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My name is Giraffatitan, king of kings
April 30, 2015
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
[Giraffatitan brancai paralectotype MB.R.2181 (formerly HMN S II), mounted skeleton in left anteroventrolateral view. Presacral vertebrae sculpted, skull scaled and 3d-printed from specimen T1. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.]
Richard Poynder on the need for transparency in publishing
April 28, 2015
[This is a guest-post by Richard Poynder, a long-time observer and analyst of academic publishing now perhaps best known for the very detailed posts on his Open and Shut blog. It was originally part of a much longer post on that blog, the introduction to an interview with the publisher MDPI. I'm pleased to reproduce it here with Richard's kind permission — Mike.]
In light of the current lack of information available to enable us to adequately judge the activities of scholarly publishers, or to evaluate the rigour of the publication process that research papers undergo, should not both scholarly publishers and the research community be committing themselves to much greater transparency than we see today?
For instance, should not open peer review now be the norm? Should not the reviews and the names of reviewers be routinely published alongside papers? Should not the eligibility criteria and application procedures for obtaining APC waivers be routinely published on a journal's web site, along with regularly updated data on how many waivers are being granted? Should not publishers be willing to declare the nature and extent of the unsolicited email campaigns they engage in in order to recruit submissions?
Should not the full details of "big deals" and hybrid OA "offsetting agreements" be made publicly available? Should not publishers be more transparent about why they charge what they charge for APCs? Should not publishers be more transparent about their revenues and profits? For instance, should not privately owned publishers make their accounts available online (even where there is no legal obligation to do so), and should not public companies provide more detailed information about the money they earn from publicly-funded research and exactly how it was earned? And should not publishers whose revenue comes primarily from the public purse be entirely open about who owns the company, and where it is based?
Should not the research community refuse to deal with publishers unwilling to do all the above? Did not US Justice Louis D. Brandeis have a point when he said, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
Roadside dinos of Yermo, California
April 27, 2015
A couple of weekends ago, London and I went camping and stargazing at Afton Canyon, a nice dark spot about 40 miles east of Barstow. On the way home, we took the exit off I-15 at Ghost Town Road, initially because we wanted to visit the old Calico Ghost Town. But then we saw big metal dinosaurs south of the highway, and that's how we came to Peggy Sue's Diner and in particular the Diner-saur Park.
The Diner-saur Park is out behind the diner and admission is free. There are pools with red-eared sliders, paved walkways, grass, trees, a small gift shop, and dinosaurs. Here's a Spinosaurus – curiously popular in the Mojave Desert, those spinosaurs.
Ornithischians are represented by two stegosaurs, this big metal one and a smaller concrete one under a tree.
The turtles are entertaining. They paddle around placidly and crawl out to bask on the banks of the pools, and on little islands in the centers.
The gift shop is tiny and the selection of paleo paraphernalia is not going to blow away any hard-core dinophiles. But it is not without its charm. And, hey, when you find a dinosaur gift shop in the middle of nowhere, you don't quibble about size. London got some little plastic turtles and I got some cheap and horribly inaccurate plastic dinosaur skeletons to make a NecroDinoMechaLaser Squad for our Dinosaur Island D&D campaign.
Now, about that sauropod. The identification sign on the side of the gift shop notwithstanding, this is not a Brachiosaurus. With the short forelimbs and big back end, this is clearly a diplodocid. The neck is too skinny for Apatosaurus or the newly-resurrected Brontosaurus, and too long for Diplodocus. I lean toward Barosaurus, although I noticed in going back through these photos that with the mostly-straight, roughly-45-degree-angle neck, it is doing a good impression of the Supersaurus from my 2012 dinosaur nerve paper. Compare this:
to this:
If I had noticed it sooner, I would have maneuvered for a better, more comparable shot.
Guess I'll just have to go back.
Wedel, M.J. 2012. A monument of inefficiency: the presumed course of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in sauropod dinosaurs. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2):251-256.
What are we going to call PLOS ONE-style peer-review?
April 24, 2015
When a paper goes for peer-review at PLOS ONE, the reviewers are told not to make any judgement about how important or sexy or "impacty" the paper is — to judge it only on methodical soundness. All papers that are judged sound are to be published without making guesses about which will and won't improve the journal's reputation through being influential down the line. (Such guesses are hopelessly inaccurate anyway.)
When PLOS ONE was new, this approach drew scorn from established publishers, but now those publishers all have their own journals that use similar editorial criteria (Nature's Scientific Reports, AAAS's Science Advances, Elsevier's first attempt, Elsevier's second attempt, the Royal Society's Royal Society Open Science). Those editorial criteria have proved their worth.
But what are we going to call this style of peer-review?
It's not a new problem. I discussed it with with David Crotty three years ago without reaching any very satisfactory conclusion. But three years have not really helped us much as we try to agree on a term for this increasingly important and prevalent model.
What are the options on the table?
PLOS ONE-style peer-review. It's a cumbersome term, and it privileges PLOS ONE when that is now far from the only journal to use this approach to peer-review (and may not even have been first).
Peer-review Lite. A snide term coined by people who wanted PLOS ONE to fail. It's not a good description, and it carries baggage.
Scientific peer-review. This one came up in the discussion with David Crotty, but it's not really acceptable because it would leave us still needing a term for what the Open Library of Humanities does.
Objective peer-review. This is the term that was used at the Royal Society meeting at the start of this week — the idea being that you review objectively for the quality of the research, but don't make a subjective judgement of its importance. Several people didn't like this on the grounds that even the "objective" half is inevitably subjective.
Any others that I missed?
I don't have a good solution to propose to this problem; but I think it's getting more urgent that we do solve it. We have to have a simple, unambiguous, universally understood term to understand a model of peer-review that is becoming increasingly pervasive and may well end up as the dominant form of peer-review.
Plough in — comments are open!
Update, 6pm
Liz Wager asked a very similar question four years ago, over on the BMJ blog: what to call the journals that use this approach to peer-review. Terms that she mentions include:
- "bias to publish" (from BioMed Central)
- "non-selective" (her own coinage, which she doesn't like)
- "bumboat" (I can't explain this one, you'll have to read the article)
- "author-driver" or "author-focused" publication (AFP for short)
- "search-located" (which she coins, the dismisses as tautologous)
- "unconventional" or "non-traditional" (discarded as disparaging)
- "non-discriminatory", "impartial" or "unprejudiced"
- "general" (dismissed as a non-starter)
- "broad-spectrum" (inapplicable to specialised journals)
And then in the comments various people proposed:
- "below the fold" journals
- "omnivorous" (I quite like that one)
- "alternative"
- "Voldermortian journals", which I don't understand at all.
- "Unfiltered", contrasted with "filtered"
- "inclusive", contrasted with "exclusive" (I quite like this, too)
- "high volume low hassle"
But there's no conclusion or preferred term.
Copied from an email exchange.
Did we know about the Royal Society's PLOS ONE-clone?
