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Sadism and the Art of Fiction
12 January 2015 By darkviolin
Butterfly Skin by Sergev Kuznetsov
There is a mass grave outside Port-au-Prince in Haiti, where, as the Telegraph reported, "some of the more than 220,000 victims of the January 12, 2010 earthquake lie." As this review is being written, news outlets are doing their best to wrest attention to Haiti from the horror of terrorist attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which resulted in the deaths of a dozen French citizens. It is perhaps an understandable challenge.
One might theorize a similar struggle when a novelist weighs the benefits of a story set in the Soviet Union of World War II, where perhaps 20 million died (around 8.7 million military deaths), versus a plot based on a modern day serial killer of women responsible for fewer than a dozen deaths. Both are daunting, both must examine the worst and the darkest elements of human character — sanctioned or otherwise — both must deliver sufficient evil to be true to their subjects. But the novelist who chooses the serial killer is likely to be held to a higher standard. The term "prurient" is not typically applied to wartime storytelling.
Sergey Kuznetsov's Butterfly Skin (translated by Andrew Bromfield for Titan Books @TitanBooks) takes on this assignment, with the added difficulty of alternating the narration between perpetrator, victims, acquaintances and business partners. Imagine ending the first chapter with
Days like this are excruciating for me. In order to cope somehow, I start remembering the women I have killed.
At times Kuznetsov works against stereotype. Where a serial killer must be demonized and made to seem a completely damaged personality existing beneath a veneer of normalcy, with 2.5 kids and a discontented but unobservant wife, he sometimes succeeds in creating a self-aware, articulate agent of intermittent — not unremitting – evil. One able to write
. . . there will always be some do-gooder who will hear the screams and knock on the gate in the tall fence and ask what is going on. . . I would like to take him by the hand and lead him over to where the girl is lying naked, like someone on a nudist beach. She knows she is going to die soon. I would like to tell him to squat down and look into her eyes. That is what terror looks like, I would tell him, that is what despair looks like when it condenses so much that you can touch it. Do not be afraid, touch her hand, touch the slippery watering spheres of her eyes. I will give you one of them as a souvenir, if you like.
But also giving the character broad strokes from the ordinary palette:
When we separated I was 24 and she was 27, but now it seems to me that we were complete children who knew nothing of our own desires and were afraid of our own feelings. I wanted to be a rock star and she wanted to be a zoologist like her mother. She's ended up as a manager in a large Western firm that produces animal feed. I guess that's zoology too.
The novel, apparently first published in 2004, contains many passages that will be familiar to Westerners, especially life in web development and web agency firms in the same era. Putin's there, and Chechnya as is the acceptance and cynicism of Russians, and a lacing of Hollywood (Silence of the Lambs, Terminator, Natural Born Killers. OK, but also Russ Meyers' Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! with its 79% Rotten Tomatoes positive, prurient rating) that borders on envy if not outright idolatry.
Whether the antagonist's argument that the erotically self-aware Ksenia, final object of his desires is, as he claims, ". . . my second half, the female hypostasis of the alien who lives in my chest" is effective for readers of the crime genre is unknowable. The texture of Butterfly Skin, unlike its smooth title, is a quilt — and some will say patchwork. There are passages of prose poetry, letters, pulp psychiatry, dialog, business plans and social commentary. To make it all hang together, given the brutality (and, to this Western reviewer's sensibilities, sometimes sexist) elements, would take a writer at the top of his game, not to mention a steadfast conviction for the novel's vision.
The novel is recommended for lovers of this genre, and perhaps only them. The reason: its aspiration to somehow transcend erotic idiosyncrasy to lay bare a common fascination with the SexDeath God. Kuznetsov's God is not the God of Haiti's earthquake, with its vast maiming and death. It is a God that activates unbidden desires for which no prayers will be spoken.
Writers who accept such assignments must contend with contrary truths. Only the living can enjoy such worship, and not only the males of the species. The SexDeath God must speak with believable realism of torture and yet invoke the recesses of imagination where such worship becomes truly erotic.
She has a nice smile, thinks Alexei, innocent and at the same time somehow . . . And he falls asleep without finding the right word, falls asleep picturing Marina smiling, falls asleep hugging his wife, with his face buried in her hair, gold and silver, gold and silver, ghostly light pouring in through the window.
Image credit: Titan Books. Advance copy courtesy of Amazon Vine and the publisher.
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Then along came SA Airlink and they made the seemingly impossible, a reality!!
Back in June this year, the news was first made public that SA Airlink will "officially" be commencing with scheduled flights between the Pretoria based airport and Cape Town International, and to make a sceptics' scepticism all the more sceptical, they provided us with an EXACT date of commencement! 16th August 2015… Could this really be happening? Will Wonderboom Airport finally see stable, steady and consistent operation of scheduled passenger flights? Optimists and pessimists alike had their share of comments and opinions on this, ranging from high hopes to "probably not going to happen anyway". To make matters even worse, the once again fuel shortage issue almost derailed the idea at the start of August, further fuelling pessimism.
To everyone's' surprize and amazement, 16th August came, and the day saw the actual commencement of SA Airlink's scheduled flights!! Cars and eager viewers started lining up alongside the airport as early as 15:00, but the rush really came around 17:30, 15 minutes before the scheduled departure of 17:45. Just after 18:00, the RJ85 silently rolled her weight off the apron and onto the taxiway heading for runway 29. The flight did depart a tad late (18:05), but at least it was not cancelled! Yay!! Wonderboom Airport is finally turning into every little boys' (and mans') dream!
The airport has a fence (not a wall) that runs the entire length of the 29/11 runway and bends around the threshold of runway 11. This airport has always attracted a few members of public and enthusiasts who come to enjoy a nice relaxing afternoon of aircraft viewing. But with the arrival and departure of larger aircraft and possibly even larger in the near future with increased frequency, the magnetic effect will be even more so! The public will flock to the airport over weekends to get their dosage of PLANES!! And from that, hundreds of little dreamers will stand in admiration, with dreams and aspirations being born for the future where it would otherwise have become a dying flame! Sometimes all that is needed is an "oversized" catalyst to fuel that fire… Hopefully, the fence STAYS a fence! Or as I would put it, it BETTER stay a fence! From a pilot perspective, sharing airspace with these bulky planes will be a lovely change and an awe-filled experience! Can't wait to get that Sling2 in the air and share the skies with them!
Sundays and Mondays will see one flight only from PTA to CPT and back (SA8673 departing PTA at 17:45 and SA8676 departing CPT at 17:30).
Tuesdays through to Friday will see two flights from each airport (SA8675 departing PTA at 06:45, SA8673 departing PTA at 17:45, SA8670 departing CPT at 06:45, SA8676 departing CPT at17:30).
Up to this point and surely only for the time being, Saturdays will not see any flights between the two airports and are displayed on the bookings as N/A, but as days of operation goes by and demand increases (hopefully), flight numbers might increase, and then we hope it will be a snowball effect from there. More flights per day, more destinations, more upgrades at the airport followed by more operators and possibly 737's flying from Wonderboom, and then who knows what follows!
If Airlink can consistently maintain a steady and profitable operation out of Wonderboom, the expansion possibilities for what was once only a training and charter airport, seems endless! In the meantime, we can only hope for the best!


nice color contrasts between the blues and the green/red of the apple. Great composition as well.
I really like these acrylic paintings that you have been doing...very colorful and expressive!
This is very charming and appealing. Love the colors and the subject matter, what is it about a stack of cups that feels so good?


