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Sivasubramaniam v. Sivasubramaniam
015-SLLR-SLLR-1980-V-2-Sivasubramaniam-v.-Sivasubramaniam.pdf
COURT OF APPEAL.
RANASINGHE, J. AND ATUKORALE, J.
c.; A. APFLICATOON 1359/78—D. C. BADULLA 9699/d.
Civil Procedure Code, section 10—Transfer of case-—Grounds justifyingsuch order—Mcarting of word "expedient'' in- section 10—JudicatureAct, No. 2 of 1978, section 46.
The petitioner made this application for transfer of a divorce actioninstituted against her in the District Coart, Badulla by her husband,a practitioner in the said Court. The petitioner purported to make thisapplication under section 46 of the Judicature Act, which Act came intoforce only after the application was made. Hence by consent of partiesthe Court heard the application as one made under section 10 of the CivilProcedure Code.
The petitioner supported her application for a transfer on certaingrounds based on the conduct of the respondent in preventing othermembers of the Bar from appearing on her behalf and from being com-pelled thereby to retain counsel from Colombo. She also alleged thatthe respondent had intimidated her witnesses and that she had alsoto suffer tremendous incovenience in having to travel from Dehiwela toBadulla in this case. The petitioner's allegations were denied in theaffidavits filed on behalf of the respondent.
A party who seeks the transfer of a pending action in Court must adducesufficient grounds to satisfy the Court of Appeal that it is expedient tomake order for its transfer and in this context the word expedient'would mean fit or proper. A transfer would not be ordered on lightgrounds and on a consideration of all the material placed before Courtin the present application, the petitioner had failed to adduce sufficientgrounds for a transfer of this action.
Sivasubramaniam v. Sivasubramaniam (Atukorale, J.)
APPLICATION for a transfer from the District Court, Badulla.
R. D. C. de Silva, for the petitioner.
C. Thiagalingam, Q.C. with K. Thevarajah, for the respondent.
Cur. adv. vuIt.
ATUKORALE, J.
This is an application made by the petitioner, who is the wifeand a resident of Dehiwala, for the transfer of a divorce actioninstituted by the respondent (the husband) against her in theDistrict Court of Badulla to the District Court/Family Court ofColombo or Mount Lavinia. The action has been filed on 4.4.1977praying for a divorce on the ground of malicious desertion. Thepetitioner has filed answer countersuing the respondent for adivorce on the ground of constructive malicious desertion. Atthe time the present application for transfer was filed in thiscourt, the trial in the divorce action had been fixed for 19.1.1979.However in view of the order made by this court staying furtherproceedings in the action until the final determination of thisapplication, the trial has still not commenced.
The present application for a transfer of the divorce actionhas been filed on 11.12.1978 and has been made, according to thepetition, under section 46 of the Judicature Act, No. 2 of 1978.However, as rightly pointed out by learned counsel for therespondent, this Act, though certified on 211.1978, came intooperation only on 2.7.1979—vide Government Gazette No.40/16 dated 15. 6. 1979. It was therefore not in force on the dateof the filing of the present application. Learned Counsel for therespondent, however, had no objection to the application beingconsidered as one made under section 10 of the CivilProcedure Code. Under this section a party to an actionwhich is pending in any original court may, before trial, applyto this court for the withdrawal of such action from the courtin which it is pending and for the transfer of it for trial to anyother court competent to try the same in respect of its natureand the amount or value of its subject matter. Such an appli-cation may be allowed by this court on being satisfied that suchwithdrawal and transfer are desirable for any of the followingreasons.—
(o) that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in anyparticular court or place ; or
(b) that some question of law of unusual difficulty islikely to arise; or
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(c) that it is expedient on any other ground.
The section further states that when the action might haebeen instituted in any one of several courts, the balance ofconvenience only shall be deemed sufficent cause for suchwithdrawal and transfer to one of the alternative courts.
Section 46 (1) of the Judicature Act, No. 2 of 1978 (which isnow in force) also makes provision for the transfer by this courtof inter alia, an action pending in any court to any other court,irrespective of whether such other court is one competent totry the action in respect of its nature and the amount or value-of its subject matter, for reasons which are the same asaforementioned. Under section 46 (2) an application for transferof such an action may be made before or after the commence-ment of trial. It will thus be seen that, in so far as a pendingaction is concerned, although section 56 of the judicature Actappears to be wider in scope than section 10 of the Civil Pro-cedure Code, yet the grounds on which this court can order atransfer of such an action are the same under both sections.Learned counsel for the petitioner stated to us that he is seekinga transfer of the divorce action from the District Court of Badullaon the ground of expediency, namely that for the reasons setout in the application of the petitioner it is expedient to transferthe action from the District Court of Badulla.
The petitioner in her original petition and affidavit hasaverred several facts and circumstances which according to herwarrant a transfer of the divorce action- Firstly she states thatthe respondent, who admittedly is a senior attorney-at-lawpractising in Badulla Courts, has repeatedly abused his positionas a practitioner therein to cause difficulties and embarrassmentto her. The acts and conduct of the respondent complained of ashaving cause her difficulties and embarrassment may be summa-rised as follows:—
the respondent asks the lawyers of the Badulla Bar
retained by her why they are appearing against himand alleges that they are interfering with his marriedlife,
the respondent casts abusive and insulting remarks at
the lawyers appearing for her whilst being seatedat the Bar table, and
the respondent has deprived her of retaining counsel
of her choice by refusing to agree to the case beingfixed for trial on dates suitable to her own counsel
In support of ground (a) aforesaid, the petitioner has in heraffidavit stated that on 15.9.1978 (which was a trial date in theaction) the respondent questioned Mr. Basil de Silva, theattorney-at-law who appeared for her, as to why he wasappearing against him and alleged that he was interfering inhis married life. Mr. Basil de Silva himself in his affidavit HI,which has been tendered to this court together with the res-pondent's objections, has however denied that the respondentuttered such words to him. He has stated that as Mr. L. S. V.Perera, the registered attorney pf the petitioner, was indisposedon that day he, at the request of Mr. L. S. V. Perera, appearedfor the petitioner. In fact the affidavit of Mr. T. Sri Pathmana-than, another senior practitioner of the Badulla Bar, which hasbeen tendered to this court after the respondent filed h's objec-tions, contains no reference to the respondent having utteredsuch words to Mr. Basil de Silva. It only states that the respon-dent was not on talking terms with Mr. Basil de Silva for sometime after the latter appeared for the petitioner in the absenceof Mr. L. S. V. Perera. Thus apart from the bare statement ofthe petitioner herself there is no material to substantiate thisallegation of the petitioner.
In support of ground (b) aforesaid, namely, that the respon-dent casts abusive and insulting remarks at the lawyers appear-ing for the petition whilst being seated at the Bar table, thepetitioner in her application states that the respondent abusedand after removing his black coat even threatened to assault Mr.Wijaya Perera, attorney-at-law, who was appearing for her inthe maintenance case filed by her against the respondent atBadulla. Thereupon, according to her, the other members of theBar intervened and prevented a fight taking place in courtpremises. The respondent thereby compelled her to withdraw themaintenance case filed by her at Badulla and caused her to file afresh case in Colombo. Mr. Wijaya Perera in h's affidavittendered to court by the respondent with his objections hascategorically denied such an incident and has also stated that-the respondent never attempted to prevent him from appearingfor the petitioner. Mr. T. Sri Pathmanathan in his affidavit hasstated that Mr. Wijaya Perera and the respondent had a quarrelin the District Court of Badulla over an alleged remark by therespondent that Mr. Wijaya Perera was indulging in immoralactivities and that he himself intervened and restrained Mr.Wijaya Perera from taking any action over this alleged remark.He however does not depose to a threat of assult on Mr. WijayaPerera by the respondent although the petitioner states that hewas a witness to the incident referred to by her in her affidavit.
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Nor is it clear from Mr. Fathmanathan's affidavit that theincident referred to by him was one that arose in consequenceof Mr. Wijaya Perera's appearance for the petitioner. Thereappears to me to be material discrepancies in the versions givenby the petitioner and Mr. Pathmanathan. Furthermore it isclear that Mr. L. S. V. Perera, a very senior practitioner of theBadulla Bar and a JP.U.M. and also a former Crown Proctor,is the registered attorney-at-law of the petitioner in the divorceaction. There is not even a suggestion that the respondent hassought to harass, insult or intimidate him for appearing on behalfof the petitioner.
In regard to ground (c) aforesaid, namely, that the respondenthas deprived the petitioner from retaining counsel of her choiceby refusing to agree to the case being fixed for trial on datessuitable to her own counsel, the petitioner states that the res-pondent did not agree to the action being fixed for trial on any ofthe free dates of her counsel, Mr. Sethukavaler and that the res-pondent got it fixed for trial on a date which did not suit Mr.Sethukavaler. The respondent in his affidavit whilst denyingthat he refused to accommodate Mr. Sethukavaler states thatthe court at Badulla is a combined court and only Mondays andFridays have been allocated for civil work. At least some of thedates suggested by Mr. Sethukavaler happened to be days setapart for criminal work and thus a date suitable to Mr.Sethukavaler could not be given. Moreover since the date oftrial in a case is one fixed by court after taking into considera-tion the dates that are suitable to counsel appearing for theparties, I do not think it would be possible for the respondent,even if he was inclined to do so, to deliberately manipulate adate that is unsuitable to the petitioner's counsel. In the instantcase it would appear that there were two trial dates, namely,15.09.1978 and 19.01.1979. There is no allegation that the firstdate was unsuitable to the petitioner's counsel. The second dateis one that was suitable to her counsel, Mr. Vernon Wijetunge,and but for this application the trial would probably havecommenced on that date. Thus the attempts if any, by therespondent to achieve a situation by which counsel of her choicewould not be able to appear for her have proved unsuccessful.
Secondly the petitioner has urged that the respondent hasbeen abusing and threatening her witnesses. In her affidavit shehas stated that that the respondent once telephoned and foundfault with one Mr. Gnanamuttu for collecting her from the busstand and giving her accommodation. Mr. Gnanamuttu is on thepetitioner's list of witnesses. He in his affidavit (X 3) has stat-
Sivasubramaniam v. Sivasubramaniam (Afukorale, J.)
ed that the respondent rang him up and asked him why he pick-ed her up and gave her accommodation to which he replied thathe and his wife acted in pursuance of a request made over thetelephone by the petitioner's mother who happened to be inColombo. He further informed the respondent that they wouldhave done the same thing to him if he was in similar circums-tances. There is nothing in this conversation to suggest that therespondent has abused or threatened Mr. Gnanamuttu.
The third ground on which the petitioner seeks a transfer of thedivorce action is for the reason that she has to incur tremendousinconvenience as a result of it being heard in Badulla and herhaving to travel there from Dehiwela. There is sufficent mate-rial to show that the petitioner's mother and sister are residentin Badulla. She is therefore put to no inconvenience in seekingaccommodation at Badulla whenever she has to attend court inconnection with the case. Once she reaches Badulla her motherwould no doubt provide her with comfortable accommodation.The only inconvenience that may be caused to her is probablya little physical discomfort in travelling to Badulla. But suchdiscomfort is inevitable when one has to travel by public trans-port. The petitioner has also stated that she has to undergoinconvenience in making arrangements for the minor childrento be looked after in her absence. Here again there is materialto show that the petitioner did make such arrangements for thecare and custody of the children when she was away in Indiafor about 10 days. She should therefore have no difficulty what-soever to make similar arrangements for a couple of days at themost until she returns from Badulla. In this connection it issignificant to note that twelve of the thirteen witnesses in thepetitioner's list of witneses are residents of Badulla whilst theother witness is out of, the Island. All the witnesses of therespondent except one are also from Badulla-
Finally the petitioner has also stated that as a result of thecase being fixed at Badulla litigation has been made unbearablyexpensive to her since she is compelled to take counsel fromColombo who have to charge her much higher fees than theywould have charged had the case been fixed for trial at MountLavinia, where the petitioner is resident. No doubt fees chargedby Colombo counsel to appear at Badulla would be compara-tively higher than those charged by them to appear in Colomboitself. But the fees charged by Colombo counsel vary with theindividual counsel and would depend on the particular counselwho is retained to appear. Further there are also counsel avail-able in other courts closer to Badulla than Colombo who may
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be retained at less expense. There is also material to show thatthe petitioner is possessed of valuable assets which provide herwith a regular income. She certainly does not appear to be sopoor as to be unable to raise funds to retain counsel even fromColombo.
A party to an action who seeks a transfer of a pending actionfrom the court in which it is pending to another court mustadduce sufficient grounds to satisfy us that it is expedient tomake order for its transfer. ' Expedient ' in this context, in my.view, means fit or proper. A transfer would not be ordered onlight grounds. On a careful consideration of all the relevantmaterial placed before us I am of the opinion that the petitionerhas failed to adduce sufficient grounds for a transfer of thedivorce action from the District Court of Badulla. The presentapplication is therefore refused with costs.
RANASINGHE, J.—I agree.
Application refused.
K. Thevarajah,Attorney-at-law..


