For all its problems, China is an incredibly successful country and still has a lot of growth potential, says Richard McGregor, visiting fellow at George Washington University. All gloomy scenarios about economic or political collapse have proved wrong so far. So, what if Xi Jinping succeeds in restructuring the economy and strengthening the Communist Party? China would emerge as a much more powerful country, says McGregor. However, there's nothing in the party's DNA that suggests China would be more accommodating internationally or more liberal domestically. That's Richard McGregor in the latest Merics Experts podcast.
Xi Jinping has used military reforms to strengthen his command over the People's Liberation Army. And he's using personal connections, some dating back to his childhood years, to fill central positions within the military, says professor You Ji of Macau University. On strategy, Xi is moving away from his predecessors' approach. China is now preparing to project power well beyond its borders, catch up with the U.S. and achieve "Great Power Status" built upon military strength. That's You Ji in the latest Merics Experts podcast.
For years China was led by consensus – factions in the upper echelons of power were carefully calibrated to keep a balance. But with Xi Jinping all that has changed, says Victor Shih of the University of California, San Diego. Since Xi's faction within the Central Committee is still rather small, he established a number of new leading small groups to strengthen his influence on policy making. At the 19th party congress next year Xi could now try to shrink the size of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee to obtain absolute power within the CCP. That's Victor Shih in the latest Merics Experts Podcast.
Expectations for market oriented reforms were running high after the CCP's 3rd plenum in 2013. But three years on Barry Naughton of the University of California, San Diego, is disappointed: Reform plans have come to nothing; economic problems got worse; the centralization of power has led to paralysis among bureaucrats. Xi Jinping is "political down to his fingernails" but not an economic thinker, says Naughton: "Xi is attached to the long term objective of reform but has only the weakest of attachments to the practical measures that need to be taken to get there." Now the leadership could read the Brexit vote as another indication that global free markets and institutions are unreliable and unattractive. That's Barry Naughton in the new Merics Experts podcast.
The speed with which Xi Jinping has introduced stronger controls on society has surprised many China watchers. The Xi administration has been "extraordinarily successful" in controlling and shaping political communication especially online says Anthony Saich of Harvard Kennedy School: "If I was an authoritarian leader somewhere else in the world, I would want to learn lessons from China." Moreover, laws constraining foreign NGOs while encouraging domestic charity work for causes close to the CCP's priorities tend to further reduce space for association and new ideas.
Xi Jinping has centralized power in China to unprecedented levels: he has sidelined both the prime minister and the state council and is trying to control everything himself says distinguished Harvard historian Roderick MacFarquhar. Xi might have – like Mao Zedong long before him - a vision and a sense of direction for China but he lacks the authority and historic legitimacy to implement his ideas. Even worse: his leadership style weakens the entire system. That's Roderick Macfarquhar in the new Merics Experts podcast.
China is one of Donald Trump's favourite punching bags. If elected to the White House, he wants to label China a "currency manipulator" and impose hefty tariffs on imports from China. Such talk makes Michael Fuchs of the Center for American Progress and a former advisor to Hillary Clinton rather uneasy. "Trump is unpredictable" he says in the new Merics Experts podcast. And he warns: "Unpredictability is not a foreign policy". How much damage can Trump do to the complex Sino-American relationship? And is that relationship going to become more competitive no matter who enters the White House?
With the right economic policies China could continue to grow at a rate of about five per cent per year for another decade says Arthur Kroeber of Gavecal Dragonomics, an independent research firm in Beijing. But the country would have to cut SOEs by up to a half and push through financial reforms. However, Xi Jingping's economic policies lack clarity and direction. China still depends too much on stimulus measures and credit to keep the economy going. Little change is in the offing with the 19th party congress already looming large.
Tensions on Chinese factory floors have been running high recently – because of non-payment of wages and because some industries have moved their investments to other parts of Asia. Labour relations are fraught and protests can potentially threaten social stability says Han Dongfang, founder of the NGO China Labour Bulletin and a former Tian'anmen activist now based in Hongkong. He is confident though that the government is looking for a long-term solution and seems willing to make collective workplace bargaining easier. In the long run, true trade union reform could be a game changer in China, says Han Dongfang.


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Why Financial Institutions are being hit hard by Cyber Criminals 0 1012
Kenyan bank accounts are at risk. Kenya lost about $175million last year to cyber crime.
The Serianu 2016 Kenya Cyber security Report, which highlighted that about 44% of financial institutions run on a cyber security budget of $1-1,000 annually.
With the increased terrorist activities within Kenya, the Internet presents national enemies such as the Al-Shabaab and other extremist groups with a unique and ubiquitous opportunities.
There is no existing comprehensive data protection regulation in the jurisdiction of Kenya.
Kenya has been widely celebrated as one of the foremost innovators around the question of financial inclusion. With the acclaim of being the leading nation in the adoption and use of mobile banking platforms such as M-PESA and Equitel, numerous fintech start-ups are opening office in the Silicon Savannah.
In Kenya, the effect of innovation by fintech companies has been brilliantly positive. Per a 2016 Finaccess Household Survey endorsed by the Central Bank of Kenya and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, the number of Kenyans formally included by the financial system has grown by 50% in the last ten years.
More than 75.3% of Kenyans are formally banked
Over three-quarters (75.3%) of Kenyans are now formally included, up from 66.8% in 2013. Financial exclusion, which is now down to 17.4%, has more than halved since 2006.
Cyber crime on the rise:
There is no simple way to say this. Kenyan bank accounts are at risk.
The latter statement has been evidenced by the statistics present in the recent Cyber security Report published by Serianu, which asserts that Kenya lost about $175million last year.
Moreover, the Report managed to establish that cyber criminals are deliberately targeting the Kenyan digital economy with the intention of wreaking havoc and making away with millions.
Essentially, in terms of cyber resilience, the Kenyan digital economy can be likened to a slow, plump gazelle stumbling through the "cyber-savannah" in the full view of agile, informed and hungry cyber-predators who have begun to sink their teeth into their sumptuous prize.
Cybersecurity is a budgetary concern
With more than 75.3% of Kenyan citizens formally included in financial services, one would logically expect a correspondent increase in cyber security investments in the financial services sector.