I am in favour of this. I might well send them my next paper while the universal waiver is still in place.
Did not know about it. Their post-waiver APC is insane. How can they possibly justify $1600?
Well, I am obviously not a big fan of a $1600 APC; but it's not a great deal more than PLOS ONE, and much less than PLOS Biology/Medicine.
But I think we're converging on the idea that you can make a living running journals that charge $500 — see Ubiquity Press at http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/publish/ – so I think anyone charging more than that has to explain why. In the case of the Royal Society, I assume it's to fund their other activities; I am assured that I could get a waiver anyway, since I lack funding.
But are you saying you definitely won't publish there even during the $0 phase?
Matt (with Mike's previous post quoted):
Well, I am obviously not a big fan of a $1600 APC; but it's not a great deal more than PLOS ONE
and much less than PLOS Biology/Medicine.
But I think we're converging on the idea that you can make a living running journals that charge $500 – see Ubiquity Press at http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/publish/ – so I think anyone charging more than that has to explain why. In the case of the Royal Society, I assume it's to fund their other activities;
I am assured that I could get a waiver anyway, since I lack funding.
But are you saying you definitely won't publish there even during the $0 phase?
Yes, APCs should be pushing downwards all the time now. I agree that the Royal Society coming in at a level above PLOS ONE doesn't look good — indeed PLOS ONE's own $1350 is also looking increasingly unfashionable in the light of (A) Ubiquity providing essentially the same service for 37% of the price, and (B) the fact that PLOS now runs at an operating surplus of 27%. To my mind, it's well past time that PLOS ONE found a way to wind its APC down — really, down into triple figures ($999 would do), though even a nominal reduction of say $50 would send a good message.
You're absolutely right that Royal Society Open Science is, by design, a PLOS ONE rather than a PLOS Biology: it reviews on correctness alone, not on guesswork about likely impact. So, yes, it's PLOS ONE's price-point that's the correct comparison here.
Where you're mistaken, though, is in assuming that the Royal Society has shareholders who might be skimming off the cream from the APC. There are none: the Society has nothing else to spend publishing profits on but furthering its scientific mission. (Of course, it doesn't follow from this that is ought to be seeking to make a profit from publishing at all. It has other sources of income, and presently only 8% of its income is from publishing profits.)
But I hear you on the message sent by acquiescing to a $1600-APC journal, even if that APC is waived. We both want to shift towards a world where there are no journals that charge that kind of money — or at least, that if they do, it's because they're the kind of "selective" journal that thinks there's something praiseworthy about rejecting most scientifically sound submissions. Journals of that kind don't concern me one way or another, because I just don't play that game.
Measure the thing you're interested in
April 23, 2015
The REF (Research Excellence Framework) is a time-consuming exercise that UK universities have to go through every few years to assess and demonstrate the value of their research to the government; the way funding is allocated between universities is largely dependent on the results of the REF. The exercise is widely resented, in part because the processes of preparing and reviewing the submissions are so time-consuming.
Dorothy Bishop has noted that results of REF assessments correlate strongly with departmental H-indexes (and suggested that we could save on the cost of future REFs by just using that H-index instead of the time-consuming peer-review process).
But it's also been shown that H-index is strongly correlated with the simple number of publications. A seductive but naive conclusion would be: "we could just count publications for the next REF!"
But of course if we simply allocated research funding across universities on the basis of how many papers they produce, they would — they would have to — respond by simply racing to write more and more papers. Our already overloaded ability to assimilate new information would be further flooded. It's a perverse incentive.
So this is a classic example of a very important general dictum: measure the thing you're actually interested in, not a proxy. I don't know if this dictum has been given a name yet, but it ought to be.
Measuring the thing we're interested in is often difficult and time-consuming. But since only the thing we measure will ever be optimised for, we must measure the thing we want optimised — in this case, quality of research rather than quantity. That would still be true even if the correlation between REF assessments and departmental H-indexes was absolutely perfect. Because that correlation is an accident (in the philosophical sense); changing the circumstances will break that correlation.
No doubt all this reasoning is very familiar and painfully basic to people who have been working on the problem of metrics in assessment for years; to them, I apologise. For everyone else, I hope this comment provides some grains of insight.
[I originally wrote the initial form of this post as a comment on the Royal Society blog how should research and impact be assessed?, but I'm still waiting for it to be approved, so here it is.]
Live-blog: the Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication
April 20, 2015
I'm at the Royal Society today and tomorrow as part of the Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication conference. Here's the programme.
I'm making some notes for my own benefit, and I thought I might as well do them in the form of a blog-post, which I will continuously update, in case anyone else is interested.
I stupidly didn't make notes on the first two speakers, but let's pick up from the third:
Deborah Shorley, ex-librarian of Imperial College London
Started out by saying that she feels her opinion, as a librarian, is irrelevant, because librarians are becoming irrelevant. A pretty incendiary opening!
Important observations:
"Scientific communication in itself doesn't matter; what matters is that good science be communicated well."
And regarding the model of giving papers to publishers gratis, then paying them for the privilege of reading them:
"I can't think of any other area where such a dopey business model pertains."
(On which, see Scott Aaronson's brilliant take on this in his review of The Access Principle — the article that first woke me up to the importance of open access.)
Shorey wants to bring publishing skills back in-house, to the universities and their libraries, and do it all themselves. As far as I can make out, she simply sees no need for specialist publishers. (Note: I do not necessarily endorse all these views.)
"If we don't seize the opportunity, market forces will prevail. And market forces in this case are not pretty."
Robert Parker, ex-head of publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry
Feels that society publishers allowed themselves to be overtaken by commercial publishers. Notes that when he started working for the RSC's publishing arm, it was "positively dickensian", using technology that would mostly have been familiar to Gutenberg. Failure to engage with authors and with technology allowed the commercial publishers to get ahead — something that is only now being redressed.
He's talking an awful lot about the impact factors of their various journals.
My overall impression is that his perspective is much less radical than that of Deborah Shorley, wanting learned-society publishers to be better able to compete with the commercial publishers.
Gary Evoniuk, policy director at Glaxo Smith Klein
GSK submits 300-400 scientific studies for publication each year.
Although the rise of online-only journals means there is no good reason to not publish any finding, they still find that negative results are harder to get published.
"The paper journal, and the paper article, will soon be dead. This makes me a little bit sad."
He goes further and wonders whether we need journal articles at all? When actual results are often available long before the article, is the context and interpretation that it provides valuable enough to be worth all the effort that's expended on it? [My answer: yes — Ed.]
Discussion now follows. I probably won't attempt to blog it (not least because I will want to participate). Better check out the twitter stream.
Nigel Shadbolt, Open Data Institute
Begin by reflecting on a meeting ten years ago, convened at Southampton by Stevan Harnad, on … the future of scholarly scientific communication.
Still optimistic about the Semantic Web, as I guess we more or less have to be. [At least, about many separate small-sw semantic webs — Ed.] We're starting to see regular search-engines like Google taking advantage of available machine-readable data to return better results.
