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37, rue des Mathurins
Paris,France 75008
Telephone: 033 153 30 30 30
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Swann Auction Galleries June 6:
John Carte, The Frontispiece of the Cosmographical Clock, hand-colored broadside, London, circa 1699. $2,000 to $3,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6:
John Fisk Allen & William Sharp, Victoria Regia, Boston, 1854. $15,000 to $20,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: George Catlin, North American Indian Portfolio, London, 1844. $30,000 to $50,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: Abraham Ortelius, Islandia, Antwerp, 1598. $5,000 to $7,500.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: Plancius Petrus, map of Southern Africa, Amsterdam, 1592-94. $3,000 to $5,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: Pieter Verbiest, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica, Antwerp, 1636. $10,000 to $15,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6:
Emil B. Fischer, Map of Southwestern Colorado, lithograph, 1893. $2,000 to $3,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6:
A.P. Folie, Plan of the Town of Baltimore, Philadelphia, 1792. $7,000 to $10,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: Lewis Evans, A General Map of the Middle British Colonies, proof copy, annotated, signed & dated by Evans, Philadelphia, 1755. $30,000 to $50,000.
Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Lester Beall, Rural Electrification Administration, 1939. $20,000 to $30,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: Jacob Robyn, after Arent Roggeveen, The First Part of the Burning Fen, with English text, Amsterdam, circa 1680. $20,000 to $30,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: Large bird's-eye view of New York City, hand-painted photo, circa 1933. $2,000 to $3,000.
Swann Auction Galleries June 6: Arundel Society, group of approx. 185 chromolithographed Renaissance paintings, late-19th century. $6,000 to $9,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Rumphius (Georgius Everhardus). D'Ambionsche Rariteitkamer, FIRST EDITION, 61 handcoloured engraved plates, 1705. £10,000 to £15,000
Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Collodi (Carlo) Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 61 illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti, 1883. £8,000 to £12,000
Chiswick Auctions, May 29: De Bry (T, J T & J I). [Great Voyages, part IV] Americae sive Insignis & Admiranda Historia de Reperta primum Occidentali India, FIRST EDITION, 23 engraved plates, 1594. £4,000 to £6,000
Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Wine & Beer.-Kellermaysterey. Gründtlicher bericht wie man alle wein Teütscher und Welscher landen vor allen zufallen bewaren..., 16 leaves of manuscript notes, 1548. £2,000 to £3,000
Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Table Globe'- Doppelmayr (J G) & Puschner (J G, engraver). An 8-inch German terrestrial table Globe, diameter c.200 mm, height c.300 mm, 1730. £6,000 to £8,000
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Chiswick Auctions, May 30: An album with 107 original watercolours featuring landscapes and views of various places in England, Scotland and Ireland, late 1840s. £600 to £800
Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Hemingway (Ernest). Black and white, landscape photograph of man on horseback, signed and inscribed by Hemingway. £1,000 to £1,500
Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Unrecorded autograph letter by Charles William Stewart to his father the Marquess of Londonerry, describing the ceremony of the presentation to Consul Bonaparte in January 1803. £6,000 to £8,000.
Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Davis (William Heath). Seventy-five Years in California, Author's Section of the Argonaut Edition, no. 142 [of 250 copies] signed by the editor and publisher on limitation leaf. £1,500 to £2,000
Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Prussian Royal Family. Six signed photographs of members of Prussian Royal Family, in a contemporary folding triptych, ebonised wood display case. £1,500 to £2,000
Christie's London June 5: Le Neptune François, ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines. Levées et Gravées par ordre exprès du Roy... Paris: Hubert Jaillot, 1693 [but Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1693-1700].
Christie's London June 5: BLAEU, Willem Janszoon. Le Flambeau de la Navigation monstrant la description & delineation de toutes les Costes & Havres… Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1620.
Christie's London June 5: [WALDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.] Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem. [Strasbourg: 1513].
Christie's London June 5: KEULEN, Johannes van. De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Werelt. Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, 1688.
Christie's London June 5: DONCKER, Hendrick. De Zee-Atlas of Water-Waerelt. Amsterdam: Hendrick Doncker, 1666.
Christie's London June 5: GARNIER, Francis and Ernest DOUDART DE LAGRÉE. Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une Commission Française. Paris: Hachette, 1873 [-1875].
Bonhams, Jun 13: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Presentation Copy. Very Fine. $200,000 to $300,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Darwin, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp, negotiating the 2nd American edition with Appleton $20,000 to $30,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph Letter Signed, 8 pp, Paris, 1924, to his father discussing Bullfighting, Stories, and his new baby. $20,000 to $30,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Shakespeare, William. Corialanus. London, 1623. 1st printing [Extracted from the First Folio]. $40,000 to $60,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London, 1726. 1st edition, Teerink's A edition, fine, large copy. $15,000 to $25,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Neill, John R. Pen-and-ink drawing from Oz, "He raised his gun, took aim and fired," $6,000 to $8,000
Bonhams
Fine Books and Manuscripts
June 13 - New York
Bonhams, Jun 13: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. $8,000 to $12,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Thompson, Kay. Eloise at Christmastime. New York: Random House, [1958]. First edition. In custom binding by Asprey. $3,000 to $5,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. $2,000 to $3,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. $7,000 to $9,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney's Fantasia. New York: 1940. In custom binding by Asprey. $3,000 to $5,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Proust, Marcel. Du coté de chez Swann. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed by Proust. $5,000 to $7,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Rackham, Arthur. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. 1/500 copies signed by Rackham. $1,500 to $2,500
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction on May 27th
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, before 1478. Est: € 15,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. Ptolemaeus, Geographie, 1513.
Est: € 140,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Chagall, Daphnis & Chloé, 1961.
Est: € 130,000
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction on May 27th
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
F. Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499. Est: € 20,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
J. H. van Linschoten, Itinerarium, 1644. Est: € 50,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Chagall, Cirque, 1967.
Est: € 120,000
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction on May 27th
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. L. L. Buffon, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, 1765-83. Est: € 30,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867.
Est: € 30,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
P. J. Redouté, Les liliacées, 1802-16.
Est: € 120,000
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction on May 27th
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. E. Bloch, Naturgeschichte der Fische, 1782-95. Est: € 50,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
H. A. Châtelain, Atlas historique, 1718-20. Est: € 18,000
Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Bauhausbücher, complete series, 1925-30. Est: € 28,000
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Grace Cottage is a very quiet and cosy 1920s semi-detached cottage in the charming village of Sydling St. Nicholas. It sleeps up to five and is pet-friendly.
The enclosed attractive garden is flint-walled and runs round three sides of the cottage. There are leafy views from every window and a lightly wooded green lies next to the front gate with a stream just beyond it.
The main sitting area is L-shaped. It's bright and comfortable with a smaller area housing the TV and DVD player leading off it. A separate study contains a desk and divan bed.
Beyond is a spacious, well-equipped kitchen running the width of the cottage. It includes a dining area, seating six, which has a garden outlook on three sides. At the other end is a small shower room with loo. The cooker, fridge/freezer, washing machine, tumble drier and microwave are housed in this area.
A steep staircase leads up to the first floor. There are two double bedrooms, both under sloping ceilings with far-reaching views. The main room has a king-sized bed and there are twin beds in the other. The bathroom has a bath, sink and loo. All rooms overlook the garden.
The central heating keeps the cottage particularly warm and cosy, whatever the weather is doing outside!
The small car park is about 20 metres from the front door. There is one designated space for the cottage, next to the garages. Other vehicles can be parked in the lane across the green beside the stream.
There is a landline at the cottage as the mobile signal can be unpredictable. WiFi is provided.
The village of Sydling St. Nicholas is one of the most beautiful in West Dorset and has a reputation for friendliness going back many decades. The main street, with its stream and pretty cottages, has a timeless quality about it, lying in a valley beneath the beautiful rolling Dorset hills.
The local pub, the Greyhound, has excellent food and is within easy walking distance.
The unspoilt countryside is great for walking and a variety of beaches, as well as the Jurassic Coast, are within easy reach.
Guide books and maps are available for guests to borrow during their stay. For those familiar with the works of Thomas Hardy there is much to see, including the villages and countryside he portrayed so well.
