When I was in Kenya a pastor and his wife invited us over to their apartment for dinner. They were well-educated people and his wife had received her Ph.D. from Wheaton College. We had a wonderful meal and a great discussion. He told me that he had grown up in a polygamous family.
The pastor smiled and said that he also believed that the intent of the New Testament was one husband and one wife.
If that question had been asked by a U.S. pastor, we would look at the pastor and wonder if he had gone off the deep-end, but it is a real and viable question that is facing the church in Africa.
Many of my students have been raised in a polygamous family, and have shared the negative impact of such family dynamics. According to my students, in a polygamous family there tends to be a favorite wife, which leads to jealousy and unequal distribution of family resources to this wife and her offspring. When this happens, the other wives may be forced to forge for food and other resources for their children.
Education, which is one of the most valued resources, tends to be given to the favorite wife's children, especially the boys. As you can imagine, this leads to animosity among the wives. The women become manipulative because that is the only power they have to control their lives.
If the man decides he no longer wants one of the wives, she must leave, with the father having the option of keeping the children. It was interesting to talk to a student who was still angry with his mother for leaving him, even though his mother had no choice.
In many places in Africa it is almost impossible for a woman to be able to survive on her own. When a man divorces her or puts her out of his house, the woman often ends up living with or marrying another man, which in turn may mean that she will have to move away from her children. In any event, whether the children live with the father or the mother, they become potential victims of abuse either from the stepmother or the mother's boyfriend or their new stepfather.
As you can already tell, I am biased against polygamy because I think it is harmful to women and children. It is just one more example of what can beset women who live in this fallen world. Yet it is an issue that needs to be addressed by the Church in Africa, and there are no easy answers. Some polygamous families may be drawn to the Christian faith, but turn there back upon it because they know the church may reject or try to split their family. The Church may demand that the husband divorce all but his first wife and send the other wives away, even though the consequences of splitting up an intact polygamous family may have long lasting negative consequences for the women and children.
For an interesting and easy read on this topic go to http://taylorinafrica.org/Reports.htm and click on An African Perspective on Polygamy in the UMC North Katanga Annual Conference by Reverend Mbayu Ilunga Watete.
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P.S. By the time you read this I should be back in Liberia. I will try to faithfully keep posting on the 1st and the 15th of each month. However, sometimes the internet goes down. So if you don't hear from me, there has been an internet disruption.
Thank you for sharing this information, it's quite a paradigm shift seeing as we don't face this issue here. That being said, I am thankful to learn more about the lives of my Christian sisters so I can support & pray for their needs.
After reading the story about the woman who came from a polygamous family I can say that I believe even more so now in what I have been taught and believe to be true not only in the western world but also in the bible. God did intend for one man to be married to one woman and it is made clear throughout the bible that when men strayed from this, their life was not easy, because they had fallen out of God's will. However, I don't believe polygamy is any worse than any other sin. Jacob was sold into slavery by his own brothers, and although God used it for good, it all began with him stealing his brothers birthright, so sin leads to consequences.
I do think that polygamous families should be allowed in any and all churches and if they are doing things in accordance with God's law, like being baptized then they should be able to do so, however, I don't think they should be able to hold any leadership role, and I think it should openly be taught that polygamy is not in accordance with God's laws.
I understand that for many women and families in that culture, that is the norm and more widely accepted, but without the church teaching against it, then it will always stay the norm. If a man leads a blind man into a pit then he is guilty of sin. If the religious leaders in Africa believe this to be a sin that they should teach that it is one, but they should allow the husbands, wives and children into the church so that they can 'see the light' so to speak.
However, all this is coming from a woman with one husband, and children, and who has never been a world traveler. The bible has no cultural differences, and so I believe truth needs to be spoken as truth, no matter who the audience is.
Very thoughtful response Rachel. Thanks for your input and I hope you will respond often b/c I want young women to share their perspective. You are correct, it is not easy for us to truly understand the other side when we have no experience with dealing with the problem. However, as you also point out very clearly – God's Word stands true for all cultures.
PRAISE GOD HE CHOSE ME TO BE A MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY, & THE FAMILY I WAS BORN INTO.
I AGREE WITH THE DECISION OF ONE WIFE. WITH MUCH PRAYER, PERHAPS THE CHURCH COULD SUPPORT A REFUGE AND OR AN ORFANAGE FOR THE KIDS AND OR WOMEN TO BE A PART OF.


