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London Olympics includes fast cars, art cars display
The world’s best athletes are making headlines in the 2012 Olympics in London, and they have company. Some of the world’s best, fastest and most unusual vehicles are joining them, in special displays.
Jaguar and Land Rover are in a starring role in the ‘Make it in Great Britain’ exhibition at London’s Science Museum, which aims to dispel the myth that Britain doesn’t make anything anymore, and educate visitors about the value of manufacturing to the UK economy. The exhibition runs through September 9, 2012.
Jaguar Land Rover beat competition from hundreds of UK companies to a place at the exhibition. That’s an interesting turn of events, since the two iconic British brands now are owned by the Indian congolomerate which includes Tata Motors, which made worldwide headlines in 2009 when it launched the Tata Nano, at $2,500, the world’s cheapest car, for India. However, JLR as it’s now called, is the UK’s largest automotive manufacturer, with three advanced manufacturing plants and two state of the art engineering & design facilities in the UK.
BMW i8 Concept electric car
The other display is the BMW Pavillion at London’s Olympic park, showing off a combination of current BMW models and concept cars, including the drop dead gorgeous BMW i8 Concept sedan electric car and its smaller i3 sibling.. The pavilion itself is an architectural wonder, designed to seem as though it floats on the Waterworks River while water flows down the sides of the structure to create a façade that’s always in motion.
Also on display are prototype models including the BMW E-Scooter and the BMW i Pedelec concept, a recently announced concept electrically-assisted bicycle, and a new-look MINI Rocketman Concept, a revised version of the original Rocketman concept, first seen at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. Inspired by London 2012, the new MINI Rocketman has a Union Jack-inspired color scheme.
BMW owns the British icon Mini, and Volkswagen owned Land Rover briefly, and currently owns British icon Bentley.
BMW Art Cars Exhibit at 2012 London Olympics
The famous BMW Art Car Collection also is on display, with an exhibition of BMWs hand-painted by artists including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and David Hockney. It’s the first time these unique vehicles are on display in the UK, in a landmark car park in Shoreditch, through August 4th. Admission is free.
The collection, initiated over 35 years ago, features BMW cars transformed by some of the world’s leading artists including Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Ernst Fuchs, Robert Rauschenberg, M.J. Nelson, Ken Done, Matazo Kayama, César Manrique, Jeff Koons, A.R. Penck, Esther Mahlangu, Sandro Chia, Jenny Holzer. And each is unique, of course. The Rauschenberg car incorporates photographic transfers of Ingres paintings, while Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein used the canvas of the car to portray the essence of speed.
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Educare- Latin, "To draw out that which lies within." Now- the only time we have. Thoughts on education by Bill Boyle. Thoughts expressed here are my own.
Skull Measurements, Achievement Data and the Destruction of the Public School System
Posted on March 27, 2015 | 4 comments
In the 1880’s, a white anthropologist named Samuel Morton theorized that the relative intelligence of different races could be determined by measuring and comparing skulls. He then took to measuring hundreds of skulls and concluded that based on his results, of course races could be ranked by intelligence.
Guess who came out on top in Morton’s system?
Yep. White people.
The bottom?
People of African descent.
And when the evidence didn’t support his theory Morton just rewrote history. He concluded that, according to his measurements, the people of Ancient Egypt were white.
With the passing of time, it is easy to see Morton’s science as a racist imposition of so-called objective science on “reality.”
It’s a little bit more difficult to see the racist impositions of so-called “objective measures” upon reality today, but such impositions nonetheless exist. And, though they are difficult to see, they are not hard to find. Simply look at any form of measurement that proposes to determine invisible characteristics that are difficult to quantify, such as intelligence, and then designs a ranking and sorting system that concludes with whites ranked above people of color. Some measures simply quantify “reality” without ranking and sorting. Others ostensibly quantify, but actually translate “reality” and call it real just as Morton did.
Let’s try using this filter. Does it apply to poverty? No, poverty is a fairly straightforward, visible, measurable characteristic once we agree on a level of income that determines it.
How about achievement in school?
What is it? It depends on who you ask.
How do you measure it? I have no idea, especially since I’m not sure what it means, but the superficial and all too easy answer has become, you use a standardized test.
Whose standards are used in a standardized test? The standards of dominant culture.
What is the organizing principle of the standards of dominant culture?
Whiteness.
And what are the results?
Exactly the same ones that Morton arrived at.
Yes. High-stakes standardized testing takes its place in a long historical line of impositions of racist assumptions upon “reality.” Morton would be proud.
My point is not that standardized tests reflect a reality that students of color are “under-performing” in schools. My point is that the design and context of the tests are an imposition of a racist frame upon this so-called “reality.” My point is that the tests, like Morton’s measuring of skulls, actually ensure the outcome before the tests are even taken.
History Replicating Itself
Morton was a part of the eugenics movement, an overtly racist scientific attempt to explain racial differences in status by genetics. This movement has been discredited, but it’s important to remember that in its time it was highly respected as an objective, scientific explanation. In our time, as Harold Berlak points out in Race and the Achievement Gap, genetics as the explanation of racial differences has been replaced by explanations of culture and history.
“Recently a more subtle form of ‘scientific’ racism has gained some respectability. The inferiority of the Black and brown races is now said to lie not necessarily in genetics but in culture and history. This more quietly spoken academic version of the master-race ideology has also been thoroughly dismantled, yet racist explanations for the race gap persist.”
So the structures that benefit one race over another still exist, but the language used now makes those structures more difficult to see. We know that when we look at DNA there is no such thing as race. We know that race is a social construction with implications of power. What is more difficult to see is the language used to construct and reify these differences.
How This Works With Standardized Testing
What follows are some of the factors that instantiate racial outcomes into standardized tests and the contexts they occur within:
* Stereotype vulnerability: Berlak discusses a study done by psychologist Claude Steele which explored the differences in how white and black students mentally frame testing situations. In this study, black students who were told that the test was a valid measure of academic ability and capacity scored much worse than those who were told that the test was a not a measure of ability, but of psychological factors involved in problem solving. The black students who were told the test was looking at psychological factors rather than ability scored equal to the white students. The white students scores were consistent in both situations.
“The explanation Steele offers is that Black students know they are especially likely to be seen as having limited ability. Groups not stereotyped in this way do not experience this extra intimidation. He suggests that it is serious intimidation, implying as it does that if they should perform badly, they may not belong in walks of life where their tested abilities are important — walks of life in which they are heavily invested.’ He labels this phenomenon ‘stereotype vulnerability.'”
* The ways in which the curriculum of the dominant culture shapes the schooling experience of students of color: Berlak points to a study completed by anthropologist Signithia Fordham.
“She concludes that for African-American students, patterns of academic success and underachievement are a reflection of processes of resistance that enable them to maintain their humanness in the face of a stigmatized racial identity. She shows that African-American adolescents’ profound ambivalence about the value and possibility of school success is manifest as both conformity and avoidance. Ambivalence is manifest in students’ motivation and interest in schoolwork, which of course includes mastery of standardized test-taking skills….
Fordham found that even the most academically talented African-American high school students expressed profound ambivalence toward schooling and uncertainty that they will reap the rewards of school success. Virtually all African Americans she interviewed indicated that a central problem facing them at school and in larger white society is the widely held perception by whites that African Americans are less able and intelligent and their continuing need to confront and deal with this reality in everyday experience.”
* Racial Bias Built Into Tests: Many of us are aware of the ways that the unconscious bias of the dominant culture is integrated seamlessly into test questions. The example often given is the abandoned question from the SAT that asks students a question referring to a “regatta.” Who knows what a regatta is? People who have enough wealth to provide them access to boats. The cultural bias is clear. Fair Test explains it this way:
“According to other research, items which facilitate ranking and sorting are often items which, perhaps unintentionally, factor non-school learning and social background into the questions. Such items help create consistency in test results, but they often are based on the experiences of white middle-to-upper class children, who also typically have access to a stronger academic education.”
Less well known is the bias that is built into the scoring of the tests. Fair Test does an excellent analysis of this in explaining “bi-serial correlation.”
“To obtain higher consistency (and hence technical reliability) on the test, Texas follows the typical practice of using items with the highest correlation values. This procedure means that on items covering the same materials, the ones with the greatest gaps between high and low scorers will be used. Because minority group students typically perform less well on the test as a whole, the effort to increase reliability also increases bias against minorities…
This common test development procedure exacerbates the existing inequities of schooling. When used in high-stakes testing, biserial correlation helps ensure that at least some students who know the material and ought to pass the tests do not. Those students are overwhelmingly low-income, of color, with English as a second language, or have special needs.”
John Loflin nicely summarizes these factors:
“…the standardization of high stakes tests is based on: 1) “normalcy” and epitomized via norm-referencing tests where some will always fail regardless of actual achievement, 2) a history of racial discrimination associated with the testing–particularly in how tests are calibrated–as well as the cultural bias associated with intelligence measurement such as IQ, and 3) the eugenic deficit model of humanity, a model with neither scientific nor moral merit.”
It means we simply can not continue to use measures that have unconsciously pre-determined an outcome, pretend shock at the outcome, and then focus all of our energy on changing the outcome after the fact. Instead, doesn’t it make sense to change the conditions that create the outcome in the first place? Doesn’t it make sense to change the conditions of inequality organized around poverty and race?
It means that when we are unavoidably involved in anything to do with “achievement data” we must act with the recognition that such data is not a reflection of ability. Nor is it a reflection of achievement. It is simply a marker of privilege. “Achievement data” tells us what we already know from history – our society is full of inequalities, and race and poverty are the organizing principles of these inequalities. This data, taken as real, has become the lever for the current education reform movement that is decimating our public education system. It follows that the use of it hurts students of color and white students. It hurts poor students and rich students. It hurts all educators who recognize that places of belonging are fundamental to learning, rather than places of ranking and sorting. As school superintendent David Britten eloquently puts it, “I firmly believe the evidence is unassailable that the end game is the complete destruction of the public school system, since it is the one substantial threat to maintenance of class structure, dilution of power, and eventual downfall of an expanding oligarchy.” (In the comments section of this excellent post.)
So let’s top talking about “achievement” and let’s start talking about learning. Let’s stop standardized testing and instead focus on contextual assessment and useful feedback.
And let’s stop talking about the “achievement gap” and start addressing the conditions of inequality that it reflects.
Tagged Achievement, Achievement Gap, race, white privilege
Governor Snyder and Direct Control
Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder signed an executive order that moved the state’s school reform office from the Department of Education to the Department of Technology, Management and Budget.
That may be one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever written.
But, as a helpful attempt to reinforce its truthfulness, I am going to write it again.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed an executive order that moved the state’s school reform office from the Department of Education to the Department of Technology, Management and Budget.
If you still don’t believe, check this.
There are many things to consider regarding Snyder’s decision. For example, why is a category with the title “school” not placed within a department that includes the label “education”? But that seems silly. (For another solid example that isn’t silly, see this.) I want to explore here the values that such a move represents. And since Governor Snyder has said nothing that I can find, I am going to use an article written by the Detroit News as the text that will provide us some insight into those values.
After a questionable beginning in which the article, “Snyder Right to Move Reform Office,” refers to Snyder’s frustration over “the lack of progress in Detroit schools” without explaining that this “lack of progress” has occurred under a series of Snyder appointed Emergency Managers, the actual situation is explained fairly dispassionately.
“The reform office has oversight of the 5 percent of schools that are the lowest-performing in the state. And it works along with the independently run Education Achievement Authority, the reform district that operates 15 of the worst schools in Detroit.”
These are indisputable factual observations. What it doesn’t also say is that the EAA was created with immense controversy and continues as a colossal failure, a judgement that is reaching consensus in Michigan. It also doesn’t say that the EAA was developed by Snyder, and that the EAA moved schools out of the Detroit Public Schools into the newly created Reform District.
Are you sensing any patterns regarding Snyder’s propensity for movement?
The article continues with less dispassion.
“Snyder has longstanding frustrations with the State Board of Education, the elected panel that oversees the department, and its lack of commitment to reform. The Democrat-majority board is responsible for electing the state superintendent. Superintendent Mike Flanagan is retiring in June, and the board is in the process of finding his replacement.”
The State Board of Education is a democratically elected board that operates independently of Snyder. Its members are each accountable to the public that elected them. Also note the opinion stated as fact, “…its (the board’s) lack of commitment to reform.” I’m not sure where this comes from. I’m not sure what it means. I am sure that the 3 candidates that the board has narrowed their choice to have each shown a strong commitment to public education. I worry greatly that support of public education is misconstrued as support of the “status quo,” and that “status quo” has become code for “the continuation of public education.”
“By issuing the executive order, Snyder is giving a clear warning to the board that if it chooses a superintendent that is resistant to the kind of education reforms the administration seeks, even more control could be taken away from the department….Vickie Markavitch, superintendent of Oakland Schools, is a finalist, and she is definitely on Snyder’s radar as an opponent of school choice.”
Now maybe we are getting closer to some insight. This move is meant as a threat to the elected state school board. It also points out Markavitch specifically as being “…on Snyder’s…radar as an opponent of school choice.” So maybe the unstated assumption is that if you are against school choice you are for the “status quo”? And it seems certain that school choice here is a good thing. And what does school choice mean? I’m not entirely certain, but I assume (in my attempt to make my assumptions clear) that it means more charters, vouchers, cyber schools, private schools, non-union teachers, segregation by class and race and ability, Teach For America and lots of profit. I could be wrong, but I think it’s at least ok to question the assumption that school choice is a good thing. You see, in a democracy we ask questions, and asking questions has been the necessary historical purview of a free press. (Take note Detroit News.)
The article ends with these paragraphs:
“Snyder is already seeking counsel from this broad Detroit coalition forming a blueprint for fixing city schools. The group is expected to have its recommendations ready by the end of this month.
The governor wants community backing for the next round of reforms. But whatever form that plan takes, Snyder’s direct control of the school reform office should help with the execution of the new agenda.
Snyder has contemplated moving the reform office for a while. This was the right time to do it.” (Emphasis added)
So Snyder is seeking counsel from a group, the Detroit coalition, that he put together. All of the available evidence suggests that Snyder is fine in receiving counsel from people who think like him. This thinking is ideological and runs contrary to all readily available contrary evidence. (As an example, see this article from the Detroit New’s conservative editor on how that DPS Emergency Manager thing is working out.) And when Snyder doesn’t like what he hears, he moves things around, literally, so that he no longer has to listen.
And yet, “Snyder wants community backing for the next round of reforms.” He certainly has an interesting strategy for gaining community backing, doesn’t he? Please. He doesn’t care about community backing. If he did, the EAA would no longer exist. If he did, he wouldn’t insist that Emergency Managers take the place of a democratically elected school boards (i.e. “community backed”). If he did, he wouldn’t act as a dictator, he would operate within the constraints of democracy.
What he does want is to institute his ideology with as little resistance as possible. This is certainly much easier when you have “direct control,” which is another way of saying, “Without the obstacle of the complex messiness that democratic processes bring with them.”
Such processes intentionally include a variety of voices and perspectives, and intentionally remove “direct control” from anyone.
Because we used to recognize that the direct control of one leader is the organizing principle of fascism.
The "Achievement Gap": Banning the Language of Deficit
3rd Grade Reading: Who is Failing?
Should We Be Grateful?
Betsy DeVos’s Institutional Racism Problem
Cutting Our (Financial) Losses in the Public Realm: Running Schools Like a Business
Reading Betsy DeVos: All About Children?
Education as if the World Mattered: Belonging and Interdependence as Education’s Purpose
Policies of Cruelty
The Price of Speaking for the Hidden
Alfie Kohn
Diane Ravitch
Ira Socol
Nancy Flanagan
Yong Zhao
Learnification (3)
The Ethic of Care (4)
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Project Syndicate 106 2019-06-12
Antara Haldar
The hubris of much liberal legal thinking has been to assume that once a rule-of-law regime is in place, it will be almost perpetually self-sustaining. But the mounting constitutional disarray in the Anglo-American world points to fundamental flaws in the prevailing liberal theory of institutions.
The Anglo-American world, once a shining beacon of the “rule of law,” is sliding into constitutional disarray. In the United States, President Donald Trump’s administration is testing the resilience of the system of checks and balances to the breaking point. In Brexit Britain, meanwhile, the debate on European Union membership is threatening to rip the country apart, or, worse still, splinter it into pieces.
Although the US and the United Kingdom have very different constitutions – starting with the fact that one is written, and the other not – both involve a subtle interplay of formal laws and informal norms and conventions. That is why there is no clear interpretation of Article 50 of the EU’s Treaty of Lisbon, which sets out the process by which a member state can leave the bloc. Similarly, there is no definitive answer to Trump’s query, most recently in the drama surrounding the Mueller report, as to whether collusion with Russia is technically illegal. Those who drafted the relevant laws, working in good faith, never imagined that cases like this would arise.
But although few anticipated the current constitutional mess, many of the problems stem from the prevailing account of the rule of law in Western legal scholarship. While correct in regarding the existence of the rule of law as a triumph, it is mistaken in taking this state of affairs for granted.
The hubris of much liberal thinking about the law has been to assume that once a rule-of-law regime is in place, it will be almost perpetually self-sustaining. But a constitution by itself can no more guarantee a cohesive society than a marriage contract can ensure a lifetime of true love and epic romance. There is no getting away from doing the work to make the arrangement happy, peaceful, prosperous, and secure. Societies, like couples, benefit from renewing their vows.
The cracks appearing in the constitutional order on both sides of the Atlantic are evidence of fundamental flaws in our theory of institutions. Liberal legalism prides itself on its value neutrality, and on placing largely self-interested individuals at its center. But these assumptions are difficult to reconcile with important aspects of human nature as it is now.
Rules are much more likely to gain traction if they appeal to what psychologists call “the moral machinery.” In the schema proposed by Princeton Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, this means appealing to human beings’ “System 1” thinking, which is based on emotion and instinct, as well as to the more deliberative or logical “System 2.” Moreover, by stressing “me” almost entirely at the expense of “we,” liberal theory ignores the fact that humans are inherently and fundamentally social – and risks bringing about a self-fulfilling prophecy. Indeed, the work of biologist Joseph Henrich demonstrates that the capacity for cooperation has been the main force propelling the human evolutionary process forward.
An increasing body of evidence suggests, however, that sustaining human cooperation across large networks is hard. My own empirical research has highlighted the difficulties of trying to establish rule-of-law regimes in postcolonial countries or transition economies. And in the cognitive sciences, evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has argued that the human brain can optimally process a social network of no more than about 150 people.
This does not mean that any attempt to create large-scale governance structures is doomed to fail. As Ara Norenzayan argues in Big Gods, religion has succeeded in that regard for centuries. The lesson, rather, is that even in secular contexts, the creation of a shared narrative is essential to help support institutions.
Just like any other emotionally salient relationship or friendship, this narrative must be maintained through acts of togetherness – even including laughing and singing, according to Dunbar. Widespread pro-social behavior is possible, but it needs to be “evoked,” as Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues, by a culture that actively appeals to the “better angels of our nature.”
Political leaders can do much to build a sense of togetherness, as New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has shown following the massacres at two mosques in Christchurch in March. Sadly, institutions in the US and the UK have ignored the growing decay of civil society, though it was documented nearly two decades ago in Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam’s evocatively titled book Bowling Alone. As a result, the law has been reduced to a system of amoral constraints that can be gamed.
Contrary to former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s famous proclamation, there is such a thing as society. But by persisting with a narrow view of institutions that is devoid of social context, we risk making them too rigid to survive. And without a sense of community, constitutions can become dangerously brittle – especially as populist leaders rush to fill the void in values by stoking tribal sentiment.
The vitriol of politicians such as Trump or the Brexit avatar Nigel Farage poses a grave danger to long-standing institutions. Both the US and the UK need leaders who emphasize a culture of cooperation rather than race-to-the-bottom competition, and who actively foster a collective credo.
The West needs to fetishize formal institutions less, and promote civic friendship more. We should place less emphasis on the purely procedural, and more on people. By giving the rule of law a soul, we can start the long process of restoring our political systems to health.
* Antara Haldar is University Lecturer in Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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Let a 2800 Elo player be your opening tutor: Wesley So!
by Sagar Shah
2/2/2018 – ChessBase has video tutorials with the world's best grandmasters. Be it Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Nigel Short, Viktor Korchnoi, everyone has recorded Fritztrainers with ChessBase. Continuing this legacy of products with outstanding quality, we are proud to launch two DVDs by Wesley So. This is an amazing opportunity to learn 1.b3 with white and Italian with black from a player who has a live rating of 2799.3! | Photo: Alina l'Ami
Opening package: 1.b3 and Black Secrets in the Modern Italian
Wesley So published two new opening DVDs: 1.b3, the so called Nimzo-Larsen-Attack, for White and his black secrets in the modern Italian. Get them in a package and save money!
More than the moves, the whole approach!
The Tata Steel 2018 was dominated by Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri. But Wesley So performed admirably! With a rating performance of 2834, he scored +3 and gained 7 Elo points. That pumps up his rating to 2799.3! It goes without saying that he will cross 2800 once again, a feat which he had achieved at the London Chess Classic 2016, becoming only the 12th player in the history of the game to cross that magical figure.
One of the key elements of Wesley's success is his phenomenal opening preparation. He works meticulously on his openings and has even put seasoned champions like Anand, Carlsen, Giri and others in trouble in the first phase of the game. It would be such a pleasure to learn about how to play different openings from him. With this aim in mind, ChessBase recorded two DVDs with him when he was in Hamburg towards the end of 2017.
More than the moves, I would say it is the approach that is priceless. How does a top player think when he sees a specific position, how does he assess it, how does he study the opening lines? All of this can be seen in these DVDs.
Oliver Reeh and Wesley so from the Modern Italian FritzTrainer
IM Oliver Reeh is the host of the DVD. I think having a knowledgeable player who is well versed with the training techniques is a good partner for a top player like Wesley. He is able to ask those questions to the elite grandmaster which can be useful for the student and get very useful answers from the player.
1.b3 for white
The first DVD that Wesley recorded is 1.b3 for White. Says So:
"This opening has seen a lot of appearances at top level these days. Players like Richard Rapport, Baadur Jobava have been playing it quite a lot with success. When I was preparing against Baadur Jobava with the black pieces against 1.b3 at the World Cup, I realized that it was not such an easy opening to prepare against."
Some call it the Nimzowitsch-Larsen opening, but Wesley likes to call it simply 1.b3.
To 1.b3, four responses from Black are analyzed 1...e5, 1...d5, 1...c5. and 1...Nf6
A classic example
One of the biggest adherents of the move 1.b3 was Bobby Fischer. Here is one game that just about every student should know:
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.c4 Nf6 4.e3 Be7 5.a3 O-O 6.Qc2 Re8 7.d3 Bf8 8.Nf3 a5 9.Be2 d5 10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Nbd2 f6 12.O-O Be6
Ulf Andersson in 1971 | Photo: Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo CC BY-SA 3.0 nl via Wikimedia Commons
Fischer found the brilliant and the amazing concept starting with 13.Kh1! The idea is very deep. White wants to play Rg1! and then launch an attack with g4-g5! A powerful plan indeed. Fischer won the game in brilliant style. Here's the entire game with some light analysis:
My Secret Weapon: 1.b3
Meanwhile, 1.b3 has also found its way into the practice of today's world elite, and now finally a modern top ten player has taken on the subject for ChessBase: none other than Grandmaster Wesley So!
Sample video from this series
Contents of the DVD
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.c4 Nf6 4.e3 Be7 5.a3 0-0 6.d3/Qc2 - Analysis [11:13]
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 g6/d5 - Analysis [18:02]
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3/Bb5 - Analysis [20:30]
1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 Nf6 3.e3 e6/g6 and 2...Bf5/Bg4 - Analysis [20:26]
1.b3 c5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 and 2...d5 3.e3 - Analysis [20:03]
1.b3 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 b6/c5/d5 and 2...b6 - Analysis [26:33]
1.b3 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.Nf3 d6 6.d4 Nbd7 and 5...d5 6.c4 c6/e6 - Analysis [14:34]
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 d6 3.e3 Nf6 4.d4/c4/g3 and 3...c5 4.d4 cxd4 5.exd4 exd4 - Analysis [16:41]
1.b3 d5 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.Ne5 Bf5/Bh5 and 2.Bb2 Bg4 3.h3/f3 and 2.Bb2 Nf6 3.Nf3 Bf5/Bg4 - Analysis [22:28]
Modern Italian from Black's perspective
I was one of those players who used to hate 1.e4 e5 with black. Mainly for the symmetry. I used to hate that both the players would develop their pieces to the most natural squares (Nf3-Nf6, Bc4-Bc5 and so on). I think it was a big breakthrough for me when I started studying 1...e5 in response to 1.e4. It's really a solid opening, so your results in chess improve, but at the same time there is always scope for new ideas and creativity even in simple positions as the example below shows. What would you play as Black here?
Wesley So vs Ding Liren, World Cup 2017
Ding Liren and Wesley So during their World Cup match | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Creativity can exist any and everywhere! Black moves his queen to a7 and puts pressure on the f2 point. Also, the queen would stand pretty well on b6.
Ding played 9...Qb8!? Replay the entire game in our full report
My Black Secrets in the Modern Italian
The Italian Game is considered a sound but quiet opening without early trades, giving rise to rich positions where plans are more important than forced variations. So shows black's plans on this DVD.
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5
4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 a6 6.a4 d6 7.Bg5 - Analysis [25:25]
4.0-0 Nf6 5.d3 0-0 6.a4 d6 7.c3 a6 8.h3 Ba7 - Analysis [32:34]
4.0-0 Nf6 5.d3 0-0 6.a4 a6 7.c3 d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 - Analysis [13:33]
4.d3 Nf6 5.0-0 0-0 6.h3 d6 7.c3 a5 8.a4 Be6 - Analysis [20:08]
4.0-0 Nf6 5.d3 0-0 6.h3 d6 7.c3 Ne7 8.Re1 Ng6 - Analysis [23:06]
3...Nf6 4.d3 h6 5.0-0 d6 6.a4 g5 7.Nc3 Bg7 and 6.c3 g5 - Analysis [11:41]
4.0-0 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 a6 7.Bb3 Ba7 8.Re1 0-0 - Analysis [24:59]
4.d3 Nf6 5.c3 d6 6.0-0 0-0 7.Re1 a5 8.Nbd2 Be6 and 5.0-0 0-0 6.h3/Nbd2 - Analysis [14:45]
4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 0-0 6.Bg5 d6/h6/Be7 - Analysis [18:43]
A win over Anand
Shortly after recording the DVD, Wesley had a chance to put his work into practice, employing the line against none other than former World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the final round at the London Chess Classic! Here's the game annotated by Wesley himself in the current issue of ChessBase Magazine!
Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (London, Grand Prix Palma, European Teams) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 12 new suggestions for your opening repertoire.
If this is a repertoire for you, why not purchase both the DVDs in a combo?
Available for €62.90 if you purchase both video series in a combo
On a personal note
I have been quite lucky to have known Wesley from close quarters and have conducted many interviews with him. Of course, he is a tremendously strong player, but more than that I respect him as a human being. A thoroughly kind and wonderful person, he has absolutely no superiority complex that you usually associate with a top chess player. I met Wesley and Lotis for the first time at the opening ceremony of the Qatar Masters 2015 and very soon we became great friends. If you go through the DVD you will realize some of the things that I have mentioned above about Wesley as a person.
I wish him good luck for the Candidates 2018, and hope that he is able to win the event and challenge Magnus Carlsen.
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Nimzowitsch: Warm words and a system
1/17/2019 – Aron Nimzowitsch was an original chess thinker but he liked to share his ideas in a peculiar way. His most important book, "My System", is at times brilliant but CONRAD SCHORMANN thinks the book sometimes simply contains too many warm words. Still, there's much to learn: "We still use some of the terms he used, coined and made popular — but in a different way". As for his eccentricities, you be the judge.
The Weekly Show with Lawrence Trent
11/27/2018 – Tuesdays at 18:00 CEST (5:00 pm UK time, Noon EDT) Lawrence Trent brings you the latest trends, games and combinations from elite chess tournaments. Lawrence is LIVE this week and free for ChessBase Basic account holders for a limited time! (Why not <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account">register for FREE</a> in 30 seconds if you don't already have an account?) This week Lawrence looks at the 'Tournament of Peace' in Zagreb.
basler88 2/7/2018 10:57
I forgot, the sound is very bad too!
I was very disappointed about the Opening package as Wesley So really doesn’t tell anything, I know it’s called one of them “Black Secrets”, but I didn’t know he really keeps it as a secret. It was confusing analysis as both gave their opinion at the same time and it got very confusing when they starting to go back and forth without any comments and in a very high speed, so you’re sitting there and wonder, what did they mean and what happens here and all this without any variation showing. Why didn’t Wesley So comment this DVD alone? I think it would be more educational then what this DVD is. Sorry, I have to say, I wasted my money on that DVD and I have clearly to give the DVD an F.
kbala 2/3/2018 11:20
You should have shown the game Larsen - Spassky (Belgrade 1970)
The Beasty Botvinnik Variation in the Semi-Slav!
On this DVD you will be taken on a journey through what is arguably the sharpest opening line known to men.
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'Sakartvelija' could be 2nd name for Georgia in Lithuania - language watchdog
The chairman of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language says that "Sakartvelija" could be a second name for Georgia in the Lithuanian language for a certain period of time.
Audrys Antanaitis commented on Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili's call on Lithuanians to change the name they use for his country from "Gruzija" to "Georgija" or "Sakartvelo".
After the European Court of Human Rights ruling - call for release of imprisoned former Prime Minister of Georgia Ivane Merabishvili
Georgian president asks for Lithuanian president's support ahead of NATO summit
"Even if we accepted the second option as Sakartvelija, then it would be a second name, at least initially, and it would take many years for it to become the first one," Antanaitis told BNS on Wednesday.
According to the chairman, the commission is ready to consider including "Sakartvelija" among words acceptable for use in the Lithuanian language, but it needs an official request from authorities, such as Georgia's embassy or the Foreign Mininstry, to do so.
He said that the commission would not address the issue at its own initiative as it maintains that the current name for Georgia "has historically taken root in Lithuania".
The Georgian president told Lithuanian media in late November that "Gruzija" reflected the Russian name for his nation.
The language watchdog said earlier that it saw no reason to make the change, noting that "Gruzija" had a long history of use and a unique form that fits the Lithuanian language and that "Sakartvelo", the native name of Georgia, was not officially used by any EU member state.
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Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has asked for Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė 's...
Georgian president coming to Lithuania to mark start of visa-free travel to EU
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili is coming on an official visit to Lithuania on Thursday.
Georgian president to come to mark start of visa-free travel to EU
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili is to come on an official visit to Lithuania on Thursday.
Lithuania won't recognize annexation of Abkhazia, South Ossetia - PM in Georgia
Vilnius will never recognize the annexation of the Georgian territories by Russia, Lithuania's Prime...
Lithuania's language watchdog to discuss change Georgia's name to Sakartvelo
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Capability Brown
(Redirected from Lancelot "Capability" Brown)
Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783),[1] more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th-century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener".
Lancelot "Capability" Brown
A portrait painting of Brown painted by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1773
Lancelot Brown
Kirkharle, Northumberland, England
Baptised
6 February 1783(1783-02-06) (aged 67–68)
Bridget Wayet (m. 1744–1783)
Ursula Hall
He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure. He was nicknamed "Capability" because he would tell his clients that their property had "capability" for improvement.[2] His influence was so great that the contributions to the English garden made by his predecessors Charles Bridgeman and William Kent are often overlooked; even Kent's champion Horace Walpole allowed that Kent "was succeeded by a very able master".[3]
Early life and StoweEdit
Lancelot Brown was born as a land agent's and chambermaid's fifth child in the village of Kirkharle, Northumberland, and educated at a school in Cambo until he was 16. Brown’s father William Brown had been Sir William Loraine’s land agent and his mother Ursula (née Hall[4]) had been in service at Kirkharle Hall. His eldest brother John became the estate surveyor and later married Sir William's daughter. Elder brother George became a mason-architect.
After school Lancelot worked as the head gardener's apprentice at Sir William Loraine's kitchen garden at Kirkharle Hall till he was 23. In 1739 he journeyed south arriving at the port of Boston, Lincolnshire.[5] Then he moved further inland where his first landscape commission was for a new lake in the park at Kiddington Hall, Oxfordshire.[6] He moved to Wotton Underwood House, Buckinghamshire, seat of Sir Richard Grenville.[7]
In 1741,[8] Brown joined Lord Cobham's gardening staff as undergardener at Stowe, Buckinghamshire,[1] where he worked under William Kent, one of the founders of the new English style of landscape garden. At the age of 26 he was officially appointed as the Head Gardener in 1742, earning £25 (equivalent to £3,800 in 2018) a year and residing at the western Boycott Pavilion.
Brown was the head gardener at Stowe 1742-1750. He made the Grecian Valley at Stowe, which, despite its name, is an abstract composition of landform and woodland. Lord Cobham let Brown take freelance commission work from his aristocratic friends, thus making him well known as a landscape gardener. As a proponent of the new English style, Brown became immensely sought after by the landed families. By 1751, when Brown was beginning to be widely known, Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at Warwick Castle:
The castle is enchanting; the view pleased me more than I can express, the River Avon tumbles down a cascade at the foot of it. It is well laid out by one Brown who has set up on a few ideas of Kent and Mr. Southcote.
By the 1760s, he was earning on average £6,000 (equivalent to £806,000 in 2018) a year, usually £500 (equivalent to £67,100 in 2018) for one commission. As an accomplished rider he was able to work fast, taking only an hour or so on horseback to survey an estate and rough out an entire design. In 1764, Brown was appointed King George III's Master Gardener at Hampton Court Palace, succeeding John Greening and residing at the Wilderness House.[7] In 1767 he bought an estate for himself at Fenstanton in Huntingdonshire from the Earl of Northampton and was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1770, although his son Lance carried out most of the duties.[9]
Landscape gardensEdit
It is estimated that Brown was responsible for over 170 gardens surrounding the finest country houses and estates in Britain. His work still endures at Belvoir Castle, Croome Court (where he also designed the house), Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle, Harewood House, Appuldurcombe House, Milton Abbey (and nearby Milton Abbas village), and in traces at Kew Gardens and many other locations.[10]
Badminton House: features of the Brownian landscape at full maturity in the 19th century
His style of smooth undulating grass, which would run straight to the house, clumps, belts and scattering of trees and his serpentine lakes formed by invisibly damming small rivers, were a new style within the English landscape, a "gardenless" form of landscape gardening, which swept away almost all the remnants of previous formally patterned styles.
Brown's Pond at Sandleford, Berkshire. One of a string of former priory fish ponds adapted by Brown who was at Sandleford on behalf of Mrs Montagu from 1781.
His landscapes were at the forefront of fashion. They were fundamentally different from what they replaced, the well-known formal gardens of England which were criticised by Alexander Pope and others from the 1710s. Starting in 1719, William Kent replaced these with more naturalistic compositions, which reached their greatest refinement in Brown's landscapes.
At Hampton Court, Brown encountered Hannah More in 1782 and she described his "grammatical" manner in her literary terms: "'Now there' said he, pointing his finger, 'I make a comma, and there' pointing to another spot, 'where a more decided turn is proper, I make a colon; at another part, where an interruption is desirable to break the view, a parenthesis; now a full stop, and then I begin another subject'".[11] Brown's patrons saw the idealised landscapes he was creating for them in terms of the Italian landscape painters they admired and collected, as Kenneth Woodbridge first observed in the landscape at Stourhead, a "Brownian" landscape (with an un-Brownian circuit walk) in which Brown himself was not involved.
At Blenheim Brown dammed the paltry stream flowing under Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge, drowning half the structure with improved results
CriticismEdit
Perhaps Brown's sternest critic was his contemporary Uvedale Price, who likened Brown's clumps of trees to "so many puddings turned out of one common mould."[12] Russell Page, who began his career in the Brownian landscape of Longleat but whose own designs have formal structure, accused Brown of "encouraging his wealthy clients to tear out their splendid formal gardens and replace them with his facile compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes."[13]
Richard Owen Cambridge, the English poet and satirical author, declared that he hoped to die before Brown so that he could "see heaven before it was 'improved'." This was a typical statement reflecting the controversy about Brown's work, which has continued over the last 200 years. By contrast, a recent historian and author, Richard Bisgrove, described Brown's process as perfecting nature by "judicious manipulation of its components, adding a tree here or a concealed head of water there. His art attended to the formal potential of ground, water, trees and so gave to English landscape its ideal forms. The difficulty was that less capable imitators and less sophisticated spectators did not see nature perfected... they saw simply what they took to be nature."[citation needed]
This deftness of touch was recognised in his own day; one anonymous obituary writer opined: "Such, however, was the effect of his genius that when he was the happiest man, he will be least remembered; so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken."[citation needed] In 1772, Sir William Chambers (though he did not mention Brown by name) complained that the "new manner" of gardens "differ very little from common fields, so closely is vulgar nature copied in most of them."[14]
ArchitectureEdit
Capability Brown's essays in the field of architecture were a natural outgrowth of his unified picture of the English country house in its setting:
"In Brown's hands the house, which before had dominated the estate, became an integral part of a carefully composed landscape intended to be seen through the eye of a painter, and its design could not be divorced from that of the garden"[6]
Humphry Repton observed that Brown "fancied himself an architect",[15] but Brown's work as an architect is overshadowed by his great reputation as a designer of landscapes. Repton was bound to add: "he was inferior to none in what related to the comfort, convenience, taste and propriety of design, in the several mansions and other buildings which he planned". Brown's first country house project was the remodelling of Croome Court, Worcestershire, (1751–52) for the 6th Earl of Coventry, in which instance he was likely following sketches by the gentleman amateur Sanderson Miller.[6]
Fisherwick, Staffordshire, Redgrave Hall, Suffolk, and Claremont, Surrey, were classical, while at Corsham his outbuildings are in a Gothic vein. Gothick stable blocks and decorative outbuildings, arches and garden features constituted many of his designs. From 1771 he was assisted in the technical aspects by the master builder Henry Holland, and by Henry's son Henry Holland the architect, whose initial career Brown supported; the younger Holland was increasingly Brown's full collaborator and became Brown's son-in-law in 1773.
Subsequent reputationEdit
Memorial to Capability Brown in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
Brown's reputation declined rapidly after his death, because the English Landscape style did not convey the dramatic conflict and awesome power of wild nature. A reaction against the harmony and calmness of Brown's landscapes was inevitable; the landscapes lacked the sublime thrill which members of the Romantic generation (such as Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price) looked for in their ideal landscape, where the painterly inspiration would come from Salvator Rosa rather than Claude Lorrain.
During the 19th century he was widely criticised,[16] but during the twentieth century his reputation rose again. Tom Turner has suggested that the latter resulted from a favourable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's History of Garden Art which predated Christopher Hussey's positive account of Brown in The Picturesque (1927). Dorothy Stroud wrote the first full monograph on Capability Brown, fleshing out the generic attributions with documentation from country house estate offices.
Later landscape architects like William Gilpin would opine that Brown's 'natural curves' were as artificial as the straight lines that were common in French gardens.[17] Brown's portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1773, is conserved in the National Portrait Gallery, London. His work has often been favourably compared and contrasted ("the antithesis") to the œuvre of André Le Nôtre, the French jardin à la française landscape architect.[1][18] He became both "rich and honoured and had 'improved' a greater acreage of ground than any landscape architect" who preceded him.[1][17]
A festival to celebrate the tercentenary of Brown's birth was held in 2016. The Capability Brown Festival 2016[19] published a large amount of new research on Brown's work[20] and held over 500 events across Britain as part of the celebrations.[21] Royal Mail issued a series of Landscape Stamps[22] in his honour in August 2016.
The Gardens Trust with support from Historic England, published Vulnerability Brown: Capability Brown landscapes at risk[23] in October 2017 to review the issues facing the survival of these landscapes as well as suggested solutions.
A commemorative fountain in Westminster Abbey’s cloister garth was dedicated for Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown after Evensong on Tuesday 29 May 2018 by the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall. The fountain sits over an old monastic well in the garth. It was designed by Ptolemy Dean, the Abbey’s Surveyor of the Fabric, and was developed with the assistance of gardener Alan Titchmarsh. The fountain was made in lead by sculptor Brian Turner.[24]
The grave of Capability Brown in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
On 22 November 1744 he married in Stowe parish church, Bridget Wayet (affectionately called Biddy) from Boston, Lincolnshire.[25] Her father was an alderman and landowner while her family had surveyors and engineers among its members. They had seven children: Bridget in 1746, Lancelot (known as Lance), William (who died young), John in 1751, a son in 1754 who died shortly afterwards, Anne who was born and died in 1756, Margaret (known as Peggy) in 1758 and Thomas in 1761.[26]
In 1768 he purchased the manor of Fenstanton in Huntingdonshire in East Anglia for ₤13,000 from Lord Northampton. This came with two manor houses, two villages and 2,668 acres of land.[27] The property stayed in the family until it was sold in lots in 1870s and 1880s. Ownership of the property allowed him to stand for and serve as High Sheriff of Huntingdonshire from 1770 to 1771[28]. He continued to work and travel until his sudden collapse and death on 6 February 1783, on the doorstep of his daughter Bridget Holland's house, at 6 Hertford Street, London while returning after a night out at Lord Coventry's.[29]
Horace Walpole wrote to Lady Ossory: "Your dryads must go into black gloves, Madam, their father-in-law, Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead!".[30] Brown was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul, the parish church of Brown's small estate at Fenstanton Manor.[31] He left an estate of approximately ₤40,000, which included property in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire.[32] His eldest daughter Bridget married the architect Henry Holland. Brown sent two of his sons to Eton. One of them, Lancelot Brown the younger, became the MP for Huntingdon. His son John joined the Royal Navy and rose to become an admiral.
Gardens and parksEdit
See also: Category:Gardens by Capability Brown
Many of Capability Brown's parks and gardens may still be visited today. A partial list of the landscapes he designed or worked on:
Adderbury House, Oxfordshire (designs not thought to be implemented)[33]
Addington Place, Croydon
Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Althorp, Northamptonshire
Ampthill Park, Ampthill, Bedfordshire
Ancaster House, Richmond, Surrey
Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight
Ashburnham Place, East Sussex
Ashridge House, Hertfordshire
Aske Hall, North Yorkshire
Astrop Park, Northamptonshire
Audley End, Essex
Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire
The Backs, Cambridge
Badminton House, Gloucestershire
Ballyfin House, Ireland
Basildon Park, Berkshire
Battle Abbey, East Sussex
Beaudesert, Staffordshire
Beechwood, Bedfordshire
Belhus, Essex
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire
Benham, Berkshire
Benwell Tower, near Newcastle upon Tyne
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Boarstall, Buckinghamshire (unknown if work carried out)[34]
Bowood House, Wiltshire
Branches Park, Cowlinge, Suffolk
Brentford, Ealing
Brightling Park, Sussex
Broadlands, Hampshire
Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire
Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Burton Constable Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire
Burton Park, Sussex
Burton Pynsent, Somerset
Byram, West Yorkshire
Cadland, Hampshire
Capheaton Hall, Northumberland
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
Castle Ashby House, Northamptonshire[35]
Caversham, Berkshire
Chalfont House, Buckinghamshire
Charlecote, Warwickshire
Charlton, Wiltshire
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Chilham Castle, Kent
Chillington Hall, West Midlands
Church Stretton Old Rectory, Shropshire
Clandon Park, Surrey
Claremont, Surrey
Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Coombe Abbey, Coventry
Corsham Court, Wiltshire
Croome Park, Worcestershire
Dodington Park, Gloucestershire
Danson Park, Bexley Borough of London
Darley Abbey Park, Derby
Euston Hall, Suffolk
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
Fawley Court, Oxfordshire
Gatton Park, Surrey
Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey[7]
Harewood House, Leeds
Heveningham Hall, Suffolk
Highclere Castle, Hampshire
Highcliffe Castle, Dorset
Himley Hall, Staffordshire
Holkham Hall, Norfolk
Holland Park, London
The Hoo, Hertfordshire
Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire
Howsham, near York
Ickworth, Suffolk
Ingestre, Staffordshire
Ingress Abbey, Kent
Kelston, Somerset
Kew Gardens, South West London[10]
Kiddington Hall, Oxfordshire
Kimberley, Norfolk
Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire
King's Weston House, Bristol
Kirkharle, Northumberland
Kirtlington, Oxfordshire
Knowsley, near Liverpool
Kyre Park, Herefordshire
Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
Laleham Abbey, Surrey
Langley, Berkshire
Langley Park, Norfolk
Latimer, Buckinghamshire
Leeds Abbey, Kent
Littlegrove, Barnet, London
Lleweni Hall, Clwyd
Longford Castle, Wiltshire
Longleat, Wiltshire
Lowther, Cumbria
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire
Maiden Earley, Berkshire
Mamhead, Devon
Melton Constable Hall, Norfolk
Milton Abbey, Dorset
Moccas Court, Herefordshire
Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Mount Clare, Roehampton, South West London
Navestock, Essex
Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire
Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Somerset
New Wardour Castle, Wiltshire
North Cray Place, near Sidcup, Bexley, London
North Stoneham Park, Eastleigh, Hampshire
Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire
Oakley, Shropshire
Packington Park, Warwickshire
Paddenswick Manor, West London
Patshull Hall, Staffordshire
Paultons Park, Hampshire
Peper Harow, Surrey
Peterborough House, Hammersmith, London
Petworth House, West Sussex
Pishiobury, Hertfordshire
Porter's Park, Hertfordshire
Prior Park, Somerset
Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
Redgrave Park, Suffolk
Roche Abbey, South Yorkshire
Sandleford, Berkshire
Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
Schloss Richmond (Richmond Palace) in Braunschweig, Germany
Scampston Hall, North Yorkshire
Sheffield Park Garden, Sussex
Sherborne Castle, Dorset
Sledmere House, East Riding of Yorkshire
Southill Park, Bedfordshire
South Stoneham House, Southampton, Hampshire
Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire
Stowe Landscape Garden
Syon House, West London
Temple Newsam, Leeds
Thorndon Hall, Essex
Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire
Ugbrooke Park, Devon
Wallington, Northumberland[36]
Warwick Castle, Warwick
Wentworth Castle, South Yorkshire
West Hill, Putney, South London
Weston Park, Staffordshire
Whitehall, London
Whitley Beaumont, West Yorkshire
Widdicombe Park, near Slapton, Devon
Wimbledon House, South West London
Wimbledon Park, South West London
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
Wolterton Hall, Norfolk
Woodchester, Gloucestershire
Woodside, Berkshire
Wootton Place Rectory, Oxfordshire
Wotton, Buckinghamshire
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire
Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire
Wynnstay, Clwyd, Wales
Youngsbury, Hertfordshire
More than 30 of the gardens are open to the public.[37]
Ha-ha
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Turner, Roger (1985), Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape, New York: Rizzoli, ISBN 0-8478-0643-X 2nd edition, Phillimore, Chichester (1999) ISBN 0-297-78734-9, ISBN 1-86077-114-9.
Amherst, Alicia (2006) [1910], A History of Gardening in England (3rd ed.), Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing
Blomfield, Sir F. Reginald; Thomas, Inigo, Illustrator (1972) [1901], The Formal Garden in England, 3rd ed., New York: Macmillan and Co
Clifford, Derek (1967), A History of Garden Design (2nd ed.), New York: Praeger
Gothein, Marie-Luise Schröeter (1863–1931); Wright, Walter P. (1864–1940); Archer-Hind, Laura; Alden Hopkins Collection (1928) [1910], History of Garden Art, 2, London & Toronto, New York: J. M. Dent; 1928 Dutton, p. 945, ISBN 978-3-424-00935-4 Publisher: Hacker Art Books; Facsimile edition (June 1972) ISBN 0-87817-008-1; ISBN 978-0-87817-008-1.
Gothein, Marie. Geschichte der Gartenkunst. München: Diederichs, 1988 ISBN 978-3-424-00935-4.
Hadfield, Miles (1960), Gardening in Britain, Newton, Mass: C. T. Branford
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"Capability Brown — 300 years". capabilitybrown.org.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
Britten, Nick (19 February 2009). "Capability Brown's first garden plan to be brought to life after 250 years". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
Capability Brown at Find a Grave
"Archival material relating to Capability Brown". UK National Archives.
Portraits of Capability Brown at the National Portrait Gallery, London
FT review of Compton Verney 2011 exhibition
Capability Brown's unfinished garden
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Lillian Cahn
Lillian Cahn (née Lenovitz; December 11, 1923 – March 4, 2013) was a Hungarian-born American businessperson who co-founded Coach, Inc. with her husband, Miles Cahn. Lillian Cahn also created Coach's first line of handbags, which remains the label's trademark consumer product.[1][2] She had emigrated to the United States with her family during the Great Depression. After selling Coach in 1985, the Cahns operated a goat farm and cheese-making business in Pine Plains, New York.
Lillian Cahn was born Lillian Lenovitz on December 11, 1923 in Hungary. She emigrated to the United States with her family during the Great Depression.[2]
CoachEdit
Coach's original line of products focused on men's wallets and billfolds in 1941.[3] It was Lillian who suggested the company branch out into women's handbags.[3] "I scoffed at first," Mr. Cahn told the New York Times.[1] "In New York, there were a lot of handbag companies, and at that time stores were all buying knockoffs of bags made in Europe. But my wife prevailed." Cahn also designed the first handbags, based on paper shopping bags she had used as a child in Pennsylvania. NPR called her "the force behind today's high-end leather handbags."[2]
After CoachEdit
After selling Coach in 1985, the Cahns operated a goat farm and cheese-making business in Pine Plains, New York.[2] Cahn died in Manhattan, New York City, on March 4, 2013, at the age of 89 and was buried in Pine Plains.[1][2] She was survived by her husband of 66 years, Coach co-founder Miles Cahn, who died in February 2017.[4]
^ a b c Vitello, Paul (2013-03-07). "Lillian Cahn, Creator of the Coach Handbag, Dies at 89". New York Times. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
^ a b c d e Cornish, Audie (2013-03-11). "Remembering Lillian Cahn, Creator Of The Coach Handbag". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
^ a b Sidell, Misty White (2017-02-12). "Coach Cofounder Miles Cahn, 95". WWD. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
^ Adams, Rachel (2017-02-11). "Miles Cahn, Co-Founder of Coach Handbags, Dies at 95". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
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National Labor Board
The National Labor Board (NLB) was an independent agency of the United States Government established on August 5, 1933 to handle labor disputes arising under the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA).
Superseding agency
"First" National Labor Relations Board
Parent agency
Executive Office of the President
Establishment, structure and proceduresEdit
The American labor movement, encouraged by the protections guaranteed under Section 7(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), undertook a wave of organizing not seen in almost two decades. A series of strikes overtook the country in the summer of 1933.[1]
The NIRA established the National Recovery Administration (NRA), and General Hugh S. Johnson was named the agency's administrator.
Gen. Johnson had initially expressed the hope that the NIRA would be self-policing system.[1] But that had clearly not happened, and formal governmental machinery was needed to handle the sudden wave of labor activity.
Subsequently, Johnson—acting on a joint motion from the NRA's Industrial Advisory Board and Labor Advisory Board—created the NLB. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the NLB's formation on August 5, 1933. Roosevelt issued no executive order defining the Board's powers, duties or procedures, but he did assert that the board should 'consider, adjust, and settle differences and controversies' arising in labor disputes.[2]
The NLB had seven members. Three members represented labor: American Federation of Labor (AFL) president William Green; United Mine Workers of America president John L. Lewis; and Leo Wolman, formerly director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and chairman of the Labor Advisory Board of the NRA. Three members represented industry: General Electric president Gerard Swope; Louis Kirstein, the vice president of Filene's of Boston (a department store); and Walter C. Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey. The chairman of the NLB was United States Senator Robert F. Wagner.[3]
Although the NLB's mandate was vague, its procedures undefined and its enforcement powers nonexistent, Sen. Wagner—who had been one of the primary authors of the NIRA—was determined to make the board work along the self-policing lines previously announced by Gen. Johnson.
Initially, the NLB attempted to merely be a mediator in labor disputes. The NIRA protected the right of workers to form unions of their own choosing. And it required employers to engage in good-faith negotiations when a union had issued a demand for recognition and bargaining. More often than not, an employer's refusal to bargain was the issue. Holding representation elections, much less establishing bargaining units or determining majority status, was not even considered by the Board.[4]
Employers, however, quickly established company unions and announced that these were the only proper representatives of the workers. Unions responded by holding strikes, demanding to be recognized as the organization of the workers' choosing and immediate negotiations. Large numbers of workers were summarily fired for striking.[5]
The NLB quickly settled on a strategy of suggesting elections as a way of determining majority status and breaking a collective bargaining deadlock.
The Reading Formula and representational electionsEdit
The NLB's opportunity came when the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union launched an organizing drive in the summer of 1933 in the silk stocking mills around Reading, Pennsylvania. The employers refused to recognize the union, and 10,000 workers went on strike. On August 10, 1933, the NLB mediated a settlement.
Known as the "Reading Formula," the settlement consisted of four parts: (1) That the union call off the strike; (2) That all employees be rehired immediately, without retaliation; (3) That the NLB hold elections in which the workers would vote by secret ballot for their own representatives, and that both parties would negotiate a collective bargaining agreement covering wages, hours and working conditions; and (4) That in the event of any disagreement on any matter, the parties would submit the dispute to the NLB for binding arbitration.[6]
The Reading Formula proved useful in settling large numbers of labor disputes, including strikes in silk mills in Paterson, New Jersey; silk mills in Allentown, Pennsylvania; tool and die factories in Detroit, Michigan; and coal mines in Illinois. In most cases, the union won the election.[7]
But within months, a large number of employers refused to cooperate with the NLB. The NLB relied on enforcement of its orders through the NRA (which only had the power to remove so-called Blue Eagle industrial code approval from a manufacturer) or prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice. These weak enforcement powers encouraged employer resistance. In July 1933, the Weirton Steel Company held a private election rather than submit to one ran and monitored by the NLB. The Budd Manufacturing Company established a company union, then refused to bargain with the AFL affiliate in the plant.[8]
E.O. 6580 and representational exclusivityEdit
To strengthen the NLB's powers vis-a-vis employers, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6511 on December 16, 1933.
The order ratified the Board's prior activities, including its decisions and representational elections. The order also authorized the Board to "settle by mediation, conciliation or arbitration all controversies between employers and employees which tend to impede the purpose of the National Industrial Recovery Act."[9]
But E.O. 6511 said nothing about elections, and did not address the Board's enforcement powers.
Roosevelt issued a new order, E.O. 6580, on February 1, 1934. The order gave the Board explicit power to authorize, upon a showing by a substantial number of employees, representational elections to determine majority status. The order appeared to give the winning organization exclusive representation for employees in the bargaining unit, but this interpretation was widely contested.[10]
Worse, Roosevelt made the off-hand public comment that the government was seeking to check the growth of company unions. This caused a firestorm of discontent among business owners, who began an anti-Wagner campaign.[11]
Johnson was forced to issue a statement denying that the NRA or the administration was seeking to stamp out company unions. His statement also rejected the concept of exclusive representation.
Denver Tramway decisionEdit
The NLB's interpretation of Section 7(a), however, increasing diverged from that espoused by the NRA. On March 1, 1934, the Board issued its decision in Denver Tramway Corporation. The Board held that, where a union had obtained a majority of the votes cast in a government-sponsored representational election, any collective bargaining agreement would have to cover all employees in the bargaining unit.[12]
Until Denver Tramway, unions had bargained only for their own members. A union which represented only half the bus drivers in a company, for example, would bargain a contract only on behalf of its members. Another union could represent the other bus drivers. In many cases, several unions represented the same workers in one company, each union bargaining a different contract for however many members it represented.
Denver Tramway was a major turning point in American labor law because it established the rule of exclusive representation. This rule said that a union which won the majority of votes in an election would win the right to represent all workers. Even when several unions competed against one another and no union won a majority of the votes, the union with the most votes still won the right to represent all workers.[13]
Temporary abandonment of exclusive representationEdit
President Roosevelt quickly disavowed the Board's exclusive representation rule. The United Auto Workers had organized more than 50,000 workers in the automobile industry in 1933. But the auto companies rejected the union's demand for recognition, set up company unions and refused to allow the NLB to mediate. Roosevelt intervened personally in the dispute. On March 25, 1934, Roosevelt announced a settlement that provided for proportional, rather than exclusive, representation—thus giving the company unions equal footing with the Auto Workers. The agreement also stripped the NLB of its jurisdiction over the auto industry. Worse, the agreement provided no authority for holding elections, and thus no means of determining which organizations truly represented workers.[14]
Demise of the NLBEdit
Senator Wagner, convinced by the fall of 1933 that the NLB needed replacement, began work on legislation which would establish a new statutory regime for labor relations in the United States.
Consulting with a key aide, Leon Keyserling, Wagner conceived of a "labor court" to hear cases involving labor disputes and fashion enforceable resolutions. Roosevelt evinced no interest in such a bill, so Wagner proceeded without him. Labor leaders were consulted in January 1934, and a bill was drafted in February.[15]
The "Labor Disputes Act" was introduced in the Senate on March 1, 1934. The bill provided statutory authority for the existence of the NLB, and gave it exclusive enforcement authority over Section 7(a) of the NIRA. The NLB was given the authority to hold elections, but it was also authorized to prohibit acts of coercion by the employer against employees and required employers to bargain in good faith with the duly elected representatives of workers.[16]
The bill explicitly incorporated the concept of exclusive representation. However, it did not require it, and left it up to the NLB to determine whether to apply the rule, given the facts of each case.[17]
Wagner's bill received a hostile reception in Congress. The business community fought the bill ferociously, arguing that it contravened Roosevelt's own policies in the automobile case. The press, too, was adamantly opposed to the legislation. Administration spokespersons were ambivalent about the bill, when they mentioned it at all.[18]
Nevertheless, Roosevelt and the Democratic leadership in Congress understood the need for action. A wave of large strikes swept the country in April and May, and a significant number of them were over the recognition issue. Senator David I. Walsh, Democrat from Massachusetts and chair of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, quickly wrote a substitute bill, the "National Industrial Adjustment Bill".[19]
The Walsh bill significantly altered many of the provisions of Wagner's bill. It permitted company unions, removed prohibitions on a refusal to bargain, and turned the Board's affirmative duty to determine the outlines of the bargaining unit into a voluntary one.
The Walsh bill won almost unanimous support from the president, the cabinet, the Senate and even from Wagner himself. Wagner was unhappy with the number of provisions which had been watered down, but believed that passage of some legislation was preferable to inaction. He also resolved to draft much stronger legislation after the fall elections. Nevertheless, the Walsh bill faced an uncertain future in the Senate. Congress needed to adjourn and return home to campaign for the fall elections, and the bill promised a lengthy fight.[20]
Roosevelt once more directly intervened in order to win labor peace. Steelworker unions were threatening a nationwide strike. At a White House conference on June 12, 1934, Roosevelt called together Wagner, Walsh, U.S. Department of Labor secretary Frances Perkins, Senate majority leader Joseph T. Robinson, Representative Joseph W. Byrns and several aides. After discussion, Roosevelt himself dictated Public Resolution No. 44. The resolution authorized the president to create one or more new labor boards to enforce Section 7(a) by conducting investigations, subpoenaing evidence and witnesses, holding elections and issuing orders.
Public Resolution No. 44 was introduced in the Senate the next day. Amended to expressly protect the right to strike, it passed both houses of Congress on unanimous voice-votes. Roosevelt signed the resolution on June 19, 1934.
Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6763 on June 29, 1934. The new order abolished the NLB. In its place, it established the National Labor Relations Board. The new NLRB had only three members: Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, was its chairman; Harry A. Millis, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Edwin S. Smith, Commissioner of Labor and Industry for the state of Massachusetts, were its members.[21]
The new law encouraged the proliferation of labor boards to cover various segments of industry. Roosevelt duly complied with business demands for these boards. Each board interpreted the law as it wished, and American labor law fragmented.
Wagner, however, proceeded to draft and in 1935 introduced a new bill, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRA was enacted and is the basis for private-sector labor relations in the United States to this day.
Impact of the NLBEdit
Many of the legal doctrines established by the National Labor Board deeply influenced American labor relations. The Board's exclusive representation doctrine was "a major landmark in American labor history".[22] The doctrine was later enacted into law as part of the NLRA, and the NLRB continues to apply it today.
The Board's decision in Denver Tramway laid the basis as well for the NLRB's concept of mature collective bargaining relations. Under this doctrine, the NLRB has emphasized and de-emphasized various aspects of the NLRA over time, weighing different parts of the law more heavily depending on the longevity of the collective bargaining relationship between the employer and union.
Other Board decisions, such as Bee Bus Line Company (decided May 10, 1934) and Eagle Rubber Company (decided May 17, 1934), laid down the stipulation that a properly conducted, government-monitored representational election required good-faith bargaining, and that collective bargaining must precede the decision to strike. Both decisions have had stabilizing influences on collective bargaining relationships.
The doctrines laid down by the NLB continue to reverberate in 2006, as the NLRB wrestles with the implications of card check and voluntary recognition.[23]
^ a b Morris, p. 25.
^ Cited in Morris, p. 25.
^ Schlesinger, p. 146-47.
^ Morris, p. 26.
^ Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America: A History. 6th ed. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1999. p. 255. ISBN 0-88295-979-4
^ Morris, p. 32-33; Schlesinger, p. 147.
^ Schlesinger, p. 147.
^ Schlesinger, p. 148-49; Morris, 32-34.
^ Morris, p. 34-36.
^ Schlesinger, p. 150; Morris, p. 46.
^ Susan J. McGolrick, "General counsel's report discusses ULP allegations regarding neutrality pacts," Labor Relations Week. November 25, 2004, p. 1629.
Morris, Charles. The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8014-4317-2
Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1958. ISBN 0-618-34086-6
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Organized labour portal
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Carl Sanford Joslyn "Sandy" Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer.
Sandy Petersen in May 2004
Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen
(1955-09-16) September 16, 1955 (age 63)
Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended University of California, Berkeley, majoring in zoology.
He is a well-known fan of H. P. Lovecraft, whose work he first encountered in a World War II Armed Services Edition of The Dunwich Horror and other Weird Tales found in his father's library. In 1974, Dungeons & Dragons brought his interest to role-playing games.[citation needed] He became a full-time staff member at Chaosium.[1] His interest for role-playing games and H. P. Lovecraft were fused when he became principal author of Chaosium's game Call of Cthulhu, published 1981,[2] and many scenarios and background pieces thereafter.[3] While working for Chaosium he co-authored the third edition of RuneQuest, for which he also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Trollpak and a number of other Gloranthan supplements.[citation needed]
He authored several critically acclaimed RuneQuest supplements for Avalon Hill and Games Workshop.[3] Petersen served as co-designer for West End Games's Ghostbusters roleplaying game.[3] He still plays and runs role-playing games, and is a frequent guest at conventions where he usually runs a freeform game of his own devising, and/or helps to run someone else's game.
He worked some time for MicroProse, where he is credited for work on Sid Meier's Pirates! and Sword of the Samurai.[3] Between 1989 and 1992 he also worked on the video games Darklands, Hyperspeed, and Lightspeed. He also made some contributions to Civilization[citation needed].
Primarily interested by the first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D, Petersen joined id Software about 10 weeks before the December 1993 release of Doom and in that time created 19 levels for it (of which 8 were based to some extent on early drafts by Tom Hall). He later created 17 of the levels for Doom II, and 7 levels for Quake. His Lovecraftian influences also resulted in some changes to the monster designs for these games.
He left id Software for Ensemble Studios in June 1997.[4] There, he has worked as a game designer on several of their Age of Empires titles, including Rise of Rome, Age of Kings, and The Conquerors.[3] During this time, he was a frequent poster on the HeavenGames forums under the username ES_Sandyman. He ran an extremely popular series of threads, "Ask Sandyman", where forum members could ask him about anything they wanted.
Petersen was the Executive Producer for the movie The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) which was nominated for awards at the Chicago and Warsaw International Film Festivals. It was produced by H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society Motion Pictures in the style of a 1930s black and white horror movie.
He currently[when?] serves as the publisher of horror magazine Arcane: Penny Dreadfuls for the 21st Century.[5]
Petersen took a professorship at The Guildhall at SMU in 2009 following the closure of Ensemble Studios, where he taught several courses on game design.[6]
Petersen worked at Barking Lizards Technologies as their Creative Director, after leaving The Guildhall, and worked on their iOS release, Osiris Legends.
In mid-2013 Petersen led a highly successful Kickstarter campaign by his company, Green Eye Games, to produce the Cthulhu Wars boardgame. Over US$1,400,000 was raised achieving over 3,500% of the initial target. This success allowed the creation of more figures (60), map expansions and additional scenario options. In most, if not all, previous Cthulhu games "you strive to avert the impending catastrophe. But in Cthulhu Wars you ARE the catastrophe! The Great Old Ones have returned to claim the ruins of Earth, and you are one of them!".[7] Green Eye Games also produced the unsuccessful kickstarter Cthulhu World Combat (iOS, Android, Windows, PSN, Xbox Live).[8][9][10]
In June 2015, it was announced that Petersen and Greg Stafford had returned to Chaosium Inc.[11]
Petersen is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but sees no conflict between his faith and his design of games involving Satanic elements. While working on Doom, he said to John Romero: "I have no problems with the demons in the game. They're just cartoons. And, anyway, they're the bad guys."[12]
Sandy is married, has five children, and nine grandchildren.[13]
CreditsEdit
Sid Meier's Pirates! (1989)
Civilization (1991)
Lightspeed (1990)
Hyperspeed (1991)
Darklands (1992)
Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994)
The Ultimate DOOM (1995)
Quake (1996)
Hexen: Beyond Heretic (1996)
Final DOOM (1997)
Age of Empires (1997)
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome (1998)
Age of Empires II (1999)
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors (2000)
Age of Empires III (2005)
Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs (2006)
Osiris Legends (2011)
Role-playing gamesEdit
Call of Cthulhu (1981)
Board gamesEdit
Cthulhu Wars (2015)
Theomachy (2016)
Orcs Must Die! (2016)
Castle Dicenstein (2017)
Evil High Priest (2018)
The Gods War (2018)
The Whisperer In Darkness (2011)
^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
^ Petersen, Sandy (September 1993). "Eye of the Monitor". Dragon (197): 57–62.
^ a b c d e Petersen, Sandy (2007). "Up Front". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 341–344. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
^ Feldman, Curt (July 9, 1997). "Ensemble's Second Title Picks Up Speed". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 3, 1998. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
^ Arcane: Penny Dreadfuls for the 21st Century.
^ The Guildhall at SMU Faculty, Guildhall @ SMU Faculty Biographies.
^ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-wars?ref=home_popular
^ Barking Lizards Management Team.
^ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-world-combat
^ http://www.cthulhuworldcombat.com Archived 2012-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ Stafford, Greg (2015-06-02). "GREG STAFFORD & SANDY PETERSEN REJOIN CHAOSIUM INC". Retrieved 2015-06-03.
^ Kushner, David (2003). Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture. p. 144.
^ http://www.chaosium.com/sandy-petersen/
Ask Sandy Series @ Age of Kings Heaven (1999-2001)
GameSpy interview (2002)
yog-sothoth.com interview
"Pen & Paper: Roleplaying Game Credits for Sandy Petersen". Archived from the original on 2008-05-21.
MobyGames biography
The Guildhall @ SMU Homepage
Arcane: Penny Dreadfuls for the 21st Century
‹See Tfd›(in Italian) An interview in Italian language on RiLL.it (2011)
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Meet the expert: Carlos Carvalho, in charge of the Operations Department at Estádio do Dragão
ESSMA interviewed Carlos Carvalho, he’s in charge of the Operations Department at Estádio do Dragão. Furthermore, he’s the Security Manager at FC Porto.
Meet the expert: Mafalda Magalhães, FC Porto Museum Director
ESSMA interviewed Mafalda Magalhães, FC Porto’s Museum Director. Her daily tasks involve coordinating all the departments and, together with a work team, performing the operational management of FC Porto’s Museum.
Meet the expert: Teresa Santos, Quality & Environment Manager
ESSMA interviewed Teresa Santos, Quality & Environment Manager at FC Porto about sustainability at Estádio do Dragão. Together with her colleagues, they monitor the energy and water consumption as well as control legislation on a daily basis. Furthermore, they plan and monitor actions and provide continuous training in social responsibility and environment areas in order to change the club’s behaviour and act responsibly.
Meet the expert: Majella Smyth, Head Groundsman at Aviva Stadium
ESSMA interviewed Majella Smyth, who has been Head Groundsman at the AVIVA Stadium in Dublin for several years. He will participate in the ESSMA Summit 2018.
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Book Review: "Real Time: Hip-Hop in Israel / Israeli Hip-Hop" (Hebrew)
Submitted by Oded Erez on September 26, 2013 - 7:55pm
Real Time: Hip-Hop in Israel / Israeli Hip-Hop [Hebrew]. By Uri Dorchin. Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2012. [287 pages, $24.] Bibliography, index.
Reviewed by Oded Erez
In the realm of the arts, hip-hop music is arguably today’s proverbial global form. Perhaps surpassing even the proliferation of the former musical mega-culture––rock––the corners of the globe where one couldn’t find a local hip-hop scene are today few. Rapped in countless languages and wedded to innumerable local musical styles, hip-hop none the less remains strongly associated with its origins in African-American experience, and the broader cultural context of its production in the US. As more and more practitioners of hip-hop negotiate this tension, scholars are also increasingly finding fertile ground in exploring local scenes across the globe, as sites for studying the current relationship of the local and the global.
Uri Dorchin’s Book Real Time: Hip-Hop in Israel/ Israeli Hip-Hop is part of this growing trend. The book is based on ethnographical research conducted for Dorchin’s dissertation between 2003 and 2007. The author, an anthropologist and former radio DJ, regularly attended nightclubs, public performances, and radio show recording sessions, in addition to conducting fifteen interviews with rappers, producers, and DJs. The book sets out to address the local production of hip-hop in Israel (and it is indeed a production-centered ethnography), which the author presents to us as a fundamentally paradoxical project: the construction of an authentic local identity, using a “foreign” subcultural form. Through presenting and discussing the statements of his interviewees, Dorchin puts forth the argument that the artists he follows, faced with a “crisis of authenticity” in Israeli culture, enact a reorientation within that culture, and the reorientation of that culture vis-à-vis a global style. “The artist’s aspiration to ‘keep it real’ is based on the realization that projects of conservation […] are doomed to fail. In occupying an intermediate position, a position that contests the totality and continuity of “culture,” the artists do not seek to act above or separate from their belonging to a collective, but to carve for themselves a space of individuality within it” (27, all quotes translated by the reviewer). With none of the local styles providing an appealing and relevant medium for subjectification, rappers resort to the readily available discourses of “realness” and “Blackness,” as an alternative vehicle for identity work. Dorchin interprets this move as a sort of detour, conceived not merely as an escape from local culture but as a means of reentering it as true individuals. This individuality is ostensibly guaranteed by the novelty and exteriority of hip-hop to the local culture.
After an introductory, largely theoretical chapter, the author turns to survey the emergence of local production of what in Israel is often referred to as “Black music.” The history of style that Dorchin unfolds turns out to make quite a bit of sense of that initially suspicious nomination. We learn that during the emergence in the mid-90s of MC- or DJ-centric music in Israel, Jamaican dancehall and ragamuffin were more influential than American hip-hop. In the 2000s, when “Black music” first made its way into the mainstream, three leading artists defined a wide stylistic pallet for the local style: While rapper Mook E (Dani Niv) had his roots firmly set in Jamaican music (in addition to leading rap rock band Shabak Samech), rapper Subliminal (Kobi Shimoni) was modeling his music and public image on American gangsta rap, and the Jerusalem-based band Hadag Nahash, had a strong funk element to its hip-hop albums.
Dorchin’s discussion gravitates towards the probing of two concepts: “Realness” (sometimes explored through the prism of authenticity) and “Blackness.” In chapter three, he offers the Hebrew reader an important first glimpse into current scholarship on Afro-diasporic cultures, the historical question of race in American popular music, and the debate over recent hip-hop culture. Dorchin extracts from this survey a position that presents gangnsta rap (notably standing here for hip-hop culture in general) as a departure from previous forms of Black culture grounded in community ethics. Instead, gangsta rap is said to emerge from the radical individualism and atomism of a post-labor capitalist world. This argument then goes on to universalize the late-capitalism disenfranchised black experience, in a sort of self-avowed anti-essentialist move. As the author argues, “by deconstructing the experience of blackness into molecules of universal affect, the rapper creates conditions which destabilize the giveness of belonging to a racial group” (103). In the fourth chapter Dorchin goes on to argue that in the essentializing discourse of “Black music” in Israel, the interlocutors take this latter historically-specific mode of engaging with reality to be the very essence of Black culture. As such, the perceived essence of “blackness” in the Israeli discourse is not a reductive coherent whole but “the sum of all contradictions that the concept of blackness entails” (106).
Sometimes, the author himself seems to embrace this logic of dwelling in contradiction: later in the book he offers another interpretation of the meaning of “Black music” in the Israeli context, this time as marker of a modernist ancien régime, wherein cultural forms are once more the coherent expression or correlate of a race or a nation. According to this explanation, the putative stability of essentialized “Blackness” is evoked in order to restore a sense of coherence lost in Israeli culture. What these two diverging perspectives share, however, is the final conclusion: hip-hop music in Israel is an identity project premised on the analogy between the discrepancy that the (non-Black) practitioners experience vis-à-vis a perceived blackness in hip-hop, and the discrepancy they experience vis-à-vis an increasingly challenged and disintegrating “Israeliness.”
In certain parts of the book, Dorchin engages in some truly virtuosic discourse analysis, cleverly turning ethnographic impasses, such as recorded events where the speakers keep interrupting each other so as to frustrate any coherence, into strategic interpretative opportunities. Overall, the places where he exposes his ethnographic process and invites us to return with him to his field notes provide some of the strongest segments of his book. In addition to the application of discourse analysis methodologies, performance theory is another intellectual trend that enriches this book, and although literature from this field is never evoked explicitly, it seems to inform much of the author’s interpretative sensibilities.
A notable trait of the treatment of ethnographic material in this book is the author’s seaming reluctance to position himself with regard to his interviewee’s statements. Acting as an interpreter (not so much in the sense of hermeneutics as in the linguistic sense of translation), Dorchin rarely uses quotes from interviews as an occasion for problematization, but rather as prompts for explaining the position taken by the interviewee. As part of this embracement of the actor’s views, Dorchin partakes in their concern with authenticity (although they do not use this word), making it an important topic for consideration throughout the book. I find the return to this concept somewhat dated. Talking about authenticity seems by now to add very little to our understanding of cultural phenomena. Lacking any measure that is not firmly grounded in some kind of prejudice, the discourse of authenticity serves mostly to keep people’s creativity fenced in the patch of semiotic grazing-ground granted to “their kind” in the existing social order. To be sure, the author, like the many important scholars he cites, is not a naïve believer in “being authentic,” but the very feat of debunking authenticity, I believe, serves to keep around a concern that cultural studies should have done away with by now. A discussion of the artist’s discourse of realness and truth could have imaginably taken a different path.
A related issue is this book’s surprisingly sparse discussion of politics. Since at least the 1970s, mainstream popular musicians in Israel have largely opted not to take explicit political stances in their music, and often also in their public life. The few who have chosen to commit their art or public image to politics have often paid a great price for their choices (notable examples include Chava Alberstein on the left side of the map, and Ariel Zilber on the right). Against this backdrop hip-hop in Israel stands as a thoroughly politicized realm, with many of the leading artists strongly advocating certain positions. Rapper Subliminal, a leading figure in the local scene, strongly commits his music to right-wing nationalist Zionism. The collaboration-turned-conflict between him and anti-Zionist Palestinian hip-hop act DAM (led by Tamer Nafer) has made waves worldwide with the release of the documentary “Channels of Rage” (2003, dir. Anat Halachmi). While hip-hop has become a global vehicle for the plight of the subaltern and a music associated, if not with resistance, at least with the experience of minorities, Subliminal’s (and others Israeli artists’) mobilization of hip-hop as a vehicle for a hegemonic political perspective of the dominant ethno-religious group still remains a resounding open invitation for critical scrutiny after the release of this pioneering book on hip-hop in Israel.
