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A chat with Mae Engelgeer
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We asked Mae Engelgeer 5 burning questions. And she answered very honestly. Read here what she has to say about her recent work, our collaboration resulting in the rug En Suite and her future plans.
Mae, it's so good to have a little chat with you in-between busy schedules. We saw some of your most recent work in Eindhoven, where it was a part of the ever developing Dutch Design Week. What development in textiles has stood out the most for you?
To be honest, I try not to pay too much attention to it. Of course I see and know what is going on but I try not to go and search for what others are doing. Spending only little time on what others are doing is a way of staying close to myself. One thing that did stand out to me is the three-dimensional factor of design that a lot of designers are exploring now. The combination of technology and craft. Involving machinery in your creativity without losing the craft in the process. You can see a lot of designers showing the manufacturing process in the product itself. A lot of open structures, and a shifting focus from 2D to 3D.
This is completely in line with the work you have shown in Eindhoven. The very first pieces of Engelgeer furniture! Who or what has inspired you to take this step?
The challenge of creating a three dimensional object with sheet materials triggered me instantly. When working with textiles, the transformation from 2D to 3D is something that I always incorporate. I work from flat to shape, while combining the right materials and colors in an exciting composition. In this case, the material I worked with wasn't textile, but the process remains the same. That's why I decided to keep the shapes as simple as possible, and focus on how I, as a designer, can show my signature in a new material: by approaching the material with an aesthetic eye and by making the right combinations.
If money and time would not be an issue at all, what would you want to work on next?
Actually, I would be doing exactly what I am doing now. I would continue to develop, to discover. I have an uninterrupted drive to enlarge my world with my own signature. To explore different areas, different markets with my own approach and to take my own work to yet another level. I would scale up and invest in creating my dream projects. That's what I love doing the most. So that is what I would continue doing.
How would you describe your cooperation with Frankly Amsterdam? Where are we a match, where do we complement each other?
For me it was very good to hear what the future plans for Frankly Amsterdam are. The longing for internationalization is something we share. Holland is such a small place in that respect and, just like the work of Frankly, my work too has a growing international value. That is one thing. Where we réally found each other was our love of textile. It was evident from the start. The challenge for us both was to be open to something different. My process of experimentally working with textiles and the extremely applied way of working that Frankly has were essentially two worlds that we needed to bring a bit closer together. That is a fun and exciting process. And it is always nice to see the endresult of such a process being received so well. To me that means that we have succeeded in something together.
For my final question I wanted to ask you something I am cheekily curious about. Which one of your projects are you particularly proud of at the moment?
Ooh, that is a tough one. My most recent designs are very often my latest loves. That's the way it goes, you finish one project and you are already half-way through the next. Your portfolio is merely a reflection of what you were doing, who you were at that point in your career. That is an ever-changing thing, so I am mostly proud of my most recent work. And every project for different reasons. For BLISS, I had permission to go wild. To find a new direction, and I surprised myself by doing so. For EN SUITE, the challenge was much more in making the product fully applicable, usable in the retail market. And we succeeded! With EN SUITE we also did beautiful things with colors, and managed to maintain our shared standard of high-quality really well. My project doing Art Direction in Japan was something that I've always wanted to do. New insights and new lessons learned and that is also something to be proud of. Every project has its charms. Then there are new projects in the making that I can not talk about, but fell in love with already. Also together with Frankly Amsterdam we have some great new things in store, that I am so very excited about.


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The hall was painted in that Industrial Revolution green, sort of a lime Jell-o feel, slimy and wiggly. Bank upon bank of buzzing fluorescent lights, desiccated bug husks trapped behind greasy acrylic panels, ran down the length of the main hall.
Halfway up the walls ran a wainscot of steel, like this was going to stop anyone from punching and kicking those walls with misguided rage, where gang graffiti gave out complicated warnings in Braille that everyone had to look at, but a few could comprehend.
The building rented its apartments by the hour, the week, the month. Six floors of misery, green paint, broken dreams, off-colored water that always tasted faintly metallic, like blood.
She bumped back and forth between the walls, a petite pinball in a schoolgirl's pleated skirt in red plaid, a fuzzy white sweater torn at the shoulder, white socks to her knees and black patent-leather shoes that had lost all their original sheen.
Her pale skin was made even more anemic in the harsh fluorescent light; her hair, once the color of wild rabbits, was home-bottle-dyed platinum. Her roots showed.
She banged the wall again and sank to a sitting position, numb. Legs askew, where anyone could see her cotton panties and she didn't care anymore.
Mascara smeared in a mix of tears and sweat; hardly a trace of the special lipstick he liked, the one the color of pink cotton candy, registered on her lips.
She rests her head in her hands, each nail on each finger painted in the same cotton-candy hue, two coats to smooth the ends she constantly gnawed.
She shudders and the tears started anew.
Welts rise on her arms where tomorrow bruises would blossom. She puts two fingers between her lips, feels again the two teeth that are loose. The fingers come away slick with saliva, tinged red with blood.
He'd beat her up good this time. Her man with the money and the cute little plastic baggies that zipped shut, filled with satisfaction, the drug that kept her nightmares at bay.
She stares at her fingers and anger spreads through her, it courses electric, a surge and she beats her fists on the chipped tile until her forearms ache.
"Enough," she whispered. "Enough."
She pushes herself, renewed determination, to a wobbly standing position; a hip on the wall steadies her and she thinks to when it all began. Tears well in her eyes, track dark down her cheeks.
She thinks it's time to go back to junior college, clean up, let her parents know she's alive. Connect with friends who would pass her on the street now with downcast looks of disapproval.
