The author of Liar's Poker talks to himself about how to make the Occupy Wall Street movement better. His strategy: boycott the banks!
It's been seven months since protesters gathered at Zuccotti Park in New York, introducing the slogan "We are the 99 Percent." This week, editor Janet Byrne has gathered some of the best writings on the movement into The Occupy Handbook, featuring essays by authors like Chris Hedges, Paul Krugman, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jeffrey Sachs, and Nouriel Roubini. In this excerpt, Michael Lewis has a back-and-forth with Michael Lewis.
What was your first reaction to the Occupy movement?
Some blend of glee and relief. Glee because, by both temperament and occupation, I have a rooting interest in socially disruptive behavior. Relief because I had begun to think such protests might never happen. Given the provocation—intense and effective political pressure from Wall Street to codify two sets of economic rules, one for people who work at giant Wall Street firms, the other for people who don't—I was surprised it has taken as long as it has for people to hit the streets. The chief cause of the financial crisis was what the government didn't do (regulate) rather than what it did (subsidize homeownership), and so it seemed strange to me that, until now, the most potent political reaction to the financial crisis has been an antigovernment backlash. It was as if, after some infectious disease killed a million people, the only political reaction was a popular uprising to prevent the manufacture of antibiotics.
Have your feelings about the movement changed?Yes.How?
I think it is a bigger deal than I did when it first started. It's true in many cities that the campsites are being broken up, and the protesters dispersed. But it's pretty clear that they hit a nerve. People didn't like them living on their streets, but they liked what they stood for.
What evidence do you have to support any sweeping statement about American public opinion?
Did you see Obama's Kansas speech? [On December 6, 2011, President Barack Obama gave a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, the city in which, on August 31, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave his "New Nationalism" address.] Clearly the White House strategy people have decided to fight the next presidential election on the issues that preoccupy the Occupy movement: radical economic inequality and the grotesque distortions in our politics that it causes. Plus various polls all showed that the American people more or less supported the movement—to the extent that many of the 1 percenters simply assumed they were 99 percenters.
Do you really think that could work?Yes. I think we could create a run on a bank.If you are so sure that the movement is both important and just, why did you not yourself join them?The one tent I own is too big. It would have stood out.Any other reason?I have small children.What does that have to do with anything?It's the excuse I use to get out of doing anything I don't really want to do. People seem to accept it.
You are evading the real question. You have written not one but two books about the financial crisis, in which you point out the evils of the current financial system. Since the Occupy movement began, your only contribution has been to write two short satirical pieces in which you designed a strategy for the 1 percenters to keep their money and continue to recruit Ivy League students. Why do writers think it's okay to be all talk and no action?
Okay, I'll tell you what happened. Twice I wandered around Occupy camps—in Washington and in San Francisco. There was one giddy moment when I thought I should get up and give a rousing speech about the evils of credit default swaps. After that, I just felt absurd. I was of no use.


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MEXICO - The National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Mario Aguilar Sanchez, has said that from February 10 to Sunday March 27, about 300,000 tons of fishery and aquaculture products will be marketed.
The available species will have high nutritional value and be at affordable prices. Species such as tuna, sardines, squid, trout, tilapia, lebrancha and sea bass, as well as shellfish, will be sold.
Mr Sánchez confirmed that the supply of seafood is guaranteed for the whole country during the period of Lent and Easter 2016, when the demand for seafood rises.
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Francis Sweet was born in Watertown, New York, in 1938. Demonstrating an exceptional artistic talent in his early years, he began his self initiated training in art while still going to grade school. He began his efforts in oil, and he still remains partial to that medium today. He has, however, perfected the unforgiving art of scratchboard to the level of recognition, by his peers, as the best in the field today.
Painting in his free time, Fran developed his technical skill and artistic vision with countless hours of intensive study in the classic disciplines of stilllife, portraiture and landscape. A devotion to his work has yielded a refinement of media mastery that is a trademark seen in his oils and scratchboards of wildlife today.
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In 1986, with the urging of his art collectors and friends, Fran decided that a wildlife art career would be the course he would take, and he retired from business and distribution management. Following this decision, he "arrived" on the wildlife art scene by winning the 1987 MARYLAND DUCK STAMP COMPETITION (recording the first perfect score in the 14 year history of the contest). He has since gone on to win the 1990 IDAHO, 1990 DELAWARE, 1994 VIRGINIA, 1995 WEST VIRGINIA, 1995 NORTH CAROLINA HUNTING & LICENSING STAMP, and the 1996-97 FIRST BLACK BEAR STAMP for MARYLAND. Fran has just been commissioned to do the FIRST NATIONAL DOVES UNLIMITED STAMP for the United States Doves Unlimited organization.
second (" Almost There" - Emperor Penguins) in the Artists Magazine's 2006 animal catagory out of thousands of entries, and in 2005 he placed third ("Say Ahhh..." - Hippo) in the animal catagory in the same magazine, also out of thousands of entries. In the coming December 2006 issue of Artist's magazine, the image of his piece " Almost There" [ Emperor Penguins ] will be published along with a paragraph about the art. In addition Mr. Sweet has been the featured artist at many wildlife art exhibitions around the country, and his work has been auctioned at the famous CHRISTIES AUCTION HOUSE in LONDON. His work has been used for designs in the garment industry, and his art has helped grace the covers and texts of wildlife art books and conservation publications.
Images of Fran's paintings and scratchboards have been reproduced in over fifty periodicals nationally and in sixteen touring catalog exhibitions in more than forty museums and wildlife venues in the United States.
A major article was written in WILDLIFE ART NEWS in 1993, and the country of Zimbabwe invited him over as their guest to produce a piece of art for that country's collection in 2000.
Fran became a member of the Society of Animal Artists in 1990, was elected to the board of directors in 1998, and became president on January 3rd, 2001.
"When I paint, my goal is to create something that will excite me. The natural world and its wildlife is a source of ideas and subjects which continually motivates me to create. When others get the same enjoyment from my work that I get from creating it, I've accomplished my goal."


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Maybe I'm sappy, but I love Christmas and the festive atmosphere surrounding it.
If you do too, and like for things to come together the way you hope they will, be grateful for voluntary individual actions. Part of the magic of Christmas is its voluntary nature and its decentralization.
