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IASbaba's Daily Current Affairs – 9th February, 2017
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SECURITY AND DIASPORA
Diaspora – Security concerns w.r.t. evacuations.
Understanding:
Previous experiences:
Measures to be initiated
Preparing a manual
Connecting the dots :
Time to formulate a law for data protection
Right to Privacy Bill, 2014
5 elements to design a privacy law
Use and process of data
Sharing and transfer of data
Rights of users
Supervision and redressal mechanism
Connecting the dots:
Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India's interests, Indian Diaspora
Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India's interests.
Role of external state and non?state actors in creating challenges to internal security
Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate
The Indian Diaspora is a generic term to describe the people who migrated from territories that are currently within the borders of the Republic of India. It also refers to their descendants. The Diaspora is currently estimated to number over twenty million composed of "NRIs" (Indian citizens not residing in India) and "PIOs" (Persons of Indian Origin who have acquired the citizenship of some other country).
The Diaspora covers practically every part of the world. It numbers more than a million each in eleven countries, while as many as twenty-two countries have concentrations of at least a hundred thousand ethnic Indians.
According to the latest United Nations estimates, 244 million people, or 3.3% of the world's population, live in a country other than the one where they were born. By far, the most popular destination in 2015 was the United States, followed by Germany, Russia and Saudi Arabia. But the ranking should not be viewed as a popularity contest. Saudi Arabia shows up because it hosts an enormous number of migrant workers, not immigrants who resettle, as in the United States.
Indians make up the largest diaspora: 16 million Indians are scattered across the world, which partly reflects the country's demographic size (1.2 billion) and youth (median age is around 26).
The increasing size and complexity of the diaspora requires the government to expand capacity and improve procedures. More than 11 million Indians now reside abroad and 20 million travel internationally every year.
As political instability rattles the West Asian region, which hosts more than seven million Indians, the government can no longer rely on heroic efforts by individual officials or quick-fix solutions. Despite extensive experience in conducting evacuation operations of its citizens abroad, India still needs to institutionalise best practices.
On January 26, 1986, as New Delhi celebrated its Republic Day, South Yemen was being engulfed in a civil war that threatened the lives of thousands of foreigners living there. While Britain, France and the Soviet Union coordinated to jointly evacuate their nationals, the 850 Indians in the country were forced to wait for several more days until New Delhi finally managed to convince a merchant ship to pick them up.
Fast forward almost 30 years, to April 2015, when Yemen was on fire once again. This time, however, the Indian government successfully conducted Operation Raahatto evacuate almost 5,000 Indians and nearly 1,000 citizens from 41 other countries. Besides Air India aircraft, the Indian Navy deployed vessels, and the Indian Air Force C-17 Globemasters for strategic airlift. Such unprecedented efforts and resources reflect New Delhi's new drive to protect the lives and assets of its citizens abroad in times of crisis.
First, the government will need to build on its rich experience in conducting more than 30 evacuation operations since the 1950s.
Studying India's history, best practices and lessons learned will help institutionalise them and avoid the need to reinvent the wheel every time a crisis erupts.
By supporting policy-oriented research at universities and think tanks to document the memory of senior officials, the government would also facilitate the transmission of their expertise to younger officials.
Second, the government must avoid the jugaad(careless or reactive)approach.
Every evacuation case is unique, given the specific nature and location of the crisis, but this should not preclude an analytical attempt to formulate a blueprint that lists core tasks for all operations.
An inter-ministerial committee should prepare a manual with guidelines that establish a clear chain of command and division of competencies; identify regional support bases, assembly points and routes for evacuation; develop country-specific warden systems to communicate with expatriates; and establish evacuation priority and embarkation criteria.
Third, India's diplomatic cadre must be given specific training to operate in hostile environments.
As pointed out by a senior government official, when it comes to operating in complex theatres, "practice and preparedness make perfection".
To achieve this, the government could instruct the police or army to train Indian Foreign Service probationers to operate in war zones; conduct frequent evacuation simulations and emergency drills; and create rapid reaction teams of Indian security personnel to be deployed to protect diplomatic staff and installations abroad.
Fourth, the success of future operations will also rely on New Delhi's willingness to work together with friendly governments.
India will have to invest in cooperative frameworks that facilitate coordination among countries that have large expatriate populations in West Asia, in particular Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and among leading powers with evacuation capacity in the Indian Ocean region.
Fifth, the government will have to assign a greater role to its armed forces, in particular by strengthening the Navy and Air Force's capacity to operate in tandem with civilian authorities.
It should, for example, direct the military to develop a non-combatant evacuation (NEO) doctrine, designate the Integrated Defence Staff as the nodal organisation to improve inter-services and civil-military coordination, direct the services to conduct more multilateral NEO exercises, and adapt military modernisation plans to increase capacity for out-of-area deployment and evacuation.
Sixth, to minimise redundancies, the government must institutionalise a permanent inter-ministerial coordinating mechanism for emergency evacuations, incentivise inter-agency cross-posting of officials dealing with diaspora affairs, and encourage State governments to create regional contingency plans.
Seventh, to avoid cost inflation and delays, the government must establish a permanent civil reserve air fleet that pools aircraft from all Indian airlines based on pre-established requisition and reimbursement procedures.
Eighth, the government will have to invest in new technologies to better monitor the diaspora's profile and mobility.
This can be achieved by encouraging more diplomatic missions to provide online consular registration forms, developing an online registration system for overseas travellers, utilising social media, and by making the Aadhaar card compulsory to facilitate biometric identity verification and reduce identity fraud during evacuation.
Finally, the government must expand efforts to manage public opinion and be able to conduct a quiet diplomacy that is crucial to safely extricate Overseas Indians from conflict zones.
To reduce domestic pressures, it should embed media representatives more frequently in such missions, reassure the diaspora by ensuring that high-level political representatives are personally engaged, and avoid raising expectations by clearly distinguishing Indian citizens from people of Indian origin.
India has extensive experience in conducting evacuation operations, but to secure the lives and assets of Indians abroad, the government must avoid an ad hoc approach and seek to institutionalise best practices, bolster diplomatic and military capabilities, and improve coordination.
With changing global security situation and dispersed Indian diaspora evacuation operations in recent times have been testing. Critically analyse the need for a comprehensive policy in this direction. Give you sketch of a probable policy dimension.
Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life
Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
Government's push to 'go cashless', growing pervasiveness and penetration of Aadhar and the age of Big data has led to re-emergence of interest in privacy and data protection in India.
