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A Conversation with Suspense Novelist Elisabeth Elo
Omnimystery News 1/27/2014 08:00:00 AM No Comments
with Elisabeth Elo
We are delighted to welcome suspense novelist Elisabeth Elo to Omnimystery News today.
Elisabeth's debut novel, North of Boston (Viking; January 2014 hardcover, audiobook and ebook formats), introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north.
We recently had the opportunity to talk to the author about her new book.
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Omnimystery News: How much of your own personal or professional experience have you included in North of Boston?
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Elisabeth Elo: When I was writing North of Boston, I thought I was making everything up. It wasn't until I'd finished it and people started asking me questions about it that I realized how many events and situations from my own life had found their way into the pages, usually in altered forms.
I didn't remember until after I finished the book, for example, something that happened in high school when I was working at an aquarium: Some of us used to swim after hours with two dolphins named Salty and Spray who had been together in captivity for over a decade. At the end of the summer Salty died of a skin infection, and Spray went to the bottom of the tank, rarely surfaced, and refused to do the shows that she had enjoyed for years. She died in a few months time. Whatever the medical reason, it was clear to the people who cared about her that she'd died of a broken heart. What I learned about marine mammals from that experience obviously never left me.
I also didn't remember, or didn't think about, a lobsterman friend of ours who had died suddenly years before. There was nothing nefarious in his death, but it was still a very sad event as he left twin daughters behind. It was only when I was writing the Q & A for my website that he came back to me full-force and I realized he was the model for Ned.
There are numerous examples of that phenomenon in the book — submerged events and situations in my life that floated up unbidden and came to life again in the pages without my even knowing it!
OMN: Tell us about your writing process and where you typically write.
EE: My writing process and my work area are polar opposites. My process is chaos, and my desk is a clean, uncluttered haven.
When I start writing something new, I take advantage of every available form of paper: notebooks, lined paper, graph paper, scraps of paper, index cards, etc. I scribble character sketches and descriptions and whatever scenes pop into my head on whatever paper is available, and then I never look at any of it again. My handwriting is so messy that I honestly couldn't read it if I tried, but the real reason I don't look at it is because I actually don't intend to use any of it. I tell myself that I'm working stuff out in my unconscious, and I think that's actually true. As the book takes shape, I switch to the computer and start seeing the scenes in front of me, and that's a relief.
I don't have a writing schedule. A daily word count would do me in. I figure if I wanted to work in a factory, I'd work in a factory. I can spend weeks not writing at all, just daydreaming, and then I can be at my computer for four, eight, or ten hours a day. At the end of a book, I'm glued to the screen and people have to tell me to eat.
I love my desk. It's my refuge. I like to have flowers in a beautiful vase next to my computer. I sometimes play jazz softly in the background, and sometimes I just have the noise of the cars going by on the street. If the phone rings, I jump a mile, so I've learned to turn it off.
OMN: Give us the synopsis of North of Boston in a tweet.
EE: Holy cripes! The end is near. Not so fast. Who are you? And you? No choice now. Screwed that up. *^#!&*[email protected]*. Whew. Out of my way. Let's eat!
OMN: We lived in Boston for ten years and think it's a terrific place to set a novel of suspense. How true are you to the setting?
EE: North of Boston is set in Boston but also in Labrador and Baffin Island, Canada. I knew when I started the book that it was going to be important to be accurate with the settings. If you write about a city as recognizable as Boston and make mistakes, readers are going to get justifiably upset. I've lived in and around Boston for most of my life, so at first I trusted my memory and inner map. But when an early reader scolded me because I said Huntington Street instead of Huntington Avenue, I realized I'd have to check every detail. (Despite these good intentions, however, I did decide to fabricate one location. I needed a drydock near the Fish Pier, so I just put one there.)
In terms of the Canada stuff, I worried a lot about the fact that I'd never been to the places I was describing. It really held me up. Then one day I was sitting at my computer, thinking, "I can't write this scene because I don't know what this town looks like!" And suddenly I got an idea. I entered "Hopedale, Labrador, Canada" into YouTube and in seconds I was watching a video taken by a young guy riding shotgun in his friend's pick-up, giving would-be visitors a guided tour of his town. I nearly died. After that I was using YouTube practically every day.
When the German translators were working on my book, they found a mistake I'd made with the geography of Baffin Island. I had described a small island at the mouth of an inlet; they pointed out that there weren't any inlets on Baffin Island that had small islands in front of them. The inlet they assumed I was referring to did have a spit or promontory at its mouth, and would I be willing to change the text? They sent me an aerial photograph for reference. I was completely blown away by their exactitude. I didn't have the heart to tell them that I actually hadn't had a specific inlet in mind at all. I'd just figured there were enough inlets on Baffin Island (hundreds, in fact) that one of them was bound to look the way I'd described.
Writing this book taught me a lot about settings. People care about them. They've paid good money to travel with the protagonist wherever she goes, and they don't want to be jarred out of the dream-world by an obvious mistake. When you think about it, that attitude makes sense. Readers give writers complete freedom with all the other story elements. Most of the time they love our wild imaginations. But setting is something we all own together, and no one should have special privileges. You can't make fast and loose with communal property.
OMN: If you could travel anywhere in the world to research a book, all expenses paid, where would you go?
EE: I already took my dream trip! (Unfortunately, it was not "all expenses paid.")
For a long time I'd had an interest in northern lands. I think that is because my paternal grandparents, whom I never met, were from a town in Finland above the arctic circle. I read Piers Vitebsky's amazing book, The Reindeer People, which is about the native herders in northeastern Siberia, and then I read Ian Frazier and histories of the gulag and so on. I didn't think I was researching a book; I was just following my interests. Eventually I ran across a travel services company, and started facebooking with the guy who runs it, Bolot Bochkarev, and by then I had imagined a character who would go to Siberia to find a grandmother she didn't even know she had. So when I saw that the fares were a lot less than I had imagined, and heard that I could do an inexpensive homestay with an English-speaking woman in Yakutsk, I decided to go. I practiced Russian-language tapes, and went by myself in August, between summer and fall terms.
