In my childhood, there was a board game called Light of Knowledge, which presented a set of questions and answers on various topics such as science, geography and history. It came with the small figure of a man of Greek proportions, who stood on a plastic pedestal with a long, sharp pointer attached to its base. One had to ask a question by setting the needle towards it on the board, and the man rotated on a glass circle to point at the answer, also on the board. So one got to know about everything — from the approximate time of the Harappan civilization, the chemical composition of sulphuric acid to the name of the emperor who founded the Mughal dynasty — simply by placing the man on the circle and watching him spin.



The game made knowledge entertaining by bringing in an element of playful discovery to the process of acquiring it. In later years, whenever I would think of the Renaissance man — as much a scholar of the arts as of the sciences — the spinning man of Light of Knowledge would come to my mind. Sanjeev Sanyal’s book, Land of the Seven Rivers, with its answers to questions such as “Why do Indians call their country Bharat?” “Why did the Buddha give his first sermon at Sarnath, just outside Varanasi?” or “How did the Europeans map India?” took me back to the world of my favourite board game. Sanyal almost makes a thriller out of staid facts as he races through India’s history, from ancient times to the modern age. He has a thesis to prove — “Indians have long been conscious of their history and civilization” — which is contrary to the popular belief that Indians have never conceived of themselves as a nation. It is to Sanyal’s credit that he makes his point without flaunting his scholarship. An economist by profession, he comes across as more of an explorer, who travels the length and breadth of India to discover the premises of his argument,A plastic IC card containing a computer chip and enabling. rather than attempting to fit his journeys into his thesis.



Sanyal’s peppy way of presenting facts gives the book its irreverent vitality. For instance, while talking about how beads and ornaments made of ostrich-egg shells point to the widespread presence of the bird in India in the Stone Age, he says, “It is possible that the Stone Age fashion industry pushed it [the ostrich] into extinction by targeting the eggs.” He lists the advices given by the author of the Kamasutra to the nagaraka (the rich and idle man-about-town) regarding how he should conduct his daily life in a big city: apart from bathing, shaving, getting an oil massage, he should also clean the sweat from his armpits. Sanyal says that the Kamasutra author is quite insistent on the last mentioned step of the metrosexual man’s beauty regime.



Sanyal keeps on picking out the continuities of the past in the present. History returns to life as Sanyal traces its contours in the modern landscape. “The northernmost point of the Aravallis is the North Ridge near Delhi University. Today, college sweethearts cuddle among the ancient rocks, oblivious to both passers-by and history, but the North Ridge was the stage for an important turning point in Indian history. It was here that a small British garrison held out in 1857 against a much larger force of Indian rebels and pounded the walls of Shahjehanabad (what is now called Old Delhi).” This overlapping of different layers of time in the geography of India is Sanyal’s chief concern in this book. He dwells at length on the fate of the river Saraswati, which the Rig Veda mentions as the greatest of all rivers. Later texts talk about the drying up of the river; some say that it went underground. But it survived in memory, bubbling up in legends, folktales and myths.



Rivers die, civilizations disappear, tribes rise and fall: but their traces linger on in the collective unconscious to give a people, in this case, the Indians, a sense of identity fed by the waves of history as well as by the geography of the subcontinent. But this intuitive awareness of the past invariably goes hand in hand with a stubborn refusal to acquire wisdom from the lessons of history. Sanyal writes: “Standing on the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi, I ponder on [sic] the fate of a river killed by ill-advised civil engineering. Did the Harappans feel like this as they gazed on the dying Saraswati?



The concern with water is echoed in the Vedas… Perhaps the ancients too struggled with their inner demons — the suspicion that they may have somehow brought on their downfall by interfering with nature.” Given the kind of treatment that is being accorded to the Ganga now, perhaps one day in the not-so-distant future, this mighty river will also flow in the memory only. Land of the Seven Rivers closes with this premonition, but not on an alarmist note. Sanyal chooses to end by underlining the resilience of the Indian civilization, which has suffered one disaster after the other and still survived. Perhaps it is this undying spirit that will see the country through the dying of the Ganga too.



In the last part of the book, Sanyal presents an empirical case-study of the urban villages in and around Delhi. His analysis of the phenomenon of “new India”,Transportation China IC card Applications Ceremony. dominated by those “climbing into the middle class from the slums and small ‘mofussil’ towns” — is quite convincing. It will match the readers’ experiences of the expanding urban spaces. Sanyal smartly pre-empts any accusation of condescension that may be levelled against his argument: “No matter what the snobs of the old middle class may say, this [the mainstreaming of mofussil culture] is generally a good thing.”



