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Today I saw a dead man.
Not once did I ever think that I would see a body this early in my life. Yet, as I'm often reminded, the strangest coincidences befall me at the most random times, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when my family drove by a dead policeman, surrounded by a small crowd of people. And what was this crowd doing, you ask? Surely they were on their phones, calling for help? No. They were inching as close as they dared to the dead man, and taking pictures of him. I saw one guy take a selfie. I had lost all my faith in humanity a while ago, but this deepened it. Considerably.
Anyway, back to the corpse. He was lying on the ground, legs still straddling his motorcycle, which was scratched and bent, headlights smashed. The man's face and arms were gray, which was a little disturbing. He was lying twisted so that he was chest down, but I could see his face, half-hidden by dirt. His eyes were wide open, but blank, and his mouth was closed in a little grim line, like he didn't approve of all the attention he was getting.
His left arm was stretched straight out away from him, but his right arm was up in the air, and bent at an unnatural angle, so that his hand was still touching the ground. That was the most disturbing part for me, I think.
I saw all this as we passed by, and although my father sped up so that my younger siblings wouldn't see, I know that we all saw it, and that it will remain with them for the rest of their lives. I know it will for me. A few minutes later, an ambulance raced by us with its lights flashing, and I saw several police on their motorbikes following it. What's sad is that those policemen probably knew him personally.
Although this isn't the first corpse I've ever seen, it was definitely the most shocking, and it goes to show us that…anyone can die, at any given time. I could drop dead of a heat stroke ( I certainly feel like I will), your sibling could get hit by a car, and it'll be over. Just like that. Nothing you can do about it.
Well, actually, there are two things you CAN do.
- Make sure you have the best relationship possible with them so that when they (or you) die, you (or they) have no regrets concerning your relationship with them.
- Distance yourself from everyone you love, and hope that you die before everyone else does. A slightly more morbid take, but just as effective.
I'll leave you to decide your path. If there are more choices, please let me know, as I am decisively challenged.


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Local governments participate in the Community Rating System, decrease flood insurance cost for Gulf
The increasing cost of flood and wind insurance is making it difficult for coastal residents to be financially resilient. Participation in the National Flood Insurance Program and its incentive-based program, the Community Rating System (CRS), has become essential to mitigating for future hazards, as well as reducing insurance premiums.
Sea Grant offered technical assistance, hosted workshops or planned meetings with 10 communities and two counties to increase community participation in the CRS. It also assisted other communities in improving their CRS class rating. The NOAA Coastal Storms Program in coordination with Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium conducted an evaluation of the Gulf of Mexico Region to determine the economic impact and benefits of this assistance.
When compared to control groups in North Carolina and Florida, communities in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana increased their CRS participation by 14 communities and decreased their class rating by 0.6 from 2007 to 2013 (i.e. more than a half of a class better than the control group). These improvements in flood protection lead to reduced risk of flood damage and can result in significant cost savings for those needing to purchase insurance.
Across Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, there were 29 communities that moved from no discount to a 5-percent discount on flood insurance or from a 5-percent to a 10-percent discount between 2007 and 2013. These improvements saved residential policyholders $29-$98 annually and commercial policyholders $83-$329, depending on level of coverage. (2013)

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The Global Telemedicine Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16.5% during the forecast period 2018-2023.
Telemedicine is a notable innovation. Otherwise referred to as telehealth, telemedicine includes the dissemination of wellbeing administrations and facts electronically or through media transmission improvements. It allows clinicians to impart, counsel, coach, screen and furthermore provide cast off identifying a way to the sufferers. Additionally, it encourages supervision, and introductions among professionals; together with at the internet statistics and health data administration that is popular medicinal offerings framework reconciliation. Anyways, excessive established order price of the telemedicine innovation preparations may also have an effect on the marketplace improvement in developing countries over the globe over the comparing time body.
Additionally the components, as an example, lawful and compensation troubles, high price of cutting side innovation, absence of health practitioner bolster joined with poor times of execution, absence of framework are a number of factors limiting development of the market.
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Amid overdue years, the recuperation centers and professional's places of work that sent telemedicine had been anticipated to a committed area and transmission capacity to get on the web. Proper now, the growing utilization of compact devices, for instance, computers and pills by specialists whilst sufferers are helped with devices which are fantastic or transportable in nature. These increments in productiveness were at the cutting edge of making telemedicine an everyday medical association. For the reason that progressive obstructions had been delivered down, the applications diagnosed with regarding patients in country organizations and further worldwide are in impact full figured it out.
Key players in the Global Telemedicine Market:
Medtronic (Ireland), AMD Telemedicine Technologies (U.S.), Koninklijke Philips N.V. (The Netherlands), General Electric Company (U.K), Intel (US), Neusoft Corporation (China), McKesson Corporation (U.S.), IBM (U.S.), and others are some of the prominent players at the forefront of competition in the Global Telemedicine Market and are profiled in MRFR Analysis.
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The global telemedicine market is segmented on the basis of regions: The Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa. The Americas accounts is the leading player in the global telemedicine market owing to an increasing demand for healthcare IT solutions, concentration of prominent market players, and availability of infrastructure for telemedicine.
Europe is experiencing a significant growth in the telemedicine market owing to the availability of funds from the Europe Union (EU) for telemedicine projects.
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Asia Pacific shows phenomenal growth in telemedicine market and is expected to the fastest growing region as result of rising geriatric population and increasing prevalence of chronic diseases. The Middle East & Africa also show a steady rise in the telemedicine market.
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o Download the source tarball here.
o Untar it in the "mac" directory of your ns top-level directory: (NS_INSTALL_DIRECTORY)/ns-2.26/mac. Warning: the package contains a slightly modified version of "mac.h", so if you have made changes to mac.h, please do a diff and incorporate the changes.
o Add an entry in the Makefile for zmac files: "mac/common-mac.o mac/zmacHCL.o mac/zmac-timers.o mac/common-mac-timers.o" and remove entries "mac/mac-802_11.o" and "mac/mac-timers.o" for the OBJ_CC target.
o Replace (NS_INSTALL_DIRECTORY)/ns-2.26/tcl/lib/ns-mobilenode.tcl with the given file here, the change is very minor, to allow packet tracing from the mac layer.
For the Source and Codings You can download from here
* NS-2 execution instructions:
TDMA Setup
o Before using Z-MAC, some setup is required. For a given topology, Z-MAC requires each node to know its TDMA slot. This is achieved using DRAND, a distributed TDMA slot assignment algorithm.
o Consider a topology file, new-scen-
o Run the drand application on this topology by following the execution instructions in the DRAND page above. Save the output in file, "new-scen-N-X-Y.out".
o This output file contains the information about the TDMA slots assigned to each node in the topology. We need a script to convert this information to Tcl code which can be input to the z-mac code. This is done by the following script: getZMACInput.py. Execute this script on the output file as follows:
+ python getZMACInput.py new-scen-N-X-Y
# "MAX_NEIGHBOR" is the value of MAX_NEIGHBOR defined in file mac/zmac.h, which defines the maximum number of two-hop neighbors allowed in the topology. The value used here and the value in mac/zmac.h should be the same, or else the program will fail. The current value used is 30.
+ this will create two files, "new-scen-N-X-Y.drand" and "new-scen-N-X-Y.maxcolor". "new-scen-N-X-Y.drand" contains the slot assignments, and "new-scen-N-X-Y.maxcolor" contains the frame size (which is the maximum slot number assigned to any node in the whole network).
o This completes the TDMA setup for Z-MAC. Three files should have been generated:
+ new-scen-N-X-Y
+ new-scen-N-X-Y.drand
+ new-scen-N-X-Y.maxcolor
o Now, download the tcl script tarball here
o Untar it in any location in your file-system.
o The file "simZMAC.tcl" is the main file for the simulation of Z-MAC. Run it as follows:
+ ns simZMAC.tcl -numsources .... -nn .....
+ simZMAC.tcl takes a number of arguments, which allow the user to specify different Z-MAC parameters (e.g. To, Tno, LCL/HCL modes, etc.). The specific details can be found in the README file in the tarball.
+ an output file can be specified as a parameter to simZMAC.tcl, and at the end of the simulation, performance statistics can be printed out.