Notably, the Serianu 2016 Kenya Cyber security Report, which highlighted that about 44% of financial institutions run on a cyber security budget of $1-1,000 annually, whilst about 33% of financial institutions in Kenya have $0 spend on all matters cyber security.
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Effective infrastructural cybersecurity measures come at a budgetary cost which must be respected by C-Suite executives. The threat landscape is constantly evolving as hackers collectively invest in their own expertise and tools to hack siloed
Financial organisations should staff more cyber security specialists
Notably, 63% of financial organisations in Kenya have an in-house cybersecurity department. However, only 29% of the employees within in-house cybersecurity departments in financial organisations are security certificate holders.
Financial organisations such as banks and fintech companies should ensure that their customers' data is under the watch of certified cyber security professionals who can:
Promptly update their security infrastructure to match threat trends,
Clearly communicate the organisation's cyber security needs to Board Executives,
Collaborate with digital product creators to ensure that their consumers enjoy safer technology,
Train other employees in online hygiene as a safety net against social engineering,
Swiftly respond to hacking incidences to mitigate losses and collect forensic data for litigation support.
Certified security specialists are a key asset for any financial organisation, as they not only guarantee their organisations' business continuity by perpetuating trust and reliability of financial products, but also as business enablers who can assist in ensuring that there is security by design in the creation of new financial products.
Immature Data Protection Regulation:
There is no existing comprehensive data protection regulation in the jurisdiction of Kenya. This is in vast contrast to other thriving digital economies such as South Africa, states within the European Union and Canada.
One of the impactful consequences of poor data protection is the immensely secretive way through the occurrence of breaches is treated.
Financial institutions are not necessitated by any law to proactively inform the public regarding any substantial data breaches that have occurred to the detriment of their consumers.
This contrasts with the impending General Dara Protection Regulation in Europe, the Protection of Personal Information Act of South Africa and the Digital Privacy Act (whose adoption introduced mandatory notification via an amendment in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) who urge that any data breach that may result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals should be reported to the relevant supervisory authority.
If unaddressed such breaches can have significant detrimental effect on individuals, i.e, discrimination, damage to reputation, financial loss, loss of confidentiality or any other significant economic or social disadvantage.
Under the Constitution of Kenya 2010, Kenyans' consumer rights as well as the right to privacy has been asserted as a fundamental right that should be protected by the full legislative might of the Government.
Innovative legislators should get to work to protect the economy of the Republic of Kenya.
Large banks, microfinance institutions even cutting-edge fintech firms have been taking hooks to the jaw thrown by hungry cyber criminals who can see the vulnerabilities present within Kenya's financial ecosystem.
The reputational harm to the financial sector has been immense as confidence in new, innovative financial products continues to decline sharply.
The finance market runs on the foundational principal of user trust. If financial institutions in Kenya do not champion the cyber security agenda, share threat intelligence to develop a fresh, synergised approach to cybercriminals, those heavy blows to their infrastructure will continue to wreak havoc to their stellar brands.
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Ransomware is by far the biggest threat among Enterprises. So what is Ransomware? It is a malicious code that blocks or encrypts the contents of a device and demands a ransom to restore access to the data.
According to research done by ESET, Companies named ransomware their number one concern.
In response to customer needs and concerns, ESET integrated Ransomware Shield into its security solutions. ESET has long been providing its customers with very good behavior-based malware detection and also with Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) that allows users to set custom rules for the protection against ransomware. However, should something slip past the 11 other security layers, Ransomware Shield will be automatically activated.
While ransomware infection often starts with clicking a suspicious link or a fictitious invoice, ESET found that email remains the most common distribution method.
To combat these scenarios, enter ESET Dynamic Threat Defense (EDTD). EDTD provides another layer of security for ESET products like Mail Security and Endpoint products. It utilizes a cloud-based sandboxing technology and multiple machine learning models to detect new, never before seen type of threats. In result, attachments that were classified as malicious are stripped off the email and the recipient gets information about the detection.
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Interview: Addressing the Six Biggest Cybersecurity Challenges for Enterprise 0 261
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Ken Kimani, Channel Manager of ESET East Africa, introduces the 6 biggest cybersecurity challenges for enterprises
Enterprises are under constant attack from cybersecurity threats resulting in the loss of millions in revenue annually. Factors such as ransomware, targeted attacks, insufficient network visibility, various operating systems in an organization, bad security behaviour among office staff, lack of skilled cybersecurity workforce and the level of tolerance among staff are the major causes of cyber-attacks in the country.
To mitigate these issues, ESET East Africa offers free training, suitable for all skill levels to help educate enterprises on the importance of cybersecurity.
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A portly man sits in a gilded chair atop a dais. His hands are folded over his long red tie which cascades down his belly like a bloody waterfall. One hand lifts to cover a yawn, then descends below its partner to scratch a deep red, neglected rash on the underside of his belly, the part that hides the zipper of his navy blue suit pants. He makes a mental note to to ask his assistant to make an appointment with his doctor only to toss it away to make room for the delicious cut of beef and the pungent cigar his favorite lobbyist had given him. He longed to be free of this drudgery and enjoy them with him. And his family, of course.
He clears his throat and looks around and straightens his back. A thumping, beating sound, the type of sound you feel more than hear, vibrates through his ribcage. He coughs on the loosened tar. A draft tickles his fine hairs and sends a chill down his spine. He leans to his side and asks his aide to close the window. The sound deadens as a quieter, almost timid one finds its way back to his ear.
A hunched and sweaty man read breathlessly from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to the chamber of bored and aggravated senators as the glassy stare of the portly man bore into him. Between every word the chants from outside would rattle the windows, rattle his chest. The horrible sound of glass shattering. The image of his daughter's mangled body on the hospital bed, only 26. He trips over the next word and his legs are about to give. He reads on even though his daughters matted hair and the tubes from her mouth bleed into every silent space.
The windows continue to rattle. His mind wanders out of the chamber, past his daughter's dreary hospital room, through the rattling old windows to the mass of protesters outside beating their voices against the capital building's walls like would-be trumpets at Jericho. He was with them, no, more than that he was them. He stood there holding a heavy poster-board in one hand and his daughter in the other, he chanted with them for the powers that be to do the right thing.
