H&M's exclusive conscious collection has been made from sustainable materials.
H&M is not just a big player in "fast fashion", it's a giant. Estimates (fast fashion behemoths do not give out many production figures as the sector is intensely competitive) suggest it sells more than 550 million garments every year. It recently announced net quarterly profits of $412m. It is second only to Inditex, owner of Zara, as the world's largest clothing retailer. The great fast fashion war pits Sweden's richest man, Stefan Persson, chair of H&M, against Spain's richest man, Amancio Ortega, co-founder of Zara.
And now, in an audacious move, H&M is positioning itself as the ethical solution, the retailer that can make ethics and fast fashion synonymous. It wants to be an ethical giant, too. I say "audacious" because, to concerned consumers and activists, fast fashion's rapid-response production system, reliant on low-wage production in some of the poorest countries on Earth, is pretty much held responsible for environmental and social degradation in the global wardrobe. Indeed, having spent a large amount of time railing against it myself, it felt pretty audacious for me, too, to be sitting in the Stockholm headquarters of H&M last week.
The Observer was given early access to the brand's latest sustainability report that will be published on 12 April. Few corporate CSR reports are read so widely. From activists to analysts, everyone will be keen to see if H&M can really crack it. I am no different. However much I bang on about alternative ways to fill your wardrobe to ethically aware audiences – small brands, swapping, vintage, knitting – the top question I still get asked is: "So which high street stores can I go to?"
Be in no doubt, we are addicted to fast fashion. So, if H&M have solved all labour rights and environmental issues then I can pack up my soap box and toddle home, picking up some David Beckham underpants from his H&M Bodywear collaboration from one of the brand's 199 UK stores with total impunity. But how clean are H&M's Beckham pants? (On Twitter Joey Barton splendidly articulated lingering consumer unease: "Do one, Becks. They cost about 1p to make in a sweat shop in the Third World.") Indeed, what guarantees does H&M offer across its ranges?
"I don't think guarantee is the right word," says Helena Helmersson, head of sustainability, brightly. "A lot of people ask for guarantees: 'Can you guarantee labour conditions? Can you guarantee zero chemicals?' Of course we cannot when we're such a huge company operating in very challenging conditions. What I can say is that we do the very best we can with a lot of resources and a clear direction of what we're supposed to do. We're working really hard."
I believe her. Thursday's report will show some impressive sustainable figures: for example nearly 2.5 million pairs of shoes were made last year using lower-impact water-based solvents; all building contractors have signed a code of conduct to ensure "good" working conditions; recycled polyester equivalent to 9.2 million plastic bottles has been used, and H&M uses more organic cotton in production than any other group. This year I am told, 7.6% of its cotton was organic (an industry insider estimates H&M's overall cotton use to be around 200,000 tonnes a year). By 2020 100% will be sustainably sourced cotton.
"H&M has definitely got better," admits industry expert and CEO of Clothesource, Mike Flanagan. "From some presposterous moments in the recent past they have moved to being in a small clutch of four or five brands, including Nike and Gap, who believe that they have no alternative but to be as good as possible at sustainability. It's a marked change."
Does Helmersson still wake up worried they'll be the subject of a sweated labour expose? "Yes, I worry about that sometimes. I lived in Dhaka for two years. You see how things happen down the chain in a country like Bangladesh. Remember that H&M does not own any factories itself. We are to some extent dependent on the suppliers — it is impossible to be in full control."
And therein lies the rub. While H&M talks about responsibility, in the supply chain where retailers devolve power to factories it can be easy to distance yourself. Helmersson says H&M has invested in 100 people in CSR, 75 of whom are auditors (assessing social and now some environmental conditions in factories) and produced a series of groundbreaking short films, including one on fire safety that it claims more than 400,000 garment workers have seen.
Sam Maher, of the NGO Labour Behind The Label, the UK platform for the international Clean Clothes Campaign, is not so impressed (although she is yet to see the latest 2011 report). "I'd like to be at the point where unions can phone H&M and talk through any labour disputes. The Clean Clothes Campaign should no longer need to exist. Sadly that's far from the case. DVDs 'educating' garment workers are all very well but I think workers know there is a problem. They aren't stupid. What's needed is proper dialogue with unions and freedom of association, long term investment and proper resources. It's not good enough to act unilaterally and say: 'We're Swedish and we do things very well.'"
What would change her mind? "For starters I would like to see them signing the Clean Clothes Campaign's memorandum of understanding on fire and building safety in Bangladesh. PVH [owners of Tommy Hilfiger] has just signed but three more big signatories are needed. H&M is currently considering it."
There is of course another fashionably attired elephant in the fitting room: a business model predicated on producing millions of units and on a fashion cycle that favours 30 to 50 trend-driven fashion seasons a year (the original spring/summer and autumn/winter cycles are alien to fast fashion) are hardly a recipe for sustainability. Isn't ethical fast fashion just a big fat oxymoron?
Helmersson says: "It's a question of how can we make the fashion more sustainable? That's what we are working on in many ways to do that."
To that end Thursday also sees the launch of the new Conscious Collection, with pieces made from eco-fibres ranging from organic cotton and recycled plastic bottles to Tencel (derived from plant cellulose) and a glamorous adjunct of "eco" pieces including a silky hemp, pieces that have been worn by celebrities on the red carpet (coincidentally this is a similar idea to the Green Carpet Challenge I co-founded with Livia Firth in order to up the profile of sustainable style).
H&M acknowledges there is more to do: "We must close the loop on fibre. How can we see waste as a resource?" emphasises Helmersson. "You see my dream is to be perceived as a company who can offer all people in the world – even those without much money – the possibility to dress really well and sustainably. That's how I want people to perceive us, not as a brand connected to mass consumption."
Full marks for ambition. But do I buy H&M as an ethical paragon? Not quite yet. They are still clinging to too many parts of the fast-fashion supply chain to bring anything revolutionary. But I'm enjoying their new attitude and I remain open to persuasion.


