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I am a Neutral Good, Muggle Empiricist with a penchant for deep thought, a love of sincerity, and no soul. On a good day I am The Doctor, on a bad day I am Frankenstein.
I try and be a kind and gentle person. I'm quite boring, but also a passionate intellectual. My first and truest love is the pursuit of truth (known by some as learning, or science in certain contexts). I greatly enjoy the company of children and teenagers, and would really want to be a teacher if I didn't despise the school system like I do.
Most of my free time goes towards studying artificial intelligence, which I think is something of a big deal. Seriously, if you have any experience in the field, I'm begging you to message me so that I can talk your ear off. (Please!)
I'm not a sexual person. And what I mean by that is not that I don't like physical sex, but that I don't pursue sexual relationships (a.k.a. don't send me "flirty" messages or winks, please). I'm very happy being myself and having friends, and haven't ever really felt the need to change that. I figure that one day I'll meet someone who is so amazingly awesome that I'll fall deeply in love, but that day is in the future and I don't need to chase it.
I identify as academic, amoralist, anarchist (peaceful), anti-authoritarian, asexual (for the most part), atheist, autodidact, cyborg, eccentric, egoist, engineer, environmentalist, feminist, gamer, geek, hippy, idealist, intellectual, liberal, libertarian, mad-scientist, mathematician, naïve, nerd, nihilist, obsessed, pacifist, pansexual, philosopher, polymath, rationalist, skeptic, scholar, scientist, transhumanist, unschooler, utilitarian, voluntaryist, and weird.
I write sometimes. I memorize poetry. I make games for fun. I used to do a lot of (table-top) roleplaying.
Most of what I do is think. I have lots of ideas, some of which I talk about on my blog.
I'm always looking for friends. Don't be shy. ^_^
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
- Siddharta
My primary goal in life is to use oxygen and sugar to build adenosine triphosphate. I'm pretty good at it, and I plan to keep it up as long as I live. (I'd probably give it up if it happens to one-day be more practical to live as a simulation of my meat-form.)
On the side I study. Self-improvement is what I love to do, and I'm a voracious logovore, ever on the prowl for a deep and fascinating subject. My primary discipline is maths, and if I were keen on putting myself into boxes, I'd call myself a math-major. But really, I do claim to have a goal for learning, and it revolves more around cognitive science than math. I hope to learn how minds work to such a degree that, if I chose to, I could build one.
I tutor. I build software. I clean house. I play a lot of computer games. I listen to problems. Maybe someday I'll be skilled enough to build kick-ass robots, or grow lots of yummy veggies in a garden.
But my life, in the end, is spent loving people and being loved.
Everything else is secondary (yes, even metabolism).
I suppose I can use that to segue into mentioning an OkCupid question that I seem to be in the minority on, and why I think most people get it wrong. If you'd like to disagree with me on this, send me a message! I'd love to talk about it.
Question: "Would you be willing to genetically modify your child's embryo to ensure that the child will be endowed with traits you desire?"
Answer that many people give: "No - homogenizing gene pools weakens species"
Why this is wrong: Now, it is true that having many individuals with identical gene patterns can increase the power of disease in finding a foothold in a species. In this sense, diversity helps keep the species strong by making it harder for a disease to change hosts and survive. The problem is that, for this to rule out genetic engineering, the following four statements would need to be true.
1) A large number of parents would genetically modify their children.
2) Genetic modifications were all (roughly) the same, and not tailored to the specific individual.
3) The advantages gained in having a GE boosted immune system wouldn't offset the cost of having a similar genome to others.
4) Disease was so dangerous in this hypothetical future that it'd be worth giving up advanced intelligence and avoiding the risks of genetic diseases just to ensure a small degree of genetic diversity.
Any one of those statements I might be willing to buy, but the multiplied probabilities of each of them makes the whole argument very weak. I can understand not wanting to GE your kid; there's something creepy about it. Just don't try to pass your aversion onto science -- own it as the fear of the unknown that it is.
Notes: There are rational reasons to avoid genetic engineering. You can attack it from the perspective of wanting to avoid social stratification, or perhaps fear of damaging people in ignorance. My point is about homogenizing the gene pool, not about other ethical problems. (Though in general, as a transhumanist and an optimist, I am pro-GE.)
Some Movies: Her, Black Swan, Whisper of the Heart, Pan's Labyrinth, Good Will Hunting
Television: The Wire, Dollhouse, Community
Comics/Sequential Art (NOT COUNTING WEBCOMICS!): Watchmen, Death Note, Transmetropolitan
Webcomics: Gunnerkrigg Court, Dinosaur Comics, MSPA, xkcd
Music: Clint Mansell, Enya, Rammstein, Phoenix, Movits!, Beethoven, Pink Floyd, so many others...
Vidjagames: League of Legends, Half-life, Professor Layton, Starcraft, Battle for Wesnoth
Food: Pomegranates, Fruit in general, Salads of exotic composition, Saag, Curry, Sushi
Oh, also: HPMOR
As part of this obsession I spend a lot of my time on math, neuroscience, machine learning, cognitive psychology and machine ethics.
I'll quote St. Yudkowsky on this:
"I don't feel smart except on special days when I understand something awesome, and even then it's often an odd feeling because 90% of the time I'm understanding something that somebody else understands much better. At other times I can *feel* myself trapped in this tiny brain that can just barely support my own thought processes, or worse, I know that I'm tired and *can't* do the abstractions of my smarter self - it's a very claustrophobic feeling. And then with a few exceptions everyone else seems insane."
(I'm an incredibly open person, and there's plenty more that I'd admit to, but I'm concerned it'd throw people off to share too much.)
IF YOU WANT A RESPONSE, INCLUDE THE WORD *UMBRELLA* IN YOUR INITIAL MESSAGE. I might respond even if you don't, but I'm much more likely to believe that you read my profile if you do.
"So much has been done — more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation..."


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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire lawmakers are deciding whether to suspend the state's death penalty rather than repeal it outright.
The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Kevin Avard of Nashua.
The measure would suspend use of the death penalty until "methods exist to ensure that the death penalty cannot be imposed on an innocent person."
New Hampshire is the only state in New England with the death penalty still on the books, and efforts to repeal it in 2014 deadlocked in the 24-member Senate.
Michael Addison, who was convicted of killing a Manchester police officer in 2006, is the state's only person on death row.
