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Technology Showcase:
DVRs and Beyond
Oct 1, 2005 12:00 PM,
By Bret Bass
All eyes on IP surveillance.
Pelco DX8000 DVR
When considering the largest existing market opportunity for video surveillance systems, J.P. Freeman Co., a leading security industry research firm, stands by its assessment that the United States will continue to support the most growth. "If you want to make the biggest splash, you go into the U.S. market," Freeman says. However, it's equally important to consider the European market, which virtually pioneered the concept and systems used around the world today.
The United Kingdom leads the world in video surveillance with more public areas under observation than in any other country. London is estimated to have approximately 500,000 cameras throughout the city, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The report supposes that a single person can expect to be filmed at least 300 times a day. Analysts believe the total camera population throughout the United Kingdom to settle somewhere around 7 million.
The industry's first direct network-attached digital color camera for Internet/intranet systems, the Axis 200, also hailed from Europe. Although the United States may offer the greatest market opportunities, the manufacturers and integrators abroad repeatedly shape the direction of the industry, even when choosing American-made products. For that reason, we will focus on those products the European experts are touting.
Pelco products have a long-standing reputation as video surveillance technology leaders, due in large part to their quality, longevity, and durability, but the Pelco DX8000 takes durability to a new level. The unit appears impregnable and designed to withstand any natural or man-made peril. Where most DVRs weigh in around 22lbs., this heavy hitter steps into the ring just under 44lbs. It is the DX8000's technical attributes, however, that propel it beyond its peers.
The unit offers a maximum resolution of 720×576 pixels and a top recording rate of 400 images per second. The standard unit comes equipped with 16 camera inputs and a 80GB hard drive, expandable to 1TB. Depending on the number of connected cameras, the resolution selected, and compression and frame rate settings, archive-recording times can be measured in weeks or months, instead of mere days.
Images can be backed up and exported to optical discs using the CD-RW drive. Its well-conceived networking capabilities allow images and motion-based alerts to be sent, via network or Internet, to remote PCs and handheld devices.
Vivid DVR
Although DVR manufacturers have been including bi-directional audio capabilities in units with increasing frequency, most are limited to one or two channels. The DX8000 family provides one audio recording channel for each camera input. While this is impressive in terms of audio recording, the system is not designed for bi-directional audio, which is desirable when considering remote monitoring and management options.
The DX8000 uses the Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Following boot up, the video application automatically launches in live viewing mode and begins recording. The design team at Pelco appears to have spent a lot of energy in ensuring an intuitive and user-friendly application, with easily navigated timeline displays, graphical recording progress representations, alarm and motion events, and a bar graph that indicates total disk usage.
The search features perform in one of three ways, providing users with options that best suit their preferences. The index search generates a list of alarm- and motion-activated events, and the thumbnail search displays the first image from the start of each new recording. The pixel search allows a user to specify and target an area of interest in a recording, displaying all video data relevant to the images recorded in the past 24 hours where movement has occurred in the selected area. I found this particular search feature to offer the most advantages in detecting and retrieving critical data. The only other comparable search feature I have used and appreciated can be found in the Eastman Telebell ETZ and ETS products.
Backup options on the device are also noteworthy, as the DX8000 offers users the choice between CD-RW, DVD-RW, external tape, or external network drives. Archive recordings can be exported using the unit's native format or through a variety of other standard formats, including AVI, ASF, BMP, JPEG, or TIFF. When attempting to send video data to third parties, such as the police, many units fall short because they can't export video clips in universally playable formats. The Pelco DX8000 overcomes this irritating obstacle.
Playback control on the Pelco is excellent. The ability to quickly locate events from the timeline or search menus puts many rival products to shame. Moreover, the unit offers exceptional reviewing quality using its fast search mode or slow motion mode for more intensive discrimination. The DX8000 provides comprehensive monitoring and recording options for a wide range of installations, with a tremendous scope for expansion, access, and control.
With the vast number of DVR manufacturers flooding the industry, even those companies with established brands (Dedicated Micros, GE Interlogix, Honeywell) are facing the ongoing challenge of how to survive and are creating new innovations in product lines to fend off the competition. Smaller companies are aggressively vying for market position and the top dogs are treading on less stable footing than in years past. One thing is certain: The manufacturers with the most progressive R&D departments will successfully stem the tide and best their competition. Baxall is striving to be such a company.
Currently, Baxall offers three models — entry-level, mid-level, and high-end. They are, respectively, the Vivid Lite, the Vivid, and the Vivid Plus. The mid-range model is the most common and offers a choice of 6, 10, or 16 input channels and hard disk drives from 80GB to 1TB. The machines also offer audio capabilities, an increasingly common feature in DVRs seeking to compete in the industry. On the surface, the units appear not too dissimilar from many others, but they all boast one significant difference that is manifested in the unique compression technology.
Axis NVR
JPEG 2000 compression is a key feature of these DVRs. At higher compression levels, these DVRs improve efficiency and offers better image quality. The JPEG 2000 also provides a 30 percent increase in recording time for a given amount of storage space. This technology moves away from the standard Discreet Consine Transformation (DCT) algorithm that breaks down data into segments, which often results in "block" pixilation during rapid movement. Instead, this unit relies on Wavelet Transform algorithms, which encode image data in a continuous stream, thereby reducing the impact of blocking. When such incidents occur, which is rare, the algorithm causes blurring in areas of fine detail, which only degrade the video by softening its appearance as opposed to distorting it.
Other features on this unit include a front-mounted USB socket to download images or recordings onto portable memory modules, copy configuration settings in multiple DVR installations, download software upgrades, or to connect peripheral USB devices, such as keyboards. The embedded version of the Linux operating system, renown for its stability, safety, and performance, fuels the system.
The Vivid DVR provides great image quality and some incredibly long recording times. It presents users with a choice of linear, looping, or event-based recording modes. The resolution comes in a maximum of 720×288 pixels in a variety of single- or multi-screen display formats, including picture-in-picture and picture zoom.
A 19in. rack-mountable case, with aesthetically pleasing control placement and design, houses the unit. Yet, another advantage for installation technicians is that the Baxall units are ready to go right out of the box; they are automatically optimized and preset for a 31-day recording schedule. But taking the pain out of the installation compares only to the ease with which users can control the unit through the robust simplicity of the viewing interface.
The Vivid's exceptional playback quality also pushes the envelope, giving competitors a run for their money. When using the highest picture detail value (60kb), contrast balance and color rendition are virtually indistinguishable from a live camera feed. Even in the multiple-camera viewing modes, images shine with clarity and fluidity of movement. Search functions in the unit are standard: date-and-time search or event search, but they are functionally sound and straightforward. The unit's performance is also sound enough that there's little need to use the highest compression levels; on lower settings, the machine will continue to put forth picture and sound quality as good as, if not better than, rival devices.
MEL Secure Systems is launching a fleet of new DVRs, ranging from one to eight cameras. The recorders use high-performance H.264 compression technology, which broadcasts television-quality images at around 20 percent of the cost of other systems. With a standard 1.5TB hard disk drive, the unit can store up to 30 days of video from all cameras, recording in realtime at 720×540.