But the sickness in her stomach rumbles and radiates heat through her. Cramps of desire rise, like the bile in her throat, and she jerks itchy.
She fingers the little pieces of rock crack through the plastic. She rolls them between her fingers and wet saliva of craving chases away the bile, the tears.
Still, she makes herself promise that this baggie will be her last.
8 comments:
- TC said...
Six floors of misery, green paint, broken dreams, rusty water that always tasted faintly of blood.
VERY descriptive.
I almost thought she could do it. I thought she might get out, go home, get help.
But that last line told me she never will.
- Anonymous said...
In such instances, I always what drives those?
Filled with turmoil.
Can it get any worse than this?
- rebecca said...
this was so well written, but man, hard to read! it was rough...just like her life. i liked it...darkness and all.
- Anonymous said...
Not enough to tell us a story, but to give us the opportunity to feel it too. Thats how good you are. Thats how good this is.
- ThomG said...
Wow, thanks guys. Feedback like this makes me reach higher, reach deeper.
- paisley said...
excellently told tale...
however i want to point out that a crack jones is not a physical discomfort it is a mental onslaught...
the craving you describe here is more characteristic of heroin, as it produces symptoms of physical withdrawal where as crack does not....
but few beside me would know the difference first hand....
- ThomG said...
Paisley, I wondered about that, and know I know. Thanks for the input.
- little wing writer said...
oh man, that was painful to read... all the more so because i've seen it daily over time the destruction.. lost everything and doin time.. just got out a few weeks ago... sober for the first time in a lifetime... no, not my story...


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There's really no coming back from a documentary as furious, focused, and immediate as Ava DuVernay's 13th. The title comes from the 13th amendment, which serves as it's starting-off point for a convincing, well-researched, and concisely presented assemblage that suggests that the mass incarceration of black Americans essentially allowed slavery to continue in this country. This is not entirely new terrain for the cinema and a sizable portion of the information and statistics imparted will be familiar to those who have been educated on these matters, whether through experience or otherwise. Nevertheless, by the end of DuVernay's documentary, there is a sense that something crucial has been uncovered and discovered about how America denies or ignores the problem of racism, even if the facts were always there and readily evident to anyone who looked.
DuVernay's roster of interviewees is vast and smartly curated. Regular New Yorker reporter and professor Jelani Cobb speaks eloquently about how the Southern economy quickly became reliant on funds gathered from arresting and jailing black Americans; famed activist Angela Davis talks about the events that lead to her being tried as a criminal; The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander expounds on statistics about incarceration and the lack of ideas from any American leader to remedy its effects. The filmmaker brings in far less sympathetic figureheads like iconic conservative consultant Grover Norquist and Newt Gingrich as well. These men may agree with elements of DuVernay's overriding thesis but also make sharp reminders that most of their beliefs are rooted in capitalism first and foremost. There's also a member of ALEC who comes off like the very definition of a corporate stooge.
To their credit, neither Norquist nor Gingrich comes across as if they were brought in simply to show evidence of inclusion, a way of giving some semblance of an argument from the other side of the aisle. The discussion that DuVernay wants to have may not be as prevalent in the Republican party but it involves both major parties as well as those in between. Indeed, the term at the center of DuVernay's film is one that both sides invoke regularly in their campaigns and daily speech: Criminal. When the word is uttered by Alexander or Bryan Stevenson or Henry Louis Gates Jr., DuVernay cuts to a chalkboard-like black screen with the word writ large, as if to see how the word looks on its own, away from any context.
At other times, DuVernay throws up lyrics from "Chain Gang" (the Nina Simone version) or Killer Mike's unforgiving "Reagan" onto the screen in the same way, in a way of highlighting how the words express the state of being black in America. And "criminal," too, means something much more than the dictionary definition, as DuVernay meticulously reveals through a kinetic, enthralling barrage of inarguable evidence. Each point, from statistics about the growth of our incarcerated population to a depressing reminder about the amount of public defenders who are white, is stated clearly and confidently and lands like a jab to the chest. DuVernay builds an enrapturing, unpredictable rhythm between these revelations, lingering on certain facts and then rattling off a dozen or so leveling dispatches from the lives of black Americans.
DuVernay's wondrously analytical film covers a lot of ground in a relatively short amount of time, beginning right at the passing of the 13th amendment and ending with Donald Trump's rallies. The director repeats one video at essentially both ends of the film, a video of a black man she referred to as "Dignified Man," who is pushed and harassed by a mob of white supremacists but attempts to continue to make his way to wherever he's going. Towards the end of the film, she juxtaposes this video with an eerily similar video from a Trump rally. DuVernay means for this to be as much a cautionary tale as it is a vast yet intimate history of active oppression, repression, and resistance.
It's worth noting that though the movie begins with the passing of the 13th amendment, the first major subject is a movie. The popularity of The Birth of a Nation, as Cobb, Stevenson, and others explain, could be seen as the perfect reflection of American society's attitude towards race, but also a prognosticator of how the murder of black men would become justified. This is as much a movie about why DuVernay became a director as it is a movie about the systematic enslavement of African-Americans in jails, where they are often required to give free labor to major corporations. The importance of the cameraphone is a particularly passionate point toward the end, but DuVernay's utilizing of so many different kinds of visual formats, from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segments and C-SPAN feeds to local news clips and scenes from 12 Years a Slave, suggests a passion for the power of the camera in all its myriad forms.