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Longpi – "The Black Magic"
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Longpi is one of the rarest form of pottery in the world, it doesn't use the potter's wheel but instead use molds and the artists adept graceful hands to produce these creations. Another specialty of these vessels is that they are purely made of stones. These pristine vessels are not only used for their unmatched utilitarian values but also its appearance is considered grandeur at auspicious festivals.
Longpi is where you can re-discover yourself with an earthy touch, enjoying the serene beauty. Longpi is commonly attributed to refer to two villages in Ukhrul District - Longpi Kajui and Longpi Khullen. These two small villages in the hinterlands of mystical Indian state of Manipur is now making national and international attainments with its sassy yet customary Black Stone Pottery or "Longpi Hamlei".
If you think that the dark charcoal colour results from colouring you are MISTAKEN! The potters use Lison, naturally black serpentinite stone found in Kapungrum, Ukhrul and
Tikuli Art: A lost art from Bihar
"A Journey from Forehead to Décor"
Small, yet powerful and integral part of Indian culture "Bindis" also known as "Tikuli" in Bihar influence the "tikuli art". Since time immemorial bindi has been used to embellish the beauty of Indian women and these colourful dotted accessories has been the symbol of intellectual capacity of the better half of Indian population so the origin of this art form coming from the birth place of Sita is no surprise.
Tikuli Art achieved wide recognition in 1982 when India's then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave Tikuli art as a gift to the players of Asian Games.
Tikuli art finds its root in the Patna situated in the eastern part of India and is considered to be as old as 800 years. These paintings were the artistic expressions of women folks using their bindies to portray the local context and their daily lives. In those times its popularity was so immense, that traders from across the world use to buy
Dhokra - Art from Mohenjo-daro times
"If an image has to be made, it must be made of wax first" Vishnusamhita, 5th century AD
Dokra (also spelt Dhokra) is non–ferrous metal casting using the lost wax casting technique. This sort of metal casting has been used in India for over 4,000 years and is still used. One of the earliest known lost wax artefacts is the dancing girl of Mohenjo-Daro. Dhokra Damar tribes are the traditional metal of West Bengal. Their technique of lost wax casting is named after their tribe, hence Dhokra metal casting. The tribe extends from Jharkhand to West Bengal and Odisha and the artisans still use this technique to create enchanting artefacts and receives a lot of love and appreciation for its primitive simplicity, enchanting folk motifs and forceful form.
Craftsmen involved in the making of Dhokra rely on materials at their immediate disposal – wax, resin and firewood from the forest, riverbed clay and a firing oven made by digging a hole in the ground. Such res
Pattachitra - Art from Jagannath Era
Pattachitra is the art of traditional, cloth-based scroll painting originated in state of Odisha (formerly known as Orissa). The name comes from the word 'Patta,' the Sanskrit word for 'cloth' and 'Chitra,' picture. These paintings are based on Hindu mythology and specially inspired by Jagannath and Vaishnava sect.
On the Debasnana Purnima day (Full moon day of Jyestha month), the Gods of Jagannath, Puri, have a ritualistic bath to fight the heat of summer. As a result the deities become sick for fifteen days, i.e., the first fortnight of Asadha. During this period, known as Anasar, the devotees don't have Darshan of their beloved Lord at the Ratnavedi. Instead, three paintings, of Lord Jagannath (a form of Krishna), Lord Balabhadra and Maa Subhadra, in the colours black, white and yellow respectively, are worshipped. Such paintings, known as "Anasar Patti", are made by traditional Chitrakaras of Orissa, who are experts in the art of Pattachitra. Patta pa
Rajasthani Crafts
Rajasthan is the land of nature's blended beauty, surrounded by huge mountains, picturesque landscapes, historical monuments, and palaces. Besides the exotic wildlife sanctuary, vibrant culture & traditions, the state is also renowned for crafting and Handicrafts of Rajasthan are exemplary in aesthetics, quality, and crafting. The unique handicrafts & arts of Rajasthan seem to be influenced by the Rajputs and Mughals. One can spend hours browsing these fantastic handicraft items. The Handicrafts of Rajasthan depicts the state culture and rich heritage, and that is what makes them exquisite.Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Udaipur are some of the best cities to shop ethnic Rajasthani jewelry. The Rajasthani's are fond of adoring these beautiful gems. Each region of the state has its own different style.Jaipur, Johari Bazar is the renowned place to shop beautiful embroidery and mirror work textiles. The Sanganer area of the city is famous for dying and printing fabric. In Jaipur, one will find an eno
Odisha Crafts
Odisha, one of the backward state in the Indian union has also taken the advantages of new opportunities of globalization and designed policies in such a way to attract foreign investment and forge ahead with its policy of economic reforms. Now it has attracted FDI flows in different sectors of its economy. Globalisation has many impacts on its handicrafts sector. Odisha, which has distinguished crafts heritage, 'there are 69,395 handicraft artisans, which includes- 41,612 males and 27,744 females. Many of its crafts have long historical past and have been produced since antiquity. For instance the Applique crafts of Pipili in Puri district which is now an internationally well known craft, is thought to have been used to decorate the temples since 1054 A.D. Sources say, in ancient Orissa several crafts and industries also developed during the Nanda and Maurya rule as has been found from the excavated sites at Sisupalgarh (near Bhubaneswar), Jaugarh (in Ganjam) and Asurgarh.