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'The Punisher' Star Amber Rose Revah Reveals How Netflix Role Prepared Her for New Thriller 'Last Light' (Exclusive)
Amber Rose Revah played DHS agent Dinah Madani in both seasons of Marvel's The Punisher series on Netflix, and the actress says that role "hugely" helped prepare her for her new role in Peacock's Last Light. In the new limited thriller series, Revah portrays Mika Bakhash, an ass-kicking operative with connections in the British government who works with Matthew Fox's Andy Yeats — an ex-pat living in London, and one of the world's leading petrochemical engineers — trying to understand why the world's oil supply is under attack. In an interview with Revah, the actress explained that many elements of her role in The Punisher helped to inform her portrayal of Mika.
"Apart from everything else, the physical training, when we were doing Punisher we did a lot of weapons training. We did a lot of stunt training, and different martial arts. Then, we came to Last Light, and it was something that appealed to me about the character from the beginning is that she's very capable like my character in the Punisher was," Revah said. "She was very capable mentally, and physically, and I loved that about Mika. The fact that her whole story is with Andy, with Matthew Fox. But, it's a platonic relationship. They're both striving for something, and they both have their own bigger picture. But, they're going alongside together, which I loved." So, when it came to the action in this, I was kind of like, 'Hooray.' I really enjoy it, number one. Then, it also gave me a platform to be able to go, 'Where can I move to as a next level?' So we said, 'Well, she would have elements of BJJ [Brazilian Jiu-jitsu] and elements of Krav Maga and this and blah blah blah." So, which was a lot of fun to train as well. So, it settled."
One of the most compelling aspects of Last Light is how much of the story revolves around strong female characters, such as Revah's Mika and Joanne Froggatt's Elena Yeats, the wife of Fox's character. "It was something that was really important for me to show," Revah says of the series' woman-centric element. "It's part of what I look for in the characters in the first place, and I love shows which have that. It's also, we need to see things from different perspectives. It is important because I think we see, especially seeing, having role models on screen, and we want to see a variety of different backgrounds and in this show, I think we do."
A big part of why the woman in Last Light comes across so well is due to the "fantastic" direction of Dennie Gordon, who helmed all five episodes of the show. "She's open. She's so go, go, go. If there's something that I can reference Mika with the fact that Mika's so capable, it's Dennie Gordon. She was just fantastic," Revah said of the filmmaker. "She was very open to suggestions. She works in such a collaborative manner. That's wonderful. Then, she's also doing five episodes. It's a big old series and as you can see there's a lot that goes into it because it changes so quickly from episode to episode."
Offering some insight into the filming process for Last Light, Revah shared, "We're not shooting in a studio with the same things. We are literally all over the world. There's a lot of action. There's some very cold days in the middle of winter in Europe. There are some very hot days in the desert in Abu Dhabi, and she is there, go, go, go.
The actress later went on to explain, "We went from the end of December in Prague, which I can't remember the minus temperatures, but I will tell you they were low. Then, a couple of weeks later flew out to Abu Dhabi, filmed in the middle of the desert where you've got dunes after dunes, camels riding in the distance, where you start to lose your head because it's so hot. And, there's a sand storm that's been created by Dennie for the effect that it'll have on screen and you can… But, it makes a show that… When I saw that scene with the sand storm, and you've got all the sand in your throat and everywhere, and you see it and you think, 'God that looks like a real sandstorm, and it feels like real sandstorm,' and that's what it's for. All episodes of Last Light are now streaming on Peacock.
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Archive for November 3rd, 2015
Tuesday Releases : Inside Out
Do you ever look at someone and wonder what's going on inside their head? Disney-Pixar'sInside Out takes an exciting and hilarious journey into the mind to find the answer. Based in Headquarters, the control center of 11-year-old Riley's mind (Kaitlyn Davis), five emotions are hard at work, led by lighthearted optimist Joy (Amy Poehler). She strives to make sure Riley stays happy as she operates alongside fellow emotions Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith).
Riley's First Date? (In-Home Exclusive Animated Short Film) – Riley, now 12, is hanging out at home with her parents in San Francisco when potential trouble comes knocking: a boy shows up at the door. Can Mom and Dad's emotions handle "Riley's First Date?"
Lava (Theatrical Short Film, Presented in 2D & 3D) – Inspired by the isolated beauty of tropical islands and the explosive allure of ocean volcanoes, LAVA is a musical love story that takes place over millions of years.
Story of the Story – Director Pete Docter talks about the evolution of Inside Out, from the ideas and memories that inspired the story through the hurdles, explorations and experiences that helped shape it into the film it is today.
Paths to Pixar: The Women of Inside Out – Inside Out filmmakers, from voice actors to animators to production crew, talk about their paths, their goals, the challenges they've faced and the lessons they've learned along the way.
Mixed Emotions – Inside Out's filmmakers talk about how they decided which emotions to focus on in the story and how they went about creating each one's distinct personality and visual identity.
Mapping the Mind – Inside Out's artists take you through the years-long process of designing and creating a world everyone knows, but no one has ever seen – the human mind.
Our Dads, the Filmmakers – Elie Docter (daughter of director, Pete Docter) and Grace Giacchino (daughter of composer, Michael Giacchino) bring you behind the scenes for an inside look at the making of the film.
Into the Unknown: The Sound of Inside Out – What is the sound of a memory forming? Sound designer Ren Klyce describes the challenges – and the unique solutions – involved in creating the aural world of Inside Out.
The Misunderstood Art of Animation Film Editing – Learn more about the crucial role of an animation film editor, who helps take the story from its earliest, most exploratory versions, to the final, polished film you see onscreen.
Deleted Scenes:
Riley Grows Up – In this scene from a version of the film where the primary relationship was between Joy and Fear (then named Freddie), the emotions begin to notice a change in Riley.
Joy's Decline – Joy's struggles to make sense of the limitations on Riley's behavior that seem to be springing up at every turn.
Misdirection -Joy and Freddie encounter a group of Riley's "retired" imaginary friends, including an early version of Big Bong.
Construction – Joy is guided through Riley's mind by a radical non-conformist, Bing Bong, outraged by the demolition of older areas like Imagination Park.
Audio Commentary – Commentary includes participation from directors Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, and producer Jonas Rivera.
Mind Candy – A montage of toolkit and interstitials produced for Inside Out.
Inside Out Trailers – A collection of domestic and international trailers made for Inside Out.
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Trudy Andrews, Executive Director
Trudy is originally from Los Angeles, California, but has called Las Vegas home since 1995. She fell in love with the senior population in 1999 and has been an Executive Director ever since. Trudy is grateful to be a part of the Legacy family, and her greatest joy is making a positive difference in our residents' lives daily. Trudy is married and has two daughters and one son. Her beautiful grandchildren are her whole world. In her free time, Trudy enjoys singing, dancing, and reading.
Laura Warren, Director of Sales & Marketing
Laura joined the Legacy family in 2022 after working in Las Vegas and Tucson communities. Originally from the Midwest, Laura embraces the opportunity to exceed the expectations of older adults and their families as they make the important decision to live in a community setting. When Laura isn't working, she enjoys traveling with her husband to visit their parents, four adult children, and national parks. She also enjoys cooking, gardening, and knitting items for her patient family members.
Connie Clark, Assisted Living Coordinator
Connie is originally from Long Beach, California, and has called Las Vegas home since 2016. She joined the Legacy family in 2020 as a Caregiver and is excited to now serve as Assisted Living Coordinator. Connie made the switch from childcare to senior living more than ten years ago and has found her passion in serving older adults. Especially important to Connie are the relationships she forms with her staff, and she believes everyone has something for her to learn. In her free time, she enjoys watching and playing golf.
Caroline Bates, Memory Care Coordinator
Caroline is originally the Philippines, where she received her Bachelor of Science in accounting. After moving to the US, she completed 18-month programs in both accounting and medical assisting in Honolulu, Hawaii. She discovered her passion for senior living while working as a private caregiver. Caroline sees every day as an opportunity to make a different in someone's life, and she loves to meet new people. When not at work, Caroline enjoys scuba diving, hiking, and traveling to beautiful places with her husband.
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Tracy McDougal, RN, Wellness Director
After a tennis career at GA Tech, Tracy began a long career with Delta Airlines where customer service was a priority! Tracy is a retired USAF Flight Nurse with a background in emergency medicine, hospital, college, and corrections clinics. His Legacy career started as a part-time nurse, but after getting to know the residents and staff, he couldn't wait to join full-time as Wellness Director. Tracy loves to travel, play tennis, and watch Atlanta Braves baseball.
Hector Rubio, Dining Services Director
Hector was born and raised in southern California. While attending college for finance and accounting, he supported himself by working in various food service operations including restaurants, hotels, country clubs, and casinos. He later moved to Las Vegas and began working in healthcare. With his 20+ years of experience in the food industry, Hector has stepped out of traditional healthcare fare and created next-level dining options. When he is not cooking for our residents, he enjoys playing many football, soccer, and golf.
Amber Tate, Recreation Director
Amber was born in Denver, Colorado, but moved to Las Vegas when she was 12. Most of her career has been spent working in schools with children, but in 2020 she discovered her passion for working with senior living. She has a servant's heart and is a tireless proponent of Legacy's Personal Touch Culture. Amber leads by example and believes everyone has an important role to play. In her spare time, she loves fashion, shopping, traveling, and of course, spending time with her family.
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Dodge Family papers
This collection includes genealogical materials, personal papers, and financial records relating to the Dodge family, especially William Pickett Dodge (1877-1966) and Robert "Bob" Hugh Dodge (1906-1997). Genealogical materials include a large binder, with accompanying USB flash drive, tracing the lineage of Orlando & Olive Dodge; Dodge and Cooper family documents; and photograph collections of Dodge family residences, the 2005 Richard Dodge wedding, and the 2009 Dodge family reunion. Personal papers include academic certificates, awards from professional associations, a postcard collection, and personal clippings. Financial records include real estate deeds and sale papers, farm ledgers, and assorted bills of sale.
Dodge Family
Dow Chemical Multicultural Resource Center records
This collection is comprised of material from the Dow Chemical Multicultural Resource Center at Kansas State University Libraries. Material within this collection covers multicurtural issues, personalities, and events at Kansas State University as well as the surrounding area. The bulk of the material in the collection is from the 1960s to the 1990s. There are photographs taken by Lawerence Wright, Jr., as well as posters from events sponsored by the Dow Chemical Multicultural Resource Center.
Hill Family papers
The collection was created by three members of the Hill family --Randall C. Hill, Maurice L. Hill, and Opal B. Hill. The earliest document in the collection is a contract from 1929, and the manuscripts continue into the 1980s.
The bulk of Opal B. Hill's collection is her personal files that pertain to fabric and fabric history, and they are divided by subject. Also, the museum material is divided by subject for convenience and accessibility.
The first series in the collection pertains to Randall Hill and concerns his involvement with Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity at Kansas State. The first five folders deal with the early years, starting with the house contract in 1929. The theme of his collection centers around financial responsibilities and dues that former members owed to the house. The correspondence from 1932 to 1942 is mainly letters to former members reminding them of their obligations and dues.
The next series, that of Maurice Hill, is very similar to Randall Hill's papers. Maurice Hill was also involved with a fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa, although his collection is smaller. In this series, however, there are a variety of formats; photos of former members, a newsletter, two fraternity songbooks, letterheads and envelopes, a gavel, and a large metal ring. There is a folder with a few letters from Hill to former members pertaining to dues owed to the fraternity.
The third series, and the largest of the Hill Family Papers, is that of Opal Hill. The first folder pertains to a dinner recognition for Hill and her involvement with the establishment of a museum at Kansas State University and her contributions to Kansas State. Since she was an art instructor, the rest of her collection relates to fabrics and tapestries, including Peruvian, Irish, Persian, and Japanese. The collection contains mostly printed material on various subjects in the form of news articles, essays, pamphlets, and booklets.
The fourth series, part of Opal Hill's papers, deals extensively with the proposal of a museum at Kansas State University. There are six folders, 1) letters, 2) proposals, 3) information about a curator, 4) grant information, 5) printed material about other university museums, and 6) articles about the museum. Another person who was heavily involved with the museum and is frequently mentioned throughout all six folders is Patricia O'Brian, who was a friend and fellow professor at Kansas State University.
The donation includes a collection of photographs associated with Maurice Hill and members of Phi Sigma Kappa. They are of members who were involved with K-State athletics including football, baseball, and track. Also, there are some photos of the Phi Sigma Kappa members who participated in the military training program, and a few group photographs of the fraternity members. The photographs have been removed and filed in the Photograph Collection, Vertical File-People, and in flat storage boxes. An inventory can be found following the container list in this register.
Also, there are six artifacts associated with the Hills that have been stored with the artifacts collection in the University Archives. These artifacts include 1) Phi Sigma Kappa metal nameplate, 2) Phi Delta Tau metal nameplate, 3) metal ring, 4) Gavel and base with Phi Delta Tau insignia, 5) Metals and ribbons with Phi Delta Tau insignia and 6) Lighted sign with Phi Delta Tau in Greek letters.
Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning records
Since the late 1980s Kansas State University administration has encouraged a more diversified educational background for students. Programs that have done this include Common University Degree Requirements (C.U.D.R.), University General Education (U.G.E.), and K-State 8. This collection includes materials related to general education at K-State and include assessment records, course changes and descriptions, assessment surveys, advising records, funding proposals, and committee records.
Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
College of Veterinary Medicine records
Administrative records, meeting minutes, publications, photographs, and information about awards and ceremonies from the College of Veterinary Medicine. The administrative records contain self-studies, statistical data, long-term development plans for the veterinary complex and programs, and information on a partnership with Amhadu Bello University in Nigeria (1969-1977).
The minutes cover faculty, dean's council, and department head meetings. The awards and ceremonies in this collection pertain to distinguished service awards and commencement. The publications in this collection are mainly copies of articles that have been assembled together about veterinary medicine. These reproductions make up the bulk of the earliest material in the collection.
Jack Hartman papers
The Jack Hartman Papers document Hartman's college coaching career from 1955-1986. They also include course material, correspondence regarding his retirement as head coach for Kansas State University and his nomination to the Hall of Fame in 1986, photographs, and artifacts. During Hartman's professional career he was head basketball coach at three schools including: Coffeyville (Kansas) Junior College (1955-1962), Southern Illinois University (1962-1970), and Kansas State University (1970-1986).
Oklahoma A & M, the first series, is comprised of material from courses in education and physical education that Hartman took while enrolled at the college.
The second series, Coffeyville Junior College (1955-1962), is divided into seven sub-series according to basketball season: 1) 1955-1956 contains a copy of the college magazine and awards; 2) 1956-1957 includes the college magazine from that year; 3) 1957-1958 consists of telegrams, tournament information, and newspaper clippings; 4) 1959-1960 contains newspaper clippings outlining highlights; 5) 1960-1961 includes tournament information; 6) 1961-1962 consists of tournament information and newspaper clippings, and 7) Miscellaneous includes scouting notes and a cutout of the Coffeyville Junior College mascot.
Southern Illinois University (1962-1970), the third series, is organized into eight sub-series: 1) 1962-1963 consists of newspaper clippings; 2) 1963-1964 contains newspaper clippings; 3) 1964-1965 includes telegrams, game statistics, programs, tournament information, and newspaper clippings; 4) 1967 National Invitational Tournament (NIT) consists of programs and newspaper clippings featuring the tournament highlights (Walt Frazier, who went on to star for the New York Knicks, was a member of the team); 5) 1967-1968 contains game statistics, programs, and newspaper clippings; 6) 1968-1969 includes game programs; 7) 1969-1970 consists of game statistics, programs, the Countrywide Sports magazine, and newspaper clippings; and 8) 1970 Transition from SIU to KSU includes newspaper clippings outlining Hartman's resignation from SIU and appointment as the new head basketball coach at Kansas State University.
The fourth series is Kansas State University (1970-1986). This series is separated into thirteen sub-series: 1) Clippings, undated, contains a number of newspaper clippings from unknown basketball seasons at Kansas State University; 2) 1970-1971 consists of telegrams, game statistics, programs, tournament information, and clippings; 3) KSU, 1971, Clippings includes newspaper clippings concerning Oklahoma University's basketball team; 4) 1971-1972 contains telegrams, game statistics, and newspaper clippings; 5) 1972-1973 consists of programs and newspaper clippings; 6) 1973-1974 contains game statistics, programs, and media guides, and newspaper clippings; 7) 1974-1975 includes programs and newspaper clippings; 8) 1975-1976 contains programs and newspaper clippings; 9) 1976-1977 consists of a photograph; 10) 1977-1978 includes newspaper clippings; 11) 1979-1980 contains college magazine and newspaper clippings; 12) 1984-1985 consists of newspaper clippings; and 13) 1985-1986 includes programs and newspaper clippings.
The series Correspondence (1986) is organized into two sub-series. The first sub-series is entitled Retirement and contains a number of letters regarding Hartman's retirement as the head coach for the men's basketball team at Kansas State University. It includes letters from Governor John Carlin (Kansas) and coaches Lou Henson, Tom Penders, "Wimp" Sanderson, and others. The second sub-series relates to Hartman's nomination to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1986 and contains letters of support from Henry Iba, DeLoss Dodds, Dean Smith, and others.
The Photographs series is divided into three sub-series: 1) Coffeyville Junior College consists of photographs from Hartman's time as head coach at Coffeyville; 2) Southern Illinois University includes Southern Illinois University's basketball team photographs, individual player photographs, a number of photographs of Hartman during his tenure as head coach, and a photograph from the National Invitation Tournament in 1967; and 3) Kansas State University contains a photograph of Hartman during his years as head coach at Kansas State University.
Artifacts comprise the last series and include a "Coach of the Year Award" trophy from the National Association of Basketball Coaches for the 1980-1981 season, and two plaques awarded to Hartman. The first plaque was given to him by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association (KBCA) in honor of his induction into the KBCA Hall of Fame in 1989. The second plaque was presented by Kansas State University honoring Hartman as the winningest coach in Kansas State University basketball history, 1970-1986.
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Department of Grain Science and Industry records
This accession includes milling-related activities of the Department of Grain Science and Industry mainly from 1977 to 1989. Other articles, clippings, photographs, and programs cover topics like catfish research, faculty member John Shellenberger, other departmental faculty, and fraternity and university events between 1955 and 2007. Items of note include programs from Charles Deyoe for a Gamma Sigma Delta (Kansas Eta Chapter) banquet, an Alpha Gamma Rho (Alpha Zeta Kansas Chapter) banquet, and KSU events and commencements.
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The Roy A. Kiesling papers (1970-1990) consist primarily of correspondence, reports, conference material, and publications related to Kiesling's 1970s and 1980s participation as a lawyer and engineer in the California and national Consumer movements. The papers have been arranged to reflect his administrative involvement in several non-profit organizations, state-level government committees, for-profit businesses, and his personal interest in various ongoing consumer-related issues.
The Consumer Organizations Series (1970-1990) consists of five boxes of memoranda, reports, speeches, correspondence, press releases, clippings, by-laws, receipts, and chronological files, which span Roy Kiesling's administrative involvement in several consumer movement organizations. Arranged in chronological order by organization, this series stands as one of the two greatest strengths of the Kiesling papers. Two of the boxes offer researchers a detailed view of the formative years of the Consumer Alliance, which was co-founded by Kiesling with Donald Kennedy and Paul Ehrlich in the aftermath of the ten-day 1970 "Summer Alumni College on the Environment" symposium at Stanford University. Similarly, many files cover Kiesling's activities as a board member and president of the Consumer Federation of California and the Consumer Cooperative Society of Palo Alto, including board minutes, resolutions, and reports of the organization's actions.
Researchers will also find the documentation relating to the Consumer Cooperative's files of particular interest in complementing the activities of other regional organizations. For example, where the Consumer Alliance was interested in broad issues, the Consumer Cooperative placed a greater focus on local issues, such as their affiliation with five California-based supermarkets in collaboration with the Berkeley Cooperative. This partnership outlined in the files accrued an annual collective gross of nineteen million dollars a year. Other files in this series include correspondence and reports relating to Paul Ehrlich's theories on population growth, the history of the California consumer movement, and the problems caused by the 1973 government protection of agricultural business and the teamsters over the United Farm Workers and the California shopper. Finally, still other materials center on the creation and maintenance of local cooperatives throughout California's urban landscape to the benefit of individual neighborhoods neglected by national store chains.
The Conferences Series (1970-1995) consists of three boxes of meeting minutes, programs, rosters, clippings, notes, testimonies, and audio tapes arranged in chronological order. Collected by Kiesling during the 1970s as a conference attendee, many of the early files in this series cover important events in the history of the Consumer Movement. These include the 1970 Summer Alumni College on the Environment, the 1971 Food Labeling Conference, the 1971 Consumer Union/American Council on Consumer Interests (whose records are retained by K-State Special Collections), the "Milwaukee Massacre" of 1973, and several Tucson symposia. Other files include "Tape-to-Tape" recordings of conference speeches and lectures given by Consumer Movement leader Colston Warne. Researchers will also find the documents relating to the creation of the national conference creating the Conference of Consumer Organizations (COCO), which was founded by Currin Shields, Louis Meyer, and Fr. Robert McEwen and aided by Roy Kiesling, to be of particular interest. The papers of Shields and Meyer are also housed in the Consumer Movement Archives at Kansas State University. These files include several issues of the organization's newsletter, Intercom, as well as documentation relating to Food Grading, Earth Day, consumer medicine, boycotts, and their relationship with the Consumer Federation of America.
The Government Consultancies Series (1976-1985) collects two boxes of documents arranged in alphabetical order and relating to Roy Kiesling's involvement as an advisor to the California Bureau of Automotive Repair. Spanning his eight years on the board of review in the California Department of Consumer Affairs, these documents include meeting minutes, chronological files, agendas, appointments, and reports, which largely focus on public grievances and service industry concerns with state and local regulations. One particularly noteworthy set of documentation involves the creation of a set of standards to deter the potentially fraudulent conduct and floating prices of individuals in California considered "Transmission Specialists." Other files contain complete runs of the government printed newsletter, Automobiliana (later renamed Car Clips), which Kiesling used for reference. The series also includes annual reports for the years 1975-1981. Researchers will also find of interest a set of correspondence between Kiesling and economist Milton Freidman on the role of government and regulation in consumer protection and their potential long-term effects on the American economy.
The Research Series (1970-1982) consists of nine boxes of documents arranged in alphabetical order, which served as reference material for Roy Kiesling. These files include reports, briefing books, correspondence, legal documents, industry advertising samples, and newspaper clippings, concerning the ongoing activities of Consumer Alliance, Kiesling's personal interest in energy awareness, tort law, and toys. The files also contain correspondence and clippings featuring the author's relationship with members of the Federal Trade Commission, Colston Warne, and Richard L.D. Morse. Other sections of this series also include accumulated research on such topics as Food branding, labeling ingredients and measuring, the viability of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) plans, "Intermittent Ignition Devices," utility rate normalization plans in California, and drafts of consumer protection agency legislation brought before the United States Congress. Kiesling considered the Intermittent Ignition Devices issue before the California Department of Energy, a subject covering the state government's regulation of pilot lights in water heaters an ideal example of well-intentioned consumer "regulation gone wrong." Finally, researchers will also find special interest in Kiesling's collection of memos, reports, and manuals relating to his time on the Consumer Advisory Council and Consumer Advisory Panel for Pacific Bell. The files cover issues relating to the deregulation of the telecommunications industry in the 1980s, subsequent court proceedings, customer guides, and the availability of telephone access for the physically challenged.
The Publications Series (1970-1988) consists of three boxes of periodicals, reports, and studies arranged in alphabetical order by title. Several of the files collect guides and directories for an assortment of businesses, including California cooperatives, consumer associations, and complaint guides. Other files contain consumer-related information pamphlets and bound public testimonies before congress as well as journal issues, newsletters, and a complete 1974-1978 run of The Workbook. Other folders collect a number of photographs, depicting period leaders in the Consumer Movement. The last box in the series contains sample outlines, topical chapters, and different manuscript versions of Kiesling's unpublished memoir. The majority of the documentation relates to the lessons he learned as a consumer advocate and his time in the Consumer Movement, including sections on Ester Peterson, automobile safety, the 1970s fight for the Federal Consumer Protection Agency Bill, Ralph Nader, the Tucson Consumer Symposium, Peter McCloskey, the production and marketing of Pringles, and Paul Ehrlich's Zero Population Growth organization. A Consumer Alliance embossing seal has been transferred to the artifacts collection in the University Archives.
As a lawyer in the 1970s and 1980s, Kiesling was instrumental in the growth of several California-based outlets of the growing Consumer Movement. A co-founder of the Consumer Alliance with Paul Ehrlich and Richard Harriman, Kiesling helped craft a declaration of consumer rights, which included stipulations for the inclusion of name and complete mailing address of product manufacturers, the name of the product, model number, warnings usage, and the list of ingredients with accurate percentages stated on the product label. During this time, he also took part in the national meetings of the Consumer Federation of America and, in the aftermath of the "Milwaukee Massacre," helped shape the Conference of Consumer Organizations. Later, he represented the Consumers United of Palo Alto, the Consumers Cooperative Society of Palo Alto, and became president of the Consumer Federation of California. Unlike many consumer advocates, Kiesling also served as an advisor to government and business, including the Bureau of Automotive Repair in the Department of Consumer Affairs and Pacific Bell/AT&T.
Kiesling, Roy
Aftosa International Roundup collection
This collection includes typewritten reminiscences of Aftosa International Roundup members, a membership roster, the 1990 roundup schedule of events, and two photocopied news clippings from the Laredo Morning Times relating to the 1990 roundup. It also includes four photocopied books which were reproduced for members of the society with the permission of the publishers:
Come Down Some Time [Memoir]. Anna Jane Holbrook (1955)
Doctor, Spare My Cow! [Memoir]. James A. Porter, Jr. (1956)
Wait for the New Grass [Novel]. Henry Birne (1961)
An Industry in Crisis: Mexican-US Cooperation in the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease. Manuel A. Machado, Jr. (1968)
Aftosa International Roundup
W. Harold Hilts class notes
The class notes of W. Harold Hilts comprise some of his coursework in veterinary medicine from 1917 to 1918. Classes include medicine, ophthalmology, therapeutics, and surgery, and each volume includes details about animal diseases and ailments. In addition to his handwritten notes, Hilts occasionally sketched body parts and other components of the subject matter.
Hilts, W. Harold
Arthropod Genomics Center and Ecological Genomics Project records
The Arthropod Genomics Center and Ecological Genomics Project was a part of the Targeted Excellence program through the Provost's Office beginning in 2005. More than 50 faculty members and about 100 totaly people worked with seasonal insects and ticks. They looked at genetics in ecological systems and changes due to environmental factors. This center is one of the pioneers in the area of both Anthropod and Ecological Genomics.
These records include information on an International Symposium and workshops, annual reports, budgets, activities, curriculum, infrastructure, newsletters, and records of visiting scientists.
Division of Biology
The materials within this collection relate mostly with Consumer Financial Archives and Office of Financial Accounts. Within those two categories, the materials include: historical documents, meeting minutes, assembly information, and information on the board of directors, correspondence, committee information and financial records. This information ranges from 1963 to 1983.
Lorena Meyers papers
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This collection maintains the papers regarding Lorena Meyers as related solely to the Federal Drug Administration. It includes interviews with Meyers as well as numerous speeches she gave throughout her career. Additionally, this collection includes a booklet containing the legislative history of the FDA and an orientation handbook for the FDA. Of important note is an interview completed by Meyers with Ronald T. Ottes in 1990 regarding Meyers' career through her retirement in 1984. This interview is bound with a speech Meyers gave as well as documentation from her job at the FDA.
Meyers, Lorena
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work records
US US kmk U2005.18r
The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work records were generated and collected by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University and pertains to the files of former faculty member Dr. Martin Ottenheimer. The collection contains faculty meeting minutes, state directories, post-graduation statistic reports, and faculty workshop agendas. Significant information includes outlines for graduate programs, anticipated student learning outcomes, and plans for the department to adopt guidelines from the Kansas Board of Regents. Approximate years covered in the records are 1974-2004.
John Thirwell's collection contains the Consumer's Association annual reports from 1966- and 1970-1977 and 1980. Additional publications include Which? & Consumer Association (1966), Articles of Association of Consumers' Association (1957), a brochure outlining the history of the International Organization of Consumers Unions from 1960-1981, and the 1987-1988 annual report from The Association For Consumer Research. The collection also includes a type-written overview of the Consumer Movement in Britain, minutes from one 1956 meeting of the Association of British Consumers, and minutes from two meetings of the Association for Consumer Research Limited, one dated 1957 and the other undated. There is also a handwritten graph showing the annual income of the Consumers Association from 1958-1990.
Thirwell, John
Alice L. Paddleford Wood papers
The Alice L. Paddleford Wood Papers contain personal writing, newspapers items from her college days, and advertising. The papers are housed in ten boxes.
The advertisements and the printed materials are from Wood's work in advertising from 1925 to 1933. Most of these are from the Periodical Publishing Company and the Jaqua Company, although there are some ads from the Chapin's and Martin's department stores. The printed materials are mostly catalogs and journals that advertise furniture or give tips on how to make a house look nice.
The Literary Works contain articles and writings from college that Wood wrote as well as clippings that that was about her. Some of the articles written by Wood are from the Brown Bull. These have been transferred to the cataloged publications area of the University Archives.
The Edited Works contain edited documents by Wood and the Subject Series focuses on important people, times, or events. Wood edited the Kansas State Collegian in 1924 and 1925, and the Manhattan Daily Nationalist from September 8, 1924, to November 18, 1924, excluding the Sunday editions. These papers are in the Edited Works. The Subject Series is organized alphabetically by subject heading. Topics include important events and people such as the sinking of the Titanic, President Harding's death, Theodore Roosevelt, and World War I.
The remainder of the series is smaller. The Correspondence Series has some memos from her work at the Periodical Publishing Company and letters to Clementine Paddleford. The Invitations Series has invitations that could have possibly been designed by Wood as well as those she received. The Photographs Series contains photos of furniture and room layouts. The Sign Series includes patriotic signs from World War I.
Wood, Alice L. Paddleford
John M. Lilley papers
John M. Lilley (1939-) served as Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Kansas State University from 1976 to 1980. During that period, he compiled research for a book on American composer Gail Thompson Kubik. He also developed files pertaining to K-State's New Student Transition Program and Ad Hoc Committee on Enrollment and Orientation.
Most records pertain to Lilley's Kubik research and include audio materials and recording information, sheet music, and photocopies of articles and scrapbooks. Administrative records associated with Lilley's role as Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences document enrollment programming during the late 1970s.
Elizabeth Goldsmith papers
This collection consists of five postcards and twenty-two letters, some including additional documentation, sent in response to Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, Ph.D., author inquiry in the New York Times Book Review section on August 19, 1990 seeking books on the history of home economics. All correspondence is dated 1990-1991.
Goldsmith, Elizabeth B.


