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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Myths of Infidelity
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE running from bed to bed creating disasters for themselves and everyone else don't seem to know what they are doing. They just don't get it. But why should they? There is a mythology about infidelity that shows up in the popular press and even in the mental health literature that is guaranteed to mislead people and make dangerous situations even worse. Some of these myths are:
1. Everybody is unfaithful; it is normal, expectable behavior. Mozart, in his comic opera Cosi Fan Tutti, insisted that women all do it, but a far more common belief is that men all do it: "Higgamous, hoggamous, woman's monogamous; hoggamous, higgamous, man is polygamous.'
In Nora Ephron's movie, Heartburn Meryl Streep's husband has left her for another woman. She turns to her father for solace, but he dismisses her complaint as the way of all male flesh: "if you want monogamy, marry a swan."
We don't know how many people are unfaithful; if people will lie to their own husband or wife, they surely aren't going to be honest with poll takers. We can guess that one-half of married men and one-third of married women have dropped their drawers away from home at least once. That's a lot of infidelity.
Still, most people are faithful most of the time. Without the expectation of fidelity, intimacy becomes awkward and marriage adversarial. People who expect their partner to betray them are likely to beat them to the draw, and to make both of them miserable in the meantime.
Most species of birds and animals in which the male serves some useful function other than sperm donation are inherently monogamous. Humans, like other nest builders, are monogamous by nature, but imperfectly so. We can be trained out of it, though even in polygamous and promiscuous cultures people show their true colors when they fall blindly and crazily in love. And we have an escape clause: nature mercifully permits us to survive our mates and mate again. But if we slip up and take a new mate while the old mate is still alive, it is likely to destroy the pair bonding with our previous mate and create great instinctual disorientation -- which is part of the tragedy of infidelity.
2. Affairs are good for you; an affair may even revive a dull marriage. Back at the height of the sexual revolution, the Playboy philosophy and its Cosmopolitan counterpart urged infidelity as a way to keep men manly, women womanly, and marriage vital. Lately, in such books as Annette Lawson's Adultery and Dalma Heyn's The Erotic Silence of the American Wife, women have been encouraged to act out their sexual fantasies as a blow for equal rights.
It is true that if an affair is blatant enough and if all hell breaks loose, the crisis of infidelity can shake up the most petrified marriage, Of course, any crisis can serve the same detonation function, and burning the house down might be a safer, cheaper, and more readily forgivable attention-getter.
the reality is that infidelity, whether it is furtive or blatant, will blow hell out of a marriage
However utopian the theories, the reality is that infidelity, whether it is furtive or blatant, will blow hell out of a marriage. In 30 odd years of practice, I have encountered only a handful of established first marriages that ended in divorce without someone being unfaithful, often with the infidelity kept secret throughout the divorce process and even for years afterwards. Infidelity is the sine qua non of divorce.
3. People have affairs because they aren't in love with their marriage partner. People tell me this, and they even remember it this way. But on closer examination it routinely turns out that the marriage was fine before the affair happened, and the decision that they were not in love with their marriage partner was an effort to explain and justify the affair.
Being in love does not protect people from lust. Screwing around on your loved one is not a very loving thing to do, and it may be downright hostile. Every marriage is a thick stew of emotions ranging from lust to disgust, desperate love to homicidal rage. It would be idiotic to reduce such a wonderfully rich emotional diet to a question ("love me?" or "love me not?") so simplistic that it is best asked of the petals of daisies. Nonetheless, people do ask themselves such questions, and they answer them.
Falling out of love is no reason to betray your mate. If people are experiencing a deficiency in their ability to love their partner, it is not clear how something so hateful as betraying him or her would restore it.
4. People have affairs because they are oversexed. Affairs are about secrets. The infidelity is not necessarily in the sex, but in the dishonesty.
Swingers have sex openly, without dishonesty and therefore without betrayal (though with a lot of scary bugs.) More cautious infidels might have chaste but furtive lunches and secret telephone calls with ex-spouses or former affair partners-nothing to sate the sexual tension, but just enough to prevent a marital reconciliation or intimacy in the marriage.
Affairs generally involve sex, at least enough sex to create a secret that seals the conspiratorial alliance of the affair, and makes the relationship tense, dangerous, and thus exciting. Most affairs consist of a little bad sex and hours on the telephone. I once saw a case in which the couple had attempted sex once 30 years before and had limited the intimacy in their respective marriages while they maintained their sad, secret love with quiet lunches, pondering the crucial question of whether or not he had gotten it all the way in on that immortal autumn evening in 1958.
In general, monogamous couples have a lot more sex than the people who are screwing around.
infidelity is not necessarily in the sex, but in the dishonesty.
