#Rohan Corporation

[wysheful]

Cleaning out some folders + decided to post some old stuff I still enjoy <3

[rightnewshindi]

इस महीने खाली रहेगी HRTC पेंशनरों की जेब, निगम के पास नहीं है पैसा; जानें क्या बोले एमडी रोहन चंद ठाकुर

Himachal News: हिमाचल प्रदेश पथ परिवहन निगम के पेंशनरों की जेब इस महीने खाली ही रही है। बुधवार को प्रदेश सरकार के सभी पेंशनरों के खाते में पेंशन आ गई, लेकिन एचआरटीसी के पेंशनरों को नहीं मिली है। ऐसा इसलिए हुआ, क्योंकि निगम के पास पैसा ही नहीं है। इस महीने एचआरटीसी को सरकार से जो पैसा मिलना चाहिए था, वह पूरा नहीं मिला। अब कम राशि मिलने से सिर्फ वेतन का खर्च ही निकल पाया और निगम ने अपने कर्मचारियों…

[fatehbaz]

imperialism and science reading list

edited: by popular demand, now with much longer list of books

Of course Katherine McKittrick and Kathryn Yusoff.

People like Achille Mbembe, Pratik Chakrabarti, Rohan Deb Roy, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, and Elizabeth Povinelli have written some “classics” and they track the history/historiography of US/European scientific institutions and their origins in extraction, plantations, race/slavery, etc.

Two articles I’d recommend as a summary/primer:

Zaheer Baber. “The Plants of Empire: Botanic Gardens, Colonial Power and Botanical Knowledge.” Journal of Contemporary Asia. May 2016.

Kathryn Yusoff. “The Inhumanities.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2020.

Then probably:

Irene Peano, Marta Macedo, and Colette Le Petitcorps. “Introduction: Viewing Plantations at the Intersection of Political Ecologies and Multiple Space-Times.” Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives. 2023.

Sharae Deckard. “Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden.” 2010. (Chornological overview of development of knowledge/institutions in relationship with race, slavery, profit as European empires encountered new lands and peoples.)

Gregg Mitman. “Forgotten Paths of Empire: Ecology, Disease, and Commerce in the Making of Liberia’s Plantation Economy.” Environmental History. 2017, (Interesting case study. US corporations were building fruit plantations in Latin America and rubber plantations in West Africa during the 1920s. Medical doctors, researchers, and academics made a strong alliance these corporations to advance their careers and solidify their institutions. By 1914, the director of Harvard’s Department of Tropical Medicine was also simultaneously the director of the Laboratories of the Hospitals of the United Fruit Company, which infamously and brutally occupied Central America. This same Harvard doctor was also a shareholder in rubber plantations, and had a close personal relationship with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which occupied West Africa.)

Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Globalizing the Routes of Breadfruit and Other Bounties.”  2008. (Case study of how British wealth and industrial development built on botany. Examines Joseph Banks; Kew Gardens; breadfruit; British fear of labor revolts; and the simultaneous colonizing of the Caribbean and the South Pacific.)

Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth.” 2014. (Indigenous knowledge systems; “nuclear colonialism”; US empire in the Pacific; space/satellites; the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.)

Fahim Amir. “Cloudy Swords.” e-flux Journal #115, February 2021. (”Pest control”; termites; mosquitoes; fear of malaria and other diseases during German colonization of Africa and US occupations of Panama and the wider Caribbean; origins of some US institutions and the evolution of these institutions into colonial, nationalist, and then NGO forms over twentieth century.)

Some of the earlier generalist classic books that explicitly looked at science as a weapon of empires:

Schiebinger’s Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World; Delbourgo’s and Dew’s Science and Empire in the Atlantic World; the anthology Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World; Canzares-Esquerra’s Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World.

One of the quintessential case studies of science in the service of empire is the British pursuit of quinine and the inoculation of their soldiers and colonial administrators to safeguard against malaria in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia at the height of their power. But there are so many other exemplary cases: Britain trying to domesticate and transplant breadfruit from the South Pacific to the Caribbean to feed laborers to prevent slave uprisings during the age of the Haitian Revolution. British colonial administrators smuggling knowledge of tea cultivation out of China in order to set up tea plantations in Assam. Eugenics, race science, biological essentialism, etc. in the early twentieth century. With my interests, my little corner of exposure/experience has to do mostly with conceptions of space/place; interspecies/multispecies relationships; borderlands and frontiers; Caribbean; Latin America; islands. So, a lot of these recs are focused there. But someone else would have better recs, especially depending on your interests. For example, Chakrabarti writes about history of medicine/healthcare. Paravisini-Gebert about extinction and Caribbean relationship to animals/landscape. Deb Roy focuses on insects and colonial administration in South Asia. Some scholars focus on the historiography and chronological trajectory of “modernity” or “botany” or “universities/academia,”, while some focus on Early Modern Spain or Victorian Britain or twentieth-century United States by region. With so much to cover, that’s why I’d recommend the articles above, since they’re kinda like overviews.Generally I read more from articles, essays, and anthologies, rather than full-length books.

Some other nice articles:

(On my blog, I’ve got excerpts from all of these articles/essays, if you want to search for or read them.)

Katherine McKittrick. “Dear April: The Aesthetics of Black Miscellanea.” Antipode. First published September 2021.

Katherine McKittrick. “Plantation Futures.” Small Axe. 2013.

Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde. “Linnaean Botany and Spanish Imperial Biopolitics.” A chapter in: Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. 2004.

Kathleen Susan Murphy. “A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America.” 2019. And also: “The Slave Trade and Natural Science.” In: Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. 2016.

Timothy J. Yamamura. “Fictions of Science, American Orientalism, and the Alien/Asian of Percival Lowell.” 2017.

Elizabeth Bentley. “Between Extinction and Dispossession: A Rhetorical Historiography of the Last Palestinian Crocodile (1870-1935).” 2021.

Pratik Chakrabarti. “Gondwana and the Politics of Deep Past.” Past & Present 242:1. 2019.

Jonathan Saha. “Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma.” BJHS Themes. British Society for the History of Science. 2017.

Zoe Chadwick. “Perilous plants, botanical monsters, and (reverse) imperialism in fin-de-siecle literature.” The Victorianist: BAVS Postgraduates. 2017.

Dante Furioso: “Sanitary Imperialism.” Jeremy Lee Wolin: “The Finest Immigration Station in the World.” Serubiri Moses. “A Useful Landscape.” Andrew Herscher and Ana Maria Leon. “At the Border of Decolonization.” All from e-flux.