That book has gone through several mutations since then. I still have the grandmother, but she pays a lesser role. There are two young ballet dancers in it now, and some bad guys, of course.
OMN: What is the best advice, and harshest criticism, you've received as an author?
EE: I've received a lot of good advice, but I've ignored most of it. That's just who I am — I've got to do things my own way and make my own mistakes. So I made a lot of mistakes, more than I needed to, but what I've learned I learned from experience, and as we all know experience is the best teacher.
I don't give advice for the same reason that I don't take it. Or maybe I could say this: my advice is to trust yourself and your own process. You probably know more about what you want to do and how to do it than you're letting on. Sometimes we seek advice as a distraction, or in the hope that it will make our work easier. We might start writing to practice the advice instead of to tell the story. And advice can often be confusing, especially when famous authors say diametrically opposite things, which they frequently do. The whole thing can be a trap.
Criticism, of course, can be very helpful. But we've got to be careful here, too. Good criticism is energizing: it makes us want to go back to the work. It's neither too vague nor too specific. It gives us a clear idea and lets us work out the details ourselves. Bad criticism is just depressing. We feel awful and we don't know what to do next. For days at a time we contemplate throwing out the whole manuscript and becoming a barista. Writers sometimes joke about getting this kind of criticism, but it's actually not funny. A critic who makes us feel this way is someone to avoid.
The best comment I got recently might be either advice or criticism, depending on how you look at it. As I was describing all the research I was doing into different subjects, and how I was making note cards and scribbling ideas in notebooks, my listener said, "Sometimes all that stuff is just procrastination."
Elisabeth Elo grew up in Boston and went to Brown University. She worked as an editor, an advertising copywriter, a high-tech project manager, and a halfway house counselor before getting a PhD in American Literature at Brandeis University. Since then, she's taught writing in the Boston area. She lived next to the ocean for many years and now resides in Brookline, Massachusetts.
For more information about the author and her work, please visit her website at ElisabethElo.com or find her on Facebook and Twitter.
North of Boston
A Pirio Kasparov Mystery
When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives nearly four hours in the water before being rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat's owner and her professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky.
Compelled to look after Noah, the son of the late Ned and her alcoholic prep school friend, Thomasina, Pirio can't shake the lurking suspicion that the boat's sinking — and Ned's death — was no accident. It's a suspicion seconded by her deeply cynical, autocratic Russian father, who tells her that nothing is ever what it seems. Then the navy reaches out to her to participate in research on human survival in dangerously cold temperatures.
With the help of a curious journalist named Russell Parnell, Pirio begins unraveling a lethal plot involving the glacial whaling grounds off Baffin Island. In a narrow inlet in the arctic tundra, Pirio confronts her ultimate challenge: to trust herself.
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You actually brought the world hero to a whole new level.
And it can also be aplied to the civilian world. Meaning the words you chose to specify, although I should add that quite a bunch of " heroes" that will do some quite astonishing things in a war zone, are not perfect, to tell you the truth my heroes that I served with where a bunch of bastards, me include, and those where the guys that had my and the rest ot the others back.
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this interesting and unusual surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from some minor or unrecorded place, perhaps a "lost" village. There are an estimated seven to ten thousand villages and hamlets that have now disappeared from Britain since the 12th Century; the prime cause of these "disappearances" was the enforced "clearing" and dispersal of the former inhabitants to make way for sheep pastures at the height of the wool-trade in the 15th Century, and natural causes such as the Black Death of 1348, in which an eighth of the population perished. The original name is believed to have been in Kent, because of the high number of early recordings there, and the component elements of the placename are the Olde English pre 7th Century "blaec", black, dark coloured, and "land", land; hence, "dark coloured land". In the modern idiom the surname can be found as Blackesland, Blacksland, Blaksland, Bloxland, Blaxland, Blaxeland and Blaxlande. On May 13th 1567, Marye Blaxlande married Thomas Gybbes at Elmstone, Kent, and the christening of Thomas, son of Johis Blaxland, took place at Birchington, Kent, on August 28th 1580. A Coat of Arms granted to the family depicts an ermine fesse between three ermine falcons' heads erased on a green shield. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Jacobi Blakyslond, which was dated October 21st 1538, witness at the christening of his daughter, Jhona, at the Church of Chislet, Kent, during the reign of King Henry V111, known as "Good King Hal", 1509 - 1547. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Pakistani Soldier stoned to death in Kurram for alleged love affair: report
By: AFP
PESHAWAR: A soldier has been stoned to death in Pakistan's restive tribal northwest over allegations of an affair with a teenage girl, officials told AFP on Wednesday.
A tribal council in the town of Parachinar, close to the Afghan border in Kurram district, ordered the sentence on Anwar-ud Din, who was about 25 years old, for having "illicit relations" with a local girl.
"There were some 40 to 50 people who hit the man with stones till he bled to death," a local tribesman told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Relations between men and women without family approval are considered immoral by many in Pakistan, particularly in the deeply conservative northwestern tribal areas, where Taliban and Al Qaeda linked militants have strongholds.
Hundreds are killed around the country each year in the name of defending family "honour", but stonings are extremely rare.
Din was accused of having an affair with an 18-year-old girl and meeting her secretly, but both were caught on Sunday in a graveyard, the tribesman told AFP.
The soldier admitted he had met the girl three or more times before and the punishment was carried out on Tuesday in the graveyard where the pair were discovered, the tribesman said, adding that the body was later taken to hospital.
Local government and security officials confirmed the incident, but declined to comment.
The fate of the girl remains unclear, but there were rumours in the area that she may also have been executed, although she denied the affair, the tribesman said.
A hospital official confirmed that they had received a mutilated body on Tuesday, which was later taken away by paramilitary forces.
"It was really a horrific sight. The body had been badly damaged after being hit by stones. Wounds all over and the face could no longer be recognised," the official said.
