As an engineer we have a social responsibility towards the improvement in our society. So for that reason we design a mechanism to help the blind people for travelling without any assistance by using our devices. Journey in a bus is a safe and comfort factor but navigation in outdoor environment is highly difficult for those who have congenital blindness or blind people. Several solutions have been proposed like walking stick or white cane, guide dogs and GPS guidelines to deal with this difficulty. Although some of them have shown to be useful in real scenarios, they involve an important deployment effort or use artifacts that are not natural for blind users.
Therefore, this paper aims to develop a bus detection prototype using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for blind. RFID has the potential to be a useful aid with further standardization of RFID tags and improvement of current RFID readers. Here the system contains the RFID communication technology to communicate blind person with the bus. The two major parts are there. 1. RFID Tag (from bus). 2. RFID Reader (from blind people). Using the two things the blind person freely uses the transport system without any assistance.
As an engineer we have a social responsibility towards the improvement in our society. So for that reason we design a mechanism to help the blind people for travelling without any assistance by using our devices. Journey in a bus is a safe and comfort factor but navigation in outdoor environment is highly difficult for those who have congenital blindness or blind people. Several solutions have been proposed like walking stick or white cane, guide dogs and GPS guidelines to deal with this difficulty. Although some of them have shown to be useful in real scenarios, they involve an important deployment effort or use artifacts that are not natural for blind users. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a bus detection prototype using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for blind. RFID has the potential to be a useful aid with further standardization of RFID tags and improvement of current RFID readers. Here the system contains the RFID communication technology to communicate blind person with the bus. The two major parts are there. 1. RFID Tag (from bus). 2. RFID Reader (from blind people). Using the two things the blind person freely uses the transport system without any assistance.


