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Robert is an Ecologist with the company and has over ten years' experience with bats, carrying out roost surveys, emergence surveys, radio tracking of lesser horseshoes and monitoring of important sites.
Robert has considerable expertise in analysing bat calls recorded the field and identifying the species from the resultant sonograms and holds a NRW licence to disturb all species of bat.
He has also supervised numerous projects as an Ecological Clerk of Works, including the demolition of bat roosts and provision of mitigation measures.
Robert is also very experienced with respect to dormice, a species he has been working with for over fifteen years and holds an NRW licence to work with the species.
He has been monitoring several populations of the species in south and mid-Wales for many years.
In addition, Robert has assisted with great crested newt surveys, otter and water vole surveys, nesting bird surveys and the translocation of slow-worms and other reptile and amphibian species.
Rob's discovery of a barbastelle bat roosting in a barn was only the third record for this species in Brecknock VC42. It is unusual for this rare bat to be found in a barn, as most records will be for tree or cave sites. In June 2011, Rob made this extraordinary find!
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Sep 16 Black Female Athlete... White Tennis... Racism and Sexism is Still Alive
bias, race, Tennis, Serena Williams
By now, if you have not been living in a cave or on a cruise you know about the situation that occurred with Serena Williams at the US Open and the conversation/controversy surrounding it. I am not going to get into the weeds of “was the correct to do it or not”. What I will speak to is the conversation surrounding identity and how some people are trying to remove gender and race from the conversation. Not only do they want to remove it, they want to make the argument that the reaction from Serena is a stand alone incident that has no bias attached to it. Not only is that foolish, but we cannot allow that to happen. The oppression and “isms” women, people of color, and women of color have had to and currently deal with will never make a situation equal to that of a white man- even if those identities are taking out of the conversation because ignoring them doesn’t change that they occur. When researching a topic, many times researchers will talk about factors being controlled which could be income, age, or education level. None of the “isms” cannot be controlled for, and what I mean but the “isms” I mean racism, sexism, ableism, and etc. Those can’t be controlled for because the negative affects of the “isms” on groups with marginalized identities and the privileges gained by those of the dominate groups can never fully be known. Yes, we have data proving the “isms” exist, but we can’t truly know the full effect because the “isms” have been overtly and covertly forced into all of us throughout our lifetimes.
The reality is that all groups are viewed by others and by society through a socialized lens, and it doesn’t matter where they were born, where they grew up, what language they speak, or how diverse your family/friends are. This lens has been formed both consciously and unconsciously by society, and everyone is included in that society regardless of if they want to be or not. This socialization started from when a baby was in the womb and the immediate questions of what gender they were going to be and therefore how they were going to be treated. The process of socialization sped up once race and ethnicity became apparent when light skin or light eyes was more favorable that the opposite. Parents would hope their children did not darken and would sometimes. We are always viewing people and society through a socialized lens regardless of if we want it to or not and if we think we have it or not. This lens affects decisions which will include those made by officials like chair umpire. This lens might tell a chair official that there is a difference between how a male tennis player and woman tennis player act because of that the consequences must in turn be different. It might unconsciously tell a chair umpire or any referee that women cannot be as “aggressive”, “angry”, or “upset” let men get. As Boler (2004) stated, power inequities institutionalized through economics, gender roles, social class, and corporate-owned media ensure that all voices do not carry the same weight. Within Western democracies, different voices pay different prices for the words they choose to utter. SIMILARLY , NOT ALL EXPRESSIONS OF HOSTILITY ARE EQUAL. SOME HOSTILE VOICES ARE PENALIZED WHILE OTHERS ARE TOLERATED. (p.3) This is what we are currently seeing with the Serena Williams controversy.
Sexism within tennis is real and If we take a look at past actions by male tennis players and their meltdowns we will see Andy Murray kick a ball at an umpire’s head and receive no consequence, Jimmy Connors go on a tirade with little to no consequences, or the normal craziness of John McEnroe which were met with humor and tolerance. Lastly, let’s not forget the measly $7,000 fine that Denis Shapovalov received for hitting a ball at an umpire which would then require EYE SURGERY. $7,000 for injuring an umpire and Serena received a fine total of $17,000. These tirades are consistently had by men and accepted by the world. As the twin sisters Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando stated “You can argue that [Williams] should or should not have better kept her composure, but that isn’t the real issue at hand – it’s whether a man would have received the same treatment,” Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson told Know Your Value. “There’s a perception that women need to behave. Yet in, say, baseball, you see guys quite literally screaming in an umpire’s face – it takes a lot for them to get ejected. If you saw that from any woman athlete in any sport it would be considered unacceptable.”
Tennis is a white sport. It has been a white sport since it started and no amount of people of color playing will change it. No amount of winning by a person of color will change it. Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon and US Open in 1957 but that was disregarded because she was still a black girl from what they considered the “hood”. Color mattered. It matter then and it matters now. It matters in that Whelan (2105) explains that In the 91 years since the four Majors were instigated, only two Black male players have won a Grand Slam and one Asian male player: America's Arthur Ashe (who won one Wimbledon, one Australian and one US Open over seven years), France's Yannick Noah (who won the French in 1983) and America's Michael Chang (the French, 1989). That's a total of five Slams out of the 364 that have been contested since 1924, the inaugural year of the four Majors, or 1.37%. Statistically, it's more likely you'll get into Harvard School of Law than see a male Black or Asian player win a Slam in your lifetime.
Mark Knight
In regards to women, you will see a better percentage but that is due, “… mostly to the presence of potential greatest-of-all-time Serena Williams and her elder sister, Venus, who have spent the past 20 years collecting 113 singles titles between them. China's Li Na won the French Open in 2011 and the Australian in 2014.” (Whelan, 2015) But the winning doesn’t stop the harassment of being told by a fan he wishes he could skin Serena alive, the president of the Russian Tennis Federation calling her and her sister the Williams brothers, or last but not least, Martina Hingis stating that “being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black." These are a few incidents of harassment, but sexist and racist that Serena and Venus have had to deal with while being playing tennis. If you want to go a little more in-depth on the consistent harassment Serena has dealt with read up on Brooke Newman’s article “The Long History on the Racist Attacks on Serena Williams”.
Race is prevalent within tennis as much as they say they don’t see race. They do not want to admit they see it, that it is imbedded within their culture, their policies, their clothing, they fans, and their treatment of Serena Williams. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2003) explains that the tendency to dismiss these claims and to blame black citizens for whatever “race” problems exist in society, argued explained that blacks are denounced “for ‘playing the race card’ . . . and for crying ‘racism’ whenever they are criticized by whites” (p. 1; see also Kotkin, 1994). Because ideologies of color blindness presume equity and fairness by denouncing the significance of “race,” individuals are blamed for their own misfortunes, thereby disregarding historical and systematic processes of discrimination. Such viewpoints, as demonstrated by the comments of Hingis and Navratilova, may fail to acknowledge significant issues in women’s professional tennis.
And this is what we are seeing with this situation. It is the “yes, but” conversation. I know she has dealt with racism, I know she has dealt with sexism, but… it is her fault, she shouldn’t have yelled, she isn’t a man, and on and on and on without mentioning how big of an influence race and sexism can be due to unconscious bias. Biases are not things many like to acknowledge consciously, no one wants to admit biases, prejudices, or stereotypes. If you tell people that biases are a blind spot or something they need to work on, you are met with immediately defensiveness and a laundry list of not only why they do not have biases, but all the things they have done for women or people of color. This to me is akin to the “I have black friends” comment to show that whatever you may be thinking about them is not true because of how many people of color are in their proximity.
Serena does not have to be the epitome of calmness, kindness, and sportsmanship. She already has the extreme pressure of being a black woman in a white sport, consistent drug testing that no other tennis player seems to face or the policing of her body by the banning of the catsuit which she wore for health reasons which the president of the French Tennis Association stated, “I think that sometimes we've gone too far," Giudicelli said, according to The Associated Press. He specifically mentioned Williams' outfit and declared: "It will no longer be accepted. One must respect the game and the place.". Those health reasons were blood clots after giving birth to her daughter and getting a terrible medical issue that almost killed her as it kills many black women. Black moms are dying at terribly high rates as written about in “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis” and “Maternal Mortality and the Devaluation of Black Motherhood”. These are just two examples of a situation that is killing black mothers yet many do not think race is a factor and if you ask those within the medical field, they will say that they do not treat patients differently or that they have no biases, yet the data doesn’t lie, and in “Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why”, Nina Martin explains that a black woman is 22 percent more likely to die from heart disease than a white woman, 71 percent more likely to perish from cervical cancer, but 243 percent more likely to die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes. In a national study of five medical complications that are common causes of maternal death and injury, black women were two to three times more likely to die than white women who had the same condition.
This is all to say that race matters, gender matters, race matters, gender matters. We cannot have conversations on controversies within tennis or any other sports and take away gender and race because the oppressions and affects of the “isms” or biases are all too real. As Boler stated above, power inequities institutionalized through economics, gender roles, social class, and corporate-owned media ensure that all voices do not carry the same weight. Within Western democracies, different voices pay different prices for the words they choose to utter. We have to accept that if we want all voices to carry the same weight. Ignoring the differences will not only allow oppression and the “isms” to continue, they will allow them to flourish under the guise of “if she didn’t do x then y wouldn’t have happened”. Let’s be better than that, its time to start acknowledging the “isms” not only occurring within Tennis, but are occurring within the world. Just because you do not want to acknowledge the voices of those who are living with those experiences does not mean they cease to exist, instead they become more rampant because silence equals complicit.
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Roman alphabet facts for kids
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Dark green: Countries using only the Latin alphabet
Light green Countries with more than one alphabet officially
The Duenos inscription from the 6th century BC. It shows the earliest known Old Latin alphabet
The Roman or Latin alphabet is the alphabet used to write many modern-day languages. It is the most used alphabet and writing system in the world today. It is the official script for nearly all the languages of Western Europe, and of some Eastern Europe languages. It is also used by some non-European languages such as Turkish, Vietnamese, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, Swahili, and Tagalog. It is an alternative writing system for languages such as Hindi, Urdu, and Somali.
The alphabet is a writing system which evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet. It was the Etruscans who first developed it after borrowing the Greek alphabet, and the Romans developed it further. The sounds of some letters changed, some letters were lost and gained, and several writing styles ('hands') developed. Two such styles were combined into one script with upper and lower case letters ('capitals' and 'small letters'). Modern capital letters differ only slightly from their Roman counterparts. There are few regional variations.
Letters of the alphabet
Original Latin alphabet
New alphabet
The Latin alphabet used by the Romans:
Symbol A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z
Latin name of letter: ā bē kē dē ē ef gē hā ī kā el em en ō pē qū er es tē ū ex ī Graeca zēta
Latin name (IPA): [aː] [beː] [keː] [deː] [eː] [ɛf] [geː] [haː] [iː] [kaː] [ɛl] [ɛm] [ɛn] [oː] [peː] [kuː] [ɛr] [ɛs] [teː] [uː] [ɛks] [iː 'graɪka] ['zeːta]
The modern version of the alphabet is used for writing many languages. Indo-European languages, especially those of Western Europe, are mostly written with the Latin alphabet. These languages include the Germanic languages (which includes English, German, Swedish, and others) and the Romance languages (which includes French, Spanish, Italian, and others). There are of course Indo-European languages that do not use the Latin alphabet, like Greek and Russian, as well as non-Indo-European languages that do, like Vietnamese.
Nearly all languages using the Roman alphabet include diacritics, which are symbols found above or below the letters, for things such as tones (English is the only major language that does not have any of these marks, at least not for native words). The basic alphabet uses the following letters:
Uppercase A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Lowercase a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Sign in Portuguese, which uses ç
Some languages have different characters based on this alphabet. A few are: ă, â, á, é, í, î, ó, ẹ, ị, ọ, ụ, ã, ả, ẻ, ỉ, ỏ, ủ, ñ, č, ď, ě, í, ň, ř, š, ș, ť, ț, ú, ů, ž and đ. Some languages that use these characters are Esperanto, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Igbo.
Many languages changed their writing systems to the Latin alphabet. In many countries, European settlers have made native people use it. When the Soviet Union broke up, some of its smaller languages began using the Latin alphabet. After World War II, many Turkic language countries changed their original alphabets (Arab, Persian or Cyrillic) to Latin. The Latin Alphabet in Turkish countries started to be used by Kemal Atatürk in Turkey. It is now used in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan.
Romanization of Japanese
De chalcographiae inventione (1541, Mainz) with the 23 letters. W, U and J are missing.
Jeton from Nuremberg, ca. 1553
Roman alphabet Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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Nirvana (band) facts for kids
Nirvana band members Krist Novoselic (left) and Kurt Cobain performing at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
Aberdeen, Washington, United States
Alternative rock, grunge
Sub Pop, DGC
Fecal Matter, Foo Fighters
Krist Novoselic
Aaron Burckhard
Dale Crover
Dave Foster
Chad Channing
Jason Everman
Nirvana was an American alternative rock band. They were one of the most successful and influential bands of that time. Since they formed, they have sold over 75 million records all over the world. They played a style of rock music known as grunge, which was highly influenced by 1980s alternative rock, 1970s punk, and heavy metal. Grunge became more commercially successful than the previous punk rock, as promoted to the world by Sub Pop Records. Nirvana greatly affected the style of other grunge bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains. They split up after their lead singer Kurt Cobain died in 1994. On April 10, 2014, Nirvana received a star in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
After the band
Nirvana started in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987 when singer Kurt Cobain and the bassist Krist Novoselic met and decided to form a band. The band had 5 different drummers until they found Dave Grohl. They released their first studio album, Bleach, in 1989, with Chad Channing playing drums.
Their second album, Nevermind, released in 1991, was a massive success. Many people bought it, and it had the top spot on many music charts. It featured the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" which was also a very big hit. In February 1992 Kurt married rock singer Courtney Love.
Cobain was found dead in his home on April 8, 1994 by an electrician.
Nirvana has released more compilation albums than regular, or studio, albums.
After Nirvana broke up, Dave Grohl started a new band called Foo Fighters. Krist Novoselic became interested in politics and also kept making music. He was the bassist for Flipper, which Kurt Cobain was a fan of, but recently left the band.
In Utero (1993)
Incesticide (1992)
MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996)
Nirvana (2002)
With the Lights Out (2004)
Sliver: The Best of the Box (2005)
Live At Reading (2009)
Dave Grohl performing in 1991
Announcement from the band encouraging people to participate in the making of the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Krist Novoselic performing in 2011
Cobain's house in Seattle where he died in April 1994
Touring guitarist, former Germs member, and Foo Fighters member Pat Smear has performed with the surviving members of Nirvana several times in the 2010s.
Sign erected in 2005 in Cobain's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington in tribute to him. It was paid for by the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee and is a reference to the Nirvana song "Come as You Are".
Nirvana (band) Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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When the Mu Residence received the call from Xi Xiaye and knew that they were coming back home, Wang Hui was overjoyed, especially when she heard Xi Xiaye say Mu Yuchen was going to cook. A wide smile appeared on her face.
Naturally, Wang Hui knew Mu Yuchen’s personality. He was quiet even at home and had always used a distant tone when talking to them. Therefore, of course, she would be thrilled when Xi Xiaye told her he would be cooking for the whole family.
She quickly asked the chauffeur to get ready after she hung up on the call. She wanted to get the ingredients herself. Rousing Mu Yinan up, the two of them went out together.
They even called Mu Tangchuan and Zhuang Shurong, informing them to head back earlier tonight.
On the way towards a supermarket near the Mu Residence, the old couple got down from the car halfway. Wang Hui noticed that the weather was pretty great, so she wanted to take a stroll. Mu Yinan went with her.
They walked side by side under the warm sun.
“Hey, don’t you think there’re some huge changes happening to Chen Er lately? I heard from Lingshi that his mood is much better than before now. At least he smiles from time to time, so I guess he has finally let it go,” Wang Hui suddenly said quietly as they were strolling. There was some disappointment in her voice. “I hope the kids can really get past it. Look at Ah Mo and Lingshi. I’m so worried about them!”
“Let the children work out their issues. Do you think they’ll listen to your nagging? They can solve their own problems. I’ve never even seen you worrying about me.”
Mu Yinan stared at her and said, “I think we’re getting really old and we don’t know how the kids think. In their words, our thoughts are outdated. There’s just too much of a barrier between us, right?”
“Think about it. Times were much simpler back then. I like you, you like me, then I ask for an engagement, and that’s it. We get used to things after going through it after a while. Who cares that much about love?”
He glanced at his old wife and she shot him a cold stare. “I’m going to make this clear. I only married you because you seemed okay. You swore that you’d love me with all your life! What’s this barrier now? I don’t think we have any issues communicating with our children. I know perfectly what they are thinking about.”
“Nonsense! How could I have said something like that? You were dreaming, weren’t you?”
Mu Yinan was not going to admit it, but he blushed a little. “However, don’t you think Xiaye is really a superb granddaughter-in-law? I’ve been keeping an eye on her when you mentioned that she’s the granddaughter of an old comrade of yours. Luckily, she didn’t let us down. I knew all along that she’d be great!”
“Sure, sure whatever. If it weren’t for you, there wouldn’t have been so many issues in this family. Remember that you caused the problem with the Gu family, and Ah Rong almost went against yo. Don’t you cause any trouble again. If Chen Er hadn’t been there for you, we’d have been done for!”
Wang Hui sighed, “Now, I’m just worried about Ah Mo and Lingshi. Just when can they let go of the past?”
“About Ah Shi, it’s going to be difficult for her to overcome Lingtian’s incident…”
Mu Yinan’s gray eyebrows frowned as an indescribable gloom appeared in his eyes. Just as he was about to say something, Wang Hui stopped him. “Let’s not talk about these things anymore. Let’s go!”
Mu Yinan halted his steps. He raised his head and as expected, he saw Wang Hui’s clouded expression, he felt heartache and a terrible feeling welled up inside him.
It was evening and the sun was hanging on the west side of the sky. The whole city was brightened by the warm light, and everything was peaceful along with the evening breeze.
A car was driving towards the Mu Residence. When they arrived home, Wang Hui had already ordered the servants to get the ingredients prepared. They were just waiting for them to show off their skills.
Xi Xiaye was washing her hands when she saw Wang Hui still in the kitchen. She gently pushed her out as she nagged, “Grandmother, go relax with Grandfather. I’ll help Ah Chen out here.”
“I can help out too. Are you guys really okay? There are so many dishes!” Wang Hui sounded worried.
“Don’t worry and leave it to us. He does it most of the time at Maple Residence. It’s still pretty early. You can go have some tea or play chess with Grandfather.”
After she finally sent Wang Hui out, she turned around and saw the man was already preparing the steaks. Xi Xiaye watched quietly beside him and noticed that it was quite a pleasant scene to look upon.
The man turned around and looked at her as he spoke quietly, “What are you looking at? Do I have flowers growing out of my head? Get me two plates.”
With a smile, she said, “Actually, I think you’re much more attractive than flowers, Mr. Mu. You’re a good househusband.”
“You only realize that now? You’ve eaten so many of my meals before up until now. This is really tough for me.”
Mu Yuchen squinted his eyes at her before going back to cooking.
“I just don’t want to compliment you too much. By the way, as I predicted, the music fountain and outdoor lighting decorations for the South River project have been handed over to Qi Kai, what should we do? We probably have to deal with them in the future.”
Xi Xiaye was suddenly reminded of what happened this afternoon when talking to the government personnel.
“What else can we do? They should be the ones who are worried, not us. They’ll need us to verify their work after their done. Don’t you think they should be the ones who are anxious?”
He was pretty calm, but she…
“Don’t you think Qi Lei is really weird? He looks like he’s hiding a lot. I don’t like to deal with people like him.” She grabbed two plates from the cupboard when she spoke, handing them over.
“There’s me to watch over it, isn’t there? What can he do anyway? If you don’t like him, just don’t get involved with him then. Let your subordinates do it.”
“You act like it’s none of your business. I’m the one worrying here…” She stared at him.
“Just be yourself and face any changes as they come. Don’t panic. There will always be a solution to every problem. You strain yourself too much, and in the end, you’ll be the only one who suffers.”
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Everyone Loves Dolly Parton’s Music — Except Her Husband!
Everyone knows that everyone loves Dolly Parton. Still, however lovable the country icon herself might be, there is at least one person out there who isn't too fond of her music. And who that person is just might surprise you!
Parton admits that it's her nearest and dearest—namely, her husband of almost 53 years, Carl Thomas Dean—who isn't all that jazzed on her tunes. "He's not necessarily my biggest fan," she told Good Morning Britain Monday (Feb, 18) while there to discuss the West End premiere of 9 To 5: The Musical.
Parton explained Dean's tastes run more to hard rock (she cites Led Zeppelin as an example) and bluegrass, and that he doesn't particularly like to watch her play live. Nor does he listen to her tunes. While she noted that he doesn't outright dislike her material, "He doesn't go out of his way to play my records," she confirmed.
However, that doesn't mean he isn't a big supporter of his wife. “He’s proud of me. And he loves that I love what I do," the singer said. “I’m like his little girl, I think. He just worries about that.”
The couple (he's 76, she's 73) will celebrate their anniversary in May, and Parton assures fans they are as tight as ever. Her secrets for a long-lasting relationship? “We like each other, we respect each other, we’ve always had a good time. He’s crazy and I’m crazy,” she told the outlet. “We laugh a lot and I think that’s been one of the most precious parts of our relationship.”
Parton was named the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year, and a number of stars crossing multiple genres celebrated her life's work at the 2019 Grammy Awards with a series of musical tributes.
See Dolly Parton Pictures from the Grammy Red Carpet
Source: Everyone Loves Dolly Parton’s Music — Except Her Husband!
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Virginia's Ty Jerome, center, and Kyle Guy, right, celebrate after defeating Texas Tech 85-77 in the overtime in the championship of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Monday, April 8, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Title trophy in hand, Virginia has look of perennial power
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kyle Guy had every reason to look toward next season the moment last season ended, a stunning and humiliating loss to UMBC in the NCAA Tournament forcing him into what he called "a dark place." Instead, the junior guard ruminated over the loss for weeks. Guy might want to dwell...
Virginia's Kyle Guy (5) and his teammates celebrate after defeating Texas Tech 85-77 in the overtime in the championship of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Monday, April 8, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Comeback! Cavs get their title, 85-77 in OT over Texas Tech
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Now that, Virginia, is the way to close out a season. And quiet those critics, too. Led by De'Andre Hunter and his NBA-ready game, the Cavaliers turned themselves into national champions Monday night, holding off tenacious, ferocious Texas Tech for an 85-77 overtime win — a...
Texas Tech's Jarrett Culver (23) and Brandone Francis react after the team's 85-77 loss to Virginia in the overtime in the championship of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Monday, April 8, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jarrett Culver walked slowly around the perimeter as the final buzzer sounded, in a bit of a daze as he tugged his jersey to his chin. Texas Tech's sophomore star looked as if he were surveying the scene of his struggles. Culver missed 17 of his 22 attempts from the floor,...
New Virginia Tech men's NCAA college basketball head coach Mike Young speaks at an introductory press conference in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 8, 2019. (Michael Shroyer/The Roanoke Times via AP)
Mike Young says coaching Virginia Tech 'dream come true'
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Mike Young looked around Virginia Tech's Cassell Coliseum and said he's "so thrilled to be home." "My love for ball originated in this building many years ago," Young said Monday at a news conference introducing him as Virginia Tech's new basketball coach. Rattling off a list...
Vanderbilt basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse answers questions at a news conference Monday, April 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Stackhouse was hired to replace Bryce Drew as head. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Stackhouse says relationship, opportunity drew him to Vandy
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20th-Century Sculpture
20th-Century Sculpture – Assignment Example
The paper "20th-Century Sculpture" is a wonderful example of an assignment on performing arts. Andy Warhol´s 1962 painting, “One Hundred Cans,” is a prime example of Warhol´s pop art style, in which he portrayed common items ranging from celebrities to soup cans, easily recognized by an average American citizen. “One Hundred Cans,” is a colorful burst of 100 Campbell Soup cans, of varying flavors, in rows and columns that occupy the entire canvas. While I´m not sure that I´d like to hang this painting on my wall, I do like it. It is cheery and even silly and, for me, evokes images as diverse as a supermarket isle to my grandma preparing my favorite lunch of grilled-cheese and tomato soup. While the painting alone leaves the viewer guessing about why Warhol would choose a soup-can motif, when placed in a series with Warhol´s other soup-can paintings that followed, it inspires different ideas about what the painter might have been trying to communicate. For example, his later painting, “Small Torn Campbell’s Soup Can (Pepper Pot),” depicts a dented can with its label torn and falling off. This can is quite out of place when compared to the perfect, mass-produced rows of cheery cans in “One Hundred Cans.” When viewed together, I guess that Warhol was making strong social commentary about the flaws in American capitalism. Another soup can be painting, “Crushed Campbells Soup Can (Beef Noodle),” in which Warhol gives the can the form of a purse, also leads me to believe that he was commenting on the forces of commercialism in American society, in which even a crushed soup-can might be transformed and sold again as a purse. I see a great deal of similarity between Warhol´s style and that of his Pop Art contemporaries. Warhol and his contemporaries are similar in their bright colors, simple presentation, and a humorous, ironic and over-dramatized portrayal of popular objects. I will compare the minimalist work by Carl Andre entitled “Lever,” and Anish Kapoor´s post-minimalist “Cloud Gate.” Both works are simple sculptures, made of a single material, but with very different forms. “Lever,” is a long, 400-foot row of fire bricks, while “Cloud Gate” is a 50-foot tall rounded, metal, bean-shaped sculpture. “Lever,” due to its medium, does not reflect light or images. “Cloud Gate,” on the other hand, being made of a shiny, metal medium, changes its appearance depending on the light around it. “Cloud Gate,” which is prominently displayed in Chicago´s, Millenniums Park, allows passer-by´s to view themselves and their surroundings in warped, distorted shapes, due to the rounded form of the metal, which acts as a mirror. What the two sculptures have in common is that they afford physical interaction in space with viewers. In both cases, given their large sizes, viewers can walk around and, in the case of “Cloud Gate,” under and inside, the sculptures to view them from varying angles.
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William Fitzgerald (Ph.D., MIT-Woods Hole)
Professor of Marine Sciences, emeritus william.fitzgerald@uconn.edu Phone: 860-405-9158 Fax: 860-405-9153
William F. Fitzgerald
My interests are in atmospheric and marine chemistry with particular emphasis on global biogeochemical cycles of trace metals, and the environmental impact resulting from metal emissions associated with human endeavors. My current and long-term research activities are focused on mercury in the environment, where the three- phase nature of mercury’s biogeochemical interactions and cycling offers a substantial investigative challenge. Anthropogenically related mercury emissions and discharges are a major concern, especially as to their influence on the bioaccumulation of monomethylmercury in biota (e.g., fish for human consumption) in open ocean and terrestrial systems. The Mercury (Hg) Laboratory was developed 30 years ago and has been recognized nationally and internationally for pioneering efforts concerned with the complex and ultra-trace cycling of Hg in the environment. We have developed much of the state-of-the-art ultra-trace collection and analytical procedures that are currently in world-wide use for studies of Hg in the environment. In May of 1998, I received the University of Connecticut Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award.
Currently, I am investigating the atmospheric and aquatic cycles of mercury and other trace metals in a variety of multifaceted studies, which are often interdisciplinary and involve international collaboration. These efforts range from global models to studies of the role of microorganisms in elemental Hg and monomethyl Hg production. My research pursuits include a U.S./French cooperative program focused on Hg cycling in the marine environment, and with the development of innovative analytical techniques for the determination of Hg species and stable isotopes of Hg. The aquatic biogeochemistry of mercury in Long Island Sound is of special interest. Ombrotrophic peat bogs and lake sediments in Nova Scotia, New Zealand, and Arctic Alaska are being tested to determine the potential usefulness of such ecosystems in providing unequivocal records of contemporary and historical atmospheric depositional fluxes of mercury, as well as a measure of anthropogenic perturbations on a global basis, and as means of constraining regional and global models of the Hg cycle. I initiated a NSF supported program to examine Hg contamination and cycling in the Arctic. Alaskan lacustrine systems are emphasized. This work complements ongoing investigations into the pathways and processes determining the fate of mercury in coastal and open ocean environments.
Biogeochemical cycling and fate of mercury and methylmercury in Arctic Alaskan lakes – National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs
Natural and anthropogenic sources of mercury to the atmosphere: Global and regional contributions – Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
A synthesis and assessment of modern and historic heavy metal contamination in New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary, with emphasis on mercury and cadmium (with R. Mason) – Hudson River Foundation
LISICOS: The Long Island Sound integrated coastal observing system (with H. Dam, J. O’Donnell, and W. Bohlen); Benthic chambers: sediment oxygen demand, metals fluxes, nutrient fluxes – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Oceanography Alumni
Chad Hammerschmidt – Ph.D. 2005
Jonathan Kim – Ph.D 1987
Carl Lamborg – Ph.D. 2003
Robert Mason – Ph.D. 1991
Connie Russ – M.Sc. 1998
Grace Vandal – M.Sc. 1988
Prentiss Balcom
Boutron, C.F., G.M. Vandal, W.F. Fitzgerald and C.P. Ferrari. 1998. A forty year record of mercury in central Greenland snow. Geophys. Research Letters 25: 3315-3318.
Lamborg, C.H., K.R. Rolfhus, W.F. Fitzgerald and G. Kim. 1999. The atmospheric cycling and air-sea exchange of Hg species in the south and equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II 46/5: 957-977.
Lamborg, C.H., W.F. Fitzgerald, W.C. Graustein and K.K. Turekian. 2000. Modeling the atmospheric chemistry of mercury using 210Pb and 7Be. J. Atmos. Chem. 36/3: 325-338.
Fitzgerald, W.F., G.M. Vandal, K.R. Rolfhus, C.H. Lamborg and C.S. Langer. 2000. Mercury emissions and cycling in the coastal zone. J. Environ. Sci 12: 92-101.
K.R. Rolfhus and W.F. Fitzgerald. 2001. The evasion and spatial/temporal distribution of mercury species in Long Island Sound, CT-NY. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65: 407-418.
Langer, C.S., W.F. Fitzgerald, G.M. Vandal and P. Visscher. 2001. Biogeochemical cycling of methylmercury at Barn Island Salt Marsh, Stonington, CT, USA. J. Wetlands Ecol. and Manage. In press.
Lamborg, C.H., W.F. Fitzgerald, A.W.H. Damman, J.M. Benoit, P.H. Balcom and D.R. Engstrom. 2001. Modern and historical patterns of atmospheric mercury deposition as recorded in ombrotrophic bogs and lake sediments from Nova Scotia and New Zealand. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. Submitted.
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The street's eye
© Jürgen Frank
The street’s eye
PHOTOS JÜRGEN FRANK
INTERVIEW MAREIKE NIEBERDING
Bruce Gilden is a New Yorker through and through – and rose to fame as a photographer of people on the streets of the U.S. metropolis. For his FACE series, he created disconcerting portraits of people for whom life is a daily struggle. A conversation about the beauty of normality, violence on the street and real problems with his father.
Bruce Gilden is not just a legendary photographer, but also a legend in the bad reputation department for his infamously rude and aggressive behavior. Looking at the 70-year-old standing there in his fleece jacket and wooly hat, it’s really hard to see how that came about. In conversation, he is charming, entertaining, and moving. A working-class kid raised in New York, over the past 40 years Gilden has worked his way into the Magnum agency and prestigious museums with his street photography. His latest work, “FACE”, marks a new departure in his work – and also in his biography.
Mr. Gilden, you have spent your life photographing the streets of New York. Today, you live in Beacon, one and a half hours north of New York. What happened?
I’m from Brooklyn originally, but have nearly always lived in Manhattan since the 1970s. A year ago, my wife and I moved to the country. I had had enough of New York. I had stopped shooting there.
Why? You rose to fame as a street photographer.
You cannot photograph the streets forever. I had done nothing else since 1981. But now it doesn’t interest me anymore because the people these days aren’t as interesting as they used to be.
How have the streets of New York changed over the decades?
When I moved to Soho in the early 1970s, it was an empty place. The only people hanging out there were artists and wannabe artists. It was great there, I was young. I moved to Brooklyn with my first wife and back to Soho after we separated, in 1979. I’ve lived in the same loft there ever since. But I don’t like the people in the neighborhood anymore. Too many financial types, arrogant people who bump into you because they’re staring at their cell phones and then don’t bother to apologize. And I am pretty brutal on the street.
Boxes en masse: ...
Bruce Gilden sifts through old prints ...
... the product of a long life of photography
Brutal? What do you mean?
Well, when I was five, I wanted to be a boxer. Let’s put it this way: I’m rough and ready. On jobs and with women I am the perfect gentleman, but if someone gets in my face on the street, I handle things my way.
Which would be?
Violence (He smiles to himself). Not toward people I know and who understand me. But I cannot bear the kind of people who think they can spend all day sitting at a desk and then tell me what’s going on in the world. I’ve been to Haiti 22 times, I’ve been with the Yakuza. I know what’s what. And I know I’m not perfect. But I am honest.
Scuffles apart, the way you moved with your camera on the street is legendary. You totally pounced on people.
You have to be fast on the street. Particularly when you photograph the way I do, without trimming the images. It takes discipline you have just seconds for the composition. The people were always moving, of course. So I had to fling myself in front of them or crouch down quickly with my camera and handheld flash. I was a good athlete, though.
Does turning your back on the streets have something to do with age?
Of course it does. Photography is a physical thing. I’m still fast, but not as fast as I used to be. And anyway, I was bored. You start to repeat yourself.
Two of Bruce Gilden's works ...
© Bruce Gilden/Magnum Photos/Agentur Fotos
... in New York
Your latest series, “FACE”, consists entirely of portraits. And they are in color, whereas you usually only work in black and white. Why?
I already had the idea for Face 20 years ago. At the time, I was working with mugshots from the early 19th century – photos of felons. I find them fascinating! To be honest, I just wanted to do something different, hence the format and the color. And I find portraits easier.
Reactions to “FACE” have been mixed. Some critics are accusing you of creating “poverty porn.”
What was it the photographer Robert Frank said? It’s important to see what is invisible to others. I looked around me at fairs and agricultural shows. I love the people I photographed there. A photo should have a powerful emotional value. And my pictures do.
You also show an aspect of American reality. The hard, for some even the ugly, side of it.
To me, these people are interesting because they are invisible. There are people who cannot bear to look at these photos. But if they don’t want to look at them, how can you help them?
Is that what you aim to do with your pictures – help?
No! I’m not a humanitarian photographer. I want to shine a light on these people. When I showed her picture to one of the women in Face, she said: I look beautiful. What a compliment! And plus, I could be one of these people myself.
How do you mean? That you see yourself in your subjects?
Yes, the photographs are actually of myself – or rather, a person I could have become. I think that’s why I feel so drawn to these characters, to this milieu. Because it is my own. I speak their language. It’s my father’s language. He was a gangster type.
A gangster? Or a gangster type?
It was 1940s’ Brooklyn, so I guess he was a gangster. He was a brutal man. Once he came in and pointed his gun at me, for fun. When I look at my old photos of New York, I see my father. I photographed him hundreds of times without ever photographing him. Just men that looked like him. My search for him drove me out of the house over and over again.
HEAD-HUNTER
Compelling and at the same time repellent: For his book “FACE” (Dewi Lewis Publishing), Gilden put together a collection of portraits, each with an extraordinary suggestive power of its own – and earned not only praise for it. The British daily The Guardian damned Gilden’s images as a “catalogue of human grotesques.”
Bruce Gilden's home
Would you have stayed home otherwise?
Yes, because I’m shy. I became a photographer so that I wouldn’t have to talk with people.
But what does that have to do with your father?
I think my shyness comes from never having anyone who believed in me. When your father puts you down the whole time, it stays with you. For instance, I was a good baseball player. My father hated sports. He never came to one of my games.
He wasn’t proud of you?
Maybe he was proud but he didn’t know how to show love. I have the same problem with my daughter, who also works creatively. She would like me to help her, to build her self-confidence, but I think that as an artist she needs to make her own mind up what she wants.
Did you always know what you wanted?
No, I only started looking at art when I was 17. I don’t have an education in the classical sense, which is why I wanted to learn. But college was not for me. Then I decided to become an actor. But when I recited Shakespeare in my Brooklyn accent, it was obvious nothing would come of that. In the end, I took a photography course. The moment I saw my first picture, I knew that was it! Even though it was a photo of a unicorn.
I can see by looking at a person’s knuckles whether or not they have a violent streak.
Bruce Gilden, Photographer
You are a member of the Magnum photo agency and have had exhibitions all over the world; your street photography just like your images of Haiti before and after the earthquake are legendary. Do you feel you’ve made it, that you belong?
No, I’m an outsider and I always will be. These days, though, that’s something I’m proud of. When you’re young, it hurts. I was always the kid the other mothers would call a “bad influence” even though I just didn’t have the right manners. I would come right out and say what I thought. I still do. I’m a survivor.
I had a violent father and my mother was an alcoholic; she killed herself. Cocaine almost killed me and I looked down the barrel of a gun more than once. But I believe that all of that is what makes my pictures so good. Because I am a good observer. I see everything. I can tell by looking at a person’s knuckles whether or not they have a violent streak.
Bruce GIlden is looking at one of his new works
You said your early photos were about your father. What is your new series, “FACE”, about?
My mother. My father had an influence on me, but my mother’s was perhaps even greater. And I only get that now, at age 70.
Why did it take so long?
I never loved her. I thought she was weak. And I don’t mean that she cried too much. It was more that I felt she should have given my father more direction.
Do you see her in your pictures, too?
Oh yes. In one, it’s a very sad picture. Do you want to see it?
Gilden takes a book out of the bureau, Face. He leafs through and finds a woman with deep lines on her face, brown bangs and bright blue eyes.
That’s her. (He starts to weep.)
What was in your mind when you photographed her?
It was as though my mother was looking down on me. The woman was crazy, moving the whole time. And my camera focuses really slowly. Even so, the very first image was needle sharp. That’s when I realized that it really was about my mother. That’s why I can’t stand it when people feel the compunction to put in their two cents. I have more than one cross to bear. And if I can turn that whole burden to my advantage in my photography, then others can do the same. These photos are my life.”
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click hier.
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The curse of the blue tattoo
August 10, 2014 Bloody Jack, Book reviewsBloody Jack, book recommendations, book review, historical fiction, L.A. Meyer, Naval novels, readers advisory, The curse of the blue tattoo, YA fictionmaistrechat
The curse of the blue tattoo / L.A. Meyer. Originally published 2004.
The curse of the blue tattoo is the second novel in the Bloody Jack series. Like the rest of the series, the setting departs considerably from that of the previous novel while still maintaining its wit and sense of adventure. It is in equal parts school story, fish-out-of-water comedy, and murder mystery.
Brief plot description
(minimal spoilers for the previous installment)
Bloody Jack ends with Jacky Faber, her gender having been discovered by her captain, being dropped off at an East Coast bording school for young ladies. Jacky is then forced to contend with a minister named Mather, “old money” types, and strict teachers all while trying to figure out how to be reunited with her Jaimy, her One True Love.
So how is it?
L.A. Meyer has successfully followed up on one of the great YA historical fiction novels of all time. As could probably be forseen, Jacky’s background as street urchin turned naval officer does not exactly prepare her for life at a boarding school for fine young ladies. Meyer takes full advantage of this fact, from Jacky’s attempts to learn embroidery to her discovery that the Boston police don’t look kindly on dancing in public.
The curse of the blue tattoo is in some ways a more serious book than its predecessor. It is still a light, fun read, but issues of race, sex, and class form the central part of the narrative. Jacky finds she has more in common with the servants than her fellow students, and is appalled at the way they are treated by the privileged girls. One of the characters comes to school with her slave. The local Puritan minister seems to have an excessive interest in Jacky’s “salvation”. The book never seems overly serious or bogged down, but thematically it carries more weight than the previous volume. This is much in line with the way the rest of the series goes, gaining a greater emphasis on issues like women’s rights, the double standards regarding male and female sexuality, poverty and class, and racial discrimination. They never become preachy, but Meyer doesn’t shy away from sending a strong message. It’s totally possible to enjoy these books without paying any consideration to that fact.
The curse of the blue tattoo sets the stage for the rest of the series in another way, as well, by introducing Jacky’s friend Amy Trevelyne*. This relationship sets up the basis for what will eventually become the frame story of the series. It’s an interesting approach.
In keeping with the series’s penchant for sneakily inserting literary characters, a character introduced near the end is a one-legged sea captain attempting to seek revenge on an elusive white whale. He doesn’t draw attention to this, but it makes the series a little more fun to read if you enjoy trying to pinpoint all of the “borrowed” characters.
*I was convinced this character was a Quaker when I started to write this review. Looking online it appears that she’s an open-minded Puritan instead. While that makes more sense given her family background, I automatically assumed Quaker because she comes from a family of abolitionists.
Jacky continues to be a wonderful protagonist
Switches up the setting to prevent the series from getting stale
It switches up the setting, so people looking for another straightforward naval adventure will be disappointed.
In some ways, it’s a 19th century setting for the classic 80s teen movie formula of lower-class outsider who is faced with constant snobbery from upper-class classmates.
I strongly recommend it to fans of the first book in the series. One person who read the first book on my recommendation resisted reading the second one because they were disappointed that she wasn’t going to be on a ship. I counter this objection by maintaining that (1) All of the fun and adventure of the previous book is still present and (2) the third book returns to the seafaring setting.
It continues to be a great series, and should please both adult fans of historical fiction and younger readers.
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Money Makes Things Happen
I wonder if there is a cruise ship with the name ‘Valiant’ – I didn’t bother to check.
Mordred is having way, way too much fun teasing Wiglaf over this boat thing.
And I’m having too much fun making him miserable by forcing them to take the long way around to Peru instead of the short cut via Panama Canal~ :D
“What’s My Age Again?” by Blink 182
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Mikey8152 April 23, 2010 @ 7:30 am
It’s good to see Mordred is still practicing his evil :happy: even if Wiglaf keeps him from using it :D
Dad April 23, 2010 @ 7:38 am
This should be an exciting voyage, From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn
Shipping hazards
Several factors combine to make the passage around Cape Horn one of the most hazardous shipping routes in the world: the fierce sailing conditions prevalent in the Southern Ocean generally; the geography of the passage south of the Horn; and the extreme southern latitude of the Horn, at 56° south. (For comparison, Cape Agulhas at the southern tip of Africa is at 35° south; Stewart Island/Rakiura at the south end of New Zealand is 47° south.)
The prevailing winds in latitudes below 40° south can blow from west to east around the world almost uninterrupted by land, giving rise to the “roaring forties” and the even more wild “furious fifties” and “screaming sixties”. These winds are hazardous enough in themselves that ships traveling east would tend to stay in the northern part of the forties (i.e. not far below 40° south latitude); however, rounding Cape Horn requires ships to press south to 56° south latitude, well into the zone of fiercest winds.[16] These winds are further exacerbated at the Horn by the funneling effect of the Andes and the Antarctic peninsula, which channel the winds into the relatively narrow Drake Passage.
The strong winds of the Southern Ocean give rise to correspondingly large waves; these waves can attain enormous size as they roll around the Southern Ocean, free of any interruption from land. At the Horn, however, these waves encounter an area of shallow water to the south of the Horn, which has the effect of making the waves shorter and steeper, greatly increasing the hazard to ships. If the strong eastward current through the Drake Passage encounters an opposing east wind, this can have the effect of further building up the waves.[17] In addition to these “normal” waves, the area west of the Horn is particularly notorious for rogue waves, which can attain heights of up to 30 metres (100 ft).[18]
The prevailing winds and currents create particular problems for vessels attempting to round the Horn against them, i.e. from east to west. Although this affects all vessels to some extent, it was a particularly serious problem for traditional sailing ships, which could make very little headway against the wind at the best of times;[19] modern sailing boats are significantly more efficient to windward and can more reliably make a westward passage of the Horn, as they do in the Global Challenge race.
Ice is a hazard to sailors venturing far below 40° south. Although the ice limit dips south around the horn, icebergs are a significant hazard for vessels in the area. In the South Pacific in February (summer in Southern Hemisphere), icebergs are generally confined to below 50° south; but in August the iceberg hazard can extend north of 40° south. Even in February, though, the Horn is well below the latitude of the iceberg limit.[20] These hazards have made the Horn notorious as perhaps the most dangerous ship passage in the world; many ships were wrecked, and many sailors died, attempting to round the Cape.
Soaring Dragon April 30, 2010 @ 12:09 am
No offense, but tl:dr…but I got the gist of it… poor Wiglaf XD hopefully he finds a way to hijack the ship and ground her on a coast before they get anywhere near the cape XP Then he’d just have to walk to peru :D Dragging Mordred with him of course ^^
GrimmDealer April 23, 2010 @ 8:27 am
Heh heh. Now this is gonna be an interesting turn of events.
KGJ April 23, 2010 @ 9:06 am
Wiglaf, pray that you don’t get caught between the Argentinians and the Brits in one of their battles over the Falkland Islands. Honestly, that would be worse than icebergs.
You’re having fun writing these ones, aren’t you Liliy? They’re turning out very well.
KGJ April 23, 2010 @ 1:08 pm
Hmm… The Valiant is a motor yacht one can rent that launches from New Jersey… http://www.eastcoastyachtcruises.com/yachts/valiant.php
There’s also a Jork Valiant, which is a container ship… http://www.shipsandharbours.com/picture/number2555.asp
There were two USS Valiants… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Valiant
And finally there’s a Coast Guard Cutter named Valiant… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQyJdMpd5I
XD But no, it looks like you aren’t insulting any particular cruise ship by renaming it “Titanic II,” just a StarTrek starship with a massive fan following… http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=USS+Valiant&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Nice choice.
Oh, wait. The World Shipping Register ( http://e-ships.net/ships.htm ) shows one cruise ship named the Valiant, christened and registered in 2001. Apparently it still exists, too.
Garret April 23, 2010 @ 1:30 pm
I wonder where it cruises.
Blackford April 23, 2010 @ 11:17 am
The characters’ facial expressions came out great. I especially like all of Wiglaf’s vivid expressions. Sounds like they have quite a luxury cruise for this trip.
reynard61 April 23, 2010 @ 1:51 pm
According to this website (about 3/4 of the way down), “Valiant” is a 97′ fantail Yacht. According to it’s website, it mainly cruises between New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Mike April 23, 2010 @ 9:32 pm
Ha ha; it’ll be fun if Wiglaf’s fears are justified. XD
BlueWolf April 23, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
There is also the Valiant from Doctor Who which is an airborne aircraft carrier.
ColleenF April 23, 2010 @ 10:35 pm
Hopefully what happened on the Valiant will not repeat itself for Wiglaf and Mordred. Although it would be interesting to see how Wiglaf dealt with the Master…or Jack flirting with Mordred.
At this point, I don’t think Wiglaf would intervene either way in Mordred’s love life. Right now, he probably wouldn’t lift a finger to help Mordred unless directly ordered of the villain was in mortal peril.
ColleenF April 24, 2010 @ 8:09 pm
True, but he is determined to keep Mordred as a friend and he might feel that Jack is trying to take him away from him.
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Apparently you will never need to look something up again, your loyal and adoring fans will jump at the chance to do it for you.
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So I’ve noticed. Feels good. :cool:
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August 2015 , Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 872–894 | Cite as
Standardizing the experimental conditions for using urine in NMR-based metabolomic studies with a particular focus on diagnostic studies: a review
Abdul-Hamid Emwas
Claudio Luchinat
Paola Turano
Leonardo Tenori
Raja Roy
Reza M. Salek
Danielle Ryan
Jasmeen S. Merzaban
Rima Kaddurah-Daouk
Ana Carolina Zeri
G. A. Nagana Gowda
Daniel Raftery
Yulan Wang
Lorraine Brennan
David S. Wishart
First Online: 21 November 2014
The metabolic composition of human biofluids can provide important diagnostic and prognostic information. Among the biofluids most commonly analyzed in metabolomic studies, urine appears to be particularly useful. It is abundant, readily available, easily stored and can be collected by simple, noninvasive techniques. Moreover, given its chemical complexity, urine is particularly rich in potential disease biomarkers. This makes it an ideal biofluid for detecting or monitoring disease processes. Among the metabolomic tools available for urine analysis, NMR spectroscopy has proven to be particularly well-suited, because the technique is highly reproducible and requires minimal sample handling. As it permits the identification and quantification of a wide range of compounds, independent of their chemical properties, NMR spectroscopy has been frequently used to detect or discover disease fingerprints and biomarkers in urine. Although protocols for NMR data acquisition and processing have been standardized, no consensus on protocols for urine sample selection, collection, storage and preparation in NMR-based metabolomic studies have been developed. This lack of consensus may be leading to spurious biomarkers being reported and may account for a general lack of reproducibility between laboratories. Here, we review a large number of published studies on NMR-based urine metabolic profiling with the aim of identifying key variables that may affect the results of metabolomics studies. From this survey, we identify a number of issues that require either standardization or careful accounting in experimental design and provide some recommendations for urine collection, sample preparation and data acquisition.
NMR Metabolomics Metabonomics Metabolites profiling Urine Biomarker Human diseases Standardization Diagnosis Recommendations
Human diseases lead to pathophysiological changes that, in turn, lead to variations in the concentrations of metabolites in tissues and biological fluids. Metabolomics is a powerful approach that permits the global monitoring of metabolite levels when a living system responds to environmental effects, physiological stimuli and/or genetic modifications. As a result, metabolomics represents a powerful technique for disease fingerprinting and biomarker discovery and for the identification of perturbed biochemical pathways. Furthermore, metabolomic data can be integrated with genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data to improve our understanding of disease etiology and thereby optimize treatment interventions (Yizhak et al. 2010; Griffin 2006; Tang et al. 2009; Nambiar et al. 2010; Rantalainen et al. 2006). In many cases, the changes in urine metabolite concentrations induced by human diseases can be greater than the changes seen in protein levels, giving metabolomics an extra diagnostic advantage (Kell 2006; Urbanczyk-Wochniak et al. 2003; Raamsdonk et al. 2001; Cascante et al. 2002). Thus, measuring metabolite profiles in human urine has the potential to be used as an effective method to diagnose a number of diseases and to monitor an individual’s general health status. Indeed, urine represents an ideal biofluid for metabolomics studies because it captures and concentrates a wide range of metabolites and metabolic processes occurring throughout the body. As a consequence, urine is particularly useful in providing specific biomarkers for disease, toxicity and drug metabolism. Urine’s non-viscous character combined with the fact that it can be obtained non-invasively, in large quantities and that it contains fewer protein complexes and lipids than other body fluids (such as blood) has long made it a favored biofluid for many metabolomics applications.
Metabolite profiles in biofluids may be measured using several techniques including high performance liquid chromatography (Al-Talla et al. 2011a, b; Li et al. 2013; Nie et al. 2014; Szultka et al. 2014; Lan et al. 2010; Liang et al. 2010; Zheng et al. 2010), tandem mass spectrometry (Guo et al. 2013; Huang et al. 2013b; Vadla et al. 2013; Allard et al. 2008; Chen et al. 2009; Cho et al. 2009), gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (Karamani et al. 2013; Zheng et al. 2013; Jobu et al. 2012; Weusten et al. 2012; Xie et al. 2012; Kumar et al. 2010; Qiu et al. 2010; Sun et al. 2009) and NMR spectroscopy (Kim et al. 2013; Wang et al. 2013a; Bertram et al. 2011; Duarte and Gil 2012; He et al. 2012; Calvani et al. 2010; Liu et al. 2010; Zhang et al. 2010; Michell et al. 2008; Wishart 2008; Zhang et al. 2008). Each approach has its own advantages and disadvantages, with some techniques being better for analyzing certain biofluids than others. NMR, in particular, permits the visualization of thousands of distinct peaks and enables the detection and quantification of more than 200 compounds in human urine (Bouatra et al. 2013). As a consequence, metabolic profiling of human urine by NMR spectroscopy has been used to discover a number of novel biomarkers that can be used for disease diagnosis, prognosis, prediction, and monitoring (Nevedomskaya et al. 2012; Pu et al. 2012; Sachse et al. 2012; Zhang et al. 2012; Carrola et al. 2011; Jung et al. 2011; Sengupta et al. 2011; Maher et al. 2009; Tzovaras et al. 2009).
To date, most metabolomic studies of urine and human disease have been designed as “case–control” studies in which urine samples from patients are compared with healthy controls. However, due to the environmental and genetic diversity of human populations and to day-to-day variability, comprehensive and robust metabolomic analysis of urine is a non-trivial task. In addition, study designs (e.g., single or multiple collections), and especially pre-analytical procedures, are generally not standardized, thereby making inter-laboratory comparisons difficult. Likewise, few studies take advantage of NMR spectroscopy’s ability to obtain a metabolic fingerprint and to accurately determine multiple metabolite concentrations. NMR can also be used to obtain a complete spectral fingerprint of a given biofluid, thereby capturing all of the NMR-detectable signals or features. In this way, it is possible to obtain metabolic information without necessarily knowing the exact composition of the samples or signal assignment, so that multivariate data analyses can be performed on the spectra to build statistical models for a diagnostic/prognostic purpose.
A number of urinary metabolomics studies have reported biomarkers that effectively discriminate between diseased subjects and healthy controls (Dawiskiba et al. 2014; Bernini et al. 2011a; Fanos et al. 2013; Wen et al. 2010; Duarte et al. 2014; Fanos et al. 2012; Weiss and Kim 2012). However, most of the biomarkers described so far have not been validated nor have they been proven to be truly specific to the disease that was studied. Furthermore, the lack of standardized protocols in many urine studies that distinguish patients from healthy controls is potentially leading to erroneous results arising from the significant contributions of major confounding factors such as diet, age and gender. To identify a reliable disease biomarker or to determine a discriminating metabolic fingerprint, it is crucial to control for and understand all factors that may alter the normal composition of human urine, so that normal metabolic fluctuations are not confused with pathological changes. In order to minimize the effect of confounding factors, it is crucial to conduct such studies under standardized conditions that would allow researchers from different groups to compare and validate their results. Most importantly, standardization will allow researchers from different parts of the world to store metabolite data from urine in newly emerging metabolomics databases such as MetaboLights and the Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) (Haug et al. 2013; Salek et al. 2013a, b; Wishart et al. 2007, 2009), which will enable direct comparisons of various studies.
Metabolomic analysis of urine samples has been successfully used to identify a variety of metabolomic fingerprints and potential biomarkers under a range of different conditions. An exhaustive review of this literature is beyond the scope of the present review. Instead, some key examples are highlighted to illustrate the potential power of the approach. An area of extensive research is the study of cancer biomarkers, including the development of putative biomarkers for bladder cancer (Alberice et al. 2013; Zhang et al. 2012), lung cancer (Carrola et al. 2011), prostate cancer (Duarte and Gil 2012; Kumar et al. 2014), liver cancer (Chen et al. 2011), colorectal cancer (Wang et al. 2010), esophageal cancer (Davis et al. 2012), and kidney cancer (Huang et al. 2013c; Weiss and Kim 2012; Kim et al. 2011; Ganti and Weiss 2011). Examples of the metabolites identified as putative biomarkers of kidney cancer include acylcarnitines, quinolinate, gentisate, and 4-hydroxybenzoate. Application of metabolomics in cancer staging has recently emerged and its importance is expected to grow in the coming years (Kim et al. 2011).
Applications of urine metabolomics to the study of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has also been successful from a diagnostic viewpoint. A number of studies have reported metabolomic profiles that are capable of separating subjects with IBD subtypes from healthy controls (Schicho et al. 2012). More recently, an NMR based profiling of urine samples demonstrated the ability to distinguish patients with active IBD from those with IBD in remission (Dawiskiba et al. 2014). Other conditions such as heart failure also appear to be detectable through urine-base metabolomics. Proton NMR spectra of the urine of 15 patients with ischemic heart failure (HF) were compared with the proton NMR spectra of the urine of 20 healthy controls. The results show clear separation between the patient samples and healthy ones, where the HF patient samples had higher concentrations of metabolites such as acetate and acetone compared with the healthy control samples. On the other hand, the HF patients’ urine had decreased levels of 1-methylnicotinamide and increased levels of methylmalonic acid, cytosine and phenylacetylglycine compared to the healthy controls (Kang et al. 2011). It was reported that the perturbation of these metabolites could be related to TCA cycle metabolites and fatty acid metabolism (Kang et al. 2011). Applications of the metabolomics-based approach in the field of human toxicology have also yielded positive results. An example is the study of acetaminophen-induced hepatoxicity. A number of studies have identified metabolic signatures associated with hepatoxicity (Kim et al. 2013; Clayton et al. 2006). Overall, the above examples and additional examples included in Table 1 highlight the potential use of metabolomics analysis of urine for disease diagnosis. For progress of this discipline and to avoid the discovery of false positives it is imperative that we have a good understanding of the non-physiological factors influencing metabolite levels in the urine.
A randomly selected examples of urinary analysis studies using an NMR-based metabolomics approach with particular focus on the variations of some reported experimental conditions such as centrifugation speed, storage temperature and pH values
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Centrifuge speed/rpm or g
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Urine specimens were collected before and at 4 and 24 h after surgery from 106 patients with acute kidney injury and analyzed by means of NMR
(Zacharias et al. 2013)
Urinary tract infections (UTI) studied by NMR of urine samples using a longitudinal design. The study included four classes of samples originating from controls (N = 35) at day 0 (baseline control), UTI patients (N = 32) at day 0 (baseline), UTI patients (n = 29) at day 4 and UTI patients after recovery from infection (n = 37) at day 30
(Nevedomskaya et al. 2012)
NMR based metabolomics of urine differentiates dogs with bladder cancer (n = 40) from healthy controls (n = 42)
(J. Zhang et al. 2012)
A NMR metabonomics study involving 447 individuals from Uganda, infected by S. mansoni. Urines were collected at five time-points, before and after chemotherapy with praziquantel
(Balog et al. 2011)
Patients with systolic HF of ischemic origin (n = 15) and healthy controls (n = 20) where compared using NMR based metabolomics in urine samples
(Kang et al. 2011)
1H NMR-based metabonomics was applied to investigate lung cancer metabolic signatures in urine. Urine samples from lung cancer patients (n = 71) and a control healthy group (n = 54) were analyzed by high resolution 1H NMR (500 MHz). The classification model showed 93 % sensitivity, 94 % specificity and an overall classification rate of 93.5 %
(Carrola et al. 2011)
In this study, age-related metabolic changes in children of age 12 years and below were analyzed by NMR spectroscopy. Urine samples from 55 children, with no diagnosed disease, were collected and analyzed
(Gu et al. 2009)
Urine, plasma, and saliva were collected from 30 healthy volunteers (23 females, 7 males) on 4 separate mornings. For visits 1 and 2, free food choice was permitted on the day before biofluid collection. Food choice on the day before visit 3 was intended to mimic that for visit 2, and all foods were standardized on the day before visit 4. Samples were analyzed by using 1H NMR
(M. C. Walsh et al. 2006)
22 women were segregated into an untrained (n = 10) or trained (n = 12) group depending on their physical training background. The subjects performed two exercises in a randomized order: a prolonged exercise test and a short-term, intensive exercise test. Urine specimens were collected before and 30 min after each test. The samples were analyzed by (1)H NMR spectroscopy
(Enea et al. 2010)
12 healthy male participants (age range of 25–74 years) consumed three different diets, in a randomized order, for continuous 15-days-periods with an intervening washout period between each diet of 7 days duration. Each participant provided three consecutive 24-h urine collections on days 13, 14, and 15 of each dietary period, and 1H NMR spectra were acquired on all samples
(Stella et al. 2006)
This study aimed to identify novel markers for gestational diabetes in the biochemical profile of maternal urine using NMR metabolomics. It also studied the general effects of pregnancy and delivery on the urine profile. Urine samples were collected at three time points from 823 healthy, pregnant women and analyzed using (1)H-NMR spectroscopy
(Sachse et al. 2012)
Changes in metabolism in volunteers living near a point source of environmental pollution were investigated. NMR was used to acquire urinary metabolic profiles from 178 human volunteers
(Ellis et al. 2012)
−80 C
This study included 16 bilateral ureteral obstruction (BUO) patients and nine unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) patients. The obstructions in all of the patients were successfully relieved after treatment. Urine samples at different time points before and after treatment were obtained, and their (1)H NMR spectra were recorded
(Dong et al. 2013)
NMR-based metabolomics on blood serum and urine samples from 32 patients representative of a total cohort of 1,970 multiple myeloma patients
(Lodi et al. 2013)
Study on the pharmacological effects of rosiglitazone in plasma and urine samples from patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (n = 16) and healthy volunteers (n = 16)
(van Doorn et al. 2007)
Investigations of the effects of gender, diurnal variation, and age in human urinary metabolome. 30 male and 30 female subjects aged 19–69 years, self-identified as healthy, participated in this study. Individuals provided two urine samples a day, one as a first void and a second at ~5 p.m., for four nonconsecutive days
(Slupsky et al. 2007)
About 40 urine samples (first in the morning, preprandial) were collected from 20 healthy individuals (9 males, 11 females) in the age range 25–55 over a period of about 3 months to demonstrated the stability in time of the urinary metabolome
(Bernini et al. 2009)
84 urine samples were collected from 12 healthy volunteers (7 time points, 8 males and 4 females) and 50 samples from 30 T2DM patients (1–3 time points, 17 males and 13 females)
(Salek et al. 2007)
A NMR based metabolomics investigation of Hepatitis C virus infection identified 32 of the 34 patients in the disease group as positive and 31 of the 32 individuals in the control group as negative, demonstrating 94 % sensitivity and specificity of 97 %
(Godoy et al. 2010)
Urine samples were collected from 119 Sardinian children (63 males, 56 females, average age 8.3 ± 2.9). Of these, 90 were healthy and 29 type 1 diabetic without complications, with average diabetes duration of 5.2 ± 3.9 years
(Culeddu et al. 2012)
A total of twenty-four 8-year-old boys were asked to take 53 g protein as milk (n 12) or meat daily (n 12). At baseline and after 7 days, urine and serum samples were collected and high-resolution 1H NMR spectra were acquired on these using a 800 MHz spectrometer
(Bertram et al. 2007a)
The plasma and urine metabolome of 192 overweight 12–15-year-old adolescents (BMI of 25.4 ± 2.3 kg/m2) were examined in order to elucidate gender, pubertal development, physical activity and intra-/interindividual differences affecting the metabolome detected by proton NMR spectroscopy
(Kochhar et al. 2006)
Serum and urine samples were collected from 24 patients with ulcerative colitis, 19 patients with the Crohn’s disease and 17 healthy controls
(Dawiskiba et al. 2014)
Urine samples were collected from 30 children and teenagers aged 4–19 with T1D and 12 healthy children, aged 9, as control group. Patients were divided into two groups according to their level of glycated hemoglobin
(Deja et al. 2013)
The urinary metabolic profiles of 30 autistic and 28 matched healthy children were obtained using NMR-based approach
(Mavel et al. 2013)
32 schizophrenia inpatients and 30 healthy volunteers were recruited. Samples of patients were collected at baseline and weeks 3 and 6 during hospitalization. Samples of healthy controls were collected only once following the same procedure
(Cai et al. 2012)
Serum and urine samples were collected from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients (n = 32) and healthy controls (n = 21), respectively. Samples were analyzed by high resolution 1H NMR (600 MHz).
(Wang et al. 2013)
1H NMR-based metabonomics was used for the detection and diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism from urine samples. 1D 1H NMR spectra from 47 normal, 9 phenylketonuric newborns and 1 maple syrup urine disease child were obtained and investigated.
(Constantinou et al. 2005)
The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and comparability of metabonomic data in clinical studies conducted in different countries without dietary restriction. A group of healthy British subjects (n = 120), and healthy subjects from two European countries (Britain and Sweden, n = 30) were compared. The subjects were asked to provide single, early morning urine samples collected on a single occasion
(Lenz et al. 2004)
NM indicates not mentioned parameters
To identify the key factors that contribute to the variations in human urine metabolic profiles, we have divided this paper into two sections. In the first part of this review, we highlight and compare a number of previously published studies (Table 1) pertaining to NMR-based urine metabolomics. In the second part of this review, we propose a number of recommendations that have the potential to help minimize confounding effects, including subject selection, sample collection and sample preparation, with regard to NMR-based urine metabolomics. From this overview, we hope to help other metabolomics researchers appreciate the importance of developing global protocols to standardize the collection, preparation, storage and analysis of urine samples for the purpose of identifying disease fingerprints and biomarkers.