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Take note; I am speaking about my experience of having been gravely over-medicated. This is my experience. Not everyone has heinous experiences on psychiatric drugs. Because of my work first as a social worker serving many who took these pharmaceuticals and now this blog I do know that far too many people do have seriously negative and destructive experiences on psychoactive drugs and that is why I share my own experience that people might learn that there are alternatives that most of us have never been told about. I share my experience so that people might be alerted to the fact that they can make meaningful informed choices even if their psychiatrists and other mental health providers are not sharing such information. I share my experience so that these drugs might only be used in targeted fashion in crisis so that not so many people will be so gravely harmed.
I would not have been able to tune into my body in order to learn how to eat so that I might heal many health conditions including my endometriosis: (Endometriosis? Mine responded to natural care. Here I email the MD who mocked me when I refused her "care") and severe Irritable Bowel Syndrome: (How I cured my IBS – healthy gut is needed for healthy body and mind).
Learning to eat right might have saved me from ever being drugged so heavily in the first place had that sort of education been on offer when I was in crisis and the years following. It was not. Diet and nutrition can be deeply and profoundly healing and is important as a foundational factor to all well-being. The drugs mask so many issues that I would not have been able to find the multiple sensitivities I had to foods had I remained on the drugs. Drugs obfuscate many things, not just food issues.


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GCSE Art show opens in Ipswich
Hot on the heels of the A Level Art Exhibition comes the GCSE show – but this year in a brand new location.
The work from the Year 11 students will be on display at the River Church in Ipswich's Waterfront area from Thursday 19 May to Thursday 26 May, and will be open to the public from 10am to 4pm each day. The official opening will take place this Friday at 5pm.
Director of Art, Mr Parkin, explained that the new location had been chosen due to the limited space available in school, adding: "But we have been wanting to get our work out into the community for a while and this was the perfect opportunity."
Visitors to the exhibition will be able to see a wide variety of work in different disciplines, including a range of different garments made by the textiles students showing skills such as embroidery, wrapping, weaving and embellishment.
Amongst the artists' work there will be mixed media painting including a beautiful painting of a figure submerged in water, surrounded by weeds and a mixed media painting exploring the impact of climate change on Africa's wildlife, using African fabrics, collage and oil paint.
The photographers have worked in Photoshop and also sculpture, and there is an exciting GIF of a micro-world, with moving clouds and water and a range of sculptural work using lights, foamboard and specially constructed frames.
Mr Parkin added: "This is a great opportunity to see the exceptional hard work that our students have put in. It's also really exciting to see how many different ideas, processes and techniques are on show and the high standard achieved with them. And, if you've never been to River Church, it's really worth a visit, it's a hidden gem by the waterfront and even has a lovely cafe!"
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Q: Java : what is the most effective connection pool? I am already familiar with 3 different popular connection pools (already read the advantages and disadvantages from existing questions and home sites):
C3P0, DBCP, BoneCP.

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*Are their any new connection pools available that may supply better performance.

*Which one of the 3 is the most popular in use at the industry - i will be happy to read answers like: we are using X connection pool in our deployment project, we strongly advice you to use it as opposed to ... , Why?.

A: For our projects we use BoneCP:
http://jolbox.com/
which has much better performance than C3P0 and Apache's DBCP.

