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We do not have details about the beginning of the rural settlement Osięciny. Even before the partition of Poland there was a village in Osięciny owned by local nobility. Since the year of 1815 until WWI, Osięciny was in the territory of Congress Poland. In the year of 1823 Osięciny was granted privileges of a city. Market days and annual fares were held in Osięciny.
We do not have exact details about the beginning of the Jewish settlement in Osięciny. We assume that its beginning was in the second half of the 18th century. Then, a few Jewish families lived there. Organized Jewish settlement occurred in the beginning of the 19th century. In the 20s of that century, Jewish lodging was confined to two streets only and there the Jews were allowed to purchase property. One of the streets even had the name Ulica Zydowska (the street of the Jews). In that street a Beth Midrash made of wood was erected (later its walls were changed to stone). Due to the closeness to the Prussia border, starting from 1822 new Jewish settlement was forbidden in Osięciny.
The first Jewish settlers dealt in small commerce and peddling. Few of them lived on artisanship and had traditional occupations, such as tailors, hat makers etc. After the abolishment of the lodging restrictions in 1862, the Jewish population in Osięciny grew in number and the Jews were allowed to settle in any parts of the town. Around that year, the municipality gave the Jewish community an area near the cemetery, where a synagogue made of bricks was erected. Traditional societies were active in the community life, such was Hevra Kadish (burial society) and Hachnasat Orchim (hospice for the poor), founded in 1906.
Also in the period between the two World Wars the Jews of Osięciny made a living mainly from small trade and artisanship. In addition to the Community Committee, there were other welfare institutions for mutual aid which helped the poor and needy. In 1933 the society Bikur Holim (visit the sick) was founded and it helped the poor sick people and purchased medicines for them. The end of the 20s saw the establishment of Kupat Gmilut Hassadim (Charity Fund) and it too helped the needy with credit on easy terms. It had about 70 members. In the year of 1936, the capital fund of this society was 6,000 zloty and at that year it gave 200 loans to the community members.
During the inter-war period, branches of almost all the Jewish parties in Poland were active in Osięciny. Amongst the Zionists the strongest faction was that of the General Zionists and Hamizrachi. In 1923 branch of Beitar was established. Also branch of Agudath Israel who was based mostly on the Gerer Hasidim, Aleksandrów, Stryków and Sochaczew Hasidim.
Among the rabbis who served the community we mention R' Benjamin Eliahu Kantor who held the service from 1885 and then moved to Sokolów Podlaski. For some years held the position the (ABD) Head of Court R' Szlomo Zalman Najman (died in 1921). More information was recorded on his son, R' Abraham Noach Najman, the last Rabbi of Osięciny. R' Najman was born in 1877 and perished at Chełmno in 1942. In the years of his service there was a small Yeshiva by the Beth Midrash where pupils of the shtetl studied. One of the pupils was R' Perlmuter, who served for few years as the local Rabbi in Osięciny and then moved to Warsaw.
The leaders of Agudath Israel controlled the administration of the community. The head of the local branch was R' Abraham Noach Najman, the community's rabbi. The last chairman of the community's committee was Wolf Ber Wojdeslawski from Agudath Israel. Between the two World Wars the Jewish pupils in Osięciny continued to study in the local heders and the local Talmud Torah. In addition, the children studied in Polish state schools. In the 1930s, a library of Beitar was established.
The Anti-Semite propaganda in the 1930s influenced the polish population in Osięciny. There were many attacks on Jews passing by and the Jews suffered from the boycott of Jewish trade and workshops.
Units of the German army marched into Osięciny in October 1939. Soon after the occupation the Germans started in confiscating merchandise from the Jews. They imprisoned 20 citizens of the town (10 Jews and 10 Poles( and held them as hostages until all their demand of confiscating property and merchandise were met.
When the region was annexed to the Reich in October 1939, persecutions of the town Jews worsened. In the autumn of 1939 a Judenrat was erected by the Germans' command. The main aim of the Judenrat was to supply the Germans with quota of Jews, age 15-60 for forced labor in the field, the forest and in building shacks. The Jews were ordered to wear yellow band. Particularly they abused Jews wearing beard. A few Jews were murdered.