The section, “The Great Indian arc of the meridian”, in the chapter, “Trigonometry and Steam” stands out from the rest of the book. Here Sanyal describes how the British mapped India.A stainless steel bracelet for every occasion. The three pages on the “acerbic genius”, William Lambton, the superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, potentially contains a historical novel on the man who crisscrossed India with his theodolite in the early 19th century. The theodolite is an instrument for measuring angles necessary for creating an accurate map.



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I note that Mr. Truss has steered away from upload speeds because the upload speeds are likely to be woeful at around 5mbps under the Coalitions FTTN plan. Upload speeds are important, working from home just as if you were at work will become the norm. Teleconferencing from home with your doctor or work colleagues will be the norm.



Usage of cloud technology will be the norm. People will be able to enjoy the lifestyle of living in regional cities whilst maintaining their jobs in the major cities. All this is under threat with FTTN technology.



Mr Truss continues to spread lies over the NBN; lies like the NBN would cost $90 billion. The facts are NBN Co's equity is appropriated each year and then drawn down as required. In the current financial year, equity requirements were less than anticipated,A plastic IC card containing a computer chip and enabling. reflecting the reforecast rollout schedule. The Budget reconfirms the total government equity contributions to NBN Co will be up to $30.4 billion to build the state of the art FTTH network. This compares with the $29.5 billion that the Coalition intends to borrow to build an inadequate network that is already obsolete. The overall savings are minimal to the taxpayer but the ongoing expense of maintaining the ageing copper network which reached its used by date long ago is significant. 60,000 plus cabinets need to be built. That is 60,000 potential breaking points in the network.



Mr. Truss needs to come clean and tell the residents of Wide Bay that the Coalition plans to build 60,000+ of the ugliest node cabinets approximately 2km apart in every street in Australia. Any less and you won’t get the speeds, remember distance from the node matters, 1.5km from the node and you will get much slower speed than someone 400metres from the node. The cabinets will hook state of the art fibre cabling to the old degraded copper network that currently causes us no end of trouble every time we experience bad weather. Imagine one of these out front of your house (see the node cabinet at the end of this article).



Mr. Truss claims that not a single Wide Bay household is likely to be connected to the NBN cable until well after 2016. That is simply not true; NBN Co expects to start switching on facilities in Kandanga and Kilkivan in stages from late 2014.



Mr Truss makes much of the finish date for the NBN rollout of 2021 whilst saying nothing about the finish date for the Coalition of 2019. They boast a saving of two years to deliver an infinitely slower and inferior network that will be expensive to run and obsolete before it’s even completed. Coalition cost for outdated obsolete technology $29.5 billion versus Labor state of the art broadband $30.4 billion.



The reality is the Coalition will create the great digital divide where some communities, those where Labor’s FTTH has been rolled out, who will have access to 1,000mbps download and upload capability.A stainless steel bracelet for every occasion. Where other communities, like Noosa and Maryborough, if the Coalition win office will be lucky to have 40 – 70ish download only capability.



There will be no easy fix once upwards of 60,000 cabinets have been deployed, we will be stuck with a lemon that we will pay dearly for in decades to come.



60,000 nodes X 8 batteries that have to be replaced every year. It takes about twice the amount of power to run a FTTN system than it does a FTTH. Greenhouse gas emissions matter in a world that’s trying to reduce carbon emissions. In the UK nodes are vandalised regularly, batteries stolen, they get sprayed with graffiti, hit by cars, residents refuse to have them outside their houses causing delays and fights with neighbours and councils. I don’t think councils are really aware of the potential problems.



Roughly a dozen boxes of science fiction toys are stacked nearly to the ceiling in Brian Angel’s garage.



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The 39-year-old Moorpark resident is a tried-and-true Trekkie, a Star Trek super fan whose love runs deep for the multi-billion dollar sci-fi franchise created by Gene Roddenberry in 1964.



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The avid collector was introduced to the series at age 7 when his grandfather took him on a tour of Paramount studios in Hollywood where the television series was filmed.



His passion for the franchise was solidified in 1982 when he saw “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” a film in which the crew members of the USS Enterprise face off against Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically-engineered tyrant played by Ricardo Montalban.



The infamous villain escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on James Kirk, played by William Shatner. “I could watch that movie every day,” Angel said. “And sometimes, I go through phases where I do.”



Although he does not have one favorite character, Angel said he enjoys the relationship between Kirk and his half-Vulcan officer, Spock.



“Kirk is the impulsive, gunslinging guy who does everything by instinct and Spock is the logical, calculate-every-move character,” Angel said. “They’re so different yet they’re still able to find the common ground of friendship.”



Angel, who described himself as a “ geek,” has found common ground with other Star Trek fans. He and Doug Ridley, his friend of 10 years, are both fans of the series.



“He knows more lines and quotes from those movies than anyone I know,” said Ridley, who met Angel through the Rotary Club of Moorpark Morning, where they both served as president. “He doesn’t know it yet, but his next present from me is going to be a pizza cutter in the shape of the Enterprise.”