A solar system is made up of multiple solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, a DC to AC power converter (inverter solution) and a framing system to hold the PV panels in place.
PV panels are generally fitted on the roof facing an northerly, easterly or westerly direction, and tilted at a particular angle to maximise the amount of sunlight that each panel receives.
Suburban homes in Australia and New Zealand are connected to the electricity grid via power lines. Our electricity system uses 240Volt alternating current (AC), but the electricity generated by solar panels consists of variable direct current (DC). To transform the DC electricity into AC electricity for ordinary household use, grid-connected solar PV systems use inverters attached to each PV panel called micro inverters or a single inverter for a string of connected PV panels called a central string inverter.
The third possible inverter solutions are power optimisers, which are a variance of the string inverter and the micro inverter. All these technical solutions can create a great solar system.
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Today houses with grid-connected solar systems consume solar-generated electricity first, before switching to the electricity grid if more electricity is required than the solar system was able to create.
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Frank Ocean is apparently swimming with new tunes. The singer-songwriter has premiered three songs during his concert Tuesday night at BMW Welt in Munich, Germany.
Fans on the scene have uploaded the tracks, the first of which can be streamed below.
Ocean's new works are an early sample of what direction the break-out artist has been taking on his anticipated sophomore album. On the basis of these tracks, it'll be another soulful, mellow affair.
A release date hasn't yet been suggested. But the album is definitely in the works. While on the red carpet of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, he told Billboard that he's "knee-deep in the next record. [I'm] just taking my time with it."
It turned out to be a big Grammys night for Ocean. His 2012 debut album "Channel Orange" took out Best Urban Contemporary Album and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
In the wake of his Grammys brace, Ocean shared that he was "like 10, 11 songs" into his new set. "It's another cohesive thing, bordering on a concept record again," he told Zane Lowe, the New Zealand-born BBC Radio 1 presenter.
Ocean's European tour continues June 27 at Tap 1 in Copenhagen, Denmark.