In November 1939 the Germans forced the rabbi of the community, Abraham Noach Najman to take out Holy Scrolls of the Torah out the synagogue and burn them. He was murderously bitten up while refusing this command.
In the year of 1940, a ghetto was established and the Jews were forced to move into it. At the same time, some tens of young Jews were transported from Osięciny to forced labor camps in the region (Bielsk, Moglina and other places within the Reich).
In January 1942 the Jews were assembled in a big hall. They were forced to bring all the valuables they owned. At the same time, other Germans looted their houses. Some of the Jews learned about the German intentions to liquidate the ghetto and they escaped town. Unfortunately most of them were caught by the Germans and shot to death.
On April 15th 1942, the final liquidation of the ghetto of Osięciny occurred. The remainder of the Jewish population was assembled in the local church and from there was deported in truck to the extermination camp Chełmno. From the Jewish population of Osięciny only 15 survived the war: 12 survived the concentration camps and 3 escaped in the beginning of the war to the Soviet Union.
The Central Zionist Archive in Jerusalem Z-4/3569/IV
Rafael Olewski, The Tear, Osięciny Kujawski's Chapters of Memory, Tel Aviv 1983
Heint 21/8/1922
Wloclawker Wochenblat 23/4/1937, 9/5/1937, 18.6.1937, 27.8.1937,
Welt Journal 28, June-July 1964
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Friday hailed President Obama's decision to nominate Sen. John Kerry -- the longtime Massachusetts senator -- to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.
Kerry, 69, has chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since 2009. News of his nomination comes after Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, withdrew as the top candidate for the post amid a hailstorm of criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill for her initial remarks on the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Schiff, a member of the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, released a statement Friday Kerry and the decision to nominate him.
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John Herbert Cunningham reviews Four Books by Clarice Lispector: NEAR TO THE WILD HEART (Perto de selvage), translated by Alison Entrekin; THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H. (A Paixăo segundo G.H.), translated by Idra Novey; AQUA VIVA (Áqua Viva), translated by Stefan Tobler; A BREATH OF LIFE (Um sopro de vida; pulsações), translated by Johnny Lorenz
Ed Zahniser reviews WILLIAM BRONK: BURSTS OF LIGHT THE COLLECTED LATER POEMS, edited by David Clippinger
Eileen Tabios engages THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON 1965-2010, edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser
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Micah Cavaleri reviews STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOVE by Matthew Cooperman
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Jeff Harrison engages LETTERS TO MADELEINE: TENDER AS MEMORY by Guillaume Apollinaire, edited by Lawrence Campa, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Bill Scalia reviews MAYBE A PAINTER by Christina Fisher
Jean Vengua reviews RING OF BONE: LEW WELCH COLLECTED POEMS, edited by Donald Allen
Burt Kimmelman reviews DIVINE MADNESS by Paul Pines
Lucy Biederman reviews RE- by Kristi Maxwell
Eileen Tabios engages MAY APPLE DEEP by Michael Sikkema
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Lucy Biederman reviews NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL by Harmony Holiday
Garrett J. Brown reviews MAP OF THE HYDROGEN WORLD by Steve Halle
Jaime Townsend reviews HART ISLAND by Stacy Szymaszek
Tom Hibbard reviews FOUR PAINTINGS by Guy Beining
Bill Scalia reviews BODY OF WATER by Erin M. Bertram
Eileen Tabios engages ANGLES OF INCIDENTS by Jon Curley
Tom Beckett reviews DECK OF DEEDS by Rodrigo Toscano
Allen Strous reviews IT CAN BE SOLVED BY WALKING by Jennifer Wallace
Patrick James Dunagan reviews BEYOND THE CHAMELEON'S SKILL by Darius Cooper
Eileen Tabios engages BENDING AT THE ELBOW by Matyei Yankelevich