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Oh, ha ha ha. A couple posts ago, I was writing about mis-en-place as if I lived and breathed it. Now I'm wondering what happened to the organization I used to consider my middle name. It's been replaced with something…well…else. And I'm reminded of a line one of my writing partners, Janet, wisely squeezed into a script for a TV spot Nike (unwisely) never approved: "Life is messy." Jeez, is it ever.
We're moving. I said that the last time I posted. Forgive me if I repeat myself, because that's what you do when you move. You go a bit nuts for a while. Everything is upside down. Not just the books and boxes and memories and sentimental objects that all of a sudden just seem like something else to get rid of. But also the emotions. I am happy then I'm sad. Giddy then exhausted. Negative than positive. Whatever's happening, I'm being moved by it. I'm being heaved up by a big tidal wave I invited into my life. You get what you ask for.
And what we asked for starts tomorrow. Tomorrow! Yikes! So, everything feels off. Everything is in flux. And despite all my best-laid mis-en-place plans (yes, I've drawn diagrams and floor plans and closet plans and you-name-it plans), I have this funny feeling that things will land a bit differently than I think they will. It's all very funky.
And in the process of it all, we have revisited every moment of our own lives. Every choice. Every person we knew. Every shred of evidence or shame or glory. Every scrap of paper has been looked at and categorized, sometimes as "Trash," sometimes as something to be newly enshrined. Every thing, every object has been reassessed. Our life has passed before our eyes, if not in a minute, then in a month of getting ready. The sense of an end is palpable.
But it's just the end of a chapter. And without ending one chapter, you can't start another. And that's what it's all about. A new, thrilling, different start. As much as I like might like to experience life as someone else, I'll still be me with flaws and strengths, my quirks and insecurities…but I'll be seeing the world from a different place. And this will be a new life for me. For us. I'm so excited about that.
We may do everything exactly as we do now. But then again, we may not. I don't really think we will. A place can have huge impact on how you live, can't it? Where we have noise now, we will have quiet. Where we have open space, we will have dedicated spaces. Where we now have lots and lots, we will be living with less. Much less. Where we now see cityscape, we will see vines. While we now commute to the center of the city, we will now be in it. A different set of contradictions. A different set of realities.
I don't know that we will really "get anything right"…I just have faith that it will be. I'll let you know.
What was the most traumatic move in your life? What move has changed you the most? Where would you move next?
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I read your post and applauded you…it's always a gut wrenching experience to move. After I read you post I went back and read you moving vans…how cute they are! Good Luck, my friend! A whole new world awaits and you and your family are part of it!!!
Thanks Linda! I think in our case this change is a good one…but I've also often looked at friends of mine who didn't move…who stayed put for a very long time…and there is great growth that happens in that circumstance too. Deep roots and deep knowledge. A different kind of passage.
Charlotte, few of us take the time in the middle of packing for a move to really think about what it means on deeper levels. Am I taking this? Am I leaving it? Who might want it? How do I get rid of it? Such very basic questions. I love how you've thought about the different things that a move represents – how your new home might change your lives. Thank you for sharing and good luck tomorrow. Whatever we plan on paper, real life always has a way of surprising us. It would all be so dull if we could easily plot it out, wouldn't it?
I'm reading this upon waking, and it strikes close to home. We have moved in and out of the country twice. I have no plans of moving right now. But it brings it back up in a way… except I've had my "home base" on Orcas Island for 22 years (where we have now lived again the past 3 years). Sometimes I think about moving from here and that's exciting and scary.
I also touched back on your last post. I'm also a chef by training and completely agree with the steps. Becoming one with the list etc… I feel that when I prepared large meals or catered or had my cafe. Interesting to see it in writing.
It's sort of funny. We're only moving 2 km away, but it feels like a different world. Our new house has an ancient story. I hope to get around to telling it one of these days. Involves a Roman emperor, nuns, servants and horses.
I love it that you sent me corrections to make on your behalf. I am always screwing up messages. I type fast and without care and forget to proofread. I'm starting to look illiterate.