A scorpion is part of the arachnid family, which also includes mites, ticks, and spiders. Scorpions are about 3 inches long (about the length of a crayon), with eight legs and a small pair of claws that look like crabs' claws. A scorpion's stinger is at the end of its long tail.
Scorpions like to live in cool, damp places like basements, woodpiles, and junk piles. Usually, they're nocturnal (they sleep during the day and come out at night) and more active when it rains.
If you ever think you've been stung by a scorpion, tell an adult immediately. With an adult's help, put an ice pack on the sting to keep down swelling.
Because it's hard to tell a dangerous scorpion from one that is harmless, all scorpion stings must be treated by a doctor. Capture the scorpion for identification if it is possible to do so safely, and bring it with you to the doctor. Knowing the type of scorpion that caused the bite may make treatment easier.
Doctors treat someone stung by a scorpion with medications, if needed, that help take pain away and control the body's reactions to the venom. They may give a medicine (called antivenin) that fights the scorpion's venom to someone who doesn't get better with the other medications.
The best way to avoid getting stung by scorpions is to avoid the places where they like to spend time. Don't play in junk piles or woodpiles, and if you are working outside with big piles of logs, wear gloves. If you live in the American Southwest and keep your shoes in a garage, basement, or mudroom, shake them out carefully before putting them on.