Big Data= extremely large data sets that may be analysed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to human behaviour and interactions.
There are multiple laws which have impact on privacy of individuals- Information Technology Act, Aadhaar Act, Right to Information Act, and various other delegated legislation.
But there is no comprehensive law or policy on privacy or data protection in India.
The Right to Privacy bill, 2014 has been lying redundant and has no future dim hope as the government has set no timelines for its reconsideration or re-enactment.
The issue of privacy law arose when government of India said in the Supreme Court that "violation of privacy doesn't mean anything because privacy is not a guaranteed right", actually arguing that the citizens of India do not have a fundamental right to privacy.
The Right to Privacy Bill, 2014 guaranteeing citizen against the misuse of personal data by government or private agencies was being prepared by central government. The objective was to uphold Article 21 of Constitution that states sensitive personal data need not be disclosed by an individual without prior consent to the data subject.
This is a constitutional assurance provided for every citizen in India against misuse of personal data.
The draft bill is yet to be discussed by the stakeholders and difference of opinions have to be solved.
The penalty clause of the bill proposes enhancement of penalties of Rs 2 crore against any person or agencies in illegally using the personal data. Any official of telecom service provider is found guilty in misusing the personal data is subject to penalty of Rs 50 lakhs, illegally obtained personal information on false pretext is also subject to penalty of 50 lakhs. Stealth of personal data on the first attempt is subject to 10 lakhs and on repeated act penalty is enhanced to 20 lakhs.
Though the bill is to protect personal data of an individual and ensuring privacy it has a proposed clause to exempt the intelligence and law enforcement agencies from its ambit. The special exemption clause in the bill states exemption of intelligence authorities from the scrutiny of Data Protection Authority. The bill aims at the scrutiny of intelligence agencies only by competent court.
Hence, with the growing use of digital content, there is a glaring gap that needs to be filled legally.
The law should require the entities that collect the data to specify the purpose of collecting the data.
The users should be provided with 'opt-out' clause so that they can withdraw their content from data collection.
In Aadhar Act, Lok Sabha rejected the amendment that sought to introduce an opt-out clause which allowed the biometric and demographic information of the Aadhaar-number holder to be deleted. This has left the citizens with the unsettling feeling of having surrendered their biometrics permanently.
The laws should specify the manner and form of preserving data, the time limits for retention and whether they recognize the "right to be forgotten".
Data is consistently being collected- actively through giving user information while registering for an app and passively through GPS tracking of movements on Google Maps, etc.
Today, Big Data technologies have made it easy to extrapolate personal information about individuals. For example, a recent study found that an individual's Facebook "likes" reveal, with a reasonable accuracy, their ethnicity, religious and political leanings, sexual orientation, and personality traits.
Thus, data collection limitation (how much information one reveals about itself) is not enough. The law has to focus on putting limitation on usage of data also by controlling how data controllers can use the information collected about their users. The onus has to be on entities that collect and control the data.
This may also involve formulating rules of proportionality and the narrow modifying of exceptions that will govern the balancing of competing interests.
India can also learn from European Union (EU) initiatives on data protection "by design" and "by default", which focus on improving default privacy settings so as to reduce subsequent regulatory intervention.
Currently there is no regulatory framework to control how data is shared by the data controller with third parties.
Also there is no consideration of the different standards that govern the sharing of information with governmental and non-governmental entities, both within India and abroad.
Indian law has to be able to deal with situations such as the Facebook-WhatsApp data-sharing policy (for commercial benefits) or the Apple-Federal Bureau of Investigation stand-off (for law enforcement).
The data privacy law should also recognise the rights of users.
Though it is yet to be decided if right to privacy is a constitutional right or not, but it is necessary that right to privacy atleast becomes a statutory right.
Once again, EU Privacy law can become a guide here by recognising
Rights to data quality– ensuring accuracy of personal data by allowing individuals access and correction rights
Data integrity– ensuring security of data
Data-breach notification– requiring users to be informed of any privacy-related breaches
Data portability– allowing users to transmit their personal data across service providers
The success of any law depends on enforcement. More than focussing on writing laws, much attention should be given to effectiveness of redressal mechanisms.
For example, in Aadhar Act, only UIDAI is permitted to initiate criminal action and not the Aadhaar number holder.
Adding to it, the accompanying regulatory order envisages a grievance redressal "contact centre". However, the actual process of redress and the binding nature of such a mechanism is left unspecified.
If the "Privacy Right" has to be taken beyond "Data Protection", it is necessary to define
"Privacy" as a "Sense of personal liberty felt by an individual without the constraints felt by him as radiated by people around him".
The availability and disclosure of data about an individual to the people around is the prime reason for these constraints to be felt by the individual. Hence one of the concepts of Privacy is to give the right to the individual to control how much of the information about himself he would try to share with others.
Thus as part of privacy protection mechanism, there can be three classifications "Personal Data, "Sensitive Personal Data" and "Essential Data". This classification is expected to provide a better foundation for regulation.
The new laws have to be broad enough to ensure their wide applicability and simultaneously flexible enough to adapt to technological changes. Along with it, their application to state and private sector, their different standards of application should also be clearly demarcated.
India has to be compliant with globally accepted privacy and data-protection standards so as to ensure utmost priority to privacy of a common individual.
Should there be right to privacy? Discuss.
Data protection is one of the key elements for a robust cyber policy. Analyse.
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North eastern Libya (referred to as Cyrenaica) is located on the southern margin of Mediterranean Sea and on the northern margin of the African plate. It is divided into two distinctive tectonic provinces. These are the stable Cyrenaica platform to the south and Al Jabal Al Akhdar uplift to the north. The upper Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of Cyrenaica contain several potential reservoir and seal rocks.
Several phases of epeirogenic movement have produced the troughs and horst blocks or platforms of the north African region since the Precambrian. At least seven major tectonic phases have beeb recorded: the Pan-African Orogeny, the Infracambrian extension, the Cambrian to Carboniferous alternating extension and compression, the mainly Late Carbonifeous 'Hercynian' intraplate uplift, the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic and the Early Cretaceous rifting, the Late Cretaceous-Tertiary 'Alpine' compression and the Oligo-Miocene rifting (Craig, et al., 2004). These tectonic Events controlled the subsequent sedimentation history of NE Libya.
Major structural features of Cyrenaica.
The only commercial hydrocarbons discovered so far in northeast Libya are in the Ash Shulaydimah Trough and the offshore area that includes the A1-NC 120 well. The commercial oil discovered so far has a possible source in the Paleocene and is trapped in reservoirs found in the base of the Eocene as in the well B1-41.
North-South cross-section of Cyrenaica. Libya.


