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Galli Estate Pinot Grigio»
Galli Estate produce a variety of quality wines from fruit grown on their vineyards at Sunbury and Heathcote. Galli Estate have been very well received by reviewers, and have been recognised for quality at competitions, already receiving Gold for their Pinot Grigio, a varietal that the winemaking team find very exciting. Galli Estate»
Brown Brothers Moscato Gold»
The top shelf in toothsome and dulcetly fragrant, fruit forward frizzante wines, fashioned for those who know what they like and take their Moscato seriously. Brown Brothers make the best Moscato in the land, their dedicated Muscat vineyards have been trained to deliver harvests of the most luscious fruit. Brown Brothers»
Scarpantoni School Block»
From the home of the 2007 Jimmy Watson, prior vintages of School Block have claimed gold medals at the London International and UK Sunday Times. A deluxe assembly of Shiraz, Cabernet and Merlot from three Scarpantoni vineyards, each with a unique terroir and mesoclime. Scarpantoni»
Sticks Yarra Valley Pinot Noir»
Rob Sticks Dolan's career in the wine industry began under the tutelage of Greg Clayfield and John Vickery at the enduring Rouge Homme. Dolan established his affinity for Pinot Noir on the international stage when he claimed the prestigious Bouchard-Finlayson Trophy for Champion Pinot Noir at the prestigious London International. Sticks»
Yealands S1 Single Block Sauvignon Blanc»
The marvelous S1 block is a sheltered, relatively warm site within the splendid vistas of Seaview Vineyard, on a north facing plateau at 160m above sea level, refreshed by maritime winds that blow in from the Cludy Bay coast. Fruit is crushed and destemmed, chilled and gently pressed, the clearest juices are racked off for a long, cool ferment to capture the full opulence of S1 vineyard grapes on the vine. Yealands Estate»
Bress Gold Chook Riesling»
Baileys of Glenrowan 1920s Block Shiraz»
Richard Bailey planted one of the first Glenrowan vineyards in the 1860s. The Bailey estate survived the downturn of the Victorian gold rush, the ravages of phylloxera and excesses of the Kelly gang, it endures to this day, producing some of the nation's most intensely flavoured and historically significant wine. Baileys Glenrowan»
Bress Gold Chook Pinot Noir»
An assemblage of clones MV6 Pinot Noir from the Mount Gisborne vineyard at Macedon, alongside Pinot clone D5V12 from Chanter’s Ridge at Woodend. A mix of whole bunches and gently destemmed fruit are treated to a traditional, wild indegenous yeast open top ferment, hand plunged thrice daily, befor pressing to French oak hogsheads for completion of malolactic and fourteen months maturation. Bress»
Heathcote Estate Shiraz»
A Shiraz of power and elegance, Heathcote Estate claimed a significant gold medal at the prestigious London International. Inspired by the amazing depth and character of Terra Rosa Shiraz, the Bialkower and Kirby families determined the most idyllic location to propogate vines for an ultra premium Shiraz to rival Australia's finest. Heathcote Estate»
Mr Riggs Battle Axe Sparkling Shiraz
By Mr Riggs
Region McLaren / SouthAustralia
Mr Riggs Gaffer Shiraz
Mr Riggs McLaren Vale Shiraz
Mr Riggs Montepulciano dAdelaide
Region Adelaide McLaren / SouthAustralia
Mr Riggs Outpost Coonawarra Cabernet
Region Coonawarra / SouthAustralia
Mr Riggs Yacca Paddock Tempranillo
Varietal Tempranillo
About Mr Riggs - the Winery
And, yes.. Ben does have a vineyard
Located at Kangarilla on the edge of the McLaren Vale designated region, Piebald Gully is a recently planted patch producing fine grade Shiraz, Viognier and Petit Verdot from low yielding hand tended vines. Besides 22 vintages in Australia, Ben has presided over a further eight overseas. Experience has been gained in the Napa Valley, Bordeaux, Greece, Italy and the South of France which gives Ben a broad appreciation of wine styles and winemaking practices. A graduate of Roseworthy (in 1985), Ben has made a major contribution to regional wine industry activities having served 10 years as a board member of McLaren Vale Winemakers Inc. Three of those years saw Ben in the role of Chairman. He also chaired the McLaren Vale Wine Show over a 5-year period. Wines made by Ben have achieved considerable Wine Show Awards success including winning the first two Great Australian Shiraz Challenges. More than 20 trophies have been won and in 1993, Wirra Wirra 1991 Angelus was declared the winner of the Sydney International Top 100 wine awards.
As a winemaker, Ben achieved Bushing King status in 2000 - a unique award that recognises the maker of the best wine at the McLaren Vale Wine Show. Ben's most recent award was winning the Consumers' Award at the 2004 South Australian Hyatt Advertiser Wine of the Year Awards with his 2003 Mr Riggs Shiraz Viognier (the first release of this wine, by the way). Married to Annie with young sons, Baxter and Austin, Ben is committed to championing McLaren Vale's global Shiraz reputation, as well as exploring wine styles from other regions. It is that passion which is driving him to do things his way and showcase not just the region's greatest winegrape variety but to give a free rein to his particular winemaking and wine marketing skills.
Located at the base of the Willunga Foothills in the central part of the McLaren Vale wine region, Monapilla vineyard is virtually dry grown, as the soil has excellent water holding capacity, and the focus is very much on low yields of high quality grapes. The warm Mediterranean summer temperatures are moderated by the often-fierce gully winds, which come down from the hills in the early evening. Monapilla vineyard is a prime McLaren Vale Shiraz vineyard. Mr Riggs' very own vineyard, Piebald Gully is located in the cool subregion of Clarendon at approximately 265m, to the east of the McLaren Vale wine region. Ripening occurs at Piebald Gully sometimes up to two weeks later than in the rest of McLaren Vale, and the area averages some 30% more rainfall (700mm pa) than the rest of the district.
Angas Vineyard at Langhorne Creek is the result of the happy coming together of a group of wine industry mates who decided in 1997 that the region was a great spot for vines. Consisting mainly of floodplains, the region has fine, deep and generally fertile soils and is quite unique, in that it benefits from winter flooding from the Bremer River. Planted over fertile sandy loams, Angas Vineyard provides Mr Riggs with both Shiraz and Viognier, which has made its way into both the Viognier and the Shiraz Viognier.
The Penny's Hill vineyard departs from the McLaren Vale norm as far as vineyard set up goes. Established by Adelaide advertising man Tony Parky Parkinson and his wife Susie, the vineyards were set up by industry mogul, David Paxton, and are managed by David's off-sider, Toby Bekkers. Located in the central foothills of McLaren Vale, soils are unprepossessing, being shallow and stony, with low vigour and low moisture holding capacity. Perfect for growing high quality grapes, as it turns out.
Set up in 1987 to provide a cool climate alternative to McLaren Vale, Kuitpo vineyard is located in the southern Mount lofty ranges of the Adelaide Hills. Cooler, wetter and with a heat summation similar to areas of the Napa, Sonoma or Bordeaux, Kuitpo's average January temperature is only 19.8 deg C, as compared to that of McLaren Vale's, which is 21.7 C. This appears to be a small difference, but proves significant in grape ripening terms. Mr Riggs uses Viognier and Riesling from the Kuitpo vineyard. Viticulturist Geoff forms part of the sixth generation of the well-known Australian Hardy wine family. Breakneck Creek is adjacent to the Penny's Hill vineyard in the central foothills of McLaren vale. Planted in 1993 by respected McLaren Vale grape grower, Ian Leask, the vineyard benefits from all of the McLaren Vale climatic positives which help make McLaren Vale such a high quality wine region. The site, as with the Penny's Hill vineyard, also derives additional cooling influences from the gully winds, which spring up in the evenings and come down from the hills. By combining a high-tech water monitoring system, minimal drip irrigation and smart viticulture, these sensitive soils are a prime site for quality Shiraz, a fact Mr Riggs was very quick to recognize.
Quandong Farm is situated in the Seaview district, one of the 5 recognized subregions of McLaren Vale to the north of the region. Vines were planted on a west-facing slope in 1996. The vineyard benefits from the cooling sea breezes that come off the Gulf St. Vincent on summer afternoons even more so than the vineyards on the valley floor, in fact. Soils are shallow sandy loams over limestone. Planted to approximately 17 hectares of Shiraz, only a fraction of that is used in the Mr Riggs wines. Quandong Farm is yet another superior site for Shiraz.
Yacca Paddock was set up by film director Scott Hicks and wife Kerry Heysen Hicks to create their very own paradise in the Adelaide Hills. A cool, temperate climate, with temperatures on average 2.5 C cooler than vineyards only 5km down the road as the crow flies in McLaren Vale, this is a premium site for the Tempranillo and Riesling, which Ben uses for Mr Riggs. The site also receives considerably more rainfall than down the road an average of 850mm per annum, as compared to the McLaren Vale average of approximately 650mm. Ancient podzolic soils combine with modern viticultural tactics as well as being next door to Geoff Hardy's Kuitpo Vineyard, the vines are also managed by Geoff.
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Tony Abbott ‘headbutted’ by same-sex marriage supporter
Former prime minister Tony Abbott says he was “headbutted” by a same-sex marriage campaigner on a Hobart street.
Mr Abbott said he was walking back to his hotel when he was confronted by a man.
“A fellow sung out at me, ‘Hey Tony’. I turned around and there was a chap wearing a vote ‘yes’ badge,” the former leader told 2GB.
“He says, ‘I want to shake your hand.’ I went over to shake his hand and then he headbutted me.”
Police made contact with Mr Abbott and are investigating the alleged assault.
“Tasmania Police is investigating an alleged assault on Hobart’s waterfront about 4.35pm today involving a 59 year old man from NSW,” the statement read.
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“Tasmania Police contacted the alleged victim after becoming aware of the claims and the man has tonight made a formal complaint.”
Mr Abbott said the man did not deliver a very good headbutt but he did make contact.
“The only damage was a very, very slightly swollen lip,” he said.
Post by Tony Abbott.
Mr Abbott said a member of his staff who was with him then briefly grappled with the man.
“He ran off swearing his head off,” he said.
“It was just very disconcerting to find that the ‘love is love brigade’… should under the guise of wanting to shake your hand in fact tried to give [me] a so-called Liverpool kiss.
“As he was scarpering away, amidst the ‘effing this and effing that’, it was a ‘you deserve it because of all the things you’ve said’.
“It was pretty clear this was politicially motivated violence.”
Great to have @TonyAbbottMHR in Tas over last few days. Disappointed a yes campaigner would try to assault fmr PM. Must be condemned by all.
— Eric Abetz (@SenatorAbetz) September 21, 2017There is absolutely no place for violence in the marriage equality debate. This is about treating people fairly and with respect & dignity.
— Alex Greenwich MP (@AlexGreenwich) September 21, 2017This is the statement of respect that all staff and volunteers of The Equality Campaign must abide by. pic南京夜生活,/liYUVBknYI
— AU Marriage Equality (@AMEquality) September 21, 2017
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz told the ABC the incident was a reminder of the “ugliness” of the “Yes” campaign.
“Yes, I have seen the former prime minister since that very ugly and unfortunate incident. But can I say, this is not about the former prime minister,” he said on Friday morning.
“This is about highlighting, yet again, another example of the ugliness of the “yes” campaign, the slogan of “Love is love” is unfortunately shown in practice to be intolerance, not wanting people to be able to have their point of view, hold their point of view.”
Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne said no one should be attacked for having a different view on marriage and it must have come as a nasty shock for Mr Abbott.
“It is an un-Australian thing to do and I hope that Tony is okay,” he told the Nine Network.
Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop echoed that sentiment. “Violence of any form is never acceptable,” she told reporters in New York.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten described the attack as unacceptable.
“I’m glad Mr Abbott isn’t seriously injured and I’ve rung him to say so,” he said on Twitter.
Labor frontbencher Penny Wong said the yes campaign was about hope, respect and unity and the debate should reflect those values.
After the incident, Australian Marriage Equality co-chair Alex Greenwich condemned the attack.
“There is absolutely no place for violence in the marriage equality debate. This is about treating people fairly and with respect & dignity,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile The Equality Campaign said they sought the “dignity and fairness of equal status before the law for all Australians”.
“We are a campaign of respectful conversations, not angry debates, and never confrontations,” a statement said.
Mr Abbott had been in Tasmania lunching with campaigners opposed to gay marriage, including Liberal Party Senator Eric Abetz.
Mr Abbott and Senator Abetz also visited Hobart Airport to inspect the runway, which was extended as a result of funding from the Abbott government.
– with AAP
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Visitors to the Surrey Hills are encouraged to “Be Nice, Say Hi”, as the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) adopts the joint campaign of cycling and horse-riding charities, Cycling UK and The British Horse Society (BHS...
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Facebook Live – General Meeting Questions
Facebook Live – General Meeting Questions Chief Executive’s Office Could you outline what the top three priorities are for the BHS in the next six to 12 months? Our three Strategic Priorities are: Increase the number of people taking...
Welsh Government announces proposals to improve off road access
The British Horse Society welcomes the Welsh Government proposals which when implemented has the potential to significantly increase riding opportunities across Wales, providing access for horse riders to suitable footpaths, and access for horse ride...
Nearly two horses killed each week on UK roads, shocking new statistics reveal
Alarming new statistics have revealed nearly two horses a week are being killed on UK roads, with over 845 incidents involving horses and drivers reported to The British Horse Society last year.
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Equestrians to be recognised as vulnerable road users in National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme courses
The British Horse Society and UK Road Offender Education are thrilled to reveal that equines and equestrians will now be identified as vulnerable road users in National Driver Offender Retraining Schemes.
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The British Horse Society voices support for Brake’s Road Safety Week 19 – 25 November
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Williams F1 flies high with Rokit extension
Rich Energy shareholders in fight to save Haas F1 sponsorship
McLaren launch new mobile app to boost fan engagement
Rich Energy pulls plug on Haas F1 title sponsorship
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F1 Austrian GP 2019: Verstappen made to wait as Ferrari miss out on track but top sponsorship charts
Meanwhile Silverstone bosses get cold feet as talks stall amidst concern over London Grand Prix rumours.
Posted: July 2 2019
By: Sam Carp
Max Verstappen was forced to wait to celebrate his first win of the 2019 Formula One season as stewards took more than three hours after the end of the Austrian Grand Prix to confirm the Red Bull driver’s victory.
Verstappen passed Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with just two laps remaining to win a thrilling race at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, only for stewards to open an investigation into whether the Dutchman had unfairly run his opponent off the track.
The stewards eventually decided to take no action over the collision, ruling that the wheel-banging moment had been a ‘racing incident’ to give Verstappen a sixth win of his career.
Verstappen made a bad start to the race to drop from second to seventh, but surged back through the field before diving up the inside of his fellow 21-year-old’s Ferrari in the closing stages.
"What the hell was that?" Leclerc immediately asked over the team radio after the collision.
Verstappen’s victory also brought to an end Mercedes’ eight-race winning streak at the start of the 2019 season, with drivers’ championship leader Lewis Hamilton finishing outside of the podium places in fifth for the first time this campaign.
Verstappen celebrates after taking the checkered flag
Could a London Grand Prix spell the end for Silverstone?
London’s bid to stage a Formula One race is making Silverstone organisers think twice about signing a new contract for the British Grand Prix, according to the BBC.
The Northamptonshire circuit’s hosting contract expires after this month’s British Grand Prix but it was reported in April to be inching closer to agreeing terms on a new deal with Formula One owners Liberty Media.
However, Silverstone bosses have since been made aware of Formula One’s plans to hold a race in the Docklands area of east London, which the track’s managing director Stuart Pringle says “significantly increases the risk” in holding the race.
Silverstone is apparently worried that having two Grands Prix in Britain would reduce its attendance enough to make staging the race financially unviable. There is also concern that the two races would have to be held close to each other on the calendar due to the British weather.
Speaking to the BBC, Pringle added: "Formula One have admitted to us for the first time that they want to have a race in London. That's a material change because it's different to previous arrangements and Britain is not a very big island and it's a commercial concern.
"Throughout this process we have sought to manage the significant risk that comes with promoting a Formula One race and this does nothing to reduce it.
"In fact, it significantly increases the risk to Silverstone that only a few short years ago was nearly obliterated by its commitment to Formula One and trying to maintain a British Grand Prix. We metaphorically and literally cannot afford to go back to that position.
"But we are still very much talking. They've always said they want a British Grand Prix at Silverstone and we've always said we want to host one."
Lewis Hamilton has urged Formula One chiefs to reach a new deal with Silverstone
Ferrari top sponsorship charts
Ferrari might have missed out on a race victory over the weekend, but they have at least brought in the most sponsorship income of any team in Formula One over the past decade.
That is according to data from sponsors.formulamoney.com seen by Forbes, which says the famous Italian outfit have generated a whopping US$2.1 billion from their commercial partnerships during that time despite not winning the constructors’ championship since 2008.
According to the data, Ferrari’s sponsorship revenues peaked at US$249.5 million in 2010, representing the biggest annual total for any team competing in motorsport’s premier series during the ten years to the end of 2018.
Much of that income was generated by a new deal with Spanish bank Santander, worth a reported US$50 million per year. A further US$100 million apparently came from tobacco firm Philip Morris, although the company has since reduced its commitment due to strict advertising laws for tobacco manufacturers in some Grand Prix destinations.
Ferrari’s overall sponsorship revenue is 69.2 per cent higher than their closest rival McLaren, who according to the new Formula Money Sponsorship Database secured around US$1.2 billion between 2009 and 2018.
The next two teams in the list were Red Bull and Mercedes, whose sponsorship deals brought in approximately US$972.6 million and US$944.9 million, respectively.
Ferrari remain the most attractive team for sponsors despite not winning the constructors' championship since 2008
Confusion over Rio’s hosting bid
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said last week that there is a “99 per cent chance” that Rio de Janeiro will replace São Paulo on Formula One’s calendar from 2021 after Interlagos’ hosting contract expires next year.
Bolsonaro said a new private racetrack on Brazil’s Atlantic coast would have a capacity for 130,000 fans compared to 60,000 at the São Paulo venue.
“No one is trying to take Formula One away from São Paulo,” Bolsonaro told reporters. “The race will stay in Brazil, that’s what counts.”
Adding to Brazilian outlet Globo: “The contract expires next year with São Paulo and we have decided to retain Formula One in Rio de Janeiro. There's a 99 per cent chance, or more, of having Formula One from 2021 in Rio de Janeiro.”
However, since then, Brazilian media have reported that there are problems with the way the Rio organisers and authorities are going about putting together the new venue.
According to Globo, Rio Motorpark Holding SA, the company that won the circuit build and management rights contract for the new venue, has as little as 0.14 per cent of the required capital to be eligible to bid.
Globo claims that the firm has R$100,000 (US$26,000) when the public notice required a minimum of R$69.7 million (US$18 million).
Manoel Peixinho, a professor of administrative law, was quoted by the paper as saying: "We are facing one of the largest corruption cases in public tenders in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
"In the legal environment, this is what is called a paper company."
Formula1.com gets new look in global ad deal
Formula One’s website is set to get a new look after the series landed a global advertising partnership with Inskin Media.
Starting with the UK, the London-headquartered firm will exclusively deliver non-intrusive Pageskin ad formats for the first time across the series’ official website.
The ads will subsequently roll out across other global markets including Australia, Singapore and the United States, providing the motorsport organisation with a new digital revenue stream.
Frank Arthofer, director of digital and licensing at Formula One, said: “Our digital ambition is to provide powerful, immersive and unforgettable experiences for our dedicated legion of fans – and this spans right through to their experience with online ads.
“Inskin compliments this exactly, a premium network bringing creative and flawless delivery of ads, plus a brand-new source of revenue.”
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I did it. I got over 75%. I'm an expert.
I got 19 out of 24 (79%), and if I'd only stuck with Sean Penn for Best Actor - who I was really rooting for anyway - the only ones I would've missed would've been four completely unimportant categories which I'm totally fine with having missed. So let's review exactly what happened on what turned out to be a really good Oscars in all respects.
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Sean Penn for Milk
I Picked: Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Kate Winslet for The Reader
Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: Okuribito (Japan)
I Picked: Entre les murs (France)
Best Achievement in Music, Original Song
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar ("Jai Ho")
Best Achievement in Music, Original Score
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman
Best Achievement in Editing
Best Achievement in Sound
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: The Dark Knight
I Picked: Wall-E
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: Smile Pinki
I Picked: The Conscience Of Nhem En
Best Documentary, Feature
Winner: Man on Wire
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle
Best Achievement in Makeup
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: The Duchess - Michael O'Connor
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: la maison en petits cubes
I Picked: Presto
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: WALL·E - Andrew Stanton
Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Winner: Milk - Dustin Lance Black
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
While I'm thrilled about my results, I changed a few results from my original picks, and all those changes ended up being wrong. But I entered the orginal list into the Oscar.com game, which should put me near the top of their pool (22 out of 24 ain't bad - except that the game glitches so badly that every time you leave the site, it deletes all of your picks. I tried to go on right before the ceremony started, but the game had crashed, so I couldn't get to it to re-enter the picks. It's a shame, because somewhere floating in a sea of data on the Oscar.com site is a near-perfect Oscar list.
Hope everyone did well this year!
Tagged: losers, oscar predictions, pool, winners
Competition?
By the way, I've created a group on Oscar.com where everyone who wants to can predict the winners against me. Winner gets $5 from everyone. Let me know if you want in.
Tagged: bet, competition, oscar, pool
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Search is On: Nominate Real Heroes for Annual Red Cross Awards
Do you know an "ordinary" San Diegan who has saved a life, helped a neighbor in need, or has made a difference in their community? San Diego and Imperial Counties are home to many whose selfless deeds of courage and humanitarian service are truly inspiration. If you know a hero, the American Red Cross asks you to nominate them for the 12th Annual Real Heroes Breakfast.
As a leader in emergency preparedness, response and recovery, the Red Cross honors those making an impact through their courageous and compassionate actions, demonstrating a true commitment to creating safer, stronger communities
At previous Real Heroes events, awards have been presented to children, adults, organizations, civic groups -- and even animals! Watch the inspirational stories of previous honorees here
"The Red Cross' Real Heroes event is one that our community looks forward to every year, " said Bill Trumphfeller, Board Chair of the local chapter. "It's a great way to get inspired and thank those who perhaps wouldn't otherwise be recognized. Celebrating those who make our region a better place is inspiring."
Local heroes will be celebrated across eight categories: adult, animal rescue, community partner, fire and rescue, law enforcement, military, youth, and the Wendell Cutting Humanitarian Award. For a complete list of category descriptions, visit: www.redcross.org/sandiego/realheroes.
Heroes are nominated by the public and chosen by an awards selection committee comprised of local community leaders and event sponsors. Heroes are then selected based on the degree to which their actions uphold the values of the Red Cross humanitarian mission, and leave a lasting and positive impact on the residents of the community. This year's Real Heroes award recipients will be honored at the event on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 aboard the USS Midway Museum.
How to Nominate a Hero
Submitting a nomination is easy! Submit your nomination form by July 15, 2014 via the avenue easiest for you:
Online: www.redcross.org/sandiego/realheroes
Email: Events.SanDiegoCA@redcross.org
Attn: Real Heroes
3950 Calle Fortunada
Join the conversation online, get event updates and share stories about your hero using the hashtag, #SDICRedCross and at facebook.com/sdredcross and twitter.com/sdicredcross.
About the American Red Cross, San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter
The American Red Cross San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter is the most trusted community service organization in education, preparation and response to natural disasters and human emergencies. With the public's ongoing support we provide lifesaving preparedness training; disaster relief services; 24-hour emergency services to deployed military personnel and their families; and nutritional counseling through our Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. Through Prepare San Diego a four-year regional resiliency initiative, the Red Cross brings together key community and business leaders from the region to create a sustainable network that encourages preparedness, carries out response and recovery plans, and strives for resiliency in the face of disaster, meeting all aspects of the disaster lifecycle. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org/sandiego or connect with us on Facebook, , and Twitter
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Our Chiefs
Scotland's Admiral - ebook
History of the Name
Famous Woods - Then and Now
Australasian Contact
The Clan Shop
USA - Old
(If you would like to post a comment about anything in this page, Please go to the Club Talk Room of the Members' Area)
Here are some known events in North America at which the Clan Wood Society will be present.
If you would like to organize a Clan Wood Society Presence at your local games or festival, please contact the Society through this Web site, and we will assist in any way that we can.
Radford Highlanders Festival
Radford University, Radford VA.
http://www.radford.edu/festival/
Greater Greenville (SC) Scottish Games
and Highland Festival - "Gallabrae"
Furman University, Greenville, SC
http://gallabrae.com
See item below
Contact: thom_wood@yahoo.com
Annual Laurel Hill Highland Games & Festival
Location: Laurel Hill "The J.E.B Stuart Birthplace"
http://www.laurelhillgames.com/index.htm
Volunteers are needed to staff and help staff tents at the games listed above and other games arround North America. If you are interested in being involved with the fun and rewarding experience of representing Clan Wood at your local Scottish games or others, please contact Thom Wood, the Society's representative for the USA, Brian Wood our rep for Canada, or Council Chair Steve Wood. Part of the Society's mission is to staff Clan tents at these events. No monetary output on your part is required, and these activities can be a fun and rewarding time. Please see the FAQ below.
Q - What is a Clan Tent -
A - A Clan Tent is a tent set up at Scottish Games or festivals to represent the individual Clans, provide information on that Clan, and give Clan and Society members a place to gather and relax.
Q - Who can Staff a Clan Wood Society Tent-
A - Anyone can staff a Clan Wood tent, but a Society member must be responsible for overseeing the tent, and receiving materials funded by the Society. You are welcome to have family and friends who are not members join you and assist you in staffing the tent.
Q - What will it cost -
A - The Clan Wood Society endeavors to cover the cost of representing the Clan Wood at Games and Festivals as part of our mission to serve the Clan. Please Contact us and ask how we can help.
Clan Wood Society in South Carolina
Thom Wood says:
CALLING ALL WOODS !!
We're getting ready to celebrate the 10th ANNIVERSARY of the Greenville Scottish Highland Games in May, and it's going to be the biggest annual parade down Main Street Greenville has ever seen!
It is NOT too early if you plan to attend and march in this fantastic parade because I am making plans now for all the things each person will carry. Please let me know if you can come, how many, so that I can work on this over the next several months. I need as many WOODS as I can get to be involved with this special anniversary parade
Mark your calendar for Friday, May 22, for the parade in downtown Greenville, SC!
The 2015 Greenville Scottish Games - save the date!
Great Scot! Parade - Friday, May 22 2015 - Downtown Greenville The Ceilidh - Friday, May 22 2015.
Now all 50 states have some form of Scottish Highland Games or festival which shows the continued interest in our Scottish roots and culture all across America. That's why YOU have to get involved, because I can't do my job unless you're willing to see yourself recognized by Clan Wood in every one of the 50 states.
"Thom, where can I get a Wood kilt?" We finally have found a way to have a Wood kilt made right here in the United States. St. Kilda USA is undertaking this project of making a medium weight acrylic pattern at a cost of about $70 for men's and women's kilts and after having seen their product personally, I highly recommend you contact me to get a kilt to wear proudly to your local Scottish games. I am currently working up an order for a first time run of a Clan Wood kilt so that St. Kilda can stock our tartan for the future. If you will contact me, thom_wood@yahoo.com, I can add your name to that order to get this project started.
Hear the clarion call, and ride for glory! (And for a really great time out!)
The South Dakota Highland Pipes and Drums parade proudly in their Clan Wood kilts
Founder Drum Major Robert Sorensen sporting the Clan Wood crest badge with which he was presented in May 2010
These men help to raise billions of Canadian and US dollars to provide free treatment at Shriners' Hospitals for crippled and burnt children
http://www.shrinershq.org/Shrine/
THE WOODS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Having done us so proud at the 2009 event (see the Members' Bulletins pages), Thom Wood, with his cousin Cheryl, has headed another Parade contingent at the 2010 Annual Scottish Games in Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of
Wessex, was a guest of honor at the Games,
and Thom's entry in the Parade was
photographed by the Greenville Times
Examiner newspaper.
One of the main purposes for which we exist as a Society is to facilitate a Clan Wood presence at Games and Festivals Worldwide,
and by doing so inform Clan members and the public in about the rich history of this honorable Clan
as well as provide a point of contact with other Clan members.
If you would like to represent the Society at your local Games or Festival, please contact the Council Representative for your region by email
or the Council through this link
http://www.clan-wood.org.uk/contactus.html
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Burnham Infants School PTFA (Parents,Teachers and Friends Association)
Who are we and what do we do?
Chairperson: Amber Probert
Secretary: Kate Cole
Treasurer: Matt Probert
Committee members: S Salter, L Lloyd
We are a group of likeminded parents ,friends and teachers who raise funds for the school by organising social and fundraising events throughout the year.
The funds help the school to provide additional facilities and resources for the children. We all joined for the same reasons - we wanted to be involved with our children's school and offer help wherever we can, we don't all attend every meeting or help at every event and there isn't any pressure to do so, we are a team and many other parents come forward to support us when it counts.
What does the money raised get spent on?
Recently, money raised by the PTFA's activities have been spent on:
Repairing the school's Pottery Kiln
Digital cameras for Reception Year classes
Bird tables and feeders so the children can enjoy observing the birds
Funds raised at this year's Summer Fayre went towards improving the school's library area as well as paying for the Story Box Theatre, who gave a performance after Christmas.
If you have any ideas, suggestions, or want to help out at the odd event but can't spare the time to come to meetings then please do contact us by e-mail, bosinfantsptfa@yahoo.co.uk or via the school office. We'd love to hear from you!
Please feel free to come to any of our future PTFA meetings, which are held once every 2 months. Meeting notices go up in classroom windows.
100 Club Rules
1. Membership of the 100 club is on an annual basis. Each number held by a member will be entered into 10 draws throughout the year. Numbers will be allocated by the PTFA Committee or their representative. A member is not limited in the number of tickets they can buy.
2. Tickets are currently £10 per annum, payable in October.
3.Draws will be held on a monthly basis, where possible.
4.Additional draws will be held at the discretion of the PTFA Committee.
5.Draws will take place at open PTFA functions, PTFA Committee Meetings or other suitable public event. Winning numbers will be published in the school newsletter and advertised at the school.
6.There will be one or more prizes at each draw totalling not more than 55% of the proceeds from that draw and not less than 40% of the proceeds (after subtracting expenses incurred).
7.The highest prize will be drawn first, followed by the next highest and so on until all the prizes have been drawn.
8.Once a prize has been won, the winning number is not eligible for further prizes in that month’s draw.
9.Tickets are not normally refundable, except in exceptional circumstances (see 10 below).
10.Should the 100 club be disbanded refunds will be returned to members based on the number of draws that the member has paid for, but has not been entered into, for that year. The refund will equal the annual fee paid, minus one tenth of the annual fee for each draw that has taken place in that year.
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Ian Prowse & Amsterdam
Saturday 19th October 2019
Supported by: The Amber Herd
THE AMBER HERD
".... both blissfully melancholic indie and uplifting stripped-back folk and comes to a sprawling, open-mouthed finish with an almost Velvet Underground-esque wall of sound, acoustics flitting between prog keyboard stabs and all buried under Neil Beards' darkly overdriven Mary Chain guitar" • thiscitymagazine
“It’s an irony of the internet age that when the potential for choice is nearly limitless, everything suddenly seems to sound the same. But that’s not a problem facing this Chesterfield/Notts band. The Amber Herd prove they won’t be led by the nose by the diktats of fickle fashion. And that’s no bull.” • The Derbyshire Times
‘Conventional’ is not a word that applies to The Amber Herd. Formed in Nottingham in 2007 and consisting of members from all over the country that independently all converged on the East Midlands, drawing on influences from thrash metal to traditional folk whilst bringing life to the kind of vivid pictures and swirling soundscapes that LSD was designed for, The Amber Herd are anything but ordinary.
Headlining shows at major venues both at home and in London, BBC Radio Nottingham sessions, high profile support slots with the likes of Jesus Jones, Knifeworld, Delays, That Petrol Emotion, Ultrasound and more and festival appearances at Bearded Theory, Headstock, Glastonwick (by personal invitation of Attila the Stockbroker) and High Voltage (having won a national competition to headline the acoustic stage) have led to the band being described in a variety of media as “Nottingham’s best kept secret?”, “an intriguing band with an eye for drama and melody” and “Mind blowing!”.
Whilst always a formidable live proposition, the band have not eschewed the studio having released two double A side singles (the second of which, ‘Thursday’, was voted Notts Live radio’s number one song of 2010 in their annual top 50 run down), a five track ep (closing song ‘Magnolia’ memorably featuring on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks) and now the band's debut album ‘Our Only Eden’ – a 55 minute concept album in the non-dirty sense of the word that promises to take the listener to another dimension.
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F1: How rain is saving the season start from being a washout
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix saw the drivers rained off the track little more than halfway through the race and awarded half points for their efforts. And this year, by all accounts, we’re probably in for another downpour.
And that’s just the thunder and lightning that we expect to happen above the racetrack. Don’t take your eyes off the storms taking place behind the scenes.
If the rain does come, a wet Malaysian Grand Prix would follow a thrilling race in Australia with damp weather at the start which led to the form book being thrown out of the window. It was held on the same weekend as an upredictable, rained-off IndyCar race in the States that had to be cancelled thanks to a tropical storm in Florida.
That was the second IndyCar race in a row to meet this fate after the season opener went the usual way of circuit racing in Brazil – into a blinding cloud of spray. In fact, the only dull race we’ve see so far this year was dry as a bone and held in Bahrain.
Whereas last weekend, going into the Australian Grand Prix, we felt that we had detected rather less drama than usual we are now comfortably back to a situation where there’s more going on than the cast of an EastEnders Christmas Special could cope with even after a couple of shots of gin apiece.
A struggling Michael Schumacher has reignited his feud over blocking with Fernando Alonso. It started four years ago after the latter threatened to lie down in front of his car on the Monaco grid in protest during the 2006 season following the notorious Rascasse “stalling” incident in the previous day’s qualifying.
Although why Schumacher would want to remind anyone about his behaviour that day is a mystery to us. But possibly it won’t be long before both Nico Rosberg and Felipe Massa find themselves feeling the fall-out of this stress and ill-will.
Lewis Hamilton presumably couldn’t get on a plane fast enough after being caught indulging in some boy racerly tricks in Melbourne then having a miserable time on the racetrack trying to intuit what tyre strategy to adopt.
As he struggled, seemingly with few resources of his own to draw on, his team did little to help him and his more experienced team-mate was able to pull off a seemingly psychic decision that effectively won him the race.
Happy days. As was widely pointed out earlier this week, things may have been just that little bit less chummy down Woking way ever since.
At Red Bull Sebastian Vettel has now thrown away two race wins in a row thanks to the fact his team can’t supply him with a car that can finish. And, despite all his outward charm and good-naturedness, being a fly on the wall of the motorhome in the Melbourne debrief would probably not have been a pleasant experience.
Neither Vettel nor Mark Webber yet been able to perform to the very high expectations that were set out for them at the beginning of the season, by team and fans alike. And the tension is definitely starting to build, with the possibility of a huge discharge of electricity if things don’t go right from tomorrow onwards.
In the midfield Renault are definitely the up-and-coming team, what with Kubica’s podium last week and some flashes of brilliance from rookie Petrov – for as long as he can keep it on the island, which doesn’t currently seem to be very long.
Nico Hulkenberg for Williams is also due for a bit of good luck after being recklessly punted out for two races in a row, and he has been given whatever passes for a hearty and encouraging slap on the shoulder by the team’s undemonstrative technical director Sam Michael.
At the back Jarno Trulli has had some very hard-hitting and personal experience of just what it means to move from a big, well-funded manufacturer outfit to a backmarker. But at least his team has got a car home, as has Colin Kolles’ Hispania squad.
Over in the Virgin Racing comedy corner they still have to achieve that feat – and Nick Wirth has conceded that it will be his Wirth Research outfit picking up the tab for building chassis with fuel tanks large enough to get them round the racetrack the requisite number of times.
That is, if this year the weather holds off long enough to actually allow 56 laps of racing. And if no other storms intervene.
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Wolseley launches online Clearance Center
More than 3,500 lines of discounted stock can be accessed by anyone at the click of a button, following the recent launch of Wolseley UK's Clearance Center website.
As part of its multichannel strategy, Wolseley UK launched the clearance website to make it easier for people to buy discounted plumbing, heating and bathroom products from one place - with direct delivery.
A wide range of products from leading brands are available on the site, including heating and plumbing products, commercial products, parts and spares, kitchens and bathrooms, DIY products, ironmongery, security and electrical products.
Along with the website, Clearance Center has also launched its first eBay shop, offering even more choice in purchasing channels.
Customer Scott Clinton said he had a "pleasurable shopping experience" when using the new website and posted: "Easy to use website and the part was the cheapest around. Easy ordering - and the part was easy to fit and did what it said it would. I would recommend the part and the seller to anyone."
Jeremy Maxwell, multichannel director, Wolseley UK, said: "Our ambition is simple: to be the easiest merchant for our customers to do business with. We will continue to work with our brands to add more exciting deals to Clearance Center – so customers can choose from the widest possible selection of great value products, saving them time, money and hassle."
The website can be accessed at www.clearance-center.co.uk, while the eBay store is online at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/clearancecenteruk/.
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Jennifer Lawrence's 'violating' photo leak
By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 21 November 2017
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Jennifer Lawrence found her photo hacking scandal in 2014 ''unbelievably violating'', and admits she is still ''processing'' the ordeal.
Jennifer Lawrence found her photo hacking scandal ''unbelievably violating''.
The 27-year-old actress had her world turned upside down when personal photos were stolen from her phone during a hacking scandal in 2014, and although the event took place three years ago, the star admits she is still ''processing'' what happened.
She said: ''When the hacking thing happened, it was so unbelievably violating that you can't even put it into words. I think that I'm still actually processing it.
''And, I don't know, I feel like I got gang-banged by the f***ing planet - like, there's not one person in the world that is not capable of seeing these intimate photos of me. You can just be at a barbecue and somebody can just pull them up on their phone. That was a really impossible thing to process.''
The 'Passengers' star didn't sue those responsible for leaking her pictures - which were intended for her then-boyfriend Nicholas Hoult - to the world, and she admits her reason for not taking legal action is because she wanted to ''heal'', as she didn't feel suing people would ''bring her peace''.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter's 'Awards Chatter' podcast, she said: ''None of that was gonna really bring me peace, none of that was gonna bring my nude body back to me and Nic, the person that they were intended for. It wasn't gonna bring any of that back. So I wasn't interested in suing everybody; I was just interested in healing. I think, like, a year and a half ago, somebody said something to me about how I was 'a good role model for girls,' and I had to go into the bathroom and sob because I felt like an imposter - I felt like, 'I can't believe somebody still feels that way after what happened.' It's so many different things to process when you've been violated like that.''
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Climate change on track to reduce ocean wildife by 17%
By Marlowe HOOD
On current trends, climate change by century's end will empty the oceans of nearly a fifth of all living creatures, measured by sheer weight
On current trends, climate change by century's end will empty the oceans of nearly a fifth of all living creatures, measured by sheer weight (AFP Photo/LUIS ROBAYO)
Coral reefs support more than 30 percent of marine life
Coral reefs support more than 30 percent of marine life (AFP Photo/John SAEKI)
Paris (AFP) - Climate change is set to empty the ocean of nearly a fifth of all living creatures, measured by mass, by the end of the century, researchers have calculated.
In a world that heats up three to four degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, 17 percent of marine biomass -- from minuscule plankton to 100-tonne whales -- will be wiped out, they reported in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
To date, Earth's surface has warmed a full degree (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
Bigger fish and marine mammals already devastated by overfishing, pollution and ship strikes will see especially sharp declines due to rising temperatures.
Even in a "best-case" scenario of limiting warming to 2C -- the cornerstone target of the Paris climate treaty -- the ocean's biomass will drop off by five percent.
Shallow-water corals, which harbour 30 percent of marine life, are forecast to disappear almost entirely under these conditions.
Every additional degree will see the ocean biomass shrink by another five percent. Earth is currently on course to be around 4C hotter by 2100.
"The future of marine ecosystems will depend heavily on climate change," said Junne-Jai Shin, a biologist at the French Institute for Development Research and one 35 experts from a dozen countries contributing to the study.
"Measures to protect biodiversity and fisheries management will need to be revisited."
Fortunately for life on land, oceans -- which cover 70 percent of Earth's surface -- consistently absorb more than 20 percent of the greenhouse gases humanity spews into the atmosphere.
But the accumulation of all that carbon dioxide has also made ocean water more acidic, threatening to upset the delicate balance of the marine food web.
- 'Dead zones' -
Some regions will be hit much harder than others, the study found.
Climate change will reduce marine biomass by 40 to 50 percent in tropical zones, where more than half-a-billion people depend on the ocean for their livelihood, and two billion use it as their main source of protein.
At the same time, the concentration of life at the poles would likely increase, potentially offering new sources of food.
The global population is set to expand from 7.3 billion today to nearly 10 billion in 2050, and to 11 billion by 2100, according to the United Nations.
"Up to now, the biggest threat has been overexploitation and the use of destructive fishing gear," said Callum Roberts, a marine conservation biologist and oceanographer at the University of York in England.
"But now, the biggest impact is switching over to climate change, and that is playing out in the sea."
The number of damaging marine heatwave days has increased by more than half since the mid-20th century, according to a recent study in Nature Climate Change.
"Just as atmospheric heatwaves can destroy crops, forests and animal populations, marine heatwaves can devastate ocean ecosystems," lead author Dan Smale, a researcher at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, England, told AFP at the time of publication.
A 10-week ocean heatwave off western Australia in 2011, for example, shattered the local underwater ecosystem and pushed commercial fish species into colder waters.
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A year-long marine heat spell off the coast of central and northern California -- known as "the blob" -- killed off larges swathes of seagrass meadows and kelp forests, along with the fish and abalone that depend on them.
Another consequence of higher air temperatures is to thicken the ocean's top layer of warmer water, which results in oxygen-depleted zones bereft of life, Roberts explained.
These "dead zones" are also caused by nitrogen-rich runoff from agriculture around estuaries and along coastal areas.
Researchers at Louisiana State University estimated this week that a dead zone spreading at the mouth of the Mississippi River will cover a 23,000 square kilometre (8,700 square mile) area, and will be the second largest ever recorded in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller shares Facebook photo about bombing the 'Muslim World'
Filed under Politics at Aug 2015
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Update at 12:10 p.m.The Texas Democrats released a statement Monday afternoon condemning Sid Miller's Facebook post.
"It is unacceptable for Republican Sid Miller to be promoting such disgusting rhetoric. Sadly, this kind of racist, xenophobic hate speech qualifies you for higher office with Republicans’ Tea Party fringe base," said Manny Garcia, Texas Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director. "We hope Sid Miller shows some respect for Texans and the responsibility of holding state office and issues an apology."
AUSTIN — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who is currently traveling in China, shared a photo on Facebook Sunday night that advocated for bombing the 'Muslim world.'
The post has since been deleted.
The photo, originally posted on a Facebook page called 'The Patriots IV Drip 2', is an exploding mushroom cloud with text that says "Japan has been at peace with the US since August 9, 1945. It's time we made peace with the Muslim world."
The post has received almost 3,000 likes and more than 300 comments before it was removed sometime on Monday morning.
On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan. The atomic bomb killed somewhere between 39,000 and 80,000 people. Japan surrendered shortly after the atomic bombing.
In January, Miller said fears of the United States becoming a "Muslim country" kept him awake at night.
"Are we doing enough?" He asked at the Texas Public Policy Foundation forum.
During his first term as agriculture commissioner, Miller made headlines for lifting the bans on cupcakes and deep fat fryers in public schools. His media spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.
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Yae no Sakura
Drama Titles:
八重の桜
“Yae no Sakura” will tell the story of Niijima Yae, also known as Yamamoto Yaeko, who was born into the Aizu Domain during the late Edo period. Skilled in gunnery, she helped defend Aizu during the Boshin War, earning her the nickname of the “Bakumatsu Joan of Arc.” After the war, she married educator Joseph Hardy Neesima (Niijima Jo) and became a… more “Yae no Sakura” will tell the story of Niijima Yae, also known as Yamamoto Yaeko, who was born into the Aizu Domain during the late Edo period. Skilled in gunnery, she helped defend Aizu during the Boshin War, earning her the nickname of the “Bakumatsu Joan of Arc.” After the war, she married educator Joseph Hardy Neesima (Niijima Jo) and became a Christian, and she helped Neesima found Doshisha University. less
Category: Japanese Drama
Rating: 9.33 (15 Votes) Rate it!
Genres: Action, Adventure
Drama Stars:
Ayase Haruka
Fubuki Jun
Hasegawa Kyoko
Nishijima Hidetoshi
Matsushige Yutaka
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Yae no Sakura Episode 17 Jun 26, 2013
Yae no Sakura Episode 13 May 27, 2013
Yae no Sakura Episode 9 Apr 30, 2013
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Diagnosis: Inoperable stomach carcinoma with metastases in hepato duodenal ligamentum and pancreas - VO
The following reports issued in 1974 by Dr. H. Malski, Chief Doctor of the Second Surgery Clinic at the Kirchen/Sieg Regional Hospital, Germany, and Dr. Sackey, are translated into English in order to describe the medical history of the patient before she presented to Dr. Ozel.
Beginning of medical report translation
"H. Malski, M.D.
Chief Doctor of the 2nd Surgery Clinic
Kirchen/Sieg Regional Hospital-Section II
5242 Kirchen, 2.8.1974
Announcement: Lassnig, M.D.
H e r d o r f
To the doctors in Turkey
Mr. Adorf, M.D.
Expert in Internal Medicine
Regional Hospital Section: II
Dear Colleague Dr. Adorf,
We express our thanks for referring to us Mrs. Vxxxxx Oxxx born on April 19, 1932 and from Sassenroth and whom we accepted to our Surgery Clinic on July 11, 1974.
Inoperable stomach carcinoma infiltrating pancreas and duodenum. Laparotomy, examination of the resected specimen, ascariasis.
The patient has been experiencing pain similar to colic in the right hypochondrium of epigastrium and right costal curvature, and vomiting for many months. She had no appetite, and had experienced considerable loss of weight. While being clinically examined, she was found to be very sensitive to palpation at the upper site of the abdomen and especially at the center of the costals and at both sides. Although there was a weak muscle resistance, the pain persisted even after the pressure was ceased. The abdomen was soft, and the kidney site was free. Stomach roentgenogram demonstrated a pylorus penetrating tumor.
Following these findings, a stomach surgery was attempted on July 18, 1974 after an intubation narcosis. A tumoral mass as big as a punch was revealed at the upper site of the pylorus originating from the small curvature and the rear parietal. Please refer to the enclosed surgery report for further information.
Histological examination of the infiltrating fatty specimen taken from mesocolon revealed the diagnosis as follows: sclerosis mesenteric fat cells with some inducing sclerosis character carcinoma cells (Sklerosierendes mesenteriales Fettgewebe mit einigen Carcinom zellverbanden vom induzierend, sklerosierenden Character).
The first lesion recovered in bed. The patient was transfused two units of Rh positive blood. Today, on August 2, 1974, we are discharging Mrs. Oxxx, because she wishes to go back to Turkey..."
End of medical report translation
The surgery report disclosed the laparotomy details:
Beginning of surgery report translation
"...
Narcosis type: Applied by tube (intubation) Trapanal, Fluothan. Succinil, Panc., Lachgas, Oxygen.
Nurse: Hasibe
Dr. Malski
Dr. Sackey
Inoperable stomach carcinoma infiltrating pancreas and duodenum, laparotomy, examination of the resected specimen, ascariasis.
The abdomen of the patient was opened in a transrectal manner. When peritoneum was reached, a tumoral mass as big as a punch was revealed at the upper site of the pylorus and originating from the small curvature and the rear parietal. The tumor infiltrated the entry of pancreas as well as duodenum after crossing underneath the entry of the liver. Widespread infiltration was observed to have started in the intestine. The large lymph node bunches at the retroperitoneal site were observed to have joined together with duodenum, intestine and infiltration. The gall bladder was mixed together with the intestine and the pylorus infiltration. Clinical observation revealed no metastasis in the liver. No illness was observed in peritoneum. The stomach entry was actually large enough and did not block any passage. Infiltrating fatty specimen resected from pylorus was examined. Abdomen was checked. Abdomen was closed in steps. Antiseptic bandage was applied.
Remark: An 20 cm ascaris was revealed in the intestine."
End of surgery report translation
( Appendix VO0 )
The histopathologic examination of the specimen was performed on July 18, 1974 with reference code 10345/74 at the "Pathologisches Institute des Ev. Jung-Stilling-Krankenhauses in Siegen."
Following this surgery and diagnosis, the West German Social Security Institution, Landesversicherungsanstalt Oberfranken und Mittelfranken (LVA) [of which the address in 1974 was: 8580 Bayreuth 2, Postfach 2720, West Germany] placed the patient on pension since a person with such a diagnosis could only live for another few months ( Appendices VO1A and VO1B ).
After she left the hospital in Germany, the patient was flown directly to Turkey and hospitalized at Turkish Social Security Organization's (TSSO) Istanbul Hospital. The report of the medical council of the hospital issued on 19 August 1974 stated that the patient was admitted on August 3, 1974 and discharged on 8 August 1974 to spend the remaining of her life at home. On the same report the diagnosis of the patient was corroborated as inoperable stomach cancer with metastases, and the patient was prescribed morphine.
She presented to Dr. Ozel on September 15, 1974 with disorientation, word finding difficulty, and decreased memory function symptoms. She continuously used morphine and behaved as if she were intoxicated. Her tongue was very dry. A swelling was palpated in epigastrium, and there was a laparotomy cicatrix in the same region. She had experienced extreme loss of weight. When tested, 0.5cc of NOI caused a fever of 38.5o C, and she was placed on a regimen with 0.4 cc dose of NOI to be given daily 6 days per week, and 0.5cc of NOO to be given three times every day after the meals.
The patient's pains diminished gradually, then disappeared completely within a month. At the end of the second month after she started N.O. treatment, no more rise in fever occurred following NOI administrations. She was then placed on a maintenance regimen with 0.4 cc dose of NOI to be given at two day intervals and 3x0.5mL NOO daily. She received the maintenance treatment for another three months, and was recommended to stop the N.O. treatment.
