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Sage Vaughn likes to paint birds. The average person might not consider them much, but for Vaughn, they are the most common reminder of the chaotic universe we live in. "I try to believe that I am doing things; I make plans, and everything matters so much," he says. "But you catch a glimpse of a bird and you're like, it's all just a giant, wild, chaotic mess, and it's really lucky if I can make it from point A to point B on a daily basis."
And from that, you make art that people remember.
Vaughn was born in Oregon and raised in Los Angeles. He didn't set out to become an artist; he actually went to college to become a doctor but dropped out when he realized he hated school. Later, while taking an art class to finish his degree, he created a painting for an assignment he felt was not worthwhile—paint a painting exclusively in shades of white—and even though he lamented it as a waste of time, his contemporary art history teacher bought it for $250. "What more validation could an art student want?" he says. "It felt great. I thought, I'd like to be part of that."
For the past 10 years or so, he's been making art that stands out for its often whimsical, quirky take on nature vs. modern society. He has had solo shows in Los Angeles, New York, London and Geneva, among other cities. Two of his most well-known series are all about contrasts: In Wildlifes, sweet, colorful, vibrant animals like birds, butterflies and owls are set against stark backdrops of urban cityscapes—helicopters, apartment buildings, traffic. In Wildlives, innocent-looking young children are similarly portrayed against raw city life. The juxtaposition undoubtedly works to relay a comment on society, though Vaughn is not trying to tell anyone what to think.
"I think in general most people take away kind of a dystopian [feeling], but to me it's really just about a setting," he says. "It's almost like the backdrop on a stage. What's important to me is the sense of it. I'm not trying to tell people what to do with it. It's a feeling." That goes for environments too; he's not trying to single out any place in particular in his work. He says the cities he paints are usually anonymous, so you can't recognize if it is Mexico City or East L.A. "Usually it's just the idea of a city—a lived-in city," he says. "I find the right city that has a dark doorway in it so I can get the feeling I want."
Another hallmark of his work are the pronounced drips of paint that roll down his canvases. It was not, at first, intentional, he says, but the nice byproduct is that they allow him to get out of what he calls his "critical head space." "For me, it's just an excuse not to be too fussy," he says. "It's nice to relax a little bit, or for my head to relax. I think all the drips kind of fell into a blind spot in my critical eye in the beginning. And then people really started to kind of champion them in my work, which is so bizarre. There's so many other things in the work that you want to talk about and have acknowledged, and everyone's really excited about these drips."
But now, especially with the larger-scale pieces, he concedes that they add history. "You can tell the order in which it was painted almost," he says, "what paint was laid down first." Plus, he adds, "I really relish paint. I love paint. I like painters who like to paint. There's a few of them out there who really enjoy the chemicals and the viscosity and the way that it moves when you apply these weird liquids on a vertical surface and what happens. I mean, I can literally watch paint dry all day long."
That something accidental like paint drips would become significant in his work is emblematic of the kind of artist Vaughn is. His father was a commercial artist and taught him the basics of drawing and visual expression, but the majority of his work is the result of "trial and error," which is the way he likes it. "For the most part I am self-taught," he says. "I make all my mistakes in public. I like being self-taught because I'm excited to see what I can learn; I'm very invested in furthering my skills and knowledge of what I'm doing. I see other artists that don't have that kind of drive. They have what they do figured out, and they just kind of do it."
Painting is a solitary pursuit—as Vaughn says, he spends all day every day in his Pasadena studio, literally working for a year to do an art show that lasts three hours. Fortunately, he loves every bit of it (even watching paint dry). "I enjoy the process, so I commit my time to it," he says. "It's not just random bursts of creativity."
He is a workhorse. That must be what Malibu Magazine meant by saying "he is the only artist with a blue-collar mentality." Between art, surfing and the baby he and his wife just adopted, he says there is not a minute of his day that is not accounted for. "I tend to fill up everything," he says. "If I can work more, I work more."


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|Assessing iodine intakes in pregnancy and strategies for improvement.
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|An adequate intake of iodine in the diet of pregnant women is important to ensure normal growth and development of the fetus. It is difficult, however, to accurately determine iodine intakes using traditional methods of dietary assessment, primarily because the contribution of iodised salt use, at the table and in cooking, to total iodine intake is difficult to quantify. Given the limitations of dietary assessment, biochemical indices in blood and urine are typically used to assess iodine status in children and adults. Although reference ranges exist for thyroid hormones, there has been no consensus on the cut-offs needed in pregnancy to diagnose iodine deficiency. In contrast, a median urinary iodine concentration (UIC) of 150-249μg/L has been established to determine the adequate iodine status of a group of pregnant women. However, the large intra-individual variation in UIC from either spot or 24h urine samples means that UIC cannot be used to assess iodine status in an individual pregnant woman. The difficulty in determining if an individual pregnant woman is iodine deficient is problematic for cross-sectional studies examining associations between iodine status in pregnancy and developmental outcomes in the child.
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|Development of bronchoconstriction after administration of muscle relaxants in rabbits with normal or hyperreactive airways.
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|Neuromuscular blocking drugs can induce intraoperative bronchospasm. We characterized the magnitude and the temporal profile of the constriction in normal or in hyperresponsive airways after injections of neuromuscular blocking drugs. Respiratory system impedance (Zrs) was measured continuously over a 90-s apneic period in naïve and rabbits sensitized to allergens by ovalbumin. Fifteen s after the start of Zrs recordings, succinylcholine, mivacurium, or pipecuronium was administered in random order. Zrs was then also recorded during the administration of increasing doses of exogenous histamine. To monitor the changes in the airway mechanics during these maneuvers, Zrs was averaged for 2-s time windows, and the airway resistance (Raw) was determined by model fitting. The increases in Raw were significantly larger in the sensitized rabbits than in the naïve animals. The largest increases in Raw and the maximum rate of change in Raw were obtained for succinylcholine (146% +/- 29% and 0.80 +/- 0.12 cm H2O/L, respectively) and mivacurium (80% +/- 25% and 0.71 +/- 0.13 cm H2O/L) and the smallest were obtained for pipecuronium (40% +/- 12% and 0.41 +/- 0.04 cm H2O/L). Allergic sensitization leads to severe and rapidly developing bronchospasm after administrations of mivacurium or succinylcholine. These deleterious side effects should be considered when succinylcholine or mivacurium is administered in the presence of bronchial hyperreactivity.
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With the 100th Anniversry of the sinking of that wonderous ship the Titanic, the whole costuming world seems to be ablaze with Edwardian fashion ideas. I cannot say that I am an expert in Edwardian fashions, and indeed the costume I eeked out is not very fabulous compared to some. But I have enjoyed researching the era and rounding out my Edwardian ensemble I plan to wear on the 14th of April.
