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Reading More = Reading Better
Issue 8 of my newsletter – subscribe here
It's hard to shake the feeling you're having the same thoughts and ideas as everyone else if you just watch and read and listen to the same content – which these days tend to be the most upvoted or retweeted.
This is a problem if your job involves coming up with original ideas. You could find other ways to discover content, like trusting editors to find you the best stuff, but ultimately you end up in the same place.
The best answer I've found so far is just to read a lot more. This means you can be less picky and just read whatever interests you, rather than whatever a newspaper or blog or prize name as the top ten or twenty books of the year. So that's what I've been doing this year – instead of reading my usual 30 books in twelve months, I've finished 66 books in six months.
I haven't gotten any better at picking winners than before – the average quality of those books is probably the same as it has ever been. Even so, I'll read four times as many great books this year as I did last year.
At the same time, I've started reading more broadly because it doesn't matter if I read a few duds. I pay a lot more attention to the books that appear in my local library's ebook selection, and I've discovered a bunch of great books I never would have otherwise.
You'll enjoy reading more if you read more. It's as simple as that.
So, how do you read more?
Be more impulsive. If a book takes your fancy, read it.
Don't sweat over Goodreads and Amazon ratings. I've discovered they barely correspond to the books I like, so I might as well just ignore them.
Listen to audiobooks to get started, if that's your thing.
Set time limits on social media apps. I'm not saying you should stop using Twitter or watching TV, but if you want to read more, you should shift some of your low quality reading time for high quality reading time.
Read older books. People don't talk about them as much as newer books, but chances are, they're a lot better.
Let it go. Not every book has to be great. And when you do that, there's more chance that some will be great.
If you're looking for a good book to get started, I can recommend The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. It's hard to me to explain why I adore it so much.
I could connect Tom West's tale of leading a motley team of engineers and 'microcoders' to build a new computer to my own experiences as a producer, desperately trying to make something new and worthwhile and original while protecting my own team beneath a "shit umbrella".
There's the book's marvellous grasp of the intricate technical details of how computers work, just as accurate today as it was when the book was published in 1981, and how they're balanced with Kidder's equally penetrating observations of what motivated the engineers who crafted those computers. How this is all bound together with a deep understanding of organisational psychology, and yet it's as gripping as any thriller.
Or there's the dozens of generous sketches of the engineers, sometimes as short as a few sentences, belying the days and weeks Kidder must have spent with each one to identify that perfect anecdote. A colleague of Carl Alsing, a character in the book, describes it here:
A few years later [after the book was published], in 1986 to be specific, I started a job at an OCR company. My cube was directly across from the office of Carl Alsing, the guy who managed "the microkids". I didn't put two and two together at first. Alsing was one of the people who interviewed me for the job, and I got to know him a little bit for a couple months before someone told me about the book connection.
So I went to the library, got the book out, and read it again. When Kidder got to the part where he introduces Alsing, it was amazing. In a paragraph he captured details about Alsing that I hadn't even realized myself (e.g., his personality projects the image of a smaller man, though he was actually decently tall).
Towards the end, Kidder mulls over the future of computing and employment and, yes, artificial intelligence, in a way that presages our own worries, nearly forty years on.
The book is accessible, but its details are pinpoint accurate, making it that rare book that's beloved by both expert computer engineers and general readers.
Bonus reading:
Where they are now? (in 2000)
Tom West's daughter, Jessamyn West, writes about taking care of her father's will in after his death in 2011.
A good essay about the book, with comments from Jessamyn and Neal Firth, builder of the simulator.
Delayed Followup
Simon Carless notes about overpaying mortgages vs. index funds:
One interesting point from a U.S. perspective – our mortgage rates are just under 4% (even for remortgaging things!), and then your mortgage interest is a tax write-off, meaning the effective return to outdo 'paying down' your mortgage is a lot higher than the U.K.
Nonetheless, it still makes sense to do index funds instead of mortgage paydowns! Just not such a large differential…
Yup, I forgot just how much the US tax code favours homeowners…
📺 The Women's World Cup. Today's Japan vs. Netherlands match was one of the best so far, if desperately sad for Japan.
📖 Fall; or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. Started out mediocre, attained greatness, returned to mediocrity, descended into grinding tedium. I've said Interstellar is 2.5 movies long and only one of them is good; well, this is three books long, and once again, only one is good.
📰 China's Most Advanced Big Brother Experiment Is a Bureaucratic Mess (Bloomberg). Turns out there isn't just one social credit score in China, but dozens of them, and none work particularly well.
📰 Why Weather Forecasting Keeps Getting Better (New Yorker). Notable for this incredible story:
So, as Blum explains, in 1942 the German government came up with an ingenious solution. With help from the Siemens-Schuckertwerke group (a predecessor of the modern-day Siemens) and others, it developed a series of automated weather stations: these were an intricate array of pressure, temperature, and humidity sensors, encased in storm-resistant metal containers and equipped with batteries and a radio antenna. Some would hitch rides with the Luftwaffe and transmit weather readings from remote locations on the edge of Europe. By 1943, the devices were powerful enough to communicate across the Atlantic. That year, a Nazi submarine sneaked to the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, where a team of German soldiers took ten cannisters ashore on two rubber dinghies. For the plan to work, the weather station needed to stay undetected after it had been left in the wilderness, so they labelled the equipment "Canadian Meteor Service" and scattered the site with a host of American cigarette packs. Only in 1981 was the ruse discovered.
Injured Sovereigns, Foucault, and Jessica Price
Why does Jessica Price's firing continue to attract so much attention? There's plenty of other subjects I want to write about, but there is something about the story that draws me to it, just as it's drawn literally thousands of people to my Twitter this blog, some of whom have called me "subhuman scum" and so on. It's safe to say that nothing I've written in over two decades has attracted this kind of active fury.
There are two curiosities here, the first being the minute nature of Price's supposed offence. Even if you consider her comments to be exceptionally rude, why should rude comments cause such an uproar? We are not short of famous individuals who are far ruder, far more frequently. For those who are fond of throwing around accusations of overreaction amongst 'snowflakes', a few sharp tweets seem exceptionally small beer. Even the subject of her comments, Deroir, did not seem especially hurt at the time, and did not seek any redress – instead, it was others who came to defend his honour.
The second curiosity has been the active pursuit of any journalist or, indeed, individual who would dare to defend Price. But Price has been fired! Surely 'justice' has been done and the matter is over. Yet clearly there is something so dangerous about Price's actions that they require an overwhelming repudiation, such that even her sympathisers must be challenged and punished.
I've been reading Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison recently, by way of Shannon Vallor's Technology and the Virtues (my review). The book attempts to understand how and why the treatment of criminals changed in the past 400 years, from torture to prison. Unexpectedly for me, Foucault's analysis of why torture and public execution were thought to be necessary has provided an unusually intriguing new lens to decipher those two curiosities about Price's story.
Why did western societies use such torture and execution – practices that even at the time were considered extreme – to punish criminals, instead of prison? Why kill someone for crimes as minor as larceny? Because:
Besides its immediate victim, the crime attacks the sovereign: it attacks him personally, since the law represents the will of the sovereign; it attacks him physically, since the force of the law is the force of the prince.
… Punishment, therefore, cannot be identified with or even measured by the redress of the injury; in punishment, there must always be a portion that belongs to the prince, and, even when it is combined with the redress laid down, it constitutes the most important element in the penal liquidation of the crime. Now, this portion belonging to the prince is not in itself simple: on the one hand, it requires redress for the injury that has been done to his kingdom (as an element of disorder and as an example given to others, this considerable injury is out of all proportion to that which has been committed upon a private individual); but it also requires that the king take revenge for an affront to his very person.
In a time of monarchy, where all laws are determined by a sovereign (here termed the prince or the king), any crime cannot merely be considered as an attack on the immediate victim; not merely an attack on the order and control of the sovereign; but in fact an attack on the sovereign himself. Such an attack demands redress and punishment.
In our case, who is the sovereign? The most obvious answer is ArenaNet, Price's employer, which alone sets the conditions of her employment, and has the unique power to terminate her employment at will. Yes, one may argue that some harm has been done to the honour of Deroir, and one may even argue (although I would not agree) that some modicum of harm has been done to the sovereign – but not that much. We are talking about a few supposedly rude tweets.
So why the termination? Disorder has been introduced to the land. That is the true crime, the considerable injury that eclipses the mild sting of the tweets themselves, and so it requires immense revenge for the contempt it shows to the sovereign, ArenaNet. Contempt may easily turn into insurrection – unionisation – turmoil – bankruptcy:
In every offence there was a crimen majestatis and in the least criminal a potential regicide. And the regicide, in turn, was neither more nor less, than the total, absolute criminal since, instead of attacking, like any offender, a particular decision or wish of the sovereign power, he attacked the very principle and physical person of the prince.
