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Bullets before the ballot – Bujumbura diary
Désiré Nimubona
IRIN Contributor
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Police look on as people demonstrate in Bujumbura against a decision by Burundi's ruling party to nominate President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term in elections slated for June 2015.
At least a dozen people have been killed in recent days in Burundi amid protests against the president's plans to run for a third term in office. The unrest has raised fears that the country, after a decade of peace, could slide back into conflict. This is what it is like to live and work through the troubles:
Saturday, 18 April
Like all other journalists, I get a call about "peace" demonstrations organised by the ruling party, the National Council for the Defence of Democracy–Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD). Government spokesmen call on all media outlets and individual journalists and use social media to publicise the event. The aim is to demonstrate a show of support for President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial bid to run for a third term in elections due in June.
During the event, led by party chairman Pascal Nyabenda, some of those marching cry out "tuzobamesa!" to bystanders. In Kirundi, this literally means: "We're going to wash you!" But it reminds me of the language used during the 1993-2005 civil war, when a variant of the same verb, "mumese!" was clearly used to mean: "kill him!" I am one of the "grenade generation," those who were in secondary school during the 1990s, when grenade attacks on schools were commonplace.
I learn that the ruling party's congress has officially endorsed Nkurunziza as its candidate even though he has already served two five-year terms as president. This should preclude him from running, although his supporters say the first one didn't count because he was appointed by parliament rather than elected by public ballot. This is when I begin thinking about my family: my wife and my two children.
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The author in Bujumbura
Civil society organisations, opposition parties and even parts of the CNDD-FDD opposed to Nkurunziza's candidacy announce they will take to the streets. Until now, I'd thought things would calm down and the president, content with his two terms, would let others succeed him. Polls have put his party well in the lead.
The streets of Bujumbura are packed with demonstrators. At around 8:30am, I take some photos in central Bujumbura's Nyakabiga district. Police begin to break up the protests with teargas. With no protection, I run for cover. I see children crying. Some police appear to be firing live rounds.
What affects me most is the death of a 15-year-old boy. I had just left Mutakura, in the north of the capital, when a colleague called me to say an adolescent had been shot in the head while he had his hands in the air. His name was Jean Népomuscène Komezamahoro. Born in 2000, he was the same age as the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Accord, which paved the way for the end of the war.
I saw women weep when they learnt that the boy was dead. That night, I got a call from the same part of town. I was told that uniformed men had burst into a home, killing two people, including a 40-year-old man who worked for Toyota Burundi.
Monday 27 April
I leave the capital to go to the Musaga neighbourhood in the south of Bujumbura. Protestors here are more hardline, determined to take on the Nkurunziza regime. The previous day a man had been shot dead. Protestors blamed the police and intelligence services. Today, I witness the forced closure of Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), the most listened-to radio station in the country.
Back in Musaga. Some colleagues and I come under fire. Nobody is hurt. A rubicon of press freedom is crossed when social media and mobile phone networks are cut. This is a big problem for journalists.
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I learn that members of the Imbonerakure (the CNDD-FDD's youth wing) armed with clubs have targeted colleagues from Bonesha FM. Later, I hear that police shot at RPA journalists in Mutakura the previous night. My three-year-old son starts asking questions like, "Daddy, did they shoot at you? Tell me, Daddy, who shot at you? And why?" I don't reply. One thing is clear though: the troubles have reached the hearts of children, including my own.
Thursday, 30 April
I decide to move my family far from the city. I am not the only one. It's normal in times like this. Early in the morning, we drive south to Musaga and I try in vain to get my family out into the countryside. A group of protestors at a roadblock recognise me as a journalist. They say they sympathise but if they let us drive through everyone else will ask them too. They suggest I hand over my family to let them through to walk to the bus on the other side of the district. I refuse and return home.
Friday, 1 May
It's the same story to the south in Kanyossha. Again, I can't get through the barricades. Night brings good news: a two-day truce to bury the victims and give the president time to rethink his decision.
Weekend of 2 and 3 May
We pack the bags again. At around 6am on Sunday my son waves goodbye to me. He is leaving with his baby sister, my wife and three other family members, with a plan to come back when calm returns. But where will stay calm for sure when different communes are beginning to join the movement? I notice two young strangers in front of my house as I pack up the car. I zoom in on them with my camera.
Monday 4 May
I head downtown to work as usual. Showing my local press card, I am able to get though the barricades. The protestors are not always friendly to journalists who are close to the government. Sometimes we are manhandled by the police and the Imbonerakure.
At midday I see protestors clashing with police. The protestors wanted to block the main road running through Bujumbura, Boulevard 28 Novembre. Live bullets were fired at the protestors and grenades went off that injured some police officers. The wounded cried out. Some protestors had blood on their clothes. There was no sign of ambulances. Later I learned that even the first lady had to turn back when her convoy tried to cross the Republic Bridge, which lies on this boulevard.
Frightened by the gunshots, the explosions, I sought out a calmer location. A 12-year-old boy was among three people killed today. Forty-five people, as well as 15 police officers were wounded.
Protestors have blocked many roads in the capital
Tuesday 5 May
I decide not to work today. I need to rethink my personal security strategy. But tomorrow I have to resume my duties cover the burial of corporal Euraim Hatungimana, shot while he was protecting demonstrators, apparently by a secret service officer.
I want people to understand what is going on in Burundi, especially over recent days where the rights of children are violated by demonstrators and the police. That's something they have in common.
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Artists that traverse musical genres have always come to visit. The heavy metal scene, in particular, churns away in the underground with recent shows from metal heavyweights such as Anthrax and Meshuggah. March 12th 2017 will bear witness to another heavy metal heavyweight coming to town. Devin Townsend Project (DTP) will arrive to play the Colston Hall and blow your minds.
Fronted by the synonymous Devin Townsend, the band is currently touring to promote the release of their album, Transcendence. Transcendence was released on September 9th 2016 and is the follow-up to 2014's Z2. This is the band's seventh studio release in what has been a busy few years. The band has also recently released Ziltoid: Live At the Royal Albert Hall, a video album from their London show back in April 2015. For Devin himself it is the twenty-third release, having worked on multiple projects. From the famed extreme metal act Strapping Young Lad, to a more mellow Casualties of Cool, Devin's experiments are forever far-reaching. Devin Townsend Project presents much more progressive metal outfit.
DTP has played several shows in Bristol in the past, most recently in March 2015 at the O2 Academy. Devin also stopped here in October of the same year for a far more stripped-down acoustic set at the Trinity Hall. This year, Devin has upped the stakes considerably with the Colston Hall. After selling out the Royal Albert Hall in a matter of days, one can only wait in anticipation for DTP's Bristol performance. It is Devin's biggest Bristol show to date and the first of many on DTP's tour this year. The band will also stop at Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, London, and Nottingham.
Tickets are available on the Colston Hall's website for £24.19 (inc. booking fee). Supporting DTP will be TesseracT and Leprous. Transcendence was released September 9th 2016 on HevyDevy Records.
The UK city of Bristol has always seen its fair share of respected artists come through its doors. This time it is Devin Townsend's turn (again).
Written & Spoken Word. Bristol.