I have been very pleased with the patterns people have put out in honor of the anniversry, that otherswise would not have been. I also love the resources you can now download via e-book on both the Sensibility website and the WearingHistory website. Indeed there has been such an overflowing amount of research that has been stacking up in my room, I felt compelled to put all in a notebook:
Inside I have all sorts of patterns and research articles:
Below: Folkwear's Edwardian Underthings pattern, which is an old pattern. I found this one at weaving show actually, in a corner of old books. I paid $10 for it!
This is a new pattern from Wearing History which was just released. If you buy it before the 14th, you can download a FREE e-book on actual fashions and sewing techniques from the period. I LOVE MY COPY! I seriously poured over it for 5 hours.
Anyway, the pattern is for a 1910's Blouse and Guimpe. Haven't used it, but it looks great!
Here is a glimpse at Jenny Chancey's wonderful free resource she put together. You can get it at Sensibility.com
For the memorial, I will be wearing my Edwardian dress I remade recently, but I now have made a belt and ............. I experimented and made a lace sailor collar!
I used the graphics from Wearing Histories e-book download that I got for free when I purchased the Blouse pattern.
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TV Dating
It seems that everybody is looking for love in some way or another nowadays. Perhaps nobody really wants to be lonely in this slightly depressing time in the economic climate; when saving money matters and times are harder than a few years back. Everybody wants to have that special feeling to share with somebody, which […]Read more
How to Tell if Your Internet Date is Into You (for women)
Does He Really Like You? Find Out Yourself! Online dating might be good fun but it can be very stressful too. Ok, so you have been chatting online, but now you are finally going on an actual date with your potential new partner. Spending the evening constantly feeling uncertain about whether the guy you are […]Read more
Internet Dating When You're a Divorced Parent
Internet dating used to be a bit of a joke. No one wanted to admit that they met someone online. Today, however, this is no longer the case. 20% or more of people getting together begins with online dating websites. If you are divorced and have kids, Internet dating can be a great tool to […]Read more
The Top Online Dating Mistakes to Avoid Unless You Like Being Single
Online dating is supposed to be the next evolution in human interaction. If you watch any commercial for companies like eHarmony or Match.com, they make it seem like such a breeze don't they? Two people meet for the very first time and they go on to have a wonderful date while laughing all the way. […]Read more
Looking For Love in Social Dating Sites?
Many People are Looking For Love Online! Looking for love in social dating sites is the most convenient way to find someone who fits your needs, wants, and desires to a tee. Social dating sites have changed the way singles mingle. There are many single ladies and gentlemen looking for love online and using dating […]Read more
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|CDS Koranak
|Keldon-class (advanced variant)
|Cardassian Union, Obsidian Order
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The CDS Koranak was a Cardassian Union starship, a Keldon-class (advanced variant) battleship in the 24th century, in service of the Obsidian Order in the 2370s decade.
History and specificationsEdit
The Koranak was upgraded with an increased top speed and a Romulan cloaking device.
In the year 2371, the Koranak was part of the combined Order/Tal Shiar fleet that launched an attack on the Founders' homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant. The ship was severely damaged in the Dominion attack that followed, destroyed at the Battle of the Omarion Nebula. (DS9 episode: "The Die is Cast")
|Starships at the Battle of the Omarion Nebula
| Romulan Star Empire
(Tal Shiar)
|Belak • D'merak • Garelon • Makar • Serrola
| Cardassian Union
(Obsidian Order)
|Danasket • Koranak • Nammar • Okara • Sudanit
|Federation Starfleet
|Defiant • Mekong
It is possible Koranak was among the unnamed Keldon-class starships seen in DS9 episode: "Defiant".
External linkEdit
- Koranak article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.


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›› Previous: One dead, two injured after Central El Paso nightclub shooting
Police have arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with Sunday's shooting death of a Fort Bliss soldier.
Craig Allen Graham faces a murder charge and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He remained in the El Paso County Jail Monday in lieu of a $650,000 bond.
Two other victims who were wounded during the shooting, which took place shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, were also soldiers stationed at the post, Fort Bliss officials confirmed Monday.
All three victims were 21 years old. Officials couldn't confirm whether Graham is a current or former member of the military, but according to a Facebook profile belonging to Craig Graham, he was stationed in Afghanistan and suffered serious injuries in a recent motorcycle crash.
The shooting apparently took place outside of the Fussion night club at 4304 Dyer. Residents in the area reported hearing several gunshots.
One of the victims was taken to a hospital by friends, while another victim was transported to a hospital via ambulance. Friends of the third victim attempted to take him to a nearby hospital themselves, but flagged down police at the intersection of Dyer and Fred Wilson, said police spokesman Officer Javier Sambrano.
It was unclear which victim later died.
One of the surviving victims has since been released, but the other victim remained hospitalized in critical condition.
Fort Bliss spokesman Maj. Myles Caggins III said officials were busy over the weekend trying to contact family members of the victims. Officials said
The club has been open for about three months and usually hosts an R&B, hip-hop and reggae music night on Saturdays, but it's not clear if the victims were at the club before the shooting.
No one was at the club Monday afternoon, but on Fussion's Facebook page, someone posted a message to the club's followers late Sunday.
"After Fussion Nightclub closed last night an unfortunate shooting incident took place nearby," the message states. "On behalf of Fussion Nightclub and staff we would like to extend our sincerest condolences. We are all praying for the victims and their families, and also for peace and justice."
The only evidence of the shooting still visible Monday was a blood stain on the sidewalk near a used car dealership across the street from the club.


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Samhain Publishing Receives RWA Recognition
Samhain Publishing has receieved RWA Publisher Recognition which means that one of its titles sold 5,000 copies in a single year. I'll speculate that one or more of the following titles sold the requisite number:
- Blackmailed by AnnMarie McKenna. While this book was not my personal favorite, I saw it sit atop the Bestseller list for WEEEEEEKS.
- Taste This by Leigh Ellwood. Gay romance fiction is just not very prevalent in the regular bookstore but I can see a big market for this.
- Pack Challenge by Shelly Laurentson. I think she's just got a fresh voice that readers responded to.
- Betting Hearts by Dee Tenorio. It was fun, sweet, and sexy.
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November 30, 2015
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) -- The Atlanta Falcons are counting on Malliciah Goodman causing problems for quarterbacks with his long arms and strong hands.
The fourth-round pick from Clemson was one of two defensive ends taken by Atlanta. The Falcons drafted TCU's Stansly Maponga in the fifth round, and the first-year players had their first NFL workouts in Saturday's rookie camp.
After releasing sacks leader John Abraham, the Falcons signed free-agent defensive end Osi Umenyiora from the Giants. Goodman has a chance to start with Umenyiora.
Goodman impressed scouts by using his unusually long arms and strong hands to deflect blockers. He is listed as 6-foot-4 and 276 pounds, and his arms measure 36 3/8 inches -- the longest of any defensive lineman at the NFL combine.
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The Penworks, and so does the camera
We're pleased to share the results of our recent photoshoot at The Penworks; and we're really chuffed with the shots as they really do capture the quality of our latest development of student accommodation in Birmingham.