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ConMet eHub Harnesses Kinetic Energy for Electric Vehicles
November 7, 2019 • by Jim Park
ConMet's PreSet Plus Electric Hub is a flexible design intended as a building block for application in a variety of commercial vehicle applications.
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Truck makers and technology proponents have been dancing around the fringes of harnessing kinetic energy for some time. Regenerative braking is the best example, but its most effective applications are local and regional trucks with higher exposures to stop-and-go driving.
At the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in late October in Atlanta, ConMet showed off its new PreSet Plus Electric Hub (eHub), a motor/generator packaged to mount at the wheel-end within the existing space between the axle spindle and the brake shoes.
ConMet says the eHub can be developed to be placed within hybrid or fully electric commercial vehicle applications. It uses off-the-shelf brake components, so no custom brake components are required. As a modular design, it can be packaged with existing axle configurations.
"We were able to leverage our hub technology expertise and essentially package the motor within a slightly modified version of a hub that we already make," Caleb Lander, ConMet's product manager for electrification, told HDT in an interview. "We use a drum brake as our braking system because it allows the eHub to fit nicely behind the wheel and encapsulate the motor." (While drum brakes continue to lead in the trailer market, ConMet plans to offer an air-disc-brake solution in the future.)
A Building Block for Electrification
The in-wheel motor/generator concept opens all sorts of doors for electrification. ConMet's eHub is a flexible electrification system, intended to be a building block that can be dropped into many different applications in the commercial vehicle market.
When used as drive motor, the greatest advantage is weight savings. Because the motor drives the wheel directly, it does away with gear boxes and driveshafts and any of the other content found in a centralized drive system. This drives down the total weight of the drivetrain package considerably.
"The complete system, which includes the motors, the brakes, the hubs, all the controls, the cooling units, it's going to be at least 1,000 pounds less than an e-axle," Lander said.
ConMet's PreSet Plus Electric Hub, or eHub.
ConMet is pursuing applications across the Class 5 to Class 8 range, including as a "helper axle" on tractors and buses, and in some medium-duty applications in either a hybrid or full-electric configuration.
A New Way to Power Trailer Reefer Systems
ConMet will initially launch a trailer system, where it can supply power for auxiliary electrical systems on the trailer, as well as replace the diesel engine for trailer reefer systems.
ConMet's PreSet Plus Electric Hub (eHub) system application for reefer trailers. Instead of idling the reefer generator, the regenerative braking power captured by the eHub can be used to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas and noise emissions.
"It could be used for practically anything that requires additional power over and above what you would typically have on a trailer," Lander said. "It's a plug-and-play system geared toward overall savings to fuel economy and reductions in emissions."
ConMet sees the best fit presently as power for a reefer application on regional or urban delivery routes. Depending on the driving cycles, the eHub, batteries, and controllers will supply enough power to run the refrigeration unit throughout the day, cycling on and off, and generating its own power directly from the rotation of the wheels.
The eHub integrated controls also allow for regenerative braking mode or propulsion assist mode, enabling the utilization of all the power captured throughout the day to optimize fuel savings – knowing that at the end of the day it can be plugged in again for overnight charging using shore power.
"We will keep the battery as topped off as is reasonable based on the route that fleet is running," Lander said. "If for some reason you have a long stop, for instance, we want to make sure that you have enough power to continue running the reefer while at that stop."
In scenarios where the battery is kept fully charged, eHub energy can be used to power auxiliary electrical systems on the trailer, too, allowing for basically silent operation while at a delivery site. That opens up opportunities for delivery times that might be frowned upon due to noise restrictions.
"We can eliminate the use of the diesel generator, reducing noise and emissions, which brings other benefits to whoever is running these systems, such as idle reduction and improved fuel efficiency," Lander said. "These are all really important to fleets nowadays."
The first trailers using ConMet's eHub are scheduled to hit the road this month, followed by a controlled rollout of early release units beginning in the first quarter of 2020. The production release is slated for the end of 2020.
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Audit report calls for more information on how state has spent pandemic relief
By: Erik Gunn - December 16, 2022
An audit report commissioned by state lawmakers has recommended that the administration of Gov. Tony Evers publish more information about how the state will spend its remaining pandemic relief funds and calls on the Department of Administration (DOA) to document its decision-making process in deciding how to spend the money that has already been allocated. […]
Technology exec tells Senate panel to sharpen focus on workforce
The federal CHIPS Act signed in July has the potential to strengthen U.S. manufacturing, and it can do so more effectively with a focus on developing the country's high-tech manufacturing workforce, a Wisconsin industrial technology executive told senators in Washington this week. The new measure, "although a great step towards codifying industrial policy, will fall […]
Report criticizes counties that continue to claw back Medicaid birth costs
Despite campaigns to end the practice, Wisconsin counties continue to take some unmarried parents to court to repay the cost of their children's births covered by Medicaid, according to a new report published Wednesday. The report, produced by ABC for Health, states that altogether Wisconsin counties have won legal judgments declaring that unmarried parents owed […]
Ahead of first hearing, advocates press criticisms of widening Milwaukee freeway
Opponents of adding two additional lanes to a Milwaukee stretch of Interstate 94 pressed their criticism of the proposal Monday at a public hearing on the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's plan. In testimony at Monday's hearing — the first of two this week — and at a press conference beforehand Monday afternoon, critics of widening […]
Baldwin joins call for Biden to require rail sick days by executive order
Sen. Tammy Baldwin is one of 15 senators and more than 50 U.S. representatives asking President Joe Biden to use an executive order to require paid sick days for railroad workers. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to Biden on Friday urging him to take the action a week after Congress passed and the […]
VA reaches out to veterans about new health benefits for toxic exposure
By: Erik Gunn - December 9, 2022
Veterans Affairs officials will hold town hall meetings in Janesville and Milwaukee to answer questions about health care for veterans exposed to toxic substances during their time in service. The sessions are part of outreach by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to explain the PACT Act, enacted in August. The legislation extends health care […]
Wisconsin gears up for a budget debate in the new year
Eyeing a state surplus topping $6 billion, Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican-led Wisconsin Legislature are both already putting down markers ahead of deliberations in 2023 on the state's next biennial budget. They're doing so in rare circumstances. "The state is in a much better position this year to shoulder the increasing costs of ongoing […]
