo "lit out for the territories," his divorced mother, Jean, rode beside him in the front seat. It was a place in his life she would never relinquish.
It's no wonder that Russo, well-known author of "Nobody's Fool'' and "Empire Falls,'' fled Gloversville, the proving ground for the fictional hard luck towns he conjures up in his novels. In the most remarkable passage of "Elsewhere,'' his memoir of growing up with a troubled mother, he depicts the horror of Gloversville's leather industry, particularly the "beam house" where Russo's cousin labored for years. Exposed to nasty chemicals used to strip hair and bits of flesh from the animal "skins," the underpaid workers suffer a number of horrible maladies. "Finally it itches so bad you can't stand it anymore, and you grab your thumb or forefinger and give the skin a twist, then a pull. The skin, several layers of it, comes away in one piece, like the finger of a latex glove."
Shortly before Russo left New York, Jean convinced her beloved "Ricko-Mio" that relocating to Arizona would jump-start both their lives. An attractive, stylish woman in her 30s, the author's mother, by then using phenobarbital for her "nerves," wanted out of Gloversville, too, asking her son, "Don't I deserve a life?" But when an Arizona job offer proved illusory, Jean descended into a neurotic cycle of fidgety movement, back and forth from wherever Russo was living to Gloversville. Ever faithful, the writer remained his mother's chauffeur and principal caregiver for 35 years, even after he got married, had children, and began his literary career.
Russo seems like a nice fellow, and you want him to succeed, but the requirements of good storytelling are harsh: three-dimensional characters, a strong sense of place, and the accumulation of specific sensory detail. This is Russo's hallmark as a fiction writer, but mostly absent here. The soggy main part of this book is a vague chronicle of dingy apartments his mother didn't like, and the peripatetic wanderings of an itinerant academic traversing the country in search of, not enlightenment or vertu, but a lighter teaching load. Occasionally Russo edges up to the sort of whimsical tragicomedy present in a Wes Anderson film: quirky middle-aged man with his doting, dotty mother always in tow. But ultimately he reverts to something more private, a reckoning of old accounts that never coheres into a story.
"Elsewhere'' is plagued by rapid time shifts, often jumping over a bundle of years without comment. Russo travels from preadolescent to high school graduate in a few pages, never mentioning a distinctive teacher, neighbor, or friend. Key characters, like his wife, Barbara, and his father, a charming rake who tells Russo his mother is "nuts," are poorly drawn. About a third of the way in, when Russo says that during graduate school he supported himself by singing in nightclubs, it's no less surprising than if he'd claimed to be a test pilot or circus acrobat. The book's narrative architecture is too flimsy, like a house with no interior walls.
After his mother's death, Russo concludes that what destroyed her was the "conviction that in America, poor people might make the nation's clothes, build its highways and bridges, and win its wars, but in the end they don't matter." But he leaves that insight mostly unexamined, and seems to pinpoint the flaw in his tale when he says, "Locked in a two-person drama, we had no need for additional players."
Jay Atkinson is the author of seven books, including "Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man,'' published in April. He teaches writing at Boston University and can be reached at jaya@bu.edu.

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ZP is gearing up for the Independent Art Book Fair in Greenpoint/Brooklyn, NY! We'll have copies of our books for sale at the IABF, and some at the Hartford Art School table at the New York Art Book Fair, at MoMA PS 1, Sept 16-18. Come buy some books!
After a series of delays due to our printing company, Everglades is now available, and is being shipped out to everyone who pre-ordered the book. Thank You to everyone who has already ordered a copy.
In Everglades, Lisa Elmaleh returned to her native South Florida. In a project that lasted from 2008 until 2016, Elmaleh examined her native landscape, photographing the flora and fauna of the Everglades, the only ecological system of its kind. Inspired by early landscape photographers of the American West, Elmaleh spent her time in the Everglades using a large format 8×10" camera and the wet collodion glass negative process, a nineteenth century process requiring the images be exposed and developed on site in a small portable cardboard darkroom. In this way, Elmaleh hopes to preserve an essence of the Everglades, a land we are rapidly losing without knowing the magnitude of our loss.
The Everglades project was the winner of the Aaron Siskind Foundation award, the Puffin Foundation Grant, and the Everglades National Park Artist Residency (AIRIE).
Essay and Poems by Anne McCrary Sullivan.
Cover Graphic From Carved Wood Block Created By Questionable Press.
Maps © Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 1997. Everglades: River of Grass, 50th Anniversary Ed. Courtesy of Pineapple Press.
Testing some sample sheets for our new hardcover book Everglades by Lisa Elmaleh.
Zatara Press will have some of our books for sale at the Hartford Art School Table (and a few underneath the table as well) at LA Art Book Fair from February 11 – 14, 2016, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Also Andrew Fedynak will physically be at the table to talk about ZP and the Hartford Art School on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.
I've been asked to guest Instagram for 10×10 Photobooks. Come take a peak at photobooks I find interesting, and what's going on with ZP this week.
Much Thanks to Doug Stockdale for the wonderful review of Scavenger by Jenny Riffle!


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Pierre Garcon injury: Redskins WR might be out 2 games with torn tendon
By SB Nation NFL Oct 22, 2012, 8:26am EDT
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The Washington Redskins have apparently been hiding the full extent of an injury to Pierre Garcon, as the wide receiver reportedly has a torn tendon in his foot, as reported by Mike Garofalo of USA Today.
Garcon has been listed by the team as having an inflamed capsule in his foot, but a source told Garofalo that he also has a torn tendon, a more severe injury. It's speculated he'll miss the next two games and will not play until after the team's Week 10 bye. It's not clear why the team chose to hide the full nature of Garcon's injury, if the report is true.
Garcon was a high-profile signing in the offseason for Washington, signing a five-year deal worth $42.5 million. He showed why in the team's season opener, bringing in four catches for 109 yards and a touchdown, but has only been able to play in two games since. The 26-year-old would bolster the receiving corps available to Robert Griffin III if healthy, but it seems that's still at least a few weeks away.
This story originally appeared at SB Nation.
Redskins vs. Giants: Eli Manning outduels RGIII late as New York wins, 27-23
Hall: Manning no rocket scientist on TD
Garcon could be out another 2 games
RGIII reacts to loss vs. New York Giants


Write a .bat file to generate combined log files in batch mode for all selected scenarios. When scenarios="all" all scenarios listed in the 'Results' folder within the workspace will be included in the batch file.
The file is saved in the path indicated by dir.out, typically where HexSimCommandLine.exe is located. If NULL (default), the working directory is used. This may be useful when the batch file is being prepared on a different machine. Ultimately, the batch file needs to be copied where the HexSimCommandLine.exe is located.
To run the batch file, open the command prompt, navigate where HexSimCommandLine.exe is located and type "comb_log_files.bat".