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As we wrap up another year here at Soylent, we're taking a look back at the impact our #SoylentForGood program has had and sharing some of our favorite highlights with you.
Our mission is our North Star. It reminds us that we're not here just to sell ready-to-drink meals — we're here to help bring an end to food voids, hunger, and food insecurity. We're working to bring accessible nutrition to more people in more places all over the world.
We know we need to not only feed folks that are able to purchase our product, but those living without the means to eat or feed their families as well. That's why #SoylentForGood was developed three years ago, to give back, providing products and financial support to organizations who fight food insecurity and offer hunger relief.
Let's take a look at some of the amazing work we've been able to accomplish and the partners we're working with along the way.
For a third year in a row, we partnered with World Food Program USA, providing financial contributions that go toward the purchases of meals around the world. We've also been able to support a variety of their impactful projects through their innovation accelerator, which helps introduce new technologies in the fight against hunger.
In 2018 alone, we donated enough funds to provide 110,720 meals! And that's something we couldn't have done without you. It was thanks to your purchases and referrals that we were able to donate so much. Bravo!
And remember — it's an ongoing program you can be a part of right now! Because every time you refer a friend to Soylent, we donate $1 (that's 3 meals!) to WFP USA.
We've also been busy helping out a number of food banks across the country. In case you don't know the difference between a food bank and a food pantry, a food bank is the larger organization where most food pantries go to get their food. Food banks provide hunger relief infrastructure and logistics throughout every county in the United States.
There are two main ways Soylent supports food banks. First, we donate product that's within a few months of its expiration date. Food banks then quickly and easily distribute that product to their pantry networks so it's consumed well before it expires. Second, we donate funds and and product. In June of this year, we ran a buy-a-meal, give-a-meal program that benefited City Harvest and Island Harvest in New York. And thanks to the amazing support of consumers in New York, we were able to donate 100,000 meals to these incredible food banks!
According to The Hope Center, an estimated 50% of undergraduates have experienced food insecurity in the last 30 days. And this isn't like those times when you ate ramen noodles for three months straight but you still had a meal plan, this is when students have to make a choice between food and books, or even food and staying in school. This year, we took a stand against college hunger with #RealCollege and donated to college campus food pantries. And in 2019, we're expanding our impact through a partnership with Swipe Out Hunger.
If you're worried about food insecurity on your campus, please email good@soylent.com and put us in touch with a food pantry on your campus.
Since the launch of our Soylent Speaker Series in July, we've hosted exciting events with friends, partners, and the public where we can all learn a little more about the future of food, issues surrounding food insecurity, and food policy. Our aim is to have conversations about how public and private partnerships can work together to tackle systemic issues facing the food system in our country. We partnered with leaders from MAZON on two of these events to further educate attendees on the impact of the Farm Bill and food policy on hunger relief efforts.
Because we're located in Southern California, we're part of the community affected by the wildfires that happened this past year. We were quick to send product and support to more than 15 fire stations whose firefighters were on the front lines of these disasters. We also made donations to organizations supporting survivors and those evacuated from their homes.
Our office partners with a food rescue-based app called Re-Plate. It's an app that helps ensure that none of the catering or food prepared for our office goes to waste. Instead of throwing food away, leftovers are picked up by Re-Plate staff members and delivered directly to a soup kitchen nearby so the leftovers can be repurposed and served to those in need!
Even if you've never been to Los Angeles, you've probably heard about Skid Row or the "homeless capital of America." They're not just faceless people for us, these are our neighbors — our headquarters is less than a mile from Skid Row. Because we want to be good neighbors and partners to everyone who lives in our area, we give both financial support and product donations to The Midnight Mission and Skid Row Carnival of Love. These two organizations do unbelievable work to support the communities and people living in this area.
Since the inception of #SoylentForGood, 1,644,209 meals have been donated! If you took 1,644,209 bottles of Soylent and lined them up end to end, those bottles would stretch 195 miles!
In 2018, we've worked with more charitable partners than ever before, helping us learn the best ways to leverage our resources, our innovation, and our staff to better serve the world around us. We are grateful for their support and for yours!
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Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson
The author of the Mars Trilogy chats with us about his new book, AMC's adaptation of Red Mars and the future of mankind...
By | August 30, 2009 |
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of the hugely successful Mars trilogy, which in the 1990s (with Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars), lent painstaking scientific research and spiritual depth to the favourite SF theme of terraforming the red planet. The first book of the trilogy is currently being adapted for television by AMC.
In his new work Galileo's Dream, the award-winning American writer travels back to late Renaissance Italy to fill in some very unexpected background detail on the life of Galileo – who, as it transpires, was occasionally called over to the moons of Jupiter to lend advice to a future culture…
Did Galileo's Dream start out as science-fiction in the early stages, or were you considering a more abstract historical novel at any point?
The novel came to me as a science fiction idea; what if Galileo looked at the moons of Jupiter through a telescope that took him right to people there in the future? Thinking I guess of David Lindsay's great beginning to A Voyage To Arcturus, which I have always admired. So, this was a pretty crazy idea, but my agent and editors liked it, and I did too, so it led eventually to the novel as written.
Very soon I came to the realization that I didn't want to change a single thing about Galileo's real story, which is so compelling as it stands, but only give it a kind of secret back story, or what have you. Something like his dream of the future, in fact, a kind of Renaissance fantasia.
Does Galileo's Dream continue the themes of ecological and social reform which thread so much of your work?
No. The connection with my earlier work has more to do with science and its relations with society, philosophy, religion, and history. The Galileo novel also involves a struggle to "make history better" which I suppose is a connection to social reform and my utopian thread more generally.
What was your approach to bringing Galileo to life, in terms of research and imagination?
I read everything about him in English. It's a big literature but not impossibly so, and it's extremely interesting, or so I found it. Then in terms of bringing him to life, so to speak, I focused on what in the historical record seemed most personal and interesting on that level; the complicated politics of his situation and life.
Then in purely technical terms, books that are essentially "daily life in X" type things are very useful for novelists. I had done similar research for The Years Of Rice And Salt, and indeed researched the real scientific revolution for the Samarkand chapter of that book, which is what drew me to Galileo in the first place. It's a pleasant part of the process.
Lastly, I had to imagine what Galileo might do and say if confronted with people from the year 3020 on the moons of Jupiter, and this was fun, the science fiction part of the game. A kind of channeling; "what would Galileo say?" As I think the book shows, I ended up with a deep admiration, really a kind of love, for Galileo, despite or because of his many flaws and problems.
Do you find the rigours of writing 'period' an obstacle compared to worlds that you can prognosticate or invent?
No, in many ways it's easier. No one can invent all the details that reality, or even history books, can provide you with. I noticed that most sharply after spending many years trying to imagine the Mars inhabitation, then going to Antarctica and writing about what I saw there. What a relief to have the support of the real, the kind of group invention that a culture does, that an individual can't.
Is your work an expression of your credo or a place where you try to define your beliefs? In the Mars Trilogy, I sensed (in the characters of Ann and Michel particularly) that some of the characters were trying to resolve questions that remain issues for you personally.
I think this is true for me, and I would hope it is true for all novelists. In the Mars trilogy I felt the appeal of both the Green and Red positions, and this was a big help in the writing of the novel, as I see-sawed back and forth from one position to the other, following the characters' beliefs; I could believe them all while I wrote them, which gave them a certain conviction.
Then the eventual Blue Mars synthesis was a kind of reconciliation in my own feelings as well as the projected situation.
Glad you also mentioned Michel, whose homesickness and nostalgia is I think a pretty common condition, especially among those of us who for various reasons cannot ever get back home. In my case, Orange County California has been destroyed by an overlay of car-centered development that means the place I knew is no longer there. This is not an uncommon experience, especially since as years pass you can't get back no matter what has happened to the home place itself.
Your doctoral thesis was on the novels of Philip K. Dick, and yet you don't seem to number among his many imitators as a science-fiction writer. What is it about Dick's work that drew you to it?
My thesis advisor, Fredric Jameson, said to me, "write about Philip K. Dick, he's the greatest living American writer." I had only read Galactic Pot-Healer at that point, and was pretty surprised to hear this judgment! But as I read on, I saw what Jameson meant. I like most of all in PKD's work the emphasis on the ordinary person as hero, and the sharp critique of capitalism, the emphasis on its destructive effect on human relations.
Also, he was technically very good, especially at structuring novels, despite the tremendous haste with which he worked. A lot can be learned by studying the structures of his plots, and I did that with pleasure.
Can you tell us how involved you are with the AMC Red Mars project? Is a three-season series envisaged encompassing the Mars trilogy? Are you concerned at whether TV can bring to life such cinematic visions as the space-elevator wrapping itself twice round Mars…?
I am merely a consultant to the AMC Red Mars effort, and my agents are co-producers. I don't know what the plans are long-term. Right now they are at the script-writing phase, and nothing has been green-lighted, so we'll see what happens.
As for how it might look, I think the space elevator falling is the kind of thing TV could be particularly good at, actually. It's the problem of traversing 70 years that is the real problem for them. Glad it's not my problem!
What events of the last few years have alarmed you in regards to where mankind is heading – and which others give you hope?
Well, the ongoing carbon burn and the extinctions are the most alarming. The glaciers melting make a very clear sign, a physical proof, of climate change, and that is useful, but the loss of the glaciers is sad for mountain lovers, and in Asia it's worse than that, as it is catastrophic for water supplies. Ocean acidification is another physical confirmation that the problem is real and severe. Deforestation, and so forth.
On the hopeful side, all this is being reported and discussed, and the scientific community has really come on strong, out of their labs and out of the field, to insist that the problem is real and demands action right now. They've been ahead of the public and the political leadership on this, and this is a new thing in history, as before this scientists preferred to do their science and leave cultural choices to the culture at large.
That they have come out so strong this time is one sign of how bad the danger is. But this is a scientific culture through and through, we live by it, literally, and so if it comes to a showdown between science and capitalism, as I believe we are seeing now, then – gasp – science is going to win.
Hard to believe, scary to say, but it's science that makes the food, the medicine, the toys, all of it: and capitalism is simply the protection racket skimming off the profits. It makes nothing. So when push comes to shove, science is going to win – if we support it right. This is a nice thought for democracy and the future of our children.
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We stayed at this hotel because of the price and the location.
We liked it because it is directly across the street from Disneyland.
The room itself was good in size. The room came with a microwave and a small fridge. The room was clean when we arrived.
With that said, I personally don't think we would stay here again. One thing I can not is rude workers, and although the day staff was polite and friendly, the night staff was a different story.
My son got sick during the night, I called down to the front desk and asked for some fresh sheets. The person was rude and I was told he can not get me fresh sheets and I have to wait until the housekeeping staff gets in, which won't be until morning!
I asked him if what I heard was correct, that he could not get me fresh sheets. He said yes. I asked what I was suppose to do then. He gave me a long sigh and said he will see what he can do. Finally I was able to get some fresh sheets for the bed. But the way this person's attitude was I felt like I was asking too much.
Another problem we had was that our air conditioning unit was not working when we arrived. We called down to the front desk. They sent up a repair person came up and played around with the unit for a bit and then claimed it was fixed. He then told me that it takes awhile to cool down. We decided to grab a bite to eat at Denny's, which is just blocks away, when we came back our room was hot! The A/C was blowing out hot air, even though it was on "cool". I called down to the front desk again and the repairman came back up. He was not happy and we kind of short with us. At first he said we must not have it set right, we showed him it was indeed set right. He kind of grumbled and then said he will be back. What seemed like an hour, he finally came back with a new A/C unit. At least we had A/C for the rest of our trip.
This place does offer a breakfast but it is very basic. It did not matter to us though because we decided we will just walk over to Denny's or IHOP which are both blocks away to have breakfast or we just had a breakfast at Disneyland.
This hotel is a good price, but I will not be staying here around. I love the location it is at, but there are a lot of hotels on this street. I would much rather try a different/nicer hotel then take a chance with this one again.