Grace Cottage has been owned by a popular American, Nancy, for 20 years. She decided to part with Grace Cottage in 2014 and the ownership has passed to Emily, who is Dorset born and bred and whose family lived in the village in the 1980s and 90s. She has been holidaying at the cottage for many years and is lucky to have inherited an excellent support team.

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I have never been a great potato-fan, so instead of making potato wedges, I prefer using other root vegetables such as celery root and parsnip.
Celery root has a very special aroma to it, while parsnip gives out a characteristic sweetness and caramelises when baked in the oven.
Just cut the vegetables in wedges after peeling them, mix them with olive oil and spices and bake them in a 200 degree (400 F) oven for about 25 min, until tender and golden.
If you want to make a classic combination, why not serve these oven baked root vegetables with a veggie burger. Here come some recipe suggestions to help you on the way:
- Garden veggie burgers
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Oven baked root vegetables: celery root and parsnip
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Oven baked root vegetables
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- Half a big celery root
- 3 parsnips
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp (hot) water
- 1 tsp sweet paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- half a tsp (coconut) sugar
- half a tsp ground black pepper
- salt
- chili flakes
- Preheat the oven at 200 degrees (400 F)
- Wash and peel the vegetables, cut into wedges
- Mix together the olive oil, water and spices
- Rub the spice mixture into the vegetable wedges
- Line an oven rack with parchment paper
- Spread the vegetables evenly on its surface
- Place in the middle of the hot oven and bake for about 25 min, or until the vegetables are golden brown and tender - monitor carefully so that they won't burn
- Makes two big portions
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How to Use MetaMask with MyCrypto
Using MetaMask + MyCrypto has 3 key benefits:
If you use MetaMask, it is far less likely you will be phished or affected by a phishing site as your key remains in MetaMask and the fake website will not be able to steal it.
It is by far the fastest, easiest way to unlock your wallet via MyCrypto.com & completely free. You just click a button. No more searching for keys or keystore files!
MetaMask will block you w/ a big red warning if you go to a malicious site found on our blacklists. Look at all these crypto phishing websites!
Damn! That's a lot of phishing sites!
Installing & Setting Up MetaMask
When you setup MetaMask, you will be given a new wallet address and a new private key. There is an option of importing your already existing private keys into MetaMask, and it is up to you to decide if you want to keep using your old wallet or the new one MetaMask gives you.
Importing your Existing Wallet
- Pros: You don't need to transfer your funds to the wallet that MetaMask gives you (Save on Eth Fees, Hurray!)
- Cons: The current wallet you use could be compromised, and importing your wallet to MetaMask won't stop your funds from being stolen. It will not be secured by the backup seed that MetaMask gives you.
Using the new wallet MetaMask gives you
- Pros: There is no possible chance that the wallet could be compromised, the keys never leave MetaMask!
- Cons: You need to manually transfer all your Ether and Tokens to the new wallet
Once you have decided on what you want to do, next is to install and setup MetaMask:
Check to make sure it's the legit one. Are there are ton of positive reviews? Are there a ton of users? If so, it's probably the right one.
Install it by clicking "Add to Chrome".
Click the new orange MetaMask logo in your extension bar.
Read the terms of service. Accept said terms of service.
You are now asked to enter a password, which protects your key by encrypting it. This means that your wallet will be more secure. Choose a strong and write it down on paper! Do not store said password in Dropbox, do not post it to Twitter, or share it with anyone. Write it down with good ol' fashion pen & paper! Write it down multiple times to ensure that you've written down your password correctly.
You are now shown 12 words. This is a fancy private key which creates an infinite number of private keys that branch off from it. You need this to access your Ether or to recover your MetaMask Account if you forget the password. No one can recover the 12 words if you lose it. If your computer dies, you reinstall Chrome, you uninstall the MetaMask extension, or you reinstall your OS. Make sure you back up these 12 words!
You can write your 12 words down and store it in a safe, or store it into metal. This will make sure that it never gets lost, even if your house catches fire. If using paper, you should store a second copy in a different physical location.
Importing your wallet
Next, it is time to either import your existing wallet into MetaMask, or transfer all your Ether and Tokens to the new wallet.
- Log into MetaMask.
- Click the little 'man-switchy' icon in the top right corner.
- Select
Import Account.
- Select your private key type: either
Private keyor
JSON file.
- Unlock wallet by pasting in your private key, or uploading the JSON file. If you select your JSON file, you will need to input the password for the JSON file needed for decryption.
- Click
Your existing wallet should now be visible in MetaMask along with your Ether and tokens! This wallet is now listed as "loose".
Loose Keys
If you click on the little man-switchy icon in the top right corner after importing a private key, then you will see your new imported address with the word "loose" under it.
"Loose" keys on MetaMask are imported private keys. These keys are NOT secured by the MetaMask backup seed phrases.
Transferring your Funds
You can now see your brand-new account, balance, and transaction history. To transfer your funds from your old account to your newly setup MetaMask wallet, head to MyCrypto.com.
First, check to be sure you are on the correct site. Is the URL mycrypto.com? Does it say
MyCrypto, Inc.in the URL bar? Does the URL have any funky characters or is it misspelled?
No? Okay! Onwards!
Unlock your account how you typically do.
Get your address from Metamask. Click the orange extension icon, click the three dots (
. . .) next to your new account, and click
Copy Address to clipboard.
Paste your MetaMask address in the
To Addressfield on MyCrypto.
First, send all your tokens. Click "Load Token Balances" in the sidebar and wait for allllllllll those tokens to load.
Select your token from the dropdown.
Click "Send Entire Balance" button.
Double check the amount, address, and tokens you are sending.
Generate & send the transaction. Ensure they were sent successfully and you can see them in MetaMask.
Repeat with all your tokens and then, last but not least, your ETH.
Next time you want to send your ETH or Tokens, simply go to MyCrypto, click the "Metamask / Mist" option, and click "Connect to MetaMask" button. You will instantly connect. How easy is that?!
- If you are sending a huge number of tokens or ETH, please send a small, test amount first. Or, consider getting a hardware wallet or running MyCrypto offline. This ensures you are as secure as possible.


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/ Home / Exhibits & Education / Learning / Archives 101
Item No. 74325. Vault Operation, 1962. (Record Series 2613-07)
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Jalfon tapped in key BBC Films post
EmptyLONDON -- BBC Films has hired Paula Jalfon as its commercial manager, with responsibility for managing third-party financing at the U.K. pubcaster's filmmaking unit.
Jalfon joins from U.K.-based financier Ingenious, where she was head of production.
Her new role will see her charged with finding new sources of funding at home and abroad. She also will oversee sales, marketing and distribution for the BBC Films slate.
Jalfon will report to Jane Wright, who oversees all commercial affairs at BBC Films, the organization said.
"With the recently announced boost to the annual budget, these are exciting times at BBC Films," Wright said. "Paula has fantastic experience, will add great strength and presence to BBC Films and provide even more support for the filmmaking community."
Before joining Ingenious, Jalfon spent five years as head of production at BFI TV before forming production banner Minerva Pictures.


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Tiffany Ard Art
We blogged about Tiffany's Nerd ABC Flashcards once before. But we noticed Tiffany has a few new "Nerd" series of artwork for the nursery or toddler's room including "Laws and Formulas," and "Lab equipment." In Tiffany's words, "Geek up the nursery!"
The Laws and Formulas Every Toddler Needs to Know are an item we hadn't seen. These are so charming. Above the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram accents "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
Lab Equipment is a bright and colorful addition to the decor and perfect for your little scientist.
Check out the rest of Tiffany's work on her website. If you're looking for a unique gift, these are perfect. Everyone will want to know where you found them.


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Portraits of San Ysidro
Portraits of San Ysidro, a multifaceted project resulting in a website, addresses issues of memory, lived experience, and place in San Ysidro, the U.S. community bordering Tijuana. The website Portraits of San Ysidro serves as a variegated entrance into the town—interweaving excerpts from interviews, photographic portraits, field recordings, short essays, and paintings.