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Posted on: February 17, 2017 • Category Press releases
Wellington, Florida (February 17, 2017) — Being given the ride on a world-renowned dressage horse would be a dream come true for any horseperson. If that horse happened to have a list of accomplishments that included being America's number one Grand Prix horse, winning numerous CDI Grand Prix victories, claiming three U.S. Equestrian Federation National Grand Prix Dressage Championships, and earning an Olympic Team Bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, any rider would likely be trembling with excitement. That dream recently became reality for Dawn White-O'Connor when Steffen Peters handed over the reins to his Olympic mount, Legolas 92.
But rather than trembling, White-O'Connor has handled the transition with poise, ambition, and a talent that earned her and Legolas the Custom Saddlery Most Valuable Rider (MVR) Award this past weekend at the 2017 Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. Custom Saddlery has sponsored Peters for over a decade, and has proudly watched Peters, Legolas, and the duo's Custom Revolution saddle stand in the winner's circle at top competitions around the world. The innovative saddle company was excited to honor White-O'Connor for stepping into the saddle to continue Legolas' career.
Peters said that making the choice to pass the reins on to White-O'Connor, who has worked for Peters at his dressage facility Arroyo Del Mar in San Diego, California, for the past ten years, was a joint decision between he and Legolas' owner, Akiko Yamazaki.
"We always felt like we wanted to bring the next generation up," Peters explained. "I had incredible memories from Rio, where Legolas was absolutely outstanding. I thought that was a nice finish for me, and now it's time for Dawn to take over."
White-O'Connor and Legolas made their debut in the CDI ring in January in Las Vegas, Nevada. Peters was schooling his newer talent, Rosamunde 20, at the same time, so was unable to watch the pair compete. This past weekend's CDI Grand Prix and Freestyle at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival was his first chance to watch his protégé aboard Legolas in the CDI ring. "It's just like watching your child going into the ring for the first time," Peters said.
White-O'Connor did not disappoint, placing third in both classes with a Grand Prix score of 70.560 percent and a Freestyle score of 72.850 percent, against competitive fields. After her rides, Custom Saddlery presented White-O'Connor with the Custom Saddlery MVR Award ribbon, golf towel, and embroidered saddle pad.
White-O'Connor describes the chance to take over the ride on Legolas, a 15-year-old bay Westfalian gelding, as not only an opportunity of a lifetime, but also a chance to continue to hone her dressage skills. While aware that she's filling a big pair of shoes by stepping into Peters' stirrups, she is ready for the task. "Every time we go out, people have an expectation of how he's going to do, so I guess that's a bit of a challenge – but it keeps my standards high," she said
She calls Legolas "very sweet" and "fun to be around," and continues to seek advice from Peters on how to get the most out of her new mount. "Steffen says just to always be patient with him, take my time, think through things, and don't overreact," she explained. "Legolas can get a little bit strong sometimes, but can be very sensitive, too. It's a really good opportunity – I have learned a lot so far, I'm sure I will continue to learn many things from him."
As the transition between riders has unfolded, Legolas' saddle has stayed the same. Custom Saddlery is a premier manufacturer of world-class, customized dressage saddles. Not only does the company provide top-quality saddles and accessories, but also offers expert saddle fitting services around the world to provide a perfect fit for horses and riders. With more than 20 innovative saddle models and countless customizable options, Custom Saddlery is prepared to meet every horse and riders' needs and preferences. Custom Saddlery is a top choice of dressage riders around the world, including Olympians, international Grand Prix riders, and adult amateurs. The company also sponsors major equestrian competitions, including the 12-week Adequan Global Dressage Festival.
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The Tamil industry is the 3rd largest film industry all over the world after Bollywood. The Tamil industry is one of the best-anticipated industry all over the world. Tamil industry is the fastest-growing film industry in India. The movies we are adding to the list are all one of the best action movies, that you can watch in your free time. Also, you can recommend this movie list to your friends and families. In this article, you will find details about the list of Top Tamil Action Movies Of 2016.
List Of Best Tamil Action Movies Of 2016
Irudhi Suttru
Irudhi Suttru is a 2016 sports action drama film written and directed by Sudha Kongara. Made as a bilingual in Tamil and Hindi languages, the film features R. Madhavan in the leading role as a boxing coach, with newcomer Ritika Singh as an aspiring boxer. Both the Tamil and Hindi versions are produced by S. Sashikanth for Y NOT Studios and UTV Motion Pictures, while C. V. Kumar's Thirukumaran Entertainment co-produces the Tamil version and Madhavan's Tricolour Films with Rajkumar Hirani present the Hindi version. Featuring music composed by Santhosh Narayanan, Sanjay Wandrekar and Atul Raninga, the film has cinematography by Sivakumar Vijayan and editing by Sathish Suriya. After beginning pre-production works in early 2013, the film began shoot in July 2014 and was shot within fifty days.
24 is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film written and directed by Vikram Kumar. Based on the concept of time travel, the film stars actor Suriya in a triple role, along with Samantha Ruth Prabhu as the female lead. In August 2014, Suriya agreed to produce and act in the film, with principal photography commencing in Mumbai in April 2015, continuing in Nasik, Goregaon, and Pune. The second phase of filming was done in Poland by the end of September 2015. Produced by 2D Entertainment, the film has cinematography by S. Tirru. The soundtrack and film score was composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics by Vairamuthu and Madhan Karky. The film (along with a dubbed Telugu version with the same title) was released on 6 May 2016.
Metro is a 2016 super hit Indian Tamil-language action crime film directed by Anandakrishnan, in his second venture. The film features Metro Shirish, Bobby Simha, and Sendrayan in the lead roles. The film is based on the theme of chain snatching in the city of Chennai. Shirish makes his Tamil debut with this film. The film was dubbed and released in Telugu under the same title in 2017. The film was remade in Kannada as Silicon City.
Pichaikkaran
Pichaikkaaran is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Sasi, starring Vijay Antony. The film was released on 4 March 2016. The Telugu dubbed version was titled as Bichagadu and was released on 13 May 2016. In 2017, the film was dubbed into Hindi as Roadside Rowdy. The film became a big success at the box office. The movie was remade in Odia as Baby starring Anubhav Mohanty, in Marathi as Bhikari starring Swapnil Joshi and in Kannada as Amma, I Love You starring Chiranjeevi Sarja.
Kabali is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action crime film written and directed by Pa. Ranjith and produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu. The film plot concerns the gang war between Kabaleeswaran (played by Rajinikanth) and Tony Lee (portrayed by Winston Chao). Radhika Apte, Dhansika, Kishore, Dinesh, Kalaiyarasan, and John Vijay also appear in pivotal roles. A man attempts to protect his family from enemies, gained in his time as a gangster. After he is released from prison on false charges, he resumes his post as a gang leader and continues a long-held rivalry.
Rajini Murugan
Rajini Murugan is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language masala film written and directed by Ponram, in his second venture after Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam. The film is director N. Lingusamy and N. Subash Chandra Bose under the banner Thirrupathi Brothers. It stars Sivakarthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh in the lead roles, while Soori, Rajkiran, and Samuthirakani play supporting roles. Sivakarthikeyan plays the title role, who is a jobless youth, decides to sell his grandfather's property, to become rich. Unemployed youth Rajini falls in love with Karthika, but her father opposes their union due to an old misunderstanding. But after Rajini inherits his grandfather's property, things get better for the couple.
Theri is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by Atlee Kumar and produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu. The film features Vijay and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in the lead roles, while Amy Jackson, Mahendran, Prabhu and Raadhika amongst others form an ensemble cast. Featuring music composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar and cinematography handled by George C. Williams. The story revolves around a baker who holds a secret identity as former Deputy commissioner of police and he is on a secret Ghost Protocol mission organized by the Commissioner of police.
Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada
Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language romantic action thriller film written and directed by Gautham Menon. The film stars Silambarasan and Manjima Mohan in lead roles. Initially titled as Sattendru Maarathu Vaanillai, the film tells the story of a happy-go-lucky young man who is in love. However, in an unexpected turn of events, he and his dear ones are embroiled in a high-risk situation, which demands that he rise to the occasion and stand his ground against the odds.
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NeoGrowth announces Business Loan Carnival for MSMEs in the Festival Season
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Bangalore, October 18th, 2022: NeoGrowth, the MSME-focussed NBFC lender, recently announced the launch of the 'Business Loan Carnival' for MSMEs in the festival season.
The Business Loan Carnival will be effective in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Vishakhapatnam, Pune, New Delhi, and Hyderabad in the period of October 2022 to December 2022. The company is connecting with MSMEs and offering faster approvals through its simplified process. The lender is also offering festive offers to its distribution network, i.e., 'Younite partners', on originations across all products during the period.
Arun Nayyar, Whole-time Director & CEO, NeoGrowth, said, "We, at NeoGrowth, embrace the festive season with great enthusiasm. With the Business Loan Carnival, we aim to provide fast and easy credit to small business owners to cater to festive demand. Alongside the loan carnival, we have also announced NeoCash Insta 2.0, a faster, more intuitive, and Account Aggregator-enabled digital journey for our customers. MSMEs are the economic engine of India and have a vast untapped potential and we are enabling their growth by providing them with fast loan approvals through a digital loan journey."
Recently, the lender launched the Accelerator business loan, a collateral-free term loan of up to INR 20 lakhs for Manufacturers, Distributors, Traders, Dealers, and Service Providers. The product is designed to fulfill the working capital requirements of GST-registered MSMEs based on their cash flows.
With its technology-enabled lending, NeoGrowth aims to empower and support the growth of MSMEs by providing easy access to credit and addressing challenges faced by MSMEs in their day-to-day operations. NeoGrowth also has an ongoing MSME Festival, where the company has undertaken multiple activities to celebrate the spirit of India's small business owners who have depicted true resilience and stood strong during the pandemic phase and touched 19,000 lives. To celebrate the contribution of its distribution network, NeoGrowth felicitated its Younite Partners under the '40 under 40 Promising Leaders' and 'Digital Lending Stalwarts' categories as part of the festival.
With over a decade's experience in serving the credit needs of India's MSMEs, NeoGrowth has a finger on the pulse of small business owners and is constantly innovating to provide the best-in-class credit offerings to its customers. The company has touched 1 lac+ lives and disbursed over USD 1 billion in loans. NeoGrowth leverages the latest developments in technology and data science to strengthen its unique product offerings.
About NeoGrowth:
NeoGrowth is a new-age digital lender, with a focus on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). We are a Systemically Important, Non-Deposit taking Non- Banking Financial Company (NBFC-ND-SI), offering a wide range of products tailored to the dynamic needs of small businesses. Our data science and technology-led approach enable us to offer quick and hassle-free loans to MSMEs across 70+ segments across 25+ cities in India. We offer a unique daily repayment option to our customers with multi-channel repayment modes. We have served and engaged with 1,00,000+ businesses and supported them with their growth ambitions. We not only help small businesses grow but also drive financial inclusion making a positive social impact.
Founded by industry veterans, our Board of Directors comprises experts, who guide the leadership team toward our strategic goals. NeoGrowth is backed by renowned investors, namely Omidyar Network, Lightrock, Khosla Impact, Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund – Quona Capital, IIFL Seed Ventures Fund, WestBridge, and Leapfrog Investments.
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Aptar's Nasal Unidose Device Approved by U.S. FDA for First Nasal Rescue Treatment for Frequent Seizure Activity
Aptar's Unidose Device (Photo: Aptar)
December 09, 2019 08:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR), a global leader in drug delivery, consumer product dispensing and active packaging solutions, today announced that its patented Unidose Liquid System is the device delivering the first and only nasal rescue treatment approved by the U.S. FDA, which has recently launched in the U.S. to treat acute repetitive seizures in people living with epilepsy. This ready-to-use rescue treatment can be used when and where a seizure cluster occurs thanks to Aptar's proven, intuitive and convenient Unidose Liquid System.
Noble International, recently acquired by Aptar and part of Aptar Pharma's services offering, developed a trainer device in partnership with the customer to be used as part of a patient onboarding program for this new drug product.
Stephan Tanda, Aptar President and CEO, stated, "This approval and successful market launch further demonstrate the broad potential for Aptar's patient-friendly drug delivery solutions and service offerings which help our pharmaceutical customers address unmet healthcare needs. We are pleased to offer a broad portfolio of innovative technologies and wide array of services to meet the highest quality standards of the pharmaceutical industry."
Solution for Nasally Administered Treatments
Aptar's Unidose Liquid System is a single-use, ready-to-use one-step nasal delivery device which can deliver a formulation in an emergency situation quickly and easily and can be administered by a non-healthcare professional to a patient during or after a seizure. During such an event, the patient or caregiver presses a small plunger on the bottom of the device to release the drug in a single spray into the nostril, where the drug can be quickly absorbed via the nasal mucosa.
Patented Unidose and Bidose Technology Platforms
Aptar's Unidose and Bidose platforms are robust, primeless, and intuitive systems with 360° functionality and precise nasal drug delivery. They offer biotech and pharmaceutical companies effective and reliable single or two-shot intranasal delivery for a variety of medicines including potential life-saving drugs and treatments of severe conditions. The devices can also integrate wireless connectivity technologies.
Accelerated Development Support and Training via Aptar Pharma Services
This innovative rescue treatment for seizure activity is an example of a Combination Product submission, and benefited from Aptar Pharma's services offering, a comprehensive portfolio of stage-specific development packages. Aptar's dedicated Regulatory Affairs experts and analytical scientists help customers proactively address regulatory needs to accelerate approval.
"The launch of our Unidose System on the first and only U.S. FDA approved nasal rescue treatment for seizure activity once again demonstrates Aptar Pharma's ability to help our customers develop and launch complex treatments," stated Gael Touya, President, Aptar Pharma. "When we combine our nasal systems' capabilities with Noble's training devices for onboarding, we bring added value to our customers and further convenience for patients and consumers worldwide."
About Aptar
Aptar Pharma and Noble International are part of AptarGroup, Inc. Aptar is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative dispensing, sealing and active packaging solutions for the beauty, personal care, home care, prescription drug, consumer health care, injectables, food and beverage markets. Aptar uses insights, design, engineering and science to create innovative packaging technologies that build brand value for its customers, and, in turn, make a meaningful difference in the lives, looks, health and homes of people around the world. Aptar is headquartered in Crystal Lake, Illinois and has over 14,000 dedicated employees in 18 different countries. For more information, visit www.aptar.com/pharma.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Words such as "future" and other similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will" are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are based on our beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to us. Accordingly, our actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements due to known or unknown risks and uncertainties that exist in our operations and business environment including, but not limited to: the successful integration of acquisitions; the regulatory environment; and competition, including technological advances. For additional information on these and other risks and uncertainties, please see our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the discussion under "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Form 10-Ks and Form 10-Qs. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Similarly, there are rare movie novelizations that were only printed in other countries and thus aren't widely available in used book stores or on Ebay. An example of an international movie novel that is quite well known to U.S. audiences but is extremely rare is Mad Max and its sequel, The Road Warrior. These were only printed in Australia, and we've seen them sell for as much as $500 each! On the other hand, if you're looking to pick up a copy of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, you're in luck because this movie novel is pretty common.