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Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 British dystopian drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future in which the government sends out firemen to destroy all literature to prevent revolution and thinking. This was Truffaut's first colour film[4] as well as his only English-language film. At the 1966 Venice Film Festival, Fahrenheit 451 was nominated for the Golden Lion.[5]
Theatrical release poster
Lewis M. Allen
Jean-Louis Richard
by Ray Bradbury
Oskar Werner
Cyril Cusack
Thom Noble
Anglo Enterprises
Vineyard Film Ltd.
16 September 1966 (1966-09-16) (UK)
$1.5 million[1]
$1,000,000 (US/ Canada)[2]
779, 811 admissions (France)[3]
In the future, a totalitarian government employs a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature. They have the power to search anyone, anywhere, at any time, and burn any books they find. One of the firemen, Guy Montag, meets one of his neighbours, Clarisse, a young schoolteacher who may be fired due to her unorthodox views. The two have a discussion about his job, where she asks if he ever reads the books he burns. Curious, he begins to hide books in his house and read them, starting with Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. This leads to conflict with his wife, Linda, who is more concerned with being popular enough to be a member of The Family, an interactive television programme that refers to its viewers as "cousins".
At the house of an illegal book collector, the fire captain talks with Montag at length about how books make people unhappy and make them want to think they are better than others, which is considered anti-social. The book collector, an old woman who was seen with Clarisse a few times during Montag's rides to and from work, refuses to leave her house, opting instead to burn herself and the house so she can die with her books.
Returning home that day, Montag tries to tell Linda and her friends about the woman who martyred herself in the name of books and confronts them about knowing anything about what's going on in the world, calling them zombies and telling them they're just killing time instead of living life. Disturbed over Montag's behavior, Linda's friends try to leave but Montag stops them, by forcing them to sit and listen to him read a novel passage. During the reading, one of Linda's friends breaks down crying, aware of the feelings she repressed over the years, while Linda's other friends leave in disgust over Montag's alleged cruelty and the sick content of the novel.
That night, Montag dreams of Clarisse as the book collector who killed herself. The same night, Clarisse's house is raided but she escapes through a trapdoor in the roof, thanks to her uncle. Montag breaks into the captain's office looking for information about the missing Clarisse and is caught but not punished.
Montag meets with Clarisse and helps her break back into her house, to destroy papers that would bring the Firemen to others like her. She tells him of the "book people", a hidden sect of people who flout the law, each of whom have memorized a book to keep it alive. Later, Montag tells the captain he is resigning but is convinced to go on one more call, which turns out to be Montag's house.
Linda leaves the house, telling Montag that she couldn't live with his book obsession and leaves him to be punished by the Firemen. Angrily, he destroys the bedroom and television before setting fire to the books. The captain lectures him about the books and pulls a last book from Montag's coat, for which Montag kills him with the flamethrower. He escapes and finds the book people, where he views his "capture" on television, staged to keep the masses entertained and because the government doesn't want him to be known to be alive. Montag selects a book to memorise; Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe and becomes one of the book people.
Oskar Werner as Guy Montag
Julie Christie as Linda Montag/Clarisse
Cyril Cusack as Captain
Anton Diffring as Fabian/Headmistress
Jeremy Spenser as Man with the Apple
Bee Duffell as Book woman
Gillian Lewis as Cousin Midge on TV
Truffaut kept a detailed diary during the production and later published in both French and English (in Cahiers du Cinema in English). In this diary, he called Fahrenheit 451 his "saddest and most difficult" film making experience, mainly because of intense conflicts between Werner and himself.[6][7]
The film was Universal Pictures' first European production. Julie Christie was originally cast as just Linda Montag, not both Linda and Clarisse. The part of Clarisse was offered to Jean Seberg and Jane Fonda. Tippi Hedren was also considered but Hitchcock told Truffaut that she was not available. After much thought, Truffaut decided that the characters should not have a villain/hero relationship but rather be two sides of the same coin and cast Christie in both roles, although the idea came from the producer, Lewis M. Allen.[8]
In an interview from 1998, Charles Aznavour said he was Truffaut's first choice to play the role given to Werner; Aznavour said Jean-Paul Belmondo was the director's second choice but the producers refused, on the grounds that both of them were not familiar enough for the English speaking audience.[9] Paul Newman, Peter O'Toole and Montgomery Clift were also considered for the role of Montag; Terence Stamp was cast but dropped out when he feared being overshadowed by Christie's dual roles in the film.[10] Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and Sterling Hayden were considered for the role of the Captain, before Cyril Cusack was cast.[citation needed]
The SAFEGE test track at Châteauneuf-sur-Loire
The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in England, with the monorail exterior scene taken at the French SAFEGE test track, in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire near Orléans, France (since dismantled). The film featured the Alton housing estate in Roehampton, south London and also Edgcumbe Park in Crowthorne, Berkshire. The final scene with the "Book People " reciting their chosen books was filmed at Black Park near Pinewood, in a rare and unexpected snowstorm that occurred on Julie Christie's birthday, 14 April 1966.[11]
The production work was done in French, as Truffaut spoke virtually no English but co-wrote the screenplay with Jean-Louis Richard. Truffaut expressed disappointment with the often stilted and unnatural English-language dialogue. He was much happier with the version that was dubbed into French.
The movie's opening credits are spoken rather than displayed in type, which might be the director's hint of what life would be like in an illiterate culture. Tony Walton did costumes and production design, while Syd Cain did art direction.
In 1971, some scenes from Fahrenheit 451 were used in The Different Ones, an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery television show, including the monorail and the flying policeman.[12]
Critical receptionEdit
The film had a mixed critical reception upon release. Time magazine called the film a "weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind of man"; it "strongly supports the widely held suspicion that Julie Christie cannot actually act. Though she plays two women of diametrically divergent dispositions, they seem in her portrayal to differ only in their hairdos." They also noted that the film's "somewhat remote theme challenged [Truffaut's] technical competence more than his heart; the finished film displays the artisan more than the artist."[4]
Bosley Crowther called the film a "pretentious and pedantic production" based on "an idea that called for slashing satire of a sort beyond [Truffaut's] grasp, and with language he couldn't fashion into lively and witty dialogue. The consequence is a dull picture—dully fashioned and dully played—which is rendered all the more sullen by the dazzling color in which it is photographed."[13] Leslie Halliwell described it as "1984 stuff, a little lacking on plot and rather tentatively directed, but with charming moments".[14]
It has gained significant critical acclaim over the years. On the review aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an 82% positive rating among top film critics based on 33 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Fahrenheit 451 is an intriguing film that suffuses Truffaut's trademark wit and black humor with the intelligence and morality of Ray Bradbury's novel."[15] Martin Scorsese has called the film an "underrated picture" which had influenced his own films.[16]
The film was nominated for a 1967 Hugo Award in the Best Dramatic Presentation category, along with Fantastic Voyage and 3 episodes of Star Trek. It lost out to the Star Trek episode The Menagerie.[17]
At the 1966 Venice Film Festival, Fahrenheit 451 was nominated for the Golden Lion.[5]
Ray Bradbury's viewsEdit
Author Ray Bradbury said in later interviews that despite its flaws, he was pleased with the film. He was particularly fond of the film's climax, where the Book People walk through a snowy countryside, reciting the poetry and prose they've memorized, set to Herrmann's melodious score. He found it especially poignant and moving.[citation needed] In a 2009 interview Bradbury was quoted, "The mistake they made with the first one was to cast Julie Christie as both the revolutionary and the bored wife."[18]
According to an introduction by Ray Bradbury to a CD of a rerecording of the film score by William Stromberg conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Bradbury had suggested Bernard Herrmann to Truffaut. Bradbury had visited the set of Torn Curtain, meeting Alfred Hitchcock and Herrmann. When Truffaut contacted Bradbury for a conference about his book, Bradbury recommended Herrmann, as Bradbury knew Truffaut had written a detailed book about Hitchcock.[19] When Herrmann asked Truffaut why he was chosen over modern composers, such as the director's friends Pierre Boulez or Karlheinz Stockhausen, the director replied that "They'll give me music of the twentieth century but you'll give me music of the twenty first!"[20] Herrmann used a score of only string instruments, harp, xylophone, vibraphone, marimba and glockenspiel. As with Torn Curtain, Herrmann refused the studio's request to do a title song.
Spanish broadcastEdit
Despite the totalitarian overtones in the plot, the film was broadcast uncensored on Spanish state television (RTVE) in the early 1970s at a time when Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was still in power.[citation needed]
^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p345
^ "Big Rental Films of 1967", Variety, January 3, 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.
^ Box Office information for Francois Truffaut films at Box Office Story
^ a b "Out of Nothinkness". Time. 18 November 1966. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
^ a b "Awards for Fahrenheit 451". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
^ Insdorf 1995, p. 187.
^ Baecque 1999, p. 212.
^ François Truffaut (Director) (2003). Fahrenheit 451 Special Features (DVD). Universal Pictures.
^ "Charles Aznavour". Time. 9 July 1998. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
^ Julie Christie (Actress) (2003). Fahrenheit 451 Commentary (DVD). Universal Pictures.
^ http://www.tv.com/shows/night-gallery/the-different-ones-77173/
^ Crowther, Bosley (15 November 1966). "Fahrenheit 451 Makes Burning Issue Dull". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
^ Halliwell, Leslie (1997). John Walker (ed.). Halliwell's Film and Video Guide. New York: Harper Collins. p. 246. ISBN 0-00-638779-9.
^ "Fahrenheit 451". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
^ Scorsese, Martin (13 November 2006). "François Truffaut". Time. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
^ "1967 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
^ http://www.laweekly.com/2009-04-23/la-life/thewriter/
^ Bradbury, Ray. Bernard Herrmann and Fahrenheit 451. Liner Notes for CD, 2007.
^ Kogehehn, Gunther. Fahrenheit 451. Liner Notes for CD, 2007.
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Bergan, Ronald, ed. (2008). François Truffaut: Interviews. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1934110133.
Bradbury, Ray (2003). Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0743247221.
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Insdorf, Annette (1995). François Truffaut. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521478083.
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The Ritual () — пятый студийный альбом американской трэш-метал-группы Testament, выпущенный 12 мая 1992 года. Это последний диск с участием ударника Луи Клементе, а также последний с Алексом Сколником до его возвращения в группу в 2005 году.

