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LGBT network in profile
We are Together: LGBT network in profile
Together is ICAEW's inclusive community focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) issues. Our mission is to create an open, progressive and informed working environment to support ICAEW's employees and stakeholders. Check out our profiles below.
Grace Gayle
Jonathan Worrell
Marcia Dyce
Olivia Taylor
Polly Bull
Qayam Abdul
Richard Spencer
Sarah Hobbs
Grace Gayle (heterosexual)
Sexual orientation: Heterosexual
Why are you part of the Together Community?
It is important to me for so many reasons that I would need more character space! In my view if you want change, then you have to be a part of it. My true passion relates to intersectionality, which is about people identifying with overlapping categories of identity, experience, and what makes them who they are - and the importance in taking these into account. Something I was first introduced to at a Stonewall event in ICAEW!
I think it makes simple good sense for our society to promote positive attitudes and support for people who identify as LGBTQ+, who are human like everyone else! Two simple reasons include my faith as a Christian and as an Afro-Caribbean woman. If only because of these two things, sometimes (but not always) the assumption is very much that I think the opposite. I have a sincere and strong belief in people being treated and recognised for their humanity - not as a label - and that I think, I hope makes me an ally.
I have friends (and family), as well as my Church of England Reverend, who identify as LGBTQ+. This has meant I have witnessed homophobia in all sorts of varied and frightening ways, and more recently than I would even have imagined. Things are changing…but I have found that people's actions can sometimes be opposite to what is said.
What does it mean to you and how has it helped you?
I believe being an ally is to stand up, be counted and help support in making general attitudes as well as the workplace LGBTQ+ friendly. Most people don't care about who you are and just want to get the "job" done – and that's fine.
But there is an additional case for treating people fairly and not with judgement. Using inclusive language and professional behaviour is important. Stop and think before you speak, be honest, if you don't know - ask. No need to be friends with everyone but it does need to be fair. I've still got a lot to learn and I'm open to doing what I can.
As an ally of Together and the chair of Embrace, the internal diversity and inclusivity staff network, I've worked with the Social Media team on promoting positive ideas via Instagram – and also helped bring about a ½ day internal inclusive language workshop. These actions in their small ways, I really do hope have helped. I would never pretend to know what it means to be LGBTQ+ but if only for the two reasons of being a black woman and having a personal passion in being treated fairly, then I am happy to be counted as an ally.
Jonathan Worrell (gay)
LGBT+: Gay
Pronouns: He and Him
I helped form Together with a number of colleagues as we wanted to drive a culture at ICAEW that is open, inclusive and that celebrated difference.
I find it fascinating how diverse the LGBT+ community is. We all have different experiences that we can share and inspire others. I keep saying it but its true: "Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is tell your story!".
When you read a story that resonates with you, it has the ability to empower you – you might say: I feel different too!
The end goal is to create an environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
I am a relatively private person but one event happened recently that made me more determined to be more outspoken about being part of the LGBT+ community: my partner and I adopted a little girl. Whilst talking with social workers during the approval process - it became clear that in order for this amazing small human to be proud of her family unit, we must also be proud of who we are.
I think for many in the LGBT+ community being proud of who you are is a daily work in progress. We know that mental health can impact us disproportionately. But it is vital that we keep talking, sharing, reflecting and working to create a more inclusive world. That is why I am proud to be a part of Together. This has to be good for all of us.
Olivia Taylor (heterosexual)
To be part of the Together Community was a very easy decision for me to make. I strongly agree with equality and fair treatment in society of people who identify as LGBTQ+ - which essentially, already makes me an ally.
I first witnessed homophobia in upper school where it would be a common occurrence to hear 'impressions' or homophobic name calling. Having friends who identify as LGBTQ+ allowed me to have open conversations where they discussed some of the challenges they'd personally encountered. From that moment, I refused to sit back and claim that I support the movement, without doing anything about it – this is one of the main reasons I am an ally of the Together Community.
My view on allyship is acknowledging a need to make the workplace more LGBTQ+ friendly. I aim to talk positively and actively about LGBTQ+ and spreading the important message about equality.
It's very easy for me to sit and wish for the world to be kinder and more inclusive, but joining the Together Community has allowed me to educate myself, as well as lend my support to LGBTQ+ causes. It is something that I am passionate about, and I will continue to challenge the behaviour of people speaking and acting in a hurtful manner – this is where being an ally is so important.
I feel proud to be a part of a group that involves people of all different sexual orientations and gender identities.
Peter James (gay)
Sexual orientation: Gay
Pronouns: He/His
I was chair of PwC's LGBT Network in the mid 2000's and when I came to ICAEW I volunteered to help start a similar network internally. Working with Shaun Robertson we slowly built up a cadre of people and expertise which subsequent leaders have taken forward and developed as the Together Community. I am passionate about diversity and am proud to see how ICAEW has evolved internally and externally as a promoter and leader in diversity. It helps that as a legal services regulator it forms part of my job.
I came to terms with my orientation at University in 1975 ironically through studying the philosophy elements of my Law course. However at that time the Sexual Offences Act 1967 was less than a decade old and though now legal LGBT people and relationships were still frowned upon in society. When I joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1976 as an articled clerk I had to keep my authentic self very much under wraps and this placed me at times under ethical challenge as certain clients read between the lines and tried to influence my judgement based on that knowledge. I stood fast but it was not something I felt I could raise with my firm or indeed the institute.
Times changed in 1998 when Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse merged and a new culture defined different to that of the legacy firms which included "diversity". When all staff received an email inviting those interested to a gay group discussion with the HR partner it was a shock as the word "gay" had never before been seen in internal mail! It was a bit slow to get going but I found a ready openness in the new firm to embrace these values and I was active in the GALE network, later GLEE, until I left PwC in 2011 to join ICAEW.
The readiness of HR to accept my orientation and encourage Shaun and me to take forward a new network was refreshing and unlike PwC I felt I could be myself from day 1 at ICAEW. I have been able to talk openly about my relationship with Mark my partner of 30 years and my steps through gay adoption for which HR and Together helped define the HR policy. I have acted as secretary to the LGBT Professional Services Group since 2011 and this has enabled me to leverage for Together external activity and promote equality across ICAEW members and member firms.