Long before he became a senator. Before the complications and attacks on his integrity. Before the piles of gifts, ignored, and the expensive dinners, politely enjoyed. Before the car crash, before the promised check. Before he stood up from his seat, book in hand, to stand up for the wrong thing. Before long it became too much.
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this is my Drawable
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        android:topLeftRadius="15dp"
        android:topRightRadius="15dp" />
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and this is the fragment
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xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="@android:color/transparent"
android:clickable="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:weightSum="2.2"
tools:context=".ui.main.signup.IdModeFragment">

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    android:background="@color/black_transparent_60"
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    android:layout_width="match_parent"
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    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:background="@drawable/id_mode_fragment_round_background"
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Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh received India's Ambassador to Mongolia H.E. Mr. Mohinder Pratap Singh earlier today (26 February). During the meeting, Mr U.Khurelsukh noted that the Mongolian government is giving the utmost importance to developing the strategic partnership and political cooperation with India. The two countries have a long relation of culture and history.
In return, the ambassador promised to work on expanding and developing relations as well as cooperation between the two countries. He noted that Mongolia is an important friend and partner country for India.
In addition, the two sides discussed Mongolia's first oil refinery which is being constructing in Dornogobi province with Indian aid. The project has opened a new page in the relations and cooperation between the two countries and, as such, will be a construction of historical importance.
The Indian Ambassador said that he will work on securing additional financing from the Indian Government and training Mongolian engineers as well as opening a representative office of Engineers India Ltd in Ulaanbaatar.


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Vyrazu Labs voyages into new areas--The world of IOT.
The U.S. Department of Defense funded ARPANET in the late 1960's, a network that allowed multiple computers to communicate with each other. The technology behind its creation continued to grow and it was in the 1970's that the TCP/IP communications model was developed. This showed the path for the transmission of data between different networks. The TCP/IP model was adopted by ARPANET in 1983 which led to the foundation of the "networks of networks". This giant network served as the building block for the world wide web which helped in internet becoming the powerful medium it is as of date. Well, the next revolution has just begun and it is IoT — Internet of Things which has arrived to change your life for the better.
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According to Forbes — "The global Internet of Things market will grow from $157B in 2016 to $457B by 2020, attaining a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 28.5%." (Source). Ericsson, the telecom giant says "Around 29 billion connected devices are forecast by 2022, of which around 18 billion will be related to IoT." (Source). This does give an idea the way our lives shall be touched by IoT in the coming future.
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This is it! We're going out with a singing, dancing look at the Broadway Book Musical. Oklahoma! On the Town! Annie Get Your Gun! Also, just Annie! Today you'll learn about the development of the Broadway Book Musical in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and get a sense of how the form developed through the Golden Age of Broadway.
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Hey there. I'm Mike Rugnetta, and this is the last episode of Crash Course Theater. So get ready for, like, nine curtain calls at the end. But for now, we're grabbing our playbills and our Twizzlers to spend an episode with America's greatest theatrical invention: the singing, dancing, orchestra-in-the-floor sensation that is—wait for it—the Broadway book musical.
Why does the Broadway book musical matter? Well, it's changed theater as we know it. Along with Hollywood movies, it's America's most influential entertainment export, a billion-dollar industry that has zoomed its way across the world to every continent except Antarctica. And onto cruise ships too.
Today we'll focus on the golden age of the Broadway musical, trying to figure out how song, story, and the occasional dream ballet come together to create this singular sensation. Lights up!
[Crash Course Theater intro]
Theater and music have always been closely intertwined. Greek tragedies were mostly sung and danced; liturgical dramas had key musical components; melodrama was originally a musical form; and most styles of traveling or folk theater were strongly musical; not to mention the 19th-century rise of the opera and pretty much every style of Asian theater we've studied.
American theater, of course, has its own musical theater traditions, including the troubling and unfortunately very popular minstrel show, which we looked at in an earlier episode. In terms of imported forms, America also went big for vaudeville, pantomime, operetta, and comedy burlesque—which is different from the modern tell-dirty-jokes-and-take-your-clothes-off sexy burlesque.
In the 1860s, we got what some consider the first American musical, The Black Crook. The Black Crook basically happened because a theater burned down and a Parisian ballet troupe was stranded, so some enterprising producers were like, "Well, we can't just put French girls in flesh-colored tights on stage and leave them there. The people demand a story!" Do they? Anyway.
The producers paired the dancers with a totally incomprehensible play about black magic and fairies and a really weird New Year's Eve, and they tricked it out with scenery and songs. The total package lasted five hours and made no sense.
The first American musical comedies on Broadway were created in the 1870s by a duo called Harrigan and Hart. They started with a variety act that made fun of drunk neighborhood militias—armed and hilarious—and then expanded these sketches into song-filled shows like The Mulligan Guard.
They poked fun at all sorts of working-class types, and they never met an ethnicity that they couldn't mock. Stereotyping was huge, and the songs didn't have anything to do with the plot, but these shows made audiences hungry for more, more, more musical farces with more, more, more irrelevant songs.
At around the turn of the 20th century, there was a vogue for African-American musicals, which we discussed in our episode on the theater of the Harlem Renaissance.
In 1907, the Follies were born, and musical theater got very leggy. The Follies were evenings of loosely linked sketches and popular songs, but the big draw was the chorus of Follies girls. Each year, producer Florence Zigfeld assembled a group of beautiful chorines who had to have, he said, "beauty of face, form, charm, and manner, personal magnetism, individuality, grace, and poise".
The scripts... not great. In the first Follies, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas drop in on 1907 New York and meet all kinds of people. Yeah.
The Follies walked the line between titillating and classy pretty much perfectly. They were girly shows that men could perv out to while sitting next to their wives—because middle-class wives enjoy a kick line too?
Between 1907 and 1931, there was a Follies every year, each leggier and more sumptuous than the last. Oh, and Ziegfeld's Follies were the tame version. Other producers just threw a bunch of nude showgirls and raunchy comics onstage and called it a day.
