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RelationSpace Digital Services Pty Ltd and each of its related entities (together RelationSpace Online, we, us, our") understand our users' concern about the privacy of their information when collected by us.
Our Privacy Policy describes how we treat any Personal Information that we receive from our users about themselves. It outlines the type of Personal Information we collect, how that information may be used, to whom we permit access and how we protect that Personal Information. Our Policy is part of our ongoing commitment to the protection of our users' privacy.
We are dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and security of the Personal Information which we collect about our users and do so in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (including the Australian Privacy Principles (APP's)). This dedication extends to information or opinions that are collected about an individual in circumstances where their identity can reasonably be determined.
Any questions about the general privacy principles may be directed to the office of the Australian information Commissioner whose website details are: www.oaic.gov.au.
1. Types of Information
Personal Information means any information (or an opinion) about you from which your identity is apparent, or can be reasonably ascertained. This includes most information that is stored with or linked to your name, address, or other identifying features. Personal information may also include Sensitive Information.
Sensitive Information is a subset of Personal Information and includes (but not limited to) information relating to your race, religion, political opinions, sexual preferences, and health information.
2. Open and Transparent Policies (APP 1)
We have and will continue to take all reasonable steps to implement and maintain practices, procedures and systems to ensure that we comply with all our obligations under the Privacy Act. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this policy or any matters arising from it.
3. Anonymity and Pseudonymity
You may not wish to identify yourself or you may wish to use a pseudonym and this is an option provided that this does not make it impractical for us to deal with you.
Please Note that it will generally be impractical for you to deal with us anonymously or under a pseudonym:
if you have agreed to obtain our services as part of a referral from a health professional, or a Court or Tribunal. The reason for this is because you (or us) may need to confirm your participation in our services and/or provide the health professional, Court or Tribunal with the information you provide to us, if it required by law that we do so, or
you wish to enter into a contract with us. The reason for this is because your identity is a relevant factor creating a legally binding arrangement. It is material to our decision of whether or not to enter into agreements with you.
4. Collection of Information (APP 3 & 4)
4.1. Personal Information (APP 3)
The sort of Personal Information we collect may include:-
your name;
your address;
your contact information; and
all other Personal Information that is necessary to provide you with adequate services.
We only collect Personal Information that is reasonably necessary for us to carry out the services that we offer to you, and to ensure that we comply with all laws in relation to the provision of our goods and services. This may include Sensitive information.
4.2. Sensitive Information
The sort of Sensitive Information we collect may include:-
your health/medical history;
your family health/medical history;
your ethnic background;
information about your current lifestyle;
any criminal convictions;
any religious or political affiliations; and
any other Sensitive Information that is necessary to provide you with adequate services.
Sensitive Information will only be collected where it is reasonably necessary to perform our functions and, if we choose to collect Sensitive Information, we will seek your express written consent in advance.
Collection of such Sensitive Information is done in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.
5. How We Collect Information (APP 5)
RelationSpace Online collects information:
directly from you when you provide information (such as an email address and personal details) on our website or input into any of our software programs, including, but not limited to, the information provided on your registration form;
information collected and collated from publicly available sources, including search engines, websites, social media, publicly available data bases, third party sources and referees, personal contacts and industry connections;
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to a device when the user accesses certain websites. A cookie will allow a website to recognise a user's device. A cookie will contain the name of internet location (the domain) from which the cookie has come and the lifetime of the cookie (a cookie will usually expire after a certain period of time).
Two types of cookies may be used on our website:
Session cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site; and
Persistent cookies which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
How we use cookies on our site and what information we collect
We may use session cookies to allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
We may use persistent cookies:
From time to time to help us recognise you as a unique visitor when you return to our website and to monitor your use of our website;
To allow us to link you to any of our Partners of Affiliates should you come to our website through a paid advert or banner on a website of an Affiliate or Partner.
Use of Web Beacons
Some of our web pages may contain web beacons which allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are used to track the effectiveness of a particular marketing campaign.
6. Third Party Collection of Information (APP 5)
6.1. Types of Third Party Information
On occasion, we may need to collect information from a third party source to ensure that we are fully informed in relation to the issues that we need to address in order to provide you with our services. This may include:
any person or organisation that assesses health status or care requirements;
health providers or facilities;
your legal representative or a Court or Tribunal;
health practitioner of the client or resident; and
family members or next of kin.
6.2. Need for Consent for Collection of Third Party Information
Collection of information from a third party source will only be conducted if:
you have provided consent for RelationSpace Online to collect your information from a third party source; or
we are authorised by law to collect the information from someone else; or
it is not reasonable or practical for us to collect this information directly from you. This may include a situation where your health is at risk and your Personal Information is needed to provide you with emergency medical treatment.
Upon the engagement of our services, you should identify any parties to whom you do not wish to provide your Personal Information or from whom you do not wish your Personal Information to be accessed.
7. Why We Collect Information and How We Use Information (APP 5)
7.1. Use of Information
We collect and use information for business purposes with respect to our products and services and other business relations involving our users. We gather this information by lawful and fair means without being unreasonable or intrusive. We may use this information to:-
identify you and to assist you to access our relevant services more easily;
consider any application you may make and provide or change the services you require,
administer and manage those services, including charging, billing and collecting debts;
gain an understanding of your information and needs in order for us to provide you with better, more personalised services that are tailored to your requirements;
inform you of ways the services provided to you could be improved;
conduct appropriate checks for fraud and creditworthiness;
research and develop our services using third party services;
maintain and develop our business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems;
inform you of matters about which we believe you may have an interest;
assist statistical, actuarial or research analysis as we consider is necessary for business, professional or academic purposes.
notify you of our service offerings from time to time; and
comply with legislative and regulatory requirements.
7.2 Disclosure of Information
Unless we are required to provide your Personal Information to others by law, by court order or to investigate suspected fraud or other unlawful activity, your information will only be seen or used by persons working in or for RelationSpace Online on a need to know basis. In saying that, we may disclose Personal Information (including Sensitive Information if necessary):
To your legal representative or a health professional with your consent;
To a Court or Tribunal who has referred or directed your participation in our services and where required by law;
De-identified information may be disclosed to researchers or academics for the purposes of statistical analysis or use in academic reports or papers
to our business affiliates to whom we will share aggregated demographic information. This is not linked to any Personal Information that can identify any individual person. We share users' Personal Information within the RelationSpace Online network for the purposes of receiving services or information about our services. In these cases, the user identifies the location(s) within the RelationSpace Online network to which the Personal Information is to be sent; and
as required or permitted by law or with your prior consent;
companies within RelationSpace Digital Services Pty Ltd group when necessary and in connection with the purposes listed above.
8. Direct Marketing (APP 7)
By accepting our services you expressly permit us and RelationSpace Digital Services Pty Ltd group of companies to use your information for our direct marketing purposes and the purposes expressly set out in this policy. You consent to our use of your information to issue product and professional mail outs by email, fax, social media or letters and undertaking other marketing or service based activities.
If you do not wish to receive any of these materials, please contact us at support@relationspaceonline.com.au to opt out. Alternatively, all electronic communications contain an unsubscribe link which can be used to opt out.
You can change your mind about receiving materials or information about our products and services at any time by contacting us.
You may opt out of any direct marketing service at any time.
We will never sell, license, trade or provide your information to another for direct marketing purposes.
9. Cross-Border Disclosure of Personal Information (APP 8)
We may share your information within RelationSpace Digital Services Pty Ltd international group of companies who may be located outside Australia. We may use new technologies from time to time and Personal Information may be stored on servers outside Australia. We will not transfer Personal Information to a recipient in a foreign country unless we have appropriate protections in place as required by the relevant privacy laws. Your information will be stored on our data base for such period of time as required by law.
10. Identifiers (APP 9)
We will use our own identifiers and not those assigned by the government unless we are required to do so, or the Australian Privacy Principles or other another law legislates us to do so.
11. Accuracy of Personal Information (APP 10)
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, up-to-date and complete. Please contact us if there is a change in your circumstances that requires an update to be made to our data or if you have an account with us, you may choose to modify your account details which can be accessed by logging in via www.relationspaceonline.com.au
12. Security of Data (APP 11)
How We Protect Information
We will take all reasonable steps to protect the information we hold from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. When information is no longer needed we will destroy or de-identify it.
We require our employees to protect the confidentiality of information as required by applicable law. Access to information by our employees is limited to administering, offering, servicing, processing or maintaining of our products and services. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect information. When we share or provide information to other persons or organizations, we contractually obligate them, if required by law, to treat information as confidential and conform to our privacy policy and applicable laws and regulations.
If a breach of security arises, we shall comply with the Mandatory Disclosure laws set out in the Privacy Act 1988.
13. Correction and Access to Information (APP 12)
You may request access to the information which we hold about you and request its correction if you believe it to be incorrect. We can also correct your information if we are satisfied that it is incorrect.
If your request is particularly complex or requires detailed searching of our records, there may be a reasonable cost to you in order for us to provide this information.
There are some circumstances where we can refuse to give access to information. These include where given access to the information would:
pose a serious threat to the life, health or safety of an individual or the public,
have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others; or
be frivolous or vexatious.
Other exceptions are detailed the Australian Privacy Principles.
If you wish to access or correct your information, please contact RelationSpace Online at the address shown:
RelationSpace Online
Email: support@relationspaceonline.com.au
For security reasons, any request for details of information held by RelationSpace Online should be made in writing. You may be asked to provide proof of identify.
If you have a complaint regarding our management of your privacy you may access our internal dispute resolution (IDR) process by contacting us. The process will be as follows:
Upon receipt of any such complaint, RelationSpace Online will:
use a process that is accessible, flexible and timely and done in accordance with the principles set out in the Privacy Act;
focus on maximising the opportunity for the complainant and RelationSpace Online to work together to achieve a successful resolution to the complaint;
strive to identify and address any systemic issues that may arise through the lodgement of the complaint and rectify or deal with such issues to prevent their recurrence in the future.
The process referred to above will include the following steps:
At first instance you should contact us requesting a resolution. We will appoint a person to assist you with your complaint.
If the matter cannot be resolved you may ask him or her to refer it to the Clinical Director to engage the IDR process which may take up to 20 twenty business days to make a decision.
You will be notified of our decision. If you remain dissatisfied with the outcome, we will also inform you of your right to take this matter to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
You have 12 months from the date you became aware of your privacy issue to lodge your complaint with the OAIC. The contact details of the OAIC are:
Office of the Australian information Commissioner
ACT 2601
Website: www.oaic.gov.au
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
15. Update of Policy
We may from time to time update this Privacy Policy in accordance with new laws and technology or changes to our operations or practices. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post these changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances under which we disclose it.
16. Further Information
If you would like further information on our privacy policy or to access or correct your Personal Information please contact:
Contact Name Catherine James, Practice Manager
If you have a concerns about how we deal with privacy issues you can contact our Privacy Officer or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-complaints
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Group seeks to protect Earth from asteroids, meteors
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
The meteor exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs when it hit the atmosphere, shattering into pieces. Scientists say it was six and half feet across, the largest to hit land in more than a century. More than 1,000 people were injured, and about 3,000 buildings were damage.
Scientists the world over, along with NASA, insisted the meteor had nothing to do with the asteroid since they appeared to be traveling in opposite directions.
In some ways, the timing of Friday's meteor strike could not have come at a better time. All that damage was miniscule compared with what the larger asteroid would have done.
The scary part is if it had been coming directly at us, we would have been helpless. But a local foundation wants to change that.
It happened just when most of us thought we had the unpredictable universe at bay. Well now the residents of Chelyabinsk, Russia and the rest of us for that matter know better.
You might think of it as a cosmic warning shot, a headline stealer from the much larger and dangerous Asteroid 2012 DA14 which, as expected, missed Earth by 17,000 miles. But here's the unsettling part, "Twenty years ago, if 2012 DA14 flew by Earth, we would never have known it," said NASA scientist Jim Green, P.hD.
Hence the B612 Project based out of Mountain View, a plan to launch a privately financed, deep space telescope called Sentinel. It would map space, giving Earth decades of advanced warning rather than a year, a month, or even a few seconds like we saw in Russia.
Its CEO is former NASA astronaut Ed Lu. He told us Sentinel would have made a difference had Friday's larger asteroid been on an impact course with Earth, "With 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years of notice, it's actually pretty straight forward to deflect an asteroid," he said.
That's what we would have had with Friday's big one. It could have wiped out an area as large as our own.
That's why the B612 Foundation is hoping to raise public donations of $450 million. They says it's a small price, compared with paying for the alternative.
"How could we let our civilization or parts of our civilizations, or huge parts of our cities go away, be destroyed if we could do something about it?" asked Lu.