William Voinot-Baron. “Inescapable Temporalities: Chinook Salmon and the Non-Sovereignty of Co-Management in Southwest Alaska.” 2019.

Rohan Deb Roy. “White ants, empire, and entomo-politics in South Asia.” The Historical Journal. 2 October 2019.  

Rohan Deb Roy. “Introduction: Nonhuman Empires.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35 (1). May 2015.

Lawrence H. Kessler. “Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science  and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation.” Arcadia (Spring 2017).

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner. “Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film.” e-flux. March 2021.

Lesley Green. “The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene.” e-flux Journal Issue #65. May 2015.

Martin Mahony. “The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s ‘Great Agricultural Experiment.’“ Environment and Society Portal, Arcadia. Spring 2021. 

Anna Boswell. “Anamorphic Ecology, or the Return of the Possum.” 2018. And; “Climates of Change: A Tuatara’s-Eye View.”2020. And: “Settler Sanctuaries and the Stoat-Free State." 2017.

Katherine Arnold. “Hydnora Africana: The ‘Hieroglyphic Key’ to Plant Parasitism.” Journal of the History of Ideas - JHI Blog - Dispatches from the Archives. 21 July 2021.

Helen F. Wilson. “Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes.” Environment and Planning. July 2019.

Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson. “Silences of Grass: Retrieving the Role of Pasture Plants in the Development of New Zealand and the British Empire.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. August 2007.

Kirsten Greer. “Zoogeography and imperial defence: Tracing the contours of the Neactic region in  the temperate North Atlantic, 1838-1880s.” Geoforum Volume 65. October 2015. And: “Geopolitics and the Avian Imperial Archive: The Zoogeography of Region-Making in the Nineteenth-Century British Mediterranean.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2013,

Marco Chivalan Carrillo and Silvia Posocco. “Against Extraction in Guatemala: Multispecies Strategies in Vampiric Times.” International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. April 2020.

Laura Rademaker. “60,000 years is not forever: ‘time revolutions’ and Indigenous pasts.” Postcolonial Studies. September 2021.

Paulo Tavares. “The Geological Imperative: On the Political Ecology of the Amazon’s Deep History.” Architecture in the Anthropocene. Edited by Etienne Turpin. 2013.

Kathryn Yusoff. “Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time.” Social Text. 2019. And: “The Anthropocene and Geographies of Geopower.” Handbook on the Geographies of Power. 2018. And: “Climates of sight: Mistaken visbilities, mirages and ‘seeing beyond’ in Antarctica.” In: High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science. 2008. And:“Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene.” 2017. And: “An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical.” 2017.

Mara Dicenta. “The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego.” Arcadia. Spring 2020.

And then here are some books:

Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Cameron B. Strang); Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Londa Schiebinger, 2004);

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950 (Helen Tilley, 2011); Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (Jonathan Saha); Fluid Geographies: Water, Science and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico (K. Maria D. Lane, 2024);  Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (Edited by del Pilar Blanco and Page, 2020)

Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire (Kirsten A. Greer); The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Hawthorne and Lewis, 2022); Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (Britt Rusert, 2017)

The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge (Arndt Brendecke, 2016); In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1960 (Alice Conklin, 2013); Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands (Andrew Stuhl)

Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895 (Paul Winther); Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Sadiah Qureshi, 2011); Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851 (Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart)

Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Aro Velmet, 2022); Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960 (Pratik Chakrabarti, 2014); Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905 (Matthew Unangst, 2022);

The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa (Bernhard Gissibl, 2019); Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Edited by Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall, 2019)

The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras (Chirstopher A. Loperena, 2022); Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Allison Bigelow, 2020); The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Rebecca J.H. Woods); American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (Megan Raby, 2017); Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism (Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, 2023); Unnsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Jessica Namakkal, 2021)

Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (James Sweet, 2011); A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America (Anya Zilberstein, 2016); Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines (Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, 2019); Soundings and Crossings: Doing Science at Sea, 1800-1970 (Edited by Anderson, Rozwadowski, et al, 2016)

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania (Maile Arvin); Overcoming Niagara: Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792-1837 (Janet Dorothy Larkin, 2018); A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (Michael A. Verney, 2022)

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (Daniela Cleichmar, 2012); Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Arnab Dey, 2022); Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Edited by Crawford and Gabriel, 2019)

Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Hi’ilei Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, 2022); In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokkohama (Eric Tagliacozzo); Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Urmi Engineer Willoughby, 2017); Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (Edited by Hirsch, et al, 2022); Mining the Borderlands: Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910 (Sarah E.M. Grossman, 2018)

Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland (Ruth Rogaski); Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Lenny A. Urena Valerio); Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Adam Sills, 2021)

Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (Alan Mikhail, 2017); Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science (Jim Endersby); Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases (Edited by Edwin Martini, 2015)

Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World (Multiple authors, 2007); Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Peter Redfield); Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (Andrew Togert, 2015); Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of ‘Green’ Capitalism (Hannah Holleman, 2016); Postnormal Conservation: Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance (Katja Grotzner Neves, 2019)

Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (Anna K. Sagal, 2022); The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Harriet Ritvo); Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975 (Michitake Aso); A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Kathryn Yusoff, 2018); Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt (Jessica Barnes, 2023); No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (Keith Pluymers); Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1768-1941 (Lynn Hollen Lees, 2017); Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia (Douglas C. Harris, 2001); Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep Time (Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy)

Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (Joyce Chaplin, 2001); Mapping the Amazon: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Jessica Namakkal, 2021)

American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865 (Jeremy Zallen); Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (Erik Linstrum, 2016); Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Water (James Pettifer and Mirancda Vickers, 2021); Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity (Pratik Chakrabarti); Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (David Fedman)

Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Julie Cruikshank); The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem (Kristin A. Wintersteen, 2021); The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (Ralph O’Connor); An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 (Benjamin Kingsbury, 2018); Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin (Tanya O’Sullivan, 2019)

American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (John Krige, 2006); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Ann Laura Stoler, 2002); Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire (Faisal H. Husain, 2021)

The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 (Gilberto Hochman, 2016); The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia (James Hevia); Japan’s Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology (Annika A. Culver, 2022)

Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation (Jose E. Martinez, 2021); Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (Jessica Bissette Perea, 2021); Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire (Mashid Mayar); Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Andrew Zimmerman, 2001)

The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (Multiple authors, 2016); The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World (Katherine Johnston, 2022); Seeking the American Tropics: South Florida’s Early Naturalists (James A. Kushlan, 2020)