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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) is the sole provider of water and wastewater services in Wales and, with 3,000 employees, is the fourth largest employer in the country.
DCWW is widely considered to be a top quartile performer in a sector with a variety of regulators that monitor performance on multiple fronts.
Objectives of the project
Every five years, the UK water sector is challenged by Ofwat, the regulator in England and Wales, to reduce the costs of delivering its services to its customers.
The company's board set targets for a 20% reduction in Opex costs over a four-year period with a measurable improvement in service excellence for all business functions.
As with other departments within DCWW, the IT department was charged with meeting these objectives.
What BearingPoint did
We helped DCWW's IT department to create a compelling roadmap to unify its team around a short- and medium-plan for the future.
A joint DCWW and BearingPoint team reviewed the IT capability and cost baseline to form the basis of a service-improvement and cost-reduction roadmap
A two-work-stream approach was developed to capture the current service baseline:
Business context for service improvement: gained a detailed understanding of the IT baseline in terms of services and service quality
Assessed existing IT capabilities: used the Innovation Value Institute IT Capability Maturity Framework as a guide
An efficiency and effectiveness audit was undertaken using a suite of BearingPoint analytical techniques to identify where and how cost savings could be delivered across IT
Measurable & concrete results
Within a four-week period, the team created a plan to achieve the 20% cost savings over the four-year target period.
The roadmap provided an effective and highly convincing tool for communicating how service improvements would be delivered while achieving significant savings to business peers and the IT team.
The plan was quickly approved by senior management.
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Womöglich wollte ich euch nicht mit dieser Art von Videos langweiligen, wenn ohnehin schon weniger Videos als früher veröffentlicht werden. Nun da das Letzte aber schon einige Zeit zurückliegt, stelle ich euch endlich mal wieder meine aktuellen Lieblinge aus den Bereichen Beauty, Fashion und Lifestyle vor. Und diesmal bin ich nicht allein. Meine liebe Freundin Anaïs leistet mir Gesellschaft und teilt mit uns ebenso ihre Top-Produkte.
Here I was thinking I'd to a favorite video every other month – oldschool Youtube style – starting with my January + February Favorites. But I could hardly blink and summer is already almost over and there hasvn't been a single favorite video between March an June. Maybe I didn't want to bore you with this kind of videos as my uploads have been very rare anyway. But since the last fav went love months and months ago I though it was time for a new one. So accompanied by Anaïs we show you our current favorites in terms of beauty products, fashion and some random bits.
Accompanied by Anaïs we show you our current favorites in terms of beauty products, fashion and some random bits. As always you'll find all details on the things we show and wear in the description box of the video.
in this photoInvisible Shield Sunscreen SPF35 – Glossier. Clear Improvement Charcoal Honey Mask – Origins. Vital Unifier – Nuori. Body Oil Lavender Vanilla – Oliveda. Lash Slick Mascara – Glossier.


