Relative motion The laws of physics which apply when you are at rest on the earth also apply in any reference frame moving at a constant velocity with respect to the earth. The bike racers here are in relative motion with respect to each other. Lets learn more about the concept of relative velocity as we run through this topic.
After completing the topic, the student will be able to:
Connect day-to-day experiences to linear motion.
Discriminate clearly between distance and displacement.
Define and distinguish between speed, average speed, instantaneous speed, velocity, acceleration and deceleration.
Differentiate between uniform and non-uniform motions.
Develop and apply equations of motion.
Understand the nature of acceleration due to gravity.
Develop and apply position and displacement vectors in two dimensions.
Apply equations of motion in X and Y directions.
Develop and apply equations of motion, time of flight and range of projectile for any projected object.
Apply changes to the equations of motion, time of flight, height reached by the projectile, range of projectile when a projectile is launched vertically upwards.
Understand and correlate the concept of relative velocity to daily life examples like moving boat in a river etc.,.
Tugboat race The participants in the tugboat race maneuver to optimize their chances of winning. They do so by controlling the displacement, velocity and acceleration of their boats.
Kinematics is the branch of mechanics that describes the motion of objects without considering the cause of motion. It provides a foundation that will help us in all areas of physics. It is most intimately connected with dynamics (another branch of mechanics): while kinematics describes motion, dynamics explains the cause for this motion.
It involves the relationships between the quantities displacement (d),velocity (v), acceleration (a), and time (t). We develop a mathematical formalism that allows us to represent the position, velocity, and acceleration of moving objects, and to express how these quantities are related to each other with time.
Note: We will restrict our study to speeds that are slow compared to the speed of light and also to objects which are generally large, compared to atoms or molecules.
Reference frame When we talk about the motion of an object, we first determine a reference frame and then according to this reference frame we discuss the motion of the object. With respect to Earth, the Sun appears to move across the sky, but it is the Earth which is actually spinning and causing that apparent motion.
Study of Motion - Frame of reference
The world, and everything in it, moves. We see cars and trains moving, a person walking on the street, birds flying in the sky, a leaf floating in the breeze. Even seemingly stationary things such as buildings move with Earth′s rotation. Earth orbiting around the Sun, the Sun's orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy and the galaxy′s migration relative to other galaxies are all examples of such movements. In fact, nothing in the entire universe is completely stationary.
Reference Frame: All motions are relative to some frame of reference. An object is said to be in motion if the position of the object changes with respect to some reference frame. If an object is said to be at rest, then it means that it is being described with respect to a reference frame that is moving together with the body. The reference frame is called the 'observer' and is arbitrarily chosen. The example below illustrates the concept of an observer.
Look at a person standing in a playground. His position relative to the ground, the trees and the buildings in the background does not change. So it appears as if he is at rest. But he is standing on the ground i.e. on the Earth, which rotates on its axis revolving around the Sun. If we have a facility to stand on the Sun, we will feel that the person is moving! That is the person is rotating as well as moving forward, along with the Earth. Thus, the person is at rest (or is not moving) relative to the ground, the trees and the buildings. But, on the other hand, the person, along with the ground, the trees and the buildings, is moving with respect to the Sun.


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Student wins national social mobility award at House of Lords ceremony
A social work student from Kingston University and St George's, University of London has won a national social mobility award for her voluntary and charity work at the inaugural UpReach Student Social Mobility Awards.
Rochelle Watson, a single mother to three-year-old son Allan Junior and the first in her family to go to university, picked up the Charity and Third Sector accolade at a ceremony at the House of Lords. The awards recognise the achievements of undergraduates from less advantaged backgrounds across the United Kingdom.
Rochelle is in the final year of her degree at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, run jointly by Kingston and St George's. The 24-year-old carer from Merton, whose mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 12, regularly volunteers at the Kingston Family Contact Centre supporting non-residential parents to see their children.
Reacting to her award, Rochelle said: "I'm still in shock. More than 200 students were originally nominated so to win the award is a massive thing. It's great to be recognised for my achievements and I'm proud to represent students who have gone through similar things. I want to be a positive role model."
Rochelle has played an active role in student life at Kingston University, inspiring and supporting others to overcome barriers to success. As well as being a member of the student council and a student ambassador, she has taken part in Kingston Hub's Transform Leadership Programme, which helps second year students plan for public sector graduate schemes. She has also worked as an Empower co-ordinator, helping mentors support disadvantaged young girls to achieve their potential.
Inspired by her mother's mental health issues, Rochelle has written a report about parental mental health and engagement with schoolchildren for the Reach Academy. The report explored the impact having a parent with mental health problems has on young people. She was also first person from her course to be a finalist in the University's Bright Ideas competition, where she created a personal development programme to support children affected by parental mental health and help them realise their full potential and develop skills they otherwise wouldn't have been able to.
The BA(Hons) Working with Children and Young People: Social Pedagogy student, who also took part in the University's SADRAS project to develop research into enriching students from underrepresented groups, credits the University for helping her develop as a person and igniting her self-belief.
"My experience at Kingston has transformed my life. I've been able to build my confidence during my studies and I'm so grateful to my lecturers and personal tutor for believing in me and encouraging me," she said. "When I started I wanted to develop my confidence and gain new skills but all of the extra-curricular activities Kingston offers have helped me develop belief in myself and have made me become more independent," she added.
Working with children and young people: social pedagogy course leader Yvalia Febrer, who is also Rochelle's personal tutor, said: "We are absolutely thrilled with Rochelle's success in the Social Mobility Awards, she is a model student and an inspiration to others not just on her course, but to everyone in the Department of Social Work and Social Care."
Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education Professor Jane Lindsay added: "We are all so proud of Rochelle. She has really taken on every initiative we have to offer at Kingston to develop herself and help others. She has overcome so many obstacles and is a shining example of what we want our students to be, she deserves every bit of success that comes her way."
Find out more about completing a BA(Hons) in Working with Children and Young People: Social Pedagogy at Kingston University and St George's, University of London.
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'He has left our family broken,' Sheffield man says as brother is jailed for raiding family home
'I don't feel safe in my own home because of my own brother,' the brother of a prolific Sheffield criminal said, as he described the devastating impact his raid on their family home has had.
Wednesday, 15 August, 2018, 17:31
Patrick Bailey, 34, was jailed for four years and three months during a hearing held at Sheffield Crown Court today (Wednesday, August 15)
During a hearing held at Sheffield Crown Court today (Wednesday, August 15), Recorder James Baird jailed Patrick Bailey, 34, for four years and three months for a range of offences committed between July 2017 and February 2018.
Among the offences committed by Bailey, of no fixed abode, was the theft of several items from his family home during a raid carried out on July 29 last year, including priceless guitars that had once belonged to his late grandfather.
"He has left our family quite broken," said the man, adding: "I was shaken. I don't feel safe in my own home. I don't feel safe in my own home because of my own brother."
The court was told how their mother, who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks, had been left with post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of the raid on their home.
Prosecutor, Eddison Flint, told the court that the family managed to locate three stolen guitars at a branch of Cash Converters, but said the majority of items, which had a combined value of several thousand pounds, were not recovered.
In addition to stealing from the family home, Bailey also took his step father's car without permission a few days later, the court heard.
During Bailey's spate of offending he also burgled a number of commercial premises including PP News in Crookes; the Aagrah restaurant in Leopold Square, Sheffield; the Cheese and Wine Emporium in Bakewell, Derbyshire and Scarborough Lifts in Burniston, North Yorkshire.
Bailey pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, theft, common assault, possession of a bladed article, taking a vehicle without consent, driving whilst disqualified and possession of cannabis at an earlier hearing.
James Gould, defending, told the court that Bailey had a range of mental health problems including schizophrenia, which, he said, were 'no doubt' exacerbated by his drug misuse.
"Perhaps by his guilty pleas, preventing his family from having to give evidence [in court] it's some small demonstration of remorse," said Mr Gould, adding: "As you can see, he's struggling with emotions of shame for bringing these offences on those who were doing their best to cope with him."
In addition to sending Bailey to prison, Recorder Gould also granted restraining orders requested by members of his family.
He told Bailey: "Whatever your impressions of your family, it is clear to me that they have only ever offered you their full support. You regrettably cannot see that because of your drug use, and no doubt, mental health issues."


Pakistan deploys troops, fighter jets in anti-militant offensive
A Pakistani tribesman in a shuttered market in Miranshah in North Waziristan, a stronghold for Taleban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants near the border with Afghanistan, on June 15, 2014. -- PHOTO: AFP
Jun 16, 2014, 11:12 am SGT

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistan on Monday launched fresh air strikes on the northwest tribal region where it has deployed up to 30,000 troops in a long-awaited offensive to eliminate Taleban and Al-Qaeda militants from their border stronghold.
