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From Elizabeth Balneaves's kitchen window you can see a bird-table all a-flurry with shrill visitors.
It's a far cry from the weekday afternoon lassitude of Cullen, the quiet Banffshire resort where Balneaves now lives; not quite so distant in memory, however, as this disconcertingly vigorous 90-year-old is busy writing her memoirs on the computer her sons gave her for her birthday last September. Balneaves's main document sorting area is the kitchen table. It is littered with diaries, scrapbooks and photographs - depicting her stooped over a camp fire in the Hindu Kush, or wading in an African river hanging on to what she calls "the nonoperative end" of a sizeable python.
She is surveying her eventful life just as a biography has appeared of another Scots traveller, author and film-maker Isobel Wylie Hutchison. Balneaves herself was friendly with a third adventurer and chronicler, the Shetland-based Jenny Gilbertson, who, like Hutchison, filmed the indigenous peoples of the Arctic circle. All three ventured, often alone, into what was very much men's territory.
Artist, author, film-maker, Balneaves has led what most of us, save perhaps the terminally adventurous, might describe as a full life. The daughter of an Aberdeen headmaster, she graduated from the city's Gray's School of Art in 1934, already engaged to psychologist Dr James Johnston: "We met at Wormwood Scrubs. He was on the staff and my uncle was a visiting doctor there."
At the end of the 1940s, they were living in Edinburgh and she was combining painting with looking after their four children until, as she puts it with a disarming insouciance, she "took off" for Pakistan, and not with her husband. "It's … um … I'm writing my memoirs just now and it's rather difficult, but I met this chap and went off with him and by the time I'd decided it wasn't on, it was too late."
If the emotional attraction proved misguided, the relationship with Pakistan would be a lasting one, and formative - in order to live, she nursed, became temporary head of arts and crafts at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, wrote for Punjab Gazette and helped found and edit the Pakistan Review.
Returning to London, she launched into freelance journalism and promptly landed a commission for a book on Pakistan which sent her back there, taking her own photographs after the arranged snapper fell through. The result, The Waterless Moon, sported a foreword by Sir William Barton, former political agent in Swat and Chitral, describing it as "an extraordinary book, written by an extraordinary young woman of courage and grit … and with all this that rare gift of close observation and the faculty of describing what she sees in vivid language."
Plaudits apart, the book hardly made her fortune and, by this time in her late forties, she started taking photographs for companies involved in hydro-electric power and other schemes in Pakistan. One such job involved clambering up the outside ladder of a water tower. "I managed to get to the top and the German engineer I was with said , 'Ach, you vomen of today!' If he'd only known that the woman of today was shaking like a jelly. But I got the photograph."
Another book, Peacocks and Pipeless, resulted. Around that time, largely at the behest of their children, she re-married the long-suffering Johnston who was posted to Carstairs State Hospital. "I had a marvellous time. I taught eight murderers to paint," she says with some glee.
When one of her sons, Stewart, got a job in tobacco farming in what was then Northern Rhodesia, she seized the opportunity and ended up documenting the rescue of animals as, during the late 1950s, the Kariba dam project was flooding a vast area, displacing both people and animals. Her Elephant Valley was about game and tsetse supervisor Joe MacGregor Brooks, who was carrying out a private animal rescue operation of his own.
She returned with her first film camera and also a commission from Edinburgh Zoo, for whom she'd been working as a PR, to bring back some animals. She made a short film for schools television on the capture of an aardvaark: "I edited it in the attic, wrote the commentary and read it. They wanted ten minutes and I think it was just a minute out," she recalls.
Further films followed, articles in The Scotsman and National Geographic, among other journals; there was a return to Pakistan and the Hindu Kush, and another book, Mountains of the Murgha Zerin.
Many of her forays were made virtually alone, or in very much men-only environments. Did she ever feel at risk? "No. I feel more at risk here when someone bashes on my door at half-past 12 at night. The only time I did feel at risk was in Calcutta, where I was burgled one night."
She and her husband moved to Shetland, which prompted another book, The Windswept Isles, and where, through their respective daughters, she got to know the Glasgow-born documentary film-maker Jenny Gilbertson.
Gilbertson had become hooked after seeing amateur holiday film of Loch Lomond and, self-taught, had gone on to make a string of film documentaries about Shetland life at a time when, thanks to the likes of Michael Powell and Robert Flaherty, films about remote communities were becoming popular. Gilbertson emerged from the Scottish hotbed of documentary film making, encouraged by the crusty pioneer John Grierson, who described her first effort, A Crofter's Life in Shetland, in 1931 as "an extraordinary job of work.
Among Gilbertson's other films were The Rugged Island, made in 1934 about the life of a Shetland crofter - whom she ultimately married - and a film about Shetland ponies which took her four years to make.
Gilbertson, recalls Janet McBain, curator of the Scottish Film Archive in Glasgow, may have been small in stature, "but she was ten feet tall in action and energy". Gilbertson died in 1990 and the archive now holds much of her material, while seats in both the Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh Filmhouse are dedicate in her name by Shetland Islands Council.
"We had a lot of fun together," Balneaves recalls of Gilbertson. The pair travelled together to Papa Stour, filming the island's famous sword dance, though the film itself seems to have vanished without trace.
Still feeling that outward urge in her 70s, Gilbertson headed for the Canadian Arctic to film the changing life of the Inuit, among other things documenting the 300-mile journey made by one dog team. Balneaves was supposed to join her on one such Canadian expedition, but caught pneumonia beforehand so Gilbertson, as she did so often, went alone.
Balneaves, for her part, made her last working trip in 1982, after her one-time book subject, Brooks MacGregor, asked for help in publicising elephant poaching in Zambia. "I did 15 miles through the bush, twice, with a game guard - got some super photos of buffalo." She was 71.
Jenny Gilbertson would almost certainly have known, or at least known of, the third and perhaps most remarkable in our triumvirate of doughty Scots women travellers, authors and (all self-taught) film-makers, Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Brought up at Cardownie, a Scotsbaronial mansion outside Kirkliston, West Lothian, Hutchison grew from a reserved and private girl into a remarkable yet still little-known traveller, botanist, poet, author and film-maker, who between 1927 and 1936 made four major journeys to Greenland, the northern coasts of Alaska and Arctic Canada, at a time when it was rare for women to go any further north than the goldfields of Alaska and Yukon. She brought back botanical specimens, film footage and the makings of several books, including On Greenland's Closed Shore, North to the Rime-Ringed Sun and Arctic Nights' Entertainments. Her film footage, held by the Scottish Screen Archive, shows Greenlanders stepping out enthusiastically in Scottish dances taught to them by visiting whalers a century before.