The Penworks opens later this year, in time for the 2013/14 academic year and will offer 282 ensuite rooms across a mixture of shared apartments and individual studio rooms.
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The Blog
Sunday Show Wrap Up
8:06 AM, Jun 9, 2008 • By SONNY BUNCH
The general election is (finally) upon us! Tim Pawlenty was on Fox News Sunday, making the case for John McCain as a leader for change. "Look at Senator McCain's record on the big issues of our time: changing of the war; being for climate change; cracking down on pork barrel spending; being against earmarks; reaching across even on things that are controversial, like campaign finance reform as a United States senator. Not casting a vote as a state legislator, but leading, being the person that was in the middle of it. The Gang of 14, that Senator Obama was against, that gave us Justice Roberts and Alito … Senator Obama was even against that."
Lindsay Graham, meanwhile, was on This Week and fired a warning shot across the bow of the Obama campaign, daring them to come after McCain for having ties to lobbyists. "Well, Charlie Black helped run Ronald Reagan's campaign, he is not lobbying now," Graham said in response to a jab by Obama surrogate John Kerry. "Rick Davis ran John's campaign in 2000. Mark Salter's his alter ego. Phil Gramm is a great friend. John McCain didn't borrow money from a guy going to jail to build his house, so if we're gonna start talking about associations, that's fine, we'll do that." He also hit on McCain's strong record of reaching across the aisle, contrasting it with Barack Obama's faux-bipartisanship: "Let's talk about the question of bipartisanship. I can't tell you how many phone calls I got about the ethics vote. I got beat up. Not. I can tell you I got my brains beat out helping John on immigration. I can tell you it was tough on campaign finance reform. I can tell you it was tough to go back to South Carolina and support Sen. McCain's efforts to reform interrogation policy. I can tell you I've been in a lot of bipartisan fights with John McCain where the Republican party really didn't like what John was doing. And when it comes to Senator Obama it's all talk: he never did anything that the left didn't want to hear, whether it's Iraq policy or anything else."
On Meet the Press, Chuck Todd tried to blow up the myth that Hillary Clinton had everything going for her in the leadup to the primary campaign. "You know, the biggest myth of this campaign was that somehow the Clintons controlled the apparatus. They didn't. … Two moments before the campaign even started were clues as to how difficult this was going to be for them. One was the election of Howard Dean as DNC chair, and the other was Democrats winning control of Congress in 2006 and the ascension of Nancy Pelosi as one of the leaders. Here they had two of the sort of three cogs of the Democratic leadership, in Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, who were waiting for there to be a crack in this inevitability armor of, of the Clintons. And once there was, it's as if they were just waiting. And it wouldn't have mattered if it was Barack Obama, Mark Warner, had he run, or John Edwards. Whoever ended up filling the vacuum of the anti-Clinton, they were going to rush to them."


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A Duo of Difficult Decisions
By Aaron Blevins, 3/22/2012
LAUSD Plans Cuts, Changes Rules on Abuse Reporting
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education addressed two contentious and emotional issues last week, when they followed through on issuing more than 11,000 reduction-in-force (RIF) notices and made policy changes to address to sexual abuses within LAUSD schools.
According to a statement, LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy said 11,713 preliminary RIF notices had been sent out, though the budget deficit had dropped unexpectedly. He said the layoff notices actually represent 6,700 full-time positions.
"As a result of higher-than-expected state revenues, primarily from the lottery, restoration of state transportation funding and lower-than expected benefit costs, the LAUSD budget deficit has dropped from $557 million to $390 million," Deasy said. "That is a bit of good news, however, many of these assumptions are still dependent on the governor's May revise."
The news spurred a statewide protest of the California budget dubbed, "This Budget Blows!" At Hancock Park Elementary School, students, parents and teachers walked the school's front sidewalk, holding signs and blowing bubbles. The school has 33 teachers, approximately 100 staff members and 850 students.
Deborah Glass, a third and fourth grade teacher at Hancock Park Elementary, was among 14 teachers at the school to receive RIF notices. She said the state and district is balancing their budgets on the backs of students and teachers.
"They don't know the devastation this does to a school community," Glass said. "It's a family, and the family is torn apart."
She said the timeline for learning whether she actually be laid off is difficult. Glass said the final determination will be made in May, when other schools have likely made decisions on new hires.
Furthermore, Glass said the cuts upset the students, increase class sizes and demand more from the teachers. Despite those obstacles, the district and state also require teachers to be accountable for their students' test scores, she said.
"We end up being victimized," Glass said. "And it really is 'victimized' in many ways. …They want quality education, and they cut from the bottom. The waste in this district is legendary."
However, she said it was reassuring to see her students, parents and colleagues taking a stand for her job.
"It's wonderful," Glass said.
Potential budget cuts also prompted United Adult Students to hold a rally outside LAUSD's downtown headquarters during last week's meeting. However, according to district spokesperson Monica Carazo, no adult education cuts were made. Hundreds attended the protest.
Last week, the board of education also approved two resolutions to protect children in the classroom, following the arrests of a handful of teachers charged with sexually abusing children. The first changed state law so that employees who engage in illegal acts can be dismissed faster. The second sought internal policy changes to make it easier to identify, remove and prosecute employees who sexually or physically abuse children.
Board member Steve Zimmer, 4th District, said the policies will be helpful in protecting students inside LAUSD schools, though they could learn more information that requires additional changes.
"These are the most significant things we had to do right now," Zimmer said.
Though no cases of abuse have been alleged in District 4, he said the district is geared toward protecting children, and that none of the board members are running from responsibility.
"We're crystal clear and unequivocal. …I think the superintendent and the board are laser-focused on this," Zimmer added. "We're urgent about any changes that need to take place."
At the school level, teachers and administrators have been doing additional professional development to deter, detect and report instances of abuse. Hancock Park Elementary School principal Ashley Parker said the training was for all staff, including custodial staff members and aides.
"Really, it was a really comprehensive review of all the factors," Parker said, adding that the training sessions totaled six to eight hours on top of the district's annual requirements.
Though no instances of abuse have been reported at the school, she said more communication has occurred between administrators and parents as a result. However, Parker is confident in her team.
"I feel like I have an alert, well-trained staff," she said. "Our parents should feel confident their children are safe here."
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With hand-jiving music on the radio waves, Cadillac cars filling the streets and teenagers in every diner, the '50s were a simpler time in American history. Elvis was a pop sensation, and Lucille Ball filled television screens in living rooms across America with her classic sitcom.
This iconic decade is brought to life in Montwood High School's production of "Grease."
The classic musical follows the story of Sandy Dumbrowski and Danny Zuko, played by Daniela Castorena and Colton Segapeli. The two find love in the summer but reconsider it when school starts, realizing they may never see each other again. That is, until Sandy finds herself attending Rydell High School, the home of the T-Birds, the Pink Ladies and, more importantly, Danny Zuko.