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Thanks to St. Martin's Press for the advanced copy and blog tour spot in exchange for a review!
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Srinagar girl bags Sahitya Akademi Award
🕒 1 year ago
June 26, 2018 IST
Monitor News Bureau | 1 Min Read
Srinagar June 25: India's national academy of letters, the Sahitya Akademi, has announced the names of 21 winners of its Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 21 recipients of the Yuva Puraskar for this year.
The Bal Puraskar awards will be conferred at a function on November 14, which is celebrated as Children's Day, being the birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The date for conferring the Yuva Puraskar awards has not been declared yet.
"The awards were recommended by jury members representing 22 Indian languages, and approved by the Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi which met today under the Chairmanship of Dr.Chandra shekhar Kambar, President, Sahitya Akademi," a statement said.
The award comprises a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque and a cheque of Rs 50,000 for both types of awards.
Established in 1954 by the Indian government, Sahitya Akademi is India's premier literary institution, promoting preserving literature in 24 languages.
Valley's young writer Deeba Nazir has been chosen for the prestigious award for her short story book 'Zareen Zakhm. She is the first young writer from the Srinagar to have achieved this honour.
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Srinagar, July 18: Advisor to Governor, K Skandan on Thursday said that J&K has around 93,000 people dependent on the fisheries sector, while the requirement of fish is 1.5 lakh tons, however, the state produces only 20,000 tons of fish.
"J&K has tremendous potential in the fisheries sector and it can become modern world-class industry as we have 50,000 hectares of water area in the state," he said.
He said that a massive fisheries and aquaculture programme has been undertaken by the government to boost the fishing industry in the State.
The Advisor stated this while speaking at a two-day National Conference on Fisheries and Climate Change at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Kashmir (SKUAST-K) here.
Advisor Skandan delved into detail as to how climate change has affected food systems. He said that the fisheries and aquaculture sector is a crucial resource in terms of ensuring food and nutrition security. He called for collective efforts to create a balance between developmental needs and environmental sustainability. He said universities, scientists and people together can make strategies to tackle the important issue of climate change which is affecting ecosystem, adding if things go unchecked oceans will also undergo multiple woes.
Terming Trout as the pride of Jammu and Kashmir, he said there is a need to protect the fish variety and their ecosystem, adding various measures are being taken for welfare of people associated with the fishing industry.
The Advisor announced that an Aquaculture Park shall be set up in Srinagar for which various locations are being explored. He said that there is a need to have a big aquaculture park where students and the general population can get acquainted with aquaculture practices.
The two-day conference titled 'Fisheries and Climate: Strategies, Challenges and Sustainable Management' is being organized by Division of Fishery Engineering, Faculty of Fisheries SKUAST-K in collaboration with Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India.
Prof Nazeer Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor, SKUAST-K, Dr Debajit Sarma, Director ICAR-DCFR, Bhimtal, Prof MH Balki, Dean faculty of Fisheries, Dr Gohar Bilal Wani, Organizing Secretary and Dr A S Ninawe, former Vice-Chancellor MAFSU also spoke on the occasion.
The conference was told that J&K produces 20,000 tons of fish annually with huge gap between demand and supply while only 50 percent population of the State consumes fish.
Addressing the conference, VC SKUAST-K said the fishing industry is an important not only in nutrition but also in providing employment in southern states of India, adding it contributes one per cent of National GDP and five per cent in Agriculture GDP and employing around 14 million people in India.
Later, the Advisor also released a compendium of Abstracts compiled by the University students.
The Advisor also facilitated SKUAST-K for attaining 13th rank specified by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi.
He also facilitated Ambreen Hamdani, an M Sc student of SKUAST-K for winning DST-Lockheed Martin-Tata Trusts IIGP 2.0-University Challenge 20-19 for her innovation.
Srinagar, July 18: National Conference, vice president Omar Abdullah today presided over a Provincial committee meet of Kashmir province at party headquarters Nawa-e-Subha, Srinagar.
In the hours-long meet, party vice president applauded the party functionaries for conducting segment wise conventions across the province. The party vice president said the need of the hour was to step up the efforts towards greater interaction with the public across the state.
A range of issues concerning the party and the state were deliberated upon in the meet. Vice president, while exuding confidence into the functionaries said that the need of the hour was to maintain the momentum of parliamentary elections up to assembly elections. He said that there was no scope for smugness and gratification as the challenge ahead of the party was bigger.
Party vice president while exuding confidence into the party functionaries said that acquiring power has never been the party's goal and the party will continue to highlight the woes of people determinedly. "Serving the people of the state, protecting the interests of the state and upholding the pluralistic visage of our state has been the core of party ideology. It is our duty to highlight the woes of people. We owe a sense of duty to towards the people of the state irrespective of their caste, creed and religious affiliations. The party functionaries should amplify their efforts to raise issues which are distressing people," he said adding, "The party has gone through worst of times and was subjected to the worst machinations but with the support of people it trounced all those efforts that aim at fiddling with states special character."
Vice president urged the incumbent governor administration to utilize its resources to reduce the mounting woes of people. Omar said the main agenda of the party is to salvage the people of the state towards safe shores. The need of the hour calls for taking the Naya Kashmir agenda of the party to each doorstep.
Among others party's general secretary Haji Ali Muhammad Sagar, additional general secretary Dr Sheikh Mustufa Kamal, Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, Muhammad Akbar Lone, Abdul Rahim Rather, Muhammad Shafi Uri, Sakina Itoo, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, Mubarak Gul, Sharief ud din Shariq, Ali Mohammad Dar, Dr Bashir Veeri were also present on the occasion. Besides, district presidents, district-level functionaries, constituency in-charges, YNC functionaries, women's wing, media cell functionaries also attended the meet.
Srinagar, July 18: Security forces on Thursday cordoned off Aabiguzar Bund area and conducted search operation in the locality.
Reports said that joint team of government forces including CRPF, SOG and local police, on Thursday afternoon, suddenly appeared in Abiguzar Bund area of Srinagar district and launched a massive cordon and search operation here.
Sources said that the operation was launched following the receipt of inputs about the movement of suspected militants in the area.
The sudden seizure of the area created panic among the people, who apprehended a possible encounter like situation, when the forces closed the area and did not allow anyone to move.
All entry and exit points of the area were sealed and door to door searches of house boats, residential dongas, offices and business establishments were conducted by the forces.
The siege was later lifted without any untoward incident.