Hutchison, who died in 1982, was an enigmatic combination of the wilfully determined and the near-mystical, seeing the hand of God in the sublime and awesome Arctic environment, and who did much of her travelling alone, or in the rough and ready, all-male company of sailors, trappers and hunters. As Gwyneth Hoyle of Trent University, Ontario, puts it in her newly published biography of Hutchison, Flowers in the Snow (University of Nebraska Press), "Leading a sheltered life in a Victorian home until she was nearly 30, Isobel expanded and blossomed in personality with each new adventure … She was like a flower whose bud remains tightly closed until the right circumstances cause it to open."
She was, as another commentator puts it, "gloriously out of step with the conventions of her time".
Was there something in the air, or the water, that should produce the likes of Hutchison and two other redoubtable Scots women traveller-film-makers within a couple of decades? David Munro, current director of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, whose journal Hutchison edited for ten years, points out that within the Scottish tradition of producing notable explorers, several of them were women, such as Hutchison, or Ella Christie from Dollar, who travelled on foot from Istanbul into Central Asia and made a similar journey from Moscow.
"We seem to have a remarkably high proportion of women with boundless energy and insatiable curiosity, and that's a very Scottish trait," says Munro. "In Hutchison's writings she is always pulled on by what's beyond the horizon. And she is undaunted by the discomforts, another Scottish trait. And you have these traits balanced against the fact that it was very unfashionable for women to be doing this sort of thing."
The Scottish education system, he reckons, was crucial, "but there was also the social system, with all sots of push-pull factors operating, from the Highland clearances to the claustrophobia of Edinburgh society."
Hutchison assiduously noted domestic details among the Icelanders, Greenlanders and Inuits she visited, what they cooked and how - not the kind of thing you'd find, as Hoyle remarks in her biography, "in the heroic narratives of male Greenland explorers".
Munro agrees that women travellers observe differently from their male counterparts: "With Hutchison you get to meet the people and you encounter the landscape, she notices everything, whereas with many another early travel writer it's all about them … I can think of writers who don't even tell you the names of the guys who are carrying the baggage for them."
According to Hoyle, Hutchison would never have called herself a feminist - "merely an independent person who may have observed the bonds of conventional society at home but was prepared to be as unconventional as necessary in her travels". Unconventional all three women's lives may have been, but they were also long. Elizabeth Balneaves is still rattling away at her computer, a spry 90; Gilbertson was re-editing some of her films within two years of her death at the age of 88; Hutchison was 92 when she died, outliving all her family and most of her friends. Whatever the rigours of going it alone as a woman traveller, it doesn't seem to require a government health warning.


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On 20 October 2004, orphan designation (EU/3/04/230) was granted by the European Commission to Dideco S.p.A., Italy for dexamethasone sodium phosphate encapsulated in human erythrocytes for the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
The sponsor changed name to Sorin Group Italia S.r.l., Italy, in December 2005 and subsequently to Erydel S.p.A., Italy, in January 2010.
- What is cystic fibrosis?
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease. The genetic information that determines the characteristics of each individual is carried by genes located on structures called chromosomes. In humans, each cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes. For each pair one chromosome is inherited from the mother and the other from the father.
Cystic fibrosis is caused by abnormalities of a specific gene, called cystic CFTR, carried by the seventh pair of chromosomes. Cystic fibrosis appears only when the CFTR is abnormal on both chromosomes of the seventh pair. The CFTR gene is responsible for the production of a protein that regulates outflow of water and salts (like chloride) from cells that cover internal and external surfaces of the body, the so-called epithelial cells. The defective transport of water and salts due to the lack of the regulatory protein, results in the thickening of the secretions (mucous) in several organs (e.g. lungs, pancreas). This leads to reduced functioning and chronic infection of the lungs and chronic inflammation (a body response to the injury caused to the tissue). In the long run, these events can induce damage to the lung tissue and the disease can become life-threatening.
- What is the estimated number of patients affected by the condition?
At the time of designation, cystic fibrosis affected approximately 1.3 in 10,000 people in the European Union (EU)*. This is equivalent to a total of around 60,000 people, and is below the threshold for orphan designation, which is 5 people in 10,000. This is based on the information provided by the sponsor and knowledge of the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP).
*Disclaimer: For the purpose of the designation, the number of patients affected by the condition is estimated and assessed on the basis of data from the European Union (EU 25), Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. This represents a population of 459,700,000 (Eurostat 2004).
- What treatments are available?
At the time of submission of the application for the orphan drug designation lung infection and inflammation in cystic fibrosis were treated mainly with antibiotics. These can be taken in a number of ways such as through the mouth, through a vein or they can be inhaled as a fine mist of particles. Associated treatments included daily exercise and physical therapies and several other types of medications such as pancreatic enzymes and food supplements. Bronchodilators are medications that can enlarge the lumen of the airways. Mucolytics help to dissolve the secretions. Still other medications were used to fight the inflammation. Dexamethasone sodium phosphate encapsulated in human erythrocytes might be of potential significant benefit for the treatment of cystic fibrosis because it can act in a different way than other available treatments. This assumption will have to be confirmed at the time of marketing authorisation. This will be necessary to maintain the orphan status.
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Dexamethasone sodium phosphate encapsulated in human erythrocytes belongs to a group of substances called corticosteroids that have an anti-inflammation activity. Dexamethasone sodium phosphate is supposed to act by reducing the chronic inflammation present at the level of the lungs. This product acts by reducing the release of substances involved in inflammation called cytokines from the white blood cells. The dexamethasone salt is wrapped (encapsulated) in red blood cells (human erythrocytes) as they have the function of delivering low quantities of dexamethasone over a longer period of time.
- What is the stage of development of this medicine?
At the time of submission of the application for orphan designation, clinical trials in patients with cystic fibrosis were ongoing.
Dexamethasone sodium phosphate for encapsulated in human erythrocytes was not marketed anywhere worldwide for cystic fibrosis or designated as orphan medicinal product elsewhere for this condition at the time of submission.
