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Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.
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Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.
Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.
But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one--neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover--can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt.
Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.
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Bestseller Lehane (The Given Day) chronicles the Prohibition-era rise of Joe Coughlin, an Irish-American gangster, in this masterful crime epic. While most hard-working stiffs are earning their wages by day in 1926 Boston, 19-year-old Joe and his friends live by night, catering to the demand for prostitution, narcotics, and bootleg alcohol. When Joe falls for a competing mobster's gun moll, he sets in motion a chain of events that land him in prison, with the girl missing and presumed dead. In the joint, Joe meets aging Mafia don Thomaso "Maso" Pescatore, who becomes his mentor. On Joe's release, Maso sets Joe up in Tampa, Fla., as his point man. Years pass, and Joe creates a huge empire in the illegal rum trade. He marries Graciela Corrales, a fiery Cuban revolutionary, and eventually builds a life for himself in Batista's Cuba, soothing his conscience by doing good works with his dirty money. This idyllic existence can't last forever, though, especially in the night, with its shifting alliances and fated clashes. Lehane has created a mature, quintessentially American story that will appeal to readers of literary and crime fiction alike. Agent: Ann Rittenberg, Ann Rittenberg Literary. (Oct.)
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Ardent Dennis Lehane-ophiles will recognize the Coughlin family name from 2008's The Given Day, the sweeping early 20th-century novel in which Aiden (Danny) Coughlin, Joe's Boston cop father, played a pivotal role. Fast-forward 10 years or so to the heady time of Prohibition, and the younger Coughlin offers up a fine example of the apple having fallen far from the tree. While Coughlin père pursued his vision of law and order, Coughlin fils embarked early on a life of crime. He should have known better than to rob well-connected speakeasy owner Albert White, and he really should have known better than to make a play for White's girl, but then there would have been no cement overshoes and probably no story as well. And make no mistake, there is a fine story here, more than the equal of its predecessor—one that begs for (and, according to reports, will receive) a third installment.


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I would appreciate opinions and/or advice on an issue I've been discussing with my boyfriend: if neither he nor I believe in God, and assuming we're right, could it still be beneficial to raise our hypothetical future children in a church community?
It seems like a strange question but I'd like to explain the situation in more detail:
He was raised Mormon, and believed in God until fairly recently. His family, while surprisingly liberal for Mormons, is still Mormon. This means that they would like for him to find a "nice Mormon girl" to marry, and would of course like their grandchildren raised in the LDS community. (He has explained his beliefs to them. They accept him but worry about him, and hope that he will change his mind.)
I was raised in a non-denominational Christian church, and was actively involved in it throughout high school, even though for much of that time I didn't believe in God (which is a different story altogether). I do think that my resulting ability to quote scripture and generally understand the point of view of believers has been very helpful in my ability to argue my point, and also to continue to try to understand other peoples' points of view in general.
We are both good at thinking critically, and I am sure that our children would be the same way. I have always thought that if my children asked me questions I wouldn't hesitate to tell them the truth, regardless of how age-appropriate it might be, so if they sought answers they would have access to them.
My boyfriend's father has made the point, too (and I sort of agree) that sticking with Mormon principles makes for a very strong, healthy family unit. I'm sure that there are other ways to do that, but it does seem to be a very effective one.
Finally, my boyfriend has decided that for now he would like to continue to follow the moral code of his upbringing, because it has proven so far to be a good one. An exception that we have discussed is our disagreement with the LDS church's position on gay marriage, but otherwise he believes it to be a sound basis of morality (though he has said that this may just be residual conditioning).
I have considered joining the LDS church in practice so that his family can be satisfied, but we have discussed how both of us would be pressed to lie about our beliefs, and may have to stay quiet on issues about which we feel strongly. We have not yet reached a resolution. I tend to be outspoken, though, especially if I believe that some injustice is happening, or that some flaw in logic is passing unnoticed.
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"mental rape"? I could see that being the case in some situations where kids are mentally (and sometimes physically) abused concerning a family's religious beliefs, but this is not true in all cases, obviously.
I chose UU because it teaches about religions from a historical perspective, and it covers their customs and traditions - UU teaching does not say the religions are "right", nor do we teach any sort of dogma. I personally view it this way - there are two important things you don't want your kids to learn about "in the streets" (i.e. from peers, pervs, etc.) - sex and religion. Additionally, if you have kids you'll get this next point - kids do NOT like learning from their own parents, especially the older they get. By introducing an independent authority to teach them, they are much more likely to learn from the instruction.
As I said before, my first-hand experience has been exceptional. My kids almost always know more about their friends' religions than the other kids do, and they are confident in and comfortable with their (lack of) beliefs. They have met a very wide spectrum of people, including Wiccans, Native Americans, gay and lesbian couples, transsexual/transgender people, physically and mentally disabled people, professional athletes, scholarly geniuses and scientists, and so much more - all with their own perspectives on spirituality, faith, humanism, and atheism.
Since we ask the religious to be accepting and tolerant of our atheism, we should also offer them the same accord - as long a they do not infringe upon our persons or our family. I also believe we owe it to ourselves to learn as much as we can about religions, espeically the Abrahamic ones. I know I wish I had been able to go to a UU congregation when I was young and so I am affording my kids the same opportunities.