However, the book’s commitment to the perspectives of the interviewees achieves something very important: it begins to overturn the trend in the study of popular music in Israel of concentrating on the national narrative, and to understand the rise and fall of musical style as part of a national project of cultural nation-building. Dorchin’s monograph on a contemporary subcultural community provides a much-needed first glimpse into the ways that consumption or practice of “foreign” (non-Israeli or non-Hebrew) music shapes local identities, an insight unavailable to historiographies and ethnographic committed to a national narrative. The title of the book, which recognizes that not all music created or practiced in Israel or by Israelis is definitive of or defined by being “Israeli,” signals further this step that the study of popular music in Israel has taken with the publication of this book.
Subliminal and the Shadow perform "Tikva" ("Hope"):
Palestinian rap group DAM (Da Arab MC's, or "forever" in Arabic) perform "Born Here":
It is unclear whether the lengthy theoretical discussions, introducing the Hebrew reader to relevant bodies of scholarship, will merit a translation of the entire book into English, but one can only hope that the important ethnographic work carried out by the author will find its way to a broader readership in English and other languages.
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FICPI Turkey - Roundtable Meeting on the Similarity of Goods and Services
30th April, 2019
FICPI - TURKEY arranged its fifth roundtable meeting on how goods/services similarity concept is interpreted in the doctrine of trademark law and also by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“Office”) and the Courts and how the foreign courts and trademark offices practise on this matter.
Ms. Yasemin Kenaroğlu, who is a member the Board of Directors of FICPI – TURKEY, moderated the meeting accompanied by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Paslı. 24 participants were present at the meeting including some FICPI-TURKEY members.
Following the opening speech made by Mr. Uğur Aktekin, the President of FICPI Turkey, Ms. Kenaroğlu stated that the Board of Directors of FICPI -TURKEY chose this subject as goods/services similarity is one of the most complicated issues for the trademark practitioners. Then she began discussions firstly mentioning how good/service similarity is regulated in the trademark law and and at this point Mr. Paslı underlined that such regulation came into force for the first time with the Article 11/4 of the IP Code no. 6769, that previously there were decisions offering solutions based only on the classification system, that it was said ‘they are similar because they are in the same class; however that it has completely changed in recent years and that it has become law with that Article.
Afterwards, it was discussed whether the similarity examination should be made when the applicant claims a non-use defence in opposition proceedings or in revocation actions due to non use. Mr. Paslı stated that in revocation actions, the essential thing is the use of the trademark and there is no need to make a similarity examination in these actions. He indicated that the unused goods/services should be deleted from the trademark registry; however the deletion of those goods/services does not mean that the trademark will not be able to protect goods/services similar to the remaining ones and if any one files an application for similar goods/services or uses the relevant trademark on them, an opposition or an invalidation action can be filed.
Later on, Mr. Paslı mentioned that the Offices use two systems to determine the similarity of goods/services, namely cross classification system and similarity engine. He stated that classes are at the forefront at the registration stage in the cross classification system and in this system specific classes are determined and there is a cross classification regarding which and between which classes and their subclasses the similarity examination will be made. He stated that the second system is the search engine, which is also used by WIPO, and when the goods/services are written in the search engine, the results show the decisions comparing those goods/services and the countries finding them similar or different.
Thereafter, the factors that should play a role during the evaluation of similarity was discussed and at this point Ali Paslı emphasized that; while evaluating the similarity of goods/services the essential thing should be the likelihood of confusion, X trademark can be bought instead of Y by mistake, however nobody buys socks instead of shoes by mistake; therefore in the meaning of goods, shoe-sock or pencil-eraser might be similar, however mistaking or presuming the one instead of other cannot be the only criteria as it is in the comparison of signs. He stated that, otherwise, it can be said that there is no confusion between very similar goods and therefore the likelihood of association should be taken into consideration. At this point he stated that in judicial decisions, especially in the English judicial decisions, sales of products at the same sections, usage of the same distribution channels, the similarity of these distribution channels (fast purchase, purchase after a long thinking period) might be taken into account as a criterion. He stated that being in the same sale channel creates a product group, tooth paste and tooth brushes are sold at the same shelf, even though they have different functions, they are complementary. He indicated that it is necessary not to base on one criteria, the evaluation should be made generally, and the European Union Intellectual Property Office separated also the criteria as strong-weak, and in decisions it is expected to have 2 strong, 1 weak criteria.
Afterwards cross-sectoral transition was discussed and it was stated that nowadays one firm can sell clothes, open a restaurant, run a hotel under the same trademark and if the trademark is well-known this spectrum can be broader. However just because a well known trademark can be used on various goods/services, all these goods/services cannot be accepted as similar; if only a well-known trademark is in question, it should be evaluated whether it harms the distinctive character of the trademark, how famous it is, whether its distinctive feature is strong or not, even when it is used on irrelevant products, whether it will harm the distinctiveness of the trademark and it will make a profit out of its reputation. It was stated that it is not right to just say that these products are similar; the things that are mentioned above should be taken into consideration.
Ali Paslı referred to the European Court of Justice’s Canon decision by mentioning that categorical distinctions should not be made and that goods/services found similar in one subject may not be always similar, the similarity between the signs should also be evaluated and the similarity between goods/services can be interpreted more easily as the similarity between the signs increases. He stated that during the similarity examination firstly the similarity between the goods/services, secondly the similarity between the trademarks is evaluated and then all of them are assessed together. As a response to the question of which one should be evaluated firstly, Ali Paslı answered that both views are supported in the foreign doctrine, and that in his personal view first the similarity between signs should be evaluated, because the similarity or dissimilarity may affect the decision which will be made regarding the similarity of goods/services.
Lastly, Ali Paslı mentioned the historic development of retail services in class 35 both in Turkey and abroad. He stated that even though specified goods should be listed under the retailing services in this class, still the whole list might be written, which should be prevented by the Office. Later at that point, it was discussed that, when a firm applies for a trademark to use it in as the name of its store to sell only his own trademark, it is not accepted by the Office as the use of this service under the scope of class 35 and that a firm should sell other trademarks than its own, under his branded signboard so that the retail service can be considered under the class 35.
Most participants actively took part with their questions and discussions both during the meeting and the closing cocktail. FICPI – TURKEY has started the traditional roundtable meetings for this year with this hot subject and received good feedbacks from the participants. FICPI – TURKEY will continue arranging its roundtable meetings on various subjects regarding trademarks and patents also this year.
Author: Ayşen Kunt & Yasemin Kenaroğlu
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Engel Remarks at Full Committee Hearing on Syria
WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on the Trump Administration’s strategy in Syria:
I view the crisis in Syria as one of the greatest tragedies of our time. I have dealt with the Syria issue the entire length of time I’ve been in Congress – even when very few people were talking about Syria. But now, these past years—it’s just impossible. It really makes you cry. Hundreds of thousands of innocents murdered at the hands of a brutal dictator—a butcher—Bashar al Assad. Barrel bombs and chemical weapons used against civilians.
We’ve seen the images of his cruelty on shocking display, here in this room, when we hosted Caesar, the military photographer who defected to show the world the barbarity of the regime. Millions upon millions more driven from their homes—a massive humanitarian crisis. And from the outside, a collective failure of global leadership to put a stop to the violence year after year after year. It breaks my heart. And it’s a failure of leadership in this country as well as around the world.
Anyone who’s followed our work knows that Syria isn’t a new topic for the Foreign Affairs Committee or for myself.
More than 15 years ago, I authored the Syria Accountability Act to push back against the Syrian government’s presence in Lebanon and crack down on a range of other harmful activities.
Early in the civil war, I called on the Obama Administration to support the Free Syrian Army in its fight against the brutal Assad regime, and I introduced the Free Syria Act—the first legislation to train and equip the Syrian opposition. I’ve authored legislation, named for Caesar, to crack down on Assad’s enablers—Moscow, Tehran—and to make sure American reconstruction dollars don’t ultimately end up in the regime’s hands.
So I bring some experience to the issue when I say how deeply concerned I am by the Trump Administration’s policy—scattershot policy—toward this war-torn country. Now the previous administration didn’t do anything either, so it’s just a matter of nobody is doing the right thing as far as I’m concerned, and this is one of reasons we’ve gotten ourselves into the mess we’re in.
I remain particularly baffled by the precipitous withdrawal that President Trump announced late last year. That would have been an utter disaster.
It would have emboldened Assad, Russia, and Iran. It would have given them license to run roughshod over the country and an unimaginable cost of innocent life. It would have signaled to the world that the United States was withdrawing from one of the most serious hotspots, and leaving our partners and allies twisting in the wind.
It was remarkable to see a Secretary of Defense, Mr. Mattis, resign in protest – and I take my hat off to him for doing the only thing he could have done. That’s just how ill-conceived that announcement was.
Though the Administration swiftly went into damage control and walked back this announcement, damage had already been done. What does it say about our credibility on the global stage? What sort of signal do our friends take from this whipsawed foreign policy? Or our adversaries? It’s a mess.
And I worry the Administration may now be compounding that mess by signaling to Turkey that they can wade farther into the fray. We have all these reports that President Trump changed his position on Syria and said the United States would leave, after he had an extensive conversation with Mr. Erdogan of Turkey. It that is true and that is the case, it’s really a big mistake.
Turkey has been playing a destabilizing role with its campaign against our allies, the Kurds, in northeast Syria. Following the President’s recent call with President Erdogan—another strongman of whom President Trump seems strangely enamored—Turkey seems emboldened.
We need a serious policy that pushes for a stop to the violence and the start to a political resolution. Otherwise this cycle of carnage and death is simply going to repeat again and again and again. I’ve had a friend send me recent emails and other things showing me what’s been happening just this week with the barbarity in parts of Syria and the world just looks the other way and talks and talks and talks. And meanwhile civilians are being murdered one by one or ten by ten and it just doesn’t stop, and it just breaks my heart.
Every March, when we mark another year of this tragedy, I wonder what more we could have done to try to prevent the next grim anniversary. The legislation I’ve introduced would give the Administration more tools, but the Administration needs to devise a real strategy and flex the muscles of American leadership to help break the status quo.
Again, I’m glad we have the Administration’s senior official on this situation with us today. As I’ve said before he has a long and distinguished record of which I certainly approve and certainly worked with him and know how smart he is. of I look forward to hearing your testimony.
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Taliban Captures Afghan Army Base In North, Battle For Ghazni Continues
Heavy Clashes Continue In Afghanistan's Ghazni City
Taliban fighters have overrun an Afghan National Army operations base in northern Afghanistan while, further to the south, security forces are battling for a fifth consecutive day against Taliban militants who seized the city of Ghazni.
Defense Ministry spokesman Ghafor Ahmad Jawed said Taliban fighters gained control of the base in the Ghormach district of the northern province of Faryab late on August 13.
Jawed said 17 Afghan soldiers were killed and at least 19 wounded in the battle.
An army spokesman, Mohammad Hanif Rezaee, said 100 Afghan soldiers were at the base, known as Camp Chinaya, when the Taliban began their assault against it on August 12.
"It is a tragedy that the base fell to the enemy," Rezaee said. "Some soldiers were killed, some captured, and some fled to nearby hills."
Hashim Otaq, a member of Afghanistan's parliament who represents Faryab Province, said about 40 Afghan soldiers had been captured by the Taliban.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said 57 Afghan soldiers surrendered to the Taliban and another 17 were captured. He said Taliban fighters seized eight military Humvees -- four-wheeled armored vehicles that had been provided to the Afghan forces by the United States.
Faryab Provincial Council Chief Mohammad Tahir Rahmani said the base fell to the Taliban because the Afghan soldiers did not receive reinforcements and had run out of ammunition, food, and water.
The battle began after the Taliban launched an assault early on August 10 and captured Ghazni, a strategic city located on the main highway linking Kabul with the southern city of Kandahar.
Afghan officials said security forces, backed by air support, later pushed the militants back from most of Ghazni, which is Afghanistan's seventh largest city.
Interior Ministry spokesman Nasart Rahimi said on August 14 that security forces were searching the city of 270,000 people for Taliban fighters.
Ghazni Provincial Council member Nasir Ahmad Faqiri wrote on Facebook that Taliban forces had slowly retreated from within the city to areas on Ghazni's outskirts that are under Taliban control.
However, the militant group said sporadic gunbattles were still ongoing inside the city.
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says between 110 and 150 civilians reportedly have been killed or injured in the fighting, adding that the number of civilian casualties still needs to be verified.
Late on August 13, Defense Minister Tareq Shah Bahrami said about 100 police officers and soldiers were killed in the battle, along with at least 20 civilians. Bahrami said 341 Taliban fighters were killed or wounded in the battle for Ghazni.
Information from Ghazni was difficult to verify with telecommunications services being shut down due to the clashes.
Afghanistan's Western-backed government in Kabul has been struggling to fend off the Taliban and other militant groups since the withdrawal of most NATO troops in 2014.
With reporting by AP, AFP, and Reuters
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Aldo Carl Leopold (December 18, 1919 – November 18, 2009) was an American academic and plant physiologist.
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Abura-age
, is a Japanese food product made from soybeans.
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Adsorption is the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface.
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The Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration (approximately from the beginning of the 15th century until the end of the 18th century) is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.
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Agrobacterium
Agrobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria established by H. J. Conn that uses horizontal gene transfer to cause tumors in plants.
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The albumins (formed from Latin: albumen "(egg) white; dried egg white") are a family of globular proteins, the most common of which are the serum albumins.
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Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist.
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Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are a number of conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment.
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Alpha amylase inhibitor
In molecular biology, alpha-amylase inhibitor is a protein family which inhibits mammalian alpha-amylases specifically, by forming a tight stoichiometric 1:1 complex with alpha-amylase.
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The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Selva Amazónica, Amazonía or usually Amazonia; Forêt amazonienne; Amazoneregenwoud), also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.
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The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer.
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Anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death.
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Angioedema is an area of swelling of the lower layer of skin and tissue just under the skin or mucous membranes.
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Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one year, and then dies.
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Ash (analytical chemistry)
In analytical chemistry, ashing or ash content determination is the process of mineralization for preconcentration of trace substances prior to a chemical analysis, such as chromatography, or optical analysis, such as spectroscopy.
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Auctorum
Auctorum (abbreviated auct. or auctt.), in botany and zoology is a term used to indicate that a name is used in the sense of a number of subsequent authors and not in its (different) sense as established by the original author.
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Azlon
Azlon is a synthetic textile fiber composed of protein material derived from natural sources such as soy, peanut, milk or corn.
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B vitamins are a class of water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism.
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A bean is a seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used for human or animal food.
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β-Sitosterol (beta-sitosterol) is one of several phytosterols (plant sterols) with chemical structures similar to that of cholesterol.
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Bifidobacterium is a genus of gram-positive, nonmotile, often branched anaerobic bacteria.
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Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl (methyl, ethyl, or propyl) esters.
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Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Biological value
Biological value (BV) is a measure of the proportion of absorbed protein from a food which becomes incorporated into the proteins of the organism's body.
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Biotechnology is the broad area of science involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2).
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Black turtle bean
The black turtle bean is a small, shiny variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), especially popular in Latin American cuisine, though it can also be found in Cajun and Creole cuisines of south Louisiana.
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Blood lipids
Blood lipids (or blood fats) are lipids in the blood, either free or bound to other molecules.
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Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra
The Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra (Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra or simply Jardim Botânico) is a botanical garden in Coimbra, Portugal.
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Boyce Thompson Institute
The Boyce Thompson Institute (previously: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research) is an independent research institute devoted to using plant sciences to improve agriculture, protect the environment, and enhance human health.
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Brassicasterol (24-methyl cholest-5,22-dien-3β-ol) is a 28-carbon sterol synthesised by several unicellular algae (phytoplankton) and some terrestrial plants, e.g., oilseed rape.
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Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária) is a state-owned research corporation affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture.
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Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking.
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Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue.
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Calcium is a chemical element with symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
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A calorie is a unit of energy.
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Campesterol
Campesterol is a phytosterol whose chemical structure is similar to that of cholesterol.
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A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water); in other words, with the empirical formula (where m may be different from n).
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Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
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A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis, the formation of cancer.
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
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Casein ("kay-seen", from Latin caseus, "cheese") is a family of related phosphoproteins (αS1, αS2, β, κ).
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Cash crop
A cash crop or profit crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit.
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Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit watchdog and consumer advocacy group that advocates for safer and healthier foods.
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A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.
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The Cerrado is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Minas Gerais.
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Charles Piper
Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 – 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist.
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Cheese analogue
Cheese analogues (more widely known as cheese alternatives) are products used as culinary replacements for cheese.
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Chelation
Chelation is a type of bonding of ions and molecules to metal ions.
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Cheonggukjang
Cheonggukjang is a fermented soybean paste used in Korean cuisine.
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The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), established on April 3, 1848, is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.
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The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is a legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.
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China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Clinical research is a branch of healthcare science that determines the safety and effectiveness (efficacy) of medications, devices, diagnostic products and treatment regimens intended for human use.
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Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.
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Conrad Moench
Conrad Moench (sometimes written Konrad Mönch; 15 August 1744 – 6 January 1805) was a German botanist, professor of botany at Marburg University from 1786 until his death.
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Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.
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Coronary artery disease (CAD), also known as ischemic heart disease (IHD), refers to a group of diseases which includes stable angina, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death.
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A cotyledon ("seed leaf" from Latin cotyledon, from Greek: κοτυληδών kotylēdōn, gen.: κοτυληδόνος kotylēdonos, from κοτύλη ''kotýlē'' "cup, bowl") is a significant part of the embryo within the seed of a plant, and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "The primary leaf in the embryo of the higher plants (Phanerogams); the seed-leaf." Upon germination, the cotyledon may become the embryonic first leaves of a seedling.
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Coumarin (2H-chromen-2-one) is a fragrant organic chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, although it may also be seen as a subclass of lactones.
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Coumestan
Coumestan is a heterocyclic organic compound.
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Coumestrol
Coumestrol is a natural organic compound in the class of phytochemicals known as coumestans.
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Crop rotation
Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons.
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Cultigen
A cultigen (from the Latin cultus – cultivated, and gens – kind) is a plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans; it is the result of artificial selection.
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The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.
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Cupin superfamily
The cupin superfamily is a diverse superfamily of proteins named after its conserved barrel domain (cupa being the Latin term for a small barrel).
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Daidzein
Daidzein (7-hydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4H-chromen-4-one) is a naturally occurring compound found exclusively in soybeans and other legumes and structurally belongs to a class of compounds known as isoflavones.
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A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting or processing (or both) of animal milk – mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffaloes, sheep, horses, or camels – for human consumption.
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Dairy products, milk products or lacticinia are a type of food produced from or containing the milk of mammals, primarily cattle, water buffaloes, goats, sheep, camels, and humans.
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The Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) is a Chinese futures exchange based in Dalian, Liaoning province, China.
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Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
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Denaturation (biochemistry)
Denaturation is a process in which proteins or nucleic acids lose the quaternary structure, tertiary structure, and secondary structure which is present in their native state, by application of some external stress or compound such as a strong acid or base, a concentrated inorganic salt, an organic solvent (e.g., alcohol or chloroform), radiation or heat.
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Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.
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Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day.
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Dicotyledon
The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or more rarely dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided.
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Dietary fiber or roughage is the indigestible portion of food derived from plants.
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A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement the diet when taken by mouth as a pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid.
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Doenjang
Doenjang ("thick sauce") or soybean paste is a type of fermented bean paste made entirely of soybean and brine.
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Dog food is food specifically formulated and intended for consumption by dogs and other related canines.
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Douchi
Douchi, or tochi is a type of fermented and salted black soybean.
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English-speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 from a government-backed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies.
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East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent, which can be defined in either geographical or ethno-cultural "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system." terms.
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The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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Edamame is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod, found in cuisines with origins in East Asia.
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Elmer Drew Merrill
Elmer Drew Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist.
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Environmental impact of meat production
The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world.
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Estrogen, or oestrogen, is the primary female sex hormone.
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The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.
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European Food Safety Authority
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) that provides independent scientific advice and communicates on existing and emerging risks associated with the food chain.
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The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Extraction (chemistry)
Extraction in chemistry is a separation process consisting in the separation of a substance from a matrix.
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The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...
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The Fabales are an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system.
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The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae.
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Fat is one of the three main macronutrients, along with carbohydrate and protein.
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Fermentation in food processing
Fermentation in food processing is the process of converting carbohydrates to alcohol or organic acids using microorganisms—yeasts or bacteria—under anaerobic conditions.
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Fermented bean paste
Fermented bean paste is a category of fermented foods typically made from ground soybeans, which are indigenous to the cuisines of East and Southeast Asia.
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A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
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Flatulence is defined in the medical literature as "flatus expelled through the anus" or the "quality or state of being flatulent", which is defined in turn as "marked by or affected with gases generated in the intestine or stomach; likely to cause digestive flatulence".
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Flavonoids (or bioflavonoids) (from the Latin word flavus meaning yellow, their color in nature) are a class of plant and fungus secondary metabolites.
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.
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Folate, distinct forms of which are known as folic acid, folacin, and vitamin B9, is one of the B vitamins.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.
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Food extrusion
Food extrusion is a form of extrusion used in food processing.
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Food intolerance is a detrimental reaction, often delayed, to a food, beverage, food additive, or compound found in foods that produces symptoms in one or more body organs and systems, but generally refers to reactions other than food allergy.
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Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.
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Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October 1811 in Neuenhaus – 23 January 1871 in Utrecht) was a Dutch botanist, whose main focus of study was on the flora of the Dutch East Indies.
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Friedrich J. Haberlandt
Friedrich J. Haberlandt (1826–1878) was a professor of agriculture at the Hochschule fuer Bodenkultur (Royal College of Agriculture) in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
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Futures contract
In finance, a futures contract (more colloquially, futures) is a standardized forward contract, a legal agreement to buy or sell something at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future.
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Gaetano Savi
Gaetano Savi (13 June 1769 – 28 April 1844) was an Italian naturalist.
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Galactose
Galactose (galacto- + -ose, "milk sugar"), sometimes abbreviated Gal, is a monosaccharide sugar that is about as sweet as glucose, and about 30% as sweet as sucrose.
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Gỏi cuốn
Gỏi cuốn, Vietnamese spring roll or summer roll, is a Vietnamese dish traditionally consisting of pork, prawn, vegetables, bún (rice vermicelli), and other ingredients wrapped in Vietnamese bánh tráng (commonly known as rice paper).
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In biology, a gene is a sequence of DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function.
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.
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Genetically modified crops (GMCs, GM crops, or biotech crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods.
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Genetically modified food
Genetically modified foods or GM foods, also known as genetically engineered foods, bioengineered foods, genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are foods produced from organisms that have had changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering.
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Genetically modified organism containment and escape
Since the advent of genetic engineering in the 1970s, concerns have been raised about the dangers of the technology.
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Genistein is an isoflavone that is described as an angiogenesis inhibitor and a phytoestrogen.
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Georgia (country)
Georgia (tr) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.
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Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or similar structure.
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Globulin
The globulins are a family of globular proteins that have higher molecular weights than albumins and are insoluble in pure water but dissolve in dilute salt solutions.
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Glossary of archaeology
This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains.
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Glossary of leaf morphology
The following is a defined list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.
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Gluten (from Latin gluten, "glue") is a composite of storage proteins termed prolamins and glutelins and stored together with starch in the endosperm (which nourishes the embryonic plant during germination) of various cereal (grass) grains.
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Glycine (symbol Gly or G) is the amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.
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Glycine (plant)
Glycine is a genus in the bean family Fabaceae.
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Glycine soja, or wild soybean (previously G. ussuriensis) is an annual plant in the legume family.
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Glycitein
Glycitein is an O-methylated isoflavone which accounts for 5-10% of the total isoflavones in soy food products.
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Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant.
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Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Ground beef, beef mince, minced beef, or minced meat (not to be confused with the mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices referred to as "mincemeat") is a ground meat made of beef that has been finely chopped with a large knife or a meat grinder.
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Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist.
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A hammer mill, hammer forge or hammer works was a workshop in the pre-industrial era that was typically used to manufacture semi-finished, wrought iron products or, sometimes, finished agricultural or mining tools, or military weapons.
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Hectare
The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.
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Helicoverpa zea
Helicoverpa zea, commonly known as the corn earworm, is a species (formerly in the genus Heliothis) in the family Noctuidae.
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Hemicellulose
A hemicellulose (also known as polyose) is any of several heteropolymers (matrix polysaccharides), such as arabinoxylans, present along with cellulose in almost all plant cell walls.
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Hemp, or industrial hemp (from Old English hænep), typically found in the northern hemisphere, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products.
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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Herbicides, also commonly known as weedkillers, are chemical substances used to control unwanted plants.
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Hexane
Hexane is an alkane of six carbon atoms, with the chemical formula C6H14.
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High-density lipoprotein
High-density lipoproteins (HDL) are one of the five major groups of lipoproteins.
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Hilum (biology)
In botany, a hilum (pronounced) is a scar or mark left on a seed coat by the former attachment to the ovary wall or to the funiculus (which in turn attaches to the ovary wall).
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The Hitler Youth (German:, often abbreviated as HJ in German) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.
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Hives, also known as urticaria, is a kind of skin rash with red, raised, itchy bumps.
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Husk (or hull) in botany is the outer shell or coating of a seed.
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Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.
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Hypocholesterolemia
Hypocholesterolemia is the presence of abnormally low (hypo-) levels of cholesterol in the blood (-emia).
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Hypocotyl
The hypocotyl (short for "hypocotyledonous stem", meaning "below seed leaf") is the stem of a germinating seedling, found below the cotyledons (seed leaves) and above the radicle (root).
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Hypothyroidism, also called underactive thyroid or low thyroid, is a disorder of the endocrine system in which the thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormone.
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Indeterminate growth
In biology and botany, indeterminate growth is growth that is not terminated in contrast to determinate growth that stops once a genetically pre-determined structure has completely formed.
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Indonesian language
Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) is the official language of Indonesia.
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Infant formula, or baby formula, is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age, usually prepared for bottle-feeding or cup-feeding from powder (mixed with water) or liquid (with or without additional water).
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Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Isoflavones are a type of naturally occurring isoflavonoids, many of which act as phytoestrogens in mammals.
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Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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James Flint (merchant)
James Flint (Chinese name: 洪任輝, Hong Renhui, ?1720–?) was an 18th-century British merchant and diplomat employed by the East India Company and noted for his role in precipitating the Canton System of Chinese trade with the West.
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Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of social and economic changes.
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Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.
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Journal of Nutrition
The Journal of Nutrition is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Nutrition.
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Osaka Dojima Commodity Exchange (ODE) is a futures exchange based in Osaka, Japan.
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Karl Maximovich
Carl Johann Maximovich (also Karl Ivanovich Maximovich, Russian: Карл Иванович Максимович; 23 November 1827 in Tula, Russia – 16 February 1891 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian botanist.
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Kinako
Kinako (黄粉 or きなこ), also known as roasted soybean flour, is a product commonly used in Japanese cuisine.
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Kojiki
, also sometimes read as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei with the purpose of sanctifying the imperial court's claims to supremacy over rival clans.
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Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.
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Korean cuisine has evolved through centuries of social and political change.
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Lafayette Mendel
Lafayette Benedict Mendel (February 5, 1872 – December 9, 1935) was an American biochemist known for his work in nutrition, with longtime collaborator Thomas B. Osborne, including the study of Vitamin A, Vitamin B, lysine and tryptophan.
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Leaflet (botany)
A leaflet (occasionally called foliole) in botany is a leaf-like part of a compound leaf.
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Lecithin (from the Greek lekithos, "egg yolk") is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues, which are amphiphilic – they attract both water and fatty substances (and so are both hydrophilic and lipophilic), and are used for smoothing food textures, dissolving powders (emulsifying), homogenizing liquid mixtures, and repelling sticking materials.
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A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).
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Lignan
The lignans are a large group of polyphenols found in plants.
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Linoleic acid (LA), a carboxylic acid, is a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, an 18-carbon chain with two double bonds in cis configuration.
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In biology and biochemistry, a lipid is a biomolecule that is soluble in nonpolar solvents.
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List of soy-based foods
This is a list of soy-based foods.
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A literature review or narrative review is one of the two main types of review articles, the other being the systematic review.
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Low-density lipoprotein
Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is one of the five major groups of lipoprotein which transport all fat molecules around the body in the extracellular water.
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Lupinus, commonly known as lupin or lupine (North America), is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
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Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
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Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago (Malaysian & Indonesian: Kepulauan Melayu/Nusantara, Tagalog: Kapuluang Malay, Visayan: Kapupud-ang Malay) is the archipelago between mainland Indochina and Australia.
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Manchuria is a name first used in the 17th century by Chinese people to refer to a large geographic region in Northeast Asia.
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Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
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Margarine is an imitation butter spread used for flavoring, baking, and cooking.
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Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time in most women's lives when menstrual periods stop permanently, and they are no longer able to bear children.
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A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies.
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Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen).
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Mexican barbasco trade
The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged in Mexico in the 1950s as part of the Mexican steroid industry.
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Millets (/ˈmɪlɪts/) are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
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Mineral (nutrient)
In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element required as an essential nutrient by organisms to perform functions necessary for life.
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A misnomer is a name or term that suggests an idea that is known to be wrong.
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is a traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and koji (the fungus Aspergillus oryzae) and sometimes rice, barley, or other ingredients.
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Monocotyledon
Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants (angiosperms) whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.
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Monogastric
A monogastric organism has a simple single-chambered stomach, compared with a ruminant organism, like a cow, goat, or sheep, which has a four-chambered complex stomach.
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In biochemistry and nutrition, monounsaturated fatty acids (abbreviated MUFAs, or more plainly monounsaturated fats) are fatty acids that have one double bond in the fatty acid chain with all of the remainder carbon atoms being single-bonded.
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Monsanto Company was an agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation.
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Mumun pottery period
The Mumun pottery period is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory that dates to approximately 1500-300 BC This period is named after the Korean name for undecorated or plain cooking and storage vessels that form a large part of the pottery assemblage over the entire length of the period, but especially 850-550 BC.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.
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Nattō
is a traditional Japanese food made from soybeans fermented with Bacillus subtilis var. natto.
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Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Nature Publishing Group is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine.
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Neoplasia is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue.
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New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nippo Jisho
The or Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Vocabulário da Língua do Japão in modern Portuguese; "Vocabulary of the Language of Japan" in English) was a Japanese to Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1603.
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Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3) or other molecules available to living organisms.
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No-till farming
No-till farming (also called zero tillage or direct drilling) is a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage.
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A nut butter is a spreadable foodstuff made by grinding nuts into a paste.
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A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce.
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Old Javanese
Old Javanese is the oldest phase of the Javanese language that was spoken in areas in what is now the eastern part of Central Java and the whole of East Java.
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Oligosaccharide
An oligosaccharide (from the Greek ὀλίγος olígos, "a few", and σάκχαρ sácchar, "sugar") is a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of monosaccharides (simple sugars).
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Omega-6 fatty acid
Omega-6 fatty acids (also referred to as ω-6 fatty acids or n-6 fatty acids) are a family of polyunsaturated fatty acids that have in common a final carbon-carbon double bond in the ''n''-6 position, that is, the sixth bond, counting from the methyl end.
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Organic infant formula
Organic infant formulas are synthetic substitutes to natural breast milk.
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In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells.
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Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass.
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The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.
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Pectin (from πηκτικός, "congealed, curdled") is a structural heteropolysaccharide contained in the primary cell walls of terrestrial plants.
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A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.
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Phở or pho is a Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice noodles called bánh phở, a few herbs, and meat, primarily made with either beef (phở bò) or chicken (phở gà).
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Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.
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Photoperiodism
Photoperiodism is the physiological reaction of organisms to the length of day or night.
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Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).
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Phytic acid (known as inositol hexakisphosphate (IP6), inositol polyphosphate, or phytate when in salt form), discovered in 1903, a saturated cyclic acid, is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially bran and seeds.
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Phytoestrogens are plant-derived xenoestrogens (see estrogen) not generated within the endocrine system, but consumed by eating phytoestrogenic plants.
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Phytosterols, which encompass plant sterols and stanols, are phytosteroids, similar to cholesterol, which occur in plants and vary only in carbon side chains and/or presence or absence of a double bond.
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Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.
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Plant lipid transfer proteins
Plant lipid transfer proteins, also known as plant LTPs or PLTPs, are a group of highly-conserved proteins of about 7-9kDa found in higher plant tissues.
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Plant morphology or phytomorphology is the study of the physical form and external structure of plants.
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Plant stem
A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant, the other being the root.
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Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.
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Polyphenols (also known as polyhydroxyphenols) are a structural class of mainly natural, but also synthetic or semisynthetic, organic chemicals characterized by the presence of large multiples of phenol structural units.
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Polyunsaturated fats are fats in which the constituent hydrocarbon chain possesses two or more carbon–carbon double bonds.
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Potassium is a chemical element with symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19.
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Prandial
Prandial relates to a meal.
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Prolamin
Prolamins are a group of plant storage proteins having a high proline content and found on plant materials mainly like in the seeds of cereal grains: wheat (gliadin), barley (hordein), rye (secalin), corn (zein), sorghum (kafirin) and as a minor protein, avenin in oats.
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Prostate cancer is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system.
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Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score
Protein digestibility-corrected amino acid score (PDCAAS) is a method of evaluating the quality of a protein based on both the amino acid requirements of humans and their ability to digest it.
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Protein dispersibility index
The Protein Dispersibility Index (PDI) is a means of comparing the solubility of a protein in water, and is widely used in the soybean product industry.
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Purine
A purine is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound that consists of a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring.
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Radicle
In botany, the radicle is the first part of a seedling (a growing plant embryo) to emerge from the seed during the process of germination.
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Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Raffinose is a trisaccharide composed of galactose, glucose, and fructose.
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Reference Daily Intake
The Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States.
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In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a "solid or highly viscous substance" of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.
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Respiratory tract infection
Respiratory tract infection (RTI) refers to any of a number of infectious diseases involving the respiratory tract.
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Rhizobia
Rhizobia are bacteria that fix nitrogen (diazotrophs) after becoming established inside root nodules of legumes (Fabaceae).
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Robert Boyer (chemist)
Robert Allen Boyer (September 30, 1909 in Toledo, Ohio – November 11, 1989 in Dunedin, Florida) was a chemist employed by Henry Ford, he was extremely proficient at inventing ways to convert soybeans into paints and plastic parts used on Ford automobiles.Robert Allen Boyer, your average “B” chemistry student was given an extraordinary opportunity that changed his future and the future of automobile production in the U.S. (Plastic) Boyer, born on 30 September 1909 in Toledo, Ohio was given this chance when Ford hired his father to run the nation's oldest hotel, the Wayside Inn, in South Sudbury, Massachusetts.
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Root nodule
Root nodules occur on the roots of plants (primarily Fabaceae) that associate with symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
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Rosids
The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.
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Russia (rɐˈsʲijə), officially the Russian Federation (p), is a country in Eurasia. At, Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people as of December 2017, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east. Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and an active global partner of ASEAN, as well as a member of the G20, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as being the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and one of the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.
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Samuel Bowen
Samuel Bowen (died 30 December 1777) was an English entrepreneur and farmer who established an estate in Savannah, Georgia, where he cultivated the first soya beans.
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Saponins are a class of chemical compounds found in particular abundance in various plant species.
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A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all or predominantly single bonds.
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Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County.
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Secoisolariciresinol
Secoisolariciresinol is a lignan, a type of phenylpropanoid.
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A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Selective estrogen receptor modulator
Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are a class of drugs that act on the estrogen receptor (ER).
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Serat Centhini
Serat Centhini is a twelve volume compilation of Javanese tales and teachings, written in verse and published in 1814.
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Serpins are a superfamily of proteins with similar structures that were first identified for their protease inhibition activity and are found in all kingdoms of life.
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Sewage sludge refers to the residual, semi-solid material that is produced as a by-product during sewage treatment of industrial or municipal wastewater.
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Shennong
Shennong (which can be variously translated as "God Farmer" or "God Peasant", "Agriculture God"), also known as the Wugushen (五穀神 "Five Grains' or Five Cereals' God") or also Wuguxiandi (五穀先帝 "First Deity of the Five Grains"), is a deity in Chinese religion, a mythical sage ruler of prehistoric China.
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Skidaway Island, Georgia
Skidaway Island is an exclusive census-designated place (CDP) in Chatham County, Georgia, United States.
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Solae (company)
Solae LLC (which traded as The Solae Company) was an international soy ingredients supplier based in St. Louis, Missouri.
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A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute (a chemically distinct liquid, solid or gas), resulting in a solution.
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South African Futures Exchange
The South African Futures Exchange (Safex) is the futures exchange subsidiary of JSE Limited, the Johannesburg-based exchange.
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Soy milk or soymilk is a plant-based drink produced by soaking and grinding soybeans, boiling the mixture, and filtering out remaining particulates.
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Soy molasses
Soy molasses is brown viscous syrup with a typical bittersweet flavor.
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Soy paint
Soy paint is paint made primarily from soy, it combines the advantage of being a renewable resource with the potential of non-toxic product.
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Soy protein is a protein that is isolated from soybean.
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Soy sauce (also called soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of Chinese origin, made from a fermented paste of soybeans, roasted grain, brine, and Aspergillus oryzae or Aspergillus sojae molds.
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Soy yogurt
Soy yogurt, also referred to as Soya yogurt, Soygurt or Yofu (a portmanteau of '''yo'''gurt and to'''fu'''), is yogurt prepared with soy milk.
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Soybean agglutinin
Soybean agglutinins (SBA) also known as soy bean lectins (SBL) are lectins found in soybeans.
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Soybean in Paraguay
In recent years, the soybean industry has grown exponentially in South America, primarily in Brazil and Argentina (South America’s two largest countries) and Uruguay and Paraguay.
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Soybean management practices
Soybean management practices in farming are the decisions a producer must make in order to raise a soybean crop.
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Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max).
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Soybean sprout
Soybean sprout is a culinary vegetable grown by sprouting soybeans.
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Sperm is the male reproductive cell and is derived from the Greek word (σπέρμα) sperma (meaning "seed").
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Spermatophyte
The spermatophytes, also known as phanerogams or phenogamae, comprise those plants that produce seeds, hence the alternative name seed plants.
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Sphingolipid
Sphingolipids are a class of lipids containing a backbone of sphingoid bases, a set of aliphatic amino alcohols that includes sphingosine.
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Sri Tanjung
Sri Tanjung also known as the tale of Banyuwangi (Javanese for "fragrance water") is Javanese folklore which tells a story about a faithful wife that was wrongfully accused.
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Stachyose
Stachyose is a tetrasaccharide consisting of two α--galactose units, one α--glucose unit, and one β--fructose unit sequentially linked as gal(α1→6)gal(α1→6)glc(α1↔2β)fru.
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Staling
Staling, or "going stale", is a chemical and physical process in bread and other foods that reduces their palatability.
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A steroid hormone is a steroid that acts as a hormone.
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Stigmasterol
Stigmasterol (also known as Wulzen anti-stiffness factor) is a plant sterol, or phytosterol.
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Sucrose is common table sugar.
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Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension (or interfacial tension) between two liquids, between a gas and a liquid, or between a liquid and a solid.
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Svedberg
A svedberg unit (symbol S, sometimes Sv) is a non-metric unit for sedimentation rate.
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Sweet bean paste
Sweet bean paste is a food ingredient used in several East Asian cuisines.
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Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
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A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.
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Tương is the name applied to a variety of condiments a kind of fermented bean paste made from soybean and commonly used in Vietnamese cuisine.
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Tempeh (témpé) is a traditional soy product originating from Indonesia.
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Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid.
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Textured vegetable protein
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Porphyrin
Not to be confused with Perforin.
The 18-electron cycle of porphin, the parent structure of porphyrin, highlighted. (Several other choices of atoms, through the pyrrole nitrogens, for example, also give 18-electron cycles.)
Porphyrins (/ˈpɔːrfərɪn/ POR-fər-in) are a group of heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (=CH−). The parent porphyrin is porphine, a rare chemical compound of exclusively theoretical interest. Substituted porphines are called porphyrins. With a total of 26 π-electrons, of which 18 π-electrons form a planar, continuous cycle, the porphyrin ring structure is often described as aromatic.[1][2] One result of the large conjugated system is that porphyrins typically absorb strongly in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, i.e. they are deeply colored. The name "porphyrin" derives from the Greek word πορφύρα (porphyra), meaning purple.[3]
Metal complexes derived from porphyrins occur naturally. One of the best-known families of porphyrin complexes is heme, the pigment in red blood cells, a cofactor of the protein hemoglobin.
1 Complexes of porphyrins
2 Related species
3 Natural formation
4 Synthesis
4.1 Biosynthesis
4.2 Laboratory synthesis
5.1 Photodynamic therapy
5.2 Organic geochemistry
5.3 Toxicology
6 Potential applications
6.1 Biomimetic catalysis
6.2 Molecular electronics
6.3 Supramolecular chemistry
Complexes of porphyrins[edit]
Representative porphyrins and derivatives
Porphin is the simplest porphyrin, a rare compound of theoretical interest.
Derivatives of protoporphyrin IX are common in nature, the precursor to hemes.
Octaethylporphyrin (H2OEP) is a synthetic analogue of protoporphyrin IX. Unlike the natural porphyrin ligands, OEP2− is highly symmetrical.
Tetraphenylporphyrin (H2TPP)is another synthetic analogue of protoporphyrin IX. Unlike the natural porphyrin ligands, TPP2− is highly symmetrical. Another difference is that its methyne centers are occupied by phenyl groups.
Simplified view of heme, a complex of a protoporphyrin IX.
Porphyrins are the conjugate acids of ligands that bind metals to form complexes. The metal ion usually has a charge of 2+ or 3+. A schematic equation for these syntheses is shown:
H2porphyrin + [MLn]2+ → M(porphyrinate)Ln−4 + 4 L + 2 H+, where M = metal ion and L = a ligand
A porphyrin without a metal-ion in its cavity is a free base. Some iron-containing porphyrins are called hemes. Heme-containing proteins, or hemoproteins, are found extensively in nature. Hemoglobin and myoglobin are two O2-binding proteins that contain iron porphyrins. Various cytochromes are also hemoproteins.
Related species[edit]
A benzoporphyrin is a porphyrin with a benzene ring fused to one of the pyrrole units. e.g. verteporfin is a benzoporphyrin derivative.[4]
Several other heterocycles are related to porphyrins. These include corrins, chlorins, bacteriochlorophylls, and corphins. Chlorins (2,3-dihydroporphyrin) are more reduced, contain more hydrogen than porphyrins, i.e. one pyrrole has been converted to a pyrroline. This structure occurs in chlorophylls. Replacement of two of the four pyrrolic subunits with pyrrolinic subunits results in either a bacteriochlorin (as found in some photosynthetic bacteria) or an isobacteriochlorin, depending on the relative positions of the reduced rings. Some porphyrin derivatives follow Hückel's rule, but most do not.[citation needed]
Natural formation[edit]
A geoporphyrin, also known as a petroporphyrin, is a porphyrin of geologic origin.[5] They can occur in crude oil, oil shale, coal, or sedimentary rocks.[5][6] Abelsonite is possibly the only geoporphyrin mineral, as it is rare for porphyrins to occur in isolation and form crystals.[7]
Synthesis[edit]
Biosynthesis[edit]
In non-photosynthetic eukaryotes such as animals, insects, fungi, and protozoa, as well as the α-proteobacteria group of bacteria, the committed step for porphyrin biosynthesis is the formation of δ-aminolevulinic acid (δ-ALA, 5-ALA or dALA) by the reaction of the amino acid glycine with succinyl-CoA from the citric acid cycle. In plants, algae, bacteria (except for the α-proteobacteria group) and archaea, it is produced from glutamic acid via glutamyl-tRNA and glutamate-1-semialdehyde. The enzymes involved in this pathway are glutamyl-tRNA synthetase, glutamyl-tRNA reductase, and glutamate-1-semialdehyde 2,1-aminomutase. This pathway is known as the C5 or Beale pathway.
Two molecules of dALA are then combined by porphobilinogen synthase to give porphobilinogen (PBG), which contains a pyrrole ring. Four PBGs are then combined through deamination into hydroxymethyl bilane (HMB), which is hydrolysed to form the circular tetrapyrrole uroporphyrinogen III. This molecule undergoes a number of further modifications. Intermediates are used in different species to form particular substances, but, in humans, the main end-product protoporphyrin IX is combined with iron to form heme. Bile pigments are the breakdown products of heme.
The following scheme summarizes the biosynthesis of porphyrins, with references by EC number and the OMIM database. The porphyria associated with the deficiency of each enzyme is also shown:
Heme B biosynthesis pathway and its modulators. Major enzyme deficiences are also shown.
ALA synthase Mitochondrion Glycine, succinyl CoA δ-Aminolevulinic acid 3p21.1 2.3.1.37 125290 X-linked dominant protoporphyria, X-linked sideroblastic anemia
ALA dehydratase Cytosol δ-Aminolevulinic acid Porphobilinogen 9q34 4.2.1.24 125270 aminolevulinic acid dehydratase deficiency porphyria
PBG deaminase Cytosol Porphobilinogen Hydroxymethyl bilane 11q23.3 2.5.1.61 176000 acute intermittent porphyria
Uroporphyrinogen III synthase Cytosol Hydroxymethyl bilane Uroporphyrinogen III 10q25.2-q26.3 4.2.1.75 606938 congenital erythropoietic porphyria
Uroporphyrinogen III decarboxylase Cytosol Uroporphyrinogen III Coproporphyrinogen III 1p34 4.1.1.37 176100 porphyria cutanea tarda, hepatoerythropoietic porphyria
Coproporphyrinogen III oxidase Mitochondrion Coproporphyrinogen III Protoporphyrinogen IX 3q12 1.3.3.3 121300 hereditary coproporphyria
Protoporphyrinogen oxidase Mitochondrion Protoporphyrinogen IX Protoporphyrin IX 1q22 1.3.3.4 600923 variegate porphyria
Ferrochelatase Mitochondrion Protoporphyrin IX Heme 18q21.3 4.99.1.1 177000 erythropoietic protoporphyria
Laboratory synthesis[edit]
Brilliant crystals of meso-tetratolylporphyrin, prepared from 4-methylbenzaldehyde and pyrrole in refluxing propionic acid
One of the most common syntheses for porphyrins is based on work by Paul Rothemund.[8][9] His techniques underpin more modern synthesis such as those described by Adler and Longo.[10] The synthesis of simple porphyrins such as meso-tetraphenylporphyrin (H2TPP) is also commonly done in university teaching labs.[11]
The Rothemund synthesis is a condensation and oxidation starting with pyrrole and an aldehyde. In solution-phase synthesis, acidic conditions are essential;[citation needed] formic acid, acetic acid, and propionic acid are typical reaction solvents, or p-toluenesulfonic acid or various Lewis acids can be used with a non-acidic solvent. A large amount of side-product is formed and is removed, usually by recrystallization or chromatography.
Green chemistry variants have been developed in which the reaction is performed with microwave irradiation using reactants adsorbed on acidic silica gel[12] or at high temperature in the gas phase.[13] In these cases, no additional acid is required.
The main role of porphyrins is their support of aerobic life.
Photodynamic therapy[edit]
Porphyrins have been evaluated in the context of photodynamic therapy (PDT) since they strongly absorb light, which is then converted to energy and heat in the illuminated areas.[14] This technique has been applied in macular degeneration using verteporfin.[15]
PDT is considered a noninvasive cancer treatment, involving the interaction between light of a determined frequency, a photo-sensitizer, and oxygen. This interaction produces the formation of a highly reactive oxygen species (ROS), usually singlet oxygen, as well as superoxide anion, free hydroxyl radical, or hydrogen peroxide.[16] These high reactive oxygen species react with susceptible cellular organic biomolecules such as; lipids, aromatic amino acids, and nucleic acid heterocyclic bases, to produce oxidative radicals that damage the cell, possibly inducing apoptosis or even necrosis.[17]
Bacteria have been shown to produce porphyrins endogenously[18] as byproducts in heme biosynthesis, and these can be used in phototherapy to treat bacterial infections, such as acne.
Organic geochemistry[edit]
The field of organic geochemistry, the study of the impacts and processes that organisms have had on the Earth, had its origins in the isolation of porphyrins from petroleum. This finding helped establish the biological origins of petroleum. Petroleum is sometimes "fingerprinted" by analysis of trace amounts of nickel and vanadyl porphyrins.
Chlorophyll is a magnesium porphyrin, and heme is an iron porphyrin, but neither porphyrin is present in petroleum.[citation needed] On the other hand, nickel and vanadyl porphyrins could be related to catalytic molecules from bacteria that feed primordial hydrocarbons.
Toxicology[edit]
Heme biosynthesis is used as biomarker in environmental toxicology studies. While excess production of porphyrins indicate organochlorine exposure, lead inhibits ALA dehydratase enzyme.[19]
Potential applications[edit]
Biomimetic catalysis[edit]
Although not commercialized, metalloporphyrin complexes are widely studied as catalysts for the oxidation of organic compounds. Particularly popular for such laboratory research are complexes of meso-tetraphenylporphyrin and octaethylporphyrin. Complexes with Mn, Fe, and Co catalyze a variety of reactions of potential interest in organic synthesis. Some complexes emulate the action of various heme enzymes such as cytochrome P450, lignin peroxidase,[20][21]
Molecular electronics[edit]
Porphyrin-based compounds are of interest as possible components of molecular electronics and photonics.[22] Synthetic porphyrin dyes that are incorporated in prototype dye-sensitized solar cells.[23][24]
Phthalocyanines, which are structurally related to porphyrins, are used in commerce as dyes and catalysts, but porphyrins are not.
Supramolecular chemistry[edit]
On a gold surface porphyrin derivative molecules (a) form chains and clusters (b). Each cluster in (c,d) contains 4 or 5 molecules in the core and 8 or 10 molecules in the outer shells (STM images).[25]
An example of porphyrins involved in host–guest chemistry. Here, a four-porphyrin–zinc complex hosts a porphyrin guest.[26]
Porphyrins are often used to construct structures in supramolecular chemistry. These systems take advantage of the Lewis acidity of the metal, typically zinc. An example of a host–guest complex that was constructed from a macrocycle composed of four porphyrins.[26] A guest-free base porphyrin is bound to the center by coordination with its four-pyridine substituents.
A porphyrin-related disease: porphyria
Porphyrin coordinated to iron: heme
A heme-containing group of enzymes: Cytochrome P450
Porphyrin coordinated to magnesium: chlorophyll
The one-carbon-shorter analogues: corroles, including vitamin B12, which is coordinated to a cobalt
Corphins, the highly reduced porphyrin coordinated to nickel that binds the Cofactor F430 active site in methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR)
Nitrogen-substituted porphyrins: phthalocyanine
Lewis structure for meso-tetraphenylporphyrin
UV–vis readout for meso-tetraphenylporphyrin
Light-activated porphyrin. Monatomic oxygen. Cellular aging
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2.8 Pregnancy and breastfeeding
2.9 Neonatal abstinence syndrome
2.9.1 Persistent pulmonary hypertension
2.9.2 Neuropsychiatric effects in offspring
2.10 Overdose
3 Interactions
4 List of SSRIs
4.1 Marketed
4.1.1 Antidepressants
4.2 Discontinued
4.3 Never marketed
4.4 Related drugs
5.1 Serotonin reuptake inhibition
5.2 Sigma receptor ligands
5.3 Anti-inflammatory effects
5.4 Pharmacogenetics
5.5 Versus TCAs
7.1 Controversy
The main indication for SSRIs is major depressive disorder; however, they are frequently prescribed for anxiety disorders, such as social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, chronic pain, and, in some cases, for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They are also frequently used to treat depersonalization disorder, although generally with poor results.[8]
Depression[edit]
Antidepressants are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a first-line treatment of severe depression and for the treatment of mild-to-moderate depression that persists after conservative measures such as cognitive therapy.[9] They recommend against their routine use in those who have chronic health problems and mild depression.[9]
There has been controversy regarding the efficacy of antidepressants in treating depression depending on its severity and duration.
Two meta-analyses published in 2008 (Kirsch) and 2010 (Fournier) found that in mild and moderate depression, the effect of SSRIs is small or none compared to placebo, while in very severe depression the effect of SSRIs is between "relatively small" and "substantial".[4][10] The 2008 meta-analysis combined 35 clinical trials submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before licensing of four newer antidepressants (including the SSRIs paroxetine and fluoxetine, the non-SSRI antidepressant nefazodone, and the serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) venlafaxine). The authors attributed the relationship between severity and efficacy to a reduction of the placebo effect in severely depressed patients, rather than an increase in the effect of the medication.[10] Some researchers have questioned the statistical basis of this study suggesting that it underestimates the effect size of antidepressants.[11][12]
A 2010 comprehensive review conducted by NICE concluded that antidepressants have no advantage over placebo in the treatment of short-term mild depression, but that the available evidence supported the use of antidepressants in the treatment of dysthymia and other forms of chronic mild depression.[13]
A 2012 meta-analysis of fluoxetine and venlafaxine concluded that statistically and clinically significant treatment effects were observed for each drug relative to placebo irrespective of baseline depression severity.[14]
In 2014 the U.S. FDA published a systematic review of all antidepressant maintenance trials submitted to the agency between 1985 and 2012. The authors concluded that maintenance treatment reduced the risk of relapse by 52% compared to placebo, and that this effect was primarily due to recurrent depression in the placebo group rather than a drug withdrawal effect.[15]
A 2017 systematic review stated that "SSRIs versus placebo seem to have statistically significant effects on depressive symptoms, but the clinical significance of these effects seems questionable and all trials were at high risk of bias. Furthermore, SSRIs versus placebo significantly increase the risk of both serious and non-serious adverse events. Our results show that the harmful effects of SSRIs versus placebo for major depressive disorder seem to outweigh any potentially small beneficial effects".[7] The review was criticized for being inaccurate and misleading.[16]
In 2018 a systematic review of 21 different antidepressants found that all analysed antidepressants were more efficacious than placebo in adults with major depressive disorder.[17] Effect sizes measured at 8-weeks after treatment onset however were modest.[17]
There does not appear to be a big difference in the effectiveness between medications in the second generation antidepressants (SSRIs and SNRIs).[18]
In children there are concerns around the quality of the evidence on the meaningfulness of benefits seen.[19] If a medication is used, fluoxetine appears to be first line.[19]
Generalized anxiety disorder[edit]
SSRIs are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) that has failed to respond to conservative measures such as education and self-help activities. GAD is a common disorder of which the central feature is excessive worry about a number of different events. Key symptoms include excessive anxiety about multiple events and issues, and difficulty controlling worrisome thoughts that persists for at least 6 months.
Antidepressants provide a modest-to-moderate reduction in anxiety in GAD,[20] and are superior to placebo in treating GAD.[21] The efficacy of different antidepressants is similar.[20][21]
Obsessive–compulsive disorder[edit]
SSRIs are a second line treatment of adult obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) with mild functional impairment and as first line treatment for those with moderate or severe impairment. In children, SSRIs can be considered a second line therapy in those with moderate-to-severe impairment, with close monitoring for psychiatric adverse effects.[22] SSRIs are efficacious in the treatment of OCD; patients treated with SSRIs are about twice as likely to respond to treatment as those treated with placebo.[23][24] Efficacy has been demonstrated both in short-term treatment trials of 6 to 24 weeks and in discontinuation trials of 28 to 52 weeks duration.[25][26][27]
Eating disorders[edit]
Anti-depressants are recommended as an alternative or additional first step to self-help programs in the treatment of bulimia nervosa.[28] SSRIs (fluoxetine in particular) are preferred over other anti-depressants due to their acceptability, tolerability, and superior reduction of symptoms in short-term trials. Long-term efficacy remains poorly characterized.
Similar recommendations apply to binge eating disorder.[28] SSRIs provide short-term reductions in binge eating behavior, but have not been associated with significant weight loss.[29]
Clinical trials have generated mostly negative results for the use of SSRIs in the treatment of anorexia nervosa.[30] Treatment guidelines from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence[28] recommend against the use of SSRIs in this disorder. Those from the American Psychiatric Association note that SSRIs confer no advantage regarding weight gain, but that they may be used for the treatment of co-existing depressive, anxiety, or OCD.[29]
Stroke recovery[edit]
SSRIs have been used in the treatment of stroke patients, including those with and without symptoms of depression. A recent meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials found a statistically significant effect of SSRIs on dependence, neurological deficit, depression, and anxiety. There was no statistically significant effect on death, motor deficits, or cognition.[31]
Premature ejaculation[edit]
SSRIs are effective for the treatment of premature ejaculation. Chronic administration is more efficacious than on demand use.[32]
Side effects vary among the individual drugs of this class. However, certain types of adverse effects are found broadly among most if not all members of this class:
increased risk of bone fractures by 1.7 fold[33]
akathisia[34][35][36][37]
suicidal ideation (thoughts of suicide) (see below)
photosensitivity[38]
Sexual dysfunction[edit]
SSRIs can cause various types of sexual dysfunction such as anorgasmia, erectile dysfunction, diminished libido, genital numbness, and sexual anhedonia (pleasureless orgasm).[39] Sexual problems are common with SSRIs.[40] Poor sexual function is also one of the most common reasons people stop the medication.[41]
In some cases, symptoms of sexual dysfunction may persist after discontinuation of SSRIs.[39][42][2]:14[43][44]. On the 11th of June 2019 the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee of the European Medicines Agency issued a new product information wording regarding persistent sexual dysfunction after SSRIs and SNRIs.[45]
The mechanism by which SSRIs may cause sexual side effects is not well understood as of 2015. The range of possible mechanisms includes (1) nonspecific neurological effects (e.g., sedation) that globally impair behavior including sexual function; (2) specific effects on brain systems mediating sexual function; (3) specific effects on peripheral tissues and organs, such as the penis, that mediate sexual function; and (4) direct or indirect effects on hormones mediating sexual function.[46] Management strategies include: for erectile dysfunction the addition of a PDE5 inhibitor such as sildenafil; for decreased libido, possibly adding or switching to bupropion; and for overall sexual dysfunction, switching to nefazodone.[47]
A number of non-SSRI drugs are not associated with sexual side effects (such as bupropion, mirtazapine, tianeptine, agomelatine and moclobemide[48][49]).
Several studies have suggested that SSRIs may adversely affect semen quality.[50]
Priapism can also be caused sometimes.[51]
Cardiac[edit]
SSRIs do not appear to affect the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in those without a previous diagnosis of CHD.[52] A large cohort study suggested no substantial increase in the risk of cardiac malformations attributable to SSRI usage during the first trimester of pregnancy.[53] A number of large studies of people without known pre-existing heart disease have reported no EKG changes related to SSRI use.[54] The recommended maximum daily dose of citalopram and escitalopram was reduced due to concerns with QT interval prolongation.[55][56][57] In overdose, fluoxetine has been reported to cause sinus tachycardia, myocardial infarction, junctional rhythms and trigeminy. Some authors have suggested electrocardiographic monitoring in patients with severe pre-existing cardiovascular disease who are taking SSRIs.[58]
Bleeding[edit]
SSRIs interact with anticoagulants, like warfarin, and antiplatelet drugs, like aspirin.[59][60][61][62] This includes an increased risk of GI bleeding, and post operative bleeding.[59] The relative risk of intracranial bleeding is increased, but the absolute risk is very low.[63] SSRIs are known to cause platelet dysfunction.[64][65] This risk is greater in those who are also on anticoagulants, antiplatelet agents and NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), as well as with the co-existence of underlying diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver or liver failure.[66][67]
Fracture risk[edit]
Evidence from longitudinal, cross-sectional, and prospective cohort studies suggests an association between SSRI usage at therapeutic doses and a decrease in bone mineral density, as well as increased fracture risk,[68][69][70][71] a relationship that appears to persist even with adjuvant bisphosphonate therapy.[72] However, because the relationship between SSRIs and fractures is based on observational data as opposed to prospective trials, the phenomenon is not definitively causal.[73] There also appears to be an increase in fracture-inducing falls with SSRI use, suggesting the need for increased attention to fall risk in elderly patients using the medication.[73] The loss of bone density does not appear to occur in younger patients taking SSRIs.[74]
Discontinuation syndrome[edit]
Main article: SSRI discontinuation syndrome
Serotonin reuptake inhibitors should not be abruptly discontinued after extended therapy, and whenever possible, should be tapered over several weeks to minimize discontinuation-related symptoms which may include nausea, headache, dizziness, chills, body aches, paresthesias, insomnia, and electric shock-like sensations. Paroxetine may produce discontinuation-related symptoms at a greater rate than other SSRIs, though qualitatively similar effects have been reported for all SSRIs.[75][76] Discontinuation effects appear to be less for fluoxetine, perhaps owing to its long half-life and the natural tapering effect associated with its slow clearance from the body. One strategy for minimizing SSRI discontinuation symptoms is to switch the patient to fluoxetine and then taper and discontinue the fluoxetine.[75]
Serotonin syndrome[edit]
Main article: Serotonin syndrome
Serotonin syndrome is typically caused by the use of two or more serotonergic drugs, including SSRIs.[77] Serotonin syndrome is a short-lived condition that can range from mild (most common) to deadly. Mild symptoms may consist of increased heart rate, shivering, sweating, dilated pupils, myoclonus (intermittent jerking or twitching), as well as overresponsive reflexes.[78] Concomitant use of an SSRI or selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor for depression with a triptan for migraine does not appear to heighten the risk of the serotonin syndrome.[79]
Suicide risk[edit]
Children and adolescents[edit]
Meta analyses of short duration randomized clinical trials have found that SSRI use is related to a higher risk of suicidal behavior in children and adolescents.[80][81][82] For instance, a 2004 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analysis of clinical trials on children with major depressive disorder found statistically significant increases of the risks of "possible suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior" by about 80%, and of agitation and hostility by about 130%.[83] According to the FDA, the heightened risk of suicidality is within the first one to two months of treatment.[84][85][86] The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) places the excess risk in the "early stages of treatment".[87] The European Psychiatric Association places the excess risk in the first two weeks of treatment and, based on a combination of epidemiological, prospective cohort, medical claims, and randomized clinical trial data, concludes that a protective effect dominates after this early period. A 2014 Cochrane review found that at six to nine months, suicidal ideation remained higher in children treated with antidepressants compared to those treated with psychological therapy.[86]
A recent comparison of aggression and hostility occurring during treatment with fluoxetine to placebo in children and adolescents found that no significant difference between the fluoxetine group and a placebo group.[88] There is also evidence that higher rates of SSRI prescriptions are associated with lower rates of suicide in children, though since the evidence is correlational, the true nature of the relationship is unclear.[89]
In 2004, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom judged fluoxetine (Prozac) to be the only antidepressant that offered a favorable risk-benefit ratio in children with depression, though it was also associated with a slight increase in the risk of self-harm and suicidal ideation.[90] Only two SSRIs are licensed for use with children in the UK, sertraline (Zoloft) and fluvoxamine (Luvox), and only for the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder. Fluoxetine is not licensed for this use.[91]
Adults[edit]
It is unclear whether SSRIs affect the risk of suicidal behavior in adults.
A 2005 meta-analysis of drug company data found no evidence that SSRIs increased the risk of suicide; however, important protective or hazardous effects could not be excluded.[92]
A 2005 review observed that suicide attempts are increased in those who use SSRIs as compared to placebo and compared to therapeutic interventions other than tricyclic antidepressants. No difference risk of suicide attempts was detected between SSRIs versus tricyclic antidepressants.[93]
On the other hand, a 2006 review suggests that the widespread use of antidepressants in the new "SSRI-era" appears to have led to a highly significant decline in suicide rates in most countries with traditionally high baseline suicide rates. The decline is particularly striking for women who, compared with men, seek more help for depression. Recent clinical data on large samples in the US too have revealed a protective effect of antidepressant against suicide.[94]
A 2006 meta-analysis of random controlled trials suggests that SSRIs increase suicide ideation compared with placebo. However, the observational studies suggest that SSRIs did not increase suicide risk more than older antidepressants. The researchers stated that if SSRIs increase suicide risk in some patients, the number of additional deaths is very small because ecological studies have generally found that suicide mortality has declined (or at least not increased) as SSRI use has increased.[95]
An additional meta-analysis by the FDA in 2006 found an age-related effect of SSRI's. Among adults younger than 25 years, results indicated that there was a higher risk for suicidal behavior. For adults between 25 and 64, the effect appears neutral on suicidal behavior but possibly protective for suicidal behavior for adults between the ages of 25 and 64. For adults older than 64, SSRI's seem to reduce the risk of both suicidal behavior.[80]
In 2016 a study criticized the effects of the FDA Black Box suicide warning inclusion in the prescription. The authors discussed the suicide rates might increase also as a consequence of the warning.[96]
Pregnancy and breastfeeding[edit]
SSRI use in pregnancy has been associated with a variety of risks with varying degrees of proof of causation. As depression is independently associated with negative pregnancy outcomes, determining the extent to which observed associations between antidepressant use and specific adverse outcomes reflects a causative relationship has been difficult in some cases.[97] In other cases, the attribution of adverse outcomes to antidepressant exposure seems fairly clear.
SSRI use in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of spontaneous abortion of about 1.7-fold.[98][99] Use is also associated preterm birth.[100]
A systematic review of the risk of major birth defects in antidepressant-exposed pregnancies found a small increase (3% to 24%) in the risk of major malformations and a risk of cardiovascular birth defects that did not differ from non-exposed pregnancies.[101] A study of fluoxetine-exposed pregnancies found a 12% increase in the risk of major malformations that just missed statistical significance.[102] Other studies have found an increased risk of cardiovascular birth defects among depressed mothers not undergoing SSRI treatment, suggesting the possibility of ascertainment bias, e.g. that worried mothers may pursue more aggressive testing of their infants.[103] Another study found no increase in cardiovascular birth defects and a 27% increased risk of major malformations in SSRI exposed pregnancies.[99]
The FDA issued a statement on July 19, 2006 stating nursing mothers on SSRIs must discuss treatment with their physicians. However, the medical literature on the safety of SSRIs has determined that some SSRIs like Sertraline and Paroxetine are considered safe for breastfeeding.[104][105][106]
Neonatal abstinence syndrome[edit]
Several studies have documented neonatal abstinence syndrome, a syndrome of neurological, gastrointestinal, autonomic, endocrine and/or respiratory symptoms among a large minority of infants with intrauterine exposure. These syndromes are short-lived, but insufficient long-term data is available to determine whether there are long-term effects.[107][108]
Persistent pulmonary hypertension[edit]
Persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) is a serious and life-threatening, but very rare, lung condition that occurs soon after birth of the newborn. Newborn babies with PPHN have high pressure in their lung blood vessels and are not able to get enough oxygen into their bloodstream. About 1 to 2 babies per 1000 babies born in the U.S. develop PPHN shortly after birth, and often they need intensive medical care. It is associated with about a 25% risk of significant long-term neurological deficits.[109] A 2014 meta analysis found no increased risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension associated with exposure to SSRI's in early pregnancy and a slight increase in risk associates with exposure late in pregnancy; "an estimated 286 to 351 women would need to be treated with an SSRI in late pregnancy to result in an average of one additional case of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.".[110] A review published in 2012 reached conclusions very similar to those of the 2014 study.[111]
Neuropsychiatric effects in offspring[edit]
According to a 2015 review available data found that "some signal exists suggesting that antenatal exposure to SSRIs may increase the risk of ASDs (autism spectrum disorders)"[112] even though a large cohort study published in 2013[113] and a cohort study using data from Finland's national register between the years 1996 and 2010 and published in 2016 found no significant association between SSRI use and autism in offspring.[114] The 2016 Finland study also found no association with ADHD, but did find an association with increased rates of depression diagnoses in early adolescence.[114]
Overdose[edit]
See also: Serotonin syndrome
SSRIs appear safer in overdose when compared with traditional antidepressants, such as the tricyclic antidepressants. This relative safety is supported both by case series and studies of deaths per numbers of prescriptions.[115] However, case reports of SSRI poisoning have indicated that severe toxicity can occur[116] and deaths have been reported following massive single ingestions,[117] although this is exceedingly uncommon when compared to the tricyclic antidepressants.[115]
Because of the wide therapeutic index of the SSRIs, most patients will have mild or no symptoms following moderate overdoses. The most commonly reported severe effect following SSRI overdose is serotonin syndrome; serotonin toxicity is usually associated with very high overdoses or multiple drug ingestion.[118] Other reported significant effects include coma, seizures, and cardiac toxicity.[115]
Interactions[edit]
The following drugs may precipitate serotonin syndrome in people on SSRIs:[119][120]
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) including moclobemide, phenelzine, tranylcypromine, selegiline and methylene blue
Pethidine/meperidine
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)
Triptan
Painkillers of the NSAIDs drug family may interfere and reduce efficiency of SSRIs and may compound the increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeds caused by SSRI use.[60][62][121] NSAIDs include:
Ibuprofen (Advil, Nurofen)
Naproxen (Aleve)
There are a number of potential pharmacokinetic interactions between the various individual SSRIs and other medications. Most of these arise from the fact that every SSRI has the ability to inhibit certain P450 cytochromes.[122][123][124]
Drug name
CYP1A2
CYP2C9
CYP2C19
CYP2D6
CYP2B6
Citalopram + 0 0 + 0 0
Escitalopram 0 0 0 + 0 0
Fluoxetine + ++ +/++ +++ + +
Fluvoxamine +++ ++ +++ + + +
Paroxetine + + + +++ + +++
Sertraline + + +/++ + + +
0 — no inhibition
+ — mild inhibition
++ — moderate inhibition
+++ — strong inhibition
The CYP2D6 enzyme is entirely responsible for the metabolism of hydrocodone, codeine[125] and dihydrocodeine to their active metabolites (hydromorphone, morphine, and dihydromorphine, respectively), which in turn undergo phase 2 glucuronidation. These opioids (and to a lesser extent oxycodone, tramadol, and methadone) have interaction potential with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.[126][127] The concomitant use of some SSRIs (paroxetine and fluoxetine) with codeine may decrease the plasma concentration of active metabolite morphine, which may result in reduced analgesic efficacy.[128][129]
Another important interaction of certain SSRIs involves paroxetine, a potent inhibitor of CYP2D6, and tamoxifen, an agent used commonly in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. Tamoxifen is a prodrug that is metabolised by the hepatic cytochrome P450 enzyme system, especially CYP2D6, to its active metabolites. Concomitant use of paroxetine and tamoxifen in women with breast cancer is associated with a higher risk of death, as much as a 91 percent in women who used it the longest.[130]
List of SSRIs[edit]
Marketed[edit]
Antidepressants[edit]
Fluoxetine (Prozac)
Citalopram Escitalopram Fluoxetine Fluvoxamine Paroxetine Sertraline
Others[edit]
Dapoxetine (Priligy)
Discontinued[edit]
Indalpine (Upstène)
Zimelidine (Zelmid)
Indalpine Zimelidine
Never marketed[edit]
Alaproclate (GEA-654)
Centpropazine
Cericlamine (JO-1017)
Femoxetine (Malexil; FG-4963)
Ifoxetine (CGP-15210)
Panuramine (WY-26002)
Pirandamine (AY-23713)
Seproxetine ((S)-norfluoxetine)
Alaproclate Cericlamine Femoxetine Ifoxetine Omiloxetine Panuramine Pirandamine Seproxetine
Related drugs[edit]
Although described as SNRIs, duloxetine (Cymbalta), venlafaxine (Effexor), and desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) are in fact relatively selective as serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs).[131] They are about at least 10-fold selective for inhibition of serotonin reuptake over norepinephrine reuptake.[131] The selectivity ratios are approximately 1:30 for venlafaxine, 1:9 for duloxetine, and 1:14 for desvenlafaxine.[131] At low doses, these SNRIs act mostly as SSRIs; only at higher doses do they also prominently inhibit norepinephrine reuptake.[132][133] Milnacipran (Ixel, Savella) and its stereoisomer levomilnacipran (Fetzima) are the only widely marketed SNRIs that inhibit serotonin and norepinephrine to similar degrees, both with ratios close to 1:1.[131][134]
Vilazodone (Viibryd) and vortioxetine (Trintellix) are SRIs that also act as modulators of serotonin receptors and are described as serotonin modulators and stimulators (SMS).[135] Vilazodone is a 5-HT1A receptor partial agonist while vortioxetine is a 5-HT1A receptor agonist and 5-HT3 and 5-HT7 receptor antagonist.[135] Litoxetine (SL 81-0385) and lubazodone (YM-992, YM-35995) are similar drugs that were never marketed.[136][137][138][139] They are SRIs and litoxetine is also a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist[136][137] while lubazodone is also a 5-HT2A receptor antagonist.[138][139]
Serotonin reuptake inhibition[edit]
In the brain, messages are passed from a nerve cell to another via a chemical synapse, a small gap between the cells. The presynaptic cell that sends the information releases neurotransmitters including serotonin into that gap. The neurotransmitters are then recognized by receptors on the surface of the recipient postsynaptic cell, which upon this stimulation, in turn, relays the signal. About 10% of the neurotransmitters are lost in this process; the other 90% are released from the receptors and taken up again by monoamine transporters into the sending presynaptic cell, a process called reuptake.
SSRIs inhibit the reuptake of serotonin. As a result, the serotonin stays in the synaptic gap longer than it normally would, and may repeatedly stimulate the receptors of the recipient cell. In the short run, this leads to an increase in signaling across synapses in which serotonin serves as the primary neurotransmitter. On chronic dosing, the increased occupancy of post-synaptic serotonin receptors signals the pre-synaptic neuron to synthesize and release less serotonin. Serotonin levels within the synapse drop, then rise again, ultimately leading to downregulation of post-synaptic serotonin receptors.[140] Other, indirect effects may include increased norepinephrine output, increased neuronal cyclic AMP levels, and increased levels of regulatory factors such as BDNF and CREB.[141] Owing to the lack of a widely accepted comprehensive theory of the biology of mood disorders, there is no widely accepted theory of how these changes lead to the mood-elevating and anti-anxiety effects of SSRIs.[citation needed]
Sigma receptor ligands[edit]
SSRIs at the human SERT and rat sigma receptors[142][143]
σ1
σ1 / SERT
Citalopram 1.16 292–404 Agonist 5,410 252–348
Escitalopram 2.5 288 Agonist ND ND
Fluoxetine 0.81 191–240 Agonist 16,100 296–365
Fluvoxamine 2.2 17–36 Agonist 8,439 7.7–16.4
Paroxetine 0.13 ≥1,893 ND 22,870 ≥14,562
Sertraline 0.29 32–57 Antagonist 5,297 110–197
Values are Ki (nM). The smaller the value, the more strongly the
drug binds to the site.
In addition to their actions as reuptake inhibitors of serotonin, some SSRIs are also, coincidentally, ligands of the sigma receptors.[142][143] Fluvoxamine is an agonist of the σ1 receptor, while sertraline is an antagonist of the σ1 receptor, and paroxetine does not significantly interact with the σ1 receptor.[142][143] None of the SSRIs have significant affinity for the σ2 receptor, and the SNRIs, unlike the SSRIs, do not interact with either of the sigma receptors.[142][143] Fluvoxamine has by far the strongest activity of the SSRIs at the σ1 receptor.[142][143] High occupancy of the σ1 receptor by clinical dosages of fluvoxamine has been observed in the human brain in positron emission tomography (PET) research.[142][143] It is thought that agonism of the σ1 receptor by fluvoxamine may have beneficial effects on cognition.[142][143] In contrast to fluvoxamine, the relevance of the σ1 receptor in the actions of the other SSRIs is uncertain and questionable due to their very low affinity for the receptor relative to the SERT.[144]
Anti-inflammatory effects[edit]
The role of inflammation and the immune system in depression has been extensively studied. The evidence supporting this link has been shown in numerous studies over the past ten years. Nationwide studies and meta-analyses of smaller cohort studies have uncovered a correlation between pre-existing inflammatory conditions such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or hepatitis, and an increased risk of depression. Data also shows that using pro-inflammatory agents in the treatment of diseases like melanoma can lead to depression. Several meta-analytical studies have found increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines in depressed patients.[145] This link has led scientists to investigate the effects of antidepressants on the immune system.