The bill would not affect anyone sentenced to death prior to the suspension.
New Hampshire's last execution was in 1939.
Source: The Associated Press, March 3, 2016
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Commentary by Ujjal Dosanjh in Vancouver
Dear Minister Ahmed Hussen,
Many of us cheered when you were recently made the Immigration Minister. We felt that as an immigrant Canadian you would surely bring to your position a new and hopefully more compassionate perspective on what it may mean to be Canadian. But our cheers were short lived. You have brought disappointments to some hearts, mine included.
On Monday March 6, 2017 you deported Len Van Heest, a Canadian for the last 59 years. Yes, a Canadian but without the citizenship papers. At the age of seven months and in diapers, he legally landed in Canada with his family. At sixteen he was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder. He has several convictions for assault, mischief and uttering threats – all stemming from and related to his mental illness, the bipolar disorder. His last offence was in 2012.
Mr. Minister, obviously as a minor under the old law, Van Heest would have been unable to apply for his citizenship on his own – assuming that he even realized or knew in his mental state about the need for him to do so. His parents may not have applied their minds to this issue before he became a 'criminal' and therefore barred from receiving Canadian citizenship.
Power and discretion
Mr. Minister, you had the legal power and discretion to stop Van Heest's deportation. You chose not to because you didn't see it as fit and proper to do so. His deportation means that you must have felt the mentally ill Van Heest was responsible for not applying for citizenship that he had to before he had reached a certain age. It also implies that you and your officials felt it was just and fair for Canada to hold a mentally ill man responsible for piling up a criminal record that disqualified him from ever applying for Canadian citizenship, even though he had entered Canada as an infant. The mentally ill Van Heest – criminal or not – is the product of Canada.
Citizen or not, he is undeniably Canadian. If he is a criminal, he is a Canadian criminal.
Regressive changes
Minister, above all Van Heest's deportation was made possible by the regressive legislative changes the Harper regime had made lowering a convicted immigrant's prison sentence threshold for making him/her "inadmissible" to Canada and therefore deportable. It is unacceptable that your government has neither changed, nor is it planning to change this unfair law that makes someone like Van Heest – a Canadian for all practical purposes – deportable.
But on the other hand, you recently testified in support of your government's Bill C-6 that will amend Harper government's law that enabled Canada to revoke the Canadian citizenship of convicted terrorists holding dual citizenships. Under Bill C-6 the revoked citizenships of convicted terrorists including that of Zakaria Amar – the ring leader of the Toronto 18 who wanted to commit mass murder and behead the Canadian Prime Minister – would be reinstated, re-bestowed upon them.
Dual citizenships
Mr. Minister, you passionately and eloquently argued: "When you are a Canadian citizen you shouldn't feel less valued just because you have dual citizenship with another country." You also said an individual whose citizenship was already revoked will have it reinstated.
Mr. Minister, I support your government's view that one Canadian is like another despite some holding dual citizenships. A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. But in my view a Zakaria Amar is much less deserving of Canadian citizenship and compassion than a Len Van Heest.
Minister, I am deeply troubled and disappointed at your missing compassion and eloquence in defence of Van Heest; mentally ill Van Heest; a 59 year long Canadian; and so what if not so on paper.
Van Heest's was and is exactly the kind of case in which you should have used your ministerial power and discretion to keep or allow anyone into Canada. In my humble opinion, you made a serious error of judgement by deporting Van Heest. You have the power to allow him back into Canada. You should use it.
My Dear Minister, It is never too late to do the right thing.
Ujjal Dosanjh is a former Attorney General and Premier of British Columbia and former federal Minister of Health. He describes himself as a "A child of Indian peasants working to make the world a better place."
by Susan Delacourt in Ottawa
The best person to explain the big new-year changes to the federal cabinet's makeup might well be someone who doesn't even live here: outgoing U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden.
During a visit to Canada a month ago, Biden told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada needs to step up, internationally — comments that were widely interpreted as a gesture of passing the liberal torch from soon-to-be ex-president Barack Obama.
"The world is going to spend a lot of time looking to you, Mr. Prime Minister. Vive le Canada, because we need you very, very badly," Biden said in remarks at a dinner during his visit to Ottawa.
While we don't know how much the world was watching events at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, it is abundantly clear that Trudeau has set his sights on the world. As he told reporters after the shuffle, he needs to take into account a "shift in global context."
In fact, it's difficult to remember a Canadian cabinet shuffle so internationally focused — one that set so many parts in motion outside Canada's borders, especially during a time of tumultuous, global change. Among the changes we learned about Tuesday:
The departing Global Affairs minister, Stéphane Dion, was rumoured to be considering a diplomatic post, possibly in Europe, but at the time of Tuesday's press conference the former Liberal leader was saying only that he was leaving active politics and considering his next move. My best bet is that this is a difficult conversation still in progress (which probably accounted for the unusual uncertainty about the timing of the shuffle ceremony itself at Rideau Hall).
The speculation about Europe as a landing spot for Dion, however, underlines just how much Trudeau and his team are thinking about what's going on in the world these days. The Brexit vote to leave the European Union, the refugee crisis, ongoing terrorism threats and the rise of right-wing parties are all large matters of concern to progressive-minded governments.
As Biden said in his Ottawa speech: "I've never seen Europe as engaged in as much self-doubt as they are now."
All prime ministers, sooner or later, become preoccupied with global affairs and their place on the big stage. It's usually an interest that deepens with tenure, and their increasing confidence in rubbing shoulders with other world leaders.
Trudeau, however, seemed to arrive in office with an intense interest in international affairs; he gave some of his first interviews to foreign media and has spent a lot of time commuting to the United States and other summits around the world. His critics have portrayed this as a lack of interest in his own country, accusing Trudeau of being too busy to even attend question period and thinking himself too important to spend his vacations in Canada.
Granted, it is a luxury Trudeau can afford. With a comfortable majority, Trudeau doesn't need to be worried about his government falling on a vote in the Commons while he's abroad, as Stephen Harper was during his first two minority governments.
Not all of this shuffle was outward-looking. Shuffles can be very useful in maintaining government discipline — dangling a few promotions as examples to other ambitious, cabinet wannabes in the backbench, and doling out demotions as a warning to others performing under-par. To borrow from that old Liberal campaign slogan from 2015, shuffles are all about hope and hard work — dispensing it (hope) or enforcing it (hard work).
