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EXERCISING more, but still not losing weight? The answer could be as simple as what you're rewarding yourself with afterwards.
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The warning follows a University of Washington study which found that waistlines in the US are continuing to expand, despite people exercising more.
Jonathan Ross, of the American Council on Exercise, said there is a "war between exercise and nutrition in our heads.
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MIAMI - Miami Heat player Chris Bosh's masseuse was pronounced dead at the hospital after collapsing at Bosh's home on Monday, police confirmed.
WPLG-TV reports, according to a Miami Beach police report, the masseuse, a woman in her 40s, went to Bosh's house just before 10:30 a.m. Monday and seemed fine. But suddenly, she lost consciousness.
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Bosh's wife, Adrienne Bosh, sent out several tweets beginning early Tuesday.
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Dr. William E. 'Billy' Cohn Wins 2013 Edison Award Silver Recognition for Surgical Device Invention
HOUSTON, TEXAS (May 2, 2013) - Dr. William E. "Billy" Cohn, director of minimally invasive surgical technology for the Texas Heart Institute (THI) at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, has received a 2013 Silver Edison Award for a catheter-based surgical suture device he invented -- the SentreHEART Lariat.
The Edison Awards annually honor "the best in innovation and excellence in the development of new products and services." The awards were presented at the annual Edison Awards gala in Chicago on April 25. Dr. Cohn received his award in the "Surgical Aids" category.
The LARIAT Suture Delivery Device, invented by Dr. Cohn, allows surgeons to tie off the left atrial appendage (LAA) in the heart via a catheter without the need for open-heart surgery. Tying off the LAA is thought to be of value in some patients with atrial fibrillation (abnormal heart rhythm), especially those who cannot take blood thinners. The procedure is performed in the cardiology catheterization lab under X-ray guidance and requires no incision. The LARIAT was cleared by the FDA for ligation of soft tissue in 2009 and is also approved in Europe. http://www.sentreheart.com/ .
"We are extremely proud of Dr. Cohn and this prestigious achievement," said Dr. James T. Willerson, THI's president and medical director. "His skill as a surgeon, his inventiveness as a researcher, and his dedication to improving the lives of patients are all remarkable."
The Edison Awards is a program conducted by Edison Universe, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to fostering future innovators. The 2013 Edison Awards are sponsored by Nielsen, Discovery Communications, Science Channel, and USA Today. For more information about the Edison Awards, Edison Universe and a list of past winners, visit www.edisonawards.com.
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BOSTON -- Following a Monday afternoon exam in Baltimore, infielder Julio Lugo was medically cleared to participate in baseball activities and is expected to rejoin the team in Boston on Tuesday.
"That's really good news all the way around," manager Buck Showalter said of Lugo, who had been suffering from reoccurring headaches since he was hit in the helmet by a pickoff throw on Aug. 29.
"It was a real cautionary thing. ... They are being extra cautious with that type of injury and we were able to eliminate all the things you really worry about."
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ROME — Four decades after the close of the Second Vatican Council, some theologians believe that Dei Verbum, the document on divine revelation issued in December 1965, may prove to be the council's most important development.
The "Dei Verbum revolution" will come, they say, when its call for a wider and deeper reading and understanding of Scripture is fully rooted in the Church, especially among laypeople.
According to Dei Verbum, "Easy access to sacred Scripture should be provided for all the Christian faithful." But 40 years after its release, do lay Catholics really know the Bible any better than the pre-conciliar generation?
Scott Hahn, a professor at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, said that lay encounters with Scripture are "exploding" in some areas. Examples include the increased amount of the Bible that is read at Mass, parish-based Bible study groups that were unheard of before the council, and a bevy of Catholic books on the Bible and Scripture studies on the Internet.
Still, Hahn insists, "the vision of Dei Verbum has yet to be implemented. It is virtually inexhaustible. I have been teaching it for 10 years, and I always find something new."
Hahn recently released Letter and Spirit, a journal based on Dei Verbum. He also heads the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, which offers books for parish study and online resources, and has written a high school textbook on Scripture that also has been adapted for adult use.
Lay Catholics also have access to Scripture through Mother Angelica's worldwide network, EWTN. Many EWTN programs cite Scripture, and there are regular shows that deal specifically with the Bible. One of the most popular is a discussion of Scripture by Timothy O'Donnell, president of Christendom College in Front Royal, Va.
Catholic News Service, run by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, offers a biblical study series as part of its "Faith Alive!" feature that it sends out to Catholic diocesan newspapers and other Catholic media outlets throughout the United States and Canada. And the number of authorized translations of the Bible has increased dramatically over the past 40 years, Hahn noted, with footnotes and study guides that are the result of recent biblical scholarship and archeological findings.
"Dei Verbum was the crown jewel of Vatican II because it gave the faithful the foundation to dispel ignorance of Christ and his teachings," said Kelly Bowring, a professor at the new Southern Catholic College outside Atlanta, who previously worked at the U.S. bishops' conference. "It answered the most fundamental questions of our faith: How can we know God, and what has he revealed about himself for our salvation?"
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According to Cardinal Avery Dulles, Dei Verbum was revolutionary as the first magisterial statement to declare exactly what divine revelation is — by defining the relationship between the written word of the Bible, the sacred Tradition handed down from the apostles and the ongoing development of doctrine guided by interpretative authority of the Church's magisterium.
"The canon of Scripture has been set for centuries," said Cardinal Dulles, the McGinley Professor at Fordham University in the Bronx, "but the document clearly states that revelation is more than just the written Word of God. Scripture is the norm, but that's not all we need to understand God's revelation to man through the Church."
Cardinal Dulles said Dei Verbum was a breakthrough in scholarship because it resulted from the input of two theological factions working at the council. Some Scripture scholars, in keeping with the Church Fathers, wanted to retain the practice of interpreting the Bible in a symbolic or typological manner, whereas some systematic theologians wanted to admit only a literal interpretation of what the human author meant to say.