In 1975 the patient experienced provoked vomiting, and showed pyloric stenosis symptom. She underwent surgery for this, and no sign of her old malignant disease was observed at the surgery.
After she got well, the patient did not return to Germany, continued to live in Turkey and receive pension from LVA, the German social security organization. LVA requested a medical check up in 1982. That was performed on 3 November 1982 ( Appendix VO2 ) at the Istanbul Hospital of Turkish Social Security Organization (TSSO). The patient was found to be in complete health, and LVA asked her to go back to work in Germany. Since she had then settled in Turkey, she could not move to Germany again, and LVA stopped paying her pension. (LVA's file on the patient with reference code 18 190432 Y 503 was very detailed. Similarly TSSO's file on the patient with reference code 565209 was a very thick one.)
In 1988 she presented her case on the Turkish national television.
Dr. Ozel last heard of her in 2002. She has been in remission since 1974.
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(aka "Shoot the Pianist" or "Shoot the Piano Player")
François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful, anarchic film. Part film noir, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of the mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague.
What makes Truffaut's second feature such a delight is the almost tangible passion for the history of cinema, its language and conventions, and the artistic possibilities offered by their innovative adaptation and re-interpretation. But don't let the label of artiness put you off. Truffaut was thankfully not so stuffy as to forget that the best movies can be funny as well as clever. Witty dialogue and thoroughly inventive visual humor are equally important elements in the composition of the film's considerable charm. Charles Aznavour, as the eponymous pianist, is ideally suited as the alternately tragic and comic hero and coasts effortlessly through the sudden changes of mood.
IExcerpt from Iain Harral's review located HERE
Theatrical Release: 25 November 1960
MK2 - Region 2 - PAL vs. Criterion (2-disc) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Artificial Eye - Region 'B' - Blu-ray
Big thanks to Per-Olof Strandberg for the MK2 captures!
1) MK2 - Region 2 - PAL LEFT
2) Criterion - Region 1- NTSC MIDDLE
3) Artificial Eye - Region 'B' - Blu-ray RIGHT
or in the Truffaut Blu-ray Collection:
The MYK2 also available in the 12 Truffaut DVD set - all with English subtitles and many extras with English subs. Includes - Jules et Jim, La Peau douce (The Soft Skin), Les Deux anglaises et le continent (Two English Girls), La Femme d'à côté (The Woman Next Door), Le Dernier métro (The Last Metro), Les 400 coups (The 400 Blows), Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses), Domicile conjugal (Bed and Board), L'Amour en fuite (Love on the Run), Vivement dimanche ! (Confidentially Yours), Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Pianist), and Fahrenheit 451.
Region 2 - PAL
Criterion Collection - Spine # 315
Region 1 - NTSC Artificial Eye
Region 'B' - Blu-ray
Bitrate: Criterion (Disc 1)
Bitrate: Blu-ray
Runtime 1:18:00 1:21:39 1:21:17.041
16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: mb/s
1080P Single-layered Blu-ray
Audio French (Dolby Digital 2.0) French (Dolby Digital 1.0) LPCM Audio French 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Commentary: LPCM Audio French 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Subtitles English and None English and None English and None
Studio: MK2
Widescreen anamorphic - 2.35:1
• Serge Toubiana presents the film (3:27)
• Commentary track by Marie Dubois
• Commentary track by Raoul Coutard
• Francois Truffaut speaks about the film (9:41)
• François Truffaut talks about the book
• "Down there" the film is based on (12:22)
• Screen tests of Marie Dubois (2:51)
• Trailer (4:3 / 1:54)
• Truffaut Collection (12 trailers)
• The extra material on this DVD do not have English subtitles
DVD Release Date: 20 February 2002
Keep Case
Studio: Criterion
• Audio commentary by film scholars Annette Insdorf and Peter Brunette
• Exclusive new video interviews with actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois
• Video interview with Coutard, conducted in 2003
• Rare interview with François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, from 1986
• Excerpts from a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps dedicated to Truffaut
• An excerpt from the French television program Étoiles et toiles in which Truffaut discusses his adaptation of the David Goodis novel
• The Music of George Delerue, an illustrated essay
• Dubois’ screen test for the film
• 30-page liner notes booklet with photos and essay by film critic Kent Jones
• Tales of Hoffmann postcard
DVD Release Date: December 5th, 2005
Double thick Keep Case
Studio: Artificial Eye
• Introduction by Serge Toubiana (3:27)
Blu-ray Release Date: July 28th, 2014
NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were obtained directly from the Blu-ray disc.
ADDITION: Artificial Eye - Region 'B' Blu-ray - July 2014: Yes, quite nice. The screen captures indicate the advancement in the visuals via Artificial Eye's 1080P transfer. Superior contrast, frequent depth , deeper black levels and notably sharper - still maintaining textures and there is no digital manipulation. No noise. I think it looks quite strong - better than I was anticipating.
Audio comes via a linear PCM 2.0 channel stereo track at 1536 kbps in the original French. It is predictably flat but has some tightness not present on the SDs. Georges Delerue (Jules et Jim, The Woman Next Door, The Last Metro, Day For Night) did the score and it also benefits from the uncompressed rendering. There are optional English subtitles (they are optional!) on the Region 'B'-locked Blu-ray disc.
Supplements replicate some of what was on the mk2 DVD with the commentary track by Raoul Coutard - with English subtitles (see sample), a brief introduction by Serge Toubiana, 3-minutes of screen tests of Marie Dubois and a trailer.
I had not seen this in almost a decade. I loved it - the improved a/v bolstered my appreciation. I can't wait to see more upcoming Truffaut on Blu-ray. This absolutely gets our endorsement!
ADDITION: - Criterion - NTSC - November 2005: The first huge difference in these edition is the extensive cropping on the MK2 release - mostly on the two sides but on the top as well. The Criterion is much brighter and we can only surmise that the transfer, supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard, is the most accurate in terms of intended appearance. The MK2 has both brightness boosting and de-saturation that leaves the image very thin. This makes the Criterion appear a little softer alongside. There are some visible artifacts in the MK2 that are more apparent also next to the Criterion.
Frankly this is all quite contrary to what we have seen from Criterion in some of their past releases. As opposed to their usual slight de-saturation and darkness (often reds and/or blacks) boosting to bring up detail, they have gone the opposite route and allowed the image to have a softer glow... which is possibly more accurate. Also Criterion have been caught a number of times with cropping issues in the past, but since the use of their new quantization matrix (1st seen in PickPocket) this no longer seems to be an issue, but we will keep attentive in any case. This is actually very good news as it shows that Criterion appear to be improving - raising the bar another notch. In this DVD comparison the Criterion gives a far more film-like presentation.
Although the MK2 has some decent extras - those supplements do not have English subtitles. There are some cross-over's with the Maria Dubois screen test (example) - I particularly got a lot out of the Kent Jones essay booklet that includes and interview with Truffaut. It is beautifully bound and a nice keepsake. Criterion's 2nd disc has some real value. We, of course, recommend the Criterion.
The new wave took the cameras out from the studio to real location. This is shot in Dyaliscope, with big cameras. Because of that I believe that the original material in this film varies in quality a lot. Some scenes seems soft, and the outdoor scenes has very little light. Some of the film stock is very grainy also, but I believe this is quite a good reproduction from the original elements. As the main title is quite sharp, it's believable that the out of focus scenes are also so in the original film negative.
The film makes a little left to right movement, but not so that it annoys you. Looking on screen cap no 4, makes me believe the DVD is cropped on the both edges a little.
Unfortunately the huge amount of extra-material is not subtitled in English on this DVD.
- Per-Olof Strandberg
(MK2 - Region 2 - PAL LEFT vs. Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC RIGHT)
Criterion - Disc 2
Artificial Eye - Region 'B' - Blu-ray
Commentary Subtitle Sample - Artificial Eye - Region 'B' - Blu-ray
Subtitle Sample
1) Criterion - Region 1- NTSC TOP
2) Artificial Eye - Region 'B' - Blu-ray BOTTOM
1) MK2 - Region 2 - PAL TOP
2) Criterion - Region 1- NTSC SECOND
3) Fox/Lorber - Region 0 NTSC THIRD
Extras: Criterion
Recommended Reading on Truffaut / French Cinema (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
The Films in My Life
by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew François Truffaut
by Annette Insdorf HITCHCOCK (REVISED EDITION)
by Helen G. Scott, Francois Truffaut The French New Wave: An Artistic School
by Michel Marie, Richard John Neupert, Richard Neupert A History of the French New Wave Cinema
by Richard Neupert French New Wave
by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present
by Remi Fournier Lanzoni Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine do Baecque and Serge Toubiana
Check out more in "The Library"
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[Album Review] Charlotte Church Continues To Amaze With Ep "Three"
To those hoping to hear more from Charlotte Church's mezzo, you need look no further than her newly released EP, Three. In fact you won't have to wait longer than the coda of first track-the stunning Sparrow- to witness the Diva deftly using its operatic weight against a cacophony of dissonant guitars. It's an apt introduction to this collection of seven songs, which are darker in tone and more experimental with the vocals.
The project isn't entirely weighty and serious, and Magician's Assistant offers respite from the intensity, with beautiful strings, a warm ambience and a bouncy middle-eight that the singer rides with rhythmic ease. It's also the most accessible track on the album, so a great place for the more cautious listener to begin.
Though the vocals are truly impressive, it wouldn't be fair to review the project without acknowledging the genius arrangements- they really are something. I Can Dream provides a striking example; building the tension with increased distortion and disharmony- almost to breaking point- before it all falls back to reveal a gorgeous oasis of soothing voices.[Take a listen below] Each track seems to have been composed with equal care and ingenuity that thankfully hasn't been let down by the vocals or lyrics that have been layered upon them.
As a whole, Three is in an indie leaning EP; perhaps the most so of the trio released so far. Built upon layers of jangly guitars, cavernous reverb, and pounding percussion, it's a project that sounds part Jeff Buckley ( particularly House Upon The Sea), part Bon Iver and part Kate Bush- but never derivatively so. Ultimately its sharper focus makes for a cohesive body of work that doesn't suffer from the abrupt changes of pace or style the other Two EPs have at points.
Charlotte Church needs to be commended on her continued brave journey through music. Despite a lack of commercial success, the singer is still pushing boundaries; clearly investing time, money and effort into crafting some of the most exciting and thrilling music being released at the moment. One can only hope that as further EPs are released- reportedly there are two more coming- and Church continues to tour, momentum will grow for the singer and her ambitious project. As it is, it's almost criminal that this body of work is being slept on by a wider audience.
Rating: A-
EP:Three is available to buy on Itunes and Amazon.
Labels: album review, charlotte church, review
Opie Ever 23 August 2013 at 18:39
LOL It's a damn lucky thing I already really like Charlotte and what she is doing these days.
Because if I hadn't, references to the most overrated artist in popular music's history as well as to a total hipster would have turned me off completely.
Aline 23 August 2013 at 19:40
I love her music! She is a truly talent. As a fan I keep showing her music to everyone I know. I admire her even more, because she is very brave in making music really interesting knowing that is not the easy path nowadays.
Diva Devotee 23 August 2013 at 21:21
LOL! Ouch. But i do worry that people have turned off of her because they see her as a hipster now. Even i'm trying to ignore the visuals- they seem contrived to me- but only because the music rings so true.
I'm actually going to see her next month. Really excited to see her recreate this music live.
I feel very "shady" tonight. Probably I really ought to make me some dinner already. LOL
Maybe the budget for those vids are also making them look a bit contrived? They all look rather low budget productions.
That's awesome. It's a sad thing the chances she'll come to Brazil are like 0.
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What's Wrong with Most Data Centers?
New Brocade survey paints a grim picture of the current status of data centers, but it's not all doom and gloom...or is it?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted Jul 9, 2013
Ever-evolving scale, compliance, and security requirements make the modern data center a uniquely challenging environment. According to a new global data study of 1,750 IT decision makers, many data centers fail to meet these challenges, with network failure a commonplace occurrence.
Global Data Center Network Equipment Revenue Hits $2.3 Billion in 1Q13
Brocade Debuts On-Demand Network for the SDN Data Center
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Automating Network Operations for Greater Agility
Networking vendor Brocade commissioned the study, which third-party research firm Vanson Bourne carried out. One of the top-line findings in the study shows that 91 percent of decision makers indicated that their data centers require some type of upgrade. That's a startling number, but not necessarily a completely negative indicator.
"There is always room for improvements and upgrades," Jason Nolet, vice president of data center switching and routing at Brocade, told Enterprise Networking Planet. "While there was no specific indication as to what is missing, common challenges organizations encounter when upgrading infrastructure include: budget, specific requirements of end-users and lack of supporting evidence of new technology."
Modern data centers also need improvements to help prevent failures. A third of respondents reported numerous network failures every week. When network outages occur, they tend to last an average of 20 minutes. In terms of workloads that cause network failure issues, database applications lead the list at 41 percent, followed by communication tools at 30 percent and Microsoft Office programs at 25 percent.
As to the root causes of the failures, the answer is somewhat broad.
"The failures were likely indicative of a frail infrastructure," Nolet said.
In the modern data center, the trend is to move away from physical bare metal servers for application workload deployment to virtualized servers.
The Brocade-sponsored study found that less than half of servers (46 percent) in respondents' data centers are currently virtualized. The target for respondents is to hit 59 percent server virtualization by 2015.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) extends the basic concept behind server virtualization to networking. The Brocade study found that SDN is currently being implemented across 19 percent of the survey base.
As to why IT decision makers are considering moving to SDN, there are a number of perceived benefits. 42 percent of respondents indicated that SDN would lead to increased productivity, and 40 percent said it could lead to better access to real-time information. Improved uptime/availability was cited as a benefit by 38 percent of respondents. 30 percent identified increased service delivery as a benefit.
Moving forward, Nolet expects that if Brocade were to commission a similar study next year, there would be some changes.
"We would anticipate a higher adoption rate for new technologies such as NFV and SDN, an increase in fabric networks and a decrease in the amount of network failures," Nolet said.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at Enterprise Networking Planet and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
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Cisco Accelerates Wi-Fi With New Access Points and Catalyst 9600 Core Switch
Cisco announces its newest hardware, providing support for the Wi-Fi 6 standard.
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted May 6, 2019
The race to get Wi-Fi 6 hardware to market is continuing to accelerate, with Cisco announcing its entry into the emerging space.
Aruba Networks Announces Wi-Fi 6 Enabled Hardware
Top Networking Trends from CES 2019
Wi-Fi 6 was formerly known as the 802.11ax Wi-Fi standard and offers the promise of faster connectivity than the current 802.11ac standard that is already widely deployed by Cisco and other networking vendors. Among the benefits of Wi-Fi 6 are increased data rates, reduced latency, higher density and improved power efficiency over existing Wi-Fi access points.
"Every leap in connectivity enables the next wave of profound innovation. 5G and Wi-Fi 6 represent a new era of connectivity," David Goeckeler, EVP and General Manager, Networking and Security Business at Cisco said. "Developers are already creating the next generation of wireless-first, immersive experiences. With billions of things connecting to the network, this growth will create unprecedented complexity for IT."
Cisco's Wi-Fi Hardware
Cisco's new Wi-Fi 6 enabled hardware includes the Cisco Catalyst 9100 series and the Cisco Meraki MR 45/55 access points. Catalyst is Cisco's mainline of traditional hardware, while Meraki is the cloud managed product lineup.
Within the Cisco Catalyst 9100 portfolio, there are three APs, including the 9115, 9117 and 9210 devices. The 9115 is a 4x4 device with one 2.5 Gbps multigig wired ethernet port, while the 9117 is an 8x8 with one 5 Gbps multigig wired port. Both the 9115 and the 9117 are positioned by Cisco as being ideal for small to medium sized deployments.
In contrast the 9120 is a mission critical Wi-Fi 6 AP that integrates Cisco's RF ASIC chip which provides the next generation of CleanAir functionality. Cisco has been deploying its' CleanAir technology in APs since at least 2010, providing organizations with a capability to detect and route around wireless interference.
All of the new Catalyst APs also integrate the next generation Bluetooth 5 standard, which is important for enabling connectivity with certain types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
With Wi-Fi 6 there is a need for more backend switching capacity infrastructure, which is a need that Cisco is looking to meet with its new Catalyst 9600 series switches.
The Catalyst 9600 can support up to 25.6 Tbps of wired switching capacity in a single chassis. In terms of ports, the modular system can support up to 48 ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet and 192 25/10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The Catalyst 9600 plugs into Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) to enable a Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) approach for agile networking delivery.
"The new Catalyst 9600 modular core switch addresses the demands of Wi-Fi 6, mGig speeds, and security in a cloud-driven world," said Sachin Gupta Senior Vice President, Product Management at Cisco Enterprise Networking. "This switch will serve as a foundation for the next generation of multi-domain, Intent Based Networks, and will allow customers to create a wireless-first network built as a single fabric for wired and wireless."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
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Amsterdam’s ADE Festival is the largest international celebration of dance music in the world, bringing 450 unique events, 2,200 artists and a crowd of 350,000 fans to the ultra-cool Dutch city.
With a program featuring the hottest EDM acts, performing at 140 venues around Amsterdam over five-days, the festival shines a light across the whole spectrum of electronic sub-genres.
At this year’s event, ER Productions supplied its biggest ever dance music concert rig for the world-renowned DJ double act, Axwell and Ingrosso, at the Heineken Music Hall. Working with legendary Lighting Designer, Andy Hurst, the spectacular display of lasers was operated by ER’s Lawrence Wright.
Contributing to a performance at a key event during the festival gave ER Productions the chance to use the newly launched Cyclone to create stunning custom effects for the duo’s opening sequence. Rigged onto Kinesys motors and focused down onto the stage, the Cyclone appeared to teleport the DJs to their opening positions.
To create this stunning effect, the motorised Cyclone was lowered to floor level above the DJs, who were positioned beneath the stage out of audience view. Elevated gradually by stage lift, the Cyclone was synchronised to rise in time with the duo’s upward trajectory as if sucking them out of nowhere.
Axwell & Ingrosso at ADE Festival Amsterdam from ER Productions on Vimeo.
Another key component in the opening sequence was the sound design, which began with the building beat of helicopter blades. Interestingly, this was enhanced by the rhythmic rotation of ER’s Laserblades, which were cleverly rigged onto lighting trusses and timed in with the beat. Additional Laserblades were rigged around the stage creating a cage effect, which framed the highly visual production. It was an epic entrance to a show that delivered from beginning to end.
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Ryan Hagan, cofounder of ER Productions commented, “It’s always a pleasure to work on an Andy Hurst project. He thinks big and his creative executions challenge us as a company. Keen to try out our latest laser innovations, he implements them in ways that always surprise us. A great deal of planning went into this project to ensure that it went without a hitch and we sent our crew and kit out to Amsterdam early to maximise rehearsal time at the location. Of course, producing something on this level is not simple, but our dedicated crew are skilled at working through problems to achieve our clients’ vision.”
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Devonshire Corporate Finance advises on the sale of Hammer Consolidated Holdings Ltd to Exertis
Devonshire Corporate Finance Ltd (DCFL) advised the shareholders of Hammer Consolidated Holdings Ltd, a leading specialist distributor of server and storage solutions, on the sale of their business to DCC Technology, which trades as Exertis.
DCC Technology has agreed to acquire Hammer Consolidated Holdings Ltd, which in its financial year ended 31 January 2016, earned an operating profit of £6.3 million on revenue of £155.0 million. The transaction is conditional on competition clearance from the European Commission and is expected to complete by the end of the year. The consideration will be paid entirely in cash and is structured as an initial payment at completion, followed by earn-out payments over three years based on Hammer’s future trading results.
Based in Hampshire and employing 165 staff, Hammer distributes server and storage products for a broad range of leading suppliers including Dell, Intel, NetApp, Seagate and Western Digital. Hammer’s business is considered to be complementary to Exertis’ existing server and storage business, and will strengthen its supplier portfolio with the addition of almost 1,000 reseller customers.
Managing Director of Hammer Consolidated Holdings, James Ward comments: “Marc has worked with us 11 years, when he and the team supported our management buy-out. He has supported us in this process by offering advice and assistance every step of the way. Because of our longstanding relationship they really understood our ambitions and delivered them. We are delighted with the result and have no issues in recommending Marc and his team to others.”
Marc Fecher, Head of Devonshire Corporate Finance says, “I am delighted that I have been able to support the shareholders in achieving their objectives by leading on the sale process, including complex negotiations. Having forged a close relationship with James and his team 11 years ago when we assisted them to originally buy the business we were able to support their next step – successfully selling the business to a strategic buyer. Exertis have made an excellent acquisition of a strong business.”
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Studio Drift- Choreographing the Future
Lonneke Gordijn, one of the co-founders of the exhibition "the value of design", will come to Design Society to share with the public the stories behind their wonderful works.
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2F, the Sea World Culture and Arts Center丨Design Society
Lonneke Gordijn, one of the co-founders of "Studio Drift", will come to Design Society to share with the public the stories behind their wonderful works.
Fragile Future Chandelier, Studio Drift, 2011 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Over more than a decade of their existence, Studio Drift’s work in product and furniture design has evolved into increasingly larger, often site-specific and moving installations which they have realized all over the world. The works occupy a wholly unique place between disciplines such as tech art, performance, and biodesign.
Studio Drift addresses such timeless themes as the relationship between individual and collective and (the illusion of) freedom. Concurrently, their work invites us to reflect on the impact of technology on our society.
Fragile Future ©Studio Drift
The sculpture consists of three-dimensional bronze electrical circuits connected to light emitting dandelions. It contains real dandelion seeds, that were picked by hand, and glued seed by seed to LED lights. This labour-intensive process is a clear statement against mass production and throwaway culture.
Studio Drift proposes a vision of that future in her own signature aesthetics; a distinct mix between high-tech and poetic imagery in which light functions as a symbolic and emotional ingredient. Fragile Future III is about conveying emotion and at the same time refers to the fact that light lies at the basis of all life.
Shylight ©Studio Drift
Most man-made objects have a static form, while everything natural in this world including people, are subject to constant metamorphosis and adaptation to their surroundings. Shylight is the result of the question how an inanimate object can mimic those changes that express character and emotions?
After a research period of five years, Studio Drift found the final form to express their idea. Shylight has become an object that feels alive because of unpredictable, natural-looking movements: it descends to blossom in all its glorious beauty, to subsequently close and retreat upward again.
Flylight ©Studio Drift
While birds are the ultimate symbol of freedom, in a flock they move as one single entity creating mesmerizing patterns. This flock behaviour is an example of ‘self-organization’, meaning that no single bird leads the flight. Amazingly enough, each individual senses the speed and the direction of the group.
The work questions the delicate balance between the group and the individual. Just like birds, people find safety in a group, while at the same time they are forced to act according to a set of rules, on which society functions.
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Best of 2012: Greek peasant's faithful fatalism
Gillian Bouras
Nobody believes Greece has a winter, but in fact Greek winters can be very bleak. It snows in Athens and, in the palely sunny Peloponnese where I live a biting wind can blow, apparently straight from Siberia, for days straight. Greek villagers have a particular verb for such a wind: it harvests.
There are various kinds of harvests, and this past winter Maria, my friend and neighbour of 32 years, was gathered in, as my grandmothers would have said. As the villagers buried her, she would have been amused, I think, to see the priest wearing a scarf under his stole. Maria was 89, and had never lived anywhere else but here; she had made an occasional visit to Kalamata, 25km away, but had never been to Athens.
Maria was born at a bad time and into poverty, and did not have much luck in escaping it. It haunted her until the end: the traditional vigil was kept, unusually, in church, her tiny, bare house being quite inadequate for the reception of mourners. Automatically destined to be a village wife and mother, she received little education. But neither did she receive a dowry, and so she never married.
Instead, she devoted herself to her nephews, who are my children's third cousins, and was a constant and loving presence in my sons' lives as well. They came and went between her garden and their own, chattering away to Maria, and playing with her kittens, chickens and kids. When her nanny-goat butted four-year-old Alexander (he bears the scar in his eyebrow to this day) she was mortified, wringing her hands with guilt.
I bore my own burden of guilt with regard to Maria, and castigated myself regularly for my own discontents. My life, with its privileges, opportunities and comforts was, in a very real sense, a world away from Maria's.
Yet I never heard her complain, despite having so little: her pension, when she eventually got it, was minimal, and she used to earn a little bit of extra cash by selling her pieces of crochet to women who were too busy to make the d'oyleys and runners that their Domestic Goddess souls yearned for. She would sit outside with her cronies in the summer evenings, chatting and plying busily.
Women are the same the world over: we need conversations with other women, so Maria and I would often have what my mother used to call 'a good mag' over her garden gate. She had met my parents during their holidays here, and never forgot to ask after them: I think she regarded the ongoing saga of my father's second marriage as her own exotic soap opera.
She consoled me when another neighbour's chooks wrecked my vegetable garden, and told me how to make a pretty and delicious dish out of courgette flowers when the courgettes themselves had failed.
Unlike me, Maria was an unchallenged believer. She would call on the Panagia, All-Holy Mother of God, in time of trouble, and was always certain of receiving an answer. She was also, predictably enough, imbued with both fortitude and peasant fatalism, and would say, very regularly, Oti thelei o Theos: Whatever God wants.
This, while I, product of a very different tradition, would huff and puff inwardly and mutter that God helps those who help themselves. But part of me envied Maria her certainties. A big part.
Somehow we have to cope with loss; we have to change our shape, as it were, in order to accommodate it. But I will miss Maria greatly: now all I can do is flip through the snapshots of memory, and be thankful that she was in my life for so long, with her patience, humour, and the lessons she taught me, all unwittingly: incidental learning.
Now fruit trees are bursting with blossom, and wild jonquils and grape hyacinths are clumped along the banks and hedgerows. Maria loved flowers. The red hips are still on the rose that straggles along her garden wall, but already little shoots of new growth are appearing.
Later in the spring and for the summer the whole will be covered with a mass of pink blooms. I wish Maria could see them. But then ... perhaps she will. Perhaps.
Gillian Bouras is an Australian writer who has been based in Greece for 30 years. She has had nine books published. Her latest, Seeing and Believing, is appearing in instalments on her website.
Recent articles by Gillian Bouras.
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A contrast springs to mind...Stephen Hawkins 'proving' the non-existence of God on his TV program. At the end he said he was grateful for the life he had which I thought was rather beautiful if a bit blind to his ponderous certainities. I wondered to whom he was grateful.
Bernadette | 09 January 2013
Stephen Hawking on his program didn't prove the non-existance of God, but merely conluded it. It is interesting to ponder this question and wonder just what convinces athiests or thiests of their conclusions. It does not appear to have anything to do with a scientiffic understanding as some may be tempted to think, because all of this is often known alike to both thiests and athiests and yet we still have our John Polkinghorns and our Richard Dawkins's. It seems to be other factors that make the determination, maybe upbringing; perhaps child parential relationships with its wisdom or lack of, which may finally decide ones faith, as a thiest or an athiest, and I think that when all thinking is done and when reason does eventually run out, both thiesm and athiesm require a certain leap of faith.
John Whitehead | 09 January 2013
Maria must have been a very special person, thank you for sharing.
Wayne McMillan | 10 January 2013
Oh for the simple life! Rest in peace Maria! What will happen to her dear little house and garden?
Kerry and Jim Harley | 12 January 2013
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Maintaining the rage against WorkChoices
Tim Battin
One of the aims of governments introducing far-reaching change is obvious: to see new laws bedded down and survive long enough to gain widespread acceptance. Progressive governments, especially, hope for the public's approval because they realise that, from a progressive and democratic point of view, extensive support is the only game in town.
Governments attempting regressive change, on the other hand, quite often need only rely on seeking the approval of the loudest and most powerful. Even if this method should fail at the ballot box, it might achieve the bulk of its purpose if a new government, claiming to be progressive, acquiesces by leaving most of the unjust legislation in place.
The frustrating and worrying aspect of the industrial relations discourse in 2007 was how appallingly narrow it was. For the most part, discussion centred on AWAs, erosion of penalty rates, and the Coalition's removal of the no-disadvantage test.
These were important (and repugnant) aspects of WorkChoices, but they were not its driving force. The philosophical mainstay of the Coalition's attack was its comprehensive undermining of union collective action.
WorkChoices made Australia the world's only western democracy where employers faced a fine if they made agreements that allowed union officials into a work site. Similar provisions, such as union training, were to be prohibited content; in Howard's Australia, employees or unionists could be fined for even asking for such a provision.
These and innumerable, similar aspects of WorkChoices constitute the proper context from which an assessment should be made of any legislation claiming to repeal or ameliorate the Howard Government's IR laws.
As the name suggests, the new Government's Transition to Forward with Fairness Act, which commenced on 28 March, is a stop-gap framework designed to address some immediate problems about replacing AWAs with Individual Transitional Employment Agreements, reinstituting a no-disadvantage test, and covering outworkers with relevant awards. It would be unreasonable to expect a transitional act to contain all the sorts of measures citizens would want to see in a thorough overhaul of the Howard legislation.
Having said this, it is disappointing that some other changes were not made in the interim. It is difficult to see, for example, what delay or other problem would have been caused by abolishing the prohibited content section of the Act.
But more broadly there are some worrying signs that the Labor Government will interpret — or has already interpreted — the 2005-07 grass-roots campaign against WorkChoices, involving unions, churches, and community groups, in the most conservative light possible. The Rudd Government could even be described as bordering on indifferent towards the groundswell opposition to the Howard legislation.
One major voice of opposition outside the unions was the Catholic Church. Drawing on Catholic social teaching, church organisations were able to point to numerous ways in which the legislation offended Catholic social justice principles. To the extent that WorkChoices shifted bargaining power further to employers, prevented or thwarted workers' collective action, or removed the authority of the independent Commission, it was clear that Catholic social teaching was violated.
The specific means by which these affronts were achieved are too numerous to list here. It is perhaps more fruitful to focus on a fundamental objection to the way political debate has been conducted in the past two decades, especially but not exclusively pertaining to industrial relations. It is what might be termed the 'we-can't-go-back' argument, which is not an argument at all, but an assertion.
The so-called 'modernisation' agenda is a necessary fig leaf to cover what would otherwise be plain to see: changes that rely on facile jingoes such as 'moving forward' (with or without fairness), and where their intrinsic merit is not explained, are, prima facie, shifts of power to the already powerful.
Catholic social thought defies this fashion — not only in a straightforward sense of upholding specific principles such as the primacy of labour over capital, or that unions, far from being 'third parties' in the employment relationship, are the legitimate representatives of workers, but in a fundamental and general sense insofar as Catholic social thought is grounded in a rich tradition that does not blow with the latest wind.
It is noteworthy that, shortly before last year's election, the late Quadrant editor P. P. McGuiness — God rest his soul — was reduced to claiming that the only problem with Catholic social thought was that it was 'out of date'. He did not even bother to explain why what many Catholics regard as universal principles were now to be regarded as obsolete.
The current wind is still in a decidedly neoliberal direction, and in the public debate accompanying the next parliamentary bill on IR, proponents of Catholic social thought will have to remain vigilant about universal truths that need to be enunciated, explained, and defended.
Fall in union membership blamed on WorkChoices (ABC)
Tim Battin is senior lecturer in politics at the University of New England, and is author of Choice for Whom?, a critique of the Howard IR legislation from the viewpoint of Catholic social thought.
Recent articles by Tim Battin.
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Congratulations Tim, you are spot on target and do keep firing this particular broadside. Living in a developing country with a minimal tolerance of unions convinced me of their importance for the social welfare of workers. Middle aged to younger workers in Australia have no appreciation of how much unions have done to win the conditions they take for granted. Skilled workers can bargain for above award remuneration but individual agreements are a joke when it comes to the vast majority and it is the large corporations who are laughing. Responsible unionism is a right of all wage earners and should be encouraged by even a gentrified Labor government.
Bernard Cleary | 01 May 2008
Another splendid piece from Eureka Street. Thanks Tim Battin - it's sound, clear and strong. There is so much ground to recover after the distortions of public life introduced by Howard that it will need constant vigilance to ensure that pressure is kept on Rudd to respond adequately - in this field and in the area of indigenous issues too.
Joe Castley | 01 May 2008
Goodonya Tim, I love reading this kind of article and often wonder if the pertinent people ever see them. I hope you forward a copy to each of the members of Cabinet. Keep up the good work (fight?).
Kevin O'Loughlin | 01 May 2008
A key to Rudd's win was WorkChoices. Good he is being a realist and appreciates that most of WorkChoices is imperative if we are to avoid becoming uncompetitive internationally.
brian martin | 01 May 2008
Thanks for that, Tim Battin. I know little of Catholic social justice principles, but I always thought it self-evident that the benefits of the shared endeavour that occurs in any workplace should also be shared.
My understanding of history is that the Capitalists of the Industrial Revolution held to the view that the benefits would be shared among the owners of its Capital, with no portion for those on whose endeavours the enterprise profited. The development of Marxism was a necessary consequence of the Capitalists’ denial of the obvious.
That Marxism is an inferior economic model is neither here nor there, that some form of capitalism is a necessary expression of freedom in a free society is, to me, self-evident.
Marxism’s apologists agitated for industrial action to retard economic progress in democracies, apparently unaware that they were simply Stalin’s dupes. The HR Nicholls Society and its clones elsewhere in the world, however, are oblivious to this history; they simply seek to “restore the balance”; trouble is, their idea of a balanced social contract is that struck in England c.1820.
Had Messrs Howard et al. not introduced their so-called WorkChoices set of travesties, their goal of seeing unions decline to irrelevancy may well have come to pass. But they couldn’t help themselves ...
Whether, in Mr Rudd’s Australia, neo-liberalism is anything other than a return to 19th century remains to be seen.
David Arthur | 02 May 2008
Tim Battin's critique and its basis in Catholic social teaching has been supported by the electorate. I am just as concerned that WorkChoices appears to have been transplanted from US labour practices, with the previous Govt's full knowledge as to how labour is treated in that economy. The US labour system (sic) is certainly not what the Harvester decision had in mind for 'working families'.
Chris Cudmore | 05 May 2008
Labor’s new IR bill is pro business.
The ALP's Transition to Forward with Fairness Bill became law on March 28. Labor’s intention was never to change Australian industrial relations in favour of workers, but to reshape Howard’s notorious Work Choices into a new system that maintains the spirit of deregulation of the labour market and provides the utmost flexibility for bosses.
Contrary to government rhetoric and popular belief, the new bill always contained provisions that allowed statutory individual contracts (AWAs) to continue indefinitely under Labor’s new industrial relations regime. The current bill also fails to restore unfair dismissal provisions, leaving workers without protection.
Under Work Choices, a business with more than 100 employees can lawfully use "genuine operational reasons" to sack workers and rehire new staff for less money and worse conditions. Work Choices also took away workers’ rights to challenge unfair dismissal if their workplace employed less than 100 people. The federal government has ruled out reintroducing unfair dismissal laws until January 2010.
The ALP's 'award modernisation' concretely means having flexibility clauses inserted into EVERY EBA, which will guarantee employers to opt out of collective agreements and offer individual agreements.
Still no right to strike and no right of entry for unions. The more things change the more they stay the same...
Margarita Windisch | 05 May 2008
Well put Tim Battin.
We have had human principles eroded for 11 years. It continues to astound me that some politicians see recent key Liberal Party policies and Catholic social teaching as compatible.
No party is perfect and no politician agrees with all his/her party's thought but we are talking about serious key policies that ignore human dignity - supported (no - promoted) by Catholic politicians.
Work Choices is only one - an illegal and expensive war (discouraged by the Pope), the ignorance of innocent casualties in that war and rejection of Aboriginal pleas for fairness are others.
We have had our collective conscience suppressed for so long I hope that it can be revived. Rudd needs to be encouraged towards policies that respect human dignity.
Damian Cudmore | 06 May 2008
Tim: Thankyou for your thoughtful article and timely reminder that the worst aspects of Workchoices are yet to be dealt with. However, your words come as no surprise to those of us who've wondered for a long time now whether or not the "modernised" ALP, with its laughably hollow claim to still be a social democratic party, ought not instead stand for Alternative Liberal Party.
More to the point, your article brings two issues to mind:
1) It appears as though the new Federal Government is following the Howard Government's lead in inserting party political slogans into the titles of legislation. As if the Coalition's notorious "Workplace Relations (More Jobs, Better Pay) Bill" wasn't bad enough, this Bill's title (Forward with Faitness) is just risible.
2) The aspect of the Rudd legislation that hasn't been sufficiently commented on is its proposal to do what Howard longed to do but wasn't able: get rid of the independent umpire (the IRC) altogether, and replace it with a "one stop shop" IR instrumentality. Thus, in a single legislative stroke (okay, strokes), Australia's unique system of independent conciliation and arbitration, which has served employers and employees well for over a century, will be done to death. And replaced with what? A government instrumentality that can be likewise gotten rid of with the merest shifting of the political winds, thereby leaving us with Howard's ultimate dream: a completely decentralised, unregulated industrial sector...
Brendan Byrne | 08 May 2008
Tim is right in his overall analysis of what WorkChoices was trying to do - eliminate collective employee action at all levels from the ACTU-led National Wage case down to individual 'bargaining'.
However, there was a concerted effort to try to talk about the broader and more fundamental aspects of the legislation but it was an uphill task even in areas, including in the Catholic Church, where social conservatism has replaced catholic social teaching in a range of areas including employment laws. Other Churches were much more receptive in places.
This is a conversation which needs to developed quickly if Australia is not to lose its collective/social traditions completely.
Keith Harvey | 14 May 2008
I strongly resist the workplace agreement. It is a scandal that will long reverberate!
Theo Dopheide | 01 December 2008
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Say Hello to the 24th Annual Indie Prize Winners at Casual Connect Asia 2018!
November 14, 2018 — by Catherine Quinton
The games have been seen and played; the judging is now complete, and Casual Connect is happy to announce the winners of Indie Prize at Asia 2018. There is something for every taste and you are certain to find games you will enjoy playing.
The winner of Best Game Audio is Bushy Tail created by Fuero Games Sp. z o.o of Poland. This story-driven game, in which Little Fox searches for his lost parent, is told by three different children, who relate the story from their own perspectives as they process their own experiences, and, as a result, the story differs each time it is told.
Bushy Tail by Fuero Games (Poland) was awarded as the Best Game Audio at the 24th Indie Prize Awards during Casual Connect Asia 2018
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Magic was in the air on American Idol
Magic was in the air on American Idol tonight.
As Aerosmith frontman Tyler noted, the [night] 'was a magical mystery tour of over-the-top talent and emotion.'
Both were found in the dynamic between 21-year-old Phillip Phillips and guest mentor Stevie Nicks.
The Fleetwood Mac singer was so enamoured with the Georgia boy that she even said, had it been 1975, he would have been part of her band.
It was the highest form of praise anyone could receive from a musical legend on an evening where the Idols honoured their own Idols.
The smitten singer told Phillips: 'Had it been you, me and [fellow Fleetwood Mac singer Lindsay Buckingham] in 1975, Mick Fleetwood would have asked all three of us to be part of Fleetwood Mac. You're that good.'
Full Article: Daily Mail
Emotional Stevie Nicks Coaches McKinney's Cavanagh on Idol
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Music legend Stevie Nicks shared a tender moment with McKinney's Hollie Cavanagh this week on American Idol, and Hollie's emotions were still stirred during the show's live performance Wednesday night.
Hollie sang "Jesus Take the Wheel" by Carrie Underwood. And Nicks, a guest coach this week, pleaded with her during practice to better connect with the song. Nicks shared with Hollie that her mother just died two months ago, and Hollie's song, which tackles a heartbreaking family drama, needed to relate to those powerful emotions.
"It doesn't matter about your big voice," Nicks, fighting back tears, whispered to Hollie during her practice session. "It matters about your heart."
After 18-year-old Hollie sang her practice number, Nicks said, "When she sang I started to cry. I believe her, and I think the world will believe her."
Hollie said it meant a lot that her practice session turned personal with the iconic solo artist and former Fleetwood Mac lead singer.
But after the live performance Wednesday on Fox, the judges were mixed in their reviews.
"It's always dangerous taking on one of those songs from (past) Idol winners," judge Randy Jackson said. "We often say don't do that. But I think you really did a good job. ... I was impressed."
Judge Jennifer Lopez appeared to like it most: "I'm gonna have to disagree with Randy here, because to me that was one of your best," she said. "We've heard (Hollie) sing big notes, we've heard her be up in the stratosphere, but like Stevie said to her it matters about your heart. I felt she connected emotionally."
Finally, judge Steven Tyler liked it the least.
"I'm not gonna mess with Jesus or Carrie," Tyler said. "I heard her emotion and I felt it. I just wish you'd sing a different song. It was just OK for me."
During her post-performance interview with host Ryan Seacrest, Hollie said, "Every time I look back at that (tape of her practice session with Nicks) I get emotional. She was so amazing, and it just all took over my body at that time."
Nine contestants remain. One will be eliminated tonight at 7 p.m., according to America's lowest vote total, unless the judges use their save.
‘American Idol’ Recap: Stevie Nicks Drops by to Mentor Remaining Idols
Stevie Nicks told Colton Dixon not to let anyone tell him to cut his signature mohawk-style hair for the rest of the season. Colton was glad someone finally understood his connection to the hair, and hoped to get his musical style across by singing the Christian worship song “Everything” by Lifehouse. The performance featured a string section and continued Colton’s preference for making obscure song choices. Steven said Colton was “a dream come true” for an “Idol” judge. Jennifer was really moved by Colton’s delivery, and Randy said Colton had believability and could win the whole competition.
Skylar Laine is clearly influenced by Miranda Lambert, so it was no surprise she went with the country star’s fiery hit “Gunpowder and Lead.” Stevie Nicks actually sang backup for Skylar in the mentor session and told her to really deliver the story of the song. Jennifer said Skylar brought unbridled energy and thought it was a perfect song for her. Steven said it was “over the top,” and Randy loved that Skylar showed off her vocal range at the end.
The first trio of the night was made up of Colton, Elise Testone and Phillip Phillips. They paid tribute to this week’s mentor Stevie Nicks, singing her Fleetwood Mac classic “Landslide” before kicking it up a notch with the solo hit “Edge of Seventeen.” The medley ended with a reading of Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop.” Steven called the trio “most excellent.”
Full Article: ABC News
Posted by Nickslive at Thursday, March 29, 2012
This is why Stevie remain the reigning Rock and Roll Queen!!! We all love you Stevie! Keep on rocking!
Maury said...
The trio of Colton, Elise and Phillip could be their own band!
Much was made last night about how emotional the performances were - duh - it was Stevie Nicks - known for her very emotional songwriting and performances - I've seen many a concert or video of Stevie with tears while singing. Everyone of those judges should have known that, picked up on it, and mentioned it. Stevie brought out the emotions in these kids bringing them to a new level and making it in the words of the judges the "best Idol night" ever. Great job Stevie - this was an incredible night of performances.
Best mentor Idol has ever had. She really helped the contestants connect emotionally to the songs they were singing. A must! I always wondered what was lacking in today's music (besides the fact that it just sucks) if you don't connect emotionally to the song then you are just singing it and the audience will not have a connection with it either. I have always felt that Stevie sings her heart (and mine since I connect a lot with her lyrics) and the emotions she has always portrayed in her music and undeniable and magical when she is onstage.
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The Poetic Doors of Staiti in Calabria
To me, the old, weathered doors in Italy are a work of art in and of themselves. Their textures of aged wood, peeling paint and ancient, blacksmith forged hardware are wonderful subjects for my own photography.
But in the small mountainside village of Staiti in the Aspromonte National Park in Calabria there are doors that boast both colors and colorful words. They were painted by a Staitese artist, Teresa Gandini, with the help of local boys. Gandini is a well known artist in the area who usually paints local scenes of rustic architecture, gardens and floral settings. But in this case, not only her images, but also the words she paints on the doors are what transforms them doors into sheer architectural poetry.
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Curiously, there are still some very large sandcastle competitions all over Italy during the summer months... one of the most prestigious being on the lido in Jesolo, just east of Venice, another in the seaside town of Cervia near Ravenna, and yet one more in Alessio on the Italian Riviera west of Genoa. Another unexpected one is on Easy Living's Urban Beach on the banks of the Arno River in Florence, a hipster beach bar.
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Amazed at what they found--a bizarre portrait of a bearded Michelangelo, they began to come up with a reason for this horrific image...
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Michelangelo later accused Raphael of plagiarism and claimed "everything he knew about art he got from me." Michelangelo hated Raphael and spread nasty rumors about him. The two were bitter rivals to the end.
With this new discovery, art experts now theorize that Raphael hatched his plan to get back at him... to paint the most ugly and grotesque portrait of a bearded Michelangelo underneath one of his own masterpieces, the Veiled Woman, knowing full well that someday, somehow, in the distant future, art historians would uncover his monumental joke upon the Master... once and for all times, shaming Michelangelo (who was rumored to be gay) as a cross-dressing, bambolina-hugging monstrosity--even if the shaming occurred after they were both in their graves.
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NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 98
ANNUAL MUSIC REVIEW
So, last year I thought it would be interesting to review 'Now That's What I Call Music 95' and, far from encouraging me to keep my finger on the pulse of pop culture, it made me more determined than ever to avoid the dreadful, dreadful horse-shit that people seem happy to have sluiced directly into their stupid heads these days.
It was, without exception, the biggest load of bollocks I've ever heard in my entire life and it took me several months to get over it. It was like if someone had found a way to extract 'liquid Alzheimers' and have it melted down onto CD. It was like hearing 1000 dogs screaming and then opening your eyes to realise that you're underwater with your leg chained to a washing machine and you're being bummed by a cuttlefish. Actually it wasn't really that much like that.
In the first few weeks after listening to it I was essentially catatonic, staggering around parks drinking Kestrel Super Strength, only pausing every so often to vomit black blood into the undergrowth every time I recalled the song 'Do You Know Love?' by Olly Murrs.
After that I started to come to my senses and after a bit of exercise, rest and some time rebuilding my cognitive skills with the use of a new drug called 'Dr Apokalypses Gorilla Rampage Tonic' that I bought off my mate Jonty Panpipes, I started to feel a lot more like myself, but with more killings.
The other day I lost a game of 'wink at the van' against Cwis Packham and my mate Jason Hoofbite and they dared me to fucking do it again.
So here we go...
1 - CAMILO CABELLO, YOUNG THUG - Havana
It sounds like Rhianna learning to play piano in a church hall whilst a priest (with hiccups) hits an abacus with a badminton racket, and, to be fair, I think that's a pretty fair description of the entire music industry for the past decade.
As I recall, last year's 'Now...' compilation was bursting with so many faux-Carribean tropes, it was like having your bollocks held in a vice-like grip by Sebastian the crab from 'The Little Mermaid' whilst the cast of 'Cool Runnings' luzzed cans of Lilt at your fucking head from a coconut tree. With this song however, some clever dick has remembered that, though still in the Caribbean, Cuba has a unique musical style that's overdue being ripped off by some talentless, bland cunt in America. I'm now bracing myself for the possibility that I might have to listen to some warbling bender jabber over the top of someone playing an Antiguan Nose flute or something.
Fuck this.
2 - POST MALONE, 21 SAVAGE - Rockstar
Quite a lot of swearing in this which I hate.
Never heard of this cunt so I just Googled him. He looks ridiculous. He looks like a Jewish Rabbi who's accidentally got himself extremely addicted to all known drugs. At best he looks like an Amish simpleton who's been fired into Topshop with an enormous catapult.
The actual music is too boring to deserve a mention.
3 - SAM SMITH - Too Good At Goodbyes
Not good enough at goodbyes if anything. Must try harder.
Is this what the kids are listening to? Have they never heard of Pantera?
This is as tedious as an old cow. Whilst I was listening to it I started looking at one of my claws and thinking about how weird it would be if my claw was full of tiny little penises and then when I came round I realised I'd eaten my paw off and pushed it down a drain and all the ducks were laughing at me. That doesn't happen when you listen to 'Rock You Like A Hurricane' by Scorpions does it?
4 - P!NK - What About Us
It's like Europop. This sound should have consigned to the annals of history back in about 1995. It sounds a bit like the sort of music you'd expect to hear faintly pulsing out of a Lithuanian nightclub somewhere in the distance whilst you get buried alive on the side of a hill by a gang of sex traffickers in leather jackets.
I wonder if that was what P!nk was going for.
5 - DUA LIPA - New Rules
I just listened to this track about 4 times to see if I could find anything interesting to say about it. Like the last one it's basically a synth sound that was briefly popular about 20 years ago accompanied by some girl warbling over the top with the unwelcome addition of what sounds like a van reversing throughout the entire chorus. After about 4 listens I started to quite enjoy it which means that it must contain some sort of subliminal, hypnotic, algorithms that brainwash people into liking it because there is absolutely no way that it isn't 100% fucking crap.
6 ED SHEERAN - Galway Girl
It doesn't sound like all the other stuff so far, and that's to its credit. However it does sound like a B*Witched B-Side. As far as Irish music goes, this is the worst 'Irish Song' that's ever been written. It makes 'My Lovely Horse' sound like 'Fairytale of New York'.
7- CHARLIE PUTH - How Long
The album artwork is ridiculous. He's sat on a bed sort of looking like he's just had an argument with his keyboard and now the pair of them are just laying there sulking. If I was his keyboard I'd probably have called him a useless cunt as well. Don't know who he is but I his voice winds me up and I genuinely hope his head burts into flames. I genuinely mean that.
8 - CNCO, LITTLE MIX - Reggaeton Lento
It's like a really bad pop song that's been made worse by having Spanish guitars poured all over it like gravy made out of gonorrhoea It basically sounds like leather trousers, it's the audio equivalent of the concept of leather trousers. From what I can gather it's basically Little Mix taking it in turns to choose which pair of leather trousers to be rohypnoled by in a bar in Malaga that's got bras hanging from the ceiling. After I listened to this I started getting a little rash in the corner of my mouth,
9- J BAVLIN, WILLY WILLIAM - Mi Gente
There is no music in this one. It's just the looped sound of a gibbon that's had his fingers trapped in a Black and Decker Workmate with the two Spanish barmen from the club I mentioned above, talking bollocks over the top. It's properly unlistenable. I think someone should send it to Langley, Virginia, so that the C.I.A can use to extract intel from terrorists. If you played it to someone more than twice then they'd sing like a fucking canary. Probably a far more effective tool than extracting fingernails or attaching knackers to car batteries. I honestly reckon if you listened to this song four times in a row your head would just fucking burst like an egg in a microwave.
