How to Deal With Grumpy Co-Workers
by Lisa McQuerrey
Don't get drawn into a colleague's personal drama.
If you spend your day feeling like Snow White working among a room full of Grumpies, you're not alone. Real life issues often overlap with work life, and at one time or another, you're likely to encounter co-workers having bad days, struggling with personal or professional issues or just trying to manage a cranky disposition.
Let a person work out a bad day at her own pace and don't take a bad mood personally. An individual's grumpy outlook is likely a compilation of her own issues, and not a reflection of what she thinks about you or your work. Ignore the behavior unless anger or hostility is directed at you, or the problem is long-running.
Ask, "what's wrong?" only once. Do not badger a grumpy person about her mood, as that won't improve it; it will only make her irritated with you.
Offer space. Sometimes grumpy colleagues need space to work out their issues or bury themselves in their work without the interference of others. Respect other people's space and privacy, especially if they're straightforward and tell you that's what they want.
Stop using cheer-up platitudes like, "Smile!" or, "Turn that frown upside down!" A grumpy person having a bad day -- or even a sensitive person who keeps to herself -- doesn't want to be cheer-led by the office Pollyanna. Don't try to cheer up someone who doesn't want cheering--it's fine to ask about the mood of close friends or colleagues who seem unusually troubled, but know where to draw the line.
Let grumpy people be alone. If you get one-word responses from moody co-workers in a meeting or hear sigh after sigh coming from a corner cubicle, just let it go. Do not advise people who refuse help or claim nothing is wrong; they are either fine, or they're seeking attention. In either case, let them be.
Separate yourself from grumpy people, if you can, as they have the potential to bring down your mood and morale and reduce your productivity. Many companies have a business sad sack who shows up, does her job and goes home without fully engaging, interacting or contributing to team efforts. If the boss is okay with this employee's attitude, you should be too.
Don't let yourself be drawn into a grumpy person's world or play therapist. This is a work time-killer, and it's not your place to counsel your colleagues. An occasional pep talk is one thing, but anything more has the potential to hurt your career.
There's a difference between being in a bad mood and feeling grumpy, and behaving in a hostile or inappropriate manner. If your colleague's disposition regularly crosses the line into disgruntled employee territory, it's time to start documenting incidents and talking to your boss.
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Lisa McQuerrey has been a business writer since 1987. In 1994, she launched a full-service marketing and communications firm. McQuerrey's work has garnered awards from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Associated Press. She is also the author of several nonfiction trade publications, and, in 2012, had her first young-adult novel published by Glass Page Books.
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Divide and Conquer 101: America Being Destabilized From Within
Article Revival Conspiracy Domestic Policy Expand Your Mind... Featured Government Revolution Tim Bryant Top News
Posted on March 17, 2016 August 18, 2017 Author Tim BryantComments(6) 3484 Views
When a system of power is corrupt, it usually has two main objectives: to keep the current system of power in place as long as possible and to expand this system of power for the sole benefit of those who own and operate it. To bring about this agenda without the public catching on to it, those in power cannot allow the masses to identify where the roots of corruption are stemming from, while also employing deceptive tactics to covertly expand its influence in the shadows. As I have written in the past, one strategy stands alone as the most effective go-to tool for the powers that be when it comes to keeping/expanding power. Some refer to it as the Hegelian Dialectic, others refer to it as Problem-Reaction-Solution, here it will simply be referred to as Divide and Conquer; the oldest trick in the authoritarian manifesto.
Watching the unfolding of the 2016 Presidential Election, it's becoming quite apparent that the country is growing increasingly divided the closer it gets to Election Day. The latest example was seen at the Donald Trump rally held in Chicago where a large group of anti-Trump protesters showed up to disrupt the event. Fights broke out and several arrests were made, ultimately resulting in Trump canceling the event before even speaking. The obvious questions that need to be asked are: "Why is this all happening" and "who is responsible for it all?" When we take a step back and look at it objectively, it would appear that the organic chaos that is perceived is actually being manipulated from the top in an attempt to divide the country up so that those in power can continue to expand and maintain it.
Chaos From Left Field?
Lets be honest, most Americans have no idea how the system of power really works, so the sudden uproar in disorder had many thinking it all came out of left field. However, as the mainstream media continued to report on political tension, people began looking for someone to blame. The most obvious candidate to receive most of the blame is Donald Trump, a true character in every sense of the word. Now say what you want about Trump, because there is a lot that can be said, but the idea that all this tension between the left and right is due to Donald Trump seems quite ridiculous. The reality of the matter is that the tension we see coming to the surface right now has been building for quite some time. In fact, the entire system was collapsing well before Trump jumped into the political spotlight.
Wealth inequality, racial tensions, government corruption, loss of civil liberties, government expansion, currency destruction, globalization, weak economy, excessive stress, environmental destruction, and power centralization in general are all problems that have developed over the course of several decades if not more. They are not isolated issues either, but all interconnected and systemic in nature. The problem is that most people have been asleep at the wheel, hence the reason all this tension is seemingly coming to the forefront, as people begin to wake up to what's really been going on. Still, most people will assume that all this chaos is just organically happening because of all the competing viewpoints and interests within the system, along with a plethora of "coincidences."
While this is true to some degree, the more important hidden truth that most people don't fully comprehend is that at the top of pyramid sits an interconnected network of people who are playing both sides of the political and economic game with allegiances that transcend political parties. In fact, their network has engulfed both the left and right, ensuring continued dominance of power regardless of who the president might be. To conceal the truth, the puppet masters carefully divide the masses up into groups and purposely pit them against one another, in order to make them think the other side is the enemy. This creates chaos between the two sides, while hiding the fact that the leaders on both sides are working for the same team. While both sides are wasting time fighting each other, team establishment continues to win.
Designed Chaos
It should be pretty clear by now that the entirety of the mainstream media is owned by the very few at the top. In this sense, those who own Fox News are not that different from those who own CNN or MSNBC. They appear different when you watch the content, but ownership interests and agendas are far more connected behind the scenes. Billionaires have a lot more in common with each other than they do with the masses; while infighting might occur, they usually stick together when push comes to shove. It's in their best interests to do so. Taking this into consideration, it should become obvious that the media is one of the most noticeable places from which this chaos and division is being manufactured in America.
Just look at the Michael Brown shooting and the Ferguson riots for clear examples. On Fox News, the coverage was designed predominantly behind protecting the police, demonizing the protesters and Michael Brown, and giving little to no attention to the clear problem of police brutality that exists in American culture, especially in minority communities. On CNN and MSNBC, the coverage tends to recognize the systemic racism in America and abuse of police power, yet often focuses too much on race while not diving deeper into the subject. What both sides fail to realize is that the information they are getting is mostly half-truths, with a surplus of information and context missing or unreported on. The real problem is that the whole governmental system is corrupt, so while it affects minorities more, it still is not really benefiting the majority of the people. In reality, it is the "Have's" vs. the "Have Not's." Since there are very few actual "Haves," the people at the top intentionally use the media to divide us on issues so we don't unite around the real enemy.
This goes even deeper, as many counterculture protests are actually funded by the same players who manipulate the media. What the media failed to report on while covering the Ferguson protests for example, was that the movement was being funded by none other than corrupt billionaire oligarch George Soros, who gave 33 million dollars to the Black Lives Matters movement in Ferguson. This is the same guy who is responsible for funding and dividing the Ukrainians, leading to the destabilization of the country, which is now a collapsing state on the brink of a civil war/proxy war between NATO and Russia.