Also, I have seen another positive aspect of our decision - when our kids go to their friends' churches, they come home intrigued, but not questioning. As I said before, they are confident in their knowledge and (lack of) beliefs, so they're not susceptible to the pomp and pagentry of these churches, and the "invitation to become saved" has no pull for them.
If I had it to do all over again, I would definitely introduce and teach my kids about religion the exact same way.
I would have serious concerns about raising my young, impressionable children in a religious community. I would compare it to taking a wounded seal pup for a swim through shark-infested water. Very dangerous, and not likely to end well for the kids.
In my opinion, religion is, without a doubt, the most harmful thing to ever happen in the history of mankind. It bothers me to think about how many people have wasted their entire lives worshipping something non-existent, and living their lives according to what they are told in an absurd work of fiction written a long, long time ago by people who knew a great deal less about the world than we do now. So many people that have suffered, and never got to enjoy life because of the guilt and the fear they've had drilled into their heads since birth. I think it's a terrible thing for any child to be subjected to.
I truly believe that, as parents, we need to instill in our children the morals and beliefs that make sense to us. If you want your children to grow up to be good people, teach them what it means to you to be a good person. I have two young kids of my own, and I feel that nobody should need a written set of morals, created by someone they don't know, to tell them how to be a good, caring person. You already have it in you, just as your kids will.
Best of luck to you and your family.
I feel that you can raise child with better values outside of a church. My child knows the right things to do because they are the right thing to do, not because a belief system says he has to do it. As far as not being truthful about beliefs; for me, I would not want to be part of an organization that did not let me express my real feelings. Just my 2 cents. Hope it helps in some way.
I would argue that the most beneficial things a church provides is "community". Humans are social animals, by nature, and there is a support and bond carried by a church group that is extremely beneficial to any young family. It gives you people to talk with, and befriend. The problems are A) Finding a Church that tends not to judge too much, or B) finding an atheist/agnostic group that can provide the same community and support as a church. Depending on the area you live in, this could be very easy or very difficult.
I don't see any benefits to raising a child w/ regularity in a church community that couldn't be reaped elsewhere.
My father wanted me far away from it, but my mother brought me up in it, anyway. Apart from social skills (which I could have gained pretty much anywhere else), I believe I have gained nothing beneficial from sunday school or church activities. I now wish that my mother had listened to my father. I could have been playing a lot more ice hockey... or science experiments... but instead I was learning about Jesus Christ, which I KEPT as a belief for far too long.
Having a step-Mormom family... that is something I can't even comment on. Takes this question to a whole new level.
The justification for religion as a way to instill values is so common, yet it makes no sense at all. You're basically agreeing to accept someone's made-up stories in order to get the nebulous potential benefits that are associated with them. We live in the 21st century, for Hitchens' sake; there is no reason you can't scientifically extract the proven positive aspects of religion and cast of the superstitious nonsense.
I have such a strong opinion on this because I was raised LDS, and I often discuss with my mother why she raises her children in the church, even though my father is secular and she herself is skeptical about the church, and has been in a sort of life-long head-butt with her own mother on issues like getting married in the temple or getting 'sealed'.
Despite all this, my mother raised me, and continues to raise my younger brothers, in the Mormon church. She acknowledges that there is weird and harmful stuff about the church, and about religion in general, but insists that it is worth it for the moral compass that being raised religious will impart. This always brings to mind a quote from Steven Weinberg; "With or without [religion], you'd have good people doing good things and bad people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion." I'm reminded of my bad childhood experiences, being a kid who liked to read about world religions when I 'should have been' reading only the Book of Mormon.
A second point; how could 'imparting a moral compass' possibly justify the self-hadtred taught by Christian religions, Mormonism in particular? I'm fairly lucky that I was already pretty skeptical of the church by the time I started to go through puberty: it's hard to imagine the intellectual conflict of believing that your natural tendencies and desiresare dirty and immoral. I've mentioned elsewhere a gay friend of mine who went through a personal hell trying to reconcile his orientation with his deep-seated Mormonism, despite having a very psychologically healthy upbringing. The only thing that caused his intellectual and emotional trauma was the presence of religion.
Finally, do you really want to have to face your kids one day and say one of the following things?
"We've lied to you your whole life to manipulate you into becoming something we wanted"
"We don't actually believe the things we've raised you to believe in"
I assure you that there are many other, healthier ways to instill good morals in your children, and it turns out that, where religion does produce 'moral' people, it is because it has borrowed these techniques, which are often contrary to their default modus operandi. For example, the root of teaching a child empathy is teaching him to identify himself with other people, positive and negative. For a long time, Christianity actually discoraged this by teaching people that everyone, including themselves, is inherently sinful. This breeds not only self-loathing and depression, but also spitefulness and paranoia (check out the Crusades, or the Mormon church before it came to Utah).
It is a relatively recent development, one rooted in American exceptionalism and instant-gratification culture, for religion to be a feel-good thing. Christianity ADOPTED these ideas when it became clear that witch-hunts, fire-and-brimstone preaching and threats of eternal damnation were no longer enough to keep people in line. At some level, they realized there was a crisis, and religions adapted by offering that which had been replacing it; self-esteem building. You surely wouldn't have heard any 'everyone is special/unique/important' sorts of messages from a pulpit in 1840. Why not give your kids these things without all the guilt, pressure and outright lies that you have to take with religion?