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Bjarne Ness, född den 17 mars 1902 i Trondheim, död den 13 december 1927 i Paris, var en norsk målare och illustratör.

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Ness var son till en industriarbetare, som den äldste av sex syskon, och växte upp under ganska knappa omständigheter. Han visade tidigt intresse och talang för konst. Efter grundskola i Lilleby gick han på det kommunala läroverket från 1916 till 1919. Under denna period fick han också sina första professionella teckningslektioner av professor Harald Krogh på Norges tekniska högskola, som drev en konstskola på sin fritid.

Ness blev med tiden betraktad som en av Trondheims största söner, som ett resultat av hans konst. Men han var till en början tvungen att lägga konsten åt sidan för ett arbete som gav honom hans försörjning, och blev aspirant vid järnvägen. År 1923 började han Järnvägsskolan i Hamar, och samma höst fick han arbete i Oslo.

I Oslo kom Ness i nära kontakt med konstlivet i huvudstaden, och hans stora intresse för bildkonst ökade snabbt. År 1924 blev han elev vid målarskolan hos Axel Revold. Han tillägnade sig Matisse-skolans idéer, men studerade också gamla mästare som Michelangelo, Rafael och Delacroix m. fl. Han arbetade målmedvetet med den klassiska kompositionens problem för att ge sina figurgrupper fasthet och sammanhang, men utvecklade också en rik och känslig palett av kylig klarhet. Hans förenklade och något kubiserade figurmotiv har en sträng och klassisk resning.

År 1925 fick han stor uppmuntran genom att bli antagen till, och få bra recensioner på, den traditionella höstutställningen. Tiden därefter delade han mellan järnvägen och måleriet. Så småningom sålde han några av sina verk, och han fick också ett större uppdrag med utsmyckning av Østensjø skola i Oslo.

De sista åren av sitt liv var hans produktion hektiskt och involverade flera verk som kommit att räknas som klassiska: De tre ryttere, Gjöglere, Seierherren, Selvportrett, etc.