Archiving data is important, of course; but it's also going to be increasingly important to archive algorithms. github is a useful prototype of this.
David Lambert, president/CEO, internet2
Given how the digital revolution has transformed so many fields (shopping, auctions, newspapers, movies) why has scholarly communication been so slow to follow? [Because the incumbents with a vested interesting in keeping things as they are have disproportionate influence due to their monopoly ownership of content and brands — Ed.]
Current publication models are not good at handling data. So we have to build a new model to handle data. In which case, why not build a new model to handle everything?
New "born-digital" researchers are influenced by the models of social networks: that is going to push them towards SN-like approaches of communicating more stuff, more often, in smaller unit. This is going to affect how scholarly communication is done.
Along with this goes an increasing level of comfort with collaboration. [I'm not sure I see that — Ed.]
Bonus section: tweets from Stephen Curry
He posted these during the previous talk. Very important:
Ritu Dhand, Nature
[A disappointing and unconvincing apologia for the continuing existence and importance of traditional publishers, and especially Nature. You would think that they, and they alone, guard the gates of academia from the barbarians. *sigh*. — Ed.]
Georgina Mace, UCL
[A defence of classical peer-review. Largely an overview of how peer-review is supposed to work.]
"It's not perfect, it has its challenges, but it's not broken yet."
Richard Smith, ex-editor of BMJ
[An attack on classical peer-review.]
"Peer review is faith-, not evidence-based; ineffective; a lottery; slow; expensive; wasteful; ineffective; easily abused; biased; doesn't detect fraud; irrelevant.
Apart from that, it's perfect."
He doesn't want to reform peer-review, he wants to get rid of it. Publish, let the world decide. That's the real peer-review.
He cites studies supporting his assertions. Cochrane review concluded there is no evidence that peer-review is effective. The Ioannidis paper shows that most published findings are false.
Someone should be recording this talk. It's solid gold.
Annual cost of peer-review is $1.9 billion.
[There is much, much more. I can't get it down quickly enough.]
Georgina Mace's rebuttal
… amounts to contradicting Richard Smith's evidence-supported statements, but she provides no evidence in support of her position.
Richard Smith's counter-counter rebuttal
… cites a bunch more studies. This is solid. Solid.
For those who missed out, see Smith's equally brutal paper Classical peer review: an empty gun. I find his conclusion (that we should just dump peer-review) emotionally hard to accept, but extremely compelling based on actual, you know, evidence.
Fascinating to hear the level of denial in the room. People really, really want to keep believing in peer-review, in spite of evidence. I understand that impulse, but I think it's unbecoming in scientists.
The challenge for peer-review advocates is: produce evidence that it has value. No-one has responded to that.
Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbour Press
Richard presents the BiorXive preprint server. Turns out it's pronounced "bio-archive", not "bye-orx-ive".
Nothing in this talk will be new to regular SV-POW! readers, but he makes good, compelling points in favour of preprinting (which we of course agree with!)
Elizabeth Marincola, CEO, PLOS
PLOS is taking steps towards improving peer-review:
- Use of article-level metrics
- Moves towards open review
- Move toward papers evolving over time, not being frozen at the point of publication
- Better recognition of different kinds of contribution to papers
- Intention to make submitted paper available to view before peer-review has been carried out, subject only to checks on ethical and technical standard: they aim to make papers available in "a matter of days".
She notes that much of this is not original: elements of these approaches are in F1000 Research, BiorXiv, etc.
Jan Velterop, science publisher with everyone at some point.
"I'm basically with Richard Smith when it comes to abolishing peer review, but I have a feeling it won't happen in the next few weeks."
The situation of publishers:
"Academia throws money at you. What do you do? You pick it up."
Velterop gets a BIG laugh for this:
"Does peer-review benefit science? I think it does; and it also benefits many other journals."
He quotes a Scholarly Kitchen blog-post[citation needed] as saying that the cost of technical preparation at PubMed Central — translating from an MS-Word manuscript to valid JATS XML — at $47. So why do we pay $3000 APCs? Surely the peer-review phase doesn't cost $2953?
Update: here is that Scholarly Kitchen article.
Velterop's plan is to streamline the review-and-publish process as follows:
- Author writes manuscript.
- She solicits reviews from two experts, using her own knowledge of the field to determine who is suitably skilled.
- They eventually sign off (perhaps after multiple rounds of revisions)
- The author submits the manuscript, along with the endorsements.
- The editor checks with the endorsers that they really have given endorsement.
- The article is posted.
Bam, done!
And at that point in the proceedings, my battery was running dangerously low. I typed a tweet: "low battery may finally force me to shut up! #RSSC", but literally between typing at and hitting the Tweet button, my laptop shut down. So that's it for day 1. I'll do a separate post for the second and final day.


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Multi-talented, hilarious, and insightful hardly begin to describe the late Alan Thicke, BA'67, and his career as an all-purpose entertainer. He is best known for his role as Jason Seaver, the father on the ABC television series, Growing Pains, now syndicated in more than 65 countries. He also appeared on the CBS hit comedy How I Met Your Mother and is well-known for being the father of platinum album-selling singer-songwriter, Robin Thicke.
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Why the United States can not be India's best friend
The aggravation of the Indo-Pakistani conflict again raised the question of whose side the United States is with. Washington has already voiced plans to make India friends, but it is bound by close arms contracts with Russia. What are the chances of America becoming a true friend for India?
The world today is multi-polar, and the main confirmation of this is the endless attempts of the US to maneuver between different centers of power, to seek benefits from alliances and complicate the lives of potential adversaries. The aggravation of the longstanding conflict between India and Pakistan led the world community to pay attention to this region. The fears are connected with the nuclear status of both conflicting countries.
However, how does this conflict look through the prism of relationships between other centers of power? Russia, China and the United States have their own interests in the region. Pakistan is a longtime buyer of American weapons and at the same time an ally of China. India, on the other hand, is buying weapons from Russia, but in recent years it has increased arms purchases from the United States.
Washington meanwhile declares its intention to move closer to India and finally confuse the situation. Moreover, it turns out that New Delhi is not against trying. Why does the United States need such a rapprochement?
India has problems
On the new problems of India, or rather, the Indian Army wrote the newspaper The New York Times. It indicates that the Indian army is very poorly armed and cannot compete on equal terms with the small but heavily armed Pakistani army.
The argument is as follows: the Indian pilot was shot down by an obsolete MiG-21 fighter, shot down by a Pakistani pilot flying a more modern F-16.
According to the newspaper, if an intensive war begins tomorrow, according to government estimates, India will only be able to supply ammunition to its troops for 10 days. And 68% of military equipment is so old that it is officially considered "vintage".
This problem is exacerbated by another important factor. India's military budget in 2018 was about $ 45 billion. The largest part of these funds was spent on the salaries of 1.2 million military personnel and the payment of military benefits. India could spend only $ 14 billion on armaments. Therefore, the second problem of the Indian army should be considered bloated military states, the maintenance of which is expensive.