The action in North Waziristan was launched a week after a brazen insurgent attack on Pakistan's main airport in Karachi which left dozens dead and marked the end of a troubled peace process.
The offensive was announced on Sunday, shortly after airstrikes killed at least 105 people including insurgents linked to the airport raid, and jets and helicopter gunships continued to pound the region over the weekend.
A local security official said fighter jets bombed two government schools west of Miranshah - the main town of North Waziristan - early on Monday, killing at least 10 Uzbek militants who were sheltering in them.
The military announced the offensive on Sunday, saying it would wage "a comprehensive operation against foreign and local terrorists who are hiding in sanctuaries in North Waziristan".
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that the time for dialogue was over and that the nation could no longer tolerate attacks on "innocent Pakistanis and damage to national assets".
"This operation will continue till the surrender or elimination of enemy," he said.
The Karachi airport siege was claimed by Taleban and Uzbek militants holed up in the district on Afghanistan's border - considered the last remaining stronghold of Islamist militants in the region.
An operation in the region has been a long-standing demand of Pakistan's Western allies. Washington accuses Islamabad of using the area to give sanctuary to the Haqqani network of fighters, known for their raids on NATO targets inside Afghanistan.
A military official in Miranshah told AFP: "Thousands of troops will participate in this action. You can roughly say 25,000 to 30,000 troops will be involved in the operation.
"We are trying to finish this operation as soon as possible but can't give an exact time frame. It can conclude in a few days but can also take longer," he added.
At least another 10 militants were killed in attacks by Pakistani helicopter gunships in the village of Mir Ali as the fighting got underway Sunday, a local intelligence official in Miranshah said.
SHOOT-ON-SIGHT ORDERS
The initial overnight air strikes on Saturday killed at least 105 people according to the military - though local officials placed the toll as high as 150.
One official said the alleged Uzbek mastermind of the Karachi attack had been killed in the air strikes.
"Abu Abdul Rehman Almani, who was mastermind of attack on Karachi airport, and several other commanders have been killed in the strikes," he said.
Some 40 per cent of the region's population of half a million have already fled the violence, leaving around 300,000 behind, residents told AFP.
Shoot-on-sight orders have been imposed on those who leave their homes after dark, according to local intelligence officials, leading to two people being critically wounded near Miranshah.
In Miranshah itself, imams made announcements from mosque loudspeakers asking people to recite from the Quran and pray to God for the safety of those who remained behind.
US drones were also spotted hovering overhead, raising suspicion that Washington and Islamabad were coordinating their efforts after two US drone attacks - the first this year - killed 16 militants on Wednesday.
DIALOGUE OVER
Washington reportedly suspended its drone attacks in December to give Islamabad time to pursue peace talks with the Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP), aimed at ending a seven-year insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.
The dialogue resulted in a month-long ceasefire between March and April, but later broke down, with Pakistan resuming air strikes on suspected militant hideouts in the tribal areas.
The army was widely seen as being opposed to the dialogue because of the heavy casualties it has sustained at the hands of the TTP.
Mr Talat Masood, a retired general and security analyst, said the army would aim to end its operation before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan which begins around June 28.
"It should go only for two three weeks and then troops can be stationed in the area to control the situation and consolidate the positions," he said.
The operation's success, he added, was contingent on sealing the porous Pakistan-Afghanistan border which foreign fighters including Chechens, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Tajiks and Uighurs have crossed in recent weeks.
A military statement said Afghan security forces "have been requested to seal the border on their side to facilitate elimination of terrorists who attempt to cross the border".
It added that announcements would be made for local residents to approach designated evacuation points.
"Surrender points have also been made for those militants who chose to quit violence and give up their arms," it said, without elaborating on their fate.


'Rugged And Uncompromising Formula' - HipHopDX Reviews 'Kickin' & Screamin'
HipHopDX continues to show love for Krizz Kaliko as the popular hip hop site recently put Kickin' & Screamin' to the test and saw how Krizz Kaliko's best work measured up during one of Strange Music's strongest years.
As his fourth full length solo album, Kickin' & Screamin' challenged Krizz Kaliko to take his music in different directions and paired him up with the likes of Tech N9ne, Twiztid, Chamillionaire, and Rittz. Praising his collaborative efforts, the review noted:
"Kaliko's team up with Tech N9ne and Twista, "Kill Sh*t," is as ferocious and lyrically intense as you'd expect, while "Mayday," in cahoots with Chamillionaire and Rittz, is similarly defiant. Business as planned, then."
With a final ranking of 3.5/5, HipHopDX credits Strange Music's lieutenant as keeping true to the indie label's cause and while some of Kickin' & Screamin' may not be for everyone, it certainly maintains its mission to be completely out of the ordinary.
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Johnson has concerns as end nears
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It's down to Talladega Superspeedway in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, which has hardly resembled a title race over the past four weeks.
Three-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson has taken commanding control in his bid for a NASCAR record fourth consecutive title, and his challengers have one last desperate hope at the largest and most unpredictable track on the circuit.
Only it's not about how well Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart or Juan Pablo Montoya might run on Sunday. Nope, this race is all about what could happen to Johnson.See, Talladega is Johnson's worst track in the 10-race Chase. There was a win in 2006 and a pair of runner-up finishes the next season, but the rest of his record represents the struggle that Johnson has had on the high-banked Alabama track.
Three engine failures and three wrecks, including a late accident in April that led to a 30th-place finish, have left Johnson with six DNF's and a 17.7 average finish.
"Man, it (stinks) racing here," Johnson said after wrecking out of April's race.
So it makes sense that Johnson was a bit testy following his second-place finish at Martinsville last week.
The questions, of course, turned to Talladega and all the unknowns that track brings for the usually unflappable champion.
He knows the smallest miscalculation Sunday could trigger "The Big One" and the damage might be enough to swallow up a ton of Johnson's cushy 118-point lead over Mark Martin.
Tell us, champ, just how do you feel about going to Talladega?
"I'm so tired of answering this question," he replied. "I think you guys can all figure it out. Talladega, there's no telling."
No, there's not, and that apparently has Johnson on edge. Particularly since it's the one place that has his challengers chomping at the bit.
Martin, who has made no secret of his dislike of Talladega despite two career victories, figures the odds are in his favor of having a good race on Sunday. He was caught in the very first accident in April and was headed home after just six laps. He finished last.
"Somehow or another, I just feel lucky about this one," Martin said recently. "If you can wreck on lap five of the last one there, something tells me I ought to be able to miss it this time. That's about as bad of luck as you can have."
Gordon, another Hendrick teammate, is a six-time Talladega winner with a 12.3 average finish. Although he also was a victim of accidents in the last two races -- he has consecutive finishes of 38th and 37th -- he swept the 2007 events.
Gordon, the four-time series champion, is hoping a good finish Sunday will trim into the 150-point lead Johnson has over him.
"You can be aggressive or you can be conservative, either approach can be good or bad, and I don't believe one approach works better than the other," Gordon said. "The 'Big One' is going to happen, it's just whether you get caught up in the crash or not, or whether it comes early or late in the race. Just be ahead of it or way behind it -- don't be in the middle of it.
"Rarely do you escape when you are in the middle of it."
Then there's Stewart, the defending race winner. A six-time runner-up at Talladega, his victory last October was long overdue and another one could help him chip away at his 187-point deficit.
And don't forget Montoya, who wishes he could forget the Chase race at Charlotte two weeks ago. Throw out his 35th-place finish there, and Montoya would be right on Johnson's back bumper. Instead, he's 195-points out despite finishes of either third or fourth in every other Chase race.
Now he goes to Talladega, a track that has suited him since his 2006 departure from Formula One. He made his stock-car debut at Talladega three years ago in an ARCA race, finished second in the 2007 Cup event and won the pole in April.
He's perhaps the one driver not concerned with how Johnson runs every week, and that could play into his favor Sunday.
"You've got to worry about what you're doing, not what everybody else is doing," Montoya said. "I think people keep worrying about what he is doing and as long as you keep worrying about what he's doing, you're not doing your job properly."


59: Don't Die With Your Book Still Inside You

Chris Kennedy is a bestselling Science Fiction and Fantasy author. He's also a former naval aviator with over 3,000 hours flying attack and reconnaissance aircraft (basically, he's a badass).
We sat down with Chris for an exclusive interview, and he shared some powerful ideas and tips for any author who wants to build a platform and create an avid group of loyal readers.
The Journey to Bestseller
Chris took an unlikely path to becoming a best-selling self published author. He read somewhere that 81% of people say they have a story to tell. Chris always thought of himself as part of the other 19%.
All of Chris's friends will tell you that his strong suits are math, science, and systems. No one in his life thought of him as a particularly creative person (I used to feel the exact same way!).
Then one day while he was driving home from work, he got an idea for a story. He actually talked himself out of writing that story. When he got home Chris found out there was an hour to wait until dinner would be ready, so he decided to start writing his first novel.
