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2200+ Attendees. 500+ LPs. 400+ Speakers. Countless Opportunities.
Share insights. Create contacts. Do deals.
The world's largest private equity and venture capital event.
Editor's pick of the key conversations that took place in Berlin
Live from SuperReturn International: NARCOS
Javier Pena and Steve Murphy, Former DEA Special Agents & Inspiration for the Hit Netflix Original Series NARCOS
Data breaches are going to increase, what are you going to do about it?
As a former ethical hacker with two decades of experience in the Information Security industry, Jason Hart helps organisations stay one step ahead of advances in cyber threats.
State of the union: The new world order
Dealing with a new reality: how will volatility in the global geopolitical & economic environment affect alternative investment strategies going forward?
The world's largest private equity and venture capital event
Learn from the best
SuperReturn International has more speakers who are PE Founders, CEOs, Chairmen and Global Heads than any other private equity conference in the world.
Create new contacts
Meet the key figures in private equity in one place at one time.
2200+ senior decision-makers will be flying in from 50+ countries.
You won't get another chance like this in 2017.
See the bigger picture
Fresh perspectives from outside the private equity industry on key issues affecting our world today. And how they'll impact private equity and your business.
Economists, ethical hackers, tech experts, academics, motivational speakers and law enforcement agents will give a breadth of insights you won't find anywhere else.
Economic and geo-political outlook
In 2017, speakers discussed the spectre of rising nationalism and protectionism around the world and its impact on global trade.
Key issues such as the fallout from the US elections, Brexit, China's falling domestic equity markets and challenges to the Eurozone and the German economy all took turns in the spotlight.
Innovation, disruption and tech expertise
At the 2017 event, speakers debated which industries and technologies were best placed for disruption, asked how the private equity and venture capital industry should take advantage, and discussed where the next innovative investment strategies would focus.
Specialist focus. Specialist knowledge.
In 2017, 5 Summits covered these key topics:
- German Private Equity Summit
- Private Debt Summit
- Energy and Renewables Summit
- Integrating ESG Into Private Equity Summit
- CFO/COO Summit
Plus see details of the SuperVenture event which ran at the same time.
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SuperReturn stands out in the annual calendar. No other private equity gathering matches it for the breadth and depth of topics discussed or the calibre and seniority of its participants. It's not an event to miss.
Steve Koltes
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CVC Capital Partners
It's the New York of conferences. It's the biggest, it's the best and it's the one you want to make it at.
Kevin Albert
It's always interesting how over the course of the year, people refer to conversations they had or comments they heard while at the SuperReturn. It has become the gathering place for private equity.
Mario Giannini
Hamilton Lane
Pantheon has been involved with SuperReturn International since it started and our team now builds an entire calendar of events around Berlin in February as we know that is where all our key GPs and clients will be; such is the draw of the conference. I think it is the premier conference on the private equity circuit and one of the most productive and information-efficient weeks of my year.
Helen Steers
Pantheon and incoming Chair of the BVCA
SuperReturn is one of the very few must-attend events in Europe. It is an excellent opportunity to meet with leading GPs, LPs and service providers alike, and to get a thorough update on the state of play of the private equity industry. The program is always spot-on and really captures the latest market developments well.
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I love autumn! It is definitely my favourite time of the year and every week I get so excited to go to the farmers' markets just to see what is new and fresh. This past week persimmons came out to play and I just couldn't resist their sweet fragrance and orange flesh. It so happens that hazelnuts are also at their best so of course I had to combine the two autumn favourites.
Not only are these brownies packed with season's best flavours, they are also vegan, gluten-free and very low in sugar. What could be better than that? I hope you are all enjoying this Easter long weekend and making the most of a few extra days spent with family and friends!
Persimmon and Hazelnut Brownies
(makes 10-12 brownies)
1 large apple, peeled and finely grated (or about 125 ml unsweetened apple sauce)
2 ripe persimmons
1 ripe banana
1 heaped tablespoon rice syrup
1/2 teaspoon pure, ground vanilla beans
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
200g teff flour
25g unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
tiny pinch of good quality salt
85g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
1. Preheat oven to 180C and lightly grease a 20cm x 20cm baking dish.
2. In a blender, combine grated apple, peeled persimmons, banana, rice syrup, vanilla and cinnamon and puree until smooth.
3. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
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Amy Van Dyken-Rouen Takes First Steps Since Paralyzing Accident
Amy Van Dyken-Rouen won six Olympic gold medals and is a former world record holding swimmer. The 41-year-old was also in an ATV accident on June 6, 2014 that changed her life forever. The freak incident left her paralyzed from the waist down after severing her spinal cord. But Van Dyken-Rouen has made a remarkable recovery over the last two-and-a-half months. She was transported from Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center (near where the accident occurred in Show Low, Ariz.) on June 18 to Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo. (incidentally, near Van Dyken-Rouen's hometown of Denver). Craig is also one of five trial facilities for the Indego, an exoskeleton that, according to its website, is "a powered lower limb orthosis enabling people with mobility impairments to walk and participate in over-ground gait training."
Van Dyken-Rouen took to Instagram Thursday to post the first videos of her wearing the Indego and taking her first steps with the assistance of medical technology. Truly amazing.
Her long-term prognosis is unknown. In the meantime, Van Dyken-Rouen will continue her rehabilitation.
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Every two or three years I re-read James M. Scott's little book The Man Who Made Wine. I confess that it's not really the little book I read; it's part of that fabulous great big book by Clifton Fadiman and Sam Aaron, The New Joys of Wine, published in 1990 as an update to their earlier wonderful book of 1975. So I learned of Scott's book through their publication, and I do not know when Scott wrote his piece, guessing it to be around 1911, but I do know it's been re-released several times most recently in 1996. I re-read it faithfully, because even though it's fiction, it's one of the most realistic and tear-jerking descriptions out there about a man whose life has been dedicated to producing wine. My re-reading this week was precipitated by my look at the harvesters in California a couple of weeks ago.
Scott's story is about Michel Rachelet, master wine-maker at Chateau La Tour-St-Vincent for some 53 years. As described in thre story, Michel could be Raoul Blondel (Chateau Mouton-Rothschild), Guy Latrille (Chateau Y'Quem) or Leonhard Humbrecht (Domaine Zind-Humbrecht), or several other wine masters I have known over the years.