Outsiders set new political spending record, focusing mainly on governor's race
Outside groups spent a record $93 million on Wisconsin's elections for state offices in 2022 — 50% more than in 2018 and two-and-half times the amount for 2014, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign reported Monday. The campaign finance watchdog group said its preliminary calculations showed that almost $79 million — more than 80% of the outside […]
Company may install, lease solar panels without being a utility, PSC rules
A Stevens Point family can lease a solar panel array for their home from a private contractor and the contractor won't be regulated as an electric utility, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) decided Thursday. PSC members voted 2-1 to issue a legal ruling that will declare that the contractor's plan to install, own and […]
Vos gives Jan. 6 committee testimony, reversing course after having sued to block subpoena
After initially going to federal court to fight a subpoena from the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos gave testimony to committee members Wednesday. "Today I met with the January 6th Select Committee after previously receiving a subpoena for my testimony. I did not have […]
Report: Public development subsidy deals should guarantee better jobs, working conditions
By: Erik Gunn - November 29, 2022
A proposed development that would bring a new soccer stadium to downtown Milwaukee should include guarantees of good wages and a path to union representation for workers in the stadium district in return for public subsidies, a new report recommends. The report, "Worker Power Levels the Playing Field," was released Tuesday by COWS, a think […]
Despite union's setback, leader says UW Health nurses now have stronger voice
While the nurses seeking union representation at UW Health have lost a round in the legal skirmish, a union leader said Monday they have made significant advances in gaining a voice with the hospital system's management. Under an agreement reached in September between UW Health management and the nurses' union, hospital managers and UW Health […]
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I'm excited that I'll be at Especially for Pets in Newton on April 23 from 11 am to 4 pm for the next mini-session. Already, the morning shoots have been filled but there are still 4 spaces available. I've looked at the space and the training room there is perfect for an all day photo session. No major lighting issues, a private space to keep the dogs calm and a good location with parking. I'll never run out of treats either if the Primal Treats rep is there again. He made the Sudbury shoot all that much better because of their awesome freeze dried treats.
The mini-session allows you to bring in your dogs for a 20-30 minute photo shoot where I create beautiful studio shoot like below. Then we spend time looking at all the photos (between 40-60) and narrow it down to your favorite photos to order prints that day. I'll take those photos back home, clean them up and get the prints ordered and mail them right to you. You'll have complete access to all printing options that I have. You can even bring in a photo of the wall you want to hang the photos on and I can show you, to scale, what they would look like right on the wall.
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In this blog post, I will be discussing when the First Android Phone was launched and the company that made it.
First Android Phone
The First Android Phone was launched on September 23, 2008, so people knew little about Android. The purpose company was that it competed with both the iPhone and Apple. Most of the two brands used to run, the first iPhone and the second Apple, both were huge brands, and their phones used to be very expensive because no lava company became a high-level mobile. that's why Android phones were launched.
How First Android Phone Was Launched?
The company could not launch Android, that is why three companies made it together and launched it in 2008, it was launched in 2008, but it was brought to the market in 2009 when it came first in the market, its rate was $399. This means that around INR 28000 thousand of the market since it came in the market, Chris's went very much after Android, that the best-selling mobile was Android phone and in those days Apple and iPhone did not buy the people because of that time.
If someone was the cheapest and best mobile, then it was an Android mobile. The name of all three companies started running. Google, second HTC, third e-mobile in all three earned a lot of names and the name of this phone was G1. Previously, skin tachos did not work in Android, for this, there was a kibot. In this kibot, all your alphabets were found and you could easily search for anything. If you had to send a message to someone, you could easily send it first.
First Android Phone Features
The First Android Phone had a button on the side that you could turn off and this very good mobile was launched. When there was an Android mobile in 2006, it did not have a Play Store. At that time there was an Android store. If you had to download something, then you had to download the Android Store.
The Android Store also used to work in the Play Store. It also had all the apps and running the Android Store. It was also very easy, so it did not require a play store. You were able to download yourself easily on Android. You could not connect the headphones directly to your phone. This needed a divider to connect your headphones to connect that divider. After you can connect your headphones, in the first Android Phone, you had two things apart. First, you had to use Android instead of the Play store. Second, you need a divider to connect your headphones.
The First Android Phone lasted for two years and then was discontinued. Later in 2010 came another Android mobile and made some changes to its features. After 2010, many companies launched their Android phones like Samson, Motorola, Vivo, Oppo, etc. Android phone after this, all the companies launched all the mobile phones after that, they made changes one after the other.
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The last decade has already born witness to two major waves in Big Data with the rise of smart devices and social media, but the current wave driven by sensor devices and the Internet of Things is utterly unprecedented in size, scope, and magnitude. The next frontier of Big Data will necessitate the birth of new technologies to process and detect streams of sensor data in real-time to fully capture the advantages of IoT.
of the Internet and the services attached to it grew exponentially with increased accessibility. The iPhone and other smart phones allowed users to be continuously plugged in to any number of web-based applications.
Little wonder then that social media services became the next wave of Big Data. While big players like Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter were founded around the same time that the iPhone was released, it wouldn't be until a few years later that they truly became major players in producing, tracking, and storing masses of personal data for masses of indefinitely online users.
That brings us to today, where the rapid development of the Internet as a driver of modern life has led to the Internet of Things, the logical conclusion of ever-increasing connectivity and data creation. Unlike the Big Data waves generated by the iPhone or social media, IoT data is mostly machine-generated sensor data that vastly outpaces a human's capacity for producing data. Further, only a fraction of the data continuously emitted by sensor devices is useful, and even then, that data is only useful for a short window of time. Streaming data is perishable, which means missing the window of time to make use of relevant data renders it effectively useless.