According to Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 of 16 December 1999, the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) adopted on 9 September 2004 a positive opinion recommending the grant of the above-mentioned designation.
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Designated orphan medicinal products are products that are still under investigation and are considered for orphan designation on the basis of potential activity. An orphan designation is not a marketing authorisation. As a consequence, demonstration of quality, safety and efficacy is necessary before a product can be granted a marketing authorisation.
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Possibly little known changes have been made to the LE/PLI run-time since the LE z/VSE 1.4.6 (z/VSE 4.2) release. There are two major changes that are PL/I specific.
The first, available with LE z/VSE 1.4.6 (with the PTF for APAR PM02293 installed), is a significant reduction in the PL/I "FETCH" limitations that have been imposed on PL/1 VSE users ever since LE/VSE 1.1.0.
The only limitations now associated with "FETCH"ing a PL/I fetchable routine from another PL/I program are :
- Only external procedures can be fetched.
- If a controlled variable is passed as a parameter, and received by the FETCHed routine as a controlled variable, then the original fetch restrictions come back into effect.
- Fetched PL/I procedures must have been compiled by PL/I for VSE/ESA.
- PL/I OPTIONS(MAIN) procedures cannot be fetched.
- The FETCH, RELEASE and CALL statements must specify entry constants. An entry constant for a fetched procedure cannot be assigned to an entry variable.
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All other noted restrictions in the PL/I for VSE/ESA Language Reference, section 126.96.36.199.1 "FETCH and RELEASE Restrictions" no longer apply.
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The next new enhancement available since LE z/VSE 1.4.7 (z/VSE 4.3) is the addition of Multi-Tasking support for PL/1 VSE applications.
This improvement allows PL/I for VSE/ESA programmers to construct applications that can control other PL/I for VSE/ESA routines that perform asyncronous processing as another task (VSE sub-task) in the same partition. Thus allowing for greater exploitation of the available z/VSE systems CPU and memory resources.
To use this new capability will require the installation of the PL/I for VSE/ESA Compiler PTF (UK62805) for APAR PM17894 to enable the new "task" PL/I for VSE/ESA compile-time option. The PDF available at the following link describes the documentation updates associated with this new PL/I for VSE/ESA compiler option :
" Within a multi-tasking environment, a PL/I program is a set of one or more procedures. The execution of these procedures constitutes one or more tasks, each associated with a different task variable. A task is dynamic; it exists only while the procedure is being executed. The distinction between the procedure and its execution is essential to the discussion of multitasking. A procedure can be executed concurrently in different tasks."
Supplied with LE z/VSE 1.4.7 is a sample PL/I for VSE/ESA multi-tasking application. This sample is intended to demonstrate how to design and code PL/I VSE applications to take advantage of the new multi-tasking management and processing capabilities. Have a look at member IBMIVPMT.P in your LE z/VSE installation Library (PRD2.SCEEBASE). When the compiler required PTF is installed the IBMIVPMT member can be tailored to your z/VSE systems specifications and submitted for execution to view the results and see the sub-tasks execution within the z/VSE partition.
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PERCUTANEOUS needle biopsy of the lung, first reported in 1883 when bacteria were taken from pneumonia patients by aspiration biopsy,1 was later applied to solid lung tumors and favorable results have been reported sporadically since,2-4 although the method was generally avoided out of fear of complications. In 1940, Tripoli and Holland5 suggested using the Vim-Silverman needle in biopsying lung tumors, but it was not until 1954 that this technique was used in studying a small series of three patients.6 Since then, interest in this diagnostic procedure has risen and the reports have been encouraging.7-13 This study describes the results of percutaneous lung biopsy in 62 patients with various pulmonary lesions.
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All patients in the study were hospitalized either at the University of Arkansas Medical Center or the associated Little Rock Veterans Administration Hospital. The study covers patients with a variety of pulmonary lesions, including solitary lung masses
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Katie Martino, 14 year-old Westie who served as a therapy dog at Upstate for more than a decade, retires
SYRACUSE. N.Y.— Katie Martino, a 14 year-old West Highland White Terrier, retired this month from Upstate University Hospital's Animal Assisted Therapy Program after 13 years of service. Katie lives in Brewerton with her owners, Linda and Ray Martino. Katie volunteered twice a week in Upstate's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation inpatient unit, 2 North, and made additional trips to visit psychiatric patients.
Since beginning her volunteer career at Upstate in 2001, it is estimated that Katie had 780 patient encounters.
"Katie and Linda, along with all of our pet therapy volunteers, have supported our patients by visiting with those who miss their pet at home or just want a friendly dog to pet and snuggle with," said Rhonda Butler, Upstate's manager of Volunteer Initiatives. "Katie looks forward to working in the hospital and it is great seeing the smiles that shine on the faces of our patients after Katie visits them. We are very lucky to have dedicated four-legged volunteers who enjoy visiting with our patients," said Butler.
Donna Sims, a certified therapeutic recreation specialist, interviews all pet therapy dogs and owners for the rehabilitation unit and screens them for qualities necessary to thrive in a hospital environment. "Hospitals are full of distractions that could prevent a dog from focusing on the task at hand, which is serving our patients," said Sims. From loud carts rolling down hallways, people and smells, not every animal is comfortable in the hospital environment. "It takes a special combination of dog and owner to volunteer in a hospital pet therapy setting," said Sims.
Upstate's Animal Assisted Therapy Program, started by Child Life Program Manager Margaret Nellis, officially began in Fall 1998 in the Department of Pediatrics. The program has had a total of 26 human volunteers, many of whom retire one dog and bring a second or third in their place. Upstate currently has 16 pet therapy volunteers.
Pet therapy volunteers are required to have their pet certified through PAWS of CNY. Once they are certified, they apply to participate in Upstate University Hospital's program online through Upstate's Volunteer Services. Katie is a certified as a pet therapy dog through PAWS of CNY, holds the Canine Good Citizen certification and is certified with the American Kennel Club.
Katie, Linda and Ray Martino will retire, along with their two other dogs, to Pittsburgh.
Caption: Katie Martino, a 14-year-old West Highland White Terrier from Brewerton, sits with her owner, Linda, left, and a patient, at a retirement party held in celebration of Katie's 13-year-long volunteer career at Upstate University Hospital.