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A fogas bajszika (Lybius bidentatus) a madarak osztályába a harkályalakúak rendjébe és a Lybiidae családjába tartozó faj.

Rendszerezése
A fajt George Shaw angol botanikus és zoológus írta le 1798-ban, a Bucco nembe Bucco bidentatus néven. Sorolják a Pogonornis nembe Pogonornis bidentatus néven is.

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Lybius bidentatus aequatorialis (Shelley, 1889)
Lybius bidentatus bidentatus (Shaw, 1799)

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Afrika középső részén, Angola, Benin, Bissau-Guinea, Burundi, Dél-Szudán, Elefántcsontpart, Egyenlítői-Guinea, Etiópia, Gabon, Ghána, Guinea, Kamerun, Kenya, a Kongói Köztársaság a Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaság, a Közép-afrikai Köztársaság, Libéria, Mali, Nigéria, Ruanda és Sierra Leone területén honos.

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Private Eyes is a 1996 drama by Steven Dietz about deception and broken trust, labeled by the author as a "comedy of suspicion", as the story is brought in multiple layers and the audience is repeatedly tricked to believe that the current situation is real.  Some critics - though not Dietz himself - consider it an homage to Tom Stoppard's 1982 The Real Thing, a play which features some similar themes and techniques.

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Husband and wife Matthew and Lisa are rehearsing a two- or perhaps three-person play. The British director Adrian uses his position of power to instantly seduce the "strikingly beautiful" Lisa and for a month or so Matthew desperately tries to deny their brazenly open affair or fantasizes about revenge. Then, Adrian's wife Cory tracks him down and Lisa turns out to be just another notch on his belt, after which all go their separate ways. In the brief final scene, Lisa approaches Matthew many years later, both declaring to have thought about only each other ever since.

This simple storyline is hidden in multiple, often conflicting layers, leaving the audience with doubts what part to believe (and some may even doubt the outline above). Like the beginning of Stoppard's play, the first scene is revealed to be the play the couple is rehearsing, with the additional twist that this play-in-a-play is about an audition and an affair between a director and an actress. The entire first half turns out to be a wistful version of how Matthew would have liked to expose the affair of his wife, as told to his therapist Frank (whose role can be played by a man or woman).

Frank sometimes speaks to the audience, coming to its rescue in especially confusing situations, and presenting him/herself as the only one it can really trust. However, perhaps he/she is not a real character but merely a metaphorical tool to reveal the internal struggles of both Matthew and Lisa (who also has taken Frank as her therapist), an idea enhanced by Frank's last narration that turns out to be an audition for Matthew.

In the second act, we get a retelling of the events (by Matthew to Frank) from the beginning of the affair. This still non-linear process deteriorates slowly into several nightmarish scenes with Lisa letting her husband leave the rehearsal room (so Adrian can make love to her) or Matthew getting scolded by his wife and Adrian after being forced to watch them in bed. Comedic relief is provided by the appearance of Cory, who initially introduces herself as a "private eye" for Adrian's suspecting wife. Her violent revenge may also just be a fantasy as we're told that the bullet she fired "only" grazed Adrian's heart and he took a flight back to England, presumably to continue his predatory ways.

Although each layer by itself is deceptively plausible, the play takes several turns that make events in previous layers and sometimes even the overall story impossible. Examples of the latter are Frank's final audition and Cory featuring in Matthew's first account to Frank as an unlikely accomplice in his fantasized revenge before he meets her in a higher layer of the story. Such "plot holes" could be considered nods to Stoppard's play and the theater of the absurd. Dietz's use of comedic moments throughout the play, like the characters' unnatural wittiness, absurd but cathartic turns of events, and unexpectedly banal plays on words like Frank and "private Dick" has been suggested to be "because only a comedy can make us realize the truths we are not fond of".

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Dietz described the origin of this play as "a scene in which two lovers fail to speak the truth. And, like a lie, the play grew. It began to go to greater and greater lengths to keep its own deceit afloat. It took my sense of structure for a ride and built a web of such complexity that clarity (a/k/a `truth') was rendered virtually impossible."

The theme of deception pervades the play at all levels. Besides the deception of the double adultery, each character takes several opportunities to deceive the other, be it in fantasy or for real. Matthew and Lisa also suffer from self-deception, as he refuses to believe the unpleasant turn of events, holding on to things, while everyone else is changing their lives, and she convinces herself that all this doesn't have to hurt Matthew. Dietz's breaking of several conventional rules of the theater of course repeatedly deceives the audience in believing each new version of reality. This, perhaps intentionally,  can leave some members of the audience feel betrayed at the end, feeling used as a dupe for a magician's bag of tricks.

Title
Dietz had started to write the play as early as 1990 with the title The Usual Suspects. This version had a stage reading by the Arizona Theatre Company in 1992. In 1995, Christopher McQuarrie wrote a hit movie with that title, and Dietz "begrudgingly" changed his title.

Performances
"Private Eyes" was first performed in March 1996 by the Arizona Theatre Company. It gained wide recognition when it was presented as part of the 1997 Humana Festival of New American Plays, a widely attended yearly event at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Though it never had a Broadway appearance, it has been Dietz's most commercially successful play.