When Chris told his wife he was writing a novel, she didn't believe him.
After he finished the novel, Chris began writing query letters and trying to get a literary agent. He queried over 80 agents but he didn't see any results.
That's when he started on the path to self-publishing.
Why Self Publishing
As he began to research self-publishing, Chris realized that he needed to create a plan to publish his book and put it into action. And that's exactly what he did. He created a plan and saw it through.
Chris publishes four books a year. He would publish more if it weren't for his day job doing instructional systems design for the Navy.
Get a Daily Action Plan
Chris's daily publishing work changes based on what phase of production he's in at any given time. Right now he's doing editing for an upcoming novel, so not as much writing is getting done.
A typical day for Chris when he's writing goes like this:
Work from 7 AM to 4:30 PM
Come home and engage in social media for 1 to 2 hours before dinner
Eat dinner
Write for one hour to three hours. His goal is to get at least 1000 words written every day during the writing phase of his production process
It can be hard to sleep with his production schedule and he finds himself playing a lot of catch-up on the weekends when it comes to sleep.
"Start marketing (your book) early. Do not wait until it comes out. Start developing the relationship with the readers about 4 to 6 months early." - Chris Kennedy
The biggest mistake Chris sees new self published authors making is that they don't try to develop a relationship with customers before the book is released.
The best thing you can do to ensure the success of your book is to get on Amazon's email list. And the best way to maximize your chances of doing that is to get enough traffic to your book when you launch your book that Amazon's algorithms take notice.
That's why Chris suggests building a relationship with your audience 4 to 6 months before the book is released.
If you build a relationship with people who might be interested in your novel, and then tell them when it's released, a percentage of those people will buy that book.
Then, you email those people who bought your book and say "If you like this book would you mind leaving a review?" Again a percentage of those people won't leave a review, but some will.
And that's how you begin to build your platform as an indie author.
Chris's Marketing Strategy
Chris does the majority of his marketing on social media. He is active on Facebook and twitter. He makes a point to post 3 to 4 pieces of content a day that will help aspiring indie authors.
The most important thing you need to do is begin building your email list. Building an email list allows you to communicate with your fans directly. Especially these days where everyone has a cell phone when you email people you often get their attention immediately.
Chris's Redshirt Marketing Strategy
Chris's biggest marketing success has been his redshirt marketing strategy.
The term redshirt comes from Star Trek. A "redshirt" in Science Fiction refers to a walk on character who gets killed almost immediately after they enter the scene.
People can email Chris and ask to be put into his next book. You have a better chance of getting into the book if you can give Chris one or two details about your personality and interest that will help him flesh out your character for the book.
It turns out people really enjoy being killed in a fictional story (not so much in real life, though).
Chris has several fans who have requested that he put their friends and family into the books after he has already killed them.
Chris actually had a blogger for the Pope ask to be in one of his books. That was the first character that Chris carried over into a sequel. The priest was killed in the next book.
He's currently running a contest to see which one of the redshirts characters for his next book will survive into the future.
Chris is getting the rest of his audience involved in the competition by having them vote on who deserves to survive based on the reason they gave for why they should survive the book.
The cool thing about this redshirts marketing strategy is that it gets the audience involved as collaborators in the creative process.
"Everyone's going to get opportunities to have their big break. A lot of times people will be willing to change their plan to capitalize on those opportunities." - Chris Kennedy
Chris has had a couple of podcast hosts who were interested in being killed in his novels. When you have someone who has an audience that wants to be part of your creative project, it can really help spread the word about what you're doing.
Chris puts an invitation to be part of his next book in every book he publishes.
The great thing about this strategy is it recruits people who'll be eager to buy your book when you launch it. They'll also spread word-of-mouth about your book because they're in it.
The redshirts have to buy the book in order to read it. That's how Chris gets the initial momentum when he launches his books.
Chris has a stable of editors he works with on any given project. So he doesn't need beta readers or fresh eyes before publishing.
Making Audiobooks
All of Chris's books are available in e-book, paperback, and audiobook formats.
At first Chris was reluctant to create an audiobook because of the time and expense involved. But one of his friends is visually impaired and insisted that Chris create the audiobook for him.
When Chris began to research ACX he found out that creating an audiobook was much easier than he first thought.
All you do is go to ACX.com and sign up. Then you put your book on there and audition producers. If you can't afford to pay a producer upfront you can do a royalty split with the narrator of your book. That way they get half of the royalties, and you get half the royalties and produce the book without having to spend thousands of dollars up front.
Chris has developed a relationship with the narrator who has produced all of his audiobooks to date.
The only thing Chris has to do after agreeing to work with a narrator is listen to the chapters as they are produced to make sure that the narrator isn't mispronouncing character names or other words.
Producing different versions of the same book maximizes your audience because different audiences want different ways of consuming your content.
To do a paperback and an e-book is simply a matter of formatting. You should really do both types of book so that your audience can buy the type of book they prefer.
In Chris's case he actually sells more audiobooks than he sells e-books, so investing his time in audiobooks really paid off for him.
If you think about it, everyone has some device that they can play an audiobook on. Listening to an audiobook allows you to consume a book while you're doing other things.
If you want to create your own audiobooks, check out our free guide on how to make an audiobook.
Write Your Story
"Don't die with your story still inside you." - Chris Kennedy
81% of people have a story inside them that they want to tell.
10% of people actually start to write the story.
1% of people actually publish the story.
Be part of the 1%.
Right now is the easiest time in history of the world to publish your book. You don't need an agent or publisher. All you need is the determination to achieve your goals.
Self-publishing a story is something anyone can do as long as they have a process and plan in place and they follow the plan to completion.
You do still want to find a good editor, but there are plenty of editors out there. There is no reason not to get your story out into the world where people can read it at this point in history.
 - Chris's website. You can contact Chris and get links to all of his books.
Chris Kennedy's Amazon author page
Ebookpublishingschool.com - learn how to format your e-book for free and upload the book to Amazon.
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Over decades, Gene Bertoncini has firmly established himself as one of the most eloquent and versatile masters of the guitar. With elegance and ease, he bridges jazz, classical, pop, and bossa nova styles, integrating his own spontaneous and tasteful improvisations along the way. He has earned highest critical acclaim for his artistry on both the classical and electric guitar.
Bertoncinis musical roots go back to his early years in the Bronx where he grew up in a house filled with music. His love affair with the guitar began when he was seven, and by the time he was sixteen, he was appearing on New York television.
His career took an unusual turn when he decided to fulfill another long-standing interest, and took a degree in architecture at Notre Dame. He was quickly swept into the musical scene at the university, and the first thing he did after picking up his degree was to work opposite Carmen McRae in Chicago. He returned to New York to work with vibraphonist Mike Manieri, and then with a quintet led by drummer Buddy Rich.
He describes his architectural experience as something which gives his music its finely-wrought form and style. He wins continual praise for the superb structure of his arrangements and improvisations which serve as a vehicle for his virtuosic technique.
Gene Bertoncini has worked and recorded with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, the Benny Goodman Sextet; singers Tony Bennett, Morgana King, Lena Horne, Vic Damone and Edye Gorme; jazzmen George Benson, Jimm Hall, Tal Farlow, Johnny Smith, Buddy Rich, Wayne Shorter, Hubert Laws, Clark Terry, Paul Desmond, and Paul Winter; and arranger/composers Burt Bacharach, Lalo Schifrin and Michel LeGrand, among others. He performed regularly on the Merve Griffin and Johnny Carson shows, and has been one of the most prolific and popular studio musicians in New York City. For the past eight years Bertoncini has performed with bassist Michael Moore in a duo which The New York Times describes as ...one of the finest pairings of jazz strings....
Mr. Bertoncinis teaching credits include the Eastman School of Music where he regularly performs and conducts summer workshops for jazz guitarists, the New England Conservatory, New York University, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has been a highly sought-after guest clinician in colleges and universities throughout the country.
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How The Sights & Sounds Of The Casino Inspired "Mississippi Grind"
By : Rory Fish
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's Mississippi Grind, about a charismatic poker player determined to change his luck, is inspired by the energy and characters the writer-director team found while making their previous movie in Iowa.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck were living in Iowa making their second film Sugar when road movie Mississippi Grind was conceived. Fleck remembers a poker room separated from the main casino by glass and recalls watching the games with interest, not understanding the rules but eager to learn them.
Boden says the pair started to go to a local riverboat casino while shooting Sugar, a film about a Dominican baseball player in Iowa, where they became fascinated by what they saw. This wasn't like the glamorous gambling meccas of Las Vegas but a place for seasoned local players to frequent, playing classic games from slots to blackjack and, of course, poker. The two filmmakers found their interest piqued by the various characters they saw there.