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Следуя традициям всех трэш-метал групп в начале 1990-х годов, группа начала экспериментировать с музыкой — стиль нового альбома определяется как хэви-метал, хотя в нём все ещё присутствуют трэшевые элементы, в целом же музыка на новом альбоме вышла более медленной и мелодичной, чем на более привычных работах Testament. После выхода альбома группу покинул ударник Луи Клементе, решивший заняться стабильным бизнесом, вроде продажи картин и мебели. Почти одновременно с ним ушёл Алекс Сколник. Некоторое время он участвовал в прогрессив-группе Savatage, после чего организовал собственную джазовую группу — Alex Skolnick Trio. The Ritual был хорошо принят музыкальными критиками. Эдуардо Ривадавия из AllMusic назвал песню «Return to Serenity» лучшей песней на альбоме: «С её прекрасными эфирными мелодиями песня является одним из лучших достижений группы.» Было распродано более 485 тысяч копий дисков в США по состоянию на июнь 2007 года. Тем не менее, альбом не получил золотой сертификации RIAA.

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Участники записи
 Чак Билли — вокал
 Алекс Сколник — гитара
 Эрик Питерсон — гитара
 Грег Кристиан — бас-гитара
 Луи Клементе — ударные
 Шон Кросби — дополнительный вокал (как указано в примечаниях альбома)
 Уильям Бенсон — обложка альбома

Производство
 Аранжировка — Testament
 Произведено и записано Тони Платтом
 Записано в студии One On One; при содействии Ульриха Уайлда
 Сведено Найджелом Грином в Battery Studios
 Помощник звукоинженера: Сара Бедингем
 Мастеринг — Джордж Марино в Sterling Sound
 «Signs of Chaos», «Electric Crown» и «Deadline» опубликованы COTLOD Music / Zomba Enterprises, Inc. Все остальные песни опубликованы COTLOD Music / Zomba Enterprises, Inc. / Mamatoneck Music / Virgin Songs, Inc.

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The ASUS ZenFone AR just got certified by the FCC. The ZenFone AR is ASUS' all-new flagship smartphone which was announced during this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. We actually believe this is the best smartphone that was announced during this year's CES, and it's actually quite an interesting device, as it combines both AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) aspects, and it is a high-end smartphone at the same time. Now, what does it mean that it comes with both AR and VR features? Well, this phone is both Daydream-ready and Tango-enabled, which makes it the first handset to ship with both features at the same time.
In any case, this handset just got certified by the FCC, which suggests that the phone might become available in the US really soon. The FCC listing does not reveal all that much detail regarding the phone, but it does confirm that it will ship with Android 7.0 Nougat, and that it comes with a February Android security patch, well, at least the variant that got certified by the FCC does. The ASUS ZenFone AR features a metallic trim, a physical home button below the display, and two capacitive keys which flank it. A rather interesting looking rear-facing camera is placed on the back of the ZenFone AR, mainly because there are a ton of sensors included next to it, in order to make the AR aspect of this smartphone work properly. Along with a 23-megapixel OIS shooter, you're also getting depth and motion tracking sensors here, and an LED flash, of course. An 8-megapixel snapper is placed on the front side of this smartphone, and the device sports a fingerprint scanner below its display.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 821 64-bit quad-core processor fuels the ZenFone AR, and on top of Android 7.0 Nougat you're getting ASUS' ZenUI 3.0 skin. This handset sports a 5.7-inch QHD (2560 x 1440) Super AMOLED display, along with 6GB / 8GB of RAM and 64GB / 128GB / 256GB of expandable internal storage. A 3,300mAh battery is included here, and it comes with fast charging, Qualcomm's Quick Charge 3.0, to be more exact. The device measures 158.7 x 77.7 x 9mm, while it weighs 170 grams, and it also comes with two SIM card slots.