Was thinking about getting the smoke effect for my zerker but only one of the axes gets red hot during the execution. Think this could be added anytime soon?
Several players have previously made us aware that only one of the axes will glow with the effect. We've made sure the feedback was forwarded to the team to look over.


Plenary talk given by David Hawking at The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011, held at the University of Reading from Tuesday 26th to Wednesday 27th July 2011.
Universities in the UK have contributed enormously to the country and the worl: Around 200 Nobel Prizes: Radar, jet engines, computing, DNA, crystallography, medicine An educated and tolerant society, Arts, Science, Engineering, Literature, Human Rights, Economics, Politics, Reality TV .... perhaps we should forget the last two!
Higher Education in Australia, NZ and the UK is chronically short of funds to maintain the tradition of research excellence, to educate higher proportions of the population, and to provide trained workers for government, industry, business and higher education. In all three countries Universities have turned to fee-paying foreign students to bridge the funding gap. In the process they have contributed mightily to national economies. Governments are increasingly looking to students to fund the cost of their tertiary education and increasing the competition between higher education institutions.
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After lunch we had to our zips located on the same park. Guides will adorn you with proper zipline atire (helmet, harness) and off you go. The Chicken Run! This first line is our shortest and lowest and gets you used to what the tour is like. After your tour of the zips we head back to the parking lot where we re-board your van for your travel to the beautiful maya ruins of Altun Ha.
We were a bit worried about time and the amount to do but this was well worth it! An amazing experience at an unbelievable price!
Our booked excursion was Belize City Tour, Belize Cave Tubing from cave #3, and Altun Ha Mayan City. My wife and I took our 1st Carnival Cruise and booked all of our Excursions on-line separate from the ones offered by Carnival Cruises. When we arrived in Belize we were met at the dock by our 2 tour guides Roberto and Abner (Abby) with Belize Fun Tours. Our only real big concern besides having lots of fun was to make sure we got back to the dock to board the ship before it left for the next port. Roberto immediately set our minds at ease already knowing exactly when we had to be back and which part of the tour to do first and how much time we had at each leg of the tour. We started with the Belize City Tour as we headed out for the Belize Cave Tubing. Both Roberto and Abner were a wealth of knowledge of the City of Belize, their Country and the Mayan People. Both were very friendly, out-going, courteous and entertaining the entire tour. Abner was our main guide on the Belize Cave tubing part of the tour. It took us maybe 20 minutes to hike to cave #3. He talked to us all the way to the cave entrance telling us all about the history of the caves and the National park we were hiking through. He then attached all of our tubes together and assisted us all the way through the caves, telling us all about them as we floated through them. We were a little bit ahead of schedule as we headed out for the Mayan ruins. We stopped at a local restaurant in which Roberto treated us to an authentic Mayan lunch of rice bean and chicken. Very delicious!!! Once arriving at the Mayan Ruins Roberto gave us both an unbelievably great tour with a wealth of information about the ruins and its ancient inhabitants. I thought he must have actually lived amongst the Mayans because he knew so much about the people and the ancient ruins. My wife actually got in a little bit of shopping and we made it back to the ship with 45 minutes to spare. Anyone using Belize Fun Tours, I would recommend highly these 2 tours guides Roberto and Abner with Belize Fun tours. They were both totally outstanding in every way. Also my wife and I were the only 2 that showed up for this tour and they still took us on the tour (an outstanding private tour as it was) which I know wasn't very cost effective and I know for a fact that many other tours would not have done that for just 2 people . Many thanks to these two tour guides and Belize Fun Tours for helping to make our vacation Awesome!!
This was a great way to get our week in Belize started! I emailed Lou at Belize Fun Tours to see if he could set up a tour for our group of 6 and he promptly got back to me with a date. I had a little trouble booking online (it could have been me not understanding the booking process), but Lou was always available via email to walk me through it.
We had our own private tour and Neal, our Tour Guide, promptly picked us up at the Water Taxi stand at 8 a.m. We boarded the van and as we drove, he gave us information on the area, history and the people of Belize.
Contrary to what was on the website as the itinerary, he chose to first take us to Altun Ha to tour the Mayan ruins. It was a good decision because we not only avoided the crowds, but also arrived in the morning before the heat of the day. Impressive!
Next we drove to where we would be ziplining and cave tubing. All the time, Neal gave us more information and answered all our questions. Even though it is a bit of a long ride, it didn't seem so bad when you had such a personable guide.
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After Zip Lining we had a delicious meal and time to relax.
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Meet Your Music Maker: What He Has Accomplished | Advocacy
In: Music maker
After studying the copyright landscape, the US Copyright Office (USCO) unveiled what it thinks are best practices for the Mechanical Licensing Collective, nearly 160 pages long.
USCO just released "Unclaimed Royalties: Best Practice Recommendations for the Mechanical Licensing Collective," a list of operational recommendations for the MLC, which has absorbed more than $ 420 million in unpaid royalties from digital service providers (DSPs) in last february.
Before diving into the whole document, it should be recalled a key element of the Music Modernization Act of 2018, specifies that the MLC must "hold the accumulated royalties associated with particular musical works (and parts of works) which remain unmatched for a period of at least 3 years after the date the funds were received. "
Indeed, USCO recommends delaying the launch of this window. USCO says MLC should apply the three-year period from when unmatched usage appears in the claims portal, and not just when funds are received. This, the report says, is in the spirit of thoroughness and thoroughness as opposed to sheer speed. And even then, the report recommends that the decision to distribute unclaimed royalties be tied to specific criteria.
The Recording Academy has long demanded that the MLC keep royalties for as long as possible to match them with the right songwriter, including longer than the legal minimum. USCO agrees with that and is proposing to maintain the first distribution of unclaimed royalties for at least five years, which, as Fairness for Music Creators puts it, is a major victory.
The need for accurate and correct data also aligns with the mission of the Academy, especially that of the Producers and Engineers wing. This symbiosis of values is evident in the frequent citation of the Recording Academy throughout the USCO study.
For example, the report quotes the Academy's director general of advocacy and public policy, Todd Dupler, as saying: "[I]If you are going to be wrong, you should be wrong by waiting a little too long to give songwriters a chance to find their money instead of doing it a little too early before they do. The Board agrees with commentators and recommends that if the MLC is going to err, it should err on the side of retaining unclaimed royalties longer. "
In its commitment to engage and educate songwriters wherever they are, the Academy has partnered with the MLC for a series of chapter-by-chapter webinars. As such, this development marks only their last confluence between the two entities.
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Brian McGrane Releases 'When We Were Young'
Brian McGrane is heading for Dublin this spring with his first ever headline show in Whelan's on Friday April 3rd. Following the success of his previous single, 'Take Your Time', the young Navan based Singer-Songwriter has just released a brand new single 'When Were Were Young' on Friday November 8th). This was his 7th single in 12 months, with each surpassing the last.
The song talks about personal childhood memories and experiences that never leave us. "I remember my parents making our breakfast, cleaning our shoes and making sure our school uniforms were clean and respectable for the week ahead. On a frosty winters morning, the bus would pull up and we would run out, hop on and wave goodbye to our mother in the bay window."
The song is really simply produced, with organic acoustic guitars surround with atmospheres and tight punchy percussion. Brian wrote & produced the song at his home studio in Navan Co. Meath and left the mixing in the capable hands Malahide based producer Billy Farrell. Coming into the winter, Brian is writing more material and will launch his 2nd EP at his headline show in Whelan's in Dublin on Friday April 3rd 2020. Touring extensively with the likes of Celtic Woman, Brian Kennedy, and more recently the Celtic Tenors, he has been given the opportunity to perform solo in-front of thousands or people around the world. "It is an opportunity which I am extremely grateful for, and it allows me to grow my own audience while touring with a high profile Irish act."
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Q: How to reposition my endless runner game world every 1000 units to prevent float overflow in Unity using C#? I heard that generally it is a good idea in an endless runner to reset game world to origin once player goes further and further away from origin. I am currently making an endless runner and want to incorporate this but not sure how to do it. How can I reposition my game every 1000 units?
Not sure which part of my game code will help for answering the question so I am posting most of my code (Hope that is okay). If more information is needed (Such as editor stuff), please let me know. Also if there is anything I can do better code wise then please me know that also. I'd really appreciate that. Thanks!
CameraController.cs
public Transform player;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void LateUpdate()
    {
        transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, player.transform.position.z);
    }