10- JUSTIN BEIBER, BLOODPOP - Friends
This song sets the bar pretty fucking low for drum technicality and sounds like someone monotonously firing a nail gun into a damp mattress from start to finish. The lyrics are so clunky they sound like they've been written by someone who's still in shock after crashing into the back of a van on a motorbike.
11 - ZAYN, SIA - Dusk till Dawn
Pretty much the same as the last song. Fucking boring. You might as well plug your headphones into a bag of crabs and listen to that instead. Once I got to the end of listening to this song I felt really dizzy and did a fart and blood came out.
12- DEMI LOVATO - Sorry Not Sorry
This song is so boring that if you started a rumour that it didn't exist then everyone, including Demi Lovato, would believe you after a couple of days.
13- STEFFLON DON - Hurtin' Me
Sort of a 90's, R&B thing with Caribbean vibes like all the other songs. The only way anyone could think this is good is if this was the first song ever. If she'd sort of invented the entire concept of singing over music then some people might consider this quite interesting but even then I think most people would think it was utter dogshit and should be a lot better than it even is.
14- LOUIS TOMLINSON, BEBE REXHA, DIGITAL FARM ANIMALS - Back to You
I don't know what a Digital Farm Animals is but it reminds me of the time my mate Yarnold Pentecost strapped about 40 digital watches to a cow's legs, all with the alarm set to go off every 10 or 15 minutes. The cow got so angry that after about 4 hours his head floated off into the sky and loads of tiny mice with parachutes on floated out of his anus.
I wasn't really listening to the song. It sounded less good than Crohn's disease.
15- KHALID - Young, dumb & broke
This is sort of a bit like reggae but made by someone who's never actually heard any reggae and only had it explained to them by a dog.
16- MAROON 5, SZA - What Lovers Do
Didn't these cunts used to be a real band about 20 years ago? I'm sure they were an absolute shit tornado back then as well but I'm sure they didn't used to sound like a 16 year old impersonating Just Bieber in their mum's bedroom.
These benders have obviously got about as much integrity as the girders that held up the twin towers.
I'd rather listen to 'Moves like Jagger' than this which is strange because 'Moves Like Jagger' did for music what Dr Harold Shipman did for people's trust in medical professionals.
If it was up to me I'd have Maroon 5 put directly onto the sex offenders register for this song.
17- JASON DERULO - If I'm Lucky
Couldn't lock onto this one long enough to have an opinion. It was like someone holding a hedge strimmer up to your head and asking you if you like the tune whilst it occasionally tears little chunks out of your lobes and sends bits of your ear flying across the room like bumblebees made out of pork. Boring and painful in equal measures. Like being constricted and devoured by a python that's telling you which roads it used to drive from Doncaster to Bishops Stortford.
The fact that someone bothered hiring a studio and going through all the rigmarole that it takes to record, produce and release a song for this is frankly mind bending.
18- CLEAN BANDIT - I Miss You
Don't know what's wrong with young people. It seems like the threat of being blasted in ribbons by an incendiary ball of nuclear light has taken its toll on their fucking world view. All the music's so slow and downbeat. They've got less energy than a AAA battery in a flood damaged Poundstretcher.
I think Marks and Spencer used on of these guy's songs one of their adverts for about 2 years. The only way M&S will be using this song in an advert is if they start selling trips to Dignitas.
19- ALMA - Chasing Highs
I've done 17 songs now and I'm starting to feel really poorly again. I wasn't concentrating and I just slit one of my hind legs open and started pushing snails into it and now my leg is sort of burning and also feels really cold at the same time. My Mate Sexy Chris just came over to ask why I'd been listening to so much tod for the last 3 hours and I made him sit through this song and he just started crying and then flew off and smashed into the side of a bus shelter and now he's just lying on the ground in a puddle with loads of sort of black treacle firing out of his tits. It's quite a scene. I might have to take a little break.
20- ZEDD, LIAM PAYNE - Get Low
We used to take the piss out of countries like Moldova and Former Yugoslavian Repulic of Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest because their pop music was just pumping electronic drums sampled from a gay sauna with some cheesy little cunt singing bobbins over the top. That's what Britain does now. That's the entire pop music output. I would say that sounding like an Eastern block country from 1993 might go some way to help the United Kingdom's Eurovision campaign, but after Brexit the Rolling Stones could enter and we'd still get fuck all so we might as well just feed a pig loads of Pop Tarts and Haribo Starmix and then walk it on stage and hold a microphone to its quivering, fluttering arsehole. Or we could submit this song which is only slightly less good than that but far less interesting to watch.
21- CHARLI XCX - Boys
This sounds like a woman having sex with Super Mario while magic coins fall out of her bum.
If you think of a good song, this is like the opposite of that.
22- RITA ORA - Anywhere
Can't stand doing this anymore. This one's causing by brain to bleed. It's so boring that I genuinely considered killing myself just to make it stop but then I remembered I can just press the 'off' button.
23- MARSHMELLO, KHALID - Silence
Got excited when I saw the song title was 'silence'. Was hoping it was going to be heavily influenced by John Cage's 1952 composition '4'33' in which the performers are instructed to just sit there and do nothing for four and a half minutes. I wish Marshmello and Khalid had been instructed to do that because that would have saved me from smashing my fist through a window and squeezing the blood into my ears so that I didn't have to hear it as much.
24- AVICCI, RITA ORA - Lonely Together
If someone had told me this song was written by a shoe then I'd have asked "What kind of shoe?"
At no point would I have actually doubted whether it had been written by a shoe or not
25- JAMES HYPE, KELLI-LEIGH - More Than Friends
This song apparently "samples" the song 'More Than Friends' by En Vogue. If sampling is just dragging a song into Garageband and playing it 50% faster then that shoe I just mentioned above could actually be as successful as David Guetta and get flown around the world in a fucking Learjet. Being a musician these days takes all the skill and musical dexterity of a dildo that's had a face crudely drawn onto the side of it with dog baff.
26- YUNGEN, YXNG - Bestie
If you own a keyboard with at least 2 working keys and know how to make that high-pitched warbling sound using autotune that's in every single song so far, then that's pretty much the equivalent of knowing what next week's lottery numbers are as far of making a quick buck in the music industry these days.
People keep talking about all the plastic waste at the moment, I reckon Casio and the others could definitely cut it down to two keys. Synthesizers might as well start looking more like a deer's hoof than a piano.
This song's fucking terrible by the way.
27- CHRIS BROWN - Questions
If you've ever broken into a hospital under cover of darkness, found the bins that hold all the medical waste awaiting incineration and clambered in and found a syringe and just gone mental and started injecting blood and drugs and soiled laundry and shimmering, yellowy fluids into your fucking head...then this is the song for you.
28- CRAIG DAVID -Heartline
Don't know who's responsible for letting Craig David back into the music industry but I suspect it was dark lord of the underworld, Satan. Craig David must have been gargling Satan's balls so deep they'd have been cooking in his stomach acid like a couple of boiled eggs in a saucepan.
This song's used the tune of children's favourite playground taunt and possibly most annoying song ever - 'I'm the king of the castle and you're a dirty rascal'. As far as 'musical influences' go it's hardly fucking Beethoven. Because of this it's absolutely unlistenable.
Right I can't handle doing Disk 2. I'm only going to do disk 2 by popular demand so fuck it.
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This result appears to contradict the conclusion that a hexahistidine tag fused at the amino terminus of Title Loaded From File opioid receptor decreased expression levels markedly in baculovirus-infected insect cells [32] due to the “positive inside rule” described for E.coli membrane proteins and GPCRs [33]. The so-called positive inside rule states thatFigure 5. Size exclusion chromatography of OPRM in Fos-12. Purification of OPRM was performed in analytical grade Superdex 200 HR 10/30 size exclusion chromatography. Peak 1 identifies the aggregation of OPRM. The underlined Peak 2 shows the monomeric form of OPRM. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056500.gcytoplasmic segments contain more positive charges than extracytoplasmic segments. This is also true for OPRM. It was also previously claimed that due to poor expression of OPRM with a C-terminal his-tag, E.coli may be not a suitable expression system for OPRM [14]. In the light of our results this conclusion appears to be overly generalising. In our case, the expression 15900046 level of the N-terminally his-tagged receptor could be obtained in yields of 0.3?.5 mg/liter of culture, which is the highest yield obtained for GPCRs from E.coli membrane ever reported. The obtained yield of purified OPRM is 0.17 mg/liter of culture, which corresponds to 30?0 of expressed OPRM. Several mild detergents were used for solubilisation of the receptor, only to find solubilisation efficiency was too low and none of them was able to extract sufficient amounts of receptor except Fos-12, probably due to poor membrane breakage and solubilisation for the target protein. Further investigation of the optimal detergent e.g. Fos-14 may allow increasing the yield:expression ratio even further. The detergent Fos-14 has been reported previou.Ains, C41 (DE3) and C43 (DE3), in over-expressing toxic and membrane proteins has been previously demonstrated. The strain C43 (DE3) was derived from C41 (DE3) by selecting for resistance to a different toxic protein [31]. Compared with the other E.coli strains RP and RIL, the C41 and C43 strains were observed to yield more membrane mass per cell mass. This finding may explain one of the reasons whyFigure 3. Solubilisation of OPRM with detergents. A, solubilisation with urea or detergents. B, solubilisation with urea and laurylsarcosine. T -total membrane fraction, S -solubilised membrane fraction, P -pellet after solubilisation. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056500.gOPRM from E. coliFigure 4. Purification of OPRM from C43 in Fos-12. A, Purification of OPRM solubilised with Fos-12 by Ni-NTA. T -total membrane fraction, S solubilised membrane fraction, FT -flowthrough. W ?wash fractions (25 mM imidazole), E ?elution fractions (300 mM imidazole). The arrow denotes the monomeric OPRM. B, SEC -purified OPRM after size exclusion chromatography. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056500.gOverExpressTM C41 (DE3) and C43 (DE3), have been found to be superior for over-expressing toxic and membrane proteins. The over-expression of OPRM was largely tolerated by C43 with the conditions of 0.4 mM IPTG at 18uC for 8?2 h. Preferential membrane-insertion of OPRM instead of formation of inclusion bodies may be due to the larger mass of membrane in these strains. The membrane insertion of the protein represented first evidence that a correctly folded and stable OPRM was obtained. Interestingly, in contrast to the N-terminally tagged OPRM the expression of C-terminal decahis-tag OPRM in C43 gave only a poor expression level of the protein. This result appears to contradict the conclusion that a hexahistidine tag fused at the amino terminus of opioid receptor decreased expression levels markedly in baculovirus-infected insect cells [32] due to the “positive inside rule” described for E.coli membrane proteins and GPCRs [33]. The so-called positive inside rule states thatFigure 5. Size exclusion chromatography of OPRM in Fos-12. Purification of OPRM was performed in analytical grade Superdex 200 HR 10/30 size exclusion chromatography. Peak 1 identifies the aggregation of OPRM. The underlined Peak 2 shows the monomeric form of OPRM. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056500.gcytoplasmic segments contain more positive charges than extracytoplasmic segments. This is also true for OPRM. It was also previously claimed that due to poor expression of OPRM with a C-terminal his-tag, E.coli may be not a suitable expression system for OPRM [14]. In the light of our results this conclusion appears to be overly generalising. In our case, the expression 15900046 level of the N-terminally his-tagged receptor could be obtained in yields of 0.3?.5 mg/liter of culture, which is the highest yield obtained for GPCRs from E.coli membrane ever reported. The obtained yield of purified OPRM is 0.17 mg/liter of culture, which corresponds to 30?0 of expressed OPRM. Several mild detergents were used for solubilisation of the receptor, only to find solubilisation efficiency was too low and none of them was able to extract sufficient amounts of receptor except Fos-12, probably due to poor membrane breakage and solubilisation for the target protein. Further investigation of the optimal detergent e.g. Fos-14 may allow increasing the yield:expression ratio even further. The detergent Fos-14 has been reported previou.
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John Menegon
OLOGON MUSIC GROUP (MUSIC for FILM)
Basso Profundo Blog
Picture description: upright and honest
By Stefan Pieper
According to John Menegon, bassist and bandleader born in Canada but currently living in New York, the blues is neither a dogma nor a defined genre. On his new record Blew By Blues the style of playing isn’t continuous because the influences and cultural imprinting of Menegon’s chosen home are way too colorful. Ultimately, only the personal message from deep within counts.
John Menegon descended from Montreal’s Jazz scene and feels at home in New York since the 1980ies. Among his Canadian companions was guitarist Sonny Greenwich and saxophonist Pat LaBarbera. In New York, Jack DeJohnette, Paul Bley and especially Dewey Redman were leading him in his music career. While being the bass player in Redman’s band for a long time John Menegon was merited as a teacher, too conducting as well classes and workshops as initiating the online course “History of Jazz and Rock”.
All these activities are mirrored in his musical wealth of experience which is indisputable on his current album Blew By Blues. Menegon is a very genuine and unsophisticated musician, there have been neither vain gimmicks for the production nor the need for pretentious project ideas or concepts. His way of music is to compose with his whole soul and be present to the fullest while playing. In this regard, he and his band members have a lot to say – and this always emerges from their inner self’s. For this, an extremely agile, enthusiastically practised combo jazz is the ideal medium.
As the name refers, the title song has the blues – but the basic mood is deduced to an ageless, swinging, modal piece of jazz. Menegon’s bass play comes along strongly grounded and appears like a reliable, elastic transmission belt. Wonderfully clear, brilliant and in long breathing routes Joel Frahm hooks up on his tenor and soprano saxophone. Wide awake and with cunning syncopes pianist Frank Kimbrough inserts himself who shares the art of omission with percussionist Steve Williams.
Such virtues continue in the other eight tracks. Do not think that the album carries on with a straight-ahead jazz style. This would underestimate Menegon’s potential which is inspired by sounds and emotions since well-played jazz can be compared to a sponge absorbing everything. In respect thereof, the band acts wonderfully intuitive. This is expressed within the impressionistic song “First Touch”. A delicate piano play breathes into a soft crescendo – then vocals mix into, which extend to a sensitive spherical choir without distinctive words. After the intro follows a bold harmony change, then the curtain rises for something new: a bossa-figure picks up speed. Throbbing rim shots on Steve Williams’ drums supply the advance for piano interventions and saxophone improvisations. Clever arrangements conjure a propulsive hearing pleasure. It continues with the classically sung ballad “Hymn for Charlie”, which was dedicated to one of Menegon’s idols, Charlie Haden.
All the more contemporary is “Lonely Heartache”: smooth vocal soul flows into a rap passage. Or should we describe it as the aesthetic of spoken words? – which never falls into the trap of chumming up to modern pop music. It is apparent from the related video that the piece is focused on the passionate plea to never stop striving for the good and humanness in our fleeting world with all its contradictions. John Menegon refers to a quote from Charlie Haden, who demanded this from upright and honest musicians. Blazing fires at protest marches are shown, later the view of the camera lingers on a symbolic signpost somewhere in the US which informs about a protective shelter in case of weather catastrophes. The sign is a symbol for safety and comfort of a protective community – friends, other musicians or simply people who still can be emphatic.
A vibrant, Afro-Cuban number stretches over to eventual Brazilian bossa-rhythms and propels the glorious and effortless musicality of a band which is still considered as an insider tip in this country.
Current album:
John Menegon Quartet East: Blew By Blues
Menegon’s release “I Remember You” (Inner Circle Music) received a four-star review in Downbeat (April 2014): "Canadian-bred John Menegon is in the line of George Mraz and Michael Moore; a harmonically sophisticated bassist with technical facility who swings hard when it’s called for."
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal with Dewey Redman, Pat Metheny, Matt Wilson: MENEGON met the demands of the music with a combination of relaxed swing and more outward-looking freedom. His solos were the perfect confluence of rhythmic invention and melodic conception. John Kelman, AllAboutJazz-New York
SOUL ADVICE is a group whose objective is to play original music with the emphasis on playing free form compositions as well as exploring the method of odd meters. Compositions are based on traditional technique, such as canons and fugues. Free Bop is a term created by composers/musicians Dewey Redman and Ornette Coleman, whose influence in the avant garde has given us the direction for this exploration. The musicians are John Menegon (bass), John Gunther (reeds), John DiMartino (piano), Mark Dziuba (guitar), Tani Tabbal (drums & percussion).
A fine carpet of swing laid by bassist John Menegon sets the jump-blues feel on Menegon’s tune Bu Bop Bass just right on David Fathead Newman’s latest CD Cityscape #1 on JazzWeek Charts! Andrew Rowan, AllAboutJazz-New York
Menegon’s appropriately named BOO BOP BASS opener on Soul Advice is akin to stepping into a welcoming room on a frigid winter night. Andrew Vélez AllAboutJazz-New York
SEARCH LIGHT John Menegon’s Search Light is not only witty, atmospheric, and thoroughly engaging from one end to the other, it demonstrates the frequent error of perceiving the role of the bass too narrowly. The bass is so often thought of as the engine room of jazz ensembles, providing the rhythmic pulse and harmonic core, that many people find it hard to think of it doing much else. On Search Light, John Menegon shows, without self-indulgence, that the bass can define the character of an ensemble as clearly and fully as any other instrument. The entire project has a surefootedness, a quiet, elegant, muscularity that radiates from Mr. Menegon’s own playing, and that is immediately apparent and compelling. This quiet, engaging setting is ideal for the harmonically adventurous, rhythmically textured, original compositions, played here with innovative instrumentation, notably the voice, bass and flute trio that states the melody on the title track “Search Light” and the bass and saxophone treatment of the melody in “Last Chance,” a clever, distinctive homage to bop. Mr. Menegon is often introduced as “Dewey Redman’s bassist,” and although that’s certainly an association to be proud of, Search Light ought to start people thinking of Mr. Menegon, in his own right, as the master bassist and composer that this recording demonstrates him to be. The band is made up entirely of accomplished players, the best known being, in fact, saxophonist Dewey Redman, who is, once again, brilliant, and wonderful. Contributions are made throughout by drummer Mark McLean, drummer and percussionist Tani Tabbal, guitarist Mark Dziuba, saxophonist and flautist, John Gunther, and on two selections, vocalist Teri Roiger. Steven Robinson, All About Jazz
SEARCH LIGHT: John Menegon’s release Search Light is a powerful example of what happens when the leader of a group is holding a bass. Everything stays funky. Whether it is a slinky down-tempo ballad groove or a straight-up swing, this CD kept me dancing – this is not always the case with jazz. Maybe, it’s simple: keeping the bass nice and high in the mix, or augmenting the rhythm section with two excellent drummers, Tani Tabbal and Mark McLean. Basically, I think it comes down to this: when you have a strong well-rounded bassist like John Menegon composing, arranging, and laying down the serious low-end vibes, the music naturally flows out and around and back again seeking its root. This CD debuts nine of Menegon’s original compositions, which is another refreshing element in this release. It is, of course, essential to know your musical history inside and out. It is a very special thing when you come out of the womb and release your own material to inspire your peers and future listeners alike. John is capable of this and this is certainly owing to his accompanying many legends of jazz. He plays with the groups of renowned tenor saxophonists David “Fathead” Newman and Dewey Redman (who is featured on Search Light). He also released Misterioso with the great Jack DeJohnette on drums, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Teri Roiger on vocals. As I mentioned before, Dewey Redman (tenor sax) is featured on four tracks (my favorite is track one, “Back Road Shuffle,” a deliciously funky romp) and his deep history in jazz certainly adds a distinctive flavor to the mix. The rest of the group consists of John Gunther (sax/flute), Mark Dziuba filling out the rhythm section on guitar, and the etheric Teri Roiger on vocals. The two tracks featuring Roiger – “Search Light” and “Sacred Ground” – are sublime and dreamlike. “Search Light” has no words and starts with John calling the melody on bass, which is then echoed by Roiger and the guitarist Dziuba. This is a brilliant release full of rich composition and arrangement. Without actually scoring the music for you in this review, the most important thing I can say is, go buy it, and let John Menegon’s Search Light brighten your soul. John Trent, Chronogram
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 9 (July 8, 2005) AllAboutJazz-New York By John Kelman Metheny’s final By Invitation performance at the small Gesu Theatre — although not his final performance in Montreal this year, as he brings his Pat Metheny Group to the outdoor GM Stage for the final show of their The Way Up tour on Sunday — again took the opportunity to reunite him with a couple of friends that have held a special place for him. First up was a 45-minute set with a man who Metheny introduced as truly one of the most under-appreciated artists in jazz, saxophonist Dewey Redman. Redman, who was seminal in so many groups, including Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet of the early ‘70s, was a key player on Metheny’s own first foray into a more open-ended approach to improvisation, 80/81. And so, with Redman’s own rhythm section of bassist John Menegon and drummer Matt Wilson, Metheny tried to recreate some of the material from that album, including the title track, the beautiful ballad, “The Bat” and the Ornette Coleman piece, “Turnaround.” Redman may be walking a little slowly these days, but when he puts the saxophone to his lips, the tone and broad conception are still there — something he’ll explore tomorrow night when his own quartet takes the staqe at Gesu. His phrasing is sometimes so relaxed that it feels like it might almost fall over, yet it never does. And Metheny, most notably in the theme to “Turnaround,” demonstrated that same kind of behind-the-beat phrasing. When things got a little freer, as they did during “80/81,” Redman demonstrated his ability to extract a number of unique textures from his tenor, including his trademark technique of singing through his horn. A highlight was “The Bat,” which demonstrated Redman’s highly personal conception of lyricism. Always seeming to be just on the edge of something more outré, Redman’s tone and ability to gently push-and-pull with Metheny’s accompaniment proved that once a connection is made between two players, it’s never lost — even with the passage of significant time. Wilson, a leader in his own right and a significant member of a specific New York scene that includes his own group, Arts and Crafts, as well as the Herbie Nichols Project, meshed perfectly — not exactly surprising, but given the little rehearsal the quartet had, his simpatico playing with Metheny, which was rarely overt but more underlying, was immediate. Menegon, also, met the demands of the music with a combination of relaxed swing and more outward-looking freedom. His solos were the perfect confluence of rhythmic invention and melodic conception. Like most of Metheny’s shows this week — with the exception of the marathon Special Encounters performance — the 80/81 Revisited half of the show was over all-too-quickly. The entire group demonstrated that it’s one thing to play free, but it’s another entirely to do so with a strong sense of purpose. Some free players appear to be just pushing air; this group was always heading somewhere.
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The wide-open architecture that is Jazz at Kitano played host to echoes of the Jet Age and the sounds were utterly classic (Jan. 12th). These days, George Shearing is sadly overlooked, though 2019 marks his centenary; in his time, the pianist held international celebrity. His decidedly clean, modern jazz tightly arranged with vibraphone/piano/guitar lead eludes today’s rapid-fire attention span, so bassist John Menegon’s tribute was a refreshing antidote. In a set comprising repertoire of the Shearing Quintet, or similar Menegon originals, the ensemble offered airy versions of “Hallelujah”, “Oh Look at Me Now”, “Born to Be Blue”, “The Nearness of You” and “Lullaby of Birdland”. Propelled by the crisp, prodigious drumming of Yoron Israel (who softly took the music well beyond that of forbearer Denzil Best), the band’s time-warp featured solos by thrilling pianist John DiMartino and the leader. But up front was vibraphonist Steve Nelson, an alumnus of Shearing’s ‘80s band. His brilliant shimmer and dead-on melodic command allowed for a dose of nostalgia, but his forwardlooking approach has always recalled Bobby Hutcherson rather than Margie Hyams or Emil Richards, present during the mid-century glory days. A highlight was “Basso Profundo”, composed for Shearing by then-bassist John Levy: Menegon’s melodic line and masterful improv, as well as the band’s unison stop-time sections—a Shearing hallmark—made for a stunning performance. (JP) John Pietaro
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Reportage: Jobs lost at salvage yards after police tender contracts out
Breakage yards in Calderdale have been struggling since West Yorkshire Police awarded salvaging contracts to a South Yorkshire company.
The disposal of broken and abandoned vehicles in the district was put out to tender by West Yorkshire Police and awarded to Doncaster Motor Spares Limited which trades under the name Motorhog.
As a consequence, Holmfield Autos, Halifax, had to lay off 70 per cent of its workforce.
Andrew Rothery, left, director of Holmfield Autos with Conservative parliamentary candidate Philip Allott.
“It’s impacted a lot of people all round this area,” said Gavin Rothery, manager director at Holmfield Autos.
“I used to spend most of my week driving between Halifax, Bradford, Keighley and Leeds to pick up vehicle.
“We’ve gone from doing 50 cars a week to less than five.”
Before tendering, the salvaging and recovery of vehicles was conducted by local independent companies who would all be given work.
Bob Lech, owner of Fairlee breakers yard, Luddendenfoot, said: “It’s ridiculous what they’ve done to us. It’s bad because they’re taking business away from the area.”
Parliamentary candidate Philip Allott criticised West Yorkshire Police’s handling of the tendering process, he said: “No West Yorkshire company benefited from the tendering - the police should be supporting their local economy.”
Director of business services at West Yorkshire Police, John Prentice, said: “An open tender was conducted in 2011 in accordance with European regulations, with adverts being placed in the Official Journal of the European Union and on the Bluelight Emergency Services eTendering site.
“Under the open tender process, local firms were provided with the opportunity to bid for this contract; with four suppliers within the force area, two in South Yorkshire and one in North Yorkshire doing so.
“The tender process covered the suppliers’ abilities to demonstrate that they met our specification and requirements, resulting in the contract being awarded to a supplier outside the force area.
“Ideally the force would wish to keep business in West Yorkshire. However, it is imperative that value for money is demonstrated.”
This article was published in the Halifax Courier March 28, 2014.
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The history of dental radiology in Turkey
Emin Murat Canger1, Peruze Çelenk2
1 Erciyes University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Kayseri, Turkey
2 Ondokuz Mayis University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Samsun, Turkey
Date of Web Publication 7-Feb-2014
Emin Murat Canger
Erciyes University Faculty of Dentistry Department of Maxillofacial Radiology, Kayseri
Reflections of the invention of W.C. Roentgen reached Turkey in a very short period of time. In the field of medicine, Captain Dr. Esat Feyzi and Captain Dr. Rifat Osman were the first who utilized X-rays in Turkey. Just after the invention of X-rays, the first intraoral radiograms were obtained by Otto Walkhoff and Wilhelm Koenig in Germany and by Frank Harrison in England. The first dental radiology department in Turkey was founded in the Istanbul Darülfünunu Dişçi Mektebi (Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry) in 1927. Also, dental radiology education started at that time. The first book about radiology was written in 1928, which also was contained information about dental radiology. The first dentist whose profession was radiology was Galip Abdi Rona in Turkey. Rona also presented a paper and made radiology presentations in the first Turkish dental congress between 1 and 5 November 1932. In the beginning of the 1980s, radiology became an independent dental department. Today, in Turkey, there are about 45 dentistry faculties who have radiology departments. A lot of state-of-the-art devices are used not only in faculties but also in private clinics.
Keywords: Dentistry, history, radiology, Turkey
Canger EM, Çelenk P. The history of dental radiology in Turkey. J Oral Maxillofac Radiol 2013;1:94-8
Canger EM, Çelenk P. The history of dental radiology in Turkey. J Oral Maxillofac Radiol [serial online] 2013 [cited 2019 Jul 17];1:94-8. Available from: http://www.joomr.org/text.asp?2013/1/3/94/126677
X-rays were applied in dentistry for the first time only a few months after their discovery in 1895. In this article, on the 118 th anniversary of the introduction of X-rays into medicine, we give an account of the history of dental radiology in Turkey.
The discovery of X-rays is one of the most revolutionary events in the history of medicine, and the honor of this discovery belongs to Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. [1],[2],[3]
Two weeks after Roentgen's discovery, Otto Walkhoff obtained the first intraoral radiogram with an exposure time of 25 min. One month later, Wilhelm Koenig obtained 14 radiograms from his own teeth using an exposure time of 9 min/tooth [Figure 1]a and b. [1],[2] In the United States, the first radiograms were obtained by Edmund C. Kells in the early spring of 1896. [1],[3],[4] In England, utilization of X-rays was concurrent with Germany. Frank Harrison was the first dentist who used radiology in England. Harrison published the first article about the adverse effects of radiation in July 1896. Also, William H. Rollins was among the first to warn about the adverse effects of radiation. [1],[2]
Figure 1: The first dental radiograms obtained in Germany by Otto Walkhoff (a) and Wilhelm Koenig (b)
The first commercial dental radiographic apparatus was introduced in 1905 in Germany. Howard R. Raper introduced radiology into dental training in 1909 and wrote the first text book about dentistry in 1913. [1],[2],[3],[4]
Beginning and the Development of Dental Radiology in Turkey
Word of Roentgen's discovery reached Turkey in a very short period, and numerous articles on X-rays were published even in daily newspapers. Physicians and photographers were among the first to be interested in X-rays and tried to produce the new rays. [4]
In the field of medicine, Esat Feyzi and Rifat Osman were the first who utilized X-rays in Turkey [Figure 2]a and b. On 29 January 1896, they obtained the first radiogram in Turkey, a hand radiogram of one of their friends. They also used radiograms during the Ottoman-Greek war in 1897, which was declared as the first employment of radiograms during a war [Figure 3]. [4],[5],[6]
Figure 2: The pioneers of Turkish radiology. Dr. Esat Feyzi Bey (1874– 1901) (a) and Dr. Rifat Osman Bey (1874-1933) (b)
Figure 3: The hand radiogram of a Turkish soldier obtained by Esat Feyzi Bey and Rifat Osman Bey. This was the fi rst utilization of radiograms at war
In Turkey, the first school of dentistry was founded in 1908. In January 1924, dentist Hasan Hayri Bey and his colleagues presented a report to the Ministry of Health that contained a proposal for the development of dentistry and a dental school in Turkey. One part of the proposal advocated the use of dental radiography equipment in dental schools. [7],[8]
After the approval of this plan, the first dental radiology department was founded in the Turkey Istanbul Darülfünunu Dişçi Mektebi (Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry). For the 1927/1928 academic year, under the directive of manager Prof. Server Hilmi, Hüseyin Talat Bey (instructor of dental pharmacology, anesthesia and dental treatment) was appointed as the director of the said department, which functioned as a radiology clinic for 5 years. [7],[8]
Thus, in Turkey, radiology education started in 1927. A radiologist, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Selahattin Erk, was chosen as the first radiology professor of this medical school to teach the newly established radiology course. His first assistant was dentist Ali Fehim. Erk continued to teach radiology in both medical and dental schools until the university reform of 1933. After 1934, he was only employed in the school of dentistry. By the end of the 1930s, dental radiology became popular in private clinics in Turkey [Figure 4]. [7],[8]
Figure 4: A Turkish dental clinic containing radiographic equipment (indicated with black arrow). This clinic was in Afghanistan and was established by the Turkish government at the beginning of the 1930s
In 1928, a book entitled "Tababet ve Dişçilikte Ziya Tedavisi" (X-ray Therapy in Dentistry and Medicine) by Kazim Bey was published. Although this was the first book written in Turkish about radiology, it caused criticism because it contained only a small section (10 of 214 pages) about dentistry. Also, the first article about dental radiology was written in 1928 [Figure 5]. [10]
Figure 5: An article about radiology published in the Magazine of Association of Dentist in 1928
Between 1 and 5 November 1932, the first Turkish dental congress was held in Istanbul. Among the members of the organizing committee was dentist Galip Abdi Rona, who would later play a very important role in Turkish dental radiology. This congress was a very important event in the history of Turkish dental radiology. On the third day of the congress, Galip Abdi Rona presented a paper entitled "Definition of Radiographic Plates in Dental Radiology." He also made radiographic demonstrations on the last day of the congress. Furthermore, Sait Tevfik Bey, a dentist who joined the congress from Edirne, proposed a plan at the congress to grant private dentists' access to radiography equipment available at government hospitals. [8],[10],[11],[12]
After the Turkish university reform, the dental school in Istanbul was divided into four departments, of which one was the Department of Physicotherapy and Radiology. The duration of training at the school was 4 years (eight semesters), and radiology was taught during the third year (semesters 5 and 6). However, the independence of this department did not last long. Alfred Kantorowicz, who was appointed as a teaching instructor during the 1933 reform, refused this situation and a radiology course was incorporated into the curriculum of the Department of Restorative Treatment. [8],[9]
In 1934, dentist Galip Abdi Rona was appointed as the assistant of Mehmet Selahattin Erk, who voluntarily departed from the school after 2 years. After Erk's departure, Rona was appointed as chief assistant and continued to manage the clinic until his resignation in 1943. In addition to his duties at the school, Galip Abdi Rona founded a radiology unit in his own clinic in 1937 and assisted other dentists. Moreover, he worked as the general secretary of a magazine published by the Association of Turkish Dentists and wrote numerous articles about radiology for this magazine. He also made oral presentations at conferences of the association. Rona made valuable contributions to Turkish dental radiology [Figure 6]. [13],[14],[15],[16]
Figure 6: Dr. Galip Abdi Rona during obtaining a radiogram in the radiology department of Dişçi Mektebi (School of Dentistry)
A few years later, when the radiology unit was merged with the Department of Restorative Dentistry, Galip Abdi Rona began to question the advancement of his career in radiology. Still, he continued his work at the school until 1943. Subsequently, he resigned and transferred to the State Maritime Enterprises to establish a new dental department. Later on, the clinic was run by technicians. [8],[9],[17],[18],[19]
Treatment records provide an insight into the performance of a radiology clinic. The records of the winter semester of 1937-1938 revealed that a total of 3596 intraoral and extraoral radiograms had been obtained at this school. Considering the conditions of the period (technical facilities, life style, population, etc.), this number is not low. [8] In 1937, dentists were required by law to register the radiography equipment present in their clinics to the Ministry of Health. This interesting fact shows that radiology had begun to gain popularity in dentistry. [20]
Suat İsmail Gürkan was appointed as the director of the radiology department after its unification with the Department of Restorative Dentistry in 1934. He continued to lead the department until 1970. Besides teaching radiology, Gürkan wrote several books in dentistry. One of them, entitled "Dental Radiology," was published in 1951 and happened to be the first book on radiology written in Latin alphabet in the Turkish language. In 1970, Gürkan assigned Gündüz Bayırlı to teach radiology. Bayırlı then wrote the second scientific book about dental radiology in Turkey. This book, entitled "X- rays and its application in Dentistry," appeared in 1977. [8],[17],[21]
In 1975, as a result of the efforts by Gazanfer Zembilci, the then Dean of the department, a radiology service with the capacity to obtain panoramic radiographs was established in Turkey for the first time. [21]
It will be informative to give information about the development of dental radiology education. The history of education is outlined in [Table 1].
Table 1: Analysis of the education period of dental radiology in Turkey[22-26]
Today, with about 40 dentistry faculties that have a radiology department, the state of radiology at both technological and scientific levels in Turkey is contemporaneous. State-of-the-art devices (direct and indirect radiographical systems, phosphor storage plates, cone-beam tomography, etc.) are utilized not only in faculties but also in private clinics.
Exploration of X-rays is one of the greatest revolutions in medicine. Although the use of X-rays in medicine was adopted in Turkey after 1 or 2 years of their discovery, the acceptance of the value of X-rays in dentistry was considerably slower. However, after dedicated efforts by several dentists, radiology became established in dental institutions in Turkey. Today, Turkish dental radiology is concordant with international standards, and dental education is provided according to the guidelines established under the ERASMUS program.
However, to the best of our knowledge, our article is the first one in its field and includes beneficial information, which draws the attention of young dental radiologists, dentists and historians in the history of their career (not only in Turkey but also in other countries). We dedicate this article to the memory of Dr. Esat Feyzi, Dr. Rifat Osman and dentist Galip Abdi Rona.[26]
Figure References
Figure 1: (a and b) Glenner RA. 80 years of dental radiology. J Am Dent Assoc. 1975;90(3):549-63.
Figure 2: The next centenary from the archives of dental radiology. Dentomaxillofac Radiol 1996;25(1):1-4
Figures 3a, 4 and 5: Pırnar T, Dicle O. Yüz Yıllık Yolculuk. Başlangıcından Günümüze Türk Radyolojisi. İstanbul:5G Matbaacılık; 1995.
Figure 3: (b) Kazancıgil R. Dr. Rifat Osman'ın Öğrencilik ve Gülhane Anıları (1879-1921). Ankara: GATA Basımevi; 1998.
Figure 6: Author's private archive.
Figure 7: Diştabipleri Cemiyeti Mecmuası (Magazine of Association of Dentist) 1928.
Figure 8: Diş Tababeti 1936 yılı albümü. Istanbul Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi yayını. İstanbul 1936.
1. Eisenberg RL. Radiology: An illustrated history. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book Inc; 1996. p. 380-8.
2. Frommer HH. The history of dental radiology. Tex Dent J 2002;119:416-21.
3. Langland OE, Langlais RP. Early pioneers of oral and maxillofacial radiology. Oral Med Oral Surg Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 1995;80:496-511.
4. Ring ME, Dentistry. An illustrated history. New York: Abradale Press; 1993. p. 272-3, 306-7.
5. Ulman YI , Livadas G, Yildirim N. The pioneering steps of radiology in Turkey (1896-1923). Eur J Radiol 2005;55:306-10.
6. Özden AM, Ünver AS. Ölümünün 45inci yýldönümünde ilk röntgencimiz Esat Feyzi. Ýstanbul: T.C. Ýstanbul Üniversitesi Týb Tarihi Enstitüsü; 1946. p. 2-9. (A book written about the first Turkish radiographer in the history, Esat Feyzi).
7. Anonymous. Türk Diþ Tabipleri Cemiyeti albümü. Ýstanbul: Hüsnütabiat Basýmevi; 1946. p. 50-3, p. 58-62. (An albume of the Turkish Association of Dentists. Has no writer).
8. Efeoðlu A. Diþ hekimliði tarihi. Ýstanbul: Yüce Reklam/Yayým/Daðýtým A.Þ,; 1992. p. 119-32. (A book on the history of Turkish Dentistry).
9. Gürkan SÝ. Diþhekimliði röntgen bilgisi. Ýstanbul: Diþhekimliði Alemi Mecmuasý yayýný; 1951. p. 4-6. (An education book of dental radiology).
10. Anonymous. Diþtabipleri Cemiyeti Mecmuasý. 1929;40:28-30. (No writer. Magazine of Association of Dentist) (A critisim letter delivered to the magazine).
11. Anonymous. Diþtabipleri Cemiyeti Mecmuasý. 1933;53:4-15. (No writer. Magazine of Association of Dentist) (Reports of the 1st National Dentistry Congress).
12. Rona GA. Diþtababetinde Radiografi Plaklarýnýn Ýzahý. 1. Milli Diþtababeti Kongresi Bildiri Kitabý. Ýstanbul; 1932. p. 25-52. (A paper published in the 1st National Dentistry Congress proceeding book about the definition of radiographic plates in dental radiology).
13. Erkan M. Türk Diþ hekimliði bibliyografyasý 1909-1972. Ýstanbul: Erol matbabacýlýk; 1973. p. 90-1. (Bibliography of Turkish Dentistry 1909-1972).
14. Anonymous. Diþtabipleri Cemiyeti Mecmuasý. 1934;57-58:62-7. (No writer. News bulletin. Magazine of Association of Dentist).
15. Anonymous. Diþtabipleri Cemiyeti Mecmuasý. 1937;76:28,29. (No writer. News bulletin. Magazine of Association of Dentist).
16. Anonymous. T. Odontoloji Bülteni. 1937;1:208. (No writer name. News bulletin. Turkish Odontology Bulletin).
17. Erden F, Türk hekimleri biyografisi. Ýstanbul: Cituri Biraderler Basýmevi; 1948. p. 89-90. (A book of biography of Turkish medical doctors).
18. Anonymous. Diþtabipleri Cemiyeti Mecmuasý. 1937;74:26. (No writer. News bulletin. Magazine of Association of Dentist).
21. Bayýrlý G. Röntgen Iþýnlarý ve Diþ Hekimliðinde Uygulamalar. Ýstanbul: Ýstanbul Üniversitesi Yayýnlarý; 1994. p. 1-2. (A education book on the x-rays and it's applications in dentistry).
22. Diþ Tababeti. 1936 Yýlý Albümü. Ýstanbul: Istanbul Üniversitesi Týp Fakültesi yayýný;1936 (Albume of the graduates of the education year 1936).
23. T.C. Istanbul Darülfünunu Talebe Rehberi, 1928-1929 Seneyi Dersiyesi. Ýstanbul: Ýstanbul Darülfünunu yayýný; 1928. p. 290-3. (Istanbul University Student Handbook of 1928-1929 training year).
25. Alper R. Meslek haberleri. Odonto-Stomatoloji Bülteni. 1962;8:13. (A news bulletin about dentistry in the Journal of Odonto-Stomatology).
26. Uzluk FN. Ankara'da diþ hekimliði yüksekokulu açýlýrken. Ankara Üniversitesi Týp Fakültesi Diþ Hekimliði Yüksek Okulu Bülteni 1966;1:5-10. (An article published in the bulletin of Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Academy of Dentistry about the establishment of Academy of Dentistry in Ankara).
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The Check-In: IRONMAN Welcomes Three New Events
Races in Thailand and USA launched, Ryf wins award, Kessler's performance of the week, race recaps and more news from the world of IRONMAN.
The Check-In is present by Foster Grant
Wilmington, North Carolina to Host Two New IRONMAN Events
IRONMAN announced this week the acquisition of multiple events from the YMCA of Wilmington, Inc. IRONMAN will now own and operate the events previously known as PPD Beach2Battleship Full Distance triathlon and the PPD Beach2Battleship Half Distance triathlon. Rebranded as PPD IRONMAN North Carolina presented by New Hanover Regional Medical Center and PPD IRONMAN 70.3 North Carolina presented by New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the newest IRONMAN events on the calendar will both take place on Saturday, October 22, 2016. Registration for the races will open on December 18, 2015. In addition, IRONMAN will also offer the New Hanover Regional Medical Center IRONKIDS event during race week.
"PPD Beach2Battleship has been an incredibly successful independent event since its inaugural race in 2008. Recognized as one of the Top Long Distance Triathlons by Triathlete Magazine in 2010, we feel privileged to have the PPD Beach2Battleship team and events join the IRONMAN family," said Andrew Messick, Chief Executive Officer of IRONMAN. "The acquisition of these races furthers our commitment to the Southeastern U.S. and we look forward to growing these two great events."
Thailand Returns to the IRONMAN Family
IRONMAN announced today the addition of a new IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon in the burgeoning market of Thailand, which is scheduled to take place in the beautiful city of Phuket on November 27, 2016. The Philippines-based company Sunrise Events and the Thailand-based company SportMaster will team up to deliver IRONMAN 70.3 Thailand.
"This race is further evidence of the growing interest in and development of IRONMAN throughout the region," said IRONMAN Asia-Pacific CEO Geoff Meyer. "Thailand has had a long history with IRONMAN and it’s fantastic that we are back again in Phuket with an IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon. An improved course and development in Phuket will allow us to grow the event beyond what we could in 2012 and we look forward to a great future in Thailand."
Phuket, one of the world’s premier holiday destinations, is famous for its crystal clear waters, pristine white beaches and stunning natural scenery—as well as its variety of attractions and entertainment.
Performance of the Week: Meredith Kessler
Meredith Kessler finished off the year with another win on New Zealand soil. The American started 2015 with a win at IRONMAN New Zealand and bookend her season with a victory last weekend at the IRONMAN 70.3 Taupo.
The title did not come easy for Kessler as she was challenged throughout the day on both the bike and the run. "With Amelia (Watkinson) only about 40 seconds back at the final turnaround on the run, it was imperative that my legs started to sprint, ASAP," Kessler explained.
Kessler laid down the race best swim and recorded solid bike and run splits on her way to the title at the inaugural event and was quick to acknowledged the strong field of women that line up on the starting line."The field included such talent – with rising star - young buck, Amelia Watkinson running like the wind and the very hard working and worthy Laura Siddall storming through the field especially on the bike," said Kessler. "Let’s not forget the legendary Sam Warriner who put her mark on such an inspiring and memorable career in the sport of triathlon."
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What We Read This Week
Risen from the ashes of injury frustration is a fitter, leaner and stripped-back Beau Waters, typically charging head-first into the elite world of IRONMAN triathlons. Waters, 29, whose last of 12 AFL seasons ended before it even started when he succumbed to a shoulder injury in February, is turning heads inside WA’s triathlon community after breaking the 10-hour barrier in his IRONMAN debut at Busselton last weekend. - AU News Yahoo
Triathlon in Gibraltar has hit the headlines in local sport for over a decade and the Rock possesses an impressive trophy cabinet on the international stage. Chris Walker has a long list of triathlon medals to his name since arriving to Gibraltar 22 years ago, initially as a rugby player. – Gibraltar Chronicle
Jackpot! Another Prize Explosion For The 7th Annual Rappstar Charity Challenge: Two weeks ago, we experienced a stellar Giving Tuesday, bringing in over $9,000 on a day when World Bicycle Relief raised over $150,000 funding 1,087 bicycles into the field in 24hrs, shattering last year's mark. Through the match that goes through the end of this year (and the end of this fundraiser), every dollar donated is doubled, making the impact even greater. Since that big day, donations have continued to trickle in, but I'm hoping with the announcement of some more special donations, we can turn the giving tap back on full blast. - Slowtwitch
Many triathletes and swimmer battle shoulder pain at some point in their training. Here are some exercises from Shane Neimeyer are designed specifically to address your shoulder and rotator cuff so you can stay healthy and keep adding up the yard. - Training Peaks
Tweet of the Week
Die Sportlerin des Jahres heisst @danielaryf — Credit Suisse Sports December 13, 2015
Daniela Ryf excepting the Credit Suisse 2015 Swiss Sportswoman of the Year award.
Races in Review
IRONMAN 70.3 Taupo
Kessler at Home, Currie Hot at Taupo: A champion prevailed while a newcomer made his mark on a misty day in Taupo.
Top 5 Pro Men
1 Currie, Braden NZL 0:24:34 2:08:29 1:14:42 3:51:48
2 Millward, Callum NZL 0:24:38 2:08:17 1:15:17 3:52:38
3 Mcneice, Dylan NZL 0:23:43 2:09:00 1:20:28 3:57:48
4 O'grady, Graham NZL 0:23:51 2:09:13 1:25:47 4:03:15
5 Allan, Dougal NZL 0:29:14 2:11:30 1:18:27 4:03:36
Top 5 Pro Women
1 Kessler, Meredith USA 0:25:57 2:23:31 1:22:51 4:17:31
2 Watkinson, Amelia NZL 0:27:05 2:24:47 1:21:28 4:18:12
3 Siddall, Laura GBR 0:30:03 2:21:51 1:22:49 4:19:32
4 Warriner, Sam NZL 0:27:52 2:22:46 1:30:36 4:25:49
5 Stewart, Tineke NZL 0:30:08 2:28:27 1:32:20 4:35:30
IRONMAN 70.3 Ballart
Pellow, Luxford Strike Gold in Ballarat: A rookie win and a back-to-back champion celebrated in the final Asia-Pacific race of 2015.
1 Pellow, Matthew AUS 0:22:35 2:08:58 1:18:10 3:51:21
2 Bittner, Per DEU 0:23:55 2:08:00 1:21:18 3:55:16
3 Baldwin, Nicholas SEY 0:24:03 2:07:40 1:21:52 3:56:13
4 Wauer, Brad AUS 0:24:00 2:12:22 1:18:49 3:57:25
5 Munro, Casey AUS 0:22:34 2:10:21 1:23:24 3:58:19
1 Luxford, Annabel AUS 0:25:14 2:19:07 1:24:12 4:10:46
2 Van Vlerken, Yvonne NED 0:27:53 2:18:58 1:26:15 4:15:15
3 Pedley, Kate AUS 0:28:28 2:25:58 1:21:36 4:18:12
4 Gerdes, Beth AUS 0:28:42 2:23:28 1:25:31 4:20:31
5 Mitchell, Jessica AUS 0:28:45 2:24:33 1:28:23 4:24:37
IRONMAN Announces Professional Field Structure Change for Two IRONMAN European Races
IRONMAN announced this week a professional race structure change to two 2016 IRONMAN European events – IRONMAN Kalmar Sweden on August 20, 2016 and KMD IRONMAN Copenhagen on August 21, 2016. IRONMAN will split the female and male professional fields at these two races – with the female pros racing in Kalmar and the male pros racing in Copenhagen. IRONMAN Sweden to feature female professionals, and IRONMAN Copenhagen to feature male professionals.
The changes are being made as an effort to provide two of Europe’s most popular IRONMAN races with professional fields that highlight our female and male athletes independently, in a year where scheduling has put these events on the same weekend. Total money for both events will remain the same at $50,000 USD.
"By having a split pro-field between KMD IRONMAN Copenhagen and IRONMAN Kalmar we are providing the athletes in each event a unique race experience while also providing fans a great race to watch. Copenhagen is eager to welcome the best male professional athletes for the 2016 KMD IRONMAN Copenhagen," said Thomas Veje Olsen, Managing Director of IRONMAN Denmark.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for the female pro field to shine in an unparalleled way. IRONMAN Kalmar will feature an extremely strong field. It will be the sporting highlight of Scandinavia next summer and we look forward to welcoming the female professional athletes on August 20," added Christian Kirchberger, Managing Director of IRONMAN Sweden.
Instagram of the Week
#Repost @whywetri ・・・ For most of us, it isn't about the podium. It's about overcoming ourselves. It's about winning a war against the fear and doubt, and becoming the best version of who we were meant to be. #whywetri #committotri #womenfortri @madetotriumph
A photo posted by IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) on Dec 16, 2015 at 11:27am PST
Thomas Dieckhoff to Depart IRONMAN After Successful Tenure
IRONMAN announced that Thomas Dieckhoff will be leaving the company as of January 1, 2016 after a successful three years as Chief Executive Officer of IRONMAN Europe, Middle East & Africa.