5. Affairs are ultimately the fault of the cuckold. Patriarchal custom assumes that when a man screws around it must be because of his wife's aesthetic, sexual, or emotional deficiencies. She failed him in some way. And feminist theory has assured us that if a wife screws around it must be because men are such assholes. Many people believe that screwing around is a normal response to an imperfect marriage and is, by definition, the marriage partner's fault. Friends and relatives, bartenders, therapists, and hairdressers, often reveal their own gender prejudices and distrust of marriage, monogamy, intimacy, and honesty, when they encourage the infidel to put the blame on the cuckold rather than on him- or herself.
One trick for avoiding personal blame and responsibility is to blame the marriage itself (too early, too late, too soon after some event) or some unchangeable characteristic of the partner (too old, too tall, too ethnic, too smart, too experienced, too inexperienced.) This is both a cop-out and a dead end.
Matters are very different though when dealing with a 'cuckolded'-spouse who was abusing his mate. The mates very often becomes prime target for a predatory personality. Their low-self esteem and need for love and understanding can make them a prime target. Often for someone one more abusive than the spouse.
One marriage partner can make the other miserable, but can't make the other unfaithful. (The cuckold is usually not even there when the affair is taking place). Civilization and marriage require that people behave appropriately however they feet, and that they take full responsibility for their actions. "My wife drove me to it with her nagging"; "I can't help what I do because of what my father did to me"; "She came on to me and her skirt was very short"; "I must be a sex addict"; et cetera. Baloney! If people really can't control their sexual behavior, they should not be permitted to run around loose.
There is no point in holding the cuckold responsible for the infidel's sexual behavior unless the cuckold has total control over the sexual equipment that has run off the road. Only the driver is responsible.
If people really can't control their sexual behavior, they should not be permitted to run around loose.
6. It is best to pretend not to know. There are people who avoid unpleasantness and would rather watch the house burn down than bother anyone by yelling "Fire!" Silence fuels the affair, which can thrive only in secrecy. Adulterous marriages begin their repair only when the secret is out in the open, and the infidel does not need to hide any longer. Of course, it also helps to end the affair.
A corollary is the belief that infidels must deny their affairs interminably and do all that is possible to drive cuckolds to such disorientation that they will doubt their own sanity rather than doubt their partner's fidelity. In actuality, the continued lying and denial is usually the most unforgivable aspect of the infidelity.
One man was in the habit of jogging each evening, but his wife noticed that his running clothes had stopped stinking. Suspicious, she followed him-to his secretary's apartment. She burst in and confronted her husband who was standing naked in the secretary's closet. She demanded: "What are you doing here?" He responded: "You do not see me here. You have gone crazy and are imagining this." She almost believed him, and remains to this day angrier about that than about the affair itself. Once an affair is known or even suspected, there is no safety in denial, but there is hope in admission.
I recently treated a woman whose physician husband divorced her 20 years ago after a few years of marriage, telling her that she had an odor that was making him sick, and he had developed an allergy to her. She felt so bad about herself she never remarried.I suspected there was more to the story, and sent her back to ask him whether he had been unfaithful to her. He confessed that he had been, but had tried to shield her from hurt by convincing her that he had been faithful and true but that she was repulsive. She feels much worse about him now, but much better about herself. She now feels free to date.
7. After an affair, divorce is inevitable. Essentially all first-time divorces occur in the wake of an affair. With therapy though, most adulterous marriages can be saved, and may even be stronger and more intimate than they were before the crisis. I have rarely seen a cuckold go all the way through with a divorce after a first affair that is now over. Of course, each subsequent affair lowers the odds drastically.
It doesn't happen the way it does in the movies. The indignant cuckold does scream and yell and carry on and threaten all manner of awful things-which should not be surprising since his or her life has just been torn asunder. But he or she quickly calms down and begins the effort to salvage the marriage, to pull the errant infidel from the arms of the dreaded affair.
When a divorce occurs, it is because the infidel can not escape the affair in time or cannot face going back into a marriage in which he or she is now known and understood and can no longer pose as the chaste virgin or white knight spotless and beyond criticism. A recent New Yorker cartoon showed a forlorn man at a bar complaining: "My wife understands me."
Appropriate guilt is always helpful, though it must come from inside rather than from a raging, nasty spouse; anger is a lousy seduction technique for anyone except terminal weirdos. Guilt is good for you. Shame, however, makes people run away and hide.
Labels: affair, affairs, cheater, cheating, denial, fantasy, infidelity, players, scapegoating, sex addiction, sexual
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Men's Secret Lives
What are they really doing online?
The power of the internet is helping friends, families and loved ones stay more connected than ever. There is a wealth of information and opportunity available on the internet. With this power and opportunity, however, also comes a variety of illicit activities that your child, your lover, or your spouse can become involved in.
