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Job ID 31368
Job Description
Vivo Currently Hiring Inside Sales Promoter in Quadian area to expend growth in Chandigarh cluster, Ideal candidate should be 12th pass and interested doing retail sales job in Quadian.
Post/Role: Sales Promoter (In-side Store)
Category: Retail Sales
Employment Type: Permanent/On-contract/Part-time
Work Location: Quadian Punjab – Candidate will get assigned nearby Vivo Authorized Store.
Education: 12th Pass and or Undergraduate
Reporting to : Cluster Manager
Key skills – Convincing power, Retails Sales Ability, Product related Knowledge, Free to work, Interest into Mobile Market
You should have to apply Retail Sales Job in Quadian Punjab:
- Must be age 18 and above
- High school diploma or 12th pass required
- Experience in retail sales at Quadian area or customer service background is preferred
- Candidates must possess proven communication skills
- Employees must be available to work a retail schedule that includes evenings, weekends and holidays
- Candidate must have reliable transportation to and from work
Job Role & Responsibility at VIVO Punjab:
- Responsible for all aspects of a Vivo Mobile retail store job in Quadian
- Provide a total sales solution to our customers for any of their wireless/mobility needs, including selling the value of Vivo Mobile's devices, accessories, service plans and add-ons
- Responsible for driving sales results and meeting daily/weekly/monthly sales goals, as well as providing an unmatched customer from Quadian experience
- Generate sales to meet and exceed company and location production standards
- Customer service calls to existing customers daily
- Solicit, coordinate, schedule, and participate in community events
- Perform other duties as assigned by sales management nearby Quadian Punjab
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- Create the ideal customer experience with each customer interaction
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- If any candidates from Quadian Punjab, would like to apply Vivo company job as a Sales Executive or Promoter candidate can fill the basic details and updated resume on official site of company.
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Divers and other rescue personnel are still trying to reach areas of the cruise ship Costa Concordia that haven't yet been explored in a bid to see if any of the 29 people who remain unaccounted for after Friday's crash off the Italian coast of Tuscany might be alive.
But as the BBC reports, hopes are fading. As of this hour, six people are known to have died. More than 4,200 passengers and crew were on board when it struck rocks, took on water and listed on to its starboard side.
Searchers have blasted holes throughout the ship to gain access to some areas. At least two of the missing persons are Americans. According to The Associated Press, "family members issued a statement Monday confirming that Barbara and Jerry Heil of White Bear Lake, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, are among the missing. The statement says the family is working closely with the U.S. Embassy in Italy and that they are confident 'everything is being done to find our parents.' "
Meanwhile, as the BBC adds, "Capt. Francesco Schettino has been detained on suspicion of manslaughter. ... Schettino, 52, has also been accused of abandoning his vessel before all the passengers had been evacuated."
And, work is underway to remove fuel from the ship's tanks and prevent an spill into what is, the AP says, "a stretch of the Mediterranean said to be the biggest designated marine park in Europe. The rocky reefs are a scuba divers paradise, a natural habitat of dolphins and a protected area for many fish species."
As The New York Timesreports, the disaster has once again raised the issue of oversight of the cruise ship industry.
Update at 9:45 a.m. ET. More Bodies Found:
"Five more bodies were found Tuesday from a crippled cruise ship, and a shocking audio emerged in which the ship's captain was heard making excuses as an Italian coast guard officer repeatedly ordered him to return and oversee his ship's chaotic evacuation," The Associated Press reports.
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Mademoiselle Chambon
Stéphane Brizé
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When Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a quietly beautiful schoolteacher meets Jean (Vincent Lindon), a traditional family man who works in construction, the pair embark upon a love affair that is just as demure as Véronique's wardrobe choices.
It's not that Brizé fails to create a romantic setting for the couple's series of chance encounters; the cinematography is beautiful, emphasised by an apt pace that never accelerates past a gentle trot, and it's always visually pleasing to be in the rural French countryside in the dappled light of late summer. In typical French style there's not a lot of dialogue, Brizé instead chooses the violin and the newly romanticised plaster trowel to do the talking. In this sense, Mademoiselle Chambon is a crash course in suggestive framing and non-verbal communication, but little more.
This film has the air of an intimate portrayal of a romance never-realised; the only problem is that it plays more like a series of well-shot and exquisitely acted moments than a story well-told, which leaves the narrative a bit thin on the ground.
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Malaysian leader: Plane's disappearance deliberate
Published 5:39 pm Saturday, March 15, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Someone deliberately diverted Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and shut down communications with the ground, and the jetliner continued flying for six hours, Malaysia's prime minister said Saturday. The announcement shifted the focus of the investigation to the crew and passengers on the plane, which has now been missing for more than a week.
Prime Minister Najib Razak's statement also meant the flight path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to Beijing could have strayed as far as the southern Indian Ocean or northwest to Kazakhstan, complicating the work of search crews who already have been scouring vast stretches of ocean seeking the plane's 12-person crew and 227 passengers.
"Clearly the search for MH370 has entered a new phase," Najib said at a televised news conference. "It is widely understood that this has been a situation without precedent."
Experts have previously said that whoever disabled the plane's communication systems and then flew the jet must have had a high degree of technical knowledge and flying experience. One possibility they have raised was that one of the pilots wanted to commit suicide.
Najib stressed that investigators were looking into all possibilities as to why the Boeing 777 deviated so drastically from its original flight path, saying authorities could not confirm whether it was a hijacking. Earlier Saturday, a Malaysian official said the plane had been hijacked, though he added that no motive had been established and no demands had been made known.
"In view of this latest development, the Malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers on board," Najib told reporters, reading from a written statement but not taking any questions.
Police on Saturday went to the Kuala Lumpur homes of both the pilot and co-pilot of the missing plane, according to a guard and several local reporters. Authorities have said they will investigate the pilots as part of their probe, but have released no information about how they are progressing.