George Soros is the definition of a globalist oligarch; wherever his hands are, the public needs to be aware. With that in mind, it would seem that many of the violent protests that we saw in Ferguson, were actually paid protesters mixed into the crowd and acting as agent provocateurs to stir up violence and create chaos. These acts of violence and destruction within the city angered the conservative base, while the police brutality and systemic oppression angered the liberal base. Both have every right to be mad; but what they don't realize is that they need each other to take down the real puppet masters at the top playing them off each other. They stand no chance divided.
A Bag Of Contradictions
Looking at the 2016 Presidential elections, it is starting to become clear, or at the very least suspicious, that America is being intentionally divided by the power players to hide the true parasite-coveting-power that sits at the top.
First, let's look at Trump; the seemingly main culprit of all the chaos. Donald Trump is a complete mix of contradictions. On one hand, he is loud, obnoxious, insensitive, vague, and offensive with many of the statements he makes. There is no doubt he is angering people, especially in the minority communities for his over the top comments that get played all day in the media. He isn't exactly very presidential in his appearance and it's hard to imagine him as president. He also tends to say whatever he feels in the moment, which can lead many to question whether he has any real principles. This is his right to free speech, yet his volunteer supporters are made to sign a non-disclosure agreement saying that they will not criticize Trump.
On the other end, he seems to have the entire establishment against him. The democrats seem to hate him, the GOP seems to hate him, and the majority of the media seems to hate him as well. He is also supposedly independently funded and the opposite of politically correct, which is very appealing to people given the usual robot politicians who pander only special interest. I mean, who doesn't enjoy seeing Trump tear them apart? Finally, he has made statements on issues that no other politicians would dare touch, like the releasing of 28 classified pages about 9/11, the potential harm of forced vaccinations, attacking politicians across party lines, and giving acknowledgements to certain conspiracy theories.
This makes for a very interesting case when it comes to Donald Trump. On one end, the media seems to be totally against him, yet he fills the airtime on all the major media outlets. This seems to be only helping his campaign and it would be naïve to think that the media doesn't know this. If they really were against Trump, it would be smarter to keep him out the media all together, similar to what they did with Ron Paul. However, it seems that all the big time players in the establishment of both the left and right are out to get him, as even the republicans have blamed him for the violence going on. This again contradicts the fact that Trump has done business with some of the major oligarchs, including getting massive loans from George Soros and doing business deals with the Rockefellers and Rothschilds. He also has possible ties to known pedophile Jerry Epstein, donated to the Clinton campaign several times, and says he gets advice on foreign policy from Richard Haas, President of the Council on Foreign Relations. The fact is that he is a billionaire, and one doesn't become a billionaire without being an insider to some degree and understanding that the game works a certain way at the highest levels.
Then there is Bernie Sanders and his supporters who broke up the Trump rally in Chicago and held up Bernie signs while chanting Bernie Sanders after Trump announced the event was canceled. On one end, Bernie Sanders has identified many systemic problems in this country that are based in truth, such as: wealth inequality, systemic corruption, and imperialist's wars. He seems to be honest when he speaks, and his campaign is not funded by special interests that we know of. His supporters have many reasons to be upset, as the country is not in a particularly good state. On the other end, he is an economic Keynesian and is for bigger government, which throws up some major red flags for anyone who was researched the history of governments and economics. He also has supported many of the wars despite what his supporters might believe, and is largely ignoring the root causes of the broken system such as the Federal Reserve, CIA, and various deep state entities. It is highly questionable whether his type of system would be any better for the American people. This leads us to the Trump rally.
Trump Rally Manipulated?
Little known to many is that George Soros was once again behind the implementation and funding of the Chicago Trump protest through his group MoveOn.org. According to Move On, this is just the beginning, stating,
"Mr. Trump and the Republican leaders who support him and his hate-filled rhetoric should be on notice after tonight's events. To all of those who took to the streets of Chicago, we say thank you for standing up and saying enough is enough. To Donald Trump, and the GOP, we say, welcome to the general election."
It seems that while many of the protesters may have been organic, there appears to have been more paid protesters acting as agent provocateurs to stir up chaos. While Trump supporters are no angels, paid provocateurs are incredibly deceptive and dangerous, especially if this continues to escalate. This also comes just days after Tech giants and the GOP establishment met in secret about stopping Trump.
Another interesting fact is that the man who tried to storm the stage at a Trump rally in Dayton, Ohio, Tommy DiMassimo, is not only an actor by profession, but has been featured in the media at several protests, including in Stone Mountain, GA and Wright State. While this might be chopped up as coincidence, it's quite interesting to note that the same guy, who happens to be an actor, appeared multiple times in the media protesting for causes that were funded by George Soros. Another person seen and interviewed at the protest was Bill Ayers, a known domestic terrorist, as documented by the FBI for being one of the founders of the communist group Weather Underground. His group Weather Underground claimed responsibility for several politically charged bombings in the 1970's, including an attack at the Pentagon. Bill Ayers is also known to be one of the people who launched Barrack Obama's career, and according to his memoir, considers Obama a "family friend."
After the rally, Bernie and Hillary of course blamed Trump, while Trump blamed Sanders for starting the chaos. The media once again split the crowd, which has only increased the division since the incident. However, the reality is that the problem is far from black and white, but instead a big grey area. There are many interesting and overlapping ties to say the least, which makes putting together the bigger picture all the more difficult. All we can do is speculate from the data at this point as to what the big picture agenda is.
The Big Picture Agenda
In the picture there are two so-called "anti-establishment" candidates in Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, who have respectively rallied the political bases of the left and right, which were largely checking out of the established party politics. They are vehemently opposed to each other and couldn't have built a more polarizing divide. The question is why is this happening when in reality they are both supposed to be against the current established system. The answer once again seems to be planned chaos, which divides the people and hides the real cause.
Some believe the plan is to make Donald Trump look crazy, so that when Bernie loses the primary and Hillary is the democratic nominee, she will look like the easy "sane" choice. This would make a lot of sense given the huge insider connections that Hillary has, including George Soros' money. Everyone already knows Hillary is a corrupt establishment politician, so the only logical solution to getting her into the White House would be to demonize the other candidates. As a result, many are speculating that it was her camp who planned the chaotic protest in order to make Bernie look bad and blame Trump. At the same time, Trump and the Clintons have many ties, such as the Clintons attending Trump's wedding and Trump giving many campaign donations to Hillary over the years. This has fed into the similar speculation that Trump is deliberately being used to divide the Republican Party and get Hillary the presidential nod. A Hillary president seems to be what the power players want.
Then there are others that speculate that Trump is the real deal and that the establishment is doing everything in their power to bring him down. It would make some sense given the huge backlash against him by the establishment and that the media seems intent on destroying him. Others speculate that the whole charade is a show and that they actually want Trump to be the next president. This would also make some sense given that he dominates the headlines even though the media knows the attention is helping him. He is a billionaire with massive connections, so it would be kind of hard to believe that he was not in on it all. He could be utilized by the powers that be as the "strongman" who could tighten control for the system and stamp out dissidence. With an awakening mass, a hard-line candidate might be exactly what is necessary to keep power.
In my own humble opinion, I think there is a plot on some level at the very top to destabilize America from within so that a New World Order can be brought about. All the economic policies of the Federal Reserve, all the laws enacted by the big brother security state, and all the militarization of the police would seem to point towards this plan of destroying America. Throw in a false flag attack and the looming economic collapse and you have the grounds for a full-on societal collapse and martial law. It's important to remember that those at the top are globalists, and so international law and governance is the true long-term objective. In order to bring this about, they must bring down the United States because there cannot be a national global power in a world system. This would seem to go right in hand with the build-up of the Eastern parts of the world.