Broadway could have gone on forever with classic girly shows and questionably hilarious ethnic stereotyping, but, thankfully, instead something wonderful happened: the birth of the book musical. The father, that would be Jerome Kern, a guy who got his start fixing up imported British musicals. The songs he contributed were really good, usually a lot better than what he'd been handed. The melodies were catchy, and the lyrics conversational.
At the Princess Theater, Kern and the lyricist Guy Bolton started writing charming, low-key musicals which became even more charming when comic mastermind P. G. Wodehouse joined them. Notable shows include Oh Boy! and Oh Dear! Oh wow!
Maybe they seem like piffle now, but at the time, book musicals were revolutionary. The characters were recognizable; the situations were contemporary; the plot, lyrics, and style of song actually went together. Bolton told an interviewer, "Every line, funny or serious, is supposedly to help the plot continue to hold." Whoa!
Now, I know what some of you are thinking, that Gilbert and Sullivan already did this. And you're not wrong, but those were operettas, mostly sung through, and they involved fantastical situations. The Princess Theater musicals were different.
By the late 1920s, this newfangled idea that maybe the songs should have something to do with the plot—and the plot could be minimally coherent—was really catching on. More than fifty revues and musicals crowded Broadway every year.
And there were so many new composers and lyricists, like Richard Rodgers, or the romantic Lorenz Hart; or the astonishingly witty Cole Porter, a man who could rhyme anything; and—oh my god—George and Ira Gershwin. 'S wonderful, people! And hey, look, Irving Berlin!
Probably the first thoroughly modern musical was the 1927 Show Boat, which is tricky to revive today because its racial politics are a mess. But as written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and set on a Mississippi showboat, it pushed the musical in a more serious direction, towards an honest examination of racism. It offered rich roles for African-American actors and gave them character-driven songs like "Old Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man", which are still standards.
The Broadway musical made it through the Great Depression, and while World War II was being waged, the musical leveled up again, entering a twenty-year golden age. The musicals of this era were defined by their wit, sophistication, extremely hummable songs, and dazzling, often athletic choreography. And by their willingness to allow genuinely complex characters to exist.
Now we're going to take a look at the American musical that finally put it all together—music and lyrics and book scenes and ballet—to tell a distinctly American story. Welcome to Oklahoma! Notice the exclamation point; this one is exciting. Even though it's set in Oklahoma. No offense to my Okies out there.
This 1943 musical, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs. The exclamation point was all they added. The play opens in 1906, when Oklahoma is still a territory and a surrey wagon is a plausible way to get around town.
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Cowboy Curly comes forward and sings "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" as though chatting to the audience. The Times critic, Brooks Atkinson, wrote that after a magnificent song like that "the banalities of the old musical stage became intolerable."
Curly and a farm girl, Laurey, clearly like each other but can't seem to get along. Laurie has another suitor, loner farmhand Jud Fry, who is basically a golden-age incel. This guy is bad news. To make Curly jealous, Laurey agrees to go to the box social with Jud, even though she's kind of afraid of him.
Curly takes the news well, so well that he goes to see Jud and sings a joke/not joke song suggesting that Jud kill himself. Jud, also a really mature guy, decides that he's going to marry Laurey, whether she wants to or not.
Laurey is so confused she buys a magic potion from the Persian peddler Ali Hakim. She takes it and falls asleep, and that's when we get a fifteen-minute dream ballet, where Laurey imagines marrying Curly and Jud murdering Curly. That is a bad dream. And a good ballet.
When she wakes, Laurey is too frightened to reject Jud, so they go to the box social. There's a scuffle between farmers and cowmen, and some comedy subplot stuff. Jud and Curly fight over Laurey, and Curly sells all of his things to win her heart. Jud confesses his feelings. Laurey rejects him and then fires him.
Curly and Laurey are married, but drunk Jud shows up and tries to kill Curly, which is not good wedding etiquette. They tussle, and Jud falls on his own knife. And Curly and Laurey get to go off on their honeymoon—a happy ending, except for the dead guy.
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It's hard to get across how innovative Oklahoma!—a musical that includes a number like "The Farmer and the Cowman"—actually is. Rodgers's melodies had a distinctly American sound. And Hammerstein wrote the lyrics first, which meant that the songs were way more integral to the story, and were written in the voices of the characters.
Even more than Show Boar, every song had a purpose, and so did every dance number. Agnes de Mille's dream ballet took the musical to a daring, expressionist place. The story was allowed to exist with a level of tonal and character complexity that no one thought a musical could handle. But the musical could handle it! It's so good.
As we're filming this in late 2018, a number of American theaters have recently staged Oklahoma!, interrogating its depictions of sexuality, violence, conflict, and community. These are radically different interpretations, but maybe that's one of the signs of a great work of art: that it can stand up to all kinds of interpretations and still tell us something truthful. With a fringe on top.
Oh, and this was also the show that pioneered the original cast recording, which is not a small deal. So, you're welcome, all you Hamilton fans out there.
After Oklahoma!, the golden age continued until the early 1960s. Maybe there were no other great musicals named after states or territories, but Rodgers and Hammerstein followed Oklahoma! up with Carousel, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and The King and I. Shall we dance? Ooh, good Yul Brynner impression!
At the same time, Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe wrote Brigadoon and My Fair Lady. And also, let's not forget Guys and Dolls, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me, Kate, Damn Yankees!, West Side Story—because somewhere there's a place for us—and Gypsy.
Whew, there is so much more we could talk about: the counterculture musical, the mega musical, the concept musical, Sondheim—there is so much to say about Sondheim. Yorrick loves Sondheim. I'm lukewarm myself, but no shade. Well, except maybe literal shade, because it's time for out curtain call.
This is our final episode of Crash Course Theater, and yet we have forty or fifty years of theater history and contemporary performance still to go. Maybe we'll meet again for a reprise down the road. Still, we wanted to leave you with the book musical, not just because it's a hugely popular and influential theatrical form, but also because it's how a lot of us who make Crash Course Theater got hooked in the first place. We saw a musical or a movie musical when we were kids and it just knocked us out. That's right, musicals are the gateway drug. First Guys and Dolls and then Artaud.