* NS-2 installations instructions:
o Download the source tarball here.
o Untar it in your ns top-level directory: (NS_INSTALL_DIRECTORY)/ns-2.26.
o Add an entry in the Makefile for DRAND files as "drandNS2/drandAgent.o" for the OBJ_CC target.
o Add entry for DRAND packet type in (NS_INSTALL_DIRECTORY)/ns-2.26/tcl/lib/ns-packet.tcl as "DRAND" - sample here.
o Add entry for DRAND packet type in (NS_INSTALL_DIRECTORY)/ns-2.26/common/packet.h as "PT_DRAND" - sample here.
o Replace ns2.26/mac/mac-802_11.cc with this file: There is a small change to enable broadcast for DRAND packets.
o Replace ns2.26/trace/cmu-trace.cc with with this file: This adds support for DRAND packets.
* NS-2 execution instructions:
o Download the tcl script tarball here
o Untar it in any location in your file-system.
o Execute simulation by the follwing command: "ns simple-wireless.tcl
o File "simple-wireless.tcl" runs a simulation of
o For generating the scenario file, use the CMU scenario generator included in the ns2 distribution: (NS_INSTALL_DIRECTORY)/ns-2.26/indep-utils/cmu-scen-gen/setdest. Also, note that the scenario should not contain any node motion, so please use the option "-p 0 -s 0"
o DRAND is composed of two phases - a "HELLO" phase, where nodes send beacons to each other to probe their network neighborhood, and the "DRAND" phase where the DRAND algorithm is run and a TDMA schedule is produced (For more details please refer to the paper "Randomized Dining Philosophers to TDMA Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks".
o DRAND output is as follows:
+ MESSAGE sID 82 mCt 15 rReq 0 rGra 0 mTime 27.826388 oneHopCount 7
MESSAGE sID 82 reqCt 1 graCt 7 rejCt 0 relCt 0 twoCt 7
MESSAGE sID 82 Round 20 maxC 0 twoHopMaxC 0 slotNum 11 roundDelay 0.023284 grantDelay 0.018388
+ Some of the noteworthy fields are:
# sID = Node ID
# mCt = Total messages transmitted
# mTime = Total time for the node to get its own time slot
# oneHopCount = Total number of nodes within one hop to this node
# slotNum = TDMA slot assigned by DRAND


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Power Quality Management Solution applied at the distribution company responsible for the Colombian capital, Bogotá, and its surrounding areas. The system monitors power quality registers in real time, in compliance with the national regulatory agency, CREG – Comisión de revulación de Energía y Gas.
Solution for the integrated management of metering for border and operational locations (distribution substations). Performs telemetering in real time, automatic data validation, and data presentation for the entire company, including integration with network automation. Even offers tools for transformer load monitoring and Energy Balancing.
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Solution for real time remote metering and data management of all Tractebel´s Power Plants, as well as it´s industrial customers from the electricity market. The system supports all the communication management processes and data validation (Validation, Estimation and Editing), in compliance with the Brazilian regulation.


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The moment warm weather hits, productivity dips. There are many reasons – some personal, some biological, some environmental, but the numbers don't lie: 26% of employers say their employees are less productive in the summer. After combatting distractions and lack of productivity all summer, we're all ready to hit the ground running come September, right?
How many of us find ourselves in the following scenario: it's 9:15am in a college town, and half of the team is still en route to your 9am meeting. The workplace Back to School Slump is a thing, whether you live in a college town, have children in school, or are in any way familiar with the impending sense of doom that September brings. It's a challenging time in the workplace and it can be tough to muddle through.
Why does the Back to School Slump happen?
1) Employee burnout. Between 2000 and 2014, productivity has skyrocketed, growing 21.6%, with wages only increasing 1.8% (source). In the summertime, staff is even leaner, making an already too-large workload even more impossible. When the summer ends, everyone is back from vacation and the biggest thing on the to-do lists is to catch up from all the missed and postponed work. Whoever covered for you is exhausted, whoever is coming back to a bunch of work is exhausted. It's lose-lose.
2) Traffic. The school season brings with it a plethora of commuters who have been away from the rush hour road all summer: school buses and parents. If you happen to be in Boston on move-in day, don't even bother driving anywhere.
3) Office temperatures. 71% of employees say they are less productive in an office that is too warm. 53% say they are less productive in an office that is too cold. Fall weather is confusing, and that thermostat can't keep up! Wear layers and keep a sweater at your desk – you might have figured out the summer office climate, but fall will keep you guessing.
4) Nostalgia. Remember when September meant new binders and a fresh set of notebooks? That was nice. Try to channel your inner child and buy yourself something new. It'll spike your excitement and feel like something new has begun instead of the same old, same old.
5) Kids. If you have 'em, you know. Getting yourself out the door is not even half as challenging as getting tiny humans on their way for the day. Summer may have allowed some relaxed mornings, but now there are things to remember, papers to sign, and drop-offs to make. And don't forget the snacks! ...No, for you. You need snacks too.
What can you do?
1) Employers: make it fun. Vacations are generally over, and there is no company-wide holiday for a couple months still, so morale has never been more important. Keep your employees engaged and excited about work by organizing morale-boosting activities, lunches, or getting a treat for your team.
2) Take an extended lunch with coworkers. Spending time with others who understand your pain (being stuck inside an office all day) will drag you out of the funk and boost your happiness. Your productivity is sure to follow. And try to get outside – breathing in some fresh fall air will do wonders.
3) Shift your work hours. If you find yourself getting antsy to leave the office at 3pm, see if you can shift your work hours to be earlier in the day, at least for the short-term. It's easy to get out of the house early in the morning when you know you're heading home with plenty of time to get through your lengthy to-do list.
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Brad R. Balter currently serves as CEO and Founder of both Balter Capital Management and Balter Liquid Alternatives where he sets the strategic vision for both firms. At Balter Capital Management, Mr. Balter oversees the construction of discretionary fund of hedge funds and customized hedge fund portfolios. Balter Liquid Alternatives, a subsidiary of Balter Capital Management, was founded in early 2013 to primarily offer institutional hedge fund strategies within a mutual fund structure. Prior to forming Balter Capital Management in 2006, Brad was Head of Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund Coverage and Managing Director of the Institutional Investor Group at Citigroup. From 1992 to 2001, Brad was a leading member of the PaineWebber Inc.'s (subsequently UBS) middle market hedge fund coverage program, with primary responsibility for early stage hedge fund relationships.
Brad serves on the investment committees of the Boys and Girls Club of Boston and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies. He is a graduate of Williams College and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife Laura and three children, Sophie, Jake and Aden. He is also an avid student of the Hebrew Language.


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homekeeping:: little autumnal touches around the house make things so cozy. I especially love to decorate my home with nature's gifts: Indian corn, tiny pumpkins, jugs filled with colored leaves brought home from the foothills, a bundle of golden wheat, a big bunch of rosemary I cut from the herb garden. Today I finally set up the front porch. A simple yet happy ritual I look forward to every year.
listening:: Tony Bennett's "The Very Thought of You".... (swoon), Stephanie Mill's "Never Knew Love Like This Before"
eating:: sharing with Isaac a little nibble off a bar of good dark chocolate a dear friend brought over. The beautiful, fresh fruit another dear one dropped off, too, yesterday.
feeling:: so blessed with these and other beautiful friendships.
running:: frosty mornings this week (the first of the season) called for my warmest jacket and gloves. A little harder to get up the gumption, but I guess it's in my blood after years of running in all seasons.
harvesting:: Grateful and blessed to enjoy and utilize the offerings from not only our garden, but especially from my parents and kind friends' harvest sharings. (churning out the pies, cobblers, soups, salsas, etc.) With the arrival of these chilly October days and nights, I sure will miss the beautiful fruits and vegetables that have filled my countertop corner this summer.
creating:: a little bit of drawing, but not anything worth sharing here. Stress and worry seem to really take a toll on my ability to get going artistically.
baking:: has filled the creative need of mine this past month and also something that I can do on "autopilot", which I still can't seem to do in my art practice., With my desires to help stretch the food dollar, produce and economize, I have enjoyed spending most days in the kitchen. Satisfying and fun to learn new techniques in my bread baking, especially. Sharing a loaf with each bake brings added joy, too.
outing:: Have you ever taken yourself out on a date? I do it all the time. Sometimes I like to go to an afternoon matinee. (last month was Light Between Oceans ... beautiful). It's cheap, enjoyable, and you'll most likely get the whole theater to yourself. My friend invited me to join her last week in seeing Florence Foster Jenkins (fun). A good movie is a rarity and a real treat.
reading:: Shelter For the Spirit (Moran), Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women In Second Adulthood (Levine), The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale, My Kitchen Year (Reichl), The Sea Captain's Wife (Powning)
smiling:: seeing that handwritten letter in the mailbox yesterday.
thanksgiving:: After three months of unemployment for Keith, we are rejoicing and so very grateful he is now employed. (Offer yesterday, first day at work today!) This and other challenges brought a season of great soul-stretching/searching for me on many levels, but also became a time of deepened emotional and spiritual growth. God is so good, so very kind. I finally feel like I can breathe again.
