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RA travelled to this year's Ether festival in London to spend time with a group of artists—Mount Kimbie, Apparat, Bass Clef, the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble—who warp the perception of live dance music.
In spending time at this year's Ether festival in London, we wanted to look at some of the ways in which acts are operating beyond this now archetypal image of live dance music performance. Apparat and Mount Kimbie found that distilling their respective studio sounds and presenting themselves as a band has opened them up to completely new audiences. Bass Clef—solo and alongside Ekoplekz as Ekoclef—favours improvisation, utilizing acoustic and electronic instruments with an emphasis on performance. And Brandt Brauer Frick can often be found operating as a ten-piece ensemble, where synthesizers are in the minority next to harps, cellos and tubas. It's important to point out that none of the artists we spoke with recognized a dichotomy between those who do and not use laptops; their approaches were borne only from a desire to break the mould.
Dom Maker: Recently we've gone through a bit of an overhaul in terms of the way that we're actually approaching [the live set], and the way we're viewing it. For the initial releases that we did—the EPs and the first album—we were quite keen to cut it down to just me and Kai, and try and do everything ourselves, and basically try to recreate the songs as they were on the record. We found that every time we approached a song, or every time we tried to embellish a song and develop it, we found that we were going a bit bigger in terms of the way we were presenting it. I think we became a little bit…well, we played out so much, that we kind of lost interest in that style of set really.
Since we've been writing new material, we've tried to reinterpret and change how we actually do things live. We got a drummer in for our show [at Ether] and we've obviously been doing new material, and it sounds quite different from what we've done before. So it's really been perfect to try and make it more of a band experience as opposed to just two guys up there with electronic equipment. Obviously the electronics are still there, but I think we're quite cautious to try and make it more live than it ever has been.
We got a good friend of ours who's playing percussion, drums. On a lot of the new material, Kai's been singing. We've got the introduction of a bit of bass guitar. We're still working with the same kind of equipment, but it's certainly set out differently and it feels a bit more free in terms of the addition of drums allowing you to not have to sequence things all the time. It's great to be able to just jam like a band and work through songs, which has been quite important in the writing process anyway.
I remember there was a point where we actually stopped playing club shows sandwiched between DJs, and started being introduced into the festival stages that were mainly populated by bands from other genres. And then [with] the headline shows we had we were quite aware, and made quite a big effort to not solely be supported by DJs. The XX: that was a big turning point for us, playing with a band like that. In terms of our reach as an act, [the type of show we do] must have done us some favours and hopefully won us a few people over from other areas.
Paul Frick: In the beginning, we wanted to play as live as possible but we noticed that we can't, our music has too many elements to really play them all live at once. So, we already had the idea of playing with ten people, but first we tried to figure out a club set up. Daniel played drum pads, all the sounds in it were self-recorded but they were triggered electronically and Jan played, and also plays, mainly keyboard, a Nord Wave. And then I have like elements of our music in a Korg Groove Box, Korg ESX. So that was the first set-up. And it worked. We started in techno clubs so it also needed to be a bit like almost functional in a way.
[The ensemble set-up is] violin, cello, trombone, tuba, harp, piano, a Moog synthesiser. Then drums, various percussion like marimba, vibraphone and timpani, so three percussion players in total. And sometimes we have a guest singer, like [at Ether] we had Erika Janunger from Sweden.
Daniel Brandt: Definitely we didn't want to use the laptop on stage—that was one main thing. We wanted to be able to really play live. There are of course good live acts who mainly just use a laptop, but at the same time it doesn't really feel live and you can't see, as the audience, what this person's actually doing…The music can sound complicated but then he maybe just switches between different Ableton lines in the arrangement. So we wanted to not do this and be focussed on what we are playing, and also seeing the crowd so we don't have a screen between us and the crowd.
Paul Frick: It's funny: I think there's also a big psychological aspect in it. Because some people have so much respect when they think, "oh these musicians have studied," which is also sometimes a bit ridiculous because a lot of the best musicians have never studied. But the people and the society, it's a big view like "oh this is a real musician" opposed to somebody doing stuff on his laptop. And that's actually a view I don't share at all, because I also admire a lot of laptop producers.
[Playing to a seated audience is] always a really weird tension, that's something that can sometimes be great. Like on Friday in London it was good when the people start to move, and we also had moments where people just stood up and danced in the seated audience.
Ralph Cumbers: The first Bass Clef performances were after I moved back to London in 2004. I'd been playing with a band in Bristol which was basically the same thing, under the name RLF, but with a big brass section and a guy doing turntablism and stuff like that. When I moved back to London I had to strip it back to just being me, and that's when I changed the name to Bass Clef. It was quite terrifying being there on your own when you're used to having four other people to hide behind, so I kind of got this mentality of having to do something all the time. I didn't have a computer so it was just to do something visual all the time which is where the trombone, percussion and drum machine came in.
I think the idea that a live set can consist of you playing a laptop seems...it just puts the audience in a certain frame of mind straight away, whereas as soon as you play a live instrument—even if you do it badly like me—it creates a different kind of energy. For me live performance is a very special kind of thing and if you can create the right kind of feeling then there's...a sense of being very in the moment. If you give the audience a lot of energy musically, and if they give it back to you, you get this nice kind of feedback loop going and it's a very powerful thing. I just don't know if I could create that with a laptop. Obviously some people can, but I think for me, I don't know how to go about doing that.
[With the Ekoclef shows it's] really just very much a case of winging it. I think we're still learning how to do that but every time we do that we do it a bit better. I mean, we never rehearsed or really spent that much time talking about it—it's a very instinctive process. Nick's normal live set-up when he's doing Ekoplekz shows is totally improvised so he's happy doing that.