''I would like to thank all of my colleagues at IRONMAN for their great support during the last three years. Together we succeeded in driving business results and the image of IRONMAN in EMEA to new horizons. The brand and the IRONMAN EMEA organization are now efficiently established to continue their success as part of the Wanda Group as they help even more athletes enjoy the unique experiences that IRONMAN races offer," said Dieckhoff.
"We thank Thomas for his years of service. EMEA has experienced incredible growth under his has leadership and we wish him all the best in his future," said Andrew Messick, Chief Executive Officer of IRONMAN.
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"Heart-breaking … For a man in such raw, intense pain, Harding writes with incredible precision … Kadian Harding’s 14 years shine brilliantly from its pages … Thomas Harding has been generous in sharing his boy with me and I am grateful he found words." - - Daily Telegraph
"This book is raw and heart-breaking but it is never intrusive or gratuitous. The writing is real and spare, the love so very deep that the reader can scarcely look away … A beautiful tribute." - - Sunday Express
"A memoir, a threnody and a love song" - - The Times
"Stunning. The most moving book I've read." - - Ian Austin MP
"Harding's remarkable memoir is written with transparent emotional intelligence. It makes one understand how it was for a father to lose a boy unique in his eyes and loved by everyone who knew him: Kadian." - - Kate Kellaway Observer
"This is the very best account of a parent’s bereavement I have ever read, a powerfully immediate and clear-eyed record of a devastating experience. It is also a love story, true and deep – offering film-like clips of the joys of parenthood, and of the agony when it abruptly ends." - - Julia Samuel, Founder and Patron of Child Bereavement UK
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In July 2012 Thomas Harding’s fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Kadian Journal is a diary that Thomas started in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Beginning on the day of Kadian’s death, and continuing to the year anniversary, and beyond, it is a record of grief in its rawest form, and of a mind in shock and questioning a strange new reality. Interspersed within the journal are fragments of memory: jewel-bright everyday moments that slowly combine to form a biography of a lost son, and a lost life.
It is an extraordinary document, and several things at once: a description of a family dislocated by sorrow, a forensic examination of a catastrophe, and above all else, an attempt to recover Kadian, in some way.
In the tradition of Joan Didion’s A Year of Magical Thinking, C. S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed and Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave, Thomas Harding’s Kadian Journal is a lucid, raw, and startlingly brave book: a powerful and moving account of a father’s grief, and a beautiful tribute to an exceptional son.
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Finn and Kadian jump around Shepherdstown in reverse.
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In DPR Korea, UNDP implements three projects in four provinces (North Pyongan, South Pyongan, North Hangwae, South Hwangwae ) to reduce people's vulnerability and strengthen the resilience of communities in remote and underserved areas. Emergency response and early recovery activities are also implemented on an ad hoc basis, e.g. in support to flood most affected people in North Hamgyong province in 2016 and 2017. The programme's delivery target is USD 4.6 million in 2018.
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Strengthening the Resilience of Communities through Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM):
The project’s objective is to enhance vulnerable communities’ resilience to natural hazards. Through CBDRM approaches, the project supports social resilience, whereby people can identify and anticipate risks, plan and act collectively, and can marshal their individual capabilities to overcome threats and shocks. The effects of disasters when they occur can further be lessened through preparedness and recovery efforts that can also leave communities more resilient.
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Hate is a very strong word. At least that’s what my mother tried hammering into my head for years. That didn’t make me banish the word from my vocabulary–sometimes you really don’t like something. I’ll never be able to soften my stance on women substituting tights for pants or people who insist on walking up-and-down the left sides of staircases (those who stand on the left side of escalators instead of walking are right up there).
I’ve said that I hate brunch. That’s not really true. The whole ritual is kind of gross and not my thing, but it does make drinking before noon seem respectable and I can appreciate that. And since blizzards negate all normal self-imposed rules I felt ok with myself for seeking out the short rib hash down the street that I’d read about in Metromix’s Top Dishes of 2009 (my contribution to the list was Aldea’s arroz con pato).
But not before I ordered their classic bloody mary, a chunky, spicy (horseradish?) beverage in a tumbler with a pickle spear. Brunch comes with a mimosa, bellini or sparkling wine. I opted for the peachy cocktail towards the end of my meal because I don’t see them that often (probably because I don’t eat brunch). Who orders a bellini? That same night, I slogged through the not-that-engaging Elegy and Ben Kingsley ordered pre-dinner bellinis for Penelope Cruz and himself. I think it was supposed to be the choice of an older sophisticated man. That’s me all right.
The short rib hash is really a smart burst of decadence, not the greasy, heavy, starch-laden fare I often gravitate towards when dining out for my first meal of the day. Rich fatty meat, tiny cubes of potatoes and runny yolks are perfect with simple triangles of toast (the salt could’ve been toned down a notch, though). Hey, there’s even a little lettuce for extra class. In fact it was so well portioned that if there is to be a next time I’ll also order a short stack of pancakes or coffee cake. Savory demands sweet.
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Review of Book: ‘Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few’ by Carl Finamore
Forthcoming ‘Z’ Magazine, June 1, 2012
By Carl Finamore
Apparently, economics is one of the most popular electives in Ivy League schools. Admittedly, it can be a difficult and confusing subject. Particularly, it appears, for undergraduates from these very elite colleges.
According to a survey in the Wall Street Journal published a couple of years ago, most of them walk away from their brief classroom introduction with blind faith in an unfettered and unregulated market economy.
Perhaps this explains Harvard graduate Barack Obama’s June 2008 comment to cable business channel CNBC that “I’m a pro-growth, free market guy. I love the market.�?
Maybe they’re all reading the same books. I have another recommendation.
It comes fresh off reading economic professor Dr. Jack Rasmus’ latest book published by Pluto Press – Obama’s Economy – Recovery for the Few. In refreshingly clear descriptive language, Rasmus presents a devastating indictment of the last four years of utterly failed government policies and their underlying false precepts.
No cheerleading for the private sector cabal of banks and corporations here. Why should there be? Outside of Ivy League classrooms, what exactly has blind faith in the market accomplished?
Look no further than the very apropos book title - recovery for the few.
Rasmus cites 2011 business journal reports that “corporations have a higher share of cash on their balance sheets than at any time in half a century…rather than invest[ing] in new plants or hiring.�?
Banks are no different. The author explains that banks are sitting on “$1.7 trillion in excess cash�? which they refuse to extend for mortgage relief or as credit for small businesses.�?
The author breaks down how banks received low interest and, in some cases, zero interest bailout funds of nine trillion dollars, without any obligation or intention to help out millions of working people facing foreclosures.
It may also shock readers to learn that insurance policies reimburse bank mortgage losses at higher, pre-crash market rates. And, Rasmus reveals how quasi government mortgage agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae extend exactly the same favor to their banker friends.
This is a far better deal than renegotiating lower principle and interest payments with desperately “underwater�? homeowners.
Free Market is Free Money for the Rich
And, just when you think it can’t get worse, other chapters disclose one of the most unscrupulous policy scandals of any recovery program. Banks were actually urged to park their zero interest or ridiculously low 0.25 per cent interest bailout funds with the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) where they were paid more millions in interest for doing nothing.
Corporations are no better. Rasmus describes how they are sitting on a huge stash of $2 trillion, much of it resulting from government tax cuts.
This money is being invested in more profitable overseas markets or is being used to buy up their company stock, a move that inflates the stock value and, thus, increases dividend payments to fortunate shareholders.
Neither of these extremely profitable ventures produced jobs in this country.
Therefore, Rasmus concludes, rather than just simply arguing for more government spending as some liberal economists do, it’s far more important to challenge how the money is being spent, something economists call the composition of expenditures.
In other words, who receives bailout funds and what do they do with it.
I asked the author to further explain how he differs from other progressive economists. “My other difference with liberal economists,�? Rasmus replied, “is that if corporations are hoarding their tax cuts and squeezing profits from labor the past four years, then government should and must tax them and create jobs directly itself.
“The market created the crisis and you cannot rely on the market to resolve it. Government must directly create jobs, and to do so without raising deficits there must be a radical restructuring of the U.S. tax system.�?
To illustrate his point that Obama’s exclusive reliance on the private sector has been a complete disaster, Rasmus produces ample evidence that this is the most “lop-sided�? recovery of the post WW II era.
For example, while the majority is suffering significant loss of spending power from the deep recession, he explains in the book how stock and bond investors have achieved extremely high returns and how corporate profits have snapped back “to record highs not seen in decades.�?
Rasmus targets Obama’s policy for these cockeyed results and for producing other ruinous consequences - not increasing employment, not halting foreclosures and not ensuring sustained state and local government revenue. As only one example mentioned by Rasmus, upward revisions of the current low tax rates for the wealthy and for corporations could alone offset most government deficits.
Three Strikes and We are Out!
Other chapters thoroughly delve into Obama’s three-pronged recovery program of tax cuts, temporary subsidies to states and local governments and cash handouts to the private sector.
In fact, the author believes these government policies have generated another downturn in job losses and foreclosures.
As Rasmus points out, “there has never been a recovery of the economy from recession since 1947 without a sustained recovery of jobs, without the housing sector leading the recovery, and without state-local government increased spending on jobs and services.�?
The government has completely failed to provide direct funding to solve these chronic problems – no funding to the 25 million unemployed for a massive, government-sponsored jobs program as was done during the Great Depression and no direct funding to some sixteen million “underwater�? homeowners facing foreclosures now at around levels of 200,000 month.
Rasmus examines in depth how Obama and congress provided billions of dollars to banks without any obligation to renegotiate home loans and provided billions to corporations without any obligation to create new jobs.
This quick read of 177 pages is really a nice companion piece to Rasmus’ earlier 2010 work, Epic Recession, Prelude to Global Depression. But here Rasmus focuses his critical review less on theory and more on policy, examining decisions that have deepened the crisis and burdened further the overwhelming majority of people by favoring banks, corporations and the very wealthy.
As the author concisely summarizes: “So long as current economic recovery policies focus on more tax cuts for business and investors, on more subsidies for corporations, more free trade, more deregulation, and more deficit cutting for the rest of us—there will be no sustained recovery.�?
What do we do Now?
Before becoming a trained economist, Rasmus served several stints as a union representative and organizer. He brings that knowledge and experience to his current profession. The last chapter in the book contains a full social and economic program that, in his view, will result in a dramatic reversal of the serious downward trends he predicts will only worsen, perhaps to the point of a global depression just a few years ahead of us.
His proposals are quite thoughtful. They include immediate relief to homeowners and the unemployed along with long-term structural reforms.
For example, it is quite interesting to review his detailed proposals fundamentally restructuring the tax system and a similar overhauling of the banking and retirement systems that in the longer run, Rasmus explained to me “ will shift income back to the middle and working classes and expunge their debt burden. Without these changes more ‘2008-like’ crashes are in our future, just as they are unfolding today in Europe.�?
In every case, his initiatives contain revenue sources that, predictably, do indeed place the burden on banks, corporations and the wealthy. But, for example, he suggests increasing corporate tax rates that return to 1980 levels. These are still far lower than business tax rates of the 1950s.
In this sense, Rasmus frames his program as realistic appeals to the majority of people. That is, while they do indeed require struggle against the entrenched interests of the one percent, the suggested reforms are also capable of being considered both reasonable and necessary by millions who today believe the rich should be taxed more.
I strongly recommend this very readable primer for those interested in understanding more thoroughly how economic policy affects us, how it has been shaped by the upper crust and how new radical reforms can earnestly get the attention of the majority whose support and action are so desperately needed to shape a new reality.
Carl Finamore first met then-CWA Business Agent Jack Rasmus some thirty years ago when Rasmus was leading a militant strike in Oakland, California. Finamore is a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO. He can be reached at local1781@yahoo.com and his writings viewed on http://carlfinamore.wordpress.com/
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Statement #03 | Alfredo Barsuglia — SPRACHEIST
Performance, January 10, 2019, 7 pm
Performers, Alfredo Barsuglia and Jasmin Hoffer
Sprache ist S. P.
Rache!
Ists.
Prr. Ach! E! Ist, sprach E!
Isst.
Language is an arbitrary system. And since the structure and use of language and its vocabulary are based on a social consensus, these conventions can also be overturned to facilitate reflection on language. In the performance SPRACHEIST, Alfredo Barsuglia dissects language to the point where it becomes meaningless. Going beyond conventional interpersonal communication, in which two or more speakers interact with each other according to a given but variable pattern in order to achieve mutual coherence, the artist concentrates self-reflexively on language itself.
The words “Sprache” (language) and “ist” (is) are broken down into their constituent parts, syllable by syllable, letter by letter, and then recombined in order to lend them new meaning. From an onomatopoeic speech act consisting of the decomposition, repetition, and variation of the sentence “Sprache ist” – a sentence that opens up in many interpretative directions – the artist develops a “language sculpture” to which sound material is added and removed in a modular manner. Alongside this speech act, which is carried out by a performer, the artist also manipulates an object in the exhibition space, a wooden box that serves simultaneously as pedestal, seat, and display board, and whose elements Barsuglia relates to each other in different ways. Like the sentence fragment “Sprache ist,” the function of this sculptural element is thus also put up for discussion and only activated through human interaction, i.e., through use.
Alfredo Barsuglia’s artistic practice revolves around examining the social conditions shaping human co-existence. With SPRACHEIST he tries to get to the bottom of one of the most fundamental human traits: language and speech. The choreographic elaboration of this performance for Kunstraum Lakeside relates linguistic to Dadaist methods of deconstructing language while constructing elements of a singular body language and art language.
Alfredo Barsuglia (b. 1980 in Austria) lives and works in Vienna.
www.alfredobarsuglia.com
Alfredo Barsuglia, SPRACHEIST, 2018
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Saudi Arabia has completed the demolition of al-Musawara neighborhood in the Shia town of Awamiyah, says a local official.
According to Eastern Province’s secretariat on Tuesday, the demolition of the neighborhood has been fully completed in preparation for the commencement of removal work.
Local reports claim that some 60 bulldozers were engaged in the operations.
Since May, Riyadh has imposed a deadly crackdown on Awamiyah -- the hometown of late prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, whose execution by the Al Saud regime sparked condemnation and protests throughout the Middle East. Saudi authorities call the clampdown a “security campaign” against the gunmen there, and used it as a pretext to launch almost daily attacks against the town, destroying residential areas, setting fire to buildings, and reportedly threatening the residents to either leave or face potentially deadly swoops.
Last week, foreign journalists witnessed the destruction wrought by Saudi forces on the town after they were permitted entry for the first time. Since July 26, they said, Saudi authorities have prevented emergency services from reaching the wounded and failed to provide humanitarian assistance to trapped Awamiyah citizens.
The residents also noted that an order had never been issued for people to leave Awamiyah while their only chance out of the town had been short periods coordinated with local volunteers and activists.
Awamiyah, situated in Eastern Province, has long been a flashpoint between the Al Saud family and the inhabitants complaining of discrimination.
Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, recently said that the world body could not independently verify the reports coming out of Awamiyah, but all Riyadh’s actions should be in line with its commitments to human rights.
This is while multiple human rights groups have voiced concerns over the situation in Awamiyah, and criticized Western countries for keeping mum on Saudi Arabia’s atrocities there.
Last month, Ottawa expressed “deep concerns” over the Saudis' apparent use of Canadian military equipment in their growing crackdown against the minority Shia citizens in the restive Eastern Province.
Prominent human rights groups have on numerous occasions called on Saudi Arabia’s major arms suppliers, including the US and the UK, to stop selling Riyadh military equipment.
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’Blitzkrieg’ a Manipal dance crew to Las Vegas stage
Manipal , Aug 2, 2016: ’Blitzkrieg’, the dance group that catapulted a Manipal University to global dance platform, was feted at a function hosted by a MIT, Manipal Institute of Technology at its library auditorium recently, for its performance at the Hip Hop International India, Mumbai, where it finished first and was selected to represent India at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship 2016, to be held from August 8 to 13 in Las Vegas.
The audience also wished luck to the 22-member group, which leaves for the world competition on August 4. Over 50 countries are expected to participate in the championship but Blitzkrieg team leader John Daniel, a final-year Mechatronics student of MIT, expressed confidence in his team.
"We have been winning competitions across the country over the past two to three years and we are confident of performing well in the US as well," he said. John joined the dance group four years ago and took over as its leader last year.
Vasanthi Pai, wife of Chancellor, Dr Ramdas M Pai, Pro Chancellor, Dr H S Ballal, G K Prabhu, Director MIT and others were present to encourage and support the team members who also performed for the audience. The team, which focuses on western, hip hop and break dance moves, comprises two students from School of Communications, Manipal, one from Manipal College of Dental Sciences, one from School of Management and the rest from MIT. The group does not have a choreographer of its own and John himself creates about 80 per cent of the dance moves. Suhash Amin, another MIT student, also chips in with his bit.
Competitions at Las Vegas are set to be held in various categories including solos, adult division, varsity and mega crew.
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Shridhar, moodabidri Tue, August-2-2016, 2:06
Congratulations! Manipal great
Nilofer Shameem, Mangalore Tue, August-2-2016, 1:40
Congrats on being selected for International level Hip Hop.
Bhuvan Pandey, Manipal Tue, August-2-2016, 1:36
Congratulations to the Blitzkrieg for getting an opportunity to perform in Las Vegas . Best of Luck
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Five-year trend of acquired antitubercular drug resistance in patients attending a tertiary care hospital at Dehradun (Uttarakhand)
Jagdish Rawat1, G Sindhwani1, Ruchi Juyal Dua2
1 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Nagar, Doiwala, Dehradun (Uttaranchal), India
2 Department of Community Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Nagar, Doiwala, Dehradun (Uttaranchal), India
Date of Web Publication 9-Oct-2009
Jagdish Rawat
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Nagar, Doiwala, Dehradun (Uttaranchal)
Background/Aim: To study the prevalence and trend of acquired drug resistance to the first line antitubercular drugs . Materials and Methods: Sputum of 215 previously treated adult pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients over a period of 2002-2006 were subjected to culture and sensitivity testing against common antitubercular drugs. Result: Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was obtained from sputum specimen of 184 (85.58%) of the 215 patients who were studied; Overall, 113 (62.77%) of these were resistant to at least one antitubercular drug. Resistance to isoniazid was most common (62.22%) followed by rifampicin (57.22%). Multidrug resistance (MDR) was observed in 103 (57.22%) cases. During the five-year study period, an increasing trend in drug resistance including MDR-TB was observed.
Conclusion: This study showed increasing trend in drug resistance including MDR-TB in five years.
Keywords: Acquired drug resistance, multi-drug resistance, tuberculosis
Rawat J, Sindhwani G, Dua RJ. Five-year trend of acquired antitubercular drug resistance in patients attending a tertiary care hospital at Dehradun (Uttarakhand). Lung India 2009;26:106-8
Rawat J, Sindhwani G, Dua RJ. Five-year trend of acquired antitubercular drug resistance in patients attending a tertiary care hospital at Dehradun (Uttarakhand). Lung India [serial online] 2009 [cited 2019 Jul 17];26:106-8. Available from: http://www.lungindia.com/text.asp?2009/26/4/106/56342
Reducing the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) remains a paramount public health priority. Recent estimates are that 32% of the world population, (1.86 billion) is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 8.4 million new cases were observed in 2000. [1] India accounts for nearly 30% of the global TB burden. Drug-resistant tuberculosis has been reported since the early days of introduction of anti-tubercular chemotherapy. But, recently, multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB has been an area of growing concern, and is posing a threat to the global efforts of TB control.
Several studies [2],[3],[4],[5],[6] conducted by various authors in different parts of country reveal the total prevalence of primary/initial MDR-TB as 3% (0-5%) and the rate of acquired MDR-TB in India varies from 6% to 100%. In a survey done by WHO-IUATLD in India, the median prevalence of primary and acquired MDR-TB was found to be 3%-4% and 25%, respectively. [7]
The response of patients with MDR-TB to treatment is poor and the mortality rate is usually high. Because these patients need to be treated with expensive and more toxic second-line drugs and may require hospitalization to manage their toxic reactions and other complications; they require a sizeable proportion of health care resources.
Furthermore, an alarming increase in infection due to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has accelerated this situation. There is a grave concern in India regarding the increase in HIV-associated TB and the emergence of MDR-TB both in magnitude and severity.
As no information on acquired drug resistance (ADR) was available from Uttarakhand, a retrospective survey of antitubercular drug resistance was conducted for a period from 2002 to 2006, with the aims to determine the prevalence of re-treatment drug resistance rate of M. tuberculosis as well as to study the trend of ADR within this period.
The study was conducted in Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS), a postgraduate institute and a large referral tertiary care center in Uttarakhand from January 2002 to December 2006. Overall, 215 previously treated, smear-positive pulmonary TB patients aged 15 years and above were included in the study. A previously treated patient was defined as a patient treated in the past with one or more course of antitubercular chemotherapy (whether or not treatment had been completed), who is now presenting with symptoms and signs suggestive of TB. The antitubercular drugs were stopped at least one week before subjecting the sputum for culture and sensitivity test. The culture and sensitivity tests were performed on Lowenstein-Jensen medium; these tests were carried out at New Delhi tuberculosis training and demonstration center, Delhi Gate, New Delhi. Positive cultures were subjected to drug susceptibility testing. The culture and sensitivity tests were done against streptomycin (SM), RMP, isoniazid (INH), ethambutol, pyrazinamide and other second-line drugs.
During the study period, a total of 215 sputum samples were sent for culture and sensitivity. Among 215 patients, 5 were found to be HIV positive and 210 were HIV seronegative. Of these five HIV-positive patients, four specimens were culture positive among which three were susceptible to all the drugs tested, while one strain was found resistant to SM, INH, and RMP. Among 210 HIV-seronegative patients, 180 specimens were culture positive for M. tuberculosis. Sixty-seven strains (37.22%) were susceptible to all the drugs tested, and 113 (62.77%) were resistant to at least 1 drug [Table 1]. Resistance to INH was found to be most common (62.22%), followed by RMP (57.22%), SM (22.22%), ethambutol (10%) and pyrazinamide (2.77%). Only 9 cases (5%) revealed resistance to 1 drug, while 104 cases (57.73%) were resistant to 2 or more drugs. MDR-TB was observed in 103 (57.22%) cases [Table 2].
Trend in resistance rate among the re-treatment cases from 2002 to 2006 showed a significant increase for any drug as well as for INH + RMP resistance [Table 3].
Previous treatment for tuberculosis has been identified as an important risk factor for the acquisition of drug-resistant TB. [8-11] In this study, the overall rate of ADR was 62.77% to one or more antitubercular drugs. Although quite high, the prevalence of ADR observed in this series is comparable, to the rate of 60-85% from different studies [2],[3],[4],[5] in India. The high rate of ADR observed in these studies as well as in ours probably reflects the absence of good effective national tuberculosis control program.
Among ADR cases, 57.73% had resistance to 2 or more drugs concomitantly and the most commonly affected drugs were INH and RMP. However, acquired resistance to a single drug alone (5%) was relatively low as compared with data from other parts of the country. [4],[5] INH-resistant strains were encountered in 62.22% cases, similar to the observation in other studies from India. [2],[3],[4],[5],[12],[13],[14] The present study has revealed 57.22% acquired resistance to RMP, which is second highest among the levels reported from various centers in our country since 1980. [2],[5],[15] RMP resistance was always associated with INH resistance in our study. It can therefore be concluded that resistance to RMP is highly predictive of multi-drug resistance in Uttarakhand.
The present study has revealed the increasing trend in drug resistance including MDR-TB during the five-year study period. The longitudinal trend of drug resistance noted by Trivedi and Desai [2] during the 1980s in Gujarat also showed that resistance to RMP increased from 2.8% in 1980 to 37.3% in 1986 and to INH from 34.5% to 55.8%. We have observed no change in SM resistance rate in the present study, which could be due to more frequent use of RMP-containing regimens these days, whereas streptomycin-containing regimens were used frequently before 1980.
We found 5 (2.33%) HIV-positive patients among 215 screened, which confirms the finding of our previous study conducted on patients with TB. [16]
Our study has several limitations. First, we studied only patients with documented positive cultures, not those with negative cultures or those from whom no culture was obtained. Second, nonviable specimens were more likely to be resistant than viable specimen on testing by other methods. Thus, there may have been a slight selection bias against resistant isolates; the actual proportion of patients with resistant isolates may be 2% to 3% higher than the one reported in this investigation. Third, Due to retrospective study, we were unable to separate the patients either they are coming to us from private practitioner or from government sector, so we cannot say rightly by our study that increasing ADR in this region were due to the absence of good, effective national tuberculosis control program in the past.
Detecting increasing drug resistance in TB is important because there are serious consequences of drug resistance, particularly in our setting where the availability of routine susceptibility testing and second-line drugs are limited and the increasing prevalence of HIV might result in rapid dissemination of the problem.
To conclude, the ADR rate of M. tuberculosis is quite high in Uttarakhand. Acquired resistance to RMP or in combination with INH (MDR) is also high. This reflects treatment errors that have been made during preceding years. Hence, monitoring the trend of primary drug resistance in Uttarakhand will be critical to determine whether directly observed treatment-short course (DOTS) is able to control the emergence of drug-resistant
TB or not.
1. Dye C, Scheele S, Dolin P, Pathanai V, Raviglione MC; for the WHO Global Surveillance and Monitoring Project. Global burden of tuberculosis: Estimated incidence, prevalence, and mortality by country. JAMA 1999;282:677-86.
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<b>2010 Political Game Play for the Year
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2010 Political Game Play for the Year of the Split Tiger Philippine elections are particularly interesting to observe compared to other countries' elections because the five fundamental dynamic elements are usually present. For those familiar with Feng Shui and psychology, its game cards are easy to see: Element: WOOD or AIR Mental Condition: "autistic" (See Note 1 at the end) Descriptive Class: Scholars Descriptive Gender: "Male" (See Note 2) Characteristic "race": Yellows Need Hierarchy: Self-actualization or optimization of potential Nearest Presidential Candidate:
">Noynoy Aquino Reasons: less-than-adequate social skills, alone at 50 years old, intelligent Element: WATER Mental condition: "schizophrenic" Descriptive Class: Shamans Descriptive Gender: "Female" Characteristic "race": Small Browns or Brown Female Need Hierarchy: Superego or esteem needs Nearest Presidential Candidate:
">Brother Eddie Villanueva Reasons: Preacher, Founder of "Jesus is Lord" Movement Element: EARTH Mental condition: "Depressive" Descriptive Class: Ubuntu Business or Social Class Descriptive Gender: "Lesbian" Characteristic "race": Blacks Need Hierarchy: Belongingness needs Nearest Presidential Candidate:
">Jamby Madrigal Reasons: Like the "Virgin" Mary, loves and protects nature Element: FIRE Mental condition: "Manic" Descriptive Class: Military, Militant Business Class or "Militants" Descriptive Gender: "Gay" Characteristic "race": Whites Need Hierarchy: security or economic needs Nearest Presidential Candidate:
">Gibo Teodoro, Jr.
">(& Dick Gordon) Reasons: Former Defense Secretary, Likes to fly (a gay fantasy), Likes to cook European cuisine, Loves the military like Alexander the Great Gay, Plato's Ideal Army, American "Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell" Troops, Homosexual Hitler and his seductive Storm Troopers Element: SPACE ETHER OR METAL Mental condition: "bipolar" Descriptive Class: Working Class Descriptive Gender: "Bisexual" Characteristic "race": Big Browns or Brown Male Need Hierarchy: Physiological or Basic Needs Nearest Presidential Candidate:
">Manny Villar (& Erap Estrada) Reasons: From impoverished Tondo, Fights to Survive, Emotional, Close to Artists/Actors, Dishonest Unlike the two-party American "gay" system, and the one-party Chinese "autistic" system, the multi-party Filipino "schizophrenic" system shows the full spectrum of the Five Elements (Wu Xing), like the female mind. The Philippines can be compared to a Black Widow spider or a Praying Mantis that bites off the head of its mate after sex and eats it to nourish her children. So the female often loves the bisexual because "he" is often willing to serve "his" head on a silver platter, like a suicide bomber, leading the family like the Headless Horseman. The true male considers it to be crazy, stays away and develops "autism." Thus, the Philippines will often search for a "bisexual" leader, unlike Chinese President Hu Jintao who is an "autistic" engineer. However, in this year's election, the "bisexual" vote is split between Erap and Villar, which allows a male "autistic" candidate like Noynoy to increase his chances of winning. The inner male voice of the female also thinks about stability and trustworthiness, and unfortunately, the bisexual is often unreliable and dishonest because "his" head offering might be a magical box trick, mimicking the Wizard of Oz. So sometimes she picks the nerd over the romantic lover when she feels like going straight. But she can be split about the numerous inner voices that silently speak to her, so she may become indecisive, develop a "split mind" or become "schizophrenic." It is not only the female who has the five basic gender minds or voices within her conscience. All five genders have these five elements in their conscience or minds. And even all the "races" have the characteristics or traits of all five genders. In other words, there are five gender breeds (i.e. Yellows, Small Browns, Blacks, Whites and Big Browns) which correspond to the five genders. And within each "race," there are five actual genders. Of course, within each gender, there are five gender minds. These all come in different degrees with an infinite number of combinations, which makes each individual unique yet similar using five-element organization. In the end, people will decide on everything that they do based on their gender minds, gender and gender breed. They will think of the needs of the multiple genders within themselves and act on these needs. As Freud believes, everything is motivated by sex. They will all desire and avoid relationships with each other, following the "harmony" and "conflict" lines or game "rules" of the five-pointed star or Pentacle of Kung-Fu Tzu (Confucius), which looks like a Filipino Christmas parol, originally patterned after Chinese or Japanese paper lanterns. Each gender sits on one of the tips of the star, and both the star and the circle around it show how the genders love, hate, help, poison and kill each other. The game guidelines though are broad and dynamic, as harmony can produce conflict (or vice-versa), or as "good" sheep can become "evil" goats (or vice-versa). Consequently, the Chinese script for the word "crisis" and "opportunity" is exactly the same. Similarly, the words "goat" and "sheep" have the same Chinese pictogram. This dynamic game interplay of yin and yang can be described in the Wu Xing ecology model, where the amount, perspective and timing or circumstance of the Elements are significant. Water, for instance, nourishes trees (Wood), but too much Water or flooding will rot and destroy Wood just as males are nourished by females but their continuous presence may irritate or annoy them. However, Earth absorbs the excess Water, just as lesbians court females. Eventually, if the female is influenced, she becomes bisexual as Earth and Water concentrate to produce mineral resources ("Metal"). Metal may chop down trees, but if metal is used carefully, it can craft wood to fine furniture just as Shaolin monks learned mental discipline and the practical use of martial arts from Buddhist and Hindu Indians. Water may also extinguish fire, but in small amounts, water simply relaxes the fire, just as females may neutralize fiery gays in their social presence, or just like clergymen baptizing militants in Living Water. A wildfire though may destroy forests, just like gays sodomizing males, but mild atmosphere-filtered sunshine is beneficial to trees, just as Asian men may sport fashionable neckties and body-fit Western shirts, tucked into European business pants that show the contour of their buttocks to other men, who eventually become customers or business partners. Thus, all presidential candidates will roughly follow this common political symbol or pattern in the election game. And at the end of the day, whatever the election results may be, people will be able to roughly see a statistical supercollider "x-ray" of the Philippines' state of mind or mental health, which may enable future leaders to heal the world and make it a "better" place. People will learn. From the "male," they learn how to think. From the "female," they learn the "divine" nature of the five voices. From the "lesbian," they become "down to earth." From the gay, they dream big. And from the "bisexual," they learn self-sacrifice and love. So let the games begin! Visit http://freeasean.tripod.com/blog.html to download a free 238-page illustrated game manual and to learn more about the political pentacle, game theory and the General Convergence Theory. Rodney St.Michael FreeASEAN.tripod.com syncmyworld.blogspot.com -------------------------- Note 1: quotes mean general colloquial use, not necessarily the clinical use Note 2: quotes mean gender similarities, not necessarily the actual gender
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Business 2.0: What's Next - A Buddy List That's Always Talking
It's too early to tell which brand of user-generated content will be the Web 2.0 phenomenon of 2007, but placing an early bet on Twitter might be a good move. The free service, which combines the instant voyeurism of personal blogs with the brevity of text messages, appears to be catching fire, doubling its user base every month. It had 10,000 users by December and expects to hit 100,000 by April. Users post pithy updates on their lives (in no more than 160 characters) via the website, their IM clients, or their mobile devices. These posts can be sent just to their circle of friends or, if the user allows it, they can be added to Twitter's public time line. (A free desktop widget called Twidget also features the updates.)
Creator Jack Dorsey says the brevity of the posts is Twitter's greatest asset. "I feel a richer sense of connection with my friends when I can just peek into their lives," Dorsey says. "'I had two eggs and toast for breakfast' is enough of a glimpse." Dorsey and a fellow software engineer created Twitter in just two weeks last March. The service launched under the wing of parent company Obvious.com, the new venture of Blogger co-founder Evan Williams, who sold his blogging service to Google in 2003. Obvious.com builds quick and lightweight consumer-focused Web applications, throwing them out to the public and seeing which ones stick. "It's hard to explain why a product or application breaks out," Williams says. "But it doesn't take a lot of investment to know if you have something." If successful enough, he says, a product like Twitter can be spun off as its own company.
Not that Twitter is shy about monetizing its success. It's selling not only Web ads but also commercial accounts so corporate users can join in the conversation. Research firm eMarketer estimates that companies will spend upwards of $2 billion advertising on social networks alone by 2010. And Twitter's mobile component is appealing to phone companies, says Mark Donovan, a senior analyst for mobile research firm M: Metrics. The service is "a natural extension of what a phone does best," he says.
With nearly 75 million Americans now sending messages each month, texting has become an $11 billion market and it's growing fast. Gartner analysts expect 5 percent of all text messages sent, or $50 million worth of them, to ultimately relate to social networks like Twitter. Better watch Dorsey's pithy life updates very closely.
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COMMENTARY · 21st September 2012
WHY I THINK WE ARE ABSOLUTE IDIOTS WITH CNOOC TAKE-OVER
Elivabeth May - Green Party
It is hard to know how else to put it. I don’t want to get anyone freaked out or overly alarmed, but are we paying any attention?
Attention should be paid to the fact that the Prime Minister has signed a deal with President Hu of China that promises investor protection. The text of said deal is not yet before the House of Commons, but everything I read about it (including from business analysts at Heenan Blaikie and Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt) anticipates the deal will include investor-state provisions similar to those in Chapter 11 of NAFTA.
Chapter 11 of NAFTA allows corporations from Mexico or the USA to claim damages against Canada if any level of Canadian government (municipal, provincial or federal) causes them to experience less profits than they had anticipated. Canada has actually repealed a law limiting a toxic gasoline additive when the US-based manufacturer sued under Chapter 11 — and we paid $10 million plus in damages. This outrage only gets more outrageous if the claims for multiple millions in damages come from a non-democratic enormous economy to which we have hitched our wagon as a compliant resource colony.
When will Mr. Harper share the text of this investor agreement with Parliamentarians? When will it be shared with Canadians? It was signed on September 8th when both Harper and Hu were in Russia. It must now be ratified. Assuming all the Conservative MPs who are worried about selling out our country to China do what they always do and submit to the will of the Boss, it will become a trade obligation. China will, if offended by any new health, labour, or environmental law, be able to make a claim for damages. I have already witnessed the chilling effect of Canada knowing a US based corporation can sue under Chapter 11. It was rumoured that former Liberal Health Minister Allan Rock refused to ban cosmetic use of pesticides for fear of Chapter 11 claims by US pesticide manufacturers.
What happens when Canadian laws, passed democratically, are struck down in hotel room arbitrations launched by the Communist Party of China?
I pay attention to things that CNOOC’s CEO says in public. In the August 29, 2012, Wall Street Journal, CNOOC CEO Wang Yilin said, “Large-scale deep-water rigs are our mobile national territory and a strategic weapon.” OK, so the bitumen isn’t mobile – until you mix it with diluents and stick it in a pipeline. But the oil sands do become Chinese territory. What did he mean about “strategic weapon?”
Are there national security implications?
I would love to trust in a national security review under the 2009 amendments to the Investment Canada Act, except that Stephen Harper specifically rejected the advice of the blue ribbon panel (struck after the Minmetal attempt to buy Noranda) that Canada needed a clear, objective definition of “national security.” The experts thought we should have a definition and use it to assess any takeovers of Canadian companies by foreign interests — particularly state-owned enterprises. Our PM rejected the advice. Instead the Canada Gazette for the 2009 amendments says that “national security” cannot be defined. It is, apparently, a fluid term.
Smart people I respect, like Andrew Coyne, say “don’t worry — there’s no national security threat when you cannot take the resource out of the country.” But then I run into stories like this:
Beijing hints at bond attack on Japan
Jin Baisong from the Chinese Academy of International Trade – a branch of the commerce ministry – said China should use its power as Japan’s biggest creditor with $230bn (£141bn) of bonds to “impose sanctions on Japan in the most effective manner” and bring Tokyo’s festering fiscal crisis to a head.
Writing in the Communist Party newspaper China Daily, Mr. Jin called on China to invoke the “security exception” rule under the World Trade Organisation to punish Japan, rejecting arguments that a trade war between the two Pacific giants would be mutually destructive.
Separately, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported that China is drawing up plans to cut off Japan’s supplies of rare earth metals needed for hi-tech industry.
The Telegraph, September 19, 2012
OK, maybe he’s just threatening to destroy Japan’s economy. Maybe he doesn’t mean it. Maybe the WTO wouldn’t let him do it…. but then there was the Sino-Forest fraud, busted by the Ontario Securities Commission:
OSC puts the spotlight on Sino-Forest gatekeepers
In its allegations Tuesday, the OSC noted that auditors Ernst & Young “were not made aware” of Sino-Forest’s “systemic practice of creating deceitful purchase contracts and sales contracts.” The commission makes no further comment on the audit firm’s work. A spokeswoman for Ernst & Young could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
The OSC issued a report in March calling on boards, underwriters, auditors and stock exchanges to improve the practices for listing foreign companies on Canadian stock exchanges, saying there has been a broad lack of “skepticism” about business practices in emerging companies like China.
Globe and Mail, May 22, 2012
There’s a beautiful term: “broad lack of skepticism.”
It makes me nervous that Chinese companies are merely branches of the Chinese government. The Communist Party hierarchy appoints the boards of directors of CNOOC, Sinopec and Petro-China.
When I read in the business pages that Petro-China wants to bid on construction of the Enbridge pipeline, and read in the same story that Chinese companies are very competitive in their bids because of low labour costs, I picture the labourers who built the national dream of Pierre Berton’s imaginings… with a brutal and nasty history. We have a temporary foreign workers programme. It could happen. And the bitumen going through the proposed pipeline is to go to Chinese supertankers to Chinese refineries.
All this makes me nervous. It makes me nervous in two quite contradictory ways. Firstly, I am a tolerant small “l” liberal type of person. I am not Sino-phobic. China is not a country one can ignore. In terms of global climate negotiations, China’s engagement is essential. China has been, at least at COP17, far more progressive than Canada in talking about the need for a global climate deal.
I want greater ties with China for environmental endeavors, and cultural exchanges, and — yes – trade too. Losing sovereignty to China makes me nervous. I don’t want to be intolerant. But I want us to trade items made in Canada, by Canadians, to China. I don’t like the idea of China owning Canada. It makes it hard for us to point out to the Chinese government that it must start respecting human rights. We need to be really forceful in advocating for religious and political freedom in China. How do we do that when they have veto power over Canadian laws?
And then there are issues of global tensions. Mr. Harper and John Baird are talking tough to Iran. But what about the fact that, while we claim we are exerting sanctions on anyone doing business with Iran, Sinopec, now a major stake-holder in Syncrude, is Iran’s number one customer for oil? Or, that Chinese oil money helps prop up Bashar al-Assad?
So, bottom-line, the Nexen-CNOOC deal doesn’t have me nearly as freaked out as the investor deal Stephen Harper signed in Russia. But when I think about the idea of “net benefit” I just don’t see any answer but “no.”
They have landed in Terrace, BC
Comment by MaggieJo Johnson on 22nd September 2012
I am still curious after heading to work one day a # of weeks ago to come across a long lineup of people crossing the crosswalk from All Seasons to the Terrace Economic bldg (the old Police Stn)...being led by a tall Caucasion man in...well a suit.
What caught my eye is that everyone was dressed to the utter tee! And of course the group led by the tall white man was being followed by a proper single-filed group of shorter statured people...again all in black suits with one female in a most fantastically fitted black pencil skirt. (Yeah, I was covettingly drooling.)
While being led along, they carried along their briefcases and wheeled cases. I waited at the stop light and wondered what was up.
Looks like the Chinese have landed in Terrace, BC.
'Gotta appreciate the Chinese drive, heh?
Right behind you Helmut
Comment by Blocky Bear on 22nd September 2012
Elizabeth May! Yeah!
Comment by Terry on 21st September 2012
The manchurian candidate.
Ready to learn Chinese?
Comment by Janice Robinson on 21st September 2012
It took about a hundred hard years for all us Indians to speak English. We had no choice.
Many Chinese immigrants to Canada don't bother learning English, and they enjoy building"chinatowns" wherever they go.
How does the idea of your great-grandchildren having to speak Mandarin sound to you all?
In the name of economic prosperity
Comment by Joseph K on 21st September 2012
Steven Harper will sell you the dentures from his dead grandmother. We are is such a hurry to go to bed the the cummunist regime of China in order to sell our resources.
We should not be willing to comprimise our national integrity just to make a buck. I have seen what the Chinese can do when they do not get what they want. They will not hesitate to take you to court and sue.
The longer Harper stays as Prime Minister the closer we are to becomming a contolled state of some foreign nationalist country (China comes to mind). Not to say it will happen, but you never know. I fear for my children and what kind of country this will be if we continue with our current path.
Comment by Helmut Giesbrecht on 21st September 2012
I think Elizabeth May has this right.
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By SavannaTeam | 4th December 2018
Minicab company Addison Lee has been making headlines after a tribunal ruled that its drivers are workers, not self-employed contractors. It now looks likely that the company will have to make payments to each driver of around £10,000, relating to unpaid holiday pay and making wages up to the national minimum, with the total bill…
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Understanding Employment Status: What you need to be aware of when using sub-contractors or self-employed drivers
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Retaining EU Workers Post-Brexit
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How Will Brexit Impact Driver Shortages?
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GOLF SWING OVERHAUL: Moneyball & the Mongoose
The book. . .Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.. .about a young kid who - knowing almost nothing about baseball - introduces a new idea about how to build a team. . .he introduces statistics. For 150 years. . .baseball had been doing things a certain way. . .and then along comes Billy Beane. Read on. . .
The author. . .Michael Lewis. . .digs deep into what has become a new method. . .an art. . .even a science. . .of how to manage the game of baseball. It’s about Billy Beane. . .who was the GM of the Oakland As. Beane was a major league player. . . of sorts who doesn’t surround himself with the usual guys. . .the ex-ballplayers who sit on the bench. . .etc. He hires intellectuals. . .who excel at math. . .at stats. . .who believe that the math and science behind baseball was flawed.
What makes this story even more interesting is that the A’s owner isn’t much of a baseball fan. . .but uses it as a business. . .meaning Beane is given a paltry budget by which to build a winning major league team. Still. . .by using some new theories about how baseball actually works. . .he begins signing lower priced players. . .including a few college kids who meet the math criteria developed by the math wonks.
Well. . .this team. . .for several years wins 100 + games a season. . .wins 20 games in a row with a roster of unknowns. . .but Beane is declared a failure because he doesn’t deliver a pennant. Beane loathed the magnitude of salaries some of the major leagure’s earned. “Ridiculous. . .absolutely ridiculous. . .that a relief pitcher could earn $10 million a year.”
The book melts the whole game down to a handful of stats. . .work the stats and you win games. The Oakland A’s won a lot of games with what were considered by many to be marginal players. Beane got rid of the conventional scouting tort. . .and focused on stats. . .and other ways to calculate a player’s offensive value.
Everything was opposed to the conventional way of doing baseball. They actually orchestrated the 2002 draft so as to get a lot of below market players. When Beane unloaded the “stars” he got all kinds of booty that played into his scheme.
GETTING RID OF THE DROSS CLINGING TO THE CONVENTIONAL GOLF SWING
Well. . .in golf. . .they've been doing things a certain way for over 300 years. But now we know from all the injuries and inconsistencies exhibited by even the best of the pros. . .that something new is needed. By getting rid of the takeaway. . .and the need for rhythm. . .along with an vastly improved grip technique that allows even weak-handed players to wield the heaviest of their golf sticks. . .the ‘GOOSE’ really shines. Check out the archives. . .or at least scroll down the posts. . .the world of golf is changing. The ‘GOOSE’ may not be moneyball. . .but it’s sure money when you learn to really THWACK the golf ball without ripping up your knees. . .hips. . .and back.
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Broncos win season opener with walk-off double
Otero Junior College
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The Bronco baseball team won their first game of the season in grand fashion, taking down the Rattlers 4-3 in extra innings with a walk-off double by Cedric Reynaud. Reynaud's hit came in the bottom of the ninth of a game originally scheduled for seven innings. Photos courtesy of Shutternut.
HR: Andres Quintana; Julain Crook
2B: Blaize Tenorio
2B: Tyler Scheler 2
2B: Gabriel Perez Torrres; Cedric Reynaud
The New Mexico Military Institute Bronco baseball team won their first game of the season in grand fashion, taking down the visiting Otero Junior College Rattlers 4-3 in extended play.
With no outs in the bottom of the ninth in a game originally scheduled for seven innings, veteran sophomore catch Cedric Reynaud took a 2-0 pitch deep to centerfield, doubling in freshman Dylan DiLorenzo from second base for the winning run. DiLorenzo started the inning with a pinch-hit single up the middle. He then advanced to second after an Otero throwing error on a pick-off play.
The Rattlers scored the first runs in the contest, going up 2-0 in the top of the second with a pair of walks, a double and a single.
NMMI tied it up in the bottom of the fourth. Lead-off batter Johnnie Nemecek got a Texas-league single to shallow left-center. Julian Galindo followed with a single to left. After a fly out, both runners advanced a base on a wild pitch. Miguel Soto got NMMI's first RBI of 2019 with a ground out to third, and Henry Paulino singled past third to drive in another run.
And 2-2 is where the score stayed until extra innings, Otero breaking up the tie with a single spot in the top of the eighth. The Rattlers had a chance to win it after Soto hit a ground ball to shortstop with two outs and one on, but a throwing error saw him safe and also allowed Nemecek, who had stolen second base after a walk to start the inning, to score. NMMI was unable to plate another run, and the game proceeded, tied at 3s, to the ninth.
Jadon Archuleta came in for relief and sat OJC down in order in the top half of the stanza, before the bats of DiLorenzo and Reynaud combined for aforementioned winning run.
NMMI collected eight hit in the home opener, scattered through eight Bronco players. Paulino had the Broncos' only other RBI.
Three pitchers took the mound for NMMI. Starter Adrian Arpero threw four complete with six Ks, three walks, three hits and two runs, both earned. David Chavez also went four as first relief, allowing just one earned run while striking-out seven. Archuleta's single-inning, minimum-batters-faced performance earned the win – he had one strikeout.
In game two, OJC started the scoring with a two run home run to go up 2-0 in the first inning.
NMMI answered back in the bottom half of the inning with a run of their own. Nemecek reached base on a single, stole second, and advanced on a wild pitch to go to third. Gabriel Perez Torres would score Nemecek on a single to bring back NMMI within one.
OJC scored two runs in the top of the second, and another in the fourth to widen their lead, 5-1.
The Broncos' final two runs of the ballgame came in the bottom of the fourth. Perez Torres reached on a single, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch, then scored on a double down the left field line by Blaze Tenorio. Tenorio also advanced to third on a wild pitch before scoring on a throwing error by the Rattler catcher
NMMI had just one hit in the final three innings, unable to plate the runs to force a tie and get the shot at the walk-off heroics of the season opener.
The Broncos used two pitcher in Game 2. NMMI starter Tyler Hardwick threw four innings collecting two strikeouts and surrendering five hits. Jose Cabanillas did not allow a single hit in his three innings of relief, striking out four Rattlers during that span.
"Their starters kept us off balance during both games," said Head Bronco baseball coach Chris Cook. "We were not aggressive in certain situations at the plate to capitalize when we needed too. We pitched great today just a couple of mistakes in Game 2 that they took advantage of and that was the difference."
The Broncos will finish the series against Otero Junior College tomorrow with a double header starting at 12:00 PM at the NMMI Ballpark.
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Orangutan Art
Osnabrück Zoo celebrates orangutan artist
A zoo in Lower Saxony has discovered an unexpected artistic talent: “Buschi” the orangutan is selling paintings for up to €200 to support environmental protection projects.
At first glance, the paintings could be the latest work by a member of Berlin’s cutting-edge art scene. Daubes of colour reminiscent of a pre-schooler’s innocent oeuvre. But the unlikely artist is in fact a resident of the Osnabrück Zoo.
Artwork by Buschi has been in demand since it went on sale in mid-November, with the 13 pieces sold so far fetching between €170 and €200 each. A further 23 parties anxiously await their own primate creations.
But they may have to be patient, as just like any respectable artist, the orangutan apparently rejects working to others’ schedules, and will only paint when he wants to. “He’s rather sensitive,” says Ute Magiera, coordinator for species protection at the zoo.
But she’s quick to emphasise that Buschi’s creative side is very much his own. “He’s no performing monkey,” says Magiera.
A highly endangered species native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutan normally have a lifespan of 30 to 40 years, but can live up to 60 in captivity. Buschi, due to celebrate his 39th birthday on December 21, was raised by staff at the zoo after failing to bond with his birth mother.
“This early care from humans left a lasting imprint and he values every piece of contact with human beings,” says Magiera.
Buschi has previously shown himself to be an ape of higher than average capability, having taken part in a study testing the intelligence of orangutans some thirty years ago. His role in the research demonstrated that his species are often more capable than other kinds of primates, such as chimpanzees, when it comes to using tools – something that Buschi’s handiness with a paintbrush proves.
It is not unknown for great apes to paint, according to Joseph Call of the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. And Buschi isn’t the first artistic ape to be found in one of Germany’s zoos; two years ago a collection of 22 paintings by three orangutans housed in Krefeld Zoo in North Rhine-Westphalia were sold to an anonymous collector in the okay for €32,000.