2 NMR spectroscopy
NMR spectroscopy has played a key role in our understanding of metabolism and metabolic processes for more than three decades (Eggleston et al. 1975; Gavaghan et al. 2000). Its exceptional capacity to resolve thousands of peaks in complex metabolite mixtures such as blood and urine is probably what led NMR to be the technology of choice to initially develop the field of metabolomics (Emwas et al. 2013a; Rasmussen et al. 2012; Bouatra et al. 2013; Psychogios et al. 2011). As an analytical technique, NMR is a powerful approach for both identification and quantification of analytes with a number of important advantages, such as being highly reproducible, high-throughput, non-destructive, and non-biased, not requiring prior chromatographic separation, and, most importantly requiring minimal sample preparation (Bouatra et al. 2013; Monteiro et al. 2013; Zhang et al. 2013; Abuhijleh et al. 2009; Blindauer et al. 1997; Di Gangi et al. 2014). In addition, unlike GC–MS (Bouatra et al. 2013; Huang et al. 2013a; van der Kloet et al. 2012; Abbiss et al. 2012; Kotlowska et al. 2011; Kuhara et al. 2011) and certain liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) methods (Bouatra et al. 2013; Huang et al. 2013; Lu et al. 2013; Norskov et al. 2013; Boudonck et al. 2009; Gowda et al. 2009; Tsutsui et al. 2010), no chemical derivatization or ionization are necessary. NMR is particularly amenable to detecting polar and uncharged compounds, such as sugars, amines or relatively small, volatile compounds (such as formic acid, formaldehyde, acetone, etc., which are often undetectable by LC–MS methods. Finally, multidimensional and heteronuclear NMR techniques can be employed for the unambiguous identification and characterization of unknown compounds (Abuhijleh et al. 2009; Vestergren et al. 2012; Bubb 2003; Mattar et al. 2004). The inherent low sensitivity of NMR, however, restricts the detection limit to about 1 µM and often necessitates the use of relatively large sample volumes (~200–500 µL). New micro-coil probes can reduce the sample volume to as low as a few µL (Serkova et al. 2009; Krojanski et al. 2008; Grimes and O’Connell 2011; Sukumaran et al. 2009). Nevertheless, for urine, the sample volume is generally not a problem. Overall, the numerous benefits of using NMR far outweigh its sensitivity limitations. As a result, NMR is now being used in clinical applications as well as medical research including disease diagnosis, drug assessment and personalized medicine (Emwas et al. 2013a; Nageeb et al. 2013). NMR is also being widely used in metabolite-based biomarker discovery of several human diseases (Farshidfar et al. 2012; Nahon et al. 2012; Mehrpour et al. 2013; Diaz et al. 2013; Atzori et al. 2010; Culeddu et al. 2012; Ala-Korpela 2007; O’Connell 2012; Nevedomskaya et al. 2012; Sachse et al. 2012).
The technology behind NMR spectroscopy is quite mature and most technological or equipment advances over the past decade have been relatively incremental. The developments in instrumentation, such as higher magnetic field magnets (Gruetter et al. 1998), cryogenically cooled probes (Keun et al. 2002), and microprobes (Grimes and O’Connell 2011; Sukumaran et al. 2009), are some major advancements that have enhanced the resolution and sensitivity of the method. Another recent technological development of note is called dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). DNP provides significant increases in the sensitivity of NMR spectra (Ardenkjær-Larsen et al. 2003) and has been used to measure very low-abundance metabolites in several biological samples (Day et al. 2007; Emwas et al. 2008; Chekmenev et al. 2009; Ludwig et al. 2010). In particular, Frydman et al. has developed a new method to facilitate the use of DNP in NMR-based metabolomics research (Harris et al. 2011). However, DNP metabolomics, although intriguing as a technical improvement, is still far from the reliability and accessibility needed for routine analysis.
Although numerous types of NMR experiments are readily available, simple one-dimensional (1D) proton (1H) NMR spectroscopy has become the standard data collection technique for most NMR-based metabolomics studies. As a data collection method, it is fast, simple, highly reproducible and readily yields spectra that contain hundreds or even thousands of peaks. However, the main limitation of 1D 1H NMR spectroscopy is the fact that it generates spectra with many overlapping signals. These are due to the limited spectral dispersion of 1H chemical shifts, which can lead to uncertainties in the assignment and quantification of many metabolites. Other methods, such as one-dimensional carbon (13C) NMR spectroscopy, exhibit much greater spectral dispersion compared with 1H NMR spectroscopy. As a result 13C NMR has been proposed as an alternative method that can help overcome the spectral overlap problem of 1H NMR (Mavel et al. 2013; Faiz et al. 2011; Rai and Sinha 2012). However, the low natural abundance of 13C nuclei (1.1 %) and the low gyromagnetic ratio contribute to the relatively low sensitivity of this nucleus and hinder the widespread use of 13C in NMR-based metabolomics applications.
3 The human urine metabolome
A comprehensive characterization of the human urine metabolome has recently been published (Bouatra et al. 2013). Extensive literature reviews combined with extensive experimental studies conducted across a variety of metabolomic platforms (e.g., NMR, HPLC, GC–MS etc.) found that more than 4,000 metabolites have been detected in urine and that slightly more than 200 metabolites can be routinely measured by NMR. Interestingly, of all the platforms and technologies assessed in this study, NMR was found to be the best—both in terms of coverage and metabolite quantification. As noted in this study, one of the main challenges of studying the human urine metabolome is its inherently high variability. The metabolic composition of urine is affected by many factors, such as diet, exercise, health status, gender, age, diurnal cycles, gut microflora as well as an individual’s genetics. For example, it has been reported that the metabolic composition of human urine is influenced by geographic location and dietary practices tied to specific cultures (Lenz et al. 2004). In one study of note, NMR-based metabolomics was employed to analyze urine samples obtained from residents of Britain and Sweden (Lenz et al. 2004). Clearly detectable differences were found in the urine samples of the two sub-groups, which were clearly attributable to dietary differences between the two countries. This result demonstrates the need to account for dietary data in urine metabolomic studies and to the need for dietary data to be used in the interpretation of any urine metabolomic study conducted for diagnostic biomarker discovery. However, even if the same individual is subjected to a strong, day by day variability due to diet and lifestyle, multiple urine collection allow one to average out this variability and to define the individual invariant part of the metabolome (Assfalg et al. 2008; Bernini et al. 2009).
4 Factors leading to changes in the type and levels of metabolites in human urine
4.1 Diet effects
Because human urine is essentially a filtrate derived from food, drink, endogenous metabolism, drugs, and other products, different nutritional habits and host/guest interactions with the gut microbiome lead to different metabolic signatures in urine. Application of metabolomics to the discovery of new dietary biomarkers has been extremely fruitful in recent years, highlighting the important influence of dietary factors on urinary profiles (Heinzmann et al. 2010; Lloyd et al. 2011). Over the past 15 years, several NMR-based metabolomic studies have been conducted to systematically explore the effects of different diets and dietary components on the chemical composition of urine (Walsh et al. 2006; Walsh et al. 2007; Stella et al. 2006; Llorach-Asuncion et al. 2010; Llorach et al. 2009; Holmes et al. 2008a; Fave et al. 2011; Winnike et al. 2009). In one particularly important study, 1H NMR spectroscopy was employed to study urine samples collected from ten healthy volunteers who were admitted to a clinical research center for 2 weeks of dietary standardization (Winnike et al. 2009). The results suggested that 24 h of dietary standardization could be enough to provide the normalization necessary in a clinical research setting (Winnike et al. 2009). In another study, the results of analyzing the urine of 30 healthy individuals revealed that the metabolic profile in urine is more sensitive than other biofluids (plasma and saliva) to acute dietary intake (Walsh et al. 2006). These results show that dietary variation has the potential to be a significant confounding factor in metabolic profiles of urine and may interfere with disease biomarker studies. More recently an NMR-based metabolomics study demonstrated that dietary patterns were clearly reflected in urinary metabolites, where O-acetylcarnitine was positively associated with red-meat consumption while phenylacetylglutamine associated with vegetable intake (O’Sullivan et al. 2011).
In a comprehensive study published in 2006, Nicholson et al. combined NMR-based metabolomics with multivariate statistical analysis to study the effects of three diets (mostly meat, minimal meat and vegetarian) on human metabolic phenotypes (metabotypes; see later) (Stella et al. 2006). This study was conducted with a long dietary standardization period during which 12 healthy participants consumed each diet continuously for 15 days followed by 7 days washout periods. Proton NMR spectra of the urine samples collected from each participant on days 13, 14 and 15 were recorded under the same experimental conditions. The results revealed the different urine metabolic signatures of different diets. Higher levels of some metabolites, such as carnitine, acetylcarnitine, and trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) were found to be associated with a mostly meat diet (Stella et al. 2006). Furthermore, the urinary concentration of creatine (a metabolite that is found mainly in muscle tissue) was much higher in samples taken during the mostly meat diet than in samples from the minimal meat and vegetarian diets. On the other hand, p-hydroxyphenylacetate (a microbial/mammalian co-metabolite) was elevated in the samples taken from those on a vegetarian diet compared with samples taken from those on meat diets. This indicates that urine is sensitive to alterations of bacterial composition or metabolism in response to diet (Stella et al. 2006). The most significant results of this study were found in both the inter-individual and the intra-individual differences in the metabolic signatures of urine, with some participants showing a much greater metabolic response to diet standardization than did other participants. This confirms the effect of an individual’s metabotype on his/her urinary metabolic fingerprint that has to be considered in urine biomarker investigations.
4.2 Effects of sample collection time
In a comprehensive study published in 2007, the effect of the time of day on urine collection was evaluated (Slupsky et al. 2007). 1H NMR spectra of urine samples collected in the morning were compared with proton NMR spectra of samples collected from the same subjects in the afternoon. The concentrations of some metabolites, such as creatinine, mannitol, dimethylamine, 1-methylnicotinamide, xylose, and acetone, differed between the samples collected in the morning versus the samples collected in the afternoon (Slupsky et al. 2007). In another study, it was found that the concentration levels of 4-aminohippurate, aspartate, creatine, formate, glutamate, phenylalanine, salicylurate, tryptophan, and transaconitate were found to be different between morning and afternoon urine collection (Saude et al. 2007). The effects of collection time on metabolite concentration levels in human urine have been reported by other studies, suggesting that the sample collection time should be standardized in any urine metabolomics study (Maher et al. 2009; Saude et al. 2007). In general, it is reasonable to collect urine samples in the usual cups or vacutainers used for the common clinical urinalysis. To avoid potential chemical contaminant variations coming from the containers or filters, ideally one should try to use the same kind/brand of containers and filters for the duration of a given project.
4.3 Age and gender effects
Proton NMR spectroscopy was employed to study the effect of gender and age on the metabolic composition of urine (Kochhar et al. 2006; Faughnan et al. 2004; Gavaghan et al. 2000). In one study, the age of 40 was chosen as a threshold between young and old. The results demonstrated that proton NMR spectra can distinguish young and old subjects, suggesting that age plays a determining role in urine metabolite levels. Several metabolites, such as carnitine, 3-hydroxyisovalerate, creatinine, alanine, and trigonelline, could be used to distinguish the samples from young and old subjects (Slupsky et al. 2007). In another study, Kochhar et al. used NMR spectroscopy to analyze urine samples from 150 healthy participants to investigate the effects of gender, age and body mass index (BMI) on the metabolic signatures found in human urine. The results showed that the metabolic signatures in urine could be distinguished based on gender, age and BMI. Taurine, creatinine, and citrate could distinguish the gender of the subjects with taurine and creatine/creatinine concentrations being more elevated in urine from males, whereas citrate concentrations were elevated in the urine from females (Kochhar et al. 2006). Glycine, citrate, creatine/creatinine, dimethylamine, and other unidentified metabolites could be used to distinguish the age of the subjects. Gender metabolomic signatures in urine have also been demonstrated in other metabolomics studies (Duarte and Gil 2012; Faughnan et al. 2004; Psihogios et al. 2008).
4.4 Human metabolic phenotypes (metabotypes)
Determining an individual’s unique personal phenotype could be particularly useful in clinical and therapeutic applications such as personalized medicine and for following disease progression and enabling early diagnosis and prevention. Individual phenotypes may be different not only because individuals are genetically different, but also because of different environmental factors. Thus, the phenotype could be more relevant than the genotype when dealing with disease pathologies and individual responses to drug intervention or other external environmental stimuli. From an NMR-based metabolomics study of animal urine samples, Gavaghan et al. proposed the existence of unique metabolic phenotypes termed metabotypes (Gavaghan et al. 2000). A metabotype was defined as “a probabalistic multiparametric description of an organism in a given physiological state based on analysis of its cell types, biofuids or tissues” (Gavaghan et al. 2000).
By means of repeated sampling at different days in the same individual (multiple samples approach), Assfalg et al. provided evidence that individual phenotypes do exist. They investigated 873 human urine samples collected from 22 healthy subjects over 3 months (Assfalg et al. 2008). Samples collected from a subset of the same individuals 2 and 3 years after the initial study provided additional proof of the existence of individual metabotypes and showed that the metabolic fingerprint is stable over a time period of at least 2 or 3 years (Bernini et al. 2009; Blindauer et al. 1997). Furthermore, anecdotal evidence was reported indicating that identical twins can share very similar metabolic phenotypes (Bernini et al. 2009). Furthermore, the results demonstrated that an individual’s metabolic phenotype is affected by both the gut microbiome and host metabolic metabotypes (Bernini et al. 2009).
The multi-sample approach for characterizing an individual’s metabolic fingerprint opens the door to a new approach for biomedical research. In particular, whereas the metabolic snapshot (single sample) approach is generally used to study correlations between pathologies and the metabolome by comparing the differences between the metabolites found in a group of healthy individuals and a group of patients, the multiple-sample approach can be used to more accurately assess inter-person variability. It can also be used to take into account variations linked to disease development or progression, changes in lifestyle or stress response. In this way, an individual can act as a control for him/herself, increasing the power of the analysis. Multi-sample collection from the same individual over a long period of time will allow following disease onset/progression and the evaluation of the individual response to therapeutic intervention.
4.5 Gut microflora effects
The human body is known to be a host for numerous and complex consortia of microorganisms, many of which are found in the gut (Nicholson et al. 2012; Blumberg and Powrie 2012; Holmes et al. 2012). It has been reported that the development of an individual’s microbiome starts at birth when the microbial landscape (seed ecology) is passed from mother to child. After birth, it starts to take shape, subject to several factors, such as diet, lifestyle, use of antibiotics and pathological states (Ravel et al. 2011; Torrazza and Neu 2011; Nicholson and Wilson 2003). For example, intestinal bacteria are associated with the pathogenesis of several diseases, including irritable bowel syndrome (Martin et al. 2006), cardiovascular disease (Pereira and Gibson 2002), insulin resistance (Dumas et al. 2006), Crohn’s disease, gastrointestinal cancer (Dunne 2001), and celiac disease (Tjellstroem et al. 2007). Gut microflora also play a crucial role in regulating key physiological activities, such as processing and absorbing nutrients and the metabolism of many xenobiotic compounds (Lee et al. 2012). Several studies have shown that high levels of hippuric acid, and many other aromatic compounds observed in the urine of animals, originate from gut microbial metabolism of dietary polyphenols (Nicholls et al. 2003; Williams et al. 2002). It was pointed out that the gut is one of the important factors in determining the host’s metabolic phenotype (McKee et al. 2006). Since the outcomes of treatment interventions are influenced by an individual’s metabolic phenotype for which the gut status is a determining factor (Dumas et al. 2006), it has been proposed that gut microorganisms should be considered as part of personalized treatment solutions (Holmes et al. 2008b; Clayton et al. 2006; Nicholson et al. 2005). Recently, NMR-based metabolomic approaches were used to study the endogenous metabolic changes in the urine of pseudo germ-free rats. Changes in the levels of 25 metabolites were associated with the activities of gut microflora, highlighting the importance of gut microflora in the metabolic composition of urine in disease-related studies. All of the affected metabolites could be potential biomarkers (Lee et al. 2012). Recent studies (Bertini et al. 2009, 2011a) showed that, by applying NMR-based metabolomics to the study of celiac disease, several urinary metabolites originating from gut microflora were found to be significantly different between healthy controls and celiac patients.
4.6 Physical activity
Human metabolism is directly associated with physical activity. Such activity can affect the metabolic signature of urine over both short and long time periods. 1H NMR-based metabolomics approaches have been used to study metabolomic modifications in urine after different kinds and levels of physical activities (Enea et al. 2010). The results showed that it was possible to distinguish between urine samples collected before and after exercise, with levels of lactate, pyruvate, alanine, β-hydroxybutyrate, and hypoxanthine increased after exercise (Enea et al. 2010). 1H NMR-based metabolomics combined with multivariate statistical analysis could also differentiate the urine metabolome of participants involved in two exercise sessions which differed in the duration of the rest interval between repeated exercise efforts, namely three sets of two 80 min maximal runs separated by either 10 s or 1 min rest times (Pechlivanis et al. 2010). Samples collected pre and post exercise could be differentiated based on the metabolites lactate, pyruvate, hypoxanthine, compounds of the Krebs cycle, amino acids, and products of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolism whilst samples from the different rest intervals were separated via lactate, pyruvate, alanine, compounds of the Krebs cycle, 2-oxoacids of BCAA, and 2-hydroxybutyrate with higher amounts of these metabolites in samples from the shorter rest time. The authors attribute these increased metabolite levels to the greater metabolic disturbances arising from very limited recovery time (10 s) between each run, and highlight the potential role of metabolomics in enhancing knowledge of exercise physiology.
4.7 Interactions between factors that affect metabolite levels
The factors that affect metabolite concentration levels in human urine can be divided into two categories. The first category represents the factors that cannot be controlled such as age, gender, metabotype and gut microflora while the second category represents the factors that can be controlled such as diet, sample collection methods, sample storage and sample preparation and therefore require standardization. However, these factors are not completely independent. Indeed they can significantly influence each other, which further complicates disease diagnostic studies. For example, the level of hippurate, which is one of the most abundant metabolites in human urine, can be influenced by a wide range of physical, emotional and dietary effects. Substantial variations in hippurate levels have been associated with different psychiatric disorders disorders with decreased levels in schizophrenia and depression and elevated hippurate excretion levels during episodes of anxiety (Quastel and Wales 1938; Fabisch and Fellner 1957; Johannsen et al. 1962; Persky et al. 1950). Increased levels of hippurate were also found in the urine of type-I diabetic patients compared with samples from healthy controls (Zuppi et al. 2002). In another study, lower levels of hippurate were detected in urine samples from 15 morbidly obese subjects compared with samples collected from 10 healthy age-matched controls (Calvani et al. 2010). Perturbations in urinary hippurate levels were also reported in urine samples of children with autism (Yap et al. 2010). The perturbation of hippurate concentrations in human urine can be confusing in novel disease biomarker identification or validation as several diseases may lead to similar changes. Moreover other unrelated cofactors can also lead to different changes in the hippurate level. For example, elevated hippurate excretion has long been associated with several dietary components including tea, coffee, fruits and vegetables (Clifford et al. 2000; Cathcartrake et al. 1975). NMR-based metabolomics studies have also revealed significant changes in hippurate concentration levels in the urine of healthy subjects and these changes correlated with the subject’s age (Psihogios et al. 2008). Variation in the excretion levels of hippurate has also been found to be gender-correlated where higher hippurate concentrations were reported in the urine of females compared with age-matched male subjects (Psihogios et al. 2008; Siqueira and Paiva 2002). The effects of gut microbiota on hippurate concentrations in human and animal urine samples have been frequently reported (Nicholls et al. 2003; Nicholson et al. 2005; Cotran et al. 1960). Moreover, these cofactors may influence each other when different diets affect the gut microbiota excretions of hippurate (Lees et al. 2013), leading to further complications in disease diagnostic studies. Given these many influences, it is probably safe to say that hippurate cannot reasonably be used as a novel biomarker for any condition.
5 Sample preparation and experimental conditions
There are many reasons for modified metabolic concentrations in human urine, including diet, drug administration, health conditions, physical activity and environmental stressors. The collection of multiple samples from the same donor over a relatively extended time period helps identify the invariant part of the urine metabolome that characterizes an individual’s metabotype (Gavaghan et al. 2000; Bernini et al. 2009; Assfalg et al. 2008). On the other hand, the pre-analytical treatment of urine samples may alter the original metabolic profiles (Bernini et al. 2011b). The major cause of pre-analytical variation in urine samples arises from the presence of human or bacterial cells that may break upon sample freezing (due to water crystal formation) or arise from harsh centrifugation conditions employed to remove particulate matter from urine samples used in NMR. If cells are eliminated by filtration (or mild centrifugation) before NMR sample preparation or long-term storage, the unwanted effects can be easily attenuated. Adding NaN3 to urine at the moment of collection, or just before freezing the samples, is a recommended step in many proteomics analysis protocols to avoid bacterial growth (Thongboonkerd et al. 2006; Thomas et al. 2010) In NMR metabolomic studies it is more common to store samples without any preservative agent and to add sodium azide at the time of sample preparation for NMR analysis (Saude and Sykes 2007). However, there are examples of metabolomic studies where sodium azide was added immediately after sample collection (Grison et al. 2013; Ganti and Weiss 2011). It is well known that the presence of bacteria can alter the metabolic profile of urine (Saude and Sykes 2007), consequently it is recommended that urine samples be collected midstream (thereby avoiding the early urine flow that contains urethral contaminants) (Lewis et al. 2013) which is also the standard way to collect urine samples for clinical urinanalysis (Delanghe and Speeckaert 2014).
5.1 Subject (sample) selection
While most metabolomic studies pay attention to factors such as age, gender and diet, little information if any is available about the criteria for the choice of healthy control subjects. For comparative purposes, it is important that the definition of normal or healthy subjects be uniform. While there is a clear difference between someone being healthy and someone simply lacking disease symptoms, in most studies, a healthy subject is considered to be an individual with no underlying chronic disease. Beyond ensuring comparable ages and genders, healthy subjects should also share the same ethnicity and BMI as well as other environmental factors, such as geographical location, diet and whenever possible, lifestyle (e.g., level of exercise).
Apparently healthy (or disease-free) individuals frequently take dietary supplements, herbal medicines or over-the-counter drugs. These can clearly affect the metabolic composition of the urine. Therefore, a well-designed study should track consumption of these apparently “innocuous” compounds. In some cases, evidence of these compounds can be detected in the urine; however, without reference spectra for the compounds, their identity is often unknown. Finally, is worth mentioning that an individual can effectively act as his/her own control. This approach should encourage the development of metabolomics baseline screening as a routine procedure for large populations. When an individual is compared with his/herself, especially before the onset of the disease or before an intervention study, the variability is largely reduced, and the validity of the statistical analysis is improved (Westerhuis et al. 2010; Jansen et al. 2005). Careful attention should also be paid when collecting samples from patients who suffer from other diseases or with severe health conditions. As a general rule, no sample should be considered from “diseased” subjects who suffer from other obvious diseases apart from the target disease of interest.
5.2 Sample storage
Metabolomics researchers use a wide variety of methods and protocols to store urine samples. Many use freezing for long-term storage but the storage conditions may vary between different laboratories and even within the same lab or the same study. The effect of storage conditions on the metabolic composition of urine has been extensively studied using proton NMR-based metabolomics (Lauridsen et al. 2007). The results from this study showed that metabolite levels in human urine samples that were stored at or below −25 °C did not change during 26 weeks of storage time. On the other hand, formation of acetate was observed in some urine samples stored at 4 °C without the addition of any preservation agent. These changes were apparently due to microbial contamination because different urine samples have different microbial compositions (Lauridsen et al. 2007). The use of a 0.22 µm filter was recommended as a further step to separate urine from bacterial contaminants (Lauridsen et al. 2007; Gika et al. 2007; Saude and Sykes 2007; Barton et al. 2008). It is generally recommended that investigators use filtration and/or gentle centrifugation before freezing their urine samples to avoid the breakage of human or bacterial cells that may be present in the sample (Bernini et al. 2011b). Release of enzymes from cells induces changes in the metabolite composition and pH over time. Adding a preservative agent such as sodium azide (0.01–0.1 %) is also commonly used prior to urine storage because it can have an inhibitory effect on residual bacterial or enzymatic activity. For comparative studies, it is crucial to use identical types of collection tubes, filters and storage procedures according to an optimized standard operating procedure (SOP). Indeed, several reports have shown that microbial contamination and sample storage at 4 °C would lead to significant changes in the metabolic profile of urine samples and thus standardization of collection and storage of urine samples is strongly advised (Rasmussen et al. 2011; Ryan et al. 2011; Saude and Sykes 2007). It is also known that some urine analytes are sensitive to light. In the clinical literature, amber-colored urine containers are occasionally recommend to protect specimens from light, especially for certain kinds of urine tests (Delanghe and Speeckaert 2014). To the best of our knowledge, no systematic evaluation of the effect of the light on the urinary metabolome has been performed. To avoid repeated freezing/thawing cycles and repeated long-term exposure to light, urine samples should be split and stored as multiple, small aliquots (Bernini et al. 2011).
5.3 Salt and pH optimization
Depending on the person’s acid–base status, the pH value of normal human urine ranges from 5 to 8 (Martin Hernandez et al. 2001; Rylander et al. 2006; Welch et al. 2008). Compounds with chemical groups (such as imidazoles) that have pKa values near the physiological range are particularly sensitive to pH changes. Consequently, pH changes can lead to significant chemical shift changes in the NMR signals of these molecules (Xiao et al. 2009). Likewise, some polyvalent carboxylates (such as citrate) are particularly good at chelating metal cations. Consequently, these compounds exhibit significant chemical shift changes as the salt concentrations change (Bernini et al. 2011b; Foxall et al. 1992). Thus, it is crucial to adjust the pH of all urine samples prior to any NMR measurements. In many studies, a phosphate buffer is frequently used to maintain the desired pH value (Bernini et al. 2011b; Assfalg et al. 2008; Bernini et al. 2009). In one recent study, it was found that even with a concentration of 150 mM phosphate at pH 7.0, the pH values of urine vary approximately between 6.8 and 7.2 (Rist et al. 2013). Different approaches can be implemented to overcome the residual pH variation problem including the use of higher buffer concentrations (Lauridsen et al. 2007) and adjusting the pH by adding a small volume of acid, such as HCl, or a small volume of a concentrated base, such as NaOH (Bertram et al. 2007b). However, forcing the urine’s pH to a constant value can hide physiological or pathological information encoded in the pH changes. To eliminate the variations on the chemical shift resulting from inter-sample differences in divalent cation concentrations such as (Ca+2 and Mg+2), pre-precipitating with KF followed with adding deuterated EDTA was proposed (Jiang et al. 2012). It has been also recommended to use K2HPO4 instead of Na2HPO4 where high concentrations of buffer are needed to overcome the low solubility of Na2HPO4. In this case one can use buffer-urine ratio of 1:10 instead of traditionally 1:2, with better signal to noise ratio (Xiao et al. 2009).
If the ultimate goal is to move research from the benchtop to clinical practice, metabolomics researchers need to use well-standardized experimental conditions including standardized or optimized pH values. To avoid any sample preparation and/or instrumental variation that may lead to chemical shift differences, it is also highly recommended that a standard reference for chemical shift calibration be added. For proton and carbon NMR measurements of urine samples, both 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS) or its sodium salt and 3-trimethylsilylpropionic acid (TSP) can be used. DSS is known to be much less pH sensitive, but it is somewhat more hydrophobic than TSP. This hydrophobicity can lead to DSS binding (to proteins or lipids), which broadens the DSS reference line.
5.4 Experimental temperature
Temperature is another important factor affecting chemical shifts in metabolites, particularly in metabolites containing amide groups. Amide groups can form hydrogen bonds, and when the temperature is changed, the NMR chemical shifts of amide groups and the adjacent protons can vary, causing problems for later data analysis. In addition, temperature also impacts the T1 and T2 relaxation of metabolites. T2 relaxation is associated with the line-width of NMR signals, whereas T1 relaxation is related to NMR signal intensities. Hence, temperature variation can lead to problems in the quantification of metabolites. Therefore, in terms of data quality, it is vital to keep the temperature constant in all NMR acquisitions. It is usually convenient to keep the temperature at 25 °C (298 K). To ensure temperature equilibration samples should be left in the NMR probe for 10 min prior to spectral acquisition; a longer time is needed if an automated sample exchanger with cooling rack is used.
6 The metabolomics society and standardization initiatives
Several parallel metabolomics standardization efforts started as early as 2004, and by 2007 these efforts were gathered under the umbrella of the Metabolomics Society and rebranded as the Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI) (Salek et al. 2013c; Fiehn et al. 2007; Sumner et al. 2007). One major outcome was standardization on reporting metabolomics experiments with a set of minimum information guidelines, including a reporting requirement for NMR-based experiment data acquisition. In 2012, an FP7-funded EU Initiative called coordination of standards in metabolomics (COSMOS) was set up to bring together leading researchers and bioinformaticians of the European metabolomics community, members of the Metabolomics Society, along with other stakeholders worldwide to develop data infrastructure guidelines and workflows for a broad range of metabolomics applications (www.cosmos-fp7.eu). COSMOS also realizes that the potential of metabolomics cannot be exploited without major standardization of formats and terminologies. To work on commonly agreed-upon metabolomics data standards, the COSMOS initiative has gathered metabolomics and bioinformatics experts to establish a common data exchange format (syntax) and data semantics that maximize interoperability with other omics standards. This is achieved by using the general-purpose Investigation/Study/Assay tabular format (ISA-Tab) (Rocca-Serra et al. 2010) for experimental meta data information and adapting the xml-based formats for the instrument derived “raw” data types by the Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) (Orchard et al. 2003; Hermjakob et al. 2003). Data completeness is verified by using and extending the MSI Core Information for Metabolomics Reporting (CIMR http://biosharing.org/bsg-000175).
Based on an extensive review of the literature (summarized, in part, here) as well as discussions and agreements reached among the authors we wish to propose the following “best practice” recommendations regarding the collection, storage and NMR analysis of urine samples for the purposes of NMR-based metabolomics.
Ethical guidelines Before collecting any urine sample, ethical approval from the local research committee should be obtained. All donors must read and sign an informed consent, according to the ethical guidelines and privacy regulations associated with a given institution. As the ultimate goal is to generate reproducible data that can be exchanged between different groups it would reasonable to have a common ethical guideline proposed by Metabolomics Society, stating that donors are aware and they have agreed on sharing their sample data between different groups for research purposes.
Standard operating protocols (SOPs) The NMR metabolic fingerprint of sera/plasma and urine samples was monitored to establish the optimal standard operating procedures (SOPs) for pre-analytical handling of these biofluids for metabolomic studies and biobanks (Bertini et al. 2011b). The authors proposed the following procedures for the optimal processing and management of urine samples: (1) removal of cells and particulate matter through the combined use of a mild pre-centrifugation step at 1,000–3,000 rpm (5 min at 4 °C) using a 0.22 micron filter; (2) long-term storage of samples in liquid nitrogen (or liquid nitrogen vapor) to avoid the lysis of residual cells; (3) fast processing (within 2 h of collection); and (4) storage at 4 °C between collection and processing. In the opinion of the authors, the addition of additives (such as enzyme inhibitors) should be avoided because the required concentrations introduce unwanted signals in the NMR spectra that would mask the resonances of metabolites of interest and may also induce changes in pH, ionic strength, etc. that affect the original NMR profiles.
Consumables use one brand of consumables for all samples (e.g., containers for sample collection and storage, sample preparation tubes, filtration devices and NMR tubes). Note that collection and storage tubes as well as filtration units may contain impurities such as polyethylene glycol, so they should be screened to establish their purity prior to use.
Sample or patient selection detailed criteria for sample/patient selection should be included in the Methods section or the experimental protocol. For example, samples collected from patients with other diseases or confounding conditions (such as kidney failure, diabetes and any metabolic disorders) apart from the target disease should be excluded from diagnostic studies. If possible, good quality dietary, dietary supplement and drug intake information should also be collected for each individual. Dietary information may be obtained through food frequency questionnaires, while drug intake and dietary supplement information may be obtained through direct patient queries. The minimum information required from each participant for diagnostic investigations (age, gender, ethnicity, BMI, smoking status, etc.) is proposed in Table 2.
Subject information that is proposed to be included in diagnostic studies
Phenotypic descriptions
Genotype information
Individual information
Pregnancy, menstruation
Restricted diet (for example vegetarian, vegan etc.)
Health status, Mental status
Nutrition (food intake)
Waist–hip ratio*
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)**
Drug administered
Lifestyle (work)
Physical exercise
Fasting and others
* Waist–hip ratio is significant factor in studies that involve obesity and obesity related disease such as diabetes and cardiovascular (de Koning et al. 2007; Czernichow et al. 2011; Chan et al. 2003; Shah et al. 2009)
** (SNP) Single-nucleotide polymorphism
Sample collection urine should be collected in the morning (preprandial). To avoid contamination from urethral bacteria, only mid-stream urine should be collected. At least 15 mL of urine should be collected in a sterile polyethylene tube. Sample tubes must be leak-proof and tightly sealed. The samples should be processed and aliquoted within 2 h from the collection, but preferably faster. Samples must be kept refrigerated at 4 °C prior to processing and must not be frozen prior to processing (Bernini et al. 2011b).
Centrifugation urine samples should be centrifuged at 1,000–3,000 rpm (5 min at 4 °C) and then filtered using a 0.22 µm filter before aliquoting and storage (Bernini et al. 2011b) using appropriately labeled cryovials
Additives ideally, urine samples should be free of externally added chemicals or enzymes to reduce interference with metabolite signals. However, addition of micromolar quantities of inorganic bacteriostatic agents such as sodium azide (to limit bacterial growth) is appropriate and justified. The addition of small (~1 mM) amounts of EDTA (Jiang et al. 2012) has also been shown to reduce paramagnetically induced chemical shift variability among certain compounds, thereby giving greater spectral reproducibility.
Sample freezing dry ice should not be used to freeze urine samples (Rist et al. 2013). For short-term storage (<2 weeks), samples can be stored at −20 °C. For long-term storage, urine samples should be stored at −80 °C using an appropriate freezer. If possible, for very long-term storage, it is better to keep the samples in liquid nitrogen vapor (Bernini et al. 2011b).
Sample transfer if samples must be transferred or re-aliquoted, it is important to maintain the cold chain during transport, storage and delivery using appropriate cryogenic storage dewars.
Chemical shift referencing and locking small amounts (<1 mM) of DSS (preferred) or TSP (second choice) should be added to urine samples prior to NMR spectral acquisition. 5–10 % D2O (as part of the pH buffer) should also be added to all urine samples to permit signal locking.
pH urine samples should be appropriately buffered with a non-organic buffer (i.e., 100–150 mM phosphate) and brought to a pH between 6.8 and 7.4. Details of the buffering process and pH adjustment protocol should be provided. If samples must be analyzed at very low pH values (to detect certain compounds) or without modification of the pH, this information must be provided and appropriately justified.
Sample numbers unlike animal models or cell line experiments, where experimental and environmental conditions can be well controlled, human studies do not have the same controls. Consequently, larger numbers of samples are necessary to mitigate inter- and intra-sample variations. The number of samples used in different studies can vary significantly, depending on the strength of differentiating signals. Ideally, the number of the samples used should be justified during the experimental planning phase, using appropriate power calculations. However, in exploratory or pilot studies where statistical information for power calculations is not available, a good rule of thumb is to use ~30 samples and ~30 controls.
Sample randomization If larger numbers of samples are being studied (>10), spectral acquisition should be performed after sample randomization, in order to avoid biasing results due to instrument conditions or operator differences.
Magnetic field although NMR-based metabolomics studies on urine would benefit from the use of the highest accessible fields, to date most NMR-based metabolomic studies have been conducted using 600 MHz NMR spectrometers, as these instruments offer a good compromise between sensitivity, resolution and cost.
Pulse sequences most applications of NMR for metabolomics research rely on 1D NMR experiments. The technique used for water suppression is critically important for the comparability between NMR data. Results obtained from multivariate analysis of NMR spectra taken under different solvent suppression conditions can be erroneously interpreted as biological differences (Potts et al. 2001) if water suppression artifacts are not carefully excluded. The most used 1D NMR pulse sequence in urine metabolomics is 1D-noesypresat (Kumar et al. 1980). Longer acquisition times (4 s) and shorter delays (~1 s) appear to produce the best results regarding maximal metabolite signal intensity and minimal water signal. Shimming: While automated shimming options in new NMR spectrometers have made metabolomic data collection relatively quick and easy, manual shimming might be necessary to improve the quality of spectra. Adjustment of the field and lock position/phase during the shimming process should also improve the signal quality (signal-to-noise, peak symmetry and line width). The shims can be optimized by assessing line shape and width at half height of the reference signal, where the line width of standards such as DSS or TSP should yield a signal between 0.5 and 1.0 Hz.
Temperature it is known that variation of experimental temperature can affect the chemical shift of metabolites, to differing extents (Hongting Cao 2008). Thus, it is crucial to standardize and maintain the NMR experimental temperature. We propose 298 K as the standard temperature, which is close to average room temperatures such that the experimental temperature may be easily maintained during the course of the experiment when many samples are usually involved. To ensure temperature equilibration, samples should remain in the NMR probe for 10 min before spectral acquisition and a longer time is needed when an automated sample exchanger with a cooling rack is used for loading a sequence of samples.
Minimum experimental and instrumental reporting standards for the sake of creating comparable and exchangeable NMR data between different groups, it is important to standardize the minimum experimental details including sample selection, collection, storage and preparation along with reporting NMR parameters as proposed by the Metabolomics Standards Initiative (Sumner et al. 2007). This enables the interrogation and comparison of NMR data as well as facilitating experimental replication (Sumner et al. 2007).
Reporting new bio-markers In addition to careful consideration of all factors that may influence metabolite concentrations in human urine, researchers should pay extra attention when reporting new disease biomarkers derived from urinary measurements. In particular, we propose that new urinary biomarkers should be absolutely quantified or quantifiable, they should be appropriately normalized (using creatinine, specific gravity or other accepted methods), they should be robust towards the identification of the disease (sensitivity and/or specificity >0.7), they should have a well-defined formula, threshold or decision algorithm that is clearly stated and the biomarker(s) should be validated using different populations (differing in geographic location, age, gender and/or ethnicity), including populations with potentially confounding disease states or symptoms.
8 Concluding remarks
Human diseases lead to different variations in metabolite concentrations that are directly correlated with disease progression. For example, if the concentration of certain metabolites increases as a result of disease status, these changes can provide valuable information about the progression of the disease. Furthermore, a disturbance in metabolite levels could happen before the onset of clinical symptoms, thereby making the marker(s) useful for disease prediction. In addition to disease diagnosis, prognosis and prediction, the identification of novel disease fingerprints and biomarkers is also proving to be important in increasing our understanding of disease pathology and in monitoring treatment efficacy. Despite the general success of using NMR-based metabolomics of urine in distinguishing between healthy and diseased individuals, novel biomarker discovery remains an on-going challenge. Several factors such as lifestyle, diet, ethnicity, general health condition, sample selection, sample storage, and sample preparation can alter metabolite concentrations in urine, leading to major problems that may complicate and interfere with a study. In an effort to mitigate these problems, we have conducted a broad survey of the literature and investigated (within our labs) some of the current practices for NMR-based metabolomics studies of urine. Based on this information, we have identified a number of best practices and have compiled a series of recommendations for conducting NMR-based metabolomic studies of urine. In presenting and justifying these recommendations, we hope that the metabolomics community will adopt them as part of their standard experimental and publication routine. These best-practice recommendations certainly could go a long way to help the metabolomics community translate important discoveries from the lab into the clinic.
We thank Dr. Virginia Unkefer from KAUST for her assistance and helpful remarks. This work was partly supported by the European Commission-funded FP7 project COSMOS (312941). The authors certify that they have no conflict of interest with any affiliations or entity with any financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
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1.Imaging and Characterization Core LabKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSAThuwalSaudi Arabia
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3.Centro Risonanze Magnetiche – CERMUniversity of FlorenceFlorenceItaly
4.FiorGen FoundationSesto Fiorentino, FlorenceItaly
5.Centre of Biomedical Research, Formerly known as Centre of Biomedical Magnetic ResonanceSanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences CampusLucknowIndia
6.Department of Biochemistry & Cambridge Systems Biology CentreUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
7.European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)Wellcome Trust Genome CampusCambridgeUK
8.School of Agricultural and Wine SciencesCharles Sturt UniversityWagga WaggaAustralia
9.Pharmacometabolomics Center, School of MedicineDuke UniversityDurhamUSA
10.Brazilian Biosciences National LaboratoryLNBioCampinasBrazil
11.Department of Anethesiology and Pain Medicine, Northwest Metabolomics Research CenterUniversity of WashingtonSeattleUSA
12.Wuhan Institute of Physics and MathematicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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From AL.com - The U.S. Air Force has passed on a project to bring the making of its next-generation training jet to Macon County.
A partnership by Boeing and Saab won a $9.2 billion contract to produce at least 351 training jets for the U.S. Air Force, according to reports from Defense News and others.
Italian firm Leonardo DRS, an affiliate of the company that builds jet fighter trainers for several of America's allies, was one of the bidders on the project and has chosen Macon County as the plant site if it won the contract. The bid centered on the history surrounding Moton Field and its association with the Tuskegee Airmen.
The billion-dollar project would have brought an estimated 750 direct jobs to Macon County, officials said, as well as many associated jobs. Leonardo DRS proposed building the T-100, a new version of a jet fighter trainer it already supplies for Italy, Israel, Poland and Singapore.
Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield said, though the result wasn't what was hoped for, it did give the region exposure.
"While we are disappointed that the Air Force chose an alternate for Leonardo DRS and the T-100 as its next jet trainer aircraft, it's extremely positive that Tuskegee's Moton Field has been recognized internationally as an ideal site for an aerospace project," Canfield said.
"Leonardo DRS is a world-class company, and their team has been great to work with throughout the selection process. Additionally, I commend officials at the City of Tuskegee, Macon County and Tuskegee University for their hard work on this project, which has united the community and the region. In particular, Joe Turnham (director of the Macon County Economic Development Authority), who put his heart and soul into the project, deserves special recognition," he said.
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Everyday Prisons – Women’s Lives Under Occupation
AuthorMedia DiversifiedPosted on September 24, 2013 February 17, 2016 CategoriesAcademic, Feminism, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Samah Saleh, Yasmin GunaratnamTagsIsrael, Israeli Occupation, Israeli settlement, Palestine, Palestinian people, Palestinian women, Pierre Bourdieu, Prison, West Bank
by Samah Saleh
Hanan, a Palestinian woman, was released in a prisoner exchange, after serving five years of her life sentence. In an interview, during my research on women in Israeli prisons, Hanan closed her eyes as she described prison as no more than a series of boxes.
The boxes are connected to each other’ she explained, the distress in her voice rising ‘And we need a permit from the guards to move around. All boxes are connected to one lock, which is in the hands of the guard”.
Another woman, imprisoned for two years, says that on her release, she felt she had left a small prison to live in a larger one. In effect, to live in the occupied territories of Palestine is to live in a prison, one closed box after another, boxes that I cannot always get through, that I need permission to enter and leave. I must navigate strategically, carefully. Unlike many of you, where I go and at what times is heavily restricted and policed. For Palestinian women, our everyday movements and our bodies are regulated by the complicated relationships and entanglements between colonial and patriarchal power. In the process, the boundaries between what is public and private space are shifting. Ironically, it is the very eating away of these borders between the home and public life that has become a new, although precarious ground, for women’s resistance and empowerment.
In trying to investigate women’s experiences, I have been interviewing Palestinian women prisoners for the past two years, collecting their stories of prison and post-prison life. As well as stories, I have become interested in visual images by Palestinian photographers, who are trying to show the small sensual and mundane effects of occupation. This is a different side to the sudden interest by Western feminists in Palestinian women as suicide bombers, following the second Intifada that began in 2000. As the feminist scholar Nahla Abdo has argued, such interest has often resulted in decontextualized snap-shots of women that fail to uncover the interrelations between colonialism, racialisation and gender. When so much of the Palestinian cultural archive – documents, art, film, radio and TV stations – has been destroyed, such images can become a vital part of ‘counter history and memory.
I began my research with a focus on incarceration. This has now broadened to take into account the ‘prison’ of Israeli occupation. I have become interested in how time and space are disrupted and can be reconfigured by the encounters that take place on, across and through women’s bodies. What happens when our ordinary un-thought habits are brought to the surface and made strange? What makes a mundane activity such as shopping, walking with your baby, or seeing friends, acts that threaten the body politic? As the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has argued, the body and bodily habits are crucial to understanding and uncovering the myriad ways in which power operates
It is because the body is (at different degrees) exposed,
put into play, into danger in the world, confronted with the
risk of emotion, hurt, suffering, sometimes death, and thus
obliged to take the world seriously (and nothing is more serious
than emotion, which touches on the innermost depth of our organic dispositions),
that it can acquire dispositions which are themselves
opening to the world, that is, to the very structures of the social
world of which they are the embodied form.
For Palestinians, and especially women, our day-to-day life under Israeli colonialism is marked by confinement. The prison doors and bars have been replaced by identity cards, borders, house invasion and curfew. Palestine is a place of many checkpoints, barriers and walls that carve up the area of Palestinian Authority into small, circumscribed spaces, making even the most ordinary of movements, such as a trip to see relatives or friends or to buy food, fraught and difficult. The simplest of journeys becomes arduous and degrading. We can spend hours trying to circumnavigate checkpoints to reach a destination. Some of us now only go out when we have to. Why make yourself vulnerable to intimidation or danger? Our minds become limited, possibilities narrow, our bodies become vigilant, hypersensitive to threat and danger. Out of fear and insecurity, we impose psychic fences around our own movements before we have even encountered the cold steely metal and barbed wire of the checkpoint. We become suspicious about everything. We discipline and regulate ourselves without being conscious of it. This is the modern colonial reversioning of what Dubois called ‘doubled consciousness’ – the ‘sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.’
Israel’s segregation or ‘Annexation’ wall, that began to be built over a decade ago, extends like a snake over 450km. In some places the snake has slithered into the West Bank, cutting off Palestinian communities from vital social and economic resources. The route of the wall cuts off more than ten per cent of the territory of the occupied West Bank and more than 60,000 Palestinians between the Green Line and the wall. Palestinians in these areas are obliged to obtain Israeli permits, valid for up to a year, in order to keep living in their own homes. Many more Palestinians live on the other side of the wall but need to pass through it to access their land, jobs and family, as well as places of education and health facilities. Palestinians living on either side of the wall must obtain Israeli permits to cross through specific gates in the wall. The route of the wall also includes more than three quarters of Israeli settlers, concretising the link between the wall and Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Such demarcations not only protect Israeli illegal settlements but are also a daily reminder of the precarious rights of Palestinians within their own land PDF – The Wall in the West Bank Implementation of ICJ Advisory Opinion November2006 (f). The wall and the flying checkpoints are continually moving. We do not know if or when ‘our’ land will slip out from under us. It puts you on edge. You feel insecure, watched, conscious and suspicious of all around you.
The image that you see below is of a woman crossing an electronic gate in Hwara. Her anxiety and fear in the tight cage of the checkpoint are written into her face; the hand that holds her baby is full of protective tension. It is the routinisation of these state-sponsored acts of terror that are the most disturbing. Palestinian women know all too well that there is no humanity at the checkpoint, whether you are with your baby or children, whether you are pregnant or even in labour. Research by Halla Shoaibi estimated that during the time of her study (2000-2007), 10 percent of Palestinian women who were pregnant were delayed at checkpoints on their way to hospital to give birth. More and more women are now opting to give birth at home, despite the increased risks.
The French philosopher Michel Foucault (1975) has described what he called the ‘panoptic’ gaze of ‘bio-power’, whereby the individual is under constant social surveillance. For Foucault, modern sovereign power does not so much exercise the ancient right to take life or let live. Its power is more diffuse, more sinister. It gets inside our heads and bodies. So while the walls and checkpoints are the material manifestations of Israel’s bio-power, what is much more insidious and alarming is the way Palestinians have learned to discipline our own minds and bodies, long before we have ever reached the walls or the checkpoint.
Military occupation in school, homes and hospitals – the everyday spaces where Palestinian women could move freely – has shaped the ways in which women are both subjected to and resist Israeli coercion and male power. Women’s bodies and lives have become a frontline, another boundary. The next image is again from the Hwara checkpoint. It shows a social layering of bodies – the Palestinian men who have their backs to the camera are in between the Israeli soldiers and the women, who are behind the electronic gate. This arrangement of bodies tells us so much about the challenges Palestinian women face when they participate in public life.
In Palestinian society, it is men’s responsibility to protect women and family honour. Family honour is very much entwined with women’s behavior, particularly in public. The military checkpoints, which are mainly operated by men, are laden with a dangerous tapestry of power for women, who often face racist-sexualised harassment at checkpoints. My own experience, as well the stories that women have shared with me, show how occupation and the increased policing of women’s movements in the occupied territories can impose limits on women outside of the home. They can worry about their reputation and family honor. At the same time, the private space of the home has begun to open to the public as a result of the occupation and resistance movements. Women have become involved in all aspects of political life, even in their homes, where they sometimes hide and protect others. They have become involved in neighborhood committees supporting people whose houses have been destroyed. They support and share the grief of the mothers and sisters of martyrs or prisoners. And they participate in political life by the simple acts of crossing checkpoints and living through the invasion and the curfews imposed upon their cities, villages and refugee camps.
The final image is from Balata refugee camp, the woman is a mother who has just heard that her son has been killed. All the women in the neighbouring households have left their homes to accompany this woman. It is a spontaneous, unthinking response to the pain of another. Some of the women are still in their pajamas and bare feet, the traces of the private insinuating its foot prints in the public world of colonial violation. This is the shaky, blood-stained ground on which women have become a part of public life in Palestine.
As we women take on roles in public activities such as at martyrs funerals, it is not only women from the same family or who have a personal connection to the deceased. Women are starting to participate in demonstrations and other political activities. Others are choosing to take part in military actions against the Israeli occupation. Latifa, a mother of seven children, spent 8 years in Israeli prison and was released in the prisoner exchange in 2011. Latifa responded angrily to my naïve question about what had motivated her to be a part of a resistance movement ‘What do you want me to do? Stand on the side and watch? They killed my dad in front of my eyes in the 80s, I could not stay in the house and do nothing.’
The roles women play in resistance to the occupation have been seen as signifying “Sumud” or steadfastness, defined as ‘Meari Sumud’, a Palestinian mode of becoming, passive resistance and orienting oneself in a colonial reality. PDF – Introduction to an Encounter. It is an act of day-to-day bodily survival and various affective coping strategies. There is a danger of romanticizing Sumud as the definining subjectivity of Palestinian women; something that feeds into orientalist thinking and myth-making about Muslim women. But there is nothing passive about Sumud. What is so important about Palestinian women’s resistance under Israeli apartheid, is that it is bringing to light the hidden layers and reach of the toxicity of colonialism and its varying impacts on men and women, family and community relationships.
In his forensic examination of the psychology of Israeli occupation, Edward Said drew attention to what he called ‘negative hallucinations’ : of not being able to see or recognise the existence of an other. These negative hallucinations are alive in the Western cultural psyche and in the media’s portrayal of Palestine and Palestinians. At the very least, Palestinian women’s diversifying roles in public life – even when these roles are associated with home and family – interrupt the hallucinations and rational detachments. They show us that the disassociations between the private and the public, the personal and the political are always misleading, always dangerous.
Samah Saleh is a PhD candidate in the Sociology department of Goldsmiths (London). Her doctoral research is about the experience of Palestinian women’s incarceration in Israeli prisons. She is following women’s lives before, during and after imprisonment. As a women’s rights activist in Palestine she has also been involved in a research on violence against women and has worked on women’s rights issues in her position in An-Najah National University as a social worker and academic. @samahsaleh8
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Zanna says:
Thank you so much for this unforgettable piece of writing and for sharing the film.
This article has crossed barriers for me, I understand and empathise on a new level with the experience of occupation, the daily humiliation, agony and distortion of the spirit.
Seeing the soldiers giving their ‘performance’, enacting their power as agents of the state, it is their casualness that is most disturbing, their theatrical denial of authority: “it’s not my decision!”. Maybe there is nothing more terrifying than an armed man with absolute power over you, who has been relieved of the burden of responsibility and humanity towards you.
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Professor Deirdre Devine
Position: Chair of Oral Microbiology
Areas of expertise: Microbiology; oral microbiology; biofilms; host-microbe relationships; innate defences; antimicrobial peptides; Porphyromonas gingivalis; probiotics; oral and systemic health
Email: D.A.Devine@leeds.ac.uk
Location: 11.13 Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St James Hospital
Having joined the University of Leeds in 1995 as a Lecturer, I was appointed in 2009 as Professor of Oral Microbiology in the School of Dentistry.
I first studied Microbiology at the University of Reading, graduating in 1982, and then gained a PhD in 1988 from the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, University of London. A period as a Research Associate in the University of Manchester (1987-1989) was followed by my appointment as a Lecturer at the University of Bradford in 1989 from where I moved to Leeds.
I am currently the Faculty of Medicine and Health Lead for Research Quality and Impact (REF), working with a team across the Faculty to prepare our submissions for REF 2021. I am also Lead for the School of Dentistry Microbiology and Cell Biology Research Theme and the Deputy Head of the Division of Oral Biology.
In my time at Leeds I have undertaken a variety of other academic roles and responsibilities. For example, I led a team who developed and introduced (2005) new Doctoral programmes (Integrated PhD and Profession Doctorate). I was the School of Dentistry Director of Research & Innovation (2009 - 2015) and, from 2009-2014, the University Lead for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 Unit of Assessment 3 (Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy).
I was recently elected as a member of Council of the Microbiology Society. I have previously been elected to national committees of the Society for Applied Microbiology, Society for General Microbiology and the Oral Microbiology and Immunology group of the British Society for Dental Research.
I have been a member of BBSRC Core Committee B since 2016, having been a member Member of BBSRC Pool Appointments Board (Committee B) from 2012-2016 and the Medical Research Council (UK) College of Experts (Infection and Immunity Board) 2005-2010.
I currently supervise six postgraduate research students and have supervised a further 18 who graduated between 1993 and 2018. I have acted as External PhD examiner for 14 PhD candidates from Universities in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
Faculty of Medicine & Health Lead for Research Quality & Impact (REF)
Lead, Microbiology & Cell Biology Research Theme (School of Dentistry)
Deputy Head of Division of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry
My research endeavours to understand the roles of microbes and host responses in health and disease; including (i) characterising and controlling oral biofilms ii) understanding host-microbe homeostasis, iii) cellular responses and innate defences in infectious and malignant disease, iv) understanding the links between oral and systemic diseases.
I have proposed, planned and edited 2 books, written >70 research papers and reviews, and numerous reports for commercial sponsors.
I have contributed to attracting grant funding of > £6.5 million from diverse sources including research councils, charities and Industrial sponsors.
PhD Microbiology, University of London, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, 1988
BSc (Hons) 2i, University of Reading, Microbiology, 2i, 1982
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I have wide experience in teaching and the management of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, mostly in Dentistry, and experience in curriculum design and planning of both undergraduate and postgraduate Dental clinical and basic science programmes, working closely with clinical Dental colleagues. I was a member of the School Teaching & Student Education Committee from 2008-2015, and was co-opted onto the Faculty of Medicine & Health Learning and Teaching Committee.
I have in my time at Leeds been invited to join University working groups relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and the student experience, including the Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Group, Learning and Teaching Partnership Agreement; the Leeds for Life Academic Group on Values, Skills and Attributes and Curriculum Enhancement Group.
I participate in pastoral care activities and currently I am Personal Tutor to 10 Dental undergraduates.
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Could cancer anti-sickness drug end the misery for IBS patients?
Faculty of Medicine and Health news Monday 17 December 2018
Could a commonly-prescribed anti-sickness drug be the answer for the 1.3 million people in the UK who suffer the pain and misery of irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D)?
A nationwide clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Nottingham in collaboration with researchers from Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's and funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will assess the medication ondansetron, which is currently used by doctors to help cancer patients cope with nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.
The team includes a world-renowned clinical trials unit, methodological experts, and key opinion leaders in irritable bowel syndrome.
Professor Alexander Ford - Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's
The research will aim to establish whether a much lower dose of the drug could also be a successful treatment for the abdominal pain and urgent bowel movements typically experienced by IBS patients.
The researchers are aiming to recruit 400 adults who have IBS with diarrhoea from more than 20 hospitals across the UK to take part in the research and are appealing for anyone interested in taking part to visit its newly launched website to find out whether they are eligible for the study by answering a few simple questions.
Professor Robin Spiller, of the University’s Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, said: “Our pilot study suggested this was very valuable for reducing the need for urgent bowel movements which patients find so disruptive of their daily activities, both at work and when they should be relaxing and enjoying life.”
The trial is being carried out in collaboration with Nottingham University NHS Hospital Trust, as part of the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, and will be run from the Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit at the University of Leeds.
Half of the volunteers taking part in the 12-week study will be prescribed ondansetron, while the other half will receive a placebo.
Participants will be asked to keep a detailed diary and respond to daily text messages to document their symptoms which will help doctors to assess any potential benefits of the new medication.
Ondansetron was developed to treat the side effects of chemotherapy which cause abnormally high amounts of a natural substance called serotonin to be released. This stimulates receptors in the brain and gut and sends signals to the part of the brain that causes nausea and controls vomiting.
The drug ondansetron works by blocking the serotonin and interrupting the messages which trigger nausea and sickness but it also has important effects on the gut.
Professor Alexander Ford, Professor of Gastroenterology at Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's and one of the researchers on the trial noted that "This is a very important study, being carried out by the Universities of Nottingham and Leeds, with 14 hospitals in the UK. Ondansetron is a drug with a well-established safety profile, that is cheap so, if it shows a benefit in this definitive trial for people with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea, widespread adoption of the drug would lead to improved social functioning and quality of life for sufferers as well as huge cost savings to the NHS."
Some patients with IBS with diarrhoea have an excess of serotonin in their intestine which stimulates frequent bowel movements and the researchers are keen to find out whether the ondansetron can also work to block the action of the serotonin in this instance.
The patient’s response to the drug may also depend on genetic factors so the variation in the gene controlling the production of serotonin will also need to be considered.
If the ondansetron is found to be effective then unlike most new treatments as it is “off patent” it is inexpensive could be easily introduced to both improve treatment for patients and save the NHS money.
Ondansetron has been used as an anti-sickness medication for around 30 years, so doctors are confident that it is safe and is unlikely to have any unexpected side effects.
If it is proved to be successful in treating IBS with diarrhoea, ondansetron could be rapidly adopted and lead to a change in NICE guideline recommendations. This would mean GPs could prescribe a cheap drug to help patients with the condition throughout the UK.
Among those hospitals taking part are: Nottingham City Hospital; St James’ University Hospital, Leeds; Royal Stoke University Hospital; Barts Health NHS Trust, London; St Marks Hospital, London North West; University College London; Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester; Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Darlington Memorial Hospital, County Durham; City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham; Barnsley Hospital; Western General, Edinburgh; Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield; The James Cook Hospital, South Tees.
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Texas State Veterans Cemetery at Abilene Honors Pilot Killed in Vietnam War
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Lieutenant Commander Charles Bernard Goodwin, a Navy pilot whose plane vanished during the Vietnam War over 50 years ago, was laid to rest on Friday, October 12 at the Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Abilene.
The Fort Worth-Dallas Patriot Guard Riders were on hand to escort LCDR Goodwin from the DFW airport to Weatherford on Thursday, where the West Texas Patriot Guard Riders took over and accompanied his remains to the funeral home in Abilene.
On Friday, a Naval Honor Guard performed military honors and carried the flag-draped casket to the committal shelter. A rifle detachment from Fort Worth gave a 21-gun salute, two military planes from Naval Air Station Corpus Christi flew overhead and a sailor performed “Taps” with his bugle. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Rodney P. “Tool” DeWalt presented the flag to Clayton Taylor, Mr. Goodwin’s cousin.
Charles Bernard Goodwin was born in Haskell, Texas on August 2, 1940. He loved airplanes as a child and after graduating from Haskell High School in 1958 he joined the Navy and attended Aviation Preflight Indoctrination school at the Naval Air Station Pensacola until 1961.
On September 8, 1965, at the age of 25, after launching his RF-8A from the USS Coral Sea, Goodwin was headed to North Vietnam for a combat photo mission when he reported that he was flying into a thunderstorm. This would be his last communication.
“Search efforts over the target area and adjacent coastal waters were unsuccessful, no emergency radio signals were heard and no aircraft wreckage was sighted. Goodwin was declared missing in action as of September 8, 1965,” said SFC Kristen L. Duus of the U.S. Army Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
Charles Goodwin
In 1988, a Vietnamese refugee suggested that there may be evidence of possible remains and Goodwin’s military identification card. For 23 years, between 1993 and 2016, the Vietnamese Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) and the Joint U.S./Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) units attempted to located the crash site, but were unsuccessful.
In December 2016, a Vietnamese national provided possible human remains to the Joint Forensic Review team who sent them on to the DPAA laboratory for further anthropolgical analysis and identification. After LCDR Goodwin’s remains were positively identified he was officially accounted for on May 8, 2017.
We are honored to finally welcome LCDR Charles Goodwin home after all these years. It is our privilege to watch over him. R.I.P. Sailor.
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Ben Foster to Star in Director Stephen Frears' Lance Armstrong Biopic
Ben Foster is in final negotiations to portray seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong in an untitled biopic to be directed by Stephen Frears.
John Hodge (Trance, Trainspotting) wrote the screenplay which covers the cyclist's career from his testicular cancer comeback to winning seven Tour De France championships to his eventual admission that he used performance enhancing drugs during his record-breaking run.
Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing, and fast-tracking the project that could start production as early as this fall, which could put it in contention to beat two other Lance Armstrong biopics out of the starting gate.
Back in January, we reported that Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions are working on an Untitled Lance Armstrong Project, based on a book proposal entitled Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by New York Times sports journalist Juliet Macur, who had covered the cyclist for more than a decade.
Then, in March, we reported that Warner Bros. is developing their own Lance Armstrong biopic, securing the life rights of Tyler Hamilton, one of Lance Armstrong's teammates on the United States Postal Service cycling team, and one of the first to testify under oath that his teammate was doping. Jay Roach is attached to direct from a script by Scott Z. Burns. There is also the Alex Gibney documentary The Armstrong Lie, which we reported two days ago was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.
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Radina Dosseva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she began her music studies at the age of 5. She lived for several years in Africa with her family, where she learned about different types of music and cultures. In 2003 she moved to the United States with her family and in 2008 she completed her music education at the Levine School of Music and her high school education at George Mason High School.
She went on to receive her Bachelor’s degree with a double major in Music and Sociology from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, followed by a Master’s degree in Music Theory and Composition from East Carolina University in North Carolina. Radina then continued her studies and received a second Master’s degree in Piano Pedagogy from George Mason University in Virginia.
In 2016, she was a recipient of the Fairfax Spotlight on the Arts Scholarship for the Mason Community Arts Academy.
Radina is currently studying and teaching at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she is a doctoral candidate in Piano Pedagogy. Radina currently studies piano with Dr. Nikita Fitenko and piano pedagogy with Dr. James Litzelman.
Radina is a member of MTNA, NVMTA, and BMI, and is a music theory, composition, and piano teacher in the Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. areas. Radina has extensive teaching experience, both in classroom and private settings, and she welcomes students of all ages and levels.
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In addition to teaching, playing the piano, and composing, Radina also played prima domra in the American Balalaika Symphony under the direction of Peter Trofimenko for 10 years. Radina has performed in numerous concerts of the orchestra in the Washington D.C. area.
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Trayvon Martin Killer George Zimmerman Allegedly Threatened to Feed Beyonce to an Alligator
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George Zimmerman, the man who shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin dead in 2012, allegedly threatened to feed Beyonce and Jay-Z to an alligator in a series of text messages.
According to a report by The Blast, Zimmerman allegedly sent private investigator Dennis Warren, who was involved with docu-series Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, texts threatening Beyonce and Jay-Z, the latter of whom served as a co-executive producer.
"I’m bringing hell with me," Zimmerman allegedly wrote in one text. "Oh, yea and tell Jay-Z he’s a b---h and his wife is a broke w---e."
In another text, Zimmerman apparently threatened to feed the performers to an alligator, writing, "If I see either of them in my life, they’ll find themselves inside a 13-foot ‘gator."
Warren claims he has received numerous texts and voicemails from Zimmerman since participating in Rest In Power.
On February 26, 2012, Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Martin in the Sanford, Florida Twin Lakes Community, in which Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch coordinator. He was later acquitted of murder charges on July 13, 2013.
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Where shall wisdom come from?
Written by Lorraine Cavanagh Lorraine Cavanagh
Published: 11 May 2016 11 May 2016
Hits: 1417 1417
I missed an old friend’s funeral last week. I got the day wrong. Someone kindly sent me a copy of the order of service, but it was not the same.
It is hard to share in something that has already happened, especially when the deceased person has had a hand in shaping it. My friend had composed his own funeral service so, in a sense, he would have been very much present to it. I miss not having shared in the first few hours of his greater life, and of our collective loss.
Loss needs to be shared, and liturgy, any liturgy, needs to be spoken or sung in company if it is to realise its purpose. Funerals are a time for realising a shared loss and in doing so, bear some of the grief which those who are closest to the person are experiencing. This helps everyone to bear their particular private loss. We are only fully human when we own our grief and joy together.
Perhaps this is also true of a nation’s sense of loss, the kind of loss which is felt as a political vacuum, and which comes with a growing anxiety about absence of vision and leadership in government. The outcome of recent elections suggests that we are a nation floundering in a sea of uncertainty, grasping at the delusory straws of what seems better and safer but which, in regard to Europe, history has shown will surely lead to more division and uncertainty. A Europe divided against itself runs the risk of self destruction, or of being destroyed by others.
As a nation, we are going through a period of collective anxiety about who we are in relation to others. In the UK, this applies as much to our own internal politics as it does to where we stand in regard to our European neighbours. We are full of divisive self doubt. It is this uncertainty and self doubt which is particularly hard to bear in the weeks approaching the referendum vote. Nobody knows what our nation will feel like on the morning of June 24th, but whatever the outcome, all of us will be anxious. If the Brexit vote wins, its supporters will quickly realise that we will not be returning to an idealised past shaped by national sovereignty and a vague sense of a return to greatness. We will be facing an uncertain future.
If we stay in Europe there is bridge-building to be done, but do we have the political will to do it? And, given that in a democracy nations get the leaders they deserve, have we elected leaders who represent the best in us, and who are thereby capable and confident enough to do the rebuilding and to take that work forward into the European Union itself?
We also share in another nation’s anxiety, as it waits for its presidential election in which we sincerely hope that wisdom will ultimately prevail. In all of these situations, we need to hold together, wanting the best while facing the very real possibility of the worst outcome. This was the spirit which prevailed during the last world war, when Europe and America held together in the best way and for the best reasons. We are facing something comparable today.
