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Batman Beyond Universe #4
By Erik Gonzalez
By Christos Gage, Iban Coello, Kyle Higgins & Thony Silas
Both series conclude their first story arc with new creative teams. In Justice League Beyond, the league handles the self-destructing Superman robots and then enters the Phantom Zone to save Superman. As the story concludes, the true mastermind is revealed and someone returns from the Zone with the Justice League. Batman Beyond continues with Rewire wreaking havoc in the city and Terry, after being unconscious, devises a plan to stop the new villain.
Christos Gage builds on the theme of whether or not the League can still make a difference without the use of their superpowers/technology. Case and point is when he has the majority of the Justice League enter the Phantom Zone, knowing that each of their traits is useless there, to save their comrade. Gage vividly details what truly makes a hero is their courage, heart and determination. It was such a fun read! Christos is also able to maintain enthusiasm by introducing new threats that will undoubtedly come into play later in the series–hopefully sooner than later because they have the potential to be great arcs in the Beyond universe.
Batman Beyond seemed to take a more contemplative approach to the conclusion of its storyline. By doing this, Kyle Higgins retains the heart that Batman Beyond stories are known for. Two pages in particular just nail it; Terry McGinnis meets up with Dick Grayson, who points out how Rewire and his relationship with his father is reminiscent of Terry and Bruce’s. Higgins shows his understanding of great villains by noting some possible similarities between the antagonist and protagonist; two sides of the same coin. Why Wayne and McGinnis are not speaking to each other is still unclear, but it’s evident that Kyle has a firm idea on where he wants to go with this book. He has proven himself as a Batman Beyond scribe, so let’s just go along for this awesome ride.
Iban Coello and Thony Silas have demonstrated, throughout these two arcs, their talent for the bringing the material to life. There wasn’t much in either book that stuck out in the panel layout or artwork; it was just solid work all around. Although, Coello’s depiction of Batman Beyond is still one of the best to date!
These comics can be purchased digitally first, they alternate weeks. If you’ve become a fan or just enjoy stories in the Beyond universe, buy them as soon as they are available. If not, wait until they are compiled, in print, in this book each month. With two options to be reading these great books, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be picking them up!
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Erik Gonzalez
I was exposed to comics early on, one of my earliest vivid memories was picking up the entire run of Dark Horse’s Aliens vs. Predator(1990). Odd and perhaps morbid choice for a kid, I know...At the same time, I was immersed in the pop culture of the time which included, but not limited to: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and of course, Batman: The Animated Series. Upon reflection, it’s fairly evident why I’m such a zealous geek. My day job is in television operations, so basically I’m exposed to media at every turn, which is where I want to be! Writing comic book reviews is another outlet to convey my respect and fanaticism for the this graphic medium. I hope what I have to say will resonate with others and also spark heart-felt discussion. Simon Pegg said it best, “Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
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Anti-NSA Surveillance Protests Gain Traction on Independence Day
July 5, 2013 at 9:15 am PT
Every day, more details are revealed regarding the National Security Agency’s classified surveillance programs, courtesy of whistleblower and former NSA employee Edward Snowden. And ever since his first revelation that the spying wing of the U.S. government is especially interested in electronic communications data, the Web public at large hasn’t taken it lightly.
The Internet Defense League, a coalition of thousands of websites formed to fight “bad laws and monopolies” against the Web at large, organized a large online protest on the Fourth of July, an attempt to voice the rallying cry to end “unconstitutional government spying,” as the group put it.
The Independence Day protests were the largest online effort by the group since the SOPA blackouts — a mass effort in early 2012 in which many major sites “blacked out” for a period of 24 hours in response to the Stop Online Piracy Act bill — according to the IDL.
Reddit, the popular link-sharing social media site, ran ads in support of the protests on its site all week long, and posted a missive in support of the movement on its official blog on the Fourth. In June, Reddit had more than 70 million unique visitors come to the site.
WordPress, the popular content-management system and blogging network, added a widget that let site owners automatically display support for the IDL with a click of a button. WordPress powers more than 67 million sites across the Web (including this one).
The Internet Association, which represents the interests of a large coalition of websites (including Google and Facebook) and argues for more Web-friendly public policy issues, also posted a strong statement of support on its official page.
While a great many other sites supported the movement online, there were also local showings of support in major cities, including New York, San Francisco and Chicago. In Manhattan, hundreds of protestors rallied on Wall Street. As you can see below, hundreds of Californians turned out to for the “Restore the Fourth” rally in San Francisco.
The government’s response thus far? It’s not budging. Top leaders in the NSA have testified before judiciary committees, saying that a number of its programs have foiled terrorist plots against America, and are invaluable to the country’s safety.
Still, in a statement posted to its website, the NSA still respected Americans’ right to peaceful demonstration, especially on a day like the Fourth.
Tagged with: blackout, NSA, online, protests, SOPA, spying, surveillance
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Nobody was excited about paying top dollar for a movie about WikiLeaks. A film about the origins of Pets.com would have done better.
— Gitesh Pandya of BoxOfficeGuru.com comments on the dreadful opening weekend box office numbers for “The Fifth Estate.”
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Home » Sport » Lionel Messi referee slams Argentina star over ‘corrupt’ talk – saying he is ‘surprised’ at the reaction – The Sun
Lionel Messi referee slams Argentina star over ‘corrupt’ talk – saying he is ‘surprised’ at the reaction – The Sun
THE referee slammed by Lionel Messi in Argentina’s Copa America defeat by Brazil has spoken for the first time – saying he's surprised at the Barcelona star.
Ecuadorian official Roddy Zambrano has spoken about the controversial semi-final, as the Brazilians went on to lift the trophy.
Argentine maestro Messi lashed out at South America's governing body Conmebol after his side beat Chile 2-1 in the third-place play-off.
The Barca ace called the refereeing "bulls***" after officials opted not to use VAR for two clear penalty shouts for Argentina against Brazil.
Speaking about Messi claiming the referee had “favoured Brazil in every play” of the match and the “officiating was crazy”, Zambrano retaliated on radio station Super K-800.
Zambrano said: “He is dedicated to playing and I’ve never had a problem with him, the truth is his words surprised me, but everyone has their own opinion.”
Speaking about possible penalties for Argentina’s Manchester City stars Nicolas Otamendi and Sergio Aguero, he said: “Otamendi went in hard and it wasn’t a nudge [on him].
"VAR reviewed it and decided it was 50-50 and I wasn’t called to see it. They didn’t think it was a clear penalty.
“On the first one, it is almost a reckless foul [by Aguero] on the defender. Why didn’t they show the camera angle from behind?”
After the collision between Aguero and Dani Alves, Brazil stormed up the pitch and Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino scored their second goal to seal the match.
Alves later slammed Messi for his comments, calling him "disrespectful".
The former Barcelona star said: "A friend is not always right just because he's a friend. You can say it in the heat of the moment, but I still won't agree.
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"Firstly, he's disrespecting an institution such as the Selecao, in my view.
"Secondly, he's being disrespectful with several professionals who put a lot of things aside so they could be there fighting for a dream.
"I'm a friend who always tells the truth when it's due, and I think he was wrong for saying these things."
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Vol. 11, Issue 352 - Monday, December 18, 2006
M | T | W | T | F | S | S
RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM
The Tower Records store on Keeaumoku Street, shown here, closed yesterday for the last time along with the store at Kahala Mall. A store at Pearl Kai closed Saturday. CLICK FOR LARGE
Tower Records sounds final note
Shoppers scoop up last-minute bargains as three stores close
By Rosemarie Bernardo
rbernardo@starbulletin.com
Cradling an armful of compact discs at Tower Records on Keeaumoku Street yesterday, shopper Joanne Amende described how the popular store was a hangout for her when she was 12 years old while growing up in Chicago.
"This is a piece of my history gone. That's how I look at it," Amende, now 39, said.
At that time, Tower was one of the few places that had punk music, she said. "You couldn't find that kind of music anywhere. Tower had it."
Known for its broad selection of music from indie and punk to rock and pop, Tower Records' stores on Keeaumoku Street and Kahala Mall shut its doors yesterday as part of a nationwide closure. Tower Records' in Pearl Kai, the third on Oahu, shut down Saturday.
Walgreen Co., a major drugstore chain in the U.S., has expressed interest in opening a store at the Keeaumoku Street site.
Many shoppers took advantage of the closeout sale at Tower Records at Keeaumoku Street and Kahala Mall yesterday, with remaining CDs available at only 99 cents each. But there wasn't much left. Most shelves at both sites were empty as some shoppers filled their baskets with CDs and DVDs.
Music downloads from the Internet and big box retailers such as Wal-Mart, Circuit City and Best Buy that offer CDs at low prices contributed to the demise of Tower Records in the United States, according to some employees.
In October, Great American Group purchased the 89-music store chain following bankruptcy filings from Tower Records. A representative of Great American declined comment.
Nevertheless, the music store will continue to operate at franchised sites in several countries overseas, including Japan, where Tower Records thrives.
Shopper Kelly Nakasone said it was just a matter of time before Tower Records would be impacted by music downloads such as iTunes. "It's inevitable," Nakasone said. "It's easy to plug in an iPod and listen to a song for a buck."
Some store employees described Tower Records as an "icon of the music industry."
But with the combination of technology and a drop in computer prices in the mid-1990s, music lovers began to download music, a sign that a decline in store-bought CDs was eminent.
Some loyal customers continued to shop at Tower Records, knowing they would be able to find catalogue items at the chain store.
Flipping through rows of CDs, Makiki resident Celeste Vallentyne said Tower Records was the only retailer where she could find indie and underground music. Vallentyne, 26, said she spent about $200 on CDs at the Keeaumoku Street store within the last few days.
Cashier Shelley Kim, 19, said, "When we first found out that the store was closing, I thought I was going to cry."
What Kim will miss most, she said, is the chain's signature red-and-yellow sign displayed outside of the building.
"It will be hard to see that sign go," she said.
"It's an end of an era," said Eric Ripley, store manager of the Kahala store.
Ripley, who worked at Tower Records since he moved to Hawaii from San Francisco in 1993, said, "It's sad to see it come to an end."
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» Data reveals new tsunami risk
» Kayak tours emphasize care of nature
» UH graduation
» Bus drivers applaud no-ring bill
» Business class helps entrepreneur blossom
» Tower Records sounds final note
» Collapse of massive lava shelf appears imminent
» Dinner wraps up Filipino centennial
» Photo Finish
» Sherman still playing the name game
» Billy Joel forges strong connection
» Portfolio: The Southwest
» Keiki Kalikimaka
» Growth on the horizon for LeJardin
» LeJardin: Freshmen volunteer at home for ill kids
» LeJardin: You Asked
» Cel Shaded
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» Hawaii At Work: Offering a new perspective
» Tech View
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Austin youth invited to Halloween celebrations
By AustinTalks | October 30, 2018
One party is being held from 5 to 9 p.m. Oct. 31 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 846 N. Menard, and the other will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. at the 15th Police District, 5701 W. Madison St.
Free Halloween celebration
State Rep. La Shawn Ford has organized the event, which will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31 at 4800 W. Chicago Ave. All are welcome.
Former Brach’s candy plant to be demolished
By AustinTalks | August 10, 2013
Owners of the property plan to construct an industrial building they hope will make the site more attractive to tenants.
A spooky Halloween celebration in Austin
By Corina Ferrer-Marcano | October 31, 2012
The Oct. 25 event was held at the Austin Town Hall Park. More fun is yet to be had on the West Side. Read more to learn where you can celebrate Halloween tonight.
ACT planning “innovation park” and arts district
By Ellyn Fortino | August 30, 2012
Working with Eco-Vidal Design and others, the Austin community coalition is looking for input on the project they hope will include the old Brach’s Candy factory.
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Sarah McQuaid Concert
"The precision and sophistication of the writing and playing blows me away. I am so glad to be involved," writes guitar legend Michael Chapman in his introduction to Sarah McQuaid's fifth solo album If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous - which he offered to produce after meeting Sarah at a festival where they were both on the bill.
Recently honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ards International Guitar Festival in Northern Ireland, Sarah?s also drawn critical praise for her voice (which has been variously likened to malt whiskey and melted chocolate) and her engaging rapport with audiences: "I?ve attended hundreds of concerts of all kinds, and her subtle mastery onstage launches her straight into my fave shows ever," wrote The Huffington Post.
With the release of her new album, the Madrid-born, Chicago-raised, Cornwall-based singer/songwriter has expanded her battery of instruments to include piano, electric guitar and drum, and it's drawn critical raves internationally: Dutch music magazine Heaven hailed it as "an early contender for folk album of 2018," the UK's fRoots said it was "a collection to savour" and the USA's PopMatters called it "a gateway into a true innovator's soul."
"Seeing a shared world in a new way, from a different angle, is the role of the songwriter. Sarah gets a gold star on that front. This is a fabulous album." -The Afterword
"A darkly melodic, richly layered folk tapestry ... haunting and sparse, yet beautifully rendered ... a voice as thick and soft as fur." -Elmore Magazine
"A work of formidable passion." -FolkWords
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FGBI «ARRIAH»
Thesis Council
Scientific Library
Branch in the Republic of Crimea
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FGBI “ARRIAH” Was Visited by Delegation from Uganda
On August 12, 2014, the Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” was visited by the delegation from Uganda, which included representatives of Quality Chemicals Limited Company. The goal of the visit was discussion of cooperation matters.
Experts of the FGBI “ARRIAH” Assessed Anti-Epidemic Measures Taken on TOO Alata-Kus Poultry Farm
Viktor Irza and Andrey Varkentin, experts of the FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor, visited TOO Alata-Kus poultry farm (Republic of Kazakhstan) on July 22 - 25, 2014 for comprehensive assessment of anti-epidemic measures against contagious avian diseases.
Autopsy of dead chickens was performed and the vaccination schedules for parent hen flocks and final cross-bred chickens were analyzed during the assessment.
Advanced Training Was Carried out for Experts from the Crimean Branch of the FGBI “ARRIAH”
From July 28 to August 1, 2014, advanced training on methods for animal disease monitoring and diagnosis was carried out in the FGBI”ARRIAH” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor. Four experts from the Crimean branch participated in the abovementioned training.
For each participant an individual training program was organized by the Center’s laboratories:
FGBI “ARRIAH” Experts Participated in the Workshop of Chelyabinsk Oblast Ministry of Agriculture
On July 31, 2014, a workshop “Issues of Avian Disease Prevention on Poultry Farms of the Chelyabinsk Oblast” was held. The workshop was organized by the Minister of Agriculture of the Chelyabinsk Oblast for poultry disease specialists from the poultry farms located in the Urals Federal District. The Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate FGBI “ARRIAH” was represented by Sergey Starov, Deputy Director on Quality; Viktor Irza, Head of the Poultry Disease Department; and Mikhail Volkov, Head of the Laboratory for Epizootology and Monitoring.
FGBI “ARRIAH” Participated in 10th European Pesticide Residue Workshop
During the period from June 30 to July 3, 2014 the 10th European Pesticide Residue Workshop (EPRW 2014) was held in Dublin, Ireland. The Rosselkhoznadzor subordinate “Federal Centre for Animal Health” was represented by Vasily Amelin, Tatyana Nikeshina and Dmitry Lavrukhin, members of the Laboratory for Chemical Analysis.