ICAEW is a great place to work and I find the members of Together a strong empathetic group who not only help me emotionally but provide useful cross-Institute contact that enable me to do my job better and tick the collaboration box! In my experience and involvement with different industries I have found that the LGBT networks are the most passionate of the diversity groups and very often they provide the leadership for wider diversity within their organisations. Together is an excellent illustration of that trait.
I also feel proud to be a part of a group that involves people of all different sexual orientations and gender identities and is inclusive in its engagement with staff.
Polly Bull (queer/non-binary)
LGBT+: queer/non-binary
I have had mixed experiences of being queer in the workplace in the past, but thankfully ICAEW has always been inclusive and an environment in which I have felt happy to be myself. I wanted to embrace that feeling of acceptance in a supportive group, be visible and hopefully empower others to feel comfortable and included.
I am currently going through another "coming out" as a non-binary person which I have been working on for several years with mixed results. When I came out as a lesbian at 20, it wasn't easy but I felt like I didn't have to explain too much about it. Non-binary feels like a longer, more difficult conversation and I often don't have the courage or confidence, so just dodge it (hence the long-term project).
However, since joining the Together community I've become more confident in speaking about my gender identity. For me, non-binary means that I don't identify as particularly feminine or particularly masculine. I land somewhere in the middle and don't really feel gendered at all (almost agender). It's something that I've always experienced but I just didn't have the language for it when I was younger. I use the word queer to describe my sexual orientation because it feels like a very inclusive term that fits with my experience of being non-binary and my general outlook. Conversations with members of the Together community have empowered me to share these sides of myself more confidently and proudly.
Qayam Abdul (gay)
I joined the community in hope that I could make a difference. Not just to my colleagues but to also have a positive impact on myself. ICAEW Together community provides an open, inclusive and safe place to be yourself but to also share and explore ideas that will have a positive impact on all colleagues within ICAEW. I am passionate about individuals being able to be their true selves and that they should celebrate their differences as this not only creates a diverse workforce but also helps communities and society in general. Being part of the community is a small but a powerful step to helping create an environment that individuals can be their true selves both at work and hopefully outside work.
In order to answer what the community means to me I would need to be open about who I am. I have not come out to my family. For many reasons. This has caused me great pain, balancing my life between the home I was raised to the one I have made with my partner. However what I wanted to share was I have managed to make the two work for me for now. Yes it may seem that I am living two separate lives and you wouldn't be wrong but I have made them both fabulous and meaningful. It is important to know that coming out or not isn't the most important thing at least to me. To many it is and to many it would have been liberating and emotional, for me the most important thing is just to be me. My favourite colour is still blue, my mum is still my hero, astronomy and space still amaze me, baking is still one of my favourite hobbies and the stars in the night sky still make me smile, I have been too fond of them to be fearful of the dark. I haven't changed, I have just learned to adapt to my surroundings and make it work for me.
The Together community has provided a platform for me to be just that, myself. I have met the most wonderful people working at ICAEW and through the community. If it wasn't for them I would not be sharing this today, you helped me find a voice, more importantly a voice that I have learned to value and a voice I can use for those who may not have one and help them find theirs. Our stories we share is our power. We can use it to shape the world around us, and that's exactly what the Together community does. Together we can make a difference.
Richard Spencer (gay)
Location: CAH/London
Why I am here is summed up by this quote by Lilla Watson, Australian Visual Artist. "If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." It is reinforced for me by the murder of George Floyd. This was an absolute outrage, which got me thinking about the protests of the LGBTQ community.
My first Pride was in 1985. I was 22 and terrified. These were troubled years in the UK and bad ones to be LGBTQ. I was coming to terms with being gay and in my first year in London I had been beaten up twice, spat at, had a brick thrown at me and been asked to leave a restaurant for holding another terrified man's hand. The idea of marching... But I went.
It was the year the Welsh Miners came and joined our protest. I can remember thinking "they came to support us, people they had nothing in common with". The following year equal rights for the LGBTQ community was tabled at the Labour Party conference and got through largely because of the Mineworkers.
We did have something in common. We faced the full and violent force of the establishment. We were human beings in common cause.
Back then I never imagined that I would be able to get married or that I would enjoy the legal recognition and protections I have today. Chris and I have been together for nearly 20 years now and getting married in New York City hall on New Year's Eve in 2012 was the proudest moment of my life. All of this has been won for us by generations of LGBTQ people standing up and being counted always leaves me in awe and I will always honour them.
Prejudice, hatred and discrimination still persist and are institutionalised. Not just against the LGBTQ community but against all kinds of groups. 35 Prides later, when I march I hope I am standing up for the bullied, speaking out for the voiceless and protesting for those who cannot, regardless of what they look like, believe or who they fancy. Belonging to this community is very much part of this being in common cause to build a fair and just society and we are here working for that at ICAEW.
Sarah Hobbs (lesbian/intersex)
Coming out age: 28
LGBT+: Lesbian/Intersex
I came out as a lesbian four years ago – this was part of a longer journey to discover my true self. At the age of twenty-five I discovered that I had been born intersex. This started a whole host of questions and a voyage of self-discovery.
During my working life I have had/seen mixed experiences of LGBT+ within the office environment – some extremely positive, some indifferent and some awful. When I noticed that ICAEW had the Together Community I couldn't wait to be a part of it so I can help those around me feel supported, but also to highlight what great work ICAEW does in embracing diversity and being inclusive. It's really a pleasure to be part of such a forward thinking and progressive organisation.
Within my time at previous employers I hadn't felt comfortable about revealing/talking about my gender and sexual identity but knowing that ICAEW has the Together Community makes me feel more supported and willing to disclose and chat about It. The inclusivity of it all makes we want to help and support others who may be going or have gone through similar situations like myself – it's a really great support network.


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Microsporea
"Microsporea" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A class of parasitic FUNGI. Characteristics include spores that are spherical, oval, or tubular in shape and sporoplasm which is uninuclear or binuclear.