PlayerController.cs
private Vector3 startPos;
private Vector3 endPos;

[SerializeField] private float currentSpeed;
[SerializeField] private float targetSpeed;
[SerializeField] private float acceleration;

private static bool isDead = false;
public GameOverMenu gameOverMenu;

public CameraShake cameraShake;

private int maxRightX = 4;
private int maxLeftX = -4;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    isDead = false;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if (isDead)
        return;

    transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * currentSpeed);

    if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
        startPos = Input.mousePosition;
    }

    if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
    {
        endPos = Input.mousePosition;

        Swipe();
    }

    if (currentSpeed < targetSpeed)
        currentSpeed += Time.deltaTime * acceleration;
}

void Swipe()
{
    Vector2 distance = endPos - startPos;
    if(Mathf.Abs(distance.x) > Mathf.Abs(distance.y))
    {
        if(distance.x > 0 && transform.position.x < maxRightX)
        {
            transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x + 2.0f, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
        }
        else if (distance.x < 0 && transform.position.x > maxLeftX)
        {
            transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x - 2.0f, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
        }
    }
}

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Obstacle"))
    {
        Death();
    }
}

private void Death()
{
    StartCoroutine(cameraShake.Shake(0.2f, 0.2f));
    isDead = true;
    gameOverMenu.ToggleGameOverMenu();
}

GroundManager.cs
public GameObject groundPrefab;

private Transform playerTransform;
private float spawnZ = -15.0f;
private float groundLength = 15.0f;
private int numofGroundOnScreen = 5;

private List<GameObject> activeGrounds = new List<GameObject>();

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    playerTransform = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;

    for(int i = 0; i < numofGroundOnScreen; i++)
    {
        SpawnGround();
    }
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if(playerTransform.position.z - groundLength * 2 > (spawnZ - numofGroundOnScreen * groundLength))
    {
        SpawnGround();
        RemoveGround();
    }
}

private void SpawnGround()
{
    GameObject go;
    go = Instantiate(groundPrefab);
    activeGrounds.Add(go);
    go.transform.SetParent(transform);
    go.transform.position = new Vector3(go.transform.position.x, -0.5f, spawnZ);
    spawnZ += groundLength;
}

private void RemoveGround()
{
    Destroy(activeGrounds[0]);
    activeGrounds.RemoveAt(0);
}

EnemyManager.cs
public GameObject enemy;

private Transform playerTransform;
private float spawnZ = 25.0f;
private float rateOfSpawn;
private float nextSpawn = 0;
int[] posXList = new int[] { -4,-2, 0, 2, 4 };

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    playerTransform = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    rateOfSpawn = Random.Range(0.5f, 1.0f);

    if (Time.time > nextSpawn)
    {
        nextSpawn = Time.time + rateOfSpawn;
        EnemySpawn();
    }

}

void EnemySpawn()
{
    GameObject go;
    go = Instantiate(enemy);
    go.transform.SetParent(transform);
    int index = Random.Range(0, posXList.Length);
    int randPositionX = posXList[index];
    go.transform.position = new Vector3(randPositionX, 0, playerTransform.position.z + spawnZ);

}

A: If you're really looking to move the player rather than the world, you could try using transform.SetParent() to temporarily attach your ground (any anything else that needs to stay still in relation to the player) to the player.  If you arrange the hierarchy right, you can probably then move the player to origin, and finally detach the ground and other components.
If you were doing this in a method whenever the player gets 1000+ units from origin, you might be able do this transition smoothly.

A: Taking the idea of this answer the code might look like this e.g. in PlayerController
[SerializeField] private float resetThreshold = 1000;

void Update()
{
    ...

    if(Mathf.Abs(transform.position.x) > resetThreshold)
    {
        ResetWorlsPosition();
    }
}

private void ResetWorldPosition()
{
    // First get all root gameObjects of all scenes
    // Remember their original scene, we need that later
    var sceneByRootObject = new Dictionary<Transform, Scene>();

    for (var i = 0; i < SceneManager.sceneCount; i++)
    {
        // Get loaded scene by load index
        var scene = SceneManager.GetSceneAt(i);
        // Iterate through all root objects
        foreach(var root in scene.GetRootGameObjects())
        {
            // Store the root and to which scene it belongs
            sceneByRootObject.Add(root, scene);
        }
    }