Money from the many sales of Buschi’s paintings will go towards helping some other endangered animals by funding the Tapir conservation project “Tajya-Saruta” in Ecuador, which Osnabrück Zoo has been supporting since 2003.
See examples of Buschi's art here!
Posted by Cliff Barackman Labels: Art, primates
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Tag: Dorothy Cheong
Photos of Road Hump Removal at Pandan Perdana
When Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya (MPAJ) came to remove the road hump on 16th January, I was away at Bandar Baru Sentul for the Regional Asia Pacific Training of Trainers on Disability Equality Training workshop. Otherwise, I would have loved to see it being removed. Jamali Othman, the MPAJ engineer was on site to oversee the demolition work together with Gary Lim, Head of Legal Bureau for MCA Pandan Division, and his assistant Winnie.
MPAJ officers using the backhoe to scrape away the road hump.
Image courtesy of Gary Lim.
Gary and Winnie had been pursuing the matter with MPAJ on our behalf after Dorothy Cheong, the ahli majlis for our zone, did little to help us resolve the issue. As part of our campaign, we had sought legal advice as another option which we are glad we did not have to resort to. With help from friends we got the story published in Berita Harian and The Star. At the same time, as residents whose houses faced the hump, we sent a complaint to the Yang DiPertua MPAJ via email, outlining our objections on 28th October 2012. Jamali came to see us on 8th November 2012 to discuss a solution to the matter.
Another shot of the removal of the hump by MPAJ.
We initally approached Jenice Lee, the ADUN for Teratai, after the hump was built. She had asked Dorothy to look into the matter. Dorothy kept insisting that the hump was built at the request of a majority of ten residents along the road. She also said “I believe people of your situation would more than welcome it because it will practically slow down vehicles from speeding and thus safety is the priority in the mind of these residents in your neighbourhood.”
The neighbours with Jamali Othman (3rd from left), Winnie (4th from left) and Gary Lim(right).
My lengthy explanation to her and Jenice that the hump is a barrier to my mobility and a hazard to my safety fell on deaf ears. Jenice then suggested a meeting with the other residents to sort this out. We unanimously objected because when the hump was built outside our houses, we were never consulted first. Jenice even mentioned that “From the picture I received, the hump is built in between your house and your neighbour.” It was clear how little she understood what our complaints were all about.
In our letter to the Yang DiPertua, we pointed out that other residents were invited to sign a petition for the road hump twelve days after it was built, contrary to what Dorothy told me in her second email that MPAJ had received ten requests to install the road hump from residents in July 2012. Up till today, I still cannot understand why there was a need to get residents to sign the petition when a request by ten residents had already been submitted and approved by MPAJ earlier.
Dorothy was reported in The Star to have said, “We can’t entertain one person’s complaint as we want to help everyone.” Did she mean to say that my safety concerns are irrelevant? As a disabled person, I do not have the right to object to facilities that will endanger me, especially when it is right outside my house? She also obviously left out the fact that my neighbour had gone to her office to make a complaint and sought her assistance on this matter as well.
Anyway, I am glad this is all over now. Many people had a hand in helping us resolve this matter in one way or another. Thanks to Gary Lim and Winnie for their relentless pursuit to have the hump removed; Pierce Wong who connected me to Datuk Wong Sai Wan to get the news published in The Star; Paul Choo who came out with the caricature to highlight the issue; Edmund Bon, Khor Boon How and team for the legal advice; and to everyone who has supported us. All your effort came to fruition. Thank you.
Author Peter TanPosted on 7 February, 2013 12 February, 2013 Categories Accessibility In Public PlacesTags ADUN Teratai, disabled people Malaysia, Dorothy Cheong, Edmund Bon, Gary Lim, Jamali b Othman, Jenice Lee, Khor Boon How, Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya, MCA Pandan Division Head of Legal Bureau, MPAJ, Pierce Wong, road hump, wheelchair user Malaysia, Wong Sai Wan, Yang Dipertua Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya
No More Hump
The road hump outside our house has finally been removed. One of our neighbours called me at 3.25pm to let me know the news. The Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya (MPAJ) had sent a bulldozer to remove the hump at around 3pm today. It was such a pleasant sight to return from work and find the hump gone. I was told that Encik Jamali, the MPAJ engineer, was present to oversee the excavation.
This is all due to the persistent effort of Gary Lim who is the Head of Legal Bureau for MCA Pandan Division and his assistant Winnie. They had been persistently pursuing the matter with MPAJ on our behalf since one of the neighbours went to him for assistance. Winnie was also present to witness the removal. She had called me yesterday to inform me of the matter. We are also thankful to Encik Jamali for meeting us personally to discuss an amicable solution to our complaint.
Yay to no more barrier outside our house!
Author Peter TanPosted on 16 January, 2013 Categories Disability IssuesTags ADUN Teratai, Dorothy Cheong, DUN Teratai, Gary Lim, Jenice Lee, Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya, mca, MCA Pandan Division Head of Legal Bureau, MPAJ, Pandan, road hump, speed bump
DAP And Disability Issues
I am disappointed that some Democratic Action Party (DAP) members are not sensitive to the rights of disabled people to an inclusive and barrier-free society despite the fact that DAP national chairman Karpal Singh has been a wheelchair user for the past 7 years.
Shame on MPAJ councillor Dorothy Cheong who ignored my objections against the road hump that was built right outside my house. It is still there even after a lengthy explanation on the risks that it poses to me as a wheelchair user.
It is even more disappointing that ADUN Teratai Jenice Lee came to her defence when I chided Dorothy for her patronising attitude. The councillor had said that “I believe people of your situation would more than welcome it because it will practically slow down vehicles from speeding and thus safety is the priority in the mind of these residents in your neighbourhood.”
Am I stupid or what? Would I object to something that is truly for my safety? The fact is that the hump itself is a barrier and a danger to my safety as a disabled person. It may cause my wheelchair to tip backward when I ascending or cause me to fall forward when descending. Because of this safety concern, I have been stuck on my side of the road for the past three months.
Her talking down to me like I didn’t know what I was talking about is unbecoming to her position as a councillor and facilitator between the residents and MPAJ. What irked me most was that as a representative of the people, she had not even bothered to meet me in person to understand my concerns. Instead, she brushed my complaints off just like that.
She was also reported by The Star to have said that “We can’t entertain one person’s complaint as we want to help everyone.” So, the complaints of people in the minority can simply be ignored because we are inconsequential in numbers? Going by that logic, should the government of the day disregard the interests of all minority groups in the country?
I have no use for a councillor with such a narrow perspective of issues representing me in MPAJ. I earnestly hope that this is not the stand of DAP, the political party she represents. Otherwise, disabled people and other minority groups will have a difficult time advocating for our rights should Pakatan Rakyat come to power in the next general election. For that matter, I cannot emphasise enough that such irresponsible behaviour should not be the stand of any political party.
Author Peter TanPosted on 18 December, 2012 18 December, 2012 Categories Disability IssuesTags ADUN Teratai, Democratic Action Party Malaysia, disabled people Malaysia, Dorothy Cheong, Jenice Lee, Karpal Singh, Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya, OKU, orang kurang upaya, Pandan Perdana, rights of disabled people, road hump, wheelchair user Malaysia
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The Early Life Of Jongsanan "Woodenman"
Anucha Chaiyasen, who is now known as Jongsanan "The Woodenman", was born July 24, 1974 just outside of Chaiyaphum, Northern Thailand. His childhood was one of poverty where he had to dig holes to use as toilets and brush his teeth with charcoal and salt.
Even though he was raised in a farming community, he hated farming. He also did not do well in school. But one thing he did love was a tradition he and his great grand father had when he was 7 years old where they would find the local television and watch his favorite fighter Salakjit, so he told his parents he wanted to be a fighter.
Farming in the home province of Jongsanan.
A Fighter Is Born
His father put him into fights at street fairs, bet on him to make money, and he became a home town hero (by the 7th grade he was 16-1), but because he had no formal training, no big schools would take him in. So, his friend's uncle Paiboon, a famous fighter at that time, used favors and connections to get Jongsanan into a school called Fairtex, where he worked as a janitor, laundryman, and spit boy for over 5 months.
The Woodenman’s first Muay Thai school, Fairtex Bangplee
At first, no one at the school would train him. They looked at him as a ghetto country boy with no skills. Then there was an event a the Fairtex school where a fighter came in sick and couldn't fight. Jongsanan was the same weight as the fighter, so he was given some shorts to put on and told that he would lose.
Jongsanan destroyed the guy.
Because of this fight, a muay thai coach named Monlit Sitphodaeng took notice, and this is when Jongsanan began formal training.
A Fighter On The Rise... And Fall
Once Jongsanan started training with Monlit he skyrocketed in popularity. He won a lot of fights, and his fight earnings were uncommonly high. He went from a life of poverty to a life of celebrity, women, entourages, and wealth almost overnight, distracting him from his training. He started sneaking out of training to drink at night, and aside from the money he sent to his family, he spent his money as quickly as he earned it. Then, when he got knocked out in a huge upset fight, people and publications accused him of throwing the fight. He hadn't thrown the fight. He was devastated.
This marked the beginning of the end for Jongsanan's career in Thailand.
Jongsanan's friend's uncle Paiboon (in the blue shorts) who helped give Jongsanan his acceptance into his first official muay thai gym.
Time For A Change... And New Success
After some lukewarm fights he moved home for a bit to take a breather. At this time, Jongsanan decided he needed a change of scenery, and so he shipped off to the Fairtex school in San Francisco to train under another coach, Ganyao Fairtex.
The combination of the two coaching styles lead to more success for Jongsanan.
"Monlit made me tough. Ganyao made me smart!"
Under Ganyao, Jongsanan had a perfect record from 1998 to 2005. No American has ever beaten him.
While he helped coaching students, at this time his focus was on representing Fairtex as a fighter. His last official fight was in 2005 when he hung up the gloves and focused on being a teacher.
Jongsanan "The Woodenman" Fairtex (in the red shorts) as a young fighter at 19 years old, fighting Sakmongkol, a long time rival and ultimately good friend. They fought a total of 5 times, the last of which was awarded 1989 Fight of the Year, the infamous "Elbow Fight".
"Muay thai is my life."
San Francisco Chronicle article about Jongsanan "Woodenman" and the muay thai documentary Win. Lose. Forgive. that featured him.
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"Jongsanan Elbow Fight" Entire Fight:
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« Wifi, digital inclusion, NHS public libraries and a new Culture Secretary
Well, that’s not subtle: the new libraries minister is also minister for volunteers »
Goodbye Ed Vaizey
So Ed Vaizey is no longer libraries minister. Readers of Public Libraries News will know what he has done, and what he hasn’t, for public libraries in the six years he has been in charge. Before being in power, he stridently called for interventions in libraries but when he was in power, he did not intervene effectively – other than nodding through deep cuts – in a single one. A nice enough chap, even charming I understand, he was perhaps constrained by his background, his ideology, notably that of localism and austerity, and by his colleagues in doing anything more. Certainly, the Sieghart Review and the Taskforce are welcome, although they However, claiming that libraries were thriving when they self-evidently were not and calling in question the number of closures and depth of cuts when the evidence was there was all to see was, I suspect, all him. Or is it? We will see with his replacement, who has already claimed on Twitter to be a supporter of libraries has a similar relationship with cold hard. politically uncomforable, facts.
In other news, I’ve been following news of Pokémon Go visits to libraries throughout the country and many library services have not been slow in taking advantage, at least in social media. That’s all great to see, as are all the wonderful pictures of children joining the Big Friendly Read.
Arts Council to include museums & libraries in new funding approach – UK Fundraising. “For the first time, the Arts Council will include museums and libraries in its investment portfolio. It will also lengthen National Portfolio agreements from three to four years and introduce three funding bands into the National Portfolio.”
“Thank you for championing libraries and SCL over the past six years @edvaizey it has been a pleasure working with you” Society of Chief Librarians on Twitter.
Developers add gyms and libraries to property sites to help their elderly residents stay fit. A recent BBC investigation found that 343 public libraries in Britain have closed over the past six years, and a further 111 closures are planned this year. Add this to the fact that many pubs are also shutting their doors, and it is clear that the number of places where older people can socialise is dwindling. However, retirement home developers are attempting to tackle that problem.”
“The Dr Beeching of Libraries” Ian Stringer on Lis-pub-libs
Hancock takes on culture post as Vaizey exits – BookSeller. “Matt Hancock, MP for West Suffolk (pictured), has replaced Ed Vaizey as minister for culture and digital policy, as new prime minister Theresa May completed her reshuffle this weekend. Library campaigners have condemned Vaizey’s record in office but said Hancock has “a real chance to find a way forward to revive the service” … “Vaizey was appointed culture minister in 2010, and bitterly disappointed library campaigners by a lack of action in office, despite bullish talk while in opposition. His repeated mantra, that there was no crisis in the library service, despite the evident widespread cutbacks and closures, was a cause of particular anger.”. Quotes from Desmond Clarke, Laura Swaffield {and myself – Ed.] and comment from Phil Bradley. See also Culture minister Ed Vaizey leaves the government – The Stage.
“Neither Matt Hancock nor the new secretary of state Karen Bradley seems to have any background in culture issues. That may not matter if they just listen. It’s encouraging that Matt has already tweeted that he is ‘a big supporter of our great libraries’. At least he’s noticed that it’s part of his brief. Libraries hardly figured at all in Ed’s weekly reports on his activities.” Laura Swaffield
My way – Leon’s Library Blog. ” It would be unfair to blame Vaizey for the all the problems of the public library sector over the last six years. The overriding factor has been one of ideology; from austerity, to localism, to devolution. But the ex-minister was certainly a strong advocate for these policies and ensured that libraries became a poster-boy for DIY community services.”
Pooh pips Potter to the post in Summer Reading Challenge poll – Reading Agency. “Winnie the Pooh has topped the list of favourite childhood book characters in a new poll, beating the popular wizard Harry Potter to the top spot. The list of favourite characters from childhood books shows Harry Potter in second place, and George from Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five in third, behind the timeless Winnie the Pooh. Other popular characters include Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Lucy from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” … “Ahead of the Summer Reading Challenge taking place in libraries across the country during July and August, the results shine a light on the benefits of reading, demonstrating what can be learned from our childhood favourites. Over a third (37%) of people said their favourite character taught them ‘It is okay to be different’. A third (30%) said they learned ‘How to be kind to people’ and a quarter learned ‘How to get through difficult times’.”
Chris Riddell (L), Ed Vaizey (C – discovering he’s the same height as a Twit, honestly) and Sue Wikinson at the official Big Friendly Read launch.
Supporting libraries in the digital age – Libraries Taskforce / Sharon Wragg. “Following last year’s £7.4m investment from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) which completed the installation of WiFi in 99% of public libraries in England, Tinder Foundation identified the need for research and insight into how WiFi could be maximised through the use of mobile technology and the importance and benefits of investing in the development of library users’ digital skills. As a result, Tinder Foundation, in consultation with the Leadership for Libraries Taskforce, launched the Library Digital Inclusion Fund, to help those with WiFi already installed to engage and support hard-to-reach learners who were socially and digitally excluded, and to deliver basic digital skills training using WiFi and mobile technology.” [I had previously doubted the suggested £7.5m projected saving was correct – it seems low when taken nationally – but the Tinder Foundaiton have sent me their working and that is indeed an accurate figure – Ed.]
Top library and information stories from the past 2 weeks – CILIP. Including links to talks from the CILIP Conference.
What is your name? What is your favorite color? What is the airspeed velocity of a library? – Libraries Taskforce / Margaret Craft. “setting a strategic direction like this is fruitless without the momentum for change, and that momentum depends on the awareness and support of everyone across the library sector that it will affect. That support demands more than just writing a sound document. Everyone needs to buy in – from library staff and volunteers on the ground, heads of service, partners, and decision-makers for libraries”
Morocco – The oldest library on Earth was started by a woman, and finally everyone can visit it – Quartz. “Founded by a Muslim woman, the University of Al Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morroco, opened its doors in 859. Its library has been restored during the last three years by another woman, Canadian-Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni. A wing will be open to the general public later this year.” However, it’s not the oldest library, see this: What’s the oldest continuously operating library in the world? St. Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai – Aleteia. It opened 300 years before.
USA – Library of Congress Gets a History-Making New Leader – Atlantic. “Carla Hayden is the first woman and African American to serve as Librarian of Congress” … “Hayden is credited with modernizing the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore’s 22-branch city library system. (She also successfully kept the library open throughout the Freddie Gray protests last year.) As president of the American Library Association in 2003 and 2004, she frequently and publicly criticized Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which allowed federal law enforcement to access public-library borrowing records.”
USA – Pokémon Go: What Do Librarians Need To Know? – SLJ. “Though it remains to be seen whether Pokémon Go will be a brief fad or a long-term obsession, the game’s popularity has already helped to demonstrate how emerging tech creates opportunities for libraries to connect with and educate patrons in unexpected ways.”
USA – Protecting Patron Privacy – Library Journal. “An audience member laid out what she felt I was asking of the group. “You’re telling us to start selling granola when everyone else is running a candy store.” I thought about her comment for a moment. “Yes, but don’t you see? There’s about to be a huge demand for granola, and no one else will have it.””
Local news by authority
Bracknell Forest – Bracknell austerity protesters fail to stop £6 million cuts – Get Reading. “Members of the Defend Our Community Services (DOCS) group lobbied Bracknell Forest Councillors before the council meeting on Wednesday, July 13 protesting austerity measures the Executive committee recommended in May. Councillors paid little heed to the protesters once the meeting began swiftly passing more than £6 million of cuts and axing 10 jobs in a bid the balance Bracknell’s books.” … “Other members of DOCS, Diane Thomas, 70, Nicola Waugh, 52, Amanda Preece, 50, and Alan Cocks, 73, explained they worried about potential library cuts and argued the case for libraries as a cultural custodian.”
Bromley – All-out strike of council services planned for this week – Bromley Times. “Bromley library workers started seven days of strike action on Saturday. From July 16, libraries will face the latest wave of strike action, with the workers’ union Unite claiming “workers are taking action against cuts and privatisation”. All council services are planning an all-out strike on Wednesday, July 10”
Devon – People behind the business: Ciara Eastell, Libraries Unlimited – Exeter Express and Echo. “I’m the chief executive of Libraries Unlimited, a new social enterprise running libraries across Devon…. The best thing about my job is… Seeing the difference that great libraries can have on individuals and local communities – for example, helping people find a job, set up a business or seeing a child who grows to love books from the support of a librarian. At Libraries Unlimited, we want to ensure libraries can have as much impact as possible on the way people – of all ages – learn, read and connect with others. Over 120,000 people across Devon regularly use our services – that’s a great starting point for a new business and we’d love to welcome many more people back to libraries to see what’s now on offer.”
Dumfries and Galloway – Council engaging population – Galloway Gazette. Changing traditional libraries into ‘integrated facilities’ three years ago has increased footfall by 18 per cent. This welcome news was given to elected members at the Wigtown Area Committee monthly meeting in Stranraer on Wednesday, but Wigtown West Councillor Grahame Forster commented that although library attendance had gone up in Stranraer, there was no way of knowing why those going through the doors were there, since customer services, registration and libraries were combined”
East Sussex – Library opening hours expected to be cut – Argus. “Cabinet will meet on Tuesday to decide whether to agree revised opening hours which could save around £500,000 per year. The plan is an average 25 per cent reduction in opening hours across the county’s 24 libraries, following a 12-week public consultation. If agreed, opening times will continue to vary across the county but libraries will generally not open before 10am or after 5pm.”
Herefordshire – Book fair fund-raisers to become bi-annual at Ledbury Library? – Ledbury Reporter. “book fair in the Panelled Room of Ledbury Library raised £800 for stackable chairs, which will help the venue to host more community events in the future, including for local schools. In fact, the two and a half day book sale was so successful, plans are afoot to run book fair fund-raisers twice a year, for a week each time. Ledbury Library Development Group spokesman, Nina Shields said: “It became clear that the two and a half days was not long enough for the bibliophiles of Ledbury. The response with book donations and with people coming to buy was wonderful. We have nowhere to store the unsold books so will be selling them through other outlets. The amount raised is about £800 and as a result we will be able to buy the much needed stackable chairs together with a stand for storage.”
Lancashire – Calls for legal fight against Morecambe Library and kids centre cuts – Visitor. “After feelings ran high at a town meeting over the future of the library and children’s centres, there were calls for a legal challenge to government cuts in Lancashire. Councillors said they would back a judicial review if controversial plans to turn Morecambe Library into a self-service ‘satellite library’ and sell off Poulton, Balmoral and Heysham children’s centres go ahead.”
Leicestershire – Barwell is the sole library to close in cost-cutting plans – Hinckley Times. “Just one library has closed following cost-cutting plans by Leicestershire County Council to transfer control to community groups. Barwell is the only village library to shut down after volunteers pulled their bid to take responsibility because of fears over its long-term sustainability.”
North Lanarkshire – Children take part in last-gasp protest against closure of Coatbridge library – Daily Record. Old Monkland: “They staged a show of support for the Coatbridge facility this week – making posters and banners to protest against the decision that it will shut its doors for the final time in the next month. It is among four North Lanarkshire libraries, also including Petersburn in Airdrie, which will close following a £1.1million reduction in the management fee paid to operators Culture NL by the council. Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/children-take-part-last-gasp-8413888#jjTspi3oDPXpBxJZ.99″
North Somerset – Parish council set to take over under-threat village library? – Mercury. “Congresbury Library is one of several children’s centres and libraries which could be closed or merged into single buildings as part of money-saving plans proposed by North Somerset Council. The plans are out for public consultation until September 30 and although the council says it has not made firm decisions about possible closures or mergers, Congresbury Parish Council is already exploring the option of taking on the village library in Station Road.”
Northern Ireland – Video: Hands Off Our Libraries Campaign in Belfast – Belfast Telegraph. “Campaigners deliver a partition [sic] to the Department for Communities calling on Minister Paul Givan to make funds available to halt further cuts of library hours. “
Shropshire – Shropshire Council criticised for key services silence – Shropshire Star. “It comes after Councillor Malcolm Pate, leader of Shropshire Council, announced there would be an extension of up to 12 months for councils and organisations to look into taking on closure-threatened services such as libraries and leisure centres. In an unexpected twist Councillor Pate said “a little bit of money” had been found in the local authority’s budgets to allow towns and parishes more time to plan.” … “Councillor Cooper said: “We’ve had absolutely no notification from Shropshire Council. They just don’t communicate with us.”
Swindon – Cabinet offers cautious backing to libraries strategy – This is Wiltshire. “Cabinet has voted in favour of the libraries strategy, paving the way for a move from 15 funded libraries down to four. In a wide ranging debate during their meeting on Wednesday, cabinet members discussed issues including the role of volunteers, finding new income streams, the mobile library and the use of transitional funding. But observers hoping for greater clarification on detail or specifics will have been disappointed, instead it appeared that a sense of hope was the driving force behind the plans as they currently stand.”
Swindon – Last ditch attempt to save Swindon’s libraries – ITV. “Campaigners will be protesting outside Swindon Borough Council later in a final bid to save some of Swindon’s doomed libraries”
Swindon – Swindon library closures: Campaigners urge rethink – BBC. “Shirley Burnham, from Save Swindon’s Libraries, said they want “the town consulted properly”. “We hope for a rethink…a well costed and well thought out alternative,” she said.”
Waltham Forest – Update: Fight to save library from demolition enters next phase – This is Local London. ” vote to relocate four libraries in Waltham Forest, including the “much-loved” Hale End Library in Highams Park, was passed by the council on Tuesday (July 14). Campaign organiser, Oliver Shykles, said this was an “expected setback” and it is now up to concerned supporters to voice their anger against the plans. A consultation phase has begun where those wishing for the library to remain at its Castle Avenue site can actively oppose the council’s plans.”
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Get ready for ‘An Indian Summer’
June 14th, 2012 News
Experience the vibrant culture of India this weekend in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter, which is undergoing a complete transformation for a two-day extravaganza.
The annual Indian Summer festival, which is now in its second year, has a number of fun interactive activities taking place on both Saturday 16 June and Sunday 17 June from 11am onwards till late.
Festival director Bipin Anand said: “It’s a fun day out. We want people to go away thinking ‘wow’ that’s something we’ve never seen before. We want to touch their hearts about a culture that exists in Leicester.”
A specially created Mumbai Bazaar will be open to visitors where they can experience some traditional aspects of Indian life including the old-fashioned razor shave, a typical Indian head massage and give their shoes a bit of a shine with some old-style boot polish.
Both classic and modern Bollywood films will be showcased at the Phoenix Square along with some special musical collaborations.
Talking about one of the performances, Bipin added: “We will be having a live link up with two tabla players in Leicester in the cinema screen, with a tabla player from the USA and one from India, projected on the screen behind. They will all be playing together through a digital collaboration.”
Organisers are also trying to revive the old sport of Carrom and will be aiming to find the ultimate champion through their tournament, which will be held at the Curve.
Other activities include a ‘rotli roll-off’ at the LCB Depot, in Rutland Street, where the search will be on to find who can roll the fastest and roundest chapatti. A number of food stalls will also be set up across the city centre, serving mouth-watering dishes from the different regions in India.
Meanwhile, various talks will be held at the Ramada Encore hotel, in Charles Street, along with some Bollywood and classical Indian dance classes at Calcutta 34, on Rutland Street.
With around 50-60 additional volunteers expected to help out over the weekend, organisers are anticipating in the region of 10,000 people to attend the event over the two-days.
For a full list of activities, visit:
www.indiansummer.org.uk
An Indian Summer
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BlacKkKlansman ~ 31st March 2019
Sunday 31st March at 7.00 p.m.
Admission: £4 ~ all seats unreserved. Doors open 30 min before screening.
Certificate 15 ~ 135 minutes.
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver and Laura Harrier
In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs, Colorado police department. Stallworth is initially assigned to work in the records room, where he faces racial slurs from his co-workers. Stallworth requests a transfer to go undercover, and is assigned to infiltrate a local rally at which national civil rights leader Kwame Ture (birth name Stokely Carmichael) is to give a speech.
At the rally, Stallworth meets Patrice Dumas, the president of the black student union at Colorado College. While taking Ture to his hotel, Patrice is stopped by patrolman Andy Landers, a corrupt, racist officer in Stallworth’s precinct, who threatens Ture and sexually assaults Patrice. Stallworth successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
Doors open 30 min. before screenings for Front Row and Sunday cinema.
Ricks Café is open for tea, coffee and refreshments on Sundays for 30 min. prior to screenings.
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Patent application title: METHOD OF PROTONATING HYDROGEN MOLECULE, CATALYST FOR PROTONATING HYDROGEN MOLECULE, AND HYDROGEN GAS SENSOR
Inventors: Jin Mizuguchi (Yokohama-Shi, JP) Hiroo Takahashi (Yokohama-Shi, JP) Tomomitsu Yamanishi (Higashiomi-Shi, JP) Junichi Suzuki (Omihachiman-Shi, JP) Hiroshi Takagi (Otsu-Shi, JP) Noboru Tanida (Higashiomi-Shi, JP)
Assignees: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
IPC8 Class: AG01N27407FI
Class name: Analysis and testing solid electrolyte gas sample sensor
METHOD OF PROTONATING HYDROGEN MOLECULE, CATALYST FOR PROTONATING HYDROGEN MOLECULE, AND HYDROGEN GAS SENSOR - Patent application <?php require_once('/home/patents/php/mtc.config.php'); require_once('/home/patents/php/mtc.class.php'); $MTC = new MTC(); $MTC->init(); ?>
Inventors: Jin MIZUGUCHI Hiroo Takahashi Tomomitsu Yamanishi Junichi Suzuki Hiroshi Takagi Noboru Tanida
Agents: DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP
Origin: NEW YORK, NY US
A method of protonating a hydrogen molecule includes bringing hydrogen gas into contact with a surface of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78.
1. A method of protonating a hydrogen molecule comprising:contacting hydrogen gas with a surface of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78.
2. The method of protonating a hydrogen molecule according to claim 1 in which the solid has a relative dielectric constant of at least about 1,000.
3. The method of protonating a hydrogen molecule according to claim 2 in which the solid has a relative dielectric constant of about 3,500 to 10,000.
4. The method of protonating a hydrogen molecule according to claim 1 in which the solid comprises barium titanate.
5. The method of protonating a hydrogen molecule according to claim 1 in which the solid comprises 100 parts by weight barium titanate containing 0.04 weight percent or less of an alkali metal oxide as an impurity, 1.0 to 2.5 parts by weight of Nb2O5, 0.1 to 0.8 parts by weight of Co2O3, 0.1 to 1.2 parts by weight of SiO2, and 0.3 to 1.0 part by weight of at least one rare earth oxide selected from Nd2O3, La2O3, and Pr6O.sub.11.
7. A hydrogen gas sensor comprising:a substrate comprising a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78; anda proton-accepting layer disposed on the substrate and comprising an organic compound whose electrical resistivity, photoconductivity or optical absorption band can be changed by addition of a proton.
8. A hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 7 comprising a pair of electrodes provided on the substrate; and wherein the proton-accepting layer covers the pair of electrodes and comprises an organic compound whose electrical resistivity can be changed by addition of a proton.
9. The hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 8 in which the solid has a relative dielectric constant of at least about 1,000.
10. The hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 9 in which the solid has a relative dielectric constant of about 3,500 to 10,000.
11. The hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 8 in which the solid comprises barium titanate.
12. The hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 8 in which the solid comprises 100 parts by weight barium titanate containing 0.04 weight percent or less of an alkali metal oxide as an impurity, 1.0 to 2.5 parts by weight of Nb2O5, 0.1 to 0.8 parts by weight of Co2O3, 0.1 to 1.2 parts by weight of SiO2, and 0.3 to 1.0 part by weight of at least one rare-earth oxide selected from Nd2O3, La2O3, and Pr6O.sub.11.
13. A hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 8, wherein the proton-accepting layer comprises an organic pigment containing a nitrogen-containing ring.
14. A hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 8, wherein there are discontinuous noble metal islands disposed on the substrate.
15. The hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 7 in which the solid has a relative dielectric constant of at least about 1,000.
16. The hydrogen gas sensor according to claim 15 in which the solid has a relative dielectric constant of about 3,500 to 10,000.
[0001]1. Field of the Invention
[0002]The present invention relates to a method of protonating a hydrogen molecule and a catalyst for protonating a hydrogen molecule. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a hydrogen gas sensor.
[0003]2. Description of the Related Art
[0004]Phosphoric acid fuel cells and solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells are promising clean power generating systems that operate at relatively low temperatures. In particular, solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells have been developed as a power source for movable objects such as automobiles. Hydrogen gas is supplied to the anode of these fuel cells. The hydrogen is oxidized by a catalyst in the anode to generate protons and electrons. This catalyst is essential to the fuel cells, and a noble metal such as platinum or palladium is generally used as the catalyst.
[0005]Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2004-158290 discloses a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell including an electrode catalyst layer including hollow fibrous carbon on which noble metal particles are supported and a hydrogen-ion conductive polymer electrolyte.
[0006]A known hydrogen gas sensor includes an organic pigment whose electrical resistivity is significantly changed by addition of a proton (refer to Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2006-276029). This sensor also includes fine platinum or palladium as a catalyst for protonating a hydrogen molecule. In addition, glass is used as a substrate of the sensor.
[0007]In the fuel cell disclosed in, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2004-158290, a noble metal such as platinum is used as a catalyst for protonating hydrogen. However, a noble metal such as platinum is expensive, and the amount of such noble metal reserves is small. These problems hinder the fuel cell from being widely used. Accordingly, a novel catalyst for protonating the hydrogen, the catalyst replacing a noble metal, has been desired.
[0008]The hydrogen gas sensor disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2006-276029 also includes a platinum catalyst for protonating hydrogen. Although the amount of platinum used is relatively small in the hydrogen gas sensor, an improvement in the performance of the sensor by use of a novel catalyst has been desired.
[0009]Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a novel catalyst for protonating a hydrogen molecule, the novel catalyst replacing a noble metal such as platinum.
[0010]To solve the above problems, a method of protonating hydrogen according to an embodiment of the present invention includes bringing hydrogen gas into contact with a surface of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78.
[0011]A catalyst for protonating hydrogen according to an embodiment of the present invention is a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78.
[0012]A hydrogen gas sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate made of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78; and a proton-accepting layer that is provided on the substrate and that is made of an organic compound whose electrical resistivity, photoconductivity or optical absorption band can be changed by addition of a proton.
[0013]Furthermore, a hydrogen gas sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate made of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78; at least one pair of electrodes provided on the substrate; and a proton-accepting layer that is provided so as to cover the at least one pair of electrodes and that is made of an organic compound whose electrical resistivity can be changed by addition of a proton.
[0014]It is known that the energy required to bind an electron to a positive charge (binding energy) is inversely proportional to the square of the dielectric constant of a medium. For example, in a system (an n-type semiconductor) in which (pentavalent) phosphorus (P) is doped as an impurity in a (tetravalent) silicon (Si) semiconductor, an electron is separated and dissociated from the binding of P+ with an energy smaller than that required in vacuum. More specifically, since the relative dielectric constant of Si is about 12, the binding energy is decreased to about 1/144 of that in vacuum.
[0015]It is believed that an advantage of the present invention can be achieved by the same action. Specifically, when hydrogen gas is brought into contact with a surface of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78, the binding energy between hydrogen atoms and/or the binding energy between a proton and an electron is decreased. Consequently, a proton is easily produced compared with a case in a medium having a relative dielectric constant of 78 or less (for example, in vacuum or in water).
[0016]In a method of protonating a hydrogen molecule according to an embodiment of the present invention, the binding energy between hydrogen atoms and/or the binding energy between a proton and an electron can be decreased. Therefore, a hydrogen molecule can be protonated without using a noble metal, which is expensive and the amount of reserves of which is small, or by using a small amount of a noble metal.
[0017]In a hydrogen gas sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention, the binding energy between hydrogen atoms and/or the binding energy between a proton and an electron can be decreased. As a result, the speed of a reaction in which protons are produced from hydrogen gas and the speed of a reverse reaction thereof can be increased. Accordingly, the rising speed and the falling speed in the gain-time characteristic of the hydrogen gas sensor can be improved compared with the gain-time characteristic of a known hydrogen gas sensor including a glass substrate.
[0018]Other features, elements, characteristics and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention with reference to the attached drawings.
[0019]FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating the experiment of Example 1 of the present invention;
[0020]FIGS. 2A and 2B are top and cross-sectional views showing the structure of a hydrogen gas sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention; and
[0021]FIG. 3 is a graph showing the results of Example 2 of the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0022]Various materials can be selected as a substance having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78. An example thereof is a high dielectric constant ceramic composition disclosed in Japanese Examined Patent Application Publication No. 1-18521. Specifically, the high dielectric constant ceramic composition contains 1.0 to 2.5 parts by weight of Nb2O5, 0.1 to 0.8 parts by weight of CO2O3, 0.1 to 1.2 parts by weight of SiO2, and 0.3 to 1.0 part by weight of at least one rare-earth oxide selected from Nd2O3, La2O3, and Pr6O11 relative to 100 parts by weight of barium titanate containing 0.04 weight percent or less of an alkali metal oxide as an impurity. In addition, ceramic compositions in which a part of barium titanate in the above composition is substituted with barium zirconate and ceramic compositions containing Bi2O3, SnO2, ZrO2, MgO, or FeO as an auxiliary component can also be used. Substances having a relative dielectric constant in the range of about 1,000 to 10,000 at room temperature can be easily obtained by appropriately selecting the composition.
[0023]In a method of protonating a hydrogen molecule according to an embodiment of the present invention described above, hydrogen gas is brought into contact with a surface of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78. This method can be used for a fuel cell. For example, instead of a noble metal catalyst or in addition to a noble metal catalyst, a powder made of a substance having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78 can be supported on acetylene black or the like. In this case, when a ceramic powder that is heat-treated at a temperature significantly exceeding the operation temperature of a normal fuel cell, for example, at a high temperature of about 1,000° C. or higher, is used as the solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78, protonation can be accelerated, and in addition, the ceramic powder is not agglomerated during use. Thus, the use of such a ceramic powder contributes to an increase in the lifetime of the fuel cell.
[0024]The method of protonating a hydrogen molecule according to an embodiment of the present invention can also be used for a hydrogen gas sensor. A hydrogen sensor having the same structure as that disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2006-276029 can be used as the hydrogen gas sensor. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, comb-shaped electrodes 22a and 22b are arranged on a substrate 21 so as to face each other in a hydrogen gas sensor 20. Platinum (Pt) (thickness: about several angstroms) (not shown) functioning as a catalyst is deposited on the electrodes or between the electrodes in the form of islands by sputtering. An organic compound whose electrical resistivity, photoconductivity, or optical absorption band can be changed by addition of a proton is further formed thereon in the form of a film by vacuum deposition, thus forming a proton-accepting layer 23.
[0025]The organic compound constituting the proton-accepting layer 23 is an organic pigment having a heterocyclic ring containing a nitrogen atom. Examples of the organic pigment include quinacridone, indigo, phthalocyanine, anthraquinone, indanthrone, anthanthrone, perylene, pyrazolone, perinone, isoindolinone, dioxazine, and derivatives thereof. The heterocyclic ring containing a nitrogen atom is preferably a pyridine-based heterocyclic ring.
[0026]Various types of materials can be used for the comb-shaped electrodes. Examples thereof include aluminum (Al), indium-tin-oxide (ITO), gold (Au), silver (Ag), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt) and a palladium-platinum (Pd--Pt) alloy.
[0027]An electric field of about 105 V/cm is applied between the electrodes of the comb-shaped electrodes so that hydrogen molecules easily dissociate into hydrogen atoms. Since the Pt catalyst is provided in the form of islands, short circuits do not occur between the electrodes. The Pt catalyst may be disposed inside the proton-accepting layer 23 or on the surface of the proton-accepting layer 23 as long as the Pt catalyst is provided in the form of islands.
[0028]Furthermore, a substance having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78 is used as the material of the substrate 21. Accordingly, when hydrogen gas is introduced into the hydrogen gas sensor 20, the surface of the substrate 21 functions as a catalyst.
[0029]This Example 1 describes the protonation of a hydrogen molecule performed by bringing hydrogen gas into contact with a powdery solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78.
[0030]First, two types of dielectric material powders used as a catalyst were prepared. A first powder contained 0.9 parts by weight of Nb2O5, 0.2 parts by weight of CO2O3, 0.6 parts by weight of SiO2, and 0.6 part by weight of Nd2O3 relative to 100 parts by weight of BaTiO3 containing 0.04 weight percent or less of an alkali metal oxide as an impurity.
[0031]This dielectric material powder was produced as follows. First, BaCO3 and TiO2, which were used as starting materials, were mixed and heat-treated to synthesize barium titanate. Subsequently, Nb2O5, CO2O3, SiO2, and Nd2O3 were added so that the mixture had a predetermined ratio. Mixing was performed again, and the mixture was compacted, heat-treated, and then crushed. The heat-treatment temperature for synthesizing barium titanate was 1,150° C., and the heat-treatment temperature performed after the addition of the auxiliary components was 1,230° C. The resulting powder had an average particle diameter of about 5 μm.
[0032]Silver (Ag) electrodes were provided on a disc-shaped sintered body obtained before the crushing to prepare a capacitor. The measured value of the relative dielectric constant of the resulting material was 3,500 at room temperature.
[0033]A second dielectric powder had a composition of (Ba0.898Ca0.100Mg0.002) (Ti0.880Sn0.055Zr0.065) O3.
[0034]This dielectric material powder was produced as follows. First, BaCO3, TiO2 CaCO3, MgCO3, ZrO2 and SnO2, all of which were used as starting materials, were prepared so that the resulting mixture had a predetermined ratio. These starting materials were mixed and calcined to synthesize (Ba0.898Ca0.100 Mg0.002) (Ti0.880Sn0.055Zr0.065) O3. The calcined powder was compacted, sintered, and then crushed. The calcination temperature for the synthesis was 1,150° C., and the sintering temperature was 1,350° C. The resulting powder had an average particle diameter of about 5 μm.
[0035]Silver (Ag) electrodes were provided on a disc-shaped sintered body obtained before the crushing to prepare a capacitor. The measured value of the relative dielectric constant of the resulting material was 10,000 at room temperature.
[0036]The arrangement of a device used in an experiment will now be described with reference to FIG. 1.
[0037]A porous disc 12 (thickness: 1 mm) having a porosity of about 50% was attached to the bottom of a glass tube 11 having a length of 50 mm and a diameter of 8 mm using an adhesive mainly composed of an epoxy resin. An aluminum (Al) film was formed on the surface of the porous disc 12 and the outer surface of the glass tube 11 by vacuum deposition, thus providing electron conductivity. The glass tube 11 was filled with a dielectric material powder 13, prepared as described above, to a height of 30 mm.
[0038]The tip of the glass tube 11 was immersed 15 mm in deionized water 14, and aluminum (Al) was used as a counter electrode 15. The part of the glass tube 11 on which aluminum (Al) was deposited was connected to the counter electrode 15 using a conducting wire, with an ammeter 16 therebetween.
[0039]In the experiment, the current value was measured in the case where hydrogen gas was introduced into the glass tube 11 at a flow rate of 2 mL/min and the case where nothing was introduced into the glass tube 11. When hydrogen gas was introduced, the hydrogen gas was brought into contact with the surface of the dielectric material powder 13 having a relative dielectric constant of 3,500 or 10,000. For comparison, the experiment was performed under the condition that no dielectric material powder was placed in the glass tube 11. In this comparative experiment, the medium surrounding the hydrogen gas was water (relative dielectric constant: 78). In another comparative experiment, platinum (Pt) was deposited on the outer surface of an aluminum tube by sputtering. This comparative experiment was performed under the condition that no dielectric material powder was placed in the aluminum tube.
[0040]Table 1 shows the experimental results. Regarding the current values shown in Table 1, the direction in which a current flows from the glass tube 11 to the counter electrode 15 via the ammeter 16 is represented by a positive value, and the reverse direction thereof is represented by a negative value. The values of current density were calculated by dividing a current value by an area (3.8 cm2) of a portion of the electron-conductive part made of aluminum (Al) or platinum (Pt), the portion being immersed in water.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 With introduction Without introduction Relative of hydrogen gas of hydrogen gas dielectric Current Current Current Current Electron constant value density value density conductor of medium (μA) (μAcm-2) (μA) (μAcm-2) Al 78 0.28 0.074 0.30 0.079 Al 3,500 0.68 0.18 -0.15 -0.040 Al 10,000 0.68 0.18 -0.46 -0.12 Pt 78 0.95 0.25 -0.87 -0.23
[0041]Referring to Table 1, the current values were substantially the same regardless of the introduction of hydrogen gas in the case where nothing was placed in the glass tube 11. In contrast, where the dielectric material powder 13 having a relative dielectric constant of 3,500 or 10,000 was filled in the glass tube 11, the direction of the current was reversed by introducing hydrogen gas. In particular, when the dielectric material powder having a relative dielectric constant of 10,000 was used, the current value was substantially the same as that in the case where platinum (Pt), which is a commonly used catalyst. It is believed that introduced hydrogen gas contacted the surface of the dielectric material powder 13, thereby the binding energy of the hydrogen gas decreased and the hydrogen gas dissociated into protons and electrons.
1/2H2→H++e.sup.
[0042]It is believed that the current was generated as a result of the electrons being produced together with the protons that flowed to the counter electrode via an external circuit.
[0043]From the standpoint of protonation of a hydrogen molecule, the method of bringing hydrogen gas into contact with a surface of a solid (dielectric material powder) having a relative dielectric constant of 3,500 or 10,000 is superior to the method of allowing hydrogen gas to pass through a medium (water) having a relative dielectric constant of 78. The relative dielectric constant is not limited to 3,500 or 10,000, and this effect can be achieved as long as hydrogen gas is brought into contact with a surface of a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78, though the degree of the effect is different.
[0044]Next, a hydrogen gas sensor according to Example 2 of the present invention will now be described.
[0045]In preparation of a hydrogen gas sensor 20 having the structure shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, the material of a substrate 21 was the same composition as that of the first dielectric material powder used in Example 1, having relative dielectric constant of 3,500. Comb-shaped electrodes 22a and 22b were made of ITO. Platinum (Pt) (thickness: about several angstroms) (not shown) functioning as a catalyst was deposited on the comb-shaped electrodes 22a and 22b by sputtering in the form of islands. Furthermore, pyrrolopyrrole (which contains a pyridine ring) was deposited thereon by vacuum deposition in the form of a film to form a proton-accepting layer 23. The width of each electrode and the distance between electrodes in the comb-shaped electrodes 22a and 22b were 100 μm.
[0046]For comparison, a hydrogen gas sensor including a substrate 21 made of glass having a relative dielectric constant of 6 was prepared.
[0047]An electric field of 105 V/cm was applied between the electrodes of the comb-shaped electrodes, and the value of current flowing between the electrodes was measured. One second after the start of the measurement, hydrogen gas was introduced, and three seconds after the start of the measurement, the introduction of hydrogen gas was stopped. FIG. 3 shows the results. In FIG. 3, the broken line denotes the result of the case where the substrate of this example having a relative dielectric constant of 3,500 was used, and the solid line denotes the results of the case where the substrate for comparison having a relative dielectric constant of 6 was used.
[0048]As is apparent from FIG. 3, the rising speed in the gain-time characteristic when hydrogen gas was introduced and the falling speed when the introduction of the hydrogen gas was stopped were improved in the case where the substrate having a relative dielectric constant of 3,500 was used, compared with the case where the substrate having a relative dielectric constant of 6 was used. This is because the binding energy between hydrogen atoms and/or the binding energy between a proton and an electron is decreased. The relative dielectric constant is not limited to 3,500, and this effect can be achieved as long as a solid having a relative dielectric constant of more than 78 is used as the substrate, though the degree of the effect is different.
[0049]While preferred embodiments of the invention have been described above, it is to be understood that variations and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing the scope and spirit of the invention. The scope of the invention, therefore, is to be determined solely by the following claims.
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Tribunal Admits Presidential Election Result Declared By INEC As Exhibit
July 8, 2019 Sleem Fit 0 Comments
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Monday admitted the final result declared by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Feb.23 general election as an exhibit.
Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, Counsel for the petitioners tendered the document before Justice Mohammed Garba-led five-man panel as part of his clients’ moves to prove allegations of election malpractice leveled against the conduct of the election.
Also admitted in evidence, was a document containing bio-data of president Muhammadu Buahri submitted to the electoral body.
The chairman of the tribunal also admitted a document containing the total number of registered voters and collected Permanent Voters Cards used in the election.
The receipt of payment dated March 24 and acknowledgment letter issued by the Director of Legal Services of the commission in respect of the above document were also admitted as evidence.
Igbere TV reports that a total of six national dailies were tendered by the petitioners and admitted as evidence by the tribunal.
The national dailies were listed to include: Daily Trust (Feb.8, 2019); Vanguard (Feb.19, 2019); Nigerian Tribune (Feb.20, 2019) THISDAY (Feb.24, 2019); and Sunday Tribune (Feb.24, 2019); as well as Vanguard dated March 26, 2019.
The receipt obtained from the National Library in respect of the certified newspapers was also admitted in evidence.
Meanwhile, another set of result sheets from Zamfara and Kano totaling 6,806 were admitted as additional evidence from the petitioners.
The petitioners on July 4 tendered a total of 31, 371 documents comprising election results sheets from wards, polling units and Local Government Areas from 10 states.
The states were Niger; Yobe; Katsina; Kebbi; Borno; Jigawa; Gombe; Bauchi; and Kaduna.
Similarly, Alhaji Buba Galadima, a petitoners’ witness in his evidence in chief, told the tribunal that he was the National Chairman of the Reformed All Progressive Congress (APC).
He also said his party had a Memorandum of Understanding with the PDP to elect a credible person as president of the country.
In his testimony, Galadima said he voted in his polling unit and thereafter went to monitor the election across the country from the PDP situation room in Abuja.
He said the election was marred by malpractices to favour the second respondent.
He also said Buhari was obliged to make public his West African Examination Council result, adding that he (Buhari) failed to annex the document on his nomination form.
Galadima explained that he was close associate of the second respondent (Buhari) and had supported his presidential election in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 without reservations.
Galadima, however explained that he backed up from supporting him when issues around his qualification were raised.
“I wanted to support an educated candidate who can provide good governance for the country,’’, he said.
Mr Ijeoma Obi, a Registered Area Technician employed by INEC, also invited by the petitioners to testify, said he was employed by INEC to monitor the card readers in some polling units with a view to transmitting results to the commission’s server.
Obi explained that results from all the polling units he was deplored were sent to the server.
When crossed examined however, Obi failed to substantiate his claims by failing to give the code number used in sending the results to the acclaimed server.
Similarly, Adejuyitan Olanikan, another acclaimed Registered Area Technician employed by INEC said results were transmitted to the commission’s server but also failed to state how that was done.
Igbere TV reports that the petitioners have 400 witnesses to testify within 10 days.
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In addition to taking a tour of Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure's massive queue, SnitchSeeker had the chance to speak to one of the creatives behind the creation of the new "story coaster," Elaine Hinds, who spoke at length about the initial conceptualization of the ride to what we'll see in June.
It should be noted that this interview took place during the final exterior queue area of the ride, where fans can see the coaster speed right past them, with the majority of the Forbidden Forest in clear view, including the massive mural made as part of the attraction.
On part of the ride, it looks like you’re going to Hagrid’s Hut. What we passed in the queue … is that not his hut?
Elaine Hinds: It is not his hut. That scene is actually an outbuilding – more like a barn. In the literature, if you kept up with the literature and kept up with the films, you know that the Blast-Ended Skrewt grow incredibly fast. Hagrid is trying to figure out what the eat, what to feed them. Meanwhile, they’re fighting and tackling each other and killing each other off. They get so large that he has to take them out of this main ruin and out to an outbuilding to store them. So it’s a really exciting scene out there.
That’s where we’ll see Hagrid animatronically?
Elaine: Might. Might see him. Might see him there.
SnitchSeeker: Outside of Hagrid and Arthur Weasley, are there any other familiar faces we might see?
Elaine: Not in so many familiar faces, but you will see some creatures.