Dei Verbum "settled that dispute by taking a median position that satisfied both," Cardinal Dulles explained. "It said that there are various levels of interpretation, and that all shed light on the meaning of the Word, although the literal is normative."
According to Hahn, the "Dei Verbum revolution" began in 1970 with the revised Lectionary, which contains the biblical readings for Sunday and weekday Masses. Instead of a one-year cycle of limited readings, in which the same Scripture passages generally were read in the same order each year, the new Lectionary instituted a three-year cycle for Sundays and a two-year cycle for weekdays.
The result: "Catholics now read and hear more Scripture during their liturgies than any other Christians," said Hahn, a former Protestant minister whose conversion was prompted by his study of Scripture. "Many other churches have adopted the Catholic cycle of readings for their own use. This is revolutionary when you consider that Protestants have objected for centuries over what they perceived as a lack of Scripture in the Catholic Church."
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As Catholics have heard more from the Bible at Mass, they have also desired to learn more about it in parish settings, Hahn said.
Little Rock Scripture Study, the longest-running and largest Catholic Bible course for lay- people, was founded in 1974 upon the principles of Dei Verbum. Available in English and Spanish, the Little Rock program is used in 7,000-9,000 parishes in all 50 U.S. states, Canada and dozens of other countries.
Created by the Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas, the course has 35 study programs covering most of the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament. It operates in small-group settings, training parish facilitators and providing reading schedules and discussion guidelines, along with videotapes and audiotapes of biblical experts.
The heart of the Little Rock method, however, is a small group of average Catholics opening the Bible with the guidance of a volunteer facilitator and encountering the Word of God as it is read and discussed
"We believe in the collective wisdom of the participants," said Cackie Upchurch, director of Little Rock Scripture Study. "We provide materials for guidance, and of course we follow the teaching authority of the Church in all matters, and we try to lead people to make the Scriptures personal, to apply them to their own lives and situations, and to grow as disciples by bringing the Word of God to life in their daily experience at home and work and in their communities."
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Where is PTC headed? What separates them from competitors like Dassault Systemes and Autodesk? And what are the market trends that shape PTC's product strategy, and makes them go into new areas like Service Lifecycle Management?
In this episode of Battle of the Visions, Verdi Ogewell interviews PTC CEO Jim Hepplemann, PTC customers, industry analysts and even competitors to get the answers to these questions. Verdi has deep industry knowledge and an engaging interview style. He asks about Mobile, Social product development, and PLM in the Cloud and how these features translate into customer's needs and PTC's strategy.
These are some of the questions that he sets out to answer in the third part of the web TV-series "Battle of the Visions. In this program the focus is on the sharp and decisive CEO Jim Heppelmann. He made his PTC debut in 1998, when the company acquired the CAD/CAM-vendor Computervision, which two years prior had bought a controlling share in Heppelmann's Windchill business.
According to the official story, PTC execs saw the promise of Heppelmann and his software early on, and put him in charge of the Windchill product. As such, this was not only the start of Heppelmann's rise to power in PTC, it also marked the beginning of PTCs PLM journey, with the continuous development and expansion of the Windchill solution and its eventual emergence as a key part of the traditionally CAD-centric PTC portfolio. A suite of solutions that now has been expanded to include ALM and aftermarket support (SLM).
In 2010, when Heppelmann took the helm, PTC and the PLM product line in particular, gained momentum with ca. 70% YoY license growth, while the CAD solution Pro/Engineer was in the midst of the major overhaul that would result in Creo.
Roughly two years, and two major acquisitions later, PTC has extended its focus to include Application Lifecycle Management (acquisition of MKS and its Integrity software) and Service Lifecycle Management (with the newly acquired Servigistics). And with its venture into SLM, PTC is taking a bold step toward areas traditionally not placed under the PLM umbrella.
But according to Heppelmann and PTC the move is sound. They point to the fact that business models are in a constant state of flux, and in this context, "product as a service" will increasingly make sense. Caterpillar, for instance, no longer only sells excavators as products, but also the service of moving dirt and gravel. Hence the new PTC tagline - "Product and Service Advantage".
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Senator Little Outlines 2010 Legislative Priorities
"There are several clear priorities for this year's legislative session.
"First, we need to deal constructively and fairly with the budget deficit while placing an equal emphasis on stimulating economic growth by reducing taxes on small business and families. Last year's budget was a killer that raised taxes by a record amount. I voted against it, and it is good to hear others who voted for it recognize their error, but it won't be enough to hold the line on taxes this year. We need to cut taxes. That's the kind of stimulus that would actually benefit everyone.
"Second, the state has to reduce, eliminate or at least make optional many of the mandates it imposes on local governments, school districts and hospitals. Everyone knows the fiscal realities we face and that financial constraints will dictate local governments and schools do more with less. But the state has a responsibility to provide flexibility to ensure that whatever cuts are made, they can be mitigated by smart decisions on the local level.
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"Despite everything that went wrong last year, I was pleased to win passage of a new law to streamline government and also see a state constitutional amendment that I sponsored be approved by voters statewide in November. I am looking forward to meeting new challenges this year and, as always, will work hard to represent my constituents' interests."


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Not surprisingly, there was a lot of bad fashion at the VMAs red carpet this year. In fact, it was rather tough to decide who to highlight. The most obvious offender, of course, was Amber Rose.
J. Lo's been kind of nailing it lately, so we were surprised she missed the mark here. Makeup, of course, looks flawless, but frankly the rest of the dress looks like it would have worked nicely -- if not for the bizarre criss-crossing neckline accentuated by what appear to be pirate sleeves. Gah.