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UK Government Proposes Internet of Things Cyber-Security Law
On May 1, 2019, the United Kingdom (UK) government announced plans to introduce a new Internet of Things (IoT) cyber-security law. The legislation, which is now open for consultation, could affect IoT device manufacturers, IoT service-providers, mobile app developers and retailers.
The new law is based on the UK's voluntary Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security (Code) which sets out a set of guidelines for IoT manufacturers and other industry stakeholders to follow in order to improve the security of consumer IoT products and associated services. It now seeks to make the Code, at least in part, legally binding.
Plans for the new law include requiring compliance with the "top three" guidelines found in the Code, namely that:
all IoT devices must have unique passwords and are not resettable to a universal factory default;
manufacturers must provide a public point of contact as part of a "vulnerability disclosure policy"; and
manufacturers must explicitly state the minimum length of time for which a product will receive security updates.
According to the UK government, meeting these practical and implementable measures would protect consumers from the most significant IoT security risks. If implemented, the new law would require device-makers to self-certify compliance with the top three guidelines and label their products accordingly. Retailers would only be permitted sell these labelled devices. This is the UK government's preferred implementation for the law. However, the additional schemes have been proposed and the UK government is seeking feedback from stakeholders on the proposed options.
For more information please see the UK government's consultation webpage here.
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Midriff cut football jersey straight from the LBC. White with grey sleeves and blue accents. Woven pyramid shaped band detailing on sleeves and neck. Soft, classic color scheme and boyish style fit. Made in the USA.


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Еріх-Міхаель Гоффманн (; 14 червня 1919, Саарлаутерн — 14 лютого 1944, Балтійське море) — німецький офіцер-підводник, оберлейтенант-цур-зее крігсмаріне.

Біографія
1 жовтня 1938 року вступив на флот. В липні 1940 року відряджений в морську авіацію. В лютому-вересні 1941 року пройшов курс підводника. З 25 жовтня 1941 року — 1-й вахтовий офіцер на підводному човні U-437. З листопада 1942 по січень 1943 року пройшов курс командира човна. З 20 лютого 1943 року — командир U-738. 14 лютого 1944 року човен затонув в Балтійському морі біля Готенгафена (54°32′ пн. ш. 18°36′ сх. д.) після зіткнення з німецьким торговим судном Erna. 24 члени екіпажу були врятовані, 22 (включаючи Гоффманна) загинули.

Звання

 Кандидат в офіцери (1 жовтня 1938)
 Морський кадет (1 липня 1939)
 Фенріх-цур-зее (1 грудня 1939)
 Оберфенріх-цур-зее (1 серпня 1940)
 Лейтенант-цур-зее (1 квітня 1941)
 Оберлейтенант-цур-зее (1 січня 1943)

Посилання

 Біографічні дані.
 Гоффманн на сайті uboat.net

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Померли в морі
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The Detroit Lions are expected to announce Matt Patricia as their new head coach early next week, and a slew of assistants hires are sure to follow.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Detroit Lions are expected to announce Matt Patricia as their new head coach early next week, and a slew of assistant coach hires are sure to follow.
The Lions plan to keep offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter and part of his staff, and they've reportedly already settled on a few new hires.
Brian Stewart will coach defensive backs. Jeff Davidson could coach offensive line (though Patricia's first choice for the position was believed to be Harry Hiestand, who left Notre Dame to take a position with the Chicago Bears). And Paul Pasqualoni is expected to join the defensive staff in some capacity.
During parts of the 3 or so hours he spent fulfilling media obligations at Super Bowl LII this week, Patricia explained some of what he looks for in assistant coaches.
"Hard work's a pretty good characteristic, so let's start there," Patricia said Monday. "But these guys (on staff with the New England Patriots) are all really smart, want to learn, want to grow. I think we've all I think grown as coaches through the years, and we've grown together, which has been great cause then it just makes it easy at that point cause you're a lot alike, you start to think in kind of the same manner."
Patricia has previous ties to many of the new faces expected to join him in Detroit.
Both Patricia and Stewart worked on Pasqualoni's staff at Syracuse in 2001, when Patricia was in his first season as a graduate assistant.
Davidson coached tight ends and offensive line for the Patriots from 1997-2004; Patricia joined the Patriots as an offensive assistant in 2004, when he helped coach the offensive line.
And new quarterbacks coach George Godsey, who's moving from defensive special assistant, was with the Patriots in 2011-13.
"As a coach you're a teacher," Patricia said. "You're trying to teach all different avenues of whether it's the game plan, technique. Life, whatever it may be. You're trying to, teacher, mentor, whatever you want to call it from that standpoint, but I think when you're in front of the group and you're presenting, you're very much at that point teaching."
The Patriots plan to promote Brian Flores from linebackers coach to defensive coordinator, and it's not clear if Patricia will bring any of the team's low-level assistants with him to Detroit.
But he praised his current defensive staff and said he's fortunate to be flanked by a good group.
"For me, we're all assistant coaches trying to achieve one thing," Patricia said. "The guys I work with are unbelievable. My defensive guys, obviously all of them. B-Flo and Josh Boyer and Brendan Daly and Steve Belichick and Mike Pellegrino, DeMarcus (Covington) and Brian (Belichick). Everybody, they work so hard to achieve the goal each week to make sure that our guys are prepared at a high level to try to go win. So I'm very blessed."