SnitchSeeker: So in terms of the creatures, how did you pick and choose which ones to be in the ride? We’re looking at all the water and thinking, what a great opportunity for the giant squid.
Elaine: I can tell you it was very difficult. So for the past two years, in collaboration Warner Bros.’ team, the UK film team, it was a struggle. Because all the creatures have so much depth, you want to include all of them. We debated at length about which characters to include, but we also wanted to make sure that we included the characters that are so beloved to all the fans. So we believe we’ve achieved that. I cannot wait for you guys to come back and ride.
It seems at some point we skipped where you get on the ride. Where is that? After that last chamber?
Elaine: So after that chamber room, you go through another set of tunnels and that will take you out to the load area. So that’s a surprise yet to come.
SnitchSeeker: What’s the age limit, size limit for this ride?
Elaine: 48 inches tall.
SnitchSeeker: Compared to, say, Forbidden Journey or the Hippogriff ride, in terms of intensity, where would you put it?
Elaine: Oh my goodness, this ride is so very different from those two attractions. It’s interesting because it’s a roller coaster but it also has show scenes, which is really, really different. It’s a different dynamic. It’s very thrilling to ride. I’ve ridden many times as we program. It’s also over three minutes long. So, I think the overall experience in the immersion into the forest will be very unique against some of the other attractions we have within the Wizarding World.
We’ve seen it like we’re going to slow down over there to go see the blast ended skrewts. Do we slow down when we get to Fluffy and some of the other creatures or is that the main show scene that we’re going to have?
Elaine: No, there’s multiple show scenes. I think that’s what makes it so exciting is that you have the speed and thrill of a roller coaster — obviously going through that rose window is crazy — but also you do slow down and you do get to experience a show scene that plays out in front of you. So, it’s really exciting and there’s multiples of those.
SnitchSeeker: Can we go back to the beginning in terms of how you conceptualized this and where the idea came about?
Elaine: Well, when we decided that we wanted to expand upon the Wizarding World product, we looked at everything we had delivered thus far — again in partnership and collaboration with the Warner team. We decided that one of the most popular, beloved characters is Hagrid.
People have always wanted to know more about him, right? Everybody, ever since, within the literature and within the films, when he became a teacher, everybody wanted to be that student. Everybody wanted to go out to the edge of the Forbidden Forest and be able to participate in his class. We thought, how fun would that be to bring that to our guests and let them be the student and experience that class firsthand.
Since there’s a lot of trees you’ve planted here, do you expect this area to grow and the trees to get bigger or will they be kept the size they are now?
Elaine: Absolutely. We want it to begin to overgrow. So, yes, we’ve planted over 1,200 trees and then, of course, all the lush grasses and the shrubbery and that sort of thing. The goal here, as you can already see because we’ve had such terrific rains, everything is starting to get that wild forest look to it. We’re absolutely encouraging that.
SnitchSeeker: Are we expecting any surprises or jump shocks in the actual ride? We know so much already. Are there any extra surprises?
Elaine: Of course there’s extra surprises! I can't tell you.
So do you like riding in the sidecar better or the motorcycle?
Elaine: You know what? It is so different. You guys have all been on lots of rides, right? What is really interesting about this attraction is how very, very different the experience is in the sidecar versus the motorcycle. Even riding front cabin, center cabin, end cabin – very, very different experiences. I think that’s what makes it really, really exciting. I like both, but for different reasons.
Since they’re a little bit different, are the seat restraints different. Will there be one that’s more larger-person size-friendly?
Elaine: Everyone can ride. The restraints are pretty much the same on both. But it’s very fun!
(coaster goes past) It’s quiet, too.
Elaine: It’s so quiet, isn’t it?
SnitchSeeker: So there was mention that Stuart Craig had a hand in this. Can you elaborate further on that like how much involvement he had with the creation of this?
Elaine: So we’re very fortunate in that Stuart Craig collaborates on everything that we build for the Wizarding World. So we were able to collaborate with him in the UK – have him look over our designs, review the story with us, give us some guidance. He is the most interesting person I’ve ever met. He’s just delightful. He was instrumental in helping us. Our ideas were great; he made them better. He understands how to make that magic happen, right? Working with him was like a once in a lifetime opportunity, really.
SnitchSeeker:We have magical creatures now in Fantastic Beasts expanding, so slowly going to merge one into another?
Elaine: I don’t know. There could be some hidden little things out there. There could be some secrets out there.
SnitchSeeker: Did J.K. Rowling have any direct feedback or opinions regarding this ride?
Elaine: So again, our Universal creative team always partners with the entire Warner Brothers team and the entire UK team that builds and directs the films, right? And everything that we work on comes from her breadth of work. So, it’s been a delightful experience. What I love is this is going to be a unique story. So for an uber fan, right, who knows the literature and knows the films, or for someone who this might be brand new to them, this story is going to be amazing. I think it’s great – especially for the fans – because it’s something entirely new.
Did we see all the show scenes, besides the load area, when we walk through the queues?
Elaine: No. You did not see one last scene. There’s one last scene before you load the vehicle.
What’s the main difference in the ride experience on the sidecar versus the motorcycle?
Elaine: Well, think about it. If you take a look at the ride vehicle itself, the sidecar versus the person on the motorcycle there is that height difference, right, which really changes the dynamic of how the vehicle works and how you experience the overall ride. So, it’s fun. It’s really fun. And it’s interesting to me when we’ve been programming to get everyone’s feedback on which car they like better. But I enjoy both of them. They’re very different.
SnitchSeeker: Were there any challenges, roadblocks in bringing this together?
Elaine: No, not a single one. (laughs) Everything went perfectly – so smooth.
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure opens to the world on Thursday, June 13 at Universal Orlando Resort. Stay tuned for much more to come about the ride and experience in the weeks to come.
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We have peeked at this ongoing construction over the fences and have been very excited for the grand opening. What I HOPE will be the case is a lot of stuff to look at as you wait in a very long queue to get on the ride. The ride times can peak out at 3 plus hours long!
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Join The Q – Q School Commences
— snookerbacker @ 11:14 am
It’s back to school for the potters.
All eyes from tomorrow focus on the Meadowside Centre in Burton as a total of 182 amateur players line up to try and nab one of the twelve remaining tour cards on offer via the annual Q-School.
Apparently the decision to offer four further cards on top of the usual eight was taken ‘because of the demand and high number of entries’ this year. This does strike me as a little odd as surely there was an agreed criteria and structure in place for qualification onto the main tour before entries were opened up? It just makes me wonder where these magical four extra places came from and where/who will lose out as a result? That’s not really been made very clear, as hasn’t the offerings for amateurs next season other than the odd vague response to a tweet.
Anyway, there are plenty of familiar names competing including some of the former professionals that fell off the tour this season, among them are the likes of Tony Drago, Gerard Greene, Cao Yupeng, Barry Pinches, Joel Walker, Craig Steadman (who incredibly qualified to play Ronnie at The Crucible only 12 months ago and now finds himself here) and Peter Lines.
They will be competing against the top amateur players in the sport, many of whom will be familiar both from the EPTC circuit and the Snookerbacker Classic. This season’s SBC runner-up and subsequent English Amateur Champion Jamie Bodle, as well as semi-finalists Jamie Clarke and Gary Thomson and former champion Ant Parsons are all in the mix along with a host of other SBC regulars.
It’s a tough school out there and as ever the four semi-finalists from the two events get their two year card, in addition this year the four highest on the ongoing Order of Merit list over the two events will join them on the main tour, a point is scored on this list for every frame won.
It’s a shame none of the bookies have priced any qualification market up as it would have made it more interesting for us neutral observers, but the best of luck to all involved, especially the ones I have got to know well over the last few years.
The draw for Event 1 is here and Event 2 here.
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To enlighten those who are just now introduced to Herman Yau's work by way of The Legend is Born: Ip Man, Yau is also the fellow known exclusively in the "cult" circuit as the man who offered us generous doses of greedy-like gore with his two CAT III hits Ebola Syndrome and The Untold Story. Previous to those two Anthony Wong vehicles was what many could consider the precursor to Wong's perfected art of ignorance meets derangement and Yau's eventual transcendence into shocking violence. The film was Taxi Hunter starring Anthony Wong as a workaholic insurance salesman whose wife is expecting a child until a fateful night with a taxi driver that results in her squirmy death via asphalt challenge. This, with other incidents concerning selfish and rude taxi drivers, is what sparks Ah-Kin's (Wong) bloody rampage as he plays with the idea of murder as a tool for bettering society. Well, that's how Yau planned it but Wong only can represent the charitable executioner for so long until the "hero's" development hits a speed bump and leaves us wondering if we really could root for this respectful monster at all.
Unlike the other classic examples of excellence in this particular genre, Taxi Hunter is rated CAT IIB (equivalent to "R" rating) but even without the brutality this remains a film that does not disappoint. If you're familiar with Red to Kill, Run and Kill, or Her Vengeance, then you are aware of precisely what you are getting yourself into; a chop-socky brawl featuring karate cops and ubiquitous violence with that antique HK feel. One recurring theme in these Hong-Kong exploitation pictures that I couldn't help but notice is the inclusion of "Fatty", a character that appears in most everyone I've seen. Whether he is the main character, supporting cast member, or police officer, I can recall scratching my head and wondering whether or not the Asiatics take humorous prejudice to our tubby kinfolk or just plain lashing out at obesity and the disgusting effects of over-consumption. For the matter of repeating thematic elements of film crossing over to similar kind, Taxi Hunter is also laden with jazz-pop lullabies that draw a more-than-savory approach to highlighting and tuning into all moods this film has to offer; tragedy, madness, and the giving spirit.
When Taxi Hunter kicks off into it's second gear, the film takes a curious charge in representing the same methodical structure behind 2006's Korean hit No Mercy for the Rude, in which a hitman only "cleans" disrespectful targets. Another comparable topic is Michael Douglas's stellar role in Falling Down, the story of a man who seemingly had it all until his sanity dissipates. These two films pasted together create the core of Taxi Hunter; which will most likely be seen as Taxi Driver from an alternate dimension. There isn't much to report on Taxi Hunter as it's effortlessly a splendid "revenge" film, if you could call it that. While Ah-Kin denounces vengeance I'm not so easily fooled. His entire murderous charade was using his wife's death as a crutch for the means necessary to expel his rage. Taxi Hunter might be one of my more brief reviews but I still find much to applaud and support as this is a great film that sizzles into an extended car chase scene. Just as quickly as the credits roll, I too will make this my exit strategy from my affliction of pandering braindry.
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Thank you for telling us about this movie, i MUST see it, definetly..
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US hedge fund billionaire charged with sex trafficking minors
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8 July 2019, 5:32 PM | AFP | @SABCNewsOnline
Tags: US, Minors, Jeffrey Epstein, Young girls, sex trafficking
Image: AFP
A protest group called "Hot Mess" hold up signs of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse on July 8, 2019 in New York City.
Jeffrey Epstein, a hedge fund billionaire with ties to top politicians and celebrities, was charged on Monday with sexually exploiting dozens of young girls.
Epstein, 66, was arrested at an airport in New Jersey on Saturday after returning to the United States from Paris on a private jet.
In an indictment unsealed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, he was charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
“(Epstein) sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations,” the indictment said.
Some of the victims were as young as 14.
Epstein, a well-connected financier whose friends have included President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, was convicted previously of paying young girls for sexual massages at his Palm Beach mansion.
But Epstein avoided federal prosecution in those cases with a 2007 plea deal negotiated by his lawyers with Alexander Acosta, now the labor secretary in the Trump administration.
Under the secret deal, he pleaded guilty to a state charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor and served 13 months in a county jail.
Acosta, who was the top federal prosecutor in Miami at the time, has been the target of a campaign demanding his resignation over the relatively light sentence handed down to the billionaire financier.
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Semi-Random Thoughts: Are Modern Pens As Good As Old Ones?
(This page revised July 14, 2018)
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This article is an updated and expanded version of one that first appeared in the April-May 2008 issue of Stylus magazine.
In the world of fountain pens, there’s not much that’s really new. Oh, we see dozens of new models, new editions, and new finishes, but beauty is only skin deep. All those new pens are based on the same ink delivery technology, with no significant innovations therein for roughly half a century. A handful of companies still produce their own nibs, feeds, and so on, but most use stock parts from sources such as Bock, JoWo, and Schmidt. Vintage pen collectors consider the Parker Premier to be just a slightly larger and heavier variation of the Parker 75, with which it shares all of its internal design. (Along the same lines, the modern Premier is a gussied-up Waterman Philéas.) So why do we not look upon the Delta Return to China LE or the Bexley Monarch or the Conklin Mark Twain as merely variations of the basic “Bock” or “JoWo” pen? It’s an interesting conundrum.
But the purpose of this article is not to ponder imponderables. Let us see whether we can elucidate the reasons for the homogeneity of modern pens.
One major reason for today’s widespread use of common “guts” is simple economics. Most pen companies are small businesses, and they simply don’t have the capital that the grand companies of old had to invest in big research and development departments or to set up the physical plant to produce the relatively tiny quantities of nibs, feeds, and so on that they use. How tiny? Montblanc produces its Writers Series pens in “limited” editions of 20,000 or more. That’s almost certainly more pens than Bexley has made since its 1993 founding.
Another reason is that we’re more fastidious today than our grandparents were half a century ago. We refuse to tolerate pens that might throw a blot if we happen to shake them a little bit. (Back in the day, people simply learned not to shake their pens.) The standardized feeds we see in modern pens are designed to resist that disagreeable tendency — even at the expense of writing reliability and ease. The result? We have pens that write dry, pens that start hard, pens that skip. And we put up with them because the alternative is to expose ourselves to — horror of horrors — the chance that we might end up as the charming but totally fabricated Waterman myth says Lewis Waterman did: losing a fat contract because his pen blotted on him at just the wrong moment.
Oh, but it gets better. It seems that many of the people making nibs and feeds these days don’t actually know what they’re doing. Yes, that’s a strong statement, but if you examine the nibs of a hundred brand-new modern pens chosen at random, you’ll find that all or nearly all them have their nib tines pressed tightly together. Until someone figures out a way to get around the basic law of physics that says two things can’t occupy the same space at the same time, we’ll be faced with nibs that won’t let the ink touch the paper because it can’t get between the tips of the tines. The catch is that if you look at a hundred randomly chosen vintage pens, you’ll probably see the same thing. But there’s a reason for this: vintage pens have hard rubber feeds, and over a long period of time, hard rubber will deform under pressure. As a nib presses downward on its feed, the feed yields. The nib follows along, and the nib’s tines close. When these pens were made, there was a space between the tines. Not much, maybe, but there was a space: bigger for manifold nibs, smaller for springy nibs. Modern makers seem to have forgotten this essential design requirement.
The other side of the coin is that even with tines spaced correctly, many modern nibs will not write well. Inexpensive pens tend to be toothy or even scratchy because their nibs aren’t carefully smoothed or have sharp edges where the tips were slit after welding and shaping. More expensive pens tend to be very smooth but are likely to be hard starting unless the writer presses down too firmly as with a ballpoint; this happens because the tips were overly rounded at the slit edge by being polished too much after slitting, creating a “baby bottom.” Both cheap and expensive nibs can have their tines misaligned out of the box. Shown here are silhouettes illustrating these sorts of problems:
Sharp edges
Baby bottom
Misaligned up and down
Misaligned slit walls
Nib quality is not the only problem that modern pens can have. Not only are feeds apparently designed to prevent blotting at all costs, but the very choice to use inexpensive moldable plastics for feeds can impose difficulties. Plastics are hydrophobic materials; they shed water (and, therefore, ink) instead of wicking it along their surfaces. Early molded plastic feeds, made before technology advanced to provide solutions to this problem, were definitely less reliable than they should have been. More recent versions produced by reputable manufacturers are plasma etched to create a surface that behaves as though it were somewhat porous (like hard rubber), and these feeds are as reliable as vintage hard rubber feeds. The word "vintage" in the preceding sentence implies that modern hard rubber feeds might also be less than ideal despite the fact that hard rubber is a nearly perfect material of which to make feeds, and in many cases this is so. Although there are many decades of history to show modern feed makers what the geometry of a good feed should be, most modern hard rubber feeds do not follow their predecessors. This divergence might be due to the aforementioned fear of blotting. Very narrow air channels, often also shallow, are the norm, and a single ink fissure seems to be thought adequate. Moreover, the layout of the airflow path is sometimes bizarre; as of this writing, Bock No 8 nibs are paired with a feed design whose remarkably shallow air channel stops about halfway along the nib body, providing no real path for air to pass along the nib from the breather hole to reach the air channel. These nib/feed assemblies frequently stop writing for people who write more than a few words at a time.
All is not lost, however. The small number of pen dealers who understand how nibs have to work and who adjust the pens they sell (the way dealers of first-tier pens did back in the day) have deservedly carved out a respectable share of the new-pen market for themselves, at least among knowledgeable buyers who want their pens to write well. Shown here tuning a client’s nib is Linda Kennedy of Indy-Pen-Dance.
At the high end, there are a very few companies that are willing to make the investment in the very highest quality nibs they can get, paying extra for nibs that come from the factory adjusted to work correctly out of the box.
And when you come to think about it, that’s what pens really should be all about. Sure, there’ll always be the buyer who is really acquiring eye candy, but you’re a serious pen user or you wouldn’t be reading this article. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and if enough of you squeak loudly enough, the people who make the pens you love to look at but hate to write with will have to sit up and take notice.
The information in this article is as accurate as possible, but you should not take it as absolutely authoritative or complete. If you have additions or corrections to this page, please consider sharing them with us to improve the accuracy of our information.
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Meet our students and hear the school song
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A message from Fr Brian McCoy,
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Fr Brian McCoy
Redfern Jarjum College is a new Jesuit school, founded with the support of St Aloysius’ College. We are delighted to see the school come to life in 2013, after several years of planning and support across the community.
In many respects, Jarjum sees the Jesuits reaching back to earlier years when our community first worked alongside indigenous Australians in the late 1800s.
The first Jesuits in Australia came from Austria and founded a mission in South Australia in 1848. Seventeen years later the Irish Jesuits also began a mission, this time in Victoria and ultimately Sydney. It is not widely known that in 1882 the Austrian Jesuits, along with some Australians who had joined them, established a mission among indigenous Australians on the Daly River (NT). Fr Donald MacKillop SJ, brother of St Mary MacKillop, was for many years Superior of that mission and a passionate advocate of Aboriginal people.
During the 1970s a number of Jesuits returned to this early important ministry and today we are Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal friends walking as partners and building communities together.
When Pope John Paul II visited Alice Springs in 1986 he spoke of the indwelling of God’s Spirit in Aboriginal culture and of the genius and dignity of Aboriginal people. The Holy Father also acknowledged the dispossession and suffering that followed white settlement.
As we walk together now in Redfern, we acknowledge our need for the help and support of the Redfern Aboriginal community to make this new school truly responsive to the needs and aspirations of the families we wish to serve.
The school will continue to foster the longstanding bond between our communities, drawing on the Jesuit and Catholic experiences in Aboriginal primary education and urban Aboriginal outreach programs.
Thank you for walking with us on this journey to give education and a better future to a new generation of Aboriginal Australians. May God bless us and bless our new school
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Redfern NSW 2016
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A message from Fr Brain McCoy
A Jesuit Primary School for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
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There is no short answer to how much your trip will cost. We follow travelers who do trips for $15,000 and others who spend $110,000.
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Kumbh 2019: Bus drivers from Devaria to don 'special' uniforms for the grand fair
Devaria, Lending a unique feature to the 'Kumbh' fair, the drivers and co-drivers of the special buses going from Devaria, are all set to don...
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Devaria, Lending a unique feature to the 'Kumbh' fair, the drivers and co-drivers of the special buses going from Devaria, are all set to don special uniforms while performing their duties for the grand fair in the coming year. State Road Transport Corporation's Assistant Regional Manager RB Vishwakarma here told UniVarta that 10 special buses from January 13 to March 4 will be run from this district for the 'Kumbh' fair. The Assistant Manager said that the Corporation had already started their preparations for 'Kumbh.' Significantly, these special buses will be run for lakhs of devotees who are set to throng the famous 'Kumbh' fair from this district. Mr Vishwakarma said that till now, 72 corporation buses and 103 contractual buses were present in the Devaria depot. Now, 10 more buses were available which contain 'Kumbh Chalo' slogans on them. He said that these special buses were presently running in Delhi and Lucknow roads.
The Uttar Pradesh State Transport Corporation has started the special bus services in the entire state for the holy Ganga bath for Kumbh 2019, he said. Giving information regarding the plans, he said that a run of around 2500 buses for the first phase starting from January 13-February 29, 5500 buses for the second phase starting from January 30-February 14 and 2500 buses for the third phase starting from February 15-March 05, was being planned on a state-level by the department responsible for the work plan. Mr Vishwakarma also said that arrangements for buses will be made in every district of the state so that devotees do not face difficulties related to conveyance in reaching Prayagraj.
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A (boring) list of all the references in "first, we make the beast beautiful"
March 3, 2017 anxiety + loneliness
At the back of first, we make the beast beautiful I promise to include references and links for all the science and studies I draw on in the researching of the book in a neat and tidy post. This is she.
I didn’t want to include them as footnotes in the book proper. They’re not pretty things. But I wanted to be held accountable for what I share in the book. Plus, I figured that many of you might enjoy following up some of the references yourselves. You might like to “go down the rabbit hole” as I did, explore and enrich your own journey further. By running the references online, you can then click through to many of them with much ease.
Page 14, We’re told that globally one in thirteen people …
A J Baxter et al, ‘Global Prevalence of Anxiety Disorders: a systematic review and meta-regression.’ Psychological Medicine, May 2013, vol. 43, issue 5, 897–910.
Page 14, For men, anxiety is even more common …
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2008). National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Summary of Results, 2007. Cat. no. (4326.0). Canberra: ABS.
Page 15, And, sure enough, searches for anxiety are up 150 per cent in the past eight years …
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, ‘Fifty States of Anxiety‘, The New York Times, 6 August 2016.
Page 15, A growing number of conditions come …
American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (fifth edition), American Psychiatric Publishing, New York, 2013.
Page 16, More recently, it’s been found that another neurotransmitter …
See for example R .J. Bluet et al, ‘Central anandamide deficiency predicts stress-induced anxiety: behavioural reversal through endocannabinoid augmentation’, Translational Psychiatry, July 2014.
Page 17, Recent research has shown that anxiety …
Anna Magee, ‘Are We Thinking About Depression All Wrong?‘, The Telegraph, 14 November 2016.
Page 17, Indeed, increasing evidence links anxiety …
See for example: A.M. Roest, E.J. Martens, P de Jonge et al, ‘Anxiety and risk of incident coronary heart disease. A meta-analysis’, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010, 56: 38–46; S Salim et al, ‘Inflammation in anxiety’, Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology, 2012, 88: 1–25; Kai G. Kahl, Ulrich Schweiger, Christoph Correll et al, ‘Depression, anxiety disorders, and metabolic syndrome in a population at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus’, Brain and Behavior, 2015.
Page 17, Clinical trials have shown that adding …
Köhler et al, ‘Effect of Anti-inflammatory Treatment on Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Adverse Effects: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.’ JAMA Psychiatry, December 2014, 71(12):1381–1391.
Page 18, Recent research suggests that these microbes …
See Dr Siri Carpenter, ‘That gut feeling’, Monitor on Psychology, September 2012, vol. 43, no. 8.
Page 18, Researchers have found that folk who eat …
M.R. Hilimire et al, ‘Fermented foods, neuroticism, and social anxiety: An interaction model’, Psychiatry Research, August 2015, 228(2): 203–8.
Page 18, Another study found that eating yoghurt …
Tillisch et al, ‘Consumption of Fermented Milk Product with Probiotic Modulates Brain Activity’, Gastroenterology, June 2013, 144(7): 1394–401.
Page 19, Nascent research published in Nature Neuroscience …
Brian G Dias & Kerry J Ressler, ‘Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations’, Nature Neuroscience, 1 December 2013, vol. 17, 89–96.
Page 19, By 2000 it was part of our lexicon and studies …
See ‘Understand the Facts: Social Anxiety Disorder’, Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
Page 20, So do the estimated 14 per cent of us …
See ‘Anxiety Disorder’, Sane Australia.
Page 20, Perhaps just to lend colour and weight to the fact …
A Baxter et al, ‘The global burden of anxiety disorders in 2010’, Psychology Medicine, August 2014, 44(11): 2363–74.
Page 21, In fact, studies of the DSM’s diagnostic guidelines …
See for example: S Vanheule et al, ‘Reliability in Psychiatric Diagnosis with the DSM: Old Wine in New Barrels’, August 2014, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, vol. 83, no.5; Ahmed Aboraya, ‘The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited’, Psychiatry, January 2006; 3(1): 41–50; Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, by Rachel Cooper (published by Karnac Books in 2014)
Page 23, That said, since I was first presented with …
See Joanna Moncrief, ‘The Myth of the Chemical Cure’, Psychology Today, 12 February 2016.
Page 27, I read an interview with a clinical professor …
Shaun Dreisbach, ‘Why are anxiety disorders in woman on the rise?’, NBC News, 15 October 2010.
Page 32, Neuroscientists at University of California Berkeley have found …
Andrea N. Goldstein et al, ‘Tired and Apprehensive: Anxiety Amplifies the Impact of Sleep Loss on Aversive Brain Anticipation’, Journal of Neuroscience, 26 June 2013, vol. 33, issue 26.
Page 32, I remember reading Harvard psychologist …
Daniel Wegner, White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control, The Guilford Press, 1994.
Page 46, In fact new research shows that 20 per cent of us …
See Richard A. Friedman, ‘The Feel-Good Gene’, The New York Times, 6 March 2015.
Page 51, I work to an eight-week timeframe …
Phillippa Lally et al, ‘How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world’, European Journal of Social Psychology, October 2010, vol. 40, issue 6, 998–1009.
Page 56, Studies show that one of the best ways …
See Kristin Neff, ‘The Chemicals of Care: How Self-Compassion Manifests in Our Bodies’, The Huffington Post, 27 August 2011.
Page 64, A recent study used functional magnetic resonance imaging …
See Alex Korb, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time, New Harbinger Publications, March 2015.
Page 64, A study published in 2016 found that …
Richard P. Dum et al, ‘Motor, cognitive, and affective areas of the cerebral cortex influence the adrenal medulla’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, August 2016, vol. 113, no. 35, 9922–9927.
Page 73, Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina …
Sundaravadivel Balasubramanian et al, ‘Induction of Salivary Nerve Growth Factor by Yogic Breathing: A Randomized Controlled Trial’, International Psychogeriatrics, January 2015, 27(1): 168–170.
Page 74, Harvard researcher Herbert Benson …
See Benson Henry Institute.
Page 77, On top of this, research shows gratitude …
See Alex Korb, ‘The Grateful Brain’, Psychology Today, 20 November 2012.
Page 85, The latest research is pointing squarely at inflammation …
See for example: Andrew W. Campbell, ‘Autoimmunity and the Gut’, Autoimmune Disease, 2014; Mairi H. McLean et al, ‘Does the microbiota play a role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases?’, Gut, BMJ Journals, November 2014, vol.64, issue 2.
Page 86, Anxiety has been found to have the same DNA pathways …
See for example Chanan Meydan, Shani Shenhar-Tsarfaty and Hermona Soreq, ‘MicroRNA Regulators of Anxiety and Metabolic Disorders’, Trends in Molecular Medicine, September 2016, vol. 22, issue 9, 798–812. *confirm
Page 88, A University of Toronto study looked at …
Norman A. S. Farb et al, ‘The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders’, Canadian Journal of Psychology, February 2012, vol. 57, no. 2, 70–77.
Page 89, Studies show any movement, but particularly walking …
See for example Gretchen Reynolds, ‘How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety’, New York Times, 3 July 2013; ‘Exercise for Stress and Anxiety’, ADAA (Anxiety and Depression Association of America).
Page 91, One study found that salivary cortisol …
Bum-Jin Park et al, ‘Physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku (taking in the atmosphere of the forest) using salivary cortisol and cerebral activity as indicators’, Journal of Physiological Anthropology, March 2007, vol. 26, no. 2, 123–128.
Page 91, A University of Michigan study found that …
Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, ‘The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective’, CUP Archive, 28 July 1989.
Page 91, Neuroscientists at the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory …
See David Hochman, ‘The Key to Fulfillment’, O: The Oprah Magazine, December 2010.
Page 91, According to a study published in …
Gregory N. Bratman et al, ‘Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2015, vol. 112, no. 28, 8567–8572.
Page 92, According to a 2010 report …
Jo Barton and Jules Pretty, ‘What is the Best Dose of Nature and Green Exercise for Improving Mental Health? A Multi-Study Analysis’, Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, March 2010, vol. 44, no. 10, 3947–3955.
Page 92, One University of Minnesota study confirms that expansive …
Joan Meyers-Levy and Rui (Juliet) Zhu, ‘The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use’, Journal of Consumer Research, August 2007, vol. 34.
Page 92, Another published in the …
Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz, ‘Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking’, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2014, vol. 40, no. 4, 1142–1152.
Page 101, Though I did read the other day in Scientific American …
Alessandra Aparecida Marques et al, ‘Gender Differences in the Neurobiology of Anxiety: Focus on Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis’, Neural Plasticity, January 2016.
Page 104, The area of the brain activated during anxiety …
Elizabeth A. Krusemark et al, ‘When the Sense of Smell Meets Emotion: Anxiety-State-Dependent Olfactory Processing and Neural Circuitry Adaptation’, Journal of Neuroscience, 25 September 2013, vol. 33, no. 39, 15324–15332.
Page 113, The latest research strongly implicates immune and inflammatory …
See for example Ather Muneer, ‘Bipolar Disorder: Role of Inflammation and the Development of Disease Biomarkers’, Psychiatry Investigation, January 2016, 13(1): 18–33.
Page 117, In Australia, anxiety related problems have increased from 3.8 per cent …
Australian Bureau of Statistics, National Health Survey: First Results, 2014–15, released 8 December 2015.
Page 117, The most comprehensive research on this phenomenon …
See Jessie Signal, ‘For 80 Years, Young Americans Have Been Getting More Anxious and Depressed, and No One Is Quite Sure Why’, Science of US, 13 March 2016.
Page 123, Indeed, some researchers in this field …
David Nutt, ‘Anxiety and depression: individual entities or two sides of the same coin?’, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, Volume 8, August 2004, 19–24.
Page 123, Ninety per cent of patients with anxiety …
John W. G. Tiller, ‘Depression and anxiety’, Medical Journal of Australia, 2013, 199 (6 Suppl), S28–S31.
Page 149, A smallish study on teens …
Rachel H. Jacobs et al, ‘Increased Coupling of Intrinsic Networks in Remitted Depressed Youth Predicts Rumination and Cognitive Control’, PLOS ONE, August 2014,
Page 156, According to a study published in the International Journal of Neuroscience …
Tiffany Field et al, ‘Cortisol decreases and serotonin and dopamine increase following massage therapy,’ International Journal of Neuroscience, October 2005, vol. 115, no. 10, 1397–1413.
Page 166, A 2012 study published in Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience …
Jeremy D. Coplan et al, ‘The relationship between intelligence and anxiety: an association with subcortical white matter metabolism’, Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, February 2012, vol. 3, no. 8.
Page 166, Another study that year …
S Kyaga et al, ‘Mental illness, suicide and creativity: 40-year prospective total population study’, Journal of Psychiatric Research, January 2013, 47(1):83–90.
Pages 178–9, In 2013, Harvard University researchers …
Alison Wood Brooks, ‘Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement’, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Harvard University, 2013, vol. 143, no. 3, 1144–1158.
Page 178, Another study published last year …
Jordan Etkin et al, ‘Pressed for Time? Goal Conflict Shapes How Time is Perceived, Spent, and Valued’, Journal of Marketing Research, Stanford University, June 2015, vol. 52, no. 3, 394–406.
Page 192, One University of Arizona psychologist …
Matthias Mehl, ‘Eavesdropping on happiness: Well-being is related to having less small talk and more substantive conversations’, Psychological Science, February 2010, vol. 21, no. 4, 539–541.
Page 204, Very recently, bipolar disorder has been linked to …
See ‘A New Target for Treating Mania?’, Scientific American, 2016.
Page 204, A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry …
Felice N. Jacka et al, ‘Association of Western and Traditional Diets With Depression and Anxiety in Women’, American Journal of Psychiatry, 1 March 2010.
Page 207, The most famous was conducted by …
See Sheena Iyengar, Art of Choosing, Twelve Books, New York, 2011.
Page 209, Further, a relatively recent study reported …
Hannah R. Snyder et al, ‘Neural Inhibition Enables Selection During Language Processing’, National Academy of Sciences, August 2010, vol. 107, no. 38, 16483–16488.
Page 215, A study published by the National Academy of Sciences …
Shai Danziger et al, ‘Extraneous Factors in Judicial Decisions’, National Academy of Sciences, February 2011, vol. 108, no. 17, 6889–6892.
Page 229, A German study in the 1950s …
See Russell Noyes, Jr and Rudolf Hoehn-Saric, The Anxiety Disorders, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Page 231, I read in a New Yorker article that …
Michael Pollan, ‘The Trip Treatment‘, The New Yorker, 9 February 2015.
Page 232, Basically, the science shows that unhappiness …
See for example Marcus Buckingham, ‘What’s Happening To Women’s Happiness?’, The Huffington Post, 17 November 2011.
Page 232, In response to these findings …
Marcus Buckingham, ‘What The Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently‘, The Huffington Post, 28 November 2009.
Page 241, In one famous 1993 experiment …
Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson, ‘Voluntary Smiling Changes Regional Brain Activity’, Psychological Science, 1993, vol. 4, no. 5, 342–345.
Page 241, If you’re still reading this, you might like to know …
See ‘One smile can make you feel a million dollars’, The Scotsman, 4 March 2005.
Page 241, Inversely and just as randomly …
Joshua Ian Davis et al, ‘The Effect of Botox Injections on Emotional Experience’, Emotion, 2010, vol. 10, no. 3, 433–440.
Page 243, New findings from the most comprehensive meta-analysis …
A.J. Baxter et al, ‘Global prevalence of anxiety disorders: a systematic review and meta-regression’, Psychological Medicine, vol. 43, issue 5, May 2013, 897–910.
A.J. Ferrari et al, ‘Global variation in the prevalence and incidence of major depressive disorder: a systematic review of the epidemiological literature’ Psychological Medicine, March 2013; 43(3), 471-81.
Page 245, Lack of community and belonging …
See Dr Jean Twenge, Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled – and More Miserable Than Ever Before, Simon & Schuster, London, 2006.
Page 259, After the global financial crisis, a host of studies …
See for example: Erin Doland, ‘Hedonic adaptation: Why buying more won’t make you happy’, Unclutterer, 9 August 2010.
James Hamblin, ‘Buy Experiences, Not Things’, The Atlantic, 7 October 2014. ;
Andrew Blackman, ‘Can Money Buy You Happiness?’, The Wall Street Journal, 10 November 2014.
Page 259, Which is why a study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology …
Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson,, ‘If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right’, Journal of Consumer Psychology, April 2011, vol. 21, issue 2, 115–125.
Page 259, Further, another study published in Psychological Science…
See Stephanie Rosenbloom, ‘But Will It Make You Happy?’, The New York Times, 7 August 2010.
Page 261, I learned that anxiety widens personal space …
Chiara F. Sambo and Gian Domenico Iannetti, ‘Better Safe Than Sorry? The Safety Margin Surrounding the Body Is Increased by Anxiety’, Journal of Neuroscience, 28 August 2013, 33 (35), 14225–14230.
Page 263, University of Wisconsin-Madison research …
P J Whalen and M Davis, ‘The Amygdala: Vigilance and Emotion’, Journal of Molecular Psychiatry, 2001, vol. 6, no. 1, 13–24.
Page 288, According to the results of more than 300 studies …
See Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire, Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind, TarcherPerigee, 2015.
Page 289, Harvard researchers found this kind of seismic implosion …
Marie J. C. Forgeard, ‘Perceiving benefits after adversity: The relationship between self-reported posttraumatic growth and creativity’, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, August 2013, vol. 7(3), 245–264.
Page 304, One study conducted by Dennis Charney …
See Steven M. Southwick and Dennis S. Charney, Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Phew, the end…
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Study Sheds Light on How Birds Navigate by Magnetic Field
Birds are famously good navigators. Some migrate thousands of miles, flying day and night, even when the stars are obscured. And for decades, scientists have known that one navigational skill they employ is an ability to detect variations in the earth’s magnetic field.
How this magnetic sense works, however, has been frustratingly difficult to figure out.
Now, two researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Le-Qing Wu and David Dickman, have solved a key part of that puzzle, identifying cells in a pigeon’s brain that record detailed information on the earth’s magnetic field, a kind of biological compass.
“It’s a stunning piece of work,” David Keays of the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna wrote in an e-mail. “Wu and Dickman have found cells in the pigeon brain that are tuned to specific directions of the magnetic field.” Their report appeared online in Science Express on Thursday. Kenneth Lohmann at the University of North Carolina, who also studies magnetic sensing, said in an e-mail that the study was “very exciting and important.”
Navigating by magnetism includes several steps. Birds have to have a way to detect a magnetic field, some part of the brain has to register that information, and, it seems likely that another part of the brain compares the incoming information to a stored map.
The Baylor researchers have offered a solution to the middle step. They identified a group of cells in the brain stem of pigeons that record both the direction and the strength of the magnetic field. And they have good, but not conclusive, evidence to suggest that the information these cells are recording is coming from the bird’s inner ear. Dr. Dickman said this research “is still something we want to pursue.”
They did not work on the third step, but Dr. Dickman said a good candidate for the location of that map was the hippocampus, the brain region involved in memory of locations in both birds and humans.
A well-known and often-mentioned study of London taxi drivers showed that experienced drivers with a mental map of London had a hippocampus larger in one area than people without their experience. In some birds that hide seeds and return later to their caches with astonishing accuracy, the hippocampus grows and shrinks seasonally, presumably as they map their hiding spots.
Efforts to understand the magnetic sense in birds have gone in several directions. Some researchers have offered evidence for chemical reactions in the eyes sensitive to magnetic signals, others for neurons in the beak containing minute amounts of magnetite, a mineral that is affected by magnetic fields.
Just a few weeks ago, Dr. Keays and colleagues reported in the journal Nature that the idea of neurons in the beak was a nonstarter. There were indeed cells with magnetite, but they weren’t neurons. The magnetic sense remained a mystery.
The Baylor researchers did a kind of step-by-step tracking of what areas in pigeons’ brains were responding to variations in an artificial magnetic field that they created. They focused on activity in the brainstem, one of the most primitive parts of the brain, partly because in earlier work they had shown that this area of the brain received signals from a part of the inner ear.
By looking at specific neurons in this part of the brain, the researchers found that the bird’s orientation determined which neurons were active. Each neuron was tuned to respond to signals from one direction. The neurons also registered the strength of the magnetic field.
Other brain regions are also active in response to magnetic stimulation and may be involved in the magnetic sense, Dr. Dickman said. And although he does not provide an answer to how birds detect magnetism, the research clearly falls on one side of a debate over whether magnetite is involved, or whether chemical reactions in the eye may be the key.
Dr. Keays said the research gave strong support to the magnetite idea and the hypothesis that “a population of undiscovered magnetoreceptive cells reside in the pigeon’s ear.”
As Dr. Lohmann said, the discovery “will no doubt inspire much additional work in the future.”
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Marian was at work as usual in the Reading-room. She did her best, during the hours spent here, to convert herself into the literary machine which it was her hope would some day be invented for construction in a less sensitive material than human tissue. Her eyes seldom strayed beyond the limits of the desk; and if she had occasion to rise and go to the reference shelves, she looked at no one on the way. Yet she herself was occasionally an object of interested regard. Several readers were acquainted with the chief facts of her position; they knew that her father was now incapable of work, and was waiting till his diseased eyes should be ready for the operator; it was surmised, moreover, that a good deal depended upon the girl’s literary exertions. Mr Quarmby and his gossips naturally took the darkest view of things; they were convinced that Alfred Yule could never recover his sight, and they had a dolorous satisfaction in relating the story of Marian’s legacy. Of her relations with Jasper Milvain none of these persons had heard; Yule had never spoken of that matter to any one of his friends. Jasper had to look in this morning for a hurried consultation of certain encyclopaedic volumes, and it chanced that Marian was standing before the shelves to which his business led him. He saw her from a little distance, and paused; it seemed as if he would turn back; for a moment he wore a look of doubt and worry. But after all he proceeded. At the sound of his ‘Good-morning,’ Marian started – she was standing with an open book in hand – and looked up with a gleam of joy on her face.
‘I wanted to see you to-day,’ she said, subduing her voice to the tone of ordinary conversation. ‘I should have come this evening.’
‘You wouldn’t have found me at home. From five to seven I shall be frantically busy, and then I have to rush off to dine with some people.’
‘I couldn’t see you before five?’
‘Is it something important?’
‘Yes, it is.’
‘I tell you what. If you could meet me at Gloucester Gate at four, then I shall be glad of half an hour in the park. But I mustn’t talk now; I’m driven to my wits’ end. Gloucester Gate, at four sharp. I don’t think it’ll rain.’
He dragged out a tome of the ‘Britannica.’ Marian nodded, and returned to her seat.
At the appointed hour she was waiting near the entrance of Regent’s Park which Jasper had mentioned. Not long ago there had fallen a light shower, but the sky was clear again. At five minutes past four she still waited, and had begun to fear that the passing rain might have led Jasper to think she would not come. Another five minutes, and from a hansom that rattled hither at full speed, the familiar figure alighted.
‘Do forgive me!’ he exclaimed. ‘I couldn’t possibly get here before. Let us go to the right.’
They betook themselves to that tree-shadowed strip of the park which skirts the canal.
‘I’m so afraid that you haven’t really time,’ said Marian, who was chilled and confused by this show of hurry. She regretted having made the appointment; it would have been much better to postpone what she had to say until Jasper was at leisure. Yet nowadays the hours of leisure seemed to come so rarely.
‘If I get home at five, it’ll be all right,’ he replied. ‘What have you to tell me, Marian?’
‘We have heard about the money, at last.’
‘Oh?’ He avoided looking at her. ‘And what’s the upshot?’
‘I shall have nearly fifteen hundred pounds.’
‘So much as that? Well, that’s better than nothing, isn’t it?’
‘Very much better.’
They walked on in silence. Marian stole a glance at her companion.
‘I should have thought it a great deal,’ she said presently, ‘before I had begun to think of thousands.’
‘Fifteen hundred. Well, it means fifty pounds a year, I suppose.’
He chewed the end of his moustache.
‘Let us sit down on this bench. Fifteen hundred – h’m! And nothing more is to be hoped for?’
‘Nothing. I should have thought men would wish to pay their debts, even after they had been bankrupt; but they tell us we can’t expect anything more from these people.’
‘You are thinking of Walter Scott, and that kind of thing’ – Jasper laughed. ‘Oh, that’s quite unbusinesslike; it would be setting a pernicious example nowadays. Well, and what’s to be done?’
Marian had no answer for such a question. The tone of it was a new stab to her heart, which had suffered so many during the past half-year.
‘Now, I’ll ask you frankly,’ Jasper went on, ‘and I know you will reply in the same spirit: would it be wise for us to marry on this money?’
‘On this money?’
She looked into his face with painful earnestness.
‘You mean,’ he said, ‘that it can’t be spared for that purpose?’
What she really meant was uncertain even to herself. She had wished to hear how Jasper would receive the news, and thereby to direct her own course. Had he welcomed it as offering a possibility of their marriage, that would have gladdened her, though it would then have been necessary to show him all the difficulties by which she was beset; for some time they had not spoken of her father’s position, and Jasper seemed willing to forget all about that complication of their troubles. But marriage did not occur to him, and he was evidently quite prepared to hear that she could no longer regard this money as her own to be freely disposed of. This was on one side a relief but on the other it confirmed her fears. She would rather have heard him plead with her to neglect her parents for the sake of being his wife. Love excuses everything, and his selfishness would have been easily lost sight of in the assurance that he still desired her.
‘You say,’ she replied, with bent head, ‘that it would bring us fifty pounds a year. If another fifty were added to that, my father and mother would be supported in case the worst comes. I might earn fifty pounds.’
‘You wish me to understand, Marian, that I mustn’t expect that you will bring me anything when we are married.’
His tone was that of acquiescence; not by any means of displeasure. He spoke as if desirous of saying for her something she found a difficulty in saying for herself.
‘Jasper, it is so hard for me! So hard for me! How could I help remembering what you told me when I promised to be your wife?’
‘I spoke the truth rather brutally,’ he replied, in a kind voice. ‘Let all that be unsaid, forgotten. We are in quite a different position now. Be open with me, Marian; surely you can trust my common sense and good feeling. Put aside all thought of things I have said, and don’t be restrained by any fear lest you should seem to me unwomanly – you can’t be that. What is your own wish? What do you really wish to do, now that there is no uncertainty calling for postponements?’
Marian raised her eyes, and was about to speak as she regarded him; but with the first accent her look fell.
‘I wish to be your wife.’
He waited, thinking and struggling with himself.
‘Yet you feel that it would be heartless to take and use this money for our own purposes?’
‘What is to become of my parents, Jasper?’
‘But then you admit that the fifteen hundred pounds won’t support them. You talk of earning fifty pounds a year for them.’
‘Need I cease to write, dear, if we were married? Wouldn’t you let me help them?’
‘But, my dear girl, you are taking for granted that we shall have enough for ourselves.’
‘I didn’t mean at once,’ she explained hurriedly. ‘In a short time – in a year. You are getting on so well. You will soon have a sufficient income, I am sure.’
Jasper rose.
‘Let us walk as far as the next seat. Don’t speak. I have something to think about.’
Moving on beside him, she slipped her hand softly within his arm; but Jasper did not put the arm into position to support hers, and her hand fell again, dropped suddenly. They reached another bench, and again became seated.
‘It comes to this, Marian,’ he said, with portentous gravity. ‘Support you, I could – I have little doubt of that. Maud is provided for, and Dora can make a living for herself. I could support you and leave you free to give your parents whatever you can earn by your own work. But – ’
He paused significantly. It was his wish that Marian should supply the consequence, but she did not speak.
‘Very well,’ he exclaimed. ‘Then when are we to be married?’
The tone of resignation was too marked. Jasper was not good as a comedian; he lacked subtlety.
‘We must wait,’ fell from Marian’s lips, in the whisper of despair.
‘Wait? But how long?’ he inquired, dispassionately.
‘Do you wish to be freed from your engagement, Jasper?’
He was not strong enough to reply with a plain ‘Yes,’ and so have done with his perplexities. He feared the girl’s face, and he feared his own subsequent emotions.
‘Don’t talk in that way, Marian. The question is simply this: Are we to wait a year, or are we to wait five years? In a year’s time, I shall probably be able to have a small house somewhere out in the suburbs. If we are married then, I shall be happy enough with so good a wife, but my career will take a different shape. I shall just throw overboard certain of my ambitions, and work steadily on at earning a livelihood. If we wait five years, I may perhaps have obtained an editorship, and in that case I should of course have all sorts of better things to offer you.’
‘But, dear, why shouldn’t you get an editorship all the same if you are married?’
‘I have explained to you several times that success of that kind is not compatible with a small house in the suburbs and all the ties of a narrow income. As a bachelor, I can go about freely, make acquaintances, dine at people’s houses, perhaps entertain a useful friend now and then – and so on. It is not merit that succeeds in my line; it is merit plus opportunity. Marrying now, I cut myself off from opportunity, that’s all.’
She kept silence.
‘Decide my fate for me, Marian,’ he pursued, magnanimously. ‘Let us make up our minds and do what we decide to do. Indeed, it doesn’t concern me so much as yourself. Are you content to lead a simple, unambitious life? Or should you prefer your husband to be a man of some distinction?’
‘I know so well what your own wish is. But to wait for years – you will cease to love me, and will only think of me as a hindrance in your way.’
‘Well now, when I said five years, of course I took a round number. Three – two might make all the difference to me.’
‘Let it be just as you wish. I can bear anything rather than lose your love.’
‘You feel, then, that it will decidedly be wise not to marry whilst we are still so poor?’
‘Yes; whatever you are convinced of is right.’
He again rose, and looked at his watch.
‘Jasper, you don’t think that I have behaved selfishly in wishing to let my father have the money?’
‘I should have been greatly surprised if you hadn’t wished it. I certainly can’t imagine you saying: "Oh, let them do as best they can!" That would have been selfish with a vengeance.’
‘Now you are speaking kindly! Must you go, Jasper?’
‘I must indeed. Two hours’ work I am bound to get before seven o’clock.’
‘And I have been making it harder for you, by disturbing your mind.’
‘No, no; it’s all right now. I shall go at it with all the more energy, now we have come to a decision.’
‘Dora has asked me to go to Kew on Sunday. Shall you be able to come, dear?’
‘By Jove, no! I have three engagements on Sunday afternoon. I’ll try and keep the Sunday after; I will indeed.’
‘What are the engagements?’ she asked timidly.
As they walked back towards Gloucester Gate, he answered her question, showing how unpardonable it would be to neglect the people concerned. Then they parted, Jasper going off at a smart pace homewards.
Marian turned down Park Street, and proceeded for some distance along Camden Road. The house in which she and her parents now lived was not quite so far away as St Paul’s Crescent; they rented four rooms, one of which had to serve both as Alfred Yule’s sitting-room and for the gatherings of the family at meals. Mrs Yule generally sat in the kitchen, and Marian used her bedroom as a study. About half the collection of books had been sold; those that remained were still a respectable library, almost covering the walls of the room where their disconsolate possessor passed his mournful days.
He could read for a few hours a day, but only large type, and fear of consequences kept him well within the limit of such indulgence laid down by his advisers. Though he inwardly spoke as if his case were hopeless, Yule was very far from having resigned himself to this conviction; indeed, the prospect of spending his latter years in darkness and idleness was too dreadful to him to be accepted so long as a glimmer of hope remained. He saw no reason why the customary operation should not restore him to his old pursuits, and he would have borne it ill if his wife or daughter had ever ceased to oppose the despair which it pleased him to affect.
