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Award-winning film Tanna sets Romeo and Juliet in the south Pacific
Lamont Lindstrom, University of Tulsa
The new Australian film Tanna (2015), which won two awards at Venice Film Festival in September, is a sad romance of ill-fated island love. Romeo and Juliet in Vanuatu, with the twist that Juliet (Wawa) falls in love with Romeo (Dain) just as her family decides to give her to another boy, hoping to settle a long-standing feud between two communities.
Tanna is also a tale of globalisation. The modern expectation that marriage should hinge on shared spousal passion is transported around the world by cinema, popular music, and crafty commercial advertisement. Young people in Vanuatu see these depictions of "companionate" marriage and decide to choose their own partners, upending the careful marital arrangements their parents have made.
Tanna.
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I have lived off and on Tanna, an island in Tafea Province of Vanuatu, since 1978, working with local communities on a series of ethnographic, linguistic, and historical projects. Over those years I have watched parents working hard to arrange appropriate marriages for their children, and seen them struggle with offspring who resist tradition. As such, I watched the film with particular interest.
Island custom demands what anthropologists call "sister-exchange" marriage. A boy can marry only if his family can convince one of his sisters, or some other likely girl, to marry a boy from the girl's family, ideally one of her brothers. Three or four families may chain together in a circle, each passing a girl along to the next. Or if girls are scarce, a groom may promise to give back a future daughter.
Love complicates the difficult and complex marriage deals that parents arrange, as do elopements such as the one staged between Dain and Wawa in the film.
It is no surprise, then, that island languages have modest romantic lexicons. The word "to love" also means "to like, enjoy, appreciate", or merely "to require". Until recent years, few on Tanna expected husbands and wives could be, or should be, "soul mates".
Island parents say that girls have the right to refuse to marry but they can put considerable pressure on them to accept a spouse, as Wawa's family does. Only a girl's attempted suicide (jumping from a tree, typically) may convince parents of her resolve. Tannese boys who face unwanted marriage deals are far less likey to kill themselves but Dain and Wawa, in good Shakespearean fashion, together swallow poisonous fungi.
Tanna features actors from in and around Yakel village. The camera looks down into a luscious world of brown skin and green nature, of smiles and song, of wise elders and mischievous children. A freelance photojournalist in the early 1970s convinced people from this community to take off their clothes to boost the appeal of his photographs. Ever since, men here (especially when paying tourists come around) sport traditional penis wrappers, and women wear bark skirts.
Community leaders continue to boast that they alone protect and preserve island custom, even though most everyone on Tanna remains committed to ancestral tradition. Certainly photogenic, local actors Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, and Marceline Rofit (Wawa's mischievous little sister) ably carry the story.
Co-directors Bentley Dean and Martin Butler are romantics themselves, echoing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's fantasies of noble Tahitians against which he could project the squalor of 18th century France. Elderly island wisdom and doomed love, in the end, win out over bloody feuds.
Apart from romantic love, the filmmakers have meticulously scrubbed away other signs of global modernity. Only a tobacco pipe, a bush knife, and some dubious island Christians (who look to be followers of Tanna's Prophet Fred, among whom Dain and Wawa seek shelter, signal our contemporaneity).
In real life, Yakel is a popular tourist site, located only a few kilometres up the hill from Lenakel, Tanna's main town centre. Local people travel widely along the island's traditional and modern road systems, shopping in trade stores along the way.
Most everyone on Tanna, young and old alike (including folks in Yakel), carries mobile telephones these days.
Tanna is flooded with international tourists, and people constantly travel up to Port Vila (Vanuatu's capital town) seeking paid employment.
Interestingly, the filmmakers have excised almost all Bislama (Vanuatu's lingua franca) terms from their actors' lines (which mostly flow in southwest Tanna's Navhal language, with a few minutes of Nafe language from the southeast). This must have been a difficult task. Nowadays, people freely code-mix Bislama words into everyday conversation.
And those penis-wrapper-wearing Yakel men are the island's outstanding global travellers. They have starred in a variety of reality television series that have brought them to the UK, France, USA, and Australia. Viewers may miss the local history when Wawa's grandfather shows her a picture of himself standing with Prince Philip of Great Britain (he's trying to convince her that arranged marriage is a good thing; just look at Queen Elizabeth and Philip's).
Despite their commitment to island custom, these are the people who in the 1970s cooked up a political devotion to Prince Philip as a brother islander.
The film opened in a Port Vila theater in late October to much local interest. Kids squealed in delight at the "public displays of affection" between Dain and Wawa – most un-Tanna-like, where men hold hands only with men.
There's an expectation that screenings will prompt a spike in tourism; Tanna's main source of income derives from tourists and local entrepreneurs will be delighted if the film boosts visitor numbers.
An entrepreneurial island friend's pre-dawn call woke me last week; I've just wired him money to help build a tourist bungalow, adding to the rash of these that already freckle the island.
That said, the Tannese are extremely savvy about the West's romanticism for "ancient cultures" and cannily position themselves within the international tourism marketplace accordingly. If visitors tire of Yakel's natural wonders, they can walk the "cannibal" trail –created specifically for their enjoyment – near Port Resolution, east of the volcano.
Tourism brings resources to the island but sometimes also trouble. The making of the film sparked resentment in neighbouring villages, while acting out the romantic fantasies of Western audiences has also had a disconcerting effect on islanders themselves.
Regardless, Tanna culture remains strong and visitors can learn much if they look beyond and behind the romance (some, though, may be surprised that Tanna's famous volcano – on which much of the story revolves – is 12 kilometres from Yakel across the central mountains). It's a place you can easily fall in love with.
Tanna is currently screening in limited release.
Lamont Lindstrom, Kendall Professor of Anthropology, University of Tulsa
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Kerui Min (Ph.D. ECE, ABT), now CEO of MetaSOTA, former Chief Scientist of Cheetah Mobiel Inc. and cofounder and CTO of BosonData.
Zihan Zhou (Ph.D. ECE, 2012), now an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University.
- Ph.D Thesis: Exploring Structural Regularities for Robust 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes, December 2012.
Hossein Mobahi (Ph.D. CS, 2012), now a senior researcher at Google, California.
- Ph.D Thesis: Optimization by Gaussian Smoothing with Applications to Geometric Alignment, December 2012.
Arvind Ganesh Balasubramanian (Ph.D. ECE, 2012), founded Baazor.com which was purchased by Google in 2014.
- Ph.D Thesis: Low-rank Matrix Recovery and Its Applications in Computer Vision, 2012.
Andrew Wagner (Ph.D. ECE, August 2011), now a researcher in Belgium.
- Ph.D. Thesis: Fast and Robust Face Recognition via Parallelized L1 Minimization, 2011.
Yoav Sharon (Ph.D. ECE, May 2010), S&C Electric Company in Chicago.
- Ph.D. Thesis: Vision Based Control with Limited and Quantized Information, 2010.
John Wright (Ph.D. ECE, May 2009), now an Associate Professor of EE Department, Columbia University.
- Ph.D. Thesis: Error Correction for High-Dimensional Data via Convex Optimization, 2009.
Shankar Ramamohan Rao (Ph.D. ECE, May 2009), now a senior researcher at HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California.
- Ph.D. Thesis: Harnessing Sparse and Low-Dimensional Structures for Robust Clustering of Imagery Data, 2009.
Wei Hong (Ph.D. ECE, October 2006), now a senior researcher at Google, California.
- Ph.D. Thesis: Hybrid Models for Representation of Imagery Data, 2006.
Allen Yang Yang (Ph.D. ECE, October 2006), now Director of the VR Center at EECS Dept. of UC Berkeley.
- Ph.D. Thesis: Estimation of Subspace Arrangements: Its Algebra and Statistics, 2006.
Kun Huang (Ph.D. ECE, August 2004), now a Professor of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine.
- Ph.D. Thesis: Geometric Principles of Multiple Visual Sensors, 2004.
Zihan Zhou (M.S. ECE, 2010).
- M.S. Thesis: Robust Face Recognition, Spring 2010.
John Wright (M.S. ECE, October 2006).
- M.S. Thesis: Mixed Data Segmentation via Lossy Data Compression, October 2006.
Andrew Wagner (M.S. ECE, October 2006).
- M.S. Thesis: Identification of Hybrid Linear Dynamical Systems, October 2006.
Shankar Ramamohan Rao (M.S. ECE, December 2004).
- M.S. Thesis: Robust Extensions to Generalized Principal Component Analysis, December 2004.
Wei Hong (M.S. ECE, August 2003).
- M.S. Thesis: Geometry and Reconstruction from Spatial Symmetry, August 2003.
Allen Yang Yang (M.S. ECE, August 2003).
- M.S. Thesis: Geometric Segmentation of Perspective Images Based on Symmetry Groups, August 2003.
James Matthew Geis (M.S. ECE, August 2002), now at ANSYS Inc.
- M.S. Thesis: Intersection Traffic Surveillance Using Region Based Object Tracking, August 2002.
Jie Lai (M.S. ECE), non-thesis option, now at General Electric, May 2002.
Guangcan Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Postdoc at UIUC, 2012 - 2013).
Xin Zhang (Tsinghua, Visiting Scholar at UIUC, 2012 - 2013).
Xiao Liang (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, August 2010 - 2014).
Zhengdong Zhang (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, August 2010 - 2012).
Xiaocheng Hu (University of Science and Technology, Intern at MSRA, February 2012 - 2014).
Xiaojie Guo (Tianjin University, Intern at MSRA, February 2012 - 2013).
Lun Wu (Beijing Institute of Technology, visiting scholar at UIUC, 2008 - 2010).
Yigang Peng (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, June - December 2009).
Kerui Min (Fudan University, Intern at MSRA, June - December 2009).
Ruofeng Wuen (Intern at MSRA, June - August 2009).
Wenxuan Liang (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, August 2010 - June 2010).
Huan Sun (Tsinghua, Intern at MSRA, January - June 2010).
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package org.wildfly.extras.creaper.commands.elytron.tls;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.wildfly.extras.creaper.core.CommandFailedException;
import org.wildfly.extras.creaper.core.online.operations.Address;