Book musicals are sometimes sexist and sometimes racist, sometimes really dumb, but their also virtuosic and hopeful and big-hearted. Like many of the things in life we love, they're big and they're complicated.
Speaking of love, we can't actually see or hear you but you've been a great audience. Thank you for staying in your seats while we explored more than two thousand years of people trying to put their world on stage. We wish we could sign at the stage door, but you may have to settle for, like, VidCon or Twitter, I guess.
We've seen sad theater, funny theater, dangerous theater, avalanche theater, theater that wants to burn it all down, and theater that wants to build a new and better world. So give yourselves a hand. Take a bow, Yorrick. That's right, cue ball, you earned it. And now, for the last time, curtain.
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Persona 5 is a game about the internal and external conflicts of a group of troubled high school students - the protagonist and a collection of compatriots he meets in the game's story - who live dual lives as Phantom Thieves.
They have the typically ordinary day-to-day of a Tokyo high schooler - attending class, after school activities and part-time jobs. But they also undertake fantastical adventures by using otherworldly powers to enter the hearts of people. Their power comes from the Persona, the Jungian concept of the "self".
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The Vainglory Class System: How a mobile game excels at educating the playerbase.
Time and again myself and other writers have discussed the need for Blizzard to revamp the class system in Heroes of the Storm. Some have also touched on the need for the game to include Overwatch's "composition suggestion tips" from that game's hero select screen.
We've always discussed these things in theory, with little concrete evidence as to just how powerful such a system might be in HOTS. Today, I believe I have found the perfect example of just why role clarity and composition suggestions could be so powerful in this game. The answer has been sitting your pocket this whole time in a little mobile app called Vainglory.
For those who don't know, Vainglory is a MOBA played on your mobile device. It is free to play, and has a style similar to League of Legends or DOTA. You have an item shop, last hitting, a jungle, and a single map for all modes (until yesterday, but we'll get to that). Personally I've greatly enjoyed my time playing the game over the last month, but the quality of the game itself is irrelevant to this topic. All you need to know right now is how the game's class system works.
Captains: Heroes with strong defensive tools, usually healing or crowd control. Captain heroes focus on buying defensive items that protect the team as well as vision items.
Junglers: Heroes that are sturdy enough to fight jungle monsters, but also have either high damage or strong crowd control to gank the lane and fight enemy junglers.
Carries: Fragile damage dealers. Almost exclusively purchase damage-boosting items, and stick to the lane to farm gold and deal more damage.
Similar to LoL, damage is divided into two categories--crystal and weapon. Carries and Junglers will focus on one type of damage, and an ideal team composition has a healthy mix of both damage types.
Yesterday, Vainglory released its 5v5 mode, but before that the game was exclusively played on a map with a single lane and three players on each team. In a 3v3 game, your team composition is hugely important. A team without a carry is going to struggle hard in late game teamfights, and a team without a captain will lack the defensive tools necessary to keep the carry safe from an enemy jungler. This is even further complicated by the fact that the game has no chat function.. It is impossible to type a message to your team in the lobby. However, Vainglory's system not only educates players on how to build a team composition, but encourages communication without players saying a word.
When you enter a lobby, the game shows alerts much like Overwatch. "No Captain Hero," "No Ranged Hero," "No Jungler Hero," etc. Additionally, when you choose your hero you have the option to change the color of their portrait to blue or red--blue for crystal damage and red for weapon damage. The combination of these to systems encourages players to create a coordinated team comp with a healthy balance of damage types. I have played over 100 matches of Vainglory, and have had maybe five matches with a bad team comp. The composition may not be perfect, or ideal for the competitive meta, but there is always a Jungler, a Captain, and a Carry, and usually a mix of damage types. This is even true in the more casual modes.
Where the Vainglory system truly excels, however, is in the new 5v5 mode. Think about this for a second. For years now players have played every single game of Vainglory on a single lane map. As mobile gamers, there are likely many players who have not played or actively followed more traditional MOBAs and are unfamiliar with the standard team setup. With no chat function, the game has to teach players how to construct a 5v5 composition, and how to play a three-lane map. The system does so beautifully.
The composition suggestions evolve to suggest that each lane needs a dedicated hero, and that you still need a Captain and a Jungler. Before locking in a hero, you can tap on your portrait to select which lane or role you'd prefer, and the suggestions shift based on those preferences. Again, compositions haven't been perfect, but I've always had a Jungler, a Captain, and a warm body committed to each lane. By creating a clear class system and encouraging communication during hero selection, the game educates and rewards players for coordinating and building a reasonable team composition.
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Now, for some people, the appeal of Heroes of the Storm is in the notion that team compositions do not need to be so rigid. They shudder at the thought that a system like Vainglory's could eliminate all creativity and just lead to more people yelling in the draft when you don't pick exactly the right hero. Heroes of the Storm doesn't adhere to the traditional MOBA concept of five dedicated roles, and should embrace that fluidity! While that all seems wonderful, it has been a lie for over a year.
Outside of Quick Match (see this article for my opinion on that nonsense) the game has evolved to a place where some adherence to a strict composition is necessary. If your composition does not have a true healer, a true tank, some form of ranged damage, and a decent offlaner, you will be at a huge disadvantage against any team that has those things. That's just how competitive video games work. If you want to win, you have to adhere to the meta to some degree. Hearthstone players don't get to legend without building a deck that can win against the strongest decks in the meta, and HOTS teams can't win without building a reasonable team composition. Further, I would argue that the game is actually more fun when played with an understanding of how to build a team comp. The problem with heroes is that the current system actually works against teaching a player how to do so. Not all Warriors are Tanks, and not all Supports are Healers. Some Assassins are Offlaners, while others can fill the Primary Ranged role. Most team comps don't actually need a Specialist, and every Specialist has a radically different role in a composition.
These are problems created by the lack of clarity within the game, and Vainglory's example shows that these are easily solvable problems that take little communication. All you need are actually relevant classes, and a few words that pop up on screen when the team doesn't have a tank.
How would you change the class system? What roles do you think the game should suggest? Be sure to let me know in the comments or over in the Reddit thread. I wrote my own proposal for a new class system, be sure to check that out as well! And make sure you don't miss the latest episode of my YouTube show, Entry Level Esports where I go into great detail about how I was wrong about the NA HGC.