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Yuri Yoshida
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Dissertation Title: Placing Abstraction: Barnett Newman and the System of Historicization
Bader, Graham P.
Yuri Yoshida majored in mathematics in his undergraduate study at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. He began to study art history in graduate school, during which time he also worked for art museums, such as the Kawasaki City Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Mori Art Museum. At the Mori, he worked for mainly two exhibition projects, "Metabolism, the City of the Future" (2011) and "Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World" (2012). His research focuses on post-war American art, especially Barnett Newman, recontextualizing his work within a broader consideration of the sociopolitical/cultural meaning in the 1960s. Yuri has published an essay in the scholarly journal Bijutsushi in 2012, "The Depth of the Canvas:The Transformation of Spatial Awareness in Barnett Newman's Paintings," which discusses the changes in spatial expression over the artist's life. He earned Master's degrees both at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2011 and Hunter College in New York in 2014. Before coming to Rice, he spent a year serving as Scholar-in-Residence at the Barnett Newman Foundation in New York.


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Marcus Mumford's Signed Guitar
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A once in a lifetime chance to own a signed guitar from Marcus Mumford's personal collection, given the name 'Desmerelda' by Marcus!
- Exact guitar model is a Martin Dreadnought Junior.
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Donated by Marcus Mumford
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They protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children caught up in conflict. War Child aims to reach children as early as possible when conflict breaks out, and stay to support them through their recovery - helping to keep them safe, give them an education, and equip them with skills for the future.
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In 2008, after the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws adopted the UIFSA 2008 amendments, several states asked OCSE if their state legislatures could enact UIFSA 2008. At that time, section 466(f) of the Social Security Act required states to adopt UIFSA 1996, a previous version to UIFSA 2008. OCSE issued DCL-08-41, which permitted states to enact UIFSA 2008 verbatim with a provision that the effective date of its enactment be delayed until the 2007 Family Maintenance Convention is ratified and the United States deposits its instrument of ratification. States that chose to follow this process did not need to request an exemption from OCSE. Eight states passed UIFSA 2008 using the effective date language described in DCL-08-41.
Due to the specific requirement in P.L. 113-183 that states enact UIFSA 2008 in their next state legislative session, OCSE rescinds DCL-08-41. The eight states that enacted UIFSA 2008 with a delayed implementation date must take the necessary legislative or administrative steps for UIFSA 2008 to be effective as directed in P.L. 113-183.
Now that the President has signed P.L. 113-183, the following steps must occur before the 2007 Family Maintenance convention can enter into force for the United States.
All states must enact UIFSA 2008 verbatim by the effective date noted in P.L. 113-183. Where UIFSA 2008 has bracketed language, states may use terminology appropriate under state law. In addition, P.L. 113-183 requires states to make minor revisions to the state plan which OCSE will address in forthcoming guidance.
The President must sign the instrument of ratification.
Once these activities are completed, the United States will be able to deposit its instrument of ratification with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is the depositary for the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance.
It is important to note that, once UIFSA 2008 is in effect in your state, international cases will not be processed under Article 7 of UIFSA 2008 until the 2007 Family Maintenance Convention enters into force for the United States. Once this occurs, Article 7 of UIFSA 2008 will be in effect for all cases transmitted and received under the 2007 Family Maintenance Convention.
OCSE expresses our sincere thanks to the entire child support community for the collaborative and monumental effort taken to reach this important milestone. We look forward to working together to enact UIFSA 2008 in all states, and to implement the 2007 Family Maintenance Convention in the United States.
Thank you for your continued efforts on behalf of our nation's children.


This is one doll from my collection of Patsy Ann dolls that I now keep locked up in the attic. Most of the nice looking ones were used in a promotional campaign back in 2001, but I never had the courage to use this particular one until now.
Ughh! I'm a victim of my own demands. My home's restoration work started back up a month ago and my paying work load increased threefold. And then there was the urgent need to get all the summer annuals planted ASAP as soon as they became available for purchase and before the first week of June, which required me to spend the last three weekends including the holiday to amend the soil and plant. I will post photos soon. Even though there is progress, I feel disoriented, and after three weekends of outdoor labor, two days of oil-based paint fumes, glue for the VCT flooring, bleach for the newly grouted tile, and scorched eyeballs from long hours at the computer, all my intelligent brain cells have been fried. This is my excuse for not posting lately. Please accept this homeless creature as a stopgap.


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RETURN OF THE KNOW-IT-ALL: Reality blabbermouth Janice Dickinson — who once slept with Gia — says don't let HIV inhibit your love life
WHO'S THE FIERCEST OF THEM ALL? Newbie mogul Janice Dickinson.
The woman can out-talk and out-name-drop anyone on the planet.
A force of nature who never seems to tire, Janice Dickinson is the ultimate reality-TV star.
Just point a camera in her direction. She's bound to outrageously perform.
But don't brush off her too quickly.
Before she gained notoriety as the Simon Cowell-like viper on "America's Next Top Model," Dickinson was already a bestselling author.
In 2002, she published the juicy "No Lifeguard on Duty," which detailed her infamous modeling career. The memoir also delves into her pedophiliac father, who molested Janice's sisters.
That book ends with Janice throwing her dad's angina pills out a car window while he's suffering a heart attack. Before admitting him to a nearby hospital, Janice stared him in the eye and yelled, "Die, motherfucker!"
This week, Dickinson released her third book, "Check, Please! How to Pick Up Boys … And Dump Them When You're Done" (Regan Books, $25.95). And on Saturday, the Oxygen network launches her new reality series "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency."
Although she's an egomaniac, Dickinson frequently reveals her many flaws. The only reason she should be offering relationship advice is because she fails at them over and over again. That same tack is employed on her first reality show: The self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel" opens her first agency, and the viewer gets to watch her fall on her Botoxed face.
During a recent phone interview, the busy Dickinson orders me to start firing away questions.
Do you have any significant ties to Dallas?
I … [slept with] Debbie. You know, from "Debbie Does Dallas."
I probably slept with a few Dallas Cowboys, too.
If you're the first supermodel, then who is Suzi Parker?
Suzi was one of the original supermodels.
She was a 1950s model who was shot by Irving Penn.
She was not a complete supermodel because Suzi didn't work the runway like I did.
That's why I'm a supermodel and Suzi isn't.
And Lauren Hutton wasn't a supermodel because she didn't do runway. And she didn't do catalog.
Lauren was purely a supermodel who had a big Revlon contract.
It's national gay pride month. In 2006, does being openly gay still hinder a model's chances for obtaining work?
Unfortunately, it does.
That's pretty sad. Isn't it?
Hopefully, as my agency keeps growing, I can help change things.
But even in the fashion industry, when it comes to hiring models, homophobia is still something we keep fighting against.
But I think things are changing.
My son recently bragged to me that he made out with one of his best [male] friends.
So for him and his generation, it's like being gay or bisexual or whatever is no big deal.
In your book, "Check, Please!" you say that on the first date, the man always pays. Who should pay on same-sex dates?
Sorry to say this, but the gays and lesbians will have to go dutch.
The title of "Check, Please" refers to being on a date and asking for the check to indicate that you've had enough — like the "dump button" is always within reach. If a prospective partner tells you they're HIV positive, is that a deal breaker?
Listen, I once hooked up with [the late supermodel] Gia, who died of AIDS in 1986.
And even if I did know she was HIV positive, I still would hopped in bed with her.
She was gorgeous.
I knew way too many beautiful, wonderful, amazing people who have died from AIDS — Francisco Scavullo, Halston...
And I would never dump anyone because they're had AIDS.
To me, that's just deplorable.
In fact, I'd dump any bigot who would say that HIV was a deal breaker for them.