Many people throughout the world use the internet to buy products, research information, connect with loved ones and find support for almost anything that ails them. However, there is a very real and serious problem affecting our families and that is the variety of activities that tear at the core of the family and loving and marital relationships.
A recent survey conducted by Focus On The Family and Zogby International found that 1 out of 5 American adults may have looked for sex on the Internet. 20.8% of respondents to a March 8-10 survey admitted they had visited a sexually-oriented Web site. The percentage of those viewing sex sites was higher among males and young adults. An Internet saturated with pornography is making it alarmingly easy to bring sexual temptation right into our homes. This is a growing problem for thousands of families that struggle with the effects of sexual compulsion and addiction, families like Deanne's.
Deanne's Story
Deanne, a wife and mother of five children, was dismayed about the time her husband was spending on their home computer. "He said he was working late at night sometimes not coming to bed until 3 or 4 in the morning. It was rare that we slept together much because he was awake and online." Deanne would sometimes wake up and go check on her husband and sometimes he would be working online and sometimes he was just "surfing".
What caused Deanne more anguish, though, was her husband's demeanor toward her and their children. "He was distant, short, and introspective. He wasn't the same guy." His sex drive was suffering and he became verbally abusive to her and to their children. "He wasn't this way before he started using the computer so much late at night."
"In my gut, I knew something was terribly wrong but I didn't know what it was. One day while on the internet, I was searching for a site I had previously visited and noticed in the history on our internet browser that a chat room at a pornographic site had been visited. I knew I had not been there." Deanne confronted her husband about it and said he wouldn't do it again. But her husband's strange behavior continued and Deanne needed to know the truth.
"I downloaded a product called Spectorsoft and installed it in less than 5 minutes. What I recorded that night made me sick. Despair, humiliation and betrayal were what I was feeling that next morning when I looked to see where he had been. He wasn't working at all. He was being unfaithful to me."
Cyberaffairs are more common than people realize. It is not unusual for someone having a cyberaffair to spend at least four hours a day chatting online. To help partners determine if their loved one is cheating, here are the Seven Tell-Tale Signs of a Cyberaffair that you should look out for.
1. Change in sleep patterns - Chat rooms and meeting places for cybersex don't heat up until late at night, so the cheating partner tends to stay up later and later to be part of the action. Often, the partner suddenly begins coming to bed in the early-morning hours, may leap out of bed an hour or two earlier and bolt to the computer for a pre-work e-mail exchange with a new romantic partner may explain things.
2. A demand for privacy - If someone begins cheating on their spouse, whether on-line or in real life, they'll often go to great lengths to hide the truth from their wife or husband. With a cyberaffair, this attempt usually leads to the search for greater privacy and secrecy surrounding their computer usage. The computer may be moved from the visible den to a secluded corner of his locked study, the spouse may change the password, or cloak all his or her online activities in secrecy. If disturbed or interrupted when online, the cheating spouse may react with anger or defensiveness.
3. Household chores ignored - When any Internet user increases his time on-line, household chores often go undone. That's not automatically a sign of a cyberaffair, but in a marriage those dirty dishes, piles of laundry, and un-mowed lawns might indicate that someone else is competing for the suspected person's attention. In an intimate relationship, sharing chores often is regarded as an integral part of a basic commitment. So when a spouse begins to invest more time and energy on-line and fails to keep up his or her end of the household bargain, it could signal a lesser commitment to the relationship itself - because another relationship has come between your marriage.
4. Evidence of lying - The cheating spouse may hide credit-card bills for on-line services, telephone bills to calls made to a cyberlover, and lie about the reason for such extensive net use. Most spouses lie to protect their on-line habit, but those engaging in a cyberaffair have a higher stake in concealing the truth, which often triggers bigger and bolder lies - including telling you they will quit. (some even will quit for short or extended periods of time.... it rarely lasts)
5. Personality changes - A spouse is often surprised and confused to see how much their partner's moods and behaviors changed since the Internet engulfed them. A once warm and sensitive wife becomes cold and withdrawn. A formerly jovial husband turns quiet and serious. If questioned about these changes in connection with their Internet habit, the spouse engaging in a cyberaffair responds with heated denials, blaming, and rationalization. Often times, the blame is shifted to the spouse. For a partner once willing to communicate about contentious matters, this could be a smokescreen for a cyberaffair.
6. Loss of interest in sex - Some cyberaffairs evolve into phone sex or an actual rendezvous, but cybersex alone often includes mutual masturbation from the confines of each person's computer room. When a spouse suddenly shows a lesser interest in sex, it may be an indicator that he or she has found another sexual outlet. If sexual relations continue in the relationship at all, the cheating partner may be less enthusiastic, energetic, and responsive to you and your lovemaking.