The new Sony HSR-J2009 and HSR-J2016 have A/D conversion capabilities and support an intriguing Region-of-Interest (ROI) function, which improves the quality of a set area targeted for motion detection. When a user specifies an area to observe for motion violations, the unit records and displays the image in clear, high quality while lowering the quality of the surrounding screen regions. This enables desired images to be recorded with superior quality, in a sufficient amount of screen space, but at smaller file sizes, thereby increasing storage performance and archive times.
If the automotive industry progressed as fast as the computer industry, some argue that factories would be churning out vehicles flaunting 200 miles-per-gallon fuel consumption rates. Comparatively speaking, however, the computer industry moves at immeasurable velocity, and though DVRs have just recently situated themselves as a surveillance standard, some manufacturing stalwarts are already anticipating their demise. Teldat Security and Axis Communications are both heralding the nascent but inevitable domination of Network Video Recorders (NVRs).
Instead of saving images on hard disk drives locally, as DVRs operate, NVRs are video transmission devices that send information to large file servers and centrally located management systems. Currently, the applications for these systems are large and deployed in such environments as educational institutions and corporations that are locally capable of high-speed bandwidth. But as the price of bandwidth decreases, this storage option becomes more efficient, manageable, and cost effective than a local storage device.
Axis Communications, the founding father of network video, has inaugurated another groundbreaking product: the Axis 262 NVR. The system currently hosts a maximum of eight Axis network cameras, or eight Axis video servers with up to eight analog cameras. The products aim to support small- to medium-sized and multi-site businesses where bandwidth limitations across a wide area network exist. Axis envisions receptive markets to include franchise retail businesses, service stations, hotels, and networked offices.
Remote viewing and playback are still facilitated through an integrated web-based server, but the 262 NVR also allows users to extract data from the built-in 160GB hard disk drive of any local PC, in order to save images to CD-R or DVD media.
Further championing the Axis product is the company's strategic alliance with DVTel's Latitude Network Video Management System (NVMS). The Latitude NVMS, a software-based enterprise level video, audio, and data management system, seamlessly ties in with Axis' next-generation line of network cameras and video servers. Users control all monitoring, recording, playback, and data analyses through a single graphical user interface (GUI) to react to security threats.
Speculative fiction fans have long imagined a world where computers think independently, make conscious decisions, embrace paranoia with unthinkable rapidity, and destroy humankind for its own protection. But it wasn't until the 1980s, when a rules-based AI computer asked its programmer, "Am I alive?" that the concept of sentient computers verged on tangible reality. Although computers, much less DVRs, are not yet sentient or bent on new world order, they get smarter everyday. So too do the new behavior-detecting surveillance products dawning on the market.
Cernium Perceptrak is a veteran to the industry, but it is steadily gaining momentum with its inventive behavior recognition and intelligent video analysis software. Using advanced scenario algorithms, the software detects up to 16 events, including erratic human behaviors, lurching automobiles, abandoned objects, and wrong-way motion. With a single GUI, an operator can administer hundreds of cameras, effectively detecting and processing events. When the Perceptrak system perceives suspicious activity, it isolates the event and alerts operators, who then observe the incident further. Ideologically, the system provides a preemptive alert to a crime before it has occurred.
In addition to the recognition component, the system offers all the functionality of a standard, high-end DVR. Cernium's products have garnered enough attention in the industry to win large contracts with Johns Hopkins University, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Transportation Security Administration.
GE is also promoting a new human detection DVR, which helps security teams identify potential threats with greater speed and accuracy and minimize false alarms caused by non-human movement. VideoIQ shows both alarm violations and the corresponding video footage, and it works well in outdoor environments, where monitoring presents difficult challenges.
The system is PC-based and supports eight cameras. Although the system does not specifically recognize and evaluate behaviors like the Cernium product, it does effectively separate objects from a camera image into foreground and background elements. After isolating the images, VideoIQ ignores the dynamic background motion generated by swaying tree branches, rippling water, and other environmental causes. The end result is a unit able to distinguish one object from another, using a database of learned object characteristics. The unit continuously learns object behaviors, and works well even in such adverse conditions as poor lighting, inclement weather, and poor-quality video sources. This feature assists operators in determining false alarms from actual emergencies.
The unit operates in standalone mode, or it can be integrated into one of GE's existing DVMRe DVR products. The VideoIQ machine comes stocked with a 3.2GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 80GB hard disk drive, floppy and CD-ROM drives, and a Windows XP Professional operating system.
Even with the influx of new innovations in DVR products, the old favorites have not lost interest with installers and integrators. These tried-and-true products continue to dominate industry market share as a result of familiarity, established performance, reputation, and price. However, as some of the newer products explored in this article continue to gain ground, along with the continuing affordability of more innovative technologies and user sophistication, they may soon replace the old standards. In the end, every integrator knows price alone is not always a competitive advantage, especially in lieu of consumers' growing security needs.
This article has explored the burgeoning product lines that offer the latest technological advances in DVR functionality and design, but the standards continue to remain excellent for the everyday integrators and their customers. According to two of the security industry's leading product distributors, ADI and Tri-Ed, these best sellers top the list: ADI, Dedicated Micros, Honeywell Rapid Eye, Digimerge, Speco Technologies, Tri-Ed, Digital Logic America, Samsung, and EverFocus.
When considering any product, integrators should focus more on performance and functionality than on price alone. One of the key considerations is compression and images per second. Compression and frame-rate technologies can be confusing and differ as much as the products themselves, but sticking with the basics is always the best bet.
The human eye retains the impression of an observed object on the retina for about 40 milliseconds, which equates to 1/25 of a second. In realtime, this means images need to be displayed at 25 pictures per second to appear natural, without flickering or skipping. If the product you are considering does not instantly meet this criterion, it's not worth further consideration.
When considering compression, ensure that the unit records data with clarity and longevity using the onboard components. If a product requires costly hard drive additions to accomplish the task, it may not be worth your while.
For More Information
Dedicated Micros
MEL Security Systems
Speco Technologies


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After a break to start the week, MMAWeekly Radio is back with a big show for Tuesday with UFC flyweight Ian McCall as well as Bellator contender Pat Curran stopping by the show.
McCall will discuss the controversy surrounding his fight with Demetrious Johnson, while Curran talks about his title fight with Joe Warren this weekend in Bellator.
Finally the debate heats up as Damon and Jeff get into all the talk surrounding UFC on FX 2 and Strikeforce: Tate vs Rousey with the following topics:
– How big for women's MMA was Saturday night's card with Ronda Rousey capturing the title?
– Are broken limbs a good or bad thing for the future of MMA on television?
– Is Ronda Rousey the star the women's division needs ala Gina Carano or should that pressure be put on her shoulders?
– Tapping vs snapping. What's more honorable and what's the better decision?
– Martin Kampmann pulls off late submission win over Thiago Alves. How impressive was that finish?
– Scoring screw up causes flyweight tourney to get off to rough start. How can this be fixed and how did you score McCall vs. Johnson?
This is MMAWeekly Radio for Tuesday, March 6
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Meet Arizona Agriculture's Palmer Family
By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau: Arden Palmer has a long history of leadership in Graham County agriculture. He also can trace his success to his commitment to family.
