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Between the lines: Piano Man

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by Elena Ktenopoulou

A little something you forgot to consider

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Have a magical day,

glance at the sky

by Elena Ktenopoulou

Never ending dream chase

When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait for the future. I would ask my mom how many days are left until I’m a grown-up – free to do what I want any time I want to. Little did I know… I had no idea that Peter Pan was right when he chose to stay in Neverland and I secretly wish I’d followed him when I still had the chance. But we grow… we become adults and take life in our own hands and those things that once seemed like a faraway dream, are now everyday worries, all written down in To-Do Lists on the refrigerator looking judgmentally at you day and night. What happened?

When you’re little, you dream, you idealize the future and somewhere inside you, you know that you will do everything right. You won’t make the stupid mistakes all the other grown-ups make. You’re so much wiser. You’ll succeed and thrive. It can’t be that hard when you’re free to do your own thing. Soon, life will prove you wrong and you’ll you might forget your great dreams somewhere along the way.

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Dreams are not only the most important thing of our childhood, dreams must remain a great part of our adulthood as well. The fast rhythm of life makes us lose our way and forget where we are going. We settle. We settle for safety, for comfort or because we are secretly afraid to find out what would actually happen if we had the courage to pursue that dream. We make up excuses that convince the rest but they’re never enough to convince ourselves. Deep down we all know they’re carefully made-up and brilliantly convincing lies. Not for our family or our friends who wonder why we changed our minds but for the kid in us asking why we ended up betraying that once-so-clear vision.

Taking risks in a world that never helps the ones who dream of something greater is hard. It takes everything you’ve got and yes… you might lose everything you gained with so much hard work but… there’s one slight chance if you trust that little dreamer you left behind somewhere on the way here, you’ll find the life you once thought you would have. Don’t you know that this is the one you deserve?

Dreams must play the role of a map or a compass in life. We must always look at them to tell us where to go. The journey is what will make us happy and complete but looking at that destination will keep us on the right path. It’s ok to change your mind and let your dream change as you evolve as a person but never settle for less and never give up. There is incredible strength in each of us. You’ll be surprised to find out how much of it is hidden in you. If you have dreamt it, even as a child, you do have what it takes to do it.

It might mean you’ll have to sacrifice comforts and time and even people in your life. But would you rather wonder forever?

have a magical day,

glance at the sky

by Elena Ktenopoulou

What if you made music a bigger part of your life?

It’s always there… it’s either what’s making you move, either just what making your day a little brighter while playing in the background. Music, whether it’s the protagonist or just a guest, is what makes those boring moments more… meaningful.

Listening to music is usually a way to underline feeling in a way but… what about playing music? This week, I wanted to talk about the decision to try and play an instrument and I don’t mean professionally. Music as a hobby can benefit your life in many ways.

I have been trying to play the cello for more than a year and I considered it important to encourage more people who might be afraid that they won’t make it because they don’t have previous experience. Even if you never play professionally, you will gain a lot just by devoting some time to something creative – any form of art, really but today we talk about the benefits of music. –

Here’s how music has made my life more beautiful and why you should also try:

  1.     Patience

Truth to be told, I was never a patient person. I love getting what I want right away but when you try to master an instrument, you certainly cannot do that in a few  months… not even in a few years. Studying music  has helped me to become more patient and I’ll explain how. The more patient you are during practice, the faster you get the result you’ve been anticipating, it’s a very important lesson. When you give it time and you take it slow, you will have better results.

2. Organizing time

Learning to play an instrument takes time and daily practice. That requires discipline and a very well structured schedule that you have to follow in order to manage everything else in your life and make time for music. I have noticed that since I started playing, I have come to organizing my time a lot better than before and not just around my music studies but in general.

3. Exercising the mind

When you watch musicians playing it looks so easy… let me tell you, you have to think about a million  things at the same moment. What is that note? Am I pressing the right spot? Am I putting too much pressure on the bow? Why does this sound different than before? Scientific research has shown that practicing music is a very demanding activity that activates a lot of parts of the brain. That makes you smarter and able to handle more tasks at once.

4. Enjoying music

The hardest part of music – especially for a person who starts in their twenties as I did – is certainly not  learning the technique but learning to hear correctly. That takes a lot of practice and exercise but you’ll notice that slowly, you start to understand music better than before and enjoy it more.

5. Feeling of achievement

When you practice and practice and at the end of the week, you’ve finally reached your goal, you feel extremely satisfied and motivated to keep going. That way you learn to work based on setting small goals that eventually lead to a bigger one. Isn’t that the secret for success after all?

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I am not going to talk about the thrill of playing in front of people or the happiness when you create music of your own just because it takes a while until you get there and today’s article focuses more on the benefits of learning. But I grantee you, it’s all worth it!

Trying learning to play an instrument will benefit you in many ways. You will even see your personality improve as you’ll become more organized and more hard working. The only thing you need is the decision to start and the desire to play. So, don’t waste any more time get busy!

have a magical day,

glance at the sky

by Elena Ktenopoulou

In case you get lost in the streets of Prague one night

night out

(That means… prepare for part two soon!)

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My personal suggestions:

  • the National Marionette Theatre

  • the Jazz Boat

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  • the Blacklight theater of Prague

  •  the Walks

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glance at the sky

by Elena Ktenopoulou

Unsolved mysteries inside

It’s happened to you. It’s happened to all of us. For some it’s a smell, a song, a color, an object… anything, really! To me, it’s usually light. The way the sun comes in from a window. It instantly takes me to another place without me expecting it and forces me to get in a mood. Firstly, the mood I had in that particular memory – it kind of feels like time-travel – and then instant and inescapable nostalgia. I know you’ve experienced it.

You’re at a friends house having dinner. You taste the chicken pie that looks delicious and all of a sudden it tastes just like the one your grandmother used to make when you were a kid. The memory strikes you hard. You suddenly feel as careless as you were at that moment, playing with you cousin in the back yard. A feeling of light sadness follows. You guessed it. Today, we talk about memories

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Memories are a huge part of life. They are past experiences that form our actions, our choices and the biggest part of ourselves today. People since the beginning of time have been trying to find ways to keep memories alive for as long as possible. They did it by telling stories, painting portraits, writing books and then printing them so anyone could have access and for the past century memories are recorded in cameras: photographs and video so they never die. Is that enough to keep them alive, though?

Even if you experienced something with an other individual, the memory of that incident will be completely different in their mind than it will be in yours. Memories are to a great extend – if not completely – subjective. They are formed inside your head and they are mixed with you perception of reality, you feelings, your personality and you past experiences. Researches have shown that the more you talk about something you experienced, the stronger the memory of it gets in your mind. So, you are more likely not to forget about it in the future.

A lot of people believe that we are our memories, that our lives are actually a collection of past moments. But is that so? Since everything has passed and all we’re left with is the present, are we rally a pile of memories all together or is it a little more complicated than that?