That looks pretty cool. Hopefully that did not make a huge dent in our Gondola budget. HAHA!
Whitetail added a new winch cat as well.
Am I the only one who doesn't view a new snow cat as an upgrade? I always thought of it like a work truck, something that is required for the job, and replacing one that is no longer capable or too old is just a cost of maintaining the current level of service.
Probably not. I didn't, hence creating a new thread and not under the upgrades thread. The video does highlight some features specific to park building which to some would consider it an upgrade. Also, not sure they're replacing an old one, so maybe an upgrade to their fleet? Regardless, I like it when resorts gets new stuff.
Completely fair. I'm not saying I'm not happy when hills don't get new stuff, just how they market it can sometimes rub me the wrong way.


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Q: CentOS 7 - boot order needs to be changed in order for sge to start automatically It seems like sge tries start before lustre is mounted when the server boots, which brings an error to start automatically when it reboots.
Can somebody tell me how to change the order when it boots, so sge starts after lustre is mounted?
Error message from the log:
Aug 12 11:46:21 dragen1 systemd: Configuration file /usr/lib/systemd/system/sge_execd.service is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway.
Aug 12 11:46:40 dragen1 sge_execd: error: SGE_ROOT directory "/cm/shared/apps/sge/2011.11p1" doesn't exist
Aug 12 11:46:40 dragen1 systemd: sge_execd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 12 11:46:40 dragen1 systemd: Unit sge_execd.service entered failed state.
Aug 12 11:46:40 dragen1 systemd: sge_execd.service failed

A: I added in the following under [Unit] from the sge service
RequiresMountsFor=(Mount Point)

This fixed the problem.

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VSO organises Tarang to raise funds2 min read
Nadia Lewis
Manipal: The Voluntary Service Organisation (VSO) of Manipal University held Tarang at End Point from one in the afternoon till eight in the evening on February 10. It was an occasion where both the student population and families of Manipal came together to fly kites for a noble cause.
The money raised at the event would be given to three different charities; the Sri Krishna Balaniketan in Udupi, Nittur State Home in Manipal and ASARE, a home for the mentally challenged, also in Manipal.
Savita Sastri, a volunteer said that this event was also held to create awareness of the existence of VSO. "We want to encourage student volunteers. We have ongoing projects on weekends and what we generate goes back into VSO," she said. She also believed this event brought Manipal together. "There is an entire cross section – students, families, orphans, old and young – everybody turned up," she added.
Tarang's kites were brought in from Gujarat and were sold at Rs. 50 a pair. Apart from the kite flying, there were eight stalls selling food and electronic items. There was also a photo booth and live performances by local bands. The proceeds from all this went to the charities as well.
Kaushal Dvora, a local resident said, "It was a nice event, but it can be better organised. Areas could have been earmarked for kite flying, especially for the children, for safety reasons. There is also a lot of littering happening. Bins should have been kept in proper places as the regular bins are far away. But it is a good start, a good encouragement as nowadays the younger generation doesn't come out often."
"We're here to fly the kites but the kites are really bad. Usually normal kites require a long tail and these kites have no tails," said Vishnu Raveen, a final year student of Manipal Institute of Technology. Despite the minor complaints, the event proved to be very successful as around 400 kites were sold by the evening.
The kite flying was followed by the release of sky lanterns which brought an end to the day's festivities.
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Discussion in 'Camino de Levante' started by sean, Jul 29, 2014.
Just booked my flights for a 3 week run on the Levante from Toledo on September 30th. Does anyone have info on the stages between Toledo and Zamora please? I would also appreciate any details of the Albergue network also.
Mundicamino site has all the info I require. I tend to travel light and not carry too much bumf. Thank you for your help.
Hi Sean, http://wisepilgrim.com/ have some apps - don't know if you use phone there or not and don't know if they cover the area you were looking at.
I do not bring a phone, so will have to rely on notes I have made from Mundicamino site. I tend to take the Camino as I find it and do not like following droves of other walkers, hence the quieter routes. My notes are usually one page long and contain basic information. It has led me to some of the best adventures imaginable and a few wobblies thrown in every now and then. Such is life.
Yeah, it is kinda funny now, I first walked in 2004 with a guide book that I never used and it was borrowed from a friend so I had to take it with me and then home.
In 2005 I took no guide book and got a list of albergues at St Jean or Roncesvalles can't remember which - but that was it, nothing else - and it was a couple of years before smartphones. And right now I am writing an ebook which will be finished this year for the Camino Frances, however with that I am trying to cover interesting bits of the history and some architecture.
I am a good few years ahead of smartphones and the like. I come from an era where you wound up a handle on the side of the phone to get through to an operator. Has anyone ever spoken to 'An Operator'? Try that on your IPhone. Once you had contacted the operator, they would 'try put you through, if the lines were not busy' After that it was 5 pence in the box and press Button A. If you did not get through, press Button B and get your money back. No Ombudsman holding an inquiry into roaming charges, sheer bliss, except if the phone did not give you your Bob back. There are still some phones in Spain that operate on coins and I make contact by such manner whenever possible. Always a great excuse to hang up if a conversation runs too long. 'I'm running out of money, talk to you later'.
Yes, I am also old enough to remember pay phones and the running out of money.
Now with mobiles it appears that many around me feel obliged to answer them when they ring - any time they ring. We eventually got a rule in place with no phones at the table - I really think I am an old fart sometimes, but I like conversations that are not interrupted by a tweet, a text message, or a FB update.


