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Photos from Lesley. Click to enlarge.
The carefully laid plans all fell neatly into place, the journey down and back in the mini-bus, masterminded and driven by Kirsty, was wonderful - full of singing, snacks/jokes/small dog/more jokes/coffee stops and general merriment. All the people travelling individually also got there on time, happy and ready to sing.
I think everyone seemed very happy with their hosts and many new friends were made. The members of Levow an Bys were so generous and open hearted, opening their houses to us in such a lovely way - many of us were provided with extravagant cooked breakfasts on Sunday morning before heading for St Ives, so we left well-nourished against the drizzle!
The itinerary planned by Pip and her choir was wonderful, with one thing moving smoothly to the next, and enough time for quick recoup or shower between events.
The Saturday evening concert was great, a beautiful church - huge and imposing from outside and modern warm and lovely inside, there was also a good audience plus some Witney followers and groupies! - the two choirs worked well together and sounded good right away, a lovely rich blend of sound. The banner was on display and we thanked them for inspiring us - it caused much comment and admiration - and I believe it drew together a few seamstresses from each choir for discussion - only one negative....we need some Cotswold sheep!! Levow an Bys also provided wonderful refreshments after the concert and the two choirs mixed well with laughter ringing out in all corners.
On Sunday morning most of us took the train, led by Pip, which was a wonderful scenic journey to St Ives - we wished it had been a little longer - it was so picturesque. The Tate is such a beautiful building, a wonderful piece of architecture, and such a surprise for those of us who were seeing it for the first time! with a ringing acoustic in the loggia/rotunda - it was great fun singing there, and something quite different - lots photos available to see on the website too.
On Sunday evening Levow and Bys arranged a social at the lovely village hall of Carleen - it was spectacular, with wonderful food, musicians playing, dancing and the two choirs alternately singing something when moved to............ which brought forth the unprecedented rendering of the Rodgers & Hammerstein muddly. (Thank you for the new name Jennifer)
This does need a mention - I cannot leave it out as it caused merriment all the way home and is still continuing to do so...........
Voice Box Choir, filled with enthusiasm, love of all sentient beings, some alcohol, too much food, the heady glow of sea air, excitement, and hubris decided (against their conductor and pianists advice) to sing the R & M without a piano or conductor!!!
No, actually there were two conductors! - (John and Bun - possibly more at different moments - it was hard to keep up). Each conducted with their own style, and beat - leaving plenty of room for individuals in the choir to pick their own keys and express their own interpretations of the music and their own musical personalities!!
'Oklahoma' was a particularly adventurous rendering, in four different keys simultaneously - it had distinctly 'garage' overtones with a touch of 'propping up the bar' whilst sliding down it!
The juxtaposition of 'It's June's' was wildly avant garde, and quite inimitable - (I was under the table at this point - Keith was paralysed with emotion) the eyes of the other choir were growing rounder and rounder at this point. I tried to look proud.......
'Shall we dance' unexpectedly morphed into a five part version - unprecedented and very explorative.
An 'atonal' version of 'There is nothing like a dame' left the audience breathless...and Keith dropped his cake.
The climax, of course was 'you'll never walk alone', it failed to segue into 3/4 as usual, but galloped in a race for the finish in 4/4, Sue Mac - had cannily realised there was 'something wrong' was trying to recoup but the horse had the bit between its teeth and it was full gallop to the end. However, it was at this point the sopranos realised, as they were rising up toward the heights of coloratura dexterity, that they had possibly started this section too high, and were about to have to lift themselves off the vocal map into the realms of the castrati.
I held my breath in awe at their bravery and intrepid spirit, as the whites of their eyes glowed and they sang on, and on, on and on, to the bitter end.............. Totally hilarious - a 'never to be forgotten moment to crown all the others......even though it may not have been our 'finest hour' it was certainly one of the funniest.
What a wonderful weekend to continue our Birthday Year!
Our visit to Levow an Bys - World Voices in Penzance. Photos show rehearsals, performances in Penzance and Tate St Ives and more. Thanks to Rob for photos taken during the performances.
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Emma Quinn-JudgePartner
Partner Emma Quinn-Judge focuses her litigation practice on appeals, criminal defense, employment law, and complex civil litigation. She has obtained excellent results for her clients including a nearly $10.9 million jury verdict for her client in a race discrimination and retaliation case against the City of Boston (now on appeal).
Emma is listed in Best Lawyers of America and on the Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. She was selected for the 2017 Top Women of the Law list by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.Appeals
Emma is an experienced appellate attorney who represents clients in both criminal and civil appeals in state and federal court. Her criminal experience includes both direct and collateral appeals (habeas corpus) and her civil appellate work focuses on employment matters. Because Emma maintains both an active trial and appellate practice, she is well-situated to provide clients continuous representation from the first court appearance through any appeals, and to ensure that their cases are properly litigated to preserve appellate issues.
Emma also regularly contributes friend of the court (amicus) briefs on civil and criminal appellate matters. From 2014 to 2017, as the Co-Chair of the Amicus Committee for the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association, she monitored developing issues in employment law and wrote, edited, and solicited numerous amicus briefs on legal issues that affect the rights of employees under state and federal law.Criminal Defense
Emma has a broad criminal defense practice in both state and federal courts. She has represented clients charged with crimes such as murder; motor vehicle homicide; conspiracy; drug possession, distribution, and trafficking; weapons offenses (gun charges); money laundering; honest services mail fraud; visa fraud; rape; assault and battery; sexual assault; incest; operating under the influence (OUI); harassment; disorderly conduct; and resisting arrest.
Emma has also counseled and assisted clients during federal investigations and grand jury proceedings relating to public corruption, regulatory offenses, and tax crimes.
Emma is a zealous advocate for clients and works hard to obtain outstanding results, whether at trial or by resolving a case before trial. On numerous occasions, she has helped clients get their charges dismissed altogether or reduced. She has won motions to dismiss criminal charges and her legal work has helped persuade the Commonwealth to "nolle prosse" (drop) charges against her clients. In a case where a client was charged with first-degree murder and had confessed to the killing, Emma helped convince the Commonwealth to agree to a manslaughter plea. She has also provided effective advocacy on sentencing; for example, she helped the lead defendant in a multi-defendant federal drug case obtain a 5-year sentence, even though the Guideline sentencing range was 210 to 260 months.Employment Law and Other Civil Cases
Emma's civil practice focuses on employment law and complex civil litigation. In her employment practice, she fights for employees who are opposing unlawful employment practices, such as discrimination (including discrimination based on race, gender, disability, pregnancy, caregiver status, national origin, or age), sexual harassment, retaliation, hostile work environment, wrongful discharge, and violations of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Emma represents workers in state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, and before state and federal agencies (including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)). She also advises and counsels individuals who need help addressing workplace problems and reviews and negotiates executive contracts and separation or severance agreements.
In addition to winning a nearly $10.9 million verdict at trial (now on appeal) in a race discrimination and retaliation case, Emma has helped clients obtain substantial damages awards and settlements in cases alleging gender discrimination, national origin discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, and equal pay violations.
Emma also represents individuals and entities in complex civil litigation, including in matters involving civil rights statutes, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), and the Defend Trade Secrets Act.Other Experience
Emma does pro bono work for civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. She serves as Co-Coordinator of The Amicus Group and from 2014 to 2017 she co-chaired the Amicus Committee for the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association. Emma is also the First Circuit Representative for the National Employment Lawyers Association Judicial Nominations Committee.
While at Yale Law School, Emma represented indigent clients seeking asylum and federal prisoners pursuing civil claims. She also helped prepare amicus briefs for post-9/11 litigation and served on the editorial staffs of the Yale Law Journal, the Yale Journal of International Law, and the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal.
Before becoming a lawyer, Emma taught fourth grade for three years in Compton, California, as a member of Teach for America.
J.D., Yale Law School, 2005
B.A., Middlebury College, 1998
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- Judge Michael A. Ponsor, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 2005-2006
- Judge Rosemary S. Pooler, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2006-2007
Emma Quinn-Judge & Monica R. Shah, With 'Laltaprasad' case, SJC on verge of 'momentous decision', Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Apr. 1, 2016).
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This book can be purchased on Amazon in print and digital. Please seek the latest edition of April 2017 which is the most complete.
An overview (from the Introduction)
What I hope every reader will find in these pages (and I include the coaches, counselors and helpers who may be sought out to provide guidance in this process) are many thought-provoking ideas for your consideration. You will find conversation starters, prompts for reflection, an impetus to share your life story with others. You will also find plenty of encouragement to get into action so that you can create your own islands of meaning, joy and service in our currently challenging world.
Part One opens the conversation about "calling" and "contribution" with very broad strokes, using the examples of others. When you discover and act on your own, most true impulses, where can it lead? What are the possibilities that resonate for you as you consider the variety of ways and venues to which others have been called?