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Match ends. Backa Palanka 0, Partizan 3.
Goran Zakaric scores for Partizan.
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Partizan's last 8 matches had 2 or less goals.
Backa Palanka have gone 6 consecutive matches without a clean sheet.
Backa Palanka played Partizan at the Super Liga of Serbia on February 16. The match kicked off 12:00 UTC. Partizan won 0-3. Backa Palanka are 13th in the table with 25 points after 30 matches, while Partizan are 3rd with 54 points in 30 matches.
Nemanja Nikolic scored the first goal on the 7th minute of the game followed by goals from Ricardo Gomes and Goran Zakaric, who made the final score 0-3.
Backa Palanka kicked off the game with Bojan Zogovic, Srdjan Grabez, Stefan Jovanovic, Dragan Zarkovic, Miroslav Bjelos, Nemanja Ilic, Milan Makaric, Marko Pantic, Ugljesa Radinovic who got substituted by Vojislav Balabanovic on the 88th minute, Branislav Tomic who got substituted by Luka Micic on the 74th minute and Nikola Radovic who got substituted by Nebojsa Gavric on the 46th minute as starters, with Aleksa Milojevic, Nebojsa Gavric, Vojislav Balabanovic, Milos Gordic, Aleksandar Kostic, Luka Micic and Nikola Zakula on the bench.
Partizan's starting eleven were Vladimir Stojkovic, Svetozar Markovic who got substituted by Zlatan Sehovic on the 84th minute, Nemanja Miletic, Nemanja Miletic, Marc Valiente, Sasa Zdjelar, Nebojsa Kosovic, Zoran Tosic who got substituted by Gabriel Enache on the 71st minute, Goran Zakaric, Ricardo Gomes who got substituted by Filip Stevanovic on the 87th minute and Nemanja Nikolic, with Filip Kljajic, Zlatan Sehovic, Armin Djerlek, Gabriel Enache, Aleksandar Scekic, Dejan Georgijevic and Filip Stevanovic on the bench.
Backa Palanka have lost to Celje, Vojvodina, Radnik Surdulica and Cukaricki in their previous 4 matches, while Partizan have won Mladost Doboj in their previous match.
Backa Palanka and Partizan have met 5 times in their recent history. 1 match ended in a draw while Partizan won 4 times.
Backa Palanka have won 6 of their 30 matches in Super Liga, drawing 7 and having 17 defeats this season. They have scored 27 goals - 0.90 per match, conceding 54 - 1.80 per match. Partizan have won 15 of their 30 matches in Super Liga, drawing 9 and having 6 defeats this season. They have scored 45 goals - 1.50 per match, conceding 20 - 0.67 per match.
Referee showed the yellow card once throughout the game. Stefan Jovanovic was the one to receive it.
Goals and video highlights of the match between Backa Palanka and Partizan are being added in real time. You can watch the goals by Nemanja Nikolic, Ricardo Gomes and Goran Zakaric as we are adding the videos of the goals usually minutes after the actual event on the field. So when Backa Palanka or Partizan score you will be able to watch the goal a couple of minutes later on this page. Full highlights of the match between Backa Palanka and Partizan include all the goals and other remarkable moments from the match. We will try to have different highlights from Backa Palanka vs Partizan with commentary in English, Russian, Portugese etc. We do not host any video file as all of the videos are discovered by our crawler on other websites like youtube or streamable. If you think the video infriges your copyright please contact the website which hosts it.


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Cheer Up Luv: the photography project sharing women's experiences with sexual harassment
Street harassment is relentless; as it continues to plague over many women worldwide, it's a problem that often goes unreported and gets ignored. According to a UK study by YouGov and End Violence Against Women Coalition, 85% of young women aged between 18-24 experience unwarranted sexual harassment in public places — alongside 64% of women of all ages. There are endemic levels of sexual violence and harassment in schools where, if significant changes aren't made, such abuse will "continue at alarming rates." These statistics are just an example, but as a pervasive problem surprisingly many of these issues receive little national attention, as stated in a 2016 report by UK Parliament. This normalisation seems to be a stimulant for its persistence. The act of catcalling, wolf whistling or the odd hand here and there is perceived as usual behaviour, but how does a woman, or victim of street harassment, stop these moments? Can you report on every whistle, shout and uncomfortable closeness you encounter? Should society's detachment towards street harassment be ignored?
Eliza Hatch, a photographer based in London, launched the photography project Cheer Up Luv in response to these questions. To open up a dialogue between those who have experienced countless name-callings, and for those who have felt sexually threatened by any means, Cheer Up Luv aims to share these stories and release them into a public sphere. We spoke to Eliza about her reasons behind the project and to find out more about how photography and publicity can act as a powerful catalyst for change.
Run us through the reasons for starting Cheer Up Luv.
I decided to start Cheer Up Luv earlier this year, however the themes behind it have been a constant factor in my life. Growing up in London, you get used to being catcalled and sexually harassed, especially when you are in your school uniform. When I was younger, I was more oblivious to the fact that it was happening to everyone, it seemed normal and you just brushed it off. It was only recently when I mentioned it in frustration to some friends, that I found out how frequently they experienced it too, and It was only after speaking with some male friends and realising their shock and disbelief surrounding the issue, that something switched inside me and I decided enough was enough.
My personal experiences have ranged from being told to 'smile' or 'cheer up' to more shocking offences, and the purpose for the project for me is to really show the range of what women experience in their day to day lives. I wanted to show how even the most seemingly harmless phrase has bad connotations and shouldn't be used lightly, and I am trying to make it an accessible platform for women to speak out about anything that has made them feel uncomfortable in a public space. My aims are to show real women and tell their stories, and try to raise awareness about an issue that is completely overlooked. I wanted to create a place where women's voices can finally be heard and to try to turn their situations where they once felt vulnerable into ones where they are empowered.
How does photojournalism act as a powerful tool? Why the photograph?
I think it is extremely important to use visuals when telling a story; it is more engaging for the reader and even for the story teller. When speaking about sexual harassment, I think it's necessary to look into the eyes of the woman when reading her story. Words can be extremely powerful and emotive, and when they are paired with a photograph, it emphasises them so much more. For me, the project has always been about showing the woman in her daily surroundings because that is where everyday street harassment happens. To show how normalised harassment is for women, I need photograph them in and completely familiar environment so viewers can relate. The woman is always the central focus in my imagery and my aims are to turn the place where she once felt victimised into a stage for her to speak out on.
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Why do you think something like this never existed before? Why does is have to be public?
Up until recently I think speaking out about sexual harassment has been a taboo subject for women. There are many factors as to why women haven't spoken out about sexual harassment before, and they range from feeling ashamed to not wanting to make a big deal out of it. The fact that it is such a normal thing that women experience is probably the reason why it hasn't been spoken about as much before, so I think that now it is so important to make women feel as though they have a voice that will be listened to. The platform has to be public because just as much as it is about giving women a place to speak, it is also a place for men to listen.
When capturing the women, how do you go about photographing and documenting the subject? How do you represent their personality/experience? Run me through the process.
I have a coffee and a chat with the woman before photographing her to swap stories and just get to know each other a little bit. I like to make the woman feel as comfortable as I can, and I photograph her in a place which is relevant to her or the story she is telling. I am always on the lookout for locations and, before I meet the woman, I ask her to send me an experience so I can decide whether to photograph her in a location that relates to it, or one which is convenient for her. I try to place the subject in a setting which is familiar to the viewer, complimentary to the story and an empowering backdrop for the woman.
What else needs to be done to tackle issues surrounding sexual harassment? How will this project catalyse change?
To really tackle the issue of sexual harassment in public, we have to keep talking and try to denormalise attitudes towards it. For this to happen, we need cooperation from both men and women, and we need to reinforce a support system to make women feel comfortable to speak about it. We also need to start educating about the issue at a younger age, to show what counts as unacceptable behaviour towards women in public. Ultimately, If we keep talking about this, and reinforcing that it shouldn't be happening, then in the future I hope it will discourage men to harass women in public. Nothing ever happens at once, but if I can just raise some awareness or even make a situation that's happened more bearable for someone, then that is a step in the right direction.
Cheer Up Luv: Christina
Cheer Up Luv: Dana
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Cheer Up Luv: Juliette
Cheer Up Luv: Korantema
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Cheer Up Luv: Lulu
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Cheer Up Luv: Olivia
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Cheer Up Luv: Rose
Meet the girls of South Sudan fighting for an education
Mark Mahaney documents a town in Alaska's 65 days of winter darkness
Vincent Desailly's striking new book explores the origins of Trap music in Atlanta
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Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek photographs a holiday resort, seemingly only open to Afghan Hounds
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Life is a balancing act, and your period is no exception. One of the ways to stay balanced during this time of the month is to turn to the ancient Vedic medicine, Ayurveda. The sister-science of yoga, Ayurveda is a system fundamentally grounded in balancing the mind and body. Ayurveda is a fascinating and long-held tradition that has been shown to manage health effectively.
According to Ayurveda, a truly healthy person has learned to balance the three elements, or doshas, in the body: Vata (air), Pitta (fire), and Kapha (earth). Most people identify as predominately one element that contains our blueprint for living.
Since your period is a cleansing of the body, treat your body kindly and gently. Eat easily digestible foods such as mashed sweet potatoes with ginger, cinnamon, and coconut cream, pureed roasted vegetable soups, fresh juices, and kitchari, a cleansing Ayurvedic dish made of mung beans, rice, spices, and ghee. By giving your digestion a rest, your body can use all its energy to cleanse.
Your body needs energy to cleanse effectively. During this time, take it easy. Avoid inversions and any exercise that is especially taxing on the body. Get a little extra sleep. You can work out, in fact, light exercise is beneficial, but replace hard-core workouts with leisurely strolls, swimming, or Yin Yoga.
To move any kind of waste out of the body, hydration is vital. Drink plenty of clean filtered water, warm teas like ginger, lemon, and fennel, and other natural fruit and herb infused waters while on your period.
During my period, I make sure to make my special Bloat Be Gone water each night to enjoy the next day. Take one liter of filtered water and add about ten slices of English cucumber and half a thinly sliced lemon. Sometimes I switch out orange slices for lemon. I let it sit overnight and, in the morning, I fill one of my large Hydroflasks with it to keep it nice and cold to sip throughout the day. It relieves tension in the abdomen and prevents that uncomfortable, bubbly feeling that makes skinny jeans feel like sausage casings.
This is a fancy Sanskrit word for controlled breathing. The particular type of pranayama that's especially beneficial for menstruation is called Nadi Shodhana, or Alternate Nostril Breathing. It removes toxins, balances the right and left sides of the brain, reduces stress, and revitalizes the nervous system. Here's a quick video on how to do it.
Balance is something most women (and men) struggle with no matter what time of the month you're in. Try a few of these tips anytime you feel your body needs a break. If it's worked for thousands of years and millions of people, it's likely it'll work for you!