Nations are made up of human beings, not of political parties or corporate vested interests, which is something politicians and war-makers seem to forget. Wanting the best for nations is not the same thing as wanting the quickest short term corporate profit, or opting for short term solutions to long-term historical problems (the root cause of mass migration, for example) whatever the human cost. Solidarity between nations does not automatically spell profit, especially if that profit comes at the expense of those not able to pay for health care and for the care and compassion to which they have a right in their declining years. On the whole, short-termism, profit and commercial solidarity do not make for human compassion or for social justice. They make for anxiety and ultimate social disintegration. So ‘Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom, when they have no mind to learn?’ (Prov. 17:16). TTIP is not a good idea.
So ‘Where shall wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding? It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price’ writes the prophet, Job. This is the kind of wisdom and understanding which comes with the gentleness needed to hold a nation together in its anxiety, as we hold together in our separate losses. We do this formerly, through liturgies and acts of collective worship, but we also do it privately, through prayer, in which we sense our personal anxiety and fear for the future as part of a nation’s need for stability and peace, holding it all in the embrace of God.
This is the kind of wisdom which is needed in government. It will also be needed by all who vote on the 23rd of June and in the American presidential elections.
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607. The Four Tops: “It’s The Same Old Song”
Posted by The Nixon Administration in The Four Tops, Writing credit: Holland-Dozier-Holland
Motown M 1081 (A), July 1965
b/w Your Love Is Amazing
(Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland Jr.)
Tamla Motown TMG 528 (A), August 1965
(Released in the UK under license through EMI/Tamla Motown)
The more I see this song being referenced by lackwits who haven’t got the joke, the more I admire Holland-Dozier-Holland’s chutzpah in giving it such a confrontational, cheeky title.
Hastily-recorded (and, more unusually, just as hastily-written) as a follow-up to the chart-topping, million-selling I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch), there’s no denying It’s The Same Old Song bears more than a passing resemblance to its predecessor. But people who ought to know better have seen it as a rare unguarded admission on the part of Motown (or HDH) of self-plaigiarism, something to be quote-mined when denigrating Motown hits for all sounding the same as each other. Even THEY admitted it! Ha ha ha ha!
In fact, It’s The Same Old Song came about because Holland-Dozier-Holland were called upon to write a brand-new single to order, something – anything – for the Tops to have in the shops in order to combat their former label Columbia’s bandwagon-jumping ploy, a cleverly-marketed re-issue of a long-forgotten flop (1960’s spirited Ain’t That Love, now remixed and sped-up to sound more like the Motown Four Tops and less like the well-travelled but luckless doo-woppers of five years before). They wrote it on the hoof, in the studio, on the day it was recorded, mixed and sent to the pressing plant. Not that you’d really know it; It’s The Same Old Song is a little muffled in places, a little jumbled and breathless, but as far as I was concerned, it didn’t feel rushed or unfinished for me until I found out it really was.
I’d argue, strongly, that – stripping away the folklore – this is actually one of Motown’s less egregious examples of soundalike sequel syndrome. It’s impossible to deny the family resemblance, but this is harder-edged than Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, and noisier to boot: it’s taut and pacy, more in keeping with the Tops’ later banging mid-Sixties anthems like Shake Me, Wake Me… a very different feel to the rolling rhythms of I Can’t Help Myself.
Despite the various claims that the two songs are hung on the same musical skeleton (they aren’t – this one’s much further divorced from the Supremes’ Where Did Our Love Go, the obvious-in-hindsight progenitor of I Can’t Help Myself, although it does add in a ripping instrumental sax break which calls to mind the Supremes hit), or that the repeated four-note riff in this one is simply the four-note riff from the last one played backwards (it isn’t – that comes from something Brian Holland said in an interview once, as an aside, some thirty years later), this is a new song in its own right and doesn’t deserve its status as poster child for a lack of Motown creativity. It doesn’t even really to be bracketed alongside the likes of, say, Quicksand or Two Lovers or A Love She Can Count On (all great singles in their own right, incidentally) in terms of, ahem, “drawing inspiration” from what came immediately before.
The title is an intentional joke, occasioned by the increasing perception that all Holland-Dozier-Holland’s songs sounded the same, together with the ludicrously unrealistic time frame imposed on this. It’s a cheeky wink, something that HDH might have done among themselves for a bet (in the face of an accusation that all their songs sounded the same, I can absolutely see them challenging each other to write a coherent and internally-consistent song around such a phrase), but it’s certainly not – as I’ve seen argued – compelling evidence Motown were laughing in their fans’ faces while selling them six copies of the same (old) song with three notes changed.
Ha ha ha ha, but it’s the same old song, they said so themselves! Ha ha ha ha! Yes, dear.
This went top five, while the Columbia record was snuffed out having barely skimmed the lowest depths of the Hot 100. Motown had grown big, but they hadn’t grown fat; their quick reactions and whip-smart handling of their production, distribution and PR contacts allowed the upstart black-owned indie label to squash direct competition from one of the biggest record companies in the world. Point, Gordy.
I hadn’t realised it until I came to write this, but it turns out I’m rather fond of this record, actually. I’d never fallen for the hype that called this the epitome of Motown repeatedly scrabbling down the back of the sofa for new ideas, but I’d not realised just how forceful and exciting it is. Lyrically, it’s impressive given the artificial surroundings of its birth: the narrator and his girlfriend have split up, and Levi Stubbs – in an echo of Martha Reeves’ wounded narrator in the Vandellas’ magnificent Come And Get These Memories – can’t bear to listen to their old favourite record any more. It was clever then, and it’s clever now. More so, given the context; part of me really hopes this was written for a bet.
It’s got a great chorus, perhaps even more whistleable than the gentler earworm of I Can’t Help Myself; that had worked its way in through a kind of repetitive, rolling, strolling grind, whereas this one’s got an actual hook, the sort of thing you can imagine going down splendidly on nightclub dancefloors in 1975 given a bit of a disco twist; a mental image of four guys in white suits, sequins, wide collars, flares, shades, Afros, all moving in perfect time. This is nowhere near smooth enough for any of that, and yet the song (if not the recording) sounds as though it might have fallen through a wormhole from a decade in the future. More than any Tops record we’ve covered so far, this one would be great for dancing.
As always, Levi Stubbs is the Tops’ greatest asset, the pain and pleading in this one very much grist to his mill; he handles an extraordinarily well-judged lead vocal in fluid fashion, the hurry and haste of the song’s construction perhaps leading him to adopt a slightly different approach, running lines and syllables together between the lengthy pauses built into the song. It’s yet another striking example of Levi’s mastery of his craft, not just in terms of his voice – although he sounds great – but in terms of having the intelligence to pick his way through the assault course of a hastily-assembled arrangement to splendid effect, roaming around free of the tune when there’s room for him to roam, sticking to the melody line when there isn’t.
It works really well; the same can’t really be said of the backing vocals, which are strangely – if entirely understandably – simple, even sparse, for a Four Tops record, It’s The Same Old Song actually making the least use of the female house singers, the immortal Andantes, of any Tops song we’ve covered so far. The harmonies are sketched in rather than carved in stone, and the hints of more complex ideas (the excellent bit late in the song, presaging Sly Stone, where Levi and the BVs trade lines call-and-response style with “We used to dance to the music!”, is particularly good) only serve to highlight the lack of arrangements earlier in the song. It doesn’t sound completely intentional, either – in an echo of the Originals’ forthcoming We’ve Got A Way Out Love, the backing Tops’ staccato interjections (Same! Old! Song!), bark-delivered without any sustain at all, feel like they were probably meant to have been augmented by overdubs that never got done amidst the chaos.
The best thing about this, though, is the Funk Brothers’ snappy backing track; the recording’s slightly fuzzy, blurry edges are a symptom of its having been cut at speed, but the trade-off is that we get to see what a tight band the Funks have become, especially when handed a prefab Holland-Dozier-Holland 4/4 stomp. The machine-gun drum fill that opens the song, ratatatatatat, gives way to a jam par excellence, the band riffing on all the musical tropes they’d learned from all those hits not just for the Tops, but the Supremes and anyone else who was using HDH’s template.
What it all adds up to, somewhat unexpectedly, is yet another excellent single. I say “unexpectedly” because I’d been waiting for a chance to ease up on the flow of constant praise that Motown Junkies has become as we make our way through the summer of 1965, and based solely on its reputation, this seemed like that chance – but no, this one’s absolutely fine by me.
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44 thoughts on “607. The Four Tops: “It’s The Same Old Song””
Edin Burak said:
This is easily my favorite Four Tops song because the chorus/hook is really catchy and all the Four Tops are giving it their all. I’d give it a 10 because it’s my personal favorite but otherwise I’d agree with an 8 rating. (This is my first comment on Motown Junkies, which is really weird since I’ve been here for a year and my favorite group/song is The Temptations/Since I Lost My Baby)
Welcome, Edin, and thank you – I hope you’re enjoying the site!
Rhine Ruder said:
a certain ten! in my book, it’s the tops first. it is a template for their hits with h/d/h to come, not those too, too sugary pop songs in their past. it is a long string of 10’s for the tops (including hunter & wonder’s “loving you is sweeter than ever” & the two covers done during the h/d/h strike slowdown.) the hits just keeping building on top of themselves like movements in a symphony. many cannot seem to see these as a cohesive group of songs, but they are, and should be listened to that way. once h/d/h leave it’s curtains for the tops (except for the surprise h/d/h out of order, but great “i’m in a different world”.) at least h/d/h didn’t fall out form as long as they wrote for the tops like they did with the supremes (“the happening” & “falling in and out of love”.) the great tops run begins right here!
Hi Rhine Ruder, I tried to respond to your post but somehow it would up below. Would love your feedback. Have a great day friend!
Dave L said:
I don’t think any record takes me back to the summer of ’65 as instantaneously as this one. We all had it, and we all had it fast. The face-slap attention grabber of those clean drums at the start, the ‘climbing’ instrumentation and Levi at the top.
Motown had to be on top of its game to compete in this summer: the Beatles had “Help!,” the Stones had “Satisfaction,” and the Beach Boys had “California Girls.” Only excellence was being allowed in the upper tier, and Motown was in the same big leagues now. I’m so glad I wasn’t born any later than 1954, or I might have missed it.
And as we’re now finding with single after single, this one had a terrific b-side too, drawn from the group’s first album, that we wore out just as well. It was a great year to be 11. 🙂
The melody is stronger than “I Can’t Help Myself”, so I was surprised when it didn’t reach #1 in the US. I agree that the b-side is terrific, Dave L. It was a great year to be 17 as well.
Damecia said:
Agree that this is a stronger and better melody than “I Can’t Help Myself”
Nick in Pasadena said:
I actually prefer this to “I Can’t Help Myself” and would give it a 9 or 10. Its let’s-get-this-record-out-immediately urgency can be felt and heard in this disc; Levi might be lamenting the memories of his lost love but there’s also the underlying emotion of convincing record buyers to snap this one up. And the Funk Brothers have rarely sounded better–this just propels you along and never lets go! I agree with Dave; the competition was stiff in 1965 and that provided motivation for H-D-H that they might not have had in a lesser year.
W.B. said:
There was another consequence of Columbia’s reissue of old 1960 Four Tops recordings besides the creation of this number. Prior to this single’s release, Columbia’s custom division was amongst the gallery of pressing plants that handled Motown and subsidiary product (others were RCA Custom, American Record Pressing of Owosso, MI, Southern Plastics of Nashville, TN, and Monarch Record Mfg. of Los Angeles, CA). One way to tell a Columbia-pressed Motown 45 was the omnipresent ZTSC matrix system (indicating the lacquers were cut by Columbia’s Chicago studios that were situated within the CBS-owned WBBM-TV/AM/FM complex at 630 North McClurg Court).
In the wake of this hubbub, Columbia’s custom pressing apparatus was frozen out of the Motown loop for the next several years in terms of regular stock LP and 45 pressings; well into the late 1960’s the only Columbia-pressed Motown product were LP’s pressed for members of the label’s lucrative mail-order record club business; and in 1966, a few 45’s, during a period when Columbia Record Club, for a brief period of time, even offered singles to members (I have two such record-club 45’s pressed by Columbia – the Four Tops’ “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)” and Stevie Wonder’s “A Place in the Sun” – all bought second-hand, of course). The Temptations’ “All I Need,” in 1967, was the first since 1965 singles to bear ZTSC numbers – and also its last; but not until late 1970 (with “The Tears of a Clown” single by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles) would Columbia again press any Motown product in significant quantities for stock (retail) as opposed to record club, but by then Columbia was no longer using its custom matrix numbering alongside Motown’s own matrix numbers for such releases.
Meanwhile, on RCA Custom’s own pressings of this hit, that “It’s The Same Old Song” was rushed, was reflected in the company’s own matrix number – S5KM-9600 (‘5’ indicated a custom job where the lacquer originated from an outside source and was furnished to RCA). The flip, “Your Love Is Amazing,” by contrast, was designated S4KM-4724.
This song sounds like Motown to me! “You’re sweet as a honey bee” classic line that I love to hear each time. I love the song because it’s universal. Everyone probably use to have a favorite song when they were with someone, but you broke up or whatever the case is and even though it’s the exact same song you use to love it now feels and maybe even sound different since that person is gone. Agree with you Steve D. about the backing track sounding sparse, but oddly enough it works here. And the Funk Brothers kill this track! With that said this should’ve gotten 1 point more 9/10.
Interesting you pick that line out, Damecia, as it kind of sums up the whole record, good and bad; from memory, Levi’s delivery is amazing, he does that vocal thing only he can do where he seems to be shouting from the next room while simultaneously sat two feet away.
Awesome, right? But what the hell is going on in the background (Sweeeeeeet!)? And the immediate follow-up after the pause, words piling up against each other – But like a honey bee sting you’ve gone and left my heart in pain now all that’s LEFT… – is one of the points where, having found out this was a rush job par excellence, I stroked my chin and nodded sagely, yes, of course, I see.
It’s exceptionally good, if undeniably rough around the edges. But then I don’t hand out 8s lightly, no matter what the impression given by recent weeks 🙂
LMAO! Yes the “sweeeeeet” was provided weakly by The Tops and the words do pile up after that line. This sounds like they recorded this while touring and they only had 2 hours max to the the vocals down and they did an excellent job on such a short notice.
Yes the impression I got from the last couple of weeks was that you were growing into a softie with the points lmao….just kidding.
John Plant said:
Lyrical carelessness does crop up sometimes even in the best HDH songs – a particularly instance (to my ears) occurs in ‘Love is Here and Now You’re Gone’ – …’but instead of tenderness I found heartache instead..’ I don’t think Smokey (or Mickey Stevenson, or Whitfield) would have let that pass…. I probably would only have gone to a seven with this one, because it’s just too bouncy for the pain in the lyrics to be credible – and because it is, to my ears, lightyears away from the masterpieces of the ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’ period – lovely to dance to, but expressively just a little unfocused. I admit that the authentic HDH energy is there in abundance!
A particularly painful instance, I meant!
“…this one’s much further divorced from the Supremes’ Where Did Our Love Go…”
It’s actually a bit *closer*, in a way. The chorus shares the Supremes’ song’s I-V-ii-V-IV chord progression, whereas “I Can’t Help Myself” goes I-V-ii-IV-V. The difference is that the chords go by twice as fast in “It’s the Same Old Song.”
There is also a “stings like a bee” reference in “Where Did Our Love Go” (LOL!)
Oh wow Rhine Ruder – “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever” is one of my favorites (both the 4 Tops & Marvin Gaye’s versions). Assuming the covers you are talking about are “Walk Away Renee” & “Carpenter”. Love em both! I actually think that the 4 Tops’ version of “Renee” is better than the original. Also I like “I’m In A Different World”. Jermaine Jackson did a decent remake of “Different World” on his first solo album. Cheers! By the way, I may possibly be the only person in the known universe who really likes “In & Out of Love”. Also, I have noticed that people who do not normally care for soul music/Motown tend to like “The Happening” Hmmm!
Oops Sorry Joe – Meant this for Rhine Ruder but you & everyone else are welcome to read as well!
Dear Friends, Sorry for the absence. Health is about the same. No worse-no better. Will continue with once a month chemos. Thank you for your concern & prayers.
Onto the song… This song has spawned some very interesting remakes…
1) There is the K C & the Sunshine Band disco remake which is pretty bad — but kind of in a “so bad it is good” way. Worth hearing at least once.
2) Folk singer, David Wilcox, did a mellow remake in the early 90’s & it actually works pretty well. I have actually spoken with Mr Wilcox on the phone. He had no idea that he & KC had done versions of the same song! He got a good chuckle out of that
3) Pop singer Bobby Vee did a “Can’t Help Myself/Same Old Song” medley in 1968 which isn’t bad in a pop/soul sort of way
4) Supremes version isn’t bad, the Four Tops still own this song!
Re. Four Tops version — Basically a fine song though I tend to prefer their more atypical stuff.
Welcome back Landini. I’d completely forgotten the KC version – and I own it. It’s in my record boxes with very little stylus wear since 1978. It actually managed to get to 35 Pop on Billboard.
Mark V said:
There is a “Can’t Help Myself” cycle that the Tops are traveling through right now. I’ll put in that this is the least compelling of the four. I love the burst of drums (there are a number of tunes around this time that begin with just that, and they all are slightly different). This is a dynamic opening.
It sounds almost like a live performance, and that adds to the excitement. But it doesn’t stand out among the other Tops records of this period — IMO. It’s got a lot of rough edges.
Martha & Vandellas 50th Anniversary Singles Collection includes a previously unreleased version of “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever”.
Totally off subject here, but I’ve just discovered Dusty Springfield’s “Have A Good Life Baby” and I can’t stop listening to it! lol. I love the song. Any thoughts anyone???
Hi! Yeah I have heard it. It is a bonus track on “Dusty in Memphis” CD. Good song, though I haven’t heard it in ages.
Another off topic subject – I have been listening a lot to Electric Light Orch’s “Out of the Blue” from 1977 album. I know it isn’t “Soul” but as a Motown/Soul fan I really like that album. I find that when the different tracks are mixed in with Motown/Soul music on a random playlist they really fit in. I think that Motown’s influence on music (production values, etc) goes a lot deeper than we might think.
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Soooo the only work I know by ELO is “Blinded by the Light” and the work they did on the Xanadu Soundtrack (which I love). I can believe that ELO mixes well with soul and motown and modern music of today because they had/have a futuristic sound that contains elements of the ol skool. I will have to search deeper into their cataloge.
Oops. “Blinded by the Light” is Manfred Manns Earth Band (written/originally recorded by Bruce Springstreen) & definitely a cool song. Reminds me of my Freshmen year in college! Manfred Mann is another very underrated band (especially their 70s stuff) who had a little bit of soul here & there.
Oh lol thanks for clearing that up lol didn’t ELO have a song called “Don’t Bring Me Down” or something like that?
They did indeed.
Confession time. When I was about 12, ELO – or the Electric Light Orchestra, to give them their Sunday name – were probably my favourite band in the whole world. I had a cassette copy of the aforementioned “Out of the Blue” album, which I literally played to death in my old Walkman – as in, I played it and played it and played it until the tape wore out and snapped.
Part of this adoration was because I hadn’t really listened to very much popular music before I got into ELO. Your narrator is a bit of an oddball in a number of ways, most notably in that I was 14 or 15 before I started listening to the radio or buying records when they were new, as opposed to just playing and playing old tapes and LPs from the likes of Kraftwerk and T.Rex. And ELO, obviously.
Nowadays, whenever I get the urge for a bit of “golden age” (mid/late-Seventies) ELO, as I sometimes do, three things always strike me:
a. They are heavily indebted to the Beatles, almost to the point of parody in places. Indeed, there was a mid-Seventies quote from one of the Fabs (Harrison, I think?) who opined that there was no need for the Beatles to reform because ELO were already essentially making a series of Beatles albums. I don’t know if he meant it as a compliment. Of course, 12-year-old me, having never listened to a Beatles record in my life, had no way of knowing this, which made ELO’s Jeff Lynne – an appropriator (not a thief, but perhaps “adaptor”) of other people’s hooks and melodies par excellence – seem like the greatest songwriter in human history.
b. They are chronically silly. Hairy open-shirted white-boys with flared pants and Afros is one thing, but because they were British (and not just British, but from Birmingham – for US readers, Birmingham is the second largest city in England (home to almost 3 million people) and the engine room of the Industrial Revolution, but has struggled to shake off its reputation as a cultural backwater, having produced relatively few great artists, musicians, sports heroes, intellectuals or prominent politicians in comparison with the historically smaller likes of Liverpool or Manchester, together with a strong (“Brummie”) accent which somehow doesn’t sound erudite even if you’re discussing practical epistemology), for me they’ve never had the alien allure and sex appeal of American disco acts, they’ve always just been a bit, well, cringeworthy.
c. Crucially – brilliantly – they are completely unashamed by both of these things. This is admirable, and it demands a similar adjustment in the listener; leave all self-consciousness at the door.
ELO are not cool. They are so very un-cool; in many ways, they are the anti-cool. They also made some amazing records.
Funny you should mention Harrison. I’ve been watching this awful Madonna movie called Shanghai Surprise. He does the score and title track which I like a lot lol.
Thanx Steve D. for the geography fact!
Even though ELO maybe uncool, this was a very cool confession/review/history lesson from you lol
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Now you know how much I love The Supremes….everybody who follows this blog and read the comments know how much I adore the girls too, but yes I would have to agree with you that you just maybe the only person out there who likes “In & Out of Love” lol.
Interesting observation you have found about “The Happening” too.
“In And Out Of Love” > “The Happening”
yes, nixon! but both weaker than all of the other h/d/h supreme hits!
Agree heartily. Especially when you measure the totality of Motown 1116 over the totality of Motown 1107. I’d rather be tested with a dozen consecutive listens of “I Guess I’ll Always Love You” over even three listens of “All I Know About You.” Yikes.
Henry said:
To my ears this is the Motown Sound. Attention getting opening. Exploding bass figure, 4 on the floor snare, a bass drum figure that works with and without the bass guitar. Swelling strings, a tambourine playing a different beat, a sax solo in the bridge, a great dancing record. A catchy haunting melody, and serviceable lyrics. Levi Stubbs on lead vocals, who would you want to tell your story? The Tops giving support, it is a song that had it been officially released during the Disco extended mix period, could fill a side of an LP and actually raise the roof.
I understand the need to get new product out there, but this is not as thrown together as one would believe based on what one reads. OK the title was an inside joke, wink, wink, but this was no shabby rush job. I Can’t Help Myself was pop perfection, I did not like the song that much, and it does not age well, but this is a very good song, 8/10 is on target.
The various covers that are out there, sadly are light years away from the Tops original version.
i think henry nails “same old song” on the head. the more well known, and constantly overplayed motown hits are too easy to like on their first listen … not much subtleness to them. the follow ups take longer to warm up to and better stand the test of time. i think nixon makes too much outta the fact that “same old song” was quickly written. i think many, if not most, of motown’s songs were quickly written. i continue to think nixon and i will clash on many record’s due almost exclusively on because of the fact that i bought the record the day it arrived in my local record store, and nixon is listening to many of these songs for the first time years after their release. this is no diss against nixon, but rather an interesting juxtaposition. i find nixon does make me think about the reason i love a certain song … but, i find that my assessment of the motown oeuvre has not appreciably changed over 50 years!
I agree that ITSOS was rushed written ,and rushed produced and rushed released. it’s also one of the better 4 tops songs. I can just imagine HDH saying – That bastard wants another just like it. (Also, by this time one had to make an appointment to see Mr. Gordy). Shout out to Damecia, I’m going to have your back with In and Out. HDH had already stopped writing and if they had continued in the vein of Reflections, IN and Out would probably have made another great B side, but still a great song. I just heard The Happening full blast at Lowes and I’ll be sticking my head out fot that too.
bogart4017 said:
Interesting point Steve made about the tumbling of words in the beginning. I’ve seen the Tops perform countless times since that record was released and Levi never sings it like that. He phrases like the mike is picket-fencing. Kinda like: “You’re sweet/as a honey bee….honey bee sting…..left my heart in pain (out of meter pause)all you left….” You follow? Kinda like he’s conserving oxygen.
Lord Baltimore said:
H-D-H were definitely flexing their muscles around this time answering their critics (Including Phil Spector) “Yeah, Yeah, Whatever; Take This.” IMO, this is “I Can’t Help Myself” 2.0 and while the previous release may be overplayed or overexposed, this one still sounds fresh every time I hear it. Benny Benjamin is simply killing it on the drums, whipping that snare drum clear into 1966. For the Double Helping of this song, click here: http://youtu.be/Xf58XrKQNuk The Epitome of a Motown Hit. (“10”)
Kevin Moore said:
Great review. I actually like this one quite a bit more than Sugar Pie Honey. As you say, that one is indebted to Where Did Our Love Go. This one uses the same rhythm for its thematic bass riff as Sugar Pie Honey but the notes are different, and better, and after all, this whole idea of building songs on thematic bass riffs is a huge, huge deal. Finally, I like these lyrics best of the three.
“of course it isn’t [the same old song]! It is a spirited and driving number that is headed right for the very top and deservedly so. The Tops have seldom made a better side, and Levi Stubbs (who for my money has one of the best voices on record) leads with all he’s got, but still retains his cool. Vibes and the others give solid support to an outstanding production. 5/5
“Flip is familiar through their album and is a very worthwhile track that is both lyrical and smooth. 4/5”
[Dave Godin, Hitsville USA 8, 1965]
Must be a 10 for me, and the second best Tops song after “Baby I Need Your Loving.” “I Can’t Help Myself” might have been a 10 standing on its own, but since these songs are fairly similar and this one is better, I think it knocks “I Can’t Help Myself” down to a relative 9. Joke title or no, the lyrics of the chorus go right to the heartstrings. This is pretty much the archetypal upbeat Motown track honed to perfection.
RayRay said:
fckn songs were great. doesn’t matter how or why. they all give a feeling when you hear them that moves you. can’t be replaced.
I think the epitome of the motown sound was the way underrated song, “I’m in a Different World”. it hits at the core of the Motown feel with Jamison’s incredible bass sound and weaving – in and out between the guitar and drums. then there’s the lead guitar. placed with perfect timing and feeling, not too much leaving you wanting more and more.
you can’t help yourself but love it. the harmonies in, “Sugar Pie Honey Bun”, do the same thing as the lead guitar in Different World. you want more. they weren’t sparse. they were perfect and catchy. like, “Wow” what was that? hit replay….
“Build me Up Buttercup” is another example of Motown feel and harmonies placed just in the right spots and amounts. and that feel…. you wish somehow the entire song could be filled with these gems every line, but, its… perfect the way it is.
“Ball of Confusion”, the mix of motown and psychadelic. incredible. just like the Supremes “Reflections”. Just like, “Baby Love”, the song is just moseying along then that sax lead with that drive of the beat is perfect. orgasmic… timeless.
Stevie Wonder’s, “I Was Made to Love Her”. another feeling (bass line and almost gospel-like harmonies) that hits the core of Motown. Written to the heart! Incredible passion. His best song.
there’s so many more I can’t remember. I want to include them all. Marvalettes, Mary Wells, Miracles, I could go on. I never put Jackson Five in this category because they didn’t have that Ampeg, setup thru Vox sounfd that made Motown. anything without this is not “roots Motown” to me.
feel free to contact me to talk more. Motown will always hold a special place in my heart that inspired me at that time and age growing up and playing music myself.
also, motown had a huge influence on my drumming. the tambourine-like high-hat and snare with the ludwig trap set toms. pure!
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Doug Abrams, MU Law professor and vice chair of the advisory board of Missouri’s Division of Youth Services, outlines the rapidly changing area of juvenile law in the latest edition of “Children and the Law in a Nutshell.”
Missouri’s Division of Youth Services highlighted as national model
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Just a few years ago, politicians were wringing their hands about the juvenile crime rates and promising to “get tough” on youths under 18 who break the law, particularly violent offenders. However, both the public and lawmakers have begun to have second thoughts and the juvenile justice system has followed suit, inching toward a model that focuses more on rehabilitation and addressing the mental health needs of youth.
In the latest edition of “Children and the Law in a Nutshell,” Douglas E. Abrams, associate professor of law at the University of Missouri, outlines the development of this rapidly changing area of law.
“The data were clear that get-tough laws were resulting in much higher rates of re-offense,” Abrams said. “When juveniles are processed in criminal court as adults, they don’t get the treatment and education they need—at least, that’s how the pendulum has swung in the court of public opinion.”
Abrams, who serves as vice chair of the advisory board of Missouri’s Division of Youth Services, said the division is a national leader for juvenile-justice reform. More than 30 states have sent delegations to inspect and study DYS facilities with an eye toward replicating the therapeutic approach followed by the “Missouri Model.” Missouri’s DYS reserves secure confinement for violent offenders and chronic offenders. It places other youth in less restrictive programs, including day treatment programs. Notably, staff are college-educated “youth specialists,” not guards or corrections officers.
At the same time, juvenile crime rates have been falling nationally, though opinion polls show the public believes rates are climbing.
“Future shift remains a possibility because, even as violent adult and juvenile crime rates have fallen for nearly two decades, most Americans believe that the rates are rising,” Abrams said.
Abrams, an expert in juvenile justice, family law, American legal history, and constitutional law, said the book—co-written by Susan Vivian Mangold, executive director of the Juvenile Law Center, and Sarah H. Ramsey of Syracuse University—is a resource for practicing lawyers and parents alike.
The book covers areas such as child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption, children’s rights and obligations, financial relationships, and medical decisions. It is published by West Academic Publishing.
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Colour Films in Britain
November 9, 2013 /in Autumn 2013_'Waste', Book Reviews /by Jeroen Sondervan
Tags: BFI, book review, Britain, cinema, colour, film
At first glance, the image chosen for the cover of Sarah Street’s new book Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-55 (London: Palgrave/BFI Publishing, 2012) seems to be a somewhat unusual pick for a book about colour in cinema. It displays a discreetly-lit interior scene, an empty room without any people – more specifically, a frame enlargement from Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers (1955). The colours are subdued, the room filled with shadows. The delicate composition, formed by the discernable colour grain and materiality of the Technicolor image, is dominated by the soft blue and green tones of the room’s wallpaper, occasionally contrasted with dark shadows and small, restrained colour accents produced by the objects in the room: furniture, curtains, a carpet, a green plant.
This is an unusual choice because cover images for books on colour have a tendency to accentuate the drama and splendour of colour, displaying spectacular Technicolor moments and strong colour contrasts. A case in point is the anthology Color: The Film Reader, in which the cover image presents the green hands of the Wicked Witch of the West reaching for Dorothy’s ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939). The cover image of Street’s book does not entice us with the drama and splendour of colour; instead, it conveys what might be called restrained colour.
The notion of ‘colour restraint’ is also a central thematic thread throughout Street’s comprehensive study, as well as in discourses on colour in general. In a film historical context, this term is most famously associated with the notorious, influential, and often ridiculed ‘Technicolor consultant’ Natalie Kalmus, who used this exact phrase in her writings about colour in cinema. It also refers to a general idea of colour as something that needs to be controlled, restrained – associated with a scepticism towards colour (in particular in a Western, Northern European cultural context), a negative attitude which David Batchelor has termed ‘chromophobia’.[1] In Street’s study, ‘colour restraint’, although informed by these cultural attitudes, is not only viewed in negative terms, but rather as an aesthetic project informing the work on colour by British filmmakers, and actually entailing distinct artistic possibilities. Colour restraint can be seen as an experimental practice taking place in both fiction and non-fiction cinema. Street also nuances the established notion that British filmmakers were in opposition to figures such as Kalmus and the directives from the Technicolor company, and shows how the many innovative and creative uses of colour in British cinema were not necessarily against the company’s guidelines. The cover image from The Ladykillers, which is reminiscent of the chiaroscuro lighting of American Film Noir – perhaps even interior scenes by Hopper and Vermeer – serves as one of many examples throughout the book that remind us that restraint does not rule out, as Street puts it, ‘chromatic density, contrast or design’ (p. 92).
Often considered one of the most overlooked aspects of film history, there have been a number of books on colour in cinema in the last 5-10 years, as well as several special editions of academic journals and individual articles. The book is the outcome of a larger research project, resulting in two other recently-published books on the subjected co-edited by Street (with Simon Brown and Liz Watkins).[2] Street’s monograph certainly stands out as one of the most important recent works in this field. In terms of significance and method, it is comparable to two other books: Scott Higgins’ Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in the 1930s, and Joshua Yumibe’s Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture. All of these books constitute the results of rigid archival research and feature studies of industrial and technological contexts, discourses surrounding film production and distribution (in Street’s case, this even includes interviews with cinematographers), as well as careful readings of particular films. However, the two earlier studies feature more explicitly limited delineations: a narrow time frame (Higgins studies the 1930s, Yumibe the 1890s and early 1900s) and specific forms of colour technology (Higgins on Technicolor processes, Yumibe on the applied, non-photographic colour of early cinema). Street’s book deals with a very broad time frame (1900-1955) and includes all the kinds of colour technologies and colour film processes that were being used in Britain during these decades. Thus, the main demarcation for Street’s study is the national context.
Street’s project is to provide a national history of colour film. Apart from Dudley Andrew’s brief article on colour in post-war French cinema[3] and Richard Abel’s discussion on how colour was correlated with an undesirable ‘Frenchness’ in American discourses on Pathé during the 1910s,[4] an explicitly national perspective on colour is actually relatively unexplored. Britain proves to be an especially noteworthy case for such a study. Some of the most important technical and industrial developments with regard to colour took place in Britain, in particular before the Second World War, involving extensive experimentation and patents for numerous colour film processes. After the war, Britain’s special relationship with the United States – politically, culturally, and linguistically – becomes important for the development of colour in British cinema. Street refers to specific Anglo-American co-productions in colour and to the already-mentioned collaboration between British film producers and the Technicolor company.
In addition to often being associated with a dominant realist aesthetic, British cinema features some of the most famous, inventive, and interesting uses of colour in world cinema. The colour of British cinema is probably first and foremost associated with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, along with the legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Street’s study does not challenge the importance of these figures’ achievements. In addition to giving appropriate attention to British canonised colour films, the study draws attention to films that have either been less noticed in general or in terms of their use of colour. The book provides not only a national perspective on colour film, but also a colour perspective on national film history. Colour affords an attention to unexplored details in certain films, sometimes neglected or underrated, re-evaluating them or revealing new dimensions. The excellent close reading of Blithe Spirit (David Lean, 1945) is just one example in this regard.
Street identifies her chosen time period as the key years for colour experimentation in Britain – an experimentation both in terms of colour processes being developed (particularly in the first half of the period), and in using colour creatively and artistically within narrative and non-fiction cinema (particularly in the second half). The silent period is touched upon relatively briefly in the book, while the majority of the study focuses on the 1940s and 1950s. For a detailed discussion of colour in silent cinema, one would have to look elsewhere. Nonetheless, the chapters on silent cinema establish a number of themes related to colour in a British context that are extended and developed, refined and challenged, throughout the book. These include aesthetic questions (such as realism and verisimilitude, visual depth, colour ‘harmony’) and more ideological associations between colour and, for example, empire, gender, and exoticism.
Even though applied colour technologies are discussed briefly in the earliest chapters, colour as a property of British film history is primarily studied here as a photochemical product. The first chapter deals with Kinemacolor (1906-15), the first ‘natural’ colour film process that actually had a certain (albeit limited and troubled) distribution and commercial success. The history of colour film then is inevitably a history of technical advances in the development of so-called ‘natural’ colour film processes – and perhaps even more importantly, of cinematography. Consequently, Cardiff is a more important figure in this text than either Powell or Pressburger. The book features interesting readings of several of the lesser-known films that Cardiff worked on, including the extraordinary This Is Colour (Jack Ellitt, 1942) and the underrated Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1951).
Other consequences of the understanding of colour film in terms of photography are perhaps more striking. Films by Len Lye – certainly one of the more innovative colourists working in the British film industry in the 1930s – primarily serve as illustrations of two of the colour film processes of the decade: Dufaycolour and Gasparcolor. Lye could have been linked to other avant-garde filmmakers of the era, such as Oskar Fischinger, to notions about synaesthesia and colour-music (which is touched upon in later in the book), or later filmmakers experimenting with hand-painting the filmstrip, such as Stan Brakhage. These connections are already well-established elsewhere, so the example serves primarily to illustrate how the emphasis on colour processes (like any analytical focus) inevitably takes the understanding of films in certain directions while disregarding others.
Street is primarily a meticulous historian. Her project combining carefully-researched industrial and technical contexts with detailed stylistic and narrative analyses of films can be placed in the traditions of historical poetics or ‘neoformalism’, associated with figures like David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (the fact that less well-known films are studied alongside ‘exceptional’, canonical works also confirms this connection). Street combines this approach with an admirable openness to theory and an ability to integrate certain concepts within an argument that is predominantly historical and empirical by nature.
Colour is a subject that is notoriously tricky to define and describe – aesthetically, perceptually, and scientifically. Thus, general ‘common sense’ definitions of colour are seldom sufficient; colour is a phenomenon that needs to be problematised in order to be discussed in a meaningful way. The theoretical discussions are far from comprehensive. Theory here is used in line with the Foucauldian ‘toolbox’: rather than understanding colour through any wide-ranging theoretical perspective, theoretical concepts function as tools that are used in specific contexts. Sergei Eisenstein’s complex discussion of colour and cinema is accordingly reduced to a couple of general concepts that are used analytically in the book. For example, his discussion of how colour meanings are not universal but rather specific to each specific context or work (in which they can also be ambivalent and changeable), as well as the notion of colour as an integral part of the artwork as an organic unity (in particular its interplay with sound). One could argue that such an approach to theory is reductive, but Street uses these concepts sparingly and wisely, as ways to provide the reader with useful perspectives on the material.
The book ends with a reflection on the availability of the films analysed in the study – some are widely-available on DVD and blu-ray, in particular the work of Powell and Pressburger, while others, despite their quality and historical interest, are only accessible by viewing film prints at the BFI archive. There is another aspect to the question of our access to colour films from the past, to colour as a notoriously unstable element: whether the colours we see in film prints (and other ‘dispositives’) today are identical to the ones that were seen decades ago. Even though this aspect is not examined in detail, it is implied as a problem throughout the text. Street is careful to point out what kinds of prints or materials she has studied – most notably in the case of the DVD The Open Road, featuring Claude Friese-Greene’s colour travelogues from 1925, published by the BFI. In this case the digitally-restored colour film images are significantly corrected and ‘improved’ compared to what would be possible in a projection during the 1920s.
In addition to the quality of the research, the book is also beautifully-designed. It features numerous colour illustrations – primarily frame enlargements – which are very helpful in comprehending Street’s many detailed analyses of individual films. The book also features two appendices that enhance its value as a reference work: a list of the colour films distributed in Britain between 1938 and 1955 (based on Kinematograph Weekly), and a concise and very useful description of the colour film processes and technologies discussed in the book (compiled by Simon Brown). Colour Films in Britain succeeds both as a comprehensive national film history and as a reflection on colour in cinema, and will be a valuable and lasting contribution to the field of film studies.
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
Abel, R. The red rooster scare: Making cinema American, 1900-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Andrew, D. ’The Postwar Struggle for Color’, Cinema Journal, 18:2, 1979: 41-52.
Batchelor, D. Chromophobia. London: Reaktion Books, 2000.
Dalle Vacche, A. and Price, B (eds). Color: The film reader. London-New York: Routledge, 2006.
Higgins, S. Harnessing the technicolor rainbow: Color design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Street, S., Brown, S. and Watkins, L (eds). Color and the moving image: History, theory, aesthetics, archive. London-New York: Routledge, 2012.
_____. British colour cinema: Practices and theories. London: BFI Publishing, 2013.
Yumibe, J. Moving color: Early film, mass culture, modernism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.
[1] Batchelor 2000.
[2] Street & Brown & Watkins 2012; Street & Brown & Watkins 2013.
[3] Andrew 1979.
[4] Abel 1999.
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CD Review: Damnesia by Alkaline Trio July 18, 2011
Filed under: CD Reviews — NVMP @ 9:52 PM
By Alexander ‘Stigz’ Castiglione
When I heard about a new Alkaline Trio album, I must admit I did a little happy dance in the privacy of my own home. While in my joyous two-step, I hoped that it was more like their older stuff, such as Goddamnit, Good Mourning, or even Crimson.
Ironically, I was partly right, and mildly happy with the album. An “acoustic” album as it is dubbed in i-Tunes, it only has two new tracks on it, one being a cover of The Violent Femmes “I Held Her In My Arms” and a new original track “I Remember A Rooftop.” (Not to be confused with “Rooftops” off of Remains)
Despite it being an “acoustic” album it still possesses nuances of their angst and fervor from their earliest albums, the ones that any Alkaline fan has undoubtedly blasted at high volume and screamed the lyrics at unwitting pedestrians. For instance, their new take on “Radio” still has the same unfettered intensity despite the tempo being reduced by at least 15 bpm. Some of the vocals on certain tracks have “evolved” and become more melodic, leaving the grimy, guttural, almost growl-like phrasing behind (which, as a true fan, I love their unpolished and unique sound).
In my opinion a much better release than 2010’s Agony and Irony, this album revisits and takes a new perspective on some of their best tracks. Some of them I truly enjoy, while other’s I found myself clicking “next track” because I felt their first cut was much, much better. “Clavicle” belongs to the latter description, as their vocals are too melodic and lack that crude, unrefined vocal quality that made them a hidden gem in the world of obscure rock.
However, their new take on “This Could Be Love” I found to be absolutely brilliant. Vastly down-tempo from the original, the piano work is haunting and mesmerizing with the vocals operating under the same descriptive qualities. One of their hardest jams and the soundtrack to so many whiskey sours consumed, they made it sound like a completely different track with beautiful progressions. The same description applies to “American Scream.” On the flip side of that musical coin lays their new rendition of “We’ve Had Enough,” and I don’t feel at all like they’ve had enough, I feel more like I’ve had enough of some band playing the local coffeehouse, not even coming close to the passion possessed in the first mix.
In closing, I have hybridized feelings about the new album which dropped July 12th, 2011. Some of their revisits I feel are not only great but possess a very unique and memorable quality missing on their earlier renderings. With others, I have to admit, I feel they come up wanting, and would prefer the older versions. However, this album was vastly better than their last release, Agony and Irony, as they went back to their roots and evolved at the same time, as paradoxical as that sounds.
Alkaline Fans: Give it a shot.
Newcomers: If you like indie-rock, you’ll dig this album; if you like your rock served a la carte with angst and a side of balls, check out the older albums in their discography.
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“Shawls… made for centuries, universal and embracing, symbolic of an inclusive, unconditional loving God. They wrap, enfold, comfort, cover, give solace, mother, hug, shelter and beautify. Those who have received these shawls have been uplifted and affirmed, as if given wings to fly above their troubles…” ---- Written in 1998 by Janet Bristow.
SHAWLS CAN BE USED FOR ……undergoing medical procedures; as a comfort after a loss or in times of stress; during bereavement, prayer or meditation; during an illness and recovery or ministering to others… there are endless possibilities.
CARE AND THE LOVE of knitting and crocheting have been combined into a prayerful ministry that reaches out to those in need of comfort and solace. Many blessings are knitted and crocheted into every shawl and lap robe. Each begins with prayers for the recipient. Intentions are continued throughout its creation. Upon completion, a final blessing by Father John (as the one today at OLQP) is offered before the shawl or lap robe is sent on its way.
If you would like to be a part of this wonderful ministry, please contact Jo Ann Brennan at 691-0460 or Sharon Kelley at 691-6539. Meetings are held the first and third Tuesday mornings of each month at 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. in the St. Joseph Room and the first and third Thursday evenings of each month at 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. in the St. Joseph Room. Our Lady Queen of Peace’s Prayer Shawl Ministry’s first meeting was held in March 2007. We currently have over 50 members. Over 650 prayer shawls and lap robes have been made and distributed. Each year we have added new recipients. We now make baptismal blankets for the newly baptized and lap robes for the newly married in our church and for those who are grieving. Like all acts of generosity, the creation and presentation of a prayer shawl or lap robe, enriches the giver as well as the recipient.
If you know a fellow parishioner with a life threatening illness, undergoing surgery or medical treatment such as chemo or radiation therapy, or grieving the loss of a loved one and in need of a prayer shawl, you may contact Rosalie in the church office, Jo Ann Brennan or Sharon Kelley.
Prayer Shawls are blessed at Mass before they are wrapped and delivered (2011).
Just a few of the members of OLQP's Prayer Shawl Ministry (Prayer Shawl Luncheon 2011):
Joyce Guess, Eneida Maulden, Yalanda Haines, Debbie Hynes, Lucy York, Erika Bowers,Elizabeth Ward, Marjorie Derryberry, Berneice Fields, JoAnn Brennan, Terry Gilleland, Cynthia Peterson, Evelyn Hanrahan, Linda Herrian, Wanda Glasser, RoseMarie Fidelie, Kay Landiak, and Joe Bearden.
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Andre De Grasse storms to first Diamond League win in two years
By OlympicTalkJun 16, 2019, 3:35 PM EDT
If Andre De Grasse is to make another Olympic podium push, this summer would be a good time to start surging. The triple Rio Olympic medalist earned his first Diamond League win in two years in Rabat on Sunday.
De Grasse, who suffered season-ending right hamstring injuries the last two summers, won a 200m over world champion Ramil Guliyev of Turkey in 20.19 seconds. It marked De Grasse’s fastest 200m since this meet in 2017, his last individual race before the first of the hamstring problems.
“I am very grateful with the victory but not happy with the time,” De Grasse said, according to meet organizers. “I want to achieve sub-20 seconds.”
De Grasse, the Olympic 100m bronze medalist and 200m silver medalist, must get faster before this fall’s world championships in Doha.
The world’s swiftest 200m men this year are comfortably sub-20 performers — Americans Michael Norman (19.70, though not expected to race the 200m at worlds) and Noah Lyles (19.72) and Nigerian Divine Oduduru (19.73). None of them were in Rabat. De Grasse’s personal best is 19.80 from Rio.
“It is a long process,” De Grasse said. “I am not fully healthy, I still have a lot of work to do to be really back in shape. I want to be back where I was two years ago.”
Full Rabat results are here. The Diamond League next stops in Stanford, Calif., for the Prefontaine Classic, live on NBC on June 30 from 4-6 p.m. ET.
In other Rabat events, world champion Phyllis Francis took fourth in the 400m won by world silver medalist Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain in 50.13 seconds. Naser ranks second in the world this year behind Bahamian Olympic champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo (absent from Rabat), the only woman to beat Naser since the 2017 Worlds.
Francis was fourth in 50.76, ranking her second among Americans this year. Francis has a bye into worlds as a defending champion.
Nigerian veteran Blessing Okagbare took the 100m in 11.05, upsetting world silver and bronze medalists Marie-Josee Ta Lou (second, 11.09) and Dafne Schippers (fifth, 11.32). The race lacked world championships favorites Elaine Thompson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain and American Sha’Carri Richardson, all of whom have easily broken 11 this season.
In the 110m hurdles, Olympic champion Omar McLeod led from the start before hitting the last hurdle and stumbling into 2015 World champion Sergey Shubenkov. Shubenkov fell across the finish line but still won in 13.12, while McLeod was fifth in 13.48. The early world championships favorite appears to be American Grant Holloway, who won the NCAA title in 12.98 and turned pro.
Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba ran the fastest women’s 1500m since August 2016, a 3:55.47 to hold off Ethiopian-born Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan by .46. Dibaba, who holds the world record of 3:50.07, is undefeated at 1500m since finishing 12th at the 2017 Worlds. Olympic bronze medalist Jenny Simpson was seventh in Rabat in 3:59.83, breaking four minutes for the second time in three seasons.
Botswana’s Nijel Amos edged past Kenyan Emmanuel Korir by .03 in a matchup of the two best 800m runners the two previous seasons. Amos clocked 1:45.57, well off the fastest time in the world this year held by American Donavan Brazier, who was absent from Rabat but beat Amos in Rome two weeks ago. Olympic bronze medalist Clayton Murphy was third in Rabat.
Olympic and world pole vault silver medalist Sandi Morris cleared 4.82 meters for her first Diamond League win since August. The field did not include 2012 Olympic champ Jenn Suhr, who has the world’s best clearance this year of 4.91.
Croatian discus thrower Sandra Perkovic, long one of the most dominant athletes in the sport, lost for the second straight Diamond League meet as she returns from injury.
The double Olympic and double world champion took third with a 64.77-meter effort, trailing Cubans Yaime Perez (68.28) and Denia Caballero (65.94). Perkovic has now lost three straight times dating to last season after going seven straight seasons without back-to-back defeats, according to Tilastopaja.org.
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Shelby Houlihan stars, Noah Lyles outduels Michael Norman in Lausanne (video)
By Nick ZaccardiJul 5, 2018, 4:30 PM EDT
Noah Lyles and Michael Norman were supposed to author the race of the year at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne on Thursday, but the most impressive performance of the night came from Shelby Houlihan.
Houlihan, an Olympic 5000m runner who has surged in the 1500m this season, won her third straight major 1500m, lowering her personal best by 1.72 seconds, clocking 3:57.34 and beating a field that included Caster Semenya. Houlihan kicked from fourth place with 150 meters left, while Semenya was already out of it, finishing sixth.
In all, Houlihan has dropped her 1500m personal best by 6.05 seconds in the last month and a half, winning the Prefontaine Classic on May 26 and the USATF Outdoor Championships on June 23.
“I didn´t have many expectations coming into the race today and was actually a bit worried as I was not feeling very well,” Houlihan said, according to race organizers. “I had to talk to myself during the race to stay in a comfortable position and the incredible crowd here brought my home during the last 200 meters.”
Houlihan is now the fourth-fastest U.S. woman in history in the 1500m behind Shannon Rowbury, Mary Slaney and Jenny Simpson.
Minutes after Houlihan crossed the line, Lyles matched his personal best and the fastest time in the world this year to win the 200m in 19.69 seconds. Norman was second in 19.88.
“Yesterday I said I want to be an icon, being consistent is the first step towards that,” Lyles said. “19.69 is great, but you can always improve. I feel I can do a lot better. I need to improve my technique on the bends and who knows. I don’t want to put a limit on myself. My life goals are big. I want to be as good if not better than Michael Johnson and Justin Gatlin.”
Lyles and Norman raced each other for the first time since they finished fourth and fifth in the 2016 Olympic Trials 200m as 18-year-olds. Both were undefeated in outdoor 200m races since trials, though neither raced at 2017 Worlds.
Full Lausanne results are here.
The Diamond League next moves to Rabat, Morocco, on July 13 with live coverage on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA and NBC Sports Gold.
In other events, Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Cote d’Ivoire continued her undefeated season in the 100m, winning in 10.90 seconds. Olympic champion Elaine Thompson was second in 10.99, while U.S. champion Aleia Hobbs did not start in what would have been her senior international debut.
In the men’s 5000m, Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha nearly pulled countryman Selemon Barega down by his shorts coming around the final turn. Kejelcha failed and ended up falling himself. Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew won in 13:01.09, the fastest time in the world this year.
Olympic and world champion Katerina Stefanidi cleared 4.82 meters in the pole vault to beat 2012 Olympic champion Jenn Suhr on count back. Seven women cleared 4.72 meters in a competition for the first time in history, according to the IAAF’s Jon Mulkeen.
Russian Sergey Shubenkov beat Olympic and world 110m hurdles champion Omar McLeod of Jamaica for the second time this week, clocking 12.95 seconds. McLeod was fifth in 13.41. Shubenkov has the four fastest times in the world this year and is the only man to break 13 seconds in 2018.
U.S. champion Shamier Little won the 400m hurdles over a field that included Olympic gold and bronze medalists Dalilah Muhammad and Ashley Spencer. Little clocked 53.41, well off the fastest time in the world this year held by Sydney McLaughlin (52.75), who was not in the Lausanne field.
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Noah Lyles, Michael Norman finally meet again; Diamond League preview
Neither Noah Lyles nor Michael Norman has been to an Olympics or world championships, but their race in Lausanne is arguably the most anticipated sprint of the season.
The men’s 200m headlines Thursday’s Diamond League meet, live on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA (2-4 p.m. ET) and NBC Sports Gold (1:10-4).
The last time Lyles and Norman went head-to-head was the 2016 Olympic Trials, where they finished fourth and fifth in the 200m, just missing the three-man Olympic team as recent high school graduates.
Since, Lyles has gone undefeated in outdoor 200m races, but he missed last year’s world championships due to injury. Lyles, who turned pro after trials, also won the U.S. 100m title two weeks ago in the fastest time in the world for 2018 (9.88, since matched by countryman Ronnie Baker).
Norman, meanwhile, broke the indoor 400m world record on March 10 (44.52) running for the University of Southern California. He followed that with the fastest outdoor 400m time in the world this year (43.61) at the NCAA Championships on June 8.
Lyles and Norman both entered the 200m at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships two weeks ago, but Lyles chose not to race it while Norman withdrew before a final delayed three hours by a thunderstorm.
The Lyles-Norman show may become the premier act in track and field in the post-Bolt era. The sport’s other sprint names are either winding down their careers (Justin Gatlin and Allyson Felix) or injured (Wayde van Niekerk and Christian Coleman).
Lausanne marks their first race together of this Olympic cycle and, hopefully, the first of many.
Here are the Lausanne entry lists. Here’s the schedule of events (all times Eastern):
1:10 p.m. — Women’s Javelin
1:15 — Women’s Long Jump
1:20 — Men’s Shot Put
2:02 — Women’s 400m
2:15 — Women’s Pole Vault
2:22 — Men’s 110m Hurdles
2:30 — Men’s High Jump
2:42 — Women’s 400m Hurdles
2:45 — Men’s Triple Jump
3:02 — Men’s 5000m
3:28 — Women’s 1500m
3:38 — Men’s 200m
Here are five events to watch:
Women’s Pole Vault — 2:15 p.m. ET
The top six women in the world this year (indoors or outdoors) meet in a rematch of sorts of the Prefontaine Classic on May 26. Jenn Suhr, the 2012 Olympic champion, won at Pre, but then took third at USATF Outdoors behind Sandi Morris and Katie Nageotte. Olympic and world champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece as well as New Zealand’s Eliza McCartney cleared season-best heights since Pre.
Men’s 110m Hurdles — 2:22 pm. ET
Russian Sergey Shubenkov injected some life into this event on Monday by clocking 12.92 seconds, the second-fastest time in the world since Aries Merritt‘s world-record 19.80 on Sept. 7, 2012. Shubenkov, the 2015 World champion, will try to beat not only Merritt here, but also 2016 Olympic and 2017 World champion Omar McLeod. Plus Ronald Levy, who won Jamaican nationals in McLeod’s absence and then won at the last Diamond League meet in Paris on Saturday. U.S. champion Devon Allen is also in this field.
Women’s 100m — 2:52 p.m. ET
U.S. and NCAA champion Aleia Hobbs tests herself against Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and the fastest women in the world this year in her senior international debut. Hobbs leads the world with seven sub-10 clockings in 2018, but Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Cote d’Ivoire has the two fastest times (10.85 and 10.88). World and U.S. 200m champions Dafne Schippers and Jenna Prandini also line up here.
Women’s 1500m — 3:28 p.m. ET
Caster Semenya is always a must-see, but what she did Saturday was eye-popping even by her standards. The South African Olympic and world champion lowered her 800m personal best by .91 in Paris, clocking the fastest time in the world in 10 years. Semenya is undefeated at 800m since September 2015 and also perfect at 1500m this year, having clocked the then-fastest time in the world for the season at her last two outings in April and May. If Semenya is to do that again, she’ll have to beat world-record holder Genzebe Dibaba‘s 3:56.68 from June 8. Dibaba is unfortunately not in this field, but Semenya could have her hands full with U.S. champion Shelby Houlihan, Brit Laura Muir and Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay, who lowered her personal best by nearly two seconds to win in Stockholm on June 10 in the world’s No. 2 time this year.
Men’s 200m — 3:38 p.m. ET
Lyles and Norman are each undefeated at 200m outdoors since the Olympic Trials, though Norman rarely raced it for USC. Each man has comfortably broken 20 seconds. They are the favorites here. But watch out for Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards, the world bronze medalist who had the fastest split in the 4x400m at worlds to help upset the U.S.
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July 2019 | Volume 30, No. 1
About the cover: Will the market support 674 new high-priced residential units and 90.000 square feet of commercial space coming on line in downtown Olympia? Photos by Lori Lively.
About this Issue – July 2019
The community we want to build: For all practical purposes we live in a society fixated on increasing the economic value of those who are already wealthy by decreasing the economic value of the other humans. The success of the first project requires the completion of the second: the two states are directly proportional to each other....
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Our June issue was about the huge gap between how much money people have to live on, and the developers’ firm belief in expensive housing. We included a photo of the Rants Group’s planned luxury condos in downtown Olympia.
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Tumwater has an opportunity to retain diversity on its city council
Desdra Dawning on November 9, 2013
Kyle Taylor Lucas offers a Native perspective, government experience, and unflagging dedication
Desdra Dawning
Kyle Taylor Lucas is running to retain her seat as a Council Member for the City of Tumwater. Having seven months ago been unanimously appointed to a vacant seat, she is now hoping to secure her Council position to continue her service. Kyle brings a unique and much-needed perspective to her work with the Council, pointing out that she is the only American Indian woman serving on city council in the state of Washington and the only woman of color sitting on a local government in Thurston County. She points to most city councils as being quite homogenous with most lacking diversity of race, ethnicity, and class that would be truly representative of our growing diversity. “We need a broader diversity of representation sitting at the table,” she said. Considering the values of Native wise land stewardship along with her own unique life experiences that Kyle brings to the table, it would seem a positive shift in direction if more city councils included members who could offer different life experience and perspective.
Over a cup of tea, I asked Kyle what brought her to the Council position. “What inspires me to public service,” she told me, “is my deep commitment to earth stewardship inspired by my Native culture and traditions that I grew up with, as well as a lifelong commitment to social justice.”
Kyle’s first ten years of life were spent in logging camps in rural southeast Alaska, where her father, like many other native peoples, worked in the logging industry. “Being tied to the land, he was torn,” she said, “between his need to feed his family and his commitment to protecting the land.” For most native peoples, making a living on reservations is very difficult. Most must go where the jobs are and that means leaving the reservation for either urban or rural employment. In the case of Kyle’s family, that meant the remote logging camps of Alaska. But it was here that she gained life lessons that she now offers to her community. “We grew up living from the land,” she shared, “from the deer and elk dad hunted, and the salmon, shellfish, berries…” Her childhood was also one of “extreme adversity, abuse, and trauma.” Her family had no indoor plumbing or electricity until she was ten years of age. She said the life accompanying these camps together with the abuse and brutal racism experienced over her lifetime helped to shape, inform, and to make her who she is today. They motivated her, through social and human rights activism, and public service, to “advocate for a community that honors human dignity, cares for all people, wildlife, and the earth,” she said.
“I like to call myself both a Tulalip tribal citizen and a Tumwater citizen,” she shared, when asked about her native background. Her father’s people are the Tulalip Tribes whose reservation is located north of Everett. Her mother’s people are the Lytton and Cooks Ferry Indian Bands of the Nlaka’pamux Nation in B.C. Canada.
As Tribal Affairs Manager for the Department of Natural Resources in Olympia, WA, where Kyle was appointed to the executive teams of two Commissioners of Public Lands, Kyle worked to promote agency appreciation for tribal governance, history, and culture and to promote tribal understanding of the state’s regulatory and administrative limitations. She was praised for her ability to help overcome conflict, avoid litigation, and to create partnerships. Then serving the Tulalip Tribe as Government Affairs Manager, Kyle advocated tribal policy positions and served as a delegate to state and national tribal committees and commissions, mitigating for fisheries, wildlife, and cultural and archeological resources. Most recently, she was Executive Director to the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs in Olympia, serving as the primary tribal policy adviser to the Governor, and primary liaison between state executive branch agencies and federally recognized tribes. Her work in the Governor’s office saw her interfacing with constituents on a variety of complex state and tribal policy issues, addressing: social and health services, law enforcement and courts, education, the environment, economic development, water policy and law, treaty fisheries, and natural and cultural resources.
Kyle said “In addition to my unique experience and perspectives as a woman of color, as an Indigenous woman, and coming from an impoverished socio-economic background, it is important to note that I also bring twenty years of successful public policy and executive experience—including management of large public budgets to my work with the Tumwater City Council.”
I asked her what issues the Council is currently facing that hold her attention. She explained her belief that all city councils, these days, have the moral duty not only to take care of their traditional roles of “paving potholes and ensuring public safety and other essential services,” but to go beyond to address the bigger societal issues of our times: climate change, housing, the homeless, environmental sustainability, poverty, and the punitive approach our culture has developed to solve problems. She pointed out that when these integrated issues are addressed locally, each community can do its part in solving the bigger picture. She believes the Sustainable Thurston’s “Creating Places Preserving Spaces” sustainable development plan is a huge step in the right direction with its integrated, holistic, long-term approach which seeks to address the issues just mentioned. “Think globally, yet act locally,” seems to be very much a part of Kyle’s approach to wise community government.
Kyle said the significant lack of low-income housing in Thurston County is one of her primary areas of focus on the City Council. She pointed to two Thurston Regional Planning Council reports “Fair Housing Equity” and “Regional Housing Plan” of this year, each of which documents the dearth of low-income and affordable housing in our tri-city area. Kyle believes it is a human rights and social justice issue and is committed to addressing it. “Every citizen should have a roof over her or his head. It is unacceptable to me that more than 500 students in our high school population are homeless, that any child is homeless, yet we plan for and around it. We speak in numbers, statistics. I want to work to change this dynamic—the terrible, mean, acceptance of this as status quo.”
Kyle also offered the following statistic; due to the lack of adequate housing and job opportunities on Indian reservations, about 90% of America’s Indian population live in urban environments with few resources. Reflecting on the “Indian Boarding School Era,” she told me that like so many from that time, her mother was forcibly taken from her family and placed in a boarding school, ultimately affecting Kyle’s own childhood with the trauma of five foster homes. This breaking apart of families and undermining of language and culture contribute to the many challenges experienced by American Indians and is apparent on reservations across this country. “The boarding schools very much influenced what is happening today in Indian Country with much of the unresolved grief and trauma our people endured then.” What helped pull her out of these hardships in her own life? “I was blessed,” she said, “by those around me with great compassion and empathy, who inspired me to become an activist for social justice and human rights.” This has motivated her to work, today, for “all people” in her community to create diverse and affordable housing.
Kyle’s tenure so far on the Council has given her the opportunity to address the issue of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s). These include, among others: neglect, physical and sexual abuse, alcohol and drugs, incarcerated parents and the witnessing of domestic violence. Thurston County, she pointed out, has the third highest number of ACE’s in the state. Relating back to her Native connections, she said that the tribes call this phenomenon “multigenerational unresolved grief and trauma” and that it “deprives us of reaching our full potential.” As a Councilwoman, Kyle has been representing the City of Tumwater in public and private efforts to address this crisis by working with the Thurston Council on Children and Youth to identify community resources and create “resiliency” through the creation of personal and institutional support systems.
What does Kyle Taylor Lucas feel that she brings to the table that is unique? “At this time in our society and in our communities, when so many people are struggling, I relate to that struggle, coming from my unique ethnic, racial, and social background. I bring a passion for justice and a commitment to community.” It is apparent that her life experiences have shaped her perspective, one that is unlike anyone currently on or running for this Tumwater City Council position. It is a perspective that brings with it a clear sense of empathy and humanity to her process of policy-making.
You can contact Kyle Taylor Lucas at: http://www.retainkyletaylorlucas.com/
Desdra Dawning writes for the Olympia Food Co-op Newsletter and Works In Progress. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University.
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You Are the Light - Edit - Jem Cooke
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British deep/tech-house DJ and producer Daley Padley has achieved a remarkable amount of success under the name Hot Since 82.
His tracks are energetic and a touch dramatic, yet smooth and not over-produced, and are perfectly tailored for clubs and dance festivals. After collecting some of his initial singles and remixes as Hot Since 82 on the 2013 full-length Little Black Book, Padley founded Knee Deep in Sound in 2014 and continued releasing singles and mix CDs on the label, as well as others such as Truesoul and Moon Harbour.
Padley was born and raised in Barnsley, England (in 1981, contrary to his moniker). He started frequenting clubs as a teenager, and began spinning at a hometown club at the age of 17, where he became renowned for his 12-hour weekend sets. He began traveling to Ibiza in 2003, and started a residency at Cream Ibiza in 2006. He also started releasing tracks under his own name, but he gradually became tired of the more commercial Ibiza sound, and took a break from spinning and producing music.
However, he regained his faith in house music when he resumed clubbing in Leeds in 2010. That summer, he and his friends were attending an Ibiza after-party when the music abruptly stopped. Padley plugged his phone into the sound system and played one of his unfinished tracks, and the crowd responded enthusiastically. "Let It Ride," Padley's debut single as Hot Since 82, was released by Noir Music in 2011, and was soon followed by the Forty Shorty EP on Get Physical, two Hot Jams EPs on Noir, and several tracks on Moda Black. He also remixed songs by Pete Tong, Rudimental, David Lynch, and Green Velvet, among many others.
Padley's star continued to rise in 2013, as his set for BBC's Essential Mix series aired, and his debut full-length, Little Black Book, was released by Moda Black. In 2014, he was featured on the cover of Mixmag, headlined the U.K. festival Creamfields, and launched his own label, Knee Deep in Sound, dedicated to up-and-coming underground house artists. He released a mix CD, also titled Knee Deep in Sound, through the label, as well as singles such as "Time Out" and the Black Box-sampling "Somebody Everybody." A second Essential Mix, recorded live at Ibiza club Space, aired in 2015, and Hot Since 82 mixed the second disc of All Gone Ibiza 2015, a double disc split with Tong.