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R-Phils manager Dusty Wathan called over the starting pitcher, who had allowed one run on three hits with six strikeouts.
"I figured he's probably just going to tell me he was going to pinch hit for me," Pettibone said today. "Then he said '(Ryne) Sandberg would kill me if I let you go back out there.' It kind of threw me off, I didn't really understand it. He said, 'Good job, you're going to Triple-A.' That was that and now I'm here."
Pettibone, the No. 4 prospect in the Phillies system, arrived in the Lehigh Valley just after noon today, though he hasn't officially been added to the IronPigs roster.
The 22-year-old righty is the first of the proclaimed "Baby Aces" to reach Triple-A. Trevor May (top prospect) and Julio Rodriguez (17th) are still with the R-Phils, while Brody Colvin (No. 8) is in Clearwater.
"They were happy for me. I've pitched with them my whole career," Pettibone said. "Hopefully we see them soon. Right when I first got to Reading it kind of took off because we came up as a group but it's kind of died down as of late. If anything, we joke around with it more than take it serious."
Pettibone, who is 9-7 with a 3.30 ERA in 19 starts in Double-A, has hit his stride in his last eight starts, going 5-2 with a 2.48 ERA. Pettibone has 39 strikeouts and just six walks in his last 50.2 innings.
"I don't know that much about him other than the fact that he's been pitching well in Reading," Sandberg said. "Just waiting to see what he does. He was the next guy in line to come here at some point in the season. I'm anxious to see what he has and what he can do at this level."
Frandsen promoted
It's a rarity when Kevin Frandsen is not in the IronPigs lineup.
The versatile infielder has played 99 games this season for Lehigh Valley (56-49), making 72 consecutive appearances from April 27 to July 12.
He's not in tonight's lineup against Norfolk. He's not listed on the bench and has been spotted at Citizens Bank Park.
Sandberg confirmed Frandsen has been called up to Philadelphia to replace infielder Placido Polanco, who was placed on the disabled list this morning with lower back inflammation.
"He's worked hard, he's earned it," Sandberg said. "He's playing well. In a lot of ways he was kind of one of the leaders of the team being here for a second year. He went about his business, played banged up and played every day."
Frandsen, a 2012 Triple-A All-Star, is hitting .302 and leads the International League in doubles with 34 and is tied for the most hits (118).
Normally Sandberg jokes with players before telling them they've been promoted. He was all business with Frandsen on Wednesday night.
"He's been there before so for me it was a rare call for him in my office," Sandberg said. "There wasn't any messing around. He's waited long and has battled. I told him, 'Hey, it's your turn.' He was speechless to some extent and said, later on, this is better than his first call up because of what he's been through and fighting to get back there."
Frandsen, 30, has played 228 games in the majors with the Giants and Angels (2006-10). He also hit his first home run of the season last night -- a solo shot to left field in the seventh.
"The guys were joking with him that I guess all he had to do was hit a home run," Sandberg said. "He had to show his home run pop. He was the hardest guy on the (Santa-like) uniforms and he got a pretty good gift after the game along with his first home run so I guess they were pretty good uniforms after all."
Brown back in field
Domonic Brown is back in left field tonight for Lehigh Valley.
The former top prospect missed two games after landing awkwardly on his knee brace when trying to make a catch in Sunday's game.
Brown went 1-for-4 with a strikeout in Wednesday's 3-2 loss to the Tides.
"He's feeling good, good to go on defense," Sandberg said. "Good to go all out in the game. I hope he has a nice long stretch of games played and really work with that."
Rotation update
Sandberg confirmed B.J. Rosenberg (3-2, 1.68) will start Game 1 of Sunday's doubleheader at Syracuse.
As for Game 2?
The manager said it would be a bullpen game with specific pitchers still to be determined.
Sandberg also confirmed Pettibone will make his Triple-A debut on Monday night against the Chiefs.


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The Mexican government captured the brutal leader of the Zetas drug cartel in an early-morning raid on Monday (July 15), marking the biggest victory for President Enrique Pena Nieto in his fight against gang violence.
Navy handout video showed Trevino shortly after his arrival in Mexico City following his arrest.
Marines arrested Miguel Trevino, aka Z-40, after intercepting his pick-up truck with a helicopter a few miles (km) from his home town of Nuevo Laredo on the U.S. border.
The Zetas have been blamed for many of the worst atrocities carried out by Mexican drug gangs.
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Astronomer Galileo
On January 7, 1610 in Padua, Italy, Galileo Galilei aimed his newly invented telescope at Jupiter, the giant planet of the Solar System. He saw three star-like objects arranged in a line with the planet, one on the west and two on the east. A few nights of watching showed him there were four objects changing position about Jupiter. Galileo soon realized that these "stars" were small planetary bodies revolving around Jupiter like the Moon orbits Earth. He had discovered four big satellites of Jupiter. Later they were named Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, after four of Jupiter's lovers in Greek mythology. As a group they are known as the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. Astronomers and spacecraft scientists later discovered other smaller satellites of Jupiter. A retinue of 16 satellites makes the Jovian system a miniature of the Solar System.
Project Galileo
It is fitting that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) most ambitious Jupiter mission should be named after the Italian astronomer. Project Galileo, launched in 1989 on a six-year trip to Jupiter consists of a Jupiter Orbiter and a Jupiter Probe. The Orbiter will remain in orbit around the giant planet gathering data about the planet itself, its magnetosphere, and its satellites. The Probe will plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere at about 2:15 p.m. PST on December 7, 1995 and provide scientists with a wealth of information about that atmosphere and its cloud systems.
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As more powerful telescopes were built, astronomers in their mountaintop observatories discovered tantalizing clues about the uniqueness of Jupiter. The planet's diameter is 11 times that of Earth. From Newton's laws of gravity and the orbits of the four large satellites, astronomers determined that Jupiter is massive but has a low density. This implies that the planet consists mainly of hydrogen. Jupiter, along with Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, is a giant fluid planet, a gas giant. It is unlike the much smaller icy and rocky planets of which Earth is the largest. Jupiter spins much faster than Earth, so that its day lasts only 9 hours and 55 minutes compared with Earth's 24-hour day. The rapid spin and Jupiter's fluid nature give rise to a bulging equator that is quite apparent in telescopic views and photos of the giant cloud-shrouded planet. When viewing Jupiter, you only see clouds. No solid surface exists. Also, these clouds are very different from those of Earth.