@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
public class AddClientSSLContextOnlineTest extends AbstractAddSSLContextOnlineTest {

    private static final String CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_PROTOCOL = "TLSv1.2";
    private static final String CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME = "CreaperTestCLientSSLContext";
    private static final String CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME2 = "CreaperTestCLientSSLContext2";
    private static final Address CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS = SUBSYSTEM_ADDRESS.and("client-ssl-context",
            CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME);
    private static final Address CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS2 = SUBSYSTEM_ADDRESS.and("client-ssl-context",
            CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME2);

    @After
    public void cleanup() throws Exception {
        ops.removeIfExists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS);
        ops.removeIfExists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS2);
        administration.reloadIfRequired();
    }

    @Test
    public void addSimpleClientSSLContext() throws Exception {
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME)
                .build();
        assertFalse("The client ssl context should not exist", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));
        client.apply(addClientSSLContext);
        assertTrue("Client ssl context should be created", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));
    }

    @Test
    public void addTwoSimpleClientSSLContexts() throws Exception {
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME)
                .build();
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext2 = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME2)
                .build();

        assertFalse("The client ssl context should not exist", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));
        assertFalse("The client ssl context should not exist", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS2));

        client.apply(addClientSSLContext);
        client.apply(addClientSSLContext2);

        assertTrue("Client SSL context should be created", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));
        assertTrue("Client SSL context should be created", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS2));
    }

    @Test(expected = CommandFailedException.class)
    public void addDuplicateClientSSLContextNotAllowed() throws Exception {
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME)
                .build();
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext2 = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME)
                .build();

        client.apply(addClientSSLContext);
        assertTrue("The client ssl context should be created", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));

        client.apply(addClientSSLContext2);
        fail("Client ssl context is already configured, exception should be thrown");
    }

    @Test
    public void addDuplicateClientSSLContexAllowed() throws Exception {
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME)
                .protocols("TLSv1.2")
                .build();
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext2 = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME)
                .protocols("TLSv1.1")
                .replaceExisting()
                .build();

        client.apply(addClientSSLContext);
        assertTrue("The client ssl context should be created", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));

        client.apply(addClientSSLContext2);
        assertTrue("The cleint ssl context should be created", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));
        // check whether it was really rewritten
        checkAttribute(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS, "protocols", Arrays.asList("TLSv1.1"));
    }