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews EVERY DRESS A DECISION by Elizabeth Austen
Edric Mesmer reviews publications by, or edited by, BRIAN ANG, RAE ARMANTROUT, G.N. GABBARD, YVONNE REDDICK, BUCKY FLEUR, ROBERT DUNCAN, rob mclennan, VINCENT CERVONE, JOHN CUTTITO, PAIGE MELIN, ALBERT GLOVER, JOHN C. CLARKE, and j/j hastain
Bill Scalia reviews ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE by James Davies and Simon Taylor
Gayle Romasanta reviews FOR THE CITY THAT NEARLY BROKE ME by Barbara Jane Reyes
Bill Scalia reviews THE SILVER BOOK by Jen Bervin
Eileen Tabios engages COMMON TIME by Chris Pusateri
Tom Beckett reviews PORTRAIT AND DREAM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Bill Berkson
Bill Scalia reviews RUST OR GO MISSING by Lily Brown
Eileen Tabios engages ARDOR: POEMS OF LIFE by Janine Canan
Henry W. Leung reviews PHYLA OF JOY by Karen An-hwei Lee
Neil Leadbeater reviews SLEEPING WITH YOU AND OTHER NIGHT-TIME ADVENTURES by Geoff Stevens
Neil Leadbeater reviews ISLANDS IN THE BLOOD by Geoff Stevens
Mirna Perrin-Louis reviews "Heart as Arena" from THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by Paolo Javier
Eileen Tabios engages CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska
John Bloomberg-Rissman engages BAN by Bhanu Kapil
Jon Curley reviews USELYSSES by Noel Black
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews THE SHEPHERD'S ELEGY by John C. Goodman
Patrick James Dunagan reviews ON THE PLANET WITHOUT VISA: SELECTED POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS AD 1960-2012 by Sotére Torregian
rob mclennan reviews AS LONG AS TREES LAST by Hoa Nguyen
Neil Leadbeater reviews A PARTIAL VIEW TOWARD NAZARETH by Kathryn Rantala
rob mclennan reviews THUNDERBIRD by Dorothea Lasky
Neil Leadbeater reviews THE WHITE CALF KICKS by Deborah Slicer
Jeffery Beam reviews APPROXIMATING DIAPASON by j/j hastain and tod thilleman
Eileen Tabios engages CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE by Michael Leong
Patrick James Dunagan reviews, viz "Random Diptych," MATCHING SKIN by Shirlette Ammons, A COINCIDENCE OF WANTS by Michelle Detorie, THRONE by Michael Cross and MAJAKOVSKIJ EN TRAGEDY by Johannes Göransson
Genevieve Kaplan reviews, viz "Random Diptych" EARTHQUAKE CAME TO HARLEM by Jackie Sheeler and GLASS IS REALLY A LIQUID by Bruce Covey
Lucy Biederman engages, viz "Random Diptych," PARTYKNIFE by Dan Magers and AUTOPSY TURVY by Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason
"Remembering Paul Blackburn" by jim mccrary
THE IMAGE OF MATTER" by Tom Hibbard
"Engaging My Trans" by j/j hastain
Micah Cavaleri
Genevieve Kaplan
Edric Mesmer and Matthew Hall review DESIRING MAP by Megan Kaminski, FLASH BANG by James Cummins, GLOSS TO CARRIERS by Ian Heames, HGFED.JANVr; SOME STARSs by Jo Cook, THE KATECHON: LINES 101-200 by Michael Cross, PEACHES AND BATS, Issue 9, Spring 2012 edited by Sam Lohmann, THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS of ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios & j/j hastain, SORRY YOU'RE OCCUPIED: SPONTANEOUS ORDER, edited by James Louden, WHEREIN? HE ASKS OF MEMORY by Jeremy Balius, WORDS ON EDGE by Michael Leong
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Google steadily increased its companywide work force in the early part of last year and boosted those efforts in the third quarter, said Jordan Newman, a company spokesman.
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First of all, I just want to give a big thanks to Joe for all of his hard work and advice. I follow his blog religiously and the information I've gleaned from it has been a tremendous help to my career. It's actually inspired me to give back to my fellow authors in my own way, and why not start now?
On my journey of turning from a "starving artist" into a full-time author, I've sure made plenty of mistakes, and the strategies that I have implemented correctly were either by accident, chance, or outright copying from someone else's blog (such as Joe's here). But one thing I noticed that have helped my sales and target marketing is knowing the difference between writing for the reader, and writing for the writer. Let me explain a bit.