This means that one must have the ability to identify significant events as they happen in real-time from a continuous stream of data in order to harness the true potential of IoT data. This is a highly sophisticated undertaking, but fortunately, tura.io enables users to define events, layer data, and build pattern recogition processes in real-time.


28 Recruitment Agencies found in Hampshire in the Driving industry.
There is strong demand for drivers in Hampshire, thanks to the crucial role the Transport Industry plays in the local economy. Large volumes of freight are moved through the county to and from the ports of Southampton and Portsmouth every day, so Haulage and Logistics companies need both permanent and temporary staff to cope with the workload.
There is a wide selection of transport and third-party Warehousing businesses in Hampshire, including Davies Turner, ACP Freight, Fowler Welch, 2MV Logistics, Fraser Freight and Meachers Global Logistics. They offer employment opportunities for LGV and 7.5-tonne Drivers, as well as Fork Lift Truck Operators to help with loading and unloading.
A number of major companies have regional distribution centres in the county, such as Sainsbury's, the Co-Operative, and Fuller's, all of which require driving staff. As in most parts of the country, there are also Couriers and E-Commerce businesses that recruit Multi-Drop Van Drivers, as well as Plant Hire firms that need Delivery Drivers.
Most jobs in the sector are permanent, but employers also use specialist recruitment agencies to find experienced, reference-checked Drivers for temporary assignments to cover for holidays and spikes in traffic. Salaries for Drivers in Hampshire are usually slightly above the national average, with LGV drivers paid between £21,000 and £30,000 a year and van drivers earning from £15,000 to £17,000.


The greatest problem in the twenty-first century Western world is that most of us basically do not like ourselves. As a result we neglect to sustain a healthy inner life – and fall for the delusion that consumptive gratification, (where we exist on the surface of ourselves) and constant activity and entertainment, will bring us happiness. Instead we have become overly rational, existing most of the time in our heads and not connected to our emotions. Sadly the consequences result in human impoverishment and that many of us struggle with unintegrated inner lives, depression, anxiety, addictions of every kind.
Spirituality, and in particular Christian Spirituality, is the focus to the life of the Wellspring Community in Peckham. As a New Monastic Community prayer and spirituality are seen as key media for encountering and knowing God as well as enabling a fuller, integrated and healthier life. Within our Rhythm of life, ancient forms of Christian prayer, meditation, contemplation, dialogue and study are seen as crucial disciplines and activities.
As our interpretation of the Christian life is focused on 'contemplative or prayerful action' we encourage all those involved or interested in the Community to utilise our regular activities and training opportunities. As St Francis said this approach is based on 'experience that leads to understanding'. We grow in self-understanding and health as we learn to sustain a spiritual life, where we grow more integrated and less neglected inner lives nourished by the love of God.


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Tennessee basketball is featured in one of the marquee matchups of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge next season.
The Vols will play at Kansas on Jan. 25, adding to an already loaded non-conference schedule.
UT also will face Washington in Toronto on Nov. 16, Memphis on Dec. 14, Cincinnati on Dec. 18 and Wisconsin on Dec. 28. The Vols also face Florida State on Nov. 29 and either Purdue or VCU on Nov. 30 in the Emerald Coast Classic.
The Vols are 4-1 in the conference challenge meetings, which take place in late January. They have won three in a row.
The Jayhawks beat the Vols 87-81 last season in the NIT Season Tip-Off title game in Brooklyn.
UT's Rick Barnes and KU's Bill Self spent more than a decade battling against each other for Big 12 supremacy during Barnes' tenure at Texas.
"I've known Rick for a while," Self said last November. "I really like him and respect him. I think he's great at his craft. I think he is a good person, too."
Barnes coached the Longhorns from 1998 through 2015, while Self started at Kansas in 2003. Self holds a 16-7 edge in matchups against Barnes, including four wins in Big 12 Tournament title games.
The Vols gained one of the top wins in program history in 2010 when they beat then-No. 1 Kansas at Thompson-Boling Arena.
Scotty Hopson led the Vols with 17 points in the 76-68 win. But walk-on Skylar McBee had the key shot, coolly burying a 3-pointer after Kansas cut UT's lead to 71-68 with 1:14 to play.
UT is 1-3 all-time against Kansas with one of the losses coming at Allen Fieldhouse in 2009.
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Venkatraman who runs a restaurant near the Erode General Hospital in Tamil Nadu, serves food to the poor and needy for just 1 rupee. An incident where a poor lady couldn't buy dosas because they were expensive, got venkatraman thinking about how he could help people in such situation and came up with this selfless act of providing food to such people at Re 1 which usually costs about Rs. 45 to Rs 55. He says although he faces financial issues, he can't stop this noble cause. There are other people who also contribute in his cause.


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If you don't feel like reading this whole explanation, come to 444 Westminster St in Providence for the public meeting about the future of Kennedy Plaza at 5pm on February 16th. If we can get a big group of RIBike members there, we can improve bicycling conditions at the heart of Rhode Island's capital city.
[EDIT: this issue is not on the agenda for the BPAC meeting, though it may be touched upon. Definitely come to both that and the KP meeting, though, as both will be interesting.]
Recently, the East Coast Greenway Alliance (ECGA) has been working with RIBike to move the officially designated East Coast Greenway route northeastbound from Weybosset Street in downtown Providence to make use of the new parking-protected bike lane on Fountain Street. We're talking about this because our board serves as ECGA's state committee for Rhode Island, which means we need to approve any adjustments to the official Greenway route.
While we love the symbolism of the new Fountain Street lane, and think it provides a real improvement over the multi-lane speedway that bikes were stuck in beforehand, our board expressed a few concerns about the route change:
First, there's a pervasive problem in Rhode Island of people parking their cars in bike lanes. While calling the police department non-emergency number (401-272-3121 in Providence) may result in a parking enforcement officer coming by to ticket the offending car, even a few minutes of a parked car obstructing bike traffic is enough to force a bicyclist out of the bike lane into traffic, increasing objective danger and decreasing the perception of safety. This is part of why we need more physically separated bike lanes, but while we work toward those, we need police departments to step up enforcement against parking in bike lanes. While it's getting better on Fountain Street as people begin to understand the new lane, it's still a problem relevant to the Greenway route change. The RIBike board decided that this concern would probably lessen significantly within 2017, so while we made note of it, this wouldn't keep us from approving the route change.