Padley continued playing at clubs and festivals throughout the world, selling out tours of North and South America as well maintaining a long-standing residence at Pacha Ibiza. Among his single releases, "Damage" was issued by Adam Beyer's Truesoul in 2015, and "Evolve or Die" appeared on Moon Harbour in 2017, the year he was nominated for Producer of the Year at the inaugural Electronic Music Awards. "Buggin'" (featuring vocalist Jem Cooke) followed in 2018. ~ David Jeffries & Paul Simpson, Rovi
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Awards, Campus & community, Campus news, People
Berkeley shines in ‘Times Higher Ed’ reputation rankings
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley| March 11, 2015 July 9, 2015
March 11, 2015 July 9, 2015 Public Affairs
Once again,Times Higher Education has recognized UC Berkeley as one of the “elite six” world universities in its 2015 reputation rankings, which were released today (Wednesday, March 11).
This is just the fifth year of the reputation rankings, and Berkeley has placed in the “elite six” every year, along with Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford and Stanford. All six scored far higher than the other universities by Times Higher Education, the United Kingdom’s leading educational news publication. The rankings are based on a survey of more than 10,000 academics worldwide, and are separate from THE‘s annual World University Rankings, which come out in the fall.
Berkeley ranked sixth with a score of 60, far ahead of the next ranked university, Princeton, which scored 35.
The full rankings can be viewed on the Times Higher Ed website
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Research, Technology & engineering
Government funding increasingly fuels innovation
By Kara Manke| June 25, 2019 June 27, 2019
June 25, 2019 June 27, 2019 Kara Manke
A new UC Berkeley-led study finds that nearly a third of U.S. patents arise from federally-funded scientific research. (UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser)
From the tiny electronics that power our smartphones to the new medicines that keep us well, a surprising number of the ideas and innovations that drive our economy were born not by corporations, but by federally-funded science, shows a new study led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers.
“Today, almost one third of U.S. patents rely on federal science investment — and that’s a conservative estimate,” said Lee Fleming, professor industrial engineering and operations research at UC Berkeley and the paper’s lead author. “Corporations in particular have begun to rely much more heavily on federal science.”
The study analyzed tens of millions of U.S. patents and scientific papers dating from 1926 to 2017 and found that U.S. patenting’s reliance on federal science has steady increased over the past 90 years. Those patents that arise from federally-funded science are more highly cited, renewed and novel than others, the analysis found.
Even big entrepreneurial companies are drawing on federally-funded research to power some of their big ideas, Fleming noted. For example, Google’s PageRank algorithm patent acknowledges federal support.
The findings suggest that large cuts in science funding — which the Trump administration has proposed for the third year in a row — could have a long-term cooling effect on the economy. And while congress has restored these cuts in the last two years, there may be increased budgetary pressure this year.
“Invention is relying more and more on science for inspiration, for explanation and for reducing breakthroughs to practice,” said Fleming, who also serves as faculty director of the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering. “It also appears that U.S. inventors take greater advantage of federal research than foreign inventors. Hence, if we want American firms and startups to continue to lead the world, we should continue investing in science.”
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2013 Barrett Lecture on Constitutional Law featuring Alan E. Brownstein - Nov. 19
You're invited to the 2013 Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Lecture on Constitutional Law:
"Coercion and Endorsement: Constitutional Challenges to State Sponsored Prayers at Local Government Meetings"
By Alan E. Brownstein, Professor of Law and Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality
4:00P.M. - Lecture
5:00P.M. - Reception
UC Davis School of Law - Kalmanovitz Courtroom
400 Mrak Hall Drive
Free & open to the public
MCLE credit available
Over the last half century, the Supreme Court has struggled to resolve Establishment Clause cases challenging state-sponsored prayers and public religious displays. While these controversies are prominent battlefields in contemporary culture wars and implicate a range of disagreements, for modern constitutional law purposes they involve a doctrinal choice between two competing tests or adjudicatory standards. The Endorsement Test, initially developed by Justice O'Connor in the 1980s, focuses on whether government action places an imprimatur of approval on a particular religion or religion generally, and communicates a message to religious adherents and non-adherents as to their relative status in the political community. The Coercion Test, championed more recently by Justice Kennedy, examines government conduct to determine whether government is pressuring people to join or participate in religious activities. A case pending before the Supreme Court this term, Town of Greece v. Galloway, dealing with government-sponsored prayers delivered before town board meetings, raises questions of religious endorsement and coercion in a particularly provocative setting - public meetings in which citizens directly petition government decision-makers.
Professor Alan Brownstein, a nationally recognized Constitutional Law scholar, teaches Constitutional Law, Law and Religion, and Torts at UC Davis School of Law. While the primary focus of his scholarship relates to church-state issues and free exercise and establishment clause doctrine, he has also written extensively on freedom of speech, privacy and autonomy rights, and other constitutional law subjects. His articles have been published in numerous academic journals including the Stanford Law Review, Cornell Law Review, UCLA Law Review and Constitutional Commentary. Brownstein received the UC Davis School of Law's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995 and the UC Davis Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award in 2008. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
The Edward L. Barrett, Jr., Lectureship on Constitutional Law was established in 1986 to mark the retirement of King Hall's founding dean, Edward L. Barrett, Jr., and the Law School's 20th anniversary.
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6 Celebrity Myths People Still Believe
Nowadays everyone appears to be interested in the lifestyle of celebrities. Whether we’re talking about positive or negative rumors, when a piece of information reaches the internet, it will only be a matter of time until it goes viral. This is primarily what would explain the existence of so many prevailing myths regarding celebrities. Here are some interesting facts about celebrities that are actually myths.
Best-dressed Men at Oscars 2019
The 2019 Oscar winners are here! It was a night of memorable moments and fabulous firsts as Green Book took home the Oscar for Best Picture. Regina King, Mahershala Ali, Rami Malek and Olivia Colman were tops in the acting categories and Spike Lee brought home Oscar for the very first time for Adapted Screenplay as a co-writer of BlacKkKlansman.
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If you pride yourself on your attention to detail, you don’t need us to tell you that a good watch can really complete a look. Yet with so many on the market, how can you possibly know which brand of timepiece to choose? Today, we’re looking at the best watch brands that are top choice with the rich and famous. Basically, we’ve done the research so you don’t have to…
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James Kimberley Corden is an English actor, writer, producer, comedian and television host, currently hosting The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. He is a birthday boy today and we wish him to keep his charm and strong presence on the screen.
British actor Daniel Craig - as stylish as his character James Bond
His British aristocracy, blue eyes and perfectly fitting ensembles help Daniel looking always impeccable on the Red carpet - as stylish as James Bond himself!
Robert Downey Jr - Iron style by Iron Man
Overcoming his drug issues, Downey managed to rebuilt his acting career and now is one of the most famous male actors in Hollywood. For his Red carpet appearances he always looks different, choosing a variety of styles, color combinations and accessories.
Star Trek Beyond Chris Pine in elegant men's suits
Christopher Whitelaw 'Chris' Pine is an American actor, born in Los Angeles, California, in 1980. For his Red carpet appearances his style is usually impeccable - elegant single- or double-breasted men's suits in appropriate colors and cuts.
Celebrities' style: Chris Evans
Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor and filmmaker, born in Boston in 1981. He is most famous for his superhero roles as the Marvel Comics characters Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Human Torch in Fantastic Four.
Italian entrepreneur and millionaire Gianluca Vacchi
Today we'll take a look at the wardrobe of the Italian millionaire Gianluca Vacchi (Born on August 5, 1967 in Bologna, Italy). He is an entrepreneur and financier and serves as a President at SEA Societ? Europea Autocaravan S.p.A.
Professional Fashion Photography by Nina Junger from California
Nina studied photography at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and started her career as a Makeup Artist for the movie industry (in productions like The Rock, Con Air, Black Night, The Muse and Friends) and lifestyle magazines (like Vogue, Elle, GQ and Life).
Celebrity kids on the runway for Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer 2017 men's show
Italian designer duo Dolce & Gabbana presented its latest men's collection in Italy during the Milan Men's Fashion Week. Among the models on the runway were Cindy Crawford's son Presley Gerber and Jude Law's son Rafferty Law.
Men's ready-to-wear fashion shows may remain in the past
Recently Brioni, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Tom Ford, Vetements and Public School announced that they say goodbye to Milan Men's Wear fashion shows. The final balance is 10 designers who have decided not to showcase their collections this year in Milan.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - the stylish Governor
'The Governator' is dressed appropriately for every occasion, always different and in the same time stylish. He also shows that he follows the latest trends by combining a men's suit jacket with jeans or a suit with sneakers.
Celebrities' style: Matt Bomer
The charming and talented actor won the 2014 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film, for his role in the movie The Normal Heart.
Celebrities' style: Michael Shannon
For his Red carpet appearances, the actor always choose something different, but always stylish. He is not a fan of the Black tie dress code and prefers more fresh sets - something that we definitely like and support.
American photographer Steve Schapiro
Steve Schapiro (born1934) is a distinguished American journalistic photographer, known for his photos of key moments of the Civil Rights Movement and for his portraits of celebrities and movie stills.
Bright colors and stylish outfits by Nick Cannon
For his Red carpet appearances Nick is always dressed to impress. He chooses sets, which 'make a statement' and differentiate him form the masses.
Fashion photographer Miranda Penn Turin: 'My style is graphic, sexy and emotional'
Miranda Penn Turin is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed fashion photographer who works with celebrities, music labels, TV networks and some of the biggest brands in advertising.
Cannes Film Festival 2016: Line-up - announced, Dress code - not yet
The big question is not which movie is about to win the prize, but which dress code will be preferred by the celebrities - Black or Color Suits?
Best dressed men at MTV Movie Awards 2016
Who were the best dressed celebrities at the MTV Movie Awards 2016 Red carpet? Who were really dressed to impress? Let's see BGFN's favorites, who were brave enough to choose something both stylish and eye-catching...
Celebrities' style: Justin Timberlake
Timberlake aired his first solo album in 2002 and throughout his career he has won nine Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, seven American Music Awards, three Brit Awards, ten Billboard Music Awards and eleven MTV Video Music Awards.
Academy of Country Music Awards Gala - Black is not in fashion
The last edition of the Awards was held last night (April 3, 2016) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. And we couldn't miss the trend - black is out, colors are in!
David Needleman: "Just being alive tends to inspire"
David Needleman is a US photographer, born and raced in New York City. Over the last 5 years, David has been a regular contributor of celebrity portraiture to L'Uomo Vogue. In addition, David has also photographed for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, Out and more.
Jeanne Yang - 2016 Men's Stylist of the Year
'Luxury lifestyle consultant and Celebrity Stylist to 4 Supermen, 2 Spidermen, Ironman, Neo, other Super people and a mom to twins' - this is how celebrities' stylist Jeanne Yang describes herself.
The dandy style
You have to think differently before you can dress differently - Peculiar to Mr Fish
In 1966, after 9 years at Turnbull & Asser and a short period as John Steven's assistant, Michael Fish opened his own store called 'Mr. Fish'. The exclusiveness of the store is determined by the high prices - usually about £35 for a jacket, £100 - for a suit, and £8-20 - for a shirt - defined by the generously used expensive fabrics.
The Men's Fashion Cluster Academy gives 365 men's suit jackets as a gift to Mark Zuckerberg
The suits will be created by 365 young designers from universities all over the world, so you can wear a different jacket every day over your gray T-shirts. Be an example for young people, because they should be ready for the business world, and clothing is very important as it gives the first impression of the person.
Bernie Sanders' suit color - why it matters?
Two days ago (March 10, 2016), during a CNN's immigration-focused Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the key topic in social media was none of the important issues, which were discussed during the event, but the color of Vermont senator suit. Was it brown, dark blue or black?
Olivier Rousteing - Balmain Creative Director
Rousteing joined Balmain in 2009. In 2011, at age of 25, he replaced Christophe Decarnin as the creative director of the brand, gaining full control of the production of both the men's and women's read-to-wear lines.
Celebrities' Style: Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor, born in Heidelberg, West Germany, in 1977 and raised in Killarney, the Republic of Ireland, where he attended school and college. He plays in both independent films and blockbusters. For his portrait of Steve Jobs in the biopic of the same name, Fassbender has received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actor.
Hedi Slimane - Saint Laurent Paris Creative Director
In March 2012, Yves Saint Laurent officially stated that Slimane would replace Stefano Pilati as brand's creative director. And under the Slimane's governance YSL has become one of controlling conglomerate Kering's most powerful brands - the sales doubled in his first two years at the brand to almost $800 million annually in 2014.
Celebrities' style: Harry Styles from British boy band One Direction
Harry Edward Styles is an English singer and songwriter, born in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, in 1994. He is best known as a member of the boy band One Direction. The boy band has a huge success - it's first single 'What Makes You Beautiful' debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, and has since sold over 5 million copies worldwide, making it among one the best-selling singles of all time.
'Audi Night' in Kitzbühel with Jason Statham and Luke Evans
The 'Audi Night' on January 22, 2016, with about 350 invited guests, opened the spectacular weekend of racing on the Hahnenkamm in Kitzb?hel, Austria. Among the invitees were actors Jason Statham and Luke Evans, pop singer, actor and former ski racer Hansi Hinterseer and German footballer Mario Goetze.
Celebrities' style: David Oyelowo
David Oyetokunbo Oyelowo is English actor, producer, director, and writer, born in Oxford, England, in 1976, to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity. On the Red carpet, David is always elegant and he is definitely not a big fan of the Black tie dress code. The actor usually wears monochromatic attire, often - a well-fitting three-piece suit, combined with a matching tie or bow-tie.
30 Most Stylish Men 2015
The new year is already here and the winners of BGFN readers' voting for Most Stylish Men 2015 are announced! The nominees are separated in six categories - Cinema, Music, Business, Sport, Science & Culture and Politics - and here are your top 5 favorites in each of them, forming the Top 30 Most Stylish Men 2015 list...
Bespoke Men's Suits
Chittleborough & Morgan - Savile Row Bespoke Tailors
Roy Chittleborough and Joe Morgan are master tailors and the owners of Chittleborough & Morgan - a traditional bespoke atelier at Savile Row, London - There is no ready-to-wear and there are no anonymous customers. There is only Bespoke.
Lawrence Zarian is the winner in Most Stylish Men 2015 - Category Business
Lawrence Zarian is a Celebrated author, TV personality, Lifestyle expert and Red carpet guru. He was born in Glendale, California, USA in 1965 and is best known for his work on The Fashion Team (2006), Entertainment Tonight (1981) and Live with Kelly and Michael (1988). His personal style and taste won him the prize for Most Stylish Men 2015 in Category Business!
Colin Firth is the winner in Most Stylish Men 2015 - Category Cinema
Colin Andrew Firth is an English actor, born in Grayshott, Hampshire, England, in 1960. His most memorable role so far has been the 2010 portrayal of King George VI in 'The King's Speech' - a performance that earned him an Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards. His style, personality and achievements won him the prize for Most Stylish Men 2015 in Category Cinema!
How the stars were dressed during the Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiere
At the premiere of Walt Disney Pictures and Lucas Film's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Hollywood's biggest stars came out in full force to see the latest installment of the most famous movie franchise of all time before anyone else. We selected for you the most stylish celebrities that came to the premiere. Just to say, you are going to see men in suits, in colourful suits, or in interesting combinations of blazers and pants.
Alex Turner - The Stylish Rock Star
Alex Turner is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, born in High Green, Sheffield, UK, in 1986. He is the leading vocalist of the English rock band Arctic Monkeys, formed in 2002, which already has 5 released albums. Their debut album - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) - is the fastest-selling debut album by a band in British chart history.
Celebrities' style: Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson is an English musician, DJ, singer, and record producer, famous not only for his talent, but also for his great taste. He always chooses interesting, eye-catching outfits for his Red carper appearances and we think that his style has developed during the years...
Leonardo DiCaprio: An example for excellent taste and presence on the Red carpet
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the celebrities with best taste and style. While most of the Hollywood actors wear only black suits on the Red carpet - which even don't fit them well - Leonardo is often noticed to wear high quality wool suits made to measure.
Celebrities' style: Jeremy Renner
Jeremy Lee Renner is an American actor and producer. He is also a singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and drummer and according to us - a pretty stylish gentleman. He always looks great on the Red carpet - elegant, classy but by no means boring.
Celebrities' Style: Nick Jonas
If you like Nick's style you can support him in BGFN readers' voting for the Most Stylish Man 2015. If he is your favorite share his page NICK JONAS with your friends and followers.
Best Dressed Celebs at the British Fashion Awards Red Carpet
The British Fashion Awards are held annually in the United Kingdom (since 1989) 'to showcase British designers and present awards to those who have made the most outstanding contributions to the fashion industry during the year'. And every year we see many celebrities showing their taste (or its lack) on the BFA red carpet. This year our favorites among the gentlemen, who were most stylish during the event, are...
Dutch fashion: G-Star RAW
G-Star RAW is a Dutch men's and women's fashion label, founded in 1989 in Amsterdam and focused mainly on Denim. During the years, the company developed many denim 'firsts' - 'luxury denim for the streets', wearable and wanted raw, untreated denim, architectural and 3-D denim constructions, special washes and treatments, highlighting the best qualities of denim.
Dutch fashion: Jonathan Christopher
Next men's fashion designer from The Netherlands, who we are going to introduce you, is Jonathan Christopher. Next to his own brand 'Jonathan Christopher Homme', the designer also freelances for other brands, including Karl (Karl Lagerfeld).
Celebrities' style: Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is among the ladies in Hollywood, known not only for their successful movie productions, but also for their charm, class and style. Blue-eyed actress, producer and fashion model usually wears elegant garments with simple cut in one or two colors, combined with delicate jewelry. Black, white and navy are among the often preferred by Theron colors.
Celebrities' style: The Iconic Porsche Design Aviator Sunglasses
Until today, the P'8478 that was sold more than 6 million times, is known around the world. Hardly any other sunglasses have caught the spirit of the times to such a degree - and they are still a must-have and beloved accessory also of international celebrities.
Men's suit jackets and ladies' garments with traditional Bulgarian embroidery for Spring-Summer 2015
During the Festival of Fashion and Beauty 2015 in Varna, Bulgaria, young designers Tsvetomir Petkov, Trayana Laleva and Milena Georgieva - participants in the Richmart Vintage project - presented their men's suit jackets and womenswear collections with embroidered folklore motifs - a fashion trend, which is really hot right now and is getting more and more wanted in Bulgaria and abroad.
Tony Awards 2015: Best dressed celebrities
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented at an annual ceremony in New York City. This years edition of the event was held on June 7, 2015 and the most stylish celebs, according to us, were...
Celebrities' style: Zac Efron
For the Red Carpet, Zac is always stylish and classy. He usually chooses an elegant suit in black, navy blue or gray, combined with a white shirt - a perfect combination for every formal occasion.
The campaign 'I like Bulgarian folklore dances' with an international support
We are happy and proud to announce that the campaign, organized by Richmart, folklore ensemble 'Bulgare', Fashion.bg and Be Global Fashion Network, which aim is many people worldwide to start talking about Bulgaria and Bulgarian dances, is getting very popular and is supported by many Bulgarians and foreigners from Spain, Canada, England, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, the USA and even from the Bulgarian team in Antarctica!
I am constantly creating... - Interview with jewelry designer Martin Katz
Martin Katz is renowned for his exquisite taste and an unparalleled eye for transforming stones into artistic creations. He founded his eponymous company in 1988. The company, Martin Katz, Ltd quickly gained international prominence with a clientele that includes Forbes 400 business leaders, US Ambassadors and other individuals of affluence with a collector's spirit.
An international campaign 'I like Bulgarian folklore dances' - Join us!
The main idea of the project is to promote Bulgarian folklore dances in Bulgaria and abroad, by presenting them in videos, sent by professional dancers and amateurs, dressed in suits and contemporary clothing, instead of costumes.
World famous menswear designer Francesco Smalto has died
Late in the evening of April 5, Italian-born couturier Francesco Smalto died at age 87. Francesco Smalto fashion house announced designer's death on Monday in a statement, noticing his ability to 'reconcile virility, mystery and sensitivity' in his menswear designs and to create clothes for 'the most demanding men on the planet'.
Spring-Summer 2015 Fashion trends: Gray hair
If you woke up this morning and noticed some gray hues in your hair - don't panic! You are trendier than ever! Yes, gray hair is the hottest hair trend for the Spring-Summer 2015 season.
Yulia Prokhorova presented Fall/Winter 2015-2016 during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia
Yulia Prokhorova is one of the most known designers in Russia. Yulia Prokhorova. Beloe Zoloto fashion house rapidly gained the immense love of thousands of young women and became one of the country's most popular brands.
Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur in Guy Ritchie's 'Knights of the Roundtable'
Charlie Hunnam ('Sons of Anarchy'), Astrid Bergès-Frisbey ('Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides') and Mikael Persbrandt ('The Hobbit') are the leading actors in Guy Ritchie's 'Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur'. Air date: July 22, 2016.
Italian haute couture designer Ivan Donev: You can expect beautiful, beautiful surprises
Journalists in Rome call him 'the Bulgarian adopted by the Italian haute couture'. He defines himself as an Italian designer born in Bulgaria. But today when fashion gets more and more international, this is not so important. The style, consistency and talent are the significant things. And Ivan Donev has all of them.
Best dressed celebs at Oscars 2015 Red carpet
Last night (February 22, 2015) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA, was held the 87th Academy awards ceremony, which honored the best films of 2014. As usually on the Red carpet, we saw many glamorous gowns and now we are going to present you our 'Best dressed celebrities' list...
Georges Chakra Spring-Summer 2015 Haute Couture collection
'I design and create in order to expose a woman's contradictory personality - She seduces with her discreet allure while at the same time through her innate sensuality, shows us her ability to rule through silent presence. The woman should be at the same time angelic and feel absolutely seductive', says Georges Chakra.
Stéphane Rolland Spring-Summer 2015 Haute Couture collection
Volumes, transparency, lightness, 3D embroideries, sequins - these are the key elements of Stéphane Rolland Spring-Summer 2015 Haute Couture collection.
Prom dresses 2015 by Sherri Hill
Delicate shining and fine lace with tattoo effect are typical for 2015 prom dresses collection by American designer Sherri Hill - the owner of the brand with the same name - who is one of the leader at the US market.
American Music Awards 2014: Celebrities' style on the Red carpet
During this year's show, held on Sunday (November 23, 2014) there was a lot of glamor on the red carpet. Singers Selena Gomez, Zendaya, Jordin Sparks and Fergie were among the most stylish celebs of the evening.
'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' world premiere: Celebrities' style
Yesterday (November 10, 2014) was the world premiere of 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part One' at Leicester Square in London, UK. The movie, which is expected to generate over £ 100 m, will be released in the theatres on November 20.
Roses and femininity for Spring-Summer 2015 by Igor Gulyaev
On October 26, 2014 during the the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, Igor Gulyaev presented his Spring-Summer 2015 collection, named 'Nouvelle époque'.
Made-to-order Men's Suits
Where to buy men's suits: Martin Greenfield Clothiers
From Martin Greenfield Clothiers they hand craft the finest made-to-order and made-to-measure suits, tuxedos, sport jackets, slacks and overcoats, 100% built by hand in their Brooklyn Factory.
Women's fashion: Sretsis Spring-Summer 2015 collection
Sretsis shines brightly through dream-like silhouettes and dark humored prints disguised, sometimes unnoticed, as a wide-eyed innocent take on age old femininity.
99%IS- Spring-Summer 2015 collection during the MBFWT
99%IS- offers elegant and street-style designs based on rock taste.
Roses and elegance for Spring-Summer 2015 by Carolina Herrera
Venezuelan-American fashion designer Carolina Herrera presented her latest collection on September 8, 2014 in the USA, during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York. And it was all about the pure beauty of flowers - roses, parrot tulips, lilies and magnolias.
Street style fashion from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York
Fashion Weeks are places where the new collections of the designers and fashion brands are presented. However, most of the visitors of the fashion weeks are usually celebrities and fashion fans that also show originality in the way they dress for those events and can even set the trends.
Women's fashion: Valentino Spring-Summer 2015 collection
The theme of the collection is 'Travels through 18th century Italy'.
Romeo Beckham is the face of Burberry 2014 Christmas campaign
'We shot it in London. Romeo's really good to work with. Quite a lot of people - mostly actors - feature in the video, all dancing to music', a source revealed.
The most iconic hairstyles of all times
Jennifer Aniston's haircut as Rachel from 'Friends' was announced for the most influential hairstyle of all time.
Leather Trim Tote by Cath Kidson
To celebrate the launch of its new Leather Trim Tote, Cath Kidston is launching a campaign delving into every woman’s most treasured possession and asks – do you like yours #TotesBig or #TotesSmall?
Sebastiano Montella: Give them exactly what the customers are asking for - perfectly fitting hand-made suits
Today, we are going to present you master Italian tailor Sebastiano Montella and his tailoring studio Montella Custom Tailor, which offers custom hand made suits and clothing for both ladies and gentlemen, as well as expert alterations.
A star-studded evening for AVAKIAN in Cannes
For the launch of the Puerto Azul Experience Night Welcome Party, many celebrities chose AVAKIAN (high end jewelry brand) as their jeweller of choice.
Famous model Irina Shayk was also wearing AVAKIAN jewellery for the premiere of 'THE SEARCH' movie.
10 British celebs designed handbags for charity
Italian fashion house Fendi opened a boutique in London.
There are at ten unique bags that will be auctioned. The assistant Silvia Venturini Fendi helped the celebrities to design the handbags.
Men's suits at the Oscars 2014 - black or not?
Yes, we should admit that Leonardo DiCaprio looks great in his Giorgio Armani Made to Measure black one-button lape three-piece tuxedo at the Oscars 2014. He looks elegant, stylish and classy.
But let's take a look at the celebrities who were braver and chose other colors for their suits and you decide if they were right to do it...
Blonde is a top trend in male hairstyles for 2014
An increasing number of men change their natural hair color. It seems that gentlemen are inspired to change their appearance especially by famous models and actors.
Canadian actor, director, writer and musician Ryan Gosling seems to be one of the celebrities who have inspired the trend.
Nails for celebrities - The most Expensive Nails in the World
After the successful launch of BOHEM nail jewellery, BOHEM is now releasing their first pair of nails for celebrities.
These experimental nails were produced in the Birmingham based studios.
Beyonce is the most fashionable pregnant celebrity
Beyonce Knowles is the most stylish future mum, according to a poll at the British site Josoblu.co.uk
The singer, who is expecting her first child from her husband Jay-Z is on the top of the fashion poll among buyers, who had to answer the question which celebrity hides best her belly and whose pregnancy style they want to copy.
Chanel Resort 2012 collection presented in Cap d’Antibes
A couple of days ago, Chanel presented its Cruise collection, Resort 2012, at the Hotel du Cap in Antibes on the French Riviera and was nothing less than we would have expected from Karl Lagerfeld.
The designer booked possibly the most expensive hotel in the world for however many days it took to get the show on the runway and as we expected - it was glamorous.
Pippa Middleton's Alexander McQueen dress worn by Cameron Diaz last year
Pippa Middleton wowed the world at her sister's wedding when she appeared in an ivory colord crepe column, complete with cowl neck, designed by Alexander McQueen creative director Sarah Burton.
Cameron Diaz wore the same Alexander McQueen gown in bold red to the Golden Globes in 2010.
Hairstyles and haircuts that can make your face look slimmer
You are may be on diet or may be you are doing a lot of workout to loose your excess weight.
Well it would be very wrong to say that stop those things but what can be suggested that just once consider the slimming haircuts along with your slimming regime.
You can look slimmer with a proper hairstyle. For a proper hairstyle you have to first you have to consider the right shape of your face.
Get the famous 50s Hollywood glow with the new collection of Atelier Simon
For the world’s leading designers, the idea of a wedding dress is associated with luxury, airiness and indescribable femininity.
This is evident from their bridal collections. A wonderful option to be elegant and seductive on your wedding day is to select a dress, showered in the Hollywood glow of the 50s.
Catwalks don’t stop to impress us with the sophisticated and glamorous models like the ones, shown on the red carpet.
Kate Bosworth designed her own jewelry line
28-year-old Hollywood actress Kate Bosworth appears in a new amploa. She joined the list of celebrities who become designers.
Together with her friend and stylist Cher Coulter, Kate created jewelry collection for Spring/Summer 2011 for the brand JewelMint.
The collection includes long earrings, necklaces and massive rings.
Best dressed celebrities at the New York Fashion Week shows
New York Fashion Week is coming to an end and until now it has seen shows from Jason Wu, Alexander Wang, Tommy Hilfiger and Donna Karan showing their wares for the new autumn/winter 2011-12 season. While they showed us the new fashion trends that will dominate the world at the end of this year, the first row of fashion shows was attended by many stars who also demonstrated their point of view of what is elegant and modern.
Fashion magazines and books
Aaron Johnson is Britain's best dressed man
Actor Aaron Johnson has been named Britain's best dressed man by GQ magazine, taking over from last year's winner Robert Pattinson.
The Twilight actor beat fashion stalwarts including David Beckham and Tom Ford. Johnson was placed in fourth spot in the latest rundown by the British style bible, while the big surprise in the poll was Victoria and David Beckham's eight-year-old son son Romeo - who was placed 26th in the chart.
Rihanna with stylish shot for GQ magazine
Rihanna with her new hit single "The Only Girl In This World" is not only topping the music charts these days but she is also on top of the priority of the world's biggest selling quality men's magazine GQ and to prove it they have Rihanna on the cover of their January 2011 Issue. After disappearing from the spotlight for a while due to a dispute with her former partner, the brunette appeared hotter than ever.
Designers and celebrities are embracing the 70s styles and trends
Sarah Jessica Parker and Kylie Minogue are among a host of stars who have found their inner 'hippie chick' by embracing the styles and trends from the 70s.
This season's catwalks are dominated by the decade's iconic styles and trends, including maxi dresses, mini-skirts and hot pants, with designers Marc Jacobs and Rebecca Taylor basing collections on the stylish 70s.
Marc Jacobs admits he needs ''stimulation'' when it comes to work
Marc Jacobs admits he needs ''stimulation'' when it comes to his designs, as he can't create masterpieces out of a ''blank piece of paper''. Marc Jacobs needs "stimulation" to be a successful.
The fashion designer - who is creative designer for French luxury label Louis Vuitton - admitted he finds it difficult to create pieces from just a "blank piece of paper", and so he seeks inspiration from various facets of his life.
Beyoncé modeled in Tom Ford’s secret fashion show
Tom Ford showcased his first womenswear collection in six years with celebrity cast including Beyonce, Lauren Hutton, Daphne Guinness, Julianne Moore and Stella Tennant with very small, but glamorous show.
The extraordinary show was held in the designer’s store on Madison Avenue before an audience of perhaps 100 editors. Each of the beautiful celebrities looked sensational and as individual as she could be. The collection includes sharp pantsuits in black silk or leopard pattern, gorgeous black evening clothes with sheer blouses, corsets with details like hammered gold, jewelry, stilettos with ankle ties and seamed black stockings.
Konstantin is rehearsing for the wedding
Nadia, the girlfriend of the pop-folk idol Konstantin, chose her wedding dress by top designer Sofia Borisova. The celebrity couple is having a big wedding in September 17 in Plovdiv. Before they know each other, the future bride is a fan of designer’s dresses. Konstantin is familiar with Sofia for more than 10 years.
Nadia’s wedding dress is from the latest collection of ROMANTIKA FASHION – Luxus. The dress is ivory colored, and the fabric is silk. On the waist of the blue-eyed beauty will shine and sparkle one belt encrusted with 100 Swarovski stones.
Alexander McQueen's Pre-Fall 2010 Collection
We present you a small part of the Pre-Fall 2010 collection of the late British designer Alexander McQueen. All models are designed by him, except in a few details, which were further elaborated by his team after the tragedy.
Graphic suits, techno-printed gowns, leather pants, tailored suits and Victorian skirts and dresses are big part of the thirty piece collection. The models are suitable for women who aspire to classical style, bohemian simplicity and retro chic.
Celebrities design backpacks for charity
Signer Shakira and actresses Eva Longoria and Salma Hayek are part of a team of famous stars who designed backpacks for the Beyond the Backpack charity campaign. The bags will be auctioned online to raise funds for educational programs.
The three beauties join the celebrity team, including Jessica Alba, Matthew McConaughey, Heidi Klum, for creating bags in support of the good cause.
de GRISOGONO party with Cheryl Cole performance - 18th May 2010, Cannes
De GRISOGONO makes the stars of the Cannes Film Festival sparkle
The "Crazy Chic" evening organised by the prestigious watchmaking and jewellery brand, de GRISOGONO, took place on Tuesday 18 May 2010 at the Eden Roc Hotel on Cap d'Antibes, an exclusive location on the Côte d’Azur, and was a true showcase for the stars of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
Lady Gaga becomes hat designer
Apparently the hats Lady Gaga has been wearing lately haven’t been strange enough for her, so she’s decided she wants to start designing her own hats. How to start doing that? By learning to create her headwear under milliner Philip Treacy.
The singer has applied for an internship with Treacy after the two worked together on several headpieces. He designed Lady Gaga’s lobster hat, as well as her famous telephone-shaped hat.
Gucci and Vanity Fair partner for Cannes dinner and party in honor of Martin Scorsese
Gucci announced that Creative Director Frida Giannini and Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter co-hosted the Vanity Fair/Gucci party on May 15 in Cannes. An intimate dinner at the Hotel du Cap was followed by a party to celebrate Martin Scorsese and the 20 year anniversary of The Film Foundation.
The following guests wore Gucci:
Marc Anthony wore a Gucci navy notch lapel tuxedo with black satin trim, white dress shirt, black satin tie and black lace up loafers.
Jean Paul Gaultier with a fashion show in Moscow's Kazansky train station
French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier presented his first haute couture collection in Russia at a Moscow's Kazansky train station.
At the show attended many Russian celebrities – actors, pop stars, as well as fashion designers. Gaultier opened his first boutique in the centre of Moscow in 2005. He was surprised by the pace of change the city had seen since then.
Victoria Beckham named Most glamorous celebrity
Fashion icon Victoria Beckham has beaten off competition from Dannii Minogue in the fight for the title "World’s most glamorous celebrity" by cosmetics giant Max Factor. The fashion designer topped the new poll made by the cosmetic company Max Factor.
"Victoria Beckham has been gracing the fashion pages for years now with her glamorous looks and she has designed her own clothes range," a spokesperson for the company said.
Top 10 most expensive stores in the world
Some streets around the world have become the center of world culture. These streets have become a magnet for many people who visit them regularly. Due to the large attendance and interest, these streets are extremely expensive.
Enjoy this list of the most expensive shops in the world
Ferrets - the new fashion accessory
Recently the normal view was Paris Hilton or Britney spears walking with Chihuahua puppies, peeking out from their designer bags.
However, this “living fashion accessory” gave place to another hairy pet – the ferrets. Inspired by the famous owners of ferrets as Paris Hilton, Madonna and the wife of Jonathan Ross – Jane Goldman, ordinary Brit women also replaced their favourite Chihuahuas and Yorkshire Terriers with the cute creatures.
Jennifer Aniston launches her debut fragrance – Lola Vie
The famous Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston will soon present her own fragrance, named "Lola Vie".
The actress who became famous with her role in “Friends”, has created her own perfume line, after turning down a number of offers to become a celebrity spokeswoman for established perfume lines, reports Starpulse.
Red bags conquered the fashion trends
Accessories, especially those with red color, will capture the minds of all fashion maniacs, according to Spanish media.
Do you know what are the trends for this season? One of the most notable trend during Spring-Summer 2010 will be the red handbags.
This trend has many fashion followers including celebrities who perfectly combine the red with the classic black and white.
Folk singer Maria defeated Nikoleta in the competition "Sex bomb of the year"
Pop-folk singer Maria defeated the controversial Nikoleta Lozanova and won the prize "Sex bomb of the year", contest organized by VIP Communications in the metropolitan Night Flight club.
The award was presented by the brand-manager of Marilyn Slims - Milen Shterev.
The folk star was dressed in a tempting gown, which was lace from the waist down. Her husband - Dimitar, was also there.
The most beautiful female body
Singer Beyonce Knowles is the celebrity with the best body according to the British women, while males prefer the Hollywood actress Megan Fox, says Daily Express, citing the results of a poll, conducted by Twentieth Century Fox Home.
Beyonce topped the list for women, with 24 percent stating she had the best celebrity body.
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Canadian Beauty Exposes Life in Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya
As reality television begins to dominate the airwaves, fashion fiends, young professionals and hip urbanites around the globe are hungry for an uncensored look at today's hottest celebrities, the places they've gone and the people they've seen.
Fashion model Chrystal Callahan is feeding the media frenzy by giving them all that and more with the release of a limited edition coffee table book titled "Diary of a Fashion Model in Chechnya."
Toronto-born Callahan has been in the public eye for years - first as one of the world's most beautiful women among the faces of Vogue magazine, and, more recently, as a television presenter on Chechnya’s state-run "Grozny TV" after an invitation from Minister of Press and Information Shamsail Saraliev.
Bulgari "Between eternity and history" 1884-2009. 125 years of Italian jewels
Bulgari celebrated its 125th anniversary by inaugurating its first-ever retrospective exhibit in the prestigious Exposition Palace of Rome. It will remain open to the public from May 22 to September 13, 2009.
The "Between Eternity and History: 1884 - 2009" exhibit will cover the most significant phases in the history and evolution of Bulgari design, from the opening of the first store on Via Sistina in 1884 to the present day.
The clothes of the celebrities
Cannes Film festival, like other glamorous events, attended by many celebrities, is a place where the stars outstrip to show style and class. Many people imitate celebrities and that's a good advertisement for the fashion designers, which give them toilets for the splendid evening.
At Cannes Film festival a galaxy of stars wore Dior outfits and accessories.
Hafsia Herzi showed up in a lilac silk satin evening dress and Dior accessories. She also wore Swarovski jewelry. Christine Albanel, minister of culture and communications of France was also dressed by Dior - a black silk faille gown.
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About Our Food
7 Reasons We’re Proud of Our Food
McDonald’s® USA is changing our game when it comes to food.
For more than a decade, we’ve been revolutionizing our approach to food in the areas of sourcing, ingredients and preparation. From cage-free eggs to our antibiotics commitments, we’re doing some pretty cool things in the U.S. that are changing the industry and taking action on some of the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.
Read on for seven reasons we’re proud of our food revolution – some of them might surprise you!
1. In the U.S., our classic burgers do not contain artificial preservatives (except the pickle).
This is huge. In September 2018, we announced that in the U.S., all McDonald’s classic burgers have no artificial preservatives, no artificial flavors and no added colors from artificial sources. (Except for the pickle. Our pickle contains an artificial preservative, so customers can skip it if they like.)
The classic burgers include the hamburger, cheeseburger, double cheeseburger, McDouble®, Quarter Pounder® with Cheese, Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese and Big Mac®.
2. We’re paving the way to use cage-free eggs – and we’re 33% toward our goal.
In September 2015, McDonald’s USA announced our commitment to source 100% cage-free eggs by 2025. And we’re making serious progress. In April 2019, we announced that our U.S. egg supply is now 33% cage-free, marking significant progress to our 2025 goal.
3. We’re reducing the overall use of antibiotics important to human medicine in our beef supply chain.
As one of the world’s largest restaurant companies, we are committed to tackling issues important to people, animals and the planet, like antibiotic resistance. That is why, in December 2018, we announced a global* beef antibiotic policy to reduce the overall use of antibiotics important to human medicine as defined by the World Health Organization.
*policy covers McDonald’s top 10 beef sourcing markets, including the US, making up more than 85% of our global beef supply
4. You can feel really good about your morning cup of McCafe®.
We’ve committed to sustainably sourcing 100% of our ground and whole bean coffee by 2020. This includes espresso-based drinks and coffee brewed at restaurants, as well as all coffee retail products.
5. We changed up our Chicken McNuggets®, too!
Don’t forget about the ‘Nuggets. Back in 2016, we announced that our Chicken McNuggets do not have any artificial preservatives, flavors or added colors. They are also made from chicken not treated with antibiotics important to human medicine*.
We’re especially proud of this accomplishment because it’s often our youngest guests who are eating Chicken McNuggets – and it’s our mission to provide feel good moments for families everywhere.
*Farmers still use ionophores, a class of antibiotics that are not prescribed to people, to help keep chickens healthy.
6. Our Quarter Pounders® are hot, juicy, fresh 100% beef.
Last year in the U.S., we launched 100% fresh beef, cooked right when you order, in our quarter-pound burgers*. Our beef patties, made with North American beef, are seasoned with just salt and pepper and are hotter and juicier than before. And the verdict is in. One year post launch, our customers are loving fresh beef … and they loved it from the start. The national launch in the U.S. in May 2018 resulted in a more than 50% increase in sales of quarter-pound burgers during the first month – and the hits kept coming.
*Weight before cooking 4 oz. Fresh beef available at most restaurants in contiguous U.S. Not available in Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. Territories.
7. Ending things on a sweet note… we’ve made changes to our soft serve too.
Back in 2017, we announced* that our vanilla soft serve is made with no artificial preservatives, artificial flavors or added colors from artificial sources. Sweet.
*Change made in October 2016.
For more details on the ways we’re revolutionizing our approach to food, check out our Food Journey timeline.
McDonald’s® USA is changing our game when it comes to food. For more than a decade, we’ve been revolutionizing our approach to food in the areas of sourcing, ingredients and preparation. From cage-free eggs to our antibiotics commitments, we’re doing some pretty cool things in the U.S.
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Katriona Shea Named AAAS Fellow
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Katriona Shea, professor of biology and Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed by peers upon members of the AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Shea was selected for “distinguished work developing and applying ecological theory to improve management of real-world problems” and is one of three Penn State researchers elected in 2018.
Shea is an ecologist whose research in applied theoretical ecology involves the application of mathematical and computational methods to guide decision-making in population management, conservation efforts, control of invasive pests, and control of infectious diseases. Her research aims to provide the in-depth ecological understanding that is essential to limiting outbreaks of infectious diseases and managing populations of species of special concern. Her methods include quantitative theoretical studies of real systems, purely theoretical studies that inform practical approaches, and empirical studies.
Shea's previous awards and honors include the Edward D. Bellis Award for outstanding contribution and dedication to educating and training graduate students in the Penn State Ecology Program in 2004 and the Eberly College of Science Dean’s Climate and Diversity Award in recognition of extraordinary commitment to enhancing an environment of mutual respect and diversity in 2011. She was named Alumni Professor in Biological Sciences in 2015 and was elected as Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2016.
Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State in 2001, Shea was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she worked on conservation strategies for threatened salmon. Her background also includes work on pest management in Australia, plus additional postdoctoral work studying host-parasite population dynamics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
She earned her doctoral degree in theoretical population ecology at Imperial College, London University in 1994 and her bachelor’s degree in physics at Oxford University in 1990.
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How Women Use Marijuana for Gynecological Health
Maureen Meehan ∙ June 1, 2019 10:00 am PDT
After surveying 1,011 women across the United States, researchers found that two-thirds of respondents said they use cannabis products, while more than one-third of those claimed to have used it to treat gynecological issues.
The survey, conducted by the Oregon Health and Science University (OSHU) in Portland, also showcased that 63% of the respondents who had never used cannabis said they would also consider using it for a gynecologic condition.
The study, “Patterns of and Attitudes Towards Cannabis Use in Women's Health,” published in Obstetrics and Gynecology by Wolters Kluwer on May 5, 2019, could provide profound insights into how cannabis could help treat a variety of conditions specifically experienced by women.
“Cannabis products are currently being used by women both recreationally and medically. Most women would consider using cannabis to treat gynecologic conditions,” the study concluded.
This did not surprise cannabis physician Dr. Bonni Goldstein, Medical Director of Canna-Centers, a medical marijuana evaluation service in Lawndale, California, and a medical adviser to Weedmaps.
“I would expect this as I have evaluated over 15,000 patients in my 11 years as a cannabis specialist and have seen a fair number of women using cannabis for gynecologic conditions such as pelvic pain, endometriosis and dyspareunia (painful intercourse),” she told Weedmaps News via email.
The results of the study also did not surprise Sondra Gayhart of Ironton, Ohio, a city near the border of Kentucky that has a population of about 11,000.
“It was exactly 14 years ago when I blacked out at my son's baseball game then soon learned that I had stage 3B cervical cancer,” said Gayhart, formerly a home health care worker. “The doctors wanted to do a full hysterectomy and I said, 'that's not going to happen.' ”
Sondra Gayhart
At first, doctors gave Gayhart a 35% chance of surviving her bout with cervical cancer, prompting her to prepare for the end of her life.
“While undergoing radiation and chemotherapy, I started writing my thoughts and feelings in a journal to leave for my son,” she explained. “I assumed I was going to die.”
The radiation treatment wreaked havoc on Gayhart's thyroid and bones, provoking fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that causes widespread musculoskeletal pain and fatigue. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, had a devastating effect on her appetite, sleep patterns, and overall ability to focus.
“My great aunt was quick to remind me how to heal myself so I started to medicate. After the first joint, I closed the diary to my son and never looked back,” Gayhart said. “Cannabis helped me with just about all my symptoms including my spirit and attitude. I can honestly say that it saved my life.”
Ashley Kowalski, 25, who lives in Dayton, Ohio, had a similar experience to Gayhart.
While pregnant with her son, who is now 4 years old, Kowalski developed hyperemesis gravidarum, a rare disorder that affects fewer than 194,000 American women per year. This condition produces debilitating side effects including severe nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. “Way worse and more dangerous than normal morning sickness.”
She was also diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal disorder that causes numerous complications, such as high blood pressure, liver damage, sleep apnea, depression, uterine cancer, and endometriosis.
Neither of the two conditions are easy to treat safely.
But Kowalski had some experience with medical cannabis. In 2012, she became a caregiver to her husband, a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Iraq war, who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Sick most of the time, Kowalski was scared she'd lose her baby, yet could not take her doctors' advice on what to do. While they suggested taking hormones, she couldn't due to bipolar disorder, as well as having a heart condition and genetic predisposition to breast and cervical cancer.
“Both of those conditions threatened my pregnancy, which I would never have gotten through if it were not for cannabis,” Kowalski said. “I just couldn't take all the medications the doctors wanted to give me.”
Ashley Kowalski, 25, with her husband and son.
Kowalski expressed an audible sigh before she continued.
“Now, I've got endometriosis, which is chronic and painful. I use cannabis patches, oil, and make edibles to treat it. I can't smoke, of course.”
Kowalski is not alone in choosing cannabis to treat endometriosis.
What Additional Research Tells Us
Endometreosis is a common health problem for women. Researchers say that at least 11% of women, or more than 6.5 million in the United States, suffer from endometriosis. This is a painful condition in which the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus grows elsewhere in the body, causing severe pelvic pain, scar tissue, and infertility in up to 30% of women. Worldwide endometriosis affects about 176 million women during their reproductive years, an estimated 1 in 10 women.
A cross-sectional online survey undertaken in Australia among 484 women with endometriosis found that those who used cannabis reported the highest self-rated effectiveness in pain reduction and avoidance of flare-ups. The study was published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine in January 2019.
Despite these findings in support of medical cannabis, the most commonly suggested remedy to self-manage endometriosis pain is over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), such as ibuprofen, aspirin. and naproxen. Goldstein has called this practice “ridiculous” considering the adverse effects associated with NSAIDS and the fact that endometriosis is a chronic condition.
“There is no question that the majority of patients find benefits with the use of cannabinoids — both CBD [cannabidiol] and/or THC — mainly effective as pain relief and safer than pharmaceuticals for endometriosis,” Goldstein said. “Using dangerous drugs instead of a healing, non-toxic plant is simply ridiculous.”
Another study, called “The Moms + Marijuana Study,” is getting underway as of May 16, 2019, at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
The study is calling on pregnant participants to examine the effects of “prenatal marijuana use on infant development” and whether cannabis consumption to alleviate morning sickness is safe for the baby.
Maureen Meehan
Maureen Meehan is a 25-year veteran journalist who worked in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe for NBC Radio & TV and numerous U.S., Canadian and European news outlets. She moved back to New York City in 2012 where she began writing for High Times magazine and continues her freelance career. After covering many wars around the world, Meehan finds the War on Drugs among the most perplexing, devastating and misguided.
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Berkeley College NY Men's Cross-Country Team Leads 85-Block Run for 85th Anniversary Celebration
The Berkeley College NY Men’s Cross-Country Team and other members of the Berkeley College community, including President Michael Smith, will be leading an 85-block relay in recognition of the 85th Anniversary of Berkeley College.
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Syleecia Thompson, DBA, Professor, Management, Berkeley College Larry L. Luing School of Business®, was invited to attend The White House’s first ever United State of Women Summit, held on June 14 and 15, 2016, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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Berkeley College Volunteers Lend Helping Hands on 7th Annual Community Service Day
Nearly 300 associates, alumni and Honors students volunteered their time at 29 community organizations in New Jersey and New York.
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A fashion forum will be held at Berkeley College in Brooklyn, NY.
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Berkeley College brought The Sand Lovers, a professional sand sculpting company based in Florida, to Spring Lake, NJ, on June 27, 2016 to create a sculpture honoring the College’s 85th anniversary.
Berkeley College Supports Youth Leadership Through Diversity Stride Walk-a-Thon
Berkeley College participated in the 16th Annual Diversity Stride Walk-A-Thon on Sunday, June 26, 2016, held at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ. As a Pacesetter Sponsor, the College marked its 10th year joining the 5K Walk to raise funds in support of the American Conference on Diversity’s Youth Leadership Institute programs.
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Berkeley College Graphic Design Faculty Showcase Artwork at Gallery on Campus in Woodland Park
Faculty artwork of the Berkeley College Graphic Design Department is on display at the Gallery in Building 1, 44 Rifle Camp Road in Woodland Park, NJ. At the opening reception that took place Thursday, June 23, 2016.
Berkeley College Associate Offers Career Advice to Forbes 'Coaches Council' Series
Forbes recently published an article written by Jasmine Briggs, Berkeley College Assistant Director, Career Services, New York, as part of its ‘Coaches Council’ online series.
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Berkeley College celebrated its 7th Annual Community Service Day on June 17, 2016. Faculty, staff, alumni and students volunteered at more than 30 service-based organizations in New Jersey and New York.
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Frank John Bruno (1874–1955) was an administrator and educator whose expertise and leadership influenced American social work. Working initially with the Associated Charities, he moved into academia, becoming president of two different bodies of social workers.
Keywords: Frank John Bruno, civil rights, American Association of Social Workers, Associated Charities, National Conference of Social Work
Jean K. Quam, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Minnesota. She was the director of the School of Social Work at Minnesota (which is administratively located in CEHD) for over sixteen years. Her Ph.D. was earned at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has research interests in social welfare history and gay and lesbian aging. For several years she taught a doctoral seminar on the history of social welfare.
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Walters, William
Died: 1846-07-31 Saint Louis, Missouri
Flourished: Springfield, Illinois
Walters spent some years as a journeyman printer in Washington City, Delaware. In January 1836, Walters arrived in Vandalia, Illinois. On February 10, 1836, he printed the first number of the Illinois State Register. In the 1836-1837 session of the General Assembly, the Illinois State Register was named the official paper of Illinois, and Walters became the public printer, a position he retained until 1845. During this session the vote was taken on the removal of the state capital from Vandalia to Springfield, Illinois. In 1839, the offices of the state government moved to Springfield, and the State Register followed a few weeks later. Walters and George R. Weber were the editors and publishers of the paper. On August 10, 1839, the first Springfield edition of the State Register appeared. In 1845, Weber sold his interest in the paper to Walters, who continued it until 1846, when the Mexican War began. Walters then leased his office to Charles H. Lanphier, and enlisted as a private in the Second Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. Walters never saw battle; he died in St. Louis before the regiment departed for the war.
Gravestone, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL; Obituary, Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 6 August 1846, 2:1; Illinois State Register (Springfield), 2 May 1865, 4:2; History of Sangamon County, Illinois (Chicago: Inter-State, 1881), 225-26.
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14 February, 2018 by psaparliaments
The Role of Petitions to Parliament
In the latest blog from our Legislatures in Uncertain Times conference, Cristina Leston-Bandeira discusses the history and purpose of petitioning parliament.
The role of petitions to parliament is inexorably linked to the role of parliament – as petitions are nothing else but yet another path to affect decision-making. Recent academic interest for petitioning has framed it as an advocacy democracy tool, which enables the reinforcement of participatory elements in our democracy, inherently portraying petitioning as a tool specific to our modern democracies and as a form to address declining levels of trust in political institutions. But the right to petition has a long history and has played a variety of roles over the centuries.
Reflecting each specific history, some countries do not have provision for an actual right to petition, though they may instead have a strong tradition of ombudsman (for example, Scandinavian countries) or of citizens’ led legislative initiatives (for example, Latin America). In specific cases such as France and the US, the right to petition is closely associated with their 18th century revolutionary Constitutions. In Germany there is a very strong tradition of petitioning, across all levels of governance, with the right to petition being recognised in Art 17. of the Basic Law (Constitution). In the UK and Portugal, there is also a long tradition of petitioning that goes as far as at least medieval times.
Many identify Magna Carta (1215) as the establishment of the right to petition, though petitioning long pre-dates it, as demonstrated in Connolly’s analysis of petitioning in ancient cultures, such as in the Roman Empire (2009). Connolly explains that in such early cultures as in fifth century BC Persia, the power to accept or refuse petitions played already then an important role: “[a]nswering petitions helped ancient rulers appear caring and responsive. It also provided an effective and simple way for them to reinforce their authority and power” (Connolly, 2009, p.63). Although today’s petitions to parliament are framed by very different formats and processes, in many ways part of their role remains very similar: showing responsiveness to the public and legitimising parliament’s power.
Petitions to Parliament in England have in fact over the centuries developed hand in hand with changes in Parliament’s role; the history of petitioning is, in many ways, the history of parliament, particularly as it embodied a strengthening of the institution’s authority in mediating grievances raised by the public. Before Parliament became the prime forum for citizens to present petitions, these were presented directly to the Monarch. As parliament’s powers in relation to the King strengthened, so did Parliament’s ability to redress specific petitions. By the 15th century most petitions were directed to Parliament and acquired an important role in the development of its powers. Dodd goes as far as to say that the role of petitioning was in late medieval times a key reason why Parliament was sustained during that time:
“For what consistently made parliament an indispensable part of the political and administrative structure of the late medieval English kingdom was the conviction that it provided a crucial outlet for the satisfaction and resolution of private interests and conflict. Perhaps this, more than any other factor, explains why parliament endured in the late medieval period” (Dodd 2007, p.325).
Thus, petitioning performed already then roles of safety-valve, helping to address conflict, as well as of grievance resolution.
As petitions became an increasingly important part of parliamentary activity, they slowly became an institutionalised feature with associated processes and the creation of ad-hoc committees. By the 17th century, petitions to Parliament had adopted quite different characteristics to the ones from the medieval parliaments. Whilst the early petitions related mainly to personal grievances, whereby the Monarch’s subjects sought the redress of what they saw as individual situations of injustice, by the 17th century the issues covered became far more general; petitions were starting to be used to create political pressure and to raise issues of public interest.
The focus and contents of petitions started therefore to change also, becoming more about applying political pressure then about redressing specific grievances; from this point of view, like many of today’s petitions, petitioners were under little illusion that their petition would be addressed; the purpose of presenting a petition being instead to make a political point. Likewise, whereas the early petitions related mainly to legal-judicial matters, by the 17th century, and as the Courts became better equipped to address issues of legality, petitions to parliament became more focused on policy rather than legal-judicial matters. Petitions therefore also acquired a role of policy-setting.
But petitions also performed important political participation roles. At a time of restricted access to the Monarch (rulers), petitions provided a channel through which to contact the ultimate authority in power. For a very long time, petitions were the tool that integrated those disenfranchised into the political system. Up to the universal suffrage, the vast majority of the population was formally excluded from the process of participating into the political system. Whilst not having the right to vote or the power to advise the Monarch directly, citizens could however present petitions. This explains why petitioning has been considered as the most important channel to enfranchise those disenfranchised from the right to vote. The importance of petitions during a time of considerable disenfranchisement explains in great part its decline in the 20th century, as the universal franchise expanded; as citizens could vote, the need to lobby parliament became less relevant, until the internet would bring with it new opportunities in terms of dissemination and reach.
Besides political participation, the history of petitioning also shows that it performs an important role of mobilisation. This is particularly clear in the very large petitions of the 19th century, such as the Chartists petitions which gathered millions of signatures (1839, 1842 and 1848). Petitioning was built around canvassing and signatures were often collected following a public meeting, through which the people were mobilised to support the Chartist cause. As petitions were often collective, they also performed an important role of sustaining the development of a collective identity sustained by the sharing of a specific experience. In short, petitions provided a focus for people to unite for a cause.
Parliamentary petitions have therefore performed a wide range of roles over the centuries, most of which are still visible in today’s petitions systems. These are summarised in the Table below according to four areas – linkage, campaigning, scrutiny, policy:
Table: Roles performed by petitions systems
Areas Roles
Linkage Legitimacy of the political system and specifically of parliament, by recognising its authority to deal with issues raised by the public;
Safety-valve/conflict-resolution, by finding an outlet to express dissatisfaction;
Grievance resolution, by providing a path through which specific situations of injustice can be identified and addressed;
Fire-alarm, by providing an outlet for citizens to raise bottom-up issues;
Education, by initiating citizens into the functions of political institutions, potentially leading to a better understanding of the role of parliament;
Campaigning Mobilisation, by providing a focus for citizens to unite around a specific cause;
Dissemination, by providing a means to disseminate a specific campaign;
Strengthening of a group’s identity, by providing the means to sustain a sense of shared identity between members of a group;
Scrutiny Fire-alarm, by identifying issues of concern which would otherwise not be known to parliament;
Evidence gathering, by enabling the collection of information on specific issues of public interest;
Questioning, by providing an outlet through which government ministers can be asked for a response on a specific issue;
Policy Policy review, by identifying black holes in policy or policy not being applied in practice;
Policy improvement, by identifying ways to address poor policy and enabling the discussion of different alternatives;
Policy influence, by supporting the building of pressure on specific policy change;
Policy change, by eventually leading to change in policy.
Whilst we differentiate four areas within which petitions play important roles, these roles are not performed separately according to linear developments. Different types of petitions may perform different roles, just as each specific petition may perform a number of roles. Likewise, specific roles such as “fire-alarm” may contribute towards both linkage between institution and public and to the scrutiny of the Executive.
Whilst the format and processes of parliamentary petitions have changed and their relevance has varied considerably, their role has resisted the passing of time. The advent of the internet has revived the popularity of petitions, and possibly reinforced their public engagement potential, but these are by no means a new phenomenon and their role remains as multifaceted as they have been over the centuries. What has mainly changed is the extent to which they are integrated into our representative systems or a side-show. The more integrated – whilst keeping its participatory tool characteristics – the more likely they are to fulfil their roles.
Cristina Leston-Bandeira is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. She tweets @estrangeirada.
A longer version of this blog can be found as part of a paper Cristina prepared for the Wroxton Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians, which gives more details of the academic literature at the basis of these reflections.
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JOHN WATSON GERRARD
Born: Apr 14, 1916
JOHN WATSON GERRARD John Watson Gerrard, O.C., B.A., B.Ch., D.M. and F.R.C.P, passed away peacefully on March 3, 2013. He is survived by his sister, Kathleen Potter, his three sons Jon (Naomi), Peter (Nikki), and Chris (Mary), seven grandchildren, Pauline, Charles, Tom, Sarah, Travis, Philip and Emily, and six great-grandchildren. John was born in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) on April 14, 1916 where his father, Herbert Shaw Gerrard, was a medical missionary, ably supported by his wife, Doris. John grew up in England, and obtained his medical degree from Oxford University, where he met his wife, Lilian Elisabeth Whitehead ("Betty"), whom he married August 28, 1941. In the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in North Africa, Italy (Anzio) and Palestine. After the war he trained as a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital in Birmingham, England, joined the staff of the University of Birmingham, and undertook further studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1955, he and his family moved to Saskatoon where he was founding head of the Department of Pediatrics in the new full Medical School at the University of Saskatchewan, where he remained head until 1971, but continued to treat patients until well into his 80s, as Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics. In 1962, along with Dr. Horst Bickel and Evelyn Hickmans, a biochemist, he was awarded the John Scott Medal by the City of Philadelphia for developing a low phenylalanine diet for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU). This, coupled with the work of Dr. R. Guthrie, who developed a test for the early detection of PKU, has enabled affected babies to be put on their special formula soon after birth and to grow up into normal children and adults rather than having an intellectual disability. In Saskatoon, he campaigned with Dr. Buckwold and John Dolan for funds to build what is now known as the Alvin Buckwold Child Development Program. Dr. Gerrard championed breast feeding on the grounds that it provided protection against many infections as well as providing the baby with the best nourishment available anywhere. He conducted much research on allergies, especially milk allergies, and successfully helped many people. He is credited with an early formulation of the "hygiene hypothesis" that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents increases subsequent susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system. Over many years he taught hundreds of medical students and helped train over a hundred pediatricians. His care, compassion and warmth were exemplary; many a time he and Betty opened their own home to parents who brought sick children from distant corners of the province but had no means to pay for a hotel room. He calmed the nerves of concerned parents whose children had a variety of illnesses. Indeed, the mention of his name has brought a smile to the many Saskatchewan residents he treated. In 1985, he received the Alan Ross Award from the Canadian Pediatric Society for his contributions to research, education, healthcare and advocacy for the health of children in Canada. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998 and was listed in Who's Who in Canada. Since his beloved Betty died in 2008, and he broke his hip in 2010, he received excellent care in the Luther Care Home where he lived for just over two years. In addition he was lovingly cared for by his companions of two and one half years, Alice and Barry from Home Instead. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Cosmopolitan Industries at 28 - 34th St. E., Saskatoon, SK S7K 3Y2. The memorial service will be held on Monday, March 11, at 11:00 a.m. at St. James Anglican Church in Saskatoon.
As published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Mar 05, 2013
I am researching the history of pediatrics in England and was just reading a lecture that a colleague of John's (Charlotte Anderson) gave in 1970 in which she paid tribute to him, and recalled his 'characteristic laugh'. In trying to sum up what her predecessor as professor of pediatrics (James Smellie) contributed to the field, she said he trained many great future professors of pediatrics, including John Gerrard. A brief internet search led me to this page and I felt this would be worth sharing. - Posted by: J. Reinarz (None) on: Apr 02, 2014
Dr. Gerrard was my first employer (UofS, actually). He was a dedicated doctor and instructor, and a fine man. He has left the world a better place. - Posted by: Connie Butcher (nee Reavie) (Secretary) on: Mar 29, 2013
My daughter was one of Dr. Gerrard's "Milk allery" group members , and my son had sever allergies and asthma. He was a fantastic doctor who always made Mom and child feel very comfortable. I felt I had no worries as Dr. Gerrard would solve the problem !!! He always listened to me and took what I said seriously. I was very sad to hear that he has passed away, however, very happy to have had the privelege of knowing him. He was the best, he set the standard very very high. - Posted by: Diana Duncan (Two of my children were Dr. Gerrard 's patients i968 &1970) on: Mar 19, 2013
Jon and Naomi Our deepest sympathy to you both on the loss of your father. We were fortunate to have met both your parents at Roger and Pauline's wedding. It was great that they were able to help us celebrate and share in this family gathering. Jon, we were happy to hear that you were able to spend time with your Dad before his final goodbye. He will be missed by the family, but he will be happy he is with his beloved Betty once again. Please extend our sympathy to all your family for us. Már and Louise Mollot - Posted by: Marcel and Louise Mollot (Friends) on: Mar 06, 2013
Dr John Gerrard made remarkable contributions to the fields of medicine and science. I had the good fortune to meet with him at one of the American Association of Allergist Meetings many years ago. I had lectured on the concept of "hygiene hypothesis" to the first year medical students at the University of Manitoba. I was not aware that he was an originator of this concept! - Posted by: Dr. Fred Kisil () on: Mar 06, 2013
Jon & Naomi and family..lifting you all up in prayer - Posted by: Pat Kehler () on: Mar 05, 2013
My condolences, Jon, Naomi and family. Your father has left a very large footprint on the world. - Posted by: Margaret Chambers () on: Mar 05, 2013
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Postcard from Budapest, Hungary: Striking synagogue enshrines tragedies of surrounding ghetto
Moorish. Byzantine. Gothic. Oriental. The striking architectural mash-up of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest is referred to as Moorish Revival.
Franz Liszt played the 5,000-pipe organ during the 1859 opening of the what is still the largest synagogue in Europe. Upper galleries flanking the center section of the temple were built to accommodate seating for women.
On the site of the former homestead of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), widely regarded as the father of Zionism, the gracefully arched Jewish Museum opened in 1931 to display a rich collection of religious artifacts.
The Great Synagogue’s role at the center of a thriving community changed dramatically with the German invasion in March of 1944. Under the plan developed by Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), hundreds of thousands of Jewish Hungarians were deported to extermination camps.
Approximately 70,000 members of the Jewish faith were herded into the ghetto surrounding the synagogue. During the following brutal winter as World War II drew to a close, many died from cold and hunger. With the liberation of Budapest from German control, the courtyard behind the synagogue became a makeshift cemetery for more than 2,000 of those who perished in the ghetto.
Soviet control brought a different set of issues and religious restrictions to the neighborhood.
Freedom to renovate the Great Synagogue and its grounds did not arrive until the 1990s when Hungary finally secured independence from Soviet control.
One of the major contributors to the makeover of the Great Synagogue built the base for her fortune by cooking up cosmetic creams in her kitchen and attractively bottling them for sale. She spent much of her life trying to distance herself from her parents’ roots:
I loved them both so much – their beauty and their character, but I didn’t love feeling different because of their old country ways.
Late in her life, Estee Lauder (1908-2004), whose mother was a Hungarian immigrant, paid tribute to those origins by contributing $5 million toward the renovation of the Dohany Street Synagogue.