Participation of FGBI “ARRIAH” in joint meeting of OIE and CIC devoted to ASF early detection and prevention
The meeting of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and International Council for Game and Wildlife (CIC) was held from 30 June till 1 July 2014. The meeting was aimed at discussion of issues in reference to early detection and prevention of African swine fever (ASF) and consideration of issues concerning animal health protection at the interface of interactions between wild animals – farm animals – humans.
Visit of the Secretary of the European Commission for the Control of Foot- and- Mouth Disease (FMD) and FAO expert to the FGBI “ARRIAH”
During the period from 30 June till 1 July 2014 the FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” under the jurisdiction of the Rosselkhoznadzor was visited by Mr. K.J. Sumption, Secretary of the European Commission for the Control of Foot- and-Mouth Disease, and Mr. G. Grigoryan, FAO expert. The visit was aimed at discussion of issues on cooperation between the Centre and the European Commission for the Control of Foot- and- Mouth Disease (EuFMD).
Participation of the FGBI “ARRIAH” in the Scientific Conference on Foot and Mouth Disease Aspects
The Conference “Methods for foot and mouth disease prevention and control in Taiwan, analysis of field cases, exchange of experience with the OIE Reference Laboratory for Foot and Mouth Disease (FGBI “ARRIAH”). Foot and mouth disease vaccine control and use of actual strains in vaccines for foot and mouth disease prevention in pigs” was held from 17 till 20 June 2014 in the People’s Republic of China (Haikou).
Participation of the FGBI “ARRIAH” specialist in the International Conference for Animal Infectious Diseases
The International Conference “Future tasks in the area of animal infectious diseases and transmitted from animals to humans infectious diseases – global foresight initiative” was held during the period from 18 till 19 June 2014. The FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” under the jurisdiction of the Rosselkhoznadzor was represented at the event by Sergey Rybakov, Doctor of Science (Biology), Professor.
Delegation from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam visited the FGBI “ARRIAH”
On June 24, 2014 a delegation from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam consisting of the representatives of the National Agro Forestry Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIKAD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development visited the FGBI “ARRIAH” subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor. The aim of the visit was to discuss perspectives of scientific collaboration and of joint research programs in the sphere of prevention and control of terrestrial animal infectious diseases.
A visit to FGBI ARRIAH high delegation from India
On the 17th of June 2014 delegation from India has visited FGBI “Federal Centre for Animal Health” (FGBI “ARRIAH”) which is subordinated to Rosselkhoznadzor. The delegation consisted of veterinarians and commercial director of the company International Health Care LTD which is part of PVS Group. The purpose of visit was discussion of scientific and technical cooperation.
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Organization: Company A, 1st Delaware Infantry
Entered Service: Wilmington, Del.
Birth: 28 September 1840, Camden, Del.
Date Medal Issued: 22 July 1892.
Voluntarily delivered an order in the face of heavy fire of the enemy.
"Postles deed of valor came on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. There, the 1st Delaware Regiment was a part of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Smyth's 2nd Brigade, Brig. General Hays's 3rd Division of Major General Hancock's II Corps."
"This day, July 2, 1863, the above soldiers were placed between the Taneytown and Emmitsburg roads just west of Cemetery Ridge. Located about one half a mile in front of the Union lines was the Bliss Farm consisting of a house and barn. All day both sides fought over possession of this farm. Around 6 o'clock in the evening Rebel sharpshooters gained the Bliss house and were causing a great deal of problems for the Union soldiers. To help put a stop to this four companies of the 12th New Jersey Regiment aided the 1st Delaware Regiment in gaining possession of the barn some 60 yards from the house. The Rebel's however wouldn't leave the house and continued to wreck havoc on the Union soldiers."
"General Alexander Hays, division commander, sent word to Col. Smyth to have his men in the barn 'take that damned white house and hold it at all hazards!' Col. Smyth turned to his men and said 'Gentlemen, you heard, who will take the order?' "
"At that moment Postles was sitting on a rock a few feet away with his head in his hands having been sick for several days. Not hearing any response to Smyth's request, Postles raised his head and answered: 'I will take it, sir.' "
"Postles mounted his horse, crossed the Emmitsburg Road, and headed at a gallop in the direction of the barn half a mile distant. The moment he crossed the Emmitsburg Road, Postles began to draw fire from the Rebel sharpshooters in the house which became so hot that he wondered why none of the bullets hit him or his horse. The closer he got, the thicker the bullets, but he reasoned he was safe as long as he was in motion and wondered what he was going to do when he stopped to deliver the message at the barn? Surely the bullets would then find their marks because they were firing at him from every window and door of the house just 60 yards away."
"As he got closer to the barn, he dug his spurs violently into his horse's sides. He later wrote: 'The poor brute, his sides torn up by my spurs and his mouth lacerated and bleeding from the cruel curb-bit, reared, and kicked and plunged, so that I was as bad a mark as though in full gallop.' He stopped and shouted out his message to the barn and as soon as they acknowledge it he raced safely back to his lines."
"When he got about 300 yards from the Rebel sharpshooters and felt safe, he reined in his horse and turned in his saddle. Taking off his cap, he waved in at the Rebel in defiance. That brought on the Rebel yell as they stopped firing at him. He rode back to the Union lines amidst three cheers and the congratulation of the corps commander himself, General Winfield Hancock."
"Out on the farm the Union soldiers attacked and took possession of the house, taking 40 prisioners and burning both the house and barn to the ground. As the prisoners were brought in, they recognized Postles as the daring rider and one of them said 'Well sir, I guess your time hain't come yet.' Postles asked the man what he meant and he related to him that he himself had three clean shots at him and so had others and neither the horse nor rider had been hit once."
(from Martin, Roger A., Delaware"s Medal of Honor Recipients)
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Los Cabos Film Festival Announces the Films of the Horror, Environmental and American Specials Programs | October 20, 2015
Los Cabos International Film Festival is known as its program focuses on North American Cinema, strengthened by a selection of outstanding films acclaimed at the world’s most important festivals. In its fourth edition the Festival will premiere much-awaited films in its After DARK, American Specials and Green programs.
For the second year running, the Festival presents its After Dark program, with a provocative selection of films that are on the borderlines between horror, science fiction and black comedy, exploring the full range of contemporary genre cinema.
We are proud to present the following three flawless films that have done the rounds of prestigious festivals such as Sundance, Cannes and Fantastic Fest, and whose elegance raises terror to a higher level:
“Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is fabulous in every sense.”
Peter Bradshaw. The Guardian
Dir. Matteo Garrone (Gomorra, Reality)
Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones
Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival.
“…an impressive feature debut with this gripping historical horror-thriller.”
Justin Chang. Variety
THE WITCH (Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Robert Eggers (The Tell-Tale Heart, Hansel and Gretel)
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival.
“…offers a compelling vision of life pushed to extremes.
A gorgeously executed picture that prizes its characters as much
as the elements of genre film.” Fantastic Fest
WHAT WE BECOME (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Bo Mikkelsen (First Feature)
Cast: Mille Dinesen, Toels Lyby and Ole Dupont
Premiered at Fantastic Fest.
In the new American Specials program, we present the following American films that have won critical acclaim and set box-office records, among them the Mexican Premieres of:
“Depp shines in a solid gangster biopic.” Todd McCarthy. The Hollywood Reporter
BLACK MASS(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dakota Johnson
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival.
“A scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy.” Leslie Felperin. The Guardian
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Marielle Heller (First Work)
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård and Kristen Wiig
Premiered at Sundance.
In this fourth edition, Green is presented by Discovery Channel. In this program awareness-raising films prompt us to ponder on our responsibilities vis-à-vis the environment, and on the urgent need to establish a balance among all the links in the chain of life on our planet.
The films in this program are:
“Whereas marine activist Louie Psihoyos’ ‘The Cove’ took an environmental crisis — specifically, the slaughter and sale of dolphins off the coast of Japan — and turned it into a white-knuckle suspense thriller,
his even higher-stakes follow-up, ‘Racing Extinction’.”Peter Debruge. Variety
RACING EXTINCTION(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Louie Psihoyos (Oscar Winner for Best Documentary for The Cove, Chaising Ice, Dinosaur 13)
“The journey of Hurricane is, for me, like a kind of pilgrimage which no-one has ever undertaken before” Hurricane co-director
and cinematographer Cyril Barbancon via Screendaily
HURRICANE 3D (Latin American Premiere)
Dir. Cyril Barbançon y Andy Byatt
“Powerful eco doc fronts up to climate change deniers.”
Andrew Pulver. The Guardian
LA GLACE ET LE CIEL(Mexican Premiere)
Dir. Luc Jacquet
This film was the closing gala at Cannes Film Festival.After Dark, American Specials and Green are part of a carefully chosen comprehensive selection of films that exemplify different ways of telling and visualizing stories. From November 11-15, Los Cabos Film Festival invites you to enjoy this selection of the best films launched in 2015.
COME AND SEE WHAT THE NEIGHBORS ARE DOING
MEXICO, USA AND CANADA SHOWCASE THEIR BEST FILMS TO THE WORLD
New CTT EXP & Rentals + Chemistry Platform Award valued in $3,073,372.20 MXN 2018 Call For Entries are Open ‘BATTLE OF THE SEXES’, ‘DOWNSIZING’, ‘MOLLY’S GAME’ AND ‘THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI’, WILL HAVE THEIR MEXICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN PREMIERES DURING LOS CABOS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DISCOVER THE NEW LOOK OF #LosCabos6 The Los Cabos Film Festival 2017 announces the projects selected by Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund
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Technologies review
Headings of Inventions
Alternative power sources
Electric power industry
Radioelectronics
Engineering industry
Alternative welding techniques
Protective coatings for metals
Nano-doped diamond-like films
Military industry
Technologies of multidiscipline application
Processing of transparent crystals
Technologies of desalination and purification of salt water
Medicine and pharmaceutics
Energy-saving technologies in construction
Utilization, treatment and recycling of waste
Oil-refining industry
Machinery and engines
Research institute of progress of technologies
Innovation Technologies
» Static electric power generator
» Self-charging generator – converts ambient energy into electricity
» High-selective chemical metallization of laser draught on ceramic substrates and crystals
» Technology of diamond-like films using in solar batteries
» Manufacturing technology of alloy for welding of aluminum to stainless steel without previous steel aluminizing
» Cold soldering of metals to metals and metals to ceramics and glass
» Technology of chemical nickel plating of products of steel, cast iron and plastic
» Efficient seawater desalinator
» Technology of non-waste and environmentally friendly utilization and recycling of used disposable medical droppers, syringes and needles
» Universal technology of utilization of batteries of any type
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Technology of chemical nickel plating of products of steel, cast iron and plastic
As a result of its undeniable advantages and specific qualities, chemical nickel plating can be used in automobile manufacturing, instrument engineering and in many other branches of production sector.
The most important among them is the fact that chemical nickel plating has high protective qualities and it is more effective to aggressive environment in comparison with electroless nickel.
The technology provides more qualitative covering of not only the products of metal, cast iron, plastic but of inorganic dielectrics which include ceramics, glass, porcelain, glimmer, ceramized glass and ferrites.
Advantage: offered technology has high effectiveness and quality and is profitable economically
The technology allows electroless nickel plating of ferrous and alloy steels, cast iron articles, as well as for coating of plastic, glass, ceramics, and so on.
Electroless nickel plating is widely implemented thanks to the valuable properties of its coating:
– high uniformity,
– high hardness,
– significant corrosion resistance and wear resistance.
Electroless nickel plating has higher protective properties than nickel electroplating.
Protective properties of electroless nickel plating are defined not only by their own chemical resistance of the deposited metal, but by its structural features.
Electroless-reduced nickel after may be used to cover wear parts and the parts which operate under high temperature conditions.
It is found that the electroless nickel plating is less porous than electroplating of the same thickness.
Determining porosity of nickel plating of different thickness, it was found that under porosity parameter electroless-reduced Ni-plating 8-10mm thick corresponded to electrolytic precipitations 20 microns thick.
It should also be noted that the plating obtained by electroless method contain hydrogen several times less than electroplating.
The ability to protect the main material against corrosion under the following conditions is important for nickel-coated products:
– at high temperatures (560-625°C)
– and the pressure of 1250 MPa, in the air and steam environments.
Because of its specific properties nickel-plating finds application in many fields of mechanical and instrument engineering:
– coating of metal articles of complex profile (with deep channels and blind holes);
– to improve wear resistance of wearing surfaces of machine parts;
– to improve corrosion resistance in boiling alkali media;
– to replace chromium coating (with subsequent thermal treatment of electroless nickel);
– to use cheaper steel with chemical nickel plating instead of corrosion-resistant steel;
– for nickel plating of large-size equipment;
– for coating of plastics, glass, ceramics and etc..
There were conducted comparative tests of nickel plated coatings.
Under conditions of these test there was proved – that the products coated with nickel by electroless method have higher protective capacity than those coated by electroplating method.
Conducted tests showed that Ni-coated samples of 25 micron thick do not change their appearance after spraying them with a solution of sodium chloride in the corrosion chamber over 8 days; after spraying outdoors – over 80 days; in water, heated up to 82°C (with air blow) – for 42 days.
Also as a result of the tests of electroless nickel plating and nickel electroplating regularly sprayed in a corrosion chamber with 3% sodium chloride solution, there was proved – that the corrosion pits appear on electroless coatings, but further surface damage does not take place even after 2000 hours of tests, while they spread quickly coatings made by electroplating.
Additionally, for purposes to compare the use of electroless nickel plating to protect the parts against corrosion under conditions of tropical climates, we used steel samples which were coated in solution.
– And also samples with coatings made by nickel electroplating (matte-finished and glazed-finished).
The samples were placed in a chamber for 21 hours at a temperature of 35 ± 2 and 20 ± 2°C.
The first corrosion pits on the samples with coating made by nickel electroplating showed up on the matte-finished nickel -in 7 day after testing, on glazed-finished nickel – in 14 days.
Corrosion pits occurred on none of the samples with coating made by electroless nickel plating within 84 days of testing.
In 14 days a thin purple film occurred on them and remained until the end of testing. By assumption of scientists the presence of this film contributed to enhancing of the corrosion resistance of these coatings.
Testing the samples under conditions of sub-tropical climate, indoor with humidity and temperature of the outer atmosphere, – coating made by electroless nickel plating were also covered with an oxide film of purple color and it remained within two years.
It should be added that with the help of electroless nickel plating the problem of creation of light and wear-resistant friction pairs made of different aluminum alloys can be solved.
Electroless nickel plating may be used to coat non-metallic materials (plastics and inorganic dielectrics).
Inorganic dielectrics include ceramics, glass, porcelain, mica, glass ceramics, and ferrites.
Metallization of inorganic dielectrics is used to make the following surface properties to the metal parts:
– Conductivity
– Ability to soldering,
– Thermal conductivity.
Metallization of glass is used to produce mirrors. Silicate materials (glass, quartz, glass ceramics, mica, etc.) at first are subject to chemical degreasing, and then are treated in a special solution.