B01.300.360.500
Microsporeas
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Eukaryota [B01]
Fungi [B01.300]
Microsporidia [B01.300.360]
Microsporea [B01.300.360.500]
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Microsporidia
Microsporidia, Unclassified
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Microsporida
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The Tech Submit Campus Life Stories Campus Tips Seth Lloyd should not be teaching at MIT
Opinion guest column
Seth Lloyd should not be teaching at MIT
Seth Lloyd took money from Epstein. When will he be held accountable?
By Eleanor Graham Oct. 23, 2019
I often find myself required to make difficult decisions about my schedule. These decisions range from whether to take a light load and focus on research to whether to drop a technical class and explore the arts, among many broader questions about my graduation and future. Until this semester, however, I have never been asked to decide whether or not I am willing to learn from a man who knowingly took donations from a convicted pedophile.
When I saw Seth Lloyd's name on my registration, as the professor for 18.435 (Quantum Computation), I wanted to believe it was a scheduling error. Two weeks prior, the MIT administration had released a statement that the Institute had taken money from Jeffrey Epstein, with the money going to the Media Lab and Seth Lloyd. I knew he had taught the class in previous years, and I knew MIT could be slow with scheduling. Surely it was a holdover, something they hadn't had time to update after finding a last-minute replacement. Still, I stayed up late that night, reading and rereading Seth Lloyd's public apology on Medium. I decided to go to class with the hope that I'd find one of two things in the classroom: either a new professor, or a reformed Seth Lloyd.
We began our first day of class normally, even as Seth Lloyd stood at the front of the room. We went over the syllabus, raising our hands to let him know if we're course 6, course 8, course 18, course 15. Then he turned to us and said that he was about to talk about something that might be upsetting. "How many of you have heard of Jeffrey Epstein?"
One student in the front row didn't raise his hand. Seth Lloyd frowned at him. "I'm sorry. Some of this material may be shocking if you aren't aware of it, but it's important for you to hear."
There was no opportunity to leave the room. Even though Seth Lloyd recognized that this was a difficult conversation, he did not provide a safe way to exit the situation; just an assumption that whatever he had to say was more important than our own mental health and safety.
Let me be perfectly clear: there was nothing that Seth Lloyd could possibly have had to say that would be more important, not least of all what he ended up saying. The second he used his power as a professor to confine us in that classroom while he monologued for half an hour about his experiences with Jeffrey Epstein, any base that his apologies could possibly have rested on was eroded. There was no information that couldn't have been sent in an optional email to the class. This was a power play, pure and simple.
Everything that Seth Lloyd said in that classroom has remained private, even though much of it is shocking and informative. Seth Lloyd asked us not to share one small section near the end of the monologue, a section that I would characterize as vaguely positive and non-incriminating. I have followed this request. The rest of the speech was fair game, though nobody has taken him up on this until now.
"How many of you have read my apology on Medium?" Thinking of my sleepless night, I raised my hand. Most of the room kept their hands down. Seth Lloyd looked at us, bemused. "In my freshman advising seminar, everyone looked it up beforehand."
Seth Lloyd is advising freshmen. I don't think this fact has been widely publicized: Seth Lloyd is advising freshmen. The MIT administration has professed its supposed commitment to protecting freshmen from difficult situations. When it came to letting freshmen walk into a room during orientation and receive advice — yes, advice — from a man who visited Jeffrey Epstein in prison, they did nothing. They left incoming freshmen to anxiously read Seth Lloyd's apology on Medium, every last one of them.
No more polls of the class. It was time for the apology, the monologue, the narrative, whatever you want to call it. Like so many others implicated in this scandal inside and outside MIT, Seth Lloyd first met Epstein through his agent, John Brockman. Epstein became Seth Lloyd's research donor and then his friend.
When Epstein was first convicted in 2008, Seth Lloyd reached out to the women in his life for advice on what to do. His wife advised him not to take the money. He looked for a second opinion. His mother worked with at-risk youth in the prison system. Seth Lloyd said that of the students she worked with, the ones who received support were least likely to reoffend. It was unclear to me whether Seth Lloyd actually asked his mother about Epstein's specific case here. I'm assuming not. The idea that a multimillionaire was engaging in pedophilia because he was unsupported by society is laughable.
Still, with this advice in hand, Seth Lloyd decided to visit Epstein in prison to see if he had any intentions of reforming. He noted that by the time he visited Epstein, Epstein was already on partial house arrest, having used his power and status to talk his way out of staying in the prison proper. Seth Lloyd asked the question that he came to ask, and says that Epstein said the following: "I am going to do whatever I have to do not to go back to prison."
At the time, Seth Lloyd interpreted this as a statement of reform from a man that had been scared straight. Now, judging from the meaningful looks he gave the class and the resulting gasps, Seth Lloyd saw it as a harbinger of Epstein's eventual suicide in prison, a decade later. There's a simpler interpretation too: these were the words of a man who was determined to use his power in order to get away with his crimes.
After his release from prison, Epstein slowly returned to hosting conferences and making philanthropic donations. Seth Lloyd claimed that he was happy to see Epstein reintegrate with society and saw this philanthropy as Epstein paying his debt to society. He took Epstein's money, on two separate instances since Epstein's conviction, for two reasons. First, he was still funded by a grant from before Epstein's conviction, so he reasoned that his name was already associated with Epstein. Second, he wanted to do Epstein a favor and support his continued reform by allowing him to pursue philanthropy. He claimed that he was well-funded by existing grants and did not need the money for research, but did use it to take a sabbatical.
Let me reiterate: Seth Lloyd claims that he took money from a "reformed" pedophile as a personal favor to said pedophile. A simple internet search, as Seth Lloyd acknowledges, would have revealed that said pedophile was in fact not "reformed" at all.
Seth Lloyd admitted that he ignored all of the warning signs. He characterized his own mistakes as "crimes of inattention" and acknowledged that he had the privilege to not pay attention while many others had no choice. He said that as soon as he heard the allegations, he cut off ties with Epstein and began trying to make amends with everyone harmed by the situation. He said that he always believes sexual assault survivors, on principle. He drew from examples of students he's worked with as an advisor. He detailed the attempts that he's made to return Epstein's money and support assault survivors. This part is the apology, much of it familiar from the public Medium post.