10/8/2016 09:31:23 am
Mmmm, loved these cozy images. And I'm green with envy of the gorgeous crumb of your bread.
10/13/2016 10:26:08 am
I have a reply in the works. Your bread is outstanding. I treasure baking a therapy as well. Fall is such a cozy time of year, aside from the leaves, the smell is amazing, I wish I could bottle it. So glad Keith is employed again. Talk soon!
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Yellowknife, NT — Northwestel's Retail Centre in Yellowknife is now collecting toys to support this year's Christmas Hamper Program. Northwestel employees were joined this morning at the retail centre by City of Yellowknife Mayor Mark Heyck and Darlene Hardy with the Salvation Army to make their donations and kick off the month-long campaign.
"Every child should experience the joy of receiving a new toy for the holidays, and together with our customers, we want to support local families who could use a little help making that happen," says Northwestel CEO Paul Flaherty. "We're proud to once again support the Salvation Army in this worthy holiday cause."
Anyone wishing to donate a new, unwrapped toy is encouraged to drop it off at the Northwestel Retail Centre at 5201 50th Avenue before December 14. The retail store will be open extended hours and on Sundays during the holiday season, to accept donations.
Gifts will be added to the Salvation Army's traditional Christmas hamper for families with children aged 14 and under. The Salvation Army has provided support to families at Christmas for over 15 years. Last year, food hampers were provided to 273 Yellowknife households, with 298 children receiving new toys thanks to generous donations from the community.
"Our motto is 'Giving Hope Today,'" says Darlene Hardy of the Salvation Army. "Ensuring that children from struggling families receive gifts for the holidays is a small but tangible way to offer hope to those who need it most. Year after year, we're astounded by the generosity of Yellowknifers who share this vision. We're delighted that Northwestel remains a committed partner in the effort."
Northwestel's annual Toy Drive began in 2005 through its retail location in Fort Nelson, BC to collect and donate to local charitable organizations. For more information about the holiday toy drive in your community, visit nwtel.ca/toydrive.


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Rakesh K Jaiswal, Executive Secretary of Eco Friends while welcoming the participants briefed about the current status of wastewater generation, the disposal practices, treatment facilities, its use as irrigation water and impacts on health, livelihoods and environment in Kanpur .
Mr Shashikant Chopde of Winrock International India gave a power-point presentation on Wastewater use and its impacts in 4 towns (Kolkata, Delhi , Ahmedabad and Kanpur ). He told that wastewater was basically being used for aquaculture in Kolkata and for agriculture in other towns. He informed that not much information was available on health impacts of wastewater use in Kolkata, Delhi and Ahmedabad.
Dr Sarita Sinha of NBRI Lucknow gave a power point presentation on her findings about the impacts of wastewater, especially tannery effluent, on soil and agriculture of wastewater irrigated areas of Jajmau. She informed that Chromium and Sodium concentration in soil and different parts of the plants was a matter of concern in wastewater irrigated areas of Kanpur . She suggested phyto-remediation measures for treating the tannery wastewater.
Mr Sunil Nishad, a farmer of the wastewater irrigated area, narrated the story as how farmers were happy when they were irrigating their farmlands with sewage diluted with Ganga water. He explained how things changed under the new dispensation of Ganga Action Plan when the Ganga water was replaced with tannery effluent. He demanded that the old system should be restored and in no case tannery effluent should be supplied as irrigation water. He told that farmers of the wastewater irrigated area were forced to live in a virtual hell and consume the poisonous tannery and city wastewater, and even worse, they were being forced to pay for this toxic water.
Presentations were followed by general discussions on ways to address and remediate the prevailing problems. Mr Imran Siddiqui of UP Leather Association complained that the leather industry was being victimized and the onus was always put on them. He was of the view that the sewage reaching the treatment plants already contained heavy metals and other toxicants which were being discharged in the sewer system by the industries other than the leather factories, therefore other industries should also be held accountable. He also informed that the technologies were available to treat the tannery wastewater up to safe levels.
Dr Shobha Chaturvedi of UPPCB stressed on the need to decentralize the treatment system of wastewater and contested strongly against the presence of other heavy metals like Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead and Mercury in the tannery waste-stream while reacting to findings of IITK.
Prof. Binayak Rath suggested that the concrete lining of the sewage irrigation canal should be accorded top priority so that further contamination of the groundwater could be controlled.
The PM of Ganga Pollution Control Unit UP Jal Nigam, Mr KC Sahu lamented that the funds were not available to complete the unfinished works of GAP-II and run the existing treatment facilities created under GAP-I.
Mr FU Rehman informed that the CCRP and Scientific landfill site for the toxic tannery sludge projects would start soon and the chromium problem would be solved once these projects were completed.
It was decided that CPCB would collect and analyze sewage and irrigation water samples to ascertain respectively the composition of the sewage coming from the city and the wastewater being used for irrigation. Mr SR Sachan assured to do the needful.
Municipal Commissioner S P Mishra assured to hold the Consultative Action Group meetings at regular interval and make the relevant information and data available to the group.
The CAG meet ended with a vote of thanks by Capt SC Tripathi.
List of participants:
Mr SP Mishra, Municipal Commissioner Kanpur
Mr VK Sachan, CPCB
Mr K C Sahu, PM, GPCU UPJN
Mr S R Sachan, Regional Officer UPPCB
Mrs Shobha Chaurvedi, UPPCB
Mr HC Joshi, UPPCB
Mr Ashok K Puri, Ex Eng Jal Sansthan
Dr Madan Mohan, City Health Officer KNN
Mr FU Rehman, PPCU, GAPSP
Dr Binayak Rath, IITK
Dr Sarita Sinha, NBRI Lucknow
Mr Rohit K Mishra, NBRI Lucknow
Mr Shashikant Chopde, WII, New Delhi
Mr Sonelal Yadav, Pyondi village
Mr Umakant Yadav, Corporator, Ward no. 9
Mr Suhail Ahmed Khan, Corporator
Mr Sunil Nishad, Sheikhpur
Mr Imran Siddiqui, UP Leather Industries Assn
Mr Tariq, Jajmau Tanneries Assn
Mr Ghulam Nabi, Jajmau Tanneries Assn
Mr Mewa Lal, Muskan Jyoti Samiti, Lucknow
Capt SC Tripathi
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2nd Meeting of Consultative Action Group (CAG) on Urban Wastewater use and its impact on livelihoods, health, and environment and ground water pollution problem in Kanpur.
Consultative Action Group held its 2 nd meeting on urban wastewater use in IIT Kanpur on January 17, 2005 to discuss about various alternative measures to deal with the problems arising from wastewater in Kanpur . Urban wastewater management has been a source of major concern for the people in the city for a long time. The meeting was attended by eminent academicians, social scientists, engineers, top bureaucrats of different government departments, members from NGOs, and other stakeholders. The organizer of this meeting, Mr. Rakesh K Jaiswal of Eco Friends initiated the discussion by outlining various problems associated with the wastewater generated in Kanpur city. He explained the adverse impacts of wastewater on the livelihoods and local environment at length by citing his own experiences. He criticized the functioning of STPs and ETP at Jajmau, which was set up under Ganga Action Plan (GAP). The plants unleash contaminated wastewater causing severe health hazards, negative impacts on the agriculture and livestock in more than 20 villages located in the eastern most part of the city of Kanpur .