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Q: Remover Primeiro Nome e Último Nome de um Nome Completo Estou usando o comando SUBSTRING_INDEX para pegar o primeiro nome e o último nome de um campo da tabela "Nomes".
SELECT
SUBSTRING_INDEX(nome_completo, ' ', 1) AS primeiro_nome,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(nome_completo, ' ', -1) AS ultimo_sobrenome
FROM `nomes`

Só que preciso colocar todos os outros sobrenomes no campo "nomes_do_meio".
Ex: João Pedro da Silva Souza Queiroz
primeiro_nome = "João"
ultimo_nome = "Queiroz"
nomes_do_meio = "Pedro da Silva Souza"
Se alguém souber fazer isso no SQL eu agradeço (pois no PHP é mais fácil hehe).

A: Tente algo assim:
select
SUBSTRING_INDEX(nome_completo, ' ', 1) as primeiro_nome,
SUBSTRING(nome_completo,LOCATE(' ',nome_completo) + 1,char_length(nome_completo) - LOCATE(' ', REVERSE(nome_completo)) - LOCATE(' ',nome_completo)) as nomes_do_meio,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(nome_completo, ' ', -1) as ultimo_sobrenome,
nome_completo
from nomes;

O nome João Pedro da Silva Souza Queiroz tem 33 caracteres char_length(nome_completo), o primeiro espaço aparece na posição 5 LOCATE(' ',nome_completo), o último espaço na posição 8 contanto de trás para frente LOCATE(' ', REVERSE(nome_completo)). Para pegar apenas os caracteres entre o primeiro e o último espeço, basta pegar a partir da primeira vez que aparece o espaço(posição 5) e somar mais um, para ficar na posição 6 LOCATE(' ',nome_completo) + 1, depois pegar somente o total de caracteres sem a contar com a primeira e a última vez que aparece o espaço em branco LOCATE(' ',nome_completo) + 1,char_length(nome_completo) - LOCATE(' ', REVERSE(nome_completo)) - LOCATE(' ',nome_completo)
João Pedro da Silva Souza Queiroz
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A: Acredito que não seja a forma adequada, porém funcional:
SELECT
    SUBSTRING_INDEX(nome_completo, ' ', 1) AS primeiro_nome,
    SUBSTRING_INDEX(nome_completo, ' ', -1) AS ultimo_sobrenome,
    TRIM(REPLACE(REPLACE(nome_completo,'',primeiro_nome),'',ultimo_sobrenome)) AS nomes_do_meio
FROM `nomes`

Referências

TRIM
REPLACE

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Today's wedding features an amazing wedding at a family farm that boasts a stunning bride and groom. The couple had the farm for the whole weekend and glamped with the bridal party. I am not a huge camper but I could definitely be a glamper. I can't get over the magical feel of the wedding from the lights in the trees to the amazing arbor filled with lights. It's stunning, check out more below.
How did the two of you meet? We met when we were teenagers doing community theatre but didn't start dating until we were 18. It was a showmance where I was the Assistant Director and he was the Musical Director! That was in 2006.
Describe your engagement: In 2016 was living in the UK for work and Andrew stayed living in Australia. He came over to visit me and we went away for a weekend to Bovey Castle in Devon. We went for a walk on the grounds when we arrived and Andrew said there was a song he wanted me to listen to. He's a musician and he'd written me a song as we walked down an aisle that led up to a pergola. When we got to the pergola he got down on one knee and proposed.
Personal or handmade details: Our bombonieres were a CD which featured both the music used in our wedding and then a number of songs that Andrew had written for me over the course of our relationship. My wedding ring was made of several pieces of jewelry that were already in my family, a brooch of my Grandma's and rings and necklaces of my Uncle and Grandpa's. Our Mum's play piano duets together and whilst we were signing the marriage register they played a piano duet.
Describe your flowers: I wanted really bright rainbow colors against the neutral grey/silver the bridal party were in. Our florist did an amazing job, they were so beautiful.
The thing that we would have done differently is? It was pretty much perfect, the only thing we would change is very small – we had most of our photos before the ceremony which we would definitely recommend to others. I just wish we'd used our bouquets in those photos! They were beautiful and I would've loved more photos with them in.
What has surprised you most during the first few months of marriage? We'd been together for 12 years before we got married and already owned a house together, etc so fundamentally not much has changed but we've loved sharing such a special moment with all our friends and family. It was a wonderful excuse for a big party and an amazing holiday in Greece!


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Pierre Folk's "By the Silent Line"
"This is how we look. This is how we feel."
"BuzzFeed, a bunch of photo stealing, copyright infringing, scapegoating, miserable, tight, fucks."
Detroit: "an American city in a state of mummification"
"The 21st century might be the most documented but least saved."
"It seems like photographing in public is becoming a crime."
Alex Profit's "Around the World in 2000 Pictures"


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Athletics - Emerson Lions
Athlete Bio Form
Fitness Center Waiver
Game Calendars
Video Live Stream (YouTube)
ECS Photos (Facebook)
ECS Videos (YouTube)
Women's Basketball's Strong Defense Earns Victory Over Wildcats
Johnson & Wales (RI)
Johnson & Wales (RI) (7-3, 0-0) 4 8 10 9 31
Emerson (6-4, 0-0) 20 23 20 14 77
Pts: Maddy Moro - 9
Reb: Maddy Moro - 9
Ast: Tiondra Hands - 2
Pts: Rachel Davey - 20
Reb: Natalie Clydesdale - 7
Score: Emerson 77, Johnson & Wales 31
Records: Emerson Lions (6-4, 0-0 NEWMAC) ; Johnson & Wales (RI) Wildcats (7-3, 0-0 GNAC)
Location: Boston, Mass. (Brown & Plofker Gym)
The Lead: The Emerson Women's Basketball team defeated the Johnson & wales Wildcats in their last home game fothe decade on Saturday afternoon. A balanced attack led by 20 points from Rachel Davey (Saratoga, Fla.) and strong defense helped the lions to the 46 point victory.
Rachel Davey: 20 Points, 5 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steal, 7/10 Shooting
Sam Boyle (Scotts Valley, Calif.): 12 Points, 3 Rebounds, 3 Steals, 2 Assists
Katie Beckmann (Sarasota, Fla.): 7 Points, 6 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steal, 1 Block
Maddy Moro: 9 Points, 9 Rebounds
Britney Gallagher: 8 Points, 2 Rebounds
Johnson and Wales opened the scoring in the first quarter on a Moro layup, taking their lone lead of the game at 2-0. From this basket, Emerson rattled off 20 straight points behind three pointers from Davey and Ashley Toner (Barnegat, N.J.). The wildcats got back on the board on a Gallagher layup with 24 seconds left in the quarter, and the Lions took a 20-4 lead into the first break.
Emerson continued their strong defensive play, going on an 11-4 run to start the quarter with two layups from Boyle to lead the team in the run. The Lions closed out the quarter on another run, this time at 12-6 behind eight points from Davey who had two of her three made three pointers in the run.
In the second half, Emerson was able to control the rest of the game and keep building on their lead. The Lions outscored the Wildcats in every quarter, including by 10 in the third quarter and by five in the fourth quarter. The Lions closed out the game with a 77-31 victory.
Emerson gets back in action in the Puerto Rico Clasico on December 9th against Lancaster Bible. The Lions will play a second game in the tournament two days later against local opponent UMASS Boston.