This same passion can also be felt in the tremendous sweep of 13th. DuVernay said that she wanted to place most of her interviewees in settings that reflected labor – exposed brick, extensive glass work, etc. – and even this seemingly minute decision is potently felt throughout the film. Even if one were to attempt to ignore the tremendous social good and overdue fury that DuVernay's masterwork provides, 13th is a unique pleasure to watch on strictly visual terms. And it's that element that makes the filmmaker's message all the more pronounced. This could have been a mere collection of statistics, stories, and facts but there's an intimacy and immediacy to each utterance, each pause, that comes directly from DuVernay's stunning visual artistry. In the process, she's made what is easily the most important movie of this or any other year.
In a bold move, DuVernay includes videos of the killings of several black men by police officers, including Eric Garner and Philando Castile. She also plays the audio of the call George Zimmerman made when he followed and murdered Trayvon Martin. These videos are open domain, owned by whoever shoots the video, and free to use by anyone, ultimately. DuVernay marks that she got permission from the families of the victims to use the videos, rather than just use the videos and stay separated from the material. It's a heartfelt act that reflects the tremendous empathy that underlines each scene in 13th, as well as the empathy that it demands from its audience.
Of the many reasons to celebrate 13th, the pleasure of seeing and hearing these historians, intellectuals, and activists would rank high on the list. For a movie that devotes quite a lot of time demonstrating how black men are often represented in the media as violent, bestial offenders and, again, criminals, the very fact that DuVernay has gathered an esteemed line of black men and women that defy that notion is something of a rebellious act. Between this act and the damning, nuanced case against mass incarceration she makes in 13th, DuVernay has gone beyond crafting a call for a rebellion. With this masterpiece, she's calling for a revolution.
Grade: A
13th will debut on Netflix on October 7th.


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To address the terrorist attacks that have targeted Paris and other Western cities, two related crises must first be resolved, said a UCLA law professor and expert in the Middle East: the sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the Middle East and the West's relationship to its own internal Muslim communities.
Law professor Asli Ü. Bâli said that Western countries need to rethink a strategy that bases regional security in the Middle East on Saudi Arabia, which "has been the purveyor and fomenter of many of the kinds of destabilizing ideologies that are now exploding in spectacular violence in Western cities."
Bâli, whose research interests span non-proliferation, the use of force, and the politics and doctrines of intervention, was one of four UCLA faculty panelists who recently participated in an insightful discussion that focused on the causes and consequences of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris and on the larger issue of ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the violence.
Bâli was joined by historian Caroline Ford, a specialist in modern French history; Dominic Thomas, chair of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies; and James Gelvin, a professor of history and interim co-director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Organized by the Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS) and cosponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations and the Center for Near Eastern Studies, the discussion was moderated by CERS Director Laure Murat, professor of French and Francophone studies.
Western nations have chosen to double down on their security relationships with Saudi Arabia and to adopt extreme measures that single out Muslim communities domestically, pushing refugees into detention conditions that make them ripe for further radicalization, Bâli said.
These are wrong choices, Bâli said. The right choices would be a sane refugee policy that enables Syrians to resettle and restart their lives.
In the case of France, Thomas, whose research encompasses globalization and the politics of France and Francophone Africa, emphasized that, unlike the United Kingdom, France has failed to address head-on problems of race in the postcolonial era. That failure, together with the fact that the French constitution prohibits any category of citizen other than "French," has led to an indifference to the question of race.
"And, as many observers have pointed out," Thomas commented, "this indifference to race has also led to an indifference to discrimination."
In 2005, disaffected Muslim youth rioted in the outskirts of Paris where the French state had built public housing for primarily low-income immigrants, many of whom are Muslim.
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Ford warned against conflating the home-grown terrorists of France and Belgium who carried out the Paris attacks with the disaffected Muslim youth who rioted in 2005. Jihadist recruitment has diversified, she said, to include young middle-class Muslim men and, for the first time, young Muslim Women.
Ford also cautioned against claims that ISIS directed the Paris attacks. "Not enough attention is being paid to the vision of jihadis in Europe, separate and apart from ISIS," she said.
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Although ISIS looked unstoppable in 2014 when it seized large and largely uninhabited swaths of Iraq and Syria to create a self-declared caliphate, Gelvin — an expert on the modern history of the Middle East, particularly greater Syria — said ISIS had been contained over the past year.
In fact, he said, it is losing territory, population and many funding sources, including oil exports, kidnapping and donations. At this point, he observed, ISIS is "primarily getting its money from a poll tax and extortion."
In light of these circumstances, the group has changed its tactics and is now advocating shocking attacks against the West in an effort to turn the tide and drive up recruitment, he explained.
The historian stressed, however, that it was important to distinguish terrorist acts undertaken by existing groups that opportunistically affiliate themselves with ISIS — Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Shabab in Somalia, for example — from terrorist acts undertaken on direct orders from the highest levels of ISIS. With respect to Paris, he said it remains unclear whether the attacks were opportunistic or directed.
Although not probable, Gelvin said there was now a small chance for a peace agreement — or at least a ceasefire — in Syria for three reasons.
The Iranian nuclear deal of July 2015 has made it possible to bring Iran to the negotiating table, the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war has re-established a military stalemate (the prerequisite for negotiations), and the Paris attacks have made destroying ISIS a political priority.
"At this point, the policy of containment appears to be off the table," Gelvin said.
Read the complete story posted on the UCLA International Institute website.


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And using the App will let all the TCS employees to control their Timesheet, Resume Letters, Salary management, HR service right from their pocket using the Touch App of TCS Ultimatix.
So now if you are a new employee of TCS or just an old one but yet to upgrade to the App then just for you without any more delays. Here we will be providing you with the guide on downloading the App for Android & iPhone users.