Parts made of non-metallic materials with metal coatings are widely introduced in radio engineering, automotive and other industries, so the question of the methods of electroless plating of metals combined with galvanic one is up-to-date.
If you are interested – we will provide additional information and designer’s supervision over implementation of the technology.
p.s. We expect proposals for mutually beneficial cooperation
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Steampunk-inspired Musical Adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast"
Fri & Sat at 7pm, Sunday at 2pm
World Under Wonder Playhouse
Ascutney, VT
World Under Wonder performs a steampunk-inspired musical adaptation of the French folktale, Beauty and the Beast, on August 16 & 17 at 7pm, and August 18 at 2pm.
Many different theatrical effects are implemented, including haze machines, projections, and LED lighting within costumes. Vegan steampunk cupcakes will be available before the show. At intermission, audience members may take part in a steampunk costume contest to win tickets to future shows, and a steam punk art silent auction. Photos with the cast will be available afterward.
Tickets are available by emailing WUW at director@worldunderwonder.org or by calling Sean Roberts at 603-381-3344. Only 100 seats are available per performance. August 16 & 17 at 7pm, and August 18 at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission, or $5 for those under 18, over 65, or veterans.
Ascutney VT
Ticket Telephone Number 603-381-3344
Website: www.worldunderwonder.org
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Older and Wiser
Can You Really Age Whiskey In Space?
Suntory is planning to leave their whiskeys on the International Space Station for at least a year to see if it will accelerate maturation. Can you really hurry a good thing?
Aaron Goldfarb
Updated 04.14.17 9:52AM ET / Published 08.08.15 12:01AM ET
Aging whiskey is somehow both the simplest thing in the world…and a process the (mostly) old men who do it might not even fully understand.
The simple part: a distilled white spirit—typically corn-based in America—is put into a barrel—typically charred oak in America—and then left to sit around for a decent stretch of time.
The complex part: over these many years, the climate’s changing temperatures cause the whiskey to seep into the wood, then get pushed back out, extracting with it flavorful compounds like vanillins and hemicellulose which naturally linger in the barrel staves.
Whatever the case, when the whiskey ultimately comes out of the barrel, the product will be darker, have (usually) had the white dog’s rough edges smoothed away, and become a now-complex offering packed with flavors such as caramel, vanilla, and even tobacco.
Unfortunately, creating great whiskey has always meant dealing with that annoying little time factor.
Straight bourbon legally must be aged for two years, someone like Eddie Russell (the co-master distiller at Wild Turkey) has told me he thinks bourbon hits its sweet spot around six years, and, of course, some of the world’s most coveted bourbons, ryes, and scotches often take ten to upwards of twenty-something years to become truly divine.
But what if there was a way to cheat the system? Why, you’d immediately revolutionize the industry and surely become quite rich in the process.
Suntory doesn’t exactly need to revolutionize the industry any more that it already has, and it’s already plenty rich enough, but this ancient Japanese distillery is still trying.
This week, the world’s fourth-largest liquor company announced that on August 16 they will send some of their whiskey to the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” aboard the International Space Station.
Interestingly, the six glass flasks being sent aren’t even new whiskey. Instead, Suntory is sending ten, eighteen, and twenty-one-year-old whiskeys, planning to leave them on the station for at least a year.
Reportedly, the company’s researchers believe storing the whiskey in an environment without temperature fluctuations or gravity could lead to a mellower flavor profile upon its return to earth.
“Our company has hypothesized that ‘the formation of high-dimensional molecular structure consisting of water, ethanol, and other ingredients in alcoholic beverages contributes to the development of mellowness,’” notes Suntory’s mumbo-jumbo-y press release.
At first glance, this may seem like a gimmick, similar to Ninkasi Brewing’s recent “out of this world” experiment.
Last year, the Eugene, Oregon brewery rocketed several vials of yeast 400,000 miles above earth, seeing if anything might happen to it.
When it returned, brewery scientists found nothing had really been altered chemically, and the resulting Ground Control Imperial Stout got fairly pedestrian reviews.
Having said that, back in 2011, noted Scottish distillery Ardbeg also sent to the International Space Station half a liter of scotch terpenes alongside shards of charred oak inside a NanoRacks MixStix.
Once aboard the station an astronaut activated the experiment, causing the spirit to mix with the oak particles to simulate barrel-aging.
Though the vials returned to earth in September of last year, we are still awaiting the results of Head of Distilling & Whisky Creation Dr. Bill Lumsden’s exhaustive studies, the findings of which will eventually be released in a white paper.
A slightly less interesting, but perhaps more viable place whiskey has been aged is on a boat. While fishing with a friend, Trey Zoeller, the founder and master blender of Jefferson’s Bourbon, had an idea: what about aging his bourbon at sea?
He figured that just maybe, the constant sloshing of the bourbon due to the natural waves of the ocean might cause the product to age faster.
Conveniently, Zoeller had a friend, Chris Fischer, who was the founder of OCEARCH, a great white shark tracking group.
Fischer allowed Zoeller to put a few barrels of unaged white whiskey on his boat when the researcher went off on his next global tracking mission. Some four years later, Zoeller tried the bourbon and was stunned.
“The bourbon went in (the barrels) clear as water and came out black,” he told NPR. “Bourbon always picks up color in the barrel, but this four-year-old bourbon was darker than thirty-year-old bourbon.”
What had happened was the more frequent than usual contact with the barrel wood had stripped away bad, astringent flavors quicker than usual, while helping the positive flavors become faster extracted from the wood.
As a bonus, the sea air had also somehow gotten into the exposed barrels as well, adding a unique briny taste to the bourbon.
First released in just a few-hundred bottles in 2012, Jefferson’s Ocean is one of the most intriguing bourbons I’ve ever tasted, one actually worth its higher $85 price tag.
Others clearly agree, as it has become a now regular expression in Jefferson’s catalog. They are now on “Voyage No. 4,” which was released earlier this year, and Zoeller often notes: “I can tell the difference between each voyage.”
Maybe his method isn’t so bizarre. As Zoeller told Food & Wine: “Whiskey was aged for the first time when it was floated down the Mississippi then up to New York. This was the original maturation process.”
Somewhat luckily for Jefferson’s, they don’t actually distill their own bourbon, so they have plenty of time to worry and wonder about aging techniques.
Jefferson’s buys most all of their bourbon already aged from factory distilleries like MGP in Indiana. Furthermore, recent batches of Ocean have seen barrels already six- and seven-years-old put aboard the boats.
At the same time, some craft distilleries have opted for aging their whiskeys via methods that don’t have them deciding whether to put their distillate on planes, trains, and/or automobiles.
These companies are banking on that fact that it’s less important where whiskey has been aged, and more important how it has been.
Virginia’s Copper Fox Distillery tries to speed up the aging process with a tea-bagging-like method, adding a mesh sack of toasted oak and apple wood chips to the distillate for a year.
Meanwhile, the Tuthilltown distillery in upstate New York ages its Hudson Baby Bourbon in tiny, three gallon barrels to facilitate more wood contact (traditionally, bourbon is aged in 53-gallon barrels).
Additionally, low-frequency sound waves pulse through the aging warehouse at all times, the distillers believing it agitates the liquid, causing even more barrel contact.
There’s also Cleveland Whiskey which pumps its white distillate briefly through barrels—to legally attain the designation “bourbon”—before adding it to stainless steel tanks with chopped-apart barrels.
The tanks then undergo “disruptive pressure-aging technology,” causing the wood chunks to act almost as tiny sponges, pulling the liquid into their pores, then squeezing it back out again. The newly-released Highspire Rye is intriguingly aged in California wine barrels for 130 days with a blend of oak staves added inside.
I must admit that, while many of these techniques sound like they might logically work, I’ve yet to find any that truly do.
True, most of the aforementioned “rapidly-aged” whiskeys come in gorgeous bottles and have bombastic founders who are absolutely, 100% certain their whiskey is as good as the well-aged stuff you’ve actually heard of.
Unfortunately, while I can tell you that none of the aforementioned booze tastes “bad” per se, none of them truly taste like anything other than young whiskey.
So what’s next? Can the science of aging spirits actually be cheated? Is there some special place to put white dog whiskey that will truly speed up the process?
Perhaps buried in the desert, atop a skyscraper, at the North Pole, or maybe even at the bottom of the ocean like the rum-maker Seven Fathoms has recently tried.
Or maybe it’s more in discovering a special process that can act like a time machine. It still seems unlikely, but one man might have come closest to cracking the mysteries of aging.
Though details are still scarce, Lost Spirits master distiller Bryan Davis has reportedly developed a patented, hyper-speed reactor that can provide the equivalent of twenty years of barrel-aging in just a week (and without a single barrel necessary).
The few bottles of artificially aged single malts and rums he has already sent out into the world have been massive hits, lionized by geeks and critics alike.
If his technique is proven truly viable when his prototype is finally unveiled to the public next month, Davis may very well revolutionize the way we all drink aged spirits. If not…well, many, many good men and women might be headed back to the drawing board.
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ESPN Axes Donovan McNabb, Eric Davis After Misconduct Investigation
Danny Moloshok/Reuters
ESPN has severed ties with former NFL stars Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis following an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at the NFL Network. In a statement issued Saturday, the network said the two football-stars-turned-TV personalities are “no longer working for us.” They were taken off the air on Dec. 12 after a former NFL Network employee filed a lawsuit accusing them and five others of sexual harassment. McNabb was accused of sending sexually explicit text messages, while Davis was accused of making lewd comments. The former employee who filed the lawsuit, Jami Cantor, worked at the NFL Network for 10 years before she alleges she was wrongfully terminated after complaining of the alleged harassment.
Read it at Associated Press
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CAN'T MAKE IT UP
Laura Ingraham Doubles Down on LeBron James Attack
The Fox News host wasn't backing down from ripping a black athlete for daring to criticize President Trump.
Margaret Carlson
Updated 02.19.18 9:52AM ET / Published 02.17.18 2:54PM ET
Fox News host Laura Ingraham spent a segment of Friday’s show defending herself against charges of racism. She was just making a joke, a pun, a funny aside, really, when she said that Cavaliers basketball player LeBron James should just “shut up and dribble.” She was offended when he said in a video that President Donald Trump “doesn’t understand the people, and really don’t give a f--- about the people.”
She could have apologized in that non-apologetic way famous people have of being sorry in the off-chance someone was offended. But why do that when you’ve got a made-for-TV ratings hit? There’s James, whom she went after for trying to go pro a year early, and for his "barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical," way of speaking versus a right wing anchor of the sort Fox cloned until its sexual harassment scandal sent it’s most famous scurrying for higher ground.
While James was growing up poor and fatherless to become a successful businessman, model father, and pillar of the community, Ingraham was becoming rich and famous by way of Dartmouth College where she was known for hunting and bagging liberals as an editor at the conservative Dartmouth Review. Her most hateful stunt was sending a reporter to infiltrate a gay group on campus taking down names and addresses. Ingraham then wrote letters outing those students to their parents. She regretted that publicly when she found out many years later that her brother was gay and later that his partner was dying from AIDs, as if treating a gay person properly was possible only if you had one in the family. She didn’t discover a black relative so she never took back attacking an African American professor for being himself, including having hair resembling “a used Brillo pad.”
In taking after James, Ingraham is in step with Trump whose favorite sports figures are white owners, coaches and quarterbacks. Commenting While Black violates the unspoken sports ideal where whites sit in the expensive seats watching blacks throw a ball for their entertainment expecting them to always be seen and not heard. For weeks, Trump took time away from TV watching and golf, with Ingraham’s approval, to urge owners to fire any African-Americans who dared to take a knee to protest police killing unarmed black men on behalf of those who don’t have a voice. Does anyone think that the first to kneel, Colin Kaepernick a record-setting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, being benched is not Trump’s dream come true?
Ingraham found two black commentators to come on Friday night to confirm that she was right to take on the uppity James deemed “a clown” who should be “fired by the NBA” and extol Trump as the jobs president for blacks. Ingraham spent a lot of time expanding on a statement put out earlier by Fox that with “shut up and dribble” she was simply paying homage to her book Shut Up & Sing. She believes a polemic of 15 years ago is such a cultural touchstone, like Star Wars or Harry Potter, she can drop a reference into conversation and everyone gets it. To make her point, she cited another of her bon mots like telling Jimmy Kimmel to “Shut Up & Make Us Laugh,” and this week counseling San Antonio Spurs’ Gregg Popovich to “Shut up & Coach.” Of course, both of them were spouting liberal sentiments at odds with Trump on health care and guns. She granted herself immunity to criticize anyone who veers into her lane of political punditry, rightly reserved for her and the High Church of Fox. She had no criticism when another sports celebrity, Tim Tebow former Denver Broncos quarterback who appeared in a pro-life commercial famously broadcast during the Super Bowl in 2010.
On this long weekend celebrating President’s Day, maybe Ingraham will have time to watch more of the video where James admired the cop on the beat in his childhood neighborhood and how he works hard at being the good father his absent father was not. Foretelling what was to come, he brought up how some people, no matter what you become in life, will always remind you that you are beneath them recalling the racial epithet spray painted on the front gate of his house.
For his part, James posted "#wewillnotshutupanddribble" on his Twitter Friday night along with a picture of a neon sign that read "I am more than an athlete."
Away from the klieg lights Ingraham might ask what Ronald Reagan, her former idol and boss, would do. There’s no explaining how she got from him to a blowhard nationalist with a spotty relationship to the truth like Trump, except in her desire to be with a winner and pass Fox’s loyalty test. James vowed to repaint the fence and build it taller. Let’s tune in Tuesday to see what Ingraham is going to do.
Editor's Note: This column has been updated to correct an error. It previously stated that Ingraham's brother had suffered from AIDS. It was her brother's partner.
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Driverless Bus Collides With Pedestrian in Vienna
The accident put a self-driving bus trial on hold.
FOX & EPA FRIENDS
Watchdogs Call on EPA to Probe Its Dealings With Fox News
Maxwell Tani
Media reporter
Updated 12.13.18 10:47AM ET / Published 12.13.18 10:46AM ET
Two left-leaning government watchdog groups on Thursday called upon the EPA to launch an internal investigation into whether the agency broke federal laws in its friendly coordination with Fox News. Last month, The Daily Beast reported that before an interview with former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt last year, a Fox & Friends producer sent a script to be approved by the EPA’s communications team. In a letter to the EPA’s office of inspector general on Thursday, Democracy Forward and Restore Public Trust said the EPA may have “violated federal laws that prohibit government funds from being expended to engage in covert propaganda” by approving the script without disclosing it had been government approved. “The Trump administration has a history of deceiving the public, and this is just another glaring example,” said Caroline Ciccone, Restore Public Trust’s executive director. “The American people expect that government officials honor long-established boundaries between the government and the press - and shouldn’t be using the media as its own publicist.”
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Using creativity to bridge the mental health divide
By Lalita Kaplish | The Researcher’s View
For the seventh in our series on the Asylum and Beyond, Victoria Tischler considers creativity as a way to share experiences of mental illness.