The third factor is population growth. The publication writes that, according to the Washington Heritage Foundation, by 2024, India will come out on top in terms of population, overtaking China. This will create problems with employment in a country where the army is almost the main supplier of jobs. The fight against unemployment is one of the points of the program of the head of India, Narendra Modi. In general, all this means that India may have to expand the number of military and equipment of the armed forces, which means that we need new contracts.
Is the USA a great friend for India?
In January 2019, the Raisina Dialogue international forum was held in New Delhi, which was attended by delegations from the United States, Japan, Australia, India, Russia and China, as well as representatives from NATO countries. Washington and its allies in this forum made every effort to get close to the Indian delegation. The contiguity point was quickly found - China. In fact, the United States began to play on the feelings of India, which regards the Middle Kingdom as a threat to its shipping.
Representatives of the Ministry of Defense of India at this forum said that China is trying to dominate the Indian Ocean, and Delhi can not oppose anything to this. NATO representatives have expressed their willingness to help. And at the same time introduce democratic approaches. In a word, a conglomerate of countries emerged in this forum in opposition to China, and India, in fact, became part of it.
For 10 years, India has increased the purchase of weapons from the United States from zero to $ 15 billion, and this is considered a success in Washington. At the same time, the policy of rapprochement between the USA and India has a problem, and its name is Donald Trump.
On March 5, it became known that the US President intends to cancel the preferential treatment for trade with India and Turkey. According to Trump, India has not given Washington guarantees that American companies will receive "equal and reasonable" access to the Indian market. The abolition of these benefits can dramatically affect the export potential of India, for which the US market is the main one: about 15% of all exports go to America.
The factor of Trump's protectionist policy can be safely considered harmful for the desire of the Pentagon and the weapons lobby to get closer to India in order to sell its weapons. Modi has the right to demand the restoration of preferential treatment as a guarantee that he will buy this or that weapon from Washington, and not from Moscow. On the other hand, Trump could force Modi to open up the Indian market in exchange for a lucrative arms contract. So far, apart from the political motive of counteracting the "growing threat of China", countries have no common ground for great friendship.
Who is a true friend?
In order to answer this question, you need to look at the arms contracts of the United States and Russia with India. Moscow and Delhi began to cooperate in the military-technical sphere since the 1960s. According to Rosoboronexport, the Indian army is currently 70% equipped with Soviet or Russian weapons. As of 2019, Rosoboronexport's order book in India was about $ 10 billion. India remains the leader in the import of weapons from Russia.
India is the main importer of Russian weapons. And a lot of contracts are still being negotiated. For example, on the Armata tanks, promising T-50 fighters (PAK-FA). Ka-226T, 48 Mi-17V-5 helicopters and Su-35 fighters.
From this point of view, the United States will not be able to replace Russia as its main partner. This is not to mention the fact that Russian weapons, as a rule, are cheaper than their American counterparts and often exceed their characteristics.
Politically, Trump's attacks on India also do not allow Washington to impose its friendship on New Delhi. Therefore, no matter how the New York Times calls for urgently making friends with India and starting to drive weapons there, and no matter how much they would like it in the Pentagon, this is being hindered by strong Russian-Indian ties that have been forming for decades.


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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Haryana announces compensation plan for trafficking victims
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For the hundreds who are victims of human trafficking, sexual assault, or injured or have lost dear ones in crimes committed every year in the city, and especially those from the weaker sections of society, a new proposal by the state government is likely to be a much-needed breather.
The state has decided to implement a new scheme - 'Haryana Victim Compensation Scheme 2013' - to provide funds for the purpose of compensation to the victims or dependents who have suffered loss or injury as a result of the crime, and who require rehabilitation.
"Under this scheme, compensation ranging from Rs 25,000 to Rs 3 lakh will be paid for loss of life, loss of a limb or part of body, loss or injury causing severe mental agony to women and child victims of human trafficking, kidnapping, molestation and also in case of rape," said a senior official.
A victim will be eligible for the grant of compensation where, a recommendation is made by the court under relevant sections or the offender (accused in a crime) is not traced or identified, but the victim is identified, and where no trial takes place.
However, to be eligible for such compensation, the income of the family should not exceed Rs 4.5 lakh per annum. Also, the crime (on account of which the compensation is to be paid under this scheme) should have been occurred within the jurisdiction of Haryana state.
The District Legal Service Authority will decide the quantum of compensation on the basis of loss caused to the victim, medical expenses to be incurred on treatment, minimum sustenance, amount required for rehabilitation, including such incidental charges like funeral expenses. The compensation may vary from case to case depending on fact of each case.
Compensation received by the victim from the state in relation to the crime in question, namely, insurance, ex-gratia or payment received under any other Act or 'Rajiv Gandhi Pariwar Bima Yojna' or any other state-run scheme, will be considered as part of the compensation amount under this scheme and will be deemed to be compensated under this scheme.
However, the official clarified that cases covered under Motor Vehicle Act, 1988, wherein compensation is to be awarded by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, will not be covered under the scheme.
Under the scheme, a "victim compensation fund" will be set up. "The fund will have a budgetary allocation for which necessary provision will be made in the annual budget (of the state). It would also have the receipt of amount of fines imposed under section 357 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act and ordered to be deposited by the courts in the fund," said the official.
In order to make convicts accountable for crimes committed, the fund will also have amounts of compensation recovered from the wrongdoer or accused and donations and contributions from international, national, philanthropist, charitable institution or organization and individuals.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published its third
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The latest report covers the year to the end of March 2011 and
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CQC chair, Dame Jo Williams, said: "While it will be a further
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choice and control that they have when using services, and the
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The shape of health and social care provision
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It also includes case studies looking at how improvements in
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What: Bayside
When: 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5
Where: Chameleon Club, 223 N. Water St., Lancaster
Cost: $15 to $18
Details: Get tickets by calling 717-299-9684 or visiting www.chameleonclub.net .
Bayside isn't the type of band that frequently changes up its set lists over the course of a tour.
"We love tailoring stuff and working on transitions from song to song, making the whole set flow, like kind of creating the set list with a purpose, singer/guitarist Anthony Raneri explained in a recent phone interview. "Some bands change their set lists every day. We really kind of come up with a set that we love and that's it. We think of it as a show. We're putting on a performance. In a play, they don't change the dialog every day. So we come up with a show we think is engaging, and then that's the show."
That approach fits for a band that hasn't been interested in evolving its sound in any major ways from album to album. Instead, as Raneri explained, the goal with each of the group's six studio albums has been to try to make a better version of itself.
"I think it tells in our records, that we're a band that doesn't get tired of ourselves," he said. "We like our music. We like our style. So I think it shows in our records, we never really stray much from our sound. We know our sound, we love our sound. We just want to get better at it."