I'm sorry, but I think you might have missed my point here.
Finally, do you really want to have to face your kids one day and say one of the following things?
"We've lied to you your whole life to manipulate you into becoming something we wanted"
"We don't actually believe the things we've raised you to believe in"
I don't plan to lie to my children, especially if they started to ask me direct questions about religion. I wouldn't pretend God existed just because we attended a church. That does seem very silly. I would instead answer their questions when they asked them, and as soon as they realized everything from church didn't make complete sense or disagreed with something I had said I would explain that different people have different opinions about what is true, and since nobody knows for sure they'll just have to pay attention to what makes the most sense and decide for themselves. I can't think of anything more reasonable than presenting all options and encouraging critical thinking.
Your other hypothetical, about manipulating children to be what parents want, sounds very selfish, but in fact isn't that exactly what parents do every day? To some extent, at least, parents have to parent, and that means instilling values that are most important to that parent, and teaching the child how to behave and what to do before the child is ready to understand why those things should be done. And of course parents aren't perfect. My parents aren't perfect, and I know for a fact that I'll make just as many mistakes as they did when I raise my children. But the point is to try your best to help that tiny human turn into someone who will be the best they can be.
As an update, my boyfriend and I are now more sure that we will not want to be a part of a church, nor raise our children in one. However, I still believe that intimate knowledge of religious texts and ideals is important, because it has always helped me to know exactly what I believe and what I don't; in other words, to know what I'm talking about. I do not think that letting children go to Sunday school is at all the same thing as lying to them. It's not "here, this is true." It's, "here, this is what a lot of people think."
You are right that some things about LDS church are "weird and harmful." Joining that church is no longer an option being considered. I still believe, though, that being religiously informed is an invaluable tool for anyone trying to decide about their own personal philosophy, and I haven't been convinced that there's any reason not to start young.
I accept your point about my use of the word 'manipulation'; that does stretch the bounds of what I can legitimately criticize about a religious upbringing, as opposed to any sort of parenting. I think my vehemence on the matter comes from the fact that my mother, for much the same reasons you have stated, raised me LDS and always has a 'yeah, but...' objection to the issues I raised here. I see that you guys are beyond needing convincing concerning the specifics of any sort of dogmatic religion. I commend your choice to give your child wide exposure to all sorts of religious traditions and customs; I would only emphasize how real and important the difference is, for a child among peers, between the sort of social-studies class environment this suggests, and the reality of meeting weekly with strong believers from a single sect of a single religious tradition. While it's certainly possible (and likely, with parents who emphasize critical thinking and diversity of experience) that a child can overcome the narrowness of his religious upbringing, it seems to me that you'd be setting the kid up unnecessarily for the same struggle with unquestioning faith that a lot of us here came through. Critical thinking and being 'religiously informed' can both result from a completely secular upbringing, as can a coherent personal moral structure. To this effect, I recommend a book I myself just finished, 'The Moral Intelligence of Children' by Robert Coles. Though he certainly never though of raising atheistic kids, he demonstrates clearly, to my mind, how moral principals are aquired in a very non-institutionalized manner. What your child sees in you is what he will reflect in himself. In this regard, I applaud the value you place on critical thinking, and once again register how inconsistent it would seem, to the world and to the child, to favor one particular institution in his upbringing. In any case, I can hardly cry 'child abuse' ay more, and I wish you well with your family, whatever path you choose.
Thank you. I will certainly check that book out. And I do understand where you're coming from; in the year or so I've now been dating my boyfriend I've learned a lot about the LDS church, in which he grew up, and while I appreciate the emphasis on family unity, there are many other things about the church that are at best unsettling. I think that, while this specific issue is a few years away for us, I'm glad to have posed the question because answers like these have helped us both to define- and perhaps redefine- our perspectives.
You can always incorporate beliefs of a strong family unit in the way you raise your children without having to drag them to church on a regular basis. As the birthers of your own children, you get to choose how you raise them. If you want them to think critically, value family, and treat others well, raise them that way! You don't need a church to do that. Isn't that the typical belief of a theist: How can you possibly raise decent, moral children without the influence of the church?


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Wow! I can't believe another year has passed and we are celebrating my daughter's birthday again! This year was especially fun, as Isabella was so excited about her girls only "Luau Island Party". As we were discussing this years theme, Isabella was inspired by all the luau party supplies we had seen in all the stores and also the Teen Beach Movie on Disney. For the luau, I focused on a more modern feel. I wanted everything to portray her personality ~ bright and cheerful. Whats more bright and cheerful than yellow? Using yellow stripes as our base, we went with hot pink and orange as our other two primary colors.
Our guests were welcomed to the luau with an Aloha sign posted on the front door of the pool clubhouse. As you stepped inside there were three tables set up, the drink table; main table and to the right, the sweets table.
The table decor used included burlap and white cotton tablecloths; grass skirts; leis; a colorful fabric swag and a beautiful centerpiece we borrowed from our school theater department. Our sweets table was set up under a tiki hut umbrella. The plates had a fun hula dancer on the front with rich, vibrant colors and we paired solid colored napkins to match. We purchased wooden forks and used a colorful floral design washi tape, that matched our theme perfect, to cover the handles. Wrist leis, were used to decorate the straw and fork jars. Each guest had there own personalized cup to sip on Lemon Berry and Hawaiian punch, that were served out of large seashells.