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Morton Castle is a mid to late 13th century fortified stone hall house, founded by the Adairs. It stands on a remote triangular promontory, which was probably the site of a 12th century fortification built by Dunegal, Lord of Nithsdale. With a deep ditch to the south and steep slopes down to Morton Loch to the north, the remains now consists of a ruinous rectangular two storey block. Possibly dismantled in 1357 and rebuilt by the Earls of March in the early 15th century, there was a south-western gatehouse and a circular tower on the south-east angle. In 1459, the hall was a stronghold of the Douglases, which was occupied until 1715. 3 miles west is Drumlanrig Castle.
Morton Castle is located north-east of Carronbridge, off the A702. 17 miles north-west of Dumfries, on the A76-A702.
The site is owned by Historic Scotland and is freely accessible in daylight hours.
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Mathew Shatsky Commits To Holy Cross
January 2nd, 2021 @ 5:25 pm
Sherwood Park, AB: The Sherwood Park Crusaders are pleased to announce that defenceman Mathew Shatsky (2001) has committed to the Holy Cross Crusaders for the 2021-22 season.
?Mat (Shatsky) has exemplified the exact type of person and player on and off the ice that we try to recruit to our organization,? said General Manager Kyle Chase. ?He has put in the work in all facets of his game and his education, and is very deserving of being rewarded a scholarship to Holy Cross."
Holy Cross, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is an NCAA Division I program that plays in the Atlantic Hockey Conference. The Crusaders are coached by David Berrard who has been with the school since the 2014-15 season.
Shatsky is now in his second season with the Crusaders. He joined Sherwood Park at the start of the 2019-20 season from the Winnipeg Wild in Manitoba.
Shatsky dressed in 43 games in his rookie season scoring two goals and 10 points. This season, the Winnipeg native had a strong pre-season, scoring five points in seven games and had played in three games in the regular season before it was postponed.
Shatsky is now the second Crusader from the 2020-21 roster to commit to an NCAA Division I program, joining Ty Mueller (University of Nebraska-Omaha).
The Crusaders organization would like to congratulate Mathew and his parents Charlene & Morley and the rest of the Shatsky family for his accomplishment.
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How do I eliminate the hot spots under my lights?
Answer: A hot spot is minor to sever burning on the top of the plant directly under the bulb. Until recently the only way to fix it was to raise the light &/or add a light mover. Now there is a hot spot diffuser that bounces the light in a different pattern, making the light pattern more intense and reducing the hot spot at the same time.


The company has a wide range of developments available, from apartments in the city for professionals, more spacious houses for growing families and large, luxury homes. Hill also has experience of building mixed-use developments, working with commercial agents and investors to give communities a new lease of life with services such as restaurants, cinemas, community centres and medical facilities.
The housebuilder also has a commitment to building sustainable homes and communities, providing environmentally-friendly places to live. This was recognised when one of its developments, Virido, won the Eco-Living award at the London Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2017.
In 2015, Hill was awarded the prestigious Housebuilder of the Year Award at the WhatHouse? Awards, and in 2017, Hill received three Silver Awards for Best Medium Housebuilder, Best Renovation and Best Retirement Development.
It works with housing associations and local authorities in order to create affordable housing across London and the South East, and often partners with schools and universities.
The company has a head office in Waltham Abbey, and regional offices in Bicester, Crawley, Norwich and Cambridge, with over 400 staff.
The housebuilder will use these details to get back in touch with you.


Coalpits Wash is a small stream that originates in the highlands of Zion National Park near the 7300 ft mountain known as The Bishopric. It then heads south and eventually empties into the Virgin River at a spot a few miles to the west of the town of Rockville. The lower parts of Coalpits Wash Canyon have been traditionally used for an 11.2 mile roundtrip day hike. The hike starts at an elevation of 3650 ft in a desert environment. As you hike north along the banks of the stream, you will go through a small canyon and eventually find yourself in a mixed forest of deciduous and coniferous trees among the rugged slick rock mountains of Zion National Park. The usual end point for the day hike is a spot at an elevation of 4320 ft where you will find the decaying ruins of an old oil well (the wash continues many more miles into the mountains to end on the slopes of the Bishopric).
From the south entrance of Zion National Park (in Springdale, Utah), drive 7.3 miles west on Route 9 to a dirt pullout on Route 9. You will likely see a sign for Coalpits Wash on the road. Park in the dirt area by the road.
You will start your hike on the east side of the Coalpits Wash. From the parking area, follow a dirt road a very short distance north. Find the gate that goes through the barbed wire marking the park boundary, go through the gate and enter the park. You will find yourself in a wide valley covered by desert bushes. A few cottonwood trees can be seen on the banks of the wash and the Smithsonian Butte can be seen behind to the south.
You will find a trail on the east side of the wash. Follow it north among the desert shrubs. You will note many colorful slopes around you that give the area the nickname: "The Painted Desert".
After 1.9 miles of easy hiking, you will reach a major split in the valley. Right goes to Scoggins Wash. Take the left fork and enter a small canyon. You will not find an established trail here and will have to bushwhack your way up the canyon. The bushwhacking is not hard but will slow you down.
You will eventually reach an area of "Narrows" where you will have to walk in the shallow stream (In the warmer months, the streambed might be dry). To avoid the mud, in one spot, we chose to climb out of the narrows onto the slopes above.
After the narrows, you will reach the junction of Chinle Trail. The valley will open up and you will find yourself in a much greener environment in a beautiful forest. Spectacular slick rock peaks can be seen all around. Follow the stream another 2 miles to reach the oil well ruins.
Check out http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm for all fees and regulations.
Due to very hot summers, October through May is the best hiking season.