I’ve been thinking about the line between those living with mental health problems and without. As someone who works in the field it is often obvious, even at social events, which side you are on. Anyway, it isn’t really a divide at all, it’s a continuum and we all fall somewhere along it. An artwork in Crichton Royal Hospital archive by William Bartholomew – ‘Cake Month – ain’t it ridik’lus?’ (1861) – reminds me of the plethora of factors involved in mental illness and of the power of art to captivate. The decorative and stylized work features a jumble of text, bizarre and seemingly unconnected images and historical references, reminiscent of a word (and image) salad.
‘Cake Month – ain’t it ridik’lus?’ Drawing by William Bartholomew, 1861. Library reference: DGH/1/7/3/1/17.
Bartholomew was treated at by W. A. F. Browne, the medical superintendent at Crichton from 1838–1857, a very early proponent of moral treatment, and an enthusiast for the use of art in mental health care. Browne recognized the artistic talent of his patients, authoring a treatise on ‘Mad Artists’ in 1880. Thus began the one of the earliest formative attempts to document the creative potential of mental health.
Whether you ascribe to genetic, social or environmental causes, countless of us will experience mental illness, yet many remain reluctant to reveal this publicly. It’s mainly to do with stigma and fear. People are afraid, of a world upside down, rather like that portrayed in another work by an unknown Crichton patient – the ‘Dipsomaniac’.
Seascape with upside down view. Watercolour by unknown patient at Crichton Royal Hospital, 1850s. Inscription on reverse reads ‘Dipsomaniac’. Library reference: DGH/1/7/3/1/91.
We continue to be haunted by images of the raving lunatic of yore locked up, out of view. Madness has long been associated with otherworldly possession, deviance and criminality. In the past incarceration in an asylum was a spectacle; worthy of public visitors, for others out of sight was out of mind. This dilemma still resounds in the public imagination; a place where morbid fascination meets denial. Even more pertinent nowadays is the prejudice and discrimination that those living with mental health problems experience.
In some respects contemporary mental healthcare has not changed much. Asylums that were once places of respite are now voluntary yet locked repositories for the mad and insufferable, offering scant regard to aesthetics. The closure of asylums and moves to provide care in the community mean that mental health problems are more visible yet the stigma remains. High profile revelations by people such as Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, Vice President of the British Psychological Society, and celebrities such as Emma Thompson and Catherine Zeta-Jones about episodes of mental illness have brought the issue into the mainstream, although the dark shadow remains.
As someone who has worked in the mental health field in clinical, academic and voluntary sectors for more than two decades, I still struggle with how best to help those who experience mental health problems.
Using powerful art as its focus, and led by those with lived experience of mental health problems, the ‘Expert by Experience’ led organisation, Daily Life Ltd, uses innovative and creative methods to challenge stigma and negativity and to change thinking about mental health. A recent Daily Life Ltd event- The Roving Diagnostic Unit Late Spectacular – demonstrated how role modelling, authenticity and creativity could engage the public in a fun, playful and attractive way. These latter factors are key. Mental health issues are not typically associated with fun, play and attractiveness.
Power pants at the Roving Diagnostic Unit Late Spectacular. Image credit: Priya Mistry.
A stellar line up of talented artists including Dylan Tighe and Priya Mistry (my personal highlights) mesmerised their audiences and got people involved, indeed some proudly wore their personalised Power Pants all night long! The evening culminated with a performance by the enigmatic and legendary Bobby Baker, artistic director of Daily Life Ltd. The entire event embraced and enhanced by the wondrous ambiance of the William Morris gallery. It was all about mental health but it didn’t feel like it. It was quite simply an amazing and memorable night out.
This approach works yet I wouldn’t advocate it for everyone. Mental health is fluid, and people are heterogeneous, so one approach doesn’t suit all. There is still much to do and to learn, especially from people with experience of mental illness. They continue to live with multiple and severe disadvantage. In parts of the world, being mentally ill means being physically chained up, some remain shackled by pharmaceuticals or demons within them, provoked by childhood adversity or other traumatic experiences. Social and economic inequality divides us all, not just those who experience ill health.
Yet we all retain the capacity to be creative. Creativity offers a bridge across the divide between those who experience mental illness and those who don’t, in doing so it can create connections and profound change.
Victoria Tischler is a freelance curator, researcher and psychologist. Her research interests focus on art and mental health.
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One Response to Using creativity to bridge the mental health divide
Mentally unhealthy
I really don’t agree that it is obvious ‘which side of the line’ people are on. If you look around a room, some may obviously have mental health issues. On a bad day, I’ll be one of them.
However, do you then assume that all others are mentally healthy? Even people you know and think are mentally healthy may not be. I hid my mental health issues for as long as I could, in fact it took a long time for me to identify that I had mental health issues.
Also, I don’t believe that there is a black and white line. People are not either mentally healthy or unhealthy. I think it is a continuance.
I’m sorry, I don’t think that your comments help the stigmatisation issues. It comes across as increasing the divide between healthy and unhealthy. Of course, the reality is that everyone has a mental health status, mine just happens to not be so good right now.
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Another former Colorado player makes NBA — remember Chris Copeland?
By Tom Kensler
Chris Copeland. (Associated Press)
BOULDER – Chris Copeland completed his eligibility at Colorado almost six years ago, but he has made the 15-player roster of the New York Knicks, making him one of the NBA’s most unlikely rookies. He will turn 29 years of age in March.
Copeland, a 6-foot-8 forward from Richmond, Va., averaged 7.5 points and 3.8 rebounds during his college career (2002-06). After leaving CU, Copeland played in European leagues for teams in Belgium, Germany and Spain. He also played for Fort Wayne of the NBA’s D-League, but earned his spot on the Knicks roster with his play on the team’s summer league squad, where he averaged 13.8 points.
Copeland became the fourth former CU player on a current NBA roster — the first time ever for the school to have four in the pros in the same season. He joins joins Chauncey Billups (L.A. Clippers, injured), Alec Burks (Utah Jazz) and Cory Higgins (Charlotte Bobcats).
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Summer play of point guard enables Colorado to sign 6-8 Dustin Thomas
Entering the current recruiting season, Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle was searching primarily for wing guards.
Mission completed. Boyle and his staff have received an oral commitment from 6-foot-5 Jaron Hopkins, a four-star talent from Mesa, Ariz., who coaches hope will follow in a lineage of scoring wing guards to come through the program: Cory Higgins, Alec Burks and Carlon Brown.
In addition to Hopkins, Boyle would have loved to have landed 6-5 Jabari Bird, had the five-star prospect not committed last week to Pac-12 rival California.
The Buffs also wondered if they needed another ball-handling guard. But the solid play of freshman point guard Eli Stalzer during the team’s five-game summer tour of Europe allowed the Buffs to use their second scholarship on a 6-8 forward: Dustin Thomas of Texarkana, Texas.
Thomas averaged 20 points and 14 rebounds as a high school junior. He could fit right in as a replacement for 6-7 Buffs forward Andre Roberson — as soon as next season if Roberson has a big year and decides to turn pro.
My take: The 6-3 Stalzer appears to be a steal as a spring signee. Look for the former Mater Dei HS (Santa Ana, Calif.) teammate of prior CU signee Xavier Johnson to get important minutes this season. And credit his performances during CU’s European tour for enabling Boyle to go after Thomas and help the overall roster.
Categories: College Basketball, Pac-12, Recruiting, University of Colorado
Colorado basketball eyes small forward Tre’shaun Lexing in Tacoma
Those who criticize the July evaulation period for college basketball recruiting as a “meat market” may be overlooking what it can do for the prospective student-athlete.
Tre’shaun Lexing, a 6-5 1/2, 195-pound small forward at Tacoma (Wash.) Lincoln HS, watched his offer list grow in quantity and quality after competing last week at a tournament in Las Vegas.
Lexing presumably was spotted by Colorado’s coaching staff and, according to Rivals.com, left Las Vegas with a CU offer.
According to the recruiting-based website, Lexing also now has offers from Washington State, Gonzaga and Oregon State. Prior to the Las Vegas event, it appeared his best offers came from Boise State and Santa Clara.
Lexing, who averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds and five assists as a junior, told Rivals.com that he expects to take an official visit to Colorado in September.
Colorado’s Tad Boyle and his staff seem to be scouring the nation, and especially the West, in search of a quality “2 or 3” wing (shooting guard or small forward) type of player with big upside, perhaps hoping to land the next Cory Higgins or Alec Burks.
As a senior-to-be, Lexing can sign a national letter of intent during the November signing period.
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Colorado Buffs hoops recruiting 6-foot-5 guards
The Colorado men’s basketball team has lost three tall guards in recent years — Cory Higgins, Alec Burks and Carlon Brown — so it’s no surprise that head coach Tad Boyle and his staff are recruiting to fill that position.
Adam Munsterteiger of the local Rivals.com site BuffStampede.com uncovered two CU targets for the current recruiting cycle: 6-foot-5 Brandon Parrish of Arlington (Texas) Juan Seguin HS and 6-5 Elliott Pitts of Concord (Calif.) De La Salle HS. Both are seniors-to-be and can sign in November.
Pitts said he received an offer from Colorado among a list that also includes California, Arizona, Boston College and others.
Parrish said CU coaches said they would like to evaluate him during the summer tournaments. “I am hearing they really like me,” Parrish told Rivals.com. “They don’t have that many scholarships for my class, so while I am high on their list they want to evaluate me further in July.”
Parris said he already has offers from Kansas State, Oregon State, Tulane and Rice.
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Scouting report: Buffs outshot Oregon in previous meetings; Ducks scored more
Here are some things to consider in tonight’s Pac-12 tournament quarterfinal between sixth-seeded Colorado (20-11) and No. 3 seed Oregon (22-8), with much of the research by the CU sports information department.
*** The last time a No. 6 seed ousted a No. 3 from the Pac-12 tournament occurred in 2009, a Southern California win over California. That Trojans team went on to become the only No. 6 seed to win the tournament title.
*** Tonight, senior forward Austin Dufault will tie the Colorado record for most career men’s basketball games. Cory Higgins (2007-11) holds the record with 132 games.
*** Colorado made only one 2-pointer Wednesday night in the 53-41 victory over No. 11 seed Utah. That was a trey by Andre Roberson in the first half. Colorado went one-for-11 from 3-point range, and better shooting likely will be needed tonight against Oregon. But Roberson’s trey at least continued CU’s string of 326 consecutive games with at least one made 3-pointer.
*** Although Oregon has outscored Colorado 80.5 to 76.5 in the two regular-season meetings, the Buffs outshot Oregon from the field: 41 percent to 48 percent. The deciding factor? Rebounding. Oregon’s 33 to 28.5 edge on the boards enabled the Ducks to get a total of 18 more field-goal attempts than Colorado for the two games.
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Congrats to CU’s Roberson for making coaches’ all-Pac-12, but …
… I think it’s ridiculous for the coaches to pick a 10-man, all-Pac-12 “first team.”
Andre Roberson, the only player in the Pac-12 averaging a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds per game, should be a shoo-in for a five-player all-Pac-12 team. Having it a 10-man team dilutes the impact, significance and prestige of being named “all-conference.”
And if the Pac-12 insists on a 10-man first team, why does it only have a five-man second team? What sense does that make? The ridiculous seems even more ridiculous.
Roberson is on the Pac-12 all-defensive team (Thank God, that’s a five-man team), and Colorado’s Spencer Dinwiddie made the five-man all-freshman team.
I don’t have a problem with Jorge Gutierrez of California earning Pac-12 player-of-the-year honors. The coaches realize that the former Denver Lincoln product does so much for the Bears at both ends of the court, much more than his stats could show.
But I would have voted Colorado’s Tad Boyle as coach of the year (instead of Washington’s Lorenzo Romar). As a conference newcomer, CU finished in the upper division (tied for fifth) after having lost two players (Alec Burks and Cory Higgins) to the NBA and 75 percent of the 2010-11 scoring.
The Pac-12 is down this year but I can brag to some of my sportswriter friends who cover other leagues that the Pac-12 all-stars would beat another more highly rated conference.
Hey, it would be 10 players against five.
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CU men’s hoops frosh guard Dinwiddie scheduled to start
Colorado men’s basketball is listing freshman guard Spencer Dinwiddie as a starter for tonight’s 8 o’clock season opener against Fort Lewis at the Coors Events Center.
It’s been my experience in covering college hoops for more than three decades that when a freshman is put in the starting lineup for the first game it portends a bright future.
Sure enough, in recent years, CU’s Richard Roby, Cory Higgins and Alec Burks were all opening-game starters.
Dinwiddie has grown at least an inch since he signed with CU last November and is now listed at 6-feet-5. When he plays his natural position, he will be among the nation’s tallest point guards.
A native Southern Californian, Dinwiddie averaged 11.2 points, 7.7 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game as a senior in leading Taft High a 29-3 record. He was named Los Angeles “City Section” player of the year.
Dinwiddie told me recently that he figures senior Nate Tomlinson will be the point guard when Tomlinson is on the court.
“It doesn’t matter to me where I play,” Dinwiddie said. “I’m just looking to contribute. Coach Boyle doesn’t like to categorize us. We’re just guards.”
Dinwiddie is scheduled to be joined in the opening lineup by seniors Tomlinson, Austin Dufault and Carlon Brown, and sophomore Andre Roberson.
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CU men’s hoopsters getting no love in preview magazines
On the way back from Colorado’s football game at Ohio State, I picked up a couple of college basketball preview magazines and quickly turned to the Pac-12 Conference section.
CU is getting no love in the predictions.
The Sporting News picks the Buffs to finish 11th in the Pac-12 standings, ahead of only fellow league newbie Utah.
Athlon Sports doesn’t even give Colorado that much credit. It has the Buffs finishing last in the 12-team conference.
Here’s an excerpt from the analysis of CU in the Sporting News, written by longtime Pac-12 beat writer Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury-News:
“Colorado’s first season in the Pac-12 figures to be a rough one. No team inthe conference was hit harder by attrition than the Buffaloes (losing NBA first-round draft choice Alec Burks, 2000-point scorer Cory Higgins and fellow double-figure scorers Marcus Relphorde and Levi Knutson), and there isn’t a close second.”
Wilner sounds like he believes he is doing Colorado a favor by not picking the Buffs to finish all the way at the bottom:
“There is so little proven talent that the Buffs could finish last in the new-look league. But (head coach Tad) Boyle did such a marvelous coaching job last season … he’s worth a run in the standings himself.”
Athlon writes: “The Buffs have to meet or exceed last year’s performance in three areas to give themselves a shot at being relevant in their first season in the Pac-12. They must improve defensively, be mentally and physically tougher in the post and continue to make the Coors Events Center a difficult place for opponents to get a win.”
My take: I’m not sure Colorado has enough firepower or post presence to contend in its debut season in the Pac-12, but I would be surprised if the Buffs don’t surprise — and finish better than predicted, perhaps much better. My guess is that the Pac-12 teams located at sea level (which is most of them) will find it difficult to keep up with Boyle’s up-tempo pace in the rarefied air of Boulder. If CU can win most of its home games, that alone will enable the Buffs to climb in the standings. Sophomore rebounding machine Andre Roberson will focus more on offense this season, and points are expected to come from Utah transfer Carlon Brown and freshman guards Spencer Dinwiddie and Askia Booker.