Part Two begins laying out the queries you may want to pose to yourself. You get a chance to explore what you know about your unique passions, gifts, desires and calls to service—the ones you may already be expressing, and the ones you may want to express more consciously.
Part Three invites you to pause. You will have arrived at a place where you may have gotten some of the information you need about yourself. How might you want to proceed?
Part Four provides a "big nudge" for you to tell more of the truth about what you really want to be or do—no matter how new or intimidating. You get the opportunity to align your intentions at all levels, and to admit and transform any reluctance you are feeling about going for what you feel compelled and excited to do.
Part Five offers guidance illustrated by those who have taken action on their own behalf in the world. Hopefully it will serve as inspiration for some of the ways you may choose to move forward onto your desired life path.
Part Six acknowledges that as life proceeds, natural talents form into new and uniquely clustered gifts. Life purpose may take different forms, and it's important to return to reflection: "What's my authentic role at this time in my life on the planet?"
An Appendix contains a few resources that I have found useful to the lifeshaping process which are beyond the scope of the book to discuss in detail. The second printing includes an additional Appendix E, where I felt compelled to discuss the societal context in which we are now making our life choices. A fourth printing in April 2017 contains more current resources and introduces a likely sequel which includes the three current challenges of our "third chapter" of life; Living Fully, Aging Gracefully and Dying Well.
And finally, I offer this gift in hopes that you, the reader, will find your right place, honor the beauty of your own gifts, and dare to express them. Allow the questions and the examples of others to lead you "home" to yourself. Have patience with your inquiry and be willing for it to last as long as it takes. Know that you may find some sections easier than others, depending on your own comfort with reflection and introspection. It's important to remember that the questions, the steps, and the illustrations contained herein are not designed to "prescribe" answers for your life. Rather, they invite reflection, point a direction, and offer some gentle guidance. After all, it is only your own best answers that will work for you. Your best answers will come when you seek them, when you are ready for them and when you have the courage to lean into them. The world awaits you—and me—no matter how old we are!
Why Not Do What You Love, like a mirror you look at each morning, asks the simplest question in the world, and one of the wisest and most compassionate. It tells real-life stories about people who are neither famous nor rich, they just do what they love. The book both provokes and reassures, challenges and clarifies, and demands nothing from us readers except for one thing: that we care—passionately—about the life we have been given to live. And it's written by someone who has walked her talk.
~EVE MARKO, Founding Teacher Zen Peacemaker Order
I love the way Martha has written WHY NOT DO WHAT YOU LOVE? as a friendly conversation with the reader. She gently poses questions while the readers search inwardly to "discover their best gifts and to explore ways to use these gifts." Her concept of aligning our passions, our innate gifts with life's callings has helped guide me in my reflections on the life journey I've taken these past 70 years. Moreover, it has helped me to begin to systematically seek more clarity as I navigate into my future years.
~RICHARD LAKIN, Author of Teaching as an Act of Love (free e-copy)
Thanks for orchestrating a fantastic morning program for some of us from the Family Business Center. Our discussion and participation was well structured with just enough time to ponder and reflect on the themes of your book.
~KIM DURAND, Normandeau Communications, Inc.
Rich with insight, illuminating exercises, down-to-earth guidance, and inspiring anecdotes, Martha Johnson leads us on a journey to the wellspring of self-knowledge and inspiration residing in our own hearts and souls. If you have ever dreamed of being paid to do what you love, if you have ever yearned to use your talents to help make a better world, I urge you to read this book and follow its gentle guidance. It can deliver on its promise – to bring you to the place inside yourself where mysterious powers lay waiting to be discovered, powers that can help you create the life you have always dreamed of living.
~TOM MONTE, bestselling writer, including Unexpected Recoveries and co-author of Taking Woodstock.
What a wonderful honor it is to be included in your book! I think you couldn't have picked a more important subject and it is so timely, as so many who had focused purely on making money now take stock of their lives and wonder how they find more meaning through helping others.
~DAVID MAZOR, Founder Reader-to-Reader
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Only 16 patients in Abbeyeix
There are just 16 patients left in Abbeyleix Hospital, almost less than half the amount of patients there when the closure was first announced.
Speaking in the Seanad recently, Labour Senator John Whelan has said it is high time and long overdue for the Department of Health and the HSE to commit to the future of Abbeyleix and Shaen Community Nursing Homes.
He said it was an "absurd situation" that just 16 patients remained in Abbeyleix, which had the capacity to cater for up to 50 patients.
"It's time that the HSE and the Department committed, in a real way, to community nursing homes," he said.
Senator Whelan said that last April, he had been assured that a decision would be made "shortly", but he now feared the words "shortly" and "soon".
"I thought in April we would have a decision before the recess in July. It's high time the HSE and Department of Health drew a line under Abbeyleix and Shaen and once and for all signalled their commitment to both nursing homes.
"Both the community and the public, their patients are wearing thin," he said.
Environment Minister, Phil Hogan replied to Senator Whelan on behalf of the Minister for Health.
He said the Department would finalise a submission for the Minister - once the HSE had resolved any outstanding issues.
But Minister Hogan said the process was expected to conclude "very shortly".
"I suspect that a decision is being made in the context of the HSE service plan which will be published in draft form in the next few weeks and for implementation in January 2014."
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Deviled Eggs with Wheat Germ
Nutrition FactsServing Size: 2 egg halves (61g)
Servings Per Recipe: 5
Calories 90
Calories From Fat 60
- % Daily Value
- Total Fat 6g 9%
- Saturated Fat 1.5g 8%
- Trans Fat 0g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
- Monounsaturated Fat 2g
- Cholesterol 185mg 62%
- Sodium 160mg 7%
- Potassium 85mg 2%
- Total Carbohydrate 3g 1%
- Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
- Sugars 1g
- Protein 7g
- Vitamin A 8% Vitamin C 0%
- Calcium 2% Iron 6%
- Vitamin E 4% Thiamin 2%
- Folate 8% Phosphorus 10%
- Magnesium 2% Zinc 6%
Deviled eggs aren't just for special occasions. They make a great snack or an easy party appetizer. The added wheat germ gives them extra texture and nutrition.
Makes 10 deviled egg halves
5 eggs
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons light mayonnaise
1 tablespoon sweet relish
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon Kretschmer Original Toasted Wheat Germ
Paprika, for garnish
Place eggs in small pot and cover with an inch of cold water. Add 1 tablespoon salt and bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat to low and cook eggs for 1 more minute. Turn heat off and leave pot covered on hot burner allowing eggs to sit for 15 minutes. Run eggs under very cold water for 5 minutes to stop additional cooking.
Once eggs are cold, remove shells and rinse eggs under cold water again before slicing in half lengthwise. Remove yolks and place in a bowl. Add mayonnaise, relish, mustard and wheat germ. Stir to combine well.
Using a pastry bag, spoon or small sealable bag with the corner cut off, fill egg white centers with yolk mixture. Garnish eggs with paprika. Serve immediately or carefully cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.


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Private Equity Bets Big On Software With Aggressive Investments
For the past couple of years, Robert Smith's Vista Equity Partners has been making a splash through a series of eye-catching deals in the software industry — an area that private equity firms have long been wary of.
A former Goldman Sachs banker, Smith set up Vista in 2000. Its record of buying, improving and selling software companies recently allowed it to raise $10.6 billion for the biggest ever technology-focused private equity fund. The money is going out the door just as fast: in the past 12 months, Vista has bought four companies for more than $1 billion each.
From Financial Times. Story by Tom Braithwaite
"We are very disciplined buyers," says Smith, who complains that he, a rare black man at the helm of a large financial institution, is often unfairly targeted by the police when he is at the wheel of his McLaren car. "We manage money for teachers and firemen and municipal workers. We have never lost money on any buyout investment. The last thing they want us to do is be irresponsible with capital and we take our fiduciary responsibilities very seriously."
Glitzy consumer internet companies such as Snap, Uber and Airbnb, have monopolised attention in the tech industry, stoking a debate over whether Silicon Valley is inflating a new bubble.
Along with groups such as San Francisco-based Thoma Bravo, Vista is at the forefront of a parallel trend of aggressive private equity investments that has the capacity to reshape the software industry.
Anthony Armstrong, head of technology mergers at Morgan Stanley who has helped sell a number of companies to the young private equity groups, believes they are blazing a new trail.
"It's like the Golden State Warriors," he says, comparing them to the highly successful Bay Area basketball team, which has revolutionised the sport with its mixture of pace and aggressive shot-taking. "Smaller players, moving quickly, making three-pointers."