I don't think Seth Lloyd's apology was any better or worse than the dozens of apologies that we've seen in the past few months from others involved in the Epstein scandal. However, it was directly invalidated by everything else that I saw in that classroom. If Seth Lloyd had quietly directed the class to the online apology, made an anonymous form for comments, and not subjected us to this performance, I don't think I would be writing this article. By not providing a safe way for students to opt out of listening to the apology, by continuing to require mandatory attendance for this semester's class (enforced by only providing the problem sets in lecture), by constantly saying "victims" instead of "survivors" and then loudly correcting himself, Seth Lloyd continued to perform crimes of inattention throughout the entire class, albeit on a smaller scale. What does this say about his capacity to reform?
In his final remark, after the apology, Seth Lloyd returned to the subject of Epstein himself. He said that "Jeffrey Epstein was a charming friend, likeable. I was taken in by it. Nobody should have died like that. He needed to go to trial."
Then Seth Lloyd turned to us, the students. He looked across the room, contemplating us. Few people seemed to meet his eyes.
"What should I do now?" he asked, and is met with silence. An idea occurred to him, as if he suddenly understood why we were quiet.
"If you have concerns that you want to share in private, you can set up a meeting in my office." He seemed surprised, even disappointed, when the silence intensified. As if he was waiting for us to tell him what to do.
One person asked a question about the broader ethics of research funding, without touching on the particulars of the Epstein case. After answering this and receiving no more questions, Seth Lloyd took our silence as permission to return to business as usual. He made jokes for the rest of class, shared rambling personal anecdotes about the academic hiring process, and ended with a ten-minute discussion on the basics of information theory (the only academic content in the entire lecture). I staggered out of the room an hour later, contemplating my options.
I did not speak up in that classroom. I did not meet Seth Lloyd privately in his office. The comments to my advisor in the add/drop form I submitted that afternoon were profoundly bland: "The teaching style of 18.435 didn't work well for me so I'm dropping it." I assumed that if I kept my head down, someone else would confront him, someone who would be taking less of a risk with their future career. Maybe, just maybe, one of the people whose job it was to deal with this.
The next day, the New Yorker broke its story about Joi Ito's concealment of the true scope of Epstein's donations to MIT. Amid calls for Ito's resignation and questions about the Media Lab's future, Seth Lloyd slipped under the radar. President Reif announced an investigation into Epstein's involvement with MIT, claiming that Goodwin Procter would look for additional evidence and hidden donations. But we already know that Seth Lloyd has taken money from Epstein. We've known that for months. What about the promised investigation into him?
Nobody else is going to tell Seth Lloyd what he should do. Nobody besides the students. He was wrong to look to us for advice, but that's not going to keep me from answering.
As long as Seth Lloyd teaches at MIT, our institution suffers. The opportunity to study quantum computation should not be restricted by how easily you can put aside your moral discomfort regarding a man who takes money from pedophiles as a supposed act of charity. This is a barrier to learning for survivors of sexual assault, for women (after all, Epstein's survivors are women), and for others upon others. The next generation of scientists depends on precisely the people who are excluded by Seth Lloyd's class.
I hold no resentment towards anyone who continues to take classes from Seth Lloyd. As students, we have been put in a difficult position, forced to choose between our morals and our professional development. We should not have been placed in this situation. MIT should have put its foot down at the start of the semester. I cannot fault anyone for deciding not to take on this burden for themselves, except the MIT administration.
Over and over again, the pattern that emerged in Seth Lloyd's apology is inattention — that he needs to be explicitly told when he has done wrong. This inattention is wildly incompatible with the responsibilities of a teacher and an advisor. It is unacceptable to expect Seth Lloyd's students and advisees to spend their own time and effort reforming him by pointing out every new crime of inattention. If Seth Lloyd is looking to be told by students where he has done wrong, here it is: by continuing to teach, by continuing to advise undergraduate and graduate students, by continuing to be a part of our scientific community, Seth Lloyd is continuing to do harm. Seth Lloyd should not remain at MIT.
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Bangladesh: Police and government thugs attack protesting students and teachers
By Rohantha De Silva
Bangladesh's Awami League-led government has deployed police and young thugs to suppress students, unemployed graduates and teachers who are demanding changes to the civil service jobs quota system. The "quota reform movement" wants the 56 percent quota for civil jobs reduced to 10 percent.
More than half the 56 percent quota is reserved for the children and grandchildren of veterans of the 1971 fight against Pakistan. The remainder is reserved for disadvantaged groups, such as ethnic minorities, residents of socially deprived districts and physically challenged people.
Demonstrators also want the remaining civil service jobs awarded according to merit, the abolition of special exams for those on quotas and age-limit uniformity in government recruitment processes.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina initially ignored students' demands, but when demonstrations spread across the country in April, she promised to abolish the quota system. Her government, however, has mobilised police to suppress the protests and encouraged the notoriously violent Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the ruling party's youth organisation, to attack students and teachers involved in the protests.
On July 15, at Dhaka University, BCL members assaulted hundreds of students as they demonstrated to demand a safe campus and the immediate release of detained leaders of the quota reform movement.
When Professor Fahmidul Haq, Associate Professor Abdur Razzaque Khan of the Mass Communication and Journalism faculty and Associate Professor Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan of International Relations intervened to protect the students, they were also assaulted. Photos published on social media show BCL members attacking female students and tearing their clothes, while male students were hit with poles and steel rods. X-rays published on social media show broken leg bones and serious spinal injuries.
Ain o Salish Kendra, a Bangladeshi human rights organisation, denounced the "the reckless behavior of BCL, as revealed in the media," describing it as "highly unacceptable and condemnable." It demanded immediate government action against the perpetrators. Other NGOs, including Gonoforum and Pahari Chhatra Parishad, also spoke out against the attacks.