By the way, in the Mountain West, the Sporting News has Colorado State fourth, Air Force fifth and Wyoming eighth (last). Athlon has CSU fourth, Wyoming fifth and Air Force seventh.
In the Sun Belt: Denver is picked for fourth in the West Division by the Sporting News, third by Athlon.
In the Big Sky: defending champ Northern Colorado is picked to finish fourth by the Sporting News and sixth by Athlon.
CU hoops recruit on ESPNU top 100
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Lewis-Palmer's Josh Scott has cracked the ESPNU's top 100 recruits.
Recruiting continues to look promising and exciting for the Colorado men’s basketball program.
Josh Scott, a 6-foot-10 center who is about to begin his senior year at Lewis-Palmer High in Colorado Springs, is now on the ESPNU recruiting list of the nation’s top 100 prospects.
Scott is ranked No. 99 — the only Coloradan on the ESPNU list. He gave an oral commitment to CU last spring and at that time said he will sign a national letter of intent with the Buffs in November during the early signing period.
Amazingly, CU now has two all-time leading men’s scorers
What were the odds of Cory Higgins finishing his CU men’s basketball career tied with Richard Roby (2004-08) atop the school charts at 2,001 points?
They had to be astronomical. I know I have never seen another school with co-leaders in career scoring.
Nothing against Roby, but I’m sure most were pulling for Higgins to claim the top spot to himself because this was new and fresh, and it’s always fun to see records broken. And to think that another basket by Higgins would have beaten Alabama and sent CU into the NIT championship game.
Roby and Higgins overlapped one season, playing together in 2007-08, when Roby, a 6-6 guard, was a senior and the 6-5 Higgins was getting his feet wet as a freshman.
Higgins told me countless times that he respected Roby for helping him “learn the ropes” of the college game.
“I saw how he handled himself that year, with the team and with the media as the leader,” Higgins told me recently.
Higgins became the team spokesman beginning in his sophomore season.
And certainly not to be overlooked or forgotten is Brittany Spears completing her eligibility this season as the CU women’s all-time leading scorer with 2,185 points.
It was a privilege to cover them for the past four seasons.
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What will next season’s CU men’s hoops lineup look like?
With the 2010-11 season for the Colorado’s men’s basketball team having come to a close in the NIT semfinals, Buffs fans can say their final good-byes to scholarship seniors Cory Higgins (16.1 points per game), Levi Knutson (11.7) and Marcus Relphorde (11.2), along with senior walk-ons Javon Coney and Trent Beckley.
And if sophomore Alec Burks (20.5) declares for the 2011 NBA draft, the Buffaloes will face a major rebuilding year in Tad Boyle’s second year as coach after going 24-14 to set a school record for victories.
Without Burks, here’s taking a stab at what Colorado’s 2011-12 starting line-up could look like, barring another late signing.
POINT GUARD: Nate Tomlinson, 6-3, senior; or Spencer Dinwiddie, 6-4, freshman.
GUARD: Carlon Brown, 6-5, senior
GUARD OR FORWARD: Jeremy Adams, 6-5, sophomore; or Damiene Cain, 6-7, freshman.
FORWARD: Andre Roberson, 6-7, sophomore.
CENTER: Shane Harris-Tunks, 6-11, sophomore.
Scoring must come from:
Brown, a transfer from Utah who averaged 12.6 points in 2009-10 as a junior for the Utes;
Adams, a transfer from Navarro (Junior) College in Texas, averaged 27 points as a high school senior in Mississippi before redshirting as a freshman at Texas A&M;
Dinwiddie, from Woodland Hills (Calif.) Taft High School, who was ranked among the nation’s top 150 players by HoopScoop and will pose matchup problems for opponents as a tall point guard;
And Roberson, a rebounding dynamo who is expected to make dramatic improvements in his offensive game.
Tomlinson also will be asked to look more to the basket. And a recruit from California, 6-1 Askia Booker of Los Angeles Price, could be next year’s Knutson, with an ability to provide a spark and instant offense from off the bench.
When going big, Boyle could use Cain, a 230-pound power forward from the L.A. area who is said to have natural rebounding skills like Roberson but could be further along offensively.
Also vying for a starting position will be 6-9 senior Austin Dufault, who did a commendable job in playing out of position this season as the starting center when Harris-Tunks suffered a season-ending knee injury in October. My guess is Dufault will be utilized as a valuable backup to both Harris-Tunks and Roberson, as Boyle strives to get bigger and more athletic with his starting unit.
Boyle could sign one more in April (it will be a surprise if he doesn’t land another post player), which could alter the rotation.
Bottom line: If Burks returns, Colorado likely will once again be no worse than a bubble team for the NCAA Tournament. Without Burks, another NIT bid may be more likely.
Next season’s roster is not devoid of talent, but there are many unknowns. Will Harris-Tunks live up the expectations? How much rust will Brown have to knock off after sitting out the season as a transfer? Can Roberson, Tomlinson, Dufault and sophomore-to-be Shannon Sharpe contribute more scoring? Will the newcomers come through? How will Colorado adjust to competition in the new Pac-12?
In any case, Boyle seems to be building a solid foundation with recruiting. Two athletic, in-state junior forwards from Colorado Springs, 6-9 Josh Scott of Lewis-Palmer and 6-7 Wesley Gordon of Sierra, announced they will come aboard for the 2012-13 season.
Perhaps CU’s Burks should talk to UCLA players
ANAHEIM, Calif. — While preparing for today’s interview sessions at the West Regional here, I spotted an article in today’s Los Angeles Times that was of interest to me, and could — or perhaps even should — be of interest to Colorado sophomore guard Alec Burks.
UCLA coach Ben Howland said a potential lockout of NBA players could influence his advice to Bruins players that, like Burks, are considering turning pro early.
“I can tell you in the NBA, in my opinion, this is going to be a serious lockout,” Howland told the Times. “They will not be playing, in my opinion, next December and maybe even January. … You’re not even going to get paid next year for half the year.”
Howland later was quoted in the article as saying it’s usually unwise for a player to declare early for the NBA draft without assurances that he will be among the first 15 players chosen.
“I’ve done all the research,” Howland told the Times. “I mean, you look at the guys who get picked between (draft slots) 22 and 31 and where they are five years later, versus guys who are one-to-15. It’s vastly different when you look at career paths.”
The latest NBAdraft.net mock draft has Burks being selected No. 8 by Cleveland.
College nonseniors have until April 24 to declare for the draft and may withdraw by May 8 to retain their college eligibility.
NBAdraft.net does not have Colorado senior Cory Higgins projected to be selected in the two-round NBA draft. But a former Buff, 6-4 senior shooting guard Xavier Silas of Northern Illinois, is projected to go No. 57 to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Did CU’s Boyle predict NCAA tourney bid for Buffs in near future?
Hmmm. It sure sounds so.
Regarding missing out on the NCAA Tournament, CU coach Tad Boyle said:
“I feel bad for the seniors who won’t get to experience the NCAA Tournament. Our coaches will, the young players in our program will. But those five guys won’t, and I feel bad for them.”
One current CU freshman, 7-foot center Ben Mills, could be a candidate to red-shirt next season, with the return of 6-11 Shane Harris-Tunks. But CU freshman forward Andre Roberson has three more years.
Boyle, obviously, is not expecting a long rebuilding process as the Buffs look to replace current senior starters Cory Higgins and Marcus Relphorde, top sixth man Levi Knutson and sophomore Alec Burks, who likely will make himself available for the 2011 NBA draft.
Boyle is counting on immediate contributions from three November signees, two guards and a forward from the Los Angeles area. And one or two additional recruits could be signed next month.
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KSU’s Martin: CU bad matchup for us
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas State entered Thursday’s Big 12 quarterfinal with Colorado riding as much momentum as any team in the league. The Wildcats had won six games in a row, eight of their last nine.
The afternoon ended with Colorado beating Kansas State for a third time. No other team, not even Kansas, was able to beat KSU more than once.
“They’re a hard matchup for us because their two wings (Alec Burks and Cory Higgins) are real good off trhe dribble,” KSU coach Frank Martin said, “and our weakness the whole year has been our (in)ability to guard the dribble.
“That presents a problem for us. Alec obviously came out of the chute and was as aggressive as he can be. Then Cory played like a senior that was determined to get his team deep into this tournament and hopefully to play past this tournament.
“They’re to be credited for that.”
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CU makes Pullen work — at both ends
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – One of the keys to Colorado’s 87-75 victory Thursday over Kansas State, CU coach Tad Boyle said, was the defensive effort of Buffs senior guard Cory Higgins on the Wildcats’ Jacob Pullen.
Higgins had some help – from what was happening at the other end, Boyle added. And that also involved Higgins.
“The one thing today, (Pullen) had to expend a lot of energy on defense,” Boyle said. “They put him on Alec (Burks), then they put him on Cory. He was expending a lot of effort on that end of the floor, which sometimes he doesn’t have to do.
“But against us, they has to do that.”
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Hoiberg: CU’s Higgins will get selected in NBA draft
First-year Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg spent 15 years in the NBA, as a player or executive, so it spoke volumes when, during Monday’s Big 12 coaches teleconference, Hoiberg said Colorado guards Alec Burks and Cory Higgins are “two players that I think will be (NBA) pros.”
Burks, a 6-foot-6 sophomore, has long been considered a probable first-round NBA draft choice, as soon as this summer, if he chooses to come out early.
Higgins?
“I do (think he will get drafted),” Hoiberg said of the 6-5 Higgins, a senior. “He can play two positions (point guard and wing/shooting guard). He’s got very good size for a point guard.
“And he can create his shots. He does a terrific job of getting to the free-throw line. That’s something that in the NBA … that’s a luxury to have, a guy that can create contact and get to the line.
“He shoots the ball well. And he’s a very smart player. Having his dad (Charlotte Bobcats general manager and ex-NBA player Rod Higgins) having been in that league for a long time obviously will help him.”
Iowa State (14-8, 1-6 Big 12) plays Tuesday night at Colorado (14-8, 3-4), beginning at 7 p.m. (telecast: FSN)
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20-point game by Knutson big lift for Buffs
What should be really encouraging for the Colorado men’s basketball team after Wednesday night’s 74-66 victory at No. 21 Kansas State, is that the Buffaloes (13-4, 2-0 Big 12) were led in scoring by somebody not named Alec Burks or Cory Higgins.
Senior guard Levi Knutson came off the bench raining 3-pointers and topped the Buffs with 20 points. That marked only the fourth time in 17 games that one of CU’s “big two” did not lead the team in scoring.
Colorado guard Levi Knutson drives to the hoop during the Buffs' big win Wednesday night.
Knutson did it in back-to-back November games against Texas-Pan American (18 points) and Oregon State (20). Junior forward Austin Dufault led the Buffs with 18 points in the 92-65 blowout of Maryland-Eastern Shore on Dec. 29.
First-year CU coach Tad Boyle has been preaching to his players that the team needs balance to reach its potential and can’t count on Burks and Higgins every night.
“When we struggled early in the season, it was because we weren’t taking good shots and weren’t sharing the ball,” Boyle said before the team departed for Manhattan, Kan. “I guys have figured that out.”
It’s amazing that this marked the first time a CU men’s basketball team has defeated ranked opponents in consecutive games.
Unfortuately, that says something about the lack of tradition.
But it also says something about what the future may hold.
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CU players: Buffs fast-paced style better suited to play Mizzou
Western New Mexico's TJ Riley, left, battles Colorado's Shannon Sharpe for loose ball on Wednesday Jan. 5, 2010. (Marty Caivano, Daily Camera)
In recent years, the Colorado men’s basketball team has fared about as poorly against Missouri as has the CU football team. That means ugly blowouts.
Colorado has lost eight straight to the Tigers, dating back to a Feb. 25, 2006 win by the Buffs in Boulder.
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Basketball Matters: Colorado State Duo leading Rams Resurgence
By Christopher Dempsey
FORT COLLINS – With most sports fans’ attention focused on Tim Tebow or Carmelo Anthony, Colorado State has flown under the radar as one of the better stories in the region.
The basketball program is not just healing under fourth-year head coach Tim Miles, but is showing signs of thriving. And this season, which featured one huge Cancun Governor’s Cup tournament win highlighted by victories over Ole Miss and Southern Miss, he has leaned on the senior duo of Andy Ogide and Travis Franklin to lead the way.
They are the first two players on every opponent’s scouting report, the duo that has to be stopped in order to have a shot at beating the Rams. From Baton Rouge, La. (Franklin) and Marietta, Ga. (Ogide) they are Colorado State’s ‘DSD.’
“Down South Duo,” said Franklin, smiling wide.
Or, Dynamic Scoring Duo. At a combined average of 30 points per game, Ogide and Franklin account for 39.4 percent of the Rams points; and with a combined average of 12.3 rebounds the two account for 36.7 percent of the team’s rebounding output.
If things are getting done these two are more than likely in the middle of it.
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CU’s Higgins recovered from head knock
Colorado senior guard Cory Higgins did not miss any practice time after complaining of headaches from a collision during the overtime victory over Colorado State last Wednesday.
CU took a few days off and then returned to the practice court on Sunday.
Boyle said Higgins, CU’s second leading scorer (16.9), practiced Sunday and again Monday morning.
“Cory’s health is good,” Boyle said Monday on the Big 12 men’s basketball coaches teleconference with the media. “He’s been banged up a little bit this early part of the season. He’s had some nagging things happen. But he’s good to go. We’re going to need him to be healthy, obviously, as we move forward.”
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Girls of Yachting 2007 Calender available now!
If you would like to buy a calendar and support this cause to help Jody Hill, they cost Euros 20 (£14) or Euros 25 (£17) by post. You can buy them by making £ cheques payable to Alex Howard and Euros cheques payable to Eli Plenier. Send your order and cheque to Alex Howard, c/o Plenier, 24, Rue des Casemates, 06600 Antibes, France. Further details are available from Alex at AlexisHoward@compuserve.com. 100 per cent of all money raised goes to Jody. Alex says please feel free to send more money than the advertised price!
Jody tells us what's going on.......
Maltese Falcon Fundraiser
Today I met Captain Chris Gartner aboard the stunning Maltese Falcon (M.F.) to discuss the Dock Party Fundraiser they held recently for Jody.
The M. F. was due to leave Falmouth Harbour, Antigua and weren’t scheduled to return until November 2007. The crew wanted a dock party and organised one at short notice on 27th March 2007. An hour before the party was due to start Second Officer Timmy Attard decided he wanted to make the party a fundraising event for Jody. Timmy is good friends with Arvid who was travelling in the car with Jody at the time of the accident.
The news spread around the harbour like wildfire and within an hour around 200 people ascended upon the dock beside the M.F. The party revellers indulged in drinks and food from the BBQ all kindly provided by the M.F. The crew and guests partied hard to the sounds of DJ Van of Cay Electronics who kindly donated his time for the party and then the serious fundraising began.
The M.F. decided to auction the services of their professional onboard masseur and offered the winning bidder an hour’s massage aboard the yacht together with a tour and complimentary champagne. The winner bid was $1000 US pledged by Alex who has a yacht moored in the harbour as a gift to her husband. Chris tells me he was amazed by the pure generosity but that was only the beginning.