I haven't tried Vain Glory, but I have been playing Arena of Valor (5v5 mobile MOBA). Their class system is Tank, Warrior, Support, Mage, Marksman, and Assassin. I believe Smite has a similar class system. Similar to Vain Glory, AoV will tell you "Not enough tanks" etc. It's cool though because some characters can fill multiple roles, so it takes that into account. Eventually, it will tell you that you have a balanced team when the right criteria are met (usually 2 front liners, one of which is a warrior, 1 mage, and 1 marksman).
Since technically, anyone can jungle, it doesn't usually call that out, and I wish it would (or at least when there are too many junglers, but that's a different soap box).


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⬅ Weekly MM News Report: From New MLM...
Breaking Zeek Rewards News: The SEC... ➡
Zeek Rewards News: What And When Did Insiders Know About The SEC Investigation And SNR Denton NOT Representing Fun Club USA
Oz over at BehindMLM.com did an editorial last week titled Did Zeek Rewards management know about the SEC? After reading it a few times I started going through some notes and reaching out to some folks to verify some of what I had in my notes.
Also, before I get into the answers to some of Oz's questions I need to let folks know. I did talk with Robert Craddock a few days ago, and he informed me that SNR Denton would NOT be representing Fun Club USA, but that he had hired a new law firm. He would not answer all of my questions, but did say that "hopefully by Friday" a lawsuit or press release would go out. It is still early so we will see what happens by days end.
Ok, to Oz's editorial. I am only covering the few things I have information on, so to read the full editorial you will be to visit the links above to read all of it.
[quote] With many of Zeek Reward's executive management holding affiliate accounts to participate in the company's Ponzi scheme, one of the most pressing queries has been the question of how aware of the SEC investigation were Zeek Rewards corporate executives, if at all.[/quote]
June or July, I received a call from an MLM Attorney who had shared with me the SEC was investigating some companies which had appeared on a specific blog. Many of the penny auctions were listed on the site along with some other companies with similar pay plan. I know from reviewing my notes I had asked Dawn and Greg about any investigations around May or June and at that time they did not know of any that were directed specifically at Zeek from any regulator. There were some issues with the Montana filing, but I was told the paperwork had been turned in.
From what I have been told, is that when Dawn anf Greg had asked Paul of any investigations Paul was very clear, the SEC was asking questions about each of the companies listed on the site and that Noell Tin had it handled and the SEC "was satisfied". In the June or July Red carpet Day I also heard Paul make it clear the regulators (I assumed the NC AG) was asking questions but everything was under control.
[quote]Knowing full-well that Zeek Rewards was a Ponzi scheme and being aware of the SEC investigation and a resulting shutdown is vastly important, as such knowledge (and the suppression of it) put Zeek's management in a conflictingly advantageous position as investors.[/quote]
The above was not a question but the more I read it I did think it deserved some kind of response. If Oz's statement was true, I'd agree. But as-yet it is an unproven supposition that (1) this was a Ponzi scheme and (2) everyone knew about it. I know that in talking with several of the legal team, Chief Compliance Office (a former AG investigator), Greg Caldwell, Keith Laggos, and the CFO, did not believe it was a ponzi.
It was my understanding that when the SEC did ask questions they were focused on the RPP which based on the complaint they considered to be an unregistered security. This was a fixable issue, and one that was being looked at and reviewed by many over the last few months by many of the top executives and outside consultants.
[quote]Whilst regular affiliates continued to re-invest the bulk of their daily ROIs and encourage new investors to come on board, continuing on unawares right until the precise moment Zeek Rewards was shut down, Zeek's executive management, aware of the SEC situation and what was occurring, could have easily been quietly cashing out as much as possible from their personal affiliate accounts.[/quote]
Could have, yes. But did they? ONLY a few long term executives (and perhaps system admin in Florida) could manipulate the system like that. I was told by one insider that several top executives who were inside the compensation plan did receive what was called large payouts in the form of checks. And had their point ratio set lower than 80/20, which would lead one to believe they were drawing down larger than normal funds. But, I do not know when this started or if it would be called a normal business practice, for these three or four executives.
I have did confirm that after Greg Caldwell was instructed by the attorneys from the SEC not to inform anyone of the pending shut down just a few days before it became public because the SEC did not want anything that would tip the field off because it might cause a run on funds.
[quote]Former COO Dawn Wright-Olivares all but vanished from the public eye after informing affiliates Zeek Rewards would not be able to pay them unless they "deposited more money" into Zeek's e-wallet accounts (June 26th). [/quote]
Again this is not a question, but clarity might be good. A statement was issued on Dawn's comments that were due to the fact affiliates were buying bids through one eWallet and asking for commissions through another eWallet. And at the time the new bank accounts had just been set up and funds were still being deposited. A bad phrasing of the words by Dawn I agree.
Dawn, was out of the country in the first two weeks of July on vacation, but during that time she continued to hold her training calls. In August she and the marketing team were doing calls the first week and were in Nashville the weekend before the closure finalizing the convention plans for November. The week before the closure, all calls were stopped, then the Red Farpet Day was cancelled, then the company was closed. That was the last two weeks of August. her "vanishing" in August (when she was in Nashville).
[quote]A week later Zeek Rewards Sales Director Darryle Douglas disappeared off the face of the planet for "personal matters" on July 30th. Such "personal matters" were never elaborated on by the company and following the official announcement, Douglas was never publicly heard from again.[/quote]
Daryl Daniels on the other hand did disappear from Mid-July and has not publicly been heard form since. Dawn, did not drop off the map until the week of the closure.
[quote]In it, Caldwell claims he 'was not allowed to participate in meetings with the SEC or the attorneys'. What attorneys Caldwell is referring to is unclear (Paul Burks personal attorneys or Zeek Rewards' own?), however the key piece of information Caldwell reveals is that he was aware of a dialogue existing between the SEC and Zeek Rewards.[/quote]
It was not under August 6th 2012 that Greg Caldwell became aware of the current SEC situation. Before that the only mention of the SEC was to ask Paul Burks if the SEC were asking questions based on the above mentioned website. As I mention above Paul made it clear the SEC had asked questions and were "satisfied". And from the information I have gathered, Caldwell requested that Paul Burks personal attorney Noell Tim allow the corporate legal team to help out since that is what they are paid for. This request was not accepted.