Obviously, no one knows for sure because there is still so much to play out. More than anything it is important for people to realize that there are many interconnections at the top, and though people might appear to be enemies, many are working together behind the scenes and playing both sides. Those in power have higher allegiances that are more important to them than the good of the people, and will always do whatever is necessary to maintain power. It is highly unlikely that they would let someone who isn't going to play ball get elected. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "Presidents are selected, not elected."
It is equally important for people to realize that those at the top are intentionally dividing us and turning us against each other. This is where we must wake up because we cannot tackle the true problems without being united. This includes the minority communities uniting with the police, Sanders supporters uniting with Trump supporters, and all people of righteousness coming together. They are only going to increase the chaos, so the time to act is now. The city of Cleveland is already buying massive amounts of riot gear in anticipation of the GOP convention, Move On is already declaring more protests at Trump events, and Trump supporters are already building a volunteer militia to protect its rallies. This is no joke, and if people don't get hip to what is really going on behind the scenes, it could turn deadly. No one wants that, especially when it is built on lies and manipulation.
It's time to wake up and realize that the enemy is not one another, but instead those pulling the strings at the top. The only way to stop the destabilization of this country is to identify the true target and go after it. Only when we do that, real change is possible.
Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4GXmtqAwA, http://www.mrc.org/special-reports/special-report-george-soros-godfather-left, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeYbyWzW9A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omMggNjQF38, http://www.conservativeoutfitters.com/blogs/news/92961857-john-kasich-took-202-700-from-george-soros, http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/03/trump-sanders-falling-dirty-trick-clinton.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F07JjSOZKs, http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/trump-militia-forms-to-forcefully-protect-rally-goers-against-far-left-agitators/, http://theantimedia.org/donald-trump-volunteers-sign-contract/, http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/insider-trump-nwo-connections/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY6zxGQ0epU, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
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6 Replies to "Divide and Conquer 101: America Being Destabilized From Within"
Good summary of where we are. It seems like common sense.
The Ammon Bundy thing in Oregon also looked like a setup, but not too many patriots took the bait.
They use these tactics on the individual scale too — like try to bait a Muslim into doing something stupid. But it's much easier to manipulate a crowd.
Nicasio Martinez says:
Divide and conquer – oldest and most effective trick in the book and quite affordable tactic obviously. The Coca Cola + Monsanto mantra is not only quite affordable too, but earns massively huge dividend fortunes which not only serves the goals of population reduction but the dulling down of the minds and physical health on a global basis. What is good for destroying one nation, as seen by now countless models, has become a global endeavor demonstrating successes beyond the most evil imaginations or intents.
Wish I could say I've read something in this article that was new and striking, not so. We saw all this in play and coming into bloom during the human/civil rights struggle era that brought some victories for a season and now a greater regression. Dreams and ideals now buried in the graves of some remarkable persons, including that of children.
In those days now distant past results much thought was given and driven around CCRR (Color, Class, Race, Religion).
Color – being of or deemed to belong to the Caucasian race in the global perspective of who has the right to absorb and abuse the world's riches; seemed to have been an eternal creed proving; "Money is the root of all evil".
Class – having the right shade of skin tone among races of people was/is topped by determining ones 'class' within any given society when awarding the right of passage into the world of fame and fortunes.
Race – is understood who is dominant even without declaring this obvious factor or giving needless verbiage here.
Religion – or the lack thereof, completed the means of determining who serves the ideas of God given rights, or who serves the polar opposite realm of principles, high, low, devoid.
To be up-to-date 'Gender would have to be added but remember, it had not become the ultra dividing social marker it is this day with the Rainbow coalition having achieved landmark supreme court decisions protecting gay rights.
There once was – hope!!
I might take you more seriously if you didn't reference sistemic racism and police brutality as reasons for our problems. Both of those have been proven blatantly untrue. And simply more of the tools used to divide us.
Andrew Kearney says:
This is the first article I have read in a long tiime that didn't leave me angry and frustrated. I'm not any less confused and ignorant but at least the former burden was lifted. I shall use this as the litmus test for deciding if I'm being manipulated. Hey "satan" is a crafty one.
I take exception with the denial of race. There is obviously systemic racism in this country fella. When it was built on slavery and Blacks didn't achieve integration until the mid sixties what do you expect? The race problem may can never be solved, as it should have been solved 140 years ago during the reconstruction, by a GRADUAL integration of Blacks into FULL CONSTITUTIONAL integration as opposed to sudden emancipation and backlash against it. They never did get the 40 acres or the mule. THERE has to be answer though. How we can come together, black and white, and fight for a common cause: the "American Dream" as it were. We all want financial security and freedom, but THOSE AT THE TOP will not let it happen.
Jonathan Jacobs says:
There should be so much more than 5 comments here. 400million live in the United States.And there are 5 comments about our impending downfall.


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tt0451441 Satan at Play <Satan s'amuse> (1907)
In an unnamed place, Satan is bored. Despite his servants' exertions, nothing can be found to cheer him up.
tt0229235 The Barbershop [The Barber Shop] 1894
Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both laugh. Meantime the man in the chair is shaved and has his hair cut. Very funny.
tt0003662 The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
Isolated settlers try to survive an Indian attack
tt0000565 The Night Before Christmas (1905)
It's December 24th, and 'Santa Claus' is busy feeding his reindeer and finishing up the toys that he will soon deliver. Meanwhile, the children in a large family hang their stockings over the fireplace, and then are put to bed. But the restless children cannot sleep, and they soon start a lively pillow fight. Back at his workshop, Santa loads up everything and begins his journey.
tt0004280 Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie (Charles Chaplin) finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
tt0004284 Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914)
Mabel's Strange Predicament is a 1914 American film starring Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, notable for being the first film for which Chaplin donned The Tramp costume.
tt0004288 Making a Living (1914)
Making a Living is the first film starring Charlie Chaplin. It premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops. It was written and directed by Henry Lehrman
tt0003227 The Unknown Woman <Den okända> (1913)
Mauritz Stiller directed adaptation of a Hugo von Hofmannsthal novel.
tt0001776 Max Takes Tonics <Max victime du quinquina> (1911)
Max needs a tonic after an illness, and the doctor prescribes a Bordeaux glass of wine three times a day. One proves to be enough, as Max drinks a quart glass of wine and proceeds to get into trouble.
tt0203681 McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio (1896)
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio aka William McKinley at Canton, Ohio is a silent film reenactment of William McKinley receiving the Republican nomination for President of the United States in September 1896. The actual nomination had been several weeks earlier. McKinley is shown emerging from his house to receive the news from his secretary George Cortelyou. His wife Ida can be seen in a rocking chair on the porch. McKinley is seen removing his hat and wiping his forehead with a handkerchief after receiving the news. It was filmed by a two man crew for American Mutoscope and Biograph Company on 68 mm film, 60.02 m in length. McKinley's brother Abner and former US president Benjamin Harrison were stockholders in the film company.
tt0002910 Granddad (1913)
Mildred loves her Civil War veteran Grandfather but her new stepmother plots to get rid of him.
tt0257371 Airplane Flight and Wreck (1910)
Mr. Cody arrives by carriage, walks to a barn, and slides open the doors to reveal a large biplane. He pulls it out of the hanger. One man checks the engine while another starts the propeller. Four men push the plane into position for taxi and take-off. Cody takes his seat and puts on heavy leather gloves. Then, the long take-off begins as Cody steers the plane through a relatively flat, grassy field. It lifts for a brief flight and then falls to earth. One man walks Cody back toward the barn while the plane's builders inspect the extensive damage.