Their farm business. Farming in the Gila Valley area, the Palmer family grew primarily cotton and other crops such as wheat and alfalfa.
Arden's book, "Arden and Mella: A Love Story," gives a special insight into their farm life and leadership within the agriculture industry. Theirs is a true love story.
What changes have you seen in your lifetime as it relates to farming? As told from Arden Palmer's recently published book,
Why did you choose to go into agriculture? Promoting the cotton industry and farming in general with his wife, Mary Louise, "Mella," was always a given. They had mutually agreed when they first married and began their family that they would pursue farming as a vocation. Says Arden in his recently published book, Arden & Mella, A Love Story, "After a lot of discussion Mella and I felt more comfortable about staying in Thatcher where our families were and go into farming with my Dad initially. …Farming was good to us, it was hard but a great way to raise a family and be able to work with our children as they grew up."
Will anyone in your family -
Community activities: Actively involved in his community, Arden Palmer is a highly respected farmer in Graham County. He served on the Graham County Farm Bureau board for many years including county secretary in the early 1950s and county president in the late 50s. He served on the state board from 1958-1962. As county
In fact, the cotton industry has been served well by Arden's dedication. Arden served on the Arizona Cotton Growers Board in 1963 as well as vice president in 1965, and president in1969 and chairman of the board from 1971-1972. He served many years on the National Cotton Council Board of Directors starting in 1974. He was also a member of the Cotton Incorporated Board of Directors.
He was on the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Committee from 1969 to 1973. He was also a member of the Arizona Board of Pesticide Control.
The University of Arizona has recognized him with the Lifetime Achievement Award, Distinguished Citizen and Honorary Alumnus Award for his extensive work with the University on research projects relating to pink bollworm and whitefly suppression.
Arden's service to both Farm Bureau, other industry
What is one fact/experience/achievement no one knows about you? Arden is licensed as a commercial pilot where during his career, in between everything else, he did quite a bit of charter work, flying air ambulance flights, flying for BLM, the Forest Service, Game and
What Mr. Palmer Does Really Well? While Arizona Farm Bureau has not asked Mr. Palmer directly since we've pulled most of this information from friends and his book, we'd like to suggest that Mr. Palmer is really good at leadership and connecting. He's also very good and being a father and husband, a quality the family can affirm with great joy each time one of them is asked about it. While Mella is no longer with us, Mr. Palmer's story of his life with her is a true love story.
Why are you a farm bureau member? From the Book: "I suppose I inherited my appetite for involvement in what is going on around me from my dad. As long as I can remember I have liked to be involved and participating in those groups and activities that were pertinent to my life. Shortly after Mella and I were married, I became involved with the Graham County Farm Bureau organization [that extended to state-level involvement]. …I had a great many opportunities to be involved in agriculture-related entities for which I am grateful. Most were very satisfying experiences."
Editor's note: Arizona Farm Bureau is pleased to honor Arden Palmer with the Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award during our 93rd Annual Meeting in November in Scottsdale.


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Sports Party Theme
There a lot of future sluggers and linebackers, who would cheer for a sports theme birthday party.
Read the few tips below to get started and to make things easier for your next birthday event for your budding athlete.
Sports Party Theme – The Gymnasium:
1) Pile different types of sports balls around the party room. Use a gym bag as a centerpiece. Fill it with more sports balls or equipment.
2) Hang pairs of sneakers and cleats around the room, or fill baskets with them, with some tumbling out.
3) Hang various sports posters around the party room.
4) Use trading cards and magazine pictures as wall hangings and table covers.
5) Make the party table into a sports field with plastic tablecloths and colored tape.
Sports Theme Party – The Concession Stand:
1) Serve food you would be able to buy at any sporting event. Dish up Hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn, cracker jacks, soda and lemonade.
2) Serve beverages in sports bottles.
3) Serve ice cream and other snacks in toy baseball and football helmets.
4) When you make the birthday cake, bake a round cake, and decorate it to resemble the birthday child's favorite sports ball.


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There was some leftover foie gras in the freezer that I did not want to keep longer so I searched for a recipe in The Cook's Book. I decided to combine it with port wein jelly, chocolate toast and raspberry ananas with chili. It was a nice combination. I baked again the toast bread myself and this time I was very happy with the form and the taste was just as delicious as the last time.
500 g foie gras
fresh nutmeg
70 ml port wein
25 ml cognac
Slice foie gras lenght when it is still cold. Remove as many large veins as possible. Arrange slices in a terrine dish and season slices with nutmeg, thyme, port wein and cognac. Keep on doing this until you used all. Let it marinate for 5 hours. After heat oven to 150°C and cook in a bain-marie for 20 minutes. After put a weight of 150 g on top of the ready terrine and let it cool that way. For the port wein jelly cook 150 ml port wein with 1 tablespoon sugar and 2 gelatine leaves, let it cool and jelly. Cover toast pieces with molten dark chocolate and place a pistachio on top.
For the ananas melt sugar, add ananas and some raspberry vinegar, reduce, stir in chopped mint, sliced chili and let it cool.


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Former fame of 'The Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev bedazzled at the 2016 American Music Awards in her short suit.
The 27 year old brought her style A-game to the red carpet and put her legs on show in the Zuhair Murad dress, a blazer and a shorts combo, which featured black and silver studs all over.
Nina flaunted her black lace corset worn underneath through the plunging neckline of the look, and added a pair of black ankle-strap pumps to her ensemble along with a matching black and silver clutch.
Adding a fun twist to the look were the silver cornrows in her hair, and the actress completed her cool style with nude lips and a smoky eye.


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A cheeky financial blog with stories about deals, dealmakers and anything else I find interesting. Edited by Ben Harrington. [Disclaimer - the information on Betaville does not constitute any form of investment recommendation and is not intended to be relied upon by readers in making, or refraining from, any investment decisions.]
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Quelle Surprise: WSP Global finally confirms Betaville's Sweett Group takeover tale from 2014
In case you don't, it was about how Canadian group WSP had been "circling" Sweett Group after holding formal talks with the company about a deal.
I ran the story despite a strong steer from "people close to the situation" that Sweett Group hadn't had takeover a takeover approach from WSP Global.
Anyway, this morning WSP Global and Sweett Group announced a recommended deal:
It just goes to show: sometimes it can take a while for little old Betaville's scoops to be confirmed!
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Hip-hop artists are musicologists, and sampling is one way histories are folded into the present.
Author: Mark
Black Panther
Black Panther. Solid entry. Great villain, but our hero is kinda bland. I'm not over the moon with it. Lots of humor falling flat. I selfishly liked seeing the High Museum as a featured setting. Seemed like there's some Star Wars influence here. Also, love to see MMA becoming a part of the action movie vocabulary. Not just punches and kicks, but the grappling, throws, chokes, holds, etc.. These people should be complete martial artists. The star of the soundtrack was the talking drums. 👌
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 2. I took a break from superhero films for a while but couldn't have found a better way to return. I was just so impressed with this movie. Even more so because I never liked Spider-Man comics. The pace, the stakes, some great slapstick and sight gags. Just firing on all cylinders.