The plane departed for an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at 12:40 a.m. on March 8. Its communications with civilian air controllers were severed at about 1:20 a.m., and the jet went missing — heralding one of the most puzzling mysteries in modern aviation history.
China, where the bulk of the passengers were from, expressed irritation over what it described as Malaysia's foot-dragging in releasing information about the search.
Investigators now have a high degree of certainty that one of the plane's communications systems — the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) — was partially disabled before the aircraft reached the east coast of Malaysia, Najib said. Shortly afterward, someone on board switched off the aircraft's transponder, which communicates with civilian air traffic controllers.
Najib confirmed that Malaysian air force defense radar picked up traces of the plane turning back westward, crossing over Peninsular Malaysia into the northern stretches of the Strait of Malacca. Authorities previously had said this radar data could not be verified.
"These movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane," Najib said.
Although the aircraft was flying virtually blind to air traffic controllers at this point, onboard equipment continued to send "pings" to satellites.
U.S. aviation safety experts say the shutdown of communications systems makes it clear the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was taken over by someone who knew how the plane worked.
To turn off the transponder, someone in the cockpit would have to turn a knob with multiple selections to the "off" position while pressing down at the same time, said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. That's something a pilot would know, but it could also be learned by someone who researched the plane on the Internet, he said.
The Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System has two aspects, Goglia said. The information part of the system was shut down, but not the transmission part. In most planes, the information section can be shut down by hitting cockpit switches in sequence in order to get to a computer screen where an option must be selected using a keypad, said Goglia, an expert on aircraft maintenance.
That's also something a pilot would know how to do, but that could also be discovered through research, he said.
But to turn off the other transmission portion of the ACARS, it would be necessary to go to an electronics bay beneath the cockpit. That's something a pilot wouldn't normally know how to do, Goglia said. The Malaysia plane's ACARS transmitter continued to send out blips that were recorded by satellite once an hour for four to five hours after the transponder was turned off. The blips don't contain any messages or data, but the satellite can tell in a very broad way what region the blips are coming from.
Malaysia's prime minister said the last confirmed signal between the plane and a satellite came at 8:11 a.m. — 7 hours and 31 minutes after takeoff. This was more than five hours later than the previous time given by Malaysian authorities as the possible last contact.
Airline officials have said the plane had enough fuel to fly for up to about eight hours.
"The investigations team is making further calculations which will indicate how far the aircraft may have flown after this last point of contact," Najib said.
He said authorities had determined that the plane's last communication with a satellite was in one of two possible arcs, or "corridors" — a northern one from northern Thailand through to the border of the Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern one from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
The northern route might theoretically have taken the plane through China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan — which hosts U.S. military bases — and Central Asia, and it is unclear how it might have gone undetected. The region is also home to extremist Islamist groups, unstable governments and remote, sparsely populated areas.
Flying south would have put the plane over the Indian Ocean, with an average depth of 3,890 meters (12,762 feet) and thousands of kilometers (miles) from the nearest land mass.
Goglia said that if Malaysian military radar tracked the plane turning west, it then followed a standard route across the peninsula until it was several hundred miles (kilometers) offshore and beyond military radar range. Airliners generally keep to such highways in the sky to avoid colliding with other planes, but the routes are not straight lines, he said. That means it's likely someone was still guiding the plane, Goglia said.
Britain-based aviation security consultant Chris Yates thought it was highly unlikely the plane would have taken the northern route across land in Asia.
"In theory, any country that sees a strange blip is going to get fighter planes up to have a look," he said. "And if those fighter planes can't make head or tail of what it is, they will shoot it down."
Najib said search efforts in the South China Sea, where the plane first lost contact, had ended.
Indian officials said navy ships supported by long-range surveillance planes and helicopters scoured Andaman Sea islands for a third day Saturday without any success in finding evidence of the missing jet.
Two-thirds of the plane's passengers were Chinese, and China's government has been under pressure to give relatives firm news of the aircraft's fate.
In a stinging commentary on Saturday, the Chinese government's Xinhua News Agency said the Malaysian information was "painfully belated," resulting in wasted efforts and straining the nerves of relatives.
"Given today's technology, the delay smacks of either dereliction of duty or reluctance to share information in a full and timely manner," Xinhua said. "That would be intolerable."
Najib said he understood the need for families to receive information, but that his government wanted to release only fully corroborated reports. He said his country has been sharing information with international investigators, even when it meant placing "national security concerns" second to the search. U.S., British and Malaysian air safety investigators have been on the ground in Malaysia to assist with the investigation.
In the Chinese capital, relatives of passengers who have anxiously awaited news at a hotel near Beijing's airport said they felt deceived at not being told earlier about the plane's last signal. "We are going through a roller coaster, and we feel helpless and powerless," said a woman, who declined to give her name.
At least one of the relatives saw a glimmer of hope in word that the plane's disappearance was a deliberate act, rather than a crash. "It's very good," said a woman, who gave only her surname, Wen.
Malaysian police have already said they are looking at the psychological state, family life and connections of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27. Both have been described as respectable, community-minded men.
Zaharie joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and had more than 18,000 hours of flying experience. His Facebook page showed an aviation enthusiast who flew remote-controlled aircraft, posting pictures of his collection, which included a lightweight twin-engine helicopter and an amphibious aircraft.
Fariq was contemplating marriage after having just graduated to the cockpit of a Boeing 777. He has drawn scrutiny after the revelation that in 2011, he and another pilot invited two women aboard their aircraft to sit in the cockpit for a flight from Phuket, Thailand, to Kuala Lumpur.
Fourteen countries are involved in the search for the plane, using 43 ships and 58 aircraft.
A U.S. P-8A Poseidon, the most advanced long-range anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft in the world, was to arrive over the weekend and sweep parts of the Indian Ocean, the U.S. Defense Department said in a statement.