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Deep in the Colombian Pacific Coast, the Wounaan (people of the rainforest) work tirelessly weaving the werregue fibers into baskets, trays, plates, bowls and even fashion accessories. Werregue crafts are recognized worldwide as unique works of art of great cultural importance.
The resilient fibers used to make these products come from the Werregue palm, which grows only in certain parts of the pacific coast. The men harvest the leaves only during the full moon. It takes months of drying, dyeing and preparing the plant before the fibers are ready to weave. Once ready, the baskets are woven with a spiral technique using one thick chord as the "soul", weaving it together with smaller colored threads
While it is the women who primarily do the weaving, these crafts represent the only source of income for the Wounaan people, so naturally the whole village participates in one way or another.
Even the smaller pieces, like the colorful bangles, take days to complete. Some of the larger vases taking up to a year.
The cultural significance of these artifacts is a testament to the fact that the Wounaan people and their ways were not so long ago on the brink of extinction. While the flooding during the "niña" phenomenon destroyed many of the lands where the Werregue palm grew, the people themselves were also constantly threatened by the internal conflict in Colombia.
Ultimately, the United Nations intervened and helped regenerate the palms and create a safe space for the Wounaan to live. They have also instituted programs to teach them how to harvest the scarce palms without harming them, thus ensuring their survival for future generations.
It is truly a marvel that this amazing culture and its members are still available to the world.
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Alive! – Saskatoon
av Marko - Crew | nov 12, 2009 | Nyheter
Setlisten från tisdagens spelning i Saskatoon, Kanada:
Strutter
Let Me Go Rock 'N' Roll
Hotter Than Hell
Shock Me
Calling Dr. Love
Modern Day Delilah
100,000 Years
Shout It Loud
Recension Saskatoon:
KISS Rocked Sold-Out Saskatoon
Leader-Post By Kevin Blevins
SASKATOON – KISS absolutely destroyed Saskatchewan's biggest city this week.
Yes, destroyed, and yes, it was a very good thing.
From the opening notes of "Deuce" to the closing explosions that punctuated "Detroit Rock City" two hours later, the four masked bandits who are KISS stole Saskatoon's love.
The sold-out crowd – literally jammed to the rafters in the Credit Union Centre – sang, danced and licked up every single moment in the 18-song set.
At one point, lead singer Paul Stanley opined: "We're pretty great up here, but you guys out there are… awesome!"
And the crowd really was.
I was lucky enough to see KISS a few weeks ago in New Orleans, on Halloween, at the Voodoo Experience music festival. More than twice as many people in the audience, outdoors, in a creepy historic park in the middle of the Big Easy. Pretty cool.
Guess what? A Tuesday night in November in Saskatoon's bland and sterile hockey rink was even better thanks to the audience.
Tuesday's crowd was bursting with hardcore KISS fanatics. Many wore KISS makeup. Several sported KISS costumes. A few were marked for life, revealing their KISS tattoos.
They stood, they sang and they shouted out loud.
The boys in the band clearly heard them and genuinely appreciated the hardcore fanaticism.
Strutting, dancing and jamming – "100,000 Thousand Years" clocked in at just over 10 minutes – Stanley, 57, bassist Gene Simmons, 60, and lead guitarist Tommy Thayer, 49, worked the stage like men 30 years their junior.
Simmons spit blood, drooled and leered at women, Stanley flew above the crowd (a great gag) and Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, 51, provided the musicianship to carry the circus that is KISS live. Yes, there is still lots of pyrotechnics, smoke, exploding guitars, and now dozens of video screens. KISS is still, well, KISS.
Although Simmons is a huge TV star now thanks to his reality show on A&E, Family Jewels, he takes a back seat to Stanley on stage, as he always has. It's still Stanley's show. He does most of the talking and he leads the band through the setlist, which on Tuesday night, was pretty eclectic.
Ripping through 1970s-era classics like "Strutter," "Cold Gin," and "Love Gun," Stanley and the boys also mixed in some 80s hits, "Lick It Up" and "I Love It Loud" and played two new songs from their latest CD, Sonic Boom: "Modern Day Delilah" and "Say Yeah." The latter was very warmly received.
The band also dug deep, playing "Let Me Go Rock 'N' Roll" and "Parasite" from their second album, 1974's Hotter Than Hell, still one of the heaviest KISS recordings ever made.
Although original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss are no longer in the band, KISS didn't shy away from playing some of the former members' signature songs. Thayer did a nice turn, singing Frehley's "Shock Me" from 1977's Love Gun album. And Singer was even better singing the Criss parts in "Black Diamond," a classic from KISS's 1974 self-tltled debut and still a highlight when played live 35 years later.
Both Thayer and Singer appear comfortable in their Spaceman and Catman makeup, meaning KISS could be around for a few more years yet.
Before the show began, I had a few minutes to chat with Thayer backstage. He thanked me for bringing my 12-year-old daughter and her friend to the show, young KISS fans he had just met.
"It's great to see the kids. That's gotta be pretty cool for you to have them here," said Thayer, who once played in a KISS tribute band before Simmons and Stanley discovered him. "We're all fans. I was a member of the KISS Army (fan club) in the 1970s, and now I'm doing this. How weird, how great, is that?"
Pretty great, even on a Tuesday night, in November, in Saskatoon.