tt0236517 Mr. Flip (1909)
Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
tt0135696 The Four Troublesome Heads <Un homme de têtes> (1898)
One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.
tt0256687 Enfants pêchant des crevettes (1896)
One toddler and about ten children, not yet adolescents, use a shovel, rakes, and nets to scour an eddy by the sea as fully-dressed women (hats and all) and a few men look on and give advice.
tt0003396 A Soul in Bondage (1913)
Passing into a cabaret show with a gay party of friends, Winnie Alden, acting on a sudden impulse, takes a little flower girl with her. This causes much joking among her companions, who cannot understand what has come over her.
tt0222874 Infernal Cakewalk <Le cake-walk infernal> (1903)
Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted well-known dancers, who start their favorite dance amidst the flames. A queer and ugly being wishes also to join in the dance, but his limbs break away and dance far from him. All the subjects of His Majesty are seized with the irresistible mania for dancing, and start an unbridled provincial dance. At this sight Satan starts out of the earth a large blaze, which annihilates everything around him, disappearing himself through the flames. This view has beautiful new effects and much improves with colors. For the first time in a cinematograph view one can see some of the will-o'-the-wisp wandering among human beings. The effect is magical.
tt0000399 Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies', Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.
tt0359314 The Georgetown Loop (1901)
Railroad from Georgetown to Silver Plume, Colorado.
tt0003170 The Mothering Heart (1913)
Remorse leads a man to search for the wife he left.
tt0000960 The Mended Lute (1909)
Rising Moon loves Little Bear, but her father prefers Standing Rock, a richer suitor. Standing Rock takes her to his teepee under guard, but she escapes and joins Little Bear as they attempt to escape.
tt0242849 Santa Claus (1898)
Santa Claus is a 1898 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve.
tt0000499 An Impossible Voyage <Le voyage à travers l'impossible> (1904)
Savants take a trip to the sun and under the sea.
tt0447528 The Voter's Guide (1906)
Scenes illustrating phrases: Tariff Reform, Free Trade, Workman's Friend.
tt0924146 Sunbeam <Raggio di sole> (1912)
Set in a tenement boarding house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him. She is followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet fever quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor's door. The police, unaware that the quarentine sign is a prank, enforce the confinement. But aided by the sweet disposition of the toddler quarantined with them, the icy relations between spinster and bachelor begin to thaw, . . .
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It's David Bowie's birthday, and after analyzing 69 years of achievement, here are 4 principles we can all live by
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Robin Goode
Editor's Note: This piece was published last year for David Bowie's 69th birthday, which was the day before he passed. We're re-sharing this piece for his 70th birthday because he's always alive in our hearts.
IT'S NO QUESTION THAT DAVID BOWIE is one of the most legendary artists of our time, and quite possibly, ever. Sure, being awarded a "Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award" is a high honor that will get you remembered, but nothing ensures your immortality like having a new species of Malaysian spider named after you (like the Heteropoda davidbowie).
David Bowie is an artistic hurricane who, after over 40 years of maintaining pop star and cult icon status, has always remained relevant. Today is his 69th birthday and he just dropped another album, "★" (better known as Blackstar), that is already shaking up the music industry. How many other senior citizens are producing albums that the whole world is clamoring for? The man is unstoppable.
Earlier this week I stumbled upon supbowie.com, a site that allows you to compare year-by-year your life to the life of Bowie. It can either motivate you to get out of your comfort zone and make shit happen, or give you an overwhelming sense of "fuck it, I'm already way behind all of my life's goals". Every life coach out there would recommend not comparing your life to someone else's, especially to the life of David Bowie, whose biography is more epic than tales from Greek mythology. But I can't help but analyze what makes him such a bad ass so that I can apply the same principles to my life.
After clicking through over 60 years of this timeline, here are four lessons I've gleaned from David Bowie's life.
1. Know who you are and always defend that identity.
It's natural to struggle with the concept of self identity throughout our lives. Even if we do feel like we have a strong sense of self, it can be easily shaken by the criticisms of others. But when someone tries to challenge our true identity, let's think "what would David Bowie do".
Before the days of "16 and Pregnant" and "Jersey Shore", when MTV was actually about music, David Bowie appeared on "MTV Unplugged", but his segment got cancelled after he refused to play from his old hits. For this kind of opportunity, many musicians would give in to satisfy MTV executives. But it was more important to David Bowie to play from his newly written work, and stay true to his identity, than to comply.
I also find it inspiring that he doesn't seem to accept labels, even if they are noble ones. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth offered David Bowie knighthood, which he turned down because, according to the Sun "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for."
2. Handle adversity with grace and humor.
Nothing stops the David Bowie freight train. Not even physical punishment. During a show in Oslo, Norway back in 2004, a lollipop thrown from the crowd got lodged into his eye. His response was not one that you would expect from someone who had just been impaled in the eye with candy. He jokingly threatened to punish the crowd by playing extra long on the cold and drizzly outdoor stage. He continued the joke throughout his 27-song set, and even threw one of his guitar picks into the crowd, asking if it had hit someone in the eye. He played for 2 hours and 20 minutes in what Norwegian media still calls one of his best concerts ever.
3. Be open to all new opportunities, and embrace wherever they may take you.
When I am working towards something I often become so focused on my goal that I reject all other possibilities out of fear that it will distract me from what I want to achieve. But David Bowie approaches every opportunity with an open mind, which has led to a career full of a wide variety experiences.
His open mindset has taken him from Broadway, where he did a three-month run in "The Elephant Man", to movies like "The Prestige" in which he stars as Nikola Tesla (and let's not forget his dreamy role as "Jareth the Goblin King" from "Labyrinth"). He has even appeared in video games, like "Omikron" for which he not only provided the soundtrack, but also stared as a character in the game. To Bowie, it is not the destination that he gets hung up on. He is present in the journey.
4. Do not just accept change, but be part of the change.
Whenever your parents ask you to fix their computer because they're "not tech savvy enough" remind them of David Bowie's role in revolutionizing the Internet. With the tenacity of an explorer on the Lewis and Clark expedition, he charged forth into new technological frontiers. During the rise of the Internet, at age 49, David Bowie released one of the first Internet-only singles, where fans had to use their dial-up Internet connection and 11 minutes of their precious time to download one song. Fascinated by this new technology, he went on to launch "Bowienet", an internet service provider complete with email accounts, forums, blogs, and chatrooms where he would engage with fans.
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Police step up security around Adani port in India's Kerala after clashes
Published on November 30, 2022 12:08 AM AEDT
Updated on November 30, 2022 12:08 AM AEDT
Image Source: Reuters
By Munsif Vengattil and Jose Devasia
VIZHINJAM, India (Reuters) -Police in southern India on Tuesday ramped up security around the $900 million transhipment port being built by billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate after scores of people were injured in clashes with protesters from a Christian fishing community.
Construction at the mega port project in Vizhinjam on the southern tip of India has been halted for more than three months by the protesters, who have blocked the site's entrance with a makeshift shelter. They blame the port's development for coastal erosion that has hit their livelihoods, an accusation the Adani Group denies.
Over the weekend, villagers stormed a police station to protest the arrest of some opponents to the project, and more than 80 people were injured during the clashes, including 36 police. To prevent fresh violence, Kerala state police were sending reinforcements to the Vizhinjam area, senior police officer Ajith V told Reuters.
"We are getting ready to face any situation," he said. At the station, located some 3 km (2 miles) from the port, more than 100 police officers, some armed with batons, stood guard.