Here's this week's #Wonderlist containing all the tracks that have recently been rocking our world. We have massive new tunes from Demi Lovato and Kyla La Grange plus, for those not in a rush, there's an 11 minute epic from Swan's guitarist Norman Westberg.
"What's wrong with being confident?" asks Demi Lovato on her latest monster of pop single. This is probably a rhetorical question as nobody would dare answer back to Lovato. 'Confident' is a song so brilliant and empowering that it will have even the most delicate wallflower storming to the dancefloor.
Kyla La Grange has been toiling at the coalface of pop music since the release of her debut album in 2012. 'So Sweet', a synth pop wonder, is the first single to be released from her third album which is the follow-up to 2014's criminally underappreciated Cut Your Teeth.
'Plastic' is the second single to drop from New Order's tenth studio album, their first album since the departure of Peter Hook. A New Order track mixed by Richard X and featuring backing vocals from La Roux's Elly Jackson was never going to disappoint.
'Frostbite Falls' is taken from Swans guitarist Norman Westberg's album 13. Only 75 copies of 13 were available when the album was initially released. However, some good news for the person unlucky enough to be 76th in line at the record store that day. 13 has been remastered and is being rereleased via Lawrence English's Room40.
Chris Loco is a name you're going become very familiar with. After writing and producing for other artists, Loco has finally released his debut single. 'Ego' is the first release from forthcoming EP See No Evil. Those powerful vocals on the track are provided by Raye. The pair previously collaborated on two tracks on Raye's debut EP. See No Evil will be released in the autumn.
The news that Cilia has released a really great single should come as no surprise. Three singles into her career, Cilia has yet to put a foot wrong. If the country's musical output is anything to go by, the people of Sweden seem to get over their heartbreak by writing amazing pop songs. Much more productive than wallowing.
Taragana Pyjarama has unveiled the video for Ariel, the title track of his EP which was released by True Panther Sounds. The EP was released back in May and is well worth revisiting. The stunning video was directed by Lasse Martinussen.
'Summerstock' is the new single from New York's Imaginary People. This is first single taken from their debut-full-length album Dead Letterbox which was produced by Kevin McMahon (Swans, Titus Andronicus, Real Estate). 'Summerstock' has a garage rock feel but is infinitely better than the stuff you recorded with your mates during the school holidays.