For the most part, this looks all right -- except for the fact that Hilson was likely adjusting herself every five minutes at the awards show. Seriously, there IS such a thing as over-exposure. The key is to be enticing with a plunging neckline, not give it all away.
There are no words. Amber, we're sure you think your body is bangin' (and, to be fair, it kind of is), but for the love of all that's holy, we're tired of looking at it. The only thing at the VMAs worse than Kanye's drunk-guy-in-a-bar behavior at the show was Ms. Rose's ridiculous-looking outift. Maybe it's time for both of you to lay low for a while.


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Muller Breaks Danone, Yoplait Market Control
Two and a half months after Tara's investing NIS 5 million in the launch of Muller flavored yogurts in Israel, the overall yogurt market has grown by 38%, and Tara's segment has grown by 20%, at the expense of Danone and Yoplait. Flavored yogurts constitute 52% of the total yogurt market, and based on bar code records, it generates revenues of NIS 418 million annually. In the first quarter of 2008 flavored yogurts saw sales of NIS 120 million, up 38% compared to the same period in 2007.
In terms of revenue, Muller had captured 18% of the market in terms of revenues in February, which climbed to 21% by March. However, in terms of quantity, Muller commanded 14% in February, and 18% in March - reflecting the fact that the brand is a relatively expensive one.
Muller's growth is unrelated to expenditures on advertisement. Tara spent just $185,000 in advertising the brand in February, and $200,000 in March, a negligible investment in billboard and newspaper advertising. The company has chosen not to launch a televised campaign.
In terms of revenues, the market segment of it's largest competitor, Yoplait, tumbled from 51% in January, to 44% in February and 43% in March.
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Marathon Swimming in Vietnam?
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Any established routes or good ideas? I went to a study abroad recruiting session at my college yesterday and it put me into south east Asian daydream mode. The likeliness of me actually getting over there is small, but I'd like to know if there's an open water scene there just in case :)
IronMike Moscow, RussiaCharter MemberI'll ask my wife's ex-boyfriend, who lives in Vietnam (he's a former Vietnamese linguist).
Rad, thanks Mike! DLIers for the win! :)
dc_in_sf San FranciscoCharter MemberI have to say Halong Bay looks like it would be stunning to swim in...
http://notdrowningswimming.com - open water adventures of a very ordinary swimmer
Niek Heiloo, NetherlandsCharter Memberfrom a friends e-mail, who worked in Vietnam for a whole year last year:Hi Niek,
I was only based in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and in Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta.
Never saw anybody swimming in the Mekong but I am sure it is swimmable (water is quite clean).
While in HCMC I went to a seaside town called Vung Tau (about 1 hour from HCMC by hydrofoil ferry) and swimming in the ocean was pleasant.
If you mean organized open water swimming events I cannot advise as never saw any such events while there.
Very best regards
http://openwaterswimming.eu - Cold, wind, waves, sunburn, currents, jellyfish and flotsam! Hop in and join the fun!
molly1205 Senior MemberMy husband and I spent our 20th anniversary in Vietnam. Halong Bay is one of the most beautiful places on earth, but there is a lot of boat traffic. I'd recommend a junk boat trip, but maybe not a marathon swim.
Molly Nance, Lincoln, Nebraska
marlin MemberI'm pretty sure the Asian Beach Games will be in Vietnam (for 2015?) and feature an open water race.
SydneD Senior MemberYou do not want to swim in Halong Bay. It's stunning, but dirty and polluted and you would be pushing the garbage out of the way as you swam.
What about something near Hoi An?
WarmWater SingaporeMemberThe Games held in Muscat, Oman in 2010, Haiyang, China in 2012, Phuket, Thailand in 2014 and scheduled for Nha Trang, Vietnam in 2016 with 5 and 10k OW races.


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Ladies I need to buy square envelopes but I am having a hard time finding decent shipping rates. Some of these places want to charge more for shipping than the envelopes cost! Is that how it usually is? I bought my square envelopes from SU. They quit selling them! They got me dependent on them and quit on me!!! Any suggestions?
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Xpedx is a company that I used in the past. They have tons of odd sizes. Not sure about shipping rates but they do have some retail stores, maybe there is one close to you.
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The thing about Rush fans -- Hello! I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing through your mouths! Is this thing on? -- is that, by definition, they missed the boat, victims of a pop-culture-induced inferiority complex. Y'see, Rush, forming in Toronto circa '69 by Gary Lee Weinrib, Alex Zivojinovich and John Rutsey, finally got around to issuing an album in late '74. (Around the same time drummer Rutsey was replaced by Neil Peart. An apocryphal tale has it that comics/cartoon buff Weinrib, a.k.a. Geddy Lee, thought the mustachioed Peart looked exactly like Canuck cartoon icon Snidely Whiplash). Sadly, however, by that stage, prog rock had come and gone. A done deal. Singing in the choir invisible. An ex-genre. Yes' excruciating double-LP sprawl Tales From Topographic Oceans had appeared a full year earlier; King Crimson had wisely split up a couple of months prior; and I don't have to tell you what fate would soon befall Genesis.
So along comes Rush, a few Moogs shy of the sort of fantastical sound that inspires the loftiest of Dungeons & Dragons fantasies. Hairy-palmed wank fests to B-grade sci-fi flicks, maybe. Still, the punters embraced the trio's poor man's prog and willingly forgave Rush its hoser heritage, too, perhaps due to the subliminal understanding that, hey, those three guys in Rush look as pathetically dorky and incurably self-conscious as I do! Nobody ever got laid being a Rush fan, right? But of course, that's the million-buck chicken-or-egg question.