As authors we have a variety of reasons why we write, whether it be for pleasure/fun, money, prestige, or just having your voice heard and understood, and I think it's very important to understand your motivation because ultimately it will come off the page when people purchase your work. One of the big questions I ask myself when writing a novel is: would I buy this?
Would you buy your novel if someone pitched you the synopsis? Showed you the cover? Read a random blurb from within the pages? This causes us to take a step back and examine our words for what they are and not what we perceive them to be. That memoir you wrote, be honest, is it actually interesting? That blockbuster fantasy series – would you be in line at the midnight launch? Did you actually enjoy what you wrote? Because if you take an objective look at your work and put your perspective in those of your readers, suddenly, you'll realize what it will take to bring your book to the next level - what could bring it from a casual upload to a success. We have to remember that in this day and age, we are often performers and entertainers, not educators. Though we are professional, hard-working, passionate individuals, all readers see when they start chapter one is the story, which should always be the true star and celebrity here, not us.
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Mergers: Commission blocks proposed acquisition of TNT Express by UPS
The European Commission has prohibited under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of TNT Express by UPS. The Commission found that the take-over would have restricted competition in 15 Member States1 when it comes to the express delivery of small packages to another European country. In these Member States, the acquisition would have reduced the number of significant players to only 3 or 2, leaving sometimes DHL as the only alternative to UPS. The concentration would therefore have likely harmed customers by causing price increases. During the investigation, UPS offered to divest TNT's subsidiaries in these 15 countries and allow the buyer to access its intra-European air network for five years. The Commission carried out an in-depth assessment, including a market test where customers and other interested parties were consulted. However, these remedies proved inadequate to address the identified competition concerns.
Commission Vice President in charge of competition policy Joaquín Almunia said: "Many businesses active in the EU Single Market need to send small packages to another European country with guaranteed delivery on the next day. This requires access to affordable, reliable services that truly fit their needs. These businesses would have been directly harmed by the takeover of TNT by UPS because it would have drastically reduced choice between providers and probably led to price increases. We worked hard with UPS on possible remedies until very late in the procedure, but what they offered was simply not enough to address the serious competition problems we identified".
The Commission's investigation focused on the markets for international express deliveries of small packages in the European Economic Area (EEA). The main providers of these services are so-called "integrators" that control international integrated air and ground small package delivery networks. There are only four integrators in Europe: UPS, TNT, DHL and FedEx. FedEx, for its part, has low market shares in a number of countries where it does not exercise a significant competitive constraint on UPS and TNT, because of the lack of density and scale of its European network. Other market players, such as national postal operators, can only compete to a limited extent because they do not reach comparable efficiency or reliability, given their heavy reliance on road rather than air transport.
If the notified acquisition had been allowed, many customers in 15 Member States would only have been able to choose between UPS, DHL and (sometimes) FedEx for the services they need. This would have likely led to price increases.
Moreover, the possible benefits of the merger, i.e. any cost-savings passed on to customers as a result of the combination of UPS and TNT's air networks, would not have been sufficient to outweigh the negative effects on competition.
Remedies proposed by UPS
To address the Commission's concerns, UPS proposed to divest TNT's subsidiaries in the 15 relevant Member States, plus – under certain conditions - TNT's subsidiaries in Spain and Portugal, to further increase the volume of small package express deliveries that would be transferred to the purchaser. UPS also offered access to its air network for 5 years, should the purchaser not be a so-called "integrator".
However, to provide intra-EEA express deliveries from the 17 countries covered by the remedy package, the purchaser would have needed suitable networks or partners in these other countries. This requirement alone severely limited the number of potentially suitable purchasers, casting doubt over the effectiveness of the remedies. To dispel this uncertainty, UPS would have needed to sign a binding agreement with a suitable purchaser before the concentration was implemented. However, UPS did not propose this to the Commission and its last minute attempt to sign such an agreement before the end of the Commission's investigation did not materialise.
Moreover, the Commission had serious doubts as to the ability of the very few potential purchasers that expressed their interest to exercise a sufficient competitive constraint on the merged entity in intra-EEA express delivery markets on the basis of the remedies offered. In particular, a buyer that is not already an integrator would need the ability and incentive to invest in its own air transport solution and to upgrade its ground network in order to become a sufficient competitive threat on the merged entity. Without sufficient volume in express deliveries it is doubtful that such an incentive would exist.