    // Iterate through them and make them all a child of the player (this) object
    // keeping their current transforms
    foreach (var root in rootObjects.Keys)
    {
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It has been twenty-six years since the death of Mohammed Rafi, in August of nineteen-eighty, but his songs are still listened to by a large section of music-loving people. He can be considered the most important male vocalist ever to have appeared on the film music horizon. He ruled film singing in the decades of the nineteen-fifties and sixties, and managed to survive in the seventies despite the rapidly-changing musical taste.
Born in a village Kotta Sultansingh in the Punjab, he moved to Lahore and spent the formative period of his life in the city working as a barber in a family enterprise. But his heart lay in music, and he moved in and mixed freely with the music circles, picking up the finer aspects of singing from a number of well known singers and musicians of Lahore. Since the days of Akbar, when Lahore was made capital for more than ten years, it had become a major centre of culture. During the colonial period, too, Lahore retained that distinction, and provided a stream of talent to the emerging cultural centres of Bombay and Calcutta.
The music scene was quite vibrant, and people like Jeevan Lal Mattoo served as connoisseurs and patrons of music in the city. It was in these baithaks and soirees that Mohammed Rafi picked up the finer aspects from Ustads like Abdul Waheed Khan and Chotte Ghulam Ali Khan. Feroz Nizami introduced him to the Radio, in Lahore, before he made his film debut for Shayam Sunder's Punjabi Film 'Gul Baloch' in nineteen-forty-four. The same year he moved to Bombay and was given a break by Naushad in film 'Pehle Aap'.
Film music was the rage when Mohammed Rafi was growing up and most saw a bright future for themselves in this field. Though films had been introduced in the second decade of the twentieth century in India it was actually the talkie that further popularised this already popular new medium, and the main reason for that was the introduction of singing and music. The era of the silent films had driven a wedge between the trinity of drama, dance and music, which had been the characteristic of the performing arts since these were enshrined by Bharat in 'Natshastra', probably by the time the Christian calendar began. People thronged the cinema houses for drama and dance, but they went to the theatre to listen to music. But with the introduction of the talkies in nineteen-thirty-one and the release of 'Alam Ara' the primal trinity was as if restored. Film music became one of the most popular forms of singing in South Asia.
When film music looked for its first real male singer, it found one in Kundan Lal Saigal who dominated its next fifteen years till his untimely death when barely in his forties. The field was left wide open and a number of singers, like Mukesh, Talaat Mehmood and Muhammed Rafi, rushed in to fill the void. Mohammed Rafi proved to be the most popular because of his greater versatility.
Though he was noticed in 'Anmol Garhi' and sang alongside K.L Saigal in 'Shah Jehan', both under the musical direction of Naushad, it was his duet with Noor Jehan in 'Jugnu', composed by Feroz Nizami, that catapulted him as a serious contender to fill the vacant slot of the leading male vocalist. He really arrived as an individual vocalist in 'Mela', where again he sang under the musical direction of Naushad.
Mohammed Rafi had opted to stay in Bombay, a rational decision given the fact that it was the centre of film making in the subcontinent, and he was on the threshold of making his mark. Many, like him, opted for the same and rose to the pinnacles of fame and fortune. As it happened, with the fog of partition lifting and the gloom of migration and killing gradually becoming history, Naushad opted for Rafi to be his male playback singer in the new creative formations that emerged, generally as playback voice to the leading man Dilip Kumar. This lasted through the nineteen-fifties and the better part of the sixties, till the changing trends in music forced new formations.
Shanker Jaikishen opted for Mukesh as the playback singer for Raj Kapoor in the other big formation of the post-independence Indian cinema, but the other music directors left their options open and often selected Mohammed Rafi to lend his voice to leading men like Dev Anand and Guru Dutt.
Mohammed Rafi was trained in the classical tradition, and when film music moved into top gear, with greater input from the enriched musical heritage, Mohammed Rafi had the credentials to be its chief exponent. In 'Baiju Bawara' he demonstrated his virtuosity and range and in 'Piyasa' the evocative power he could bring to the lyrics. Though he did make a partial transition to a more youthful and playful style that demanded a different kind of musical ability, he was too closely wedded to the classical tradition to wander too far from it. As tastes in film music became even more eclectic and inclusive, music directors started to look out for other voices to meet musical requirements.
In the last couple of decades no male singer has emerged to take Mohammed Rafi's place in films. Though many male voices have appeared and have been introduced, the void created by Mohammed Rafi is still largely vacant. No one has really been able to dominate this field as he did. Times have changed and recording technology has undergone significant transformation as well, displacing the human voice from its predominant position; but even granting all this the musical ability of no one since has been matched Rafi. In film music the greatest asset is versatility and adapting the voice to the requirement of actor and situation. Rafi had this ability and his voice spanned over two generations of actors — Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand followed by Shammi Kapoor, Dhermander, Manooj Kumar and then, in later years, Shashi Kapoor, Amitab Bachan and even Sanjev Kumar.
The greatest advantage of film music was that it was readily available and one did not have to go looking for it. It was a popular form of music, not purist enough to demand specialised attention. It was played every where — from the radio, the wayside hotels, and in khokhas from recording discs which were marketed separately and at reasonable price.
Since music was making a transition from the purist tradition cultivated by individual patrons and the super-virtuosity of master musicians to a more popular level, hemmed in by the limitations of the market and disparate popular expectation, the music composers did a fine job of not letting go of the essentials of their local musical traditions. Mohammed Rafi lived in that phase and, despite innovations and changes, never tinkered with the essentials of the music tradition.
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Thanks for hosting such informative material about The GEM. I have grown listening to Mohammad Rafi all my childhood days. I still remember, in 1980, when I was about 8 years old, I saw my father in wet eyes..it was him who pulled me to Mohammad Rafi, and even today when I am in US, I have carried a luggage of CDs of Mohd Rafi Songs…ranging from Jagriti..Hum laaye hai toofan se kishti nikaal ke…..to…John Jaani Janardan…..I'm sure a big bunch of new heroes have lost their careers in Mohd Rafi's demise..his singing would have made a lot of difference. I can keep writing about Rafi without any end, but just wanted to insert that it is people like Laxmikant Pyarelal and Shankar Jaikishan who were really blessed to be associated with Rafi, as their combination with him produced immortal songs like…Tum mujhe yu bhula na paaoge. I wish for the generations to come Mohammad Rafi lives in the hearts of people across the world.
with rafi saab as because rafi saab was the final measurement of singing. I remember a time when sridevi was on top. I have seen and read there was hardly an enterview of any star that was complete without a line about this roop ki rani. so this is quite natural. Hights of lands are measured from the depth of sea-bottom.
every one want to compare with his singer with Mohd Rafi(as u said Sir) because they are sure 100% that Mohd rafi is that best,As u said 70% fans of other singer they love Mohd rafi Sir I thank and i am sure about that all other singers fans they know that Mohd rafai is better singer .
Sir Nair real I can't understant when some one say that this singer is better than Mohd rafi.
You are correct Kalyani. If we prepare an exhaustive list of Rafians in an alphabetical order, my name would be somewhere in 6002586255 (since it is "N", to be followed by 12 alphabets). The irony is that 70 percent fans of other singers are Rafi lovers; his voice is that irresistible. We have seen many Kishore fans, who wrote in this forum, expressing their appreciation for Rafi. Those who can resist his voice – of course, one can find a few in some forums (what do you say Unknow1?) – have their "sanity malfunctioning".
May I request our administrator for adding more songs in the juke box?
The comments n interactions have become less as many of the Rafians are busy hearing the melody of the MAESTRO . There are innumerable fans outthere and if u look at the Hamara Forums only Rafi sabs site has the maximum visitors.
The last sentence of my previous blog should be read as "thank you so much for all these"; also, line number 6 as "Numbers of articles along with the quality" and line number 11 as "Or, let me go to the extent of asking that".
Rafi Sahab had not left behind a vacuum; his thousands of songs and their sweetness have been pumping air into that vacuum. But I sense emptiness in the blog. It is a paradox. The website has become a kind of source book as well as referencer for any Rafi aficionado. Numbers of articles along the quality, content, and style have a substantial increase, whereas the comments and responses have a sizeable reduction. Should it be taken that visitors are less in number? Or that the new log-in system is scaring? Or, let me go to extent of asking that: is it that now there is any room for debating? Look at the site: the new juke box is something with which one can spend hours in bliss (although a new set of songs would be wonderful); photo album is providing spectacular shades of the life of a legend; videos are simultaneously providing treat to ears as well as eyes. Oh yes! Now, I got it, I mean the reason for the relatively less number of comments – all are enjoying the entertainment provided by our administrator that they hardly get time to write comments. Does it sound like an artificial confidence? Hope it does not. Well, I just wanted say a few words in praise of our administrator.
Thank you so much all these!
another great article but the vacuum n the void created is going to remain forever.
THERE IS NO MATCH FOR THE SAINT N GURU OF PLAYBACK SINGING THAT IS OUR RAFI SAHAB.
Nice article. But…..what does the title mean? Please!
Rafi's adaptation of voice from actor to actor is quite obvious. Here is a song video where he shows this skill on Shashi Kapoor who is playing double role.
« Rafi Sab's merit sings for itself!


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Q: How does a connected Julia set imply a member of the Mandelbrot Set? I'm doing an introductory online course in complex analysis. In one of the lectures its stated that a complex number $c$ belongs to the Mandelbrot Set iff the Julia set $J(z^2 + c)$ is connected.
I also know that a complex number $c$ belongs to the Mandelbrot set iff performing the iteration $z_{n+1} = z^2_n + c, z_0=0$ results in a bounded set of values $z_n$ for all $n$.
Why are these two statements are equivalent?