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Top 10 Major Motion Pictures Of 2012
Top 10 Movies of 2012
Courtesy: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
1. The Artist: While it originally made its debut overseas in 2011, it wasn’t until January 20th of this year that The Artist actually made its nationwide debut in theaters across the U.S. Before then, only the lucky few at the big festivals got to see it. That being the case, it should be considered a 2012 release. So what makes it 2012’s best? So much could be said. At a time when so much of what Hollywood churns out is prequels, sequels, and remakes, this story—distributed by Sony Pictures—went the total opposite. How simple and ingenious is it to make a silent film in a movie of major flash-bang-boom films? Because the movie’s only sound is its music, viewers are forced to watch. And the cast was force to really put on its best possible performance, rather than rely on everything else that most movies use to distract audiences from poor performances. The music is quite enjoyable, too. And of course, the general cinematography is just as impressive. It all combines to make for a movie that any movie lover should see at least once.
2. Mirror, Mirror: Some of you might shake your heads at this pick. But the reality is that this is really a fun and family friendly movie. Both boys and girls will enjoy it as will parents. While young Lily Collins (the daughter of superstar Phil Collins) is billed as the lead star here, it’s the dwarves who are really the story’s stars. Their antics make for more than their share of laughs. Though watching Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer—The Lone Ranger) put under the evil queen’s puppy love spell is pretty funny, too. It’s obvious that this spoof of the classic fairy tale was aimed both at boys and girls. With its mix of wit and charm, it will always be one of the best takes on the old Snow White story.
Courtesy: Disney Studios
3. The Odd Life of Timothy Green: This is another truly enjoyable family movie. The general story is one to which any parent can relate and will enjoy because of that. Though the concept of what happens with Timothy might be a little bit tough to discuss with younger viewers. The beautiful backdrop adds even more warmth to the story. And the cast’s acting makes suspension of disbelief so easy. Sure it’s sappy, emotional, and all that jazz. But that can be forgiven as it’s such an original and heartwarming story.
Courtesy: 20th Century Fox
4. Skyfall: This is where things begin to get a little bit touchy. Skyfall is by far the best Bond flick to come along in a very long time. That’s not to say that the previous two were bad. But this one brought back memories of the old school James Bond that everybody knows. It’s got the gadgets and the humor and none of the melodrama that weighed down the previous two Bond flicks. The only downside to the movie is that it tends to drag in the final act. Other than that, it is a nice return to form for the Bond franchise and gives hope for any future Bond films….that is at least if Christopher Nolan doesn’t get his hands on the franchise.
Courtesy: Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Video
5. The Avengers: The Avengers was a very nice way to cap off the build-up created by Marvel Studios with the recent bevy of comic book based movies. It had great special effects. Its story was simple and solid. And the shooting was equally impressive. Considering all the action going on, audiences weren’t left feeling dizzy to the point of wanting to walk out (or in the case of home release, just turn it off). But like so many ensemble cast movies, it suffered from a common problem. That problem was the movie’s run time. Most of the characters in The Avengers had already been introduced through their own separate movies. So there was no reason to re-introduce them all over again this time. A lot of that extra time could have been spared. Hopefully those involved have learned from that and will present viewers with a shorter movie in the second of the Avengers movies.
Courtesy: Warner Brothers Home Video
6. The Dark Knight Rises: I am just as much a comic book fan as anyone else out there. So it goes without saying that I was excited to see this movie. It did a good job of wrapping up the trilogy. The problem is that it did too much of a good job, as David Goyer and the Nolans tried too hard to cram everything into one movie. Word is that this latest installment of the Batman franchise left many people checking their watches when it was in theaters. It might have been better served to have been split up into at least one more movie because of everything added into the mix. And having what seems to be a lack of commentary on the new home release, fans can only guess what the logic was in cramming so much into one story. Much like The Avengers, the shooting and the special effects were great. So it has that going for it. But the writing was the story’s big problem. Here’s to hoping that whoever takes over the Batman franchise next (whenever it’s re-launched) won’t make the same mistake as Christopher Nolan and company.
7. Prometheus: This semi-prequel to Ridley Scott’s hit Alien franchise was met with mixed reviews. There seemed to be no gray area here. Audiences either loved it or hated it. Truth be told, it worked quite well as both a prequel and as its very own stand-alone movie. Sure the special effects are different from those used in the original movies. But times are different. So viewers should take that into account. And the shooting was just as impressive. While it may not be as memorable as Scott’s previous works, at least audiences can agree that it’s better than the movies in the AvP franchise.
8. Les Miserables: This latest reboot of Victor Hugo’s classic story of love and redemption in one of history’s darkest eras is not bad. But it’s not great, either. Audiences who know the stage play will thrill at how director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) and his staff of writers paid tribute to the stage play both in its writing and its shooting. At the same time, Hooper tried so hard to pay tribute with his shooting style and the transitions that the whole movie felt dizzying to say the least. The shooting and transitions felt like nothing more than a bunch of cuts from one shot to the next. There was never a total sense of fluidity anywhere in the story. It was almost as if despite staying true to the stage play, the script for this latest big screen adaptation was written by someone with ADHD. Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway did a superior job with their performances. But despite that, odds are that the movie will sadly be remembered more for its flawed shooting and transitions than for its award-worthy performances. Nonetheless, it’s still a good movie for any fan of Les Miserables or for fans of musicals in general to see at least once.
Courtesy: CBS Films/CBS Home Entertainment/UK Film Council/BBC Films/Lionsgate/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
9. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is without a doubt an original story. It’s next to impossible to find anything like it out there or present. But it suffers greatly from an identity crisis. It doesn’t know whether it wants to be a drama, a romance, or a little bit of both. It’s nice to see the simple message of something as simple as fishing being able to bring the world’s people together peacefully. But it really seemed to let the romance factor get too much involved. As a result, it got bogged down in itself. Had it not had the romance subplot, it might have been better.
10. Arbitrage: It was once noted that three factors more than any other are the causes of crime. Those factors are: money, power, and sex. Arbitrage has all three of these. It’s an interesting movie. And it definitely wastes no time noting the latter of the trio of factors, as it lets audiences know that Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is having an affair with another woman. And also, Miller’s boss has a very firm talk with him early on letting him know that he knows about the financial inaccuracies that he’s causing. It doesn’t take long to know where this story goes. It’s something of a tried and true story. Add in this critic’s pet peeve of movies, the “whisper scenes” and it makes for a movie that as good as it is it could have been better. For those wondering, the “whisper scene” is exactly as it sounds (bad pun there). The “whisper scene” is one in which actors essentially whisper throughout the scene against overpowering music to make the scene more emotional and powerful. But put against the sudden transition to normal volume scenes (and above normal volume scenes), it becomes rather annoying as one has to constantly change the volume on one’s TV as a result of that. It’ll be interesting to see if it gets the Golden Globe for which it was nominated.
There you have it folks. That is my personalist of the year’s ten best major motion pictures. You are more than welcome to share whether you agree or disagree and what your top 10 list would look like. 2013’s already shaping up to be an interesting year. As the movies start to come out, I’ll have reviews of them, too. To keep up with the latest entertainment reviews and news, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it or its companion page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reel-Reviews/381028148587141. Fans can always keep up with the latest entertainment reviews and news in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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Your Sister’s Sister Not A Typical Romance Story
Courtesy: IFC Films/4 Culture/Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs/Northwest Film Forum/mpi media group
Your Sister’s Sister is not for everybody. That needs to be noted right off the top of this new indie flick from IFC Films. The story’s summary tends to focus largely on the lead character, Jack as it opens with his brother Tom having died. The story doesn’t explain how Tom died. But that’s not important as it’s his death that leads to the story’s most basic roots. At its most basic roots, Your Sister’s Sister is exactly as the story’s title notes, a story about sisters. At the same time, one can’t help but note the similarities to Seth Rogen’s 2007 hit movie, Knocked Up.Your Sister’s Sister has been marketed largely as a romantic dramedy. But the reality is that the central story is that of the relationship between sisters Iris (Emily Blunt –The Adjustment Bureau, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), and Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt – Mad Men). The eventual revelation of the story between the pair is that while Hannah is a lesbian, she wants a child of her own. So she essentially sets up Jack. How she does that will be left up to viewers who have yet to see this movie. But when this is revealed, the crux of the story is also revealed, which is the seemingly hidden turmoil between the sisters. The problem is made worse because of something that Iris reveals to Hannah after Hannah finally admits to Iris what she has done and why. This is where the similarity to Knocked Up comes into play.
Unlike Seth Rogen’s character in Knocked Up, Jack (Mark Duplass – The League) was in the dark about Hannah’s plan, too. That is until the sisters return to the house after their alone time. The whole thing turns almost into an odd Jerry Springer episode as the story’s final moments play out, even leaving the story wide open for interpretation in a near Sopranos style close. Considering all of this, Your Sister’s Sister won’t appeal to everyone. But for those who are open minded enough, it’s a story that is worth watching at least once.
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Salmon Fishing Will “Hook” Audiences
For a movie that is one more piece based on a book, one can only hope that the paper take on this story is better than the movie. Salmon Fishing in The Yemen isn’t the worst movie of the year. That *honor* belongs to Nichols Cage’s Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance. But it isn’t the best, either. It manages to sort of linger somewhere in the middle. That’s because it can’t seem to decide if it wants to be a romance or a satire on foreign policy by the British government. The plot of this movie starts off after the bombing of a mosque in a Middle East nation. Upon seeing it on the news, Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas) sets out on a PR campaign of sorts, in order to try and maintain ties between the Yemeni and British governing bodies. In looking for a way to build some sort of good will between the two bodies, Patricia stumbles on the salmon fishing idea proposed by Sheikh Muhammed (Amr Waked). Thus ensues what comes across as the seeming satire on the absurdity of political inner workings.
Had the story maintained its seeming political roots, it would have been a much stronger work. The problem is that it continued to tie in a romance story between Alfred (Ewan McGregor) and Harriet (Emily Blunt). The constant romantic interludes throw off the story’s pacing and do little to really advance the primary story any. It’s another classic boy meets girl-loses her-gets her back in the end romance. The addition of this storyline almost makes the story feel as if it’s suffering from an identity crisis. Though through all the romance, there is at least one bright moment. That moment comes as Alfred comes across as a little bit neurotic. He tells Harriet at lunch one day that he only drinks on the weekend, and he only drinks certain drinks. That makes him come across as at least slightly neurotic. Audiences who pay close enough attention will get a kick out of that.
For all the problems caused by the interweaving romance subplot, Salmon Fishing’s main political storyline is both moving and worth its own share of laughs. While the main story may not center on American issues, it’s one to which even American audiences can relate. The absurdity of political pandering is something that’s obviously universal. By contrast though, that something as simple as fishing could bring two men from two entirely different ethnic backgrounds and two entirely different sides of the world is a bold statement. It serves that much more to make all the political maneuvering of the world’s governments that much more pathetic. Sheikh Muhammed’s statement to Alfred makes that maneuvering that much more pathetic. He says to Alfred, “For fishermen, the only virtues are patience, tolerance, and humility.” He is saying in simple terms that a man can learn more of the world from fishing than all the political lessons combined. Sure, it’s a metaphor. But anyone who has ever gone fishing can vouch for this statement’s truth.
When it’s all said and done, Salmon Fishing in The Yemen proves to be anything but the year’s best movie. However, neither is it the year’s worst. But at a time when so many movie studios are relying increasingly on prequels, sequels, and remakes, all involved with this story get bonus points for taking the old school road and adapting a book to the big screen. For that matter, all involved get even more points for adapting a book with a largely original story, save for the romance. That being said, this is definitely one of the year’s most underrated movies. And it’s one that’s worth at least one watch.
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The Boys From Brazil To Be Released On BD For The First Time In 2015
Shout! Factory has proven throughout 2014 to be one of the leading providers of quality home entertainment releases. That’s thanks to releases such as Mr. Ed: The Complete Series, Hey Arnold!: The Complete Series, and a number of stand-alone DVDs and Blu-rays for the whole family. With the start of the new year, Shout! Factory will pick up where it left off this year—at the top of the home entertainment world. On Tuesday, January 6th, Shout! Factory will re-issue on Blu-ray, the 1978 classic movie The Boys From Brazil. The movie is based on the novel by author Ira Levin (Rosemary’s Baby) and stars screen legends Gregory Peck (To Kill A Mockingbird, The Scarlet and the Black, Roman Holiday), Sir Laurence Olivier (Rebecca, Spartacus, Clash of the Titans), and James Mason (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, North By Northwest, Thunder Rock).
Olivier stars in the movie’s lead role as elderly Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman. Lieberman has spent the better part of his life hunting down the last remaining pockets of the Third Reich. Now in his waning years, Lieberman uncovers a secret plot to assassinate nearly one hundred unconnected men around the world as he hunts for any former Nazis. Having made the discovery, it’s up to Lieberman to stop the plot in question, which could have very bad results for the entire human race. His efforts to keep the plot from happening eventually leads to a confrontation with the man behind the plot, Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck).
The Boys From Brazil’s upcoming January re-issue marks the first time that the movie has ever been released on Blu-ray. It will retail for MSRP of 24.97. Audiences can pre-order the movie online via Shout! Factory’s online store for a discounter price of $19.97 at https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-drama/the-boys-from-brazil. More information on this and other titles from Shout! Factory is available online at:
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Shout! Factory Gives The Scarlet And The Black Its Due Respect In New Re-Issue
Posted on February 4, 2014 by philspicks
Actor Gregory Peck was one of Hollywood’s biggest names during his career thanks to roles in films such as To Kill A Mockingbird, Roman Holiday, and Cape Fear. However, when Peck starred in the 1982WWII-themed movie The Scarlet and the Black, the movie largely fell on deaf ears. To this day, Peck’s role as Monsignor O’Flaherty has been overshadowed by his other previously mentioned movies. Despite being overshadowed, true movie lovers will agree that this 1982 period piece is in fact one of Peck’s most underrated works. Viewers will also agree in watching the movie that it is not only one of Peck’s most underrated films, but one of the most underrated WWII-themed movies in general. The first thing that stands out about this movie is its script. It isn’t just another WWII-themed movie full of dogfights, sea battles, and romance. It is very much the human drama. If one delves deeper into this movie’s script, one will see that the story itself is only part of what makes The Scarlet and the Black well worth the watch. The symbolism used throughout the movie and even in its title will pull in those that really let themselves be immersed in the story. While it is hardly the last of the aspects that make the movie worth watching, audiences will also appreciate the commentary tied into the script in terms of man’s ability to commit violence on his fellow man. These are just a few of so many parts of the whole that makes The Scarlet and the Black a movie worth the watch now that it has been re-issued on DVD by Timeless Media and Shout! Factory.
The Scarlet and the Black is one of the most underrated movies of Gregory Peck’s film career. It is also one of the most underrated and underappreciated WWII-era movies ever made. That’s because it doesn’t fit nicely into the mold created by Hollywood for movies centered in that era. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The story behind this movie wasn’t meant to be like all the other WWII-era movies churned out from the 1940s and beyond. It is a human drama about one man’s courage and determination in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. Peck’s O’Flaherty stood for his beliefs and his convictions. He stood so strong in his convictions that he was even willing at one point to sneer at Nazi snipers ready to shoot him in the blink of an eye. It takes a truly strong person to stand up to such odds. Even in the story’s closing minutes, he shows just how strong he stood. That moment, which won’t be revealed here, shows just how courageous and how morally strong he truly was. That display of moral and emotional strength is just as powerful to see today as it was over thirty years ago when the movie debuted.
The central story of human courage and strength in The Scarlet and the Black is the most important part of the movie. It isn’t the only part of what makes this such an enjoyable work. The symbolism used throughout the movie is just as important in its success. Symbolism is evident even in the story’s very title. The Scarlet and the Black is representative of the struggle between O’Flaherty and his Nazi foes. As audiences will note, both the Nazis and O’Flaherty wear scarlet and black. It’s just one piece of symbolism that audiences will catch in watching this movie. The use of chalk to separate Vatican City territory from the Nazi occupied sections of Rome is also symbolic. In a manner of speaking, the use of the chalk turned the sacred territory that is Vatican City into a virtual prison for those living within its walls. Such symbolism is simple. That less is more mentality embraced by writer David Butler keeps the story from becoming too entrenched in itself and in turn all the more enjoyable. The positives don’t end here.
The central story behind The Scarlet and the Black and the symbolism are both pivotal to the movie’s success. There is still at least one more factor that makes this underappreciated modern classic well worth watching. That factor is the commentary tied into the movie. Butler makes commentary about human nature and man’s free will when a group of Italian soldiers is ordered to shoot one of their own countrymen. The result is quite eye opening. At another point, Col. Kappler’s son points a toy gun right at him and pretends to shoot him. That is very blatant commentary on how easily young minds are influenced. The use of both scenes is the most basic level of commentary. And both are perfect starting points for any high school and college level philosophy classes. This aspect and those already mentioned collectively prove why The Scarlet and the Black is just as deserving as respect as any other WWII era film and any of Gregory Peck’s other more well-known pieces. Viewers will find much more to note for themselves when they purchase the newly re-issued movie for themselves. It is available in stores and online at the Shout! Factory store at http://www.shoutfactory.com/product/scarlet-and-black. More information on this and other releases from Shout! Factory is available online at http://www.shoutfactory.com and http://www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment reviews and news, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment reviews and news in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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The fightback against May's hostile environment has begun
"Over the last few years, May's 'hostile environment' has seeped into every area of life"
Wednesday, 22 November 2017 9:16 AM
It was on the streets of British towns and cities that the 'hostile environment' first took hold. Immigration officers, sometimes working with homeless charities and local authorities, would head out at night to track down foreign rough sleepers and detain them. If they were undocumented they were often given the opportunity to leave the country voluntarily. If they refused, they could be forcibly removed. Then in 2016 the Home Office introduced new rules which meant that rough sleeping was to be considered an 'abuse' or 'misuse' of an EU citizens' right to freedom of movement. It was no longer just undocumented migrants being targeted but also those who came to the UK legally.
Now, thanks to a tireless campaign from the organisation North East London Migrant Action (NELMA), a judicial review of the policy began at the High Court yesterday. And it's not the only fight the government is facing over its 'hostile environment' agenda.
There are currently two legal challenges against policies that have been introduced in the NHS. The first, which Politics.co.uk reported on recently, is a case brought by the Migrants' Rights Network against the sharing of patients' personal data between NHS Digital and the Home Office for immigration purposes. A crowdfunder set up to help with the legal costs of the case has so far raised more than £7,000 of a £10,000 target.
"We have been gravely concerned that immigration enforcement is creeping into our public services, especially the NHS," Fizza Qureshi, director of the Migrants' Rights' Network, says. "We felt it was important to challenge this data-sharing agreement because it will lead to discrimination and the erosion of people's trust in public services."
Photo by Alice Facchini
The second case relates to new guidelines introduced in October which mean that migrants who are not entitled to free NHS treatment will be charged upfront for non-urgent care when they visit a hospital. Last week, during a debate in the Lords, it was confirmed that there would be a full review of the rules.
"This legal challenge argues, among other things, that the government failed to assess the impact of these measures on those at most risk, and on public health in general," Adam Hundt, a solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn, who is acting in the case, says.
"The review was announced on the same day that the government formally responded to the case. In the absence of any details as to what it will involve, you have to wonder whether the review is tokenistic or an attempt to shut the door after the horse has bolted."
This week, the organisation Against Borders for Children (ABC) launched a crowdfunder to help fund another legal challenge - this time against schools collecting nationality and country of birth data from children. When this practice was first introduced, the government intended to hand the information over to the Home Office for immigration enforcement purposes. After a public outcry, it was forced to back down, but the data continues to be collected.
"All too often people feel powerless when faced with this kind of racist policy-making," Alan Monroe, a teacher and member of ABC, says. "But the truth is we can fight it."
This morning we launch our crowdfunder to help fund a legal challenge against racial profiling of schoolchildren https://t.co/Fv7G81cMj0
— Schools ABC (@Schools_ABC) November 20, 2017
There has been little formal opposition to many of these policies from the Labour party. Terrified of being labelled as soft on illegal immigration, even those MPs who privately object to much of the 'hostile environment' will not say so publicly. It has been left to others to take the fight to the government. And that's exactly what these groups are doing.
Over the last few years, May's 'hostile environment' has seeped into every area of life. Now, little by little, these campaigners are pushing it back.
Big Brother state: How May's obsession with immigration turned Britain into a surveillance state
Windrush: It’s time for an independent commission into May's anti-immigrant programme
Censored: Home Office refuses to publish cost of Theresa May's legal battles
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Surprise! Chance The Rapper Is In The 'Lion King'
posted by Peyton Blakemore - Jul 11, 2019
Chance the Rapper can keep a secret!
On Wednesday (July 10), the 26-year-old surprised fans when he revealed that he managed to make a lifelong dream come true by snagging a role in the forthcoming Lion King. Chance shared the news on Instagram, detailing how his infatuation with the film led to him voicing the character Bush Baby.
"I grew up my whole life obsessed with all things related to #TheLionKing; like all three films, the Timon and Pumbaa tv show, the broadway play and especially the broadway soundtrack. Needless to say the original film was immensely impactful on my music and overall life," he shared. "So when my big bro Donald [Glover] got casted as Simba, he did the coolest thing ever and told director Jon Favreau to call me in as a consultant to keep the original flavor."
Chance continued, "So for about a year I would go to the LK studio and see early animations, scenes, music direction or assemblies and they’d always be out of this world amazing. One day I’m there Jon asked me to do some singing stuff, another day he asks me to do some lines. Its all a blur, but I’ll tell u its one of the best blurs of my whole life. I am so blessed to know people like Donald and Jon man. AMAZING FILM, AMAZING CAST AND AN AMAZING NIGGHT LAST NIGHT. GOD BLESS AND LONG LIVE THE KING."
News of Chance's Lion King role comes ahead of the release of his debut album. As fans know, the "Groceries" rapper is set to release the project this month.
Lion King hits theaters on July 19.
Chance is also performing at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in September alongside a lineup of superstar artists. Fans across the country can tune in and watch an exclusive live stream of the show via The CW App and CWTV.com. Then, on October 2nd and 3rd, relive all of the epic performances from the weekend during a televised special on The CW Network at 8pm ET/PT. And leading up to the official television special, The CW will also air an hour-long Best Of Special on Sunday, September 29th at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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Home Arts & Entertainment Folk Sounds of Portugal
Folk Sounds of Portugal
This article by Richard Skelly was prepared for the
April 25, 2001 edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper. All rights reserved.
From the time she was a toddler, 14-year-old Nathalie
Pires knew she wanted to be a singer. Whether she can make a living
singing her repertoire of Portuguese fado songs, Spanish songs,
and pop songs remains to be seen, but for now, the bright, polite
teenage vocalist and dancer is keeping her dream alive.
"My dad used to be a musician, and that’s how I got into it,"
says Pires, who got started singing with her father when she was four
years old. "Back then, everybody thought it was cute, but nobody
really knew that’s what I wanted to do in the future." Pires,
who lives in Woodbridge Township, will turn 15 on April 29.
When she was 10, Pires began performing without her dad by her side,
she says, and since last year, she’s been singing fado songs.
This old musical form is the soul-blues music of Portugal.
"Fado goes back to the days when Portugal was taking on African
slaves, several hundred years back," she says, "it originated
with the sailors, and I’m not really sure when it was, but it was
a long time ago."
"There are songs that talk about homesickness and going back to
Lisbon or wherever your hometown is, but a lot of the songs are about
lost love," Nathalie explains. "There are actually songs about
everything in fado, but the popular songs are about love and
country and going back to your hometown."
Pires performs occasionally at Portuguese restaurants in the Ironbound
section of Newark, where there are thriving Portuguese and Brazilian
populations, and she’ll be performing at Tony de Caneca, a Portuguese
restaurant in Newark on May 6, as well as at a Portuguese restaurant
in Ossining, New York, the following month.
Pires, who also dances with Rancho Infantil Recordacoes de Portugal,
a dance and music troupe, will take center stage, accompanied by just
two guitarists, as is traditional in fado, to sing "the soul music
of Portugal" twice on Saturday, April 28, at the 27th Annual New
Jersey Folk Festival. The folk festival is produced by the American
Studies Department at Rutgers University, and directed by folklorist
and educator Angus Gillespie and a team of students from Douglass
College at Rutgers University. It is free and held outdoors at
on the grounds of the Eagleton Institute of Politics on the Douglass
College campus off of George Street in New Brunswick.
Other performers on Saturday will include Roni Stoneman from the old
"Hee Haw" television program, the Griggstown Lock Rapper Team,
an English country dance troupe, and an assortment of contemporary,
Garden State-based singer-songwriters including storyteller and singer
Jim Albertson, Orrin Star, Ralph Litwin, John Carlini, Dennis Gormley,
and Roger Deitz. The festival also boasts a juried craft show, an
assortment of ethnic foods, including featured Portuguese dishes,
as well as a children’s activities area and craft demonstrations.
A "New Folk Showcase" will feature the talents of
up-and-coming
performers Michael Veitch, Scott Sheldon, Terence Martin, Laurie
MacAllister,
Arlon Bennett, and Jim Beer.
The guitarists accompanying Pires at the folk festival on Saturday
will include Francisco Chuva and Alberto Resende, and most likely,
all three will be dressed in black, as is traditional when singing
fado.
Is there a way for young Nathalie to make a living singing fado
"I sing pretty much everything," she explains, "it’s only
in the last year that I’ve begun singing fado. I wouldn’t want
to sing fado music all my life. I like to sing other kinds
of music, too. But fado music is kind of dying, and that’s what’s
so cool about the folk festival, they’re bringing back the chance
for fado to be heard."
"It’s kind of a dying art, and even though people from Portugal
still listen to it and love it, it’s not as much as before," she
explains, "it’s mostly older people listening to it."
Nathalie’s father, Telmo Pires, works as director of
shipping and receiving for Vira Inc., a retail display case design
company in Perth Amboy, a city with a thriving Portuguese population.
He credits one of the owners of his company for prompting Nathalie
to get up and sing before a crowd of several hundred last year at
the Portuguese Sporting Club of Perth Amboy, where many of the
folk and foodway traditions are kept alive, at least on weekends.
Telmo Pires, a keyboardist, trumpeter, and French horn player who
now considers himself a retired musician — "I’m just
Nathalie’s
father," he says — explains how he and his wife moved from
Barrada, Portugal, to Venezuela before settling in New Jersey in 1984,
three years before Nathalie was born.
He says the most famous fado singer of all time was Amalia Rodrigues.
"She was known all over the world, she performed in Italy, Spain,
Japan, South America, all over the place. She was popular from the
1950s until she died two years ago."
"In order to be a successful fado singer, you have to offer
different and unique as a performer," he adds.
Asked to expand on the themes addressed in fado music, Telmo Pires
says the subject matter is often lost love or homesickness, "but
you’ll also find fados that speak about bullfights," he says.
"It’s a Portuguese tradition to have fado either before or after
a bullfight. But there are also songs about the sea, which is so much
a part of life in Portugal, the history of certain cities and towns
in Portugal, lost love, but also the beautiful love that exists in
the world. You can find all of these things in fado singing."
Asked about her plans for the future, Nathalie says "I’m going
to finish high school and then immediately go to college, and then
I’m going to try to make it big. It’s hard, I know it’s very hard,
but I feel like I have to try," she says. "It’s always been
my dream, and my father even told me when I was two I’d be stepping
up to piano to sing. So it doesn’t hurt to try."
What can audience expect from Nathalie Pires and her two accompanying
guitarists on Saturday at the New Jersey Folk Festival?
"They’ll hear several different types of fado," she says,
"and if they don’t like it, then they don’t like it. But if they
listen long enough, I’ll bet you they’ll fall in love with it, ’cause
it’s a really beautiful type of music. Even though it’s better if
you understand what the lyrics are saying, if the fado is interpreted
correctly, you don’t need to know the language to love it."
— Richard J. Skelly
Nathalie Pires, New Jersey Folk Festival, Eagleton
Institute Grounds, Rutgers’ Douglass College Campus, George Street
& Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, 732-932-9174. "Portuguese-American
Traditions" is the theme for the annual free festival featuring
dozens of musicians and entertainers on four stages, with craft market
and food. On the Web at njfolkfest.rutgers.edu. Free. Saturday,
April 28, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Nepal’s decision to participate in the joint military exercise between the armies of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation member states was a result of military engagement between Nepal Army and the Indian Army, without formal dealings at the diplomatic or political level.
Officials from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) told the Post on Wednesday that the decision to participate in the drill was taken solely by the national defence force. Neither MoD nor MoFA were consulted by the Army—or were made privy to the proposal from the Indian Army.
Nepal’s participation in the first BIMSTEC-level military exercise to be held in India next week has been dragged into a controversy as leaders from both the ruling and the opposition parties fiercely criticise the decision. The six-day drill is expected to include about 30 army personnel from each of the seven member states.
“The ministry hasn’t received any proposal to this effect. I believe this is a part of military engagement decided solely by the Army,” Rishi Rajbhandari, spokesperson for the MoD, told the Post. However, there has been the involvement of MoD or MoFA before making decisions on bilateral or multilateral exercises.
[Related: Nepal’s proposed participation in BIMSTEC military drill divides the ruling party]
Last year, an agreement was forged between then defence minister Bal Krishna Khand and Defence Minister and Chinese State Councillor Chang Wanquan before the first-ever joint military exercise between Nepal and China.
A joint-secretary at MoFA, who asked for anonymity because he didn’t want to be seen as criticising the Army, said the ministry, too, was unaware of the decision to hold the drill. It’s customary that all correspondence between the state agencies of the two nations follows the MoFA’s channel.
Though the controversy over the military exercise only surfaced in recent weeks, armies from the member states have been preparing for the drill for several months.
The official Twitter handle of Indian Army shows the initial planning conference of the exercise was held in the third week of June, with the participation of army officials from the seven countries including Nepal. “Initial planning conference for BIMSTEC Military Exercise (MILEX)-18 was conducted at Southern Command. It is aimed to create synergy in the field of counter-terrorism operations among member states,” the tweet, which included photos of military officers from member countries, said.
The revelation comes as cross-party leaders continue to raise their objections to the exercise. Many politicians, including those from the ruling party, found out about the military drill after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the event, as well as the meeting of the chiefs of the armies from the BIMSTEC nations, during his speech last week.
The prime minister’s office, however, says that the drill isn’t a part of the BIMSTEC agenda, and that Nepal does not believe in a military pact. In the meeting of a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Shankar Das Bairagi said that a statement by the head of government from any country cannot be the common opinion of all the member nations. Bairagi was referring to the statement by Modi.
Nepal Army officials say the exercise is just an addition to the number of bilateral and multilateral military drills. “This is just a part of the military diplomacy the Army has long been prioritising,” Bijay Thapa, assistant spokesperson of the Nepal Army, told the Post. However, the official declined to go into details about why the Army didn’t notify the MoD and MoFA about the drill early on.
Meanwhile, Acting Chief of the Army Staff General Purna Chandra Thapa will leave for India on September 14, five days after formally taking charge of the national defence force, to participate in the closing session of the exercise.
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Queue-it wins Outstanding Achievement at TBF2019
Queue-it was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2019 Ticketing Business Awards during a private ceremony at Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester. This award is dedicated to leaders within live entertainment who have demonstrated outstanding commitment and service to the industry.
Formerly known as the Ticketing Technology Awards, the fourth annual Ticketing Business Awards highlight exceptionalism across the global live entertainment and ticketing industry. To crown a winner in categories ranging from the Customer Experience Award to Executive of the Year, nominations are reduced to a shortlist. The award-winner is then selected from this list by an independent panel from within the industry.
“Winners included our industry’s leaders, achievers and stand-out innovators, who should all be very proud of their achievements,” noted Ian Nuttall, founder of TheTicketingBusiness.
“We have been in this business for 10 years…and we are now helping more than 200 organizations around the globe during onsales, bringing fairness into the entire user journey. We have learned a lot about what the industry is about. I can say that it’s still extremely exciting,” said Niels Henrik Sodemann, CEO and Co-founder of Queue-it.
The Awards are handed out at the Ticketing Business Forum, one of the most important yearly gatherings for professionals across the ticketing ecosystem. An ecosystem filled with “people trying on a daily basis to make everybody enjoy live events…in a sincere and fantastic way,” according to our CEO, Niels.
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Learning to Swim
by Larry Lynch
Learning to Swim, the first collection from New Brunswick author Larry Lynch, presents seven stories that range in style from straightforward narrative to magic realism-tinged metafiction. It’s a mix that is always interesting, but not always successful.
The collection starts well with “The Rope,” the story of a young man discovering the truth about his grandfather’s death. Lynch’s prose here is swift and confident as he guides the reader through a tiny portrait of disaster while staying close to the emotional centre of the story. Equally poignant, though too brief, is “Buddy,” in which a ventriloquist finally finds his own voice. In these two stories Lynch eschews narrative tricks and concentrates on maintaining sympathy for his characters.
The middle stories are made up of exercises in form and style. The title story is the most successful of these. Not merely the story of a writer, but the story of a writer trying to write about a writer, it is interspersed with excerpts from a work in progress, including all the questions and doubts encountered in the writing process. It is an interesting study.
Another tale, “Absolutes,” is a Borges-like ficcione without any of the form’s intellectual heft, and it comes across like a failed Twilight Zone episode. And “The Weight of a Blind Dog,” a Garcia Marquez tribute, is an attempt to take a magical realist style and make it a little more real. In the process Lynch loses the genre’s sense of wonder, leaving only a gentle, lingering creepiness.
It’s unfortunate that the last story in the collection, “Topography,” the longest and most ambitious piece, never quite gels. It has plenty of moments that sparkle, but the thematic dualities are so contrived that the characters get lost in the mix. The reader never cares about the characters’ situations.
“Learning to Swim” is more than just the title story of this collection: it is Lynch’s writing philosophy. He is always taking chances, always pushing himself just a little further than he is able or willing to go.
Reviewer: Ken Hunt
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
Page Count: 155 pp
Format: Paper
ISBN: 1-894031-92-X,
Released: Sept.
Issue Date: 2004-10
Categories: Fiction: Short
Tags: Amazon, science fiction, travel
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Stop the Killing, End the Occupation: A Statement from the Global Jewish Network for Justice
Please read and share this statement, which was initiated by an international Jewish network of groups and individuals working for justice in Palestine. We reclaim Jewish identity not as a nationalist identity but as one that celebrates our diverse roots, traditions & communities wherever we are around the world. We believe that it is essential for there to be a global Jewish voice to challenge Israel’s destructive policies, in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. This international Jewish network aims to become that voice.
If you would like to sign on to this statement as an individual or a group, click here.
As members of Jewish communities around the world, we are horrified by the violence that is sweeping the streets of Palestine/Israel, costing the lives of over 30 people, both Palestinians and Israelis in the past two weeks alone. A 2 year old girl in Gaza was the youngest of 4 Palestinian children who were killed in the past two weeks. A 13 year-old Israeli boy is in critical condition after being stabbed nearly a dozen times. Over a thousand people were injured in the same period. Fear has completely taken over the streets of Jerusalem, the center of this violence. Israelis shooting Palestinian protesters in and around East Jerusalem. Palestinians stabbing and shooting Israeli civilians and policemen in the middle of the streets. Israeli forces killing Palestinian suspects when they are clearly not a threat and without trial. Palestinians throwing stones at passing cars. Israeli mobs beating up Palestinians or calling on police to shoot them. Humiliating strip searches of Palestinians in the streets – all of these have become a daily occurrence in the city in which we are raised to pray for peace, as well as other places in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
While violence is visible on the streets, it is also occupying people’s minds and hearts. Fear is bringing out the worst of people, and the demand for more blood to be shed, as if this will repair the damage done. Fear and racist rhetoric are escalating the situation. The Israeli government is once again responding in a militarised way: there have been hundreds of arrests; Palestinian access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound has been limited; parts of the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem have been closed to Palestinians; open-fire regulations have been changed to allow the use of sniper fire against children; a minimum sentence for stone throwing has been introduced, including for over 150 children arrested in East Jerusalem alone in the past few weeks; and now there are talks of enforcing a curfew, or even a closure, of East Jerusalem.
All these constitute collective punishment on the entire population of East Jerusalem with over 300,000 people. In the past, these measures have proven themselves ineffective at ending violence. Decades of dispossession, occupation and discrimination are the main reasons for Palestinian resistance. Further Israeli military repression and ongoing occupation and siege will never end the Palestinian desire for freedom nor will it address the root causes of violence. Indeed, the current actions by the Israeli government and army are likely to create further violence, destruction, and the entrenchment of division. Only justice and equality for all will bring peace and quiet to the residents of Israel and Palestine.
As a group of Jews from around the world we believe that immediate change needs to come from the Israeli government and Israeli people. It is incumbent on all Jews around the world to pressure the Israeli government – and those who follow and support its words and deeds – to change its approach. The military crackdown must cease immediately, Palestinians must be allowed complete freedom of movement. It is also a responsibility of Jewish people worldwide to obligate the countries in which we live to immediately cease the economic and military support of the ongoing Israeli occupation in Palestine and siege of Gaza.
We call on our Jewish communities, and our broader communities, to publicly insist on an end to the violence, occupation, siege and military response and instead demand equality and freedom for the Palestinian people and justice for all.
This entry was posted in Israel, Jerusalem, Nonviolence, Palestine, World, Zionism and tagged Israel on October 16, 2015 by Rabbi Brant Rosen.
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8 thoughts on “Stop the Killing, End the Occupation: A Statement from the Global Jewish Network for Justice”
Sally Bolton October 16, 2015 at 9:37 pm
Thank you to all members of world Jewry who sign this. There is enough blame to go around but violence will only bring more violence. Thank you for joining the voices demanding peace.
Laurence J. Silberstein October 17, 2015 at 9:30 am
Brant, Thanks for this. I am a retired professor of Jewish Studies who has written extensively on postzionism/zionism. I respect your courage and your persistence in the face of “Jewish resistance.” We need more voices like yours. It is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise dark scenario.
Beyedidut,
Larry Silberstein
Bob Oldershaw October 17, 2015 at 8:19 pm
Brant, I stand in solidarity with you even though I’m not qualified to sign the letter.
merrymaisel October 18, 2015 at 11:02 am
You are qualified. You don’t have to be Jewish to favor justice.
John Gillam October 18, 2015 at 2:58 pm
I share your outrage and despair over the actions of the Israeli government of Netanyahu. Even more I am disturbed that the Canadian Prime Minister and US President support actions which they would abhor in their own nations. May your actions help restore peace and justice for all.
Alonso October 18, 2015 at 4:29 pm
I salute the just men and women like you, in particular the Jewish ones who understand what is going on in Palestine and Israel for so long and cannot tolerate this anymore. I feel that you are one the main actors that can bring change, justice and peace to the suffering of the Palestinian people and the disgrace that is tainting the Jewish people. I am not qualified to sign, I am a Peruvian descent from Christian Palestinian whoe were born in Bethlehem and Beit Yala, but I might also have Jewish ancestry like many Palestinian who are not Jewish, for my last name exist both in Palestine and among the Sephardi.
Fuck October 18, 2015 at 5:54 pm
Genie Silver, Ph.D., MSW December 7, 2015 at 8:51 am
What a suberb statement! Thank you for writing it and to all Jewish people who sign it. As a Jew, our obligation is to work for human justice for all suffering peoples.
Genie Silver, Ph.D., MSW; member of Middle East Committee, U.S. Section, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
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Barry O'Farrell - Chief Executive Officer
Barry O’Farrell was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Racing Australia in January 2017. Barry was the 43rd Premier of New South Wales and served in the State Parliament from 1995-2015. In 2015 he led a review of Illegal Offshore Wagering for the Australian Government.
Myles Foreman - Operations Chief Executive Officer
Myles has over 20 years' experience in senior executive roles in the Hospitality, Entertainment and Sports industries. Myles joined RISA in June 2006 in the newly created role of Chief Executive Officer after ten years with Ticketmaster. He commenced work with Ticketmaster as Operations Manager also holding the roles of Chief Information Officer, General Manager - ticketmaster.com.au and Head of Markets and Development for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to Ticketmaster, Myles spent seven years with Rydges Hotels & Resorts. In his capacity as the foundation CEO of RISA Myles oversaw the expansion of RISA from an effective start-up company in 2006 to a business delivering a diverse range of products and services to multiple stakeholders across Australia. With the merger of RISA and the ARB Myles assumed the role of Operations Chief Executive Officer for Racing Australia.
David Connell - Chief Financial Officer
David joined RISA in October 2006 after three and half years as Financial Accountant for Racing Victoria Limited (RVL). Prior to joining RVL, David was Group Accountant for SMS Management & Technology Group from 1994 - 2002. From 1990 - 1994 David was Financial Accountant for Mercy Hospital for Women. Prior to that David held a range of Finance roles. David is a Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA). David is responsible for the financial operations of RISA. In addition David is the Key Person and Responsible Manager of the Thoroughbred Trainers Service Centre (TTSC) Australian Financial Services License (AFSL) as well as day to day operations of the TTSC. With the merger of RISA and the ARB David assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer for Racing Australia.
Jacqueline Stewart - Manager Owner & Breeder Services (Keeper of the Australian Stud Book)
Owner and Breeder Services encompass the traditional roles of the Australian Stud Book and the Registrar of Racehorses, functions critical to the integrity of the racing industry. Jacqueline joined the Australian Stud Book organisation in September 1998 after completing a degree in Equine Business Management at the University of Sydney, becoming the Deputy Keeper from 2005 and the Keeper in 2014. The Stud Book was purchased by RISA in September 2014 and operates today as a fully integrated division of Racing Australia. The Australian Stud Book, founded in 1878, is the official authority for the identification of racehorses in Australia and in which are kept the breeding records of the second largest population of Thoroughbreds in the world, approximately 14,500 foals per year. The Registrar of Racehorse's role is to record the naming and initial ownership registration of all Thoroughbreds accepted into the Australian Stud Book, approximately 13,000 per year. The Registrar's role and responsibilities in the industry are governed by the Australian Rules of Racing. Jacqueline leads the Owner and Breeder Services team to provide independent breed integrity and ensures it continually strives to improve the services for owners and breeders to remain a world leader in its field.
Dr Natasha Hamilton - Equine Genetics Research Centre Director
Dr Hamilton was awarded her PhD in equine genetics from the University of Sydney in 2005. Before starting at Racing Australia she was as a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney Faculty of Veterinary Science where she taught neurophysiology and equine science. Her research has always revolved around horses, with a particular focus on the genetic factors that affect health, disease, soundness and career length in racehorses. Natasha is a member of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities Gene Doping Control Subcommittee, International Horse Genome Workshop, International Society of Animal Genetics, and is an associate member of the International Group of Specialist Racing Veterinarians. Dr Hamilton commenced as the inaugural Director of the EGRC in January 2018 and reports to the Operations CEO of Racing Australia.
Matt Orr - General Counsel (Company Secretary)
Matt joined Racing Australia as its first dedicated in-house lawyer in March 2017, having previously worked as Legal Counsel at Racing NSW. Prior to that, he was employed at leading law firms Clayton Utz and Holding Redlich, specialising in litigation/dispute resolution and employment/industrial relations. Matt is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association and also has qualifications in business (sport management) and economics. In December 2017, Matt assumed the role of Company Secretary for Racing Australia and its controlled entities.
Mark Bishop - IT Manager
Mark joined Racing Australia in October 2018 as the IT Manager. Mark is a highly skilled IT professional with more than 15 years of experience across a diverse range of industries and technologies. Prior to joining Racing Australia, he held the position of IT Manger with Pental Limited for seven years. In this role he was responsible for outfitting a new data centre, an ERP system upgrade, the implementation of a trade spend and forecasting system as well as the integration of major customers onto EDI electronic ordering. His diversity is shown through a variety of previous IT roles at Interpublic Group, The King David School, adidas and TIC Group. Mark is responsible for delivering national IT projects, while maintaining the day-to-day IT operations of Racing Australia.
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Windows Server 2003 SP1 Released to Manufacturing
Microsoft on Wednesday night released to manufacturing the long-awaited Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. The company also released to manufacturing the x64 editions of Windows Server and Windows XP.
"With Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, our development team took the time to treat the root cause of many security issues, not just the symptoms. This service pack is very significant and should help address certain classes of exploits," Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Windows Server Division at Microsoft, said in a statement. "Service Pack 1 is a major component of our overall strategy to help keep customers as secure as possible. I encourage all of our Windows Server 2003 customers to deploy Service Pack 1."
In addition to the normal group of bug fixes, the service pack also includes substantial security improvements to Windows Server 2003, including a Security Configuration Wizard, the Windows Firewall and a technology called Post-Setup Security Updates, which blocks inbound connections during setup until Windows Update has delivered the latest updates.
Microsoft originally planned to deliver SP1 in the fourth quarter of 2003, about a half year after originally shipping Windows Server 2003. The company later overhauled its plans as virus and worm concerns forced a reconsideration of service pack plans for both Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Windows Server 2003 SP1 builds on many of the security measures included in Windows XP SP2, which was released in August.
The 337 MB SP1 download is available immediately from the Microsoft Download Center here.
Simultaneously, the company released to manufacturing four operating system editions designed to accommodate the 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture that are supported in the AMD Opteron and Athlon64 processors and Intel processors featuring EM64T.
Those operating systems are Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Datacenter Edition.
General availability of those x64 operating systems, which are built on top of SP1, will be unveiled at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in late April.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric condition that specifically involves anxiety. It may also be written as posttraumatic stress disorder. People develop PTSD after they experience or witness an event that is perceived to be a threat or considered to be life-threatening and in which they experience fear, terror, or helplessness.
PTSD is sometimes summarized as “a normal reaction to abnormal events.” It was first defined as a distinctive disorder in 1980. Originally diagnosed in veterans of the Vietnam War (1955–1975), it is now recognized in civilian survivors of rape or other criminal assaults; natural disasters; aircraft crashes, train collisions, serious accidents, or industrial explosions; acts of terrorism; child abuse; or military combat. Most people who have experienced such trauma return to a normal life. However, some people continue to experience the stress of reliving such trauma, often in the form of nightmares, flashbacks, sleep problems, and other such symptoms that impair daily life. These persons may develop PTSD.
Soldiers in the early nineteenth century were diagnosed by medical doctors with exhaustion after experiencing the trauma and stress of war. Often these soldiers displayed degraded mental facilities that sometimes included physical symptoms, which forced them into treatment until their symptoms subsided and they could return to combat. Although these soldiers were diagnosed with such terms as battle fatigue, shell shock, and stress syndrome, the medical community did not recognize PTSD until the 1970s, during the Vietnam War.
The experience of PTSD has sometimes been described as being in a horror film that keeps replaying and cannot be shut off. It is common for people with PTSD to feel intense fear and helplessness, and to relive the frightening event in nightmares or in their waking hours. Sometimes the memory is triggered by a sound, smell, or image that reminds the individual of the traumatic event. These re-experiences of the event are called flashbacks. Persons with PTSD are likely to be jumpy and easily startled or to go numb emotionally and lose interest in activities they used to enjoy. They may have problems with memory and with getting enough sleep. In some cases, they may feel disconnected from the real world or have moments in which their own bodies seem unreal. These symptoms are indications of dissociation, a process in which the mind splits off certain memories or thoughts from conscious awareness. Many people with PTSD turn to alcohol or drugs in order to escape the flashbacks and other symptoms of the disorder, even if only for a few minutes.
Factors that influence the likelihood of a person developing PTSD include:
The nature, intensity, and duration of the traumatic experience: For example, someone who just barely escaped from the World Trade Center in New York City before the towers collapsed on September 11, 2001, is at greater risk of PTSD than someone who saw the collapse from a distance or on television.
A person's previous history: People who were abused as children, who were separated from their parents at an early age, or who have a previous history of anxiety or depression are at increased risk of PTSD.
Genetic factors: Vulnerability to PTSD is known to run in families.
The availability of social support after the event: People who have no family or friends are more likely to develop PTSD than those who do.
HIGH-RISK POPULATIONS. About 8% of Americans experience PTSD at some point in their lives; however, women (10.4%) are just over twice as likely as men (5%) to develop PTSD. Around 3.5% of adults in the United States from the age of 18 to 54 years have PTSD during any given year. Some subpopulations in the United States are at greater risk of developing PTSD. The lifetime prevalence of PTSD among persons living in depressed urban areas or on Native American reservations is estimated at 23%. For victims of violent crimes, the estimated rate is 58%.
PTSD also appears to be more common in seniors than in younger people. Thirteen percent of the members of a senior population report they are affected by PTSD in comparison to 7–10% of the entire population. Reports of elder abuse crimes have increased 200% since 1986. In addition, the incidence of PTSD is known to be higher in Holocaust survivors, war veterans, and cancer or heart surgery survivors, which account for a significant portion of older Americans. Of those seniors who are military veterans, there is an increasing number who are isolated and/or in poor health as a result of PTSD.
Children are also susceptible to PTSD and their risk is increased exponentially as their exposure to the event increases. Children experiencing abuse, the death of a parent, or those located in a community experiencing a traumatic event can develop PTSD. Two years after the Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) bombing of 1995, 16% of children within a 100-mi. (160-km) radius of Oklahoma City with no direct exposure to the bombing had increased symptoms of PTSD. Weak parental response to the event, having a parent with PTSD symptoms, and intensified exposure to the event via the media all increase the possibility of a child developing PTSD symptoms. In addition, a developmentally inappropriate sexual experience for a child may be considered a traumatic event, even though it may not have actually involved violence or physical injury.
MILITARY VETERANS. Studies conducted between 2004 and 2006 with veteran participants from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) found a strong correlation between duration of combat exposure and PTSD. Veterans of combat in Iraq reported a higher rate of PTSD than those deployed to Afghanistan because of longer exposure to warfare.
Information about PTSD in veterans of the Vietnam era is derived from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Survey (NVVRS), conducted between 1986 and 1988. The estimated lifetime prevalence of PTSD among American veterans of this war is 31% for men and 27% for women. An additional 22.5% of the men and 21% of the women have been diagnosed with partial PTSD at some point in their lives. The lifetime prevalence of PTSD among veterans of World War II (1939–1945) and the Korean War (1950–1953) is estimated at 20%.
Generally, military personnel, whether men or women, who have spent time in war zones experience PTSD about 30% of the time. Another 20–25% of these veterans are diagnosed with partial PTSD at some time after their military experiences. In the 2010s, estimates of PTSD in U.S. military personnel who served in Iraq vary from 12% to 20%.
CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES. Further research needs to be done on the effects of ethnicity and culture on post-traumatic symptoms. As of the early 2010s, Western clinicians working with patients from a similar background have done most PTSD research. Researchers do not yet know whether persons from non-Western societies have the same psychological reactions to specific traumas or whether they develop the same symptom patterns.
PTSD can develop in almost anyone in any age group exposed to a sufficiently terrifying event or chain of events. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) states, “Anyone can get PTSD at any age. This includes war veterans and survivors of physical and sexual assault, abuse, accidents, disasters, and many other serious events. Not everyone with PTSD has been through a dangerous event. Some people get PTSD after a friend or family member experiences danger or is harmed. The sudden, unexpected death of a loved one can also cause PTSD.”
The NIMH estimated in 2007, the last year in which it was reported, that about 7.7 million adults in the United States have PTSD. One study found that 3.7% of a sample of teenage boys and 6.3% of adolescent girls had PTSD. It is estimated that a person's risk of developing PTSD over the course of their life is between 8% and 10%. On average, 30% of soldiers who have been in a war zone develop PTSD. Women are at greater risk of PTSD following sexual assault or domestic violence, while men are at greater risk of developing PTSD following military combat.
Traumatic experiences are surprisingly common in the general North American population. More than 10% of the men and 6% of the women in one survey reported experiencing four or more types of trauma in their lives. The most frequently mentioned traumas are:
witnessing someone being badly hurt or killed
involvement in a fire, flood, earthquake, severe hurricane, or other natural disaster
involvement in a life-threatening accident (workplace explosion or transportation accident)
military combat
PTSD is more likely to develop in response to an intentional human act of violence or cruelty such as a rape or mugging than as a reaction to an impersonal catastrophe like a flood or hurricane. It is not surprising that the traumatic events most frequently mentioned by men diagnosed with PTSD are rape, combat exposure, childhood neglect, and childhood physical abuse. For women diagnosed with PTSD, the most common traumas are rape, sexual molestation, physical attack, being threatened with a weapon, and childhood physical abuse.
PTSD can also develop in therapists, rescue workers, or witnesses of a frightening event as well as in those who were directly involved. This process is called vicarious traumatization.
The causes of PTSD are not completely understood. One major question that has not been answered, is why some people involved in a major disaster develop PTSD and other survivors of the same event do not. For example, a survey of 988 adults living close to the World Trade Center conducted in November 2001 found that only 7% had been diagnosed with PTSD following the events of September 11th; the other 93% were anxious and upset, but they did not develop PTSD. Research into this question is ongoing in the 2010s.
BIOCHEMICAL/PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES. Present neurobiological research indicates that traumatic events cause lasting changes in the human nervous system, including abnormal levels of secretion of stress hormones. In addition, in PTSD patients, researchers have found changes in the amygdala and the hippocampus—the parts of the brain that form links between fear and memory. Experiments with ketamine, a drug that inactivates one of the neurotransmitters in the central nervous system, suggest that trauma works in a similar way to damage associative pathways in the brain. Positron emission tomography (PET) scans of PTSD patients suggest that trauma affects the parts of the brain that govern speech and language.
SOCIOCULTURAL CAUSES. Studies of specific populations of PTSD patients (such as combat veterans, survivors of rape or genocide, and former political hostages or prisoners) have shed light on the social and cultural causes of PTSD. In general, societies that are highly authoritarian, glorify violence, or sexualize violence have high rates of PTSD even among civilians.
OCCUPATIONAL FACTORS. Persons whose work exposes them to traumatic events or who treat trauma survivors may develop secondary PTSD (also known as compassion fatigue or burnout). These occupations include specialists in emergency medicine, police officers, firefighters, search-and-rescue personnel, psychotherapists, and disaster investigators. The degree of risk for PTSD is related to three factors: (1) the amount and intensity of exposure to the suffering of trauma victims, (2) the worker's degree of empathy and sensitivity, and (3) unresolved issues from the worker's personal history.
PERSONAL VARIABLES. Although the most important causal factor in PTSD is the traumatic event itself, individuals differ in the intensity of their cognitive and emotional responses to trauma; some persons appear to be more vulnerable than others. In some cases, this greater vulnerability is related to temperament or natural disposition, with shy or introverted people being at greater risk. In other cases, the person's vulnerability results from chronic illness, a physical disability, or previous traumatization—particularly abuse in childhood. As of 2012, researchers have not found any correlation between race or ethnicity and biological vulnerability to PTSD. The NIMH states, “Researchers are studying the importance of various risk and resilience factors. With more study, it may be possible someday to predict who is likely to get PTSD and prevent it.”
DSM-5 specifies six diagnostic criteria for PTSD:
The diagnosis of PTSD is based on the patient's history, including the timing of the traumatic event and the duration of the patient's symptoms.
Consultation with a mental health professional for diagnosis and a plan of treatment is always advised. Many of the responses to trauma, such as shock, terror, irritability, blame, guilt, grief, sadness, emotional numbing, and feelings of helplessness, are natural reactions. For most people, resilience is an overriding factor and trauma effects diminish within 6 to 16 months. It is when these responses continue or become debilitating that PTSD is often diagnosed.
As outlined in DSM-IV, exposure to a traumatic stressor means that an individual experienced, witnessed or was confronted by an event or events involving death or threat of death, serious injury or the threat of bodily harm to oneself or others. The individual's response must involve intense fear, helplessness, or horror. A two-pronged approach to evaluation is considered the best way to make a valid diagnosis because it can gauge under-reporting or over-reporting of symptoms. The two primary forms are structured interviews and self-report questionnaires. Spouses, partners, and other family members may also be interviewed. Because the evaluation may involve subtle reminders of the trauma in order to gauge a patient's reactions, individuals should ask for a full description of the evaluation process beforehand. Asking what results can be expected from the evaluation is also advised.
A number of structured interview forms have been devised to facilitate the diagnosis of PTSD:
The Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) developed by the National Center for PTSD
The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID)
Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule-Revised (ADIS)
PTSD-Interview
Structured Interview for PTSD (SI-PTSD)
PTSD Symptom Scale Interview (PSS-I)
Self-reporting checklists provide scores to represent the level of stress experienced. Some of the most commonly used checklists are:
The PTSD Checklist (PCL), which has one list for civilians and one for military personnel and veterans
Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R)
Keane PTSD Scale of the MMPI-2
The Mississippi Scale for Combat Related PTSD and the Mississippi Scale for Civilians
The Post Traumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS)
The Penn Inventory for Post-Traumatic Stress
Los Angeles Symptom Checklist (LASC)
There are no laboratory or imaging tests that can detect PTSD, although the doctor may order imaging studies of the brain to rule out head injuries or other physical causes of the patient's symptoms.
Treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder includes both traditional and alternative methods.
Treatment for PTSD usually involves a combination of medications and psychotherapy. If patients have started to abuse alcohol or drugs, they must be treated for the substance abuse before being treated for PTSD. If the patient is diagnosed with coexisting depression, treatment should focus on the PTSD because its course, biology, and treatment response are different from those associated with major depression. Patients with the disorder are usually treated as outpatients; they are not hospitalized unless they are threatening to commit suicide or harm other people.
Mainstream forms of psychotherapy used to treat patients who have already developed PTSD include:
Medications are used most often in patients with severe PTSD to treat the intrusive symptoms of the disorder as well as feelings of anxiety and depression. These drugs are usually given as one part of a treatment plan that includes psychotherapy or group therapy. As of 2012, there is no single medication used to treat PTSD. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which are a class of compounds often used as antidepressants, appear to help the core symptoms when given in higher doses for five to eight weeks, while the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) or the monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are most useful in treating anxiety and depression.
Sleep problems can be lessened with brief treatment with an anti-anxiety drug, such as a benzodiazepine like alprazolam (Xanax), but long-term usage can lead to disturbing side effects, such as increased anger, drug tolerance, dependency, and abuse. Benzodiazepines are also not given to PTSD patients diagnosed with coexisting drug or alcohol abuse.
Alternative treatment
Relaxation training, which is sometimes called anxiety management training, includes breathing exercises and similar techniques intended to help the patient prevent hyperventilation and relieve the muscle tension associated with the fight-or-flight reaction of anxiety. Yoga, aikido, t'ai chi, and dance therapy help patients work with the physical as well as the emotional tensions that either promote anxiety or are created by the anxiety.
Other alternative or complementary therapies are based on physiological and/or energetic understanding of how the trauma is imprinted in the body. These therapies affect a release of stored emotions and resolution of them by working with the body rather than merely talking through the experience. One example of such a therapy is Somatic Experiencing (SE), developed by American therapist Peter Levine (1942–). SE is a short-term, biological, body-oriented approach to PTSD or other trauma. This approach heals by emphasizing physiological and emotional responses, without re-traumatizing the person, without placing the person on medication, and without the long hours of conventional therapy.
When used in conjunction with therapies that address the underlying cause of PTSD, such relaxation therapies as hydrotherapy, massage therapy, and aromatherapy are useful to some patients in easing PTSD symptoms. Essential oils of lavender, chamomile, neroli, sweet marjoram, and ylang-ylang are commonly recommended by aromatherapists for stress relief and anxiety reduction.
Some patients benefit from spiritual or religious counseling. Because traumatic experiences often affect patients' spiritual views and beliefs, counseling with a trusted religious or spiritual advisor may be part of a treatment plan. A growing number of pastoral counselors in the major Christian and Jewish bodies in North America have advanced credentials in trauma therapy. Native Americans are often helped to recover from PTSD by participating in traditional tribal rituals for cleansing memories of war and other traumatic events. These rituals may include sweat lodges, prayers and chants, or consultation with a shaman or tribal healer.
Several controversial methods of treatment for PTSD have been introduced since the mid-1980s. Mainstream medical researchers have developed some methods, while others are derived from various forms of alternative medicine. These methods are controversial because they do not offer any scientifically validated explanations for their effectiveness. They include:
Public health role and response
The United States offers help with PTSD through its National Center for PTSD—headquartered in Washington, D.C.—which is a part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Its website ( http://www.ptsd.va.gov/ ) states, “We are the center of excellence for research and education on the prevention, understanding, and treatment of PTSD. Our Center has seven divisions across the country. Although we provide no direct clinical care, our purpose is to improve the well-being and understanding of American Veterans. We conduct cutting edge research and apply resultant findings to: ‘Advance the Science and Promote Understanding of Traumatic Stress.’” These seven divisions are:
Executive Division: White River Junction, Vermont
Clinical Neurosciences Division: West Haven, Connecticut
Evaluation Division: West Haven, Connecticut
Behavioral Sciences Division: Boston, Massachusetts
Women's Health Sciences Division: Boston, Massachusetts
Dissemination and Training Division: Palo Alto, California
Pacific Islands Division: Honolulu, Hawaii Prognosis
A class of drugs that have a hypnotic and sedative action, used mainly as tranquilizers to control symptoms of anxiety.
A type of psychotherapy used to treat anxiety disorders (including PTSD) that emphasizes behavioral change as well as alteration of negative thought patterns.
A hormone produced by the adrenal glands near the kidneys in response to stress.
The splitting off of certain mental processes from conscious awareness. Many PTSD patients have dissociative symptoms.
A temporary reliving of a traumatic event.
Hyperarousal—
A state of increased emotional tension and anxiety, often including jitteriness and being easily startled.
Hypervigilance—
A condition of abnormally intense watchfulness or wariness. It is one of the most common symptoms of PTSD.
The percentage of a population that is affected by a specific disease at a given time.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—
A class of antidepressants that work by blocking the reabsorption of serotonin in the brain, raising the levels of serotonin. Examples include Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil.
A severe injury or shock to a person's body or mind.
The prognosis of PTSD is difficult to determine because patients' personalities and the experiences they undergo vary widely. A majority of patients get better, including some who do not receive treatment. One study reported that the average length of PTSD symptoms in patients who get treatment is 32 months, compared to 64 months in patients who are not treated.
Where can I go for help? Should I see a mental health specialist?
How can I help myself? Do you recommend any changes at home, work, or school to help my recovery?
What should I do if I have a friend or relative with PTSD?
Will I completely recover from PTSD?
Why did I get PTSD when other fellow veterans did not?
What do you believe is causing my symptoms?
How will you determine my diagnosis?
Do you recommend treatment? If yes, with what types of therapy?
How soon do you expect my symptoms to improve?
Where can I learn more about PTSD?
About 30% of people with PTSD never recover completely. A few commit suicide because their symptoms get worse rather than improving.
PTSD is impossible to prevent completely because natural disasters and human acts of violence will continue to occur. In addition, it is not possible to tell beforehand how any given individual will react to a specific type of trauma. Prompt treatment after a traumatic event may lower the survivor's risk of developing severe symptoms.
See also Gulf war syndrome .
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Rebecca J. Frey, PhD
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A Class of Their Own: Model Procedural Rules and Evidentiary Evaluation of Computer-Generated "Animations"
Dean A. Morande
Dean A. Morande, A Class of Their Own: Model Procedural Rules and Evidentiary Evaluation of Computer-Generated "Animations", 61 U. Miami L. Rev. 1069 (2007)
Available at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol61/iss4/4
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Kochi: Cial invites proposals to lease property as guest house
Cial is offering the 15 apartments six threebedroom, six two-bedroom, and three one-bedroom apartments on lease for 33 yearsVikram Vinod | TNN | October 30, 2017, 19:00 IST
KOCHI: In a move to convert the Nedumbassery region into an aerotropolis, Cochin International Airport Ltd (Cial) invited proposals to lease a part of their newly-developed building which is just 20m away from the airport's gate as corporate guest house.This is part of Cial's land utilization scheme that intends to maximize the airport's non-aero revenue by utilizing the company's vast land assets in the region.
The top two floors of Cial's new seven-storey building will serve as a guest house. Cial is offering the 15 apartments six threebedroom, six two-bedroom, and three one-bedroom apartments on lease for 33 years. The remaining floors of the building will be utilized as office space and given for retail services. “Many corporate officials do not wish go all the way into a city for a meeting. So with this new building, we intend to provide a space where people can step out of the airport, conduct meetings and take a break. They can save on travel time and avoid traffic jams,“ said Cial spokesperson.
He added that in future companies would consider setting up corporate offices in Nedumbassery, in addition to MG Road and Kakkanad.
Of the 1,300 acres owned by Cial, it is utilizing around 600 acres for aviation purposes. They are also planning expansion works at Cial convention centre.
Cial officials suggested that the new building is only the first step towards the plan of establishing an aerotropolis, a metropolitan sub-region surrounding the airport and that several other projects are in the pipeline.
The structure of the building has been completed and the interiors of the building will be done according to the demands of the tenant.
Those interested in leasing the apartment space must respond to the expression of interest before November 30.
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Britain Should Emulate Singapore
Free trade, low taxes, cheap energy.
Marian Tupy | 7.12.2016 7:00 AM
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Andrea Leadsom's withdrawal from the Conservative Party's leadership race ensures that Home Secretary, Theresa May, will become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain, on Wednesday afternoon. What should May's priorities be?
First, she should endorse Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's suggestion to cut the corporate tax rate from its current 20 percent rate to a 15 percent rate, which would make it the second lowest corporate tax rate in the OECD. In fact, she should go even lower and match Ireland's 12.5 percent corporate tax rate. That way, the newspapers will not write about a "tax cut," but instead about the "lowest" tax rate in the rich world. A low corporate tax rate will indicate to the rest of the world that Britain will retain its business-friendly environment.
Second, Great Britain should commit itself to a program of trade liberalization. The consensus among the great and the good, including The Economist and The Financial Times, is that Britain must do everything it can to remain a member of the EU's single market. I think that such a commitment will weaken Britain's negotiating position vis-à-vis the EU and encourage the latter to make unreasonable demands. Additionally, it would oblige Britain to retain many of the job-killing EU regulations pertaining to the functioning of the single market.