Second and more important, we were concerned about the proposed route as it turns from Dorrance Street southeast-bound onto Washington Street northeast-bound through Kennedy Plaza. There is currently no green arrow for this left turn, meaning bicyclists need to turn left through a confusing intersection, unprotected from oncoming straight and right-turning car traffic. ECGA and RIBike have already brought this up to the City planners, and it should be on the agenda for the February BPAC meeting (along with more information about the Big Jump award). Conveniently, the following day, February 16th, the City is holding a "citywide conversation about Kennedy Plaza" where we should also turn out & speak up for a more bike-friendly downtown. That second meeting will also surely address the tensions around the presence of low-income residents and the desires of some to move bus traffic from Kennedy Plaza to other locations, ideally somewhere convenient like next to the train station. There are many important and complicated issues in this visioning process, but it's important that we go and speak up to demand that Kennedy Plaza be a place where people feel safe, not a place where we are killed with few consequences like Michelle Cagnon was in August of last year.
Thank you for speaking up for safer streets for bicycling, and we hope to see big crowds at both of these meetings!
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One critical omission from this post: We should be first & foremost concerned with the fact that the lane on Fountain St. does not connect to Dorrance and instead ends abruptly in a line of parked cars with no guidance to cyclists. The current design is extremely dangerous because it forces bikes out of the curbside lane and into traffic that is blocked from view by parked cars. All the City has to do is re-stripe the last few feet of the street; until then, it's irresponsible to suggest that route to cyclists.
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Considerably less famous than the pyramids of Egypt are the temples of Gozo and Malta. Yet some of these stone buildings precede the pyramids by 1,000 years.
The picture shows Ggantija on Gozo (Homer's Calypso Island), said to be the oldest free-standing stone structure in the world. It is very different from the pyramids in construction, and seemingly in purpose, too
The temple is made up a number of curved stone chambers, referred to as apses - hence apsidal tombs. Apparently, before the they made free-standing structures, the mysterious people who built these tombs dug into the sides of hills and cliffs. To avoid the roof caving in, the dug sideways to create chambers, leaving a central septum of stone uncut to support the roof. When they changed to free standing structures, they simply kept to the traditional pattern.
It is difficult to see the stonewrk from the photograph above. This picture below, of Hagar Qim (Hajar'eem) shows that the stonework was rather fine. Hagar Qim is on the sister island of Malta
The third photograph is of the temple of Manajdra, just 500m from Hagar Qim. This photograph not only confirms the excelent stonework, with its "Flemish Bond" overlay, but also shows two small holes in the stones. Behind these stones may be found a hidden chamber. the temples seem to have been used as oracles, possibly foretelling the weather, rainfall, or events
So, the temples of Gozo and Malta not only precede the pyramids of Egypt, but they are different in both form and purpose:-
Whereas the pyramids are determinedly rectilinear, the temples of Gozo and Malta are equally set on being curvilinear, with barely a straight line in sight
While the pyramids appear to have been for burial or to act as cenotaphs, the apsidal temples seem to have been oracles, with little evidence of associated burials
So, what happened to the builders of these ancient temples of Gozo and Malta? They had no writing, so they left no records. They left the islands around 2500BC, just as the Old Kingdom was getting into its stride. Where they went, nobody seems to know... But their temples stand as testimony to the strong relationship between architecture and culture, and in stark contrast to the pyramids of Egypt.


We are happy to announce that Stanford University's Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) has recently published a Teacher's Guide for The Gift of Barong: a Journey from Within (dir. Benito Bautista). The guide was written by Will Gutierrez and Victoria Yee.
The Gift of Barong is a feature documentary film about two generations of Filipino Americans – Dan and Jon – who both grew up resenting their ethnicity and disassociating themselves from their Filipino background. However, both Dan and Jon experienced personal awakenings that led them to start thinking about who they are and wonder about their family's true heritage. Together, the two embarked on a journey to the Philippines to learn about their culture and history and to somehow reconnect with their country of descent. They did this by way of surfing various Philippine surf breaks in different regions of the country, being avid surfers that they are.


Igbo group under the aegis of Igbo People of Nigeria (IPON) on Thursday marched to Aso Rock Villa to show support for President Muhammadu Buhari and commended him for 'Operation Python Dance' in the South-east.
The peaceful protest follows the resumed sit-out by the Charles Oputa a.k.a Charly boy group against some policies and programmes of the government, particularly as it concerns the President's alleged one-sided fight against corruption.
The protesters in their scores convened at the Unity Fountain in Abuja before heading to the Presidential Villa.
Speaking to newsmen, IPON's national coordinator, Uche Chegwo, said the Igbo people will forever be grateful to President Buhari and the Nigerian army.
He said the protest was to renew the support of the Igbo nation to the administration of Buhari, contrary to the impression that Igbo nation were against the administration.
Chegwo said: "There was need to correct some false impression in some quarters that Buhari led federal government was against the people of the southeast, who are predominantly Igbo. That was untrue and total misconception. The President in official and unofficial engagements has displayed love and equity to all Nigerians irrespective of political, religious and ethnic differences.
He however encouraged all Igbo to rally support for the President so he could confidently confront the socio-economic, security and political challenges that had held Nigeria down for years.
Speaking to the protesters, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the massive turnout was a pointer that all Nigerians are in support of the President and his developmental policies.
Buhari's media aide said that their message would be properly communicated to the President, with assurance that he would act on them speedily.


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The seat for the carver should be somewhat elevated above the other chairs: it is extremely ungraceful to carve standing, and it is rarely done by any person accustomed to the business. Carving depends more on skill than on strength. We have seen very small women carve admirably sitting down; and very tall men who knew not how to cut a piece of beef-steak without rising on their feet to do it.