Because of the nature of [my live shows] I get to do all kinds of different things, so I've played after rock bands or I've played in festivals in the daytime when there is just a load of five year-old kids running around, freaking out, which is brilliant. I've done shows with jazz musicians in the Southbank [Centre] that were really good, odd arty festivals that have more academic stuff and, yeah, sweaty basements at four in the morning with a massive soundsystem.
Sascha Ring: [The live show] just kind of happened as a slow development and as a transition because my musical tastes changed during the years. It was a little, how would you say… it was an egotistical change because I got bored during performances. If it was just me on stage then I kind of felt…I can't do any more, I only have two hands. Some people have really good single live shows but I always felt like I was playing loops, I was mixing stuff. I was doing it for so long that I was just searching for something else, and for me that was just the idea to invite people [to form a band].
It was actually quite painful because I've never been in a band; I've always been an electronic musician. I was some kind of a nerd in the beginning, I had to learn how the whole band thing works and how you transform songs that were made on a computer into a stage live version, which isn't that easy because if you make computer music you just end up having 70/80 tracks. You have to strip it down to the core of the idea because you can't really play so many different sounds at the same time with five or six people on stage.
Usually we are six people—that's me singing, playing guitar and a vocal effects box and basically I'm playing my guitar through a computer so it never really sounds like a guitar. And then we have two keyboard players. One is Nackt, who is my co-producer. He plays piano which also goes through a computer and is heavily effected, and he also plays guitar from time to time. And then we have Ben who is the other keyboard player and he does all the synthesiser stuff, he plays bass with one hand and he plays all the pads with the other hand. And then we have Jörg our drummer, he plays quite a usual, common acoustic set up, small drum kit and he also some pads. Jörg is the only one who plays a few pre-programmed loops because everyone else in our band is not supposed to do this. Everybody else is allowed to loop himself but we are not allowed to bring loops. And then we have two string players as well—a cello and a violin and those guys came in a little later. We started as four people and then we found those two string players, and I'm really happy because they are non-traditional string players. They have more stomp boxes than any of us.


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Usually you have to choose between quiet, moody, historical dramas and balls-out, limb-slicing action flicks. Well, not anymore.
Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins" didn't get much of a theatrical go-round in this country (Subtitles! Run away!), but you have no excuse for not giving it a spin on DVD or Blu-ray. It's a slow-burn of a movie, for sure, but once it starts burning…wow.
Imagine if "The Expendables" was competently acted, had some historical/political weight anchoring its plot, had something meaningful to say about life and death, and had coherent but no less badass action and you have a sense of what to expect from "13 Assassins."
In a nutshell, the movie is about an aging samurai in a time when his art is dying out who gathers a dozen fellow swordsmen together for what amounts to a suicide mission to take out a bloodthirsty nobleman.
If you know any of Miike's previous work ("Audition," "Ichi the Killer") you might approach "13 Assassins" expecting a nonstop nightmare of blood and debauchery. Not that you won't get some of that, of course, but Miike actually crafts a quietly haunting historical drama only punctuated with moments of bloody violence and nightmarish imagery (Samurai hero Shinzaemon's face to face meeting with one of the evil Lord Naritsugu's still-living victims is more unsettling than almost any recent horror movie). He also throws in some welcome doses of humor.
Among the many highlights are actors Goro Inagaki, who plays Naritsugu as a cold, numb serial killer, and Koji Yakusho, whose Shinzaemon not only accepts his suicide mission, he actually welcomes it. And, of course, when your climax involves an entire village transformed into a death trap, 13 samurai against an army of 200, and a herd of flaming bulls (Miike's only misstep, if only because the CGI is a bit shoddy. The idea, though? Awesomesauce), you know you're in for something amazing. In fact, "13 Assassins'" finale plays like some incredible hybrid of "The Last Samurai," "Kill Bill," and "300."
We'd recommend the Blu-ray if you have the means, only because the first half of the movie is extremely dark and candle-lit, which could make for maddening viewing in a lower res. The deleted scenes included on both formats are rare in that, while you can see why they were cut, they actually offer some interesting new character developments and are worth watching, as well.
Oh, and to anyone who does a "biggest movie badasses" list without including Tsuyoshi Ihara's Hirayama ("Kill anyone who gets past me") - you're doing it wrong.
Home Video Review: "13 Assassins"
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Dr. Gregory A. Petsko, a biochemist whose research focuses on protein structure and function, and the development of methods to treat age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, will present two addresses at Hope College on Thursday-Friday, Oct. 25-26, while on campus through the annual James and Jeanette Neckers Lectureship in Chemistry.
He will deliver the address "The Coming Epidemic of Neurologic Diseases and What Is—and Should Be—Done About It" on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. He will present the Neckers Lecture, "Structure and Processing of a-Synuclein: A New Approach to the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease," on Friday, Oct. 26, at 4 p.m. Both addresses will be in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
The public is invited to both events. Admission is free.
Petsko is a professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Emeritus with Brandeis University, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. His research, carried out jointly with his long-time scientific partner Professor Dagmar Ringe, currently focuses on finding cures for neurodegenerative diseases, and exploring the connections between such diseases and cancer.
Petsko was a professor of chemistry at MIT from 1978 to 1990, when he moved to Brandeis University, where from 1994 to 2008 he directed the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center and from 1996 to 2012 was the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry. He joined the faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College in February.
His awards include the Sidhu Award of the American Crystallographic Association, the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the Max Planck Prize, which he shared with Professor Roger Goody of Heidelberg for their work on the origins of some human cancers. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995, the same year he also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2001 he received the Lynen Medal and was elected to the Institute of Medicine. In 2002, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2010 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and was also named a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He is a past-president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and president-elect of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
The James and Jeanette Neckers Lectureship and Student Assistance Fund through which Petsko is speaking was established in 1984 by Dr. James W. and Jeanette Hoffman Neckers, members of the college's Class of 1923, to support annual lectureships in chemistry. Through additional gifts from Dr. Neckers, the fund was expanded to include student summer research stipends and student scholarships.