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Laurence Monnais); Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands (Linda J. Seligmann, 2023) ; Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world (Edited by Kathryn Gillespie and Rosemary-Claire Collard, 2017); Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon (Heather Ann Swanson, 2022); Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 (Mark Bassin, 2000); The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century (Erin Drew, 2022)

Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures (Anita Mannur, 2022); On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, 1830-1890 (Philip Gooding, 2022); All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation Through Species Acclimitization, from Colonial Australia to the World (Pete Minard, 2019)

Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Setller Colonialism (Jarrod Hore, 2022); Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (Meng Zhang, 2021); The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration (David A. Chang);

Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (Christine Keiner); Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (Mauro Jose Caraccioli); Two Years below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 (Andrew Taylor, 2017); Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (Mark W. Hauser, 2021)

To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire (Jason Smith, 2018); Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (Ian Matthew Miller, 2020); Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950 (Sandra Swart and Greg Bankoff, 2007)

Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya (Lachlan Fleetwood, 2022); Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i (John Ryan Fisher, 2017); Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (Timothy P. Barnard, 2019)

An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation (Micha Rahder, 2020); Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Debjani Bhattacharyya, 2018);  Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 (Kristen Hussey, 2021)

Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (Jeannie N. Shinozuka); Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity (Ann Elias, 2019); Hunting Africa: British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire (Angela Thompsell, 2015)

[geoffreytoday]

Hey Disney,

You've owned the muppets now for 20 years, and you've never really figured out what to do with them or how to use them. I get it, the muppets are a unique property, and finding the right way to present them is a challenge for the corporate mindset.

I've got the solution for you. You're going to have to be brave though. This is going to require your full commitment to the bit. The muppets have always had great success with adaptations of existing works. The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island are both beloved classics. With that in mind, here's what I propose:

The Muppet Lord of the Rings

Now personally, I would lean hard into this and go fully bespoke muppets for each role. I love Kermit and the gang as much as anyone, but for this project I think I would prefer a pure approach as opposed to the novelty of casting known muppets in each role. That said, if we must cast the existing muppet pantheon, that's fine too.

I'm also going to suggest no humans whatsoever. If there must be humans, then I think only one is the way to go. For economy and as a nod to the original, I propose Andy Serkis.

Since i would want all of the main characters to be muppets, any human characters would be the ancillary characters, like Barliman Butterbur or Hama the door ward of Rohan. I propose that every such human in the film be played by Andy Serkis.

Don't cheap out on this either. We need three films, lavishly produced.

[maxinepixels]

*sprinkle sprinkle* 😌💦

Monica Woods and Rohan Basu have been together for two years. They met at a corporate Christmas party, as they both work in the corporate world. Monica is a business lawyer at Coleman and Howard Law and Rohan is a financial analyst for Goldbloom Financial Group (both located in downtown Lenox, NY). Rohan was taken with Monica at first site; he thought that she was the prettiest woman in the world. They recently got engaged two months ago and Monica couldn't be happier. I mean who wouldn't? She is spoiled by Rohan.

Rohan comes from money, as his family is well-known for their incredibly lucrative tea company. However, Rohan has made a way for himself here in Lenox. He has a reputation for being a shark in the financial world and always gets the job done, no matter what. Monica admires that in them, as she is the same way. Making partner at her firm was very important to her, and she was one of the youngest people to do so (she's now in her early 30s and is a very experienced lawyer for reference).

Monica definitely took Shera's advice and is living the life she has been wanting. However, even still marriage is very nerve-wracking for her, as she is used to being able to do whatever she wants, whenever she wants to. She is going to need to learn to balance her fast paced lifestyle with the "family" life.

To see more of Monica's life, please watch The Exchange Rate series on my YouTube channel!

[harrysmimi]

Okay this time I’m actually requesting Mimi!

Could I possibly request Harry with a really insecure reader that had a rough childhood? Like they blame themselves for something that their parent did and Harry sees them in one of their breakdowns?

I’m kinda having similar problems rn and all I want is for Harry to comfort me😭

If this is too much I totally understand ❤️

I hope this one tries to meet your expectations, hope I didn't went too far with the trauma 💀

And I am really sorry it took me so long to post this.

Everything Is Going To Be Fine

Synopsis: One where Harry finds YN in one of her breakdowns

CW: Cheating, controlling parents, being forced to stay closeted.

More of my work

Harry's recent move to his new flat, came with both negative and positive attributes to it.

First the positives, he's now entitled to all his privacy as he should be, this place isn't a public affair, he's made good friends with his neighbour.

So good friends that it becomes negative. Well, least to say he's fallen in love. Why would be a negative thing one might ask? The woman he fell in love with is already married. It's a different story that she seems to be very unhappy, that doesn't change the fact he is basically a homewrecker now.

Or at least he thought he was. All three years of him living there, he found the beginning of this new year the hardest pill to swallow.

YN, is her name. An over working Doctor with a six month old, stuck in marriage whare she is just very unhappy; her words not his.

It didn't took her long to open upto him when he approached her with open arms of vulnerability. It barely took her a week to talk about how not satisfied she is with her life.

Her husband, Rohan is always on business trips, which is pretty self-explanatory as to what his business must be all about. YN on the other hand worked twice as hard to fend for herself, and now the newest member of her family.

He never knew she was pregnant until he started hearing cried and little noises next door. Sometimes at three in the morning.

Harry has just been so confused of her shutting him out all of a sudden. Now he hardly sees her around.

He's just so confused, he doesn't see her son around. Like ever!

Today though, he was hearing loud bickering booming through the thin walls. Once voice particularly belonged to YN and other he had no idea, but all he could make that there was another woman. Harry doesn't mean to listen to the argument but it was getting louder and louder, the voice traveling to the main door. The slammed shut and he could hear a male voice arguing back to her.

......................................................................

YN was having a bad week, thirty hour shift, eight hours before she has yet another twenty-four hour shift. Her first week back to work after her unexpected childbirth. Her mother coming over to drop her son off just for her to bicker with her daughter.

You see, YN never wanted to be become a doctor. She just wanted to get a corporate job and just live.

Neither she wanted to marry this soon. She was still in medical College when her parents lured her into their idea of her to get married. Well, long story short, she was married off to a closeted gay man.

Yeah, that's nasty!

Whilst homophobia is still a thing, YN was far more ahead of her family's mind set. Thanks to her career education, the traditions she grew up with failed to influence her. Whilst she had became good friends with her husband, it was a hard pill to swallow for her.

She had no idea about all this, up until the night she got married. She in fact started to fall for him. She experienced all of this first hand with career, so she had some empathy for the guy she was forcefully married so.