Next project: → Gestures with Flowers and Hands
Previous project: ← The Park at Sea


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I've been following Sneaky Experience on Twitter for ages now and knew it was something I wanted to try. They screen secret films at secret locations with extra touches that add to the fun and make it more than just a pop up movie theatre. Their latest project, featuring cocktails, a roller disco and non-optional 80's fancy dress, seemed like too much fun to miss out on so a group of us booked tickets and went along at the weekend.
Before any of their events, Sneaky will post a whole host of clues and instructions online, so you'll want to connect with them on Twitter and Facebook. We had to choose one of three groups (opportunity, dreams or wellbeing), and were instructed to wear sunglasses and an ID badge 'to easily identify fellow recruits.' This, along with the fact we were greeted by military types in flight suits, tipped us off that the film would probably be Top Gun, and we were right!
The group we chose was opportunity, and it was definitely a good call. After being put through our paces outside, with salutes and marches, we were the first group allowed to get inside the venue, a TV studio on Kirkstall Road. This meant we were also the first ones to hit the bar! As everyone had had to make their way to the venue in broad daylight in various extremes of 80's attire (I salute you, girl dressed as a Rubix Cube), there was an audible sigh of relief as we started sipping the cocktails expertly mixed by Twist Mixology.
Once I'd polished off my first Cosmo, I was ready to hit the roller disco! This was an absolute riot: I thought that despite having not touched a pair of skates in almost 20 years I would probably pick it up alright, but actually I was INCREDIBLY WRONG. Think Bambi times ten and you're almost there! To add insult to injury, there were some blatant professionals whizzing around making me look even worse! I still had a great time though, despite my damaged pride, and I did avoid falling, which I'm chalking up as a personal victory.
Outside there was even more to do, with the Diamond Dogs hot dog van serving up great hot dogs (including one topped with pulled pork and one slathered in hot sauce and jalapeños), and The Marvellous Tea Dance Company selling retro sweets (Wham bars! Pink shrimps! Refreshers! Oh happy days) and cupcakes topped with flying saucers and the like. There was also a graffiti artist at work, a sale of retro video games and board games, and a volleyball court, as well as at various stages, actors in costume acting out scenes from Top Gun.
The film at this point seemed almost like a distraction from the fun, but nevertheless we settled in for the screening. I'd never seen it before, so wasn't sure what to expect, but now I've watched it I appreciate what Sneaky do so much more! Top Gun is over the top and cheesy and the evening was matched with it perfectly. They always create an evening that's perfectly in tune with the film, such as their screening of Nosferatu with live orchestra at Left Bank, or Indiana Jones at Temple Works. Every detail was chosen to complement the experience and make it a great night well worth the £12 or so ticket price. In that spirit, once the film finished the chairs were pushed aside and we danced the night away to 80's classics.
I also loved the local slant put on the event. Enjoyed the roller disco? Hang on to the Leeds Roller Dolls leaflet on your chair. The food? From Yorkshire suppliers. The actors? Local volunteers. Crafts and art? From Leeds based artists. It was a triumph! We had a fantastic time and I've been telling everyone about it ever since. If you get chance to attend one of their events then don't hesitate: they're tons of fun. The night wasn't perfect – I'd have loved shorter queues at the bar, for example, though the generous measures were right up my street – and there were a couple of technological hitches, but I say this purely in the spirit of honest feedback. Overall it's a wonderful, unique experience and one that I'm sure will continue to get even better as it grows.
(Added bonus: I never got the Tom Cruise thing until watching Top Gun. The character's a tool, but back in the day Tom really had it!)


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As digital services propel more and more business processes, cloud technology is proving to be a crucial addition to the IT services portfolio. It is far more scalable, and in many cases more cost effective, than its predecessors. Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software-defined data center technologies—virtualized computing, networking, and storage—have helped IT address the "fast IT" challenge.
But not all services are or will be cloud-based. That's why an effective IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) strategy should be hybrid and include a mix of services sourced from the data center, private cloud, and public cloud. It also needs to meet cost, service-quality, security, and compliance requirements that may be best met in different deployment environments for different needs.


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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 27 December 2017 – MEedlab – The largest attended expo worldwide will be taking place between 5th and 8th February 2018. The Medlab Exhibition welcomes more than 600 exhibitors and 25,000 attendees, giving the opportunity for leading laboratories and manufacturers to showcase their products and services, and initiate business opportunities in the vigorously growing healthcare market in the Middle East. Accompanying the exhibition, is a 17 CME-accredited Congress, discussing the importance of clinical laboratory testing in the delivery of quality healthcare, the new advancements in technology, and focusing on bridging the gap between clinicians and laboratory professionals towards a more patient-centric care.
At the Congress, leading medical practitioners discuss the increasingly important role clinical laboratory professionals play in today's healthcare system, from early detection and diagnosis to customised treatment plans based on the patient's unique genetic structure. Laboratory testing is key to improving patient care and the quality of services provided.
Dr. Nader Lessan, Consultant Endocrinologist at the Imperial College London Diabetes Centre and Chair of Endocrinology conference at Medlab 2018, stated: "Most and perhaps all medical specialties rely on biochemical and other laboratory disciplines in reaching correct diagnoses. This is even more crucial in Endocrinology where correct course of action directly depends on biochemical and hormonal results. Conditions such as hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism and of course, diabetes are common examples. Less common examples include acromegaly, Cushing Syndrome and phaochromocytoma; a close relationship between the laboratory and the clinician is pivotal to patient management".
The process of laboratory testing includes a laboratory technologist or nurse collecting the patient's sample of blood, tissue and/or other biological matter, which is then sent on to the laboratory where it is uniquely identified and examined to derive meaningful results for doctors. The laboratory testing process forms the basis of many other processes, including diagnosis and treatment, and therefore, it is of utmost importance to continuously improve the process and stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and advancement in the industry to better serve our patients today.
Carlo Kaabar, Director of Laboratory Services and Outreach at the American Hospital Dubai and Chair of the Laboratory Management conference at MEDLAB 2018, stated: "Today there are several laboratory tests that are far more accessible to patients than ever before. Advances in science and technology have enabled emerging laboratory tests to determine whether patients will respond to prescribed drugs prior to beginning therapy, ensuring that the first treatment patients receive, is the right one."
Dr. Najat Rashid, Chief of Laboratory Services at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Ajman, Ministry of Presidential Affair and Chair of the Clinical Chemistry conference at MEDLAB 2018, Stated: "It is critical for the healthcare community to raise awareness on the importance of clinical tests in order for them to reach their full potential and combat public health issues. In addition, policies and regulations must continue to be adopted to encourage innovation and facilitate patient access to tests while ensuring that the tests are safe and effective."
As an anticipated result of the rapid expansion of the laboratory medicine, MEDLAB 2018 combines this meeting with other clinical specialities in an ideal platform which will underscore the overarching influence of laboratory medicine in healthcare.
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The first number 1.23 is called the coefficient. It must be greater than or equal to 1 and less than 10. The second number is called the base which must always be 10 in scientific notation. The exponent indicates the power to which 10 must be raised to bring the number to its proper magnitude.
To write a very large number in scientific notation:
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1. Move the decimal point needs to the right until after the first non-zero digit. (e.g. 7.12)
2. The number of places moved by the decimal point would be the negative exponent. (e.g. -9)
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In keeping with my general brewing policy, I brewed what is considered a half-batch. 2.5 gallons of beer. A few months ago I made a 5 gallon batch of cider (recipe coming soon), and that was such a chore to bottle that I didn't bother labeling it! Confused all my relatives at Thanksgiving explaining that the bottles without labels were hard cider, with labels were beer.
What I suggest doing is buying a kit for a Belgian Witbier (something like this would be great) and adding your own spices. Kits like this are constructed by homebrewing supply companies, usually at cost, and they make it super simple to buy the ingredients for a specific style. As this is a 5 gallon kit, you would just split it in half for every ingredient you receive. As before, I am going to lay out the recipe in three simple stages: Steeping the Grain, The Boil and Fermentation.