When we view Earth from space, patterns of clouds are visible but a solid surface is also clearly seen. On Jupiter the cloud patterns are east-west bands consisting of dark belts of descending atmosphere and bright zones of ascending gases. Jupiter also has atmospheric spots, ovals, barges, and plumes, some of which may be like storms on Earth. The most famous and largest of these is the Great Red Spot.
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On the annual "Water Day" in 2009, the final day of Stonington's summer recreation program, town employees were wearing bathing suits at work.
That's how one young woman, the town's program director, was dressed when First Selectman Edward Haberek Jr. gave her a hug. He knew she was leaving for a new job out of state, and the hug, which Haberek called "more of a tap on the shoulder," was allegedly his way to say, "Good luck to you, you're a good employee."
The woman didn't take it that way. That incident became part of a written report she filed with the town administrative director, in which she conveyed that the behavior of the town's chief executive was "inappropriate" and made her feel uncomfortable.
Though workplace harassment is a major employment law issue, this legal tale has a bigger element: freedom of information. The question now is, should the woman's report be a public document? Neither she nor Haberek really want it to attract any more attention.
During the first week of September, the three-member Stonington Board of Selectmen will decide whether to seek a court ruling about where this kind of report falls under Connecticut's public records law. Otherwise, it can be released Sept. 8.
Town Administrative Director Vincent Pacileo, whose office handles such reports, is strongly in favor of battling on in court. Pacileo testified in support of the ex-employee's "privacy" and would like to establish protection for such complaints. "It's a balance between the political dynamic, where I try to always have transparency and openness, [versus] the principle of an employee's confidentiality," Habarek said.
Last September, reporter Joseph Wojtas, of the New London Day newspaper, asked for the woman employee's harassment report against Haberek, under Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act.
In a letter to the Day, Pacileo says he "made an independent evaluation" and concluded that the personal privacy of both the town employee and Haberek "outweighs the public interest in disclosure," and refused to release it. Woitas and The Day appealed, and the state Freedom of Information Commission ruled, in a 4 to 2 vote, that the report should be released with the woman's name removed.
Stonington is represented by veteran New London trial lawyer Thomas Londregan. Reporter Wojtas argued the FOI case for his newspaper.
Londregan contended the report was exempt from state FOI law under a section that excludes public access to preliminary drafts or notes. He also argued, under the 1993 Connecticut Supreme Court landmark of Perkins v. FOIC, that the complaint was part of a personnel or similar file, did not pertain to legitimate matters of public concern, and would be "highly offensive to a reasonable person."
Londregan, of New London's Conway, Londregan, Sheehan & Monaco, said he finds the informal administrative hearing process at the FOIC far different from courtroom procedures. "It can be very strange," he said, not to be able to exclude much evidence on grounds of relevance, or hearsay.
In this case, various other allegations of the mayor's "inappropriate" statements or conduct toward women were brought in to show a pattern of behavior. "I tried to keep that out," Londregan said.
At the May FOIC hearing, the former employee appeared and testified that she had not even wanted her complaint investigated, let alone released to the public. Under direct questioning from reporter Wojtas, the woman testified she had withdrawn her complaint voluntarily, under no pressure from Haberek.
Wojtas was able to introduce as "Exhibit A" a sharply-worded 2009 letter to Haberek signed by seven Stonington city department heads. In it, they welcomed an upcoming "team retreat" for top managers, hoping it would help overcome their "current inability to recapture the productive synergy and climate of mutual respect and trust we once enjoyed."
The letter stated that Haberek's alleged "angry outbursts" had left managers feeling demeaned and intimidated. His "inappropriate remarks, particularly in regard to gender, have resulted in feelings of discomfort," the letter stated. No specific remarks were listed.
Haberek, an eight-year veteran of the mayoral job, which pays $96,000 per year, said the letter was prompted by managers' opposition to being subjected to performance reviews, which had never been required by Stonington before. "A couple of long-term department heads felt that, since they're in a government job, they didn't need performance evaluations. There was never any animosity in the atmosphere," Haberek told the Law Tribune.
In its post-hearing brief, The Day also cited Tracy Swain v. Haberek, a 2012 Superior Court civil claim by a Pawcatuck resident for negligent infliction of emotional distress. It alleges that Haberek used his city-owned Blackberry to send Tracey Swain two pictures of a man, naked from the waist down. It asserts that the subject of the photos was Haberek himself. Swain, who was represented by attorney Scott Camassar, contends the photos caused her physical and emotional distress, including migraine headaches, and seeks over $15,000 in damages.
Haberek flatly denies sending any such photos.
In the FOIC case, commission staff attorney Victor Perpetua recommended release of the former Stonington employee's formal complaint, memos, and a week-long chronology of the woman's meetings and communications with town officials before and after the report was filed. Perpetua found that the documents were public records that reflect "historical facts and decisions, not the town's deliberations about, or assessments of, those facts." As such, they were not exempt as preliminary drafts or notes.
Londregan argued that the documents fail the Perkins vs. FOIC test, creating too great an invasion of privacy for a matter of too little public concern. But
Perpetua found nothing in the record revealing "sexually explicit or descriptive information, such as allegations of sexual contact and sexual improprieties" as have been exempted in some other sex harassment cases. "Where's the part that's highly offensive to a reasonable person?" Perpetua asked in his report.
Even though the former Stonington employee's name is known to Wojtas, and the media generally, Perpetua declined "to further publicize the woman's identity by naming her in this decision."
When the FOIC's staff attorney's findings were voted on by the six-member commission on July 23, there were sharp differences of opinion. Chairman Owen Eagan "seemed shocked" that two commissioners voted to withhold the report, said Londegran. "I came within one vote of a 3 to 3 tie."
Haberek, meanwhile, said he was surprised that the commissioners of the state's open government agency deliberated behind closed doors. He noted that the Stonington selectmen deliberate in public. At the FOIC, he said, "Who knows if there's arm-twisting in the back room? We all have to deliberate in open session, but they can go in a back room."
In his briefs and in an interview, Londregan said he feared the ruling will have a "chilling effect" on public employees who want to make a confidential report about their superiors. Londregan commented that the new message for public employees in the workplace seems to be not to take notes, and keep everything on an oral basis. "This does not foster good government," he said.