In the story, Michel is left alone at the end of a long trestle table where the remains of a dinner in his honor has just ended, and the young folks have scurried off to the dance floor, the older folks to their beds, and the Marquis to his chateau. The wine master is left to his thoughts and the empty bottles. The dinner had recognized his retirement on the eve of "this year's" harvest.
Michel, by candlelight, moves from bottle to bottle, sniffing, occasionally tasting, but always remembering each harvest with sentiment and hard reality, the good, the great, the poor, the insignificant, Scott's language and description representing some of the finest verbage ever on the processes that go into produicing fine wine — or even wine less than fine.
Even after dozens of readings, my eyes tear when I see the words telling about his day in the fermentation room, his evening with his beloved Madeleine "tossing and muttering under the blankets with a high fever." He spent the next few nights at her bed side, the days with the wines, often confusing the "fever which was threatening her life with that of the grapes which were in a hurry to be born as a wine."
He relates the 1943 vintage with the War and the 1945 with the Peace and others of his some 50-plus vintages with personal and professional insights and experiences . We read his prayer to save the vines from a hail storm and struggling to find the words till he finally came up with "Lord, I will drink Your health in the wine You have saved."
I wish I could tell you where to obtain the original, but I encourage you to check the Internet for descriptions of The Man Who Made Wine," by J. M. Scott. Reading his story will offer tremendous insight into the lives of those who bring us so much happiness.


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Strikeforce heavyweight Grand Prix winner, Daniel Cormier's MMA record goes unblemished as he fought his way to another W in his UFC debut defeating former UFC champ Frank Mir two weeks ago.
Daniel Cormier has defeated one of the most dangerous Heavyweights in the UFC but still the question remains will we see former Olympian make the drop to 205lbs? In an interview with Damon Martin of Bleacher Report the undefeated heavyweight Cormier talks about the weight cut to light heavy. Cormier says
"I always thought if I were to go down, I would need a lot of time to do it. I think that still applies, but I would like to still fight. At the end of the day I can't cut massive amounts of weight. That's well-documented from my problems in the Olympic games. But I can diet, and when I'm dieting I can still fight. Can I fight at 205? No. Because it's too much weight to cut in a short period of time. But could I fight a heavyweight fight and just be a little lighter? I think so."
The UFC President Dana White has mentioned a match up between Ultimate Fighter winner and heavy hitter Roy Big Country Nelson. Cormier states he doesn't care who as long as it make sense. Cormier states…
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"I think any fight that involves someone on that higher rank makes sense. Any of the higher-ranked guys make sense. Also a guy that's coming off a win. It's very important if you look at the UFC matchmaking that's how it goes. Two guys coming off wins make fights. I think any fight with a guy that's ranked high and advances my career makes sense. I just want to fight big fights."


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I'd like to both agree (on one view) and take issue with Susan Stamper-Brown's Guest Commentary of Aug. 3 ("The Futility of Gun Control"). I find several of her views to be very closed-minded and illogical, as I do those of many people who advocate no attempt at sensible gun control.
First of all, we do have gun controls right now. They just haven't prevented mass-murders such as Columbine, Virginia Tech and Aurora. In my mind, that means that a rational and sensible public should look at what we might do to address that deficiency.
Second, before we go any further, let me state the following:
• I am not a gun control "activist." I'm just a citizen interested in making our world a better and more safe place in which to live.
• My view of the Second Amendment is that it was wise and correct for its time, and still is (with modification in implementation for the changes in weaponry over the years). When it was written, the most deadly weapon an individual could carry could be shot roughly three times in a minute by a marksman expert at re-loading. It was also a time in which military states imposed their will over "rebel" colonies by military might. In those days, that was much more of a concern in the USA than the actions of a lone individual of questionable mental stability. Our Founding Fathers wisely divided our military into multiple branches to reduce the potential for military oppression. They did not take into account the multiple-round weaponry available to individuals today.
• It is illogical, if you think about it, to reject any reconsideration of "weapon control" at the same time as our government steadfastly is pursuing a goal of preventing nuclear weapons capabilities in other countries. It's a matter of scale (i.e. how many people can be killed with this weapon?). So, as guns and other individually operated weapons increase in their potential to kill, we ought to think about who should be allowed to possess them.
Back to the Second Amendment: Grenades, IEDs, chemical weapons, etc., were not addressed, but certainly could be used by citizens as a defense against an overbearing government or a potential home invasion. Yet, those devices are not allowed to be possessed by ordinary citizens. So, what's the difference? It's probably the combination of what was explicitly inked in the Second Amendment (the weapons of that time), and the financial clout of the NRA.
My view is that "gun control" should involve increased scrutiny and background checks as a weapon's potential to kill increases. For example, if you want to buy a rapid-fire, large ammunition volume "assault rifle" or large clip handgun, you need to "pass" a higher level of scrutiny than if you want to buy a non-concealable, single-shot rifle used to hunt.
If you are undergoing mental counseling for violent tendencies, for example, you are not permitted to buy an AK 7. And, some weapons may be restricted to that "well-regulated militia" (National Guard?) and simply not be allowed to be sold over-the-counter. Sorry, gun dealers, but it isn't just about your profits. It's about safer schools, malls and movie theaters for all of us.
My one area of agreement with Stamper-Brown is that it is people behind the trigger that we need to be most concerned about. But, I'm also concerned about the people who gain financially from guns sales and who really don't care about balancing their financial gain with societal safety interests. One broad statistic that Stamper-Brown did not mention is that gun-based homicide rates in Europe (where guns are much less available) are roughly 1/4 or less than in the USA and that the average of 35 other higher/middle-income countries is 1/8 that of the USA. Availability is not the only factor, to be sure, but it's impossible to deny the correlation.
I reject the premise that gun control is futile just because what we have right now has not prevented multiple tragic incidents. I don't suffer from the illusion that all mass-murders can be prevented, but I am willing to consider what we might do, as a society, to make destructive weapons less likely to end up in the wrong hands.
I believe that this issue is worth continued examination and that we, as a society, can do better than live with the status quo and intransigent (and/or profit-motivated) gun rights views.
• Bob Beane is an economics graduate of the College of Wooster and an MBA accounting graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also a bicycling advocate and has been a resident of Ahwatukee since 1992.