Fleck began to learn the game of poker, spending his free time going up and down the Mississippi river getting to know other players as well as the rules of popular forms such as Texas Hold'em. The fact Mississippi Grind somewhat ignores the spectacle of the casino as seen in, for example, Martin Scorsese's Casino, it gives it a unique aesthetic that focuses on the characters and why they're gambling.
Fleck told USA Today the casinos he spent time researching were "dark, divey little places" unlike what you typically see in Vegas. He saw people "either grinding out a living at the poker table or just sitting at the slot machines, using their pay cheques. The characters really fascinated us."
Actor Ryan Reynolds, who plays Curtis in the film, says he too wanted to see how gambling played out in venues that weren't on the tourist map. "These types of places are sort of the end of the rainbow," he says, rememebering he saw some people who had been playing for 30 years. These gamblers had many of the most interesting stories to tell and while he wasn't sure how much of their tale was fabricated, it was fascinating nonetheless.
Facing financial hardship, Curtis joins Gerry (played by Ben Mendelsohn) for a road trip on which they hope to win not only money but their own sense of direction, an existential hangover drifting amongst quietly contemplative scenes.
Fleck told Collider.com it was important for the realism of the film to have lived it in someway. He and Boden did the trip we see in the film in reverse.
"Along the way we took pictures and wrote down any dialogue we heard that might fit in. We played in poker tables, visited dog tracks, horse tracks, and off-track betting parlours which I definitely didn't know about. You know, down and dirty places along the Mississippi River."
It was one of these conversations that heavily influenced the theme of the movie. "Anna was sitting at a table and she was the only woman and she was eavesdropping on the poker conversation," Fleck said in an interview with Jessica Kiang of IndieWire. "The topic of rainbows came up and a guy literally said "I drove to the end of a rainbow once. Wasn't nothing there." And how great is that? Without any sense of the irony of what it means to be chasing a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And so we worked that into the movie."
That the film has become a firm favourite of casino fans comes as no surprise given the mainstream appeal of table games like poker and slot machines thanks to online casino operators bringing the joys of these to internet-based platforms. And while the film didn't enjoy success at the box office, it was well-received at major film festivals in 2015 and now ranks amongst Casino, The Gambler, Croupier, The Cooler, Hard Eight and California Split as one of the finest films about gambling.
Aside from Mississippi Grind's strong sense of kinship between its two protagonists, it's the casino that offers a third main character. It is here where the sights, sounds and smells of the environment add drama, energy and a singular colourful aesthetic that gives Fleck and Boden's film an appealing charm.
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Treasurer grants energy funding | The Triangle
Treasurer grants energy funding
By Alissa Falcone
State Treasurer Rob McCord announced Oct. 5 that Drexel University will be the inaugural participant in the Campus Energy Efficiency Fund program.
Drexel University will be the inaugural participant in the government-sponsored Campus Energy Efficiency Fund program, Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord announced Oct. 5. during a visit to Drexel's campus.
The initiative, which was developed in partnership with the Pennsylvania Treasury and Blue Hill Partners, will help as many as 12 Pennsylvania colleges and universities cut utility costs by funding efficiency improvements that will create jobs and create a cleaner environment. The Pennsylvania Treasury and Blue Hill Partners is the local investment firm that acts as an investment manager to the Treasury and has a background in green technology.
As the first school to join the program, Drexel will use the money given by the Treasury to make environmentally friendly renovations in six of its buildings.
According to Bob Francis, University Facilities vice president, a project engineering team from the Transcend Equity Development Corporation will spend the next six weeks analyzing and choosing which buildings will be upgraded.
"They like each building to have a lighting, a demand management and a building automation feature in the recommendations. These things can be implemented within six months, with the possible exception of lighting, which will need to be timed with a break in classes," he wrote in an email.
Other examples of general upgrades that will be funded through the Campus Energy Efficiency Fund include heating and cooling systems, building control systems, energy-efficient windows and high-efficiency lighting.
The improvements are estimated to save Drexel between $500,000 and $600,000 annually while reducing the University's annual energy consumption by more than 7 percent, with no cost to Drexel.
"The idea is to make investments that pay back within five to seven years, which translates into an attractive return on investment," Francis stated.
Francis continued, "Drexel volunteered when it learned the Commonwealth [of Pennsylvania] was interested in investing public funds in sustainable projects on a basis competitive with any other private market investment."
Jim Tucker, senior vice president of Student Life and Administrative Services, explained that representatives from Blue Hill and the Treasury met at Drexel in the summer of 2010 to review Drexel's work in sustainability and discuss how Drexel could work with the program.
"They visited our Drexel Green website, met with members of the faculty and profession staff to learn more about our work and commitment to sustainability. They also assessed our interest in being a first responder to the Energy Efficiency project. The team left impressed with Drexel's efforts around sustainability and invited us be their first project," he said.
The Campus Energy Efficiency Fund has the potential to generate up to $45 million in environmentally friendly improvements for the colleges on the receiving end of the sponsorship, with as much as $10 million of the funding coming from the Treasury. The upgrades are expected to last around 20 years and save up to $150 million in utility costs while reducing the schools' carbon footprint. Over 700 jobs are projected to be created through the project.
The Treasury previously received $1 million from the state Department of Environmental Protection to bear the cost of developing the fund and then identifying possible schools to have as participants. Additionally, the Treasury received over $200,000 in grant funds from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Treasury to team up with the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania for developing a peer-auditing course that will train staff and students in campus energy master planning so they can conduct primary campus evaluations with the aid of professional energy auditors.
It is not known what other Pennsylvania colleges and universities will also receive funding to make their campuses greener.


Much has been said about the nature of government and how it "should" serve the interests of the "people" or the "public". Unfortunately, I can think of no government on the planet that fits this description - and in fact I have come to the conclusion that the description itself is a mechanism intended to deceive the public, thereby hiding the true nature of government from those to be governed.
The description below is a parable or metaphor for government as it really is and always has been. Those who give faith more credence than truth will take issue with it; but those who love truth, and who won't accept comforting falsehoods in the name of faith, will recognize its validity in the real world.
Origin of the B.O.R.G. "Robot"
Many years ago, some eight thousand to be precise - or not so precise - a group of kings and chieftains in Sumer (now southern Iraq), got together and decided they were tired of fighting with each other over local resources. The bloodshed for arable land, water rights, mineral deposits, seaport access, and slaves was just getting to be too much to bear the cost of. So they formed a cartel - a shared power monopoly - choosing to cooperate henceforth instead of continuing to compete. From a business standpoint you'd say their "product" was power over others - their industry, "power brokerage". This was consistent with their ethic: "Might Makes Right" that was accepted by many in that era.
To accomplish their ends they traded specific segments of their power/authority to others in exchange for services rendered. For instance, they would appoint a Master Tax Collector, upon whom they would bestow the privilege of stealing from other (less powerful) people. In return for this delegated privilege they expected to receive the lion's share of the taxes thus collected. The Master Tax Collector, in turn, was authorized to hire whatever thugs he wished to go out and do the dirty work of enforcing the tax collection - rewarding them in turn for their efforts. This process of delegating authority is what we today call hierarchy.
Through this invention of the power brokerage cartel "government" was born. And in the years that followed, the bigger businesses and organized religions adopted the very same model for their own development - and for their relationships with one another. Today, Big Business, Organized Religion, and Government (The B.O.R.G.), the institutions that most of us have been duped into believing exist to serve the public, are in fact the central causes of almost all societal problems.
On the Nature of Machines The most general and accurate definition of a machine is "any device, tangible or intangible, that augments or extends one's intelligence" - where intelligence is defined as "the ability to predict or control events in one's environment." In this sense, government may be thought of as a machine designed to forever increase the power and wealth of those who own it. Today that machine incorporates modules and components in all of the world's important institutions, be they social, financial, religious, corporate, educational, charitable, legal, or military. So it is technically correct to say that government, in this broad sense of the word, has become an evil robot.
Characteristics of the Evil Robot Like any machine, the robot of government can be characterized by its structure, its functions, and the behavioral rules that have been built into it. It is further characterized by its meta-rules - which is to say the rules about the rules. The meta-rules determine how the rules can be changed (or not), who has the authority to change them, and by what means and under what circumstances permitted changes can be made. There also exist meta-meta-rules that determine who may know about the details of the rules, what may be said about them in public, and which ones are intended to be kept secret from the public. The following section provides a concise specification of the more important characteristics of the robot we know as government.
Mission (The Robot's Prime Directive): To serve the interests of its creators - forever increasing their wealth and power over others, in accordance with the Power Ethic (might makes right).
Awareness: The robot has a high level of awareness, but lacks awareness of its own awareness and has no conscience whatever. The robot's awareness includes the determinants of its internal states and can evaluate the performance of each of its internal components.
Construction: The robot is highly complex and is comprised of many hierarchically organized components and modules, including perceptors, effectors, and both internal and external communicators. It also has "thinking" components that include memory storage and recall as well as logic and math. In addition, the robot has remote components that are not obviously part of it, yet which are controlled by the robot and/or its makers. Most of its components are people. Most of its modules are organizations comprised of people.