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Woman bitten by shark in southern Nigeria
By: Helmut|Published on: Oct 10, 2012|Categories: Shark Attacks - Related Incidents| 1 comment
Shark attacks woman in Delta
BY FESTUS AHON, Vanguard,
UGHELLI—A 38-year-old woman, identified as Mrs. Torugbene-Ere Aboh, escaped death by the whiskers, following a violent attack on her by a shark at Forcados River in Oboro Community, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.
Vanguard gathered that the woman, a mother of five, who was taking her bath in the overflowing river, had gone for a three-day fasting programme in a church in the community, when she was attacked by the shark in the river.
Narrating her ordeal, Mrs Aboh, said: "Shortly after I started bathing, I felt a sharp cut on my right leg and I screamed for help. The screaming drew the attention of my brethren who were also in the river and they came to my rescue.
"I was immediately taken to a nearby patent medicine shop, where I was given 12 stitches before I was later taken by my husband, to a private clinic at Bomadi, for proper medical treatment."
Source: vanguardngr.com
Nathan	on October 16, 2012 at 6:45 am
Probably aa Zambezi, bull shark oouch!!!!


Here's a roundup of all the big results involving Indian players on the ATP Challenger and ITF circuit.
Even as India's campaign at Wimbledon came to an end when Divij Sharan and his partner Artem bowed out in the quarter-finals, there was lot for Indian tennis fans to cheer as Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi advanced to the semi-final and quarter-finals at their respective ITF events.
Here's a roundup of all the big results involving Indian players on the ATP Challenger and ITF circuit through the week.
Ankita Raina, India's highest ranked female tennis players, advanced to the semi-finals at the ITF $25K tournament in Thailand with a 6-1,6-4 Tamaryn Hendler. The second seed will take Han Na-lae for a place in the women's singles final. In the women's doubles, she and her partner Jang Su-jeong went down in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Karman Kaur Thandi, who won her first title on the ITF circuit last month, reached the quarter-finals at the ITF $25K event in Tianjin, China. The third seed beat Xu Liu Sun 6-2,6-4 and will play fifth seed Xun Fangying next. In the women's doubles, Thandi and her Indian partner Rutuja Bhosale went down in the quarter-final to third seed Xu Shilin and Naiktha bains 6-1, 6-2. Bhosale had lost in the first round of singles earlier this week.
At ITF $15K tournament in Hong Kong, Zeel Desai, seeded second lost to Ayumi Koshiishi 5-7, 1-6 in the quarter-final, while Ashmitha Easwaramurthi went down to fourth seed Ho Ching Wu 6-3, 6-1. Koshiishi had beaten another Indian, Prerna Bhambri, in the earlier round.
However Desai is still in contention in the doubles with partner Akari Inoue after a 7-5, 6-3 win over Eudice Chong and Man Ying Maggie Ng.
Mahak Jain, seeded fifth reached the semi-finals of the ITF $15K event in Solo, Indonesia with a 6-3 6-1 Yexin Ma. She is the only Indian left in the draw after Sai Samhitha Chamarthi, Rishika Sunkara, Snehal Mane, Saumya Vig, Nithya Raj Babu Raj Bhuvana Kalva lost in the singles.
On the Challenger circuit, third seed Ramakumar Ramanathan collapsed to a 0-6 4-6 loss to Evgeny Karlovskiy at the Winnetka Challenger. Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and his partner Austin Krajieck beat Mitchell Krueger and Alex Lawson 6-3, 6-3 at the same event.
Vishnu Vardhan and N Sriram Balaji, who had made their Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon, reached the semi-final of the Braunschweig Challenger. They notched a come from behind win against second seeds Andrés Molteni and Roman Jebavy 6-7, 6-4, 10-8.
Sumit Nagal retired mid-match at the Bastad Challenger against Filip Horansky after losing the first set 2-6.
Dalwinder Singh and Suraj R Prabodh failed to qualify in the singles for the Winnipeg Challenger in Canada. Evan Song beat Singh 6-3, 6-1 while Mikael Torpegaard beat Prabodh 6-0, 6-3.
Aryan Goveas and Karunuday Singh lost in the first round at a F10 Futures event in China. Playing doubles together, they lost in the quarter-final.