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Hedge Funds Look to Machine Learning, Crowdsourcing for Competitive Advantage
Hedge funds are testing new quantitative strategies that could supplant traditional fund managers
By Amy Nordrum
Photo: Quantopian
At Boston-based financial startup Quantopian, a team of analysts and engineers create tools that allow anyone to write investment algorithms based on a personal hypothesis about markets. The company then invests in the most promising algorithms.
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Every day, financial markets and global economies produce a flood of data. As a result, stock traders now have more information about more industries and sectors than ever before. That deluge, combined with the rise of cloud technology, has inspired hedge funds to develop new quantitative strategies that they hope can generate greater returns than the experience and judgement of their own staff.
At the Future of Fintech conference hosted by research company CB Insights in New York City, three hedge fund insiders discussed the latest developments in quantitative trading. A session on Tuesday featured Christina Qi, the co-founder of a high-frequency trading firm called Domeyard LP; Jonathan Larkin, an executive from Quantopian, a hedge fund taking a data-driven systematic approach; and Andy Weissman of Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm that has invested in an autonomous hedge fund.
Many of the world's largest hedge funds already rely on powerful computing infrastructure and quantitative methods—whether that's high-frequency trading, incorporating machine learning, or applying data science—to make trades. After all, human traders are full of biases, emotions, memories, and errors of judgment. Machines and data, on the other hand, can coolly examine the facts and decide the best course of action.
Deciding which technologies and quantitative methods to trust, though, is still a job for humans. There are many ways that hedge funds can use technology to create an advantage for investors. Just a few years ago, high-frequency trading was all the rage: Some firms built secret networks of microwave towers and reserved space on trans-Atlantic fiber optic cables to eke out competitors by a few milliseconds.
Now, speed alone isn't enough. Qi co-founded Domeyard in 2013 to execute high-frequency trades through a suite of proprietary technologies. The firm built their own feed handlers, which are systems that retrieve and organize market data from exchanges such as Nasdaq. They also developed their own order management system, which are instructions that determine how proprietary algorithms make trades.
Qi says Domeyard's system might gather 343 million data points in the opening hour of the New York Stock Exchange on any given day. The company can execute trades in just a few microseconds, and process data in mere nanoseconds.
Hedge funds have begun to incorporate machine learning into their systems, hand over key management decisions to troves of data scientists, and even crowdsource investment strategies. If they work, these experiments could give rise to a new breed of hedge funds that rely more on code and less on humans to make decisions than ever before.
But thanks to advances in the trading software and systems available for purchase, most any firm can now carry out the high-speed trades that once set Domeyard apart. "It's not about the speed anymore," Qi said. Hedge funds must find new ways to compete.
Over the past few years, hedge funds have started to get even more creative. Some have begun to incorporate machine learning into their systems, hand over key management decisions to troves of data scientists, and even crowdsource investment strategies. If they work, these experiments could give rise to a new breed of hedge funds that rely more on code and less on humans to make decisions than ever before.
One hedge fund called Numerai pays data scientists in cryptocurrency to tweak its machine learning algorithms and improve its strategy. "The theory there is can you achieve consistent returns over time by removing human bias, and making it a math problem," said Andy Weissman of Union Square Ventures, which has invested US $3 million in Numerai.
Not all funds will find it easy to compete on these new terms. Domeyard can't incorporate machine learning, Qi says, because machine learning programs are generally optimized for throughput, rather than latency. "I can't use standard machine learning techniques to trade because they're too slow," she said.
The third fund represented on the panel, Quantopian, provides free resources to anyone who wants to write investment algorithms based on a personal hypothesis about markets. Quantopian takes the most promising algorithms, puts money behind them, and adds them to one big fund.
"We're tapping into this global mindshare to make something valuable for our investors," said Larkin, chief investment officer at Quantopian.
To help the process along, the firm provides educational materials, over 50 datasets on U.S. equities and futures, a library of ready-made modules that authors can borrow to code in the Python programming language, a virtual sandbox to test their hypotheses, and support from a team of 40 in-house developers. If authors wish to incorporate machine learning into their algorithms, they can do that with Python modules such as sci-kit learn.
One project, or strategy, consists of multiple algorithms written across several layers. An author's first step it to generate a hypothesis. Then, they choose which data, instruments, and modules they will apply to test that hypothesis.
Next, the author must build what Larkin calls an "alpha," or an expression based on the author's hypothesis that has been tested and proven to have some degree of predictive value about market performance. "The best quantitative strategies will have a number of these," Larkin said.
Each alpha should generate a vector, or a set of numbers, which can then be used to make trades that will align with that hypothesis. The next step, then, is to combine the alphas and add a risk management layer with safeguards to prevent the algorithms from getting carried away.
Finally, the author fills in the final details of the system which include the timing of trades. Quantopian's approach is admittedly much slower than Domeyard—the fund has a minimum trading interval of one minute.
To date, 140,000 people from 180 countries have written investment algorithms for Quantopian, and the company has put money into 25 of those projects. Its largest allocation to a single project was $10 million.
Once they've built a strategy, the original author retains the intellectual property for the underlying algorithms. If their approach is funded, the author receives a cut (generally 10 percent) of any profits that their strategy generates. Larkin estimates it takes at least 50 hours of work to develop a successful strategy.
Larkin wouldn't share any information about the fund's performance so far. But he said the idea is to blend the best data-based hypotheses from many people. "We at Quantopian believe the strongest investment vehicle is a combination of strategies, not any one individual strategy," he said.
Larkin refers to Quantopian's methods as data-driven systematic investing, a separate category from high-frequency trading or discretionary investing based on data science. Still, he classifies all three of these quantitative methods as distinct from the longtime approach of simply relying on a fund manager's judgement, without any formal way to organize and filter data.
Depending on how Numerai, Quantopian, and similar experiments fare, investors could be entering a new era of finance in which they entrust their money to machines, not managers.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (Part 94)
President Reagan attending the Bob Hope Salute to the United States Air Force 40th Anniversary celebration with Kirk Cameron, Phyllis Diller, Lucille Ball and Emmanuel Lewis at Pope Air Force base in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 5/10/87
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Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation wrote an excellent article on Ronald Reagan and the events that transpired during the Reagan administration, and I wanted to share it with you. Here is the seventh portion:
There is no denying that American indebtedness increased significantly during the Reagan years. Reagan borrowed $1 for every $5 he spent, increasing the national debt by $1.5 trillion through 1988. He didn't have to worry too much about where to get the money — America was still such a good credit risk that people around the world "pressed money on us, and we obliged, borrowing easily, quickly, and almost guiltlessly," in Cannon's words, [xxi] But Reagan did feel guilty about the accumulated debt or as much as anyone with his unassailable optimism could feel guilty. He admitted that his failures to cut federal spending absolutely and to balance the federal budget were his "biggest disappointments" as president.[xxii]
But it is a little-remembered fact, as Cato Institute economist Stephen Moore has emphasized, that by the end of the Reagan era, the federal deficit as a share of gross domestic product was falling, and rapidly — from 6 percent in 1985 to 3 percent in 1989. As Reagan left office, the Democrat-controlled Congressional Budget Office projected that "deficits were on a path to fall to about one percent of GDP by 1993," without any action by future presidents.[xxiii]
Reagan never ignored the deficit — he just had more important things on his mind. As he said in 1981, "I did not come here to balance the budget — not at the expense of my tax-cutting program and my defense program."[xxiv] Still, every budget he submitted to Congress outlined spending reductions which would have reduced the cumulative deficit during the 1980s by several hundred billion dollars. But Congress nullified this possibility with a succession of "continuing resolutions" that enabled the government to keep operating and keep spending at the same level.
The persistent deficits did, however, have an unintended impact on Congress, which for the first time in the post-war era began to "impose limits on the growth of government." Of all the measures we know, Milton Friedman wrote, "the deficit has been the only effective restraint on congressional spending."[xxv]
President Reagan devoted most of his time in the spring and early summer of 1981 (after he had recovered from the March 30th shooting by would-be assassin John Hinckley) building a consensus for his economic recovery program. Time's Lawrence Barrett described the president's strategy as initial "seduction" followed by a "blitzkreig."[xxvi] Reagan began by showing the Washington establishment that he was not a dangerous man or a "political freak." He had drinks with House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a meeting with Senator Edward Kennedy, and a chat with publisher Katharine Graham of the Washington Post. Quite a charmer, they agreed, but certainly no real threat to the way Washington works.
O'Neill was so deceived that he condescendingly offered some advice to the new fellow in town: "You were governor of a state," he told Reagan, "but a governor plays in the minor leagues. Now you're in the big leagues. Things might not move as quickly as you would like." Just eight months later, the House of Representatives passed Reagan's economic recovery plan by 238-195, with the cross-over help of forty-eight Democrats who didn't mind going against their Speaker when it was in the best interests of their constituents.
Reagan called Congress's passage of the bill "the greatest political victory in half a century." Jubilant conservatives described it as a "new economic beginning." David Broder of the Washington Post proclaimed Reagan's tax victory as "one of the most remarkable demonstrations of presidential leadership in modern history."[xxvii] The $162 billion tax cut dwarfed any previous one in the postwar period — Ford's $22.8 billion reduction in 1975 was a distant second.
The cuts in personal income taxes "had a permanency unlike that of any [previous] tax bill" because of the indexing provision. In the past, individuals were pushed into higher tax brackets whenever their income rose along with inflation. ERTA did away with "bracket creep" and prevented political leaders from "solving" fiscal deficits by waiting for inflation to increase revenues each year. From now on, Congress had to pass and the president had to sign any tax increase out in the open. How to collect government revenues "became the dominating political issue of the 1980s."[xxviii]
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We attempted to hike up near Eldora on Saturday morning where I thought that the forecast was not calling for rain. We hiked for about an hour through some light rain until the floodgates opened wide. Luckily there is a brewery in Nederland (seriously, in most places in Colorado there is likely to be at least one brewery nearby). I've always wanted to stop at Very Nice Brewing Company but rarely found myself in the area. With the rainy day we had the perfect opportunity to try out this extremely dog friendly spot. The taproom is certainly no-frills but is backed by very good beers. My favorite of the day was the Logical Fallacy, a black IPA that was served with a shot of espresso.
I also had a nice conversation about rugby with one of the patrons who noticed my Canada Sevens hat, and said hello to numerous pups.
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'I did warn Bob about Harvey's abuse - but he wouldn't listen': Guinness heiress who worked for Weinstein and dated his brother recounts own sex harassment and makes bombshell claim
By Ivana Lowell For The Mail On Sunday
The past few days' revelations have left me feeling physically sick. Sick because it happened to so many young impressionable women and sick because it happened to me as well. Pictured: Ivana Lowell
The dam has finally broken. After years of silence, the accusations are flooding in – to the shame of the movie industry and those who knew the truth but chose to remain silent.
While I am by no means the worst of Harvey Weinstein's victims, I can say that I might have been the first person to tell the world about his despicable behaviour.
Not only did I work for Harvey and his company Miramax, I dated his younger brother Bob for a few years and, for a while at least, was at the heart of his circle – an experience I recounted in my 2010 memoir, Why Not Say What Happened?
And I really did say what happened on one bizarre occasion in particular, when Harvey squeezed his huge frame into my apartment, lay spread-eagled on my bed and demanded a massage.
I kept the details brief, yet the response was vicious – a legal campaign from Weinstein, who not only attempted to remove the passage but branded me a liar in public. Of course, this one incident barely scratched the surface of what I really knew and what the rest of the company – including his brother Bob – must have known. After all, it was the worst-kept secret in Hollywood.
The past few days' revelations have left me feeling physically sick. Sick because it happened to so many young impressionable women and sick because it happened to me as well. At last, thanks to the courage and honesty of all the other women who have come forward and spoken up for themselves, I feel I can safely share the full details of my story.
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It was 1989. I was a young British actress in New York struggling to make the transition from stage to screen when, in a chance meeting in an Upper East Side restaurant, I first encountered Harvey. Disillusioned and longing to return home, I had been pouring out my woes to a friend in Elaine's – where the opening dinner scene from the Woody Allen movie Manhattan was filmed – when a bottle of expensive champagne was brought over.
'Compliments of Harvey Weinstein,' the waiter announced.
Turning around, we were greeted with a wave and a smile from a fat, dishevelled-looking man in a black T-shirt at the back. My friend told me Harvey Weinstein was an independent distributor who was finding big success with a movie called Sex, Lies, And Videotape.
Before I could learn more, Harvey stood up, waddled over to our table and plonked himself down. I was struck by his sheer bulk and overbearing presence. He introduced himself in a deep gravelly voice and we spent the rest of the dinner talking. I explained that I was dissatisfied with acting and I mentioned that I came from a literary background – my mother was novelist and Guinness heiress Caroline Blackwood and my stepfather the American poet Robert Lowell.
Relationship: Ivana Lowell with her former boyfriend Bob Weinstein, the brother of disgraced movie mogul Harvey
As the restaurant began to close, he said I should come and work for him because he needed people who had actually read books.