    @Test
    public void addFullClientSSLContext() throws Exception {
        AddClientSSLContext addClientSSLContext = new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_NAME)
                .cipherSuiteFilter("ALL")
                .keyManager(TEST_KEY_MNGR_NAME)
                .trustManager(TRUST_MNGR_NAME)
                .protocols(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_PROTOCOL)
                .build();
        client.apply(addClientSSLContext);
        assertTrue("The client ssl context should be created", ops.exists(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS));

        checkAttribute("cipher-suite-filter", "ALL");
        checkAttribute("key-manager", TEST_KEY_MNGR_NAME);
        checkAttribute("trust-manager", TRUST_MNGR_NAME);
        checkAttribute("protocols", Arrays.asList(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_PROTOCOL));
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
    public void addClientSSLContext_nullName() throws Exception {
        new AddClientSSLContext.Builder(null)
            .build();
        fail("Creating command with null client SSL context name should throw exception");
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
    public void addClientSSLContext_emptyName() throws Exception {
        new AddClientSSLContext.Builder("")
            .build();
        fail("Creating command with empty client ssl context name should throw exception");
    }

    private void checkAttribute(String attribute, String expectedValue) throws IOException {
        checkAttribute(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS, attribute, expectedValue);
    }

    private void checkAttribute(String attribute, List<String> expected) throws IOException {
        checkAttribute(CLIENT_SSL_CONTEXT_ADDRESS, attribute, expected);
    }

}

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I'm still digesting this book, and plan to write on my other blog about how it's affected my views about schooling, and how it's impacting my thoughts on how to move forward in my own homeschooling endeavors, but for now I'm going to try to share some general thoughts about the book and its premises.
Free to Learn was recommended to me by a friend when I put out a request on Facebook for suggestions of books about unschooling. I immediately ordered it from Amazon and spent the next week devouring it, highlighter in hand.
In a nutshell, the basic message of Free to Learn is that kids learn best by being left alone by adults. That is not to say that children should not be cared for, nurtured, and provided for by adults, but we, as a society, have gotten to a point of believing that adults must direct every aspect of our children's lives, including their learning. For some reason we went from trusting children and believing them to be competent and having faith that their natural curiosity would serve as a strong enough drive to lead them down the paths of learning what they need to know, to believing that children are inept blobs of clay who must be molded into desirable shapes, and who can't or won't accomplish anything of use without supervision, direction and coercion by adults.
You really can't help but see that this is the model of conventional schools.
The whole idea of compulsory schooling, with its compulsory subjects that must be learned in prescribed ways at prescribed ages (prescribed by anonymous adults who are far, far removed from classrooms), with its grouping children together by age rather than by interest or desire to be grouped together, with its never-ending ranking, grading, comparing, testing, rewarding, and doling out of consequences, with its adherence to conformity – all of these things that characterize pretty much every neighborhood public school fly in the face of how children actually learn best. By sucking all the joy out of learning for learning's sake and instead making learning a means to an end (a good grade, a gold star, an award, something to put on a college application), we are failing our children. Rates of depression, anxiety, and cheating in school have skyrocketed, and we're raising kids who increasingly don't have any idea how to run their own lives and make their own decisions, let alone take responsibility for the direction their lives may take, face adversity, and learn and grow from their mistakes.
The key to real learning, posits Peter Gray, is a childhood full of free play, and a democratic model of education. What this translates to is that children should be given as much freedom as is safe and reasonable (and those are subjective, and therefore raise plenty of questions about what is safe and reasonable) to direct their own learning, to interact and form friendships with people outside of their own age groups, to explore, experiment, and just play – and adults need to back off and trust that the kids will be alright if we stop managing their every waking moment.
So much of this struck a deep chord in me. I absolutely see the truth of all of it. The problem is making the leap to applying these principles in real life when you've become so entrenched in the "conventional" way of doing things. While I absolutely see the wisdom and truth of what Gray sets forth, I'm having a very, very difficult time actually thinking about what it would be like to let go and give my kids the reins.
Two criticisms I have: on some level, this book feels like a giant advertisement for the Sudbury Valley School and its offshoots. Sudbury schools are democratic schools in which the students direct and take complete responsibility for their own education. I can't imagine that it's not wonderful, and that it doesn't instill in kids a myriad of things that conventional schools can't or won't. My problem with the endorsement, though, lies in the fact that Sudbury schools are private, tuition-based schools, and although they are apparently less expensive than a lot of conventional private schools, they're still not cheap, and many, many families – especially those with multiple kids – just cannot afford to pay tuition to send their kids to school. Further, relatively speaking, there aren't a whole lot of these schools. The numbers are growing, but it's not like you can find one in every neighborhood, so most families will have to commute at least some distance, and this isn't practical or even feasible for a lot of families.
The other thing is that I wish this book, and other books that discuss alternative educational paths for children, talked about how these methods might apply to a-typical kids (i.e., kids with disabilities). I feel like just about every book or article out there that discusses all the wonderful ways in which children can be educated and reared outside of conventional standards are really talking about "typical" kids. How do kids with intellectual disabilities fit into all of this? Nobody really seems to want to delve into that in any depth, and that's a disappointment.
In any case, I think this book is a must read for anyone who has kids or plans to have kids. Seriously, a must read.


Stow lake is located in Golden Gate Park and is the largest and most popular lake in the area. It was created in 1893 and houses a boat rental facility and surrounds Strawberry Hill which was named for the wild strawberries that once flourished there. It truly is a nature lover's paradise.
The foliage and lake are not only scenic but provide a haven for wildlife.
This Chinese pagoda was presented to San Francisco by its sister city Taipei in 1976 and resides on the shores of Stow Lake.
It's beautiful! I love the pagoda in the last photo.
What a beautiful place and wonderful photography too!
The beauty of this area is wonderful. The little pagoda adds a touch of magical fantasy.
Sounds like a wonderful place to spend some time. Lovely photos.