Professor Fahmidul Haq contacted Dhaka University proctor Professor A.K.M. Golam to register his concern about the assaults. The proctor blamed him for joining the protest. "Those who were involved in the chaos, even if he or she was a teacher, would be punished as per the university rules," Golam said.
Government authorities are continuing efforts to intimidate and frame-up quota reform movement members on bogus charges. Students say they have received death threats by phone and on social media.
On July 15, Dhaka metropolitan court magistrate Sadbir Chowdhury rejected a bail petition for quota reform leader Faruk Hassan. Police have filed frame-up charges against Hassan, a joint convener of the Bangladesh General Students Rights Protection Council, along with Jashim Akash and Moshiur Rahman, who have been charged for their involvement in April's demonstrations.
Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali justified the BCL violence, declaring that the quota reform movement was a "ploy" by the opposition Bangladesh National Party and the Islamic fundamentalist Jammat-e-Islam to undermine "stability" and "progress."
Public outrage over the thugs' attacks, has grown, however. On July 18, over 70 academics and teachers from several universities, including Dhaka University, joined in solidarity with 300 students to protest.
Demonstrators denounced the BCL assaults and called for punishment of those responsible. They also demanded the release of the quota reform leaders.
On Tuesday this week, over 400 students and teachers demonstrated again over the same demands.
While job quotas are divisive and retrogressive, quota reform leaders are not challenging the capitalist system, which is the source of endemic joblessness and social misery. Instead, they are appealing to the ruling elite for a more "equitable" distribution of mass unemployment.
The student protests are driven by worsening joblessness. Although the economy recorded 7.28 percent growth for the 2017-18 financial year, this has failed to boost employment opportunities. According to trendingeconomics.com, the official unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent last year, unchanged from the previous year and almost double the rate of 2.2 percent in 1991.
With general elections due later this year, the government's repression is an attempt to preempt an expansion of the protests into broader struggles involving the working class.
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Free Surface Flow in a Microfluidic Corner and in an Unconfined Aquifer with Accretion: The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited
A. R. Kacimov*, D. V. Maklakov, I. R. Kayumov, A. Al-Futaisi
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Steady, laminar, fully developed flows of a Newtonian fluid driven by a constant pressure gradient in (1) a curvilinear constant cross section triangle bounded by two straight no-slip segments and a circular meniscus and (2) a wedge bounded by two rays and an adjacent film bulging near the corner are studied analytically by the theory of holomorphic functions and numerically by finite elements. The analytical solution of the first problem is obtained by reducing the Poisson equation for the longitudinal flow velocity to the Laplace equation, conformal mapping of the corresponding transformed physical domain onto an auxiliary half-plane and solving there the Signorini mixed boundary value problem (BVP). The numerical solution is obtained by meshing the circular sector and solving a system of linear equations ensuing from the Poisson equation. Comparisons are made with known solutions for flows in a rectangular conduit, circular annulus and Philip's circular duct with a no-shear sector. Problem (2) is treated by the Saint-Venant semi-inverse method: the free surface (quasi-meniscus) is reconstructed by a one-parametric family, which specifies a holomorphic function of the first derivative of the physical coordinate with respect to an auxiliary variable. The latter maps the flow domain onto a quarter of a unit disc where a mixed BVP for a characteristic function is solved by the Zhukovsky–Chaplygin method. Velocity distributions in a cross section perpendicular to the flow direction are obtained. It is shown that the change of the type of the boundary condition from no slip to perfect slip (along the meniscus) causes a dramatic increase of the total flow rate (conductance). For example, the classical Saint-Venant formulae for a sector, with all three boundaries being no-slip segments, predict up to four times smaller rate as compared to a free surface meniscus. Mathematically equivalent problems of unconfined flows in aquifers recharged by a constant-intensity infiltration are also addressed.
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Dive into the research topics of 'Free Surface Flow in a Microfluidic Corner and in an Unconfined Aquifer with Accretion: The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Microfluidics Chemical Compounds 81%
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Velocity distribution Chemical Compounds 28%
Kacimov, A. R., Maklakov, D. V., Kayumov, I. R., & Al-Futaisi, A. (2017). Free Surface Flow in a Microfluidic Corner and in an Unconfined Aquifer with Accretion: The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited. Transport in Porous Media, 116(1), 115-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-016-0767-y
Free Surface Flow in a Microfluidic Corner and in an Unconfined Aquifer with Accretion : The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited. / Kacimov, A. R.; Maklakov, D. V.; Kayumov, I. R.; Al-Futaisi, A.
In: Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 116, No. 1, 01.01.2017, p. 115-142.
Kacimov, AR, Maklakov, DV, Kayumov, IR & Al-Futaisi, A 2017, 'Free Surface Flow in a Microfluidic Corner and in an Unconfined Aquifer with Accretion: The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited', Transport in Porous Media, vol. 116, no. 1, pp. 115-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-016-0767-y
Kacimov AR, Maklakov DV, Kayumov IR, Al-Futaisi A. Free Surface Flow in a Microfluidic Corner and in an Unconfined Aquifer with Accretion: The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited. Transport in Porous Media. 2017 Jan 1;116(1):115-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-016-0767-y
Kacimov, A. R. ; Maklakov, D. V. ; Kayumov, I. R. ; Al-Futaisi, A. / Free Surface Flow in a Microfluidic Corner and in an Unconfined Aquifer with Accretion : The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited. In: Transport in Porous Media. 2017 ; Vol. 116, No. 1. pp. 115-142.