7. Declining investment in your relationship - Those engaged in a cyberaffair no longer want to participate in the marital relationship - even when their busy Internet schedule allows. They shun those familiar rituals like a shared bath, talking over the dishes after dinner, or renting a video on Saturday night. They don't get as excited about taking vacations together and they avoid talk about long-range plans in the family or relationship. Often, they are having their fun with someone else, and their thoughts of the future revolve around fantasies of running off with their cyberpartner - not building intimacy with a spouse.
Reprinted with permission courtesy of The Center for On-Line Addiction (COLA)
Labels: cybersex, emotional rape, online, online affair, porn, relationship


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In the blog, Post keeps a thorough database of literary fiction translations into English – which clearly shows Amazon's trajectory to the top. In 2010, AmazonCrossing's first year, the imprint published two of 340 foreign translations, or less than 1 percent – one from German and one from French. In 2016, there were 607 fiction and poetry translations and Amazon was responsible for about 10 percent, in languages as diverse as Finnish, Hebrew, Indonesian and Chinese.
By focusing on genre fiction, Amazon is "filling a huge gap" and helping people in the community get "more experience, become better as translators," Post said.
Not all have super-warm feelings for the Seattle behemoth, however.
Susan Bernofsky, who teaches literary translation at Columbia University's master of fine arts writing program, says Amazon is still perceived by many translators as having an exploitative relationship with the literary world. The company "has been financially throwing its weight around," and is viewed with suspicion by many who perceive it as seeing books as mere products, she said.
Teutonic touchAmazonCrossing began in 2010 as a bid to bring undiscovered foreign-language fiction to the electronic bookstore's huge English-speaking audience. It was the company's second imprint, after Amazon Encore, an outfit that sought to resuscitate out-of-print books and give a boost to promising self-published oeuvres.
AmazonCrossing's team of editors is based in Seattle, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich and Paris. They look everywhere for stories: book conferences, pitches from an extensive network of freelance literary translators, and of course, the company's own data.
Amazon's presence in most European countries gives the editors a good perch to see what is working for readers in other languages. One big book market in particular has proved to be a rich source of material for the venture: Germany.
German customers love reading, and what they like also jibes with Americans' own tastes, says Page-Fort, a New York University graduate with a passion for literature and languages who came to Amazon after a long stint in New York's publishing world.
Germany gave the imprint its most significant blockbuster: "The Hangman's Daughter," a historical series by Oliver Pötzsch. The English translation made by AmazonCrossing has reached 1.5 million readers in print and through digital downloads, Amazon says. Another series, "The Glassblower Trilogy," by Petra Durst-Benning, scored 700,000 readers.
So while French and Spanish-language literary works are generally the most often translated into English across the wider publishing industry, Goethe's language dominates AmazonCrossing's catalog. About half of the titles it published in 2015 and a third of those published in 2016 were originally written in German.
That said, AmazonCrossing is an increasingly polyglot affair. In 2015 the imprint announced it would spend $10 million through the end of the decade in part to expand its roster of countries and languages. Fifteen languages other than English were represented in 2016, up from two in 2010.
In a way that befits Amazon's online roots, AmazonCrossing has set up a website that allows authors and translators to submit books for consideration to be translated into English.
There's also an invitation-only program for translators to be matched with projects. It has received some criticism from translators who perceive they're bidding against each other for jobs, according to Bernofsky, the Columbia University academic. "A lot of translators absolutely refuse to do that," she said.
Page-Fort contends that the website lets translators discover new projects, translate sample pages and submit proposals. "Crossing editors then review how a translator will approach the specific text and choose the translator who best complements the voice and tone of the author," she said.AmazonCrossing is also globalizing, translating from English into French and various other languages. Overall the imprint has translated more than 900 books into five languages by authors from 35 different countries and 21 languages.
That hasn't come without challenges.
In 2014, the French Literary Translators Association in an open letter balked at low pay, nondisclosure clauses and incompatible views on the translators' rights to their work. Amazon says the letter had misrepresentations about its program. The company, however, opened a dialogue with representatives of European translator unions and says it has made "a number of translator friendly updates" to its terms in recent years.
Gut feelingWhile AmazonCrossing relies on a wealth of data to make its picks, there are still considerable challenges in selecting titles for translation, and gut feeling is important.While most of AmazonCrossing's catalog is genre fiction, it has also published famous literary leading lights, such as Mexican author Laura Esquivel (the Amazon translation of her book "Pierced by The Sun" was reviewed by The Miami Herald and the Los Angeles Review of Books.) There's also Marc Levy, a best-selling author in France.
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A longtime translator and past president of the American Literary Translators Association, Schwartz first ran into AmazonCrossing editors at a literary conference a few years ago.
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Schwartz had translated on spec a book about the Chechen war by Gelasimov. She pitched it and Amazon took it.
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Schwartz said that Amazon has "always paid me quite well."