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Realize that stakeholder policies, priorities, and personnel training are critical to ensure consistency and schedule adherence in deploying integrated systems.
Silicon Valley Smart Corridor's stakeholder experience in the deployment of an integrated freeway, arterial and incident management systems and the impact on deployment delays.
California,United States
The Silicon Valley Smart Corridor (SVSC), centered in San Jose, California, was one of approximately 65 deployments occurring nationally under the direction and partial funding of the Fiscal Year 1999 National Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Integration Program. These deployments are intended to promote major national goals for ITS, such as: increase transportation efficiency, promote safety, increase traffic flow, reduce emissions of air pollutants, improve traveler information, enhance alternative transportation modes, build on existing ITS projects, and promote tourism.
The Silicon Valley Smart Corridor project was initiated to use advanced technologies and real-time system management techniques to keep all transportation facilities within the region's critical State Highway Route 17 and Interstate 880 (SR 17/I-880) corridor operating at maximum efficiency, even when following a major disruptive incident. Based upon a partnership of several agencies, the system combines advanced freeway, arterial, and incident management techniques and resources to reduce delays.
Stakeholder policies, priorities, and personnel training are critical to the success of the project to reduce delays and ensure consistency in each agency's deployment schedule. Reaching consensus on the operational policies as early as possible will reduce the likelihood that deployment delays will occur due to differences in project priorities. A consensus is desired on such important policies as: agencies' roles and responsibilities; how certain equipment (deployed at multiple agencies' facilities) is used; and personnel training required at each agency to build and maintain the project components.
The SVSC project experience provides a snapshot of these issues and the associated impact on the deployment. During the initial phase of the deployment, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was approved by the partners. The MOU established project committees and provided a basic understanding of the operational concept. However, because the original MOU was not intended to detail the specific operational strategies of the deployment, efforts were initiated soon after the project inception to draft agreements specifying these policies. Many difficulties were encountered in reaching agreement on these policies among the various agencies and their legal council. A sample of the concerns that caused difficulty in achieving consensus included:
Policies that enabled one jurisdiction to assume control over equipment located in a neighboring jurisdiction;
The use of maintenance staff from one jurisdiction to repair equipment in another jurisdiction;
The rights of individual jurisdictions to use the deployed equipment for other purposes than defined by the group;
The assignment of operational and maintenance responsibilities and funding;
Liability concerns; and,
Policies specifying the hierarchy of control over particular components.
These issues, among others, resulted in significant delays in approving an overall MOU that defined system operations. The MOU was finally agreed upon by all direct partners in late 2002.
The SVSC evaluation provided a number of suggestions that should be helpful to stakeholders planning to implement a multi-jurisdictional ITS project.
Have stakeholder policies in place to assess responsibility and designate appropriate mitigation in the event of infrastructure damage. When the fiber-optic cables were cut or damaged, several agencies reported having inadequate policies in place to assess responsibility and designate appropriate mitigation of the damage. This resulted in significant delays in properly repairing the damage. To address these policy deficiencies the agency partners tested and shared various policies.
Encourage stakeholder agencies to place an equal priority on ITS projects to ensure consistency in each agency's deployment schedule, reduce scope creep in system capabilities, and help reduce bottlenecks in the real-time exchange of data between agencies. During the SVSC deployment, some agencies placed a lower-priority on the project. Consequently, those agencies followed their own independent deployment schedule for Smart Corridor-related components in their own jurisdictions. These deployment schedule inconsistencies resulted in project partners having to alter the scope of the project to account for the unavailability of supporting components to be provided by the other agencies. The scope changes did not significantly impact the primary capabilities of the Smart Corridor system. However, changes that create bottlenecks in the real-time exchange of data between agencies can impact the success of a deployment.
Ensure personnel in the stakeholder agencies have adequate training to address many of the complex issues to reduce deployment delays and reliance on outside contractors. Various agencies with the SVSC deployment discovered that their own personnel lacked the technical training to address many of the more complex issues arising from the fiber implementation. Several technical problems required the consultation of outside contractors and the additional contracting effort resulted in deployment delays. To address this issue, the partner agencies sought additional training for some of their maintenance personnel and have developed alternative contracting mechanisms to more quickly and effectively repair or replace damaged infrastructure.
The SVSC project experienced significant delays in their deployment schedule. Some of the delays occurred due to the difficulties arising in reaching consensus in project operational policies and agreement on the importance (or priority) of the project. The lack of adequate personnel training to address technical issues was another issue that also resulted in deployment delays.
This lesson suggests that deployment delays and ultimately the success of the project are affected by Stakeholder policies, the priorities stakeholders place on the deployment of the project, and the level of personnel technical training. Although not the only factors critical to project success, stakeholders could reduce deployment delays by ensuring these factors are addressed early in the deployment schedule.
Silicon Valley Smart Corridor: Final Evaluation Report
Author: Carter, Mark, et.al.
Published By: Prepared by SAIC for the USDOT FHWA
Source Date: 9/23/2003
Mark Carter, Bob Sanchez
mark.r.carter
@saic.com, Robert.R.Sanchez@saic.com
Firoz Kabir
firoz.kabir@noblis.org
Adopt adequate and thorough procurement processes which cover purchases of both standardized commodity type equipment and highly complex integrated ITS components.
Include sufficient safeguards to ensure the integrity of the fiber-optic communications infrastructure for ITS.
Policy & Planning > Policy
Design & Deployment > Implementation
Leadership & Partnerships > Partnerships & Agreements
Technical Integration > Jurisdictional
Human Resources > Training
Systems Engineering Project/Technical Management