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What does it mean to be an ‘Outsider Artist’? While the majority of famous artists follow the time-tested route from the art school to the gallery, there are those who slip through the cracks of artistic society, exploring their creative visions outside the atelier. The majority of these artists trickle away into obscurity, but this summer, a select group of the outside art world has found a home in London, being displayed in both the Wellcome Collection and the Hayward Gallery.



The term ‘Outsider Art’ originated from the French artist Jean Dubuffet’s idea of art brut, and describes art made outside the structure of the mainstream artistic world, by artists who have often received no formal training. Similar to naive art, outsider art often makes use of improbable perspective, simplistic forms,We are always offering best wholesale tungsten jewelry the affordable price. and bold colours, creating works which are defiantly different to the mainstream artistic culture; the differences are not only in the manner of the work, but also where it is created – most outsider artists do not work out of an official studio, instead working in their home,A plastic IC card containing a computer chip and enabling. or as part of therapy.



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Some of the works, such as Shinichi Sawada’s mythical monsters, bristling with spiky points, come directly from the artist’s imagination, but a large majority relate to everyday objects in the artist’s life. Hiroyuki Komatsu’s clunky cartoons encapsulate episodes and plot arcs of his favourite morning TV shows, while Daisuke Kibushi’s work consists of reproductions of post-war movie posters, meticulously recreated from memory.



These works possibly provide a way for the artist to express what they feel about the world around them; with a alphabet system as complicated as Japanese, it can often be difficult for the artists to articulate what they want to say, and working with media gives them an outlet.



Similarly, it would be untrue to presume that there is a lack of self-awareness on the artists’ part; Yoko Kubota projects her own desires for beauty onto her drawings of models, copied from fashion magazines, while Yukiko Yamada’s series of delicate watercolour portraits, entitled She Is Nobody, can be seen as an existential call to arms, exploring ideas of self-importance, uncertainty, and anonymity. Even Takahiro Shimoda’s pyjamas, festooned with images of his favourite foods, display a keen sense of humour and self-awareness



Throughout the exhibition there is an underlying theme of repetition; since the art is a form of occupational therapy, much of the works centre around a single idea that fascinates the artist. Both Mineo Ito and Ryoko Koda utilise their own names in their works, Ito repeatedly writing it until it becomes a dense scrawl, and Koda refining hers into a single symbol, which she then writes again and again; these works remind me the Infinity Net series by Yayoi Kusama – another Japanese artist who has been institutionalised due to mental illness – in which repeated crescent shapes coalesce to form a net pattern. This repetition is combined with the theme of unorthodox working material in Shota Katsube’s army of miniatures, created from the twist-ties used to fasten bags; each figurine is unique, and minutely detailed, while the sheer scale of the number of pieces make the work quite overwhelming.



While this exhibition shows the role that art can have in the lives of the mentally ill, a role that includes self-representation, actualisation, and personal exploration, if we cross the river we can find another group of outsider artists creating very different works, with completely different roles. The Hayward Gallery’s summer exhibition, entitled An Alternative Guide to the Universe, aims to bring together ‘artists and architects,where cards are embedded with chip card and a cardholder. fringe physicists and visionary inventors’, who can offer “bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in”. these ideals are lofty, but the exhibition falls short, especially when compared to the sublime collection at the Wellcome, and the previously impressive shows the Hayward has put on.

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The sign on the edge of town says "Welcome to Bandon," but the vacant lot nearby was anything but welcoming. More than a mere eyesore, the lot was a bitter reminder of a loss the city continued to mourn.



"At the heart of Bandon there was just this big empty parking lot," said Daniel Graham, vice-president of Face Rock Creamery. "It felt like something was always missing in town. Where's the cheese factory? Everyone would always say that."



The cheese factory, of course, was gone. It had been for years.



Graham wanted to do something about the empty lot, and like most of this little city by the sea, he also wanted to bring back the cheese factory.



Cheesemaking was tradition. It was history. It was part of what Bandon was.



Now with the recent opening of the Face Rock Creamery right on the spot where the old factory once thrived, there is hope it will be again.



Bandon's affinity for cheese is even older than the city itself, which was incorporated in 1891. Cheese making began in about 1880, according to the display at the Bandon Historical Museum. Swiss immigrants Fred and Ida Moser, opened their factory on the North Fork of the Coquille River in 1895 and by early 1900s as many 15 cheese factories operated in the Coquille Valley.



In 1927, the original Bandon Cheese & Produce factory was founded. And so it went for more than seven decades. Then, in 2000, the Tillamook Cooperative Creamery bought the Bandon Cheese Factory and retail shop. Three years later, they closed the factory and one year after that the store was also gone.We are always offering best wholesale tungsten jewelry the affordable price. They demolished the building in 2005.