Chris and Timmy and the rest of the crew wanted to raise more so they started selling M.F. T-shirts. People were also buying the ‘Yachting Girls of 2007’ calendar and many people just wanted to give and they did so generously. Before they knew it they had raised around $4800 US for Jody – a staggering amount. The partying didn’t stop there and many of the guests and crew descended upon a nearby bar to enjoy a local band.
The following day Butchy flew out to visit his good friend Jody in Houston, Texas and personally delivered the money.
Falmouth Harbour said goodbye to the M.F. who wasn’t scheduled to return until November although she surprised the locals with a brief return visit.
Many thanks to Chris, Timmy, the rest of the crew and everyone who attended and donated their time and money. It was a memorable evening and a spectacular fundraising event. I know Jody is very grateful!
Timmy says they are hoping to hold a similar fundraising event in Europe in the summer and he will keep us informed.
Thanks again guys for all you've done!
Charlotte Cayless – 17/4/07
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The Big Bad Dread & The Baldhead
Dread's 3rd UK tour
Looking for an excuse to plan a party this summer? Well now you have one, as The Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead are coming to the UK between August 15th and September 8th for their third tour and are available for gigs.
If you are interested in booking the guys, they can play up to a maximum of 2 and 1/2 hours (but normally play for 1 and 1/2 hours) and are happy to travel anywhere in the UK as long as it fits in with the Lashings World XI program. Travel expenses will be included in the fee. Discounts are available if an adequate PA system is provided. For live performances they do a mixture of their own music and covers, often including a bit of Disco, Soca and Rock ’n’ Roll.
The full line up is as follows:
Guitarist... Richie Richardson (Former West Indies Cricket Team Captain)
Bassist…Ambassador Curtly Ambrose (Former West Indies Fast Bowler)
Lead vocalist….Davidson (Bankers) Benjamin (1996 Antigua Calypso King)
Drummer…Jason Jacobs
Keyboardist....Dave Bridgewater (One of Antigua’s Premier Musicians)
Percussionist…Murphy Charles
To book the band, call Lashings World XI Head Office on 08704 606 561 now!
‘Big Bad Dread and the Baldhead’ and are just about the release their fourth album.
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Railing Against Gender Inequality in Mumbai
The Jakarta Globe, Phil Hazlewood
Indian train driver Surekha Yadav at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai. Yadav cites Indira Ghandi, India’s only female prime minister, as an inspiration. (AFP Photo)
In her canary-yellow sari and gold earrings, with a pair of thin-framed spectacles perched on her nose, Surekha Yadav could be any woman stepping down from the train at Mumbai’s main railway station.
But the 44-year-old mother-of-two stands out from the crowds on the platforms at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus as she doesn’t just travel on the trains — she drives them.
Yadav was the first female passenger train driver on Mumbai’s Central Railways and has become a standard-bearer for women in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
Since she first jumped into the cab of Mumbai’s packed commuter trains 10 years ago — attracting curious looks from commuters — one other “motorwoman” now plies the same suburban route. Two are assistant drivers.
There are also women train drivers on the Western Railway network, ferrying many of the six million people who use the city’s overstretched network every day.
Yadav, who admitted having no interest in trains before applying for a job as an assistant goods train driver in 1989, said she has had nothing but support from her male colleagues.
“They encouraged, helped and took care of me,” she said, adding she had taken special training to become the first woman driver of a “ghat loco,” the two-engined passenger trains that climb the hills of western Maharashtra state.
“Because I was the only woman, they were curious whether I could do it or not,” she said.
Women like Yadav can be found throughout Indian history, from warrior queens like Rani Lakshmibai and members of the independence movement to the first — and so far, only — female prime minister, Indira Gandhi.
Prathiba Patil, the current president, is the first woman to hold the post, the lower house of parliament has its first female speaker in Mira Kumar, while women are well-represented at many of India’s largest companies.
But although India’s Constitution “guarantees to all Indian women equality,” differences between the sexes still exist, particularly in rural areas, in terms of access to education, health care and even food.
Just over a third of Indian women aged 15 to 49 said they had experienced domestic violence, according to a 2007 National Family Health Survey.
Overall violence against women increased by nearly 25 percent between 2003 and 2007, the latest available government statistics show. The highest rises — over 30 percent — were recorded for kidnap, abduction and torture.
Madhu Purnima Kishwar, of New Delhi’s Center for the Study of Developing Societies and founder of leading rights group Manushi Sangathan, said that in the workplace gender was no bar to success — provided women were strong.
“In India, women who demonstrate that they are stronger than men usually find men falling at their feet,” she said, linking it to the worship of Hindu goddesses and the importance of mothers in Indian society.
Apart from being India’s first “motorwoman,” Yadav has also been part of the attempt to curb another problem: complaints about sexual harassment — or “eve-teasing” as it is known in India.
Rail Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced “Ladies Specials” trains in India’s four largest cities this year to improve safety for female commuters, whose numbers are increasing as more urban women forge careers outside home.
Yadav drove the first service into CST.
She is positive about her job and the opportunities it has given her, attributing her determination to succeed to her family, who sent her to convent school before she earned a diploma in electrical engineering.
“Everybody was given the chance to chase their own dream. Whatever they wanted to do,” she said. “We had freedom for education. We took advantage of that. We were very lucky to get that.”
“[My mother] never said that being a girl child you should do cooking. You should study first then we will see. You need to be bold.”
Nevertheless, Yadav — who cites as influences Indira Gandhi and Lakshmibai, the 19th century heroine of Indian resistance against the British — admits it has still been tough.
The job is physically demanding and time consuming, giving her less time to spend with her two teenaged sons and police officer husband.
Working in an all-male environment since college has also taken its toll on her social life, she said.
“I miss the friendship with women for the last 23 years. I feel shy talking with girls now,” she said.
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Labels: India, Train
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Creating gender transition
In brief, our genetic heritage is in conflict with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love To love the other sex, to love our children – by a Stage II definition of love. The challenge for a woman is to create enough economic independence that she doesn’t compromise love for an economic safety net. The challenge for a man is understanding how preparation for Stage I protection is really preparation for disconnection – from children, wife, and life. The Stage I man had a role that was more disconnected from intimacy than the Stage I female role of nurturer. Which is why the challenge for men to enter Stage II is even greater than the challenge for women.
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To conclude that men did not have the power, though, we must be more secure that the male role in the past has not, after all, been just a way of keeping women in their place. We must deal with denying women the vote, treating women as property and second-class citizens; objectifying them as concubines, harems, and prostitutes, stoning them as witches; not writing them into constitutions; denying them access to roles of leadership, jobs outside the home, and so on. We must see if power, patriarchy, dominance, and sexism were code words for male privilege or male disposability.
CHAPTER З
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The Dusty Bookcase
A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
The Good Doctor; or, Love, Love, Tiresome Love
The Side of the Angels
Basil King
London: Methuen, 1917
Thorley Masterman is another of Basil King's good young men. A son of wealth, he has chosen to devote his life to others as a medical doctor. Such is Thor's dedication that he has purchased a runabout in order to reach patients with the greatest of speed. Thor borrowed money to purchase the automobile, but that wouldn't have been necessary had he waited a year or so. The novel opens in 1910 with the doctor approaching his thirtieth birthday, on which day he will inherit his maternal grandfather's vast fortune.
Thor's need for speed is unwarranted. He hasn't managed to attract so much as a single patient until eccentric Uncle Sim puts him on to Mrs Fay. The Fays were once the Mastermans equals. A couple of generations back, they worked neighbouring fields, and often lent each other a hand. Now, Mr Fay operates a gardening centre of sorts on land he rents from Thor's father. Mrs Fay isn't so much ill as fed up. She's tired of the struggle. The city encroaches, the rent rises, and Fays fall farther and farther behind the families who had once been their peers.
Faced with impending defeat, Mr Fay has retreated into book reading. Matt, the son, is doing time for stealing money he'd intended for the rent. Hardworking daughter Rosie is the only thing keeping their failing operation together.
Thor doesn't quite fall in love with Rosie Fay at first sight, but he is shaken. Since boyhood, he'd intended to marry Lois Willoughby, daughter of Mr and Mrs Len Willoughby, whose considerable investment had aided in making his father's banking and broking house a real concern. Now, leaving the Fays to call on Lois, something has changed:
It did not escape his eye, quickened by the minutes he had spent with Rosie Fay, that Lois lacked color. For the first time in his life he acutely observed the difference between a plain woman and a pretty one.
The doctor begins frequenting the Fay home, ostensibly to care for the ailing Mrs Fay, but really in hopes of seeing Rosie. What Thor doesn't know is that for months she has been sneaking away for moonlight trysts with his caddish half-brother Claude. Because this news, delivered by his father, is too much to be believed, Thor confronts Rosie. In the ensuing exchange, the doctor allows it to slip that he is in love with her. Rosie, in turn, reveals that she'd have married Thor to save her family from financial ruin.
It's all a bit uncomfortable.
Thor decides to use part of his inheritance to enable Claude to marry Rosie, while he, of course, follows through with his decades-old plan to wed plain Lois Willoughby. But Claude, cad that he is, puts off marrying Rosie. And then Lois discovers that Thor was in love with Rosie, Claude learns the very same thing, and the novel dissolves into a very long treatise on the nature of love. For the most part, this takes the form of letters exchanged between Thor and his now estranged wife:
"You ask me what love is, and say you don't know. I'm more daring than you in that I think I do know. I know two or three things about it, even if I don't know all.
"For one thing, I know that no one can do more than say what love is for himself. You can't say what it is for me, or isn't, or must be, or ought to be. That's my secret. I can't always share it, or at any rate share it all, even with the person I love. But neither can I say what it is, or isn't, or should be, or must be, for you. You have your secret. No two people love in the same way, or get precisely the same kind of joy or sorrow from loving. Since love is the flower of personality, it has the same infinite variety that personalities possess. We give one thing and we get back another. Do not some of our irritations – I'm not speaking of you and me in particular – arise from the fact that, giving one thing, we expect to get the same thing back, when all the while no one else has that special quality to offer? The flower is different according to the plant that produces it. When the pine- tree loved the palm there was more than the distance to make the one a mystery to the other.
"Of the two things essential to love, the first, so it seems to me, is that what one gives should be one's best – the very blossom of one's soul. It may have the hot luxuriance of the hibiscus, or the flame of the wild azalea in the woods, or no more than the mildly scented, flowerless bloom of the elm or the linden that falls like manna in the roadway. Each has its beauties and its limitations; but it is worth noticing that each serves its purpose in life's infinite profusion as nothing else could serve it to that particular end. The elm lends something to the hibiscus – the hibiscus to the elm. Neither can expect back what it gives to the other. Perfection is accomplished when each offers what it can.
"Which brings me to the remaining thing I know about love – that it exists in offering. Love is the desire to go outward, to pour forth, to express, to do, to contribute. It has no system of calculation and no yard-stick for the little more or the little less. It is spontaneous and irrepressible and overflowing, and loses the extraordinary essence that makes it truly love when it weighs and measures and inspects too closely the quality of its return. It is in the fact that love is its own sufficiency, its own joy, its own compensation for all its pain, that I find it divine. The one point on which I can fully accept your Christian theology is that your God is love. Given a God who is Love and a Love that is God, I can see Him as worthy to be worshiped. Call Him, then, by any name you please – Jehovah, Allah, Krishna, Christ – you still have the Essence, the Thing. Love to be love must feel itself infinite, or as nearly infinite as anything human can be. When I can't pour it out in that way – when I pause to reflect how far I can go, or reach a point beyond which I see that I cannot go any further – I do not truly love."
The most tedious Basil King novel I've read to date, it says something that its most passionate characters are those who don't philosophize.
Object: A poorly produced book in light brown boards, my copy was published in 1917, during the Great War. The "New and Cheaper Issue," it lacks the eight Elizabeth Shippen Green illustrations (above) found in the older and richer issue. The novel is followed by a 31-page list of other books published by Methuen. Basil King favourites The Wild Olive, The Street Called Straight, The Way Home, and The Letter of the Contract figure, as do novels by fellow Canadians Robert Barr and Gilbert Parker.
Access: The Side of the Angels first appeared serially in Harper's Magazine (August 1915 - April 1916). The first edition was published in January 1916 by Harper & Brothers, followed nine months later by Methuen's first British.
The novel is held by Library and Archives Canada and most university libraries. Once again, our public libraries fail.
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The True Crime Book That Spawned an Industry
Thomas P. Kelley
Toronto: Harlequin, 1962
Oh you who hail from Ontario
Know the tale of the Donnellys Oh
Died at the hands of a mob that night
Every child and man by the oil torch light
— Steve Earle, 'Justice in Ontario' (2002)
It's likely because I hail from Quebec that I didn't know much about the Donnellys until well into adulthood. My introduction came through a work colleague when I was living in Toronto. Together, we made up a very small department in a very large book retailer – so large that it had its own publishing arm.
We were it.
After a few months working together, he suggested we reprint Orlo Miller's The Donnellys Must Die. I nodded in agreement, though Miller meant nothing to me, and I'd never heard of the book. The new edition of The Donnellys Must Die we ushered back into print sold twelve thousand copies. It's success led us to consider reviving Miller's next book, Death to the Donnellys. We joked about commissioning a third book to be titled Die, Donnellys, Die!
What Steve Earle refers to as "the tale of the Donnellys" is infused with bloodshed of a sort that we Canadians like to think of as foreign. It begins with the 1842 arrival of Irish farming couple James and Johannah Donnelly in what is today Lucan, Ontario. They had with them a son, who had been named after his father. Six more boys and a daughter would follow, all born on Canadian soil their parents had cleared. The respective births were punctuated by violence and murder. First to be killed was neighbour Patrick Farrell – "John Farrell," according to Kelley – whom patriarch James hit on the head with a handspike. The murderer then hid in the woods, and dared work his fields disguised in his wife's frocks:
Johannah was almost as tall and heavy as her husband; appareled in her clothes, Donnelly was taken for her by those traveling the road and seeing him in the fields, and he was able to get in the seeding. Later, still dressed in women's clothing, he brought in the crops, working with his sons, and did the fall plowing.
Murder by handspike aside, this episode is the lightest part of the Donnelly story. Kelley doesn't do as much with it as I thought he might, though he does go for laughs here and there throughout the book. Poor Johanna receives the brunt:
She looked like and should've been a man; her sex undoubtably robbing the bare-knuckle prize ring of a prospective champion. In later years she sprouted a miniature Vandyke, wore red flannels, and told of never having been "much of a beauty." Her picture proves the words to be an understatement.
In Kelley's account, the matriarch directed many of the misdeeds attributed to her offspring. Beginning in 1855, various members of the Donnelly family were charged with larceny, robbery, assault, and attempted murder, amongst other crimes. The events that most troubled this reader concerned animal mutilation. It all came to an end on February 4, 1880, when a mob descended on the Donnelly farmhouse, beat its residents to death, and set the building alight. They then moved on to the home of second son William Donnelly, where they killed third son, John Donnelly.