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Technology / Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Majesco Entertainment Company was an American video game publisher and distributor based in South Plainfield, New Jersey. The company was founded as Majesco Sales in Edison, New Jersey in 1986, and was a privately held company until acquiring operation-less company ConnectivCorp in a reverse takeover, becomings its subsidiary and thus a public company, on December 5, 2003. ConnectivCorp later changed its name to Majesco Holdings Inc. on April 13, 2004. On December 1, 2016, Majesco Entertainment was acquired by PolarityTE, Inc., a biotech company, in a reverse takeover, because of which it formally ceased all video game operations on December 8, 2016.
Quick facts about Majesco
June 16, 1986; 30 years ago (1986-06-16) in Edison, New Jersey, U.S.
Majesco Holdings Inc. (2003–16) PolarityTE, Inc. (2016)
South Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
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The industry average for Technology / Computer Software: Prepackaged Software is 0.
Consider an example: If Majesco sends out NPS surveys immediately after purchase, they are tracking their customers' initial excitement and the checkout experience.
Therefore, comparing the NPS score of Majesco with your own without any further context is not that useful.
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The abuse.ch project called URLhaus was launched in March 2018 to track websites used to spread malware, it involved 265 researchers worldwide.
In a 10-month period, 265 security researchers around the world have identified in average 300 malware sites each day.
"End of March 2018, abuse.ch launched it's most recent project called URLhaus. The goal of URLhaus is to collect and share URLs that are being used for distributing malware." read the post published by Abuse.ch.
"The project is a huge success: with the help of the community, URLhaus was able to takedown almost 100,000 malware distribution sites within just 10 months!
In average, a malware distribution site remains active for more than a week (8 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes) that is considered a sufficient time to infect thousands of device every day.
The analysis of the top malware hosting networks revealed that 2 out of three of the malware URL are hosted in the US or China.
One of the most disconcerting data emerged from the project is related to the takedown time of malware sites hosted in China, Chinese malware hosting networks are very slow in taking action against the abuses, they have an average abuse reaction time of more than a month.
A large number of malware distribution websites tracked by URLhaus are related to Emotet (aka Heodo) that is propagated through spam, followed by the ones related to the Gozi malware and GandCrab ransomware.
The experts pointed out that for the success of the URLhaus project it is crucial an active participation of the entire community.


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_armed - Variable in class logic.Hero

Has sword?.

_asleep - Variable in class logic.Dragon

Is dragon sleeping?

_board - Variable in class logic.Maze

The Grid.

_cells - Variable in class logic.DefaultMazeGenerator

String representation of the maze.

_cells - Variable in class model.Grid

The cells (2 dimensional array).

_colInit - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SpriteState

The initial column.

_db - Variable in class logic.Dragon

The behaviour.

_defaultBoolean - Variable in class utils.RandomTester

The default boolean.

_defaultInt - Variable in class utils.RandomTester

The default integer.

_deltaX - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SpriteState

The delta x.

_deltaY - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SpriteState

The delta y.

_diff - Variable in class logic.Maze

The diff time used in Update

_direction - Variable in class logic.Unit

The direction between last position and unit position.

_dirMap - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DragonSprite

The direction map.

_dirMap - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DyingDragonSprite

The direction map.

_dirMap - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.EagleSprite

The direction map

_dirMap - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.HeroSprite

The direction map.

_dragonBehaviour - Variable in class logic.MazeGenerator

The dragon behaviour.

_dragonCount - Variable in class logic.MazeGenerator

The dragon count.

_dragonMode - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Configuration

The _dragon mode.

_dragonsJustDied - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

_eagleJustArrived - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

_eagleJustDied - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

_editor - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SaveLoadDialog

True if we are saving in editor mode.

_event - Variable in class logic.UnitEventEntry

The event.

_eventComparator - Static variable in class logic.UnitEventEntry

The Constant _eventComparator.

_eventQueue - Variable in class logic.Maze

The event queue

_fileList - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SaveLoadDialog

The file list.

_fileName - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Configuration

The _file name.

_frame - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DragonSprite

The frame.

_frame - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DyingDragonSprite

The frame.

_frame - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.EagleSprite

The frame.

_frame - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.HeroSprite

The frame.

_game - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SaveLoadDialog

The game.

_gameFinished - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

Is game finished?

_gameStarted - Variable in class ui.gui.ascii.SimpleGame

The game started.

_heroMoving - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

Is hero moving? If so, block inputs.

_id - Variable in class logic.WorldObject

The current id.

_image - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.TiledImage

The image with all tiles.

_image - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.main_menu.ImageBackground

_initialPosition - Variable in class logic.Eagle

The initial position.

_keys - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Configuration

The _keys.

_lastId - Static variable in class logic.WorldObject

The last id assigned.

_lineInit - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SpriteState

The initial line.

_livingObjects - Variable in class logic.Maze

The set of living objects.

_maze - Variable in class logic.MazeGenerator

The maze.

_maze - Static variable in class tests.DragonTests

The maze.

_maze - Static variable in class tests.EagleTests

The maze.

_maze - Static variable in class tests.SimpleTests

The maze.

_maze - Variable in class ui.gui.ascii.SimpleGame

The maze.

_maze - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.editor.MazeEditor

The maze.

_maze - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

The maze.

_mazeGenerator - Variable in class logic.Architect

Underlying MazeGenerator.

_mazeSize - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Configuration

The _maze size.

_newConfig - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SettingsDialog

The new configuration.

_nextBooleans - Variable in class utils.RandomTester

The booleans to be used.