How to Download TCS Ultimatix Touch App on iOS & Android
To download TCS Ultimatix Touch App on any of the iOS or Android mobile devices, you will just need to complete few of task given below. The Touch App is available for both iOS and Android Operating Systems.
So now you will be able to utilize the App for both iPhone and Android mobile. Now to download and install App first thing that you will need is register your Mobile device. To do it you will just need to follow the few simple steps below.
- First of all, you will need to open "TCS Ultimatix" on your Mobile device on both Android or iOS (iPhone) device.
- Now you will need to access the "Utilities" Section from your TCS page on your Mobile device.
- Now you will need to open the Appmart from your Android or iOS device.
- Now you will just need to Register and authorized your Mobile device for using TCS Ultimatix.
- Next you will be shown different Apps which are available for the Users to download on their Mobile device.
- Now the last thing that you will need to complete is to download and install the app by just tapping on the TCS Ultimatix App.
Now once the installation is completed on your Mobile device you are all ready to use and manage all your Official work of TCS for all the employee using this TCS ERP App. And to get started, you will be just needing to log in to your TCS Ultimatix App on your Mobile device.
Features of TCS Ultimatix: Use Ultimatix on Smartphone and PC
Use Ultimatix on Smartphone and PC
Now for those if you are a little bit confuse about the functionality of TCS Ultimatix for the users. So we will be just shading on some light on some of those powerful features of TCS Portal for its Employee and affiliates. And here are the things that you can do using this management tool on your Smartphone and PC.
- It provides any of the users with the logins details to download their pay slip using TCS Ultimatix very easily.
- It also provides Timesheet for all the employees of TCS.
- It also allows the employees to fetch the information about any other employees by just logging into your account of your TCS Ultimatix.
- It also allows users to manage the allowances.
- It also provides official information about the Supervisor's name of the particular section, a name of the project, contact numbers etc.
- It allows the employees to send leave letters online using the ERP Portal. And once the leave letter is accepted you can just go for your leave without actually going into your office.
- A different and dedicated section that manages the performances of the workers of the TCS.
- It allows internal Job posting within the TCS by just using the portal Ultimatix for employees.
- It also works as a storing vault which can be used by employees to store all their important documents.
- And now the last and the most awesome thing about TCS Ultimatix is that once you log into your TCS Ultimatix account using your Username and password. And once you do that you will be accessible to a secret UTMX Social media platform. Which can be further used by all the employees to stay connected with their colleagues and friends from within the company.
TCS Ultimatix Login Page| Login to your TCS Ultimatix Account.
Now to log into TCS Ultimatix you can use the Ultimatix Login Page from the official Website of TCS Ultimatix using your Username and Password. Every users or employee are provided with a unique Client ID and Password. And using this info's you can login into your account from the official site of TCS Recourse Management Planning.
Login to your Account using: https://www.elxsimatix.net/.
Yes, this is the new official site of TCS Ultimatix and you can use it to log in to the Ultimatix portal either from your Computer or using the TCS Ultimatix iOS App or Android mobile App. You can download the TCS Ultimatix very easily.
TCS Ultimatix Global Helpdesk, Email & Number
Now another important Service that is provided by the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) of TCS is the Global Helpdesk number. It provides a helpline number and email facility using which any TCS Employee can report any problem or ask solution to any of their problems.
The helpdesk of TCS is handled by a number of technically qualified Customer service, which are capable of handling all the problems from their users. So if you are an employee of TCS and you are facing any problem regarding your TCS Ultimatix account then let me assure you that you are in the safe hands.
Now one of the most common problems that are faced by the employees and users or TCS Ultimatix ERP portal is the 'Your account has been suspended'. And now if you are also facing the same problem then you should not be ignoring this any longer. This problem can affect your information in your TCS Enterprise Management Planning account.
And now to solve this problem or any other problem like 'Your TCS Login is suspended' then you should either take the help of the Global helpdesk or your MD to solve this problem.
Final Words on TCS Ultimatix info:
So it is a very powerful ERP portal for the TCS employees. And using this portal will make the management of Salary, Timesheet, HR Service etc for all the TCS employees. So now if you are an employee of TCS then this is one of the first things that you must have on your hand.
Now this Blog on TCS Ultimatix will provide you all the information that is required by any of the TCS employees. Normally ranging from TCS Ultimatix login, downloading its official TCS App for iPhone and Android to TCS Global helpdesk to solve all your problems.
TCS Ultimatix Login, Mobile App, Wiki, Email, Global Helpline
TCS Ultimatix is an Enterprise Information Portal for all the TCS or Tata Consultancy Service employees.TCS Ultimatix is one of the must-have tools for individual who is working under the company of TCS or Tata Consultancy Service.
Now if you are a TCS Employee or just a person who is searching for information regarding TCS Ultimatix. Then let me assure you that have just reached the right destination. As here we will be providing our readers with all the information on TCS Ultimatix login, TCS Ultimatix Mobile App for Android, TCS Ultimatix App for iOS, & TCS Ultimatix Universal Helpdesk Number & Email.
TCS Ultimatix is a Portal of Tata Consultancy Service or TCS that provides an effective & efficient way for all the TCS employees to manage their Salary, HR Service, Timesheet and many more.
So now you can ultimately regard this blog as a Wiki or an ultimate guide of TCS Ultimatix. As it will be providing you with all the information's regarding TCS Portal.
This blog will also provide the readers on how to use TCS Enterprise Resource Planning portal on your iOS and Android device. And on top of that, we will also provide you with the Global helpdesk number. Which you can further use it to solve any of the problems that you face while logging in to your account or using its App on your iOS or Android or just with any other problems in particular.