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350 SMAC Series Zeroing In On Amazing 2023 Racing Season; Highlights Of Upcoming Year
Story By: 350 SMAC – DERRY, NH – 350 SMAC in 2023 – Here we come!
Putting together a schedule has a tremendous amount of moving parts. We have 2-3 shows still to announce including our end-of-year Supernationals.
Here are a few highlights coming to 2023:
The Legend Series will be back as we continue to honor legends of the sport.
2023 brings Charter Series teams where the teams can earn $700 to start. We want to continue to elevate the sport and along that comes with paying the best purse possible. More to come next week…
2 events at the Waterford, CT Speedbowl – One of which is called the "Golden Ticket Challenge" for May 20th. We all remember Willy Wonka…well the Golden ticket comes to life! One lucky driver will be competing for a $3,500 to win feature check. The 2nd race will decide the 2023 SMAC Champion. Everyone loves the Speedbowl and we thank Gunny & Sean for having us back.
Supermodifieds make their return to Lancaster, NY! We can't thank the new ownership group enough for having us to their facility. This race will also mark our first "Rockstars & Racing event with a concert as part of the show" Racing IS Entertainment…
We return to Seekonk, MA for the HUGE Open Wheel Weds. Modified Madness. They are an amazing facility and we are proud to be back! Thank you to the management group.
The Bentley Warren Classic was a hit in 2022 and once again we honor him at the Wiscasset Speedway! We have been in Maine since the start of SMAC. Thank you to Ken, Richard & Vanessa.
Oh & SMAC is making a 2nd race in Maine in 2023 – the one, the only, THE OXFORD 250 Weekend!!! Friday night lights with the SMAC Supermodifieds on Aug. 25th. We thank Tom & Mikey Mayberry for allowing us to be part of this epic weekend.
We also have a show car in the works and working with the future fans of SMAC racing to campaign all over the NorthEast to make Supermodifieds as great as possible.
Rules for 2023 should be posted on 350smac.com soon.
Sponsor announcements coming soon…if you want to see us at YOUR favorite track call them and say "We want SMAC!"
We had some inquiring minds ask about May 6th – we are off that day currently. We will break down each show over the course of the coming weeks.
Previous Muldoon Motorsports Enjoyed A Successful 2022 Season With the 350 SMAC Tour
Next 350 SMAC Supermodifieds Join Epic Friday Night Special At White Mountain Motorsports Park July 14th
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Reliefband's Motion Sickness Wearable, Take 2
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Two years ago, I tried the original and judged it to be my favorite gadget ever. Version 2.0 aims for better form to match its function
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The author's "geek stack": a Fitbit, a hair tie, a small analog watch, and Reliefband 2.0.
Photo: Tekla Perry
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The motion sickness wearable Reliefband changed my life back in 2016, making me able to comfortably ride in cars, planes, and boats without sleep-inducing motion sickness drugs. There's no arguing that the wearable works amazingly well for me, someone who is severely susceptible to motion sickness.
There was also no arguing that generation one is not the most attractive design. It resembles something my kid got as part of a secret agent spy kit when he was six. Or like a toy compass from a cereal box.
And indeed, after just over a year of use, the plastic case started cracking. A replacement unit had a battery door that just wouldn't close. I solved both problems with duct tape; it wasn't pretty, but I wasn't giving up this gadget I'd come to rely on. Instead, I tucked my sleeve over it to hide it as much as possible, and wore it only as long as I had to.
Back in 2016, the company promised that it was in the midst of a redesign, and would be shipping a much sleeker and more functional band by the end of that year. It took a little longer than that, but now Reliefband has finally rolled out generation 2.0.
But while Reliefband 2.0 is now my band of choice, it's not superior in every respect to the original version.
Before we get into why, here's a quick refresher on the basic operating principle of both the old and new bands. They work by emitting electric pulses; carefully positioned contact plates on the device send those pulses tingling up the middle couple of fingers. These intermittent pulses work to block the neurological signals that trigger motion sickness. The electric jolts have to be spaced carefully, company reps told me. Not frequent enough, and they won't do the job. Too frequent, and they'll make the nerves insensitive to them.
As someone who gets motion sickness essentially anytime I'm in a car and not in the driver's seat, I can attest that my original Reliefband works brilliantly. Only once in my two years of using it has it failed—and even then, it helped me recover quickly.
Reliefband 2.0 solves some of its issues, but creates new ones.
First, the look: Version 2.0 is much more attractive. The bulky part of the gadget, containing the battery and electronics, has been moved to the top, so it looks like a smart watch or bulked up fitness band. Only the metal contacts wrap to the inside of the wrist. (The previous generation had to be worn with the entire gadget seated on the inside of the wrist. But there's a reason most people don't wear watches like that: You bump it constantly.)
The author's original Reliefband after more than year of use, slightly cracked but still working. Reliefband 2.0 (photo at top of post) appears to be far more durable.Photo: Tekla Perry
I no longer was self-conscious while wearing the band, wondering if it would attract questioning looks. So, I was willing to leave it on for extended periods, such as during long airline flights, just in case the skies turned turbulent. I assumed when I was fiddling with the controls people would just think I was checking my watch or responding to a text message—no one ever asked. It's part of a geek stack on my left wrist that includes my Fitbit, a small analog watch that I just can't seem to give up, and a just-in-case hair tie.
Then there's the fit: Unfortunately, it's now only so-so. Version 2.0 is definitely not designed for my slim wrist. It comes in only one size, and that size is BIG. This means the edges protrude and catch on things. It also impinges on the device's functionality, making it hard to adjust the band properly and line the contacts up with the correct spot on my wrist. After many, many, attempts, I discovered that the only way to make it work is to wear it backwards (with the controls towards my shoulder instead of my fingers). This makes those buttons harder to reach however, and adjustments counterintuitive (the "up" button is down and vice versa). Had I not had experience with the previous model, I might have left it positioned incorrectly and missed out on the benefits.
The controls: Despite them being upside down on my wrist, I can say they are now a little better. The original Reliefband had one button; each push advanced the intensity of the pulses from "off," through the maximum level of five, and then back to off. Reliefband 2.0 has two buttons: One doubles as the on/off button and ratchets intensity down; the other ratchets the intensity up. There's a finer division of intensities (nine instead of five), and I appreciate having more options. But turning the gadget off is a challenge. It requires a long push and hold while watching for a little "N" to flick on and then off. It's not complicated, but it's hard to see in bright light. A number of times, in spite of how careful I've been, I've found that I somehow failed to do this properly. I also found out the hard way that plugging the gadget into the charger turns it on automatically; it has to be turned off manually when done charging. Not intuitive.
Battery life: It's okay. I've never had it run out of charge in normal use. A full charge of its internal rechargeable batteries lasts about 12 hours at the slightly higher than middle intensity I typically use. The device sends a low battery warning after 10 hours. But when I stored it, fully turned off, for a week or two, I found that the battery ran down to nothing—a disappointment. At least it does recharge quickly—in less than half an hour in my experience. The previous model used coin-cell batteries, which lasted for months, and could be replaced in seconds. So, I'm still packing the older version as a security blanket, just in case I inadvertently leave the new one on or forget to recharge it at the end of a day.
So the net net: If you just want to try the technology and see if it works for you, the original Reliefband is still on the market for under $100. If you have an average sized wrist, though, and plan to use the device on a regular basis, Reliefband 2.0, at $180, won't make you look like a total geek.
As for me, I've mostly converted to version 2.0, but I'd be a lot happier if it came in a smaller size. And I would think there would be a huge market for one, given that children are particularly susceptible to motion sickness and their parents are likely eager to find non-drug alternatives.
Update 3 February 2022: The latest generation of Reliefband, the Reliefband Sport ($230), goes back to the form factor of the original Reliefband (still on the market at $130), with a few key tweaks. For one, it's waterproof, not that it will do much good when you're immersed in water (so it won't help me while snorkeling, unfortunately). But for riding in a small boat, where big splashes are a concern, it's a plus.
Reliefband Sport
For me, however, the best new feature is the automatic shut-off. When the band detects that it is no longer making skin contact, it stops its pulses and goes into a waiting mode, after a minute, it turns itself off. I've regularly failed to turn the Reliefband 2.0 ($250) off properly—and even when I do, it tends to lose charge over time. The Reliefband Sport turns itself off and hangs onto its charge even when tucked in a drawer for a month.
On the downside, it does take longer to charge than its predecessor. And the center control button can be hard to push. Whether the case proves more durable over time than its first-generation twin remains to be seen.
And yes, six years later after Reliefband's motion sickness wearables first made me far more willing to venture onto winding roads or rough seas, I'm still a huge fan.
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Tekla S. Perry is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., she's been covering the people, companies, and technology that make Silicon Valley a special place for more than 40 years. An IEEE member, she holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Michigan State University.
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From WinZips to Cat GIFs, Jacob Ziv's Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression
The lossless-compression pioneer received the 2021 IEEE Medal of Honor
Photo: Rami Shlush
Lossless data compression seems a bit like a magic trick. Its cousin, lossy compression, is easier to comprehend. Lossy algorithms are used to get music into the popular MP3 format and turn a digital image into a standard JPEG file. They do this by selectively removing bits, taking what scientists know about the way we see and hear to determine which bits we'd least miss. But no one can make the case that the resulting file is a perfect replica of the original.
Not so with lossless data compression. Bits do disappear, making the data file dramatically smaller and thus easier to store and transmit. The important difference is that the bits reappear on command. It's as if the bits are rabbits in a magician's act, disappearing and then reappearing from inside a hat at the wave of a wand.
The world of magic had Houdini, who pioneered tricks that are still performed today. And data compression has Jacob Ziv.
In 1977, Ziv, working with Abraham Lempel, published the equivalent of Houdini on Magic: a paper in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory titled "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression." The algorithm described in the paper came to be called LZ77—from the authors' names, in alphabetical order, and the year. LZ77 wasn't the first lossless compression algorithm, but it was the first that could work its magic in a single step.
Jacob Ziv
RAMI SHLUSH
Current job: Technion Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Date of birth: 27 November 1931
Birthplace: Tiberias, British-ruled Palestine (now Israel)
Height: 172 centimeters
Family: Married to Shoshana, four children, nine grandchildren
Education: BSc, Dip-Eng, MSc, all in electrical engineering from Technion, in 1954, 1955, 1957; Sc.D, MIT, 1962
Favorite books: Detective stories, particularly those featuring Perry Mason
Favorite kind of music: classical, particularly Bach; jazz
Favorite food: Falafel, ice cream
How he starts the day: A cup of espresso and a piece of dark chocolate
Favorite movie: Casablanca (1942)
Organizational memberships: Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, IEEE Fellow
Major awards: IEEE Medal of Honor "for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership"; BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award; Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society
The following year, the two researchers issued a refinement, LZ78. That algorithm became the basis for the Unix compress program used in the early '80s; WinZip and Gzip, born in the early '90s; and the GIF and TIFF image formats. Without these algorithms, we'd likely be mailing large data files on discs instead of sending them across the Internet with a click, buying our music on CDs instead of streaming it, and looking at Facebook feeds that don't have bouncing animated images.
Ziv went on to partner with other researchers on other innovations in compression. It is his full body of work, spanning more than half a century, that earned him the 2021 IEEE Medal of Honor "for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership."
Ziv was born in 1931 to Russian immigrants in Tiberias, a city then in British-ruled Palestine and now part of Israel. Electricity and gadgets—and little else—fascinated him as a child. While practicing violin, for example, he came up with a scheme to turn his music stand into a lamp. He also tried to build a Marconi transmitter from metal player-piano parts. When he plugged the contraption in, the entire house went dark. He never did get that transmitter to work.