Steeping the Grain
I steeped the grain for 30 minutes in 1 gallon of water held at 160F. I put 4oz of Carapils into a grain bag and dunked it a few times to make sure all the grains were wet. This is going to give us excellent head retention (foamy top of beer), plus the final mouthfeel should be enriched. Use whatever specialty grain came with your kit. After 30 minutes, remove the spent grains and freeze them for later use (Spent Grain Bread?). Don't squeeze the grain bag! Now you have a little under 1 gallon of grain tea to start your boil with, because the grains will absorb some water.
|A handful of Carapils, milled
The Boil
To account for some evaporation, you need to start the boil with more than 2.5 gallons. I know I lose about 1 quart of wort during the boil, so I start the boil with 2.75 gallons of water. Simple, huh? Heat the water until boiling, then turn off the heat and stir in the wheat extract. Return the wort to the heat and as soon as it boils it's time to add the hops. I used the 1oz of Hallertau pellet hops that came with my kit. Now starts the 60 minutes of your boil. Adjust the heat to maintain a steady boil, and keep an eye on your wort to make sure it doesn't boil over.
After 45 minutes of boiling, I added 1tsp of Irish Moss. Irish Moss is a sea vegetable which helps to clarify your beer. As the wort cools later, more particles will fall out of suspension if you use Irish Moss. It is not required at all. After 55 minutes of boiling (i.e. 10 minutes after the Irish Moss), I added the cinnamon sticks and grated ginger. Finally, as the clock hits 60 minutes, I turn off the heat and add the rest of the spices.
|These spices put the Holiday into the Wit
I used 1tsp fresh ground nutmeg and 1/3oz of bitter orange peel.
Below you will see a list of additions to the wort, along with the timing after start of boil, for your reference.
1oz Hallertau pellet hops, 0 mins
1tsp Irish Moss, 45 mins
2 cinnamon sticks, 55 mins
1 tbsp grated ginger, 55 mins
1tsp ground nutmeg, strikeout
1/3oz bitter orange peel, strikeout
That says the same as I wrote above; it's just in a common shorthand that you will see on a lot of brewing websites.
Now our job is to cool the wort as fast as possible. We want the yeast to get really well established quickly so it can make the beer unappealing for any bacteria or wild yeast that happen along. For that to happen, the wort has to cool! The best solution would be something like this wort chiller, but I don't have one of those, so I carefully put the pot into an ice bath. Wait until the temperature reaches around 80F. You really don't want to splash the beer around before it gets under 140F, but careful stirring after that can help cool things quicker.
Once it's cool, we'll add the yeast. My kit came with the Wyeast Belgian Witbier liquid smackpack. I have come to love these smackpacks, far and away over White Labs vials or dry yeast. That said, something like the White Labs Belgian Wit Ale Yeast would work just fine. I smacked the pack the day before I brewed and it puffed up like a champ. Now I put the lid on and fill the airlock with vodka.
Primary fermentation was one week on this beer. I probably could have moved the beer over after 4-5 days, but my schedule has to be a little flexible with a little one in the house. You're looking for the airlock to be bubbling probably less than once every 30 seconds before you move over to the secondary fermentation. My brewing room has been a little cooler than ideal for a witbier, because we had a cold snap (did you notice?) here in the US. Once the beer has been in secondary for 2 weeks, I bottled it. And here we are. This brew is going to spend 2 weeks in bottle. I recently moved all my conditioning bottles out of the brewing room, because they were just too cool to get carbonated. Needs to be around 70F for at least 3 days in my experience. It'll be ready just in time for Christmas, and I'll update y'all with a review then.
Cleaning and Sanitizing
A quick word about cleaning and sanitizing. I think anyone who makes beer just has to suffer through the cleaning and sanitizing. Yes, you can make sour beers with wild yeast, but not every style of beer calls for random bugs to be growing in your beer, so it's good to know how to remove them. For bottles and my fermentation bucket, I use hot water and elbow grease to clean. It's vital to avoid any surfactants in your beer, which many dish soaps leave behind. The Better Bottle secondary fermenter I clean with Seventh Generation Free and Clear Natural 2X, as per their suggestion.
Once everything is clean, you can sanitize. I love Star San for sanitizing. It doesn't require rinsing, and it breaks down into food for yeast. I just keep a spray bottle around to sanitize my kitchen counters/bottles for beer/whatever needs sanitizing. Super handy. Everything that touches the wort after the boil must be sanitized. The yeast packet, the scissors you open it with, any spoons, the fermentation vessel, anything you use to steal a sample. Everything!


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Good morning, my name is Adam Thierer and I serve as Director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute. Thank you Mr. Chairman for your invitation to testify here this morning as the Committee begins the important business of thinking about what the next Telecom Act should look like.
As someone who worked closely with members of this Committee a decade ago when we started getting serious about telecom reform, I think it's safe to say that we all share a sense of frustration and disappointment that we were not able to advance the ball a little further last time around.
If I had to summarize what went wrong with the Telecom Act of 1996, I would use the following paradox: Congress wanted market competition but did not trust the free market enough to tell regulators to step aside and allow markets to function on their own.
Consequently, the FCC, the Department of Justice, state and local regulatory commissions, and the courts, have spent the last ten years treating this industry as a regulatory plaything to be endlessly toyed with. Today there is virtually no element of telecommunications that is not subject to some sort of meddling by some or all of these regulatory officials.
While it's fair to say that it was probably wishful thinking to believe we could have undone a century's worth of command and control regulatory policies in a few short years, one would have at least hoped that we would not be stuck still debating the same issues today that dominated the agenda over a decade ago. Indeed, if Rip Van Winkle fell asleep in 1994 and woke up in 2004, he wouldn't think he'd missed a beat if telecom regulation was any guide.
But despite the ongoing regulatory quagmire, the good news is that we have witnessed amazing strides in terms of technological progress and we can confidently say that this marketplace has never witnessed such competitive forces at work. Whether it's the wireless revolution that is allowing millions to cut the cord entirely, or the Internet and broadband revolution that is opening up a whole new world of opportunities that did not exist prior to 1996, by almost any measure, consumers are better off and have more choices now than ever before.1
Still, much remains to be done to clear out the regulatory deadwood that continues to hold back further innovation and competition. While there are dozens of important regulatory reform objectives I could outline,2 in my limited time here today it makes more sense to briefly discuss the three most important over-arching themes or priorities that should frame our current thinking about how to reform telecommunications policy. These priorities include:
(1) Rationalizing Regulatory Classifications
(2) Dealing with Jurisdictional Matters
(3) Getting Agency Power and Size Under Control
Regulatory Classifications
With respect to regulatory classifications, a general consensus exists today that Congress will need to formally close the book on the archaic regulatory classifications of the past, which pigeonhole technologies and providers into distinct vertical policy "silos." That is, we still have Title II for common carriers, Title III for wireless, Title IV for cable, and so on, even though rapid technological change and convergence have largely wiped out such distinctions and pitted these formerly distinct sectors against one another in heated competition for consumer allegiance. Thus, although the communications / broadband marketplace is becoming one giant fruit salad of services and providers, regulators are still separating out the apples, oranges, and bananas and regulating them differently. This must end.
One way to do this is to replace the vertical silos model with a "horizontal layers" model that more closely resembles the way the new marketplace operates. We can divide the new industry into at least four distinct layers: (1) Content; (2) Applications; (3) Code; and, (4) Infrastructure, and regulate if we must, each accordingly.3 But I would caution Congress against formally enshrining a network layers model as a new regulatory regime. While this model provides a useful analytical tool to help us rethink and eliminate the outmoded policy paradigms of the past, we would not want these new layers to become the equivalent of rigid regulatory quarantines or firewalls on industry innovation or vertical integration.4
A second and better way to tear down the old regulatory paradigms and achieve regulatory parity would be to borrow a page from trade law and adopt the equivalent of a "most favored nation" (MFN) principle for communications. In a nutshell, this policy would state that: "Any communications carrier seeking to offer a new service or entering a new line of business, should be regulated no more stringently than its least regulated competitor." This would allow us to achieve regulatory simplicity and parity not by "regulating up" to put everyone on equal difficult footing but rather by "deregulating down." Given the confusion over the Brand X court case and the ongoing FCC investigation into a Title 1 "information services" classification for broadband, this "Most Favored Nation" approach might help us bring some resolution to this difficult issue.