Control: The robot is run by an operating system, the "prime directive" of which is its mission. The operating system permits no component or module thereof to interfere with its mission - nor can the prime directive be altered by means of "parts" replacement. Only a very few elite individuals are able to directly influence the robot's programming - and they are very careful about who gets invited to join their club.
Parts Replacement: Many, though not all, of the robots components and modules are replaceable. Some can only be replaced by the robot's makers and their delegates. Some can be replaced by the robot itself. Others can be replaced by the public; but only using the tools and methods built into the robot for this purpose; and only at those times that the robot is programmed to permit such replacement.
Response to "Malfunctioning" Parts: The robot is able to tell if one of its parts, components, or parts is performing in support of the robot's mission - or not - and, if not, it can repair itself.
If a particular part is not critical to the robot's mission and is performing poorly or not at all, the robot will simply ignore the part.
If a part is performing in a way that threatens to hinder the robot's mission, the robot's first response will be to isolate the part from the rest of the system (without removing it), so the hindrance becomes ineffectual.
If the malfunctioning part continues to hinder the robot in its mission, the robot will remove the part from its system and replace it or have the public replace it.
If the robot sees the part that has been removed as a continuing threat to its mission, it will first attempt to isolate the part from the public, so no one can re-deploy it within the robot's system.
Failing in this, the robot will take whatever steps are required to nullify the threat - often destroying the part removed without compunction. To this end it has killed millions of human people without the slightest remorse - and it will probably kill millions more. Success of the Robot The robot has been doing its job successfully for some eight thousand years! Although its makers are long gone, their (philosophical) heirs are still with us and the robot still serves their interests extremely well.
Since the robot is not aware of its awareness, it would be incorrect to call it a "person" and it would therefore be incorrect to call it "immoral" any more than it would be correct to call a sword immoral. Unfortunately, many of the robot's components and modules are people, who choose to act on the robot's behalf. Their behavior can be properly characterized as immoral.
Immoral or not, it remains to be seen whether the robot is immortal. If so, it can only be destroyed by its own actions - and this is a likely outcome, because the robot is parasitic, feeding on the public at large that is its host - while creating nothing of intrinsic value. Like most parasites, it will probably destroy its host and itself with it, since it cannot exist without those who nurture it.
I have no doubt of the truism that it is evil to nurture parasites. If you agree, then you must decide what you are willing to do to avoid nurturing this particularly destructive parasite. If no one nurtured it, it would disappear - but this is an unlikely outcome, because the lure of power over others is very seductive to those who have been dominated by others all their lives.
Make a decision. Take a stand. For much more on this subject, read Ethics, Law, and Government.
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The next frontier says:
I agree that no government actually serves the people. However, a robot government would mean that the society under it would be dominated by cold facts and objective reality, meaning more subjective fields like arts, literature, subjective emotions like love and others would gradually become dominated by scientific facts, which would gradually make people under a robot government robots themselves: what makes us humans is emotions and desire for progress, and since an apparently perfect system removes the ability for progress and also removes emotion as mentioned above, so the meaning of life once again returns to that of survival, just like in primitive times. I would rather have the current human government than such a perfect government.
doc tdynamics says:
Much has been said about the nature of government and how it "should" serve the interests of the "people" or the "public". Unfortunately, I can think of no government on the planet that fits this description
Only because you have been witchcrafted into it... By takedown of two trade towers... By an evil president. Why do you think Steven Segal walked away... Because most of what you say, is on the opposite of what you should say.... My Constitution includes the Declaration of Independence first, which First, puts the Ten Commandments ... Then, the Constitution, of which it states, \For the People\ But before it can be \For the People\ it must be \In God We Trust\ Why dont you go to church jerk who wrote this, then get the true History straight in your head of just how the real United States Government is supposed to work. AS it was built...
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Study: Telehealth Doesn't Improve Quality of Life
Lindsay Abrams
Remote health monitoring, which allows clinicians to keep track of the behaviors and symptoms of patients from afar, is promoted as a more cost-efficient and comfortable way of managing chronic conditions. But a new analysis didn't find any psychological or patient-reported health benefits from the new technology as compared to regular care.
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Of the coolest (or creepiest, depending on how you look at it) health care innovations currently in use, the toilet that keeps track of how often you pee probably tops the list. Systems like this, designed for monitoring health from afar, are lauded as the high-tech assisted-living solution for the aging population. They're promoted as a way of allowing people with chronic conditions to live on their own, all the while remaining under the watchful eye of health professionals who can identify symptoms that indicate changes or declines in their health.
As implemented by the U.K. Department of Health, patient homes are equipped with monitors that keep track of their vital signs -- which are collected by equipment like blood pressure cuffs, scales, and blood glucometers -- and then transmit that information to remotely located clinicians.
But the systems have been rolled out based largely on assumptions of their utility instead of evidence for their effectiveness, and a study published by BMJ is now suggesting that remote monitoring may not have any quality of life or psychological benefit for people managing chronic conditions.
Following 1,500 patients as they used telehealth to manage conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and heart failure over the course of a year, British researchers found no evidence of improvements in the patients' health-related quality of life, nor of their symptoms of anxiety or depression, as compared to patients receiving ordinary, low-tech care. They based their measures on a series of questionnaires administered before the system was installed and at various points during the year that it was used.
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The authors take a swipe at previous reviews that suggest differently, arguing that, "while most conclude that telehealth is beneficial, such inferences are not supported by the evidence they present."
On the upside, they didn't find any negative effects -- which is significant in that many have expressed concern that being constantly monitored might increase people's anxiety. And this study didn't look at objective health or cost efficiency. The larger trial from which this study emerges, which includes a variation on remote health monitoring intended for vulnerable populations such as people with dementia or physical disabilities, previously identified an astounding 45 percent decline in mortality, for example, and a 95 percent reduction in costs for treating infertility. But quality of life, depression, and anxiety are all linked to worse outcomes for patients with chronic conditions, the authors argue, so from a patient's perspective, it may not be the optimal solution.
Lindsay Abrams is a former editorial fellow at The Atlantic.


Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Kennedy" Released Today
Bill O'Reilly describes himself as a journalistic "watchdog" and a "champion bloviator."
He's not a historian  -  "not really. That's not my discipline," he says in his corner office at Fox News, home of The O'Reilly Factor, the top-rated show on cable news. But few history books can approach the popularity of O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, which has sold more than 2 million copies since it was released a year ago. His new book, Killing Kennedy (Henry Holt), about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, could be as popular. It goes on sale Tuesday.
Both books were co-written by Martin Dugard, who did most of the research, leaving the writing to O'Reilly, whose approach is to write "history that's fun to read" in a "populist way. No pinheaded stuff, just roar it through!"
It's history as fast-paced thriller, with dramatic foreshadowing in a you-are-there present tense. And, O'Reilly says, "it's all true!"
A few historians questioned details and a lack of documentation in Killing Lincoln. O'Reilly, a former high school history teacher, says any errors, corrected in later editions, are "picayune." The criticism, he says, is just jealousy.
"These guys toil in obscurity their whole lives, and a punk like me comes along and sells 2 million copies. They're not happy."
O'Reilly, 63, is to traditional history what best-selling novelist James Patterson is to literature. Neither gets much respect from academic types. Both say they don't care  -  all the way to bank.
They also share a collaborator. Dugard (whom O'Reilly calls "the best researcher I could find  -  and I talked to all the top guys") co-wrote Patterson's 2009 non-fiction bestseller, The Murder of King Tut, about a 3,000-year-old mystery.
O'Reilly says he didn't solve all the mysteries of the Kennedy assassination. He found no evidence of a conspiracy but stops short of ruling it out.
"I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No."
But he adds, "There were people around Oswald who shouldn't have been there." He cites George de Mohrenschildt, a well-educated Russian immigrant with possible CIA connections, who "had ties to some very, very important people. Why is he hanging with this loser (Oswald)?"
De Mohrenschildt pops up in other books on the assassination. He's even a minor character in Stephen King's best-selling novel 11/22/63. But O'Reilly has a personal connection.In 1977, as a Dallas TV reporter, O'Reilly tried to interview de Mohrenschildt, who also was a target of congressional investigators re-examining the assassination. As O'Reilly tells it, as he knocked on the door of de Mohrenschildt's daughter's house in Palm Beach, Fla., he heard a shotgun blast. Police later ruled that de Mohrenschildt committed suicide. "There were rumors he was murdered," O'Reilly says, "but I found no evidence of that." He adds, "I'm still working the story. There's something there. What it is, I just don't know."
O'Reilly's biggest surprises were "how crazy, and I mean crazy," Oswald was, and "how little the authorities did to protect Kennedy" in Dallas.