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Once again, the focus of attention in the Dorchester and Bridport area has been on buses. For the inhabitants of Martinstown and Winterbourne Steepleton, the issue has been the re-routing of the no. 31 bus so that (other than in the early morning and late afternoons) it will no longer run through these two villages. Despite a huge wave of concern and considerable efforts made by councillors, we have not so far been able either to get any kind of delay in the implementation of the changes or funding for a reduced service.
At present, if nothing changes, people needing public transport into Dorchester or Bridport from these villages will have to rely on a dial-a-ride service – and even this has not yet been finalised.
A further public meeting is planned for early June, I understand, and discussions are continuing but I really do think that these villages, which lie only just off the A35, should be able to support a proper bus service.
Of equal concern is the no 47 bus, which runs from Bridport to Yeovil, and which was put in question earlier this year but then was given a new lease of life until the end of the school year.
There are really two, related but different, problems here. The most acute is the need for the considerable number of students who travel from the Bridport area to Yeovil College to have a means of transport. As I have mentioned in a previous column, this is a vital lifeline, as there are many students who simply couldn't get to college without the bus.
I have been in touch with the County Council about this on several occasions over the past few months, and I am reasonably optimistic that a solution will be found in conjunction with Yeovil College and Somerset County Council – so we need to remain vigilant about this.
More worrying, is the situation for people that need to travel during the day from Bridport to Yeovil. This is where our attention now needs to be focused.


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Streep is slammed by Thatcher's former allies, who are disappointed because the Baroness was not mentioned when the 'Iron Lady' actress received her Best Actress gong at the 2012 Academy Awards.
Meryl Streep is facing criticisms after claiming the Best Actress title at the 84th Annual Academy Awards for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady". The 62-year-old actress was blasted by Thatcher's former aide for failing to credit the former British Prime Minister on her acceptance speech.
Lord Norman Tebbit, a close political ally who was in Baroness Thatcher's Cabinet, told The Sun, "I'm not at all surprised she didn't mention her [Thatcher]." He added, "The film was about Meryl Streep, not Lady Thatcher. If Margaret Thatcher had been like the woman portrayed by Meryl Streep, she wouldn't have lasted six months as Prime Minister."
Tebbit was not the only one left disappointed over Thatcher's omission on Streep's winning speech. Thatcher's former press spokesperson, Sir Bernard Ingham, was also unhappy with it. Ingham admitted that he refused to see "Iron Lady" since it focuses on Thatcher's battle with dementia. "I don't propose to see somebody making money out of somebody's age," he claimed. "I think it demonstrates poor taste."
Streep won her third Oscar for her acclaimed role in "Iron Lady". Upon receiving her golden statuette, the veteran actress managed to thank her husband Don, her Hollywood pals and make-up artist Roy Helland. "I just want to thank Roy but also I want to thank, because I really understand I'll never be up here again, I really want to thank all my colleagues, all my friends," she said.
"I look out here and I see my life before my eyes, my old friends, my new friends and really this is such a great honor but the thing that counts the most with me is the friendships and the love and the sheer joy we have shared making movies together," so Streep added. "My friends, thank you, all of you, departed and here for this inexplicably wonderful career. Thank you so much. Thank you."


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Overrun one week, outplayed the next. From 2-0 after two rounds, the Melbourne Vixens are now 2-2, a 49-44 loss to the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic representing their second home-court stumble in eight days.
The Magic - returning to Hisense Arena, the scene of their 2012 grand final victory - led at every change, and by as much as nine in the last quarter, with impressive English import Jo Harten top-scoring with 28 goals from 35 attempts.
Since starting with comfortable wins against the Mystics and Fever, the Vixens have logged consecutive defeats against two of last year's top four, and now face three away games in a critical stretch of their wobbling season.
Over summer, much had been made about the likely impact of the mass changes and key losses to the Magic list, including the defections of Irene van Dyk and Laura Langman - only for Australian coach Julie Fitzgerald to promptly preside over four consecutive wins since replacing long-serving Noeline Taura.
Sunday's victory, the first against an Australian team, was easily the most significant.
Never more than three goals separated the teams in a competitive first half, although the Vixens were more often in the chase position and trailed 22-25 at the main break.
The Vixens' Amy Steel replaced Kate Moloney at wing defence at half-time - albeit temporarily - to try to curb the influence of Magic wing attack Grace Rasmussen, and thus ease some of the pressure on circle pair Bianca Chatfield and Geva Mentor, who were struggling to contain the improved Harten and her new shooting partner, Ellen Halpenny.
But, almost immediately, the gap blew out to six goals, and when it hit seven, Vixens coach Simone McKinnis finally introduced shooter Cath Cox for Tegan Caldwell, and pushed Karyn Bailey out to goal attack in a "two talls'' formation against the formidable Magic defensive pair of Silver Ferns Casey Kopua and Leana de Bruin.
Bailey sank a long bomb to start the quarter, but, as so often previously, a turnover followed soon enough. With Harten and Halpenny continuing to show admirable composure, the Vixens' deficit stretched out again to 36-43, before the reintroduction of Caldwell for the final 10 minutes in what was the third shooting combination tried by McKinnis.
Supply, though, was still an issue, and the Magic finished with 10 more attempts at goal and a deserved five-goal margin. For the Vixens, the midcourt had its issues once Madi Robinson was quietened, but Cox made an impact when introduced at shooter, and finished with 10 goals from 13 attempts.
The Vixens now have a testing three-week stint on the road, encompassing visits to Christchurch, Brisbane and then Sydney to play the Swifts, who defeated the Queensland Firebirds 53-48 in the earlier game on Sunday.
Magic 49 (Harten 28, Halpenny 21) d Vixens (Bailey 18, Caldwell 16, Cox 10) at Hisense Arena.


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India might be celebrating the centenary of cinema this year, but it's fair to say that the show and tell can begin only from around the mid-1930s.
The country's various film industries produced a little over 1,300 silent films from the late 1800s before moving to sound from 1931 onwards, but barely 20 titles have survived. The picture of Indian cinema resembles a building with several storeys and a hollowed out basement. Much of what has endured into the digital age is in bits and bobs. Devotees of the pre-talkies pioneers can take some hope from the surviving material, even if hope must be parcelled out in pieces. There is a fair amount of recent scholarship, DVDs of three silents, and occasional screenings of the extant films, to remind us of the foundational years of Indian film.