It took her long enough to realise his selfish agendas really. Six months into their marriage, he asked for their relationship (which has always been platonic from his end) to be an open one. Whilst Rohan was having multiple affairs with men all around London, he was still technically cheating on her, and she wasn't a saint herself.

YN had gotten over it long time ago. Well, she can't change anything. Her only option is to get a divorce which she was considering until she had a baby she didn't know she was going to have. It was going to be pain to get up on her feet, with bills, taxes, a student loan to be paid for, and a child to look after.

Well, one positive thing in her life has been her son, Niko. He's the light and joy for her after long tiring shifts at work. All that crying, pooping, peeing and puke, all those laughs and play time seemed worth it to her. That's the only thing she can have a choice on now, to be a good mother. But she has to leave him at either day care or at her mother's.

To cut to the chase, Niko isn't Rohan's child.

"This is why, I told you to talk your head. You can't satisfy your husband at least try to be your son!" Her mother accused her.

"Maa, if you don't want to look after him, then say so. I'll find other ways. You don't have to have a say in my marriage." YN warned her mother, trying her best not lash out.

It is not a secret to either of their parents that Rohan is having affairs. With whom it was still a mystery but they knew. It infuriated YN's mother, because she's apparently doing something wrong that her husband has to find ways to "satisfy his needs". It was their parents business inevitably as it was an old fashioned arranged marriage.

"You need to get your attitude fixed!" Her mother hissed at her, "what? Are you influence by those people?"

YN scoffed, "how did I had a baby if I was one of those people? I can't believe you Maa. Please just leave."

"Yeah, that isn't your husband's child, is he?" He mother finally confessed. "The father doesn't know about it, does he?"

"Wha- what makes you say that?" Rohan finally butted in.

"Why are you cheating on my daughter then?" YN's mum dead panned, "does it look like you even a bit? He doesn't even look like his mother for gods sake!"

"Enough Maa!" YN raised her voice, "you don't question the legitimacy of my son. It doesn't concern you one bit!"

"If, if you would have been a good wife then, then I wouldn't have said that." Her mother stuttered. YN looked at Rohan gor him to say something but he kept his mouth shut and walked to the nursery where Niko was fast asleep. "You should quit being a whore and sleep around with other men-"

"Get out." YN sighed, interrupting her mother.

"What?"

"I said get out, I don't want you here or in my life anymore!" YN raised her voice again. "I don't want you here anymore!"

"Have you no respect?" Her mother gasped, "I gave birth to you, brought you up, you're going to disrespect me like this?"

"When have you respected me?" YN couldn't help but cry in the moment, she's been bottling up her feelings for way too long, "you always signed me up things I never wanted to do! I never wanted to be a doctor, but I did anyway because I thought you'd be proud of me for at least one thing, you'll hug me finally. But you never did. You even managed to force me to get married to someone you found would be compatible for me." She laughed sarcastically, that's only way she can get a laugh anyway. She made her way to the door and opened it for her mother. "look where I ended up now! I don't want you to have a say in my life anymore."

"You need to learn to respect your elders and your husband, young lady!"

"He's Gay, maa!" She exclaimed. "What the fuck is wrong with you? All my life you've made decisions on my behalf, against my will. Now I won't let you do that anymore. Get out. Please."

"YN you're—"

"Leave, I said!" The last time YN yelled before her mother left. She went back and in dragged her husband out of the nursery room.

"Pack a bag and leave my house now." She told him.

"What?" Rohan scoffed in disbelief, "where am I supposed to go?"

"I don't know, I'll send you the divorce papers." She snapped, "to any of your little flings out there!"

"You're being completely unreasonable!" He raised his voice, "you know it's not safe for me for get a divorce. My parents are already suspicious of me being homosexual."

"I don't care."

"You're being homophobic here, YN. Come on, we can work it out. You can go back yo your lover whom you had that kid with. Isn't that his kid?"

"That kid is my son, keep him out of your filthy mouth, you asshole!" She raised her voice as well, "everytime you have a little inconvenience you put that label on me. I won't let you do that because I have been nothing but supportive you because I see people everyday. You have no fucking sympathy towards me, not even as a human let alone as your best friend I used to be! So now get out of my house."

"I pay half of the bills." Was his argument.

"And this place is mine, I'm paying the mortgage!" She screamed at him, "now get the fuck out of here before I-"

"Okay, okay!" He raised his hands up in defeat just to see her all red, screaming with the TV remote in her hand.

YN hardly ever gets angry. She had learnt to suppress her feelings inside, bottle it up real good. But she snapped today.

"GET OUT!" she yelled at him again, waking her baby up by accident. Whilst Rohan just ran to the other room to gather his stuff YN made a run to the nursery room, which had also been her room since day one now.

She picked up her crying baby and tried to rock him back to sleep.

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Harry was growing worried as the time went on.

His mind and heart was next door whilst his physical self was in his own flat. He wasn't able to get over her, especially since she lives next door, especially when he can feel her presence around him. He knew there was something big she was hiding. Especially when she tried to approach him after not seeing him for four months.

It gave him weird heebie-jeebies inside his stomach.

He'd fallen in love with her. And she has fallen in love with him. They both confessed. Had little dates at his place whenever her schedule allowed. He cooked her all her favourite meals even when he didn't know how to make them, they danced in his kitchen, they watched The Notebook together a hundred times and cried every time. And they made love. Sometimes...

He scurried through his pile of laundry he haven't gotten to fold yet to look for his phone. When the screaming got louder and a baby started crying loudly. He dialled in YN's number to call her.

She didn't answer it.

He waited. He waited for next twenty minutes before he was heading out the door to find her husband leaving the flat with a suitcase. No questions asked the man just left.

Harry's heart dropped to his stomach right there. Did he break her marriage? Was he the reason for all the screaming and a baby crying?

He shouldn't have been involved in the first place. Fall for someone who's already committed.

Wasn't his fault entirely, he was still in wrong.

He carefully opened the door go inside. Everything was in it's place. Three plates of food left on the dining table, barely touched. And there he saw YN walking out of her bedroom, closing the door behind her carefully.

"YN, what happened I heard scream-" he was cut off when she threw herself into his arms and started sobbing uncontrollably into hus chest. "Hey, hey, I'm here."

Harry was in utter surprise there. His heart was thumping out of control in his chest as he held a shaking girl in his arms. Best he could do was lower both of them down to the floor. "Hey, hey YN do you want to talk to me? What happened, angel"

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" She kept chanting, "I'm sorry!"