We decided to serve a variety of sweets and fruit for our party since it was early afternoon. The fruit consisted of pineapple; kiwi; strawberries; blueberries; blackberries and raspberries. We placed the berries in small plastic square cups with palm tree honeycomb picks and hot glued mini brown pom poms to the bottom for coconuts! We made some fruit tart cups that were eaten in a matter of minutes. There were Totem Bites, aka Jell-O jigglers; a Pig Roast; Cupcakes with royal icing hibiscus flowers; Candy Kabobs and the main attraction a Volcano cake that erupted! We also had coconuts {chocolate whoppers}; gorgeous cookies to match the theme; Oyster Pearls {white mini gumballs} and sandy treats {cinnamon and sugar coated donuts}.
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By Mike Fitzpatrick, NAMI Executive Director
Last week, I offered reflections on the recent Colorado tragedy in which 12 people died and 58 others were wounded.
At that time, public inquiry had started to focus on whether or not the person responsible for the tragedy had ever sought help for mental illness or whether anyone or any institution had encouraged or required him to be evaluated.
This week, the Washington Post revealed that in years past his mother sought counseling for him—because of his social isolation. Court filings then revealed he was seeing a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado prior to the July 20 attack.
Public discussion initially focused on the wide availability of guns in our society. It has now shifted to the question of whether or not the mental health care system failed leading up to the tragedy. It is an issue addressed eloquently in USA Today by Pete Earley in a guest column, "Massacres No Excuse to Stigmatize the Mentally Ill."
There are many causes of violence in society. As reported by the U.S. Surgeon General "the overall contribution of mental disorders to the total level of violence in society is exceptionally small."
When exceptions occur, they are often a sign that something has gone terribly wrong in the mental health care system—which as Pete warns, we ignore "at our own peril." In specific cases, public authorities or the news media need to inquire:
- What was the full medical history?
- Was there ever a diagnosis; if so, what was it?
- When was he/she seen? By whom? How often?
- Was treatment coordinated among different professionals?
- Did the person or family seek treatment, but have it delayed or denied?
- Was the type of treatment appropriate?
- Was the person hospitalized and recently discharged?
- What events may have triggered the psychiatric crisis?
- Was the person taking medication? If not, why not?
- Did family members receive adequate education and support?
These questions can help inform specific cases, but they are still only part of a much bigger picture.
Frankly, the nation's mental health care system is not geared to accurate diagnosis or treatment of early-onset mental illness—assuming that a person has access to treatment at all. It doesn't matter whether a university counseling center or community mental health clinic is involved. The system is fragmented and grossly inadequate. The chasm between need and care is devastating for persons living with mental illness and their loved ones.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that about half of adults in America will develop a mental illness during their lifetime. One in four adults experiences a mental disorder in any given year, and one in seventeen lives with a serious mental illness like schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder.
Yet a new report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has indicated that only 40 percent of adults with serious mental illness receive any treatment.
When it comes to treatment, one size does not fit all; it often depends on the severity of the condition. Treatment options along a "continuum of care" may need to include medication, psychosocial therapy, housing supports or a combination. To find a treatment provider, a person's family doctor often is the starting point, but individuals and families then have to contend with confusing referrals or networking among different resources.
For psychiatric crises, hospital emergency rooms may be a default point of admission, but only if individuals consent to treatment—or are judged to be a danger to themselves or others, regardless of other symptoms that may be apparent. Even then, treatment assumes availability of hospital beds.
At a time when mental health care is needed now more than ever, however, many states are cutting both inpatient beds and community services.
In 2009, NAMI published Grading the States, a report on state mental health care systems. The national average was D, based on 65 specific criteria. Since then, conditions have worsened.
In 2011, NAMI published a report on State Mental Health Budget Cuts, showing a deepening crisis.
Increasingly, emergency rooms, homeless shelters and jails are struggling with the effects of people falling through the cracks—due to lack of mental health services and supports.
No matter what facts ultimately emerge from the Colorado tragedy, Americans need to focus on the fact that the mental healthcare system is already in crisis.


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Today I have been busy testing some stuff using my NXT bricks, but found out that my ultrasonic sensors were not working. After testing using two sensors and two bricks, I could determine that the Ultrasonic sensor does not seem to work when connected to Port 4. This is the case for any combination of sensors and brick (4 combinations of course, in my case).
The only thing I changed in my code to get it working was SensorPort.S4 to SensorPort.S3, and I of course replugged the sensor to port 3. The Ultrasonic sensor works on port 1-3, while other sensors (at least the light sensor, haven't tested any others jet) seem to work at all ports including 4.
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Osoto gari translates to "large outer reap". That makes perfect sense as it is a large reap on the outer leg.
Osoto guruma translates to "large outer wheel" and the "wheel" part eludes me.
What exactly is a "wheel"?
Disclaimer: I am a judo ikkyu who prefers
Judo throws are named and grouped by their telltale action. That is, the names are a pedagogical tool to delineate the various body mechanics one can use to throw an opponent. That's why such fine distinctions are made between, say,
Keeping that in mind, it is important to distinguish
This distinction is apparent when one compares
Ben Reinhardt, esteemed judoka, describes the
(A henka is a variation.) The interplay between
If the image below describes the technique accurately, I would say it is because uke's legs form a wheel (or a circle) in the air. However, I have no official source for this.