It may only seem like a few rude tweets, but it could end in bankruptcy, a fate to be avoided at all costs. In that light, termination can be the only appropriate response.
Why must the termination be public? Even in the US, disciplinary procedures typically take days, if not weeks or months, and do not result in the kind of lengthy explanations and justifications that ArenaNet provided. Again, sovereignty is core:
The public execution … is a ceremonial by which a momentarily injured sovereignty is reconstituted. It restores that sovereignty by manifesting it at its most spectacular.
… Its aim is not so much to re-establish a balance as to bring into play, as its extreme point, the dissymmetry between the subject who has dared to violate the law and the all-powerful sovereign who displays his strength.
Price's termination must be seen by all employees, and must demonstrate the power and determination of ArenaNet towards anyone else who might challenge its authority; hence the immediate firing of, Peter Fries, who did not tweet at any customers, but who, by supporting Price, lent support to her implicit challenge of authority.
The speed of the termination also demonstrates ArenaNet's ceaseless presence in its employee's lives:
…What had hitherto maintained this practice of torture was not an economy of example, in the sense in which it was to be understood at the time of the ideologues (that the representation of the penalty should be greater than the interest of the crime), but a policy of terror: to make everyone aware, through the body of the criminal, of the unrestrained presence of the sovereign.
If you make any mistake, ArenaNet will terminate your employment immediately. They have unrestrained presence. And while some claim that the problem is because she used her 'public' Twitter (more on that later) and she mentioned her employer in her profile: do we really believe this would altered the outcome? Jessica Price is not famous, but she's not unknown. It's certain that fans would have found her profile and asked her questions.
This can't be the whole story. True, only ArenaNet has the power to terminate Price – but are we to believe that the company wasn't pressured into this action by part of its customers? What role do these 'Customers' (the vocal portion which I should stress is only a tiny minority of the total) play in proceedings?
An offence, according to the law of the classical age, quite apart from the damage it may produce, apart even from the rule that it breaks, offends the rectitude of those who abide by the law: 'If one commits something that the law forbids, even if there is neither harm nor injury to the individual, it is an offence that demands reparation, because the right of the superior man is violated and because it offends the dignity of his character' (Risi, 9).
Many of the complaints about Price – her rudeness towards Customers – remind me of the rectitude of those who abide by the law. The law, after all, is what matters. I have lost count of those who've told me that they would expect to be terminated immediately if they were rude to a customer. There is no question as to whether this would be fair or no, and no mitigating circumstances will be considered. "Perhaps termination was excessive, but we cannot dispute the ultimate right of power of the corporation."
The Customers have been harmed. They require redress. They require recognition. In fact, like corporations, they also see themselves as sovereign. It is totally unacceptable that a mere employee, their servant, should be disrespectful towards them. They demand punishment out of proportion to the harm done to Deroir, because their person had been affronted. Price's disrespect may seem minor but it could end in disregard – disdain – banishment.
Many Customers have dredged through Price's social media, include comments about deceased YouTubers. These direct and indirect offences have been tallied and presented point by point, as if enough points might lead to a conviction in the minds of the public. Thus an "asshat" is worth one point, "stop fucking tagging me" two points, etc. It is obviously the performance of a judicial process: the gathering of evidence, the testimonies from would-be-YouTube-magistrates, not unlike how justice was performed a few centuries ago in France:
We have, then, a penal arithmetic that is meticulous on many points, but which still leaves a margin for a good deal of argument: in order for a capital sentence to be passed, is a single full proof enough or must it be accompanied by other slighter clues? Are two approxi mate proofs always equivalent to a full proof? Should not three be required or two plus distant clues? Are there elements that may be regarded as clues only for certain crimes, in certain circumstances and in relation to certain persons (thus evidence is disregarded if it comes from a vagabond; it is reinforced, on the contrary, if it is provided by 'a considerable person' or by a master in the case of a domestic offence).
Each piece of evidence, each point contributes to Price's guilt:
The different pieces of evidence did not constitute so many neutral elements, until such time as they could be gathered together into a single body of evidence that would bring the final certainty of guilt. Each piece of evidence aroused a particular degree of abomination. Guilt did not begin when all the evidence was gathered together; piece by piece, it was constituted by each of the elements that made it possible to recognize a guilty person. Thus a semi-proof did not leave the suspect innocent until such time as it was completed; it made him semi-guilty; slight evidence of a serious crime marked someone as slightly criminal. In short, penal demonstration did not obey a dualistic system: true or false; but a principle of continuous gradation; a degree reached in the demonstration already formed a degree of guilt and consequently involved a degree of punishment. The suspect, as such, always deserved a certain punishment; one could not be the object of suspicion and be completely innocent.
Finally, why are the Customers so fervent in the pursuit of Price's supporters? My article was barely published before I started receiving replies from strangers who had evidently been searching for "jessica price" on Twitter. I asked one person why they'd been searching, and they said they were bored. OK: but if you're bored, why not watch Netflix or play a game? It's because the Customers, as sovereign, must demonstrate their unrestrained presence.
If you agree with Price, we will find you, wherever you are.
It is the combination of these two sovereigns – Corporate and Customer – that is new and unusual. Both reinforcing each other, in their demand for respect, for a public execution in response to attack on their persons. The precise wording used by ArenaNet, "attacks on the community", was not lost on Price:
That's not what they did. They framed an interaction on my personal social media in which I told a few individuals who (I thought) were being assholes that I wasn't on the clock and wasn't going to feign affection for people who are being assholes as "attacks on the community."
— Jessica Price (@Delafina777) July 11, 2018
Neither was the very public nature of proceedings:
But they *escalated.* They pointed to Peter and me as Enemies Of The Community. That wasn't just firing us and, oh well, if they get harassed, them's the breaks. That was active solicitation of harassment.
Have I stretched the analogy too far? Am I blowing things out of proportion?
We're already past that. Price has been fired and she is likely to be hounded on social media, and very likely in person, for many years. And for what? A few tweets. But these are tweets are so dangerous, so threatening to the natural order, that nothing short of termination will satisfy.
(Once, there was a third sovereign – the employee. Or the union. Or, yes, the guild.)
Where is it that humans can get respect, today? The option of last resort is as a customer. The customer is always right. "My money will force your respect." And because many workers are now on social media for the very simple purposes and pleasures of talking with their friends and colleagues about their life, and yes, their work – the thing they spend eight hours a day on, the thing that keeps them clothed and fed – and because they do not want to make an artificial distinction between their personal and work lives (as if that would stop harassment, really!) – well, you as a Customer can demand their attention and their respect whenever they're on social media. Which means their whole lives.
But what happens when your money no longer forces their respect?
It is disturbing to some Customers that some companies – not including Arenanet – will now overlook or even tolerate perceived rudeness. Whether this 'lenience' comes from a simple consideration of their staff as humans worthy of care and respect, or from a cold-hearted calculation that the loss of your few dollars, and your community's few dollars, do not outweigh the financial benefit to the corporation of the occasional "rude" tweet made by the employees (aka humans) necessary to actually make products and services. Indeed, some rudeness may even be encouraged, in so far as it helps to retain and attract employees who can make profitable games.
(The expectation of total servility from those interact with Customers exists regardless of the sex of the employee. However, sexism is relevant to the extent that politeness is expected more from women than men, and rudeness is tolerated and in some cases celebrated more from men than women.)
All of this leaves the obvious question: what happens when two sovereigns go to war – when the Customers (again, I'm talking about the vocal minority) fight the Corporations?
As it turns out… usually very little. Which highlights the absurdity of these Customers taking the Corporation's side over that of the employees who actually make the entertainment they value. But perhaps it is not so absurd when you consider that these customers value certain things over even their most beloved hobby, like the desire to see employees abasing themselves.
Now that's entertainment.
History suggests a silver lining to Brexit
Linda Colley on the lessons history can teach us about the aftermath of Brexit, and how it could have a silver lining:
By instinct I am a Remainer, but I think that some form of Brexit may now be unavoidable. If that does turn out to be the case, I suspect that the resulting disruptions and realignments will affect far more than the economy: the trick will be to see if this can be turned to the good, or at least to something halfway productive.