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Mind games Review by Margaret Regan in the Tucson's Weekly on the first performance (1996)
A puzzling affair. Review by Savannah Wailey in the Miami New Times (1998)

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Adultery in plays
Self-reflexive plays
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Geneva es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de Ashtabula en el estado estadounidense de Ohio. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 6215 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 580,18 personas por km².

Geografía
Geneva se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Geneva tiene una superficie total de 10.71 km², de la cual 10.71 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 6215 personas residiendo en Geneva. La densidad de población era de 580,18 hab./km². De los 6215 habitantes, Geneva estaba compuesto por el 94.27% blancos, el 1.66% eran afroamericanos, el 0.11% eran amerindios, el 0.51% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 1.77% eran de otras razas y el 1.67% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 5.49% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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My wonderful mother was a passionate amateur pianist, and she joyfully shared her playing with me when I was still in the womb! A little later, she taught me to sing melodies before I could speak. She also composed melodies to represent individual words, and taught me to communicate in this way. Also my father played the violin, and the house was always full of live and recorded music. I've always had a deep emotional connection with the language of music, and Bach's in particular. So any other profession? Impossible!
There have been many powerful influences which have shaped my artistic priorities and my development as an interpreter. Despite being privileged to have excellent piano professors (such as John Lill and Arnaldo Cohen), after a number of years I came to the realisation that I must devote my life to early music. So as a pianist, I decided to move away from piano repertoire.
The single most influential individual has been the harpsichordist-organist-scholar David Ponsford. My lessons on the harpsichord were a revelation, and through this knowledge I was inspired to create a vocabulary of sound and expression on this beautiful modern instrument which allows me the greatest emotional freedom.
Listening to other early instrument performers has also been a primary influence. Anner Bylsma, John Eliot Gardiner, Michael Chance, Philippe Herreweghe, and of course Gustav Leonhardt (one of David Ponsford's professors) … these are only a few names which immediately come to mind with reference to my development.
I would also mention the work of certain musicologists, such as Yo Tomita whose name is synonymous with Bach research.
Every performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier has always been a major challenge. I can't decide which book contains the greater demands in performance… Certainly the ending of Book One is a kind of pinnacle, with the long, torturous and emotionally devastating B minor Fugue. What a moment! Each book is demanding in terms of sustaining a particular kind of uninterrupted focus for an extended period. It's the intellectual focus on every sound, coupled with the diversity and intensity of the emotional journey… It's a marathon, but a marathon I love to undertake. And it's wonderful to sense the audience running with me!
My recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier II has just been released, and I am thankful for the sense of expressive freedom I felt during the sessions, not hindered by the quest for absolute precision. When listening to the playback, I was very pleased that the more unusual interpretive concepts were captured… the A minor Prelude for example. I also love the recorded sound and worked closely with the engineer until we found the warmth and transparency I had imagined was possible.
Composers become your friends. Just as it is natural to feel closer to some composers more than others, likewise some works stand out as those you feel closest to. These works seem to most completely synchronise with your own expressive world, your inner self… They may also have been an outlet for your most significant, and perhaps difficult, life experiences. Because of these connections, I'm inclined to say I might play these works in a more special way, but of course it's objectively impossible to ascertain whether this is the case or not! I have no specific pieces to name. Let each listener decide for themselves.
I happily reprogramme many wonderful works for successive seasons. Certain masterpieces can never be heard too often. I also have a strong aim to include works which are rarely heard. I'm referring in particular to the quantity of extraordinarily beautiful and profound music of the Renaissance and early Baroque which is normally avoided by pianists. There is so much of it! One of my aims is to bring this older music to newer audiences.
Music for early keyboard instruments, organ, clavichord, harpsichord… I have a wonderful cd set of the complete Sweelinck keyboard works. And I also can never have enough of listening to Bach cantatas. If pressed I would say Gardiner is my favourite interpreter. The live recordings are electrifying. To me, as a Christian, these works move me on many different levels. This is sublime music with a sublime message.
One experience seared into my memory was my first performance of the Goldberg Variations. It took place at Melba Hall at the Melbourne Conservatorium. Of course the musical impact of presenting this ecstatic work for the first time isn't easily forgotten, but there was a rather unexpected moment near the end. I evidently was so carried away with the cumulative impact of the final variations that at the end of the Quodlibet, I found myself stretching my arms high into the air and holding them there…! I don't believe one should ever choreograph such things but neither should we inhibit spontaneous expressions at certain moments.
What do you consider to be the most important ideas and concepts to impart to musicians who aspire to play Bach on the piano?
Don't imitate other pianists. Only Glenn Gould has succeeded in sounding like Glenn Gould! Don't simply think 'This pianist plays it this way, but this other pianist does it this way and I will play it like them.' Understand exactly why you have made interpretive choices. There is a very wide scope of possibilities in Bach interpretation and there are countless decisions to be made. Yes, there is a mysterious and indefinable aspect to interpretation but you should in some way know the expressive reason behind every articulation, every tempo… every single aspect of your interpretation. It must be yours. Allow your own voice to evolve. This can't be done overnight but it's the only way to express your message with real depth and sincerity.
Because it's not historically 'correct' to play Bach on the modern piano, you might feel a tendency to overlook the study of the treatises of the time. However more can be applied from these, and more inspiration gained, than you might initially think. Don't be intimidated by the sheer volume of information. Despite the divergent viewpoints, there are also established principles to be learned and such study is far from irrelevant. There is potential for real expressive benefit. It can actually help you to play more beautifully. Just consider the doctrine of the affects, for example.
You already know that Bach did not write 'objective' music. CPE Bach stressed personal subjective involvement, saying that there was no possibility of the listener being moved if you yourself remained unmoved. But even if the performer is engaged, Bach can still appear mechanical on the piano, especially if played with unvarying dynamics and articulation… so it is not surprising that audiences sometimes perceive his music to be less 'emotional' than later composers. Yes his emotional world is unsurpassed in its intensity and profundity, but these emotions must be personally understood. If you find a work less explicable, search for meaning by identifying parallels in other works. Put it aside and come back to it. Always strive to achieve complete engagement and don't give up until you do!
I just mentioned finding parallels in other works. In fact I recommend you get to know and love Bach's entire output, both instrumental and vocal, as much as you are able. There you will have a broad view of his musical personality, and it will bring you endless joyful discoveries! The same principle applies to interpreting any composer, but it is especially relevant in Bach considering the absence of performance directions in the keyboard scores. It will also lead you to think in terms of different instrumental tone colours on the piano, which will enhance your beauty of sound and expressive vocabulary.
Nurture your love for the music. It's curious but I feel that with the performance of certain composers, and particularly with Bach, one can perceive the presence (or absence) of a deep love for the music per se. This is a mysterious dimension which cannot simply be describable in terms of the interpretation itself. I believe that this love is the key to the highest level of subjective involvement (and there's surely a parallel here to our personal relationships in life). Let no amount of intellectual or emotional analysis detract from your love of the music, as this is what must carry your performance from the first note until the last.
Described by Harris Goldsmith in New York Concert Review as 'a truly fine musician', Daniel Martyn Lewis has made a particular speciality of the music of J S Bach, and has received international acclaim for his performances. His CD debut has just been released: Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier II on Odradek Records.