Jurisdictional Matters
Next we come to jurisdictional matters, which could very well end up being the most controversial issue this Committee will take up if you choose to re-open the Telecom Act. Here I am speaking of the heated debate between federal, state and local regulators for control over the future of communications policy. 6
As I noted in my 1998 book The Delicate Balance: Federalism, Interstate Commerce and Economic Freedom in the Information Age, decentralization of political power almost always has a positive effect in terms of expanding human liberty.7 But as our Founders wisely realized when penning the Constitution, there are some important exceptions to that general rule.
Let me be perfectly blunt on this point: Telecommunications regulation is one of those cases where state and local experimentation doesn't work so well. After all, at the very heart of telecommunications lies the notion of transcending boundaries and making geography and distance irrelevant. If ever there was a good case to be made for an activity being considered interstate commerce, this is it. And yet, America's telecom market remains riddled with a patchwork of policies that actually thwart that goal and seek to divide the indivisible and place boundaries on the boundless.8
This must end. And the only way it will end is by Congress taking the same difficult step it had to take when deregulating airlines, trucking, railroads, and banking: pre-emption. We must get serious about the "national policy framework" mentioned in the preamble of the Telecom Act by comprehensively pre-empting state and local regulation in this sector. The rise of wireless and Internet-based forms of communications makes this an absolute necessity.
If you feel compelled to leave some authority to state regulators, why not devolve to them any universal service responsibilities that continue to be deemed necessary? This is one area where experimentation can work if the states devised targeted assistance mechanisms. But they should not be allowed to impose regulatory restraints or levies on interstate communications to do so.
Agency Power
My third and final "big picture" reform involves what may have been the most glaring omission from the Telecom Act of 1996: The almost complete failure to contain or cut back the size and power of the FCC. Again, we would do well to remember the lessons of the past. When Congress deregulated airlines, trucking and railroads, lawmakers wisely realized that comprehensive and lasting reform was possible only if the agencies that oversaw those sectors were also reformed or even eliminated.
In the telecom world, by contrast, the FCC grew bigger and more powerful in the wake of reform and we witnessed spending go up by 37 percent, a tripling of the number of pages in the FCC Record, and there were 73 percent more telecom lawyers after the Act than before. It is safe to say that you cannot deregulate an industry by granting regulators more power over that industry.9
This too must end. The next cut at a Telecom Act must do more than just hand the FCC vague forbearance language with the suggestion that the agency take steps to voluntarily regulate less. We can't expect the regulators to deregulate themselves.10 We need clear sunsets on existing FCC powers, especially the infrastructure sharing provisions of the last Act.11 And then we need to impose sunsets on any new transitional powers we grant them in the next Telecom Act. And we need funding cuts too.
If we fail to do so, we'll likely be sitting here again in 10 years having this same conversation all over again.
Conclusion: Ending "Chicken Little Complex"
In conclusion, it is my hope that Congress rejects the many doomsday-ers and nay-sayers in the telecom sector who claim the sky will fall without incessant regulatory oversight and intervention. "Chicken Little complex" seems to run rampant throughout this sector even though it is less warranted than ever before. We have a chance to make more than just a clean break with the past; we have the chance now to close the book on a regulatory past that has done little to truly benefit consumers. Regulators have been given over 100 years to conduct a grand experiment with the telecom sector. Why not give markets a chance for once?
Thank you, and I'm happy to take any questions you may have.
1. Adam Thierer, "Number Portability Decision Adds to Wireline Telecom Sector's Perfect Storm," Cato Institute TechKnowledge No. 66, November 20, 2003, https://www.cato.org/tech/tk/031120-tk.html
2. Adam Thierer, "A 10-Point Agenda for Comprehensive Telecom Reform," Cato Institute Briefing Paper No. 63, May 8, 2001, https://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-063es.html
3. See generally: Richard S. Whitt, "A Horizontal Leap Forward: Formulating a New Public Policy Framework Based on the Network Layers Model," MCI Public Policy Paper, Version 1.0, December 2003, http://global.mci.com/about/publicpolicy/presentations/horizontallayerswhitepaper.pdf
4. See: Adam D. Thierer, "Are 'Dumb Pipe' Mandates Smart Public Policy?: Vertical Integration, 'Net Neutrality,' and the Network Layers Model," Presentation at Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information conference on Media Concentration and the Internet, (forthcoming), April 15, 2004; Adam D. Thierer, "Net Neutrality: Digital Discrimination or Regulatory Gamesmanship in Cyberspace?," Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 507, January 9, 2004, https://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-507es.html
5. Adam D. Thierer, "Telecom Newspeak: The Orwellian World of Broadband 'Deregulation'," in Sonia Arrison, ed., Telecrisis: How Regulation Stifles High-Speed Internet Access, (San Francisco, CA: Pacific Research Institute, January 2003), pp. 9-31, http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/techno/telecrisis.pdf
6. Adam D. Thierer. "Federalism and Telecommunications," Federalist Society, 2001, http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/telecommunications/federalism-telecomv3i1.htm; Robert W. Hahn, Anne Layne-Farrar, and Peter Passell, "Federalism and Regulation," Regulation, Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter 2003-2004, pp. 46-50, https://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv26n4/v26n4-7.pdf
7. Adam D. Thierer, The Delicate Balance: Federalism, Interstate Commerce and Economic Freedom in the Information Age, (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 1999).
8. See generally: Adam Thierer, "Will 'States' Rights' Derail Telecom Deregulation?" Cato Institute TechKnowledge No. 49, March 14, 2003, https://www.cato.org/tech/tk/030314-tk.html
9. J. Gregory Sidak, "The Failure of Good Intentions: The WorldCom Fraud and the Collapse of American Telecommunications After Deregulation," Yale Journal of Regulation, Vol. 20., 2003, pp. 207-267.
10. Alfred E. Kahn, Whom the Gods Would Destroy or How Not to Deregulate, (Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2001), http://www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=112
11. See generally: Adam D. Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews, What's Yours is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism, (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2003), http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&pid=1441099


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It's safety sweeps season for the auto industry, and Nissan is cleaning up nicely!
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is one of the foremost rating organizations in America. When it comes to safety, their word is law. Luckily for Nissan (and Nissan drivers), four Nissan models have received IIHS Top Safety ratings.
The Top Safety Pick+ is the highest honor of all the IIHS Top Safety ratings, and two Nissans took this title home: the 2016 Nissan Maxima and the 2016 Nissan Murano. These sedans are going to be big deals next year!
Just below Top Safety Pick+ is the Top Safety Pick. Two more Nissans scored this award: the 2016 Nissan Rogue SUV and the 2016 Nissan Sentra.
To earn a Top Safety Pick rating, a vehicle must score "Good" or better in all five of the IIHS's crashworthiness categories. To earn that ultimate plus-sign, a vehicle must also earn an "Advanced" or "Superior" rating for front crash prevention.
Congratulations, Nissan!


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LogicMonitor, the leading cloud-based IT infrastructure performance monitoring solution, today announced its first 2014 Roadshow stop will be held in London on January 30th. The event will provide attending customers, partners, press, and analysts with a sneak peek into LogicMonitor's new user interface, enterprise and service provider product enhancements, and long-term product roadmap. LogicMonitor's founder & Chief Product Officer, Steve Francis, will be on hand to host this and all subsequent Roadshow stops.
"The LogicMonitor 2014 Roadshow is geared to present exciting product news to our customers, and will provide a venue for customers and analysts to discuss technology and operations trends with fellow IT Ops pros. There are plenty of topics on the mind of data center professionals coming into 2014 -- considering a mix of premise and public cloud infrastructures, automation technologies, workflow, consolidation of IT tools, DevOps and software-defined data centers. All will be discussed and analyzed at the Roadshow."
LogicMonitor is coming off of another robust year of revenue and customer growth. The venture-funded company continues to drive innovation through IT infrastructure monitoring product enhancements and R&D efforts. LogicMonitor customers utilize the company's automated platform to monitor the performance and health of network, storage, database and application infrastructure from the convenience of a single lightweight application.