In the case of the band's latest album, "Cult," chief songwriter Raneri and the rest of the group (guitarist Jack O'Shea, drummer Chris Guglielmo and bassist Nick Ghanbarian) worked harder than ever trying to write a group of songs that felt like they could live up to the five previous studio albums Bayside has released since forming in 2000 in Queens, New York.
"This one was harder because I hit some walls in the writing of this one," he said. "I was telling my wife like 'It sucks, it sucks, the record sucks. I haven't written anything that's good yet. I'm back to square one. None of these songs are good,' just really driving myself crazy."
This made for a second straight album that was a struggle. Raneri also said the band's 2010 album, "Killing Time," involved a lot of re-writing and rearranging of songs. But the issues that affected the songwriting for the two albums were very different.
"The process of 'Killing Time' was very different because it was done kind of for a major label," Raneri said, noting the group was signed to Wind-Up Records at the time. "So the A&R people at the label were
pretty involved. They weren't involved in like (musical) direction, but they were at least involved with, they were somebody to bounce songs off of. Also, the producer we worked with (Gil Norton – famous for his work with the Pixies) was very involved throughout the whole process. The whole process, I wasn't on an island. There were always people hearing songs at every stage. So I was getting like positive feedback."
That wasn't at all the case as Raneri wrote for "Cult."
"This one, I was on an island," he said. "It was just me sitting there thinking 'Is it good? Is it not good? Is it amazing? Is this the best song I ever wrote or the worst song I ever wrote?' At this point, I had listened to it so many times I don't even know. I think that was probably why it was harder."
In the end, Raneri feels the band emerged with an album in "Cult" that in his words is "really, really good."
The true test for "Cult," of course, will be how fans respond to the album, the band's first for Hopeless Records. But it delivers what fans have come to expect from Bayside – namely an entertaining, well crafted set of rocking songs (such as "Hate Me," "Time Has Come" and "Pigsty") that combine punkish energy with classic pop vocal melodies, hooky guitar parts and some nifty instrumental twists.
Having spent the summer playing the Warped tour, Bayside is now doing a fall headlining tour. Raneri said one thing that defines a Bayside show is its honesty and enthusiasm. Those are logical qualities for a group that is perfectly content with its sound.
"We really do play with so much passion because I think we really do love our band," he said. "We love these songs. We are as into every note of these songs, every word of these songs as the crowd is. There's nothing fake about our live show."
Also of interest
String duo Black Violin to play York's Pullo Center Oct. 18
The Eaken Trio to perform Oct. 5 in Chambersburg's St. Paul U.M. Church


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Steve Knight, maker of some really fine planes was kind enough to show us how it's done.
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Colossians 3 International Children's Bible (ICB)
Your New Life in Christ
3 You were raised from death with Christ. So aim at what is in heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Think only about the things in heaven, not the things on earth. 3 Your old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God. 4 Christ is your[a] life. When he comes again, you will share in his glory.
5 So put all evil things out of your life. Get rid of sexual immorality and impure acts. Don't let your feelings get out of control. Remove from your life all evil desires. Stop always wanting more and more. This really means living to serve a false god. 6 These things make God angry.[b] 7 In your evil life in the past, you also did these things.
8 But now put these things out of your life: anger, bad temper, doing or saying things to hurt others, and using evil words when you talk. 9 Do not lie to each other. You have left your old sinful life and the things you did before. 10 You have begun to live the new life. In your new life you are being made new. You are becoming like the One who made you. This new life brings you the true knowledge of God. 11 In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews. There is no difference between those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people that are foreigners, or Scythians.[c] There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers. And Christ is all that is important.
12 God has chosen you and made you his holy people. He loves you. So always do these things: Show mercy to others; be kind, humble, gentle, and patient. 13 Do not be angry with each other, but forgive each other. If someone does wrong to you, then forgive him. Forgive each other because the Lord forgave you. 14 Do all these things; but most important, love each other. Love is what holds you all together in perfect unity. 15 Let the peace that Christ gives control your thinking. You were all called together in one body[d] to have peace. Always be thankful. 16 Let the teaching of Christ live in you richly. Use all wisdom to teach and strengthen each other. Sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Everything you say and everything you do should all be done for Jesus your Lord. And in all you do, give thanks to God the Father through Jesus.
Your New Life with Other People
18 Wives, be under the authority of your husbands. This is the right thing to do in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and be gentle to them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things. This pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not nag your children. If you are too hard to please, they may want to stop trying.
22 Slaves, obey your masters in all things. Do not obey just when they are watching you, to gain their favor. But serve them honestly, because you respect the Lord. 23 In all the work you are doing, work the best you can. Work as if you were working for the Lord, not for men. 24 Remember that you will receive your reward from the Lord, which he promised to his people. You are serving the Lord Christ. 25 But remember that anyone who does wrong will be punished for that wrong. And the Lord treats everyone the same.
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Families Ask Why Arrest In Serial Shooter Case Took So Long
PHOENIX (AP) — Graciela Beltran broke down in tears in her west Phoenix living room as she recounted the life and death of her son, one of the victims in a serial shooting case for which police say a 23-year-old man is responsible.
A few feet from a large portrait of 31-year-old Horacio de Jesus Pena, turned backward because it's still too hard for her to look at, Beltran recounted the day her son was gunned down outside of their home after leaving work.
Police on Monday said 23-year-old Aaron Juan Saucedo is responsible for Pena's killing on June 3, 2016, and that of eight others in a total of 12 shootings. Saucedo said in court he was innocent.
"It was about time," Beltran said. "It's like a feeling of impotence, them saying they have him, but my son is not coming back."
Beltran said Pena was friendly with everyone and a devoted son who liked to run, work out and read the Bible.
"We never think our children are gonna go before us, and especially not such a good son," Beltran said in Spanish.
Police say Saucedo had no connection to Pena or most of the other victims. They say he only knew the first person killed in a string of nighttime drive-by-shootings that began in August 2015 and ended July 2016, terrorizing the mostly Latino neighborhood in west Phoenix known as Maryvale.
Police say they don't know what motivated Saucedo, who faces multiple charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault.
Victims' family members said they were still reeling from the brazenness and randomness of the attacks and because police couldn't make an arrest sooner.
The mother of a young man who was the second person killed wished police could have connected her son's death to the case earlier, potentially taking Saucedo off the streets before more killings were committed. His case was only recently added to the serial killings investigation.
"If they would have looked more into it, looked closer to home, it would have prevented a lot of other deaths," said Lydia Lopez, whose son Jesse Olivas died on New Year's Day 2016 in the neighborhood.
Lopez said she always had a gut feeling that her son was part of the serial street shooter case but that police didn't seem to believe her.
The hunt for the killer yielded more than 30,000 tips, and authorities said it was tipsters who provided the break in the case. They would not elaborate, and details of the evidence assembled against Saucedo were sealed by a judge at prosecutors' request.
Beltran still remembers hearing the gunshots. Her daughter, who was also home, didn't let her go outside and see that Pena had been killed.