On the whole, he was noticeably patient. At the time of their removal to these lodgings, seeing that Marian prepared herself to share the change as a matter of course, he let her do as she would without comment; nor had he since spoken to her on the subject which had proved so dangerous. Confidence between them there was none; Yule addressed his daughter in a grave, cold, civil tone, and Marian replied gently, but without tenderness. For Mrs Yule the disaster to the family was distinctly a gain; she could not but mourn her husband’s affliction, yet he no longer visited her with the fury or contemptuous impatience of former days. Doubtless the fact of needing so much tendance had its softening influence on the man; he could not turn brutally upon his wife when every hour of the day afforded him some proof of her absolute devotion. Of course his open-air exercise was still unhindered, and in this season of the returning sun he walked a great deal, decidedly to the advantage of his general health – which again must have been a source of benefit to his temper. Of evenings, Marian sometimes read to him. He never requested this, but he did not reject the kindness.
This afternoon Marian found her father examining a volume of prints which had been lent him by Mr Quarmby. The table was laid for dinner (owing to Marian’s frequent absence at the Museum, no change had been made in the order of meals), and Yule sat by the window, his book propped on a second chair. A whiteness in his eyes showed how the disease was progressing, but his face had a more wholesome colour than a year ago.
‘Mr Hinks and Mr Gorbutt inquired very kindly after you to-day,’ said the girl, as she seated herself.
‘Oh, is Hinks out again?’
‘Yes, but he looks very ill.’
They conversed of such matters until Mrs Yule – now her own servant – brought in the dinner. After the meal, Marian was in her bedroom for about an hour; then she went to her father, who sat in idleness, smoking.
‘What is your mother doing?’ he asked, as she entered.
‘Some needlework.’
‘I had perhaps better say’ – he spoke rather stiffly, and with averted face – ’that I make no exclusive claim to the use of this room. As I can no longer pretend to study, it would be idle to keep up the show of privacy that mustn’t be disturbed. Perhaps you will mention to your mother that she is quite at liberty to sit here whenever she chooses.’
It was characteristic of him that he should wish to deliver this permission by proxy. But Marian understood how much was implied in such an announcement.
‘I will tell mother,’ she said. ‘But at this moment I wished to speak to you privately. How would you advise me to invest my money?’
Yule looked surprised, and answered with cold dignity.
‘It is strange that you should put such a question to me. I should have supposed your interests were in the hands of – of some competent person.’
‘This will be my private affair, father. I wish to get as high a rate of interest as I safely can.’
‘I really must decline to advise, or interfere in any way. But, as you have introduced this subject, I may as well put a question which is connected with it. Could you give me any idea as to how long you are likely to remain with us?’
‘At least a year,’ was the answer, ‘and very likely much longer.’
‘Am I to understand, then, that your marriage is indefinitely postponed?’
‘Yes, father.’
‘And will you tell me why?’
‘I can only say that it has seemed better – to both of us.’
Yule detected the sorrowful emotion she was endeavouring to suppress. His conception of Milvain’s character made it easy for him to form a just surmise as to the reasons for this postponement; he was gratified to think that Marian might learn how rightly he had judged her wooer, and an involuntary pity for the girl did not prevent his hoping that the detestable alliance was doomed. With difficulty he refrained from smiling.
‘I will make no comment on that,’ he remarked, with a certain emphasis. ‘But do you imply that this investment of which you speak is to be solely for your own advantage?’
‘For mine, and for yours and mother’s.’
There was a silence of a minute or two. As yet it had not been necessary to take any steps for raising money, but a few months more would see the family without resources, save those provided by Marian, who, without discussion, had been simply setting aside what she received for her work.
‘You must be well aware,’ said Yule at length, ‘that I cannot consent to benefit by any such offer. When it is necessary, I shall borrow on the security of – ’
‘Why should you do that, father?’ Marian interrupted. ‘My money is yours. If you refuse it as a gift, then why may not I lend to you as well as a stranger? Repay me when your eyes are restored. For the present, all our anxieties are at an end. We can live very well until you are able to write again.’
For his sake she put it in his way. Supposing him never able to earn anything, then indeed would come a time of hardship; but she could not contemplate that. The worst would only befall them in case she was forsaken by Jasper, and if that happened all else would be of little account.
‘This has come upon me as a surprise,’ said Yule, in his most reserved tone. ‘I can give no definite reply; I must think of it.’
‘Should you like me to ask mother to bring her sewing here now?’ asked Marian, rising.
‘Yes, you may do so.’
In this way the awkwardness of the situation was overcome, and when Marian next had occasion to speak of money matters no serious objection was offered to her proposal.
Dora Milvain of course learnt what had come to pass; to anticipate criticism, her brother imparted to her the decision at which Marian and he had arrived. She reflected with an air of discontent.
‘So you are quite satisfied,’ was her question at length, ‘that Marian should toil to support her parents as well as herself?’
‘Can I help it?’
‘I shall think very ill of you if you don’t marry her in a year at latest.’
‘I tell you, Marian has made a deliberate choice. She understands me perfectly, and is quite satisfied with my projects. You will have the kindness, Dora, not to disturb her faith in me.’
‘I agree to that; and in return I shall let you know when she begins to suffer from hunger. It won’t be very long till then, you may be sure. How do you suppose three people are going to live on a hundred a year? And it’s very doubtful indeed whether Marian can earn as much as fifty pounds. Never mind; I shall let you know when she is beginning to starve, and doubtless that will amuse you.’
At the end of July Maud was married. Between Mr Dolomore and Jasper existed no superfluous kindness, each resenting the other’s self-sufficiency; but Jasper, when once satisfied of his proposed brother-in-law’s straightforwardness, was careful not to give offence to a man who might some day serve him. Provided this marriage resulted in moderate happiness to Maud, it was undoubtedly a magnificent stroke of luck. Mrs Lane, the lady who has so often been casually mentioned, took upon herself those offices in connection with the ceremony which the bride’s mother is wont to perform; at her house was held the wedding-breakfast, and such other absurdities of usage as recommend themselves to Society. Dora of course played the part of a bridesmaid, and Jasper went through his duties with the suave seriousness of a man who has convinced himself that he cannot afford to despise anything that the world sanctions.
About the same time occurred another event which was to have more importance for this aspiring little family than could as yet be foreseen. Whelpdale’s noteworthy idea triumphed; the weekly paper called Chat was thoroughly transformed, and appeared as Chit-Chat. From the first number, the success of the enterprise was beyond doubt; in a month’s time all England was ringing with the fame of this noble new development of journalism; the proprietor saw his way to a solid fortune, and other men who had money to embark began to scheme imitative publications. It was clear that the quarter-educated would soon be abundantly provided with literature to their taste.
Whelpdale’s exultation was unbounded, but in the fifth week of the life of Chit-Chat something happened which threatened to overturn his sober reason. Jasper was walking along the Strand one afternoon, when he saw his ingenious friend approaching him in a manner scarcely to be accounted for, unless Whelpdale’s abstemiousness had for once given way before convivial invitation. The young man’s hat was on the back of his head, and his coat flew wildly as he rushed forwards with perspiring face and glaring eyes. He would have passed without observing Jasper, had not the latter called to him; then he turned round, laughed insanely, grasped his acquaintance by the wrists, and drew him aside into a court.
‘What do you think?’ he panted. ‘What do you think has happened?’
‘Not what one would suppose, I hope. You seem to have gone mad.’
‘I’ve got Lake’s place on Chit-Chat!’ cried the other hoarsely. ‘Two hundred and fifty a year! Lake and the editor quarrelled – pummelled each other – neither know nor care what it was about. My fortune’s made!’
‘You’re a modest man,’ remarked Jasper, smiling.
‘Certainly I am. I have always admitted it. But remember that there’s my connection with Fleet as well; no need to give that up. Presently I shall be making a clear six hundred, my dear sir!
A clear six hundred, if a penny!’
‘Satisfactory, so far.’
‘But you must remember that I’m not a big gun, like you! Why, my dear Milvain, a year ago I should have thought an income of two hundred a glorious competence. I don’t aim at such things as are fit for you. You won’t be content till you have thousands; of course I know that. But I’m a humble fellow. Yet no; by Jingo, I’m not! In one way I’m not – I must confess it.’
‘In what instance are you arrogant?’
‘I can’t tell you – not yet; this is neither time nor place. I say, when will you dine with me? I shall give a dinner to half a dozen of my acquaintances somewhere or other. Poor old Biffen must come. When can you dine?’
‘Give me a week’s notice, and I’ll fit it in.’
That dinner came duly off. On the day that followed, Jasper and Dora left town for their holiday; they went to the Channel Islands, and spent more than half of the three weeks they had allowed themselves in Sark. Passing over from Guernsey to that island, they were amused to see a copy of Chit-Chat in the hands of an obese and well-dressed man.
‘Is he one of the quarter-educated?’ asked Dora, laughing.
‘Not in Whelpdale’s sense of the word. But, strictly speaking, no doubt he is. The quarter-educated constitute a very large class indeed; how large, the huge success of that paper is demonstrating. I’ll write to Whelpdale, and let him know that his benefaction has extended even to Sark.’
This letter was written, and in a few days there came a reply.
‘Why, the fellow has written to you as well!’ exclaimed Jasper, taking up a second letter; both were on the table of their sitting-room when they came to their lodgings for lunch. ‘That’s his hand.’
‘It looks like it.’
Dora hummed an air as she regarded the envelope, then she took it away with her to her room upstairs.
‘What had he to say?’ Jasper inquired, when she came down again and seated herself at the table.
‘Oh, a friendly letter. What does he say to you?’
Dora had never looked so animated and fresh of colour since leaving London; her brother remarked this, and was glad to think that the air of the Channel should be doing her so much good. He read Whelpdale’s letter aloud; it was facetious, but oddly respectful.
‘The reverence that fellow has for me is astonishing,’ he observed with a laugh. ‘The queer thing is, it increases the better he knows me.’
Dora laughed for five minutes.
‘Oh, what a splendid epigram!’ she exclaimed. ‘It is indeed a queer thing, Jasper! Did you mean that to be a good joke, or was it better still by coming out unintentionally?’
‘You are in remarkable spirits, old girl. By-the-by, would you mind letting me see that letter of yours?’
He held out his hand.
‘I left it upstairs,’ Dora replied carelessly.
‘Rather presumptuous in him, it seems to me.’
‘Oh, he writes quite as respectfully to me as he does to you,’ she returned, with a peculiar smile.
‘But what business has he to write at all? It’s confounded impertinence, now I come to think of it. I shall give him a hint to remember his position.’
Dora could not be quite sure whether he spoke seriously or not. As both of them had begun to eat with an excellent appetite, a few moments were allowed to pass before the girl again spoke.
‘His position is as good as ours,’ she said at length.
‘As good as ours? The "sub." of a paltry rag like Chit-Chat, and assistant to a literary agency!’
‘He makes considerably more money than we do.’
‘Money! What’s money?’
Dora was again mirthful.
‘Oh, of course money is nothing! We write for honour and glory. Don’t forget to insist on that when you reprove Mr Whelpdale; no doubt it will impress him.’
Late in the evening of that day, when the brother and sister had strolled by moonlight up to the windmill which occupies the highest point of Sark, and as they stood looking upon the pale expanse of sea, dotted with the gleam of light-houses near and far, Dora broke the silence to say quietly:
‘I may as well tell you that Mr Whelpdale wants to know if I will marry him.’
‘The deuce he does!’ cried Jasper, with a start. ‘If I didn’t half suspect something of that kind! What astounding impudence!’
‘You seriously think so?’
‘Well, don’t you? You hardly know him, to begin with. And then – oh, confound it!’
‘Very well, I’ll tell him that his impudence astonishes me.’
‘You will?’
‘Certainly. Of course in civil terms. But don’t let this make any difference between you and him. Just pretend to know nothing about it; no harm is done.’
‘You are speaking in earnest?’
‘Quite. He has written in a very proper way, and there’s no reason whatever to disturb our friendliness with him. I have a right to give directions in a matter like this, and you’ll please to obey them.’
Before going to bed Dora wrote a letter to Mr Whelpdale, not, indeed, accepting his offer forthwith, but conveying to him with much gracefulness an unmistakable encouragement to persevere. This was posted on the morrow, and its writer continued to benefit most remarkably by the sun and breezes and rock-scrambling of Sark.
Soon after their return to London, Dora had the satisfaction of paying the first visit to her sister at the Dolomores’ house in Ovington Square. Maud was established in the midst of luxuries, and talked with laughing scorn of the days when she inhabited Grub Street; her literary tastes were henceforth to serve as merely a note of distinction, an added grace which made evident her superiority to the well-attired and smooth-tongued people among whom she was content to shine. On the one hand, she had contact with the world of fashionable literature, on the other with that of fashionable ignorance. Mrs Lane’s house was a meeting-point of the two spheres.
‘I shan’t be there very often,’ remarked Jasper, as Dora and he discussed their sister’s magnificence. ‘That’s all very well in its way, but I aim at something higher.’
‘So do I,’ Dora replied.
‘I’m very glad to hear that. I confess it seemed to me that you were rather too cordial with Whelpdale yesterday.’
‘One must behave civilly. Mr Whelpdale quite understands me.’
‘You are sure of that? He didn’t seem quite so gloomy as he ought to have been.’
‘The success of Chit-Chat keeps him in good spirits.’
It was perhaps a week after this that Mrs Dolomore came quite unexpectedly to the house by Regent’s Park, as early as eleven o’clock in the morning. She had a long talk in private with Dora. Jasper was not at home; when he returned towards evening, Dora came to his room with a countenance which disconcerted him.
‘Is it true,’ she asked abruptly, standing before him with her hands strained together, ‘that you have been representing yourself as no longer engaged to Marian?’
‘Who has told you so?’
‘That doesn’t matter. I have heard it, and I want to know from you that it is false.’
Jasper thrust his hands into his pockets and walked apart.
‘I can take no notice,’ he said with indifference, ‘of anonymous gossip.’
‘Well, then, I will tell you how I have heard. Maud came this morning, and told me that Mrs Betterton had been asking her about it. Mrs Betterton had heard from Mrs Lane.’
‘From Mrs Lane? And from whom did she hear, pray?’
‘That I don’t know. Is it true or not?’
‘I have never told anyone that my engagement was at an end,’ replied Jasper, deliberately.
The girl met his eyes.
‘Then I was right,’ she said. ‘Of course I told Maud that it was impossible to believe this for a moment. But how has it come to be said?’
‘You might as well ask me how any lie gets into circulation among people of that sort. I have told you the truth, and there’s an end of it.’
Dora lingered for a while, but left the room without saying anything more.
She sat up late, mostly engaged in thinking, though at times an open book was in her hand. It was nearly half-past twelve when a very light rap at the door caused her to start. She called, and Jasper came in.
‘Why are you still up?’ he asked, avoiding her look as he moved forward and took a leaning attitude behind an easy-chair.
‘Oh, I don’t know. Do you want anything?’
There was a pause; then Jasper said in an unsteady voice:
‘I am not given to lying, Dora, and I feel confoundedly uncomfortable about what I said to you early this evening. I didn’t lie in the ordinary sense; it’s true enough that I have never told anyone that my engagement was at an end. But I have acted as if it were, and it’s better I should tell you.’
His sister gazed at him with indignation.
‘You have acted as if you were free?’
‘Yes. I have proposed to Miss Rupert. How Mrs Lane and that lot have come to know anything about this I don’t understand. I am not aware of any connecting link between them and the Ruperts, or the Barlows either. Perhaps there are none; most likely the rumour has no foundation in their knowledge. Still, it is better that I should have told you. Miss Rupert has never heard that I was engaged, nor have her friends the Barlows – at least I don’t see how they could have done. She may have told Mrs Barlow of my proposal – probably would; and this may somehow have got round to those other people. But Maud didn’t make any mention of Miss Rupert, did she?’
Dora replied with a cold negative.
‘Well, there’s the state of things. It isn’t pleasant, but that’s what I have done.’
‘Do you mean that Miss Rupert has accepted you?’
‘No. I wrote to her. She answered that she was going to Germany for a few weeks, and that I should have her reply whilst she was away. I am waiting.’
‘But what name is to be given to behaviour such as this?’
‘Listen: didn’t you know perfectly well that this must be the end of it?’
‘Do you suppose I thought you utterly shameless and cruel beyond words?’
‘I suppose I am both. It was a moment of desperate temptation, though. I had dined at the Ruperts’ – you remember – and it seemed to me there was no mistaking the girl’s manner.’
‘Don’t call her a girl!’ broke in Dora, scornfully. ‘You say she is several years older than yourself.’
‘Well, at all events, she’s intellectual, and very rich. I yielded to the temptation.’
‘And deserted Marian just when she has most need of help and consolation? It’s frightful!’
Jasper moved to another chair and sat down. He was much perturbed.
‘Look here, Dora, I regret it; I do, indeed. And, what’s more, if that woman refuses me – as it’s more than likely she will – I will go to Marian and ask her to marry me at once. I promise that.’
His sister made a movement of contemptuous impatience.
‘And if the woman doesn’t refuse you?’
‘Then I can’t help it. But there’s one thing more I will say. Whether I marry Marian or Miss Rupert, I sacrifice my strongest feelings – in the one case to a sense of duty, in the other to worldly advantage. I was an idiot to write that letter, for I knew at the time that there was a woman who is far more to me than Miss Rupert and all her money – a woman I might, perhaps, marry. Don’t ask any questions; I shall not answer them. As I have said so much, I wished you to understand my position fully. You know the promise I have made. Don’t say anything to Marian; if I am left free I shall marry her as soon as possible.’
And so he left the room.
For a fortnight and more he remained in uncertainty. His life was very uncomfortable, for Dora would only speak to him when necessity compelled her; and there were two meetings with Marian, at which he had to act his part as well as he could. At length came the expected letter. Very nicely expressed, very friendly, very complimentary, but – a refusal.
He handed it to Dora across the breakfast-table, saying with a pinched smile:
‘Now you can look cheerful again. I am doomed.’
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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 Will Sport NVIDIA Quad-Core Chipset
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While limited details have been revealed about the upcoming ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2, new reports all but confirm that the tablet will come equipped with NVIDIA’s next generation quad-core chip.
The Kal-El system on a chip, which may be named the “Tegra 3“, is said to offer four cores, 1.5GHz speeds and support for 1920 x 1200 displays. The chipset was rumored to debut in August, though the Transformer 2 is set for an October release.
If the rumors hold true, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 will be the first tablet to sport the quad-core Kal El, bringing the slate a much improved battery life and superior performance compared to the dual-core Tegra 2 chip found in current Honeycomb tablets. If the tablet actually packs the processor, it would lend credence to Jonney Shih’s, ASUS’s chairman, claim that the Transformer 2 will be “impressive.”
If news of a quad-core powered tablet doesn’t impress you much, take a look at our spec cheat sheet so you can fully understand what kind of punch this chipset will deliver.
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Act I, Scenes ii-iv
Act II, Scenes i-ii
Act II, Scenes iii-vi
Act III, Scenes i-ii
Act IV, Scenes i-iv
Act IV, Scenes v-vii
Act IV, Scenes viii-x
Act V, Scenes i-iv
Act V, Scenes v-vii
Act 1, Scenes ii-iv
Act 2, Scenes i-ii
Act 2, Scenes iii-vi
Act 4, Scenes i-iv
Act 4, Scenes v-vii
Act 4, Scenes viii-x
The Duke of York enters the throne room with his sons and followers, wondering where King Henry has fled to after their recent battles. Warwick urges York to take the throne. As York sits, Henry enters with his followers, who want to fight York right there. Henry urges calm and asks York to descend from the throne. York makes public his alleged claim to the throne, while Henry defends his hereditary possession of the crown. Suspecting that his claim to the throne may be spurious, Henry asks York to let him rule while he lives, and he will pass the throne on to the house of York on his death. York agrees and departs, but Henry's nobles are astonished that he would deny his son the birthright of becoming king on his father's death. Margaret, Henry's queen, arrives and accuses him of being an unnatural father for having disinherited his son and a bad ruler for thinking that York will let him rule.
Back in the town of York, Richard's sons Edward and Richard, and his follower Montague, urge York to take the throne immediately, rather than await Henry's death. York insists he has sworn an oath to let Henry rule, but Richard easily convinces him that the oath was not binding. Meanwhile, Margaret's forces arrive to challenge York.
Richard's other son Rutland is captured and killed on the way home by Clifford, who wants to avenge his father's death at York's hand. York's troops are losing the battle, and York is captured by Margaret and Clifford. She offers him a handkerchief dipped in Rutland's blood and challenges him to wipe his tears with it. He rails against her, calling her unnatural, and Clifford and Margaret stab him to death.
Edward and Richard wonder about the fate of their father, when they see a vision of three suns on the horizon, which Edward believes is a sign that the three York brothers must become as one. Richard isn't so sure, preferring to keep his allegiance only to himself. A messenger arrives with news of York's death, and the brothers are devastated. Warwick and Montague prepare to march to spar again with Margaret's forces, this time bringing the aid of York's other son George's troops.
Margaret and Clifford, with their followers, meet Henry at the town of York. Clifford urges Henry to undo his disinheritance of his son, but Henry isn't convinced that sons automatically appreciate that which their fathers leave them, since he didn't enjoy his father Henry V's legacy. Edward and his men burst in and demand the throne. The nobles from each side insult each other, and Henry tries to speak, but none will listen to him. Edward blames Margaret's pride for the civil war, and he declares that they will have to argue on the field of battle, since she won't let Henry speak.
Richard hunts Clifford on the field of battle in order to revenge his brother's and father's death. The tides of the battle ebb and flow as Henry watches from afar. He sees two soldiers drag dead bodies away from the scene of the fighting, trying to find valuables to steal. As the soldiers remove the armor from the bodies, one discovers he has accidentally killed his own father, and the other, his son. Henry mourns that the battles of the nation have come to this level of unnaturalness. Henry's son Prince Edward urges him to flee.
Clifford is wounded and dies. Edward sees he has won the battle, though Henry is nowhere to be found. They head to London to crown Edward and to give new titles to Richard and George. Meanwhile, as Henry wanders through the forest, he is arrested by two men who support Edward. Edward sends Warwick to France to ask for the hand of the king of France's sister, and Margaret goes to France to ask for aid against Edward.
In London, Lady Gray petitions Edward to get her land back. He takes a liking to her and asks her to marry him. His brothers are annoyed to hear Edward's enthused announcement of his imminent marriage. Richard, alone, considers his potential route to the throne. Many people stand in his way, but what alternative is there? He could enjoy the pleasures of the court, but his physical abnormalities, including a hump back and withered arm, make him undesirable. Therefore, nothing remains for him but to connive and plot to get the crown. He decides he will play the role of the good brother and subject, while he plots ways to eliminate everyone in his way to the throne.
In France, Warwick and Margaret arrive at the same time. King Louis decides to give the hand of his sister, Lady Bona, to Edward, thus, denying Margaret aid, when a messenger arrives with news of Edward's marriage. Insulted to have been sent on a futile errand, Warwick changes sides, pledging his allegiance to Henry. Louis gives Margaret troops to fight with Edward.
In England, Edward and his brothers and lords discuss his marriage. They receive news that Warwick and Margaret have joined forces. George is so upset by Edward's new marriage that he leaves with Somerset to join with Warwick. In preparations for the coming battles, Edward is captured. Seeing George on the enemy's side, Edward gives up the throne and consents to be imprisoned at Warwick's brother's estate. Yet Richard and Hastings soon spring Edward from his gilded prison.
Warwick, George, and their nobles find Henry in the Tower and free him. Henry says he wants to be king in name only, and he names Warwick and George as joint protectors of the kingdom. They receive word that Edward has escaped to Brittany, from where he soon returns with reinforcements. Returning to the town of York, Edward thinks he wants only to be the Duke of York, but his followers urge him to seek the crown.
Henry's followers go to gather troops to battle Edward. Edward and Richard capture Henry and send him to the Tower before they march to meet Warwick's army. Edward's army meets Warwick's forces, and Edward asks Warwick if he will again swear allegiance to him. Warwick refuses. Warwick's supporters arrive, including George. Richard convinces George to break with Warwick, and the forces prepare to fight.
Warwick is wounded in battle and dies. Warwick's surviving supporters, Somerset and Oxford, go to join Margaret's army. Margaret urges on her forces, and they meet Edward's army. Edward wins this battle; he sends Somerset and Oxford away, kills Prince Edward, and imprisons a mourning Margaret. Richard sneaks off to the Tower, where Henry awaits.
Henry prophesizes that thousands will suffer because of Richard's deeds, for Richard was born under all the most inauspicious and evil signs. Richard kills Henry and declares himself separated from the ties of family and brotherhood. Since he was punished by the heavens with such unfortunate physical attributes, he will fight for himself alone hereafter. And with Henry and his son out of the way, Richard's next goal is to eliminate George and Edward.
Edward's son has been born, and George and Richard kiss the child. Edward calls for festivities to celebrate his attainment of the throne. At last there is no one to oppose him--except his own brother.
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The Torribera Mediterranean Center
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Master’s degree MEDITERRANEAN DIET: FOOD, HEALTH AND NUTRITIONAL GASTRONOMY
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The Torribera Mediterranean Center is a Barcelona-based, Mediterranean-wide academic center that addresses vital public health and sustainability issues through expanded academic, professional, and business collaborations. It aims to advance adoption of Mediterranean dietary patterns in restaurants and foodservice, in food manufacturing, and at home. TMC connects cutting-edge food and nutrition research with culinary, agricultural, and business innovation to translate scientific evidence into action. It is open to Mediterranean, European and other international partners.
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The Torribera Mediterranean Center organized programs to promote the Mediterranean diet
Throughout April and May, the Torribera Mediterranean Center organized programs to promote the well-established scientific evidence between the Mediterranean diet and health. The programs, aimed at students, professors, and professionals, included the seminar “The Mediterranean Diet: Your Health, Your Plate,” which took place at the Torribera Food Campus of the University of Barcelona on May…
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The rector of the UB, Joan Elias, and the mayor of Santa Coloma de Gremenet, Núria Parlon, as president of the company Gameimpuls, have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of activities of the Torribera Mediterranean Center (TMC), a center of the UB and the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), recently created. Located in…
PREDIMED at Torribera Mediterranean Center
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“While the Torribera Mediterranean Center will have a strong, physical presence here at the University of Barcelona, the work of the center will embrace the entire Mediterranean Basin and will have impacts internationally, as we work with other collaborators to enhance the health and sustainability of global food systems and dietary patterns. At the same time, working with our colleagues at The Culinary Institute of America, we have to redouble our efforts to preserve this gift of heritage that is the Mediterranean Diet, for this and future generations worldwide.”
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Exports likely to miss $125 bn..
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The $125-billion export target for 2006-07 may remain a dream unless Indian exporters’ efforts in March produce an extraordinary result.
Exports likely to miss $125 bn target
With cumulative exports touching $109.1 billion in the first 11 months of the fiscal –– registering a growth of 22.95% –– exports in the last month of the fiscal have to be a whopping $16 billion to meet the government’s target. This would translate into a 46.7% growth requirement for March 2007 over exports worth $10.9 billion recorded in March 2006.
This huge growth target doesn’t seem easy, especially with merchandise exports in February 2007 valued at a modest $9.7 billion, registering a 23.83% growth over February 2006.
According to the provisional data for merchandise exports available from directorate general of commercial intelligence & statistics (DGCI&S), imports during April-February 2006-07 grew 30.59% to $164.98 billion. This took the overall trade deficit to $55.85 billion in the first 11 months of the current fiscal, which was 48.6% higher than a deficit of $37.57 billion in the same period last year.
Imports during February 2007 were valued at $14.36 billion compared with $11.04 billion in February 2006. Crude oil imports were valued at $4.06 billion during the month compared with $4.1 billion in the corresponding period last year, registering a negative growth of 1.18%. Crude oil imports during April-February 2006-07 were valued at $52.67 billion which was 32.52% higher than crude oil imports of $39.748 billion in the corresponding period last year.
Non-oil imports were estimated at $10.3 billion during February 2007 –– 39.77% higher than growth of non-oil imports of $7.37 billion in February 2006. Non-oil imports during April-February 2006-07 were valued at $112.31 billion which was 25.67% higher than the level of such imports valued at $89.37 billion in April-February, 2006.
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A supper club that brings together friends of friends over the culinary and visual arts in New York City
Victory CluB By chefanie
Chefanie at home. Photo credit: Agnes Fischer
Victory Club Brings Together Friends And Friends Of Friends
Over The Culinary And Visual Arts.
Stephanie Nass (nicknamed "Chefanie" by her younger brother) founded Victory Club out of a need she felt while working as a financial analyst in Silicon Valley.
Victory Club was her solution to the gap between her creative life in school and her less creative life post-college. Chefanie started cooking for friends in her shoebox New York City apartment in late 2014 -- everyone covered the costs of ingredients and was encouraged to bring someone who was not originally invited. The springboard for conversation at that time was the work on her walls -- primarily her own paintings but also treasured gifts from artist friends. Now the project has outgrown her apartment: boasting a membership of sixty subscribing members and hundreds of guests, events take place in venues related to the arts: galleries, museums, artists' studios, private art collections, and restaurants with art collections. Mostly in New York, but also with pop ups in London, Miami, Nashville, and the Hamptons.
Chefanie studied Art History at Columbia and professional culinary arts at the International Culinary Center. Chefanie is 25 and looks to inspire others to host their own versions of Victory Club where ever they are. Her website is here.
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Cloudy skies this morning followed by scattered showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon. High 82F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%..
Partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 71F. Winds light and variable.
The Letter to the Editor was run in the Spring 2019 edition of the Illinois State Magazine.
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ISU administration officials respond after controversial letter to the editor
ELIZABETH SEILS | News Reporter | @SeilsElizabeth
Elizabeth Seils
Illinois State University Marketing and Communications continues to review its editorial policies after facing backlash over a controversial letter to the editor published in their April issue.
The letter came in response to an article on couples who met at Illinois State.
The article featured a lesbian couple and was published in the April 2018 issue.
The letter, written by alumnae Linda Jackson, cited religious arguments against gay marriage, as well as a general concern for the state of the country.
“God’s design for marriage is between one man and one woman. Anything else is an abomination to the Lord.
"This country is spiraling in the wrong direction because people are living ungodly and going against the Bible,” the letter said.
The controversial letter has led to UMC reviewing future letters to the editor as a whole in the publication. Executive Director of UMC Brian Beam said that over the last 20 years of the magazine, a small group of people have selected and published the letters. He added that they are discussing the relevance of letters to the editor and their inclusion in future publications of the magazine.
“The alumni magazine should not be another example of our polarized culture, but rise above it and be a model for how to discuss differing perspectives,” Beam said. “Obviously, we fell short. We need to do better.”
“Illinois State” is a quarterly magazine for the members of the Illinois State Alumni Association. President Larry Dietz made a statement regarding the letter on April 25.
“It contained language that violated the university’s value of respect and it is in conflict with strides the university has made and continues to make related to our values of diversity and inclusion,” Dietz said in the statement.
The impact was felt not only among alumni, but current students as well.
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“Many of the people in Pride were incredibly upset and hurt by the letter when it first came out ... Even though it was published in an alumni magazine, its effect was very much felt by our LGBTQ students as well as our alumni."
– Emily Patterson, president of ISU Pride
Some have supported the letter’s publication as a part of free speech and objectivity in the magazine. Beam said the publication seeks alumni feedback, though they are currently devising different ways to receive that feedback and they “deeply regret” the pain that the letter has caused the community.
“It is one thing to support free speech and an entirely different thing to support hateful speech, and saying that you are disgusted by LGBTQ relationships and calling those relationships abominations is hateful speech,” Patterson said.
”If the university wishes to continue championing its values of diversity, inclusion, and respect,” she continued, “it cannot do so while giving platform to homophobic voices.”
Pride at ISU has also published a full statement on the letter on its Facebook page.
ELIZABETH SEILS is a News Reporter for The Vidette. She can be contacted at elseils@ilstu.edu Follow her on Twitter at @SeilsElizabeth
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Home » News » METAL CHURCH Release 2nd Video/Single From New Album, Damned If You Do!
METAL CHURCH Release 2nd Video/Single From New Album, Damned If You Do!
Posted on October 27, 2018 by Chris Jennings in News
West coast metal veterans METAL CHURCH will release their 12th full length studio album Damned If You Do via Nuclear Blast Records on December 7th 2018 (Rat Pak Records/America & King Records/Japan).
The latest release is the follow-up to their highly successful 2016 album XI, which saw the return of legendary front man Mike Howe!
Damned If You Do is a cross between the band’s iconic Blessing In Disguise and The Human Factor with this new offering featuring ten fully-charged, classic-metal influenced songs showcasing the sound that has garnered the band a solid fan base for over 3 decades.
After unleashing their first new single two weeks ago, the band has now launched the second single, “Out Of Balance”. Check out the video below!
Guitar maestro Kurdt Vanderhoof comments, “The song is about finding your place in your life and making peace with it. Realising that your life is a series of choices and at the end of the day being able to accept that fact.”
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Writer Says You'll Feel Thor's Rage
Posted: May 30th, 2009 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
CineFools had the chance to speak to "Thor" writer Ashley Miller and asked him what he will bring to the characters in the Thor saga. Here is what Miller said:
"Not in the sense that you'd want to see a generic "dark" take on Thor, but in the sense that you want to feel Thor's rage when he rages. You want to see him fight like hell, and take as much he dishes out -- maybe more. You want to have a visceral reaction to the guy, and what happens to him. You don't want his adventures to be clean and antiseptic. You want to see the dirt, and grime and blood. You want to feel every bone crunching moment of every fight. And when he unleashes the storm, you want to feel like you're seeing the power of a GOD at work."
When asked how realistic the film will be, Miller replied: "Does he throw his back out if he hurls the hammer a little too hard? probably not. He's a god. He's incredibly strong. He can fly. He tosses lightning bolts. There's nothing realistic about any of that. But he also bleeds. He struggles. Life kicks him where it hurts the most. Dramatically speaking, the powers and Asgard are gravy. The meat -- and what makes it a Marvel movie -- is the character."
Click here to read more about "Thor."
Source: CineFools
Displaying 23 comment(s) Profanity: Turn On
borat writes:
wow gay! third person to post after me blows hobos
DCScotty writes:
Seriously WP, I love this site, but is there any way that your staff could clean up the comments. All the homophobia and misogyny is really unbecoming. I just don't want you guys to be judged based off of some your ignorant commenters. Too much of "that's gay" and "that bitch needs to shut up."
Strider23 writes:
I agree with scott borat seriasly needs to shut the hell up and stop with all these usless comments i love this site love movies all kinds of great news and such
tomnottommy writes:
yea, it was funny the first time i saw that comment, but not anymore. well i guess i blow hobos now
DisasterBlaster writes:
Life even kicks Thor in the nuts sometimes.
BrandoFresh writes:
I really wish this was still coming out next year. It will be worth the wait though.
Necronullus writes:
Anyway, this is why Kenneth Branagh rules. All his films are gold. And you know as a great director and actor he is on top. Thats cause he actually takes his time to choose a project and do it right. Look what he did with Frankenstien? Had the brains to get Frank Darabont to write it. I am so glad hes making this.
synthetic1985 writes:
yea i'm sorry to sound rude...but enough with the hobo comments borat!!...notice how nobody cared at first?....but now we're just getting seriously annoyed...only people who keep saying that blows hobos...and i'm gonna keep saying that for every time you say that...so you'll be the only one playing a joke on yourself....so go ahead...say it again....my next response will be something you won't expect...people who keep saying the same stupid joke is nothing but a joke...ever heard that one?...so stop saying it PLEASE!...you're gonna start a cyber fight with somebody
and Necronullus...i agree with you there...that's the same aspect that chris nolan used on batman...but all the others felt that other comics could be taken realistically....f*ck NO...they should always be done right and not realistically....batman was a realistic character in a realistic world....was x-men?...no...was the hulk?...no...was spiderman?...no....i hope they do this right with thor...so far, it sounds like they are
Minkowski Sucks writes:
I miss minkowski. At least he wasn't as conceited as the rest of the worst previews community has become. Nobody on these forums has a life. None of you guys has ever really contributed anything worthwhile to the discussions on the posts. Has anybody here ever made a movie before, or at least something that wasn't youtube crap? Minkowski was a genius compared to your menial posts. At least he could properly articulate a thought. Prevalent Mind and others like Synthetic1985 need to realize that they're not in their prime anymore and it's time to get off the internet and do something with themselves.
acslaterson writes:
Well at least this writer gets Thor!!! (His first name is Ashley, he should know a thing or two about rage, haha. ) I am not even going to respond to the previous comments. Talk about the damn story people!!!
alexzzzz writes:
all i want from this movie i too be violent with alot of intense action
vwkombi writes:
That's the way i want the Thor movie to be, brutal and intense action with a strong plot and great character development to weigh the film down. If it's done right it will blow Iron Man out of the water.
Minkowski Sucks, i was in a bad mood when i read your comment....so now i'm gonna say some sh*t back...i understand where you're coming from...but don't come off making me or PrevelantMind or others look stupid...i already did my talking about the article....it's not fair for you to say any of us don't have a life....saying nobody on here has a life also means you don't as well, even minkowski....but that statement is completely false isn't it?...think before you speak...i was never in my 'prime' in the first place nor was i trying to be, even minkowski knows that...i come on here whenever i want...not 24-7...and i was visiting this site a lot before i even started posting comments....i just thought it would be fun to say some sh*t too, but i guess you weren't here when i posted that one...btw why would you say you miss minkowski?...your screen name makes me ponder on that...and for the record, i am doing something with myself...you just didn't ask or didn't know or didn't notice, did you?...besides, my thoughts were opinions anyway, so there was never any need to articulate it properly...so say something else about me, i'm sure you know a lot more than i do about MY life...*sshole
rocketman writes:
i wonder if they will go with the cape and helmet look ,or the Ultimates getup?
Sinestro writes:
The new Olivier Copiel look (looks like actual armor) would be perfect for the movie, but I would rather they went with the old school get-up instead of the "headlights" look Bryan Hitch made up for him. Of all the Ultimates redesigns Thor's was the only one I didn't really like.
Blade12322 writes:
anyone who comments first on this article and is under the user "borat" is small in the pants... there =]
Adamtheflash writes:
on May 31st, 2009 at 4:16:57 PM
Why do all internet threads turn into these kind of arguments towards each other? Many people wouldn't even have the balls to say half the sh*t that is typed to someone's face. Why can't we just talk movies? If you want to talk about blowing hobos, I'm sure there's a blowing hobos site you can go to. Leave this site alone. Someone from WP has to be monitoring this right?
As far as the movie goes, I am excited for it. I have recently become a fan of Thor, and it should be a fun movie. Luckily, that's all I'm really expecting from this film. Kenneth Branagh hasn't really directed any notable films except Shakespeare stuff,so I'm not entirely sure that an action packed super hero movie is his bag. But if this writer has his way, he should bring a lot to the table. And who knows, maybe Branagh's Shakespeare experience will focus on some of the Norse lore, which could enhance the movie. It should be pretty good. If you're expecting the Dark Knight, you'll probably be disappointed.
Ranger writes:
This is a VERY TOUGH movie to do well. This Director has balls.
gunfighterii writes:
Synthetic you talk way to much....
makingcircles writes:
on June 1st, 2009 at 1:32:27 PM
"Minkowski Sucks"...if you miss Minkowski so much you should change your screen name to "I heart Minkowski". Also...Nobody is past their prime. That's ridiculous. Everybody has a place on here and posters like PrevalentMind and Synthetic1985 give just as much to this site as anybody else. Even the occasional down syndrome posters like borat have a place here. So get off your high horse...or your lazyboy...or your bedpan...or whatever...and just try and relax and enjoy.
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It has been suggested that ‘Psalm 137 has the distinction of having one of the most beloved opening lines and the most horrifying closing line of any psalm.’ (Clifford)
137:1 By the rivers of Babylon
we sit down and weep
when we remember Zion.
137:2 On the poplars in her midst
we hang our harps,
137:3 for there our captors ask us to compose songs;
those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying:
“Sing for us a song about Zion!”
137:4 How can we sing a song to the LORD
in a foreign land?
137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
may my right hand be crippled!
137:6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
and do not give Jerusalem priority
over whatever gives me the most joy.
137:7 Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
They said, “Tear it down, tear it down,
right to its very foundation!”
137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated!
How blessed will be the one who repays you
for what you dished out to us!
137:9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies
and smashes them on a rock!
v7 ‘God both by Ezekiel and Jeremiah had predicted that he would punish the Edomites, (Eze 25:13; Jer 49:7; and Lam 4:21) and Obadiah distinctly gives the reason, answerable to what is here stated — that they had conspired with the Babylonians. (Oba 1:11.)…The Psalmist prays, under the inspiration of the Spirit, that God would practically demonstrate the truth of this prediction. And when he says, Remember, O Jehovah! he would remind God’s people of the promise to strengthen their belief in his avenging justice, and make them wait for the event with patience and submission. To pray for vengeance would have been unwarrantable, had not God promised it, and had the party against whom it was sought not been reprobate and incurable; for as to others, even our greatest enemies, we should wish their amendment and reformation.’ (Calvin)
v8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction – ‘Incredible as it might appear that any calamity should overtake so mighty an empire as Babylon then was, and impregnable as it was generally considered to be, he sees in the glass of the Word its destruction and overthrow.’ (Calvin)
What you dished out to us! – The imprecation of v8f is not random, or frivolous. It is the white-hot response to acts of terrible cruelty. In a calmer moment, the psalmist would have acknowledge that the Lord says, ‘vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ The yet more radical ethic of Jesus teaches us to pray for our enemies, and to seek reconciliation, rather than vindication.
v9 Neighbouring nations were in the habit of dealing thus with children when engaging in their many wars, 2 King 8:12; Hos 10:14; 13:16; Nah 3:10. God through Isaiah, Isa 13:16, and already predicted Babylon’s destruction in similar terms, and so the writer here is fully mindful of God’s prerogative in judgement, aligning himself with God’s already-revealed will.
This apparent celebration of violence is, for many, impossible to countenance. Derek Flood (Disarming Scripture, p20f) is dismissive of any attempts to justify the text. He cites Grogan as saying, ‘The modern reader … would be much less troubled by the simple statement that it would be good when the evil Babylonian empire came to its divinely predicted end.’ Flood’s response is: ‘In other words, atrocities and violence are less disturbing when its victims are thought of in impersonal and abstract terms. Try not to imagine their faces, and it isn’t as upsetting. This is the advice we are given by a commentary that prides itself for its focus on the Bible’s contemporary relevance and theological reflection.’
We think that Flood should have made a better effort to understand both the text and Grogan’s comment on it before finding fault with both.
Grogan comment in full is:-
Crenshaw thinks these imprecatory prayers cannot be justified theologically: “the use of Psalms for daily devotion and as a model of prayer … runs the risk of infecting religious people with harmful attitudes. Do the prayers for vengeance against personal enemies sacralize violence?” Surely our answer to Crenshaw must be no. There is no suggestion of the psalmist himself taking a vengeful initiative. These passages are prayers, not programs for human action. The psalmist leaves the matter in the hands of God, calling on him to uphold the right. In this respect, they are remarkably similar to an NT passage, Rev 6:9–10: “I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, ‘How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?’ ”
Many readers will find Ps 137:8–9 particularly difficult, for here the psalmist invokes a blessing on those who violently take the lives of children in Babylon. Two points may be made. The first is that what the psalmist contemplates is what the prophet Isaiah had predicted would happen (Isa 13:16). The second is that the OT as a whole often tends to use concrete language in contexts where modern writers are more likely to use abstract terms. This is usually helpful to us in giving vividness to the expression, but in this case the vividness is just too intense for the imagination of the modern reader, who would be much less troubled by a simple statement that it would be good when the evil Babylonian regime came to its divinely predicted end, for this is what these verses mean.
This is considerably more nuanced that Flood would have us believe, as are the comments of a range of other interpreters:-
Calvin – ‘It may seem to savor of cruelty, that he should wish the tender and innocent infants to be dashed and mangled upon the stones, but he does not speak under the impulse of personal feeling, and only employs words which God had himself authorized, so that this is but the declaration of a just judgment, as when our Lord says, “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” (Mt 7:2.)
Kidner (TOTC) suggests that in the cool light of day the Psalmist might have reasoned: ‘What do the perpetrators of such acts deserve? the dispassionate answer would presumably be ‘the degree of suffering they imposed on others’, leaving aside the further question of what should in fact be done to them, and by whom. To that further question the New Testament replies that ultimately God ‘will render to every man according to his works’, but also makes it clear that wrath is only for the ‘hard and impenitent heart’ (Rom. 2:5f.).’
As it is, the Psalmist’s thoughts and feelings are expressed with white-hot intensity. Kidner proposes a threefold response for us reading this today: ‘First, to distil the essence of it, as God himself did with the cries of Job and Jeremiah. Secondly, to receive the impact of it. This raw wound, thrust before us, forbids us to give smooth answers to the fact of cruelty. To cut this witness out of the Old Testament would be to impair its value as revelation, both of what is in man and of what the cross was required to achieve for our salvation. Thirdly, our response should be to recognize that our calling, since the cross, is to pray down reconciliation, not judgment.’
Broyles (UBCS) notes that ‘such passionate loyalty is something with which few of us can identify, though not necessarily because we are more noble. We too should passionately guard the heritage God has given us, and we must ensure that our passionate rage be committed to God in prayer, as this psalm endorses, and not taken into our own hands. Otherwise, we abuse the text by ignoring its context, namely that Psalm 137 is in the mouth of powerless victims, not powerful executioners. As we have seen elsewhere in the Psalms, especially the laments, these prayers allow God’s people to vent their feelings, even when they may not have complete theological endorsement or legitimacy (see the Introduction). Although, for example, the lament, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Psa 22:1), is not an accurate reflection of God’s actual relationship to the speaker (note how the psalm later withdraws this claim in v. 24), such impassioned expressions of feelings are not expunged from the canonized psalms.’
Mays, too, has some helpful things to say: ‘There is no evading the passionate pain and anger that animates these prayers. They call for the accounts in the books of history to be balanced. But they are not to be reduced to a personal desire for savage revenge…Whatever justifiable reservations may lead us to omit their prayers from our lections and prayers must not obscure the question their passion and understanding places against ours.’
Ellsworth notes that ‘in the process of taking Jerusalem, the Babylonians committed unspeakable atrocities against its citizens. Babies were brutally killed and women were ravished. In taking this position, the writer was merely acknowledging the moral principle that God himself has revealed, namely, what we sow, we reap (Job 4:8; Prov. 22:8; Hos. 10:13; Gal. 6:7). More particularly, he was delighting in the prospect of that which God himself had promised to do, namely, bring severe judgement on Babylon (Isa. 13:1–22, esp. v. 16).’
According to Zengler, this psalm ‘is an attempt, in the face of the most profound humiliation and helplessness, to suppress the primitive human lust for violence in one’s own heart, by surrendering everything to God—a God whose word of judgment is presumed to be so universally just that even those who pray the psalm submit themselves to it.’
‘Psalm 137, along with the other imprecatory psalms in the Psalter, reminds us of the basic human desire for revenge when we or those we love have been wronged. God does not ask us to suppress those emotions, but rather to speak about them in plain and heartfelt terms. In the speaking out, we give voice to the pain, the feelings of helplessness, and the burning anger. In speaking out to God, we give the pain, the helplessness, and the burning anger to God. And we trust that God’s justice will be done.’ (deClaisse-Walford)
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Are you a leader or just a boss?
I often find that many people confuse leadership with positional power. We tend to believe that a person in a position of authority or someone with a title has their position or title due to their leadership qualities. However, in many cases there is no correlation between someone’s position and their leadership ability.
Just having a title does not make you a leader, leaderships is about influence. Title only buys you time to exercise true leadership, and in this time your leadership either increases or diminishes and eventually fails. There is a huge difference between being a boss and being a leader…! Consider the following…
The boss drives group members; the leader coaches them.
The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.
The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.
The boss says ‘I’; the leader says ‘we.’
The boss assigns the task, the leader sets the pace.
The boss says, ‘Get there on time’; the leader gets there ahead of time.
The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.
The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how.
The boss makes work a drudgery; the leader makes it a game.
The boss says, ‘Go’; the leader says, ‘Let’s go.’“
People follow the boss because they have to if they want to keep their jobs. People follow leaders because of who they are and were they are going. Too many leaders today rely on their position to lead. How about you?
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(Indonesia tsunami) No-go area extended to three miles
World | 27 Dec 2018 1:32 pm
Indonesia today widened the no-go zone around an island volcano that triggered a tsunami on the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java. The volcanology agency raised the Anak Krakatau volcano's alert status to the second highest and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 3-mile radius. The eruption on Saturday evening caused part of the island in the Sunda Strait to c...
Indonesia today widened the no-go zone around an island volcano that triggered a tsunami on the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java.
The volcanology agency raised the Anak Krakatau volcano's alert status to the second highest and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 3-mile radius.
The eruption on Saturday evening caused part of the island in the Sunda Strait to collapse into the sea, apparently generating tsunami waves of more than 6 1/2 feet. The government has warned Sunda Strait communities to stay less than a mile away from the coastline because of the risk of another tsunami.
Heavy rains and high seas have hampered the search and effort. Some bodies were found at sea and at least 159 are missing.
Radar data from satellites, converted into images, shows the Anak Krakatau volcano is dramatically smaller following Saturday's eruption.
Satellite photos are not available because of cloud cover but radar images from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency satellite taken before and after the eruption show the volcano's southwestern flank has disappeared.
Dave Petley, head of research and innovation at Sheffield University who analyzed similar images from a European Space Agency satellite, said they support the theory that a landslide, most of it undersea, caused the tsunami.
"The challenge now is to interpret what might be happening on the volcano, and what might happen next,'' he wrote in a blog.
JASA's post-eruption image shows concentric waves radiating from the island, which experts say is caused by its ongoing eruptions.-AP
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Do Ants have a King? Is it Permissible to Ask?
It's been almost two months since I shut down this blog. The reason for the shutdown is still in place: Having been appointed as Israel's State Archivist and a high-ish civil servant, I can't write a political blog. (Nor, to be honest, do I have the time). Interestingly, however, since the shutdown there's a steady stream of a few hundred daily visitors to this dormant blog; apparently, if one believes the visitor stats, some of the posts are useful even long after they were written. Which poses a problem since truly dormant blogs eventually get deleted by the owners of the servers on which they reside (Google, in this case). So by way of staving off that fate, I will ocasionally post here, never on political matters, and only rarely - just enough to keep the appearence of a live blog.