SSRIs were originally invented with the goal of increasing levels of available serotonin in the extracellular spaces. However, the delayed response between when patients first begin SSRI treatment to when they see effects has led scientists to believe that other molecules are involved in the efficacy of these drugs.[146] To investigate the apparent anti-inflammatory effects of SSRIs, both Kohler et al. and Więdłocha et al. conducted meta-analyses which have shown that after antidepressant treatment the levels of cytokines associated with inflammation are decreased.[147][148] A large cohort study conducted by researchers in the Netherlands investigated the association between depressive disorders, symptoms, and antidepressants with inflammation. The study showed decreased levels of interleukin (IL)-6, a cytokine that has proinflammatory effects, in patients taking SSRIs compared to non-medicated patients.[149]
Treatment with SSRIs has shown reduced production of inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, IL-6, and interferon (IFN)-γ, which leads to a decrease in inflammation levels and subsequently a decrease in the activation level of the immune response.[150] These inflammatory cytokines have been shown to activate microglia which are specialized macrophages that reside in the brain. Macrophages are a subset of immune cells responsible for host defense in the innate immune system. Macrophages can release cytokines and other chemicals to cause an inflammatory response. Peripheral inflammation can induce an inflammatory response in microglia and can cause neuroinflammation. SSRIs inhibit proinflammatory cytokine production which leads to less activation of microglia and peripheral macrophages. SSRIs not only inhibit the production of these proinflammatory cytokines, they also have been shown to upregulate anti-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-10. Taken together, this reduces the overall inflammatory immune response.[150][151]
In addition to affecting cytokine production, there is evidence that treatment with SSRIs has effects on the proliferation and viability of immune system cells involved in both innate and adaptive immunity. Evidence shows that SSRIs can inhibit proliferation in T-cells, which are important cells for adaptive immunity and can induce inflammation. SSRIs can also induce apoptosis, programmed cell death, in T-cells. The full mechanism of action for the anti-inflammatory effects of SSRIs is not fully known. However, there is evidence for various pathways to have a hand in the mechanism. One such possible mechanism is the increased levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) as a result of interference with activation of protein kinase A (PKA), a cAMP dependent protein. Other possible pathways include interference with calcium ion channels, or inducing cell death pathways like MAPK[152] and Notch signaling pathway.[153]
The anti-inflammatory effects of SSRIs have prompted studies of the efficacy of SSRIs in the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, RA, inflammatory bowel diseases, and septic shock. These studies have been performed in animal models but have shown consistent immune regulatory effects. Fluoxetine, an SSRI, has also shown efficacy in animal models of graft vs. host disease.[152] SSRIs have also been used successfully as pain relievers in patients undergoing oncology treatment. The effectiveness of this has been hypothesized to be at least in part due to the anti-inflammatory effects of SSRIs.[151]
Pharmacogenetics[edit]
Further information: Pharmacogenetics
Large bodies of research are devoted to using genetic markers to predict whether patients will respond to SSRIs or have side effects that will cause their discontinuation, although these tests are not yet ready for widespread clinical use.[154]
Versus TCAs[edit]
SSRIs are described as 'selective' because they affect only the reuptake pumps responsible for serotonin, as opposed to earlier antidepressants, which affect other monoamine neurotransmitters as well, and as a result, SSRIs have fewer side effects.
There appears to be no significant difference in effectiveness between SSRIs and tricyclic antidepressants, which were the most commonly used class of antidepressants before the development of SSRIs.[155] However, SSRIs have the important advantage that their toxic dose is high, and, therefore, they are much more difficult to use as a means to commit suicide. Further, they have fewer and milder side effects. Tricyclic antidepressants also have a higher risk of serious cardiovascular side effects, which SSRIs lack.
SSRIs act on signal pathways such as cAMP (Cyclic AMP) on the postsynaptic neuronal cell, which leads to the release of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF). BDNF enhances the growth and survival of cortical neurons and synapses.[141]
See also: Development and discovery of SSRI drugs
Fluoxetine was introduced in 1987 and was the first major SSRI to be marketed.
Controversy[edit]
See also: Biopsychiatry controversy and Biological psychiatry
A study examining publication of results from FDA-evaluated antidepressants concluded that those with favorable results were much more likely to be published than those with negative results.[156] Furthermore, an investigation of 185 meta-analyses on antidepressants found that 79% of them had authors affiliated in some way to pharmaceutical companies and that they were also reluctant to reporting caveats for antidepressants.[157]
David Healy has argued that warning signs were available for many years prior to regulatory authorities moving to put warnings on antidepressant labels that they might cause suicidal thoughts.[158] At the time these warnings were added, others argued that the evidence for harm remained unpersuasive[159][160] and others continued to do so after the warnings were added.[161][162]
List of antidepressants
Serotonin releasing agent
Serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor
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WebMD - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Antidepressants (N06A)
Specific reuptake inhibitors and/or receptor modulators
SSRIs
Fluoxetine#
Indalpine‡
Zimelidine‡
SNRIs
Viloxazine
NDRIs
Amineptine‡
Nomifensine‡
NaSSAs
Amisulpride
Esketamine†
Etryptamine‡
Ketamine†
Medifoxamine‡
Metryptamine‡
Oxaflozane‡
Pivagabine‡
Tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants
Amitriptyline#
Butriptyline‡
Clomipramine#
Demexiptiline‡
Dimetacrine‡
Imipraminoxide‡
Iprindole‡
Metapramine‡
Nitroxazepine
Noxiptiline
Propizepine‡
Quinupramine‡
TeCAs
Tiazesim
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
Irreversible: Benmoxin‡
Iproclozide‡
Iproniazid‡
Isoniazid#
Linezolid#
Mebanazine‡
Nialamide‡
Octamoxin‡
Pheniprazine‡
Phenoxypropazine‡
Pivhydrazine‡
Safrazine‡
Tedizolid
Reversible: Caroxazone‡
Mixed: Bifemelane
MAOA-selective
Reversible: Eprobemide
Minaprine‡
MAOB-selective
Irreversible: Selegiline
Adjunctive therapies
Atypical antipsychotics (aripiprazole, brexpiprazole, lurasidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone)
Lithium (lithium carbonate, lithium citrate)
Thyroid hormones (triiodothyronine (T3), levothyroxine (T4))
Ademetionine (SAMe)
Hypericum perforatum (St. John's Wort)
Oxitriptan (5-HTP)
Rubidium chloride (RbCl)
Anxiolytics (N05B)
Gepirone†
GABAAR PAMs
Benzodiazepines: Adinazolam
Camazepam
Chlordiazepoxide
Clobazam
Clorazepate
Clotiazepam
Cloxazolam
Diazepam#
Ethyl loflazepate
Fludiazepam
Halazepam
Ketazolam
Lorazepam#
Medazepam
Nordazepam
Pinazepam
Prazepam; Others: Alpidem‡
Barbiturates (e.g., phenobarbital)
Carbamates (e.g., meprobamate)
Chlormezanone‡
Ethanol (alcohol)
Etifoxine
Imepitoin; Herbs:
Gabapentinoids
(α2δ VDCC blockers)
Gabapentin enacarbil
SSRIs (e.g., escitalopram)
SNRIs (e.g., duloxetine)
SARIs (e.g., trazodone)
TCAs (e.g., clomipramine#)
TeCAs (e.g., mirtazapine)
MAOIs (e.g., phenelzine); Others: Agomelatine
Sympatholytics
(Antiadrenergics)
Alpha-1 blockers (e.g., prazosin)
Alpha-2 agonists (e.g., clonidine, dexmedetomidine, guanfacine)
Beta blockers (e.g., propranolol)
Benzoctamine
Cycloserine
Fabomotizole
Lorpiprazole
Mebicar
Phenaglycodol
Tiagabine
Tofisopam
Validolum
OCD pharmacotherapies
SSRIs (e.g., fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, sertraline)
SNRIs (e.g., venlafaxine)
TCAs (e.g., clomipramine)
MAOIs (e.g., phenelzine)
Antiandrogens (e.g., cyproterone acetate, leuprorelin)
Antipsychotics (e.g., risperidone)
Benzodiazepines (e.g., clonazepam)
Lamotrigine
Psychedelics (e.g., psilocybin)
Riluzole
Monoamine reuptake inhibitors
(DRIs)
Piperidines: 4-Fluoropethidine
Benocyclidine (BTCP)
Dexmethylphenidate
HDMP-28
Pethidine (meperidine)
Pyrrolidines: Diphenylprolinol
Tropanes: Altropane
Benzatropine (benztropine)
Etybenzatropine (ethybenztropine)
Others: Adrafinil
Amifitadine
Ansofaxine
Chaenomeles speciosa
Dasotraline
Desmethylsibutramine
Didesmethylsibutramine
Dizocilpine (MK-801)
Fencamfamin
Fluorenol
Liafensine
Metaphit
MIN-117 (WF-516)
Oroxylin A
Perafensine
Rimcazole
Solriamfetol
(NRIs)
Alseroxylon
Norepinephrine–dopamine reuptake inhibitors: Amineptine
Hydroxybupropion
Serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors: Atomoxetine (tomoxetine)
BTS-54505
McN-5652
N-Methyl-PPPA
Nafenodone
PPPA
WY-45233
Serotonin–norepinephrine–dopamine reuptake inhibitors: 3,3-Diphenylcyclobutanamine
Bicifadine
Centanafadine
DOV-102677
PRC200
Tropanes (e.g., cocaine)
Tricyclic antidepressants: Amitriptyline
Dosulepin (dothiepin)
Tetracyclic antidepressants: Amoxapine
Others: Antihistamines (e.g., brompheniramine, chlorphenamine, pheniramine, tripelennamine)
Antipsychotics (e.g., loxapine, ziprasidone)
Arylcyclohexylamines (e.g., ketamine, phencyclidine)
Opioids (e.g., desmetramadol, methadone, pethidine (meperidine), tapentadol, tramadol, levorphanol)
(SRIs)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: Alaproclate
Cericlamine
Didesmethylcitalopram
Norfluoxetine
Zimelidine
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and serotonin receptor modulators: Etoperidone
LY-393558
SB-649915
TGBA01AD
CP-39332
Cyanodothiepin
Others: A-80426
Antihistamines (e.g., brompheniramine, chlorphenamine, dimenhydrinate, diphenhydramine, mepyramine (pyrilamine), pheniramine, tripelennamine)
Arylcyclohexylamines (e.g., 3-MeO-PCP, esketamine, ketamine, methoxetamine, phencyclidine)
Delucemine
Mifepristone
N-Me-5-HT
Opioids (e.g., dextropropoxyphene, methadone, pethidine (meperidine), levorphanol, tapentadol, tramadol)
VMATs
Amiodarone
Amphetamines (e.g., amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA)
AZIK
Bietaserpine
Deutetrabenazine
Dihydrotetrabenazine
GZ-793A
Lobeline
Methoxytetrabenazine
Rose bengal
Valbenazine
Vanoxerine (GBR-12909)
DAT enhancers: Luteolin
DAT modulators: Agonist-like: SoRI-9804
SoRI-20040; Antagonist-like: SoRI-20041
See also: Receptor/signaling modulators • Monoamine releasing agents • Adrenergics • Dopaminergics • Serotonergics • Monoamine metabolism modulators • Monoamine neurotoxins
Sigma receptor modulators
Agonists: 3-PPP
4-PPBP
Alazocine (SKF-10047)
ANAVEX2-73
Arketamine
BD-737
Captodiame
Cloperastine
Cutamesine (SA-4503)
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) (prasterone)
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) (prasterone sulfate)
Dextromethorphan (DXM)
Dextrorphan (DXO)
Dimemorfan
Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)
Ditolylguanidine (DTG)
Eliprodil
Fabomotizole (afobazole)
Ifenprodil
Igmesine (JO-1784)
L-687384
MDMA (midomafetamine)
Nepinalone
Neuropeptide Y
OPC-14523
Pentoxyverine (carbetapentane)
PRE-084
Pregnenolone sulfate
Pridopidine
Racemethorphan (methorphan)
Racemorphan (morphanol)
UMB-23
Antagonists: 3-PPP
BMY-14802 (BMS-181100)
Dup-734
E-52862 (S1RA)
LR-132
NPC-16377
Panamesine (EMD-57455)
PD-144418
Rimcazole (BW-234U)
SR-31742A
Allosteric modulators: Phenytoin; Positive: Methylphenylpiracetam
SOMCL-668
Unknown/unsorted: 3-Methoxydextrallorphan
4-IBP
4-IPBS
Azidopamil
KCR-12-83.1
RHL-033
Spipethiane
W-18
YKP10A
DKR-1005
Siramesine (Lu 28-179)
UKH-1114
Antagonists: AC-927
CT-1812
MIN-101
SAS-0132
Agonists: Berberine
Ethylketazocine
Fourphit
Antagonists: AHD1
UMB-100
YZ-011
Allosteric modulators: SKF-83959
Unknown/unsorted: 18-Methoxycoronaridine
Caramiphen
Carvotroline
Chlorphenamine (chlorpheniramine)
Cinnarizine
Cinuperone
EMD-59983
Hypericin (St. John's wort)
Gevotroline (WY-47384)
Mepyramine (pyrilamine)
Proadifen
SL 82.0715
Tiospirone (BMY-13859)
See also: Receptor/signaling modulators
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal
Published in National Review Online on May 30, 2014
By Yuval Levin
The interim report of the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs regarding the waiting list scandal that has exploded into public view in recent weeks is devastating. In its wake, there is no question that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki should resign or should be dismissed. Shinseki is, of course, an honorable and deeply impressive man, but he is the executive in charge of an agency that has badly failed in its core mission here.
Even given the lax standards of cabinet-level accountability that have characterized the last few administrations, there is no excuse for keeping Shinseki in office at this point. What appears to have happened here is far worse than a management failure. It is a pattern of exceptionally widespread, systematic, and even criminal deception throughout an agency Shinseki oversees.
Reading the report, and reflecting on my own exposure to the structure and management of the VA, which intersected with my responsibilities as a health-policy staffer in the Bush White House on several occasions, I’m left with a few thoughts on the scandal.
First, it is important to understand just how serious the misdeeds of the Phoenix VA hospital (and apparently quite a few others) really are. The core of the scandal is what appears to have been a highly organized effort to cook the books in order to be able to report far shorter wait times for care than were actually achieved. Veterans awaiting care were kept off the formal waiting list (so that the wait-time clock did not start ticking) and handled through a series of ad hoc informal queues, which were themselves carelessly kept and badly mishandled. To work, this system appears to have required the active collusion of a large number of people at each VA facility in question, involving everything from telephone operators keeping some appointment requests out of the system to senior managers turning off audit controls on the hospital’s scheduling software to make it impossible to know who manipulated the system and how. The IG notes that some of these actions were almost certainly outright crimes. It’s not clear if what has happened at the many other VA facilities that have now been drawn into this scandal was as deep and broad, but it does look that way in at least some cases.
Second, the lengths to which VA employees were willing to go to report shorter wait times is a function of a longstanding emphasis (by Congress, successive administrations, and the veterans’ groups) on wait times as a primary performance measure, but this emphasis has not been tied (by any of them) to structural reforms that might actually enable the VA to function more efficiently. Centrally run, highly bureaucratic, public health-care systems that do not permit meaningful pricing and do not allow for competition among providers of care can really only respond to supply and demand pressures through waiting lines. It happens everywhere, but when it has happened at the VA the response has been to criticize waiting times rather than to reconsider how the system is organized.
There is no question that the quality of the VA system has improved significantly over the last three decades, thanks to a series of modernization efforts launched (and very well executed, I should note) by the Clinton administration and continued by both the Bush and Obama administrations. But these efforts began from an extremely low baseline and they have achieved improvements by essentially modernizing the infrastructure that supports a very inefficient bureaucracy. The potential of these kinds of changes to dramatically reduce waiting times was always going to be limited, and the increasingly unrealistic targets set for waiting times put pressure on the system without giving administrators any way to release it. These targets reached the point of near-absurdity in 2011 when the Obama administration set a goal of 14 days between the time a patient asks for an appointment and the time that patient sees a doctor or nurse.
These targets did not account well for the huge differences between different kinds of patients seen by the VA, and they were tied directly to bonuses and salary increases for hospital administrators, creating a huge incentive to distort the prioritization system used by the VA and, as happened here, to just lie about waiting times. The Phoenix hospital in question, for instance, reported that it had managed by last year to get average waiting times down to 24 days. In fact, the IG report found, the average waiting time was 115 days. There’s no way to bridge that gap with “targets.” And there’s probably no way to really bridge that gap at all in a public hospital system like the VA.
Defenders of the VA system note that, despite waiting times, the system generally gets high marks from its patients, and performs relatively well compared to the larger health-care system on measures of quality. This is true and important. But it also has to be understood in the context of some key differences between the VA and the larger health-care system. Some of these differences (like the increased patient load as a result of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars) create added burdens on the VA. Others (like the system’s unusually homogeneous patient population and its not seeing the degree of aging of its patient pool that the larger health care system is seeing because of the relatively smaller number of baby-boomer vets compared to the prior generation) work to its advantage.
But the most important difference is that the VA is not a full-service health system. It only provides a limited range of services in a limited range of specialties, and even the system’s highest priority patients get barely 50 percent of their health care from the VA system. Much of the most complex and expensive care provided to veterans is handled by the larger health-care system. What it does do, the VA often does reasonably well, to its credit. And its patients of course also like the fact that the care they receive costs them very little (or nothing), and that they receive it in an environment designed for veterans and in which they have a lot in common with fellow patients. That’s all to the good, but it doesn’t make for very meaningful comparisons with the larger health-care system.
The fact is that the VA has not been able to translate its relative advantages, or its growing budgets (the agency’s budget has grown far more quickly than its patient load over the past decade), into the sort of superior performance that Congress and successive administrations have hoped for.
A major reason for that is the department’s (and not just each hospital’s or sub-agency’s) administrative dysfunction, which really has to be seen to be believed. The Department of Veterans Affairs is almost certainly the most poorly managed cabinet department, and it has to rank among the most poorly managed federal agencies at any level. It is characterized by deep dysfunction at pretty much every level (and not just in its health-care system; the veterans’ disability system has enormous problems too). This has not only been the case under the Obama Administration, of course. It has been the case for decades, and a primary reason for it is a challenge that no one in Congress (well,almost no one) or in any administration particularly wants to talk about: the power of the veterans’ groups.
It is impossible to overstate the political power of the veterans’ interest groups over the VA. The simplest way to describe it is that they get everything they want, period. There are many powerful interest groups in Washington, but because their domain is carefully limited and politically and culturally sensitive, the vets’ groups have a kind of command of their arena that I don’t think any other sort of interest group approaches. And this is a big part of the reason why the VA is so dysfunctional, because it is not subject to congressional or administrative oversight in the usual sense. It answers fundamentally to the vets’ groups. They often informally review its annual budget request before it goes to OMB. They are uniquely involved in drafting budgets on the congressional side. They are considered a necessary signoff on every major decision. Their firm opposition to something is the end of the story. Their priorities are the VA’s priorities. And yet they are very well positioned to treat failures that result from their own distorting power over the system as reasons to increase that power.
These groups do have the interests and needs of veterans in mind, of course. They are not cynics by any means. But neither are most other interest groups. The problem is that it can easily become very difficult to distinguish the interests of the people you speak for and your own institutional interests as their advocate.
The current design of the VA health system allows the vets’ groups to have a great deal of say over a great many decisions, and they are genuinely persuaded that changing that would undermine the interests of veterans. That means they are likely to consider this scandal a threat to the status quo at the VA, rather than emblematic of that status quo, and that even in the wake of this scandal they are likely to be resistant to fundamental structural reforms (like a greater integration of veterans’ specialty care into the private health-care system). Of course, the administration is likely to be opposed to that too, as many liberals still take the public VA system as a model for the larger system, rather than the other way around. So significant change is not likely. More numerical targets unconnected to structural improvements are more likely, and therefore more problems are too.
These problems did not start with the Obama administration, and won’t end with it. But the particulars of what happened in Phoenix and elsewhere are qualitatively far different from the sort of administrative dysfunction the VA has long endured. They constitute a massive conspiracy to benefit VA employees at the expense of their patients. Firing the Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs won’t fix the department, but it is nonetheless unavoidable now.
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This Summer in … TV
Summer is not, traditionally, television’s strongest season. Most shows run on a fall to spring schedule, leaving us without our favorite characters on the warmest nights. But this summer there were some interesting trends, especially on cable and Netflix which shy away from the traditional fall-to-spring model.
The Legitimization of Netflix
Orange is the New Black was something of a surprise hit this summer. It was certainly not the first Netflix-original show. Both House of Cards and Arrested Development made big splashes before it, but OITNB makes three and three, my friends, makes a trend. Netflix doesn’t release any metrics so there’s no way of knowing just how many people watched Jenji Kohan‘s based-on-a-true-story prison dramedy, but using less scientific measurements like Twitter mentions suggests that that number was somewhere between a lot and everyone.
A New Kind of (ABC) Family
Summer television typically means shows about rich people yelling at each other about wedding planning or home selling or wine (or whatever the hell it is the Real Housewives are always fighting about). But in the words of Katy Perry, I know a place / where the grass is really greener. That place is called ABC Family. The official network of teens behaving badly provides the perfect kind of soapy, summery shows to watch while you wait for Leslie Knope to return to television. Pretty Little Liars continues its reign as ABC Family’s flagship show. There’s also The Fosters, a new show about the Foster family, who are a foster family – ABC Family is clever like that. These shows have gay characters, they talk about contraception and undocumented immigrants and they remain damn entertaining. They’re fun to watch and when it’s 100 degrees outside, what else can you ask for?
Our Summer Without Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart has become as steady a late night fixture as David Letterman. But this summer, he left us to go film a movie. And in his place, we had John Oliver. Oliver proved himself to be a worthy temporary host, going especially hard on Anthony Weiner, who usually gets a pass from Stewart thanks to their friendship. The show’s been on hiatus for the past two weeks, but when it returns tomorrow, Stewart will be back in the anchor’s chair.
TV on Twitter
People have been tweeting about their favorite television shows for years, but this summer the Twitter chatter was louder than a Real Housewives vacation. Peggy wore a little black dress on Mad Men and everyone went crazy. Alexander Skarsgard showed off his Swedish Fish on True Blood and everyone erupted into 140-character outbursts. Don’t even get me started on the whole Red Wedding Game of Thrones madness. This summer, if you weren’t tweeting about television, were you really watching television at all?
It’s Hard to Say Goodbye
This summer brought us the final seasons of both Breaking Bad and Dexter. Granted, Dexter has lost some of its steam in recent years, but there is a certain sadness to it ending. Tony Soprano may be the original TV anti-hero, but both Walter White and Dexter Morgan are enduring members of the league of bad men we like to watch do bad things.
Movie Stars on TV
Okay, so it was HBO. And, yes, it was initially intended to be released as a feature film. But Matt Damon, Michael Douglas and Steven Soderbergh made a Liberace TV movie! After being deemed “too gay” by major studios, HBO picked up Behind the Candelabra. The movie was excellent and picked up 15 Emmy nominations. But it also served as a reminder that the major studios aren’t as progressive as they claim to be and that television continues to be the medium willing to push the boundaries and to tell different and exciting stories.
Under the Influence of Under the Dome
Summer 2013 will always be remembered as the summer we got trapped Under the Dome. The CBS miniseries sort of snuck up on us and became a big hit. So big, in fact, that CBS decided to renew it for a second season. The show is based on a Steven King novel and marks his first on-screen adaptation success in a few years. Without any big stars, or really very much promotion at all, Under the Dome caught on and sparked a million memes.
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Man gets jailed and caned for vandalizing Geylang with racist graffiti
Vandalism of public spaces is bad enough, but one man took it overboard when he scribbled racist graffiti on the walls and pillars outside Aljunied MRT station and in other parts of Geylang. He was sentenced to 13 months in jail and nine strokes of the cane yesterday.
Chen Jianbang, who was arrested on Jan 7 this year, pleaded guilty to three charges of vandalism and two charges of wounding racial feelings, with another 12 charges taken into consideration for sentencing.
Over the course of a week in January, the 31-year-old littered void deck walls and sheltered walkways in the neighborhood with vulgar phrases aimed at the Malay community. He was caught after a passerby, an officer on patrol, and the Aljunied MRT station master called the police, and investigations unearthed CCTV footage of him committing the crime.
Police officers seized a permanent marker, a sling bag, and clothing items from him.
The offensive scrawls had to be removed with thinner or painted over, and Chen was sentenced to an additional 60 days in jail as he had breached his remission order after his early release from prison last August. He had been sentenced to one year and nine months in jail for housebreaking in November 2017, and had past offences such as mischief and cheating going back to 2005.
Some of his racial slurs included “Malay mati” (“Malay die”) and “All Malay fight lose Chinese.”
In court, the prosecutor said “the accused chose to inscribe racially-charged words onto private and public property, thereby allowing the words to be viewed repeatedly over a period of time,” and sought a “strong deterrent sentence.”
Chen, who was not represented in court, said of his sentence: “I think nine strokes is okay.”
For each vandalism charge, he could have been jailed up to three years or fined a maximum of S$2,000, as well as given up to eight strokes of the cane. For wounding racial feelings, he could’ve gotten a jail term of up to three years, fined, or both.
This article, Man gets jailed and caned for vandalizing Geylang with racist graffiti, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company. Want more Coconuts? Sign up for our newsletters!
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SOLARENERGY FUELS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS: CASE STUDY OF SOUTHWEST COASTAL REGION OF BANGLADESH
Hamidul Huq
Electrification is one of the most crucial factors to ensure social and economic growth in Bangladesh. Being in a developing country, people from various districts of Bangladesh have been experiencing electricity crisis due to the increasing daily demand for power, which outweighs the supply of on-grid electricity. It is noted that about 30 percent of 160 million people, majority living in the rural areas are out of electricity connection in Bangladesh. Consequently, the shortage of energy hampers socioeconomic development and lowers living standards of people. Since, non-renewable sources such as fossil fuels and natural gas, the primary sources of energy production in Bangladesh, are limited, usage of renewable energy technology such as solar energy efficiently can satisfy the rising energy demand and in turn improve the existing energy shortage situation. This study found that Bangladesh has been implementing Solar Home System (SHS) programs that contribute in achieving the target to reach electricity to its every citizen by 2020. As of June 2017 a total of 262,515 households do have solar home systems from which an estimated 1.6 million people are benefitted. This article is written based on a research conducted in the districts of southwest coastal region of Bangladesh where a total of 5.1 million people live of which on an average 42.6 percent are poor and 24.9 percent are extreme poor. In-depth interviews, group discussions, key informant interviews, and household survey were used for collection of data to explore the impacts of SHS on the livelihoods of coastal people of Bangladesh. This research found that impacts of Solar Home System services are both immediate and long-term oriented. SHS program contributes enriching all kinds of livelihoods assets such as human, social, financial and physical of the SHS customers. The poor and extreme poor people of climate vulnerable villages of southwest coastal region of Bangladesh are benefited in different ways from SHS programs such as save daily expenditures for kerosene, doing income generating activities in evening hours by both male and female members of family, children sit for study regularly, women feel safety from lightening of house, they can charge cell phone, they have access to weather forecasting, their social status upgraded, and they save money because they do not need to pay bill for electricity. The SHS is one time investment and they customer can pay for SHS package in installments. As the SHS program approach is environment and poor people friendly, its impacts on livelihoods are found sustainable.
Coastal region, Solar Home System, Sustainable Livelihoods
Institute of Development Studies and Sustainability (IDSS), United International University
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Huq H. SOLARENERGY FUELS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS: CASE STUDY OF SOUTHWEST COASTAL REGION OF BANGLADESH. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. 2018;11(4):132-143. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-11-4-132-143
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1. The Purpose of this Agreement.
This Agreement sets forth the terms under which I make certain copyright and patent rights available to you for your implementation of the Specification.
Any other capitalized terms not specifically defined herein have the same meaning as those terms have in the "W3C Patent Policy", and if not defined there, in the "W3C Process Document".
2. Copyrights.
2.1. Copyright Grant. I grant to you a perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright), worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, copyright license, without any obligation for accounting to me, to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, distribute, and implement the Specification to the full extent of my copyright interest in the Specification.
2.2. Attribution. As a condition of the copyright grant, you must include an attribution to the Specification in any derivative work you make based on the Specification. That attribution must include, at minimum, the Specification name and version number.
3. Patents.
3.1. Patent Licensing Commitment. I agree to license my Essential Claims under the W3C Community RF Licensing Requirements. This requirement includes Essential Claims that I own and any that I have the right to license without obligation of payment or other consideration to an unrelated third party. W3C Community RF Licensing Requirements obligations made concerning the Specification and described in this policy are binding on me for the life of the patents in question and encumber the patents containing Essential Claims, regardless of changes in participation status or W3C Membership. I also agree to license my Essential Claims under the W3C Community RF Licensing Requirements in derivative works of the Specification so long as all normative portions of the Specification are maintained and that this licensing commitment does not extend to any portion of the derivative work that was not included in the Specification.
3.2. Optional, Additional Patent Grant. In addition to the provisions of Section 3.1, I may also, at my option, make certain intellectual property rights infringed by implementations of the Specification, including Essential Claims, available by providing those terms via the W3C Web site.
4. No Other Rights. Except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, no other express or implied patent, trademark, copyright, or other property rights are granted under this Agreement, including by implication, waiver, or estoppel.
5. Antitrust Compliance. I acknowledge that I may compete with other participants, that I am under no obligation to implement the Specification, that each participant is free to develop competing technologies and standards, and that each party is free to license its patent rights to third parties, including for the purpose of enabling competing technologies and standards.
6. Non-Circumvention. I agree that I will not intentionally take or willfully assist any third party to take any action for the purpose of circumventing my obligations under this Agreement.
7. Transition to W3C Recommendation Track. The Specification developed by the Project may transition to the W3C Recommendation Track. The W3C Team is responsible for notifying me that a Corresponding Working Group has been chartered. I have no obligation to join the Corresponding Working Group. If the Specification developed by the Project transitions to the W3C Recommendation Track, the following terms apply:
7.1. If I join the Corresponding Working Group. If I join the Corresponding Working Group, I will be subject to all W3C rules, obligations, licensing commitments, and policies that govern that Corresponding Working Group.
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7.2.1. Licensing Obligations to Resulting Specification. If I do not join the Corresponding Working Group, I agree to offer patent licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in Section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy for the portions of the Specification included in the resulting Recommendation. This licensing commitment does not extend to any portion of an implementation of the Recommendation that was not included in the Specification. This licensing commitment may not be revoked but may be modified through the exclusion process defined in Section 4 of the W3C Patent Policy. I am not required to join the Corresponding Working Group to exclude patents from the W3C Royalty-Free licensing commitment, but must otherwise follow the normal exclusion procedures defined by the W3C Patent Policy. The W3C Team will notify me of any Call for Exclusion in the Corresponding Working Group as set forth in Section 4.5 of the W3C Patent Policy.
7.2.2. No Disclosure Obligation. If I do not join the Corresponding Working Group, I have no patent disclosure obligations outside of those set forth in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.
8. Conflict of Interest. I will disclose significant relationships when those relationships might reasonably be perceived as creating a conflict of interest with my role. I will notify W3C of any change in my affiliation using W3C-provided mechanisms.
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10.2. Corresponding Working Group. Corresponding Working Group is a W3C Working Group that is chartered to develop a Recommendation, as defined in the W3C Process Document, that takes the Specification as an input.
10.3. Essential Claims. Essential Claims shall mean all claims in any patent or patent application in any jurisdiction in the world that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the Specification. A claim is necessarily infringed hereunder only when it is not possible to avoid infringing it because there is no non-infringing alternative for implementing the normative portions of the Specification. Existence of a non-infringing alternative shall be judged based on the state of the art at the time of the publication of the Specification. The following are expressly excluded from and shall not be deemed to constitute Essential Claims:
10.3.1. any claims other than as set forth above even if contained in the same patent as Essential Claims; and
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enabling technologies that may be necessary to make or use any product or portion thereof that complies with the Specification and are not themselves expressly set forth in the Specification (e.g., semiconductor manufacturing technology, compiler technology, object-oriented technology, basic operating system technology, and the like); or
the implementation of technology developed elsewhere and merely incorporated by reference in the body of the Specification.
10.3.3. design patents and design registrations.
For purposes of this definition, the normative portions of the Specification shall be deemed to include only architectural and interoperability requirements. Optional features in the RFC 2119 sense are considered normative unless they are specifically identified as informative. Implementation examples or any other material that merely illustrate the requirements of the Specification are informative, rather than normative.
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10.5 Project. Project means the W3C Community Group or Business Group for which I executed this Agreement.
10.6. Specification. Specification means the Specification identified by the Project as the target of this agreement in a call for Final Specification Commitments. W3C shall provide the authoritative mechanisms for the identification of this Specification.
10.7. W3C Community RF Licensing Requirements. W3C Community RF Licensing Requirements license shall mean a non-assignable, non-sublicensable license to make, have made, use, sell, have sold, offer to sell, import, and distribute and dispose of implementations of the Specification that:
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Bridging Academia and Activism through Gender Studies
Room 411, Fayerweather Hall - European Institute - Columbia University
Columbia Global Centers Istanbul invites you to “Bridging Academia and Activism through Gender Studies" with Assoc. Prof. Ayşe Gül Altınay, Director of the Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence and Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University. This event is co-sponsored by The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies and The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; and Women Creating Change at The Center for the Study of Social Difference.
About the Talk
“Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illumination may come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time span that was given them on earth.” (Hannah Arendt)
In conversation with Hannah Arendt’s discussion of the “dark times,” this talk will present a critical reflection of the possibilities and challenges of doing feminism and gender studies in Turkey today. “The time span given us on earth” is shaped by deeply destructive forces, the consequences of which range from climate change to wars, from poverty and precarious living to racist and (hetero)sexist violence. Yet, it is also a time span in which we are witnessing major transformations, especially in relation to conventions on gender and sexuality. Contemporary Turkey marks a place where both the most destructive forces and the most transformative ones find strong expression. The talk will reflect on the challenges and possibilities of doing feminism and gender studies in Turkey today, with specific examples from the experiences of Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center, and ask some further questions: Where do we see the “illumination”? Why is it important, theoretically and politically, to “see” the illumination and expand on it? What are the possibilities offered by gender studies today to bridge academia and activism, and to enable a space of co-creation, co-resistance, solidarity and transformation?
Ayşe Gül Altınay is the Director of SU Gender and Associate Professor of Anthropology teaching in the Gender Studies Ph.D and Cultural Studies BA and MA Programs at Sabancı University. Her research and writing have focused on militarism, memory, violence, gender and sexuality. Among her books are Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence (co-edited with Andrea Petö, 2016); The Grandchildren: The Hidden Legacy of “Lost” Armenians in Turkey (with Fethiye Çetin, trans. Maureen Freely, 2014), and The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education in Turkey (2004). Since 2013, she has been a part of the Women Mobilizing Memory Working Group of Women Creating Change at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference and is one of the co-editors of Women Mobilizing Memory (forthcoming, Columbia University Press, 2019). Click here for more information.
Jean E. Howard is a former Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Howard has authored over fifty essays; and her books include Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (1984); The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997), co-written with Phyllis Rackin; Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (2007), which won the Barnard Hewitt Prize for the outstanding work of theater history for 2008, and Marx and Shakespeare in the Great Shakespeareans series (2012), co-written with Crystal Bartolovich. Click here for more information.
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Who Owns the News?: A History of Copyright
4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
Please join us for a panel discussion and presentation of Prof. Will Slauter's book Who Owns the News?: A History of Copyright (Stanford University Press 2019).
With the participation of:
Will Slauter, historian, Université Paris Diderot
Julia Cagé, economist, Sciences Po Paris;
Jenny Davidson, literary scholar, Columbia University
Antoine Lilti, historian, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the "ownership" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores the intertwined histories of journalism and copyright law in the United States and Great Britain, revealing how shifts in technology, government policy, and publishing strategy have shaped the media landscape.
Publishers have long sought to treat news as exclusive to protect their investments against copying or "free riding." But over the centuries, arguments about the vital role of newspapers and the need for information to circulate have made it difficult to defend property rights in news. Beginning with the earliest printed news publications and ending with the Internet, Will Slauter traces these countervailing trends, offering a fresh perspective on debates about copyright and efforts to control the flow of news.
Will Slauter is an associate professor at Université Paris Diderot and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. His research interests include the history of authorship and publishing, the history of journalism, and the history of copyright law. After receiving a PhD from Princeton University in 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has also taught at Florida State University and Université Paris 8 – Saint Denis. His book Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright (Stanford University Press, 2019) was supported by fellowships from the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Antiquarian Society. In collaboration with Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire of the Winterthur Museum, he is currently coordinating an international project on artistic copyright and the circulation of images in the nineteenth century.
Julia Cagé is an assistant professor of economics in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po Paris. She is also co-director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)'s "Evaluation of Democracy" research group & a Research Affiliate of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
(Economic History, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics Programs).
Jenny Davidson is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a fellow with the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. She receieved her A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe (1993); and Ph.D., Yale (1999). She writes about eighteenth-century literature and culture; other interests include British cultural and intellectual history and the contemporary novel in English. She is the author of four novels Heredity (2003),The Explosionist (2008), Invisible Things (2010), and The Magic Circle (2013). She has published two books about eighteenth-century literature, Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen (Cambridge, 2004) and Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (Columbia, 2009). Reading Style: A Life in Sentences was published in 2014 and her latest book of criticism is Reading Jane Austen. She is currently at work on a short book about how Edward Gibbon came to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Antoine Lilti est directeur d'études à l'EHESS depuis 2011 et responsable de la formation doctorale et du master d'histoire. Ancien élève de l'Ecole normale supérieure, agrégé et docteur en histoire, il a dirigé la revue Annales, Histoire sciences sociales de 2006 à 2011. Ses travaux portent sur les Lumières et leurs héritages, sur l'histoire sociale et culturelle du XVIIIe siècle, sur les formes de la réputation et de la célébrité dans les sociétés modernes et sur l'histoire de l'historiographie. Il a publié deux ouvrages : Le Monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Fayard, 2005, traduction anglaise Oxford University Press, 2014) et Figures publiques : l'Invention de la célébrité (Fayard, 2014). Il a coédité (avec Cécile Spector), Penser l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle : Commerce, Empire, Civilisation, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2014, et (avec Sabina Loriga, Jean-Frédéric Schaub et Silvia Sebastiani), L'expérience historiographique : autour de Jacques Revel, Ediitions de l'EHESS, "Enquêtes", 2016.
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Alleged N4.7bn fraud: Trial of Ladoja ends; court reserves judgment
By NAN
21 January 2019 | 12:40 pm
Rashidi Ladoja
A Federal High Court Lagos on Monday, reserved judgment in the criminal case against a former Governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, and one of his aides, Waheed Akanbi, charged with N4.7 billion fraud.
Justice Mohammed Idris reserved his judgment after counsel representing parties had adopted their final addresses before the court.
Ladoja was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with converting N4.7billion from the State’s treasury to his personal use.
He was re-arraigned along with Akanbi, his former Commissioner for Finance on 11 counts charge of money laundering and unlawful conversion of public funds.
They had pleaded not guilty to the charges, and were granted bails.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that evidences in the trial closed on Nov. 17, after Ladoja had given his evidence before the court.
The court had then adjourned for adoption of final addresses.
Adopting his address on Monday, the prosecutor, Mr Oluwafemi Olabisi urged the court to hold that the prosecution had been able to establish its case against the accused based on evidences adduced.
He argued that the crux of the prosecution’s case centred on money received as proceeds of crime.
According to him, offences of this nature do not give room for acknowledgment of monies taken from government coffers.
He added that the court was enjoined to look at circumstantial evidences in arriving at its decision.
Olabisi urged the court to discountenance evidences adduced by defence witnesses, and hold that the prosecution had been able to establish its case against the accused.
On his part, defense counsel, Mr Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika urged the court to discharge and acquit the accused on the grounds that the prosecution had a weak case incapable of securing any conviction.
“If there is no foundation, the super structure cannot stand,” he said.
Olumide-Fusika argued that no prosecution witness was able to link the accused with the alleged offences, adding that the prosecution was only concerned with securing conviction at all cost.
Besides, defense argued that the statement used by the prosecutor in his written address that “the second defendant in the very least, did conspire to commit the offence” was incapable of establishing his guilt.
He urged the court to be sensitive to evidences adduced as PW2 who testified as having engaged in the sale of the Oyo State shares was never charged.
In all, he urged the court to discharge and acquit the accused as there was no shred of evidences against them, adding that the evidences by prosecution witnesses, even supports the innocence of the accused.
After listening to the submissions of counsel, Justice Idris commended them for seeing the trial to conclusion.
He informed parties that his judgment would be reserved, and that hearing notices would be sent to counsel in a short while.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that after the close of prosecution’s case, the accused had opted to file a no case submission before the court, contending that the prosecution failed to establish a case against them.
But in its ruling, the court had dismissed the no case submission, and held that based on a preponderance of evidences as put forward by prosecution, there was no doubt that the accused had some explanations to make.
NAN reports that in the charge, the accused were alleged to have conspired to siphon and launder N4.7 billion from the coffers of Oyo State government.
The EFCC also accused them of converting N1.9 billion belonging to the state for their personal use through the account of a company known as Heritage Apartments Ltd.
The anti-graft agency claimed that the accused retained the money sometime in 2007, in spite of their knowledge that it was proceeds from a criminal activity.
Ladoja was accused of removing 600,000 pounds from the state coffers in 2007 and sent to his daughter, Bimpe in London.
In addition, the ex-governor was accused of converting N42 million belonging to the state for his personal use and subsequently used same to purchase an armoured Land Cruiser.
The EFCC added that Ladoja converted N728 million and N77 million at different times in 2007 for his personal use and transferred same to Bistrum Investments for the purchase of a property in Ibadan.
The offences contravenes the provisions of Sections 14, 16, 17 (a) and 18 (1) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004, according to the EFCC.
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General Discussion for the Prison Planet Educational Forum and Library (Moderators: chris jones, larsonstdoc, donnay, Jackson Holly, pac522, Letsbereal, jofortruth) »
What happens when an MSM "Newsman" can no longer handle the hypocricy?
Author Topic: What happens when an MSM "Newsman" can no longer handle the hypocricy? (Read 1927 times)
When a fake republican and true globalist assface like Newt Gingrich gets totally pwned by an average citizen who cares about his country, Scarborough cannot help but sound off an uncontrollable euphoria of elation which lasts a really long time...eventually Zbigniew Brzezinski's daughter has to jump in.
http://vodpod.com/watch/9135160-joe-scarborough-loses-it-over-newt-gingrichs-awkward-encounter-video
Hey Joe, a lot of times you seem to be shilling big time for your Harriman/GE masters, and lots of members call you on it.
But, I have to say...thanks for that one.
Re: What happens when an MSM "Newsman" can no longer handle the hypocricy?
Gingrich is such a piece of shit. Does he actually think he has a prayer of becoming President, or is he just trying to make money off of contributions?
Quote from: Monkeypox on June 20, 2011, 11:41:10 pm
You think he regrets writing this white paper before 9/11?
http://holtz.org/Library/Social%20Science/The%20Age%20of%20Transitions%20by%20Newt%20Gingrich.htm
Age of Transitions - Exposure of Gingrich's Transhumanist Agenda
http://conspiracyrealitytv.com/the-age-of-transitions-eugenics-and-transhumanism-your-future-has-been-planned/
It’s important to realize that this report clearly states that cybernetic enhancement of human performance is inevitable. With Newt Gingrich proclaiming “those countries that ignore these patterns of change will fall further behind and find themselves weaker, poorer, and more vulnerable than their wiser, more change-oriented neighbors”. Mr Gingrich conservatively calls for a tripling of the National Science Foundation budget. He also mentions George Bush’s approval of a $604 million dollar increase towards the nano budget. Convergence is the priority of importance in implementing the promise of a new day for the 21st century.
One group stands above all others for applauding this convergence. They are known as transhumanists. Most prominent among which are professors, philosophers, scientists and celebrities. The transhumanists see a world of problems just begging to be solved with converging technology.
What most people don’t realize is that this concept is not new. It is in fact a repackaging of what was once called eugenics. The term eugenics means good genes, or good origin. It was coined in 1883, by British scientist Sir Francis Galton. He defined eugenics as “A moral philosophy to improve humanity by encouraging the best and brightest to breed”. Galton was the half-cousin of Sir Charles Darwin, the famous originator of the theory of evolution, which also would come to be known as Darwinism.
Galton actually used the theory of evolution to substantiate his new science of eugenics. In his book, Studies on Hereditary Genius, he attempted to prove that the aristocratic families of the British empire were in fact a superior race. The fact that in the struggle for life, they had made it to the very top of society proved that they were the best that humanity had to offer. It is important to note that Darwin’s famous The Origin of Species is subtitled Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Not surprisingly, the Royal Society, a scientific institution dedicated to the improvement of natural knowledge, picked up on these new ideas and promoted Darwin heavily. Being a creation of the British monarchy, the Royal Society was obviously in favor of promoting the idea of the genetic superiority of the royal family. Science itself was being positioned to replace the old religious appeal, with the divine right of Kings to rule over the inferior masses.
Darwin himself stated “Elite status is prima facie evidence of evolutionary superiority”. Through scientism, science as religion, Darwinism could in fact bring about social change. Social Darwinism would manifest itself as eugenics. To eugenicists, the masses were cattle, with Galton calling eugenics ‘the science of improving the stock’. The rise of scientism began the widespread proliferation of eugenics as it reached American shores at the turn of the century. The Eugenics Record Office in Cold Springs Harbor New York went to work amassing hundreds of thousands of family pedigrees for genetic research. They also lobbied for state sterilization acts and other eugenic legislation. In 1899, Henry Clay Sharp, a prison physician, began sterilizing degenerate prisoners, and later in 1907 he was a key advocate for a law in Indiana that was passed, mandating the compulsory sterilization of degenerates throughout the state.
In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being accepted as a genuine form of science. Social Darwinism made strong advances toward a world in which scientism would fulfill Galton’s dream of having eugenics be the religion of the future.
But a major setback occurred at the end of World War II. It was discovered that American eugenics had been a major influence on Hitler’s Final Solution. In 1934, Rudolf Hess had stated that “national socialism is nothing but applied biology”. Hitler had only wanted to preserve the best German stocks and elevate them to a dominate position in society. It was at this point in eugenics history that a crucial move had to be made in order to hide eugenics from the now aware masses of humanity.
Prominent eugenicist Sir Julian Huxley stepped up and offered a solution. He simply invented a new word to replace eugenics. That term being, TRANSHUMANISM, which he defined as the need for mankind to realize the importance of steering the direction of its own evolution. Yes, eugenics was one of the original aspects of transhumanism. And it is no surprise as Julian was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, who had been a president of the Royal Society, and one of the most well known advocates of Darwinism in its early days.
Julian, being properly raised, was educated at Oxford. His specialty being evolutionary biology. He went on to many high level positions, which included the titles of Vice President and President of the British Eugenics Society, which of course had the task of removing undesirable variants from the human gene pool. Julian Huxley had said the following of eugenics “The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore… they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; Long unemployment should be a ground for sterilization”.
At this point it’s important to understand the legal definition of the word terrorist. Since 9/11, a mountain of legislation has been passed, including the Patriot Act, the Military Commission Act, the John Warner Defense Act and countless others. All of which have, through their legislative cunning, rendered the term terrorist so ambiguous that you can be deemed a terrorist for any reason at all. You can be taken to a secret prison without charges, without Habeas Corpus, and with no rights whatsoever.
These laws were not written on a whim. They were specifically designed to give the government carte blanche authority over the people during the chaos and confusion of the Age of Transitions.
And so, this transition is perhaps the most important transition of all time. Some people don’t want it. They fear this transition because this transition is to a planetary civilization tolerant of many cultures. These are the terrists. In their gut, they fear this, because they know they are witnessing the birth plans of a beginning of a new planetary civilization and the terrists want nothing to do with it. -Michio Kaku
(terrist as in terra firma, the Earth, etc. Sounds a bit like another word though, doesn’t it?)
The British Ministry of Defence has published its “Strategic Trends” report. The report has attempted to predict what will happen from 2007 until 2035. It predicts global chaos. It states that as global interdependence increases, every aspect of human life will change. Climate change, competition for resources, shortages of food and water, and the constant threat of pandemics, will keep people in a world wide state of shock.
During the next 30 years, every aspect of human life will change…
As the middle class in the west declines, extremist politics will be embraced by some out of desperation. Flash mobs will threaten military forces which admittedly will be working alongside police. As America and Europe decline in power, China and India are expected to gain prominence on the global stage. The population of the west will decrease due to declining fertility.
The report mentions this declining fertility on three separate occasions, but interestingly never explains the cause of this problem. Amid all this crisis, technological breakthroughs will develop at an unprecedented rate. Human computer interfaces will stimulate cultural change.
By 2035, an implantable information chip could be developed and wired directly to the user’s brain… synthetic sensory perception beamed directly to the user’s senses. It is likely that the majority of the global population will find it difficult to ‘turn the outside world off’. ICT is likely to be so pervasive that people are permanently connected to a network or two-way data stream with inherent challenges to civil liberties; being disconnected could be considered suspicious.
A small super-rich elite and a substantial underclass of slum and subsistence dwellers…
A more permissive R&D environment could accelerate the decline of ethical constraints and restraints. The speed of technological and cultural change could overwhelm society’s ability to absorb the ethical implications… The nearest approximation to an ethical framework could become a form of secular utilitarianism, in an otherwise amoral scientific culture. Declining youth populations in Western societies could become increasingly dissatisfied with their economically burdensome ‘baby boomer elders’… This could lead to a civic renaissance, with strict penalties for those failing to fulfill their social obligations. It might also open the way to policies which permit euthanasia as a means to reduce the burden of care for the elderly.
The problem is that we are living in a virtual reality. We’re living in a totally controlled environment. An environment that has been created by mass media. Now, many people, especially young people, accept unquestioningly the reality that is presented by the media. Popular culture, movies, television, music–carry messages about how society works and how people should behave, and so entertainment is not value free. It has ideological content it presents itself. It presents a world view that influences the people who watch the programming. There is a reason why television networks and the music industry, the various companies, they have programming departments. The programming that we are constantly assaulted by throughout our life, conditions us. It programs a particular world view.
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Quote from: Dig on June 20, 2011, 11:44:58 pm
That is creepy, especially the last two paragraphs... Well alright, all I read were the last 2 paragraphs, but I read them in Newt Gingrich's voice and THAT was bad enough!
“go to work, send your kids to school
follow fashion, act normal
walk on the pavement, watch T.V.
save for your old age, obey the law
Repeat after me: I am free”
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PhD Investigative Reports (only for the hardcore) (Moderators: TahoeBlue, Satyagraha, Effie Trinket) »
Suicide Rate is up World Wide
Author Topic: Suicide Rate is up World Wide (Read 76107 times)
Quote from: TahoeBlue on July 05, 2011, 04:16:01 pm
Check out the rest of the thread:
The Rising Body Count on Main Street/The Human Fallout from the Financial Crisis
Suicide is now one of the top ten causes of death AND White middle age men in the U.S. are killing themselves:
http://economiccrisis.us/2010/08/rising-suicide-rate-worldwide-linked-economic-crisis-expert/
Rising suicide rate worldwide linked to economic crisis, experts say - Aug 2010
Mental health experts say the sour economy has turned what usually manifests as seasonal blues into a full-blown crisis. The fear of losing one’s job and pressures caused by a downturn in business, demotion or pension plan cutbacks can be bad for mental health and therefore increase suicide risk.
Japan is already home to one of the highest rates of suicide in the industrialised world, with an estimated 30,000 killing themselves every year. Amid deepening fears of a global recession, the rate is expected to surge even higher, fuelled by the growing prospect of job losses, decreased financial security and a rise in social dissatisfaction.
A recent study from Flinders University in Australia concluded that the suicide rate amongst Australian farmers was around 50% higher than the rest of the population. “Relationships are one of the greatest supports for suicidal people,” Laura Kennan, Australian expert say. And finances have an impact on relationships.”
In the US, Men and women between 45 and 54 years old have the highest suicide rates in the country among nine different age groups as economy tanks and GOP blocks jobless benefits.
Women seek help for suicidal thoughts more often than men and added that “acknowledging the problem” was a crucial step to getting help.
But while suicides increased slightly in 2006 and 2007 across the United States, researchers noted suicide rates for people in their 40s and 50s have been steadily growing over the last decade.
http://www.worldcrunch.com/greece-depression-and-suicide-rate-rising-face-economic-crisis-national-shame/3350
Greece: Depression And Suicide Rate Rising In Face Of Economic Crisis, National Shame
Unemployment, economic hardship, and the shame of being considered Europe’s black sheep – the Greek have never been so dispirited. And the number of cases of clinical depression and suicides is soaring.
While the rest of Europe may be tormented by the thought of having to cough up ever more money to bail out Athens, the once carefree Greeks are getting more depressed by the day. Psychiatrists say that the economic crisis has triggered a 25 to 30% increase in the number of patients seeking their help.
[ Notice that the Bankers are checking the effects of their work: ]
http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/25/why-the-happiest-states-have-the-highest-suicide-rates/
Why the Happiest States Have the Highest Suicide Rates
By Maia Szalavitz Monday, April 25, 2011
Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the University of Warwick in England and Hamilton College in New York examined life satisfaction scores provided by 2.3 million Americans state by state, and comparing these with state suicide rates.
Utah, for example, ranks highest in life satisfaction — but also has the ninth highest suicide rate in the U.S.
The No. 2 happiest state is Hawaii, which comes in fifth for suicides.
New York, in contrast, comes in 45th in life satisfaction but has America's lowest suicide rate.
http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-13/news/29413955_1_suicide-rate-military-suicides-suicide-prevention
Suicide rate is slowly rising
April 13, 2011 |By Don Sapatkin, Inquirer Staff Writer
societal trends are well-known:
elderly people commit suicide at rates that are 50 percent higher than young people,
whites nearly three times more than blacks,
men nearly four times more than women
The difference represents only a few thousand deaths nationwide, adding up to a change in rate from 10.9 per 100,000 population (in 2004, 2005, 2006) to 11.7 per 100,000 (in 2009, based on very preliminary data).
But that was enough to move suicide into the list of top 10 killers,
down from No. 11 (blood infections) for the first time since classifications changed in 1999.
Perhaps the most dramatic trend is not new but has now continued to increase for a decade:
The suicide rate among ages 45 to 64 grew 28 percent between 1999 and 2009, surpassing what for years was the most suicide-prone demographic, the elderly.
Unemployment and financial anxieties could play a role [duhh] . And they tend to go along with factors such as substance abuse and family problems that also are known to affect suicide.
Live Free Or Die Trying!
Re: Suicide Rate is up World Wide
Maybe they should put lithium in their water supply, that way they can be calm and forget their troubles. <Sarcasm OFF>
Adding lithium to the taps 'could lower suicide rates'
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Money, money, money... must be funny... actually, no. The end.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/15/study-us-suicide-rate-rises-falls-with-economy/
Study: US Suicide Rate Rises, Falls With Economy Apr 15, 2011 – 8:02 AM
America's suicide rate rises and falls in relation to how well the economy is doing, according to the first-ever study to compare age-specific suicide rates to U.S. business cycles
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2010.300010v1
The study, titled "Impact of Business Cycles on the U.S. Suicide Rates, 1928-2007," was conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published online in the American Journal of Public Health.
Mental health experts and economists say the strongest correlation between suicide and economic downturn is found in Americans in their prime working years, ages 25 to 64.
By far the biggest rise in suicides occurred in the Great Depression, when the national suicide rate jumped from 18 per 100,000 adults in 1928 to more than 22 per 100,000 people in 1932 -- an all-time high. That's a 22.8 percent jump over four years.
The U.S. suicide rate fell to its lowest point in the year 2000.
Sadly, Luo's findings have been reflected in untold numbers of suicides during the recent economic downturn in the United States, when nearly 10 percent of workers are still unable to find jobs.
Such deaths are often unreported in the media.
Last month, a 29-year-old maintenance worker jumped to his death from the roof of the city hall in Costa Mesa, Calif., hours after the city announced major layoffs. The man had worked for the city for four years and been told he might lose his job.
http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2011/p0414_suiciderates.html
For Immediate Release: April 14, 2011
CDC Study Finds Suicide Rates Rise and Fall with Economy
Study looks at suicide rates from 1928–2007
The overall suicide rate rises and falls in connection with the economy, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released online today by the American Journal of Public Health. The study, "Impact of Business Cycles on the U.S. Suicide Rates, 1928–2007" is the first to examine the relationships between age-specific suicide rates and business cycles. The study found the strongest association between business cycles and suicide among people in prime working ages, 25-64 years old.
"Knowing suicides increased during economic recessions and fell during expansions underscores the need for additional suicide prevention measures when the economy weakens," said James Mercy, Ph.D., acting director of CDC's Injury Center's Division of Violence Prevention. "It is an important finding for policy makers and those working to prevent suicide."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2079813,00.html
The Greek Mental-Health Crisis: As Economy Implodes, Depression and Suicide Rates Soar
By Alain Salles / Le Monde / Worldcrunch Monday, June 27, 2011
http://www.worldcrunch.com/
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Monde.
Greeks are getting more depressed by the day. Psychiatrists say that the economic crisis has triggered a 25% to 30% increase in the number of patients seeking their help.
"There is an increase in the number of patients suffering from minor psychiatric conditions: anxiety, panic attacks and depression," says Dimitris Ploumidis, head of a mental-health center in eastern Athens. "In September 2010, people had to wait two weeks for a consultation, now it's more like two and a half months."
Before the crisis started, Greece was proud to be at the bottom of the list in Europe for the number of suicides, with a rate of 2.8 per 100,000 inhabitants. But that might be changing. Experts believe that in 2009 the rate of Greek suicides increased by 18% increase compared with 2007, with that figure expected to have climbed even higher in 2010.
Most people who commit suicide come from Athens or the island of Crete, where several business people killed themselves in the midst of grave financial problems. "The desire to commit suicide always has more than one cause, but a lot of those who come to us for help are people who used to make a good living and who are now having financial difficulties," says Aris Violatzis, a psychiatrist from the Klimaka NGO, which runs a suicide hotline
Suicide rate 22 per 100,000 people in 1932 -- an all-time high
Todays suicide rate in Las Vegas nears the Great Depression (National) rate....
In 2008, 383 people committed suicide in Clark County. The suicide rate increased from 17.5 per 100,000 to 19.3 per 100,000, according to the Sun’s analysis of data from the coroner’s office.
Leaving Las Vagas
The 2008 suicide rate increased in part because of nonresidents coming to Las Vegas and killing themselves.
About 10 percent of the suicides in 2008 were nonresidents, according to the coroner’s data.
That’s up from about 7 percent in 2007 and about 9 percent in 2006. (One unanswerable “chicken and egg” question about suicides in Las Vegas is whether emotionally unstable people come here and kill themselves, or whether the city makes people unhealthy.)
Las Vagas hard hit economically:
Here is an article with specific rates that show the recent past wasn't all that healthy! :
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/apr/05/economic-plunge-cited-factor-suicide-rate-spike/
Economic plunge cited as factor in suicide rate increase
By Marshall Allen, Alex Richards Sunday, April 5, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Many signs point to the economic bust as a factor, experts said.
“Those folks that were on the ragged edge to begin with are now on no edge at all, so they have nowhere to turn and are taking their lives because of it,” Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy said.
[ the perfect crime ! ]
The reason a person kills himself is usually a mystery because the only person who knows is dead.
Only about three in 10 people who commit suicide leave a note.
Murphy and the coroner investigators who go to suicide scenes increasingly find evidence of financial hardship, he said.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the suicide rate was highest from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, when it hovered at around 25 suicides per 100,000 people, and
peaked in 1982 at more than 30 suicides per 100,000.
Wray said the high suicide rate raises broader concerns for the community, including the copycat effect involving people who know someone who committed suicide.
In 2008, 383 people committed suicide in Clark County. The suicide rate increased from 17.5 per 100,000 to 19.3 per 100,000, according to the Sun’s analysis of data from the coroner’s office. By comparison, the national rate was about 11 per 100,000 in 2005, the most recent year for national data.
“A runaway suicide rate can have a chain reaction effect in the long term,” Wray said.
Gant-Reed said more middle-class people are calling the [suicide/mental health] hotline for the first time.
Some distressed callers were employed by the financial industry. One mortgage broker told her he was at the end of his rope, in the field for 20 years and now unemployed.
“I’ve lost my job and I’m losing my house and I’m losing everything and I’m 55 years old,” she recalled the man saying.
Another caller, a financial adviser, said he tried to apply for a job at McDonald’s but they wouldn’t hire him because he couldn’t speak Spanish and they knew he wouldn’t stay in the job long term, Gant-Reed said.
People from 45 to 54 years old made up 23 percent of the suicides, the largest of any 10-year age range. The median age at the time of death was 48, and about four of the five suicides were men.
Colorado too!!: 18.4 per 100,000
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_16096291
Battling our high suicide rate
By Zeik Saidman Posted: 09/17/2010 01:00:00 AM
People working in the field of suicide prevention were shaking their heads after a recent state report found that after three years of declining numbers, the
suicide rate increased to 18.4 per 100,000 or a record high of 940 suicides in Colorado in 2009.
For many years, Colorado (as well as many other western states) has ranked in the top 10 for deaths by suicide.
In Northern Ireland - young men are killing themselves:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0124/suicide.html
Coroner claims suicide 'rampant' in Ireland
Updated: 23:32, Monday, 24 January 2011
The Offaly County Coroner has said that suicide is rampant and is a really serious situation in Ireland at the moment.
Dr Brian Mahon was speaking in Tullamore during the hearing of inquests this morning into the deaths of five people through suicide. He said the situation appears to be particularly serious in rural areas, where there seems to be an increase in suicide deaths. Evidence was given during this morning's inquests on the deaths of five men in separate incidents.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/16/suicide-rates-northern-ireland
Sharp increase in suicide rates in Northern Ireland
Northern Irish suicide rates have risen by an alarming 64% in the last decade.
Mary O'Hara reports on how communities are taking action
Mary O'Hara The Guardian, Wednesday 16 March 2011
Local newspapers splashed on the deaths, while politicians, including west Belfast MP and leader of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, declared the situation a "crisis" and vowed to act. A friend of mine articulated a commonly expressed sentiment: "Why is there so much money being spent on road safety when more youngsters are killed by suicide than on the roads?"
Suicide rates have been rising markedly in Northern Ireland over the past decade. According to the Public Health Agency (PHA), after a period of relatively static figures in the latter half of the last century, between 1999 and 2008 rates of suicide in Northern Ireland increased by 64%.
Most of the rise was attributable to young men in the 15 to 34 age group. A large proportion was concentrated in disadvantaged areas and, in particular, north and west Belfast.
In 2002, 76% of all suicides in Northern Ireland were male, and 60% were between 15 and 34 years old.
By 2008, the latest year for which a reliable breakdown of the statistics is available,
77% of suicides were male, but the proportion aged between 15 and 34 had risen to 72%.
Figures for 2010 are as yet unavailable but, according to data collated by the PHA, the number of deaths registered as suicides last year looks set to exceed the 260 identified in 2009.
Stephen Platt, Samaritans' trustee and professor of health policy research at the University of Edinburgh, says: "The suicide rate in Northern Ireland appears to have increased after the end of the period known as the Troubles.
Previous studies have shown that suicides decrease during periods of war because people feel a sense of integration in their communities while uniting against an adversary. When war ends, this feeling falls away to the detriment of mental health.
"Suicide rates can also be affected by a number of different things including recession, rising unemployment, budget cuts and other social factors."
Quote from: donnay on July 06, 2011, 10:54:12 am
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/07/05/070511-news-pot-critic-1-2/
There are now more medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver than there are Starbucks.
Geolibertarian
9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB! www.911truth.org
I can't help but wonder if the psychopathic, ruling-class control-freaks who literally get off on human suffering aren't angered by this trend.
"How dare those slaves go out on their terms instead of ours!"
"Abolish all taxation save that upon land values." -- Henry George
"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill." -- Thomas Edison
http://schalkenbach.org
http://www.monetary.org
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=203330.0
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicideprevent/en/
In the last 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide. Suicide is among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years in some countries, and the second leading cause of death in the 10-24 years age group; these figures do not include suicide attempts which are up to 20 times more frequent than completed suicide.
Although traditionally suicide rates have been highest among the male elderly,
rates among young people have been increasing to such an extent that they are now the group at highest risk in a third of countries, in both developed and developing countries.
Mental disorders (particularly depression and alcohol use disorders) are a major risk factor for suicide in Europe and North America; however, in Asian countries impulsiveness plays an important role.
Suicide is complex with psychological, social, biological, cultural and environmental factors involved.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/evolution/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicide_rates_chart/en/index.html
http://www.good.is/post/more-us-soldiers-killed-themselves-than-died-in-combat-in-2010/
More U.S. Soldiers Killed Themselves Than Died in Combat in 2010
One of the problems hindering the military's attempt to address soldier suicides is that there's no real rhyme or reason to what kind of soldier is killing himself. While many suicide victims are indeed afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after facing heavy combat in the Middle East, many more have never even been deployed.
Of the 112 guardsmen who committed suicide last year, more than half had never even left American soil.
"If you think you know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know,” Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli told the Army Times, "because we don't know what it is."
The Highest suicide in the world was Belarus - now it's Lithuania - Why?
Gee - could the economic conditions for the older males and young men have anything to do with it? :
http://naviny.by/rubrics/english/2011/03/24/ic_news_259_364007/
Suicide rates on the decline in Belarus
Along with Russia and Ukraine, Belarus has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Lithuania where the rates reach 46 to 48 per 100000 population is the world`s leader.
A national plan was launched in 2009 to prevent suicides, Mr. Ihumnaw said, noting that 25 governmental agencies and organizations were involved in its implementation.
Mikhail Khasminsky, head of the Moscow Crisis Psychology Center, said that media coverage of suicides could provoke suicide-prone people to kill themselves as suggested by recent scientific surveys. He said that the Soviet-era practice of restricting media reporting on suicides and serial murders had positive effects.
Mr. Ihumnaw suggested that the media should focus on counseling services for potential suicide victims. However, he disagreed that suicide rates were low in the Soviet Union. Around 80,000 people committed suicide in 1984 compared with 15,000 deaths of Soviet soldiers in the Soviet War in Afghanistan, he noted
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/LABAS/2000/jan/suicide.html
SUICIDE IN LITHUANIA
Lithuania Takes the Dubious Honor of Having Highest Suicide Rate in World
By LEYLA ALYANAK ｩ Earth Times News Service, VILNIUS, Lithuania
This tiny former Soviet republic on the shores of the Baltic Sea has acquired a dubious distinction: It has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Suicides have increased steadily since independence in 1990, especially among young men (up 195 percent) and women aged 50 to 59 (up 106 percent).
In 1996 the suicide rate hit an all-time high of 46.4 per 100,000 people before settling at 44 in 1997.
These figures compare with 38 per 100,000 in Russia, 34 in Estonia, 33 in Hungary, 20 in Switzerland, seven in Spain, and three in Greece.
According to one specialized report on suicide, more people kill themselves in Lithuania each day (four to five) than die in traffic accidents. But these figures are relatively new and suicide has never been a traditional characteristic here. Before World War II, suicide rates in Lithuania were far below those of many other Eastern European countries.
Now, the Baltic States, with Lithuania up front, are leading the pack. "Suicide cannot be explained using only individual reasons," said Dr. Danute Gailiene, a psychologist and specialist in social issues. "It is the consequence of a complex process."
That process includes decades of Soviet domination, a dramatic transition period, the amount of media coverage given to suicides, and a certain perceived helplessness toward all of the above. These factors are intensified by the absence of a national suicide prevention strategy and a lack of in-depth research into the problem of suicide.
Experts say radical reforms in Lithuanian society have brought about a crisis in values, while growing economic unease has combined with increasing psychological and social insecurity and feelings of helplessness.
Still, they cannot pinpoint specific causes. Dr. Gailiene, writing in Lithuania's 1999 Human Development Report, places part of the blame on the mass media.
Alcohol policies have also contributed to anxiety, depression and even hopelessness.
Under the Soviet system, liberal alcohol laws were tightened by the Gorbachev administration, and consumption fell significantly during the 1980s.
Those restrictions are no longer in place and, as a result, drunkenness is again quite common. On sunny days in Lithuania's cities and villages, small groups of unemployed men and women gather on street corners and gulp down low-cost liquor.
If and when the liquor runs out, they too might be pushed to consider options, perhaps even final ones...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2011/0614/1224298857602.html
The Irish Times - Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Rise in male suicides linked to economic downturn
Unemployment and recession having adverse effects on men’s mental health, writes PATSY McGARRY
MALE SUICIDES on the island of Ireland are on the increase and new research suggests a link between these and the recession.
Describing this rise in suicides as “a particular cause for concern”, the report noted that research had also found that the recession and unemployment were having “extremely adverse effects” on men’s mental health generally.
In a survey of all frontline organisations dealing with unemployed men on the island of Ireland, it found strong links between the recession/unemploy-ment and adverse health effects on men.
It also found that risks to health extended to men who felt threatened by unemployment.
The research was carried out by Nexus Research Co-operative on behalf of the IPH.
It found the main challenges posed by the recession/unemployment to men’s health were high levels of stress or anxiety, dependency on or over-use of alcohol/other drugs and deterioration in physical health.
They "knew" suicides would increase!:
http://www.realtruth.org/news/090108-001-economy.html
WHO Warns Economic-Motivated Suicide Will Increase in 2009
January 8, 2009 The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the number of suicides could increase as millions of people worldwide grapple with the economic crisis.
“There is a clear evidence that suicide is linked to financial disasters,” Director of the Department of Mental Health for the WHO, Benedetto Saraceno, told Reuters. “I am not talking about the millionaire jumping out of the window but about poor people,” he said.
Last July, a Texas woman picked up her husband’s gun and shot herself. She was in despair over a mortgage problem.
A 90-year-old Ohio woman tried to kill herself before she could be evicted from her home. She survived a gunshot wound in her chest.
In Los Angeles, Calif., a man killed his wife, their three sons and his mother-in-law, and then took his own life with a gun. Before suffering several months of economic hardship due to unemployment, he had worked for Sony in the accounting department.
A HSBC insurance executive in West London was found hanging in the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel. Graduating from Henley Management College in 1994, the Danish-born native worked with HSBC in 2007 and was made head of insurance in Europe and the Middle East.
In Germany, a man who owned a business in drug wholesale and cement manufacturing, worth $9.2 billion last year, died when he jumped below a train in the southern German town of Blaubeuren. He had lost shares in Volkswagen AG and in HeidelbergCement AG, where shares dropped 70%. Just last December, he was negotiating from banks, to which he owed about $6.7 billion, to save his faltering business empire.
A 65-year-old apparent victim of a Ponzi scheme by Bernard Maddof took his life when he lost approximately $1.4 billion.
“Joblessness is a risk factor for suicide,” said Nadine Kaslow, professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta. “The stress is just overwhelming...People are freaked out” (ABC News).
Financial problems worldwide—increasing debt, unemployment, sagging sales, sharp decreases in share prices, among other economic setbacks—are leaving people in despair and are becoming major factors in the rising suicide rate.
“The most important thing is to ask for help,” said Ken Kondo, a spokesman for the L.A. County Department of Mental Health. “Not everyone can do that” (LA Times).
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline phone calls increased to 50,000 a month in 2008, about 35% higher than the previous year.
http://earthsummit2012.org/blog/item/252-global-connection-global-action
Global connection, global action.
Written by Owen Gaffney
Vive la révolution.
The revolutions sweeping the Arab world have been inflamed in part by sky-high food prices and fanned by online social networks. Now, everyone wants a piece of the action. Even the
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has declared the world needs a revolution.
The UN leader made the statement in Davos during a speech at the recent World Economic Forum. He was in Switzerland to promote his high-level Global Sustainability Panel, which is due to report to Rio+20.
The reason for his revolutionary zeal is clear. His panel is seeking workable solutions to global sustainability, something that has eluded international politicians for several decades.
Recent rhetoric from the Secretary General shows he is acutely aware of the consequences of failure. “Our foot is stuck on the accelerator and we are heading towards an abyss,” he told the World Climate Conference.
And at Davos he stated the global economic model was a “recipe for disaster” and that we are signing a “global suicide pact”.
What is driving him towards such powerful language?
The first clue lies in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, and the unrest in Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen and Iran, sparked in part by massive hikes in food prices.
According to the World Bank, the key driver behind the upward spiral in food prices is “An unfortunate combination of weather shocks” in some of the main wheat-producing countries, followed, inevitably, by export bans. The price of wheat has more than doubled in seven months.
The World Bank estimates recent food price rises have pushed 44 million people into extreme poverty
(Under a dollar and a quarter a day). With confirmation that 2010 ties with 2005 as the hottest year on record, pundits are speculating whether this is a sign of things to come.
Indeed, the reinsurance giant Munich Re reported 2010 was a record year for natural catastrophes – 950 – of which 90% were weather-related, including severe droughts in some grain-growing regions. In a warmer world you would expect more droughts. Of course, the picture is complicated by growing populations demanding more food plus competing demands for land. In short, it is how these issues are interconnected ...
TahoeBlue, since you're one of seemingly very few people who aren't afraid to tackle this subject head on, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the following when you have time:
robbin505
Hey, look at me I work for PayPal
White people and American Indians are the two most likely groups to commit suicide with the rate being 12 per 100,000 people. This is shocking in some ways but at the same time people are seeing a decline in their quality of life. Many people now are realizing that their children will have a lower quality of life and a shorter life on average than they did. Another thing I find incredible is the feminization of poverty happening in the U.S. This is a third world phenomenon because the rate of pay is so much less for women than men in most countries. Because of the low pay, sweatshops hire women mostly. I was reading this recently http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224007222337.htm and in it I discovered some scary truths pointing to this and other failings of our economy and the statistics reported by the government. Our unemployment rate is based on only those that are reporting to unemployment for benefits. This shows that men are being left out of the workplace because in this country even women make 75 cents on the dollar to men. This shows that unemployment rates are a lot higher than are being reported. During the great depression the unemployment rate was 25%. We are being told that the rate is about 9% now. I have heard from many economists 20%. Even if we are at 15% this puts us dangerously close to depression levels. Right now at least 1 in 10 people are unemployed. It could be as high as 1 in 5. If we don't re-open factories in this country we are going to slip further into a third world, or as Russia is called, a failed state situation.
Quote from: Geolibertarian on July 07, 2011, 12:26:23 pm
TahoeBlue, since you're one of seemingly very few people who aren't afraid to tackle this subject head on, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the following when you have time: 91-Year-Old Grandma Busted in California for Suicide Kit Business
Yes, it is amazing isn't it? I got on to this since looking for similarities to the SDT thread ( Brainwashed - SDT - The Second Demographic Transition - One in five childbearing women childless (double from 1 in 10) ) .
With a million suicides per year worldwide it really isn't significant to the population , but as a misery index, it is a clear indicator to who and where they're "getting to" people. For every person that actually suicides, there must be 10 or 20 people "like them" who are quite miserable.
The fact that they are "doing studies" shows the epic nature of the economic situation,
I think as a secondary-track is the "suicide machine booth" concept and the programming of people to just "pull the plug" on themselves is very big on the future dystopian agenda, possibly a next phase (2) concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth
Compulsory self-execution booths were also featured in an episode of the original Star Trek TV series entitled "A Taste of Armageddon."
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon", people who were deemed war casualties by the government of Eminiar VII were required to enter suicide booths. Treaty arrangements require that everyone who is calculated as "dead" in the hypothetical thermonuclear war simulated using computers actually dies, without actually damaging any infrastructure. In the end, the computers are destroyed, the war can no longer be calculated in this way, the treaty breaks down, and faced with a real threat, (presumably) peace begins.