A: Julia set $J$ is compact, and the exterior component of its complement $D_\infty$ is completely invariant. This means that $f:D_\infty^*\to D_\infty^*$, where $D_\infty^*=D_\infty\cup\{\infty\}$ is a ramified covering. If the critical value $c$ does not belong to $D_\infty$, its orbit is bounded,  and the Riemann-Hurwitz applied to $f:D_\infty^*\to D_\infty^*$
says that $D_\infty^*$ is simply connected so its boundary $J=\partial D_\infty^*$ is connected. If $c\in D_\infty$, then by Riemann-Hurwitz $D_\infty$ is infinitely connected, therefore its boundary is disconnected.
Remark. I recommend that when taking this online course you keep an introductory book besides. The most elementary ones are books by Beardon and by Steinmetz, and the best one is the book by Milnor (freely available on Internet). There is also a book by Carleson and Gamelin, the most advanced one.


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Owner Michael Hathaway will use this 22-seat bus fueled by processed vegetable oil to run a 16-stop route from Kaslo to Vancouver. Photo submitted
Kootenay bus fueled by vegetable oil to begin service next month
Mountain Man Mike's will run routes from Kaslo to Vancouver and eventually Edmonton
Tyler Harper
A new Kootenay bus service featuring vehicles fueled by processed vegetable oil has been given the green light to operate.
Kaslo-based Mountain Man Mike's was approved on May 9 to run two routes by the B.C. Passenger Transportation Board. The first is a weekly Kaslo-to-Vancouver route that will make 16 stops in communities including Nelson, Castlegar and Grand Forks.
Michael Hathaway, the company's owner, said Thursday that he hopes to have his 22-seat bus running to Vancouver by the end of June. Demand for the service is already high, he said, but Hathaway plans to be cautious.
"We are still going to try to take it slow and see what the ridership is because I don't want to bite off too much and then have too much equipment," he said.
The second route approved is an eight-stop weekly route from Kaslo to the B.C.-Alberta border that includes Nelson, Salmo, Creston, Cranbrook and Fernie.
Related: Kootenay man proposes charter bus service fueled by french fry oil
Hathaway said he's negotiating with an Edmonton-based company to pick up passengers at the border and continue on to the Albertan capital, but if that fails he plans on running the service himself. He hopes to have that route open within two weeks of the Vancouver route operating.
Rates have not yet been set, but Hathaway said he expects the trip to Vancouver to cost approximately $100 plus tax, along with a service charge for oversized luggage.
The new inter-city bus routes come after the sudden closure of Nelson's Queen City Shuttle and Charters on Monday. Hathaway said the news has changed his plans for Mountain Man Mike's, and that he wants to have two or three buses running by the end of the year with at least one wheelchair-accessible vehicle.
"Initially we were just going to have one bus and see what the ridership was, but since Monday after Queen City dropped I've been getting phone calls from their clients…," he said. "Originally we were only going to be a Greyhound replacement, but now we're going to apply to take on the charter market as well."
Hathaway's application to the transportation board featured 25 letters of support including one from the office of Hope's Mayor Peter Robb.
It was opposed by Trail-based Silver City Stagelines, which is owned by Fritz Keller and runs a Nelson-to-Kelowna route Sunday to Friday. Silver City is the only other company approved for an inter-city bus route in the West Kootenay after Greyhound closed all of its routes in B.C. last year.
The transportation board acknowledged in its ruling that Hathaway's company may impact Silver City's ridership but the need for service was the greater consideration.
"We find approving the application would promote sound economic conditions in the transportation industry in B.C.," the board wrote in its decision.
Mountain Man Mike's does not yet have a website. Hathaway said questions about rates, bookings and the company's plans can be emailed to mhathaway442@gmail.com, or posted on its Facebook page.
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Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz at Marcelle Alix Paris 08/01/11-05/03/11
Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Michael Dean, Ian Kiaer, Chosil Kil, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
Nothing personal: the title is misleading, since the personal is what the works in the show are all about. We want to pack away the Modernist belief in the autonomy of the artwork, and we also want to celebrate contradiction. Marcelle Alix's inaugural show (Moon Star Love, 14.11.09 – 23.01.10) explored the poetry of the fragmentary form. Here the fragment encounters a generative and powerful idea inherited from feminism: "the personal is political."
We are interested in what "adventurous coherences" (to paraphrase Roger Caillois) the fact of bringing together works by seven very different artists might produce. The artists are diverse, but their work shares a common concern: namely an ability to rework their sources and an interest in the mechanics of art circulation.
How Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz appropriate the historical document to make it resonate with contemporary issues is fascinating. How their film Normal Work (2007)—shown together with a photo archive— relates the complex imagery surrounding two Victorian lovers, divided by class, to contemporary queer culture is startling.
The resistance to standardization, which Hannah Cullwick's character (in its updated version by Boudry & Lorenz) comes to symbolize, necessitates different reinventions of the self. While the duo employs primary figures, such as the dandy to construct a mise-en-scène that celebrates artificiality (as opposed to a natural state), Mathieu K. Abonnenc and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa soberly show sequences of situations from which untypical and hard-to-reconstruct family stories originate. Abonnenc uses the bodies of others to exhibit a piece of jewellery which, despite his lengthy research, still resists him and stands for the expression of power's secret existence. The object is the reproduction of his great-grandfather's ring, which he inherited and lost. The silver ring, ornate with a skull, links the past of a free-mason who lived in Guyana, to the following menacing ideal: "I will maintain through reason or strength" (motto of Counani, the independent Republic of Guyana which attempted to exist outside of the colonial system between 1886 and 1891). The sentence progressively disappears as the material is recast every time the ring is bestowed to a new person, in the present case, the gallery-owner.
Penderosa by Wolukau-Wanambwa is the first formal realization of the artist's recent research in Uganda. This installation recalls a miniature cinema house, as it offers the beholder to look at an image, an almost naïve landscape (much like a Douanier Rousseau's painting), accompanied by a text which underlines the gap between historical knowledge and personal stories. It also subtly evokes the difficulty to produce images.
Chosil Kil, on the other hand, disturbed Korean creeds during an exhibition showcasing different objects belonging to shamans. This endeavour was quite badly interpreted by the Korean public, and, facing growing tension, the artist decided to return the sacred objects and to show their prints instead. The shaman's bell gave way to different works, which were made in the aftermath of the first show: among them, prints on paper (The Second Impressions, 2010) and an unpolished bronze (His Daughter, 2011). Both these works construct the image of an absent object that is voided of its magical function and becomes vulnerable. The acquired sensitivity of the material of the work also makes it quite vulnerable to a formalist interpretation.
In her seminal essay entitled "Minimalism and Biography"[1], Anna C. Chave deconstructs Minimalist orthodoxy by showing that biographical elements were voluntarily left out of 60's art criticism, for political reasons. While Carl Andre would boast "matter matters" and Mel Bochner would insist on the solipsistic character of his works—which more or less constituted the prevailing interpretations of Minimalism until now—Chave suggests that Andre's supposedly impersonal sculptures were tightly linked to his grandfather's history, a mason in Massachusetts. According to Chave, the artist had mentioned his grandfather at several occasions and even claimed that the brick had become a personal emblem.
Michael Dean's dense and tactile sculptures concur with the hypothesis of biographical minimalism. Born in an industrial city in northern England, Dean comes to terms with the origin of his attachment to concrete, quite a history-loaded material. The texts he writes and reads in public express a poetics of an industrial wasteland, and a romanticism of contemporary ruins. They also inform his sculptures, which could be interpreted as immobilized and tense bodies.
On another note, the origin of Ian Kiaer's work can be traced to a form of cultural nomadism, insistent readings of art history and architecture, and to structural obsessions, around which he weaves a reflection on painting. His installation Endless House project: Horta/ Van Eetveld (2008) rearranges a project realised at the Horta House in Brussels, into an anachronistic display which combines desire and fantasy.
To point out working methods which are anchored into social, political and bio-political realities and which express themselves through forms that fully belong to the realm of art.
To understand that an artwork doesn't need to be "politically committed" to be considered life-altering, but that its author's acknowledgement of its integration into a specific social and political context makes it a conscious work, like a mirror which sends everyone back to their own responsibility.
Not to let an artwork leave the studio without any purpose. To feel fully conscious of what type of issue(s) it raises. To be able to hold it, to come to terms with it. This is the role of the artist, but also of the gallery.
[1] The Art Bulletin, mars 2000, p.149-163
Special thanks to: Ben Borthwick, Kate Briggs, castillo/corrales, Julia Mon Cureno, Vanessa Desclaux, Vincent Honoré, Ernesto Sartori, Didier Semin, Chris Sharp, Jessica Vaughan and Alison Jacques Gallery.