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At some point, bad things will happen. You will not be who you were, neither will I. At that moment, don’t sit around remembering who you used to be, missing your life back then. There’s always a way to make it better. Benefit form your experiences and don’t repeat mistakes – if you can, if you do repeat… don’t be afraid to try again! –

We might be just a collection of moments or we might be our present self and nothing more. In the future we might not even be… at all. No matter what, be grateful for where you’ve been so far – because it’s made you, you! – and work for where you’re going to be in the future. Get to work! You have so many new memories to make.

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by Elena Ktenopoulou


The Story Goes...

Moses Patrou is a gifted vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who can be found switching effortlessly between drums, keys, vocals and percussion at a variety of shows – R&B, New Orleans Brass band, blues, jazz, rock and everything in between – in and around the NYC area on a regular basis with occasional jaunts to other parts of the world. Born in Nashville, TN, his musical journey began in Madison, WI, hearing rolling boogie woogie, blues and country music firsthand from his very talented musician father, Johnny “Chimes” Patrou. Some of his earliest memories were watching his father perform with Original Funky Drummer Clyde Stubblefield. Musical pilgrimages later on led him to study and perform at the source in places such as New Orleans, Brazil, and Cuba before laying his hat in New York.

In addition to being a versatile and well-seasoned live performer, Patrou has had considerable success in the recording arena as well. He has appeared in two national television commercials – one for a Cannes Ad Award-Winning spot for Coca-Cola, which debuted during the 2007 Super Bowl:

and another for “Schick Hydro” razors called “Splash Boxing”:

Moses is also a prolific songwriter with two albums of delectable original material recorded thus far and an ever-growing arsenal of songs yet to be released.  His first album, aptly titled “Introducing Moses Patrou”, was released on Grammy award winning producer Ben and Leo Sidran's label "Nardis Records" in Japan in 2007, and later in the US. His sophomore effort, “Cant Stop, Vol. 1″, was co-produced with Scott Sharrard (Lead guitarist for the Gregg Allman Band) and Charles Martinez (Sound Engineer for Michael McDonald, Boz Skaggs and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan) and released in the fall of 2013. Each album is a tasty mélange showcasing Patrou’s irresistibly soulful voice and knack for writing songs that consistently hit the sweet spot of being current and relevant while also harkening back to a time when music was sincere and written from the heart instead of towards the bottom line. The lyrics are instantly relatable and permanently memorable and accompanied by chord progressions, melodies and beats guaranteed to make you want to run to the dance floor and either boogie your ass off or hold someone close while you listen.

Live or recorded, Moses Patrou is an artist not to be missed


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Moral rights differ from normal rights to a copyright in that they serve to protect an author’s image even in cases where there is otherwise no infringement.  For example, an author’s moral rights might be violated when his or her work is used in a way that damages the author’s reputation, such as if a composer’s religious hymn is used as the background music for a pornographic movie.  Even if this behavior would otherwise not infringe on the author’s copyright, the author may claim that his or her moral rights have been infringed by use of the work.
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Section: New Results

Formal verification of compilers and static analyzers

The CompCert formally-verified compiler

Participants : Xavier Leroy, Daniel Kästner [AbsInt GmbH] , Michael Schmidt [AbsInt GmbH] , Bernhard Schommer [AbsInt GmbH] , Prashanth Mundkur [SRI International] .

In the context of our work on compiler verification (see section 3.3.1), since 2005 we have been developing and formally verifying a moderately-optimizing compiler for a large subset of the C programming language, generating assembly code for the ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V and x86 architectures [9]. This compiler comprises a back-end part, translating the Cminor intermediate language to PowerPC assembly and reusable for source languages other than C [8], and a front-end translating the CompCert C subset of C to Cminor. The compiler is mostly written within the specification language of the Coq proof assistant, from which Coq's extraction facility generates executable OCaml code. The compiler comes with a 100000-line, machine-checked Coq proof of semantic preservation establishing that the generated assembly code executes exactly as prescribed by the semantics of the source C program.

This year, we improved the CompCert C compiler in several directions:

We released version 3.0 of CompCert in February 2017 incorporating support for 64-bit architectures, and version 3.1 in August 2017 incorporating the other enhancements listed above.

Two papers describing industrial uses of CompCert for critical software were written, with Daniel Kästner from AbsInt as lead author. The first paper [24] was presented at the 2017 symposium of the British Safety-Critical Systems Club. The second paper [23] will be presented in January 2018 at the ERTS congress. It describes the use of CompCert to compile software for nuclear power plant equipment developed by MTU Friedrichshafen, and the required certification of CompCert according to the IEC 60880 regulations for the nuclear industry.

A verified model of register aliasing in CompCert

Participants : Gergö Barany, Xavier Leroy.

In the setting of the ASSUME ITEA3 project, Gergö Barany and Xavier Leroy are working on implementing a CompCert back-end for the Kalray MPPA processor architecture. This architecture features pervasive register aliasing: each of its 64-bit registers can also be accessed as two separate 32-bit halves. The ARM architecture's floating-point register file is similarly aliased. Modifying a superregister invalidates the data stored in subregisters and vice versa; this behavior was not yet modeled in CompCert's semantics.

Integrating subregister aliasing in CompCert involved re-engineering much of its semantic model of the register file and of the call stack. Rather than simple mappings of locations to values, the register file and the stack are now modeled more realistically as blocks of memory containing bytes that represent fragments of values. In this way, we can verify a semantic model in which a 64-bit register or stack slot may contain either a single 64-bit value or a pair of two unrelated 32-bit values. This ongoing work is nearing completion.

Random program generation for compiler testing

Participant : Gergö Barany.

Randomized testing is a powerful tool for finding bugs in compilers. In a project aimed at finding missed compiler optimizations, Gergö Barany wanted to use such random testing techniques, but found that the standard random C program generator, Csmith, generates very large amounts of dead code. This is code whose results are never used and that can therefore be removed by the compiler.

The presence of large amounts of dead code prevents testing optimizations: almost all of the code is trivially removed by compilers' dead code elimination passes. Gergö resolved this problem by designing a new approach to random program generation. The new generator generates code backwards and performs a simultaneous liveness analysis of the program to rule out the generation of dead code. Its practical evaluation shows that it is much more efficient than Csmith at generating programs that compile to large amounts of machine code with a much more varied instruction mix than Csmith-generated code. In addition, the new generator is much faster than Csmith, because it is designed to work in a single, linear pass, without generating invalid states that cause backtracking. This work resulted in the development of the ldrgen tool, and was presented at LOPSTR 2017 [34].

Testing compiler optimizations

Participant : Gergö Barany.

Compilers should be correct, but they should ideally also generate machine code that is as efficient as possible. Gergö Barany started work on adapting compiler correctness testing techniques for testing the quality of the generated code.

In a differential testing approach, one generates random C programs, compiles them with different compilers, then compares the generated code. The comparison is done by a custom binary analysis tool that Gergö developed for this purpose. This tool assigns scores to programs according to various criteria such as the number of instructions, the number of reads from the stack (for comparing the quality of register spilling), or the numbers of various other classes of instructions affected by optimizations of interest. New criteria can be added using a simple plug-in system. If the binaries generated by different compilers are assigned different scores, the input program is considered interesting, and it is reduced to a minimal test case using an off-the-shelf program reducer (C-Reduce).