Two-thirds of the book deals with Kennedy's presidency and private life, including his extramarital affairs. It portrays Kennedy as a pragmatic and decisive leader who treated sexual risks as "his carpe diem way of living life to the utmost."
"I wanted to show the good and the bad," O'Reilly says.
He says his biggest break was getting FBI agents who flooded Dallas after the assassination to share what they learned about Oswald. He says that helped him understand the assassin, a former Marine who defected to Russia, then returned to the USA with his Russian-born wife, Marina.
For a taste of O'Reilly's style, consider his description of Oswald on the eve of the assassination as he visits his estranged wife.
As O'Reilly sets the scene, Oswald is undecided about shooting Kennedy as he begs his wife to take him back. "But if she doesn't, " O'Reilly writes, "Oswald will be left with no choice."
"That's how delusional Lee Harvey Oswald's world has become. He now deals only in absolutes: either live happily ever after  -  or murder the president."
O'Reilly may not be a historian, but his office walls are filled with historic artifacts, including the last South Vietnamese flag to fly over the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the errant Chicago Tribune front page proclaiming "Dewey Defeats Truman."
He boasts, "Everything in here is an original," which could be applied to O'Reilly himself.
His love-him-or-hate-him personality is part of his appeal. To viewers who complain that he shouts, he says, "Turn down the volume. I don't really shout that much. I'm just a loud Irish guy."
He says that the liberal media "don't get me"  -  that he's not a conservative but a "traditionalist." In 2009, he supported President Obama's financial bailouts and economic stimulus, which, he says "led to a big brouhaha with (Rush) Limbaugh." Now, O'Reilly complains, Obama "has lost control of the economy." Mitt Romney, he says, can't connect with "the guy making $40,000 a year."
He writes popular history "to get people engaged with their country." He complains that few history books are fun to read: "Even the really good ones, by Robert Caro and these guys  -  I mean, they're brilliant guys, but to get through 800 pages, you either have to be retired or on vacation for six weeks."
For those keeping score, Caro's fourth book on Lyndon Johnson,The Passage of Power, is 712 pages, including 79 pages of footnotes and sources. Killing Kennedy is 325 pages, including seven pages about its sources.
The Passage of Power landed on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 15 and spent seven weeks in the top 150. Killing Lincoln landed on the list at No. 3 and has been in top 50 for 42 weeks. It's now No. 38. (A kids' version, Lincoln's Last Days, landed on the list at No. 42 and is now No. 61.)
No history book has sold so well since David McCullough's 2001 biography, John Adams, which was adapted as an HBO miniseries. A two-hour version of Killing Lincoln, narrated by Tom Hanks, will be on National Geographic in February.
But beyond its commercial success, Killing Lincoln got mixed reviews. Its "narrative flair" was praised by University of New Hampshire historian Ellen Fitzpatrick in a Washington Post review, but she said it "offers no direct citations for any of its assertions."
Rae Emerson, deputy superintendent at Ford's Theatre, site of Lincoln's assassination, cited seven errors in the book  -  such as references to Lincoln in the Oval Office, which wasn't built until 1909.
O'Reilly says he invited anyone who challenged his facts to appear on his TV show, but no one would. Emerson didn't respond to questions from USA TODAY.
As with Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy doesn't always name names or cite its sources.
It describes a 1962 party at Bing Crosby's home and a rendezvous between Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe this way: "There is an intimacy in their movements that leaves no doubt they will be sleeping together tonight."
O'Reilly says that's based on an article in the British tabloid Daily Mail, confirmed by a federal agent who was at the party. "I don't want to sound defensive, but either you believe what we wrote, or you don't," he says. "I'm not writing a Ph.D. dissertation."
Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University historian and prolific author (most recently of the biography Cronkite), says that popular history often omits footnotes and that O'Reilly shouldn't be "held to a double standard because of his politics."
But Brinkley adds that the Kennedy assassination remains a heated issue, and "whatever O'Reilly writes, it will be picked apart. The lack of footnotes and details about its sources make it harder to find the book's frailties. But someone will find them  -  if they are there."
Thanks to Bob Minzesheimer.
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Our solar project Bijli reaches over 25,000 people in India and joins social enterprise SunSaluter
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NEW DELHI: The Climate Group's project Bijli - Clean energy for all has now reached over 25,000 people in India, and is on its way to achieving its goal of connecting over 50,000 to solar power in India alone by the end of 2015.
Principally founded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, Bijli aims to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing the lives of rural villagers in India, providing clean and cheap renewable and solar-powered energy.
This is particularly important in a nation with a failing energy system: 40% of India is still not connected to the power grid - a number we could eventually connect via renewable sources.
One of the means to reaching this goal is installing off-grid solar panels. To accelerate the development new, bold solar projects, recently The Climate Group joined SunSaluter, an award-winning social enterprise founded by the young engineer Eden Full.
In 2011, Eden Full's project was a runner up in the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge Competition, which is closely followed by The Climate Group.
"This was a fantastic opportunity for us," says Krishnan Pallassana, India Director, The Climate Group. "To apply an award-winning technology that is simple, appropriate and adaptable but also adding significant value to our ongoing efforts to reach clean energy to rural people in India."
Eden Full's technology was built from developing a low-cost rotating tracker for solar panels, based on a simple but ingenious mechanism.
Bottles full of water are attached to the solar panel with a counterweight to the other side. The water then passes through a filter and goes to a receiving container, so the more water is filtered, the less it remains in the bottles. This make the solar panel rotate and follow the sun for maximum exposure, and so harnesses the most power.
The system increases solar panels' energy output by up to 40%, by the end of the day producing at least 4 liters of clean water. "It's a win-win," underlines Jarnail Singh, India Program Manager, The Climate Group who leads the Bijli project. "The areas where our projects are deployed often have to struggle both with the lack of energy and clean water. This is a big improvement for their every day's life, and can really help us to switch towards a clean, healthier use of energy."
Since September, the company has deployed over 20 installations throughout India aiming to increase this number to 45 for the pilot phase. After that SunSaluter, with the help of The Climate Group and the Dutch Postcode Lottery, will gather the data to show how this innovative concept can be scaled up.
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Electoral Commission turns to geo-targeting to reach young voters
By Jennifer Faull-16 March 2015 10:29am
The Electoral Commission has begun targeting young voters on their mobile devices for the first time in an effort to remind them to register online.
There are an estimated 7.5 million eligible people who aren't correctly registered to vote - equivalent to the population of Greater Manchester, West Midlands and West Yorkshire combined. In the last general election less than half of 18-24 year olds voted.
Based on the insight that 85 per cent of this age group in the UK either own or have ready access to a smartphone, the campaign from the Electoral Commission has harnessed data from Weve - the joint venture between O2, EE, and Vodafone - to target potential voters.
It will see messages sent around some of the biggest university campuses in the UK to remind people that they need to be registered to vote by the deadline of 20 April. Additionally, in Wales, activity is to run in Welsh and English to reflect the correct location.
"Registering to vote is now easier than ever. For the first time in the run up to a General Election people can use their smartphones to go online and register to vote, so it makes sense to use that same technology to remind young people they can do this," said Michael Abbott, head of campaigns at the Electoral Commission.
"We know young people are less likely to be registered to vote than older people, so it's vital that we use innovative methods to communicate with them."
The government team at Carat worked with Weve to harness the vast amounts of data it collects. Oliver Mountstephens, manager of the digital display team at Carat said it expects to see an uplift in 18-24 year olds registering to vote as a result.
"We know how much this audience love their phones so it makes sense to talk to them encourage them to register to vote whilst they are already on their handsets," added Nigel Clarkson, commercial director at Weve.
"They can register whilst in a coffee shop or waiting for the bus, the important thing is that they can participate in the forthcoming general election."
It comes as Weve restructured its commercial team with a raft of new hires and promotions. Tom Pearman has been promoted to sales director which will see him manage three agency group heads and a client and brand group head.
The restructure has also seen the research and marketing teams bought together and centralised under the control of Nigel Kwan, the former Microsoft, News Int and PHD strategist, as the newly-appointed group head of marketing and research.
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RM486m tax refunds not returned in 2018 due to mismatch of info or inactive bank accounts  -  IRB
March 18, 2019 18:30 pm +08
KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) of Malaysia said today that 6.2% or RM486.29 million in tax refunds last year failed to be returned to taxpayers due to a mismatch of information provided, or closed or inactive bank accounts.
In a statement today, it said it places great importance on the processing of tax refunds to ensure taxpayers who are eligible for a refund receive them within a stipulated timeframe.
"However, failure in updating personal information and bank account details results in the failure to complete the tax refund process," it said.
In terms of mismatch of information, it said cheques or vouchers were not delivered to taxpayers due to differences in taxpayers' actual address with the one they had registered in the IRB's database.
There were also incidents of mismatch of bank information, account number and identification number or company registration number between the IRB's database and that registered at the bank.