"Do you want to tell me why you're sorry, love, hmm?" He carefully pulled her away to look at her puffy red eyes, "what happened, darling?" Holding onto her face in palm of his hands he swiped away the over flow of tears.

"I don't know, I'm sorry!" She cried, holding onto his hands.

"It's alright, yeah?" He pulled her in a hug again. He stayed there to let her just cry her heart out. After all he'd never seen her cry, apart from watching The Notebook. She didn't even cry telling him about her marriage. His Shirt was definitely damp from her tears. "Hey, you alright love?" He looked down, "you want to go sit on the sofa?"

Before letting her protest for anything he was getting both of them off of the cold floor and walking to the sofa. He make a quick run to the kitchen for a glass of water. She was still crying but not sobbing.

"This was all my fault, I am so sorry your sleep, sleep was disturbed." YN stuttered in a low voice.

Harry took away the glass of water from her as she scooted closer to her, knees touching together. "Wasn't asleep. What happened?"

"It's uhhhh... It's nothing really. It was my fault. Had an argument with, with my mother," she chocked on her words trying to get words out of her mouth, "and then with, with Rohan. And then Niko started crying... I just-" she let out another sob.

"Hey, no it's okay. It wasn't your fault." He assured her, grabbing onto her hands carefully. "I don't want you getting sick, my love. It's okay!"

"Mhmm." She nodded.

"C'mere," he pulled her in his arms again, "my shirt is damp now." And he tried to joke but no reaction from her side, "how is Niko, hmm?"

"Good." Was her one word answer, before she pulled away from him to sit up straight. "I want to tell you something."

"Go on, I'm all ears." He looked at her, she was trying to not look at him. He was scared.

"Please tell me you won't be mad at me?" She asked, looking more scared that he was in the moment. "Please?"

"YN, I-" he sighed in defeat because he can't decide how he would feel, but to put her at ease, "okay."

"I didn't know about this, okay?" She started, "I promise I would have told you. I didn't know myself. Niko is yours."

And there it was nuclear bomb on emotions being dropped straight on his head.

"What?" Was all he could say.

"I can explain. Please, please don't be mad at me!" She begged before he could say anything else.

"How did you not know?" He was in disbelief.

"I don't know." She shook her head, "trust me please, he is yours, I, I wasn't sleeping with anyone but you and I didn't know that I was pregnant, I, I fell down the stairs at, at work and next thing I knew they were telling me I'm pregnant because I was having a load of pain in my stomach and, and I was bleeding heavily I, I didn't know what to do and then I went into cardiac arrest after, after he was out I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Harry, I'm sorry, please trust me, please-"

"Hey, look at me." He stopped her before she went back into panic, "I trust you, okay? I don't want you to panic, alright? Need you to tell me everything. I'm not going anywhere."

"Promise?"

"Mhmm, promise, my love." He placed a tender kiss on her forehead, "can I see him?"

"Mhmm!" She nodded her head jerkingly. Grabbing his hand she walked them to her bedroom.

There he was, fast asleep. All swaddled up in his little by her bed. A little beanie with cat ears on his head.

"He's so precious!" Harry whispered quietly to himself.

YN wanted to cry all over again. It was all true. Sleep deprived she was going back to her office with a cup of overfilled coffee up, dropping half of it has she walked down the stairs. Slipping on the coffee on the stairs she fell flat on her ass, hitting her head on the wall. Causing her to feel a shooting pain down and back and through her pelvic floor. Luckily a nurse saw her and escorted her to the ER then and there.

In that moment YN was grateful, she worked there. She could feel herself bleeding and intense cramp building up within half an hour. The nurse, who was also her friend has examined her, ordering an ultrasound stat. Because she was bleeding out so badly. That's how YN found out she was pregnant.

Niko was predicted to be about three and half weeks premature. They had to keep him in the NICU for three months and her for more two and half months. She had more than a bump on her forehead.

"Can I hold him?" YN froze into her place behind him. She didn't had the heart to tell him that the little boy would wake up inevitably and cry the whole time. "Would he wake up?"

"Yeah."

"It's okay, don't want him crying and making himself miserable." He looked back at the boy, the pad of his thumb running feathery touches on the baby's soft cheeks. "I'm so sorry I couldn't be there with you, YN."

"You didn't know, I didn't tell you." YN carefully sat next to him on the edge of her bed. "I should be sorry here."

"No-" he stopped as he heard Niko fuss for a second, "let's go out and talk, yeah?"

"Hmm." She followed him out. "I'm sorry."

"Stop saying sorry." He warned her, "you didn't not mean to hide it. We've been around each other for three years now YN, I've gotten to know you very well!"

"This isn't fair for you. I should have told you months ago, after I was out of the hospital." She shared, "I take the blame, I just didn't know how to say this to you, I wasn't in right mindset. I'm still not and I could have told you this in a better way, I was scared. I'm sure you're upset and mad at me, I'm sorry!"

"Am I upset? Yes. But with you? No, not at all, I'm upset at the situation which is right now. I love you, remember?"

"Mhmm." She nodded. "I don't know what to do now. I'm sorry!"

"Hey, first of all I want you to stop saying sorry, okay?" He said firmly, "and we'll figure it out. Does, does your husband know about this?"

"Mhmm, he doesn't care." She held back a cry as she looked at him directly in his eyes, "I've asked him to sign the divorce papers many times but he just won't. I just don't know what to do anymore! I'm so tired of everything!"

"Like I said, we'll figure it out, yeah?" He assured her, "we'll do it together, I promise! I'm just shocked why wouldn't he care?"

"He's gay, Harry." She blurted out, "he said yes to marry me because he can't come out to his parents. His family back home... He'll be in so much trouble. It's life or death situation for him, he married me just to use me. I never wanted to marry this soon."

"This is so wrong." He ran a heavy hand through his hair, "this is so wrong!"

"I know." She nodded. But her demeanor changed, "oh my god, I blurted that out in front of my mum. On my god!"

"Hey, hey love. Look at me." He stopped her then and there, "everything is going to be fine."

YN had known Harry for well over three years now, he doesn't hold grudges against people. This time perhaps, she think he might. She sort of hid his child away from him.

Yeah, be was stuck in the hospital for well about three months, but she wasted three out. He missed out so much of the little boy's life already.

As far as she knew and experienced first hand whilst her residency, that almost all of the parents cherish these moments. YN felt so guilty of it. But she was scared.

She was scared because she thought there'd be chances Harry might fight gor custody. To which he has full rights to. He can still do that, but at least she out of the emotionally draining marriage and be there for someone who came out of literally nowhere.