More than a quarter-century later, Rush is rumored to be hunkered down preparing its 23rd album, a follow-up to the '97 "epic" (ain't they all) Test for Echo, which was accompanied by an "epic" (ditto) world tour, followed by an "epic" (ahem) three-year hiatus. Into the gap steps bassist Lee to do the solo thang. Guitarist Zivojinovich, a.k.a. Alex Lifeson, was the first to draw outside the Rush lines with his '96 side project Victor, of which the less said the better, while unconfirmed rumors had Peart woodshedding anonymously with ex-Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton. So it's now up to vertically challenged overachiever Lee to show the world just where the real Rush talent resides. Let's glean a few insights, courtesy of Lee's Atlantic Records press kit, shall we?
On group camaraderie: "Creatively, I've always felt very satisfied in the context of Rush. I wasn't like some artists that have a whole stockpile of material that they're just dying to get out there and make the real statement that they want to make. I really had no need to draw any more attention to myself." (Translation: I better massage the other guys' egos. Don't wanna queer the reunion if my LP tanks.)
On selecting ex-FM progster (and k.d. lang foil) Ben Mink as collaborator: "We were plunking around and we kind of looked at each other and were like, 'Wow, you play like me!' 'No, you play like me!' We liked what we wrote [together] and we couldn't just let it go." (Translation: I'll cite "artistic differences" when Rush breaks up but let everybody think it was Mink's fault.)
On additionally selecting Soundgarden/Pearl Jam skin-thumper Matt Cameron: "He's a wonderful drummer and a wonderful guy." (Translation: Cameron was between albums and has a good manager.)
On the fine distinction between Rush albums and his solo record: "I cannot deny my roots, so there are obviously going to be moments that sound like Rush. The way I put chords together, that is going to have some similarity. But [Mink and I] pooled our writing talents in a way that was incredibly synchronous, and I think that combination has put it outside Rush." (Translation: Yeah, I know it sounds exactly like Rush. That's because I'm the real talent in the band. You got a problem with that?)
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On forthcoming Rush plans: "Hopefully, at some point early in the New Year, I'll be starting to sit down at my day job. It's going to be interesting; everybody's grown and changed in many different ways since the last record." (Translation: Those guys are mooks.)
On being a humble A-R-T-I-S-T: "When it was all said and done, when I sat back, on my own, and just listened to it, I thought, 'We're okay. We did a good job.'" (Translation: Rush fans will buy the record.)
Of the music: Well, there's "The Present Tense," which doesn't really rip off Tom Petty's "Cabin Down Below," it just borrows a few significant chords. And did someone mention poor man's prog? The clang 'n' whung of "Working at Perfekt" brims with "majestic" neoclassical chord progressions and crunchy string arrangements that wouldn't be out of place on the first couple of Electric Light Orchestra albums. (Roll over, Roy Wood, and tell Jeff Lynne the news.) As solo albums always feature at least one introspective acoustic guitar/piano ballad, here we get "Slipping," Lee seemingly having discovered those gadgets that smooth out vocals and give 'em perfect pitch so he can sound less like a bleating lamb being eviscerated and more like a sensitive, New World Guy. And in an obvious concession to circa-2000 "hard music" clichés -- the audience-broadening ploy -- the title track kicks off with a grungy/thrash open tuning motif before turning into a grandly complex, prog-ish "epic" that sounds -- hold on to your Caribou -- just like Rush.
So yeah, the songs are, as Lee puts it himself, "okay." Take it away, Rush fans. The bar for your expectations has been lowered, ever so charitably, once again.


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Cecal dysbiosis, that nasty, goupy, yellow mucus that starts to come out after a bout of bloat/stasis - is the build up of bad bacteria and the key to getting bunny through it is hydration and Bene-Bac, works better than throwing them on antibiotics which is quite stressful to them. Go to any local pet store, buy the 4 little tubes (make sure they are not expired). Give 1 tube twice, 3 days apart. I've also noticed that when my bun is *starting* to get constipated or lose his appetite, Bene-Bac sometimes prevents a full-blown attack. Bene-bac is probiotics, "good" bacteria for the gut.
The motility meds should only be used for a week, maybe 2 weeks at most, but in my experience, any longer than that and your bun can become dependent on it and the bun can have rebound stasis when you stop giving it to him after such longterm use and he gets dependent on it. To help combat this I use motility meds as a last resort, with extreme caution, and I switch between Cisapride and Metoclopromide interchangably when I do have to use them.
when I HAVE to resort to motility meds, I try to figure out if he is stopped up in the upper GI tract or the lower GI tract. If upper, Reglan (metoclopromide) helps, but I am careful to only use it for a few days to a week or 2, and if he is constipated in the colon with poops, I would reach for the Cisapride and again, no more than a week or 2.
But I usually try other ways first - removal of pellets for the first day, enticing with more varieties of hays (oat is very tasty to buns and great in stasis) and WET leafy greens, sub-Q fluids (or syringe feeding him pedialyte) (I have had to learn to administer subQ fluids myself due to the frequency of my bun going through this), simethicone, metacam, Critical Care, and gentle but aggressive belly rubs. Make sure bun is also allowed to get a lot of exercise - it can promote motility in his gut and make him work up an appetite.
When this slowdown happens (and sometimes before resorting to risky motility meds) I have given 1-2mL of medical grade Mineral Oil laxative by mouth, only once per bout of stasis. you don't want to give him diarrhea. You can get it at any pharmacy. If your bun is bigger than 3lbs, 2mL would probably be more appropriate. It takes a day to work, but it usually does.
Finally, when I am desperate, I administer about 3mL of medical grade Mineral Oil laxative as an enema into my bun's colon with a small syringe - administered through his anus. You can also use an infant's ear dropper bulb and mix 3mL of the mineral oil with about 5mL room temperature (lukewarm) water and shake up into the infant bulb syringe (or ear bulb syringe). to administer, all you do is get bun on his back, find the anus (it's the hole that winks back at you), insert, and gently and slowly administer..... then keep bun on his back for a few minutes, grab him by the hind quarters and lift them up a bit so as to get all of the enema to travel as far up the lower GI tract as possible, keep it there for a few more minutes, rub his belly and then set him down in his litterbox. If successfull....He should produce poops by then. The lukewarm water itself will help stimulate the GI tract and hydrate the dried up compaction inside and the mineral oil, as a laxative will ease the fecal matter out.