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NHL Alumni Return to Thompson Arena on Jan. 18 When Dartmouth Hosts SLU
December 20, 2019 seoexpert Dartmouth College 0
By: Pat Salvas
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HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth men's hockey team will host three former NHL players and program alumni when it plays host to St. Lawrence on Saturday, Jan. 18.
Lee Stempniak '05, Ben Lovejoy '06 and Tanner Glass '07 will all be back in Hanover and at Thompson Arena for a special night honoring the trio who all announced their retirement from pro hockey following last season.
The first 500 fans through the doors that night will receive a commemorative t-shirt courtesy of The Richards Group.
Stempniak stepped away from the game in early October after 14 seasons in the NHL. Dartmouth's all-time leader 911 NHL games in his career. His 203 career goals, 266 assists and 469 points are all Dartmouth records at the NHL level.
Lovejoy announced his departure from the NHL in August after 11 seasons, making his announcement in a guest analyst appearance on NHL Tonight on the NHL Network. Third all-time in career games played by a Dartmouth alum with 544, he became the first New Hampshire native to win the Stanley Cup as a player, earning that distinction in 2016 with the Pittsburgh Penguins. In doing so, he became the first Dartmouth alum to win a Stanley Cup since Myles Lane did so with the Bruins in 1929.
Glass made his announcement late last spring after finishing his career overseas. Like Stempniak, he is a former Dartmouth captain and 2003 NHL Entry Draft selection, a draft that is widely considered the best and deepest in league history. Third all-time in Dartmouth history, Glass played in 527 career games and recorded 658, a number that ranks first in program history. He would reach the 2011 Stanley Cup Final as a member of the Vancouver Canucks before moving over to the Winnipeg Jets the following season where he played a career-high 78 games.
The three former Big Green skaters will be honored on the ice during the game and will also be on-hand to sign autographs during a designated period of time that evening. In addition to the shirts, fans will also receive a commemorative poster.
Fans planning on attending should contact the Dartmouth Ticket Office at 603-646-2466 or through its online store.
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Catholic Life Features Pro-Life
Man of faith, Michael Mombrea celebrates 100 years
Patrick J. Buechi December 7, 2020
On Sunday, Dec. 6, the family of Michael Mombrea gathered for their patriarch's 100th birthday. The Buffalo resident can best be described as a man of faith, whose only goal is to make people happy. He credits a very spiritual experience he had in 1973 for making him that way. It's a long story, so he doesn't go into details, but it is part of the rich pageant that has filled the first century of his life.
"I was born a Catholic, and I was kind of a mechanical Catholic. I went to church because that's what you did, but my faith really wasn't engrained in me until this unique spiritual experience I had," he explained. "From that day on, my faith has become alive. The Eucharist is my whole life. I try to go to Mass every day and receive the body and blood of Jesus, and whatever I can do to increase my faith."
He has dedicated the past 28 years to supporting the pre-born by protesting outside abortion clinics in Buffalo and Florida.
In order to learn how he got involved, we have to go back to 1941, when he received his draft notice. Not wanting to go on 10-mile hikes with his flat feet, Mombrea joined the Air Corps to be trained as a pilot. After nearly failing out of flight school, he received his pilot's wings on July 29, 1942. Rather than go into combat, Mombrea was told he had to be an instructor and stay behind as his buddies flew their missions. "I was devastated because I wanted to be with these guys. But the Lord knew what He was doing because three of them were shot down," he recalled. After the war he used the GI Bill to train as a news cameraman in New York City. Television was in its infancy at the time and its potential interested him.
Even though he had a family to support, his wife Fay and two kids and had just lost a 14-month son, Fay gave her blessing for her husband to go to New York City to study. He drove 11 hours each weekend to be home with his family. This was before New York state had thruways.
After graduating, Mombrea spent a few months without a job, but then saw how the Lord was working in his life. He still recalls the small details of the very start of a career that lasted 32 years. It came about after running into an old friend at Your Host restaurant.
"We were having coffee and we were talking. What could we do for each other and so forth," he said. "I told him I had just graduated from TV school. He told me Channel 4 news had called him that day. He said the previous summer he worked for two months for Channel 4 news as a TV news cameraman for just the summer vacation, but he had just gotten a brand new job that was permanent and he turned down Channel 4. He said, why don't you call Channel 4, which I did the next day."
He was hired for the summer to fill in for those camera operators who took time off, but stayed on for more than three decades, retiring in 1984, to take care of his wife after she had a heart attack and a stroke.
Now let's move ahead to April 1992. Operation Rescue was coming to Buffalo. A minister asked Mombrea to film the rally to document the abuse and harassment the pro-lifers receive from the those who support abortion, but it rarely seen on television.
"He said the media never covers that. He said, we know because of your job that you're eligible. Would you be willing to film many of the events that take place to document any irregularities or any harassment against the pro-lifers. I said sure. And that's how I became active. I got hundreds of feet of film showing these pro-abortion people harassing the pro-lifers, physically beating them up, spitting at ministers and priests, and all kinds of abuse that you'll never see in the media. Ever since then, I dedicated my life to defending the unborn," he said.
He and his wife would pray the rosary outside Buffalo's Women's Services Clinic every Saturday. They would do the same in front of an abortion facility in Florida during the winter. He continued even after his wife of 70 years passed away in 2013. He only stopped a month ago due to the Coronavirus.
"Every time I see a pregnant woman, I would say, 'Thank you for choosing life. I pray you're going to have a healthy baby.' Then I give them the pin (with two feet the actual size of a 10-week fetus) with a little card that tells them the whole history of their pregnancy from conception until birth. I've given probably 200 of them away," he said.
"I had a great thrill a few weeks ago. I was in Wegman's and this woman had a cart with two little children. She said, 'Hi, Mike.' I said, 'Do I know you?' She said, 'Don't you remember last year when I was pregnant, you prayed that I have a healthy baby. These are my twins.'"
Mombrea and his wife, were both Eucharistic ministers at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Tonawanda for 30 years. He has also shot videos for the parish to mark special occasions.
"Anything I can do to help the church with my talent, I would do that," he said.
Just before his centennial birthday, he pondered the secret too long life. He thinks it comes from spreading joy.
"I love to talk to people. Whenever I see someone at the supermarket, I strike up a conversation and try to give them something positive to cheer them up. I have all kinds of jokes that I tell them, every category you could imagine, and I would never leave anyone sad," he said, adding that he has no physical problems at his age. He still drives and cooks for himself. "I love people. Every person to me is a special person made by God, who deserves dignity and honor regardless of their background. That is what is keeping me young and healthy. I live alone, I drive. I take care of my household chores. I can cook. And those are the gifts that I have received from the Lord."
Blessed Sacrament's 11 a.m. Mass on Sunday, Dec. 6, was dedicated to Mombrea. Even though his faith has never faltered, his birthday plans sadly have. His kids had planned a big party at the Buffalo Yacht Club at the beginning of the year, when 100 people could still gather. Now with gathering limits, he decided to have a much smaller celebration at his son's house with just the immediate family.
Blessed Sacrament parishioner Michael Mobrea celebrates his 100th birthday. Photo courtesy of Blessed Sacrament, Tonawanda.
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How to shoot your next adventure like a pro
What to buy, and how to get the most from it.
Canon's EOS 5D Mark IV has a 30.4-megapixel sensor and 4K video
The highly anticipated full-frame DSLR arrives in September for $3,499.
Edgar Alvarez, @abcdedgar
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The moment Canon fans have anxiously waited for is here. Today, the company finally took the wraps off of its EOS 5D Mark IV, a DSLR geared toward photographers and videographers alike. For starters, the highly anticipated flagship camera features a brand new 30.4-megapixel, full-frame CMOS sensor and Digic 6+ processor. It also brings 4K video capability at 23.98, 24, 25 and 30 fps, as well as a 61-point autofocus system, built-in digital lens optimizer, NFC, WiFi and an ISO range of 100-32,000. All told, that's a big step up from the previous model, the EOS 5D Mark III -- one of the most beloved DSLRs out there.
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Similar to the 7D Mark II and the newly minted 80D, the 5D Mark IV boasts Canon's trademark Dual Pixel CMOS AF, which should make it easier to track subjects when you're shooting video. It's worth noting the Mark IV captures 4K at DCI resolution (4,096 x 2,160), rather than the UHD (3,840 x 2,160) on cameras like Nikon's D5. Another highlight is the addition of touchscreen; unlike the 1D-X Mark II, this one offers a full interface and isn't limited to video-only use.