Six years later, Dan Graham, a contractor and entrepreneur, was at city hall imploring them to do something. Anything.



"I said this property has been sitting in blight at the front of the city too long," recalled Graham. "It was just a gravel lot. I said, 'How can we get this in the city's hands?' Even a parking lot would be better."



It wasn't a new idea. The city had tried to buy the property once before, but they couldn't afford it, said Matt Winkel, Bandon City Manager. Now, with the city council's blessing, Winkel and Graham made the trek north to Tillamook yet again. This time, after several rounds of negotiations, they settled on $500,000.



The next step was obvious; the trick was making it happened. Graham approached his friend Greg Drobot, an investor. It didn't take much persuading.



"I moved to Bandon in 2005," said Drobot. "I fell in love with the area, with the people. I learned about the history of the cheese factory and how much it meant to the community.High quality plastic card printing for business cards, Went to grad school and when I came back I wanted to open up a business. I decided to give the cheese factory a shot."



Drobot and Graham drew up plans, got the city on board as landlord and Bandon was on its way to a new creamery – and a new name for it. Because Tillamook owns the Bandon Cheese trademark, that was out of the question. Instead they turned to the sea and named it for the city's legendary rock formation: Face Rock Creamery.



They gave themselves a 14-month schedule and finished in less than half.



"Some nights, I slept on a cot here by the fireplace just to keep focused," said Graham. "As much as we could, we hired all local contractors; all the supplies were generated by local vendors and we hired all local staff. We worked long hours.A plastic IC card containing a computer chip and enabling. There was a lot of hard work and prayers."



For the finishing touch, they lured renowned cheesemaker Brad Sinko home from Seattle where he helped launch Beecher's Handmade Cheese. Sinko knew more than a little about Bandon cheese.some foreign customers think China plastic card quality is very poor. His father was the former owner of the factory.where cards are embedded with chip card and a cardholder.



"I learned at the Bandon Cheese Factory," said Sinko, who last year won the American Cheese Society's Best of Show and in 2007 won best cheddar in the U.S. "I got taught the routine. I didn't like it at first. But it turned out I have a knack for it."



In May, the creamery opened its doors to a happy hometown crowd, and they – along with visitors to the area – have been coming back since.

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Quilts don’t just grow on trees, but they’ll be hung from them on Saturday, June 29 at the Daly Mansion, when the Bitterroot Quilters’ Guild holds their bi-annual show.



Most of the more than 200 quilts on display will be displayed in the big tent on the mansion grounds, but others will be hung among the trees on the grounds. Art quilts need protection, but traditional quilts aren’t afraid of a little sunlight or rain, explained Pat Thompson, co-chair of the show.



That’s just one of the many insights to be gleaned from the hundreds of avid quilters and quilt admirers who’ll be circulating on the grounds during the show hours, 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. The theme of the show, naturally, is “Copper Kings and Quilting Queens;” regular admission is $5, and all visitors will be entered for a door prize drawing. A “grand slam” admission is $10, and includes admission and raffle entries – ask at the gate for more information.



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The quilt turning is hosted by the “heritage group” of the Quilters’ Guild, and is a traditional way of viewing 10-12 antique quilts which are layered on a bed. Quilters relate the story of each quilt, as they’re turned back one by one. The turning takes about 20 minutes to view, and those interested are encouraged to check-in in advance of the turning, at the main tent.



The quilt show serves multiple purposes. “First, it’s a way to display all of our beautiful quilts for people from outside our community,” explained quilter Pat Murphy. The other purpose is to raise money for the charitable and educational efforts of the group.



Those charitable sub-groups within the guild include the Bitterroot Comforters, who provide quilts and lap robes for people undergoing chemotherapy, or in hospice care. The Quilts for Kids group makes quilts for at-risk youth in Ravalli County, including kids in foster care, those at the Bitterroot Youth Home, kids referred to Emma’s House, or “any kid who needs a loving gift,” according to Murphy.



Lastly, “Montana Cares” provides quilts for victims of catastrophes, whether natural or personal.



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The group will also honor two members who passed away since the last show, Rosalie Reinbold and Pat Pennell, with memorial displays and exhibits.



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Show up hungry, as they’ll have their famed pineapple chicken salad for sale. The show also features vendors with quilting supplies, a home décor exhibit with pillows and other items, and hand-quilting demonstrations. A silent auction will help raise money for the group’s humanitarian efforts.



A summertime quilt show may seem counter-intuitive, but quilts are about more than one kind of warmth, as Murphy explained. “I like the friendships that you make through quilting, quilters are so much fun to be around, we teach each other; and I love giving away something I made. It’s not just a gift, it’s love, and you’re thinking about [the recipient] as you make it.”

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