When the Arab-Israeli War began in 1948, Ziv was in high school. Drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, he served briefly on the front lines until a group of mothers held organized protests, demanding that the youngest soldiers be sent elsewhere. Ziv's reassignment took him to the Israeli Air Force, where he trained as a radar technician. When the war ended, he entered Technion—Israel Institute of Technology to study electrical engineering.
After completing his master's degree in 1955, Ziv returned to the defense world, this time joining Israel's National Defense Research Laboratory (now Rafael Advanced Defense Systems) to develop electronic components for use in missiles and other military systems. The trouble was, Ziv recalls, that none of the engineers in the group, including himself, had more than a basic understanding of electronics. Their electrical engineering education had focused more on power systems.
"We had about six people, and we had to teach ourselves," he says. "We would pick a book and then study together, like religious Jews studying the Hebrew Bible. It wasn't enough."
The group's goal was to build a telemetry system using transistors instead of vacuum tubes. They needed not only knowledge, but parts. Ziv contacted Bell Telephone Laboratories and requested a free sample of its transistor; the company sent 100.
"That covered our needs for a few months," he says. "I give myself credit for being the first one in Israel to do something serious with the transistor."
In 1959, Ziv was selected as one of a handful of researchers from Israel's defense lab to study abroad. That program, he says, transformed the evolution of science in Israel. Its organizers didn't steer the selected young engineers and scientists into particular fields. Instead, they let them pursue any type of graduate studies in any Western nation.
"In order to run a computer program at the time, you had to use punch cards and I hated them. That is why I didn't go into real computer science."
Ziv planned to continue working in communications, but he was no longer interested in just the hardware. He had recently read Information Theory (Prentice-Hall, 1953), one of the earliest books on the subject, by Stanford Goldman, and he decided to make information theory his focus. And where else would one study information theory but MIT, where Claude Shannon, the field's pioneer, had started out?
Ziv arrived in Cambridge, Mass., in 1960. His Ph.D. research involved a method of determining how to encode and decode messages sent through a noisy channel, minimizing the probability and error while at the same time keeping the decoding simple.
"Information theory is beautiful," he says. "It tells you what is the best that you can ever achieve, and [it] tells you how to approximate the outcome. So if you invest the computational effort, you can know you are approaching the best outcome possible."
Ziv contrasts that certainty with the uncertainty of a deep-learning algorithm. It may be clear that the algorithm is working, but nobody really knows whether it is the best result possible.
While at MIT, Ziv held a part-time job at U.S. defense contractor Melpar, where he worked on error-correcting software. He found this work less beautiful. "In order to run a computer program at the time, you had to use punch cards," he recalls. "And I hated them. That is why I didn't go into real computer science."
Back at the Defense Research Laboratory after two years in the United States, Ziv took charge of the Communications Department. Then in 1970, with several other coworkers, he joined the faculty of Technion.
Jacob Ziv (with glasses), who became chair of Technion's electrical engineering department in the 1970s, worked earlier on information theory with Moshe Zakai. The two collaborated on a paper describing what became known as the Ziv-Zakai bound.Photo: Jacob Ziv/Technion
There he met Abraham Lempel. The two discussed trying to improve lossless data compression.
The state of the art in lossless data compression at the time was Huffman coding. This approach starts by finding sequences of bits in a data file and then sorting them by the frequency with which they appear. Then the encoder builds a dictionary in which the most common sequences are represented by the smallest number of bits. This is the same idea behind Morse code: The most frequent letter in the English language, e, is represented by a single dot, while rarer letters have more complex combinations of dots and dashes.
Huffman coding, while still used today in the MPEG-2 compression format and a lossless form of JPEG, has its drawbacks. It requires two passes through a data file: one to calculate the statistical features of the file, and the second to encode the data. And storing the dictionary along with the encoded data adds to the size of the compressed file.
Ziv and Lempel wondered if they could develop a lossless data-compression algorithm that would work on any kind of data, did not require preprocessing, and would achieve the best compression for that data, a target defined by something known as the Shannon entropy. It was unclear if their goal was even possible. They decided to find out.
Ziv says he and Lempel were the "perfect match" to tackle this question. "I knew all about information theory and statistics, and Abraham was well equipped in Boolean algebra and computer science."
The two came up with the idea of having the algorithm look for unique sequences of bits at the same time that it's compressing the data, using pointers to refer to previously seen sequences. This approach requires only one pass through the file, so it's faster than Huffman coding.
Ziv explains it this way: "You look at incoming bits to find the longest stretch of bits for which there is a match in the past. Let's say that first incoming bit is a 1. Now, since you have only one bit, you have never seen it in the past, so you have no choice but to transmit it as is."
"But then you get another bit," he continues. "Say that's a 1 as well. So you enter into your dictionary 1-1. Say the next bit is a 0. So in your dictionary you now have 1-1 and also 1-0."
Here's where the pointer comes in. The next time that the stream of bits includes a 1-1 or a 1-0, the software doesn't transmit those bits. Instead it sends a pointer to the location where that sequence first appeared, along with the length of the matched sequence. The number of bits that you need for that pointer is very small.
"Information theory is beautiful. It tells you what is the best that you can ever achieve, and (it) tells you how to approximate the outcome."
"It's basically what they used to do in publishing TV Guide," Ziv says. "They would run a synopsis of each program once. If the program appeared more than once, they didn't republish the synopsis. They just said, go back to page x."
Decoding in this way is even simpler, because the decoder doesn't have to identify unique sequences. Instead it finds the locations of the sequences by following the pointers and then replaces each pointer with a copy of the relevant sequence.
The algorithm did everything Ziv and Lempel had set out to do—it proved that universally optimum lossless compression without preprocessing was possible.
"At the time they published their work, the fact that the algorithm was crisp and elegant and was easily implementable with low computational complexity was almost beside the point," says Tsachy Weissman, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University who specializes in information theory. "It was more about the theoretical result."
Eventually, though, researchers recognized the algorithm's practical implications, Weissman says. "The algorithm itself became really useful when our technologies started dealing with larger file sizes beyond 100,000 or even a million characters."
"Their story is a story about the power of fundamental theoretical research," Weissman adds. "You can establish theoretical results about what should be achievable—and decades later humanity benefits from the implementation of algorithms based on those results."
Ziv and Lempel kept working on the technology, trying to get closer to entropy for small data files. That work led to LZ78. Ziv says LZ78 seems similar to LZ77 but is actually very different, because it anticipates the next bit. "Let's say the first bit is a 1, so you enter in the dictionary two codes, 1-1 and 1-0," he explains. You can imagine these two sequences as the first branches of a tree."
"When the second bit comes," Ziv says, "if it's a 1, you send the pointer to the first code, the 1-1, and if it's 0, you point to the other code, 1-0. And then you extend the dictionary by adding two more possibilities to the selected branch of the tree. As you do that repeatedly, sequences that appear more frequently will grow longer branches."
"It turns out," he says, "that not only was that the optimal [approach], but so simple that it became useful right away."
Jacob Ziv (left) and Abraham Lempel published algorithms for lossless data compression in 1977 and 1978, both in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. The methods became known as LZ77 and LZ78 and are still in use today.Photo: Jacob Ziv/Technion
While Ziv and Lempel were working on LZ78, they were both on sabbatical from Technion and working at U.S. companies. They knew their development would be commercially useful, and they wanted to patent it.
"I was at Bell Labs," Ziv recalls, "and so I thought the patent should belong to them. But they said that it's not possible to get a patent unless it's a piece of hardware, and they were not interested in trying." (The U.S. Supreme Court didn't open the door to direct patent protection for software until the 1980s.)
However, Lempel's employer, Sperry Rand Corp., was willing to try. It got around the restriction on software patents by building hardware that implemented the algorithm and patenting that device. Sperry Rand followed that first patent with a version adapted by researcher Terry Welch, called the LZW algorithm. It was the LZW variant that spread most widely.
Ziv regrets not being able to patent LZ78 directly, but, he says, "We enjoyed the fact that [LZW] was very popular. It made us famous, and we also enjoyed the research it led us to."
One concept that followed came to be called Lempel-Ziv complexity, a measure of the number of unique substrings contained in a sequence of bits. The fewer unique substrings, the more a sequence can be compressed.
This measure later came to be used to check the security of encryption codes; if a code is truly random, it cannot be compressed. Lempel-Ziv complexity has also been used to analyze electroencephalograms—recordings of electrical activity in the brain—to determine the depth of anesthesia, to diagnose depression, and for other purposes. Researchers have even applied it to analyze pop lyrics, to determine trends in repetitiveness.
Over his career, Ziv published some 100 peer-reviewed papers. While the 1977 and 1978 papers are the most famous, information theorists that came after Ziv have their own favorites.
For Shlomo Shamai, a distinguished professor at Technion, it's the 1976 paper that introduced the Wyner-Ziv algorithm, a way of characterizing the limits of using supplementary information available to the decoder but not the encoder. That problem emerges, for example, in video applications that take advantage of the fact that the decoder has already deciphered the previous frame and thus it can be used as side information for encoding the next one.
For Vincent Poor, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, it's the 1969 paper describing the Ziv-Zakai bound, a way of knowing whether or not a signal processor is getting the most accurate information possible from a given signal.
Ziv also inspired a number of leading data-compression experts through the classes he taught at Technion until 1985. Weissman, a former student, says Ziv "is deeply passionate about the mathematical beauty of compression as a way to quantify information. Taking a course from him in 1999 had a big part in setting me on the path of my own research."
He wasn't the only one so inspired. "I took a class on information theory from Ziv in 1979, at the beginning of my master's studies," says Shamai. "More than 40 years have passed, and I still remember the course. It made me eager to look at these problems, to do research, and to pursue a Ph.D."
In recent years, glaucoma has taken away most of Ziv's vision. He says that a paper published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory this January is his last. He is 89.
"I started the paper two and a half years ago, when I still had enough vision to use a computer," he says. "At the end, Yuval Cassuto, a younger faculty member at Technion, finished the project." The paper discusses situations in which large information files need to be transmitted quickly to remote databases.
As Ziv explains it, such a need may arise when a doctor wants to compare a patient's DNA sample to past samples from the same patient, to determine if there has been a mutation, or to a library of DNA, to determine if the patient has a genetic disease. Or a researcher studying a new virus may want to compare its DNA sequence to a DNA database of known viruses.
"The problem is that the amount of information in a DNA sample is huge," Ziv says, "too much to be sent by a network today in a matter of hours or even, sometimes, in days. If you are, say, trying to identify viruses that are changing very quickly in time, that may be too long."
The approach he and Cassuto describe involves using known sequences that appear commonly in the database to help compress the new data, without first checking for a specific match between the new data and the known sequences.
"I really hope that this research might be used in the future," Ziv says. If his track record is any indication, Cassuto-Ziv—or perhaps CZ21—will add to his legacy.
This article appears in the May 2021 print issue as "Conjurer of Compression."
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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (Brünn, 6 de mayo de 1814 - Niza, 8 de octubre de 1865) fue un compositor y violinista moravo, considerado en su época como el mejor violinista de su tiempo y sucesor de Paganini.