Steve Earle is wrong. Not every child and man died that night. There was a survivor in John O'Connor, a hired farm boy, who hid under a bed when the mob broke in. No doubt that mob would've murdered him, too, just as they did Bridget Donnelly, James' twenty-two year-old niece, who was newly arrived from Ireland. No one was ever convicted of the slaughter.
That Kelley records John O'Connor's surname as "Connor" is typical. He made his living as a speedy magazine and paperback writer. He had a reputation as a man who could be relied upon to fill pages in a pinch. The Kelley technique is on full display in this passage:
The writer first heard of the Donnelly feud – bits of it, at least – more than twenty years ago when travelling around the Lucan area. Twenty at the time – ah, my lost youth – the history of Lucan and its violences of bygone years did not interest him. A pair of blue eyes in the nearby village of Exeter, did. Eventually marrying the owner of the eyes, and as time went on, learning more of the feud, it became apparent at last, however, that mere hearsay, a thorough knowledge of the Lucan district or even the tales of oldtimers, would not be enough to write the true story of the Donnellys. Seemingly endless hours of research were and did become necessary – the reading of old files, old newspapers, police and court records, etc.
It's unlikely that the seemingly endless hours Kelley spent researching the Donnellys were many, but they were lucrative. They resulted in "The Donnelly Feud," a 1947 article written for New Liberty Magazine. It was reprinted in his book Famous Canadian Crimes (Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1949) and then reworked as "The Terrible Donnelly Feud" for his next book, Bad Men of Canada (Toronto: Arrow, 1950). The Black Donnellys, which followed four years later, is said to have sold more than a million copies.
The Black Donnellys is not the best place to begin reading about the family and its fate; I recommend The Donnellys Must Die or, better still, The Donnelly Album by Ray Fazakas. Kelley's book is a fun read, but is wholly unreliable – which is not to say that it is without value. What I find most remarkable about the book has less to do with its contents than it does its impact. Sure, those who hail from Ontario know the tale of the Donnellys, but this wasn't always so. I don't doubt that Kelley (1905-1982), an Ontario boy who toured the province with his medicine man father, claims he hadn't heard of the family until "travelling around the Lucan area" at the age of twenty. After they faded from the headlines, very little was written about the Donnellys. Published a full seventy-four years after the bloody events of February 4, 1880, The Black Donnellys was the first book about the family and its fate. It's inaccuracies and – here I'm betting – commercial success encouraged Miller to write The Donnellys Must Die. More than a dozen Donnelly books have followed.
In this way, it is Kelley's greatest achievement as a writer. Would that we could all have such influence. He's owed a debt of gratitude.
Postscript: I left the very large book retailer in 2001, and began writing books that were published under noms de plume. Eight years later, when living in the Ontario town of St Marys, roughly twenty-five kilometres east of Lucan, I was commissioned to write a YA book on unsolved Canadian mysteries. A chapter on the Donnellys – "Who Killed the Donnellys?" – seemed a given. The St Marys Public Library then held seven books on the family, each of which was represented on the shelves by a block of wood bearing its title. Patrons interested in checking out a volume brought the appropriate block to the front desk. This system had been put in place to prevent theft.
Object: A paperback original, The Black Donnellys was first published in 1954 by Harlequin. My well-read copy, a seventh printing, was won for $7.50 in a 2009 auction at a St Marys, Ontario, thrift store.
Access: A 2002 Globe & Mail story reported that The Black Donnellys had to that point sold over one million copies in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. I point out that that same article refers to The Black Donnellys as a novel. The only American edition (right) is a 1955 paperback published by Signet. I've found no trace of a UK edition.
The Black Donnellys helped build Harlequin. The original 1954 printing was followed by fourteen others. The last was in April, 1968, long after Harlequin had (otherwise) come to focus exclusively on romances. Subsequent editions have been published by Greywood, Pagurian, Firefly, and Darling Terrace (it's current publisher).
Unsurprisingly, dozens of used copies are listed for sale online. Prices begin at US$2.99.
Easily found in academic libraries, but uncommon in the public. I suggest instituting the St Marys Public Library block system.
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Labels: Arrow Publishing, Booksellers, Collins White Circle, Darling Terrace, Fazakas, Firefly, Globe and Mail, Greywood Publishing, Harlequin Enterprises, Kelley, Miller (Orlo), Music, New Liberty, Prospero, True crime
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Brian Busby's Dusty Bookshelf
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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The Philadelphia Young Playwrights and InterAct Theatre presented the winning monologues from the 2011 Young Voices High School Monologue Festival Feb. 16-19 at the Adrienne Theater.
Thirteen of the monologues presented, which dealt with such issues as identity, bullying, culture, and current events were from public school students, representing such schools as Constitution High School, The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Academy at Palumbo and Science Leadership Academy.
“The monologue festival gives both organizations a chance to spread learning to schools not in our core [playwrighting] program,” said Glen Knapp, Executive Producing Director of Philadelphia Young Playwrights. The monologue program gives students the chance to work with local theater actors, directors and dramaturgs, who help develop and edit the pieces, then act them out on stage.
In addition to showing students the professional side of a monologue production, Knapp noted that the other important part of the program was making students’ voices heard.
“[Youth] don’t feel listened to very much…but this turns that on its head. They can come in this safe place we create as artists and explore all their [concerns].”
Students agreed that the festival gave them an outlet to express some inner issues.
Academy of Palumbo senior Ivan Tsang wrote “Leaving the Cage,” to reflect his experience trying to become his own person. “It shows what happens to me when I was younger. When I used to go to private school my parents had full control over what I had to do. I had to … be the perfect person,” said Tsang, who added that when he began high school, he became more vocal.
“I started saying, ‘I want to do this.’ They accept it to a certain degree. Some things I can’t cross the border, but they are more lenient now. Like, now I can decide what college I want to got to.”
Akil King, also a senior at Academy of Palumbo, said his monologue, “I Wanna Fly,” is based on his devastating experience of not making the high school basketball team, but still figuring out a way to make basketball a part of his life.
“It’s about a young boy who realizes he can’t make it to the NBA, so he decides he’d rather follow basketball by being a journalist and writing about it. I didn’t make my high school basketball team so I was kind [depressed]. When I was given [this] assignment that’s all I was thinking about.”
King explained that he now wants to make a career writing about his favorite sport, since he will not be an actual athlete. “I would really love to cover it as a journalist,” he said, adding that the lesson of his monologue is to always follow your dream.
“You should never give up on what you want to be. There’s going to be a lot of obstacles in your way but you have to strive forward and if you can’t make it one way, there’s always different routes to take.”
Samaria Bailey
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Rd1 Gm2 @Was: Canes dig early hole, fight back and lose heart breaker to the Caps in OT
by Matt Karash | Apr 13, 2019 | The Drive Home
Quick hitters posted shortly after game ended
–The Hurricanes looked overwhelmed and disoriented out of the gate, and that more than anything was the difference. The Canes fairly quickly got their feet under them about halfway through the first period, but starting from a 2-0 deficit again is tough sledding against a good hockey team.
–How the Hurricanes survived and actually won the second period is surprising and had the potential to be a ‘resiliency’ type turning point somehow playing almost half of the period shorthanded but still netting the period’s only goal. That could have been the series turning point if the Hurricanes could have scored first in the third period and held on.
–Winning: The penalty kill did yeoman’s work keeping the team in the game in the second period. Petr Mrazek was phenomenal down the stretch. The forecheck was disruptive at times.
–Losing: The Caps best players are still deciding the outcome. In the instances when the Caps did beat the first layer of the forecheck, the Hurricanes were largely a mess trying to defend off the rush or against a secondary attack in their own end.
Game recap
Perhaps realizing that they were lucky to escape with a win with only one really good period in the series opener, the Capitals came out on Saturday looking to aggressively attack early. From the opening face-off, the Capitals played fast and aggressive especially in transition. The result was a dicey start for the Hurricanes who looked some combination of overwhelmed and disoriented. Nicklas Backstrom scored his third of the series with another back door tap in when the Canes lost track of him at the side of the net. Then T.J. Oshie sniped a shot past Mrazek skating in mostly uncontested off the rush to make it 2-0 Capitals less than 10 minutes into the game. Washington could easily have had another goal or two during that opening stretch that saw the Hurricanes defense look baffled trying to defend in transition. The formula for the Capitals right now when they can beat the forecheck with numbers is to push the puck with pace up the sides and leave the center lane open for players to slash into from the sides. But with the game seemingly destined for a 7-1 slaughter, the Hurricanes found the on button about midway through the first period and surged from there. The two halves of the first period could not have been any more opposite. Courtesy of a couple power plays and being jolted awake, the Hurricanes out-shot the Capitals by a 10 to 2 margin after the Capitals second goal. More significantly, Lucas Wallmark tipped a shot past Braden Holtby to get the Hurricanes back to within 2-1 to end the first period after a treacherous start.
The second period was outright bizarre. Micheal Ferland took a penalty early to kick off a special teams second period with a penalty only 1:11 into the second period. Shortly after returning to the ice, Ferland was whistled for a 5-minute major for coming across the ice looking to annihilate a Nic Dowd. When the puck rolled ahead of Dowd, the hit became a borderline interference call. And when Dowd lowered his head to reach for the puck, the check became a potential head shot. And that is what the referees called after meeting as a group. Ferland picked up a five-minute major and a game misconduct. But here’s the thing – the contact was not to the head. Upon first seeing the replay on his bench monitor and then being told about the call, Brind’Amour went ballistic. He very regularly looks intense, but this was a whole different level. The Hurricanes spent six of the first eight minutes of the second period on the penalty kill. When Dougie Hamilton took an elbowing minor later, that escalated to eight out of less than 14 minutes. But the Hurricanes penalty kill and Petr Mrazek rose up and stood tall keeping the Hurricanes in the game. When the settled on the run of penalty kill time, the Hurricanes had to feel fortunate to still be within a goal. That situation became even better when Sebastian Aho found a small opening through Holtby from the side of the net. Had you told me that the Hurricanes would have to kill off eight minutes of penalties in the second period, I would have figured the Hurricanes would be being beaten handily. Instead despite the 16 to 6 Caps shot advantage in the second period, the Hurricanes won the period 1-0 and entered the third period tied at 2-2.
The third period saw the Capitals resume attacking at even strength. Again, the Canes defense in transition looked porous at times. But Mrazek found his higher gear and did whatever it took to keep the puck out of his net. His saves included a big swipe with the glove the get a piece, a save reaching out with the pad, quickly taking away any angle from point blank range and a couple other dandies. But the Caps struck next off the rush when the Canes again had trouble sorting things out in transition. The result was a Tom Wilson goal off of a 3-on-2. After failing twice to score a tying goal on a power play late in Thursday’s loss, the Canes received another chance late in Saturday’s game. This time, the Canes capitalized when Jordan Staal tipped a Dougie Hamilton shot past Holtby to tie the game at 3-3 with exactly five minutes to go in regulation. The finish would see the Capitals challenge again, but Petr Mrazke holding the fort to set up overtime hockey.
The Capitals would score a heartbreaking goal only 1:48 into overtime when villain Brooks Orpik received a pass coming in off the bench, took advantage of Teuvo Teravainen not having a stick and fired a shot through traffic to win the game.
In the playoffs, there are no OTL points, so the loss and 0-2 series deficit are obviously not ideal. But on a positive note, the Hurricanes have played the Capitals pretty evenly despite digging sizable early holes in both games. And the fact that playoff hockey is returning to Raleigh is in itself reason for optimism.
Player and other notes
1) Lucas Wallmark
He now has three points in two games and is making assertive plays with the puck on his stick in terms of distributing to line mates. I think it is fair to say that he has been more noticeable offensively than Aho through two games despite Aho’s goal on Saturday. He also won 13 out of 15 face-offs for 87 percent which assures that his line would mostly play with the puck instead of defending.
2) The penalty kill
The way the second period went down was a recipe for a 5-1 Capitals blow out. But the Canes penalty killers did yeoman’s work keeping the team in the game. Slavin logged 6:41 of penalty kill ice time on the way to 28:54 total. Pesce logged 5:22 on the penalty kill and stepped in front and blocked six shots. Faulk logged 4:41 of ice time shorthanded. The group in total gave the Hurricanes a chance even when the officials decided to be a bigger part of the game than necessary in the second period.
3) Petr Mrazek
He was lights out in the second half of the game. When the Capitals pushed in transition in the third period, Mrazek had an answer for everything regardless of the defense in front of him. He was not horrible in game 1, but his game 2 performance was at least one notch higher because of his late-game heroics.
4) Pesce/Faulk
As much as Pesce and Faulk were good on the penalty kill, they were victimized by the Capitals transition game on Saturday. The first Caps goal was eerily reminiscent of a similar back door goal (except on the power play) on Thursday with the defensemen leaving a passing lane wide open. Part of it was the Capitals ability to transition quickly and get behind the forwards, but even given the tough situations a few times, Pesce/Faulk had a tough time defending speed coming at them. It will be interesting to see if Brind’Amour considers changing things up at home where he can better dictate match ups.
5) Micheal Ferland
The major and misconduct were a significant error on the part of the officials, but I still think that Ferland needs a bit of a reset. On the one hand, his big hits are a positive for the Canes. But on the other hand, he seems a bit over-focused on trying to deliver massive checks instead of just letting the game and the hits come to him. He has the potential to be valuable as a scoring power forward and needs to make sure he dials up that part of his game too.
6) Is it over?
In a word, no. The 0-2 deficit is a big one, and winning four out of five against the Capitals rightfully sounds like a daunting task. But the Hurricanes have been right there in both games after digging early holes. With a better start, ideally the first goal of the game and maybe a bounce or two, the Hurricanes can climb right back into it.
Next up is a HOME PLAYOFF GAME IN RALEIGH on Monday!
lessthanstable on April 14, 2019 at 10:54 am
The Canes are close, but not quite there to breakthrough and win vs the Caps. Coming out inexplicably flat footed and the poor play of some Canes “stars” was the difference in this game.
The Caps deserve a lot of credit. They are a big, strong, and talented team. They are dominating the Canes on the walls. Aho and Wallmark are faring poorly. Teravainen doesn’t even try on the wall. Soft doesn’t work in the playoffs especially against a team as big as Washington. The Caps are playing tight on the Canes D in their defensive zone just daring the Canes to win a battle against the wall and create offense from there. Outside of Svechnikov, Forgele, and Saku that isn’t happening. The daisy soft combo of Aho and Turbo needs to be broken up, IMO.
Number 27 has been scary bad. His turnovers and terrible decisions defending the rush are killing the Canes. I expect Faulk will be moved this summer, but don’t expect much. Every team in the league has video.
breezy on April 14, 2019 at 12:50 pm
Dude, there will be takers for 27, Pit signed Jack Johnson for goodness sake.
I think the team sorely misses Calvin. He’d stabilize Faulk on a second pairing, leaving Pesce and Slavin to reform at the top, or move Faulk down to a third pairing and provide a partner for Hamilton. Fleury has played ok, but he’s no more than a top 6/7 guy. That’s ok if that’s how he is used.
Faulk has not been fantastic but I’ve seen worse.
It’s the Aho/TT combo that disappoints me the most, that is not how two thirds of a team’s top line should be playing with everything on the line.
The national TV casters kept talking about TT’s poor defensive plays.