On that score, this shuffle did deliver. While Trudeau's office was putting out nice words about Dion and his contribution to the government in a press release, nobody watching the PM's press conference had any doubts that the PMO had decided the former professor and Liberal leader wasn't the right man to handle what's coming with Trump and other big events on the world stage.
Other casualties: Maryam Monsef, now the Status of Women minister, was punted from the Democratic Reform post to which she was proving herself unsuited (to say the least). MaryAnn Mihychuk was ejected altogether from her job as minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour.
Big promotions were handed out to Patty Hadju, moving from Status of Women to Mihychuk's old job, and to new ministers Champagne and Hussen. Other MPs will be wondering what they did right — which is exactly what the PMO wants them to be thinking about.
Note, though, that the domestic posts in this week's shuffle were almost afterthoughts. Trudeau wasn't doing this shuffle with home-grown concerns at front of mind, or even his prospects for the next election (those changes will come closer to 2019, we can assume).
The election that seems to be front of mind for Trudeau right now is the recent one in the United States — the one that gave Canada, and now Freeland, a President Trump to deal with. And if we're looking for deeper read of the shuffle's international focus, Biden's remarks to the PM may be as good any.
"The progress is going to be made," Biden said, "but it's going to take men like you, Mr. Prime Minister, who understand it has to fit within the context of a liberal economic order, a liberal international order, where there's basic rules of the road."
Don't be surprised if words along these lines are in the mandate letters for many of the new ministers.
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A beautiful spectrum of 1, Thackeray Road, Alipore.
I started on my education very young. It started much before my enrollment into the best schools that I studied in. It was unique and very different. I have to thank my dad and his brilliant tenure in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for this. He indulged us to be a part of his whirlwind tours while he served various positions in the various government departments. Quite obviously both my brother and I learnt beyond what was being taught within the four walls of our classrooms. We travelled a lot with our dad and accompanied his official entourage like two small excess baggage! We did pay a bit of price for availing this kind of exclusive academic environment – we had to study harder to get clean chits at the end of term examinations from school in order to make up for the weekly class tests that we kept on missing on such a regular basis! The schools of today perhaps wouldn't have encouraged this kind of 'extra-tution' from life, or may be I would have had to trudge along project sheets to incorporate all my observations.
Lots of volumes in my memory card store these adventures of my unusual childhood. If I have to pin-point the period from where I could effortlessly download these memories onto my laptop, it would be the time when I was in the sixth or the seventh standard. We had just moved into Kolkata for the first time after moving from one district to another. The 'Magistrate's House' on No 1, Thackeray Road, Alipore became our home for the next four years. My dad was the last District Magistrate (DM) of the undivided 24-Parganas – and the first DM of South 24 Parganas, hence his tenure was quite a momentous one. Though we were staying in Kolkata, the urban flavors of which were absolutely new to me, effectively we were still leading a life that only living in a district can give.
That we were privileged to be staying in such a heritage house dawns upon me only now when I try to convince my two girls that we stayed in a heritage house with wooden staircases and wooden beams in the ceiling – like prince and princesses in our very own royal castle!
As soon as I began writing this article, I felt that I had to visit my childhood home. And I ended up visiting this historical house today morning, this time with my girls. I had lot of mixed feelings – was it right to disturb the present residents? Would I be able to cross the high-security of the present District Magistrate without any appropriate appointment? It is not in my character to wait for my thoughts to blur my impulses and soon I was inside the car with my girls, heading towards No 1 Thackeray Road, Alipore. Yes, I was stopped by the security. Yes, there were curious staff staring at me in disbelief as they tried to believe that the lady holding a huge camera with 2 girls (one aged 7 and the other aged 2) was a little girl scampering in the same compounds, many many years ago! The present District Magistrate was absolutely gracious. He not only gave me a cool chit to roam around the gardens but also the entire house, informing his wife to let us into their private residence upstairs. I am indebted to them for life. For letting me re-visit my childhood.
My camera started clicking. It clicked every little detail that had faded away. This was like a 'deja-vu' – I had seen everything before, yet wanted to see them once more just so as to tell my adult self that 'Yes, this was all REAL, a long time back!' We walked and walked – the three of us (my two little girls and I) in descending order of heights. We walked through the corridors that were once my secret hide-outs as we played 'I Spy'; we ran around the garden – I knew everything about this garden and I was ready to face my little quiz-master. My elder daughter was incorrigible. 'If you were staying in this awesome house, what happened later?' 'Was Dadu (Grand-pa) so rich?', 'Why did you require so many policemen guarding your house, did you have lots of treasure?', 'What was the need for so many cars?', 'Which was your favorite corner in the garden?' And ultimately, 'Oh I feel like a princess!'
The Magistrate's House was not only a historical evidence of the bygone British period but is also enlisted as a heritage building by the Kolkata Muncipality. Built in 1763, the Magistrate's House was initially known as The Lodge. This was perhaps the oldest and the earliest residential/office bungalow built in colonial Kolkata. Instead of a typical plaque bearing the residents' surname, two unusual plaque greeted any visitor. The plaque to the left of the huge arch of the main doorway proclaimed 'Sir Phillip Francis, member of Warren Hastings' Council, resided in this house from 1774 to 1780′ while the other one to the right proclaimed 'William Makepeace Thackeray, the novelist, also lived during his infancy – from 1812 to 1815'. William Thackeray, is best known for his novel 'Vanity Fair'. The halls of the Magistrate's House, even to this day, resonates with traces of various mysterious and romantic historical gossips – the strongest one being the romance between Phillip Francis and the beautiful 16 year-old Madam Grand. The thick walls probably hold all the secrets to their romantic interludes. The spacious office chamber of the collector, once my Dad's office, used to be the ball room of Phillip Francis. Gossip, mystery, stench of jealousy and betrayal -all emotional ingredients for a best-selling historical script could be dug out amidst the wide brick walls and columns of this heritage house. There were secret underground passages that acted as emergency exit and secret escape route, tunneling out to the National Library, another heritage building. It is rumoured that there were such escape routes tunelling out to Fort Williams. I have seen part of this secret corridor but haven't ventured out till the end to check out the authenticity of this data.