James Neckers was chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for 37 of his 40 years at the university. Under his leadership, the department grew from a three-year offering in chemistry to granting the doctorate; the faculty grew from three to 23. Jeanette Neckers died on June 10, 1992, and James Neckers died on May 8, 2004.
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Note: This review originally appeared in the Around Hears column in the Illinois Entertainer.
The Reserve pursues a blend of hard rock and punk on its new EP, Shades Of White, that's not far removed from Nirvana. Lead vocalist-guitarist Jon Babin and guitarist John Birchfield lead the attack on the energetic but catchy "Chuck," and navigate the various tempo shifts on the more elaborate "Slide" with help from bassist Steve Somogyi and drummer Kyle Biba. The spooky, fun arrangement on "White Lines" shows yet another side of this inventive band.


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At least three people were killed in a car-to-car shooting, crash and explosion early Thursday on the Las Vegas Strip that has resulted in a manhunt for one of the drivers.
The apparent target of the fatal shooting that led to a fiery crash was a rapper from Oakland known as Kenny Clutch, 27.
Five vehicles were involved in the crash, including a taxi that burned after the collision at Flamingo and Las Vegas boulevards, Las Vegas police told KSNV-TV.
The incident occurred at about 4:30 a.m. local time and followed an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles, Sgt. John Sheahan told the station.
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Police said a black SUV pulled up next to a silver Maserati and opened fire on the luxury sports car at a red light.
The driver of the Maserati sped up -- ostensibly to escape the gunfire -- traveling through the still-red light. After a series of posts about his identity on social media, the driver's aunt confirmed to KSNV that he was Ken Cherry, a rapper from Oakland who goes by Kenny Clutch, pictured below.
Cherry's Maserati crashed into the taxi, causing an explosion that turned into a large fireball, according to witnesses.
Six other vehcicles were involved in the collision, which occurred at the heart of the Strip, police said.
The sport utility vehicle -- described as a black Range Rover Sport with tinted windows, black rims and dealership plates -- left the scene, traveling northbound. It was not known how many occupants were in the SUV.
Authorities said the gunfire was sparked by a conflict at a nearby valet parking area.
"Finding those involved is a top priority for my agency and law enforcement here in southern Nevada," said Sheriff Douglas Gillespie of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. "We believe the occupants of the range rover are armed and dangerous."
The California Highway Patrol confirmed it was looking for the Range Rover.
The Maserati's driver, the taxi driver and taxi passenger were killed, the station reported. A passenger in the Maserati was also injured and was cooperating with police, KSNV reported.
Several other victims who were nearby were also injured. At least three were hospitalized, police said.
It was not immediately clear whether the deceased victims were struck by gunfire or killed in the crash.
Las Vegas Boulevard north of Tropicana and south of Harmon was closed for the investigation.


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U.S. school districts are slashing physical education classes and recess as they require students to spend more time in the classroom to improve test scores. It may seem like an old story, but it's still a current story — except now the story has glimmers of hope, as some states are adopting new testing procedures and physical activity requirements to combat the increase in childhood obesity.
"The idea of taking physical education out of schools is the equivalent of academic malpractice," says Todd Whitthorne, the chairman of Our Kids Health Foundation and the CEO of Cooper Concepts, which is part of the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas. "If you make kids sit in chairs for a longer period of time, it won't make them smarter. If you get them moving during the day, you'll get them in the position to learn."
A study appearing in the Journal of School Health found that test scores on standardized math and English tests were higher for physically fit children than for less fit kids. The study of students in the Cambridge Public School District in Cambridge, MA, used a fitness assessment called the FitnessGram, which was developed at the Cooper Aerobics Center.
The FitnessGram test also was used during a two-year period by the Cooper Institute (part of the Cooper Aerobics Center) to test 2.6 million Texas elementary and high school students. The $3 million research project found that students' fitness levels dropped by each passing grade. In other words, young children were more fit than older children.
"This is slam dunk research," Whitthorne says. "Only 10 percent of the students that graduate from high schools are fit. It's hard to argue with these numbers."
Despite this research, Phil Lawler, who worked as an elementary physical education teacher for 35 years and is now the outreach director of PE4life, says that many state governments are burying their heads in the sand.
"While some people think that the childhood obesity research has served as a wake-up call, I think most of our country has hit the snooze button," he says.
Childhood Obesity Prevention
However, some states are lowering the prevalence of childhood obesity and enforcing policies and procedures. To recognize their efforts on both fronts, the University of Baltimore published an obesity report card in 2006. Dr. Ken Stanton, one of the co-authors of the report who plans to soon update the research, awarded six states with an "A" for their efforts — California, Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee. Twenty-one states earned a "B," while 23 states barely squeaked by with a C, D or F.
Stanton, who is now an associate professor at Coppin State University in Baltimore, says states earned partial credit for trying to pass legislation and full credit for passing laws to protect children. When grading the states, he and the other researchers considered factors such as school-based nutrition standards, physical education and recess requirements, obesity education and programs, vending machine access, and body mass index (BMI) tracking.
Despite positive steps in some states, often the policies, programs and procedures that are in place vary from school to school. To truly fight the epidemic, the United States must have a cohesive strategy rather than a patchwork of strategies, says Richard Hamburg, director of government relations for Trust for America's Health , Washington, DC, which publishes an annual report on obesity in America called "F as in Fat."
"The goal is to have the best policies implemented everywhere and not a few implemented here and there," says Hamburg, who compared loosely connected laws in the fight against obesity to those in the battle against smoking. "When you see more effective policies in more places, you will see a greater effect."