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Real Change Will Protect Door to Door Postal Service and Rural Mail
Cornwall – Bernadette Clement, Stormont Dundas South Glengarry Liberal candidate today reaffirmed Liberal support for Canada's Postal system and its workers.
"On June 16th, our leader Justin Trudeau introduced a plan to restore openness and transparency to government. The plan is called Real Change," said Ms. Clement,
"Real Change begins with issues that affect us all at home, within our riding. That is why I endorse the Liberal commitment to stopping the Harper government from doing away with door to door mail service in Canada and I endorse the Liberal commitment to protecting rural mail delivery and service."
"The Canadian Union of Postal Workers and others have launched a campaign to make Canadians aware of the Conservative government plans to cut postal services. We want to work with postal officials to continue to make postal service the best that it can be and help protect local jobs and existing services," said Ms. Clement.
The Liberal commitment to postal service is just one of several steps to restore openness and transparency to government. The Liberal plan will also modernize the way government works by:
implementing measures such as requiring that government data and information is truly accessible
giving Canadians a voice in Ottawa by allowing more independence for Members of Parliament and government watchdogs
ending party politics in the Senate; ensuring open and fair elections by moving forward with Electoral Reform
strengthening Elections Canada and banning partisan government advertising
making evidence-based decisions on programs and policies
providing better and more timely services to Canadians with a more inclusive and engaging policy-making process
including an equal number of women and men in a Liberal Cabinet.
"I've attended a number of events since becoming the Liberal candidate in this riding and many of these concerns have been raised directly with me. We are listening and we are proposing Real Change for the benefit of all Canadians," said Ms. Clement.
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3 Ways Your Company May Be Engaging in Sex Discrimination
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In the last decade, the number of women on corporate boards has increased slightly, but the prevailing minority status of women directors implies that they will continue to face social barriers.
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Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2018, Pages 291-308
Advancing SDGs 3 and 5, this chapter provides an overview of the global prevalence of sexual violence and a summary of empirically supported approaches to reduce risk of sexual violence and identifies promising directions for future research.
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Furthering goal 5, this report examines the aggregate results of companies using the Women's Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool (WEPs Tool) with the aim of providing insight into global corporate performance on gender equality and women's empowerment aligned with the WEPs. The study also demonstrates the value of using the WEPs Tool and showcases the efforts of partners and other stakeholders to drive gender equality around the world.
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Can mobile phones improve gender equality and nutrition? Panel data evidence from farm households in Uganda
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Time complexity and convergence analysis of domain theoretic Picard method
Amin Farjudian, Michal Konečný
Computer Science Research Group
We present an implementation of the domain-theoretic Picard method for solving initial value problems (IVPs) introduced by Edalat and Pattinson [1]. Compared to Edalat and Pattinson's implementation, our algorithm uses a more efficient arithmetic based on an arbitrary precision floating-point library. Despite the additional overestimations due to floating-point rounding, we obtain a similar bound on the convergence rate of the produced approximations. Moreover, our convergence analysis is detailed enough to allow a static optimisation in the growth of the precision used in successive Picard iterations. Such optimisation greatly improves the efficiency of the solving process. Although a similar optimisation could be performed dynamically without our analysis, a static one gives us a significant advantage: we are able to predict the time it will take the solver to obtain an approximation of a certain (arbitrarily high) quality.
Logic, language, information and computation
15th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2008 Edinburgh, UK, July 1-4, 2008 Proceedings
Wilfrid Hodges, Ruy de Queiroz
Berlin (DE)
3-540-6996-8, 978-3-540-6996-1
The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Accepted author manuscript, 1.5 MBLicence: CC BY-NC-ND
http://www.springerlink.com/content/332778n2761v524u/
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Initial value problems Engineering & Materials Science
Time Complexity and Convergence Analysis of Domain Theoretic Picard Method (Extended Abstract)
Farjudian, M. A. & Konecny, M., 23 Apr 2008.
Research output: Preprint or Working paper › Technical report
Farjudian, A., & Konečný, M. (2008). Time complexity and convergence analysis of domain theoretic Picard method. In W. Hodges, & R. de Queiroz (Eds.), Logic, language, information and computation: 15th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2008 Edinburgh, UK, July 1-4, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 149-163). (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 5110). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69937-8_14
Farjudian, Amin ; Konečný, Michal. / Time complexity and convergence analysis of domain theoretic Picard method. Logic, language, information and computation: 15th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2008 Edinburgh, UK, July 1-4, 2008 Proceedings. editor / Wilfrid Hodges ; Ruy de Queiroz. Berlin (DE) : Springer, 2008. pp. 149-163 (Lecture notes in computer science).
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Getting a handle on the emerging trade market
by huntergolden | Jun 19, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Cliff Lee, Felix Doubront, Jake Peavy, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Matt Garza, Shaun Marcum, Yovani Gallardo
By all indications, the 2013 Red Sox look like they're very much for real and appear to be genuine contenders for the American League crown this year. Being contenders means they'll also be actively shopping at this year's trade deadline – looking to upgrade any perceived weaknesses and shore up the boat for the last leg of the journey into the playoffs.
White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy could be interesting.
One area the team may look to improve is the starting rotation. While the results have been solid so far, there are some concerns that there may be a few emerging cracks in the facade – notably with Jon Lester's widening slump, Clay Buchholz's annual DL stint, how strong John Lackey's arm will be heading forward and of course – Felix Doubront's innings cap. As such, the Red Sox will probably do their due diligence in the pitching market and could be in the mix for any one of a number of able arms. While it's too early to identify many CLEAR CUT sellers, there are a few out there, all of whom have some intriguing pieces to consider.
While there's a lot of work to be done to identify THE TYPE of pitcher the Red Sox would be chasing, there are some names that have been bandied about as potential fits here, of which we'll take a closer look at today.
Let's jump right in.
Shaun Marcum, New York Mets – While Zack Wheeler and Matt Harvey continue to get all the attention in New York, Shaun Marcum has been a name that's more or less floated under the radar. While his fastball velocity is down and his results thus far having been any thing but pretty (5.43 ERA), Marcum's peripherals paint a picture of a pitcher who'd make a really intriguing buy-low option.
For starters, Marcum's posting some of the best k/9 and BB/9 rates of his career while simultaneously posting a FIP that's nearly 2.50 runs lower than his ERA (3.05). While he's been lucky in the HR department, he's had almost no luck with regards to both his strand rate and BABIP. His 3.78 SIERA really shines through the noise – making him a guy who'll most definitely be worth keeping an eye on. And even better – he signed a 1-year, $4 million contract with the Mets this offseason, which means that whoever gets him will be should owe him a smidge under $2 million the rest of the way. With the FB velocity dipping, I'm not so sure I'd bother signing him past the end of the season, but as a two month, safe rental – Marcum looks really appealing.
Cliff Lee, Philadelphia Phillies – If the Phillies decide to place Lee on the block, he'll almost certainly be the best player available. The problem is – he comes with a price, and a steep price at that. Prospective owners would be on the hook for somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 million through to the end of 2015 with a vesting option that seems – at this point, at least – to be a slam dunk sure thing that would pay him $27.5 million in 2016. That's a lot of scratch and a lot of commitment that I just don't see the Red Sox wanting to take on. If the Phillies took on money, that might change things a bit, but between giving up prospects and the cost to acquire Lee financially, he just doesn't seem like the kind of player the Red Sox would be interested in.
Jake Peavy, Chicago White Sox – Thanks large in part to the White Sox early season struggles, it seems like they're going to be looking to offload some money come trade deadline time and Jake Peavy seems to be a player who'd bring back a decent return. Peavy's found himself back on the DL with cracked ribs, but make no mistake about it – he's finally re-evolved into the pitcher he used to be with good news on almost all fronts. His strike out rate (8.87/9) and SIERA (3.37) are both at four-year highs. His first strike % and LD% are both the best marks of his career. Considering that all this has been accomplished while pitching at US Cellular field, you have to feel good about his ability to transition to Fenway.
Yes, Peavy's dealing with nagging cracked ribs, but depending on how they heal, that might actually drive his price down a little bit. There's already a significant injury risk attached with Peavy, and with the money owed to him, he'd probably go for a reasonable price. While his health is always a concern, if Lester continues to struggle, Peavy would be an excellent complement to Clay Buchholz at the top of the rotation and more so- potential leverage over Lester in contract negotiations next year. Again – he needs to be healthy for the Red Sox to bother, but if he is, he might be one of the more reasonable options available that could significantly upgrade the rotation at a reasonable cost.
Matt Garza, Chicago Cubs – Granted, we're dealing with an enormously small sample size here, but the numbers so far for Garza haven't done much to boost his trade value. He's sitting on a 4.12 SIERA and has seen his K% and BB% trend in the wrong direction the past few years. What it comes down to at the end of the day is that if the Red Sox are trading for a pitcher to make them BETTER, I'm not sure Garza's a guy I'd put in that conversation, as he's really not a significant upgrade over anything the Red Sox already have. A depth arm? Sure. A useful piece? Maybe; but the Cubs will likely be commanding a hefty price for him and I'm not so sure he's going to be anywhere near worth what they'd be looking for. To make matters murkier, Garza's not exactly a roses and petunias guy in the clubhouse, either. Not that it'd make a huge difference either way (he's been in good clubhouses and bad with not a whole lot said either way about his contributions to said cultures), but it's something to at least be aware of.
Yovani Gallardo, Milwaukee Brewers – While Kyle Lohse is the most expensive pitcher the Brewers have on the books, the best pitcher they have is probably Gallardo or at least until Wily Peralta figures himself out. As such, Gallardo would likely net a significant haul for the Brewers, who are in sore need of re-tooling. Acquiring him would cost a significant number of valuable prospects and based on what I've seen, I'm not sure he's a pitcher the Red Sox should be considering. In fact, there are red flags everywhere. Not only is his velocity down almost 2 mph in the past three seasons, but he's also failed to get through six innings in all but two of his 14 starts. When coupled with his ballooning LD%, he's at best a more expensive version of Felix Doubront or at worst – a player who's really only killing time until his inevitably long DL stint. Considering the cost of acquisition, I'm not sure he's a worthwhile option at this point unless he shows significant improvement over the next month or so.
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Van Dijk gets Ballon d'Or backing from Fonte
By Dom Farrell 6 June 2019 390
Virgil van Dijk would be a worthy winner of the Ballon d'Or, according to Portugal defender Jose Fonte.
Liverpool centre-back Van Dijk collected the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Player of the Year award in 2018-19 and concluded his club campaign by being named man of the match in the Reds' 2-0 Champions League final win over Tottenham last weekend.
The 27-year-old will return to action for his country on Thursday in the Nations League Finals, when Netherlands and England face off in Guimaraes for the right to take on Portugal in Sunday's final.
That would mean a reunion for two ex-Southampton colleagues at Estadio do Dragao and Fonte is not surprised at his former defensive partner's progress.
"I had many conversations with my international team-mates, including Cedric [Soares], I remember telling him, 'Listen, this guy I am sure he will be one of the best defenders in the world'," the 35-year-old said after Portugal saw off Switzerland 3-1 in Porto thanks to a stunning Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick.
"I am not surprised to see him disputing the Ballon d'Or this year, I am just pleased for him and I wish he keeps going like this."
Great couple of days back together with the national team and it's been good to see the boys! We are all looking forward to our Nations League semi-final tomorrow against England! #DutchLions pic.twitter.com/5Oia9XEVX2
— Virgil van Dijk (@VirgilvDijk) June 5, 2019
Fabio Cannavaro was the last defender to win world football's most coveted individual prize in 2006 and Fonte feels the time is right for a master of his craft to be recognised once more - echoing sentiments expressed by Van Dijk's international boss Ronald Koeman.
"He was named Premier League player of the year, winning the Champions League, why not?" he said.
"We always give it to the strikers because they score goals and everything but it is about time a defender gets one, no?"
Fonte and Van Dijk played together for 18 months for Saints, with the Dutchman taking the captaincy when his colleague left for West Ham.
"It's not only me, everyone could see the pace he had, how strong he is – he wins every duel," Fonte explained.
"It was just about improving his positioning, and that is what he did when he came to Southampton. He stopped coming out with the ball too much, trying to dribble too much, playing simple."
Asked whether that meant he deserved some credit for Van Dijk's rise, the Lille defender chuckled and replied: "Ah, listen, I have a little bit of credit, but the main thing is him, he is an amazing talent."
0 - No opposition player has completed a dribble past Virgil van Dijk in any of his last 64 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool. Rock. #UCLFinal pic.twitter.com/VlviY2ohRH
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) June 1, 2019
Van Dijk has not been dribbled past in his previous 64 games for Liverpool – an incredible and now much-discussed statistic.
However, should Netherlands take on Portugal in Sunday's final, Fonte feels another amazing talent might test that stubbornness.
"It is an incredible stat, isn't it? It is not easy, but no-one is unbeatable," he added.
"If there is someone [who can beat Van Dijk], Cristiano is one of them."
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Sam Vicari grew up in Crown Point, IN. He spent his high school years playing in various bands while learning to write simple guitar-pop songs. He recorded numerous demos and EPs until finally recording his first proper full-length, Keep Careful, which was released in April of 2010. While attending college to become an Elementary School teacher, Sam played a number of shows around neighboring Chicago and the Midwest. Even though Keep Careful was released independently, it did manage to get a fair amount of press and recognition. Chicagoist would even go on to name it one of their favorite local releases of 2010.
In January 2012, Vicari moved to Chicago and immediately began working with Nathaniel Scott Cook (Liam Hayes, The Poison Control Center) on his second record. Fully funding the record through his full time job tutoring 5th and 6th graders in mathematics (and another part time job as a Starbucks barista), Vicari and Cook spent three weeks tracking at Chicago's MINBAL recording studio. The end result, Heart Explosion, will be released in the summer of 2013.
Sam Vicari keeps it simple. The Chicago-based Vicari's songs have an electric pulse, but bear the imprint of a singer / songwriter, with themes touching on heartbreak, alienation and Midwestern ennui. That's not to say that the record is a sad-sack, cry in your beer lament. Vicari harnesses the power pop hooks and sunny on the outside exterior of classic 90s alternative acts, recalling Pinkerton-era Weezer, Bob Mould's poppier Sugar moments, and the smart, biting lyricism that has given Superdrag such longevity. "My favorite bands and musicians have always been the ones who are very simple, sincere, and honest in their delivery," says Vicari. "I guess I strive for the same thing. I don't really like to premeditate; I just let things come out the way they do."
In keeping with his humble vibe, Vicari was raised in a small Indiana town before moving to Chicago. After a series of demos and EPs, his proper debut LP Keep Careful was released independently while Vicari was attending college to become an elementary school teacher. Garnering marked press and a cult audience, the album went on to be named one of Chicagoist's favorite local releases. Fast forward to 2012, and we have Vicari's followup Heart Explosion, fully funded through profits of tutoring math to 5th and 6th graders, and through a part-time Starbucks barista gig.
It's this humble sincerity, and workingman integrity that informs every track onHeart Explosion, along with twenty-something heartbreak and healing. "It was my first year out of college, and I didn't really have any idea what I was going to do next," says Vicari. "I had put a lot of hope and energy into jobs and relationships just to have them fall through, which was really discouraging. I was working all the time, so I was pretty tired. It was definitely the right environment to write a record like this one.
Utilizing guitar overdubs and recorded on tape, Heart Explosion comes alive with a verve and rawness absent from so much overproduced, alt-pop these days. "We bought 3 reels of 2 inch tape for $25 dollars per reel," recalls Vicari. That's absurdly cheap. Since our tape was old and used, it made the record sound a little rough and washed out, but it still has the power of tape. I'm really proud of the way everything came out."
Chicago transplant via Indiana, Sam Vicari writes simple and elegant guitar drive pop. "Heart Explosion" is the perfect track for the Freakin' Weekend, providing a nice soundtrack for a drive to the beach or lazy Sunday. Heart Explosion, which is due out later this summer, was entirely funded by Vicari via the tutoring of 5th & 6th graders while also working as a barista – a true passion project, which will hopefully lead to bigger and better things for the talented singer-songwriter.