In a recent pamphlet on the constitutional ramifications, Vernon Bogdanor has hinted at ways in which Brexit might conceivably have some constructive, albeit unpredictable, effects. As is becoming clear, and as Bogdanor sets out, Ireland represents a major challenge, and not just for reasons of cross-border trade. The Good Friday Agreement promised Northern Ireland parity of rights with the Republic. But if the UK does pull out of the EU, Northern Irish rights will no longer be protected by Brussels and the European courts, but will come back substantially to Westminster. And by the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, Westminster would be free in the future to modify those rights. Indeed, these challenges extend to all of the UK. The British government has undertaken to incorporate relevant sections of EU law and rights in statute law. But the same caveat applies: such incorporation would mean that these transferred rights and laws could be altered in the future by a sovereign parliament.
As Bogdanor remarks, some thoughtful politicians, such as Dominic Grieve, are proposing a new British Bill of Rights in the event of Brexit so as to protect vital rights against such legislative tinkering. This would be a good idea. It would also be valuable if more UK citizens and all political parties shifted some of their focus away from purely economic matters, and devoted more attention to the political, structural and legal vulnerabilities and quandaries that have been exposed by this crisis, and to the question of how these could be addressed.
Another of Colley's hopes is that Brexit will force "Global Britain" to, well, actually learn how to speak other languages and learn the history of other nations. We'll see.
The 19th Century Fibit
After admiring the cutting-edge central heating, bathroom, and electrical wiring at Lauriston Castle in Edinburgh, our tour guide pointed out another neat gadget in Mrs. Reid's bedroom: jockey scales.
Dating back to the late 19th century, these scales were designed to weigh jockeys before horse races, but Mrs. Reid's scales were used to weigh visitors to the castle. They'd be weighed twice, in fact: firstly on arrival, and then on departure. Ideally, the visitor would have gained weight, demonstrating a healthy and nutritious stay.
Attitudes towards health and fitness were, of course, very different a century ago. While they were concerned about weight, this little ritual shows they were worried more about being underweight than overweight.
Of course, there is at least 25% chance this story is utter bullshit — it wouldn't be the first time a tour guide told a tall tale. But what a cautionary tale it is!
Fitness trackers are the jockey scales of our time, a fashionable gadget that demonstrates your personal commitment to healthy living. And just like gaining weight, there is little evidence that using a Fitbit will actually make you healthier.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/tl-tld100316.php
Now, it is true that you can be unhealthily thin, in which case it may be helpful to put on weight while you stay at your friend's house (or castle). Likewise, you can be too sedentary, and so it may be helpful to wear a fitness tracker, assuming you actually use it properly, which most people don't.
The point is not that I think fitness trackers are trash or that no-one should use them; rather, we should be aware that they represent a particular wave of fashion, one that is likely to dissipate in a few years in favour of an even more high-tech fad.
By all means, use a Fitbit if it works for you — but there are more important things you can do, like eating a little more vegetables and a little less meat, and doing more vigorous exercise that you find fun.
As for myself, I've worn three step counters over the years. The first was a very uncool pedometer I wore for a few weeks to school in the 90s, and I don't think it helped me at all.
The second was an early-model Fitbit, which I kept clipped to my belt. I was addicted to checking it throughout the day, and it did occasionally encourage me to walk a few hundred or thousand more steps. Whether that had any lasting impact on my health, I don't know.
Today, I wear an Apple Watch. It is also addictive to see my 'activity rings' fill up during the day, and I find its use of calories to be marginally more scientific (as opposed to steps). Again, I don't pretend that it is really doing anything to my health. I still walk exactly the same route to work, and I do the same 3–5 runs per week.
It does look cool, though, and isn't that what really matters?
Ancient Egypt: Generation Country
I spent a week in Luxor in February, which qualifies me as an expert on all things Egyptian.
OK, fine — but it does qualify me as an expert on being a tourist in Luxor. I had two thoughts per day, which makes fourteen thoughts in total:
1. The Baksheesh Problem
"No, sorry," he said, rapidly backing away, "I'm all out of baksheesh." The man patted his pockets for added effect as the Egyptian tomb guard followed along for a few steps, then gave up. What an asshole, I thought, and then I patted my pockets and realised that perhaps I was an asshole as well.
We'd only visited a couple of tombs in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna — the Valley of the Nobles — when it became clear that we had a serious baksheesh problem. It was a issue of simple mathematics: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna has dozens of tombs dating from the New Kingdom period of ancient Egypt, which is to say that the tombs are older than pretty much any structure still standing in Europe or North American, not to mention a good deal prettier. Around a dozen are open to the public, and you can buy tickets for them in groups of two or three tombs each, for around 50 LE. LE means Egyptian Pounds; $1 equals 8 LE, which means a ticket is about $6.
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Usually each tomb has its own guard — a man (and it's always a man) who checks tickets, ensures tourists don't wreck it up, and provides running commentary on the various ancient gods and kings and queens on display inside. Sometimes the commentary is accurate and welcome, often it's unwanted. In any case, the tomb guards really expect a tip from tourists, because:
The Valley of the Nobles is not especially well-visited, being overshadowed by the far more famous Valley of the Kings next door, home of bigger tombs for more important people. These tombs aren't necessarily 'better' than those in the Valley of the Nobles — and that goes doubly so for Tutankhamun's tomb (also in the Valley of the Kings), who by all regards was not a very important person by ancient Egyptian standards, nor does he have a very spacious or impressive tomb. But hey, you've heard of The Valley of the Kings, you haven't heard of the Valley of the Nobles, and you've only got a day or two in Luxor, so what are you going to do? The point is, there's not much traffic and a guard's gotta make money somehow, because:
They're paid very little. I have no idea exactly how much, I'm guessing a few dollars a day. This guess is based on the fact that taxi drivers in Luxor are willing to work for an entire day for under $25, and they're much further up in the social and financial hierarchy than tomb guards. A tip of just 1 LE, or a bit over a dime, is therefore a pretty big deal, especially when:
Thanks to the Egyptian revolution, which everyone just called 2011, plus various well-publicised terrorist attacks, tourism has just about dried up. Of the 350 Nile River cruise boats that used to visit Luxor, only a hundred are still running. Hotel occupancy in Luxor is under 25%. It's not fun times.
Now, no-one likes being hassled for a tip. You'd prefer to hand over a buck or two in a benificent manner for a job well done, delivered via a subtle handshake just like how Monica's old boyfriend Richard taught Joey and Chandler how to do. But as established, the going rate of 1 LE is practically zero money to a western tourist, plus the tomb guards get really bummed out when you stiff them, so you'd be advised to get over your initial irritation.
So what's the problem? The problem is that no-one has any change in Luxor! ATMs usually dispense 200 LE notes, with the odd 100, 50, and 20 thrown in, and most things that tourists buy are denominated in 5 or 10 LE increments. This means that you barely ever have any 1 LE coins in your possession. Sure, you could give out 5 LE or 10 LE notes as tips, but you'll run out of them rapidly as well. The end result is the Baksheesh Problem.
As we trekked between tombs in the Valley of the Nobles, I had to perform triage arithmatic to see how far we could stretch our meagre stock of coins and 5 LE notes. I wondered why the authorities couldn't just add a few LE on to the cost of each ticket and give it to the tomb guards, or just install a change machine in the car park.
Later in our trip, we asked the hotel receptionist for change from a 10 LE note. She shook her head sadly, and then gave up two 5 LE notes from her purse. This made me feel appropriately bad. Going to the bank wasn't possible because they were closed for the weekend.
And then we found out that small water bottles cost 2 LE, and our pockets overflowed with coins, and our hotel minibar overflowed with bottles, and the Kingdom was once again at peace, with order and Maat restored.
*There was little logic in our tipping behaviour. We gave guards anything from 1 LE to 10 LE, and hotel staff even more. I suppose this isn't any different from tipping culture in the US or UK though. Continue reading "Ancient Egypt: Generation Country"
200 Years of Change
A game I like to play at history museums is imagining the present-day equivalents of past behaviour and objects. So at The Geffrye Museum of the Home in Hoxton, London, it's fun to look at their Period Rooms and link up past and present behaviours.
Take the 1935 Living Room; the armchairs are pointed at the fireplace (which obviously would be a TV today), and there's a record player and radio in the corner (also TV/hifi). Or the 1695 Parlour, in which the woman of the house would spend her day noting down the household receipts on the writing cabinet (i.e. iMac) before joining her husband for dinner and listening to him read out the day's newspaper (watching Netflix).
Then there's the 1790 Parlour, with a set of playing cards laid out on the table. Just imagine what present day families might do when entertaining friends – why, they'd… play cards! Or maybe boardgames. Yes, it turns out that we still all want reasons to talk and gossip in an formalised way, and the things we did back 200 years ago are still pretty much exactly the same now.