Vista is by no means alone. Indeed, it will soon relinquish its record as the largest tech-focused fund. Silver Lake, the Silicon Valley-based private equity firm responsible for the biggest ever tech deals such as the buyout of Dell in 2013 and Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2015, is raising a $15 billion fund. And the Japanese telecoms group SoftBank, primed with money from Saudi Arabia and Apple, is raising the Vision tech fund whose $100 billion target size would trump anything that has come before.
Many of the recent rapidly negotiated deals have been concluded with less due diligence than is typical, and have involved companies with higher growth but lower profits than those normally targeted by private equity firms.
The flurry of private equity investments raises important questions for the tech sector. On the one hand, it could indicate that this new brand of specialist firms has developed a secret sauce that allows it to generate reliable returns from software.
Vista's funds have typically made returns of more than 20 percent, according to investment data provider PitchBook. However, the investments could simply be contributing to a new bubble that will inevitably lead to a lot of bad debt and failed companies.
Tech is now attracting all types of private equity firms, with the sector representing almost 40.1 percent of U.S. buyouts last year, according to Dealogic data. That is the highest proportion on record and up from around 10 percent in 2010. Established generalists such as KKR and Carlyle have been joined by tech-focused firms such as Golden Gate Capital and the newer Siris Capital.
Another tech sector crash is not inconceivable. On the face of it, that might not seem to matter to the likes of Vista, which has never sold a company through an IPO. But with private equity firms commonly buying and selling the companies between each other, the music could stop at any time.
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If our latest stylebook has you inspired to play with your style, why not try something new with your hair, too? Today, we 're bringing you a behind the scenes look at how the show-stopping faux-bob worn by model Nicole was created. While this style takes a little practice and patience, you'll be rewarded with a look that will have everyone asking: "Oh my gosh, did you cut your hair?"
Vintage Faux-bob
What you'll need:
Metal styling clips (short and long)
A 1/2-inch curling iron
Bobby pins
Hair elastics
1. Begin by dividing hair into four sections: one at the front, one on either side of your face, and one section at the nape of your neck. Clip out of the way.
2. Using your heated curling iron, carefully curl each section — except for the portion of hair at the nape of your neck — securing each curl with a short styling clip.
3. Once all your curls are pinned up, release the clipped-back portion of hair at your nape. Using a mirror — or a dexterous friend — braid this section of hair tightly against your head. Pin securely with bobby pins. You'll be using this area to secure the length of your hair, so you want this to feel very tight and secure.
4. Release your clipped back curls, gently brushing to create waves.
5. Decide where you'd like the waves to fall and, using your long styling clips and tissue (to prevent creases), clip into place.
6. Divide your hair into two sections — as if you're making pigtails — and wrap a piece of tissue around each section.
7. Starting on one side, remove the tissue from around your hair, and begin to roll the length of your hair under.
8. Continue rolling until you reach the nape of your neck. Using your bobby pins, secure the roll to the braided portion at the nape. Don't be surprised if this takes a sizable amount of bobby pins.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 with the opposite side.
10. Remove the long clips and tissue from the front of your hair, adjust as needed, and mist generously with hairspray. Prepare for compliments aplenty.


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Men can easily achieve a hard erection taking Viagra. It starts to act in 30 minutes to 1 hour after the initial dose and the effect lasts for 4-6 hours.
Viagra's active ingredient Sildenafil Citrate ( PDE-5 inhibitor) works by magnifying blood flow to the penis and thereby causing an erection in response to sexual stimulation.
Female Viagra is produced for women who have various sexual disorders like decreased libido, lack of lubrication, delayed orgasm. Female Viagra (Sildenafil Citrate) significantly enhances women's sex drive. It works by relaxing of vascular smooth muscle cells, increasing of the vascular lumen of the vulva and clitoris and thus delivering blood flow to these organs. Taking Female Viagra, women are more eager to have sex and as a rule, reach orgasm more often. The effect of Female Viagra lasts between 4-6 hours.
Couples who want to improve their sex life and get reliable results and more pleasure, should definitely buy Family Discount Pack. Buying Family Discount Pack you pay only for Viagra and get the equal quantity of Female Viagra pills absolutely FREE of charge.
Neither Viagra nor Female Viagra protect you and your partner from sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV) and from pregnancy.
Family Discount Pack includes standard dosages of Viagra (100 mg) for men and Female Viagra (100 mg).
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Viagra is best taken on empty stomach, as high-fat meals, grapefruit juice, and alcohol can interfere with the medication effectiveness.
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Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F) and away from excess moisture and heat. Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date. Keep out of the reach of children.


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As part of our Intelligently Rebellious series, Big Radical was delighted to host nine exemplary business leaders at our inaugural 'Radical Thinkers' event recently held at Dinner by Heston in London's Knightsbridge.
The combination of an exquisite venue, mind-blowing cuisine, intelligent rebelliousness and enlightening conversation made for an evening that I know will not be forgotten for any of those who attended.
During the evening our minds and taste-buds were taken on a twisting journey of discovery and challenges. Having had time to digest the evening (in every sense), some key learnings definitely appeared.
Innovation needs a good sommelier
I am not a wine-buff. I enjoy it and usually know what I like – but on arrival at the venue I was presented with a mind-boggling wine list of what must have been 300 types of Red, White and Fizz.
Immediately – I panic! What should I choose? What is our budget? What if I make the wrong choice? What if I look uneducated and uniformed in front of my peers?
Enter the Sommelier. Within minutes of talking to him, allowing him to understand our ambitions for the night, our budget, our guests: we had made the right choice. He didn't choose for us; we chose. But his expertise made this possible.
On speaking to our guests during the evening, it became clear that this is common issue for those wanting to be more radical or transformative in their business: what do these terms mean; where do you start; how do I not blow my budget; how do I not look like a fool?
Our recommendation? Get an Innovation Sommelier (like Big Radical) to help you on this journey. Small steps, careful choices, intelligently decisive and based off genuine needs.
Let's face it, buying a £500 bottle of paint-stripping plonk isn't what you want to be famous for!
'New World' vs 'Old World' wines
As said, I am no connoisseur, but the trend is clear: rapid growth in new wine regions globally with sales often outstripping the traditional wine strongholds of Europe. A lot of the success is down to new business models challenging traditional techniques: larger scale production, changes to taste, less complexity, different marketing and brand messaging.
But the world keeps turning. New wine-producing regions like China, Lebanon and even the UK are growing both in terms of scale and reputation. (NB: We chose an English White and a South African Red on the day). So, when do 'New World Wines' become old?
Our guests were also struggling with new business models impacting their ways of working. Threats and disruption from new entrants are real. We do believe however, that any business can update and progress the business model. Many traditional European vineyards are using new technologies to aid with agriculture, using AI to improve "terroir" decisions and supporting their products with digital companions.
Old World doesn't mean extinct: it means it has a heritage, a brand and an expertise that cannot be replicated.
Collaboration leaves a good taste in the mouth
The Starter. Meat Fruit. Yes, you heard that right. Meat Fruit.
Through explanation by our host for the evening, it is inspired by a British recipe of the 1300's called "Pome Dorres" ("apples of gold") and was a playful and mischievous culinary tradition.
It was amazing and my highlight of the meal; the unexpected combination of look and flavour meshed perfectly together.
The "Radical Thinkers" who attended craved this "meshing" in the workplace. They found that often they couldn't get the flavours to combine, struggled to find the right ingredients and often had to force the pieces together to form more of a medieval Cockatrice than an "Apple of Gold".
At Big Radical, we champion collaboration and experimentation. We believe that innovative thinking only happens in a collaborative environment and the true power of innovation is unlocked by the bringing together of different skills, knowledge, experience and culture.
Old classics can still be improved
For main course, I moved onto the rather uninspiring sounding choice of Steak and Chips.
This was a strange choice for me as I would never choose this in my local gastro-pub: I find it a bit dull. However, I was inspired to see how the self-proclaimed culinary alchemist Heston, would spin this classic.
And boy did he! Marrow-bone pieces, triple-cooked chips and mushroom ketchup transformed the safe and traditional fare into something I have never tasted before.
The attendees at the dinner had a recurring challenge; how to transform traditional (often engineering-led businesses) into something more digital focused and exciting to the palates of today's customers.
This is a true use-case for radical thinking. Big Radical works with our clients to consider new ways of thinking, making rapid and meaningful breakthroughs so that the heritage, tradition and strength of the "classic" business can be experienced by more and more people.
Early engagement = rapid (and tipsy) results
Time for the dessert. Tipsy Cake. The flagship recipe of the restaurant. A type of bread-and-butter pudding with a spit roast pineapple companion; dating back to a cookery book by J.H. Walsh from 1810.
It was lovely. Hot, gooey, sweet and decadent.
When the guests chose this option from the menu at the beginning of the feast, our host warned that this treat takes 45 minutes to cook. I have heard this said in other restaurants before for other dishes and I have waited for a long time for said meal to arrive.