As a host of the meeting at IIT Kanpur, Prof. Binayak Rath welcomed all the participants and pointed out the challenges that the world is facing in terms of urban housing, supply of fresh drinking water, treatment of wastewater, and health hazards due to the degradation of environmental quality. Further, he stressed that there is a need to rehabilitate the lost glories of the Ganges at Kanpur . While describing the glorious history of Kanpur city during the British rule, he quoted a poem written by erstwhile British army officer about the beauty of the city. He expressed serious concerns about the present problems that have plagued the progress of the city and made the life of the citizens more miserable He put forward this as a challenge before the academicians, social scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, NGOs, and other stakeholders to contemplate over these problems and to suggest alternative solutions. He also emphasized on the need of a multidisciplinary approach in the policy making and implementing process. The policy makers should follow a holistic approach in pursuing programs and policies pertaining to the wastewater management in the city.
Participating in the discussion Mr.Sasikant, Chopde, Senior Program Officer, Winrock, New Delhi , suggested that there should be more CAG meetings on wastewater management in order to come up with a sound strategy to deal with benefits and problems associated with wastewater generated in different cities across the country. He also suggested that benefits of wastewater could be tapped and used for irrigation purpose in the water scarce areas after making it contamination free through advance technologies.
Dr. Padma S Vankar of FEAT Lab, .IIT Kanpur , highlighted the sufferings and plight of the villagers due to contaminated water released from the nearby treatment plants at Jajmau.
From the real stakeholders' side, Sonelal Yadav of Pyondi and Umakant Yadav of Motipur drew attention of the participants while recounting a very sordid story about the suffering of the villagers who are using the wastewater for irrigation. They told how the wastewater irrigation was causing the health hazard, loss of livestock and land fertility. They also pointed out that problems became severe and the livelihoods were at greater risk soon after the installation of treatment plants at Jajmau. U.P Jal Nigam Project Manager, Mr. S.R. Sahu agreed that the magnitude of the pollutants in the wastewater was tremendous and suggested that the adverse impacts could be mitigated if residents of the city became conscious.
Professor Vinod Tare of IIT Kanpur suggested that the tannery waste should be segregated from sewage water so that the wastewater could directly be used for irrigation purposes. He pointed out that tannery waste carries huge chromium and other toxic contents, which has enormous adverse impacts on health, livelihoods, livestock and agricultural land. If we could keep tannery effluent away from sewage, then 90 % of the problems emerging out of wastewater irrigation would automatically be solved. He also expressed doubt about the functioning of the Chrome Recovery Plants (CRPs) installed by various chrome-tanning units of Kanpur . He opined that the tannery wastewater that is a cocktail of highly toxic chemicals couldn't be treated to safe levels with the existing treatment system and facilities in Kanpur .
The Chief Medical Officer representative, Dr. B.Singh assured the panel that he would provide all the logistic assistance to the affected villages.
Participating in the deliberations, Mr N S Pandey, Additional Municipal Commissioner of Kanpur City assured that he would furnish all the required information to the members of the CAG for a comprehensive study of the entire gamut of the issue. He also promised to extend full cooperation to the CAG.
The GM of Ganga Pollution Control Unit UP Jal Nigam, Mr O P Singhal reported that 88 chrome tanning units had already set up CRP and many more are underway. They also alleged that their department is accorded least priority in the state budget.
Sr. Scientific Officer, Department of Environment, Govt. of Delhi, Dr. Anil Kumar , pledged that he would provide all logistic and required assistance within his individual domain for the upcoming workshop on wastewater management in New Delhi .
Dr A N Tiwari of Agronomy Department, CSA gave valuable suggestions that the report of the CAG meet with certain recommendations should be sent to various authorities at different levels. He also suggested involving institutions like ICAR, ICMR and NBRI in CAG deliberations.
Regional Officer of UPPCB, Mr S R Sachan also was in agreement with Dr Tare that the tannery wastewater should not be mixed with sewage that was being used as irrigation water. He also informed that 23 chrome-tanning units that did not have the CRP had been closed and sealed recently.
It was unanimously agreed upon that with a view to mitigate the problems of the farmers down stream of the treatment plants, the tannery wastewater should not be mixed with the domestic wastewater. The efforts should be made to extract chromium and other toxicants from the tannery wastewater and then it may be allowed to flow into the river. All the participants agreed that there should be a National Workshop on the various issues pertaining to the wastewater management in different cities of India . It was also decided that all those who have researched in this subject should be invited to the future meetings to share their research findings and alternative solutions.
The CAG meet ended with a vote of thanks by Mr R K Jaiswal.
List of participants:
Mr N S Pandey, Additional Municipal Commissioner, Kanpur
Mr O P Singhal, GM, GPCU UPJN
Mr K C Sahu, PM, GPCU UPJN
Mr A K Mittal, GPCU UPJN
Mr S R Sachan, Regional Officer, UPPCB
Mr U C Tiwari, GM, Jal Sansthan
Dr B R Singh, CMO office, Kanpur
Mr K B Varshney, Executive Engineer, KNN
Dr Vinod Tare, IITK
Dr Binayak Rath, IITK
Dr Padma S Vankar, IITK
Mr Pradyot Raja, IITK
Mr N C Sahu, IITK
Mr R N Mahapatra, IITK
Mr Dinesh Bahadur Singh, IITK
Mr Vikas Katiyar, IITK
Dr A N Tiwari, HOD, Department of Agronomy, CSA
Dr R K Trivedi, Director, AITH, Kanpur
Mr Shashikant Chopde, WII, New Delhi
Mr Anil Kumar, Department of Environment, New Delhi
Mr Sonelal Yadav, Pyondi village
Mr Umakant Yadav, Corporator, Ward no. 9
Dr M A Baig, RIS, New Delhi
Mr R K Jaiswal, Eco Friends
Mr Jeetendra Dixit, Eco Friends
Mr Sanjeev Pal, Eco friends
Mr Rishe Tiwari, Eco Friends
Mr Krishna Murti Sharma, Eco Friends
Proceedings of the first meeting (July 19, 2004) of Consultative Action Group on Urban Wastewater use and its impact on Livelihoods, Health and Environment in Kanpur.
THE FORUM FOR ACTION FOR CLEAN WATER was initiated 3 months ago. Solving the impacts of major issues of water contamination on health, environment and livelihood is the major goal of the forums. More than 35 people attended the meet including representatives from Winrock International India, New Delhi , S P Mishra, Municipal Commissioner, F U Rahman of Project Planning and Coordination Unit, GAP Support Project, Dr R K Trivedi, Director, AITH, Yadav of CPCB along with Research Scientists and Water Experts attended the forum.
Mr Vinay Tandon of Winrock International stressed the increased demands for clean water resulting in an increase of wastewater. He added that the health and environmental impact on soil, groundwater, livelihood and crops results from inadequate treatment facilities.
An overview of the present situation in Kanpur was presented by Rakesh Jaiswal, Executive Secretary of Eco Friends. He informed the participants that the problem of groundwater being contaminated from industries has been known since 1997. In Noraiakheda, industries get clean water from deep bore well while the residents of Noraiakheda drink contaminated groundwater from shallow wells.
Dr Elizabeth Guillette, University of Florida , USA presented the impact of contaminated water on four villages of Jajmau. Research performed by Eco Friends shows that crop production has gone down approximately 50% since the introduction of irrigation water mixed with tannery effluent. Dr Elizabeth's research shows that every household has someone with skin disease, resulting from Chromium exposure and gastric pain, diarrhea, dysentery and various tape and round worms resulting from contaminated water. The frequent presence of infection and Asthma indicates that the immune system has been affected. The result also shows that over one third of pregnancies never result in a live child.
Presentations were followed by general discussions on ways to remediate the existing situation. Central Pollution Control Board recognizes that untreated water should not be used for crop production. F U Rahman of PPCU stated that Tannery technology changes so rapidly that method for effluent treatment becomes outdated. He also added that either the tannery effluent should be treated properly or its supply for irrigation should be stopped.
All participants agreed that dilution is not the solution to reduce the presence of toxicants. Spreading of diluted toxicants on a land has resulted in groundwater contamination. Dr A C Shukla, Water Expert proposed specific agenda need to be developed for specific problems. He said that failures are inherent as we are experimenting with various methods to remediate the problems. Therefore we must learn from the best method. Lalit Khanna, Vice President, JK White Cement said the situation is very complex and requires understanding of each issue.
Municipal Commissioner S P Mishra assured to extend full cooperation to the Consultative Action Group in its efforts. He also assured to take initiative to ensure safe drinking water to the residents of Noraiakheda and Jajmau villages.