The things which go into a big celebration can be overwhelming. Yet, somehow, it all comes together- or at least most of it does- because everyone is responsible for their part of the big picture. Everyone has their traditions and preferences, and there is no one person responsible for making sure each individual gets to do what they enjoy- each of us does our own thing with those who choose to join us. Those who would rather not celebrate, or like to celebrate in their own way, are not forced to join in. The unexpected crops up but on the whole it works, even if one person drops the ball.
Do you believe it would go as well if government took over the observance of Christmas? Ignore for a moment the First Amendment- just as government usually does anyway. Imagine the Federal Department of Christmas, and how it would run things if other government programs are any example of what to expect.
First of all, if government controlled it, Christmas would be mandatory. You'd pay for the celebration, public and private, at inflated prices, whether you wanted to participate or not. Gifts would be assigned according to what some bureaucrat has calculated everyone should want, and depending on whose favors and campaign contributions are due to be repaid. No real choice would be given in the matter, beyond a patronizing "choose between option 'A' and option 'B'". Other winter solstice holidays would be tolerated, but observing one of those wouldn't excuse you from supporting Christmas, with your allegiance and your tax dollars. You could be paying twice to have the celebration you wanted.
Imagine the red tape at having something as large and complicated as Christmas centrally planned. You'd have bureaucrats responsible for millions of families each, making sure all the proper forms had been filled out. Multiple times. Santa Claus would be a bureaucrat with all the good humor of any other overwhelmed government employee. Do you really think that would be better?
But, maybe you think a politicized Christmas would be great. Maybe you believe everyone should celebrate Christmas your way, and don't mind having it imposed just as I describe. Now, substitute some other culture's holiday for Christmas and see how you like that.
Be happy you can celebrate Christmas- or not- as you choose, keeping familial peace with voluntary compromise and cooperation.


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When I browse the list of tags page by page, the tag on-topic-definition is shown. (At the moment it is on page 26, when ordered by name.)

Maybe it has something with the form of this tag and with the fact that it is a synonym.
When I tried to search for the tag (on-topic) on meta.unix.SE it worked fine. (That tag is not a synonym of another tag on that meta.)
On the other hand, when I tried this with the tag (on-topic) on meta.math.SE, the tag was not shown. But the tag named on-topic exists that meta and it is synonym of (allowed-questions).
Another interesting thing is that when I start typing a new question on meta.math.SE and I start typing "on-topic" into the tag field, no tags suggestions are shown until I write the whole phrase on-topic. (Usually most popular tags containing the part I have already typed are shown.)

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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis fears that an EU bailout extension may not cover the cost of his dream to study Media at university. Although his country's debt is running at 175% of GDP, a spokesman for Mr Varoufakis said he is also keen to fund three years of film watching, the opportunity to swim in a fountain and to put 'a traffic cone on local statue'.
The key advantage of transforming the borrowed €240bn into a student maintenance loan, is that Greece will not need to repay anything until they earn over £21,000 a year; and by Mr Varoufakis' own admission - 'that's never going to happen'. The other benefit is to allow Mr Varoufakis to return to academia and fulfil is ambition to stage a production of 'HMS Pinafore' for the Drama Society.
A spokesman for Mr Varoufakis made it clear that he had no plans to squander the loan on a frivolous Gap Year, but would use the money wisely to go 'crazy-nuts during Fresher's Week'. He also reminded the press that going down the student route should make Greece: 'eligible for all manner of online discounts, 2 for 1 pints at the Student Union and help them to live on a diet of just baked beans'.
Nice one, like it! Some stars from me. You might also consider adding that he has made a request to Germany/France that he drops off his dirty washing at weekends.


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ISIS/ISIL Butchers Owe Sen. McCain A Debt:He Backed Brotherhood's Rebel "Moderate" Takeover! Commentary By Adina Kutnicki
Posted on August 4, 2014 by Adina Kutnicki
Sen. McCain (among others within Obama Inc.) championed the ISIS, the so-called "rebels" ! Butchers gave him a thumbs up…Way to go, Johnny boy.
AS is said, a picture is worth a thousand words and the following is priceless. Infamous.
So here's a heck of a thing: Back in May 2013, Forever Warmonger John McCain was really excited about the prospects of arming the Syrian "moderates" who were fighting to free that country from the iron grip of Bashar al-Assad. He even sneaked into the country to meet with the head of the Free Syrian Army, Gen. Salim Idris, the fellow in the striped shirt there (Idris was ousted in February of this year).
Only one small problem with the little photo-op: In addition to Idris, some of the other guys in the pic are apparently members of a slightly less "moderate" group: ISIS, the guys who are currently bringing down Iraq, and the photo is reportedly being circulated by ISIS as proof of their legitimacy. Oops.
BUT before McCain's (current) treachery becomes understandable we need to back track, in order to understand the part he (and others) played via his relentless championing of the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia. ISIS butchers are part and parcel thereof. An outgrowth. Who could have predicted? This site did.
CONSEQUENTIALLY, BLOWBACK manifests in many directions, and when it comes to the ISIS being trained by American contractors within Jordan, well, it doesn't get any more ominous.
IN the main, Jordan is now in the cross hairs of ISIS terrorists. Not only because the kingdom is considered to be a regional infidel, but because by overtaking Jordan, well, attacking Israel will be that much easier! It's all a matter of squaring their encirclement. Nevertheless, it never dawned on Jordan's King to say NO to Barack HUSSEIN Obama's request to train the "rebels". Similarly, PM Netanyahu's inability to say NO to the Islamist-in-Chief is beyond the pale. Oh, what a tangled web….via spineless leaders who are wedded to ill-fated "strategic" masters.
YET, for Americans, the danger lies within Al-Qaeda ISIS terror groups having the ability to control the Mid East from one end point to the other, with the freedom to plot the next 9/11/01 (on an exponentially greater level) unimpeded! Can you imagine? Not only that, unlike in Afghanistan, they will control the heart of petrol assets, with that much more booty to finance their western jihad!
Think of it this way: when 9/11/01 was perpetrated, Osama Bin Laden controlled a piker's pittance, compared to those trained in Jordan via Obama Inc.!