Another state police officer, who declined to be named, said security had also been increased around the port which is near Kovalam beach, an area popular with tourists.
The port is of strategic importance to both India and Adani, Asia's wealthiest man and the world's third-richest.
Once completed, it will become India's first container transhipment hub, rivalling Dubai, Singapore and Sri Lanka for business on the lucrative East-West trade routes.
The first phase of construction was due to be completed by end-2024. The Adani Group has said in court filings that the protests have caused "immense loss" and "considerable delay".
The company has lodged a lawsuit against the Catholic priests leading the protests, as well as the government of Kerala for not taking any action.
But despite court orders saying the protests should not interfere with construction, the villagers have refused to budge, saying they will only remove their shelter - a 1,200 square feet structure consisting of poles holding up a corrugated iron-roof - once the project's construction is called off.
"The protests will continue," one of the protest leaders, Joy Jerald, told Reuters near the shelter.
The Adani Group says the port complies with all laws and has cited studies that show it is not linked to shoreline erosion. The state government also says any erosion was due to natural causes.
Adani has earlier faced protests in Australia, where environmental activists had launched a "Stop Adani" movement to protest his Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland state. There, activists concerned about carbon emissions and damage to the Great Barrier Reef forced Adani to downsize production targets and delayed the first shipment from the mine by years.
(Writing by Aditya Kalra; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Miral Fahmy)
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Child at care home force-fed til mouth would bleed, inquiry told
By Hilary Duncanson 2nd November 2018 23rd December 2018 News ScotlandChild Abuse, Childrens Care Homes, Historic Abuse, Looked After Children, News Scotland, Renfrewshire, Sexual Abuse
A child was force-fed to the point where his mouth would bleed during a time in care that was "hell itself", an inquiry has heard.
A witness also told how he thought he was going to die during beatings at Quarrier's Village in Renfrewshire in the 1960s and 1970s.
He told the probe he was "petrified" of the house mother in charge of his living quarters, describing her as "an animal" with an "appetite for evil".
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) in Edinburgh is currently examining the care given to children at establishments run by non-religious and voluntary organisations.
It has heard how Quarrier's was a late-19th century development consisting of dozens of orphan homes known as cottages, which were run by one or two house parents.
The man, now in his mid-50s, gave evidence on Thursday about his experiences at the institution over a 10-year period.
He said "all hell broke loose" when he entered one of the cottages at the village, telling the probe: "That was hell itself."
The witness, who cannot be identified, told how he would be force-fed by the house mother when he refused to eat certain foods, while a second, more reluctant, staff member restrained him "completely".
"She pulled your head back and was forcing the food down, I'd be sick, I'd be puking it back up to the plate," the man said.
He continued: "(Your) gums were bleeding, she was pushing it down into your mouth, the metal of the spoon, the fork, or whatever.
"To describe her, she was an animal."
He said other children were also force-fed, saying of the woman: "She had an appetite for evil".
The man also told the SCAI how he would be punched and slapped around the head by the house mother.
"I was thinking I'm going to die here," he said, adding that experiencing violence "became a normality".
A wooden shoe was her "favourite weapon" and would be used to hit him on the head, body and legs, he said.
The witness further described how the woman would drag him to a cold shed, making him stand – sometimes in his pyjamas – for hours on end, as a punishment.
"She said 'If you move or I hear a noise, you're going to be getting it'," the man told the hearing.
He recounted how he was once asked about his bruises by a woman on the premises but was so "petrified" of the house mother he was "struck dumb with fear" and could not respond.
Another witness, who cannot be named, told the hearing the emotional abuse she suffered at Quarrier's was almost harder to deal with the physical and sexual abuse she experienced.
The woman, who was there for around four years in the 1970s, described how she lived in a constant state of anxiety and fear around her house mother.
She said punishments issued by the woman included forcing her to hold her arms in the air and slapping her when she let them drop, belting her and forcing her head into a bin.
She was also made to do press-ups, hit with a hairbrush and compelled to eat food she disliked, the SCAI heard.
The house mother would use "derogatory" language towards her and encouraged the other children to "have a laugh" when she was made to read out a letter from her mother, the probe was told.
She also said she was sexually abused by two residents at the home.
The witness told the hearing: "The physical and even the sexual abuse you could just about deal with, but the emotional stuff, the constant belittling, the humiliation, was really hard to deal with."
Witness Stephen Findleton, who waived his right to anonymity, told how he ran away from Quarrier's twice after experiencing abuse and humiliation at the village during his time there in the 1960s and 1970s.
He spoke of being hit on his buttocks by the house mother, being made to eat food that turned his stomach and being humiliated in front of other children for wetting the bed as a young boy.
Quarrier's has previously apologised to those who had suffered abuse while in its care.
The inquiry, before Lady Smith, continues on Friday.
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Reduced mRNA expression of the DNA demethylase, MBD2, in human colorectal and stomach cancers
Yae Kanai, Saori Ushijima, Yukihiro Nakanishi, Setsuo Hirohashi
A study was performed to evaluate the significance of aberrations of the newly identified DNA demethylase, MBD2, in human carcinogenesis. Levels of expression of DNA demethylase mRNA were examined by reverse transcription followed by real-time quantitative detection of the PCR products in 32 samples of colorectal cancer tissue, 24 stomach cancers, and the corresponding noncancerous mucosae. DNA demethylase mRNA levels normalized with glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) mRNA were reduced in 31 (97%) of the 32 colorectal cancers and in 22 (92%) of the 24 stomach cancers when compared with the levels in the corresponding noncancerous mucosae. The average levels of DNA demethylase mRNA expression normalized with GAPDH mRNA in each of the colorectal (0.81 ± 0.55) and stomach (2.88 ± 0.23) cancers were significantly lower than in the noncancerous mucosae (1.90 ± 0.16 and 5.11 ± 0.34, respectively, p < 0.0001). There was no significant association between the DNA demethylase mRNA level and malignant potential in both colorectal and stomach cancers. These data suggest that reduced expression of DNA demethylase may play a role at a certain step of multistage carcinogenesis. Reduction of DNA demethylase mRNA expression may be, if anything, one of the early events of carcinogenesis, but may not participate in the malignant progression of tumors.
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Kanai, Y., Ushijima, S., Nakanishi, Y., & Hirohashi, S. (1999). Reduced mRNA expression of the DNA demethylase, MBD2, in human colorectal and stomach cancers. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 264(3), 962-966. https://doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.1999.1613
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In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol. 264, No. 3, 02.11.1999, p. 962-966.
Kanai, Y, Ushijima, S, Nakanishi, Y & Hirohashi, S 1999, 'Reduced mRNA expression of the DNA demethylase, MBD2, in human colorectal and stomach cancers', Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 264, no. 3, pp. 962-966. https://doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.1999.1613
Kanai Y, Ushijima S, Nakanishi Y, Hirohashi S. Reduced mRNA expression of the DNA demethylase, MBD2, in human colorectal and stomach cancers. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 1999 Nov 2;264(3):962-966. https://doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.1999.1613
Kanai, Yae ; Ushijima, Saori ; Nakanishi, Yukihiro ; Hirohashi, Setsuo. / Reduced mRNA expression of the DNA demethylase, MBD2, in human colorectal and stomach cancers. In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 1999 ; Vol. 264, No. 3. pp. 962-966.