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Степан Вікторович Чубенко (11 листопада 1997, Краматорськ, Донецька область, Україна — 27 липня 2014, смт Горбачево-Михайлівка, Моспинська міська рада, Донецьк, Україна) — український школяр і патріот, воротар футбольного клубу «Авангард» (Краматорськ), катований і розстріляний бойовиками проросійської терористичної організації «ДНР» за проукраїнську позицію, народний Герой України (2016, посмертно).

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Вчився у краматорській загальноосвітній школі № 12, захоплювався спортом. Спочатку займався греко-римською боротьбою, потім захопився футболом, захищав ворота юнацької команди «Авангард» з Краматорська, мріяв стати професійним воротарем. Вболівав за донецький «Шахтар», відвідував його матчі в Донецьку, їздив з командою по іншим містам України. З друзями організував команду КВК, яка їздила виступати в різні міста України. Також з друзями Степан опікувався дитячим будинком в Краматорську. Вони часто відвідували малюків, привозили їм іграшки, одяг, книжки, ласощі. Своїй дівчині Степан говорив, що коли вони одружаться, народять одну дитину і ще двох всиновлять.

З початком проросійських виступів в Україні 2014-го року Степан з друзями брав участь в мітингах на підтримку цілісності України, які проводилися в Краматорську. Хлопці носили воду, продукти, засоби гігієни українським військовим, які прибули в місто. Під час обстрілу він допомагав спускатися у сховище літнім людям, носив їм воду, коли місто опинилося відрізаним від водопостачання. Ризикуючи життям, Степан зняв з міської площі ДНРівський прапор.

Коли у квітні 2014 року російські бойовики захопили місто, мати відвезла Степана до своїх батьків в Росію, але через місяць він повернувся, заявивши, що не хоче ховатися «як пацюк» у важкі для країни часи.

У липні 2014 року Степан поїхав до друга в м. Київ. 23 липня сів на поїзд у столиці, щоб повернутися додому. Їхав через Донецьк, де був затриманий бойовиками з батальйону «Керч», за однією з версій, за жовто-блакитну стрічку на рюкзаку, а за словами Ігоря Стокоза, представника Донецької обласної військово-цивільної адміністрації, — через те, що вступив у суперечку з ними, відстоюючи позицію єдиної неподільної країни. Бити неповнолітнього хлопця бандити почали ще в Донецьку. Потім відвезли до Горбачево-Михайлівки, де після страшних катувань розстріляли.

Відразу після зникнення сина його мати поїхала в Донецьк на його розшуки. Їй вдалося дізнатись, що хлопця було розстріляно, і поспілкуватися з ватажком днрівців Захарченком, який пообіцяв їй розшукати тіло сина і його вбивць. Наприкінці вересня 2014 року до матері прийшла звістка, що тіло знайдено. Ексгумацію було призначено на 3 жовтня, в ході якої, мати впізнала свого сина. Їй вдалося домогтися його відправлення у Краматорськ. Поховали Степана Чубенка 8 листопада 2014 року в його рідному місті.

Покарання вбивць
Вбивцями неповнолітнього патріотичного хлопця виявилися троє бойовиків з батальйону «Керч» — Москальов Юрій Аркадійович ( 1969, Донецьк), Погодін Вадим Вікторович ( 1971, Донецьк), Сухомлинов Максим Вікторович ( 1984, Макіївка). Матері Степана «влада ДНР» повідомила, що вбивць її сина піймали, але двом з них вдалося втекти до окупованого Криму.

19 липня 2017 року мати Степана Чубенка Сталіна Чубенко звернулася за допомогою до органів влади та українців:

У липні 2017 року Генеральна прокуратура України звернулася до Російської Федерації з проханням передати бойовика «ДНР» Вадима Погодіна, який вбив Степана Чубенка.

10 листопада 2017 року, Торецький міський суд виніс заочний вирок підозрюваним у вбивстві Степана Чубенка. Вадима Погодіна, колишнього комбата батальйону «Керч» та його бойовиків Юрія Москальова і Максима Сухомлинова, заочно засудили до пожиттєвого ув'язнення. Суд також задовільнив цивільний позов матері Степана Сталіни Чубенко, згідно якого кожен із засуджених має сплатити по одному мільйону гривень компенсації.

У листопаді 2017 року, трьох вбивць 16-річного українського патріота — Погодіна В. В («Керч»), Москальова Ю. А., Сухомлинова М. В., — Дзержинським судом заочно засуджено до довічного позбавлення волі. «У рамках розслідування кримінального провадження за п. 3, 12 ч. 2 ст. 115 (умисне вбивство викраденої людини, вчинене за попередньою змовою групою осіб) КК України проведено низку судових експертиз та зібрано вичерпні докази провини бойовиків у зухвалому та жорстокому вбивстві юнака», — прокурор Донецької області Євген Бондаренко. Двоє вбивць переховуються в Росії, Погодін — в окупованому Криму.

Вшанування пам'яті
На честь Степана Чубенка у Краматорську був організований футбольний турнір, що проводиться щорічно з 2015 року (2019 року відбувся вп'яте).

21 листопада 2016 року в школі, де вчився Степан, відкрита меморіальна дошка.

23 вересня 2017 року біля входу на стадіон «Авангард» у Краматорську було відкрито пам'ятну дошку Степану Чубенку.

У серпні 2021 року на сесії Краматорської міської ради депутатами було прийнято рішення про присвоєння загальноосвітній школі № 12 імені Степана Чубенка, її колишнього учня.

На початку грудня 2021 року у Краматорську відкрили пам'ятник Степану Чубенку. Над проєктом пам'ятника працював краматорський скульптор Ігор Нестеренко. Степана Чубенка зобразили у повний зріст з м'ячем у руках, у формі команди з емблемою краматорського футбольного клубу «Авангард» і з першим номером.

Нагороди
 Орден «За мужність» III ступеня (28 червня 2017, посмертно).
 Орден «Народний Герой України» (8 травня 2016, посмертно). Нагороду отримали батьки.