On this night, the dessert turned up within 5 – 10 mins of the meal finishing. Perfection in flavour and timing.
Our guests, spoke a lot about injecting pace into their business, scaling at speed etc. Tipsy Cake took 45 mins to cook. Fact. But no-one waited. This wasn't about adding pace into the production process – but about understanding demand, anticipating needs and getting early insights.
This is something we champion at Big Radical. Learning quickly and working intelligently so the right outcomes happen at the right time. Because let's face it...no-one wants to wait for pudding!
Overall, it was a fantastic evening and the parallels between traditional thinking and new disruptions were so strikingly clear.
Neal Archbold is head of innovation and strategy at Big Radical
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Whether you're a new mom or are expecting the newest member of your family, you and your developing baby will need expert obstetrical care.
You can trust the experienced specialists at Methodist Physicians Clinic Women's Center. We have delivered thousands of babies and are experienced in all aspects of pregnancy from preconception to postpartum care.
Your prenatal visits will include education to prepare you and your partner for parenthood. We will work with you to develop a birth plan that will ensure that the birth of your child is all you want it to be.
Prenatal Screenings
Some of the more common tests performed during pregnancy are performed in both the first trimester and second-trimester prenatal screenings.
First Trimester
The first trimester screenings at our Methodist Women's Center locations may include an ultrasound test for fetal nuchal translucency (NT) as well as maternal blood testing. The blood tests measure two substances (PAPP-A and hCG) found in the blood of all pregnant women.
When nuchal translucency screening and maternal blood tests are used together during the first-trimester screening, there is a greater ability to determine if the fetus might have a birth defect, such as Down syndrome, trisomy 18 or trisomy 13.
If the results of these first-trimester screening tests are abnormal, genetic counseling is recommended and additional testing may be needed for an accurate diagnosis.
Second Trimester
Blood tests, known as multiple markers, can provide information about the risk of having a baby with certain genetic disorders or birth defects. These tests are included in the second-trimester prenatal screenings. During the 15th and 20th week, a sample of your blood is taken. The multiple markers include an Alpha-fetoprotein screening that may alert you and your OB/GYN physician to twins, or signs of spina bifida, Down syndrome, chromosomal abnormalities or a miscalculated due date.
Additional multiple markers measure hormones in your blood, including hCG, Estriol, and Inhibin. Abnormal results from these tests may suggest an ultrasound or amniocentesis for an accurate diagnosis. These can also be used to confirm due dates and to view the fetal spine and body parts for defects.
Multiple marker screenings are not 100 percent accurate. It is a diagnostic screening used to determine if additional testing is necessary in order to best care for you and your developing baby.
Additional Tests
When a woman has both first and second-trimester screening tests performed, the ability of the tests to detect an abnormality is greater than using just one screening independently.
Additional tests performed during your pregnancy may include an amniocentesis, Chorionic villus sampling (CVS), fetal monitoring, a glucose tolerance test and an ultrasound.
Your Methodist Women's Center OB/GYN physician or midwife may recommend genetic testing during your pregnancy if you or your partner have a family history of genetic disorders and/or you have had a baby with a genetic abnormality.
Delivering Your Baby
After nine months of growth and changes, labor finally begins and signals the arrival of your baby. The Methodist Women's Center delivery team is ready to care for you on the day of your delivery and during your stay in the hosptial.
Delivery can be accomplished either vaginally or by Cesarean section (also called C-section). Your OB/GYN will discuess the need for either delivery method, but in both cases, your provider will monitor your vital signs (i.e. blood pressure and pulse) and your baby's heart rate. Your physician will also examine the cervical opening to determine the position of your baby's head and will continue to support you throughout the delivery process.
Vaginal Delivery
During a vaginal delivery, an OB/GYN physician will assist the baby's head and chin out of the vagina when it becomes visible. Once the head is out of the vagina, the physician usually rotates the fetus to the side and eases the shoulders out, followed by the rest of the body.
If the vaginal opening does not stretch enough to accommodate the baby, and there is a risk of tearing, the physician may perform an episiotomy — an incision through the vaginal wall and the perineum (the area between the thighs, extending from the anus to the vaginal opening) to help deliver the baby.
After the delivery of the baby, the mother is asked to continue pushing during the next few uterine contractions to deliver the placenta.
Delivery Complications
Serious complications are rare during labor, however, some of the common problems may include fetal meconium, abnormal fetal heart rate and abnormal position of the fetus during birth.
Fetal Meconium
The normal color of the amniotic fluid is clear. Normally, a baby's first bowel movement is passed after birth. If the amniotic fluid is greenish or brown in color, it may indicate fetal meconium which means the bowel movement occurred prior to delivery and may be associated with fetal distress.
Abnormal Fetal Heart Rate
The fetal heart rate during labor is a good sign of how a baby is handling the contractions of labor. If a baby appears to be in distress, the mother is assisted with oxygen, increased fluids or helped to change positions.
Abnormal Fetal Position
The ideal position for a baby during birth is head-down, facing the mother's back. However, it is not uncommon to find them in an abnormal position. These positions might include, but are not limited to, being positioned head-down but facing his or her mother's front or with the face down into the mother's pelvis. A baby may also be positioned breech, where buttocks or feet are down first in the mother's pelvis. If the baby is in an abnormal position, this can make delivery more difficult through the birth canal.
Depending on the position, your OB/GYN may try to deliver your baby as it presents itself, attempt to turn him or her before delivery or perform a Cesarean section.


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Last week I invited some of my best girlfriends over to see our new place and have ourselves a little summer soirée! (Can we all agree adding "soirée" to anything makes it sound super fancy?) Our guest of honor was Notable Wines because when my friends and I get together it's all about good conversation and even better wine!
Any time I know I'm having friends over I tend to go a little overboard with preparations. I clean with a good three days in advance and I love making the event extra special for them. Trust me when I say every little detail is thought out and I'm pretty particular about my menu.
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Tip 1. Have a theme: A theme is so helpful when planning a get-together. It can guide you in the decision-making process because you'll base everything according to your set plan.
To plan my soirée, I took inspiration straight from the wine bottles. I decided to go with a music theme since the name – Notable – ties perfectly! Easy listening music is said to enhance the chardonnay experience so I planned ahead and made a special playlist for the party with light, mellow artists from the late 50s, early 60s, and current popular songs. It was the perfect backdrop for us to catch up!
Deciding the flavor of wine I wanted was actually the easiest part. Notable Wines is the first to showcase the flavor profiles right on the front label making it super simple to shop exactly what you're looking for. I tend to get a little overwhelmed when I'm shopping the wine aisles but with the flavors highlighted on the label I was quickly able to choose citrus and fruity for my first Chardonnay and buttery and vanilla for the second, so no matter my friend's palette they had something to enjoy.
Tip 2. Make sure your food and drink pairs well: With parties you want things to run smoothly – food and drinks included! I always think of this as one of the biggest part of the experience because people tend to remember how yummy (or not!) their food and beverages were.
I decided to choose my finger foods according to the notes on the bottle: the fruity and crisp Chardonnay paired beautifully with grapes and the oaky and buttery chardonnay was shared with a variety of tasty popcorn. I had other finger foods as well but my focus was to highlight the flavors of the wine and have it all tie together.
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For my surprise, I decided to have a little fun with our wine! Using the fruity and crisp chardonnay notes as a guide, I brought out peach and melon ice pops to add to our wine glasses. Can I just say what a hit this was?! My friends were literally in heaven with these boozy pops! It was so refreshing and tasty that it's now going to be a go-to for all my summer soirees with Notable Wines! You can tell people love what they're having when the room gets silent and they're just enjoying their treats! As the host, there's nothing better!
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IT WAS LATE EVENING. The sun had already descended under the horizon. The stars had bloomed in the twilight and were sparkling like diamonds. The moon had also risen high above, offering a silver sliver of soft, majestic light to the world below. The only disturbance in the silence was the rustling of grass under Lynaly's feet as she approached the hill that overlooked Middleton. She slowly sat upon the lone boulder, and a black shadow leaped out of the darkness, planting itself on her lap. She cradled the small beast.
Lynaly looked down at Sheila. The cat's eyes were clenched shut in pure pleasure as it purred. "You can sense it, can't you, my sweet?" she muttered.
A meow escaped the little beast's maw as it slowly opened its majestic golden eyes and gazed upward to its queen. A smile crept across Lynaly's face, and she continued to stroke Sheila's back. She looked down upon Middleton, waiting, patient as a fisherman.
"Soon, we will." Lynaly fixated on a location only known to her.
"Do you think he knows yet?" A disembodied male voice echoed in Lynaly's mind.