The carving knife should be very sharp, and not heavy; and it should be held firmly in the hand: also the dish should be not too far from the carver. It is customary to help the fish with a fish trowel, and not with a knife. The middle part of a fish is generally considered the best. In helping it, avoid breaking the flakes, as that will give it a mangled appearance.
In carving ribs or sirloin of beef, begin by cutting thin slices off the side next to you. Afterwards you may cut from the tender-loin, or cross-part near the lower end. Do not send any one the outside piece, unless you know that they particularly wish it.
In helping beef-steak, put none of the bone on the plate.
In cutting a round of corned beef, begin at the top; but lay aside the first cut or outside piece, and send it to no one, as it is always dry and hard. In a round of a-la-mode beef, the outside is frequently preferred.
To taste well, a tongue should be cut crossways in round slices. Cutting it lengthwise (though the practice at many tables) injures the flavour. The middle part of the tongue is the best. Do not help any one to a piece of the root; that, being by no means a favoured part, is generally left in the dish. In carving a fore-quarter of lamb, first separate the shoulder part from the breast and ribs, by passing the knife under, and then divide the ribs. If the lamb is large, have another dish brought to put the shoulder in.
For a loin of veal, begin near the smallest end, and separate the ribs; helping a part of the kidney (as far as it will go) with each piece. Carve a loin of pork or mutton in the same manner.
In carving a fillet of veal, begin at the top. Many persons prefer the first cut or outside piece. Help a portion of the stuffing with each slice. In a breast of veal, there are two parts very different in quality, the ribs and the brisket. You will easily perceive the division; enter your knife at it, and cut through, which will separate the two parts. Ask the persons you are going to help, whether they prefer a rib or a piece of the brisket. For a haunch of venison, first make a deep incision, bypassing your knife all along the side, cutting quite down to the bone. This is to let out the gravy. Then turn the broad end of the haunch towards you, and cut it as deep as you can, in thin, smooth slices, allowing some of the fat to each person.
For a saddle of venison, or of mutton, cut from the tail to the other end on each side of the back-bone, making very thin slices, and sending some fat with each. Venison and roast mutton chill very soon, therefore it is usual to eat it with iron heaters under the plates. Some heaters are made to contain hot coals, others are kept warm with boiling water, and some are heated by spirits of wine; the last is a very exceptionable mode, as the blue blaze flaming out all around the plate, is to many persons frightful. Currant jelly is an indispensable appendage to venison, and to roast mutton, and to ducks.
A young pig is most generally divided before it comes to table, in which case, it is not customary to send in the head, as to many persons it is a revolting spectacle after it is cut off. When served up whole, first separate the head from the shoulders, then cut off the limbs, and then divide the ribs. Help some of the stuffing with each piece.
To carve a fowl, begin by sticking your fork in the pinion, and drawing it towards the leg; and then passing your knife underneath, take off the wing at the joint. Next, slip your knife between the leg and the body, to cut through the joint; and with the fork, turn the leg back, and the joint will give way. Then take off the other wing and leg. If the fowl has been trussed (as it ought to be) with the liver and gizzard, help the liver with one wing, and the gizzard with the other.
The liver wing is considered the best. After the limbs are taken off, enter your knife into the top of the breast, and cut under the merry-thought, so as to loosen it, lifting it with your fork. Afterwards cut slices from both sides of the breast.
Next take off the collar-bones, which lie on each side of the merry-thought, and then separate the side-bones from the back.
The breast and wings are considered as the most delicate parts of the fowl; the back, as the least desirable, is generally left in the dish. Some persons, in carving a fowl, find it more convenient to take it on a plate, and as they separate it, return each part to the dish; but this is not now the usual way.
A turkey is carved in the same manner as a fowl; except that the legs and wings being larger, are separated at the lower joint. The lower part of the leg, (or drumstick, as it is called,) being hard, tough, and stringy, is never helped to any one, but allowed to remain on the dish. First cut off the wing, leg, and breast from one side; then turn the turkey over, and cut them off from the other.
To carve a goose, separate the leg from the body, by putting the fork into the small end of the limb; pressing it close to the body, and then passing the knife under, and turning the leg back, as you cut through the joint. To take off the wing, put your fork into the small end of the pinion, and press it closely to the body; then slip the knife under, and separate the joint. Next cut under the merry-thought, and take it off; and then cut slices from the breast. Then turn the goose, and dismember the other side. Take off the two upper side-bones, that are next to the wings; and then the two lower side-bones. The breast and legs of a goose afford the finest pieces. If a goose is old, there is no fowl so tough; and if difficult to carve, it will be still more difficult to eat.
Partridges, pheasants, grouse, etc, are carved in the same manner as fowls. Quails, woodcocks, and snipes are merely split down the back; so also are pigeons, giving a half to each person.
In helping any one to gravy, or to melted butter, do not pour it over their meat, fowl, or fish, but put it to one side on a vacant part of the plate, that they may use just as much of it as they like. In filling a plate, never heap one thing on another.
In helping vegetables, do not plunge the spoon down to the bottom of the dish, in case they should not have been perfectly well drained. and the water should have settled there.
By observing carefully how it is done, you may acquire a knowledge of the joints, and of the process of carving, which a little daily practice will soon convert into dexterity. If a young lady is ignorant of this very useful art. it will be well for her to take lessons of her father, or her brother, and a married lady can easily learn from her husband. Domestics who wait at table may soon, from looking on daily, become so expert that, when necessary, they can take a dish to the side-table and carve it perfectly well.
At a dinner party, if the hostess is quite young, she is frequently glad to be relieved of the trouble of carving by the gentleman who sits nearest to her; but if she is familiar with the business, she usually prefers doing it herself.


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The DA-SG-4PM-W is a single channel broadcast controller for DALI or DSI devices. The product has the following controls.
These levels can be easily changed, see below.