One interesting note, we learned Friday that a government funded think tank, the Rand Institute, has concluded that if scientists were to learn of an impending, end-of- life-on-earth impact, the public should not be warned. It says the panic, misery, and disruption would not be worthwhile. The institute suggests telling people only if there is something the human race can do.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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Peg Aloi
Peg Aloi was a freelance film critic for the Boston Phoenix from 1997 through its demise in 2013 (one of her reviews appeared in the last issue). She wrote the film column for Art New Englandfor several years, and currently she writes film and television criticism for Boston's online arts criticism magazine The Arts Fuse, as well as The Orlando Weekly, Diabolique and Crooked Marquee. She taught film studies at Emerson College from 1999 through 2009. She co-edited an anthology of essays on HBO's Carnivale (with Hannah Johnston) and is currently writing a book on witchcraft in pop culture. She is a traditional singer and an award-winning poet. Peg's favorite film of all time is Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Dana Barbuto
A Boston native, Dana is the longtime arts and entertainment editor at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy. She writes film reviews, features and the blog It's Only Entertainment. She loves movies, beer, football, Legos and superheroes. Follow her on Twitter at @dbarbuto_Ledger.
Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a film critic and culture columnist for the Boston Globe and the author of the critically acclaimed "Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame" (Anchor, 2012). He has been at the Globe since 2002; before that, he wrote for Entertainment Weekly. He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, where he helped program the Cinemax pay-cable service. Burr has also written "The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together" (Anchor, 2007) and an e-book, "The 50 Movie Starter Kit: What to Know if You Want to Know What You're Talking About" (Random House, 2013). His work has appeared in The New York Times and many other publications. He regularly appears on such local and national media programs as WBUR's "Here and Now" and WGBH's "Greater Boston." He teaches courses in film criticism and film history at Boston University, Tufts University, and Emerson College. A member of the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics, Burr studied film at Dartmouth and New York University. He lives in Newton, MA. In 2017, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
Laura Clifford
Laura is a Boston native who began producing and cohosting Reeling: the Movie Review Show in 1991. The biweekly broadcast has been outpacing 'The Simpsons' in number of episodes ever since. Its companion website, Reeling Reviews, went live in 1995. Laura loves Scotland, reading, growing orchids and all things weird. She also loves the Groucho Marx quote "I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member," and yet here she is. Laura is also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Online Film Critics Society.
Ethan Gilsdorf
Ethan Gilsdorf is a journalist, critic, essayist, memoirist, poet, and teacher, and author of the book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and other Dwellers Of Imaginary Realms. He is a film critic for WBUR's TheARTery and Art New England magazine, and his articles and reviews on pop culture, film, books, food and travel have appeared in dozen of magazines and newspapers, from the New York Times, New York Times Book Review and the Boston Globe to Wired, Esquire, National Geographic, Psychology Today, and the Washington Post. He is a speaker and presenter, and appears on TV and radio networks such as NPR, The Discovery Channel, PBS, CBC, BBC, the French TV network Arte, and in documentary films. Gilsdorf teaches at and serves on the board of directors of GrubStreet, where he also co-founded its Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP). Read more at ethangilsdorf.com and Twitter @ethanfreak.
Tim has been a SAG/AFTRA actor for 30 years and a Boston musician with contributions to several film soundtracks for 40 years. His dubious legacy will no doubt include that he was in the 10th row for the Beatles premier on the Ed Sullivan Show, and was in the 11th band to be featured on MTV. He has completed four documentary films as a writer, producer, and director. His first "Chaos and Order: Making American Theater" was selected for archives of the American Theater Wing. His latest American Gurner follows his adventures competing in the world championship Gurning competitions in Egremont, UK. He currently writes for the Arts Fuse. His work can be found at TimJacksonWeb,com. Twitter@ professorjackson.
Peter Keough
Peter Keough had been Film Editor at The Boston Phoenix from 1989 until the paper's demise in 2013. The Boston Globe took pity on him and he has been writing there ever since. He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, The National Society of Film Critics, the International Federation of Film Critics, the Critics Choice Awards group and will join any organization that offers free food at their meetings. Despite his busy schedule he has found time to edit the book "Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence and Censorship," published by Mercury House Press in 1995. Critics raved, declaring it "a book with a long title" and "full of amusing typos, factual errors and misspellings." It sold over seventeen copies, most to now estranged family members and friends. He followed this up in 2013 with "Kathryn Bigelow Interviews" from the University Press of Mississippi, a book which most people agree reads better in the Korean translation.
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel is a Boston-area film reviewer, past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and founding co-president of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. He reviewed for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette from 1984 to 2009. His reviews can now be found at North Shore Movies.net. Kimmel's byline has appeared in numerous publications, including Variety, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, Film Comment, the Internet Review of Science Fiction, Space and Time magazine and Cinefantastique. His book on the history of the Fox television network," The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television" (2004) received the Cable Center Book Award. His other books include "The Dream Team – The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood."
Loren King
Loren King has been reviewing movies since the '80s when she was film critic for The Mass Media at UMASS/Boston. She's even sometimes gotten paid for them. She's written about film for The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, The Provincetown Banner, Boston Spirit, Chicago Tribune, Bay Windows, Filmmaker, The Advocate and many other publications and web sites, some of which are still around. Besides writing arts features, she currently covers local film festivals and events in "Scene Here," her regular column for The Boston Globe and reviews movies for Newport This Week. She served as president of the BSFC from 2004-2010 and is also a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.
Joyce Kulhawik
Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning Arts & Entertainment Critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from the Oscars, the Emmys, and The Grammys. Kulhawik is currently President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the Boston Online Film Critics Association. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted syndicated movie review programs with Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. She regularly lectures on movies at Cambridge's Brattle Theatre, The Center for the Arts in Natick (TCAN), and annually judges the "48 Hour Film Fest" in Boston. Look for her reviews online at JoycesChoices.com, RogerEbert.com, and WBUR's The ARTery.
Tom Meek
Tom is a critic at Cambridge Day, the WBUR ARTery and The Charleston City Paper, and has appeared regularly on TV (NECN) and radio. Tom values a harmonious universe and rides his bike everywhere. You can follow him on Twitter @ TBMeek3.
Brett Michel
Brett writes for The Improper Bostonian. You can always find Brett dressed in black, donning a cap and sitting in the middle of one of the very front rows of the theater.
Jake Mulligan
Jake Mulligan is the associate film editor and film critic for Dig
Boston, an alt-weekly newspaper.
Janice Page
Janice writes about film for the Boston Globe, where she is also editor of book development. She was previously on staff as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times and the Providence Journal-Bulletin, and she cut her journalistic teeth as editor of the weekly Old Colony Memorial in Plymouth, Mass., where the most famous attraction is a rock. Her new-media adventures include serving as executive producer of MSN's now defunct BostonSidewalk.com, which was supposed to have funded her early retirement. A native of Braintree, Janice moved back to Massachusetts in 1997 after Lauren Bacall commanded her to leave L.A. and save her soul. Bacall ended one interview by saying that Boston is home to "real people." This is true, even if oftentimes you find them sitting in the dark, reviewing torture porn.
Gerald Peary
Gerald Peary writes about film and books for The Arts Fuse. Before that, he was for many years a film critic for The Boston Phoenix and a film professor at Suffolk University. A Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, he is the Programmer for the Boston University Cinematheque, a former Acting Director of the Harvard Film Archive, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. An author of eight books on the cinema, and a Fulbright Scholar in Belgrade, ex-Yugoslavia, Peary has made two feature documentaries, For the Love of Movies: the Story of American Film Criticism, and Archie's Betty and is completing a third, The Rabbi Goes West. He acted in the cult indie feature, Computer Chess. gpeary@geraldpeary.com. http://www.geraldpeary.com/
Betsy Sherman
Betsy first imposed her idiosyncratic taste in movies on other people when she programmed for the Wellesley College film society while an undergraduate in the 1970s. She insisted on running silent film weekends when everyone else just wanted to see Barbra Streisand movies. At one point during her thirteen years writing about movies for The Boston Globe, she was chastised by another journalist for having given Cabin Boy four stars. While she was interviewing Rod Steiger for the Globe, he began to cry (it wasn't her fault). Betsy has also written for The Boston Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, Art New England, and WBUR online, among others. In 2011, she received a master's degree from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and she is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. She now writes about movies for the website The Arts Fuse.
Ed Symkus
Ed Symkus, a Boston native, reviews films for GateHouse Media and WCAP-AM (980), and writes film features for the Boston Globe and GateHouse. He's been offering opinions about movies since he was dropped off at the Franklin Park Theatre in Dorchester when he was 7. His favorite movie is "And Now My Love." The only film that gives him hives is "Liquid Sky." An Emerson College graduate, he's a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, is co-author of "Wrestle Radio U.S.A.: Grapplers Speak" (ECW Press), plays guitar, shook hands with Muhammad Ali, went to Woodstock, and can be seen as an extra in "The Witches of Eastwick," but only if you squint.
Robert Tremblay
Robert has been the film critic at the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham for almost 15 years. During his tenure at the News, which began in 1989, he has been a bureau chief, feature writer, copy editor and business writer. He is also the paper's longtime restaurant critic. Before joining the News, he was as an editor for the Town Crier publications in Sudbury, Weston and Wayland. From 1978 to 1985, Tremblay worked at the Wellesley Townsman, first as a reporter and later as its editor-in-chief. From 1986 to 1988, he lived in Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne. Tremblay is also a longtime member of the Harvard Square Scriptwriters, a screenwriters support group. He is the author of 17 screenplays.
Greg Vellante
Greg Vellante has been writing film criticism professionally since before graduating high school. For six years, he was the chief film critic for the Eagle Tribune newspaper, writing reviews, interviews, and film-centric features. After graduating from Emerson College in Boston, Greg moved on to explore the dizzying labyrinth of Los Angeles for just about two years, before returning back home to Boston. He now writes regularly for EDGE Media Network and Spectrum Culture. Greg pursues music, creative writing, and filmmaking in his free time, and has penned five screenplays. His favorite films include Paul Thomas Anderson's MAGNOLIA, Quentin Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN, David Lean's BRIEF ENCOUNTER and every single film ever directed by Charles Laughton. He can often be found at the historic Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, his favorite place in the world.
Also known as the mysteriously youthful James Verniere, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University with a Master's Degree in English literature and has been the film critic for the Boston Herald since many of you were little children—and will continue to be when many of you are dead and buried. He is also a member of the National Society of Film Critics. Before becoming critic for the Herald, Verniere was a full-time free-lance writer for such publications as Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Moviegeor's Guide, The Aquarian Arts Weekly, Heavy Metal and Twilight Zone. Among his more noteworthy, non-film-related activities was teaching a semester of Freshman Composition at the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women when the Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur) staged her escape.
Steve Vineberg
Steve writes for The Threepenny Review and Critics at Large (criticsatlarge.ca) and has been published in The Boston Phoenix, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Christian Century, The Perfect Vision, The Oxford American, and many other venues. He is the author of three books: Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style (winner of the Joe A. Calloway Prize for Best Book in Theatre), No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade, and High Comedy in American Movies: Class and Humor from the 1920s to the Present. He is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at College of the Holy Cross, where he teaches film and theatre.
In Memoriam:
David Brudnoy
David was a founding BSFC member and long time WBZ radio host who sadly left us in 2004.
Jay Carr
Jay reviewed new movies for New England Cable News and old ones for Turner Classic Movies. A native of New York City, where he grew up in a household that read six newspapers daily, he dreamed of ending his days like the tabloid-famous Collyer brothers of Manhattan, who died in their brownstone, buried under piles of old papers. He was well on his way to this shining goal. Carr prepared for a newspaper career by getting a degree in chemistry (good movies have chemistry, don't they?) and was immediately diverted from his studies by joining one of the two papers at the City College of New York. While there, he started doing journalism for money—although not much—by working as a police reporter at the Jersey City Journal. Then came jobs on the New York Post and Detroit News, with time out for an army hitch (the army's idea, not his). He also was chief film critic at the Boston Globe for 20 years. He won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, awarded by the English department chairmen of Yale, Princeton and Cornell Universities and was named Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres, by the French government for writings on French film. He edited and contributed to the anthology, The A-List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films. Jay sadly passed in May of 2014
Inkoo Kang
Inkoo is a freelance film critic and journalist. She is a Contributing Editor at Box Office Magazine, as well as a regular reviewer for the Village Voice and Screen Junkies. Her essays on film have been published in The Atlantic, Salon, and Indiewire. Her great dream in life is to direct a remake of ALL ABOUT EVE with an all-dog cast. (member on hiatus)
Gary Susman
Gary has reviewed movies and interviewed filmmakers since 1989 for The Boston Phoenix, where he has also covered music, theater, television, and books. He blogs daily about movies and TV at AOL's Moviefone Blog and TV Squad blogs. He has written about film for such outlets as The Village Voice, The Chicago Sun-Times, People, The Guardian, Life, CNN, and MSNBC. He is still an occasional contributor to Entertainment Weekly, where he was a founder and editor of EW's award-winning Pop Watch blog. He lives in New Jersey. (member on hiatus)
Wesley Morris
Wesley is a film critic at the Boston Globe. Previously, he wrote film reviews and essays for the San Francisco Examiner, and, later, the San Francisco Chronicle. His writing has also appeared in Film Comment and Slate. He was born in Philadelphia in 1975. He is a graduate of Yale University and now resides in Cambridge. (member on hiatus).
Ann Lewinson
Ann reviews movies for the Boston Phoenix as well as for the Kansas City Star and the Santa Fe Reporter. She was the film critic for the Hartford Advocate for four years, during which she appeared on Hartford's Fox61 morning news and was profiled in Fitness magazine, which thought her recommendation for putting soy sauce on popcorn was just weird. She has written for the Sundance Daily Insider, the Tribeca Film Festival catalogue, The Independent and Willamette Week; her short story "The Kubrick Version," about a lost director's cut of The Shining, was published in AGNI. She studied filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, briefly worked as a sound editor and is finishing her first novel. She is a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and lives in New York. (member on hiatus)