Instead, Britain should opt for unilateral trade liberalization: eliminating all tariffs on goods and services vis-à-vis the rest of the world. Such legislation would come into effect following Brexit, which is to say, in about two years. That should give companies plenty of time to adjust and to make future plans. Additionally, the free trade legislation could be passed with the current Tory majority in Parliament and thus be in place before the next election and before the possible return to power of a more dirigiste Labour Party.
Decline in the cost of inputs would make British outputs, including British exports, more affordable and, consequently, more competitive. Reduced cost of British goods and services would thus offset much of the EU's tariff on non-EU countries, including Britain. Importantly, reduction in the cost of goods and services would provide relief to the British citizenry.
Third, Britain is currently committed to the EU's immensely expensive green energy policies. This self-inflicted wound makes heating a luxury for many poor Europeans and contributes to making European enterprises less competitive overseas. British commentators believe that Theresa May will be open to a more customer-friendly energy policy. Undoubtedly, she will be crucified by the affluent progressives in London, which is fine since they opposed Brexit and would not vote for the Tories anyway. She will also help the "energy poor" public and the manufacturing sector.
What shall we call this approach to Britain's future economic development?
Roger Bootle, a respected commentator and executive chairman of Capital Economics, has called it the "Singapore effect." "When Singapore separated from the Malaysian Federation in 1965," he wrote, "it apparently faced a grim future. But the realization that no one was going to do it any favors acted as a spur to effective government….We could do the same. We need a strategy that lays out the path to reductions in corporation tax, lower personal tax, investment in infrastructure and cheaper energy."
Bootle is right. Free trade, low taxes, and cheap energy will make Britain an economic powerhouse and chart the course for other EU countries to follow.
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None of this will work unless they also take up caning.
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They won’t.
They elected Theresa Mays as PM. A person who was not only against Brexit but has been consistently pro-state power. She’ll negotiate them right back into the EU in everything but name only because being the leader of a single state is not enough – she wants the power and lack of accountability that comes with an office in Brussels.
I think that’s likely too.
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The Hell with the Brit’s this is what the U.S. should be doing !!! =D
The US already has, it negotiated a partial relaxation of Singapore’s chewing gum ban buy creating a medical exception.
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12.5% would tie them for lowest… Why not go to 10% and eliminate exemptions? Simple and straightforward. A thumb in the eye of the EU way.
That way, the newspapers will not write about a “tax-cut,” but instead about the “lowest” tax rate in the rich world.
Yes but it would be the lowest CORPORATE GREED tax rate. You want to lower the tax on the greedy korporayshuns? WHY DO YOU LOVE GREED?!??@#!%#?
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The very last thing the mandarins in Brussels want is a successful Britain doing it in that manner.
It would be a very bad example.
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There is no doubts that all these suggestions are good and meaningful. However, as I Write My Research Paper about the Brexit, I think that UK is strong country and its leaders will for sure implement the best reforms in order to make it even more stronger.
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Misc Commentary For Sept 6, 2006
— As you may have heard, Pakistan is pulling their military out of the tribal areas that are sheltering the remnants of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
What does that mean exactly?
Bill Roggio says it’s an, “abject surrender,” by Pakistan to the terrorists. On the other hand, the Times Online says that this is part of a strategy to, “close (the) trap on (the) Taleban” and says that,
“Pakistan took a big step towards ending the fighting in the lawless Waziristan region when it signed a peace deal with tribal leaders. The agreement commits local militants to halt attacks on both sides of the border.
In return Pakistan will reduce its military presence and compensate tribesmen whose relatives have been killed or whose properties have been damaged.
A key provision of the deal is that tribesmen will expel foreign fighters from the area.”
Who’s right? I think the jury’s still out at this point because there are too many unanswered questions. If the tribesmen actually expelled the foreign fighters, this would be a good deal. Will they do that? I don’t know, but I tend to doubt it. Did Musharraf, who’s no dummy, cut this deal because he thought it would help the situation or out of weakness? Can Musharraf afford to put himself in a position that might damage his relationship with the US, especially when he still has to fear the US cozying up to India? Will Bin Laden still be targeted? Pakistan says that earlier comments that were made were taken out of context and no, Bin Laden will not get a pass.
My gut instinct is that this is bad news, but it’s still too early to say for sure.
— Rarely do I ever say this, but kudos to Germany. If Hezbollah is complaining, that must mean they’re doing something right:
“The Shiite Hezbollah militia has expressed “reservations” about Germany’s involvement in the multinational UN force deploying for Lebanon, owing to German demands that its troops be allowed to stop and search boats bound for the country.
“Our reservations are regarding the German demand to search boats as they enter Lebanon,” Hezbollah member of parliament Hussein Haj Hassan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Tuesday. “Such a demand stands against the sovereignty of Lebanon.”
Of course, they’ll probably wimp out, but it’s nice to see that at least one of the nations participating in the “peace keeping” force in Lebanon is halfway serious about what they’re doing.
— Cindy Sheehan has apparently decided to build her own little “Ewok Village 2000,” in Crawford Texas. From an interview with her (via Polipundit):
Q: Last question. Do you plan to come back next year? The president is going to be in office till 2009 and our continued presence in Iraq seems fairly assured.
A: I hope he’s not in office till 2009, but this (anti-war presence in Crawford) is permanent. We’re going to start building a permanent structure soon. This may sound weird, but I’m going to live here. My residence is going to be a tree house. We’ve got some plans for amazing tree houses! This is a flood plain, so we have to build it. But the first structure we’re going to build is a camphouse with a great room and an industrial-type kitchen and an office and some bathrooms. So we’re planning on being permanent. It’s not just about George Bush, it’s about ending the occupation of Iraq and making sure it never happens again.
What’s next for the “Rosa Parks” of the anti-war movement? Will it be a fort or a clubhouse with a “No Republicans Allowed,” sign on it?
— From a poll taken to the British Times:
“Moreover, three fifths (62 per cent) agree that “in order to reduce the risk of future terrorist attacks on Britain the Government should change its foreign policy, in particular by distancing itself from America, being more critical of Israel and declaring a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq”. Women (66 per cent) and Liberal Democrat voters (74 per cent) agree with this view particularly strongly.”
Churchill and Thatcher’s country is moving closer by the day to becoming Neville Chamberlain’s country. I don’t how much time the “special relationship” has left, but it’s clear that we’re moving towards the end of its shelf life. It’ll be sad to see our stalwart allies become just “another European nation,” but it seems to be just a matter of time.
— Rich Lowry on what the Democrats offer economically to the middle-class:
“Programmatically, Democrats essentially offer the middle class a nullity. Kim and Kessler run through the greatest hits of Democratic policy. The average family income for Pell Grant recipients is $19,460. Head Start is for poor children. A married family of four can make a maximum of only $37,263 to still be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit (to the tune of $1). Only 2.7 percent of American workers make the minimum wage, and half of them are under age 25. Giving health care to the uninsured affects only 15.7 percent of Americans, and many of them aren’t middle class.”
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Carolyn Parrish on Afghanistan
Posted by Ruxted Editor on Thursday, July 28. 2005
Yesterday, former Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish spoke out against Canada's upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. Her chief complaint is that this action commits Canadian soldiers to a dangerous task, where they may not only have to kill, but may be killed themselves.
In fact, she went as far as to say that "If this thing gets any deeper in (Afghanistan) and we get a couple of dead Canadians back, I'll vote to bring the government down the first opportunity I got."
While this may seem to be in the best interests of protecting our soldiers, the fact of the matter is that this summer's deployments to Kandahar (and upcoming deployments in February) are merely an extension of on-going government policy. Canada has never undertaken a "peacekeeping" role in Afghanistan, despite a common public perception to the contrary. We were the first nation to deploy naval forces to the Persian Gulf after the September 11 2001 attacks and subsequently deployed the 3 PPCLI Battle Group to Kandahar in February 2002 specifically to engage in combat operations against Al Qaida and the Taliban. Our special forces were also extremely active during this timeframe.
Even the ISAF mission, Operation ATHENA has a decidedly non-peacekeeping focus. As NATO puts it:
ISAF's role is to assist the Government in Afghanistan and the international community in maintaining security within the force's area of operations. ISAF supports the Afghan Transitional Authority in expanding its authority to the rest of the country, and in providing a safe and secure environment conducive to free and fair elections, the spread of the rule of law, and the reconstruction of the country. (http://www.nato.int/issues/afghanistan/index.html) (emphasis added)
Ms. Parrish's comments unfortunately indicate that many Canadians, even senior politicians, fail to understand the complexity and intensity of the Afghan situation.
General Rick Hillier, Chief of Defence Staff, has recently made public comments in this area, indicating that the situation is serious and that our soldiers may be called upon to use lethal force in some situations.
Ms. Parrish ironically, did not see these comments as clarifying the situation. Instead she took an aggressive stance against implying that our forces may be involved in a genuine conflict, asking the PM to "muzzle the beast, assume command of Canada's agenda in your usual articulate, dignified and intelligent way. Let the Canadian public know Gen. Hillier does not speak for our government."
While Gen. Hillier may not speak for our Government, he speaks quite plainly for our military, and does not gloss over the unsavoury aspects of the job at hand.
As a public, we need to be aware that the Government has committed the CF to a dangerous mission in a hostile part of Afghanistan, a mission which bears little resembelance to the old style Peacekeeping missions of the 1990's.
It is straight talk - not politically motivated "muzzling" that will ensure the Canadian mindset is ready for what may come in Afghanistan.
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Original comments on this editorial can be found here:
I thank you for the very thoughtful letter you recently sent on the subjects of Canada's role in Afghanistan and my concerns about General Hillier's remarks.
I appreciate the tone as well as the content of your letter. You acknowledge my right and duty to express myself and that we understand and share the same democratic principles.
My comments were abbreviated by a half-listening reporter. We have 100 years of history of which we can all be proud. The first fifty years I referred to were filled with justified military action to protect our king, the Commonwealth and democracy in Europe. Canadians fought willingly and died in the tens of thousands, to preserve a way of life which you and I enjoy today. I prefer to call what we, as proud Canadians did peacemaking. We were not the aggressors; we were the ones who made peace the outcome of wars initiated by tyrants.
With Lester Pearson, a new era in Canadian and world history began. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Pearson coined the phrase and concept of peacekeeping, one for which Canada has become both respected and famous. I've traveled all through Eastern Europe and the Middle East as a Member of Parliament of one of the most beloved countries in the world. I sincerely believe peacekeeping is the next stage of human development, and still do.
For about seven years I was very active in our NATO Parliamentary Association. After a short time I was elected by MPs of all parties and the Senate to chair our NATO Parliamentary Association. My interest was inspired by Lloyd Axworthy's Ottawa Convention, an international proposal to cease the manufacture and use of anti-personnel landmines â “ evil devices which maimed more often than they killed. I worked hard through NATO to encourage several prospective NATO partners, such as Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria and others to become part of the 100 countries needed to bring the treaty into international law. I also worked hard to further the aims of Canada and other civilized nations to curb nuclear proliferation. I encouraged NATO to admit more and more countries so that there would be mutual strength and security for newly emerging democracies recently released from the grip of the Soviet Union.
Edward, you may have trouble believing me, but this bad girl earned enough respect from European and US delegates to become the first female elected Vice President of the entire association!
Where I parted company with many respected NATO colleagues was when the US and Britain forced Turkey, a weaker partner, to accept US troops on their soil in preparation for the Iraqi invasion after 94% of the Turkish people clearly said "no" in a referendum. The Turks turned down $2 billion in the form of a "foreign aid" bribe only to be coerced into accepting NATO troops that turned out to be 100% American in composition. My subsequent outspokenness against Mr. Bush is history.
I don't believe one can force democracy upon a people, such as those in Iraq, by dropping bombs on thousands of civilians. I don't believe we learned the lessons of the great world wars only to force Turkey to bend to the will of the US for billions in foreign aid or the threat of exclusion from international organizations. I don't believe that Ernie "Smoky" Smith became a Victoria Cross-winning hero so Canadian troops can kill Afghanis to prop up a US-placed puppet government and protect access to much-coveted oil fields.
I've heard from soldiers who are serving Canada today, and those who served in the past. I am deeply grateful to both for keeping my country and my way of life safe for me, for my children, and for my grandson Jake.
Perhaps, as many other writers have suggested, I am a left-wing peacenik. I prefer to believe I am looking to a brighter future where we get at the root causes of terrorism, war and aggression rather than become brutal aggressors ourselves.
Primitive, hand-to-hand combat in the trenches, with bayonets and mustard gas has been replaced by nuclear bombs, sophisticated weaponry and satellite directed weapons deployment. Surely we can progress far enough so humankind will no longer have to bury its mistakes in the hundreds of thousands.
Again, I thank you as a war veteran. Without your efforts I wouldn't even be able to dream of a day when peacekeeping will be all that our soldiers will be asked to do. I'm told General Hillier is a soldier's soldier. As such, I'm happy he's there for our armed forces. You suggest my views are poorly founded. With respect I would also suggest that General Hiller's "political dabbling" in the form of public statements of a most colorful and provocative nature, were best kept private for the inspiration of his troops, if uttered at all. The day our political leaders, the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, abdicate their responsibility to set our military policy to a lifelong soldier is the day I say that these leaders are not doing the job they were elected to do. Soldiers fight, politicians lead. And such leadership should be within the guidelines of the wishes of the Canadian people.
Again, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to more fully present my position.
Carolyn Parrish, MP
Mississauga-Erindale
Thanks to Edward Campbell for corresponding with Ms. Parrish to obtain this response, and to Ms. Parrish for taking the time to provide it.
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Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
Discover your ancestors who left Ireland and Great Britain between 1890 and 1960. Find out where they were going and where they were coming from, where they called home as well as their age, occupation and whether they were married or single.
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Firstly, the simple calculation ignores the date of voyage within the year: for instance, a passenger who was aged 21 and who travelled on 1st January 1911 is more likely to have been born in 1889, while a passenger of the same age who travelled on 31st December 1911 is much more likely to have been born in 1890, yet both will displayed in your results with the calculated year of birth of 1890.
Secondly, a passenger who is shown as aged 30 on a voyage on 10th June 1935 may have been travelling on their 30th birthday and only just turned 30, or they may have been on the eve of their 31st birthday.
For these two reasons, we use a default +/- 2 years when you search by year of birth. You can of course reduce this option to 'exact' or '+/- 1 year' but you may be less likely to achieve a successful result if you do. You need to bear in mind also that a significant proportion of passengers are shown on the original list without an age - these 'blank' ages are shown in your returned results together with those of the right year of birth, so that you can consider them as well.
Port of departure
All British ports found so far within the BT27 passenger lists are given in an alphabetical A-Z drop-down list. The default setting is All, which allows you to search all ports at the same time. However, if you know that a particular passenger left from a particular port, or are only interested in passengers sailing from a particular port, you can select (for instance) Southampton from the list.
Researchers should note that there is no strict geographical relation between, for example, a passenger's last address within the British Isles and the port from which they embarked overseas. For instance, a person living in Scotland is more likely to have sailed from Glasgow or one of the other Scottish ports. However, they will not have sailed from, say, Glasgow if their destination overseas is not served by a shipping line operating out of that port, or if sailings there do run but are not departing at the date at which they need to travel.
If a port is not in the drop-down list, this means that (to the best of our knowledge) there are no sailings from it. By providing the drop-down list, we save a researcher from searching for information which is not within the database. For example, if there are no sailings from Ramsgate in Kent, there is no point in a researcher typing Ramsgate in a search field.
As well as searching for your ancestors in the passenger lists by their name it is also possible to browse by ship. This will allow you to view all of the voyages that a ship undertook from the UK, between 1890 and 1960.
Whilst the ships listed in the Passenger Lists records are all departing from ports in the UK, not all of the ships themselves are British.
The inclusion of Dutch, German, Swedish, Portuguese and other foreign ships means that some ships will have names that may initially look like mis- transcriptions. Variations of spelling have been standardised as far as possible to avoid confusion and to ease searching. For Dutch ships, for example Damsterdijk, also spelt Damsterdyk, only one version of the name has been selected, allowing you to view passenger lists for both spellings with one search.
Likewise German ships which would naturally include an umlaut in their name may be spelt with a 'u' or with a 'ue'. These ships' names have also been standardised, i.e., Munchen/Muenchen is listed under Munchen only.
Names have also been standardised where they appear variously as one or two words, e.g., Ionic Star and Ionicstar.
Please note that different ships with the same name have not been distinguished in the ship search. The Titanic is an exception, with the ill- fated 1912 vessel and its 1894-1900 namesake listed separately.
Passenger lists usually give details of the overseas port to which the passenger is sailing, while remaining silent on the country in which the port is situated. In many cases, the country is self-evident, i.e., Boston is of course in USA, Melbourne in Australia and so on. However, in other instances, the port in question can be small and obscure, or now known by a different name, or not have a unique name.
Wherever we can, we have paired each port with its matching country. This matching process enables a researcher to search by country when they do not know to which port within the country their passenger sailed. For example, you may know that your passenger sailed to Chile without knowing whether he or she disembarked at, say, Antofagasta, Iquique or Valparaiso. If you wish to search by country, simply select the country but leave the destination port dropdown at its default 'all ports within destination country' setting.
It is not necessary to select a destination country before searching. However, given the size of the database, unless you are dealing with a rare or distinctive name, you may find that you need to select a country (or to work through a selection of counties one at a time) for your results to be manageable.
Please note that the A-Z drop-down list of countries includes larger and less precise entities such as Africa, Antarctica, Far East, Mediterranean Ports and South America, for cases where more specific information is not available.
If you want to search all ports within a destination country, do not select a destination port.
If you do open up a destination port drop-down list, you will see an A-Z alphabetical list of available ports. If you also see a more generic option in the drop-down alongside specific ports, it is important to note that this is not an 'all ports' option. For instance, in the New Zealand drop-down list, you will see a list of ports from Auckland to Westport from which to choose. However, within this alphabetical listing there is also an entry called New Zealand. If you select this option, you will be returned only entries where New Zealand (rather than a more specific port) has been given on the passenger list.
Many passengers are described as going on a round trip or a tourist cruise, and these are all grouped together under the single header Round Voyage. In most instances, you will find more information by looking at the image of the list.
The Persian Gulf is included under Iran but a voyage marked as heading for that destination might of course have called at ports on the opposite side of the Gulf: you need to search under Iran to cover this possibility.
Finally, the islands of the Caribbean have been grouped together under a single West Indies heading, with the exception of the large islands of Cuba, Haiti/Dominican Republic and Jamaica, which have their own entries. Ascension is included under St Helena. The Azores, the Canaries and Madeira are given their own identities within the destination country list. Hong Kong is included under China.
Destination ports
Passenger lists are not always clear or precise as to their exact routes and any ports of call on their way to their final destination. It is important to note that wherever a voyage has one or more ports of call prior to its final destination, there may be a difference between where the ship is going and where a passenger on board is going: for instance, the ship may be sailing to Sydney, Australia but passengers may disembark at, for example, Bombay in India if that is one of the ports of call en route.
Wherever possible, given destination ports are those of the passenger not of the ship. However, where this is unclear or not stated, the destination of the ship is given for the passenger instead.
We have constructed the database in such as way so that, where a port has had two names within the period covered by the BT27 data series, the ports are joined together in the drop-down list and therefore are searched together. For example, in the 1890s passenger lists the city known as Jakarta was generally referred to as Batavia, so if you select the destination country Indonesia you will find that we have joined together these two names as Jakarta (Batavia) in the dropdown list of ports.
Please note that not all ports are sea ports. River ports on such navigable rivers as the Amazon and the Yukon mean that, for example, inland locations such as Manaus (Brazil) and Dawson City (Canada) are included.
Names of places have been standardised in the port dropdown list, of course, but also in the transcriptions. This means that you are likely to find what initially appear to be discrepancies when you click through to the image of the passenger list. For instance, in the South African dropdown list there are the important ports of Durban (Port Natal) and Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay). In the early decades covered by BT27, you are likely to see these places written on the actual lists as Natal (sometimes abbreviated simply to N) and Algoa Bay (often shown as A Bay).
Some destination ports can be difficult to distinguish in the early handwritten records. For instance, Curacao (West Indies) and Caracas (Venezuela) can look extremely similar and it is not always possible to be confident that you have identified the correct place (not least because a single voyage to the Caribbean could conceivably call at both places). Accordingly, you may wish to check under both Curacao and Caracas if you are trying to find a person who went to one or other of these destinations.
Old Calabar and New Calabar are different places within Nigeria but have been merged within the dropdown list of Nigerian ports, as many entries in the passenger lists simply state Calabar. In each case, viewing the image of the passenger list will reveal the exact term used and the precise destination of the passenger.
A few destinations in Africa which have yet to be allocated a country are included under Africa in the dropdown list. At the time of writing, these include Jones River, Plantation and Stoopville.
Sea departure cards
For November and December 1960 only, sea departure cards are available to view, as well as the regular passenger lists, in some cases. However, in some cases there are cards without corresponding lists, as well as lists without cards. The sea departure cards are not linked to corresponding passenger lists (where they exist), and so you may be returned two results for the same person on the same voyage. Generally, in our experience, cards give more biographical information than their matching lists. However, often you will need to view both card and list, as sea departure cards usually do not contain details of destination, although they do have the date and departure port, meaning that you should be able to tell if a card relates to the same voyage as a passenger list found in your search.
As well as giving you additional information, sea departure cards give you a chance to view a person's signature. If the card is for a child, you will be able to view the relevant parent's detail on the reverse of the card; similarly, if you find a parent travelling with a child, you will be able to view both sides of the card for the same charge. Sea departure cards are marked on the search results as 'card'.
Sorting results
If your search returns a large number of results you may wish to sort them by clicking on the column heading, to help you scan the list of records. For instance, if you search by last name without a first name, results without given forenames top the list, followed by the initials and exact first name matches in alphabetical order: if you click the First Name column header, results will be sorted so that the order is reversed and initials and first names top the list, with the blanks coming at the end of the list.
Structure of a list
A typical passenger list can be divided into three parts. There is a header, providing details about the ship and its voyage. There is then the body of the list, giving details of the passengers travelling on board. Finally, there is the summary section, which gives statistical detail on the number of passengers and usually a signature and stamp from the Board of Trade (BT), to which the list was sent by the shipping line.
The three parts of a list may be on a single page or spread over two or more pages.
Genuine duplicate lists
Some shipping lines produced passenger lists in duplicate or even triplicate for the Board of Trade. This means that there can be two or even three originals of some of the passenger lists within the BT27 series. Such duplicates were written out again by hand (not produced using carbon paper). The differences between these different copies of the same list are usually cosmetic but there are sometimes also minor differences in content or in the Board of Trade's annotations or stamps upon them.
These duplicate lists have been scanned to preserve the integrity of the BT27 dataset. Researchers should note that this means that occasionally you may see two entries for the same individual which correspond to two different original copies of the same list.
A solution is being designed so that customers will only be charged once for the information contained within these duplicate pages.
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Man who threw military explosive in forest to get back at supervisor jailed, fined
Wan Ting Koh
Yahoo News Singapore 28 December 2018
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Angry over a dispute with his supervisor, a man who was assigned to move military-grade explosives took a projectile and flung it in a forested area.
Goh Wee Eng, 48, did so to get back at his supervisor but ended up triggering a massive two-week hunt for the projectile.
On Friday (28 December), Goh, a Singaporean, was sentenced to three months’ jail and fined $4,000 by the State Courts after he pleaded guilty to one count of possessing the projectile of a High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) ammunition round. The round contains 113g of Hexatol, an explosive that is similar to a dynamite.
At the time of the offence, Goh had been two months into his job as a general labourer with Advanced Material Engineering (AME), a firm which designs and manufactures military items. AME was contracted to dispose explosives for ST Kinetics.
Goh was assigned to do manual labour at an AME plant located at Rifle Range Road. He was tasked to pack HEI rounds into boxes.
At the plant, each HEI round would be broken into three components: the projectile, the propellant and the cartridge case.
After the rounds were dismantled, a stock count would be carried out to account for all the components before the projectiles would be packed and shipped overseas for safe disposal.
On 2 October last year, Goh got into a dispute with his supervisor Goh Boon Heng, 59, who was a Technical Specialist at AME.
Three days later, Goh decided to cause trouble for his supervisor. At about 12pm, he entered the plant and saw an unsealed box containing projectiles. He took a projectile, left the building and threw it into a forested area behind the plant.
Half an hour later, an employee noticed a missing projective while counting the batches. The employee informed Boon Heng. The two conducted a search within the plant but could not find the projectile.
At around 4pm, all staff were told to stop their work to search the plant. Goh was aware of the search but did not admit to his action.
After the search ended at 6.30pm, each staff was subjected to a search of their bodies and belongings before they could leave.
The search resumed the next day and the staff were interviewed by the senior management. Boon Heng told the management that Goh might have been responsible for the missing projectile. Goh admitted to his actions after being confronted.
AME engaged professional grass-cutting services and used metal detectors to search for the projectile.
The police were informed about the projectile on 9 October and police dogs, as well as the personnel from the Singapore Armed Forces were deployed to help with the search. The projectile was eventually recovered on 19 October, two weeks after it went missing.
Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Stephanie Koh asked for a jail term of four months and a high fine for Goh, whom she said had committed the offence out of “malice and vindictiveness”.
“Rather than settle the matter amicably, he retained a grudge against his supervisor and was determined to cause trouble for him,” said the DPP.
The DPP added that Goh’s actions resulted in extensive waste of resources.
“Almost 2,000 man-hours were expended in the search that lasted about two weeks… AME incurred significant financial cost of more than $20,000,” she said.
DPP Koh said that any missing weapon, explosive or ammunition would generate alarm and pose risk to individuals illegally obtaining military equipment.
For possessing an explosive, Goh could have been jailed up to three years and/or fined $5,000.
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Te Reo Māori: More than just a language
This week is Māori language week – Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori. It is a pertinent, but too infrequent, reminder that all Kiwis have the simple choice of embracing the language and culture of Aotearoa’s tangata whenua (indigenous people) or ignoring the opportunity.
Between 2006 and 2013, the proportion of Māori who could speak te reo fell from 26.1 per cent to 21.3 per cent. The census showed that about 3.7 per cent of the overall New Zealand population could speak te reo. These statistics were brought to life last year, when a Kapati College student, Finnian Galbraith, showed us how lazy we are as a country and explained the importance of getting off the proverbial couch, saying:
If we lose the language – the pillar of tradition – the whole culture will be weakened and a whole lot of history and knowledge will be lost without the language.” Finnian Galbraith
Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann, an Israeli living in Australia, is one of the world’s leading language revival experts. He agrees with Finnian, telling Marae TV that language is even more important than land. Professor Zuckermann has a dire warning for New Zealand – take te reo Māori seriously or risk losing it and “intellectual sovereignty” along with it.
Professor Zuckermann was a keynote speaker at Ngāti Kahungunu’s inaugural language symposium, Te Reo ki Tua, held earlier this year in Hastings. The purpose of the conference was to brainstorm strategies for promoting te reo Māori, to increase awareness, encourage second language learners, strengthen language champions, and give families the tools for making their homes bi-lingual. The conference organisers were looking at efforts by the indigenous people of Hawaii to retain their language and wider efforts to save endangered languages, focusing in particular on the regeneration of Hebrew as a vernacular language.
Hebrew, after all, was arguably closer to death than te reo Māori after most Jews had been dispersed from Israel for centuries before it was revived and contributed to the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland. As Heather du Plessis-Allan wrote:
Language builds nations. That’s why a Jewish man in the 19th century spent his life reviving a language hardly anyone spoke anymore. Hebrew was like Latin: mostly forgotten. Now it’s the national language of Israel and even a 30-year-old woman in New Zealand knows a few half sentences in it.” Heather du Plessis-Allan
Māori and Hebrew are not the only indigenous languages to face extinction. Gàidhlig, the Indigenous language of Alba Scotland has been revived, as has Kaurna, spoken by the original inhabitants of Adelaide, and there is work being done with Native American languages also, among others. One of the things that makes Māori a special language is it is the indigenous tongue of the people of the land in which we live. It is also a beautiful language in its own right.
Heather recently interviewed Aoife Finn, an Irish woman, who saw the beauty of te Reo Māori and has started her PhD on our national indigenous language. We have a lot to learn from our Indigenous people and culture, a culture that is unique in the world. If a woman from Ireland and a Kiwi from South Africa can champion te Reo, then perhaps we New Zealanders can also embrace the challenge of keeping the language alive by ‘giving it a go’.
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Eddie Rosario, Byron Buxton and Max Kepler could be one of baseball’s premier outfields.
In 2017 the Twins made the playoffs as a wild card team. Full of young talent, they looked ready to break out in 2018, led by the bats of Miguel Sano and Byron Buxton. Instead, they floundered. 2017’s AL Manager of the year Paul Molitor “resigned” (read: was fired, but allowed to stay in the organization) , shocking many as the Twins young front office dynamic duo of Derek Falvey and Thad Levine look to make their mark on the team. They inherited Molitor, he was never “their manager.”
To be sure, I was mad when I heard Molitor was let go. He is from the Twin Cities, he had a stellar career and seemed to be doing a good job – most of the 2018 woes were not of his making. But Falvey and Levine may have done the right thing in bringing in Rocco Baldelli. The inability of Sano and Buxton to play to their potential – the team was counting on them – was a major flaw. They believe that Molitor was not the right man to bring out the talent of young players. Baldelli, only 37, has already made a difference, visiting Buxton down in Georgia and connecting with the team.
Home town hero Joe Mauer – a league MVP and winner of three batting titles – was the face of the Twins for over a decade. Hobbled by numerous concussions, he retired last year.
The last few years the Twins marquee players were Brian Dozier at second base, who had 42 homeruns in 2016, and super star Joe Mauer. Last year Dozier was traded, and Mauer, who never regained top form after suffering multiple concussions and moving from Catcher to First Base, retired. It isn’t a stretch to say that the Twins are starting a new era in 2019.
What must happen for the Twins to win?
Sano and Buxton have to break out. Sano was a phenom hitting homeruns at a torrid clip in 2017, only to find himself striking out consistently and even sent down to the minors at one point in 2018. Pitchers learned his weakness (breaking balls down and away), and he put on weight. Now he’s trimmed down and says he’s focused on making sure he doesn’t repeat the mistakes of 2018. Byron Buxton was injured and hit poorly while up. Yet in September 2017 he had ten homeruns, and in 2017 he won the platinum glove for his unbelievable speed and fielding in Center Field. The fielding is there (and his speed is perhaps the fastest in the league). He has the talent to hit. If Buxton and Sano do what they should do, the Twins will be in the hunt.
First base. With Mauer gone, first base will go from a position yielding a high on base percentage and little power to one where power will be highlighted. The Twins picked up C.J. Cron who had 30 homeruns last year, but Tyler Austin, acquired from the Yankees in the Lance Lynn deal, hit 17 in almost no time. He may be the real deal. If the Twins get power at first, that will be huge.
Nelson Cruz and Jonathan Schoop. The two most important free agent signings could be Cruz and Schoop. Cruz is a consistent 35 homerun a year veteran who is said to be excellent in helping young players find themselves. If he can help with Buxton and Sano, he’ll provide value. He’s certain to be a power DH. Schoop hit 30 homeruns two years ago at second base, but his output last year for the Orioles and Brewers was disappointing. If he regains his stroke, well, this team may relying on the long ball from many positions!
Rosario and Kepler. On any other team these would be the stand out young players. Rosario flirted with .300 most of last year, has good power, and finally is showing some discipline at the plate. He has a powerful arm and baserunners try to challenge it at their peril. Max Kepler has good power – 26 homers last year and don’t be surprised if he hits over 30 this year – and the Twins think his batting average can climb. He and Rosario are lefties, providing a balanced lineup.
THE PITCHERS! Pitching wins titles, and all this offensive promise could go for naught if the Twins don’t improve their pitching. The outlook is good. Jose Berrios, the lefty who will start opening day, made his first all star game last year and showed signs of brilliance. He seemed to tire at the end of the season, but the Twins believe he’s the real thing – his curve ball is the best of any Twins pitcher since Blyleven. Kyle Gibson finally showed last year why the Twins have been so patient with him – he has great stuff, he finally is learning how to use it. The Twins lack a closer, though I think Trevor May is the most likely to fulfill that role. Last year he had a very bad habit of walking the first batter he faced, not something you want from your bullpen. But he has the stuff that you want a closer to have. Without going through the rest of the staff (including some interesting free agent pick ups), the Twins have reason for optimism – but, of course, we’ll have to see how they perform. They have a lot of young arms, but this is the one area where I’m a bit nervous. Again, pitching is the key to winning – good starters, good set up men, and a closer. The Twins have more question marks than answers at this point. Will Free Agent Martin Perez regain form? Who will join Gibons, Odorizzi, and Berrios in the starting rotation? Will the “young arms” perform as hoped?
I’m convinced that the team has the nucleus to assure it will be playing meaningful games deep into September. If the pitchers are as good as expected, they may be playing extremely meaningful games deep into October.
Now, however, the most important thing is to hope that between now and when the Indians come to Target Field later this month the snow melts and we can have March baseball.
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5 Missing In Explosion At Oklahoma Drilling Site
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Five workers were missing after a fiery explosion on Monday at an oil and gas drilling site in eastern Oklahoma, officials said.
The fire continued to burn, fed by gas from a well being drilled for Red Mountain Energy by Patterson-UTI Energy Inc, and preventing a full search of the scene, said Kevin Enloe, director of the Pittsburg County Emergency Management Department.
Houston-based Patterson-UTI said late Monday in a statement the cause of the well explosion remained unclear. It said three of the five missing workers were its employees. Patterson-UTI declined to name the workers and none were identified by local authorities.
“Well control experts and emergency responders are on site and we will conduct a thorough investigation when the incident is fully contained,” said Patterson-UTI Chief Executive Andy Hendricks in a statement.
Enloe said one of the 22 workers at the site when the explosion occurred was treated for injuries and 16 others were uninjured.
The blast occurred at around 9 a.m. (1500 GMT) near Quinton, Oklahoma, about 146 miles (235 km) from Oklahoma City.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which investigates fatal workplace accidents, was closed on Monday because of the federal government shutdown.
Boots & Coots, Halliburton’s well control and prevention service, was called to put out the fire. Staff from the state’s energy regulator, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, were also on the scene, officials said. The explosion is the latest in a series of accidents at oil and gas fields in the state. A gas explosion occurred at a Trinity Resources well in the same area in February 2017, injuring a worker.
More recently, a 40-year-old Oklahoma man was killed in a backhoe accident this month at an oilfield near Ninnekah. A worker was killed last month when equipment collapsed at a site near Preston, and a 36-year-old man was killed in November when a fitting failed during fracking at a well near Watonga, according to media reports.
Accidents during oil and gas drilling claim about 100 lives a year in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CDC reported 1,189 workers were killed in the 11 years ended 2013, a period of intensive drilling.
Two-thirds of the fatalities involved transportation or contact with objects or equipment, the CDC found. More than 50 percent involved employees of oilfield service companies.
(Reporting by Bryan Sims, additional reporting by Liz Hampton; Editing by Andrew Hay, Tom Brown, Grant McCool and Cynthia Osterman)
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Should NFL enhance PED penalties?
Mike Florio
ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports June 26, 2019, 3:46 PM UTC
In baseball, players who violate the league’s PED policy serve a regular-season suspension, and they are barred from participating in the postseason. The NFL doesn’t do that.
Maybe the NFL should handle it the same way that baseball does. Perhaps fans and media don’t seem to care all that much about PED violations because the NFL doesn’t care about PED violations as much as it should, allowing someone like Patriots receiver Julian Edelman to miss the first four games of the year, return for the balance of the regular season, participate in the playoffs, and ultimately be named the MVP of the Super Bowl.
Edelman won a prize that could have (perhaps should have) gone to someone who didn’t take a substance that falls on the list of banned substances, as determined by the NFL and the NFL Players Association. Sure, Edelman may have done it to help recover from a torn ACL suffered in 2017. But that doesn’t matter. A banned substance is a banned substance. Edelman, who has managed to say not much of anything about what he took, why he took it, whether he knew what he was taking, and/or whether he knew that he was violating the PED policy, violated the PED policy — and it’s entirely possible that he assumed the risk getting caught (missing four games if he did) in order to ensure that he would still be able to perform at an acceptable level (possibly missing all 16 games if he didn’t).
Until the league and the union agree to greater punishment for PED violations, plenty of players will engage in what amounts to a game of chance, risking the ability to play some games in order to ensure the ability to play in the rest of them — and possibly to end the season clutching the Lombardi Trophy in one hand and the Pete Rozelle Trophy in the other.
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UK Green Party Targets Disillusioned Voters for 2020 Push
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UK Green Party hopes to gain more support from disillusioned voters in the coming years, regardless of who will form the next government after the May general election.
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Cameron Gets 44% Support in TV Debates Ahead of UK Elections — Poll
BRISTOL (Sputnik), Daria Chernyshova – The Green Party hopes to gain more support from disillusioned voters in the coming years, regardless of who will form the next government after the May general election, the party's parliamentary candidate told Sputnik.
"By 2020 I think more and more people would have come to us," Darren Hall said in an interview with Sputnik.
Hall, who is also the Green Party's national home affairs spokesman, speculated that if Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives return to power, they will most likely be joined by the right-wing UKIP.
A right-wing government does not "get the environment stuff, they don't like it, they want to do fracking, they hate wind farms, they like nuclear energy," he said.
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In the event that Labour and the Liberal Democrats form a government after the May 7 parliamentary election, Hall said it will depend on how well Labour do in fulfilling the promises they have made.
"In this election they made huge promises about social welfare and the NHS. But they have got no economic policy to actually pay for it," Hall told Sputnik.
Hall said he genuinely did not know how the Labour were going to deliver on their pre-election promises of fixing the national health system and child policy, while at the same time putting them on the chopping block.
On Thursday, Britons will cast their ballots in a general election to vote for 650 parliament members. The Greens hope to add to the one seat they won in Brighton Pavilion five years ago. The party's leader Natalie Bennett said in an April manifesto that she estimated that one in 20 Britons will vote Green this year, compared to one in hundred in 2010.
The United Kingdom should be investing money in society instead of bailing out banks, the Green Party's parliamentary candidate said.
"Feeding money into the bottom of society is much more likely to create a vibrant economy," Darren Hall said.
Hall, who is also Green party's national home affairs spokesman, underlined that the vast majority of people want to be productive members of society, but there is a significant proportion who are just unable to because they are not given enough help.
"I firmly believe that trickle-down economy does not work, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And so our belief is that instead of investing money through banks, we believe that our money should be in society, social systems, renewable energy, public transport," Darren Hall told Sputnik.
He added that it would be good for the jobs, for the economy, and for people.
The economic policy suggested by the Green Party has received a lot of criticism, yet Hall notes that if the UK managed to invest half a trillion pounds to bail out banks, the cost of helping people is bearable.
The Greens are on their campaign trail in Bristol, in South West England, in a bid to add a second Westminster seat to the one they hope to retain in Brighton Pavilion, which they first won in 2010.
On Thursday, Britons will vote in the general election. The Green Party, headed by Natalie Bennett, said in its manifesto that it estimated at least one in 20 citizens will vote Green this time.
The UK Green Party advocates the replacement of Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent with tactical weapons.
"I absolutely believe that the best thing we can do is to get rid of Trident, to say to the world that we are going to act in a defensive peaceful way in our foreign policy," Darren Hall said in an interview.
The overhaul of Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet, armed with Trident missiles, has become one of the major points of contention in the campaign for the May 7 general election. The Tories want to replace the submarines with more modern ones; the Scottish National Party strongly opposes them outright because they are based in Scottish waters; while Labour is on the fence.
Hall, who is also the Green Party’s national home affairs spokesman, said there was no point in keeping nuclear weapons since there was already enough of this type of weapons stockpiled around the world.
"There are plenty of other people who have a nuclear deterrent. Assuming that Russian and the United States have nuclear weapons, none of the rest of us needs to have nuclear weapons," he said.
The Green candidate said he had military experience, serving with the Royal Air Force, and “all of the people there say they don't want nuclear weapons, they would rather have tactical equipment to be able to go and to do peacekeeping around the world wherever that is needed."
Britain currently operates four Trident-equipped submarines out of the Faslane area of Scotland, the only facility in the United Kingdom able to accommodate the country's nuclear deterrent. The potential cost of their overhaul is equal to the country’s 2013/2014 healthcare budget.
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Scientists Reveal Identity of Human Remains Found in Ancient Enigmatic Water Burial in Finland
The absence of contemporary settlements in the vicinity of the burial site, along with the fact that most of the remains buried belong to women and children, led the scientists to suspect that the site was used to inter individuals who were part of a specific group of society.
Having examined the remains of the people who were buried underwater, in a lake located in Finland's Isokyro region, Finnish scientists have discovered that the deceased were related to the modern-day Sami people, thus possibly shedding light on the nature of ancient migration in Europe.
According to the Daily Mail, while the exact reasons for the burying of people in this manner are unclear, the water burial, which is apparently unique to Finland, ensured that the remains of the deceased were “exceptionally well-preserved”, allowing the researchers to successfully date them to a time period between 400 and 800 AD.
A Sami indigenous northern European family in Norway around 1900
As the media outlet points out, the site in question – the spring of Levanluhta – is the largest Iron Age burial site in the country, which yielded some 75 kg of bone material from approximately 98 individuals, along with artefacts such as precious brooches and armbands, since its discovery in the 1800s.
Scientists also determined that the majority of the remains belong to women and children, which, along with the lack of any contemporary settlements next to the lake, led them to suspect that it was used to inter people “who were different in some sense, or belonged to a specific group within the society".
"The Levänluhta project demands further studies, not only to broaden the DNA data but also to understand the water burials as a phenomenon", study author Kristiina Mannermaa of the University of Helsinki said, noting that "The question 'Why?' still lies unanswered".
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Home » What Everyone Needs to Know About Postpartum Psychosis
What Everyone Needs to Know About Postpartum Psychosis
By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.
Last updated: 8 Oct 2018
Even though postpartum psychosis is rare — affecting about 1 to 2 new moms out of 1,0001 — everyone should know about it, according to Teresa Twomey, author of Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness and a coordinator for Postpartum Support International.
That’s because postpartum psychosis (PPP) is a “psychiatric emergency,” said Margaret Spinelli, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. Think of it as a heart attack, Twomey said. “You might survive it without immediate aid, but why risk it?”
PPP is a temporary but serious illness characterized by delusional thinking. Twomey, a survivor of PPP, described it as “a different reality superimposed onto this reality.” For instance, it’s like watching a TV show and believing that it’s perfectly normal for the actors to be speaking to you, she said.
PPP has a rapid onset, usually starting in the first days or weeks after the baby’s birth, said Katherine Stone, an advocate for women who suffer pregnancy- or childbirth-related mental illnesses and founder and editor of the award-winning blog Postpartum Progress.
This illness requires immediate medical attention because there is a risk of suicide or infanticide, Stone said. In other words, “postpartum psychosis has the potential to lead a mother to take actions that she would never otherwise take that could harm herself or others,” she said.
Still, it’s common for people to dismiss this risk. We know that our loved ones are good people who’d never hurt their kids (as are we), Twomey said. However, this has nothing to do with a woman’s character or ability to be a good mom, Stone said. (It’s also not her fault!) Again, PPP is an illness — and one with unpredictable actions, Dr. Spinelli said.
Fortunately, PPP is fully treatable. Below, experts discuss the warning signs, risk factors and how families and friends can help.
Warning Signs of Postpartum Psychosis
“Since women with postpartum psychosis often experience a lack of insight, it’s usually the people around her who will be the ones to recognize something is wrong,” Stone said. In fact, Twomey called family members “the first line of defense.”
That’s why it’s key for families to step in and call the doctor immediately or go to the emergency room. You might be thinking, “But what if I’m wrong?” What if she isn’t struggling with PPP? As Stone said, “I’d rather have it turn out that you were wrong, than have a person ignore the symptoms and have that lead to a tragedy.”
These are the most common signs of PPP.
Hallucinations: seeing or hearing things that aren’t there
Delusions: bizarre beliefs that only make sense to the individual. Delusions often have religious undertones. For instance, she might believe “…that her child is a savior or has been sent to save the world, or is possessed or going to come to some harm from nefarious forces if she doesn’t take action,” Stone said.
Mania (high energy)
Depressed mood or irritability
Inability to sleep
(In some cases, a woman might be rational enough to seek help. Twomey wanted women to know that “no matter what you experience, [PPP] is recognizable, diagnosable and treatable.”)
“PPP can wax and wane,” Twomey said. So even if a postpartum woman seems reasonable at times, don’t let that dissuade you from getting help. It’s a myth that women with PPP are either completely delusional or totally normal. As Twomey said, “a woman can seem perfectly normal one moment and psychotic the next.”2
Risk Factors of Postpartum Psychosis
Women with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia (or who have a family history of these illnesses) are most at risk, Stone said. Some women might not even know that they have either disorder. For instance, some moms might’ve never received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, Stone said. In fact, according to Spinelli, PPP “usually signals a first episode of bipolar disorder.”
If you fit these risk factors, consider writing a letter to yourself explaining that you might have PPP, listing some of the symptoms and including the individuals you trust, Twomey said. If you do experience PPP, you’ll have given yourself important and sound information, she said.
Not having these risk factors doesn’t put you in the clear. Twomey emphasized that every expectant mom is potentially vulnerable.
How Family & Friends Can Help
“Be informed before it happens,” Twomey said. This way you “can be an advocate, be aware of the warning signs, appreciate the dangers and treat her with compassion, love and understanding,” she said.
Don’t ignore the signs. “I think family members sometimes want to explain away the symptoms of postpartum psychosis rather than admit a new mom has it and likely needs to be hospitalized,” Stone said. You might worry that she’ll be “locked up forever,” she said. But getting your loved one help is the best thing you can do for them — and their baby. Women with PPP are often hospitalized so they can get proper treatment. (This usually consists of close monitoring and taking antipsychotic medication.) But after they’re stabilized, women can return home. “Please don’t ignore the symptoms because of fear or lack of understanding!” Stone said.
Don’t confuse your loved one with their illness. Twomey often hears husbands say that this isn’t the woman they married. Women with PPP can act completely out of character, even becoming verbally abusive, Twomey said. This might lead some families to alienate their loved one or view her as the enemy, she said. But it’s vital to understand that this isn’t your loved one, she said. PPP is causing this kind of odd behavior, Stone said. “…It would be unfair to blame her or stigmatize her for that behavior,” she said.
Support your loved one. Give her your full support both while she’s in the hospital and after she comes home, Stone said. This includes helping her care for the baby and making sure she gets enough sleep, Spinelli said. Also, make sure your loved one is getting the best treatment, and go with her to doctor’s appointments, Twomey added. Stone recommended reading the valuable guides from the UK organization Action Postpartum Psychosis.
PPP is a serious illness that requires urgent treatment. If your loved one is experiencing any of the warning signs, don’t hesitate to get her help — and always be on her side, Twomey said.
Check out Postpartum Support International, a non-profit organization that’s filled with valuable information and resources. Also, Twomey wrote a helpful post on the three important bricks of PPP.
Statistic from Postpartum Support International [↩]
Check out Stone’s site, Postpartum Progress, for more on symptoms “in plain mama English.” [↩]
Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.
Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. is an Associate Editor and regular contributor at Psych Central. Her Master's degree is in clinical psychology from Texas A&M University. In addition to writing about mental disorders, she blogs regularly about body and self-image issues on her Psych Central blog, Weightless.
Tartakovsky, M. (2018). What Everyone Needs to Know About Postpartum Psychosis. Psych Central. Retrieved on July 17, 2019, from https://psychcentral.com/lib/what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-postpartum-psychosis/
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British soul singer Seal celebrates his 30-year career by paying homage to legends before him on his new single, “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” On the classic offering, the music veteran delivers passionate and invigorating vocals backed with lush melodies that will bring listeners back to a state of nostalgia.
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On Vance’s hiring, IBAF President Harvey Schiller acknowledged the federation’s need for a full-time specialist heading into the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games:
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The Truth About God, Life, and Death
In Memory of René Girard
By Adam Ericksen
Many scholars have claimed that René Girard’s mimetic theory is one of the most important insights into human nature of the 20th century. Last week brought the news that René has passed away at age 91. “Girardians,” as those of us highly influenced by the scholar call ourselves, have been on social media sharing our sorrow at his passing, but also our profound sense of gratitude for this giant among human beings. We all stand on his shoulders. And our vision is clearer for it.
In reflecting upon the news, I am struck by the fact that Girard taught us so much about death. Specifically, about the scapegoat mechanism. Girard confronted us with the truth about being human. We all have a propensity to manage our conflicts by blaming them on someone else. We find unity against a common enemy. In good sacrificial formula, all of our conflicts and sins against one another are washed away as we unite in expelling or sacrificing our scapegoat. Temporary reconciliation and peace descends upon the community. But it is only temporary — for the expulsion or murder of our scapegoat never actually solves our problems. Our conflicts re-emerge and the scapegoating mechanism continues.
But if Girard taught us about death, he also taught us about life. The solution to our natural inclination toward scapegoating is found in the Christian tradition, specifically in the gospel portrayal of Jesus’ death.
“Christ agrees to die so that mankind will live,” wrote Girard in his book Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World.
Many progressive Christians who do not know Girard’s work will bristle at that statement. Indeed, without reading his books, it could sound like a form of penal substitutionary atonement theory that claims Jesus allows humanity to live by saving us from the violent wrath of God.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The truth that Girard revealed throughout his career is that wrath doesn’t belong to God. It belongs solely to humans. In anthropological terms, what was revealed by the death of Jesus was the human scapegoat mechanism. Once you read Girard’s works, you realize how obvious it is that the violence at the cross had nothing to do with God, but everything to do with the human propensity to scapegoat.
If Girard taught us anything, it’s that humans have been projecting our own violence onto God since the foundation of the world. We justify our violence and hatred against our scapegoats in the name of God or peace or justice, or whatever we deem to be important to our well-being.
Girard taught us that to truly live is to stop scapegoating our enemies, and to stop justifying it in the name of God.
Once, at a conference, the writer was asked what would happen if mimetic theory became wildly successful.
He answered, “There would be no more scapegoating.”
To end scapegoating and to truly live, we need to follow Jesus by turning away from violence and turning toward our neighbors — including those we call our enemies — in the spirit of love and nonviolence.
Girard not only taught us that truth, he lived into it. I met him once at a conference for young Girardian scholars. I was struck by the fact that he wasn’t interested in teaching us, or making sure we had his theory “right.” What he wanted more than anything was to talk with us. He wanted to learn about our lives and what interested us. He had a special humility about him — instead of taking glory for himself, he gave glory to others.
I remember sitting across the table from him. He smiled as he looked me in the eyes and said, “I’ve watched your Mimetic Theory 101 videos. They’re good.”
That’s the way he was. He affirmed all of us and encouraged us to follow the truth, no matter where it led.
Girard always gave the last word to the gospels. It’s where he found the truth about life and death. So it’s only fitting that I end with this quote, one that sums up his theory about God, violence, and love:
The following is the basic text … that shows us a God who is alien to all violence and who wishes in consequence to see humanity abandon violence:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.” (Matthew 5:43-45, Things Hidden, 183)
May René Girard rest in peace, and rise in the glorious love of God.
Adam Ericksen
Adam Ericksen blogs at the Raven Foundation where he uses mimetic theory to provide social commentary on religion, politics, and pop culture. Like his Facebook page Adam Ericksen – Public Theologian and follow him on Twitter.
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World Freaks Out As Trump Tells Obvious Truths!!!!!
Heh! I love this stuff!
So, much of the world is having a panic attack because of some comments Trump made, again. It’s a strange thing, this panic attack, because most of what he stated is incredibly obvious. (one could have come to most of these conclusions if people had read some of my earlier Suyts writings).
Is NATO obsolete? Well, yes, of course it is. It was created and designed to thwart the communist Soviet expansion into Western Europe. Sure, some believe Russia still has designs on much of the old Soviet bloc, but, I’m not convinced they do. But, even if they did, the nature and mission of NATO would be entirely different today, than its original design. I find Merkel’s response, well, charitably, interesting.
“We Europeans have our fate in our own hands,” Merkel told reporters in Berlin when asked about Trump’s criticisms, adding that she will work towards getting the EU to strengthen the economy and fight terrorism.
Ya think? I’ve written this a few times, before, so I’m left with the impression someone on Trump’s team has read Suyts! But, Trump hit the nail on the head, especially in the context of the EU/NATO. Here’s part of his comments that people are freaked out about ……
“It’s obsolete, first because it was designed many, many years ago,” Trump said in the Bild version of the interview. “Secondly, countries aren’t paying what they should” and NATO “didn’t deal with terrorism.” The Times quoted Trump saying that only five NATO members are paying their fair share. ……..
Quoted in German by Bild from a conversation held in English, Trump predicted that Britain’s exit from the EU will be a success and portrayed the EU as an instrument of German domination designed with the purpose of beating the U.S. in international trade. For that reason, Trump said, he’s fairly indifferent to whether the EU stays together, according to Bild.
Yes, that was the purpose of the EU. It was to be an economic bloc for the purpose of competing against the US.
I’ve long stated that much of Europe’s interests are shared with the US interests. I generally put in the term as Western Civilization to include a few other countries around the world. And, when common interests are threatened, and the acts of the threat are grave enough, and the weight of the interests are significant enough, then, and only then, does a military alliance make any sense.
But, when a quasi-nation unites to compete with the US, it no longer makes sense that the US would fund the defense of the quasi-nation. There’s nothing to freak out about. The US spends hundreds of $billions a year on defense spending. Want to compete economically? Then, they have to kick in their fair share for the common defense. Else it’s not competing, it’s sucking on the teats, benefiting from the free milk, while the American taxpayer/worker/consumer takes a high hard one up the …….. well, you get the imagery.
In the past, I’ve documented the EU’s attacks on American companies trying to do business in the EU, while their judgments benefited EU companies. Now, this is fine. The people of Europe have a perfect right to do so. But, it cannot be that the unemployed or underemployed American worker is still obliged to pay for the defense of a land which just cost him a livelihood.
Some other things Trump stated ……
With Merkel facing an unprecedented challenge from the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany as she seeks a fourth term this fall, Trump was asked whether he’d like to see her re-elected. He said he couldn’t say, adding that while he respects Merkel, who’s been in office for 11 years, he doesn’t know her and she has hurt Germany by letting “all these illegals” into the country. …. ….he reserved some of his most dismissive remarks for the EU and Merkel, whose open-border refugee policy he called a “catastrophic mistake.”
I think it is without question that Merkel’s decision to allow all of those refugees/invaders into Germany and the rest of Europe was a catastrophic mistake. From the crime waves to the economic disasters which are occurring, to the political ramifications, it was a catastrophic mistake, unless, of course, you have the perspective of a Islamic jihadist, in which case, you may think this was pretty cool.
Of course, there were some unintended consequences, which may turn out to be pretty cool ……
In contrast, Trump praised Britons for voting in 2016 to leave the EU. People and countries want their own identity and don’t want outsiders coming in to “destroy it,” he said. The U.K. is smart to leave the bloc because the EU “is basically a vehicle for Germany,” the Times quoted Trump as saying.
“If you ask me, more countries will leave,” he said.
Trump told the Times that he plans to quickly pursue a trade deal with the U.K. after taking office and will meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May soon.
Well, I think very soon a couple of important EU nations will have this very discussion, politically. I believe the people of France and Italy are very seriously considering an EU exit. The UK dashed the future plans of the EU, though, they weren’t entirely in the EU in that they never adopted the Euro. However, both Italy and France have. I believe if France goes, the whole thing ends. I also believe this would be a very good thing for the people across Europe. I don’t know if the majority of the people of Germany are ready to exit the EU, but, I believe there is a significant number of Germans ready and wanting to leave.
I would also like to note the statement that Trump plans to “quickly pursue a trade deal with the UK” …… to contrast with Obama’s threat to put the Brits in the “back of the queue” for trade deals. Turns out, Zero still doesn’t know WTF he’s babbling about.
Trump stated a lot more than just these few examples, but, it’s great to have people freaking out about the statements. It’s like someone just spoke some reality to people still believing in unicorns and pixie dust!
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29 Responses to World Freaks Out As Trump Tells Obvious Truths!!!!!
LOL…..I love it when you’re on a roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you know…..globalization is trickle down economics….which all the libs say doesn’t work
And you have to just love Merkel giving advice…..sorta like letting the worst car mechanic work on your car
Pan EUropa movement founded 1925 by ´freemason Kalergi funded by American Jewish banker Warburg. Kalergi became first recipient of Charlemagne price of proto EU so he is accepted father of the thing.
After 1945, Monnet promoted the proto EU, demanding it to be antidemocratic because democracy brought Hitler to power. Monnet was OSS/CIA-funded.
German political parties like CDU and SPD got campaign funding for figureheads like Willy Brandt, who worked as terrorist for the USA in Norway during WW2, from CIA again. Excuse me that’s PARTISAN, not terrorist. I confuse that all the time.
All across the EU, CIA/NATO operated the GLADIO stay-behind-army to have a means for a terror campaign should Russians roll over Europe. When Italy was about to turn communist in late 1970ies, GLADIO was activated to run some terror attacks blamed on the Brigada Rosso, shifting public opinion against the communists. Connected to this, the Braband massacres in Belgium, and the Oktoberfest bombing in Munich killing 60 or so.
So I don’t know where ANYONE gets the idea that the EU is anything else but a USA/NWO-controlled, explicitly and purposely antidemocratic entity. Also, NATO is *entirely* and *always* under the command of a US general, the “secretary” is only a figurehead for the cameras. Currently that general is I think still a Mr. Breedlove.
And of course, the EU was always the grand prototype for nation destruction by the NOVO ORDO SECLUROM / NWO types. (Messianic jews / Frankists / Fabian Socialists like H G Wells with his Shape Of Things To Come)
Then we definitely need to stop paying for them.
Ending the half a century of US taxpayer funded welfare on a global scale may get just as nasty as ending it domestically.
You don’t pay for it with taxes, you pay a little bit for it by printing money / accruing federal debt. That Europeans don’t run a huge taxpayer welfare program for a bloated military industrial complex that sells you overpriced crap you don’t need should be none of our problems.
Example: USA gets a huge free airbase , Ramstein, in central Europe. Germany pays for all operations, costs are kept hidden, I guess 2 bn a year. Ramstein is central for drone operations in ME AFAIK. The SHAEF laws are still in force or partially in force and state “Germany pays the full cost of the occupation”.
It’s time it became your problem.
As was said, NATO is obsolete. The nation it was designed to counter now bears closer resemblance to us than the nations it was designed to defend. At least to the ‘us we’re trying to get back to.
For the last 70 years America insisted that it not be Germany’s problem to figure out how to defend itself. BTW This will require untangling the command&control structure of the German army from the American interference.
Yes, we certainly chose to do so. Probably something to do with crossing the Atlantic twice for two world wars in twenty years. And figuring the Russians would be a third. But, again, that was then. When we thought we could afford to do whatever we wanted to do, forever.
Ours needs are different now.
I am perfectly fine with Trump cutting these ties (insofar as any ties WILL be cut. It is far more likely that behind the scenes meddling will continue. Similar to assassinations of South American politicians by CIA). But I think the reason given is that the EU is now too much of a trainwreck (caused by the inept idiots in Brussels and the idiocy of the entire undertaking from the start) for USA to still be bothered with. And I agree; USA has enough of its own problems. This is a Lastabwurf: dropping a load. Or, an Empirial Rollback. Or, harsher: The Maritime Empire is dying.
Exactly how I feel too….
Yes. And these archaic expectations of a US as the worlds ATM helped create our problems. Not just NATO, the world.
The funny part is this…..Trump can cut all these ties…..and they will all come groveling back
I never understood the part about us kissing their ass…….
They can take a number. Their groveling line starts at 320,000,000. Or what’re our current population is. Number 1 is up.
*Or whatever our current
Well, yes, Dirk, there are a lot of underhanded and hidden things which started and became EU and NATO. Still, their stated purpose was to compete with the US economically. Regardless of it’s worth or worthlessness, the US pays a huge economic price, not only for the defense of the US, but, also, many other entities, NATO being one of the bigger expenses. I have no qualms assisting for the defense of free nations and people. And, as Trump stated, there are a few nations paying their fair share. I haven’t looked at it in a while, but, that’s about what I saw when I looked. However, as we note the EU is autocratic, constraining free nations and people, the question must be asked, what are we protecting the people from, and for what? So that they don’t live in tyranny? Or, so that we can provide a greater economic advantage over us?
BTW, the majority of the US budget is still funded by taxes paid to the government.
One thing we should never forget…
Obama and the democrats were crazy nuts about us becoming “more Europe”
What we have to remember is that Europe and the US are coming from two different places.
For the most part, European countries have a history of being ruled….we started out as a free country
Socialism is popular in Europe because it’s a step up for them…when they push socialism, or any of it’s forms…it sounds good to them
…it’s a major step down for us
1LeftCreative says:
Their socialism has only survived this long because it’s on our dime. Paying most of their defense budget just being one example.
I’m really sorry it took so long to approve this comment. Sorry.
Their socialism has only survived this long because it’s on our dime. Paying their defense budget is just one example.
James–you can ignore that comment in ‘Moderation’…. wrong name entry…
I agree with you about NATO. But it is like any government organization. Long after it has served the purpose it was created to serve, politicians feel a need to perpetuate it. I do not agree that the EU is a German manifestation. I do believe it is designed to do as you say, but designed by the globalists is many of the European nations.
Nato has tried to keep the (expensive) free ride going since the demise of the Soviet union. The Nato war hawks have done everything in their power to prod the Russian bear into an anti west stance. The west have blown a great opportunity to have a peaceful coexistence with Russia, I be-leave it could have been a successful partnership, now Trump and Putin can hopefully start the fence mending. The war hawks and globalist hate this Idea. Our true enemy is Islam and the Chinese expansion in the south china sea!
100%…..TG you can’t have a good globalization…without a good enemy
The EU has been ginning up the threat of Russia to unite European countries into the EU..
Correct. You just forgot to include most of the EU and half of America as our true enemies. Anywhere that the Left dominates.
Yes, yes, and yes!!!!
TG, yes, the West blew it. Why? Well, we can conjecture, but, it is as Lat stated …..we all have to have an enemy, else, we can’t be manipulated. Orwell’s “1984” puts it quite well.
Leftin, it is a strange thing, today. The leftists have actually put to us a REAL question. It is, globalism vs nationalism. This should be a series of posts, but, for now, …… it’s a beautiful question which leads to a couple of more questions.
I’m a nationalist, but, I don’t believe in imposing my American views on other nations nor their people. I believe true competition will tell the tale. And, I’m content leaving it there, assuming there are no radical lunatics working towards ending said competition. But, that’s all just fantasy. Yeh, there’s probably a book to write on this!
‘It is, globalism vs nationalism.’
And that’s all it is. All the other labels are obsolete. Dem and Repub. Lib and conservative.
That was our father’s politics.
‘I believe true competition will tell the tale.’
Yep. Seems that I recall we were more influential globally, when were more nationalist.
competition….and they have been practicing crony capitalism on a global scale
Yes, but we should not conflate competitors with competition. In a free market, competition is everything you can do as an actor in the market, which includes doing nothing for the moment. The trouble comes when there is force and/or fraud interfering with the natural price seeking mechanism.
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KEVIN and the MOON
Posted on January 26, 2016 by synchromiss
The name “KEVIN” always seems to be associated with the MOON in film and television. It’s something I observed while doing research for a couple of my previous posts which discuss the astrological sign of CANCER that is ruled by the MOON. In order for this post to click, please read my previous posts here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here for more KEVIN, the MOON, and CANCER connections.
These two signs are often seen as the MOTHER and FATHER of the zodiac. CANCER = MOTHER. CAPRICORN = FATHER.
In my previous posts, I had noted that CANCER rules the fourth HOUSE called “The HOUSE of HOME.” It rules the HOME, FAMILY, heredity, the MOTHER, and the FATHER. When I started writing this post, we were under the sign of CAPRICORN, which is CANCER‘s polar opposite in the zodiac. Stay tuned for more CAPRICORN/CANCER connections throughout this post.
The event that sparked my writing of this post occurred while I was watching the Netflix Original Series “Bloodline.” There is a character named KEVIN Rayburn on the show. While watching one of the episodes, my boyfriend Jim (another synchromystic and code-cracker) noted in one scene that there was a shot of the full MOON. A split-second before it happened, he predicted a future shot and exclaimed, “Watch, they’ll probably show KEVIN.” When this happened, I had no choice but to start writing a piece about this special connection.
A shot of the full MOON on Bloodline occurs just before KEVIN enters the scene.
KEVIN from Bloodline on Netflix.
KEVIN is played by Norbert Leo BUTZ/(BUTTS). In one scene at 11 minutes (11 = K for KEVIN) into the episode, we see KEVIN MOONing the camera. He refurbishes BOATs for a living. **Hang onto BOAT; we will return to FISH and BOATs here momentarily.** SISSY SPACEk (a CAPRICORN GOAT born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1949), plays the role of KEVIN‘s MOTHER. She is married to JACK FISK in real life. In one of my previous posts, I mention how FISK means FISH in Danish. The Bloodline story centers around a FAMILY in a FISHing town. We will return to HER, SPACE, FISH, and the name JACK here shortly. KEVIN‘s FATHER (Robert Rayburn) is played by Sam SHEPARD (born under the Chinese year of the SHEEP/November 5, 1943). He dies during the season, which makes sense because we are currently under the Chinese year of the SHEEP/ram/GOAT, and are about to transition to the Chinese year of the MO[O]Nkey on MO[O]Nday February 8, 2016.
JACK FISK and SISSY SPACEk.
Sam SHEPARD plays Robert Rayburn in Bloodline.