Physical Education Reform
In their battle against childhood obesity, many school districts focus on physical education classes, according to the University of Baltimore obesity research, but some people say physical education classes fall short. In addition, unskilled volunteers often are assigned to run afterschool physical education programs, which puts children at risk for injury, says Michael Torchia, president of Operation Fitness in Beverly Hills, CA, and founder of Children's Fitness Academy, a program that helps school administrators implement health and fitness education programs. The majority of schools also still focus on a sports model for physical education, and as a result, non-athletic students often slip through the cracks.
To break down barriers and help all children become healthy and fit, Lawler turned the typical physical education model upside down at the Naperville School District in Naperville, IL. Lawler implemented a program from PE4life, his non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring active, healthy living by advancing the development of quality, daily physical education programs. Rather than using the traditional roll-the-ball-on-the-court philosophy, he instead focused on health and wellness. Each of the district's five middle schools and two high schools feature state-of-the-art fitness centers complete with cardio, strength training and exergaming equipment. As a result of this focus on physical education, the Naperville School District's rate of obese children plummeted to 3 percent a few years ago compared to 35 percent for the national average.
Several other school districts nationwide are adding more physical education into their curriculum, too. An elementary school in Kansas City, MO, improved students' cardiovascular fitness by 200 percent by increasing physical education requirements from one day a week to five days a week. The students' discipline referrals to the main office decreased by 63 percent in the same year that the school's administrators put a PE4life program into effect.
Lack of funding can hold some school districts back from implementing better physical education classes, but Lawler says this is no excuse for not moving in this direction. Schools can partner with health clubs for fitness programs (see related Ten Ways Fitness Facilities Can Help To Curb Childhood Obesity Rates story) or raise money for exercise equipment like they do for computer labs. Schools can't afford not to invest in fitness equipment, he says.
"In my school district, I have 1,000 students, and if I could prevent one heart attack from one student, it would pay for all this equipment," he says.
From Fried Foods to Fresh Fruits
Another target of many states' campaigns against childhood obesity is the school cafeteria. Many elementary schools and high schools depend on processed food that is cheap to buy and convenient to prepare. Although children often like this food, it can leave them with limited energy and reduced brainpower, Whitthorne says.
Some states, however, are going against the grain by depending less on government subsidized food, which typically includes cheese, beef, corn and soy products rather than fruits and vegetables. Instead, they are investing in nutrient-dense, low-calorie alternatives. According to the 2008 "F as in Fat" report, 18 states have nutritional standards that exceed the level set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
At an elementary school in Atlanta, the principal banned sugar from the school after personally battling diabetes and obesity. In Minnesota, the cafeteria at one Minneapolis high school contracted with local bakers, brought in whole-grain breads, and opened a smoothie and salad bar. After moving to a more nutritious lunch menu, the Baltimore school district removed deep fat fryers from its schools so the chefs would not be tempted to revert back to making French fries.
"If you look hard enough, you can find schools that are blowing up the traditional model," Whitthorne says.
Many schools, however, are moving to more nutritious menus but are not making the food flavorful or appealing to children, Torchia says. As a result, children turn to vending machines for snacks. To prevent this from happening, 27 states are shutting down soda and candy vending machines until the end of the lunch period.
BMI Tracking
Another piece of the puzzle in the fight against childhood obesity is BMI tracking. According to the "F as in Fat" report, 17 states passed BMI screening requirements or passed legislation requiring weight-related assessments.
Three years ago, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee implemented a program in his state that required students to participate in BMI testing. If tests showed that children were overweight or obese, the school informed parents of this in a letter. Many parents protested the practice. When the state's new governor, Mike Beebe, took office, he vowed to weaken or halt the program because he says it has a negative effect on children's self-esteem. Beebe favors testing children less often and allowing parents to drop out of the program.
Although some experts say this is a step backwards, Torchia says he understands why testing inspired a public backlash.
"I think we need to get away from the numbers," says Torchia, who struggled against obesity as a teenager. "It's like putting a scale in front of them and making them weigh themselves."
Although BMI tracking is important for children who are extremely obese, in most cases, it can do more harm than good, he says. Stanton agrees, saying that although collecting data is important, it needs to be done in the right manner. Rather than singling out children, he favors making the testing process anonymous and treating it with sensitivity.
Through fitness testing, education programs and a focus on physical education, schools are working to slow the growth in childhood obesity rates and improve the health of the next generation. Concerted efforts can give more children a brighter future, Lawler says.
"It takes a village to raise a healthy child," he says.
And health club operators can be part of the process by partnering with schools, inviting children into their facilities, and lobbying state and federal legislators for legislation that could positively affect children. The more children who learn that physical activity leads to a healthy life, the more likely they will continue to include physical activity in their lives as adults.
Read the sidebar, Ten Ways Fitness Facilities Can Help to Curb Childhood Obesity Rates, for more information.


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Raspberry & blueberry lime drizzle cake
Nutrition and extra info
- kcal370
- fat19g
- saturates10g
- carbs49g
- sugars32g
- fibre1g
- protein5g
- salt0.61g
For the cake
- 225g softened butter, plus extra for greasing
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 225g golden caster sugar
- 4 medium eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 2 limes, grated zest and juice
The same shape, but smaller than…
- 250g self-raising flour, sifted with a pinch of salt, plus extra flour
- 25g ground almond
- 100g each blueberry and raspberries
Blueberries are one of the few edibles native to North America and credited with being…
For the syrup
Line the base and sides of a 20cm/8in square cake tin (not loose-based) with greaseproof paper and butter the paper. Set oven to 180C/Gas 4/fan oven 160C.