Tracheostomy is a generally accepted procedure that assures free access to the airways in long-term lung ventilation. Apart from surgical tracheostomy, percutaneous dilational tracheostomy (PDT) has been increasingly employed in intensive care units (ICU). There is no optimal tracheostomy (TS) technique and in comparisons of percutaneous techniques, no single technique has proved to be superior. For this reason, the operator's skill and experience and the clinical anatomical and physiopathological features of the patient should be discriminating factors in the choice of TS technique. Because of this we developed a decisional making algorithm as a guide to choose tracheostomy method more adapted to critical patients' characteristics. It's use in elective TS in ICU seems to reduce complications in our exeprience, regarding leterature data.
TS is an elective technique used in ICU for the management of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) . When elective tracheotomy is indicated in critically ill patients, the technique of PDT offers important advantages over surgical tracheosthomy (ST). With PDT, less clinically significant wound infection is observed compared with ST, probably due to minimisation of local tissue trauma and a tighter fit between cannula and the surrounding tissues. Nowadays more PDT methods are in use: TLT, Ciaglia blue-Rhino, PercuTwist , Ciaglia Blue-Dolphin. But considering the clinical and anatomical variability of ICU patients, there is no ideal risk-free TS technique. Operator's experience and patient's physiopathological characteristics should be always considered . Because of this our dedicated team have outlined a decisional algorithm to choose the most appropriate technique in each case (Table 1) to reduce the incidences of complication.
Algorithm complications vs Literature complications.
We have considered consecutive 118 patients, admitted in a general intensive care of our University Hospital in the last three years, skeduled for tracheostomy. Generally in our practice TS is performed by residents after a specific training program under the guidance and supervision of a senior tutor with specific skills. Each patient was evaluated by ultra sounds (US), and video-bronchoscopy (video-FBS). Algorithm was formulated by our ten-years-experince with TS techniques, comparing the specific characteristics of each technique to the physiopathological characteristics of each patient. Figure 1.
We recorded complications related to tracheostomy performed, applying the decisional making algorithm, in the last 3 years.
Comparing with the complications reported in the literature [3–5] (Table 1), the use of our decisional flow-chart as guide to choose the kind of PDT thecnique seems to reduce the incidence of complications considered (Table 1).
The systematic use of U.S. and video-FBS facilitates the execution of the TS and reduces complications . In our observational retrospective study we have a small case series without control group; it is insufficient for a statistical validation of the findings (118 patients in the last three years), even if quantitatively similar with other monocentric study in literature. Furthermore, in our general university ICU polytrauma and cardiac surgical patients are less frequent then septic, surgical or COPD patients. Because of this our decisional making algorithm should be evaluated on a more heterogeneous population. The application of our algorithm required knowledge, skill and availability of at least three techniques: surgical, intrusive and extrusive percutaneous oncewith costs increased. But the reduction of complications would lead to a reduction in ICU stay and in health care costs .
The application of our algorithm to choose which kind of TS technique was more adapt to the peculiarities of each patient, seems to reduce incidence of complications, compared to the incidence reported in literature. To validate our useful experience we need a randomized controlled multicentric study.