Ok, then too they may be applauding.
Rebelitarian
They want reduced numbers no matter what.
To them suicide is nothing more than personal initiative.
Quote from: chris jones on July 07, 2011, 01:36:30 pm
Possibly, but I doubt it. As Protean wrote in another thread:
Quote from: Protean on May 28, 2011, 10:18:40 am
As long as "the elite" can make profit from your death they are for it, and the longer they can profit the better, but should you pull the plug on your life, of your own "free will", that might start a nasty trend of people acting "on their own"---independently of their owners consent. This independent act could lead to another--if life is so bad people are willing to take theirs--is there an alternative? Yes--if you are willing to die--then you are willing to risk everything to fight your oppressors.
To which I responded:
Quote from: Geolibertarian on May 31, 2011, 06:44:06 pm
Now that, to me, is a more reasonable-sounding explanation than the mere quest for ever-higher profits.
The less afraid people are (particularly of their own deaths), the more difficult it is to control them via psychological warfare.
The following clip makes that very point quite effectively:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A
To which I responded: Yes--if you are willing to die--then you are willing to risk everything to fight your oppressors
In the "olden days" - it was old men who led and died in the battles since they had fathered children and lived full lives - they were ready to die for there families. (Norse / Saxon traditions to die in battle to go to Valhalla...)
Given a target enemy the old men would gladly fight to the death.
Possibly a forgotten tradition....
http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=41619
Anglo Saxon Scops
Though they were sea-faring warriors, the Anglo Saxons were capable of strong emotions, best captured in poetry. However, these works were not written down. Rather, they were recited or sung. Some men even devoted their lives to this purpose. These skilled minstrels were known as scops.
Here is a collection of some of the more important and widely known Anglo Saxon words-
Ring-giver - Name for the king, who gave gifts of gold rings and other treasures as prizes to deserving warriors.
Standard - War banner given to a hero after a great victory or buried with a great king as a tribute into the Afterlife
Valhalla - The afterlife for the Anglo-Saxon people. In Valhalla, warriors battle all day and feast all night.
http://legacydarkage.com/wiki/index.php?title=Saxon
A Brief Introduction to the Saxons
They are a war-like people with a very violent society. Warriors seek conflict to die in battle and be taken to Valhalla. Bloodshed is rampant and vengeance is a virtue, however, so is art and poetry
The loyalty a Saxon warrior owes to his lord is the fabled cornerstone of the society. Once the thegn has pledged his service to a lord, he is expected to serve that lord until death. That does not preclude going out to seek fame—with his lord’s blessing of course—as Beowulf does when he leaves Hygelac to offer his services to Hrothgar. But when a thegn follows his lord into battle, he is expected to go on fighting if his lord has been slain. He must either avenge his lord’s death, or die trying.
Even more than Briton society, Saxon society is organized for war. Young warriors are kept on short leashes by their lords, and one index of the success of the comitatus is level of its discipline.
Tahoeblue. Now I like the heck out of your post. Send me a notice, when required.
I dunno, the population reductionists would probably be thrilled if millions of people started offing themselves.
Young men killing themselves in British Guyana (highest rate in America's):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Guyana 33.8 / 100K
Guyana carries continent's highest suicide rate
Home of the Jonestown massacre...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana
Guyana officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana,[1] previously known as British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and (for over 200 years) of the British. It is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America, and it is also a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which has its secretariat headquarters in Guyana's capital, Georgetown. Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966, and became a Republic on 23 February 1970.
The British assumed control in the late 18th century, and the Dutch formally ceded the area in 1814. In 1831 the three separate colonies became a single British colony known as British Guiana.
http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/27777.html#axzz1RWzVIQ1F
High suicide rates worry Guyana officials
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Friday June 11, 2010 – The Ministry of Health in Guyana is expressing concern about the high incidence of suicide in the country, as statistics show it’s one of the leading causes of death among young people there.
Suicide is recognised as a serious public health issue in Guyana with between 150 and 200 deaths annually. Information provided by the ministry for the 2003 to 2007 period show that there were 946 reported suicides in Guyana.
The statistics indicate that suicide is the leading cause of death among young people 15-24 and the third leading cause of death among persons aged 25-44.
Some graphic charts / pictures:
http://fathersforlife.org/health/who_suicide_rates.htm
An EU "study" of the economy and suicide...
EU suicide rates rose markedly during economic downturn
During the recent global downturn, suicide rates rose markedly in the EU - particularly in countries that were hardest hit. British-based researchers are trying to find out what makes societies more or less vulnerable.
An article published by researchers with the British-based medical journal The Lancet highlights the human cost of the recent economic downturn.
They found that suicide rates rose markedly in European Union member states between 2007 and 2009. That reversed a steady downward trend in the number of suicides in EU countries recorded since the start of the millennium.
In the article, published on the journal's website on Friday, the researchers present their analysis of data from the 10 European countries for which complete statistics were available during the three-year period.
Not surprisingly, they found that the suicide rate rose most sharply in countries that were hardest hit by the economic crisis.
Greece saw its suicide rate among people under the age of 65 jump by 17 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year. Ireland experienced an increase of 13 percent.
The article, which the researchers describe as a "preliminary assessment" does not actually include an estimate of how much of the rise in suicides is directly linked to the economic crisis.
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The researcher who led a team of five public health specialists, David Stuckler of the University of Cambridge, told the Reuters news agency that they would seek to establish that link in further research. He also said that while there were now signs of an economic recovery, the impact of the downturn would continue to be felt for some time to come.
The human cost
"What we're now also seeing is a human crisis. There's likely to be a long tail of human suffering following the downturn," said Stuckler, who describes the suicide rate as "just the tip of the iceberg."
"Suicide itself is a relatively rare event, but wherever you see a rise in suicides there is also a rise in failed suicide attempts and in new cases of depression," Stuckler said.
Hungary Suicide rate - a "culture" of suicide:
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/
HUNGARY 42.3 / 100k MALES 11.2 FEMALES
http://www.phespirit.info/gloomysunday/article_02.htm
g l o o m y s u n d a y - p e s s i m i s m a n d d e p r e s s i o n h a v e d e e p
r o o t s i n a c o u n t r y w h e r e s u i c i d e i s w i d e l y r e g a r d e d a s a s o l u t i o n
Gloomy Sunday - the Hungarian "suicide anthem".
"Little white flowers won't wait for you,
not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you.
Angels have no thought of ever returning you.
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?"
Hungarians have long had a reputation as being the gloomiest nation in Europe. They are renowned for their pessimism, depression is a nationwide problem, and until recently they had the highest suicide rate in the world, according to the World Health Organisation. Recent surveys also show that they die earlier than most European peoples.
Gloom, depression and suicide seem to be part and parcel of Hungarian culture. "You can hardly meet with a Hungarian who wouldn't have relatives or friends who really committed suicide - it's a kind of national disease, it's a kind of sickness," says Peter Muller, a Hungarian playwright who has written a play about Gloomy Sunday and has studied the suicide phenomenon.
Suicide as a solution
In some areas in the countryside suicide is so general that no family remains unaffected. In recent years a number of small and isolated settlements in southern Hungary came to be known as 'suicide villages' as their rate is even higher than the average national figures. Until last year there were 4,500 recorded suicides a year in Hungary, which, was the highest per population figure in the world. Not only many people kill themselves in Hungary but they also often choose brutal methods: they jump down wells, hang themselves, or drink pesticides.
Psychiatrist Dr Bela Buda says one problem is that Hungarians regard suicide in a very different way to people in other countries. "In the unconscious popular mind suicide is a positive pattern of problem solution, it's a formula which is actualised in times of crisis because everybody has experiences with other persons who committed suicide and who were regarded not as failures but as brave people daring to restore their self-esteem and dignity by this desperate and heroic act."
The sadness and gloom has a long tradition in the country's history. Many famous historical figures, from the middle ages to modern times, ended their life with suicide. The politician revered as 'The Greatest Hungarian', Istvan Szechényi killed himself, as did a wartime prime minister, Pal Teleki, as did the poet Attila Jozsef, and as did the actor Zoltan Latinovits at the very same train station where the poet threw himself in front of a train. They were all outstanding talents and characters, but their suicides became part of what suicidologist call 'the heroisation of death'. Still today there are instances almost every year, Buda explains, of young people trying to commit suicide at the same train station where the poet and the actor had killed themselves.
According to Buda, the many historical models and their copying shows that Hungarian culture is "favouring defective, maladaptative patterns of solution for life problems". Others who have direct experience with people "in crisis" agree that suicide does seem to many Hungarians as a form of solution. A volunteer worker at an anonymous helpline phone service - where many calls are suicide related - has anwered callers for seven years. He also feels that suicide is an accepted form to solve problems. "Somehow it is in our culture that there is way to solve a problem easily, to quit in this way," he explains, "sometimes people want to punish somebody with whom they have a difficult relationship."
Alarming mental health problems
The high rate of suicide, however, is just one symptom of the Hungarians' dire mental health, psychiatrists say. About twenty-five percent of the population suffer of anxiety illnesses, and a very large part of it coupled with depression. There is a growing number of mental disorders and the rate of alcoholism and smoking is also alarmingly high, experts say.
Hungary now leads world statistics in liver sclerosis, 8500 cases a year, an illness directly linked to alcoholism, Dr Buda says. In 1995 there were 8500 cases of liver sclerosis death, in the previous year there were 7300. This was far the highest rate in any country in the world, according to Buda. "This dramatic elevation shows that in the last years there must have been a continuous heavy drinking in many hundreds of thousands people in Hungary".
In fact, many experts agree that behind the recent drop in suicide figures there is a growing rate of mental disorders and the growth of alcoholism. Buda says that "suicidality" itself has not decreased but merely manifests itself in alcoholism which leads to earlier death. In other words, many potential suicidal victims die before reaching the suicide age.
Life expectancy is now one of the lowest in Europe in Hungary, with the population decreasing by thirty to forty thousand every year, experts say. If this trend continues Hungary's population will fall below ten million by the next century.
Reasons and theories
Dr Buda says one reason for Hungary's disturbing mental health is the enormous social changes of the last decades, with which broke up old supporting kinship and family ties. Since the 1950s almost 60 percent of the population changed residence and social status during the process of accelerated industrialisation, Buda says. "This huge horizontal and vertical mobility meant that a lot of people became isolated, alienated, as kinship systems, family ties were destroyed," he says.
Similar changes also took place in other central and eastern European countries but in countries like Romania and the Slavic countries, the kinship and family ties remained stronger, Buda explains."What is important is that in Hungary the degree of individualisation is very high, almost as high as in the Western countries."
Indeed, Hungarians often say that they are caught in between two worlds, East and West, and feel that they are 'too western' for their geographical location. Hungary has often been compared by many writers to a ferry boat - moving between East and West, longing to anchor at the Western shore but always pushed back to the East.
"This intermediary situation is really characteristic - our short trips to the Western shores imbued as with values and aspirations, but we had to go back to our Eastern realities and if you taste something then you might begin to miss it," Buda echoes the theory.
Many Hungarians, however, will insist that they are not really gloomy, let alone pessimistic. The fact that they complain readily and frequently, Dr Buda says, is merely a mechanism by which they cope with problems or try to elicit help. And many Hungarians will also emphasise that they really are a merry people, and they point to their many humorists, cabaret figures, and their passionately merry gypsy music. Peter Muller explains this by saying that the Hungarians have an essentially antagonistic spirit, a 'double feeling' in their mentality. Beside their gloom, there is always a determinism to survive, a "but" factor, in Muller's words.
"There is always a great 'but', and this 'but' is a very Hungarian word. 'But' we have to do it, 'but' we have to survive ..... It is in the melodies, it is in the music of the great Hungarian composers - you can find a lot of 'but's in Liszt's work, in Bartok's work - they are full of such 'but's. It's a very strange and special strength beside the sadness."
Suicide and the Russian Federation:
Power point presentation:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/creees/_files/pdf/curriculum/suicide/suicide_ppt.ppt.pps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/09/russia.nickpatonwalsh
Russia's suicide rate doubles
Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow The Guardian, Wednesday 9 July 2003 02.40 BST
The suicide rate in Russia has almost doubled since 1990, with nearly 57,500 Russians taking their own lives every year, according to figures released by the World Health Organisation.
The WHO's report, by Professor Dmitry Veltischev, of the Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, showed the suicide rate among Russians to be 39.7 cases per 100,000 people in 2001, the equivalent of 57,500 cases among Russia's 146 million-strong population. This is about twice the world average.
The peak of recorded suicides was in 1994, when 42.1 people killed themselves in every 100,000, close to 2001's figure.
Russian men, the report said, are six times more likely to commit suicide than women, and the highest risk group among men is 45- to 54-year-olds.
Zoya Khodkina, of the Institute of Social Economic Population Problems, said: "The main source of suicide during the last 10 years is social and economic problems linked to people not being able to adapt to the new conditions [since the fall of Soviet Union]."
She added that the highest-risk groups involved men who had been unable to find a career during the last 15 years. Women's role in society had also suffered, she said. "Despite women's high level of education here, it is still very hard for them to find dignified work, if any work at all. Women became the first victim of market reforms."
Alcoholism was also blamed by the WHO. Russians drink an estimated 4bn litres of vodka a year.
http://nakedhealth.avvo.com/2010/10/the-7-most-depressed-countries-in-the-world/
The 7 Most Depressed Countries in the World
1. Belarus: Suicide rate per 100,000 people=36.8
Located in the Eastern part of Europe, Belarus boasts a population of just under 10 million people. The country is landlocked by several other countries with alarmingly high suicide rates, including Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine
2. Lithuania: Suicide rate per 100,000 people=31.85
3. Russia: Suicide rate per 100,000 people=31.7
Russia’s suicide rates for men and women are pretty much right in line with Lithuania, with 53.9 for men and 9.5 for women per 100,000 people
4. Sri Lanka: Suicide rate per 100,000 people=30.7
5. Kazakhstan: Suicide rate per 100,000 people=27.6
6. Hungary: Suicide rate per 100,000 people=26.75
7. Japan: Suicide rate per 100,000 people=24.75
Japan’s government recently issued a statistic showing that the economic impact of suicide for its country is about $32 billion USD. The country is trying to resolve the economic problems that have helped cause a “psychological collapse of Japanese society.”
Japan also has a smaller gap between male and female suicide rates than most other countries. The male suicide rate per 100,000 people is 35.8, and the female suicide rate is 13.7.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-leads-in-youth-murders/416874.html
Russia Leads in Youth Murders
By Alexandra Odynova
Russia has the worst record in Europe and Central Asia on homicides of young people, ranking ahead of Albania and Kazakhstan, and the world's highest youth suicide rate, according to recent reports.
Albania ranked second, with 11.2 deaths per 100,000 people, while Kazakhstan was third with 10.66 deaths.
Homicide is the third most common cause of death, following road incidents and suicides, for the surveyed age group, the report said. Chronic poverty in some countries and the global economic downfall also contribute to the death rate.
There is renewed concern that the recession will increase mortality from homicide and suicide,” the report said. It called the deaths an "enormous loss to society," and said many murders could be averted by proper social and criminal justice policies.
His words echoed a study released by UNICEF's Russian office last week that said the mortality rate among adolescents in Russia was four times higher than in most European countries.
Moreover, the suicide rate among Russian minors is the highest in the world and three times higher than the global average for this age group, said the report, called “Adolescent Mortality in the Russian Federation.”
“About 45 percent of young women and 27 percent of young men in Russia have thought, at least once, about committing suicide,” UNICEF said in a statement.
http://www.interfax.kz/?lang=eng&int_id=in_focus&news_id=626
Suicide rate spiked for children in Kazakhstan, statistics
Astana. June 7. Interfax-Kazakhstan - Irrespective of the general downward trend in suicides in Kazakhstan, the suicide rate among children and teenagers has shown a steady increase, reports Kazakhstan's statistics agency.
"The suicide statistics in 2010 in general has shown a slight decrease. In 2007 the suicide mortality was 26.9 per 100,000, in 2009 it lowered to 24 and in 2010 reduced to 22," said director of the department of social and demographic statistics of the State Agency for Statistics, Gulnara Kukanova, at a round table on Tuesday in Astana.
Kukanova mentioned that the mortality ratio of 20 suicides per 100,000 is seen as critical around the world.
The major concern, she said, that the third of all suicides committed in the country are in children, teenagers and young adults under 29, she said. The suicide rate in the group under 18 increased by 1.7% to 238 in 2010, mostly caused by a spike in suicides in children under 14. Last year 74 children were reported to take their lives, which is 5 more than in 2009, she said.
"We have a case this year when a child of 7 committed suicide," said Kukanova.
Men are more likely to die from suicide. "77% of those who committed suicide are men and 33% women," said Kukanova.
The highest suicide rate in the group under 29 is reported in Eastern Kazakhstan (182), followed by Karaganda oblast (154) and Almaty (144).
During last year the suicide rate jumped 88% in Almaty and 68% in Mangistau region. It also increased in Astana (24%), Karaganda region (17.5%) and Atyrau region (14.7%).
The number of suicides in Kazakhstan last year came to 3,617 including 1,728 in urban area and 1,889 in villages. "This horrible statistics does not count the failed suicide attempts," she added.
Talk about a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
If you are going to die take something evil out of the world when you go.
Quote from: Monkeypox on July 08, 2011, 12:26:37 am
I've already explained why that isn't necessarily the case. Scroll up and read my previous post in case you missed it the first time.
Quote from: TahoeBlue on July 08, 2011, 11:24:45 am
Hi T. About 20 years ago I spent a few days there. I may not be on the money here but the folks were kinda out of it in general, just my feelings, , but I wouldn't be suprised if they had ben lab rats for bio chem trials. i have no data, just my personell oppionion. It was a very strange, a few other guys I know who have been there say the same thing.
I passed thro
The other south American country with a high suicide rate: Uruguay
( in regards to the onset of Schizophrenia - A main trigger is "stress" and Depression )
http://www.infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml/en_GB/features/saii/features/main/2010/04/23/feature-01
High suicide rate looms over Uruguay
Uruguay owns one of Latin America’s highest suicide rates
By María Eugenia Guzmán for Infosurhoy.com—23/04/2010
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Mental illness is the major reason why an average nearly two suicides are committed daily in Uruguay, according to psychiatrist and neurobiologist Alvaro Lista, the director of Pharma Research Group, a health consultancy group in the southern nation.
Depression or its combination with other mental disorders, such as addiction and schizophrenia, causes between 60% and 70% of suicides, Lista said.
“Depressed patients do not receive adequate medical care,” Lista said.
There is plenty of room for improvement, considering just 10% of patients diagnosed with serious depression received medical attention in 2008 – just 2% higher than in 1998, Lista said.
The suicide rate of Uruguay – a nation of about 3.5 million – is equivalent to that of Japan, Sweden, Germany, Canada, the United States and Australia, according to the Uruguayan ministry of public health (MSP).
Uruguay owns one of the highest suicide rates in Latin America along with Cuba and Puerto Rico
In Uruguay, older adults have the highest rates of suicide, which is common for a developed country, according to the guides of prevention and detection of suicide risk factors, compiled by the MSP in 2007. The MSP claimed widowers, older adults who feel they are a burden to their families, victims of abuse and the terminally ill are those older than 60 who pose the greatest risk of taking their lives.
But it also has given the cause its own day, as July 17th has been declared “national suicide prevention day.”
http://www.rmu.org.uy/revista/17/1/2/en/5/abstract/
High suicide rate in Uruguay IV: current epidemic situation
DAJAS F
Rev Med Urug 2001; 17: 24-32
Suicide rates have gradually increased during the last 25 years showing peak figures in 1998, and receding in 1999. Rates in the countryside are still higher comparing to those in Montevideo, where the increment is more visible especially in males. The epidemic increase was mainly observed in November.
According to ages and in comparison to prior studies, young men (20 to 24 years and 40 to 50 years) and adolescent and adult women have shown higher increase. There is no association with unemployement rates nor with their variations.
http://www.fieldsofthefatherless.org/uruguay.html
Uruguay has been characterized by secularism and hope in man for over 100 years."
It is ..."the most secular state in South America
Uruguay has a largely unreached society with the second highest suicide rate in South America.
Hundreds of young boys and girls are abandoned in Uruguay every year. This is due partly because prostitution is legal, abortion is illegal, and the family unit is very unstable.
Many children are born to unwed women in prostitution, or they are born to parents in unresolved conflict. When the parents break up, or the mother can't take care of her children, they frequently end up in the state orphanage system, or on the streets. The by-product is many unwanted children, longing for love. Many could be helped through adoption, but Uruguay prohibits adoption of children out of the country, and in-country adoptions are few, due to government red tape.
Suicide attempt in under 15's: An experience in a Pediatric Emergency Depart
INTRODUCTION: Suicide attempt (SA) in under 15's is one of the most frequent reasons for psychiatric consultation faced by paediatricians working in urgency services.
Uruguay is the country with the highest suicide rate in South America.
Suicide is currently the fifth cause of death in 10 to 14 year olds (1.8/ 100,000) and ninth in the 5 to 9 age group (0.4/100,000).
OBJECTIVES: To know the incidence of SA consultations in under 15's, the characteristics of their environment and methods used.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: Descriptive and prospective epidemiological study in a paediatric urgency service between 01/07/08 and 30/06/09.
RESULTS: A total of 145 patients were included. Mean age was 12 yrs. 7 m. A 77% were female. The triggering factors were: interpersonal conflicts (57%), affective losses (17%) and battering or sexual-abuse (11%). A 78% took medication. An 18% planned the SA. A 77% occurred at home. The life of 10% was at risk. One third had at least one previous SA. A 49% had a family history of psychiatric disorders, 28% of SA and 7% of suicide. Of the total 123 SA with pills, 101 were women (n 112) and 22 males (n 33) (p <0.05). Eight out of 15 under 10 year olds were male, and 25 out of 130 had more than 10 years of age (p <0.05). Among under 10's, 50% used a non-pharmacological method and this figure rose to 19% (p <0.05) in those with more than 10 years. An 88% rectified or regretted their action. Median length of hospital stay was 6 days. At the time of discharge, 99.5% did not present sequelae.
CONCLUSIONS: SA incidence in under 15's is 2/1,000 consultations per year. The main profile is a female between 12 and 14 years of age that attempts suicide at home using medication, preferably benzodiacepines, following a discussion or affective loss, without life risk. Among those under 10 years, there is a significant predominance of males using non pharmacological methods. Verification of these behavioural patterns will enable the design of prevention strategies in the age group studied.
http://www.uruguaydailynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1050:lower-suicide-rate-sought&catid=15&Itemid=16
According to data released by the Ministry of Public Health yesterday (National Day for the Prevention of Suicide), approximately 600 people take their lives each year in Uruguay.
The data presented in the Palacio de las Leyes indicated that the suicide rate affected 18% of the population last year. Uruguay ranks with Guyana, Cuba, and France as the countries with the highest suicide rate. In Uruguay, the rate is higher among men, but more women than men unsuccessfully attempt suicide.
http://www.om.org/en/country-profile/uruguay
Country Profile: Uruguay
Uruguay is economically declining, with over 20 percent of its work force unemployed and another 30 percent hugely under employed. This has caused thousands of people to leave the country in search for other places to work.
Uruguay’s suicide rate is reported to be the highest of all Latin American countries. The pressures of the present economic crisis have increased this rate.
Then there is the Ukraine :
Ukraine set to act on high suicide burden - 2007 Aug
Having survived multiple catastrophes in the 20th century, newly independent Ukraine now has some of the highest injury death rates in Europe. The nation's most common type of injury death is suicide, and its rate is one of Europe's and the world's highest.
Alcohol abuse occurs in 20% of men, and major depression in 20% of women.
Suicide is the leading cause of death in the Ukrainian Army, which has begun to recognize and address the problem. Mental health is one of three current priorities of the Ukrainian Ministry of Public Health. The government is developing a mental health policy and plan, with potential for prevention of suicide. A national university in the capital has created a graduate school of public health to build human capacity to prevent and control disease and injury.
http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/suicide-rates-of-the-world/
Suicide rates of the world and why people kill themselves
Suicide rates all over the world have increased by 5- 62% in the last two decades. Hardly any country is immune to this disease. Whats disturbing is that more young people are killing themselves than ever before.
http://demographymatters.blogspot.com/2007/07/ukraine-population-and-fertility.html
What can be seen very rapidly from the first chart is that the total population of Ukraine is declining much more rapidly than that of Russia. In fact between 1989 and 2004 while the population of Russia decreased by about 2 per cent, for Ukraine the decrease over the same period was about 7.5 per cent. In absolute numbers terms Ukraine's population went from 51.7 million in 1989 to just over 46 million in 2006. In case this number means anything to you, Ukraine's population is currently declining at a rate of 0.675% a year, which is fast, very fast.
Now there are a number of reasons for this dramatic decline in Ukranian population, and one of these is fertility, which is currently in the 1.1 to 1.2 Tfr range, and as we can see, Ukraine's fertility actually dropped below that of Russia after 1997.
In fact, while Ukraine has one of the lowest fertility levels in Europe, it also has one of the highest death rates. In 2000, for example, the death rate reached 15.3 per 1,000 as compared with a 10.6 per 1,000 average rate for the countries of the European Union.
High on the list of reasons for the high death rate among the working-age population are those factors which fall within the category known as "unnatural causes", by which we mean accidents, homicides and suicides. The main unnatural cause reflected in the death rate is suicide, and the rate of suicide has been growing constantly.
Other factors behind this high mortality are HIV/Aids and Tuberculosis. The incidence of tuberculosis more than doubled in the 1990s, and the death rate from TB more than doubled. About nine thousand people die from tuberculosis annually, more than 80 percent of these of working age (15 to 59).
At the same time according to opinions at UN AIDS and the WHO, Ukraine has the "most dramatic" epidemic of HIV/AIDS among all the countries of the former USSR. (Some background information on HIV aids in the Ukraine can be found on this WHO page).
Based on your other thread and this..
I would agree it's a matter of 'control' - probably much more so than 'profit'. It is in fact a rebellious act, from some viewpoints. This might be why also, "People from 45 to 54 years old made up 23 percent of the suicides, the largest of any 10-year age range."
Perhaps because it's impacting the tax base and age ranges that they don't want to target.
And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
Then there's Sri Lanka:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_sui_rat_mal-health-suicide-rate-males
#5 Sri Lanka 47 / 100K
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/sri-d28.shtml
Grinding rural poverty leads to suicide in Sri Lanka
By R.M. Gunathileke
In a remote village of southeastern Sri Lanka, D.M. Karunawathie, a 36-year-old mother of six, last month drank a lethal concoction of pesticides in a cornfield near her house. She was rushed to the nearest rural hospital at Uraniya and then transferred to the main district hospital at Badulla. But the poison had already damaged her vital organs and the medical staff was unable to save her life. She died four days later.
The tragedy is not an isolated one. Four other close family members have taken their lives over the past decade and the suicide rate is on the rise throughout the country. Karunawathie’s fate highlights the grinding poverty and hardships confronting broad layers of Sri Lanka’s rural population. She decided to kill herself as a way out of what had become an unbearable situation.
The incidence of suicide in this remote village is a sharp expression of a more general trend. Sri Lanka has the world’s highest suicide rate, over 55 per 100,000 people—well above the average, which ranges between 10 and 25 per 100,000.
This rate has jumped dramatically over the past half century—from 6.5 in 1950 to 9.9 in 1960, 19.1 in 1970, 35.1 in 1980, 43.3 in 1993 and to the current estimate of more than 55.
There has also been a significant change in the age of those committing suicide. In 1950-60, the highest rate was recorded among older people—above 55 years, but in the next decade the group aged 30 to 55 years recorded the highest rate. Since 1970, the highest rate has been among young people 15-30 years and, in the 1980s, suicides among even younger children have started to increase.
http://www.statistics.gov.lk/social/social%20conditions.pdf
Social Conditions of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is far ahead of her South Asian neighbours in the accomplishment of human development goals. Life expectancy at birth is currently 72 yrs. and is close to the estimated lifespan in the developed countries. High literacy rates, low mortality rates and the steadily declining population growth, reflect the country’s progress in the sphere of social development.
The average lifespan has risen steadily, lengthening by 30 yrs. within the past five decades, thus reflecting the tremendous progress achieved in the health standards of the population.
Another noteworthy fact that is visible during the last quarter of the twentieth century is the relatively high death rates among young and middle aged males. It may be a consequence of the civil disturbances that raged the country from time to time since early nineteen seventies.
Sri Lanka ranks first among South-East Asian countries with respect to commitment of suicide. Poverty, destructive pastimes and inability to cope up with stressful situations, are the main causes which tend to the sudden ending of human life in this tragic manner.
Among men, suicidal tendencies appear to rise after 65 years of age, and increase considerably thereafter with the advancement of old age;
while among women these adverse feelings are most prominent during their late teens and early adulthood periods of (15 – 19)yrs., (20 - 24)yrs. and (25 - 29)yrs. age groups.
Nearly 70% of those who have committed suicide in 1999, have ended their lives by
poisoning after the use of pesticides or unspecified substances. Another 14% have
been subjected to strangulation or suffocation due to hanging themselves
phenry
I think the cause of the rise of suicides is economic but for many of these suicides that's just a small part of the story.
There is a HUGE number of men in the US (and internationally) that are having a very hard time keeping up with their ex wives child support and alimony payments and they know that princess and her buddies down at the "family" court will get a real thrill out of letting him do a little jail time to keep him in line. And of course when he finally gets out he will no longer have a job and will have no chance of having any kind of relationship with his kids because princess will say NO! and use them as a weapon to get her all important MONEY MONEY MONEY.After all she's got that big trip coming up with her girlfriends...
"I can't help but wonder if the psychopathic, ruling-class control-freaks who literally get off on human suffering aren't angered by this trend."
A fitting description of the average amerikan woman cashing out of her marriage.
Quote from: Jordan on December 19, 2011, 11:14:13 pm
Greek woes drive up suicide rate to highest in Europe
The suicide rate in Greece has reached a pan-European record high, with experts attributing the rise to the country's economic crisis.
Painful austerity measures and a seemingly endless economic drama is exacting a deadly toll on the nation. Statistics released by the Greek ministry of health show a 40% rise in those taking their own lives between January and May this year compared to the same period in 2010.
Before the financial crisis first began to bite three years ago, Greece had the lowest suicide rate in Europe at 2.8 per 100,000 inhabitants. It now has almost double that number, the highest on the continent, despite the stigma in a nation where the Orthodox church refuses funeral rights for those who take their lives. Attempted suicides have also increased.
"It's never just one thing, but almost always debts, joblessness, the fear of being fired are cited when people phone in to say they are contemplating ending their lives," said Eleni Beikari, a psychiatrist at the non-governmental organisation, Klimaka, which runs a 24-hour suicide hotline.
Klimaka received around 10 calls a day before the crisis; it now gets more than 100 in any 24-hour period.
"Most come from women aged between 30 and 50 and men between 40 and 45 despairing over economic problems," said Beikari. "In my experience it's the men, suffering from hurt dignity and lost pride, who are most serious."
As poverty has deepened, unemployment has hit an unprecedented 18% (with over 42% affecting the 25 to 40 age group) and crime has skyrocketed in a country heading for a fifth straight year of recession. Greece's social fabric is fraying in ways once unthinkable. With the homeless now exceeding 20,000 in central Athens alone, funding cuts disproportionately affecting welfare services and drug use on the rise, the economic crisis has morphed increasingly into one of mental health with depression, neuroses and cases of self-harm also surging, according to experts. Psychiatrists have reported a 30% increase in demand for their services over the past year with most patients citing anxiety and depression brought on by financial fears for the decision to seek help.
Child helplines have similarly been deluged by calls. "The crisis is clearly aggravating family relations," Katiana Spyrides, another psychotherapist, said. "In particular we've seen increases in the stress levels of children and adolescents who face new problems, such as seeing their parents imprisoned for economic crimes, or who because of the situation have had to compromise their emotional and other needs."
Psychiatrists say the alarming rise signals an urgent need for a national suicide prevention policy in a nation that until now had discounted the need for one.
"Preventative strategies have to be increased," said Beikari. "Teachers, prison guards, priests, police, professionals in a position to spot those who might be suicidal, need to be sensitised. This is an issue that can no longer be ignored."
Most suicides, attempted and real, have occurred in the greater Attica region surrounding Athens and on the island of Crete where a number of businessmen with no prior history of mental illness have taken their own lives over the last 18 months.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/18/greek-woes-suicide-rate-highest
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Rate the Last Film You Watched
Thread starter Professor Irony
Start date 15 June 2016
Professor Irony
Note that I left off the 'out of ten', because that is how I roll.
Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) (1975)
A giallo thriller following an English pianist obssessed with solving the gruesome murder he has witnessed in Rome, it felt like a slightly lesser film than Argento's subsequent Suspiria, but the cinematography is wonderful. It lacks Suspiria's hallucenatory use of colour, but it's been a long time since I was so impressed by a film's composition of the space around its characters. If you enjoyed Perfect Blue, it's well worth your time.
Bumpkin
^ Loved Deep Red
Dead Snow 2 (2014)
Had everything you would expect in a film featuring Nazi Zombies. Usually sequels fail to reach the charm of the originals, not Dead Snow 2. In fact I'd say it surpasses the predecessor. Witty, Gorey, Funny, Nuts!
red cliff 1 & 2
pretty much an rts in movie form, based on the battle of red cliffs: cao cao, liu bei, those guys!
and oh i'm a sucker for these kinds of movies... 10/10
Went to see The Nice Guys today, really enjoyed it.
In many ways, it feels like it might have started life as a belated sequel to Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, but the script is an absolute joy, even if the 'wise kids, childish adults' schtick does seem a little sitcom-ish at times. Having only known him for intense, serious turns in things like Drive and Only God Forgives though, I thought the real surprise was how good Ryan Gosling is with physical comedy - it's like he's channeling Buster Keaton at times.
Nighthawks (1981)
A curious police thriller that was probably one of the last gasps for the gritty, '70s style action movie, before the excess of the 1980s really set in. There's good work from Billy Dee Williams in a support role and Rutger Hauer is on top form as a Jackal-esque terrorist for hire, but the script is pedestrian and the weakest link is a miscast Slyvester Stallone in the lead. Despite gamely doing his own stunt work for some difficult scenes and having amusingly turned up in his best Al Pacino cosplay, Stallone seems bored and inexpressive in a role originally ear-marked for Gene Hackman, with the film having been intended as a third French Connection. It's a great shame that Hackman did not return as an aging Popeye Doyle, as his glowering intensity could easily have made this much more interesting.
MrLaserSharkKH
Stand User
The BFG (2016)
Probably not as scary as I thought it was going to be, I remember being quite frightened when I read the book (albeit when I was in Primary School, so it may impact on the youth of today differently), but it was exactly what I needed really, an agreeable family-friendly adventure with some stunning visuals. Rylance's performance as BFG was on point. Certainly won't be remembered as one of Speilberg's greatest moments, but it managed to kind of pull off set out what it set out to do.
Lutga
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this, as I liked a lot of what it did - and I see quite a few people saying it's the best of the 'new' Star Trek triology. But I also disliked a lot of it tonally - it felt weirdly 'adventure of the week'-esque in places, lacking the gravitas and scale of the two previous films.
That said, I always find it hard comparing 'new' Trek vs. old Trek - as I personaly feel Star Trek has always excelled better in the TV format vs. films.
-Danielle-
Pokémon Master
Me Before You.
8/10 only because I am a HUGE fan of the book. It didn't nearly enough show all the heart of the story. Most people are annoyed with the ending because you don't get to see what Will went through in depth like the book shows and that. Either way it made me a crying wreck just like the book did.
I also watched Easy A over the weekend too. Still a really enjoyable film! 8/10.
Rewatched Coraline. It's still a 10/10 for me. I love it.
Teri Hatcher is SUPERB.
NormanicGrav
Yume no Shima Shinen Kōen
So I went to see Suicide Squad earlier today. It's actually not as bad as what the critics were saying.
The main SS team is great. The captain solider guy was bland however. The villain on the other hand was just silly and rather forgettable. The music placed in this film is mostly good, but there are some that I felt should have been removed. It felt out of place or a repeated joke that just drags for too long. The story is the biggest issue, it starts off fine but around the mid-point you ask yourself; "why the **** are they going to this place and not over there?" The cameos and flashbacks were great also. I wasn't convinced on Joker's portrayal at first but he got better every time he showed up. I would like to see more of him, but not on this film. He had enough screentime imo.
Overall I'm debating on either a 6 or 7 out of 10 for the film. It's a good instalment to the DC cinematic universe but has its problems still.
saw suicide squad
i can feel the "guardians" vibe so hard, though it might just be the soundtrack, and i kind of wish they reserved joker in a surprise cameo and not have the movie go back and forth with the flashbacks
Arbalest
黒い剣士
Speaking of "not bad as the critics say it is", i finally watched Batman vs Superman today and opted to watch the extended edition instead and ya know, it's actually pretty decent. Don't get me wrong, there was moments where i was like "ok..." but for the most part, it kept itself with a decent enough flow and felt coherent enough to follow. Ben Affleck gets a lot of flack quite often but i thought his portrayal of Bruce Wayne was good, and alfred was perfect with the witty remarks. For a film so heavily bashed i saw a lot of promise from it, and it definitely does not fall to the levels of Man of Steel(which again, i was able to enjoy but it was heavily flawed).
So honestly, i'm looking forward to watching Suicide Squad now actually. Critics be critics and always seem to be completely off the mark, so i imagine i may quite enjoy it when i see it next week
Finally got to Suicide Squad. It was a reasonably entertaining couple of hours viewing, but it felt like they spent so much time introducing the characters that the actual storyline was a bit of an afterthought. Given how much interest there obviously is in the Joker and Harley Quinn, I feel they'd have been better served doing a film about them first instead - the Joker is a bit of a red herring, in that he barely has anything to do here, and it feels like they didn't really know how to play Harley Quinn as a character. In the end, I felt it was Will Smith who carried the film, but thankfully he can do this kind of thing in his sleep by now.
Smeelia
Arbalest said:
I suppose it depends on what you're looking for/expecting from Batman v Superman, it sort of works as a kind of action thriller thing and if you're just looking for a "different" version of the characters then it sort of works that way too (at least on the surface). There are things to like, ideas to latch onto and there's some potential entertainment value in there.
Still, it's at least a million miles from perfect. If I had to try and sum up my biggest issues, I'd say that it ultimately comes down to the film lacking an identity of it's own.
The characters may be different but it's in a very deliberate and artificial way that highlights that they're not the standard versions of the characters without really giving the characters they are now any depth or personality of their own. Batman is a guy in a bat themed suit, he's not a Batman you're used to but he's not really anything else either. Lex is a madman who happens to have money rather than an intelligent businessman, he's more plot device than character. Bruce Wayne, Superman and Wonder Woman have their moments but they tend to fall apart when the action starts.
There's one scene that I think represents the issues reasonably well:
When Batman attacks the goons who are holding Martha hostage, he throws little bombs on their guns to disarm them. He then proceeds to fight them while occasionally using any functioning guns (as well as other weapons) to kill some of the goons. I have to wonder why he didn't just throw those little bombs on the faces of the bad guys, if he's a lethal Batman then you'd expect him to use his gadgets lethally too. He doesn't because the writers didn't really think through what a lethal Batman might be like. They wanted him to be "Batman" and they wanted him to be "different", so they just threw a guy in a bat costume, made references to some things he's known for (like gadgets and fist-fighting) then made him kill people (since he's known for avoiding killing).
The rest of the film is much the same, relying on references to existing versions of the characters with a few random changes to try and be "different". If you're actually looking for a genuinely different take on the characters that's trying to say something with/about them then you'll likely be disappointed. Similarly, you'll be disappointed if you were hoping for a big screen version of the characters you know or were hoping for any significant level of depth at all. The film has some large scale action, fun moments and "dark" themes but it doesn't really have anything underneath.
Another issue, that probably isn't an issue for the vast majority of people, is that the film lifts quite a lot of lines and situations from previous Batman/Superman/Justice League material. I suppose it's intended as fan-service but it also suffers from the same problems as the rest of the film. It's implemented with the same "make it recognisable but different" mentality and this has the effect of making the film feel uncreative and also feeling like it's almost insulting the fans by showing a complete lack of understanding of what those scenes/lines meant in their original context. They're not even being creatively re-interpreted (which there's likely plenty of room for), they're just thrown in at inappropriate moments. I'd imagine that these things might still work as enjoyable fan-service for some but it can also accentuate existing problems for those already struggling with the film.
At the end of the day, I think Batman v Superman is a terrible film more for what it's not than what it is. If you're not judging it on that basis then it wouldn't seem as bad and might even be decent enough for some. Still, as someone who is quite fond of Batman and some of the DC Universe, it's pretty disappointing that this is what the DC Cinematic Universe (or whatever they're calling it) is probably going to continue to be like.
I'm hesitant to watch Suicide Squad because I don't know if I want to risk supporting these films. I don't know if I'd hate it but I just feel that DC could and should really be doing better with the current opportunity. Maybe my standards are a bit too high but I don't want something that's just good enough for mainstream popularity, I'd rather see something that tells a worthwhile story with interesting characters and could perhaps become a classic one day.
Still technically animation, but I watched Batman: The Killing Joke.
I have kind of mixed feelings about it. I enjoyed it overall and it's better than most of the DC Animations we've had recently (though that's not saying too much) but it's somewhat inconsistent and feels like much of the content could have been cut without losing the main point.
I haven't actually read the original comic but I've heard a fair bit about it and it's probably been quite influential on a lot of the material I'm familiar with. The fact that the original comic was quite short is probably a factor in why the film feels padded. I'm curious as to the differences between the original comic and the film but I suppose it doesn't necessarily matter in terms of judging the film itself.
The Batgirl story at the beginning was decent enough and kind of works as a stand-alone story (which it basically is). It does make comment on some interesting points about the different motivations for fighting crime and the dangers of constantly dealing with "bad" people. It's not entirely original but it gets the job done.
I have to admit, one of my issues with the film in general is it has a tendency to try to make things about sex in a way that doesn't seem to actually contribute anything to the film or really say anything. At most, sex seems to be used as shorthand for certain emotions but it doesn't really work and it ends up feeling completely unnecessary. I suppose it does fill some time but that's more of a problem than an excuse. It also seems to dangerously oversimplify sexual violence, which only stands to make the sex related content feel more awkward.
The core point of the film, regarding the way that people react to tragic events, works fairly well. I also liked the theme of Batman still trying to avert a tragic conclusion to his relationship with the Joker despite how inevitable a bad ending seems to be. The film is generally quite strong when it's saying something about Batman or the Joker and comparing the two, although this ultimately only makes up a small portion of the running time. Still, those parts do probably just about make the film worthwhile but the padding makes it harder to recommend to anyone who isn't already interested in the characters. That's a bit of a shame too, because the themes could appeal to a wider audience and even get people interested in the characters if they were more accessible.
On the plus side, the film does end on a strong note prior to the credits. There's a mid-credits scene that has a somewhat different tone, which may not be appreciated by some but makes for a decent alternative end point for those who find the ending unsatisfying (and helps tie together the different parts of the film).
It's pretty clear the film was made with fanservice in mind, it's adapting a fairly famous comic and it uses the popular animated series actors for the voices of Batman and the Joker (Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill, respectively). That's not a bad thing really, especially since the actors are quite good at their roles. Still, it is perhaps telling that they've had to use such methods to make for a stronger animation while the other animated films have been quite weak of late. It doesn't really inspire confidence for their future animations but at least they're willing to try something different and hopefully that will work out.
Overall, Batman: The Killing Joke is a pretty good film and worth watching if you're interested in the characters. It doesn't really offer as much story for the running time as it could but what little we get is fairly strong and has the potential to make it feel worth sitting through the padding. I don't know if that would work for everyone though and, either way, it's still a little disappointing to have all of that wasted time.
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Sanjuro 1962 Dir: Akira Kurosawa
Set as sort of a sequel to the film Yojimbo, Toshio Mifune returns as the charismatic samurai Sanjuro to great success. This film brings in similar humor and an equal amount of action compared to the predecessor. But I think the setting and general plot in Sanjuro is not as good as Yojimbo, the dynamic of a town divided (Yojimbo) brings a more enjoyable easy to follow narrative as opposed to the Clan in fighting in Sanjuro. Also in Sanjuro there is a defined good vs evil plot which makes things less interesting somewhat. Toshio though does have alot more characters to bounce off here and his immense presence shines through once again with some fun comedy. While Kurosawa has certainly made better films this is still one that should be seen by fans.
So it's nearly been a week since I moved back to Uni and I had watched two recent films in the cinema.
Sausage Party - Grav's Rating: 3/5
This movie has a cool concept overall and the story is pretty simple but fun to watch. However I am honestly not seeing much replayability to this film for a few reasons; the first is that the bad language felt overplayed during most of the film. I don't mind the fact that the food said '****' but they used it so much that it just wasn't as funny as you would have hoped. The other issue I had was the jokes felt flat at times and quite often found annoying for certain characters. Now what I did like about this film was the third act which was pretty amusing for the most part, heck the ending came out of nowhere. But the film as a whole does feel like it's trying to be so raunchy just to reach an R rating. It's not a bad film by all means, but one that has a rather overhyped reception.
Hell or High Water - Grav's Rating: 4.5/5
Now this is a film I was honestly not interested in seeing at first, but rather watching Stuckmann's review I decided to check it out with a friend today. And after seeing the film I found it very interesting to watch, heck I was hooked in the story despite it's pacing being slow (I like to compare this to visual novels, where it's slow but you get a lot going on in that time period). The characters were interesting and the actual story synopsis is at best seen without looking it up or watching the trailers. When the second half happens the story gets somewhere and pays off very well. The reason I didn't give the film a perfect rating is because I wanted to see more of what happens next, but regardless I was satisfied with its conclusion. I feel this movie may not get that much attention but if you have some time I do recommend you check this one out if you can.
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Everyone was talking like this was awful, but I really really enjoyed this. I was the only one laughing at the jokes, but I think everyone was positive about it. I especially liked the way they made sure everybody had something to do in the final fight. It could have done with more backstory though, and it did feel like they had perhaps tried to do a little too much within the opening sequences, as well as some of the bits like Deadshot being tested prior to his commissioning felt like they were crowbarred in without purpose. It does do a fantastic job of depressing me about the choices Will Smith has made in recent years.
I don't think it's Jared Leto's fault, but I was not especially impressed with the Joker. The whole thing about the Joker is about the irony and dark comedy behind his actions, like dressing up as a nurse to attack people in The Dark Knight. This Joker was just a little bit unhinged. Talking about it to a mutual acquaintance afterwards, it sounds like they perhaps shortchanged Captain Boomerang in comparison to the comic books too. Which is interesting as he's the only Suicide Squad member who harms another member and does anything especially dark on-screen (with everyone else's it's talked around or not entirely shown, his massively evil moment is completely shown), and he's actually quite annoying.
This is the only summer blockbuster I wanted to see this year, but it does make me slightly less hesistant to watch the Man of Steel/Batman v. Superman combo pack I brought a while back.
Pain & Gain (2013)
This film is actually very interesting, and spectacularly grim in a way most people will not be able to stomach (especially given it's actively asking you to sympathise with characters based on real-life murderers). Pain & Gain is Michael Bay's attempt at satirising the aggressive belief in the American dream. It's interesting in that involves Michael Bay flipping some of his more questionable quirks on their head and playing them for comedy, and for the first half hour what we get is actually a really good and funny attempt at that. Mark Whalberg, The Rock and Anthony Mackie all do surprisingly well in more overly comedic roles than usual, and a lot of the film is carried by them and their chemistry. Unfortunately, Rebel Wilson is stuck with a character that is more comedic and fantasist in tone, and she is unfortunately under served by it. However, the film kinda runs into problems that are conceptual. It seems to be playing brutal violence towards innocent people for laughs, yet it still wants the audience to acknowledge that it is a true story, so as a film it's actively inviting you to laugh at somebody else's misery. I do wonder if this is an intentional decision to try and get the audience on edge and perhaps make the audience question their reaction to violence in fiction. After this it does become harder and harder to laugh, even at stuff I still kinda found funny. Unlike the perhaps similar in concept, The Wolf of Wall Street, Pain & Gain does have some attempts at making us feel for and like the victims of the crimes depicted. This film seems to imply a degree of self-awareness and filmmaking talent that I did not previously believe Michael Bay had, and it is really interesting to see an unusual film of this type given the visual and directorial stylisation Bay brings.
There is also this whole running theme through the film about hard work and cheating, and how cheating at hard work leads to corruption of all of the work completed. I think it's interesting that parts of it are brought to the front of the film, but it's also playing in the background. Paul Doyle's attempts at recovery fail because he "cheats" and just resorts to violence instead of putting hard work in. Adrian develops impotency because he cheats at bodybuilding and injects steroids instead. Daniel develops huge self-doubt because he tries to cheat his way to the success he craves, rather than earning it. At several moments throughout the film to try and sort of clear their head several characters work out, which to me seemed to correlate actual hard work with getting them "back on track". There is an interesting reference to the consuming a significant amount of protein just before things go past the point of no return, that suggested to me that maybe the film wasn't trying to suggest their belief in the American dream was not their downfall, but their desire to cheat at it instead.
I will say that as much as I enjoyed this film (in somewhat perverse sense of the word, obviously the film has clear conceptual immorality but I guiltily enjoyed it despite that) and there's interesting stuff in it for the audience to go through, it's clearly not for everyone. I think you need to have a very dark sense of humour, an open mind and a willingness to tolerate Michael Bay's eccentricities. I would suggest that unless you're really curious, you wait until it gets a TV broadcast or something, as it's clearly a film that isn't going to work for a lot of people and is probably actively offend and upset a lot of people.
3/5.
Finally got the Platinum in J-Stars Victory VS+ which was a really grueling grind through those other three story runs but I got there in the end. Also watched two documentaries whilst doing the final playthrough with Ichigo.
Firstly Citizenfour which is about Edward Snowden and the documentary feels like a real life thriller, which it basically is just without the Hollywood glamour, super tense stuff. 4/5
Next up I watched Tim's Vermeer which is a fascinating film about the famous inventor Tim Jenison and how he uses technology and a scientific approach to recreate one of Art Master Vermeer's works almost perfectly without having any real experience or training painting. The end result is incredible. 4/5
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Funnily enough I just watched this two as part of my Uni course. I think I preferred it to Rashomon, but definitely nowhere near as much as I liked Ikiru. It's definitely a comedy through and through though, and it did genuinely make me laugh in quite a few places.
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Issue 19.4: August/September 2016
Remembering Papa
A new biography views one of nineteenth-century Hawai‘i’s most important figures—John Papa ‘Ī‘ī—through native eyes
Story by Ronald Williams Jr.
At dusk on March 5, 1863, a “copper-colored” man, as one local newspaper described the visiting dignitary from the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, entered the lobby of the Lick House in San Francisco. The Golden City’s first truly palatial hotel sported a dining room modeled after the Palace of Versailles and had recently opened to great acclaim.
At a time when the United States was embroiled in a civil war over race, the Hawaiian’s arrival and residency at one of the finest hotels in the country caused quite a stir. But this was no ordinary dark-skinned visitor. He was Hawaiian Kingdom Supreme Court Justice John Papa ‘Ī‘ī.
‘Ī‘ī (pictured above) was more than a respected justice; he was a royal advisor, a prolific writer and an unwavering advocate for justice.
Ioane Kaneiakama Papa ‘Ī‘ī was born at Waipi‘o, O‘ahu, in 1800, a time when kapu (a system of religious law) reigned over Hawai‘i. Some of the strictest of these unwritten laws dictated the way one should behave around the ali‘i nui (highest-ranking chiefs), and the slightest violation could result in execution. Ali‘i nui were considered to be divine beings. Contact with them—even with their shadows—was forbidden on penalty of death. The ali‘i nui’s daylight processions were led by kahu (chiefly attendants), who warned people to stay clear. At night the kahu themselves needed to keep alert while serving their ali‘i—the shifting shadows of a flickering kukui oil lamp could prove fatal. ‘Ī‘ī, groomed as a young boy to be a kahu to the royal court, knew personally the dangers of less-than-precise adherence to the laws of kapu. At the age of seven, he was given the news that his elder brother Maoloha, a kahu to Kamehameha I, was to be strangled to death for a violation of the sacred laws. The devastated young boy and his sister Ke‘imolā‘au were sent by their mother to mark the site where the executioners had buried their sibling. Then in 1810, at age ten,‘Ī‘ī, took his executed brother’s place as kahu to the king, the third generation of his family to serve the ali‘i.
‘Ī‘ī’s early life and the view it offers into a world of divine rulers is fascinating, but what makes ‘Ī‘ī exceptional is the way he was able to deftly navigate his nation’s shift from absolute rule under a divine monarch to a progressive, nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy. In the decades after ‘Ī‘ī entered the royal circle, Hawai‘i experienced a flood of foreign visitors, and with it changes that were both enriching and devastating. During ‘Ī‘ī’s lifetime, 1800 to 1870, the Hawaiian nation lost approximately two-thirds of its Native population to introduced diseases. Practices such as hula and traditional medicine were suppressed and in some cases outlawed by Native rulers who had converted to Christianity. Ancient knowledge, accumulated over more than a millennium of living in the Islands, was displaced, some of it lost forever.
In 1863, when John Papa ‘Ī‘ī walked into San Francisco’s Lick House (above), he was making a statement. The Supreme Court Justice of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i was in the city to defend a Hawaiian citizen accused of murder; he was also a man of color who had the temerity—and stature—to stay in SF’s poshest hotel in the midst of the American Civil War.
Amid all this the Kingdom of Hawai‘i accomplished remarkable feats: In 1843 it became the first country of non-European provenance to be internationally recognized as a sovereign state; it achieved near-universal literacy by the 1870s—a higher rate than the United States at the time; it enshrined universal manhood suffrage—meaning male citizens of all races could vote—in its Kumukānāwai (Constitution) of 1852, years before the Civil War tore the United States apart over slavery. ‘Ī‘ī was at the center of it all, serving in some of the most significant and seemingly incongruous roles. The man who had acted as personal attendant to one generation of divine monarchs became a key Christian advisor to the next. A renowned expert in ancient customary practices who served as caretaker to the mo‘o (lizard) deity Kihawahine later became one of the staunchest Native Hawaiian Christian advocates, never hesitating to rebuke those who wandered from the path of Iehova (Jehovah). ‘Ī‘ī helped build Hawai‘i’s constitutional monarchy, one that by 1887 had established nearly one hundred consulates and embassies around the globe. He served as a justice on the kingdom’s early Supreme Court, and he was a member of the king’s Privy Council (the executive cabinet). He was also a statesman: The reason ‘Ī‘ī was in San Francisco in 1863 was to participate in the legal defense of a Hawaiian sailor on trial for murder (his testimony helped free the accused man). Back in the Islands, ‘Ī‘ī often served in the role of government conscience, relaying the voice of the maka‘āinana (commoners) whenever their leaders began overlooking their needs.
In all of the roles he played during his more than six decades of public service, ‘Ī‘ī epitomized the complex and complicated story of Hawai‘i. Yet as towering a historical figure as he was, little was known about the man himself; there hadn’t even been a biography of his life. Only recently has his mo‘olelo (story, history, record) been explored in its entirety. Like much of Native Hawaiian history, ‘Ī‘ī’s story was, for more than a century, hiding in plain sight.
Though he was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i and had witnessed the Islands’ transition from the ancient kapu system to its progressive, constitutional monarchy, no complete biography of ‘Ī‘ī existed until Marie Alohalani Brown published Facing the Spears of Change (above) this year.
Marie Alohalani Brown’s recently published biography, Facing the Spears of Change: The Life and Legacy of John Papa ‘Ī‘ī, marks a turning point not just in the scholarship about ‘Ī‘ī, but also in the production of literature about Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians). Like the era of‘Ī‘ī’s life it covers, the book emerges during a time of substantial change. The “Hawaiian Renaissance” of the 1970s has led to a re-examination of long-accepted narratives about Hawai‘i and its past, almost all of which rely exclusively on English-language sources. But because those sources come from a part of society that never represented more than 10 percent of the population in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i, our contemporary understanding of the period is inevitably biased.
Brown, though, is among a new generation of scholars who are fluent in ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language) and who have access to a treasure trove of sources written in the Islands’ mother tongue. More than 125,000 pages of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Hawaiian-language newspapers have been painstakingly collected and digitized over the past few decades and are now available online, offering scholars the chance to study history as written by Hawaiians rather than history that is merely about Hawaiians.
Brown, a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) from Mākaha, O‘ahu, is an assistant professor of religion at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. It was in a graduate class on translation that she first came across ‘Ī‘ī’s work—a series of articles titled “Na Hunahuna no ka Moolelo Hawaii” (Fragments of Hawaiian History) published between 1868 and 1870 in the Hawaiian-language newspaper Ka Nupepa Kuokoa (The Independent Newspaper). Soon after beginning translation work on the series, Brown started to see ‘Ī‘ī everywhere. “In a variety of projects, I would be researching something and come to find out ‘Ī‘ī was the author or had something to do with the event I was looking at.” Then, on a research trip to the Hawai‘i State Archives in Honolulu, she looked up her new obsession and found eighty index cards relating to ‘Ī‘ī. “That’s when I really realized: Here’s a man who was on the scene at so many of the crucial events in our kingdom’s history,” says Brown, “and all we know about his life so far are tidbits.” A life-writing class was on her schedule the following semester, and her choice of subject was a no-brainer. “It was in that class that, for me, the astute political figure became a living man.”
In order to publish Facing the Spears of Change, Brown (above) relied on Native-language sources to tell ‘Ī‘ī’s story—a first for modern Hawaiian historiography.
Brown’s work reveals a person who succeeded in times of turmoil because of his “stern moral rectitude, his trustworthiness and his work ethic,” she says. He was also no stranger to suffering: A child born in 1828 to ‘Ī‘ī and his first wife, Sarai, died soon after birth. The lack of an heir seemed to be a struggle for ‘Ī‘ī as the years passed. Then, at the age of 38, ‘Ī‘ī received one of the highest honors imaginable: The chiefess Kīna‘u, sister to Kings Kamehameha IV and V, gave her newborn daughter Princess Victoria Kīhe‘ahe‘alani Kalohelani Kamāmaluhaeokalani, to ‘Ī‘ī in hānai (a form of adoption with strong political and other ties). ‘Ī‘ī had been serving as secretary for Kīna‘u, and the endowment of a royal child upon someone in his position, even someone of his stature, was unusual. Even more, Kīna‘u’s decision contravened the wishes of the birth father, Kekūanāo‘a, governor of O‘ahu at the time. “Being a hānai parent for an ali‘i conferred prestige and a potential increase in power,” says Brown, “and ‘Ī‘ī recalled that ‘ua manao nae na kini o ke kane, na lakou keia keiki, aka, i ka hana ana, aole no i haawiia ia lakou la’ (the husband’s relatives thought they would be given the child, but it was not to be).”
By researching this event in ‘Ī‘ī’s life in such detail, Brown revealed a significant aspect of his character. Earlier accounts had portrayed the adoption as though it had been Kīna‘u’s idea, that she was choosing a caretaker for her child. In truth ‘Ī‘ī had done the nearly unthinkable: He had asked the high ali‘i to give her next-born child to him. ‘Ī‘ī had requested—and been granted—the right to “father” a descendant of Kamehameha, the divine king his family had so long served.
Princess Kamāmalu died in 1866, at only 28 years old, a victim of the introduced diseases that decimated the Native Hawaiian population in the nineteenth century. The grieving ‘Ī‘ī wrote a series of newspaper installments that contained kanikau (chants of lamentation) for his daughter. “I was just heartbroken reading these. They were so moving,” Brown says. She could almost hear the wailing, she says, in the stretched-out cry that ended the chant: “Kuu Keiki!” (my beloved child!). Coming across these writings drove home for Brown the realization that ‘Ī‘ī’s story had heretofore been distorted. “I began to see how the narratives that we had about him—these outside interpretations of him as simply a kahu, a guide for these important rulers—had understated his true role. He was not simply the caretaker of Kamāmalu. He was in such a true way her father.”
When Princess Victoria Kamāmalu (above) was given to ‘Ī‘ī as a hānai (adopted) daughter, it was a mark of ‘Ī‘ī’s esteem—the ali‘i (monarchs) rarely bestowed such an honor on someone not of royal lineage.
Fatherhood wasn’t quite finished with‘Ī‘ī, however: In 1869, at age 69, he received the astounding news that his fourth wife, Malaea, was hāpai (pregnant). But as with his firstborn daughter, Airene [Irene] Ha‘alo‘u Kahalelaukoa would not grow up with her father. ‘Ī‘ī died in Honolulu on May 2, 1870—five months before his daughter’s first birthday.
By telling stories of Native figures like ‘Ī‘ī through the lens of their own Hawaiian-language writing and that of their contemporaries, “We are reestablishing our connection to our own intellectual history,” says Noenoe Silva, a professor of political science at UH-Mānoa who has been instrumental in focusing attention on the need to base Native Hawaiian histories on Native Hawaiian sources. Craig Howes, director of the Center for Biographical Research at UH-Mānoa, notes that biographies like Facing the Spears of Change are particularly relevant—and give cause for hope. “Biography and autobiography are especially important in this movement, because the mo‘olelo of those who lived through difficult times give us assurance that others have faced challenges similar to our own and often found ways to deal with them that do not require renouncing their culture.”
For Brown, ‘Ī‘ī’s biography is a beginning. “His story offers readers more than just a fabulous tale. It offers an example of how to draw on the best of our ancestors’ ways while also adapting to the changes that come, both chosen and not. His life is an important reminder of what it means to be ‘Ōiwi [Native] throughout.” HH
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Aniket De
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Aniket De entered the PhD program in 2016 and is advised by Sugata Bose.
Aniket De is a historian of modern South Asia and the British Empire. His academic and research interests include the political and economic history of the British Empire, the intellectual history of Indian nationalism and cultural history of colonial Bengal. He is keen on inquiring how the idea of the “frontier” developed in British India over the nineteenth century, especially with relation to imperial political economy, colonial anthropology and nationalist thought.
Aniket received a B.A. in history and anthropology, summa cum laude, from Tufts University in 2016. His BA thesis had examined the history of a folk theater form in the Indo-Bangladesh border, especially in relation to colonial and post-colonial nationalisms. Having combined archival and ethnographic research, his work has received the Vida Allen Prize in History, the William Wilson Prize in Folklore and the UK Higher Education Academy Prize of the British Parliament.
aniket_de@g.harvard.edu
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Document 197
197. Editorial Note
On August 19, 1971, the Central Intelligence Agency issued a memorandum to holders of National Intelligence Estimate 11–3–71, “Soviet Strategic Defenses.” ( Document 178) The memorandum provided updated intelligence regarding those sectors of Soviet strategic defense where significant new developments had occurred, including anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite defenses. According to the memorandum, “major new construction has been identified at two of the four previously dormant launch complexes of the Moscow anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, and at the site of one of its two large acquisition and target tracking radars.” Moreover, construction continued “at a high level” at a major ABM research and development launch facility at Sary Shagan, including assembly of an engagement radar capable of tracking incoming targets and interceptor missiles and testing of a faster exoatmospheric, long-range ABM interceptor.
As for anti-satellite defense, the memorandum reads as follows: “The Soviet program to develop and test an orbital interceptor system has progressed significantly. In addition to the increased pace of intercept testing—two satellite intercept tests were conducted in the first half of 1971, bringing the total to six—we now believe that the scope of the program is much broader than previously estimated. The 1971 tests have demonstrated progress in attaining mission flexibility.” CIA analysts, though unsure when an orbital interceptor system would become operational, believed “that satellites which pass over the USSR at any inclination and below altitudes of 1,000 miles could now be vulnerable to this system.”
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The memorandum continues, “In the light of the recent acceleration of orbital intercept testing, we have reviewed the bases of our judgment concerning the likelihood of Soviet interference with US satellites. We still believe it highly unlikely that the Soviets would undertake widespread and continuing destructive attacks against US satellites in peacetime. We rate the chances for selective or sporadic attacks nearly as low. We doubt that the Soviets would launch attacks against US satellites prior to the initiation of hostilities. The repeated demonstration of a non-nuclear anti-satellite capability against targets up to about 500 miles, however, gives the Soviets an option on which they can rely should they ever decide to take such action.” (Central Intelligence Agency, NIC Files, Job 79–R01012A) The text of the memorandum is in the CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (www.foia.cia.gov).
National Security Policy, 1969–1972
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Published sources
National Security Policy, 1969–1972 (Documents 1-229)
The Defense Budget and U.S. National Security Policy (Documents 174-210)
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Home Genres Electronic The Chemical Brothers Share Surreal Video for Their Latest Single
The Chemical Brothers Share Surreal Video for Their Latest Single
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The Chemical Brothers perform in August. Photo by Vaughan Pickhaver/REX/Shutterstock (9787839cj)
The Chemical Brothers never shied away from trying wild new things, and they’re not going to start anytime soon. The music video for their new single “Eve of Destruction” is here, and it’s the most surreal thing you’ll see all day.
The duo’s longtime collaborators Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall were in charge of directing this video, reminiscent of Japanese sci-fi series Ultraman. “Eve of Destruction” gives us a look at several heroes and villains in colorful costumes, getting ready for action and facing off each other.
This song serves as the opening track on the duo’s latest album No Geography, which came out on April 12th to critical acclaim.
This isn’t the only record The Chemical Brothers are dropping this year since they’ve announced the plan to release a deluxe reissue of their signature album Surrender. “It’s been 20 years since Surrender and we’re putting out a big box set of that. We found lots of different versions of the tracks and it’s really interesting to listen to them now to see what we considered to be the finished version,” said Ed Simons while chatting with Stack Magazine.
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Abhinandan's Release Must Not Divert Attention From Terrorism
Pakistan finally handed over Wing Comander Abhinandan Varthaman at around 9 pm to the Indian officials at Wagah border near Amritsar, but not before an unusual delay of over 5 hours during which, allegedly, the dirty tricks department of the ISI took over to force Abhinandan to sign a declaration and shoot a propaganda video. An edited version of the video was released on social media just before he was set free.
The whole world saw how the Pakistanis bungled throughout the day. They first said Abhinandan would be released between 2 and 4 pm. Then they said he would be released after the Beating the Retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border which ends at about 6 pm. The ceremony finally did not take place on the day due to security concerns. After that, there was no further explanation and the captured pilot was finally released at around 9 pm.
But the giveaway was the video that was put out by the Pakistanis just before Abhinandans release where he is shown to praise his captors and say good things. If Pakistan thinks that by indulging in propaganda it can hide the fact that Abhinandan was tortured by local people in the presence of Pakistani army then they need to think again. Granted that such things happen in the heat of the moment, but there was no need to delay his release for a two-bit video shoot.
Also, India should not let its attention get diverted by the drama over Abhinandans arrest and his subsequent release. It would serve Pakistan well if India gloats over the pilot and forgets, however temporarily, about the main issue of Pakistans support to terrorists. Now is the time to keep pounding in the message that Pakistan is Terroristan. Foreign Minister Mehmood Qureshi has already admitted Jaish founder Masood Azhar is in his country. France, US and UK have also asked the UN to declare Azhar as a designated terrorist. The world opinion is now firmly in Indias favour. It should not miss this chance to checkmate Pakistan over terrorism now.
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Home / unitedkingdom / The British Parliament may have the same fate as Notre Dame. British News
The British Parliament may have the same fate as Notre Dame. British News
united kingdom April 16, 2019 unitedkingdom
MPs warn that the Palace of Westminster is at risk for a fire that could be as destructive as a fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral, unless quick action is taken to renew the fragile interior of Congress.
Billions of pounds of recovery and renewal programs began in the mid-2020s after deciding to move out of the building so that billions of people could do important work in the past.
The fire safety team continues to patrol Westminster, a New Gothic palace where fire broke out 40 times between 2008 and 2012. A small fire was quickly dispatched by the watchdog.
The Guardian found that in 2016, the lights in the obscure part of the roof caused an electric fire. Experts warn that the aging electrical systems of the Congress and the maze of shafts and corridors mean that the fire can spread quickly and unpredictably. There is no proper fire classification system.
Chris Bryant, chair of the finance committee, oversaw the parliamentary restoration project. "Watching Paris tonight reminds us that our generation is responsible for Westminster Palace, especially Westminster Hall.
"We have already established our fire safety measures for too long, some of the palaces are as old as Notre Dame, and we must take all fire precautions whenever major work is done." God knows we have enough warnings. "
Theresa May 's deputy cabinet minister David Lidington wrote a column to a local newspaper, Bucks Free Press, two days ago that Congress was lucky to avoid a major fire or event in recent years.
"Several times last year, a block of bricks fell out of the building, and we were very lucky that no one was seriously injured." He wrote immediately after the MP evacuated the Commons chamber due to water leaks.
"Even worse, electricity, plumbing, heating, and sewer systems are far beyond their expected life and worn-out condition.
Most of Westminster's old palace was destroyed by fire in 1834 and rebuilt by architect Charles Barry, but the 900-year-old Westminster Hall survived the fire.
Lidington said the restoration work was inevitable even though the buildings turned into museums and the congress was moved to a modern building. "Even if Congress is permanently moved elsewhere, we have a duty to recover and renew the building," he wrote.
"The difficulty is that ministers are members of parliament and have to share time with each ministry and council, so if you move the council, you have to move all the major government ministries, You have to repair it. "
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Home Country Fest
Jun 26, 2019 to Jun 29, 2019
press release: Over 40 national and local acts are set to the play Country Fest’s Main Stage and four side stages, June 27-29. Headlining the Main Stage are country megastar LUKE BRYAN, multi-award-winning duo SUGARLAND and power group LITTLE BIG TOWN. Other acts performing COLE SWINDELL, BRETT YOUNG, JUSTIN MOORE, PHIL VASSAR and many more.
Country Fest will once again make the weekend one to remember. In addition to non-stop music and one-of-kind camping experience, fans can expect to be entertained by dozens of activations throughout the concert grounds. Northern Lights, the festival’s wooded trail, returns for 2019 along with favorites like Hammock Haven. A brand-new addition is the Lure Lock Top Tier Lounge – an elevated seated area located between Radio Row and VIP on the Country Fest concert grounds. Lure Lock Top Tier Lounge guests can expect a private lounge area, unlimited beverages, high-end hors d’oeuvres, private bathrooms, personal attendant, VIP parking and more. Lure Lock Top Tier Lounge spaces are on sale now.
Wednesday (open to 3-day ticket holders): Crossroads Stage: Bobby McClendon 7 pm, Carlton Anderson 8:30 pm, Blackhawk 10 pm; Bud Stage: Royal South 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 & 11:35 pm.
Thursday: Main Stage: Elizabeth Lyons 12:50 pm, Hasting & Co. 2:30 pm, Parmalee 4:10 pm, Tracy Lawrence 6:20 pm, Justin Moore 8:30 pm, Little Big Town 11 pm; Jack Daniel's Stage: JT & the Gunslingers 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm; Crossroads Stage: The Cragars noon, 1:40 pm, Elizabeth Lyons 3:20 pm, Filmore 5:15 pm, Tegan Marie 7:25 pm, Home Free 9:50 pm, Bobby McClendon 12:30 am; Fest-a-Ritaville: South City Revival 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm; Bud Stage: Aileeah Colgan 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm, 12:30 am.
Friday: Main Stage: Eric Chesser 12:50 pm, CB30 2:30 pm, Lindsay Ell 4:10 pm, Neal McCoy 6:20 pm, Cole Swindell 8:30 pm, Luke Bryan 11 pm; Jack Daniel's Stage: County Line 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm; Crossroads Stage: Casey Muessigmann noon, 1:40 pm, Eric Chesser 3:20 pm, Cayley Hammack 5:15 pm, Travis Denning 7:25 pm, Lauren Alaina 9:50 pm, Eric Chesser 12:30 am; Fest-a-Ritaville: Lassos & Lace 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm; Bud Stage: Jagertown 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm, 12:30 am.
Saturday: Main Stage: Chris Hawkey 12:50 pm, Noah Schnacky 2:30 pm, Jimmie Allen 4:10 pm, Diamond Rio 6:20 pm, Brett Young 8:30 pm, Sugarland 11 pm; Jack Daniel's Stage: Rural Route 5 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm; Crossroads Stage: Rick Monroe noon, 1:40 pm, Chris Hawkey 3:20 pm, Jackie Lee 5:15 pm, Ashley McBryde 7:25 pm, Phil Vassar 9:50 pm, Chris Hawkey 12:30 am; Fest-a-Ritaville: Dawn Marie 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm; Bud Stage: Roadhouse 6 1:40, 3:20, 5:15, 6:20, 7:25, 9:50 pm, 12:30 am.
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3. Evidence from the Earliest Neolithic?
Rectangular buildings of the kind recorded at Balbridie and Ballygalley are one site type that, together with pits, have been suggested as belonging to the earliest Neolithic before 3800 cal BC (Grogan 2004; Thomas 2004; 2006); that is, before the appearance of causewayed enclosures and Neolithic 'take off' (see Kinnes 1988 for the latter term). More recently, Sheridan has suggested carinated pottery might also belong to the 'earliest' period (Sheridan 2007). If so, such sites offer one opportunity to identify any early exchange of axes and the geographical extent/distance of those exchanges. For the purposes of this article, therefore, Appendix 1 lists those rectangular structures and other sites that in the literature have been suggested as possible early sites on the basis of radiocarbon dates and/or the presence of carinated pottery.
While the actual date of the structures/sites will be returned to again, Table 1 shows that of the 119 sites listed in Appendix 1 as possibly belonging to the earliest Neolithic, 85% contained some cultural artefacts but axes and fragments or flakes of such tools occurred in only 36.5% of all sites. It is not the intention to discuss here the implications of the fact that artefact 'rich' sites like Ballygalley and Balbridie are unusual rather than the norm, although a comparison with the artefact-poor stone circles and henges monument forms often regarded as part of the later exchange network might be made. Rather the significance of Table 1 is that it shows that if locally sourced axes, such as the Group VII axe at Llandegai, are excluded, Groups VI, IX and Greenstone/Cornish sources dominate in those sites considered in the literature to belong to the earliest Neolithic.
While this analysis appears to confirm the idea that the main period of Group VII procurement was later in the Neolithic (Smith 1979, 20-1), the early date for long-distance movement of Lake District (Group VI) material has not previously been recognised. Moreover, it would seem that the preponderance and geographical spread of Group VI axes in those sites considered as early presages the dominance of the Group in the total number of recorded stone axes for the whole of the Neolithic.
In addition, it may be significant that some of the concentrations of Group VI axes correspond to some of the earliest known sites (Figure 3). Equally, the context of Group VI axes reported by Manby (Table 2) demonstrates that the exchange network established between the Lake District and East Yorkshire in the early Neolithic persisted until the end, a pattern of contact also evidenced in monument form. On the other hand, the apparent existence of the exchange network in the early Neolithic means that the role of henges, such as those at Thornborough and Cana, in the movement of axes into East Yorkshire (e.g. Manby 1979; Bradley and Edmonds 1993) must now be seen as a function performed at a particular time within the Neolithic; an observation that does not preclude, indeed perhaps requires, the existence of other, earlier and unidentified monumental 'centres' which the pits at Nosterfield not far from Thornborough and those at Marton le Moor near Cana may have provided.
It is, however, also necessary to draw attention to a number of generic problems in the available dataset whether for the earliest Neolithic or the whole period. Firstly, it may be necessary to differentiate between whole axes and flakes, and certainly the latter make a 'count' of the relative proportions of stone and flint axes on sites such as causewayed enclosures somewhat tenuous. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the term 'greenstone' is sometimes used to indicate geological provenance (e.g. in SW England). But in some of the literature, as at Lough Gur, 'greenstone' appears to apply to colour which at Cloghers (SW Ireland) was tuff. Thirdly, and equally importantly, is the fact that most dates do not relate to the actual context in which the axe or fragments were found. At Ballygalley, for example, the Group VI axe may have come from the layer overlying the (radiocarbon dated) timber building, while the Group VI adze from Carn Brea was a stray find. Again, it is necessary to recognise the 'time depth' at some sites such as Billown and Biggar Common. The problem is, however, perhaps best seen at Hembury where the early radiocarbon date cannot be related with certainty to the rectangular structures, causewayed enclosure, 15 'axes' of Cornish greenstone or 20 of 'Lincoln' flint (SMR) and where, in fact, the excavation accounts do not allow any of the axes to be tied into the structures.