Cream the butter and sugar together until light. Gradually beat in the eggs, adding a little flour towards the end to prevent curdling. Beat in the lime zest, then fold in the flour and almonds. Fold in enough lime juice – about 3 tablespoons – to give you a good dropping consistency (the mixture should drop easily from the spoon when tapped).
Fold in three quarters of the blueberries and raspberries and turn into the prepared tin. Smooth the surface, then scatter the remaining fruit on top – it will sink as the cake rises.
Bake for about 1 hour (cover with foil if beginning to brown too much), or until firm to a gentle prod in the centre. A skewer pushed into the centre should be clean when removed.
Meanwhile make the syrup: put the lime juice, zest and sugar in a small saucepan. Put over a gentle heat and stir, without allowing to bubble. The sugar should dissolve a little. As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, prick all over with a skewer then spoon the syrup over it. To store, cool before wrapping in paper and/or foil.
Carefully remove the cake from the tin, discard the lining paper and cut into 12 pieces to serve.


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A already blogged about the Sparkplug IndieGoGo campaign, but, seriously, please consider contributing.
A lot of people have shared the campaign in support of continuing the work of Dylan Williams and Sparkplug, but I also wanted to take the time to link to a very beautifully written perspective by Shannon O'Leary on the importance of supporting weird, unique, and wonderful comics in the underground, as well as connecting and inspiring people to share and hear each other's voices… Comics not Cancer: A personal plea for the Sparkplug Comic Books IndieGoGo Fundraiser.
If you know me, you know how important of a friend and an inspiration Dylan Williams was to me. If you ever met Dylan, you would instantly understand how he was so important to so many people. Help help fund the release of Nurse Nurse by Katie Skelly, The Golem of Gabirol by Olga Volozova, issue 9 of Reich by Elijah Brubaker.
These books are of special import not only because they are amazing in themselves, but because they are the last projects on which Sparkplug founder Dylan Williams was working before he died of cancer in September 2011. I can personally say that knowing Dylan was such an inspiration because he was kind and intelligent, but also because of what he did for comics. It would mean a lot to see these books published…. This Sparkplug campaign only has 10 days left to go.
The next two projects I'd like to encourage you to support are also by friends and active members of comics and zines communities, people who regularly and selflessly volunteer their times for others' creative endeavors and developments….
Tiny Bones: A Memoir with a Wide Margin by A.M. A.M is the Program Coordinator for the Independent Publishing Resource Center, a place where I volunteer. While A.M. holds one of only three paid positions of the IPRC, the amount of work this lady puts into the IPRC, the zine community in Portland at large, and in the world is just amazing. Like me, she teaches zines to middle schoolers, which is a job I can tell you is VERY challenging, but so important. A.M. teaches media literacy to youth, facilitates writing workshops with adults, and helps people of all ages express themselves through independent media. Please consider supporting her! The Tiny Bones project has 24 more days to go.
And finally, my friends Alex Wrekk and Derek Neuland are joining their button-making skills and zine passion together to create an awesome new store that aims to have a zine distro, Portland Button Works!
As well as an online store, Portland Button Works is also going to be opening a physical storefront with the next month or 2 in Portland, Oregon. Along with zines and buttons (in three different sizes!) they will also be offering people the ability to make their own buttons right there in the store. They will even have same-day service on custom button orders! The Portland Button Works campaign only has three days left to be funded.
Alex and Derek are also fellow Portland Zine Symposium organizers, I am really excited to see them collaborating and creating another outlet for their community and DIY ethics.
Please consider contributing in anyway that you can to these projects, even if it's just sharing this online and telling your friends.
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About one in seven residents of Madagascar's main port city of Toamasina are sex workers. In less than 20 years, the number of registered sex workers in the city of about 200,000 residents has climbed from 17,000 in 1993 to 29,000 in 2012. The increase has been driven by rising poverty levels as well as the city's proximity to the recently opened Ambatovy nickel mine.
Construction of the mine, coupled with recent improvements to the port, saw an influx of thousands of foreign workers. The billion-dollar investments also resulted in an escalation in living costs and the collapse of traditional commercial activities like the collection and sale of cloves and coffee, pushing more young women into sex work.
?Girls come from the countryside to work as maids. Then, when they have a problem with their employer, other girls from their region introduce them to prostitution,? Germaine Razafindravao, the president of the local sex worker collective FIVEMITO (?Fikambanaina Vehivavy Miavotena Toamasina? or Women?s Future), told IRIN.
Toamasina?s growing number of sex workers is part of a nationwide trend, one attributed to an increase in poverty since the onset of a drawn-out political crisis in 2009, when twice-elected president Marc Ravalomanana was deposed by Andry Rajoelina with the backing of the army. More than three quarters of the Malagasy population now live on less than US$1 a day, according to government figures, up from 68 percent before the crisis.
A means to survive?
?Prostitution has become a normal phenomenon in Madagascar? Now sex has become a product, a means to survive,? said Ratsarazaka Solomandresy, who is responsible for the United Nations Population Fund?s (UNFPA) youth programmes in Madagascar.
Sex work is legal in Madagascar, and although HIV/AIDS prevalence is low compared to other southern African countries – with about 0.2 percent of people between the ages of 15 and 49 living with the virus, according to UNAIDS – the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) like syphilis is well above regional norms. According to government figures, 4 percent of pregnant women are infected with syphilis, as are 12 percent of female sex workers.
Until six years ago, Antsohihy, the capital of the northern Sofia region, was cut off from the rest of the country, but the 2006 rehabilitation of a road to the capital Antananarivo has reopened the area to commerce, including sex work.
Although the number of sex workers in Antsohihy is unknown, ?There are new faces at the bus stops almost every day,? Solomandresy said.
Nadine, 15, quit primary school in 2011 and left her home village of Befandriana, about 50km away, to join her 18-year-old sister in Antsohihy. Both girls are now sex workers.