Dr. Atamyan grew up in Nicosia. After graduating the Armenian Elementary School in Nicosia he completed his secondary education at the Melkonian Educational Institute and the English Institute in Nicosia. He then attended the Medical Academy in Sofia/Bulgaria, which was followed by a Post-graduate Course in Cardiology and Internal Medicine.


What would John McLaren think of his statue at the entrance to the newly renovated rhodendron dell? By all accounts he was opposed to cluttering up the park with statues and monuments; thought the funds would be better spent on enhancing the park landscape. But maybe in this case he would appreciate the gesture?
McLaren, a tough Scotsman, served as park superintendent from 1887 to 1943, weathering countless changes in city government and protecting the park against repeated threats to the bucolic vision he had for it. He was such a strong advocate for the park and left such an indelible mark, that his successors have been hard pressed to fill his shoes. Since McLaren rode around the park in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac, popping in on work crews unexpectedly and leaving red-faced foreman in his wake, the job has gotten harder and more complex, although many of the core issues remain the same. Most great city parks have historical ghosts like McLaren, that haunt the grounds.
Thanks for this well-deserved tribute to John McLaren, who was responsible for a successful park system for over 60 years. I believe we have had 5 general managers of RPD in the past 10 years, so we can appreciate McLaren's long tenure in a difficult position.
My favorite McLaren story is from one of the many histories of San Francisco's parks. Apparently one of the first things he did when he became general manager was to decree the removal of all "keep off the grass" signs in the parks. He believed that the grass was the public's carpet for their games and picnics. The gardeners were less than pleased, but McLaren ruled the parks.
I am reminded of this welcoming approach when I see signs today in our parks prohibiting access. One of the silliest signs is the one prohibiting access and referring to a particular park code for authority. The park code that is cited says, "signs in the park must be obeyed." In other words, there is no authority for the particular restriction that is being enforced by the sign.
Great to see "uncle John", he was one of a kind and as a small boy I got to sit on his lap and play with his pocket watch. My Father worked for him as a gardener and later in life as his chauffeur. Tough but in a good way and someone to admire for sure! John Molloy!