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TIME OUT! POETRY AND THE NATIONAL HOLIDAYS and NATIONAL SPIRIT: OR, GRATITUDE FOR GENIUSES
Posted on November 29, 2011 by Sara Hughes
In Memory of Ruth Stone, b. 1915, d. Nov 19, 2011
And honoring Robert Hass, former poet laureate, Library of Congress
"Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind." Georg Simmel
Thanksgiving, Football, Pumpkins, Shopping, a Little Time Out! It is not so much being thankful for what makes us happy; being thankful is the root of happiness. Being thankful comes first, if we listen to our poets, and we should! Listen! W.S. Merwin's "Thanks", Marvin Bell, e.e. cummings, Rachel Hurt, Walt Whitman. . .
We're ready for a Time Out, aren't we, just finishing Thanksgiving, and I'm pondering how poetry is like a holiday, it's a different pace and kind of activity, it slows us down from the ordinary pulse of life, when we read or write it, it stops the action, like the slo mo or freeze frame of a football play (I've been watching a lot of football lately), it puts the present moment into focus, it intensifies it, so that we focus on this one train of thought, this one consideration, this one kind of happening thought, like a mind event, and perhaps like a Yoga pose, it strengthens us, as we are holding the position, perhaps it's a lot like strength training, a core workout, for the mind and spirit. And at the same time we travel during it, it moves us, not just emotionally, but takes us on a journey, begins us with a line, and our eyes and ears enter this experience; so that it happens to us, we are not just spectators. It becomes part of our way of thinking, the tradition of our being.
POETRY IS MIND WORK, TIME OUT, PAUSE
I was at a conference on the neuroscience of learning, brain-based learning, with about 700 educators from disciplines ranging from physics and math and computers to theater and psychology and history and sociology, the Lilly Conference on teaching and learning, as its Poet in Residence, and it struck me not only how many poems are actually about learning, and cause learning—and I read you some last week, including my poem on Zumba class, I'm shaking it I'm making it but the woman in the mirror doesn't move at all, how hard we can be working, but it isn't always apparent what's going on inside, momentous effort . . . —
But also how poems are good for our minds. They work our left and right brains, firing up our centers for rhythm and computation and visual thinking and auditory and words, and most of all, they Occupy our minds fully, with sound and meaning. So in a way they are a time out, in a way they are the pause to ponder the movement that goes by so fast in a blur, and like football, if you're like me you don't even know where to look, to know what's happening, you have to go back and see it over and over, from every angle, and you can look at the image, and it reveals what is too hurried to see in real time—how leaping bodies even for this one moment fly—
And when we have a national holiday, it makes us slow down as a whole people. In the past days I have been reflecting on poetry in our civic life, walking around Washington, D.C., how poets and poetry are at the heart of action, when we see our national life on pause: seeing it literally in the heart of movements such as the Occupy Movement, poems recited, poems in the library tent with its own section at Occupy Washington, poems engraved in the pavement at Freedom Square, on Pennsylvania Avenue, right across from the Willard Hotel where Emily Dickinson stayed when she visited her Congressman father, and just down the street, at the White House, poetry written and read. Poetry has nourished and sustained us with words that matter. It has changed the world. It is at the heart of the nation's pulse. I have received word that colleague Robert Hass, UC Berkeley professor of poetry and former poet laureate of Library of Congress, alongside his wife, who was knocked down, and fellow poets roughed up, was beaten on the steps of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley, where he and his wife had gone to see if they could help protect students:
One of my colleagues, also a poet, Geoffrey O'Brien, had a broken rib. Another colleague, Celeste Langan, a Wordsworth scholar, got dragged across the grass by her hair when she presented herself for arrest. . .
The next night the students put the tents back up. Students filled the plaza again with a festive atmosphere. And lots of signs. (The one from the English Department contingent read "Beat Poets, not beat poets.") . . . On Thursday afternoon when I returned toward sundown to the steps to see how the students had responded, the air was full of balloons, helium balloons to which tents had been attached, and attached to the tents was kite string. And they hovered over the plaza, large and awkward, almost lyrical, occupying the air. [You can actually see these images, Poetry Slow Down, an imaginative action, flying and floating tents, making sky a habitat of hope for national conversation, and The New York Timesarticle concludes, Robert Hass is a professor of poetry and poetics at the University of California, Berkeley, and former poet laureate of the United States.
In an earlier poem he had written that he is amazed he has lived to a venerable old age, with miraculous escapes, for which he has gratitude to God . . . .
So today, let's think of this saying, how gratitude does not come from being happy, but being happy comes from being grateful. Let's explore the connection between gratitude and happiness through poetry. So we're going for a mind workout, holding a Yogic pose of attention, into slow mo, the mind in flight, catching the image, holding onto it, with all these forces trying to wrest it from the conscious mind– and then what to do with the image, take it farther, farther down the field, and score, get us somewhere to cheer about . . .
And Ruth Stone—we honor her today—she was born in 1915, and just died at age 96 in Vermont—I knew her as a poet at Indiana University in the early 1970s. The Ruth Stone Poetry Prize was won last year by Rochelle Hurt, "Third Surgery," with all the pain and worry and fear invoking a spirit, perhaps a helpless spirit, perhaps a fierce, fiercely held spirit, of gratitude.
C. K. Chesterson said, I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~ So let's slow down, for poetry of gratitude, for wherever you are,you're there—and that makes it human and heart and mind in flow. Thinking of Robert Hass and poets everywhere, of all time—it sounds as if it were written this week, but Merwin wrote this decades ago: "Thanks."
W.S. Merwin, "Thanks"
So here is a question. Merwin is piling on images of things we think, of course, we are thankful for: but he's also including hospitals and funerals, all the things you and I are worried about, and feel sorrow about, personal and national and global, immediate and historical wrongs and injustice and tragedies, to earth and each other. In his poem animals are dying, the forests are disappearing, there are beatings, there is the 1 percent who he says will never change, and nobody is listening, and yet, he includes us in this, we are saying thank you, as dark is coming down, we are saying thank you and waving dark though it is. So the question is what being thankful means, when, where, what, why, how, at what point we say thank you, given our suffering, our awareness of suffering—do we have to have blinders to say thank you, to have gratitude, do we turn a blind eye to wrong and sorrow? What quality of mind and of thinking go into gratitude?Listen, he says: asking us to open to what he has to say. Listen, with the night falling we are saying thank you, well, listen up, this is remarkable! So he describes us in mid-stream of our lives, maybe Dante's dark wood in midlife, building up a sense of momentum of all of this, piled, layered in consciousness, for thanks for every darn thing. Thankyouthankyouthankyou. Does this make us idiots? Gratitude for dummies?
This accumulation by Merwin, of wounds to earth and humanity, things we endure that make for unhappiness, makes it moving and shocking then to hear, in spite of all this going wrong, "We go on saying thank you thank you. . . we are saying thank you. . . .faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you we are saying thank you and waving dark though it is." We say it even though it is Simon and Garfunkle's "people talking without listening," and yet, we, WE, listen to the poet, who years after he wrote this was named Poet Laureate of the U.S. Library of Congress, formed out of Thomas Jefferson's library, to advise Congress and our whole country. To say thank you, to express gratitude: this is an act of magnitude, of complexity, perhaps simplicity, of power of mind, of submission of mind, what is required to go on, or, a signal grace? And what does it mean that in our civic culture, a national holiday is given over to thanks. Yet thanksgiving goes on year round in poetry, this holiday of the mind, this bringing to our consciousness something intrinsic about our day, inextricable from our being. What is the connection between poetry, the taking time to write a poem and reflect on something about living, and thanks-giving? Nietzsche says the essence of all art, all beauty, is gratitude.
More on the philosophy of poetry, football, and thanksgiving: Anne Porter, A List of Praises,
So in this case, we make a list of those things that come into consciousness. What if we each made such a list Poetry Slow Down, of the things for which we are grateful, if we take it down to the nano level, the smallest things . . .