ALAS, McCain, as milquetoast as he may seem, is someone who bears special onus as an elder "statesman". Incredibly, he is still given a pass due to his long ago POW status. What a crock. In other words, he continually backs the Islamic horse, whose blow back onto America (and the west) is incalculable, yet is never held to account. Way past time to unmask him.
Take, for instance, his shrill support for Huma Abedin, the most dangerous Muslim Brotherhood/Sisterhood operative in America. No kidding.
Enter McCain, as he (and others) shields her from exposure!
The ongoing national drama relating to Hillary Clinton's close aide, Huma Abedin, can be traced back to several of this blogger's commentaries, starting with 'Six Degrees of Separation' – https://adinakutnicki.com/2012/06/25/six-degrees-of-separation-48-2/, then onto 'Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison Taunts Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann…' – https://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/16/update-muslim-congressman-keith-ellison-taunts-congresswoman-michele-bachmann-not-a-smart-move-addendum-to-the-redgreen-alliance-the-ties-that-bind-hillary-clinton-huma-abedin-56-2/. The above background is supportive material to garner a fuller picture.
In this regard, Senator John McCain – like a knight in shining armor out to rescue Huma's virtue – has jumped into the fray, with both barrels blazing. With a puffed up chest, and moral indignation, he upbraids Congresswoman Bachmann on the Senate floor (and with every microphone he can find), as if she were the one with 'alleged' ties to the Muslim Brotherhood/Sisterhood ! What utter gall. Not nice, not nice at all.
IN line with said "miscalculations", McCain's backing of ISIS – as the preferred Islamic "rebels" – tilts full circle, but only once Huma's (and Hill's) nexus to Benghazigate is revealed.
But what is precisely the "news" in relation to Obama Inc's Benghazigate trail, tracking back to Huma Abedin, Hill's COS? In the main, by linking the "smoking gun" email to Mehdi Alhassani, a mobbed up Muslim Brotherhood front-man, straight to his nexus at the Muslim World League, an al-Qaeda front with footprints to Huma Abedin and her entire family, well, it couldn't get any clearer. Confused? Don't be. Therein belies this site's mission…
SO even after Rep Bachmann exposed the Brotherhood Mafia's inexorable linkage to Obama Inc. – and the attendant national dangers – McCain never budged in his support of said fronts. In fact, he dug his heels in even further!
REGARDLESS of anything else, most freedom seeking people will agree: yes, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator. Not only that, he had a huge stash of WMD's – despite all the braying to the contrary – which eventually needed to be dealt with. Those who state otherwise are either lying or wholly ignorant.
About Paul "Dave" Gaubatz
Aside from co-authoring the magna carté of books on the Muslim underworld, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America, Dave Gaubatz is a U.S. State Department-trained Arabic linguist and a retired Federal Agent with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). With over three decades of combined Air Force (AF) experience, his career has led him on missions spanning the Middle East — from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Kuwait to Iraq. As a Special Federal Agent, he has received the highest forms of U.S. security clearances for top-secret intelligence information — including for weapons of mass destruction and espionage — and has been briefed into many "black projects."
Among his varied achievements, Gaubatz has investigated felony crimes against the U.S. Air Force and government, as well as has been assigned to counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations. He was the very first Special Civilian Agent deployed to Nasiriyah, Iraq, in 2003 for Operation Liberation Iraq. Using his Arabic training to travel throughout, he gathered vital intelligence on espionage and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Although he was able to uncover sites, the U.S. failed to excavate them, and the weapons were later taken by groups of insurgents.
During this stint in Iraq, Gaubatz was also assigned to rescue the family of Mohammed Odeh Al-Rehaief, the Iraqi lawyer who aided in rescuing Pfc. Jessica Lynch. He has earned numerous Federal awards for identifying WMD sites and Islamic terrorists planning attacks against the U.S. and its troops…..
ISIS Praises John McCain For helping Them Invade Iraq
The Muslim terrorist group, ISIS, issued a statement attributing their success to the Iraq war, and they had John McCain to thank for it. In the statement they wrote:
…the crusader John McCain came to the Senate floor to rant irritably about the victories the Islamic State was achieving in Iraq. He forgot that he himself participated in the invasion of Iraq that led to the blessed events unfolding today by Allah's bounty and justice.
It is true, the war in Iraq that was started by Bush led to the enabling ISIS to commit the massacres and violence it is doing now. ISIS knows that Saddam would have not tolerated them, and would have without hesitated cut them to pieces, as his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar would have done.
Iraq does not need democracy, but a fierce dictatorship like Saddam. But thanks to John McCain and his ilk, we have devils like ISIS invading Iraq and butchering Christians, and the jihadists are thanking McCain for their victories and atrocities.
All I can say is, I miss Saddam.
NEVERTHELESS, this is not the time to point out that charging into Iraq – with a knock-on goal to "democratize" it – was a huge blunder, one which is reverberating for 11 years…and counting. Surely, as a first order of national reckoning, Iran, as always, should have been the Number One target, not to mention Saudi Arabia. Ominously, these two terror nations have been left unmolested, and even strengthened under the reign of Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
BUT the elimination of strong-arm dictator Saddam Hussein was then (under Bush's watch), and McCain's (Obama Inc.'s) handiwork is now. Yes, when all is said and done there will be many patriotic scores to settle.
MOST intrinsically, if not for the dastardly machinations of Obama Inc. and the likes of RINO leadership, suffice to say:
NOW that that is settled, our western fight must be viewed as one to eliminate Shariah law, the poisonous root of all the carnage. Its mandates. So it is certainly not a shock that ISIS/ISIL, Boko Haram (or whatever hydra thereof) mandates the purging of Christians, Jews and all apostates…..
SIGNIFICANTLY, hearings took place at the end of July, re the rise of ISIS and its implications for U.S. foreign policy. In this regard, let's place bets: did the House touch upon McCain's (and others) championing of said "rebels"? Alternatively, did an Allah-wash take place?
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TaterSalad on August 4, 2014 at 5:25 pm said:
What would happen to all of the Palestinian people if every Jew in Israel left Israel and moved to another land and left the Palestinians to fend for themselves? I do believe that the Muslim Brotherhood would take complete control of this land and kill every Palestinian just like ISIS is doing region wide as we speak. The Palestinians are just pawns in this caliphate.