Angels Wear White
嘉年华 (Angels Wear White). Good drama and melodrama. I like how they show the effects of crime here, spinning out effects in all directions, bringing out good and ill in those who weren't directly involved.
Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Infinity War. It was mildly distracting to see the movie's first major battle taking place in my downtown Atlanta neighborhood, just blocks away. Is this how New Yorkers feel all the time? Thanos is a great villain. Maybe knowing they'd have him around later let them invest more and give him some motivation beyond destruction? I like the several scenes where loved ones are torn between hard choices – Vision and Scarlet Witch, Thanos and Gamorra, Starlord and Gamorra, etc.. My main frustration with the movie was the big Wakanda scenes. We are convinced this is the most technologically advanced civilization on the planet, and they are fighting a crucial battle… with infantry, hand-to-hand? It's a shame. They could have done something more interesting. The giant roto-tiller machines were cool, though.
Widows. Balances a big set of characters without losing its pulse or momentum. I loooooooved the culminating heist. Filed under: Steve McQueen.
Searching. This is a nice little manipulative thriller. Respect for how they experimented with form to give life to an otherwise straightforward tale. The opening montage killed me.
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp. I saw this a million times as a kid (my sister had the VHS). Saw it again on a whim when I was in Los Angeles. Fun screening with a theater fool of kids who were super into it. The stereotypes… don't age well. But the rest does. I'd forgotten about the music. Several good tunes in this one. I'd totally forgot about He's A Tramp (those back-up vocals!). Bella Notte is unforgettable. And La La Lu? Just perfect.
Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace. Second viewing (the first). What is appropriate for an adult who can't make peace with the world isn't appropriate for a kid who's just becoming ready for it. Using "You Are My Sunshine" as the opening song… :'(. Noticed the color yellow appears a few times – her favorite color, the bees, the yellow blanket at the first house they settle in, the "Don't Tread On Me" flag when the bulldozers tear down the encampment, and when dad is brought back to the house, there's a yellow blanket or sweater where Tom puts her stuff. The list of "inspiration source materials" in the closing credits was a cool addition. And there's a fern at the very end of the credits – looks like a seahorse, doesn't it? I love this movie.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Mission: Impossible: Fallout. Such a reliable franchise! I like how this one raised the level of glamour, the cosmopolitan sheen. And I love how they handled the White Widow/Max connection.
Nocturnal Animals
Nocturnal Animals. Stylish, moody, multi-layered, draws you in, but maybe too meticulous for its own good. I was left a little cold.
What Do We Mean When We Call Art 'Necessary'?
The effect is something like an absurd and endless syllabus, constantly updating to remind you of ways you might flunk as a moral being.
Glad to see someone writing about one of my least favorite descriptions for art.
This usage seems to gesture everywhere but at the art itself, both as an admonishment to the audience and an indictment of the world that has begotten the themes contained in the work being discussed.
On the Basis of Sex
On the Basis of Sex. Paint-by-numbers biopic. RBG is pretty impressive and I'm glad I know more of her story now. Everyone does their part and we all leave inspired. It's fine!
万引き家族 (Shoplifters)
Shoplifters. It's bittersweet and so, so good. I like this improvised family, formed by choice and by happenstance, lasting as long as convenience and commitment allow. But for how long? Lots of beautiful moments – out thieving, on the beach, enjoying a rainy afternoon. I like the "mother's" transformation over the course of the film. Interesting to see side of Japan I'm not used to – the poor, the neglected. I like this one more and more since the time I saw it.
Asking yourself, "What am I doing when I like who I am?" seems to me to be a more direct way to figure out what you need more of (and what you need less of) in life, regardless of what you think you should need. Often, the healthy, fulfilling things we've drifted away from are things whose significance probably wouldn't occur to us, until we start doing them again and see how much they contributed to our well-being.
I'm not of the opinion that a film absolutely needs to have a clear moral framework to have worth, but I do believe that making a film is a moral act. Even if the filmmakers pose questions to which they give no answers, the formulation and presentation of the questions themselves are loaded with a moral reasoning.
The Big Sick
The Big Sick. Funny, bittersweet rom-com. I should probably watch more comedy. Shout-out to Romano and Hunter. So great in their roles.
The Equalizer 2
The Equalizer 2. I hope they just quietly let this franchise slip into obsolescence. Too much going on here plot-wise, and this edition of McCall seems to have a haranguing Cosby-esque vibe where the first one had more charm. I think the highlight for me was seeing Donald Cerrone's bit part.
First Reformed
First Reformed. I dig it. Some great performances. I never knew what direction it was going to go.
Arbitrary Goals
The "time" just provides a framework to allow you to get to a place where it's going to be hard. If you just did it casually, it would be much more comfortable, and I don't think it would be as transformative or profound, on a personal level.
So, I use the "time" as a beacon, or a motivator—whatever you want to call it—not to break a record, but more like if you challenge this time, it's going to get you to a place where it's going to be uncomfortable and hard and … you're going to learn something.
Really loved that bit of Joe Grant's Nolan's 14 interview. It captured one reason a lot of my hikes turn out the way they do. I like being outdoors and have a few regular haunts. But sometimes I can't talk myself into getting out until I have a "gimmick", I call it. Some silly goal. Can I do 40 miles in a day? What's it like to hike an all-nighter? Can I cover X distance in Y hours… with no running allowed? What if I hiked the same 3-mile loop until I lost my mind? So I put myself in these odd situations, and at times I've found myself 20 miles out from the trailhead, thinking, "Well, 20 miles to get back home. The only way home is to put the hours in… so might as well get on with it." I go through all these emotional roller coasters and eventually there's a certain peace that comes along, but only after I've really stretched.


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Many people who are thinking about adding some plant life into their home or backyard are sometimes wary of pulling the trigger because they don't want to have to take care of the plants. Luckily for these people, low maintenance plants are available for anyone to enjoy at a rather low price.
You won't have to pay much attention to these plants, but you will still receive all of the benefits that are gained from having certain plant life in your home or garden.
You should definitely think about keeping some plants inside your actual home because you can always benefit from having some plant life around you at all times.
Having some low maintenance plants inside your home will actually make it easier for you to breathe during the day because it's rather unhealthy to sit inside without breathing in some fresh oxygen from time to time.
People who work at home can definitely benefit from this phenomenon because those are the people who are usually stuck inside their home for most of the day.
Even an office setting can benefit from the use of certain plants, and sometimes they are used to liven up the place more than anything else. A house can look rather dull and boring without something unique, so it's nice to be able to have something green around the house from time to time.
Make sure you are getting plants that don't require much attention because getting any other kind of plant can eventually turn into a bit of a hassle.
Make sure your low maintenance plants are perennial plants
Perennial plants actually make the best low maintenance plants because they allow you to not to worry about replacing those plants in the near future. Some plants need to be replaced on a yearly basis, but perennial plants allow you to leave your plants sitting in the same spot for many years to come.
If you are someone who is not going to have a lot of extra time to deal with your plants then you should definitely think about sticking with something that will at least last for a few years.