YN knew all along she doesn't want to have any kids of her own, because she doesn't want to put another life through hell her parents put her through. Not even unknowingly. But did she had much choice though?

Yeah, she could have opted for adoption then and there, but she feared Harry. He's got the money, he can hire the best lawyer out there and drag her to the court. If he was evil enough to do so. But who knows? He might be that evil. She's had no good experience dealing with people to trust anyone so blindly, ever!

She was pulled out of her brain going through shit storm when she felt his hands slipping away from hers. "No, please don't go!"

"I'm not going anywhere." He assured her, "just gonna go lock up my door first, yeah? I'll be back in a minute. I want you to go lie in bed, okay?"

"Mhmm." She nodded in agreement.

Maybe she'll have to trust someone for this last time. He'll come around, right?

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"Look at him. He's a fast learner, isn't he?" Harry chuckled watching Niko waddle down to the shore. "Just like his Mumma."

A sunny day in California. The Styles family on a vacation. Niko has just learnt to walk at eleven months old.

They have started to get their lives together. Now they live together in London, building up a new home, healing up together, raising Niko together.

"Go after him!" YN pushed him as the baby dressed in nothing but a diaper basically waddle running towards the shore, closer and closer.

"Where do you think you're going?" Harry scooped up the chubby baby throwing him over his one shoulder. "Do you want to go in the water? It'll be safer with Papa with you, wouldn't it? You can go venture around when you're old enough..."

She watched them play in the water. The game was running towards the waves as they retract to the ocean and running back away from it as they come gushing back out. Niko was laughing his heart out clung to his dad like a baby monkey.

Well, maybe they're both monkeys afterall. The little lad has gotten to be like his father the more time they spend together. He gets himself into things he shouldn't, just yet.

All in all, Harry turned to be the nice one.

He said he'd never held any grudge against her for basically hiding Niko from him. He's healing too and he's forgiven her; that's what he said to her. Maybe she needs time to forgive herself for that.

She signed herself up for therapy the very next day, it has been working wonders for her. She got out of her marriage. Everything is starting to be fine.

She just needs forgive herself.

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N O T E:

Pls forgive me if this sucked. I've been going through another writers block and I have a load of shite going on in my life rn. It's hard to deal with (That's what she said!).

Pls, pls lemme know how you liked it. And I promise I'll get to your requests ASAP as possible.

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Impact and innovation of AI in energy use with James Chalmers

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Impact and innovation of AI in energy use with James Chalmers

In the very first episode of our monhtly Explainable AI podcas, hosts Paul Anthony Claxton and Rohan Hall sat down with James Chalmers, Chief Revenue Officer of Novo Power, to discuss one of the most pressing issues in AI today: energy consumption and its environmental impact.

Together, they explored how AI’s rapid expansion is placing significant demands on global power infrastructures and what leaders in the tech industry are doing to address this.

The conversation covered various important topics, from the unique power demands of generative AI models to potential solutions like neuromorphic computing and waste heat recapture. If you’re interested in how AI shapes business and global energy policies, this episode is a must-listen.

Why this conversation matters for the future of AI

The rise of AI, especially generative models, isn’t just advancing technology; it’s consuming power at an unprecedented rate. Understanding these impacts is crucial for AI enthusiasts who want to see AI development continue sustainably and ethically.

As James explains, AI’s current reliance on massive datasets and intensive computational power has given it the fastest-growing energy footprint of any technology in history. For those working in AI, understanding how to manage these demands can be a significant asset in building future-forward solutions.

Main takeaways

AI’s power consumption problem: Generative AI models, which require vast amounts of energy for training and generation, consume ten times more power than traditional search engines.

Waste heat utilization: Nearly all power in data centers is lost as waste heat. Solutions like those at Novo Power are exploring how to recycle this energy.

Neuromorphic computing: This emerging technology, inspired by human neural networks, promises more energy-efficient AI processing.

Shift to responsible use: AI can help businesses address inefficiencies, but organizations need to integrate AI where it truly supports business goals rather than simply following trends.

Educational imperative: For AI to reach its potential without causing environmental strain, a broader understanding of its capabilities, impacts, and sustainable use is essential.

Meet James Chalmers

James Chalmers is a seasoned executive and strategist with extensive international experience guiding ventures through fundraising, product development, commercialization, and growth.

As the Founder and Managing Partner at BaseCamp, he has reshaped traditional engagement models between startups, service providers, and investors, emphasizing a unique approach to creating long-term value through differentiation.

Rather than merely enhancing existing processes, James champions transformative strategies that set companies apart, strongly emphasizing sustainable development.

Numerous accolades validate his work, including recognition from Forbes and Inc. Magazine as a leader of one of the Fastest-Growing and Most Innovative Companies, as well as B Corporation’s Best for The World and MedTech World’s Best Consultancy Services.

He’s also a LinkedIn ‘Top Voice’ on Product Development, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development, reflecting his ability to drive substantial and sustainable growth through innovation and sound business fundamentals.

At BaseCamp, James applies his executive expertise to provide hands-on advisory services in fundraising, product development, commercialization, and executive strategy.

His commitment extends beyond addressing immediate business challenges; he prioritizes building competency and capacity within each startup he advises. Focused on sustainability, his work is dedicated to supporting companies that address one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals through AI, DeepTech, or Platform Technologies.

About the hosts:

Paul Anthony Claxton – Q1 Velocity Venture Capital | LinkedIn

www.paulclaxton.io – am a Managing General Partner at Q1 Velocity Venture Capital… · Experience: Q1 Velocity Venture Capital · Education: Harvard Extension School · Location: Beverly Hills · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Paul Anthony Claxton’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

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Bumi II after the show ends ideas?

Multiple! I'll try not to go into my Bumi/OC ship or Bumizumi for this one:

He is in charge of all the peacekeeping missions, like he delegates the tasks and looks after all that situation, as the only person in the show with experience at handling such large operations.

He teaches the airbending kiddos! A couple of months after canon when he's achieved mastery, he takes on the duty to teach all the new airbender kids below the age 10.

Rohan, Ikki and Bumi have a special bond that isn't replicated by anyone else. He also sneaks Ikki meat when she's 16.

Not purely post canon, but he has an anonymous column in some semi-shady magazine which Korra brings over one day to make fun of. It was very hurtful to hear people call "him" bitchless, even if they're right.

He never gets his tattoos, which is a matter of tension between him and Tenzin for an year or so before Tenzin eventually realises that it is Bumi's decision to make, and he has no say in the matter.

He does not support Zhu-Li's presidency and is a fierce critique of her policies, especially with Varrick being her husband. He just doesn't like them.