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Q: AWS Glue Crawler is not creating tables in schema I am trying AWS Glue crawler to create tables in athena.
The source that I am pulling it from is a Postgresql server. The crawler is able to parse the tables, create metadata and show the tables and columns in the Glue data catalog but the tables are not added in athena despite the fact that I have added the target database from athena.
Not sure why this is happening
Also, if I choose a csv source from s3 then it is able to create a table in athena with _csv as a suffix
Any help?

A: Athena doesn't recognize my Postgres tables added by Glue either. My guess is that Athena is used for querying data stored on S3, so it's not working for database queries.
Also, to be able to query your CSV files on S3, files need to be under a folder crawled by glue. If you just crawl a single file with Glue, Athena will return 0 records from the query.


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Top 10 Smallest Capital Cities in the World (2023)
You must have heard a lot about the capital cities of a country and how big and heavily populated it is, well not all capital cities are heavily populated. There are some capital cities in the world today that have a small number of people residing there and they even hardly get any tourist attractions. There are some capital cities in the world today that have about 400 people residing there now imagine the number of people that would be living in that country. Not all countries have populated capital cities so some have the smallest capital city in the world.
1. Ngerulmud, Palau
Ngerulmund is known as the smallest capital city in the world and it is located in Palau. This capital city has 391 residents living in it and it is designed historically to capture the culture of the country. There are three buildings for each governmental branch and a few coastal homes nearby, the capitol complex was designed with some neo-classical guidelines with heritage and gestures.
2. Vatican City, Vatican City
This is the smallest country in the world and it is known as the city of the pope and tourists. This country attracts over 10,000 visitors daily and the capital city has 826 people residing there. The Vatican City makes money through sources like tourists and donations and they do not collect taxes. They attract lots of pilgrims that are drawn to Catholicism to see what it is all about and see the Holy See as well.
3. Yaren, Nauru
This is known as the least visited country in the world so don't expect to see any tourists when you go visiting. The city has about 1,100 residents living there and they do not have so much for tourists or even so much to do. They have an amazing culture, the city comprises the parliament house, earth station, administration offices, police station, fire station, National Stadium, Australian High Commission and Taiwanese Embassy, International airport, air terminals and more.
4. Funafuti, Tuvalu
This country is very remote and there are s a lack of flights available in this country, this is one of the reasons you have e few dozen tourists yearly. The road in the city capital is small and it has an average elevation of less than 4m which makes it prone to climate change which can submerge the whole country under the Ocean. The city resembles more of a fishing village than a city capital, there is not much to do and the main source of income is exports and fishing. The capital city has a population of 4,492 residents.
5. San Marino, San Marino
This is the capital city of the oldest republic in the world and also home to the oldest constitution of any sovereign nation. San Marino is named after its country and this is what makes it very unique. This city has about 4,493 residents living in it. San Marino is surrounded by walls culminating with three towers and a spectacular panoramic vista of the surrounding area. San Marino is very unique and there are so many amazing things that you need to know about the country.
6. Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Vaduz is known as the capital city of Liechtenstein which a population of 5, 248 residents. Vaduz is known to have good architecture and a lively tourist industry. This is one of the capital cities in the world without an airport but with different means of transportation connected nearby, railway lines are available as well and the closest airport is located in Zurich at a distance of 120km.
7. Valleta, Malta
This city was established in 1500 and it has 6,444 residents in the capital city. This city is built and designed in a way with great architectural building and it is officially recognized as a world UNESCO site in 198d it is known as the city with the most monuments in the world. The city was named after Jean Parisot de Valette, who succeeded in defending the island from an Ottoman invasion during the Great Siege of Malta. It is sometimes called an open-air museum and the second world war did great damage to this beautiful city as well but even with that, the city remains so beautiful and one of the best places to be for tourist attractions.
8. George's, Grenada
This is a very popular tourist destination. A city that is surrounded by old craters of volcanoes and is located on a horseshoe-shaped harbour. The city has developed over the years and it has so much to offer to tourists and they have tried in preserving their culture, history and natural environment. It has a population of 7,500 residents.
9. Palikir, Federated States of Micronesia
This is a high volcanic island that is surrounded by a fringing coral reef. It is situated on the northwest side of Pohnpei island. The economy of the island consists basically of subsistence farming and fishing, (fish processing and aquaculture). The country is independent but it still depends on financial support from other sources. It has a population of 9,900.
10. Basseterre, Saint Kits and Nevis
This is one of the smallest capital cities in the world with a population of 13,048. This is a very beautiful city and country to visit and will give you an experience never before. Basseterre has established itself as a financial centre in the Eastern Caribbean. It is home to the headquarters of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, as well as the Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange, which lists securities for companies and corporations in the region. The city is also the headquarters for the St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank, the largest bank in the Eastern Caribbean, in terms of assets.
We have given full information about the smallest capital city in the world. Not all cities are populated, some cities are calm and quiet and you can even feel the wind in your ears. You can pay a visit to any of these capital cities and see for yourself.
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Celebrating 70 Years of Parron Hall
Parron Hall's history has roots back to 1947, and this week the company celebrated it's 70th Anniversary on August 6th. While the Herr family has been in the industry for four generations, Jim Herr joined the company in 1978 and in 1988 assumed control from his father, becoming the second generation in ownership of the company. Under Jim Herr's leadership, Parron Hall has grown from $6 million in annual sales to sales between $30 and $40 million in recent years.
Parron Hall was originally on 7th Avenue and moved to the corner of 2nd and "C", now the current home of the Civic Center. From there, Parron Hall was located at 820 West Ash Street (pictured) for 58 years, also known as the A-1 Globe Flour Mill, and was a well-established and distinguished presence in the downtown area. The building was extensively renovated, preserving the historical architecture and has since been designated as San Diego's 257th Historic Site.
In 2005, Parron Hall relocated to 7700 Ronson Road in Kearny Mesa. The central location and the new facility better positioned the dealership to serve the growth of San Diego County and its surrounding communities.