[quote]Largely fuelled by nonsensical lawsuits filed by Zeek Rewards affiliates claiming the SEC had no idea about Zeek Rewards when they filed their complaint and Troy Dooly's updates on MLM Helpdesk, it's being heavily pushed that Paul Burks acted alone in his dealings with the SEC – with this ultimately resulting in a closed-door deal involving a $4 million fine and surrendering of Rex Venture Group (Zeek Rewards' parent company) to the SEC.[/quote]
Sadly this is apparently is true! What I do know is that Paul had Danny Wright establish a VPN (Virual Private Network) connecting him to the corporate computers so he could work from home while taking care of his wife. The only reason I know a little about this is because the whole VPN Australia scene is pretty intense and when I was there I had to wrap my head around a lot of stuff I didn't know.
I have also found out through insiders that Paul Burks was meeting Noell Tin outside the office and would not allow Greg Caldwell or anyone else to join them. This happened once or twice per month.
Sure if folks had been carrying out "hundreds of thousands" of documents with no one seeing them, then it would seem strange that no one knew what was happening with the SEC. But with Paul Burks having access to the system though his VPN, it was easy to transfer the aforesaid documents without anyone knowing that the SEC was actively investigating RVG and not just the NC DOJ. And for that matter since no one was around the office at night or on the weekend, there is also the possibility that folks could have carried out documents duing those hours.
Since RVG has always been an internet based eCommerce company, it was easy to remove these documents without anyone realizing it because not a single ream of paper needed to be printed. From info gathered so far, I would say Paul used his VPN. And, for the record based on the info I have gathered, Greg Caldwell was never given administrative access to anything.
And since the LLC is a pass-through, single-member LLC only one person takes the risks, gets the rewards and pays the taxes on those rewards… Paul Burks! So for 15 plus years Paul burks is the only one with full access. He had a gal that cut the checks when he told her to cut checks, but he as the one who signed them and as on the bank account. Until 2012 RVG never had a long-term CFO and/or CPA firm watching over the business. Like most small businesses there were no checks-and-balances or Board of Directors.
From info I gathered, it was right around the time Caldwell accepted the "Acting COO" position that the audited 2011 financials had been completed and presented to the CFO. Which, based on the professionals who have reviewed them, don't suggest a Ponzi was being run.
By the way, it is also my understanding that only three people in-house had total access to the websites and compensation structure. But… There is now evidence that up to five top level Zeek Rewards Affiliates "leadership Liaison" also had full access to the compensation structure and could see total point values and who requested what checks and when those checks were issued.
[quote]Why would they do that unless they'd sniffed something was up? The finer details might have been kept from them but "Ponzi scheme + SEC investigation + requests for hundreds of thousands of Zeek Rewards documents" is an equation anyone even remotely familiar with Zeek should be able to work out. Let alone those running and who were directly involved in the day to day running and management of the scheme.[/quote]
One very important point here. When Greg Caldwell and other executives knew the shutdown was coming they were specifically instructed NOT to change anything and not to tell anyone because the SEC didn't want a "run on the accounts". And during the first two weeks of August when I was talking to these executives they never let on of any pending closure.
And remember Dawn flew the marketing team which included several 3rd party consultants to Nashville the weekend before to finalize the convention plans. During this weekend trip, I was called and asked to use my connections in the Biking world to find the cost of having a custom bike (chopper) build by Jessie James for the convention.
In talking to the 3rd party consultants who were present on that trip, they have all stated they knew nothing and were totally taken be surprise with the closure.
[quote]Whether it's post Ponzi-scheme damage control or sheer ignorance on the behalf of someone who claims to have '30 years' experience as a licensed private investigator' and founder of a company that 'provides assistance in corporate investigations, security, risk management and compliance assessment', I have no idea how Caldwell can claim to be "stunned" that the SEC, upon examination of hundreds of thousands of Zeek Rewards documents, came to the conclusion Zeek Rewards was a Ponzi scheme.[/quote]
Oz's conclusion would be correct if hundreds of thousands of documents had walked out the front door. Without a doubt the staff in Lexington would know something was going on; but that didn't happen.
And in talking to Greg Caldwell many times I can say he was stunned because Paul Burks and his personal attorneys, up to August 6th lie to Greg Caldwell stating all is good with the SEC.
From doing some due diligence I have found Greg Caldwell was still dealing with the people (bankers, attorneys, IT people) that he was working with trying to fix the company's infrastructure.
It seems Noell Tin never once told anyone anything about a problem. And maybe that is part of the problem. I wonder what would have happened if Greg Caldwell had not been used as a pawn in all of this also? If he had been told by Paul Burks or Noell Tin NOT to hire the CFO, CTO, Communication Director etc., because of a closure, I doubt he would have taken the job.
Just my thoughts, but it does look like maybe Paul Burks or his attorneys decided it would be a great cover to hire Greg Caldwell as "acting CEO" and allow it to look as if he was being allowed to clean up the company so the affiliates would not get wise and start pulling out their money.
I know that if I would have known about any investigation I would have reported it. I am sure others realized I would also report on the hiring of Caldwell and the new executives. And with the NC AG CID becoming public (although it was not published until after the SEC closure) causes one to ponder if that was leaked to also throw off the fact a more serious issue was taking place?
And, again my thoughts… But why was Noel Tin ONLY representing Paul Burks but no one was allowed to represent the company? Although that might be a legal issue since the LLC is a single-member LLC, but, Kevin Grimes is on retainer as were other very reputable attorneys who have dealt with regulatory agencies for many years and they are completely shut out by Noell Tin and Paul Burks.
I know based on personal conversations that Greg Caldwell was flat out told at the end, when he tried to insist Tin and company to talk to these other attorneys, "We don't care about the employees; we don't care about the Affiliates, we only care about keeping Paul out of jail."