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Maine: Superior Court's Dismissal for Lack of Jurisdiction Not Supported by the Record
Loaded on Sept. 4, 2018 by Dale Chappell published in Prison Legal News September, 2018, page 61
Filed under: Disciplinary Litigation. Location: Maine.
by Dale Chappell
A sua sponte dismissal for lack of jurisdiction by a state Superior Court was improper, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court held on April 19, 2018, when the record was "otherwise devoid" of any indication the Superior Court lacked jurisdiction in the case.
Steve Anctil, a state prisoner, filed a pro se petition under Maine Rule of Civil Procedure 80C, seeking review of a disciplinary decision by the Department of Corrections (DOC). He argued that the DOC committed several procedural and constitutional errors, and asked the Superior Court to vacate the DOC's decision and award damages. Anctil also filed an application to proceed without payment of fees, with an attached certificate of his prison trust account.
The Superior Court, however, was not inclined to hear the case. Without any input from the DOC and on its own initiative, the Court dismissed Anctil's petition with a single sentence: "After review of the pleadings the Court orders: case dismissed for lack of jurisdiction." The Court did not indicate why it lacked jurisdiction, and Anctil appealed.
A court may dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction only when it is clear from the petition, or when a party raises the jurisdictional defect. However, when a petition states a claim for relief that "facially meets statutory requirements," that is sufficient to establish jurisdiction, the Supreme Judicial Court held. It also found that a petitioner's failure to strictly comply with technical requirements does not automatically deprive a court of jurisdiction, citing Mutty v. Dept. of Corr., 153 A.3d 775 (Maine 2017) and Fleming v. Dept. of Corr., 796 A.2d 692 (Maine 2002).
"No jurisdictional defect is apparent from the record here," the Supreme Judicial Court concluded in Anctil's case. As was true in Mutty, which was decided just months before Anctil filed his appeal, the Superior Court's sua sponte dismissal was in error. Accordingly, the case was remanded to allow his complaint to proceed. See: Anctil v. Dept. of Corr., 2018 ME 53, 183 A.3d 760 (Maine 2018).
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2018 ME 53, 183 A.3d 760 (Maine 2018)
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Hitler Saved My Life
WARNING—This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and features a full-frontal nude photograph of an unattractive man.
By Jim Riswold
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When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a "fake artist," creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would save his life.
Advertising legend Jim Riswold is a Big F****** Deal. Ask him, he'll tell you. But when Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer (a two-fer!), the freewheeling adman quits making commercials, and starts making art.
But not just any art—Hitler art. Mussolini art. Stalin-in-a-bathtub art.
This is not a sad cancer story. This is a molotov cocktail of raunch and heart and 18-gauge biopsy guns. This is a taboo-busting laugh riot, a raspberry blown straight at dying-guy preciousness and monsters of all kinds—cancer and world-historical bad guys included.
Be warned—contents of this book include: One profanity-spiked TEDx talk. Several very public, full-frontal dick picks. Two adorable children. Something called "Interferon Family Fun Night." Jim Riswold leading a crowd of people in a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday" to his oncologist.
Relentlessly funny, and scorchingly subversive, this is a bruised and bruising memoir—it is also tubed, scarred, stapled, and irradiated.
But here's the secret: Jim Riswold, enfant terrible, the man Charles Barkley once called "a role model for morons," is kind of a sweetheart. The wise-guy posturing is just a cover for his pulpy heart.
Another secret: This book isn't about Hitler. It's about the beautiful, stupid, gross, foolish, and fantastic things we're willing to do for love and family and not-dying. It's about a guy who, with due respect to Lou Gehrig, considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Really, Jim Riswold owes cancer a thank-you. Thanks to cancer, his tombstone will no longer read: Here Lies That Guy Who Did That "Bo Knows" Commercial.
Now, it will say Here Lies the Guy Who Put Cancer in Its Place—and Mussolini on a Tricycle.
Jim Riswold
Publisher: Regan Arts. (September 26, 2017)
"...this isn't the usual tearjerker cancer story. It is a gleefully offensive cancer story. It is the Blazing Saddles of cancer stories." —New York Journal of Books
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Paul Ryan: Trump Candidacy No Threat to Republican Control of House
"We are in control of our own actions," states political agenda will dictate House race and not Trump.
Alan Fram Mar 22, 2016 7:44 PM
House Speaker Paul Ryan talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington following a closed-door caucus meeting, March 22, 2016.AP
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Some Republicans may be losing sleep over the prospects that Donald Trump could cost Republicans House control this November, but Speaker Paul Ryan says he's not one of them.
"I'm not concerned about the House flipping because we are in control of our own actions," Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters Tuesday. "And that means we're putting together an agenda to take to the country to show what we need to do to get this country back on the right track."
Ryan spoke as the billionaire businessman leads the race for the GOP presidential nomination about halfway through the party's state primaries and caucuses. Some in the party worry his unbridled comments about women, Hispanics and others will cost Republican candidates in swing House districts, and some leaders — including 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney — are openly looking for ways to derail his march to the nomination.
House Republicans have a 246-188 edge over Democrats, plus one vacant seat considered sure to stay under GOP control.
Before Trump's rise, modest Democratic gains seemed possible. But few have believed the party could gain the 30 seats needed to win House control, a pickup that still seems challenging.
Under Ryan's direction, House Republicans have been working this year to develop proposals for health care, jobs, national security and other issues.
Such measures would have little chance of becoming law this year but are chiefly designed to show voters what the GOP would do if it controls Congress and the White House in 2017.
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10/25/2014 09:01 am ET Updated Oct 27, 2014
Iran Hangs Woman Convicted Of Killing Alleged Rapist
DUBAI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared.
Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on Saturday in Tehran's Evin prison after failing to secure a reprieve from the murder victim's relatives within the 10-day deadline set by sharia law in force since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The death sentence sparked international condemnation, prompting the government of President Hassan Rouhani, who won election last year partly on promises of liberal reform, to intervene to get it commuted.
Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said in early October that a "good ending" was in sight but official media reported later that the slain man's family could not be persuaded to approve leniency for Jabbari.
Jabbari was sentenced to death in accordance with Koranic "qisas," or eye for an eye, law after being found guilty of stabbing dead an older man with a kitchen knife in 2007.
She had pleaded self-defense but failed to sway judges at various stages of appeal and had been kept in prison since her arrest.
Her last chance of reprieve lay with Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose powers transcend all state mandates, but he never mentioned the case and has only rarely interfened in court cases regardless of political considerations.
Immediately after the execution, the Tehran state prosecutor's office issued a statement that appeared aimed at countering sympathy for Jabbari.
"Jabbari had repeatedly confessed to premeditated murder, then tried to divert the case from its course by inventing the rape charge," said the statement carried by IRNA.
"But all her efforts to feign innocence were proven false in various phases of prosecution. Evidence was firm. She had informed a friend through text message of her intention to kill. It was ascertained that she had purchased the murder weapon, a kitchen knife, two days before committing murder."
The hanging comes at an inopportune time for Rouhani, who has been treading a precarious path to rapprochement with the West after decades of mutual hostility largely rooted in Iran's disputed nuclear program and human rights practices.
Rouhani has come under fire from secular Iranians, his main political constituency, over a spate of acid attacks on young women deemed by their attackers to have insufficiently covered their hair in accordance with sharia.
Many Iranians believe the attacks have been provoked by Islamist hardliners in a continuing campaign to thwart the political and social reforms pledged by Rouhani during his electoral campaign.
But many of Iran's more secular voters have also voiced frustration that domestic reforms appear to have taken a back seat to foreign policy under Rouhani, in particular the tortuous negotiations with world powers to resolve the nuclear stand-off.