The forum ended with recommendations that end users will be invited to attend the next meetings to provide their insights.
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More than 150 volunteers chip in at Rec Center
On any other weekend, Vanessa Sapistran would probably have stayed at home and taken advantage of the regular two-day break from the rigors of school. But last month, she got herself out bright and early to give some rusted garbage cans a new coat of lush black paint in Hunts Point Riverside Park.
"I don't want to be the kind of person that when I grow up, I didn't do anything for my community," said Sapistran, a 14-year-old student at Saint Ignatius School.
Earth Day celebrates 45 years
By Michelle Baricevic
Forty-five years ago on April 22, 1970, a Wisconsin senator launched an event that would shift the mindset of the nation. Inspired by the anti-Vietnam War activism around him, Gaylord Nelson wanted to take those fiery rally cries and use them to create a movement that would not only make an impact on his own state, but maybe even change the world.
Nelson's Earth Day took place in Denver, but was a springboard for events across the country, inspiring nearly 20 million Americans to take to the streets and rally together to promote a healthier Mother Earth.
Later that year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency was formed; the Clean Air Act would be passed that same year and revamped by Congress in 1977 and in 1990; the Clean Water Act was next in 1972 and the Endangered Species Act followed in 1973.
Despite the passage of federal laws, it took New York City longer to catch up, and Hunts Point even longer. It wasn't until 2006 that the neighborhood started to reclaim its waterfront, with the opening of Barretto Point Park. Hunts Point Riverside Park followed in 2007, along with Concrete Plant Park in 2009, but efforts are still being made to continue improving the local environment..
She was not alone; joining her on April 25 were 150 volunteers taking part in Sustainable South Bronx's second annual "Celebrate Hunts Point!" volunteer day pegged to national Earth Day.
The event, which kicked off at Manida Street's Hunts Point Recreation Center, was a way for residents to give Hunts Point's parks, playgrounds and gardens some needed tender love and care.
"What you're going to do today is not menial work, or work beneath you," said Chris Acosta, the Parks Department's director for Hunts Point. "It's above us all to make sure that when we go to any park in any borough, it's as clean, safe and beautiful as say, Central Park. These are our Central Parks."
Before heading to the project sites, volunteers were led in a 15-minute workout by instructors from Shapeup NYC. The smallest to the largest volunteers began moving to Usher's "Scream" in an elaborate routine of toe touches, jumping jacks, lunges and kickboxing jabs. The workout allowed volunteers to get their blood flowing before arming themselves with spades, rakes, garbage bags and gloves.
"When I was sleeping, I couldn't wait to come to clean and put mulch around the trees," said Leslie Paulo Rivera, 11, who volunteered along with her 12-year-old sister, Ashley, at Hunts Point Playground. Volunteers also painted signs for Bryant Hill Community Garden and cleaned the river banks of Concrete Plant Park.
"The bigger importance is to ensure that people know that some of these parks are out there," said Angela Tovar, director of sustainable policy and research for Sustainable South Bronx. "We want to get people excited about volunteering and doing more work locally."
The event took place just three days after Mayor Bill deBlasio visited The Point CDC to unveil a new plan to address environmental issues in the city's lower income communities. One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City is meant to act as a blueprint for improving air quality, lowering gas emissions and reducing waste.
According to an Environmental Protection Agency Study released in 2013, "94 million tons of pollution were emitted into the atmosphere in the United States." These pollutants included carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter and sulfur dioxide and are commonly emitted from vehicles, factories and fuel consumption.
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These are reasons why community clean-up projects are important: they enable residents to take environmental issues into their own hands, said Arielle Brender, a Fordham University environmental studies major.
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Rohan Mustafa will lead the UAE at the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe, as his country aim for a third appearance at the main event.
The United Arab Emirates are looking to reach their third ICC Cricket World Cup when they take part in the qualifying event in Zimbabwe that gets underway on 4 March. The UAE have made it into the Cricket World Cup Qualifier as a result of winning World Cricket League Division 2 in a thrilling tournament in Namibia.
Recent results
8 February – Beat Kenya by 218 runs
9 February – Lost to Canada by 23 runs
11 February – Lost to Nepal by 4 wickets
12 February – Beat Oman by 46 runs
15 February – Beat Nepal by 7 wickets
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Papua New Guinea
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4 March – v Papua New Guinea, Harare Sports Club, Harare
6 March – West Indies, Old Hararians Sports Club, Harare
8 March – Netherlands, Harare Sports Club, Harare
10 March – Ireland, Old Hararians Sports Club, Harare
Squad: Rohan Mustafa (capt), Adnan Mufti, Ahmed Raza, Amir Hayat, Ashfaq Ahmed, Chirag Suri, Ghulam Shabbir, Imran Haider, Muhammad Boota, Muhammad Naveed, Muhammad Usman, Qadeer Ahmed, Rameez Shahzad, Shaiman Anwar, Zahoor Khan
UAE's captain Rohan Mustafa says his team are in a good place going into this tournament, with the experience in their squad from previous ICC events a big bonus.
"We are in fine shape to produce good results in Zimbabwe as we are coming at the back of a winning performance in Namibia. Then we have Shaiman (Anwar) and (Muhammad) Naveed who played in the 2015 World Cup and the World Twenty20 2016 and have been sharing their experiences and lifting the players' spirits."
While Naveed and Shaiman's experience will be a big help, it was Rohan himself that played the biggest part in getting his team to this tournament. At the World Cricket League Division 2 tournament he scored 183 runs, including two half-centuries, and was UAE's leading wicket-taker with 13 victims. He will be a huge part of the UAE's efforts to make it to the World Cup.
UAE get their tournament underway against Papua New Guinea at the Harare Sports Club on 4 March. A win in that first game would be the perfect start with tougher tests expected to follow.
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The UAE have appeared at two ICC Cricket World Cups, with the previous edition in 2015 their most recent, when they lost all six matches.
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Chief Tyrol Tells It Like It Is
By: Farvoyager
Date: February 1, 2004
Source: Galactica2003.net / bgstns.com
You may have met him on line at various Battlestar Galactica fansites. Why does actor Aaron Douglas who plays "Chief Tyrol" make himself so accessible to fans? And while we were all anxiously waiting for official word on the Galactica series – how was he holding up? Galactica 2003's Farvoyager talked with the actor himself to find out:
I know a lot of the fans are just so appreciative that you've just kind of been there and you've been accessible and you've been letting people know what's going on.
As much as I possibly can.
Why did you decide to do that? Open up to them?
It just seemed like something to do. I don't know. Its funny because everybody, I've been quite surprised that people say 'no one ever does this' and I just kind of go 'why? Are we all so pretentious, that we think that our time is better spent elsewhere? I mean, actors other than the big-wig guys, are just kind of sitting around waiting to do something else. And its not like you don't have time. When people say "well I don't have time to go online for an hour" is just bullshit. To be quite frank. Unless, I mean, some people are doing plays, people are writing, some people are producing and all kinds of things like that, but for me, its just sort of, like last year I worked maybe 50 days, which sort of left 300 days minus evenings for hockey, and do really kind of nothing. And I should be more ambitious and do writing and other things but… no. And you know what? Once I got [online] and started talking and started reading and everything, it was just really kind of cool, to see how passionate people get about this. And I'm as equally passionate about other things, and so there's that kinship and understanding of each other. And the fact that it means so much to people, its like, how can I say no? Its too much fun, these people take time out of their lives to watch your show and watch you, and really express how much it means to them and how much they enjoyed it. And most people never get that kind of recognition and thank you's for their work. So we're very privileged people to be actors, you constantly have people going boy I loved this and I loved that. Everybody else in life doesn't really get that, ever.
Well celebrity is a mixed bag, you get the other side of it too. Like "I'd just like to go out and have a drink tonight and not have anyone recognize me."
Yeah, well, hey, I got no problems with that right now.
Well you just wait, you will… But I can't picture you ever being [pretentious], I think you're pretty cool, pretty easy going.