[quote]In an utterly bizarre and completely destructive reflection of the MLM industry's open willingness to embrace the absurdity of believing that the mere renaming of banning of terminology is what constitutes legal compliance, to deliberate on whether or not Caldwell was indeed Zeek Rewards' COO is to be sidetracked.[/quote]
I think it might be good to explain what Greg Caldwell's agreement was when he accepted the "Acting COO" role. This was to be a very temporary and very specific role which would run until Dec 31, 2012 from my understanding. He was there to hire the internal staff and turn RVG into a functioning business. After hiring the CTO and his team, those issues were getting addressed. He specific objectives were (1) Get the Affiliates Paid; (2) Hire Management Staff (3) Establish Solid Banking Relationships; (4) set up Functional Debit Cards for the field and (5) begin unwinding all the ewallet systems like Payza, STP, etc. And I should also include that he was also looking for a competent and experienced CEO to take over so Paul could be the Director.
[quote]Greg Caldwell has accepted the role of acting COO for RVG where we are confident he brings all of the skills, experience and strengths required to take the RVG operation to the next level.[/quote]
Well since Caldwell was only on the job for around 16 days, he could not accomplish much, even if he had been IronMan! It would have been nice to see if he could have turned this ship around by hiring the right people and working with the SEC and AG to eliminate any issues.
[quote]"How much of the money we take in daily is from affiliates, and how much of this money is then paid out each day to affiliates?"[/quote]
From info I have gathered, this was a query Caldwell tried to get run for the Noell Tin and his firm to give to the SEC but they refused. It does seem like a basic question and a good one. But that information was NEVER provided to anyone, Caldwell or it seems the SEC based on the fact their numbers were low in the complaint.
[quote]As per Greg Caldwell, the SEC didn't shut Zeek Rewards down because Paul Burks sat in his office inventing the daily ROI percentage paid out to affiliates, or that mechanically Zeek Rewards operated like an investment scheme with 90% of the money coming into Zeek Rewards being invested affiliate money, and 98% being paid out in daily ROIs also being invested affiliate money.[/quote]
I have found that the SEC had a very specific concern about the RPP being an unregistered security. Executives had very specific talks about doing away with it completely to appease them.
And although I can't put words in Caldwell's mouth, I do know that when a company gets on the radar screens of any regulatory body, the very first thing they do is begin to search the web for supporting information to their suspicions (remember the above mentioned website.) And as we all know many of the affiliated were promoting Zeek as an investment ponzi.
I know that the RVG compliance director was a former AG investigator and worked daily yo find anyone who was promoting Zeek Rewards illegally. But with plenty with websites out there for the SEC to find in spite of very specific efforts by compliance to find them and terminate the persons behind them.
[quote]No, Zeek Rewards was shut down because "idiots" and "morons" were running around the internet referring to the investment opportunity as well, an investment.
And Caldwell wasn't an employee of Zeek Rewards because, you see, he "accepted" the position of COO as opposed to having been promoted as an existing employee of the company.
This is the idiotic linguistic psuedo- [sic] compliance battle that has raged between Zeek Rewards affiliates and its critics on BehindMLM over tens of articles and now thousands of comments.
Fuelled by ringleaders like Caldwell enforcing the "a Ponzi scheme is not a Ponzi scheme if nobody refers to it as such" angle, ultimately and as repeatedly predicted what you call your Ponzi scheme doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not you are indeed running a Ponzi scheme.[/quote]
Caldwell might not have been an employee because his Agreement to accept the "Acting COO" role was done as an independent contractor and was just standard C-level title was used that folks would recognize. Not a huge deal, but important when it comes to court issues.
In talking with Caldwell his point above was more focused on the fact an unregistered security does not make a Ponzi scheme. But more importantly months before Noell Tin was dealing with the possibility of an unregistered security concern but "everything was okay". A week before shutdown, Caldwell was still being told this.
Now, in reading through all of Oz's editorial and through my notes and gathering more information I have come up with an interesting scenario.
There is a possibility that Noell Tin was told by the SEC several months before RVG to eliminate the RPP, and this was never relayed to any of the other executives. Or that those executives who were told to change it decided to drag their feet since they were part of the compensation structure.
Had the customer qualifiers, and other changes taken place, and the RPP was eliminated and the commissions inside the compensation plan were just raised, then maybe the SC would not have closed down Zeek Rewards… But then again its to little to late.
Posted on Saturday, September 8, 2012
Category: MLM News


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Kullu district
Banjar tehsil
Thati Bir
Thati Bir Population, Caste, Working Data Kullu, Himachal Pradesh - Census 2011
Thati Bir is a village situated in Banjar tehsil of Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh. As per the Population Census 2011, there are total 300 families residing in the village Thati Bir. The total population of Thati Bir is 1,611 out of which 811 are males and 800 are females thus the Average Sex Ratio of Thati Bir is 986.
The population of Children of age 0-6 years in Thati Bir village is 217 which is 13% of the total population. There are 112 male children and 105 female children between the age 0-6 years. Thus as per the Census 2011 the Child Sex Ratio of Thati Bir is 938 which is less than Average Sex Ratio (986) of Thati Bir village.
As per the Census 2011, the literacy rate of Thati Bir is 81.6%. Thus Thati Bir village has higher literacy rate compared to 70.3% of Kullu district. The male literacy rate is 90.99% and the female literacy rate is 72.09% in Thati Bir village.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act (Amendment 1998), Thati Bir village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of the village.
Thati Bir Data as per Census 2011
As per the Population Census 2011 data, following are some quick facts about Thati Bir village.
Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 43.6% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0% of total population in Thati Bir village.
In Thati Bir village out of total population, 1,257 were engaged in work activities. 72.1% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 27.9% were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 1,257 workers engaged in Main Work, 797 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 0 were Agricultural labourer.
Other Workers 109 88 21
Marginal Workers 351 171 180
Map of Thati Bir, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
Nearby Villages to Thati Bir, Banjar
Below are the list of villages near Thati Bir village in Banjar.
Jauri 970
Ratwah 1,082
Sehuli 690
Tarangali 1,253
Bala Gad 3,006
Palach 2,418
Bahu 1,033
Chanon 2,103
Chethar 854
Thani Char 738
Thati Bir, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh - Wikipedia