"Perhaps—because of that flea," she replied, annoyed. "It's of no importance, for he will become mine." Lynaly's grin glowed faintly under the moon's soft light. She picked up Sheila and looked her in the eyes. "Soon we will have all the pieces. However, you will do another task for me." She stared deeper into Sheila's eyes. "This will be your last task. Complete it and return to me. Soon you'll be whole."
The cat gave a light bob of its head. Lynaly placed the beast back onto her lap, where she ran her fingers down Sheila's back.
The golden eyes closed again. "Yes, my queen, as you say." Lynaly grinned again in the night's deathly light.
"All life is a gamble. . . We go to sleep every night comfortably betting that the next day we'll wake up."
Demons. Sorcery. Magical playing cards.
It's anything but a fairy tale. Armed with her choice deck, her beloved book, Hoyle's Guide to Poker and Parlor Tricks, and the skill that led her to throw away her college fund, gambles with her life—and with the lives of those around her.
Elsewhere, other players have a different idea of the rules of the game. And investigating the bizarre chain of events is Middleton PD's finest, Detectives Dana Deupree and Walter Conway.
It's anyone's game. The cards have been shuffled, and the stakes are high. The call has gone around the table. Others may fold, but not Lilah.
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Families' Doubts letter is addressed to the Holy Father Francis as well as to all bishops and cardinals of the Catholic Church. This letter was initiated by lay people who emphasize the beauty of the Amoris laetitia apostolic exhortation, but who also express their fears about the liberal interpretation of this document. The guidelines of bishops of the Buenos Aires region admitted absolution and Holy Communion for persons divorced who live in new relationships with the rejection of the decision of living in chastity.
A great number of believers are of the opinion that this idea weakens the motivation to overcome marital difficulties by other married couples, it can also encourage divorce and speed up the process of family breakup.
The letter also discusses some practical consequences of asymmetric treatment of both sacramental spouses. According to the changed rules, the affirmation of infidelity is to be given to one of the sacramental spouses, while maintaining the other's obligation of fidelity. The situation of the abandoned spouse becomes very complicated, often even dramatic. One's affirmation of infidelity is done in the secrecy of confession, and therefore, without any participation of the abandoned sacramental spouse and the possibility to appeal. One of the spouses is secretly released from the mutual commitment and the other one does not have any opportunity to defend himself/herself.
Including the moment of one's releasing from the sacramental marriage obligations in the secrecy of confession also means in practice that bishops do not have the tools to verify whether such release has been used properly, to protect people who are harmed and to guarantee that they only work in exceptional situations, as it is suggested to the believers.
Families also convey fears expressed by many priests. The new rules are a tragedy for many priests and bishops who feel intimidated and forced to commit grave sins.
The authors of the initiative emphasize that they support the process of seeking help for and accompanying the divorced people. Nevertheless, they ask for the proposed rules to be corrected so as to protect families and priests at the same time. They assure about their prayer for the Holy Father and the Church.


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PENHA Research Papers
The Great Green Forest is here and expanding all on its own: A call for action
Nick Pasiecznik, Agroforestry Enterprises (AFE), France (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Simon Choge, Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Kenya (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Zeremiriam Fre, University College London (UCL), UK (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Bereket Tsegay, Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA), UK/Ethiopia (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Fabiola Parra, Centro de Investigaciones de Zonas Áridas, La Molina Agrarian University (UNALM), Peru (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Pasiecznik N, Choge S, Fre Z, Tsegay B, Parra F, 2015. The Great Green Forest is here and expanding all on its own: A call for action. International Conference on Resilience, Research and Innovation, Djibouti, 26-28 October 2015.
Input to the Global Agenda on Sustainable Livestock
Elizabeth Katushabe
PENHA Uganda, Spring 2014
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elizabeth Katushabe was born in Uganda and is a member of the Bahima pastoralist community. She is a breeder of Ankole Longhorn cattle and has been an active member of the LIFE Network since 2007 and has represented LIFE at many conferences and workshops. She is PENHA's Project Officer in Uganda. She can be contacted at email@example.com.
Chinese Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Food Security Implications
By Matthew Smith, PENHA
Food insecurity is an issue which remains very nebulous in modern development discourse, mainly due to the fact that because it is so multi-faceted, it is nearly impossible to fashion any sort of 'magic bullet' to eradicate it. We can, however, draw some links from it back to its antecedent circumstances and forward to certain development interventions and policies. This article is not and does not try to be comprehensive in its discussion of food security nor in its quick survey of Chinese investment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The goal is to encourage the reader not only to question and be constructively critical of Chinese (and other South-South) investment as opposed to OECD investment, but also to reflect upon all of the requisite articles of development beyond mere agricultural production which must be in place for any group, community, or nation to be considered 'food secure'. This paper critically looked at Chinese investment in Ethiopia.
Economic contribution of pastoral and agro-pastoral production to food security and livelihoods systems in Africa: The case of Eastern Sudan, Eritrea and Western Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa
Zeremariam Fre and Bereket T. Tsegay
Paper presented to the UNRSID Conference on "Innovative Development Strategy IV: A Rights-based Approach to Food" Session October 24-25th 2011 Paris, France.
Economic Empowerment for Pastoralist Women: A Comparative Look at Program Experience in Uganda, Somaliland and Sudan
By John Livingstone & Everse Ruhindi
Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing 6-8 April 2011
Organised by the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) in collaboration with the Journal of Peasant Studies and hosted by the Future Agricultures Consortium at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Policy Framework For Pastoralism in Africa: Securing, Protecting and Improving the Lives, Livelihoods and Rights of Pastoralist Communities
Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture
October, 2010
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Use of alternative Animal feeds to enhance food security and environmental protection in the Sudan
(The Case of Prosopis Juliflora)
T. M. Abedelnoor; N. H. Talib; A. A. Mabrouk; M. A. Mohamed, M. I. El-Mahi H.H.Abu-Eisa; & Bokrezion.H
Editor in chief: Zeremariam Fre (PhD).
Sudan, 2009
The full copy can be downloaded here
The Ecological and Socio-Economic Role of Prosopis Juliflora in Eritrea: An Analytical Assessment within the Context of Rural Development in the Horn of Africa
Harnet Bokrezion
The full copy of the Phd dissertation can be downloaded here
Legislators and Livestock: A Comparative Analysis of Pastoralist Parliamentary Groups in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
Final Report of the NRI/PENHA Research Project on Pastoralist Parliamentary groups, funded by DFID's Livestock Production Programme and the CAPE Unite, African Union's Inter- African Bureau for Animal Resources.
John Morton, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, April 2005
The full copy can be downloaded here.
The Ankole Longhorn Cattle sustain our Life and Livelihood: We have to conserve them
Kampala, March 2009
The launch of an important report held in February 2010 at Sanga, Nyabushozi Kiruhura District.Herders' representatives and other stakeholders led the official launch of this study. Nearly 100 people attended this meeting, almost all of whom were herders from the local district where the work had been done. 41 were women.
The importance of the work was emphasised by the number of senior government officials present, in particular the National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank. In addition, representatives of LPP, LIFE and PENHA (UK) were present.
For full description of the launch can be found here.
The report itself is now available in electronic form in Runyankore here.
The impact of increased food prices on rural-urban-rural relationships - the case of Eastern Sudan.
Zeremariam Fre (PhD) Team leader, Mirghani Ibnoaf (PhD) Senior Researcher, and Hiroshi Kuwata (MSc) Researcher (PENHA)
Study commissioned by IIED / UNFPA
Khartoum, Sudan 2009
The full text of the paper can be downloaded by here (1,053 kb).
Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa - To Be or Not To Be: An Evolutionary Perspective
Zeremariam Fre (PhD), Lecturer at the University College London and Executive Director of PENHA
Nairobi, September 2008
The full text of the paper can be downloaded by here.
The New Phenomenon of Land Grabbing in Africa and its Impact on Livelihoods and Ecosystems
PENHA's Director lectures at the UN University in Japan
A full PDF copy of the power point of the presentation is available here.
Pastoralists and Agropastoralists losing ground: A Horn of Africa perspective
This is one of the research papers by Zeremariam Fre. This paper focus on Eastern Sudan and Eritrea, a region generally represent a wider Sahelian Scenario. Environmental degradation, famine, drought, displacement, encroachment and in the case of Eritrea, war, had a combined negative effect on pastoralism as a mode of production. The paper highlights the prevailing definitions and misconceptions about pastoralism as a mode of production and form of land use. It also critically reviews government policies and their rationale, the ongoing environmental crisis and implications for pastoral people and their mode of production. It also brought practical examples of pastoralist resilience to harsh environmental situations as evidence showed that some pastoralist group coped better to the 1984-85 massive drought of the region. The concept of sustainable development, environmental and social security has also discussed as a way forward for future research and policy. For the full version of the paper please click here.
Establishing a Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa
This is the founding conference of PENHA, held at the Overseas Development Institute in London on 30th. November 1989.