Relevant markets
The Commission found that small package and freight delivery services should be distinguished. Unlike freight, small packages can be handled by a single person without specific equipment. They are transported via a specific infrastructure, in particular automated sorting centres and small vehicles, which are not suitable for freight.
Within small package delivery services, the Commission differentiated between domestic deliveries, international deliveries within the EEA and international services to the rest of the world. These categories satisfy different needs and require different networks.
The Commission also distinguished express services from slower services, called "deferred" deliveries. A number of users need to be sure that certain items (for instance spare parts) are delivered within one day. Such users would not be able to envisage switching to deferred services as a result of a price increase.
International intra-EEA express services are predominantly used by business users for shipping sensitive items such as time-critical documents, finished or semi-finished goods, spare parts, samples, etc.
As proposed by UPS, the Commission found that markets for intra-EEA express deliveries were national in scope. They are defined by reference to the location of the customer. The Commission identified competition concerns in 15 of these national markets.
UPS is a US-based global provider of specialised transportation and logistics services. TNT Express is a Dutch company also active in the global logistics sector. In the EEA, both companies are active in small package delivery services, air and road cargo transport, freight forwarding and contract logistics.
Small package deliveries form a network industry, relying on the integration of a number of assets (local sorting centres, ground and air hubs, road vehicles, aircraft etc.). Express services are those for which a provider commits to delivering small packages in one day.
The transaction was notified to the Commission in June 2012. In July, the Commission opened an in-depth investigation (see IP/12/816) and sent UPS a statement of objections setting out its competition concerns in October 2012. UPS submitted remedies in November, in December 2012 and on 3 January 2013.
More information will be available on the competition website, in the Commission's public case register under the case number M.6570.
See also MEMO/13/48.
Merger control rules and procedures
The Commission has the duty to assess mergers and acquisitions involving companies with a turnover above certain thresholds (see Article 1 of the Merger Regulation) and to prevent concentrations that would significantly impede effective competition in the EEA or any substantial part of it.
The vast majority of notified mergers do not pose competition problems and are cleared after a routine review. From the moment a transaction is notified, the Commission generally has a total of 25 working days to decide whether to grant approval (Phase I) or to start an in-depth investigation (Phase II).
There are currently three other on-going phase II investigations. The first one examines the planned acquisition of Aer Lingus by Ryanair (see IP/12/921). The Commission has until 6 March to reach a final decision. The second phase II investigation concerns the proposed combination of Munksjö and the European label and processing business of Ahlstrom, in the paper industry (see IP/12/1338), with a deadline on 16 May 2013. Finally, in the third on-going phase II, the Commission investigates Syniverse's project to acquire rival Mach in the data house clearing sector (see IP/12/1439). Deadline here is 30 May 2013.
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The Newtown massacre has given rise to something like mass hysteria on the left. Illogic and misinformation aren't the worst of it. Out of the leftist id fantasies of violence have have erupted as well. Novelist Joyce Carol Oates, for example, has taken to Twitter to vent her fantasy:
If sizable numbers of NRA members become gun-victims themselves, maybe hope for legislation of firearms?
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Fox & Friends Saturday criticized President Obama for offering to personally pay for a "museum of Muslim culture" during the government shutdown, a claim that originated from a satire website.
On October 5, the co-hosts of Fox & Friends Saturday discussed the closure of the World War II Memorial, which resulted from the Republican-led shutdown. During the discussion, co-host Anna Kooiman claimed that while the memorial is closed, "President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture."
KOOIMAN: The Republican National Committee is offering to pay for it to keep it open so that the veterans from Honor Flight are going to be able to go and see this because who did it honor? It honored them. It really doesn't seem fair, especially -- and we're going to talk a little bit later in the show too about some things that are continuing to be funded. And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it's the Republican National Committee who's paying for this.
Unfortunately for Kooiman, the claim that Obama offered to pay out of pocket for a "museum of Muslim culture" originated from the satirical website the National Report. As the fact-checking site Snopes.com points out, a now-removed disclaimer on the National Report noted: "National Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within National Report are fiction, and presumably fake news."