Adding onto it, as much as he feels sorry for Asami sometimes, even post canon he tries to avoid anything she makes because of the weapon manufacturing. He knows conflict is a reality, but to see corporate interests mixed with military leaves a sour taste in his mouth.

People often mistake that Bum-Ju is Bumi's especially post canon, so when he turns out to be a bunny it's usually an awkward situation, but Bumi finds it funny.

He holds the record for the longest unassisted flight, at a total of 23 minutes. It is not beaten for a very long time.

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I will throw Star Wars in the damn volcano for putting Lizzo and Jack Black in it and having Ahsoka Tano in shoehorned every damn show, but I will praise JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure as innovative and groundbreaking for putting Rohan Kibishe somehow in everything and having covid and Lana Del Ray be canon in-universe.

Star Wars is corporation so I scrutinize it ruthlessly, but JJBA is Hirohiko Araki’s story so he can do whatever he want.

[amethystsoda]

Just wanted to tell you that your post earlier reminded me how much I really like Blake Lewis' music and I've been on a listening binge all day! Brings back good memories of working retail when that album came out--Binary Love and Heartbreak on Vinyl were some of the more palatable songs corporate made us play lol.

Heartbreak on Vinyl and Binary Love have been on my scifi inspiration playlist for so many years! I watched that American Idol season when it aired and fell in love with him heheheh

I'm so glad you had a fun nostalgia trip yesterday!!!!

(I also recommend this one from his newer stuff!!! Rohan and I danced to it as our last dance at the wedding reception <333)

(and Blake did some fun stuff with Postmodern Jukebox too!!!)

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The Beasts of Electra Drive - Editorial Review

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Pune: Mother and Daughter Molested by Ward Boy at PCMC Hospital; Case Registered at Wakad Police Station

Thergaon, 9th September 2024: A mother and daughter who visited a hospital with their relatives for treatment were molested by a ward boy. The incident occurred at a Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) hospital in Thergaon on Saturday (7th September) around 8 PM. The accused has been identified as Rohan Balasaheb Kamble (age 24, resident of Pimpale Nilakh). A 42-year-old woman from…

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 Top Event Anchors in Mumbai: Bringing Your Event to Life

In Mumbai, a city known for its vibrant events and dynamic social scene, the role of an event anchor is crucial in turning an ordinary gathering into an extraordinary experience. Whether you’re planning a corporate event, a wedding, or a private party, a skilled event anchor can elevate the occasion with their charisma, professionalism, and expertise. Here’s a guide to some of the top event anchors in Mumbai who can help make your event memorable and engaging.

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 1. Nikhil Mehta

With a reputation for his engaging personality and exceptional hosting skills, Nikhil Mehta is a top choice for various events in Mumbai. His experience spans across corporate functions, weddings, and high-profile parties. Nikhil’s ability to connect with diverse audiences and his flair for spontaneous interactions make him a sought-after anchor for any occasion.

- Specialties: Corporate events, weddings, live shows

- Notable Work: Hosted several high-profile corporate events and celebrity weddings

 2. Kashish Soni

Kashish Soni is renowned for her energetic and charismatic presence. With a background in television and event management, she brings a blend of professionalism and enthusiasm to every event. Kashish is particularly known for her ability to handle large crowds and complex event schedules with ease.

- Specialties: Weddings, corporate events, entertainment shows

- Notable Work: Anchored for prominent brands and high-end wedding celebrations

 3. Rohan Joshi

Rohan Joshi combines a sharp wit with a polished presentation style, making him a favorite among clients looking for a blend of humor and elegance. His background in comedy and entertainment ensures that he can add a touch of humor while maintaining the event's formal tone when needed. Rohan is perfect for events that require a lively and engaging atmosphere.

- Specialties: Corporate events, entertainment shows, private parties

- Notable Work: Popular comedian and host for numerous corporate and social events

 4. Ankita Sharma

Ankita Sharma is known for her sophisticated and professional approach. With a strong background in media and communications, she brings a high level of professionalism and poise to her hosting. Ankita excels in managing high-profile events and ensuring that every aspect of the event runs smoothly.

- Specialties: Corporate events, weddings, seminars

- Notable Work: Hosted several successful high-profile events and seminars

 5. Manoj Sharma

Manoj Sharma’s versatility and dynamic hosting style make him a popular choice for various types of events. His ability to adapt to different event themes and audiences ensures that he can cater to a wide range of client needs. Manoj is particularly skilled in handling complex logistics and ensuring seamless event execution.

- Specialties: Weddings, corporate events, product launches

- Notable Work: Known for his work with major brands and successful wedding events

 6. Ria Sen

Ria Sen is celebrated for her vibrant and engaging hosting style. Her background in acting and television adds a touch of glamour to her anchoring, making her a great choice for upscale events and social gatherings. Ria’s engaging personality and ability to connect with the audience make her a top pick for memorable events.

- Specialties: Social events, corporate parties, weddings

- Notable Work: Hosted for numerous high-profile events and social gatherings

 7. Rajiv Thakur

Rajiv Thakur is known for his humorous and entertaining approach to anchoring. His experience in comedy and hosting allows him to bring a fun and lively atmosphere to any event. Rajiv’s ability to engage with the audience and handle unexpected situations with humor makes him a great choice for events that need a light-hearted touch.

- Specialties: Entertainment shows, weddings, private parties

- Notable Work: Well-known comedian and event host with a strong following

 8. Sonia Agarwal

Sonia Agarwal is praised for her elegance and attention to detail. With extensive experience in hosting weddings and corporate events, she brings a refined touch to every occasion. Sonia’s professionalism and ability to manage event timelines and guest interactions make her a reliable choice for a smooth and sophisticated event.

- Specialties: Weddings, corporate events, luxury events

- Notable Work: Hosted several high-end weddings and corporate functions

 Conclusion

Choosing the right event anchor can make all the difference in creating a memorable and successful event. Mumbai’s diverse pool of talented anchors ensures that you can find the perfect fit for your specific needs, whether you're looking for humor, sophistication, or high energy. From the charismatic Nikhil Mehta to the elegant Sonia Agarwal, these top event anchors in Mumbai are well-equipped to bring your vision to life. For a more comprehensive list and detailed profiles of event anchors, you can explore various platforms and agencies specializing in event management and hosting.