Wojtas, the Day reporter, suggested in his post-hearing brief that the quickest way for Stonington and Haberek to diminish the effect of the complaint is to release it and thereby "be free to dispute its allegations."


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ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Pyrite Mountain rallied strongly from last to upset reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Uncaptured in Sunday's $116,600 Wando Stakes at Woodbine.
Midnight Aria set quick fractions in the 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds, while being tracked by Uncaptured and Tesseron. Pyrite Mountain raced inside about seven lengths off the pace on the backstretch, before moving into contention on the far turn.
Pyrite Mountain was angled wide for the drive by Luis Contreras, and then overtook Uncaptured around the sixteenth pole en route to a 1 1/2-length score, in 1:44.24.Uncaptured nosed out Midnight Aria for second, and Tesseron faded to fourth in a field reduced to four with the scratches of Are You Kidding Me, Steel Dust Dancer, and Dynamic Sky.
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Open Source Software and Intellectual Property Issues
Open source software has proliferated in the last few years, and it's not difficult to see why it's so popular. The ability to get a quality product for free has revolutionised many people's use of information technology. Rather than the world of IT being characterised by a power struggle between large corporations, open source makes it far more democratic. Access to IT is a huge issue as the importance of technology in our lives increases, and that makes open source ever more important.
Open source v piracy
Open source, by its nature, delivers a challenge to the business model of the big corporations. For many years, companies like Microsoft have worked to try and challenge piracy of their products. However, this is not a clear-cut issue. Unlike, say, checking the results of asbestos surveys, there is no right or wrong. Those who use pirate software have often been able to put an effective counter argument that they would not be able to use their products at all if they had to pay full price for them. In developing countries in particular, difficulties with access to the digital world is a big issue. In many places, piracy has been accepted as standard, as the cost of software is simply far too high for people there to bear. Open source has provided people in the developing world with an opportunity to take part in the digital age without using pirated products. Not only does that mean that they are not doing anything illegal, it means that they're able to access a stable product that meets their needs without risk.
Opposition to open source
Anything that challenges received ideas about the way the world should be, and that unsettles powerful people and corporations, is inherently controversial. Open source has proved to be so. In the US, a strong lobby has consistently argued that open source software is a challenge to intellectual property rights. The International Intellectual Property Alliance in particular has tried to get the US government to put those countries which use open source software on their 'watch list' of countries which are seen as damaging US interests. Their argument is that the software industry is weakened by open source. Whether you buy that or not, rather depends on what you believe the 'software industry' to be.
The software industry is not Microsoft. Open source is part of the software industry too, it just has a different role within it. So when people say that they believe open source to be damaging to the software industry, perhaps what they really mean is that they believe it to be damaging to a specific vision of what the software industry should be. This view really fails to value what is best about the software industry: its ability to change, develop and innovate in order to meet people's needs. Software at its best is a exciting and cutting edge, it is not about meeting tired expectations or keeping big business shareholders happy.
Changing times
Digital exclusion is one of the biggest issues facing us in a globalised world. In order to participate in the world, people need to be able to access quality, up-to-date software. Open source goes a long way to helping them do that. It also delivers a challenge to the big players and traditional models, just as the music industry has been challenged by the availability of digital music. Ideas about copyright and intellectual property that were right for a pre-digital age, simply don't work for us now. Rather than fighting this, the big corporations would do well to recognise that they need to adjust.
Slowly, they are. In the music industry, digital has led to a welcome revival of live music, and has actually helped many new and smaller artists gain a foothold. It seems that open source software is gaining similar acceptance. NASA are even getting in on the act, launching an open source portal. However, the influence of big corporations and the intellectual property lobby is still formidable. It has emerged that in the UK, Microsoft have been able to successfully challenge the government's policy of open standards for its software. It does seem likely though that sheer force of numbers and desire of people to be able to use software will continue to mean that open source is unstoppable.
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I was a research associate in the Visual Information Laboratory at the University of Bristol until January 2013. From June 2010 until January 2013, I worked on the EU-FP7 Cognito project with Andrew Calway, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas and Dima Damen. Prior to this, I spent two years as a research assistant on the UK TSB ViewNet project and studied for a PhD under the supervision of Walterio Mayol-Cuevas funded by the UK EPSRC Equator IRC.
Research Interests
My research interest is in real-time visual simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for augmented reality (AR). In particular, my PhD thesis, Incorporating Higher Level Structure in Visual SLAM, investigates the incorporation of higher level structures, such as planes, into the Kalman filter SLAM system as a way of creating physically meaningful maps and collapsing the state size by removing redundancy.
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Augmented reality (AR) is an active area of research that provides a meeting point for many interesting technologies and is predicted to see rapid commercial growth this decade, thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and tablet computers. These tutorial sessions will introduce the topic of augmented reality through a mixture of lecture, discussion and demos. As a rough outline, the sessions will cover the following areas:
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PhD ThesisIncorporating Higher Level Structure in Visual SLAM
Andrew P. Gee
University of Bristol, May 2010
Incorporating higher level structure into the map enhances its value for tasks involving interaction with the real world and provides a simplified representation that enforces implicit constraints between the features. The main aim of this thesis is to address the problem of discovering and incorporating higher level structure concurrently with normal SLAM operation, in a way that preserves the statistical consistency and accuracy of the system and advances the possibilities of meaningful interaction with the map.
Selected Publications6D Relocalisation for RGBD Cameras Using Synthetic View Regression
Andrew P. Gee and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
In: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2012 (Poster)
This work considers the evaluation of methods for relocalisation specifically for RGBD cameras and tested in small workspace scenes that have moving objects and/or minimal texture. Two existing local feature-based methods are considered and a new method proposed that uses synthetically generated views within a regression framework and that is capable of estimating 6D camera pose at framerate. We also show some results of novelty detection of objects that were not in the original map and some results towards the goal of constant relocalisation as an alternative to conventional camera tracking.
Update: We have added results from a new dataset to the videos and poster. The new dataset is recorded using a head-mounted camera during a tea-making task in a kitchen environment. It contains rapid rotational movements, motion blur and occlusions. We also use a median rather than a mean in the regression kernel to provide improved occlusion robustness.