Posted By TuxDraper on 08/08/2012 01:43 PM
Well we are back from the vet, and 200 something dollars later we have a script for 30-days of Metoclopromide (1.1 ml, 3 times a day). The vet confirmed that Tuxy had a small bout of cecal dysbiosis, but the good news is that his temp was perfect (102, and he was obviously a little stressed so this is great!), and that he will no longer need any antibiotics (which caused this condition). She felt that he still is dealing with some GI Stasis, so the Metoclopromide should help with this.
They also took his blood, and the initial test came back all normal and actually much better than the blood work that was taken 10 days ago. We will get the CBC results tomorrow so fingers crossed for that.
While we were there, Tuxy got some SQ fluids, but the vet did not feel that he would need these on a daily basis as long as I was able to keep up with critical care routine that I have been doing, and also offering him plenty of fresh green veggies and unlimited hay.
So for now folks, we sit tight and keep on doing what we have been doing. Please keep sending me and Tuxy positive vibes for a full and awesome recovery! I can't tell you how much I miss seeing him binkie around the house - he would literally do this 10-15 times a day!! Happy little dude!
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Please consider what I mentioned above^^^^ in my previous post here on this page about long term use of motility meds. If your bun must be on them long term, ask your vet if you can use Cisapride and Metoclopromide interchangeably every other week for a month instead of just one med straight through the month so that your bun doesn't become dependent on it and resistant to its effects. Glad to hear the vet was wise enough to know that the antibiotics could have caused the Stasis to be worse but Baytril should not worsen stasis as it does not affect gut flora so it was likely the Penicillin that upset his his balance. Please do try the Benebac once you know he is well hydrated and passing stool; it will greatly help the cecal dysbiosis.
Just as I was typing the above message, Tuxy had took a big poop of mixed pellets and very soft stool and ate it. UGH.


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ATLANTA Virginia Tech might have lost its shot at a national championship on another doomed trip to Atlanta.
Josh Nesbitt rushed for 122 yards and three touchdowns the last of them tiptoeing down the sideline to finish off the fourth-ranked Hokies with 3 minutes left as No. 19 Georgia Tech ran to a 28-23 win that threw the Atlantic Coast Conference race up for grabs while perhaps finishing off the league's top contender in the national race.
Georgia Tech (6-1, 4-1 ACC) completed just one pass but ran for 309 yards out of its spread option offense all but 37 of those yards coming in the second half.
Excuse Virginia Tech (5-2, 3-1) if it passes on any more trips to Atlanta for a while. The Hokies opened the season with a 34-24 loss to Alabama in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game, about a mile away at the Georgia Dome.


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|August 15, 2012, 01:47 PM
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case color ?
I loaded and shot these rounds 4.0 bullseye, CCI large pistol primes in federal cases with a 200 gr LSWC. Do they look normal to you guys ? The ones on each end didn't look as dark or burned like the two in the middle.
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You did not say what bullet. The load looks to light to me. It's not sealing at the case mouth.
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|August 15, 2012, 02:26 PM
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these cases were loaded with a 200 gr lswc, 4.0 of bullseye, federal cases and CCI large pistol primer. Crimped .469 right at the mouth and .930 from the top of the driving band to the base of the case.
Can the burned look be from wrong OAL, too much crimp or what would cause it ?
Without using the measurement from the top of the drive band to the base of the case, what OAL do you guys use ?
|August 15, 2012, 02:28 PM
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Load is too light to expand case enough to seal gasses. Re-check your reloading manual and mebbe up the load a bit more.
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|August 15, 2012, 03:07 PM
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Looks normal too me. Just looks like load is too light to seal off. Same thing happens with Titegroup. Just as dirty.
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I would reccomend going up to about 4.2 to 4.5 grains of powder. It should help to seal the cases a bit better. I run my home cast 200 grain LSWC with 4.2 to 4.4 grains. They are a bit sooty, though they shoot well so I clean my gun a little more often. Takes me about 10 minutes at the range to clean my gun before I go home.
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I measured a few cases and found some that are 3thousands under the trim to length, would that cause this to happen ?
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No, a few thousandths under the trim length will have absolutely no effect.
I agree with the others, the pressures are not high enough to make the case fully seal the chamber when the cartridges are fired. Once the crud builds-up in the chamber, it is even harder for the cases to seal, so there may be more dirty marks on cases that were fired later in the series at the range. And, random variation in pressure among the rounds will also make some dirtier than others.
SO, in summary, your cases look like cases usually look with loads like you are shooting, and there is nothing to worry about with respect to safety or gun wear.
If you want to shoot cleaner loads, then upping the charge weight will probably help a little, and switching to a powder that burns cleaner at .45 ACP pressures will probably be more helpful.
|August 17, 2012, 10:20 AM
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Agree with what the others have said. I assume "which I seldom do" you're reloading 45 ACP. If so check here
|August 17, 2012, 10:39 AM
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That's completely normal with light charges in a .45 ACP. It doesn't hurt anything, just makes a mess of the brass and the gun. They are nice to shoot though. I have thousands of .45 ACP cases that look just like that before tumbling. Tumbling will remove some/most of it but not all.
|August 17, 2012, 12:13 PM
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Bullseye in 4.0 grns is very accurate with a 200 gr lswc for target shooting. I don't really want to change my load so I'll have to put up with the dirt cases and gun.
Not all the cases get that dirty, thats why I was hoping someone had an answer other than increasing the load.
Would dropping to a 185 gr lswc help any ?