The Period Rooms go all the way up to 1998.
As you might expect from me, another fun thought experiment is imagining what the Period Room and gallery notes for 2014 would be; probably a room dominated by a big Samsung TV with a Playstation, some bluetooth speakers, Ikea bookshelves, a corner sofa, surround sound speakers, and a coffee table. "Here, the co-habiting couple would gather in the evening to watch 'television serials' and 'YouTube cat videos', while perusing social media on Twitter and Facebook on their tablet computers."
The Period Room for 2034, of course, would just be an empty room with a near-invisible projector, an easy chair, and a virtual reality headset.
A Preview of A History of The Future
Two and a half years ago, I began a Kickstarter project for A History of the Future in 100 Objects, a book that would map out the 21st century in a hundred speculative objects. I wanted to cover more than just technology; I wanted to look at the future of religion, politics, sport, food, health, architecture, transport, work, and, well, everything.
That's quite a tall order, and of course it ended up being far harder than I anticipated; what I thought might take a year took over twice as long. Let's just say I learned a lot (if you're interested in hearing more about it, check out my latest Kickstarter update) about how writing a book at the same time as running a company means that you don't get evenings or weekends any more.
Not that I'd take back the experience. I'm proud of the book. It's not perfect by any means, but I think that among the hundred chapters that make up the book, from factual articles to newspaper reports to interviews to short stories, there are some new ideas and new expressions of old ideas that many people have never seen before. And that's all I could ask for.
You can see a preview of A History of the Future right now on the official website, and in fact the eBook is for sale on Amazon and via Gumroad now as well. However, the 'proper' launch of the book will be later this month after I talk about it on Radio 4 and at the Futurefest conference, and after it's available as a physical book — hence why I'm not making too much noise about it.
The energy I poured into the book meant that I didn't have time to write here. I'm looking forward to coming back, though.
Educational games from 3500 years ago
Freeborn children [of Greece] should learn as much of these things as the vast throngs of young in Egypt do with their alphabet. First as regards arithmetic, lessons have been devised there for absolute beginners based on enjoyment and games, distributing apples and garlands so that the same numbers are divided among larger and smaller groups.
…The teachers, by applying the rules and practices of arithmetic to play, prepare their pupils for the tasks of marshalling and leading armies and organizing military expeditions, managing a household too, and altogether form them into persons more useful to themselves and to others, and a great deal wider awake."
This is Plato, writing around 360BC, about how Egyptian children learned about maths through 'enjoyment and games' [Laws 7,819].
I heard this during the A History of the World in 100 Objects podcast about the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus from 1550BC, which "contains 84 different calculations to help with various aspects of Egyptian life, from pyramid building to working out how much grain it takes to fatten a goose."
Redcoats
Being a fan of Sharpe, I've long wondered why the standard British Army uniform was a 'redcoat' – surely the bright colour made the soldiers into obvious targets? I finally discovered the truth behind this (oddly, via a Metafilter comment about the F-22 fighter):
From the modern perspective, the retention of a highly conspicuous colour such as red for active service appears inexplicable, regardless of how striking it may have looked on the parade ground. It should be noted, however, that in the days of the musket (a weapon of limited range and accuracy) and black powder, battle field visibility was quickly obscured by clouds of smoke. Bright colours enhanced morale and provided a means of distinguishing friend from foe without significantly adding risk. Furthermore, the vegetable dyes used until the 19th century would fade over time to a pink or ruddy-brown, so on a long campaign in a hot climate the colour was less conspicuous than the modern scarlet shade would be.
Consuming Passions, Part One
Consuming Passions by Judith Flanders has to be one of the most information-dense books I have ever read. I'm used to blasting through novels in a few hours, but despite finding Consuming Passions extremely interesting, I've barely been able to get halfway through its 500 pages after at least a dozen hours.
The book tells the simple yet incredibly intricate story of how the Industrial Revolution changed the consumption habits of British people; from newspapers to holidays to museums to clothing. A lesser (but perhaps more commercially-savvy) author could easily have split this book into five novels; a writer for the New Yorker probably could have spun off several years' worth of articles. I began putting in bookmarks for particularly interesting pieces of information, and eventually gave up when I realised I'd ruin it that way.
It's essentially impossible to summarise the book, but there are a few interesting bits and pieces that I've pulled out:
Sophie von la Roche, in 1786, wrote to her family in Germany describing the contents of the daily papers (which she numbered in London at twenty-one). The proportion of news to advertisements and announcements was fairly standard:
"The notices in to-day's paper run: . . .
Plays produced at the Haymarket theatre; names of actors and actresses… following by the prices of the seats…
Plays at the small Sadler's Wells theatre, where to-day's programme offers a satire on magnetism and somnambulism in particular, and where tumblers and tight-rope walkers may be seen…
At the Royal Bush, Mr Astley's amphitheatre; men, boys and girls in trick-riding; fireworks; short comedies and ballets…
Bermondsey Spa, a place where firework displays are held, announces that the scaffolding has been well and strongly made.
The royal Circus; adults and children in trick-riding, children in comedy and pantomime; Italians in dancing and buffoonery.
Two fine large green tortoises for sale.
A notice against some piratical printer.
Discovery of new pills.
Notice of maritime matters…"
This excerpt brought home a few things to me. Firstly, that people in 1786 were really very sophisticated; I'd certainly be interested in seeing a satire on magnetism and somnambulism! I'd always had this bizarre notion that people in the past were somehow slower and less intelligent than we are today; perhaps it's because we're trained to view the past through the perfect hindsight-enabling prism of history textbooks. I never really got a feeling of what day to day life was like in my history lessons.
Secondly, I felt vaguely sad that we know so little about life only two hundred years ago. We don't have many sources for what newspapers were like back then, so we have to resort to summaries like this one.
Early on in the book, there's a wonderful section describing how retailers, in the space of a few years, effectively invented all of the sales techniques we take for granted today; money-back guarantees, branded produce, paid advertisements, attack ads, puff pieces, and inertia selling.
Inertia selling caught my eye, not merely because it sounds cool and scientific, but because it's so audacious:
[Wedgwood] pioneered inertia selling, by sending parcels of his goods – some worth as much as £70 – to aristocratic families across Europe, spending £20,000 (altogether the equivalent of several million today), and following up each parcel with a request for payment or the return of the goods. Within a couple of years he had received payment from all but three families.
Wedgwood was evidently the very master of sales, and Flanders provides this brilliant 1770 letter from him to a colleague, describing a whole host of major new selling techniques (marked in bold by Flanders, paragraph breaks by me):
Wo'd you advertise the next season as the silk mercers in Pell mell do,
– Or deliver cards at the hosues of the Nobility & Gentry, & in the City,
– Get leave to make a shew of his Majesty's Service for a month, & ornament in the Dessert with Ornamental Ewers, flower baskets & Vases
– Or have an Auction at Cobbs room of Statues, Bassreliefs, Pictures, Tripods, Candelabrias, Lamps, Potpouris, Superb Ewers, Cisterns, Tablets Etruscan, Porphirys & other Articles not yet expos'd to sale. Make a great route of advertising this Auction, & at the same time mention our rooms in Newport St
– & have another Auction in the full season at Bath of such things as we now have on hand, just sprinkled over with a few new articles to give them an air of novelty to any of our customers who may see them there,
– Or will you trust to a new disposition of the Rooms with the new articles we shall have to put into them & a few modest puffs in the Papers from some of our friends such as I am told there has been one lately in Lloyd's Chronicle.
Damn, this guy was sharp. No wonder we still know his name now.


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Q: Magento 2 Overide CMS Helper I tried to override the Image helper on CMS block for uploading pdf files.
Now i added the pdf files but i need to link for pdf file instead of img tag. And also i tried to override the CMS Image insert selection. but not able to override.
In di.xml,
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Override Image helper file
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            if ($renderAsTag) {
                $html = sprintf('<img src="%s" alt="" />', $this->isUsingStaticUrlsAllowed() ? $fileurl : $directive);
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A: It is an issue with Magento 2. It does not support PDF.
Preference issue
https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/9850
https://github.com/magento/up-for-grabs/issues/2
But on
https://github.com/magento/up-for-grabs/issues/2 , have a solution which may help you;
Solution is given by Sarbjeet Singh that might help you.
https://github.com/sarbjeet-cmsDev/magento2_editorpdf

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Smart bottle brushes: Neutrons make structural changes in molecular brushes visible
Thermoresponsive molecular brushes with propylene oxide/ethylene oxide copolymer side chains in aqueous solution., Reiner Müller / TUM,
Dr. Lester Barnsley, instrument scientist at Forschungszentrum Jülich, at the small-angle neutron scattering system KWS-1 of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Research Neutron Source at the Technical University of Munich, Wenzel Schürmann / TUM,
They look like microscopic bottle brushes: Polymers with a backbone and tufts of side arms. This molecular design gives them unusual abilities: For example, they can bind active agents and release them again when the temperature changes. With the help of neutrons, a research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now succeeded to unveil the changes in the internal structure in course of the process.
