Hon'ble MP Ram Chandra Paswan paying homage to Adi Shankaracharya.
Shri Kushal Chowdhury Trustee Lokemata Rani Rashmoni Foundation receiving award from Sri D.N. Sahay Hon'ble Governor of Tripura.
Prof.Dr Karunasindhu Das Vice –Chancellor Rabindra Bharati University receiving Rabindra Nath Tagore Award for H.H 1008 Soham Baba Mahamandaleswar of Juna Akhra.
Dr. Suresh Prasad Singh, Vice Chancellor, Vir Kunwar Singh University,Arrah, Bihar delivering his speech.
Speech by Prof. Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Hon'ble Chairman- I.I.O.H.
Speech by Prof. Dr. Satya Narayan Chakraborty, Hon'ble Chancellor-I.I.O.H.
Dr. Gopa Sastri President of the Institute presenting Ganapati Memnto to Shri Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury. Hon'ble minister of State Govt of India.
Mr. Sivaprasad Kodakkal of Shimoga, Karnataka receiving Gem of Asia Award from Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri and Dr. Satyanarayan Chakraborty.
Prof. A.K. Singh Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalor, receiving- Rashtriya Gaurav Award.
Speech by Prof. Dr. Gopa sastri, Honble President- I.I.O.H.
Ms. Francoise Courty Dan from LA, USA receiving Honorary Doctorate degree by I.I.O.H.
Speech by Prof. Dr. Amal Krishna Sastri, Hon'ble Secretary, I.I.O.H.
Dr. Sarup Singh Alag receives Saint Mother Teresa Excellence Award.
Delegates from South East Asian Countries such as Hong Kong, Thiland and Myanmar.
Dr RamKrishna Sastri Chairman of the Institute offering Award to Prof.B.Bhattacharya Vice –Chancellor Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi.
Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Chairman of the Institute Institute presenting Ganapati Memnto to Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh Hon'ble Governor of Sikim.
Justice Shri Shyamal Kr. Sen Former Governor of west Bengal inaugurating the Conference.
International delegates in rapt attention into the precious discourses.
Prof. (Dr.) Ram Krishna Sastri,Project, delivering speech.
His Excellency Lt. Gen M.M. Lakhera, the Governor of Mizoram delivering his speechin the international Conference.
His Excellency Shri S.C. Jamir,the Govornor of Goa delivering his speech in the international conference.
Mr. Justice Arunava Barua of High Court, Calcutta delivering speech.
Shri Sovandeb Chattapadhyay M.L.A.(West Bengal) delivering his speech.
Shri Tapan Sikder,former Minister of State for Communication.Govt. of India speaking.
Prof. Dr. Radheshyam Brahmachari,Head of the Department of Applied Physics,Science College,University of Calcutta speaking.
Prof. (Dr.) Subir Saha, Vice-Chancellor, School of Planning & Architecture,New Delhi,addressing the conference.
Prof. D. Ramchandram, Vice-Chancellor,B.R. Ambedker University, Hyderabad addressing the International Conference.
Dr. Gaur Kishore Bhaduri, Secretary,Sanskrit Siksha Parishad, Govt. of West Bengal delivering his speech.
Dr. Manabendu Bandyopadhyay,President, Sanskrit Siksha Parishad,Govt. of West Bengal delivering his speech.
Prof. Nalinikanta Tarkatirtha (Rastrapati Awardee, delivering his speech.
Prof. Shyamal Kr. Bhattacharjee,Controller of Examinations, Viswa Jyotish Vidyapith delivering his speech.
Prof. Shyamapada Nayatarkatirtha,Head oh the department of Philosophy of Calcutta University is delivering his speech.
Swami Sanatananandaji, Secretary,Baranagar Ram Krishna Mission presenting his valuable speech.
Prof. Ashok Kr. Panchatirtha a renouned author delivering his speech.
His Holiness Ranga Thakur, Founder,Amrita Sangha Ashram delivering his spiritual speech.
Dr. Lokraj Poudel, the legendary astrologer and scholar of Nepal delivering his speech.
Mr. G. M. Gunapala, the highly distinguished astro-scholar from Srilanka delivering his speech.
Mr. U. Saya Dagon, a reputed astro-scholar of Maynamar addressing the International Conference.
Ms Onozawa Miyako, the most charismatic personality of Japan addressing the International Conference.
Ms Teresa Chen (China) addressing the International Conference.
Dr. N.N. Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Birsha Agricultural University Addressing the International Conference.
Dr. Lokesh Kumar Shekhawat, Vice-Chancellor, Jai Narain Vyas University(Jodhpur,Rajasthan)delivering speech.
Swami Sarbapriyananda, Registrat, Ram Krishna Mission Vivekananda University speaking.
Shri Arun Kumar Bansal, Editor, Future Samachar, New Delhi speaking.
Hari Maharaj of Ram Krishna Vivekananda Math delivering speech.
Swami Jitatmanandaji, Secretary, Ram Krishna Mission, Swami Vivekananda"s ancestral house speaking.
Smt. Abha Bansal, Secretary, Future Point, New Delhi delivering her speech.
Prof. Dr. Radhakanta Thakur, Head of the Department of Jyotish, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapith, Tirupati speaking.
Prof. Dr. Arati Mukhopadhyay of Jadavpur University delivering her speech.
Prof. Dr. Gaur Mohan Mukherjee, a distingushed educationist and author addressing the Conference.
Prof. Dr. Satya Narayan Chakraborty Head of the Department of Sanskrit, Rabindra Bharati University addressing the Conference.
Prof. Dr. Jayanta Chakraborty of Viswa Jyotish Vidyapith speaking in the International Conference.
Dr. Gangadhar Panda, Head of the Department of Puran, Sampurananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi addressing the International Conference.
Dr. Amal Krishna Sastri, Vice-President, Indian Institute of Oriental Heritage delivering his speech.
Dr. D.D. Panse, a renouned astro-scholar and author addressing the Conference.
Prof. Dr. Rabindra Nath Das Sastri,Principal, Tripura Sanskrit College delivering his speech.
Shri Pannalal Mukhopadhyay, Secretary, India Chapter, Asian Astrologers Congress delivering his speech.
Dr. S.G. Maity, the highly reputed physican addressing the Conference.
Dr. Manendra Pratap Singh (Madhya Pradesh), a reputed astro-scholar addressing the Conference.
Prof. Dr. Manjurul Ahasan, Principal, Balgladesh Chapter of Viswa Jyotish Vidyapith speaking at the International Conference.
Mrs. Sramika Ghosh a well-known astro-scholar of Canada, speaking.
His Excellency the Govornor of Mizoram Mr. Amolak Rattan Kohli inaugurating the International Conference.
Address by His Excellency the Govornor of Tripura Mr. D. N. Sahay.
Prof. Dr. Ayan Bhattacharjee, a highly reputed scholar addressing the International Conference.
Dr. Anil Singh Deonanon of Mauritius speaking in International Conference.
Mrs. Nilabhu Jayalakshmi of U.S.A. addressing the Conference.
Prof. Champak Bhai Patel of U.S.A. speaking in the International Conference.
Mr. Justice Murari Mohan Dutta, Supreme Court of India(Retd.) addressing the International Conference.
Shri Ajit Kr. Panja, former Union Minister speaking at the International Conference.
Dr. B.V. Raman, editor, The Astrological Magazine addressing the International Conference.
Mr. Justice Sudhangshu Shekhar Ganguly of High Court, Calcutta speaking at the International Conference.
Prof. Dr. Heramba Chattapadhyay, the Globally reputed Educationist & Sanskrit Scholar speaking at the International Conference.
Dr. Shankar Mukhopadhyay, Treasurer of Astrological Research Project delivering his speech.
Mr. Saral Deb, former Minister of West Bengal speaking at the International Conference.
Prof. Dr. Gopal Ch. Banerjee, former Controller of Examinations of Calcutta University speaking at the International Conference.
Prof. Dr. Nikhilesh Bhattacharjee Sastri addressing the International Conference.
Mrs. Sardaben(Gujarat) speaking at the International Conference.
Pdt. Harinarayan Vedtirtha, Head of the Department of Vedas, Sanskrit College addressing the International Conference.
Prof. Dr. Shib Sankar Sastri, Superintendent of Viswa Jyotish Vidyapith North Bengal Campus addressing the International Conference.
Dr. Nimai Banerjee, Editor, Planets and Forecast, Orissa speaking.
Dr. Suresh Prasad Singh, Vice Chancellor, Vir Kunwar Singh University, Arrah, Bihar delivering his speech.
Dr. Gopalji Trivedi, Vice Chancellor, Rajendra Agricultural University, Bihar delivering his speech.
Dr. A. K. Dube Padmesh, a versatile astro-scholar speaking.
Dr. Bindheswar Pathak, a legendary social worker delivering speech.
Prof. Dr. Shib Sankar Sastri, Superintendent of Viswa Jyotish Vidyapith, North Bengal Campus addressing the International Conference.
Jagatacharya Chandra Swami Maharaj speaking in the International Conference.
Prof. Shyama Prasad Bhattacharjee (Bangladesh) addressing the International Conference.
Mr. Amil Baba Majid Khan (Maharastra) addressing the International Conference.
His holiners 1008 Shri Soham Baba Maha mandaleswar of Jona Akhara inaugurating the conference.
H.E. Sri B. L. Joshi Governor of Uttar Pradesh Garlanding the portrait of Maa Saradamoni.
Dr. Gopal Krishna Sastru (Assam) is receiving Life Achievement Award from Mahamahopadhyay Murari Mohan Vedantaditirtha Sasyri.
Jagatacharya Chandra SwamiMaharaj receiving Bharat Mata Award.
Dr. Vijoy Chopra (Chandra) is honoured with Global Excellence Award by Prof. Dr. ramaranjan Mukhopadhyay,Chancellor,Viswa Jyotish Vidyapith.
Dr. rammurthi, V.C., Sampurnananda University presenting Life Achievement Award to Mahamahopadhyay Murari Mohan Vedantaditirtha Sastri.
Prof. Dr. Ram Krishna Sastri , President, A.R.P. is seen with two Award-winning foreign astro-scholars.