The (Sam) SHEPARD (SHEEP) leads us into the year of the MO[O]Nkey.
The Rayburn FAMILY owns a BEACHside hotel called the Rayburn HOUSE in the FLORIDA<–(**Save this for later!!**) KEYS that has been in business since 1968. 1968 was the Chinese year of the MO[O]NKEY or SHEEP, depending on exactly what month the business started. This is code for the signs transitioning from GOAT/SHEEP/RAM to MO[O]NKEY. The character DANNY (KEVIN‘s brother) is the “black SHEEP” of the FAMILY. A younger version of DANNY resembles a MO[O]NKEY. This character is played by actor Ben Mendelsohn, who is an Aries RAM born April 3, 1969. Although he isn’t born under the sign of the MO[O]NKEY, he is born on the cusp of the ROOSTER/MO[O]NKEY.
A young DANNY resembles a MO[O]Nkey.
Ben Mendelsohn plays DANNY in Bloodline.
DANNY WOOD of the New KIDs on the Block also resembles a MO[O]Nkey. It’s still currently the year of the WOOD GOAT, and a KID is a BABY GOAT. Note in the picture how he has a hi-top fade haircut.
DANNY DRIVES a BLACK (SHEEP/SATURN/GOAT) CHEVR[E]olet.
In one episode, DANNY attends a COCK(ROOSTER) fight. KEVIN and DANNY reside in the FLORIDA KEYS. When put together, the letters “P” and “F” make up the shape of a skeleton KEY. PF Chang’s is a CHINESE restaurant, leading us back to the CHINESE year of the MO[O]NKEY.
The BAIT shop is a symbol throughout this series. In my previous post, I mention how the Hebrew letter BET (pronounced “BAYT“) means HOUSE. In the scene below, notice how DANNY is SMOKING in front of the BAIT shop that is decorated with CRABS. For more about these specific connections, you have to read my previous post. We will mention the name DANNY here again in a moment. DANNY resides in the FLORIDA KEYS where ORANGEs are grown. Please read my previous post here for this to make sense. ORANGEs are a main ingredient in CHINESE cuisine (e.g. ORANGE CHICKEN). TANGerines and ORANGEs are symbols of luck according to CHINESE tradition. They are normally placed at a DOORway or within a common area to usher in good luck for the new year.
Miniature ORANGE trees for the CHINESE New Year.
Vinz Clortho of the GHOSTBUSTers (**We will return to GHOST here shortly; CANCER rules the BUST**) film was known as the “KEYmaster of Gozer.” He is a demi-god and loyal MINION (MOONion) who obeys “The Destructor.” ZUUL is known as “The GATEkeeper” (a.k.a. “MINION of Gozer”/We open GATES with KEYS), leading us back to the upcoming films ZOOLander 2, and GHOSTBUSTers (being released during the year of the MO[O]NKEY) starring Kristen Wiig, another CANCER/MOON resonator.
In the HOME Alone movie series (1 and 2), the lead character’s name is KEVIN. KEVIN is played by actor MACA[QUE]lay Culkin, who was born the Chinese year of the MO[O]Nkey (1980). A MACAQUES is any MOO[N]key of the genus MACAca. In the original film, his character is left HOME alone by his parents (MOTHER and FATHER). His MOTHER is played by Catherine O’HARA/HERA.
KEVIN kicks some BUTT, the one you MOON people with.
In the movie poster above, MACA[QUE]lay Culkin’s character KEVIN has his hands on his face, which APEs the famous “three wise MO[O]Nkeys.”
A Bonnet MACAQUE.
Gone FISHin’ stars Joe PESCI (an AQUArius) as Joe WATERs. AQUArius precedes PiSEAS in the zodiac. PESCI and DANNY Glover’s character win a stay in FLORIDA to go FISHing. For more of how AQUArius and PiSEAS are tied to BAseBAll, (which we will cover here shortly) read here.
In his older years, MACAulay Culkin has come to resemble a MO[O]Nkey. The burglars in the film are played Joe PESCI and DANIEL STERN. PESCI is code for PISCES, the FISH, another WATER sign like CANCER. A STERN is the rear part of a BOAT. We catch FISH from the BOAT. During CANCER/the DOG Days of SUMMER, the flooding of the Nile took place in Ancient Egypt. The people would use BOATs to travel down the Nile River when it flooded. During a full MOON, tides are higher than average, and FISH tend to feed more. A nickname for DANIEL is DANNY. DANNY is another name associated with the MOON. We shall return to DANIEL STERN momentarily.
“WET BAndits Escape.” WET, as in WATER. STERN plays MARv MERchants. This is a film by Chris COLUMBUS, and COLUMBIA (Statue of Liberty) is featured on the movie poster.
HOME Alone 2: Lost in New York was released in the year 1992. 1992 was the Chinese year of the MO[O]Nkey. In the movie poster above, take note of how the “e” in Home Alone is not capitalized. If we take that “e” and put an MC in between the number “2,” we get E = mc 2. Macaulay Culkin’s initials are MC. In one of my previous posts I mention something about E = mc 2 in relation to the MOON. Furthermore, a capitalized “E” represents the scales of MAAT. When the “e” is not capitalized, it is unbalanced. These scales sync back to Ancient Egypt and the mythological story of THOTH, because he was the BABOON/(MO[O]Nkey)-headed deity who was married to MAAT. He was originally a MOON god, and his symbol was a MOON disk. He stood on either side of RA‘s BOAT.
The famous candy REESE‘S PIECES is really RHESUS PISCES. As mentioned in one of my previous posts, a RHESUS (MACAQUE) is a type of MO[O]Nkey. The candy was featured in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, (a film released during the year of the DOG/1982). E.T.’s favorite candy is REECE‘S PIECES. If one looks closely, E.T. resembles a MO[O]Nkey. In one of the famous scenes from the film, E.T. is seen riding his CHARIOT<–(**Hang onto this!!**) across the MOON. They dress E.T. up as a GHOST for Halloween.
In another scene from the film E.T., the alien watches John WAyNE<–(**Hang onto this!!**) KISS Maureen O’HARA/(HERA). KISSing and the sign of CANCER/HERA are connected, and you can read about that here. E.T.’s main goal is to “phone HOME.” This leads us back to the famous Michael JACKson (also born the year of the DOG/1958, and whose name almost sounds like MA[i]C[h]AQUE[l]), who is the (JUPITER) MOONwalker. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is also an audiobook narrated by Michael JACKson. The main protagonist’s name is MA[i]C[h]AQUE[l] in E.T. MJ and Joe PESCI starred in the 1988 film MOONwalker. PESCI leads us back to MACA[QUE]ulay Culkin (HOME Alone). Culkin and MJ (both Virgo virgins) were very close friends years ago. JACKson had a pet MO[O]Nkey named BUBBLES. A personal sync for me is that my first DOG‘s name was also BUBBLES.
MA[i]C[h]AQUE[l] JACKson’s association with JUPITER stems back to the MOON/CANCER. PISCES (RHESUS PIECES) is connected to NEPTUNE, because NEPTUNE rules WATERy PISCES.
Actor Peter COYOTE, a relative of the DOG/wolf, played agent “KEYS” in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
MACAQUE is pronounced MA–COCK. A COCK is a ROOSTER. The ROOSTER follows the MO[O]Nkey in the Chinese zodiac. The DOG follows the ROOSTER in the zodiac.
Alicia KEYS was the musical guest on SNL in 2001. The show’s host was REESE WitherSPOON. SPOONs are SILVER, a color associated with the MOON. This syncs up with the famous NURSERY RHYME “Hey Diddle Diddle,” where the SILVER SPOON makes an appearance. REESE WitherSPOON‘s first film was The Man in the MOON. Her character’s name was DANI Trant. The plot of the movie takes place in the SUMMER of 1957. If we rewind back to the beginning of that year, it is the year of the FIRE MO[O]NKEY.
Let’s get back to KEVIN. The Wonder Years television show’s theme is all about the sign of CANCER. The main character’s name is KEVIN ARNOLD. KEVIN‘s voice is narrated by the same DANIEL STERN who starred in HOME Alone. STERN was born in MARYLAND. In my previous posts about CANCER, I noted how MARYLAND is HOME of the CRAB and the Orioles BAseBAll team. The CRAB is ruled by CANCER, that is ruled by the MOON. STERN was in Rookie of the Year, a movie about BAseBAll (released on JULY 9th).<–(**Hang onto this date!!**) It also starred another DAN, DAN Hedaya. STERN was also in a television series called HOMEtown, and the films How to Kill Your Neighbor’s DOG, and HOUSE of Lies. He was in a television series called DANNY. He was the voice of Mr. Packenham on Hey ARNOLD, which is KEVIN‘s last name on The Wonder Years.
Both STERN and Savage (KEVIN) starred together in Little MO[O]Nst★rs. Again, notice the off-balance lowercase “e.”
STERN starred in Friends, Lovers & LUNAtics. He was also in The BOSs’ Wife, and h[N]ANNAh and HER Sisters.
KEVIN ARNOLD‘s FATHER on the show’s name is JACK. As most syncheads already know, JACK is a name associated with JUPITER. The name JACK syncs us back to another NURSERY RHYME called “ThIS IS the HOUSE That JACK BUILT, because HOMEs and BUILDINGS are associated with the sign of CANCER/HERA and the MOON. DAN (Lauria) is the real-life name of JACK on The Wonder Years.
In one episode of TWY, KEVIN and JACK BUILD a tree HOUSE.
DAN Lauria plays JACK on The Wonder Years.
DANica McKellar plays Winnie on The Wonder Years.
HOUSE MUSIC adopted the famous saying (“The HOUSE that JACK BUILT/The JACK That HOUSE BUILT“), and MUSIC leads us back to (JACK) JUPITER.
The plot in the movie The HOUSE That JACK BUILT is about a man named JACK who buys a small APARTMENT BUILDING and MO[O]ves his FAMILY into the APARTMENTs. For more about APARTMENT BUILDINGS in relation to the sign of CANCER and the MOON, read my previous posts here and here.
Take note in the photo below how the Arnold family is standing in front of their HOME. They are also standing in front of their CAR. The CAR relates back to the CHARIOT CARd in the tarot deck, which represents the sign of CANCER.
Fred Savage (“KEVIN“) was born under the sign of CANCER (JULY 9, 1976). Take note in the photo below of how KEVIN is holding a BAT. The BAT was referenced in my previous post. One thing I will add in this post is that the MOOn is exalted in TAURUS. BAT, being a cow goddess from Ancient Egypt, is representative of both signs (CANCER and TAURUS) because of this exaltation. Just another CANCER/TAURUS connection…
KEVIN and Winnie (DANica McKellar) standing under the full MOON.
Season 6’s intro of TWY has [N]eil [A]rmstrong standing on the MOON. The show takes place between the years of 1968-1973. This was an era of time in which the first men walked on the MOON (Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin in JULY of 1969). KEVIN‘s MOTHER‘s name is [N]orma [A]rnold. NANNA/SIN was the god of the MOON in Mesopotamian mythology.
Observe the photo above. Either Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin’s profile resembles that of a MO[O]Nkey, particularly a BAboon.
[N]orma [A]rnold = NA[N]NA. She is played by Alley Mills, who is a MA[MA] and a HOUSEwife.
Former president “JACK” KENNEDY had just finished his presidency, and was no longer living when the plot of TWY took place. KEVIN Arnold, Winnie Cooper, and Paul PFeiffer are introduced during the SUMMER of 1968 (year of the MO[O]Nkey, and under the sign of CANCER) as they are about to enter the newly renamed Robert F. KENNEDY Junior High School. (RFK was assassinated in 68). Robert’s nickname is “BO[O]BBY.” For more of BOOBY/BOBBY, read here. In season 2, KEVIN plays R. F. KENNEDY in his school play. One of former President KENNEDY‘s famous quotes is, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the MOON and returning him safely to Earth…” Stay tuned for more KENNEDY here in a moment. KEVIN‘s brother’s name is WAyNE (played by Jason HER[A]vey). WAyNE, as mentioned in my previous post here, is an action named for the MOON. WAyNE‘s nickname for KEVIN is “BUTThead.” KEVIN is the name of the lead minion in the M[OO]Nions movie. Minions leads us back to Gru and KEVIN O’Leary of SHARK Tank who he resembles. KEVIN O. shares a birthday (JULY 9th) with Fred Savage. KEVIN‘s favorite saying on SHARK Tank is, “How do I make MO[O]Ney?” SHARK Tank leads us back to SHARK Week which takes place under the sign of CANCER.
Gru on the left. KEVIN O’Leary on the right. GRU = 47—>4=G, 7=D–>G(O)D/D(O)G. The DOG Days take place under the sign of CANCER. Omitting the vowels in K[E]V[I]N, and adding them up also gives us the number 47. 4 + 7 = 11 = K for Kevin.
KEVIN COSTNER is a CAPRICORN born on JANUARY 18, 1955, the polar opposite sign of CANCER. His spouse’s name is CINdy SILVa (sounds like SILVER). Several of Costner’s films have included a BAseBAll theme, e.g. “Field of DREAMS” (CANCER is the sign that’s associated with DREAMS), “[B]ULL [D]urham (24),” “Chasing DREAMS,” “For Love of the Game,” and “The Upside of ANGer.” In “The Upside of ANGer,” his character’s name is DENNY (sounds like DANNY). In a majority of these films his character is a pro BAseBAll player. In my previous post, I mentioned how we play BAseBAll with a BAT.
KEVIN holding the BAT in BULL Durham.
He was also in “Dances with WOLVES.” WOLVES, or DOGS, (DOG Days) howl at the MOON.
He was in “WATERworld,” in which the antagonists were called “SMOKERs.”
He was in “Thirteen Days,” in which he portrayed a top advisor to JFK. Matthew Dunn plays KEVIN O’Donnell in the same flick. The actor KEVIN O’Donnell plays a role in this same film.
KEVIN COSTNER was in SILVERado (a film released under the sign of CANCER/JULY 12th), which also starred KEVIN Kline (who we shall return to momentarily), as well as DANNY Glover.
Let’s take a trip to outer SPACE with KEVIN SPACEy. His initials are KS, which sounds like “KisS,” (just add an “IS“/ISIS) and I just mentioned (above) how KisSing is tied to the sign of CANCER. He was in a movie called “MOON,” (released under the sign of CANCER/JULY 10th) in which he was the voice of a robot named “GERTY.” GERTIE (played by Drew Barrymore/DB/42) is the name of the sister to MA[i]C[h]AQUE[l] from E.T. GERD is an acronym for Gastroesophageal reflux disease. GERD (a.k.a. “acid reflux disease”) is a “chronic symptom of mucosal damage caused by STOMACH acid coming up from the STOMACH into the ESOPHAGUS.” Again, as mentioned in my previous posts, the sign of CANCER rules the STOMACH, ESOPHAGUS, and the digestive system.
He was in [A]merican [B]eauty = AB. Reverse the AB to get BA, and add the two together to get ABBA = FATHER in Hebrew. KEVIN SPACEy’s character in the movie is a FATHER. CANCER rules the HOUSE, which is all about the FATHER. Speaking of FATHER, he was in “FATHER of Invention.” He was also in a movie called “DAD.”
Let’s get back to American Beauty. I recently watched it, and there are too many codes resonant to the sign of CANCER/the MOON that I find relevant to this post. This film is produced by DREAMworks. In my previous post, I mentioned how this company is tied to the sign of CANCER/the MOON. Annette Bening co-stars in the film alongside SPACEy. Her initials are also AB. I have written about Annette Bening before in a previous post also in relation to the sign of CANCER. She plays the role of the MOTHER, and she sells HOMEs for a living (realTOR). SPACEy plays “Lester BURNham,” which brings us back to the RayBURN family from “Bloodline,” and BERNie Sanders (see my previous post here). In the film, his daughter saves up for a BOOB JOB, which mirRORs a scene from another SPACEy flick entitled, “Casino JACK.” In Casino JACK, he is also a FATHER, and he catches his daughter looking at a celebrity magazine about BOOB JOBS.
69 = CANCER‘s sigil.
Take note how it says “SMOKING bod.”
Other SPACEy films that are characTAURistic of the MOON/CANCER include “Iron Will,” (a story about a DOGsled race), “Henry and JUNE,” (CANCER takes place during the DOG Days and the month of JUNE), and “HorriBULL BOSses 1 and 2.” HorriBULL BOSses also stars JASON BAT[E]man. The first film (HB) was released during CANCER (JULY 8, 2011). The second film (HB2) was released at the end of the JASON (July, August, September, October, November) months in November (November 26, 2014).
He was also in “The Organ Grinder’s MO[O]Nkey,” in which the lead characTAUR’s name as well as his real life’s name is RHYS (REESE/REECE’s PISCES/RHESUS). Actor Daniel Craig plays the role of “BUBBLES.” Staying on the subject of MO[O]Nkeys, specifically GORILLAS, SPACEy was the narrator of the TV series “GORILLA School.”
RHYS Ifans (on the right) was born the last day of CANCER and Pi Day, 7/22 or 22/7.
He is in “HOUSE of CARds.” He lends his voice in the upcoming film “BOSs BABY” by DREAMworks Animation. He has a film coming out next year entitled “BABY DRIVER.” Again, CANCER rules the WOMB where the BABY is HOUSEd. DRIVER/DRIVING takes place in a CAR or CHARIOT. Please note in the slide below how the HOUSE of CARds poster resembles the CHARIOT CARd in the tarot. See how SPACEy is sitting in a CHAIR (CHA[I]Riot)?
SPACEy was in the film “K–PAX,” in which he plays an alien from outer SPACE. “PAX” means “PEACE” in Latin, which relates back to the TRANQUILITY BAse on the MOON. PEACE is SYNCnonomous with TRANQUILITY. The TRANQUILITY BAse is where the first humans walked on the MOON during the APOLLO 11 missions. (K=11 for APOLLO 11).
“Astronaut Buzz Aldrin with scientific equipment, US flag, television camera and Apollo LUNAr Module at TRANQUILITY BAse. Photo by Neil Armstrong”
In one scene of K–PAX, KEVIN SPACEy eats a whole BA–NAN[N]A. APOLLO 11 syncs up with the film APOLLO 13, a film about the MOON which doesn’t star KEVIN SPACEy. However, it does star another CANCER (born JULY 8, 1958) KEVIN BAcon. Bill PAXton plays alongside BAcon in this film.
(From the left) Bill PAXton, Tom Hanks, Gary SINise, and KEVIN BAcon in APOLLO 13.
KEVIN BAcon brings us BAck to “Footloose,” because your feet are loose due to the absence of gravity on the MOON. This brings us back to the original MOONwalker Michael JACKson who transitioned during the sign of CANCER (JUNE 25, 2009).
BAcon starred alongside KEVIN COSTNER and Joe PESCI in “JFK.” As we just learned, JFK was the first president who wanted to put a man on the MOON. This was one of his biggest accomplishments. One of his biggest failed missions was the BAy of Pigs. Pigs relate back to BACON, because he resembles a Pig. The film JFK brings us back to SISSY SPACEk, because she also starred in it. She also resembles a Pig.
SISSY SPACEk’s character in “CARrie” gets drenched in Pig’s blood.
SISSY SPACEk was in J. FK, and she’s married to Jack FisK. If we add an “IS” (ISIS) between the letters F and K, we get FISK. SPACEK = SpaceX. SpaceX is a SPACE Exploration Company. Take note how in the photo below, there appears to be a hidden LAMPshade in the logo. For more of that, you can go here, or here. The first manned flight of APOLLO was in 1968, leading us back to SPACEk and the year the Rayburn HOUSE from Bloodline was established (1968).
In SPACE, they wear SPACE suits made out of KEVlar. keV stands for KiloElectron Volt. Remember above when we decoded the E = mc2 from the movie poster for Home Alone? Read below to see the connection between E = mc2, keV, and SPACE.
Jumping back to KEVIN SPACEy, he narrated a documentary titled “The Day KENNEDY died.”
BAcon lent his voice for a character named “Ren McCormack” (his same character from “Footloose”) in Robot CHICKEN. In the video below, take note of how his character speaks to PIG-Pen. I made the connection that CHICKEN is associated with the sign of CANCER in one of my previous posts. At the time, I hadn’t figured out why. I have come to the conclusion that CHICKEN is code for the year of the ROOSTER in the Chinese zodiac, which is the sign that comes directly after the MO[O]Nkey. The sign that follows that in the Chinese zodiac is the DOG, and he was in “My DOG Skip,” which is a film about a JACK Russell Terrier. BAcon was born the Chinese year of the DOG. In “My DOG Skip,” he plays the role of a FATHER named “JACK.”
He was in “She’s having a BABY,” “White WATER SUMMER,” as well as “QuickSILVER.” QuickSILVER came out on February 14, 1986, which was the Chinese year of the TIGER. February 14 = 214/JUPITER, and his character’s name is JACK.
[K]EVIN [K]line (11:11) is our next MOON resonator. He was in “The JANUARY Man,” a film released under the sign of CAPRICORN (JANUARY 13, 1989). CAPRICORN takes place in JANUARY, (CANCER‘s polar opposite in the zodiac/TroPic of CANCER/TroPic of CAPRICORN). His character’s name is “Nick StarKEY.” This film also stars Alan Rickman, who recently passed away a day after The JANUARY Man was released–JANUARY 14th (2016).
“The JANUARY Man” stars KEVIN Kline and Alan Rickman.
“Life as a HOUSE” is another one of his flicks. This is about a FATHER who is diagnosed with terminal CANCER and takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son. His character’s name is George MO[O]Nroe.
He’s in “French KISS,” “A MidSUMMER Night’s DREAM,” (MN=3.14/π) and “A FISH called Wanda.” In French KISS, his character’s name is “LUC,” a name associated with the MOON. Like the name “LUCY,” which I discussed here, here, and here, it means “light.” In “A MidSUMMER Night’s DREAM,” his character’s name is “Nick BOTTOM“<–(BOTTOM=BUTT). “A FISH Called Wanda” was released under the sign of CANCER (JULY 15, 1988).
KEVIN Kline in A MidSUMMER Night’s DREAM as Nick BOTTOM.
KEVIN Hart is another CANCER born on JULY 6, 1979. He stars in a film called “The WEDDING Ringer.” If you read my previous post, I mentioned how most WEDDINGs take place during the month of JUNE under the sign of CANCER.
He also plays himself (KEVIN) in the comedy TV series “The Big HOUSE.” The show AIRed in April (A[I]Ries) of 2004–the year of the MO[O]NKEY. Remember in my last post I mentioned how we use KEYS to open up our HOMEs? He starred alongside Faizon L♡VE (H[E]ART and LOVE), who is also a CANCER (born JUNE 14, 1968) born the year of the MO[O]NKEY.
He is currently filming “The Secret Life of Pets,” a movie I briefly mentioned in my previous post. I mentioned how his character saves a DOG with an ORANGE CARrot he TURNs into a KEY. It will be released in the SUMMER during the DOG Days under the sign of CANCER. The plot takes place in an APARTMENT BUILDING. The film is by the same company (Illumination Entertainment) that created “Despicable Me 1 and 2,” as well as “Minions/(MOONians).” For more decoding and connections with those films, please read my previous posts here, here, and here. This film also stars BOBBY (BOOBY/BREAST) MO[O]yNihan, who voices the character (“Mel”) whom Hart’s character saves.
BOBBY (BOOBY/BREAST) MO[O]yNihan (left) and Kristen Wiig (right) in SNL’s sketch “Newt Gingrich’s MOON Colony.”
Take note how the DOOR (that we open with a KEY) and the DOG are the main focus in the MO[O]vie poster below.
Everything is connected! 😉
Lily Pad, my 12 year old Westie (born the year of the GOAT/ram/SHEEP), is standing on the MOON rock and preparing for the year of the MO[O]Nkey in her MO[O]Nkey sweatshirt.
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Apple Music and Apple’s Focus
Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Author by Ben Thompson
In a spot-on introduction to a spot-on piece, Dr. Drang nails why, at least in the context of yesterday’s WWDC keynote, Apple Music was such a disaster:
Endings are important, which is, unfortunately, why today’s WWDC keynote will be remembered as a flop.
Two weeks ago I wrote about how Google I/O (members-only) was two separate keynotes: the beginning was about Google doing stuff primarily, at least as far as I could tell, because they were big; the second part was about Google furthering their original mission and doing what they do best — “Organize the World’s Information” — and it was incredibly compelling and exciting.
WWDC went in the other direction. The first 90 minutes were excellent: very tight, with excellent clarity and momentum, well-rehearsed speakers delivering mostly iterative announcements with the occasional surprise. The final 60, on the other hand — the “one more thing” — were the exact opposite: unclear and dragging, with unprepared speakers delivering…well, I’m honestly not sure what most of them were saying. If there was a surprise the lack of a coherent message has to be top of the list.
After all, as Apple CEO Tim Cook so frequently reminds us, “Apple loves music”. Most of us, including myself, have for years given Apple the benefit of the doubt when it comes to such statements, even as the company’s flagship music product, iTunes, has fallen into an increasingly unusable state, and even as the App Store has long since surpassed the iTunes Music Store as a source of not only revenue but more importantly differentiation. When Apple’s annual music event was switched to a grab-all product announcement in the face of plummeting iPod sales, itself reduced to an app, no one questioned Cook’s insistence that music is “in our DNA”.
There is no question that music was in Steve Jobs’ DNA, and you could certainly argue that that specific aspect of Jobs’ DNA was a key component in transforming Apple from a barely solvent niche computer maker to one capable of creating an iPhone, an App Store, and everything else that makes Apple the most valuable company in the world. None of the latter happened without the iPod, without the iTunes Music Store, without that DNA.
Moreover, to be perfectly clear, the ending of the annual music event, the diminution of the iPod, the eclipse of the iTunes Music Store — each of these was the natural order of things. An important part of what makes Apple so impressive as a company is its willingness to destroy its own businesses, an approach that requires always looking forward to the way the world will be, not backwards to the world as it once was (not to mention an organizational design and incentive structures that remove the very real human tendency to preserve and protect). Recall what Tim Cook said about Steve Jobs at the Apple founder’s memorial:
“Among his last advice he had for me, and for all of you, was to never ask what he would do. ‘Just do what’s right,’” Cook said. Jobs wanted Apple to avoid the trap that Walt Disney Co. fell into after the death of its iconic founder, Cook said, where “everyone spent all their time thinking and talking about what Walt would do.”
Here is my question about Apple Music: it certainly is what most of us think Jobs would do. But is it right?
We know streaming is the future (and, for all intents and purposes, especially when you include YouTube — as you must — the present). Sure, iTunes music is DRM-free, and pirated content is as easy to access as ever, but on mobile devices where space, bandwidth, and time are limited, actual music files you have to move from device to device are as obsolete as physical CDs were once the iPod came along.
The business and strategic implications of this shift are profound: the labels would have never made the original deal with Apple had the Cupertino company not been so clearly the lesser of two evils, which means Apple would never have come to dominate their revenue (and thus to gain monopsony power). But now that the piracy threat is inconsequential the labels are unencumbered in their ability to exact monopoly rents from their music collections, ensuring any streaming service operates at their pleasure, on their terms. Including Apple.
Moreover, the fact that the iPod became just an app is symbolic of a far more profound shift: Apple has become a platform company in a way they never were even in the Mac’s heyday, and certainly unlike they were when the iPod was king. Perhaps the right thing to do is to enable — and extract rents from — services with not just the DNA but also the incentives and focus to deliver a compelling music experience.
I can hear the pushback now: A streaming service is table stakes, it’s an essential part of the ecosystem, Apple needs to diversify into services (Android app!). I get it. It makes no strategic sense to not have a music service. On paper anyway. The great thing about Apple, though, what has made the company so unlike every other, is another lesson Cook learned from Jobs. From the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference earlier this year:
We are the most focused company that I know of, or have read of, or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose, so that we can deliver the best products in the world…
That is not from just saying “Yes” to the right product which gets a lot of focus. It’s saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones. And so I think that this is so ingrained in our company that this hubris that you talk about which happens to companies that are successful but then decide that their sole role in life is to get bigger, and they start adding this and that and this and that. I can tell you the management team of Apple would never let that happen. That’s not what we’re about.
“That” sure sounds like Apple Music: there is this (streaming music) and that (curated lists) and this (BeatsOne radio) and that (Ping Connect) and no cogent thread to tie them together beyond the assumption that Apple must do a music service because that is what they do. That’s what big companies do.
Moreover, it’s not like this was the only example of Apple failing to question its assumptions and subsequently losing focus. Yesterday’s demonstration of native Watch apps was very good, but in a very “Why does WatchKit even exist?” sort of way. When the Watch came out most reviews concluded that the Watch made a lot of sense in the long run, but few could get over just how poor the app experience was, with many concluding customers ought to wait.
Imagine an alternate reality where the Watch had the exact same Watch face functionality (including complications), the exact same notifications and communications capabilities, the exact same performant Apple apps, the exact same unexpectedly strong battery life, but no apps beyond a promise they were “coming soon.” Surely reviewers would gripe, but with a “It’s already great, and it’s going to get better” sort of vibe. Yet Apple couldn’t bring themselves to say “no”.
Indeed, what made the first half of yesterday’s keynote so compelling wasn’t just the speakers’ delivery; rather, the clarity of the delivery flowed from the fact Apple was doing what they do best: iterating on products that, once upon a time, were minimum viable products from a feature perspective delivered with a maximum focus on the user experience. John Gruber perfectly captured this quality of Apple in a 2010 piece called This is How Apple Rolls:
Apple has released many new products over the last decade. Only a handful have been the start of a new platform. The rest were iterations. The designers and engineers at Apple aren’t magicians; they’re artisans. They achieve spectacular results one year at a time. Rather than expanding the scope of a new product, hoping to impress, they pare it back, leaving a solid foundation upon which to build. In 2001, you couldn’t look at Mac OS X or the original iPod and foresee what they’d become in 2010. But you can look at Snow Leopard and the iPod nanos of today and see what they once were. Apple got the fundamentals right.
Maybe Apple Music will be great. Maybe the fundamentals are spot on. But the messaging certainly was not, and as I noted after the Watch unveiling, muddled messaging often stems from a muddled product, and muddled products come from a lack of focus. Maybe it’s time for Cook to spend less time talking about how “the management team of Apple would never let that happen” and make absolutely sure that a loss of focus is not, in fact, happening.
Tomorrow’s Daily Update for Stratechery members will include a point-by-point analysis of the rest of yesterday’s keynote
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Scality Raises $7 Million For Enterprise Cloud Storage System
Fresh off the heels of Box.net raising $48 million, cloud storage startup Scality is set to announce next week that they’ve raised $7 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by IdInvest Partners (formerly AGF Private Equity), with previous backers CAPE, Galileo and Scality CEO Jerome Lecat chipping in.
Scality provides ‘storage-as-a-service’ solutions for enterprises around the globe.
The company says it will use part of the proceeds to complement its San Francisco headquarters with an East Coast sales and services office in New York. Furthermore, Scality will step up development of its object-based storage platform, adding full multi-tenancy for service providers who want to offer virtual private clouds (VPCs).
Scality’s total investment to date is $13 million.
The company claims its valuation doubled after the Series A round of funding secured in May 2010, thanks to the successful delivery of a complete email platform to cable operator Telenet for over 2 million users (coincidentally, I’m one of those).
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Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive
No, selling "The Postal Service" CDs on its website doesn't count
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In the past week, the 45th president has Twit-tacked Amazon three times and, potentially, cost their shareholders over $40 billion in market cap or just more than one Greek economy.
At the heart of our current President’s criticism is a claim that Amazon is making a mint and leaving a *failing* U.S. Postal Service holding the bag. It’s not a new critique from the Twitterer-in-Chief, but it is one that’s worth unpacking given the crippling effect technologies have had on the USPS — where email is even more reliable than a carrier undeterred by “snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night.“
Is it failing?
“Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?” This infantile question was posed by President Trump on Twitter in December 2017. While it’s not clear what exactly prompted Trump’s criticism, the tweet did spark a wave of debate as to whether the Postal Service is indeed failing and, if so, whether Amazon is to blame.
First of all, it’s true that the Postal Service is “losing billions of dollars a year” – $2.7 billion in 2017, to be more precise. In fact, the Postal Service has been losing money for over a decade. And the USPS does have a curious relationship with Amazon. While competitors UPS and FedEx charge the e-commerce giant $7-$8 per package, USPS only charges for $2 for the service. However, as with most stories, that of USPS is more complicated.
USPS and Amazon
The USPS-Amazon relationship may be seen as “dumb” by the 45th president, but to many it’s a piece of shrewd business on the part of the Postal Service. As of 2017, Amazon was USPS’s biggest customer, and an intelligent way for the independent agency – that traditionally made its money by having a monopoly on first class mail – to get a piece of the increasingly profitable package delivery pie. It’s not the first time that the Postal Service has tried to muscle its way in on the growing package delivery industry. Back in 2010, the entertainment company Netflix accounted for $600 million from its DVD subscription service. Of course, the Netflix DVD delivery service is fast fading and being replaced by on-demand streaming; and Amazon look to be preparing their own delivery service. It seems that the USPS may have to prepare itself to be jolted by another wave of disruption.
One-Two Punch of Email and a Financial Crisis
The Postal Service’s first major battle against the age of innovation came with the rise of email, and it didn’t take the beating that you might expect. Despite the fact that in 2002 the majority of Americans used email, the Postal Service still managed to make profit between 2003 and 2006. During this time, people were still writing letters, sending greetings cards and, perhaps most importantly, bills were still sent by post.
It wasn’t until the 2007 global financial crisis that the Postal Service took a hit that, arguably, it still hasn’t recovered from. After thousands of businesses suffered from the crisis, they started to cut back on expenses wherever possible, and one such place was mail. Back in 2000, nearly two-thirds of bills were delivered by USPS, and the total revenue from bill payments in this year was estimated at between $15 and $18 billion. Between 2006 and 2010, USPS volume fell by 42 billions pieces, with 15 billion of those being caused by electronic billing.
And if that weren’t enough, the rise of social media further confounded USPS’s problems. Between 2010 and 2014, postcard volume fell by 430 million. As more and more people began logging into Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to send virtual Christmas cards and birthday wishes, fewer people were sending mail, and therefore fewer profits for the agency that had had its fair share of knocks in the 21st century.
Photo courtesy of Flickr/André-Pierre du Plessis
Innovating within a Risk-Averse Government
To suggest that those in charge at the Postal Service have been idly watching as new technologies disrupt and threaten the agency would be unfair.
It is an organization that looks to engage with the latest technology. For instance, in 2014, it released a white paper on the impact that 3D printing could have on the industry and how the Postal Service could benefit; and again in 2015 it released another on the Internet of Things. Both papers were clearly commissioned with a degree of prescience, being published before either technology had begun to pervade the public consciousness.
Unfortunately, though, forward-thinking initiatives such as these have been blocked before they can enter the action stage. USPS’s status as a quasi government entity may have its benefits, such as a monopoly on all first class post, but in return Congress has a say in how the agency is run. It can outline the products and services provided by the Postal Service, and set its prices. However, unlike other Federal agencies, USPS receives no funding, and hasn’t done since 1982.
In 2016, the Postal Service wanted to make the most of its relationship with Netflix and other video rental business, but the proposal was blocked by the Postal Regulatory Commission. In 2013, USPS attempted to end Saturday letter delivery – a change that would have saved $2 billion a year. The proposal was blocked by Congress. And in 2016, it was ordered to lower the cost of postage stamps from 49 cents to 47 cents, resulting in a $2 billion annual cost.
At the heart of the troubled USPS-Congress relationship lies the problem. A big existential question mark hangs over the Postal Service’s head: what exactly is it? With 2.7 million people working for it, it’s the biggest employer in the US (Walmart, by comparison had 2.2 million as of 2017). It also delivers to remote locations that private companies like FedEx and UPS won’t touch. For these reasons, it exists out of necessity. There are also those who want to see the Postal Service fully privatized or even abolished, believing it to be an outdated relic of nostalgia.
Understandably, those within the Postal Service are equally unsure as to what they should be. On one side, they’re being encouraged to innovate and drive up profits, and on the other they’re being blocked making the changes necessary.
As it stands, the USPS motto “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” still holds true. Their resilience through massive shifts in consumer behavior is nothing short of remarkable.
They are at the service of the American people, and so it’s up to them to decide what they want it to be. Although it may be true to say the Post Office is losing money thanks to Congress and cutting Amazon a more-than-fair deal, its importance is far more nuanced and complex than he gives it credit. And without the Postal Service, it would be more than just Amazon that would be losing out.
As the world moves to more and more virtual communication channels it will be fascinating to see USPS evolve.
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Judaism was extracted to two: the orthodox and the Reform Judaism. In terms of the content of belief and their fundamental identity, the Orthodox Jews are the traditional variety who take the Scriptures literally and the rabbinic tradition very seriously. They are very strict and exacting in the observance of the Torah as interpreted in the Talmud and later became the Jewish scholars.
While the other variety of Jews were the Reform Jews who consider the Torah a holy document that is rooted in their past and is the God-inspired attempt by the Hebrews, Israelites and Jews to understand their surrounding environment and their relationship with God. The Orthodox Jews’ approach of understanding upon the Torah is that it comes directly from God and that its substance is unchangeable. The only role of man regarding that document is to understand the content.
The ancient times regarded the right to “understand the Scriptures to the rabbis who were the descendants of the Pharisees who probably began the teaching during the Babylonian Exile. While the Reform Jews’ approach to the Torah remained a historical doctrine of the characterization of the religion. It is the evolution established by the Jews in that they come to the understanding of the non-Jews. In addition to that, Jews were already found in so many different places thereby implying that Jewish customaries and traditions were even modified by, basically, the surrounding social external factors.
Every development or variation that the Jews made happen, they also developed varying their understanding in the regards of the culture. The autonomy is expecting them to impose a belief in the regarding their own belief. Both of the religious orders of Christianity were very closely attached to God and his calling to them. The expectations posted to the propensity that they should be entering about, in spite of the system of belief they had, were not imposed given that the implication of their belief was a comprehensive and specific understanding of God.
Historically speaking, in the 19th century, the Reform Jews established their movement with the Jewish heads and intellectuals as for complying with the need to deliver revised old beliefs no longer tenable so as to conform to the modernity as one of its main reasons for building their movement thereby modernizing the religion, Judaism. Their establishment began in Germany and most of the members of the congregation believe that the Judaism they are building is a historical predecessor of the American movement being the largest stream of Judaism.
Their major identity constitutes the transformation of belief upon the Bible as the infallible Word of God to a mere record of Israel’s consecration to God. They established to move the Sabbath to a Sunday and conducted Sabbath services so as to preserve the Jewish acculturation. During the period of reform, Jews suffered harshly on the hands of the institutions specifically in Hungary by 1830’s to 1840’s. Their concerns were being argued by the “society”.
it cost them such suppressions and depreciated rights until the Jews were in real trouble being restricted in many communities and deprived of many privileges. Until the Jews became authorized legally in 1859-1860 giving them some necessary rights, then came when all the restrictions were totally abolished. It was 1880’s when an anti-Jewish propaganda held intensified disturbance to the Jews, then aroused anti-Semitism. Harshest of all was when the Jews were trapped in the destruction of the World War I. About ten thousand Jews fell and died on the battlefield. Many Jews suffered losses of life and property.
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Murray: Dream team with Serena is 'great opportunity'
Raman Bhardwaj 3 July 2019
Andy Murray will play mixed doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon as he recovers from surgery.
Andy Murray says it's a "great opportunity" to partner Serena Williams in the mixed doubles at this year's Wimbledon.
The Scot, who is scheduled to make his return to grand slam tennis in the men's doubles on Thursday, declared on Wednesday evening he would link up with the seven-time singles champion.
They will play Germany's Andreas Mies and Chilean Alexa Guarachi in the first round.
Murray, recovering from a second bout of hip surgery, told STV: "It's a great opportunity, so I'll look forward to it."
The 32-year-old added: "It's great, I'm just happy to be fit and healthy again and after what's happened in the last year or so you don't know what's round the corner."
Dream team: Murray and Williams both won singles in 2016. Getty Images
Williams, 37, said after her first round singles win over Guilia Gatto-Monticone that she could do with the extra time on court after battling knee problems this year.
She won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon 21 years ago with Max Mirnyi but has played only once at a grand slam in 20 years while Murray's mixed-doubles experience has come at the Hopman Cup and in the Olympics, where he won a silver medal in 2012 with Laura Robson.
Murray will play men's doubles with French grand slam winner Pierre-Hugues Herbert.
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‘Why fuel importers want to meet President-elect’
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Ihedioha assures of petroleum bill passage
PETROLEUM marketers will soon meet the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), in a renewed bid to stabilise the downstream oil sector.
The Executive Secretary of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN), Olufemi Adewole, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with The Guardian at weekend, said that members were planning to meet with the Presidential Transition Committee with a view to finding a solution to the confusion surrounding the importation of petroleum products.
“We have written to the president-elect to meet with him with a view to charting a middle ground that will guarantee the investments of the marketers.
We feel we need to know the policy thrust of the new administration in the downstream sector,” Adewale said. “We must know whether to continue to import with the assurance that the incoming government will pay upon assumption of office.
We also need to know how to brace up for deregulation just in case the new government decides to do away with subsidy. “We also plan to meet with the Presidential Transition Committee on the same issue.
We have written a letter requesting for the meeting but we are yet to decide on the modalities. But one thing we are sure of is that there is the urgent need to meet with the president-elect or his representatives on the way forward as far as the sector is concerned.
It is what he tells us that will be done.” Similarly, House of Representatives Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, has reassured Nigerians that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) would be passed before the end of the seventh National Assembly even as he acquitted the lower legislative chamber of allegations of corruption against the Federal Government.
According to him, the passage of the PIB will do the nation’s petroleum industry and the economy a lot of good.
He said: “I think it is most unfair for anybody to insinuate that the House is not working on the PIB, we have slated the PIB for passage next week and we have mentioned it, we said we have to accomplish it before the end of this assembly.
Ihedioha told newsmen in Benin when he led House members on condolence visit to the Minority Whip, Samson Osagie, at Urhokuosa village in Edo State on the death of his father, Pa Samson Imariagbe Ogbewe: “As we speak, copies of the bill for consideration have been distributed to all members of the House to enable them study it so that they can make very solid input in the cause of its consideration.
“So, come next week, we invite all Nigerians to join us as we take clause by clause consideration of the bill and we believe that its passage will do the petroleum industry and the Nigerian economy a lot of good.”
Nevertheless, he asked Nigerians to hold the Executive arm of government accountable for failure to carry out its own responsibility, stating: “It is unfair for anybody to indicate that we have not done anything.
“First, the leadership of the House in the seventh Assembly has discharged itself as one that leads by example and we have led the House transparently; that is why in the seventh Assembly, there is no banana peel because we led by example.
“We also have done everything we can to expose corrupt practices by any branch of government and members of our society. We have done all we need to do and asked the Executive to do its part.
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“If the Executive fails to do its own part, that is not the responsibility of the House and it is not an indictment on the legislature, the legislature has led by example and we exposed corrupt practices where necessary.”
Adewole, who said the Federal Government was not helping matters by refusing to issue a Sovereign Debt Note (SDN) to marketers on the outstanding N156 billion, insisted that government’s excuse that it does not have money to pay is not tenable as the SDN of the N150 billion paid recently was issued back in February.
“We are not saying government must pay all the money now,” he explained. “Government is not sincere when it says that marketers are insisting on collecting the money now.
All we are saying is that issuing such a note to us now will serve as a guarantee that the money will be paid, even if not immediately. But for government to blackmail us by saying we are insisting on payment now cannot be correct.”
He added that there was no apprehension within DAPPMAN over the incoming administration as their members engage in genuine and verifiable business, therefore have nothing to fear from a Buhari presidency. He explained that the decision to contact Buhari was to ensure that efforts are not duplicated, not as a result of apprehension.
“Even our current efforts at ensuring that this present administration issues the SDN are to ensure that all the processes for the product that was imported during the lifespan of this administration are sorted out before it departs, otherwise we will come back to repeat the processes all over,” he said.
“When Buhari takes over on May 29, he will need time to settle down and look at things and get the system going. What will happen in the interim? Will the country be without fuel for that period? That is the apprehension really and not that marketers harbour any fear over Buhari’s coming.”
He added that it would be wrong for government to put a cap to a figure as money owed importers, saying: “The figure rises on daily basis because we import product on daily basis.
“As we import, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) processes and passes same to the Federal Ministry of Finance and other government agencies to do their part towards ensuring payment.
This is the reason the figure cannot be static.” Adewole also refuted claims that marketers were refusing to import in order to blackmail government into paying the outstanding subsidy, explaining:
“It is not a matter of blackmail, it is a matter of banks refusing to issue letters of credit for fuel importation because of the huge debt that we have. “If government can guarantee loans from the banks, we will access it and import.
What we have on our hands is basically an economic issue. Therefore, it is wrong to be sentimental about it.” More so, he brushed aside the insinuation that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) can solely sustain the country if depot owners withdraw from product importation.
According to him, most of the retail outlets in the country rely on depot owners for supply. Meanwhile, sources at the PPPRA told The Guardian that the agency has no role to play in the supply chain other than process marketers’ claims and transmit same to the relevant government agencies for payment.
The agency also corroborated the fluctuation of subsidy claims by the marketers, saying it processes the claims everyday and that the figures keep changing according to the level of claims that are processed.
(The Guardian)
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Cowan joins effort to increase University partnerships between California and Mexico
Education leaders from Mexico and California convened last week as part of an initiative to identify key areas of research collaboration in an ongoing partnership to build sustained, strategic and equal relationships between educational institutions on both sides of the border.
University of California president Janet Napolitano and National Autonomous University of Mexico provost Eduardo Barzana chaired the inaugural meeting of the UC-Mexico Initiative Advisory Board. The two-day meeting was held in Ensenada, Mexico on February 26 and 27, 2015.
One of Sunnylands’ areas of focus is the Pacific Rim with an emphasis on U.S.-Mexico relations. This effort continues work began in 2012 when Sunnylands, in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,convened a retreat and released a report aimed at strengthening U.S.-Mexico relations. In the report, entitled A Stronger Future: Policy Recommendations for U.S.-Mexico Relations, preeminent bipartisan political, business, academic, and media leaders from the United States and Mexico concluded that the tone of the bilateral relationship should change and focus not just on a few issues, such as security and migration or trade and the economy, but instead be wide-ranging and cover a variety of mutual interests. The report presented innovative recommendations for enhancing regional competitiveness, new strategies to strengthen security, judicial reform, and furthering educational exchanges between the two nations, among other issues.
The UC-Mexico Initiative was launched in January 2014 by Napolitano and is led by UC Riverside.
During the meeting, scholars and experts met in breakout sessions to discuss education, energy, environment, arts and culture, and public health.
Geoffrey Cowan, then-president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, a USC University Professor and director of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, participated in the historic meeting as a member of the advisory board. He said the goal was to identify important scholarly collaborations on which Mexico and the University of California can work together.
“California is interdependent in so many ways with Mexico,” said Cowan. “Our economies are heavily interdependent, our environment, our coastline, public health, education. These are all common issues we have, so if we can work together we can build both economies and both societies in a more dynamic way. We’re going forward with major research collaborations between these countries in areas of mutual interest.”
Other participants in the Ensenada meeting included Monica Lozano, UC regent; Kim Wilcox, UC Riverside chancellor; Dorothy Leland, UC Merced chancellor; Gene Block, UCLA chancellor; Hunter Rawlings, president of the American Association of Universities; Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation; José Narro Robles, president of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Juan Manuel Ocegueda, president of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California; Enrique Cabrero, director general of Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology; Salvador Alva, president of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Antonio Lopez de Silanes, president of the Group for Birth Studies and chairman of the board of the pharmaceutical company Grupo Silanes; Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of Mexico’s National Council for Culture and Arts; and Jaime Valls Esponda, secretary general of ANUIES, which represents 180 higher education institutions throughout Mexico.
This post was written by CCLP project fellow Justin Chapman
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66 Years and counting – Tibet and China
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Written by Robert Barnett.
It is 66 years and counting since the People’s Liberation Army moved into Tibet, and 58 years since the initial surrender pact with the Tibetans collapsed, leading the Dalai Lama to flee to India with 80,000 or more other Tibetans. Those exiles or their descendants are still abroad, and the prospects of any resolution seem as remote as at any time in the last 30 years. Meanwhile, access to Tibet for outsiders remains more restricted than anywhere else in China, most Tibetans are unable to obtain passports and travel abroad, and reports of demonstrations, arrests and suicide protests continue to trickle out.
A conflict of this duration is considered by social scientists to be “intractable”, and most political analysts would probably rate chances of a durable solution at close to zero – after all, China is a rising power, Xi Jinping is clearly not persuaded by notions of rights or liberal values, and the Dalai Lama is in his sunset years. This is true of the immediate conditions, and they do not offer hope. But there are underlying aspects to this issue that make a solution more, not less, feasible.
That’s largely because, at base, this is a political dispute, not a military one. Although it was for two decades an armed conflict over independence, after the 1970s it shifted to a dispute over autonomy, with the Tibetan side making substantive concessions, dropping its independence claim, and agreeing to negotiations. The Chinese side has shown no interest in talks with the exiles since the last round of talks were held in 2010, when Beijing officials rejected all suggestions by the Tibetan delegates. But if China were to restart talks, the discussion would be over differing definitions of autonomy, which both sides say – albeit in name only, on the Chinese side – Tibetans are entitled to. This is thus not your average ethno-nationalist conflict: at least on paper, the two sides have commensurable objectives.
And in terms of international support, what little the Tibetans have been able to attract is mainly value-based and symbolic, with no military implications, making any concessions much less of a danger for Beijing. India is the only exception – it hosts the Dalai Lama and has 10,000 Tibetan exiles in its military forces – and is by far the most significant external player in this issue. But New Delhi’s concern is to stabilise its borders and to settle China’s border claims, not to gain Tibetan or Chinese territory or to weaken Beijing.
This is also reflected in the type of resistance on the ground: since the 1970s, Tibetan push-back has been almost entirely limited to street protests, and, more recently, self-immolations. Drastic though these might be, they are mainly designed to attract national and world attention to the situation, not to overthrow the Chinese state. Levels of violence have been generally low – over the last three decades the number of deaths caused by Tibetan protestors has been around 20, and half of those may have been accidental. Even if one adds in the Tibetan deaths caused by Chinese security forces – estimates vary from around 200 to 500 over three decades – these are markers of social unrest that is low intensity, meaning that the tensions are primarily about widespread discontent over policies, not an attempt to oust a regime at any cost. This doesn’t mean that Tibetans don’t believe in independence – probably many do. But it suggests they would put up with Chinese rule if they were given even half- decent policies and a modicum of respect.
So why won’t China take steps to improve the situation? Xi could do so overnight: allow religious teachings, end the ban on religion for students and officials, ban officials from insulting the Dalai Lama, and stop pushing nomads to settle. He could also regulate migration into the area, much as is done in Hong Kong. But instead, China declares that the situation in Tibet is one of “long, bitter and protracted war” with what it calls “.” This approach has led to a military response to a non-military problem, and is largely self-validating: it’s likely to provoke further discontent.
One reason for an apparently counter-productive strategy like this is that the officials who run Tibetan policy have an interest in overstating threats and inventing enemies; their careers depend on these claims. This is largely why the Chinese media have run denunciation campaigns against the Dalai Lama for the last twenty years, leading to a generation of Chinese who regard him, bizarrely, as a terrorist. But a deeper reason is the strategic significance of Tibet: it covers a quarter of China’s landmass, holds much of the nation’s and the region’s water supplies, and ensures China tactical superiority over its neighbours to the south and west. Tibet may be seen abroad as a marginal or even romantic issue, but to China and its neighbours it is of critical importance, and its leaders are naturally prone to avoid any risks with such a sensitive location.
This is why pressure from outside nations, paradoxically, is essential to progress on this issue. Other governments need both to persuade China that de-escalation of internal tensions is essential to domestic and regional security, and at the same time reassure Beijing that there are no concealed territorial ambitions behind the push for it to reach a rapid resolution of this issue.
There is a further reason why a political solution is urgent. China is using the secluding of Tibet, and also the neighbouring troubled area of Xinjiang, from the rest of China to set up a system of social micro-management that will give the state unprecedented access to the homes, lives and movement of every citizen. This is being done through residential cadre teams in every monastery and village, the “grid system” of local management, household-level responsibility systems, “convenience police posts” on street corners, and other forms of social intervention that are unusually invasive even for control-addicted China.
At the same time, it is now pushing through a policy that could weaken the use of Tibetan language: the so-called “bilingual kindergarten” program, which aims to see every Tibetan child enter pre-school education by the age of 3 within the next few years. Benign though this may sound, in reality, the program appears to encourage Tibetan infants to speak Chinese at the cost of mother-tongue fluency. It is only one of several education policy ideas, some already implemented, some still in discussion – primary-level boarding schools, ethnically mixed classes, increased numbers of ethnic Chinese teachers from the mainland, required “pairing” with mainland Chinese schools, to name a few – which might all be beneficial for the Chinese majority, but are acutely worrying for the minority.
Tibetan reaction to these developments within the country has shifted as policies have changed. In the early 2000s, there were few open protests by Tibetans, at least in eastern areas of the plateau, where Chinese policies had been far more relaxed than in central Tibet. But in 2008, in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, policies against the Dalai Lama became increasingly aggressive and about 150 street protests took place, 20% of them including rioting and violence. As a military crackdown was put in place, protest shifted to symbolic statements by individuals in the form of self-immolations, from which at least 119 have died since 2009.
From 2013, as I and others have shown in a 2016 study of some 470 cases of political detention and 68 small-scale protests, protests were less frequent but more diverse: they occurred in many different places, often small villages that previously had been quiet, and responded to a greater range of issues than before, such as environment, mining, religion and Chinese disrespect for local community leaders. Since then, as new forms of invasive control and abusive propaganda have kicked in, public protests appear to have dropped in number. But this probably conceals increasingly deep-seated tensions, which are likely to erupt if the Dalai Lama is forced to die outside his homeland.
It is not all bad news: after six decades in Tibet, China has finally found a way to put cash in rural pockets in the Tibetan countryside, thanks to years of infrastructural investment (and semi-forced rehousing policies). The economy is booming. But whatever dividends this might bring for China in terms of Tibetan goodwill will be lost if tone-deaf policies on religion, the Dalai Lama, social management and Tibetan language are left in the hands of careerist and control-obsessed officials in Beijing and Lhasa. The Sino-Tibetan dispute could easily be resolved, but it will take sustained diplomatic pressure on Beijing to act urgently, for its own strategic interests, before the loss of trust on both sides is irreparable.
Robert Barnett is director of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University in New York and has written widely on modern Tibetan culture, history, film and politics. Image Credit: CC by stephen/Flickr.
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Is Mace Windu, Supreme Leader Snoke?
With the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens in 2015, and the introduction of new characters such as Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo Ren and Supreme Leader Snoke amongst several others, there has been a lot of speculation as to what the backstories of these characters are.
Firstly is Supreme Leader Snoke. He served as the supreme leader of the First Order, 30 years after the battle of Endor took place. Snoke is skilled with the dark side of the force and has also trained the force-sensitive Kylo Ren as well as one other unknown apprentice.
With the introduction of Snoke in the film, the main question being asked by fans is, who is he?
After doing several amounts of research and watching all the films on rotation I have reason to believe that Supreme Leader Snoke is, in fact, Jedi Master Mace Windu.
So, now I’m going to explain my reasoning behind this and the first point being made is that Samuel L Jackson recently did a Twitter Q&A in which he claimed that Mace Windu is still alive. After seeing this George Lucas confirmed that this could be true.
Secondly is the facial disfigurement of the two. During Revenge of the Sith, when Mace Windu and Sheev Palpatine battle one another, Sheev uses his full power with regards to his force lightning which would definitely leave Mace covered in scars and wrinkles beyond repair as seen when Mace Windu deflects the lightning back onto Sheev Palpatine leaving him almost unrecognisable.
Moving on, we have Mace Windu’s Iconic purple lightsaber which resembles a balance of both the Light and the Dark side of the force. He is also one of the only Jedi to use Vaapad, which is a state of mind rather than solely a fighting style that will allow the wielder to channel their own inner darkness into the duel and accept the fury of their opponents. This style was seen multiple times within the prequel trilogy, for example:
When Mace Windu cut off Jango Fett’s Head.
When he was about to kill Sheev Palpatine before being stopped by Anakin because “It wasn’t the Jedi way”.
The whole balance between the light and dark sides of the force is something Snoke mentions in the Force Awakens and is the main reason Snoke made Kylo Ren his apprentice as he was force sensitive in both sides of the force.
Mace Windu could see himself in Kylo Ren.
A question that will most likely come when talking about this theory is why would Mace Windu turn to the dark side? Well, he could have a potential vendetta against the Skywalker’s as Anakin cut off Windu’s arm and betrayed him during his battle with Palpatine. This could then be his motivation to find Luke Skywalker, to put an end to the bloodline.
There is another theory that suggests that Mace Windu believes he was, in fact, the chosen one, rather than Anakin which could be the reason for why Windu was always hard on Anakin and why he tried to prevent Anakin becoming a Jedi Master.
When Qui-Gon says that Anakin could bring a balance to the force, Mace Windu isn’t happy as he has already mastered the balance with his Vaapad training.
The plot thickens when Kylo Ren kills Han Solo, during the scene, Han tells Kylo that Snoke is planning on killing him once he has completed his mission. This would make total sense once again as Kylo Ren is of the Skywalker lineage.
The final point I will make is based on his fighting style. Several Jedi have their own signature move and that move is backward swinging slice which is seen in every one of his fight scenes. In the Force Awakens, we see this special move once again, by none other than Kylo Ren which could suggest that Snoke/Mace Windu taught Kylo Ren how to fight.
So there you have it, my theory regarding the identity of Supreme Leader Snoke, it’s only a theory and based on opinion and my own research. Hopefully, Episode VIII – The Last Jedi will reveal all.
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Curren$y & Statik Selektah’s “Gran Turismo” Tracklist Features Wiz Khalifa, Jim Jones & More
Spitta and Statik Selektah’s “Gran Turismo” arrives this Friday.
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Curren$y and Statik Selektah are easily two of the hardest individuals in the underground circuit. The two recently announced that they’ll be releasing a joint project which is set to arrive this coming Friday. Ahead of its release, the two share the tracklist which features some heavyweights and some promising newcomers.
With 10 tracks in total, Curren$y and Statik Selektah have a stacked line-up on their forthcoming project, Gran Turismo. They took to social media to unveil the tracklist which includes appearances from Curren$y’s 2009 collaborator, Wiz Khalifa. Additionally, we’ll be hearing Curren$y rap alongside heavyweights such as Jim Jones, Jadakiss, and Termanology. Additionally, Haile Supreme makes two appearances on the tracklist while YBN Cordae links up with Spitta on “Nothin Less.”
Curren$y is fresh off of the release of his project with LNDN DRGS, Umbrella Symphony which arrived last week. The project served as his follow up to his joint effort with Wiz Khalifa which arrived at the beginning of the year.
As for Statik Selektah, the rapper released his joint effort with Bun B, TrillStatikin late April which featured a stacked tracklist with guest appearances from everyone from Le$, Grafh, Uncle Murda, Killa Kyleon, Talib Kweli, Big K.R.I.T. and more.
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Rzepliñski, Andrzej (25 March 2004). "Prosecution of Nazi Crimes in Poland in 1939–2004" (PDF). First International Expert Meeting on War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity. Lyon, France: International Criminal Police Organization – Interpol General Secretariat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
As a member of the Nazi Party and the Abwehr intelligence service, Schindler was in danger of being arrested as a war criminal. Bankier, Stern, and several others prepared a statement he could present to the Americans attesting to his role in saving Jewish lives. He was also given a ring, made using gold from dental work taken out of the mouth of Schindlerjude Simon Jeret. The ring was inscribed "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."[77] To escape being captured by the Russians, Schindler and his wife departed westward in their vehicle, a two-seater Horch, initially with several fleeing German soldiers riding on the running boards. A truck containing Schindler's mistress Marta, several Jewish workers, and a load of black market trade goods followed behind. The Horch was confiscated by Russian troops at the town of Budweis, which had already been captured by Russian troops. The Schindlers were unable to recover a diamond that Oskar had hidden under the seat.[78] They continued by train and on foot until they reached the American lines at the town of Lenora, and then travelled to Passau, where an American Jewish officer arranged for them to travel to Switzerland by train. They moved to Bavaria in Germany in the fall of 1945.[79]
German forces had begun evacuating many of the death camps in the fall of 1944, sending inmates under guard to march further from the advancing enemy’s front line. These so-called “death marches” continued all the way up to the German surrender, resulting in the deaths of some 250,000 to 375,000 people. In his classic book “Survival in Auschwitz,” the Italian Jewish author Primo Levi described his own state of mind, as well as that of his fellow inmates in Auschwitz on the day before Soviet troops arrived at the camp in January 1945: “We lay in a world of death and phantoms. The last trace of civilization had vanished around and inside us. The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to conclusion by the Germans in defeat.”
After invading Poland, the Germans established ghettos in the incorporated territories and General Government to confine Jews.[143] The ghettos were formed and closed off from the outside world at different times and for different reasons.[196][197] For example, the Łódź ghetto was closed in April 1940,[143] to force the Jews inside to give up money and valuables;[198] the Warsaw ghetto was closed for health considerations (for the people outside, not inside, the ghetto),[199] but this did not happen until November 1940;[143] and the Kraków ghetto was not established until March 1941.[200] The Warsaw Ghetto contained 380,000 people[143] and was the largest ghetto in Poland; the Łódź Ghetto was the second largest,[201] holding between 160,000[202] to 223,000.[203] Because of the long drawn-out process of establishing ghettos, it is unlikely that they were originally considered part of a systematic attempt to eliminate Jews completely.[204]
The British and American governments were reluctant to publicize the intelligence they had received. A BBC Hungarian Service memo, written by Carlile Macartney, a BBC broadcaster and senior Foreign Office adviser on Hungary, stated in 1942: "We shouldn't mention the Jews at all." The British government's view was that the Hungarian people's antisemitism would make them distrust the Allies if Allied broadcasts focused on the Jews.[346] The US government similarly feared turning the war into one about the Jews; antisemitism and isolationism were common in the US before its entry into the war.[347] Although governments and the German public appear to have understood what was happening, it seems the Jews themselves did not. According to Saul Friedländer, "[t]estimonies left by Jews from all over occupied Europe indicate that, in contradistinction to vast segments of surrounding society, the victims did not understand what was ultimately in store for them." In Western Europe, he writes, Jewish communities seem to have failed to piece the information together, while in Eastern Europe, they could not accept that the stories they heard from elsewhere would end up applying to them too.[348]
Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and emigrants were sent to Dachau after the 1935 passage of the Nuremberg Laws which institutionalized racial discrimination.[26] In early 1937, the SS, using prisoner labor, initiated construction of a large complex capable of holding 6,000 prisoners. The construction was officially completed in mid-August 1938.[13] More political opponents, and over 11,000 German and Austrian Jews were sent to the camp after the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938. Sinti and Roma in the hundreds were sent to the camp in 1939, and over 13,000 prisoners were sent to the camp from Poland in 1940.[26][27]
The camp administration did nothing to house the prisoners who were streaming in. Most of them had no roof over their heads, and were without water and food. There was now total chaos in Bergen- Belsen and a typhus epidemic broke out, in the month of March alone 18,168 prisoners perished in the camp and the number of deaths for the period from January to mid-April 1945 was 35,000.
There is no question that Oskar Schindler was appalled by the murder of Jewish children when the Krakow ghetto was closed but Crowe argues “evidence suggests that he had already chosen his path sometime before this tragedy” and that the murders “simply made him more determined to help as many Jews as he could.” In a film, of course, it is more challenging to portray gradual determination rather than a single moment that inspires action. However, Crowe writes, “In the end, there was no one, dramatic transforming moment when Oskar Schindler decided to do everything he could to save his Jewish workers.”
Another former inmate, Moshe Peer, recalled a miraculous escape from death as an eleven-year-old in the camp. In a 1993 interview with a Canadian newspaper, the French-born Peer claimed that he "was sent to the [Belsen] camp gas chamber at least six times." The newspaper account went on to relate: "Each time he survived, watching with horror as many of the women and children gassed with him collapsed and died. To this day, Peer doesn't know how he was able to survive." In an effort to explain the miracle, Peer mused: "Maybe children resist better, I don't know." (Although Peer claimed that "Bergen-Belsen was worse than Auschwitz," he acknowledged that he and his younger brother and sister, who were deported to the camp in 1944, all somehow survived internment there.) /37
December 11, 1941 - Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany saying, "Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and will concentrate nearly 90 percent of its military resources to defeat Hitler.
From 1941 to 1945, almost 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war and a further 50,000 inmates died at this camp. Overcrowding, lack of food and poor sanitary conditions caused outbreaks of typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and dysentery, leading to the deaths of more than 35,000 people in the first few months of 1945, shortly before and after the liberation.
The staff consisted of a chief, several assistants and a group of clerks. The office maintained files which contained all personal data pertinent to the allocation of individuals for work of various kinds. The three main sources of employment at Dachau were (a) work inside the camp, (b) work at the SS camp, (c) work in farms and in factories in the area. The lists of people to be shipped off on transports was usually compiled from those prisoners who were not part of a regular "Working Commando."
Concentration camps began to incarcerate ‘habitual criminals’ in addition to political prisoners. Goebbels stepped up anti-Semitic propaganda with a traveling exhibition which cast Jews as the enemy. Nearly half a million people attended. Some guessed worse would come. Winston Churchill criticised British relations with Germany, warning of ‘great evils of racial and religious intolerance’, though many colleagues complained of his ‘harping on’ about Jews.