Nothing is too small to notice and be grateful for (See "Dusting" by Marilyn Nelson, "Wild Gratitude" by Edward Hirsch.) We hear Rumi's "What Was Told, That," and Eleanor Lerman's "Starfish." We hear Charles Bernstein, Thank you for saying thank you and excerpts from Naomi Shihab Nye. We hear Hilarie Jones's "The Teacher," and then poems of gratitude wisdom by poets in old age, Stanley Kunitz and Walt Whitman.
This hour, this moment: we don't put it off any longer, we pay attention now; we say thanks; we have gratitude; it is all consciousness! And so, speaking of gratitude and saying thanks as a way of being, we discuss Mary Oliver's way of gratitude through her poetry, telling us the questions that will open us to gratitude, and about her work as a "Messenger:" "My work is loving the world." I know that I read it to you often, but check out Gerald Stern's "Grapefruit." It is a great gratitude poem.
So we start with football as a way of being present in the moment, in slo mo, the pause, the freeze frame, a way of holiday, of taking time OUT, making time be known and lived; of paying attention; and gratitude, thanks-giving . . . and the poems expressing thanks, are a way of happiness. A poem is this moment, making the morning last, as our poet Paul Simon says. It seems, from e.e. cummings' poem, beginning with i thank You God for most this amazing [day], and ending with, and now the ears of my ears are awake AND NOW the eyes of my eyes are open—or the other way, I always mix it up, my eyes of my eyes are awake and my ears of my ears are open—it is that giving thanks, thanks-giving, BEGINS the process, readying us, preparing us to receive the benefits of the day, by being awake and open, to what there is to see and hear, from inside out: because if it is the ears of our ears and the eyes of our eyes, it is the interior capacity we have to process our world, to take it in, to make of it something, as the poet, which means "maker" in Greek, the origin of the word, makes the poem: the poem, like the football game on a holiday weekend, devoted to slowing down, to give thanks, to enjoy our time and be conscious of it, of all that nourishes us, of all that we can find good. To say thanks in this way expresses the spirit and begins what I believe is our human duty of gratitude, of living purposely with joy and reverence and awe for the gift of consciousness of being alive on this earth, now, in this form.
POETRY AS FOOTBALL AND VICE VERSA, A PHILOSOPHY OF INTERPRETING
To say thanks is to bring our moment to NOW, and like the football game, which is one extended metaphor, we stop and watch; and like a poem, it is organized into a beginning, middle, and end, divided up, like a sonnet, into quatrains, with a march and velocity and rhthym, and ebb and flow, tides of passion and striving and earnest effort. And I thought of a way that football and our thanksgiving holiday slow down poetry all go together in one metaphorical gaphlomb! We are thankful for the people who catch our passes even when our throw is not that accurate, the people who pass to us even if we don't always catch it, the people who get it to us and let us run for the glory, the people who make that run for us, the people who have our back, and protect and block for us, and tackle and bring down obstacles in our path, and the people who give us advice, and cheer us on, and challenge us, and the people who teach us and ready us for the strength and endurance and resilience we need to be on this field, playing with all our hearts, the people who say to us, as Coach Eric Taylor says in Friday Night Lights which for me will never end, play always with the philosophy of clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. Buddha says we become what we think. Just thinking with gratitude—this consciousness–opens us to the poem that can be made of our lives, and the way it slows us down to see what is happening, what is there, to think metaphorically. Einstein is anticipated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, our own national philosopher of everyday genius, who says wisdom is expressing gratitude for the ordinary as extraordinary; so it is a feat of imagination, of artistry really, being grateful as creative thinking, expressing it as the heart of creativity which has become religion and philosophy and culture. We can read these poems as a way to open us, as e.e. cummings would say, to the gratitude of our gratitude. Dr. Masuru Emoto's work with water crystals—did you see What the Bleep Do We Know? –He put the words love and thanks for us to see as we gaze on water and photograph the effects of these words. There is science on the power of words to affect our minds, on the power of words in how we see and think . . .
FLASH MOB SCENE
And as we begin a season of festivals of light and birth of civic and community cultures around the world, with thanksgiving, I am thinking of a phenomenon which is so wonderful in transforming what we might think of as our everyday quotidian lives . . . the Flash Mob, in which, we might be standing in line at the bank, or pulling our roll-ey at the airport, or crossing a city plaza, and so we're not thinking of anything, just stressed, pressed for time, in a hurry, not happy, on your way to, not "there" yet, wherever you are, and something hap-pens: the person next to you bursts into song, or a dance step, or a line, and then someone else, who was acting and looking quite ordinary, invisible, you didn't even notice, suddenly in this public space of no man's land, is Shakespeare, Gershwin, Michael Jackson on the public mind, and the next thing you know, it's a scene, literally, it's a stage, and you're on the stage, you're part of it, it's all around you, song and dance and poetry, and it's contagious, people are putting down their suitcases and stopping, and watching, and then joining in, and it's a community celebration of the human imagination and capacity for joy, for rhythm and making something beautiful in the day, in our life . . . like how I think of our Poetry Slow Down, how you, in your busy day today, in the middle of everything, literally stop, make time for, slowing down, to listen to poetry. And like the Flash Mob, so exhilarating, transforming the moment into something so special and extraordinary, with expressive arts, we realize that this capacity in us to enjoy, to behold, to gaze and ponder and wonder and simply be happy, is there all the time.
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLASH MOB IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU DECEMBER 9, 2011
(Details to be provided as clues)
And I saw the film Elf last night as part of network tv movie offering for the holiday, and it ends with someone singing a song in Central Park and people everywhere, in the park and watching the tv news, start joining in, making the moment last. So I am going to be bringing some Flash Mob action to the Central Coast of California, KRXA 540AM terrain, in the coming weeks, so be on the lookout for ordinary people quoting poetry in public places, I'll be giving you some clues next week and on my website atBarbaraMossberg.com, and on Facebook, and on our show . . .
CELEBRATE EMILY DICKINSON'S BIRTHDAY DECEMBER 10, CHERRY CENTER, CARMEL, CA
and I want to invite you also, if you are on this Coast, to come to my annual reading of Emily Dickinson's poetry in celebration of her birthday, December 10, at the Cherry Center, Carmel's theater since 1948, and I will be baking gingerbread from her recipe and using 19th century baking technology, and we'll sing, and I'll tell you more about it next week on our show as well, and I love doing this show, I started doing in wherever I was in the world, in 1976, 35 years ago! And it came from waking up on the day of her birthday, many years ago, and feeling this sense of such gratitude for her poetry. I would get up early and I would think about her poetry and the immensity of my gratitude for this in my life, her words, giving profound beauty and wisdom to how I see the world and my life. So on this day of concluding our show on thanksgiving, and concluding this civic holiday, I would like to end with lines from a poem for which I give thanks, and in so doing, open myself for happiness: I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. These late November mornings have orange and pink ribbons in them: what a way to begin the day, with thanks for words that point our attention to the day's promise, a gift-wrapped, ribbon festooned gift, and opening it, opening ourselves to it, is cause for happiness. Poetry Slow Down, thank you for your ears, joining me on this journey, thank you Producer Sara Hughes and KRXA 540AM, I am Professor Barbara Mossberg, and I have enjoyed slowing down with you. Thank you!
© Barbara Mossberg 2011
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Well done everyone who correctly identified the building in the above photograph as – 'The Most Haunted House in England' – Borley Rectory!
The connection to Conversations with Sprits being Harry Price; a character in the book - and the real-life psychic investigator at Borley.
Well done – Ian Williams!
You were plucked from literally ones of entrants from my big hat this morning.
Thank you all for getting involved.
I will be putting a post in my shed about Borley Rectory later today.
I knew that the time spent in my formative years reading encyclopedias of ghosts and hauntings wasn't wasted. Looking forward to my first taste of De Kuyper's finest Cherry Brandy - I shall raise a glass or three to you all!
I was more of an Usbourne 'Book of Ghosts' man, myself.
There was a story in it about an Irish warehouse that was filled with ghostly hats.
J F Derry would like it pointed out that, in fact, he did not answer correctly.
J F Derry was, as always, erroneous.
As was I ... horribly so!