A move down the street to 9655 Granite Ridge Drive in 2015 enables Parron Hall to continue to serve our community with an updated showroom that implements state of the art technology and the latest design developments in workplace solutions.
After nearly 70 years of being in business, Parron Hall continues to grow and thrive and is recognized as one of San Diego's largest privately owned companies by the San Diego Business Journal. Furthermore, Parron Hall is one of Knoll and DIRTT's premier dealerships in the country.
Parron Hall's continued growth is the result of listening to their customers and responding to their ever-changing needs, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. They are grounded in these qualities which keep them growing, forward thinking and always prepared to provide solutions quickly.
Staying nimble and "out of the box" fuels Parron Hall's ability to serve their customers and focus on innovation – we think the next 70 years of enhancing work environments will be even more exciting than the last!
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Born on October 28, 1955 as William Henry Gates, known as Bill Gates today became one of the moms influential people of the 20th century. Beginning with a shaky career, he became one of the most successful and richest businessmen in the history of the world. He received numerous awards for his philanthropic work. He gained the reputation of a ruthless competitor.
As the CEO of Microsoft, he retired after some time and devoted himself completely to his philanthropic work and started out by making a $28 billion contribution to set up a foundation to form the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
Bill Gates had a vision where he wanted to go and now it seems impossible to imagine Microsoft without Gates at the controls. His unbelievable journey taught him many life lessons which are a complete guideline for today's entrepreneurs to follow.
When Gates was in eighth grade, he attended a private middle school in Seattle in 1968. By getting involved in the school's computer club at the age of 13, he with a handful of other students learn to program he and his friends spent hours in learning and here where his journey begin for a bigger success. In the 1960s, computer were not very common in schools and it one-in-a-million chance to be able to gets hands on one. Microsoft would never have existed if Bill gates had not discovered his love for computer programming because of his school.
It is not just about being lucky; Bill Gates made the most of his luck. He spent limitless hours on learning how to do computer programming. He dedicated himself to computer for mastering the art. He was smart enough to realize his love for computers and carried on. Every one of us has unique qualities but we remain ignorant of them all out lives.
Bill Gates always believed in pushing himself a bit more then he thought he was capable of. This helped him to more forward much faster and progress. According to the co-founder of Litton Industries Roy Ash, in a hope of quickly learning how to chew, an entrepreneur usually bites more than he could chew.
Bill always kept an eye for detail and ensured that Microsoft always provide quality software. Although, the company grew and hired more and more programmers but that didn't stop Gates from reviewing or rewriting every single line of code that the company released.
In the early 80's, nobody believed Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer for explaining how graphic interface was the future's operating systems. In 1984, the attitudes quickly changed with the launch of Apple's Macintosh, it was the first commercially successful computer with graphic user interface.
In 1990, Microsoft launched its Windows 3.0 and found a significant success with the graphical operating system. In just two years, the company sold over ten million units.
With his time at Microsoft, Bill gates took the time to write a memo as he realized the importance of his whole team to be on board with the company's mission. He had seen the advent of graphical interface in future and predicted the internet preeminence.
The most important point of marketing is to provide people with the solution of problem they cannot solve for themselves. People are not attracted to a product because it's got low price or a great logo; they make the purchase because they want to solve a problem with the product.
According to Bill Gates, success may cloud our vision and make us over-confident and unprepared for the future challenges. The strategies that have worked in the past should not be blindly trusted and a person should not ignore the patterns of initial success.
Unhappy customers can be a great source for a company to improve upon its products. Bill gates made tons of unhappy customers over the years and acquired an enormous amount of information which he wouldn't have learned otherwise.


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Nature printing is a process whereby a natural object is somehow used directly to create a print (HERE).
Below is a nature printed image of an Oak Fern (Polypodium Dryopteris) from a book by Thomas Moore (1821-1887) - The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland; Edited by John Lindley. Nature-printed by Henry Bradbury. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.
A digitised copy of the book is available HERE.
A great piece HERE on the Arion Press in San Francisco - a fine art letterpress printer and publisher.
In 1970 the Arion Press published an edition of Melville's Moby Dick:
To study the Arion Press edition of Moby-Dick today is to have an almost sacred experience of the power of physical print. Its ink is black, with wide margins and initial letters in a dark, aqueous blue. The paper is a faint blue-gray, like the surface of the ocean on a cloudy day. When the reader lifts a page to turn it, the watermark of a whale shimmers through. Because the letter w is particularly wide, Hoyem made the abutting spaces slightly narrower; every semicolon has a hairsbreadth gap before it, as if signaling the partial stop. The result is something that one would not think possible: a nearly perfect book.
an image from the book [HERE].
From next week the Royal Shakespeare Company are putting on Candide, a new play by Mark Ravenhill inspired by Voltaire's book of the same name.
Image: Royal Shakespeare Company
Cyril Stanley Smith (1903-1992) was a historian of science and quantitative metallurgist.
One of his classic books is Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art and History (1981, ISBN 0-262-19191-1, MIT Press).
The object stands at the very point where the structures and properties of matter resulting from forces between atoms are in visible interaction with man's ideas and purposes. An artists work preserves a record of both - one in the outer form and decoration, the other in the texture and color and fine contours that result from the interpley of atomic, molecular and crystalline forces.
Below is an image from one of his papers: Structure, Substructure, Superstructure published in the Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, pp 524–532 in 1964. The paper begins as follows:
Anyone who works with the microscope for an intellectual or practical purpose will frequently pause for a moment of sheer enjoyment of the patterns that he sees, for they have much in common with formal art.
CAPTION: Raft of tiny uniform soap bubbles showing 'grain boundaries' where zones of differing orientation meet.
Josef Albers (1888-1976) was, amongst other things, a colour theorist, observer and artist. He also designed album covers. Here is an exhibition of some of his best, four of which are below.
In an essay on them Joseph Masheck makes the following connection with the work of Cyril Stanley Smith:
Persuasive Percussion (1959; in this case not the Light Brigade but Terry Snyder and the All Stars) shows a tightly packed grid or lattice of small black disks from which a few wander up and out like stray molecules of some light gas; or better still, like the diagrams from a classic essay in which Cyril Stanley Smith would show how natural lattice structures are surprisingly tolerant of irregularities ("Structural Hierarchy in Science, Art, and History," 1974-75, 1978).