H.E. Shri Amalok Rattan Kholi, Governor of Mizoram Confers Bandemataram Award to Dr. Raghunandan.
H.E. Dr D. Y. Patil, Hon'ble Governor of Tripura delivering his speech.
Shri Sriram Ranjan Bhattacharjee (Rastrapati Awardee) is honoured with "Vidyasagar Award".
Releasing the book Dr. D.Y. Patil Governor of Tripura.
Prof. Dr. Ramakrishna Sastri confers Bandemataram Award to Jainmuni Charukriti Maharaj.
Shri Anil Singh Deonanon (Mauritus) is honoured with Vidya Sagar award by H.E. the Governor of J & K.
H.E. Smt Margaret Alva Hon'ble Govrnor of uttarakhand inaugurating the 35th conference.
Dr. Gopalji Trivedi, Vice-Chancellor, Rajendra Agricultural University is presenting Global Excellence Award to Dr. V.T. Patil, V.C., Pondicherry University.
H.E. Sri S.C. Jamir, Hon'ble Governor of Goa Inaugrated the Conference.
Shri Pannalal Mukhopadhyay is honoured with Life Achievement Award.
His Excellency Shri S. C. Jamir, the Hon'ble Governor of Goa is honouring Acharya Dr. Ramaranjan Mukhopadhyay with the title of Viswa Vidyacharya.
His Excellency Shri S. C. Jamir, the Hon'ble Governor of Goa confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. Lokesh Kr. Shekhawat Vice-Chancellor of Jai Narayan Vyas University (Rajasthan).
Prof. Dr. Ram Jiban Acharya, a lecturer of Calcutta University speaking in the International Conference.
His Excellency Lt. Gen. M. M. Lakhera, Hon'ble Governor of Mizoram confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. C. R. Hazra, Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, Chattisgarh.
Pragnabharati Prof. Dr. Dhyanesh Narayan Chakrabarti, Vedavidya, Govt. of India speaking in the International Conference.
His Excellency Shri S. C. Jamir, the Hon'ble Governor of Goa confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. Saroja Prabhakaran, Vice-Chancellor of Abhinashilingam Women University.
Prof. Dr. Ayan Tung Tang Paw (Malaysia) speaking in the International Conference.
Mr. Ajit Yogi, former Chief Minister of Chattisgarh, addressing the Conference.
His Excellency Shri S. C. Jamir, the Hon'ble Governor of Goa confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. Tarun Praharaj, a legendary physician of Kolkata.
Shri Taraknath Banerjee M.L.A. (West Bengal) speaking.
Swami Sanatananandaji, Secretary, Baranagar R. K. Mission confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. Manabendu Bandyopadhyay, President, Sangskrita Siksha Parishad.
Dr. Govinda Ch. Saha a renouned physician and astro-scholar speaking in the International Conference.
His Excellency Lt. Gen. M. M. Lakhera, Governor of Mizoram confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Prof. Ashoke Kr. Panchatirtha.
Dr. Puspa Jha, a distinguished scholar and educationist of Jabbalpore speaking in the International Conference.
Prof. Dr. R. K. Sastri, President, Astrological Research Project confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. Bindheswar Pathak, a highly reputed social worker.
Prof. Dr. Adil Safi, the most charismatic and globally honoured scientist of Abudhabi, Soudi Arabia speaking in the International Conference.
H.E. Lt. Gen. M. M. Lakhera, Hon'ble Governor of Mizoram confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. K. Rajagopalan, V.C., Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.
Dr. Narmadeshwar Jha, Principal, Jharkhand Sanskrit College, addressing the Conference.
H.E. Lt. Gen. M. M. Lakhera, Hon'ble Governor of Mizoram confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Mr. Tarun Prasad Chatterjee, former Minister of Chattisgarh.
Mrs. A. Gerherdt (Germany) addressing the International Conference.
Prof. Dr. Ram Krishna Sastri, President, Astrological Research Project, confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Swami Sanatanananda, Secretary, Ram Krishna Mission, Baranagar.
Prof. K.L. Kamal, Vice-Chancellor, Rajasthan University speaking in the International Conference.
H.E. Shri S. C. Jamir, Hon'ble Governor of Goa confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Shri Arun Bansal, Editor, Future Samachar, New Delhi.
Shri Govind Prasad Kusum, Consul General of Nepal in Kolkata speaking.
Prof. Dr. Ram Krishna Sastri, President, Astrological Research Project confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Swami Jitatmanandaji, Secretary, R. K. Mission Swamiji's Ancestral House.
Mr. Justice Bhagabati Prasad Banerjee of High Court, Calcutta speaking in the International Conference.
Swami Sanatanananda, Secretary, Ram Krishna Mission, Baranagar confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Shri K. A. Dube Padmesh, a famous astrologer-scholar.
Prof. Dilip Kr. Das Choudhury, Principal Srihatta Sanskrit College (Bangladesh) and Advocate, Bangladesh Supreme Court speaking.
Mahamahopadhyay Murari Mohan Vedantaditirtha Sastri honours Shri Hari Maharaj with Swami Vivekananda Award.
Mr. Udo Rudloph, the magnetic astro-personality of Germany addressing the International Conference.
Swami Sanatananandaji, Secretary, R. K. Mission Baranagar confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. S. C. Maity, a renowned physician.
His Excellency the Governor of J&K, Lt. Gen. S. K. Sinha delivering his speech.
H.E. Shri S.C. Jamir, Hon'ble Governor of Goa confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Swami Sarbapriyanandaji Maharaj, Registrar of R. K. Mission Vivekananda University, Belurmath.
His Excellency Shri S. C. Jamir, the Hon'ble Governor of Goa is honouring Mahamohopadhyay Murari Mohan Vedantaditirtha Sastri with the title of Jyotish Mandaleswar.
His Excellency Lt. Gen. M. M. Lakhera, Hon'ble Governor of Mizoram confers Swami Vivekananda Award to Dr. Gour Mohan Mukhopadhyay.
Eminent Educationist Dr. Gourmohan Mukhopadhyay receiving the 'Bharat Mata' award from Prof. E. Balaguswami.
Prof. Dr. Ram Krishna Sastri, President, Astrological Research Project confers Vidya Sagar Award to Shri E. Balaguruswamy, V.C. Anna Technological University, Chennai.
H.E. Shri D. N. Sahay, Hon'ble Governor of Tripura, Conferring 'Dr. Meghnad Saha' Award to Ms. A Gerhard.
Dr. R. K. Rammurthi, Vice Chancellor, Sampurnananda University confers 'Vidyasagar Award' to Mrs. Dolma Ajurin (Mongolia).
His Excellency the Governor of Tripura, Shri D. N. Sahay is receiving the 'Bharat Mata' award.
Dr. Govinda Chandra Saha receiving the 'Bharat Mata' award from Shri E. Balaguruswami, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, Tamilnadu.
Eminent Novelist Shri Shirsendu Mukherjee receiving the 'Bharat Mata' award from Prof. E. Balaguswami.
Eminent Educationist Prof. Dr. Narayan Bhattacharya receiving the 'Bharat Mata' award from Prof. E. Balaguswami, V.C., Anna University, Tamilnadu.
Ms. Garhard receiving 'Dr. Meghnad Saha' Award from H.E. Shri D. N. Sahay, Hon'ble Governor of Tripura.
Acharya Dr. Rama Ranjan Mukherji is felicitated by Prof. Smt. Gopa Sastri.
Dr. Manoj Mitra is conferred upon Vidya Sagar Award by His Excellency the Governor of J & K.
Renowned painter Suva Prasanna is offered Vidya Sagar Award by H.E. the Governor of J & K.
H. E. Shri D. N. Sahay, the Governor of Tripura is offered Swami Vivekananda Award by Dr. R. K. Sastri.
Prof. Dr. Suresh Prasad Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Vir Kunwar Singh Univ. receiving Vidya Sagar Award.
Prof. Dr. Subir Saha, Vice-Chancellor, School of Architecture, New Delhi receiving Vidya Sagar Award.
H. E. Lt. Gen.(Retd.) S. K. Sinha, Governor of J & K is offered Swami Vivekananda Award.
Prof. Dr. A. K. Kalia, Vice-Chancellor, Sampurnananda Univ. receiving Vidya Sagar Award from H.E. the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir.
Prof. Sukomal Choudhury receiving Vidya Sagar Award from H.E. Lt. Gen S. K. Sinha, Hon'ble Governor of J & K.
Dr. Nimai Banerjee, receiving Vidya Sagar Award from H.E. Lt. Gen S. K. Sinha, Hon'ble Governor of J & K.
Dr. Dipak Kr. Barua receiving Vidya Sagar Award from H.E. Lt. Gen (Retd.) S. K. Sinha, Hon'ble Governor of Jammu & Kashmir.
Dr. Nalini Kanta Tarkatirtha receiving Vidya Sagar Award from H.E. Lt. Gen (Retd.) S. K. Sinha, Hon'ble Governor of Jammu & Kashmir.
Renowned Film Celebrity Saumitra Chatterjee receiving Vidyasagar Award from E. Balaguru Swami, V.C., Anna University, Tamilnadu.
Prof. Dr. Balaguru Swamy, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University (Tamilnadu), receiving Vidya Sagar Award.
Prof. Sitaram Chakraborty is taking a class of IIOH.
Prof. rebarani Halder deals with some interesting texts of krishnamurthy paddhati.
Prof. Shyamal Bhattacharjee is taking a class.
Prof. Sisir Bhattacharjee is explaning to the students .
prof. Amit Thunder is discussing some pertinent points of Oriental Heritage.
Prof. Rathin Mullick is discussing some salient clues.
Prof. Manindra Acharya is taking a class of IIOH.
Prof. Gopa Sastri is explaining some vital concepts.
Prof. Jayanta Chakrabarty is taking a class of IIOH.
Prof Bagala Ranjan Misra is taking class of IIOH.
Prof. Tapan Kr. Dey teaching the students of IIOH some important lessons on Oriental Heritage.
Sri Sovondeb Chattopdhyay Ho'ble Minister Delivering Lecture.
Dr. U. Dagon, Delegate from Myanmar delivering lecture in conference.
A section of dignitaries on the dias.