1. The graph of direct proportion between x and y is a straight line which passes through origin.
3. The length and width of a rectangles are 65m and 39m respectively. The ration between the length and width is 5:3.
5. The value of a ratio changes if its numerator and denominator and both multiplied and divided by the same number.
6. The order of elements in a ratio is not important i.e. a:b and b:a in the same.
7. If b2 = ac, then a, b and c are in continued proportion.


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The Promise is Nick Dear's revival of Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov's classic 1960s play, in a stunning adaptation for the Tricycle Theatre, London, in 2002.
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In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers – Lika, Marat and Leondik – are thrown together. Losing everything from their past, they forge a new love that binds them and a new hope which keeps them alive: the promise of a better future.
Arbuzov's classic of the 1960s is revived here in Nick Dear's stunning adaptation for the Tricycle Theatre, London in 2002.
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Nick Dear's plays include Dedication (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 2016) The Dark Earth and the Light Sky (Almeida Theatre, 2012), Frankenstein (National Theatre, 2011), Lunch in Venice (National Theatre Connections, 2005), Power (NT, 2003), The Villains' Opera (NT, 2000), Zenobia (RSC, 1995), In the Ruins (Bristol Old Vic, 1990), Food of Love (Theatre de Complicite, Almeida, 1988), The Art of Success…
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Deep in the Hampshire countryside Edward Thomas, disaffected husband, exhausted father and tormented writer, scrapes a living. In 1913 he meets…
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Frankenstein by Nick Dear is based on Mary Shelley's thrilling and deeply disturbing gothic novel and addresses scientific responsibility, parental neglect,…
Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley
Power by Nick Dear is a dark and dazzling tale of ambition, corruption and illusion, dealing with the origins of the…
Nick Dear Plays 1 includes Art of Success, In the Ruins, Zenobia and Turn of the Screw.
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The Villain's Opera by Nick Dear is a truly contemporary version of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, revealing a modern London…
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Furious that Prince Hippolytus will not worship her, Aphrodite, goddess of love, seeks revenge. Infecting Hippolytus' stepmother, Phaedra, with an overpowering…
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Go Assert
=========

A simple Assert package for interface/json values have use in Go (golang)

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This package helps to compare values of undefined types like interface{}.
Convenient using with JSON values (json.Number/float64, string, bool, nil).
The package is intended not only for testing purposes.
The package allows compare ambiguous values between each other.

### Types and supported methods

| Type        | Equal/NotEqual | Less/Greater | In/NotIn |           JSON <-> Go          |
| ----------- |:--------------:|:------------:|:--------:|:------------------------------:|
| json.Number | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| float32     | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| float64     | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| int         | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| uint        | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| int8        | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| uint8       | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| int16       | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| uint16      | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| int32       | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| uint32      | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| int64       | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| uint64      | X              | X            | X        | number <-> json.Number/float64 |
| string      | X              | X            | X        | string <-> string              |
| bool        | X              |              |          | boolean <-> bool               |
| nil         | X              |              |          | null <-> nil                   |

### Example

```go
package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/openprovider/assert"
)

func main() {
	exampleJSON := `
	{
		"personA": {
			"name": "John",
			"age": 22,
			"height": 178,
			"weight": 82.59,
			"married": true,
			"hobby": ["fishing", "dancing", "cooking"]
		},
		"personB": {
			"name": "Jack",
			"age": 22,
			"height": 170.22,
			"weight": 65,
			"married": false,
			"hobby": ["photography", "singing", "cooking"]
		}
  	}`

	persons := make(map[string]interface{}, 0)
	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(exampleJSON), &persons); err == nil {
		personA := persons["personA"].(map[string]interface{})
		personB := persons["personB"].(map[string]interface{})
		fmt.Println(
			"Comparing of a personal details:",
			personA["name"], "and", personB["name"],
		)
		if assert.Equal(personA["age"], personB["age"]) {
			fmt.Println("Persons of the same age")
		}
		if assert.GreaterThan(personA["height"], personB["height"]) {
			fmt.Println(personA["name"], "higher than", personB["name"])
		}
		if assert.LessThan(personB["weight"], personA["weight"]) {
			fmt.Println(personB["name"], "weighs less than", personA["name"])
		}
		if assert.NotEqual(personA["married"], personB["married"]) {
			fmt.Println("Persons have a different marital status")
		}
		if assert.In("cooking", personA["hobby"]) &&
			assert.In("cooking", personB["hobby"]) {
			fmt.Println("Both persons like to cook")
		}
		if assert.In("dancing", personA["hobby"]) &&
			assert.NotIn("dancing", personB["hobby"]) {
			fmt.Println("Only", personA["name"], "likes to dance")
		}
	}
}
```

## Authors

[Igor Dolzhikov](https://github.com/takama)

## Contributors

All the contributors are welcome. If you would like to be the contributor please accept some rules.
- The pull requests will be accepted only in "develop" branch
- All modifications or additions should be tested

Thank you for your understanding!

## License

[MIT Public License](https://github.com/openprovider/assert/blob/master/LICENSE)

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To give practice and technique development with workshops throughout the day.
Preventing Back Disorders: No clinician can be successful without removing the cause of back troubles in patients. This section teaches delegates how to identify the causes and how to remove them. Lecture and workshop.
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UK-China links are hatching for London's hungry startups and VCs. Silicon Dragon is helping to bridge the gap between the UK, China and global markets.
Read post by Rebecca Fannin at Forbes, after recent visit to London's startup scene in Shoreditch and beyond, and her talk at the newly opened Cocoon Networks innovation space in London.
Chinese investment in American startups is booming, but some of China's firms are finding it difficult to navigate the U.S. venture world. Even so, the percentage of tech deals with Chinese investment grew from 1.7% to 4.1% between 2011 and the third quarter of 2016. WSJ.
Yunfeng Capital has led a Series C Round of $160 million in Yunmanman, a freight transportation and logistics mobile app operator in China. The previous round was led by Sequoia Capital China.
Airbnb is plotting a big China push. Airbnb plans to expand its small Beijing office tenfold to 300 employees over the next two years after years of tiptoeing into the country.
Exit overhang and lofty valuations trouble Kai-Fu Lee's Sinovation Ventures.
In Hyderabad, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has recently launched the innovative UberMotos, a two-wheeler taxi, to get things going.
Less traffic, less pollution! It's a new tactic for Uber in Asia.
Israeli-based crowdfunding company OurCrowd has opened an office in Singapore, its seventh office worldwide, to fund Asian startups and engage with Asian investors funding early stage and high-growth companies. Denes Ban, a successful entrepreneur and technology executive, has been appointed Managing Partner Asia and head of OurCrowd's Singapore operation.
OurCrowd has already made its first investment in the region, in Zoomcar, a car rental company in India. Co-investors were Ford Motor and Sequoia Capital India.
SoftBank Group's Masayoshi Son is set to invest $67 million in the U.S. and create 50,000 jobs. And, Apple's top assembler Foxconn has confirmed plans for U.S. investment. Trump effect taking hold?