Castorena's strong vocals brought the blond leading lady to life, giving audiences a shy and innocent character to fall in love with. Segapeli's good looks and spot-on greaser accent brought the tough and iconic T-Bird leader to the stage. The two easily sell the show, stealing the spotlight whenever they take the stage. The show, however, would not be the same without characters Rizzo and Roger, played by Lexi Lund and Rafael Flores. Lund embodies the bully and Pink Lady leader, never failing to scowl at Sandy.
Lund gave her all in every song, such as her solo "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee," making fun of the innocent Sandra Dee. Flores shows off his prowess in his dancing, never missing a step, and never missing a chance to make audiences laugh with his charismatic body movements.
The musical featured several other strong performers such as Ryan Boyette, playing Pink Lady Marty. Her strong vocals are featured in her song "Freddy, My Love" as she pours her heart out for the audiences. Frenchy, played by Madison Luevano, stood out as the sweet girl with dreams of being a beautician. She wins the hearts of audiences with her pink hair and the way she supports Sandy when no one else will.
Thanks to choreographer Robin Bonilla, the production shined most whenever the cast took to the stage for a dance number. With all of the actors synchronized, the stage shook with every step. There was never a moment that wasn't filled with energy, keeping the audience enthralled in the musical, especially in the song "Greased Lightning."
Poodle skirts and greased hair may be a thing of the past, but the heartwarming feel is timeless. Whether you're a fan of the musical or you yearn for a blast from the past, Montwood High School's production of "Grease" brought the classic love story to life.
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A three-fold increase in major fraud over 15 years, at an average cost of detected fraud of $3 million per organisation, is still not enough to prompt senior management to view fraud as a serious problem.
The bi-annual KPMG Fraud Survey - surveying 281 private and public sector organisations across Australia and New Zealand - estimates $373 million was lost to fraud in the last two years, with 43 percent of organisations surveyed experiencing fraud. The financial services sector was the hardest hit, suffering $322 million in fraud losses.
Despite increasing evidence that fraud is on the rise, only 15 percent of survey respondents see fraud as a key risk for their organisation.
"Fraud, bribery and corruption are not top of mind for senior management. Executives continue to ignore the problem despite knowledge that fraud is on the rise," says Gary Gill, KPMG's National Head of Forensic.
"The $373 million figure is of particular concern," says Mr Gill, "as we believe it is only a fraction of the actual cost of fraud as many incidences of fraud go undetected or unreported."
Up to 21 percent of survey respondents indicated that their organisation ignored early warning signs of fraud, signalling that merely implementing robust internal controls is not a foolproof way of preventing fraud.
"We see many cases of fraud where management has ignored early warning signs of accounting irregularities, resulting in the problem festering, ultimately leading to a significant loss which could have been averted had they chosen to investigate initial red flags," says Mr Gill.
The survey shows a significant increase in major frauds perpetuated by insiders, from 65 percent in the 2010 survey to 75 percent in the current survey; and an increase from 23 percent to 29 percent in instances of internal fraud involving collusion. Collusive fraud is fast becoming a significant problem for many organisations, particularly where collusion takes place between employees and external parties, as collusion protracts the time taken to detect the fraud.
"The survey shows it takes an average of 665 days before fraud is detected when collusive behaviour is in play. While the delay in detection suggests that the organisation's fraud detection strategies require updating, it also indicates that collusive behaviour empowers the fraudsters," says Mr Gill.
Technology is also playing an increasingly significant role in fraud, changing not only the level but also types of fraud.
"Increased connectivity and social media proliferation has made organisations more susceptible than ever to cyber attacks. Organisations must be as sophisticated in their cyber security as the hackers are in their methods. Cyber security must be a top priority in all risk management strategies," says Mr Gill.
According to Mr Gill, the threat of bribery and corruption and the damage it can do, and an apparent lack of engagement by senior management in addressing this issue, is another major cause for concern.
The survey data revealed that many organisations still lack a sufficient understanding of their obligations and the risks they face as governments around the world take an increasingly pro-active stance in fighting bribery and corruption through legislation such as the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This is particularly relevant for Australian and New Zealand businesses with US and UK-based operations.
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The Menasha Public Library is offering Story Sparklers! this summer.
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» Menasha Public Library Children's Department is continuing the summer program Fox Cities Passport to Nature as part of our Dig Into Reading! summer library program. The program runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend. Children will be able to pick up a passport at our library free of charge. The passports will invite families to nine Fox Valley outdoor sites including parks, trails and nature centers. When families complete each visit, they will receive a Shrinky Dink from staff members. After at least three sites have been visited and three Shrinky Dinks awarded, passports can be turned in at any of the outdoor nature centers for a Passport to Nature pin. Call 920-967-3670 or visit www.menashalibrary.org.
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» Menasha Public Library will sponsor Story Sparklers! on Mondays from June 10 through July 29 at 10-10:30 a.m. in the children's department. Join the library for family story time for children birth through age 6 and their caregivers. The program puts an emphasis on letters, numbers, shapes, colors, songs, rhymes and kindergarten readiness. Call 920-967-3670 or visit www.menashalibrary.org.


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'Sky toilet' demolition controversy continues
Demolition of the "sky toilet" building at 105-107 W. Crawford Ave. will continue, leaving just the first story of the two connected buildings.
Tom Currey, Connellsville's code and zoning officer, said there are no problems with a partial demolition of the structures as long as the amended plans are approved and the demolition of everything except the first floors is completed by Aug. 7.
There is one small wrinkle, the height of the structure(s) when the project is completed. According to Connellsville's zoning ordinance for commercial buildings along Crawford Avenue, buildings must be at least two stories high or be at least 24 feet high. A single-story structure with a facade reaching that height would be allowed, if approved.
Plans must be submitted to the city Planning Commission for approval.
The next planning commission meeting will be held on Aug. 6, just a day before the county demolition permit expires. Previously, Currey said Rodney Allen, owner of the building, would be cited if the demolition was not complete by Aug. 7.
"There would be no problem (if the plans are approved and the demolition portion of the project is completed,)" Currey said.
If the plans are approved by the city, the county must then approve the construction plans under the Uniform Construction Code.
Currey and Paul Pato, UCC administrator for Fayette County, said the county is under contract to provide the UCC inspections and approvals for the city.
Joshua DeWitt, who is acting for his uncle, Rodney Allen, owner of the property, said on Thursday the plans would be submitted to the city by Friday (today). Allen is in the hospital following a traffic accident in June.
Both DeWitt and Allen are awaiting trial. Allen is free on $10,000 unsecured bail, following "chop shop" charges and related offenses. DeWitt is free on $20,000 unsecured bail on the same charges. DeWitt has denied involvement in the crime.
Karl Polacek is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.
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|Vitamin D and Cardiovascular Risk.