Subrata Mukherjee Hon'ble Minister Delivering lecture.
A Section of Dignitaries on the dias in conference.
Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Chairman of the Institute Presenting Ganesha Memento to Justice Bhagabati Prashad Bandyopadhyay High Court Calcutta.
Former Minister Sri Tapan Sikder presenting Award to Sri Pradip Ghosh.
Distinguished Guests Standing on the dias.
Prof Pradip Narayan Ghosh Vice-chancellor Jadavpur University Receiving Rabindra Nath Tagore Award from Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh Hon'ble Governor of Sikim.
Sri Subrata Mukharjee Hon'ble Minister Delivering lecture.
Dr.Tanushree Dubey delegate from Thailand delivering lecture in conference.
Forign delegates with Sr. Ramkrishna Sastri in conference.
Sri Sadhan Pande Hon'ble Minister in –charge Consumer Affairs, Gov of WB delivering lecture in conference.
Renowned Personalities on the dias in conference.
Former minister Sri Tpan Sikder presenting Award to Amrik Singh Arora.
Dr. Sanjukta Das , Principal Sanskrit College delivering lecture in conference.
Mr Steven Monat delegate from New York delivering lecture in conference.
Sri Sudip Srimal Executive Director, Nehru Children Museum delivering lecture in conference.
A Section Srilanka delegates in Conference.
Lt. Gen Shri S.K Sinha Hon'ble Governor of J&K Presenting Award to Smt Renu Jain.
Mr.U. Tum Lin delegate from Myanmar delivering lecture in conference.
A Section of Dignitaries Standing on the dias in conference.
Smt Ching Sung delegate from china delivering spcech in conference.
Dr Gopa Dutta, Vice.chancellor Gourbanga University delivering lecture in conference.
Mr Morice Zhiarav Delegate from German delivering lecture in conference.
Mr Georgi Georgiev delegate from Bulgaria delivering lecture in conference.
Dr Ayan Tung Tang Pow of Malayasia deliveling his speceh in conferenc.
Dr K. Sin Sumedha Thero Asst Secretary ,Mahabodhi Society delivering lecture in conference.
Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Chairman- I.I.O.H. is honoring Prof. P.B. Sharma, VC- Amity University, Gurgaon iwth "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education EXcellence Award.
Internationally reputed Surgeon Dr Hajimi Fukuzwa from Japan delivering lecture in conference.
Mrs. Nunziz Coppola from Italy receives "Global Outstanding Astrologer Award"
Miss Vrinda Singhal an young and exceptional talent receiving 'Rising Star of Asia Award"
Mr Dominic Ngumbau Nmthenge delegate from Keneya delivering lecture in conference.
Ms. Susie Cox, USA delivering her speech.
Guests from USA- Ms. Sasha Lee (left) and Ms. Susie Cox.
Shri Saroj Kumar Mitra, recipient of Hon'ry Doctor of Oriental Learning delivers speech.
Famous Novelist Sm. Nabanita DebSen Receiving Bharat Mata Award from Minister Sri Tapan Sikder.
Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Chairman- Indian Institute of Oriental Heritage is being honored according to Karnataka tradition by Dr. K.N. Dixith of Bangalore and his assocoates.
Ms. Patrizia Nava from Italy receives "Global Outstanding Astrologer Award"
Sri Aruhabha Barua Hon'ble Justice High Court Calcutta delivering lecture in Annual Conference.
Prof. Dr. P.N. Razdan, VC, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapith is receiving "Dr. S Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award"
Prof. Babu Sebastian receives "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award"
Legendary Footballer Sri P.K Banerjee receiving Receiving Bharat Mata Award from Minister Sri Tapan Sikder.
Prof. R. K. Gupta, VC - Maharaj Agrasen University receiving "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award"
Thomas delegate from Italy delivering lecture in conference.
Dr. G. Bhashkaran, VC- Tamil University receiving "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award"
Dr Sanjukta Das Principal Sanskrit College receiving Bharat Mata Award from Smt Margaret Alva, Hon'ble Governor of Uttarakhand.
Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, VC-Jawaharlal Nehru University, receiving "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award" receiving "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award".
Dr. Nilavu Jaya Lakshmi delegate from U.S.A Delivering lecture in Conference.
Prof. R.C. Srivastava, VC, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University receiving "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award"
Prof. Tankeshwar kumar, VC- Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology receives Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award.
Ms Barbara delegate from Germany delivering lecture in conference.
Prof. P.N. Shastry, VC- Rashtriya Sanskrit Sanstha receives Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award.
Dr. Gopa Dutta Vice-chancellor Gourbanga University receiving Bharat-Mata Award from Smt Margaret Alva, hon'ble governor Uttarakhand.
Prof. Dr. Suresh Prasad Singh, VC- Himalayan University receives Bharat Gaurav Award.
Legendary Actress Smt Munmun Sen Receiving Bharat Mata Award from Dr Ramaranyan Mukhopadhyay chancellor of the institute.
Prof. (Dr.) Manoranjan Prasad Sinha , VC- S.K.M. University receiving "Dr. S Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award"
Dr Pratik Mishra Puri delegate from Hardwar delivering lecture in conference.
Dr. Mridul Hazarika, VC- Gauhati University delivers speech after receiving Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award.
Dr. Gopa Sastri President of the Institute presenting flower bouquet to Brahmachari Mural Bhai secretary Dakshineswar Ramakrishna Sangha Adyapith.
Dr Gopa Sastri , President of the Institite Presenting flower bouquet to Lt.Gen Shri S.K.Sinha, Hon'ble Governor of Jammu & Kashmir.
Sri Ram Chandra Paswan, Hon'ble M.P. is being felicitated by Dr. Amal Krishna Sastri, Secretary- Indian Institute of Oriental Heritage along with the Chairman of the institute Prof. Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri.
Ms Gabriela delegate from Switzerland delivering lecture in conference.
Shri Ashok Singhal Vishwa Hindu Parishad inaugurating the 36th Annual Conference.
Prof. Dr. Motilal Anand Vaishnavi receiving" Bharat Gaurav Award"
Famous Singer Smt Shampa Kundu Receiving Bharat Mata Award from Hon'ble Minister Sri Tapan Sikder.
Dr. Neelkanth Vinayak Kulkarni of Pune receives "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award"
Ms Martina Hartenstinar delegate from Austriya delivering lecture in conference.
Shri Asok Singhal Vishwa Hindu Parishad Delivering his Spech in 36th Conference.
Shri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Hon'ble Governor of Odisha inauguratiag the 36th Annual Conference.
Prof Dr Jayanta Chakraborty honoured with Uttariya to Sri Mukul Roy hon'ble central minister of State for shippping & transport , Govt. of India.
Dr. S.K. Sharma, Principal- Greenfields Public School receiving Global Achievers Award.
Shri Abu Hasem Khan Choudhary hon'ble Minister of State for Health & Family welfare inaugurating the 36th Annual Conference.
Dr. Asha Sharma from Himachal Pradesh is being honored with Lifetime Achievement Award"
Smt Margaret Alva Hon'ble Governor of Uttarakhand presenting flower bouquet to sri Sadhan Pande hon'ble Minister of Consume Affairs, Govt of W.B.
Dr. Gopa Sastri President of the Institute presenting flower bouquet to Shri Nikhil Kumar Hon'ble Governor of Nagaland.
Prof Dr. Gopa Sastri presenting flower bouquet to Shri R.S. Mooshary Hon'ble Governor of Meghalaya.
Dr Manabendu Bannerjee , Secretary Asiatic Society receiving Lord Ganapati Award from Dr D.Y. Patil. Governor of Tripura.
Dr. Gopa Sastri President of the Institute presenting flower bouquet to Sri Saugata Roy Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Urban Development.
Md. Mustafizur Rahman Dy. High Commisiner of Bangladesh receiving Ganapati Memnto from Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Chairman of the Institute.
A section of dignitaries standing on the dias.
Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Chairman of the Institute presenting Ganesha Murti to Shri Ashok Singhal. Vishuwa Hindu Parishad.
Dr. Gopa Sastri President of the Institute presenting Durga Murti to Shri Murlidhar chandrakant Bhandare hon'ble Governor of Orisha.
Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri, Chairman of the Institute Honouring to Dr D.Y. Patil Hon'ble Governor of Tripura.
Dr Amal Krishna Sastri Secretary of the Institute Presenting Flower Bouquet to sri Sadhan Pande hon'ble Minister of Consumer Affairs, Govt of W.B.
Shri Murlidhar chandrakant Bhandare hon'ble Governor of Orisha releasing the book "Peethmala Mahatantram" written by Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri.
Miss Rashmita Sastri presenting Flower Bouquet to Shri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Hon'ble Governor of Orisha.
Dr. Ramkrishna Sastri presenting Ganapati Memnto to Smt Margaret Alva Hon'ble Governor of Uttarakhand.


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Feraco Humbly Answers Hall of Fame Call with Thanks and Praise
Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 7:39 am
Mark Meyer
Amid the backslaps, high-fives and congratulatory shout-outs at the East Lansing High School football banquet, Bill Feraco (above) called timeout for a short, but important message.
In his pre-awards delivery, the 71-year-old Feraco spoke with the wisdom and knowledge of someone who has spent a majority of his lifetime sharing pages from his playbook with men, young and old, from all walks of life.
"The game of football, at its core, will prepare you as well as anything for the rest of your life," Feraco said to the hushed audience in the Trojan cafeteria. "Belonging to something greater than yourself and working toward a collaborative goal – it's not all about you."
"Football is that special scholastic sport that teaches you about the physical preparation that is needed to play it well. There are no guarantees. If you don't prepare, you don't stand a chance to succeed."
Feraco admittedly was not prepared when he received notice late last week of his pending induction to the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association (MHSFCA) Hall of Fame, which will take place March 9 at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Lansing. The 37th annual banquet and induction honors those nominees who have 100 or more victories as a varsity head coach or 20 years as a high school football coach in Michigan.
Former Spartan from Western Pennsylvania returns to East Lansing
A native of western Pennsylvania, Feraco was raised in the town of Irwin, some 15 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. He arrived in East Lansing in the fall of 1965, having graduated from Greensburg Central Catholic High School. He was a member of the Michigan State University football team for three years and was the starting quarterback in 1968, his senior season. He graduated in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in advertising.