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Hot tub break-in: The Record for Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020
Steamboat Pilot & Today staff report
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Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020
8:20 a.m. Steamboat Springs Police Department officers were called about a for sale sign allegedly stolen from the yard of a townhome in the 2500 block of Apres Ski Way. Officers found the sign in another part of the yard. They suspected wind to be the culprit.
10:36 a.m. North Routt Fire Protection District firefighters were called to assist an unconscious person near Clark.
3:21 p.m. Police were called about an intoxicated man sleeping outside a grocery store in the 1400 block of South Lincoln Avenue. Officers issued the man a court summons for violating a protection order that prohibits him from drinking.
5:18 p.m. Routt County Sheriff's Office deputies were called about a crash with unknown injuries on Routt County Road 27 outside of Hayden.
6:10 p.m. Police were called about the same drunken man from earlier in the day who was still outside the grocery store in the 1400 block of South Lincoln Avenue. Officers issued him a trespass warning and told him to leave.
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8:38 p.m. Police were called about a transient man who had been allowed to stay temporarily at a church in the 500 block of Oak Street. The church asked officers for help getting the man to leave after he was rude to staff.
11:01 p.m. Police received a complaint about a loud party at a condominium complex in the 1800 block of Medicine Springs Drive. After the caller asked the partiers to quiet down, they allegedly tried to break into the caller's private hot tub. By the time officers arrived, the area was quiet, and no one was in the hot tub.
11:35 p.m. Deputies were called about a disturbance in the 300 block of Honeysuckle Drive in Hayden.
Total incidents: 64
Steamboat officers had 43 cases that included calls for service and officer-initiated incidents such as traffic stops.
Sheriff's Office deputies had 12 cases that included calls for service and officer-initiated incidents such as traffic stops.
Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue firefighters responded to six calls for service.
Oak Creek Fire Protection District firefighters responded to two calls for service.
North Routt Fire Protection District firefighters responded to one call for service.
The Record offers a glimpse of police activity and is not a comprehensive report of all police activity. Calls such as domestic violence, sexual assaults and juvenile situations typically do not appear in The Record.
Jury finds Routt County man not guilty in shooting south of Steamboat
Police file charges after discovering 68 pills of suspected fentanyl inside Craig apartment
Steamboat police chief resigns after one year on the job