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|Vitamin D deficiency is a common condition that has well-documented effects on musculoskeletal health. A growing body of literature has related vitamin D deficiency to other chronic disorders, including cardiovascular disease. Several plausible biological mechanisms have been postulated to explain this association, including the effect of poor vitamin D status on intermediate risk factors (eg, hypertension and diabetes), neurohormonal activation, inflammation, and cardiac remodeling. These mechanisms have been explored in experimental and animal studies, as well as several small interventional studies. The results of the controlled trials have not been conclusive to date. In this review, we summarize the existing studies investigating the effects of vitamin D on cardiovascular health, and propose that additional well-designed, prospective, randomized controlled trials are necessary to delineate the appropriate role of vitamin D supplementation in reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease.
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The Fremantle Doctor was the single feature that differentiated the 1987 America's Cup from every regatta that has occurred before or since.
KZ-7 in the big breeze in Fremantle
The strong on-shore breeze that came in every afternoon, arrived around 1.00pm, just in time for the racing. The normally sedate 12 Metre class came to life in the Fremantle Doctor, and provided a spectacular television spectacle, on schedule every race day.
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It's not easy to be a kid who takes a stand against getting pregnant as a teenager, Gov. Phil Bryant says.
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The future of Bell Labs, located in suburban Holmdel, NJ – an hour's drive from Manhattan, remains uncertain. Alcatel-Lucent, successor to Bell Labs, vacated the nearly 2,000,000 square foot facility two years ago and has yet to sell the building and 472 acre site. The redundancy of the Bell Labs facility is symptomatic of the evolution of the American economy in recent generations and the impact it has had on numerous corporate campuses. Similarly, the challenges and possibilities facing Bell Labs are also emblematic of this building type in a transformed economy.
Considered by many to be the most important building constructed in New Jersey since World War II, Eero Saarinen designed Bell Labs in the late 1950s and construction was well underway at the time of his death in 1961. Following the master plan established by Saarinen, the project, including the landscape designed by Hideo Sasaki, reached full flower with later expansions by Kevin Roche, a lead designer in Saarinen's studio at the time he designed Bell Labs.
Bells Labs' significance is wide, encompassing innovative architecture and technological achievements that we take for granted today. During its nearly 50 years as a research facility employing as many as 6,000 researcher and staff, the fax machine transmitting data over voice lines and the cellular telephone were developed and perfected. Bell Lab scientists Arno Penzias and Bob Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for discovering cosmic microwave background radiation, a nearly uniform glow filling the universe in the microwave band of the radio spectrum.
Saarinen's design fostered such exploration. The first use of a mirrored glass façade became the building envelope containing monumental scale atria, extra large and flexible floor plates, and interior circulation that included suspended over-head walkways and perimeter corridors running the full length of the curtain walls. The longest perimeter corridors each measure nearly ¼ mile along the two longest facades (approximately ½ mile at the building's entire perimeter). These features created a highly controlled interior environment and non-hierarchical office settings that were conductive to research.
Set well off public streets, a unique water tower, often likened to a stylized transistor, marks access to the property. The low-slung rectangular building is set within symmetrical and concentric oval roadways. Man-made ponds flank the building's long facades and the main entrance drive. The irregular tree line at the property's boundary and the irregularly shaped north pond that engages the building's dining facility help soften and enliven the otherwise highly structured setting.
Since the last employee reported for work at Bell Labs, prospective developers have come to the fore. Preferred Unlimited, Inc. of Conshohocken, PA proposed the construction of several new commercial office buildings and new single-family houses in 2007. Preferred's schemes called for the partial demolition of the existing building (reducing it by half to approx. 1,000,000 sf) or, alternately, the complete demolition so the entire site could be redeveloped. Town residents disliked the proposed housing, as additional children would burden the schools and increase property taxes. Meaningful discussion about the site's historic or cultural value, the fact that demolition would help create a substantial landfill problem and, moreover, would be terribly out of step with the times was curiously absent.
It was this point that regional organizations with preservation interests, including AIA New Jersey, Preservation NJ, Inc. and Docomomo-NY/Tristate Chapter, began to organize as a force to monitor developments and help guide a successful outcome. Reverence for the work of modern masters, especially Eero Saarinen, summoned an immediate, visceral and positive reaction by architects and, not surprisingly, support by AIA New Jersey followed quickly. However, the plight of the Holmdel facility was more difficult to convey in other sectors. In some ways the situation is the result of AT&T's desire to remain enigmatic and low-key, as the monopoly could foretell the break-up that came in 1982. Its low-slung mass and the distance from public view disguised the building's colossal size. The coalition of organizations, led by AIA New Jersey, combated the relative obscurity by hosting a local event where Donald Albrecht, author and curator of a traveling international exhibit on Saarinen, spoke about the architect, Bell Labs and how the design fit into the larger oeuvre.
By late 2007 Preferred had dropped their pursuit of the site but AIA New Jersey and the coalition of organizations recognized this as an opportunity to get ahead of the issue. Months of planning led to the Bell Labs Charrette that was held over a three-day period in April 2008 in which 40 architects, landscape architects, planners, and engineers participated. The charrette demonstrated that the building was able to accommodate a variety of uses and that it was more flexible and more adaptable than previously imagined. The charrette final report is available at the AIA New Jersey website.
After the charrette, a second prospective suitor, Somerset Development, LLC of Lakewood, NJ, emerged later in 2008. Somerset publicized their desire to keep and adapt the Saarinen building for multiple uses, including hotel, office and residential. In addition, Somerset wants to build new residential buildings on the site. Somerset frequently credits the charrette as showing the way to redevelopment. The proposed redevelopment of the site is now subject to local approval, as the Township of Holmdel must approve any use other than office and research as a zoning change. Although the new construction proposed by Somerset is flawed at best, zoning revisions allowing redevelopment are advocated by Somerset and by AIA New Jersey.
The local administration, however, holds all of the cards regarding rezoning and it is deeply divided on the issue. The challenge facing AIA New Jersey and the coalition of organizations is how to best advocate for the necessary zoning changes that promote re-use while steering Somerset, or any developer, into a redevelopment that honors and respects Saarinen's legacy. As we continue to engage the township and the developer, the coalition is preparing a National Register nomination with the belief that the higher profile formal designation brings will serve the cause of appropriate preservation of the building and site.
About the Author: Michael Calafati, AIA, principal of Historic Building Architects, LLC, Trenton, NJ, holds a B. Architecture from Syracuse University and a M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. Focusing on historic buildings in the public realm, his recent projects include Church of the Presidents, Long Branch, NJ and the John F. Peto House and Studio, Island Heights, NJ.


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Rapper Lupe Fiasco jetted into the mainstream in 2006 with Food & Liquor's politically minded lyrics. Whether you liked the album or were a fan of the beats but found the rhetoric too aggressive, you'll likely enjoy his latest release. On Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Part 1, Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (real name) abandons politics for candid and relatable themes of love and struggle. If nothing else, you have to give props to a rapper who can maintain a (mostly) PG-13 rated album in today's matrix of curse and crime lyrics. Sun 8 p.m.