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Seattle Emerges From Tolled Tunnel Unscathed
Promises of congestion and thousands of cars spilling on to quiet residential streets proved unfounded after the first week with tolls on the Highway 91 tunnel in Seattle.
November 14, 2019, 1pm PST | James Brasuell | @CasualBrasuell
Literally, cars exiting the Highway 99 tunnel in Seattle.
VDB Photos
On Saturday, November 9, drivers had their first encounter with a toll plaza charging money for passage through the Highway 99 tunnel, the closely monitored replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Jose Cortright checks-in with the Highway 99 project, finding predictions of "carmageddon" alarmist and immaterial. Cortright cites Google Map traffic conditions on a typical Tuesday as well as Tuesday, November 12, a few days after the tunnel opened, and finds free flowing traffic through both the tunnels and on surrounding streets.
Overall, if you compare these two pictures, it's pretty clear that today's traffic situation in downtown Seattle is much better than a typical day. Sure, Interstate 5, the freeway to the East of downtown Seattle is congested (as it is most late afternoon weekdays) But downtown Seattle streets, particularly on the west side of downtown are "green." or free flowing. Overall, there's a lot more "green" on Tuesday's traffic charts than on a typical day. In other words: no gridlock or Carmaggedon here.
This isn't the first time predictions of traffic doom followed the Highway 99 project—similar predictions proved untrue when the Alaska Way Viaduct close before the new tunnel opened. And, according to Cortright, the Seattle example is not the only very recent example of the same narrative. The new bus priority granted on 14th Street in Manhattan saw the same predictions of overflow traffic on quiet side streets with the same result: relatively calm and flowing traffic conditions.
Carmaggedon does a no-show in Seattle, again
Published on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 in City Observatory
Highway 99 Tunnel
Alaskan Way Viaduct
Tolled Roads