Bhagwan Das Garga's Silent Cinema in India: A Pictorial Journey, which was released recently by HarperCollins, contains movie and production stills, portraits of film-makers, posters, lobby cards and advertisements. The historian and film-maker, who died on 18 July 2011, had previously written So Many Cinemas: The Motion Picture in India and From Raj to Swaraj: The Non-Fiction Film in India, a documentary history. "It took six years to bring out the silent film book," says his wife, Donnabelle. "I am very pleased with the eventual product, since this was so close to Bhagwan's heart."
Apart from gorgeously reproduced images, Garga also provides a snappy history of silent cinema as it developed in major film-making centres such as Nashik, Kolhapur, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. There are chapters on key characters, such as Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who directed Raja Harishchandra in 1913 (previous efforts had produced documentary shorts such as Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar's The Wrestlers and A Man And His Monkeys, and Pundalik, a 60-minute adaptation of a play), and Jamsetji Framjee Madan, "the first movie moghul of India to own a vast production, distribution, and exhibition network, which was to dominate the entertainment industry for nearly two decades".
Mythology and ancient history inspired several early films, some of which were allegories against colonial rule, such as Kanjibhai Rathod's Bhakta Vidur (1921), which was based on an episode from the Mahabharat and was banned by the British administration in Karachi and Chennai. Baburao Painter "chose for his themes the lives of heroic warriors, particularly Shivaji…" and made Sinhagad (1923), "India's first full-scale historical", writes Garga. Dwarkadas N. Sampat, one of the founders of Kohinoor Film Co., was a "superb showman" who "did away with painted scenery as a backdrop" and "brought in artificial lighting for more dramatic effects". Garga also has chapters on silent film production in the other major centres, Kolkata and Chennai.
Several publications have mapped the history of silent cinema in the past, including the hard-to-find Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen and the out-of-printIndian Filmography, Silent And Hindi Film: 1897-1969 by Firoze Rangoonwala. One key historical reference, which has been out of circulation for years, is now returning into view. Light of Asia: Indian Silent Cinema 1912-1934, edited by former National Film Archive of India (NFAI) director Suresh Chabria, will be released by Niyogi Books in a few months. The anthology, which was issued alongside a retrospective of Indian silent cinema at the 1994 edition of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy, includes notes on the films shown at the event and contributions by Chabria, Rajadhyaksha and historian Virchand Dharamsey. "… by the mid-20s India had a large and flourishing studio system based in the three leading economic and urban zones of British India," Chabria writes. "Reflecting the culture and ethnic character of each region films were made in nine broad genres—the mythological, the devotional, the social, the historical, the costume movie, the stunt movie, the comedy, the literary adaptation and the crime movie."
Descriptions of landmark films are often tinged with regret. "Historical factors, apathy and the inexorable process of nitrate decay have virtually wiped out the Indian silent cinema's greatest and best known achievements," Chabria writes. Frequent fires and neglect swallowed up most of silent cinema, both in India and in other film-producing nations, but the subcontinent had a unique disadvantage: its weather. "Even the United States of America, France and the Scandinavian countries have lost about two-thirds of their silent cinema, but they made many more films," says Chabria, who also teaches cinema appreciation at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. "In India, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras were the leading centres of film production, and they have the lousiest climates for maintaining and preserving films. There were also nitrate fires, such as at the Maharashtra Film Company and Kohinoor Film Co."
Since much of silent cinema had already disappeared by the time the archive was set up in 1964, most of the historical excavation is based on written material rather than on the films themselves. "One has had to piece together a history from ancillary material—booklets, newspapers, magazines in various languages, lobby cards," Chabria says. "There's little surviving from the twenties, the glory days of Bombay cinema. There weren't just mythologies but also social crime thrillers and melodramas. It would have been exciting to see the films of (actors) Sulochana, Dinshaw Billimoria and Gohar."
The 1920s, says film historian and curator Kaushik Bhaumik in his unpublished PhD thesis, "The Emergence of the Bombay Film Industry, 1913-1936", "were defined by momentous change". Bhaumik writes about Mumbai, "People changed names, dress codes, sexual codes and habitat… People increasingly spoke a homogeneous urban lingo. A certain amount of levelling took place in the cultural and social life. The congruence of lifestyles of the classes was repeatedly emphasised in the media—in the texts, photographs and films of the time." Bhaumik is in the process of converting the thesis into a book, to be published by Oxford University Press.
The films that survive from this decade include the Orientalist spectacles directed by German director Franz Osten for the Bombay Talkies studio and stories inspired by religious myths. Whatever is left of silent cinema lies at the NFAI in Pune, which has been sending the prints to festivals and retrospectives over the years.
In October, the Mumbai Film Festival screened 11 titles, some of them accompanied by music, the same way in which silent films used to be shown. The archive showed four of these films again in Mumbai on 24 January at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA). "It's the centenary of India cinema, and it's time to revisit some of our old films," says Deepa Gahlot, who programmes the film and theatre sections at the centre. The NCPA will show other Indian classics from the archive throughout the year.
The silent film treasure trove at the NFAI could fit into a single chest. There are two of the four reels (roughly 15 minutes) of the 1917 version of Phalke's Raja Harishchandra (version I was made in 1913) as well as Kaliya Mardan, featuring his daughter Mandakini as the infant Krishna, says NFAI director Prashant Pathrabe. There are complete versions of pre-1930s Osten films—The Light of Asia (directed with Himansu Rai), Shiraz and A Throw of Dice—and two Agarwal Film productions, Diler Jigar and Ghulami Nu Patan. The stash includes Painter's Sati Savitri and portions of his Muraliwala and Maya Bazaar, P.V. Rao's Marthand Varma, the Christian propaganda film The Catechist of Kil-Arni by Thomas Gavin Duffy and R.S. Prakash, and short-length documentaries, such as The Shortest And Best Route to South India (7 minutes) and Bangadarshan (11 minutes).
Pathrabe says efforts are being made to widen the reach of silent films. "These films are not reaching the common people beyond film-makers and researchers," he says. The NFAI has issued a DVD of the 1917 version of Raja Harishchandra, Kaliya Mardan and Kalipada Das' Jamai Babu, the only surviving Bengali title. The three films on the DVD contain background scores by Pune-based composer Rahul Ranade. The process of acquiring the DVD is cumbersome: In order to receive the films, you need to send a demand draft to the archive in the name of the Administrative Officer, NFAI Pune (the DVD costs Rs.399, with Rs.60 for postage) along with a letter.