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Q: Does the wavelength always decrease in a medium? I was studying a GRE Physics Test problem where optical light with a wavelength of 500 nm travels through a gas with refractive index $n$.
If we look at the equations for wave motion and index of refraction
$$c=\lambda_0\nu\quad\text{(in vacuum)}$$
$$v = \lambda\nu\quad\text{(in medium)}$$
$$n = c/v$$
we see that, if the frequency is constant, the wavelength decreases in the medium compared to vacuum. Is this a consistent property at all frequencies and for all mediums with refractive index real and greater than 1?
Are there dielectrics which change the frequency (still for n > 1), and is there an example of that?

A: The index of refraction of a material can be less than 1 at high frequency, this is called "anomalous dispersion" and it happens as you cross an energy level of certain materials. It means that the phase velocity of light of a certain frequency is higher than c.
If the index of refraction is constant, as it is for long wavelengths, n has to be bigger than 1 to avoid superlumimal communication.
The principle of energy conservation in a static environment forbids a frequency shift for a photon, since this would add energy or take away energy, and nothing in the medium is changing with the right frequency to do that. But light entering a moving medium shifts frequency. photons can combine to make one of double the frequency in a strong light beam in a nonlinear medium, and this corresponds to making higher harmonics of the classical field.

A: As for your second question, dielectrics which change the frequency, any medium which changes the frequency must be a nonlinear medium.  There are many of them.  They do not change the frequency continuously, but rather they generate higher order harmonics, an integral number times the original frequency.

A: The answer to your first question

Is this a consistent property at all frequencies and for all mediums with refractive index real and greater than 1?

is Yes.
Not only in optics but in other wave mechanics too.

Refraction of light is the most commonly observed phenomenon, but any type of wave can refract when it interacts with a medium, for example when sound waves pass from one medium into another or when water waves move into water of a different depth

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Q: Regular Expression format for 0000/123456/23 I have a text box for Registration Number and i want it to use the following format 2013/123456/25. I want to validate for in-correct format using Regular Expression Validator.
The exact format must be first 4 numbers/6 numbers/2 numbers -->(2013/123456/25)
Thank you for your help...