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V7 launches low-cost GPS, 22-inch LCD
updated 09:45 am EST, Thu December 21, 2006
V7 GPS and 22-inch LCD
Display maker V7 late yesterday introduced both a GPS receiver and a computer display aimed at its relatively untapped US audience of budget users. The Navigator 1000 (pictured) distinguishes itself primarily through international support, V7 says. A full 23 languages can be used for both on-screen navigation and voice commands. The 1000 otherwise shares many common features of GPS units in its class including a 3.5-inch touchscreen, a lithium-ion battery for use away from the car, and a media player that supports MP3 music, photos, and AVI/MPEG-4 videos. V7 plans to ship the Navigator 1000 through Ingram Micro in early 2007 for $340.
Details and a photo of the company's new computer screen can be found after the jump.
Revealed at the same time is the R22W02, a 22-inch widescreen LCD. The display emphasizes its core functions only and has a 1680x1050 display with a 5ms response time and a capable 700:! contrast ratio. Input is focused on computing with DVI and VGA ports. Importantly, however, the display promises an uncharacteristically low price of $349 and should be available today from resellers associated with Ingram Micro.


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Terror on the High Seas: Piracy and Terrorism Are Joining Forces and Creating Troubled Waters for the Maritime Industry
Koknar, Ali M., Security Management
CAPTAIN KIDD AND BLACKBEARD HAVE LONG DIS-appeared into Davy Jones's locker, but maritime piracy, far from a mere historical curiosity, is a growing threat to commercial shipping. According to the Piracy Reporting Center at the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), pirate attacks rose by 20 percent in 2003 to 445 incidents. The attacks are not only costly in terms of business losses; they can also be deadly. Pirates killed 21 crewmembers in 2003, more than twice the number of deaths in 2002, using weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and recoilless rifles twice as many times in their 2003 attacks as in 2002. And these attacks are not carried out by rogue criminals but by sophisticated syndicates. As hijacking requires money, equipment, weapons, planning, experience, and contacts with corrupt officials, and given that the loot per vessel ranges from $8 million to $200 million, piracy has matured into a branch of organized crime, with political or terrorist connections in some cases. As such, the fight against piracy has worldwide economic and security implications.
The traditional definition of piracy, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is violence on the high seas, defined as beyond any state's 12-nautical-mile territorial waters. In addition, any politically motivated piracy, such as illegal acts directed against ships, their passengers, cargo, or crew, or against seaports with the intent of influencing a government or group of individuals, would be maritime terrorism. Though the definition of maritime terrorism is not codified under any law, the term typically refers to any violence undertaken with a political motive.
Hot zones. Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia remain the most pirate-infested zones in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of the attacks, followed by the Indian subcontinent. But the problem is not confined to those regions of the world. In recent years, African countries have seen an increase in piracy, particularly in Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Tanzania.
In addition, local villagers along the coasts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Africa welcome pirate business and provide the perpetrators with food and shelter. In many countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, coast guard operatives, corrupt drug agents, and other law enforcement officials moonlight as pirates. Renegade members of British-trained Indonesian anti-piracy squads still roam the Malacca Straits.
Ships in the vicinity of the Horn of Africa are attacked frequently by the so-called Puntland Coast Guard, a pirate militia from a breakaway region of Somalia, which has built a lucrative practice of hijacking vessels for ransom. For example, in January 2002, they seized a Lebanese-flagged cargo carrier named Princess Sarah, along with its crew of 18, and demanded $200,000 in ransom. They held the Princess Sarah for two weeks before releasing the ship and its crew, after being paid $50,000.
Terrorist connections. Some piracy is politically motivated. For example. Indonesian authorities blame most of the piracy attacks in that region on the Free Aceh Movement also known as Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), which is seeking to break off from Jakarta and set up an independent state. GAM has been fighting since 1975 for independence for the gas- and oil-rich region on the northern tip of Sumatra, about 1,100 miles northwest of Jakarta.
Asian intelligence agencies believe that GAM is working with al Qaeda, which after the overthrow of the Taliban considered shifting its base from Afghanistan to Aceh. Ayman Al Zawahiri, the purported mastermind behind many of al Qaeda's attacks, was reported to have visited Aceh in June 2000. Since then, the number of crew kidnap and ransom operations in Aceh by GAM militants has increased.
For example, in January 2004, gunmen believed to be affiliated with GAM hijacked a tanker, Cherry 201, off Aceh Province. …


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MIDDLEBURY — Flying into Port-au-Prince's single runway airport nine days after an earthquake devastated Haiti, Dr. Jean Andersson-Swayze looked down at the dark swath of land uninterrupted by lights. For a city of more than 2 million residents, Andersson-Swayze thought, Port-au-Prince looked awfully dark from the sky.
HANCOCK/GRANVILLE — These days, the tiny villages of Hancock and Granville are ghost towns.
At least, that's what they're deemed in educational parlance. When the two towns last year decided to shut down their joint Village School, they joined a growing number of small towns in Vermont that have decided to close their schools and tuition their students to schools beyond the towns' borders.
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But at a price: That system — which could resolve ownership of and allow renovation of Addison's historic town hall — might cost up to $500,000, said Jon Ashley of Phelps Engineering Inc. of Middlebury.
MIDDLEBURY — Administrators, staff and residents at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center are embarking on a months-long effort to overhaul the atmosphere at the nursing home, striving to make the facility less like a hospital and more like a residential care home.
Administrators at Helen Porter hope that the "culture change," as they've termed the effort, will make the nursing home more comfortable for residents, and also bolster the facility financially.
MIDDLEBURY — A who's who of local musicians and singers come together Friday evening for an eclectic night of music to benefit two organizations helping earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
The lineup includes Anais Mitchell, Bread and Bones, Michael Chorney, They Might Be Gypsies, The Grift, O'hAnleigh, Rik Palieri and Rebecca Padula, and the Dirtminers, as well as members of two Middlebury Union High School singing groups.
MIDDLEBURY — When the Middlebury College men's hockey team lost games on Jan. 22 and 23 at New England College and St. Anselm in gruesome fashion — five unanswered third-period goals at NEC as a 4-2 lead evaporated that Friday followed by a stunning 4-0 setback the next day, the Panthers' first to St. Anselm in 16 years — the question became how a young Panther team would respond.
The answer? Quite nicely, thank you very much.
This past weekend the Panthers swept visiting NESCAC foes Colby and Bowdoin, leapfrogging them into third place in the league.
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NEW HAVEN — Rep. Christopher Bray, D-New Haven, confirmed this week that he will run for lieutenant governor this November, entering a field of candidates that already includes another Addison County resident, Republican Mark Snelling of Starksboro.
Bray, 54, said he is running primarily to give farm issues a more prominent forum in Montpelier. Bray, a two-term incumbent legislator representing the Addison-5 district on the House Agriculture Committee, is excited about the new challenge he has decided to take on.