"LogicMonitor is committed to building the best infrastructure-wide monitoring solution in the market," said Kevin McGibben, CEO, LogicMonitor. "An increasing number of enterprise IT Ops teams are displacing legacy premise-based monitoring products with LogicMonitor. Web-based businesses have been with us since the beginning -- but as enterprise IT Ops teams become more comfortable with deploying SaaS-based technologies we're seeing our business accelerate at a greater pace. Our 2014 new product announcements will create even greater customer experiences for our flagship product."
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An occasional account of my Olympic-year Gold Challenge to run 2012 miles in various events in 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
Marcothon, day three
Nearly dropped out on the first weekday of the Marcothon! I got back from a school trip to the panto tired, hungry and cold and with just half an hour free before I was due to play five-a-side. I came up with 101 reasons why I couldn't possibly find the time or energy to do both. None of them were totally convincing, so I seized the half hour and went out and ran 5k - can't quite believe it but I did!
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This past Memorial Day Weekend we decided to keep away from the crowded pools and beach and make our way up to the mountains to dodge the wave of kooky tourists pouring in. With my birthday in the middle of it all it seemed like a fitting way to celebrate with the boys and clock in some time outdoors. Come Monday morning, some 500 beers later, one dirty pup, and bit of puke, and dirt up to our knees, we knew the holiday weekend was well spent.


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Urgent-care center finds home at Roundhouse
Colorado Springs Health Partners plans to open an urgent-care center in the historic Roundhouse commercial center at the southwest corner of Highway 24 and 21st Street.
According to Lynne Jones, marketing director for the physician-owned practice that started in 1946, CSHP expects to begin remodeling in November and to open the center in the spring. Eight to 12 employees, from physicans to office staff, will be hired, she said.
The facility will take up about half of the 11,000-plus square feet that CSHP is leasing at the south end of the building. Initially constructed in 1887 as the repair facility for Midland Railway trains, the curve-shaped roundhouse was restored/remodeled by the Griffis/Blessing company five years ago.
The other half of the space will become the offices of two CSHP family-practice physicians - Drs. Julie Brady and William Malabre - who will be relocating from the medical building at 20th and Colorado, she said.
The urgent-care center will be the second for CSHP. The current one is part of its main concentration of provider services at Union Boulevard and Fillmore Street. Jones said CSHP has been looking for space to offer such services on the Westside.
The days and hours have not yet been determined. The Union/Fillmore location is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Roundhouse space became available when Carmichael Training Systems (the site's first tenant in 2009) relocated to the Garden of the Gods Road, according to Steve Engel, president of Griffis/ Blessing. ōIt was good timing for everybody,ö he said. ōCSHP will move in as soon as the retrofit work is done. We're targeting March 1.ö
To make sure there is adequate parking, signage will be posted in the lot for patient spaces ōas near to the building as we can get them,ö Engel said.
Along with the Colorado Mountain Brewery at the opposite end, the CSHP space is one of the two largest areas in the roughly 30,000-square-foot Roundhouse building.
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The top online TV portals took a traffic nosedive in February, according to Nielsen data provided to the Hollywood Reporter. Reed Price, editor-in-chief of MSN TV blamed his site's 16% drop-off on the effects of the writers strike; both AOL TV and Yahoo TV saw a fall-off in traffic as well.
Some solace to mourning "Jericho" fans: it was the top show in February on both AOL TV (TWX) and MSN TV (MSFT). The portals all carry some full-length, ad-supported TV episodes, and all of them just got a lot more content, since they're now carrying Fox and NBC programming via Hulu.
Nielsen provides unique visitors to the TV sites; a better metric would be number of unique viewers of video and time spent. Nevertheless, February uniques and the change from January according to Nielsen Online:
AOL Television: 10.5m -5.1%
Yahoo TV: 9.6m -12.9%
MSN TV: 6.8m -16.3%
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|Exegesis Volume 4 Issue #86
Exegesis Digest Sat, 20 Nov 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:35:14 -0800
From: "William D. Tallman"
To: Exegesis
Subject: Re: Exegesis Digest V4 #84
Dennis says:
> >Impressed on what?
Whatever is manifest at the moment. Patrice has selected the word "impress"; I have used the word "imprint" from a decades old notion of "initial imprinting" that became pop psychology at one point.
> >If not an imprint, is any impression merely a metaphor rather than a
> >(hypothetical) fact?
Again, semantics; perhaps useful in some manner. I don't know.
> >One might even go so far as to assume some kind of impressario performing
> >these impressions. A cosmic ring-master perhaps. Ellipse-master, to be
> >precise. Sorry, too old-fashioned...
Yep. Cosmic ring-master is good, though somewhat dramatic, if you believe in the idea that some part of the cosmos in which we live is a volitional entity, popularly called God in American English (make your own translation into other languages...). Ellipse-master? Well, perhaps God is indeed a mathematician as Dirac suggested, and maybe Newton really was spiritually enlightened....
> >Juggling semantics perhaps, but biological processes occur in organic and
> >Gaian time. Development tends to be cued by environment, particularly
> >diurnal & solunar cycles, but also internally according to genetic
> >programming. The local cosmos is qualitatively unique, thus Gaian rhythms
> >also, and these constitute most of the context that Bill calls the
> >"astrological cosmos". Development originates and unfolds in organic
> >relation to this spatio-temporal context.
> >So I suspect the impression at the genesis of something is more apparent
> >than real. Latent potential can be described in archetypal terms, so if you
> >are Barbara Watters doing the horoscope of the Empire State building,
> >several decades ago, you do not need to have it sitting across the desk from
> >you in order to do a reading. Despite what most astrologers think.
Arguably so. For us, appearance has quite a lot to do with how we address the exigencies of our lives. To posit reality as a baseline, you have to define it adequately, and in this case I don't think it can be done. So let us deal with the appearances that are useful. I suggest that the idea of a cosmic impression at the time of manifestation is valid: whether that manifestation was simply another part of an ongoing process or not, the demarcation was an observed change in state and it is that change we identify and assign an impression.
I presume you refer to Barbara Walters, the television interviewer? And a reading has or has not a thing on the other side of the desk as is appropriate, I imagine; the Empire State Building *is* rather hard on chairs, don'tcha know....
> >The key seems to be the organic relation between entity and context, in
> >which the whole creates a new part at an appropriate time. The horoscope of
> >the new part details the archetypal potential provided by that holistic
> >context, and development unfolds in complex cyclic interaction with the
> >whole. The whole is both environment and continuum, a dynamic matrix.
We agree, though it's apparent we state things differently.
> >>There is a SYNCHRONISATION (not synchronicity !!) of planetary rhythms
> >>with biological, organical, molecular rhythms, AND from this
> >>synchronisation merge imperceptible transformations in organism, hence
> >>in human psyche. [Patrice]
> >
> >Synchronization and synchronicity are two very different matters
> >(concepts?). It appears that they may both be applicable in their own way.
> >The point is that they are not mutually exclusive. [Bill]
> >
> >Methinks these two fellows doth protest too much. The solar system
> >coordinates all of its component parts in unison, just like we do.
> >Synchronicity is merely conscious experience of this synchronous process.
Synchronicity is a word invented by Jung to describe an observed phenomenon, and I've had the opinion that it has yet to be adequately defined. Apparently Dennis regards Jung's insight as that of a rather pedestrian process that is a part of our common and, in this case unremarkable, experience.
> >Look, you jump in the car and go somewhere, is it any surprise that others
> >see all your bodily parts arriving simultaneously? The whole coheres. The
> >apparent separate development of any bunch of parts is an illusion. Even
> >scientists are now getting the picture.
Yeah, I think we all understand this, even scientists which Dennis seems to regard as more dimwitted than the average fellow on the street. Your point, Dennis?
> >Bill goes on to talk about client interaction...
> >"In general, a session entails a provision to the client by the astrologer
> >of
> >a useful (client-friendly) astrological model of the client. The largest
> >part of that process is working with the client to create an understanding
> >of how the client *manifests* that model in his/her life, which is almost
> >always most easily accomplished by making short meaningful astrological
> >statements (of fact and of tradition) and allowing the client to talk
> >his/her way into an appropriate (for the client, not the astrologer)
> >understanding of that aspect of the astrological model, a process which is
> >never the same for any given session, etc.."