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 The Best Event Anchors in Mumbai: Elevate Your Event with Professional Expertise

Mumbai, the bustling metropolis known for its vibrant culture and dynamic energy, is home to some of the most talented event anchors in the country. Whether you're hosting a corporate event, a wedding, or a social gathering, the right event anchor can make all the difference. They bring charisma, professionalism, and a unique ability to engage audiences, ensuring your event runs smoothly and memorably. In this article, we explore the top event anchors in Mumbai who can take your event to the next level.

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 1. Sushil Goyal

Sushil Goyal is a renowned event anchor in Mumbai with over a decade of experience in hosting corporate events, product launches, and weddings. His natural charm and ability to connect with diverse audiences make him a popular choice for high-profile events. Sushil's professionalism and attention to detail ensure that every aspect of the event is flawlessly executed.

- Specializations: Corporate events, product launches, weddings

- LSI Keywords: professional event anchor, corporate MC, wedding host in Mumbai

 2. Kritika Sharma

Kritika Sharma is a dynamic and versatile event anchor known for her engaging personality and stage presence. With experience in hosting fashion shows, cultural events, and entertainment nights, Kritika brings a vibrant energy to any event. Her ability to adapt to different event themes and audiences makes her a sought-after anchor in Mumbai.

- Specializations: Fashion shows, cultural events, entertainment nights

- LSI Keywords: versatile event anchor, fashion show host, entertainment event MC

 3. Rohan Jha

Rohan Jha is an experienced event anchor with a reputation for his articulate communication skills and quick wit. He has hosted a wide range of events, including corporate seminars, award ceremonies, and charity galas. Rohan's ability to keep the audience engaged and his knack for improvisation make him a reliable choice for any event in Mumbai.

- Specializations: Corporate seminars, award ceremonies, charity galas

- LSI Keywords: corporate event anchor, award ceremony host, experienced MC in Mumbai

 4. Priya Bhatt

Priya Bhatt is a well-known anchor in Mumbai, recognized for her warm demeanor and exceptional hosting abilities. With a background in television and live events, Priya is skilled at handling both formal and informal occasions. She is particularly noted for her work in wedding anchoring, where she effortlessly blends tradition with modernity to create a memorable experience for the couple and their guests.

- Specializations: Weddings, live events, television hosting

- LSI Keywords: wedding anchor in Mumbai, live event host, female event anchor

 5. Rajiv Soni

Rajiv Soni is a seasoned event anchor with extensive experience in the entertainment industry. His charismatic personality and ability to connect with the audience have made him a favorite for music festivals, comedy shows, and large-scale public events. Rajiv's energy and enthusiasm are infectious, ensuring that every event he hosts is lively and engaging.

- Specializations: Music festivals, comedy shows, public events

- LSI Keywords: entertainment event anchor, music festival host, public event MC

 Conclusion

Choosing the right event anchor is crucial to the success of your event, and Mumbai offers a wealth of talented professionals who can bring your event to life. Whether you're planning a corporate gathering, a wedding, or a cultural event, these top event anchors in Mumbai possess the skills and experience to ensure your event is unforgettable.

When selecting an event anchor, consider the type of event you're hosting and the style of anchoring that best suits your audience. With the right anchor, your event will not only run smoothly but also leave a lasting impression on your guests.

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Impact and innovation of AI in energy use with James Chalmers

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Impact and innovation of AI in energy use with James Chalmers

In the very first episode of our monhtly Explainable AI podcas, hosts Paul Anthony Claxton and Rohan Hall sat down with James Chalmers, CEO of Novo Power, to discuss one of the most pressing issues in AI today: energy consumption and its environmental impact.

Together, they explored how AI’s rapid expansion is placing significant demands on global power infrastructures and what leaders in the tech industry are doing to address this.

The conversation covered various important topics, from the unique power demands of generative AI models to potential solutions like neuromorphic computing and waste heat recapture. If you’re interested in how AI shapes business and global energy policies, this episode is a must-listen.

Why this conversation matters for the future of AI

The rise of AI, especially generative models, isn’t just advancing technology; it’s consuming power at an unprecedented rate. Understanding these impacts is crucial for AI enthusiasts who want to see AI development continue sustainably and ethically.

As James explains, AI’s current reliance on massive datasets and intensive computational power has given it the fastest-growing energy footprint of any technology in history. For those working in AI, understanding how to manage these demands can be a significant asset in building future-forward solutions.

Main takeaways

AI’s power consumption problem: Generative AI models, which require vast amounts of energy for training and generation, consume ten times more power than traditional search engines.

Waste heat utilization: Nearly all power in data centers is lost as waste heat. Solutions like those at Novo Power are exploring how to recycle this energy.

Neuromorphic computing: This emerging technology, inspired by human neural networks, promises more energy-efficient AI processing.

Shift to responsible use: AI can help businesses address inefficiencies, but organizations need to integrate AI where it truly supports business goals rather than simply following trends.

Educational imperative: For AI to reach its potential without causing environmental strain, a broader understanding of its capabilities, impacts, and sustainable use is essential.

Meet James Chalmers

James Chalmers is a seasoned executive and strategist with extensive international experience guiding ventures through fundraising, product development, commercialization, and growth.

As the Founder and Managing Partner at BaseCamp, he has reshaped traditional engagement models between startups, service providers, and investors, emphasizing a unique approach to creating long-term value through differentiation.

Rather than merely enhancing existing processes, James champions transformative strategies that set companies apart, strongly emphasizing sustainable development.

Numerous accolades validate his work, including recognition from Forbes and Inc. Magazine as a leader of one of the Fastest-Growing and Most Innovative Companies, as well as B Corporation’s Best for The World and MedTech World’s Best Consultancy Services.

He’s also a LinkedIn ‘Top Voice’ on Product Development, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development, reflecting his ability to drive substantial and sustainable growth through innovation and sound business fundamentals.

At BaseCamp, James applies his executive expertise to provide hands-on advisory services in fundraising, product development, commercialization, and executive strategy.

His commitment extends beyond addressing immediate business challenges; he prioritizes building competency and capacity within each startup he advises. Focused on sustainability, his work is dedicated to supporting companies that address one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals through AI, DeepTech, or Platform Technologies.

About the hosts:

Paul Anthony Claxton – Q1 Velocity Venture Capital | LinkedIn

www.paulclaxton.io – am a Managing General Partner at Q1 Velocity Venture Capital… · Experience: Q1 Velocity Venture Capital · Education: Harvard Extension School · Location: Beverly Hills · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Paul Anthony Claxton’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

Rohan Hall – Code Genie AI | LinkedIn

Are you ready to transform your business using the power of AI? With over 30 years of… · Experience: Code Genie AI · Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Rohan Hall’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

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