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A Pervasive Reminder System for Smart Homes Sylvain GIROUX and Simon GUERTIN Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke 2500 boul. Université, Sherbrooke, Canada J1K 2R1 {Sylvain.Giroux, Simon.Guertin,}@USherbrooke.ca http://www.dmi.usherb.ca/~sgiroux/domus/
Plan Context Issues and Goals Architecture Scenario 1: –Localization and identification of the user –Towards personalization of the home according to the user Scenario 2: –Pervasiveness –Moving applications seamlessly across devices Scenario 3: –Sending information specific to the user that is in the room –Preserving the integrity of the distributed system Conclusion Future works
Context The DOMUS laboratory investigates pervasive and mobile computing In a smart home environment, –Technology must be: Seamlessly incorporated, distributed and available in the environment Inter operate with other technological system (hardware, networks, software) Personalized according to the user
Goals of the prototype Identification of a user Localization of a user Transitory coalition of devices Pervasiveness: –Integration in a real living environment –Fluid usage –Transparent user friendly migration of sessions –Zero-configuration Spontaneous networking and service discovery To cope with heterogeneity of devices and hardware, networks Keeping the system in a clean state
Hardware Architecture
Software Architecture Operating systems –Windows –Linux Software –Java { J2ME, RMI, JINI} Networks –Bluetooth –X10 –WiFi –LAN
Architecture Jini Federation are used to structure services and communication –Rooms for instance, to support location-awareness living room, kitchen, etc. –Logically related services and devices Identification services ( user log, sécurity, etc.) Lighting control system Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems (HVAC) –Example A lamp using X10 could be part of the federations "Kitchen", "X10 Devices" and "Electrical Devices" Federations are used to: –locate and use other services –search for and select relevant services –discard or use a service
General Description Pervasive messaging system First steps towards a more sophisticated pervasive cognitive assistance system
Initial configuration Basic Jini setup –HTTP Server for file distribution –Reggie lookup service to allow registration to service discovery Domus Server –Provide basic Domus architecture info and services –Provides a shared HTTP server to distribute source files Security Server –Provide a database of user names and passwords
Scenario 1 Goals –Enable user detection and localization –Integration of heterogeneous networks X10 and LAN When someone enters the room, –Motion detectors gets triggered –The login screen is displayed (pervasive)
Scenario 1: Motion detector User goes through the door in a normal motion Motion detectors gets triggered X10 messages are received by the X10 Server X10 Server X10
Domus Room A Agenda Server Domus Server Security Server X10 Server Agenda Client Motion Detector Sensor A Sensor B Someone is in the room The agenda client prepares the login screen The user enters his password Authentication of the user X10 Server transform codes from electrical to computer format X10 server feeds new X10 codes to motion detector application Motion Detector establish that someone has entered the room And notify the interested applications The session begins
Scenario 2: Pervasiveness Goals –Seamlessly changing device –Use a device with more appropriate capabilities display wireless Location –Continue working in the application The session is restored where it was left off Case A - User switches directly to another device Case B – User transfers his session to the server for later use
Scenario 2 A Domus Kitchen Room A Agenda Server Domus Server Security Server Agenda Client Agenda Client Session The user choose the appropriate device The user logs on The session is transferred The server authenticates The session is restored
Scenario 2B Domus Federation Room A Federation Agenda Server Domus Server Security Server Agenda Client Agenda Client Session Same as scenario 2A But session moves through the server
Scenario 3 Goals –Spontaneous networking and service discovery –Keeping the distributed system in a "clean" state –No messages are delivered twice –Towards transitory coalition of devices The agenda tries to notify a user of an upcoming appointment
Scenario 3: Feedback Domus Kitchen Agenda Server Domus Server Security Server Feedback Server Room A Agenda Client Message Client Agenda Client Message Client Appointment An appointment is soon Server needs to notify the user A And Send message to feedback server Locate and send message to clients A The user is authenticated Confirmation sent back to the feedback server Remaining messages are removed Confirmation is sent back to agenda server The appointment has been acknowledged by the user
Properties of the distributed architecture Decentralized No main computer No need for a super fast or powerful computer Robust Some services still remain available in case of partial crash or failure Spontaneous networking Integration of heterogeneous networks Service discovery Flexible
Conclusion This system has been used to: –Integrate sensing and information devices –Deliver information to the user Dynamic cooperation of –heterogeneous devices –heterogeneous networks (WiFi Bluetooth LAN X10) Pervasiveness –Localization of the user –Session migration –Keeping the distributed system in a clean state Low cost of hardware and software development
Future Works Physical Identification of a user –Automatic login –Smart tags Networks –Integrating Bluetooth –Choosing the right network protocol to deliver a message (Luc Bergevin) Enhancing security (software and Java) Improving and adding features to the messaging system
Scenario 2B Domus Federation Room A Federation Agenda Server Domus Server Security Server Agenda Client Agenda Client Session No clients are available to switch to The session is sent to the server A client becomes available The user logs in The server authenticates The session is restored
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Dean, Elton / Paul Dunmall / Paul Rogers / Tony Bianco
Remembrance [2 CDs]
A double CD of four groupings from duo to quartet of Elton Dean (alto sax), Paul Dunmall (tenor sax), Paul Rogers (bass) and Tony Bianco (drums) recording at Steam Room Studios in London, 2004.