All about TCS Ultimatix | TCS Wiki
Now before we just jump off into all the bundle of information about TCS Ultimatix. First of all, we will take a look at some of the basic stuff about TCS (Tata Consultancy Service) and about its ERP portal.
TCS or Tata Consultancy Service is one of the leading Indian Multinational IT solution company. It offers guides on IT services, Outsourcing, Business solutions and much more to all its customers. TCS is operating in more than 46 countries around the globe with more than 300,000 employees.
For further information about TCS, you can visit the official Website of TCS and tnow more about TCS you can refer to TCS Wikipedia.
Now to handle and manage this huge number of employee in the Company. TCS or Tata Consultancy Service has launched an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) portal known as TCS Ultimatix. It is a very powerful portal and tool to manage the Timesheet, HR Series, and Salary management for the employees of TCS.


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About 90 people attended the meeting I arranged last night to discuss the problems caused by commuter parking in my division of Truro, Trehaverne. Cllr Bert Biscoe, Cabinet Member for Highways and Peter Tatlow from the Council's Highway Department attended to listen to residents' concerns.
Cllr Biscoe spoke of his wish that that there should be a bargain between residents and commuters of mutual respect and tolerance in relation to this issue for the benefit of the vibrancy of Truro. Sadly, I fear that this bargain has irretrievably broken down.
The only way to make the quality of life bearable for many local residents would be to introduce one or more residents only parking schemes. However, this could only be done with the support of local residents.
Residents described the siege conditions in which they lived. Many came out of their houses in the morning to find commuters with their engines running waiting for them to vacate their parking space. Some commuters arrived super early to secure a good spot, ate their cornflakes in their car and then dumped the remains at the kerb. Another resident spoke about a commuter knocking on his door to get him to move along in order to create enough space for the commuter and offered the advice that the resident ought to tarmac his front garden. A disabled resident spoke about having to park so far from her house that she needed to get a taxi back to it. The only way that she could secure a place at her home was to pay £3000 for a blue badge holder's bay but that space could be occupied by any blue badge holder.
People spoke of their wish that the Council look at the problem in Truro as a whole. They pointed out that the schemes recently introduced by Cllr Nolan in the Crescent and Redannick areas had merely slewed the problem onto the area around Trehaverne and Hendra on one side and Park View and Hurland Road area on the other.
I have consulted widely about this issue in most of my division and my impression is that it would be a big ask to look at the whole of Truro.
Residents generally do not want to have parking on their roads regulated (and paid for) unless they have a severe problem themselves. For example , I understand that Redannick residents originally turned down a residents' parking scheme until their own situation was worsened by the installation of the scheme in the Crescent.
There is also an understandable fear that, although many residents accept that a permit costing £25 is not too bad, there is a risk that in future the price of permits may rise significantly.
The other issue we face is that local councillors have not been given a local members' budget for highway works in their division. The only way to get money for such a parking scheme is to put in a bid to the Highways Department for money and that bid is then evaluated against certain criteria:
Tackling climate change
Supporting economic prosperityRespecting and enhancing the environment
Encouraging healthy active lifestyles
Supporting community safety and the individual
Supporting equality of opportunity
It is to be hoped that where local residents do support a residents' parking scheme, despite the unwelcome cost and regulation, such a bid would be looked at favourably. Or, other money should be found. The fact is that schemes have been installed in areas of Truro that have made the problem much worse elsewhere. This has created an unfairness that people find extremely hard to accept. In this connection it is helpful that the Cabinet Member for Finance has publicly indicated that the new administration is going to get a grip on this problem.
For myself, I will put together the evidence to see whether a scheme would be supported in the areas listed below.
I have been advised that it is not cost effective or sensible to do single roads or parts of roads. Although this makes support more difficult to obtain, I hope that residents will accept that this is a sensible approach as otherwise we are just pushing traffic from road to road.
Possible schenes that have been identified are:
1. Trehaverne Terrace, Higher Trehaverne, Cornwall Terrace, Rosedale Road and roads adjoining Rosedale Road
2. Hendra to the right of Hendra. Road going up hill.
3. Hendra to the left of Hendra Road going up the hill.
I will do my utmost to secure the funds where I can demonstrate the support.
It may be that more needs to be done to help workers on low pay who commute into Truro. However there are schemes available through the Council and Totally Truro where season tickets can be obtained for car parks at not much more than £1 per day. Consultations should be undertaken with people working in Truro to see if more can and should be done.


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If writing is art, then Prue Batten wields a canny brush, and always with tight reins on the conventions of the craft. Prue gives me way too much credit here, but who am I to suggest cuts?
Prue says,
`The third and final novel in my historical trilogy, The Gisborne Saga, has just been published. Within twenty-four hours of Gisborne: Book of Kings going live, it secured a Top 100 ranking for biographical fiction.
None of this would ever happen without the finetuning of the narrative by John Hudspith. Johnny has worked with me now for five of my seven novels and it is he who places my words in crosshairs and shoots down any interloper that doesn't belong. Bearing in my mind that Johnny and I live as far apart as it's almost possible to be, he in the UK and me in Australia, distance never ever mattered. My only sadness is that we can never meet in the pub for a glass of wine and to chew up a thesaurus together!
Very early on in our relationship, he told me that his job is not to mess with the authorial voice, but to direct it, coax it, polish it so that it might project to the very back of the theatre. And I appreciated that. He allowed my style to remain mine whilst simplifying and sharpening the end product with great foresight.