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Hey this is my mum account but i am using it, i too havea ford focus but i have a w plate ford focus estate 1.8tdi cl
my problem that happend last night three times and twice this morning is.
I'll be driving down the road at just over 2k rpm and then i will feel a small jerk (like no fuel briefly).
Then a few moment later the car will go to idle, drop out of gear(gearstick still in gear) and a flashing light on dash board will start to flash.
thanks for your time
p.s. i recently put a amp and new speakers in the car but i think this is going to be unralated but it is the only thing that i have changed about the car recently. and i did get it all checked by a audio person he said it was all good
Ford 1.8Td Mk1 Droping Out Of Gear And Light On Dash Flashing?
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you will have to get the fault codes read from the ecu,any good local garage will be able to do this for you,hopefully this will point towards what the problem is.
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Jyo Bana on Fri, 10 May 2013 20:28:59
Hi , am using SharePoint 2010
have a document Library with emails migrated from public folders ...I have this column Name (linked to document with edit menu which shows the subject of the email
I want to change this column name - Name (linked to document with edit menu) to "Subject "..
Please let me know, if there is a way to change this in SharePoint.....did not find it in UI....
I know this is a default column, but want to rename it ...please help
KCRyan318 on Fri, 10 May 2013 21:36:56
In the ribbon where the library is displayed, click List Settings. Scroll down the page and look for the column name. You should be able to click the name and change it there.
Hope this helps!
Yaoyao Chen on Mon, 13 May 2013 07:14:03
Hi Jyo,
You cannot change the name column name in the library directly. As a workaround, open the site, where the document library
is, in SharePoint Designer. Create a new page. Add the document library with Insert and Data View (in the ribbon), You can now change Name into whatever you like.
Best Regards.
Jyo Bana on Mon, 13 May 2013 12:17:39
Hi Kelly,
Thanks for your reply, Could you please explain the steps better...After I goto Sp Designer open the site and create a new page and from there I could not follow...if you could give a step by step process...would be great
Yaoyao Chen on Tue, 14 May 2013 01:51:12
Sorry to unmark your reply, but you don't give the steps to achieve this.
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Robo's World: The Blulite Rocks debut trailer! There's lots to see in this game that has been in development for 2 years. Check out some brand new screenshots too!
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Gibsonburg's Matt Tille splits the Cardinal Stritch defense during the first half of a high school football game Saturday.
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OREGON -- The Gibsonburg football team scored more points Saturday night against Cardinal Stritch than it had in its previous five games.
Matt Tille ran for four touchdowns and threw for three more as the Golden Bears offense fired on all cylinders to beat Cardinal Stritch 57-7 in a Toledo Area Athletic Conference game for Gibsonburg's first win of the year.
"I think our young men finally came out and did what they were capable of doing," said coach Steve Reser. ...


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Hearing the Body's Truth: Three Steps to Connecting to Felt Sense
By Daniel Leven
Q: I'm trained as a talk therapist but keep hearing about all these new somatic approaches being used today. What are some simple somatic tools I can integrate into my work?
A: The idea that the mind and body are inextricably intertwined is widely accepted in our field, but many therapists remain so focused on understanding the thoughts and feelings in clients' minds that they forget about the pivotal information to be gleaned by paying more attention to clients' bodies. The three-step somatic process below can be used with just about any therapeutic approach, and it will help you directly access the important information that lives within clients' immediate physical experience.
Step 1: Connect emotions to a felt body sense. The first step in making therapy more embodied is to shift attention from a top-down verbal analysis to a bottom-up focus on physical experience. If clients have already spoken about an emotion or a difficult state of mind they're struggling with, you can say, "Take a moment and sense into your body where that feeling lives and how it feels at this point. To tune into your body more closely, you may find it helpful to close your eyes. Take as much time as you need. You can even ask into your body, 'Where does my fear (or whatever emotion your client is presenting) live, and how does it feel within me?' You don't even need to find words to describe what you're feeling: just feel what you're feeling. Sense into your body, starting at your head and then moving down through your torso, including your muscles and even your heart, lungs, and guts. When you're ready, share with me what you've discovered, whatever sensations you feel."
Intense emotional states will most often be felt deeper in the body, particularly in the organs of the body. Phrases like "My gut reaction is to tell him to get lost" or "I felt heartbroken when I heard the news" or "I couldn't stomach those lies she was telling me" point to the location of our emotions deep inside the body. If a client hasn't named any particular emotion and is caught in unproductively reporting an event or story, you can say, "As you share this experience with me that you'd like to work with in this session, can you identify the feeling you felt when this event actually happened in your life? Take as much time as you need to go inside, closing your eyes, to sense either what emotion now, or what emotion then, was present as all this happened. When you're ready, share what you've discovered, what sensations you feel in your body."
You may hear clients say things like, "I feel this twisting feeling in my gut," or "It feels like my heart is a big heavy rock," or "I feel like my gut area is empty, like there's a big hole there." People have a bottom-up way of processing emotional information, which originates largely in our visceral body (our guts, heart, and lungs) and percolates upward into the brainstem, limbic brain, and finally our cortical brain, where we find words for what we feel. But before our left hemisphere can accurately find the words to describe or name what we feel, we actually need a moment to hang out in the right hemisphere and feel what we feel.
Clients may feel a type of pain that's actually old pain—pain that's never been acknowledged before—so even as you try to meet your clients with support, you may feel that they're unable to take your support in. That's because this old pain has never known real support, protection, and safety. You're now working with a client's younger self. If you sense this is the territory you've reached, you can say something as simple as "I understand that this might be an old pain that hasn't known support before, so it may not trust that there could be compassion for this pain. That's OK. I'm still here offering a connection, offering support to what your body is feeling and saying."
Step 2: Honor and support the body-centered emotion. It's important at this point for the therapist to help clients acknowledge the body's truth. We all know the importance of saying "I hear you" when our clients share something difficult or painful. The same quality of empathic listening needs to occur as your client shares the direct experience of feeling emotion in the body. You can say, "I hear that your gut is twisted," or "I hear your heart is like a big heavy rock," or "I hear your gut is empty and there's a big hole there." Our words—and, more importantly, the compassion and respect that underlie these words—are key to supporting clients in this second step.
To bring support to body-centered emotions, you can have clients evoke a compassionate figure by saying, "As you continue to feel heaviness in your chest, can you imagine someone being with you as you feel what you feel? This someone can be a person, alive or dead, that would have understanding and compassion for you here, just as you are. It could even be a character in a movie or a novel that has touched you with compassion. It could be a pet or a place in nature where you felt safe and nurtured."


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Doctor Mabuse
Doctor Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques in the novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler and made famous by the three movies director Fritz Lang made about the character; see Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. Although the character was designed deliberately to mimic pulp magazine villains, such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Doctor Nikola, Fantômas, or Svengali, the latter of which was a direct inspiration, Jacques' goals were commercial success and to make political comments, in much the same way that the silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) had done just a few years previously.