Hösten 1927 kunde han till sist förverkliga sin dröm om att resa till Paris, men han led av tuberkulos och dog en månad senare, den 13 december 1927 endast 25 år gammal. Den 2 januari 1928 begravdes han på Lademoen kyrkogården .

År 1965 uppkallades en gata efter honom i Nardo (Steindal/Othilienborg) i Trondheim, Bjarne Ness veg.

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Bra Böckers lexikon, 1978

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Thinking about pink balls
[Note to readers. This post may appear to do with cricket. Perhaps it does. But it's about more than that].
I had to smile when I first came across what Douglas Adams had to say about our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
I tried to interpret the word "technologies" as broadly as possible, looking for areas where his description matched my reaction to something. And the first one I came up with was cricket. I realised that my attitude to cricket could be summed up in his words. Test cricket? Fine. County and regional? Of course. One-day? As long as it's the 50 or 60 over variety. Day/night? Pshaw. Pfui. Balls coloured other than red? Over my dead body. Clothes coloured other than white? When hell freezes over.
Until I thought about my attitude to cricket through the lens described by Adams, I considered myself a fairly progressive person. Since reading what he'd had to say, I've been working on that attitude, not just to do with cricket but to do with life in general. [That's a general principle for me. I may write about music or food or sport or work or books or whatever, but what I'm usually trying to do is to understand something else about life].
So it took me a while to get used to people wearing pyjamas on the cricket field. It took me as long to get used to a night game and a white ball. I'm still getting used to T20.
And now.
Now comes a real test. A Test test. There's a day-night Test in Edgbaston this coming summer. The ball used will probably be pink. Will I try and go? Will I even be willing to watch it?
Hmmm. There's a part of me that says I should harrumph through my moustache, if I had one — that I should return some prize or honour, resign from somewhere, refuse something. Protest somehow.
But I won't listen to that part. I don't. Not any more.
[A digression. I don't like DRS. Not DRS per se, which I'm fine about: but the way it has been implemented leaves much to be desired. The way the technology providers were chosen and imposed. The madness of the way "umpire's call" has been protected. Stuff like that. I don't feel any less progressive for disliking the way DRS has been implemented].
When I heard that day-night Test cricket was on its way, I decided I wanted to understand more about how changes like the 60 over game, the 50 over game, the 20 over game, day-night cricket, the wearing of pink pyjamas, the DRS, and so on, had actually affected the game.
The first pink-ball Test was actually Test number 2190. Does it mean the end of Test cricket as I know it? What could I learn from all that had gone earlier? Here are some of my observations:
We're playing a lot of Test cricket. In the last seven years, we would have played about the same number of Tests that we played in the first seventy years of Test cricket. Test attendances may appear to be in decline, at least anecdotally, but just try getting a ticket for an Ashes Test in London and you may get a different view. I have debentures at Lords and at the Oval just to make sure I get to see all the touring teams.
I regularly hear assertions that the short game is somehow corrupting the long game, "twittering" cricket if I may be allowed to mangle the term that way. So I looked at the data.
Test number 2243 is being played right now. Since the Second World War, the number of games drawn as a percentage of games played looks like this:
1950-59: 31.1%
Surely fewer games drawn is a good thing. While I cannot draw a causal relationship between the short-form game and the improvement in the percentage of games not ending in a draw, it is a reasonable indicator of the health of the long game.
The first ever individual 300+ scores were compiled in the 1930s. So I took a look at the Tests-per-300 ratio, again by decade, concentrating on Tests since the Second World War:
1950-59: 2 triple centuries, 82 Tests per triple
1970-79: 1 triple century, 198 Tests per triple
1980-89: No triples recorded
2010-16: 7 triple centuries, 42.7 Tests per triple
So the number of Tests taken to score a triple century is the lowest it's been since 1950. In fact there's only one decade ever (1930-39) where the ratio was lower, and it's an outlier for a number of reasons. If the short game is spoiling the concentration of the batsmen then it's hard to understand how this trend is being evinced.
If I look at the RPO or runs-per-over data this is what it looks like:
1950-59: 2.3
1960-69: 2.49
So the batsmen are scoring more runs per over than they did before, they're taking fewer Tests to churn out triple centuries, and more of the Tests are getting to a non-draw result than ever before. What's not to like?
Not everyone is a fan of such quantitative ways of looking at the game. Some people prefer to complain that the game's not the same, that something classic, something essential to the game, has "gone" with all the changes. It's hard to deal with such statements, but here's my personal take:
There was a time when the job of a Test opening batsman was to see the shine of the ball off, to batten the hatches while the pace bowlers tired themselves out. There was a time when batsmen were expected to "play themselves in", to get used to the pitch and to the ball and to the conditions; this playing-in time was measured in overs, sometimes hours.
Along came people like Jayasuriya and Sehwag, and suddenly playing-in time became a myth. They started scoring freely from the moment they walked in. I don't have good scientific evidence that there's a causal relationship between the advent of the short game and the emergence of this phenomenon, but it seems unarguable. Limited-overs games aren't particularly accommodating of playing-in time. It's also nice to notice that both Jayasuriya and Sehwag have triple centuries to their names.
There was a time when there were no cross-bat strokes expected on the playing field, when Test cricketers played copybook cricket. Now we have strokes like the reverse sweep and the overhead thump over the wicketkeeper's head. Good batsmen still play largely copybook cricket, but their repertoire has increased.
There was a time when bowlers were expected to be poor fielders and even poorer batsmen. Nowadays you see relay fielding and relay catching being considered normal, where one fielder stops a ball and another throws it back, or one rescues the ball back into the field of play and another catches it. Fielders have become a lot fitter and use techniques learnt largely from the short game. And bowlers can bat. Teams now bat all the way down the card.
All in all, when you look at modern Test cricket from a qualitative viewpoint, the batting's better, the fielding's better, the bowling's better, all showing signs of having learnt from the short game.
I cannot spend this much time talking about how progressive thinking is changing the world of cricket for the better without mentioning Cage Cricket.
Yup. Cage cricket.
A six-player one-winner enclosed-space form of the game, designed to be gender-neutral.
Okay, I hear you. Harrumph in your moustache. Resign from your clubs. Return your OBE. Have your Victor Meldrew moment. Go on.
Once you've done that, please go take a look at the game.
And then look at these photographs I've just googled (my thanks to the originators of the photographs, I claim no authorship, just the use of search strings for street cricket).