_nextInts - Variable in class utils.RandomTester

The integers to be used.

_num - Variable in enum utils.Key

The value.

_numberOfDragons - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Configuration

The _number of dragons.

_numFrames - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SpriteState

The number of frames.

_onSword - Variable in class logic.Dragon

True if dragon is on top of sword.

_playing - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DyingDragonSprite

If is playing.

_position - Variable in class logic.WorldObject

The position.

_position - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DragonSprite

The position.

_position - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.EagleSprite

The position.

_position - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.HeroSprite

The position.

_prevConfig - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SettingsDialog

The previous configuration.

_quitButton - Variable in class ui.gui.ascii.SimpleGame

The quit button.

_r - Static variable in class utils.RandomEngine

Underlying Random generator.

_savePath - Static variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SaveLoadDialog

The Constant savePath.

_size - Variable in class logic.MazeGenerator

The maze size.

_sleepTimer - Variable in class logic.Dragon

Sleep countdown.

_speed - Static variable in class logic.Eagle

The eagle speed.

_sprite - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DragonSprite

The sprite.

_sprite - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DyingDragonSprite

The sprite.

_sprite - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.EagleSprite

The sprite.

_sprite - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.HeroSprite

The sprite.

_sprite - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SwordSprite

The sprite.

_sprites - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.editor.MazeEditor

The map of sprites.

_sprites - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

The sprites.

_startButton - Variable in class ui.gui.ascii.SimpleGame

The start button.

_state - Variable in class logic.Eagle

The eagle state.

_state - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DragonSprite

The state.

_state - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.EagleSprite

The state.

_state - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.HeroSprite

The state.

_swordJustPicked - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

_swordPosition - Variable in class logic.Eagle

The sword position.

_textArea - Variable in class ui.gui.ascii.SimpleGame

The text area.

_tileHeight - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.TiledImage

The height (px) of each tile.

_tiles - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.TiledImage

The cached tiles.

_tileWidth - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.TiledImage

The width (px) of each tile.

_timeCount - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DragonSprite

The time count.

_timeCount - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DyingDragonSprite

The time count.

_timeCount - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.EagleSprite

The time count.

_timeCount - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.HeroSprite

The time count.

_unit - Variable in class logic.UnitEventEntry

The unit.

_unit - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DragonSprite

The unit.

_unit - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.DyingDragonSprite

The unit.

_unit - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.EagleSprite

The unit.

_unit - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.HeroSprite

The unit.

_unit - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.SwordSprite

The unit.

_unitComparator - Static variable in class logic.UnitEventEntry

The Constant _unitComparator.

_unitSprites - Variable in class ui.gui.graphical.game.Game

The unit sprites.

_val - Variable in enum utils.Key

The character.

_value - Variable in class model.Cell

The value.

_visited - Variable in class model.Cell

Was visited

_wayPath - Variable in class logic.Eagle

The path eagle followed when flying to sword

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The Airframe, Engine 1 & Engine 2 Tabs store the standard component requirements at Model/Type level.
To add a new component to the Airframe, Engine 1 or Engine 2 Tabs simply select [+] Add icon.
A drop down screen will display.
In the Part No field start typing the part number. Part numbers are case sensitive so be sure to use UPPER CASE or lower case.
A list of part number options will display below the field - select the correct part number from the list by clicking on it.
If the part number is not selected, a new part number will be created.
When the part number has been selected the Part Name field will automatically update.
Now add the Based on, Warning, Warning Unit & Limitation Notes. Then select Save.
A screen displaying all limitations for that particular part number on this Aircraft Configuration. If more limitations for the same part number are required select the + icon.
If there are no more limitations to be added select the x icon.
The Airframe, Engine 1 & Engine 2 Tabs will now display the component limitations.


Thanks to Filipe Oliveira for adding this peak.
A 1100m meter always up walk of 3h 30min.
In general it's easy to climb, just follow the signs. In winter may be a little snow.
Sorry, we don't currently have the latitude and longitude of Montanha Do Pico in our database. Therefore we can't show this peak on a map.
There are 3 trip reports for Montanha Do Pico.


I just completed a section on code generation in the Modern Perl book draft. Per an interesting coincidence, Moose and Class::MOP reached 1.0 on the same day.
What's the coincidence? The final subsection of Code Generation discusses the use of Class::MOP for metaprogramming.
... but you end up having to deal with all of those issues, plus the drawbacks of string eval (it's slower than regular declaration, you don't get syntax highlighting or other IDE tools, it may leak memory in some versions of Perl 5, quoting can be a pain, parameterization is an exercise in templating systems rather than OO design, and there's no introspection or mechanism to modify the code after you've run it through eval).
It's important to have the safety valve of string eval, at least so that experienced programmers can escape from the cozy confines of what the language itself has provided if they're doing brilliant things or if they're doing dirty things and have made the sufficient determination that the risk of getting caught for cheating is worth the value of getting things done quickly.
Yet Class::MOP for all of its perceived metacircular brain-twisting confusion (and there's really only one secret to learn to untwist all of that perceived complexity, unless you want to implement or bootstrap the system) gives you all of that power and more, and all of the missing correctness, and all of the syntax highlighting, and all of the "Hey, this is just Perl I don't have to quote or worry about timing or anything wild!" if you learn that one little secret: you're only manipulating objects.
Yes, the perceived syntactic weight of creating a class with Class::MOP is higher than eval "package Foo; \@ISA = 'Bar';";, but you get introspection. You get interoperability. You get the benefit of a suite of thousands of tests and hundreds of real-world modules on the public CPAN alone ensuring that the system works. Just as Moose makes the right designs easy to choose, so too does using a formalized mechanism for metaprogramming make metaprogramming safer and easier.
@pozorvlak, the secret is "You're manipulating objects."
Those objects represent entities in your system in the same way that the ASTs you manipulate in a homoiconic language such as Lisp or the objects you manipulate in a Smalltalk image represent entities in the program.
Maybe this is the profound enlightenment that Lisp or Smalltalk programmers get, then take for granted.
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In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature'safterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and theRenaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.
J.A. Burrow is an Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.


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Letzten Montag auf der Berliner #PEGIDA-Demo, habe ich mich völlig daneben benommen. Statt Krawallbrause gab es Liebesbriefe.


« Radiation Chemistry Rules: What is Glass Transition Temperature?
Are you an organized traveler? Do you know how to pack your business pants to minimize creases? Or are you more likely to be throwing things in a bag at the last minute? And what in the world do these questions have to do with crosslinkable polymers?
At this point we've learned about polymers, and about crosslinking. But what is it about certain polymers that determines whether they crosslink or not? One factor is whether the polymer is amorphous or crystalline.
When a polymer is crystalline, its molecular chains are organized and oriented in a fixed direction. Amorphous polymers, though, are the exact opposite; their molecular chains are random and jumbled.
Crystalline polymers are hard and structured, like a diamond. Their molecular chains are locked against each other, which means they are more likely to break than they are to bend when placed under pressure. This tight configuration doesn't really lend itself well to crosslinking. On the other hand, the molecular chains of amorphous structures have more room to move around each other, which makes them more likely to crosslink.
If you're going on vacation and you pack your suitcase in a "crystalline" manner (which is typically how I pack), the contents are going to be folded, organized, and there is going to be a lot of space for things to shift around.
If, however, you prefer to pack in a more "amorphous" manner (no judgment…), you might be running late to get out the door to the airport and stop just long enough to throw a few essentials in a bag.
When these two suitcases arrive at their destination, the crystalline packing method will mean that most likely everything is still in its proper place. The amorphous packing method, however, means contents are likely to shift.
So, while I might personally favor the crystalline packing method, when it comes to crosslinking, amorphous is preferred!
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It's not every day that you can voyage to the crescent moon, but take your protein pills and put your helmet on because we're sending you to the Crescent Piston Stool, Major Tom. In the spirit of a classic space odyssey, the Crescent Piston Stool is a modern, adjustable stool that is unique and truly out of this world.
You can choose which upholstery you want for your journey into vast, beautiful world of modern stools and bar / counter seating. Fill your home or residential setting with Crescent Piston Stools to share your universal love for modern style and sophistication. When you adorn your bar or counter with the Crescent Piston Stool, the star will look very different every day.
Does this stool swivel? Thank you.
Yes, the Crescent Piston Stool does swivel.
The Seat Depth of the Crescent Piston Stool is 16.5".


