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Folk Alliance Region – West (FAR-West) is proud to announce our first-ever virtual gathering "We Belong Together!" on Thursday, October 8, 2020 on Zoom and YouTube for a one-day event in two parts.
While the regular annual conference is indeed postponed due to COVID-19, the need for a gathering is not. This virtual confab will satisfy both our bylaw requirements for an Annual General Membership Meeting, and our yen for the live performances we have come to love through our Official and Private Guerilla showcases. The show, and the love, must go on.
We start at 11:30 am PDT with our Annual General Membership Meeting, where we will briefly discuss Board business and give our membership a chance to ask questions and make comments.
At 12:45 pm PDT the REAL fun begins, with our two-hour FAR-West Livestream Concert Revue streaming on the FAR-West YouTube channel, featuring live performances by well-known acts from the West and beyond, as well as hot up-and-coming young artists.
Performers include Grammy® winners and nominees Wendy Waldman, Laurence Juber, John McEuen and Danny O'Keefe, rising lights The Black Feathers, Raye Zaragoza and Crys Matthews, storyteller Tim Hernandez, stalwarts Joe Craven, Joel Rafael, Beth Wood and David Jacobs-Strain, plus Tom Prasada-Rao singing his social justice anthem' "$20 Bill", and capped by our "theme song", a newly-written version of the classic "We Belong" performed by its co-writer Dan Navarro.
The entire event is FREE and open to the general public. Please join us under our virtual tent for this extra-special gathering. It just won't be as much fun without YOU!
Zoom Meeting Link: www.zoom.us or on the Zoom app • Meeting ID: 927 0725 3654 / Passcode: 945043
YouTube Concert Link: www.youtube.com/user/
Folk Alliance Region – West (FAR-West) is the western regional chapter of Folk Alliance International, fostering and promoting traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music, dance, storytelling and related performing arts in the Western United States and Canada.


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8.You produce…give birth to things
We all know that we were made to "help" reproduce. But let's get real WE carry it, WE feed it, WE grow it, It takes a toll on OUR body, then WE birth it! I'm not sure if we are helping reproduce or if the man is helping considering the work delegation on that!Yet we wouldn't have it any other way! Because after ALL that we get to hold it, nurture it, love it, and help mold it into what we want it to be. Noticed I used the word "it'? Of course in all this you assume I am only talking about babies but 'IT" means so much more!! You see we (women) also give birth to and reproduce attitudes, behaviors, relationships, and so much more. After you have that sweet little baby and all the "fun" begins YOU are reproducing in him/her what attitude you want them to have. How do you want them to speak to others, treat others, and think of others? So, I hear you, I hear youWait! it's not just me it's the husband to! He yells, and is angry. He talks down to me and to them, He thinks everyone is competing with him to be the boss!" Yes, Your man does also reproduce things in your children BUT LUCKILY you have influence over him!! 😉 So, use it! If your children, teens, or adolescent adults are acting the way you do not want them to, you may want to take a look at yourself to see what you have produced in them.
If you are angry at your parents or others…then they will be angry with you and others.
If you are bitter at a spouse that has wronged you…then they will be bitter at their mate(whether they deserve it or not). If you hold a grudge and are easily offended by people…guess what you children will be.
Intentional words of love produce intentional actions of love and continue to reproduce. Isn't that what we really want? is to reproduce good things in our lives? In our children? and grandchildren? So, I LOVE that you and I not only get the honor of birthing our babies into this world, but that we also have the ability to produce the good things WE choose to impart into them. With that we also have the power remove the things we don't want them to reproduce. Don't you love that?


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Nine Days (2021; Edson Oda)
By Daniel Barnes
*Opening today at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento.
"This has nothing to do with being good or bad."
Accomplished short film and commercial director Oda makes his feature-length debut with this uneven existential fantasy. Winston Duke (Us) gives a strong performance as Will, a quietly wounded former human working in a before-life limbo. From a solitary beach house, Will chooses which souls go to Earth from a group of candidates, then obsessively observes and catalogs their lives on analog-era TVs and VCRs. Even though he gets all the beer he wants, it's clear from the start that Will is guarding his demons and enacting some sort of self-imposed penance.
The first crack in the emotional reservoir comes with the unexpected death of Amanda, a violin prodigy selected by Will. Now tasked with choosing a replacement soul, Will vets a diverse group of candidates while also investigating what went wrong with Amanda. The candidates include tough guy Kane (Bill Skarsgard), sensitive guy Mike (David Rysdahl) and regular guy Alexander (Tony Hale). More difficult to categorize is the late-arriving Emma (Zazie Beetz), who provokes Will to reveal his tortured past.
Nine Days holds many similarities to Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1998 movie After Life, in which dead souls get to recreate a treasured life memory before departing into the abyss. However, Nine Days is more typical of skin-deep, Sundance-celebrated movies in that it overemphasizes rules and explanations while churning out message-on-the-sleeve life lessons. Naturally, those lessons involve doing things like screaming into the ocean void and feeling the sand between your toes because that's real living in movies like this. It's occasionally engrossing but mostly shallow and slow, although Oda shows undeniable talent, so let's call it a near-miss.
Read more of Daniel's reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes, and listen to Daniel on the Dare Daniel podcast.
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PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft. Today we will familiarize you with how to manage Windows services through PowerShell as it is much quicker and more efficient than other methods.
As you may know, one of the most important parts of each operating system is the service which runs through it, and in general, it can be said that every part of the operating system that starts has a specific service that can be managed and controlled.
Here's a detailed tutorial on how to use PowerShell to manage Windows services.
At first, you must get a list of available services in powershell using the following command (powershell list services):
This is a sample of the output you'll receive.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-Service
Status Name Display Name
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Running AcrSch2Svc Acronis Scheduler2 Service
Running AdobeUpdateService AdobeUpdateService
Running afcdpsrv Acronis Nonstop Backup Service
Running AGMService Adobe Genuine Monitor Service
Running AGSService Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Se...
Stopped AJRouter AllJoyn Router Service
Stopped ALG Application Layer Gateway Service
Running AMD External Ev... AMD External Events Utility
Stopped AppIDSvc Application Identity
Stopped Appinfo Application Information
Stopped AppMgmt Application Management
Stopped AppReadiness App Readiness
Stopped AppVClient Microsoft App-V Client
Stopped AppXSvc AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC)
Stopped AssignedAccessM... AssignedAccessManager Service
Running AudioEndpointBu... Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
Running Audiosrv Windows Audio
Stopped AxInstSV ActiveX Installer (AxInstSV)
Stopped BcastDVRUserSer... GameDVR and Broadcast User Service_...
Stopped BDESVC BitLocker Drive Encryption Service
Running BFE Base Filtering Engine
Running BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Ser...
Stopped BluetoothUserSe... Bluetooth User Support Service_24d986
In the output, by default, you will see 3 main sections: Status, Name and Display Name.
Now, if you want to search and list a particular service, you can filter out any of the parameters.
For example:
- Show all services whose names start with wi:
Get-Service -Name wi*
- Show all services whose display names start with win:
Get-Service -DisplayName win*
- Note: If you want to access another computer through the network, you can see the list of services for that system with this command:
Get-Service -ComputerName Server1
An important part of service management is management of Dependent Services.
- To access the Dependency Services list for a specific service we can use the following command:
Get-Service -Name WinDefend -DependentServices
- You can also use the Required Services parameter to get a list of service pre-requisites.
Get-Service -Name WinDefend - RequiredServices
So with the above commands, we can find the name of the service we are looking for, see the status and related services or its prerequisites. Now we want to explain the services' management commands.
- For stopping a service with PowerShell you can use the following command:
Stop-Service -Name Windefend
- For starting a service in PowerShell you can use this command:
Start-Service -Name Windefend
- One of the most commonly used commands to work with services is service restarting in PowerShell command. The structure of service restarting command is as such:
Restart-Service -Name Windefend
- And lastly, the following command is used to temporarily suspend a service in PowerShell.
Suspend-Service -Name Windefend
These are the most commonly used command for service management in PowerShell. For more information about PowerShell commands and how they work, use the Get-Help command.
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Indian pianist/composer UTSAV LAL, often known as the 'Raga Pianist' is recognised as the rarest of pianists. Stunning the world with his innovative handling of Indian Classical Music on a Western instrument, The Irish Times describes Utsav Lal as "a fleet-fingered performer whose best moments can be both highly evocative and dazzling." Lal's ground-breaking work has garnered an impressive career spanning two decades, with solo performances at world famous venues like Carnegie Hall (New York), Southbank Centre (London), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Steinway Hall (New York), Asia Society (Hong Kong), Arts Center (Melbourne).
Treading the careful line between an ancient tradition and the innate desire for innovation with utmost respect, Lal's music is acclaimed for its sincerity, depth and powerful intensity. With unfailing clarity of technique and rhythmic virtuosity, his work is deeply influenced by Dhrupad and gains inspiration from a vast array of sources such as The Necks, Thelonious Monk, Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and Cecil Taylor. Lal has challenged commonly understood ways of improvisation to develop his own unique voice for the piano, taking stage at leading festivals including Novara Jazz (Italy), San Francisco Silent Film (USA) AsiaTopa Festival (Australia), Masters of Tradition (Ireland).
Endorsed as Young Steinway Artist, TiE Aspire Young Indian Achiever,, Yamaha Jazz Scholar, Lal has been recognized for his extensive collaborative work with Irish, Scottish, Jazz and Experimental artists including leading names like Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Winifred Horan, Australian Contemporary Circus Theatre CIRCA, Talvin Singh, George Brooks, Rajna Swaminathan. Lal has 7 solo record releases which include a historic world's first album on the microtonal "Fluid Piano" (2016). Lal holds a Masters in Contemporary Improvisation (New England Conservatory of Music), Bachelor's in Jazz (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and is a disciple of Dhrupad vocalist Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar.
Detailed Biography
Young Steinway Artist, UTSAV LAL (born August 18, 1992) is an Indian pianist, improviser, educator and composer. Utsav Lal is recognized as a musician extraordinaire who has set a precedent in the world of music with his rendition of Ragas on the Piano. An impressive music career behind him spanning nearly two decades , Utsav is often known as the 'Raga Pianist' for his innovative handling of the Indian Classical music genre. He has gained international recognition for his ground-breaking work with performances across the world in countries including Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, Sweden, Kuwait, The Netherlands, USA, Canada, Singapore and India.
Utsav Lal has performed several concerts in a lead role at venues that include Carnegie Hall-New York, The National Concert Hall- Dublin, Steinway Hall, NYC The Chambers-Singapore, Southbank Centre-London, Asia Society- Hong Kong, The Kennedy Center-Washington DC, Theatre Orangerie-The Netherlands, India Habitat Centre-New Delhi, Arts Centre- Melbourne, NCPA-Mumbai, Bridgewater Hall-Manchester and others.
Utsav's musical creativity draws from his advanced training in western classical and jazz with Bachelor in Jazz (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Masters in Contemporary Improvisation (New England Conservatory of Music) along with the exploration of Indian Classical Music under Ustad F.Wasifuddin Dagar, of the legendary Dhrupad Dagar family and Sharat Srivastava ( Senia Gharana) . Choosing to perform on an instrument that has traditionally been considered unsuitable for Hindustani Classical Music, Utsav has used his rigorous training in diverse genres of music -Western Classical, Indian Classical, Jazz, Scottish, Irish and Contemporary Improvisation to challenge commonly understood ways of improvisation and develop his own unique voice for the piano. His music expressed with simplicity, sincerity and depth creates a captivating musical experience and has been described by Novara Jazz festival Director Corrado Beldi as having "illuminating grace". Acclaimed for his rhythmic intelligence and unfailing clarity of technique, The Irish Times reviewed Lal as, "a fleet fingered performer whose best moments can be both highly evocative and dazzling" and by Terry Blain, music critic as, "in quieter moments, he's the Phil Coulter of raga (where the piano is not a commonly used instrument), but at other times the sweep and inventiveness of his improvisations recall Keith Jarrett."
Utsav Lal was featured in the Indian Limca Book of Records (2007) for his musical achievements and awarded Ireland's Metro Eireann Media & Multicultural Award(MAMA) Award (2008) for championing multiculturalism through music. He was the youngest winner ever in the individual category in the ten years running of the MAMA awards. Utsav was chosen as the three top Asian music child prodigies to perform at the Asia on The Edge festival (AOTE 2008) in Singapore. His extensive work lays the foundation for a strong legacy that establishes the piano in a new role and he was recognized as a Young Steinway Artist in 2010 by leading piano makers Steinway & Sons. Utsav Lal received the ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London) International Scholarship (2010) for undergraduate study at any of UK's four Royal Schools of Music, a coveted scholarship awarded only to chosen four exceptional musicians amongst worldwide applicants.
Recognized for his contributions as role model for the youth of India, Utsav was awarded the Tie Aspire Young Indian Achiever award (2012). Utsav Lal holds the distinction of being the first to introduce the piano at the 137th Harivallabh Sammelan, India's oldest classical music festival in 2012 and the two hour long concert was televised live to national audiences. In 2015, he was invited to premiere the piano at the annual Saptak music festival (Ahmedabad, India).
Utsav was named as Yamaha Jazz Scholar-UK (2014) in a special ceremony at House of Commons, London. Running for over 11 years, the partnership between Yamaha in association with Jazzwise, the All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group, PPL, and 606 Club honors seven carefully chosen musicians from amongst the cream and Utsav Lal was invited to record his original composition in a CD for the cover of Jazzwise magazine. He was recognized as 'Graduate of the Month' by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, March 2016.
Utsav Lal was invited by the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN to feature in the specially commissioned 'United Pianos' video. The video released in 2015 is the world's first 22-hands piano piece, featuring 11 renowned pianists from 11 countries and six continents seamlessly playing together one musical piece to promote tolerance and unity through music.
In 2015, Utsav was chosen by UK composer & inventor Geoff Smith as the first musician to record a selection of solo piano ragas on the world's ground breaking acoustic musical instrument-The Fluid Piano. This historic album offers the only existing example of Alap in Hindustani Classical Music on the Piano performed with the traditional "meend" or bending of strings. Funded by the Arts Council of England and an oversubscribed Indiegogo campaign, the album was released by the Fluid Piano Tuning label in July 2016.
Utsav's work has been covered extensively through online websites, blogs and podcasts and received recognition through features and interviews on major Indian and International radio like BBC UK, Radio Mirchi, ABC Radio National Australia, television channels NDTV, AAj Tak, RTE Ireland and in publications like The Hindu, New Indian Express, Broadway World, The Asian Age, India Times, The Irish Times, Eastern Eye, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Pioneer, Eastern eye-UK and more.
Utsav has been a cultural Ambassador at worldwide events & festivals including Times Music festival-India (2006) , Asia Pacific Cultural Week-Berlin(2007),One World Music Evening-Dublin(2007), Festival of World Cultures-Ireland (2007,2008), Taj Festival-Manchester, UK(2008),Into the Light World Music Concert series-Leeds, UK(2008), Asia on the Edge Festival –Singapore(2008), Novara Jazz Festival-Italy(2010), Maximum India Festival –Washington DC( 2011), Kala Ghoda Festival-Mumbai (2013), Symbiosis of Sound festival-London ( 2012),Strings of the world Festival-India(2012, 2014), Jaipur Literary Festival –Boulder(2015,2018) Kilkenny Arts Festival-Ireland (2016), Masters of Tradition festival-Bantry (2016), Asia Topa Festival-Melbourne (2017),Yorkshire Silent Film festival (2018), San Francisco Silent Film Festival (2019).
Utsav has been recognized for his extensive collaborative work and his versatility has seen him carve an enviable reputation as a jazz pianist and collaborative projects with several international touring musicians like Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Talvin Singh, George Brooks, Adam Sutherland, Pt. Samir Chatterjee, Winifred Horan, Jarlath Henderson, Zach Meyer, Ustad Hidayat Hussain Khan, Rakesh Chaurasia and Rajna Swaminathan . His Indo-Irish 'Ragas to Reels' friendship concert tours in India/UK/Ireland at The National Concert Hall-Dublin, Southbank Centre-London & Lyrics Theatre-Belfast and multi city India tour (2011) received full houses and an overwhelming response. Utsav's sequel Ragas to Reels India tour (2014) with eight performances in four cities was equally successful and with introductory address by His Excellency Feilim McLaughlin, Irish Ambassador of Ireland was the cultural centrepiece for the Golden jubilee anniversary celebrations of the Embassy of Ireland in India.
Utsav has been involved in community service with performances to raise awareness and fundraising for organizations like National Association for the Blind, Spastics Society, Make-A-Wish Foundation, World Mercy Fund, World Refugee Day, World Harmony Run, Daniel Pearl Music Foundation. Utsav Lal dedicated his multi-city India tour (2012) to raise funds and support the work of NGO's DREAMZ Home, JOSH, and SMILE Foundation and performed two main concerts (2013) to raise funds for Mobile Crèches.
As an educator, Utsav Lal set up the Jazz department at Gurgaon School of Music and was on the teaching faculty for Piano School of New York and launched private online and in-person teaching through Utsav Lal Piano Studio in 2018. Utsav launched his 'Breaking Boundaries' workshop series in 2009 and has conducted such Music Appreciation workshops in several cities in India and in Hong Kong, USA, Kuwait and Scotland. Utsav Lal is an active member of the Teach to Learn initiative which brings humans around the world to engage in cultural exchange through music. In his educational methodology, Utsav facilitates innovation and encourages students to challenge existing piano traditions as a primary goal to help find their own unique voice.
Debut album release-Piano Moods of Indian Ragas by Indian record label Times Music (2008), Utsav has seven subsequent records available on a worldwide distribution- Ragas Dance off Piano Keys (2009), Ragas al Pianoforte (2010), Ragas to Reels (2014), The Fluid Piano (2016), Indian Classical Music on Piano (2018), Visangati (2021) and several other collaborative and compilation albums including The Sacred Indian Collection and 50 Traditional Indian songs released by label Sacred Soul Sounds, Soulful Duets-Volume 4 Euphoria, RCS Jazz -I'm Ready Now.
Awards and Recognitions received:
"Young Steinway Artist " (2010); Limca Book of Records (2007); Metro Eireann Media & Multicultural Award (MAMA) Award (2008); Young Achiever Award-Rotary Club(2008); Sarasvati Award-International Cultural Centre Trust, Gurgaon(2008) ; Hall of Fame-Delhi Public School, New Delhi; Owen Walsh Perpetual Piano Cup-Ireland(2009); Dublin Institute of Technology- Gold Medal Junior Repertoire( 2008); Newpark Stanley Piano Cup-Ireland(2007). Winner Metroeireann media and Multicultural Award (MAMA)-Individual category (2008) nominated by Embassy of India-Dublin & Festival of World Cultures; Nominee GG2 Young Achiever Diversity Award –UK (2009), TiE-Aspire Young Achiever Award (2012), Yamaha Jazz Scholar -UK, (2014).


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Theo is the founder of African Dermal Science which produces a skincare line for African skin. Passionate about increasing access to healthcare in Africa, Theo has experience in the pharmaceutical industry with both local, regional and multinational exposure. She graduated as a Medical Doctor and followed that by practicing medicine for a number of years in different South African hospitals in both urban and township areas. Having always had an interest in business, she then joined Roche Pharmaceuticals as a Medical Manager and has since served in various roles in medical affairs, market access and health economics in South Africa and the rest of Sub-Sahara Africa with special focus on Nigeria, Kenya, Botswana, Namibia and Mauritius. Theo has leadership experience in the development of local and regional strategic projects in Clinical Research, Medical Marketing, Public Sector Partnerships, Market Access Strategies and Healthcare Compliance. It was while Theo was the Head of Medical Affairs for Roche South Africa that she decided she wanted to start her own company and went on to launch Uso, her skincare range for African skin. She sits on the Board of the South African Marketing Code Authority. In 2019, her company's product, Uso Active Day Cream, won 1st and 2nd runner up in two categories in the SA Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Review Awards, which recognize products for excellence in Formulation, Packaging, Regulations and Compliance, and Marketing.
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Celebrate Jamaica 60 all year - Fab 5 urges J'cans to mark Independence milestone for the rest of 2022
The musicians of the veteran band Fab 5 congratulated Minister Olivia 'Babsy' Grange "on a job well done" for the Jamaica 60 Float and Street Parade yesterday.
The parade, which marched through St Andrew's main thoroughfare from the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre to the National Stadium car park, featured the band in the Sounds of Jamaica section.
Speaking to THE STAR following a three-hour-long live performance during the parade, music producer and Fab 5 band leader Astley 'Grub' Cooper said, "This was a wonderful idea and we applaud Minister Grange for bringing it back into festival celebrations."
"As musicians we are thankful for the experience and we urge Jamaicans to celebrate after this, meaning they should continue to acknowledge the 60th year because it goes on past August 1 and August 6," he explained.
Cooper further explained that while Fab 5 was to play past Festival Song Competition entries , the reaction of the people to them in the streets was much to be acknowledged.
He said "The people were definitely in tune to the sounds as much as the sights. It really felt good but I believe it would help to have more musicians and conscious singers featured. It may not be economically feasible to have two trucks or floats, but if not in the parade, to have a concert at the end of the parade. This one sort of ended abruptly, even though we know it's because the Festival Queen Coronation would commence."
Fab 5 could be heard playing memorable tracks of popular Festival winners including Roy Rayon's Give Thanks and Praises and Love Fever, which was written and arranged by Cooper, The Astronauts' Born Jamaican and Mek We Jam and Eric Donaldson's Land of My Birth, Proud to be Jamaican and Cherry Oh Baby, all as spectators sang along.
"These festival songs and other songs celebrating Jamaica's history need to be out by the latest April [so] our people can be familiarised with the lyrics and rhythm, just like they are with the older releases. It's only been a week since the winner was selected and the song has not been absorbed properly," said Cooper.
The musicians also injected their recently released single Celebration Train as part of the playlist.
"Although we didn't enter it into festival, it's about Jamaica. We're celebrating 60 and we believe everybody must come aboard the celebration train," he said.
Cooper said that the more songs that Jamaicans, both local and international, have, the better they will feel to celebrate.
"We need more songs and more showcases showing ethnic diversity. Let's all work to upgrade the product we're putting out for the rest of the year and the future and make it a melting pot, because that's what Jamaica is," Cooper said.


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Inal, Jameel (2020) Biological factors linking ApoE ε4 variant and severe COVID-19 - letter to the Editor. Current atherosclerosis reports, 22 (70). ISSN 1534-6242
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Kuttiedathi and other Stories is a collection of the finest stories of M T Vasudevan Nair, available for the first time in English translation. Ordinary middle class lives and sufferings of northern Kerala have seldom been so engagingly told as in Nair's fiction. If the lead story 'Kuttiedathi' mixes tragic memory and domestic martyrdom, 'When the Doors of Heaven Open' plays out another life upon which centre a group of lives, all selfish, caring, and indifferent by turns. Strange, unfathomable, bonds of passion are the theme of 'Insight', another story in this collection. Nair's enviable telling often makes it hard for us to distinguish between tenses and points of view. We touch, and are deeply touched by the survivors of these little tragedies of the soul.
"The ten stories collected here in English translation by the veteran and seasoned translator. V Abdulla constitute some of the most well-known stories of Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his opus. Spread over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, they reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. A true artist, careful about the generic nature of short fiction, he attends to the minutest details of his work here more then perhaps in his longer works".
The trend of progressive realism had just blown over when, with the coming of Independence, there was a shift towards greater subjectivity and inwardness, in all genres of literature in Malayalam. There was a change of focus from generalised abstractions to felt authenticity in the perception and recording of social reality. A mood of introspection came in the wake of the writings- of Karoor Nilakanta Pillai, S.K. Pottekkatt, Vaikom Mohamed Basheer and P.c. Kuttikrishnan (Uroob). The strident voice of Kesava Dev, and Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai had mellowed, with the former raising the question For Whose Sake? (Arku Vendi?) and the latter turning away from beggars, peasants and scavengers to the love story of Pareekutty and Karuthamma in Chemmeen. Society was still there, with all its complicated political and economic tangles, but the individual or personal concerns of the members of the upper class or middle class or lower class came to be addressed by the writers. Karoor highlighted compassion and pathos as fundamental elements in the everyday life of his characters, cutting across class divisions. Basheer often poked fun at the behavioural style and vocabulary of the self-styled leaders, drawing attention to the down to earth man and woman. Uroob, in short and long fiction, provided a larger canvas for the private lives of individuals and families, but was sympathetic to the sufferings and struggles of man in society. It was during this interregnum that M.T. Vasudevan Nair and others of his generation entered the scene, particularly of short fiction, to draw the attention of the reading public to the loneliness and alienation felt by individual characters caught in a social transition. Individual human beings with their private agonies emerged replacing the social stereotypes of erstwhile fiction committed to grand ideologies and slogan shouting. The whisper of the soul became audible, which had earlier been swallowed or stifled by public oration and street-side chorus. The new trend immediately caught popular attention, since that came to be symptomatic of the early years of independence. Slogans were replaced by sobs; with a gentle touch of the romantic without excessive sentimentality, the new and young writers wound their way into the sensitive minds of the new generation readers. A remarkably fresh sensitivity was evoked by the new short story, which was soon echoed in longer fiction too. A quiet and un- proclaimed revolution was sweeping through the corridors of Malayalam fiction, which in a way had its impact on the senior writers as well. In a few years the modernist writers with existentialist leanings, questioning current assumptions, came upon the scene: among them may be mentioned Pattathuvila Karunakaran, Kakkanadan and O.V. Vijayan. Vasudevan Nair, however, steered his course away from philosophical obsessions and simplistic formulae about life and society, and has till date maintained his integrity by pursuing his own perceptions and "his own style.
The ten stories collected here in English translation by the veteran and seasoned translator V. Abdulla constitute some of the most well-known stories of Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his opus. Spread over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, they reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. A true artist careful about the generic nature of short fiction, he attends to the minutest details of his work here more than perhaps in his longer works. Being a novelist and a short story writer at the same time, Nair knows the difference between the two from the aesthetic point of view. What is perhaps passable in the bulk of a long narrative will not be overlooked or forgiven by the reader of short fiction. Here, the reader's focus is sharper than in the longer narrative; every word, every image, the rhythm of the language and the tone of the narrator, count. Nair proves an excellent craftsman in several of his short stories. He has effective control over the incidents described, but more remarkable than that is, the close attention he pays to the choice of words, their sensuousness, their scent and their flavour. In stories where the events are not more important than the atmosphere conveyed, the lyrical element is predominant. Grief, resignation, helplessness, loneliness, isolation, nostalgia: these are some of the emotions most powerfully evoked by Vasudevan Nair as a master of short fiction. In the novels, perhaps, some of these may appear repetitious or belaboured, but within the controlled frame of the short story every word does its duty. There is tremendous economy. One word too many can easily spoil the ambience of a short-story. Especially when the emotion is delicately evoked, there is no scope for elaboration or admixture of contrary sentiments. The poetics of the lyrical short: Story does not provide for laxity.
The earliest of the ten stories in this volume is "Kuttiedathi" (1962) and the latest is "Insight" (2000). The other stories in this volume were all written between these two dates. But it is difficult to say that they illustrate a linear development of the author's art or craft, each of them being a finished work at the date of its composition. As they cover nearly forty years of a successful career, it may be argued that together they constitute the high peaks of the author's creativity. Some of them like "Red Earth" are rather short, while some others like "When the Doors of Heaven Open" are fairly long. In the shorter tales the effort is only to evoke a single mood and the tone of narration does not change. Only one moment, one single context, is evoked in all its intensely sensuous power and passion. The central idea is not spelt out in so many words, but interiorised so that the reader has to get at that through indirect means. In "Red Earth" only a minimal space is devoted to the description of the event or its location; the emotional surge is impressionistically hinted at without straining after effect. A rich sense of ambiguity is slowly built up, by mixing fact with fantasy. The goddess of the legend, the ceremony that was disrupted, and the inner desolation of the locale are felt presences in the consciousness of the visiting lady tourist, to whom the whole enterprise takes on the dimensions of an oppressive experience. Within a minimal frame the story achieves its telling effect in a manner characteristic of the author. The same kind of artistry may be found in "Once Again in Search of a Refuge", where too the fleshy details are suppressed and the narration is kept to the bare minimum. The owner of the house, the manager, the neighbours, the maintenance workers etc. are there to provide the framework of the story, but the focus is on the mood of the loner seeking refuge. An unspecified locale, nondescript characters and expressionist sketching of people and objects help to suggest and evoke a certain mood of isolation and alienation without the aid of any incident as such to make the tale rooted. "Kuttiedathi", on the other hand, tells the sad story of an unmarried girl in an old taravad in decline, as told by a young boy, who is an eye-witness to the domestic tragedy leading to the suicide of the girl, but is too young to understand the nature and dimensions of the tragedy itself. The evil fate overhanging the erstwhile feudal Nair household in Malabar is a recurring theme in Nair's oeuvre, and he is an expert in the slow and sensitive delineation of the agonies of characters trapped in this situation. What with her dark complexion and the ugly wart disfiguring her, Kuttiedathi, as she is called by the boy, is earmarked for suffering and sacrifice. Her natural tendency to protest and prevail is offset by the conspiracy of circumstances, as it were. She ends up a victim of the socio-economic tensions of her milieu. A similar preoccupation on the part of the author with the tragedy inherent in the joint family system comes to the fore again in the longest story in this volume, "When the Doors of Heaven Open". The wry humour and irony built into this narrative about the death of the head of the family, which is expected by the relatives, but actually does not come off, since no one knows when the doors of heaven finally open, account for the elaboration of the story. Every relative had turned up, in spite of their heavy and busy schedule, but the patient did not oblige; he recovered to the consternation and relief of everyone assembled and now ready to leave one by one. The old man also understood their eagerness to leave, as nothing expected did happen and there was no need to stay any longer. His words sum up the denouement :
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If the 1984 Presidential election were being held today, either former Vice President Walter F. Mondale or Senator John Glenn would defeat any of the leading Republicans, according to the Gallup Poll.
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When 1,156 registered voters were asked last month whom they would prefer, Mr. Mondale led Mr. Reagan by 47 percent to 41 percent, with the rest undecided. Mr. Glenn led the President by 45 percent to 40 percent.
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In fact, it's worth adding some additional context to this. The reason the Gallup poll tested the support of other Republican candidates was that there were some questions as to whether Reagan would even seek re-election. He wasn't just unpopular at this point in 1983, and wasn't just trailing the leading Democrats, Reagan was also considered vulnerable to a Republican primary challenger. It's why Gallup polled Baker and Bush — they weren't sure Reagan would be on the ballot.
After the 1982 midterms, a cycle in which many GOP candidates didn't want to be seen with Reagan, many conservatives either wanted the president to either announce he wouldn't run again, or prepare to face a Republican opponent in 1984.
If memory serves, Reagan won 49 states the next year.
Modern-day Republicans tend to be rather uncomfortable with all of this, not because it's wrong, but because it's inconsistent with the myth they've worked so hard to sell. Reagan wasn't universally loved at all times? Party leaders worried that Reagan was in over his head and wasn't up to the job? Well, yes.
Then the economy got better.
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The list of composers includes Joseph Haydn, Dmitri Shostakovich, Franz Schubert, Timo Andres, WA Mozart, Robert Schumann, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Joaquin Turina and Gustav Mahler. Highlights of the program include Haydn's Symphony No. 94, "Surprise", Mahler's Piano Quartet in A minor and Trio for Flute, Viola and Piano, Op. 18.
This edition also features the winners of CreArtBox's "Call for contemporary classical music entries": Bryan Wysocki, composer; Cullyn Murphy, composer; Annamaria Kowalsky, composer and visual artist.
A key element of the festival is the use of captivating visual installations and theatrical design alongside musical performances. CreArtBox works with visual artists, designers, dancers and other creatives to create multi-level performances centered around classical music.
The festival includes artist talks and Q&A sessions where composers, musicians and visual artists are more approachable and accessible to the local community than they are during regular performances. In addition to the performances, this program features interviews with the composers, musicians and directors, exploring the creative process of a piece, the benefits of artistic creation for society, the status of the arts in the local community and advice on way to build a career as an artist.
Recordings from the festival will be released on the CreArtBox Digital Concert Hall, a new streaming platform that offers full live performances in high-resolution audio at no additional cost to users.
The festival will take place in CultureLab LIC's newly renovated theater located on the Long Island City waterfront (5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City). Formerly a warehouse, the 12,000 square foot space includes a 90-seat theater, an 18,000 square foot outdoor venue, and more.
To reach low-income households and provide affordable art to all members of the local community, the festival has partnered with local organizations such as Queens Library, YMCA, Book Culture, local schools and other groups to offer at least 10% of the seats. free of charge and to ensure that affordable tickets are available for young audiences in low-income households.
Steinway & Sons is the official piano manufacturer of choice for the festival. Since 1853, Steinway pianos have set an unrivaled standard for sound, feel, beauty and investment value. They remain the choice of 9 out of 10 concert goers, and it is the preferred piano of countless musicians, professionals and amateurs, around the world.
Tickets for performances can be purchased at www.creartbox.nyc. Prices are $20 for regular seats, $30 for premium tickets with better visibility and acoustics. Affordable $10 tickets can be purchased before March 15 or from our local partner organizations.
CultureLab, 5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City. Getting there by subway: 7, G, & E Court Square Station.
Friday April 8 – 8:00 p.m.
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What to Expect as a new Augmentt Partner
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Shadow IT refers to the practice of using software and other systems outside of, and without the knowledge of, the IT department.
As the use of SaaS applications grows exponentially, so has Shadow IT. Employees now have the ability to bypass IT with software that's available for a low monthly fee–or for free– with the click of a button.
The driving force behind Shadow IT differs from organization to organization. Sometimes employees believe it improves efficiency. They believe they need these tools to do their jobs.
Other times not involving IT is seen as a way to drive down costs. Sometimes people simply grow impatient waiting on a corporate-wide solution to materialize.
Whatever the reason for the existence of Shadow IT, it brings with it five significant risks. We cover each one in detail here.
With the consumerization of IT, hundreds of these applications are in use at the typical enterprise.
The lack of visibility into them represents a security gap. Although some applications are harmless, others include functionality such as file sharing and storage, or collaboration, which can present big risks to an organization–especially if these applications contain sensitive data.
For example, employees might place a client file on their personal Google Drive to work on it over the weekend. Their own personal Gmail account might not have the same level of security settings as other approved apps. If a security breach occurs, your IT team won't be aware of the full potential scope of the threat, leaving the company unsure of what data is compromised and when it happened.
If critical data fall into the wrong hands, such as those of a competitor, they can result in competitive disadvantages or product piracy.
Requirements for IT compliance are becoming increasingly stringent.
No matter the organization, regulatory compliance is likely critical. There are numerous standards that businesses need to comply with–from GDPR to industry-specific regulations like HIPAA–and the use of shadow IT can potentially lead to fines for violating these compliance requirements.
Due to the inherent lack of control and transparency, unregulated public clouds make it impossible for companies to prove compliance with these regulatory requirements.
In addition to revenue losses, for example, due to data loss or disrupted business processes, severe financial penalties may be imposed on the company or members of management.
There are also other issues such as duplicate apps. There might be different email, file sharing, sales and marketing automation, project collaboration, messaging, and other cloud capabilities in use.
It's easiest to illustrate the cost of this with an example. Let's say your organization has 200 employees with one department of 100 employees who prefer Slack over Rocketchat and another department of 100 employees who choose to use the duplicate Rocketchat app.
Your organization is paying $12,000 for 100 employees who use Slack and $24,000 per year for those who use Rocketchat. That's $36,000 per year for 100 people to use their preferred internal communications tool.
Shadow IT is an inefficient and risky way to manage business objectives. Operational processes and procedures are critical components of the IT infrastructure. Shadow IT can be very intrusive on the consistency and reliability of these same processes and procedures.
Consider how quickly processes can fall apart when the IT staff is dealing with requests to fix problems resulting from shadow IT.
For example, this happens when an employee needs to give IT personnel admin access to an unauthorized application or the additional step of adding the application to an IdP or "identity service provider."
Businesses can't clearly manage what they don't know or can't measure.
Shadow IT plays a role in this confusion, especially around compliance. But, this lack of visibility surrounding data and how people make decisions manifests itself in lots of other areas that present a challenge to the business.
Managing Shadow IT is all about discovering the different applications your employees use.
The problem is that manual reporting creates a huge overhead for the business. It also means that during a cyber skills shortage, you have specialist staff wasted doing very time-consuming work.
On top of this, manual reports are so prone to error, as they can only give a single snapshot in time and are then out of date almost immediately.
Before you bring these applications out of the shadows, you need to figure out how to detect these unapproved SaaS solutions running within your corporate network in an automated fashion.
Learn more about how Augmentt Discover can help you.
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"Absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty, I saw it up close, I touched it, so to speak" (Stendhal). It is not all-encompassing as for Stendhal, but for us, too, Art is an experience that modifies us inwardly. The project aims to carry out a maxi experimentation of a "Peraltravia – Anotherway" method, conceived by psychologist Francesco Piccolo, designed to support the visually impaired to enjoy cultural or landscape itineraries. A method that is realized in accompanying educators, youth workers to acquire the tools needed to make a service specialized to the visually impaired.
The "Another Way" project aims to restore equal dignity to the other senses and experiment with an innovative methodology of social inclusion that allows young blind people to enjoy the cultural beauty and landscape of the area. The methodology foresees the structuring of a sensorial path that uses all the senses, except the sight. Through touch, taste and hearing, the territory is told through the use of metaphors and similarities to make people perceive reality and enjoy a unique experience.
The project creates a transversal partnership in the social and tourism sectors, involving bodies with complementary skills in the training, social, youth education and tourism sectors. A mix between public and private sector able to realize, at transnational level, innovation and shared strategies to support visually impaired people in the fruition of the territory. As a corollary of the activities, there will also be a short-term training action dedicated to the target under-30 educators and youth workers.
The project activities are developed along two channels:
– training of 40 youth workers/educators: 1) distance e-learning training with trainer support in each country; 2) Trasnational Learning;
– design of the pathways and experimentation of the method (in the training pathways 32 young people with visual disabilities and 28 young people without disabilities are involved).
– sharing of the method, drafting of the Handbook and validation.
The project intends to involve a plurality of targets.
1) Young people with disabilities (youth workers and educators) in a training course aimed at implementing their skills, but also at making them more sensitive and open to issues related to visual impairment.
2) Young visually impaired people in experimenting with the method within the individual partner states with the aim of achieving a first moment of application of the method in other contexts and to simultaneously achieve a moment of integration and social inclusion.
3) Families, organizations and skateholders in a path of cultural and social growth with the aim of making them more aware of the critical issues and the need to interact to overcome obstacles to social inclusion by promoting integration processes.
4) Partner organisations are involved in a qualified network with the aim of sharing methods, approaches, opinions and solutions to make European society inclusive, developed and innovative.
The impact on the local – social level develops along various lines:
1) Improvement of skills (with the appropriate development of a short training course TL).
2) Improvement of services for visually impaired people.
3) Improvement of social integration.
4) Improvement of the quality of life of the disabled and empowerment.
5) Improving the usability of the territory.
The impact on the European level develops along the following lines
1) Improvement of international relations between actors operating in the sectors covered by the project: tourism, social, disability.
2) Sharing of new processes and methods of social inclusion.
3) Amplification of the value and results of the project.
4) Realization of an experimentation able to produce multiplier effects.


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Using GER Results in Course Design
An important step in designing or redesigning any class is to examine published geoscience education research for guidance on best practices in course design. This is especially true if the class incorporates non-traditional pedagogical approaches (that students may not be familiar with). Hence, when redesigning an introductory physical geology class into an online format, I conducted a literature search for examples of "successful" online classes. Most published literature about online instruction focuses on course design, while literature incorporating geoscience education research examining the success of online courses is less abundant. While the literature describing class activities is helpful in developing the course, choosing which activities to incorporate can be difficult without a universally accepted metric to evaluate those activities. Additionally, most geoscience education research about online pedagogy typically evaluates only a small fraction of the class (or one class activity), while a semester-long evaluation could provide better insight about the overall pedagogical trends in that class.
To facilitate the promotion and translation of GER results into useful online course material, detailed course design should be coupled with the publication of the corresponding GER results. Specific course activities are more readily used if the activities can be easily incorporated into multiple course management systems and the completion of the activities are not dependent on an external online host (which can lead to broken links). Additionally, the GER community should continue to promote details about the tested materials through a broad audience (such as the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College website). Finally, the publication of GER research in more "traditional" research-based journals (such as Geology, Science, and Nature) will expand the readership of GER.


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Frustratingly, this is something we hear more often than we would like to when campaigning for the rights of people who are street homeless.
It isn't always the case that our guests are street homeless simply because they have no other option. The vast majority of the time, it is true that our guests do have a choice when it comes to being homeless. However, when looking into this we must first consider the nature of the meaning of choice.
The definition of choice is: "the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives". So, when people "choose" to be homeless, it simply means that the alternatives for them are worse than putting themselves in a vulnerable situation by sleeping on the streets.
Consider this, if you were trapped in a burning building and your options were to take your chances walking through flames in a crumbling building to get to safety, or jumping from a third-floor window with nothing below you to cushion your fall - do you truly have a fair and reasonable choice? This is exactly the same for our guests; it's like an extreme version of "would you rather?" where sadly the consequences are incredibly real.
For many of our guests, the options they have are not only limited but incredibly detrimental to both their physical and mental well-being.
For many, it's not a case of preference but necessity. The options are being street homelessness or being subjected to daily physical violence, being emotionally manipulated, being forced to live somewhere that is simply not safe, being forced to live against their own principles, and much, much worse.
So, next time you see someone on the streets and make the judgment that they have chosen to be there, consider the alternatives that person was faced with.
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Alimony is a payment made from one spouse to the other for their support. It can be made both during the marriage and following divorce. Usually, these payments are made on a periodic basis, whether it be weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. In New Jersey, there is no set formula for an alimony award. Alimony is based upon statutory factors including, but not limited to, need and ability to pay, the age and health of the parties, educational backgrounds, length of the marriage, parenting responsibilities, and the parties' employment and earnings history. The goal of an award of alimony is that the parties be able to approximate the marital standard of living following divorce, normally a difficult thing to accomplish with now having two households to support.
The payment of alimony can take four forms, whether in the singular or more than one form in a case:
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