He is also a wicked man with a sense of humour and great timing – something that pulled me out of twelfth century holes, keeping my eye on the end result. His job was to keep my narrative focussed so that it never lost momentum and I think inclusion in the Top 100 indicates he has succeeded eminently. Especially when I can say that since Johnny began working with me, all my books, all seven, have secured Top 100 rankings. Does that not speak volumes?
Ah, I count my blessings I have such an intuitive editor as a team member. Many other writers aren't so lucky…`
Prue Batten. Australia.
Thank you, Prue.


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The Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday announced the listing by introduction of 20.35 billion ordinary shares of MTN Nigeria Communications Plc.
Details of the listing showed that the shares were introduced at N90 per share on the Nigerian bourse's Premium Board Thursday.
MTN Nigeria, a part of the MTN Group, Africa's leading cellular telecommunications company, is the first telecommunications network provider to be listed on the NSE Premium Board, a listing segment for the elite group of issuers that meet the Exchange's most stringent corporate governance and listing standards.
Commenting on the development, National Council President, NSE, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, said the bourse is particularly pleased that MTN Nigeria has joined the prestigious club of companies listed on our Premium Board with what he described as a landmark transaction, which will differentiate it as a professionally run telecommunications company with high standards, having met The NSE's listing criteria.
He said: "A Premium Board listing is a sign of commitment to strong corporate governance, excellence, professionalism, efficiency in service delivery and providing increased returns to shareholders.
"It is our expectation that the MTN Nigeria listing, which is the NSE's 2nd largest, will encourage other telecommunication companies to list their shares on The Exchange, thereby opening the sector up to cheaper, long term capital that will boost innovation and development."
On his part, the Chief Executive Officer, NSE, Oscar Onyema, said, "We are delighted to welcome MTN Nigeria to the Exchange. Today's listing is a promising development in the country's telecommunications sector and we encourage other players in the sector to explore the different opportunities in the capital markets for raising long term capital.
"As a listing platform of choice, today's listing will add to our bouquet of diverse investment offerings to the public. Having MTN Nigeria listed in our market is a testament of the Exchange's commitment to building a dynamic and inclusive market and creating channels for sustainable investment.
"This listing will promote liquidity for MTN Nigeria, enhance its value and increase transparency, as our platform remains one of the best avenues for raising capital and enabling sustainable growth for national development".
A statement by the NSE said it will continue to retool itself in many ways to remain an attractive destination for issuers, building a more responsive market, by deploying cutting edge technology for trading and reducing market infractions through improved market monitoring and surveillance.
The NSE also said that it has developed a market structure that has resulted in upscale securities listing such as SAHCOL Plc, the most recent company under the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) privatisation programme to successfully finalise an initial public offering and list its shares on The Exchange.
Apart from MTN, the NSE Premium Board features other companies like Dangote Cement Plc, FBN Holdings Plc, Zenith International Bank Plc, Access Bank Plc, Lafarge Africa Plc, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc and United Bank for Africa Plc.


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I fully support this worker proposal, it's highly productive and allows for community oriented bounty claims.@kimchi-king - I don't get how you can claim this is misspent money nor how you've failed to noticed any of the changes that this worker has brought to the reference wallet implementation. I've easily had 10+ of my own issues addressed and resolved via the bitshares-ui repo/worker in the last year, plus the UI has undergone large changes (see tradingview charts, ant design, increased responsiveness/efficiency, new modal pop-up modules, etc). ---If I were to provide one suggestion for improvement, it'd be that bug reporters aught to get a very small % of issue bounty reward, for bringing an issue to the table that was worthy of implementation. It'd attract functional testers and encourage more users to report their annoyances with the UI if they knew they'd get a couple bucks for their time writing up the issue.
You just need to ask the community how they feel about the progress made thus far and you will quickly learn how disappointed people are. They are expecting UI/UX changes to be made that allow the wallet to be easier to use which will lead to greater adoption. Instead we get a bunch of resolved bugs, but very few design changes that offer a better user experience.
I know the reference wallet is supposed to present all features offered, but why not bring back a well designed "Easy" wallet version?
I've recently discovered that they lacked designers and developers which explains why certain things fell off the table, but the lack of transparency only made our negative perception that much worse. Let's see what Startail and his team can do during the coming months.
Sadly, I must agree with Kim becuase unlike customminer I am not in the inner circle, so my bug ID and bugfix contributions to the repo are derided, my bounties reduced, and I have been openly called a dick by the project manager here for simple discussion.My words, my time, on github issues has been fully erased. Really, really unlike any other open source repo on earth.
Probably referring to e.g.https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/issues/1529https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/issues/1570https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/issues/1634The insult happened, could not find it now. It was more than simple discussion though.
Quote from: sschiessl on August 15, 2018, 02:40:35 pmProbably referring to e.g.https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/issues/1529https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/issues/1570https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-ui/issues/1634The insult happened, could not find it now. It was more than simple discussion though.You cant find it because worker manager/repository manager can delete, hide or even alter/edit comments.
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Hwy 101 and Hwy 1, the Pacific Coast highways, have been falling apart lately. I was told, before coming, that multiple parts had collapsed and there was no way through without detour; I came anyway…. gotta see for myself.
Turns out highways are open, but with MANY points having one way traffic only since, like… the cliffs under the highway had eroded away. As had the highway. Construction everywhere! Plan for double travel time, and sometimes just sitting there, waiting….
As I neared Ft Bragg, I found that many others wished to stop and appreciate this magical stretch of coast, camping style, and that the state seems to allow for that. After passing a few pay campgrounds, directly on the cliffs, I saw some less monetary based places to park folks were taking advantage of. The hippies on what looked like private land seemed to expect me to stop (blame hoops and firestaff strapped to the roof of the van)….