A beautiful dry stone wall from Glasdrumman in Ireland.
Image © Copyright Paul McIlroy
HERE are the illustrations that Jon McNaught did for On Nature, a collection of essays on getting the most out of the British countryside.
Image copyright Jon McNaught


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Angela Merkel's rival Horst Seehofer to quit as CSU party leader
Bavarian politician was under pressure after party's poor showing in regional elections
Josie Le Blond in Berlin
Mon 12 Nov 2018 08.41 EST Last modified on Mon 12 Nov 2018 19.45 EST
Horst Seehofer: 'I will resign from the post of party chairman of the CSU – this decision is definite.' Photograph: Matthias Rietschel/Reuters
Horst Seehofer, a longtime bitter rival of Angela Merkel, has confirmed he will step down as leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) in the latest high-profile resignation to shake German politics.
The move leaves both of Germany's traditional conservative camps simultaneously searching for new leadership. It comes a fortnight after Merkel heralded a new era in German politics when she said she would not seek re-election as the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Confirming days of speculation in the German media, Seehofer told a press conference on Monday: "I will resign from the post of party chairman of the CSU – this decision is definite." The right-leaning Bavarian politician said he was stepping aside to "enable the renewal of my party".
'Mutti Merkel has been our life, but the time is right for her to go'
Seehofer and Merkel had come under pressure following dismal results for the sister parties in regional elections last month. In Bavaria, the CSU had its worst showing in 60 years, followed by an almost equally disastrous result for Merkel's CDU in Hesse.
Seehofer, who has led the CSU since 2008, said the precise timing of his departure was still being discussed. Earlier reports citing sources present at a Sunday meeting of the party leadership suggested a new leader would be chosen in January. Seehofer reportedly also told colleagues he would stand down as interior minister next year.
But Seehofer denied this interpretation on Monday, saying he intended to stay on in cabinet. "The post of interior minister is in no way affected by this decision. I am interior minister and will continue as such," he said.
Seehofer has frequently clashed with Merkel over migration and has been a vocal opponent of her 2015 open-door policy, putting a severe strain on the seven decades-long partnership between the two parties. He nearly brought down the fractious coalition government this summer with demands for tighter immigration and border controls.
The stance, however, failed to win back voters from the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, and his constant bickering with Merkel was widely blamed for the CSU's poor performance in Bavaria. Seehofer resisted calls for his resignation in the immediate aftermath of the poll, possibly waiting to see how Merkel would react.
Seehofer's move mirrors Merkel's decision to step down as party leader but stay on as chancellor, a post she has held since 2005, until elections scheduled in 2021. It is unclear whether either of Germany's conservative heavyweights will be able to cling on until then.
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the church hill residence is located on the high side of a 10-acre site in western Pennsylvania. it overlooks a valley of sorts and a farm across to another hill.
the residence was designed with an active and growing family in mind. the children were small when the design process first started so they wanted to the house to be able to be effective as the children age. the family regularly has extended family come to stay as well, so they needed a home that could be comfortable with a houseful of occupants.


A topic that is always actual for watch enthusiasts: watch photography! We published the "10 tips for better watch photography" early 2015 and would like to put it in the spot light again for those who have missed it or forgot about it.
Watch photography is not easy, but with these 10 tips from top (watch) photographer Bert Buijsrogge (who did and still does numerous shoots and campaigns for watch brands during the last couple of years) you should have a flying start. It also will show you that you don't always need to have the most expensive gear and accessories, but that success is heavily depending on your own creativity.
Once you're done reading and learning from Bert's tips, make sure to visit his company website as well, where you can see and read more about his (versatile) work. If you have any questions for him, leave them in the comments below the article.
Always use a tripod to prevent camera shake. The closer you are to any subject you are trying to photograph, the more visible this shake will be. Each minimum movement is disastrous for the sharpness of your photo. As not all tripods are equally solid, sometimes even the mirror flipping up can already cause so much vibration that it is almost impossible to take a sharp photo. In this case it is advisable to use the 'mup function' (mirror lock-up) of the camera. With this function turned on the mirror will first flip-up and the camera will take a photo after some delay (or at a second push of the button) thus preventing vibrations of the mirror to effect your photo. Furthermore, make sure that all buttons, knobs and clamps are tight, and preferably photograph with a remote control or the built-in timer. If your center column has a hook, add some extra weight for some extra stability.
Try to clean the watch (very!) thoroughly just before you start with your photo shoot. Use a dry lint-free cloth or microfiber cloth. Small edges in the case and hard to reach places are easy to clean with cotton swabs with a little acetone or rubbing alcohol on it. You can buy these at the local drug store for a few dollars. Do make sure that you do not use it on a leather strap! Leather may discolour or damage from contact with these liquids. The narrow space between the case and the strap can be easily cleaned with a paintbrush. Experience learned that it's almost impossible to get a watch 100 percent clean and dust free, no matter how thoroughly you try to clean it. Residual dust and/or dirt that is still visible, can always be digitally removed. Although this can be a time-consuming task if not cleaned properly. Prevention is better than cure.
Now it's time to combine the watch and accessories into a composition. To create a frame filling and attractive layout, it is important to look closely at the use of the accessories and the way the watch is placed in or onto them. This really is a matter of trying. Sometimes your composition is spot on right away, most of the time it takes a you at least half an hour. As with the position of the hands you also have a few guidelines here. A closed strap looks the best when it seems as if it is worn around the wrist. This will simulate how a watch actually wears. A leather strap forms more or less naturally in this position. A metal bracelet usually needs some help, especially if it is made with small links. A C-clip from a watch stand is a perfect help. The big advantage over the plastic version is that you can easily adjust the size. When shooting with an opened leather strap is recommended not to rise the strap over the case. So lay down flat, or better yet, fold the strap slightly backwards on both sides. To do this, you simply put something underneath the case so that the ends of the strap can be positioned lower, or you place the watch on its side and fold the ends of the strap slightly back. Most of the metal bracelets have a folding clasp. These can be shaped a bit by hand (and some patience) quite easily with a partially or fully opened clasp. Position the watch in such a way that the text on the dial still (easy) is readable. The guideline is that the text can be rotated up to 90 degrees. In a further rotation, the text will be upside down. Which makes it unnaturally to read in a normal way. On the case back there are often more words or lines of text engraved. In this case, you can either choose to the use the middle to keep as a center, thus make it reasonably easy to read it all. Or choose a composition that makes the watch or the most interesting parts stand out.