Apart from the odd screening at a film festival or a cultural centre, the country will have a more sustained way of appreciating silent cinema when one of two phases of the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) opens in Mumbai in May. "The first phase will be dedicated to the nation on 3 May, which is a hundred years after Raja Harishchandra was screened in Mumbai," says Amrit Gangar, the NMIC's consultant curator. The pre-silent and silent phases are part of a series of interactive displays on the march of cinema over the subcontinent. "We plan to have actual artefacts, dioramas, photographs, posters and song booklets," Gangar says. There are also plans for an auditorium that will screen silent films, he adds. "Museums get fossilized but we want to have a live space. It will be a place of engagement, it will be more experiential."
The chances of expanding the collection of Indian silent cinema remain slimmer than a noodle. "A large majority of the films were destroyed by the producers themselves," Pathrabe says. "The archive's main focus has been to salvage whatever is available. The fact is that we don't have a culture of preserving films in a proper manner. Even the film industry doesn't care about how it preserves its films. But I am not being pessimistic."


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The man was swimming at Budgewoi Beach with five friends when they became aware of a strong rip about 5.30pm.
Two of the group had already left the water, when the other four swimmers got into difficulty.
They returned immediately to help them, but could only get three of their friends out of the water.
"They were unable to reach the 27-year-old due to the conditions," police said in a statement.
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27.02.2013 - 03.03.2013
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27th February - This morning we got up early to head off at 7am. This was before breakfast so Lola had left us a breakfast package to take with us. Before leaving the Valdes Peninsula we had one last stop to make. The rangers had told us about an area with several varieties of birds that were particularly active around 8am; it was on the way out of the park so we headed for Isla de los Pajaros.
We were actually a bit disappointed as we could not see many birds. There were some flamingos but they were quite a way off.
We then had a 515km journey ahead of us today. We were heading further south in Argentina to a place called Bahia Bustamante. So we first headed back to Puerto Madryn, and then on to Rawson. We didn't' have a map for Rawson so got lost finding our way around. There wasn't much there but we stopped for diesel and a coffee before heading on our way. Bahia Bustamante was a further 250km south.
Not far from Rawson, the road heads up on to a steppe which becomes an unending distance between towns and petrol stations. In one spot you are surrounded by scrub and you could be in the outback at home. So we continued to drive along the National Route No. 3 until we arrived at the 1674km sign post, we then turned left onto a gravel road and drove for 40km. The road was not too bad, it was a bit slippery in places, and there was a lot of water on the side of the road so it had obviously been raining quite a bit in the last few days. We arrived at a junction in front of the sea. After turning right we came to Bahia Bustamante. It is a private sheep station in Patagonia which is about 210,000 acres. We arrived just before 3pm and were met by Matias Soriano one of the grandsons of the original owner. We were straight in to things, there was a jeep trip to the Petrified Forest about to leave so we dumped our belongings and set off with the group. We drove for an hour in the bush before disembarking from the jeep and then walked around this amazing Petrified Forest. Shane was quite tired from driving but was revitalised when he saw the forest. It is 65 million years old, it is hard to imagine. The fossilised trees were all different colours from the various minerals in the earth. Whilst returning to base Shane saw his first skunk, he said it looked just like Pepe La Pew.
Bahia Bustamante sits right on a peaceful bay. There are whitewashed houses with bright red picnic tables that line a rough dirt road along the beach. The houses back a bit were built 60 years ago for the farmhands and their families, there are now new houses only a few steps from the beach that were added more recently for guests. So upon our return from the forest we settled into our lovely little house right on the beach.
Whilst we were staying here all our meals were included. We ate in the communal dining room, which was a white washed building lined with pictures of Bahia Bustamante in the 1950s. It was really interesting looking back at the history.
28th February – It was still an overcast morning, but this morning we went by jeep a few kilometres away from the hostel to the peninsula.
It was a bit strange seeing sheep running on the beach.
We were dropped off for a lovely walk to the tip. We stopped along the way to see the 25 million year old oyster beds.
There was quite a bit of bird life and the scenery was lovely. We then returned just in time for lunch.
We had a couple of spare hours after lunch to wander around the area before we sat down for a lecture on the marine life in the area. It was a bit depressing as they showed figures on the decline in marine life in this region over the last 20 years, which is mainly due to all the fishing boats 250km off shore in International Waters. They are fishing in the same area where the animals go to eat and a lot are also killed accidently because of the nets and lines. We then headed off by jeep to an inlet where we were to take a boat trip out into the bay. When we arrived the boat was sitting in mud and we were wondering how on earth we were going to head out. However within 20 minutes the tide had come through the inlet and the boat was floating ready for us to board. We headed out into the bay where there were several islands which had birds such as flightless steamer ducks
Magallenic penguins
Kelp gulls
Oyster Catcher
We were able to get really close to the sea lions that were very curious and followed the boat.
The pups were once again on the beach learning to swim. It was almost like they were in little kindy classes.
The weather had stayed fine for the day so that was a bonus. We returned for dinner to find out that we were having Asado which means "barbecue". They cook it much different to us. They splay the sheep where as we would put it whole on a spit.
1st March – This morning we awoke and the sun was shining. It was a beautiful morning. We headed out by jeep for a walk to another part of the property where there was a canyon near the coast. We did a walk to both areas, the scenery was lovely. Before heading back to base Mariana showed us an area where the natives had once lived, there were remnants of axe heads and sharp tools that had been carved from petrified wood. It was very interesting.
Before lunch Shane decided that he was going to have a swim despite the weather. So he braved the thigh high seaweed and rocks just to have a swim.
After lunch we headed out for another excursion, this time to Penguin Island.
When the tide is out you can walk across to the island and visit the Magallenic Penguin colony. They were making a real ruckus. Most of the penguins were out at sea fishing but there were some babies waiting around for meal time.
2nd March – This morning after breakfast we headed out to the Cape. It was another fun jeep trip and we got to see some more wildlife along the way. This included:
The Southern Crested Caracara
The Mara – This is a relatively large rodent. It is also known as the Patagonian hare. It is herbivorous. They are quite active and ran away whenever we saw them.
Upon arrival we took a walk out to the cape where there were a couple of sea lions frolicking in the sea and there was a cormorant colony. Whilst we were sitting there a baby grey fox came hunting for food. He got really close to us and stayed for ages.