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UPDATE: On October 6, Kooiman issued the following statement via Twitter: "Just met w producers- I made a mistake yday after receiving flawed research abt a museum possibly closing. My apologies. Won't happen again."
UPDATE 2: The Associated Press reported that, according to a spokeswoman, Fox will issue an on-air correction Saturday, October 12:
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UPDATE 3: Kooiman issued an on-air correction during the October 12 broadcast of Fox & Friends Saturday, apologizing for making a "bad mistake" reporting a story that was "not true":
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"We have to make approximately 300 percent more calls to fill one position than we did three years ago," said Freier, who founded ICI Software Recruitment in the early days of the 1990s Internet boom. "This is the most . . . cold calling I've ever done."
Headhunters such as Freier are madly scrambling to find enough talented engineers and developers for their clients — fledgling start-ups and established companies alike. The clients are so desperate to fill jobs they are piling on the pay and the perks for qualified candidates.
Those fresh out of college can start at $75,000, and seasoned developers are earning $140,000 annually. And salaries in the industry continue to soar, up by as much as 15 percent this year.
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With fewer candidates available for such specialized positions, Chowdhry said, employers are frequently in bidding wars for the brightest contenders. And naturally, the subjects of all this attention take advantage of the situation.
"Job seekers are also feeling their oats. They know now that they are in a powerful position," said David Hayes, president of HireMinds , a Cambridge tech recruiting agency that is working to fill positions at Alere Wellogic.
In some cases, Hayes said, young techies are so confident that they have no qualms about telling their current managers they are looking to leave — certain they will find something better.
Driven by a proliferation of start-ups and the expansion of West Coast stalwarts such as Amazon.com and PayPal to the Boston area, employment in the local tech sector has grown 7 percent in the past year, well beyond the general economy's gain. On a typical recent day, there were more than 3,500 job openings at Boston-area companies on the tech-based career site Dice.com.
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Typically, headhunters charge about 25 percent of a hired employee's starting salary as a finders' fee. At HireMinds, ICI Software Recruitment, and other firms, hiring requests are up more than 20 percent this year.
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[While many are familiar with SCEA's head of R&D, Dr. Richard Marks, it's through product-focused interviews or his presence on stage at Sony's E3 events -- this long-form interview gives more insight into the man behind Move and EyeToy.]
For someone who's a manager at Sony Computer Entertainment America's R&D department, Dr. Richard Marks sure has an old phone -- a beat up clamshell flip phone that one can only guess was preloaded with Snake.
"Everyone makes fun of me about it all the time," he told Gamasutra prior to a recent interview at the Las Vegas DICE Summit in February. "I can't get rid of it now. I push the button, it goes 'swoosh.' There are not many phones like that."
But Marks' old pocket technology is deceiving: as SCEA's R&D manager of special projects, he's in charge of keeping up to date on the most cutting-edge trends in science and technology, and prototyping various ways in which tech can be applied to new video gaming experiences for consumers.
Marks typically makes his public appearances on stage with Sony when the company is introducing products conceived in the R&D department, such as the EyeToy and PlayStation Eye cameras, and most recently, the motion-sensing PlayStation Move wand controller.
The R&D manager tells Gamasutra how he got from underwater robotics to the gaming industry, why he thinks the traditional gamepad will remain relevant despite motion controllers and where he thinks the competing Kinect for Xbox 360 succeeds, and where it fails.
I know a little bit about you. Sony usually carts you out when they have products to announce like the PlayStation Eye or the Move. But can you offer a little bit more of your educational and work background?
Dr. Richard Marks: Sure. Actually, the relevant background starts in high school. My parents were both teachers, and my father decided he wanted to own a business. So, he opened up a video game retail store. I would go there after school and work in the retail store. We sold Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Vectrex, Intellivision and all those things. I already played games, like most kids. But then I got exposure to a lot of games.
Was that out in California?
RM: It was in Indiana, actually.
Oh, I'm from Indiana. Fort Wayne.
RM: This was in South Bend, Mishawaka. I played games like Zork. I thought I wanted to work at a game company. Then I went to college. I thought I wanted to be a computer science major, but I got a job in computer science in the summer. It was really kind of boring, so I switched to aeronautics and astronautics engineering.