I try to be. I mean, you have to understand the other side of it. The person that's coming up to you, it means a LOT to them. And for you to blow them off, its really kind of a punch in the face. I know if I went up to somebody and they blew me off, I'd be really upset. And I've worked with a lot of really big names and there's nothing better than, when you have that first feeling of trepidation as you go to work that first day, to walk up to Will Smith and you go "Hi how are ya?" And he is the nicest guy you've ever met in your life. Genuine, and fabulous and fantastic and great to everybody. You just kind of go, you know what? That's very cool. 'Cause I've worked with people who are just NOT cool, and people say "what was it like to work with so-and-so" and you just sort of have this blank smile and don't say anything, and they go, "oh, great" and word spreads like wildfire. I would never want to have 4 or 5 people sitting around telling stories about Aaron Douglas, "Yeah I saw him in this restaurant and he was such an asshole and blah, blah, blah." I mean, I'd be mortified! I never want to have people ragging on me, there's no need for it, unless they're idiots and then you can be an idiot back. But if it's just, I'm being pretentious for the sake of being pretentious, that's ridiculous.
What do you think of the controversy on the internet? Like the old Battlestar versus the new one?
It's really astonishing to me that these people would be so BITING at each other and attack things, I don't understand it. I mean I'm a huge fan of the original, I'm a HUGE fan, growing up as a kid, and this came out it was one of those, "Oh God, how can they do this, how can they make it?" I was so offended, but I really want to do it because I was such a fan of the original. And its like, for me – and I've told this story hundreds of times – for me its like Lord of the Rings. I loved those books, and I am SO offended that they made those movies. When they were making them and I heard about it, I was just like "this is ridiculous, you can't do this!" But I decided to put it aside and go see the show, and they are absolutely fantastic, they are so wonderful…
Yeah, I think they did a great honor to Tolkien.
Oh absolutely! But, are they the book? No.
No. They couldn't!
They couldn't. No. Its two completely separate entities. And that's what I encourage people to do with this. You have to look at it as separate things.
That's what I say.
No, it will never match the old, cannot replace the old, the old is great, and just let it be great.
Yeah, it is what it was. It was written for a different time. Different generation.
And the continuation, not everyone would have been happy with that, because there would have been something that they didn't like, people that they shouldn't have used. And there's really no pleasing everybody.
Nope, there isn't. And change is difficult to embrace but its kind of like, you have to embrace it because that's what life is about. Life is about change.
And here's the big question. How do you feel, like, right now. With everything at least unofficially a go?
I'm sort of smugly pleased.
Did you do a happy dance?
Yeah, I did a happy dance… Its sort of that I know what I'm going to be doing for the next "X" number of months, should I be… I mean, the rumor is I'm in 13 of the 13, and its sort of a nice thing to know that that's what you've got coming. At this point I have no idea when they'll start shooting, there's no kinds of money in the contract or am I gonna be a day player or what. So I have no idea about any of that stuff. But just to know that its going is so nice because I loved it so much, I loved doing it, I loved the cast and I loved the crew and I really want to go back and do it again, and also to flesh out Tyrol a little bit more because I really liked that character, and I really want to go to the convention! I want to meet all the fans. I hear all these stories from all of my friends who go all over the world for Stargate and Andromeda and everything and they say it's the best time EVER. And so I'm really excited to go.
Some of us have been talking online about having a convention in Vancouver.
Yeah, 'cause there's Stargate and Andromeda and the new Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar and they could shoot Outer Limits so you could get a bunch of people from that up there. There's all kinds of stuff. Yeah, you could have a really cool time Sci Fi Convention in Vancouver 'cause there's so much shot there. I, Robot just finished, and all that kind of stuff. That would be great fun. I'd be up for that for sure. But I do want to go around the world where people are, and meet in their environment.
Oh yeah, I mean so many International fans you're gonna have. That's gotta be exciting.
Oh yeah, there was some guy online the other day from Estonia!
Yeah! And that was wild, talking with this guy halfway around the globe. It was very, very cool. It still amazes me that people take time out of their day to watch me. I mean sometimes I still do this, I sort of lay in bed at night going, "I am Tyrol of Battlestar Galactica." How cool is that? I was thinking, when Next Generation was first cast, and some of those actors officially got the pilot and then they found they were going to series, I wonder if they sat on the couch and went "this is really cool."
I bet they did!
"This is really, really kind of cool."
Well we know Shatner did…
Yeah, but even so because that Star Trek didn't have too much preceding it. But now if you were sort of going out for Star Trek: Next Generation, you know that there's this HUGE fan base out there and you're all immediately going to have millions and millions of people watching you. And I'm sort of in that same position, although I would never compare what I do to those guys. But at some point they must have just kind of said, "This is really cool. This is WILD, because nobody else has that character. I am that character and I will forever be known as 'that guy.' " Which is kind of, bizarre.
It's cool.
It's very cool, totally cool. Absolutely. I'm very excited.
Gosh, you know I was talking with Grace Park a couple weeks ago and I was also talking with Ron Moore earlier this week and what I've heard from both of them is that the actors have so much freedom in terms of being able to do improv and just go with the flow, and I wondered if you had any moments like that where you did a little improvisation.
Oh God, read the original script. In the original script, Tyrol is just this relatively small character. There is not a whole lot going on. There's not a lot of scenes and there's not a lot of dialogue. I mean, he was there and he was in place and everybody understood who he was and everything like that, but oh yeah, David Eick was on the set as sort of helping us do the re-write as we go, constant communication was going on and Michael Rymer would just sort of say, "go Aaron, go." And I am a big improver, if the line doesn't make sense I'll change the line, and originally I had nine days in the shooting schedule, and I ended up with 14 because David just kept adding scenes and adding scenes and adding lines, and I would show up and David would just go, "OK, I'm putting you to this scene, I'm not really sure what the dialogue would be but here's the situation…" And then: Go. And I'd go out and just improv something and he would say "Fabulous! It's great , do it again!" Or he would say, "Good. I really need this one word hit." And so, a lot of my stuff is improved and ad-libbed. And they just kept adding me to more and more scenes.
You sort of MADE that character. You didn't try to become what was on paper, you made the character into something even greater than that.
It's funny because my friends and family watched it and they go, "You are SO that guy."
You really are. I've gotta say you fill that role extremely well.
And they say they can tell it was ad-libbed because "That's just something Aaron would say." That's what they all say to me and it's really funny. I mean Ron Moore has a wonderful base to explore, and it's very clear to me the direction he wanted to go, and what kind of person Tyrol was and all that, so he really gave me a nice framework. But Michael and David really gave me the freedom to flesh it out, and with their guidance to steer me down the path to where they wanted it to be and I think everybody's happy with the way it ended up.
Oh yeah, tremendously. You know, there's one scene that really stood out in my mind and I think probably the most memorable scene with you in it. And that is that very emotional scene where they had to close the doors, they had to cut off the people because of the fire, where you're begging…
40 seconds.
Yeah 40 more seconds, and where you're begging Tigh to just please wait a little longer, and that was just so powerful. Were you doing a little ad-lib there?
Well, that scene is pretty much the way it was written originally I think, its just sort of the timing of it and we would sort of switch the lines, like as it was written it was his line, my line, and then his line. But it made more sense to go my line, my line and then to him, and then just kind of words, and a few of the lines got changed a little bit.
Where did you draw up all that emotion? Did you have to kind of go inside yourself to find it or, how did you do that?
When I have really, really emotional scenes like that one and the one that immediately follows it, when I find Cally and Prosna's all burned up and I go to see Adama and tell him that "40 seconds, all I needed was 40 seconds." Stuff like that I just kind of wander off by myself and just sort of settle in to what is the mood of what is really taking place, and really understand from an emotional what is taking place in Tyrol's life at that point in time, and sort of liken it to what's going on in my life. What I usually do is sit quietly and play a little mini movie in my mind and do some dialogue with somebody I've lost or am about to lose. I mean, its kind of sick. You end up having this emotional daze imagining that your mom's on her deathbed and all that kind of crap. I don't do that too much…
Yeah, but you've got to have something, you've got to find some way to conjure up that kind of feeling..
Yeah its gotta be real.
I mean, so almost have to convince your self that there were all these people who were actually dying.
Well, yeah. That's what you have to do, or else it doesn't look like you really cared that people were dying.
Well it looked very convincing, that scene. That was very well done.