Since then Feraco has coached high school football at Hempfield Area (Pa.), Eaton Rapids, Lansing Catholic, his prep alma mater and – for the past 19 years, 15 years as head coach – at East Lansing. His predecessor, Jeff Smith, is one of the founding members of the MHSFCA. Feraco served as an assistant coach under Smith for four years before being named head coach prior to the 2004 season.
"My time at East Lansing has been very rewarding," said Feraco, who earned a master's degree in English Education from MSU in 1989, and who continues to teach English at ELHS. "I've been fortunate to have been surrounded by outstanding assistant coaches, as well as parents who time and again have done so much for this program to help me and their kids."
"I've also been blessed over the years to have the support of administrators like (former East Lansing superintendent) Dave Chapin, (former ELHS principal) Paula Steele and (former ELHS athletic director) Tom Hunt. There were times when the waters became a bit choppy, but their support never wavered. To me, that has meant a lot."
Feraco's first two varsity teams won three of 18 games. Since then the Trojans have compiled a mark of 83-51, including back-to-back nine-win seasons over the past two years. The 2018 team tied a school record for most wins (8) in the regular season.
Preparation is the name of his game
Kerry Keyton has been on both sides of the field with Feraco. A former head football coach at Eastern High School as well as an assistant at Everett, Keyton knew his teams had to be well-prepared in order to compete successfully against Feraco's Trojans. If they were not, he knew what the result would be.
"Bill does everything that we tried to do," Keyton said. "Nobody, and I mean nobody, prepares a team the way Bill does. The way he puts together his practices, his game plans – absolutely meticulous.
"And though they may not know it, the kids are the ones who will benefit in the long run because he (Feraco) provides an opportunity for them to get better – because of the preparation."
Efe Scott-Emuakpour (above) played three years of varsity football at East Lansing, and four more at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., and is now an assistant coach on Feraco's staff.
"Coach preaches concepts that sometimes a high school player doesn't always grasp," Scott-Emuakpor said, "but they will, eventually, if they want to play at the next level.
"Believe me, I found out quickly when I arrived on (Ball State's) campus. His emphasis on perseverance and resiliency helped me achieve things on the football field that I didn't think would be possible. I would have been lost without the structure and coaching I received (at East Lansing)."
Feraco has coached and mentored a roster full of professional, collegiate, all-conference, all-area and all-state football players but there is one who clearly stands out.
"Blake Treadwell, and here's why," Feraco said of Treadwell, a first-team Associated Press All-State selection as a senior who was voted team captain on the 2013 Big Ten and Rose Bowl Championship team at Michigan State. "The good athlete helps the guy next to him. The very good athlete helps those who play a similar position or who are positioned close to him on the field.
"The great ones, and they are rare, made everyone around them better … because of the way they played and the way they treated their teammates. That was Blake. He was special."
The Feraco coaching tree has grown at East Lansing to include Bill's sons, Gianni and Joe, both of whom are Trojan graduates. Gianni, defensive coordinator for the varsity, has been a member of the football staff for the past nine seasons. Joe, who coaches the freshmen, has been with the program for the past five years.
Gianni has seen first-hand the time and attention his father devotes to the game and the people around him.
"He's constantly studying, trying to stay ahead of the curve," Gianni said. "I caught a glimpse in my first training camp with him as a coach, of just how prepared he is. He loves what he's doing and he puts everything he has into it. Seeing that now on a regular basis has made me want to achieve the same. He has that effect on people."
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A ruling from a state appeals court has reopened a case prompted because a Muslim woman wanted to use a Quran – a book that an expert on Islam says allows Muslims to lie under compulsion – on which to swear her oath of honesty in a court hearing.
The lawsuit was filed by Sydiah Mateen with help from the American Civil Liberties Union in 2005 after she was denied permission to use a Quran to take the courtroom oath in a case in North Carolina.
Requirements vary from state to state, but North Carolina requires an oath either with a hand on the "Holy Scriptures" or by swearing by God they are telling the truth.
But the lawsuit seeks to expand the state's existing definition of "Holy Scripture," which was changed from "Gospels" about 20 years ago, to include the Islamic writings.
Without taking a position on the merits of the case, the state Court of Appeals said the dispute should be resolved in the courtroom.
Superior Court Judge Donald L. Smith had dismissed the claim a few months after its filing, saying there was no dispute to resolve because the testimony from Mateen was finished.
But Jennifer Rudinger, who heads the ACLU state chapter, said the government is required to allow individuals to be sworn in "on the holy text that is in accordance with their faith." It was the ACLU that brought the issue to the appeals court.
After Mateen's experience in the courtroom, officials with the Al-Ummil Ummat Islamic Center attempted to donate copies of the Quran, but the judges declined to accept them, saying state law does not consider an oath on the Quran as legal.
The option to not use the Bible should be sufficient, a spokesman for a Christian group said.
"Given the fact that it's a Judeo-Christian nation, when we say Holy Scriptures we mean the Bible," said Steve Noble, of Called2Action.
It's just the latest confrontation in a growing movement to expand the use of the Quran in a number of ways in the United States. Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota recently used a copy of Thomas Jefferson's Quran for the ceremonial swearing-in to Congress.
But a Special Forces veteran and commentator said Jefferson likely used his Quran to know his enemies, since he was the one who pursued warfare against the Muslim Barbary pirates along the coast of Africa from 1801-1804.
Ellison's campaign also was backed by the Washington-based lobby group Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR held fundraisers for Ellison, a civil-rights lawyer and one-time acolyte of Louis Farrakhan who admits to making anti-Semitic remarks in the past (under various alias including Keith Hakim, Keith Ellison-Muhammad and Keith X Ellison).
The Quran also has been taught in various U.S. public schools through various programs that include courses on the "Five Pillars of Islam" and other subjects.
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Six new composers appointed to the LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme
The London Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the six composers who will take part in its annual Panufnik Composers Scheme in 2020, part of the Orchestra's all-round development programme for young composers.
From a record number of applications, we are delighted to announce that the following composers will join the scheme for the 2020/21 season:
Stef Conner
Composer/singer Stef Conner combines imaginative reworking and scholarly interpretation of ancient musical evidence to create new music drawn from the deep past. Her recent Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Huddersfield involved creating new settings of Old English poetry for voices and lyre. Her music has been released on Naxos, Delphian, and Discovery Records, published by the University of York Music Press, and featured on television and radio. She specialises in vocal music, most often performing her own work, but has also been fortunate to collaborate with instrumental ensembles including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nieuw Ensemble, and Ligeti Quartet. She sings with Sequentia (dir. Ben Bagby), whose charismatic interpretations of medieval texts exert a profound influence on her music. From 2008–2010, she performed with the Mercury Prize-nominated folk band the Unthanks, developing an enduring devotion to English traditional song.
Christian Drew
Christian Drew is a British-American composer, performer and teacher based in London. He recently completed a Master of Composition with Distinction as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Laurence Crane. Here he received the Mary Ryan Composition Award and the Rose Lawrence Horners' Academic Award. Recent works have been performed by Plus Minus Ensemble, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Players, Juice Vocal Ensemble, Theatre of the Ayre and soprano Juliet Fraser at the Wigmore Hall, the Place Theatre, the National Centre for Early Music, 840 Series and Cheltenham Music Festival. Christian gained his undergraduate degree from the University of Southampton, studying with Matthew Shlomowitz, Benjamin Oliver and Michael Finnissy. Upon graduation he received the Hazel Muras-Osborn Composition Prize, the Lyttel Prize and the Edward Wood Memorial Prize for academic achievement.
Patrick John Jones
Patrick John Jones writes music for acoustic instruments that is most often performed in concert halls, and occasionally in museums, art galleries, and libraries. He is interested in vivid sounds, delicate sounds, visceral rhythmic energy, and different ways of approaching the idea of narrative. The influences on his work span from the very old to the very new, and extend beyond music into Bauhaus art, Old English, science fiction, natural phenomena, illuminated Medieval manuscripts, and concrete poetry. He is currently artist-in-residence at the John Rylands Special Archives in Manchester, writing music in response to a wide range of religious art, including plainchant, illustrations of the apocalypse, and the poems of dsh.
Patrick holds a PhD in Composition from the University of York, which was supervised by Thomas Simaku. His work has been performed by ensembles such as Psappha, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ensemble 10/10, the Diotima Quartet, and Octandre.
Emma-Kate Matthews
Emma-Kate Matthews' research concerns the discovery and exploitation of creative reciprocities between music as constructed sound, and architecture as constructed space. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, under the supervision of Professors Bob Sheil and Yeoryia Manolopoulou and Professor Neil Heyde from the Royal Academy of Music. Emma-Kate's spatialised compositions have been performed at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and London's Southbank Centre. Emma-Kate is a multi-instrumentalist and has released a number of albums, most recently East of the Active on Algebra Records. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the RIBA and has also been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals including Architectural Design (Wiley), Design Ecologies (Intellect books) and Organised Sound Journal (Cambridge University Press). She recently completed commissions for the Guildhall School of Music, Musicity and the Barbican Centre as part of the Sound Unbound festival.
Chris McCormack
Chris McCormack is an Irish composer, based in London. His work has been performed internationally by Crash Ensemble, players of the London Symphony Orchestra, Plus Minus Ensemble, EXAUDI, Liam Byrne, Ensemble Adesso and others. Recent engagements include a commission by the Irish National Concert Hall, Crash Ensemble and the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ, to create a new work, Like Elastic, for the New Music Dublin festival 2019, and a new, long-form piece for the pianist Andrew Zolinsky,
Chris studied composition with Dr. Richard Baker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, on scholarships from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and the Guildhall School Trust, and at Trinity College, Dublin with Dr Donnacha Dennehy and Dr Evangelia Rigaki.