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By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. Orwell's experiences include being shot in the neck by a sniper, and being forced into hiding as factions of the Left battled on the streets of Barcelona. Orwell entered Spain intending to gather an experience worth writing as well as to fight Fascism, and wrote Homage to Catalonia within months of his return.
Factually and Historically Informative. A Bit Dry.
Narrated by: Thomas Judd
Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his 20s, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life.
The Road to Wigan Pier
A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
By Richard Woodburn on 29-10-2019
The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann
Narrated by: David Rintoul
Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp's friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.
A mountain of world history
By Pete Shields on 15-11-2020
Narrated by: Simon Callow
Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours. However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others and the animals start to question their supposed utopia.
A Classic!!
A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: John Slattery
The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.
Enjoyable Hemingway Novel. Fabulous Dialogue.
By: Arthur C. Clarke
Narrated by: Greg Wagland
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. When the Overlords finally showed themselves it was a shock but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began. But the children of this utopia dream strange dreams of distant suns and alien planets, and soon they will be ready to join the Overmind...and, in a grand and thrilling metaphysical climax, leave Earth behind.
one hell of a good listen
By Patrick on 24-02-2017
Livewired
The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
Narrated by: David Eagleman
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream? The answers to these questions are not right in front of our eyes; they're right behind our eyes. This book is not simply about what the brain is but what it does. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new findings from Eagleman's own research.
By Luke on 22-09-2020
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the Party's department for propaganda, Winston Smith's job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine and live independently takes hold of him and he embarks on a secret and forbidden love affair.
Relevant to this day
By Nathan on 01-02-2017
Narrated by: William Hurt
The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the story introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. Follow the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of the 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates.
The Sun Also Rises -a wonderful rendition of this iconic Hemingway novel
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his disagreeable sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh and Pip has few prospects until he receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge for a more promising life in London. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he is haunted by figures from his past such as the escaped convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her proud, beautiful ward, Estella.
English Teachers Beware
By: Tim O'Brien
Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried's portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book's hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.
Bryan Cranston was a pleasure to listen too
By Chris on 20-02-2017
On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider (introduction)
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.
Chomsky by Bird person
By JARRAN on 12-07-2020
The Lost World
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Glen McCready
Here is the precursor to Jurassic Park. Victorian explorers have heard there is a remote plateau where dinosaurs still survive, and a group set outs on a dangerous mission to find out more about it.
One of my all time favorites
By Elian Tonietti on 18-11-2020
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Bill Homewood
On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the isolated and terrifying Chateau d'If near Marseille, he meticulously plans his brilliant escape and extraordinary revenge.
my favorite book performed brilliantly
By Michael on 29-12-2014
Murder in Mississippi
By: John Safran
Narrated by: John Safran
The internationally acclaimed true-crime story you have to hear to believe. Taking us places only John Safran can, Murder in Mississippi paints an engrossing, revealing portrait of a dead man, his murderer, the place they lived and the process of trying to find out the truth about anything.
A bit of a slog at times
By Ryan on 27-05-2019
Dante's Divine Comedy
By: The Great Courses, Ronald B. Herzman, William R. Cook
Narrated by: Ronald B. Herzman, William R. Cook
Professors Cook and Herzman provide you with an illuminating introduction to one of the greatest works ever written. One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, The Divine Comedy (or Commedia) of Dante Alighieri is a book for life. In a brilliantly constructed narrative of his imaginary guided pilgrimage through the three realms of the Christian afterlife, Dante accomplished a literary task of astonishing complexity. In these twenty-four lectures, as you follow Dante on his journey, you'll learn how medieval literature offers insights into fundamental questions.
One of the best Audio book I have ever heard
By rhys on 08-10-2016
An unabridged recording of Orwell's brilliant first novel read by Allan Corduner. The story is largely based on Orwell's own experiences as a police officer in Burma. Set in the dying days of the Raj, it depicts the harshness and darker side of colonial rule. And at its centre is John Flory, a lone individual hopelessly trapped in a vast political system; themes which set the agenda for much of his writing. Burmese Days was Orwell's first novel, and was issued in 1934 in America, then a year later in the UK where there had been fears and controversy initially that the material could be libellous.
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What listeners say about Burmese Days
I was surprised that this was such a good book. Orwell is able to surprise at each step by letting the most likely developments happen as in real life, instead of as in reader-pleasing fiction. A very fair account of the relationship between social casts. No good versus evil here, just people playing their roles in a corrupt but also benign society.
Intrigue and human character, it was hard to stop listening. The reader did a fantastic job.
Excellent audio-book
A brilliant, informative and critical narrative of the everyday brutality of British imperialism. I couldn't stop listening.
Superbly written and read. A great listen during these dismal times. Orwell has quickly become one of my favourite writers.
a classic description of British burma
A masterful description of British Burma based on the writer's own experiences as a police officer in the British Burma. Surprisingly fresh, dealing with themes such as colonialism, racism, social norms, class and gender, the book has a lot to offer for contemporary readers. The performance was good though it would be nice to have a separate voice for the female charathers.
Chelin
A wonderful listen
Beautifully read by Allan Corduner, who gives a great performance with the different voices and accents, it adds a new level to the audiobook and allows the reader/listener to fully appreciate this wonderful book.
Remaniscent of a Passage to India, but with the writer's experience of working in Burma for a number of years.
Lucy Rose Williams
Great narrator.
Great narration throughout. Makes such a difference. All the characters came alive vividly.
Would like to listen to more by this narrator
Paul Snook
Class warfare, jungle style
This book is classic Orwell; a study of the English class system but uprooted and plonked in the humid jungles of Burma. Each man looks down upon the other, the women know their place, and they all look down upon the natives. It demonstrates the raw ugliness of English imperialism through the eyes of a few pivotal characters. It's all there: open racism, a detached sense of duty, alcoholism, exploitation, manifest sexism, and all underlined with dollops of self-loathing. Needless to say, because it is classic Orwell, don't expect a happy ending. Just a shame about the dog.
I love books about the past times in India and Burma , learning about the way of life, the way the British colonials lived in those times. It all fascinates me.
The way George Orwell writes is very easy to listen to and creates wonderful images - he brings his stories to life.
The narrator is excellent.
Brilliant slice of colonial life
While some of the language may be a bit non PC for today, it does give a flavour of how harsh colonial life was, especial for the natives. Narrator struggles a bit with female voices, other than that an absolute absorbing listen.
Nancy Bowring
Compulsive story to listen to. Highly recommended
Set in Burma towards the end of the British Raj, where bigotry and racism thrive in the closed society of the Englishmen's club. The story centres around John Flory, whose life has been governed by an ugly birthmark on his face. It is about his two relationships in an otherwise friendless life and the effects of a vicious, scheming and corrupt magistrate. George Orwell tells his tale with empathy, an intimate knowledge of his main character and some scorn towards a society he got to know personally. Allan Corduner's narration is first rate.
Rachel Winters
Scathing and powerful as ever
Alan Corduna delivers an excellent rendition of this classic, yet under-read debut novel from George Orwell, scathing in its exposition of imperialism. Putting the empire in its place, Orwell caused panic in the ranks when this raw and damning tale of the underbelly of Colonial life was first published. What surprised this reader was the cracking pace and liveliness of the yarn. Its characters may come across initially as cartoonish in contemporary terms, but the underlying message of the work transcends as Orwell builds a nightmarish world that damages most of its inhabitants and where greed and corruption are the overriding motivation. Powerful stuff.
A glimpse of the last days of the Raj. With all the strife and prejudices of those closing days.
Nicely written anti-colonial but dated novel
Very interesting novel by Orwell who spent five years in Burma in the 1920s.
Lucid and very descriptive of the culture, community and governance of the time. It exposes the discrimination and racism of British colonial society, and the concomitant corruption of Burmese bureaucrats and officials engaged by, and participating in, the colonial system.
The book brings multiple relationships to the fore - each exploitative in different ways - the British colonials in relation to their domestic servants, other employees, Burmese young women and British colonial 'ladies'; family dynamics within the Burmese community; the networks of support and corruption within the civil service established by the British; the efforts to entrench separation from the locals through Clubs which forbade any Burmese from membership.
An enjoyable, evocative, entertaining but somewhat dated portrait of colonial times in Burma.
Underlying it all... the distant sound of rising Burmese nationalism...