Nino has also disappeared,. His size and style of play should translate well to this matchup.
And Ferland has been a disappointment. You win hockey games by scoring goals, not by taking dumb penalties that put your team down a man (granted the 5-minute major was BS, but he got it coming).
Ferland from the first half of the season just disappeared completely in the second half.
His salary, if resigned, need to be the average of a true top 6 forward for half a season and a fighting 4th liner for half a season.
Gauthier has been on fire down in Clt, so I think he’s got a prime opportunity to come up and impress, maybe even tomorrow, if not then in training camp.
I think Walmark has actually played quite ok, he’s got 3 points, and his role is that of a third or fourth line center.
All is not lost, but the Canes have to start playing at the drop of the puck, not 10 minutes into the game down by multiple goals.
lessthanstable on April 14, 2019 at 1:28 pm
Big difference in signing a player and giving up prospects or high round picks.
I appreciate Wallmark in the circle and the nice pass to Svechnikov, but he has been mostly lucky. His goal was a whiffed shot that went in because the goalie did a pirouette trying to get a call. His play on the boards has been poor. Points don’t always tell the story of how someone is playing especially in the short term.
Nino is a good example. He is one of the few Canes that actually competes with the Caps on the boards. He’s a finisher, not a playmaker. The playmakers around him have stunk through two games. He’s not going to make many of his own opportunities. He never has.
Ferland is an odd player. A decent finisher who has a physical edge to him. He hasn’t had much to play with and hasn’t spent enough time in front of the net, IMO. He’s not worth big money. I expect we will see the Ferland/Wilson matchup in Raleigh. Ferland rightly avoided it in DC as it would have energized their crowd. With the hit on Dowd Wilson will come calling. Ferland will oblige when he feels the team needs a boost.
I agree that the Canes are still in this. They should get a charge from the home crowd on Monday and hopefully come out flying.
breezy on April 14, 2019 at 2:45 pm
There could be a lot of teams under pressure to change in the offseason.
Tampa, if they don’t put it together quick, can lose to Columbus and will inevitably try to reconfigure their roster over the summer, making some forwards potentially available for Faulk plus an AHL player.
I suspect that the Leafs are too heavy on forward and will lose to the Bruins, in which case they may try to make some roster moves, D men with scoring are what they need and Faulk could sneak into that bracket.
Either way, we can save the offseason speculations for the offseason, it will be long enough no matter how well the Canes will do.
Well, we agree to disagree on Walmark. 😉 That is given his role as a third or forth-line center, not as a top 6 forward. Even that one pass was worth it and he was 15 for 17 in the faceoff circle. Faceoffs do not necessarily lead to wins, we know that after having a team that has consistently ranked high in faceoff percentage for years without even making it to the end-of-season dance, but it helps keep the puck in the O zone.
If Ferland can be resigned for 3 to 3.5M per for 2 to 4 years (no more than 4) I think it’s a good deal, any more than that is overpaying (jeez, here I am again talking offseason).
If we forget the first goal of game one, Mrazek has been pretty good, at times spectacular, but I think bit Mac deserves a chance to play tomorrow.
The Canes are not Caps good, it’s nobody’s fault, they’re one of the youngest teams in the league (the youngest in the playoffs) against seasoned veterans (Caps won the president’s trophy for years but always faltered in the playoffs, Ovechkin knows it and is not holding anything back knowing that his chances for a cup are numbered).
The Caps are just a freakin good team and despite questionable performances from some of our guys, the Canes have been there with them until the end both times. Win tomorrow, and anything is possible.
haunski on April 14, 2019 at 11:58 pm
I respectfully disagree with Ferland. Canes need him and his style of physical play. We have too many young talented players that would get picked off without him. His numbers may have fallen off the second half of the season but he is a presence every night. This isn’t the same team without him. Come to mention i have been more disappointed in McGinn then anyone else through the first 2 playoff games then a bad call and an early Ferland exit. I hope we resign him. Aho, Terravienan, Svechnikov, Wallmark, Fluery, Slavin, Pesce all have a big bullseye on their backs with guys like Wilson roaming around. If it cost more come summer to protect out assets then fine but for the love of god stop trading hypothetical points from future stars for the physicality and clean old school hockey guys like Ferland provide. Ask Tampa Bay and Pittsburg how all those regular season scoring numbers are working out against smash mouth teams in the first round. And for the record its been a while since ive seen someone as physical as Ferland have the potential offensive upside and hands that he does. He gets a pass from this caniac
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The majority of studies seem to be done on types of people who are NOT buying nootropics. Like the elderly, people with blatant cognitive deficits, etc. This is analogous to some of the muscle-building research but more extreme. Like there are studies on some compound increasing muscle growth in elderly patients or patients with wasting, and supplement companies use some of those studies to back their supplements.
Vinpocetine walks a line between herbal and pharmaceutical product. It’s a synthetic derivative of a chemical from the periwinkle plant, and due to its synthetic nature we feel it’s more appropriate as a ‘smart drug’. Plus, it’s illegal in the UK. Vinpocetine is purported to improve cognitive function by improving blood flow to the brain, which is why it's used in some 'study drugs' or 'smart pills'.
A randomized non-blind self-experiment of LLLT 2014-2015 yields a causal effect which is several times smaller than a correlative analysis and non-statistically-significant/very weak Bayesian evidence for a positive effect. This suggests that the earlier result had been driven primarily by reverse causation, and that my LLLT usage has little or no benefits.
Much better than I had expected. One of the best superhero movies so far, better than Thor or Watchmen (and especially better than the Iron Man movies). I especially appreciated how it didn’t launch right into the usual hackneyed creation of the hero plot-line but made Captain America cool his heels performing & selling war bonds for 10 or 20 minutes. The ending left me a little nonplussed, although I sort of knew it was envisioned as a franchise and I would have to admit that showing Captain America wondering at Times Square is much better an ending than something as cliche as a close-up of his suddenly-opened eyes and then a fade out. (The movie continued the lamentable trend in superhero movies of having a strong female love interest… who only gets the hots for the hero after they get muscles or powers. It was particularly bad in CA because she knows him and his heart of gold beforehand! What is the point of a feminist character who is immediately forced to do that?)↩
In contrast to the types of memory discussed in the previous section, which are long-lasting and formed as a result of learning, working memory is a temporary store of information. Working memory has been studied extensively by cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists because of its role in executive function. It has been likened to an internal scratch pad; by holding information in working memory, one keeps it available to consult and manipulate in the service of performing tasks as diverse as parsing a sentence and planning a route through the environment. Presumably for this reason, working memory ability correlates with measures of general intelligence (Friedman et al., 2006). The possibility of enhancing working memory ability is therefore of potential real-world interest.
Taking the tryptophan is fairly difficult. The powder as supplied by Bulk Nutrition is extraordinarily dry and fine; it seems to be positively hydrophobic. The first time I tried to swallow a teaspoon, I nearly coughed it out - the power had seemed to explode in my mouth and go down my lungs. Thenceforth I made sure to have a mouth of water first. After a while, I took a different tack: I mixed in as much Hericium as would fit in the container. The mushroom powder is wetter and chunkier than the tryptophan, and seems to reduce the problem. Combining the mix with chunks of melatonin inside a pill works even better.
As already mentioned, AMPs and MPH are classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Schedule II substances, which means that buying or selling them is a felony offense. This raises the question of how the drugs are obtained by students for nonmedical use. Several studies addressed this question and yielded reasonably consistent answers.
A fundamental aspect of human evolution has been the drive to augment our capabilities. The neocortex is the neural seat of abstract and higher order cognitive processes. As it grew, so did our ability to create. The invention of tools and weapons, writing, the steam engine, and the computer have exponentially increased our capacity to influence and understand the world around us. These advances are being driven by improved higher-order cognitive processing.1Fascinatingly, the practice of modulating our biology through naturally occurring flora predated all of the above discoveries. Indeed, Sumerian clay slabs as old as 5000 BC detail medicinal recipes which include over 250 plants2. The enhancement of human cognition through natural compounds followed, as people discovered plants containing caffeine, theanine, and other cognition-enhancing, or nootropic, agents.
The term “smart pills” refers to miniature electronic devices that are shaped and designed in the mold of pharmaceutical capsules but perform highly advanced functions such as sensing, imaging and drug delivery. They may include biosensors or image, pH or chemical sensors. Once they are swallowed, they travel along the gastrointestinal tract to capture information that is otherwise difficult to obtain, and then are easily eliminated from the system. Their classification as ingestible sensors makes them distinct from implantable or wearable sensors.
Hall, Irwin, Bowman, Frankenberger, & Jewett (2005) Large public university undergraduates (N = 379) 13.7% (lifetime) 27%: use during finals week; 12%: use when party; 15.4%: use before tests; 14%: believe stimulants have a positive effect on academic achievement in the long run M = 2.06 (SD = 1.19) purchased stimulants from other students; M = 2.81 (SD = 1.40) have been given stimulants by other studentsb
…The first time I took supplemental potassium (50% US RDA in a lot of water), it was like a brain fog lifted that I never knew I had, and I felt profoundly energized in a way that made me feel exercise was reasonable and prudent, which resulted in me and the roommate that had just supplemented potassium going for an hour long walk at 2AM. Experiences since then have not been quite so profound (which probably was so stark for me as I was likely fixing an acute deficiency), but I can still count on a moderately large amount of potassium to give me a solid, nearly side effect free performance boost for a few hours…I had been doing Bikram yoga on and off, and I think I wasn’t keeping up the practice because I wasn’t able to properly rehydrate myself.
Unfortunately, cognitive enhancement falls between the stools of research funding, which makes it unlikely that such research programs will be carried out. Disease-oriented funders will, by definition, not support research on normal healthy individuals. The topic intersects with drug abuse research only in the assessment of risk, leaving out the study of potential benefits, as well as the comparative benefits of other enhancement methods. As a fundamentally applied research question, it will not qualify for support by funders of basic science. The pharmaceutical industry would be expected to support such research only if cognitive enhancement were to be considered a legitimate indication by the FDA, which we hope would happen only after considerably more research has illuminated its risks, benefits, and societal impact. Even then, industry would have little incentive to delve into all of the issues raised here, including the comparison of drug effects to nonpharmaceutical means of enhancing cognition.
Barbaresi WJ, Katusic SK, Colligan RC, Weaver AL, Jacobsen SJ. Modifiers of long-term school outcomes for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Does treatment with stimulant medication make a difference? Results from a population-based study. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2007;28:274–287. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e3180cabc28. [PubMed] [CrossRef]
Another classic approach to the assessment of working memory is the span task, in which a series of items is presented to the subject for repetition, transcription, or recognition. The longest series that can be reproduced accurately is called the forward span and is a measure of working memory capacity. The ability to reproduce the series in reverse order is tested in backward span tasks and is a more stringent test of working memory capacity and perhaps other working memory functions as well. The digit span task from the Wechsler (1981) IQ test was used in four studies of stimulant effects on working memory. One study showed that d-AMP increased digit span (de Wit et al., 2002), and three found no effects of d-AMP or MPH (Oken, Kishiyama, & Salinsky, 1995; Schmedtje, Oman, Letz, & Baker, 1988; Silber, Croft, Papafotiou, & Stough, 2006). A spatial span task, in which subjects must retain and reproduce the order in which boxes in a scattered spatial arrangement change color, was used by Elliott et al. (1997) to assess the effects of MPH on working memory. For subjects in the group receiving placebo first, MPH increased spatial span. However, for the subjects who received MPH first, there was a nonsignificant opposite trend. The group difference in drug effect is not easily explained. The authors noted that the subjects in the first group performed at an overall lower level, and so, this may be another manifestation of the trend for a larger enhancement effect for less able subjects.
No. There are mission essential jobs that require you to live on base sometimes. Or a first term person that is required to live on base. Or if you have proven to not be as responsible with rent off base as you should be so your commander requires you to live on base. Or you’re at an installation that requires you to live on base during your stay. Or the only affordable housing off base puts you an hour away from where you work. It isn’t simple. The fact that you think it is tells me you are one of the “dumb@$$es” you are referring to above.
“Cavin has done an amazing job in all aspects of his life. Overcoming the horrific life threatening accident, and then going on to do whatever he can to help others with his contagious wonderful attitude. This book is an easy to understand fact filled manual for anyone, but especially those who are or are caregivers for a loved one with tbi. I also highly recommend his podcast series.”
Recent developments include biosensor-equipped smart pills that sense the appropriate environment and location to release pharmacological agents. Medimetrics (Eindhoven, Netherlands) has developed a pill called IntelliCap with drug reservoir, pH and temperature sensors that release drugs to a defined region of the gastrointestinal tract. This device is CE marked and is in early stages of clinical trials for FDA approval. Recently, Google announced its intent to invest and innovate in this space.
It is known that American college students have embraced cognitive enhancement, and some information exists about the demographics of the students most likely to practice cognitive enhancement with prescription stimulants. Outside of this narrow segment of the population, very little is known. What happens when students graduate and enter the world of work? Do they continue using prescription stimulants for cognitive enhancement in their first jobs and beyond? How might the answer to this question depend on occupation? For those who stay on campus to pursue graduate or professional education, what happens to patterns of use? To what extent do college graduates who did not use stimulants as students begin to use them for cognitive enhancement later in their careers? To what extent do workers without college degrees use stimulants to enhance job performance? How do the answers to these questions differ for countries outside of North America, where the studies of Table 1 were carried out?
2 commenters point out that my possible lack of result is due to my mistaken assumption that if nicotine is absorbable through skin, mouth, and lungs it ought to be perfectly fine to absorb it through my stomach by drinking it (rather than vaporizing it and breathing it with an e-cigarette machine) - it’s apparently known that absorption differs in the stomach.
Past noon, I began to feel better, but since I would be driving to errands around 4 PM, I decided to not risk it and take an hour-long nap, which went well, as did the driving. The evening was normal enough that I forgot I had stayed up the previous night, and indeed, I didn’t much feel like going to bed until past midnight. I then slept well, the Zeo giving me a 108 ZQ (not an all-time record, but still unusual).
Capsule Connection sells 1000 00 pills (the largest pills) for $9. I already have a pill machine, so that doesn’t count (a sunk cost). If we sum the grams per day column from the first table, we get 9.75 grams a day. Each 00 pill can take around 0.75 grams, so we need 13 pills. (Creatine is very bulky, alas.) 13 pills per day for 1000 days is 13,000 pills, and 1,000 pills is $9 so we need 13 units and 13 times 9 is $117.
Some of the newest substances being used as ‘smart drugs’ are medically prescribed for other conditions. For example, methylphenidate, commonly known as Ritalin, is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). So is Adderall, a combination drug containing two forms of amphetamine. These are among a suite of pharmaceuticals now being used by healthy people, particularly university students, to enhance their capabilities for learning or working.
This calculation - reaping only \frac{7}{9} of the naive expectation - gives one pause. How serious is the sleep rebound? In another article, I point to a mice study that sleep deficits can take 28 days to repay. What if the gain from modafinil is entirely wiped out by repayment and all it did was defer sleep? Would that render modafinil a waste of money? Perhaps. Thinking on it, I believe deferring sleep is of some value, but I cannot decide whether it is a net profit.
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