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The American guitar, that lightweight wooden box with a long neck, hourglass figure, and six metal strings, has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object—the most popular musical instrument in the world. In The Guitar and the New World, Joe Gioia offers a many-limbed social history that is as entertaining as it is informative. After uncovering the immigrant experience of his guitar-making Sicilian great uncle, Gioia's investigation stretches from the ancient world to the fateful events of the 1901 Buffalo Pan American Exposition, across Sioux Ghost Dancers and circus Indians, to the lives and works of such celebrated American musicians as Jimmy Rodgers, Charlie Patton, Eddie Lang, and the Carter Family.
The guitar in its many forms has cheered humanity through centuries of upheaval, and The Guitar and the New World offers a new account of this old friend, as well as a transformative look at a hidden chapter of American history.
Joe Gioia was born in Rochester, New York, and is a graduate of Kenyon College. Formerly senior editor at Modern Photography and a contributing editor at American Photo, he was an early contributor to Salon.com and is the author of Divide's Guide to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He lives in Chicago, where he is at work on a narrative history of photography.


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It will be a moment that conservatives have dreamed of for decades, with five solidly conservative justices on the bench.
The Republican party raised a total of $5.7 million from Sept. 30 to October 5, compared to $4.38 million raised by the DCCC from the end of September to October 5, which is the day Kavanaugh secured the votes in the Senate to be confirmed. He said the high court "is not a partisan or political institution" and assured he took the job with "no bitterness".
US President Donald Trump apologised to Mr Brett Kavanaugh for the bitter battle over his confirmation to the Supreme Court and declared him "innocent" of the sexual assault allegations that almost derailed his nomination.
"The answer to your question is we will see if there's a vacancy in 2020", McConnell said. With courtroom security tight, there were no disruptions by protesters during the arguments, as there had been during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings. But the justices, who often highlight their efforts to work together as a collegial body, are likely to focus on the cases before them. The public was not as supportive as Republicans had hoped.
ActBlue - an online fundraising platform for Democrats - raised almost $10 million on October 5 - the day the Senate held a procedural vote on moving Kavanaugh's nomination forward - and another $9 million on October 6, the day the upper chamber formally confirmed him.
Mr Kavanaugh moved to the Supreme Court after spending 12 years as a judge on the influential U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, building a conservative judicial record.
And on Monday evening he was the guest of honour at a ceremonial swearing-in at the White House.
"On behalf of our nation, I want to apologise to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the bad pain and suffering you have been forced to endure", Trump said at a White House ceremonial swearing in ceremony of Kavanaugh.
According to former White House Chief Advisor Steve Bannon, the experience "has united the establishment and the far right for the first time in years". He has also been preparing for arguments this week.
After an extra Federal Bureau of Investigation probe - which media reports say was drastically curtailed by the White House - also found nothing new, Kavanaugh was finally voted into the coveted post. Steve Daines' absent vote (he was attending his daughter's wedding in Montana that day). Kavanaugh officially became a member of the high court Saturday. He will take notes for the justices when they meet for private conferences. Yet, the Iowa Republican has notably declined to shut the door to a potential switch to the Finance Committee next year.