You can see how close I was from this picture Shane took.
There were some lovely clear rock pools that you can swim in but unfortunately it was too cold today so we didn't venture in. They did look inviting though.
Shane took a stroll after lunch along one of the dirt tracks to see if he could find another skunk. He was unsuccessful.
At 5pm we had a history walk around the little village. Tibor told us that Lorenzo Soriano, arrived in 1952 in search of seaweed. He manufactured hair gel and needed Agar Agar to make his products. Imports had ceased so he left Buenos Aires to explore this area that someone had told him about. The shoreline was covered for miles with seaweed. This led to the world's first seaweed farm, with 500 workers, houses for them and their families, a school for their children, and a thriving business. In 1968, he was doing so well he bought the two adjoining sheep farms, amassing over 200,000 acres. Seaweed harvesting and sheep farming still remain the primary sources of income for Bahia Bustamante.
We then headed for one more boat trip out to see the penguins and sea lions. It is not often that you can sit in a boat and sip Malbec wine and eat Empanadas whilst watching penguins go about their daily business. It was lovely listening to all the sounds the various birds and sea lions were making. We watched a lovely sun set and returned to base for dinner.
We also took a couple of time lapsed shots so you could see the different levels in the channel.
So when we arrived for the boat trip this is what we saw.
When we arrived back after dark the channel was full.
3rd March – This morning we had breakfast and farewelled Bahia Bustamante. It had been a very relaxing place to visit. We jumped in our car and headed off back along the 40km of dirt road back to Route 3. We had a couple of rest stops along the way but made it to Trelew at 12.30. We drove straight through and headed on to a little place called Gaiman. It is only about 11 km west of Trelew. The town was founded in 1874 by settlers from Wales. Some people in the region have conserved the use of the Welsh language alongside Spanish. There are quite a few tea houses in the area. We visited Te Ty Caerddyd where back in 1995 Lady Diana Spencer made a visit.
They had lovely gardens including this large tea pot.
Whilst in Gaiman we decided to have a tea service which included sandwiches and lots of lovely cakes.
We then returned to Trelew where we dropped off our hire car. That was another part of our trip that has come to an end. We arrived at our accomodation for the night. It was a lovely little place called Casa de Paula hotel. It was very spacious. Tomorrow we head off by plane back to Buenos Aires and on to Ushuaia.
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"I would have been delighted with a one-point win here," he said. "It is only the second time they have been beaten all season and we have done it twice. A nine-point margin is a little bit more comfortable but it is not over yet.
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July 4 travel figures showing a dip
AAA estimates that the shorter holiday week will be compelling few area residents to come out of their homes and venture out a minimum of 50 miles with respect to the Fourth of July celebrations this year. Early forecasts are showing that almost 51000 residents of Luzerne and Columbia counties are heading out of their area by plane, automobile, train or bus. The travel industry is predicting a dip of around 0.7% that from last year. It is expected that nationally, the number is to drop by 0.8%.
Jenny M. Robinson, spokeswoman, AAA Mid-Atlantic was quoted in saying that for the industry, Independence Day is the busiest holiday during the summer period. Since this year it fell on a Thursday, the period came down to a standard 5-day holiday whereas it was a 6-day period last year.
Wednesday and Sunday is expected to be the busiest travel days, with as many as 1 out of every 3 travelers will be departing their respective areas on Wednesday and almost 40% will be returning Sunday.
As always, majority of the residents have chosen automobile as their mode of transport. 84% of the Wilkes-Barre travelers will be driving to their destination, whereas 7% will be flying. The remaining 9% will be travelling by train, bus etc.


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This is just an informational update regarding our annual Futsal Tournament. Typically, it is held during Christmas break, and our original plan was to have it run on Dec 26 & 27. However, due to a few of our teams attending the Disney tournament immediately after Christmas, we will be postponing the tournament until the February break.
The new dates for the tournament will be Thursday and Friday, February 20th and 21st. It is open to all Brentwood school and club teams and players between middle school and high school, although we may allow a few minor exceptions to allow some recently graduated players to participate in our Advanced age group tournament. We also will most likely have the tournament start earlier in the afternoon, perhaps around 2pm, so that we may finish earlier. That will be decided at a future date.
In the meantime, I hope everyone is doing well and having success toward the conclusion of your club seasons. I hope to see as many of you as possible at our first indoor practice in the Ross Gym on Tuesday November 12, 7-8:30pm. It is open to all middle and high school players who are currently playing on a club team.
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There was Teach, the bloody pirate, with his black beard curling on his breast.
Stephen Vincent Benet, The Devil and Daniel Webster
In his short story The Devil and Daniel Webster, Benet has Satan conjure up the damned souls of 12 villains from American history to serve as a jury in the case of Satan v. Jabez Stone. Only seven of these entities are named. This is the seventh in a series giving brief biographies of these men. Go here to read the biography of Simon Girty, here to read the "biography" of the Reverend John Smeet, here to read the biography of Major Walter Butler, here to read the biography of Thomas Morton here to read the biography of King Philip, and here to read the biography of Governor Thomas Dale. Our final member of the jury of the damned is Edward Teach, better known to history as Blackbeard.
It is odd that Blackbeard is almost the only pirate from the colorful Age of Piracy in the Sixteenth-Eighteenth centuries that most members of the general public could name, because he had a very short career, only two years, and was much less successful than many pirates, for example Henry Morgan, who achieved a knighthood and the office of Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
Teach was probably born in Bristol, England in 1680. He may have served as a privateer in Queen Anne's War. In 1716 the pirate Benjamin Hornigold placed Teach in command of a sloop, and together the duo committed numerous acts of piracy. In 1717 Teach captured a French merchant ship, renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge and armed her with 40 guns, a formidable armament for a pirate ship. His fame began to spread. His nickname, Blackbeard, came from the long black beard he wore. Teach adopted a fearsome personae in order to overawe the crews of the ships that he captured. He lit fuses dangling from beneath his cap to enhance his image as a completely ruthless pirate.
His most notable feat was a blockade he undertook of the new port of Charleston, not lifting the blockade until a ransom was paid.
In June of 1718 Teach received a pardon from the Governor of North Carolina. Life on shore however proved too dull and by August Teach had returned to the life of a pirate.
Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia, alarmed that Teach was operating in North Carolina waters and preying upon ships from Virginia sent two armed sloops under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard, Royal Navy, to kill or capture Blackbeard. In a furious hand to hand battle on November 22, 1718 Teach was defeated and killed, his body having received 20 slashes and five musket balls in the fierce melee. In what would be the best Hollywood style Blackbeard and Maynard had fought each other in the struggle. Maynard had Teach beheaded, with his corpse minus the head tossed into the sea. Maynard suspended the head of Teach from the bowsprit of his ship as evidence for the monetary reward he had been promised for the reward of slaying Blackbeard. Maynard would rise in rank to Captain and would leave an estate of 2,000 pounds in value, a fairly large sum for the time.
Blackbeard probably would have faded into the obscurity that enveloped most pirates, except for Charles Johnson's A General Historie of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, published in 1724 which kept Blackbeard's memory alive. "Charles Johnson" may have been a nom de plume and it is possible that the book was written by Daniel Defoe. In any case the book was a hit, and kept alive the memory of Blackbeard and other pirates. Various superstitions have clustered around Blackbeard and tales and movies have associated him with the supernatural. One of the best known of these is the Disney movie Blackbeard's Ghost where Peter Ustinov gave a typically unrestrained performance as the shade of Blackbeard. In the video below from the film we have the ghost of Blackbeard singing Heart of Oak which would not be written until more than three decades after his death and celebrates the Royal Navy that put an end to his blood bespattered career.
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Interestingly, Donald, I grew up on the Outer Banks of N.C. (a.k.a. "OBX"), famous for Blackbeard, the Wright Brothers, and the Lost Colony, among other things. I grew up reading stories about Blackbeard, and visited Ocracoke Island, his winter haven.
Other pirates of interest I came across were the aforementioned Henry Morgan, the female pirates Anne Bonney and Mary Read, Calico Jack, and so on – mostly pirates of the Spanish Main.
Pirates were employed as privateers during the Revolutionary War to harass British supply ships. A good story is SMUGGLERS' WOODS. They were instrumental in stripping British supplies and diverting those supplies to the Colonists. This may be the reason that historians have gone lightly on pirates. As a child, I was fascinated by Morgan the pirate, whose legend has him taking refuge at Morgan, New Jersey.
I stand by Bartholomew Roberts as my favorite and heartily endorse the reading of:
If a Pirate I Must Be … The True Story of "Black Bart," King of the Caribbean Pirates
Ahh, "The Buccaneer" just loved that movie as a kid. Thanks for the reminder Don. I'll have to look it up again. Studio-bound, but still a good romp.


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Re: Q and A: OSEG transportation demand manager Hassan Madhoun, July 17.
Can somebody please explain why so little has been spent on improving pedestrian and cycling access to the new Lansdowne Park?
The city and Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group say they want people to walk and bike to the park, but so far they've only spent $60,000 for a safe pedestrian crossing of Queen Elizabeth Drive and maybe $500 for bike "sharrows" on the Bank Street bridge. Yet they had no problem spending about $300 million on the site itself. Appalling.
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It sounds like she never got out of the Electra Complex stage. There is also the question about "why her father allows her to act this way"
You believe that she manipulates him, and he has to be willing to be manipulated. Even after you've spoken to him, neither she nor he changed this old pattern.
She could be projecting ill feelings towards you that she holds towards her own mother. You're with her father now and the identified target. She may be acting this way to intimidate you purposefully to leave her father. That way she can continue to behave the same way (because he allows it) He's in a way contributing to her behavior by enabling her to act this way.
As far as what you can do that you have not already done- really not much except keep your boundaries clearly defined, confront her father with specific examples of their behavior, or accept that if this person has a true personality disorder( these disorders are not curable per se, but can be managed if the one having the disorder is willing to change)


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The aged-care sector has cautioned the federal government not to believe staffing shortfalls could be rectified with a flood of unemployed people.
Responding to government plans to reinvigorate the work-for-the-dole program, the chief executive of Aged and Community Service Australia,
Adjunct Professor Kelly said dole recipients could be readily utilised to help out in kitchens and gardens of aged-care facilities but should not be regarded a substitute for the growing shortage of qualified care workers.
"We need to treat older Australians with the respect they deserve," said Professor Kelly, whose organisation represents about two-thirds of the nation's private and residential aged-care facilities.
The work-for-the-dole program, which was expanded by
Under the plans, dole recipients would once more be used to help with civic maintenance in return for their unemployment benefit.
On ABC Radio on Monday, assistant minister for employment
Assistant minister for social services
"If the community is supporting you in a time of need, it is not unreasonable to expect that you put something back into the community. So that's been a long-standing principle of the Coalition," he said.
Mr Fifield said the details of the renewed scheme – such as when it would start and how it would work – were still some way down the track, prompting the opposition to attack the announcement as "spin over substance".
"Mr Abbott promised to create 1 million jobs if he was elected, but all he has done since is stand idly by as thousands of workers were told they would lose their jobs," he said. "In the case of Holden, the Abbott government dared the company to leave and take 2900 Australian jobs with them.
"On top of this,
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National Police officers have liberated two Moroccan teenagers, aged 13 and 17, who had been kidnapped last week by a gang of the same nationality believed responsible for a number of crimes in the Vícar area.
The two youths were freed this morning following the detention yesterday of six individuals -four men and two women- in a bar in Vícar as the boys' parents were about to hand over ransoms of 1,500 for each.
The inquiry began on the 9th June when a relative of one of the boys reported the kidnapping at El Ejido police station shortly after the boys entered the country illegally on board a small boat.


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I have a client who has taken out a substantial loan. He rents out property but the loan is not secured on any particular property. There are no other loans.
What are the conditions to "link" the loan to the rented property?
I'm aware of the possibility of withdrawing property capital a/c by way of a loan and getting relief for the interest on the loan up to the value of the capital a/c.
Can any loan be linked and deemed as a loan for the purchase of the property? Given that the loan is taken out several years after the initial purchase, there is no actual flow of funds from the loan to the purchase of the property. It all seems rather nebulous, so I'm struggling to see how one can say "this loan is for the withdrawal of the capital from this rented property". Or to put it another way, what would prevent a loan being linked?
By the way, the initial purchase was not funded by any loans.