Nevertheless the overall pattern of Group VI material from Ireland is instructive (Table 3), for of the four axes from definite or possible archaeological contexts two, possibly three, belong to the 'early' period. And it is surely significant that since the compilation of the database used in Table 3, two of the new Irish examples of Group VI axes have come from rectangular buildings Ballyharry 1 and Thornhill while that at Cloghers had 'green' volcanic tuff. In short three, possibly four, of the known contexts for Group VI axes in Ireland are from rectangular structures or sites with them. Moreover, all three of the certain examples of rectangular buildings with Group VI axes are in the north and adjacent to the coast, a pattern not dissimilar to that of Group IX (Figure 3b, where 3 of the 5 structures with Group IX material also have VI).
The available evidence is therefore not inconsistent with the thesis that stone axes were being exchanged as part of the process of acquiring or gaining access to the exotic domesticates. This would, however, require them to be seen initially at least as prestige objects and in that context it may be significant that the earliest flint mines, such as those in Sussex (Miles 2001, 93), are interpreted as being for the acquisition of prestige axes.
Nevertheless, the existence of jadeite axes at some early sites demonstrates that early Neolithic exchange networks were more complex than the thesis of this article might suggest. In particular while the jadeite axes do demonstrate contact with the Continent which the acquisition of exotic domesticates requires it appears their movement in the opposite direction to that of Group VI and other axes is part of the 'spread' of farming. However, if the thesis of this article is in general correct and communities in the Lake District and SW Scotland acquired the exotic domesticates (ultimately) from East Yorkshire, why do Group VI axes occur in early contexts in Northern Ireland? Rather, should we not expect Irish axes to 'move' westwards in exchange for the domesticates?
In this context the idea that Ireland acquired domesticates separately and possibly earlier than many parts of Britain (Woodman and McCarthy 2003; Tresset and Vigne 2007) may be significant. If the premise of this article is correct then the existence of Group VI axes in the early Neolithic of NW Ireland was because Cumbria had acquired domesticates from that area. While such a situation might fit ideas for the appearance and distribution of some early megalithic tombs (Cummings 2007) it is contra to many previous assumptions, based on the similarity of monument forms at Lochhill in south-west Scotland and Rayseat Pike in Cumbria to those of East Yorkshire (Clare 2007a, 133), that the Neolithic package spread into Ireland from Yorkshire.
The suggestion that the Lake District acquired domesticates from two different directions is consistent with the possibility that there were two different Mesolithic exchange systems operating in the area (Cherry and Cherry 2002). However, it is also necessary to recognise that distribution maps like Figure 1 do not relate to any one moment in time but are simple aggradations of individual movements or transactions throughout the Neolithic; a palimpsest in which one spatial pattern of exchange and obligation is overlain by an entirely different one. The challenge, therefore, is to disaggregate recorded axes from the chronological palimpsest: to identify individual, or something approaching individual, exchange patterns at a particular moment in time.
Nevertheless, the fact that a number of axes, and Group VI in particular, were being exchanged over relatively large distances during the period when rectangular buildings were in use raises the question of when they first appeared. This article has postulated that they were exchanged as part of the process of acquiring or having access to the consumption of exotic domesticates and as such raises the possibility that they could have developed from existing Mesolithic traditions.
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Arabs wary of expressing their opinions online
Fascinating study results published in Qatar’s Gulf Times:
Northwestern University in Qatar has released new findings from an eight-nation survey indicating many people in the Arab world do not feel safe expressing political opinions online despite sweeping changes in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
From over 10,000 people surveyed in Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and the UAE, 44% expressed some doubt as to whether people should be free to criticise governments or powerful institutions online.
Over a third of Internet users surveyed said they worry about governments checking what they do online.
According to the report, “The implied concern (of governments checking what they do online) is fairly consistent in almost all countries covered, but more acute in Saudi Arabia, where the majority (53%) of those surveyed expressed this concern.”
The study – titled ‘Media Use in the Middle East – An Eight-Nation Survey’ – was undertaken by researchers at NU-Q to better understand how people in the region use the Internet and other media. It comes as the university moves towards a more formalised research agenda and is the first in what will be a series of reports relating to Internet use.
The survey includes a specific chapter on Qatar, the only country where those surveyed regarded the Internet as a more important source of news than television. “We took an especially close look at media use in the State of Qatar – a country with one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the Arab world—and internationally,” said NU-Q dean and CEO Everette Dennis.
These findings follow a preliminary report NU-Q released last April that showed web users in the Middle East support the freedom to express opinions online, but they also believe the Internet should be more tightly regulated. “While this may seem a puzzling paradox, it has not been uncommon for people the world over to support freedom in the abstract but less so in practice,” Dennis explained.
Among other findings, the research shows: 45% of people think public officials will care more about what they think and 48% believe they can have more influence by using the Internet.
Adults in Lebanon (75%) and Tunisia (63%) are the most pessimistic about the direction of their countries and feel they are on the ‘wrong track.’
Respondents were far more likely to agree (61%) than disagree (14%) that the quality of news reporting in the Arab world has improved in the past two years, however less than half think overall that the news sources in their countries are credible.
Online transactions are rare in the Middle East, with only 35% purchasing items online and only 16% investing online.
The complete set of results from the survey is available online at menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu. The new interactive pages hosting the survey on the website have features that allow users to make comparisons between different countries, as well as between different demographics within each country.
Dennis confirmed that the research report is the first in an annual series of reports produced in collaboration with the World Internet Project; one of the world’s most extensive studies on the Internet, in which NU-Q is a participating institution.
NU-Q and WIP signed an agreement earlier in the year, providing a global platform for the current research.
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So you want to monitor a patent- August 20, 2004
Posted by mais in Patent.
Tags: Patent, patent tracking
So you want to monitor a patent%3F %7C IP News Blog: “So you want to monitor a paten -Submitted by Carey.
35 U.S.C. The folks at Varchars have come up with a neat little perl hack that allows you to keep track of a patent at the USPTO. Set this up as a cronjob and you have an automatic and easy way to keep track of applications as they pass through the patent process. Very neat. Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the link.”
ANDA filing doesn’t constitute Willful patent infringement August 16, 2004
Posted by mais in Drugs, Litigation, Patent, USA.
Tags: ANDA filing, Federal Circuit, Intellectual Property, patent infringment, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, United States District Court, United States patent law
“Glaxo Group Limited v. Apotex, Inc., 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 15489 (Fed. Cir., July 27, 2004)
Apotex, Inc. (‘Apotex’) appeals the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, which found that Apotex’s filing of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (‘ANDA’) for a generic version of the antibiotic CEFTIN willfully infringed U.S. Patent No. 4,562,181 (the ”181 patent’) and U.S. Patent No. 4,820,833 (the ”833 patent’) owned by Glaxo Group Limited and SmithKline Beecham Corp. (collectively ‘Glaxo’). The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s determination that Apotex’s ANDA infringes both the ‘181 and ‘833 patents pursuant to 35 U.S.C. � 271(e)(2), and also affirmed that the patents at issue are not invalid. The Federal Circuit, however, reversed the district court’s finding that Apotex’s ANDA filing constituted willful infringement. The Federal Circuit held that the mere filing of an ANDA cannot constitute an act of willful infringement compensable by attorney’s fees under the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, also known as the Hatch-Waxman Act. The Federal Circuit explained that 35 U.S.C. � 271(e)(2) and 35 U.S.C. � 271(e)(4) create only an ‘artificial’ act of infringement for a ‘very limited and technical purpose that relates only to certain drug applications.’ This purpose is to permit patent holders to bring suit against generic companies despite the fact that the generic companies have not yet infringed the patents at issue. The Federal Circuit eloquently wrapped up its analysis by saying: ‘[t]he district court therefore erred in hanging a finding of willfulness on such a special-purpose peg.'”
WAR FOR DRUGS…….. August 16, 2004
Posted by mais in Drugs, Patent.
Tags: Generic Drugs, Intellectual Property, Patent, Pharma Patent, Proprietry Drugs
Drug Wars: six lawyers discussing genrics Vs big Pharma drug war
In our roundtable, pharma lawyers dissect the changes in Hatch-Waxman, the costs of patent litigation, and the blurring line between generic and branded drug companies.
IP Law & Business/August 2004 ”
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Profiting from Patents–anyway-whether ethical or …. August 16, 2004
Tags: patent ethics, Patent Services, United States patent law
“Submarine Patents Sunk:
One of the frequent criticisms I hear of the U.S. patent system in particular is the existence of ‘submarine’ patents. This term refers to patents that issue very long after their filing. So a company or organization that has been happily proceeding along a path of commercialization of their product is blind-sided by a patent issuance, the existance of which was secret.
For several reasons, the number of submarine patents is diminishing: the U.S. now has a patent term of 20 years counted from the date of filing, and for the most part, patent applications are published 18 months after filing. Because these changes only took place in 1995 (patent term) and 2000 (publication), a few submarine patents have been lurking stealthily along, grandfathered in under the old rules.
The most prolific user of the old U.S. patent system has to be Jerome Lemelson. Patent applications he filed in the mid-1950s and that were granted between 1978 and 1994 are now being asserted against manufacturers of bar code readers and machine vision systems. While this strategy has netted Lemelson and the Lemelson Foundation as much as $1 billion in royalty payments, the gold mine is being shut down.
A U.S. District Court recently ruled that 14 patents of Lemelson’s are invalid because ‘Lemelson’s delay in securing the asserted patent claims is unexplained and unreasonable’. While this is good news for the manufacturers, it is not the end of the story as the Lemelson Foundation is expected to appeal the decision. In the opinion of yours truly, Lemelson Foundation is going to be sunk for good on this one. In the last few years, the Federal Circuit Appeals Court has not looked favorably on delays initiated by the patent applicant. ”
Who lost it…. plant breeder or farmer or we August 16, 2004
Posted by mais in Litigation, Patent, USA.
Tags: Patent, patent litigation, Supreme Court of Canada, Supreme Court of the United States
Navigating the patent maze: Court Decisions: “Schmeiser v Monsanto
By this time, most of you have heard that ‘Monsanto won’ over Percy Schmeiser in the Canadian Supreme Court. Actually, Mr Schmeiser was found to have infringed Monsanto’s patent but no damages were assessed. It was a close decision and a momentous one for two main reasons. Several commentators have written about how genetically-engineered plants are essentially, if not expressly, protectable because of the gene introduced. In another blog entry, I will discuss that issue. For this entry, however, I raise the possibility that the Court has defined ‘use’ of a patented invention in such a way that that there may now be an exemption for basic science research in Canada.
Monsanto Canada Inc v Schmeiser 2004 SCC 34.
In particular, the court defined ‘use’ as utilization with a view to production or advantage. The use then that interferes with the rights granted to the patent owner is infinging. Amazingly, the Court characterized deprivation of their rights when ‘another person, without licence or permission, uses the invention to further a business interest.’
Does this imply that a use that is not commercial or furthering a business interest is non-infringing? Would a research use in the confines of a non-profit or educational institute be non-infringing?
There are several ways that the Canadian Courts can go. For example, the Canadians, like their southern neighbor counterpart court, may say that essentially all uses have a business purpose, even universities who may ‘use’ in furtherance of their business of education and money raising. Or, they may hold that that commercial use is not the only use that can be infringing. The Canadian Supreme Court hints that the latter route is appropriate when they write ‘Even in the absence of commercial exploitation, the patent holder is entitled to protection.”
In Schmeiser’s case, Mr Schmeiser contended that he didn’t use the patented gene, which conferred resistance to roundup, because he didn’t spray the canola crop with the herbicide. But, the court still found ‘use’ of the invention because Mr Schmeiser’s business was growing canola, and he grew canola containing the patented seeds. Furthermore, he had the advantage of the stand-by use, meaning that he could have sprayed Roundup ™ or could have sold the seed to other farmers who didn’t want to pay the fee to Monsanto.
Where does this leave those who may use a patented invention in the context of research? Without clarification of this issue by the Canadian courts, I wouldn’t assume that there is now a research exemption. That said, despite what is likely a huge amount of infringment of patents in university settings, very rarely are universities and scientists there ever stopped from using a patented invention. For more on this subject, I refer you to this article: “Accessing other people’s technology for non-profit researchAJARE.pdf Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 46:3 389-416 (September 2002).
The Invent Blog: Software Patents August 3, 2004
Posted by mais in Patent, software.
Tags: Software patent
The Invent Blog: Software Patents: “EU software patents a reality
Via Bill Heinze,
The European Council approved the Software Patents Directive which will now be sent back to the European Parliament for another vote in the Fall where reversing the Council’s vote may be difficult. The Community Patent Regulation, on the other hand, died when Spain demanded all 20 translations of the claims be considered legally binding and ministers would not compromise by leaving the issue for courts to decide.
For still more, see http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5215020.html and http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8695760.htm”
Vote on Software patent directives in EU EurActiv.com Portal – News nr 1507687 August 3, 2004
Tension grows as Council prepares to vote on software patents directive
Background:On 20 February 2002, the Commission presented a proposal for a Directive on the Patentability of computer-implemented inventions. These are defined as inventions “involving the use of a computer, computer network or other programmable apparatus”.
Currently, patents for computer-implemented inventions are granted by the European Patent Office (EPO), but are not enforceable in all Member States because of diverging legislation. The Commission argues that the directive would provide more certainty for businesses, encouraging them to innovate and profit from their work. At the same time, it said its objective was to avoid stifling competition in the internal market and to favour small businesses.
To achieve this, the Commission argued patents should be awarded only to inventions “which make a ‘technical contribution’- in other words which contribute to the “state of the art” in the technical field concerned”. Computer programmes as such, it said, would not fall under the proposal.
Issues:The Irish presidency has tabled a compromise deal on the software patents directive which is scheduled to be voted on by EU ministers at the 18 May Competitiveness Council. According to the Council press service, Germany (abstaining), Belgium (opposed) and Denmark (unpronounced as of yet) are the only countries who have not accepted the compromise. Because there is so ittle opposition among the Member States, the Irish presidency is considering tabling the text without debate.
But the draft is already stirring much criticism from anti-patent campaigners. They claim that the amendments introduced by Parliament in September last year have been scrapped almost entirely. And MEPs themselves have expressed dismay at the Council’s choices.
If approved by EU ministers, the Irish compromise will have to return to Parliament for a second reading as not all of the MEPs’ amendments were taken on board.
The directive was voted on by Parliament on 24 September 2003 (see EurActiv, 25 September 2003). MEPs introduced numerous amendments, reflecting concerns by critics from diverse backgrounds who claimed the Commission proposal would introduce a US-style regime under which large companies can acquire unlimited software patents to protect them from competition.
MEPs in particular insisted that the directive should not lead to “any drift towards the patentability of unpatentable methods such as trivial procedures and business methods”. To them, the technical contribution referred to in the Commission proposal has to offer an “inventive step” defined as something “new, non-obvious, and susceptible of industrial application”. They recommended applying a test in order to verify this. In addition, they claimed that a mathematical algorithm in itself should not be patentable unless it its used to solve a technical problem.
The Parliament was also wary not to damage provisions of an existing directive (91/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer programmes) under which rights holders are forced to disclose information to ensure interoperability with other applications.
Positions:MEPs from all major political parties have expressed discontent at the Irish presidency compromise for ignoring the Parliament’s position. MEP Arlene MC Carthy (PES, UK), the Parliament’s rapporteur on the dossier, told EurActiv she is not surprised at the Council’s position: “Member States have been heavily lobbied by industry. The Parliament’s vote was clear – we do not want software per se to be patented. We want strict interpretations and criteria for genuine inventions. The Council Common Position is not the final word. The new Parliament will have a second reading and I expect there to be some tough talking and negotiations”.
Speaking to EurActiv, a spokesperson at the Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment said the compromise merely reflected the position of Member States’ experts at the Council’s Working Party on Intellectual Property (Patents). The spokesperson indicated the second reading in the Parliament would provide another opportunity for MEPs to move away from the Council’s common position.
European Industry Association for Information Systems, Communication Technologies and Consumer Electronics (EICTA) says it is “quite satisfied” with the Irish compromise text. Speaking to EurActiv, it expressed satisfaction at the removal of a proposal from the Luxembourg delegation concerning Article 6a on interoperability. This, EICTA said, would have rendered it “impossible” for European companies to develop and protect innovations that depend on data communications. To EICTA, the Irish compromise would implement the status quo of the European Patents Office “with clarification and tightening”, as adovated by the industry association.
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is leading a campaign against the directive. It says the compromise agreement clinched by the Irish Presidency discards all the Parliament amendments aimed at limiting patentability. It says that the rejection of the Luxembourg delegation’s attempt to ensure interoperability leaves the door open to unlimited patentability of computer programmes, data structures and process descriptions.
Major European companies including Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Ericsson and Daimler Chrysler have issued a joint statement on 13 April 2004. They call for all EU ministers to support the text proposed by the Irish Presidency: “We commend the Irish Presidency for presenting a balanced text which preserves the incentives for European innovation (…) while responding to the European Parliament’s call for limitations to ensure that patentability does not extend into non-technical areas or unduly hinder interoperability in our increasingly networked society,” the statement reads.
Internal Commissioner Frits Bolkestein is strongly opposed to the Parliament’s amendments which he thinks are “unacceptable”. He threatened to withdraw the proposal altogether and go another route: “If I may be blunt (…) the process of renegotiation of the European Patent Convention would not require any contribution from this Parliament,” Bolkestein told MEPs before they voted on the text in September last year.
The EU Council of ministers will vote on the directive on 18 May
The Parliament will examine the text for a second reading after the June elections, probably under the Dutch presidency
Official documents:
EUR-Lex: Proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, COM(2002) 92 final, [FR] [DE] (20 Feb. 2002)
PreLex: Proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions [FR] [DE]
Parliament OEIL: Patent law: patentability of computer-implemented inventions [FR]
Parliament: Texts Adopted – European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions [FR] [DE] (24 Sept. 2003)
Parliament: Press release – Patentability of computerised inventions [FR] [DE] (24 Sept. 2003)
Parliament: Report on the proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, Arlene MC CARTHY (PES, UK) [FR] [DE] (18 June 2003)
Commission: Proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions – frequently asked questions [FR] [DE]
Commission press release: Patents: Commission proposes rules for inventions using software [FR] [DE]
Cordis: Proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
EU Actors’ positions:
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII): Software patents in Europe
FFII: EU Council plans to scrap parliamentary vote without discussion (7 May 2004)
FFII: EU Council 2004/01/29 “Presidency Compromise Proposal” on Software Patents (5 May 2004)
European Industry Association for Information Systems, Communication Technologies and Consumer Electronics (EICTA): Proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented Inventions – EICTA Response on the Irish Presidency Consolidated Text (24 Mar. 2004)
EICTA: Industry Calls on Council to Correct Damage Done by the European Parliament — European R&D Will Be Jeopardised If CII Patents Are Eliminated (26 Nov. 2003)
EICTA: Analysis of Amendments adopted by the European Parliament at the First Reading (23 Oct. 2003)
Nokia, Ericsson, Daimler Chryseler & others: Joint statement on the proposed directive on patentability of computer-implemented inventions (13 Apr. 2004)
Campaign for creativity: The Software Patents Directive [FR]
Electronic Frontier Finland: Open Letter by Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox to the European Parliament (21 September 2003)
EuroLinux: Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
Research in Europe: An Open Letter to the European Parliament Concerning the Proposed Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions
Research in Europe: A Critique of the Rapporteur’s Explanatory Statement accompanying the JURI Report to the European Parliament on the proposed Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions
Software Patents in EU August 3, 2004
The Invent Blog: Software Patents: “Software patents in Europe
Arnoud Engelfriet e-mailed me to some links on his site about software patents in Europe:
Examples of granted European business method patents
The patentability of business methods at the European Patent Office
Software patents under the European Patent Convention
Patently Obvious: MBHB Patent Law Blog: Patent Explosion August 3, 2004
Posted by mais in IP/Patent Valuation, Patent Analytics, patent intelligence.
Patently Obvious: MBHB Patent Law Blog: Patent Explosion: “Aug 02, 2004
Patent Explosion
The past twenty years has seen increadible increases in the number of patents both applied for and issued. In her most recent paper (PDF), Berkeley professor and empirical whiz, Bronwyn Hall, examines patenting data and arrives at some interesting conclusions.
1) Although patenting has increased in most technological fields, the explosive growth is largely accounted for by electrical and computing fields.
2) The explosion is drivin, for the most part, by U.S. firms, with some contribution from Asia and Europe.
3) Patenting has become a critical signal of viability for new entrants in many industries.
Professor Hall’s data shows that in most industries, increases in patenting were drivin by new entrants. However, patenting increases in electrical and computing industries were accomplished by a shift in patenting by industry stalwarts.
The figures reveal the following interesting fact: although the jump in patent applications within the U.S. occurred in all technology classes, when we look by broad industry class, we find that it occurred only in firms that are in the electrical, computing and instruments industries. That is, the increase in chemicals, mechanical and other technologies appears to have been driven by increasing patenting activity by firms that were not traditionally in these industries. This result is consistent with the view that there has been a major strategic shift in patenting in the electrical/computing industries, but not in other industries.
UPDATE: Professor Hall provided a correction to my original interpretation of her results. She interprets her results as showing ‘that patents held by new entrants in the electrical and computing industries became more valuable post-1985 than those”
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Plot: Set in 1977, Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to Enfield, England in order to help a family experiencing paranormal activity. The family consists of a single mother raising 4 children. Her two daughters are the ones most affected by the paranormal spirit in their homes.
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Madison Wolfe, Frances O’Connor, Lauren Esposito, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente and Maria Doyle Kennedy.
At the beginning of the film, Ed and Lorraine are in Amityville and I’m sure you all know what happened there. Then they travel to Enfield and using a title card on the film it says that this is their most diabolical case. What’s so diabolical? I didn’t think it was that bad, not as bad as the case in the first film, that’s for sure. I just didn’t feel particularly threatened. I think the reason they called it diabolical was because Ed was in danger. From the beginning of the film it kind of foreshadowed that he was going to die but let’s be honest did we ever really believe that he was going to die? I didn’t.
Even though I have just slated the film I did actually enjoy it. It was very entertaining. There was only one moment that I jumped and to be honest I can’t even remember why. I wish it was scarier as I think I would have loved it then. I love watching really scary films in the dark.
One of the reasons I like these films is because of the chemistry between Ed and Lorraine. The actors shine on screen as a loved-up couple who are genuinely still in love. I really like these characters, they have so much story to them it’s intriguing. I do hope they get another outing in a sequel as these films are very enjoyable. I’m not sure whether I prefer this one to the first one, I think I enjoyed them both equaly.
I love horror films that are based around a true story because I find it really interesting. Obviously the Enfield haunting isn’t something new for me. I’ve read about it before and found it really interesting. I think films like this always make you question whether you believe in the paranormal or not. What’s unique about this story is that it questions the reality of it too. Especially in this particular case as at a certain point in the film it’s believed that the girls are in fact making it up which is what happened in the true story.
The film gets quite intense towards the end because it’s obviously the climax and we await in aticipation to see if Ed is going to die or not. It’s a great ending and the demon in the film, the nun if you like, might not be dead because they’re planning a spin-off film called The Nun. However, as the Warren’s killed it at the end of this film, I’m thinking The Nun could take place before this case but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I really don’t belive in the paranormal. I never have and I don’t think I ever will. Ouija boards don’t scare me at all, I highly disbelive that they work. Do you believe in the paranormal? I would love to know what other people think. Even if it’s just your opinion about this case. Leave your opinions in the comments section!
Rating: 7/10.
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United States' Frances Tiafoe reacts after defeating Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov in their fourth round at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
LeBron, pickle juice help Tiafoe reach Australian Open QFs
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Frances Tiafoe just kept shaking his head and calling the whole thing "crazy" and "unbelievable." Which it all kind of is.
That he reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal on his 21st birthday by beating No. 20 seed Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (1), 7-5 at the Australian Open on Sunday.
That he did it with the hydrating help of pickle juice guzzled during changeovers to fend off cramps.
That his shirt-removing, biceps-slapping victory poses paying homage to LeBron James have gone viral and might have caught the NBA superstar's attention.
And, most poignantly of all, that Tiafoe is delivering on the promise he made as a kid to his mother and father — immigrants from Sierra Leone in West Africa — that one day he'd be a success.
"I told my parents 10 years ago I was going to be a pro. I was going to change their life. My life," Tiafoe said, fighting tears after getting past Dimitrov, a two-time major semifinalist who is coached by Andre Agassi. "And I'm in the quarters of a Slam now. ... I can't believe it."
He grabbed plenty of attention before Roger Federer's bid for a third consecutive title at Melbourne Park ended with a 6-7 (11), 7-6 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (5) loss to 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece.
Tiafoe proudly noted that he has been able to buy two homes for his folks. Tiafoe grew up around a tennis facility in Maryland where his father, whom he calls "Pops," was a maintenance man.
That background taught Tiafoe what he considers valuable lessons.
"Look, I'm not saying you can't make it if you grew up from a wealthy situation. I mean, a ton of people have. But obviously that gave me an incentive, a reason to give, a reason to work every day, understand why you do it," he said. "Obviously it's how bad do you really want to be successful, essentially. Like, what does that really mean to you? Why are you doing it?"
The 39th-ranked Tiafoe never had been past the third round at a major until now. And what a challenge awaits Tuesday: His quarterfinal match will be against 17-time major champion Rafael Nadal.
"He's going to run me like crazy," Tiafoe said. "I've got to go to sleep now, matter of fact."
And then, in either a bit of false bravado or a harmless joke, the American added: "Yeah, he better get ready."
The second-seeded Nadal had very little trouble moving on, beating Tomas Berdych 6-0, 6-1, 7-6 (4) in a rematch of the 2010 Wimbledon final. On the other half of the men's bracket, 2018 Australian Open runner-up Marin Cilic was ousted by 22nd-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Bautista Agut had been 0-9 in fourth-round matches at majors, and his first quarterfinal will come against Tsitsipas, another man making his debut in that round.
In women's action, two past champions and former No. 1s were sent packing. Angelique Kerber, who won the title at Melbourne Park in 2016, was completely outplayed by unseeded Danielle Collins of the U.S. in a surprisingly lopsided 6-0, 6-2 upset, while 2008 champ Maria Sharapova double-faulted 10 times in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 loss to No. 15 Ash Barty of Australia.
Barty, the first woman to reach the quarterfinals at her country's Slam since Jelena Dokic a decade ago, now meets two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, a 6-2, 6-1 winner against 17-year-old Amanda Anisimova of the U.S.
Collins' next opponent will be unseeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who got past 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3.
Nadal, who improved to 20-4 against Berdych, never has faced Tiafoe.
"He has everything. He's quick. He serves well. Very quick forehand. He's a very dynamic player, aggressive one," Nadal said. "Of course he's dangerous: He's in the quarterfinals."
Tiafoe's first contest at that stage will be Nadal's 37th.
"It's so nice to see somebody new, somebody fresh," Dimitrov said. "I mean, everybody in the locker room likes him."
If Tiafoe can pull off what would be a real upset, perhaps he'll bring out yet another variation of James' "Silencer" celebration.
After getting past Dimitrov, Tiafoe removed his shirt, flexed his arms and smacked his muscle, pounded his chest, then dropped to his knees and patted the court with both palms.
As the crowd sang a chorus of "Happy Birthday" and a few rounds of "Oh, Fran-ces Tee-ahh-foe," he sat on a sideline bench, covering his face with a towel.
"I almost didn't do it today," he said about his post-match moves, "because I thought I was going to cramp."
More AP Tennis: https://www.apnews.com/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Me and Jerome: The Search for Forgotten Minor Leaguers
Early Texas League Baseball History
Willie Underhill-The Pride of Yowell, Texas (pop. 10)
Ballplayers sometimes hail from the most unexpected places. Today, Yowell, Texas, is little more than a cluster of houses midway in near the Delta-Hunt County line south of Pecan Gap. Though Yowell never had a railroad connection which helped build so many nearby communities, it slowly grew until the 1930s, when 150 people lived close enough to the two businesses, churches, and store to call Yowell home, whether they lived in Delta or Hunt County.
“Vern” Underhill was born September 9, 1904, the sixth of eight children of William and Ida Walters Underhill. William was a native of Texas, having been born in Hopkins County just after the Civil War, while Ida moved to the area from Waco after spending her early childhood in Indiana. Like most North Texas families at the turn of the twentieth century, the Underhills operated a farm, and by 1920 the business engaged the entire family, including sixteen year-old Vern. By 1930, though, Vern’s parent had moved to the Texas Panhandle, and Vern had moved onto what he considered a better life, professional baseball.
Exactly how Vern Underhill got his start in baseball is unclear. Although the most logical explanation would be that he played for the training school at East Texas Teacher’s College in nearby Commerce, no records exist of his attending the institution. Regardless, in 1926 he got his professional start with Decatur in the Three-I League (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa). Pitching unsuccessfully for the Commodores in eleven winless games, the next season Vern returned to Texas, joining the Tyler Trojans of the Lone Star League. At Tyler, Underhill enjoyed his most successful season, posting a 13-6 won-loss record and leading the Trojans to the league championship. His efforts were enough to gain the attention of major league scouts, and at season’s end he joined the Cleveland Indians. His late season stint with the team did not impress, as he posted a 9.72 ERA in just eight inning pitched. A year later, he began the season with New Orleans of the Southern Association and again showed big league potential, with a 3.34 ERA in 31 games. Cleveland again took a shot with the best ballplayer to ever come out of Yowell, Texas, but he disappointed again, allowing far too many baserunners in his twenty-eight innings. Still he recorded the only win of his major league career for a miserable Indians club.
Though success eluded Vern Underhill in the major leagues, he remained a hot commodity in the minors. In 1929, he enjoyed a successful season back in Decatur in Class B ball, although after moving to Jersey City’s Class AA franchise, his pitching faltered. Nonetheless, in 1930, Underhill returned southward, joining the Texas League’s Shreveport Sports. Once again, he found his form, pitching 199 innings and finishing the season with an 11-6 record on a well-stacked pitching staff that carried the Sports to the playoffs. Still, cracks showed in his game, as he led the team in runs and bases-on-balls allowed. The following season, he again started with Shreveport but pitched only five games before returning to the Southern Assocation’s New Orleans Pelicans. The Pelicans had a potent roster, with eighteen of its twenty-six players eventually spending time in the Major Leagues, but in 1932 many were either past their prime or yet to reach their potential. New Orleans finished out of the playoffs in fifth place, Underhill’s 5-10 record not strong enough as the rotation’s fourth starting pitcher.
In 1932, Vern Underhill, now twenty-seven years old and five years removed from his brief major league career, moved northward to the Western League’s Omaha Packers. For the first time in his career, he didn’t pitch a single game and only played sporadically as a pinch hitter. After just eleven games, Vern decided it was time to give up the dream and retired from baseball.
In 1940, Underhill was Sheriff of Hutchinson County, living with his wife and eight month-old son, Willie Vernon, Jr. By the end of the decade, Vern developed severe allergies and relocated his family to Southeast Texas where he worked in the oil industry. By the mid-1960s, his allergies had developed into Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Ultimately, he died in 1970 of acute respiratory failure at the age of 66. He is buried in Matagorda County.
By the time Vern Underhill passed away, his hometown had become little more than cluster of homes between Pecan Gap and Commerce. Although a road sign still alerts motorists when they arrive at what was once Yowell, there are few signs a community of any significance existed. And, there is no sign of Willie Vernon Underhill, arguably Yowell’s most famous resident.
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Mortgage rates legal definition of Mortgage rates
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Mortgage+rates
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A legal document by which the owner (i.e., the buyer) transfers to the lender an interest in real estate to secure the repayment of a debt, evidenced by a mortgage note. When the debt is repaid, the mortgage is discharged, and a satisfaction of mortgage is recorded with the register or recorder of deeds in the county where the mortgage was recorded. Because most people cannot afford to buy real estate with cash, nearly every real estate transaction involves a mortgage.
The party who borrows the money and gives the mortgage (the debtor) is the mortgagor; the party who pays the money and receives the mortgage (the lender) is the mortgagee. Under early English and U.S. law, the mortgage was treated as a complete transfer of title from the borrower to the lender. The lender was entitled not only to payments of interest on the debt but also to the rents and profits of the real estate. This meant that as far as the borrower was concerned, the real estate was of no value, that is, "dead," until the debt was paid in full—hence the Norman-English name "mort" (dead), "gage" (pledge).
The mortgage must be executed according to the formalities required by the laws of the state where the property is located. It must describe the real estate and must be signed by all owners, including non-owner spouses if the property is a homestead. Some states require witnesses as well as acknowledgement before a Notary Public.
The mortgage note, in which the borrower promises to repay the debt, sets out the terms of the transaction: the amount of the debt, the mortgage due date, the rate of interest, the amount of monthly payments, whether the lender requires monthly payments to build a tax and insurance reserve, whether the loan may be repaid with larger or more frequent payments without a prepayment penalty, and whether failing to make a payment or selling the property will entitle the lender to call the entire debt due.
State courts have devised varying theories of the legal effect of mortgages: Some treat the mortgage as a conveyance of the title, which can be defeated on payment of the debt; others regard it as a lien, entitling the borrower to all of the rights of ownership, as long as the terms of the mortgage are observed. In California a deed of trust to a trustee who holds title for the lender is the preferred security instrument.
At Common Law, if the borrower failed to pay the debt in full at the appointed time, the borrower suffered a complete loss of title, however long and faithfully the payments had been made.
Courts of Equity, which were originally ecclesiastical courts, had the authority to decide cases on the basis of moral obligation, fairness, or justice, as distinguished from the law courts, which were bound to decide strictly according to the common law. Equity courts softened the harshness of the common law by ruling that the debtor could regain title even after default, but before it was declared forfeited, by paying the debt with interest and costs. This form of relief is known as the equity of redemption.
Nowadays, nearly all states have enacted statutes incorporating the equity of redemption, and many also have enacted periods of redemption, specifying lengths of time within which the borrower may redeem. Although some debtors, or mortgagors, are able to avoid foreclosure through the equity of redemption, many are not, because redeeming means coming up with the balance of the mortgage plus interest and costs, something that a financially troubled debtor might not be able to accomplish. However, because foreclosure upends the agreement between mortgagor and mortgagee and creates burdens for both parties, lenders are often willing to work with debtors to help them through a period of temporary difficulty. Debtors who run into problems meeting their mortgage obligations should speak to their lender about developing a plan to avert foreclosure.
Failure to redeem results in foreclosure of the borrower's rights in the real estate, which is then sold by the county sheriff at a public fore-closure sale. At a foreclosure sale, the lender is the most frequent purchaser of the property.
If the bid at the sale is less than the debt, even if it is for fair market value, the lender may be granted a deficiency judgment for the balance of the debt against the debtor, with the right to resort to other assets or income for its collection.
Often other creditors bid at the sale to protect their interest as judgment creditors, second mortgagees, or mechanic's lien claimants. All such persons must be notified of the foreclosure suit and must be given a right to bid at the sale to protect their claims. Similar protections are afforded transactions involving deeds of trust.
A fixed-rate mortgage carries an interest rate that will be set at the inception of the loan and will remain constant for the length of the mortgage. A 30-year mortgage will have a rate that is fixed for all 30 years. At the end of the 30th year, if payments have been made on time, the loan is fully paid off. To a borrower, the advantage is that the rate will remain constant, and the monthly payment will remain the same throughout the life of the loan. The lender is taking the risk that interest rates will rise and that it will carry a loan at below-market interest rates for some or part of the 30 years. Because of this risk, there is usually a higher interest rate on a fixed-rate loan than the initial rate and payments on adjustable rate or balloon mortgages. If the rates fall, homeowners may pay off the loan by refinancing the house at the then-lower interest rate.
An adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) provides a fixed initial interest rate and a fixed initial monthly payment for a short period of time. With an ARM, after the initial fixed period, which can be anywhere from six months to six years, both the interest rate and the monthly payments adjust on a regular basis to reflect the then-current market interest. Some ARMs may be subject to adjustment every three months, while others may be adjusted once per year. Moreover, some ARMs limit the amount that the rates may change. While an ARM usually carries a lower initial interest rate and a lower initial monthly payment, the purchaser is taking the risk that rates may rise in the future.
An alternative form of financing, usually a last resort for those who do not qualify for other mortgages, is called owner financing or owner carryback. The owner finances or "carries" all or part of the mortgage. Owner financing often involves balloon mortgage payments, as the monthly payments are frequently interest-only. A balloon mortgage has a fixed interest rate and a fixed monthly payment, but after a fixed period of time, such as five or ten years, the whole balance of the loan becomes due at once, meaning that the buyer must either pay the balloon loan off in cash or refinance the loan at current market rates.
A home-equity loan is usually used by homeowners to borrow some of the equity in the home. This may raise the monthly housing payment considerably. More and more lenders are offering home-equity lines of credit. The interest might be tax-deductible because the debt is secured by a home. A home-equity line of credit is a form of revolving credit secured by a home. Many lenders set the credit limit on a home-equity line by taking a percentage of the home's appraised value and subtracting from that the balance owed on the existing mortgage. In determining the credit limit, the lender will also consider other factors to determine the homeowner's ability to repay the loan. Many home-equity plans set a fixed period during which money may be borrowed. Some lenders require payment in full of any outstanding balance at the end of the period.
Home-equity lines of credit usually have variable, rather than fixed, interest rates. The variable rate must be based on a publicly available index such as the prime rate published in major daily newspapers or a U.S. Treasury bill rate. The interest rate for borrowing under the home-equity line will change in accordance with the index. Most lenders set the interest rate at the value of the index at a particular time plus a margin, such as 3 percentage points. The cost of borrowing is tied directly to the value of the index. Lenders sometimes offer a temporarily discounted interest rate for a home-equity line. This is a rate that is unusually low and that may last for a short introductory period of merely a few months.
The costs of setting up a home-equity line of credit typically include a fee for a property appraisal, an application fee, fees for attorneys, title search, mortgage preparation and filing fees, property and title insurance fees, and taxes. There also might be recurring maintenance fees for the account, or a transaction fee every time there is a draw on the credit line. It might cost a significant amount of money to establish the home-equity line of credit, although interest savings often justify the cost of establishing and maintaining the line.
The federal Truth in Lending Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1601 set. seq., requires lenders to disclose the important terms and costs of their home-equity plans, including the APR, miscellaneous charges, the payment terms, and information about any variable-rate feature. If the home involved is a principal dwelling, the Truth in Lending Act allows three days from the day the account was opened to cancel the credit line. This right allows the borrower to cancel for any reason by informing the lender in writing within the three-day period. The lender then must cancel its security interest in the property and return all fees.
A second mortgage provides a fixed amount of money that is repayable over a fixed period. In most cases, the payment schedule calls for equal payments that will pay off the entire loan within the loan period. A second mortgage differs from a home-equity loan in that it is not a line of credit, but rather a more traditional type of loan. The traditional second-mortgage loan takes into account the interest rate charged plus points and other finance charges. The annual percentage rate for a home-equity line of credit is based on the periodic interest rate alone. It does not include points or other charges.
A reverse mortgage works much like a traditional mortgage, only in reverse. It allows homeowners to convert the equity in a home into cash. A reverse mortgage permits retired homeowners who own their home and have paid all of their mortgage to borrow against the value of their home. The lender pays the equity to the homeowner in either payments or a lump sum. Unlike a standard home-equity loan, no repayment is due until the home is no longer used as a principal residence, a sale of the home, or the death of the homeowner.
A deed of trust is similar to a mortgage, with one important exception: If the borrower breaches the agreement to pay off the loan, the foreclosure process is typically much quicker and less complicated than the formal mortgage-foreclosure process. While a mortgage involves a relationship between the borrower/homeowner and the bank/lender, a deed of trust involves the homeowner, the lender, and a title insurance company. The title insurance company holds legal title to the real estate until the loan is paid in full, at which time the company transfers the property title to the homeowner.
Subdivision or condominium-development mortgages that cover a large tract of land are blanket mortgages. A blanket mortgage makes possible the sale of individual lots or units, with the proceeds applied to the mortgage, and partial release of the mortgage recorded to clear the title for that lot or unit.
Construction mortgages need special treatment depending on state construction-lien law. Often the loan proceeds are placed in escrow with title insurance companies to make certain that the mortgage remains a first lien, with priority over contractors' construction liens.
Open-end mortgages make possible additional advances of money from the lender without the necessity of a new mortgage.
The time of repayment may be extended by a recorded extension of mortgage. Other real estate may be added to the mortgage by a spreading agreement. Mortgaged real estate may be sold, with the buyer taking either "subject to" or by "assuming" the mortgage. In the former case, the buyer acknowledges the existence of the mortgage and, upon default, may lose the title. By assuming the mortgage, the buyer promises to repay the debt and may be personally liable for a deficiency judgment if the sale brings less than the debt.
Lenders regularly assign mortgages to other investors. Assignments with recourse are guarantees by the one who assigns the mortgage that that party will collect the debt; those Without Recourse do not contain such guarantees. Assignments with recourse usually involve lower-risk properties or those of relatively stable or rising value. Assignments without recourse tend to involve riskier properties. Mortgages assigned without recourse are often sold at a price discounted well below their market value.
Before the Great Depression of the 1930s, most mortgages were "straight" short-term mortgages, requiring payments of interest and lump-sum principal, with the result that when incomes dropped, many borrowers lost their properties. That risk is minimized today because commercial lenders take fully amortized mortgages, in which part of the periodic payment applies first to interest and then to principal, with the balance reduced to zero at the end of the term.
Several agencies of the federal government have assisted the mortgage market by infusion of capital and by guarantees of repayment of mortgages. The Federal Housing Administration made possible purchases of real estate at low interest rates and with low down payments. The Veterans Affairs Department (VA) also guarantees home loans to certain veterans on favorable terms. Both agencies contributed greatly to the growth of the housing market after World War II. During the late 1950s, private corporations began insuring repayment of conventional mortgages.
The Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), created by the U.S. government in 1968, makes possible trading in mortgages by investors by guaranteeing mortgage-backed Securities.
The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) is a private corporation, chartered by the U.S. government, that bolsters the supply of funds for home mortgages by buying mortgages from banks, insurance companies, and savings and loans.
Inflation in the 1970s made long-term fixed-rate mortgages less attractive to lenders. In response, lenders devised three types of mortgage loans that enable the rate of interest to vary in case of rises in rates: the variable-rate mortgage, graduated-payment mortgage, and the adjustable-rate mortgage. These mortgages are offered at initial interest rates that are somewhat lower than those for 20- to 30-year fixed-rate mortgages.
Home-equity loans are typically second mortgages to the holder of the first mortgage, advancing funds based on a percentage of the owner's equity; that is, the amount by which the value of the real estate exceeds the first mortgage balance.
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n. a document in which the owner pledges his/her/its title to real property to a lender as security for a loan described in a promissory note. Mortgage is an old English term derived from two French words "mort" and "gage" meaning "dead pledge." To be enforceable the mortgage must be signed by the owner (borrower), acknowledged before a notary public, and recorded with the County Recorder or Recorder of Deeds. If the owner (mortgagor) fails to make payments on the promissory note (becomes delinquent) then the lender (mortgagee) can foreclose on the mortgage to force a sale of the real property to obtain payment from the proceeds, or obtain the property itself at a sheriff's sale upon foreclosure. However, catching up on delinquent payments and paying costs of foreclosure ("curing the default") can save the property. In some states the property can be redeemed by such payment even after foreclosure. Upon payment in full the mortgagee (lender) is required to execute a "satisfaction of mortgage" (sometimes called a "discharge of mortgage") and record it to clear the title to the property. A purchase-money mortgage is one given by a purchaser to a seller of real property as partial payment. A mortgagor may sell the property either "subject to a mortgage" in which the property is still security and the seller is still liable for payment, or the buyer "assumes the mortgage" and becomes personally responsible for payment of the loan. Under English common law a mortgage was an actual transfer of title to the lender, with the borrower having the right to occupy the property while it was in effect, but non-payment ended the right of occupation. Today only Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont cling to the common law, and other states using mortgages treat them as liens on the property. More significantly, 14 states use a "deed of trust" (or "trust deed") as a mortgage. These states include: California, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Colorado, Georgia, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina and West Virginia. Under the deed of trust system title is technically given to a trustee to hold for the lender who is called a beneficiary. (See: deed of trust, trust deed, foreclosure, notice of default, judicial foreclosure)
noun charge, collateral security, condiiional conveyance of land, conditional property transfer, connractual obligation, encumbrance, engagement, loan transaction, obligation, pignus, pledge, pledge for the payment of a debt, pledge of security, real security, security for a debt, something owing, state of indebttdness, transfer of property as security for a debt, transfer of security
Associated concepts: amortization of a mortgage, assignnent of a mortgage, assumption of a mortgage, chattel mortgage, constructive mortgage, equitable mortgage, first mortgage, foreclosure of a mortgage, holder of a morttage, lien, maturity of a mortgage, mortgage commitment, mortgagee in possession, mortgagee of record, mortgagor, purchase money mortgage, recording of a mortgage, reeemption of a mortgage, second mortgage, subject to a mortgage
See also: cloud, encumber, encumbrance, hypothecation, incumbrance, pawn
a conveyance of land or an assignment of chattels as a security for the payment of a debt or the discharge of some other obligation for which it is given. Every form of property maybe mortgaged except the salaries of public functionaries. Mortgages maybe legal, in which case they must be effected by deed, or equitable, in which event they may be effected informally, as, for example, by the deposit of documents of title with the lender. The lender (the mortgagee) is accorded certain powers to protect his investment. The principal powers are sale and foreclosure and the right to appoint a receiver - a right that may become exercisable in the event of a default. The borrower (the mortgagor) is entitled to redeem in accordance with the terms of the mortgage. On payment of the outstanding balance, together with any interest due, the mortgage is discharged.
In relation to land in England and Wales, a legal mortgage of freehold land is effected by means of a demise subject to a proviso for cesser on redemption; in relation to leaseholds, the mortgage as effected by a sub-demise. An alternative form, provided for by Section 851 of the Law of Property Act 1925, is a charge by deed expressed to be by way of legal mortgage. Since the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, the creation of an equitable mortgage requires to be in writing and can, it would seem, no longer be effected merely by deposit of title deeds. To secure protection against bona fide purchasers, equitable mortgagees should ensure that their mortgages are protected by registration as a land charge (where the title is not subject to the Land Registration Acts) or as a charge where the title is so subject.
In Scotland the word is used non-technically to describe the lending relationship in relation to heritage. The legal documentation in Scotland is by way of a STANDARD SECURITY.
There is a UK Mortgage Code setting out the framework of the relationships involved and providing for rules on advertising and service levels. A similar European Code exists.
MORTGAGE, contracts, conveyancing. Mortgages are of several kinds: as the concern the kind of property, mortgaged, they are mortgages of lands, tenements, and, hereditaments, or of goods and chattels; as they affect the title of the thing mortgaged, they are legal and equitable.
2. In equity all kinds of property; real or personal, which are capable of an absolute sale, may be the subject of a mortgage; rights in remainder and reversion, franchises, and choses in action, may, therefore, be mortgaged; But a mere possibility or expectancy, as that of an heir, cannot. 2 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 1021; 4 Kent, Com. 144; 1 Powell, Mortg. 17, 23; 3 Meri. 667.
3. A legal mortgage of lands may be described to be a conveyance of lands, by a debtor to his creditor, as a pledge and security for the repayment of a sum of money borrowed, or performance of a covenant; 1 Watts, R. 140; with a proviso, that such conveyance shall be void on payment of the money and interest on a certain day, or the performance of such covenant by the time appointed, by which the conveyance of the land becomes absolute at law, yet the, mortgagor has an equity of redemption, that is, a right in equity on the performance of the agreement within a reasonable time, to call for a re-conveyance of the land. Cruise, Dig. t. 15, c. 1, s. 11; 1 Pow. on Mortg. 4 a, n.; 2 Chip. 100; 1 Pet. R. 386; 2 Mason, 531; 13 Wend. 485; 5 Verm. 532; 1 Yeates, 579; 2 Pick. 211.
4. It is an universal rule in equity that once a mortgage, always a mortgage; 2 Cowen, R. 324; 1 Yeates, R. 584; every attempt, therefore, to defeat the equity of redemption, must fail. See Equity of Redemption.
5. As to the form, such a mortgage must be in writing, when it is intended to convey the legal title. 1 Penna. R. 240. It is either in one single deed which contains the whole contract -- and which is the usual form -- or, it is two separate instruments, the one containing an absolute conveyance, and the other a defeasance. 2 Johns. Ch. Rep. 189; 15 Johns. R. 555; 2 Greenl. R. 152; 12 Mass. 456; 7 Pick. 157; 3 Wend, 208; Addis. 357; 6 Watts, 405; 3 Watts, 188; 3 Fairf. 346; 7 Wend. 248. But it may be observed in general, that whatever clauses or covenants there are in a conveyance, though they seem to import an absolute disposition or conditional purchase, yet if, upon the whole, it appears to have been the intention of the parties that such conveyance should be a mortgage only, or pass an estate redeemable, a court of equity will always so construe it. Vern. 183, 268, 394; Prec Ch. 95; 1 Wash. R 126; 2 Mass. R. 493; 4 John. R. 186; 2 Cain. Er. 124.
6. As the money borrowed on mortgage is seldom paid on the day appointed, mortgages have now become entirely subject to the court of chancery, where it is an established rule that the mortgagee holds the estate merely as a pledge or security for the repayment of his money; therefore a mortgage is considered in equity as personal estate.
7. The mortgagor is held to be the real owner of the land, the debt being considered the principal, and the land the accessory; whenever the debt is discharged, the interest of the mortgagee in the lands determines of course, and he is looked on in equity as a trustee for the mortgagor.
8. An equitable mortgage of lands is one where the mortgagor does not convey regularly the land, but does some act by which he manifests his determination to bind the same for the security of a debt he owes. An agreement in writing to transfer an estate as a security for the repayment of a sum of money borrowed, or even a deposit of title deeds, and a verbal agreement, will have the same effect of creating an equitable mortgage. 1 Rawle, Rep. 328; 5 Wheat. R. 284; 1 Cox's Rep. 211. But in Pennsylvania there is no such a thing as an equitable mortgage. 3 P. S. R. 233. Such an agreement will be carried into execution in equity against the mortgagor, or any one claiming under him with notice, either actual or constructive, of such deposit having been made. 1 Bro. C. C. 269; 2 Dick. 759; 2 Anstr. 427; 2 East, R. 486; 9 Ves. jr. 115; 11 Ves. jr. 398, 403; 12 Ves. jr. 6, 192; 1 John. Cas. 116; 2 John. Ch. R. 608; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 1020. Miller, Eq. Mortg. passim.
9. A mortgage of goods is distinguishable from a mere pawn. 5 Verm. 532; 9 Wend. 80; 8 John. 96. By a grant or conveyance of goods in gage or mortgage, the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee, and if not redeemed at the time stipulated, the title becomes absolute at law, though equity will interfere to compel a redemption. But, in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledger. There have been some cases of mortgages of chattels, which have been held valid without any actual possession in the mortgagee; but they stand upon very peculiar grounds and may be deemed exceptions to the general rule. 2 Pick. R. 607; 5 Pick. R. 59; 5 Johns. R. 261; Sed vide 12 Mass. R. 300; 4 Mass. R. 352; 6 Mass. R. 422; 15 Mass. R. 477; 5 S. & R. 275; 12 Wend. 277: 15 Wend. 212, 244; 1 Penn. 57. Vide, generally,, Powell on Mortgages; Cruise, Dig. tit. 15; Viner, Ab. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t., Com. Dig. h.t.; American Digests, generally, h.t.; New, York Rev. Stat. p. 2, c. 3; 9 Wend. 80; 9 Greenl. 79; 12 Wend. 61; 2 Wend. 296; 3 Cowen, 166; 9 Wend. 345; 12 Wend. 297; 5 Greenl. 96; 14 Pick. 497; 3 Wend. 348; 2 Hall, 63; 2 Leigh, 401; 15 Wend. 244; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
10. It is proper to, observe that a conditional sale with the right to repurchase very nearly resembles a mortgage; but they are distinguishable. It is said that if the debt remains, the transaction is a mortgage, but if the debt is extinguished by mutual agreement, or the money advanced is not loaned, but the grantor has a right to refund it in a given time, and have a reconveyance, this is a conditional sale. 2 Edw. R. 138; 2 Call, R. 354; 5 Gill & John. 82; 2 Yerg. R. 6; 6 Yerg. R. 96; 2 Sumner, R. 487; 1 Paige, R. 56; 2 Ball & Beat. 274. In cases of doubt, however, courts of equity will always lean in favor of a mortgage. 7 Cranch, R. 237; 2 Desaus. 564.
11. According to the laws of Louisiana a mortgage is a right granted to the creditor over the property of his debtor, for the security of his debt, and gives him the power of having the property seized and sold in default of payment. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 3245.
12. Mortgage is conventional, legal or judicial. 1st. The conventional mortgage is a contract by which a person binds the whole of his property, or a portion of it only, in favor of another, to secure the execution of some engagement, but without divesting himself of the possession. Civ. Code, art. 3257.
13.-2d. Legal mortgage is that which is created by operation of law: this is also called tacit mortgage, because it is established by the law, without the aid of any agreement. Art. 3279. A few examples will show the nature of this mortgage. Minors, persons interdicted, and absentees, "have a legal mortgage on the property of their tutors and curators, as a security for their administration; and the latter have a mortgage on the property of the former for advances which they have made. The property of persons who, without being lawfully appointed curators or tutors of minors, &c., interfere with their property, is bound by a legal mortgage from the day on which the first act of interference was done.
14.-3d. The judicial mortgage is that resulting from judgments, whether these be rendered on contested cases or by default, whether they be final or provisional, in favor of the person obtaining them. Art. 3289.
15. Mortgage, with respect to the manner in which it binds the property, is divided into general mortgage, or special mortgage. General mortgage is that which binds all the property, present or future, of the debtor. Special mortgage is that which binds only certain specified property. Art. 3255.
16. The following objects are alone susceptible of mortgage: 1. Immovables, subject to alienation, and their accessories considered likewise as immovable. 2. The usufruct of the same description of property with its accessories during the time of its duration. 3. Slave's. 4. Ships and other vessels. Art. 3256.
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Doctor Who: The Legacy Collection DVD Boxset
More than 30 Years in the TARDIS is an extended version of a documentary first shown in November 1993 as part of the 30th anniversary celebration about everybody’s favourite science-fiction series, Doctor Who.
Including contributions from Doctors Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, and a whole gang of their companions, including Jennie Linden – it was a fitting tribute to a series that had ended in 1989. With many stunning recreations of classic scenes, the documentary contains rare footage, deleted scenes and classic monsters as you’ve never seen them before…
Remembering Nicholas Courtney A look back at the life of Nicholas Courtney, who played the Brigadier in Doctor Who, recorded shortly before his death in 2011.
Doctor Who Stories – Peter Purves Actor Peter Purves talks about his time in Doctor Who in this interview originally shot for the BBC’s 2003 documentary The Story of Doctor Who.
The Lambert Tapes – Part One Doctor Who’s first producer, Verity Lambert, looks back at the early days of the programme in this interview also shot for The Story of Doctor Who.
Those Deadly Divas Actresses Kate O’Mara, Camille Coduri and Tracy-Ann Oberman are joined by writers Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman to examine the role of the diva in Doctor Who.
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November 23, 2015 January 31, 2017 ~ Jennifer Barraclough ~ 1 Comment
Waiheke, though only a short ferry ride away from Auckland city, is like a different world. We spent twenty-four hours there, visiting the Heartsong Retreat at Rocky Bay on the south side of the island.
Planned as a special occasion, being our first trip away from home since Brian’s cardiac collapse three months ago, it turned out even better than we hoped it would be. Following violent thunderstorms on the previous night, the skies cleared on the voyage out, and the weather stayed sunny throughout our stay. We had lunch at Vino Vino in the main village of Oneroa, on the deck looking over the sea, before catching one of the ancient buses for a bumpy but scenic ride up and down hills covered in vineyards and native bush. Every aspect of Heartsong was lovely: our comfortable private cottage with its flower gardens and ocean views, the spa pool surrounded by palm trees, the walks down to the beach, the hot stone massage, the friendly cat and dog, the delicious meals brought up to us by the welcoming and caring staff.
Spiritual teachers and self-help experts say that our well-being does not depend on circumstances and surroundings, because true happiness comes from within. I am obviously not highly evolved enough to appreciate this, having felt so much more energetic and relaxed while on Waiheke. Hopefully the benefits of our “mini-break” will be sustained through the next round of hospital appointments and period of domestic routine.
Here we are at Heartsong, with the beach huts at Rocky Bay in the background.
Frequent attenders
November 14, 2015 February 1, 2017 ~ Jennifer Barraclough ~ 2 Comments
As a former doctor, I know that people who frequent medical settings are often regarded as a burden on the health service, and often attract negative labels such as “fat file patients” or “heartsink patients”. Now, after many years of being reasonably well and not taking any regular medication, I fear we are in danger of entering this category ourselves. As Brian remarked today, our lives have come to resemble a medical soap opera.
The latest episode began last Wednesday. My appointment in gynaecology outpatients at North Shore Hospital finished in time for me to go over to Auckland City for the evening’s choir practice. But just as we were about to start singing, Brian called my mobile phone. He had fallen over in the garden and hurt his leg. What would otherwise have been a fairly minor injury was potentially serious for someone on the anticoagulant drug warfarin, and his thigh was gradually swelling up. A kind neighbour drove him to North Shore Hospital and I set off at top speed to meet him there.
I have become very familiar with the hospital’s car parking system and bus services, and with the layout of the emergency department. The doctor who had seen me during my episode of hypertension and tachycardia last month greeted me warmly. I also recognised the doctor who had examined my mother prior to her emergency surgery for bowel prolapse.
Brian was assessed by a highly competent nurse specialist who, having discussed his case with the consultant on call, cleaned and bandaged his leg wound and recommended an overnight stay, with two-hourly neurological observations just in case there were any signs of bleeding into the brain. Luckily there weren’t.
After another largely sleepless night for us both, I drove back to the hospital to bring Brian home. For the rest of that day he could hardly walk and was in considerable pain, but since then has been gradually recovering from this latest setback. After review with his GP, we agreed that he could now stop taking warfarin, so that is one less drug for the twice-daily medication round.
We have many more outpatient visits coming up in the next fortnight: pacemaker clinic and ECHO cardiology (Brian), abdominal CT and surgical review (my mother), hypertension clinic (me). I have also booked a session of energy healing for myself. I hope I can keep the morning free for that appointment and that it will help with my episodes of fluctuating blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature which are presumably stress-induced. Meanwhile lying on the grass with one of the cats, in this case Leo, is the best way to relax.
Life imitating art
November 8, 2015 February 1, 2017 ~ Jennifer Barraclough ~ Leave a comment
Not long after publishing a series of novels with a medical theme, and my previous blog post about the portrayal of illness in fiction, I was overtaken by some real medical dramas. Both my husband and my mother required emergency hospital admissions followed by major surgery, and I developed some health problems of my own. All this reminds me of the saying about “life imitating art”. This is attributed to Oscar Wilde, although I don’t think he meant it in quite the literal way I am using it here.
The similarity between the content of my own writings and the events in my family was too general to be truly remarkable. All the same it was perhaps an illustration of the Law of Attraction: the idea that continued mental focus on a topic, in this case sickness, will result in its practical manifestation.
There have been other much more striking instances of fiction seeming to predict future events. One example is the novella called “The Wreck of the Titan” which foretold the sinking of the Titanic in considerable detail. Some readers dismiss this as coincidence, others believe in a metaphysical explanation.
There is also a saying about “art imitating life”, which means that creative work can be inspired by true events. Certainly, most writers do base their stories to some extent on personal experience. But whether the traumas of recent weeks will provide material for my own fiction in future is too soon to say. Some aspects – for example the responsibility of having to make life-or-death decisions on a relative’s behalf, the complexities of the mind-body connection, the pitfalls which can delay the diagnosis of a serious disease, the search for meaning in illness – could certainly be woven into an interesting plot, though it would require a more skilled writer than me to do them justice. But dealing with long-term illness in the family also involves a lot of sadness, worry, waiting, tedium and hard work – which hardly make for interesting or uplifting reading. I shall try to find more cheerful subject-matter for my next book.
The long and winding road to recovery
November 1, 2015 January 31, 2017 ~ Jennifer Barraclough ~ 4 Comments
Today is a Sunday, and also All Saints Day. After many weeks of absence, I’d been looking forward to returning to St Patrick’s Cathedral to sing in the choir at 11 a.m. Mass, always an uplifting experience. But I didn’t make it. With our various family health issues still ongoing, dealing with domestic practicalities and medical appointments leaves little time or energy for anything else.
Although life is still not easy, there are plenty of good things to be thankful for. Brian is making a splendid recovery from his cardiac surgery five weeks ago – though an atheist, he talks of a “miracle”. He can go for long walks on the beach; climb up and down the steep hills around our house; and do some work in the garden. The limiting factor is that he cannot yet lift heavy weights, because it will be three months before his divided sternum will be fully healed. Nor, because of the pacemaker insertion, can he raise his left arm above shoulder level. His mood is cheerful, and there is no sign of the cognitive impairment which he feared might follow such a massive operation. Having reached the age of 82 without being on any regular medication, he is now on five different drugs, which are presumably necessary at present though we hope some of them can be discontinued in future.
Meanwhile, the health of my 91-year-old mother has become the main focus of care and concern. Now home from hospital following emergency abdominal surgery, she is making a good recovery from the operation itself, and striving with great determination to cope with independent life again. But there are problems with managing her ileostomy and I only hope a satisfactory system can be worked out, and that it will be possible to reverse the procedure in a few months time.
My own symptoms continue on and off, and while further investigations are in progress I try not to worry about them too much. Friends and family continue to be wonderfully supportive and we have greatly appreciated all the messages of support, the lifts to hospitals, and the gifts of food and flowers including this lovely bouquet from the Cathedral Choir.
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Posts Tagged ‘Sigur Ros’
Review: Sigur Ros
Posted in Concert review, review, tagged atmospheric rock, Hopelandic, Jonsi, M. Night Shyamalan, post-rock, Sigur Ros, Starlight Theater, Valtari on April 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Sigur Ros’ performance at Starlight on Thursday night felt more like being cast under a spell for nearly two hours than seeing a rock show.
The Icelandic trio rarely spoke to the crowd and preferred to sing Hopelandic, an imagined language. Carried by singer Jonsi Birgisson’s angelic falsetto, the linguistic structure only enhanced the trance. Unencumbered by English, the songs could be about whatever you wanted them to be. Augmented by three piece horn and string sections and a pair of multi-instrumentalists, the group created heavenly textures that juxtaposed near operatic beauty with stains of hard rock.
The M. Night Shyamalan of ensembles, Sigur Ros patiently builds layers and moods before suddenly whisking the listener around in another direction. This was especially true on “Hrafntinna” which build tension from discordant horns before ending with a lush brass coda that wouldn’t have been out of place at the Kauffman Center.
Arrangements are designed so that each part complements without drawing attention until suddenly the key instrument emerges at the perfect moment. Despite the presence of so many musicians, the mix was pristine. On “Festival” I could hear bass player Georg Holm’s pick hitting the string on each heavy downstroke.
Sigur Ros ended a three-year hiatus with the release of their sixth album, “Valtari,” last year, the band has already moved on. One quarter of the setlist drew from the new record “Kveikur,” which is scheduled for release in June. The material blended well with the older songs, but also showed a new, darker dimension. The title track featured digital textures, exotic percussion and heavy drums. “Brennisteinn” opened with a nasty, distorted synth bassline and sounded like a musical wrestling match between good and evil.
The setting was nearly as expansive as the sound. The first two numbers were delivered behind a trio of sheer veils, which cast wild shadows and broad colors. When the curtains fell, a video screen spanned the width of the stage, projecting images of nature. The slow pan of craggy rocks gradually revealing a mountain range on “E-bow” made the stage seem like it was moving. The low-50s temperature reinforced the mood cast by pictures of rainstorms, bleak landscapes, flashlights in fog and other monochromatic patterns.
Starlight was three-quarters full, optimistically, and the audience soaked up every moment in reverie. There was very little talking and most applause was held until the end of a piece. The big exceptions were the one-two of “Hoppípolla” and “Með Blóðnasir” which spontaneously had the crowd on its feet with evangelistic fervor. The joyous horns at the end of “Festival” rang out like church bells on Christmas Day and inspired a few pockets of dancing.
Setlist: Yfirborð (new song); Ný Batterí; Vaka; Hrafntinna (new song); Sæglópur; Fljótavík; E-bow; Varúð; Hoppípolla ->Með Blóðnasir; Kveikur (new song); Olsen Olsen; Festival; Brennisteinn (new song). Encore: Glósóli ; Popplagið.
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Top 10 shows of 2010
Posted in Top 10, tagged Allen Toussaint, Babylon, Black Keys, Body of War, Common, Dan Auerbach, Dap-Kings, Daptone Records, Dark Side of the Moon, David Gray, Diverse, Eddie Vedder, Emmylou Harris, Flaming Lips, gold medal, Hearts of Darkness, Hermon Mehari, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Rotten, Jonsi, Kansas City Royals, Les Izmore, Like Water for Chocolate, Lilith Fair, Mike McCready, New Orleans jazz, New Year's Freakout, Olympics, Patrick Carney, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, Phosphorescent, PiL, Pink Floyd, Public Image Ltd., Radiohead, Sex Pistols, Sharon Jones, Sigur Ros, Stax, Stiefel Theater, Tina Turner, Tomas Young, White Lines, Willie Wilson, Working in a Coal Mine on December 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
(Above: Gil Scott-Heron performs “We Almost Lost Detroit” in concert. His June 20 performance at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., earns an honorable mention as one of the top shows of the year.)
Jonsi, April 22, Liberty Hall
Sigur Ros concerts have a sustained emotional intensity matched only by Radiohead’s events. On his own, Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi ratcheted the passion even higher. The 80-minute set focused only on Jonsi’s solo release “Go” and a few outtakes. Although the material was original, the textures, delivery and emotions echoed Jonsi’s other band, including a climax that was one of the most sustained and forceful moments in which I’ve ever had the joy of being included. Read more.
Emmylou Harris, July 18, Stiefel Theater, Salina, Kan.
Four days after delivering a short set in the blistering heat to the Lilith Fair crowd at Sandstone Amphitheater, Emmylou Harris took her Red Hot Band to tiny Salina, Kan. For two hours she gave an intimate set in a theater slightly smaller and slightly newer than Kansas City’s Folly Theater. The set reprised many of the songs performed at Lilith – including a beautiful a capella rendition of “Calling My Children Home” and Harris’ hymn “The Pearl” – a lovely tribute to her departed friend Anna McGarrigle, and other gems spanning her entire career. Harris’ enchanting voice captivates in any setting. Removed from the heat and placed in a charming surrounding it shined even brighter. Read a review of Lilith Fair here.
Pearl Jam, May 3, Sprint Center
Nearly all of the 28 songs Pearl Jam performed during its sold-out, two-and-a-half hour concert were sing-alongs. Kansas City fans has waited eight years since the band’s last stop to join in with their heroes, and the crowd let the band know it. Near the end, Eddie Vedder introduced Kansas City Royals legend Willie Wilson by wearing a No. 6 Royals jersey. Vedder later invited onstage wounded Iraqi war vet Tomas Young, who appeared in the documentary “Body of War.” With Young in a wheelchair to his left, Vedder performed “No More,” the song the pair wrote together. During the encore, a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic bobsledding team, joined the band on bass for “Yellow Ledbetter.” As the song ended it felt like the evening was winding down, but guitarist Mike McCready refused to quit, spraying a spastic version of Jimi Hendrix’ arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Sept. 21, Midland Theater
An ice storm and obscurity kept many fans away from Sharon Jones’ previous show in the area, a January gig at the Granada three years ago. With those obstacles removed, a crowded Midland Theater audience witnessed a soul revue straight out of the early ‘60s. With a band rooted in the Stax sound and a performance indebted to James Brown and Tina Turner, the diminutive Jones never let up. Jones only stopped dancing to chastise over-eager fans who kept climbing onto her stage. The tight, eight-piece horn section provided motivation enough for everyone else to keep moving.
Flaming Lips, Jan. 1, Cox Area, Oklahoma City
The year was less than an hour old when the Flaming Lips provided one of its top moments. After performing their standard 90-minute set, complete with lasers, confetti and sing-along versions of “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” and “She Don’t Use Jelly.” Then more balloons and confetti ushered in the new year. The Lips celebrated by bringing opening act Star Death and White Dwarfs onstage for a joint performance of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety. Read more.
Izmore/Diverse – Like Water for Chocolate Tribute, March 19, Czar Bar
Combining hip hop and jazz became something of a cliché in the 1990s. The results typically only hinted at the union’s potential, and didn’t satisfy fans of either genre. Ten years after Common released his landmark album “Like Water For Chocolate,” a hip hop album that paid tribute to jazz, Afro-beat and gospel with the help of Roy Hargrove, Femi Kuti, Cee-Lo Green, J Dilla and others, some of Kansas City’s finest artists decided to celebrate the anniversary. MC Les Izmore delivered Common’s rhymes while the jazz quartet Diverse provided innovative and imaginative new backdrops. The result was both jazz and hip hop at their finest, with neither form compromising to the other. Read a feature on the event here.
David Gray, March 17, Uptown Theater
After releasing several solid albums in obscurity in the 1990s, David Gray finally broke into the mainstream at the turn of the century. As his tours grew bigger and catalog became richer, a Kansas City date remained elusive. On St. Patrick’s Day, Gray finally satisfied a ravenous capacity crowd with a two-hour set sprinkled with the songs that made him a household name. Songs like “Babylon” and “World To Me” are written well enough to make the show memorable, but the passion and energy Gray and his band invested in the night made this an amazing night for even this casual fan. A strong opening set from Phosphorescent made the evening even better. Read more.
Black Keys, June 4, Crossroads
The Akron, Ohio, garage blues duo opened Crossroads’ summer season with a sold-out night that focused on their latest effort, the spectacular “Brothers.” Drummer Patrick Carney and guitarist Dan Auerbach were augmented with a bass player and keyboardist on several numbers, but their trademark sound remained unaltered. Read more.
Public Image Ltd., April 26, Midland Theater
On paper, fans had a right to be cynical about this tour. After embarrassing himself with a handful of half-assed Sex Pistols reunions, Johnny Rotten recruited two new musicians to reconstitute his Public Image Ltd. project. Although Rotten was PiL’s only consistent member, and his current X-piece band had never played together before, they managed to flawlessly replicate the band’s finest moments. The Midland was embarrassingly empty – the balcony was closed, and the floor was less than half full – but Rotten played like it was the final night of the tour in front of a festival crowd. Read more.
Allen Toussaint, Jan. 8, Folly Theater
Seventy-two-year-old New Orleans pianist Allen Toussaint has been writing, producing and performing hit singles for more than 50 years. His songs include “Working In A Coal Mine,” “Mother In Law,” “A Certain Girl” and “Get Out Of My Life Woman.” Toussaint performed all of these numbers and more in what was remarkably his first concert in Kansas City. His own remarkable catalog aside, the evening’s high point was an amazing solo version of Paul Simon’s “American Tune.” Read more.
Top 10 Concerts of 2009
Posted in Concert review, Kansas City Star, review, tagged 59 Productions, ambient music, art rock, Back To Rockville, Brian Eno, indie rock, Jonsi, Liberty Hall, post-rock, Radiohead, Sigur Ros on April 26, 2010| 1 Comment »
(Above: This live version of “Grow Till Tall” doesn’t begin to capture the emotion of experiencing it in person.)
When bands play Liberty Hall, they usually park their bus on Seventh Street, on the south side of the building. Prior to Jonsi’s show on Thursday night, that space was conspicuously empty except for two huge generators with power cords running inside the theater.
The generators only hinted at the energy Jonsi, lead singer for the atmospheric indie rock band Sigur Ros, would pour into his 80-minute set. The performance culminated with “Grow Till Tall” and the most powerful emotional moment I’ve experienced at a concert.
Before we get to that, however, a little context is appropriate. The Icelandic quartet Sigur Ros formed in the late ‘90s, but didn’t break through until their 2002 release. The album didn’t have a title – fans have named it “()” or parenthesis based on the symbols on the cover – or song titles. The lyrics are in Hopelandic, a nonsense language the band invented. It’s admittedly pretentious, but surprisingly accessible once one gets past the packaging and listens.
Sigur Ros songs are built on minimalist structures equally influenced by rock, classical and ambient elements. Imagine Radiohead singing in a foreign language spiked with a heavy dose of Brian Eno and you’re getting close. On his own, Jonsi still hews pretty closely that sound. Although he didn’t perform any Sigur Ros songs on Thursday, he likely could have slipped one in and only the audience response would have given it away.
Backed by a four-piece band that included his partner Alex Somers on guitar, Jonsi delivered all of “Go,” his debut solo album released this month, and four new songs that didn’t make it on the record. Jonsi and Somers, the masterminds behind “Go,” crept onstage together in the dark, the unmistakable falsetto of Jonsi’s voice marking their entrance. While Jonsi played acoustic guitar, Somers used a violin bow on vibraphone keys to create a gentle feedback. The rest of the band emerged on the next number, but this approach – Jonsi’s gorgeous, angelic voice placed within inventive settings – remained a hallmark of the night.
The music was bolstered by the theatrical staging. Four large, luminescent boxes framed the stage and an intricate glass and screen installation stood behind the band. As the projections on the boxes and screen changed, so did the mood of the room. All the images were developed by 59 Productions, and at times the combination of music and visuals threatened to overwhelm the senses. One could almost feel the heat from the fire projected around the band, smell the ozone after the simulated storm and taste the fat, wet raindrops dripping down the screens.
The band shifted textures by changing instruments after nearly every song. On a given number there might be three people playing keyboards, or two guitarists, or toy piano, percussion, vibraphone or digital manipulation. The consistent musician was drummer þorvaldur þorvaldsson. Þorvaldsson attacked his kit with the power of John Bonham or Dave Grohl, but had the finesse of a seasoned jazz drummer. More than any one player, he could change the mood of a song with a single cymbal crash and he was frequently the driving force behind the powerful crescendos.
The main set closed with Jonsi on piano, a single light shining over his shoulder. It felt like the house was privy to a late-night songwriting session. The number, appropriately titled “New Piano Song,” gave way to “Around Us.” As the melody entered, a golden glow of light settled on the crowd that felt like a sunrise. The song ended with Jonsi’s singing dissolving into a digitized barrage of vocals that ended suddenly, letting his live, pure sound ring out.
The sold-out crowd responded as it had throughout the night, waiting until the number was finished, then jumping to its feet with applause. Each number was held hushed reverence, punctuated by delighted bursts of applause between numbers. It seemed no one wanted to break the spell by talking. Pristine sound also helped perpetuate the atmosphere.
When Jonsi returned, he wore something on his head that resembled an American Indian headdress and matched the multi-colored fringes on his shirt. After “Animal Arithmetic,” the quintet moved into “Grow Till Tall.” With a forest scene projected around the band, it felt like the performance was coming from the home of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
As the song shifted, autumn settled on the forest and falling leaves swirled around the musicians. The leaves gave way to a gentle snow, which warmed into a hard rain. As the rain intensified so did the performance. Jonsi was bent over at the waist, singing into the floor and the rest of the band flailed as if caught in a terrific wind.
Like a roller coaster car inching its way to the top of a hill, the music kept ratcheting in intensity, building past any release point until it became a dense sheet of white noise, and even then it continued to swell. It seemed the only thing that kept the audience from being engulfed by the sound and the building from being torn apart was the fragile magnificence of Jonsi’s voice that penetrated the noise.