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'Sharing is caring' as Bobby says on the menu. More like sharing means smaller portions, more dishes and and higher prices.
Sometimes you can go for an unplanned meal and stumble upon something special. Sadly, our visit to The House of Ho was not one of those occasions.
When you're in Soho looking for a week night walk-in with no queueing involved, options are always going to be limited. But on this evidence, it's probably a smart move to put impatience aside and pick somewhere with a bit of a queue instead.
The House of Ho seemed to tick all the boxes. I recalled seeing chef/figurehead Bobby Chinn cooking a fantastic looking chicken dish on a certain low-brow Saturday morning TV show. I should know better though because like most things you see on TV, it just wasn't real.
Chinn has a great track record and has had restaurants in Vietnam for more than 18 years. More recently he's been focusing on the US and this is billed as his first UK venture. Call me a cynic if you will but I rather doubt that he's got much to do with it. Like many others before him, Chinn has now become more of a brand than a chef. The restaurant is a large, slick operation that reeks of big money investment. Think a grown up, Asian version of Jamie's Italian.
Our waitress was well versed in the art of up-selling, which we declined (bottled water, prawn crackers etc.). Like most restaurants designed to maximise profit margins, this is a small plates venue. 'Sharing is caring' as Bobby says on the menu. More like sharing means smaller portions, more dishes and and higher prices.
We ordered prawn summer rolls and chicken imperial rolls. The summer rolls were good, full of fresh, crisp vegetables and herbs. Imperial rolls were tasty but not particularly crisp (compared to the Vietnamese spring rolls you'd get on a dim sum menu) and the meat strangely had the look and texture of tinned tuna.
Shaking beef was available in large (225g – £18) and small (a measly 120g – £12). It's a dish I order repeatedly to try to understand what it's meant to taste like and what all the fuss is about. Sadly, I still don't know. My dining partner assured me that he had a delicious modern version at The Slanted Door in San Francisco but said that it had zero in common with The House of Ho's.
Besides good quality charred beef, there were no other discernible flavours to this dish. The best word for it is insipid. The plate was dressed with a strange and hot white powder, which turned out to be ground rice and white pepper. The waitress told us that she's been asked if it's cocaine, which I suppose says a lot about some the clientèle. My search for an authentic version of shaking beef goes on.
Lemongrass chicken in caramel sauce was the dish Bobby Chinn cooked on Saturday Kitchen. It looked like something special on the show but most dishes seem to stand out compared to the food that James Martin serves up.
Chinn caramelised palm sugar in a clay pot before adding chicken thighs, fish sauce and lots of chopped lemongrass. The restaurant dish couldn't have been more different. To start with, you get a pretty measly portion for £9. Worse still, I couldn't see or taste any lemongrass and the result was a bland dish. Morning glory was similarly uninspiring – tough and overcooked and served on a tiny saucer.
We did some online research at the table and found that our experience was far from unique. After reading how small desserts are, we decided to give them a miss. We could have easily eaten another dish or ten but by this stage we knew it wouldn't be worth the wait or extra expense.
Overall, the meal was inoffensive but overwhelmingly underwhelming. It just lacked the zing, bold flavours and freshness that we've come to expect from good Vietnamese food. Kingsland Road is clearly still the best place for Vietnamese in London.
Given these prices and portion sizes, (and for similar if not slightly better quality) food, you'd be much better off at Busaba. This is another cynical money-spinning small plates joint that looks the part but doesn't deliver.
Food for two with service: £56
Total bill inc drinks: £72
Address: 57-59 Old Compton St, London, W1D 6HP
Tel: 020 7287 0770
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Trump's 736th Day In Office
These Fictitious People Still Sound A Lot Like Some People We Know
Here's another column featuring the same sleazy 1980s characters at the satirical Patronage County Courthouse, to illustrate things going on hereabouts these days, so our Persons of Consequence might gain yet another useful perspective on the news.
These articles are Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane's attempt to encourage undiscovered young writers, such as the struggling columnist below who shares his acute and surprisingly accurate take on local Politics as Usual in satirical Patronage County.
"Truth—The Best Defense" by James Jay Schifrin
Last week in Los Angeles, Muck Raker, political columnist for the Patronage County Innuendo, testified in comedienne Harriett Hairnett's $10 million libel suit against the National Enquirer.
Ms. Harinett called Raker as an expert witness, because he regularly commented on people in public life.
The Enquirer also asked Raker to appear. In fact, he was their whole defense.
The court reporter red the disputed Enquirer gossip column: "At a posh Washington restaurant, an obnoxious Harriett Hairnett had a drunken shouting match with another diner, Adrian Messenger, Then she traipsed around the place taking a bit out of everyone's dessert. But Harriett really raised eyebrows when she accidentally fell all over another diner—and started giggling instead of apologizing. The guy wasn't amused and accidentally punched her in the mouth.
"You heard the article, Mr. Raker," said Ms. Harinett's attorney. "What do you think of it."
"Catchy style, but $10 million is too much. That's more than $160,000 a word."
"Tell me this," said the attorney. "Would you have written it?"
"I don't know, sir. I wasn't there."
"Object, your honor," argued the Enquirer attorney. "Mr. Raker often writes about politicians without being there, Then he calls them crooks. If he doesn't get sued for what he writes, we shouldn't either."
"Objection overruled," said the judge. "The difference is for a politician to sue Mr. Raker, the politician would have to prove he wasn't telling the truth."
This op-ed column first appeared in the feisty Mt. Washington Press on March 25, 1981.


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In searching 400 years of French-Canadian history for genetic clues to diseases among Quebec's founding population, Genizon BioSciences — formerly Galileo Genomics — is rapidly becoming the bio-IT company du jour.
BY KEVIN DAVIESFebruary 15, 2005 | 1608. A Dutch spectacle-maker named Hans Lipperhey invents the "spyglass." The device is enhanced by the Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei, who turns his telescope to the heavens. He is eventually put under house arrest, courtesy of Pope Urban VIII.
That same year, a troupe of 28 French farmers led by Samuel de Champlain establishes a trading settlement along the St. Lawrence River. The province, later named Quebec, becomes a haven for thousands of French Catholics escaping Protestant persecution. While many return home or venture further west, several thousand remain and prosper ...
Four centuries later, Montreal-based Genizon BioSciences — originally Galileo Genomics ("Genomique" north of the border) until its name change last December — believes that mining the genomes of today's population of 6 million Quebecois (French Canadians) holds the key to identifying genes and drug targets for more than two dozen debilitating disorders, including diabetes, asthma, and arthritis. "We're using a combination of biology and IT to change the way medicine is practiced and the way drugs are developed," says CEO John Hooper.
The French-Canadian gene pool, which began with just a few thousand founders, provides almost ideal circumstances for Genizon's gambit. Whether studying strokes in Iceland or obesity in Southeast Asia, researchers know that reducing the genetic background or "noise" by selecting an isolated, homogenous population increases the chances of finding a significant "signal" — an SNP or mutation that pre-disposes to disease (see Feb. 2004 Bio·IT World, page 34).
In some senses, Genizon is the deCODE of Quebec. Both are exploring a lengthy list of disease interests in a homogenous study population with an arsenal of bio-IT tools, from high-throughput genotyping to custom bioinformatics programs.
Unlike deCODE, however, Genizon has aroused little public dissent to its patient recruitment efforts. And the mapping approach is different. "We use high-density SNPs, whereas deCODE uses microsatellites. They rely on inferential pedigrees; we rely on open population case-control association analysis," says Bill Cheliak, vice president of business development.
Perhaps the most critical difference involves money. Although Genizon has raised more than CDN$50 million in two rounds of financing, it has yet to partner with Big Pharma, as deCODE did with Roche a few years ago. But that may be about to change.Guilt by Association
Galileo was founded in 1999 by molecular biologist Majid Belouchi, geneticist John Raelson, and psychologist Nathalie Laplante, who had all been colleagues at Canadian biotech Algene. Using a method called linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping, Algene mapped a putative gene for schizophrenia. "That's how we knew we could do it," Raelson says. After the company folded, Belouchi persuaded his friends to set up Galileo. "We wouldn't have done it ourselves, but Majid was crazy enough to persuade us," Raelson says. Myriad Genetics provided $1.5 million in seed funding.
As director of ethics and clinical recruitment, Laplante has already obtained blood samples from more than 30,000 participants, courtesy of a network of 900 physicians and 250 nurses, so the barrier to entry is virtually insurmountable. "Most physicians are very enthusiastic," she says. "They're used to working with pharmas, so they're being paid more money than we offer. But they see it as refreshing, approaching the disease on a genetic level more than a symptomatic level."