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Q: In Java How to make overflow-text go to next line I have a long string which doesn't fit to the JPanel i am putting it.
text is logger than the JPanel width. I can not put "\n" to the string to break the string, in fact i don't have the control over the length and content of the string. It user inputted string. What i want to do is when i am putting the text on JPanel i want any text that doesn't fit in to the JPanel to flow in to the next Line.
Its kind of hard to explain. Please let me know if you need more details.
Thank you

A: From a quick google search I've read that, logically, all OS's have varying line break characters and as Java is platform independent you need to first find the relative separator using:
lineSeparator = (String) java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(new sun.security.action.GetPropertyAction("line.separator"));

and then concatenate your string with lineSeparator
For example:
JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello"+lineSeparator+"world");

This method is untried and untested by me, simply the findings of my research.
As for handling overflowing text, my personal experience is to find the max length of characters before it goes out of the frame and then add in the lineSeparator

A: Putting your text inside  tags will do the trick. Long lines will be word-wrapped automatically.
JLabel label = new JLabel(""+ reallyLongString + "");
label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(1, 1);

A: Try using a JTextPane instead, it will handle wordwrapping for you.
import java.awt.Dimension;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class Wordwrap extends JFrame {

    public Wordwrap() {
        String s = "I have a long string which doesn't fit to the JPanel i am putting it. text is logger than the JPanel width. I can not put \n to the string to break the string, in fact i don't have the control over the length and content of the string. It user inputted string. What i want to do is when i am putting the text on JPanel i want any text that doesn't fit in to the JPanel to flow in to the next Line.";

        JTextPane textPanel = new JTextPane();
        textPanel.setText(s);
        textPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 100));

        JPanel p = new JPanel();
        p.add(textPanel);
        getContentPane().add(p);
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        setVisible(true);
        pack();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new Wordwrap();
            }
        });
    }
}

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Finding environmental inspiration at the Staging Sustainability conference
By jini | Published: Apr 27 2011
It can be humbling but enormously energizing to find that arts communities outside our own are ahead of us in dealing deeply, thoughtfully, and actively with important issues. When we started our Performing Arts Access Program with Picasso PRO we knew that people in the States had, for years, been providing audio described and sign language interpreted performances to people with disabilities. Thankfully, we were able to pick the brains of leading experts like Deborah Lewis, who were enormously generous with their knowledge and experience – allowing our project to start out running!
I had a similar epiphany (how seasonal) at York University's Staging Sustainability Conference last week, April 20-22. Speakers like Gil Favreau, Director of Social Action & Responsibility, Global Citizenship, who has helped make Cirque du Soleil an outstanding example of social responsibility, environmental practice, and ethical procurement in the performing arts, and Ian Garrett, until recently Executive Director of the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts in L.A., were both inspirational and tremendously informative. Ian and the CSPA in particular – a "non-non-profit" arts infrastructure organization which works with others like the LA Stage Alliance, The Arcola Theater, EcoArtSpace, the Royal Society of the Arts, and our own York University towards sustainability in the arts, ecological and otherwise – will be an especially rich source of information and knowledge sharing. We promised to stay closely in touch and in the meantime, we will make good use of the Centre's rich online resource guide, quarterly journal, and experience in developing local materials re-use programs. Perhaps I will even attend their "annual convergence!"
Barbara Sellers, Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts at York, along with colleagues James McKernan and Peter MacKinnon, have been quietly taking an international leadership position in this area, and the Staging Sustainability Conference was beautifully and thoughtfully conceived and brilliantly executed. Its theme is of such importance that many of us who were there are hoping it will resonate in the collective cultural consciousness of Toronto's arts communities, and spur much creative energy. It raised important questions such as, What is the relationship between cultural and environmental sustainability? What is the role of the artist in engaging this question? Of an arts organization? How does Toronto stack up in confronting the challenges of cultural and environmental sustainability? And what is the relationship (aspirational/current) of public arts spaces to a healthy, sustainable urban ecology?
There are more inspiring stories here at home than you may know of. I recently heard from Michael de Coninck Smith, Co-Artistic Director and Production Manager, about the greening of Canadian Children Dance Theatre's studios on Parliament Street. "As I write, 18kw of solar panels are being installed on our studio roof….at last! Going green for CCDT has been a four year effort beginning with a $300,000 improvement to the building envelope and HVAC systems. We followed this up with an application to Trillium for $150,000 to install the solar array and an outdoor monitor which tracks reduced carbon footprint and promotes green options. The approval process is complex and arduous – it should have been operating last July – but this is new territory in Ontario and for us as well. The beauty is that greening really can pay – our utility costs are substantially down and the generated electricity will pay more than $15,000/year into our neighbourhood dance outreach program (SolarDance)."
What a triumph for CCDT, which has blazed a trail for us all. But how hard to do it alone.
Meanwhile, at Creative Trust we are delighted to report continuing progress on Toronto's Green Theatres – our initiative to start a movement towards energy efficient, low carbon footprint theatre facilities. With the support of the City of Toronto's Culture Office, and after much research and discussion with our environmental colleagues here at the Centre for Social Innovation, we have chosen an independent energy audit firm, Carbon Count, to undertake energy audits for seven Creative Trust companies – Factory Theatre, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Tafelmusik, Tarragon Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Dance Theatre/STDT – starting in May. Owner Anthony Marshall, who has 11 years of experience in the field, is enthusiastic about our sectoral approach to greening theatres. We will also be working with him and the participating companies on an overall strategy that could be rolled out to performing venues throughout the City.
When we do so we will be certain to call on colleagues such as Michael de Coninck Smith to pass along what he has learned about the often daunting prospect for arts organizations of going green.
Jini Stolk
Other programs of interest:
Green Phoenix – a new sustainable reclamation building project in Parkdale; Sky Dragon Community Development – another green reclamation project spearheaded by artists and community activists in Hamilton; Green Corridor – a collision of art, science and technology at the University of Windsor conceived and headed by visual artist Noel Harding; Subtle Technologies – an annual conference exploring the convergence of art and science whose theme this year is 'sustainability'; and designer Bruce Mau's Institute Without Boundaries.
Looking forward to being (energy) audited
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Hans-Joachim Buddecke ( - ) est un as de l'aviation allemand de la Première Guerre mondiale, crédité de treize victoires. Il fut le troisième as, après Max Immelmann et Oswald Boelcke, à recevoir la croix Pour le Mérite. Il a combattu sur trois théâtres pendant la Première Guerre mondiale : la Bulgarie, la Turquie et le front occidental mais s'est particulièrement distingué à Gallipoli, ce qui lui a valu le surnom d'El-Schahin, .