… but I opted for the next spot down, which was an obvious non blocked off state pullout, filled with "legit looking" RVs and other vehicles. By evening, the site was full and latter arriving folks went to the hippy spot. I probably shouldn't say this, but this is one of the most legit free camp sites off the pacific highway system; both a place to just stop on the trek, and a place to be happy you are camping at.


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Nokia on Thursday pointed the finger at counterfeit batteries after another of its phones exploded and burned its user, the third such case in two months, and said that original batteries sold with its phones were safe.
The Finnish phone manufacturer said earlier that a young Vietnamese woman was hospitalized with burns after her mobile phone apparently exploded.
The incident postdates two similar accidents in the Netherlands, one last week and the other in August.
After the latest Dutch incident, which left a 15-year-old boy in the town of Hengelo with leg burns, the country's consumer watchdog said it would investigate the case.
"We don't yet have any information on what is the origin of the battery in the Vietnam case," Nokia spokesman Kari Tuutti said, adding that there "hasn't been a single case of an original battery exploding anywhere in the world."
Nokia has cited faulty batteries from independent electronics manufacturers for similar incidents in the past. The company has said these manufacturers violated security requirements that should prevent the battery heating up after short-circuiting, for instance, after the phone is dropped.
Contraband and counterfeit mobile phone batteries are widely available in Vietnam in local markets at around $2 to $3 apiece, compared with $20 for a genuine product, a local Nokia representative said.
"The biggest issue is with counterfeit, illegal batteries," Tuutti said. "Therefore we recommend that retailers and consumers try to verify the products sold have original batteries."
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular in Vietnam despite modest incomes. There are around 1.6 million mobile phone users among the population of 80 million.


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Mr Clement Ebri, an aspirant to the office of the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is a former governor of Cross River State who went on to become Chairman, Presidential Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution between 2000 and 2001. He later became the National Chairman of the Progressive People's Alliance, PPA. In this interview with OMEIZA AJAYI, he speaks on several issues, arguing that the ruling party is deeply afflicted and does not need a combative individual to steer its ship ahead of the 2019 general elections. Excerpts:
Why are you in the race?
Four years ago, the major political parties the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and the All-Nigeria People's Party, ANPP – recognised the imperative for united action to confront and take over the reins of power from a long-sitting but poorly performing political party. They successfully merged to birth the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The coming together of a group of political parties to secure electoral victory at Federal Government level and in several states, however, is one thing while the provision of the needed party leadership to truly weld the different cooperating platforms into one united organic party that effectively dissolves and defuses pre-existing parties and tendencies, achieve stability by managing size and success, embrace expansion, offer a definite programme direction to its members in government and religiously monitor and hold both itself and the government to public accountability, is quite another matter. This latter weakness stands out as the greatest challenge confronting our great party today.
While Nigerians agree with the new culture of change we have introduced in the way of doing things, both party members and non-members, including the international community of which Nigeria is a visible member, recognise the challenge that "Change must begin with us." Across the length and breadth of our country and at different platforms/levels of our party organisation, there is visible evidence of poorly handled, unresolved and lingering intra-party crises, disagreements and conflicts all of which create internal contradictions that have the potential to derail us from the primary goal for which our great party was established, namely to take, expand and retain governmental power at all levels.
I believe that a fundamental task of the APC is to win elections. After this is achieved, it should offer its elected officials a means for organising government as it becomes the primary link between the people and government. The tragic content of life in Nigeria is directly linked to the quality of party governance. If we can cause party governance to acquire the veneer of responsibility and integrity that is the hallmark of our central administration under the leadership of His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, we would be half way to Uhuru for our people.
Some analysts have argued that since the outgoing national chairman is from Edo State, and the position has been re-zoned to the South-South, that it would be more plausible to have a replacement from Edo State. What is your take on this?
As you know, the position of the National Chairman has been zoned to the South-South Geopolitical Zone of which Cross River State is a part. The general thinking of many well-meaning stakeholders in the party is that the rotational principle, which is so central to the sense of equity within APC, should be demonstrated within this geopolitical context. The states, which are the constituent parts of the respective geopolitical zones, should, where conditions allow, produce credible officers on an equitable basis.
You talked about crisis in the party. Why then are you seeking to superintend over a party in crisis?
I am an experienced mediator and conciliator who can bring highly developed conflict management skills to the table as APC National Chairman. I believe that an abrasive personality and intolerant attitude are not helpful if one presides over a heated system. This is because I have been schooled in the ancient African notion that birds do not build their nests in trees that are troubled by tempestuous winds for, otherwise, the nests can be easily displaced. Instead, they seek trees that are stable and ordinarily calm but which have deep taproots that enable them safeguard all the nests of interests that their branch carry.
As National Chairman of the APC, I will advance the idea that the ability of our party to recruit the best candidates that will win elections will be the root of its future victories. We must make adequate provisions to offer our party's candidates functional training and support. More than this, we must not only help those who need to raise funds, but we must do our best to turn out voters on election day.
The party will invest in a party newspaper to provide a forum for sharing positions on national issues as a place for members to share opinions. I will also organise periodic meetings with government officials to monitor consistency in the implementation of party platforms.
How confident are you with regards to getting a bulk of the 6,800 delegates on your side?
I have spread my message. As we speak, people are moving around the country through some established contacts; people who have known me in terms of my capacity to do this job. You know I have been in the arena since 1991.