Any plant that does not require a lot of maintenance is going to be a great option when you are first getting into gardening and plant life, so make sure to remember this when you first get started. You don't want to get something that is going to be too complicated in the beginning because you are not really sure how long you are going to be trying out this new hobby. A low maintenance plant is always the safe option when you are first learning about plant life and how it can benefit your life.
Don't hesitate to move onto the next step
Once you have taken care of some low maintenance plants for a good bit of time, you can then move onto more advanced plants. You should not think twice if you think you are ready for something that will require more of your time because it's always nice to have a new hobby around the house.


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VLR Listing Date 04/16/1985
NRHP Listing Date 05/09/1985
NRHP Reference Number 85000984
This spread-out wooden mansion stands on property that was part of Beaver Creek Plantation where Col. George Hairston built a brick residence in 1776. The colonial dwelling burned in 1839 and was replaced by the core of the present frame house by Hairston's son Marshall Hairston. The new structure followed a standard two-story, five-bay format used by many of Virginia's well-to-do landed families in the early 19th century. Its interior is trimmed with straightforward Greek Revival woodwork. Wings, a portico, and a veranda were added around 1900. The Hairston family, among the state's largest landholders, accumulated great wealth as tobacco planters. At a time when most tobacco farmers owned around 100 acres, George Hairston by 1826 owned 143,000 acres. By 1900 the family still controlled some 60,000 acres. Beaver Creek Plantation, their core holding, formerly included about 1200 acres.
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Updated: August 18, 2022


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Traditionally used to help soothe skin irritations and support oral hygiene, Neem is renowned for its ability to promote healthy, radiant skin, hair, and nails. It also helps to purify the blood and supports internal detoxification. Works well when combined with our Turmeric Blend.
Dosage: 1-2 capsules with food and water 2 times a day or as directed by your health care practioner.
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Data Protection and Privacy laws across Europe regulate the way in which we handle data. They establish a set of rules for handling data and give individuals a right to know what information is held about them. We can advise you on everything to do with the application of and compliance with the data protection rules across Europe.
We have done lots of work on data transfers too, especially the challenges of transferring data from Europe to the US. We've advised clients on the issues relating to the Schrems decision and challenges to Safe Harbor by German regulators. We have helped clients put in place data transfer schemes to replace their reliance on Safe Harbor after the 6th October 2015 ruling.
The Privacy Shield scheme was proposed in February 2016 to replace the Safe Harbor scheme which was struck down by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the first Schrems case (sometimes known as Schrems 1) in October 2015. The scheme opened for business on 1 August 2016 and we have since assisted numerous clients with the redrafting of their privacy policies as Privacy Shield has some quite detailed requirements on what a privacy policy should say.
We have also been advising clients on the right to be forgotten following the ruling in the Google case. Our lawyers have been advising our clients on procedures to deal with right to be forgotten requests and we've helped them decide difficult cases. We have also successfully defended clients in threatened litigation to enforce right to be forgotten requests.
We're also been at the forefront of advising businesses on the EU Regulation (commonly known as GDPR) through our videos, podcasts, client alerts, tailored white papers and speaking at events and advisory boards. We've advised clients on the consequences of GDPR and helped put policies and procedures in place to deal with the changes. We've assisted our clients in planning their GDPR strategy and we have helped them train employees on the new laws. We have also worked with suppliers of goods and services to help them focus their operations and have provided specialist support to project development teams.
We have also played a leading role in stamping out some of the false rumours that have been spreading about GDPR – you can find out more on this in our blog and film http://www.corderycompliance.com/gdpr-fake-news/
We have also developed solutions such as Cordery GDPR Navigator to assist clients to tackle possibly their biggest compliance project for the next few years. You can learn more about this solution by accessing this link http://www.corderycompliance.com/solutions/cordery-gdpr-navigator/
We have also introduced GDPR Headway which helps clients get started on their GDPR projects. This is done using a 3 step approach of assessing the GDPR readiness of the client, setting up a GDPR action plan that lays out key actions to be undertaken and who should own these processes, and a review process to keep abreast of the latest guidance. This has been successfully implemented in a number of our clients with impressive results.
In addition, we have recently launched an exciting new product that combines our legal expertise around GDPR with intelligent software developed with LexisNexis. Breach Navigator helps Data Protection Officers and their teams deal with potential and actual data breaches in a consistent, informed manner using the very latest best-practice techniques. You can learn more about the tool here http://www.corderycompliance.com/solutions/breach-navigator/
We develop innovative ways of dealing with data protection issues including our end to end managed privacy policy solution. We have also advised clients and their lawyers on the data protection aspects of investigations and ediscovery.
We can also help you work through your compliance obligations when using new technology including:
- dealing with subject access requests
- dealing with data breaches and reporting to regulators
- document review for investigations and ediscovery
- marketing (including consents)
- apps
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- employee monitoring
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- Internet of things
- Our data protection team has completed work in the following industries:
- Automotive
- Chemicals
- e-commerce
- Fashion
- Financial Services
- Health
- Leisure & hotels
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- Media
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- Pharmaceuticals
- Retail
- Experience
- Dealing with a series of Subject Access Requests in the health sector which involved proceedings being issued in the UK to enforce the subject access right. Those proceedings were settled on what our client believes to be acceptable terms.
- Helping manage a complicated and contentious subject access request for a household name organisation.
- Advising on data transfer post Safe Harbor including on data transfer agreements, notices, new processes and Binding Corporate Rules.
- Helping a well-known industry association develop its policy on proposed changes to EU data protection laws representing a wide range of some of the world's largest technology businesses. We have produced a short (4 minute) film on some of those changes here.
- Developing a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) process for a well-known client in healthcare. The process is used to risk assess all of their new uses of personal data.
- Helping a spin-out chemicals business design it's data protection strategy. The program included mapping out a new global program, in-country data protection registrations, a new website privacy policy, new internal policies and training. The program was designed to fit in with the data protection strategy of the client's new owner, a major bank.
- Advising on the implementation of helplines including ensuring the scope of the helpline meets data protection and data export laws and securing necessary registrations.
- Successfully defending three right to be forgotten claims for a client involved in the financial services sector.
- Developing a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) process for a well known client in financial services. This process is used to risk assess all of their new uses of personal data including new financial services products coming on stream.
- Advising on data protection implications of e-discovery in US court proceedings and in meeting information requests in arbitrations.
- Advising a financial services organisation on its obligations to meet subject access requests from former employees suspected of criminal wrongdoing.
- Advising a leading chemicals company on its data protection issues including data security, responding to a security breach, advising on Works Council consultations and managing a program for them to join the US-EU Safe Harbor program.
- Advising a US-listed e-commerce platform in developing its data protection strategy and ongoing advice including helping them manage subject access requests, dealing with regulatory investigations, helping them manage information requests from investigatory and other bodies.
- Advising a well known high-end brand on a security breach following a break-in at its flagship store.
- Working with one of America's largest retailers on their new privacy program. The work involved managing a global program of audit, risk reduction and training to improve global privacy, data-protection and data security compliance.
- Advising a leading e-commerce company on responding to a hostile subject access request, under regulator supervision, after employees at the company made serious allegations against a third party.