Lot of my creative spirit and quench for adventure bloomed here and were nurtured by this house. The DM's office chambers were on the ground floor and housed a full-fledged Magistrate's office. The first floor was the DM's private residence. There were huge bedrooms with full-length french windows overlooking well-kept lush green gardens and the bank of the Adi-Ganga, the poor off-shoot of the main Ganga river. Open outdoor spaces beckoned us, even though the sprawling grounds were gradually being encroached by various walls – the jails, the courts and even other government offices. The adjoining bathrooms were as big as the bedrooms. There were huge terraces running all around the 2 sides of the bungalow with very big private terraces attached to two of the several bedrooms on the remaining 2 sides. I had obviously opted for the bedroom, farthest to my parents' bedroom. I was in my tweens (not teens!) – a rebel, wanting to do and learn everything my own way. I had to be fearless, and stubborn, as if by choice – being the designer of my own destiny. A huge wooden staircase ran upto the roof above and would transport me to the open skies. Similar staircase crept down to the ground floor and even beneath that to the underground onto the secret escape tunnel. I would sleep with the huge french windows dangling open that made creaking sounds as the panes dangled to and fro to the first onset of the monsoon winds. I wasn't scared. I mean these are the background music that I was meant to defy! Today, almost 2 decades later, I am scared to sleep alone in my own room, leave alone in such a room of such an old house. I would study in my room and then in the middle of the night walk upto the roof above to revise what I had learnt – all alone in the mighty 20,000 square feet expanse! I would be all alone, looking up to the sky with my hands pretending to touch the sky. The clouds, flirting with the moon would cast a dreamy spell on the huge terrace at times. Other times it seemed like a stark dark space with various shades and depths – and I would strain myself to see everything – even the shadows of the swaying trees! I would put myself to challenge the absolute black colour test where each object would seem 'more black' or 'less black' in comparison to the other object.
I had painted the walls of my room. I exactly do not recall whether we were permitted to do so by our parents or we defied them! Whatever it is, my creativity surged. Deep forest and woods were recreated on the huge walls of my room. It was a 'live' painting – evolving daily and organically. I would sit on the ledge of my window and come back inspired and make some hurried additions to the painting on my wall – wild flowers in the grass or some dried up leaves swaying to the ground. When the rains would hit the pebbles on my private terrace, I would soak up Mother Earth's fresh energy by standing in the rain – be it the middle of the night! I do not even recall whether my mum was aware of my impulses or she let me be – just myself!
As far as I remember, the creativity of both my brother and mine crossed the boundaries of our own respective rooms to the main verandah of the house which adjoined the living room. My dad even turned one of those wall scribblings to form the backdrop to his impromptu bar cabinet as he placed a marble shelf on the painted wall to keep his drinks. And then our scribblings would turn into the focal discussion point among the many dignitaries who visited our home from time to time. At various gatherings – formal or informal, I would pry all our guests from the various nooks and corners and the huge pillars that dotted the verandah – no, I wasn't shy at all – I would jabber non-stop to every one who had graced our home. I would peep from hidden location to get my imaginary perspectives.
From the many guests we have had in our home, a very frequent but a very renowned guest was perhaps the late Kanika Bandopadhyay, or Mohormashi as we would call her. She was a legendary exponent of RabindraSangeet or Tagore songs and had been named 'Kanika' by Rabindranath Tagore himself. She would stay with us whenever she was in Kolkata for her radio recordings. Mum has been trained by Mohormashi herself and she would tell me to learn a few songs from her. Mohormashi would cite examples of so many of her students who were coming from far and wide, just to have a glimpse of her or learn a few lines from her. I was busy running around, collecting pebbles for my own creative project. It was impossible for me to sit down and learn a song. Eventually, Mohormashi taught me a tiny Tagore song which had only four lines. Today, I do regret that I had been fortunate to have seen her from so close, yet I realise that each person has their own calling. Painting, designing, seeing the world through my lenses and writing about them is my calling. I love humming to myself, but not to the world.
Apart from Mohormashi, another exponent of Tagore songs – the legendary Nilima Sen had also graced our home. There were countless eminent personalities. Alas, I remember only a few of them. Mr Sunil Dutt, the photographer, once took a black and white picture of my grandmother, my beloved thakuma in the veranda of this house – a photograph which is the only evidence of a person who gave us only love. Today, she is no more and though it's been a long time but everytime I see this beautiful photograph, it engulfs me with emotions and memories that only 'thakumas' can bring in – the bedtime stories, the hand-made coconut 'laddoos', the coins that she gifted us and the magical days and nights that she brought in with her.
I do not whether it was the enigma of the Magistrate's House or of the nature of a happy childhood, everything that I have experienced in this house seemed more than real. The Holi get-togethers, our birthday parties, the various musical soirees etc. The guest lists were really remarkable and long – I remember Mr Nurul Hassan, the then Governor of West Bengal having graced our home. He was among many politicians whom I wasn't aware of at that time, being so young. Many actors and actresses have frequented the Magistrate's House, some from Tollywood and also from Bollywood. I remember Mr Shatrughan Sinha, Moonmoon Sen, Mr Dipankar Dey, the late comedian Mr Robi Ghosh. Once a brigade of actors from Bollywood arrived when Mr Gautam Ghosh, the well known director and who had become a very good friend of my parents, had invited them over. He was making his Bengali film 'Antarjali Jatra' in the Sagar Islands which happen to fall under the territory of 24-Parganas.
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The years spent in Thackeray Road were the golden years of my childhood. I was beginning to know myself, realised that I day-dreamt a lot! I met a variety of people as we travelled to the interiors. I began to understand that people were plagued with various kind of problems – some basic, some major but for each individual his/her problem surmounted to the adjective 'massive'. My dad had to create possibilities for them or re-orient the possibilities inorder to solve their problems. I grew up studying for my geography and mathematics tests while sipping tea in a ' control room'. These control rooms made me realise that there were different types of problems which were present in people's lives and needed to be 'controlled', be it floods or draughts or elections etc. An each moment in a 'control room' was an emergency situation.