"Therefore, taxpayers are advised to update their latest personal and banking information in the annual Income Tax Return Form (ITRF) in a move to assist IRB Malaysia in minimising the failure rate of processing tax refunds. In addition, they also can use the e-Kemaskini system or the Feedback Form which can be accessed online at any time through  to update their personal and banking information," the IRB said.
Among the information it said is needed to expedite the tax refund process are: personal identification number, bank account number, correspondence address, telephone number, e-mail address and company registration number (for taxpayers in the company/organisation category).
"Starting Jan 1, 2020, income tax refunds will be fully made using the electronic method of e-payment which is in line with the government's aspiration to preserve the environment by promoting paperless Go Green campaign," it added.


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FRAZEE v. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY et al., 489 U.S. 829 (1989)
The Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act provides that "[a]n individual shall be ineligible for benefits if he has failed, without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable work when so directed . . . or to accept suitable work when offered him . . . ." Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 48, ¶ 433 (1986). In April 1984, William Frazee refused a temporary retail position offered him by Kelly Services because the job would have required him to work on Sunday. Frazee told Kelly that, as a Christian, he could not work on "the Lord's day." Frazee then applied to the Illinois Department of Employment Security for unemployment benefits claiming that there was good cause for his refusal to work on Sunday. His application was denied. Frazee appealed the denial of benefits to the Department of Employment Security's Board of Review, which also denied his claim. The Board of Review stated: "When a refusal of work is based on religious convictions, the refusal must be based upon some tenets or dogma accepted by the individual of some church, sect, or denomination, and such a refusal based solely on an individual's personal belief is personal and noncompelling and does not render the work unsuitable." *831 App. 18-19. The Board of Review concluded that Frazee had refused an offer of suitable work without good cause. The Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, Peoria County, affirmed, finding that the agency's decision was "not contrary to law nor against the manifest weight of the evidence," thereby rejecting Frazee's claim based on the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Id., at 23.
GRAVEL v. UNITED STATES, 408 U.S. 606 (1972)
408 U.S. 606 (1972) GRAVEL v. UNITED STATES. No. 71-1017. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 19-20, 1972. Decided June 29, 1972.[*] CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT.*607 Robert J. Reinstein and Charles L. Fishman argued the cause for petitioner in No. 71-1017 and for respondent... Read more
HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT et al. v. KUHLMEIER et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988)
Three former editors of the Spectrum, a student newspaper run as part of a journalism class and funded by the Board of Educators, sued after the principal removed two articles from the May 1983 issue that described student experiences with pregnancy and divorce. The principal believed that the students interviewed and parents discussed in the articles could be identified and found the discussions of birth control and sexual activity inappropriate for younger students.
HEFFRON, SECRETARY AND MANAGER OF THE MINNESOTA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY BOARD OF MANAGERS, et al. v. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, INC., et al., 452 U.S. 640 (1981)
A rule (Rule 6.05) of the Minnesota Agricultural Society (Society), a Minnesota public corporation that operates the annual state fair, provides that sale or distribution of any merchandise, including printed or written material, except from a duly licensed location on the fairgrounds shall be a misdemeanor. As Rule 6.05 is construed and applied by the Society, all persons, groups, or firms desiring to sell, exhibit, or distribute materials during the fair must do so only from fixed locations. However, the Rule does not prevent organizational representatives from walking about the fairgrounds and communicating the organization's views to fair patrons in face-to-face discussions. Space in the fairgrounds is rented in a nondiscriminatory fashion on a first-come, first-served basis, and Rule 6.05 applies alike to nonprofit, charitable, and commercial enterprises. Respondents, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. (ISKCON), an organization espousing the views of the Krishna religion, and the head of one of its temples filed suit in a Minnesota state court against state officials, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the ground that Rule 6.05, on its face and as applied, violated their First Amendment rights. ISKCON asserted that the Rule suppressed the practice of Sankirtan, a religious ritual that enjoins its members to go into public places to distribute or sell religious literature and to solicit donations for the support of the Krishna religion. The trial court upheld the constitutionality of Rule 6.05, but the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed.
HERBERT v. LANDO et al., 441 U.S. 153 (1979)
By virtue of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, neither the Federal nor a State Government may make any law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . . ." The question here is whether those Amendments should be construed to provide further protection for the press when sued for defamation than has hitherto been recognized. More specifically, we are urged to hold for the first time that when a member of the press is alleged to have circulated damaging falsehoods and is sued for injury to the plaintiff's reputation, the plaintiff is barred from inquiring into the editorial processes of those responsible for the publication, even though the inquiry would produce evidence material to the proof of a critical element of his cause of action.
LAMB'S CHAPEL AND JOHN STEIGERWALD v. CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., 508 U.S. 384 (1993)
The school district of Center Moriches, New York, adopted rules that permitted its facilities to be used for social, civic, and recreational purposes, but that prohibited any group from using the facilities for religious purposes. Lamb's Chapel, an evangelical church, applied for permission to show a six-part film series in one of the buildings. The series presented a religious perspective on family issues and child rearing. The school district denied the application, relying on the prohibition against using the facilities for religious purposes. Lamb's Chapel sued in federal court, but both the trial court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of the school district. A government is not obligated to make its non-public facilities available for use by the general public. Even when it does so, it may limit the purposes for which the facilities may be used. The government may not, however, deny access to the facilities based upon the viewpoint of the person who seeks access to them.Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense and Ed. Fund, 473 U.S. 788 (1985). A government may deny access to a religious group if allowing access would violate the First Amendment's prohibition against establishing a religion. One test for evaluating whether the Establishment Clause is being violated is set forth in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971)  -  whether the challenged governmental action has a secular purpose, whether the action has the principal effect of advancing or inhibiting religion, and whether it fosters an excessive entanglement with religion. While never quite repudiated, this test has proven unpopular with many members of the Court.
METROMEDIA, INC., et al. v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, et al., 453 U.S. 490 (1981)
453 U.S. 490 (1981) METROMEDIA, INC., ET AL. v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, ET AL. No. 80-195. Supreme Court of United States. Argued February 25, 1981. Decided July 2, 1981. APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA. *492 Floyd Abrams argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Theodore B. Olson, Dean... Read more
MUNRO, SECRETARY OF STATE OF WASHINGTON v. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY et al., 479 U.S. 189 (1986)
The State of Washington requires that a minor-party candidate for partisan office receive at least 1% of all votes cast for that office in the State's primary election before the candidate's name will be placed on the general election ballot. The question for decision is whether this statutory requirement, *191 as applied to candidates for statewide offices, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared the provision unconstitutional. 765 F. 2d 1417 (1985). We reverse.
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD et al. v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., 421 U.S. 132 (1975)
The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) and its General Counsel seek to set aside an order of the United States District Court directing disclosure to respondent, Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Sears), pursuant to *136 the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U. S. C. § 552 (Act), of certain memoranda, known as "Advice Memoranda" and "Appeals Memoranda," and related documents generated by the Office of the General Counsel in the course of deciding whether or not to permit the filing with the Board of unfair labor practice complaints.
NEW YORK STATE CLUB ASSOCIATION, INC. v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., 487 U.S. 1 (1988)
New York City has adopted a local law that forbids discrimination by certain private clubs. The New York Court of Appeals rejected a facial challenge to this law based on the First and Fourteenth Amendments. We sit in review of that judgment.
NEW YORK v. FERBER, 458 U.S. 747 (1982)
The owner of a bookstore in Manhattan was convicted of promoting a sexual performance of a child by selling two sexually explicit films involving young boys to undercover police officers. New York argued this was in violation of a state criminal statute that prohibits knowingly promoting sexual performances by children under 16 by distributing material which depicts such performances. It also prohibits such materials that are produced out of state.
OSBORNE v. OHIO, 495 U.S. 103 (1990)
In order to combat child pornography, Ohio enacted Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.323(A)(3) (Supp. 1989), which provides in pertinent part:
PERRY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION v. PERRY LOCAL EDUCATORS' ASSOCIATION et al., 460 U.S. 37 (1983)
Under a collective bargaining agreement between the Board of Education of Perry Township, Ind., and Perry Education Association (PEA) as the exclusive bargaining representative for the School District's teachers, PEA was granted access to the interschool mail system and teacher mailboxes in the Perry Township schools. The bargaining agreement also provided that access rights to the mail facilities were not available to any rival union, such as Perry Local Educators' Association (PLEA). PLEA and two of its members filed suit in Federal District Court against PEA and individual members of the School Board, contending that PEA's preferential access to the internal mail system violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
POPE et al. v. ILLINOIS, 481 U.S. 497 (1987)
In Miller v. California, 413 U. S. 15 (1973), the Court set out a tripartite test for judging whether material is obscene. The third prong of the Miller test requires the trier of fact to determine "whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." Id., at 24. The issue in this case is whether, in a prosecution for *499 the sale of allegedly obscene materials, the jury may be instructed to apply community standards in deciding the value question.