Use either buttons 1 and 2 to raise the light level. Use either buttons 3 and 4 to lower the light level.
Toggle between lights off and last selected Scene.
Note: the data sent from the DALI output is in broadcast mode and is not suitable for addressed systems.
Fascia available in a range of finishes.


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Geoff Johns Likens DC's Rebirth to Star Wars
By: Jesse Schedeen
With the cat finally out of the bag as far as DC Rebirth is concerned, DC Chief Creative Officer spoke to Comic Book Resources about the motivation behind this massive comic book relaunch and how it'll reshape the DC Universe moving forward.
First, CBR posted the video message Johns recorded for comic books retailers attending the ComicsPRO convention today. Check it out below:
In his interview with CBR, Johns was candid about what he sees as some of the mistakes that have been made in recent years and his desire to build the DCU into something bigger. "I've been a fan for years — I have over 60,000 comics and 99 percent of them are DC Comics. I really see this as an opportunity, and like I've said before, take all the characters and thematics that we love — from the past and the present — and build a story that brought them all together, revealed new secrets and truths and mysteries, and moved it all ahead. Again, as someone who absolutely loves the DC Universe, to me it's maybe lost some things. Not only characters, but more intangibles. Some essence to what makes the 'DC Universe' unique and brilliant and unpredictable. And every single character matters — from Batman to Cassandra Cain to John Stewart to Saturn Girl to Blue Beetle to Lois Lane– everyone is someone's favorite. And in comics, anything's possible."
Jesse Schedeen


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// +build !go1.7

package thrift

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"golang.org/x/net/context"
)

func (t *TMultiplexedProcessor) Process(ctx context.Context, in, out TProtocol) (bool, TException) {
	name, typeId, seqid, err := in.ReadMessageBegin()
	if err != nil {
		return false, err
	}
	if typeId != CALL && typeId != ONEWAY {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("Unexpected message type %v", typeId)
	}
	//extract the service name
	v := strings.SplitN(name, MULTIPLEXED_SEPARATOR, 2)
	if len(v) != 2 {
		if t.DefaultProcessor != nil {
			smb := NewStoredMessageProtocol(in, name, typeId, seqid)
			return t.DefaultProcessor.Process(ctx, smb, out)
		}
		return false, fmt.Errorf("Service name not found in message name: %s.  Did you forget to use a TMultiplexProtocol in your client?", name)
	}
	actualProcessor, ok := t.serviceProcessorMap[v[0]]
	if !ok {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("Service name not found: %s.  Did you forget to call registerProcessor()?", v[0])
	}
	smb := NewStoredMessageProtocol(in, v[1], typeId, seqid)
	return actualProcessor.Process(ctx, smb, out)
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Safeguarding Creativity
Driving Economic Growth
Advancing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Fostering Innovation
Supporting Creators From Script to Screen
We are the leading advocate of the film, television, and streaming industry around the world.
In the United States and around the globe, the film, television, and streaming industry drives the creative economy. Our members are:
Charles H. Rivkin, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Charles H. Rivkin is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). He leads the MPA's global mission to advance and support the film, television, and streaming content industry. The MPA's members currently include: Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. Drawing on almost 30 years of experience as a media executive and …
In 1922, motion picture studios formed the organization now known as the Motion Picture Association to protect and support the nascent film industry. Since that time, the MPA has served as the leading advocate of the film, television, and streaming industry around the world, advancing the business and art of storytelling, protecting the creative and artistic freedoms of storytellers, and bringing entertainment and inspiration to audiences worldwide.
Photo of the first meeting of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), March 10, 1922. Pictured left to right, top row: Myron Selznick (Selznick Pictures), Winfield Sheehan (Fox Film), Courtland Smith (MPPDA), William Fox (Fox Film), Samuel Goldwyn (Goldwyn Pictures), J.J. Atkinson, Robert Cochrane (Universal Pictures). Bottom row: Lewis J. Selznick (Selznick Pictures), Earle W. Hammons (Educational Films), J.D. Williams (First National), William Hays (MPPDA), Adolph Zukor (Famous Players), Marcus Loew (Metro Pictures), Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures). Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Library.
The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) is founded and led by William Hays. A regulatory system, known as the Hays Code, is developed to ensure the absence of "offensive material" and prevent government interference in filmmaking.
The organization changes its name to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Alongside the progress of the civil rights, women's rights, and labor movements, the film industry sought artistic freedoms and the removal of the Hays Code's strict limits on certain content. In response, then-MPAA president Jack Valenti creates the film rating system we use today.
The MPAA establishes the Film Security Office to work closely with law enforcement officials and stem the growing threat of film piracy, which was estimated to cost the industry more than $100 million a year at the time.
Facing increasing challenges from online content theft, the MPAA, under Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman, bolsters its global content protection team and successfully advocates for the Pro-IP Act, the first U.S. anti-piracy law enacted in the 21st century.
The MPAA, under Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd, works closely with the U.S. government to reach an agreement with China to settle a long-running WTO dispute, opening up China's film marketplace and dramatically boosting revenue sharing, an action that helped fuel a major expansion in global box office revenue.
The MPAA joins dozens of entertainment companies to launch the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy.
Under Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin, Netflix becomes the newest member of the MPAA, joining Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Bros. The addition of Netflix reflected the association's increased focus on streaming services as the industry adapted to the viewing practices of modern audiences.
Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin unifies the global operations of the association under one brand: the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
Under Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin, the MPA is championing the growing diversity of filmmakers, safeguarding intellectual property rights, advancing technological innovation, and supporting trade policies that can further expand the global film and TV marketplace.
The MPA works globally to advance public policies that support creators, protect content, and foster a thriving creative economy. Our operations include:
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Humans tell stories—it's what we do.
Today, the stories that define our lives and shape our world are brought to life by the global creative community, including the creators and artists working in American film and television. The MPA fosters this economic and cultural enterprise by advocating for policies that recognize the power of our stories, reward creators, and allow us to produce, distribute, and protect the creative content audiences love.