We would visit various places in Sundarbans – some of them were absolutely interiors where there were no jetties for the District Magistrate's launch to anchor. We would spent nights on the rivers in the Sundarbans in the District Magistrate's official launch. Of all the places that we had visited, my personal favourite was the Sagar Islands. Sagar Island is quite a large island on the Bay of Bengal, about 150 km south of Kolkata. Rich in mangrove swamps, waterways and small rivers, this island was our almost like our own personal island. Excepting on the day of Makar Sankranti (a day in the Hindu calendar which falls on the mid of January) when thousands of Hindus pounded on the island to take a holy dip in the confluence where river Ganges or the Ganga immersed herself into the Bay of Bengal. Thousands gathered at this confluence and offered puja in the Kapil Muni Temple. The GangaSagar Mela (fair) is the second largest congregation of mankind after the holy Kumbha Mela. It is held annually on the Sagar Island's southern tip. The Hindus believe that a single dip during this Mela would bring them salvation. I have taken more than a 50 dips in this spot in my lifetime – so I take Nirvana for granted!
My education was as varied as the people I met or the places that we visited. It was also as profound as the emotions that we felt when we would accompany our dad on the Republic Day parades or the Indian flag hoisting for the Indian Independence day or hearing stories of him welcoming the Indian Prime Minister. Or when he handed over prizes to little children when he attended a school function as the Chief Guest. The various cultural evenings at very exclusive locales like the Victoria Memorial or the Governor's House, or having sailed along the Ganges upstream from the Bay of Bengal to Naihati – a town situated on the river Ganga from where my dad actually hailed – the journeys were long and my experiences were priceless.
Though we were used to living in a different set of environment and exclusivity at the Magistrate's House it didn't make us snooty or pompous. We were not only enriched by our rendez-vous with the various personalities and special people that we hob-nobbed with under the roof of our heritage home but we also grew up amidst the chaos of the control rooms and visiting places which dared us to re-think or re-evaluate our own lives. We absorbed everything from every unspoken word and learnt from every unseen things. We grew up amidst conviction that was echoed in the District Magistrate's voice 'No Problem'!
Today when I re-visted my childhood home, I feel thankful that I could give my girls a glimpse of my childhood. Their childhood is not like ours. I donot give her the creative freedom to do a 'live' painting in their walls. Neither do I let them run into the rains. But I do compensate these by traveling with them, taking them everywhere, meeting people and answering to all their crazy queries. I have gifted my elder one a small digi-cam as I wouldn't allow her to touch my Nikon. She has the freedom to click whatever she wants. But, most importantly she has doesn't get embarrassed when I am perpetually clicking pictures with my lense peeping out of the car like a periscope! I click hoardings, billboards, traffic jams, people's faces, roads, auto-rickshaws, the taxi-driver or even the ceilings of the car we are sitting inside! She doesn't get embarrassed when I stop the car to click photographs. I am so glad that my girls don't cry as we drive through the narrow lanes of Howrah or when we are stuck in the traffic on the Howrah bridge as I aspire to click some different shots of the Howrah station and the Bridge. While I can do these only when I am on a holiday, I will be lying if I said that I don't do all these when I am in Dubai. So what, if I have taken 100 snaps of individual footstep on the sand near Starbucks at the JBR Walk? So what If I have climbed up the footbridges over Sheikh Zayed Road, with my camera and my girls in tow to click pictures of motion trails of cars? I have also made them pose in the burning sun for hours to take some shot of a shadow on their cheeks? But I have 'mostly' done these for some design project , not 'just like that'!
And all these creative impulses were born at that magical moment when I started collecting pebbles and dried leaves from my private terrace as I grew up in the shadow of history, and touched the magical brick walls of the Magistrate's House on No 1, Thackeray Road, Alipore.
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amazing flashback! Very well captured! It brought that reminiscing feeling at the back of my neck. feels like i almost know you now! Iv never been to Cal but im sure not all houses are like this. Perhaps its better to create an image of the city using your memories cause the reality just wont add up to something so nice!
Very nostalgic ……..darun likhecho
soooooooo nostalgic – we made 2 trips to Kolkatta during our summer vacations. My dad was with the SE railways and he made sure he took us somewhere when we came to Madhya pradesh during hols.( my bro n me studied in the south with our grandparents).
lovely post !
Wow….you sure were a lucky child! Beautiful memories 🙂
Its a nice blog. enriched. thanks for your effort. please carry on.
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It is learnt that Fernandes would be on the job once law minister Arun Jaitley says whether the plot can legally be handed over or not.
If it can be, the defence minister is expected to try to soften up allies like the Telugu Desam, which support the NDA government from outside, and the DMK, a constituent. Both have cautioned Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee against disrupting the status quo in Ayodhya.
BJP sources said the VHP, as well as the party's hardliners, are piling pressure on the Centre to come up with a quick decision, preferably before the Uttar Pradesh polls are over, to ensure maximum electoral mileage.
The desperation is fuelled by feedback from the heartland that even trusted supporters are either keeping their voting options open or showing a preference for the Congress wherever it has a strong candidate.
Hardliners have suggested that the government should assess the voter response in the first phase of the polls on February 14. They feel that if the feedback from the ground is not encouraging, it should pass an executive order to hand over the "undisputed" area to the Nyas.
An assessment based on one phase is usually not reliable, given the complex web of Uttar Pradesh's electoral pulls and pressures. But the BJP feels that the impact of the first phase will be relatively easier to gauge as it covers western Uttar Pradesh. Two factors hold the key here — friend Ajit Singh and friend-turned-foe Kalyan Singh.
Despite the public shelving of Ayodhya, BJP leaders concede in private that the only other issue that can tilt the balance is Pakistan's handover of some of those wanted in India.
The contingency Ayodhya plan is being thought of in this context. The claim of VHP and BJP hardliners on the "undisputed" portion rests on a Supreme Court judgment, which upheld the Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya Act passed by the P.V. Narasimha Rao government in 1993. There were two dissenters — present chief justice S.P. Bharucha and Justice A.M. Ahmadi — in the 3-2 verdict.
Bharucha had said the Act was "skewed to favour one religion against another" and was "opposed to secularism". He held that both the disputed and the undisputed plots were meant to be held by the Centre "pending the resolution of the dispute regarding the disputed site".
But the majority verdict was that Section 6 of the Act gave the Centre the discretion to hand over the undisputed area to any "authority or body or trust" even before the disposal of the title suits. And that "the embargo on transfer till adjudication relates only to the disputed area".
The VHP has been citing the majority opinion to buttress the contention that barring the plot housing the makeshift temple, the land could be given "without problem" to the trust. "The government can hand over this land within 24 hours through an executive order," a VHP source said.