I have a track record which is difficult to duplicate. Transparency, integrity, focus and grip on the masses. I have always been masses-oriented and that is why I pledged in my campaign to ensure that every voice counts.
There are allegations that you are being backed by Rotimi Amaechi. How true is this?
No, not at all. I have not even had any contact with him. I am just going straight to the people and that is the truth about me. Even the election which I won, I approached people. I approached the youths. All these things that people are doing here saying they are being backed by governors or ministers, it all ends here in Abuja.
A lot of them do not even go back to tell the people anything about them. So, what I have done in my own case is to go straight to the people. I am not depending on anybody at all and so, I have no minister backing me. But, if they are backing me, it is just because they believe in me and they know that I have the capacity but I do not really have anyone sponsoring me in that sense of the word.
So, are you bothered that the president is reportedly aligned with an aspirant?
I still want to treat it as an allegation against him. It is speculative because the president I know has consistently said he wants to distance himself from running the party and he would like democracy to take root in this country. So, I rather go that way than begin to think that the race has been foreclosed.
The party has a lot of crisis on its hands. What makes you think you can resolve them?
I believe I can resolve the crisis because it is something I have done in the past. Even when I was governor, a lot of my colleagues who had problems in their states maybe with the state assembly, I was the one who went to mediate and solve the problems and the reason is that people believe me because I tell the truth. As much as possible, I try to do things right. I am a stickler for the rules. If someone is wrong, I tell him that he is wrong. I cannot be used to do a hatchet job. For me, I don't belong to any of the tendencies in the party. I am neutral and coming in as a neutral person, I want to look at issues precisely the way they are and resolve them headlong. It is so easy.
Like in states where you create parallel structures, some people were sent out there as congress committee members and they went there to do a hatchet job. It was done even in my state. It was a huge mess when you have the chairman as the head and then the secretary just went behind to submit fake results and then they were accepted as against the results that came properly through the chairman and these were the same people that said chairmen were the ones to deal with, but they now went behind to deal with the secretary.


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Most of us are good at a few things and bad at a longer list of other things. I am a bad traveler and I wonder if others share my infirmity.
In the past couple of months I have taken two trips, one to New Zealand and another to England and Ireland. Both were the result of invitations to give a talk or participate in a conference, but in each case there was ample time left over to do the things that travelers do.
I tried, but I just couldn't get the hang of it.
The manifestations of my incapacity were physical, although its root causes were not. In the course of a week's touring of Ireland, all my usual little ills returned — mouth sores, intestinal difficulties
(a euphemism), clogged nasal passages, and what one might call "strategic fatigue." Strategic fatigue sets in whenever I enter a museum (when I saw that the display case containing the Book of Kells
was surrounded by other tourists I didn't have the strength to push myself forward) or when I approach an ancient site (at Clonmacnoise, the location of an ancient abbey, I retreated immediately to the coffee
shop and never saw the ruin) or when the possibility of getting out of the car to enjoy a scenic view presented itself (I protested that it would take too much time, or that we needed gas, or something equally feeble).
The one time I tried to be a good sport and a good tourist was at Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery in Sligo, which, as far as I could tell, consisted of clumps of small rocks placed at inconvenient distances from one another. These rocks were, I was told, tombs and significant stone circles. It was lost on me, but I dutifully trudged around a large circle taking pictures. The reward for my efforts was the discovery later in the day that, sometime during our exercise in archaeological reverence, a backpack containing my wife's clothing and jewelry had been stolen from our rental car. That'll teach me!
It was the fact that my wife was with me on this trip that alerted me to the extent of my problem. She was supposed to have accompanied me to New Zealand, but couldn't make it at the last moment. I attributed my inability fully to respond to the considerable glories of New Zealand to her absence. Had she been here, I told myself, I could have fed off her enthusiasm and taken pleasure from her pleasure. But in Ireland both her enthusiasm and her sense of pleasure were abundantly visible and still I couldn't do much more than go through the motions. It's not that I didn't recognize the beauty of the landscape or the majesty of the monuments. I couldn't rise to the level of appreciation they deserved.
Why not? What's wrong with me? There are two answers to these questions. First, I just don't care about seeing sights. In London, I ended up at Milton's burial place by accident. I was there for a concert. Churches, famous squares, wide rivers, forests, cobbled streets, scenic vistas, castles, grand gardens . . . I go Spiro Agnew one better: when I've seen one, I've seen one too many.
But behind the lack of interest in sightseeing is something deeper and more unsettling. When I ask people what they like about traveling, they usually answer, I enjoy encountering different cultures and seeing how other people live. I am perfectly happy with the fact of other cultures, and I certainly hope that those who inhabit them live well; but that's as far as it goes.
By definition, a culture other than yours is one that displays unfamiliar practices, enforces local protocols and insists on its own decorums. Some of them even have different languages and are unhappy if you don't speak them. To me that all spells discomfort, and I don't see why I should endure the indignities of airplane travel only to be made uncomfortable once I get where I'm going. As for seeing how other people live, that's their business, not mine.
For a while, I tried to attach my feelings about travel to some honorable moral or intellectual tradition. I recalled some poems by Ben Jonson in which he praises Sir John Roe for the Roman virtue of being always the same no matter how extensively he traveled ("his often change of clime, though not of mind.") But I had to acknowledge that the springs of my own sensibilities had more to do with parochialism and sloth than with some noble capaciousness of mind. In the end, I just have to admit that I was born without the travel gene, which probably means that I was also born without the curiosity gene, and that I'll just have to live with it.
Or, rather, my wife will.
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Measures to improve ITEE and ITUE- Reduce Energy use in IT Equipment
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