Biografía

A la edad de nueve años comienza sus estudios de violín. Ernst fue un niño prodigio, educado en el conservatorio de Viena, donde estudió violín con Joseph Böhm y composición bajo la tutela de Ignaz von Seyfried. En 1828, Ernst oyó tocar a Paganini y se convirtió en un admirador de su estilo extravagante y virtuoso.

Motivado a viajar, deja el conservatorio, en el cual es sancionado. Ernst reta a Paganini, tocando su Nel cor pìu non mi sento con una precisión que impactó tanto a la audiencia como al mismo Paganini. Así como Paganini, Ernst compuso su propia serie de variaciones sobre el tema del Carnaval de Venecia, que normalmente ejecutaba al final de los conciertos. Esta pieza fue extremadamente popular entre la audiencia de toda Europa, y se convirtió en su sello personal.

Durante toda su vida profesional, viajó por toda Europa, ejecutando piezas con su propio estilo y compuestas por él mismo. En 1832 viajó a París, donde vivió muchos años. Durante este periodo se vinculó con Stephen Heller, vínculo que quedó plasmado en sus Pensees fugitives para violín y piano. Conforma desde 1859 con Joseph Joachim, Henryk Wieniawski y Carlo Alfredo Piatti el Cuarteto Beethoven Society.

Al final de su vida, su salud empeoró a causa de una neuralgia severa. Los últimos años de su vida los pasó en Niza componiendo. Entre las obras de este período figuran sus "Estudios polifónicos". Ernst murió en Niza el 8 de octubre de 1865.

Todavía forman parte del repertorio habitual su "concierto Patético" en fa sostenido menor y los "Aires Húngaros". Veintiséis fueron sus composiciones, todas para violín.

Referencias

Bibliografía

 Elun Fan, "The life and works of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865)". El libro pone énfasis en su recepción como violinista y compositor, Universidad de Cornell 1993.

 Amely Heller, "H. W. Ernst – As Seen By His Contemporaries", Linthicum Heights, Maryland 1986.

Véase también
 Romanticismo

Enlaces externos

 Biografía, en Naxos.com

Partituras

Grand caprice pour violon seul sur 'Le Roi des Aulnes' de F. Schubert (Op. 26)
Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm: The last summer rose

Compositores de la República Checa del siglo XIX
Violinistas clásicos de la República Checa
Músicos de la República Checa del siglo XIX
Nacidos en Brno
Fallecidos en Niza

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