- Advising a leading fashion brand on their move into Europe including advice on one to one in-store marketing in the UK, France and Italy.
- Risk audit for a medical devices company including data protection and data security.
- Privacy program for a US based clinical research organisation.
- Advice on data transfer for a leading North American bank.
- Preliminary advice in connection with data storage laws in a number of European jurisdictions and Russia.
- Auditing a non-departmental public body for data protection and freedom of information compliance, including interviewing staff, reviewing documentation and systems, producing a report of findings and recommended compliance improvement plan, followed by implementing that plan.
- Advising a major US retailer on compliance issues arising from its entry to the UK, including in relation to data collection and marketing using that data.
- Advising a range of clients on data breach strategies, both before and after breaches have occurred.
- Advice on the setting up of PeopleSoft and other online HR programs in Europe, including data protection and Works Council issues.
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I searched the Internet for ideas, but ended up just printing out some pictures of the little guys in the game on my computer and went from there.
Buy all the relevant colors of 8x10 sheet felt from a craft store along with some felt glue. You can cut out small pieces like the eyes and mouth line or you can draw them on with a fabric marker. I opted for the marker because it was much easier.
Take the felt body color of the creature you are creating and sew a circle, triangle or oval leaving an opening to turn the body inside out and stuff.
By hand, sew up the opening on the body then sew on any embellishments like ears for the pigs, hair tufts for the birds or the fuse on the bomb bird.


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Course Description
Aspects weave the chart together. They help us remember that while you have many planets, you have only one head between your ears. The astrologer's aim must always therefore be for an integrative approach. In this weekend aspects-intensive, our first principle will be that all aspects are about integration. With this view, we will attempt to replace the outdated notion of "good aspects and bad ones" with a more sophisticated understanding.
So-called "bad" aspects are still about two energies trying to come together to serve some larger purpose. The only difference is that the integrative process is harder. With the easier aspects, the integrative process flows more easily—but might lack motivation or impetus. Each specific aspect requires a distinct strategy. Sextiles, for one example, are not just "like trines, but not as strong." Unlike trines, they speak of excitation, but threaten imbalance.
In this presentation, Steven focuses on the most energetic and critical aspects—the so-called Ptolemaic or Major ones: the conjunction, sextile, square, trine, and opposition. But we will also spend some time with the fascinating and underrated quincunx, the magical, creative quintile, as well as a few others.
Aspects are astrological bedrock. But like so much else in the system we've inherited, there is a need to find new language for them. What are the words that speak truly and effectively to humans in an age of psychology, quantum mechanics, and revolution in almost every category of experience? Surely it goes beyond limiting predictions like, "Saturn squares your Venus so you will be unlucky in love."
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Fire and Emergency Services Instructor, (8th Edition), IFSTA
Fire Service Course Design – ATPC 2741
This course covers the principles of effective curriculum design. It stresses the principles of adult learning and student-centered learning. Designing courses and units that address learning, performance, and behavioral objectives is the program goal.
Your Course Includes
Step-By-Step Learning Modules
All modules have a combination of reading assignments, discussions and quizzes.
Additional Resources
Each course will have additional resources in video format.
Instructor Assistance & Access
You will have the ability to access your instructors throughout the course. If you have any questions regarding the course material or need assistance with your coursework submissions, we are more than ready to help!
Frequently asked Questions
How long is the duration of the course?
From the moment you enroll into this course, you will be allotted 30 days to complete the entire course. Feel free to work at your own pace to finish the course, so long as you meet the 30-day deadline and have a final grade of 70%. If you do not finish the course within 30 days, you will not have further access to the course. Here at FFTI, we understand that extenuating circumstances may arise and leniency may be granted depending on the nature of the circumstances that the student is faced with. You must notify the instructor prior to the end of your 30 days in order to qualify for an extension to complete the course. This is by no means a guarantee that an extension or exception will be made.
Do you require any portion of this course to be completed in person?
No, this course along with many other courses at FFTI are solely online. Should any questions arise throughout your learning experience, do not hesitate to reach out to the instructors at: email@example.com
Upon completion of the course, will FFTI issue a certificate of completion?
Yes, once you finish the course you will be able to download your certificate to your computer, which will then allow you to print the certificate for your records. In addition to receiving your certificate of completion, your instructor will also update your course completion into FCDICE through the Florida State Fire College.
Will this course count towards Continuing Education Units (CEUs)? If so, how many CEU's will I obtain?
This course will apply 45 hours towards Fire Safety Inspector, Instructor I, II, III
Why are some of your textbooks different than some of the other institutions' required textbooks?
At Frontline Fire Training Institute, we make every attempt to align our textbook selection with that of the Florida State Fire College. However, through our curriculum development and materials vetting process, we have found that our selected textbooks offer the students a more streamlined path through the required course curriculum than do others. We want to ensure that our students are thoroughly prepared for the coursework, and we have aligned our textbooks to complement our teaching methodology and enhance the student learning experience in the online learning environment. Training institutions are able to select the textbooks of their choice, and are not required to match those used by the Fire College.


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Perfect Bound, 80 pages - Editor Chris Bodor, and assistant editor Michael Sanders, known for their work on Heart Pour-The Love Book (Poet Plant Press, 2011) are on board once again as the creative team for this collection. Wayne Mason sets the stage with his foreword on gaining a book reading audience behind the factory walls. Mike Watt, bassist for the legendary band the Minutemen, offers a poem about a lighthouse keeper. College student Bobby Smith writes about job expectations after graduation. Teacher David Dannov reports on the educational system. It is all here; shift changes, retirement, house work. Kimmy Van Kooten's poem and illustration about a hobo in a forest is even added as a reminder that there are some among us who do not work.


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Without doubt, the top game of round eleven of the NRL was the match between the fourth placed South Sydney Rabbitohs and top of the table and unbeaten Penrith Panthers as the visitors looked to go four points clear of the chasing pack, Paramatta still to play their eleventh round game.
Penrith have recorded big points wins in their last two outings while leaking an average of under eight points per game, the Rabbitohs really up against it despite being just three places behind the visitors on the league ladder.
Mitchell was back for Wayne Bennet's Rabbitohs after serving a suspension with Josh Mansour also back in the side, while Ivan Cleary moved Stephen Crichton to full back and Paul Momirovski into the centres.
A fantastic determined effort from Nathan Cleary opened the Panthers scoring with just four minutes on the clock as he span twice on the line before getting the ball to ground under the tackle of Cody Walker. The Panthers couldn't add the extras, hitting the far upright with his kick.
On twelve minutes the Panthers were in again as they kept the ball alive, Viliame Kikau being involved twice in the move, the second time receiving the inside pass to shrug off a tackle and walk over in the left corner. Cleary curled his kick inside the far upright for a 10-0 lead, a devastating start and a taster of what was to come.
Inside two minutes the Panthers scored their third, this one a sixty-metre effort as Kurt Capewell took an Isaah Yeo pass and showed an extraordinary turn of pace to carve through the defence and cross in the corner. Cleary added the touchline conversion, Penrith scoring at a point a minute.