Genizon will ultimately enroll one percent of the Quebecois population — some 60,000 people. Recruiting for 27 disorders is not always straightforward. "Collecting people with obsessive-compulsive disorder is quite difficult — they tend not to come out a lot," Hooper says. "Panic disorder and essential tremor are difficult diseases to recruit as well."
The criteria for selecting diseases included prevalence, importance, and unmet medical need. Epilepsy was excluded, Raelson says, as its heritability "is very complicated." Genizon also prefers not to compete unduly with academic researchers — a claim that amuses University of Toronto's Kathy Siminovitch, who studies Crohn's disease. "Sure, are you kidding?" she says, laughing, when asked if she is competing with Genizon. But in the case of bipolar disorder, Raelson says, "There are researchers in Quebec with huge samples. We'd rather work with them than against them."
For each disease, patients are recruited in trios. (DNA from both parents, or a spouse and child, of each patient helps determine which markers are associated with the disease.) To qualify, each patient must have four French-Canadian grandparents.
Redundancy is de rigueur. Duplicate samples are stored offsite, and a gas-powered generator stands by in the event of a power failure. Duplicate air-conditioning systems make the small server room feel like a cold room, but one can't be too careful. On the coldest day of the year in Montreal last year — -35ÞC — the system failed, briefly sending the mercury up to +35ÞC.Powered by Perlegen
The history and structure of the Quebecois population make it almost ideal for high-throughput genotyping (see "The French Connection," page 28). "The beauty of the analysis," Cheliak says, "is linkage-based disequilibrium," which can pinpoint a disease mutation with higher resolution than standard pedigree-based linkage methods. LD mapping surveys genetic recombination events dating back many generations. Essentially, the idea is to scan the genomes of patients with SNPs spaced according to the genetic sharing of the population (the Quebec LD Map) to search for blocks of markers, or haplotypes, associated with an ancestral French mutation that pre-dates the Quebec settlement.
The greatest progress so far has been in Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory disorder of the bowel, chosen because of excellent patient recruitment and the prior identification of two susceptibility genes, NOD2 and OCTN, which serve as positive controls.
In the summer of 2003, Genizon issued a request for proposal for its genotyping requirements. Applied Biosystems, Affymetrix, Beckman, Illumina, and Sequenom all tendered bids. "Capital cost structure was significantly different for each supplier, and not all could reach Genizon's target cost," says René Paulussen, vice president of operations. Discussions with Affymetrix led to collaboration with the chipmaker's spinoff, Perlegen Sciences.
Last summer, Genizon announced the results of its collaboration with Perlegen. The genotyping, which involved 1,500 Quebecois, utilized 248,000 SNPs spaced roughly every 15 kilobases, yielding 372 million genotypes. "We believe it's one of the largest genetic databases in the world," Raelson says. Using a pair of proprietary algorithms — HSS and LDSTATS — Raelson's group identified 10 new candidate regions, including several possibly stronger than NOD2 and OCTN. Siminovitch and other academics have similar results, but she acknowledges that [Genizon's] population is going to be a strength."
Having pinpointed the Crohn's candidate regions, Genizon is now fine-mapping, saturating the regions with multimarker haplotypes — SNPs spaced every 2,000 to 4,000 bases. For this, Genizon uses two Illumina 500GX BeadStations, costing about $0.5 million, which sit cordoned off in the laboratory. The BeadStations process a total of 1.2 million genotypes per day.
While the Crohn's DNA sequencing continues, attention is turning to psoriasis, "then it's one disease a month after that," Cheliak says, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and acne. Progress will be quicker now that Perlegen has completed the Quebec LD map — 80,000 SNPs spanning the genome at 1 SNP every 10 to 40 kilobases. "That will form the basis for the map for all the subsequent 26 diseases that we'll do the analysis on," Cheliak says. "We've got 12 million genotypes per day reserved for Genizon."
With a background in hardware engineering and telecommunications, Levesque initially found it difficult to adjust. His staff of 17 has to adapt genetic algorithms, whether written in-house or imported, to cope with the volume of data. Levesque says Genizon "lets the science people do their thing and come up with some brilliant algorithms and ideas to process the data. Our job in IT is to put these things in production. This means sometimes rewriting the code completely, optimizing it, making it scalable." As Cheliak quips, "You can't go to Wal-Mart and buy the software."
For example, Levesque says, "you might find some code that can handle 200 SNPs great, but to handle 200,000 SNPs is a whole different ball game — that's where professional software engineers make the difference." Building those collaborations "took a while. I'd never worked with scientists before. They're very particular ... they're used to working in a more individual approach, and not worrying about anybody else."
One of the challenges was to adapt the LDSTATS program that was originally developed to simulate a few thousand virtual subjects. "When we scaled up the simulation to the Quebec population of 6 million, the hard drives started burning up from all the I/O activity," recalls IT systems architect Borivoj Stojkovic. "Expensive drives! They kept burning up, running 24 hours a day, nonstop. We re-developed and optimized the simulation program, which as a result no longer burns our drives and runs the simulation in less than an hour."
A big challenge was fixing another program that was producing different results on different operating systems. Levesque recalls, "We could get a good result on Windows, but once we tried it on the Linux machines certain data sets were failing." With Extreme Programming — IT and genetics team members working together on a single PC — Levesque's team traced the problem to floating-point precision — a discrepancy in rounding-off errors that varied with the operating system. As a result, Stojkovic says, "the program is now portable; we can throw it at any resource — Windows, Linux, Solaris."
In addition to on-demand capacity, the CLUMEQ experience has helped Genizon build its own internal grid, which incorporates various platforms, including Windows workstations, Linux, and Sun Solaris servers. To ensure uniform response, Levesque says it is essential to "build code that will be able to execute on any of those [platforms] when that CPU is available." He relies on Platform Computing's LSF software for cluster and grid management, which automatically re-schedules jobs if a server fails.
When it came to choosing a LIMS that could manage potentially 55,000 samples in Genizon's biobank, Genizon opted to buy, not build. From 100 candidates, Levesque selected LabVantage Solutions because of its flexibility, customization, and service. Levesque also likes the "good API to get to the database." Customization ensures it is fully integrated with Genizon's Clinical Data Management and Genetic Analysis systems. "At the end of the day, we'll have 4 billion to 4.5 billion genotypes that will need to be managed from those 55,000 individuals," Cheliak says.
The Crohn's genotyping data from Perlegen was a major test, requiring 1.2 million jobs on the cluster, 20,000 computing hours, and about 1 TB of raw data. Entering those data into Oracle was another obstacle, until Levesque's team realized that "you have to drop all the constraints on the database entities, and just dump the data into the table." Once there, "you can rebuild the indices and constraints, to make sure everything is correct, but you do that at the end. You learn these kind of things along the way."Parlez-Vous Pharma?
Hooper has big plans, but remains realistic. "The ambition of many of us is to become a drug discovery company. We just can't do it for 27 diseases. Initially, we're going to have to license." Since publicizing the Crohn's data last summer, three of the top five pharmas have visited Montreal for talks. Hooper puts a value of $40 million to $150 million for each validated susceptibility gene, citing the $150-million deal inked by fellow Canadian biotech Xenon Pharmaceuticals with Novartis in 2004 for the rights to an obesity gene target and accompanying lead.
The key word is validated. Genizon has to obtain proof that its target genes are druggable — or find associated genes that are. "We're in the gene discovery business," Hooper says. "We can add some value to it, by doing analysis in silico and a little bit of lab work, and we can work with partners as well, such as Gene Logic."
Some techniques, such as yeast two-hybrid analysis, will be introduced to define disease gene networks. Others, such as mass spectrometry, will likely be outsourced. There is equal emphasis on computational approaches, from statistical genetic methods to identify interacting disease genes, to new text-mining tools. "There will be many genes to do literature mining on, and there has to be a systematic way to do that. Software to do 'literature blasts' will make a difference," Keith says.
Hooper offers three reasons why Genizon will succeed where other startups studying isolated populations, such as Sweden's UmanGenomics, have failed. "SNP maps — without those, we wouldn't know where to look. Second, genotyping power, speed, and price. Third, the human genome sequence — it's only [in 2004] that we had enough confidence that we can select SNPs throughout the genome and know they're in the right place. Had we tried to do this two to three years ago, it would have been a disaster."
The goal is to eventually repay the Quebecois population. "To do pharma in Quebec would be the best thing we can do, to give back to the community," Belouchi says. "First, we need to sell five to 10 disease genes," which could allow expansion into infectious diseases and oncology.