Set your camera to a low ISO value. Current cameras have increasingly good and high ISO settings. This sounds convenient, but for the sharpness of your pictures this is disastrous. This is where the tripod also helps. If you can stop the movement, the shutter speed not an issue as you are photographing a static set-up. You choose the aperture according to the depth of field that you want to create.
The next step is the use of artificial light. Depending on how many lights or flash lights you have at your disposal, you can make it as complicated as you want. However, using diffuse light is important. Think of one or more studio flash unit(s) with softbox or a light tent with lamp(s) or flash unit(s). Here you also use extra light reflective or absorbent material to add or omit light. To stay away from unwanted reflections in the watch glass you have to experiment with the position you use for your light source(s). My experience learned me that you have to experiment with the position of the lights to reach the best results. Personally, I started watch photography with a light tent and two cheap desk lamps from that well-known Swedish furniture store. At some point these were replaced by cheap manual camera flashes as I wanted more control over the light. Experimenting with different power settings and lighting set-ups you van vary endlessly. Although more complicated isn't necessarily better.
For events like Baselworld and SIHH I have developed our 'top-secret Baselbox' as we like to call it. Nothing more than just one single flash combined with some translucent sheets, it allows us to shoot a watch like this Girard-Perregaux Tri-Axial Tourbillon on the edge of a desk in under one minute.
When creating macro photos of watches you can use the same guidelines (apart from the accessories) to create a compelling photo. But now it is more important to have a good look at what you want to capture in a photo, or don't want to capture. If a particular detail on the edge of your photo only fits in for a fraction of the image, try to completely get out it of the picture – or more visible in the picture. Always make sure that the most important details you want to capture are completely visible. To be able to re-compose the photo afterwards, you shouldn't frame the photo too narrow. Zoom out or move the camera backwards for the extra margin. Because in macro photography you sometimes get so close to the object, you will find that there is less light available. So make use of an additional light source and/or one or more bounces to direct the available light to the desired location. Personally I like to work with a longer macro lens (100/105 mm) on a full-frame body. When you find that too expensive to experiment with you should consider a set of extension rings. These are available for most popular cameras and reasonably priced. The use of one or more intermediate rings ensures that the minimum focus distance of lens can be shortened. This way your standard lens can suddenly focus much closer that get your subject correspondingly larger.
Watch photography remains very time-consuming and requires a lot of practice and trying. Add it all up and you are easily working for an hour before you actually need your camera and can start searching for the correct light set-up. Don't be surprised if you've taken 50 photos or so before it starts to look just right. After this step the fine tuning begins where you actually do the same for small details in the photo. By high-lighting certain parts you slowly work your way to the end-result which you are going to optimize digitally. Over time you will notice that you run into limitations and want to go to the next level. That's when things like focus stacking (sharpness) and combining multiple photos into one come into play.


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Dave founded the Misfit Entrepreneur, a weekly podcast devoted to giving the audience incredibly useful and unique insight from the world's top entrepreneurs and highest performers with a focus on their non-traditional methods for achieving success, their Misfit side.
Dave is also an accomplished investor in real estate and stock investing. Through his 12 Minute Trading System, Dave has mentored and trained thousands of students worldwide. He has spoken extensively in front of a wide array of organizations from many of the Fortune 500 to top Universities and Trade Groups with an emphasis on teaching individuals the strategies to reach their true potential and deliver exponential results.
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Evan and his bride of 20 years and counting, remarry in a different state or country every year.
Evan is also the co-founder of The Personal Growth Hall of Fame.
His work has been featured by influential publications like Forbes, Life Hacker, and Business Insider.
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Gavin Zuchlinski is the founder of Acuity Scheduling, the slickest way for businesses to automate and manage their appointments online, allowing clients to schedule themselves. Acuity Scheduling supports over 50,000 businesses of all sizes, from people working for themselves to major corporations with thousands of employees.
Author of three growth hacking books. Josh was awarded Top Quora Writer and Growth Hacker of 2017, and has over 50+ million views on his writing in the last year.
Today's guest is a Commanding and fearless NFL powerhouse, Shawne Merriman never met a quarterback he couldn't sack, totalling up 45.5 sacks. Regarded as one of the greatest defensive players in the league's history, this former first-round draft pick and three-time pro-Bowler and All-Pro linebacker is known as "Lights Out" to the world, a nickname originating from his unmatched power on the field and ability to ignite his teammates while intimidating the opposition.
Expanding his brand off the field with his innovative and thriving "Lights Out" (LightsOutbrand.com) athletic apparel collection, Merriman designed the line for both men and women, "Lights Out" is intended and designed to motivate the consumer toward maximum performance.
Merriman founded the "Lights On Foundation" in an effort to help children and families in need, and he hosts the annual "Lights On" Bowling event to raise money for the cause.
Karen Waksman is an Author, Speaker and Consultant. She has sold millions of consumer products to the world's largest retailers and now dedicates her time to teaching Entrepreneurs how to market and sell their products to Major Retailers, Online Retailers, Catalogs and Small Retailers, too!
Karen has taught tens of 1000's of product entrepreneurs and companies across the globe on the subject of selling to retailers. Her goal is to empower and inspire companies to transform their businesses by providing them all of the necessary information they need in order to become chain store vendors.
Most importantly, Karen's clients have utilized the Retail MBA time-tested sales formula to get their products into retailers such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowes, Kroger Grocery Stores, Bed Bath and Beyond, BuyBuyBaby, Groupon and much, much more!
Bob Burg is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies.
His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann has sold over half a million copies and it has been translated into 21 languages. It has been reissued in a new, expanded edition with a foreword by Huffington Post founder and publisher, Arianna Huffington.
When he's not producing or starring in videos, he often run marathons, volunteering, traveling, and giving motivational speeches.