Two tackles after getting a penalty for obstruction close to the Bunnies line, fast hands across the field saw the ball into the hands of Matt Burton with the centre crossing to score in the left corner. Cleary was again accurate with the boot for 22-0, the game rapidly slipping from South Sydney.
Burton got his second on thirty-one collecting a Cleary high kick a metre from the South Sydney line and turning around to drop to the line to score, the defenders doing little to make the try difficult. Cleary added his fourth conversion.
The one-way traffic was momentarily reversed on thirty-seven as the Bunnies finally got on the scoreboard, Latrell Mitchell finding Josh Mansour who beat the last defender and dive over in the corner. Adam Reynolds added the touchline goal.
The final score of the half came from the boot of Cleary after the Rabbitohs broke from the scrum before the ball was out. Penrith taking an unassailable 30-6 lead into half-time after totally dominating the first forty.
As the first half finished, the second started via the boot of Cleary who kicked a fiftieth minute penalty goal to further extend the lead.
The first Panthers try of the second half was a scrappy one, but Burton couldn't care less as he completed his hat-trick after picking up a loose pass off the ground and carrying it one-handed diving for the line to score. Cleary added the conversion for 38-6, normal Penrith service was resumed.
Cleary got his second try on fifty-seven through ineffective South Sydney defence as he evaded the efforts of three tacklers to get the ball down on the line from ten metres out. He added an eighth goal of the afternoon for a personal haul of twenty-six points in a 44-6 lead.
The Bunnies were into double figures on sixty-two as Cody Walker stepped off both feet to go in from fifteen metres out. Reynolds added the extras, but any Bunnies points were about trying to save face, the points had already long gone.
A diving lunge for the line from To'o off a Cleary miss-out pass gave the winger a spectacular try in the corner for the Panthers eighth try of the afternoon. Cleary added the touchline conversion to bring up the fifty.
It was all too easy for Stephen Crichton as he took a Burton pass twenty from the line to jog in under the sticks and give Cleary a simple conversion for 56-12.
The Rabbitohs discovered today how ruthless the Panthers are as they continue their incredible run at the start of the season, and how far the side in fourth place are away from the leaders. If the rest of the league needed to be reminded how good the Panthers are, they just needed to watch their demolition of the Bunnies today. Who will stop them in 2021?
South Sydney Rabbitohs: Mitchell, Johnston, Gagai, Graham, Mansour (T), Walker (T), Reynolds (2G), Burgess, Cook, Tatola, Koloamatrangi, Su'A, Knights. Subs: Marshall, Nicholls, Arrow, Cartwright. 18th: Burns.
Penrith Panthers: Crichton (T), Staines, Burton (3T), Momirovski, To'o (T), Luai, Cleary (2T, 10G), Fisher-Harris, Koroisau, Martin, Kikau (T), Capewell (T), Yeo. Subs: May, Sorensen, Eisenhuth, Leniu. 18th: Jennings.
Half-Time: 6-30.
Full-Time: 12-56.
Referee: Grant Atkins.
Score Progression: 0-4, 0-8, 0-10, 0-14, 0-16, 0-20, 0-22, 0-26, 0-28, 4-28, 6-28, 6-30 : HT : 6-32, 6-36, 6-38, 6-42, 6-44, 10-44, 12-44, 12-48, 12-50, 12-54, 12-56 : FT.


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Millions of mobile subscribers across
the country are likely to get relief from pesky commercial calls
and messages with the regulations preventing such communications
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Finally, a law to end pesky calls is in place
New Delhi: Your phone
buzzes and you reach for it - only to find yet another
telemarketing call or SMS, though you thought you had blocked
them. Many people report telemarketers are brazenly carrying on
with their pesky calls and messages despite the new regulations.
"Despite registering with Do Not Call, I am still getting at least
one to two messages, especially real estate offers, daily," a
harassed Manoj Sharma, a Delhi businessman, told IANS.
Customers expected an end to the regular unsolicited messages once
the new measures of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
came into force Sep 27 but it appears some loopholes were left.
While some telemarketers have resorted to internet messaging
solutions from overseas servers beyond the jurisdiction of either
TRAI or the government, many customers also report getting calls
from insurance or property agents from landline and mobile
numbers, in violation of the regulations which had enforced a
"140" prefix for calls from registered telemarketers.
Officials say they are looking into these complaints.
Speaking to IANS on the issue, TRAI chairman J.S. Sarma said the
telecom regulator is looking into the matter and the existing
regulations are sufficient for the issue.
"We are taking a look at that. There is no need for new
regulations," Sarma said.
Acknowledging that the calls and messages are still coming, he
however noted their frequency has reduced largely.
"The fact is there are millions of people who are registered on
CPR (Customer Preference Regulation), out of whom the number of
people who have registered the complaint is a very very small
number," he added.
According to TRAI, 1,122 subscribers using their numbers for
commercial purposes have been issued notices while 111 subscribers
have been disconnected. In case of telemarketers, 17 have been
penalised so far.
The regulator advises subscribers still receiving pesky messages
or calls to lodge their complaint by calling or messaging 1909.
Any commercial messages which is sent to a mobile customer needs
to have a code indicating the location and source operator
followed by the alphabets of the advertising companies or numbers.
However, now most of such messages do not contain any of that
except for the names of random companies like "Best Deal" or "Free
"I am still getting these irritating messages despite registering.
Earlier I used to get codes like LM, DM, etc, with the sender ID
but now I only get the company's codes," Ankita Sinha, a student
of the Delhi School of Economics, told IANS.
According to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)
director general Rajan Mathews, the lack of prefixes and unique
codes is a violation of TRAI regulations as well as making it
difficult to figure out the messages' source.
"Telemarketing companies have started exploiting new methods to
send messages. They are most probably coming from websites with
overseas servers which are difficult to trace and filter," Mathews
told IANS.
While an ordinary telemarketing firm charges 5 to 20 paise per SMS,
these servers might cost something around 50 paise to Re.1 per
message but still the companies go with it.
TRAI has laid out a maximum penalty of Rs.2.5 lakh for violators.
There is also a provision of getting blacklisted for two years
after the sixth violation, but these rules do not apply to servers
located outside India.
Expressing the government's helplessness, Communications Minister
Kapil Sibal recently admitted that it is difficult to completely
ban such calls and SMSs.
"People are very smart...now they are using internet to send such
messages. Now we don't have any control on the internet," Sibal
"The server may be somewhere outside the country. You may put your
calls or messages through that server. How will we deal with that
server over which we have no jurisdiction?" he said.
However, according to bulk messages firm SMS GupShup, these
messages can be controlled as SMSs cannot reach subscribers
without being routed by the service providers.
"TRAI can surely control these messages, irrespective of the place
of their origin, whether it is from India or abroad as even if a
message originates through the internet, eventually it has to be
sent to an Indian operator to be routed by its network,"
Vishwanath Ramachandran, chief technology officer, SMS GupShup,
told IANS.
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Apparently, I read, people should trust their instincts. They should do this, the article says, because instinct tells us what we desire. And desire takes seven seconds to manifest itself, so it says.