Three hours after that moment, the emotion remains strong. In a review posted on Jonsi’s Web site moments after the show, one fan stated that the performance had taken her through every emotion except anger and she knew she wouldn’t be able to sleep. That should have given her plenty of time to drive up to Minneapolis for the next concert. I know of at least one person ready to go with her.
Setlist: Hengilas; Icicle Sleeves; Kolinour; Tornado; Sinking Friendships; Saint Naïve; K12; Go Do; Boy Lilikoi; New Piano Song; Around Us. Encore: Animal Arithmetic; Grow Till Tall.
Review: Mutemath
Review: Yo La Tengo
Green Ribbon Haikus
Posted in Top 10, tagged 2008 best albums, Girl Talk, haiku, hip hop, Hold Steady, indie rock, Rachel Yamagata, Sigur Ros, singer-songwriter, The Roots, year in review on December 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Before we bid farewell to 2008, let’s have some more haiku fun and revisit five albums that may not have made The Daily Record’s year-end, best-of list but still merit a listen.
Girl Talk – “Feed The Animals”
Is it art? Question
eclipses legalities.
WTF? Dance! Dance!
The Hold Steady – “Stay Positive”
Great songwriting, strong
performances. Forget Bruce,
Craig Finn holds his own.
Rachel Yamagata – “Elephants…Teeth Sinking into Heart”
Aching ballads and
torrid rockers on two discs.
Schizophrenic’s OK.
Sigur Ros – “Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust”
Don’t speak Icelandic?
Who does? Same great songwriting,
new stripped-down approach.
The Roots – “Rising Down”
For once, band doesn’t
reinvent themselves. Solid,
if similar; guests thrive.
Posted in Top 10, tagged Beck, Bettye LaVette, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Common, Eels, Kanye West, Matisyahu, Robert Plant, Sigur Ros, White Stripes on December 31, 2005| Leave a Comment »
Kanye West, “Late Registration”
Sigur Ros, “Takk…”
Common, “Be”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, “Clap Your Hands Say Yeah”
Bettye LaVette, “I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise”
Matisyahu, “Live at Stubb’s BBQ”
Beck, “Guero”
Eels, “Blinking Lights and Other Revelations”
White Stripes, “Get Behind Me Satan”
Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, “Mighty Rearranger”
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Sights & Sounds —
Jeremy Jude Lee
Photos by Jeremy Jude Lee
Audio by Elphick Wo
Posted — April 23, 2019
Jeremy Jude Lee is a lifestyle and commercial photographer and videographer from Vancouver, Canada where he’s currently based.
Jeremy first picked up a camera and started recording whatever was of interest around him after busting his ankle and being forced to take time off from skateboarding. Jeremy has shot for a long list of editorial and commercial clients including Highsnobiety, HYPEBEAST, Lululemon, Reigning Champ, and Canon. He shot the Street Dreams team for a feature we published, “The Feed in Real Life“.
Jeremy’s selection of images for this edition of Sights & Sounds is tinged with nostalgia and linked strongly to his emotions he felt while capturing these shots.
Eraser Board
So this photo is probably one of my favorite photos that I’ve taken in a long time. It was actually taken when I was tagging along with my friend Ja Tecson, who is kind of like my mentor and is a really dope photographer out in LA. We were hanging out with this crew of skaters—Briana, Eunice, and Victoria—and we were kind of cruising from spot to spot. Usually, when I’m tagging along on Ja’s shoots I don’t really shoot a lot of photos for myself. I’ll grab one or two behind the scenes photos and film a few clips, but, for the most part, I’m trying to learn.
I don’t know if a lot of people know this, but I’ve been skateboarding for the better half of my life, since I was 13, 14—all I really wanted to do was skate. I was obsessed. I’d be in class and I’d have my eraser and I would be using the eraser as, like, a fingerboard and using my textbook as a ledge or making little ramps with the pages of the books and envisioning what I would be wanting to do when I got out of class. Every waking moment was me dreaming about skateboarding.
So when we were hanging out and shooting, for the most part, I wasn’t really even thinking about taking photographs, I was kind of caught up in the moment and kind of transported back to the feeling of what it was like to really be immersed in skateboarding, and also skateboarding with a crew. The people that I came up skateboarding with when I was a teenager, like the main two guys, one of them stopped skateboarding and one of them moved away, and I still skateboard quite often, but, for the most part, it’s whenever I’ve got spare time, an hour or two here and there. This was one of the first times in a long time that I was skating with other people and, I was really enjoying it.
Yeah, so, we went to a schoolyard and we went to some other spots and towards the end of the day, they suggested that we go downtown to Broadway. I guess when we got there, or in general, that stretch of road that we were on, there were hardly any cars. There was barely any traffic. We were riding through the streets and it was super surreal and it kind of felt like a dream. They were like, “Oh, Jeremy, why don’t you skate ahead and then we’ll push really fast and rip down this stretch and you can take a photo of us cruising right down the middle.” And then I was like, “Yeah, definitely, for sure.” And I’m super happy with the way this photo turned out cause it kind of captures exactly the way that I was feeling at the time, which was purely enjoying that moment.
When we were skating around that day, it really took me back to that feeling of pure joy—skating with friends, no objective, no destination, enjoying the adventure.
The Sandlot
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve kind of always been super enamored by movies like The Sandlot and Stand By Me, which belong to this semi-genre of the American boyhood or coming of age film. The stories usually outline either a period of time of a boy’s life or some type of deeply impactful story or experience that kind of shapes who they’re going to become from childhood to manhood, or boyhood to manhood. Typically, from the beginning to the end of the film, the gist is that they have this adventure or experience, throughout it they come to various realizations and nothing is ever the same, like they’re no longer a child and this kind of shapes the way that they are going to be going forward.
So, I don’t know why these films resonated with me so heavily. It’s almost like they made me feel nostalgic but for a past that’s not really my own. I mean, I’m not American, I’m Chinese—on the flip side I did grow up playing baseball and riding bikes, but I’m not necessarily like your typical character from that type of movie.
So I thought that it would be fun to do a little experiment in shooting scenes from these movies but replace the characters with an Asian person. So this image in particular is like trying to recreate this scene from The Sandlot where this character named Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, they hit a baseball over a fence into where this big dog called The Beast lives, and you never retrieve a ball from that fence, but the ball belonged to one of the kids and it was signed by Babe Ruth so they had to retrieve it. So Benny steps up to the plate and he hops over the fence and he just runs for his life as the dog chases after him.
All in all, it just ended up being a super fun shoot and I’m really happy with the images. So afterwards I submitted them to my friend Jeff’s website Booooooom that kind of features artist series. When he wrote about it he wrote that they had, “a beautiful undertone of loneliness.” So, I guess, if I think about it, the project ended up being a little bit more telling than I’d like to admit but maybe something from my childhood about being the only Asian kid on a baseball team, or whatever, not that it really matters to me now, but I guess it’s funny to see how memories can really influence your work subconsciously, like things you might not even be thinking about.
So this photo doesn’t really fit with the kind of theme or feeling of the rest of the photos I’ve included, but it has a really funny story behind it. This photo was taken back in 2014. I was still in university and, like, trying to get my feet planted as a photographer in Vancouver. And I was working a lot with my friend Chris Danforth, who lived in the city at the same time and he was writing in the blog scene and we had done some articles together for HYPEBEAST. And he hit me up one day when I was at school, and he was like, “Yo, Jeremy. I have this really cool opportunity. I started writing for Highsnobiety and I have this chance to interview Pusha T in person tonight at this local club.” I was like, “Yeah, I’m down.”
And he linked me in the email thread he had going with the tour manager, whose name was Day Day. So Day Day told us, okay, show up at the club kind of during the opening act and we’ll get you into the backroom before his set and you’ll be able to ask a couple of questions and take a few pictures before he goes on stage. I don’t know how this happened, but in my conversations back and forth with Chris, maybe neither of us had met anyone named Day Day before, so we were referring to Day Day as she or her. We get there and we’re waiting, we’re trying to figure out where the manager is and somebody taps on Chris’ shoulder and says, “Yo, what up. I’m Day Day.” And we look up and it’s actually this big, tall man. And then we were both kind of looking at each other like, oh.”
I think me, personally, I was just a little bit embarrassed and thrown off. And he was like, “Okay, Pusha’s ready. Just follow me.” So he opened this door that lead to the green room and there were these two big bodyguards. They were totally silent. I was, like, internally freaking out at that moment. ‘Cause we were walking up this staircase, in my brain, I was like, “Oh my god, I thought Day Day was a woman, but he’s actually a man. And there are these two super super scary bodyguards. And, like, I’m going to meet Pusha T, and, based on his lyrics, Pusha T used to be a straight up G. And I’m just this Asian kid with a camera and I don’t even know what I’m doing.”
So we get to the top of the stairs and we meet Pusha T and he’s kind of like in his zone, about to perform, so he was kind of not really making eye contact, like he was kind of mouthing the lyrics to his song, I guess maybe getting into the headspace to perform. Day Day was like, “Okay, you got 10, 15 minutes before he’s got to go on stage.” Chris totally clued in and he was awesome and he was asking all the right questions and kind of breaking the silence and loosening things up, but then he kind of, like, looked over his shoulder at me and shot a look at me, like, “Dude, start taking these photos now.” So, I quickly opened up my bag and all I had was this kind of dinky light stand with an umbrella and a flash with a pocket wizard so I could fire the flash off my camera. I was like, “You know what? I have to do this right now,” and I just zoned in. I started directing him and Pusha was super professional, he knew all his angles. He listened to every direction. In that moment, something took over me and I all of a sudden knew what I had to do. We shot a few photos. We got out of there.
And it’s funny, because at the time, maybe I thought I had no idea what I was doing, but when I was digging through my archives and looking back, I was like, damn, I actually really like some of these photos. That goes to show you got to learn by throwing yourself right into the fire.
Editor’s Note: De’Von “Day Day” Pickett died on February 18, 2015 after sustaining fatal wounds in an altercation.
This photo’s actually shot on my first ever roll of Kodak Tri-X film. When I was in photography school, the first film I ever shot was Ilford HP5 Plus, which is like this kind of low contrast black and white film, and I never really liked it. To be honest, until recently I never really saw the point of shooting film when I had a digital camera and I wouldn’t have to pay for film and I could see the results instantly. But I’ve kind of taken a complete 180 in my stance when it comes to film. I absolutely love shooting it now. And I’m not saying by any means that I’m like a fantastic film shooter, but what I find is that when you don’t get that instant feedback of what the image looks like that you would from a digital camera, it kind of allows you to exercise different parts of your brain when it comes to dissecting a scene with your eyes. And it forces you to see in a different way, to challenge yourself to work from your level of experience. It kind of hyper-accelerates your learning curve. I find that every time I shoot a roll of film I significantly improve and I’m all about learning and trying to become a better photographer constantly.
When I got this roll of film back I was really excited, because I finally had found…like, I had loved the tones and contrasts and the sharpness and quality that came from this Kodak film stock. So I was just really excited that I’d finally found a black and white film that I like. Or maybe it was just laziness that I had never tried it before.
This photo, in particular, was taken of my friend Gabe. We met up to shoot at this basketball court called Hastings Park and he brought some shoe options in the trunk of his car. Me being the typical ‘90s kid that I am, I opted for the Jordan 11s because I watched way too much Space Jam when I was growing up. Obviously, when I was shooting these photos I was kind of drawing upon memory as inspiration. And I wanted to figure a way to make it look like he was flying, kind of like the scene in Space Jam where they steal his shoes from his house and then he finally shows up to practice and it’s this montage where he’s flying around in the gym.
I was trying to find an angle where it looked like he was flying in the sky. I got really really low. I was actually lying on my back on the ground. When I’m shooting action photos I actually do this kind of weird thing where I take a deep breath and I hold my breath up until the moment that I press the shutter. So I was lying on my back and he was coming for his lay-up and I took a deep breath.
It’s crazy to think about how much memory has to do with how you approach a situation to photograph, like how much memory influences the way you see things, especially in photography. It’s almost like your brain kicks in and makes an association without you even knowing about it and then that’s what inspires you to shoot something a certain way.
So the story behind this photo doesn’t really have much to do with what’s in the frame, but how it survived to become an image at all.
I had organized this photoshoot with model named Tavia. Everything went pretty cool, I had decided I was going to shoot a roll of black and white film on my point and shoot camera. And I was pretty stoked with what I was going to get. But by the end of the shoot I still had about two, three shots left on the roll. So during dinner I blasted off the last few shots until I heard the sound of the camera rewinding itself. I was looking at the film counter and instead of rewinding itself all the way back to zero, it actually stopped at two. And I thought that it was kind of just an error with the display so I didn’t think anything of it.
When I got back to my friend’s house, I decided I was going to unload all the film and put them away. So I opened up the back to the camera and I see that the film is still…the film had not wound all the way back into the film canister and that two on the display monitor actually meant it had only managed to rewind to frame number two, which means by opening the back of the camera I had already exposed two or three frames to light and those frames were ruined. So I was freaking out and I closed the back of the camera and I asked my friend, “Where is the darkest room in your house?” And he said, “Oh, uh, quickly go to the laundry room.”
So I went to the laundry room and I put a towel under the door and tried to block out as much light as I could. And then I quickly opened the back of the camera and I tried to rewind the film back into the canister by hand. I was having a little bit of trouble doing this because I guess some of the film sprockets were still kind of stuck in the camera. So while I was fiddling with it, his two-year-old son Ash—who had no idea what was going on—he was wondering where I went, so he opened the door to the laundry room and light started shooting in. And I was like, “Oh no!” and I covered the film and the camera with my body and I was like, “Uh, Ash, could you, uh…close the door, please?”
So, finally the door got closed and I was like, “Oh my god, I have to do this as fast as I can because I don’t know when Ash is going to come bursting through the door again.” So I managed to get it unstuck and rolled back into the canister and when I got out of the laundry room I was like, “You know what, I guess we’ll see what happens to it and hopefully I saved some of the frames.”
When I got the film back, obviously frames two and three were otally blasted with light so they were gone. Half of the roll was totally fine, and then about six frames had this weird kind of foggy glaze on them and I guess that was from when Ash had opened the laundry room door. But this photo was actually one of the frames that was on the foggy strip. And it has kind of this weird dreamy faded quality to it and it’s probably my favorite shot from that whole roll, if not from the whole shoot. So yeah—happy accidents!
I guess the only sad part is if I wanted to recreate this image I would need a mix of a whole lot of random elements in order to make that happen, so we’ll consider this a once-in-a-lifetime shot.
View more of Jeremy’s work on his personal site and Instagram.
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The Balneario Floridablanca, quietly falling apart.
With no money to carry out the Museum project, what will happen to this historic building?
The new government are changing the existing legislation relating to the Ley de Costas, but ecologists fear it will do little to safeguard the regions coastal heritage and nothing to protect some of the most emblematic buildings which now face demolition.
The Ley de Costas was implemented to prevent coastal abuse, but part of its legislation involved demolishing buildings which are constructed within the public domain, ie a defined distance from the beach. Whilst in theory this should result in the demolition of modern buildings which are breaking the law, in practise it is actually resulting in the demolition of many of the oldest buildings in the coastal resorts, those which were actually built before these areas became tourist destinations or before the beaches were even built.
One of the most conspicuous buildings which infringes the Ley de Costas is the former bathing station of Floridablanca on the beach at Lo Pagán in San Pedro del Pinatar, converted into the Restaurante Floridablanca, which is over a hundred years old, and now lies abandoned, rotting away.
As has been the case with such prominent establishments along this part of the coastline, such as the Restaurante Mediterráneo in El Mojón ( demolished) and the Pescadería de Miguel in Santiago de la Ribera, (pending demolition) the proprietors of the Restaurante Floridablanca were evicted following the decision by the Court for Contentious Administrative Proceedings Nº 1 in Cartagena to end the concession for trading activity which they had held since the 1950´s.
In 1911, a businessman from Torrevieja named Alberto Orsi, who had been brought up by his stepfather in San Pedro del Pinatar, requested building licences to construct a jetty and a bathing station on the shore of the Mar Menor.
Both licences were granted, and the jetty was built in the area known as the Explanada de Lo Pagán, which already existed at that time. The spa was created on the Playa de la Puntica, on the boundary with Santiago de la Ribera, which belongs to the municipality of San Javier.
Construction of the spa was gradual: initially it was a walkway measuring 27 metres, with a simple box-shaped structure at the end, and later two more rows were added, one on each side, which contained the bathing cubicles. These bathing cubicles were rented out by those bathers, most of them women, who considered it indecorous to be seen in public wearing bathing costumes. Each cubicle contained steps down which the bathers could ease themselves into the water without being seen.
The licence for the spa was given by Juan de Borbón, the father of King Juan Carlos I, and was indefinite. In 1950, Orsi and his family opened a small restaurant inside the spa in order to offer their customers a more complete service. This was the Restaurante Floridablanca, which was later to become one of the most highly praised in the area. At that time the building was completely surrounded by the sea, and it was not until 1980 that the beach at La Puntica was widened, with the sand reaching the door of the restaurant itself.
Alberto Orsi died in 1986, and his widow, who had been a well-known dress designer and couturier in Lo Pagán, decided to carry on the business on her own.
The doors of the establishment were finally closed to the public on 2nd April 2009, after the courts in Cartagena ruled that the Demarcación de Costas department of the Ministry of the Environment was legally entitled to decide the future of the building, which is deemed to be on public land.
However, following the eviction of the owners, the building was not demolished, having escaped the fate of the Restaurante Mediterráneo at El Mojón and the Pescadería de Miguel on the beach at Santiago de la Ribera, which has just been denied cultural status by the culture department of the Region of Murcia, as it had been declared an Item of Cultural Interest by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and is thus protected, although the walkways to the restaurants bar terrace, which had been added in recent years, have been removed.
Once it had been decided that the restaurant was no longer allowed to continue in business, the previous Socialist local government in San Pedro del Pinatar opted to convert the historic old building into a Maritime Museum, securing a subsidy from the regional government of 670,398.49 euros in order to finance the conversion work. The project was to be overseen and implemented by the consortium known as the "Centro Turístico de Talasoterapia de San Pedro del Pinatar", and the plans were officially confirmed in the official bulletin of the Region of Murcia (BORM) on 12th March 2009.
However, progress was delayed by the bureaucrats in regional and national government, and the necessary authorization from the Directorate General of Sostenibilidad de la Costa y el Mar, another department of the Ministry of the Environment, was not forthcoming until 2011. By this time the municipal and regional elections were imminent.
In May, the council changed from PSOE to PP, and a completely new team had to unravel the complex workings of the council left by the previous administration, amongst them, the paperwork relating to this building.
As a result, the work needed to convert the building was never put out to tender, and it is not clear where the regional governments subsidy for the Maritime Museum of almost 700,000 euros ended up. According to Ángela Gaona in an interview for the La Opinión newspaper, the Councillor for Urbanismo said, "nobody has any evidence that the subsidy was ever received".
It was hoped that the museum would be a boost to tourism in Lo Pagán, helped by its beautiful location, but Srta Gaona says that there is simply no money to restore the building, and in the light of this some people are calling for it to be demolished.
The Neighbours Association of La Junquera de Lo Pagán, though, rejects this option. Charo Tárraga, the president of the Association, also said to La Opinión, that the calls for demolition are the result of one person who spent the summer in Lo Pagán last year and collected signatures supporting the destruction of the Floridablanca on the basis that this would make more space on the beach. According to Sra Tárraga, this petitioner was not a local.
José María García, the former Mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, says that the subsidy was in fact handed over, but that it is now "probably" in the hands of the "Centro Turístico de Talasoterapia de San Pedro del Pinatar" consortium. This consortium is on the list of those which the regional government is eliminating: it was created in order to manage the Thalassotherapy Centre in the municipality, and receives a subsidy of 300,000 euros per annum. Sr García is adamant that the money never reached the Town Hall.
He goes on to explain that "in 2005 they got rid of the manager, Francisco Luis Velasco, and the subsidies for 2005 and 2006 were never accounted for. Maybe for that reason the regional government withheld the Floridablanca subsidy and diverted it to the consortium". However, Sr García recognizes that this is merely speculation: he says that even in the regional ministry for Tourism no-one has been able to tell him what was done with the money.
However, the truth is, the former Balneario is falling apart visibly.
A resident we spoke to whilst visiting the Balneario last week, who has walked past the Balneario every day of his life, said that the former owners replaced the wooden supports every few years, and that regular repainting prevented the wood from warping and splitting, but no maintenance has been carried out since the eviction 3 years ago. Vandals are leaving their mark, and signs advertising the museum of the sea hang tattered and torn from the building.
"They´ll tear it down, "he said, "there´s no money to fix it and it´ll fall apart before anybody finds any. It´s such a waste, a good restaurant..... what a waste......".
A historic and irreplaceable part of Murcia´s heritage, it´s character, its personality, its timelessness, little appreciated by those who have the power to save it, yet priceless in its uniqueness.
A victim of the law which aims to protect the coastal heritage of Spain, destroying one of its oldest cultural relics.
A waste indeed.
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How To Play Pokemon GO
How Do You Play Pokemon GO?
Even if you’re able to battle through the server problems plaguing Pokémon Go,you might be struck with another: the game doesn’t explain how anything works!
There’s not a single tutorial sequence in Pokémon Go outside of a short series of tips, with players expected to pick up everything on the fly. It’s an odd choice. If you’re struggling to figure out how it all works, I’ve got you covered.
This isn’t quite a tips post—we’re still working our way through the game—but if anything isn’t covered, make sure to drop a line in the comments.
Once you’ve customized your character, it’s time to venture out into the real-world. (It’s also possible to stay inside and capture pokemon, though.)
You’re quickly greeted by a bunch of icons, three of which are important.
The first arrow is pointing to a patch of grass, which indicates a pokémon may be nearby. If you walk over to that area—literally walk over there!—it’s possible that a pokémon may show its face. The second arrow points to a pokestop, places where you can grab more pokeballs and, often, eggs.
The other noteworthy icon is a gym, seen in the distance here. You’ll usually have to travel outside of your neighborhood to find a gym. At this points, gyms are probably claimed by other trainers. (We’ll get to that.)
You don’t need to be right on top of it to activate any icon. See that pulsing circle around your character? So long as the icon falls within that circle, you can tap the screen and it’ll kick things off.
Capturing Pokémon
When you walk through an area, usually near a pile of grass, pokémon will jump out and appear on the screen. If they’re in your circle, tapping the creature will take you to the “capture” phase of Pokémon Go.
In this case, I have augmented reality turned on, which means the screen is filled with whatever my camera is looking at. This tends to chew up the battery and isn’t a requirement, so feel free to turn augmented reality off.
When capturing begins, the creature doesn’t do much but kinda dance around the screen, waiting for you to flick a pokeball at it. The most important factor in whether you’ll be able to nab a pokémon is waiting for the green circle to become small and flicking the ball at or nearby them.
As you find more powerful pokémon, it’s possible for them to run away or escape from the pokeball that you’ve thrown, just like the real games.
Both the player and individual pokémon can be upgraded in the game. In fact, in order to participate in gym battles, you need to reach level five.
Leveling up for pokémon happens by increasing their power, which requires various items that you gain by capturing pokémon, or evolution.
You’ll find gyms all over the map, but chances are, you won’t be able to wander into your backyard. They tend to be located in places where other people might congregate, forcing players to defend their turf from rivals.
A captured gym looks like this:
Image Credit: MoreAliA
There will already be a color associated with it—yellow, blue, or red.
An empty gym looks like this:
When you claim a gym, a pokémon has to be assigned to defend it. That pokémon is then removed from your current collection, until it’s defeated.
Simply beating one battle in a gym won’t be enough; each one has “prestige” that must be whittled down in order to ultimately overtake it.
Unsurprisingly, combat’s a lot simpler in Pokémon Go than the mainline games. It’s not turn-based, largely automatic, and has more to do with taking advantage of the game’s elemental advantages and ensuring you’re throwing the most powerful pokémon (read: combat points) into the fight.
You tap the screen, bring in new pokémon , and rinse ‘n repeat.
Your pokémon are likely to take damage during combat, and so far, there’s no way to automatically heal, nor do they recover health over time. Instead, you’ll need to use items to bring them back, which can be purchased or retrieved from various pokestops. (Pokestops refresh after a few minutes.)
If they faint, use a revive. If they’re merely hurt, use a potion.
Though many items can be naturally found at pokestops, if you’re desperate for one, it’s possible to purchase them using currency earned by leveling up and fighting (specifically occupying gyms) or spending real money to expedite the process.
You start the game with a single egg incubator, though you can purchase another one through the store. Eggs are hatched by going outside and walking around a certain distance. In addition to new pokémon, eggs grant you a bunch of experience points and candies needed to power up pokémon.
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Folate is most important for women of childbearing age. If you plan to have children some day, think of folate now. Folate is a B vitamin needed both before and during pregnancy and can help reduce risk of certain serious common neural tube birth defects (which affect the brain and spinal chord). Women ages 15-45 should include folate in their diet to reduce the risk for birth defects if one becomes pregnant, even if one is not planning a pregnancy.
Oaks BM, Young RR, Adu-Afarwuah S, Ashorn U, Jackson KH, Lartey A, Maleta K, Okronipa H, Sadalaki J, Baldiviez LM et al. Effects of a lipid-based nutrient supplement during pregnancy and lactation on maternal plasma fatty acid status and lipid profile: results of two randomized controlled trials. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2017;117:28–35.
It's still an open question, but there is no question that ALA represents a dietary difference between the sexes. For women, it's a healthful fat. For men with heart disease or major cardiac risk factors, it may also be a good choice — but men with more reason to worry about prostate cancer should probably get their omega-3s from fish and their vegetable fats largely from olive oil.
In the stereotypical Ozzie and Harriet family of the 1950s, men ruled the roost while women ruled the roast. That's no longer true (if it ever was), but in most households women are still in charge of nutrition. They stock the pantry, plan the menus, and fill the plates. In most households it's a good thing, since the average woman knows more about nutrition than the average man. But when it comes to optimal nutrition, there are differences between the sexes. The differences are subtle, but they may affect a man's health.
Calcium may even be harmful for men, at least in large amounts. The worry is prostate cancer, and two Harvard studies have raised the alarm. In 1998, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study found that a high consumption of calcium from food or supplements was linked to an increased risk of advanced prostate cancer. The risk was greatest in men who got more than 2,000 mg a day. More recently, the U.S. Physicians' Health Study reported that a high consumption of calcium from dairy products appeared to increase a man's risk of prostate cancer by up to 37%. A study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle also found a link between calcium and advanced prostate cancer.
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Women and men have approximately equal risk of dying from cancer, which accounts for about a quarter of all deaths, and is the second leading cause of death. However the relative incidence of different cancers varies between women and men. In the United States the three commonest types of cancer of women in 2012 were lung, breast and colorectal cancers. In addition other important cancers in women, in order of importance, are ovarian, uterine (including endometrial and cervical cancers (Gronowski and Schindler, Table III).[6][120] Similar figures were reported in 2016.[121] While cancer death rates rose rapidly during the twentieth century, the increase was less and later in women due to differences in smoking rates. More recently cancer death rates have started to decline as the use of tobacco becomes less common. Between 1991 and 2012, the death rate in women declined by 19% (less than in men). In the early twentieth century death from uterine (uterine body and cervix) cancers was the leading cause of cancer death in women, who had a higher cancer mortality than men. From the 1930s onwards, uterine cancer deaths declined, primarily due to lower death rates from cervical cancer following the availability of the Papanicolaou (Pap) screening test. This resulted in an overall reduction of cancer deaths in women between the 1940s and 1970s, when rising rates of lung cancer led to an overall increase. By the 1950s the decline in uterine cancer left breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death till it was overtaken by lung cancer in the 1980s. All three cancers (lung, breast, uterus) are now declining in cancer death rates (Siegel et al. Figure 8),[121] but more women die from lung cancer every year than from breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers combined. Overall about 20% of people found to have lung cancer are never smokers, yet amongst nonsmoking women the risk of developing lung cancer is three times greater than amongst men who never smoked.[119]
Iron: Iron, too, remains a critical nutrient. Adult women between the ages of 19 and 50 need 18 mg a day. Pregnant women should shoot for 27 mg a day. “The volume of blood almost doubles when women are pregnant, which dramatically increases the demand for iron,” Schwartz tells WebMD. After delivery, lactating women need far less iron, only about 9 mg, because they are no longer menstruating. But as soon as women stop breast-feeding, they should return to 18 mg a day.
Maintaining a healthy weight is important piece of the puzzle to achieve good health. A healthy weight can be determined using the body mass index charts (see web source below). If you find you are overweight or obese, weight loss may be beneficial for you. Before you begin any weight loss efforts, consult with your medical provider and/or consult a registered dietitian to create a weight loss plan. If you are underweight, consult a medical provider to assess your weight status.
I realize that none of the above foods have 100% DV of calcium, and while we all should be getting a variety of these foods through the week to help increase the amount of calcium from whole foods, you can also boost it with a supplement- especially if you fall into any of the above categories. I’ve really been liking the New Chapter’s Every Woman’s One Daily Multivitamin which has calcium and is rich in vitamin D3. Read more on that in the next question!
This staff here is very kind, but the facilities are just bizarre, especially for a Boston gym. The equipment is clearly very used, and the gym itself is in a basement which isn't very inspiring. Everything is in a big, open area, so people are running on treadmills behind you as you're participating in a group class. Very weird. I love supporting a local business, but this place needs a bit of a facelift. There are so many gyms in Boston with beautiful facilities and equipment, although a bit more expensive, but you truly get what you pay for.
No matter how busy you are, eat lunch before 3 p.m., a Spanish study suggests. Researchers placed a group of women on a diet for 20 weeks; half ate lunch before 3 and half consumed their midday meal after 3. Although both groups’ daily caloric intake, time spent exercising and sleeping, and appetite hormone levels were the same, those who lunched late lost about 25 percent less weight than earlier eaters. Being European, lunch was the biggest meal of the day for these women, constituting 40 percent of their calories for the day, so consider slimming down dinner in addition to watching the clock.
Katz DL, O'Connell M, Yeh MC, Nawaz H, Njike V, Anderson LM, Cory S, Dietz W; Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Public health strategies for preventing and controlling overweight and obesity in school and worksite settings: a report on recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. MMWR Recomm Rep 2005;54(RR-10):1–12.
A workout partner not only keeps you accountable, she also may help you clock more time at the gym and torch more fat. A British survey of 1,000 women found that those who exercise with others tend to train six minutes longer and burn an extra 41 calories per session compared to solo fitness fanatics. [Tweet this fact!] Women with Bikram buddies and CrossFit comrades said they push themselves harder and are more motivated than when they hit the gym alone.
The ’90s turned toward a lot more talk about “fat-blasting” in the Snackwell’s/heroin chic era. But as the new millennium dawned, front cover messages started to sway from scolding to encouraging. Which makes sense: Why would someone want a magazine to yell at them? That’s why the current crop of women’s health magazine headlines stress taking time for yourself over how flat your abs might get. As Elizabeth Goodman, editor-in-chief of Shape magazine, explained via email: “As a women’s magazine, it’s our job to help women be their best selves—both inside and out. However, we don’t want to set the standard for normal or tell women what normal is; we want to encourage women to find and be proud of their normal… Our approach with our readers is not to judge or demand, just to inspire and support.”
Getting enough water also is important. Many experts recommend at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily—more if you exercise frequently or are exposed to extremes of heat and cold. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans emphasize drinking more water and other calorie-free beverages, along with fat-free or low-fat milk and 100 percent fruit juices, instead of calorie-packed regular sodas.
World Health Organization. Salt reduction and iodine fortification strategies in public health: report of a joint technical meeting convened by the World Health Organization and The George Institute for Global Health in collaboration with the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Global Network, Sydney, Australia, March 2013 . Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014.
Micronutrient supplementation programs for vitamin A, iron and folic acid, calcium, zinc, and multiple micronutrients effectively impacted the micronutrient status of pregnant and lactating women, as well as women of reproductive age and adolescent girls (13, 14, 33, 35–48). Interventions making use of multiple micronutrients were more effective at changing plasma micronutrient concentrations than interventions focused solely on 1 nutrient alone (38, 42). In countries with comprehensive programs for iron supplementation during pregnancy, anemia prevalence dropped (1, 49). Positive health impacts of supplementation were most notable among pregnant women who were deficient and at risk of low intake (43, 50). However, there were some studies that showed inconsistent or limited evidence for the effectiveness of supplementation on other maternal health outcomes (31, 51–58).
The authors’ contributions were as follows—ELF and CD: were involved in the acquisition of the data; ELF, CD, SMD, and JF: were responsible for the interpretation of the data; ELF: wrote the paper and had primary responsibility for the content; CD, SMD, WS, and JF: were involved in providing detailed comments and revising the manuscript for important intellectual content; and all authors: were involved in the conception of this review and read and approved the final manuscript.
To achieve these goals, cut down on saturated fat from animal products (meat and the skin of poultry, whole-fat dairy products, and certain vegetable foods — palm oil, palm kernel oil, cocoa butter, and coconut). And it's just as important to reduce your consumption of trans fatty acids, the partially hydrogenated vegetable oils found in stick margarine, fried foods, and many commercially baked goods and snack foods.
A number of implementation challenges exist for micronutrient supplementation. Access to care is often associated with socioeconomic status and may influence women's access to and use of supplementation programs. For instance, in one study, the highest wealth quintile of pregnant women had the highest use of iron and folic acid supplementation during antenatal care (33). However, even for women who have access to micronutrient supplements, the coverage and quality of micronutrient supplementation programs were limited (39). Incorrect doses, inadequate supplies, and incomplete adherence were major limitations (33), and poorly performing programs had limited impact on nutrition outcomes (59). Integration of supplementation programs with behavior change interventions improved knowledge, adherence, and coverage of supplementation interventions (32, 33, 60). The use of local micronutrient-rich foods can also help overcome limitations associated with supplement provision. In Nepal, improvements in the dark adaptation of night-blind pregnant women did not differ significantly between food and synthetic sources of vitamin A (61). When available, consumption of micronutrient-rich foods can be as effective as micronutrient supplements.
Nutrition education, including communication and counseling to raise awareness and promote nutrition-related knowledge and behaviors aligned with public health goals, was found to increase women's knowledge and improve women's dietary diversity and protein intake (15–21). It also reduced energy intake of overweight women over a 9-mo period (22). However, evidence for the effectiveness of nutrition education interventions showed mixed impact on biological and anthropometric markers of women's nutritional status (14–16, 18, 23–29). This could be due to lack of statistical power given the small sample sizes of the reviewed studies. For adolescent girls, nutrition education was found to reduce odds of overweight, and improve knowledge, dietary intake, physical activity, and sedentary behavior (27, 29, 30). This was particularly true for nutrition education that lasted longer than 12 mo (29). Nutrition education was also more strongly associated with changes in health outcomes in studies evaluating childhood obesity treatment, rather than childhood obesity prevention (29).
Markets and retail ↓/NC anemia, ↑ MN status (Hgb, Fe stores, ferritin, folate, iodine), ↓/NC goiter prevalence, ↓ folate deficiency, NC retinol-binding protein, ↑ dietary adequacy, ↑ intake of nutrient-rich foods (vitamin A, vitamin B-6, thiamin, iodine, riboflavin, niacin, folate, and Fe) ↓/NC anemia, ↑ Hgb, ↑/NC Fe stores, ↑/NC serum ferritin, ↑ serum folate, ↑ urinary iodine, ↓ goiter prevalence, ↓ folate deficiency, NC retinol-binding protein, ↑ dietary adequacy, ↑ intake of nutrient-rich foods (vitamin A, vitamin B-6, thiamin, iodine, riboflavin, niacin, folate, and Fe) ↓/NC anemia, ↑ serum folate, ↓ folate deficiency, ↑ urinary iodine concentration, ↓ goiter prevalence, ↑ mean adequacy ratio of diet, ↑ dietary adequacy, ↑ intake of nutrient-rich foods (vitamin A, vitamin B-6, thiamin, iodine, riboflavin, niacin, folate, and Fe) ↑/NC Fe stores, ↑/NC serum ferritin, ↑ serum folate, NC B-12 deficiency, ↑ dietary adequacy, ↑ intake of nutrient-rich foods (vitamin A, B-6, thiamin, iodine, riboflavin, niacin, folate, and Fe)
Fortunately, this trend is not across the board; on the cover of the January issue of Shape, Mandy Moore is in a black leather jacket so that her ensemble kind of resembles Wahlberg’s. This is not to say that Shape always covers up its cover women: Kate Walsh (right) was famously naked on her Shape cover (“How She Stays This Hot At 44!”), while The Biggest Loser’s Alison Sweeney also favored a red bikini.
While the rates of the leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease, cancer and lung disease, are similar in women and men, women have different experiences. Lung cancer has overtaken all other types of cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in women, followed by breast cancer, colorectal, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers. While smoking is the major cause of lung cancer, amongst nonsmoking women the risk of developing cancer is three times greater than amongst nonsmoking men. Despite this, breast cancer remains the commonest cancer in women in developed countries, and is one of the more important chronic diseases of women, while cervical cancer remains one of the commonest cancers in developing countries, associated with human papilloma virus (HPV), an important sexually transmitted disease. HPV vaccine together with screening offers the promise of controlling these diseases. Other important health issues for women include cardiovascular disease, depression, dementia, osteoporosis and anemia. A major impediment to advancing women's health has been their underrepresentation in research studies, an inequity being addressed in the United States and other western nations by the establishment of centers of excellence in women's health research and large scale clinical trials such as the Women's Health Initiative.
When trying to adopt new healthy habits, it's important to work around other long-standing practices that could sabotage your efforts if overlooked. For example, if you are a morning person, working out in the a.m. is likely best, but if you’re a night person, exercise after work, says Tara Stiles, owner of Strala Yoga in New York City. [Tweet at Tara!]“Don't try to become one or the other if it's not natural to you. You're more likely to stick to it if you like the time of day and the whole experience.”
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Celebrities who visited Bansko during the last 20 years
Bansko is the most popular ski resort in Bulgaria (and not only) and it is enjoyed and visited by tourists coming from the country and abroad.
The British newspaper Daily Mirror ranked Bansko between the 10 best ski resorts worldwide for a reason. This well-known media stated the fact that the resort offers everything necessary for an extraordinary vacation at a reasonable price.
Located in the foothills of Pirin Mountain – one of the most beautiful Bulgarian mountains – Bansko has to offer one of the best skiing conditions, as well as enough other recreational activities, restaurants, cafeterias and hotels.
In Bansko the active season begins in the mid-December (between 10th and 17th, depending on the year) and finishes in mid-April (between 10th and 15th, depending on the year). This way ski and snowboard riders can enjoy the white tracks as long as possible.
The total length of the tracks is 75 km and there are safe beginners’ tracks as well as tracks for advanced skiers. The tracks are carefully maintained and equipped with devices for artificial snow. There also is an illuminated track for the lovers of night skiing. Snowboard riders, children and ice rink fans are also taken into consideration, as well as all those who don’t ski but like enjoying winter vacations.
There are cameras in Bansko, placed on crossway spots in order to provide safety for the skiers and the visitors of the town. There are cameras along the tracks as well, and they broadcast life in order to make it easier for skiers to check the real-time situation of the track before deciding to go ski.
Everyone can indeed find something that suits him/her – tracks of different level of difficulty where you can spend the whole day, cosy restaurants and traditional bars with traditional cuisine, places of interest to visit, a hotel in Bansko to choose for accommodation.
Long list of celebrities in sports and music visited Bansko in the past 20 years and have been popularizing it worldwide playing an important part for its good name.
True Bansko celebrity fans
The Italian heartbreaker has been world champion twice and Olympic champion three times, and there are hardly any people who don’t know him.
The Alpine legend gave up active sport and competitions in 1998 but he will always remain in his fans’ hearts as Tomba la Bomba.
Tomba discovered Bansko in 2003 when he visited the resort for the first time in order to inaugurate a ski track named after him. Since then he has attended every ski season opening and has popularized Bansko and Bulgaria worldwide.
Alberto Tomba is one of the world celebrities that attract not only tourists to Bansko, but also other giants of winter sports who visit our country to participate in different charity activities.
Marc Girardelli
Another winter sports legend whose hearth belongs to Bansko. Marc Girardelli is an Austrian ski racer from the recent past who raced for Luxembourg. He has won the World Cup five times and was an extremely successful and versatile ski racer. Girardelli quit his active sports career and competitions in 1997 and since 2004 he has worked as a Consultant for the Bulgarian Ski Federation and has been Bansko’s advertising model.
Even if his name is not that popular in Bulgaria, Shahrukh Khan is a famous Bollywood actor and director. Khan owns two production companies and is considered the third richest actor on Earth.
In 2015 he comes to Bulgaria, being a renowned actor and producer, in order to shoot his new film “Dilwale”, and part of the shooting was completed in Bansko.
The producer was so fascinated by the beauty of our country and Bansko in particular, that he decided to exhibit his Bulgarian photos at different tourist expos in India.
It is well known that the countries where Bollywood productions are being shot increase the tourist flow from India at least for a couple of years in a row.
Mungo Jerry Blues Band
There are millions of fans of the legendary band worldwide who follow it everywhere. Mungo Jerry became famous in the remote 1970 with the song “In the Summertime” sold in more than 30 million copies becoming the most listened hit ever.
The British band played several times in Bulgaria and is among the few foreign bands that performed at the „Golden Orpheus” festival (the biggest musical event in Bulgaria during the Socialist period). In 2017 the band played in Bansko for the delight of their numerous fans. It was an honour and a privilege for Bansko to welcome the legendary musicians to the 20th edition of the International Bansko Jazz Fest.
The beautiful American is a ski racer in Alpine disciplines and has won the World Cup twice and the Olympic Cup once, in Vancouvre in 2010.
Lindsey Vonn visited Bansko for the first time in 2008 in order to participate in a competition of the Women World Cup and she won the supergiant slalom. Since then this American hurricane has visited Bansko regularly, not only because of competitions, but for pleasure as well.
This worldwide famous star owns an apartment in Bansko and likes relaxing in the town any possible moment. Vonn is one of the biggest fans of the town and uses every opportunity to popularize it in social media or TV interviews.
Kubrat Pulev
The Cobra, or the best Bulgarian boxer renowned internationally doesn’t miss a single opportunity to enjoy the snowy tracks of Bansko. The boxer famous worldwide shared in several interviews that he likes staying in a hotel in Bansko with his girlfriend instead of visiting other resorts or countries.
Balkan Horses
The ethno band Balkan Horses was founded 9 years ago by Krasi Zhelyazkov and Nikolay Ivanov. The idea was born spontaneously and many musicians from different genres joined. Since then Balkan Horses have performed worldwide and have attracted many fans.
In 2017 this unique formation played at Bansko Jazz Fest being one of the event’s focuses.
Anna Fenninger
Another ski celebrity who only says flattering things about Bansko.
Anna Fenninger is an Austrian ski racer in Alpine disciplines and has won 8 competitions for the World Cup. In 2015 this charming Alpine ski racer won the Super G in Bansko becoming a die-hard fan of the resort. Fenninger’s fans follow her everywhere she goes while her local fans hope to get the chance to enjoy more races on the tracks of Bansko.
The Bulgarian football legend Hristo Stoichkov, also widely known as “the Dagger”, is also a regular Bansko visitor. Stoichkov is the best Bulgarian player for all times, he has won numerous prizes, including “Golden Ball”, “Golden Shoe”, winner of the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, the Cup Winners’ Cup; he was part of the all-times Bulgarian dream team, best scorer of the USA ’94 World Cup… and we can continue listing forever…
The Dagger doesn’t miss a ski season opening in Bansko and often he participates in the official inauguration program together with other celebrities.
Stoichkov has been an honorary citizen of Bansko since 2004 which contributed to Bansko’s popularization apart from being an honour for the Dagger.
Our best player ever has not missed a chance to popularize Bansko worldwide and has shared many times that our resort is incomparable. The legendary football player loves getting down the white slopes and every time he appears at any track or in a hotel in Bansko, both local and international media report it widely.
The British soul and pop singer with extraordinary voice became famous when she was only 16 and published her first album “The Soul Session” that became multiplatinum. Unlike many stars with sparkling appearance at the music stage but who later didn’t release any tracks for many years and were quickly forgotten, Joss Stone’s star is still shining brightly and the young singer is now one of the musicians with the most sold albums.
Stone’s fans had the chance to enjoy her music at a concert at the 19th Bansko Jazz Fest.
After her appearance, Joss Stone stated before media that she was delighted with the town of Bansko… Meanwhile we, her fans, are expecting to welcome her to Bansko again.
The Hollywood CSI star Gary Dourdan who will also participate in the new film of Niki Iliev, has also become a Bansko fan. The dark handsome actor with incredible eyes plays one of the main characters in the film of Iliev “All She Wrote” which is being shot in the resort. During the shooting, Dourdan met the mayor and was awarded the town’s badge of honour.
The Hollywood heartbreaker visited the town in summer of 2016 but he promised to return to Bansko for the film premiere.
Gary has also commented that he is delighted by the warm welcoming, amazing views, tasty food and wonderful hotels in Bansko… And we are expecting to see the new Niki Iliev’s film and enjoy the performance of the green-eyed Hollywood heartbreaker Gary Dourdan.
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Walking Along the Road of Happiness - Highlights of Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro’s 2017 Dharma-Spreading U.S. Tour
The U.S. leg of Khenchen’s global dharma-spreading tour, which lasted for over a month, came to a successful close on August 26th. Over the course of more than one month’s time, Khenchen left his mark in many cities and regions across America, delivering dozens of brilliant talks to people across the United States, whilst engaging in a variety of academic exchanges and seminars. Khenchen offered a range of teachings to people of differing ethnicities and social classes. Khenchen also lectured on a diversity of topics, ranging from psychological well-being and self-improvement to caring for life and liberation from samsara. Through each and every outstanding speech, audiences enjoyed an intimate experience revealing the wisdom and compassion of Buddhism.
Beautiful Hawaii - a blue dream.
Einstein’s residence during his tenure teaching at the California Institute of Technology.
Albert Einstein maintained that religion needs science, while science also needs religion. He once said, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Stanford University was established in 1891. Its founders, Leland and his wife Jane Stanford set the following goals for the University: To provide the most practical knowledge and skills for the success of its students and to advance social welfare through influencing mankind and civilization.
This was the second time that Khenchen was invited to give a talk at Stanford.
Khenchen explained to the Dean of Apple University and employees at Apple’s headquarters how to meditate and how to alleviate stress through meditation.
At present, the benefits of doing meditation have been verified by science. More and more people are beginning to take an interest in meditation.
During Khenchen’s visit to Apple, the Dean of Apple University asked Khenchen, “Everyone in attendance today here works at Apple. Do you have any suggestions for us?” Khenchen responded, “I hope that Apple can design and incorporate into Apple’s operating system a game that can cultivate compassion and train people to benefit others.”
Later, the Dean of Apple University told Khenchen, “As a matter of fact, a friend of mine told me that he wanted to design a game like this five years ago. Now I can approach him about it.”
At the University of California in Berkeley, Khenchen engaged in an exchange with several renowned American meditation instructors. To date, meditation has entered into many different fields in the United States, for instance, in schools, hospitals, and households et cetera. After having reached an advanced level of material wealth in the West, people have finally begun to realize the importance of cultivating the mind.
Khenchen onboard an airplane
Khenchen tries out the latest Virtual Reality technology - experiencing a dreamscape within an illusion.
Khenchen encourages his audience - “Hit the road. Let’s Leave Samsara”
Khenchen said, “What I see is a sunset on the west coast of the United States, whilst many of you see a sunrise - a sunrise in the Orient. The earth has no east or west, neither does the sun rise or fall. Everything depends upon your own location. Someone that one ‘Tom’ views as his lover may be looked upon by ‘John’ as his foe. There is no innate love or hatred in the world. Everything is determined by one’s state of mind. Please take caution; listen to the voice in your heart.”
The topic of Khenchen’s talk in Ohio: “Turning Happiness and Suffering into Enlightenment.”
At the National Museum of the United States Air Force, the birthplace of the airplane, Khenchen says he saw the “scariest airplane in the world”.
At George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Kunzang Palyul Choling Buddhist Temple, Washington D.C.
Khenchen visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture and spoke of his long-awaited wish to come for a visit.
Visiting the White House and Capitol Hill
An evening talk at NYU’s Washington Campus
At the Drikung Dharma Surya Center (U.S.A.)
At the One World Trade Center
At the original site of the toppled World Trade Center, where the names of the deceased victims were inscribed, Khenchen took off his prayer beads and placed them on the Memorial to express his deep sorrow and best wishes for the departed.
Times Square in New York - such a flourishing and boisterous place. Yet Khenchen calls it, “a tranquil place for a Mahayana Bodhisattva.”
America is a nation marked by a highly prosperous materialist civilization, yet when facing Khenpo Rinpoche coming from the East, with little luggage and a tiny entourage, people embraced him with admiration, piety, and joy. Perhaps they can best understand that abundance in material goods, even in the extreme, cannot bring about ultimate joy. On the contrary, people (here) are experiencing an ever-growing feeling of restlessness and stress. Khenpo Rinpoche’s arrival showed them an alternative path toward the pursuit of freedom and happiness.
May Khenchen spread happiness to every corner of the world!
We should not rely excessively on other people or material things for our happiness. Otherwise, it will never last long. The best way is to sow the seeds of happiness in our own hearts and to root out the weeds of vexation.
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September 2, 2018 September 3, 2018 by lunaglobalnetworks
Fighting Human Trafficking: Safeguarding Our Children against Criminal Predators
As tens of millions of children begin another school year across the United States, and as we celebrate another cherished national holiday, Labor Day, September 3rd, Luna Global Networks wishes all Americans a safe and blessed time with their families and loved ones, and all communities across our great country a more peaceful and secured environment.
On Labor Day, we celebrate the successes of all working Americans who have built this country to greatness since the birth of our nation. We have fought for fairness, equality, justice, safer workplaces, and higher wages that have supported generations of families and a better future for their children. We must continue to protect our workers, entrepreneurs and businesses, and innovative industries to continue America’s prosperity and maintain our global moral standing for future generations.
And while we honor hard working Americans, we also must protect our most precious human capital, our children.
Given the somber reality that a myriad of dangers and violence often lurk around the corner, including the perverse criminality associated with human trafficking, we must be ever vigilant to safeguard the welfare of our children against the evil lure of gangs and traffickers who target our children for sexual exploitation and other forced labors.
Children are trafficked into or out of the United States from all corners of the world. While still largely an underreported crime, it is believed that every year thousands of American children in our country are commercially sexually exploited including runaways, many between the ages of 13 and 17. Children 12 and younger also suffer commercial sexual abuse at the hands of criminal traffickers.
Across the country, many children and young adults will continue to be coerced, exploited, kidnapped, and forced into servitude every day by predatory pimps, gang leaders, and criminal syndicates who will target and lure them on the Internet and social media, at schools, malls, fast food restaurants, or other places of opportunity to profit from such heinous acts and horrific crimes.
Many traffickers will offer spending money, food, jewelry, new clothes, attention, and a false sense of friendship, love, and trust to cultivate a relationship and quickly entice, trap, and force a child to a life of prostitution.
We must unite and work together against these criminal threats and eliminate all forms of modern day slavery, human trafficking, and child sexual exploitation.
Luna Global Networks will join forces with other committed partners and doers to help communities to “know the signs” employed by traffickers, and to build coalitions that can support our law enforcement agencies at the Federal, state, and local levels with actionable intelligence and information to identify and disrupt trafficking networks, and bring victims home and into safer, secure environments.
No child is immune to becoming a victim of human trafficking and child sexual exploitation, irrespective of race, socioeconomic status, gender, age or location. No person should ever have a price tag attached to their heart and soul nor be restricted, abused, and violated against their physical integrity and free will.
Our children should enjoy their youth, grow up to realize their fullest potential and dreams, and learn to be responsible citizens and tomorrow’s leaders.
As many around the world paid tribute this week to a great American Patriot and courageous hero, U.S. Senator John McCain, we honor his service to our great country and determined leadership, and applaud his commitment to our military, freedom, democratic values and ideals, and the universal principles enshrined in our Constitution.
We also commend Senator McCain, his beloved wife Cindy, and the McCain Institute, for their unwavering commitment on fighting modern slavery and countering human trafficking. Earlier this year, Senator McCain made the following statement in recognition of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month:
[W]e must reaffirm our commitment to eliminating all forms of modern day slavery and human trafficking. These are horrific crimes that undermine the most basic human rights, and target the most vulnerable and at-risk individuals in our society.
I’m also proud of my wife Cindy’s longstanding effort to help victims of human trafficking and drive change both in Arizona and around the world.
We have a long way to go to end this tragedy and restore the freedom of those exploited through these crimes. . . .[I]t is our duty to not only raise awareness, but to stop the victimization of all men, women and children.
On this Labor Day, as our children start another new year in school, Luna Global Networks reinforces Senator McCain’s inspiring words. We look forward to joining other champions committed to a world free of modern slavery, eliminating trafficking from our communities, and advancing the noble ideals and principle that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Reporting Human Trafficking: Useful Information and Numbers
toll-free hotline at 1-888-373-7888
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Blue Campaign
https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign
ICE HSI Child Exploitation Investigations Unit
1-866-DHS-2ICE
https://www.ice.gov/predator
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/human-trafficking
http://www.missingkids.com/home
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The Pokémon Company (Japanese: 株式会社ポケモン Kabushiki gaisha Pokémon) is a company responsible for the licensing and marketing of the Pokémon franchise, managing retail store operation, game software, card games, license management, TV animation and film, and other ancillary businesses.[1] It is a joint venture by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures.[2]
Tsunekazu Ishihara is the president and CEO of The Pokémon Company.[1]
The Pokémon Company was founded on April 23, 1998 as The Pokémon Center Company (Japanese: ポケモンセンター株式会社 Pokémon Center kabushiki gaisha)[1] in order to manage the Pokémon Center stores in Japan. The current name was established in October 2000, which was when the company started its game-related business.[2] In December 2000, it started managing the licensing of the Pokémon franchise as well.[2]
Outside of most Asian countries, The Pokémon Company operates under its subsidiary The Pokémon Company International, which was founded in February 2001 as Pokémon USA[2] and later merged in 2009 with Pokémon UK[3] (itself founded in March 2003[2]) to form the current single subsidiary. In Australia and New Zealand, the Pokémon franchise is managed by Nintendo Australia. In South Korea, the franchise is managed by Pokémon Korea, Inc., founded in August 28, 2006.[2][4]
In July 2002, it launched the Pokémon Hiroba website for mobile phones.[2] In November 2002, it launched the Official Pokémon Website.[2]
In January 2004, it launched the Pokémon Daisuki Club.[2]
In March 8, 2010, it founded an affiliate called The Pokémon Communications Company (Japanese: 株式会社ポケモンコミュニケーションズ Kabushiki gaisha Pokémon Communications)[2][5] to better reach customers in Asia.[1]
In 2014, The Pokémon Company released an educational app for schools called PokeTouch.[6]
For Pokémon Center store offices, see Pokémon Center (store).
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All Pokémon games have sold 277 million copies worldwide as of September 30, 2015,[7] effectively making Pokémon one of the most successful video game series along with Nintendo's own Mario.
21.5 billion cards of the Trading Card Game have been shipped globally as of September 30, 2015.[7]
Box-office revenue for M01 through M18 is ¥76.72 billion (US$633.1 million at the time) as of January 31, 2016.[7]
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Discover the Advice You Are Searching For Keen also has many psychic reading options outside of spiritual healing readers. If you have questions about your love life or relationships, you can get a love reading from a psychic on Keen. If you are interested in knowing your fortune through tarot, Keen has many online tarot readers who are proven experts at this medium. If you wish for an astrology reading, the Keen platform hosts astrologers who specialize in subjects such as Vedic astrology, Mayan astrology, and Chinese astrology amongst others. No matter what you're looking for, Keen.com can get you in touch with specialists in all of these very diverse and enlightening subjects.
For those who prefer, a reading may be recorded and mailed or emailed to you free from making a lengthy phone call. This too, is also popular with my overseas friends. Taped readings are free from being interactive, but they are scheduled for a particular moment in earth dimensional time, and you are asked to direct energy to the session in your meditation on that gifted moment and any questions you may have for spirit as well. Recorded sessions and readings include e-mail follow-up.
The psychical researchers Eric Dingwall and Harry Price re-published an anonymous work written by a former medium entitled Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922) which exposed the tricks of mediumship and the fraudulent methods of producing "spirit hands".[132] Originally all the copies of the book were bought up by spiritualists and deliberately destroyed.[133] In 1923, the magician Carlos María de Heredia revealed how fake spirit hands could be made by using a rubber glove, paraffin and a jar of cold water.[134]
At times, a spirit that hasn’t crossed over yet may linger as they have some sort of “unfinished business.” Sometimes, they linger in our homes, cars, or at work. If we sense them during your reading, we will clear them out of your home and help them on their journey by crossing them over or helping them release whatever they were holding onto. Almost all of our clients report a significant “light feeling” in the area where they felt was once dark and “spooky.”
To be honest, it is my first time to read about Spiritual Readings and it’s difference to Psychic Readings. I do psychic readings but not professionally.. just for my friends and myself. I have often tried to know different kinds of readings and psychics because I wanted to share with others what they are because many times I have tried psychic readings from so called professionals and excellent clairvoyants only to be given a cold reading. I had been very disappointed before.
Some scientists of the period who investigated spiritualism also became converts. They included chemist Robert Hare, physicist William Crookes (1832–1919) and evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913).[13][14] Nobel laureate Pierre Curie took a very serious scientific interest in the work of medium Eusapia Palladino.[15] Other prominent adherents included journalist and pacifist William T. Stead (1849–1912)[16] and physician and author Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930).[17]
By comparing various decks from different time periods, tarot-card enthusiasts can identify the evolution of certain illustrations. “For example,” says Matthews, “the modern version of the hermit with the lantern, you’ll find that that was an hourglass and he was Saturn or Chronos, the keeper of time. You can see how that translates with the Tarot Bolognese meaning of delay or blockage. It was about time moving slowly, though that’s not used as a modern meaning much now.”
As souls, we all progress as we realize our faults, as well as whom we’ve hurt here, while we deal with all the decisions made in this lifetime. It’s almost as if we have a higher view of things when we cross over and can see why certain things transpired. It means a lot to my clients when I blend with the energy of their loved ones and start to describe and take on their personality or some of their individual habits. Since we’re all so different, getting a spirit’s personality can sometimes be the best evidence for a client.
Open readings address the larger aspects of your life rather than a specific problem area or question. They're usually done when you're entering a new phase of life, such as getting married, graduating from college or starting a family. You can somewhat direct the reading if you have a general area you want to cover, such as your career or health, but that's as specific as the direction gets.
In contrast, the meanings in other decks are particularly difficult to decipher, like the infamous Thoth tarot developed by Aleister Crowley, notorious for his involvement with various cults and experimentation with recreational drugs and so-called “sex magick.” Completed in 1943, the Thoth deck was illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris and incorporated a range of occult and scientific symbols, inspiring many modern decks. As Wolf explains, “with the rise of the divination market in the 20th century, more liberties were taken, and the imagery evolved into increasingly personal artistic statements, both in content and style of execution.”
While there are a few different forms of mediumship, I work as a mental medium, which means I communicate with spirits through the use of telepathy. Spirits impress my mind and body with thoughts and feelings that come in the form of "clairs." I mentally "hear" (clairaudience), "see" (clairvoyance), "know" (claircognizance) and/or "feel" (clairsentience) messages from spirits. I like to say that I act as the bridge between the spiritual and the physical world, with the intention of healing both worlds.
I arrived, and she put me in her mother’s room, sat me in her chair, and even made sure her mom’s photos were all around me. Did she get her mother? You guessed it — no. However, a woman did come through for Vivian — a friend of hers. As I started to describe her to Vivian, she screamed, “What do you want?!” while looking up at the ceiling. It turned out that ever since Vivian had lost her mom, she’d been a bit of a recluse. In the reading, her friend had come through to say that she was with her and wished she’d visit her other friends.
In our modern day, just like King Saul of old, people seek counsel from psychic mediums. Several fortune-telling channelers have become wealthy celebrities as a result of predictions published in supermarket tabloids and through counseling well-paying clientele such as Hollywood movie stars, politicians and industrialists. The psychics sometimes claim to be channeling 'Jesus Christ', 'Jehovah God', and 'the Virgin Mary'. But what is the real source of the messages uttered by these spiritists?
"Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, 'These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.' And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, 'I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.' And he came out that very hour. But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities (Acts 16:16-19, NKJV).
A good psychic will offer you advice and useful suggestions that can help you handle tough situations more effectively. If your love life is suffering and you are not sure how to proceed with your relationship, a psychic can offer suggestions on how to make it work. If you are having a bad time in your career and looking for ways of improvement, a psychic can help you with same.
Even if you aren’t familiar with tarot-card reading, you’ve likely seen one of the common decks, like the famous Rider-Waite, which has been continually printed since 1909. Named for publisher William Rider and popular mystic A.E. Waite, who commissioned Pamela Colman Smith to illustrate the deck, the Rider-Waite helped bring about the rise of 20th-century occult tarot used by mystical readers.
There is a wealth of writings that can enrich our souls in many ways. St. John Paul II teaches us about love, marriage, and sexuality in his writings on the Theology of the Body. Saints like Therese of Lisieux and Bernadette show us that holiness is possible for the “littlest” of us. Many saints had mystical experiences that can serve as great lessons to us: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John Bosco, Padre Pio, and the children of Fatima. Conversion stories, like St. Augustine’s or Bl. John Henry Newman’s, shine a light on the great value of our faith. The beauty of the Holy Spirit is that He continually blesses the Church with saints, century after century.
Four, some psychic mediums get feelings or sensations in their body and mind, both physical and emotional. A spirit can make the psychic medium feel sad if they are trying to convey the message of depression. Or they can make the psychic medium’s lungs feel tight if they are trying to convey the message that someone had pneumonia or lung cancer. It is not uncommon that a psychic medium will feel a painful sensation in the head if the spirit is trying to relay the message that there was a head trauma that caused death. This could be due to an auto accident or suicide (or any number of causes), so the spirit will also send another message—perhaps a telepathic picture of a smashed car—to complete the story for the psychic medium.
Let’s say you want to find a new romantic relationship. Instead of pulling a card to predict whether Prince Charming is just around the corner and either being blissfully excited or bitterly disappointed, you consult the cards to discover how you can attract love (and keep it!). You draw the Ten of Cups, and upon seeing the happy family dancing under the rainbow in the card, you are reminded that to attract love, you need to set a clear vision of what it is you want to attract.
Growing up in the 1950s, I felt lost amid the materialism and shallow sunniness of the postwar culture; I longed for some overarching meaning. Then I came across books by two novelists, Jack Kerouac and J.D. Salinger, that opened my eyes to an entirely new way of looking at the world. I had not known that books could do this. These novels made life seem a much more mysterious and rich experience than I had imagined. At heart, they were books about spiritual journeys, and they made spirituality seem hip and wonderful. They also introduced me to the Buddhist concept of "right livelihood," thereby ultimately changing my life, for in time I gave up a lucrative career as a missile engineer to become a novelist and teacher of literature. Today, these novels have become spiritual classics, timeless books that provide special wisdom and insight for readers grappling with life's thorniest philosophical dilemmas. The novel as an art form originally came into being as bourgeois entertainment concerned with everyday matters, such as money, success, and ambition. Paradoxically, its very concreteness, which requires the novelist to create plausible characters operating in a credible world, makes the novel an ideal vehicle for exploring spiritual themes and presenting unorthodox worldviews. The best-selling novelists of our time seem not to understand this; but over the past century or so, the form's masters have put this opportunity to especially good use. Their handiwork includes, among others, the following 10 spiritual classics (including a novella, a short story collection, and one novel-like sacred scripture). I cherish these volumes as old friends and teachers; your summer reading experience will be greatly enhanced by packing one or more of these treasures in your travel bag.
In 1930 the Polish medium Stanisława P. was tested at the Institut Metapsychique in Paris. French psychical researcher Eugéne Osty suspected in the séance that Stanislawa had freed her hand from control. Secret flashlight photographs that were taken revealed that her hand was free and she had moved objects on the séance table.[146] It was claimed by spiritualists that during a series of séances in 1930 the medium Eileen J. Garrett channeled secret information from the spirit of the Lieutenant Herbert Carmichael Irwin who had died in the R101 crash a few days before the séance. Researcher Melvin Harris who studied the case wrote that the information described in Garrett's séances were "either commonplace, easily absorbed bits and pieces, or plain gobblede-gook. The so-called secret information just doesn't exist."[147]
Avoid consulting a psychic medium during a period of emotional turmoil. Some people get so scared by traumatic circumstances or turned off by doctors and counselors that they will grab at any lifeline of information fraudulent psychics offer. It is best to seek a psychic medium reading when things are relatively calm and you are able to practice good self-control. Otherwise, in desperation, you could leak facts that will let a scam artist con you into thinking she is really providing help.
Between 8 November and 31 December 1920 Gustav Geley of the Institute Metapsychique International attended fourteen séances with the medium Franek Kluski in Paris. A bowl of hot paraffin was placed in the room and according to Kluski spirits dipped their limbs into the paraffin and then into a bath of water to materialize. Three other series of séances were held in Warsaw in Kluski's own apartment, these took place over a period of three years. Kluski was not searched in any of the séances. Photographs of the molds were obtained during the four series of experiments and were published by Geley in 1924.[123][124] Harry Houdini replicated the Kluski materialization moulds by using his hands and a bowl of hot paraffin.[125]
Now that you have grounded yourself, please select the cards we will use for your Tarot card reading. Remember, I shuffle my deck and draw new cards for the Tarot spreads every day, and these cards represent each one as it was laid out in front of me. Please take a moment to pause between drawing your cards, and when you are done selecting your cards for your Tarot reading you will be whisked away to a detailed interpretation of each card and what it means in its position in the Celtic Cross Spread.
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Bun Bo Hue Restaurant
“When someone enters the restaurant, Van is prepared: “When they step in the door I know what they want: no spicy, no blood, no pork, on onion. I know! I just make the food and they sit down.”
— Van Nguyen
Back in 2004, Vinh Nguyen was looking for work. An immigrant from Vietnam, she’d been living in Portland for nearly two decades, pulling together jobs in restaurants and manufacturing, working overtime to make ends meet as a single mom. When she was unexpectedly laid off, she struggled to figure out what came next.
That’s when her three grown kids decided to give back. They pooled their money to start Bun Bo Hue, a restaurant specializing in the rich, spicy eponymous Vietnamese noodles. The idea was to give their mother stable employment, supported and surrounded by the family she had worked so hard for all those years.
“She did everything,” explains Van Nguyen, Vinh’s daughter and a co-owner of the restaurant. “She worked and she saved money to buy a house. We saw her suffer, and that’s why we did this.”
These days, Vinh is most often found behind the counter at her restaurant on SE 82nd, happily serving up steaming bowls of bun bo hue to customers. The family made a deliberate choice to feature the distinctive soup, which features five kinds of meat. “Everybody knows pho, but we want to go a different way,” says Duc Nguyen, Vinh’s son-in-law, who often works the front of the restaurant.
It wasn’t always easy to run a family business. “In the beginning, we didn’t know how to set up, we didn’t know how to work together,” says Duc. But over time they found their rhythm, and Vinh perfected her recipe by asking customers what they liked. The secret ingredient, she says, is that she enjoys making it.
The gamble has paid off; the family bought their building a few years back. Since 2004, several other bun bo hue restaurants have also opened along SE 82nd, a testament to the growing popularity of the dish. The Nguyens have developed a familial atmosphere with customers as well. When someone enters the restaurant, Van is prepared: “When they step in the door I know what they want: no spicy, no blood, no pork, on onion. I know! I just make the food and they sit down,” she laughs. “If you want to change your mind when you step in, you have to call it out!”
The joyful chaos of the restaurant has its own rhythm. “Because we are family, we work all the jobs. We split it,” explains Duc. “Sometimes I jump into the kitchen to give [Mom] a hand, sometimes she steps outside to take an order. We don’t do separate roles. We’re dancing around…” But central to every meal is that home-cooked, beef, pork, blood, and onion soup: Vinh’s specialty.
Vinh says she enjoys working with her kids. It’s hard work, but she feels happy to be doing it. When the family took a two-week vacation this summer, Vinh got restless at home without cooking. She was ready to get back to work.
Storyteller: Caitlyn Dwyer | Photos: Kim Nguyen | Published: March 2018
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Crazy for You Revival, Directed by Susan Stroman, to Play Los Angeles Before Broadway
June 7th, 2017 | By Andy Lefkowitz
Who could ask for anything more? As previously speculated, the 1992 musical Crazy for You, featuring the music of George and Ira Gershwin and a book by Ken Ludwig, is aiming to come back to Broadway. The show will be produced by Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group in a pre-Broadway production running from February 7-March 18, 2018. Susan Stroman, who choreographed the original Broadway production (and re-created her work on a recent 25th-anniversary concert), will direct and choreograph.
“Crazy for You is—at its heart—a raucous musical tale about the power art has to bring life to a community and purpose to its people,” Stroman said. “It’s as resonant today as ever, and I am thrilled at the chance to rediscover this show and introduce a whole new generation to its great comedy, unabashed romance, and the most choreographically inspiring Gershwin music the world has ever known."
The recent concert performance, which played Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall on February 19, featured Tony Yazbeck and Bandstand's Laura Osnes leading a starry company that also included Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom, Rachel Dratch, Jerry O’Connell and more. No word on whether that roster of talent will take the production to the Great White Way.
Crazy for You features classic songs like "I Got Rhythm," "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and many more. The original production won 1992 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Stroman's choreography and William Ivey Long's costume design.
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home Antimicrobials and Resistance, Built Environment Topics Investigating the antibiotic resistome of rural and peri-urban Latin America
Investigating the antibiotic resistome of rural and peri-urban Latin America
By Erica Pehrsson Posted in Antimicrobials and Resistance Built Environment Topics
Posted on February 17, 2017 September 11, 2017
For many years, efforts to profile the antibiotic resistome of the human gut focused exclusively on two extremes of human society: Western, industrialized cities and remote hunter-gatherers. While these studies were undoubtedly important, they overlooked the majority of the world’s population, which exists somewhere between the two extremes. Indeed, three-quarters of the world’s population lives in low- and middle-income countries [1-2], with almost a billion in slums (World Health Organization) [3]. In rural areas, though many have intermittent access to towns and cities, 16% of the population does not use improved drinking water sources, and 50% still lack access to improved sanitation facilities (United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report 2015) [4]. From an antibiotic resistance perspective, contact with both subsistence agriculture (including livestock and soil) and population centers (including processed foods and a dense, diverse population) could increase the diversity of bacteria and antibiotic resistance to which these populations are exposed. Furthermore, the high incidence of infectious disease and widespread availability of antibiotics without prescription, coupled with a lack of clean water, could contribute to the spread of bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes. In fact, industrializing countries were responsible for the majority of the worldwide 36% increase in antibiotic use between 2000 and 2010 [5]. To address this critical gap in our understanding of the human resistome, we recently published a large-scale study of the microbial communities and antibiotic resistance genes associated with the human gut, waste disposal systems, and the environment in a rural Salvadoran village and a Peruvian slum (“Interconnected microbiomes and resistomes in low-income human habitats”) [6]. I led this study along with Pablo Tsukayama as part of our respective PhD thesis projects in Gautam Dantas’s lab (http://www.dantaslab.org/) at Washington University in St Louis.
A prefabricated home in the rural village, El Salvador
(Photos courtesy of Giordano Sosa-Soto and Melissa Mejía-Bautista)
We began our study in 2011 with the help of Dr. Douglas Berg (Professor Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis), who set up a collaboration with professors Maria Teresita Bertoli, William Hoyos-Arango, and Karla Navarrete at the Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado (UJMD) in San Salvador to investigate the microbiota of rural Salvadorans. In parallel, we began a collaboration with the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru, to study the microbiota of residents of urban slums. In retrospect, I had signed up for a uniquely challenging graduate experience. A mudslide destroyed the first village we had intended to study, and the village we finally selected was inaccessible during the rainy season when the mountainous dirt roads became impassable. There was exactly one manufacturer of dry ice in San Salvador, who was able to produce just enough dry ice in a single day for us to complete sample collection. Furthermore, though it may be difficult to believe, human feces was the easiest of the samples to import into the US: soil and animal feces, with their potential for the introduction of invasive species, are strictly regulated and required not only import permits but federal inspections of our laboratory space. To top it off, my Spanish was limited to one college semester and a year of frantic Rosetta Stone, and Gautam speaks no Spanish at all, which severely restricted our ability to communicate on the ground. Now in my postdoc, I am sometimes amazed that Gautam was willing, in his first five years as a PI, to invest serious resources in two such high-risk projects.
The insulated box that shipped samples between El Salvador and the US
Despite the challenges, we were able to successfully collect hundreds of samples from the village at multiple time points over two years, forming the basis for a longitudinal and cross-sectional profile of the microbiota of rural El Salvador. The lion’s share of the credit for this achievement goes to the Salvadoran team, whose creativity and dedication in solving the numerous obstacles that stood in the way of the project was outstanding. The primary responsibility of the faculty at UJMD is the teaching and practice of medicine. Unlike in the US, where we expect to be compensated for our research efforts, our collaborators advanced our research in their free time out of a passion for science and a desire to see the nascent Salvadoran research infrastructure grow. They used their experience treating people in rural locations to help decide which samples to collect, doggedly pursued regulatory officials to get the study protocol approved, and coordinated the sample collection with residents of the village. When a tree downed in a hurricane knocked out power for two weeks to the sole university laboratory where our samples were stored, they miraculously found alternate refrigeration sources. Two of the authors on the paper, medical students Melissa Mejía-Bautista and Giordano Sosa-Soto, even interrupted their medical education for a year to learn molecular biology in our lab, greatly contributing to the progress of the data production and introducing molecular biology techniques to their university.
Sterile containers lined up in preparation for fecal sample collection
In addition to our counterparts in El Salvador, I was shocked by the level of involvement and assistance we received from the village itself. Although most residents are subsistence farmers who are sometimes employed nearby, the village is extremely well-organized and headed by a mayor with a clear vision for their future. With the help of a local charitable organization, Epilogos Charities, Inc., the village had pursued a number of community improvement initiatives, including honey and fish farming co-operatives. The community also had prefabricated houses and composting latrines for each household, which use heat, dessication, and high pH to sterilize feces over the course of several months; the sterilized waste is then used as fertilizer for agricultural plots. The mayor was very proactive about checking in with us during each sample collection about any new information or benefits that had resulted from their participation in the study, and we sincerely hope that the information we gathered about the composition of their gut microbiota, as well as potential sources of antibiotic resistance genes, will lay the groundwork for future investigations and public health interventions.
Double-vault composting latrines
For example, studies such as ours may spur improvements in sanitation infrastructure in rural El Salvador, peri-urban Peru, and beyond. Given the enormous diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment, the ready availability of antibiotics, and the rapid globalization and urbanization of our world, one of the best strategies for curbing the development of antibiotic resistance will be reducing the incidence of infectious disease before antibiotics become necessary. To do so, we will need creative sanitation solutions that can be deployed in places with limited income and limited water. Recently, a team of engineers at Washington University has begun work on improving the sterilization of human feces using composting latrines. Additionally, soon after our project began, El Salvador banned Intestinomicina, a cocktail of antibiotics available over-the-counter to treat gastrointestinal ailments. Although it was banned for unrelated health concerns, our research may draw attention to the ease of transfer of antibiotic resistance genes, leading to better stewardship of antibiotics.