This automated process often results in small, simple examples of missed optimizations: optimizations that compilers should be able to perform, but that they failed to apply for various reasons. Gergö found previously unreported missing arithmetic optimizations, as well as individual cases of unnecessary register spilling, missed opportunities for register coalescing, dead stores, redundant computations, and missing instruction selection patterns. Several of these missed optimization issues were reported and fixed in the GCC, Clang, and CompCert compilers. An article describing this work is currently under review, and work is in progress on other binary analysis techniques that can find further missed optimizations.

Towards a verified compilation stack for concurrent programs

Participants : Jean-Marie Madiot, Andrew Appel [Princeton University] .

The verified compiler CompCert compiles programs from C to assembly while preserving their semantics, thus allowing formal reasoning on source programs, which is much more tractable than reasoning on assembly code. It is however limited to sequential programs, running as one thread on one processor. Jean-Marie Madiot is working to extend CompCert to shared-memory concurrency and to provide users with techniques to reason and prove properties about concurrent programs.

Concurrent Separation Logic is used to reason about source programs and prove their correctness with respect to a “concurrent permission machine”. The programs are compiled by a concurrency-aware version of CompCert. As of 2017, this has been done for the x86 architecture only.

This project is a continuation of a collaboration with Andrew Appel's team at Princeton University. Appel's team has been working for several years on the “Verified Software Toolchain” project, which provides users with tools to establish properties of sequential programs. Jean-Marie Madiot has been extending the program logic to shared-memory concurrency and developing a new proof of concurrent separation logic that is both formalised and usable in this setting. A paper has been submitted and rejected and is being improved.

Jean-Marie Madiot is now also working on a more general adaptation of CompCert to the reasoning principles of concurrency, and started a collaboration to adapt it to architectures other than x86 (see Section 7.3.4).

Verified compilation of Lustre

Participants : Xavier Leroy, Timothy Bourke [team Parkas] , Lélio Brun [team Parkas] , Pierre-Évariste Dagand [team Whisper] , Marc Pouzet [team Parkas] , Lionel Rieg [Yale University] .

The Velus project of team Parkas develops a compiler for the Lustre reactive language that generates CompCert Clight intermediate code and is proved correct using the Coq proof assistant. A paper describing the Velus compiler and its verification was presented at the conference PLDI 2017 [20]. Xavier Leroy contributed to the verification of the final pass of Velus, the one that translates from the Obc object-oriented intermediate language of Velus to the Clight C-like, early intermediate language of CompCert. The correctness proof of this pass captures the shape of memory states during execution using formulas from separation logic. The separation logic assertions for CompCert memory states used in this proof come from a library that Xavier Leroy developed last year to help revise the proof of the “stacking” pass of CompCert, and that Timothy Bourke and Xavier Leroy later extended with a “magic wand” operator.


This occupation has a moderate probability of automation.

65.0% probability

of automation

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projected to 2026

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currently in the US

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US, median ($20.78 hourly)

What they do

Risk of automation

This occupation is 65.0% likely to be automated. It ranks 358 of 702 occupations analyzed (higher rank means higher likelihood).

People affected and economic value

In the US, 396,200 people have this job. They earn $43,220 per year on average (the mean annual wage). The occupation therefore represents $17,123,764,000 in annual economic value. The mean hourly wage for this occupation is $20.78.

Official growth forecast

This occupation is projected to grow 2.1% between 2016 and 2026. At this rate, there would be 404,600 people with this job at that time.

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Walden West blog post

When we were in science camp and we had a astronomy night and we talked about the galaxy and learned a lot about the planets.

What We Did

On astronomy night we learned about the stars and we talked about the galaxy we also talked about the planets which are: Venus,Earth,Neptune,Uranus,Saturn,Jupiter,Mercury and Mars. here is more about it

Did you know that the black hole is 4 million times bigger than than the sun? Did you know that GN-z11 is the oldest galaxy of comoving distance of 32 billion light years from earth? The word galaxy comes from the greek. Coma Berenices is approximately 60 million light-years away from Earth.

More than two thousand planets around other stars have been discovered in the Milky Way. just above the size of the moon to gas giants about twice as large as Jupiter have been discovered, out of which more than 100 planets are the same size as Earth. Closing

Astronomy is fun to learn about the most fun is learning about earth and other planets like mars and jupiter.

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Refractory ceramic fiber material is a kind of lightweight and efficient heat preservation heat insulation materials, compared with the traditional thermal insulation material, it has the following advantages:

1.Ceramic fiber lining low bulk density: ceramic fiber lining lighter than light insulating brick lining by more than 75%, from 90% to 95% lighter than the lightweight castable lining as the fiber lining can greatly reduce furnace steel structure of the load, prolong the service life of the furnace body

2.Low thermal capacity means the kiln in the operation of reciprocating absorb less heat, warming faster at the same time, greatly reduce the energy consumption of furnace temperature control operation, especially for reheating furnace of the furnace and furnace play a very significant energy saving effect

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Azica Records is a renowned American record label based in Cleveland, Ohio. The label takes a fresh look at defining musical excellence in classical and jazz compact discs.

Azica Records is driven by an unswerving desire for accuracy in every detail, Azica cross-fertilizes traditional classical and jazz recording techniques to mould a distinctive, new profile that heightens honesty and integrity in the finished product. Azica truly captures an aural snapshot of the performance, and invites the listener to take a discerning look. When Azica records its outstanding artists, the performance is enhanced by the presence and immediacy of the concert venue.

Azica Records’ latest release features the recordings of renowned guitarist and Grammy Award-winner Jason Vieaux. His album, Play,  celebrates his 20th anniversary as a performer by featuring the Spanish, Mexican, South American, Cuban, French, and American classics that Vieaux has found to be universal audience favourites over the past two decades.


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Sep 9, 2008

I see London, I'm in France

A trip was organized by Great Dixter (Thank you!!!) for Mark and myself to visit a garden called Kerdalo, in the Brittany region in France. We caught a ferry from England which took us on a 5 hour trip across the Channel to Roscoff. Roscoff was a small port town that had such charm with lots of stone architecture and small cobbled streets.While maneuvering through the small villages and towns to reach Kerdalo, I saw these boats planted up in one of the rivers. I thought that it was a really nice touch, very unexpected.There are crop fields that seem to be everywhere you look. Artichokes were the most exciting with there globular heads swaying back and forth in strong winds.Once they start to bloom, worry not, they are then sold as cut flowers like I had seen in Roscoff. Finally, after a few wrong turns and many misunderstood traffic signs later we pulled onto some back roads that led us to Kerdalo. Kerdalo has a rich history having been started in 1965 by the gardener and painter Peter Wolkonsky. The house was built in a valley that encompasses 45 acres of land. Kerdalo is centered around the manor house, which used to be an old farmhouse, which is all situated in a valley.

The gardens are composed of terraces, fully visible from inside the house at the back, a formal garden around the house and in front, natural springs which feed a series of lakes, ponds, and pools. There are meadows, an Auaucaria araucana meadow(!!), streams filled with ferns and Gunneras, and architectural gems hidden throughout. These little buildings were all created and built by Peter Wonkonsky.