I shut my eyes and splay out my fingers on the bed, next to the box—Pandora's Box, I call it—the one which holds the only photo of you that I have. I tap—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and I shove my face into the pillow, allowing this set of tears to seep into the cotton and join the night-time ones. And what I need stares straight back at me from inside my eyelids amid the soggy pillowcase and the feint warbling trace line of salt that proves I was awake more than asleep last night. Again.
The dream, recurring to the point of madness. The way your lips met mine over the table; how we agreed we'd never do it again. And then your body pressed against mine in the dark. Your fingers tracing a path over my breast, cupping it with your palm, as my hand explored the hardness you hid away from me. Squeezed it. You gasped; your breath came long and hot in my hair and you lifted the hem of my skirt to my knee, sliding your hand up higher, caressing the soft inner flesh of my thigh until your fingers brushed the material between my legs. Your eyes widened when you felt the wetness you'd created in me. You told me then that you wanted me. And, as your fingers curled under the lacy edge of my knickers and I felt the whisper kisses on my neck, I believed you.
I need to sit up. Shake the dream away. I actually do it—shake my head, denying you prolonged entry inside of me. The scent of the lilies drifts in the breeze of the open window, over from the vase on the windowsill, encircling my senses. Do you remember our daytrip to Kew Gardens? Those flowers I found that smelled like—what did I say?—like how I imagined the Bacchanalia would smell. Such power, such rich eroticism, so many heady flower scents, and I wanted you to fuck me in that garden, to give the flowers something real to smell. I even turned to you to get you to smell it too, and to reassure me that it's rare, this incredible scent, only to be recognized by me when you're there to smell it, too. And you bent me over the edge of the wall to the raised pond and pulled my knickers aside so you could take your Bacchic fill of me as the heat, and the flowers, and my desperate moans empowered your thrusts. But you weren't there really, of course, were you? I function on the periphery of life, there, in fantasy without you, unable to hold onto happiness even in the most basic of nature's gifts.
But I decide not to think about this at all. I decide not to think about anything but what I need after counting to seven and concentrating on how I am now. I focus completely on the matter in hand, and it doesn't matter that my tongue is dry and sticking to the roof of my mouth when I swallow, nor am I overly worried about the pain in my stomach that cries out for food that it's missed—or the ache in my cunt that screams for its own nourishment. None of this matters. That's just my body talking. And I'm not willing to give an inch on this; I draw the battle lines on my physical self. Because, unless I am alive, then my body will die. Unless I survive, then the breasts that swell to your touch, the thighs that wind around you, the inner most part of me that drenches itself with life at the hard treatment you give it—all will wither away. It writhes in the pain that wanting you brings, it's rebelling at the way I die without you. Leave me alone, Body, so my Self can save both of us!
I rehearse ways to tell you. I write full letters in my head. And in them, I talk of how futile this all is; how you can't give me what I need; that I'm worth more than this. I don't even believe that myself. What am I worth? If you get nothing back, if you're treated like you don't matter, does that mean that you are nothing—do you even exist outside of your own head? I don't know. I want to be able to have you—to have someone—who will talk to me as if I'm a living, breathing creature, with decisions to make and a life of my own to run, independently of you. But I miss you, and I don't run independently of you, do I? I'm entwined around you, and you slide in under my skin and torture me there, pummeling away between the surface and my inner self. And so, I no longer have speech to fall back on, either. I have a box of memory.
Open the lid, and the evils of my world escape. The way you take me, freshly showered and shy of you, and lay me down on the bed. Peeling open the folds of my dressing gown, you stroke a line from my navel to my folds with your thumb, and I shiver at your touch, but the shiver burns me; my skin is on fire as your forehead rubs against my thighs and you push my legs apart. The first touch of your tongue sends skewers up my back, impaling me to the bed as you feast on my bush and your fingertip toys with the most intimate part of me. I shut my eyes, only feeling the roughness of your tongue, the flicking of its tip against my hard little mound. I let you in. And when I open my eyes…I'm there alone, with the emptiness, and the sad flowers, and the letter I need to write.
And I tell you—oh, I go on and on about it in this letter which floats in the cavities of my heart between sense and feeling—that I've never said 'goodbye' to you before, because I've never needed to. Or, at least, I've never wanted to. I go on and on about how the very utterance of the word denotes the end, and I ask you if you've ever even noticed how I say 'see you', or 'night night', or any manner of words to avoid saying this one. But it's time to say it now. And I remind you in detail that you've always never had time to listen to me, or just didn't want to know about what I need from you—how it breaks me in two that you've locked me in a state of submission with no way out, no safe word—just didn't reply to the words I wrote if I tried to make you hear. And I'm sick, sick to my stomach, of being bound by you.
The message would come in: "Where's the photo of your tits?" Another: "Cunt pic—now." What choice do I have, under your spell? The noise would ring out. I answer, and there you are, laying on your bed, cock in hand. And I have to give as well as receive, and the tears fall down my face, but it's not my face you're watching. It never is. The images of my cunt and your cock are everything—everything to you. Seven seconds…I want more, want to be more, than that. I want to kiss your lips, your neck. I want to be able to run my fingertips over your chest when the first strips of morning light illuminate you and ignite the fire that smoulders inside me as I wait for your hands to roam my body, wait for your face against mine, wait for the whispers in my hair, as you lift me onto you and fuck me for real. I want real.
And so, I force my feet to the floor, and pull myself to the seat at the dressing table. I rummage in the bottom of the drawer for the best quality writing paper, the sheets that I only ever used to use for the most important of letters. And I use my best pen—the one you said would be a gift for my birthday, but that I bought for myself, in the end. I pour out my soul through the ink and on the paper, every word releasing me fragment by fragment from the ties that bind me to you. And when all the fragments are there, and I can face them without the whisps of breeze being the brush of your kiss, the sheets being the warmth of your body against mine, or my fingers fucking inside me and replicating the endless empty promises, then—then, I will begin to glue together the broken pieces. I'm a broken fuck. Everything can be mended, given time. But how many cracks still show?
I can live, can't I, without the way I want to wrap you in my arms? It's possible to survive without your orders and threats and mutual masturbation in stolen moments so I can please you. I can manage without the pressing of your warm lips against mine, the touch of my hand against your face, the way your hand runs down my back and pulls me close to you. I don't need to feel the way you slide so easily inside me, the pulsating of your cock filling me as your hands squeeze my breasts and harden my nipples until I gasp. Or how I push harder onto you as you thrust yourself into me and find your own unique way of making those shivers burn through my body. I can live without finding my pleasure through you, seeking my soul in you.
There's an email. It bings on my phone and there, on a screen next to the letter, are those words. Three words is all it takes every time. I clasp them to my breast, blindly hoping that you can feel my heart beating back at you. Three words: "I want you."
The message fills the air, encases me with its ethereal arms, suffocates me. One…two…three…four… My fingers grope my body, fill my cunt, as I arch backwards in the moans that satiate the fear screwed deep in me—the fear of losing you. The letter drifts off the desk and drifts under the bed, part-finished. Five…six… I reply with three words of my own; the words I wait to hear one day. And, once more, hesitating in the Pandora's Box within my bedroom walls waits the tiny, fragile one. One day, Hope says, seven seconds might last a lifetime.


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