This is a such an important question. It captures a central challenge of being highly sensitive. How "in" or "out" do I want to be? Where's the balance? Is there a balance to be had?! If I'm "in," do I know why I'm "in"? Is my "why" a healthy one?
I've been asking these questions my whole life, and I expect I'll be wrestling with them to my dying day. I can see it in my mind's eye: my 98-year-old-self wheeling her chair into a broom closet at the long-term care facility, trying to get some solitude, while simultaneously wondering if she is being too much of a hermit!
We need to support each other by sharing our experiences as we each try to figure this out.
In that spirit, I've pondered how I discern between "healthy" alone time and self-isolation. Here are three ways I can describe the difference.
When I'm alone in a self-isolating way, my emphasis is on pulling "away from other people." That's what I mean by externally referenced: my aloneness has a "not-with-them" feeling, and there's a negative feeling about "them." In this regard, self-isolation has a distinctly different felt sense for me than healthy alone time.
If I'm isolating myself, I get an image of everyone being on Earth, and me spinning on a one-way trip out to Pluto. There's a feeling of, "I'm way out here, and thank God I'm away from all that back there." My thoughts have a black and white quality.
When I take alone time from a thoughtful, centered place in myself, my feelings about the choice are more ambiguous, complex, and rich: "Ah, I'm sorry to be missing that concert, AND it feels really good to be home and be quiet this evening." I can hold both and I'm aware of the needs on both sides of the decision.
In my late twenties I discovered a revered teacher had lied to me about something of great importance to me. This betrayal hurt and stunned me so deeply that I pulled away from everything and everyone for several weeks. I say "I pulled away," but at the time it did not feel like a choice: it felt as if deep inside me there was someone with a big hook that pulled on my stomach from the inside, yanking me back and away from the risk of relating to other people.
This is an example of inner "hijack", when something in me takes over in an attempt to protect me. When the part is vigilant to this extreme—like a growling watch dog, hackles up—it's relatively easy to catch. The subtler version of hijack is a more serious danger for us as HSP's: we just stop doing certain things or going certain places without even realizing we've made the choice. To discern this subtler hijack, I keep an eye out for envy or jealousy or judgment of others as a possible marker for things I've unconsciously told myself I can't do.
Healthy solitude, by contrast, is my conscious choice from Loving Adult Presence: I notice I could use some alone time, then I arrange to get it. I'm not saying that is always easy to do…I have another whole article's worth of thoughts about how you can get downtime in a relationship! But whether it is hard or easy, the point is, I choose it.
For me, self-isolation is a compulsive pulling inwards by a part of me that takes over in an attempt to get away from something (or someone) in the "outside world" that feels too risky, while healthy solitude or downtime is a choice I make from Loving Adult Presence: I willingly turn inwards in service of the needs at hand while also making room for regret or ambivalence about the experiences I'm choosing to miss.
A final thought: there are "seasonal" reasons for wanting to be alone. A big spiritual shift, a loss with its attendant grief, a big transition, an unusually busy, stimulating period of life—any of these may cause you to want to be alone more than usual.
In the end, what matters is not the amount of solitude and downtime, but the intent with which you take it and whether you are comfortable with that intent.
I send you my best wishes for the holiday season!


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Penguins Agree to Terms with Defenseman Kris Letang on Eight-Year, $58 Million Contract Extension
by Theresa · July 2, 2013
The Pittsburgh Penguins have agreed to terms with defenseman Kris Letang on an eight-year, $58 million contract extension, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero.
The deal begins with the 2014-15 season and runs through the 2021-22 campaign, and has an average annual value of $7.25 million.
Letang, 26, is coming off his best season, finishing third in balloting for the Norris Trophy as the best defenseman in the NHL. Letang led all NHL blueliners in both points (t-38) and assists (33) while posting a plus-16 rating and in 35 regular-season games. His 1.09 point-per-game average led all defensemen.
The 6-foot, 201-pound defenseman established careers highs during the postseason with team-leading totals of 13 assists and 16 points in 15 contests. Letang's 16 points were tops among league defensemen, while his 13 assists were second in the entire NHL behind only Boston's David Krejci (17).
Letang, a native of Montreal, Quebec, was a key member of the Penguins' 2009 Stanley Cup championship squad, ranking second among team defenseman that spring with 13 points (4G-9A) in 23 games. His overtime game-winning goal in Game 3 against the Washington Capitals in the second round was a key moment in Pittsburgh overcoming a 2-0 series deficit.
A two-time NHL All-Star (2011 and '12), Letang has proven to be one of the highest-scoring blueliners in the NHL over the past three years. During that stretch he ranks first among NHL defensemen with 107 assists and fourth with 130 points in 168 regular-season games. His 0.77 point-per-game average places second behind only Ottawa's Erik Karlsson (0.79).
Originally drafted by the Penguins in the third round (62nd overall) of the 2005 NHL Draft, Letang has tallied 209 points (44G-165A) and a plus-42 rating in 385 career regular-season games. His best season came in 2010-11 when he established career highs in both points (50) and assists (42) while appearing in all 82 games.
Letang has added 47 points (13G-34A) in 80 career postseason games. His 13 goals and 47 points both rank second in franchise postseason history behind Larry Murphy.
Prior to joining the Penguins, Letang played three seasons with Val d'Or of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) from 2004-07. During his final season in 2006-07, Letang won the Emile "Butch" Bouchard Trophy as the league's top defenseman and the Kevin Lowe Trophy as its top defensive defenseman.
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"Come and join Bryce at the 78 every Monday at 8pm for his unorthodox version of a pub quiz. Expect loud mouthed rants, paper aeroplanes and a good old fashioned hangover! £50 cash to the glorious victors, a bottle of finest tonic wine from our friends the monks to those who can hold their nerve in the true or false round and some Williams brothers beers to the runners up. Free entry of course as this is the peoples quiz!