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Decreasing your OAL should help, but by doing that you would need to do a new work up again because you will probably need to decrease charge. I don't know what the min/max are for a .45 for OAL. Where are you at now in relation to min/max OAL?
|August 17, 2012, 12:56 PM
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I can not imagine a reloader indexing his cases to determine if the 'dirty side' of the case is always in the same place, I can not imagine a reloader using small and seemingly unimportant techniques to determine the cause of a problem like raising/elevating the pistol upward to force the powder back and against or near the primer flash hole in an effort to see if the powder is position sensitive.
Then there is the dirty outside of the case and low pressure, it is possible the blast got between the case and chamber THEN! sealed the chamber. this could be 'all about time' if the pressure was too low when fired and stayed low the case could have collapsed, it is a psi thing, the pressure trapped between the chamber and case would have escaped slower then the pressure inside the case, again I am the fan of having nothing between the chamber and case but air, clean air, not a lot but because I believe time is a factor, air between the case and chamber is good, seating the bullet off the lands is a time as a factor thing, again, I am the fan of bullet jump, I want my bullets to have the running start. Others want neck sizing dies, bushing dies etc..
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The monitoring report titled "The Situation Concerning Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Peaceful Assembly in Syunik Marz" has become cause for discussion: news outlets based in the southern Armenian province (marz) of Syunik don't agree with the main conclusions of the research conducted by the Rights Information Center NGO.
According to the findings, there is no independent print media in Syunik that quickly and effectively covers events; prints political, analytical and investigative articles; and publishes news without partial internal censorship.
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:307:]] The report notes that a predominant portion (87%) of broadcasting by TV stations in Syunik is comprised of reports covering the local authorities' activities, advertisements, and already outdated coverage of international events.
According to the findings, news outlets in Syunik are financially dependent and weak. There's no print press in the province and local newspapers are not timely in their reporting.
From October to December 2011, the Rights Information Center monitored 6 print and online newspapers published in Syunik, and the news programs of 4 regional TV stations — Kapan's Sosi and Khustup, Goris' Last and Sisian's Syuni.
Director of Kapan's Sosi TV Vahe Sargsyan doesn't agree with the findings of the monitoring. "In rare cases does Sosi TV cover the visits of regional or community leaders. We maintain timeliness in our broadcasting — we even have our own correspondents in Sisian and Goris who work promptly," he says.
Greta Grigoryan, editor of the bimonthly paper Zangezur, points out that they always publish critical pieces. "And each time our mayor gets annoyed with us. Those who conducted the monitoring forget by what expensive means we take the paper to Yerevan to print and bring back — no one would work for 32,500 drams [about $79 USD], but we work for this small change," she says.
Those who conducted the monitoring are volunteers who were specially trained to do the work. In the opinion of Rights Information Center chair Marat Dadunts, discussions on the report are important, though the report's findings are reliable.
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What is Cuusoo?
LEGO Cuusoo is a site where fans can submit their ideas for LEGO products, once a project reaches 10,000 supports it is reviewed by LEGO and has the possibility to become a set.
You'll have to create an account to contribute. Don't worry though, creating an account is easy, you can even use Facebook to log in! Once you've created your account, you can press the "Support" button near the top of this page, and we'll be one step closer to getting this project into the next LEGO review!
But remember, the road to 10,000 supports is a long one and we can only achieve this goal by working together as a community. Make sure to spread the word, tell every fan of the Legend of Korra you know to support this project so that we can get a Legend of Korra set!
The Legend of Korra is a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender. The show follows the adventures of the young Avatar named Korra, who is Aang's successor. During the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, LEGO created two sets from the show; unfortunately the line wasn't continued beyond these two sets. However, with the introduction of the Legend of Korra we have another chance to get Avatar themed LEGO sets. The show is cleared for 2 seasons, each consisting of 2 "mini seasons" called books.
The Pro-Bending Arena set would feature prominent features of the arena itself, as well as important characters. Characters could include Korra, Bolin, Mako, Tahno, Ming, Shaozu, and a referee. The set could include playable features such as throw-able balls of water and fire as well as launch-able rings of earth.
Make sure to check out my other Legend of Korra projects as well:
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Thiruvananthapuram, June 2 (IANS) A Kerala woman has complained that she is getting abusive calls because she shares the same phone number in real life as one of the stars of the Malayalam film "Chandrettan Evideya" does on-screen.
The 39-year-old woman, a professional trainer at a driving school in the capital district, complains that ever since the film was released last month she has been getting non-stop calls, sometimes in the middle of the night and loaded with lewd comments.
"Ever since the film got released, my phone has not stopped ringing," the woman laments.
"It has come to a stage where my family life too has taken a toll. My husband is angry because my phone rings in the middle of the night. Some callers abuse me and some others use lewd language," she said.
Exasperated, the woman has registered a police complaint and has also filed a court case against the director and the three producers of the film.
"When I called up a person associated with the film and its production and narrated my problem, he just laughed it off and said what harm can a phone number do," the aggrieved woman said.
An officer at the Malayankeezhu police station near here told IANS the woman has filed a complaint and they advised her to approach the court.
The case is now being heard in a lower court here. She has demanded that the screening of the film be stopped and that she should be paid a compensation of Rs.50 lakh for the trauma she is undergoing.
An advocate commission has been appointed in the case and is expected to file report later this week.
"It is unfortunate that people associated with this film were so callous. They should have certainly thought about this scenario. My client is seriously affected because of the nuisance," said her counsel.
The film, directed by Sidharth Bharathan, son of legendary Malayalam director late Bharathan, stars popular actors Dileep, Anusree and others.
The woman has the same phone number as Namitha Pramod is shown to have in the film.
Similar unfortunate incident has happened in the past as well. One of the random numbers tattooed on movie star Aamir Kahn's body in film "Ghajini" reportedly turned out to be the actual phone number of a Mumbai woman, who would get inquiries about Aamir on her phone.