"The structure of the bottle-brush polymers, which are only nanometers in size, cannot be investigated using classical optical methods: It can be seen that an aqueous solution containing these polymers becomes turbid at a certain temperature. But why this is the case, and how the backbone and the side arms stretch out into in the water or contract, has not yet been clarified," reports Prof. Christine Papadakis.
There is a simple reason why scientists would like to know more about the inner life of bottle-brush polymers: The fluffy molecules, which consist of different polymer chains and abruptly change their solubility in water at a certain temperature, are promising candidates for a variety of applications.
For example, they could be used as catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions, as molecular switches to open or close tiny valves, or as transport media for medical drugs – the molecular brushes could thus bring pharmaceuticals to a center of inflammation and, because the temperature is elevated there, release them directly at the site of action.
However, the basic prerequisite for using the brush molecules is that their behavior can be programmed: Theoretically, chemists can use a combination of water-soluble and water-insoluble building blocks to determine precisely at what temperature the polymers clump together and the liquid in which they were just dissolved becomes cloudy. "In practice, however, you have to know exactly how and under what conditions the structure of the polymers changes if you want to design smart brush molecules," explains Papadakis.
Neutrons reveal their molecular inner life
Together with her team in the Soft Matter Physics Group at the Technical University of Munich, she has now been able to visualize for the first time the changes that bottle-brush polymers with arms made of two different types of building blocks undergo when the temperature reaches the cloud point.
The scientists used neutron radiation from the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) on the campus Garching in a special instrument for small angle neutron scattering, which is operated by the Forschungszentrum Jülich
This method is particularly well suited for the investigation because neutrons are electrically neutral and therefore penetrate matter easily. There they are scattered by the atomic nuclei. The images of the brush molecules thus produced are more exact than x-rays and more detailed than images from scanning electron microscopy.
When brushes clump together
The thermoresponsive brush molecules studied by Papadakis' team were synthesized by chemists from the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Greece and the Technische Universität Dresden, respectively.
In the first step, the samples were dissolved in water, then gradually heated up to the cloud point and irradiated with neutrons. A detector monitored the scattered radiation. From the scattering signal, the researchers were able to deduce the structural changes.
Depending on the structure of the polymers, water molecules split-off already before the cloud point was reached. At the cloud point itself, the molecular structure of the polymers collapsed. What remained were water-insoluble polymer coils, which formed loose or compact clusters depending on the residual water content.
"The results will help to develop bottle-brush polymers suitable for practical use," the physicist is convinced. "If you know exactly how polymers change at the cloud point, you can optimize their chemical structure for different applications."
The work was done in cooperation with the Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry of the Technische Universität Dresden and the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece. The project was funded by the German Research Foundation.
Contact for scientific information:
Prof. Dr. Christine Papadakis
Professorship Soft Matter Physics
James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 289 12447 – E-mail: papadakis@tum.de
Original publication:
Jia-Jhen Kang, Kaltrina Shehu, Clemens Sachse, Florian A. Jung, Chia-Hsin Ko, Lester C. Barnsley, Rainer Jordan, Christine M. Papadakis:
A molecular brush with thermoresponsive poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) side chains: a structural investigation
Colloid and Polymer Science, Aug. 5, 2020
Jia-Jhen Kang, Florian A. Jung, Chia-Hsin Ko, Kaltrina Shehu, Lester C. Barnsley, Fabian Kohler, Hendrik Dietz, Junpeng Zhao, Stergios Pispas, and Christine M. Papadakis:
Thermoresponsive Molecular Brushes with Propylene Oxide/ Ethylene Oxide Copolymer Side Chains in Aqueous Solution
Macromolecules 2020, 53, 4068−4081, Aug. 8, 2020
https://www.groups.ph.tum.de/en/softmatter/soft-matter-physics/ Homepage of the research group
https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/36275/ Press release on the TUM website
https://www.frm2.tum.de/en/ Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
https://mlz-garching.de/englisch.html Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-020-04704-6 Original publication I.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00263 Original publication II.
Press release by:
Dr. Andreas Battenberg
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Rare Look Inside Baghdad Emergency Room
Posted on April 24, 2005 by Team VCS
Insurgents in Baghdad have mounted dozens of separate bombings in recent weeks.
Nowhere is the fallout from the violence more apparent than in the city's emergency rooms and trauma centers.
Jamal Enad, a second-year surgical resident at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital, said he has seen firsthand the effects of the increased violence.
"It was a very bad week, the last week," he said.
Enad is one of three doctors and six nurses working the day shift in the emergency room. They have been inundated with patients of late, since Yarmouk is where most Iraqi victims of insurgent attacks in Baghdad are taken for treatment.
Each day, Enad and the other doctors have been treating twisted limbs and pulling shrapnel from the wounded. The families of the victims crowd the ER, waiting in anguish.
Yarmouk is a teaching hospital, where doctors come to learn. They say what they are learning most clearly is how to deal with victims of insurgent attacks — how to recognize instantly who will die, and who might be saved.
It is experience Enad said he would rather do without.
'Not the Real Job of a Doctor'
"For me as a doctor, I think this is not my future," he said. "The blast injuries is not the real job of a doctor."
Enad dreams of performing elective surgery at a peaceful hospital. But in wartime, he willingly goes to work, despite fears for his own life.
"I feel sometimes I might be a target," he said. "But what can I do?"
Enad said one of his hardest jobs is dealing with patients' families. While being interviewed by ABC News, one of Enad's patients — the victim of a recent bombing — died from his injuries.
When the victim's brother was told, he fell to the floor, screaming and crying in distress.
"This is normal," Enad said of the man's reaction. "This is one of his relatives."
For Enad, the situation is painfully common.


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Woodcutters of the Deep South is the sixth and final feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film looks at the white and black American workers of the Gulf Coast Pulpwood Association who seek to overcome poor working conditions and "exploitation from pulpwood corporations".

See also
 List of American films of 1973

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Ozmott's identity grew (har har) from the idea of little pocket treasures you might collect out in the world. I still have the tiny acorn that inspired me, safely tucked away. The concept of growth also applies to Ozmott's point program for earning bigger and bigger rewards.
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NWPGCL
North-West Power Generation Company Ltd
NWPGCL Overview
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The Board of Directors is the highest level of authority in the organization structure of NWPGCL. In accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company [Article-78(B)(i)], the strength of the Board shall not be less than 9 (nine) Directors or more than 12 (twelve) Directors. At present the 12 (twelve) members of the Board of Directors are overall responsible for the direction, strategic planning and policy guidelines of the Company. The Board meets periodically to transact matters placed before them that require Board's approval and direction for execution.
Dr. Ahmad Kaikaus Chairman, NWPGCL
Dr. Ahmad Kaikaus
Chairman, NWPGCL
Principal Secretary to the HPM, Prime Minister's Office
Dr. Ahmad Kaikaus is currently the Principal Secretary to the HPM, Prime Minister's Office, Dhaka. He holds the position of Chairman of North-West Power Generation Company Limited as well as Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt.) Limited.
Dr. Kaikaus started his bright illustrious career in the Administration Cadre of Bangladesh Civil Service on 21 January 1986. He worked at different levels of field administration. He also worked on deputation in several organizations that include Directorate of Accommodation, Department of Narcotics Control and Bangladesh Services Limited. At the Ministerial level, he worked for the Ministry of Public Administration, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, Economic Relations Division, Power Division as Additional Secretary and Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council as Chairman. Prior to joining the Power Division, he worked as the Deputy Chief of Party of the Policy Research and Strategy Support Program at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He assumed the office of Secretary-in-Charge, Power Division, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources on 15 December, 2016 and on 23 February, 2017 he took over the office of Secretary of the same division. He also worked as part-time faculty at Collin County Community College in Texas, USA and at the American International University, Bangladesh. At present he regularly attends as guest speaker at the Public Administration Training Centre, Bangladesh Civil Service Academy and the Dhaka University. He has an excellent combination of civil service experience and high academic accomplishments with solid empirical research involvement. His civil service career has provided him a unique opportunity to work in diverse places encompassing both rural and urban areas, regulatory and development agencies, and local government as well as ministerial positions. His academic and research background, on the other hand, makes him well conversant of the development policy perspectives.