(Reporting by Mehrdad Balali; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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The office of the future: A unified approach to image-based modeling and spatially immersive displays (1998)
by Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch, Matt Cutts, Adam Lake, Lev Stesin, Henry Fuchs
Venue: In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series
Augmented Surfaces: A Spatially Continuous Work Space for Hybrid Computing Environments
by Jun Rekimoto, Masanori Saitoh , 1999
"... This paper describes our design and implementation of a computer augmented environment that allows users to smoothly interchange digital information among their portable computers, table and wall displays, and other physical objects. Supported by a camera-based object recognition system, users can e ..."
This paper describes our design and implementation of a computer augmented environment that allows users to smoothly interchange digital information among their portable computers, table and wall displays, and other physical objects. Supported by a camera-based object recognition system, users can easily integrate their portable computers with the pre-installed ones in the environment. Users can use displays projected on tables and walls as a spatially continuous extension of their portable computers. Using an interaction technique called hyperdragging, users can transfer information from one computer to another, by only knowing the physical relationship between them. We also provide a mechanism for attaching digital data to physical objects, such as a videotape or a document folder, to link physical and digital spaces.
Spacetime faces: High resolution capture for modeling and animation
by Li Zhang, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Steven M. Seitz - IN ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS (PROC. OF ACM SIGGRAPH) , 2004
"... We present an end-to-end system that goes from video sequences to high resolution, editable, dynamically controllable face models. The capture system employs synchronized video cameras and structured light projectors to record videos of a moving face from multiple viewpoints. A novel spacetime stere ..."
We present an end-to-end system that goes from video sequences to high resolution, editable, dynamically controllable face models. The capture system employs synchronized video cameras and structured light projectors to record videos of a moving face from multiple viewpoints. A novel spacetime stereo algorithm is introduced to compute depth maps accurately and overcome over-fitting deficiencies in prior work. A new template fitting and tracking procedure fills in missing data and yields point correspondence across the entire sequence without using markers. We demonstrate a datadriven, interactive method for inverse kinematics that draws on the large set of fitted templates and allows for posing new expressions by dragging surface points directly. Finally, we describe new tools that model the dynamics in the input sequence to enable new animations, created via key-framing or texture-synthesis techniques.
3D TV: a scalable system for real-time acquisition, transmission, and autostereoscopic display of dynamic scenes
by Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister - ACM Transactions on Graphics , 2004
"... Three-dimensional TV is expected to be the next revolution in the history of television. We implemented a 3D TV prototype system with real-time acquisition, transmission, and 3D display of dynamic scenes. We developed a distributed, scalable architecture to manage the high computation and bandwidth ..."
Three-dimensional TV is expected to be the next revolution in the history of television. We implemented a 3D TV prototype system with real-time acquisition, transmission, and 3D display of dynamic scenes. We developed a distributed, scalable architecture to manage the high computation and bandwidth demands. Our system consists of an array of cameras, clusters of network-connected PCs, and a multi-projector 3D display. Multiple video streams are individually encoded and sent over a broadband network to the display. The 3D display shows high-resolution (1024 × 768) stereoscopic color images for multiple viewpoints without special glasses. We implemented systems with rear-projection and front-projection lenticular screens. In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of our 3D TV system, including an examination of design choices and tradeoffs. We present the calibration and image alignment procedures that are necessary to achieve good image quality. We present qualitative results and some early user feedback. We believe this is the first real-time end-to-end 3D TV system with enough views and resolution to provide a truly immersive 3D experience.
The Everywhere Displays Projector: A Device to Create Ubiquitous Graphical Interfaces
by Claudio Pinhanez , 2001
"... This paper introduces the Everywhere Displays projector, a device that uses a rotating mirror to steer the light from an LCD/DLP projector onto different surfaces of an environment. Issues of brightness, oblique projection distortion, focus, obstruction, and display resolution are examined. Solut ..."
This paper introduces the Everywhere Displays projector, a device that uses a rotating mirror to steer the light from an LCD/DLP projector onto different surfaces of an environment. Issues of brightness, oblique projection distortion, focus, obstruction, and display resolution are examined. Solutions to some of these problems are deschbed, together with a plan to use a video camera to allow device-free interaction with the projected images. The EDprojector is a practical way to create ubiquitous graphical interfaces to access computational power and networked data. In particular, it is envisioned as an alternative to the carrying of laptops and to the installation of displays in furniture, objects, and walls. In addition, the use of ED-projectors to augment reality without the use of goggles is examined and illustrated with examples.
...they also require the fast and accurate tracking of the user's head to be effective. We are exploring the use of the ED-projector in such environments. Unlike in previous works with static projectors =-=[9, 10, 13]-=-, the rotating mirror expands the reach of projector to almost the entire room. It also enables the augmented reality image to follow an object around an environment (as long as there is a mechanism t...
Multi-Projector Displays Using Camera-Based Registration
by Ramesh Raskar, Michael Brown, Ruigang Yang, Wei-chao Chen, Greg Welch, Herman Towles, Brent Seales, Henry Fuchs, Greg Welch Herman Towles , 1999
"... Conventional projector-based display systems are typically designed around precise and regular configurations of projectors and display surfaces. While this results in rendering simplicity and speed, it also means painstaking construction and ongoing maintenance. In previously published work, we int ..."
Conventional projector-based display systems are typically designed around precise and regular configurations of projectors and display surfaces. While this results in rendering simplicity and speed, it also means painstaking construction and ongoing maintenance. In previously published work, we introduced a vision of projector-based displays constructed from a collection of casually-arranged projectors and display surfaces. In this paper, we present flexible yet practical methods for realizing this vision, enabling low-cost mega-pixel display systems with large physical dimensions, higher resolution, or both. The techniques a#ord new opportunities to build personal 3D visualization systems in o#ces, conference rooms, theaters, or even your living room. As a demonstration of the simplicity and e#ectiveness of the methods that we continue to perfect, we show in the included video that a 10-year old child can construct and calibrate a two-camera, two-projector, head-tracked display syst...
iLamps: Geometrically aware and self-configuring projectors
by Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen van Baar, Paul Beardsley, Thomas Willwacher, Srinivas Rao, Clifton Forlines - ACM TOG , 2003
"... Projectors are currently undergoing a transformation as they evolve from static output devices to portable, environment-aware, communicating systems. An enhanced projector can determine and respond to the geometry of the display surface, and can be used in an ad-hoc cluster to create a self-configur ..."
Projectors are currently undergoing a transformation as they evolve from static output devices to portable, environment-aware, communicating systems. An enhanced projector can determine and respond to the geometry of the display surface, and can be used in an ad-hoc cluster to create a self-configuring display. Information display is such a prevailing part of everyday life that new and more flexible ways to present data are likely to have significant impact. This paper examines geometrical issues for enhanced projectors, relating to customized projection for different shapes of display surface, object augmentation, and co-operation between multiple units. We introduce a new technique for adaptive projection on nonplanar surfaces using conformal texture mapping. We describe object augmentation with a hand-held projector, including interaction techniques. We describe the concept of a display created by an ad-hoc cluster of heterogeneous enhanced projectors, with a new global alignment scheme, and new parametric image transfer methods for quadric surfaces, to make a seamless projection. The work is illustrated by several prototypes and applications.
blue-c: A Spatially Immersive Display and 3D Video Portal for Telepresence
by Markus Gross, Stephan Würmlin, Martin Naef, Edouard Lamboray, Christian Spagno, Andreas Kunz, Esther Koller-meier, Tomas Svoboda, Luc Van Gool, Silke Lang, Kai Strehlke, Andrew Vande Moere, Oliver, Eth Zürich, Oliver Staadt - ACM Transactions on Graphics , 2003
"... We present blue-c, a new immersive projection and 3D video acquisition environment for virtual design and collaboration. It combines simultaneous acquisition of multiple live video streams with advanced 3D projection technology in a CAVE^TM-like environment, creating the impression of total immersio ..."