A jittery Russia has revived the proposal for a trilateral axis involving Moscow, Delhi and Beijing to give a clear signal to Washington that if need be, the three together could pose a challenge.
Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov is arriving here tomorrow to hold discussions with his Indian counterpart, Jaswant Singh, on the developments in the region with emphasis on Afghanistan and the standoff between the South Asian neighbours. He will also call on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
India has been invited to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as an observer in its next meeting at St Petersburg in June. The SCO is an important security forum with China, Russia and four Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — as its members. Pakistan, which is also keen to get into the forum, has made a formal application.
Former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov had floated the proposal for the trilateral axis three years ago. But it was too close to the May nuclear tests and India's relations with China were too strained for anything meaningful to come out of the proposal. Now, the Russian leadership has chosen to revive it.
Moscow's renewed attempt to float the idea comes when the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been defeated by the US-led coalition. The war has brought American troops into Afghanistan and in the Central Asian republics — too close for Russia's comfort.
The presence of the troops has also become a source of worry for China, another key player in Asia. At this juncture, it suits Beijing to join the Russia-proposed trilateral axis with India as the third country. The issue was also discussed when Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji came here last month.
But India will be uncomfortable with the idea. The Vajpayee government has put in a lot of effort to bring Indo-US relations to a level not seen for many years. South Block mandarins say the ties have undergone a "paradigm shift", and India will not do anything to jeopardise that relation.
India, never too keen on the axis, has argued in the past that while its relations with Russia is "time-tested", that with China are still on the mend.
After the shootout in Hazaribagh in which two suspects were killed, the police came across an X-ray reports and an ultrasonography report, both in the name of Sadaqat. The reports have revealed that he is "suffering from a serious kidney ailment", the police said.
The police are hoping to get some leads from the clinics as well as the doctors who treated him, whose names are mentioned in the reports. But neither the names of the clinics nor those of the doctors is being revealed "for the sake of investigations".
"We have consulted doctors and they are of the opinion that such a patient would be in need of constant medical attention and, therefore, would have to be in a place where doctors are easily available," an officer said. "This has led us to believe that he could not have strayed too far from Hazaribagh and he also could not be hiding in an interior location."
The police said that on four occasions in the last one week Sadaqat had given Jharkhand and Bihar police the slip and managed to stay a step ahead.
Calcutta police have got in touch with Mumbai police to trace him. "We have information that he is part of the Mumbai criminal network and are certain that they will have some information on him," an officer said.
A police team has gone to Kishenganj in Bihar as they had information that Sadaqat may have taken shelter there. But raids in suspected hideouts drew a blank. "Either we received a wrong tipoff or he has managed to give us the slip once again," an officer said.
Calcutta police spent most of the day interrogating Jamaluddin Nasir, the lone suspect in custody and the alleged chief facilitator.
The police said Nasir has admitted to driving the "getaway" blue Maruti 800 that the killers used shortly after shooting down the policemen in front of the American Center. Besides this, the police are not willing to volunteer much.
"Investigations into the case have led to several developments which are expected to throw new light," city police chief Sujoy Chakraborty said.
But sources say that the police raided several places in the city and made a fresh arrest late in the evening. A CID team picked up Asadullah Mullick from Tiljala Lane. Mullick, the police said, has links with Nasir and was known to be close to Asif Reza, Dubai-based don Aftab Ansari's key man in India till he was killed in an encounter by Rajkot police.
Nasir's father Mohammad Fatehuddin said he was not aware of his son's activities. If the "police can prove my son guilty, then they can shoot him dead and I will have nothing to say".
"I am ashamed of his direct links with the terrorists. I would extend all support to the police to unearth the crime."
The Beniapukur madarsa authorities also denied any involvement in facilitating terrorist activities.
Advani, who was present at the Kotla during Thursday's fifth ODI, had much the same message for former captain Sachin Tendulkar. According to the Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi Police, both Sourav and Sachin run the risk of being kidnapped by a Dubai-based mafia group with Pakistani ties.
The security cover for both, therefore, has been upped significantly. The upgrading was done in Delhi itself and the police here aren't taking any chances either. Last July, there had even been a threat from the Lashkar-e-Toiba, after which armed guards were posted at the captain's Behala residence in Calcutta.
That arrangement continues and, while on home turf, Sourav always has a Special Branch appointee for company.
Now, he has been "firmly cautioned" against moving out of the Taj (the teams' hotel) without providing security personnel "enough notice". In any case, the personnel have been empowered to say "no" should a particular venue be considered "risk-inviting".
Since Sourav's arrival in Mumbai yesterday, he has been assigned a 9-mm carbine-wielding gunman and a plainclothesman with a concealed weapon. The two, of course, constitute Sourav's "inner security ring" only.
"No, I'm not worried... I'm confident nothing will happen," the deeply religious (and pretty superstitious) captain told The Telegraph this afternoon. He also is a firm believer in destiny.
Unusually for these parts, metal detectors have been installed on the floors housing the visiting Englishmen and the Indian cricketers. As for Sourav, an unprecedented three security personnel have taken up positions around his door. At their request, he has been checked-into a corner room.
Asked whether Advani went into specifics, Sourav answered: "Not really... He just said I should be very careful... Indeed, he even asked about our three-month-old daughter (Sakshi)... Actually, some very senior police officers had already spoken to me before I met him..."
As the sixth and final ODI is only hours away, the captain has been "advised" not to leave the Taj once the team returns from the early-evening workout at the Wankhede. And, so, he was trying to re-schedule a dinner engagement at the hotel itself.
"Well, they've been speaking of threats and that the match is less than a day away... As I've stated, I'm cool about the whole thing, though I do recognise the need to be careful," Sourav pointed out. Prematurely turning grey, he can definitely do without additional worries.
As Sourav will play the Ranji quarters against Gujarat at the Eden, next week, the amphitheatre is bound to have a massive police bandobast.
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Melissa Reid retained a share of the lead at the Korean Ladies Masters after the 23-year-old carded a second-round 69.
Starting the day in an eight-way tie at the top of the leaderboard, Reid took control with three birdies in her first four holes at Haevichi Country Club and was two shots clear at the turn after draining a 40-foot birdie putt on the ninth.