From the start, camp detainees were subjected to harsh treatment. On May 25, 1933, Sebastian Nefzger (1900-33), a Munich schoolteacher, was beaten to death while imprisoned at Dachau. The SS administrators who operated the camp claimed that Nefzger had committed suicide, but an autopsy disclosed that he likely lost his life due to asphyxiation or strangulation. The Munich public prosecutor summarily indicted Wäckerle and his underlings on a murder charge. The prosecutor was immediately overruled by Hitler, who issued an edict stating that Dachau and all other concentration camps were not to be subjected to German law as it applied to German citizens. SS administrators alone would run the camps and hand out punishment as they saw fit.
Sprawozdanie 6/42 was sent to Polish officials in London by courier and had reached them by 12 November 1942, when it was translated into English and added to another report, "Report on Conditions in Poland". Dated 27 November, this was forwarded to the Polish Embassy in the United States.[341] On 10 December 1942, the Polish Foreign Affairs Minister, Edward Raczyński, addressed the fledgling United Nations on the killings; the address was distributed with the title The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. He told them about the use of poison gas; about Treblinka, Bełżec and Sobibor; that the Polish underground had referred to them as extermination camps; and that tens of thousands of Jews had been killed in Bełżec in March and April 1942.[342] One in three Jews in Poland were already dead, he estimated, from a population of 3,130,000.[343] Raczyński's address was covered by the New York Times and The Times of London. Winston Churchill received it, and Anthony Eden presented it to the British cabinet. On 17 December 1942, 11 Allies issued the Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations condemning the "bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination".[344][345]
At the end of the sequence in which the family is kicked out of their apartment and forced into the ghetto, while Oskar Schindler moves in to their former home, a stream of fellow Jews pour through the family's new apartment. In the theatrical version, they each greeted the displaced family by saying "Shalom." However, before the film came to video, it was realized that Polish Jews would not have said this Hebrew word, so the line from each Jew was re-dubbed to the Polish "Dzien Dobry." See more »
The fire signaled the demise of German democracy. On the next day, the government, under the pretense of controlling the Communists, abolished individual rights and protections: freedom of the press, assembly, and expression were nullified, as well as the right to privacy. When the elections were held on March 5, the Nazis received nearly 44 percent of the vote, and with 8 percent offered by the Conservatives, won a majority in the government.
Few visitors to the camp bother to visit the town of Dachau which has grown from 13,000 residents in 1945 to 50,000 residents. Dachau is now multicultural and has a diverse population which includes many people who are not ethnic German. Older residents of Dachau are quick to point out that the majority of the people in the town did not vote for Hitler when he ran for President of Germany in 1932.
As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people. Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or brutal treatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland, where these individuals worked and often died under deplorable conditions.
Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the Nazis in Germany. The camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, which is located in southern Germany. Heinrich Himmler, in his capacity as police president of Munich, officially described the camp as “the first concentration camp for political prisoners.”
Schindler's ties with the Abwehr and his connections in the Wehrmacht and its Armaments Inspectorate enabled him to obtain contracts to produce enamel cookware for the military.[31] These connections also later helped him protect his Jewish workers from deportation and death.[32] As time went on, Schindler had to give Nazi officials ever larger bribes and gifts of luxury items obtainable only on the black market to keep his workers safe.[33] Bankier, a key black market connection, obtained goods for bribes as well as extra materials for use in the factory.[34] Schindler himself enjoyed a lavish lifestyle and pursued extramarital relationships with his secretary, Viktoria Klonowska, and Eva Kisch Scheuer, a merchant specialising in enamelware from DEF.[35] Emilie Schindler visited for a few months in 1940 and moved to Kraków to live with Oskar in 1941.[36][37]
In April 1942, at the same time that the Jews were being sent to the death camps in the East, a new brick building called Baracke X was planned for the Dachau camp. It was designed to house a homicidal gas chamber, disguised as a shower room, and four cremation ovens. The new Baracke X also has four disinfection gas chambers, designed to kill lice in clothing with the use of Zyklon-B, the same poison gas that was used to kill the Jews in the homicidal gas chambers at Majdanek and Auschwitz. The clothing was disinfected in all the Nazi camps in an attempt to prevent typhus which is spread by lice.
You see, when Bergen-Belsen was liberated these people were let loose. So we were wandering. We were wandering from one place to another. And there were warehouses. We came to a building, and we walked in, and I still see rows and rows and shelves of handbags, ladies' handbags. As we were walking over there to reach those shelves, I sort of stepped on something. And I said to my friend, "Look! There's a body!" You see, somebody, one of these inmates who wandered to these warehouses and dropped dead from exhaustion or something. And she says, "What do you want me to do about it?" I said, "Let's carry it out." She said, "Are you crazy? You can't carry that out." and she took a few packages of these linens and dropped it on (the body). And then we went to the shelves, and she wanted a handbag. And I wasn't in the mood anymore for the handbag. She pulled out one handbag. It was an alligator handbag. She says, "Take this one." I took it, and she took another one, and we walked out. And I remember, as we left the place, I just threw back the bag. I said, "I don't want it." - and walked away. And this only came back. I never thought about it.
Another 350 suffered the same fate in early 1944, this left 350 detainees in the camp, of whom 266 were in possession of immigration permits to Palestine, 34 were United States citizens and 50 had South American papers. These prisoners were not assigned to work teams and no contact was permitted between them and other groups of Bergen- Belsen prisoners.
Policies differed widely among Germany’s Balkan allies. In Romania it was primarily the Romanians themselves who slaughtered the country’s Jews. Toward the end of the war, however, when the defeat of Germany was all but certain, the Romanian government found more value in living Jews who could be held for ransom or used as leverage with the West. Bulgaria deported Jews from neighbouring Thrace and Macedonia, which it occupied, but government leaders faced stiff opposition to the deportation of native Bulgarian Jews, who were regarded as fellow citizens.
Also set for extermination were members of any group considered by Hitler to be ill-equipped to reside in the new Germany. Among them were artists, intellectuals and other independent thinkers; communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and others who were ideologically opposed to the Nazi Party; homosexuals and others who were viewed as sexually deviant; Gypsies; the physically and mentally handicapped; and anyone else considered to be racially or physically impure. (Between 1941 and 1944, several thousand sick and handicapped Dachau prisoners were sent to a Nazi “euthanasia” center in Hartheim, Austria, where they were put to death by exposure to lethal gas).
When the war was over, a penniless Schindler moved to West Germany where he received financial assistance from Jewish relief organizations. However, he soon felt unsafe there after receiving threats from former Nazi officers. He tried to move to the United States, but because he had been part of the Nazi Party, he was denied entry. After obtaining partial reimbursement for his expenses he incurred during the war, Schindler was able to emigrate to Buenos Aires, Argentina, taking his wife, mistress and a dozen of his Jewish workers (aka "Schindler Jews"). There, he set up a new life, where he took up farming for a time.
Conditions in the camp were good by concentration camp standards, and most prisoners were not subjected to forced labor. However, beginning in the spring of 1944 the situation deteriorated rapidly. In March, Belsen was redesignated an Ehrholungslager [Recovery Camp], where prisoners of other camps too sick to work were brought, though none received medical treatment. As the German Army retreated in the face of the advancing Allies, the concentration camps were evacuated and their prisoners sent to Belsen. The facilites in the camp were unable to accommodate the sudden influx of thousands of prisoners and all basic services - food, water and sanitation - collapsed, leading to the outbreak of disease. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, died of typhus in March 1945, along with other prisoners in a typhus epidemic.
The top Nazis on trial at Nuremberg were stunned and claimed that they were hearing about the Dachau gas chamber for the first time. Some of the footage from this film is currently being shown at the Dachau Museum, although in May 2003, the staff at the Memorial Site was telling visitors that the Dachau gas chamber had actually been designed so that the introduction of poison gas was done by pouring Zyklon-B pellets onto the floor of the gas chamber through two chutes on the outside wall of the building.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the Holocaust as the "systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators",[29] distinguishing between the Holocaust and the targeting of other groups during "the era of the Holocaust".[30] According to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, most historians regard the start of the "Holocaust era" as January 1933, when Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.[31] Other victims of the Holocaust era include those viewed as inferior, including for reasons of race or ethnicity (such as the Roma, ethnic Poles, Russians, and the disabled); and those targeted because of their beliefs or behavior (such as Jehovah's Witnesses, communists, and homosexuals).[30] Hitler came to see the Jews as "uniquely dangerous to Germany", according to Peter Hayes, "and therefore uniquely destined to disappear completely from the Reich and all territories subordinate to it". The persecution and murder of other groups was much less consistent. For example, he writes, the Nazis regarded the Slavs as "sub-human", but their treatment consisted of "enslavement and gradual attrition", while "some Slavs—Slovaks, Croats, Bulgarians, some Ukrainians—[were] allotted a favored place in Hitler's New Order".[20]
The first buildings in the Dachau concentration camp complex consisted of the remnants of an old WWI munitions factory that was located in the northeastern portion of the town. These buildings, with a capacity of about 5,000 prisoners, served as the main camp structures until 1937, when prisoners were forced to expand the camp and demolish the original buildings.
There was a typhus epidemic raging in the camp and 900 prisoners at Dachau were dying of the disease when the liberators arrived, according to the account of Marcus J. Smith. Smith was an Army doctor, who along with 9 others, formed Displaced Persons Team 115, which was sent to Dachau after the liberation. In his book entitled "Dachau: The Harrowing of Hell," Smith wrote that eleven of the barracks buildings at the Dachau camp had been converted into a hospital to house the 4,205 sick prisoners. Another 3,866 prisoners were bed ridden.
As late as 19 April 1945, prisoners were sent to KZ Dachau; on that date a freight train from Buchenwald with nearly 4,500 was diverted to Nammering. SS troops and police confiscated food and water, which local townspeople tried to give to the prisoners. Nearly three hundred dead bodies were ordered removed from the train and carried to a ravine over 400 metres (.25 mi) away. The 524 prisoners who had been forced to carry the dead to this site were then shot by the guards, and buried along with those who had died on the train. Nearly 800 bodies went into this mass grave.
Weather at the time of liberation was unseasonably cool and temperatures trended down through the first two days of May; on 2 May, the area received a snowstorm with 10 centimetres (4 in) of snow at nearby Munich.[91] Proper clothing was still scarce and film footage from the time (as seen in The World at War) shows naked, gaunt people either wandering on snow or dead under it.
Thus although the Nazi 'Final Solution' was one genocide among many, it had features that made it stand out from all the rest as well. Unlike all the others it was bounded neither by space nor by time. It was launched not against a local or regional obstacle, but at a world-enemy seen as operating on a global scale. It was bound to an even larger plan of racial reordering and reconstruction involving further genocidal killing on an almost unimaginable scale, aimed, however, at clearing the way in a particular region – Eastern Europe – for a further struggle against the Jews and those the Nazis regarded as their puppets. It was set in motion by ideologues who saw world history in racial terms. It was, in part, carried out by industrial methods. These things all make it unique.
Czeslawa Kwoka, age 14, appears in a prisoner identity photo provided by the Auschwitz Museum, taken by Wilhelm Brasse while working in the photography department at Auschwitz, the Nazi-run death camp where some 1.5 million people, most of them Jewish, died during World War II. Czeslawa was a Polish Catholic girl, from Wolka Zlojecka, Poland, who was sent to Auschwitz with her mother in December of 1942. Within three months, both were dead. Photographer (and fellow prisoner) Brasse recalled photographing Czeslawa in a 2005 documentary: "She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn't understand why she was there and she couldn't understand what was being said to her. So this woman Kapo (a prisoner overseer) took a stick and beat her about the face. This German woman was just taking out her anger on the girl. Such a beautiful young girl, so innocent. She cried but she could do nothing. Before the photograph was taken, the girl dried her tears and the blood from the cut on her lip. To tell you the truth, I felt as if I was being hit myself but I couldn't interfere. It would have been fatal for me." #
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah,[b] was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews—around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe—between 1941 and 1945.[a][c] Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event during the Holocaust era, in which Germany and its collaborators persecuted and murdered other groups, including Slavs (chiefly ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Soviet citizens), the Roma, the "incurably sick", political and religious dissenters such as communists and Jehovah's Witnesses, and gay men.[d] Taking into account all the victims of Nazi persecution, the death toll rises to over 17 million.[3]
One of the witnesses to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British soldiers on April 15, 1945 was Iolo Lewis, a 20-year-old soldier from Wales. He recalled that, as he arrived at Belsen, Commandant Kramer and his assistant, Irma Grese, were standing at the gates to greet them. Most of the SS men, who were the guards in the camp, had escaped before the British arrived. Commandant Josef Kramer and 80 of the SS men and women had volunteered to remain in the camp to carry out their duties. He said that he counted 13,000 unburied corpses at the time of the liberation, and that the haunting memory never left him, particularly the pearly colour of the piled-up bodies, small, like the bodies of children.
According to testimony given at the Nuremberg IMT, approximately 150 Dachau inmates were forced to participate in medical experiments conducted by Dr. Sigmund Rascher for the German Air Force, and about half of them died as a result. The subjects for these experiments were allegedly German "professional criminals" and Soviet POWs who were Communist Commissars, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler. One Jew, who had been condemned to death for breaking the law against race mixing, was used in these experiments.
As some needed to point out, this is a fictionalized account of historical events and a genuine hero. Some historical persons were combined to make one character in the book and some time frames were condensed. Oskar Schindler was a deeply flawed man, brought to greatness by living through a time of horror in a position where he could make a small, but real difference. The condensations of those true events in this book are masterful. A great book!
The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War 2. In 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be military occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. 1.5 million children were murdered. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of handicapped children.
Keneally’s novel is not the same as most novels. First it is a novel that deals with historical events. This is not too uncommon, though it is less common than non-historical fiction. What makes Schindler’s List special is its absolute accuracy. Keneally studiously sifted through all of the documents regarding Oskar Schindler and those he rescued, as well as interviewed many of those he rescued. The result is a nuanced portrait of Schindler that is imminently readable for any audience. His skill as a novelist allows Keneally to portray the horror of Goeth’s road paved with Jewish gravestones in a way that a strict historian could not. Where Keneally
Nazi racial policy aimed at forcing Jews to emigrate.[109] Fifty thousand German Jews had left Germany by the end of 1934,[110] and by the end of 1938, approximately half the German Jewish population had left the country.[109] Among the prominent Jews who left was the conductor Bruno Walter, who fled after being told that the hall of the Berlin Philharmonic would be burned down if he conducted a concert there.[111] Albert Einstein, who was in the United States when Hitler came to power, never returned to Germany; he was expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Prussian Academy of Sciences and his citizenship was revoked.[112] Other Jewish scientists, including Gustav Hertz, lost their teaching positions and left the country.[113] On 12 March 1938, Germany annexed Austria. Austrian Nazis broke into Jewish shops, stole from Jewish homes and businesses, and forced Jews to perform humiliating acts such as scrubbing the streets or cleaning toilets.[114] Jewish businesses were "Aryanized", and all the legal restrictions on Jews in Germany were imposed.[115] In August that year, Adolf Eichmann was put in charge of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Wien). About 100,000 Austrian Jews had left the country by May 1939, including Sigmund Freud and his family, who moved to London.[116] The Évian Conference was held in July 1938 by 32 countries as an attempt to help the increased refugees from Germany, but aside from establishing the largely ineffectual Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, little was accomplished and most countries participating did not increase the number of refugees they would accept.[117]
Dynatron was Schindler's elevator drive system launched in 1965. It is based on Schlieren's Monotron drive which was developed in 1958. These drive systems are particularly distinguished by direct stopping, regulated electronically as a function of the distance to the floor level. Dynatron should not be confused with Schindler's Dynator (Ward Leonard) drive, which was introduced in 1945.
Part of Spielberg’s reluctance to make Schindler's List was that he didn’t feel that he was prepared or mature enough to tackle a film about the Holocaust. So he tried to recruit other directors to make the film. He first approached director Roman Polanski, a Holocaust survivor whose own mother was killed in Auschwitz. Polanski declined, but would go on to make his own film about the Holocaust, The Pianist, which earned him a Best Director Oscar in 2003. Spielberg then offered the movie to director Sydney Pollack, who also passed.
By the end of the war, Schindler had spent his entire fortune on bribes and black market purchases of supplies for his workers.[80] Virtually destitute, he moved briefly to Regensburg and later Munich, but did not prosper in postwar Germany. In fact, he was reduced to receiving assistance from Jewish organisations.[39] In 1948 he presented a claim for reimbursement of his wartime expenses to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and received $15,000.[81] He estimated his expenditures at over $1,056,000, including the costs of camp construction, bribes, and expenditures for black market goods, including food.[82] Schindler emigrated to Argentina in 1949, where he tried raising chickens and then nutria, a small animal raised for its fur. When the business went bankrupt in 1958, he left his wife and returned to Germany, where he had a series of unsuccessful business ventures, including a cement factory.[83][84] He declared bankruptcy in 1963 and suffered a heart attack the next year, which led to a month-long stay in hospital.[85] Remaining in contact with many of the Jews he had met during the war, including Stern and Pfefferberg, Schindler survived on donations sent by Schindlerjuden from all over the world.[84][86] He died on 9 October 1974 and is buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party to be honoured in this way.[39][84] For his work during the war, on 8 May 1962, Yad Vashem invited Schindler to a ceremony during which a carob tree planted in his honor on the Avenue of the Righteous.[87] He and his wife, Emilie, were named Righteous Among the Nations, an award bestowed by the State of Israel on non-Jews who took an active role to rescue Jews during the Holocaust, on 24 June 1993.[88] Other awards include the German Order of Merit (1966).[89]
Throughout the late-1930s, the Nazi government began to forcibly acquire ethnically German territory in Austria and Czechoslovakia that was taken from Germany at the end of the First World War. Although the international community initially allowed Germany to incorporate these territories into the growing German Empire, it became increasingly clear that Hitler’s ambition did not stop at these small territories. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany, beginning the Second World War.
The name Dachau became a household word for Americans following World War II. This was because it was the only major Nazi concentration camp in the American occupation zone in western Germany. Bergen-Belsen was in the British zone of occupation and Natzweiler was in the French zone. Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen were in the Soviet zone of occupation in eastern Germany and Mauthausen was in the Soviet zone of Austria.
^ Jump up to: a b Zamecnick, Stanislas (2013). C'était ça, Dachau: 1933–1945 [This was Dachau: 1933–1945] (in French). Paris, France: Cherche midi. ISBN 9782749132969., page 71: 2,903 deaths from typhus in January 1945, 3,991 in February, 3,534 in March, 2,168 in April before the liberation. 14,511 registered typhus deaths since it began to spread in October 1944.
Soviet civilian populations in the occupied areas were heavily persecuted.[438] Villages throughout the Soviet Union were destroyed by German troops.[439] Germans rounded up civilians for forced labor in Germany and caused famine by taking foodstuffs.[440] In Belarus, Germany imposed a regime that deported some 380,000 people for slave labor and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Over 600 villages had their entire populations killed, and at least 5,295 Belarusian settlements were destroyed by the Germans. According to Timothy Snyder, of "the nine million people who were in the territory of Soviet Belarus in 1941, some 1.6 million were killed by the Germans in actions away from battlefields, including about 700,000 prisoners of war, 500,000 Jews, and 320,000 people counted as partisans (the vast majority of whom were unarmed civilians)".[441] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has estimated that 3.3 million of 5.7 million Soviet POWs died in German custody.[442] The death rates decreased as the POWs were needed to help the German war effort; by 1943, half a million had been deployed as slave labor.[409]
The total number of German guards killed at Dachau during that day most certainly does not exceed fifty, with thirty probably being a more accurate figure. The regimental records of the 157th Field Artillery Regiment for that date indicate that over a thousand German prisoners were brought to the regimental collecting point. Since my task force was leading the regimental attack, almost all the prisoners were taken by the task force, including several hundred from Dachau.[93]
Bergen-Belsen [ˈbɛʁɡn̩.bɛlsn̩], or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp,[1] in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas.[2] The camp was later expanded to accommodate Jews from other concentration camps.
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Kate Beckinsale Height, Weight, Age, Affairs, Salary, Family, Net Worth – Kathrin Romary “Kate” Beckinsale is a British actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at the University of Oxford.
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She appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000), in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), she had starring roles in the war drama Pearl Harbor (2001) and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She followed those with appearances in The Aviator (2004) and Click (2006).
Since being cast as Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–present), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012). She also continues to make appearances in smaller dramatic projects such as Snow Angels (2007), Nothing but the Truth (2008), and Everybody’s Fine (2009). In 2016, she appeared in the film Love & Friendship.
Beckinsale has worked occasionally as a model. In 1997, she appeared in the music video for George Michael’s “Waltz Away Dreaming”. She starred opposite Orlando Bloom in a 2002 Gap television advertisement directed by Cameron Crowe. She appeared in a Diet Coke television advertisement in 2004, directed by Michael Gondry. She advertised Absolut Vodka in a 2009 print campaign photographed by Ellen von Unwerth. She has also promoted Lux shampoo in a Japanese television advertisement.
Beckinsale was born in Chiswick, London, England. She is the only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe. She has an older paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale, but they have not had regular contact. Her father was of one quarter Burmese descent. She made her first television appearance at the age of four, in an episode of This is Your Life dedicated to her father. When she was five years old, her 31-year-old father died suddenly of a heart attack. Beckinsale was deeply traumatised by the loss and “started expecting bad things to happen.” Her widowed mother moved in with director Roy Battersby when Beckinsale was nine and she was brought up alongside his four sons and daughter.
Beckinsale had an eight-year relationship with actor Michael Sheen from 1995 until 2003. They met when cast in a touring production of The Seagull in early 1995 and moved in together shortly afterwards.
The British Heart Foundation has been Beckinsale’s charity of choice “ever since [she] was six years old” when her father, who had a congenital heart defect, died of a massive heart attack. She has also donated film memorabilia to the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation, MediCinema, Habitat For Humanity and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
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Fort Worth man, 68, gets 13 years in wife’s slaying — (The Star Telegram)
Original article no longer available
The Star Telegram
Posted on Thu, Dec. 04, 2003
By Melody Mcdonald, Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH – Just before jury selection was to begin in his murder trial this week, a 68-year-old Fort Worth man struck a deal with prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to killing his wife and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Lee Sims shot his 66-year-old wife, Thelma, in the head on July 12, 2002, in a bathroom of their home in the 10100 block of Buffalo Grove Road. Afterward, he called 911 and told dispatchers what he had done, officials said.
His wife, a Holiday Inn waitress, was taken to a Fort Worth hospital, where she died two days later.
Sims, a retired security guard, was arrested after he confessed to police again, authorities said.
Sims accepted prosecutors’ plea bargain offer Tuesday morning as potential jurors sat outside state District Judge James Wilson’s courtroom awaiting jury selection, officials said.
Prosecutor Lisa Haines, who handled the case with Lisa Callaghan, said relatives were satisfied with the plea bargain, saying they just wanted Sims, who is in poor health, to spend the rest of his days in prison.
“The family and our office had a concern that this man, just before Christmas, might get sympathy — and probation,” Haines said. “As ridiculous as that sounds, juries can and do give probation when a husband kills a wife.
“Husbands don’t always receive just punishment from a jury. I spoke with all of the four children, and we all agreed that a 13-year sentence will keep him in prison until the day he dies.”
Haines characterized Sims as a mean, quick-tempered, domineering man who would fly off the handle over minor things.
Two days before Thelma Sims’ death, Haines said, the couple had been awarded custody of their grandchild — something that Sims was not in favor of because he was jealous of the time his wife would devote to the baby.
“I think the thing that pushed him over the top was having this child come into the home,” Haines said. “In my opinion, he thought Thelma’s time was going to be shared among the baby and him. Thelma was going to have to divide her time between feeding the baby and feeding the husband.
“The world revolved around him. It was, ‘My way or the highway.’ ”
Defense attorney Ken Cutrer offered a different scenario. He said Sims had a stroke in 1997 that caused some brain damage and left him physically disabled and depressed. Cutrer said Sims was prescribed painkillers and antidepressants, mainly Paxil, which has a tendency to cause violent outbursts.
“I think the combined effects of the stroke and antidepressants he was taking severely impacted his ability to think and to reason,” Cutrer said. “He was under an impression that his wife was going to put him in a nursing home, and probably the grandchild coming into the home was a stressor.”
Cutrer said that Sims’ conduct does not meet the legal definition of insanity and that prosecutors produced information that he had past violent behavior, which “cut into my case.”
“They offered 15 years, and we were going to take 10,” Cutrer said. “We met in the middle and did 13. I thought it was a fair deal. Even if we had gotten probation, he had no place to go.
“It’s a terribly sad case. I’m just glad we were able to meet in the middle somewhere.”
Melody McDonald, (817) 390-7386 mjmcdonald@star-telegram.com
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Joe Wilson’s ‘You Lie!’ Over Illegal Immigrants Most True Statement During Obama Speech
When Barack Obama said in his speech, “The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally,” a sole Republican – Rep. Joe Wilson – burst out, “You lie!”
Wilson’s outburst was immediately denounced by the Republican leadership for its crudity and lack of statesmanship, and Wilson immediately apologized. But Democrats just as immediately pounced on Wilson’s outburst as a foil to depict the Republican Party as “partisan” even as they depicted Obama as transcending such partisanship. Democrats were so bent on playing rhetorical judo against the Republicans over Wilson that the news coverage of the “You lie!” statement literally surpassed Obama’s actual speech.
CNN also notes:
While it was the most attention-getting, Wilson’s shout wasn’t the only demonstration of displeasure made by Republicans during the speech.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, wore a sign around his neck that said, “What bill?” And when Obama asked Republicans to share their health reform ideas with him, a small group raised up a stack of papers above their heads.
The former protest marks the fact that, when Obama says “his plan” will or won’t do something, it should be pointed out that “his plan” or for that matter the Democrat’s plan in fact does not exist. There’s no bill. There’s no plan. The latter points out that – while Obama and Democrats have repeatedly accused the Republicans of being the “party of no,” they have in fact officially submitted over two dozen of their own bills pertaining to health care in C0ngress. It is blatantly dishonest for liberals to claim that Republicans haven’t attempted to contribute their own bills and ideas. The fact that Democrats have shut Republicans out without debate is hardly the same thing as claiming that Republicans haven’t contributed anything.
It also doesn’t matter to most in the mainline media that Democrats loudly and repeatedly booed George Bush in his 2005 State of the Union – as this snippet reveals. Partisanship and rude behavior only appear to count against Republicans. The crap river only flows in one direction with the mainline media bias.
I’m sure everyone’s familiar with the rhyme, “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” Someone’s pants are clearly on fire here. The only question is whose: Joe Wilson’s or Barack Obama’s?
Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner, along with the Congressional Research Service, know whose pants are on fire:
Well, Mr. President, that idea must have been tucked under a stack of background briefing papers over there in the corner of the table because the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says this about H.R. 3200, the Obamacare bill approved just before the recess by the House Energy and Commerce Committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA:
“Under H.R. 3200, a ‘Health Insurance Exchange’ would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange.”
CRS also notes that the bill has no provision for requiring those seeking coverage or services to provided proof of citizenship. So, absent some major amendments to the legislation and a credible, concrete enforcement effort in action, looks like the myth on this issue is the one being spread by Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et. al.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) knows whose pants are on fire:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the “research arm” for the United States Congress, issued a report validating an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), that illegal aliens would be able to receive benefits under the House health care reform bill, America’s Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200).
The report, Treatment of Noncitizens in H.R. 3200, states definitively, “H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitizens – whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently – participating in the Exchange.” H.R. 3200 establishes a Health Insurance Exchange which would provide individuals and small businesses with access to health care plans, including the “public option” to be managed by the government.
CRS also confirms FAIR’s assessment that the House bill does not include a mechanism to prevent illegal aliens from receiving “affordability credits” that would subsidize the purchase of private health insurance. CRS specifically noted the absence “of a provision in the bill specifying the verification procedure.” Because the language is ambiguous, all CRS could reasonably conclude is that any eligibility determination would be the responsibility of the Health Choices Commissioner.
The CRS analysis comes after weeks of denials by Members of Congress that illegal aliens could receive benefits under the House bill. These denials were echoed by countless media and health care “experts” who dismissed public concerns as myths, or as politically orchestrated attacks.
“Case closed. Illegal aliens will be eligible to participate in the health care program offered by the House bill unless Congress acts to amend the bill,” stated Dan Stein, president of FAIR. “The loopholes and omissions in the House bill are not there by accident,” continued Stein. “These loopholes were intended to extend benefits to illegal aliens while allowing Members of Congress to deny those facts to the American people.”
The House Ways & Means Committee had the opportunity to include language that would have barred illegal aliens from enrolling in the proposed public option or receiving the affordability credits, but chose not to. An amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) would have applied the same eligibility verification procedures for coverage under H.R. 3200 that have been used for years to prove eligibility for Medicaid. That amendment was rejected by a party-line vote.
So, the bill would allow illegal immigrants to buy insurance on the national health insurance exchange, which is direct confirmation that “our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants.” It’s really quite straightforward, all the media obfuscation to the contrary.
And Democrats have blocked every republican effort to prevent illegal immigrants from benefiting from the ObamaCare bill even as they have claimed that illegal immigrants won’t receive any coverage.
At least one Reuters journalist understands whose pants are on fire, given the title of his article, “Health Bill Could Benefit 6.6 Million Illegals“:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As President Obama addresses the nation on health care reform, a new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 6.6 million uninsured illegal immigrants could receive benefits under the House health reform bill (H.R. 3200). While the bill states that illegal immigrants are not eligible for the new taxpayer-funded affordability credits, there is nothing in the bill to enforce this provision. Congress defeated efforts to require the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. More than 70 other programs of this kind use SAVE.
The report is available at http://www.CIS.org/IllegalsAndHealthCareHR3200.
And while Democrats may never publicly acknowledge the truth, a number of them are now aware of whose pants are really on fire:
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., was criticized for interrupting Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress to accuse the president of lying about his health care reform plan prohibiting coverage for illegal immigrants. Wilson quickly apologized, and the White House accepted the apology.
Wilson apologized again Thursday morning, though he also says a massive loophole could wind up in the health care bill: no requirement to prove citizenship for health care coverage.
Among three House committees to pass bills for health reform, only one expressly bans federal funding for proving health coverage to illegal immigrants.
“The Congressional Research Service has indicated that indeed the bills that are before Congress would include illegal aliens,” Wilson said. “And I think this is wrong.”
Indeed, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service study found that the House health care bill does not restrict illegal immigrants from receiving health care coverage.
House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner amplified the complaint that without proof of citizenship, illegal immigrants could be insured.
“There were two opportunities for House Democrats to make clear that illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered by putting in requirements to show citizenships,” he said. “Both of those amendments were, in fact, rejected.”
In the Senate, Democrats in the so called “Gang of Six,” a group of bipartisan senators on the Senate Finance Committee which is the last panel yet to release its bill, began moving quickly to close the loophole that Wilson helped bring greater attention to.
Again, since there is no bill, we can’t know whether or not the loopholes that currently would allow illegal immigrants to get access to ObamaCare will be closed or not.
We can know that Democrats repeatedly refused to provide such closure of loopholes even over repeated Republican efforts to seek such closure.
And we also can know whose pants were on fire Wednesday night: not Joe Wilson’s, but Barack Obama’s.
Joe Wilson’s emotional outburst was rude, unstatesmanlike, and politically stupid. But it also had the virtue of being quite true in what amounted to a sea of half truths that amounted to whole lies.
Even the liberal mainline Associated Press was forced to declare in it’s fact check which in fact is the title of the article: “Obama uses iffy math on deficit pledge.”
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About St. Gregory the Great Church and School
History of our Parish and our Patron Saint
Our dynamic parish was founded in 1955 and in that time has grown and changed. We have been blessed with 6 wonderful pastors who have shepherded us through good times and difficult times. The Presentation Sisters, with their Irish spirit, founded our school, led our ministries and shared their love and generosity with all. We invite you to join our community and be enriched by the spirit of St. Gregory the Great.
St. Gregory the Great was born to a wealthy family in Rome. He began his career as a Roman lawyer but after much prayer and inward struggle Gregory decided to abandon everything and become a monk. The proof of love is in the works. "Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist." - St. Gregory the Great
Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the head of the Western or Catholic Church from 3 September 590 to his death in 604. Gregory is well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope.
Throughout the Middle Ages he was known as “the Father of Christian Worship” because of his exceptional efforts in revising the Roman worship of his day. He is also known as St. Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues. For this reason, English translations of Orthodox texts will sometimes list him as "Gregory Dialogus". He was the first of the popes to come from a monastic background. Gregory is a Doctor of the Church and one of the Latin Fathers. He is considered a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, and some Lutheran churches. Immediately after his death, Gregory was canonized by popular acclaim. The Protestant reformer John Calvin admired Gregory and declared in his Institutes that Gregory was the last good pope.
He is the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers.
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Editors' ChoiceLysophosphatidic Acid
Inhibition of IL-13 Signaling in Bronchial Epithelial Cells by LPA
John F. Foley
Science’s STKE, AAAS, Washington, DC 20005, USA
Science's STKE 10 Apr 2007:
Vol. 2007, Issue 381, pp. tw127
DOI: 10.1126/stke.3812007tw127
The cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), a Th2-associated cytokine, plays a role in the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma. IL-13 signals through its receptor, a heterodimer of IL-13 receptor α1 (IL-13Rα1) and IL-4 receptor α (IL-4Rα), to activate signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6). Another receptor, IL-13Rα2, with higher affinity for IL-13 than that of IL-13Rα1, acts as a decoy receptor for IL-13, blocking its signaling. Phospholipid lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) has been detected in the lung and signals through G protein-coupled receptors to enhance production of epithelial chemokines. To investigate a role for LPA in airway modulation, Zhao et al. treated primary cultures of human bronchial epithelial cells (HBEpCs) with LPA for various time periods. Through real-time polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting analyses, the authors found that the abundance of mRNA and protein for IL-13Rα2, but not IL-13Rα1 or IL-4Rα, were increased and that IL-13Rα2 protein was secreted by the cells, with a peak production time after 6 hours of treatment. These effects were blocked if cells were pretreated with pertussis toxin, indicating that the effect of LPA on IL-13Rα2 production was mediated by G proteins of the Gi family. Treatment of HBEpCs with LPA also blocked the ability of IL-13, but not IL-4, to activate STAT6. Studies with pharmacological inhibitors and small interfering RNA (siRNA) demonstrated that LPA stimulation of IL-13Rα2 production was dependent on the activities of both c-Jun N-terminal kinase and phospholipase D. This study suggests that LPA functions to protect bronchial epithelium during airway inflammation in asthma.
Y. Zhao, D. He, J. Zhao, L. Wang, A. R. Leff, E. W. Spannhake, S. Georas, V. Natarajan, Lysophosphatidic acid induces interleukin-13 (IL-13) receptor α2 expression and inhibits IL-13 signaling in primary human bronchial epithelial cells. J. Biol. Chem. 282, 10172-10179 (2007). [Abstract] [Full Text]
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Lysophosphatidic acid-mediated inhibition of interleukin-13 signaling could modulate airway responsiveness in asthma.
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Alan Mathison Turing, b. June 23, 1912, d. June 7, 1954. He played a significant rôle in cracking German codes during World War II, and proposed a test for machine intelligence. He went to King’s College, Cambridge in 1931 to read Mathematics. Alan Turing graduated in 1934, and was a fellow at Kings for two years, during which he wrote his now famous paper published in 1937, On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. In it, he proposed a machine that could move from one state to another by following a rigorous set of rules. From this he was able to show the existence of uncomputable functions. For example, no program can determine if any arbitrary program will terminate. This led to a computing scheme that foreshadowed the logic of digital computers.
Alan Mathison Turing born June 23 in Maida Vale, London, to Ethel Sara Turing (nee Stoney) and Julius Mathison Turing.
Turing joins St Michael’s day school in Hastings, where he does not do very well.
His father was in the Indian Civil Service, and his parents returned to the UK for his birth, which took place in Maida Vale, London. When he was about one year old, his parents returned to India, leaving Alan and his older brother with a retired army couple, a Col. Ward, and his wife, who lived in St. Leonards in a large house, Baston Lodge, in Upper Maze Hill, with their own children and a nanny. The house is still there, and has a blue plaque commemorating his stay there. When he was six, he attended St. Michael’s day school at 20 Charles Road, until he was 10, when he went to Hazlehurst preparatory school. The building is still there, converted into flats. He and his brother weren’t very happy with the Wards,
Sherborne School
and they stayed with a different family when he was at Hazlehurst. When he was 13 he joined his older brother at Sherborne School in Dorset, where he stayed until he went up to Cambridge. Their parents retired to France at about the time he went to Sherborne, and the brothers stayed with them during vacations. Turing doesn’t appear to have had any connection to St. Leonards after he left the Wards. – Leon Heller G1HSM
Turing is sent to Hazelhurst Preparatory School where he does much better and learns to play chess.
He went on to Sherborne School, a well-known independent school in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset. His first day of term coincided with the 1926 General Strike. He was so determined not to miss his first day of school that he cycled the 97km from his home in Southampton. He is not interested in their traditional classical education as he really wants to study science and mathematics. His teachers were concerned that he leaned too heavily towards maths and science, at the expense of the classics. The headmaster wrote to his parents:
I hope he will not fall between two stools. If he is to stay at public school, he must aim at becoming educated. If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time at a public school.
Turing encountered Albert Einstein‘s work; not only did he grasp it, but he extrapolated Einstein’s questioning of Newton’s laws of motion from a text in which this was never made explicit. Turing enters 6th form at Sherborne and becomes great friends with Christopher Morcom, another talented boy who loves Maths and Science.
Turing’s close school friend Christopher Morcom dies suddenly from bovine tuberculosis. Turing is devastated, renounces his religious faith and becomes an atheist.
Kings College Chapel
Enters King’s College, Cambridge, as mathematics scholar. He gained first-class honours in Mathematics.
Kurt Gödel
Elected fellow of King’s College for his dissertation “Central Limit Theorem of Probability” Turing attended Max Newman‘s advanced course on the foundations of mathematics. This course studied Gödel’s incompleteness results and Hilbert‘s question on decidability: given a mathematical proposition could one find an algorithm which would decide if the proposition was true or false? He learnt that Hilbert’s Entsceidungsproblem (decision problem) was still open. Turing was motivated by Gödel’s work to seek an algorithmic method of determining whether any given propositions were undecidable, with the ultimate goal of eliminating them from mathematics.
Submitted on 28 May 1936 and delivered 12 November to London Mathematical Society: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem) in which he outlines the Universal Machine, which later became known as the Turing Machine. This was an idealised computing device that is capable of performing any mathematical computation that can be represented as an algorithm. There cannot exist any universal method of decision and, hence, mathematics will always contain undecidable (as opposed to unknown) propositions. Turing invents programming in this paper (‘computer’ then was a human who computed):
It is always possible for the computer to break off from his work, to go away and forget all about it, and later to come back and go on with it. If he does this he must leave a note of instructions (written in some standard form) explaining how the work is to be continued … The note of instructions must enable him to carry out one step and write the next note. Thus the state of progress of the computation at any stage is completely determined by the note of instructions and the symbols on the tape.
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
In September Turing went to the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, studying under Alonzo Church. There he started to study cryptology as well as mathematics.
He obtained his PhD from Princeton University; his Ph.D. thesis under the direction of the American mathematician Alonzo Church, Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals, introduced the concept of ordinal logic and the notion of relative computing, where Turin
g machines are augmented with so-called oracles, allowing a study of problems that cannot be solved by a Turing machine. He then returned to England and accepted a renewed fellowship at King’s College. From September 1938, Turing had been working part-time with the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS), the British code breaking organisation. He concentrated on Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, with Dilly Knox, a senior GCCS codebreaker.
Applied to the Royal Society for a grant of £40 for the engineering of a special machine to calculate approximate values for the Riemann zeta-function on its critical line. September – Turing is asked to join the Government Codes and Ciphers School and arrives at Bletchley Park the day after war is declared. There he works with Gordon Welchman to develop the Bombe, a device for decrypting the messages sent by Germans using their Enigma machines. The Bombe
built on a machine that the Polish had already made, called the Bomba Kryptlogiczna. Many of Germany’s secret messages could be deciphered and read with it. The periods when the Naval code could be broken saw dramatic reductions in the shipping losses from the Atlantic convoys so essential to the conduct of the Allied war effort.Turing used statistical techniques to optimise the trial of different possibilities in the code-breaking process using probability.
Conceptualises programmable computer; named Colossus, the first such machine is built 3 years later, based on his ideas. These machines were the predecessors to the first digital computers.
First Turing Bombe is installed at Bletchley Park.
Turing proposed marriage to Hut 8 co-worker Joan Clarke, a fellow mathematician and cryptanalyst, but their engagement was short-lived. After admitting his homosexuality to his fiancée, who was reportedly “unfazed” by the revelation, Turing decided that he could not go through with the marriage.
Turing and his colleagues break the more complicated German Naval Enigma system. This is a tremendous help to the Allies in the Battle of the Atlantic as it could help them avoid the fearsome German U-boats, which had been responsible for sinking more than 700 Allied ships with 2.3 million tons of vital cargo. Turing travelled to the United States in November and worked with U.S. Navy cryptanalysts on Naval Enigma and bombe construction in Washington, visiting their Computing Machine Laboratory at Dayton, Ohio. He shared what he knew about Enigma in return for being allowed to inspect the speech encryption system being set up to allow conversations between Churchill and Roosevelt. Turing was somewhat dismissive of US cryptanalysis, believing the Americans to rely too heavily on machinery instead of thought.
Turing is asked to work as a top level intelligence link with USA, which he visits to share information on cryptology (code-breaking). Works at Bell Laboratories on speech encypherment.
Colossus, the world’s first large-scale electronic computer, is installed at Bletchley Park.
Von Neumann‘s ‘First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC’ is circulated, setting out the design of the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Arithmetic Computer)
Begins designing a stored-program machine (MOSAIC), which will store data and programs in its electronic memory.
Turing’s ‘Proposed Electronic Calculator‘ is circulated, setting out the design of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine). In it, he suggests that computers will ‘play very good chess‘
Published “A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function”, which constitutes his first printed contribution to the subject.
Turing was awarded the OBE for his wartime services, but his work remained secret for many years.
October: Turing joined the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) where he worked on developing an electronic digital stored-program computing machine that would later become the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine). By 1946 he had a finished proposal for the computer, but NPL did not have the resources to turn it into reality.
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) is the second large-scale electronic computer to operate
19 February, published the first detailed design of a stored-program computer.
Turing and his group pioneer modern computer programming, writing a library of sophisticated programs for the unbuilt ACE.
Turing presents a course of lectures on Versions V, VI, and VII of the ACE design, at the Ministry of Supply in London (Dec. 1946 to Feb. 1947). Kilburn attends from Manchester University.
He returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year during which he produced a seminal work on Intelligent Machinery that was not published in his lifetime.
Turing lectures on the ACE at Burlington House in London, the first public lecture to mention computer intelligence.
The Pilot ACE was built in his absence and executed its first program on 10 May 1950.
Darwin, Director of the National Physical Laboratory, halts work on ACE Test Assembly, leaving the field to Manchester.
Appointed Reader in the Mathematics Department at the University of Manchester.
He also invented the LU decomposition method in 1948, used today for solving matrix equations.
Manchester wins the race: the world’s first stored-program electronic computer comes to life on June 21 in Newman‘s Computing Machine Laboratory.
Turing, now at Manchester as Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory, writes ‘Intelligent Machinery‘, the first manifesto of Artificial Intelligence.
Turing joined Max Newman’s Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he wrote programs for the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine (MADAM), the computer with the largest memory capacity in the world at that time.
Turing, working with his former undergraduate colleague, D. G. Champernowne, began writing a chess program for a computer that did not yet exist. Lacking a computer powerful enough to execute the program, Turing played a game in which he simulated the computer, taking about half an hour per move. ‘Turochamp’ plays its first game of chess.
ENIAC is set up to run in (read-only) stored-program mode
He became Deputy Director of the Computing Laboratory, working on software for one of the earliest stored-program computers—the Manchester Mark 1.
Four more electronic stored-program computers become operational:EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) at the University of Cambridge, followed by BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer) in the U.S., the CSIR Mark I (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Mark I Computer) in Australia, and Whirlwind I in the U.S.
Turing’s paper ‘Checking a Large Routine’ inaugurates the area now known as ‘program verification’.
Pilot Model ACE is operational, preceded in the U.S. by SEAC (National Bureau of Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) and followed by SWAC (National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer).
Publishes Computing Machinery and Intelligence, introducing a test of intelligence, that he said would prove a machine could think. This test later became known as the Turing Test. Turing was convinced that if a computer could do all mathematical operations, it could also do anything a person can do, a still highly controversial opinion. (Mind, October 1950), Turing addressed the problem of artificial intelligence, and proposed an experiment which became known as the Turing test, an attempt to define a standard for a machine to be called “intelligent”. The Turing Test has a computer and a person with the interrogator trying to distinguish which is the computer. The interrorgator asks questions via teletype so no visual identification can be made. The test is repeated with a range of people in the human position and if the number of times that repeated identification is less than pure guesswork then the machine has passed.
Used the prototype Manchester University Electronic Computer to do some calculations concerned with the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function, specifically whether there are any zeros not on the critical line in certain intervals.
Turing is elected Fellow of the Royal Society FRS and also gives a talk about Artificial Intelligence on the BBC radio’s Third Programme.
The Ferranti Mark I is the first commercially-available electronic stored-program computer. The first off the production line is installed at Manchester University.
Turing begins using the Ferranti Mark I to study biological growth.
UNIVAC is the first commercially-available electronic stored-program computer in the U.S.
von Neumann’s computer at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study is operational.
Oettinger at Cambridge University writes the first program capable of learning.
EDVAC is operational in the US.
Strachey‘s draughts (checkers) program plays its first game on the Manchester computer.
Turing worked from 1952 until his death in 1954 on mathematical biology, specifically morphogenesis. He worked on what would now be called Artificial Life, using the Ferranti Mark I computer to model aspects of biological growth, in particular a chemical mechanism by which the genes of a zygote could determine the anatomical structure of the resulting animal or plant. He published one paper on the subject called The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis in 1952, putting forth the Turing hypothesis of pattern formation.
During the final years of his life Turing was working on what would now be called Artificial Life or A-Life. He used the Ferranti Mark I computer belonging to the Manchester University Computing Machine Laboratory to simulate a chemical mechanism by which the genes of a zygote may determine the anatomical structure of the resulting animal or plant. He described these studies as ‘not altogether unconnected’ to his work on neural networks, as ‘brain structure has to be … achieved by the genetical embryological mechanism, and this theory that I am now working on may make clearer what restrictions this really implies’. During this period Turing achieved the distinction of being the first to engage in the computer-assisted exploration of non-linear dynamical systems (his theory used non-linear differential equations to express the chemistry of growth). He died while in the middle of this groundbreaking work, leaving a large pile of handwritten notes and some programs. This material is still not fully understood. – Jack Copeland
Turing is arrested for gross indecency and loses his security clearance. Turing’s homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He is offered chemical treatment as an alternative to imprisonment. The hormone treatment has a very detrimental effect on him.
Turing publishes his classic paper on computer chess.
Dies of cyanide poisoning June 7 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. June 8th – Turing’s body is found in his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. The post-mortem finds that his death had been caused by cyanide poisoning. His body is cremated at Woking crematorium.
Sources & Further Reading
Wikipedia entry
Alan Turing – Timeline
Alan Turing, Father of the Modern Computer
Biography of Turing By Jack Copeland
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
A history of the Pilot ACE and ACE computers, the computing machines developed at NPL as a result of Turing’s work, and of those involved
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Nancy Many’s Life in Scientology Dramatized on January 16 Investigation Discovery Series
By Tony Ortega | January 8, 2013
Discovery Channel’s true-crime sister network, Investigation Discovery, is airing a 1-hour dramatization of Nancy Many’s amazing life in Scientology next week, at 10 pm on Wednesday, January 16.
Many has been very effective at keeping this a secret, but recently she let us in on it and now that she’s seen the final edit, she’s very happy with how the production turned out.
“Out of the blue I got a request last spring from two separate production companies wanting to put my book in a docudrama format,” Many says, referring to her harrowing account of surviving Scientology’s notorious “Rehabilitation Project Force” and many other experiences in My Billion-Year Contract. She chose a British production company whose executives had some previous experience working on Scientology stories.
“This past summer they came to the US and interviewed me and several other people, including Paulette Cooper,” she says. “They asked me about my experiences with the manipulative mind control environment of Scientology.”
For part of her career in the church, Nancy was a Boston-area volunteer who helped the church carry out covert operations. In one of her assignments, she was asked to tail Cooper, who had written a book about Scientology in 1971 and was considered the church’s biggest enemy at the time.
“I was briefed as to when she was coming into Boston, and exactly which clothes she’d be wearing the next day,” she says, and she admits it puzzled her how her handlers knew what Cooper would be wearing in the future — later, she learned that Scientology was being fed information by Cooper’s roommate, an operative who called himself Jerry Levin.
“I followed her around, but they knew she was coming to Boston to meet with her attorney, F. Lee Bailey, and I never understood why that exercise was done. Because they knew when she was coming, what she was wearing, where she was going. It has never made sense to me why she needed to be followed when she was doing something they already knew she was doing.”
In Many’s book, one of the most disturbing episodes describes her time as a prisoner in the RPF, five months pregnant, forced to live in a parking garage in Clearwater, Florida. Later, she was running the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles when she and her husband made a break for freedom after they were threatened with further RPF stints — then had to go back for their 2-year-old son.
All of it is covered in the Investigation Discovery docudrama, which is part of a new series called “Dangerous Persuasions.”
“They act it out. It’s a dramatized documentary,” she says. With voiceover provided by Many herself.
“Scientology: My Eternal Contract” is the title for the episode.
The theme of the series is stories of “good people who are made to do bad things,” she says. “Scientology indoctrinates people so they do things they would normally never do.”
Programming Note
A death in the family is going to keep us off the blog for the next couple of days. Please bear with us.
Posted by Tony Ortega on January 8, 2013 at 01:00
January 8th, 2013 | Category: Scientology Armageddon
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Joseph Altuzarra on dressing the Duchess of Sussex and why women should be able to feel sexy at any age
The Telegraph 2 January 2019
The Duchess of Sussex wearing Altuzarra - AP
In September last year, the Duchess of Sussex arrived at the Wellchild awards in what was possibly her least ‘royal’ outfit yet. Her sleek, immaculately tailored black trouser suit was simultaneously demurely understated and outrageously glamorous; she could either have been stepping into a job interview or onto the set of a Helmut Newton photo shoot.
The man behind the suit was Joseph Altuzarra, a designer who has made it his business to create these dichotomies for his customers. In a decade when sportswear and mannish minimalism has dominated the fashion conversation, Altuzarra’s sensual and feminine yet polished and work-ready aesthetic has offered a refreshing alternative which has been embraced not only by Meghan but Michelle Obama, the Duchess of Cambridge, Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence as well as a faithful coterie of clients.
“I just really wanted to create happy clothes, that you would want to wear when it’s beautiful out, and which make you feel in love and happy,” Altuzarra tells me on a bright Autumn day in Paris as he leafs through a rail of ditsy floral printed pencil skirts, gingham tailoring in ice cream hues and crocheted sundresses which make up his hot-summer-in-the-Mediterranean-inspired spring/summer 2019 collection; Luca Guadagnino’s sultry romance, Call Me By Your Name, was an important reference.
Altuzarra, an infectiously smiley 35-year-old Chinese/ French/American who wears a white t-shirt, leather trousers and trainers when we meet, has never been one for overwrought concepts, instead preferring to infuse his offerings with ease, optimism and a dash of modern sexiness.
For example, the reason that so many of the looks he shows me expose the decolletage “came from this article I was reading about chakras. The solar plexus is the seat of where your self and confidence is, and exposing that is so open and freeing.” Doing sexy clothes as a male designer is something he’s grappled with over the past year in the wake of #metoo, he admits, but his focus is firmly on “body positivity and helping women to feel empowered.” He’s also been happily married for four years to his husband, Seth.
Michelle Obama wearing Altuzarra Credit: The Asahi Shimbun
Altuzarra’s name has been quietly revered in fashion circles for years- he has won several CFDA awards in his time including the Vogue Fashion Fund, which is overseen by Anna Wintour, in 2011, and Kering, the conglomerate which owns Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, took a minority stake in his business in 2013 - but there is nothing like a little royal patronage to take one’s name stellar. The Duchess of Sussex has several Altuzarra pieces in her wardrobe, including a pinstripe dress, a white blazer and, of course, that super chic suit. Many of these pieces sold out after she wore them, ‘a rare power’ in the realms of VIP dressing, he tells me.
The Duchess of Cambridge wearing Altuzarra Credit: Eddie Mulholland
“You know the really nice thing about Meghan which obviously we could not have planned was that we actually started working with her prior to Harry,” Altuzarra confides. ‘She came to the party for our Target collaboration five years ago and we’ve worked with her ever since. She represents such a modern idea of womanhood as well as a very new idea of royalty.” He’s proud too of dressing her in pieces which a designer may not have ordinarily expected a Duchess to select- “it sets a really nice tone for a newer generation.”
A look from Altuzarra's SS19 collection Credit: Getty
He lives and works in New York, and showed his collections at the city’s fashion week until 2017 when he decided to take himself from ‘a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a big pond’ and show in Paris instead. Having been brought up in the city, it seemed like a natural move. “I think a lot of French style is ingrained in me,” he says. “I love a certain kind of dressing and attitude towards the body- those are things I grew up with.”
One of his muses is Carine Roitfeld, the 64 year-old former editor of French Vogue. “She really embodies that idea that you don’t need to stop being seductive because you’re aging, she does whatever she wants. America is a society of correction, a lot of it is about being perfect, getting yourself to be perfect through plastic surgery or exercise or nutrition. Whereas in France it’s much more of a society of acceptance of your flaws and sometimes even highlighting them, celebrating them.”
Joseph Altuzarra with Carine Roitfeld Credit: REX
Altuzarra has made this celebration of ageless glamour a central tenet of his label (the New York bit comes in via pragmatic wearabilty), which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019. His signatures include nipped-in tailoring, curve-enhancing skirts and sinuous dresses which are imbued with flattering, feel-good power. “I have been really conscious of being respectful of how women want to feel and actually dress,” he says. “They need to wear a bra and maybe some of them want to wear Spanx, it’s got to work with that.” Perhaps those solar-plexus baring tops don’t quite tick the bra box, but he has plenty of other options which do.
“A lot of the women we want to talk to are not just 20, 30 or 40 but also 50, 60 and 70,” he adds. “The root of my idea for the brand was looking at women like my mum, who were in their 60s and who still wanted to be sexy, and who didn’t want to feel like society was relegating them to having to wear tweed suits.”
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Six bodies, remains of 7 others recovered from AN-32 crash site
Shillong (Meghalaya): Six bodies and remains of seven others have been recovered from the crash site of the ill-fated AN-32 days after a massive search operation was initiated, Defence spokesperson Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh in Shillong said on Thursday.
The black box of the aircraft which crashed in Arunachal Pradesh with 13 personnel on board has suffered damage and an investigation by the Indian Air Force to find out the actual cause of the crash may take more time, defence sources had said on Monday. The black box of the plane was recovered by a team of mountaineers on June 9. The AN-32 aircraft went missing on June 3 after taking off from Assam's Jorhat. The aircraft was headed for Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh when it lost contact with ground authorities at around 1 pm.
After a massive search and rescue operation for eight days, during which assets from several agencies were deployed, the wreckage of the aircraft was located by a Mi-17 chopper. The wreckage was located 16 km north of Lipo in Arunachal Pradesh at an elevation of 12,000 feet.
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The barrel is the hollow tube leading from the supply end at the top of the snorkel to the demand end at the bottom where the mouthpiece is attached. The barrel is made of a relatively rigid material such as plastic, light metal or hard rubber. The bore is the interior chamber of the barrel; bore length, diameter and bends all affect breathing resistance.
Being born and raised here in Hawaii, I have been blessed to swim, fish, and dive these waters all my life. As you plan your Hawaii vacation, I thought you’d like the real scoop about snorkeling in Hawaii from someone who lives and breathes it. I'll share with you the best Hawaii snorkeling information so you can make informed travel plans and experience the best Hawaii's ocean has to offer. Browse, enjoy, and I'll see you in the water!
What makes Cebu so attractive is its beaches, spectacular coral atolls, smaller surrounding islands and rich fishing. The best beaches are expanses of white powder-fine sand and the best diving is off the northern tip of the island at Bantayan and Malapascua islands. If you ever get tired of having fun in the sun and frolicking in the emerald clear waters, explore the metropolitan, densely populated Cebu City, with lively bars, diverse restaurants, the fascinating Museo Sugbo, spectacular Basilica Minore del Santo Niño or mesmerizing Jumalon Butterfly Sanctuary.
The beach has a lot of people around, but it doesn't feel too crowded once you're having fun. Parking can be a challenge, but once you find one you won the jackpot cause it's free. There's a large life guard tower close to the pier. We got to see them do a practice drill that day. You can hear airplanes flying over from time to time. You can see the sail boats in the distance which is nice. Lots of families there on my visit. There's a dog park along the beach more towards the hotel. People were nice and every one was friendly on our visit. No one bothered us and we were able to just relax. We got to also see people practicing their surfing skills. I plan to go back when I'm in that part of town again.
Ursula Andress, appearing as Honey Rider in the 1962 British James Bond film, Dr. No, wore a white bikini, which became known as the "Dr. No bikini". It became one of the most famous bikinis of all time and an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history.[97][98][99] Andress said that she owed her career to that white bikini, remarking, "This bikini made me into a success. As a result of starring in Dr. No as the first Bond girl, I was given the freedom to take my pick of future roles and to become financially independent."[97][100]
By making an analogy with words like bilingual and bilateral containing the Latin prefix "bi-" (meaning "two" in Latin), the word bikini was first back-derived as consisting of two parts, [bi + kini] by Rudi Gernreich, who introduced the monokini in 1964.[18][19] Later swimsuit designs like the tankini and trikini further cemented this derivation.[20] Over time the "–kini family" (as dubbed by author William Safire[21]), including the "–ini sisters" (as dubbed by designer Anne Cole[22]), expanded into a variety of swimwear including the monokini (also known as a numokini or unikini), seekini, tankini, camikini, hikini (also hipkini), minikini, face-kini, burkini, and microkini.[23] The Language Report, compiled by lexicographer Susie Dent and published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2003, considers lexicographic inventions like bandeaukini and camkini, two variants of the tankini, important to observe.[24] Although "bikini" was originally a registered trademark of Réard, it has since become genericized.[25]
Raquel Welch's fur bikini in One Million Years B.C. (1966) gave the world the most iconic bikini shot of all time and the poster image became an iconic moment in cinema history.[101] Her deer skin bikini in One Million Years B.C., advertised as "mankind's first bikini",[102] (1966) was later described as a "definitive look of the 1960s".[103] Her role wearing the leather bikini raised Welch to a fashion icon[9] and the photo of her in the bikini became a best-selling pinup poster.[103]
The best snorkel reefs start shallow, and few are shallower than Glovers Reef Atoll. At low tide, coral heads pop from the sea, visible to beachgoers at the private-island Off the Wall Dive Center and Resort. Don a mask and jump in to witness the rainbow of reds, yellows and purples of the hard and soft corals, and thriving marine life. You don’t need to cover much ground to encounter diversity. Here, the best tactic is to hover above a patch of reef and check out the hundreds of species, from blenny fish, each only 3 inches long, to toadfish, a pancake-flat, whiskered bottom-dweller that betrays its hiding spots when emitting a loud croak.
Monokini 1964 A monokini (also called topless swimsuit, unikini or numokini) is a women's one-piece garment equivalent to the lower half of a bikini.[142] Originally a specific design conceived by Rudi Gernreich in 1964, the term is now used to describe any topless swimsuit,[143] particularly a bikini bottom worn without a top.[144] An extreme version of the monokini, the thong-style pubikini (which exposed the pubic region), was also designed by Rudi Gernreich in 1985.[145][146]
H&M's business concept is to offer fashion and quality at the best price. H&M has since it was founded in 1947 grown into one of the world's leading fashion companies. The content of this site is copyright-protected and is the property of H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB. H&M is committed to accessibility. That commitment means H&M embraces WCAG guidelines and supports assistive technologies such as screen readers. If you are using a screen reader, magnifier, or other assistive technologies and are experiencing difficulties using this website, please call our TOLL-FREE support line (855-466-7467) for assistance.
Microkini 1995 A microkini, including subgenres like minikini, minimini and tear-drop, is an extremely meager bikini.[140] The designs for both women and men typically use only enough fabric to cover the genitals and, for women, the nipples. Any additional straps are merely to keep the garment attached to the wearer's body. Some variations of the microkini use adhesive or wire to hold the fabric in place over the genitals. Microkinis keep the wearer just within legal limits of decency and fill a niche between nudism and conservative swimwear.[141]
Tropical Islands Resort features a full-service spa, a water park, 2 outdoor swimming pools, and 2 indoor swimming pools. Dining is available at one of the resort's 5 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include 4 bars/lounges and a beach bar. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Tropical Islands was built by the Malaysian corporation Tanjong in the former airship hangar known as the Aerium. The hangar – the third largest free-standing hall in the world – was originally designed to protect large airships from the elements. It was purchased by Tanjong on 11 June 2003 for €17.5 million, of which €10 million was a subsidy from the federal state of Brandenburg. The building permit for constructing the theme park inside the hall was granted on 2 February 2004 and Tropical Islands officially opened on 19 December 2004.
If you are a reggae/island music enthusiast, and looking for a snorkel adventure in Key West, then look no further than Rum and Reggae snorkeling tour. This top rated snorkeling tour even throws in a sunset sail at the end of the day, which also includes unlimited soda, beer, water, or the famous rum punch. This relaxed tour leaves later than most, so you can enjoy your cup of coffee in the morning, and leave in the afternoon.
Which of these great locations would you recommend for a family with teenagers who like to dive and surf? We have been to Hawaii, Costa Rica and Tahiti. We are looking for a safe, yet different, cultural experience with exotic plants, fish and animals. We would prefer to stay in one villa, as opposed to multiple rooms in a hotel. We don’t mind if it is far away from Southern California. I realize this may be painful financially.
1,200,000 people visited last year. 40% of them stayed overnight with an average stay of 2 nights. Day ticket prices start at €33; an overnight stay in a tent starts at €150. There are supposedly 10 flamingos in residence, but I only saw 9 during my stay. I emailed T.I. reps to see if there’d been a death. A representative assured me they only had a double digit count and said, “[N]ow and then one of them tiptoes around to explore the rest of the hall.” There are 275,000 balls in the children’s ball pit and I’m sad to report that I missed something called the Space Hole at the water playground where “guests slip into a funnel that slowly sucks them down.” The hall has 50,000 plants from 600 species and the work of 1 self-described “palace-slut” who moved to Bali from Australia in the seventies, renounced his name (Michael White), and went on to become a world-renowned tropical landscape architect, designing both David Bowie’s estate in Mustique and Tropical Islands’ lagoon before his death in 2016. I lasted about 22 hours.
A day as exciting as this is sure to wear you out. So when darkness settles over the tropics and the South Seas paradise falls quiet, why not spend the night in one of Tropical Islands' well-appointed lodges? It's also possible to go rustic and stay overnight in a tropical tent. Well-equipped tents of various sizes are available in the rainforest camp within the dome. Set amid the beautiful scenery of the Brandenburg heath, the nearby Tropical Islands campsite offers an ideal mix of camping adventure, water-park fun and wellness holiday across 6,000m². And best of all: Tropical Islands is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year! Check in here for an experience to remember!
I first saw a similar type of mask in some Jason Bourne movie, and I was highly interested in it. The Super Snorkel is very stylish and gives you a great viewing of underwater life. Not only does it look cool, but it is very comfortable also. Takes a few quick adjustments to get it sitting ideal and then its off to the (underwater) races. The perfect tweaks make it so no excess water enters. One final thought, you can be sure that this isn't some cheap convenience store mask purchase, this is quality through and through and you won't be disappointed with the purchase.
Rent fins that are neither too tight, nor too loose, and that don't hurt. Having a fin fall off when you most need it, is potentially very bad. And getting sores on your feet from fins that have hard spots or are too tight will ruin your time. Keep in mind that your feet will be wet, and will often shrink a little in the cooler water, and so a snug fit is important. Don't even think about not having fins. They are essential for safety. They give you a tremendous amount of swimming force and will save you a ton of energy. Read more about the different types of fins here.
Discovering a tropical island paradise that hasn’t lost its authentic beauty to stampeding tourists yet is a rare occurrence nowadays. If you were to visit the island of Koh Phi Phi in Thailand during the early 1990s, you would have found beautiful coral reef systems, untouched marine fauna and crystal clear blue waters — fast-forward to 2017 and you’ll find fast food restaurants and hotels on every corner. What was once an immaculate tropical island has since suffered major damage due to increasing amounts of visitors. Here are five beautiful under-the-radar tropical places to visit before the tourists take over.
Miles of beaches , old world village atmosphere, historic portuguese fort and buildings and pretty good diving with clear water in Summer….it’s cheap to rent if you arrive in august before high season , weather good , people are super friendly and internet is ok, my wife teaches english online and it seems ok, I teach diving here. It’s really how you imagine Brazil to be 50 years ago. Big tourist center , but also easy to get a really remote place . I like it , Portuguese helps you make friends though , which I speak
Have you been dreaming of warm summer days lying under palm trees at the beach or floating in the ocean on your surfboard? We have, and to prepare ourselves for the long awaited arrival of our favorite summer season we’ve been working hard on the designs for this season’s bikinis for women. At ROXY, we’re experts when it comes to surf lifestyle and beachwear, and our bikinis provide the best possible designs for you to slip into this summer. Bikinis are a staple of any surfer girl or beach bum’s wardrobe, and we want to make sure you’re dressed in the best when it comes to your day of fun in the sun.
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