Teddy Roosevelt is the namesake for Teddy bears, and he was a great protector of wildlife. He founded the National Bison Range in the early 1900s, and the Bears & the Bison are abundant in 2014.
The smallest bears in North America are from the Black Bear family, and vary in color from black to brown to cinnamon, and come in all shapes and sizes. The average black bear weighs 300-400 pounds, and can run up to 30 mph. On the average a male bear is 4 years old before he breeds. The female bear is usually 5 years old before she has cubs.
Bear mamas develop a very strong bond with their cubs, and look after them incredibly well. The cubs stay with their mom any where from 1-2 years, and then they are out on their own. Mama bears are great protectors of their young!
Pictured here is a mama bear who ran across a field with her cubs. She scurried up a tree in the forest and the bigger cub, too. However, the little younger cub could not climb the tree, so Mama bear went back down the tree to take care of the little bear. Such a heart rendering sight!
Although bears are carnivores, only 1/4 of their diet is meat. They eat mostly plants, grubs, insects, and other vegetable matter including huckleberries. Every May after hibernation, bears come down from the upper mountains looking for easy food. They start by getting into bird feeders, and so it is time to take down the bird feeders when this happens. They also go "swimming" in the pond in the front yard of Bear Spirit Lodge B&B, named for the many bears observed here on the land.
Bears have a larger territorial region. They are solitary animals, and are quite active early in the morning, the evening and at night. Although it is called hibernation, black bears do not go into deep hibernation in the winter, but are dormant.
At the nearby National Bison Range, bear sightings are common & fun to watch!
Come go on a Photo Safari with Great Bear!


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Q: inner group automorphism vs. group automorphism Is there a fundamental difference of inner automorphisms and other automorphims of a group $G$ (I'm not asking for definitions)? I don't know how to formulate my question better... Maybe it's not clear what I'm asking for.

A: Inner automorphisms are automorphisms of a particular form: an automorphism $i: G\rightarrow G$ is an inner automorphism iff for some $g\in G$, $i(x)=gxg^{-1}$ for all $x\in G$.
Not every automorphism is inner. Note that if $G$ is abelian, then $gxg^{-1}=x$ for all $x, g\in G$, so the only inner automorphism of $G$ is the identity. So any nontrivial automorphism of an abelian group is not inner. In particular, the automorphism $$x\mapsto-x$$ of the group $(\mathbb{Z}, +)$ is not inner.

Here's a neat observation. Each inner automorphism comes from an element of the group (namely, the element $g$ in the definition). Put another way, every $g\in G$ yields an inner automorphism $\alpha_g$ given by $\alpha_g(x)=gxg^{-1}$.
Now note that $\alpha_g(\alpha_h(x))=ghxh^{-1}g^{-1}=(gh)x(gh)^{-1}=\alpha_{gh}(x)$. This tells us two things:

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*The inner automorphisms of $G$ form a group $Inn(G)$ under composition, just like the automorphisms in general (technically we need to check associativity and the existence of inverses and the identity, but that's trivial).

*There is a surjective homomorphism from $G$ to $Inn(G)$, given by $g\mapsto \alpha_g$. In particular, $\vert Inn(G)\vert\le\vert G\vert$. By contrast, the whole automorphism group can be much larger than the original group.

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Rayman Legends will launch across Europe on 1st March 2013, Ubisoft have confirmed.
It had previously been expected to release alongside the Wii U, yet had been pushed back into 2013.
That isn't the only news that Wii U owners can look forward to, with a demo to be made available through the Nintendo eShop on December 13th.
Rayman Legends will launch across Europe as a Wii U exclusive on 1st March 2013.


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Punjab National Bank Scam Is an Opportunity to Reform India's Public Sector Banks
Sandeep Gopalan
State-owned companies
The Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam – India's largest banking scandal – is as impeccably swadeshi (literally "of one's own country", indigenous) as that bank's origins. It highlights in crass terms the divide between Bharat (the ancient name for the subcontinent) and India (a modern derivation from the river Sindhu) – old versus modern and aspiring to be global.
PNB was founded in 1894, in the cauldron of India's freedom struggle, with the idea that Indians deserved to have their own bank rather than entrusting their capital to the British. One of the freedom struggle's most famous sons, Lala Lajpat Rai, was instrumental in its founding, and was reportedly its first account holder. The inaugural board was comprised of a Bengali, Sikhs, a Parsi, and Punjabis – remarkably plural and modern for that time. PNB had financial dealings with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, among others in its early years.
From those hallowed origins, having survived many an economic crisis over its history and become one of the country's largest lenders, PNB is now at the centre of a $1.77 billion scam. As with many recent scams in India, celebrity and Bollywood connections are part of the package. The perpetrator is Nirav Modi (no relative of the Prime Minister), a billionaire celebrity diamond merchant and jeweler, ranked in the top 60 Indian billionaires by Forbes. He is rumoured to have close ties to Bollywood actresses and has been a poster-child of India's nouveau riche.
At the heart of the scam are fraudulent Letters of Undertaking (guarantees) issued by two employees of PNB. Pursuant to the LOUs, and relying upon them, overseas branches of Indian banks advanced funds to Modi and associates to the tune of about $1.8 billion. The LOUs were fraudulently created without following rules, and the scam apparently went on from 2008 to 2017. Whilst some PNB staff have been arrested, Modi is currently absconding from Indian law enforcement. Clearly, from the duration and the extent of the fraud, it would have taken more than a few rogue employees to orchestrate it, and the bank's senior management was likely complicit in enabling the scam.
The evidence uncovered thus far conclusively proves that this is very much a swadeshi scam. It has every attribute of Indian financial scandals of the past (Satyam, Kingfisher, et al) – a high profile businessman with celebrity, family, and political connections, crooked cronies in financial institutions facilitating fraud from within, sham transactions without any substance, rudimentary cooking of the books, weak oversight, ineffective internal controls and poor corporate governance. To make matters worse, the regulator, the Reserve Bank of India, was asleep at the wheel. Indeed, one of the primary reasons for the scam to have survived was the very swadeshi internal controls and corporate governance – the SWIFT system by which the LOUs were transacted were not integrated with the Core Banking System (which is PNB's centralized database), meaning that they went under the radar and were not detected. The non-integration betrays PNB and the RBI's cavalier approach to internal controls.
The scam should immediately put a halt to the Modi government's plan to put more money into public sector banks. Earlier this year, the government announced a plan to inject $12 billion by March 2018 into public sector banks to help them to deal with a long history of bad debts and to promote access to credit. This is a terrible idea at present – it is merely throwing good money after bad, and should await substantial reforms as a precondition. Recapitalization at public expense exacerbates moral hazard and creates no incentives for the banks to govern themselves better. It repeats the mistakes of the past and provides oxygen for the next cycle of scams.
The PNB scam should serve as the impetus for immediate reform of India's outdated model of banking. For too long, these public sector white elephants have been playing fast and loose with public money and enabling crony capitalism under the spurious claim that they exist for the public good. Non-performing assets (NPAs) at Indian public sector banks are in excess of $135 billion this year. Too many of these banks seek to serve mutually exclusive masters – faux welfarism (e.g., spurious loans to small farmers to appease their political benefactors etc., under the guise of providing banking to the poor) versus commercial profit. Due to this contradictory mandate, they have been utilized as wealth transfer mechanisms – from the average citizen to privileged constituencies – by a succession of political actors.
The scam is an opportunity to apply the harsh reality of the market to the mass of public sectors banks. The new insolvency climate engendered by the modernized Bankruptcy Code should be extended and applied so that bad debts are brought home to the banks, and many of them ought to be liquidated. Those that survive must be privatized. This is likely to be unpopular with the bank employee unions and many politicians, but India cannot afford to keep pouring money into insolvent banks.
The time for swadeshi banking has passed. With the massive penetration of mobile phones and e-payments, there is little need for these public sector banks as technology is leveling the problem of access in rural areas. If India's aspirations for becoming a global player in the business world are to be realized, its banking system must make the leap to more robust corporate governance and better internal controls.
Sandeep Gopalan is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Innovation at Deakin University and a guest contributor to the Oxford Business Law Blog.
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