The garden is laid out wonderfully and is run now by his daughter Isabelle Vaughan and her husband Timothy.

A view of the historic dovecote. This is a view, from above, of the Jardin des Quatre Carres, or Garden of the Four Squares. Something that I really enjoyed was the fact that no visitors are allowed to walk in this area, which forces you to really take it all in and appreciate it rather than people walking through it and spoiling the view. It created a feeling of desire....

This part of the garden is composed of squares of planting beds surrounded by turf and squares set with stones in geometric patterns. This whole area is enclosed in a stone wall which lets the visitors eye extend to the gardens beyond, which are planted in a more naturalistic style, bringing your eyes to rest at the lake at the bottom.
The formal garden beds designed to be at their best in summer.The plantings are made up of strokes of whites, blues, yellows, and purples.These are primarily from Romneya coulteri, Geranium 'Roxanne', Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam', Allium sphaerocephalum, Melianthus major, Hakonechloa macra 'Aurea',Festuca glauca, Phlox paniculata, and Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning Light'. The Boxwood also acts as structure within the garden beds. Here you have the stone buildings which were erected by Peter, where he designed and created the ornamentation inside.
Inside there are intricate murals made of shells and stone of all shapes and sizes.
Wonderfully executed.
The intricate detail of the animals inside such as this bird,
monkey, and
goat. Each piece was unique and demanded its own time for attention.

Here you have the full view of the house, with its amazing stonework, with the steps leading into the garden of the four squares. This is a pencil sketch of the back of the manor house, where the terraces are planted with lots of exotic and rare plants. There was a Shefflera impressa, Acacia pravissima and Puya alpestris. I was really excited while doing this sketch and bird crap happened to land on it, hence the brown smudges. Is it a sign?!This is one shot from inside the house of the stairs, which transported me to another place. I felt as if I was in a Giorgio d Chirico painting, a place of dreams, soft light, and perspective. A sketch for the thank you to Isabelle, the owner.

There is an area called the Golden Heath at Kerdalo, that just seems to light up once the setting sun hits it.

At the lake you are mesmerized by the large foliage of Gunnera manicata and the intense jewel tones of the blooms of the Hydrangea. The reflection in the water held my eyes for a long time. The blooms are so small and intricate changing in color from pinks to purples to the most vivid blues, all while the gentle giant Gunnera foliage extend outward to greet you. And from inside the Gunnera you have an even more intense blue piercing through the woodlands on the other side. I will always fall for a beautiful blue anywhere.
There were so many beautiful areas in the garden that it was impossible to share them all, hopefully a link to all other photos will be in place......
Once you come to the bottom of the valley that Kerdalo sits in you are treated to a view of the town Tredarzec from across the river Jaudy. This is the view up the river towards the bridge. I found a piece of charcoal on the ground and just got inspired, or was it the wine.............
After Kerdalo we went towards the coast to where we were staying, which was right on the coast(o.k. it was really just a 2 minute walk), and it is probably the craggiest coast I have ever seen. All you hear are the waves crashing into the rocks...
This is a house that is right on the coast , could you imagine living here?
Now I take you to Crech ar Pape, Isabelle's other garden. To be here in this garden was a complete delight and shock to all of my senses. It was like a cubist dream, a garden of shapes and textures with the ingredients of control and chaos fighting it out. I am still in awe of it. This is the view of the entry into the garden from the guest cottage. The garden was designed around the base of a Celt design. You would never know that in the French countryside, right on the coast, there is a garden that exists like this. The whole garden is made up of a series of rooms, with the walls being Laurelis nobilensis, or Bay Laurel. There are alot of clipped shrubs such as Boxwood, Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Variegata', Hebe parviflora 'Angustifolia' which relinquishes control to the herbaceous perennials to Hakenechloa macra and H. macra 'Aurea', Anemone x hybrida, Agapanthus and lots of self sowers such as Verbena bonariensis and Erigeron karvinskianus.
The garden gave so many views from so many different angles I didn't know where to stop to take it all in. The plants seemed to walk and tuck themselves into tight little spaces between shrubs. This photo is only about 5 feet away from where the one above it was taken and look at the difference. The roof of the guest cottage is so sharp in comparison to all of the soft circular forms that fall below it. This is a detail of the stone pavers, which came from the streets in France when they started to pave the roads. I am sure this detail is very useful in getting the wheelbarrow to the other parts of the garden. See all the Erigeron karvinskianus nestled in between the pavers. This takes us into the next part of the garden which is a large circular room, again a case study in shape and form with color to pull it all together. You can see the urn in the back which acted as the center, or focal point, of the first garden room which is rectangular. Notice the pavers and the subtle tones of blue and green. I would be very excited to see this garden in the winter with a light dusting of snow. Isabelle was saying that there used to be alot more plants in here but as Peter gets older, he has been simplifying the planting by removing some and leaving the grasses and shrubs. A garden is never done...
Here is a boxwood hedge, just walking itself up, or is it down, the steps. Where would you see such a thing?!
This was another discovered area for me which was right off the main house, which that is the library straight ahead. It is such a contradiction, which I find fascinating, that it blurs between chaos and order. Notice how well the Agapanthus and Crocosmia form a burst of color in small pockets.

What you thought was a pool of water from afar actually turned out to be a sunken seating pit occupied by communities of self sowers and creepers.

The vines on the walls were clipped into the shape of two elephants joined together by holding their trunks.

I have nothing to say, just look at that.......
Needless to say, I have truly been inspired to do more.
This is the view from the guest cottage with Cotinus coggygria in the background. Never really thought about this shrub much but I think my mind has been changed...

France was truly an experience, both in plants and in art. It has really inspired me in many ways. I leave you with a tired Agapanthus gently leaning against the front door at Kerdalo........


Title Of Paper:
Optimization of the Neurons and Layers Structure of the Neural Network Using the Differential Evolution Algorithm to Identify Banking System Defrauders
Author's Name :  Esmail latifi , Ehsan Gholami
KeyWords:  Fraud Detection, Difference Evolution Algorithm, Neural Network, Credit Cards
Pages:  9 -27
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Year: 2017

The e-commerce growth has created great opportunities for world trade. It has also provided threats to banks and financial and credit institutions. One of the major challenges faced by financial institutions and banks is fraud. In financial fraud, issues such as credit card fraud, fraud in e-banking, and money laundering have attracted many concerns. The importance of using fraud detection systems has been addressed by various aspects of financial organizations. In the proposed methods, the combination of classifiers is less used, and a classification cannot provide a complete coverage of the problem space due to the imbalance of card transactions. In this research, a proposed method is applied for detecting fraud in bank credit cards through optimizing the neurons and layers structures in the neural network by using differential evolution algorithm. The proposed approach is simulated in the Matlab to nine datasets related to a Brazilian bank that includes frauds on bankcard transactions. The computational results show that the calculated cost function in the proposed method is lower than the basic method of the neural network and also has a better detection rate.