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Джерела
 http://fakty.ua/218217-otec-narodnogo-geroya-ukrainy-stepana-chubenko-synu-bylo-vsego-16-let-ego-zhestoko-ubili-za-lyubov-k-rodine
 «Де він узяв сили, щоб не зламатися?»: історія пошуків убитого терористами підлітка
 Чубенко Степан Вікторович // Книга пам'яті полеглих за Україну

Посилання
 Сторінка Сталіни Чубенко, матері Степана на «Facebook»

Уродженці Краматорська
Померли в Донецьку
Футболісти «Краматорська»
Футбольні воротарі
Гравці КВК
Розстріляні бойовиками ДНР/ЛНР
Українські спортсмени, що загинули під час російсько-української війни

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The Board is responsible for ensuring that the company adheres to sound corporate governance principles and it is accountable to its shareholders, while also considering the interests of other stakeholders.
Strate's Board of Directors is as follows:
Click on the images below to find out more about the individual member
*Alternates
NG Payne
Mr NG Payne (56)
BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MBL (Unisa)
Independent non-executive Chairman
Regulatory and Supervisory Committee
Remuneration and Nominations Committee.
Nigel has significant amount of experience in financial markets as well as in audit and risk management. He is a career non-executive chairman who serves on a number of boards including Mr Price Group Limited, JSE Limited, Bid Corporation Limited and Vukile Property Fund Limited.
A Nortjé
Mr A Nortjé (48)
BCom (Hons) Financial Management(University of Pretoria), MCom (Cum Laude)Finance, (Unisa)
Effective 01 August 2018
André Nortjé is Strate's Chief Executive Officer. He has 18 years of executive management experience across multiple financial services disciplines and across multiple jurisdictions with a deep understanding of financial markets from both the buy and sell side perspectives. Before joining Strate, André held a wide variety of executive roles ranging from Treasurer of a commercial bank to multiple Chief Operating Officer positions of Investment Management businesses both in South Africa and in the United Kingdom.
C Bruyns*
Mr C Bruyns* (40)
CA (SA) (University of Pretoria)
Charl is with Standard Bank Group for 11 years, working in the investment management and banking business. At the investment management business, he was Head of the quantitative analytics team and headed the fund valuations team. During his career at Standard Bank he fulfilled the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Corporate and Investment Bank business in Africa, CFO and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Transactional Products and Services business, and Treasurer for the African business.
S Dada
Ms S Dada (34)
BCom (Hons) Accounting ( University of KwaZulu – Natal), MCom (Accounting) (WITS), CA (SA)
Effective 10 June 2019
Sameera is Strate's Chief Financial Officer. She joins us from Ashburton Investments where she was the Chief Risk Officer. She has previously headed Risk Management at MMI Investments and Savings and served as a financial and investment risk manager at Momentum Asset Management, amongst other roles.
CHM Edwards*
Mr CHM Edwards* (41)
BSocSci Philosophy, PGDip Management (UCT)
Chris joined Absa in March 2010 where he is a Managing Principal and Head of the Prime Services and Passive Funds businesses. Prior to joining Absa, Chris spent 11 years with Morgan Stanley, based in London and then Hong Kong. During this time, he held a variety of positions, including responsibility for the distribution within the Prime Brokerage & Listed Derivatives businesses. Chris is a Director of Absa Stockbrokers.
L Fourie
Dr L Fourie (51)
PhD in Economics and Financial Science ( University of Johannesburg), Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
Leila is a seasoned business executive having previously served as an executive director of the JSE, and her career of more than 25 years spans the capital markets, payment systems, consulting, investment banking and retail banking. Through the course of her career, Leila has held senior executive positions and directorships of global portfolios and local and US boards.
K Getz
Mr K Getz (61)
B Proc, LLM (UCT)
Lead Independent non-executive director
Social and Ethics Committee*
Keith is an experienced lawyer in the following areas, among others: takeovers and mergers, private equity, corporate restructuring, black economic empowerment transactions, exchange control regulations, commercial law contracts, regulatory compliance, stock exchange listings and generally advising corporate clients nationally and internationally on corporate and commercial matters. Directorships include Mr Price Group Limited and Spur Corporation Limited.
A Greenwood
Dr A Greenwood (45)
BSc (Mathematics, Chemistry), PhD (Chemistry) (UCT)
Alicia is currently director of Post Trade Services at JSE Limited. She has experience in strategy, risk and capital management through various roles at Standard Bank, Discovery Accenture and AECI.
E Masilela
Mr E Masilela (53)
BA Social Science (Swaziland), MSc Economic Policy & Analysis (Addis Ababa), Professional Certificates (Harvard)
Elias has extensive experience across a number of industries. He previously held positions as the CEO of the PIC, Head of Policy Analysis at Sanlam, Act. Dep. Director General Economic Policy in the National Treasury, Director of Research, Central Bank of Swaziland.
He currently serves as the Commissioner of the 1st & 2nd National Planning Commission, he is the Chairman of the V&A Waterfront, Absa Asset Management, Capital Harvest and Economic Research Southern Africa and serves as a member of the boards of Multichoice SA, Alternative Prosperity Holdings, Future Planet Capital in London, Avior Capital Markets, Strate and Absa Financial Services. He was also a member of the Boards of the South African Reserve Bank, the Government Employee Pension Fund, the Airports Company SA, as well as the UN Global Compact Board & Chairman of the (UNGC) SA Local Network.
D Naidoo
Ms D Naidoo (44)
MCom (Tax), CA(SA) (University of Natal - Durban)
Audit and Risk Committee*
Participant Failure Committee
Urgent Issues Committee
Daisy spent nine years with Santam Capital Markets and currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards of, among others, Anglo American Platinum, Barclays Africa Group Limited, Mr Price Group Limited, Hudaco Industries and Omnia Holdings. She is a member of the Tax Court of South Africa and a trustee of the Discovery Medical Aid Scheme. She also provides risk advisory services and serves on investment and credit committees of funds.
RD Proudfoot
Mr RD Proudfoot (56)
B. Com (Wits), B Acc (Wits), CA(SA)
Ryan has extensive experience in all financial markets and products with specific expertise in trade execution, securities lending, futures clearing, prime broking, custody, market risk management, credit counterparty risk and regulatory requirements (including Basel III).
He has served as a Director on a number of boards including RMB Stockbroking Operations (Pty) Limited and SAFCOM (Pty) Limited.
Prior and current management board or memberships include the South African Institute of Stockbrokers, SAFCOM Derivatives Risk Committee, JSE Currency Derivatives Advisory Committee, ASISA's Hedge Funds Standing Committee and JSE Bonds Advisory Committee.
M Ramplin
Ms M Ramplin (42)
Financial Derivatives & Regulations, Securities Institute Certificate (UK)
Marilyn has international experience as a trader and investment banker, with expertise in, among others, over the counter derivatives, collateral management, risk management, credit counterparty risk, collective investments and hedge funds. She is the founder of the Hedge Fund Academy in South Africa, serves as an independent non-executive member of the JSE Clear Risk Committee and is independent executive director of several companies including RMB CIS Manco, Ashburton, Investment Solutions and JSE Clear. Marilyn has risk, regulatory and derivatives qualifications and obtained certificates from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Board Leadership and Corporate Strategy.
MJ Stocks
Mr MJ Stocks (50)
B. Com (University of Natal-Durban)
Remuneration and Nominations Committee*
Murray has been with Nedbank since 1991 with wide securities and banking experience. He provides great input as the settlement/CSDP Participant expert. He has experience across a broad spectrum of areas including treasury, corporate and international Banking, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), programme management, customer electronic banking, credit card processing, cash and cheque operations, global trade and securities custodial services.
SPM Yates
Mr SPM Yates (67)
BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Edinburgh, Scotland), Fellow (South African Institute of Financial Markets)
Social and Ethics Committee
Stuart joined the financial markets via a firm of stockbrokers in 1979 and specialised in bond trading. He joined Finansbank in 1984 and added options trading to his skill set. He became the Banking Association's member on the Bond Market Association, and then a member of the design team for SAFEX. He then moved to Rand Merchant Bank in 1992, where he developed a treasury outsourcing business, headed HR during the FNB merger and was their representative on the board of Strate for 6 years. He retired from RMB in 2009. He is currently an independent non-executive director on a number of boards.
The shareholders of Strate are:
The Board has six permanent committees to assist in the execution of its responsibilities, as follows:
• Audit and Risk Committee
• Regulatory and Supervisory Committee
• Remuneration and Nominations Committee
• Social and Ethics Committee
• Participant Failure Committee
• Urgent Issues Committee