Nadine earns $15 for each client and said, even given the opportunity, she would not return to school. Even though she has been engaged in this work for over a year, no one has told her she is too young for it. ?I?m not scared of the police. They are my clients also,? she told IRIN.
Access to services and protection?
In recent years, commune governments have established an identity card system for sex workers, providing them with specialized health care and legal protections.
Angela, 30, from Antsohihy, turned to sex work after a divorce left her a single parent to two children. She told IRIN she was applying for the ID card. ?I have a friend who already has a card. When one of her clients refused to pay and hit her in the face, she went to the court and sued him. She ended up receiving more money than the original amount they had agreed upon.?
The cards are only distributed to those who apply for them and only if they are over the age of 18. While this system appears to be providing some protections to sex workers in Antsohihy, it was unsuccessful in Toamasina. Sex worker organisations claim the police harassed sex workers lacking the cards, which were meant to serve as access to benefits rather than a license to work.
?Police used the system to abuse the sex workers. If they found a prostitute without an ID, they would take her to the bureau and mistreat her there. So we have now replaced the official cards with unofficial red books,? Razafindravao of FIVEMITO told IRIN.
The red books give sex workers access to a judicial clinic in the neighbouring town of Mahambo, a tourist destination. ?Often men come to Toamasina and take a girl to Mahambo. Once they arrive there, they see another girl they like more, and they leave the first one on the street, without any money or way to go back home. So we had to set up a centre there to negotiate with the clients and help the girls.?
The association also runs discussion groups with the police in a bid to reduce prejudice. ?We tell them that these women do a job, just like the [police] officers do,? said Razafindravao.
As with the official registration cards, only sex workers above the age of 18 are eligible for the red books. Engaging in sex work is illegal for girls under 18, though it does not prevent them from doing it.
A 2007 survey by the UN Children?s Fund (UNICEF) in Toamasina and the island of Nosy Be found that between 30 and 50 percent of female sex workers were younger than 18.
?Employees of the nearby mining project come down to Toamasina for the weekend. They look for young girls, as they are willing to do everything for little money,? Razafindravao told IRIN. A hotel frequented by underage sex workers was closed by the authorities in 2011.
No alternative?
FIVEMITO used to run a vocational training centre for sex workers that enabled them to leave the streets, but the centre was closed due to lack of donor funding. ?Our courses really helped. The girls would study and get a certificate to work in the tourism industry as a waitress or receptionist in a hotel. With their salary and tips, they would make enough money,? said Razafindravao.
Now the association visits families to convince parents to keep their daughters from sex work. ?I tell them about all the health consequences that early pregnancies and STDs will have on their children. But the problem is that I don?t have a solution. I can talk, but there?s no alternative,? said Razafindravao.
To combat STIs and prevent HIV/AIDS from gaining a firmer foothold in the country, UNFPA distributes condoms and advice to sex workers, especially in poorer neighbourhoods. ?These women hardly make any money, so they won?t be able to buy condoms,? said Solomandresy.
In Antsohihy, the local NGO Vilavila takes the condom-usage message to the bars that sex workers frequent, a campaign that has reached Angela.
?Using a condom has become part of the negotiation process now,? she told IRIN. ?Some of the clients refuse, and then I use a female condom, as I don?t want to become pregnant again.?
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Major Requirements
Admission Requirements
Students planning a major in biochemistry must present credits in one year of chemistry, one year of physics, and four years of mathematics, and should have at least a B average in these subjects. Students with a good high school record but lacking credit in any of these subjects should remedy any deficiencies in summer school. Students majoring in a science should be particularly alert to the language proficiency requirement.
Major Requirement
This major is interdisciplinary, bridging the two fields of biology and chemistry, so the lower division requirements are nearly the same as those for the two respective major programs.
Lower Division
- Biology 1, 1L, 2†, 2L†
- Chemistry 8, 9 (lab), 10, 11 (lab)
- Mathematics 27, 28
- Physics 10/11 and 20/21 or Physics 1/2 and 3/4
- Chemical Literature 89
Upper Division
There is a core of upper-division courses for this major which include two semesters of Organic Chemistry (Chem 104 and 106); Biochemistry (Bio 135), Advanced Topics in Biochemistry (Bio/Chem 136), and Molecular Biology (Bio 137). Students are also required to take either Biophysical Chemistry (Chem 138) or Physical Chemistry (Chem 114 and 115). For additional laboratory skill development, students are required to take either Separation and Identification (Chem 108) or Instrumental Chemical Analysis (Chem 118). For upper-division electives, students may choose two courses from the following categories listed below.
Upper-division electives
Select two of the following categories (a, b, c, or d):
a) Biology 105 - Genetics;
b) One of the following:
Biology 102 - Embryology and Development;
Biology 127 - Systemic Physiology;
Biology 130 - Microbiology;
Biology 132 - Cell Biology; or
Biology 139 - Immunology;
c) Chemistry 130* - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry or Chemistry 111 - Advanced Organic
Chemistry; or
d) Chemistry 114* - Physical Chemistry I.
Research: Students are strongly encouraged to participate in research, either during a summer or during the academic year.
† Required for students with more of a biological interest and chemistry students who wish to take Biology 105: Genetics.
* Students wishing to meet the ACS curriculum requirements for the biochemistry major must take two semesters of Physical Chemistry (Chem 114 and 115) and Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (Chem 130).
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Sculpted in Time
Acclaimed cinema production house Sherpas Cinema, recognized for award-winning ski reels Into the Mind and All.I.Can, has created four dramatic short films capturing the deep spirit of skiing straight from the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
The series, entitled Sculpted in Time reveals a new dimension to the significance of ski culture in Banff and Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada – depicted in spectacular high-definition footage.