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Business Models for the Circular Economy
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More and more organisations are actively seeking ways to contribute to a sustainable development. The circular economy makes various promises in this direction. Through the closing of a multitude of loops, such as repairing, refurbishing, or recycling products and materials, a sustainable future is presented. But, what is the circular economy? Is it the great concept that it promises to be? What are the possibilities and limitations? And, what does it mean for you?
In this course, we will explore the circular economy, unraveling its foundations, and analysing the way it works and the issues it aims to resolve building an economy in support of a sustainable development. With the tools at hand, we subsequently discover how we can shape a new future, designing business models that operate within the circular economy. The aim of this course is to develop a deeper understanding of the circular economy and the implications of this new paradigm for value chains, organisations, business models, and value creation.
Furthermore, this course provides you with the knowledge that is essential to design business models and modes of value creation that are particularly suited to shape the transition towards the circular economy.
This course will be taught over two weeks, in which you attend classes on campus in Aarhus. During the course you will be working on two assignments. The first assignment concerns group work. In your group, you will analyse a business case in the circular economy of which you write a brief case description. The second assignment is an individual redesign of the analysed case. The course is concluded with a written exam paper to be handed in two weeks after the course has ended.
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Berkeley, California (Tuesday, August 23, 2011) - The City of Berkeley is holding a 30-Day public review and comment period on the recommended actions outlined below regarding the proposed Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Housing Development project.
Through the MHSA Housing Program Berkeley Mental Health (BMH) is working with the California Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) to develop permanent, affordable supportive housing for individuals or families (who have a member) with severe mental illness or a serious emotional disturbance that are homeless or at risk of homelessness. BMH has $758,600 remaining MHSA Housing funds to invest in the creation of new housing opportunities that meet the requirements of the MHSA Housing Program.
In order to access these funds, BMH must partner with a housing developer/owner and propose a particular housing project to DMH and CalHFA. The MHSA Housing Review Committee (a local advisory group on the MHSA Housing Program), and the BMH MHSA Advisory Committee, recommended moving forward with the rehab of a proposed Adult housing project with Resources for Community Development (RCD). The proposed project, University Avenue (UA) Homes located at 1040 University Avenue in Berkeley, is a housing development consisting of 74 subsidized Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units for individuals who are homeless. Initially constructed in 1926, the building is in need of targeted renovations. The proposed rehab will provide upgrades to the buildings operating systems, improve energy efficiency, and renovate community meeting spaces and individual units to create a more supportive living environment. The proposed MHSA Housing funds will be leveraged with various other funding sources to support the renovations on this project and as such will create 7 dedicated units for adults that meet the MHSA housing program criteria. As part of the process of preparing the application, DMH and CalHFA require a 30-day public comment and review period on the proposed project.
In accordance with state guidelines, the 30-day public comment period for the UA Homes project will begin on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011. BMH and the project developer would greatly appreciate your feedback and questions related to this project over the next month. We will be accepting public comment on the project through Wednesday, September 21st, 2011. Comments that we receive will be utilized in developing our final project proposal for submission to DMH and CalHFA.
BackgroundAt the state level, a total of $115 million MHSA funds were set aside to be utilized for the MHSA Housing Program for the development of affordable housing for people with serious mental illnesses, who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. The CalHFA administers the housing development funds and the state DMH will oversee the provision of services to tenants. Each mental health jurisdiction received a planning estimate for the amount of funds that would be available for development projects to be submitted through DMH and CalHFA. The City of Berkeley's planning estimate was $1,258,600. The State will only make these funds available for use through project-specific applications to CalHFA and the state Department of Mental Health.
For detailed information on how to review and provide feedback on the proposed housing development project, the public is invited to view the Mental Health Division website at www.cityofberkeley.info/mentalhealth and follow the link to the MHSA webpage. A copy of the proposed project will also be available for review in the reference section of the Central Public Library located on 2090 Kittredge Street in downtown Berkeley.
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LONDON, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Summary
Global Pharmaceuticals industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value 2011-15, and forecast to 2020). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
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For some people, Tex-Mex food is too gringo-fied, too Taco Bell.
For others, it's a chance to eat soft tacos wrapped in flour tortillas and topped with shredded cheese.
That second group of people will jump for joy over Tommy's Tex-Mex (4506 30th Street) in North Park. It's a spinoff of Don Tommy's in Ocean Beach, though the relationship between the two remains somewhat nebulous. Despite rumors that the two are unrelated, Tommy's owner proudly claims "20 years in Ocean Beach" when asked about his history with Tex-Mex restaurants.
Regardless, Tommy's serves up some mean flour tortillas. Freshly griddled to order, or just before, the tortillas ensconcing Tommy's tacos are a far cry from stale, packaged grocery store versions. Egg and cheese tacos are a magnificent breakfast item, with fluffy scrambled eggs and shredded yellow cheese melting together inside the toasty, tender tortilla.
Savory tacos include various pork, chicken, and beef versions. The most uniquely Texan is the carne guisada, stewed beef in a sauce of green chilis and onions. Wrapped in a flour tortilla and topped with shredded lettuce, tomatoes, and the ubiquitous yellow cheese, it's a fantastic example of Tex-Mex taco style.
Priced between $2 and $4, Tommy's tacos are big enough that a couple of them makes a light meal. Sure, some people will be too proud to admit this non-Baja taco style into their tortilla worldview, but that doesn't make Tommy's tacos any less delicious. As the restaurant grows, we'll be crossing our fingers hoping for some legit Texas chili con carne to appear in time for the cooler months ahead!
Never thought of Taco Bell as being tex mex. Never thought about it before!