Beltran said that although it took a long time for an arrest in her son's death, she feels police did a good job investigating.
"There are cases that go on for years and don't end in justice," Beltran said. "We thought they had forgotten about us."
Saucedo declared "I'm innocent" during a brief court appearance late Monday night after his arrest on suspicion of being the killer dubbed the Serial Street Shooter. A judge ordered him held without bail.
Because of the shootings last summer, some residents stayed inside after dark. Others were afraid to come forward because many are immigrants in the U.S. illegally or don't have their paperwork in order.
In interviews with families of victims and residents, people said they were happy that police made an arrest but questioned whether it would have happened sooner had the killings occurred in a different neighborhood.
"They didn't look for him at all. They didn't care. You know why? Because there were no white people dying," resident Sirwendell Flowers said. "Look at the faces on the news. The police didn't care."
Witnesses described the shooter as a young, lanky Hispanic man who drove a BMW, helping authorities develop a sketch that bears a striking resemblance to Saucedo.
Police said Saucedo stopped driving the BMW and changed his appearance after the final shooting.
A call left Tuesday for Dean Roskosz, Saucedo's court-appointed lawyer, wasn't immediately returned.
Two weeks after the first killing, authorities seized the weapon used in that crime from a Phoenix pawn shop. At the time, investigators were looking into a separate string of shootings that targeted drivers on Phoenix-area freeways.
Detectives with the Arizona Department of Public Safety didn't conduct ballistics tests on the gun and returned it to the pawn shop five days later once they ruled out the weapon in the freeway shootings.
Phoenix police refused to comment on whether the evidence could have led them to Saucedo.
Saucedo was a bus driver for the city of Phoenix for several months in 2015, police said.
Police previously said they would pay out a $75,000 reward offered for information that could help solve the case but declined to say how many people would get the money.
The break in the case came when Saucedo was arrested last month in connection with the August 2015 fatal shooting of 61-year-old Raul Romero, who had a relationship with Saucedo's mother. Authorities investigated Saucedo more closely and connected him to the other killings.
Holly Cortes, who lives a few doors down from the house where one victim was fatally shot, said she was relieved police made an arrest. She said her husband and his friends began hanging out in the backyard instead of the front after the shootings.
"I'm glad they finally got — hopefully — the person that's responsible," Cortes said.
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Surily Goel, Cecilia Morelli Parikh and Kajal Fabiani on Cool Wedding Style
In case you missed it, Surily Goel, Kajal Fabiani and Cecilia Morelli Parikh teamed up to host Memorable Matches – a trunk show dedicated to delivering a new perspective on wedding wear. We picked their brains for notes on some unconventional (wardrobe) matches, and asked them to share their top three styling tips.
Kajal Fabiani, founder of Kaj Fine Jewellery
Always have a maang-tikka in your jewellery kit. It goes with a lehenga or a long dress even, and it works to amp up your outfit and make it more festive.
Diamond chandelier earrings are fairly universal, in that they team well with western wear – cocktail gowns for instance – and Indian wear too.
Don't be afraid to work with some sporty sequinned jackets or androgynous coats. It's unusual but that's exactly why it will work at a mehendi or sangeet.
Surily Goel, designer of Surily G
Style over embellishment. So make one piece of the garment the focus, and work everything else around it.
Mix and match. Let's try and be a bit unconventional and layer the pieces. Can definitely loose the dupatta and replace it with a blazer or a waistcoat.
Accessories are most important, as they seal the look. A statement maang tikka or a palm cuff or a hand chain with a quirky bag or shoes will just be perfect.
Cecilia Morelli Parikh, co-founder of Le Mill
Wear a silk shirt under a soft sari for a slightly vintage look.
Also, big earrings with chokers and no bracelets are a super modern way of wearing traditional jewellery.
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Newswise — TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 24, 2014 – ProMedica has invested in an early stage medical device company that is developing and commercializing innovative and cost-effective devices for treating common vascular diseases such as peripheral artery disease (PAD). Jobst Vascular Surgeon John Pigott, MD, founded the Sylvania-based company, VentureMed Group (VMG), and its first invention is already being used in clinical trials underway in Europe. More than 12 million Americans over 65 years of age have PAD, a narrowing of the peripheral arteries caused by atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). PAD most commonly affects arteries of the pelvis and legs and can lead to a heart attack, stroke or limb amputation. Dr. Pigott created the FLEX Scoring Catheter™ for patients with PAD who have severely blocked arteries that cannot be effectively treated with traditional balloon procedures. A dozen patients have been enrolled in the first human clinical trials for the FLEX device in Poland. With approval by the Food and Drug Administration, it may be available next year in the United States. Dr. Pigott has spent several years refining the FLEX device and believes it could further revolutionize vascular surgery. "We are extremely pleased with the initial results we are seeing with patients in the clinical trial," said Dr. Pigott. "These are patients with very difficult blockages that would not respond well to existing treatments." How the FLEX catheter worksThe catheter is inserted and threaded through the patient's artery to a point just below the blockage. The surgeon pulls a lever that exposes tiny blades that are mounted at the tip of the catheter. As the catheter is removed, the blades cut through and weaken the plaque. Next, the balloon is inflated to clear out the artery so blood is able to flow freely. Another benefit of the FLEX device is that it is designed to fit any patient artery. This will help reduce costs for hospitals that currently stock multiple devices of various lengths and diameters to fit each individual patient. More about VMGVMG is the first start-up company to participate in a new Medical Technology Business Incubator created by ProMedica Innovations. The incubator is located within the ProMedica Wildwood Medical Center campus. ProMedica Innovations was established in 2012 to help identify and commercialize medical devices and inventions to enhance patient care. The incubator will provide new and emerging life science technology businesses with the environment and support services that will increase the likelihood of commercial success. "We help our innovators and emerging companies gain access to mentors, obtain training, provide shared space, professional assistance, capital and other services that will move them onto the fast track to success," said Lee Hammerling, MD, chief physician executive and chief medical officer at ProMedica. "By fulfilling our mission, we contribute to job creation and the enhanced economic health in the region."
Technology business incubators accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies by providing an array of business support resources and services. Incubators help commercialize technology, create jobs and strengthen local economies. "We are very fortunate to have ProMedica's interest and support in bringing early stage innovations to northwest Ohio to enhance the quality of care for patients," said Dr. Pigott.
For more information about ProMedica Innovations, visit http://www.promedica.org/innovations. Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica is a mission-based, not-for-profit healthcare organization formed in 1986. ProMedica has more than 15,000 employees and nearly 1,900 physicians with more than 600 healthcare providers employed by ProMedica Physicians. Its 12 hospitals and more than 300 facilities offer comprehensive diagnostic, medical and surgical specialties in heart and vascular, oncology, orthopaedics, neurology, and women and pediatric services. ProMedica's mission is to improve health and well-being, with a strong focus on wellness and clinical excellence, as well as innovative, community advocacy programs that address health-related issues such as hunger and obesity. For more information, please visit www.promedica.org.