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Format: 2 CDs
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Released: 2013
Country: Lithuania
Packaging: 2 CDs in a single Jewel tray
Recorded on February 9th, 2004 at Steam Room Studios, London.
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1. Trio I (Dunmall / Rogers / Bianco) 23:27
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A double CD of four groupings from duo to quartet of Elton Dean (alto sax), Paul Dunmall (tenor sax), Paul Rogers (bass) and Tony Bianco (drums) recording at Steam Room Studios in London, 2004.
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"Paul Dunmall was born 1953, Welling, Kent; saxophones, clarinets, bagpipes, miscellaneous wind instruments.
As told to Watson (1989), Paul Dunmall was a working class lad from Welling who left school at 15 and spent two years repairing instruments at Bill Lewington's shop in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. He turned professional at 17 and, following two years touring Europe with a progressive rock band (Marsupilami), joined the Divine Light Mission, a spiritual movement led by Guru Maharaj Ji and moved from London to an ashram in America. He told Isham (1997), 'I moved to an ashram full of musicians - a music ashram - but it was still spiritual practice. That gave me a spiritual understanding through meditation, Coltrane's music, and all the rest of it, led me to that, and that's been a fundament in my life ever since - that I can actually sit down and meditate and forget my body. I realise how important meditation is in my life... but I don't do it so much these days.' During the three years he lived in America, Dunmall played with Alice Coltrane (in a big band with the Divine Light Mission) and toured for twelve months with Johnny 'Guitar' Watson.
Back in England, he played with Danny Thompson and John Stevens as well as folk musicians Kevin Dempsey, Martin Jenkins and Polly Bolton and then, in 1979 he became a founder member of Spirit Level (Tim Richards, piano; Paul Anstey, bass; Tony Orrell, drums), staying with the group until 1989. During his time with Spirit Level, Dunmall joined the two-tenor front line group Tenor Tonic with Alan Skidmore (1985), played and broadcast with Dave Alexander and Tony Moore in the DAM trio (1986) and formed the Paul Dunmall Quartet with Alex Maguire, Tony Moore and Steve Noble (1986).
In 1987 Paul Dunmall joined the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, being a constant member and appearing on all their recorded output from that date onward. The following year the improvising collective quartet Mujician was formed by Keith Tippett, Dunmall, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin and has continued to be a regular performing, touring and recording group, sometimes augmented by other musicians. Dunmall has also played in a trio with Keith and Julie Tippetts and in Keith Tippett's big band Tapestry. Two other duos have also sprung out of Mujician: Dunmall with Tony Levin (two CD releases) and Dunmall in folk-influenced outings with Paul Rogers. Another regular playing partner throughout this period and up until the present includes Elton Dean.
In 1995, two trios were formed, the first with Oren Marshall, tuba and Steve Noble, percussion, the second with John Adams, guitar and Mark Sanders, percussion, these sometimes coming together as a quintet. More recently, Dunmall has played in another reeds/guitar/drums trio with Philip Gibbs and Tony Marsh and there appears to be regular crossover between all these players. The Paul Dunmall Octet was founded in 1997."
Dunmall also has released a large number of albums and a box set on the UK FMR label, in various configurations and instrumentation.-EFI (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mdunmall.html)
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Extra large statement abstract acrylic painting on canvas in blue, red, and white. 30" x 40" abstract colour-block acrylic painting.Title: Touch the SkyWhat is it? Original abstract painting on canvasMedium: Acrylic on gallery-wrapped (staples out of sight at the back), stretched, cotton canvasColours: Teal, turquoise, blue, white, purpleSize: 30" x 40" x 0.9"Created: 2013Inspiration: I love circles, I find them really soothing to look at, their neverendingness reminds me a little of the night sky - as that goes on forever too. Here I used circles and a blend of colours that brings the depths of colour in the night sky to your fingertips in a tactile, slightly textured piece. This is an original, abstract acrylic painting on canvas. This abstract painting was created using heavy-body acrylic paints on gallery-wrapped, cotton stretched canvas. It is slightly textured in places.The abstract painting will arrive with you ready to hang and finished in an invisible, protective varnish. The sides are painted so there is no need to frame your abstract painting unless you wish to. The abstract painting will come with its own registered Certificate of Authenticity with a unique digital ID number from EBSQ. You will be able to go online to claim and register the painting as your own or in the name of the person you are buying it for.For customers in the UK, your painting will be shipped by courier on a 2-day service.For customers outside of the UK your painting will be shipped by UPS or DHL on a 2-3-day service.If you have any questions, or would like a custom painting like this but in different colours or another size, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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KPU Science Rendezvous
Free to the public! Science Rendezvous is part of Science Odyssey and a national celebration of science with events happening all across Canada on the same day! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to for activities and updates.