However, she three-putted for bogey on the 13th and was then reeled in by Yang.
"I played quite well on the front nine and hit a few shots pretty close. Then the back nine was a little bit slow so I lost a bit of momentum," said Reid.
"I haven't played great the last couple of weeks so I'm not really expecting anything but I did a great couple of days' work coming into this event and I guess things have fallen into place. My swing wasn't feeling right last week at all and I figured it out a bit too late."
Yang, meanwhile, returned a five-under-par 67 built on a blistering start that saw the Korean pick up four birdies in her opening six holes.
Bogeys at the 10th and 12th sandwiched a birdie at the 11th before Yang collected two more birdies to share the lead going into the final round in Jeju.
"Today I hit pretty good putts and iron shots," she said.
"Everything was good, especially the front nine which was very nice, but on the back nine I struggled. But somehow I coped, I am satisfied with the round."
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If I log in with my Roller account, I can see the preview. It appears that the URL is actually <https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=announcing_apache_openoffice_3_41>. - Dennis PS: Screen with empty content is what appears any time you refer to a post in preview that does not actually exist [;<). -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 14:53 To: email@example.com Subject: Re: [DRAFT] AOO 3.4.1 Release Announcement for Review On 16/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: > https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=announcing_apache_openoffice_3_4 > Comments are welcome. I had a quick look about 24 hours ago and the text seemed fine. But I cannot access the URL now (well, I can, but I only see the "Apache OpenOffice (incubating)" title and an empty page). > Perhaps we can take comments for a day or so, and I'll update to > reflect feedback. At that point volunteers might prepare > translations. Any translations we have at release time I can link to > from the blog post. Sure; if we have the English text available, volunteers are ready to translate the text into Italian (and probably more languages). What is the recommended URL to use for translated versions? Regards, Andrea.
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- The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program.Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice - Prof. Volker Wieland, Ph.D.(Institute of Monetary and Financial Stability, Goethe University of Frankfurt)The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the theory andpractice of monetary policy with practical applications to current policy challengesaround the world. Examples from the European Union, the United States and Japan willbe discussed. We will develop theoretical models and learn how different policyrecommendations can be evaluated using these models.We will study a range of policy issues including for example: - the practical relevance of simple rules for monetary policy, - robustness of monetary policy under model uncertainty, - the role of forecasts in policy design, - inflation targeting versus the ECB??s two-pillar strategy, - discretion and commitment in monetary policy,- quantitative easing and policy options in a low interest rate environment, - the implications of financial frictions and banking risks for the design of monetary policy;- fiscal implications of monetary policy and inflation; - the interaction of fiscal stimulus and fiscal consolidation with monetary policy at near zero interest rates.[gem?_?? den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information]
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This elegant Noritake Ireland footed demitasse cup with matching saucer is in the Morning Jewel pattern (#2767). It has a floral band in muted fall colors and gilded rim and trim. It was produced from 1981 - 1990. The cup and saucer are both in excellent condition. The cup is 2 1/2" high and 2 1/2" in diameter; the saucer is 4" in diameter. The price is for both pieces.


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You get to do lots of file system checks (fsck).
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Joined by a group of friends, the 'Green Lantern' beauty and the 'Inception' actor enjoy private 'StarTours' ride as well as hanging out on Main Street.
Blake Lively skipped the after-party of 2011 MTV Movie Awards for a Disneyland trip with Leonardo DiCaprio, Us Weekly reported. The "Green Lantern" beauty was spotted with her rumored boyfriend and a group of friends at the theme park in Anaheim, California after she presented an award with co-star Ryan Reynolds.
One eyewitness revealed that around 11 P.M., the group were escorted via private entrance to the front of the line of a "Star Wars"-themed simulation ride, "StarTours". The 23-year-old actress was wearing a knit smock and a face-concealing hat, while her alleged boyfriend sported a pair of jeans, windbreaker and a hat.
After midnight, Blake, Leo and their entourage were seen hanging outside the penny arcade on "Main Street". When the theme park was close to empty, they were spotted "chattering and laughing" as they took a stroll through Downtown Disney as they made their way back to their hotel.
In another news, speculation has run high that Reese Witherspoon slammed Blake over the latter's nude photos scandal. In her acceptance speech for MTV Generation Award, the "Water for Elephants" actress dissed stars who gained fame via reality shows, sex tapes and naked pictures. Her representative was quick to put off speculation as telling E! News, "Reese was absolutely not referencing Blake Lively."


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"Zimbabwe still have some inexperience in the (batting) line-up. Their bowlers have bowled in good areas.
They know how to bowl on these wickets. They are using the two new balls well.
Our fast bowlers can learn from them," he said. Having scored an unbeaten 68, Kohli once again said that he likes to take responsibility.
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Next Generation MINI to Feature Five Door Hatch Model
MINI is looking to capture more market share here in America with its next-generation model, rumored to feature a five-door hatch variant offering more practicality for a modern family.
Currently one of the biggest gripes consumers have about MINI models is its lack of interior space. Generally speaking, MINI models simply aren't practical for even a small family, but the British automaker is hoping to change that entirely with a five-door hatchback, sporting two smaller opening doors.
Think of it as a Countryman, but smaller. Despite the rear doors being smaller than a conventional sedan, they'll still be usable and the new MINI will sport four door handles. More importantly though, we can expect rear legroom to increase by almost 2 inches compared to the hardtop model, and chances are a three-person bench seat will be offered as standard.
The four-door MINI model will complement the popular two-door hatchback, but will offer a less SUV-esque design than the Countryman model. Will it be a hit? Only time will tell, but it's certainly the direction that MINI needs to go to gain more ground with potential buyers.
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Maria's Prayer
by Maria Pascale
Your Love is like a symphony
Running through my soul
Every instrument finely tuned
And as I listen, I'm made whole
Your Love is like the cool crisp air
After a summer storm
I can't seem to breathe in deep enough
To savor the taste
I just want more
Your Love is like babies' breath
Exhaling in my ear
I'd stay in this place forever
Just holding you close and near
Your Love is like a beating heart
Soft and strong and sure
Without its constancy, All would cease
Quickening to endure
Your Love is like a pillow soft
Taking shape of me
Ever willing to embrace
What you're calling me to be
Your Love is like the strongest sail
Never bowing to the wind
You withstand all I can't
Keeping me from sin
Your Love is like a belly laugh
When one is tickled way too long
It is ever filling me with joy
And my heart is filled with song
Your Love is everywhere I look
It's everywhere I go
I only ask
Allow me Lord
The Depths of your Love
To Know
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Attacking the "scandal" of spiralling gas and electricity prices, shadow energy secretary Meg Hillier said a winter fuel crisis was "coming down the track".