Alex Paxton
Alex Paxton is a composer and improvising-trombone soloist based in UK. His music is stylistically pluralist and, informed by life as a jazz musician/ improviser, drawing upon an enormous range of contemporary, aural and pop music traditions. In 2019, he was elected to the Ninth International Composition Seminar and awarded a commission ILolliPop, performed by Ensemble Modern. In 2019, he played and recorded his concerto OD ODY PINk'd for jazz trombonist and the Royal National Scottish Orchestra (RSNO). He has written music for ensembles including Ensemble Modern, LPO, Ensemble x.y, RSNO, BSO, ListenPony, OSO, Psappha, NYJO. His piece SPAKE represented the UK in the Orchestral section of ISCM. Alex has been a Leverhume Arts Scholar and received the Harriet Cohen International Music Award. He has written six operas hosted by ENO, Helios, Tête à Tête, Second Movement and Pelican Music.
Alex's Dream Musics Ensemble, who have performed at Café Oto's Kammer Klang, uniquely combines synthy-sounds with leading virtuosic jazz. Extensively, Alex writes art-music for musicians in community settings, including innovative ways of writing for young instrumentalists and singers in a post-Roald Dahl world of new-music.
About the LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme
The Panufnik Composers Scheme offers six emerging composers each year the opportunity to write for a world-class symphony orchestra. Guided by renowned composers Colin Matthews and Christian Mason, with additional tailored support, the scheme enables composers to experiment with and develop their orchestral writing skills through creating a three-minute composition over twelve months. The resulting compositions are performed and discussed by the LSO and Principal Guest Conductor, François-Xavier Roth, in a public workshop rehearsal at the culmination of the scheme. Two of the compositions are then chosen to be developed further, before being premiered by the Orchestra in an LSO concert at the Barbican.
Dates for your diary:
Saturday 15 February, LSO St Luke's
After a sell-out Phase I showcase, LSO Soundhub composers Alex Ho and Sun Keting return with new music written for LSO musicians, plus varied works by LSO Soundhub Associates.
James Hoyle world premiere
Thursday 27 February, Barbican
Elim Chan conducts the world premiere of James Hoyle's Thymiaterion, commissioned through the Panufnik Composers Scheme.
Panufnik Composers Workshop
Thursday 26 March, LSO St Luke's
Composers on the 2019 scheme hear their new work rehearsed by the LSO and François-Xavier Roth, plus works by two composers who were awarded the ten-minute and five-minute commissions at the 2019 workshop.
The Panufnik Composers Scheme is generously supported by Lady Hamyln and The Helen Hamlyn Trust


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Track and Field is "running" for K-4 students.
Wednesdays, April 24, May 1 and 8. 3:00-4:15.
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Eric Lange is an American actor. He is known for his work on television, where he has appeared in a wide variety of both supporting and leading roles. Lange played the recurring roles of Stuart Radzinsky on the ABC series Lost (2009) and Erwin Sikowitz in the Nickelodeon series Victorious (2010–13), and had his mainstream breakthrough for playing David Tate/Kenneth Hasting on the FX series The Bridge (2013). He earned acclaim for starring as Bill Stechner on the crime drama Narcos (2016) and Lyle Mitchell on Showtime's Escape at Dannemora (2018), which earned a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. Lange's film roles include Sam Larson in the independent film AM1200 (2008), Andy Beyer in the sports drama Secretariat (2010), Dr. Silverman in the comedy-drama Danny Collins (2015), Whitehurst in the neo-Western mystery Wind River (2017), and Blake Denton/Him in the horror Antebellum (2020).
MODERN FAMILY · S1, E20
Luke and Manny's hot-tempered basketball coach quits during a game, causing Jay and Phil to jockey to fill the position; Mitchell takes Cameron along to meet a prospective employer.
FRINGE · S5, E2
The fight for freedom intensifies when the Fringe team revisits Walter's Harvard lab – now under Observer control – in an attempt to locate the information they need to fight on in their mission to save the world.
MY NAME IS EARL · S4, E13
Orphan Earl
When Earl finds out that Joy has not only continued a scam they started years ago, but also has recruited her friends to be a part of it, he makes it his mission to cross the conned man off his list. Ethan Suplee, Eddie Steeples and Nadine Velazquez also star.
BONES · S4, E9
The Con Man in the Meth Lab
A con man misleads the team during a murder investigation; Booth's younger brother, Jared, takes a job at the Pentagon; Brennan agrees to go on a date with Jared to a White House function.
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The team uses "brain-printing" when a suspected serial killer awakes from a four-year coma but doesn't remember any of the crimes.


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- Benson
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- Drawing the Line
- Business Methods
- Other Ways of Claiming
- Printed Matter
- Applying for a Software Patent
Chapter 5: Software-Based Inventions
Probably no aspect of patent law has been more uncertain than the issue of what, if any, software-based inventions can be patented. But recent developments have gone a long way toward clarifying when a software-based invention will be statutory subject matter. The Patent Office has issued guidelines {FN1: 61 Fed. Reg. 7478 (1996)} for examiners that clarify when a software-based invention is statutory subject matter. Recent decisions by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit make it clear that software-based inventions and methods of doing business are indeed patentable, although some uncertainty remains regarding the various forms for claiming such inventions.
The past lack of clarity came not from the statute itself, but from the court decisions that have attempted to interpret Section 101of the patent laws, {FN2: 35 U.S.C. §101} which states what may be patented. The cases are difficult to reconcile and are often based on distinctions that don't stand up to technical (rather than legal) analysis. In many instances, an invention has been considered nonstatutory not because of the nature of the invention but because of the way it was claimed. In the prosecution of some patent applications for software-based inventions, most of the examiner's time has been spent on the question of whether the invention contained statutory subject matter, while for other patent applications, the question hasn't even been raised.
It is important to remember that whether a claimed invention recites statutory subject matter is just the first hurdle that must be conquered before one receives a patent. The invention must also be novel {FN3: 35 U.S.C. §102} and nonobvious, {FN4: 35 U.S.C. §103} and the application must fully disclose how to make and use the invention. {FN5: 35 U.S.C. §112, first paragraph} As an example, if an application today were to claim an ordinary pencil, it would clearly be claiming statutory subject matter, but no patent could issue because the claimed invention is not novel. On the other hand, if an application were to claim this text, it would be rejected because a writing is not statutory subject matter, regardless of its novelty or nonobviousness.
I. Reluctance at the Beginning
The history of the patentability of software-based inventions has been marked by a reluctance of the Patent Office to enter this new field of technology, an appeals court recognizing the broad range of what should be patentable, and a confusing decision by the Supreme Court when it first considered patents of software-based inventions.
In 1966, the President's Commission on the Patent System issued a report that discussed, among other things, whether software should be protected by patents.
Uncertainty now exists as to whether the statute permits a valid patent to be granted on programs. Direct attempts to patent programs have been rejected on the ground of nonstatutory subject matter. Indirect attempts to obtain patents and avoid the rejection, by drafting claims as a process, or a machine or components thereof programmed in a given manner, rather than as a program itself, have confused the issue further and should not be permitted.
The Patent Office now cannot examine applications for programs because of a lack of a classification technique and the requisite search files. Even if these were available, reliable searches would not be feasible or economic because of the tremendous volume of prior art being generated. Without this search, the patenting of programs would be tantamount to mere registration and the presumption of validity would be all but nonexistent.
It is noted that the creation of programs has undergone substantial and satisfactory growth in the absence of patent protection and that copyright protection for programs is presently available. {FN6: To Promote the Progress of Useful Arts, Report of the President's Commission on the Patent System, at 13 (1966)}
The view that steady growth in the software industry since 1966 somehow obviates the need for patent protection is myopic. In the early days of digital computers (before 1970), there was little need for statutory protection of computer software, either by patent or by copyright. There were few computers, most of which were at large companies, and most software was written by programmers at the company using the computer. Software marketed to others could be protected by contract and trade secret, since it was usually expensive and sold to a small market.
The argument that something should not be protected by patents because of the inability of the Patent Office to amass the proper search library should be viewed as a condemnation of the Patent Office for not doing its job, not a reason to refuse applications for software-based inventions. In any inventive area where the Patent Office discourages applications, the necessary search library will never develop. This is a detriment not only to the Patent Office but to the country as a whole, since important techniques will remain trade secrets rather than being disclosed in patents.
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What I Loved About The Rise of Skywalker... And The Other Stuff
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS WHY DID YOU CLICK ON THIS LINK IF YOU DIDN"T EXPECT SPOILERS
Okay, that's done...
I really hate that going to see The Rise of Skywalker felt like a chore. The amount of negative press and online comments about it over the course of a week (I guess two weeks counting the leak time) had me bummed out about it well in advance, and I was well aware I could go see Knives Out instead.
On the other hand, my expectations were so lowered that I had a good time watching it where I maybe wouldn't have. Who's to say? And this is The Last Star Wars Movie Until The Next One, how could I possibly resist?
So here's the stuff I liked:
Paging Papa Palpatine
Much like in Revenge of the Sith, Ian McDiarmid was an absolute treat reprising his role as Emperor Palpatine. He was creepy, evil, and creepy evil in all the right ways, effortlessly subverting Kylo Ren's mastery over the First Order to reassert his rule as the absolute Lord of All Evil in the Star Wars universe. And he did all this while he was basically a dangling corpse on a stick!
The movie also retroactively clears up Palpatine's one big moment of stupidity, namely his attempt to corrupt Luke Skywalker to his side. Originally this wasn't obviously effective - Palpatine basically seemed to be goading Luke into killing him, on the basis that once he was on the Dark Side the Emperor would somehow be able to bend him to his will. Now, it's clear that Palpatine's goal was to fill Luke's heart with enough hate that he'd be able to body snatch him at the moment Luke struck him down - the same goal he has with Rey. From now on, Palpatine's only flaw will be that he's a bit too happy with the Force lightning, and honestly, wouldn't you be?
Eff Hux
Did anyone else get hype when the Senior Nazi shot this little weasel? Remember kids, Nazis eat their own as readily as anyone else, and no one is immune. Goodbye Hux, hope the door hit your ass on the way down.
The Final Order
Palpatine's private army can come off as incredibly stupid ("He built this whole thing in secret? All the Star Destroyers have planet-killer guns?"), but I honestly loved it because it's exactly the sort of insane evil secretive thing Palpatine's been known for through the Clone Wars and two Death Stars. And the shots of all those ships floating in a nightmare void outside of normal space were, well, chilling. It's a shame they ended up being a bit of wasted potential (we'll get to that).