Saturday, May 13, 2017 | 11 am - 3 pm | Free to everyone!
KPU Langley Campus | 20901 Langley Bypass, Langley
On May 13, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) will host our fifth annual Science Rendezvous at the Langley campus. KPU Langley will be transformed into a family-friendly science festival where the public will get a chance to participate in hands-on experiments, magic shows, interactive science labs, exciting activities, arts and design, music, and tours of our high-tech patient simulator nursing labs and state-of-the-art craft brewing lab!
Event Highlights:
- Tour real science labs and do hands-on experiments
- Make slime and film canister rockets
- Marvel at the chemistry magic show
- Be awed by the dancing fire display
- Watch robots on tracks, telescopes and vibrating strings
- Tour our brand new, state-of-the-art Brewing Lab and try our student-brewed beer! (19+)
- Watch high-tech patient simulators in action and free blood pressure readings
- Make a pet rock and take a world tour
- Make seed bombs and newspaper pots
- Play with puzzles, learn cryptography and see some math tricks
- Test faculties with drunk goggles and a polygraph test
- Horticulture bug lab and races
- 'Creative Station' tent with art activities
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- Face painting
- Nibble on edible weeds
- Walk the campus labyrinth, plus more!
Show & Tour Schedule:
Dancing Fire Display
West Building, Room 1305
11:30 am | 12:00 pm | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm
KPU Brewing Lab Tours & Tastings (limited to 8 people per tour, adults 19+ only)
Brewing Lab Building (outside of West Building, behind Best Western Hotel)
11:30 am | 12:00 pm | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm
Chemistry Magic Show
West Building, Auditorium
12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm
Dissection Demos
West Building, Room 1365
11:30 am | 12:00 pm | 2:00 pm
School of Design 'Creative Station'
Courtyard, tent outside between West and East Building
Activities from 11 am-3 pm
Get busy creating art! The School of Design 'Creative Station' tent is back again this year with tons of cool art activities for kids and adults to enjoy!
Science Partner Zone
West Building, Lobby (just off the courtyard)
Activities from 11 am-3 pm
Come see all the activities our science partners are bringing! Participating partners include: Science World, Science Fair Foundation of BC, and Destination Imagination BC!
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Activities from 11 am-3 pm
Visit some of your favourite local organizations and businesses, including: Mad Science, Bricks 4 Kidz, Sylvan Robotics for Kids, Mathnasium, BC Hydro, Fortis BC, and others!
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Science Rendezvous is a public platform to promote science awareness and increase science literacy in Canada. The event is an annual day-long festival spanning multiple simultaneous sites across the country, designed to bring science face-to-face with the public and encourage more youth to consider science and engineering-related careers and study paths. This year, we will also be showcasing some of KPU's programs so that Science Rendezvous visitors can also explore the variety of education possibilities at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.


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|Monty Martz offered this fine example on eBay. It has only one minor paint flaw on the shank and is otherwise in excellent condition. I was fortunate to win the bidding and it is now the exemplar for this color/shape.
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Andrea del Sarto
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Oil on panel, 87.5 x 68.6 cm
Painted in Florence c. 1513
19th century label on reverse reads '3054 # 6-27-95'
Private Collection, Nantucket;
Sale: Christie's New York: Friday, Jauary 31, 1997, Lot 141;
Private Collection, London
European Private Collection
Exhibition: Old Masters in a Modern Light Whitfield Fine Art, 2009
Palazzo Corsini: Biennale Internazionale De"' Antiquariato Di Firenze, 2011
Sidney J. Freedberg, Andrea Del Sarto, Cambridge 1963, no. 46, p.93 (as a lost composition);
John Shearman, Andrea Del Sarto, Oxford 1965, no. 24, p.210 (as the missing original for no. 24)
John Shearman, Letter, 29/11/2000 (as "authentic Andrea about 1513, of a very interesting and important design).