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Last Thursday, P and I went to a delicious dinner at Camino to celebrate Deborah Madison's brilliant new book, Vegetable Literacy. With Russ cooking up Madison's recipes, it was an unbeatable combination. I immediately went home and knew I needed to try my hand at one of her new recipes, and the first thing I flipped to was the asparagus section. I saw Madison's recipe for a version of the dish I'm sharing today, and I knew I had to make it pronto!
I like that Madison calls for roasting the veg - not a technique I've used for asparagus, though now I will. The roasting was easy, the asparagus tender, and the flavors delish. Instead of hard boiling the egg as per the recipe, I craved the oozy yolk of a soft boiled egg and oh man was that a good move. The mustard vinaigrette mingles with the yolk and all come together to coat the asparagus and toasty bread. I'm a fan.
I ate this asparagus salad for breakfast, but that's just me. I think the salad would make a fantastic lunch, brunch, or light supper.
inspired by Deborah Madison's Vegetable Literacy, originally from Amelia Saltsman in What We Eat When We Eat Alone
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- 1 pound fresh asparagus spears
- olive oil
- salt and fresh ground black pepper
- 1-2 soft boiled eggs - see my technique for soft boiled eggs here
- 1-2 slices sourdough bread {GF folks: I used a GF baguette from Mariposa Bakery. In a pinch you could tear up a GF hamburger bun}
- 1 teaspoon Dijon or coarse mustard
- 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- chervil
Preheat oven to 400.
Trim tough ends from asparagus spears. Lay the spears in a roasting dish, or on a baking sheet. Toss asparagus with 2 teaspoons olive oil, and season with salt and fresh ground black pepper.
Roast asparagus in the hot oven for 10 minutes. Take the pan from the oven, give it a good shake, and roast another 10-20 minutes until spears are tender, and cooked through.
In the meantime, put a small saucepan with water on the stove top to cook your soft boiled eggs. See the rest of the instructions here.
Tear bread into large, rough pieces. Place torn bread onto another baking sheet or roasting pan. Toss with a teaspoon of olive oil and a sprinkling of salt. Place bread in the oven 5-10 minutes, until golden.
Whisk together mustard, vinegar and a pinch of salt. Then whisk in just enough olive oil for a nice emulsified dressing.
Assemble the salad by scattering the roasted asparagus and croutons on a plate. Nestle an egg or two on top. Drizzle on some dressing. Toss on a few sprigs of chervil. Break open those eggs and let all the wonderful flavors mingle.
I love this salad!
There are so many wonderful asparagus recipes floating around these days... Here are a few goodies:
- Asparagus, fennel, piave salad with Meyer lemon caper vinaigrette
- Buttermilk Asparagus Salad
- Asparagus with Poached Eggs over Grits
- Miner's Lettuce with Soft Boiled Egg and Asparagus
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Since my post on baked goods has inspired comments on wine gums, I should say something about candy and sweets.
In BrE, candy refers to things that are made from sugar that's been melted (usually with water and some flavo(u)ring) and resolidified in some form, including boiled sweets (AmE = hard candy) and candy floss (AmE = cotton candy). Candies belong to the wider category of sweets, which includes chocolate, toffees, and anything else that you'd eat on its own in order to rot your teeth. When talking with children, they're often called sweeties. Sweet shops speciali{s/z}e in selling sweets.
In AmE you'd get them at the candy store, and they'd be called candy, even if they're made from chocolate or nuts or whatnot. Thus, in the US one eats candy bars such as a Milky Way, while in the UK one eats chocolate bars such as Milky Way. (Click on the link to read more about the difference between Milky Ways and other candy/chocolate bars in the UK and US.) Candy store also has its place in an AmE idiom: (to be/feel) like a kid in a candy store--that is, really excited and happy, due to some external stimulus. For example:
Lately he even gets offered more interesting work than he can handle, a problem he tends to solve by accepting all of it. He feels like "a kid in a candy store." [International Herald Tribune on jazz musician Chris Potter]Like a child/kid in a sweet shop is used in this way in BrE, but it's not as established as an idiom.
Of course, there are lots of sweets/candies that are produced in the UK but not the US and vice versa (though Canada provides an interesting middle ground with some of both). But here are a few whose names create cross-dialectal confusion.
In BrE sherbet is a sweet-tart powder consisting of sugar, tartaric acid, bicarbonate of soda (AmE prefers baking soda), and mostly artificial flavo(u)rings and colo(u)rs. The closest thing in the US is probably the stuff in Pixy Sticks (straws filled with sweet-tart powder), but it's a bit different because sherbet is more fizzy (due to the soda). English friends my age get very sentimental about flying saucers (pictured left), which are (BrE) sherbet surrounded by a material that tastes and feels like communion wafers. When I was young, we played "church" with Necco wafers (pictured right). I wore a half-slip on my head to be a nun or a bride, depending on my mood. I feel rather cheated that we didn't have flying saucers to play church with, but other than their similarity to papery-tasting hosts, I don't really understand the appeal. But then, physical resemblance to communion hosts was just about the only appeal of Necco wafers as well.
In the US, sherbet is a frozen dessert that is like sorbet, but which usually has some dairy content (though not as much as an ice cream would). I don't think it's eaten as much now as when I was a child, since sorbet has become available and popular.
[This paragraph added later due to a comment from kathyf.] Smarties are small, colo(u)rful sweets/candies in both countries. UK Smarties (pictured left) are like M&Ms--milk chocolate in a candy shell, made by Rowntree/Nestle. They differ from M&Ms in the colo(u)r assortment, the quality of the chocolate (people tend to prefer the one they grew up with) and the fact that orange smarties have orange-flavo(u)red chocolate. (There's a lot more orange-flavo(u)red chocolate in the UK than the US.) US Smarties (pictured right) are little discs of mostly-sweet-with-a-little-tart pastel-colo(u)red sugary stuff, which crumbles when bitten. I've just described them to Better Half, and neither of us can think of something similar in the UK. They come in a stack wrapped in cellophane and are mostly known for being a candy/sweet one gets from cheap/tight grown-ups on Hallowe(')en.