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abstract = "Steady, laminar, fully developed flows of a Newtonian fluid driven by a constant pressure gradient in (1) a curvilinear constant cross section triangle bounded by two straight no-slip segments and a circular meniscus and (2) a wedge bounded by two rays and an adjacent film bulging near the corner are studied analytically by the theory of holomorphic functions and numerically by finite elements. The analytical solution of the first problem is obtained by reducing the Poisson equation for the longitudinal flow velocity to the Laplace equation, conformal mapping of the corresponding transformed physical domain onto an auxiliary half-plane and solving there the Signorini mixed boundary value problem (BVP). The numerical solution is obtained by meshing the circular sector and solving a system of linear equations ensuing from the Poisson equation. Comparisons are made with known solutions for flows in a rectangular conduit, circular annulus and Philip{\textquoteright}s circular duct with a no-shear sector. Problem (2) is treated by the Saint-Venant semi-inverse method: the free surface (quasi-meniscus) is reconstructed by a one-parametric family, which specifies a holomorphic function of the first derivative of the physical coordinate with respect to an auxiliary variable. The latter maps the flow domain onto a quarter of a unit disc where a mixed BVP for a characteristic function is solved by the Zhukovsky–Chaplygin method. Velocity distributions in a cross section perpendicular to the flow direction are obtained. It is shown that the change of the type of the boundary condition from no slip to perfect slip (along the meniscus) causes a dramatic increase of the total flow rate (conductance). For example, the classical Saint-Venant formulae for a sector, with all three boundaries being no-slip segments, predict up to four times smaller rate as compared to a free surface meniscus. Mathematically equivalent problems of unconfined flows in aquifers recharged by a constant-intensity infiltration are also addressed.",
keywords = "Meniscus, Poisson equation, Signorini formula, Viscous film, Zhukovsky–Chaplygin method, Zunker{\textquoteright}s pendular water slug",
author = "Kacimov, {A. R.} and Maklakov, {D. V.} and Kayumov, {I. R.} and A. Al-Futaisi",
journal = "Transport in Porous Media",
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T2 - The Signorini and Saint-Venant Analytical Techniques Revisited
AU - Kacimov, A. R.
AU - Maklakov, D. V.
AU - Kayumov, I. R.
AU - Al-Futaisi, A.
N2 - Steady, laminar, fully developed flows of a Newtonian fluid driven by a constant pressure gradient in (1) a curvilinear constant cross section triangle bounded by two straight no-slip segments and a circular meniscus and (2) a wedge bounded by two rays and an adjacent film bulging near the corner are studied analytically by the theory of holomorphic functions and numerically by finite elements. The analytical solution of the first problem is obtained by reducing the Poisson equation for the longitudinal flow velocity to the Laplace equation, conformal mapping of the corresponding transformed physical domain onto an auxiliary half-plane and solving there the Signorini mixed boundary value problem (BVP). The numerical solution is obtained by meshing the circular sector and solving a system of linear equations ensuing from the Poisson equation. Comparisons are made with known solutions for flows in a rectangular conduit, circular annulus and Philip's circular duct with a no-shear sector. Problem (2) is treated by the Saint-Venant semi-inverse method: the free surface (quasi-meniscus) is reconstructed by a one-parametric family, which specifies a holomorphic function of the first derivative of the physical coordinate with respect to an auxiliary variable. The latter maps the flow domain onto a quarter of a unit disc where a mixed BVP for a characteristic function is solved by the Zhukovsky–Chaplygin method. Velocity distributions in a cross section perpendicular to the flow direction are obtained. It is shown that the change of the type of the boundary condition from no slip to perfect slip (along the meniscus) causes a dramatic increase of the total flow rate (conductance). For example, the classical Saint-Venant formulae for a sector, with all three boundaries being no-slip segments, predict up to four times smaller rate as compared to a free surface meniscus. Mathematically equivalent problems of unconfined flows in aquifers recharged by a constant-intensity infiltration are also addressed.
AB - Steady, laminar, fully developed flows of a Newtonian fluid driven by a constant pressure gradient in (1) a curvilinear constant cross section triangle bounded by two straight no-slip segments and a circular meniscus and (2) a wedge bounded by two rays and an adjacent film bulging near the corner are studied analytically by the theory of holomorphic functions and numerically by finite elements. The analytical solution of the first problem is obtained by reducing the Poisson equation for the longitudinal flow velocity to the Laplace equation, conformal mapping of the corresponding transformed physical domain onto an auxiliary half-plane and solving there the Signorini mixed boundary value problem (BVP). The numerical solution is obtained by meshing the circular sector and solving a system of linear equations ensuing from the Poisson equation. Comparisons are made with known solutions for flows in a rectangular conduit, circular annulus and Philip's circular duct with a no-shear sector. Problem (2) is treated by the Saint-Venant semi-inverse method: the free surface (quasi-meniscus) is reconstructed by a one-parametric family, which specifies a holomorphic function of the first derivative of the physical coordinate with respect to an auxiliary variable. The latter maps the flow domain onto a quarter of a unit disc where a mixed BVP for a characteristic function is solved by the Zhukovsky–Chaplygin method. Velocity distributions in a cross section perpendicular to the flow direction are obtained. It is shown that the change of the type of the boundary condition from no slip to perfect slip (along the meniscus) causes a dramatic increase of the total flow rate (conductance). For example, the classical Saint-Venant formulae for a sector, with all three boundaries being no-slip segments, predict up to four times smaller rate as compared to a free surface meniscus. Mathematically equivalent problems of unconfined flows in aquifers recharged by a constant-intensity infiltration are also addressed.
KW - Meniscus
KW - Poisson equation
KW - Signorini formula
KW - Viscous film
KW - Zhukovsky–Chaplygin method
KW - Zunker's pendular water slug
JO - Transport in Porous Media
JF - Transport in Porous Media


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Terrific bit of trivia from Wikipedia: "In June 1949, [Michael] Standing issued a memo to all staff in which he forbade BBC employees to illuminate any room with an Anglepoise lamp unless the main ceiling or wall mounted light was also illuminated. Standing held a firm belief that a man working at a desk in a confined space with only the light from a low-wattage lamp would nurture furtive ideas and produce degenerate programme material."
If you search for Raymond Carver in the New Yorker archives, you get this interesting article from 2007 about how Carver's editor Gordon Lish cut some of Carver's stories by as much as 70%, but you also get little truncated abstracts of all the stories Carver ever published in the magazine. These are pretty great in themselves, e.g.:
"The narrator is a reformed alcoholic whose entire family is dependent on him for money. His ex-wife gets her monthly check due to a court order. His mother out in California, is poor and greedy, and he sends her a check monthly. His daughter lives in a trailer with…"
And that's it. What else do you need? It's as if Gordon Lish has returned, crazed, from the grave, determined to cut the stories not just by 70% but by 99%, distilling the prose down to a black poisonous residuum of Pure Carver.