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Australian Minister Praises ‘Beautiful’ Jakarta Street Food after State Lunch Treat

Jakarta Street food is obviously not the kind of meal to serve an official state guest, but it was a choice that Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita went with after he hosted a meeting with Australian counterpart the Hon. Steven Ciobo, who was apparently impressed by the food.

Enggartiasto took Ciobo, the Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, who is known for his willingness to explore different cuisines, to eat lunch at a street-side seafood restaurant Wiro Sableng 212 in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta on Wednesday, Sept. 20.

After dining, Ciobo, talking to reporters said the meal was ‘beautiful.’ His favorite dish of the day, he said, was a chargrilled pomfret and stir fried dewa leaves with green chili.

“It was absolutely delicious. It was such a beautiful meal and the flavor is very authentic in Indonesia,” he said, as quoted by the Jakarta Post.

The two ministers who were both accompanied by a few of their respective country delegates, were also served chargrilled crab, crab with salted egg, grilled prawns, fried squid, stir-fried beansprouts with salted fish and stir-fried kangkung.

For Ciobo, it was his third visit to Jakarta this year. In his previous visit he visited a small family-owned noodle shop, he said.

“You know, the best way to have a good understanding of a culture is to sit down and to eat the local food,” he said.

The minister visited the city to talk with Enggartiasto on the negotiation progress of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA).


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2 Therapeutic Optometrist
Dr. Diana Driscoll Therapeutic Optometrist Special Interest in Disorders of Connective Tissue

3 Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (defective collagen resulting in loose joints, fragile and leaky vessels, permeable blood-brain-barrier) Autonomic dysfunction (“POTS”: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), also known as dysautonomia Mast cell disease CCSVI (treated with angioplasty) One brain lesion, and developing symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

4 Overlap between Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
More people with EDS go on to develop MS than in the general population. There is a times increased prevalence of EDS in MS patients compared to the general population (“Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and multiple sclerosis: a possible association” – PMID )

5 Clinical Trial (NCT ): “Vascular Fundus Changes in Patients With High Probability of Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI)” Could CCSVI cause a back-up of venous blood that could show up in the ocular fundus, not only given credence to CCSVI, but possibly acting as an inexpensive screening tool for potential CCSVI patients?

6 Normal fundus – note optic nerve, macula, arteries, veins, 2/3 A/V ratio is average, fairly smooth caliber, especially of veins.

7 Internal Jugular Vein Capillaries of the retina Central Retinal Vein
Superior Ophthalmic Vein Cavernous Sinus Inferior & Superior Petrosal Sinuses Sigmoid Sinus Internal Jugular Vein

8 O.S. and O.D. 53 yr old female with CCSVI
Note tortuous and beaded vein in O.D. ; poor A/V ratio in both eyes Not unlike Dr. Simka’s research with OCT – one eye is worse.

9 Female, age 47, Same eye; note venous irregularity in caliber, stenosis, and see how narrow arteries are. Consider the perfusion coefficient – venous stenosis leading to inability to get oxygenated arterial blood into brain and retina?

10 42 yr old female – quite disabled
42 yr old female – quite disabled. Ignore large vitreous floater and fundus issues related to myopia. Small arteries and veins. 1) is this poor perfusion the reason so many CCSVI patients notice improved vision immediately upon angioplasty? 2) is this a stroke waiting to happen? 3) If this is what perfusion looks like in her fundi, what does perfusion look like in her brain?

11 Cavernous Sinus Engorgement of the cavernous sinus, applying pressure to some of these cranial nerves (intermittently) may be an indication of CCSVI (we’d see symptoms wax and wane).

12 Symptoms would include partial and intermittent paresis of an eye muscle, causing temporary diplopia, change in depth perception when looking at different angles, sinus or eye pain. Take paralysis of muscles and absence of sensation, and dial it back to partial, intermittent, episodic and even positional symptoms. May develop into a venous stasis retinopathy secondary to a low level cavernous sinus “thrombosis”. PMID: “Cavernous sinus thrombosis elicited by a central retinal vein venous stasis retinopathy” IIIn: Oculomotor nerve: damage can cause the eye to go down and out, lid may droop (ptosis), pupil may be a bit larger on that side; IVn: Trochlear nerve: innervates the superior oblique – damage can make it more difficult to look down, and the patient may have vertical diplopia (double vision) V1n: Ophthalmic nerve. First branch of the trigeminal nerve. Sensory nerve of the cornea, ciliary body, and iris; to the lacrimal gland and conjunctiva; to the part of the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity; and to the skin of the eyelids, eyebrow, forehead and nose. V2n: Maxillary nerve: Second branch of the trigeminal nerve. It comprises the principal functions of sensation from the maxillary, nasal cavity, sinuses, the skin between the palpebral fissure and the mouth, the palate and subsequently that of the mid-face VIn: Abducens nerve: controls the lateral rectus – may have difficult turning the eye temporally. (SO4 LR6 All the Rest 3) Not a true “thrombosis”, but a “stenosis”. I experience pulsatile vision, especially in a.m. with conj injection that is not reversable with meds. I also notice intermittent and partial diplopia

13 “Head Circumference Growth in Children With Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Who Develop Dysautonomia Later in Life” (NCT ) Retrospective analysis of head circumferences of EDS patients who developed dysautonomia later in life indicated that 100% of study participants had External Communicating Hydrocephalus in the first 15 months of life (prior to closure of the sutures of the skull). Clinical trial with Ehlers-Danlos patients and how it may relate to Multiple Sclerosis Sense of pressure in your head? Occipital headache or neckache, radiating to the tops of your shoulders? Squishy ears/Eustachian tubes? Do you have autonomic dysfunction?

14 Compared to % of normal, CDC 2008
Hypothesis: “Benign External Hydrocephalus” is not benign at all. Many neurological symptoms in these patients, including delayed motor development, tremors, cataplexy, delayed speech, stuttering, etc. Do M.S. patients have a “low-level” of high ICP also? If not from birth, when and why did it start? What symptoms can it cause? Decreased cerebral blood flow secondary to the resulting cerebrovascular resistance when venous or CSF outflow is inhibited. Cerebral blood flow is equal to the cerebral perfusion pressure divided by the cerebrovascular resistance.

15 Quick review of CSF dynamics
Acetazolamide may have a place in MS tx: is used to treat ischemic strokes, which often causes brain swelling. Even TIA’s can cause brain swelling. How it has been helping patients with dysautonomia and Ehlers-Danlos (and how they often develop MS) Acetazolamide. What is missing?