Flattered and excited, I agreed to meet him at the Miramax office the following morning. It went well. Harvey introduced me to his assistants, all attractive young women. He asked me what I would like to do at the company and we agreed that I should be in charge of everything literary, which meant reading not only scripts but finding books that could be turned into films. I was getting paid to do something I loved.
After lunch, we went back up to his office, where he shut the office door, made some comment about being tired and said he really needed a massage. He was standing behind a massive desk strewn with papers, Diet Coke cans, a brimming ashtray and half a slice of old pizza.
It suddenly felt very claustrophobic. He moved round his desk towards me and I quickly moved to the other side. He asked if I liked to give oral sex. It was such an outrageous question, I thought he was joking. I started giggling, trying to make light of it, but I wondered what he would do if he caught me. What could he do? The walls were paper-thin and his secretary was right outside.
I knew a line had been crossed but I wasn't sure exactly what the line was. Fortunately, his intercom buzzed, he had to take a call and I slipped out of the office to reflect on an interesting first day.
The next evening, my phone rang and it was Harvey calling from his car. He wasn't far away and he wanted to come up and talk. Within minutes, he was banging at my door. My one-bedroom apartment was small, with parquet floors and high ceilings. I hadn't much furniture and there really wasn't anywhere for him to sit, so he wandered down the corridor towards my bedroom.
Wearing his usual uniform of stained T-shirt and elastic braces, Harvey lay on my bed and asked me to give him a back rub, which I politely refused. Harvey didn't seem to mind the rejection or seem in the least bit embarrassed to have made such an intimate request. Instead he spent the next half an hour swearing about work.
I asked him if his wife wasn't going to wonder where he was but he said she didn't care, she never listened or tried to understand him. He asked me to lie next to him but again I firmly declined and perched on my bedroom chair, like a nervous cat, praying he would get bored, which mercifully he finally did and he disappeared into the night.
I knew what happened was wrong on every level and I thought about telling Harvey that I didn't think this was going to work out.
As years went on, Bob ran his division from Los Angeles while Harvey stayed in New York (above together in 1995)
But the next day when I went to the office I found that I had been assigned an office on the third floor of Miramax and was given a box of embossed cards with my name and the vague title Vice President of Creative Miramax Films. Harvey's behaviour was reprehensible and demeaning, yet I was dazzled by the job.
So what if the price was to be on the receiving end of strange sexual requests? As long as I didn't have to actually do anything – and after all, no one was really getting hurt, were they?
It didn't take me long to work out the truth. Pretty young actresses were a common sight entering and exiting Harvey's office. Speculation on how badly they wanted a part was a common office game. If the girl in question pleased Harvey then she would become flavour of the month, a regular at the Miramax screenings and parties. If she was very lucky she would be given a part in a film.
Somehow, I managed to keep inappropriate dealings with Harvey at arm's length. I actually considered him to be a friend, and in many ways I respected and admired him, his knowledge and his passion for good cinema. He could be generous and even compassionate at times but then his volatile mood and voracious appetite would take over.
He never seemed to sleep and it was not uncommon to be called in for a meeting with Harvey at 2am. The lobby of whichever hotel he had made his base would have a constant stream of young actresses either going up or coming down from his suite at all hours of the night. Some were already quite famous, and back at the office we would speculate as to who had actually slept with him and who got away with just giving in to his demand for oral sex.
Looking back now, it all seems so tawdry and sordid, but working in such a toxic atmosphere seemed to have hardened everyone. We had all become cynical.
'He never seemed to sleep and it was not uncommon to be called in for a meeting with Harvey at 2am'. Pictured: Weinstein with Gwyneth Paltrow in 1999
Neither I nor my girlfriend and colleague – a very pretty former actress – found it unusual when we were called into Harvey's room in middle of the night to discuss the book division. We thought little of the fact that he greeted us wearing nothing but his hotel bathrobe. I did, however, try very hard to avert my eyes from the grotesque flashes of penis he gave me every time he moved.
The last encounter I had with Harvey of this nature was in New York with the same girlfriend, who was staying with me on my sofa bed. It was late at night when we heard a loud banging. I ran to the door only to see through the peephole the distorted but recognisable face of Harvey. 'S***, it's Harvey,' I whispered to my friend.
'Quick, let's hide,' she said, so we locked ourselves in the bathroom, hoping he would go away. Of course, he persisted and we eventually let him in. He barged past us straight into the bedroom and immediately starting undressing. He plopped down and lay naked on my bed. 'Which one of you ladies is going to be nice and give Uncle Harvey a massage?'
By now we both knew what he really meant by 'massage'. The sight of his huge postulant body and white belly was revolting and we both started giggling nervously. He seemed agitated and in a state of excitement. We cowered nervously in the adjoining living room as he raged.
Finally he sat up and, looking sort of dazed, slowly got dressed. To our relief, he left.
A few weeks later, he rang and asked me to join him with his brother Bob at Elaine's. The moment I sat down, Harvey got up and left us alone. My stomach churned. Bob had a reputation around the office of being the stricter, more businesslike of the two. I expected a grilling on numbers and percentages, yet he didn't seem at all interested in the book division. Instead, he was charming and self-deprecating, thinner than his brother but with the same intense energy and quick mind. Eventually, we started dating – and Harvey stopped calling. When I next bumped into Harvey and asked him if there was anything he needed work-wise, he just growled back at me: 'No, you're Bob's property now.'
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has Harvey Weinstein amid the sex assault scandal. He is pictured holding the only personal Oscar he won for Best Picture for Shakespeare in Love in 1999 alongside his first wife Eve
Bob asked me if I had ever slept with his brother. I said of course I hadn't but I did add that Harvey had made aggressive attempts.
I started to tell him about all the girls and about all of Harvey's exploits but he became angry and said he didn't want to know.
Whenever I plucked up the courage to try to talk to Bob about his brother's despicable behaviour he would become furious and immediately shut me down.
It was much easier for him to bury his head in the sand rather than face the ugly truth. It was as if by not acknowledging the severity of the situation, he could just go make it go away.
Everyone else in the company seemed to be aware of Harvey's exploitive treatment of women so I just assumed the brother he was so close to must have known as well. After years of a hot-and-cold relationship, we split up, but remained friends.
It wasn't until I published my memoir in 2010 that things turned nasty. The moment Harvey read it, he went ballistic.
He called me and started to threaten me. He said he was going to 'f****** sue me', that I was a liar, that I made him sound like a pervert and that I was ruining his reputation. His publicist ordered me to take out everything in the book about Harvey. I refused.
Bob shouted at me too, and the next day there was a piece in the New York Post calling me a liar.
I told everyone I could what had happened but no one seemed to care or wanted to get involved. Harvey had become untouchable – until now.
Many people have asked why those in the industry didn't raise the alarm.
Well I did, or at least I tried to. Harvey called me a liar, just as he called countless other women before and after me liars.
Now the whole world knows who the real liar is.
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This sketch produces a simple oscilloscope that is good to about 1 kHz. The oscilloscope trace is white: FIGURE 5. Simple Arduino oscilloscope.
10K variable resistor to provide bias. Figure 5 shows a simple Arduino oscilloscope.