Update: it's been brought to my attention (by two commenters! I had no idea anyone read this blog!) that Lish is still alive. So maybe it really is him writing those abstracts.
Posted by Ned Beauman at 1:29 pm 2 comments:
'Curiously, in that country [California], you can get anybody to believe any sort of a tale that has gold in it, like the Lost Mine of Fisherman's Peak and the Duke of Wild Rose. Young Woodin brought me a potsherd once from a kitchen-midden in Shoshone Land. It might have been, for antiquity, one of those Job scraped himself withal, but it was dotted all over with colors and specks of pure gold from the riverbed from which the sand and clay were scooped. Said he:
"You ought to find a story about this somewhere."
I was sore then about not getting myself believed in some elementary matters, such as that horned toads are not poisonous, and that Indians really have the bowels of compassion. Said I:
"I will do better than that, I will make a story."
We sat out a whole afternoon under the mulberry-tree, with the landscape disappearing in shimmering heat-waves around us, testing our story for likelihood and proving it. There was an Indian woman in the tale, not pretty, for they are mostly not that in life, and the earthenware pot, of course, and a lost river bedded with precious sand. Afterward my friend went to hold down some claims in the Coso country, and I north to the lake region where the red firs are, and we told the pot-of-gold story as often as we were permitted. One night when I had done with it, a stranger by our camp-fire said the thing was well known in his country. I said, "Where was that?"
"Coso," said he, and that was the first I had heard of my friend.
Next winter, at Lone Pine, a prospector from Panamint-way wanted to know if I had ever heard of the Indian-pot Mine which was lost out toward Pharump. I said I had a piece of the pot, which I showed him. Then I wrote the tale for a magazine of the sort that gets taken in camps and at miners' boarding-houses, and several men were at great pains to explain to me where my version varied from the accepted one of the hills. By this time, you understand, I had begun to believe the story myself. I had a spasm of conscience, though, when Tennessee told me that he thought he knew the very squaw of the story, and when the back of the winter was broken he meant to make a little "pasear" in search of the lost river. But Tennessee died before spring, and spared my confessing. Now it only needs that some one should find another sherd of the gold-besprinkled pot to fix the tale in the body of desert myths. Well it had as much fact behind it as the Gunsight, and is more interesting than the Bryfogle, which began with the finding of a dead man, clothless as the desert dead mostly are, with a bag of nuggets clutched in his mummied hands.'
- from "The Land" (1909) by Mary Austin. Strangely reminiscent of Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".
Terrific bit of trivia from Wikipedia: "In June 19...
If you search for Raymond Carver in the New Yorker...
'Curiously, in that country [California], you can ...


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Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration
Suzee E. Lee, Gil D. Rabinovici, Mary Catherine Mayo, Stephen M. Wilson, William W. Seeley, Stephen J. Dearmond, Eric J. Huang, John Q. Trojanowski, Matthew E. Growdon, Jung Y. Jang, Manu Sidhu, Tricia M. See, Anna M. Karydas, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Adam L. Boxer, Michael W. Weiner, Michael D. Geschwind, Katherine P. Rankin, Bruce L. Miller
Objective: To characterize cognitive and behavioral features, physical findings, and brain atrophy patterns in pathology-proven corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and corticobasal syndrome (CBS) with known histopathology. Methods: We reviewed clinical and magnetic resonance imaging data in all patients evaluated at our center with either an autopsy diagnosis of CBD (n = 18) or clinical CBS at first presentation with known histopathology (n = 40). Atrophy patterns were compared using voxel-based morphometry. Results: CBD was associated with 4 clinical syndromes: progressive nonfluent aphasia (n = 5), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 5), executive-motor (n = 7), and posterior cortical atrophy (n = 1). Behavioral or cognitive problems were the initial symptoms in 15 of 18 patients; less than half exhibited early motor findings. Compared to controls, CBD patients showed atrophy in dorsal prefrontal and perirolandic cortex, striatum, and brainstem (p < 0.001 uncorrected). The most common pathologic substrates for clinical CBS were CBD (35%), Alzheimer disease (AD, 23%), progressive supranuclear palsy (13%), and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with TDP inclusions (13%). CBS was associated with perirolandic atrophy irrespective of underlying pathology. In CBS due to FTLD (tau or TDP), atrophy extended into prefrontal cortex, striatum, and brainstem, whereas in CBS due to AD, atrophy extended into temporoparietal cortex and precuneus (p < 0.001 uncorrected). Interpretation: Frontal lobe involvement is characteristic of CBD, and in many patients frontal, not parietal or basal ganglia, symptoms dominate early stage disease. CBS is driven by medial perirolandic dysfunction, but this anatomy is not specific to a single underlying histopathology. Antemortem prediction of CBD will remain challenging until clinical features of CBD are redefined, and sensitive, specific biomarkers are identified.
Annals of Neurology
10.1002/ana.22424
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Lee, S. E., Rabinovici, G. D., Mayo, M. C., Wilson, S. M., Seeley, W. W., Dearmond, S. J., Huang, E. J., Trojanowski, J. Q., Growdon, M. E., Jang, J. Y., Sidhu, M., See, T. M., Karydas, A. M., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., Boxer, A. L., Weiner, M. W., Geschwind, M. D., Rankin, K. P., & Miller, B. L. (2011). Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration. Annals of Neurology, 70(2), 327-340. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.22424
Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration. / Lee, Suzee E.; Rabinovici, Gil D.; Mayo, Mary Catherine; Wilson, Stephen M.; Seeley, William W.; Dearmond, Stephen J.; Huang, Eric J.; Trojanowski, John Q.; Growdon, Matthew E.; Jang, Jung Y.; Sidhu, Manu; See, Tricia M.; Karydas, Anna M.; Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa; Boxer, Adam L.; Weiner, Michael W.; Geschwind, Michael D.; Rankin, Katherine P.; Miller, Bruce L.