Biographie

Jeunesse
Hans-Joachim Buddecke naît à Berlin en 1890 alors que son père, lieutenant hessois, suit une formation à l'Académie de guerre de Prusse. Il suit les traces de son père en entrant dans l'armée dès 1904, où il débute comme cadet. En 1910, Buddecke est promu  Leutnant dans le . Il quitte cependant l'armée en 1913, lassé par le peu de temps dont il dispose pour sa vie sociale et pour assouvir sa nouvelle passion : l'aviation. La même année, il déménage aux États-Unis pour commencer une nouvelle vie, et vole pendant un certain temps à partir du premier aérodrome de Cicero, dans la banlieue de Chicago. Il gagne alors sa vie en travaillant dans une usine de voitures appartenant à son oncle, à Indianapolis.

Grâce à ce travail, Buddecke parvient à économiser suffisamment pour s'acheter un monoplan Nieuport le 20 mai 1914. Il songeait également à créer une entreprise aéronautique lorsque la guerre éclate. Buddecke décide de retourner en Allemagne. Pour cela, il voyage sous un faux nom (Morize Adolph) sur le paquebot grec Athene via Palerme, afin de se porter volontaire dans l'aviation allemande.

Première Guerre mondiale
Buddecke est envoyé sur le front de l'Ouest dès septembre 1914. Il vole d'abord en tant qu'observateur, mais il devient bientôt l'un des premiers pilotes de chasse de l'aviation allemande en étant transféré au  23 (FFA 23) en janvier 1915, grâce à l'entremise de Rudolf Berthold, que Buddecke a rencontré au cours d'une formation. Son expérience d'avant-guerre sur les monoplans le conduit à piloter le premier des avions Fokker Eindecker livrés à l'unité. Buddecke et Berthold, aux commandes respectivement de l'Eindecker et d'un AEG G.II, forment une petite  (équipe de combat) au sein de la FFA 23, interceptant les avions de reconnaissance britanniques. Buddecke remporte ses trois premières victoires au cours de ce genre de missions, entre septembre et novembre 1915. Il tua notamment le 23 octobre 1915 le frère de Thomas Edward Lawrence.

Hans-Joachim Buddecke quitte ensuite le front de l'Ouest pour intégrer une mission militaire allemande à destination de l'empire ottoman. Il combat lors de la bataille de Gallipoli, où il repousse avec succès les attaques aériennes du Royal Naval Air Service sur des cibles turques et remporte plusieurs victoires aériennes aux commandes de son Halberstadt D.II entre décembre 1915 et avril 1916. Le commandant en chef de l'armée turque, Enver Pacha, lui décerne personnellement la médaille Liakat. Le , il devient le troisième pilote à être décoré de la croix Pour le Mérite, la décoration allemande la plus prestigieuse. Fin août 1916, Buddecke revient sur le front de l'Ouest pour prendre le commandement de la Jasta 4, nouvellement créée à partir de l'ancienne unité de Rudolf Berthold, dans laquelle Buddecke avait servi au début de la guerre. Il enregistre 3 victoires lors de son bref passage mais retourne en Turquie dès décembre. Il y reste pendant toute l'année 1917, lors de laquelle il n'obtient que deux victoires, le 30 mars.

Début 1918, Buddecke est de nouveau en France, où il sert dans la  avant de passer à la 18. C'est Rudolf Berthold qui a organisé son transfert. Buddecke seconde en effet son ami, gravement blessé et cloué au sol, dans le commandement de son unité. Cependant, la nature du combat aérien sur le front de l'Ouest a changé en son absence, et Buddecke, victime de son inexpérience sur ce théâtre d'opération, est abattu le 10 mars 1918 non loin de Lens, seulement deux jours après sa prise de fonction.

Le 22 mars, il est enterré au cimetière des Invalides de Berlin. En 1918 (la date précise est inconnue), les mémoires de guerre de Buddecke sont publiées en allemand sous le titre El Schahin (der Jagdfalke) : aus meinem Fliegerleben.

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As de l'aviation allemand
Aviateur allemand de la Première Guerre mondiale
Chevalier de l'ordre de Hohenzollern
Récipiendaire de la croix Pour le Mérite (ordre militaire)
Naissance en août 1890
Naissance à Berlin
Décès en mars 1918
Décès dans le Pas-de-Calais
Décès à Lens
Décès à 27 ans
Militaire allemand mort au combat lors de la Première Guerre mondiale

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Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate - How is Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate abbreviated?
Previous tests of dip and spray treatments of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (DOT) indicate only a marginal effect as a sanitizing agent (postcolonization) when tested on the emerald ash borer; however, only low doses (1.
Dos concentraciones de disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (1% y 0.
The termite resistance of this material was compared with that of a standard high-loading disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (DOT) pressure treatment and a reference preservative, alkaline copper quaternary type D carbonate (ACQ-D).
Surface mold prevention with chlorothalonil/ disodium octaborate tetrahydrate systems.
Use of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate to protect aspen waferboard from termites.
2 m long) was commercially treated with disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (DOT) to a target retention of 6.
Three test chemicals were used: biocide A, biocide B, and disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (DOT).
The purpose of the research reported here was to determine the physical and mechanical properties and fire and biological resistance of OSB panels incorporated with melamine phosphate (MP), disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (DOT), and boric acid (BA) at varying concentrations.
The American standard (AWPA 2000) for disodium octaborate tetrahydrate retention in treated wood is the highest in the world, and it would be of interest if the lower retention standards in other countries give the same additional benefit.
As documented elsewhere (Bunn 1974; Cockcroft and Levy 1972), borates such as boric acid, borax, and disodium octaborate tetrahydrate are useful as wood preservatives.
Wood blocks were treated with boric acid, disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (DOT), and NHA solutions at several concentrations.