RED LION BROADCASTING CO., INC., et al. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al., 395 U.S. 367 (1969)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has for many years imposed on broadcasters a "fairness doctrine," requiring that public issues be presented by broadcasters and that each side of those issues be given fair coverage. In No. 2, the FCC declared that petitioner Red Lion Broadcasting Co. had failed to meet its obligation under the fairness doctrine when it carried a program which constituted a personal attack on one Cook, and ordered it to send a transcript of the broadcast to Cook and provide reply time, whether or not Cook would pay for it. The Court of Appeals upheld the FCC's position. After the commencement of the Red Lion litigation, the FCC began a rulemaking proceeding to make the personal attack aspect of the fairness doctrine more precise and more readily enforceable, and to specify its rules relating to political editorials. The rules, as adopted and amended, were held unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals in RTNDA (No. 717) as abridging the freedoms of speech and press.
REGAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, et al. v. TIME, INC., 468 U.S. 641 (1984)
468 U.S. 641 (1984) REGAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. v. TIME, INC. No. 82-729. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 9, 1983 Decided July 3, 1984 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK*643 Elliott Schulder argued the cause for appellants. With him on... Read more
RENEGOTIATION BOARD v. GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING CORP., 421 U.S. 168 (1975)
The issue in this case is whether certain documents -  documents generated by the Renegotiation Board (Board) and by its Regional Boards in performing their task of deciding whether certain Government contractors have earned, and must refund, "excessive profits" on their Government contracts - are "final opinions" explaining the reasons for agency decisions already made, and thus expressly subject to disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (Act), 5 U. S. C. § 552 (a) (2) (A), or are instead predecisional consultative memoranda exempted from disclosure by § 552 (b) (5). See NLRB v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., ante, p. 132.
RICHARD A. LYNG, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, UAW, et al., 485 U.S. 360 (1988)
A 1981 amendment to the Food Stamp Act states that no household shall become eligible to participate in the food stamp program during the time that any member of the household is on strike or shall increase the allotment of food stamps that it was receiving already because the income of the striking member has decreased. We must decide whether this provision is valid under the First and the Fifth Amendments.
SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al., 492 U.S. 115 (1989)
The issue before us is the constitutionality of § 223(b) of the Communications Act of 1934. 47 U. S. C. § 223(b) (1982 ed., Supp. V). The statute, as amended in 1988, imposes an outright ban on indecent as well as obscene interstate commercial telephone messages. The District Court upheld the prohibition against obscene interstate telephone communications for commercial purposes, but enjoined the enforcement of the statute insofar as it applied to indecent messages. We affirm the District Court in both respects.
SCHAD et al. v. BOROUGH OF MOUNT EPHRAIM, 452 U.S. 61 (1981)
In 1973, appellants began operating an adult bookstore in the commercial zone in the Borough of Mount Ephraim in Camden County, N. J. The store sold adult books, magazines, and films. Amusement licenses shortly issued permitting the store to install coin-operated devices by virtue of which a customer could sit in a booth, insert a coin, and watch an adult film. In 1976, the store introduced an additional coin-operated mechanism permitting the customer to watch a live dancer, usually nude, performing behind a glass panel. *63 Complaints were soon filed against appellants charging that the bookstore's exhibition of live dancing violated § 99-15B of Mount Ephraim's zoning ordinance, which described the permitted uses in a commercial zone,[1] in which the store was located, as follows:
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Explore the burma map for a complete trip
burma is the ancient name of myanmar - the Buddhist country with tens of thousands of temples, pagodas and antique cultures that are preserved intact until now. Located in the northwest of the Sino-Indian Peninsula, in recent years, burma is considered as an captivating destination for international visitors. To get a complete and noteworthy trip in this country, before going, you need to learn a bit about the myanmar map. Use the map below to start planning a trip to myanmar - The Golden Land in the world.
Introduction about myanmar country
myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia, northwestern Indian Peninsula. It has 5,876 km of borderlines with China (2,185 km), Thailand (1,800 km), India (1,463 km), Laos (235 km) and Bangladesh (193 km). The coastline is 1,930 km long. Area 676,577 km². Burma gained independence from Britain in 1948 and became the Union of myanmar Socialist Republics in 1974 and later changed to the Union of burma in 1988.
myanmar is the name derived from the local name Myanma Naingngandaw. It was used in the early 12th century but its origins are still unclear. The root of this name is Brahmadesh in Sanskrit, meaning "land of Brahma", the Hindu god of all creatures.
burma - The country of gold pagodas
Yangon is the ancient capital and also the largest city of burma. Now, The capital of this country is Naypyidaw.
myanmar has a population of 50,020,000 people with 135 ethnic groups and tribes, including Burmese (68%), San (9%), Karen (7%), Chinese (3%), Indians (2%), Mon (2%) and other ethnic groups (5%)
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1. Geographical location
burma is a republic in Southeast Asia with the coordinates 16 ° 48 'north latitude, 96 ° 09' east latitude (16.8, 96.15), according to the GMT/GMT +6: 30-hour zone.
- In the north: bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
- In the east: bordered by China, Laos, and Thailand
- In the south: bordered by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal
- In the West: bordered the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, and India.
The total area of the country is 676,552 square kilometers (261,218 square miles), makes it the largest country in the mainland Southeast Asia and is the 40th largest country in the world (after Zambia). It is slightly smaller than Texas and slightly larger than Afghanistan.
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2. Topographic characteristics
The horseshoe-shaped mountains and valleys of the Ayarwaddy River system (Irrawaddy) are the major terrain features in burma. The mountains at the north edge are 5881 meters high, on top of Hkakabo Razi, the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. Two other mountain systems have axes from north to south. The Arakan Yoma area, with its peaks reaching over 2740 meters, separates burma and the Indian subcontinent. Bilauktaung area, south of the Shan plateau, lies along the border between south-west Thailand and southeastern burma. The Shan plateau, originating from China, has an average elevation of about 910 meters.
The continent is generally narrow and long, with central ridges about 320 km stretching over the Ayarwaddy-Sittaung plain. The deltas, especially the country's most fertile and economically important lands, cover an area of about 46,620 square kilometers (18,000 square miles). Both the Arakan coast (northwest) and Tenasserim (south-west) of burma is full of rocks and are surrounded by islands.
3. Popular tourist destinations on burma map
Yangon (16.8661° N, 96.1951° E): Formerly known as Rangoon, with over 7 million people, Yangon is Myanmar's largest city and its most important commercial centre. On the map of myanmar, Yangon is located in Lower burma (Myanmar) at the convergence of the Yangon and Bago Rivers about 30 km(19 mi) away from the Gulf of Martaban at 16°48' North, 96°09' East (16.8, 96.15). Its criterion time zone is UTC/GMT +6:30 hours.
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Bagan (21.1717° N, 94.8585° E): This is an old city located in the Mandalay Region of burma. The Bagan Archaeological Zone is the main highlight for the country's nascent tourism industry. It is seen by tremendous as equal in attraction to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, with over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
The Bagan Archaeological Zone, defined as the 13 x 8 km area centered around old Bagan, consisting of Nyaung U in the north and New Bagan in the south, lies in the vast expanse of plains in Upper myanmar on the bend of the Irrawaddy river. On the myanmar map, it is located 290 kilometers (180 mi) south-west of Mandalay and 700 kilometers (430 mi) north of Yangon. It accorde to the GMT/GMT +6: 30-hour zone.
Inle Lake (20.5863° N, 96.9102° E): This is a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Taunggyi District of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in burma (Burma). It is the second largest lake in myanmar with an estimated surface area of 44.9 square miles (116 km2), and one of the highest at an elevation of 2,900 feet (880 m). During the dry season, the average water depth is 7 feet (2.1 m), with the deepest point being 12 feet (3.7 m), but during the rainy season this may increase by 5 feet (1.5 m).
Hope that the useful information about the myanmar map above will help you on exploring burma and having captivating experiences in this Golden Land - one of the most magical and undiscovered destinations in the world.


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The 405 Exchange: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes in combining ambition with creativity
Ken Grand-Pierre linked up with Carter and guitarist Dean Richardson to discuss how End Of Suffering came to be.
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No one could've predicted the career that Frank Carter has carved for himself. From Gallows to Pure Love and now Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - he's always been an ambitious musician, but that's never been clearer on The Rattlesnakes' latest album, End Of Suffering (out now). It's a rock album that reminds us how much dynamism can be evoked from a band; album opener 'Why A Butterfly Can't Love A Spider' being a prime example of such growth. Ken Grand-Pierre linked up with Carter and guitarist Dean Richardson to discuss how the album came to be and why it's important to risk alienating others when evolving a sound.
"If you're grumbling about your album being old news than you've already lost the battle."
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