From my point of view, o-soto-gari is throwing uke toward his back. You bend Uke's so his weight is on a leg, and you reap that leg.
in osotoguruma, your leg act as a pivot, and you rotate him over it. You'll see it done in competition very differently than in practice : you take Uke, and pulls him toward you, and you rotate at the same time. While he follow your rotation, you turn and set your leg high on his side, almost to his hip, and you flip him over it. The leg isnt reaping, its only a pivot. Kinda hard to describe, but pretty obvious when you see it.


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ZF-7359: Zend_Currency::toCurrency() returning wrong numbers when working with small floats
Zend_Currency::toCurrency() returns wrong number when working with floats lower than 1.0E-5
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$zendCurrency = new Zend_Currency("USD", "en_US"); $value = 1.0E-4; // 0.0001 echo $zendCurrency->toCurrency($value) ; // outputs $0.00 $value = 1.0E-5; // 0.00001 from -5 it gets wrong echo $zendCurrency->toCurrency($value) ; // outputs $1.0 - WRONG should be 0.00
The reason to this problem is based on PHP itself.
The scientific value "1.0E-4" is automatically converted to float "0.0001" by php. But the scientific value "1.0E-5" is not converted.
As Zend_Currency can not handle scientific numbers for now you see the above mentioned result. You can try this yourself by doing a var_dump on your inputs.
Fixed with r16998
For details to this php bug see: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43053
Why don't you add a line like this to Zend_Currency::toCurrency(). All unittests seem to pass. ```
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This book is intended as a textbook for veterinary students as well as practitioners in small animal practice or laboratory animal care facilities. There are 31 chapters dealing with the restraint, blood collection, injection techniques, placement and care of intravenous catheters, fine needle aspir...
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As part of a 3-wk intersession workshop funded by a National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing award, 15 undergraduate students from the City University of New York(1) collaborated on a study aimed at characterizing the voltage dynamics and arrhythmogenic behavior of cardiac cells for a br...
Effects of [K(+)](o) on electrical restitution and activation dynamics during ventricular fibrillation
To test whether hyperkalemia suppresses ventricular fibrillation (VF) by reducing the slope of the action potential duration (APD) restitution relation, we determined the effects of the extracellular K(+) concentration (K(+)](o)) (KCl] = 2.7-12 mM) on the restitution of APD and maximum upstroke velo...
We present details of a novel bioelectric interface formed by placing microfabricated probes into insect during metamorphic growth cycles. The inserted microprobes emerge with the insect where the development of tissue around the electronics during the pupal development allows mechanically stable an...
Intercalation, delivery, and expression of the gene encoding green fluorescence protein utilizing nanobiohybrids
Non-viral gene vectors have attracted much attention recently due to setbacks with viral delivery systems. Here a new non-viral delivery system based on nanobiohybrids synthesized by the intercalation of a full gene and promoter encoding Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) between the layers of an inorg...
Decreased density of Ito in left ventricular myocytes from German shepherd dogs with inherited arrhythmias
Introduction: Methods and Results: Conclusion: A colony of inbred German shepherd dogs with inherited ventricular arrhythmias has been established.The inward rectifier (IK1), the slow delayed rectifier (IKs), and the transient outward current (I(to)) were recorded from epicardial myocytes, and Ito w...
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Depolarization and decreased surface expression of K+ channels contribute to NSAID-inhibition of intestinal restitution
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) contribute to gastrointestinal ulcer formation by inhibiting epithelial cell migration and mucosal restitution; however, the drug-affected signaling pathways are poorly defined. We investigated whether NSAID inhibition of intestinal epithelial migration...
Cardiac arrhythmias are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in many developed countries. Despite intensive investigation, the cellular mechanisms for most cardiac arrhythmias have not been clearly established. As a consequence, drug therapy for most forms of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias...
A perspective on systems containing many action potential waves that, individually, are prone to spiral wave breakup is proposed. The perspective is based on two quantities, 'predator' and 'prey,' which we define as the fraction of the system in the excited state and in the excitable but unexcited s...
Alternation in the duration of consecutive cardiac action potentials (electrical alternans) may precipitate conduction block and the onset of arrhythmias. Consequently, suppression of alternans using properly timed premature stimuli may be antiarrhythmic. To determine the extent to which alternans c...
Despite recent advances in our understanding of the mechanism for ventricular fibrillation (VF), important electrophysiological aspects of the development of VF still are poorly defined. It has been suggested that the onset of VF involves the disintegration of a single spiral wave into many self-per...
The mechanism for the reduction of the transient outward K+ current (Ito) in diseased myocardium is unknown. To identify potential mechanisms, the reduction of Ito and its subsequent restoration by norepinephrine (NE) were studied in cultured canine epicardial myocytes. After myocytes were cultured ...
In dogs and in humans, potassium channels formed by ether-a-go-go-related gene 1 protein ERG1 (KCNH2) and KCNQ1 alpha-subunits, in association with KCNE beta-subunits, play a role in normal repolarization and may contribute to abnormal repolarization associated with long QT syndrome (LQTS). The mole...