Still think that Cage Cricket is all wrong? People have called it all sorts of things, in India I've heard terms like para cricket or galli cricket. What matters is that we lower the barriers to entry, get children involved early. Not in watching but in participating. Making it possible for them to play without having to have a cricket pitch or 22 players. Making it possible for them to learn, to develop, and even to compete at world level. Designed to suit the world they inhabit. With peer respect and feedback built in, gender-agnostic.
If you want to learn more about Cage Cricket, just go to the web site and click on Learn More. Simple as that.
It's not just about cricket. These are things we have to get better at for everything: lowering barriers to entry, adapting to the world our children live in, building things that are relevant to their context, designing to enfranchise all.
I started with a quote from Douglas Adams, ostensibly to do with technology. I think I'll end with a quote from Roy Amara, as quoted by Robert X Cringely:
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
As I suggested at the start of this post, be generous in your interpretation of "technology".
It's a systematic treatment for something. It comprises tools and practices. It is based on some real knowledge, based on scientific methods of collection and testing.
I like what Kevin Kelly said about it many years ago, that "technology" is a means of speeding up evolution.
So nowadays, when I learn about a new technology, I check for myself. Am I falling into the trap of looking through the Adams lens? Am I discarding everything recent for everything I am used to, staying in my comfort zone? Am I falling into the trap of not seeing Amara's Law in action? Am I overestimating short-run impacts while underestimating the long-run ones?
Am I basing all this on data? Reliable data? Data that stands up to corroboration, to source verification, data where I understand the basis of collection and analysis?
Otherwise it's not cricket.
Author JPPosted on December 29, 2016 December 29, 2016 Categories Four pillars
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timharrap says:
On the ball JP. "Designed to suit the world they inhabit"
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Modi's Demonetisation Two Years On: Economic Necessity or Political Ploy?
Two years ago today, India's prime minister Narendra Modi, took the radical step to take all 500- and 1,000-rupee notes out of circulation in a bid to tackle 'black money' in the Indian economy. Twenty-four months on, Bhaskar Pant asks if that decision was motivated by politics rather than economics.
We are two years on, but the fallout from Narendra Modi's announcement that his government would be perusing a policy of Demonetisation feels like yesterday: the decline in wages, the queues outside banks, the hit to farmers and the agricultural industry, the spike in job losses for those working in unorganised retail, the 1.5 million jobs lost and the 150 million people left without pay for weeks across India.
The currency notes that were demonetised on November 8, 2016, have finally been counted and accounted for by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), according to its annual report for the year 2017-18. The report states that currency notes amounting to Rupees 15.31 lakh crores have returned to the banking system. These numbers represent around 99.3 per cent of the total currency notes that were in circulation when Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of 500- and 1,000- rupee notes. At the time of the decision, the total value of these high-value currency notes in circulation was Rupees 15.45 lakh crores.
This policy was taken with the motive that a substantial amount of the demonetised currency would not come back into the banking system. This would in effect show that some part of the 'black money' in the India economy, which was not accounted for, would be eliminated from the system. However, as the RBI report showed almost all of the demonetised currency has come back into the system, raising the question of whether there was any economic rationale at all behind such a disruptive monetary decision.
Demonetisation, as a measure to restrain black money, has been in existence for a long time in the world of economic policy. There is not much evidence however on the relationship between demonetisation and the subsequent reduction in black money. Many leading economists including Arun Kumar, C. Rammanohar Reddy and Raghuram Rajan have observed this trend and the previous attempts at demonetisation undertaken in other countries, such as North Korea, Myanmar and Nigeria revealed that after the initial period of demonetisation, the previous situation tends to repeat itself.
In India, demonetisation caused a commotion at a time when there was macroeconomic stability in the country. It was imposed on the people of India during normal economic and political conditions. There was no immediate economic necessity for demonetising 86 per cent of legal currency in the country. The government did not rely on the usual practices of providing more scientific data to garner enough support from the public to achieve a predefined policy goal of implementing a policy like demonetisation. The RBI was kept in the shadows, which in turn has undermined its position as the country's foremost monetary institution.
Demonetisation essentially was a tool to manipulate public opinion by the government. The political actors 'deliberately portray problems' in a calculated manner in order to gain support for their viewpoint. Yaron Ezrahi has explained this by looking at 'political deliberations', which are not limited to the substance of policies that are selected by the government. There is a clear political objective when decisions are made about how to identify problems in certain social conditions. The identification of policy problems, similar to the policies designed to deal with them, are essentially guided by political objectives. The selection of policy problems and the way they are defined is a way to win support from the electorate, distract attention from other existing problems, and express electoral commitments that were made.
There was a strong political motivation behind demonetisation and it was not driven by good economics. Narendra Modi had promised to return black money from foreign tax havens as an election promise in 2014 and redistribute it amongst the poor. However, despite taking a series of measures being less fruitful than expected, the prime minister wanted to portray demonetisation as a demonstration of his commitment against corruption and black money.
Demonetisation also comes across as more of a political ploy to undermine opposition funding and, in turn, benefit the ruling party in elections. The decision taken by the government indeed has political underpinnings: the policy is a continuation from the past experiences of demonetisation in India. Both the 1946 and 1978 Demonetisation exercises were highly political in nature and were not driven by any economic inevitability.
The framing of demonetisation highlighted a strong relationship between cash and black money, which was not supported by any economic evidence. The RBI report is the final nail in the coffin. The government though is still adamant and claims that Demonetisation has achieved its objectives of reducing black money, fake currency, terrorist financing and promoting digital transactions.
Perhaps the biggest consequence of demonetisation is that a dangerous precedent in a democracy like India of unilateral decision-making in monetary affairs has been set. A consequence, we will only be able to see the effects of in the long-term.