"This winter, many thousands will be unable to heat their homes," she said. "Because of soaring prices, our fear is that that will mean more unnecessary deaths and more diseases caused by cold."
Rounding on the big six energy firms, she told delegates at Labour's annual rally in Liverpool: "They may be private companies, but they should deliver a public service."
She said a Labour government would break the big firms' "stranglehold" by bringing more players into the market including social enterprises and co-operatives, as well as giving consumers more power.
Labour is also calling for a new measure of "food poverty" as soaring prices hit weekly shopping bills.
It could measure food costs as a proportion of household budgets, following the example of fuel poverty drawn up under New Labour, or look at setting a benchmark for what families need to spend to eat well.
Households are deemed to be living in fuel poverty if they spend more than 10 per cent of income on keeping homes warm - which affected 5.5million households in 2009.
Shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh pointed to research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which found a couple with two children need to spend £5,819 a year to meet food needs. She said food prices had risen six per cent in the past year, taking an extra £350 out of the family budget.
"Out on the doorstep the first thing people talk about is gas and electricity bills and the second is the price of the weekly shop," she said.
Ms Creagh also said there was a "moral imperative" to reform food markets in a bid to stop speculators forcing up commodity prices.
Energy firm EDF recently announced a 15.4 per cent jump in gas tariffs as it became the last of the six major suppliers to put up prices.
EDF said the higher charges will add about 33p a day to a dual-fuel bill, while the annual cost of a standard dual-fuel bill paid for by direct debit will rise to £1,165 from £1,051.
Scottish Power put its gas tariffs up by 19 per cent and its electricity charges by 10 per cent from August 1, while British Gas increased gas bills by 18 per cent and electricity by 16 per cent from August 18.
Scottish and Southern Energy has raised electricity by 11 per cent and gas by 18 per cent while E.ON increased its electricity prices by 11.4 per cent and gas by 18.1 per cent. On October 1, Npower is raising gas prices by 15.7 per cent and electricity by 7.2 per cent.
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Business process: We love our pretty pictures, but to what end?
We're visual people and the changes the Web brings make this more the case. So when it comes to business process, we love our pretty pictures, but to what end? There are many ways to capture the visual representation of what we do, from PowerPoint or Visio to the most elaborate enterprise architecture tools, of which there are plenty.
It only works, however, when the 'system' informs and engages the target audience…those who need to understand and perform the activities. Simplicity rules, especially for the generations now entering the workforce. If people need a key to read the process map, they're either highly specialized/technical or already tuned out.
Guide dogs for process?
If the organization's investment is in complexity, end users find their own ways to cut through the confusion that complexity brings. It will be passive (ignorance and cynicism) or active (printed, out-of-date checklists) but it will be a short cut to poor process understanding.
I once heard a customer say that their process maps, developed and managed through IT on a highly technical software platform, were the work equivalent of giving a razor blade to a baby. Brutal imagery, but I heard his point clearly…better for the business NOT to touch, even with adult supervision. Visual complexity leaves users in the dark, reliant on on specialists for navigation.
Weeds in the garden?
The second challenge to the engaging the audience visually has the same passive and active challenges as complexity. Even the most cleverly visual and simple processes become irrelevant if not kept current. Who looks further into a process that is wrong at a glance? People that need to be engaged will quickly tune out process maps that aren't simple AND current. It is still more the rule than the exception that maps are created for a purpose and then left to get dusty until a new initiative arrives.
The organization goes through a flurry of updating and validation before the weeds are allowed to grow in the process garden once again. The value of all of that effort to capture is lost when there's no systematic way to keep the content accurate and fresh. Valuable information is 'choked out' by the clutter of the out-of-date.
Keep it simple, keep it current. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, we're in a battle to attract the eyes and thoughts of the organization. If we win, the audience's attention makes us better at executing and adapting to constant change.


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Price realised GBP 114,500
GOULD, John (1804-1881). A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds. London: Published by the Author [1849-] 1861, Supplement: Henry Sotheran & Co., [1880-] 1887.
6 volumes including Supplement, 2° (540 x 365). 418 hand-coloured lithographic plates, many highlighted in gold leaf overpainted with transparent oil and varnish colors, by Gould, H. C. Richter and W. Hart, most printed by Hullmandel & Walton. Dark green morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, gilt edges.
GOULD'S "MASTERPIECE ... AN INCOMPARABLE CATALOGUE AND COMPENDIUM OF BEAUTIES" (Fine Bird Books). Of all the bird families, the hummingbird held the greatest fascination for Gould. Most of the plates were drawn from specimens from his own collection, which he had built up thanks to a burgeoning trade in the fashionable little bird, and with the help of a pool of collectors whom he commissioned to hunt for rare or unknown varieties in the wilds of South America. He exhibited the collection - which included nearly 2000 birds from 300 different species - in the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851, attracting nearly 75,000 visitors and consolidating his reputation as one of the greatest living ornithologists. Although his claim that the subscribers to the Trochilidae included "nearly all the crowned heads of Europe" (Tree, p. 164) was a slight exaggeration, the magnificence of the illustrations as much as the vogue for "hummers" did attract a larger and more brilliant audience than all of his other works except The Birds of Great Britain. To illustrate the birds' iridescent plumage, Gould had used a costly technique of painting in varnish and oils over pure gold leaf, which he claimed to have invented but which he seems in reality to have borrowed with very little modification from the American hummingbird specialist William Bailey.
Gould died after the publication of part 1 of the Supplement. He had already supervised the preparation of many of the plates, and the project was completed by Sharpe for the text, W. Hart, who did the drawings, lithographs and coloring for the 58 remaining plates, and the ornithologist Osbert Salvin, who directed the general production. Soon after Gould's death his bird collections, which by then included 5378 hummingbirds, were purchased by the Zoological Society, and are now part of the British Museum's natural history collections. Anker 177; Nissen IVB 380; Fine Bird Books p. 78; Wood p. 365. (6)
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