Dr. Kaikaus received his Master of Arts degree in Development Economics from the Center for Development Economics, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA, and PhD in Public Policy and Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA. His research focus covers interdisciplinary subjects such as governance, poverty, development, labor market, migration, etc. Dr. Ahmad has published research papers and survey reports for IFPRI. One of the significant journal articles was in the World Development Journal on the structural transformation in Bangladesh economy. He has expertise on developing questionnaires and sampling frames for research. Along with his current government responsibilities, he has also been researching on cluster-based economic transformation, fish value chain, rural non-farm economy, and public expenditure for economic development.
Dr. Kaikaus has visited a good number of countries on different important issues in his bright career.
Engr. Khaled Mahmood Director, NWPGCL
Engr. Khaled Mahmood
Director, NWPGCL
Ex-Chairman, BPDB
Engr. Khaled Mahmood, Ex-Chairman of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), joined NWPGCL as a Director on 22 September 2016. He is the Convener of the Technical & Engineering Committee and a Member of the Administrative Affairs Committee of the Company.
Currently he is also the Chairman of Ashuganj Power Station Company Ltd and United Ashuganj Energy Ltd and Member of the Board of Directors of Electricity Generation Company Bangladesh, Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd, Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Ltd, Nuclear Power Plant Company Bangladesh Ltd, Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company (Pvt.) Ltd, Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt.) Ltd, Sembcorp North-West Power Company Ltd, Titas Gas Transmission & Distribution Company Ltd and Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Ltd.
Engr. Khaled did his Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from BUET in 1981. He joined as Chairman of BPDB on 17 August 2016. He is the 34th Chairman of BPDB. Before joining as Chairman, he was the Member (Generation) of BPDB.
He joined the Directorate of Program of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) as an Assistant Engineer in 1981. In his long career, Engineer Khaled Mahmood discharged his duties in various positions in BPDB. He worked as Sub-Divisional Engineer in Design & Inspection-1 Directorate, Deputy Director (XEN) in Program Directorate and Design & Inspection-1 Directorate, Assistant Chief Engineer in the Office of the Chief Engineer (Generation), Director of Design & Inspection-1 Directorate and Chief Engineer (Generation) of BPDB.
In his illustrious career, he discharged his duties as an expert, especially in international bid document preparation, design & drawing preparation and approval, international negotiation of various power sector activities.
A renowned sportsman and organizer, Mr. Khaled Mahmood visited India, China, South Korea, Japan, France, USA, Czech Republic, Italy, Australia, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Thailand, Singapore, Poland and Indonesia for training and professional purposes.
At present, he is an elected Central Council Member of Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB).
Md. Zahurul Haque Director, NWPGCL
Md. Zahurul Haque
Member (Administration), BPDB
Mr. Md. Zahurul Haque is currently the Member (Administration) of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). As Member (Finance) of BPDB, he joined NWPGCL as a Director on 26 September 2016 and in continuation as Member (Administration) of BPDB, he joined NWPGCL as a Director on 30.03.2017. He is a Member of the Audit and Finance Committee of the Company. In his bright academic life, he stood 1st Class First in Geography in 1988 from the University of Dhaka. Under the NORAD Fellowship Program, he did his M. Phil. in Development Economics from Norway.
Mr. Haque is an Additional Secretary of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. He started his illustrious career in 1991 in the BCS Administration Cadre (9th Batch). He joined Bangladesh Power Development Board as Secretary on 18.11.2013, as Member (Finance) on 29.08.2016 and as Member (Administration) on 23.02.2017. Before joining BPDB he was the Deputy Commissioner of the District of Narail. During his tenure as Deputy Commissioner in Narail, the Hon'ble President of India His Excellency Mr. Pranab Mukherjee visited Narail. He has over 27 years rich and vast experience both in administration and power sector management. He has taken a good number of local and foreign trainings. He has traveled many countries for different official purposes.
Mohammad Alauddin Director, NWPGCL
Mohammad Alauddin
Joint Secretary (Renewable Energy), Power Division, MoPEMR
Mr. Mohammad Alauddin is a Joint Secretary in the Power Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources. He joined NWPGCL as a Director on July 17, 2019. He is a Member of the Administrative Affairs Committee of the Company.
Mr. Alauddin has obtained B.Sc. Ag. (Honours) degree from the Bangladesh Agricultural University and Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) with specialization in Governance and Public Policy from the Civil Service College, Dhaka. His present job duties include promoting and coordinating renewable energy and energy efficiency development in the country.
Mr. Alauddin joined the Administration Cadre of Bangladesh Civil Service in 1991. As a career civil servant, he served in different ministries and divisions and in various capacities of field administration. He also worked as a part-time faculty at the Civil Service College, Dhaka. He contributes articles to newspapers and magazines on clean energy development.
Mr. Alauddin is on the Board of Northern Electricity Supply Company (NESCO) Limited. He drives the initiatives of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and International Solar Alliance in Bangladesh. He has participated in a good number of trainings, seminars, symposiums at home and abroad.
Dr. Maglub Al Nur Director, NWPGCL
Dr. Maglub Al Nur
Professor, BUET
Dr. Maglub Al Nur, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BUET joined NWPGCL as a Director on 03 March 2010. He is a Member of the Technical & Engineering Committee and Audit & Finance Committee of the Company.
He completed his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from BUET in 1980 and Master of Engineering (Industrial Engineering and Management) from AIT, Bangkok in 1982. He joined as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BUET in 1983. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK under Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship in 1991. He became Professor in 1998.
He worked as a Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, UK. He was the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BUET during 2002-2004. He served as Assistant Provost of Suhrawardy Hall and Ahsanullah Hall, BUET. He was the Director of Student's Welfare, BUET. He is currently a Member, Academic Council of BUET. He was an Ex-Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of BUET. He published significant number of academic publications in well reputed national and international journals. He is a Life Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK. His field of specialization is energy systems modeling, energy & environment and automobile engineering.
Dr. Mahmuda Akter Director, NWPGCL
Dr. Mahmuda Akter
Professor, University of Dhaka
Dr. Mahmuda Akter, Professor, Department of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Dhaka, joined NWPGCL as a Director on 06 February 2014. She is the Convener of the Audit & Finance Committee of the Company.
She completed both Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Commerce from the Department of Accounting, University of Dhaka in 1987 and 1988 respectively. She completed her M.Sc. in Management Science and Engineering in 1997 and PhD in Management Science and Engineering in 2000 from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. She attended number of seminars and conferences on accounting at home and abroad. She has published papers in several internationally reputed refereed journals. She has published two books on Management Accounting and has written chapters in several edited books published abroad. Presently, she is the Director of the Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB), and Japanese Society of Organization and Accounting, Japan. She is also the Convener of the Audit & Finance Committee of EGCB.
She is the member of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) of Bangladesh. She is serving as the Associate Director of the Masters of Professional Accounting (MPA) Program of University of Dhaka as well as the Advisor of Sonargaon University. She is also the Member of Technical and Research Committee and Board of Studies of the Council of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh. She is the Member of Academic Council and Finance Committee of Presidency University. She is the member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Monden Institute of Management: Japanese Management & International Studies, Japan and Bangladesh Accounting Review, Department of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Dhaka. She has been appointed as the Member of the Selection Committee of the Banking & Insurance Department, University of Dhaka.
Engr. Golam Kibria Director, NWPGCL
Engr. Golam Kibria
Ex-Managing Director, CPGCBL
Engr. Golam Kibria, Ex-Managing Director, CPGCBL joined NWPGCL as Director on 12 August 2018. He is a Member of the Technical & Engineering Committee and Audit & Finance Committee of the Company.
Having dynamic foothold in power sector, he joined CPGCBL as Managing Director on 03 July 2018. Prior to this, he was the Chief Engineer, Private Generation (IPP/RPP) of Bangladesh Power Development Board.
Mr. Kibria possesses a graduation degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in 1984, having more than 32 (Thirty two) years of diverse experience in power sector to his credit.
He started his career with Bangladesh Power Development Board as Assistant Engineer in 1985. In his long service, he worked in various positions in the arena of Augmentation of Gird Substation, Grid Maintenance, Load Dispatch Division, Design & Inspection, Independent Power Producer (IPP) Cell-1&2 and other fields of Engineering.
He participated in many trainings and workshops at home and abroad as well as visited many countries as official delegate for training, joint venture projects, inspection of equipment & material and manufacturing process.
Mr. Kibria is a Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) and Life Member of the BUET Alumni.
Mr. Golam Kibria was born in a renowned Muslim family in Barishal District. He is married and blessed with two beloved daughters.