> >
> >Yes, this is how it happens for me too. Except, instead of `statements of
> >fact and tradition', I provide descriptions of archetypal potential
> >sometimes embellished with elements of tradition that seem relevant.
I would hope that this is how it happens for most of us, although we may describe it differently.
> >Then Bill proceeds with a wee diatribe...
> >"I have stood alone in the spotlight of the Exegesis stage
> >and raved about the typical astrologer's unwillingness to accept that
> >science *has* any inherent relevance to the astrological practice. It seems
> >obvious to me that anyone who declares valid insights or discoveries
> >concerning one's craft to be irrelevant is guilty of gross professional
> >negligence. So I (continue to) suggest we welcome any and all *real*
> >scientific work on astrology and contribute as we may, with the recognition
> >that most astrologers will find themselves without (sufficient) applicable
> >scientific competency to make direct contributions thereto."
> >
> >Fair enough, but real scientific work on astrology has tended to be
> >conspicuous by its absence. Some researchers proved effective at debunking
> >the gross generalisations that traditional astrologers were prone to.
> >Others have bolstered the Gauquelin findings, but with only marginal
> >relevance. This whole business is a morass of category errors, and most of
> >those who blunder into it seem to lose themselves therein.
Unfortunately this is the case, although not without the active assistance of advocacy prone researchers. The advocacy is almost always in favor of debunking astrology, even on the part of some well known astrologer/researchers themselves, oddly enough. As it is not my practice to make two diatribes in a row, I will refrain from expanding on this matter, except to say that most debunkers have a personal agenda which drives their activity, and that makes a mockery of the research process itself.
That astrology still remains anathema, by and large, to the scientific community is a demonstrable fact. Let us not conclude that this will be a permanent state of affairs; otherwise it will certainly tend to become so.
> >"I will exist stage right still muttering in my beard", Bill concludes. Oh
> >good, prolonging one's existence is certainly an admirable trait, and doing
> >it on stage is an appropriate performance of the astrological archetype of
> >fixity. A shame that the parameters of this list do not permit me to
The parameters of this list do, as I have attempted here, permit self-caricaturization. Unfortunately, I shot myself in the foot by including the letter "s" where it was not intended. The third word in the above paragraph should have been "exit", ROFL!!!!! It would seem that one, having shot one's own foot, is constrained to remain on stage... first aid kit, anyone?
> >enquire what 5th house fixed planets motivate this behaviour! Being neither
> >left nor right, this ex-Green activist belongs centre stage (typical Leo)
> >and wonders where the other players will locate themselves...
The Aquarius Sun in the Vth House probably makes this easier, as it allows one to claim whatever place on the stage is appropriate (completes the patterns) to the moment; such a configuration "belongs" nowhere and so is at liberty to choose where to reside.
Let the play begin!!!!
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:53:27 +1300
From: Janice & Dennis
To: Exegesis
Subject: Re: Exegesis Digest V4 #84
[Bill Tallman] < snip > large chunks of natural phenomena, and the common
> >notion is that those chunks were given the names of living beings, having
> >apparently the ability to have a powerful effect and the capacity for
> >independent volition. We say these beings were the gods. < snip > ... the hall closet reflects what has
> >been, for whatever reason, left unattended. Thus, the hall closet can
> >possess and organization that is obviously badly out of date; this doesn't mean that the organization of the hall closet is wrong, but simply outdated.
> >
> >So it is with human knowledge and understanding. The process does not go
> >forward in an orderly manner, in which all relevant items or areas of
> >interest maintain a more or less similar state of up-to-dateness. Some
> >things become well understood, while others do not. This means that there
> >are areas of human understanding that are likely to retain the names of the
> >gods; if this were not so, then we would be forced to conclude that human
> >understanding is, to some arbitrary state, complete. This is most clearly
> >not the case.
> >
> >So I think we must honor any level of organization of understanding as
> >being appropriate thereto, and not attempt to foist upon one that which is
> >appropriate to another. If the gods are appropriate to explain some
> >phenomena that science has clearly been unable to address, then it is
> >unreasonable to apply scientific standards thereto: those standards have
> >not earned the right of application.
OK, reasonable enough. Why some gods and not others? Guess the obvious answer is that those thus allocated into tradition as planets had been tacitly collectively identified with the planetary archetypes.
The basic flaw in the doctrine of rulerships is the initial presumption that
> >>some planets belong to some signs. Anciently, these were domiciles, with
> >>the signs then being called houses (before houses as we currently use them
> >>were invented). The traditional assumption that a similarity of meaning
> >>underlies each correlation seems not to have been the original rationale. That was culture-specific astral religion derived, varying between cultures.
> >
> >I would argue that we do not have enough understanding of these matters to
> >make these sorts of statements. What is being expressed here, I think, is a
> >modern tendency towards rejection of anything that does not seem tractable
> >to current abilities to reason. The ability to reason rests largely on the
> >state of relevant understanding: one has to know something of a subject to
> >be able to make reasonable (rational, logical) statements about it. We
> >simply do not have anywhere near enough knowledge about the tradition of
> >astrology to engage in rational discourse.
Point taken, but I was merely reporting my long-considered opinion based on the findings of historical research. If you are reluctant to draw this conclusion, 'tis your prerogative. One would hope that you have also undertaken the research and assessed the available evidence, as I did. If, as you have suggested, you hope Project Hindsight will throw more light on the subject, I can tell you I would welcome this. I forked out the current equivalent of 3 weeks wages in the early '90s when the initiative was launched with a funding appeal, to support the Greek track translations. Unfortunately I moved house in '95 & '96 and forgot to ensure notification of change of address, so didn't get issues past vol. XI.
> >Rational discourse, in my mind, is discourse that is founded on that which
> >has been demonstrated to be (apparently) factual: rational is a word that
> >defines the condition of a ratio, which is a statement of how a thing is
> >related to another thing, and although this is a mathematical usage, I
> >suggest that it is appropriate in general.
The problem here is the increasingly redundant word factual. Policemen and reporters have so consistently and for so long complained that eyewitnesses to traffic accidents or crime scenes give different accounts of what happened, that it has become an accepted truism that the facts of an event can often not be established even by consensus. Early in the 20th century physicists found that apparent facts were not necessarily so, phenomena changing according to viewpoint, and science writers and philosophers since have increasingly warned that acceptance of data as facts may be delusive.
I assume Bill is aware of all this, so that leaves us with the concept of ratio. Does this produce reason? How do we decide if the relation it signals is appropriate?
> >Archetypes are probably more relevant in the realm of the collective, it
> >could be argued, I think. One person's understanding is almost certain to vary from another person's understanding, and so an archetype is more likely
> >to convey what is understood in common, which any individual is likely to
> >find personally incomplete and probably thus unsatisfactory. This
> >addresses a matter taken up later in this post.
One could apply your logic here, Bill, to any other language. People tend not to find that such idiosyncratic differences of interpretation loom sufficiently large as to form impediments to communication. The common understanding of the symbol system, combined with the motivation to communicate, overwhelm or diminish the relevance of subjective meanings in the dialogue.
> >>I'm inclined to question that notion of yours, Bill. Northern hemisphere
> >>chauvinism may be habitual, but progress will only come from a global
> >>perspective. Can you spell that notion out as logic that applies in any
> >>hemisphere?
> >
> >It seems to me that astrology as we know it, particularly western tropical
> >astrology, is a northern hemispherical tradition that got imported to the
> >southern hemisphere in the last few centuries. Consequently, we must
> >expect that any derivations therefrom are specifically applicable to the
> >northern hemisphere.
> >
> >I suppose one might make the argument that those who live in the southern
> >hemisphere need to develop their own reflection of the northern form. From
> >the communication I have had with residents of the southern hemisphere, it
> >appears that there exist some alternative understandings of the
> >applications of the Signs, equinoxes, and soltices. Southern hemisphere
> >spring begins with the Sign of Libra and blossoms in Scorpio; I've heard
> >rather compelling descriptions of Scorpio as appropriate in the role
> >commonly played by Taurus in the northern hemisphere.