Jonathan Crawford is an entrepreneur, startup mentor, designer and engineer based in San Francisco. He founded Storenvy.com in 2009 and raised $7m from top Silicon Valley investors (after being admitted to and kicked out of Y Combinator) to make e-commerce accessible and affordable for the world's creative small businesses. After building a team of 30 and a community of over 100,000 merchants, he sold Storenvy in 2016.
Jonathan mentors startups around the world on product, branding, fundraising, leadership, UX, strategy and founder struggles.
Co-founder & CEO of Cerius Executives and Cerius Advisors, Pam Wasley is a serial entrepreneur with multiple decades of knowledge and experience. She has personally sold companies, led a management buyout, and advised hundreds of companies on strategies for growth and higher shareholder value. Pam has served on several private boards and is a highly sought after speaker.
She's been featured in prestigious publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek on the topics of mergers and acquisitions, the workforce of the future, and global contingent workforces.
Today's guest is a Former Marine Officer and F/A-18 fighter pilot (10 years total of military service), Scott Lopez, MBA is an investment banker who helps companies raise crucial capital for growth and expansion. On a daily basis, he works with disruptive tech companies and investors and has deep relationships across the country in numerous innovation eco-systems.
Scott earned his MBA at the Thunderbird School of Graduate Management, is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion, and the single father of two teenage daughters. He is passionate for his home state of New Mexico and his second home, Newport Beach, CA.
In June 2013 after failing at entrepreneurship for 7 years, he founded wpcurve.com, a worldwide team of WordPress developers, providing unlimited small fixes and support, 24 / 7 for a low monthly fee. After becoming profitable in 23 days, WP Curve grew to a team of 40, 850+ customers and passed an annual run rate of over $1m AUD within 2 years and a year laster was sold to GoDaddy.
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If you're spending time at the beach, a little moisturizer with SPF and some mascara will be just enough.
Another must-have accessory for vacation is makeup. But since you need to pack light, stick with makeup that does double-duty. First thing every morning, moisturize your face with a lotion containing SPF. If you're going for the fresh-and-clean vacation look, that and a little swipe of mascara are really all you need.
However, if you want to wear a little more on your face, but don't have room to pack all your products, look for makeup you can use several different ways. For example, you can find liquid makeup that's both a lip stain and a cheek stain. So you get blush and lip color in the same package. You can also find mineral powder makeup that comes in one tube with an attached brush. Anything that does double duty is perfect for travel.


One summer while I was in church camp I had a preacher friend ask me, "Do you work 40 hours a week? There are many preachers out there who don't."
And what if a preacher or anyone else, for that matter, were hired to work 40 hours a week and they didn't work 40 hours a week? That would be stealing.
Idleness is stealing time from an employer. Idleness is not working hard. And it could be not working at all!
John Wesley was a hard worker. Few people today work as hard he did. And I realize that we all have our own pace, but some are purposely slow because they don't want to work.
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Your work matters to God. There is great value in honest, hard work. Laziness is a landmine that can destroy a person and anyone around that person.
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A Focused Ion Beam (FIB) instrument uses a finely focused ion beam to modify and image the sample of interest. FIB is chiefly used to create very precise cross sections of a sample for subsequent imaging via SEM, STEM or TEM or to perform circuit modification. Additionally FIB imaging can be used to image a sample directly, detecting emitted electrons either from the ion or electron beam. The contrast mechanism for FIB is different than for SEM or S/TEM, so unique structural information can be obtained in some cases. A dual beam FIB/SEM integrates these two techniques into one tool whereas a single beam FIB contains only an ion beam, with electron beam imaging taking place in a separate SEM, TEM or STEM instrument.
FIB analysis has revolutionized sample preparation for TEM samples, making it possible to identify sub-micron features and precisely prepare cross sections.
It is a good option for products that are hard to cross section, such as a soft polymer that is challenging to polish.


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Farmland in Madhya Pradesh contaminated after toxic leak from Essar power plant
The affected villagers have blamed EPMPL for the breach that occurred on August 7 night, but the company called it "a clear case of sabotage."
SNS | New Delhi | August 9, 2019 4:12 pm
Singrauli and neighbouring Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh are home to 10 coal-based power plants, the largest for one region, with a capacity of over 21,000 megawatt (Photo: iStock)
A leak from an artificial pond meant to store toxic residue from a coal power plant run by Essar Power MP Ltd (EPMPL) has contaminated farmland spread over a 4-km area near Singrauli, the power hub of Madhya Pradesh, leading to panic in the surrounding villages.
Photos and videos taken by villagers on their mobile phones show a sea of sludge in the areas around the power plant and also on what appears to be agricultural land. "Five children got stuck in a house. We rescued them around midnight," said District Collector K.V.S. Chaudhary A photograph showed five children covered with white ash on their hair, face and chest as they stood in the dark.
"Some 500 farmers have been affected by the ash leak. We have called for a preliminary probe and will look into all aspects, including the statement by Essar," said Chaudhary. The state and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) officers are taking samples of the spillage. Singrauli and neighbouring Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh are home to 10 coal-based power plants, the largest for one region, with a capacity of over 21,000 megawatt. The pollution emitted from the region has made Singrauli the second most critically polluted industrial zone in the country after Ghaziabad, according to CPCB.
The pond was used to store toxic ash residue generated by the power plant. Scientists and activists say any leak in such a storage pond can lead to severe contamination of groundwater and affect health as the ash contains arsenic. Pollution control norms specify that ash ponds must be surrounded with concrete walls and must not be used beyond capacity.
"According to rules, these walls should be built of bricks and concrete, but in this case the wall was built with ash. The weak wall breached, with the ash going up to six feet in some areas. Two villages have been affected," said Jagat Narayan Vishwakarma, an activist, who has already petitioned the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over pollution in Singrauli.
However, Essar Energy in a statement called the breach in the pond wall "an act of sabotage" and held the villagers responsible for the "mischief," which according to the company has happened in the past also.
The energy company also mentioned "the land where the ash entered is non-agricultural land owned by EPMPL."
"Our security personnel deployed at the location have told the local police that they spotted 4-5 unidentified persons fleeing from the site of the incident last night. We have filed an application for FIR alleging sabotage, and also apprised all local authorities about the incident," the company said in a statement on its website.
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