The Wise Man (Mt. Norquay)
Shot on location at Mt. Norquay, The Wise Man is the emotive story of Eddie Hunter's personal connection with the Banff National Park and Mt. Norquay, a mountain he has called home his entire life.
Born in 1926, the same year Mt. Norquay was established, Eddie has been skiing Banff's first ski resort for over 80 years. Eddie escorts the viewer through Norquay's past and present, sharing the impact the mountains have had in his life and which he proudly passes onto his children. Start Your Story.
About Mt. Norquay
Since its opening in 1926, Mt. Norquay continues to be the locals' gem. Famous for being the training ground of Olympic and World Cup athletes, and with excellent beginner terrain, everyone will love this small, family-friendly resort.
Just minutes from the Town of Banff, Mt. Norquay offers the only night skiing in Banff-Lake Louise, including a fully lit terrain park, and expert snowmaking on 85% of the terrain. Family-friendly Mt. Norquay offers outstanding conditions for beginner, intermediate and advanced skiers and riders. This is the best-kept secret in the Canadian Rockies!
The Character (Lake Louise Ski Resort)
The Character enables the viewer to examine how your surroundings can shape character. Talented local skier Eric 'Hoji' Hjorleifson guides us through the dramatic landscapes of Lake Louise, and recounts how scenery and environment shape your life and character.
Throughout The Character, Lake Louise is depicted through a splendid mix of vintage footage and amazing high-definition action. Create Your Legacy.
About the Lake Louise Ski Resort
With over 4,200 acres of terrain spread across four mountain faces, Lake Louise is one of the largest ski resorts in North America.
Just minutes from the village of Lake Louise, the ski area's exceptional layout allows families and groups of all abilities to ski together with beginner, intermediate and expert runs from every chair.
Voted Canada's Best Ski Resort at the 2013 and 2014 World Ski Awards, the Lake Louise Ski Resort offers a variety of terrain from gentle slopes and long cruising runs, to glades, chutes and some of the Canadian Rockies most exciting and wide open bowls.
The Artist (Sunshine Village)
In The Artist, we get a glimpse of the incredible energy of the Canadian Rockies and how the colour, light, and texture of the mountains around Sunshine Village inspire skiers and artists alike. The viewer meets local visual artist Dan Hudson as he ruminates on the very mountains that define his lifestyle, and inspires his artistic expression.
The film tracks the artist as he shoots skiers and snowboarders on the mountain and then into his studio as nature becomes muse and inspiration flows both ways, translating to canvas. Carve Your Inspiration.
About Sunshine Village
Sunshine Village sits high on the Continental Divide in the heart of Banff National Park just 15 minutes' drive from the cozy mountain town of Banff. Three sprawling mountains provide breathtaking site lines, uninterrupted by any signs of civilization beyond the resort's leasehold.
Sunshine Village's seven-month season stretches from early November until late May – the longest non-glacial ski season in Canada. Sunshine can receive up to nine metres (30 feet) of snow in a season and the Village's altitude of 7,200 feet ensures the snow stays light and dry.
The world-renowned resort features more than 3,300 acres of skiable terrain, ranging from gentle beginner runs all the way up to extreme big mountain runs. Sunshine's very own Delirium Dive has been named one of the 10 top off-piste destinations in the world.
The Innovator
The Innovator escorts the viewer through the backcountry of Banff National Park to experience stepping into the unknown—told from the point of view of local wheelchair athlete, innovator and backcountry enthusiast Christian Bagg, but also Chris Rubens and Eric 'Hoji' Hjorleifson in parallel.
We join Christian on his journey to overcome his challenges and achieve his dream of Nordic skiing in the backcountry, joined by his mates Chris and Hoji. The Innovator shows how adventure can push our limits, test our resolve and plot our own 'unknown'. Explore Your Unknown.


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Richard Fedorak had an idea for a new medical test to help prevent colon cancer, one that appeared to have commercial value.
Fedorak is a doctor of medicine, a researcher with 400 published articles, and an international expert on intestinal disorders. But he had no experience as an entrepreneur, nor as a marketer, nor as a corporate executive.
No problem.
Just days before the publication date for an article on his test — one that would have put his method into the public domain — Fedorak was contacted by TEC Edmonton, a business accelerator that serves as a conduit for innovative technology developments at the University of Alberta.
The test developed by Fedorak and Dr. Haili Wang in UAlberta laboratories detects the presence of small, mushroom-shaped growths called polyps — potential precursors to colorectal cancer — in the colon of an individual, using a urine sample. People over 50 are most likely to be at risk for the disease, the world's third most deadly cancer. Yet only 39 per cent of colorectal cancers are detected in an early and treatable stage.
According to Fedorak, a 1,200-patient clinical trial at UAlberta showed the urine test is 85-per-cent accurate at detecting precancerous polyps. By contrast there's a five- to 30-per-cent chance that the decades-old standard test, examining fecal smears for blood, will spot the precancerous cells.
The standard test in use for many decades also fails the squeamishness test for the majority of patients — anywhere from 60 to 95 per cent of those presented with a test kit opt instead to throw it out, Fedorak said.
TEC Edmonton told him it could provide an opportunity to refine his research, attract investment, build a business and create jobs in his community.
He said yes. That was in 2008.
A company, Metabolomic Technologies Inc., was incorporated in 2010.
'Perfect marriage'
Today, Fedorak is "a long way down the road" on what he describes, so far, as "a good ride" thanks to TEC's support.
"It's hard to say I couldn't have done it without them, but I probably couldn't have done it without them," Fedorak reflected.
"We have a commercial product. It's called PolypDx, that's commercial and usable now. We're fine-tuning it. We plan to have that available in the first quarter of next year.
"Right now, it costs $50 to $100 per test to screen urine for precancerous polyps. My aim would be that you can walk to the drugstore, like a pregnancy test, and buy it — and get the price down to $10, $20, something people can afford."