> >
> >If something of this sort can be developed, then it would probably be fruitful to make a comparison between the two to discern what may be common,
> >or what may underlie the zodiacal oppositions involved. In any case, as a
> >resident of the northern hemisphere, I'm not likely to be able to provide a
> >useful description of the southern alternative.
The notion in question, as Bill provided it in 4/83, was "reading around the cycle from the vernal equinox (northern hemisphere) we get the notion that energy manifests as substance and is formed into matter, which sounds reasonable: reading the crosses, we see that energy and form bisect substance and matter, etc." So I asked if Bill was able to present this logic in pan-hemispheric form. If not, Bill, do you really mean to suggest that energy manifests as substance (etc) in the northern hemisphere only?
> >The obvious assignments are: Fire is Energy, Earth is Matter, Air is Space,
> >and Water is Time. There are other not so obvious assignments that can be explored, but this should probably be investigated first; the results can be
> >used subsequently as a baseline for other ideas.
OK, these equations seem viable. The fourth not immediately so, until one recognises the common quality of flow.
> >In the great crosses of the horoscope, we see that Energy and Space are a
> >dual, as is Matter and Time; these are different from the more common duals of Energy and Matter, Space and Time, which provides an opportunity for some
> >interesting insights, perhaps.
No this needs to be spelt out. The logic you are using here, Bill, is not intuitively obvious.
> >[Re] the first dual, we can observe that the current cosmological model
> >has the universe beginning as a point of pure energy which bursts forth
> >into, and presumably defines, space, which in return contains the expansion
> >of that burst. The debates now going on in cosmology all appear to accept
> >this model, while positing different processes and different consequences
> >thereof. An interesting
> >process that is different from the intuitively obvious is the "many-worlds
> >theory", and there are other less well known hypothetical processes; of the
> >different consequences, there are the steady state, the cyclic, and the
> >infinitely expansive universes, etc. All these assume at least some
> >version of the Big Bang origin, where Energy expands into Space.
> >
> >Regarding the second dual, we can observe that all cosmological models fail
> >to achieve absolute homogeneity, and thus mandate that the universe has
> >differentiated content, which in turn mandates the existence of process. As energy expands into space, matter is created as a consequence of process, which is mensurated by duration, the metric of which is time. As the energy
> >of the Big Bang burst expanded, it was presumably forced to follow the
> >inverse square law which meant that energy density in any given volume of
> >space could be differentiated from any other... or maybe not, I don't know
> >as I wasn't there < grin > In any case, in the process there began to be a
> >differentiation of types of energy, which eventually created energic differences in space, resulting in different types of processes in different
> >places, creating Matter as a consequence of the flow of Time.
Yes, this logic seems reasonable. Processes driven by energy flows through material structures, with perhaps the energy/density variations consequent of the breaking of earlier symmetries. This picture of entropy is the antithesis of the holistic emergence of new qualities at higher levels of system organisation.
> >Two archetypes arise here: the first is that of Manifestation, and the
> >second is that of Change. We can regard the expansion of Energy into Space
> >as Manifestation, and the development of Matter through Time as Change.
> >The notion of Manifestation is basic to metaphysical considerations, of
> >course, and is generally couched in the context of the unmanifest realms,
> >whatever those might be. The late David Bohm saw this phenomenon as the
> >Explicate arising out of the Implicate. < snip > change can be classified as a
> >process. This may seem self-evident, and it most likely is, but I think
> >there is an important insight here.
Yes, the process of universal (change producing) manifestation is the holomovement. But wait, Bill is deconstructing this!
> >If all Change is a process, then it can be observed in some manner and that
> >potentially leads to understanding. The key here is the exploitation of the
> >properties of Time. We understand now that Time is much more malleable than we are accustomed to expecting: science gives us some means of insight here,
> >and our life experiences teach us much about Time as well. We recognize
> >that it is indeed relative in ways that are accessible to all: Time goes by
> >more quickly as we get older, so we observe; what is happening here is that
> >we identify the passage of time as it is a dimension of the whole. A year
> >is a major portion of the life of a young person and so goes by slowly. A
> >year is a much smaller portion of the life of an older person, and so goes
> >by much more quickly.
Good one, Bill. I've often reflected on this. It is an experiential commonality that people tend to readily concur with. Tad Mann came out with that logarithmic Ascendant progression of his to rationalise the common experience, but it always seemed too contrived to me. Seems `ratio' applies better here, inasmuch as any passage is experienced as a relative proportion to the whole, as you suggest. Several times I've found myself, in recent months, idly musing on this logarithmic (?) proportionality, without ever getting to spell it out as you did. It always has seemed to me evident in the relative transit of years, since I first noticed it as a teenager. Perhaps it is the inverse of the proportion of the chambers of the nautilus, or perhaps a different part/whole ratio applies, hopefully someone mathematically inclined can advise on this.
> >Fundamental to all these considerations is the observation that a basic
> >mensuration of Time is that of the cycle, where processes appear to be
> >repetitive in some manner. It is this property of time (that it possesses
> >the cycle as a metric) that we exploit, gaining understanding as we
> >experiment with the similarities and differences of these repeating
> >processes. But, of course, the cycle is only a metric, it is not the only
> >description of the dimension of Time; we say that Time often appears to be
> >linear, that it continues onward allowing the unfoldment of the unknown,
> >unknowable because not cyclic in nature. And so we come to conceive of the
> >metric of Time as more properly that of a spiral, where the axis of the
> >observed cycle(s) is itself part of a larger, as yet unrecognized, cycle
> >(presumably).
Yes, hence my possibly invalid comparison to the nautilus. Obviously the spiral axes of the planets are indeed aligned along (although mathematically tangential to) the solar system's galactic orbit.
> >As we contemplate all this, we recall what we already so well understand,
> >and that is that Manifestation itself is a function of Change, as Change is
> >also a function of Manifestation. When Change goes forth, new (different)
> >Manifestations arise; when Manifestation takes place, Change affects
> >everything. Manifestation and Change, then, are archetypes that describe a
> >part of the essence of the Elements as they are a part of the astrological
> >tradition.
This deconstruction seems rather nifty. I had assumed manifestation and change to be one and the same, both consequent of the holomovement. But I'm inclined to agree that they are indeed essentially different, according to the logic you provide. What I like about this is that it provides the basis for a rationale for relating the formative functions of the number archetypes 2 and 4. Intuitively I'm tempted to correlate manifestation with yang and change with yin.
> >As the archetypes define the Elemental duals, they can be said to be "at cross purposes" as they comprise the Zodiacal axes that constitute the great
> >astrological Crosses of the horoscope. Basic to astrology, of course, is
> >that these crosses also define the aspect of the Square, which identifies
> >the sources of the dynamics (the results of stresses that are the
> >consequence of being "at cross purposes") of the matter of horoscopic
> >interest (native, point in time, question, etc.).
What is not spelt out here is how the `cross of matter' is derived from the two more primal archetypes. I appreciate that you have seemed to deal with this earlier, and that this common esoteric concept contains a usage of matter essentially different to the one you employed in an earlier paragraph (`Earth is Matter'). If we have here a confusion of crosses, do please clarify.
> >In the Cardinal placement, the Elements define the Equinoxes and Solstices:
> >Manifestation from Equinox to Equinox (Fire in Aries and Air in Libra) and
> >Change from Solstice to Solstice (Earth in Capricorn and Water in Cancer).
> >In the Fixed placement, Manifestation is seen as the result of the Solsticial axis (Fire in Leo & Air in Aquarius) and Change as the result of
> >the Equinoctial axis (Earth in Taurus and Water in Scorpio). The Mutable
> >placement brings Manifestation (Fire in Sagittarius and Air in Gemini) to
> >the axis of Change as given above (Capricorn and Cancer) and Change (Earth
> >in Virgo and Water in Pisces) to the axis of Manifestation (Aries & Libra).
Well, I find myself unable to make sense of this. To me, the equinoxes and solstices are defined by cardinality. Manifestation has an inherently cardinal meaning, and once things manifest they cohere in fixity, and evolve in mutability. Change encompasses the entirety of cycles, since it refers to the temporal context. On the other hand, perhaps subtle logic here lies beyond my current ability to comprehend it!
Dennis Frank
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