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I agree that this client should be able to borrow to repay his capital account, however, i would have expected the borrowings to have been secured on the rented property to obtain the tax relief.
Where did he get ...
... a substantial unsecured loan?
Never an easy topic
Hi RL - firstly the property or asset (if any) on which the loan is secured has no relevance to whether the interest is allowed, the rule is, like any business expense, was the interest incurred wholly & exclusively for the business, this may not necessarily be the same as the purpose for which the loan was taken out.
In your case, there is no link with the property business and the purpose for which the money was used to incur the interest is also not for the purpose of the business and so, as guessed, it's not allowed.
For chapter and verse and a lot more have a run through this thread from a few months back, and in particular the 2 examples from BIM manuals 45690 & 45700.
Case by case
I know what you mean, just think yourself lucky I didn't link the other similar posts there have been in the past year or two.
I think it has to be looked at on a case by case basis. My view is that, at the end of the day, this is no different from any other business. If my self employed client has traded for a few years and has a positive capital account from undrawn profits and assets injected then there's nothing wrong in the business taking out a loan to enable some of this to be taken out.
Without a history of proper accounts and balance sheets though and certainly without a business bank account I think you'd find difficulty as HMRC would say "the prime purpose of the laon was personal - tough".


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Self-control, conscientiousness, grit and other non-cognitive "soft" skills are important factors in student achievement.
Educators want to do more to develop and measure non-cognitive skills. But a new report from the Brookings Institution warns that self-reporting measures have several potential pitfalls. Besides the social desirability bias ("faking"), which leads students to answer in ways that make them more attractive to others and to themselves, the reference bias may also skew results.
A reference bias occurs when survey responses are influenced by differing standards of comparison (e.g. I am a hard worker). One child might consider a hard worker to be someone who does all of her homework well before bedtime and in addition, organizes and reviews all of her notes from the day's classes. Another child might consider a hard worker someone who attempts to complete assignments even if they are not finished.
Children might rate themselves differently based on their school environment. If children attend a "no excuses" charter school that emphasizes building non-cognitive skills, they may rate themselves higher or differently than children who attend an open-enrollment public school.
The researcher says one survey captured behavioral and academic outcomes such as absenteeism and suspension that were associated with self-reported non-cognitive skills. For example, students who rated themselves in the bottom quartile for self-control were absent 2.9 more days than students in the top quartile and nearly 3 times more likely to be suspended.
"Paradoxically, however, the positive relationships between these self-reported measures of noncognitive skills and growth in academic achievement dissipate when the measures are aggregated to the school level," the researcher writes. "In other words, schools in which the average student reports higher levels of conscientiousness, self-control, and grit do not exhibit higher test-score gains than do other schools."
Researcher Martin West concludes that existing survey-based measures of non-cognitive skills may be more useful for making comparisons among students within the same educational environment than for gauging the effectiveness of schools, teachers or interventions developing those skills.
"The Limitations of Self-Report Measures of Non-cognitive Skills," by Martin R. West, December 18, 2014 Paper The Brown Center Chalkboard Number 93.


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For many people, "exciting new technology" conjures images of iPods, camera phones and flat-screen TVs. For UC Merced Engineering professor Tom Harmon, the concept means something a bit different but no less thrilling: sensors as wispy as hair that can gauge when, where and how much pollution enters a body of water.
Harmon, who recently joined the founding faculty of UC Merced's School of Engineering, will continue his ongoing research into the fate of environmental contaminants using new sensor technology that is revolutionizing the way scientific data is gathered.
"It is such a big issue nationally - how to use sensor technology to track the things you need to track, whether it be home security or contaminants in the atmosphere," Harmon says. "It's an interesting time as the information technology world is merging with science. Technology is helping scientific results come faster and be more conclusive, helping researchers know immediately what's happening."
The wealth of research opportunities provided by the Merced River watershed and the San Joaquin Valley's agricultural uses provide an ideal environment for Harmon's work and are part of what drew him to UC Merced. He hopes to build upon the work of the U.S. Geological Survey, which has identified specific areas of contamination along the Merced the old-fashioned way: by periodically collecting samples of water and analyzing them.
Harmon envisions a day when a networked system of embedded sensors all along the river will talk to each other and immediately flag when and where toxins in the water exceed established limits. Precision monitoring of water could result in "Fertilize" and "No Fertilize" days just as "Burn" and "No Burn" days have evolved from air pollution monitoring.
A similar project Harmon is working on at a wastewater treatment facility in the Southern California community of Palmdale will be deployed within the next two months. As he monitors that effort, he will continue his work to develop cheaper sensors that will enable affordable mass production. He hopes to begin monitoring the Merced River later in 2004.
"Sensor technology will change the way we do environmental science and change the way we answer questions about what's good for us and what's bad for us, and how good and how bad," Harmon says. "It is a very exciting time for us."
Harmon's research has been enabled by receipt of a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation's Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). The $20 million grant, paid over five years, was awarded to a team of researchers of which Harmon is a member, and was one of only six grants awarded from a field of hundreds of applicants.
"Professor Harmon typifies the outstanding scholarship that will take place at UC Merced," says Dean of Engineering Jeff Wright. "His research focusing on the development and use of sensor networks to improve environmental management is unique and important for our region."Wright adds that Harmon is also a leader in environmental engineering education. "We're very fortunate to have faculty of Tom's caliber at UC Merced," he says. "Tom has pioneered new techniques and technologies for teaching engineering, and is rapidly gaining a national reputation for educational innovation."
Another reason Harmon was drawn to UC Merced was the excitement of building a program at a first-tier research institution and creating a brand-new curriculum - specifically, one that aims to show engineering students why they are studying what they're studying, rather than merely promising them they'll use it someday. "The opportunity to be on the ground floor of a new university - especially a UC campus - is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I had to seize while it was there," Harmon says.
Harmon comes to UC Merced from UCLA, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Stanford University.
UC Merced is the 10 thcampus of the UC system and the first major research university to be built in the United States during the 21 stcentury. The campus is scheduled to open in fall of 2005, and eventually will grow to serve 25,000 students. Initial undergraduate degree programs will include computer science and engineering, environmental engineering, biological sciences, earth systems sciences, world cultures and history, and social and behavioral sciences. Initial graduate degree programs include world cultures, social and behavioral sciences, quantitative and systems biology, molecular sciences and engineering, environmental systems, and computer and information systems.