So it still had programming involved, but it's more applied programming instead of tools, maybe. And databases are not my thing, so that wasn't what I wanted to do. I switched majors to aeronautics and astronautics, and for grad school I went and did robotics. Robotics and video games are really, really overlapped.
How's that?
RM: Robotics is a lot like character animation, except robotics you have real world constraints, like how much torque the motors can put out, whereas in video games you don't have those limits. Controlling a character in a game is a lot like controlling a robot, and aeronautics and astronautics are all about systems engineering. There's a lot of different systems that have to interact together.
Same with video games -- there's a lot of different things going on in a video game, in the physics system, in the animation system. So, I think a lot of the same skills work out.
Exactly what's your Ph.D. in? You're actually a doctor of what?
RM: It's aeronautics and astronautics, and it's of underwater robotics was what my thesis area was. It is using a camera to control an underwater robot automatically.
So one of the things that we did is this. Underwater cameras can't see very far because the water, you can't see through it. So we made a thing where we would take photos of the ocean floor and stitch them together automatically so you would have this one giant picture. Scientists had never seen it like that because you can't just get further back [to get a wider view].
And then the robot could navigate. You'd just click on that wherever you wanted on that map and you could drive over there using a camera to control it. Then I worked at a startup company that was using that same kind of image processing techniques but for video conferencing and stuff like that. Then we got bought by Autodesk who make AutoCAD and then we got spun out and kind of laid off.
So a lot of the Silicon Valley stuff happened, and I was at the Game Developers Conference just for fun one year, actually, and I saw PlayStation 2 and so that's when I decided to come to Sony.
I heard about that. You thought that it would be good at processing video?
RM: Yeah. I just thought there were a lot of things it could do probably that it wasn't necessarily intended to do. But the hardware was good for that, video processing in particular. Also physical simulation is another area I wanted it to work on.
So in the R&D department, it's kind of hard to understand exactly what you do. I mean, what do you do on a daily basis, sit around and think and tinker with hardware?
RM: It's not a, like there is not a real good schedule for R&D. Sometimes you have to self-impose schedules a lot. And I usually do it by attending talks or conferences or reading papers, so that I force myself to have some deadline, because usually there's not one. Sometimes there will be a deadline when you get more involved in a project.
So once we started working on Move, for example, then the deadlines are real because it's part of a real product. But before that, it's prototypes and it's trying things out. A lot of times we come in and we just try to make new game experiences, new things. Sometimes we try to make new hardware. We don't really make final hardware. We make prototype hardware out of clay or Styrofoam or something, just to feel how that would feel.
Sometimes we do support work where we're supporting the game teams, where we answer very mundane things, like why does this function do this, you know. But it's a pretty wide variety and I actually like that. That's one of the best things for me, is that you don't do the same thing every day.
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A 61-year-old man with history of schizophrenia, generalized tonic clonic seizure disorder, and hypertension who lives in a skilled nursing facility presented with snoring and gasping for air during the night. The patient's care staff reports no abnormal nocturnal behaviors, and no generalized seizures in the last 5 years. His medications include haloperidol, olanzapine, benztropine, valproic acid, levetiracetam, trazodone, sertraline, lisinopril, and aspirin.
On physical examination, his body mass index was 22 kg/m2. Neither masseter muscle hypertrophy nor temporomandibular joint pain was noted. The patient was edentulous without gum lesions; he did not wear dentures. No movements of the tongue were noted with the mouth open, and patient was able to sustain tongue protrusion for longer than one minute. Neither facial grimacing nor limb dyskinesia was noted. The oral airway was Mallampati IV.
Polysomnogram revealed an apnea-hypopnea index of 7 with a sleep efficiency of 98%. Unusual chewing movements were noted during NREM sleep (Video 1, Figures 1, 2). These movements were not associated with sleep disordered breathing. No audible grinding was noted on video.
This image shows elevated chin electromyography tone associated with oral movements during sleep stage N2.
One-minute polysomnogram segment corresponding to Video 1. This image shows elevated chin electromyography tone associated with oral movements during sleep stage N2.