Well thank you. I'm happy with the way it turned out. We shot that for hours, too, and that can be tough because its hard to maintain. And funny enough, the one where the three of us are standing there, Tigh and Kelly and Tyrol were standing there arguing about what to do, we had shot all my close ups, everybody's close ups, and we went on and the cameras were off scene so I sort of dropped my big emotional investment, and then all of a sudden Michael Rymer says, "Oh and now we're gonna come back and get this other shot of you," and I just said, "I'm not there anymore and I don't know if I can get back right now because I'm really tired, Michael, we've been doing this 8 hours." And none of those shots ended up in the final cut.
OH no!
Oh no its good though because what was left worked best. Michael always says he'll always take the best acting no matter what the camera angle is.
That's awesome. Its got to be nice for you to have Directors and Producers who are that understanding and allow you to do what you need to do.
Yeah, and I cannot express enough how for people who loved the show, the reason it is so great is Ron Moore had a great script, and Michael Rymer and David Eick on the day let everybody do whatever they needed to do to get wherever they needed to be, and allowed them the freedom to make the scene better, and didn't argue or get offended that they changed the words or dialogue or anything.
That is so cool. Like they're not on some big power trip at all.
No not at all. Some writers will kind of get ancie when you start changing their words, but nobody talks like this! NOBODY talks like this, I don't know why you've written like this. Like Harrison Ford has that great line to George Lucas when they were shooting Star Wars, he said, "George you can write it but boy you can't say it." The dialogue is just awkward sometimes and its really funny.
You gotta make it conversational.
You gotta make it conversational, you gotta make it real, like something you would say.
Hey, is there any member of the cast that you especially bond with, that you felt kind of a kinship with?
Nicki Clyne who plays Cally, just because she was always around me, and she's so sweet, not that she's a little girl, but she's like a sweet little girl to me and its like big brother, little sister. And so I really had great fun with her. And Grace of course, was just wonderful. And it's weird, sort of the Officers and the Pilots went with the Officers and the Pilots and the Enlisted people went with the Enlisted people. So, I was hanging out with Mike Eklund, who is a friend from years ago, cause he and I actually flew to Toronto to do a Budweiser commercial three years ago for a weekend, so we know each other from way back. And Alonso Oyarzun, and all of us, were just sort of hanging out and having fun and then a couple of the background guys too would just sort of stand around with us and talk hockey and talk shop and talk about girls. Yeah.
[laughs] That's funny. Can you kind of tell me what it was like when you found out?
I guess I can let it all out now. When we went to the premier on December second or whatever it was, Edward sort of said, "Oh its gonna go, don't worry it'll go," and he's an exec so you're thinking OK, well it will probably go. And Ron Moore was very upbeat, very positive, Michael Rymer was just saying "No doubt its gonna go," and everybody sort of had that feeling. Of course that doesn't translate into making dollars making cents, so we were still all unsure and then, we were coming to the end of December, and everyone was worried about that, and then they extended it to the end of January and then we've just sort of been in limbo. And then, the beginning of this week I came down to LA and I told with my agent in Vancouver to keep on top of it and let me know anything that happens. And he said he was going to make his calls on Friday and find out. He knows the Casting Directors who cast Battlestar, he knows them really well. He was going to call them and call into various other people. And so, it started coming down to the wire yesterday, I heard some positive things on Thursday, and then Friday. Yesterday, we started finding out little snippets and little snippets and that it was good, and everything was positive, and exciting, then all of a sudden, Grace phones me at about 4:30 yesterday, says, "It doesn't look good, is probably not going to go, Sci-Fi's supposed to walk away. They have all the unions in one room and they are all negotiating, and the unions can be really stubborn. And Sci-Fi just cant do it for the dollars that they want, so its probably just not gonna go." And I was like, "You've got to be kidding me!" I wanted to phone my union and just scream! And we all hate that stupid Union to begin with. Man, they make stupid decisions sometimes… and so, there, its out for the world to hear.
And Grace also told me that they had until 6 PM Pacific Standard Time yesterday, to make the decision or not. Or else the actors' contracts would expire. And she was coming down to test for a pilot on Monday and they would lose her, definitely they would have lost her. So, she said at 4:30, they have an hour and a half to work it out. So she phones me back at quarter to six and says "It's a go, yay, yay! I've got my contract renewed and yay!" and everything's exciting. So I call my agent and I said, "Grace just phoned and this is what happened," and he says, "Oh really? Cause I just talked to casting and they say it's not a green light. They were worried that they were going to lose Grace to this other show and they couldn't get an extension on her option, so they wanted to lock her up just in case they do work it out and if they don't work it then they'll just pay her and that's that."
Oh my gosh!
So we went from "Yay!" dancing in the streets to "Oh, Crap! You're kidding!" And then it was probably 30 phone calls between me, Grace, my agent, back and forth until like 7:00, just after 7:00 last night when a friend of mine who works in casting called me and said, "How does it feel to be one contract away from your own show?" And I'm like, "Is it for sure…?" And she said, "Yup." And I went, "Oh thank God!" And they literally went down to one minute before 6 o'clock, it just looked like, they were like, "We are not gonna to do it, were not gonna do it" Finally somebody said, "OK, Fine, well get in. We'll do it for that much."
Oh my gosh!
And then they had to scramble and call all the agents and say, "We want your actor! We want your actor! We want your actor!" Before the agents say, "OK the one you want, she's gone." It was priceless. It probably would have been a pretty good show.
That's amazing. 'Cause the fans, they were all on pins and needles, and like "it's a go," "its not a go," and like all these rumors get posted on the internet, and you know we had Koenigrules out there posting, and people responding and, oh my gosh, just bedlam. But its kind of a reflection of that, things WERE back and forth!
Oh, they literally were all sitting in one big conference room going, "Screw you!" "No, screw you!" "No screw you!" "Screw you!" "Screw you!"
Oh to be a fly on the wall!
Oh ABSOLUTELY. If you put some cameras in there and broadcast them across the internet you would have had a reality show like you have never seen. It would have been hilarious! Either that or it would have been profoundly boring.
Oh, probably a little of both.
But we're all just happy to see they've figured it out and ultimately it can be just such a great show. The mini was. Ron has some great ideas for it, Sci Fi is committed to making it a great show. The actors all want to do it, the crew wants to do it, so it's like, somebody figure out a way to do this, because its better for everybody to work for a little bit less than to not work at all. 'Cause it is a sci-fi show and they cost an extraordinary amount of money, it's not a sit com where there's set sets and you just go in and blow it off. There's no special effects. And those guys, they work like 20 hours a day to do special effects. Its unbelievable, the work that they do, and sometimes they get paid well to do it, but when you start adding up all the hours… for the work that they do I think they're underpaid.
That was just fascinating hearing that story from you. That's amazing. I mean we've heard about 11th hour decisions, but this was right down to the minute. That was great.
Yeah its wild. Like Grace called me at 5:42 and she "I just got a call and they just did my contract," and it went back to, "no, I don't think… we're not sure… we don't know…"
Oh my goodness, you're just up and down like a roller coaster. So how are you gonna celebrate? Have you celebrated yet? Well, you don't sound hung over so you probably haven't…
No I was actually a very good boy last night, had a couple drinks and went to a hockey game and went to bed.
Well I tell you what, have you got any special message that you'd like to give to the fans? Because you're pretty accessible, you've said a lot online already, but is there anything you want to say that you haven't been able to say?
I just want to impart upon them… like everybody comes to me and says, "Oh, Mr. Douglas, it's such an honor to have you here," and all that stuff. And as nice as that is, it's crap! And stop it! I'm just some guy, OK? It's like, you know, I'm not saving lives, I'm not delivering babies, or pulling cats out of burning homes. I mean it's special what we do, and kind of fun and it's very cool, but when it comes right down to it, were just people. And it's a thrill and an honor for me to sit down and talk to all of these people and they're all interested in what in have to say. And that means so much to me, that everybody's so nice and so fabulous and I encourage them to keep asking me questions and I'll share whatever I can.
Douglas says he'll continue to post at fansites, and he's happy to answer any questions you might have. He says he'd also love to see a Galactica 2003 convention in Vancouver, where he could meet all his fans face to face.


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The long bus ride
Last nights School Committee meeting regarding the busing issue was discussed and more questions seem to surface. The hour and a half bus ride for kids is just to much. About 700 students currently ineligible for transportation should be on buses by the end of the month, the superintendent told the School Committee last night.