Meanwhile, the continuous shooting mode is set at 7 fps, up from 6 on the 5D Mark III. The camera will take both CompactFlash and SD cards, and there's GPS too -- something Canon says had been heavily requested by EOS users. To round things up, Canon upgraded the weather resistance on the 5D Mark IV, making it more immune to many elements, including water and dust.
The EOS 5D Mark IV hits stores in early September for $3,499/£3,630/€4,900 for the body only. If you're after a kit that comes with a lens, there will be two options in the US. Grab the camera and the EF24-70mm f/4L lens for $4,399 early next month or the EOS 5D Mark IV and EF24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens $4,599 in late October. In Europe, the latter lens will launch later in the year for £1,129/€1,450, with an EF16-35mm f/2.8L III USM lens arriving in October for £2,349/€3,000.
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I've come across so many people in business who say that their customers are completely satisfied with their service but are still reluctant to put their prices up, I felt that this warranted a blog to discuss the finer points of the supply, demand & pricing equation.
Someone once told me that in life if you want something fast and cheap then it definitely won't be good, if you want it fast and good then it won't be cheap, whilst if you want it good and cheap then you had better be ready to wait a while. To get to the crux of the pricing dilemma we need to understand where a business sits within this framework of quality, speed and value and more importantly where it is perceived to sit by its customers.
You may be asking "why is it so important to get the pricing right?" but consider this. If you said to someone in a steady job that they could work less hours for the same money or the same hours for more money, then they would probably assume the only way to achieve that would be to move companies and find another role. For small business owners however this effect can be achieved with relatively little effort and could result in a drastic improvement to their lifestyle.
The key obstacle to overcome is that to many small business owners the concept of losing a customer is unthinkable and the survival instincts that got them to where they are take over and tell them that they need every scrap of income to stop their business going down the pan. These survival instincts only work if there is a surplus of time and capacity, but eventually the concept of opportunity cost applies and for every customer that's handled at a sub optimum fee time could be spent marketing to bring one on that is better value.
A customers susceptibility to accepting price increases is always going to come down to the type of industry a business is an and its competition, small firms that offer a one of a kind service will probably have more flexibility than a leading supermarket because it's much harder for the customer to compare them to anything else on a like for like basis.
A good way to test the water with customer price sensitivity can often be to introduce a slightly enhanced or premium service in a business at a higher price and see what the customer switch over is. If it turns out that most clients are ready to switch over to the new service then it could be a good indicator that they will consider paying more for the regular product range and price isn't such a big issue to them.
There's no denying that price increases will always need to be handled discretely and in a tailored manner depending on the client. As an alternative to hiking up the fees at random intervals it is often a better idea to build it into the culture of a business and have a modest pricing target to achieve every year. However the real success factor in any pricing strategy is how well it can be justified to customers and whether they still perceive the services to be good value.
To pave the way for increases it can often be a case of a business promoting its success stories to its current client base, for example if a client's business is improved somehow then making sure the client knows what its worth in cash and time. Later when they are comparing prices against alternative suppliers they will hopefully also factor this value generated into the decision.
Accountants can provide some great advice when it comes to pricing as they are trained to understand margins, however it's still important that they factor in the long term objectives of the business as the pricing strategy needs to have some consistency to avoid alienating loyal customers.
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Security Theater
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Security Theater:
"This is a good piece by Ted Conover pivoting off the arrest of the Oregon bomber, to talk about the convictions of supposed terrorists in Newburgh, New York:
These prosecutions fail the smell test, and lately the odor has washed over my own Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale. Last month, if you missed the news, four African-American ex-cons from Newburgh, N.Y., were convicted of plotting to bomb two synagogues here, one of them half a block from my house. The government released a photo of some of the men casing the joint that our local paper ran the day they were convicted.
One of the men in the photo is an FBI informant, Shahed Hussain. The case seems like a slam-dunk–until you learn more about him. Hussain, driving a flashy Mercedes and using the alias Maqsood, began to frequent the Masjid al-Ikhlas in down-at-the-heels Newburgh in 2008. Mosque leaders say he would meet congregants in the parking lot afterward, offering gifts and telling them they could make a lot of money–$25,000–if they helped him pursue jihad. The assistant imam said the suspicion Hussain was an informant was so great 'it was almost like he had a neon sign on him.' A congregant told a reporter that, in retrospect, everyone wished they'd called him out or turned him in. 'Maybe the mistake we made was that we didn't report him,' the man said. 'But how are we going to report the government agent to the government?'
Hussain bought meals for the group of four men he assembled because none of them had jobs or money. The owner of a Newburgh restaurant where they occasionally ate considered him 'the boss,' because he would pick up the tab. Among his other inducements were the offer of $250,000 and a BMW to the most volubly anti-Semitic plotter, the man the government says was the ringleader, James Cromitie. To drive that car, Cromitie would have needed a driver's license–which he didn't have.
Another supposed plotter, a Haitian, was a paranoid schizophrenic (according to his imam), which was the reason his deportation had been deferred (according to The Nation's TomDispatch.com), and who kept bottles of urine in his squalid apartment (according to the New York Times). The last two, both surnamed Williams, have histories of drug busts and minimum-wage jobs in Newburgh. At trial the government asserted that the plot was driven by anti-American hatred. But in papers filed in court by defense lawyers before the trial began, Cromitie is quoted in government transcripts explaining to Hussain that the men 'will do it for the money. … They're not even thinking about the cause.'
Greenwald makes a similar critique of the Oregon case. What scares me is how this sort of crime-fighting, post-9/11, basically justifies itself. So we're at war with terror. A war means we need to find and isolate the bad guys. So we send agents provocateurs to areas where bad guys might frequent and, essentially, employ a version of buy-bust theory to smoke them out.Then we announce their neutralization via arrest, thus proving that….we're at war with terror. Rinse. Repeat. Conover writes at the end:
This prong of our nation's anti-terrorism strategy seems tantamount to sending lots of little devils out into Muslim communities and getting them to sit on people's shoulders and whisper in their ears. One imagines that there is no shortage of Americans who, with enough money and other enticement, could be lured into crimes either ordinary or political: selling drugs or attacking gay people or racial minorities. But does dangling carrots that reward badness really make us safer? If it hadn't been for the FBI, I don't believe the Newburgh Four would have targeted my neighborhood, or anyone else's.
Indeed, I suspect one could declare war against racism and just as easily employ provocateurs to cyclically 'prove' the problem of violent white supremacists. And once such a war is launched, and such a unit is formed, what incentive would such a unit have to declare the war won, essentially justifying it's own dismemberment? Indeed, there's always a potential terrorist out there somewhere…
Author Robert BarrimondPosted on December 9, 2010 December 9, 2010 Categories PoliticsTags entrapment, racism, surveillance, war on drugs, war on terror
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Lamont D. says:
Isn't this largely what was done with the Panthers during the late 60s, early 70s? I've read credible reports that, in hindsight, much of the violence was inspired by informants – the informants would infiltrate the organization, suggest violent acts, convince people to follow and then…voila: The Panthers are a violent group.
It is much like the whole 'enhanced interrogation' episode of taking a manual describing potential scenarios of torture during the Korean War and turning it into a manual of how to interrogate.
They found it okay because they were convinced that the prisoners had information that needed to be extracted, in the same manner that these FBI agents are already convinced that these Muslims are already dangerous.
Just another sign that our security is being managed by amateurs.
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Q: Null pointer a pesar de controlarlo He hecho una web y utilizo una función ajax pasando el producto y en otra no.
Cuando llega al servlet lo controlo.
    if(!request.getParameter("producto").equals("") &&  request.getParameter("producto") !=null &&    !request.getParameter("producto").equals(null)) {
        cadena = "---VACIO---";
    }else {
        cadena = "---NO ESTA VACIO---";
    }