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Lawmakers take steps to stop revenge porn
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
Hollie Troups of Texas had semi-nude photos uploaded onto Texxxan.com by a former boyfriend and was embarrassed. A friend found them.
"It's pictures of explicit photos that people posted and she said 'you're on there,'" Troups said.
The Senate Public Safety Committee has unanimously approved a bill that would criminalize revenge porn, making it a misdemeanor for those who electronically distribute photos of a sexual nature without the other person's consent with the intent of harassing or humiliating. Offenders can be jailed up to one year and fined $1,000.
State Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, is leading the effort because the threat of a civil lawsuit doesn't seem to be enough of a deterrent.
"They are concerned about going to jail, so hopefully this raises the bar enough where people will think twice before engaging in this behavior because it ruins people's lives," he said.
But First Amendment groups have some concerns. The Electronic Frontier Foundation agrees the revenge porn problem needs to be addressed, just not the way Cannella is going about it.
"It also criminalizes victimless instances and that's a problem with the First Amendment; whenever you try to criminalize speech, you have to do so with the most narrowly tailored way possible," spokesperson Nate Cordozo said.
Victims just don't want their private pictures to go public.
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The Cannella measure seems to be gaining bi-partisan momentum. While other states do have similar proposals, only New Jersey has a law in place making revenge porn illegal.


Curated by François Bovier & Balthazar Lovay, with the participation of the graphic designers Clément Chavanne and Alexis Hominal.
In 1969, Karlheinz Hein launches P.A.P. (Progressive Art Production), a commercial initiative based in Munich and dedicated to experimental cinema. A genre that is thriving, but is not yet integrated in the art market. P.A.P intends to seize this opportunity and takes part in art fairs and promote a catalogue, for instance at Art Basel in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Hein, joined later by Dieter Meier, won't meet success. Their program was based on a demanding selection, and the movies come from the underground culture. The art market didn't show enough interest in P.A.P. 's catalogue.
Nowadays, as experimental cinema has found a place in the art world and when any gallery roster promotes an experimental filmmaker, Fri Art, with the help of François Bovier, wish to commit with a tribute to this « Filmgalerie ». Unpublished archival documents are shown with a selection of films by the filmmakers such as Kurt Kren, Takahiko Iimura, HHK Schoenherr or Paul Sharits, among others.
Malcolm Le Grice, Little Dog for Roger (1968) 13 min.
Stephen Dwoskin, Me Myself and I (1967) 18 min.
Stephen Dwoskin, Alone (1963) 13 min.
Kurt Kren, 8/64 Ana - Action Brus (1964) 2 min.
Kurt Kren, 6/64 Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl) (1964) 4 min.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ever since coach Kenny Atkinson arrived in Brooklyn, the Nets have been all about ball movement and playing with the pass.
A quarter of the way into this season, they're finally starting to get back to what was supposed to be in their DNA all along.
"That's just what we do as a ballclub," Taurean Prince said as the Nets prepared to face the Hornets on Friday. "Our organization is based on passing, getting everybody the ball, making the right plays. And I think we do a good job of that."
Well, they are doing a good job of it now, after doing a hideous job of it early on.
The Nets handed out 26 assists in Wednesday's 130-118 win at Atlanta, including 10 in a fourth quarter in which they scored 39 points.
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"We shared the ball well in the second half. … Kenny's done a great job of letting people know what he wants them to do, and we've bought into it," Garrett Temple said. "I think we did a great job. I want to say that, in the first half, we scored decently, but we didn't share it much.
"In the second half, we shared it a lot, a lot of extra passes. Most of the time when you make the extra pass, you get an open shot, and we did a great job of knocking them down. It starts with everybody. A lot of people had over four assists, which is great. The whole team offensively shared the ball."
They've gotten back to sharing over the past week or two.
The Nets sat just 23rd in the NBA in assists (22.6) and 24th in assist points (56.4) through their first 16 games. But over the past five games, they've vaulted to third in both categories.
That has helped them balance out the offense, with four starters scoring 20 points against the Hawks and three handing out at least four assists.
With Kyrie Irving and Caris LeVert out, they have no choice but to ditch isolation ball for team play.
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"Good, balanced scoring. Moved the ball well, decently. Important for our group," Atkinson said. "We have to do it collectively and guys are doing a good job of that."
Temple has been starting, but Atkinson has also been pulling him early in the first quarter to reinsert him with the reserves, giving the bench scoring punch and ball handling.
Irving (shoulder) is out for Friday's game, the 11th in a row he will have missed. He's doing non-contact work, but hasn't practiced fully yet.
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Israel's dreams of returning to the Davis Cup World Group after a one-year absence were shattered following a 3-2 home defeat to Canada last September.
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Sela has faced Gil once before in the ATP Tour, beating him in the first round of Wimbledon last year.
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Amir Weintraub (199) will play Rui Machado (101) in the second singles match on Friday.
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Andy Ram and Yoni Erlich are currently scheduled to play Joao Sousa and Gastao Elias in the doubles match on Saturday, although Portugal captain Pedro Cordeiro is likely to use at least one of his top two singles players in the showdown depending on Friday's results.
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