A series of related new models for the local dynamics of cardiac tissue is introduced. The models are based on a simple memory-like quantity that is used to determine the relationship among the durations and amplitudes of the stimulated action potentials. The first of these models produces period-do...
Lidocaine converts acute vagally associated atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm in German Shepherd dogs with inherited arrhythmias
Background: Hypothesis: Animals: Methods: Results: Conclusions and Clinical Importance: Lidocaine is most frequently used to treat ventricular arrhythmias. However, lidocaine may have an antiarrhythmic effect for certain supraventricular arrhythmias.We hypothesized that lidocaine would be effective ...
Heart rate-dependent alterations in the duration of the electrically active state of cardiac cells, the action potential, are an important determinant of lethal heart rhythm disorders. The relationship between action potential duration and heart rate can be modelled as a nonlinear one-dimensional ma...
Heterogeneity of cardiac electrical properties can lead to heart rhythm disorders. Numerical studies have shown that stimuli chosen to maximize dynamic heterogeneity terminate wave propagation. However, experimental investigations suggest that similar sequences induce fragmentation of the wave front...
Restoration of the transient outward potassium current by noradrenaline in chagasic canine epicardium
1. The transient outward potassium current (Ito) is reduced in canine epicardial myocytes during the acute stage of infection with Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' disease). Sympathetic nerve terminals are also destroyed during the acute stage of this disease. To test whether the reduction of Ito is relat...
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Dynamic restitution of action potential duration during electrical alternans and ventricular fibrillation
The restitution kinetics of action potential duration (APD) were investigated in paced canine Purkinje fibers (P; n = 9) and endocardial muscle (M; n = 9), in isolated, perfused canine left ventricles during ventricular fibrillation (VF; n = 4), and in endocardial muscle paced at VF cycle lengths (s...


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Didier Reynders is pleased with the Security Council statement on the humanitarian situation in Syria
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders is pleased that the Security Council yesterday approved a presidential statement on the humanitarian situation in Syria.
Luxembourg and Australia took the initiative for this statement, which shows that the international community wishes to improve the quality of the humanitarian aid provided in Syria. The statement stresses the need for all parties to comply with international humanitarian law as well as to protect aid workers and medical personnel and their facilities and means of transport. The statement furthermore calls for a stop to the militarisation of, and attacks against, medical and central water distribution installations and schools.
During discussions held on the occasion of the UN ministerial week in New York, Didier Reynders requested that within the framework of dispatching chemical weapons experts to Syria, humanitarian access also be improved, in particular with regard to health care. Following the approval of Security Council Resolution 2118 and the decision of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to destroy the chemical weapons arsenal of the Syrian regime, Minister Reynders also hopes to see an improvement in the humanitarian situation.
At the initiative of Didier Reynders, on 21 September 2013, 28 ministers from all continents issued a call through all international media. They asked all parties to the conflict to immediately allow humanitarian organisations unfettered access to all Syrian territory and to facilitate these organisations' work. A call was also made to comply with international humanitarian law, and Minister Reynders will continue his work to ensure that this happens in the field.


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I've always loved eating spinach—it's grown here in our area. When I saw an announcement of a spinach cooking contest, I made up this recipe to enter. I was delighted when my colorful, tangy salad took the grand prize! —Emily Fields, Santana, California
- 2/3 cup canola oil
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon seasoned pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 package (10 ounces) fresh spinach, torn
- 5 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
- 2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
- In a small bowl, whisk the first 10 ingredients; set aside. Place spinach in a large salad bowl.
- Just before serving, whisk dressing again and drizzle over spinach; toss gently. Garnish with bacon and egg slices. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Originally published as Emily's Spinach Salad in Taste of Home February/March 1993, p25
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How does one at the same time become a victim and a bully in matters of love? What are the games men and women play to defy the fear of infidelity? What existential urge fuels the need for seduction? Michael Haneke, one of the most remarkable film-makers of our time - whose latest film 'Amour' won the Palme d'or at the Cannes Festival - is about to direct the fruit of the last collaborative work between Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. His version of the 'school of lovers' promises some bitter lessons… This Così fan tutte is THE event being staged this spring at La Monnaie…
What is it you find in opera that you don't get out of films?
The music… Its richness of expression goes beyond words. That's what is so fabulous at the opera and differentiates it from cinema and the theatre…
Is your love for Mozart a newly-found one?
No, but in my youth I was more fascinated by Beethoven.
Would you have liked to become a musician?
Yes. Up yonder… had I been able to choose my talents I'd have opted for music. But I'm not complaining it didn't work out that way. Orchestra conductors, for example, have a wonderful life. At 90, they can go on conducting. Not so for us directors… At least not without the constitution of a Manoel de Oliveira!
Six years ago, you staged Don Giovanni in Paris. Why another Mozart?
Mozart's music soothes the heart… da Ponte's three operas are realistic and so more suited to my style of directing. I couldn't do a stage production of Aida. With a realist approach, it wouldn't make any sense at all.
But where is the realism in Così fan tutte… especially if you compare it to Don Giovanni?