BrE speakers are often amused by and curious about the AmE candy/sweet name taffy, as here Taffy is a derogatory name for a Welshman. The word is a variation on toffee, which is what BrE speakers would call the stuff. You don't want to go to the US and just start calling all toffees taffy, however. (Well, maybe you do want to, but you shouldn't.) For me, taffy is reserved for pulled taffy, which is a light colo(u)r or white because it has been repeatedly pulled into strings and reshaped, and has a fruity or minty flavo(u)r. Anything else that is toffee in BrE, for example chewy caramels, would be toffee in my AmE dialect as well. (Note that salt water taffy, despite its name and the fact that it's sold at the seaside, contains no sea water.)
Globali{s/z}ation means that the confectionery world is becoming smaller. I've already discussed some chocolate/candy bar names that have become more similar in the US and UK (click the Milky Way link above for the Marathon/Snickers story). Another source of UK resentment is that Opal Fruits changed their name to Starburst in 1998 to be in tune with the US brand. The confusing thing about this is that they're not quite the same. UK Starbursts are paler than the US ones, and a bit different in consistency, since they're vegetarian (the US ones contain gelatin). To my mind the worst part of this US name-imperialism is that the UK consumer gets the new name without the main benefit of US Starburst--the cherry-flavo(u)red one. UK Starburst has lime instead--but everyone knows that cherry is the best flavo(u)r.


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Legend - Often called Malay Jade but not a true Jade it is actually dyed Quartzite. Quartzites are formed through the metamorphism of quartz-rich sandstones. They are formed mostly of the mineral quartz. Quartzite may sometimes look like marble, but can be distinguished because quartzite cannot be scratched with a knife, unlike marble. Nor does it react with weak acid, as does marble. It is very hard and weather resistant.
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(StatePoint) There are many popular New Year's resolutions that quickly come and go: eating healthy, losing weight, managing stress and saving money. In 2013, why not focus on one health change you'll enjoy sticking to… getting more sleep.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, the average American sleeps about six hours and 55 minutes per night during the week, and 15 percent of adults sleep less than six hours per night.
"Lack of sleep can take a significant toll on your overall health and interfere with some of your daily activities," said Dr. Michael Thorpy, director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Almost everybody has trouble sleeping now and then, but many Americans experience significant problems getting to sleep or continually wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep.
Such problems may be clinical symptoms of insomnia. According to the National Sleep Foundation, if you have trouble falling asleep at night or staying asleep, or you wake up in the morning feeling unrefreshed, you may be suffering from insomnia.
Insomnia can affect people in different ways. Some sufferers have trouble initially getting to sleep, while others wake up in the middle of the night and have difficulty falling back asleep.
To help you get better sleep this year, Dr. Thorpy suggests these simple tips:
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• Avoid caffeine and alcohol before bed.
• Exercise regularly. Just don't exercise rigorously near bedtime and check with your doctor before starting an exercise regimen.
• Don't clock-watch. If you awaken in the middle of the night and stay in bed, don't lie there staring at the clock. And don't watch TV or use your laptop or cell phone, because these technologies stimulate the brain, making it tougher to fall back to sleep.
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ST. JOHN PLANTATION, Maine — Maine game wardens say a Massachusetts man survived being trapped under an overturned snowmobile for 20 hours.
Wardens said searchers on Wednesday morning found 64-year-old Paul Lessard of Milford, Mass., underneath his overturned snowmobile in a ditch with running water in St. John Plantation, near the Canadian border.
"I kept my cool and said a lot of prayers. And I knew my faith in God that I would get out of the situation," Lessard said. " I wasn't really scared. I got to the point, well if this is my time, this is my time."
Wardens determined that Lessard had been trapped since the previous day. They say he was conscious but showing signs of hypothermia following a frigid night with snow squalls. He was taken to t Northern Maine Medical Center and then transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor where he was listed in fair condition.
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Theatre production companies take on the role of game designers as a growing immersion in multimedia alters expectations of entertainment.
In an increasingly digitised world, the needs of audiences are changing. Everyone is familiar with the democratic approach to entertainment advocated by the internet, where all are free to create content, post a video on YouTube or have their music heard on MySpace. This has resulted in a generation that is not happy to sit passively in the dark stalls of a theatre, but demands interactive elements in performance. In response to this, revolutionary entertainments have emerged. The flash mob is a prime demonstration of the type of new, audience-created performances that people desire in the multimedia age. Flash mobbing is symptomatic of the rise in digital technology, which has not only given people the license to make their own entertainment but the tools to do so as well. The internet crosses geographical constraints and allows people to form communities in ways they never have before, enabling people to choreograph and co-ordinate events on a scale not previously possible.
Interestingly, the rise of the internet is also making these spontaneous social interactions more desirable. Jeff Hull, Director of San Francisco-based situational design company, Nonchalance, talks about how the internet has led to an increased sense of solitude: "You can still feel very isolated when you're in a chat room or on Facebook. You're reaching out but you're still alone." There is an apparent paradox to the internet: it offers users the opportunity to forge worldwide relationships and yet distances them from their surroundings and actual experiences. It is this separation, however, that prompts a search for deeper engagement and precipitates the need for real-world interaction, social games and immersive performances. Ironically, these are often facilitated by the very medium that makes them necessary.
Hull explains how his production, The Games of Nonchalance, arose from a desire to move these digital communities offline and back into the 3D world. By incorporating the concept of user-driven content into the theatrical realm, Hull is representative of the vanguard, those practitioners who are forging a new future in entertainment. The idea is expressed through performances that encourage audience involvement and offer a deeper engagement within the experience. Hull's production takes the form of a city-wide adventure game, complete with live actors and site-specific performances. Audience members' experiences of The Games of Nonchalance are entirely dependent on the level of their involvement.