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A Topometric System for Wide Area Augmented Reality
Andrew P. Gee, P.J. Escamilla-Ambrosio, Matthew Webb, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas and Andrew Calway
In: Computers & Graphics, vol.35, no.4, pp.854-868, August 2011
This work describes the ViewNet system, which is designed to facilitate efficient communication of information relating to the physical world using Augmented Reality (AR). It combines a range of technologies to create a system capable of operating in real-time, over wide areas and for both indoor and outdoor operation. The central concept is to integrate localised mapping and tracking based on real-time visual SLAM with global positioning from both GPS and indoor ultra-wide band (UWB) technology. The key elements are: robust and efficient vision based tracking and mapping using a Kalman filter framework; rapid and reliable vision based relocalisation of users within local maps; user interaction mechanisms for effective annotation insertion; and an integrated framework for managing and fusing mapping and positioning data. We present the results of experiments conducted over a wide area, with indoor and outdoor operation.Discovering Higher Level Structure in Visual SLAM
Andrew P. Gee, Denis Chekhlov, Andrew Calway and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol.24, no.5, pp.980-990, October 2008
This work extends the results presented in our previous paper and presents a visual SLAM system in which planes and lines are embedded within the state to represent structure in the scene. This collapses the state size, reducing computation and improving scalability, as well as giving a higher level scene description. Critically, the structure parameters are augmented into the SLAM state in a proper fashion, maintaining inherent uncertainties via a full covariance representation.
Video: Plane Simulation (small map) | Video: Line Simulation (small map) | Video: Plane Simulation (room with four walls) | Video: Real PlanesNinja on a Plane: Automatic Discovery of Physical Planes for Augmented Reality Using Visual SLAM
Denis Chekhlov, Andrew P. Gee, Andrew Calway and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
In: International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), November 2007 (Short Paper, Oral Presentation)
This work presents a game in which real objects with planar surfaces are added to an AR environment in real-time, enabling an AR agent to navigate through the scene. See this paper for full details of the plane discovery techniques used in this short paper.
Real-Time Model-Based SLAM Using Line Segments
Andrew P. Gee and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
In: International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), November 2006 (Oral Presentation)
This work develops a monocular real-time SLAM system that uses line segments extracted on the fly and that builds a wire-frame model of the scene to help tracking. The use of line segments provides viewpoint invariance and robustness to partial occlusion, whilst the model-based tracking is fast and efficient, reducing problems associated with feature matching and extraction.
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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde is exploring ways of using bio-luminescent bacteria found in jellyfish and mushrooms to create glow-in-the-dark trees that could replace street lights.
In this movie filmed at SXSW in Austin, Roosegaarde explains how: "In the last year I really became fond of biomimicry."
"What can we learn from nature and apply to the built environment, to roads, to public spaces, to our urban landscape?" asks Roosegaarde.
Biomimicry is the method of imitating models and systems found in nature to solve complex design issues. One of the biological phenomena that fascinated Roosegaarde was how animals like jellyfish and fireflies generate their own light.
"When a jellyfish is deep, deep underwater it creates its own light," he says. "It does not have a battery or a solar panel or an energy bill. It does it completely autonomously. What can we learn from that?"
Roosegaarde's interest in biomimicry led him to collaborate with the State University of New York and Alexander Krichevsky, whose technology firm Bioglow unveiled genetically modified glow-in-the-dark plants earlier this year.
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Krichevsky creates the glowing plants by splicing DNA from luminescent marine bacteria to the chloroplast genome of a common houseplant, so the stem and leaves emit a faint light similar to that produced by fireflies and jellyfish.
Roosegaarde is now working on a proposal to use a collection of these plants for a large-scale installation designed to look like a light-emitting tree.
He had just taken delivery of one of the small Bioglow houseplants when he met up with Dezeen in Austin.
"This one was shipped to my hotel room and I'm really excited to have it in my hand," he says, holding the small plastic box that contains the plant. "This is a very small version that we have produced. Right now we are teaming up with [the University of New York and Krichevsky] to create a really big one of them like a tree instead of street lighting."
"I mean, come on, it will be incredibly fascinating to have these energy-neutral but at the same time incredibly poetic landscapes."
Strict regulations around the use of genetically modified plants within the EU mean that Roosegaarde cannot use this material in his Netherlands studio. He had to travel to the US to receive the plant.
Distinct from Studio Roosegaarde's work with Krichevsky is a second project exploring bio-luminescence, called Glowing Nature, which does not use genetically-modified material. The aim was to find a means of giving mature trees light-emitting properties without harming them, building on research into the properties of bio-luminescent mushrooms.
The proposal is to use a very fine coating of "biological paint" that when applied to trees allows them to glow at night. The coating charges during the day and at night can glow for up to eight hours. Trials using the material will start at the end of this year.
The music featured in the movie is a track by Zequals. You can listen to his music on Dezeen Music Project.
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Designer Eric Klarenbeek, who displayed a chair made out of 3D-printed fungus at Dutch Design Week in October, says the technique could be used to create larger, more complex structures. Larger version + story »
I like the idea of glowing trees, but how will the trees feel about it?
They will love it, it's like they are at a rave. Whooo, party TIME!
I think Luciferin is a chemical or a compound, certainly not an element.
Sure, it would be interesting to see a street flanked by glowing trees, but I can't imagine this will have a great result on light pollution, or on the numerous animals that inhabit such trees?
Hi Tim,
Thanks for pointing this out. We have amended the article accordingly.
Kind regards,
Doesn't make sense. Coating the leaves will reduce the chlorophyll consumption the trees need for growth. In order for the chemical to absorb light it needs to be on the top side of the leaves. To provide light at ground level, it needs to be in the bottom side of the leaves.
Hey, it's not about "coating" the leaves; this is something that would be built into the biology of the plant.
I read the text.
The coating is not sprayed: it's encrypted into the plant DNA. Now, the article doesn't specify where the 'shining' cells are, nor whether they block sun rays or not. Indirect light could be enough to store them during the day.
One way or another, I do not believe that team would continue if it didn't make sense ;)
People who claim something impossible bother the ones sitting around a table, working to solve the problem.
Oh great!
It's amazing how concerned Americans are that the NSA is snooping in their data but don't seem to care that Monsanto is meddling with their food. Has the EU banned GMO's for no reason? These pretty trees are a good example of a sinister trend. I quote from my childhood, "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature."
It's like living in Avatar.