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Q: Custom google sheets function that auto updates when change is made wont change when others edit I have a custom function that auto updates when a change is made on the google spreadsheet, but when some other users edits the sheet the function doesn't work for them, how can i make it update for anyone that uses the sheet.
The function auto updates using this:
function onEdit(e) {
  SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange('Z1').setValue(Math.random());
}

Then passing the parameter of Z1.

A: Explanation:
Just a couple of notes to make sure we are on the same page.

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*This is not a custom function but an onEdit trigger function.

*As the name suggests it is triggered when user changes the value of any cell in a spreadsheet.

*The function is only triggered when the change of the cell is made by a user and not by formulas or scripts.
Potential Issues:

*

*Make sure the other users have edit permissions on the target cell. If they are not allowed to edit cell Z1 in the activeSheet which might be any sheet in the spreadsheet file, then the script won't work for them. You can either give them access, or make the script work only under particular sheets when you can give them access.

*Some users sometimes have experienced issues when tried to chain with active methods directly. See reference links here and here although I can't reproduce that issue, it might be the cause in your case.
Potential Solution:
Please take care of the first issue.
Regarding the second issue, modify your code as follows:
function onEdit(e) {
  const active_sheet = e.range.getSheet();
  active_sheet.getRange('Z1').setValue(Math.random());
}

This is anyway the recommended way to use an onEdit trigger as you should take advantage of the event object.