But it was noted by transportation director Rick Gallagher that the problem is exasperated by kids being bused across Town. (my words.... because of school choice)
"I'm just worried about it," said board member Adam Blumer, who feared some parents who applied for bus passes wouldn't get them. "I'm tired of getting into another situation where we send out a mixed message."
Parents (who can afford it) are stuck between paying 270.00 or so each child or making other arrangements. I wonder what else could have been cut to keep the busing that way it was... and still have not had an answer from the school committee, on how much would be saved in costs if school choice were eliminated.


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Read Online: Batoto
Nice into Vol 5 we go. Hopefully we're news about Vol 6 soon before you guys reach the end of Vol 5 at the rate you've been translating the chapters.
I like that the Manga is going, just wish the LN was being translated as well. Great Work everyone
Thanks for the new release!
Many thanx.
Thanks for the release!


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It's a known fact that summer goes by faster than you can say "I'm working on my summer body", and while that dream quickly fades out along with the summer sun we wanted to bring you some hope for the new season to come.
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Unfortunately, Saturday's sailing was canceled after several fruitless starts with an "AP over A" to mark the end of day for all racers. However, on Sunday the sailors were greeted by spectacular sailing conditions; so good that both J/70 and J/80 classes were able to post a total of four races.
In the J/70s, there were many changes in the standings. On Sunday, the fleet was completely dominated by the Russian Sergey Semenov, sailing his NEW TERRITORIES that represents the Nautical Club of Saint Petersburg in Russia. Three 1sts and one 5th pretty much crushed the competition for the weekend. JENIALE's Massimo Rama won the only other race that the Russians left open, the third race.
For Luis Albert Solana, owner of PATAKIN, the day was fantastic. Luis commented, "of those who make a hobby of sailing, it was fabulous. Perfect wind and they treated us terrific!! I love surfing with Alex Muscat; Finn's Spanish champion- a luxury!"
Spanish sailing super-star Hugo Rocha, who has sailed on the Russian crew on NEW TERRITORIES, commented that, "everything has gone very well for us. With a very windy sea breeze, the wind was great for us, and therefore, more fun. Thanks to the Race Committee that has done a good job!"
For the weekend, behind PATAKIN and JENIALE EUROSYSTEM, it was David Marco's REBUFF that is now sitting in third for the overall provisional series.
The J/80s had a bit of an upset for the weekend. It was an excellent day for AKEWELE sailed by woman skipper Silvia Ravetllat. They won two of the four races in a hard fight with Marc de Antonio's BRIBON-MOVISTAR (a J/80 World Champion, no less). Taking third for the weekend was the Polish crew on MOONRAKER sailed by Pawel Boksa.
As a result, for the season series, BRIBON-MOVISTAR maintains a comfortable lead of ten points over AKEWELE. In turn, Silvia's crew are just seven point up on Rosa Artigas' MIKAKU. For more Barcelona Winter J/70 & J/80 Series sailing information Add to Flipboard Magazine.


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Japanese people are proud of their art history of centuries which has been varnished adopting the foreign styles and incorporating the conventional methods with modern trends. The magnificence of the Japanese art and the creativity of the Japanese people are obvious in various art works that they have presented to the world.
Their craftsmanship has been marked in every forms of art such as paintings, sculptures and pottery. Origami and Ikebana, The first one as their own art of designing by folding some papers and the second one as Japanese method of flower arrangement, have no match in the art world. The Japanese tattoo symbols need no description.
As stated by the studies and excavations, painting is the oldest invented form of Japanese art. The inherited skilfulness and the adopted foreign influences have provided different styles to the Japanese paintings. They have developed their own technique of painting from all of these things.
Japanese art forms had different influences during changing times. The Nara period for instance is known for beautiful murals. These could be found on temple walls and other places of worship. The Chinese effect is quite obvious in the traditional Japanese art of that time.
Non-presentational art forms also have an prominent position in the Japanese art. Ink paintings also are worthy of attention. Numerous black and white landscape painting are found in Japan.
Japanese ceramics also accomplished a worldwide applause. The Buddhist ages had an stimulating effect on the art of sculpture and it has been modified a lot due to the establishment of different types of clay, wood and metals.
In the more recent years sculptures turned to be a prominent characteristic of Japanese art. Even today we find many outdoor sculptures in the different cities of Japan especially in parks where they are used as part of the landscape design. The Japanese also used natural materials for the purpose of creating sculptures.
Some art forms that are widely accepted today merely belong to Japan. The art of Bonsai or the miniature planting and Origami are among them. Ikebana also is the invention of Japanese artistic sense.
Ukiyo-e, Japanese type of wood block painting is another traditional art from Japan. Japanese art of tea preparation and serving is a famous folklore in the name of Japanese tea ceremony. Japanese martial arts like Karate and Judo require no explanation. Japanese people have proved that poetry also will yield to them.
Ancient Japanese art is a discipline with diverse fileds of specialization. To read more about traditional Japanese Samurai art please click on the link.


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Ride-hailing giant Uber today announced that it has received investment from a rather surprising investor — Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) or KWAP, Malaysia's public-sector pension fund.
The amount of the investment was undisclosed, and it marks the pension fund's first direct investment in a foreign company.
According to Dato' Wan Kamaruzaman Bin Wan Ahmad, CEO of KWAP, the investment was part of the institution's effort to become a diversified global investor.
Also Read: Here's how Didi-Uber are rebuilding the market they set out to disrupt
"We are excited to make Uber our first direct investment in a foreign company. This is part of our efforts to become a diversified global investor. Uber is an exciting company that is changing the way the world moves, and we believe ride-sharing has huge potential to transform the future of mobility," he said in a press statement.
Uber CEO and Co-Founder Travis Kalanick praised KWAP's move towards investing in technology.
"Malaysia has demonstrated its forward-looking position in embracing new technology to help solve transportation challenges and create more economic opportunities," said Kalanick.
Also Read: Didi-Uber deal is running into antitrust roadblocks in China: WSJ
In Malaysia, Uber was launched in January 2014 and currently operates in Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Penang, Ipoh, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching.
Recently, Uber's greatest competitor in Southeast Asia, Grab, announced that it has secured a US$750 million of Series F round to bring greater focus in Indonesian market.


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Why you need to ignore Gross Yields
Before you even start investing in properties you might like to work out how much you could expect to earn, and checking out case studies and other people's experiences is a very good way of doing this.
You will start to come across phrases such as gross yield, net yield and ROI. If you don't know what these are they can be quite confusing terms. Fortunately they are simple enough to understand once they are explained, so let's have a look at each of them in turn.
What is a Gross Yield?
This is a percentage figure and you get it by dividing the annual rental income you receive by the price of the property. So if you have a property which is worth £200,000 and the annual rent is £10,000 then you get a gross yield figure of 5%. If the rent was £20,000 a year then the gross yield would be 10%. This shows that the better the return you get in terms of income the higher this figure will be.
Why you should ignore gross yields
Gross yields are the figures you are most likely to see quoted in marketing literature and by property investment companies. You need to ignore this yield as it's misleading because it fails to account for costs. So you could have a gross yield of 5% but if costs are running at 4% then your real or net return is 1%.
So what yields should we be focusing on?
The best way to measure a property investment return is either by calculating the net yield or even more desirable the ROI (Return on Investment) Let's look at both.
What is a Net Yield?
If you ask experienced property investors, many will tell you that net yield is a more accurate reflection of your returns than the gross yield. You can work out the net yield by taking into account all the other costs which you are likely to incur in the year. So if we look at that first example again. The property is worth £200,000 and you rake in £10,000 in rent a year. However, your running costs are £1,000. You now need to take this £1,000 off the rental figure before dividing by the property value. In this case the net yield is 4.5%, compared to the gross yield which we earlier worked out at 5%. This clearly shows that calculating net yield gives a much clearer summary of how much you can make from a property than the gross equivalent.
What is a ROI?
ROI, or Return on Investment is the figure used by the most experienced investors and the yield you should be most interested in. It is simply a way of seeing whether the money you will get back from an investment is enough to make the outlay worthwhile. Let's say that you invest £50,000 in buying a property, doing it up and paying for insurance and all other costs. Your income which comes in each year would be £5,000. This means that your ROI is a very reasonable 10%, as you receive in income a tenth of your original investment each year.
By using these three different types of calculation you can find different ways of working out whether an investment is right for you and how much it could earn you.
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