Dr. Mabuse is a master of disguise and telepathic hypnosis. Mabuse rarely commits his crimes in person, instead operating primarily through a network of agents implementing schemes he has planned for them. Mabuse's agents range from career criminals working for him, to innocents blackmailed or hypnotized into cooperation, to dupes manipulated so successfully they do not realize that they are doing exactly what Mabuse planned for them to do.
Mabuse's identity often changes; one "Dr. Mabuse" may be defeated and sent to an asylum, jail or grave, only for a new "Dr. Mabuse" to later appear, as depicted in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. The replacement invariably has the same methods, the same powers of hypnosis and the same criminal genius. There are even suggestions in some instalments of the series, that the "real" Mabuse is some sort of spirit that possesses a series of hosts.
He first appeared in the 1921 novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ("Dr. Mabuse The Gambler") by Norbert Jacques. The novel benefitted from unprecedented publicity and quickly became a best-seller. Lang, already an accomplished director, worked with his wife Thea von Harbou on a revision of the novel to bring it to the screen, where it also became a great success. The film Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), with a playing time of more than four hours, was released in two sections: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, an Image of the Times and Inferno, People of the Times.
After the great successes of the novel and the movie, it was almost a decade before anything more was done with the character. Jacques had been working on a sequel to the novel, named Mabuse's Colony, in which Mabuse has died and a group of his devotees are starting an island colony, based on the principles described by Mabuse's manifesto. However, the novel was unfinished. After conversations with Lang and von Harbou, Jacques agreed to discontinue the novel and the sequel instead became the 1933 movie Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, in which the Mabuse of 1920 (still played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge) is an inmate in an insane asylum but has for some time been obsessively writing meticulous plans for crime and terrorism—plans that are being performed by a gang of criminals outside the asylum, who receive their orders from a person who has identified himself to them only as Dr. Mabuse.
Cultural influence[edit]
Writer Charles Stross considers Mabuse a candidate for the first supervillain and sees him as the forerunner of Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond series.[1]
The Dark Knight (2008) features a version of The Joker inspired by Mabuse. Throughout the film, the character recites monologues promoting chaos and disorder, which borrow heavily from Mabuse's in 1933's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.[2] Director Christopher Nolan has stated: "I think I made Jonah watch Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse prior to writing the Joker."[3]
Other depictions and references[edit]
The German musical group Propaganda released their debut single, "Dr. Mabuse" during 1984, as a tribute to the character; the song was also part of their debut album, A Secret Wish, during 1985. The German band Blue System released a song named "Doctor Mabuse", as part of the album X-Ten, during 1994. The song was also released as a single.
Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote Superman's Metropolis, a trilogy of graphic novels for DC Comics illustrated by Ted McKeever, the third of which was entitled Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon, with the plot derived partly from Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. The character of Mabuse was combined with Wonder Woman villain Doctor Psycho. The character of Dr. Mabuse inspired Wong Jing's 1989 movie God of Gamblers.
Dr. Mabuse was mentioned as a member of Die Zwielichthelden (The Twilight Heroes) in the graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, along with Doctor Caligari and Professor Rotwang. He also appears in Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.
In Kim Newman's The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, a collection of short stories featuring meetings between characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories and their literary contemporaries, one chapter revolves around a struggle for supremacy between Doctor Mabuse and Professor Moriarty. Mabuse also appears with his fellow silent movie characters in Newman's novel The Bloody Red Baron, in which he, Caligari, Rotwang, Count Orlok and others attempt to create the Red Baron.
The Brazilian musician and designer H.D. Mabuse has used this name as his pseudonym for more than 20 years.[when?] The name "Mabuse" is used as a pseudonym by a fictionalized version of Fritz Lang in Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa.[4]
The Swedish hip hop group Looptroop make reference to Doctor Mabuse in the title track of the album Modern Day City Symphony (2000).
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), directed by Fritz Lang.
- English title: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler.
- Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933), directed by Fritz Lang.
- English title: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
- A French-language version was filmed at the same time, on the same sets, but with a mainly different cast.
- The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse is a truncated, reorganized and redubbed adaptation of The Testament of Dr. Mabuse made primarily for U. S. audiences.
- Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse (1960), directed by Fritz Lang, produced by Artur Brauner.
- English title: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.
- Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse (1961), directed by Harald Reinl, produced by Artur Brauner.
- English title: The Return of Dr. Mabuse (literally; In the Steel-Web of Dr. Mabuse).
- Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse (1962), directed by Harald Reinl, produced by Artur Brauner.
- English title: The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (literally: The Invisible Claws of Dr. Mabuse).
- Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1962), directed by Werner Klingler, produced by Artur Brauner, a remake of the 1933 movie.
- English title: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
- Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse (1963), directed by Paul May, produced by Artur Brauner.
- English title: Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (literally: Scotland Yard hunts Dr. Mabuse).
- Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse (1964), directed by Hugo Fregonese, produced by Artur Brauner.
- English title: The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (literally: The Death-Rays of Dr. Mabuse).
- La Venganza del Dr. Mabuse (1971), directed by Jess Franco.
- English title: The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse.
- Docteur M (1990), directed by Claude Chabrol.
- English title: Club Extinction.
A new independent film, Doctor Mabuse, written and directed by Ansel Faraj, had its world premiere on April 27, 2013, at the Coronado Village Theater in San Diego, California. The film stars Jerry Lacy as Dr. Mabuse, with his Dark Shadows co-stars Kathryn Leigh Scott as Madame Von Harbau, Lara Parker as Madame Carrozza, Nathan Wilson as Inspector Carl Lohemann, and Linden Chiles as Inspector Von Wenk.[5] The film is an original story inspired by the character of Mabuse.[6] On November 1st, 2012, the first teaser trailer for the film was released online.[7] On May 9, 2015 - the film was released to watch on YouTube, free of charge. [8]
Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar, again written, directed and produced by Ansel Faraj with Jerry Lacy, Nathan Wilson, Linden Chiles, Lara Parker and Kathryn Leigh Scott reprising their roles, is currently available in video-demand format on Vimeo.[9]
- Kalat, David, The strange case of Dr. Mabuse: a study of the twelve movies and five novels, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2001, ISBN 0786423374.
External links[edit]
- ^ Stross, Charles (2006). The Jennifer Morgue. pp. afterword. ISBN 1-930846-45-2.
- ^ http://takibi.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/review-the-testament-of-dr-mabuse/
- ^ http://www.empireonline.com/features/heath-ledger-joker
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485323/trivia
- ^ http://darkshadowsnews.blogspot.com/2012/08/dark-shadows-stars-face-dr-mabuse.html
- ^ The film is an original story and is not a remake of any previous Mabuse film, nor is it connected to the originals. However Ansel Faraj said that there are a few homages to the earlier films, but they are done in a "different style than Lang".http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306521/trivia
- ^ http://www.doctormabuse-themovie.com/1/post/2012/10/teaser-trailer-has-arrived.html
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JI0RcjI44
- ^ http://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/etiopomar