VentureMed Group™ (VMG) is a clinical stage medical device company that develops and markets innovative medical devices which enable interventionalists to cost effectively treat peripheral artery diseases and improve the lives of their patients. VMG was founded in 2012 and is based in Sylvania, Ohio. For more information, please visit www.venturemedgroup.com.###


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A tropical evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves, schefflera (Schefflera spp.) is a fast-growing plant most often grown indoors. However, in warm climates, schefflera grows outdoors, where it reaches a height of up to 40 feet. Although hardiness varies depending on the species, most grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9b through 11. Schefflera is relatively easy to grow, but the plant is sometimes affected by a variety of common pests. When applying any type of insecticidal product, always read the product label for warnings on toxicity and keep children and pets away from the treated area. Wear protective clothing when mixing and applying, if necessary.
Mites, a common enemy of ornamental plants, are not true insects but tiny arachnids related to ticks and spiders. The tiny pests live in colonies, often on the underside of leaves. If the pests are too tiny to see with the naked eye, you can usually recognize the fine, silky webbing and tiny dots, or stippling that they leave on leaves. In small numbers, the pests aren't usually problematic. However, in large numbers, the pests cause leaves to turn bronze or yellow before they drop from the plant. Don't spray mites with pesticides because the sprays kill many beneficial insects that prey on mites. Insecticidal soaps or horticultural oils are less harmful options.
Sucking Insects
Insects that suck the juices from the leaves of a schefflera plant include aphids, thrips and scale. Insecticidal soap sprays are effective, relatively safe treatments. You can make your own insecticidal soap spray by mixing 1 tablespoon of liquid dish detergent in 1 quart of water. However, homemade solutions are sometimes harsh and may damage the plant. Commercial soap sprays are readily available in both pre-mixed and concentrated form. If you choose a concentrated product, mix the soap at a rate of 1 to 4 teaspoons per quart of water, depending on the severity of the infestation. Spray both sides of the leaves. Repeat every four to seven days, if needed.
One of the most common enemies of ornamental plants, mealybugs are easy to spot by the protective cottony, mealy masses on the joints and undersides of leaves. Light infestations are relatively easy to remove by dabbing the pests with a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol. Repeat as needed until the pests are eradicated. Spray the pests with insecticidal soap if the infestation is heavy. In some cases, the best treatment is to prune and discard affected branches.
Caterpillars sometimes affect schefflera plants grown outdoors. Because of their size, the pests are easy to spot. If the numbers aren't great, you can pick the pests off by hand. If you notice egg masses on the plant's trunk, remove them by scraping the masses into a container of soapy water. If the infestation is heavy, you can spray the pests with a product containing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). When caterpillars eat the natural bacteria, they usually die within two to three days.


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U of I College of Medicine at Rockford Welcomes M-1 Students
Last year, CFNIL made a $188,622 grant to the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford Residency Program for its project: "Growing the Next Generation of Healthcare Professionals."
The College of Medicine installed labs and learning spaces at its Rockford campus, including an anatomy lab and virtual dissection table. The expansion helped the College of Medicine accommodate 55 additional medical students who would have traditionally spent their first year at the Urbana campus but instead will stay in Rockford for all four years of medical school. (You can read an op-ed by College of Medicine Regional Dean, Dr. Alex Stagnaro-Green, here.)
On Monday, we will welcome 56 first-year students to campus who will receive all four years of their training in Rockford. This will allow them to become more involved with the community, pursue long-term research projects and create life-long ties with the College of Medicine Rockford. The coming of these M1 students will also add $2.2 million in annual economic impact to Rockford. Add to that a record-breaking class of 65 M2 students arriving the same day, and that impact is even greater.
The grant was the single largest grant ever made through CFNIL's Community Grants Program. At the end of this month, CFNIL will open the application for Community Grants. All applications must be submitted by October 2. You can learn more here.
To learn more, attend our Grantseekers Meeting on August 24. You can RSVP on our Events page.


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Moscow Anarchist Black Cross Repressions Review, April-June 2014 (Russia)
Monday, July 14th, 2014
We continue our regular summaries on repressions of anarchists, antifascists, and social activists in Russia, on obstacles which police state creates for our activity.
In April-May issue: arrests of "terrorists" in Crimea, new detentions regarding "Bolotnoya Case", letters from political prisoners, police attack of a gig, and other. If you think, we have missed something in our article, or you know about other incidents of repression, please write to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Arrest of Aleksandr Kolchenko in Crimea
Alexander "Tundra" Kolchenko, our anarchist and anti-fascist comrade, was arrested by Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) in Simferopol in the middle of May. During that time a local famous film director Oleg Sentsov, social activist Gennady Afanasyev and Alexey Chirny were also arrested. (more…)
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ABC-Moscow: Repressions summary for March-April 2014 (Russia)
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
We continue to publish news about repressions against anarchists, antifascists and social activists and about the obstacles we face from the side of police state. In February, March and April issue you can read about Maidan ghost, letters from the prisons and senseless trials. If you recognize that we've missed anything or you are informed about other cases of repressions, let us know by writing to address abc-msk <> riseup.net.
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Arrest of the Belorussian activist
Dmitry Rezanovich was detained at the Russian-Ukrainian border with the passport to the name of his sibling in the middle of March. He didn't have any papers that could prove his identity. After detaining the anarchist clarified that he went from Ukraine to Kursk region to visit his relatives.
He has been sentenced to administrative deportation out of the Russian Federation according to the violation of the regime of residence. We hope that there won't be the initiation of criminal proceeding. Russian authorities claimed earlier he was suspected in participation in EuroMaidan and preparing a terrorist attack against the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. Solidarity actions took place in Kyiv, Moscow and Lviv. (more…)
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Composed by William Gilbert
Libretto by Arthur Sullivan
Premiered at the Savoy Theatre, London on March 14, 1885
July 8, 9, 15, and 16 [8pm]
Presented in English with projected English supertitles.
UAO's production of The Mikado is being updated and will be set in a 1920/30's style gentlemen's club. No actor will appear in yellowface for this production.
Not pictured:
Jackson Mitchell*+ – Ensemble
Directed by Eric Gibson
Conducted by Scott Schoonover
Act I
1920's cocktail hour in an English gentleman's club
A group of English nobles revel in their characteristic staunchly traditional and arrogant behaviors. Nanki-Poo, still masquerading as a musician, returns to Titipu eagerly seeking Yum-Yum, as he has heard that Ko-Ko was condemned to death for conspicuous and flagrant flirting that is counter to society's established norms. He introduces himself, and, to his dismay, he learns from Pish-Tush that although Ko-Ko was indeed to have been executed, he was reprieved at the last moment and appointed to the post of Lord High Executioner instead. As the 'criminals' must be executed in order, and Ko-Ko was next to be executed, no one else can be executed until Ko-Ko executes himself.