Set in downtown San Francisco, the production leads the participants on an urban exploration throughout the city. Funded to a large degree out of Hull's own pocket, the experimental work was created with the simple desire to "infuse more variability and play into the civic realm." The aim is to provoke discovery and content is delivered in an astonishing variety of formats, from radios in a public park to notes in a CD case. There are three episodes, though the dedicated may discover more, and each episode has a central narrative plot. Intricate sub-plots pepper this central storyline and give the audience license to take their involvement further. What fascinates Hull is how the players have taken ownership of the production: "Members of that community have started to create their own concepts and episodes of the game, which is really exciting." This willingness to appropriate narratives and take an active role defines the new audience; the future of entertainment depends on the ability of its producers to adapt and respond to this challenge in creative ways.
People are keen to be players and creators rather than spectators and productions such as Hull's gratify these aspirations: "We've encouraged and entitled them, given them license to influence play." This concept of "play" is significant. Emphasis has moved from the noun, "the play", to the verb, "to play", and audiences are participants in games, not onlookers watching performances. Veterans of immersive theatre such as Britain's Punchdrunk and Forced Entertainment have long promoted the active audience but audience-led theatre has experienced a huge growth in popularity over the last few years.
Festivals such as the Come Out & Play Festival in New York are encouraging social games in innovative spaces, offering situational theatre where anything can become a stage and narratives are inspired by play. The Hide&Seek Weekender is another event that puts these ideas into practice, providing three days of pervasive games in London, most recently at The National Theatre in July. On the Hide&Seek website, the group express their motivations for creating this type of theatre: "Our values are centred on our belief that play, as a theme, a way of being, and design tool, is integral to understanding how culture will develop in the 21st century." People are demanding experiences that allow them to be active rather than passive, searching for what is lacking from the social interactions of the digital age: meaningful encounters, true connectivity and inclusion.
Trust is an integral component to this type of theatre. Productions that utilise social games to engage their audience rely upon their participants to be enthusiastic. Likewise, the audience must trust the producers not to manipulate them but to support them in their play. Theatre that aims to break down constraints often results in situations where the audience is vulnerable to exploitation and it is paramount that the audience don't feel betrayed. Hull has found that an atmosphere of mutual assurance has developed in his production: "They trust us enough to take the next step and know that we're guiding them with a purpose." People need to feel secure in order to take chances and the emerging genre of entertainment is reliant on this interaction. Together, through co-operation and participation, the creators and the players in these performances integrate their roles and work to develop a community in the "third place."
This term, "third place", refers to those social surroundings, which are neither home or workplace, but places such as coffee shops. These are the places that foster community and encourage creative interaction. However, in the digital age, we are in danger of replacing these spaces with artificial substitutes. The "third place" has already become subsumed into internet culture, with people seeking interaction in virtual locations such as chatrooms. These internet communities, valuable in their own right, encourage only a shallow engagement with the external world and risk neglect of the closer, offline community. The work of practitioners such as Hull strive to reverse this trend, creating entertainment that incorporates digital media with real-world communities and begs the question: is this a new movement? "I can't quite call it a movement because it's not co-ordinated in any way, but there are many people in different fields approaching the "third place" and looking to activate it." These projects aim to reclaim the "third place" from the digital realm and create real experiences that encourage social engagement and civic participation, which is integral to society.
The development of community is a fundamental aspect of The Games of Nonchalance, which collaborates with local retail shops and utilises public spaces like parks. In certain episodes, team play is critical to success: "The players have to come together at a certain time and place and each one of them has a slice of the information needed. They have to guide each other and depend on each other. If there are weak links in the group then it's impossible to progress and I think the fact that we have had 100 people through that episode is a tribute to their commitment." The dedication of the audience demonstrates the potential of this new entertainment to create communities. Hull dreams that "public spaces will become playgrounds, with rope swings and slides instead of escalators." While public liability may prohibit this, the new genre of performance offers a movement towards this integrated society, putting the control back into the hands of the players and fulfilling the desires of the multimedia age.
The Games of Nonchalance concluded in San Francisco in September 2010 and was free to participate. In the UK, there were a variety of interactive shows at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2010. A few suggestions were Fifth Wall's Suspicious Package, C Theatre's Shakespeare for Breakfast and MT's Poignant. For more information about The Games of Nonchalance visit www.nonchalance.com.
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Internationally renowned artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, premiered Recorders at Manchester Art Gallery in September 2010.
Artists have experimented with digitisation since its inception. Early pioneers such as Eadweard Muybridge broke new ground with his zoopraxiscope (1879) and by using multiple cameras, he captured images of motion. This movement progressed heavily into the 20th century with artists experimenting with light, motion and kinetics.
Digital art and media evolved from the notion of interactivity. In Art and Electronic Media (2009), Edward Shanken asserts: "Defying the traditional conception of art as a static object, in the early twentieth century artists began to introduce motion into their work, making explicit the continuity of consciousness in the perception of art through time and space. Later, in the 1950s, embracing the science of cybernetics, Nicolas Schöffer collaborated with engineers to incorporate electronic sensors, controls and motors into sculptures that responded to the movement of viewers, performers or atmospheric conditions. Such works laid a significant foundation for subsequent developments in interactive art incorporating digital multimedia." This experimentation guided art in another direction, combining the aesthetics of traditional art forms, such as painting or sculpture, but through technology this medium developed within an entirely different context.
This September, Recorders, an exhibition of interactive artworks by Mexican-Canadian artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, opens at Manchester Art Gallery. Lozano-Hemmer has gained international acclaim for using digital technologies to create artworks that provide "critical platforms for public participation", which are often staged in public spaces such as Trafalgar Square, New York City's Madison Square Park and Zocalo Square in Mexico City. Lozano-Hemmer's work is the culmination of decades of technological advancements, but his intricate creative practice makes the works poignant, contemplative and explorative.
People on People (2010) is a major new installation inspired by portraiture and shadowplays. As visitors walk around the exhibition space, they will see the live and recorded image of other visitors projected within their own shadows. Meanwhile, they will also be filmed for live or delayed playback inside the shadow of someone else. Using sophisticated computerised surveillance cameras, this immersive artwork is both portentous and playful, creating an intimate relationship between artist, audience and piece. Recorders also features five specially adapted pieces that have never been on public display in England before, including the artist's contribution to the Mexican pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2007, the seminal Pulse Room.
Other works in the show include 33 Questions per Minute (2000), a computer programme that generates 55 billion different, grammatically correct questions at a rate of 33 per minute. It would take over 3000 years to ask all possible questions, but the artwork also invites visitors to introduce their own questions into the automatic flow. Pulse Room will see one of the gallery's major exhibition spaces filled with 100 light bulbs, which are activated by a sensor to flash at the exact rhythm of the participant's heart. Microphones (2008) features ten vintage microphones, modified to record the voice of visitors and simultaneously play back the voice of a previous participant as an echo. Past and present participants appear to interact in an incoherent dialogue. Pulse Index (2010) records and displays participants' fingerprints at the same time as their heart rates. Recorders significantly contributes to the discourse of digital culture, while simultaneously forging a redefinition for digital art, commenting on the impact of technology as a means for creative expression.
Recorders opened at Manchester Art Gallery on 18 September 2010 and continued until 30 January 2011. It was also part of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture. www.manchestergalleries.org.
Q&A with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Your work is known for its ability to create interplay between the built environment, urban design and the people who use those spaces. This is integral to your work, can you tell me how you first noticed this area of art and society, and how you began to explore it?
In 1992, after getting a degree in chemistry and doing performance art for several years, I started hanging out with Emilio López-Galiacho and other architects who hated architecture. Emilio often said that when architects talked about "intelligent buildings" they were referring to self-regulating AC systems, efficient fuzzy-logic elevator dispatch algorithms, computerised blinds and other techniques for maximising worker output, and yet buildings had no intelligence to the outside, to public space… no public feedback mechanisms. There was a big opportunity to take on parasitic and interstitial approaches to reconnect public space, architecture and the virtual. Most of my work involves the creation of "platforms for participation", where the public may establish relationships with each other, with the built environment or with certain curated contexts. Depending on the piece these emergent relationships are eccentric, poetic, critical or even perverse.
Your work is a complex mix of theatrical performance, re-defining architecture, technological wonder and digital sculpture; can you tell me how you balance these aspects in order to create the finished works?
It depends on the piece. Often my work seeks to amplify and empower the public, to create intimacy and agency; other times I want to create predatorial environments that police, track, brand or classify the public, in order to create an almost Brechtian rejection and visualisation of technological correctness (like the fallacy that advanced surveillance equipment can make our cities safer from terrorists). Sometimes I develop pieces that emerge from an experimental and formal approach, working with new techniques at the studio for instance, while others respond to the constraints of a very specific commission. There is not really a balance.
People on People dislocates the familiarity of the self and expectations of the self; can you tell me about the ideas and inspiration behind it?
The ideas for this project are pretty much along the lines of many other critical investigations in visual representation. How do we see ourselves? What traces do we leave behind? How do we perform our absence? The piece is inspired by Adolfo Bioy Casares novel Morel's Invention (1941), in which the protagonist falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a three-dimensional representation captured and played-back by a post-photographic device. Ultimately, an important aspect of this project is that in order to see the recording or live image of someone else within your own shadow you are yourself recorded for future viewers. There are notions of Otherness, complicity and puppetry that I hope are elicited.
There's immediacy within your work, can you tell me how this reflects the value system of our culture and identity, for example, the individual vs. the masses?
Immediacy is to be avoided in art! I hope my work does not have that. The exhibition Recorders in Manchester is precisely designed to reject a Pavlovian pattern of immediate action and reaction. In Manchester the installations all have memory, and through this memory is a sense of time interfering, that the pieces are noisy, out of control, indeterminate, diversely populated. It is within ambiguity and slowness that poetry may happen, if we are lucky.
33 Questions per Minute is also one of the works in the Manchester show, can you tell me more about this piece and the impossibility of asking 55 billion questions in a lifetime, ultimately reminding the participant of their mortality?
It is a piece not unlike the surrealist's exquisite corpse, within the long tradition of automatic poetry. It generates grammatically correct questions, but it never repeats the same one. They are usually absurd, "will you bleed in an orderly fashion?" and they are presented at a rate of 33 per minute, the threshold of legibility, in 21 small liquid crystal displays. Using a keyboard, people may enter their own questions to be shown within the computer-generated questions. Public participation is also automatically uploaded to the internet. The project was originally developed for the Havana Biennial in 2000 as I heard that Cubans could not have internet access. As a Mexican-Canadian, I could order a connection and use it in my installation. Any question typed into the keyboard could not be censored by the authorities, because it was impossible for them to know if the question was written by the computer or by a person. So in a way, I hoped that critical questions would be camouflaged by the computer-generated output. The piece worked well, except I thought that people would reflect on the political situation in the country and instead most entries were sexual in nature. I love unexpected outcomes.
Pulse Room connects "man" and technology, reminding us that we're made up of energy; can you tell me more about the ideas behind this piece?
When my wife was pregnant with twins, we listened to their different heart-rates simultaneously, which produced a pattern similar to what you might hear in minimalist music. I wanted to expand that into something that could be appreciated visually. I was also inspired by the film Macario (1960) by Roberto Gavaldón, in which the protagonist has a hunger-induced hallucination where every living person is represented by a flickering candle. In Pulse Room you see the flicker of people who have left their heart recordings behind. The piece is meant to amplify intimate biometric data into an abstract collective representation.
What legacy can digital art leave? What are its messages and how does it continuously re-examine modes of communication?
Perfect digital reproduction, the fact that a copy is identical to the original, asks us to re-examine Benjamin's notion of the disappearance of the "aura" due to mechanical reproduction. If you think of digital art as a set of instructions, a source code, then it is something akin to Sol Lewitt's "art of instructions," a meta-description for a particular effect. Many artists working with technology look for ways to create works that may have an honorable death – choosing materials that can age beautifully, for example: the incandescent light bulbs used in Pulse Room are now illegal in most countries. Conversely, a lot of performance art is ephemeral, and that is what attracts me to it. The legacy may not be material, but certainly good performance art leaves a tangible and effective impact on people.
Another aspect of digital art/culture is that underlying necessity of technology; but it's constantly changing, how do you continue to create and innovate within this medium?
I firmly believe that technology is inevitable, that as McLuhan would say, it is "our second skin" and that we cannot pretend to know what it would be like to be outside of it. Even if you are not doing digital art we can't escape technological culture: your public watches four hours of TV a day, the bank knows what, where and when you buy anything, your government is supported by virtual capital, even if you are in a remote area of Mexico with no computer or telephone the decisions that are being made through trans-national networks of corporate control affect you directly. So the first thing one must do with technological art is to get rid of words like "new", "innovate" and "future." Technology is like a language, not a tool.
Finally, can you tell me what you have planned for the future? Do you have any new projects underway?
I am touring a new public art project called Solar Equation, which is basically a scale model of the Sun, only 100 million times smaller than the real thing. It is a huge balloon that is animated by live mathematical equations that simulate the turbulence, flares and sunspots that can be seen on the surface of the Sun. We have been working with NASA to make sure that the piece is as faithful as possible. The piece was commissioned by Federation Square in Melbourne, where it was shown this summer (2010).
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Section 46
Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1831. In this early time of the Church, a unified pattern for the conducting of Church services had not yet developed. However, a custom of admitting only members and earnest investigators to the sacrament meetings and other assemblies of the Church had become somewhat general. This revelation expresses the will of the Lord relative to governing and conducting meetings and His direction on seeking and discerning the gifts of the Spirit.
1–2, Elders are to conduct meetings as guided by the Holy Spirit; 3–6, Truth seekers should not be excluded from sacramental services; 7–12, Ask of God and seek the gifts of the Spirit; 13–26, An enumeration of some of these gifts is given; 27–33, Church leaders are given power to discern the gifts of the Spirit.
1 Hearken, O ye people of my church; for verily I say unto you that these things were spoken unto you for your aprofit and learning.
2 But notwithstanding those things which are written, it always has been given to the aelders of my church from the beginning, and ever shall be, to bconduct all meetings as they are directed and guided by the Holy Spirit.
3 Nevertheless ye are commanded never to acast any one out from your public bmeetings, which are held before the world.
4 Ye are also commanded not to cast any one who belongeth to the church out of your sacrament meetings; nevertheless, if any have trespassed, let him anot bpartake until he makes reconciliation.
5 And again I say unto you, ye shall not cast any out of your sacrament meetings who are earnestly aseeking the kingdom—I speak this concerning those who are not of the church.
6 And again I say unto you, concerning your aconfirmation meetings, that if there be any that are not of the church, that are earnestly seeking after the kingdom, ye shall not cast them out.
7 But ye are commanded in all things to aask of God, who giveth liberally; and that which the Spirit testifies unto you even so I would that ye should do in all bholiness of heart, walking uprightly before me, cconsidering the end of your salvation, doing all things with prayer and dthanksgiving, that ye may not be eseduced by evil fspirits, or doctrines of devils, or the gcommandments of men; for some are of men, and others of devils.
8 Wherefore, beware lest ye are deceived; and that ye may not be deceived aseek ye earnestly the best gifts, always remembering for what they are given;
9 For verily I say unto you, they are given for the benefit of those who love me and keep all my commandments, and him that seeketh so to do; that all may be benefited that seek or that ask of me, that ask and not for a asign that they may bconsume it upon their lusts.
10 And again, verily I say unto you, I would that ye should always remember, and always retain in your aminds what those bgifts are, that are given unto the church.
11 For all have not every agift given unto them; for there are many gifts, and to every man is given a gift by the Spirit of God.
12 To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby.
13 To some it is given by the aHoly Ghost to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he was crucified for the sins of the world.
14 To others it is given to abelieve on their words, that they also might have eternal life if they continue faithful.
15 And again, to some it is given by the Holy Ghost to know the adifferences of administration, as it will be pleasing unto the same Lord, according as the Lord will, suiting his bmercies according to the conditions of the children of men.
16 And again, it is given by the Holy Ghost to some to know the diversities of operations, whether they be of God, that the manifestations of the aSpirit may be given to every man to profit withal.
17 And again, verily I say unto you, to some is given, by the Spirit of God, the word of awisdom.
18 To another is given the word of aknowledge, that all may be taught to be wise and to have knowledge.
19 And again, to some it is given to have afaith to be healed;
20 And to others it is given to have faith to aheal.
21 And again, to some is given the working of amiracles;
22 And to others it is given to aprophesy;
23 And to others the adiscerning of spirits.
24 And again, it is given to some to speak with atongues;
25 And to another is given the interpretation of tongues.
26 And all these agifts come from God, for the benefit of the bchildren of God.
27 And unto the abishop of the church, and unto such as God shall appoint and ordain to watch over the church and to be elders unto the church, are to have it given unto them to bdiscern all those gifts lest there shall be any among you professing and yet be not of God.
28 And it shall come to pass that he that asketh in aSpirit shall receive in Spirit;
29 That unto some it may be given to have all those gifts, that there may be a head, in order that every member may be profited thereby.
30 He that aasketh in the bSpirit asketh according to the cwill of God; wherefore it is done even as he asketh.
31 And again, I say unto you, all things must be done in the name of Christ, whatsoever you do in the Spirit;
32 And ye must give athanks unto God in the Spirit for whatsoever blessing ye are blessed with.
33 And ye must practice avirtue and holiness before me continually. Even so. Amen.


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Columbia seeks to change 'whites only' scholarship
This is awkward, to say the least. Columbia University offers a fellowship, launched in 1920, that can only be awarded to someone from Iowa—someone white from Iowa.
To rectify this, the university is finally making changes to the Lydia C. Roberts graduate and traveling fellowship, which limits its recipients to the categories of Iowan and "Caucasian."
According to the New York Daily News, Columbia filed an affidavit with Manhattan's supreme court to get the restriction lifted. "Circumstances have so changed from the time when the Trust was established" that complying with the restrictions is "impossible," the Daily News writes, quoting the filing. "Columbia University is now prohibited by law and University policy from discriminating on the basis of race."
The money was left to Columbia by Iowa native Lydia C. Chamberlain, who died in 1920. The fund's administrator is now JP Morgan Chase. The fellowships have not been awarded since 1997, according to the Daily News, although it's unclear why.
The white-only rule may violate the U.S. Constitution, adds the New York Post. But the fund, now up to $800,000, cannot be changed without going to court.
The Post also notes that when the NAACP complained about the "whites only" clause in 1949, the provost at the time, Grayson L. Kirk, defended it as helpful to those who qualify. "We do not feel we are justified in depriving some of our students of the benefits of restricted grants simply because they are not available to everyone," he said, according to the paper.
The Post also writes that when the scholarship was first awarded in 1920 it was for $750, easily covering the annual $180 tuition. In 2013, that same annual tuition is north of $45,000.
The trust's bizarre restrictions aren't limited to race and place, by the way.
The Post adds that fellows "must not study law or several other fields, and must return to Iowa for two years after graduating."


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A noted expert on health policy issues, Rovner is the author of a critically-praised reference book Health Care Politics and Policy A-Z. Rovner is also co-author of the book Managed Care Strategies 1997, and has contributed to several other books, including two chapters in Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, edited by political scientists Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann.
In 2005, Rovner was awarded the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress for her coverage of the passage of the Medicare prescription drug law and its aftermath.
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An honors graduate, Rovner has a degree in political science from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.


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Any walk through downtown demonstrates that cyclists think they're above the law. Does that explain @lancearmstrong ?
— Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) June 26, 2014
Not only is the underlying "logic" of this tweet completely stupid, but invoking comparisons to "Lance Armstrong" is the lowest form of cyclist baiting, as anyone who has had it shouted at them from a car window will attest. In any case, the only way to answer Mr. Simon's question is with another question:
Inasmuch as it follows the exact same logic as Mr. Simon's initial tweet I'm sure he'll find that, if he really thinks it through, it answers his own question concerning cyclists quite satisfactorily.
This isn't to say cyclists can't be dangerous, or that some of them don't think they're above the law, because yesterday in Brooklyn a cyclist fleeing the police rammed into the back of a flatbed truck and decapitated himself.
Oh, wait a minute, I meant driver, not cyclist:
Police say that Leroy Samuel, 22, was driving a 2003 black Infiniti eastbound on the BQE when he tried to exit at Atlantic Avenue. But he collided into a flatbed truck waiting at the light.
One witness told DNAinfo, "A couple cop cars were chasing him. The lights were flashing and the sirens were on." A bicyclist said to the Post, "When he exited here he was driving 70 to 80 miles per hour, and the trailer was waiting for the light... Highway patrol was chasing him. When I went to see what happened to the driver, he had no head. His head was in the back seat. It was horrible."
If only there were some way to identify and stop potentially deadly drivers before they caused grievous bodily harm to themselves and others and put our hard-working officers of the law in harm's way. Oh, wait a minute, there is! If you look up this guy's license plate he had a shitload of unpaid parking tickets:
Do you think there might be a relationship between being a highly irresponsible motor vehicle owner and driving that motor vehicle in a dangerous fashion? Because I do. It seems to me that by the time you've run up this many parking tickets and failed to pay them the city should tow your car away and crush it up into a tiny cube. Nine unpaid parking tickets in a four month period is a cry for help. So maybe someone should have helped this person by impounding the car five or six unpaid tickets ago.
If you can't take care of your toys then you shouldn't be allowed to have them.
I'm tempted to say that, given the addled mental state of the typical driver, our streets are full of guided missiles. However, implying that the way these people drive in any way qualifies as "guidance" is about as accurate as Scott Simon's fatuous Lance Armstrong comparison. Even so, it's clearly dangerous out there, which is why would-be entrepreneurs keep coming up with stuff like this:
Backtracker is a two-part system, the front unit giving you the speed and distance of rear-approaching vehicles, and the back unit alerting motorists to your position via increasingly frequent light pulses.
Or, you could just turn your head.
But why go through all that effort when instead a display on your handlebars will tell you how far away a car is with flashing lights?
"What, turning my head a few degrees? No, I've outsourced that tedious chore. See, the indicator tells me how fast the car is approaching, and when the light goes from green to red I know that I've been decapitated."
Of course, if you really hate turning your head you could always just use a helment mirror, but then you wouldn't be playing with lights and radar. "But helment mirrors are dorky!," you may be saying. Well, yeah, sure they are, but do you think you look like less of a dork with a bunch of radar shit strapped to both ends of your bike? Because you don't. You're just a digital dork instead of an analog one.
By the way, I've been struggling with an editorial decision as far as which default helment mirror image to use going forward, and I'm not sure if it should be this one:
This one:
Or this one:
I'm sort of leaning towards Gandalf in the middle, but I'm still open to reader input.
Or, if you don't want to put the mirror on your helment, you can always wear it on your wrist:
I first mentioned the above product back in February of 2012, and I can't believe it still hasn't taken the cycling world by storm.
Lastly, let's all acknowledge the organizers of the Giro d'Italia for not being condescending to female cycling fans at all:
Hey girls! Who do you think is the most beautiful rider of the 2014 Giro d'Italia? With whom would you like to go out for a dinner? #giro
— Giro d'Italia (@giroditalia) June 26, 2014
Hmm, I don't know. This is an Italian bike race, so it would be helpful to know which (if any) of the riders doesn't still live at home with his mother. That might help the "girls" narrow it down.