We present blue-c, a new immersive projection and 3D video acquisition environment for virtual design and collaboration. It combines simultaneous acquisition of multiple live video streams with advanced 3D projection technology in a CAVE^TM-like environment, creating the impression of total immersion. The blue-c portal currently consists of three rectangular projection screens that are built from glass panels containing liquid crystal layers. These screens can be switched from a whitish opaque state (for projection) to a transparent state (for acquisition), which allows the video cameras to "look through" the walls. Our projection technology is based on active stereo using two LCD projectors per screen. The projectors are synchronously shuttered along with the screens, the stereo glasses, active illumination devices, and the acquisition hardware. From multiple video streams, we compute a 3D video representation of the user in real time. The resulting video inlays are integrated into a networked virtual environment. Our design is highly scalable, enabling blue-c to connect to portals with less sophisticated hardware.
Shader Lamps: Animating Real Objects with Image Based Illuminations
by Ramesh Raskar, Kok-lim Low, Greg Welch , 2000
"... We describe a new paradigm for three-dimensional computer graphics, using projectors to graphically animate physical objects in the real world. The idea is to replace a physical object---with its inherent color, texture, and material properties---with a neutral object and projected imagery, reproduc ..."
We describe a new paradigm for three-dimensional computer graphics, using projectors to graphically animate physical objects in the real world. The idea is to replace a physical object---with its inherent color, texture, and material properties---with a neutral object and projected imagery, reproducing the original appearance directly on the object. Furthermore the projected imagery can be used to reproduce alternative appearances, including alternate shading, lighting, and even animation. Because the approach is to effectively "lift" the visual properties of the object into the projector, we call the projectors shader lamps. Some limited effects have previously been demonstrated along these lines for specific applications, however the real challenges to realizing this as a new medium for computer graphics lies in addressing the problems related to complete illumination of nontrivial physical objects. Our approach offers a very compelling method of visualization for a variety of applications including dynamic mechanical and architectural models, animated or "living" dioramas, artistic effects, entertainment, and even general visualization for problems that have meaningful physical shape representations. We present and demonstrate methods for using multiple shader lamps to animate physical objects of varying complexity, from a flower vase, to some wooden blocks, to a model of the Taj Mahal.
...t recently, there is a new trend to use light projectors to render imagery directly in our real physical surroundings. Examples include the Luminous Room [Underkoffler99] and the Office of the Future =-=[Raskar98]-=-. What we are pursuing here is a more complete extension of these ideas—the incorporation of three-dimensional computer graphics and animation directly into the real world all around us. Figure 1: The...
Support For Multitasking and Background Awareness Using Interactive Peripheral Displays
by Blair Macintyre, Elizabeth Mynatt, Stephen Voida, Klaus Hansen, Joe Tullio, Gregory Corso , 2001
"... In this paper, we describe Kimura, an augmented office environment to support conorion multitasking practices. Previous systems, such as Rooms, limit users by constraining the interaction to the desktop monitor. In Kimura, we leverage interactive projected peripheral displays to support the perusal, ..."
In this paper, we describe Kimura, an augmented office environment to support conorion multitasking practices. Previous systems, such as Rooms, limit users by constraining the interaction to the desktop monitor. In Kimura, we leverage interactive projected peripheral displays to support the perusal, manipulation and awareness of background activities. Furthermore, each activity is represented by a montage comprised of images from current and past interaction on the desktop. These montages help remind the user of past actions, and serve as a springboard for ambient context-aware reminders and notifications.
...ous more to a file manager than a task manager. A number of systems have proposed moving 2D documents off the desktop and into the real 3D physical world via headmounted displays [5][6] or projectors =-=[21]-=-[23]. These systems aim to increase the apparently available screen space, capitalize on people's spatial abilities, and leverage the association of virtual information to physical objects. One limita...
A Distributed Graphics System for Large Tiled Displays
by Greg Humphreys, Pat Hanrahan - Proceedings of Visualization '99, IEEE , 1999
"... Recent interest in large displays has led to renewed development of tiled displays, which are comprised of several individual displays arranged in an array and used as one large logical display. Stan-ford's "Interactive Mural " is an example of such a display, using an overlapping four by two array ..."
Recent interest in large displays has led to renewed development of tiled displays, which are comprised of several individual displays arranged in an array and used as one large logical display. Stan-ford's "Interactive Mural " is an example of such a display, using an overlapping four by two array of projectors that back-project onto a diffuse screen to form a 6 ' by 2 ' display area with a resolution of over 60 dpi. Writing software to make effective use of the large display space is a challenge because normal window system inter-action metaphors break down. One promising approach is to switch to immersive applications; another approach, the one we are inves-tigating, is to emulate office, conference room or studio environ-ments which use the space to display a collection of visual material to support group activities. In this paper we describe a virtual graphics system that is de-signed to support multiple simultaneous rendering streams from both local and remote sites. The system abstracts the physical num-ber of computers, graphics subsystems and projectors used to create the display. We provide performance measurements to show that the system scales well and thus supports a variety of different hard-ware configurations. The system is also interesting because it uses transparent "layers, " instead of windows, to manage the screen. 1
... performance of graphics systems, it is now practical to perform this blending step in software. Finally, projects similar to ours are currently underway at Princeton University[2] and UNC Chapel Hill=-=[19]-=-. 3 Design Goals and Implications Our main goal while designing this system was to create a graphics system that effectively virtualized the distributed nature of our display, without sacrificing fami...


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Ram Charan was raised in a small Indian town. Working at his family shoe shop he became in contact with business. After earning an engineering degree he took a job in Australia and later in Hawaii. When he discovered how much he liked business and his talent for it he earned doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School.
He is known for given speeches and providing advice to important companies. He has worked with some really important and successful companies such as Verizon, Thomson Corporation and Bank of America. He is identified by Fortune as the leading expert in Corporate governance.
He is also a teacher and has won several awards such as the Bell Ringer awards and he was among Businessweek´s top ten resources for in-house executive development programs.
He has written many books such as "What the CEO wants you to know", "Boards at work" or "Profitable Growth".
He was also elected a Distinguish Tellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and has served on the Blue Ribbon Commission.
LEADERSHIP IN THE ERA OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY
The CEO of DuPont reacted to the crisis firstly by making every employee reduce cost and secondly by cutting back on the over 20,000 outside contractor the company had hired.
Holliday designed the "Corporate Crisis Plan" that brought together the 17 standing teams that always assemble when there is a crisis. Of these 17 teams 8 of them stood down and the rest worked together to try to solve the problem. The decision they came up with was to make every employee conserve cash and reduce costs. Every employee had a meeting with a manager who explained what they need to do. The result of this was good because travel was curtailed, internal meetings were canceled, and consultants and contractors were eliminated. However, this wasn't enough because it was taking too long.
The second action Holliday took, consisted on spending an hour and a half with each of the company's top 14 leaders. Even though each leader made a list of the things that could be improved, Holliday considered that it would take a very long time and the problem needed to be solved in a shorter term. He came up with the idea of cutting back as much as possible on the over 20,000 outside contractor the company had hired to save the most cash. This was possible because a contractor could be released with one week's notice and without any severance costs.
Now, Holliday is predicting that the inflationary trends that preceded the financial meltdown will reassert themselves. However, if that happens DuPont will be ready for it.
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