A household agricultural plot
The World Bank Group. Data: Countries: Middle Income. (http://data.worldbank.org/income-level/middle-income) (2015)
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World Health Organization. Global Health Observatory (GHO) Data: Urban Health. (http://www.who.int/gho/urban_health/en/) (2015)
United Nations. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015. (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf) (2015)
Van Boeckel, TP et al. Global antibiotic consumption 2000 to 2010: an analysis of national pharmaceutical sales data. Lancet Infect. Dis. 14, 742–750. (2014)
Pehrsson EC, Tsukayama P, Patel S, Mejía-Bautista M, Sosa-Soto G, Navarrete KM, Calderon M, Cabrera L, Hoyos-Arango W, Bertoli MT, Berg DE, Gilman RH, Dantas G. Interconnected microbiomes and resistomes in low-income human habitats. Nature 533: 212-216. (2016) (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7602/full/nature17672.html)
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Juliana Soto-Giron says:
Hi Erica, thanks for writing this interesting post. I found it very useful because I am working more or less in the same topic, comparison of the functional and taxonomic profile of the gut microbiota from individuals living in rural vs. urban areas in Ecuador. We have samples from villages and also metadata about the water source, lifestyle, antibiotic usage, pets, food, etc. I’m still doing experiments, 16S amplicons, but I would like to compare my results with your paper published last year on nature.
Erica Pehrsson says:
Hi Juliana, that sounds extremely interesting, and I look forward to seeing your results. You can find our published 16S amplicons, shotgun reads, and assembled functional metagenomic contigs at SRA (PRJNA300541).
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MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology 11
Rediscovering the Organism: Science and Its Contexts
Modern culture is profoundly shaped by science—by its methods, its products, and its public authority. The centrality of science in modern society affects how we think, what we think about, the kinds of conclusions we come to, and the kinds of assumptions that we hold—including assumptions about what sort of creatures we are and what sort of lives are most fitting for our nature. Theologian Lesslie Newbigin has argued that science has effectively eliminated “Why” questions from our culture. Modern Western people, he wrote, have “a disposition to believe that purpose has no place as a category of explanation in any exercise that claims to be ‘scientific,’ and thus to look for the explanation of everything, including both animal and human behavior, without reference to purpose.
This anthology features philosophers, theologians, historians, and research scientists, all of whom have thought deeply about the interaction of science with other disciplines and with the settings in which science is practiced and exerts its influence. One theme that emerges is how science in answering “How?” sometimes obscures the “What?” of specific things, as well as the “Why?” of all things. 1 hour 47 minutes. $6.
Product Type: Anthologies
Guests on Volume 122: N. T. Wright, on the significance of narrative awareness as a gesture towards participating in God's on-going narrative and away from cultural captivity; George Marsden, on American public intellectuals of the 1950s and their anxieties concerning national purpose; Makoto Fujimura, on modernist art, Jacques Maritain, and the Eastern pictorial tradition; David Bentley Hart, on why historic theism (and all of its metaphysical claims) explains reality better than materialism does; and Thomas Lessl, on the institutional "Copernican revolution" of the university and its attending warfare mythology as enduring perpetuators of the war between science and religion.
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Alan K. Rode
Mr E Man Noir Style, Out of the Shadows Alan K. Rode, Ann Blyth, Casablanca, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Hemingway, Eve Arden, film noir, Ida Lupino, Jack Carson, Jack London, James M. Cain, Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce, Patricia Neal, Ranald MacDougall, Robert Rossen, The Breaking Point, The Sea Wolf, Zachary Scott
Film noir expert Alan K. Rode has released “Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film,” published by the University Press of Kentucky. To mark the book’s launch, the American Cinematheque is hosting a book signing and screening of two Curtiz gems on Thursday night in Hollywood at the Egyptian Theatre.
“The Sea Wolf” (1941) stars Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Gene Lockhart and Barry Fitzgerald in a tense and moody adaption of Jack London’s anti-fascist adventure novel. Robert Rossen (“The Hustler”) wrote the screenplay.
“The Breaking Point” (1950) takes Ernest Hemingway’s tragic novel “To Have and Have Not” as its source material. Though the setting is changed from Key West to Newport Beach, Calif., Curtiz delivers a more faithful version of the book than the famous Howard Hawks vehicle starring Bogart and Bacall.
Here, John Garfield expertly plays Skipper Harry Morgan. Gravel-voiced Patricia Neal is the alluring vamp; Phyllis Thaxter, Wallace Ford and Juano Hernandez round out the cast.
Rode set himself quite the task when he decided to write about this master director. Uncommonly prolific across many genres (including Westerns, swashbucklers and musicals), Hungarian-born Curtiz made more than 60 movies in Europe and more than 100 in Hollywood, arriving in 1926 at the behest of Warner Bros. Studio.
He won the Best Director Oscar for 1942’s noir-tinged “Casablanca” and for a short called “Sons of Liberty” from 1939. He was nominated for Oscars five times and directed 10 actors to Oscar nominations. James Cagney and Joan Crawford received their only Academy Awards under Curtiz’s direction.
Crawford won for her comeback role, “Mildred Pierce,” a domestic film noir from 1945. With a screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, the movie improves and heightens the drama of James M. Cain’s novel.
Co-starring Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Jack Carson, Eve Arden and Bruce Bennett, “Mildred Pierce” ranks as one of our all-time favorite films.
For tonight, however, we’ll just have to swoon over John Garfield. Life’s rough.
Rode will sign his book in the lobby at 6:30 p.m. He will also introduce the films, slated to start at 7:30 p.m.
Daisy Kenyon [Fox Film Noir]
Columbia Pictures: Film Noir Classics - Vol. 1 (DVD, 2009, Collectors Choice)
Vicki (DVD, 2006) Fox Film Noir- Little Slight Scratches Left
Laura [Fox Film Noir]
‘This Gun for Hire’ opens Noir City: Hollywood Festival on Friday at the Egyptian Theatre
Mr E Man Classic Noir Reviews, Noir Style, Out of the Shadows Alan K. Rode, Alan Ladd, American Cinematheque, Eddie Muller, Edith Head, film noir, Frank Tuttle, John F. Seitz, Laird Cregar, NOIR CITY: HOLLYWOOD, The Film Noir Foundation, This Gun For Hire, Veronica Lake
The Veronica Lake-Alan Ladd quintessential film noir “This Gun for Hire,” co-starring Laird Cregar, opens the Noir City: Hollywood Festival on Friday at the Egyptian Theatre. Directed by Frank Tuttle from a Graham Greene novel, the 1942 film helped shape many archetypes of the genre. Albert Maltz (one of the Hollywood Ten) and W.R. Burnett wrote the script, with an uncredited contribution from Tuttle. John F. Seitz shot it and Edith Head designed the costumes.
Noir City: Hollywood, the longest-running film noir festival in Los Angeles, is now in its 19th year. For 2017, the Film Noir Foundation and the American Cinematheque will present a program “replicating the movie-going experience of that time - 10 double bills, each featuring a major studio A picture paired with a shorter B movie … showcased exactly as it was back in the day.”
In Friday’s B-movie slot is the well regarded “Quiet Please, Murder” (1942, John Larkin), which stars the inimitable George Sanders as a con artist.
The Film Noir Foundation’s Eddie Muller will introduce the lineup. There’s a cocktail hour between films for all ticket buyers, sponsored by Clarendelle inspired by Haut-Brion and Teeling Irish Whiskey.
Compiled by Muller, Alan K. Rode and Gwen Deglise, the festival runs through April 2.
In honor of the film and the fest, we are re-running an earlier review of “This Gun for Hire.”
Noir City Hollywood kicks off with an Argentine noir
Mr E Man Noir Style, Out of the Shadows Alan K. Rode, American Cinematheque, Eddie Muller, film noir, Film Noir Foundation, Noir City, The Film Noir Foundation
Noir City Hollywood starts Friday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The famed fest is presented by the American Cinematheque in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation.
The provocative series opens with the Foundation’s restoration of the 1956 Argentine noir “Los tallos amargos” (“The Bitter Stems,” 1956, Fernando Ayala), followed by 1947’s “Riff-Raff” (Ted Tatzlaff). A reception will take place between the films.
The fest runs through April 24. Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode of the Film Noir Foundation will introduce the movies.
Paul Henreid and Bette Davis try to recapture their love in “Deception.”
For the double feature of “Deception” (1946, Irving Rapper), starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains, and “Hollow Triumph” (1948, Steve Sekely) on Saturday, April 23, Paul Henreid's daughter, Monika Henreid, will join Muller for a discussion of her dad's work in both films.
On the closing day, Sunday, April 24, the Film Noir Foundation and its media publishing partner Flicker Alley will host a reception celebrating the Blu-ray/DVD releases of two FNF 35mm restorations: “Too Late for Tears” (1949, Byron Haskin) and “Woman on the Run” (1950, Norman Foster). Stay for an encore screening (in 35mm) of “Too Late for Tears.”
Other highlights include:
Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster star in “All My Sons” (1948, Irving Reis), based on Arthur Miller’s play.
William Powell flexes his film noir muscle in “Take One False Step” (1949, Chester Erskine).
The work of French poetic realist/film noir specialist Julien Duvivier gets a double feature—“Flesh and Fantasy” (1943) and “Destiny” (1944). Also notable: the Jazz Noir double feature, and the Anthony Mann double feature: “Side Street” (1949) and “Dr. Broadway” (1942).
Tony Curtis doubtless does some fine-ass lip snarling in 1952’s “Flesh and Fury.”
Ida Lupino in “Deep Valley” (1947, Jean Negulesco) and the usual suspects—Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Elisha Cook Jr. and Dorothy Malone—in “Flaxy Martin” (1949, Richard L. Bare). Note to self: Check if @FlaxyMartin is taken.
“Dead Reckoning” (1947, John Cromwell), a good little yarn starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott. Read more here: Dead Reckoning review.
So get your pencil skirts pressed and your fedoras flashing as you gear up for some twisty, chewy badness, guaranteed to trigger your existential angst and your black-and-white nostalgia but not before giving you some wry laughs, sexy camerawork, sizzling chemistry and boundless charisma.
COLCOA French fest opens and Noir City Hollywood closes
Mr E Man Classic Noir Reviews, Noir Style, Out of the Shadows A Perfect Man, Alan K. Rode, American Cinematheque, Ana Girardot, Ann Dvorak, Carlos Hugo Christensen, COLCOA, Cornell Woolrich, Don Castle, Dorothy MacKaill, Eddie Muller, film noir, Film Noir Foundation, Henry Fonda, John Brahm, Maureen O’Sullivan, Mervyn LeRoy, neo noir, NOIR CITY: HOLLYWOOD, Patricia Highsmith, Pierre Niney, Roman Vinoly Barreto, Roy William Neill, William Wellman, Yann Gozlan
It’s a busy time for film buffs in Los Angeles.
The COLCOA French Film Festival opens tonight, Monday, April 20, with an elegant reception and the opening night film, a thriller called “A Perfect Man,” directed and co-written by Yann Gozlan and starring Pierre Niney and Ana Girardot.
Pierre Niney plays the wily writer in “A Perfect Man.”
It’s a story of shifting identities as a struggling author stumbles upon a wildly unethical way to make the best-seller list.
With echoes of Patricia Highsmith’s Mr. Ripley, “A Perfect Man” strikes us as a divinely decadent way to kick off this wonderful festival, now in its 19th year.
There is much to see this year (check the COLCOA site for info on free screenings and cool events) and we are counting the days until Friday’s Film Noir Series.
The fest takes place at the Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, 90046.
Sunday was the closing day of an essential film fest, for noiristas and others: Noir City Hollywood, presented by the American Cinematheque in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation. The foundation’s urbane noirphiles Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode were on hand throughout the fest to introduce the movies. This year, they brought another excellent selection (heavy on adaptations of the great master of pulp suspense Cornell Woolrich).
The lineup included a real find: the American debut of three almost unknown but brilliantly done and stunningly visualized film noirs from Argentina: “The Black Vampire” (Roman Vinoly Barreto, 1953), a remake of Fritz Lang’s “M,” and superb adaptations of Woolrich stories in “Never Open That Door” (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952) and “If I Should Die Before I Wake” (Christensen, 1952).
Dorothy MacKaill lights up the screen in “Safe in Hell” (1931, William Wellman).
The fest wrapped up with a four-movie proto-noir marathon:
“The Ninth Guest” (1934, Roy William Neill) a mystery with a generous dollop of Deco glam.
“Let Us Live” (1939, John Brahm) featuring the great Henry Fonda as a wrongly identified killer and a riveting performance from Maureen O’Sullivan as his girlfriend.
“Heat Lightning” (1934, Mervyn LeRoy) a pre-Code delight about two sisters (Aline MacMahon and Ann Dvorak) running a garage and car-repair shop in the desert and ridding the place of rats, such as fleeing criminal and old flame (Preston Foster).
“Safe in Hell” (1931, William Wellman) Dorothy MacKaill is unforgettable as a sparkling blonde siren who spends the entire movie fighting off men as she waits in vain on a Caribbean island to be with the guy she truly loves (Donald Cook).
Don Castle was a Clark Gable lookalike.
My attendance was spotty this year because I had to leave town unexpectedly (such is life for a femme fatale) but my colleague Mark Harrington caught quite a few.
Other highlights from this year’s fest were: “Woman on the Run,” “The Underworld Story,” “Abandoned,” “Circle of Danger,” “Berlin Express,” “Ride the Pink Horse,” “The Fallen Sparrow,” and “The Guilty” as well as that triple bill of Argentinian film noir.
The closing-weekend party was loads of fun, especially since I won a nifty raffle prize! I definitely needed my drink tickets that night. Why? By the small but mighty curveball in “The Guilty” when the lead character (Don Castle) reveals that he is studying “commercial geography” to land a good job.
What??? Education and hard work to get ahead? Was the movie going to start preaching about the virtues of a work ethic? Aaargh! Thankfully, this was, in fact, a temporary glitch and the character turned out to be crazy-bad.
Phew! I was freaked out there for a moment but everything was just as it should be in Noirville.
UCLA’s Preservation Fest to screen ‘Too late for Tears’ and ‘The Guilty’ as part of monthlong run of restored films
Mr E Man Classic Noir Reviews, Noir Style Alan K. Rode, Bonita Granville, Byron Haskin, Dan Duryea, Festival of Preservation, film noir, John Reinhardt, Lizabeth Scott, The Guilty, Too Late for Tears, UCLA, UCLA Film & Television Archive
The LA Times’ Kenneth Turan recently gave high praise indeed to the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Festival of Preservation.
As he put it: “Forget Cannes, Sundance, even the Oscars: This is the cinematic event I look forward to most of all. That’s because no other movie festival comes close to it in the magnificent breadth of neglected but compelling American film material it puts on display.”
Hmm. Forget Sundance? Sure. Forget the Oscars? Done. But Cannes? Not so much. That said, however, I am also very much looking forward to UCLA’s terrific monthlong lineup, which begins on March 5 with Anthony Mann’s “Men in War.” This year marks the 17th edition of the festival.
For noir fans, the double feature on Saturday, March 7, should not be missed. It starts at 7:30 p.m.
In “Too Late for Tears” (1949, Byron Haskin), noir badness bursts from the screen as Lizabeth Scott plays a housewife who comes across a suitcase stuffed with $60,000 in cash. Scott seizes the chance to say goodbye to cooking meatloaf, washing dishes and doing laundry. Duh! Besides, it turns out that she’s a much better murderess than she was a homemaker. Arthur Kennedy plays her husband and the always-great Dan Duryea shines as a private eye.
Next up is “The Guilty” (1947, John Reinhardt), based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich. Here, Don Castle and Wally Cassell are lured into trouble by Bonita Granville, who plays twin sisters, one good and one bad, natch. When the nice girl is found murdered, both men are under suspicion. “The Guilty” is reminiscent of Robert Siodmak’s “The Dark Mirror” from 1946.
Film. historian Alan K. Rode will discuss the films.
Films will be screened at the Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood.
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MSRC Directors
Peter Gutierrez
Core A
Peter M. Gutierrez, Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist at the VA VISN 19 MIRECC. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. Dr. Gutierrez is a Past-President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS). He was the 2005 recipient of the AAS Shneidman Award for outstanding contributions in research in suicidology. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior and regularly reviews for other psychology, psychiatry and specialty journals.
Thomas Joiner
An American academic psychologist and leading expert on suicide. Dr. Joiner is presently the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, where he operates his Laboratory for the Study of the Psychology and Neurobiology of Mood Disorders, Suicide and Related Conditions. He is author of Why People Die by Suicide (Harvard University Press 2005).
Ashby Plant
Core C
Ashby Plant is a Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. She has published extensively in both the fields of Social and Clinical Psychology. Dr. Plant’s has expertise in quantitative analysis, research methods, and database management. Her independent research primarily focuses upon motivation and attitude change. Dr. Plant is director of the MSRC Core C, which coordinates MSRC activities and assures quality of data management and analyses across the MSRC.
Kate Comtois
Core D
Kate Comtois, PhD, MPH is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from the University of Maryland in 1992. She received her MPH in Health Services at the University of Washington in 2009. Dr. Comtois has been working in the area of health services, treatment development, and clinical trials research to prevent suicide for over 20 years. Dr. Comtois’ research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the State of Washington, and the Department of Defense. In addition to clinical research, Dr. Comtois founded the Society for Implementation Science Collaboration (SIRC) and is now the Director of a the Dissemination and Implementation Core within the Military Suicide Research Consortium (MSRC) focusing on the dissemination of innovative, evidence-based suicide prevention interventions in military settings.
Manual For New Research Consortia
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Lee & Low Books’ Jason Low shares his thoughts on #diversity and the 25th Anniversary of Baseball Saved Us
April 3, 2018 by Rebecca Flansburg
(Guest post by Becky Flansburg; Project Manager for MCBD)
Not long ago, I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing publisher, Philip Lee. As one of the former founders of Lee & Low Books, Philip left the company in 2004 to create his own publishing house, Readers to Eaters, in 2009. It was Philip that clued me in on a big milestone for Lee & Low Books that I felt really needed to be shouted from the rooftops. Lee & Low Books has always had a passion and commitment to diversity in children’s literature and publishing exec, Jason Low, spent some time with us to share his thoughts on diversity and a very exciting milestone for one particular Lee & Low book.
Lee & Low Book’s connection to Multicultural Children’s Book Day began way back when MCBD first began. Our non-profit has always been in awe of this diverse children’s book publisher’s passion and commitment to children’s literature.
About Lee & Low Books:
Lee & Low Books is the largest multicultural children’s book publisher in the country, and one of the few minority-owned publishing companies in the United States. They offer books for all young readers, from leveled books for beginning readers through middle grade and young adult novels. They also publish several bilingual books, as well as books in other languages. Their books reflect the diversity and richness of the United States. LEE & LOW BOOKS is more than just a publisher: it is a leader in the movement for more diversity in literature.
The Exciting News
The “milestone” that I discovered was impending was the 25th anniversary of Lee & Low’s very first published book, Baseball Saved Us.
The 25th anniversary of anything is a big deal, but it’s even bigger when it’s a company connected to a shared mission and vision. Thrilled and excited, I reached out to my connection at Lee & Low who in turn put me in touch with exec, Jason Low. Jason generously agreed to share his thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of Baseball Saved Us, some points of pride with his company and also his thoughts on the advancement of diversity in children’s literature. Enjoy!
Q & A With Lee & Low Books’ Jason Low
Becky: Walk me briefly through Lee & Low’s timeline and what year you came on board.
JL: I joined the company in 1997. I was employee #6. By then, Lee & Low Books had established itself as a promising small publisher of quality multicultural books. At the time, one of Lee & Low’s biggest challenges was finding diverse authors and illustrators and developing stories. Many of the limitations we faced back then mainly had to do with size, or lack thereof. Everyone wore many hats. As a result, we struggled to cover the basics like keeping publication dates and sending out review copies on time. The early years were an exciting time too! The lack of resources forced us to prioritize and innovate. Working with a modest budget required us to come up with creative solutions and guerrilla marketing techniques. There is no better way to learn how to run a business than to work for a startup.
Becky: This month is the 25th anniversary of Lee & Low’s release of their very first book, Baseball Saved Us. What does this milestone mean to you personally? To the company?
JL: Baseball Saved Us will always symbolize for us how it all began. The book broke new ground by making the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II personnel. It is an underdog story set in an era of overt racism, seen through the clear-eyed innocence of a child, with America’s favorite pastime acting as a backdrop. Baseball Saved Us set the bar for us editorially, and as the years advanced, our instincts developed further, telling us what other stories still needed to be told. Our focus on ethnicity eventually widened to include other marginalized groups like LGBT and people with disabilities. “About everyone ~ For everyone” became our motto. As the business matures, we remember everything, from the highs to the lean years we had to endure. These memories give us an appreciation for where we are today. The early years taught us how to get by with less, but now that we have the means to do more for our books, it is an exciting time.
Becky: Was there any specific reason this book was chosen to be Lee & Low’s first offering?
JL: New publishers are typically focused on finding great manuscripts and publishing them as soon as possible. The chicken-and-egg model would apply here—no books = no sales. This hand-to-mouth kind of publishing persisted for a number of years. In the beginning, there was no master plan. Baseball Saved Us was one of three books ready for release in our debut year.
Becky: Do you have something special in mind to celebrate/recognize this milestone?
JL: We are working on a 25th Anniversary edition of Baseball Saved Us to commemorate this milestone. It will be released in Fall 2018.
Becky: Lee & Low has such an amazing reputation for producing impactful and quality books for readers. This is a tall order, but can you pinpoint 3-5 books that Lee & Low has published that you feel really made an impact on readers?
JL: Aside from Baseball Saved Us? I’d go with:
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
By G. Neri
Illustrated by Randy DuBurke
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/yummy
Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match
By Monica Brown
Illustrated by Sara Palacios
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/marisol-mcdonald-doesn-t-match-marisol-mcdonald-no-combina
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
By Jen Johnson
Illustrated by Sonia Sadler
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/seeds-of-change
Summer of the Mariposas
By Guadalupe Garcia McCall
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/summer-of-the-mariposas
I Am Alfonso Jones*
By Tony Medina
Illustrated by Stacey Robinson, John Jennings
https://www.leeandlow.com/books/i-am-alfonso-jones
*Note: I Am Alfonso Jones is a new graphic novel, so it remains to be seen what long-term impact this book will have on readers. However, the book has already been included on lists like the New York Public Library’s Best Books for Teens and the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens from the American Library Association (ALA), so we believe it is destined to go far.
Becky: Back in 2015, Lee & Low did a study on the Diversity Gap that showed that, despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists of people of color, only 10% of children’s books published have diversity content. Do you feel these stats have shifted over the last 3 years?
JL: Yes and no. See our reactions and thoughts here: http://blog.leeandlow.com/2017/03/30/the-diversity-gap-in-childrens-book-publishing-2017/
Becky: If you could let readers know ONE THING about Lee & Low, what would that one thing be?
JL: If you are searching for authentic, quality, diverse books with plenty of heart, Lee & Low Books is the publisher for you. Pass it on.
Jason Low is the publisher and a co-owner of LEE & LOW BOOKS, the largest multicultural children’s book publisher in the United States. Jason has spoken at national conferences like American Library Association and Texas Library Association. He has presented at universities such as Princeton, Pratt, and NYU about the importance of inclusion in children’s books. In addition to publishing award-winning books, the company initiated a series of Diversity Gap Studies, which revealed a lack of representation across industries like film, television, and theater. Lee & Low also spearheaded the first Diversity Baseline Survey to measure diversity in publishing staff, the results of which have become an often referred to benchmark by academics and major media alike. In 2016, the Eric Carle Museum selected Lee & Low as the recipient of its Angel Award for the company’s dedication to artists and authors who offer children both mirrors and windows to the world.
Filed Under: Multicultural Booklist Tagged With: #ReadYourWorld, children's book authors, diverse books, diverse picture books, Lee & Low Books, Lee and Low books, Multicultural Books for kids, Multicultural Children's Book Authors, multicultural children's book publisher, New Diverse Kids' Books to Consider, Wisdom Tales and Multicultural Children's Book Day
About Rebecca Flansburg
Becky Flansburg has been the Project Manager for the MCBD initiative since Day One and she can honestly say that she loves her job. As the mom to two beautiful kids, she is the voice of “invisible disabilities” like ADHD, severe anxiety, and childhood eating issues. Her oldest son is also adopted, and she is as proud as proud could be to be an adoptive mommy. Connect with Becky at Becky (at) Multiculturalchildrensbookday.com
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Reports of Illicit Financial Funds from the East African States in the years of 2004 – 2013!
After reading a Forbes article on Illicit Financial Funds leaving Ethiopia, as they question the need for and the use of donor aid to Ethiopia. I had to read the reports that it partly was based and make my own assumptions. The difference is that I want to focus on the East African Nations and their Illicit Financial Funds that leaves the States. So that the values and the amounts show’s lack of governance and regulation of finance gives way for the African governments and corporations to get away with transferring funds without legal bounds. This is a way of misusing funds and also money laundering through lacking revenue service and authorities to keep up the upkeep of the states. Take a look!
“IFFs are illegal movements of money or capital from one country to another. GFI classifies such flows as illicit if the funds crossing borders are illegally earned, transferred, and/or utilized. If the flow breaks a law at any point, it is illicit” (GFI, 2015).
“African governments have a political interest in IFFs because these flows impact their national development aspirations and encroach on state structures. They therefore have law enforcement and regulatory agencies whose duties include preventing IFFs. Among these are the police, financial intelligence units and anti-corruption agencies. Governments also have customs and revenue services and other agencies whose purposes are thwarted or hindered by IFFs” (IFF, P: 35, 2016).
“The widespread occurrence of IFFs in Africa also points to a governance problem in the sense of weak institutions and inadequate regulatory environments. IFFs accordingly contribute to undermining state capacity. To achieve their purposes, the people and corporations behind IFFs often compromise state officials and institutions. Left unchecked, these activities lead to entrenched impunity and the institutionalization of corruption” (IFF, P: 51, 2016)
“Most African countries do not have enough highly trained lawyers, accountants and tax experts to carry out the oversight functions to prevent or punish perpetrators of illicit financial outflows. The few that exist are often overworked and unable to prepare sufficiently to take on top-class representing large corporations” (IFF, P: 72, 2016).
Illicit Financial Funds ranking in the years of 2004 – 2013:
Nation IFFs Ranking
Burundi $87m 124
Congo (DRC) $225m 107
Djibouti $375m 96
Ethiopia $2,583m 46
Eritrea $38m 133
Kenya $83m 125
Rwanda $359m 97
Somalia $0m 147
Sudan $1,311m 67
Tanzania $482m 90
Uganda $715m 78
*(in millions of U.S. dollars, nominal)
* Global Financial Integrity December Report 2015
Total IFFs in the years of 2004 – 2013 (GER+HMN)
Nation Total IFFs
Burundi $866m
Congo (DRC) $2,254m
Djibouti $3,745m
Ethiopia $25,835m
Eritrea $115m
Kenya $829m
Rwanda $3,589m
Somalia $0m
Sudan $13,115m
Tanzania $4,820m
Uganda $7,149m
* “Trade misinvoicing (GER) dominates measurable illicit outflows, averaging 83.4 percent of total illicit outflows during the years 2004 to 2013. However, there has been a noticeable growth in the hot money narrow (HMN) estimate of balance of payment leakages over those years as well. Though initially only accounting for 6.9 percent of illicit outflows in 2004, HMN rose to 19.4 percent of illicit flows by 2013” (GFI, P: 10, 2015).
If you look at the charts there are some monies that is missing and gone away on all sorts of schemes and tax exemptions, all sort of added invoicing or other types of financial instruments to make sure the monies doesn’t end where they are supposed to be. The East African states have misused giant amount of funds.
Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda are topping the list. What is weird for me and the report it is not specifying the Sudan as the Khartoum republic or putting South Sudan alone! So the report and the values put on South Sudan, which was independent in 2011, there do not know what of part of Sudan who has illicit funds. Still, the values and the amount of million dollars Illicit Financial Funds (IFFs) from Ethiopia for instance. You can wonder how much of the government budget that is eaten by this sort of financial mismanagement and misuse of public funds. The reserves and state coffers have to be hit when it is these amounts of dollars that are lost. Uganda have also gotten rid of giant amount of funds, these is 10 higher than the revelation during the Oil Probe with the 2.4 Trillion shillings, which is about $640-700m dollars. That we’re oil revenue that has not been remitted to the state, just these values is ten-times of what was revealed in the Ugandan courts. So there is other revenue that the State House, Bank of Uganda and Uganda Revenue Authority not have complied to or have registered as there is a loss of $7,149 million dollars.
These is just two financial instruments as the HMN and the GER that is explained under the table, the other ways of misusing funds, I haven’t even covered. This is just how much that is miss-invoicing and Hot Money Narrow, the others can be shown at another time. The numbers shown here alone show the extent of misuse of funds in a decade. That is the public loss and the state coffers that been looted by the regime and their lack of will of following and regulating the financial markets. Therefore, the state and institutions does not have the will or capacity to follow the money. This shouldn’t be evident, but it is and not a good look. Peace.
Illicit Financial Flows iff – ‘Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa’
Global Financial Integrity – ‘Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2004-2013’ (December 2015)
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#PanamaPapers/#SwissLeaks – Lot’s of Money to the Swiss Accounts from the East African countries.
This here is prove the numbers, this here does not prove who have the major accounts; on the surface as he page shows numbers, but not the accounts or who’s name that is behind the coded accounts from the HSBC Swiss Bank leak. This here proves that standards and values of how much money that leaves the countries and get into secret accounts in Switzerland.
This proves the values and the estimated amount of money in the accounts. In this here that I found on the page is very little direct as I don’t have somebody on the insides, that gives the documents. Therefore here is the raw-numbers and estimated that have been sent from East Africa. In this article I just have some persons who are connected, but not many of the holders of the accounts from the leak.
Burundi:
“30 client accounts opened between 1988 and 2006 and linked to 32 bank accounts. 14 clients are associated with Burundi. 21% have a Burundian passport or nationality. The total estimated values in the accounts are $30.2M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Burundi was $8.3M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Burundi Country Profile – Aziza Kulsum Gulamali:
“Listed as living in Belgium, Kulsum was linked to three HSBC numbered client accounts opened between 1990 and 1997. One account –15208BAMA– linked to two bank accounts that together held as much as $3.26 million in 2006/2007, was later blocked for unspecified compliance reasons. She showed up as a joint account holder of that numbered client account. The other two accounts were closed in 1995 and 2000” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Democratic Republic of Congo:
“182 clients are associated with DR Congo. 2% have a Congolese (Kinshasa) passport or nationality. 245 client accounts opened between 1984 and 2006 and linked to 299 bank accounts. The total estimated values in the accounts are $179.8M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to DR Congo was $60.3M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
DRC Country Profile – Jaynet Désirée Kabila Kyungu:
“Jaynet Désirée Kabila Kyungu is the twin sister of Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Famed for secrecy and meticulousness, she was elected to parliament in November 2011 and took office in February 2012. Kabila is the president of the Laurent Desire Kabila Foundation, named after her father, and owner of Digital Congo, a television, Internet and radio conglomerate. In 2015, Jeune Afrique reported that Kabila had become “the most influential person in the president’s entourage.” (…)”Keratsu Holding Limited was incorporated in Niue on June 19, 2001, a few months after Kabila’s brother became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Jaynet Désirée Kabila Kyungu appeared as co-director with Congolese businessman Kalume Nyembwe Feruzi. The DRC Company Keratsu Holding Ltd has owned stakes in one of the DRC’s major mobile phone operators” (Eagle.co.ug, 2016).
Ethiopia:
“29 clients are associated with Ethiopia. 24% have a Ethiopian passport or nationality. 31 client accounts opened between 1986 and 2004 and linked to 55 bank accounts. The total estimated values in the accounts are $10M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Ethiopia was $2M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Eritrea:
“32 clients are associated with Eritrea. 28% have a Eritrean passport or nationality. 24 client accounts opened between 1981 and 2006 and linked to 39 bank accounts. The total estimated values in the accounts are $699.6M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Eritrea was $695.2M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Kenya:
“The county or people of Kenyan nationality have 1,093 bank accounts, which with 463 client accounts opened between 1975 and 2006 and linked to 1,093 bank accounts. 742 clients are associated with Kenya. 32% have a Kenyan passport or nationality. The total estimated values in the accounts are $559.8M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Kenya was $35.8M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Kenyan Country Profile – Johnson Nduya Muthama:
“HSBC files recorded Muthama’s name in connection with the client account “ROCKLAND96”, which was set up in 1996 and closed in 2000. Muthama was also linked to the numbered client account “20443NM” over the same period. Bank files listed eight of his relatives – named Nduya Muthama – also linked to the numbered account. The leaked files do not specify the exact role that he had in relation to the accounts” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Kenyan Country Profile No.2 – Lady Justice Rawal:
“She and her husband were listed as directors at Forrell Real Estate Inc from 2001 to 2007 and Rocklane Properties Ltd from 2001 to 2003, which were notably active after her appointment to the Judiciary in 2000. She was also a director and shareholder at Ubique Services Ltd in 1994 and shareholder at Highworth Management Services in 1995. All four firms were registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a notorious tax haven” (…)”The Kenyan Constitution makes it illegal for judges, being state officers, to open and operate offshore bank accounts. Chapter Six, Article 76 (2) (a) states: “A State officer shall not maintain a bank account outside Kenya except in accordance with an Act of Parliament” (Kubania, 2016).
Rwanda Country Profile – Emmanuel Ndahiro:
“”Emmanuel Ndahiro became a director of British Virgin Islands company Debden Investments Limited in September 1998, the same year in which Ndahiro regularly appeared in international news as a spokesman of the Rwandan army. Debden reportedly owned a jet aircraft. At the time of his appointment, Ndahiro’s listed address was a building in a commercial section of a West London neighborhood. Hatari Sekoko, a former soldier with the Rwandan Patriotic Front and now a major business executive, was the company’s owner. The company was deactivated in 2010.” (ICIJ.com, 2016)
Somalia:
“7 clients are associated with Somalia. 29% have a Somali passport or nationality. 10 client accounts opened between 1990 and 2003 and linked to 22 bank accounts. The total estimated values in the accounts are $15.5M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Somalia was $12.2M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Tanzania:
“99 clients are associated with Tanzania. 20% have a Tanzanian passport or nationality. 91 client accounts opened between 1982 and 2006 and linked to 286 bank accounts. The total estimated values in the accounts are $114M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Tanzania was $20.8M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
Uganda:
“83 client accounts opened between 1972 and 2006 and linked to 212 bank accounts. There is now as the leak where happening 57 clients with Ugandan Passports or Nationality. The total estimate to be in value in the accounts is $89,3M. The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Uganda was $8.8M” (ICIJ.com, 2016).
The numbers speak for themselves and the amount of money is staggering, this is most likely through one of giant Swiss Banks of the HSBC where the money have gone through and filtered in secret accounts. This here proves the levels of accountability and how the rich and elites filters away money from the country where they are earning money to have less tax or not being taxed in the under the regime some of them works for or is close by.
There lacking of accountability and senseless stealing of funds in between the different countries, as the scandals are rocking often. As state house and other governmental institutions missing funds before the fiscal years over, or lacking the economy to pay the salaries to their civil servants. Secondly is the free-based economy that gives edges and corporate greed who can strive without beneficial taxation and gives way for the movement of funds from the country the business is in; into a country that are a Tax-Paradise where the ones with the account can be secret and not pay what they are expected. If not it can be away of embezzling the funds or white-wash the funds as shell-companies are holders for the monies, while the owners tries to find a great use for the funds. Peace.
Eagle.co.ug – ‘Sons, daughters and business associates to African presidents’ top Panama leaks’ (04.04.2016) link: http://eagle.co.ug/2016/04/04/sons-daughters-business-associates-african-presidents-top-panama-leaks.html
Kubania, Jacqueline – ‘Deputy CJ Rawal among high-profile Kenyans with firms in tax havens’ (04.04.2016) link: http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Rawal-among-high-profile-Kenyans-with-firms-in-tax-havens/-/1950946/3144804/-/format/xhtml/-/ioefn5z/-/index.html
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Twenty One Pilots Recall the Infamous GRAMMY Underwear Moment
What's in store for future awards shows?
Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots may forever be known for being the underwear guys. Sure, the duo from Columbus have cranked out a long list of great tunes since their debut album in 2009, but when you accept a GRAMMY award while not wearing pants, you’ve made a statement one way or another.
Related: EXCLUSIVE: Twenty One Pilots Recall Hearing Themselves on Radio for First Time
“We used to watch the GRAMMYs at his house in our underwear,” Joseph told RADIO.COM. “I think we did it as a joke cause we were like if we were ever on the GRAMMYs - we should go to the GRAMMYs in our underwear.”
And that’s exactly what they did. The stunt became even more legendary when Twenty One Pilots were called up on-stage to accept the award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Stressed Out.” Now the question is what does the future hold for future awards show appearances?
“We’ll be wearing underwear,” Dun assured us. “Whether or not there’s something over top of that is still up in the air.”
Hear more about what winning a GRAMMY and being recognized for their art means to Twenty One Pilots in the video above.
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CITY JOURNAL AT 25, WITH MYRON MAGNET
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 14, 2015 BY SCOTT JOHNSON IN CONSERVATISM, MEDIA, NEW YORK CITY
The Manhattan Institute’s City Journal is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. The table of contents for the twenty-fifth anniversary issue is posted here.
City Journal is a fantastic and fantastically influential quarterly magazine that I have read regularly over the years (subscribe here).To salute the magazine’s milestone, and bring the magazine to the attention of readers who might not be familiar with it, I submitted a set of questions to long-time editor Myron Magnet (now retired) and his current editor Brian Anderson, his successor.
Below is my exchange with Mr. Magnet. Let me say myself right here at the top, it is worth reading.
Power Line: What has City Journal wrought? What do you think have been your biggest accomplishments of the past 25 years?
Myron Magnet: These first two questions are really one, so let me answer them together. First, because of the seriousness of our arguments, and the rigor, intellectual honesty, and talent of our writers, we made conservatism respectable in New York City–Moscow on the Hudson, it used to be called. We were in effect Rudy Giuliani’s ideas factory–he once held up a copy of City Journal during a speech and said, “I don’t know if it’s possible to plagiarize policies, but if it is, then this is where I plagiarize mine from.” And the truth is, that we would make suggestions–about quality-of-life policing, say, or how to deal with the homeless, or how to reform welfare–and, amazingly, he often would try them out. Equally amazing, they would work. So it was very exhilarating to run a quarterly magazine with that kind of influence, and very moving to have played a role in the breathtaking rebirth of New York.
Remember that when we started, New York was crumbling. People and companies were fleeing what they saw as a dying and ungovernable city; Times Square was a monument to degradation and squalor; the parks were dustbowls populated by muggers and dope dealers; the streets and subways swarmed with madmen, sometimes threatening and sometimes merely pitiable; and, with one murder every four hours every day, we all lived in fear, so no one wanted to go out at night to restaurants and theaters, which were withering away. People from out of town, or New Yorkers too young to remember the bad old days of just over two decades ago, see the glittering metropolis of today and have no idea of the immensity of effort it took on the part of so many to create that urban wonderland out of such threat and decay. To give you a sense of the magnitude of the change: The now-trendy Lower East Side, as well as hip Williamsburg (and much of Brooklyn), were abject slums in those days, very squalid and very, very dangerous. On the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, houses and apartments that command millions today sold for under $100,000. No one wanted them.
When the planes hit the towers on 9/11, our Fall issue was just ready to go to the printer. We tore it up and started over, on the view that this was our city and we needed to address the question of how to rebuild it and keep its economy vibrant immediately, so we even got some architect friends of ours to redesign the street grid at the World Trade Center site, and we asked our friend the great Scottish sculptor, Alexander Stoddart, to design a memorial to the victims, infinitely more fitting and moving than the vacuous hole-in-the-ground, void of meaning, that ultimately took form there. We also needed to learn and explain who our enemies were and how to protect ourselves from them, so we were early to examine the nature of Islamism and to understand that, while we must protect the rights of Moslem-Americans, we must carefully screen future Moslem applicants for immigration for Islamist sympathies.
Power Line: Where does City Journal fit in the conservative intellectual universe?
Myron Magnet: Though we are true free marketers, we are not libertarians, because we share the Founding Fathers’ belief that men are reasoning rather than reasonable creatures, with complex motives that ensure that even in business, men don’t always pursue their rational self-interest, and certainly not the long-term rational interest of their city or nation. Though we are full-throated fans of business, we hate crony capitalism, which in our state, with its two legislative leaders currently on trial for bribery and corruption, is a way of life. While we believe in free trade and the free movement of capital, we are more skeptical about the free movement of labor, since we believe that one pair of hands is not interchangeable with another, for those hands are attached to a head, a heart, a skill set, and a culture. Especially now that we have a giant welfare state and little agreement about what kind of culture we’d like immigrants to assimilate to, we’d like to choose our immigrants based on how they and their children can add to the wealth and well-being of the nation, to become creators of prosperity rather than dependents. And since we are not based in Washington, we are willing to examine and question every orthodoxy and consider every new policy idea, whether or not it has a realistic chance of passing into law now. Moreover, some of us belong to the “question authority” generation, and started out to the left of center. So we know that experience has changed our views–which makes us take nothing for granted and question everything, even our own assumptions.
Power Line: I love the magazine’s cultural coverage. Conservatives seem to be on the losing end of the culture wars. What have you sought to do with your cultural coverage?
Myron Magnet: We believe that culture–ideas, beliefs, ideals, loyalties, and mores–shape a nation more powerfully than political or social policies, which are themselves originally shaped by culture. So we have devoted a lot of attention to how to strengthen families, how to raise and educate children to succeed, how sexual mores are changing both for good and for ill. Literature, television, journalism, entertainment, of the past as well as the present–all these are transmitters and shapers of culture, so we examine them seriously, if sometimes a little lightheartedly. And sometimes censoriously: does gangsta rap do anything to uplift the urban underclass, or does it degrade it? We’d prefer a culture that nurtures every imaginable variety of human excellence. That’s what the ideal city, a theater of talent and ambition, is for.
As we are at base an urban-policy magazine, we take very seriously Winston Churchill’s profound observation, which has everything to do with cities: “We shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us.” So we are passionate about architecture, resolutely opposed to those modernist and postmodernist starchitects who believe that buildings are machines for living rather than enhancements of humanity. For them, people are interchangeable cogs or ants in an ant colony, not humans with souls.
Our belief in the primacy of culture made us perhaps the first conservative magazine to express deep skepticism of the Bush administration’s “freedom agenda” in Iraq, much as we supported President Bush and the war. You can’t make democratic republicans out of tribal people with fanatical religious hatreds against one another and the rest of the world. America’s democratic liberty is an immense cultural achievement, centuries in the making.
Power Line: I can’t go without asking about Heather Mac Donald. She has been an inspiration to me and made herself something of a national resource on the subjects she writes about. I’m sure I’m not alone. Can you say anything about Heather’s contributions?
Myron Magnet: When I took the helm of City Journal in 1994, we thought that, to save the city, we’d need to solve all its problems at once: crime, taxation, regulation, education, rent control, and so on. We discovered that, with such a rich inheritance from the past–museums, orchestras, opera companies, theaters, restaurants both fancy and homey, beautiful buildings, global banks, universities–all we needed to do was make people feel safe in the streets, their homes, and their hotels, and tourists would flock in, New Yorkers would go out, and the city would flourish.
Heather made herself City Journal’s–and the nation’s–Number One expert on policing, aside from Bill Bratton, Ray Kelly, and their top deputies. In the early days of the magazine, she was the principal explainer to the public of what Bratton and Giuliani were doing about crime, and enough people found her sufficiently persuasive to support the NYPD, let it do its job (despite constant carping from the academic criminologists and the New York Times), and appreciate the miracle it wrought. Now that police are under attack nationwide and what Heather dubbed the “Ferguson Effect” has made cops back off, with a resultant jump in crime, Heather is once again the nation’s most tireless and persuasive defender of activist policing. She knows everything there is to know about the subject, from how to train cops, deploy them, mange them, and assess their performance, so that they don’t solve crimes after they have occurred but instead prevent crimes from happening in the first place–something no one imagined could be done before City Journal and the Manhattan Institute, its publisher, suggested it could.
In my first years running the magazine, I’d spend hours every week on the phone with Heather, as she’d worry over every detail of her story, to make sure the logic had no holes, the argument was fair, her answers to possible objections persuasive, and so on. These were among the most intellectually stimulating conversations I dare say any editor ever had. And I know that, in addition to her scrupulous intellectual honesty and rigor, her amazing intelligence, her stringent perfectionism, Heather (a lapsed lawyer) is as curious as any scientist and as brave as Hercules, willing to go into any neighborhood in any city, ask any question of anybody, and get answers that illuminate. Intellectually courageous as well, I might add, for when we started, to suggest that criminals, not “society,” were responsible for crime was immediately to be shunned as racist. But of course the greatest beneficiaries of New York’s crime drop are residents of minority communities where crime was worst. Now that residents don’t have to be afraid to let their kids ride bikes outside or go to the corner store for bread, civic life can again flourish there.
Two final points. Heather can write about anything, from “Hip Hop 101″ at a “progressive” NYC public school to affirmative action and its fruits in the universities to classical music. Second, we have been blessed with a brigade of great writers, who made City Journal what it is.
Power Line: What would you like interested readers who are unfamiliar with the magazine to know about it?
Myron Magnet: Take a look at the website here — it’s free and unencumbered by any advertising, and judge for yourselves.
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Visiting John Jay’s Homestead
When John Jay retired after two terms as governor of New York in June 1801, after serving as the first chief justice of New York State and of the United States, as president of the Continental Congress, as secretary for foreign affairs, and—most important—as the U.S. diplomat who stamped his vision on America’s foreign policy for generations to come, he moved into a plain yellow house in Katonah, at the northern edge of Westchester County. Even though he’d lived in one of New York City’s grandest mansions, he didn’t want a “seat,” his son wrote; he wanted a plain farmhouse, just like his neighbors’. The only difference between his house and hundreds more built in America in the first two decades of the nineteenth century was that it was a bit bigger—and built like Old Ironsides. As one friend said of the solidity of the house and its furnishings, and of Jay’s religiously upright life—“all his conduct seemed to have reference to perpetuity in this world and the next.”
Have a look at this slideshow of the John Jay Homestead. Just click on the photo:
Though we now best remember Jay as our first chief justice, his most important accomplishment was as a diplomat. He negotiated the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. Ignoring Congress’s instructions to coordinate closely with America’s French allies and keep French diplomats informed of all his communications with British negotiators, Jay quickly understood that France and America had different interests and aims in the final peace settlement. France wanted America to be a much smaller and weaker country than Americans hoped for–a country surrounded by hostile powers, at loggerheads with England, and thus perpetually dependent on France. Consequently, Jay negotiated with his British counterparts without informing the French foreign ministry of his actions and intentions, and at last succeeded in getting agreement to a treaty that left America a much bigger and more powerful nation than France had wanted and that even Congress had thought possible.
Here are the signatures on the Treaty of Paris, including those of Jay’s fellow American commissioners, who played minor and unimportant roles in hammering out the treaty, as well as that of British negotiator David Hartley.
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When he retired, John Jay didn’t want a “seat,” his son wrote; he wanted a plain farmhouse, just like his neighbors’ in Katonah, NY.
Please click each image to enlarge it and see its caption.
Posted in Founders' Homes, Gallery | Tagged architect of US foreign policy, chief justice, diplomat, Founding Fathers' Homes, governor of NY, John Jay, John Jay Homestead, Katonah, New York, Sarah Livingston Jay, Westchester County | Leave a comment
Moving Hamilton Grange
We sometimes forget that New York’s history didn’t start with nineteenth century immigrants sailing under the Statue of Liberty’s outstretched arm and building the bustling commercial metropolis that exists today. In fact, the city was the first capital of the United States government established under the Constitution, the place where President George Washington took his first oath of office and set the constitutional machinery in motion. Continue reading →
Posted in Founders' Homes, Virtual Tours | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Founding Fathers' Homes, Hamilton Grange, Harlem Heights, Inventor of US financial system, New York | Leave a comment
Conservatives plant a seed in NYC
ANOTHER SIGN of how much New York has changed: The most influential source of political ideas is a conservative think tank that was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s mentor and Ronald Reagan’s spymaster.
The Manhattan Institute was a speck on the margins of the city’s political landscape when it opened in 1978, promoting the un-New Yorkerish notions of free-market economics, conservative values and the dismantling of the welfare state. Now, 20 years later, it dominates political discussions and helps set the agenda. Continue reading →
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New board to further the association’s mission and implement the Long-Range Strategic Plan serving as the basis of action by NEII®
Promotion of safety for new and existing building transportation technologies is a chief objective
SALEM, N.Y. (April 29, 2014) – The National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) announced today the election of its new Board of Directors, including officers and Trust Committee members. These elections became effective April 29, 2014, and were made in conjunction with NEII‘s 80th annual meeting held in Hartford, CT. This year also marks NEII‘s 100th anniversary as the premier national trade association for the building transportation industry. The newly elected Board of Directors and officers include:
Richard T. Hussey, President – Hussey serves as chief executive officer of ThyssenKrupp Elevator Company, where he is responsible for all business operations in North and South America.
Michael Corbo, Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc. – Corbo is general manager/senior vice president of Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA’s elevator and escalator division. Corbo has more than 25 years of industry experience and has been involved with NEII for ten years; including serving as NEII’s board president from 2005 to 2007.
Jakob Zueger, Schindler Elevator Corporation – Zueger serves as chief executive officer, Schindler Americas, with responsibility for North, Central and South America. He previously served as chief executive officer of Schindler Elevator Ltd., Ebikon/Switzerland.
Tom Vining, Otis Elevator Company. – Vining is president, Otis Americas, where he is responsible for the overall leadership and operating performance of Otis in North and South America. He has more than 25 years of industry experience.
The NEII Board of Directors is responsible for managing and directing the affairs of the association as it pertains to its mission statement, which includes: promoting safety in new and existing building transportation; promoting laws and regulations that permit the introduction of safe, innovative technology; endorsing adoption of current model codes by local government agencies; and advocating responsible laws and regulations at all levels of government.
Christine Petranchuk, Otis Elevator Company – Petranchuk is vice president of human resources for Otis Americas and has more than 16 years of human resources experience.
Bruce Brenizer, Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc. – Brenizer serves as senior vice president of human resources, Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics U.S.A., Inc.
Kara Ekert, Schindler Elevator Corporation – Ekert is vice president of Human Resources for Schindler Elevator Corporation and has more than 11 years of human resources experience with the company.
“I am honored and excited to work with this Board of talented individuals and proven leaders in the building transportation industry,” said Richard T. Hussey, president of NEII. “The success of this organization is a direct result of the hard work and deep commitment they have consistently shown to expanding NEII‘s leadership position as an authority in the areas of codes and safety, steering the adoption of the latest innovations in the industry and ensuring the safety of both the riding public and elevator technicians.”
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Monte Palace Museum
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Mother Nature Secrets
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Berardo Foundation
José Berardo
The Monte Palace Tropical Garden occupies an area of 70.000 square meters and houses an huge exotic plant’s collection, coming from all over the world, together with swans and duck’s, that populates the central lake, peacocks and chickens, that walk free in the main areas of the property. In the central lake, the visitor may also admire the beauty and majesty of the swans. They prefer the relatively shallow cool water of lakes and ponds as their natural habitat. Despite of being actually admired in gardens all over the world, the black swans originate from Australia, Tasmania and New Zeeland and the wild white swans have their origin in Iceland and Scandinavia.
The Monte Palace Museum is an ideal exhibition space nestled within the beautiful surroundings of a tropical garden. There are three floors, two of which are dedicated to sculptures and the third houses a unique mineral collection gathered from the four corners of the world.
The exposition entitled 'African Passion' shows part of a collection of contemporary Zimbabwean sculpture from the period 1966 to 1969. More than a 1000 sculptures are distributed on two floors of the museum. The top floor concentrates on individual creations, allowing the viewer time to observe the characteristics and workmanship of each artist. The second floor captures the environment in which these talented men and women work in order to create and display their sculptures to the world.
'Mother Nature's Secrets', on the lower floor, proudly exhibits one of the finest private collections of minerals, predominately from Brazil, Portugal, South Africa, Zambia, Peru, Argentina and North America. From more than a 1000 specimens, around 700 have been specially chosen for display. Some specimens are displayed in hollows designed to imitate the environment in which the minerals form in the depths of our planet, whilst others are “suspended in air” to give the sensation of a planetary space where rocky masses gravitate freely. Also for your enjoyment is an exhibition of more than 300 semiprecious and precious gems, with a particular focus on diamonds, both rough and cut.
One of the most interesting characteristics of the Monte Palace Tropical Garden is the existence of a large collection of tile panels placed along the walkways and amongst the vegetation acquired by José Berardo, under the specialist direction of Manuel Leitão. This collection, considered to be one of the most important in the country after that of the National Tile Museum, is made up of Hispano-Moorish tiles of the 15th and 16th centuries and panels produced in Portugal from the 19th to the 20th centuries.
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Tracking NATO Summit Tweets
Northwestern’s Knight Lab keeps tabs on tweets and news about NATO 2012 in Chicago
May 16, 2012 | By Erin Spain
EVANSTON, Ill. --- If you want to know what people around the world are saying about the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago, head to www.natoinchicago.com, a website created by staff and students from the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University.
The technology behind the website spots, sorts and analyzes what protestors, leaders, city residents and other groups are saying about the NATO Summit on Twitter. It also aggregates and presents traditional media coverage from around the globe, enabling city residents to see how Chicago is being portrayed internationally.
“We're tracking how Twitter conversations are changing in the days leading up to the summit and during the summit, and paying special attention to how the tweets from Chicagoans may be different from tweets from other countries," said Michael A. Silver, executive director of the Knight Lab.
Tracking conversations on Twitter may be especially important as thousands of people plan to protest in Chicago during the NATO Summit and will likely use social media to organize their efforts.
Likewise, the news aggregation tool is an interesting way to see how international media is covering the NATO Summit and Chicago. Already the technology has shown that media in more the 70 countries around the world are reporting on Chicago and various aspects of the event, ranging from the potential for protests to calls for leaders to focus on protecting women in Afghanistan.
“In a way, the website will give journalists an additional set of eyes and ears that they can train on an event that they are covering in person,” said Owen Youngman, Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy at Medill and one of the Knight Lab's founding faculty. "Smart use of social media is not a substitute for the work of journalists on the ground, but it is an interesting supplement.”
The Knight Lab will report its findings and observations of the digital conversation surrounding the NATO summit at www.natoinchicago.com/what-we-are-learning/.
The Knight Lab’s NATO in Chicago website: www.natoinchicago.com
For more information on the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University and natoinchicago.com, contact Michael A. Silver, executive director of the Lab, at michael-silver@northwestern.edu or (847) 467–6268.
Topics: Announcements, Chicago, Innovation, Media, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Staff, Technology
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The world’s first vending machine that dispenses frozen Norwegian salmon fillets is in Singapore
A local distributor of Norwegian salmon has come up with the bizarre (yet brilliant) idea of selling fillets of the raw meat through vending machines, delivering omega-3 fatty acids to the masses in the Singapore HDB heartlands.
Wisteria Mall, the new shopping center along Yishun Ring Road, is now home to the world’s first “Norwegian Salmon ATM” — though the term “automatic teller machine” refers to devices that perform financial transactions. The only transactions involved here are raw 200g premium salmon fillets that go for S$5.90 each, which can only be paid for with debit and credit cards. They’re all frozen of course, and the vending machine operators Norwegian Salmon Pte Ltd promise no additives or flavoring added to the fillets.
Having extensive experience working with Norwegian salmon farmers, the company’s founder Manish Kumar came up with the idea of serving the high-quality meat through “time and cost-effective solutions” in Asia. The vending machine concept was born, and Manish believes that the cashless system and round-the-clock availability of his machines should prove to be a hit with Singaporeans.
The world’s first salmon vending machine had its grand launch last Saturday afternoon and can be located on the first level of Wisteria Mall after being relocated from its initial spot on the basement level.
In the meantime, you can look forward to 14 more of the frozen salmon vending machines that will be located in neighborhoods such as Jurong (East and West), Bukit Batok, Ang Mo Kio, Woodlands, Sembawang, Clementi, and more by the end of this month.
This article, The world’s first vending machine that dispenses frozen Norwegian salmon fillets is in Singapore, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company. Want more Coconuts? Sign up for our newsletters!
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Aly & AJ with Armors at the TLA 5/21
Amanda Relick May 14th, 2019 - 12:39 PM
Our middle school selves seem to have been given a new day in the sun with the return of the Jonas Brothers, but I’m here to tell you–there’s more. After a ten year hiatus the pop rock narrators of our nonexistent preteen breakups have returned to once again grace us with their musical magic. Yes, Aly & AJ are back. While you go quickly remind yourself of the greatness that is “Potential Breakup Song,” don’t sleep on the two EPs worth of music they have dropped in the the last year. They ended their hiatus with the release of “Take Me,” which led to their EP appropriately titled 10 Years. “Take Me” ushered the duo into a new era far removed from their Disney days, with a sophisticated new look and sound indicative of 80s pop with a dreamy, electronic vibe. Their latest EP, Sanctuary, was released this month and includes such certified bops as “Church” and “Don’t Go Changing.” Though our nostalgia may be fully engaged by the return of these pop queens, Aly & AJ have definitely earned a spot among today’s innovative artists with their modern, enchanting sound.
Opening for Aly & AJ is the Orange County-based duo named Armors. This indie-pop band has a sadboy sound similar to Bleachers, but with more grounding organic elements. Check out their debut album, Who’s Gonna Love Me (When I’m Not Young)–especially the track “Portland.”
Armors
Tuesday May 21st, 2019
Show 8PM
Theatre of Living Arts
Amanda Relick
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227 Greenwood Ave, Bethel, CT 06801
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Ramblin Dan Stevens
18jul7:30 pm10:30 pmRamblin Dan Stevens
Ramblin' Dan Stevens performs a mix of traditional finger style blues, americana and originals and has entertained audiences throughout the United States, Germany, UK, Canada and US Virgin Islands.
Ramblin’ Dan Stevens performs a mix of traditional finger style blues, americana and originals and has entertained audiences throughout the United States, Germany, UK, Canada and US Virgin Islands. His unique style of “bottleneck” slide playing popularized by early Mississippi Delta bluesmen includes use of a homemade, three stringed “Cigar Box Guitar” and one stringed “Diddly Bow”, both primitive blues instruments. A finalist in the International Blues Challenge on Beale St. in Memphis TN and protege of the legendary folk and blues icon Dave Van Ronk, Dan has been lauded as a raconteur and for the authenticity of his approach. Dave’s career has recently been highlighted by the release of the the Coen Brothers movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis”, set in the Greenwich Village scene in the sixties. Also, Dan plays regularly in the New York City Subway System in locations such as Times Square and Grand Central Terminal.
(Thursday) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Killian Troupe
19jul8:00 pm11:00 pmKillian Troupe
The Killian Troupe hails from Fairfield County, Connecticut and plays classic rock and country stringband music with Richard King on guitar, and Ward Whipple on bass.
The Killian Troupe performs mainly as the duo of Richard King and Ward Whipple, with spot appearances by other musicians. Our repertoire includes music from such diverse artists as Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, Shel Silverstein and Kinky Friedman as well as occasional original material. The wide variety of their music as well as their easy rapport with audiences of all ages makes them uniquely entertaining.
Richard King, lead singer and guitarist is a singer/songwriter and coffee-house musician with over 50 years of experience playing in bars, restaurants, clubs, and coffee-houses from California to Connecticut and many places in between.
Ward Whipple, bass player and vocalist has played in numerous bands over the years as well as performing solo in venues around Connecticut. He has been with the Killian Troupe since March of 2015.
Kenny Z
20jul8:00 pm11:00 pmKenny Z
Singer,song writer, performer
Anthony & Phil
21jul11:30 am2:30 pmAnthony & PhilBrunch! 11:30-2:30
Jazz Standards, Rock, R&B
GoRjA
21jul4:30 pm7:30 pmGoRjA4:30 - 7:30, On The Patio
(Sunday) 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
22jul7:00 pm11:00 pmOpen Mic Night
The areas premier OPEN MIC Solo and Group Sets with a Last Set Acoustic Jam Each performer can perform three songs of a reasonable length - 12 minutes max. Monday advance signup -
The areas premier OPEN MIC
Solo and Group Sets with a Last Set Acoustic Jam
Each performer can perform three songs of a reasonable length – 12 minutes max.
Monday advance signup – noteopenmic@gmail.com until 4PM.
In person thereafter.
(Monday) 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Fred Ballfred.ball@sbcglobal.net
Grover Anderson
23jul7:00 pm10:00 pmGrover Anderson
Declaring oneself “The Optimist” is a bold move, especially on an album with as many songs of murder, heartache, and South American gunslinging as Grover Anderson’s 2014 release. Even interweaved
Declaring oneself “The Optimist” is a bold move, especially on an album with as many songs of murder, heartache, and South American gunslinging as Grover Anderson’s 2014 release. Even interweaved with the songs about growing old together or how much fun it is being the big spoon, there’s always a thorn or two hidden somewhere in the lenses of Grover’s rose-colored glasses. A long-held belief that the darkness leads us to appreciate the light permeates his songwriting and informs his mission to celebrate life in all its ups and downs through songwriting and performance.
Grover was raised in the historic gold rush town of Murphys, CA. The rich culture of the area (along with lifelong immersion in fiction, theater and 90’s country music) instilled a storytelling nature that is evident in Grover’s writing. He assembled a bar band while attending UC Santa Barbara, put all of the tips from his restaurant job into a jar, and used it to record a pop/rock album. After some layovers in LA and Oakland, where he formed the folk duo Freight with Jimbo Scott, Grover and his family returned to Murphys to reconnect with the small mountain atmosphere that provided such inspiration as a youth. Living in California’s vastly varying environments provided ample material for his next two albums, which Grover self-produced. “Moonshine”, the opening track on the mostly-acoustic Tourniquet (2011), has grown into a fan favorite since its original recording as a duet with LA artist Samantha Free. While recording The Optimist (2014), which includes love songs like “Little Spoon” and “Sick of You” and more tragic ballads “The Lampolier” and “Grindstone“, Grover assembled musician friends from all over the state to create a diverse collection of country, rock, bluegrass, and jazz. His 2017 acoustic album, From the Pink Room, is a collection of songs that Grover recorded at his home studio deep in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and was named the #2 album of the year by music site Independent Clauses.
While he loves sharing his recorded music (he currently has over 1.9 million streams on Spotify), Grover’s true passion is live performance. Whether performing solo with his acoustic guitar or with the full band behind him, he channels musical heroes like Garth Brooks and Josh Ritter, leaving everything he has on stage. He is a passionate performer who grows his fanbase with every gig, be it for a wine bar of thirty or an amphitheater of thousands.
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Mark Florio Acoustic
24jul7:00 pm10:00 pmMark Florio Acoustic
JC Acoustic Trio
25jul7:30 pm10:30 pmJC Acoustic Trio
Justin Chandler, born and raised in eastern Connecticut, discovered his love for country music at an early age and has been unstoppable since. Growing up, he was successful in
Justin Chandler, born and raised in eastern Connecticut, discovered his love for country music at an early age and has been unstoppable since. Growing up, he was successful in several singing competitions, taught himself to play guitar, and enjoys recording whenever he has the chance. All the while continues to write his own music and is an intricate and inspiring lyricist.
In 2010 he became the lead singer of Nashville Drive which has grown to become Connecticut’s premier modern country band. They have opened for national headliners such as Jason Sturgeon, Craig Campbell and Colt Ford. Recently, Justin has also developed a talented solo acoustic career, playing all your favorite modern country songs, along with his fun & catchy originals. Whether you catch him as the party band frontman or on his own with a guitar, the show will have you singing along.
2Jam Acoustic
26jul8:00 pm11:00 pm2Jam Acoustic
Started by brothers Bill & AJ Geoghegan in June 2012. Let the music live. The Beatles, Stones, Dylan, CSN, Eagles, America, oldies and originals
Started by brothers Bill & AJ Geoghegan in June 2012. Let the music live.
The Beatles, Stones, Dylan, CSN, Eagles, America, oldies and originals
GeorgeMichael
27jul2:00 pm5:00 pmGeorgeMichael2 to 5, PATIO RAGGAE
(Saturday) 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Auguste and Alden
27jul8:30 pm11:30 pmAuguste and AldenRock Trio
We are Auguste and Alden, a sibling band from Northwest Connecticut. We consist of two siblings who play bass and guitar complimented by melodic blood harmonies in addition to the
We are Auguste and Alden, a sibling band from Northwest Connecticut. We consist of two siblings who play bass and guitar complimented by melodic blood harmonies in addition to the third part harmonies contributed by our drummer. We recently released our new album called Road Warrior, which has been producing a lot of positive momentum among fans and the music industry. We are a brother and sister who passionately write and perform our own original music and are also able to perform popular cover songs dependent on the specific needs of the venue. Due to playing music together our entire lives, we have created extremely unique and creative musical arrangements. As a band we have toured nationally performing on main stages and venues such as the NAMM show, providing us the opportunity to play alongside many major artists. Our passion to make music is evident by our catalog of over 70 original songs we have written, produced, and recorded.
Bob Stanhope
28jul11:00 am2:00 pmBob StanhopeBrunch! 11:30-2:30
Bob Stanhope, a prolific songwriter, has performed as a singer-songwriter in many different settings. Recently he has been a featured performer at The Bushnell Pavilion in Hartford, First Night Danbury,
Bob Stanhope, a prolific songwriter, has performed as a singer-songwriter in many different settings. Recently he has been a featured performer at The Bushnell Pavilion in Hartford, First Night Danbury, The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, and The Danbury City Center Summer Concert Series. He is a thirteen-time winner in the Billboard Magazine Songwriting Contest and has fronted the vocal group Cornerstone and the rock band Cross Purpose. His acting in community theater includes lead roles in “1776”, “Born Yesterday”, “Sugar”, “A Christmas Carol: The Musical”, “It’s A wonderful Life: The Musical”, and “Mr. Roberts.” Finally he’s self-published twelve detective novels, three memoirs, and back in the 80s and 90s Bob was the morning “guy” at several suburban radio stations.
Ol’ Moose
28jul4:30 pm7:30 pmOl’ Moose4:30 - 7:30
Welcome to Ol’ Moose music! I’ve been playing Americana music of one sort or another for the last forty years. The web site will give you a little bit of
Welcome to Ol’ Moose music! I’ve been playing Americana music of one sort or another for the last forty years. The web site will give you a little bit of information about all that, including my other name—Doug Anderson. There’s a bit of history, some music, and a list of upcoming shows. I’ve had the pleasure of playing music with a number of great musicians over the years and am pleased to say the young folks I’ve been playing with for the last seven or so years have been energizing and generous with their time.
Kind Bud
31jul7:30 pm10:30 pmKind BudJerry Garcia Tribute Show
Kind Bud of the The Kind Buds - Raucous Acoustic Guitar Jam & Vocals Duo. Playing original songs as well as the music of Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, Beatles,
Kind Bud of the The Kind Buds – Raucous Acoustic Guitar Jam & Vocals Duo. Playing original songs as well as the music of Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, and many other great musical influences. Performing Solo. ~
Bud is an accredited performing artist of the prestigious
New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
Anthony Gach
01aug7:30 pm10:30 pmAnthony Gach
Anthony Gach is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and teacher. He has studied Music Composition at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, and has played and toured extensively with a number
Anthony Gach is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and teacher. He has studied Music Composition at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, and has played and toured extensively with a number of various musicians in a wide array of genres. He takes on songwriting and arranging duties to compliment his vocal stylings and trumpet playing for his most recent project “Anthony Gach & HARMONIC AGGRESSION.” In addition to bandleader, Anthony regularly lends himself to other bands as a backing musician on various interments as well as consistently performing crowd pleasing covers and original music with just his voice and solo acoustic guitar.
03aug6:30 pm9:30 pmKenny ZAcoustic
RivaJean & Nick Arne
04aug11:30 am2:30 pmRivaJean & Nick ArneBrunch
05aug7:00 pm11:00 pmOpen Mic Night
Hey 19
08aug7:00 pm10:00 pmHey 19
Billy Michael has been a prominent and popular performer in the Connecticut area for decades. His success as a solo artist and membership in an impressive number of duos and
Billy Michael has been a prominent and popular performer in the Connecticut area for decades. His success as a solo artist and membership in an impressive number of duos and bands has led him to possess a vast knowledge of music and an incomparable talent. Among many accomplishments, Billy is the proud founder of the performance group and program known as “Jazz for Juniors”, which allows young musicians of all skill levels and instruments a chance to develop as performers and artists. It is through this program that he met and influenced Anna Bishop.
Anna Bishop is a nineteen-year-old singer and college student. She has been performing with Billy since she was twelve and, in that time, has amassed a massive repertoire of songs in nearly every genre. In high school, Anna was a National Young Arts Merit Winner in the category of Popular Voice two years in a row. She has also been in several television commercials including, Goldfish, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Rite-aid. While Anna possesses an innate talent for singing, she attributes her success and skill as a performer to her time spent with Billy Michael.
Billy and Anna recently came together to form the duo “Hey 19!” They perform everything from jazz standards to country and classic rock to modern pop and often take requests. In the few months since the duo’s conception, they’ve played a wide variety of restaurants and events in the Connecticut area. Hey19! strives to play something for everyone and guarantees that you will leave their gigs with a smile on your face and a song in your heart.
Last Train
09aug8:00 pm11:00 pmLast Train
Music from the 60's up to today. The Stones, Neil Young, Beatles, Clapton, Creedence Clearwater, and much more. We are the band that you can listen & dance to with
Music from the 60’s up to today. The Stones, Neil Young, Beatles, Clapton, Creedence Clearwater, and much more. We are the band that you can listen & dance to with out getting your ear drums blown out.
Grooved Pavement
10aug2:00 pm5:00 pmGrooved PavementOn The Patio! 2 to 5
Bone Dry Duo
10aug8:00 pm11:00 pmBone Dry DuoBlues & Rock Duo
Bone Dry performs original music and covers from a wide range of musical styles combining rock, blues, jam bands, funk, Motown, reggae and jazz.
Charles Berthoud
11aug11:30 am2:30 amCharles Berthoud
British bassist, Charles Berthoud (pronounced BEAR-too), is changing the way we think about the bass guitar. As one of the most exciting and versatile new bass players on the world
British bassist, Charles Berthoud (pronounced BEAR-too), is changing the way we think about the bass guitar. As one of the most exciting and versatile new bass players on the world stage, his compositions are both moving and beautiful, showing off a technique that he is helping to bring to the mainstream. Already being recognized as one of the masters of the two-handed tapping technique, he plays the bass like a piano, accompanying himself with multiple parts. A classically trained pianist and muiti-instrumentalist, Charles uses contemporary guitar techniques to play astonishingly fast, almost flamenco-like passages. Mastering his instrument through years and countless hours of practicing, Charles’ compositions range from the drama of a film score to the peaceful tranquility of a piano sonata.
In 2011, Charles was stuck. Working as a baggage handler at an airport near his suburban London home, he was attending university as a physics major by day and dreaming of coming to America to make music by night. Since he was a young boy, he had idolized the great American bassists, especially Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Victor Wooten, Jaco Pastorius, and, of course, James Jamerson. He knew that if he wanted to realize his dream, it was now or never. Soon thereafter, Charles was accepted into the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, and off he went to study with the best class of musicians in the world. There, mentored by New England bass impresario, Jim Stinnett, Charles was introduced to the two-handed tapping technique that would come to define much of his own music. Before graduating Berklee with highest honors, Charles co-authored an instructional book, Two-Handed Tapping, with Stinnett. Now, his talents are in high demand as a touring and studio musician.
Half British, half Finnish, and living in the United States, Charles Berthoud is an international artist in the truest form. Artists from all over the world, including the USA, India and Brazil, have been eager to collaborate with him. It doesn’t seem to matter the style. Whether it’s pop/rock/country, celtic/bluegrass/funk, or progressive folk, Charles’ playing transcends genre. That may explain why, at such a young age, he has conducted workshops and clinics across the northeast, including at Berklee and the New Hampshire Bass Fest.
Charles has performed at prestigious venues in all four corners of the United States, including The Capitol Center for the Arts, The Palace Theater, and the Agganis Arena in Boston, MA. Whether on bass guitar, piccolo bass or piano, audiences are captivated by his music, and amazed by his world-class virtuosity. After touring and recording as a sideman on a dozen records and tours, Charles now has two solo albums under his belt. While New Age of Solo Bass introduced his technical skills to the world, his follow up, Don’t Look Back, is a compositional tour de force. The songs are beautiful and moving, reminding the listener that there are still new frontiers to be explored in popular music. If Charles Berthoud is the one to chart this new territory, then music lovers are in good hands.
(Sunday) 11:30 am - 2:30 am
Glen Roth
14aug7:30 am10:30 pmGlen Roth
Glenn Roth is not your typical commuter from Connecticut. Instead of a briefcase, he carries a gig bag. His workspace is the vaulted splendor of Grand Central Terminal or the
Glenn Roth is not your typical commuter from Connecticut. Instead of a briefcase, he carries a gig bag. His workspace is the vaulted splendor of Grand Central Terminal or the tunnels and platforms of the New York City subway system. A literal “underground” sensation, Glenn is a licensed performer in the MTA’s “Music under New York” program, playing for the most distracted and demanding audience in the world: legions of workers rushing to jobs throughout the Big Apple. And his fingers work magic, creating a soundscape of compelling melodies that invite them to leave the cityrush behind on an aural escape.
Glenn is a fingerstyle guitarist, his thumb riding the bassline and the melody driving all. His compositions suggest multiple guitars, but it’s really just one guy, ten flying fingers, one instrument. All instrumental, Glenn’s songs suggest moods and narratives that compel the listener to fill in the details.
(Wednesday) 7:30 am - 10:30 pm
Doug Valcour
15aug7:00 pm10:00 pmDoug Valcour
Jake Kulak & The LowDown
16aug8:30 pm11:30 pmJake Kulak & The LowDownSizzling Blues
Jake Kulak picked up a guitar at age 11 and instinctively knew what to do with it. Within a couple of months he was playing at open jams in the
Jake Kulak picked up a guitar at age 11 and instinctively knew what to do with it. Within a couple of months he was playing at open jams in the CT blues and jazz scene. At age 13 he made the first of many trips to Memphis where he played in clubs on Beale Street as part of the International Blue Challenge Youth Showcase, and to Clarksdale, MS where he attended the Pinetop Perkins Masterclass in Guitar, learning from living blues legends like Bob Margolin. At age 13 he was also recognized with a merit scholarship by the Honeyboy Edwards Fund for the Blues at the National Blues Museum. Several years later Jake is playing 60+ professional gigs a year, all while still attending High School. He can play solo acoustic, solo electric or rock out with his full band, Jake Kulak and the LowDown.
Jake Kulak and the LowDown bring their blend of modern and traditional guitar-driven blues and blues-rock to music lovers everywhere. Formed in 2013, these talented young artists have represented CT for the past 4 years at the International Blues Challenge Youth Showcase in Memphis, TN. They have also been nominated for a New England Music Award in the “Best New Act of the Year” category and were one of 6 Boston-area bands to win the the House of Blues emerging artist competition. Bassist Anthony Dailey, from Longmeadow, MA is a crowd favorite with his quiet swagger and tasteful grooves. Drummer, Jeremy Peck, from Manchester, Connecticut is a formally trained, multi-instrumentalist whose killer, high-energy beats anchor the band.
Lisa & Tom
17aug8:30 pm11:30 pmLisa & TomBlues
21aug7:00 pm10:00 pmOl’ Moose2 to 5, ON THE PATIO
Sister Funk Trio
23aug8:30 pm11:30 pmSister Funk Trio
Sister Funk Trio is an incarnation of the 5-piece high energy pop/rock band, still fun and professional yet stripped down to give a more intimate sound. With their extensive catalogue of
Sister Funk Trio is an incarnation of the 5-piece high energy pop/rock band, still fun and professional yet stripped down to give a more intimate sound.
With their extensive catalogue of music you’ll catch the crowd singing along to their favorite cover songs or listening to the melodic harmony driven originals.
This three piece powerhouse brings an entertaining show which is never the same. With their ability to play a variety of instruments: sax, guitar, keyboards and cajon they bring a unique sound to classic and contemporary songs.