Md. Osman Gony Director, NWPGCL
Md. Osman Gony
Deputy Secretary, Power Division, MoPEMR
Md. Osman Gony is a Deputy Secretary in the Power Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources. He joined NWPGCL as a Director on September 14, 2019. He is a Member of the Audit & Finance Committee of the Company.
Mr. Osman has obtained B.Com. (Honours) and M.Com. degree in Accounting from the University of Dhaka. He has also attained another Masters degree in Public Policy from KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Seoul, Korea having concentration in trade and industrial policy.
Mr. Osman joined the Administration Cadre of Bangladesh Civil Service on 31st May of 2003. He has been working in Power Division since February 2017. Before joining Power Division, he worked in the Cabinet Division as well as field administration in different capacities. He also served the Bangladesh Bank (central bank of Bangladesh) prior to starting career in civil service. He has visited many countries for official purposes.
Engr. Md. Kamruzzaman Director, NWPGCL
Engr. Md. Kamruzzaman
Director (Operation & Mines), Petrobangla
Engr. Md. Kamruzzaman, Director (Operation & Mines) Petrobangla joined NWPGCL as a Director on June 12, 2019. He is a Member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Company.
Engr. Kamruzzaman has obtained B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1983. He has also completed various professional short courses at home and abroad during the long service period.
Engr. Kamruzzaman started carrier as Assistant Engineer in Directorate of Mechanical Equipment (DME) under Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) in 1984 where he had worked for 1 year during the initial construction of 210 MW Power Station at Ghorasal.
He Joined Bangladesh Gas Field Company Limited (BGFCL), a company of Petrobangla, in March, 1985. This Company has been derived from world famous Shell Oil Company. He worked there for 33 years in different capacities of the company's profile. He worked as Managing Director of this Company for more than 3 years from February, 2015 when BGFCL has been awarded as the best company among companies of Petrobangla for its excellent performance.
During the long period of service in BGFCL, Mr. Kamruzzaman has gained a vast experience in operation and maintenance of gas and condensate processing plants, gas field development planning, engineering, procurement and construction of gas production facilities and surface facilities, well drilling activities, gas reservoir management, wellhead compressor design and installation etc.
He joined Petrobangla, a corporation under Energy and Mineral Resources Division in June, 2018 as Director (Operation & Mines) where he is responsible for looking after all operational activities of 13 (Thirteen) companies under Petrobangla. He is also acting as Chief of LNG Cell where this cell is responsible for co-ordinating LNG operations and contract management relating to FSRU and LNG supply chain.
Engr. Kamruzzaman has attended numerous training programs in USA, England, Nederland, Egypt, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Australia, Japan and India for skill development.
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Mr. Md. Shaheen Ahamed joined NWPGCL as a Director on 25 August 2010.
He is the Chairman, Bangladesh Tanners Association, Dhaka and Managing Director, Kohinoor Tanneries Ltd. He is also the Managing Director of Escort Footwear (BD) Ltd. He is the President of the Leather Business Development Committee, FBCCI, Dhaka. He is also the Vice President of the Leather Sector Business Promotion Council. He has visited a good number of countries across the globe for dealing the business packages. He holds the prestigious positions in many social organizations and performs social welfare activities. He is a diligent personality.
Md. Sadrul Islam Director, NWPGCL
Md. Sadrul Islam
Director, RCCI, Rajshahi
Mr. Md. Sadrul Islam joined NWPGCL as a Director on 25 August 2010. He is a Member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Company.
He is a Director of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Rajshahi. He is a Member of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), Dhaka; Regional Transport Committee (RTC), Rajshahi and Metro Transport Committee (MTC), Rajshahi. He is a Vice-President of BD Inbound Tourism Association of Bangladesh. He is an adviser of Bangladesh Bricks Manufacturer Owners Association, Dhaka. He was an Ex-Director of BRTC. He has visited many countries for personal and business purposes. He is associated with many social organizations and performs social welfare activities. He is a man of pleasing personality.
Engr. A.M. Khurshedul Alam Director, NWPGCL (Ex-officio)
Engr. A.M. Khurshedul Alam
Director, NWPGCL (Ex-officio)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), NWPGCL
Engr. A.M. Khurshedul Alam, Chief Executive Officer, NWPGCL is the Ex-officio Director of the NWPGCL Board. He is also the Managing Director of Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt.) Limited. He is a Member of the Administrative Affairs Committee and the Technical & Engineering Committee of the Company. He is also a Director of the Board of Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) and a Member of the Technical & Engineering Committee of CPGCBL.
He came of a respectable Muslim family from Jamalpur District. He did his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from BUET in 1976. He has a rich and varied experience of over 42 years in engineering management. He caught the helm of North-West Power Generation Company Limited on 24.11.2008 and Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt.) Limited on 01.10.2014 in addition. He is responsible for overall administration, finance, corporate planning, business development and co-ordination of the Company. He is also responsible for development of rules, regulations, systems and legal functions and negotiations with commercial sources of credit for future expansion of the Company. He is the key architect to build and expand the brightest corporate image of the Company. Prior to his current assignment of Chief Executive Officer, he was an Additional Chief Engineer of Bangladesh Power Development Board and had held various posts in multifarious project works of BPDB.
Engr. A.M. Khurshedul Alam has received much prestigious recognition at home and abroad for his outstanding performance in power plant project management. For his transparent and innovative role in project implementation, he has been awarded the Integrity Award for the FY 2017-18 by the Government of the Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh. Moreover, under his dynamic leadership and close monitoring of the project activities, North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) has been declared as the Fastest Growing Power Generation Organization of Bangladesh and in this regard Hon'ble Prime Minister Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina awarded a trophy, a symbol of recognition, to him at the inauguration of the National Power & Energy Week, 2018.
He is privileged to take part in many high profile training courses, seminars, symposiums, workshops, meetings, inspections, factory tests at home and abroad. He is married and blessed with a daughter and a son.
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Park Narodowy Ypoá – park narodowy leżący w południowej części Paragwaju. Liczy 1000 km² powierzchni. Utworzony został 29 maja 1992. Obejmuje obszary podmokłe oraz jezioro Lago Ypoá.

Objęty konwencją ramsarską (site no 728) jako jeden z sześciu takich obszarów w kraju 1 stycznia 1995. Uznany za ostoję ptaków IBA w 2007.

Warunki naturalne
Średnia wysokość nad poziomem morza na terenie PN Ypoá wynosi 150 m. Park zawiera jezioro Ypoá, od którego pochodzi jego nazwa; akwen liczy blisko 260 km². Prócz tego utworzyły się dwa jeziora – Cabral, Verá. Na obszarze parku występują mokradła, bagna, lasy mieszane, lasy galeriowe, skupiska skalne i łąki. Średnia roczna suma opadów – 1400 mm.

Flora
W dokumencie o przyłączeniu PN Ypoá do obszarów objętych konwencją ramsarską wymieniono jako ważne następujące gatunki: Cedrela fissilis (meliowate), Tabebuia heptahylla (bignoniowate), Enterolobium contortisiliquum, Holocalyx balansae oraz Peltophorum dubium (bobowate), a jako występujące na obszarach podmokłych lub kożuchach roślinnych (islas flotantes) – Cyperus giganteum (ciborowate), Ludwigia (wiesiołkowate), erytrynę grzebieniastą (Erythrina crista-galli) (bobowate), Thalia geniculata (marantowate) oraz Ipomoea carnea (powojowate). Występują również grzybieńczyki (Nymphoides ssp.).

Fauna
Z dużych ssaków wymienić można narażonego na wyginięcie jelenia bagiennego (Blastocerus dichotomus), bliskiego zagrożenia wilka grzywiastego (Chrysocyon brachyurus) i kota pampasowego (Leopardus colocolo) o tym samym statusie. Powszechniej występuje wydra długoogonowa (Lontra longicaudis), kapibara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris), nutria (Myocastor coypus), opos Lutreolina crassicaudata, tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) oraz szop rakojad (Procyon cancrivorus). W parku żyją także mrówkojady wielkie (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), jelenie pampasowe (O. bezoarticus; bliski zagrożenia), ariranie (Pteronura brasiliensis; zagrożone), hirary (Eira barbara). Z gadów napotkać można kajmana szerokopyskiego (Caiman latirostris).