Here's a nice Daf Yomi story from Hulin 56b, which we passed earlier this week. It is written, in Proverbs chapter 6 verses 6-8:
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Rabbi Shimon ben Halafta asked himself if this was really so, and decided to test it. On a hot summer day he found an anthill, and used his cloak to cast shade over it, since ants (so the story) like shade and dislike the hot sun. Soon an ant came out and saw the shade. Rabbi Shimon ben Halafta marked the ant so he could recognize it. The ant went back into the anthill and annonced that there was shade outside, and soon enough other ants began swarming out. Rabbi Shimon then removed the shading cloak; When the new ants saw there was in fact no shade, they killed the first ant; from this Rabbi Shimon infered that they indeed have no king, since if they had one they would have required his permission before killing the errant ant.
The Gemarah then tells of a discussion between a number of Amoraim, scholars of a latter generation, who aren't sure Rabbi Shimon's research reslts were vaild. Isn't it possible, for example, that the ants had standing permission from the king to kill individual ants who lie to the community? Or perhaps the king was one of the ants that came out and felt tricked, and he authorized the killing on the spot? Or perhaps it just so happened that the experiment fell on a transitional moment between kings, as is told in the book of Judges (17, 6) In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Rashi (11th century) and Tosafot (12-13 century) debate how it's possible that Rabbi Shimon ben Halafta didn't take King Solomon's word (King Solomon being traditionally regarded as the author of Proverbs); they also wonder how the Amoraim ask so many questions: after all, King Solomon must have known what he was talking about, no? This discussion continued at least until recent centuries, when some rabbis resolved it by pointing out that King Solomon himself said we should go and observe the ants, back in the original verse.
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Posted on April 15, 2018 April 15, 2018 by Robert Daniels
‘You Were Never Really Here:’ Speaks Softly, But Carries A Big Stick
You Were Never Really Here isn’t just about the rescue of a State Senator’s daughter. Rather an expression of a single man’s existence, ghostly by all extents. The man: Joe, an ex-soldier, is warm, gentle, and violently sadistic, at one moment buying water for the rescued, the next bludgeoning his victims with a ball-point hammer.
Scarred, overweight, incoherently mumbling through a dense beard: Phoenix is nearly unrecognizable as Joe. Director Lynne Ramsay, in her adaptation of Johnathan Ames’s novella, keeps us at an emotional distance from this character, as the film opens with his heavy protracted breathing.
Few know that he exists. Fewer want to know. After burning a picture of a girl, he packs away, in a plastic bag, his hammer and rolled tape. Using back exits to escape, shadowing past cleaning ladies, we know that Joe is a methodical savage vigilante. Some might say that approach precludes us from caring about him. However, we’re only as close to him as he allows of others.
In fact, we know of only one person, his senile mother (Judith Roberts), who’s near to him. When he cares for her, he’s at his gentlest. Entertaining her with light games and songs. Without her, he’d suffocated himself with plastic long ago. Barring that, we know little else of Joe. The tiny shrapnel of his past hits us in short intervals: from dead bodies piled in a storage container to his young mother cowering under the table.
Ramsey isn’t much on plot. Much of You Were Never Really Here feels too outlandish to be believed, as unlikely plot twist after unlikely plot twist follows Joe while he searches for Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov), the Senator’s daughter. Obviously a film lives and dies by its plot, but Ramsey’s aim isn’t to tell a story, it’s to distantly examine a man. And though the two, character and plot, are linked, they are not inseparable.
That may feel like I’m moving the goalpost, so to speak. But films hit us in different ways, and art isn’t a checkbox of logical continuation. Instead, I was drawn to Joe. The film never asks me to be drawn to him, but I was. He leaves more questions than answers. To save Nina he’s offered a tidy fee of $57,000. It’s to be believed that Joe is busy in his profession, yet we don’t see the money in his appearance. Much of it may go to the care of his mother, but my hunch is that Joe cares very little for money. He cares for very little for people. For friends. For entertainment. He’s difficult to understand, which is the epicenter for any fascinating character study.
Additionally, I’m not sure anyone else could have played this role but Joaquin Phoenix. While most of his lines are negligible, almost impressionistic, it’s his cohabitation with the character that’s haunting. The humped left shoulder. The weighted limp. His heavy morose breathing. His indelible and furious wail. These components create a character who’s nearly unrelenting in his vicious violence. In fact, he’s a man who’d rather that we’d turn away, yet we are unable to. His brothel takeover is one such occasion. As he torrents through security and perverts, we’re given shifting perspectives through surveillance cameras. These rapacious cuts from one black-and-white camera to the next, is accompanied by a disjointed gleefully repetitious rendition of “Angel Baby.” Putting Joe’s savagery on partial and vicarious display (also, if you want to know how the brothel scene was designed, I’d recommend my interview with the film’s Set Decorator, Kendall Anderson).
The director also intersperses Joe’s outbursts with cruelly ironic humor. A scene of him lying by his dying victim, as the two softly sing Charlene’s “I’ve Never Been To Me,” not only provides levity but also a window into his bi-polar brutality. It’s a moment that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in film, and is one of the many examples of Pheonix’s immense range even in the quietest of instances.
Ramsey also employs camera mounts on cars as the vehicles pass through the city. Often we see clear shots of New York’s skyline, and many times, the environment she’s filming is as indistinguishable as Joe in a crowd. When combined with Johnny Greenwood’s sparse, ambient, propulsionary dark score we become ingratiated into Joe’s chilling psyche. In fact, the strongest part of the film is its mixing of diegetic and non-diegetic sound, which when both are playing are nearly indistinguishable as well.
And though many have compared You Were Never Really Here to Taxi Driver, I feel that comparison does a disservice to Ramsay’s creation as, barring a vigilante saving a young girl in a prostitution ring, there are few similarities. The Travis Bickel character is different in scope and feel from Phoenix’s, and has grander ambitions.
Ramsay’s film is an altogether separate study, asking very little of us. We’re not told to make moralistic judgments. To hate. To love. To fear. We’re not even hoping Joe saves Nina. Instead, we’re hoping to see a man who finds a reason to live. And maybe those stakes are more psychological than emotional. Maybe they don’t concoct us to care for an individual who operates in the shadows of an underground playground. But they do enliven our survivalist instincts, believing that Joe should gasp through the plastic for one last breath of fresh air.
Tagged with:But Carries A Big Stick, Ekaterina Samsonov, film, Film reviews, Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Lynne Ramsay, movies, reviews, Speaks Softy, You Were Never Really Here
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All issues Volume 130 / No 1 (May II 1998) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 130 1 (1998) 109-115 Abstract
Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 130, Number 1, May II 1998
https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1998215
Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 130, 109-115 (1998)
monitoring of ON 231 during the great outburst in 1994-1997*
G. Tosti1, M. Fiorucci1, M. Luciani1, N. Rizzi1, M. Villata2, C. M. Raiteri2, G. De Francesco2, L. Lanteri2, M. Chiaberge2, A. Peila2, M. Cavallone2, G. Sobrito2, M. Maesano3, E. Massaro3, F. Montagni3, R. Nesci3, G. Ghisellini4, L. O. Takalo5, A. Sillanpää5, S. Katajainen5, P. Heinämäki5, K. Nilsson5 and T. Pursimo5
1 Cattedra di Astrofisica, Università di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio 20, I-10025 Pino Torinese, Italy
3 Istituto Astronomico, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", via G.M. Lancisi 29, I-00161 Roma, Italy
4 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via Bianchi, 46, I-22055 Merate, Italy
5 Tuorla Observatory, Tuorla, FIN-21500 Piikkiö, Finland
Send offprint request to: emailtosti@pg.infn.it
We present the most continuous data base of optical multiband data ever published on the BL Lacertae object ON 231 (W Com). The data have been collected during an intensive and coordinated monitoring campaign carried out in the period from March 1994 to March 1997. During our campaign, the source brightness was at the highest level ever observed. The light curve shows a complex structure, characterized by the presence of three major outbursts having the observed maxima in March 1995, February 1996, and January 1997, when ON 231 reached its historical maximum ( ). Variability on time scales from a few hours up to a month have frequently been observed and the light curve seems to be the superposition of many flares with different amplitudes and time scales. The broad-band optical spectral energy distribution is characterized by a spectral slope which correlates with the flux level. In particular, the higher is the flux the flatter is the spectrum.
Key words: BL Lacertae objects: general; individual / ON231
Table 2 is only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp 130.79.128.5 or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html
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BVRI observations of dwarf novae in outburst — I. AL Comae Berenices, V544 Herculis, V660 Herculis, V516 Cygni and DX Andromedae
Monitoring of AO 0235+164 during a faint state
The optical behaviour of ON 231 (W Comae) during and after the great outburst of spring 1998
A&A 395, 11-15 (2002)
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How To Throw, And Survive, A Six-Year-Old's Birthday Party
Albert Burneko
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You can get away with the extended-family-plus-cake setup for your kid's first, oh, four or even five birthdays. Sure, you might invite one or two chums from preschool or the neighborhood, or the close-in-age cousins, but really: So long as there are candles to blow out, cake to eat, presents to open, and attention to hog, a preschool-age kid is gonna have a blast, even as the youngest person at the party by multiple decades.
This is a pretty sweet deal for the Inadequate Parent. What's easier than arranging an extended-family-plus-cake birthday party for a cute preschooler? It's one of the few family shindigs all the grandparents and aunts and uncles actually want to attend—cute kid! heartwarming photo-ops! clearly defined locus of attention, so that the conversation never strays into such topics as, for example, how are things going with you and Ted? oh, that's too bad, he was so nice, and a doctor too!—and, as long as some of them show up, and come bearing gifts, the kid won't even notice any absences. Plus, you'll probably score, like, half a year's worth of free clothes for your kid, which is good, because you are a poor.
Unfortunately, these good times come with a pretty hard end-date, and that date is: whenever little Maeddyssonne first attends a fellow kindergartener's sixth birthday party, and returns home flushed and spiral-eyed and filled with thoughts and ideas and anxieties about birthday parties. From that day onward, 99 percent of your conversations with your children will be about birthday parties, until the day they hit puberty and stop speaking to you altogether.
This development might happen before kindergarten for some kids, but, if it hasn't happened by then, kindergarten (especially if it's full-day kindergarten) is the year it almost certainly will. Kids make an abrupt shift that year, from regarding fellow little kids as curious objects for study to really wanting to fit in with and be liked by them. It's jarring and amazing and a little bit bittersweet! All at once, the other kids are as cool as you used to be, and you're mostly a means by which your kid can make his/her life more like the other kids' lives. I want an iPad with Minecraft on it, like M'ykynnzy's! Can I have a Marvel Avengers-themed epinephrine PIC line, like Zaiden, who is allergic to all things? I'm gonna punch the shit out of you when I want your attention, because that's what one of the 32 Isabelles in my class does all the time, because she's a fucking psycho! And, most expensively, I want to invite all of my friends to my birthday party, including both of the ones who are not named Isabelle.
They pass that last mania around as virulently as the zombie virus in a horror flick. There's always one showoffy Achiever Parent, Patient Zero, who kicks it off with the meticulously planned and hitch-free September bash, themed to the last spork to some Nickelodeon intellectual property; their kid, already advantaged by being a little older than the other kids, comes out of this thing The Coolest Kid On Earth, and all the rest come out as the Infected. Suddenly and out of nowhere, you are goddamn swimming in party invitations, to bowling alleys and parks and playgrounds and birthday-industry hellholes like Chuck E. Cheese's. And, just as suddenly, you're inescapably aware of your own kid's birthday out there, distant but on its way, like the ominous wind pushed out in front of an approaching thunderstorm, or the shiver in the ground from a far-off but onrushing freight train.
And so it is that you, in your capacity as a loving, insecure, guilt-wracked parent, will be suckered into arranging a Big Birthday Party. This, frankly, is terrifying. So many moving parts! The guests, the venue, the victuals, the invitations, the cost, the necessity of clean pants, the certainty that one of the little punks will show up with a runny nose and give everyone the Marburg virus! And how much your poor kid cares about it, and how much you care about how much they care about it, and the burning need to feel like you've done all you can to mitigate that cute, sweet, guileless little person's misfortune of having such a bummy loser for a parent. It's a nightmare.
Here are some tips for throwing this thing together. No, it will not be the best party a little kid ever had. Yes, you probably will age 15 years by the time it's over. But, if you can just pull off a few key components, at least it won't be a lingering memory of childhood humiliation for your kid. It might even be a happy memory! Especially if you don't invite Boozin' Uncle Ted.
Where To Have This Goddamn Thing
Listen. Chuck E. Cheese's is the worst place. It's shabby, and gross, and choked with enough blinking lights and fast-paced, unintelligible noise to give the goddamn Sphinx an epileptic seizure, and its ticket-redemption gimmick is a scam of damn near criminal proportions. You shamble out of Chuck E. Cheese's white-eyed, incoherent, and coated in several layers of weapons-grade germs; if your beloved kid weren't with you, you'd walk straight from the turnstile into traffic and end it all. It's so bad.
On the other hand, it's got what kids crave, and the pimply teens who work there do a pretty good job of packaging it in easily deliverable form. Staging birthday parties for kids is what Chuck E. Cheese's (and its various off-brand ilk) do, and they're pretty good at lubing the whole operation: They provide pretty much everything but the friends. It's the Happy Meal of kids' birthday parties: It's easy, super convenient, requires almost no planning, and it almost certainly involves the ingestion of an alarming quantity of farm-animal anus—but your kids will flip their fucking wigs for it. Most importantly, as with a stupid Happy Meal, stiff-arming your own revulsion and letting your kid have it for a special occasion is fine. Little Hortense will be so goddamn happy. (And tired! Which is the most important part.)
The broader point, here, is this: The smart play is to throw this thing at the kind of place that stages kids' birthday parties for money. If you can't stomach the idea of two or three hours in a Chuck E. Cheese's, that's OK; many bowling alleys, ice- or roller-skating rinks, rec centers, swimming pools, indoor playgrounds, kids plaza-type places, and the like sideline in helping harried parents throw birthday parties. Maybe they don't all provide as many of the birthday-party essentials as Chuck E. Cheese's—you might have to order/bring a subset of the pizza/cake/disposable cutlery/decorations package—but if you hunt around, you should be able to find a place that'll wrangle some or all of that shit for you, for the kind of downright offensive added fee that indicates both parties know bankruptcy is a better outcome than trying to throw this thing in your own home.
Which is to say, for the love of God, no matter what you do, no matter how much it might seem like an appealingly humble, intimate setting, do not, do not, do not attempt to throw this party in (or directly outside of) your own home. Unless you are a millionaire famous person with a house like goddamn Hogwarts, you will not be able to fill it with enough fun activities to induce the kind of euphoric, dilated-pupil delirium five- and six-year-olds look for in a birthday party; at some point either they will find something destructive to do or, worse, get bored and make your kid feel terrible. Also, the stress of trying to make your home presentable for a bunch of strangers—and kid-proof it, and render it sufficiently hypoallergenic for little Zaiden, and make it seem like the kind of place where people eat raw vegetables and read literatyoor instead of subsisting on toast and Looney Tunes, all so a bunch of other parents won't ostracize your poor kid for being a bad influence—will age you like a time-lapsed banana.
No. To hell with that. Pick some godawful Kid Venue with a staff of teens who'll help you manage the thing, and book it, and ... well, maybe don't relax, but save yourself a stroke.
(The other nice thing about these venues is, your payment usually only buys you a designated block of time, so you don't have to worry about anybody lingering. After an hour and 45 minutes, you announce, "Hey everybody, just a reminder, they've got another party starting in 15 minutes, so we'll have to clear out of here!" and watch the poor suckers scramble to get their kids out before the meltdowns commence. And then, in most cases, the venue staff cleans up for you!)
When To Book This Goddamn Thing
Two full months, plus one week, in advance. This way you can get the invitations out two full months before the party—early enough for the other parents to block off that day on their calendars without having to shift a bunch of shit around. This is a nice thing to do for them (weekends tend to fill up when you've got kids and responsibilities and a spouse and shit), and also, it increases the odds that your kid's best friends and/or the class's coolest kids will be there.
Before you complain that this is too early for party planning, recall that you've known, for six whole years, around what date your kid would be turning six. It's not like something else might come up and your kid's birthday might shift to the next fiscal quarter.
When To Have This Goddamn Thing
The closest Saturday to your kid's actual calendar birth date, whether it comes before or after. This way you can prevent the birthday from spiraling into a whole month-long Thing, where there's like three weeks between the birth date itself and the birthday party and the whole time is this vaguely celebratory morass in which every time you say or do anything your kid doesn't like, she bursts into tears and accuses you of ruining her birthday.
Sunday's not quite as good, because it doesn't give the kids a day to recover from their birthday hangover (this is a real thing!) before they're back in school. This is another reason to plan this thing well in advance: so that you're not stuck doing it on a Sunday, and sending a bunch of kids into school on Monday at their absolute goddamn worst.
As for what time to have it, I think mid-afternoon is best. Like, from 2 to 4 p.m. This probably won't get you off the hook for providing food at this thing, but it does mean that most of the kids will have had lunch before they arrive, which reduces the odds of tantrums and crankiness. And it also lets them get home in time for dinner, which the parents will appreciate.
Late morning or lunchtime might be OK too, so long as you know that there will be at least one embarrassing meltdown at the end, when the kids get tired and hungry, and this might ruin the rest of the day for some poor suckers. Maybe even you!
Never in your wildest goddamn dreams even think about doing this as some kind of dinner or after-dinner thing. Don't even imagine it. I mean if you even imagine it, I will find you and look at you sternly until you apologize.
Who To Invite To This Goddamn Thing
If you are a millionaire, and thus can afford the cost of it, this is simple: Invite everyone. All the classmates, all the play pals from the neighborhood, all the close-in-age cousins, all the kids of the other parents in your goddamn CrossFit sect or whatever. All of them. On the other hand, if you are a millionaire, you are not reading this, so fuck you.
If you can't afford to invite everybody, it gets a little tricky. A good rule of thumb regarding classmates is: If you can't invite all the classmates, invite less than half of them, so that the kids you don't invite won't feel like they're the sad losers nobody likes. If you don't necessarily have a really good sense of exactly which kids your kid hangs with the most in school, first of all, don't beat yourself up about it, you're not a loser just because you don't know all the names of your kid's running crew—but also, a good idea is to email the teacher, say that you're planning your kid's birthday party, and just ask which kids are your kid's closest school pals. A good teacher will get it, and will give you a small handful of names.
Here's what not to do:
Don't ask your kid who to invite. That's too much to put on the shoulders of a little kid who has spotty recall and almost no understanding of group dynamics; for example, your kid might not even realize that she's inviting all the girls but one from her class, and even if she does, she'll have a hard time anticipating how it might crush the poor little left-out kid when literally all the other girls are talking about the birthday party before and after it. This isn't a Teachable Moment; it's a stupid birthday party. If you want your kid's input on the guest list, the way to get it is throughout the school year, by asking her questions about who her friends are, keeping tabs of which kids she talks about the most, and subtracting from that list the ones she talks about in the context of their smoking habits and neat-o switchblades.
Unless you've got a really strong handle on the class dynamics and feel confident about it, or can't avoid it, probably don't invite, like, six girls to your daughter's birthday party, plus one solitary boy (or a bunch of boys and one girl, or nine girls and two boys, or whatever). If you're inviting both boys and girls, good, great, but strive for some balance. Ideological reasons aside, it's just the smart, practical thing to do, so that nobody has a bad time and none of the other parents decide you're an incompetent.
When your kid gets older, shit can get more fraught, but for now, it's not all that complicated. If your kid's in a kindergarten class with 20 or so kids, she's probably got a small subset she gets along with the best; invite them, and it'll be fine.
How To Invite People To This Goddamn Thing
Probably you received a class roster and contact list at the beginning of the school year, with all the kids' names and their parents' names and email addresses on it; probably you idly tossed it onto your then-small Provisional School Papers pile; probably that pile is larger than your motor vehicle now; probably you have a better chance of discovering the Lost City of Z than you do of ever setting eyes upon that class roster ever again. Probably you can request another copy from the put-upon administrative staff of the school. Probably you will have to swallow your shame and self-loathing when they don't recognize your name during the phone call because you're the one and only parent in the entire goddamn school community whose involvement begins and ends at the bus stop.
Evite (or similar) is good for this. Failing that (if too many of the parents didn't provide email addresses, for example, or if you've already lost 10 copies of the class roster and are too ashamed to ask for another, or if you are a paranoid survivalist weirdo and fear the internet), buy some stupid Pixar-themed invitations at a greeting-card store, fill 'em out, and ask the teacher to stash 'em in the invitees' backpacks or folders or whatever. Don't have your kid give them out. A parent in my kid's school did that, and my kid came home with three invitations, only one of which was for him; it was like I'd been tasked with inviting people to this other kid's birthday party. I've got enough on my plate! I can barely remember to take my prescribed psychiatric medication most days!
Make sure the invitation notes that you'll be providing cake and pizza at this thing. The parents will want to know that. Especially the ones whose kids are allergic to stuff. Also, you can specify on the invitation that you don't want any gifts; at least a couple of parents will ignore that, but that's OK, because it'll be a big relief to any who are strapped for cash.
What Kind Of Shit To Have At This Goddamn Thing
Cake and/or ice cream and/or ice cream sandwiches or whatever, pizza, disposable plates and forks and shit, napkins, party hats, noise-makers, a couple of modest streamers or other disposable decorations, your child. As discussed above, many venues will provide some or all of it; many other venues, if you arrange for or bring this stuff, will set it up in the reserved party room for you, which is a big help.
If you're having the party at home, you're a fool, a goddamn fool, but also, you're gonna have to come up with a couple hours' worth of organized distractions. If the party's a couple hours long, you might be able to pull off a loud, noisy kids' movie on a big TV, if you've got some kind of physical activity the kids can do beforehand to settle themselves down. The drawbacks are that if the kids get bored and restless, you're fucked, and even if they don't, the other parents will hate your guts for having their kids sit still for 86 minutes, then filling them up with cake and sending them home.
Goody bags are a Thing, nowadays, which fucking sucks. The good news is, most big party stores will have an entire aisle of these things, arranged by intellectual property theme. You buy a package of goody-bag fillings (silly little toys and gizmos and stickers and shit) and a package of cheap bags, and you sort the former into the latter, and you give 'em out at the end of the party, and that's it. Nobody's gonna kill you if you don't do goody bags, but giving them out right before the kids go home is a nice way to prevent any but how come I didn't get any presents?????? meltdowns by any overtired, sugar-crashing kids.
(Don't give them out at the beginning, or the party will be two hours of kids shrieking no that one's miiiiiiiine, Moooooommmyyyyyyyy he took miiiiiiine!!!!!)
How To Busy Yourself At This Goddamn Thing
This is one dimension of the party where it's good to be the host. Because you're the host, and your kid is the star of the show, you have a little latitude to decide what role you want during the actual party. If the idea of overseeing a herd of small children for two hours makes you want to pull your head off and spike it like a football, you can focus on making chitchat with the parents while you all keep one eye on your respective kids. If the idea of making chitchat with a bunch of strangers gives you an actual panic attack because you have the social skills of a bag of rice, you can follow the herd of kids around and make smiley oh wow you guys sure are such fast runners! look at you go! faces at them, and leave the chitchat to the other parents. Nobody will hold it against you, both because it's your kid's birthday, and because they're grateful that you're giving them a break from attentiveness.
If you have a co-parent, don't abandon your co-parent in one role or the other, though. Check in from time to time to see if they need a switch. And, if they do, make a good show of yourself in the other role, okay?
How To Handle A Meltdown At This Goddamn Thing
If it's your kid, it'll be compounded by his shame and embarrassment at melting down in front of his friends. Be more sympathetic than usual, take a crack at quickly transitioning to some new fun thing that might distract him from it, and don't hesitate to whisk him off to a quiet spot so that he can get it together without worrying that his friends are staring at him.
If it's somebody else's kid, make the kind of "Aww, poor little guy!" face that indicates both sympathy and a sense that it's no big deal; make this face at both the parents and the kid; ask 'em what's up; then, step away and let 'em figure it out their way so neither parents nor kid feel like they're on the spot. If you want to help, you can help by initiating some next phase of the party— Hey kids, who's ready for cake?—that'll Ctrl-Alt-Del the malfunctioning kid.
If it's a spat between two kids, split 'em up long enough for each to cool down a little, then have 'em shake hands, then say good job, and have an idea for a fun thing they can go do right now.
If it's you, step outside and sob into your hands behind a dumpster. It's OK! It's cleansing and cathartic. But it will scare the children if they see it.
How To Recover From This Goddamn Thing
Hand sanitizer and booze. The former goes on the hands of everyone in your family the very moment you walk out of the party; the latter goes in your face the very moment your kid goes to bed.
You did it! Everybody survived, kept their limbs, escaped with their dignity. Your reward is a heretofore unknown variety of rhinovirus, and 364 days to get ready for the next one.
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Five Trends for 2013 from CES
Reading between the lines of the big headlines from CES, there are five lessons and trends where the tech industry is tipping its hand regarding Apple. Even though Apple wasn’t at CES, here’s what the trade show teaches us about the Cupertino giant.
1. Apple’s TV revolution is on the horizon, and everyone can feel it.
A big term heard again and again this year was “4K,” which refers to the next visual step up from HD. Basically, it’s a screen that packs twice the pixels as current-generation HDTVs. 4K is supposed to be the next big revolution in TV. A few years ago, they said the same thing about 3D. Before that, OLED was all the rage. In addition to 4K, this year Samsung touted a curved TV display, while others packed features into their sets, connected TVs to the Internet, loaded them with apps and services, and so on.
These upgrades are fascinating, but… Isn’t the revolution running kinda late?
It reminds me of the netbook craze from a few years ago. Every computer company known to man invested in these scaled-down laptops made for surfing the web. They were supposed to be an entirely new class of product, something that would revolutionize mobile computing. And then the iPad came along, sending netbooks to a very fast death.
How many times have we seen this pattern? Electronics companies groping around in the dark, desperately searching for some hot new feature to hook customers with — until Apple steps up to introduce something that not only solves all of the problems with those previous products, but changes the game altogether. The iPod. iTunes. iPhone. MacBook Air. iPad.
Apple is, right now, working on something that will revolutionize television. You know it, I know it, and all those electronics makers are certain of it. They’re all hedging their bets right now, trying hard to produce a game-changing TV that will beat Apple to the punch. But they don’t get it anymore now than they did when Steve Jobs was still alive.
What made Jobs such a great innovator wasn’t impressive new tech specs or his proclivity for the importance of design (though Apple has always been impressive at both). Steve Jobs was the great innovator of our time because he saw the future. He had an uncanny knack for identifying the elephant in the room that no one else even realized was there, and then coming up with a solution and paring it down to its simplest, most elegant essence. He changed the entire paradigm of several industries this way, turning them on their heads.
No one knows if Apple is planning an actual television set or some kind of peripheral box or what. But we know that whatever it is, it came from Jobs’ mind before he died. Whatever he dreamed up for TV wasn’t about upping specs on what was already there. It was about transforming the user’s experience. Whatever Jobs “cracked” in regards to TV, it’s something that will change the very foundations of the television industry.
2. Apple accessories are still big business.
While competitors like Samsung and Sony keep trying to out-idea Apple, an entire industry has sprung up that rides Apple’s coattails. This very lucrative enterprise is making a killing on cases, keyboards, mice, styluses, protectors, and much more for iDevices — accessories that Apple has never been interested in creating itself. At CES 2013, there are accessories to take care of every need you could possibly have, and quite a few that you never imagined. Lightning-compatible accessories are everywhere you look. This business is nothing new, but it is thriving. Why?
Android devices have never inspired anywhere near the level of accessory business as Apple’s, because the enormous amount of non-standardized devices make it impossible to come up with something that will work for every device, across the board. Why bother building a few thousand cases for an obscure form factor when you can build (and sell) millions of cases based on Apple’s tiny catalog of form factors?
On the other hand, there’s no denying that Samsung’s Galaxy S phones are growing in popularity. Samsung’s sleek device is nipping at the iPhone’s heels, and accessory manufacturers are starting to take notice. Companion products for the Galaxy S phones are starting to appear, but Apple is still expected to top the accessory business’ agenda for the foreseeable future.
3. Indie tech companies rule.
With all the gadget success stories coming from Kickstarter over the last year, it seem like we’re entering a new era in the electronics industry. Instead of big-name companies just making more of the same — or new products based on their existing technologies and processes — the true entrepreneurial spirit is shining through in these startups. Why? Because the Kickstarter successes are born out of a consumer’s need. Instead of approaching the process from the manufacturer’s point of view, they come at it from the users’ perspective first.
Sound familiar? It should, because that’s the guiding principle that Apple was founded on: the user experience trumps everything.
Back in the 70s and early 80s, Steve Jobs infused Apple with an underdog sensibility, going so far as to fly a pirate flag over Apple’s meager headquarters at one point. It electrified the company, fueling it to build better, smarter, more useful products than the competition’s corporate-minded mentality ever could. Apple may not be the underdog anymore, but today, Kickstarter’s indie tech companies are thriving by using that same renegade spirit that Apple once embodied.
4. Microsoft still desperately wants to duplicate Apple’s successes.
The rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is legendary, because Jobs held Gates responsible for Microsoft willfully using many of Apple’s ideas to sell what he saw as inferior products. From the Windows UI to Microsoft’s retail stores to the Windows Phone and Surface tablets, the origins of many of Microsoft’s key tentpoles can be traced back to their endless copycat tactics.
Even at this, it wasn’t until the last few years that Microsoft became so blatant in its attempts to mimic Apple. It probably had something to do with Apple’s meteoric rise to become the most valuable company in the world, but it’s like Microsoft is abandoning all of its old business practices and taking all of its cues from Apple’s playbook. (Last year’s mysterious event where the Surface tablet was unveiled played out as though it was following a blueprint that came from countless committee meetings where MS execs did nothing but study Apple’s keynote events.)
At CES, Microsoft used to be the BMOC. Windows PCs practically defined what the show was all about, and the show traditionally kicked off with a big keynote presentation by Microsoft’s CEO. But with its market share receding and profits not where they used to be, Microsoft opted this year to pull out of CES altogether. Apple hasn’t been part of CES since 1992; instead, they began holding their own trade show shortly after CES (or sometimes concurrent with it), called MacWorld.
Is it possible Microsoft left CES behind in order to be more like Apple? No, of course not! Don’t be stupid! That’s an outrageous claim, and I’m shocked at the lunacy of the very thought. And yet… for years, Redmond has demonstrated just how desperate they are to copy Apple’s every move. Be honest: if they were to announce a “MicrosoftWorld” trade show in the near future, would you really be surprised?
5. Smartwatches might just be the next big thing.
Forget smartglasses. Fancy wristwear was all the rage at CES, led by Pebble, CST-01, and others. Just before CES began, rumors surfaced that Apple could be working on a smartwatch of its own. An iWatch makes perfect sense for Apple. Shifting the iPod Nano away from the successful, compact, square design that was used for several years, over to a more traditional rectangle shape was an unexpected and unnecessary move. Unless Apple is saving and revising that tiny, square touchscreen form factor for its own wearable smartwatch.
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Airbus A380: The Plane that Tried
April 27, 2018 Hemal Gosai Planes
An Air France A380 at LAX (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Ben Suskind)
The Airbus A380 is the plane that tried. The mega airplane, when first delivered to launch carrier Singapore Airlines in Oct. 2007, was set to be a game-changing aircraft with expected orders of over one thousand across a 20-year timespan.
Fast forward a decade and it’s obvious that the A380 hasn’t performed as expected with only 331 firm orders and 223 delivered. Dubai-based Emirates Airline has been the saving grace of the plane with 162 ordered and 102 delivered.
The concept of the aircraft was first announced in 1990 and was set to be a competitor of the Boeing 747 and the McDonnell Douglas MD-12.
Hub-to-Hub
Airbus had a fundamentally different reasoning behind the A380. It reasoned that as air travel increased and the skies became more congested, there would be a need for large aircraft to operate between large capacity constrained hubs. Therefore, the airplane would operate a hub-to-hub model.
The idea was to build something to transport passengers from huge hub cities to another, for example, London to Tokyo. It was no secret that many large airports were faced with capacity constraints that limited flights. A large aircraft seating a massive number of passengers would come out ahead in a market where multiple small volume frequencies were not feasible.
In some markets, the aircraft works, but in a lot of others, it doesn’t. At the time that initial research was done, there were many low-frequency flights on aircraft such as the B747 and it was expected that the A380 could enter that segment and excel.
Fragmented Markets
However, in many premium markets often used by business travelers, it is frequency that rules. Several smaller aircraft offering higher frequencies prevailed due to the time flexibility that more flights offered.
Then came the Treaty on Open Skies in 2002 which fragmented markets even more. London was no longer the premier destination for flights to the UK and flights were launched to smaller cities such as Manchester.
In the United States, a country with existing fragmented hubs, the impact was great with many secondary airports gaining flights.
The same thing is being seen now in the Chinese and Indian aviation markets. Both are large growing industries, but the large domestic markets allow for greater competition among numerous airlines which each build their own hubs.
This further fragments the hub-to-hub model since the growth of multiple hubs within a market will fragment passengers across several hubs. Thus, making it more challenging to fill seats on large aircraft.
The A380 did have its efficient operating costs that when broken down by seat were industry leading. However, fixed costs per seat were dependent on loads. More paying passengers means fixed costs are distributed further. Unfortunately, every A380 flight can’t go out full and, therefore, in off-peak season, it can potentially be an expensive aircraft to operate.
In hindsight, it is seen that the hub-to-spoke model has taken hold across the aviation industry, a model that the A380 cannot fit well into.
The future of the industry, as seen by the commercial hit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350, proves that smaller aircraft operating in a hub-to-spoke model simply make more sense
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Official Nomination Ballots Carried in Next Two Issues
Grid Iron
Similar to past seasons, a six-week period was set aside for readers to submit written endorsements for candidates they deem deserving of Field Trial Hall of Fame honors. That time frame is drawing to a close. The next two issues (dated June 29 and July 6-13) will carry the official nomination ballot which readers may use to vote for two Dogs and two Persons for Hall of Fame recognition.
When voting for Dogs, the canine candidate must be deceased. Two facets should be taken into consideration — not just numbers, but the quality of their win record and their contributions as sire or dam in producing winning offspring which have gone on to improve the pointing dog breeds.
As has been noted earlier, in rare instances a Dog’s win record is so impressive because of its quality so as to compel strong consideration for Hall of Fame election.
For Persons, the criteria is different. First, the Person may be living or deceased, and if living have reached the age of 64. Additionally, what has that Person done for the field trial sport? In short, what contributions has he or she made to make the field trial pastime better? A yardstick of merit might be the question: Is the sport better for having this Person involved with it?
These contributions may take several forms: Club official, judge, owner, breeder, handler, patron of the sport, and usually a combination of these over a goodly length of time.
As the official ballot time approaches, readers are urged to review the contributions of Dogs and Persons so they can vote appropriately for the most deserving candidates.
I am writing to endorse a worthy candidate for the Field Trial Hall of Fame. Grid Iron’s record as a performer speaks for itself, but his legacy as a producer continues to grow. He was an asset to our breeding program in the later years. We had bred multiple females to him, multiple times, creating a lot of good “nicks” that continue to show up in the pedigrees of many of today’s winning setters.
Grid Iron produced Barbaro for us which won the National Pheasant Shooting Dog Futurity and went on to become a champion in his own right. Barbaro was full of desire and went on to produce many winners as a stud dog and was sought after by many, for their own breeding programs. In fact, a son of Barbaro, Mobile Strike, was the recipient of this year’s Elwin G. Smith Top Setter Shooting Dog Award.
Join me in supporting Grid Iron, a worthy candidate for the Hall of Fame, as his contribution to English setters and field trials continues to grow.
Harold Ray, Waynesboro, Ga.
A CANDIDATE FOR CONSIDERATION
I would like to nominate Clinton “Joe” Bush for the Field Trial Hall of Fame.
It’s time to put in a legendary scout! Joe has been working bird dogs for over fifty years, since he was a 14-year-old boy living next door to Harold Ray. Joe started out planting pine trees and doing yard work for Harold and eventually learned how to train dogs on a pigeon line watching Harold.
One day a dog got away while on the pigeon line. Harold threw Joe on Sherry’s scout horse Babe and told him “Go find that dog!” Joe was gone several hours but eventually came back smiling with the dog.
Harold knew Joe wanted to go to Canada so he called Bill Rayl to see if he needed help. That’s how Joe got his start. Strongman was the first champion Joe scouted for Bill. He also scouted Evolution when he won at Hoffman (N.C.) and Builder’s Risk at the Invitational. Most of the championship wins Joe scouted were for dogs that Fred Rayl handled.
Joe scouted Fiddler and Fiddler’s Pride for every championship they won. He scouted Evolution, Builder’s Addition, Heritage’s Premonition, Fiddler’s Bo, Fiddler’s Pride’s Iris, Builder’s Free Boy, Ballentine, Spy Hill Bullett and many more champions.
A book could be written filled with Joe Bush field trial stories.
Here are a couple of quick ones.
The first year Builder’s Addition won the Invitational, they were in the third morning brace, paired with George Clark who told his scout to follow Joe wherever he went. Joe took off at full speed to get to the top of a high hill so he could see where Builder’s Addition was going. When George’s scout caught up to Joe his horse was trembling and fell over dead. George rode over and said, “Get him up, get him up.” The scout hollered back, “The horse is dead, Mr. George.” Floyd Hankins and J. D. Boss told George to go on and handle his dog. He rode off a little way, turned around and said, “Oh, he was such a good horse.” Someone in the gallery lent the scout his horse but told him, “Don’t follow Joe.”
Builder’s Addition won the Invitational that year and was runner-up the next two years.
Fiddler and Fiddler’s Pride won it twice, each retiring the trophy to owner Dan Bonaguidi.
The Invitational was good for the Rayls and Joe. Joe scouted five champions at the Invitational, and multiple runners-up.
Mr. John Pew gave Joe a puppy and said if he amounted to anything he’d buy him back. Joe won multiple Derby stakes with him and then qualified him for the National by winning the Southeastern and a trial at Hoffman.
The next year Joe won the International Pheasant Championship with an entry of over eighty dogs. He ran in the first brace and was named champion with no runner-up. The dog’s name was Meadowbrook Joe.
Joe is the first black man to train, develop, qualify and run a dog in the National. He has developed many dogs that became all-age field champions.
Joe has judged numerous field trials including the Invitational Shooting Dog Championship, the Georgia Shooting Dog Championship, Georgia All-Age Championship and many weekend trials.
Joe didn’t scout only for the Rayls, he scouted for anyone who asked for help. He scouted for Tom Honecker helping to qualify Cedaroak Kate and Cedaroak Bee Sting for the National. Most recently Joe scouted Strut Nation to requalify him for the National.
Joe also worked for Randy Anderson for a few years. Randy called Joe every night the first time he ran at the Invitational asking for advice. Randy won it that year!
Joe Bush has over fifty years of involvement with field trials: scouting, handling, judging and training. Joe will help, give advice and encouragement to anyone who asks. Please support Clinton “Joe” Bush for the Hall of Fame.
Scott Jordan, St. Paul, Minn.
ANDY DAUGHERTY
I would like to nominate my brother, Andy Daugherty, for election to the Field Trial Hall of Fame. I am probably a little biased, but I feel he is one of the most deserving candidates to ever be considered for the Hall of Fame.
He made field trialing his career: winning 104 open all-age championships (which is more than any other handler), hosting and judging multiple field trials through the years, and having five of his dogs elected to the Hall of Fame, which to me tells most of the story.
I worked and scouted for him for a few years in the mid-1980s. During that time when I met someone for the first time, almost all of them would think I was his son, which Andy found greatly disturbing and would vigorously set them straight. This turned into a running joke which still gets brought up from time to time.
I learned a lot about sportsmanship from observing Andy. I noticed he would always help the other handlers he was competing against by pointing their dogs out if they failed to see them or making sure what he was doing was not interfering with what they were trying to do. Basically, it gets back to doing the right thing.
I am very proud of my brother and of all his accomplishments. I hope you cast your ballot for him in the upcoming Hall of Fame election.
Patrick Daugherty, Spring Hill, Tenn.
I consider it a great honor and a privilege to nominate Mr. Andy Daugherty for the Field Trial Hall of Fame.
I first met Andy when he was scouting for his father, Bud, at Paducah, Ky. He was a tall strapping young man with an obvious love for bird dogs.
He has carved out a special place in bird dog history; he’s won about everything there is to win, and did so with graciousness and that sure fire winner hard work. You have to know Andy to appreciate his great sense of humor, much like Will Rogers.
One year at the Florida Championship he had a conversation with a judge and Andy was 100% right and let him know in a gentlemanly way, with a touch of humor involved. The many years I went to the rugged Oklahoma Championship we battled it out, but he was always a complete gentleman, and honest to the bone.
The one thing Andy did that has stuck in my mind for many years was again at the Florida Championship. We were working dogs on the grounds Mr. Baker provides for the trainers to work their dogs during the trial. Several trainers I have known do it but it is real work to them. Well, I had worked a brace and pointed 22 coveys and was coming in as Andy was going out. We said good morning and then Andy said, “Dave, isn’t this a lot of fun with all these birds?” Of course, I agreed, but thought to myself — all these years that Andy has worked dogs and still considered it fun, like I did.
This is the kind of man who should be in the Hall of Fame. He deserves it and has earned it. Please vote for Andy.
David Grubb, Lake Orion, Mich.
A FIELD TRIAL LIFE
It is with great pride that I endorse Gordon Hazlewood for the Field Trial Hall of Fame. Gordon’s 82 championship and runner-up wins attest to his training and handling ability. The fact that Gordon’s wins occurred when the stakes were larger and the competition was much stronger adds to the credibility of his accomplishments.
Gordon’s ability to correct problem dogs and break dogs is legendary. I have had the good fortune of training dogs with Gordon the last few years, and have witnessed the confidence and trust he conveys to his dogs. He clearly loves animals, and loves the sport of field trial bird dog competition.
In addition to his handling and training contributions, he has been an impartial knowledgeable judge that has volunteered his help whenever asked. Many a local field trial would have been cancelled due to the lack of judges if Gordon had not stepped up at a moment’s notice.
When Camp Robinson’s bird program was turned over to the local field trial community, Gordon was right there with the group volunteering help, time, money, and auction items to raise money.
Please give your support to Gordon Hazlewood for the Field Trial Hall of Fame. He has been a winner, a judge, a breeder, and a contributor to the field trial community for over 40 years — it would be a well-deserved honor for a man who has lived a field trial life.
John Van Horn, Dardanelle, Ark.
CANDIDATE FRED RAYL
I endorse Fred Rayl for the Hall of Fame, not only for the outstanding win record outlined in the June 1 issue of The American Field, but also for the person that he is and the contribution he has made to the sport of dogs, by way of his conduct.
I have known Fred for 39 years from the time that the Northern States trials were held at Solon Springs, Wis. He has always been willing to help newcomers, club officials, and his fellow competitors.
Fred is a credit to his family and the sport in every way and deserves to join his father in the Hall of Fame.
Doug Reisner, Director, Northern States Field Trial Assn.
I would like to recommend Joe Bush and Fred Rayl for the Field Trial Hall of Fame.
Fellow field trial friends, please join me in supporting these two deserving men for their contributions to our great field trial sport. When you think of Fred, you think of Joe. They were such a special team and have dedicated their lives to our sport. They are, and have been, true contributors and now they need our support.
Please consider these two worthy men when you vote. Thanks for your help.
R. L. (Bob) Napier, Winchester, Ky.
I’M not sure who penned the most essential qualities for a person to be considered as a candidate for the Field Trial Hall of Fame. Emphasis is the most deserving candidate is someone who has given unselfishly for the betterment of the sport.
There is no individual that fits that description more perfectly than Dr. Terry Terlep who has unselfishly served this sport in every capacity. Terry has been a member of numerous clubs hosting field trials throughout the country and currently serves on the board of directors for the Continental and the National Championships.
In every aspect of this sport, from breeding and developing both setters and pointers to judging more than a hundred major championships from the Canadian Prairies to the West Coast to the Deep South, Terry has devoted his life to unselfishly serving this sport. As a practicing veterinarian for many years, Terry may easily have placed his skilled hands on more bird dogs than any veterinarian alive today.
Even though Terry is retired from his daily practice, rarely a day passes that Dr. Terlep is not on the phone for hours, consulting with dog and horse owners and other veterinarians across the country; and always free of charge. There is NO way to measure the many selfless contributions this gentle man has given to this sport and the world of bird dogs. Please consider voting for this man. It is long overdue to elect Dr. Terry Terlep to the Hall of Fame!
Brad Harter, Athens, Ohio
I will make this brief because a man could go on for days about Terry Terlep’s character, support of field trials, his multiple champions and dedication to the sport in every capacity.
What makes me want to support Terry for the Hall of Fame is particularly my personal experiences with him over the last 8-10 years. Terry will always take time to listen, give advice, and help you treat a dog or horse to the utmost of his ability. His years of invaluable experience in veterinary medicine and true dedication and love for the sport have combined to make him a special individual who has not only perpetuated the betterment of the animals but also the people involved in field trialing. By giving in every aspect of his life this truly sets him apart.
Marilyn and Terry Terlep are always willing to open their home to anyone year-round to simply share their love for what we do in all ways possible. I feel like the commercials reference says it best by saying that I don’t nominate often, but when I do, I feel very strongly.
Please give Terry Terlep your utmost support and consideration for the Hall of Fame.
Dr. Fred Corder, Corinth, Miss.
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Jade Jackson Recounts a “Good Time Gone” in New Track from Gilded
Written By Brittney McKenna // April 13, 2017
Photo courtesy of the artist
California country rocker Jade Jackson has an unusual origin story. After spending her teenage years writing songs and playing local shows, she caught the attention of Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness. The two struck up a fortuitous musical friendship that eventually led to Jackson’s forthcoming debut album Gilded, which Ness himself produced.
Ahead of the album’s release, Jackson has shared “Good Time Gone,” a dark new track that, as with so many good country songs, starts in a bar and goes way downhill from there.
“I came into rehearsal one day with a song I’d written the night before and we started jamming,” Jackson says. “The following weekend, as I stared out the car window on my way to L.A. it hit me, I had a story I wanted to tell. On an old, dirty envelope I found under my seat and with a half-broken pencil, I scribbled down this hero-less tale of two lovers. When Mike heard it he said it was ‘wild’ and wanted it on the record. In the studio, Mike added his flare and it came to be.”
Gilded is out May 19. Listen to “Good Time Gone” below.
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Cooperative Group Study Finds Radiation May Benefit Patients With Atypical Meningiomas
By Alice Goodman
Leland Rogers, MD
Radiation Therapy for Atypical Meningiomas
The study is notable because it is the first completed cooperative group meningioma trial. It is very difficult to run trials on meningiomas, so there has been trepidation about whether we could make a study work. After 15 years, this study has come to fruition.
Management of the vast majority of meningiomas is straightforward, but treatment of atypical meningiomas has been controversial. Should radiation be part of therapy or not has been the question. The first analysis of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0539 suggested that patients will have improved outcomes with the addition of radiation therapy to surgery.1
Results of the trial showed that patients with atypical meningiomas treated with radiation had a 3-year progression-free survival of 96%, the 3-year local control rate was 98%, and 3-year survival was 96%. The treatment was safe and well tolerated.
“Meningiomas are commonly treated with surgery. Radiation is less commonly used,” explained first author Leland Rogers, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, to listeners at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
“The study is notable because it is the first completed cooperative group meningioma trial. It is very difficult to run trials on meningiomas, so there has been trepidation about whether we could make a study work. After 15 years, this study has come to fruition. It gives us [in NRG Oncology/RTOG] clinical direction for the future and proves that we can accrue patients to a trial.”
Study Details and Results
The study enrolled three groups of patients after surgery (gross total resection) for meningiomas: Group 1 included low-risk patients managed by observation alone; group 2 were intermediate-risk atypical meningiomas (recurrent grade 1 meningioma or newly diagnosed grade 2) who received either three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy or intensity-modulated radiotherapy at 54 Gy in 30 fractions; group 3 were high-risk patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy at 60 Gy in 30 fractions.
Dr. Rogers presented results for group 2 only (56 patients, 52 evaluable). About 70% were grade 2 with surgery and about 30% were recurrent grade 1. About 85% were treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy, and 15% received three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy. He said that there was initial skepticism about grouping together recurrent grade 1 and newly diagnosed grade 2 meningiomas, but the results were the same in both subgroups.
For group 2 patients treated with radiation after surgery, 3-year progression-free survival was 96%; 3-year local control was 98%; and 3-year survival was 96%.
The treatment was safe and well tolerated. Side effects were limited to grades 1 and 2, added Dr. Rogers. No grade 3 events were reported. Among 44 patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy, 4 (9%) developed grade 2 acute adverse events, and 11 (25%) developed grade 2 late events.
After 3 years, two additional recurrences have been reported. Both patients have been treated and are alive, Dr. Rogers added.
To put these findings into context, Dr. Rogers showed a slide summarizing the historical trials that used surgery alone or surgery plus external-beam radiotherapy to treat atypical meningiomas. Compared with historical controls, 3-year progression-free survival appears approximately 20% to 30% higher when radiation was part of therapy.
“Radiation is used less commonly because of concerns about safety,” Dr. Rogers commented.
Randomized Phase III Trial
Based on the successful accrual and promising results of the phase II trial in atypical meningiomas, NRG Oncology/RTOG is planning a randomized phase III trial in patients with newly diagnosed atypical meningiomas. After gross total resection, patients will be randomized to observation vs radiation therapy with intensity-modulated radiotherapy or proton-beam therapy. ■
Disclosure: Dr. Rogers reported no potential conflicts of interest.
1. Rogers L, Zhang P, Vogelbaum MA, et al: Intermediate-risk meningioma: Initial outcomes from NRG Oncology/RTOG-0539. 2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting. Abstract 317. Presented October 21, 2015.
Expert Point of View: Anita Mahajan, MD
Anita Mahajan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, moderated the press conference where these findings were discussed.
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