A: You could use something like this :
^\d{4}/\d{6}/\d{2}$


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Mountains are home to a rich variety of wildlife. Black bears, mule deer, big horn sheep, and mountain lions are the largest of the mountain's animals.
The mountain lion (Puma concolor) is also known as the cougar, puma, panther, and catamount, and is the largest wildcat in North America. Mountain lions have powerful limbs and can leap as high as 15 feet and as far as 40 feet.
Mountain lions like to prey on deer, though they also eat smaller animals such as coyotes, porcupines, and raccoons. They usually hunt at night or during the hours of dawn and dusk. These cats employ a blend of stealth and power, stalking their prey until an opportunity arrives to pounce, then going for the back of the neck with a fatal bite. They will hide large carcasses and feed on them for several days.
Mountain lions require a lot of room—only a few cats can survive in a 30-square-mile (78-square-kilometer) range. They are solitary and shy animals, seldom seen by humans.
They are very territorial and actively avoid other cats except during courtship. Their ranges can vary in size from 10 square miles to around 370 square miles; females tend to have smaller ranges than males.
Females have two to four kittens, which the mother raises alone. The kittens nurse for two months, and then start to travel with their mother at which time she teaches them to hunt. They will remain with their mother from 1 ½ – 2 years. Males that enter another male's territory have been known to kill the kittens so that females will be more willing to mate.
Life is particularly tough for large predators. Apart from the cold, their prey are scarce and quick-footed. The rare snow leopard lives above the snowline in the mountains of central Asia, preying on ibex and tahr.
Snow Leopards: Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes
The snow leopard, known for its beautiful, thick fur, has a white, yellowish or soft gray coat with ringed spots of black on brown. The markings help camouflage it from prey. With their thick coats, heavy fur-lined tails and paws covered with fur, snow leopards are perfectly adapted to the cold and dry habitats in which they live.
Snow leopards are found at altitudes between 9,800 and 17,000 feet in the high, rugged mountains of Central Asia. Their range spans from Afghanistan to Kazakstan and Russia in the north to India and China in the east. China contains about 60% of snow leopard habitat.
Snow leopards prefer to inhabit steep cliff areas, rocky outcrops and ravines. Such habitats provide them with the camouflage they need to ambush unsuspecting prey. They stalk their prey and usually spring from a distance of 20 – 50 feet. Their long and powerful hind limbs help snow leopards leap up to 30 feet, which is six times their body length.
Mostly active at dawn and dusk, snow leopards are rarely seen in the wild. Unlike other big cats, snow leopards are unable to roar. Solitary in nature, they pair only during the breeding season.
Females give birth in rocky dens lined with their fur. The young follow their mother on hunts at three months and remain with her through their first winter.
Snow leopards are top predators in their environment, and their favourite prey are mountain sheep and goats. Without the snow leopard there may be too many of these herbivores, which would overgraze the sparse alpine plants on the mountains, leaving no food for other wildlife.
Any creature that lives in the mountains must be able to cope with changing temperatures. For every 200 meters an animal goes up a mountain, the temperature drops by 1 degree Centigrade.
Many species of hoofed and herbivorous mammal such as goats, deer, sheep and llamas have adapted well to living in the mountains and are often found grazing on ledges and on cliff faces. These herbivores obviously attract large predators to inhabit mountainous regions, such as bears, cougars and mountain lions.
Most large mountain animals migrate. For example, in the Rockies elk and bighorn sheep, which feed on the alpine tundra foliage during the summer, begin to head downward in late fall to avoid the deep snows. They spend the winter below timberline in thick protected areas. As the snows melt in spring they move upward again, following the newly sprouted tender shoots of willow.
Large mountain animals, such as the Rocky Mountain goat, bighorn sheep, and the ibexes of the Alps are all very sure-footed. They each have specially designed hoofs which enable them to travel over really rough rocky terrain at great speeds, and also to traverse steep cliffs without losing their footing.
These hoofs are flexible and also have relatively soft arched bottoms (kinda like your rock-climbing shoes) which give them excellent grip on steep, rocky surfaces.
These animals also have to possess great agility, obviously, to jump and run over such rough ground, and they must develop it very quickly to avoid predators.
Baby bighorn sheep, for example, can stand within an hour of birth. Within a week it can follow its mother wherever she goes, and within two weeks it can run as fast as she can!
Mountain goats are among the most sure-footed of all mountain creatures. They are also very efficient in foraging for plants in areas with very "slim pickin's." These goats have four stomachs which allow them to extract the last bits of possible nourishment from their bleak rations. Cold is no problem for this animal; it has a nice woolly undercoat and long shaggy outercoat which works well as a wind breaker.
Small mammals include the coyote, raccoon, bobcat, several types of squirrels, skunk, chipmunks, grey fox and even beavers.
A very small mammal will lose heat so fast through its relatively large skin surface area, that it must stay extremely active and keep its little internal furnace continuously stoked, or it will freeze to death.
For example, the mountain shrew, which is perhaps the smallest mammal at high altitudes, has an extremely high metabolism; its heart beats up to 1200 times a minute, it must eat something at least every hour and must consume its own weight in food every day, or it will die.
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There are many species of birds as well.The winds that sweep around mountains make flight hazardous, but mountains are home to some magnificent birds of prey. Golden eagles are the masters of the mountain peaks and valleys, soaring on outstretched wings as they search for small mammals like pikas and marmots to eat.
Red-tail hawks and ravens are often seen soaring on the warm air currents along the slopes of the mountains. The deep blue Stellar's jays, noisy scrub jays, black crows, many species of woodpeckers, towhees, chickadees, and juncoes also make the mountains their home.
Other aerial experts are scavengers: the Andean condor is a type of vulture that rides the mountain air currents looking for prey. Another vulture, the bearded vulture or lammergeier of Africa and Eurasia, likes to eat the fatty bone marrow of dead animals. It carries the bones high up into the air and drops them to smash open on the rocks below.
Many smaller species of birds are found high up in the mountains. In the Alps, they include Alpine swifts, Alpine choughs and snow finches.
There are also a number of animal species that are not found on the mountains but inside them. Many smaller animal species have adapted to living their lives in the safety of caves and crevices. Caves are popular homes for amphibians such as toads and salamanders, numerous species of insect, and mammals such as bats.
Although the mountains themselves are standing strong, there are numerous threats to the wildlife that inhabits mountain habitats. Deforestation, quarrying and the development of ski-resorts are the most damaging advances to mountain wildlife, along with global warming and climate change which affects the growth of plants at higher altitudes.
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Endemic Plants of the Altai Mountain Country (WILDGuides)
Mountain plants have to face the most bewildering contrasts in living conditions of any plants found on Earth. These conditions are unbelievably harsh and impose great challenges to survival in the face of very high winds, extreme cold, wildly fluctuating temperatures, thin rocky soils, snow and ice, and a thin atmosphere that contains very little oxygen but huge amounts of UV radiation.
Because mountain plants grow so slowly, most cannot sprout, mature and produce their own seeds in a single season. For this reason most are perennials, which means that they live for many years, as does a tree, for example. These plants use most of their energy just for survival, and that's why it can take many years for them to put back enough energy to flower and produce seeds.
Due to the high winds and heavy snows on tall mountains, most mountain plants are very supple and have the ability to bend a lot before breaking, and any woody plants are stubby and low .
A lot of the high altitude plants have the ability to retain the heat of the intense sun to use throughout the frosty night. One great example is the snow willow. The buds of this plant are covered in a thick fuzz of tiny white hairs but the bud itself is black. The sun heats up the black core and the heat is trapped there by the translucent hairs, just like a miniature greenhouse.
Mountain soils are usually shallow at higher altitudes, partly because the soil has been scraped off by the ice caps that formed on most high mountains throughout the world during the last glacial interval that ended about 10,000 years ago.
Soils are generally poor in nutrients important to plants, especially nitrogen. Rapid erosion of loose materials is also common and is exacerbated by frost heaving, steep slopes, and, in temperate regions, substantial runoff of meltwater in spring.
Soil is virtually absent on rocky peaks and ridges. However, because of the cool, wet climate, many mountain areas accumulate peat, which creates local deep, wet, acidic soils. In volcanic regions tephra (erupted ash) may also contribute to soil depth and fertility.
The growth of vegetation depends on rainfall and temperature.The vegetation on the lower slopes largely depends on which climate zone the mountain is in. The foothills may be covered in broadleaved forests. These change to needleleaf trees (coniferous trees) like spruce and pines at on the upper slopes (higher altitudes).
As you climb higher up a mountain it gets colder and the trees eventually thin out and disappear. When it gets too cold for trees to grow, it is called a timberline.
The highest parts of the mountain support only sparse grasses and low-growing alpine flowers which can withstand the harsh conditions.
If the mountain is high enough even this vegetation disappears and the peak is bare rock and perhaps covered in snow and ice.
Most alpine plants don't grow very large in response to the limited resources available. A low-growing, compact form also gives the plants some protection from the wind, cold, snow and ice.
Many mountain species are at risk, especially because of climate change, with higher temperatures affecting the immediate environment and therefore forcing the plants to move in search of colder temperatures to ever-higher altitudes…
The edelweiss, alpenrose and gentian are undoubtedly among the best-known Alpine flowers, but are just a drop in the ocean of the 4,500 vascular plant species found in the Alps – that's 39% of all European plant species.
Of these 4,500 plant species, 350 are classified as native to the Alps or certain Alpine regions and are often found at high altitude. These native plants include the Zois' bellflower (Campanula zoysii), round-leaved St. John's wort and the carniolan lily to name but a few.
Around 900 different plant communities have been surveyed in the Alps and approximately 13,000 plant species, including:
1.Over 5,000 fungi
2. 4,500 vascular plant species
3.Around 2,500 lichens
4.Around 800 mosses
5.Around 300 eupatoriae species (e.g. hemp agrimony, boneset, snakeroot)
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Plateau mountains are actually formed by the Earth's internal activity; instead, they're revealed by erosion. They're created when running water carves deep channels into a region, creating mountains. Over billions of years, the rivers can cut deep into a plateau and make tall mountains. Plateau mountains are usually found near folded mountains.
Plateaus, known variously as tablelands or flat-topped mountains, are regions elevated thousands of feet above their surroundings. They are found on continents around the world, in countries ranging from Algeria to Mexico, from Mongolia to Zimbabwe.
In Antarctica, which has a greater average elevation than any other continent, most of the land outside of the mountain ranges can be considered plateaus. Covered by thick ice, many of these areas have no names.
Some plateaus around the world exist at such great heights that their climate is harsh and living conditions are bleak. Others, at much lower elevations, offer more favorable conditions. The terrain of some plateaus is unbroken and flat. The terrain of many others has been eroded away by water and wind over millions of years to create distinct and unusual landforms. As such, many plateaus are landforms filled with landforms.
The largest and highest plateau in the world is the Tibetan Plateau.The second-largest current plateau in the world is the Antarctic Plateau.The third-largest plateau in the world is the Andean Plateau in South America.
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Here's a fairly familiar kind of mountain. Volcanic mountains are created when magma from beneath the Earth makes its way to the surface. When it gets to the surface, the magma erupts as lava, ash, rock and volcanic gases. This material builds up around the volcanic vent, building up a mountain.
Some of the largest mountains in the world were created this way, including Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. Other familiar volcanoes are Mt. Fuji in Japan and Mt. Rainier in the US.
A large eruption can be extremely dangerous for people living near a volcano. Flows of searing lava, which can reach 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,250 degrees Celsius) or more, can be released, burning everything in its path, including whole towns.
Boulders of hardening lava can rain down on villages. Mud flows from rapidly melting snow can strip mountains and valleys bare and bury towns. Ash and toxic gases can cause lung damage and other problems, particularly for infants and the elderly.
Scientists estimate that more than 260,000 people have died in the past 300 years from volcanic eruptions and their aftermath.
Volcanoes tend to exist along the edges between tectonic plates, massive rock slabs that make up Earth's surface. About 90 percent of all volcanoes exist within the Ring of Fire along the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
About 1,900 volcanoes on Earth are considered active, meaning they show some level of activity and are likely to explode again. Many other volcanoes are dormant, showing no current signs of exploding but likely to become active at some point in the future. Others are considered extinct.
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Dome mountains are created when a large amount of magma pushes up from below the Earth's crust, but it never actually reaches the surface and erupts. And then, before it can erupt, the source of the magma goes away and the pushed up rock cools and hardens into a dome shape. Since the dome is higher than its surroundings, erosion works from the top creating a circular mountain range.
Dome mountains are not found in mountain belts such as the Himalayas or the Appalachians. Instead, they are individual, isolated structures that tend to occur in areas of essentially flat-lying sedimentary rocks. These layers are bent upward in a dome shape as a result of uplifting forces. If the rocks above the dome mountain's center have eroded away, the layers of rock may stand out as sharp ridges around the edge of the mountain.
There are two basic types of dome mountains. One type is called a plutonic dome mountain. The other type is referred to as a tectonic dome mountain.
Plutonic dome mountains form when overlying crustal rocks are pushed upward by an igneous intrusion, such as a laccolith. Because the intrusion occurs after the overlying crustal rocks have been formed, the igneous rock at the core of the mountain is younger than the sedimentary rocks around the core.
Many examples of plutonic dome mountains are found on the border of the Colorado Plateau and the Rocky Mountains.
Tectonic dome mountains result from uplifting forces that arch rock layers upward. All the rocks in the dome were present before the uplift occurred. The rocks at the core extend under the rocks around the dome and, therefore, must be older.
Two examples of tectonic dome mountains are the Adirondack Mountains of New York State and the Black Hills of South Dakota
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Fault-block mountains (or just "block mountain") are created when faults or cracks in the Earth's crust force materials upward. So instead of folding, like the plate collision we get with fold mountains, block mountains break up into chunks and move up or down. Fault-block mountains usually have a steep front side and then a sloping back side.
Although many mountain belts form as a result of compression, tension plays a large role in the formation of fault-block mountains. In some parts of the western United States, Earth's crust is slowly being uplifted. This uplift has caused the crust to stretch and crack, forming normal faults along the surface. As uplift continues, whole blocks of crust have been pushed up into fault-block mountains. Examples of such mountains are the Sierra Nevada of California, the Wasatch Range of Utah, and the Teton Range of Wyoming
Mountain Building: Block 4 (Understanding the Continents)
The most common type of mountain in the world are called fold mountains. When you see vast mountain ranges stretching on for thousands of kilometers, those are fold mountains. Fold mountains are formed when two of the Earth's tectonic plates collide head on; like two cars crashing together. The edges of each tectonic plate crumple and buckle, and these create the mountains.
The plates may be either 'continental and continental' or 'continental and oceanic'. The plates move towards each other, but there isn't a free space for them to move into because they are already touching each other. With two massive plates of rock pushing against each other and continually moving, all that rock has to go somewhere!
At a destructive plate margin where oceanic and continental plates collide, the oceanic plate is subducted, pulled under the continental plate – whilst the continental plate is crumpled upwards to form a mountain range. The Andes are an example of fold mountains formed at a destructive plate margin.
Some examples of fold mountain ranges include the Rocky Mountains in North America, and the Himalayan Mountains in Asia.
The European Alps are a popular tourist location, as well as home to over eleven million people. Countries such as France,Italy,Switzerland,Austria and Germany have developed tourism in their mountains and have thriving tourism sectors. Not all fold mountain areas as as well developed as the Alps of course.
The Himalayas are popular with tourists, but much harder for Europeans, Africans and Americans to get to.
Whilst the European Alps are the most populated mountains in the world, the Himalayas have a low population density and are so high that people cannot survive for long in the highest parts!
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Keeping up your cellphone service has killed 35 people
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Douglas Delaney working on a tower, which was labeled "the most dangerous job in America" in 2008. Josh Garner
Next time you text a friend to complain that your four-star dinner was only worthy of two stars, think of Joel Metz.
Three years ago, while repairing a cellphone tower in Kentucky, the 28-year-old was hit by an errant cable. It decapitated Metz and left his headless body swinging some 240 feet in the air, still attached to the tower by his harness.
Since 2013, 35 cell-tower repair workers and builders have been killed so companies like Sprint, Verizon and AT&T can satisfy customers who freak when the bars decrease on their iPhones.
In his book "Tower Dog: Life Inside the Deadliest Job in America" (Soft Skull Press, out April 25), Douglas Scott Delaney offers an inside look at the profession that, in 2008, the head of US Occupational Safety & Health (OSHA) called "the most dangerous job in America." Workers have perished after falling off of towers, dropping out of baskets attached to cranes, and being hit by falling debris. Occasionally, they even get electrocuted to death.
Delaney, 55, refers to himself and his fellow workers — some 15,000 people nationwide — as "tower dogs." They comprise an industry that builds and maintains the 215,000 cellular towers, rising as high as 2,000 feet each, that ribbon the United States. These men and a small number of women toil for an average of $18 per hour while dealing with snow, rain, subzero temperatures and gale-force winds.
"A tower goes down, the cellphone companies start losing thousands of dollars per second and somebody has to fix it," said Delaney, who entered the field in 1997 after years spent in Hollywood as a struggling screenwriter. Even if ice is falling from the sky, he added, "there's no waiting for a day when conditions are better and the work will be safer . . . The cost of having a clear cell signal is blood and lives."
Delaney, who lives in Reading, Kan., took his first climb during the dead of winter when the ground temperature hovered at 22 degrees Fahrenheit. By the time he cleared the tree-line, a stinging wind-chill-factor stomped the temp down to minus 8. Winds gusted at 45 mph.
He spent 11 hours up there even after he had what he called a "two-second heart attack," when the belt holding him in place slipped by about an inch. "It slides down the steel and you feel like your body will not stop dropping," he said. "The two seconds feel like two minutes and you think it's all over."
But the worst was when he was helping build a tower.
"We're putting on 2,000 pounds of steel," one circular piece at a time, Delaney recalled. "While I was tied on [to the ascending tower] with a leather harness, a 2,000-pound piece of steel hit me and I got turned upside down. Think about being hundreds of feet in the air and getting knocked on your ass . . . "I felt like a turtle on its back. I spent the next few minutes straining to get myself righted. Then I resumed working. What else was I going to do?"
Josh Garner
He considers getting struck by lighting an inevitable occupational hazard. "It happens to most of us," Delaney said, pointing out that there is an upside to hugging a steel tube as the bolts strike.
"When you are on the tower, you are part of the equipment. Your hair stands on end, your muscles ache, but the lightning goes right through you." Meanwhile, "Guys on the bottom get thrown 20 feet and feel more beaten up the next day."
They don't complain, however, because they are the lucky ones.
Delaney added that 96 percent of cellphone-tower deaths (in 2016, seven climbers perished) are preventable, caused by faulty or misused equipment, and workers who take shortcuts. In one case, a tower dog plunged 150 feet to his death when he decided to speed his descent by rappelling down a tower rather than going rung-by-rung with an attached harness continuously protecting him.
"When somebody dies [by being careless] that we don't know, we say, 'Stupid son of a bitch,' " Delaney said. "But when someone gets killed over something that [he] couldn't control — that is what puts gray hairs on our heads."
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800,000 potential visitors, in Canada and elsewhere across the world, will be reading all about the island of Ireland as a top holiday destination.
Award-winning Canadian travel bloggers, Dave Bouskill and Debra Corbeil – whose blog is called The Planet D – are visiting the island of Ireland right now, as guests of Tourism Ireland. They are here to attend the Adventure Travel World Summit, which takes place in Killarney next week.
Earlier this year, Dave and Debra spent almost two weeks here, experiencing our newest visitor attraction, the Wild Atlantic Way. This time round they are exploring Dublin, the East and South East of Ireland, as well as Northern Ireland. The intrepid travellers are blogging and tweeting their way through their action-packed programme – with an itinerary featuring everything from a Game of Thrones archery experience in Co Down and a visit to the iconic Giant's Causeway, to a boat trip around the Saltee Islands off the Wexford coast, a drive along the Copper Coast in Waterford and a walk through medieval Kilkenny. Their itinerary was designed by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and by Fáilte Ireland.
Married for over 15 years, Dave and Debra travel the world, showcasing their real-time journey and broadcasting their stories and experiences through their writing, photos, video and engaging social media. Often referred to as 'Canada's Adventure Couple', their blog is considered to be one of the top travel blogs in the world, with an audience of about 800,000 across their own website and social media platforms. They are also regular contributors to Canada AM, the most watched breakfast TV show in Canada.
Tourism Ireland in Toronto invited Dave and Debra to come and experience the island of Ireland – and inspire their 800,000 readers and followers to come and discover it for themselves. Alison Metcalfe, Tourism Ireland's head of North America, said: "Dave and Debra's blog is hugely popular, so their visit is a fantastic opportunity to make an impression on their 800,000 online followers and readers, as they explore the island of Ireland and then share their experiences. They have been documenting their visit online, with lots of great photos of their many adventures – and inspiring their readers with lots of great reasons to come and discover Ireland.
Despite global economic uncertainty in recent years, the Canadian market has performed strongly for tourism to Ireland. Visitor numbers are estimated to have grown by +28% over the period 2011 to 2013. In 2013 alone, approximately 125,000 Canadians visited the island of Ireland, spending about €91 million. Canadian visitors are highly prized as they tend to stay longer, spend more and visit more of the regions of Ireland than the average visitor.
As well as blogging about their adventures, Dave and Debra have been tweeting about their time here (@theplanetd) using the hashtag #PlanetDIreland; and posting regularly to their Facebook page.
Tourism Ireland undertakes a busy publicity programme around the world each year to raise the profile of the island of Ireland – and visits by influential media and bloggers are a key element of that programme.