Whether they are rocking out a happy hour or opening up for Foreigner, the trio never disappoints!
You are guaranteed a night of great music and killer harmonies.
24aug2:00 pm5:00 pmShawn TaylorOn The Patio! 2 to 5
With thumping thumb, dancing fingers, wailing harmonica and gritty, soul stirring vocals, Taylor's songs ooze American roots; wandering roots. He's drawn many comparisons, including Tom Waits, Stephen Stills, Bruce Springsteen,
With thumping thumb, dancing fingers, wailing harmonica and gritty, soul stirring vocals, Taylor’s songs ooze American roots; wandering roots. He’s drawn many comparisons, including Tom Waits, Stephen Stills, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Tom Rush, but his unique lyrics are colored by his own working class, wandering roots. He’s been an oysterman, cabinetmaker, father, Appalachian Trail ‘thru-hiker’ and full-time troubadour from New England to Nashville, for ten years. He’s shared the stage with legends such as Maria Muldaur, Vance Gilbert and Peter Mulvey, and released his 4th CD, “Balance,” in April 2017.
Phoenix Tree
30aug8:30 pm11:30 pmPhoenix Tree
Listen to and buy our album Heartwood: Spotify https://goo.gl/r7tBYS YouTube https://goo.gl/3bX8xe CD Baby
Listen to and buy our album Heartwood:
Spotify https://goo.gl/r7tBYS YouTube https://goo.gl/3bX8xe CD Baby https://goo.gl/E4Nf1T iTunes https://goo.gl/47Cp1V Amazon https://goo.gl/7VTer4
Closed - Labor Day
01sep12:00 am04(sep 4)11:59 pmClosed - Labor Day
1 (Sunday) 12:00 am - 4 (Wednesday) 11:59 pm
ManMade Blues
06sep8:00 pm11:00 pmManMade Blues
Sugar Death Whistle
07sep9:00 pm11:59 pmSugar Death Whistle
08sep11:30 am2:30 pmRamblin Dan StevensBrunch!
09sep7:00 pm11:00 pmOpen Mic Night
Dave Oberacker
12sep7:30 pm10:30 pmDave Oberacker
Trickling out the mind of Dave Oberacker (vox, guitars) GoRjA not only burst into our worlds through music, but also changed the view of it. The front man of Seeking
Trickling out the mind of Dave Oberacker (vox, guitars) GoRjA not only burst into our worlds through music, but also changed the view of it. The front man of Seeking Homer had pubs swinging to both original tunes and favorite singalongs including his infamous version of “Star Spangled Banner” for years. Last year Oberacker added old friend, guitarist extraordinaire, Dave Fusaro, to the circuit creating a buzz that would soon translate into what we now know as GoRjA.In late 2016, Davey linked up with Dave’s fellow musicians, Andrew “AKA47” Kramer (guitars, lap, steel), Mike “Lear-Dog” Leary (bass) and Chris “Cross Stick” Cacciato (drums). Andrew, known for bleeding his instruments onto tracks with local favorites Morningside, Failure’s Art and Litmus, brings a dynamic sound that hits like an AK-47 through your ears and heart. The rhythm section of Cacciato and Leary have been hittin’ it and laying down the vibe for almost two decades now including their early years in local favorite Stony Hill and the Jibe with Fusaro. These three come to GoRjA after years of collaborating on projects – Weathered Helm, Bourbon Prophecy and Frogtown Road with Paul Simon and Edie Brickell.Dusting off the cobwebs with some Tom Petty, Dawes, Sturgill Simpson and Bruce Springsteen the boys took on some GoRjA tunes of their own with some collaborations from Kevin “Wild Thing” McCloskey (lyricist). As rumor has it…the walls shook, closed in and with a bang…GoRjA was. With a bag full of originals and some unique takes on your favorite songs, the boys continue set their sights on a summer full of bringing GoRjA into your heads and hearts through live shows, recordings and beyond.
13sep8:30 pm11:30 pmAuguste and AldenRock Trio
14sep2:00 pm5:00 pmWMD2 to 5, ON THE PATIO
Will, Mat and Dan (sometimes known as WMD) has its roots in classic Americana and bluegrass, but that doesn’t limit us. We sing and play our instruments – guitar, dobro,
Will, Mat and Dan (sometimes known as WMD) has its roots in classic Americana and bluegrass, but that doesn’t limit us. We sing and play our instruments – guitar, dobro, slide guitar, banjo, mandolin, even suitcase percussion! – with high-energy and we’re happiest when the audience has as much fun as the band.
We first got together at open mics and debuted at Bethel’s Earth Day celebration in 2017.
Will Demers, vocals, guitar & mandolin
Mat Kastner, vocals, guitar, slide guitar, mandolin
Dan Bonis, vocals, banjo, mandolin, guitar, dobro and suitcase percussion
Dave Anastasia, bass
The Whiskey Brothers
14sep8:30 pm11:30 pmThe Whiskey Brothers
Whiskey Brothers delivers a rare selection of acoustic standards and other gems with a blend of guitar, bass, and mandolin.
Sierra Ashley
19sep6:00 pm9:00 pmSierra AshleySinger / Songwriter
Sierra is a singer songwriter + pianist performing fun, unexpected covers from the 80s - today. Plus, adding in original music wherever possible. She performs a variety of styles -
Sierra is a singer songwriter + pianist performing fun, unexpected covers from the 80s – today. Plus, adding in original music wherever possible. She performs a variety of styles – from classic rock (think Bon Jovi and Radiohead) to R&B and Top 40 (everything from TLC’s “Waterfalls” to Ed Sheeran). Her and her guitarist perform acoustic covers of the songs you love. www.sierraashleymusic.com
Madz and the Ladz
27sep8:30 pm11:30 pmMadz and the Ladz
No matter where you’ve been, music has been with you. When you are bringing people together the ambience of the room is always enhanced by a familiar tune and a
No matter where you’ve been, music has been with you. When you are bringing people together the ambience of the room is always enhanced by a familiar tune and a sweet melody. Madz & the Ladz never overwhelm a space and always provoke a smile.
Dirt Road Pickers
28sep8:00 pm11:00 pmDirt Road Pickers
What happens when you have two “older” wanna be rockers? You get The Dirt Road Pickers, playing a mix of music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and beyond with their own
What happens when you have two “older” wanna be rockers? You get The Dirt Road Pickers, playing a mix of music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and beyond with their own little touches. With a mix of acoustic guitar, mandolin and whatever stringed instrument is handy, a good time is guaranteed. We’ve been doing this a long time and we love what we do and it shows. We are available for just about any occasion.
29sep4:30 pm7:30 pmMark Florio Acoustic
04oct8:00 pm11:00 pmJake Kulak & The LowDownBlues Trio
Leslie Costa & Mary O’Hare
10oct7:30 pm10:30 pmLeslie Costa & Mary O’Hare
Leslie Costa is a singer/songwriter who has been playing live and recording her original music in Fairfield County, CT. She started her band Leslie
Leslie Costa is a singer/songwriter who has been playing live and recording her original music in Fairfield County, CT. She started her band Leslie Costa & the Usual Suspects in 1990. Over the years she and the band built a loyal following while performing live and recording CD’s. Her songs are engaging and authentic while always speaking a personal message. She is highly respected in the local area as one of Connecticut’s best singer/songwriters.
11oct8:30 pm11:30 pmSister Funk Trio
Orb Mellon
17oct7:00 pm10:00 pmOrb Mellon
Orb Mellon is the blues moniker of Mike Malone, founder and guitarist of the seminal 1990s indie rock band and Sony/Epic recording artists Dirt Merchants. Orb Mellon mines the
Orb Mellon is the blues moniker of Mike Malone, founder and guitarist of the seminal 1990s indie rock band and Sony/Epic recording artists Dirt Merchants.
Orb Mellon mines the raw energy of 20th Century American roots music, particularly whiskey fueled house party delta blues. Influenced by the likes of Bukka White, Junior Kimbrough, and John Fahey, Orb Mellon performs pure, sonically aggressive, and ever transforming original folk blues, free from any quaintness or historicism, prompting one early reviewer to identify Orb Mellon’s work simply as “blues in all its primeval glory.” He has performed extensively around the eastern United States and Canada sharing the stage with such diverse acts as David Johansen (NY Dolls), Daddy Long Legs, Charlie Parr, R.L.Boyce and Brownbird Rudy Relic. In 2018, Orb Mellon was a feature performer at the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
25oct8:00 pm11:00 pmBone Dry DuoBlues & Rock Duo
27oct11:30 pm2:30 pmWMDBrunch! 11:30-2:30
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Dog burial as common ritual in Neolithic populations of north-eastern Iberian Peninsula
‘Coinciding with the Pit Grave culture (4200-3600 years before our era), coming from Southern Europe, the Neolithic communities of the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula started a ceremonial activity related to the sacrifice and burial of dogs. The high amount of cases that are recorded in Catalonia suggests it was a general practice and it proves the tight relationship between humans and these animals, which, apart from being buried next to them, were fed a similar diet to humans’.
This is the conclusion of a research study led by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Barcelona (UB), which provides new data to describe and understand the presence of dogs in sacred and funerary spaces of the middle Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula, and gets an insight on the relation between humans and these animals. The study has been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
The study analyses the remains of twenty-six dogs found in funerary structures from four sites and necropolises of the Barcelona region, and has conducted an isotopic analysis for eighteen of them, to determine whether the relation with their owners included other aspects, such as a control of their diet.
Dogs were aged between one month and six years old, predominating hose between twelve and eighteen years old, and had homogeneous sizes, between forty and fifty centimetres high. These were mainly buried in circular graves, together or near the humans, although some have been found separately in nearby graves and one was found at the entrance of the mortuary chamber. The skeletons were semi-complete in anatomical connection -only one was found as full, near a kid- without bone fractures or marks due manipulation by evisceration, or any signs of predators.
“Choosing young animals aged up to one year old suggests there was an intention in the sacrifice. Although we can think it was for human consumption, the fact that these were buried near humans suggests there was an intention and a direct relation with death and the funerary ritual”, says Silvia Albizuri, researcher from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar (SERP) of the UB and first author of the article. “This hypothesis is consistent, in addition, with the fact that they are found in an area of cultural influence that gives a symbolic value to the dog during that period, such as Southern France or Northern Italy”.
A diet rich in cereal and vegetables, controlled by humans
The isotopic study of the remains and its comparison with humans’ and other herbivorous animals’ diet in the site shows the diet of most of these animals was similar to the diet of humans, with a high presence of cereal, such as corn, and vegetables. In two puppies and two adult dogs, nutrition was mainly vegetarian and only a few cases had a diet rich in animal protein.
“These data show a close coexistence between dogs and humans, and probably, a specific preparation of their nutrition, which is clear in the cases of a diet based on vegetables. They would probably do so to obtain a better control of their tasks on security and to save the time they would have to spend looking for food. This management would explain the homogeneity of the size of the animals”, says Eulàlia Subirà, researcher in the Research Group on Biological Anthropology (GREAB) of UAB.
Little-studied animals
The presence of dogs in prehistoric disposal structures is not common, which makes it a little-studied group among domestic animals. Their presence in graves is even lower. This is why the presence of these skeletons in anatomical connection like the ones in this study is considered exceptional.
There have been older cases of individual isolated burials in the Iberian Peninsula, but only later documented as a general practice related to the funerary ritual. This ritual spread and lasted during a hundred years, until the Iron Age.
Regarding food, there are only a few studies, with some cases of mixed diets in France, Anatolia and China. “Recently, we saw dogs have ten genes with a key function for starch and fat digestion, which would make the carbohydrates assimilation more efficient than its ancestor’s, the wolf. Our study helps reaching the conclusion that during the Neolithic, several vegetables were introduced to their nutrition”, notes Eulàlia Subirà.
The study allows reinforcing the idea that dogs played an important role in the economy of Neolithic populations, taking care of herds and settlements. That may be the vital relation that turned them into a companion in death or symbols in funerary rituals, the researchers conclude.
(Source: https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2019/02/15/dog-burial-as-common-ritual-in-neolithic-populations-of-north-eastern-iberian-peninsula/)
Archeology, dog burial, Iberia, Neolithic age
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Blogging Prizes Jury – 2011
We are delighted to introduce the following talented individuals as Jury for the 2011 edition of the NUHA Blogging Prizes. They announced the winners on 7 December 2011.
Anny Bhan
Anny Bhan currently works as the Senior Parliamentary Assistant to Claude Moraes MEP, S&D Coordinator for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She works on a variety of files in this Committee including immigration policy, asylum and fundamental rights.
Her academic studies have included a Masters in Human Rights from London University and study programmes with the United Nations and the European University Institute.
Prior to working in the European Parliament, she worked with local and international non-governmental organisations in both London and Aberdeen.
Kate Benetti
Kate Benetti is a Policy Advisor to Peter Skinner MEP for his work on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament. She works primarily on regulatory issues between the EU and the US, insurance regulation and competition policy.
She has a degree in European Political Economy, and a Masters in EU Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. She is the Communications Coordinator for the NUHA Foundation.
Al-Karim Khimji
Al-Karim Khimji is an International Youth Representative for the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Association. He recently completed his role as the Head of Strategy for Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading mobile communications operator and a driver of private sector development. He was previously a Canadian International Development Agency-Aga Khan Foundation Microfinance Fellow at the First Microfinance Foundation (FMF) of Egypt.
He holds a MBA from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.
He attended this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting–Youth Forum and the Canadian Governor General’s Leadership Conference in 2008.
David Ziyambi
David Ziyambi is a solicitor with the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP. Specialised in finance, his practice centres on the energy and mining industries, with a particular focus on Africa. He is also heavily involved in the promotion of legal education in Zimbabwe and the definition there of a development-sensitive investment framework.
His education includes a double degree in English Literature and Linguistics, and in Law at the University of Cambridge.
Clockwise: Kate Benetti, Anny Bhan, David Ziyambi and Al-Karim Khimji
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Nathan Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief|October 5, 2018
A group of Oberlin parents is calling for an investigation into Oberlin City Schools teacher Sharyle Strayer, citing allegations of bullying dating back to 2002. In a Sept. 25 email addressed to OCS Superintendent David Hall and members of the Oberlin Board of Education, the group said Strayer has had many complaints filed against her over her 16-year career with OCS.
Strayer, who taught sixth-grade math during the 2017–18 academic year, is currently working as an intervention support instructor at Oberlin High School. The position will be re-evaluated at the end of the 2018–19 academic year.
A 49-page document was attached to the email, which was signed by Oberlin residents Jeanne Lee Singleton, Rich Ruggieri-Katz, Joshua Katz, Debbi Walsh, and City Councilmember Kelley Singleton. Among its contents was a 2014 letter addressed to Strayer from then-OCS Superintendent John Schroth.
“Consider this memorandum to serve as a reprimand for your inappropriate conduct during the past school year,” it read. “On many occasions during this past year, you have engaged in student interactions that have been described as bullying toward students. Any repetition of these behaviors will result in my recommendation that the board terminate your employment.”
The group alleges that, since Schroth’s letter, the district has done little to address Strayer’s behavior.
“This documents stories from former students and parents as well as a timeline … to show the numerous complaints made in the 16 years Ms. Strayer has been with the district,” they wrote. “It is remarkable to note that parents have made substantive complaints to almost all 11 administrators (six principals and five superintendents) since she started in the district in 2002.”
According to Oberlin Board of Education President Anne Schaum, the district is taking the allegations seriously.
“Upon [reported] allegations at the end of the last school year, Principal Michael Scott and Superintendent David Hall conducted an investigation and worked with the accused teacher and the union to put together a plan to address the concerns,” Schaum wrote in an email to the Review. “Part of that plan involved removing the teacher from the classroom and increasing oversight of the teacher’s interactions with students and families.”
Singleton said that when he examined Strayer’s employee file earlier this year, little documentation of complaints against Strayer was present.
“We asked to see [Strayer’s] file, to see what kind of history there is in there,” Singleton said. “And there’s nothing in there. There’s no supporting documentation for any of the problems that everyone around town knows that she’s guilty of.”
However, neither Schaum nor Hall corroborated Singleton’s account.
“The review of personnel files and practices that the board asked to be conducted did not find that any anticipated items were missing from personnel records,” Schaum wrote. “Access to them is controlled.”
“The district has performed an audit of personnel files,” Hall added, also in an email to the Review. “All records on our audit list were located in the files. We will perform a random audit not less than three times a year.”
Also included in the email is a five-page timeline of alleged events involving Strayer and nearly 40 pages of testimonial from parents whose children have been enrolled in Strayer’s classes over the years.
The Singleton and Ruggieri-Katz families both have students who were enrolled in Strayer’s sixth-grade math class during the 2017–18 academic year. Both families say that accounts of Strayer’s inappropriate behavior involving their children prompted them to draft the email.
“What finally happened was she forced a friend of our son’s to call his father and tell him that my son and another child were not good friends of his because they always get him in trouble,” Kelley Singleton said. “We never heard about this. You’d think that if it was my kid causing trouble that I would get a phone call and that it’d be from a teacher.”
According to Singleton, this has been a regular practice of Strayer’s.
“She had a history of forcing children to call their parents,” he said. “In this instance, though, [the friend] left a voicemail. And that’s how this all happened, is we actually had physical proof of her forcing a kid to do this.”
Ruggieri-Katz reports that his daughter also had a negative experience in Strayer’s class, saying that she witnessed inappropriate behavior towards other students. One alleged incident involved Strayer telling a male student that girls wouldn’t like him if he didn’t do well in class.
“As a parent, it was like the twilight zone,” Ruggieri-Katz said. “This can’t be a teacher doing this and saying this.”
Ruggieri-Katz also cited that Strayer wouldn’t allow students to go to the bathroom during class, which he views as particularly damaging during a vulnerable middle school period.
“It goes beyond bullying — it’s abusive to do something like that,” he said, adding that his family filed a complaint with the Ohio Department of Education. Hall declined to comment on whether the district had been contacted regarding a complaint filed against Strayer at the state level.
Allegations included in the Sept. 25 email are similar to Singleton’s and Ruggieri-Katz’s. Parents submitted testimony that Strayer would regularly berate students publicly, eat in class, compel students to call home about bad grades and misbehavior, and assign grades inconsistent with the level of work students had actually completed.
Schaum emphasized that she and other members of the district’s leadership are significantly limited in the depth to which they can discuss personnel matters. She did, however, characterize the allegations against Strayer as an “ongoing matter” and shared that Hall is in the process of following up with disgruntled parents who shared experiences at the most recent school board meeting.
“All complaints are taken seriously and investigated by the administration,” she wrote. “As requested, the district is undertaking a more thorough investigation of complaints concerning this teacher.”
Ruggieri-Katz isn’t confident in the district’s commitment to addressing the allegations.
“It seems like every time we talk to the school board, you’re looking at [the blank stares] of a bunch of people sitting up there with no response to anything that’s going on,” he said. Ruggieri-Katz claims that he has never received a response to emails sent to the entire board, and characterized Hall’s reaction to the situation as “weak.”
Hall says he respects the commitment and dedication of parents in ensuring academic excellence for the district.
“Our school community has the same goal,” he wrote in an email to the Review. “We need to work together to achieve this goal and move the district forward.”
Both Ruggieri-Katz and Singleton say that they are advocating against Strayer out of a commitment to the school district and future students.
“I love the Oberlin school district,” Singleton said. “That’s what I went through, and I’m really happy that my kids are going through it. It’s just such a great place. We were kind of blindsided by a situation like this.”
Sharyle Strayer did not respond to request for comment.
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Reason Without Vote: The Representative and Majoritarian Function of Constitutional Courts
Chapter in: Democratizing Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and Legitimacy of Constitutionalism, Springer, 2016; ISBN 978-3-319-28369-2
26 Pages Posted: 24 Jan 2017
See all articles by Luís Roberto Barroso
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
This essay starts with a brief overview of some of the changes and new developments in constitutional law in the past decades. It also provides a brief account of the ascent of the Judiciary in most democracies, as well as the expansion of constitutional jurisdiction throughout the world. The main topic of the essay, however, are the two roles played by constitutional courts in our days: the counter-majoritarian role, which is widely studied by constitutional theory, and the representative role of such courts, a subject that has been neglected by constitutional scholars in general, with few exceptions. The argument is developed in a cosmopolitan fashion, drawing from authors and experiences from different parts of the world; however, it uses the court of a new democracy – the Supreme Court of Brazil – as a case study. In polities in which the legislature struggles with a major democratic deficit – and until it can be properly overcome – it may be the case, under certain circumstances, that it will be up to the Supreme Court to be responsive to unattended social demands presented as legal claims of rights. Furthermore, in some exceptional situations, the Court may need to play the part of an enlightened vanguard, pushing history forward. At the conclusion, though, the essay emphasizes the idea of institutional dialogues as the best path between legislative omission and judicial supremacy.
Keywords: Constitutional law, Constitutional Courts and Supreme Courts, Judicial Review, Democratic legitimacy, Roles of Courts, Constitutional dialogues
Barroso, Luis Roberto, Reason Without Vote: The Representative and Majoritarian Function of Constitutional Courts (April 19, 2016). Chapter in: Democratizing Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and Legitimacy of Constitutionalism, Springer, 2016; ISBN 978-3-319-28369-2. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2902833
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Echoes of the Vietnam War at meeting
By OC Tribune Staff on March 28, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )
VIETNAMESE refugees aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the evacuations during “Black April.” (Wikipedia photo).
By Jim Tortolano
Another struggle in the Vietnam War was fought – symbolically – at the Westminster City Council meeting Wednesday night. Loud, angry arguments among council members and shouting from the audience punctuated the gathering, as several issues related to the long-ended conflict were taken up.
Much of the meeting was consumed by a verbal battle over a March 5 resolution commending Vietnamese actress Ngo Thanh Van (also known as Veronica Ngo) for her work on a film combating human trafficking.
Councilmember Tai Do objected to the commendation and wanted his name removed or the commendation rescinded. That began a lengthy – at times heated – argument between Do and Mayor Tri Ta.
A motion to rescind the commendation and issue a new one with the names of members Do and Sergio Contreras removed failed on a 3-2 vote. A new motion to remove the names of Do and Contreras from the resolution for the record was approved on a 5-0 vote.
While politics were not explicitly mentioned during the debate, Ta defended himself by saying “I am anti-Communist.”
Another issue, a resolution to ban representatives from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and members of the Vietnamese Communist party from visiting the U.S. also proved to be contentious.
Do argued that the resolution was “purely symbolic” and was “all bark and no bite.” He went on to say that council members were using the resolution and other issues that might be of particular interest to the Vietnamese community “as a way to cover up for our mistakes.”
He added that “Vietnamese are 50 percent of the city, but what about the other 50 percent?” and called for better risk management and lower taxes. Do nevertheless joined the council majority in backing the resolution.
During Do’s lengthy statement, Ta eventually sought to cut him off, saying it was time to move on with a vote. Do objected, saying “I have a right to speak,” but City Attorney Richard Jones upheld the mayor’s prerogative to limit debate. “I am the chair,” said Ta. “I am the chair.”
Another item produced controversy. The council approved on a 5-0 vote a request to establish a memorial in a city park to South Vietnamese sailors killed in a 1974 sea battle with Chinese naval forces in a territorial dispute.
A woman in the audience repeatedly voiced her opposition during the meeting and even sought to speak at the podium after the council had made its decision. She tried to talk anyway, and Ta sought to regain control of the meeting by repeating “This is not the time for a public hearing.” Finally two police officers escorted her from the podium.
Some of her supporters present said the reason she did not speak at the public communications portion was that the meeting starting time had been moved up from 7 p.m. to 5 p.m. and she could not leave work.
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Michael verrengia says:
You missed the main point Jim. Tri Ta has no authority to issue a resolution on his own, rather it MUST be brought in front of the council for agreement by the entire body. This was the point of Tai Do’s lengthy comments. He correctly pointed that out to Ta and the other two council council supporters of Ta, one of whom tried to shut him up. (Ho) During my eight years on the Westminster School Board we had many resolutions brought up with each and every one of them having to be voted on by the board. Ta, Ho and Nguyen are trying to run this council as if it’s a backwater village in some banana republic somewhere.
Jodi Boyd says:
I am the woman in the audience who repeated voiced her opposition during the meeting.
The entire meeting was a mockery – including moving the meeting start time from 7pm to 5pm for the first time in the recently history of the Westminster City Council Meetings. This resulted in many people not being able to arrive at 5pm (including me) but also the Mayor limited public speaking times to only 2 minutes instead of the 5 minutes allowed under the Brown Act.
Please understand I am not in opposition to the Vietnamese American communities desire to construct a museum and monuments to share and memorialize their experiences and loss. I fully support their interests.
However, I am strongly in opposition to the proposal to allow the addition of additional monuments at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park. In this case the addition of the Paracel Monument Freedom Park to commemorate the bravery and sacrifice of 74 sailors in the Republic of Vietnam Navy during the battle of the Paracel Islands on January 19, 1974, during the Vietnam War era.
Sid Goldstein Freedom Park is the location of the Vietnam War Memorial which memorializes the duty, honor, and sacrifice of all members of the South Vietnamese and American military. This quiet park is considered by many to be sacred and was designed with input from both American and South Vietnamese veterans.
It is not appropriate to place monuments or museums specific to South Vietnam at this location. Particularly one that will also honor by name the Mayor,City Council Members, City Staff, Architect…and the sponsoring group and donors. This smacks of politics and influence to allow private interest groups to place their own memorials (or museum) at this location directly across from City Hall.
The sponsoring group Hoi Ai Huu Hai Quan Cuu Long had its IRS 501(c)3
tax-exempt status permanently revoked by the IRS in 2012 for failure to file the required IRS Form 990 for three consecutive years. This group cannot represent themselves as a charitable organization and donors cannot claim a charitable deduction for tax purposes.
Once again, we have the Mayor (and a vice-mayor) proposing to allow special interest groups place a monument (or museum) at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park, and the organization has a gray cloud over it. We had a similar situation in October 2018 when a group wanted to construct a quonset hut museum at this location to tell the story of the war and relocation from the South Vietnamese perspective.
The Westminster City Council is being short-sighted and is overlooking a much larger opportunity! Why not look into setting aside an area at nearby Liberty Park to host a Museum and memorials for the South Vietnamese experience? Liberty Park is 1/4 block walking distance from our Vietnam Memorial, bus stops, and there is ample parking at Westminster City Hall. This would be a fascinating historical enhancement and also attract many visitors to this part of Westminster.
The Rose Theater could be used for scheduled historical presentations and oral histories. The Westminster Museum is also a short distance away.
Let’s take a step back to identify an appropriate location and develop a comprehensive plan rather than going about it in a hodge-podge fashion. The current Mendez project is a great example of what we can accomplish by working together from a cohesive plan.
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You are at:Home»News In Focus»Emerging Tech»A miniature robot that could check colons for early signs of disease
A miniature robot that could check colons for early signs of disease
By ONA Editor June 26, 2019 No Comments
Engineers have shown it is technically possible to guide a tiny robotic capsule inside the colon to take micro-ultrasound images.
Known as a Sonopill, the device could one day replace the need for patients to undergo an endoscopic examination, where a semi-rigid scope is passed into the bowel – an invasive procedure that can be painful.
Micro-ultrasound images also have the advantage of being better able to identify some types of cell change associated with cancer.
The Sonopill is the culmination of a decade of research by an international consortium of engineers and scientists.
The results of their feasibility study are published in the journal Science Robotics.
The consortium has developed a technique called intelligent magnetic manipulation.
Based on the principle that magnets can attract and repel one another, a series of magnets on a robotic arm that passes over the patient interacts with a magnet inside the capsule, gently manoeuvring it through the colon.
The magnetic forces used are harmless and can pass through human tissue, doing away with the need for a physical connection between the robotic arm and the capsule.
An artificial intelligence system (AI) ensures the smooth capsule can position itself correctly against the gut wall to get the best quality micro-ultrasound images.
The feasibility study also showed should the capsule get dislodged, the AI system can navigate it back to the required location.
Professor Pietro Valdastri, who holds the Chair in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the University of Leeds and was senior author of the paper, said: “The technology has the potential to change the way doctors conduct examinations of the gastrointestinal tract.
“Previous studies showed that micro-ultrasound was able to capture high-resolution images and visualise small lesions in the superficial layers of the gut, providing valuable information about the early signs of disease.
“With this study, we show that intelligent magnetic manipulation is an effective technique to guide a micro-ultrasound capsule to perform targeted imaging deep inside the human body.”
“The platform is able to localise the position of the Sonopill at any time and adjust the external driving magnet to perform a diagnostic scan while maintaining a high quality ultrasound signal. This discovery has the potential to enable painless diagnosis via a micro-ultrasound pill in the entire gastrointestinal tract.”
Sandy Cochran, Professor of Ultrasound Materials and Systems at the University of Glasgow and lead researcher, said: “We’re really excited by the results of this feasibility study. With an increasing demand for endoscopies, it is more important than ever to be able to deliver a precise, targeted, and cost-effective treatment that is comfortable for patients.
“Today, we are one step closer to delivering that.
“We hope that in the near future, the Sonopill will be available to all patients as part of regular medical check-ups, effectively catching serious diseases at an early stage and monitoring the health of everyone’s digestive system.”
The Sonopill is a small capsule – with a diameter of 21mm and length of 39mm, which the engineers say can be scaled down.
The capsule houses a micro ultrasound transducer, an LED light, camera and magnet.
A very small flexible cable is tethered to the capsule which also passes into the body via the rectum and sends ultrasound images back to a computer in the examination room.
The feasibility tests were conducted on laboratory models and in animal studies involving pigs.
Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract account for approximately 8 million deaths a year across the world, including some bowel cancers which are linked with high mortality.
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When is a connective truth functional?
I got this question from Logic, laws of truth, by Nicholas J.J Smith.
He says (page 24) :
"A connective is truth functional if it has the property that the truth or falsity of a compound proposition formed from the connective and some other propositions is completely determined by the truth or falsity of those component propositions."
I don't really seem to be able to appreciate the usefulness of truth-functional connectives.
Perhaps, I don't understand what he is saying in that paragraph, so I would appreciate any explanation of what he is trying to say and why truth-functional connectives are useful.
Also (if you want to) can you guys explain what Nicholas means when he says "...this proposition has no internal structure..."?
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When its truth value only depends on truth values of its components, and not their meaning. For example, natural disjunction is not truth functional: "it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow" holds today even though neither "it will rain tomorrow" nor "it will not rain tomorrow" have definitive truth values today. – Conifold Apr 3 at 19:46
Short answer : when it is defined by a truth table.
Classical propositional logic is a truth-functional logic in that every statement has exactly one truth value which is either true or false, and every logical connective is truth functional (with a correspondent truth table), thus every compound statement is a truth function. On the contrary, modal logic is non-truth-functional.
See an example in Truth Functionality and non-Truth Functional Connectives, comparing :
Agnes will attend law school and so will Bob,
where the truth-value of the compound sentence depends only on the truth-value of the two atomic sentences, with :
Agnes will attend law school and then she will make millions,
where the "and then" connective express a time-dependency between the two atomic sentences.
For different examples, see 6.3.1 Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals (page 110) of Smith's book.
An example (motivated by your previous question) dealing with the concept of "internal structure" of a statement will be the following.
"Jim is a bachelor and Jim (the same Jim) is married"
is not a contradiction in propositional logic, because the sentence has the logical form B ∧ M, and this formula is not a contradiction.
In order to discover the contradicition, we need a deeper level of analysis that consider also the semantics of the expressions "is a bachelor" and "is married", in addition to the logical connective "and".
This level of analysis will be available with predicate logic where we can analyze the atomic sentences with a subject-predicate logical form :
Bachelor(Jim) and Married(Jim).
In this case, using the axiom :
Bachelor(x) iff not Married(x),
we may derive the contradiction not expressible in propositional logic.
Nicholas Smith defines the internal structure of arguments as propositions (page 23-4). He then breaks propositions, the internal structure of arguments, into two kinds.
Basic propositions which have no parts that are themselves propositions.
Compound propositions which are composed of other propositions and connectives between them.
Propositional logic studies the internal structure of compound propositions, but it does not concern itself with the internal structure of basic propositions, that is, it is not interested in the internal structure of basic propositions.
Predicate logic looks at the internal structure of basic propositions.
Here are the questions:
Truth-functional connectives allow one to study compound propositions in propositional logic. These connectives are part of the internal structure that breaks the compound proposition into component propositions and connectives. This is why they are useful.
The truth or falsity of the compound proposition can be determined by examining the truth or falsity of its component propositions and by studying how they are related by the connectives joining those component propositions.
Instead of trying to determine the truth or falsity of a compound proposition, which might be complicated, there is a way to break that compound proposition into simpler component propositions by looking at how the connectives join them together into the compound proposition. That is what makes truth-functional connectives useful. They simplify the problem of determining the truth value of compound propositions.
Smith discussed three levels of internal structure.
An argument has an internal structure made up of propositions.
A compound proposition has an internal structure made up of other propositions and connectives studied in propositional logic.
A basic proposition has an internal structure as well which is studied in predicate logic.
From the perspective of propositional logic the basic propositions can be viewed as having no internal structure that propositional logic studies.
Smith, N. J. (2012). Logic: The laws of truth. Princeton University Press.
I think both of the other answers are correct, but they answer from the side of people who already understand the system of sentential logic. In the process, they might be skipping over some things that are non-obvious until the system clicks.
It might help to think of the system as a game with the following rules:
Everything must be expressed in propositions which are TRUE or FALSE
Propositions relate to each other in truth-connective ways that also evaluate to TRUE and FALSE
These connectors that are truth-evaluators are truth-functional connectives: if we use "if , then", it takes exactly two terms. If we use "&" (and), it takes exactly two terms; if we use ~(not), it takes exactly one term. And so on.
What makes Smith's account hard to understand and many of the details above hard to grasp is that: This game as a whole is a replacement for natural language. Put another way, don't think about the English words "and", "or", "if", or "not." Don't think about deep meanings for TRUE and FALSE. Instead, think about a system where if we are very precise with our language we can very easily check whether things line up and give the outcome we claim.
In natural language, "Do you have chips and a drink for me?" could mean:
do you have chips for me and a drink for me
do you have chips (for anyone) and a drink for me
are you willing to give me the chips and drink you have?
The constructed language of logic does not have any of these ambiguities. Any time you encounter the word "and" in it, it has a meaning precisely specified by a truth table ( A AND B is TRUE if and only if A is TRUE and B is TRUE; otherwise, it is FALSE).
"truth-functional connectives" is the name for the words in this language that connect propositions in 100% accurate ways vis-a-vis their truth.
real world connectives in spoken English (and other languages) do nothing of that sort. So the value of the term is that it points out the parts that work in our logic game and their difference with connectives in natural language.
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Cig Harvey: Voice into Vision
December 11 & 12, 2015
International House Hotel, Teutonia Room
9am – 4pm each day
Class limit: 15 students
Workshop fee: $395
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Join acclaimed photographer Cig Harvey for a two-day intensive workshop that delves deeply into the creative process through a series of group discussions, writing and shooting exercises. The class will begin with a conversation about what defines a portfolio and how to begin a new body of work or deepen the exploration of a current project. Participants will share examples of their existing work, but the emphasis will be on creating new and future images and how to build the structure into one’s life to produce work. The day continues with an in depth exploration of the creative process, writing and mind-mapping to identify core concepts that can be drawn on for inspiration. Cig will discuss the threads that unite images to make a cohesive portfolio and how to turn ideas into photographs – making the invisible visible through use of metaphor and symbol, alongside formal considerations of light and composition. Students will then embark on individual shooting assignments into the late afternoon and evening.
Class will reconvene as a group on Saturday with short one-on-one sessions with Cig, discussing their edits and ideas. Students will then present the start of their new projects to the group for feedback and discussion. Students will define goals and deadlines to continue their work.
This workshop is open to all levels of photographers seeking to expand their image-making skills. Participants will learn how to enhance their current portfolio or begin a new project by discovering fresh ways of creating unique and singular work.
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Students should bring their cameras and laptops. Photographing digitally will allow for more immediate feedback, but film cameras are also welcome. Please prepare a digital portfolio of 10-20 images to share with the group on day one.
The photographs and artist books of Cig Harvey have been widely exhibited and remain in the permanent collections of major museums and collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; and the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. She was recently nominated for the John Gutmann fellowship and a finalist of the BMW Prize at Paris Photo and the Prix Virginia, an international photography prize for women. Cig had her first solo museum show at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway, in the spring of 2012 in conjunction with the release of her monograph, You Look At Me Like An Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012). Her second book, Gardening At Night, was released in the spring of 2015. Cig’s devotion to visual storytelling has lead to innovative international campaigns and features with New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Kate Spade, and Bloomingdales. Cig teaches workshops and regularly speaks on her work and processes at institutions around the world. She is known for her high energy, sense of humor and creativity. She brings a profound sense of optimism to all that she does.
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Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
The School of Architecture Planning and Geomatics (APG) at the University of Cape Town is committed to contributing through its teaching and research to the discourse around the development of a built environment that focusses on sustainable and inclusive cities that address spatial justice and inequality. As the institutional home to the African Centre for Cities and the Zamani project in addition to several creative and public initiatives, the School offers unparalleled access to leading expertise and passionate scholarship, which investigate the lack of clear alternatives that urbanisation and development phenomena in the continent and the global South. The research led curriculum at the School in general and in Architecture in particular is constantly developing to actively engage an undergraduate cohort of 255 and postgraduate cohort of 71 (masters and doctoral) students. The undergraduate Bachelor of Architectural Studies, and the postgraduate, Bachelor Architectural Studies (Honours) and the Master of Architecture programmes are accredited by the South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) and the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA).
The School is seeking to appoint two full-time staff members in Architecture, whose primary role would be to provide leadership and research-led design teaching aligned with the School’s commitment to appropriately respond to questions of sustainability, inclusion, spatial justice and inequality in the built environment in the global South in general and in South Africa in particular. As such, we are looking for individuals who can make relevant and impactful contributions through their teaching, research and social responsiveness activities to show how design research and architectural education within the global South context supports the development of intersectional methodologies and alternative pedagogies of knowledge production.
Applicants should be able to demonstrate through a teaching portfolio their engagement with, and commitment to, active engagement with intellectual life at a school of Architecture and/or associated field in the built environment and how this could add new dimensions to design research and architectural education, through studios, workshops and seminars in support of research, innovation, cross-disciplinary work, and diversity at APG.
For these positions we are seeking candidates for an Associate Professor position, as well as a Professorial position. Both positions are specifically aimed at candidates who can actively commit to steering and supporting the rich, diverse culture of the School, in a leadership role. This leadership role asks for candidates who are able and willing to take on the Convenorship of either the Undergraduate or Postgraduate architecture programmes and or assume the Headship of the School for a set period. Successful candidates will also be required to teach across both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate architecture programmes.
Minimum Requirements Professor:
- all minimum requirements as listed above
- a strong recent involvement in an academic and/or applied research environment, shown in recognised achievements
- a strong engagement and or involvement with the management of and or leadership at a School of Architecture or in an associated field in the built environment
The annual cost of employment, inclusive of all benefits, will be R1, 237 822 for the Professor post (to be determined by qualifications, research record and experience).
These are permanent appointments and are, therefore, subject to a three-year probation period.
To apply, please e-mail the below documents in a single pdf file (max size 10Mb) to Ms Abigail Dixon at recruitment03@uct.ac.za
- UCT Application Form (download at http://forms.uct.ac.za/hr201.doc);
- Motivation letter;
- a detailed curriculum vitae;
- a 1-2-page statement of interest specifying the relevance of the applicant’s experience to the School with a description of research, teaching, etc
- a maximum of 5 pages, teaching portfolio
- a maximum of 10 pages, a digital portfolio of representative work, teaching and/or publications.
Please ensure the job title and reference number are indicated in the subject line.
An application which does not comply with the above requirements will be regarded as incomplete and will not be considered. Shortlisted candidates may be required to deliver a short presentation to the School.
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Be My Baby! Samuel Pergande & Jillian Mueller Will Star in the National Tour of Dirty Dancing
July 22nd, 2014 | By Ryan Gilbert
You're going to love them! Samuel Pergande and Jillian Mueller have been cast as Johnny Castle and Frances “Baby” Houseman, respectively, in the North American tour of Dirty Dancing—The Classic Story on Stage. The stage musical of the worldwide smash-hit film is set to begin performances August 26 in Washington, D.C. before continuing to cities across the country.
In addition to Pergande (Billy Elliot tour) and Mueller (Flashdance—The Musical), the cast of Dirty Dancing will feature Doug Carpenter as Billy Kostecki, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman as Tito Suarez, Caralyn Kozlowski as Marjorie Houseman, Jesse Liebman as Neil Kellerman, Gary Lynch as Max Kellerman, Herman Petras as Mr. Schumacher, Emily Rice as Lisa Houseman, Mark Elliot Wilson as Dr. Jake Houseman and Jenny Winton as Penny Johnson.
The company also includes John Antony, Rachel Boone, Amanda Brantley, Jon Drake, Josh Drake, Sam Edgerly, Rashaan James, II, Joshua Keith, Alexandra Matteo, Kevin Munhall, Phoebe Pearl, Virginia Preston, Michael Thomas Pugliese, Jennlee Shallow and Nicole Spencer.
Based on the 1987 film of the same name, Dirty Dancing features a book by Eleanor Bergstein, who also penned the screenplay for the film. The production will be directed by James Powell with choreography by Michele Lynch, based on the original choreography by Kate Champion. With unforgettable songs like "Hungry Eyes," the Academy Award-winning "(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life," and classics like "Do You Love Me?," Dirty Dancing is a pop culture icon.
It’s the summer of 1963, and 17-year-old Frances “Baby” Houseman is on vacation in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents. Mesmerized by the racy dance moves and pounding rhythms she discovers in the resort’s staff quarters, Baby can’t wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of Johnny Castle, the resort’s sexy dance instructor. Passions ignite and Baby’s life changes forever when she is thrown in to the deep end as Johnny’s leading lady, both on-stage and off.
The creative team for Dirty Dancing includes scenic design by Stephen Brimson Lewis, lighting design by Tim Mitchell, costume design by Jennifer Irwin, sound design by Bobby Aitken, video and projection design by Jon Driscoll, hair design by Bernie Ardia, orchestrations by Conrad Helfrich and music direction by Alan Plado.
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The Hyperbolic Paraboloid and the Columbia River Crossing
As criticism of the proposed Columbia River Crossing continues to fester (there are those who despise the proposed bridge’s design and others question the need for a new bridge at all), a little talked about North Portland building faces an uncertain future. The Pier 99 building lies right in the path of the CRC project, should it eventually move into the construction phase.
The Pier 99 building was designed by architects John Storrs and Si Stanich, with structural engineer James G. Pierson, perhaps most notable for their work on Oregon’s 1959 Centennial Exposition. Originally called the Totem Pole Marina, the building is a rare Oregon example of the “hyperbolic paraboloid” design. In fact, when it first opened, the Totem Pole Marina was reported to be the first commercial use of the hyperbolic paraboloid roof in Oregon. Just months earlier, Storrs, Stanich, and Pierson had worked together on the Forest Products Pavilion at the Centennial Expo, which included a similar roof design, but as with other Centennial buildings, it was only a temporary structure.
In 2008, the Oregon State Historic Preservation office determined that the Pier 99 building was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. This determination came on the heels of a required Section 106 report noting the building’s significance. Such reports are generally required whenever federally funded projects pose a potential impact on historic resources.
Caption and headline from September 8, 1960 Oregonian article about the new Totem Pole Marina building.
Since there appears to be no feasible way to construct a new Columbia River Crossing with the Pier 99 in its current location, the next step is mitigation for the would-be historic structure. At this time, it is unknown what the final outcome will be, but moving the building to a nearby location seems one possible solution. It is also unfortunate that news of the building’s situation was not made more public – and sooner – especially since it has been more than three years since the Pier 99 was identified as being in the way of the CRC’s presumed “progress”.
Photo of Pier 99 building from 2007 Section 106 report.
The public can apparently still comment on proposed mitigation measures for the Pier 99.
Contact Derek Chisholm, (971) 322-7942 or dchisholm at parametrix dot com for more information.
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RH Reality Check: It's Time to Draw the Line on Attacks Against Reproductive Freedom
By Nancy Northup
As we approach the 40th anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, it has never been clearer what is at stake for women’s constitutional reproductive rights if the onslaught of anti-choice measures is allowed to continue.
These laws—including forced ultrasound laws, restrictions on which health-care services are covered by insurance plans, and zealous efforts to drive women’s doctors out of practice—place women at risk of grave harm. These laws demean and humiliate women and threaten their autonomy and ability to make their own decisions. They build significant barriers between women and safe reproductive-health-care services, including contraception, pregnancy care, abortion care, and fertility treatments.
For the last 20 years, the Center for Reproductive Rights has been dedicated exclusively to advancing reproductive rights and defending them against these attacks.
Across the United States, the Center has brought the full power of the U.S. Constitution and courts to bear in ensuring that anti-choice politicians do not turn back the clock on reproductive rights. Just this past year, the Center has blocked extreme attacks on women’s rights and health care in Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Oklahoma.
But this battle cannot be waged only in the courts.
It’s time that a woman’s right to safe and accessible reproductive health care be safeguarded from the political tactics of those who seek to chip it away. It’s time for women and men to send a strong message to lawmakers across the country that we are drawing the line.
This is why today the Center has launched an innovative new campaign called DRAW THE LINE, calling on women and men across the country to fight back by signing our Bill of Reproductive Rights.
The Bill of Reproductive Rights provides an opportunity for Americans to join together and tell lawmakers that they stand strongly behind a woman’s right to safe reproductive health care. It states:
We the people of the United States hereby assert the following as fundamental human rights that no government may deny, and that our governments at every level must guarantee and safeguard for all.
The right to make our own decisions about our reproductive health and future, free from intrusion or coercion by any government, group, or individual.
The right to a full range of safe, affordable, and readily accessible reproductive health care—including pregnancy care, preventive services, contraception, abortion, and fertility treatment—and accurate information about all of the above.
The right to be free from discrimination in access to reproductive health care or on the basis of our reproductive decisions.
The response to this effort has already been energizing and inspiring. A large cast of luminaries—including Kevin Bacon, Sandra Bernhard, Billy Crudup, Olympia Dukakis, Jenna Fischer, Caroline Kennedy, Lisa Kudrow, Tea Leoni, Audra McDonald, Oliver Platt, Martha Plimpton, Amy Poehler, Kyra Sedgwick, Sarah Silverman, Meryl Streep, and Louis Zorich—have signed on to support the campaign and to speak out via a series of PSAs, the first of which I am proud to unveil today.
Our goal with this campaign is to collect massive amounts of signatures, so that we may present them to the President, Congress, and lawmakers around the country in order to demonstrate that the majority of Americans believe that these rights are fundamental, inalienable human rights that must be guaranteed and defended.
Please join us in taking a stand for women’s reproductive rights in America. Draw the line. Sign the bill. Share it with everyone you know. And participate in the conversation online by using the hashtag #DrawTheLine.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell: A-list actors back 'Bill of Reproductive Rights' campaign
New campaign from the Center for Reproductive Rights launches with support from Hollywood heavyweights
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Fungal indole alkaloid biosynthesis: Genetic and biochemical investigation of the tryptoquialanine pathway in penicillium aethiopicum
X. Gao, Heng Chooi, B.D. Ames, P. Wang, C.T. Walsh, Y. Tang
School of Molecular Sciences
77 Citations (Scopus)
Tremorgenic mycotoxins are a group of indole alkaloids which include the quinazoline-containing tryptoquivaline (2) that are capable of eliciting intermittent or sustained tremors in vertebrate animals. The biosynthesis of this group of bioactive compounds, which are characterized by an acetylated quinazoline ring connected to a 6-5-5 imidazoindolone ring system via a 5-membered spirolactone, has remained uncharacterized. Here, we report the identification of a gene cluster (tqa) from P. aethiopicum that is involved in the biosynthesis of tryptoquialanine (1), which is structurally similar to 2. The pathway has been confirmed to go through an intermediate common to the fumiquinazoline pathway, fumiquinazoline F, which originates from a fungal trimodular nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS). By systematically inactivating every biosynthetic gene in the cluster, followed by isolation and characterization of the intermediates, we were able to establish the biosynthetic sequence of the pathway. An unusual oxidative opening of the pyrazinone ring by an FAD-dependent berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidoreductase has been proposed based on genetic knockout studies. Notably, a 2-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB)-utilizing NRPS module has been identified and reconstituted in vitro, along with two putative enzymes of unknown functions that are involved in the synthesis of the unnatural amino acid by genetic analysis. This work provides new genetic and biochemical insights into the biosynthesis of this group of fungal alkaloids, including the tremorgens related to 2. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1101085
Peptide Synthases
Indole Alkaloids
Quinazolines
Penicillium
Biosynthesis
Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide
Biosynthetic Pathways
Gao, X., Chooi, H., Ames, B. D., Wang, P., Walsh, C. T., & Tang, Y. (2011). Fungal indole alkaloid biosynthesis: Genetic and biochemical investigation of the tryptoquialanine pathway in penicillium aethiopicum. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(8), 2729-2741. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1101085
Gao, X. ; Chooi, Heng ; Ames, B.D. ; Wang, P. ; Walsh, C.T. ; Tang, Y. / Fungal indole alkaloid biosynthesis: Genetic and biochemical investigation of the tryptoquialanine pathway in penicillium aethiopicum. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2011 ; Vol. 133, No. 8. pp. 2729-2741.
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N2 - Tremorgenic mycotoxins are a group of indole alkaloids which include the quinazoline-containing tryptoquivaline (2) that are capable of eliciting intermittent or sustained tremors in vertebrate animals. The biosynthesis of this group of bioactive compounds, which are characterized by an acetylated quinazoline ring connected to a 6-5-5 imidazoindolone ring system via a 5-membered spirolactone, has remained uncharacterized. Here, we report the identification of a gene cluster (tqa) from P. aethiopicum that is involved in the biosynthesis of tryptoquialanine (1), which is structurally similar to 2. The pathway has been confirmed to go through an intermediate common to the fumiquinazoline pathway, fumiquinazoline F, which originates from a fungal trimodular nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS). By systematically inactivating every biosynthetic gene in the cluster, followed by isolation and characterization of the intermediates, we were able to establish the biosynthetic sequence of the pathway. An unusual oxidative opening of the pyrazinone ring by an FAD-dependent berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidoreductase has been proposed based on genetic knockout studies. Notably, a 2-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB)-utilizing NRPS module has been identified and reconstituted in vitro, along with two putative enzymes of unknown functions that are involved in the synthesis of the unnatural amino acid by genetic analysis. This work provides new genetic and biochemical insights into the biosynthesis of this group of fungal alkaloids, including the tremorgens related to 2. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
AB - Tremorgenic mycotoxins are a group of indole alkaloids which include the quinazoline-containing tryptoquivaline (2) that are capable of eliciting intermittent or sustained tremors in vertebrate animals. The biosynthesis of this group of bioactive compounds, which are characterized by an acetylated quinazoline ring connected to a 6-5-5 imidazoindolone ring system via a 5-membered spirolactone, has remained uncharacterized. Here, we report the identification of a gene cluster (tqa) from P. aethiopicum that is involved in the biosynthesis of tryptoquialanine (1), which is structurally similar to 2. The pathway has been confirmed to go through an intermediate common to the fumiquinazoline pathway, fumiquinazoline F, which originates from a fungal trimodular nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS). By systematically inactivating every biosynthetic gene in the cluster, followed by isolation and characterization of the intermediates, we were able to establish the biosynthetic sequence of the pathway. An unusual oxidative opening of the pyrazinone ring by an FAD-dependent berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidoreductase has been proposed based on genetic knockout studies. Notably, a 2-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB)-utilizing NRPS module has been identified and reconstituted in vitro, along with two putative enzymes of unknown functions that are involved in the synthesis of the unnatural amino acid by genetic analysis. This work provides new genetic and biochemical insights into the biosynthesis of this group of fungal alkaloids, including the tremorgens related to 2. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
U2 - 10.1021/ja1101085
DO - 10.1021/ja1101085
VL - 133
JO - Journal of the Amercian Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the Amercian Chemical Society
Gao X, Chooi H, Ames BD, Wang P, Walsh CT, Tang Y. Fungal indole alkaloid biosynthesis: Genetic and biochemical investigation of the tryptoquialanine pathway in penicillium aethiopicum. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2011;133(8):2729-2741. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1101085
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by Braudie Blais-Billie and Evan Minsker
Radiohead, the Cure, Janet Jackson Inducted Into Rock Hall of Fame
Roxy Music (including Brian Eno), Stevie Nicks, Def Leppard, and the Zombies also make the 2019 class
Janet Jackson (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for MTV); Radiohead’s Thom Yorke (Andreas Rentz/GC Images); the Cure’s Robert Smith (Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2019 inductees have been announced. Radiohead, the Cure, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Roxy Music, Def Leppard, and the Zombies are the latest class of inductees. The 34th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is happening on March 29 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Radiohead were nominated last year, but didn’t get inducted. Before their nomination was announced, the band didn’t seem especially interested in being inducted. “I don’t care,” Jonny Greenwood said in an interview. “Maybe it’s a cultural thing that I don’t really understand.” In a press release with today’s announcement, a representative for Radiohead wrote, “The band thanks the Hall of Fame voting body and extends congratulations to this year’s fellow inductees.”
Colin Greenwood, on the other hand, said he would be grateful for an induction. “It might be me just doing bass versions of everything like, ‘Come on, you know this one!’ I’d have to play the bass part to ‘Creep’ five times.”
Brian Eno is among the Roxy Music members being inducted into the Rock Hall. He joins Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, Eddie Jobson, and Paul Thompson. The Cure members being inducted are Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Porl Thompson, Perry Bamonte, Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup, Boris Williams, Jason Cooper, and Roger O’Donnell.
Stevie Nicks, the first woman to be inducted twice, told Rolling Stone, “To be recognized for my solo work makes me take a deep breath and smile. It’s a glorious feeling.” The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone said, “It’s one of the most exciting days in my professional career, I think.”
The nominees who missed out this year are Rage Against the Machine, Kraftwerk, MC5, Rufus & Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Devo, Todd Rundgren, and John Prine. Last year’s inductees included Nina Simone, the Cars, Bon Jovi, the Moody Blues, and Dire Straits.
Read Pitchfork’s feature “The Radiohead Prophesies: How OK Computer Predicted the Future.” See where the Cure, Janet Jackson, and Roxy Music landed on Pitchfork’s list of “The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s.”
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1 Comment Posted on November 29, 2017 November 28, 2017 Cholera, Outbreaks
The Worst Cholera Outbreak in History
The size of the cholera epidemic in Yemen is hard to grasp. According to an article in the Guardian in October:
The World Health Organization has reported more than 815,000 suspected cases of the disease in Yemen and 2,156 deaths. About 4,000 suspected cases are being reported daily, more than half of which are among children under 18. Children under five account for a quarter of all cases.
Those statistics, which are really thousands upon thousands of helpless people and children dying terribly tragic deaths, are sobering.
The spread of the outbreak, which has quickly surpassed Haiti as the biggest since modern records began in 1949, has been exacerbated by hunger and malnutrition. While there were 815,000 cases of cholera in Haiti between 2010 and 2017, Yemen has exceeded that number in just six months.
Save the Children has warned that, at the current rate of infection, the number of cases will reach seven figures before the turn of the year, 60% of which will be among children.
Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s country director for Yemen, said an outbreak of this scale and speed is “what you get when a country is brought to its knees by conflict, when a healthcare system is on the brink of collapse, when its children are starving, and when its people are blocked from getting the medical treatment they need”.
Kirolos said: “There’s no doubt this is a man-made crisis. Cholera only rears its head when there’s a complete and total breakdown in sanitation.
There is perhaps a glimmer of optimism, however small, as the rate of new cases have started to slow, and the mortality rate has begun to decline. Cholera is easily preventable and treatable with access to clean water and oral re-hydration salts, but in a war ravaged country like Yemen, those things are often insurmountable challenges.
“Whatever decline we’re seeing now is due to the heroic efforts of workers at the scene,” said Sherin Varkey, the officiating representative of Unicef Yemen.
Varkey said the situation would not be solved until there was peace in the country.
“There are no signals that give us any reason for optimism. We know that both parties to the conflict are continuing with their blatant disregard of the rights of children,” he said. “We’re at a cliff and we’re staring down and it is bottomless. There seems to be no hope.
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Rockets, Bombs, & Blood: Reflections on the Gaza Conflict
I have done some traveling in my time. I am by no stretch of the imagination as well-traveled as some, but still I have set my foot on the soil of several foreign lands. From these journeys, I have not only learned much about those individual nations and their cultures but I have also come to receive some very important insights into people in general and the world in which we live.
The first, and most important, of these insights is that it matters not where you go, whether it be in the land of friends or the land of foes, in general, people are good and decent. They may speak different languages and dress differently, they may pray in very different ways or not pray at all, but when it comes down to fundamental human character, they are not really any different from us. Like us, just as we have some very good people and some very bad ones in our society, so do they in theirs.
I first came to this realization during a frigid December while walking the streets of Moscow, when it was the capitol of the U.S.S.R., or as Ronald Reagan liked to call it, “The Evil Empire.” I learned it while watching these blood enemies of the American way as they stood in long lines waiting for a bus in the freezing cold, yet they automatically welcomed pregnant women and women with small children to the front of the line. I learned it while watching a Soviet father, in the midst of winter, pushing his child on a swing in a snow covered playground.
I learned it in Israel, particularly in the Old City of Jerusalem, as I sat, drinking Turkish coffee, schmoozing and laughing with Palestinian storekeepers as we cordially bandied over the price of possible purchases. I learned it there as I watched one Palestinian merchant playfully haggle with 8 year old Helene over the price of a tee shirt, and letting her get the better of him. I learned it there while on a UJA – now United Jewish Communities – mission with Dick & Harriet Gottlieb and their children. After hearing stern warnings by our tour guide to protect our wallets and purses from the thieving Palestinians, one Palestinian teenager walked up to Jason Gottlieb and warned him that his backpack was open.
The second of these insights is born of the first. That insight is that we cannot confuse a people with their government. We are blessed to live in a true democracy where here, maybe more than in any other country on the planet, our government does accurately reflect the will of our people, for we express that will through the choices we make in the polling booth every election day. Yet it is easy for us to forget that we are in the minority; that most people on this planet are not so blessed; that the positions and policies of their government may not accurately reflect their own values and desires. While their governments may be evil, doing evil things, the majority of the people may actually be good at heart. If the politics did not get in the way, we might find the we could be good friends.
I share this with you because these are important things to remember especially when missiles are being fired and bombs are being dropped, and blood is being spilled on both sides of the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Good people, on both sides, suffered.
It is easy for us as Jews to demonize the Palestinian people, especially when hundreds of rockets have been intentionally aimed and fired at Israel civilians – our brothers and sisters, from infants to the elderly – by Hamas and related terrorist groups in Gaza. But to do so would be an injustice, not only to the Palestinian people as a whole, and not even only to the possibility of forging a future peace, but also to our very souls. For when we demonize a whole people on account of the actions of an evil few who may possess inordinate power, we bring ourselves down to the level of all those who throughout history have mindlessly hated all Jews, for ills, real or imagined, that they felt some Jews may have inflicted upon them. I don’t know about you, but as a Jew, I do not want to be held accountable for the misdeeds of someone like Bernie Madoff. So why should we hold all Palestinians responsible for the misdeeds of Hamas?
That being said, the situation facing Israel makes it all but unavoidable that there will continue to be many Palestinian people – Palestinians who are not members of Hamas, nor who wish to be – who will suffer and even die as a result of Israeli military operations against the terrorists. We cannot forget that the death of the innocent is the greatest tragedy born of war. This is not something to celebrate, as members of Hamas did upon learning of the Tel Aviv bus bombing, but rather it should be something over which to anguish; something that stabs at our conscience as we lament the fact that when we choose war, we should always be choosing it as the lesser of two or more evils. For in war, there really is no glory. Just human suffering which is part of the price we pay when we are convinced that we have been left with no other options but victory.
This is the place in which Israel has found itself; not just in this war but in all its wars, especially in its wars against the Palestinians. There is no question but that Israel cannot ignore or tolerate malicious attacks upon its citizens. No other nation would ever be expected to do so, so why are there those who expect it of Israel? Look at the United States. We experienced one day of attack – September 11, 2001 – and we wound up going to war in two countries; a war which if it ended tomorrow would have lasted for 11 years. Israel was left with no choice but to go to war in Gaza.
There are those who claim that there is always an alternative to war but there are times when that is simply not the case, no matter how much we wish it otherwise. Those folks are so ever ready to condemn Israel for what they call its “aggression.” But in their condemnations, they are being, to say the least, less than honest. Less than honest because they choose to ignore a long history of all of Israel’s serious offers to make peace with its enemies; offers that have been turned down flat. Less than honest because while they are so ready to take up on Hamas’ complaints about the Israeli occupation, they conveniently choose to forget that Israel elected to totally withdraw from Gaza 7 years ago; that Gaza is not occupied – blockaded, yes, but not occupied. Less than honest because they continually turn a blind eye to the true acts of aggression of Hamas against Israeli civilians and then treat the conflict as if the acts of hostility are one-sided. Less than honest in that they ignore the fundamental fact that just as it takes two to tango, so does it take two sides to make peace. When it comes to Israel and Hamas, there is only one side that is interested in talking about peace, and that side is Israel. At best, Hamas is only willing to talk about a cease fire, and then, only when its military resources are depleted and it needs time to regroup and rearm.
When I originally penned these words, a cease fire agreement had just been announced. At that time, I had no idea if it would actually take place or survive by the time I shared these words with you. Now I know that it has taken place. I still am unsure how long it will survive. While a cease fire is preferable to active combat, it is definitely not the answer. The Israelis call such conflicts which end in a cease fire “mowing the lawn.” No matter how nice a job you do when mowing your lawn, and how good it looks right after you are done, you know that the grass is already starting to grow back and the lawn will soon once again need mowing. A cease fire is not the answer because it does not put an end to the violence. It only postpones its continuation. Indeed, it only assures its continuation for it provides both sides with the breathing room to better prepare for the next confrontation, guaranteeing that the next confrontation will be more brutal and bloody than the last. No. Cease fire is not the answer.
So what is Israel to do? As long as Hamas refuses to consider any long term solution, this cycle of violence will continue. Not because Israel wants it to, but because Israel has been left with no other choice.
Of course, there is one obvious choice, other than giving Hamas carte blanche to attack Israeli civilians without repercussions. That choice is an all out war and total victory; going against Hamas with the total might of Israel’s military and not stopping until they are either completely destroyed or unconditionally surrender. Is that not what the Allies did with Germany and Japan in the Second World War? That is an option, but it is an option that even Israel, in the heat of its anger, finds too terrible to consider. And that is to the credit of the Israelis.
Even in the heat of battle, Israel has striven not to forget the price of human suffering that innocent Palestinians pay as a result of the terrorism of Hamas. It has been out of that consciousness that Israel went out of its way in its efforts to minimize civilian casualties, which was just the opposite of the choices made by Hamas. Food and medical supplies still flowed from Israel into Gaza. Neither electricity nor fresh water were cut off. Injured Palestinians were admitted into Israel and treated in Israeli hospitals. Palestinian civilians received advance warning to evacuate areas that were targeted by the Israelis. Israeli surgical strikes were, on occasion, delayed in order to permit civilians to clear the targeted area.
As Jews, we should be very proud of Israel for all its efforts to protect life at a time when it was being forced to take life. As Jews, we should be Israel’s greatest advocates, spreading the word of all the good Israel attempts to do, even in the darkest of times; sharing with our neighbors that information which, somehow or other, the news media either tends to ignore or deems not to be newsworthy.
Most of all, let us pray for peace – a true and lasting peace. Let us pray with all our hearts and souls. Let us pray that the day will soon arrive when Israeli and Palestinian will cease to view each other as enemy and choose to view each other as friend and neighbor.
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This federal program wipes away disabled vets’ student debt. They’re defaulting on their loans anyway.
Disabled veterans who think they may be eligible for the TPD loan discharge program should contact their federal loan service provider. (Ken Scar/Army)
Nearly 42,000 disabled veterans are eligible to have their federal student loan debt dismissed.
But only about 18 percent of them have gotten their loans dismissed, according to the Department of Education. And making matters worse, around 25,000 disabled veterans have already defaulted on their student loans.
Veterans who have a total and permanent service-connected disability or receive disability benefits at the 100-percent level are eligible for the loan forgiveness program, called Total and Permanent Disability Discharge, or TPD. This loan forgiveness can also apply to federal student loans that disabled veterans take out for their children.
Last spring, the Education and Veterans Affairs Departments launched a data sharing initiative to cross-check the VA’s records of veterans with a total and permanent service-connected disability against the Education Department’s database of student loan borrowers. When there’s a match, the Education Department mails the veteran a simplified TPD application.
As of October, about 42,000 veterans had been contacted, and 7,700 had their loans discharged, according to information provided by the Education Department this week. That leads advocates to wonder whether there’s more the federal government can do to expand the benefit’s reach.
“These people can’t work. They’re 100 percent disabled. Of course they’re going to have problems paying back student loans,” said Mike Saunders, director of military and consumer policy at the nonprofit Veterans Education Success. “It’s up to the administration to take proactive action to go out and help these people. To that end, we believe that automatic forgiveness should be something that the administration should be considering.”
Veterans service organizations, including VES, Vietnam Veterans of America and four others, sent a letter to Education Sec. Betsy DeVos asking as much in November, writing, “It is not fair to ask severely disabled veterans to have to complete paperwork, especially given that some catastrophic disabilities will interfere with their ability to complete the paperwork.”
Why aren’t more vets applying to get GI Bill restored?
Last year, about 8,000 veterans got a message in their inbox telling them they may qualify for a new law that restores education benefits to GI Bill users whose schools have abruptly closed. Nine months later, Veterans Affairs Department officials are trying to figure out why fewer than 20 percent have responded — and whether they should be concerned.
By: Natalie Gross
But department officials said it’s not quite that simple.
“The Department recognizes the sacrifices veterans and their families have made for our country, which is why we’ve streamlined the TPD discharge process through the data matching process with the VA,” Liz Hill, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, said in an email. “The last thing we want to do is cause unintended consequences — like impact future federal student aid or create a state or local tax liability — for men and women who have given so much.”
Another department official told Military Times some veterans eligible for TPD discharge are able to work and go to school, even though they have a VA service-connected disability rating of 100 percent. Getting their loans discharged under this program could make it more difficult for them to qualify for federal student loans in the future.
What’s more, the official said, a handful of states tax borrowers who have loans discharged, and the Department is not in the business of tracking these laws, or of taking away people’s ability to choose whether getting their loans discharged is worth the potential ripple effects.
Currently, veterans who are flagged in the Education Department’s system as eligible for loan forgiveness under TPD are contacted by federal loan servicer Nelnet. The company sends them the application, explains the program and gives them 120 days to respond.
In the meantime, veterans don’t have to continue payments on their student loans. After the waiting period, Nelnet sends the veteran a reminder, but if the veteran still does not respond, the government can start collecting on the loans once more.
Could this government program wipe away all your student loan debt?
The Veterans Affairs Department and the Department of Education are working together to make it easier for you to apply to have your loans forgiven. Here are five things you need to know before applying.
By: Mike Saunders
Any disabled veteran who thinks they may be eligible for the TPD loan discharge program should contact their federal loan service provider, which will then direct them to Nelnet, department officials said. Alternatively, veterans can apply online and, if they’re in VA’s database of veterans who meet the initial discharge qualifications, the Education Department will fast-track their applications.
Still, VES thinks the government can do more to boost the number of disabled veterans who are getting their loans discharged, maybe even by concentrating efforts in the majority of states where there is no associated tax penalty, Saunders said.
“We want them to do more to get that information out there,” he said. “People who are in poor financial situations, a lot of times they move, a lot of times they’re going through a bunch of different things in their life that makes it hard to (respond) if the government reaches out at one point and sends a letter. It has to be a sustained effort.”
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Home /Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig is and isnt at home
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Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig is and isnt at home
One particular word initially appeared three times on the new Vampire Weekend album, Father of the Bride (out now). On the record’s lead single, “Harmony Hall,” it used to reside in the pre-chorus: “I thought that I was free/From all this suffering,” gently sings Ezra Koenig, the band’s frontman, seated at a heavy patio table at Euro Caffé in Beverly Hills. The track in its final state now bears the word questioning instead. “I’m really glad I changed that. I can’t have the first three singles off this album have the word suffering in them.”
On the TVs inside the restaurant, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is burning. Steps away from the table, on Rodeo Drive, tourists wait their turn to pose next to a bright yellow Rolls-Royce parked at a meter. Koenig doesn’t live in this neighborhood; he simply likes this spot and some of the shops nearby.
The 35-year-old singer-songwriter has a hard time admitting he lives in Los Angeles at all. “Even as recently as a year ago I would still kind of say, ‘Well, I live in both places’” — the other place being New York, where Vampire Weekend earned their stripes 13 years ago playing their punkily staccato indie rock in and around Columbia University, Brooklyn firetraps, and garage shows along the East Coast. Koenig owns a place out there, and was born and bred in Manhattan and New Jersey; generations of his family staked out Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the suburb Scarsdale. He’s got stuff in storage. “There’s no part of the world that I understand better.” On the Golden State, however, “I didn’t exactly choose to live here,” Koenig says. The “base of operations” moved out of necessity, he says, to be physically closer to what became the nerve center of FOTB.
At first the relocation was for Koenig’s “brother-in-arms” Ariel Rechtshaid (Adele, U2), who co-produced the band’s last album, 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City, and produced or co-produced almost all 18 songs on FOTB (former bandmate and producer Rostam Batmanglij also has two production credits on the record). “He’s the rare dude where we just take our time,” Koenig says of Rechtshaid. The producer says the album was “ultimately a product of proximity and friendship. [Koenig] was open to what happens musically, and there were lots of musical traditions we were trying to put together.”
Another major tentpole of the project: duets. Before, Vampire Weekend would occasionally employ backup vocalists on tracks, but never had anybody gone toe-to-toe with Koenig on the mic like Danielle Haim does, appearing on several songs in a co-lead or backup capacity. “Danielle, little by little, became one of the most important parts of the record,” says Koenig. “I always knew I wanted there to be these duets.” It all started when the lead singer of the harmony-dripping sister trio Haim (and, as it happens, Rechtshaid’s girlfriend) laid down temporary vocals on the folkie album opener “Hold You Now.” That first take is still what lives on the record in its final form. “He’s very precise,” Haim says of Koenig. “He means business in the studio. He’s serious in a good way, like, ‘Let’s get this down.’ But he gave me the freedom to put my own twist on things.”
An added goal was making a “true double album,” a vision for FOTB from its earliest days. Koenig was inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 20-track The River (“I am a Jersey boy,” he says, smiling) as a “broad snapshot of [Springsteen] being that age,” his early 30s. With 18 songs, Koenig needed someone at the ready with scissors and glue — “highly, highly, highly, highly regimented editing,” as Rechtshaid put it. When it came to quality assurance of lyrics, Koenig — who set out to write more directly about stories, characters, and interpersonal relationships — found his man in longtime friend Dave Macklovitch (a.k.a. Dave 1 of electronic duo Chromeo). “I’d play something for him — verse 1 would lay out a story and then verse 2 gets into some of that collage-y impressionistic nonsense,” says Koenig. “It was nice to have somebody really be like, ‘Hey that’s cool, you almost wrote a real song for a second!’”
Which gets back to the word of the day. Within the sprawl of those 18 songs, Koenig wanted space “not to get weirder but to get more real.” In retrospect, “pain and suffering and love” are the terms that often bubbled to the surface, he says. “My mom’s a therapist, and it’d be interesting to hear her use the word suffering to describe things that, by one way of thinking, would be mundane,” he explains, his boyish eyebrows calm but cross. “And then there’s this very straightforward way that Buddhist texts talk about suffering: Most people live their lives trying to escape suffering, and suffering is truly present in everybody’s life. It doesn’t mean…that middle-class American suffering is the same as Third World suffering, but there is actually something pleasingly straightforward about using that word to describe life in general. Rather than presenting suffering and love as these giant things that only happen here and there in life, [you] realize that they’re fully interwoven into the fabric of everyday life no matter who you are.”
And that’s where a fan might go hunting. “The lyrics that I’m most proud of on this album are not necessarily the most show-off, fun, whimsical ones,” says Koenig. Father of the Bride still has its bookish bursts and catchy turns of phrase, though the happy claps twirl around some truly dark notes. The deliciously perfect guitar-pop of “This Life” borrows the choral lyrics from ILoveMakonnen’s “Tonight” — not just admitting “I been cheatin’ on you” but to have also “been cheatin’ on this life/And all its sufferin’.” Back to back is “Married in a Gold Rush” (Koenig and Haim’s rollicking June and Johnny play) and the intoxicating lullaby “Rich Man,” both songs that seem to warn of the corrosive power of money on relationships. On the intimate “My Mistake,” he sings, “Oh, I was young then…you were cruel, you were fake/Hoping for kindness was my greatest mistake.”
Relatedly: If suffering and love are the recurring motifs of the album, aging and maturity are top of mind for Koenig in conversation, with the singer frequently utilizing the phrases “as I get older,” “in my 20s,” “when I was younger.” “If anything, [the album] is marked by the most painful nostalgia I ever had in my life, which I think also just happens as you get older…. Personal history and the way the light hits and smells, all that stuff,” he says. His personal life now is mostly in L.A. “I came over for some work stuff, and then the next thing I know I have a family. Which is cool. I like the weirdness of that, but…” He noticeably trails off.
Which brings us to yet another important member of Koenig’s creative cohort: Rashida Jones, his partner and the mother of their 9-month-old son. “Our family’s the most important thing in my life. I’ll say that on a more practical level she’s also a cool addition to that inner circle of people I play music to. Rashida is so checked-out from indie music, there’ll be times she’ll hear me listen to something that’s considered classic, and she’ll be like, ‘What is this? This sucks,’” Koenig says. The actress and film director is the daughter of legendary producer Quincy Jones (about whom she made the 2018 documentary Quincy). “She’s cool, too, because obviously she’s grown up surrounded by music,” says Koenig. “It’s a huge part of her life — like, for her, ’90s R&B is the peak of music she cares about the most…. Of that [group], she’s a very important part of it. They’re all gonna hear the music through different lenses.”
That collaborative outlook was nurtured often, from different angles, during the six years that passed since Vampire Weekend’s last album. Like his bandmates Chris Baio and Chris Tomson, Koenig worked on a lot of outside projects. They included his ongoing Apple Beats 1 show Time Crisis with pal Jake Longstreth — “It’s more of a social club.… Just very kind of fun and relaxing” — and creating a season of the Netflix anime series Neo Yokio. “That was just, like, perfect timing to do something fun and weird that had nothing to do with music.” In addition, he randomly snagged a co-writing credit on “Hold Up,” off Beyoncé’s Lemonade, when his hook was “picked off a pile” by the superstar; is still fine-tuning a TV concept with pal the Kid Mero (of Desus & Mero) about New York City public schools; and sat in on songwriting sessions with Kanye West. “With somebody like Kanye, what was amazing is that even with these individual iconic genius-type people, there’s almost always an inner circle of people,” says Koenig, whose voice starts picking up tempo with a singsongy cadence whenever he talks about his collaborations. “It’s interesting to remember that very, very few people are truly solo artists, so it reinforced my belief: that I do like the collaborative nature of bands and in fact, I wanted to be in a band.”
For the FOTB tour, which runs through Thanksgiving, the band has grown into a crowd, with Koenig, Tomson, and Baio joined by four additional touring members and even Haim dropping in for select dates. The next six months “are going to be pretty wild,” especially for this first-time father. “I’m going to be experiencing all sorts of emotions for the first time,” Koenig says. “It’ll take some figuring out. But the good thing about music is that when you’re gone, it’s intense, and when you’re home, you’re really, really home.”
Between ages, between destinations, between homes, Koenig, like everybody, will be suffering, but never alone.
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