Awifauna
Ostoja ptaków została wyznaczona ze względu na występowanie trzech gatunków (wszystkich o statusie narażonych) – figlarzy flagosternych (Alectrurus risora), świergotka ochrowego (Anthus nattereri) oraz ziarnojadka kasztanowatego (Sporophila cinnamomea; jedynie na przelotach). Prócz tego występują np. penelopa ciemnonoga (Penelope obscura), nandu szare (Rhea americana), kusacz rdzawoskrzydły (Rhynchotus rufescens), karakara czarnbrzucha (Polyborus plancus), dzięcioł jasnoczuby (Celeus lugubris). Przez teren parku migruje również np. rybołów zwyczajny (Pandion haliaetus) oraz kanialuk jasnogłowy (Ictinia mississippiensis).

Przypisy

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These were the most discussed topics on Facebook in 2015
by Owen Williams — in Facebook
It's that time of year again when all the big companies toot their horn around how their service made an impact over the past year.
Year in Review by Facebook explores the most discussed items over the year with the US Presidential Election coming in first, followed by the November 13 Paris attacks and the Syrian civil war.
The site also breaks down other categories, such as entertainer, so you can see who created the most chatter on Facebook. Ed Sheeran edged out Taylor Swift for the top spot, but the list there also stars Caitlyn Jenner, the most famous openly transgender person in the world, in eighth place.
The most discussed movie was, naturally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and top TV show was Game of Thrones.
Facebook's mini-site also breaks down the most popular places people visited in many regions such as the United Kingdom and India, as well as other popular topics specifically shared in those places.
The top topics show that Facebook's push into the news, along with it focusing on more video and media content in the Newsfeed, has paid off and people are clearly discussing current events more on the service than in the past.
That said, many questions remain about how Facebook can stay impartial and encourage good journalism, as the algorithm behind Newsfeed continues to change and often favors quick-hit content over more serious topics.
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We spend a lot of time outdoors during the summertime. While sunshine and fresh air are good for a person at any age, it's important that seniors know how to stay safe while getting the benefits of the wonderful summer weather, and planning ahead is the best way you can help prevent emergencies before they happen. Here are five ways seniors can stay safe this summer while still enjoying some beautiful, sunny days outside.
During the summer, the sunshine and the increase in active insects can be dangerous to your health, so take steps to protect your skin from what nature throws at it. Insects are more than just uninvited pests that show up at your backyard barbecue; their bites and stings can cause infections, diseases, and in some individuals, a severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Find a bug spray or insect repellant that works best for you. If you have really sensitive skin, consider using area sprays, candles, and bug lights to cut down on summer party pests.
Whenever you are going to be spending a long amount of time outside, make sure you wear sunscreen, even on cloudy days. Too much exposure to harmful UVA and UVB rays can lead to an increase in wrinkles, dark spots, and can even cause skin cancer. The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends that you buy and use a sunscreen that protects against both UVA and UVB rays and that has somewhere between 30-50 SPF protection. Anything lower or higher does not protect against both types of UV rays.
Whenever it's hot and sunny outside, wear loose-fitting clothing that's designed to "breathe". Wear white or very light colors, because light colors repel sunshine, while darker colors will soak it up, heating your body. Read more about proper summer clothing here. Wearing a large sunhat or baseball hat can help to protect your face and eyes. If you are bald or have thinning hair, a hat will keep you from burning your scalp. Invest in a good pair of sunglasses that protect against both UVA and UVB rays.
It's important to have a daily exercise routine in order to stay healthy. However, when we move around a lot in the heat and the humidity, our bodies tend to heat up much faster than they do in cooler conditions. If you're going to be spending a considerable amount of time doing any sort of outdoor activity in the summertime, be it gardening, walking, or swimming, you need to make sure you stay safe while doing it. Make sure you wear the proper clothing for the activity. Take several short breaks, and stay hydrated by drinking plenty of healthy liquids, like water, 100 percent juice, or milk. Track the time that you spend outside, and don't stay out for extended periods. If at all possible, try to do outdoor activities in the early mornings or late evenings, when it is not as hot outside. Stay inside or in a shady, cool place during the hottest parts of the day.
If you're going to be spending any amount of time outside alone, even if it's just a short trip into your front yard to pick some tomatoes, take a cell phone with you and make sure that your trusted family and friends know where you're going to be and what you're doing. Exposure to high temperatures can result in life-threatening conditions, like heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and even death. Get to know your neighbors and ask them to check on you throughout the day when it's going to be especially hot and muggy out. Keep a list of emergency contacts with their names and phone numbers in an obvious location, like on your fridge or beside your home phone. In your cell phone, label all of your emergency contacts as "AA Emergency" followed by their name so that, in the event of an emergency, responding personnel will know who to contact (example: "AA Emergency Bob Smith").


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Cannabis, also known as marijuana (from the Mexican Spanish marihuana) and by other names, refers to preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug and as medicine. Chemically, the major psychoactive compound in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC); it is one of 400 compounds in the plant, including other cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol (CBD), cannabinol (CBN), and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), which can produce sensory effects unlike the psychoactive effects of THC. Marijuana is the herbal form of cannabis, and comprises the flowers, the subtending leaves, and the stalks of mature, pistillate female plants; hashish is the resinous, concentrated form of cannabis.
Contemporary uses of marijuana and cannabis are as recreational drug, as religious rite, as spiritual rite, and as medicine; the earliest recorded uses date from the 3rd millennium BC. In 2004, the United Nations estimated that global consumption of cannabis indicated that approximately 4.0 percent of the adult world population (162 million people) used cannabis annually, and that approximately 0.6 percent (22.5 million) of people used cannabis daily. In the early 20th century, the possession, recreational use, and sale of cannabis preparations containing psychoactive cannabinoids was made illegal in most countries of the world; nonetheless, the UN indicated that cannabis is the most used illicit drug in the world.
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Where are the elephants? Iridium helps the Smithsonian track them
Alan Burkitt-Gray
Satellite company Iridium has created what it calls a first-of-its-kind programme in support of a Smithsonian Institution conservation project.
The Movement of Life Initiative advances conservation through the science of animal tracking, and it is using Iridiumsatellite connections to help understand the threats to the survival of terrestrial, avian and marine life.
Jared Stabach, research ecologist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, said: "Many of the landscapes where we work are large and inaccessible on foot or by vehicle, areas where Iridium offers a reliable solution to collect data on wildlife and their movements."
Real-time data transmission allows teams in the field to respond to animals that are potentially in threat, he added.
Stabach, who is the terrestrial programme lead for the Movement of Life Initiative, said: "By collaborating with Iridium, we're better positioned to protect species and their habitats, providing information that informs conservation efforts on the ground."
Among the first species included in this programme are Asian elephants, Masai giraffes, jaguars, wildebeests, bobcats, and addax – a rare antelope native to the Sahara.
Animal location data enables conservationists to monitor positions and transmit data to research bases or park ranger outposts as required.
The conservationists themselves are using Iridium push-to-talk (PTT) devices to communicate reliably.
Iridium CEO Matt Desch said: "The Movement of Life's global animal conservation efforts are incredibly important for the protection of threatened and endangered species, and Iridium is uniquely qualified to help with on-the-ground efforts in an impactful way."
He added: "This partnership was a natural fit, and we're happy to join the Smithsonian in this important work and to play a part in better understanding the migrations of these animals and ecological impacts on their well-being."
Iridium partners including Applied Satellite Technology Ltd, Savannah Tracking, Ground Control and Vectronic Aerospace are supporting the project.
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THE SECRET OF RAVEN POINT
"The Secret of Raven Point is in many way an exploration of alternate histories—a war novel written with confidence, knowledge, and insight."
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1943: When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted older brother pleading for help, and then finds out he's been reported missing overseas, she lies about her age and volunteers as an army nurse to find him. Shy and awkward, Juliet is thrust into the bloody chaos of a field hospital, living in a sprawling encampment north of Rome where she forges new friendships with her fellow nurses and is increasingly consumed by the plight of her patients. One in particular, Christopher Barnaby, a deserter awaiting court martial, may hold the answer to her brother's fate—but the trauma of war has left him unable to speak. Racing against the clock, Juliet works with an enigmatic young psychiatrist, Henry Willard, to heal Barnaby's psychic wound before the authorities take him away and any clues as to her brother's fate are forever lost. Plunged into the horrifying depths of one man's combat memories, Juliet and Willard are forced to plumb the moral nuances of a so-called just war, and to face the dangers of their own deepening connection.
Reminiscent of Pat Barker's Regeneration, The Secret of Raven Point is a war saga capturing the experiences of soldiers after the battles have ended. And as few novels have done, it depicts the ravages of war through the eyes of a young woman.
In luminous prose, Vanderbes tells the story of one girl's fierce
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unrelenting violence. The Secret of Raven Point is historical fiction at its best: haunting, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting.