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You're never far from a rock and pop music festival during the UK summer and fall. Hundreds of rock and pop festivals take place across Great Britain from May through early September. Dance music, singalongs, ambient sounds, new age, family friendly; established bands, the latest indie groups and iconic artists all come out to play, rain or shine, in the British summer.
Here's a list of music festivals we like around the UK, plus a handy resource to find even more.
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Glastonbury Festival
This 30 plus -year old festival is a bit like an English Woodstock with cherries on top. There's a famous Pyramid Stage, smaller venues, camping, food, a kids Glastonbury and every kind of music imaginable. Musicians are the top acts at the top of their games as well as great blasts from the past. There are at least seven main stages, circus tent and theatre and loads of Greenfield activities. The weather usually turns it into a huge mud bath. And if you don't have the stamina for three solid days of partying, don't come.
Who's there? Every kind of music imaginable. In 2014 - Dolly Parton, Kasabian, Robert Plant, Metallica, Lily Allen, Ellie Goulding, Ed Sheeran, Bryan Ferry, GoldFrapp are among the acts.
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Isle of Wight Festival
It may not be the cutting edge (some people even call it Dad rock), but the combination of well-established rock'n rollers with current stars makes The Isle of Wight Festival in June a sell-out year after year. Once Europe's answer to Woodstock, the festival is now kept deliberately small - only 50,000 tickets are available and they are like gold dust. Get on the mailing list before the line-up is announced because, by the time it is, they gone. Check the festival's community website for a chance to buy returns.
Who's there? You might see in 2014 Alison Moyet, Massive Attack, Skrillex, Paolo Nutini, John Newman, Blondie
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The Leeds and Reading FestivalPromoters Festival Republic stage this pair of popular rock and pop festivals in both Leeds and Reading at the same time. Similar to the way the V Festivals are organized, artists play both festivals, racing between the north and south versions on different days. Leeds fans consider their version, in Bramham Park, to be the north's answer to Glastonbury. The festivals sell out almost as soon as tickets go on sale at the end of March.
Who's there? Among the 2014 acts - Those popular perennials Arctic Monkeys, Blink, Queens of the Stone Age, Bombay Bicycle Club, Disclosure.
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The V FestivalTop British pop music stars perform at two outdoor festivals in two days. The multi-stage festival takes place on a Saturday and Sunday, simultaneously in the Southeast - Chelmsford - and in the North Midlands - Staffordshire. The Saturday line ups of artists at each venue switches from the other venue on Sunday. Acts tend to come from the cream of British pop musicians. Because V Festivals have been copied in the USA and Australia, some festival fans consider this huge event a bit "corporate".
Who's there? In 2014 - Justin Timberlake, Ed Sheeran, Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, Blondie, The Killers, Lily Allen, Tinie Tempah, All Saints, Human League, Sophie Ellis Bextor, plus a lineup of comedy acts on the Glee Club Comedy Stage.Continue to 5 of 17 below.
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The first self-described boutique festival, Bestival is small and perfectly formed. Just like some of the other big time UK festivals, it features top commercial and indie acts, past and present, but it's a bit more upmarket. First off, it's "curated", and it's held in a lovely country park which almost never turns into a muddy field. There are ready pitched tents, a Tipi Field, caravan camping and free or "pay per poo" Comfy Crappers - sorry that's their brand name.
Who's there? In 2014, headliners scheduled included Tune Yards, Factory Floor, MNEK, Wolf Alice, The Amazing Snakeheads, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Say Lou Lou, Glass Animals, Kate Tempest, Cousin Marnie, Indiana - this is true indie discovery territory. There's usually a fancy dress theme as well, with extra goodies for your costume available in the Dressing Up Field.
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The Wickerman Festival
Fans of Scotland's taste for fire festivals will love The Wickerman Festival at East Kirkcarswell in South West Scotland. This huge event, which includes tent, tipi and yurt camping, has a wide open music policy that ranges from chart-topping pop and dance music to hard core rock. And at the end, a thirty-foot tall Wickerman goes up in flames. Cool - or if you've seen the classic British horror film The Wicker Man - pretty creepy.
Who's there? Dizzee Rascal and Del Amitri headline in 2014, along with a huge line up that includes Shed Seven, The Feeling, Alabama 3, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Augustines, The Zombies, Big Country, Finding Albert, Skinny Lister, The Hosts, Model Aeroplanes, LIFE.
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Mathew Street/Liverpool International Music FestivalThe Mathew Street Music Festival in Liverpool, Europe's largest free music festival became the Liverpool International Music Festival, held in Sefton Park, in 2013. It began as a kind of outlet for Beatles tribute bands, other pop tribute bands and reinterpretations. That's all changed now. Though you'll still find plenty of Beatles music and tribute bands, you'll also find Soul, Diva, BritPop, New Bands, Big Bands and Country & Western.
Who's there? At least 95 bands from all over the British Isles and as far afield as the USA, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, Italy, Finland, Poland and Turkey perform in the main festival, carried across the crowds by huge LED screens so no one misses anything. A a supporting indoor program of live music fills pubs, clubs and venues all over town. in 2014 even the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic will be there, along with Shaggy, Ian Broudie and the Lightening Seeds, Kid Creole, Goldie and a huge line-up of new and established acts.
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DownloadThis one's for hard rockers who go for real guitar mayhem. Located in Donington Park, not far from East Midland's airport, Download regularly features such veterans as KISS, Judas Priest and Lost Prophets. It's noisy, wild and a good choice if you can't score tickets to the Isle of Wight festival.
Who's there? The 2014 line up is really typical,Aerosmith, Avenged and Linkin Park among the headliners.Continue to 9 of 17 below.
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T in the ParkJuly's mega festival at Balado in Kinross, Scotland, has nine stages, tents and arenas with dozens and dozens of acts. Like most big festivals, it sells out fast. Get on the mailing list for the best chance of getting one.T Break stage introduces the best unsigned acts after organizers sift through more than 1,000 submissions. The main stages feature top British and international bands and artists. And there's all the usual paraphernalia of a giant festival - camping, a Fancy Dress Friday, fairground rides, food and market stalls.
Who's there? Among the 2014 headliners, lots of the usual suspects and Pharrell Williams, Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, The Arctic Monkeys, Paolo Nutini, Franz Ferdinand, The Kaiser Chiefs and loads more.
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WakestockAnd now, for something a little different. Wakestock attracts the wakeboarding crowd by combining top wakeboarding events(think water-sking on a snowboard with jumps and tricks) with groovy music and a chilled out campsite in Abersock on the coast of North Wales. The three day wakeboarding music festival, on Cardigan Bay, is Europe's largest. Organizers promise "hot, hot beaches, boardies and good times."
Who's there? In 2014, John Newman, Tom Odell, Kidnap Kid, Charlotte Church, Ella Frye, MNEK, Goldierocks and loads more going on at three sites - beach, festival and marina.
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LatitudeAnother boutique festival, Latitude at Henham Park, is in a lovely part of Suffolk, near the coast. Beautiful countryside, nice pubs and a festival that attracts about 50,000 for a really fine mix of experiences. Music, comedy, theatre, film and poetry are featured on nine different stages.
Who's there? Headliners range from electronic dance music makers and disco icons Grace Jones to unusual personal styles.There's punk, nostalgia, new wave and some great comedy acts on the comedy stage. In 2014 Damon Albarn and the Bombay Bicycle Club will be there, along with Kelis, Billy Bragg, Chrissie Hynde, Booker T Jones, The Jayhawks.
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The Secret Garden PartyNot so much a music festival as a New Age weekend for sybarites - There are Boutique Bellboys for the campsite, art boats floating around the lake. Only about 12,000 tickets are sold and the stages and "scenes" have names like Music for Babylonians, The Sounds of Eden, Elysian Fields. Participation and artistic self-expression are encouraged across 12 stages.
Who's there? Jarvis Cocker, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Freeland, Slagsmalsklubben, Evil Nine and Asteroids Galaxy were among the 2009 attractions. in 2014 the event the lineup is enormous. And if the festival is similar to previous years, paint fights and naked mud wrestling could break out.Continue to 13 of 17 below.
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WOMADPeter Gabriel's world music festival is legendary. Anything goes in terms of musical styles, but musicianship is paramount. You might hear Jazz, gospel, blues, rock, Bollywood, West African percussion, singer-songwriters and even the occasional disco diva. A lot more listening than screaming and bopping goes on at this grown up event in Charlton Park, Malmsbury, Wiltshire.
Who's there? On the 2014 line up - an amazing United Nations of bands from all the English speaking countries plus, China, Cambodia, Nigeria, Ghana, Algeria, France, Spain, Guyana, Senegal, Brazil, Cuba, Kenya, Mexico, Israel, Romania, Tibet, Sicily; wherever people make music in fact.
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Green Man FestivalFolk, lo-fi and psychedelic rock are part of the relatively low key Green Man Festival in Wales' Brecon Beacons. This one's family friendly and mellow. It's been called an "indie-folk fairyland" and "the UK's hippest festival" by London papers. But it's not all new agers in la la land. In fact, NME, the UK's definitive music scene magazine said that the choice of music available "puts most other festivals to shame".
Who's there? In 2014 - Beirut, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mercury Rev, The Waterboys, Daughter, Anna Calvi, Angel Olsen, Nick Mulvey, Miriam the Believer, Vancouver Sleep Clinic are among the music acts. Comedians Josh Widdicombe, Gemma Whelan, Jo Neary and included in a line up of comedy acts.
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You've gotta go, if only for the great name of this two-day, Ullapool-based festival on the west coast of Scotland. It's indie through and through and features locally big names as well as up-and-comers. This one is really small and intimate - also possibly wet and cold, it being September in Scotland. So, while there's camping available, you might want to look into hotel and B&B accommodations in Ullapool.
Who's there? Franz Ferdinand appeared in 2008. In 2009, Paolo Nutini has been there and other acts that have appeared include The Lightning Seeds, The Dykeenies, Mumford and Sons, Kid British and The Family Mahone. 2014 is the festival's 10th anniversary and as of May, they are keeping schtum about the line-up for the late September bash.
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End of the Road FestivalDespite its name, The End of the Road, at Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset, is not the last music festival of the year. In fact, since its origins as a mid-September festival, they've moved it to the last week in August. One of the newest festivals, first run in 2006, The End of the Road has a kind of hand-made feel about it - one of the founders actually sold his house to help finance the first one. The festival is family friendly and tends to feature lesser known, less hyped bands who play longer sets and also involve themselves in workshops and festival events.
Who's there? The Scandinavian connection of the early festival seems to be gone and what you can expect is a big line-up of little known bands and singers and the chance to make a discovery.Continue to 17 of 17 below.
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e-Festivals - Online Music Festival Guide
There are hundreds of music festivals in the UK and every year new ones are launched while older ones fade away. Keeping track of them all, their line ups, their dates, their accommodations arrangements is a full time job. Luckily, there's a full time website, e-Festivals, that does just that. Billing itself as the "definitive guide to festivaling", e-Festivals is full of news, useful information and bloggy buzz for the committed festival goer.


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Tasteful Abstraction, 2014
Acrylic on Canvas
Guide Price: £75 – £100
Simon Raven studied Fine Art at Ruskin School, Oxford, and MA Sculpture Royal College of Art, London (grad 2006) A Nottingham-based artist, and resident at Primary (www.weareprimary.org) Simon makes concept-led work across media, including performance, painting, video, sound and sculpture/installation. His practice is generated in response to place and exhibition specifics, and sometimes refers to his experience of being treated for depression and hypomania. In addition to exhibiting his work over the past ten years, he has also curated exhibitions, both as director of BOX Gallery, Nottingham, and for events as part of Sideshow 2010, fringe for British Art Show 7.

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What Is Csat
Eligibility criteria for CSAT
CSAT or Civil Services Aptitude Test is an obligatory segment of Civil Services Examination. The CSAT exam is considered as the screening test of Civil Services Main examination. These exams are conducted by Union Public Service Commission of India every year. It is also known as Civil Services Preliminary Examination.
When is it conducted?
The exam is generally conducted in the month of September. You can get the notification regarding the exam in April or May. The last date for receiving the application form is last week of June. The result is usually out in the month of October.
Who can apply for this exam?
The commission has some strict rules about the eligibility of the candidates who can appear in the examination. You need to be aware of these rules so that you can prepare yourself for the same. The candidate must be an Indian Citizen for the post of IAS and IPS. The age limit is between 21 years to 30 years.
For other civil services, the candidates can be:
- A citizen of India
- A subject of Nepal
- A subject of Bhutan
- A Tibetan refugee who came to India before January 1 1962 with the intention of permanently residing in India.
A person who is of Indian origin and now migrated from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Burma, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia with the intention of permanently settling in this nation.
What Are The Educational Qualifications?
A degree from any University that is incorporated by the Act of the Central Or State Legislature in India.


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Maria Maria Restaurants:
Inspired by Carlos Santana
After his 40-year career as a legendary latin-rock guitarist, Carlos Santana is enjoying the fruits of his labor. Literally! In addition to branching out into the areas of fashion (Carlos by Carlos Shoes), perfume, and charity work (Milagro Foundation), Santana has opened a new chain of restaurants.
Calixto Robles
A painter, printmaker, and sculptor from Oaxaca, Mexico, Robles has been exhibited in Mexico, France, Cuba and the United States.
Irene Carranza
An iconic Latina visual artist, Carranza's work has been featured in films and television shows, and ads for companies such as Mitsubishi Motors, Nordstrom, ABC, and many other organizations, as well as magazines and books.
Michael V. Rios
Renowned for his mural work in northern California, Rios has also created children's books, billboards, print advertisements, and other commercial art.
Rudy Gutierrez
Creator of Santana's Shaman album cover, Gutierrez is a sought-after artist, by organizations such as Rolling Stone, The NY Times, Verve Records, Arista Records, Sony, Ms. Magazine, Harper Collins, and others.
Sal Garcia
Cover artist for Santana's album Ceremony: Remixes and Rarities, Garcia works in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and woodcarving.
Maria Maria Menu
Offering items like seafood guacamole, which includes crab and shrimp, coconut ceviche, soft duck tacos, and mixed wild mushroom fajitas, Maria Maria restaurants have taken traditional mexican cooking and updated it with a modern flair.
The chef, Roberto Santibanez, created the menu. A frequent contributor to national food magazines like Bon Appetit and Gourmet, Santibanez worked with Carlos Santana to create a selection of dishes that is at once fresh and reminiscent of mexico's rich culinary history.
Maria Maria Decor
In keeping with the sophisticated, inventive menu, the visual ambience is nothing less than stunning. The artwork, created by a distinguished panel of artists (see sidebar) is complemented by the architecture, furnishings, tableware, and other elements. Every piece of the puzzle has been carefully chosen to integrate into a whole that is really quite striking.
And while the food and decor are both obviously upscale, the ambience is a true "California Casual" flavor; you'll feel pampered and comfortable at the same time. Don't go to Maria Maria expecting to hear Oye Como Va blasting from the sound system, or see Santana's Paul Reed Smith guitars hanging on the walls. But you will get an excellent meal in a very pleasant setting.
Maria Maria Locations
For now, Maria Maria restaurants exist in only four locations. In northern California there is one in Walnut Creek (1407 N. Broadway), and in Mill Valley (651 E. Blithedale Avenue). Outside of California, there is one in Tempe, Arizona (2000 E. Rio Salado Parkway), as well as Austin, Texas (415 Colorado Street).
Are more locations planned? Given the success of the first four, the outlook is good. These restaurants were put together by Dudum Sports and Entertainment (the same company that produced celebrity-theme restaurants Bing Crosby's and McCovey's, and Joe DiMaggio's Italian Chop House). Judging by the success of the first locations, Maria Maria restaurants just may become a national phenomenon!


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In the literary agenda of the festival the reading-marathon performance of Andrey Platonov works have a special place. This unique format adored by townspeople appeared in the context of the festival in 2012. Over a couple of hours, one by one, participants are performing the extracts of the writer's works. Lots of visitors of the Book Fair which is located in the Soviet Square, come to see and hear the event.
The previous years, several Platonov's stories and novels such as "Breath and Reading", "The Juvenile Sea" and "The Innermost Man" were presented. This year, the novel"For the Future" will be performed by the participants.
The reading-marathon performance will be organized the 11th of June at 12.00 a.m.
Location – the green lawn in front of the Soviet Square.
Each year the guests of the festival from different cities and abroad, figures of culture and art in Voronezh, politicians and business elites, people of all kind of jobs, who should apply through the Internet and supposed to be chosen competitively, participate in this marathon.
The participants receive a small piece of paper with an extract of Platonov's novel before the competition starts. After they should read it in front of the audience (approx. time-3 min.).
The total number of participants – 60.
E-mail registration is open!
If you are ready to share with us your interest and desire in Andrey Platonov's work and become a part of this event, send your application to firstname.lastname@example.com. Don't forget to put your name, surname, age, occupation and telephone number. Give us your background information and tell more about your hobbies. Emphasize if you took part in this event before. Also, it would be better to attach your photo!
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Israel appointed its first female judge in its Muslim sharia court system today, officials said, a move hailed as historic. Hana Khatib, an attorney from the northern town of Tamra, was selected by an Israeli justice committee alongside three men to become a religious judge, or qadi, in the courts ruling on personal law for Muslims inside Israel.
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, from the far-right Jewish Home party and head of the committee that selected Khatib, said the appointment of a female religious judge "should have happened a long time ago."
"This is great news for Arab women and the Arab society," she said in a statement. "I'm excited over the choice, and hope this is the bellwether for further appointments of women."
Aida Touma-Sliman, a female Arab lawmaker from the Joint List coalition, called Khatib's appointment "a historic move" that was the result of a long legal struggle, adding it would benefit all Arabs in Israel.
"It's time to believe in the power of Arab women in filling any role, making decisions and being in positions of influence in society and state, and removing the obstacles from the way," she said in a statement.
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In Israel, family law — divorce, marriage, endowments — falls under the jurisdiction of religious courts, and separate systems exist for the country's different creeds.
Khatib is the first woman not only for the Muslim sharia courts but for all the religious courts in Israel, as no women serve as judges in the Jewish or Druze courts. There are not many women qadis around the world. Two women serve as sharia judges in the neighbouring Palestinian Authority.
Khatib will be sworn in by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in a few weeks. There are nine regional sharia courts in Israel as well as an appeal courts, with today's appointments bringing the number of qadis in the Muslim system to 18.
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About the Iceland volcano eruption, this is most worrying for me. And incase you don't know, I'm referring to the volcano in Iceland that erupted already in March once and is likely to erupt again.
My situation is that I have not been in my home country–China, for 3 years, and this summer, after a long long wait, we are finally going back. My reaction? I was excited from head to toes, dream come true!!
The volcano eruption may happen again, and if it does, I will NOT be able to fly back with an airplane!! So the result would be either me being stuck in Finland the whole summer, or our family would take a ship or train to China instead.
Of course, it could also happen that we go back to China as planned, then the volcano erupts, and we shall be stuck in China not being able to get back to Finland.
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In the past two years we have seen some of the greatest 80's and 90's bands reunite and introduce their sound to younger generations. There was one band in particular that 90's music fans were curious to see reunite, that band being the Smashing Pumpkins.
Last Saturday lead vocalist/guitarist of the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, announced on social media that him, percussionist Jimmy Chamberlin, and guitarist James Iha are coming together to make their tenth studio album. The only original member who will not be joining the reunion is bassist D'arcy Wretzky. Not only are fans excited to hear the band is back, but also knowing that Rick Rubin will be producing their new album.
For those who don't know who Rubin is, he is a well-known rock and hip-hop music producer.
He has worked with artists such as: The Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Slayer, Johnny Cash, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, just to name a few.
The alternative rock band began their career in Chicago in 1988. Corgan and Iha were the first two members to form the band. Their first album was released in 1991 called "Gish." The group received positive feedback from the album from music critics, as well as the fans. It sold one million copies, and received a platinum award from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
In 1993, "Siamese Dream" was their second studio album, but the first album that brought the group mainstream success.
Some songs off that album are "Cherub Rock," "Today," and "Disarm." The song "Today," was a song inspired by Corgan's long battle with depression, which softened the already heavy sounding group.
Within two years, Smashing Pumpkins released what would be their greatest album, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" in 1995. The two-disc CD, was certified a diamond award by the RIAA, with over 10 million copies sold. Most people who are introduced to the Smashing Pumpkins usually hear songs off of this album including: "Zero," "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," "Tonight, Tonight," "1979," and "Thirty-Three." The album was based around growing up and saying goodbye to your younger self, and learning to grow up in a very complex world. Like any other rock band in the 90's, the Smashing Pumpkins had their great share of success, as well as downfalls. Drugs, toxic relationships, and fame got the best of them, which caused for the original members to split up in 2000. The Smashing Pumpkins tried to reunite once again in 2006, but the sound was not the same. With so many members transitioning into the band and others leaving, it caused major chaos and a decrease in album sales, due to fans not being able to keep up with the changes.
After settling their differences along with getting sober, Corgan, Chamberlin, and I have decided now is the time to come together, make amends, and create another masterpiece album.
What makes the Smashing Pumpkins such a great band is their diverse sound, and realistic lyrics. Let's hope that the album will be released sooner than expected.


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Here's another study showing the value of email. This one breaks it down by the size of the company:
What's nice about the article is it hits on a weird phenomenon:
"In fact, email is so much part of our everyday life now that we insist that marketers personalize the messages that hit our inbox; if they don't, we consider that message as spam. Compare that to how we feel about personalization in other forms of marketing, such as location-based triggers, or retargeting campaigns on social platforms.
"For a number of reasons, we've been trained to be sold to via email," Cifuentes said."
I'm not sure if we've been exactly "trained". I believe it is about having control.
Here's a relevant article talking about the expectation factor: "People come into situations expecting to receive something specific. Expectation factors apply to all aspects of life. You go to a job interview and expect the hiring manager to ask certain questions. You go to a birthday party and expect to eat certain foods and have a certain level of fun.
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A shocking thing about birds is that we are not their only enemy. The hardship of living in the wild world around them is fraught with perils and overrun with predators. So many species have become extinct it gives mankind a greater mandate to preserve everything that is avian.
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I am protecting the images of their feathers. I try to know the origin of every feather I use in my art. My goal as an artist is to never harm a bird in acquiring its feather. But what of a bird whose feathers became available to me because it was killed by a predator? I'm torn here. What is my responsibility?
The goose feather shown here has not been prepared for art. I discovered it near my neighbor's geese. It was not molting season. My other neighbors recently had predation too. Their flock of turkeys was attacked ironically on Thanksgiving. They were decimated by coyotes. The turkey feather seen here was salvaged from the massacre that was routine among the animal kingdom. The entire flock was taken, but one was saved. Would I be justified to take feathers like these and use them in my art?
How would it make you feel if you acquired an artwork that used a feather known to come from a kill? Would it change your opinion of the art?
It brings to mind predators and their rare feathers. My proposed museum of all feathers desires to include every feather known. Yet in the U.S. only native Americans have access to the sacred feathers like hawk and eagle. I only need to use them briefly to photograph them with a small setup and my macro camera.
I want to photograph every feather known and I hope to approach zoos and conservatories to borrow their molted feathers for posterity.
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We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Pavilion 1.1.0!
This is major release which provides some new feature in addition to the regular issue fixes.
The most notable new feature is the Stories module. We could also have named it News/Blog as its purpose is to post articles on your stores. It supports tags and comes with three blocks you can use with the page builder – Latest articles, Featured articles and Articles Tags. It is installed as an additional module (just like regular opencart module) and its contents are not controlled inside Pavilion theme panel.
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When on one hand, the movie Udta Punjab went hit, the song Ikk Kudi, sung by Shahid Mallya and composed by Amit Trivedi won hearts of millions. The sensational beats of the song and amazing lyrics given to it just make people force to put in on loop when in serenity. We present you the cover of this song by Siddhant Bhosle, just to add a little more charm to it.
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Generalized function projective synchronization of chaotic systems for secure communication
- Xiaohui Xu1Email author
© Xu; licensee Springer. 2011
- Received: 17 January 2011
- Accepted: 27 June 2011
- Published: 27 June 2011
By using the generalized function projective synchronization (GFPS) method, in this paper, a new scheme for secure information transmission is proposed. The Liu system is employed to encrypt the information signal. In the transmitter, the original information signal is modulated into the system parameter of the chaotic systems. In the receiver, we assume that the parameter of receiver system is uncertain. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory, the controllers and corresponding parameter update rule are constructed to achieve GFPS between the transmitter and receiver system with uncertain parameters, and identify unknown parameters. The original information signal can be recovered successfully through some simple operations by the estimated parameter. Furthermore, by means of the proposed method, the original information signal can be extracted accurately in the presence of additional noise in communication channel. Numerical results have verified the effectiveness and feasibility of presented method.
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- Generalized function projective synchronization
- Scaling function factor
- Liu chaotic system
- Secure communication
- Parameter modulation
1 Introduction
Chaos is a kind of characteristics for nonlinear systems, which is a bounded unstable dynamic behavior that exhibits sensitive dependence on initial conditions and includes infinite unstable periodic motions. Since Pecora and Carroll [1] presented the conception of chaotic synchronization for two identical chaotic systems with different initial conditions, many synchronization methods have been proposed, such as complete synchronization (CS) [1], generalized synchronization [2], phase synchronization [3], impulse synchronization [4], lag synchronization [5], projective synchronization [6–8], etc. Amongst all kinds of chaos synchronization, projective synchronization, first reported by Mainieri and Rehacek [6], has been especially extensively studied because it can obtain faster communication with its proportional feature [9–12].
However, the above projective synchronization (PS) method is characterized that its drive and response systems are synchronized up to a constant scaling factor. Recently, Chen et al. [13] introduced a new PS scheme which is called function projective synchronization (FPS), where the responses of synchronized dynamical states can synchronize up to a scaling function factor. Let the scaling function be constant or unity, one can obtain PS or CS. So FPS is a more general definition of PS. Be-cause the unpredictability of the scaling function in FPS can additionally enhance security of communication, this feature could be applied to get more secure communication. More recently, many studies concentrate on FPS of chaotic systems and its application to secure communication [13–20]. For instance, FPS of two identical or different chaotic systems was studied in [13, 14, 16, 18]. In [15, 20], another new synchronization phenomenon, generalized function projective synchronization (GFPS), was proposed, in which drive and response systems could be synchronized to a scaling function matrix. In [20], Yu and Li investigated GFPS of two entirely different systems with fully unknown parameters. Du et al. [15] studied GFPS in coupled chaotic systems and its application in secure communication.
In the past decades, the use of chaotic signals for information transmission attracts great attention of modern scientists from various fields [16, 17, 20–26]. Different approaches for transmission of information signals using chaotic dynamics have been proposed, such as chaotic masking, chaotic modulation, nonlinear mixing, chaotic switching, and others. In a typical chaotic synchronization communication scheme, the information to be transmitted is carried from the transmitter to the receiver by a chaotic signal through an analog channel. In the receiver, chaos synchronization is employed to recover the information signal. In many existing secure communication methods, the information signal is directly added to input of chaotic systems. The magnitude of transmitted signals is required to be sufficiently small, otherwise it may lead to the instability of whole system. On the other hand, although these communication methods have been successfully demonstrated in simulations, performance of communication schemes were usually quantified by assuming the identical chaos synchronization based on exact knowledge of the system parameters [27, 28], which may impose some limitations to applicability of these techniques. But in real situation, some or all of parameters are unknown and the noise exists. The effect of these uncertainties and noise will destroy the synchronization and even break it. As a result, one cannot extract the original information in the receiver. Therefore, it is essential to study secure communication in the presence of unknown parameters and noise.
Motivated by the above discussions, this paper proposes a new secure communication scheme based on GFPS of uncertain Liu chaotic system and parameter modulation. In the transmitter, the original information signal is firstly transformed by an invertible function. Then the processed signal is modulated into the parameter of Liu system. The resulting system is still chaotic. In our method, no constraint is imposed on the magnitude of the original information signal. Suppose the parameter of the receiver system is unknown. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory, we design the controllers and the parameter update rule to realize GFPS of uncertain Liu chaotic systems and identify the unknown parameter of the receiver system. Then the information signal in the receiver can be recovered by the estimated parameter. Moreover, it is worth noting that secure communication using GFPS can still be realized fast even if the transmission channel is perturbed by additive noise.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, Liu system is described briefly and the definition of GFPS is presented. Section 3 gives the chaotic secure communication scheme using GFPS and parameter modulation. By means of the Lyapunov stability theory and adaptive control, the controllers and corresponding parameter update rule are designed to ensure GFPS between two identical Liu chaotic systems with uncertain parameters. Simulation experiments of the proposed secure communication system have been performed in Section 4. The conclusions are finally drawn in Section 5.
2 System description and the definition of GFPS
2.1 The Liu system
The Liu system has a butterfly-shaped attractor similar to the Lorenz attractor but not equivalent. The existing studies have shown that the Liu system is equivalent to Shimizu-Morioka system and is a representative example of chaotic attractors. Compared to other chaotic systems, when the system parameters of Liu system vary in a certain range, this chaotic system can still be chaotic, further the dynamical behaviors of this system become more abundant and complex. Therefore, it is possible to modulate information signal into the parameter of chaotic systems to realize chaotic secure communication.
Remark 1 It is found that many chaotic systems can maintain chaotic behavior when a system parameter continuously changes in a certain range. We can obtain a "new" system parameter by modulating the information signal into the parameter of chaotic systems. If the "new" system parameter can ensure the corresponding system still be chaotic, the detector cannot extract the information signal from the signals, and transmitted in the channel. So it is possible to modulate the information signal into the parameter of chaotic systems to realize chaotic secure communication.
2.2 The definition of GFPS
where e= (e1, e2, ..., e n ) T , and Λ= diag(ϕ1(t), ϕ2t, ..., ϕ n (t)) is reversible and differentiable, where ϕ i (t): R n → R(≠ 0) is a continuously differentiable functions with bounded.
Definition 1 (GFPS) For the drive system (2) and the response system (3), it is said that system (2) and (3) are GFPS, if there exists a scaling function matrix Λ such that limt→∞||e|| = 0.
Remark 2 We call Λ a scaling function matrix and ϕ i (t) a scaling function factor, respectively. It is easy to see that if ϕ1(t) = ϕ2(t) = ⋯ = ϕ n (t), GFPS is simplified to FPS. If ϕi = a i (i = 1, 2, ..., n) where a i ∈ R and a i ≠ 0, GPS will occur. If Λ = λI where λ ∈ R is a constant and I n is an n × n identity matrix, GFPS is reduced to PS. In particular, if ϕ i (t) = 1 or ϕ i (t) = -1, the problem further becomes standard CS or anti-synchronization (AS).
3 Secure communication based on GFPS and parameter modulation
3.1 The chaotic secure communication scheme using GFPS and parameter modulation
The secure communication system involves the development of a signal that contains the information which is to remain undetectable by others within a carrier signal. We can ensure the security of this information by inserting it into a chaotic signal which is transmitted to a prescribed receiver that would be able to detect and recover the information from the chaotic signal.
where the state vector X= (x, y, z).
The transmitter module is composed of a chaotic system S1 and an invertible transformation function φ. The "new" parameter β is formulated as a function of the original information signal f (t), i.e., β = φ(f (t)), which meets the need of the parameter range of c. So the resulting system still exhibits a chaotic behavior. In our method, the following two cases: no circumstance noise and additive noise in the transmission channel will be considered. The receiver module consists of another chaotic system S2, the controller U(S1, S2) and the corresponding inverse function φ-1. Assume that the parameter of the receiver system S2 is uncertain. In the receiver, with the help of controller U(S1, S2), GFPS between systems S1 and S2 can be realized. The unknown parameter can be asymptotically identified as GFPS appears. Then the original in-formation can be recovered through some simple operations by the function φ-1 and the estimated parameter , i.e., .
3.2 GFPS of uncertain Liu chaotic system
where m and M are known constants.
will still be chaotic, which has more abundant dynamic behavior. Since the resulting system (8) is chaotic, it is hard to detect information signal from the signals transmit-ted in the channel.
where u i (t) (i = 1, 2, 3) are controllers to be designed, is unknown parameter of receiver system which needs to be estimated.
Then we have the following main theorem.
Theorem 1 For given nonzero scaling functions ϕ i (t)(i = 1, 2, 3), GFPS between the transmitter system (8) and the receiver system (9) can occur by the controllers (14) and the parameter update rule (15). It implies that the GFPS errors satisfy limt→∞e i (t) = 0. The uncertain parameter is well estimated from the system parameter in the sense of .
where Q = diag(10, 1, β ) and β ∈ [0.5, 8]. Clearly, Q is a positive definite matrix and is negative definite. Based on the Lyapunov stability theory, the error dynamical system (13) is globally and asymptotically stable at the origin, and we have e β → 0, as t → ∞. Hence GFPS between the transmitter system (8) and the receiver system (9) is achieved and the uncertain parameter is also identified in the receiver end simultaneously under the controllers (14) and the parameter update rule (15). The proof is completed.
which implies that the original information signal can be recovered successfully in the receiver end.
Remark 3 In practical situations, if the information signal to be transmitted is too large, it will result in a chaotic system to be asymptotically stable or emanative. In this case, one may fail to extract the information signal. In the presented method, no constraint is imposed on the information signal. The original information signal is firstly transformed by an invertible function. Then the transformed signal is used as the parameter of Liu system. The resulting system exhibits more abundant chaotic behavior. The interceptor cannot extract the information from the transmitted signals in the channel.
4 Simulation results
To verify and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed chaotic secure communication scheme, some numerical examples are performed in this section. In the simulations, the ODE45 algorithm is applied to solve the differential systems. The initial states of the transmitter system (8) and the receiver system (9) are arbitrarily taken as x1(0), y1(0), z1(0) = (2, 1, - 1) and (x2(0), y2(0), z2(0)) = (-3, -2, 4), respectively. The initial values of the unknown parameter is chosen arbitrarily as .
4.1 Secure communication without circumstance noise
Similarly, we have also tested the proposed secure communication scheme for other values of θ. Limited to the length of this paper, we omit these results here. Numeric evidence shows that the larger the value of θ, the faster to achieve GFPS, and the more accurate the recovered signal is.
4.2 Secure communication with additive noise
5 Conclusions
In this paper, a novel chaotic secure communication scheme based on GFPS and parameter modulation is proposed. In the transmitter end, the original information signal is modulated into the parameter of the chaotic system and the resulting system still chaotic. There is no constraint posed on the original information signal. In the receiver, we assume that the parameter of the receiver system is uncertain. On the basis of the Lyapunov stability theory, the controllers and corresponding parameter update rule are devised to make the states of two identical Liu chaotic systems with unknown parameter synchronized. Simultaneously the uncertain parameter of the receiver system is also identified. Furthermore, the information signal can also be recovered accurately and fast by applying our secure communication method when additive noise exists in the transmission channel. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed chaotic secure communication scheme based on GFPS and parameter modulation.
We would like to thank Prof. Linpeng Huang and Dr. Xiangjun Wu for their valuable suggestions and discussion. In addition, we would like to thank the anonymous reviewers who have helped to improve the paper. This paper is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No.60673116, 60970010, the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China under Grant No.2009CB320705, and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No.20090073110026.
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