You're right. Don Giovanni is a real thriller. It starts off with sex and crime and carries on in the same way until the spectacular confrontation at the end. Così fan tutte is very different. It's about two couples, or rather three, who are bored…
… and the wager on the fact that the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella are not at all faithfully devoted to their betrothed…
Ah, the challenge first and foremost is to make it believable. That's not easy as the story is so far-fetched. It takes a lot of imagination to make it convincing for the audience. As regards the text, Così fan tutte is perhaps the 'weakest' of da Ponte's operas with these ladies and gents sometimes uttering not much of interest. But from a musical viewpoint it's probably Mozart's finest opera.
Did you have in mind a staging concept that nobody has tried before?
I don't feel in any way compelled to come up with something that hasn't been done on stage before, but of course you always try to do it your own way.
So, for this production, what you do have in store?
I'm not telling you that now. Be patient.
Can you at least say how you prepared yourself for this opera?
Bit by bit, starting with the piano score. I also looked at all of the existing video recordings. And there are lots and lots of them! That helped me to see where things can go wrong. After that I knew what mistakes to avoid… Probably to make other ones!
Do you have any (role) models?
I like how Peter Sellars staged Mozart. The way he manages to make good actors out of the singers is admirable. I too try to bring out the actor hidden within each singer. Just think for a minute what is required of singers. They have to be musically talented, have a sensational voice, a great stage presence and, on top of it all, be good actors. That's a lot to ask for don't you think?
So what were your criteria for choosing the singers?
They're simply young people… singers I didn't know, except for William Shimell who'll be playing Don Alfonso and is in my film 'Amour'. I chose them for their acting abilities.
I was wondering what aspects of Così fan tutte resonated in Haneke's universe? Is it the cold detachment of Don Alfonso and Despina? The power of seduction?
I believe that succumbing to seduction can happen to us all. It's always easy to say "I'd never do that. I'd never be unfaithful". The aim of a stage production is to be convincing and have the audience believe that they'd behave just like the characters were they in the same situation, that they too could be seduced. Da Ponte's demonstration is very linear. I try to find ways that aren't altogether linear and make the intrigue more plausible for the audience.
What is it you find particularly interesting here? Is it the tension between faithfulness and desire?
Depends what you mean by tension. After all, these words are only conventions of language! One consists in saying that fidelity is the only real proof of love. Then there's the convention of 'being madly in love' that extols the helpless victim of Cupid's arrows. We go along with one or other of these according to circumstances… hence the conflicts that arise. Così shows that the characters' needs are 'out of sync'. Just as in real life. Otherwise, how uncomplicated our love lives would be!
So love is a decision then?
Love is a decision every time. When you're young, though, it's terrifying! We're constantly making decisions, but they're never forever… There's always better to be found.
Are you trying to prove there is no such thing as absolute love?
I'm absolutely not trying to prove anything.
Is Don Alfonso for you an embodiment of Mephisto? The wager is meant to confirm a vision of the world and that Don Alfonso just wants to be proved right?
A Mephisto? Not really. What interests me about Alfonso is why he behaves as he does. He's not only master of the game and the one pulling the strings… So what it is that drives him? It's those innermost motivations I want to discover. As human beings we all have our own reasons. So has Don Alfonso.
Don Alfonso steps in and 'sorts everything out'. Do you want to show the audience that love is the last natural phenomenon in a 'regulated' world?
Not only love. We have no mastery over sickness and death either, nor over anything to do with our own body. We just want it all to 'work properly'. That's not how life goes though…
Mozart's characters appear to be somewhat overwhelmed by the 'natural phenomenon' of their desire.
Yes, they are overwhelmed as well as overwhelming and set challenges for one another. They go astray and end up not knowing which way to turn. They want to 'save face' and, to do so, lose track more and more of who they really are. It's a lot to do with self-assertion and fear.
Some say that in Così fan tutte an echo of the French Revolution can already be heard.
It's possible. I don't hear it.
For a long time Così fan tutte depicted the morally scandalous…
Ah, but that hasn't been the case for a long time. If one considers the silly little game as it is in the text then, yes, a feeling of indignation is one reaction. But as soon as one tries to bring it to life, there's no sense at all in taking any moral stance. The game very quickly takes on an existential dimension: it's still about ascertaining how and why one is indebted to someone. At a certain point, the characters are all carried away in the turmoil and become both the tormented and the tormentors. Of course Mozart is never moralizing. It's true, though, that fidelity is a recurrent theme with him. His music transcends the issue of morality and raises it to another level altogether. The game does get serious and the relatively dull text is lifted thanks to the music into another dimension… bestowed with a frightening authenticity and gravity. I suppose one can say that Così fan tutte is an opera full of bitterness.
At the opera, you're not master of the music…
But I am master of how the content is interpreted. Even if I have no influence over the musical expression, the staging can respond to the music.
The music always takes 'precedence' so to speak. That must be a novel experience for a director.
I don't imagine that my directing will 'measure up' to the music. Up against Mozart's music… it goes almost without saying that one is doomed to failure.
In opera, unlike cinema, there is no post-production. Nothing can be further improved… A premiere remains a premiere. Would you say this makes the performance more 'absolute'?
Very much so! In movies, you control everything. If something's just not right, you can always get rid of it during editing. In a play, you can take scenes out. In opera, there's very little you can cut. When a director gets a scene wrong everybody picks up on it. That's why there are so few successful productions!
Are you planning to stage da Ponte's three operas? Le Nozze di Figaro is the only one you haven't done yet.