16 Mast cell disease Causes leaky, weak, varicose vessels when they release: histamine, tryptase, prostaglandins, leukotrienes and cytokines. We know mast cells are related to M.S. “Elevated mast cell tryptase in cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients.” PMID: “Mast cells, T cells, and inhibition by luteolin: implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of M.S.” PMID: “Human mast cells stimulate activated T cells: implications for M.S.” PMID:

17 Abnormal mast cells in mast cell disease:
Lungs, liver, GI tract (gluten intolerance, IBS anyone?), lymph nodes, skin, kidneys, eyes (granulomatous uveitis, pars planitis, incredible dryness and itching), and the BRAIN. Triggers for mast cell degranulation include: heat, exercise, hormones, positive or negative emotions or stress, certain foods, their colorings/flavorings, alcohol, caffeine, certain smells, etc. Tying it all together:

18 Change collagen 1 to collagen 3, causing varicosities and CCSVI.
In brain: brain fog, dementia, changes in personality, bipolar presentation (my hypothesis), extreme fatigue. Change collagen 1 to collagen 3, causing varicosities and CCSVI. Mast cells love to hide out in the CHOROID PLEXUS Waste products accumulate around the brain due to poor drainage of venous blood and CSF (and increased production of CSF), thus stimulating the inflammatory cascade. Dr. Sclafani, Dr. Gabbiani. Thank you for pics. Choroid plexus mast cells degranulate, stimulating production of CSF. (Now we have increased production with poor drainage, and possible CCSVI with poor venous drainage).

19 what is happening to the arachnoid villi,
Result: Patients with slightly high levels of CSF and venous blood stagnation We’ve tied together: mast cell disease, reasons for CCSVI to occur and involve the conversion of collagen 1 to collagen 3; why BBB is leaky, what is happening to the arachnoid villi, the cause of granulomatous uveitis and pars planitis in M.S. patients, why M.S. symptoms can wax and wane, the cause of extreme fatigue and brain fog/dementia, G.I. symptoms, numerous other ocular symptoms; Cause of optic neuritis Arachnoid villi, which would normally help drain the CSF, are damaged not only by infection, viruses and viral antibodies, but by long term high CSF pressure. Due to the perfusion pressure, these patients have difficulty getting fresh, oxygenated blood into their brains.

20 Intertwined with neurons, axons, myelin and brain capillaries
Astrocytes: Intertwined with neurons, axons, myelin and brain capillaries During development, they induce endothelial cells to form tight junctions (BBB) Pro-inflammatory cytokines are produced by T-cells, astrocytes and microglial cells. After cytokine release, immune cells invade the brain and activate astrocytes, which results in apoptosis and gliosis. Compromise of BBB fluid in interstitial space vasogenic cerebral edema increase in ICP collapse in brain capillaries arrest of cerebral perfusion damage to astrocytes, damage to neurons and myelin Acetazolamide – can help reduce this cycle by decreasing fluid in the interstitial space, decreasing cerebral edema, decreasing ICP by decreasing CSF production (and is a mild diuretic), decrease cerebral perfusion.

21 Final Considerations Should we screen M.S. patients for EDS (90% are never diagnosed). Consider a trial of acetazolamide to reduce ICP for symptom reduction. Consider acetazolamide prior to CCSVI angioplasty to allow influx of oxygenated blood into the brain, potentiating the effects of angioplasty. Consider mast cell disorders in M.S. patients. Because they may not have cutaneous signs, a trial with H1 and H2 inhibitors would be fast and inexpensive. Anyone who may have mast cell disorders need to be pretreated with H1 and H2 inhibitors, and perhaps PPI’s, Sodium Cromolyn, and low level steroids prior to angioplasty. Consider patient rest and avoidance of mast cell triggers as vital treatment protocol post-angioplasty, as the procedure itself may cause mast cell degranulation. Risk of anaphylaxis with general anesthesia and/or radiocontrast media with mast cell disorders (release of tryptase) New study – will likely use multiple centers Theory on cause and tx of optic neuritis Examples of mastocytosis causing change in collagen, cutis laxa Cutis laxa patients with idiopathic anaphylaxis Need change in criteria for mastocytosis Acetazolamide reduces brain edema (ex: in areas after a stroke). With constant alteration of CSF pressure, brain edema is possible. The Elephant Study Answering many objections to CCSVI: Cytokines influence HPA axis – as a hormone Venous sheathing – what I believe that is Why rapid rise in CSF causes transient flushing New proposed treatment for pars planitis and uveitis in M.S. patients

22 IR’s: if in doubt, always use what you KNOW works. 

23 For more information, all clinical trials, handouts, videos, please go to Thank you Diana Driscoll, O.D.

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Robyn Nisbet
Tuesday, Nov 14 2017
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
$45 Suggested Donation
Where does the impetus to dance come from? How do we transmit movement ideas to one another? How do we experience dance performance as the performer or as an audience member?
We are visual, we are aural, we are verbal, we are emotional, we are physical, we are rhythmic, we are sentient, and we are certainly permeable. For this dance workshop, we will focus on our musical bodies, our sensory systems of learned and ever changing pathways, our bodies as musical scores. As we tap into our musical bodies, we can investigate performance, where we may feel limited or constricted, where we feel expressive or expansive, and where we feel true.
We will play with breath phrasing, sensory work, mimesis, sounding, singing, and some fun choreography.   For the final part of class, we will do some improvisational work with musical composer and guitarist, George Karpasitis.
During this four-hour workshop we will take breaks as necessary. Please feel free to bring snacks.
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User Interface Design Approaches in Learning Environments

User Interface Design Approaches in Learning Environments

Manjit Singh Sidhu (Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-764-5.ch003

Interface design provides the practical information for the multimedia author to develop well-designed and usable interfaces. However, the design of the user interface for any learning package involves many interacting concerns. The developer of such a package needs to consider the tasks to be achieved using the particular learning package. Although most learning package developers may use their own choices to develop the package, various approaches to user interface design has been proposed by standardization bodies (e.g. ISO, CEC/CENELEC, BSI) to provide the basic mechanisms for developing, promoting and imposing standards in the user interface in designing learning packages (Hutchins 1987; Ianella, 1992, Pangalos, 1993; Deborah, 1997; Plass, 1998; and Carter 2002). Unfortunately, many learning package developers do not use a common standard user interface design when designing a learning package. This Chapter reviews some approaches that are available to learning package developers and suggestions for user interface design.
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User Interface Design Approaches

A discipline that is concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human is termed as human computer interaction (HCI). The user interface is an interface developed to enable HCI. Using the definition of the user interface as a communication channel between the user and the functional elements of the computer (Furnes and Barfield, 1995; Marchionini, 1991 and Waterworth, 1992, Plass, 1998), human-computer interaction can be seen as a system with three components: a computer/application, an interface, and a human user subsystem as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Definition of user interface (Plass, 1998)

According to this model (Figure 1) the interface subsystem serves two functions, firstly allocates user input to internal representations of the application and secondly internal representations of the application to output that is understandable to the user. The kind of input and output modes employed by the interface subsystem determines the type of the interface. For example a text based system uses only written verbal communication mode, whereas a direct manipulation system allows the user to manipulate objects and use visual, verbal and auditory representations of the systems state (Plass et al., 1998).

In general, although most components of technology assisted problem-solving (TAPS) packages can be considered part of the user-interface in one way or another, it is useful to distinguish those aspects that are clearly concerned with communication between the package and the user. This includes the actual presentation of the information, as well as the acceptance of user-input. Because the general standard communication with the student is primarily done through the natural/high level computer language i.e. English, the package must have the ability to understand the student’s response and generate text of its own. There is a strong argument for user interfaces that include not only text, but also visually exciting graphics and the ability for the student to interact with this graphical environment (Swaine, 1992).