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Note the relatively minor electroencephalography artifact in comparison to the prominent EMG changes, this may represent lack of scalp muscle involvement.
30-second polysomnogram epoch showing elevated chin electromyography (EMG) tone associated with oral movements during sleep stage N2. Note the relatively minor electroencephalography artifact in comparison to the prominent EMG changes, this may represent lack of scalp muscle involvement.
What is the most likely diagnosis for the movements shown in Video 1?
Edentulous oral dyskinesia
Oral dyskinesia consists of involuntary movements of the lips, tongue, and jaw. They are classified according to cause and movement description.1 Oral dyskinesia has been reported in up to 16% of edentulous patients and is most commonly seen in those with poor oral health, oral pain, ill-fitting dentures, or without dentures.2 Edentulous oral dyskinesia (EOD) is thought to be associated with loss of the tooth and periodontal ligament proprioceptive input.3
Oral dyskinesia is also associated with dopamine antagonist neuroleptic use (i.e., tardive dyskinesia), choreatic neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Huntington disease), and basal ganglia lesions. Dyskinesia of EOD is limited to the oral area, while dyskinesia associated with the neuroleptic medications or neurodegenerative disorders are more widespread involving the face, trunk, and extremities. Tardive dyskinesia is an extrapyramidal movement secondary to neuroleptic medications that cross the blood brain barrier and inhibit central D2 receptors producing choreoathetoid movements in the oral-buccal-lingual muscles, face, limb, and trunk.
Similar to neuroleptic medication induced/tardive dyskinesia, EOD may have involuntary protrusion of the tongue. In contrast to EOD, those with tardive dyskinesia are usually unable to maintain voluntary prolonged tongue protrusion without involuntary retraction. Tardive dyskinesia movements are exacerbated by emotional arousal, decrease with relaxation, and disappear with sleep.4
Repetitive oral movements during sleep including lip smacking, mumbling, or chewing may also occur in seizure disorder. The lack of an electrographic correlate, the absence of daytime seizures, and the absence of generalized seizures for 5 years make the diagnosis of nocturnal seizures less likely in our patient.
Figure 2 shows a 30-second epoch depicting the polysomnographic features of the oral movement, which meet many of the criteria for bruxism in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Scoring Manual (rhythmic masticatory muscle activity form). Chin EMG amplitude is twice the background EMG amplitude, each event is between 0.25-2 seconds, and more than three EMG elevations occur in sequence. The last criterion of a minimum of two episodes of audible tooth grinding was not met.5
The movements do not meet International Classification of Sleep Disorders 2nd edition (ICSD-2) criteria for sleep related bruxism. Given that the patient is edentulous, tooth-grinding noises during sleep, tooth clenching during sleep, and abnormal tooth wear are not possible. The patient denies jaw muscle discomfort upon awakening, and no masseter muscle hypertrophy was noted with jaw clenching. In the elderly, the prevalence of bruxism may be as low as 3%.6
Tardive dyskinesia disappears with sleep.
The ICSD-2 criteria for bruxism technically require the presence of teeth.
Oral dyskinesia is common in edentulous elderly patients and may persist during sleep.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
Liegmann JK; DelRosso LM; Hoque R. Nocturnal oral movements in a patient with schizophrenia. J Clin Sleep Med 2013;9(12):1358-1360.
Blanchet PJ, Rompre PH, Lavigne GJ, Lamarche C, authors. Oral dyskinesia: a clinical overview. Int J Prosthodont. 2005;18:10–9. [PubMed]
Koller WC, author. Edentulous orodyskinesia. Ann Neurol. 1983;13:97–9. [PubMed]
Sutcher HD, Underwood RB, Beatty RA, Sugar O, authors. Orofacial dyskinesia. A dental dimension. JAMA. 1971;216:1459–63. [PubMed]
American Psychiatric Association. Task Force on Tardive Dyskinesia. Tardive dyskinesia: a task force report of the American Psychiatric Association. 1992. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The AASM manual for the scoring of sleep and associated events: rules, terminology and technical specifications. Version 2.0. 2012. Darien, IL: American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine. International classification of sleep disorders; diagnostic and coding manual. 2nd ed. 2005. Westchester, IL: American Academy of Sleep Medicine.


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