The libretto of Le Nozze di Figaro, unlike that of Così fan tutte, is so perfect it leaves a director almost no leeway. I can't go 'meddling' with it. All I can do is 'enact', one by one, its social implications of another era… and I'm not madly keen on that. It's very different with Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. These operas give me scope with the interpretation to develop my own ideas. What is more, Le Nozze di Figaro is my favourite opera. It inspires far too much respect in me; that's paralyzing for the imagination.
Mozart rouses your enthusiasm, but so too does Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea. This work is much like a Michael Haneke film, especially the ending.
The modernity of Poppea is breathtaking. In this opera, evil conquers all triumphantly! It's unique in the history of dramatic art. But it's extremely complex to put on stage and has scenes calling for a caustic sense of humour. Not my forte and, alas, I'm not inspired enough. But then one can never say never now can one?
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With a mix of heartfelt ballads and lovable character-driven songs, Jim Croce helped usher in the laid-back singer-songwriter craze of the 1970s. But during his lifetime, his commercial success only lasted about two years. Since his untimely and tragic death in a plane crash at the age of 30 — which left his wife to raise their young son, battle medical problems and spend years in litigation — his legend and popularity have grown to heights that would have been hard for him to imagine while he was alive.
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I Got a Name is a book that's as honest, moving, funny, sad and inspirational as Jim Croce's songs themselves, and it's a notable entry in the world of music biographies.
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After an acclaimed rendition of Massenet's Cendrillon last season, Alain Altinoglu returns to La Monnaie for a symphonic programme of French music. He will guide us through the evolutions from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with pieces by Chausson, Fauré and Ravel. Born and brought up in Paris, he is the very embodiment of the French tradition and the ideal person to lead La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra in the typically French palette of orchestral colour.
You will be performing a programme of work composed between 1890 and1930, which takes us from romanticism to modernism. A lot was going on in French music in that period…
Yes, that's true, and not only in music, but in all the arts! Moreover, the many artistic movements of the time, from impressionism onwards, greatly influenced the rest of the world. It's fascinating to track where a composer comes from and where he goes from there, particularly when I can also show how the tradition is passed on from teacher to pupil. Harmonically, Chausson's Symphony, which was still quite classical in terms of structure, evolved with Fauré and later also with Ravel, who studied under Fauré. It's interesting to see how the vocabulary adapts and the orchestration changes!
Why did you choose these three works?
Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande runs like a thread through La Monnaie's programming. This year the programme features Schoenberg's symphonic poem as well as Debussy's opera. So for me Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande was an obvious choice. I wanted to develop my programme in two directions from that work. On the one hand, looking ahead to the later music via Ravel's Boléro, a work that is very rewarding for the orchestra because each section of the orchestra gets a chance to perform individually and the solos follow one another. And on the other hand, looking back, Chausson's Symphony is an underestimated gem. I really love this work with its magnificent second movement. Chausson was regarded as an amateur for far too long, perhaps because he had another job or because he chose to concentrate on music late in life – he was almost forty. But his music is absolutely fantastic!
But isn't Chausson's Symphony an atypical example of nineteenth-century French music because of the 'Germanic' influences?
With Chausson you certainly feel the influences of the two dominant schools at the end of the nineteenth century. There is both the influence of Massenet, under whom he studied, and the influence of César Franck, in whom traces of Richard Wagner can be heard… At that time there was a good deal of rivalry between the Franckists and the others. And Chausson clearly sympathized with the Franckian camp, partly through his use of the so-called 'cyclic principle': a recurring motif which he used more as a structuring principle than as a leitmotif. Wagner's influence is patently obvious in Chausson's opera Le Roi Arthus, which is almost a French Tristan, but it can also be heard in this Symphony. This work and Franck's Symphony have a lot in common, but Chausson's sounds more French to my ear. With Franck you have more of a 'Germanic' sound with a more substantial orchestration, whereas Chausson looks for greater clarity of timbres and it is a little lighter.
Like Debussy, Fauré drew inspiration from Maurice Maeterlinck…
Yes, and so did Chausson, who had written his song cycle Serres chaudes to texts by Maeterlinck. You would expect the similarity between Debussy and Fauré to be stronger because they both take the same text by Maeterlinck as their starting point, but in fact the two works have nothing in common; they are two totally different, almost incomparable worlds! Debussy has Maeterlinck's text sung, whereas Fauré draws a suite for orchestra out of the atmosphere (Fauré's one sung fragment to a text by Maeterlinck is pared down in the orchestral suite.) Both their text and musical language are totally different. Fauré is far more classical, whereas Debussy is innovative. But what I find so beautiful with Fauré is the formal classicism that is in keeping with the spirit of the piece. He found lots of concise melodies which go straight to the heart and also the way he plays with timbres continues to ring in your ear.
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I don't need to introduce this piece, of course; it has to be among the most popular works in the whole classical repertoire. Ravel is one of the few composers who I can honestly say wrote only masterpieces. He composed slowly but deliberately. He was always very modest about Boléro; he certainly didn't expect it to be such a success. But the great crescendo with the same thematic idea from beginning to end has tremendous power. The principle is very simple: the drum gives the same rhythm the whole time and the orchestra develops a single theme. That process had been around for centuries, but to be swept along by that incredible crescendo is an unforgettable experience.
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