The other cool thing was that we finally got to see the Sith front and center in a main Star Wars film. The Sith have always been one of the coolest things about the Expanded Universe, old and new - a cult of evil fallen Jedi and wizards out to overthrow and supplant the established order. The Rise of Skywalker is the first film that makes the Sith as a force beyond just Palpatine feel like the nightmarish horror they should be, and it was great to see.
Make that Ben freaking Solo. Once Kylo Ren throws off the Dark Side he starts doing what comes naturally, and it turns out Han Solo's son actually inherited a lot of his father's charm, roguish fighting style and intermittently bad luck. (Ow.) Adam Driver absolutely nailed the transition and even though it was brief (we'll get to that) it was a lot of fun to see Ben come out to play.
And Then There's The Rest
With those pluses acknowledged, I've got to admit The Rise of Skywalker is not the best movie in the Star Wars series and is probably the worst of the current trilogy, although that doesn't make it the worst Star Wars movie either (which is a subjective thing and some might disagree). There are and will continue to be many takes on what's wrong with the film - that's Star Wars fandom - but as far as what stood out to me:
The pacing is completely shot, jumping from scene to scene like the editor was high on meth. They packed a million things into this film and focused on none of it, which is fine for Disney and the EU going forward but makes watching the movie feel like a roller coaster ride, and not in a good way.
It's hard to argue J.J. Abrams didn't just toss The Last Jedi in the trash entirely when he came on for the third movie. Rose is a wasted character, Poe has to relearn the lesson he spent all of TLJ learning (except not as well), Finn's reduced to chasing after Rey the whole film and is maybe Force sensitive for no good reason, Rey's back to being a child of destiny to the film's detriment, Snoke loses what little character he had - the fans of TLJ are pissed for a reason, is what I'm saying.
Poe Dameron's character does another complete swerve in this movie for no good reason. This has been a problem for Poe, period, but on the third movie it sticks out really badly and doesn't add anything to him.
We didn't need Jon Favreau's scene. At all.
How do you completely miss a second transport ship?
The stakes of the combat never seemed high, except for stopping Palpatine. Everything else came off as a distraction, which is bad when you're fighting a full-blown apocalyptic army.
And then there's the death of Ben Solo, which came out of nowhere, served no Goddamn purpose and seems like it was done just because the production was over time and over budget and couldn't figure out how to get Ben off Escargot and said "fuck it". And as far as I'm concerned he's not dead, Leia or the Force just snatched him away to give him a chance at redemption without getting shot or thrown into a dark hole by the Resistance, because FFS what else do you do with Kylo Ren at this point? But even if Ben's irredeemable (and that's a whole separate post I'm not going to write), he's a character who still deserved a chance to shine in the EU. The choice to just wave a hand and end that was horrible, and fans of Reylo are quite justifiably furious. I fully expect Ben to return in the books at some point soon, although whether his story will continue forward is an open question, and I'm not optimistic. But it absolutely should.
So, yeah. Flawed film, I've seen worse, there were certainly some good bits, and it certainly brought things to an ending. Not a final one, though.
Bring back Ben Solo.
Labels: Palpatine, reylo, Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars
State of the Union, October 2016
We are currently governed by a Congress where the party in power won a bare majority in the House by 1.1% of the popular vote, and lost the popular vote in the Senate. The President lost the popular vote, and may have been involved in foreign efforts to influence the election in his favor. That's ignoring the party's ongoing campaign of voter suppression in key states.
This party, which came to power without a popular mandate, has now installed a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court, including 4 Justices appointed by a President who lost the popular vote and 2 with credible allegations of sexual harassment or assault against them.
The open cruelty of this party has been on display since January 2017, as they've pursued a policy of non-violent ethnic cleansing that has sundered families, and seen asylum seekers and their children indefinitely detained in tent camps. They've insisted that massive cuts need to be made to programs that support the poor, even as they force through massive cuts to taxes for the rich. They've insisted on destroying the Affordable Care Act without any meaningful plan to replace it.
The party has openly worked to sabotage the proper functioning of our government at every turn. They have insulted our allies and sought the support of our enemies, even as those same enemies commit crimes with impunity, confident no response is coming from the United States. They have allowed the President and his cronies to openly flout ethics laws and profit massively from their positions, without lifting a finger to investigate.
And most recently, they listed to a survivor of sexual assault, denigrated her, ignored her, ignored anyone who would speak in support of her, ignored any evidence that backed her up, and made yet another naked grab for power. Brett Kavanaugh will be on the Supreme Court tomorrow. Dr. Blasey Ford remains in hiding.
And now, this weekend, we are seeing a report that describes a climate crisis that could hit us as soon as 2040. The report describes worsening food shortages, increased wildfires, massive coral die-off, and a rise in temperatures of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit worldwide. Steps could have been taken to avoid this decades ago. They weren't. Steps need to be taken immediately to prevent this now. They won't be. We are trapped under absolute minority rule by a party that still insists that climate change is a hoax, and will do anything necessary to prevent meaningful action against the coming crisis.
Our children - my children - will grow up in the hell we leave behind.
So as this party goes on the news and bemoans the lack of civility in our politics - as they complain they can't go to dinner without being harassed, as they attempt to paint the opposition as somehow radical and dangerous: remember that this party has been working for decades to destroy our government, our balance of powers, and our ability to simply live on our own planet.
Remember that, and fucking vote.
The Doom Coming To Trumpland
So shit happened today, as it does every day since the election of 2016. But this shit may be significant. It may mark the End Times in Trumpland, the time when the red moon plunges from the sky and the ground trembles with the fearful shaking of the dreaming MAGAts. A rent has been torn in the throne of the Fool's Gold God, and the tweeting of a thousand thousand pundits drowns the air as the blue-winged flock takes flight...
Fuck. Sorry. Let me begin again.
(Black Library, would you like a haunted house story?)
Today Donald Trump tweeted this:
In essence: Donald Trump admitted the meeting his son had with a Russian attorney during the campaign was to get dirt on his opponent, Hillary Clinton; claimed the whole thing was legal and went nowhere; and denies knowing anything about it.
Take a moment to let the idiocy of denying knowing about a "totally legal" meeting sink in. Took me all day. Good? Okay, let's move on.
Donald Trump is admitting that his son met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer with close ties to the Russian government, to get information on Hillary Clinton. This is, to my knowledge, the first time he's acknowledged that, although it's been known for months that the original stated purpose of the meeting was false. (Said purpose being to discuss adoption in Russia, a story apparently concocted personally by Donald Trump on behalf of his son.)
This alone is problematic, since it's illegal for a campaign to accept "anything of value" from a foreign national. The Trumps claim nothing of value came from this meeting, which might be believable except for a few things:
1. the Democratic National Committee's servers were hacked,
2. those servers contained damaging material in email that was subsequently released to the public, influencing the election,
3. those servers also contained election analytics data, which was not released to the public, but which the Trump campaign appears to have acted on during the election,
4. Donald Trump has subsequently done everything feasible to end any investigation into these points, and
5. Donald Trump has lied to the American people around 4,500 times just since he took office.
So it's possible Trump's tweet is an admission that his campaign was seeking information of value from a foreign national. Collusion is not a technical crime, but that is collusion. It is also a crime, if anything of value was provided.
And Trumpland continues to shake, because what sparked Trump's admission were rumors that he was concerned his son, Donald Jr., is in legal jeopardy. Because Donald Trump Jr. testified to Congress, under oath, that his father had no knowledge of this meeting. Which, to be clear, took place in Trump Tower, which Donald Trump was in at the time.
So the statement was already hard to believe, but now it appears that Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, is ready to state that Donald Trump was aware of the meeting in advance and approved it. Which means Donald Trump Jr. may have lied under oath to Congress. Which is a felony. That also means Donald Trump was fully aware his campaign was reaching out to a foreign national for information of value.
And now the doom becomes clear: Trump may have committed a felony during his campaign by colluding with a Russian national.* If so, his defense hinges of denying any knowledge of it. But that defense hinges on 1. Michael Cohen not having any evidence to the contrary, and 2. every other party with knowledge of the meeting backing Trump.
One of those parties is Trump Jr., but he may have committed a felony of his own in lying to Congress, if Trump did have knowledge of the meeting. And so the Trumps find themselves under a pile of horrors:
1. If Trump Jr. is found to have lied under oath, he faces felony charges.
2. If Trump Jr. is prosecuted, Trump can pardon him - but accepting the pardon means Trump Jr. must admit guilt, which means he has to state affirmatively that his father had advance knowledge of the meeting in Trump Tower.
Which puts Donald Trump in the position of potentially having to convince his own son to go to prison for a felony in order to save his own skin.
And this is one of the better scenarios Trump is facing. If Michael Cohen produces evidence, or evidence is obtained elsewhere, that Trump knew about the meeting, he ends up in significantly greater legal jeopardy, and his son still faces prosecution for lying plus whatever charges Trump gets hit with.
This is not necessarily the end game for Trump, mind. He's unlikely to be prosecuted in office, and a compliant GOP Congress might be willing to accept a President who's committed felony election fraud. But it might be less likely to let that same President pardon his son for the same crime.
*I'm ignoring the potential felony payoffs of multiple sex workers. And the potential host of felonies laundering Russian money. And the potential violations of the emoluments clause. And the child rape accusation. And the spousal rape accusation. Just like the Republican Party.
Image courtesy of BoingBoing.
Labels: Donald Trump, politics, Trump Tower meeting
On Andrew McCabe
So, Andrew McCabe.
As best I can work out from the news, Andrew McCabe authorized the release of some information about the investigation into Hillary Clinton during the election. This was, apparently, something he had authority to do. He then reportedly showed "lack of candor" during the subsequent investigation by the Inspector General, which was what led to his firing yesterday.
The firing might have been justified, it might not have been. It's impossible to say without seeing the IG's report, which hasn't been released.
What can be said is that Donald Trump has had a hard-on for McCabe for months now, 1. because McCabe corroborated James Comey's damaging statements on Donald Trump in the obstruction investigation in front of the House Intel Committee, and 2. because Trump apparently believes McCabe is a pro-Clinton plant, due to his wife running for office as a Democrat.