This famous lost masterpiece has only recently come to light. The painting has been the subject of a careful conservation at Mazzochini Studios throughout 2008. It was discovered that the background had, in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century, been entirely overpainted, in order to make the design correspond more closely with the Leonardo-esque sfumato that was favoured at the time. Now the figures stand out more against the lively brushwork, in characteristic green and grey, and the original shadow of the figures with its vigourous shading, that is also present in the Madonna of the H arpies, has also been revealed. The colours of the figures have also found their original clarity and depth, the red lacquer of the Madonna's sleeve being revealed as the same tonality of the red of the dress. Painted around 1513 it is one of the most exciting rediscoveries in Andrea Del Sarto's oeuvre. It is one of the primary High Renaissance examples of a tradition of images of the Holy family in Florentine painting, which is a characteristic feature throughout the Cinquecento from Raphael to Pontormo and Bronzino. The important composition shows Del Sarto developing the emotional excitement and direct appeal of his work, as he entered his most accomplished stage of his career. Professor John Shearman notes the influence the composition had on Pontormo amongst others, and that its importance has been overlooked in studies of the period. The attribution was confirmed by the late Professor Shearman [written communication 29 November 2000]


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Montreal Bicycles
This public bike-sharing system features bike-loan stations city-wide and offers riders convenient and affordable bicycle access. Using a credit card as a hold, the bikes are free for the first 30 minutes, at which time, users can choose to return the bike to another station. Annual subscription services are also available.
In addition to offering comprehensive sales of gear and apparel for cycling, this shop also offers bicycle rental services. Half-day rentals, 24-hour offerings, week-long options and monthly packages are available. Tandems, recumbent styles, trail-a-bike attachments, trailers and all related accessories are offered.
Open air bicycle hub that specializes in quality bicycle equipment rentals & professional bicycle repairs. A streamlined boutique offers quality bike parts & accessories. Located directly on the Lachine Canal bicycle network - its' a great place for riders of levels & types to start their ride...no car traffic - located in a park near the Atwater Market in downtown Montreal.
Bike tours, self guided tours and bike rentals for kids, adults and tandems.
In addition to offering sales of bikes and an array of services, this shop also provides rentals of hybrids, road bikes, tandems and accessories. Single-day, 24-hour and weekly options are offered.
Ca Roule Montreal is a rental centre that offers bikes, rollerblades, electric scooters and bikes, city bike tours and more. Located in Old-Montreal on the bike path.
Impressive collections of bikes, accessories and specialized apparel are features of this full-service bike shop, which offers repairs and rental solutions. Urban commuters, mountain bikes and road-style bicycles are available.


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Circadian rhythms and sleep in bipolar disorder
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The term biological rhythms is used to encompass both circadian and sleep-wake processes.Neither GM nor AH has any commercial associations that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with this manuscript.
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Murray G, Harvey A. Circadian rhythms and sleep in bipolar disorder.
Bipolar Disord 2010: 12: 459–472. © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
Objective: Biological rhythm pathways are highlighted in a number of etiological models of bipolar disorder, and the management of circadian instability appears in consensus treatment guidelines. There are, however, significant conceptual and empirical limitations on our understanding of a hypothesised link between circadian, sleep, and emotion regulation processes in bipolar disorder. The aim of this article is to articulate the limits of scientific knowledge in relation to this hypothesis.
Methods: A critical evaluation of various literatures was undertaken. The basic science of circadian and sleep processes, their involvement in normal emotion regulation, and the types of evidence suggesting circadian/sleep involvement in bipolar disorder are reviewed.
Results: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that circadian and sleep-wake processes are causally involved in bipolar disorder. These processes demonstrably interact with other neurobiological pathways known to be important in bipolar disorder, but are unique in that they are open to behavioural manipulation.
Conclusion: Further research into biological rhythm pathways to bipolar disorder is warranted. Person-environment feedback loops are fundamental to circadian adaptation, and models of circadian pathogenesis (and treatment) should recognize this complexity.


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Charley Pride to Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
A year filled with recognition and awards will spill into 2017 for Charley Pride. The country legend is set to receive the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award in February.
A year filled with recognition and awards will spill into 2017 for Charley Pride. The country legend is set to receive the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award in February.
Charley Pride will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 2017.
Charley Pride discusses his legendary career with The Boot.
Legendary country artist Charley Pride has received the Ameripolitan Master Award for his work, making him the first-ever living recipient of the prestigious prize.
January 3rd, 1950
Sam Phillips opens the Sun Recording Studio, originally known as the Memphis Recording Service, at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis.
January 1st, 2003
Big Kenny Alpin, already $140,000 in debt, loses most of his last $200 playing black jack in a Las Vegas casino.
December 27th, 1977
Dolly Parton earns the first gold album of her career, with her album Here You Come Again.
December 25th, 2014
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December 20th, 1983
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December 19th, 1952
Hank Williams gave his final performance, at the Skyline Club in Austin, Texas.
December 18th, 2007
Taylor Swift was named iTunes' Country Artist of the Year, and her song "Teardrops On My Guitar" was named iTunes' top country single of 2007.
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Rascal Flatts became the first country act since 1992 to be the best selling artist in all of music for the year.