I will be impressed by humanity the day it decides to leave nature alone. We don't "need" glowing trees.
The idea seems to be cool, but it won't be so attractive if we lose control of it and our future children accidentally start glowing.
What is wrong with glowing children? It would be easy to see them at night.
More light pollution? No thanks.
It would be such a shame to lose all of hideous sodium-vapour lamps and the stupid amount of artificially-generated energy it takes to power them, after all.
Nice glowing tress. Looks amazing.
I doubt this could be a good idea. So far, nature has been trying to fight against human's desperate need to affect everything that surrounds him; there should be another way to provide light on a certain spot without messing around with the trees. Have they measured how it could this impact the environment? I mean, we get our oxygen from trees.
Why not have smaller bioluminescent plants grown in glass bulbs on poles, so we don't have to risk accidentally messing up our trees?
Why do we need more manipulation of nature? Have we forgotten the purpose of design? Since roads are manmade, hey should be THE object of illumination and not nature. Just think, no more slamming into trees (glowing ones too), lampposts etc. Less roadworks to replace damaged lampposts ,trees etc. When the road glows they won't have the obstruction of snow because snow is translucent.
The birds will revolt against us for destroying the few homes they have left in an urban environment.
Will the insects lives and ecosystem be affected?
I find missing the pioneer references: the Genetic Barcelona Project, that started the research on bioluminescence to illuminate cities and highways with trees in 2003. For example, they created in 2005 seven bioluminescent lemon trees (Estévez, 2005, 2006, 2007). Or they illuminated with bacteria bioluminescence an entire apartment in 2008 (Estévez, 2009, 2010, 2011). Etc. See http://www.albertoestevez.com
"Glowing trees could be used instead of street lighting". Sure. Until they turn sentient and try to kill us. Rightfully, I might add.
Yes, but at least they won't be able to sneak up on us at night.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Complete Obituary
David Kremer
David R. "Red" Kremer, 64, Versailles, died at 9:20 p.m. Nov. 6, 2012, at his home.
He was born Dec. 12, 1947, in Dayton to Lewis A. and Betty L. Cramer Kremer. His mother survives in Versailles; his father is deceased. On May 30, 1968, he married Ruth Ahrens, who survives.
Also surviving are two sons, Jeff (Jodi) Kremer, Versailles, and Dr. Jon (Vicky) Kremer, Versailles; a daughter, Dr. Christina "Tina" (Donnie) Goodson, Albany; four brothers, Tony L. (Mary Ellen) Kremer, Celina, Ron (Sheree) Kremer Versailles, Dan (Jackie) Kremer, Versailles, and Ken (Julia) Kremer, Versailles; three sisters, Diana (Dale) George, Versailles, Jo (Chuck) Langenkamp, Greenville, and Jill (Clarence) "Butch" Simons, Greenville; siblings-in-law, Bill (Barb) Ahrens, Versailles, Marlene (Gale) Ambos, Botkins, Denny (Marty) Ahrens, Sidney, Betty (Mike) Jones, Sidney, Shirley (Bob) Magoteaux, Versailles, Gerri (Jeff) Bunnell, Minster, and John (Peggy) Ahrens, Sidney; and nine grandchildren.
Also deceased is his father.
He served in the Ohio National Guard for six years and owned Kremer Roofing Inc., Versailles, for 35 years. He also worked 12 years at Delco Moraine, Dayton, and belonged to St. Denis Catholic Church, Versailles.
He was a member of Knights of Columbus, Fraternal Order of Eagles and Lions Club, all of Versailles, and the Elks, Greenville.
Mass of Christian Burial is 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church, Rev. David Vincent celebrant. Versailles Veteran's Honor Guard will conduct military services immediately following the Mass.
Calling is 2-8 p.m. Friday and 9-10 a.m. Saturday at Bailey Zechar Funeral Home, Versailles.
Memorials may be given to State of the Heart Hospice or Versailles Emergency Medical Services.
Condolences may be left at www.zecharbailey.com.
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- 1 / 2 "Boom Boom" performed by Justice Crew was co-written by Jay Sean (Bucks Music Group/Alberts)
- 2 / 2 "I'm All Yours ft. Pitbull" performed by Jay Sean
Alberts represented writer Jay Sean reaches #1 on ARIA CHART this week
Posted on 9 Aug 2012
Bucks Music Group writer Jay Sean represented by Alberts for ANZ has stormed up the ARIA Singles Chart to reach #1 with a song he co-wrote for Australian band Justice Crew.
"Boom Boom" performed by Justice Crew is the highest selling single on the Australian Recording Industry Association music chart this week.
To make life even sweeter for Jay Sean (Singh Kamaljit Jhooti) in Australia, his current single "I'm All Yours" performed by Jay Sean featuring Pitbull is #17 on the ARIA Singles Chart and has achieved Platinum status.
The British R&B singer/songwriter has been busy touring and winning fans all over the world, and now he is thrilled to be returning to Australia for a series of shows in Sydney, Perth and the Gold Coast.
Jay Sean's first worldwide smash hit single "Down" was one of the biggest selling songs of 2009, selling a staggering 6 million copies, making him the most successful British/European male urban artists in US chart history. As of 2012, it is the fifth biggest selling song by a British artist in the digital era. His follow up single "Do You Remember" went onto sell more than a million copies alone in the USA, and went Double Platinum in Australia. He went on to release "2012 (This Ain't The End)" featuring Nicki Minaj, and "Hit The Lights" which also topped the charts worldwide.
The first UK artist to be signed by iconic hip hop imprint Cash Money, the savvy hitmaker, by way of London, already had numerous Top 10 hits in the UK before the success of "Down" saw him rapidly ascend into a bonafide mainstream pop/R&B star of truly global proportions.
Jay's latest track "I'm All Yours" is taken from the upcoming album "Worth It All" due late 2012 through Universal Music Australia.
Jay Sean's Tour Dates
Thursday 18th October – SYDNEY, The Cube Campbelltown ALL AGES featuring special guests Elen Levon and Faydee
Thursday 25th October – PERTH, Eve Nightclub
Friday 26th October – SYDNEY, Enmore Theatre ALL AGES featuring special guests Justice Crew, Young Men Society and more
Sunday 28th October – GOLD COAST, Jupiter's Casino ALL AGES featuring Johnny Ruffo and Elen Levon


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