In: Annals of Neurology, Vol. 70, No. 2, 08.2011, p. 327-340.
Lee, SE, Rabinovici, GD, Mayo, MC, Wilson, SM, Seeley, WW, Dearmond, SJ, Huang, EJ, Trojanowski, JQ, Growdon, ME, Jang, JY, Sidhu, M, See, TM, Karydas, AM, Gorno-Tempini, ML, Boxer, AL, Weiner, MW, Geschwind, MD, Rankin, KP & Miller, BL 2011, 'Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration', Annals of Neurology, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 327-340. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.22424
Lee SE, Rabinovici GD, Mayo MC, Wilson SM, Seeley WW, Dearmond SJ et al. Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration. Annals of Neurology. 2011 Aug;70(2):327-340. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.22424
Lee, Suzee E. ; Rabinovici, Gil D. ; Mayo, Mary Catherine ; Wilson, Stephen M. ; Seeley, William W. ; Dearmond, Stephen J. ; Huang, Eric J. ; Trojanowski, John Q. ; Growdon, Matthew E. ; Jang, Jung Y. ; Sidhu, Manu ; See, Tricia M. ; Karydas, Anna M. ; Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa ; Boxer, Adam L. ; Weiner, Michael W. ; Geschwind, Michael D. ; Rankin, Katherine P. ; Miller, Bruce L. / Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration. In: Annals of Neurology. 2011 ; Vol. 70, No. 2. pp. 327-340.
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AU - Huang, Eric J.
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AU - See, Tricia M.
AU - Karydas, Anna M.
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N2 - Objective: To characterize cognitive and behavioral features, physical findings, and brain atrophy patterns in pathology-proven corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and corticobasal syndrome (CBS) with known histopathology. Methods: We reviewed clinical and magnetic resonance imaging data in all patients evaluated at our center with either an autopsy diagnosis of CBD (n = 18) or clinical CBS at first presentation with known histopathology (n = 40). Atrophy patterns were compared using voxel-based morphometry. Results: CBD was associated with 4 clinical syndromes: progressive nonfluent aphasia (n = 5), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 5), executive-motor (n = 7), and posterior cortical atrophy (n = 1). Behavioral or cognitive problems were the initial symptoms in 15 of 18 patients; less than half exhibited early motor findings. Compared to controls, CBD patients showed atrophy in dorsal prefrontal and perirolandic cortex, striatum, and brainstem (p < 0.001 uncorrected). The most common pathologic substrates for clinical CBS were CBD (35%), Alzheimer disease (AD, 23%), progressive supranuclear palsy (13%), and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) with TDP inclusions (13%). CBS was associated with perirolandic atrophy irrespective of underlying pathology. In CBS due to FTLD (tau or TDP), atrophy extended into prefrontal cortex, striatum, and brainstem, whereas in CBS due to AD, atrophy extended into temporoparietal cortex and precuneus (p < 0.001 uncorrected). Interpretation: Frontal lobe involvement is characteristic of CBD, and in many patients frontal, not parietal or basal ganglia, symptoms dominate early stage disease. CBS is driven by medial perirolandic dysfunction, but this anatomy is not specific to a single underlying histopathology. Antemortem prediction of CBD will remain challenging until clinical features of CBD are redefined, and sensitive, specific biomarkers are identified.
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Opel is big in Europe. The brand, which has been around for more than 150 years, has been in the automobile business for over a century. It's consistently been one of the best-selling automotive brands in the continent for decades. However, Opel's dalliance with the Middle east has not been anywhere near as steady. After a rocky relationship in the early noughties, the German brand (now owned by France's PSA Group) came back to the UAE in early 2013, with a strong line-up of cars including hatchbacks, saloons, coupes and MPVs sold through Liberty Automobiles. Later that year we tested the Astra hatch worked on by the guys at Opel's performance division OPC and were blown away by its performance. But despite bringing a range of decent cars, Opel has yet to make a significant dent in the market. Changing this is what the new Mokka X crossover is tasked with.
Since its launch in 2012 as the Mokka, this compact utility vehicle has found more than 600,000 homes worldwide. The Mokka X that has now been launched in the UAE is in fact a mid-life facelift of the original Mokka. And 'X' is Opel's new identifier for all its SUVs and CUVs. Although it's a facelift, it's quite a significant one. Everything from the grille to the headlights and bumpers have been changed. The headlights are narrower and sleeker than before and get a signature LED strip at the top. Bumpers at the front and back have been sculpted to look more aggressive than the plain old ones, and the tweaked taillights round out the cosmetic changes. The cabin has also been spruced up with a new dashboard that's taken cues from the new Astra hatchback. The touchscreen is now intergrated into the centre stack , and acts as an interface for the Intellilink infotainment system.
In the UAE, the Mokka X comes equipped with a 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine, which, mated to a six-speed automatic transmission, is good for 140bhp and 200Nm of torque. This turbo four-banger is fairly perky and does the job that's expected of it in this segment pretty well. It feels a bit flat at low revs but that's momentary and overall power delivery is smooth across the rev band. This makes the Mokka X a decent option for highway cruises, and the suspension has been set up with a view of offering a supple, comfortable ride. However, don't expect it to provide much by way of driving thrills, as the handling is rather uninspiring. The steering is light and quick to respond but always leaves you feeling disconnected from the road. But for a vast majority of buyers in this segment, being entertained behind the wheel is way down the priority list.
The Mokka X is up against some stiff competition from the likes of Nissan's Juke and Ford's Ecosport, which are quite competitively priced. But it does make a case for itself with a decent amount of kit packed into its top-spec variant. Our tester, with its rather daft 'Enjoy Plus' trim designation, comes with many convenience and safety features including auto headlights, rear-view camera, parking sensors front and back, high-beam assist, tyre pressure indicator, and even front cornering lamps, which are all great for a car with a Dh78,000 price tag. You can also buy the base model for Dh71,000. It's not the best crossover on the market, but definitely one worth considering if you want a different brand than the ubiquitous Japanese, Korean and American compacts.