That's the ballpark price for a standard fecal test, he noted.
"We have some more work to do but we do have a commercially valuable test at a price point that hospitals and provinces are OK with."
He credits TEC Edmonton for supporting his ambitions.
"To me it was one stop — got to TEC Edmonton and they had the expertise. It's the perfect marriage for an academic who is interested in commercializing a concept."
TEC was established seven years ago as a joint venture of UAlberta and the city of Edmonton to provide support to early-stage companies and entrepreneurs.
Traditionally, universities have patented promising technologies, and then licensed them to third-party multinationals. That generates a short-term cash stream but there's no long-term economic benefit to the community.
UAlberta believed it could fulfil its "public good" mandate by commercializing research locally.
University spinoffs
Each year, roughly 80 companies pass through TEC's doors. About a third of those it mentors every year arise from UAlberta research. The rest originate in the private sector, TEC chief executive officer Chris Lumb explained.
"The university spinoffs are created usually by a researcher but frequently they don't leave the university. They would be the chief scientific officer of the company, and they hire a CEO who is more commercially focused," Lumb said.
"We think that is the right way to do it. If the researchers think the only way they can become an entrepreneur is to leave behind their faculty position, that makes them disinclined to think about commercialization."
The businesses coming through TEC's doors each year represent just about any kind of technology enterprise you could imagine — including oilfield equipment, biotech, agriculture, nanotech.
There are 10 executives-in-residence, supported by a team of business associates — interns.
Last year, TEC made a concerted effort to gauge the success of its programs, collecting feedback from 74 of about 85 clients.
"The survey found that the companies had generated $73 million in revenue, about half of which was export revenue, which we thought was pretty good (because it meant) we weren't just serving local markets," Lumb said.
"In addition to that, they raised $27 million financing in that year, and did $17 million of R&D, and grew their employment from 600 to 750 people. Those numbers were better than we thought. We didn't expect that much direct outcome right away, in one year."
Of that $73 million, sales accounted for $61 million and grants accounted for the remaining $12 million.
"It was spread all across sectors and all across companies. The youngest and smallest companies added the most jobs and the financing was pretty much spread evenly across a whole range of different companies."
Lumb notes that at the time of TEC's inception, no other business accelerator in North America was merging university intellectual property, civic- and university-based services for entrepreneurs.
"It underscores the focus of the university leadership and the city leadership in answering 'How do we really promote a culture of entrepreneurship and put things in place that will result in a growing number of early-stage companies, started and supported?' "
Mike Volker, director of Simon Fraser University's innovation office, is seeing universities across the world take a more aggressive approach to commercializing innovation.
He has been at SFU since 1996 and he's also active in the Vancouver-area angel investor community. Angels tend to be successful entrepreneurs who are looking to invest the stacks of cash they earned by selling their own companies, and are looking to invest it in start-ups that could eventually generate huge returns.
Volker spent five weeks in Australia over Christmas, meeting with officials at Griffiths University, a top-ranked innovator in the Asia-Pacific region that conducts exchanges with SFU, and with Australian investors.
While there, he encountered an angel investor group from Texas which was doing the same thing he was — looking for opportunities.
"It was interesting to see how universities are getting involved globally in working closer with business groups, with investors especially. They are all trying to cultivate relationships with investors, especially alumni who have become successful and can give back to the community by both supporting the universities and supporting innovation through investment in startup companies and this kind of thing," Volker said.
"This is something we didn't see 10 years ago. The odd institution was trying to set up spinoff companies but mostly they were just trying to get licences. But now this has changed a lot.
"Universities are becoming more and more engaged in dealings with industry organizations, angel investors, investors in general. Most universities now have accelerators and incubators. Interestingly, they're not just for (enterprises) that come out of those institutions."
He cited Memorial University's Genesis Centre where, like SFU's innovation centre, you don't need university-based research to participate.
More often, Volker said, the inherent value of a startup resides with the entrepreneurs, including students. A single-minded effort to commercialize a patent could slow you down.
"The idea that it all starts with research and licensing that research is all going by the wayside and people are realizing that it's really the know-how students have, usually inspired by professors and research.
"Universities are realizing that it's really the graduates, the students, that have the fresh ideas. Those ideas may have (arisen) as a result of working with researchers, and of course usually they are, but it's the students that are in a good position to start these companies because they don't have any pressing demands on them.
"The idea that research produces intellectual property that is then licensed, I think that whole notion is antiquated."
One thing that hasn't changed in Canada is the notion that the best ideas are more likely to arise in public venues such as universities and government-funded research labs, compared to the United States where the private sector takes the lead in innovation.
Richard Remillard, executive director of Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, said it would be "a good thing" for more investing opportunities to emerge from ideas generated in the private sector.
As a result, many of Canada's top venture capital funds and angel investors maintain a focus on early-stage investments in opportunities arising from university research and development.
"You have in the U.S., particularly in certain markets like Northern California, Silicon Valley, Cambridge-Boston Mass., a high concentration of high-tech giant firms have spun out lots of people who just make lots of money. When they leave Google, they invest in other early-stage tech companies," Remillard said.
"In Canada, because of the nature of the economy, because of the nature of the tech industry, we haven't had even proportionally the same high concentration of big super-success stories that spun out large numbers of angels.
Relative to the U.S., a higher proportion of R&D in Canada seems to be conducted by government-funded entities of some sort and the private sector is less of a presence, he said.
"That's a concern that all sorts of folks have expressed and from our perspective, we're in the business of getting quality deal flow and if the flow is thinner than it should be then that's a concern.
"You want to have access to the most, to the best deals and a lot of times they come out of the universities but out of the business sector too? That would be a good thing to have.
"From our perspective, give me more, better deals."