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Senator Coons Calls for VAWA Reauthorization
Feminist Newswire | March 15, 2012
On Tuesday, US Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Senate Law Enforcement Caucus, issued a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calling for a full Senate vote on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 (VAWA). In early February, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 (VAWA) was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote of 10-8. All Democrats voted to move the bill to the Senate floor for a vote and all Republicans voted no.
Senator Coons stated, "Thanks in large part to VAWA, we have made great inroads in the fight to combat these crimes—the rate of intimate partner violence against women has declined by 53 percent and there has been a similar decline in violence against men. Intimate partner violence resulting in death has decreased by 29 percent."
VAWA was originally drafted by then-Senator Joe Biden and was signed into law in 1994. It was then reauthorized by Congress in both 2000 and 2005. The law has thus far allocated more than $9 billion to improve federal, state, and local-level investigation and prosecution of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault and to provide support for prevention, education, temporary shelters, rape crisis centers and community services for survivors.
It is estimated that every nine seconds, a woman is abused in the United States and nearly one-third of women in the United States report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some time in their lives.
Statement of Chris Coons 3/13/12; Delawareonline.com 3/14/12


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Glenwood Springs girl "overwhelmed" after historic climb of Yosemite's El Capitan
Selah Schneiter completed the 3,000-foot climb of the vertical rock formation with the help of her father and a family friend
By The Associated Press Jun 20, 2019, 9:46 am
In this June 8, 2019, photo, is Michael Schneiter posing with his daughter, Selah Schneiter, at the beginning of her climb up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, Calif. (Michael Schneiter via AP)
A 10-year-old Glenwood Springs girl scaled Yosemite National Park's El Capitan and may have become the youngest person to climb one of the most celebrated and challenging peaks in the world.
Selah Schneiter completed the 3,000-foot climb of the vertical rock formation with the help of her father, Mike Schneiter, and family friend, Mark Regier.
The trio took five days to climb the Nose — the best known route — and reached the summit on June 12, Mike Schneiter said. It typically takes accomplished climbers four or five days to complete.
Reaching the top "was really overwhelming and emotional," Selah said in a telephone interview from New York City, where she spent Wednesday doing media interviews.
"I was also kind of sad because it was over," she added.
Scott Cory climbed the Nose twice in 2001, when he was 11. That same year 13-year-old Tori Allen also climbed it, according to Outside Magazine.
Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said the park doesn't keep such records.
The oldest of four children, Selah has been climbing since she can remember and had been asking her parents for years to climb El Capitan. For nine months, she prepared physically and mentally to make sure she was ready to do it, she said.
Climbers jam hands and feet into finger- and fist-width cracks to inch their way up the vertical wall. Sometimes there is little more to grasp or perch on than a sliver the width of a few coins.
Other cracks abruptly end in a smooth sea of granite, forcing climbers to swing left or right to find the next hand or foothold.
"Our big motto was 'How do you eat an elephant?' Small bites," said Selah, who recently finished fourth grade. "One pitch at a time … one move at a time … one day at a time."
Selah said the only thing she feared was the possibility of a big storm because it would mean "having to go down."
The Schneiters are a family of climbers. Mike and his wife, Joy, fell in love 15 years ago while scaling El Capitan. They vacation in places where there is rock climbing and have a climbing wall in their garage, often the first spot their children go after school.
Mike Schneiter, a climbing guide and part-time high school teacher, said seeing his daughter complete her dream was amazing.
"I was so proud of her. It was a combination of a lot of feelings because it was a project that had been formed in our minds for a few years," he said.
Joy Schneiter stayed home with their three other children and received daily updates about progress in Yosemite.
She knew her husband would turn back if there were any safety concerns. Still, as an experience climber, she said she understands the grit and determination it takes to climb the massive granite slab and worried about Selah's endurance.
"I was worried she would wear out," Joy Schneiter said. "But by day four I knew they would finish. I'm just really proud and ecstatic."
To celebrate her feat, Selah wanted to jump in a nearby river to cool off and go get pizza, her father said.
"We got pizza and ice cream — chocolate with caramel sauce and cherries," she said.
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This week, troubling accounts of slave auctions in Libya have circulated in the press. Putting a monetary price on human life is wrong. So is devaluing human labour to the point that they work in slave conditions. Global supply chains sometimes allow that to happen because of little or no oversight. Read what OECD's Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, Gabriela Ramos, writes about modern slavery. Read post here.


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D'Addario Nissan donates car to family in need
Alexa Rondon and her mother, Karen Flores, received a 2006 Nissan Altima, courtesy of D'Addario Nissan of Shelton, in order to make attending their doctor appointments as easy as possible. — Aaron Berkowitz photo
D'Addario Nissan of Shelton donated a 2006 Nissan Altima to a family struggling to make it to doctor's appointments to receive cancer treatments.
After a very draining few months, and a tough journey ahead of them, both Alexa Rondon, 15, and her mother, Karen Flores, were ecstatic to learn that they would be driving to their Bridgeport home in a new car that had been given to them by Tom D'Addario of D'Addario Nissan in Shelton.
"I thought she was lying to me, but now that I'm here, all I can say is 'wow,'" said Rondon with a big smile on her face.
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But this well-deserved gift didn't come without some extremely trying times. A year and a half ago, Flores learned that she had breast cancer.
Shortly after her diagnosis, Flores was let go from her job as a nanny because she was frequently unable to get to work because of her doctor's appointments. Her unemployment ultimately resulted in her falling six months behind on her rent.
In an effort to keep from being evicted, Flores contacted Swim Across the Sound to see if the organization would be able to assist her in her time of need. Flores got hold of Lyn McCarthy, executive director of the St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, which is a sponsor of Swim Across the Sound. McCarthy said that, fortunately, the foundation was able to help Flores keep her home.
But, unfortunately, Flores's family's troubles were not over.
Just a month and a half ago, Flores called the Swim organization looking for help again because Alexa had just been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. With her daughter sick, Flores was unable to work and once again was on the verge of being evicted.
"She couldn't work because she had to attend her own doctor's appointments as well as her daughter's. She told me that they were relying on her sister's car to get to and from their appointments. It was heartbreaking," said McCarthy, before explaining that Swim would once again help the family to keep their home.
With transportation obviously being an issue for the family, McCarthy told Flores she would do what she could to help them out.
That's where the owner of D'Addario Nissan, Tom D'Addario, came into the equation.
D'Addario has been a longtime supporter of Swim Across the Sound and made a donation of a vehicle four years ago, according to McCarthy. When she learned that D'Addario would once again make a life-changing donation, McCarthy became emotional.
"I cried," said McCarthy. "Words cannot express the gratitude for how great he's been to us. We're beyond thankful for him."
Both Flores and Rondon said they were extremely grateful for and excited to drive off in their family's new car.
"We didn't expect it, so when we heard, we were amazed," said Flores. "We're going to go home to show it to my mom."
Just one year too young to get behind the wheel herself, Alexa said that in a year she will learn to drive.