Once successful, Genizon will put 3 percent of the cumulative net profits into a foundation for the Quebec population. "The recommendations of the Human Genome Organisation were that people involved in exploiting the population of its genetic content should feed money back to it," Hooper explains. "We feel that quite strongly. You've got to make sure everybody benefits." PHOTOGRAPHS BY JULIE DUROCHER
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting ,released on January 2014
Author: MAry Higgins ClarkAdd to Booklist
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
A dark family secret puts the lives of two sisters in grave danger Hannah Connelly is plunged into a nightmare when she learns that Connelly Fine Antique Reproductions, the family business founded by her grandfather, has been levelled by a huge explosion. The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery. Could the explosion have been deliberately set? And what was Kate, Hannah's sister and a highflyer in an accounting firm, doing in the building in the middle of the night? With Kate lying in a coma in hospital, it is now down to Hannah to discover what truly happened. But little does she know that someone will do anything they can to prevent Kate regaining consciousness. Will Hannah find out the truth before that person kills to save himself?
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How did the apostles contend for the faith throughout the book of Acts? Did they share their testimonies or inner experiences? Did they encourage blind faith? On this special live edition of White Horse Inn, the hosts discuss the sermons in Acts in order to discover how to "contend for the faith once delivered to the saints." (originally aired May 2, 2010).


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Lentil Soup with Beef & Red Pepper
The temperature around here dipped for about, oh, two days, and I immediately thought, "time for soup!" This simple recipe had a whole lot of kick (especially after I accidentally doubled the cayenne!) and I doubled the vegetables to kick up the heartiness too. Simple, perfect flavor. Husband threw it over some rice for leftovers the next day too, the seasoned broth providing just the right sauce. We'll be seeing this one again, come fall.
Lentil Soup with Beef and Red Pepper
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1 pound boneless beef sirloin steak
4 cups reduced-sodium beef broth
1 cup French lentils, rinsed and drained
1 cup water
1 medium coarsely chopped red sweet pepper
1 medium chopped onion
2 medium sliced carrots
3 stalks sliced celery
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/3 cup snipped fresh parsley
Trim fat from meat. Cut meat into 3/4-inch pieces. If desired, in a nonstick skillet cook beef over medium-high heat until browned on all sides. Place meat in a 3 1/2- or 4-quart slow cooker. Stir in broth, lentils, water, sweet pepper, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, cumin, and cayenne pepper. Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 7 to 8 hours or on high-heat setting for 3 1/2 to 4 hours. Stir in parsley. Ladle soup into bowls.


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Can we put the brakes on cancer with Vitamin D? According to the American Cancer Society and the Bone and Cancer Foundation, Vitamin D may be the pill to take to do so.
Research in lab animals suggests that higher levels of Vitamin D in the body may be linked to lower cancer risk. They both conclude that further research and studies are required to determine whether a lack of vitamin D will increase your risk of getting cancer, whether cancer results in Vitamin D deficiency, or if there is some other relationship between the two.
Another study published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that Vitamin D appears to slow down the production of a protein that drives cell division. This protein is active at elevated levels in more than half of all cancers. This study found that Vitamin D strongly stimulates the production of a natural antagonist of cMYC called MXDI, essentially shutting down cMYC function.
Researchers are just starting to examine how Vitamin D may impact specific features of cancer, such as the stage or extent of tumor spread, prognosis, recurrence or relapse of disease, and even sub-types of cancer.
Low levels of vitamin D are a definite red flag that your good bill of health is being threatened. Vitamin D deficiency is an underlying cause of many poor health conditions, as well as a major factor contributing to the exacerbation of symptoms of other diseases.
When more than three-quarters of cancer patients have insufficient levels of Vitamin D that raises a red flag. It also brings into question how Vitamin D fits into the equation.
It can be the matter of which comes first, the hen or the egg. Does Vitamin D deficiency cause cancer or are people with cancer more likely to develop a Vitamin D deficiency? Research has shown that people with cancer and people undergoing treatment for cancer are commonly Vitamin D deficient.
Will a loss of appetite resulting in an insufficient intake of dietary Vitamin D be enough to cause this deficiency? Or does loss of energy or the desire to exercise or go outdoors contribute to the intake of lower levels of Vitamin D which eventually leads to a deficiency?
Fighting cancer and undergoing cancer treatment are two factors that are likely to cause a patient to have a loss of appetite and not feel well enough to spend time outdoors. Therefore, it is highly recommended that cancer patients have their Vitamin D levels checked and take Vitamin D supplements to prevent health problems caused by a Vitamin D deficiency.
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Do you know what your Vitamin D level is? If not, see your doctor soon to undergo testing and discuss Vitamin D supplements to prevent health problems.


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Chapter Nine The Screenplay Visualized.
London. 1889. Interior Victorian bedroom.
Heavy curtains are drawn letting in only a sliver of daylight. The room is typical of the upper class taste of the era although the dark wood and velvet green furniture has a distinctly worn and dusty look. A dimly lit oil lamp on the fireplace mantel illuminates a collection of old family photographs.
I'm in bed, unmoving, my face turned to the wall. An assortment of medicine bottles and untouched food is on a table beside me. Tacked up on the wall is the front page of the Pall Mall Gazette on which Annie Besant's name appears in large letters next an article on "The Match Girl's Strike."
Muffled voices are heard fighting outside her door, till the door is thrust open and there stands a large imposing looking woman with an exasperated housekeeper: "I told her you were not seeing anyone!"
The 200+ pound Madam Blavatsky, dressed in dark silks and brocades lumbers over to the bedside. She is carrying a huge hard-bound book under her arm, and her round head is covered by a thin black shawl. Her protruding eyes pierce me to the quick. She extends her hand and speaks in a low deep voice with Russian accent.
"Helena Petrovna Blavatsky… my dear Mrs. Besant, for so long I have wished to meet you…"
I timidly turned over and extended my hand. Madame held it for too long. I pulled my hand back and turned my face to the wall. I could still see Madame surveying the room and noticing the untouched food. "You're not eating."
"Please…go away. I saw you there in the courtroom that day; you know it all; I know who you are."
Madame sniffed, her neck arching. "I saw a woman with great courage there; a woman ahead of her time. What do those men know?"
I turned my flushed face back to Madame. "What do you know?"
"I know whatever I need to know; I get my orders from the Masters."
"I'm sorry, Madam Blavatsky, but I don't believe in spiritualism…or you." My neck stiffened.Madame jabs her hand in the air: "No need to believe. You have to experience! Your life is of no use to anyone now! Look at you! Do you know you have a destiny to fulfill? So what's all this?" Her hand waved across the room in disgust. "Flapdoodle! You are going to be a victim now? Rot away in this room? You think this is what you were meant for?"
I said nothing.
She leaned over my bed, too close to my face. "Sometimes…you have to fail in the eyes of the world first…"
"Oh I can seem to win, but inside…I feel as if I've failed." I sat up.
"It's because you don't have any idea how it all fits together! One day you're picketing the factories and writing letters to the big wigs to squeeze a shilling out of them for the girls--" She lumbered over to the newspaper headlines of the Match Girls I had hung on the wall to bring my spirits up, but she pulled it down, and stuck it under my nose. "And then you see these girls slapping their children around, drinking, having more children…eh? And you, you're writing books for them about how not to have more babies---yes? Then you collapse in despair because nothing seems to change. Eh? Am I right?"
"You're right." I said. It was uncanny how she knew exactly what was bothering me—after the strike I had seen one of the match girls on the street hitting her child and yelling profanities. But that wasn't the real issue; it was the trial. "They took my daughter away! They said I was an unfit mother." And then there was Shaw, and I had stopped going to the Socialist meetings. I was truly alone.
"You don't know your worth." Madame stood up and started moving about the room again. Spotting a photograph she picked it up; it was an old daguerreotype of me and my mother. Madame took it off the mantel and handed it to me.
"Open it," she demanded.
"No!—what right have you—this is my mother!" I took it out of her hands.


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David Ortiz hopes to return this weekend
Big Papi battling strained right Achilles tendon
Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz took batting practice on the field Tuesday and thinks his return to Boston's lineup is close.
Ortiz has missed 20 games because of a strained right Achilles tendon and says he could be back in the lineup when the Red Sox play at Cleveland this weekend. He said he had an injection in the affected area on Monday.
"Normally it would hurt by now," he said, sitting in the dugout after BP. "I think it's going to be OK."
Ortiz took 35 swings, hitting only a couple of balls into either the right-field seats or bullpens at the beginning. He then sent a half dozen deep to right in his final eight swings.
"I have to go at it to see how it feels," he said. "What has bothered me the most was not the injury, it was the running part."
Ortiz said that when he's taken BP the injury didn't hurt until a short time after he stopped.
"When we hit we do a lot of twisting and that's when it started to bother me — when I got done," he said.
But he was happy how felt.
"Hopefully, another three, four days off," he said. "Hopefully, I feel like I do now."
The 36-year old hit .316 with 23 homers and 58 RBIs in 89 games before going on the 15-day disabled list July 18. He was hurt while rounding second base.


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