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By Muhammad Zamir Assadi | | Updated: 2018-01-07 15:13
An employee counts renminbi and dollars at a bank in Qionghai, South China's Hainan province. [Photo/VCG]

Pakistan, an all-weather friend of China and major country involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, has formally announced the use of Chinese yuan (CNY) for bilateral trade, financial transactions and investment activities including imports and exports.

According to the comprehensive policy announced by the State Bank of Pakistan, public and private enterprises on both sides are given a green light as all financial activities can be denominated in CNY per mutual consent.

This step taken by Pakistan shows that measures for the internationalization of CNY adopted by China, the world's second largest economy, are gaining more support and trust in the international community, encouraging the use of Chinese currency in trade activities.

The internationalization of Chinese currency, accelerated in 2009 following the establishment of the dim sum bond marketby China, has been actively gaining trust for trade and financial transactions in CNY.

The number of countries using CNY as a trade currency replacing or serving as an alternative to the US dollar is also increasing, with the BRI paving the way in its fifth year for infrastructural development in dozens of countries.

China's opening-up policies and deepening of economic reforms have also convinced the International Monetary Fund to add CNY to the special drawing rights basket following the US dollar, Japanese yen and euro.

This decision has pushed forward efforts to turn CNY into a global trade monetary unit by pushing back US dollars.

Such announcements are also expected by oil producing countries, following their big allocation of oil exports to China by negating US dollars in clearing their bills.

The increasing trend of using CNY by various countries in bilateral trade is a clear signal that the yuan, also known as the renminbi, is growing as a stable and viable currency that may be trusted for economic activities.

As far as the decision of Pakistan is concerned, it shows the country has geared up all its efforts to cultivate economic benefits in regional and international economic development.

The increasing bilateral trade between Pakistan and China and the volume of investments under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which has reached $57 billion, has opened up possibilities for replacing US dollars with CNY in bilateral trade.

CPEC, a flagship project of BRI, will link the southwestern port city of Gwadar in Baluchistan province with the western region of China.

The decision will make way for the simplification of all CPEC projects as the long-term plan for this economic corridor has also been announced with the mutual consent of Pakistani and Chinese authorities in September 2017.

The long-term plan will deepen the long-term strategic and economic relationship between the two countries by pushing forward CPEC. At the same time, it will attract other countries to invest in the corridor based on generating economic prosperity not only for Pakistan but also the whole region.

The utilization of CNY under CPEC will also encourage other countries to participate in this socioeconomic partnership, which is already tackling various shortcomings in Pakistani sectors including energy, railways and infrastructure.

The regulatory framework announced by the central bank of Pakistan is based on helping and settling bilateral trade in terms of expanding financial and economic cooperation. This will also ease pressure on the country's foreign exchange reserves.

This economically beneficial decision by the Pakistani government is considered an additional option for tackling low foreign exchange reserves, and will certainly provide relief to the economy as well as improve the economic indicators.

The equation of the Pakistani rupee and Chinese yuan settlement has become significant in trade affairs with China, as Pakistani imports from China have also exceeded $10 billion.

It is estimated that Pakistan's payment of import bills in yuan will gradually decrease its dependence on US dollars.

The development has led to predictions that Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves will be accumulating mostly with CNY in the coming years.

Recently, Pakistani currency was devalued against the US dollar to a current rate of 111 rupees to $1, but the situation will be changed with the passage of time.

By practically implementing the rupee-yuan settlement, the currency devaluation may stop with increasing bilateral trade between the two countries and the enhancement of investments in CPEC projects.

The solid measures by both countries in the bilateral currency exchange and its usage in trade activities would also facilitate the free flow of capital and legitimate funds in both countries.

Muhammad Zamir Assadi is a Pakistani journalist writing on various international issues. He was also a China-South Asia and South East Asia press center media fellow for 2017.

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Puppetoons was a series of animated puppet films made in Europe in the 1930s and the United States in the 1940s by Hungarian born animator George Pal. They are memorable and notable for being one of the first uses of stop motion animation and for the use of replacement animation, using a series of different hand-carved wooden puppets for each part of the puppets bodies. The animations were first made as short films to promote Philip's Radio and other big name items sold in Europe at the time. Once moving to the U.S. in the 1940s, George Pal created and produced dozens of Peppetoon films for Paramount Pictures. Such as Tulips Shall Grow, Jasper and the Haunted House, John Henry, Olio for Jasper, and the famous animation of Tubby the Tuba.

Along with Noveltoons, ComiColor and Color Classics, Puppetoons have been in the public domain, allowing the crew of Shining Time Station to use in the television series for the song segments.

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Cast: Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Barun Chanda, Adil Hussain; Music: Amit Trivedi; Direction: Vikramaditya Motwane

There are a few scenes in Lootera where the guy and girl simply look at each other.  They are not lovers. They are on the verge of falling in love, so there’s a romantic tension between them. They don’t say anything. He looks at her, with a mild mischievousness peppered through his thin lip smile. She looks at him with obvious sexual energy. She is openly in love with him although he is not sure. They look at each other for a long time. Really long. And in the end, they don’t say anything. The scene ends.

These, and other such scenes in the film, are the ones that repose your faith in the craft called cinema. The film is a medium where emotions and subtlety can be conveyed through visuals. Words are a burden. Music is a burden. Music amplifies moods, which is an anti-thesis of subtlety. And words always ruin them. Words are also often the resort of a lazy writer, and an ineffectual actor.

In Lootera, Vikramaditya Motwane takes less than three people and tells a sweet and heart-breaking love story. He doesn’t rely on sweeping visuals or grandiose music. Although Amit Trivedi makes abortive Wagnerian attempts in some early scenes, Motwane mercifully calms him down later in the film. Except these jarring aberrations, and a few sweet and beautiful montage songs, the music department thankfully remains quiet.

So it’s left to these three or four people to carry the film, which is not a crown in today’s standards. To compensate Motwane also uses mise en scène, a technique where the lights, sets and other natural elements are used to define or carry forward the story. We get close up, waist-up scenes and sepia lighting that carry the period feel. The girl’s bright sarees transmit the seductive energy, eagerness and longing whilst the guy’s muted colours relay the reluctance and the hidden mystery. Rains play havoc in their moods. In the second half, where their lives have been twisted, snow resembles the stark barrenness. The weather is so closely and ardently filmed that we feel the cold when snow is seen in the frames. With his skilfully crafted visuals, Motwane attempts to transcend the mediocrity of the story and its transparent plot. And he is ably assisted by Sonakshi Sinha who adds flesh and blood to Pakhi with her deep, subtle and seductive performance and Barun Chanda who makes us ache for the hapless zamindar.

Above all else, it is Motwane’s vision that makes us arrested in our seats. We admire his care for delicate craftsmanship, his faith in mise en scène and his reckless attitude towards lengthy scenes where nothing really happens. And his ability to make the guy and the girl look at each other for long durations. There is one instance where I actually clocked; 12 seconds for the guy and 5 seconds for the girl. Some of today’s filmmakers like Hari would have edited in 25 frames in that duration. Vikramadiya Motwane gives you just two frames in 17 seconds. And you are not bored.