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Source: Text is extracted from the two versions of the novel.
Some people, reading about the origins of the triffids are puzzled by mention of Elovsk in Kamchatka as they often cannot find it in their copy of the novel. This is because there are actually two versions of the book in existence, the original and an Americanised version (as shown by the replacement of the British "tadpoles" with the North American "polliwogs" in chapter 2).
"So we must regard the task ahead as ours alone."
"So we must think of the task ahead as ours alone."
you unfortunately have the American version.
I say "unfortunately" because the differences are not simply a few word changes. There are several substantial sections of the novel which have been removed in that version for no other purpose, as far as I can see, than to shorten the novel. I can see no reason why the deeper original version cannot be restored now. Out of interest, the original is about 90,500 words and the American version 79,500, so you could be missing 12% of the novel.
"I felt that from the moment I woke. And yet, when I started functioning a little more smartly, I misgave."
"I felt that from the moment I woke. And yet, when I started functioning a little more smartly, I became doubtful."
So look for the "misgave".
Another confirmation is at the beginning of the fourth paragraph (of chapter 1). The full version says "Without a clock the place couldn't latch"; the US version says "Without a clock the place couldn't work".
At the bottom of the page, I give details on the (full) version that I possess and any others I hear about.
For the benefit of those with the abridged version, the major missing portions are set out below.
Red text indicates the common text before and after the excised portions.
The first person that Bill meets after leaving his room is a doctor called Soames who has also been struck blind. He gets Bill to lead him to his office on the fifth floor. There Soames tries to phone out but with no succcess; consequently he locates the window and throws himself through it.
It was difficult in that reverberating building to tell where the sounds were coming from, but one way the passage finished at an obscured french window, with the shadow of a balcony rail upon it, so I went the other. Rounding a corner, I found myself out of the private-room wing and on a broader corridor.
I opened the door. It was pretty dark in there. The curtains had evidently been drawn after the previous night's display was over – and they were still drawn.
A short passage on Bill's father's view of his future prospects.
And until I was thirteen or fourteen I would shake my head, conscious of my sad inadequacy, and admit that I did not know.
It was the appearance of the triffids which really decided the matter for us. Indeed, they did a lot more than that for me. They provided me with a job and comfortably supported me. They also on several occasions almost took my life.
This is one of the the largest and most important of the missing portions, a long explanation of how Umberto Palanguez, along with Nikolai Baltinoff and a man called Fedor arranged the theft of triffid seeds from a Soviet laboratory in Elovsk, Kamchatka.
The laws of supply and demand should have enabled the more enterprising to organise commodity monopolies, but the world at large had become antagonistic to declared monopolies. However, the laced-company system, however, really worked very smoothly without anything so imputable as Articles of Federation. The general public heard scarcely anything of such little difficulties within the pattern as had to be untangled from time to time. Hardly anyone heard of even the existence of one Umberto Christoforo Palanguez, for instance. I only heard of him myself years later in the course of my work.
Perhaps Umberto's plane exploded, perhaps it just fell to pieces. Whichever it was, I am sure that when the fragments began their long, long fall towards the sea they left behind them something which looked at first like a white vapour.
A passage detailing the time spent between Josella's capture by the man and Bill freeing her where he goes into a bar and gets into a fight with a blind group.
"All right," he said. "From now on you can do your seeing for me. I'm hungry. Take me where there's a bit of good grub. Get on with it."
"I think, Bill," she said, "that though you wouldn't have guessed it to look at him, he wasn't perhaps too bad a man really. Only he was frightened. Deep down inside him he was much more frightened than I was. He gave me some food and something to drink. He only started beating me like that because he was drunk and I wouldn't go into his house with him. I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't come along."
When Bill and Jo reach the University Tower and notice the crowd before it, they turn aside into Gower Street. There they park and make their way through a deserted house into the large communal gardens on the other side [which is actually the real Malet Street Gardens]. There, in the safety of the undergrowth, they watch the incident at the University.
"Steady," said Josella as we turned into the empty road. "I think there's something going on at the gates."
Whatever was going on was right at the front. We managed to find a slightly higher mound which gave us a view of the gates across the heads of the crowd.
After meeting Elspeth Cary, Bill and Josella reflect on how hard it is to accept that they world they know has gone forever, and whether society can recover.
Josella lay down, clasped her hands behind her head, and gazed up into the depths of the sky. When the helicopter's engine ceased, things sounded very much quieter than before we had heard it.
Bill examines his cell but finds little chance of escape. Alf returns with some food.
Alf went away, leaving me to my cogitations and a packet of his cigarettes. I surveyed the outlook and thought little of it. I wondered how the others would be taking it. Particularly what would be Josella's view.
When Alf reappeared with more food and the inevitable can of tea, he was accompanied by the man he had called Coker. He looked more tired now than when I had seen him before. Under his arm he carried a bundle of papers. He gave me a searching look.
While waiting in his cell, Bill ponders on which would be the best choice: to rebuild a new society like the University group or help the old like Coker.
After that I had simply my thoughts for company for a bit.
I knew I ought to make my mind up once and for all on the right course, and stick to it. But I could not. I see-sawed. Some hours later when I fell asleep I was still see-sawing.
Bill wanders the near-deserted streets of London, searching for Josella. A woman who had been in her group directs him to a hotel where he learns that Josella had also fled the plague.
Above it all rose the Houses of Parliament, with the hands of the clock stopped at three minutes past six. … So it would flow until the day the Embankments crumbled and the water spread out and Westminster became once more an island in a marsh.
I reckoned Josella would think the same – and there was a hope that some others of our dispersed party might have drifted back there in an effort to reunite. It was not a very strong hope, for common sense would have caused them to leave there days ago.
Details on how Beadley and Durrant's parties arrived at Tynsham and went their separate ways.
Of Josella, the girl could tell me nothing. Clearly she had never heard the name before, and my attempts at description roused no recollections.
Coker explains how women could previously allow men to handle many things that they must now learn to deal with themselves.
"I don't see why you need to pour all your contempt for women onto me – just because of one dirty old engine," she said peevishly.
A couple of paragraphs where Coker berates the woman for her attitude.
"Listen," said Coker patiently. "If you have a baby, do you want him to grow up to be a savage or a civilised man?"
Bill and Coker continue to discuss how to get the reluctant community to accept new ideas.
"You'd expect her to see reason," he muttered.
"Most people don't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else…."
Coker inspects the arrangements at Tynsham and begins to reorganise it.
Coker reappeared again at the midday meal.
He had found most of the men to be plunged in gloom by a well-meant assurance from the vicar….
As Bill and Coker drive through the countryside, Bill reflects on the preponderance of the triffids and the difficulties with recreating a society with them around.
"Another coincidence? Or were they coming to see what had happened to their pal?" asked Coker.
With only two more stops, one for food and the other for fuel, we made good time, and ran into Beaminster about half past four in the afternoon.
A resume of how the three survivors had escaped the comet and its aftermath.
I was feeling wilted and dry after some hours in the driving cab with the sun on it. … Then it was their turn.
They were an oddly assorted trio. The fair-haired man turned out to be a member of the Stock Exchange by the name of Stephen Brennell.
Coker arrives back with Mrs Forcett, the owner of a store who had slept through the comet and turns out to be a good cook.
Another half hour or so passed, and then Coker arrived.
Back in Charcott Old House that evening we gathered again around the map.
Talking to Stephen, Coker explains why a large settlement creates leisure time and the chance to learn.
"Now," he went on, "from my reading of history, the thing you have to have to use knowledge is leisure. … it was the labour of the countryside that supported them."
"Well?" said Stephen after a pause.
A short paragraph about Dennis and Mary's intentions with Shirning before the comet.
Not that I didn't from the start prefer Shirning to the thought of Tynsham – yet to join a larger group was … But the sheds and barns remained in good condition.
On Bill's tours of the countryside, he notices that there are very few animals or people.
My first tentative trip there I took alone, returning with cases of triffid-bolts, paper, engine parts, … It upset her, and it remained the only visit she made.
It was at the end of the fourth year that I made my last trip, and found that there were now risks which I was not justified in taking.
Josella frowned down on a group of four triffids ambling across a field below us.
"If I were a child now," she said reflectively, "I think I should want a reason of some kind….
A short piece where Bill talks about the portentous view of comets in the past.
"Are you trying to tell me that you don't think it was a comet at all?"
Bill and Josella ponder on the randomness of life, why they happened to be the ones to survive.
"Poor little things," she said, as if she were gazing down rows of increasingly great-grandchildren, "it's not much that we're offering them, is it?"
We sat there a little longer, looking at the empty sea, and then drove down to the little town.
If you have another version that is unabridged, please contact me with the details and which cover it has (see this link for examples) and I will add it here.