Added on May 18, 2015 by Mark Roberts.
Minna Rainio's doctoral thesis, The Shadowy Rooms of Globalization, has been published and is available to buy from the University of Lapland library, or online (http://granum.uta.fi/granum/kirjanTiedot.php?tuote_id=24802).
A downloadable .pdf version is also available here.
The text is in Finnish, but there is a lengthy English Summary at the end.
Added on July 5, 2008 by Mark Roberts.
If you could see me now is a trilogy of multi-screen DVD video installations by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts. The series is comprised of the works Rajamailla (Borderlands) (2004), Angles of Incidence (2006) and Eight Rooms (2008). THe three works explore how different groups of people experience their changing social positions and relations, and focus on people who exist at the margins of society – margins which might be either physical (geographical) or social. Each of the works also deals with the transformations experienced when passing from one place, time or set of circumstances to another.
Rajamaiila is a DVD installation which takes the Finnish-Russian border as its central theme. The film focuses on the lives of people living on both sides of the border, using fact, fiction and fantasy to investigate how the presence of the border affects their lives.
The film is presented on three-screens - the left screen shows scenes from Finland, the right screen shows scenes from Russia, while the central screen shows scenes from the border cut between the two countries. The images from Finland and Russia have been photographed in villages and areas which lie very close to the border.
'Eight Rooms' is an installation consisting of eight video projections that deals with the trafficking of women into Finland. The eight screens are arranged to form a circle around the audience. The audio soundtrack for each screen features one story - one aspect or point of view – detailing the experiences of a trafficked woman. Each story is associated with a different screen. Each screen depicts a bed in a room. The beds are initially untidy. As the story begins, a cleaning woman enters the room and begins to tidy the room. When the room has been tidied, she leaves the room (and the screen) and enters the next room on the adjacent screen. Occasionally, the images on the screens are interrupted with other footage supporting the dialogue. As the cleaner moves from screen to screen, the tidied rooms behind the audience become untidy again, so that by the time the cleaner has made a full circuit around the installation, the first room is once again untidy and in need of cleaning.
Angels of Incidence deals with the experiences of immigrants moving to other countries. The work is comprised of three video scenes photographed in three separate locations – an immigration interview room, an immigration detention centre, and an administration building where decisions concerning the immigrant's future are made.
Each of the spaces photographed for Angles of Incidence are spaces of power – situations which the immigrant must pass through in order to enter and be legally accepted in his or her new society. The video material consists of static 'photographic' shots – there is only one long shot of each space. No people are visible in the spaces, rendering the spaces, and their significance, all the more powerful.
Each image is accompanied by audio interviews with immigrants detailing their experiences in each of the specific locations. Their stories complement and contrast with the stark images.