What can also be said is that Andrew McCabe was fired for lack of honesty, by an Attorney General who perjured himself in front of Congress, under the apparent direction of a President who lies to the American people on average four times a day. He has been denied his pension while Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI while he was part of the Trump administration, continues to draw his.
McCabe's firing came on the same day that House Democrats revealed letters from a whistleblower alleging an effort by Trump administration officials to purge the State Department of career employees out of fear that they were secret Obama loyalists.
And it has been followed by statements from Trump which just about confirm that McCabe's firing was retaliation for his statements supporting Comey's testimony.
And that has been followed by Trump's lawyer, on behalf of the White House (until it wasn't), calling for an end to Robert Mueller's probe into Russian collusion, obstruction of justice, and God knows what other crimes.
Regardless of whether McCabe deserved to be fired fast enough to deny a 21 year FBI veteran his pension, after what by all accounts were years of distinguished service, is almost beside the point when the sitting President is so grossly, obviously attacking a witness in a case that puts that same President in legal jeopardy.
Donald Trump is unfit for office. And I hope yesterday's naked cruelty is part of what finally brings him down.
Below: Andrew McCabe's statement on his firing.
After Ragnarok (Spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok)
Hela awoke in pain.
The right side of her body was in agony, every nerve and muscle screaming in torment. She gritted her teeth and forced herself to sit up. That simple movement nearly caused her to lose consciousness, but she was Hela, and her will was strong.
She looked down, and a hiss escaped her teeth at what she saw. The half of her had been burned to the bone, and what was left of her flesh and muscle looked like cooked meat. She raised her right arm, forcing near-skeletal fingers to flex and form a closed fist. Satisfied, she called a sword and used it to prop herself up onto her feet.
She looked around for the first time, taking stock of her surroundings. The landscape was blasted and filled with a sulfurous reek. A poor showing for Asgard, she thought.
She remembered Surtur driving his blade down, the last attempt to dodge the enormous flaming sword as it bit home. Obviously less than successful, but that was of no consequence. She lived, and she was Hela, and she stood on Asgardian soil. That would be enough.
Hela closed her eyes and drew upon Asgard's power, willing herself whole again.
Her eyes flew open when nothing happened.
This was not Asgard!
She sought around herself, and now the landscape became clearer. A blasted wasteland, yes, and a very familiar one.
She was back. Back in the hell that Allfather Odin had banished her to, so many millennia ago.
She reached out instinctively, her senses questing for the weak point that she had found, that had granted her her freedom, her kingdom, her empire, everything that was rightfully hers... and found nothing.
Was she too weak? Or was that door simply gone, as if it had never been? Impossible to tell.
Hela raged. She screamed, cursing all the gods, her family most of all. She struck the ground, splintered sword after sword. And when she had nothing left she fell to her knees.
All of her rage was futile. Nothing she did had the slightest effect.
She was Hela, but she did not live.
And this was no Valhalla.
For the first time in her long existence, Hela suffered a single tear to fall from her eye.
Behind her, something chuffed.
Hela turned her head and felt a hot breath on her healthy skin as Fenris Wolf licked her face. She reached up and stroked the great wolf's muzzle, joy and astonishment lightening the weight of her despair. It looked at her with its old eyes, the glint of the Eternal Flame no longer present.
She rose to her feet again, and looked behind Fenris. Ranks of soldiers stood there, soldiers she recognized. The Einharjar of her youth, the warriors who had pledged to her above all others and followed her in defiance of the Allfather. They were dead, as she was dead, but their swords were sharp and their armor was strong.
As one, they put their fists to their breasts, and bowed to her.
Hela stood in the reeking waste and she smiled.
This was no Valhalla.
But perhaps it could be better.
Labels: comics, fan fiction, fanfic, Fenris, Hel, Hela, movies, Thor: Ragnarok
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Giving Back, Together
"We are more powerful together than we are apart."...
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Mobility and Migration
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What's in my white coat with Fernando Pagan
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After Trauma, Hope
In a time when secondhand suffering as a caregiver can lead to vicarious trauma, Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH, adjunct associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the School of Medicine, wants...
O'Donnell Named Cohen Chair
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Technology Catching Up With Sci-Fi
Georgetown invention offers speedy genetic detection of bacterial and viral pathogens.


Ziarah ke Our Lady of Lavang, tempat penampakkan Bunda Maria pada tahun 1798 dan ke Vungtau, dimana terdapat Patung Yesus Christ The King yang merupakan patung Yesus tertinggi di Asia 32 meter.
You will begin in charming Hanoi, Vietnam's artistic and intellectual capital. You will explore the fascinating "One Pillar Pagoda, Bo De Pagoda and watch a delightful performance of Vietnam's water puppet theater. Then take a boat to visit Perfume Pagoda with a friendly women who were the navigators and rowers of the boats on the river to get to the pagoda. Quite strenuous walking up a big hill and then down many steps to get to the pagoda.


In my 20s I was involved with someone, A, who had a daughter, DW, with a friend of his. It wasn't planned and he didn't really want to be a father. In fact, I only found out about her after he and I had been going out for a while. There came a time when her mother wasn't capable of providing a secure home for DW and A felt pressured to step in to obtain custody.
It was a rather quick, but unpleasant custody battle. In the middle of it all A and I got married. DW became my step-daughter when she was 4 and I was 25. DW hardly ever saw her biological mother again. Ultimately DW's mother committed suicide when DW was 14.
When I was 30, despite enormous misgivings around DW's well being, I decided that the relationship between her father and I was really unhealthy for me. I also felt that the unhealthy state of the marriage was not a good environment for DW. I was desperately depressed and my anxiety was so intense that I'd gone on medication for it.
DW was devastated by this change of events. We talked about it and she wanted reassurance that I wasn't divorcing her. She felt like it was her fault, as children often feel during a divorce. I let her know over and over again that the problems were between her father and I, that it wasn't her fault, and that I would do my best to remain a part of her life.
Things were really hard for a while, a few years in fact. DW spiraled into all kinds of unhealthy behavior. I kept trying to get through to her that while she was a minor my being her "Mom" was wholly contingent upon her father going along with it. That her choices were jeopardizing any help I could offer, particularly if she were injured in any way. I was heartbroken when I finally told her that she had to live with her father for a time until she could have honest communication with me. She was furious.
While she was living with her father DW ran away. She was 13.
I was utterly, completely devastated and as an adult who was not her biological nor adopted parent, and having divorced her father no longer even a step-parent, I had no legal recourse to demand to be involved in all that followed she was eventually picked up by the police. I was convinced that it was all my fault. I felt like the worst person in the world for having so grievously failed DW. More than anything else that I've been through in my life, these events are what finally drove me to seek therapy.
I would barely see or hear from DW for a few years. The incredibly strained relationship with her father meant that he quite often didn't think it was important to share information with me. When she was closer to leaving mandated treatment and group home I was asked to join a meeting with the DW and her father. She was incredibly angry when I said that I wasn't ready to just open my home to her unless she could agree to adhere to some ethical behaviors. When she left treatment at 16 she went back to live with her father and saw me infrequently.
DW made a dangerous choice in her life when she was 18. Once again it was terribly painful for me to watch her while she struggled. Even more painful to try and set my own boundaries knowing that DW felt let down by my response.
Now she's just about 5 months shy of her 21st birthday and has completely turned her life around. It admirable and a great joy to see her grow into the ethical, responsible, compassionate human I would glimpse often during her childhood. We've grown a lot closer this past year and it has meant so much to me to share her life. I feel very proud for her accomplishments, all the hard work she's done to be person she chooses to be now.
Now that DW's an adult I've shared more with her, opened up about things she felt I was withholding from her as a child. I admit to her honestly that I was withholding, but not because I didn't think she was old enough to know or didn't trust her. It is a relief to me that she is able to understand that I withheld things from her because I didn't want to color her young mind with my feelings toward her father. I wanted to treat DW and her father ethically, no matter how painful it was for me to have her feel like I wouldn't talk to her.
DW still calls me "Mom" and has told me that I'm the only one who really tried to be her mother. She just refers to her biological mother by her name, never "mom". Neither of us bother to explain our complicated relationship to people when they exclaim at the idea that I could have a nearly 21-year old daughter. If I'd had her when I was 20 it would be true. I didn't, but that doesn't really matter to either of us. We are the family we choose to be and that is no less compelling or important than biology.
We laugh a little when people remark upon our looking similar.


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Beach Rats Is One of the Year's Boldest Dramas
Eliza Hittman's film chronicles the life of a closeted young man spending his days on the boardwalks of Coney Island.
By David Sims
Harris Dickinson stars as Frankie in Eliza Hittman's Beach Rats. (Neon)
The first moments of Beach Rats are lit by the harsh glare of a cellphone flash bouncing off a bathroom mirror, as the chiseled Frankie (Harris Dickinson) takes selfie after selfie, his baseball cap obscuring most of his face. It's an image that could easily come off as patronizing—the introduction of a preening, superficial young man, defining himself through the lens of a camera—but the film's director, Eliza Hittman, has deeper goals. Locked away in this dark room, his eyes hidden from view, Frankie is grasping for a persona he can barely express in public, wrestling with his sexuality in ways his friends and family can't understand.
Beach Rats is part slice-of-life Brooklyn drama, following Frankie and his friends as they stroll around the Coney Island boardwalk aimlessly, and part erotic art film, as Frankie struggles to come to terms with being gay. Hittman's second film (after the similarly sexually charged 2013 drama It Felt Like Love), Beach Rats is a moody experience, light on plot and heavy on state of mind, guiding viewers through Frankie's neon-lit world, where everything more than five feet away is obscured in darkness.
And, Scene: Moonlight
Sophie Gilbert
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Jean M. Twenge
Choose Enjoyment Over Pleasure
The movie is shot with grainy 16-millimeter film, and there's a quiet confusion to much of the story, which takes place largely at night by Brooklyn's beaches, where unseen waves crash in the distance. Frankie lives at home with his family, where his father is dying of cancer, and spends the day ambling around the neighborhood with his always shirtless friends, in search of weed and other cheap thrills. Unlike many a working-class Brooklyn drama, in Beach Rats the youths are very passive, mostly just mumbling dumb jokes at each other rather than engaging in testosterone-fueled one-upmanship.