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Samsung Android flip phone with two screens named W2016
The clamshell smartphone design was one that seemed like it had disappeared into the archives of technology history, but surprisingly, at the tail-end of 2015, it's resurfaced. We learned a few days ago that Samsung likely had something like this in the works because of a TENAA certification posting, but now the W2016 Android flip phonebeen officially unveiled as a swanky-looking bit of kit.
In a frame that looks like it was at least partly inspired by the screen-happy folks in that classic Xhibit hosted TV show, the Samsung W2016 packs not just one 3.9-inch, 1,280 x 768-pixel screen on the interior of its flip-phone design, but a second one on the exterior, too. In the first of several promo shots, that exterior display is used to show a few different clock designs, though presumably more useful data could be put there, too.
Related: No Samsung foldable phone for the U.S., according to leaked launch country list
Unlike the clamshell designs of old, this one also folds flat to offer a more typical brick phone design, though it does, of course, feature the traditional mechanical keypad, too. It's something that we haven't seen since touchscreens began dominating as the smartphone input method of choice.
Internally we know that the W2016 features Samsung's own Exynos 7420 processor running at 2.1GHz, paired off with 3GB of RAM and 64GB of storage space. Although powerful, this won't be likely to win any performance awards, but it should mean that when combined with the lower resolution displays and the 2,000mAh battery, time between charges may be surprisingly lengthy, as per PhoneArena.
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My name is Erik Cumps, I am the creator of the War Cabinet tool.
I am looking for a "zovs66" who used to be registered on the tapatalk SP:WaW forum and who expressed an interest in adding support for winSPWW2 to my War Cabinet tool.
I wish to contact him, because I have some good news in that regard.
I'll be in contact via mail shortly.
So, if you don't mind me asking, what exactly is this War Cabinet? Got my curiosity here!
I'll let Erik explain. Essentially it allows you to track stuff in a campaign game over time. You can also track stuff in scenarios. Its most usefulness I would think is tracking your core campaign forces status.
Thanks for the quick introduction, Don!
opponent units during battles and battle turns.
Its current main missing features are data export and printing.
Also, and of some importance for this forum I expect, I have started work on adding support for winSPWW2 to warcab.
on integrating that new code into the offical warcab application.
So this only displays data for a campaign or scenario? Super useful, I have to admit! I saw the screenshots but figured it was sort of a 'bigger' thing, like the Men of War campaign bit where it was a strategic map where you could move units and fight out the battles as a scenario.
No originally as Erik stated it was originally created for the other game and I asked him if it might work for WW2 and MBT. He said he'd take a look at some saved games and get back to me if it did. It does.
Essentially its just a fancy way of viewing your core force for a campaign over time, or for viewing how a large scenario played out (I am using this for a monster scenario to track things).
Pretty neat stuff, if you have more completed scenarios in a campaign game you'll get more results, I have only completed one battle thus far.
That is a really interesting program. In the last two ScreenShots, the map appears to show which side has control over specific sections?
Yes that is correct, if you look closely you'll see the check boxes I toggled on/off.


Despite millions spent by a Democrat donor, Nancy Pelosi knows the message won't work with voters in 2018.
It seems that Nancy Pelosi knows better than the Bushes about political realities. She also knows that impeachment depends on the law and facts, not political opposition.
What we also learn from this is even a billionaire can't simply buy what he wants from politicians if voters don't go along with it. Pelosi wants to do well in 2018. Perhaps she's realized that leftist donors are one reason Democrats are losing.
San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer has spent $11 million on ads to drum up support for impeaching President Trump, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she doesn't want to go there.
The California Democrat said she wanted to the party to focus on the issues, including stopping the Republican tax-reform bill, in the 2018 election.
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Billboard Premiere: "Can't Find My Way Home"
'Steve Winwood Debuts First Track Off 'Greatest Hits Live,' Talks Interest in Dance Music: Premiere'
Gary Graff
After more than 30 years of intensive touring as a solo act, Steve Winwood figures it's time to get some of those performances out to the masses. 'Winwood: Greatest Hits Live' comes out Sept. 1, spreading 23 tracks across its two discs.
The set features songs from throughout Winwood's 50-years-plus recording career with the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith (whose "Can't Find My Way Home" is premiered exclusively below) and on his own, most of it hailing from the past decade with his current touring quintet -- which was a key reason Winwood is releasing a live album now.
"Obviously when I'm playing live shows I'm expected to play a lot of things," Winwood tells Billboard. "But what I've tried to do with the people in the various bands I've played with -- particularly with the band I've been working with the last 10, 15 years or so -- is we try and reinvent some of the songs that I'm known for and I'm expected to play. It's more interesting to us, and we hope it's more interesting to the listener."
"After a while of collecting these things, I think there's enough stuff here we can put it out, and it's quite interesting," he continues. "I think it's a bit more than just live versions of what's on the [studio] records, you know?"
Winwood plays keyboards and guitar in the current group, which features Jose Neto on guitar, Richard Bailey on drums, Paul Booth on woodwinds and organ and Edson "Cafe" Da Silva on percussion. He plays the bass parts on foot pedals, modeled after the jazz organ trio model of Jimmy Smith, and Winwood says the configuration gives him a certain amount of space that allows for more improvisation and tinkering with the song arrangements.
"There aren't too many people who play in this style," Winwood notes. "I'm a bit of a control freak, so I feel that I can control the band by playing the bass as well. The bass lines are much more simplified, and it creates a space, and also makes the rhythm guitar much more crucial. I'm very lucky to have been working for a long time with Jose Neto, who combines the rock of [Jimi] Hendrix and Jimmy Page with Brazilian harmonies and rhythms. It's a great combination."
Winwood continues to be a road warrior; he toured the North American east coast earlier this year and starts up in Europe next week, with a North American west coast trek slated for the fall and the Midwest in February. He's still enthusiastic about playing live, although the tour durations have become shorter in recent years.
"I can't really do the very long tours, three or four months at a time," Winwood acknowledges. "It's just by age; after three, four weeks, it's enough for me. I need to rest. But I'm still keen to play; I've been doing it since I was 14 years old. I've never really done anything else."
Winwood is also working on some new music, as it nears a decade since his last studio album, 2008's Nine Lives. Some of his recent influences, however, may surprise fans.
"I'm actually quite interested in certain forms of dance music," reveals Winwood, though he shies away from the EDM tag. "The trouble is EDM sort of sounds like people don't have any input into it. I think it has the potential to be an incredible compositional tool, and there are some people in it who I think are making incredible pieces of music. I think the next great composers will be DJs and producers. I think young people deliberately make it very complicated with all the genres and sub-genres because they don't want older people to understand it -- but the more I learn about it, I'm getting quite interested in it."
Though Winwood has music in motion, there are no specific release plans just yet. "It's a project that's sort of ongoing, and I haven't really reached a conclusion for it yet," he says. "And it did have to go on the back burner because I've been doing quite a bit of touring lately, and it's a bit hard to carry on doing [new music] while I'm touring -- it is for me, at any rate."
Check out the live version of "Can't Find My Way Home" below, premiering here off Winwood's upcoming Steve Winwood's Greatest Hits Live.
Premiere: "Can't Find My Way Home" from 'Greatest Hits Live': http://bit.ly/2sVMWBr
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