Robin Thicke recently appeared on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,' and together with The Roots, he remixes his hit single 'Blurred Lines' in an innovative performance for the ages.

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The Roots will go down in history as one of the greatest bands ever. Their discography speaks for itself: Ten studio albums, a Grammy Award and a platinum certification. But it's moments like this three-and-a-half minute video that will forever cement the group's legacy in musical lore.


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The tarot is a set of cards (usually having seventy 8 cards in total) that is utilized for the foretelling of an individual’s future. Tarot is also referred to as tarocchi, tarock or similar names. The cards are used in some countries such as Italy and France to play parlour tarot card games, however the more popular and popular usage of the cards is as a tool used for divinatory functions.

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Interview with Canthius Contributor Deirdre Maultsaid

Deirdre Maultsaid’s creative essays, poetry and stories have been published in The Barcelona Review (Spain), Canadian Women’s Studies, CV2, The Danforth Review, Other Voices, Pif (US), Prairie Fire, The Puritan, The Southern Cross Review (Argentina), and others. Her essay, “The Sun Knows What It Does” appeared in the anthology Double Lives on Mother-writers (McGill-Queens University Press). She teaches Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

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1. I read on your website that you have "spoken at interpersonal health conferences on the ways that creative writing can teach, amplify and beautify experience, and turn tragedy into renewal." Can you speak to this assertion and explain how creative writing can bring about healing?

I am not the only one to say that creative writing—reading it, writing it—can help make meaning out of suffering.  Medical schools do teach Medical Humanities courses. Writing uses literary devices and storytelling to play on our senses and help us to feel the vividness and immediacy of our physical and emotional reality. So, such writing helps us look at the human condition, then feel some sense of agency about our own experience and narrative, then feel part of the human community. Art can help us see other perspectives and truths: it is the connection with some greater meaning and the connection to other people that is nurturing and healing. For example, in my poem, “Someone Glimmering”, which explores mental illness and suicide, I blame no one and try to offer a different view.

2. The subject of "Derelict", one of your poems published in the first issue of Canthius, is a "soulless" man who is at once unable to free himself from his cultural roots and to feel a true connection to them. Both Claire and myself were really struck by this poem and your ability, as a woman writer, to articulate the man's dilemma. Can you discuss your inspiration for this poem and how you see it turning tragedy into renewal?

The subject of the poem is a composite of middle-aged men who I often see around Metro Vancouver. This kind of man seems to be drifting around the city, but is not a hipster (“tacos of pulled pork”), trend-savvy urbanite (“Seattle yacht”, “cubicle life”, Korean food cart), is not ironic and studied (“walk for a cure”). This man can’t find value in the people and life events that used to seem important: solitary walks, Elvis, homey cafes (Saskatchewan raisin pie instead of the “waitress” with ironic “pigtails”, talking about the date rape drug—“roofies”).  Where is the place for the man who is not self-aware? Is it his task to adapt to urban life? Does he have to move to a small town? Will “the love of a good woman” save him now?

3. In your opinion, what makes art feminist? In keeping with your belief in poetry's ability to heal, how do you see feminist art (specifically writing) bringing about healing and change in defiance of patriarchy?

Good questions! What is art? An intentional aesthetic illustration of ideas that plays on our senses and souls. A revelation. A provocation.

In my own view, feminism is the claim to the truth that women have moral, political and sexual agency and should have commensurate influence in the world. Feminists are those that speak that truth and influence social mores, culture, and public life.  Feminist art is an intentional creation, however ambiguous, troubling, challenging, pleasing, hideous!, that provokes, promotes or pokes at that truth. Like all art, feminist art helps us connect and be part of the evolving human community.

I try to explore, and am constantly preoccupied with exploring, the idea of agency. See, for example, my poem, “Shine on, you moons of Jupiter” or the poem “Washerwomen, Blessings”, first published in Canadian Women’s Studies.

4. Is “False Dilemma”, another poem published in issue one of Canthius, a feminist poem?

In “False Dilemma”, whether successfully or not, I have tried to braid together the concept of “black and white thinking” (false dilemma) with a symbolic West Coast mammal, the Orca, with its black and white colouring. The Shantymen in the poem, are men who wore dark pants and white shirts, and are a group that I associate with the West Coast, although these evangelists probably worked throughout rural Canada. Just because I am a woman and wrote the poem does not mean it is feminist, although because it portrays me, a woman, and my “personal” conflict with false dilemmas and my personal attempt to be mentally tough (“take me for a wild ride”), maybe it is feminist. Let the reader decide.

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Craft Vs. Design

Updated April 17, 2017

Some see craft as ancient forms of creating everyday objects through old arts--such as knitting, crochet, pottery, quilt-making and sewing--and others understand design to be concerned with graphics, interior decoration, architecture and fashion. However, a close look at their definitions and the studies that aim to differentiate the terms show that the similarities and differences are not easily identifiable and not necessarily opposed from each other.

Originally derived from the term "crseft," the current meaning of craft is defined by the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: "Since crafts include all activities that produce or modify objects by manual means, with or without the use of mechanical aids, such as looms or potters' wheels, the range of study is very broad." The word craft is both a noun in the sense that it describes a specific activity as defined previously, and it also is a verb in the sense that it defines the actions of taking part in that activity. Additionally, it is also said that craft has a second definition which is synonymous with "guild," meaning that it can be used to define a class or role of a person. From there comes the term "craftsmen."

Similar to the word "craft," the word "design" is both a noun and a verb that have similar definitions, yet different functions. As a noun, the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English defines design as "a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made." In other words, a design is the blueprint for an object, a product or a process. In contrast, as a verb, design is defined as "to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan" according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. While the verb defines the actions that lead towards the creation of a plan, the noun is the product of that action. University of Technology, Sydney, Ph.D. student Emily Howes studied the relationship between design and craft. When asked to define design, she considers it as "a process of conceiving, refining and fabricating a blueprint for something material or visual, like an object, building, graphic etc."

When looking at both definitions, we can see that craft and design are both processes and products. Both design and craft are actions that lead to the creation of either an object or a plan. Also, both design and craft are concerned with visuals, the beauty of the final products and their functionality.

While design's main aim is to solve a problem and create a product that is useful, art gallery owner D. Scott Patria argues that craft objects are not always utilitarian and that they merely make reference to a function but are not usable objects, such as is the case of a decorative teapot or a hung quilt, for example. Howes further adds to this by saying indie craft is defined as a "subcultural, amateur handicraft revival where traditional skills are twisted for a contemporary context" and "the indie craft movement can reclaim craft as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression." In other words, crafted products can have a meaning or message being their creation that goes beyond function, making them art objects rather that products, which is what design created.

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Marie-Pier Rochon has been writing since 2005. She has served as a writer at PlaceForPoeple and a newsletter writer for the Creative Sydney festival. Previously, Rochon also worked as a communications adviser for various Canadian federal agencies. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors in organizational communications from the University of Ottawa.