At a beachside fireworks show, Frankie meets a girl, Simone (Madeline Weinstein), who tries to kindle a romance with this stoic Adonis. He runs pretty hot and cold, sometimes rebuffing her rather than explaining why he struggles to perform in bed, and other times clinging to her through a mix of guilt and social pressure. Throughout the film, he also browses online gay chatrooms and meets with random older men from the internet, who consistently ask what he's looking for. "I'm not sure what I like," Frankie demurs, over and over, partly copping to his own inexperience and partly denying a deeper truth about himself.
The hazy photography (of the cinematographer Hélène Louvart) recalls Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, another coming-of-age gay drama that was shot in 16-millimeter, but Louvart is far more focused on the aesthetics of Frankie and his friends, capturing their bodies from all angles as they roam the beach, seemingly entirely comfortable with the way they look. Hittman contrasts this attitude with Frankie's jumbled interiority—his discomfort with Simone anytime she initiates intimacy, his nervousness when he meets with other men. The director gets so much from Dickinson's expressive face, drawing out every nervous tremble and flicker of fear in his eyes.
Dickinson, a young British actor with a few TV credits to his name, is quite a find, and he magnifies Beach Rats's best moments, keeping Frankie from feeling like a sad, doe-eyed stereotype. There are moments of subtle aggression and direct nastiness, tempered with other scenes of (sometimes literally) naked vulnerability. Hittman's impressions of Coney Island, just a couple neighborhoods south of where she grew up in Flatbush, are similarly nuanced, avoiding the more obvious imagery of it as a tinny, honky-tonk playground.
The film does, unfortunately, swerve into clichéd plot territory for its third act, seeking to bring some closure to Frankie's attempts to lead a double life. Most irritatingly, Hittman suddenly brings his once passive cadre of friends into the foreground and has them behave like the bullies she had previously avoided reducing them to. There are notes of conflict that ring false and a closing scene of violence that's hardly graphic, but the film ends on too easy a conclusion, a sort of spiritual punishment for Frankie's ongoing denial of self.
It's a predictable turn of events—Frankie's attempts to hide so much of himself away can't last forever—but since Hittman avoids such heavy-handedness throughout, the finale feels especially disappointing. But Beach Rats still lingered in my brain after I saw it, mostly for those quieter shots of Frankie's face etched with emotions that were harder to pigeonhole. Hittman, and Dickinson, should have bright futures ahead of them, but it will be hard for either of them to make a work this boldly memorable.


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Temple City Breaks Ground on 1st "Complete Street" Project
A green future for Rosemead Blvd.
Before a crowd of dignitaries, stakeholders, Metro/Caltrans staff, local residents, and BikeSGV organizers, the Temple City Council and other elected leaders officially broke ground on the $20 million dollar overhaul of a two mile stretch of Rosemead Boulevard in Temple City on Friday, March 1st.
Made possible by 14 different funding sources - county, state and federal - the Rosemead Boulevard Project will include the San Gabriel Valley's first "protected" bicycle lane, or cycletrack, as well as wider sidewalks, public art, way-finding signage, new street trees, drought tolerant plants, transit stops, and improved pedestrian crossings.
Congresswoman Judy Chu hailed the project as "state of the art" in presenting the Council a Congressional Certificate of Recognition. Newly elected State Senator Ed Chau proclaimed that the new Rosemead Boulevard would be a "catalyst for economic growth," thanks in part to 500 new trees, 6,000 plants, and other sustainable elements such as asphalt made from recycled tires and the city's first bicycle lanes.
Representatives from State Senators Carol Liu and Ed Hernandez and Supervisor Antonovich were also on hand to present the Council with commendations, as was Alhambra City Council Member and current San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (COG) President Barbara Messina, who underlined that the new project was "exactly the type of collaboration" she and the COG wanted to see more of in the future.
For local bicyclists, the completed cycletrack will provide welcome refuge from automobile traffic which averages north of 40mph along this major corridor. The on-street Class I Bicycle Lane will be physically separated from traffic along portions of Rosemead by planters, in stark contrast to the Class III Bicycle route signage recently installed by Los Angeles County directly north of the City.
BikeSGV President Vincent Chang was confident Temple City's leadership in adopting bicycle infrastructure best practices will encourage other cities in the region to follow-suit, including neighboring communities such as the Cities of San Gabriel and Rosemead, the latter of which adopted a Bicycle Master Plan in 2012. Temple City Mayor Yu appeared to echo this sentiment, noting that local leaders were "not doing it just for Temple City, but for the region."
Project completion is slated for late 2014. Until then local cyclists would do well to steer clear of the construction zone, which has narrowed shoulder space and travel lanes, and subsequently reduced the amount of passing space for automobiles (i.e., be prepared to "take the lane" with motorists unaware of 25mph construction zone speed restrictions).
For more information and updates on the project, visit the Rosemead Boulevard Project webpage.


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Паскин — фамилия (женская форма: Паскина).

 Паскин, Анатолий Петрович (1842—1899) — генерал-майор, участник подавления Польского восстания и русско-турецкой войны.
 Паскин, Жюль (Паскен; 1885—1930) — живописец и график Парижской школы.
 Паскин, Пётр Алексеевич (1798—1853) — русский генерал, участник покорения Кавказа.

 Паскина, Ольга Александровна (род. 1980) — генеральный директор ЗАО «Национальная Медиа Группа».

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"What is happening in the world and the issues that people are talking about?", is the value proposition of this social network called Twitter.
It has more than 326 million active users in a month, according to Digital 2019 Global Digital Overview and ranks number 7 on the list of the most visited websites in the world, after Google, YouTube, Facebook, Badu, Wikipedia and Yahoo.
Part of the following points were extracted from the global study in 23 markets that this social network realized together with Kantar Media to understand what drives the use in Twitter.
The majority of users are between 35 and 49 years old.
67% go to Twitter to get news.
The virality of this social network is so powerful that in 2018, after a tweet launched by Kylie Jenner, Snapchat lost more than 1,000 million euros after a 6% drop in its shares on the stock market.
What does Twitter offer to an eCommerce?
Connection: you can see what customers are talking about you and participate in the conversation. Here you do not need to ask permission to follow anyone and as in a networking, you can make cold contacts.
Reputation: Twitter is the medium where people complain most about brands and they also share positive opinions.
Real-time information: this is the best channel to communicate news about your store, especially at events such as CyberDay, where you need to be more active than ever in relation to your message delivery and the responses of your customers.
Sell: With a well-directed and measured strategy, you are now well positioned to sell. Twitter users buy online at least 6.9 times in a month, while those who do not use it 4.3 times.
In addition, 49% of the buyers in the platform say they have been influenced in their decision after seeing a content in this social network.
Start by showing interest. The keyword of this network is "inform", remember that 67% of users enter Twitter to find news.
But also know that people on Twitter have a very short attention span because of being constantly bombarded with new information.
Participate in trend conversations in your industry using hashtags (#).
Educate and offer entertainment through memes, GIF, blog content, videos, etc.
Publish new features of your company, even if they are less relevant, for example a change in decoration, a new member of the team, etc.
Create hashtags for campaigns: unique, relevant, simple and sticky. These are the characteristics of a good hashtag.
If you want to breathe creativity on Twitter, I recommend that you go to the Burger King Argentina account. With the #StackeRTweet campaign, they managed 54,000 retweets and won the best campaign of the year.
They put forward in several Tweets the ingredients of their hamburger "Stacker" and the people had to retweet in the same order to earn a free one. The coupons sold out in two hours.
In this example there is a clear call to action with an attractive discount directed to the Merqueo site.
Follow the 80/20 rule, that your content is 80% useful tips, other people's content, retweets and conversations and 20% direct sales and brand communication.
Lean on influencers: this is one of the best ways to promote products online. The key is that it is in a creative and spontaneous way, not that it looks like a script that a brand gave to a celebrity.
For this, look for people that are related to your brand values. Some tools to do it; Commun.it, Little Bird, Buzzsumo, Klear, Kred, BrandWatch, Iconosquare, KeyHole, SocialRank and Heepsy.
Use the chat: take advantage of direct messages to solve your customers' problems, answer questions about your products and get to know them better.
An example of a very creative campaign was the one that Samsung made in Australia offering personalized advice to its customers through direct messages to buy televisions according to their tastes and needs.
Learn from your competitors: Analyze your competitors, create a list for them. From there you can monitor what kind of content they are tweeting, how often, what formats they use and what reactions their followers have.
Demonstrate the different uses of your products: Include high-quality photos of your products with its various uses.
Have your voice: how is the tone you want to transmit? Try to get out of the flat way many brands speak. How to fight the fear of doing it? Look for examples of successful brands that have achieved it as Burger King Argentina.
You have two seconds maximum to catch the attention of people. Be brief, even 140 characters can be a lot.
Do not abuse emojis and hashtags to fill. Use them if they really make a difference.
Use ideally customized images, not image banks. The text should complement the message, should not be redundant.
Focus on the call to action. Do not be afraid to express directly what you want your users to do: click, download, buy, etc.
Experiment by creating A / B tests in your ads and launching different types of organic messages to observe the reactions of your followers.
Create exclusive campaigns for Twitter: especially on dates like CyberDay or CyberMonday, this will encourage your followers to be attentive to your Tweets.
Follow the tips of Twitter: nobody knows the platform better than their own team. For tips follow your account @TwitterBusiness and listen to his podcast "Character Count" in English, where they interview opinion leaders on various topics related to marketing on this platform.
You can see all these key indicators by clicking on your profile and then on "Analytics".
Interaction: clicks, retweets, answers or even the number of times the hashtag of a brand was tweeted.
Performance: refers to the reactions of your audience over time.
Growth: Do not obsess about quantity but with the quality of followers, who are people who are part of your stakeholders.
ROI: this is the one that will generate more joys in a company because it measures the conversions of the tweets.
In conclusion, Twitter is the king of news information among social networks, therefore, beyond sharing content, it serves to build and observe what happens in the digital environment of your brand.
And although it seems very attractive, there is no need to recommend that you ask yourself if your potential clients are there.