For a small fee, Pooh-Bah, representing a ponderous aggregation of conflicts of interest, reveals that Yum-Yum is on her way home from school and will be wed to Ko-Ko this very afternoon.
The nobles herald the appearance of Ko-Ko, and Ko-Ko appears to explain how he became the Lord High Executioner. He is full of ideas for his first official victim. He discusses with Pooh-Bah the plans for his forthcoming marriage.
A procession of school girls arrives, followed by Yum-Yum and her sisters, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo. Yum-Yum greets her betrothed, decidedly less enthusiastically than she does Nanki-Poo. Ko-Ko introduces Pooh-Bah, who reluctantly greets the girls. They respond teasingly. Taking advantage of a few minutes alone with Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo declares his love and shares with her the secret of his true identity. Because of the excessive 'moral' laws against flirting, Yum- Yum urges him to stay away from her. Nanki-Poo devises a plan to flirt by considering what they could do if it weren't for such an unfair law that condemns their unconventional relationship.
Meanwhile, Ko-Ko has received a letter from the Mikado, who is concerned that there have been no recent executions in Titipu and threatens severe repercussions if one does not take place within a month, including reducing the town to the rank of a village. Although, as Pooh-Bah points out, Ko-Ko is next in line for that honor, Ko-Ko understandably would prefer to find a substitute. Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, and Pish-Tush debate who should be offered up for execution to satisfy the Mikado and his traditionally-bound constituents.
He comes across Nanki-Poo, who is preparing to terminate his existence rather than face life without Yum-Yum, and the two men strike an unconventional bargain: Ko-Ko agrees to let Nanki-Poo marry Yum-Yum now, and, in return, Nanki-Poo agrees to let Ko-Ko execute him at the end of the month and marry his widowed lover.
The townspeople demand to know how Ko-Ko will comply with the Mikado's decree. Ko-Ko introduces Nanki-Poo as his volunteer, and Nanki-Poo embraces Yum-Yum. All rejoice over this creative resolution, but the festivities are rudely interrupted by the appearance of Katisha. All cower except Pitti-Sing, who taunts Katisha. Katisha grieves her lost love. Furious at Nanki-Poo's rejection, she attempts to reveal his true identity. She is silenced by the crowd, but vows revenge.
Act II
Yum-Yum's sisters and sympathetic friends are helping her to get ready for her wedding. She concludes that she is more lovely than any other woman because she is a child of nature and takes after her mother.
Yum-Yum and her sisters are very sad at the thought of the very brief marriage, and Nanki-Poo enters and tries to lift their spirits. The wedding plans are disrupted upon Ko-Ko's discovery that, under the Mikado's law, when a married man is executed, his wife must be buried alive next to him. Yum-Yum's enthusiasm for the marriage is suddenly diminished.
To spare Yum-Yum this grim fate, Nanki-Poo decides to kill himself at once. This, however, would leave Ko-Ko without anyone to execute. Just as word arrives that the Mikado is at this very minute approaching Titipu, Nanki-Poo offers himself for immediate execution, but Ko-Ko is not able to take such a drastic action. Ko-Ko realizes that he can accomplish the same purpose by swearing a false affidavit that he has done the deed, provided that Nanki-Poo leaves at once and never return. Since Nanki-Poo will not leave otherwise, Ko-Ko sends Yum-Yum with him, and the happy couple goes off to be married just as the Mikado enters the town.
As the Mikado enters, he describes how he, in a paternal and protective way in the interest of society as a whole, governs everyone, including each special interest group and disagreeing faction. Then he describes how he wants to make the punishment meet the crime.
The Mikado is delighted to hear that an execution has taken place, and is eager to hear the details. Ko-Ko, assisted by Pitti-Sing and Pooh-Bah, recounts a highly creative description of the execution.
The Mikado's visit, however, concerns another matter. At Katisha's prompting, he is seeking the whereabouts of his son. Unfortunately, this turns out to be Nanki-Poo, the man Ko-Ko has just testified that he executed. Ko-Ko and his accomplices are declared guilty of "compassing the death of the Heir Apparent" and they are scheduled to be executed "with boiling oil or melted lead."
The Mikado declares that he is sorry for them, but it is an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. Their only hope is to admit the falsehood of the affidavit and of their testimony, and produce Nanki-Poo alive and well. Nanki-Poo, however, having already married Yum-Yum, is no longer free to marry Katisha, and therefore, he cannot reveal himself without risking both the secret of his own life and his new wife's life. Ko-Ko is left with no other choice but to woo, win, and wed Katisha herself.
Katisha is very upset over the loss of Nanki-Poo. Katisha at first refuses Ko-Ko, but he then sings a touching ballad to her, and she accepts him. Nanki-Poo then returns to life and presents himself with his new bride to his traditional father. Ko-Ko devises a creative explanation of his subterfuge that satisfies the Mikado, who commutes his death sentence to one of life with Katisha. All ends with laughing song and merry dance.
Adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
A note from the director, Eric Gibson:
What relevance has a piece like The Mikado in 2016's cultural landscape?


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Current Workshops and Retreats | Associate Teachers to Contact | Meditation Groups | Further Information | Contact John Makransky
Deepening Into the Heart of the Bodhisattva Path
Meditations of Natural Awareness and Compassionate Communion
John Makransky, PhD
Guiding Meditation Teacher, Foundation for Active Compassion
Associate Professor Buddhism & Comparative Theology, Boston College
In these workshops and retreats, guided meditations are adapted from the natural ease tradition of Tibet (dzogchen) to help participants deepen their experience of liberating wisdom and loving compassion—the essence of the spirit of enlightenment (bodhicitta). To receive and extend loving compassion helps the mind relax into its most natural state—the liberating wisdom of simplicity, openness, and presence beyond self-clinging. By resting in its natural state, the mind can further unleash its innate capacity of loving compassion. As this synergy of love and wisdom unfolds, we become more fully present to others—communing with them in the depth of their being instead of reacting to them from habitual judgments. When this unity of love and wisdom is embodied in our daily lives, through our relationships, service and action, it becomes the most powerful force to heal our world and to remake it into a place of mutual reverence, care and joy. The ancient bodhisattva path of enlightenment comes newly alive in the particulars of our lives. In this way, we learn to bless the world as bodhisattvas before us have done.
Included are teachings and guided meditations for deepening the wisdom in the nature of mind that cuts through karmic obscurations, uncovering the spirit of enlightenment in its absolute and relative aspects, taking the six perfections into the particulars of ordinary life, exploring how practices of offering, purification, and communion reveal connections between reverence, liberating wisdom and compassion.
Selected Readings: Awakening through Love by John Makransky, Medicine and Compassion by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Gates to Buddhist Practice by Chagdud Tulku, Openness Mind by Tarthang Tulku, Present Fresh Wakefulness by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Spirit of Tibet by Dilgo Khyense Rinpoche, Natural Great Perfection by Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche and Lama Surya Das, Dzogchen Primer ed. by Schmidt and Kunsang.


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