Y a pesar de tenerlo controlado me devuelve un null Pointer. ¿Sabeis porque puede ser? Muchas gracias de antemano

A: La primera validación (de izquierda a derecha) debe ser precisamente la que evalúa null, por lo tanto lo correcto sería:
 if(request != null && request.getParameter("producto") !=null && !request.getParameter("producto").equals("") &&    !request.getParameter("producto").equals(null)) {
        cadena = "---VACIO---";
    }else {
        cadena = "---NO ESTA VACIO---";
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Sad story. Full of "stupid meanness" as Womack would maybe say. It kills me when "Lean" (put the machines/operations in a cell) trumps common sense. That factory shouldn't have required a "safety officer", just common sense and watching the gemba, talking to the actual people who do the work.
The "first do no harm" construct sort of puts doctors on a pedestal, because you could probably just as likely find an example of a doctor doing something suboptimizing (or selfish) that hurt a patient.
one other thought - your article equates "lean" with a physical act -- moving machines. Really, moving machines into a U-shaped cell is the logical progression of the lean thought process... reducing time to cash by reducing cycle time to the customer. Depending on your audience, I'd suggest making more of a "full" definition of Lean as the "thinking production system."
I appreciate the comments. I hadn't thought about the mechanistic aspect of the Chinese example, but you're right. It's lean without the thinking - "machine lean" - so it's not lean at all. That's going to help me make the story a lot clearer.