Well, I suppose Taco Bell is Taco Bell, a unique fast food that doesn't adhere to any real culinary conventions. But the basic idea is definitely more like Texas style Mexican than, say, San Diego's Baja Norte flavors, or even other Americanized Mexican food like SF-style burritos!


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Minor in Nanotechnology
Teacher education
Nanotechnology REU at SBU
K-12 Outreach
Virtual Conference Room
Poster presented at NSF Engineering Education Awardees Conference, 09
Nanotechnology studies symposium 2011
Nanotechnology studies symposium 2012
The Center for Inclusive Education Presentation: The Ethical, Legal, & Societal Impact of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology Remediation map
YIR winter 2009 Update
Welcome to Nanotechnology Studies at Stony Brook University
Welcome to the website for nanotechnology education and studies at Stony Brook University. Here, you can find out what educational resources are available, what kind of exciting research is being done by students working with faculty and companies, and how you can learn about and get involved in the emerging field of nanotechnology and nanoscale engineering.
What is "nanotechnology"? While most definitions of "nanotechnology" refer to materials science or chemical engineering of functional structures at a scale of a few nanometers (nm) to less that 100 nm (a nanometer is a billionth (10-9 m) of a meter), there are some materials and structures which demonstrate remarkable and useful properties at several hundred nanometers. To be consistent with a less arbitrary size range, a better definition for nanotechnology would be: The design, characterization, production, and application of structures, devices, and systems by controlled manipulation of size and shape at the nanometer scale (atomic, molecular, and macromolecular scale) that produces structures, devices, and systems with at least one novel/superior characteristic or property.(1)
The key part of this definition is that what scientists and engineers create (and eventually manufacture) at the nanoscale must have a unique property or functionality which can respond to an engineering need. While there is already nanoscale engineering used in products from computer microchips to pharmaceuticals to advanced textiles, there are many new areas to explore. New concepts in nanoscale engineering are being developed daily, based on research in physics, chemistry and materials science and inspired by structures and processes found in nature, modeled by computers, and discovered in the test tubes and vacuum chambers of laboratories.
1. from R.Bawa, S.Bawa, S.Maebius, T.Flynn, C.Wei, "Protecting new ideas and inventions in nanomedicine with patents" in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 150-158 (2005).
For a detailed introduction to nanotechnology please visit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology and KQED video explaining what nanotechnology is, also visit Dr. Eric Drexler's work on the science behind productive nanosystems
REU site link and application 2017
2017 REU Flyer
2017 Summer Research Opportunity for a High School Teacher:
- Got Nanotechnology? It's Here and Transforming Our Lives, By: Christina Mulligan June 26, 2012
- SBU Researchers Develop Groundbreaking New Graphene-Based MRI Contrast Agent
- The BNL/Stony Brook Solar Water Splitting Simulation Team
- Dr. Alexander Orlov's research has been highlighted in the Nanomagazine
- Electronic "Nose" Functions as a Chemical Detector
- Stony Brook's College of Engineering And Applied Science Creates Undergraduate Minor In Nanotechnology Studies
- SBU-Led Research Reveals Nanotechnology Simplifies Hydrogen Production for Clean Energy


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DrugList is an Android application for scheduling drug prescriptions. The prescription names are entered into a database, along with the time they are taken. When you exit that activity with the "Save and Exit" button, the time and date for the next medication to be taken is computed, and a system alarm is set. When that alarm fires, you see a ListView with only the drugs due at that time.
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Submin provides a Web-based admin interface to your Subversion and Git repositories. Its features include user/group management, path permission management, the ability to create svn repositories and managing commit email messages. For Subversion, authentication is done with htpasswd/svn authz, so it can use the same login information as apache2/svn (and trac). For Git, ssh is used, and the login information is synched whenever a change is made. The Web interface can also work with NGINX/uWSGI, but the Subversion part only works with Apache.
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Kristian Bezuidenhout: Rising Star in Early Keyboard Music
May 28, 2014
Early-music keyboard specialist Kristian Bezuidenhout conveys his incisive thoughts with every vowel and consonant crisply and perfectly articulated. He sounds separated at birth from the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Bezuidenhout has quickly advanced up the ranks in the early-music world to become one of its leading fortepiano interpreters of solo Mozart piano works. He will complete his multivolume recording set of Mozart piano works for Harmonia Mundi USA later this year.
Bezuidenhout will make his West Coast debut during the Early Music America/Berkeley Festival and Exhibition, June 1–8. On June 5, at 5 p.m., he will perform on a Viennese fortepiano in a solo recital of Mozart, and more. On June 7, at 8 p.m., he will join members of the Philharmonia Chamber Players and Artistic Director and harpsichordist Nicholas McGegan in Bach family keyboard concertos.
In a telephone interview, SFCV spoke with Bezuidenout in London.
You've been quoted as saying you're not interested in simply touring around the world with the same Mozart piano concertos. What makes the combination of soloist and director just right?
I like to look at the season when it's being planned, even two or three years in advance. My management will say, "Look, this orchestra would really like to do a Mozart concerto with you and they propose the following conductor." To be honest, I've been very lucky in that I've not been disappointed in using this as my yardstick up until now. I've had the good fortune to work with such people as Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner, and Christopher Hogwood. And, in those cases, of course, it's a given because these people have devoted their lives to this sort of repertoire. So they come into the project with massive experience to bear.
But it's tricky; you don't know, sometimes. I've had one or two experiences with very well-known figures in the early-music field where you realize that questions of style and personal opinion are just as decisive, and kind of divisive as well, when you're playing a Mozart piano concerto with a so-called historical instrument expert.
I think when I mentioned that comment, I was responding to a specific engagement that I was asked to do in which basically there was no rehearsal time; there wasn't even a meeting with the conductor. I thought, Is this what playing concertos with an orchestra really needs to be? That's just something I'd like to avoid as much as I can.
Has the dream come true for the 12-year-old boy in Brisbane, who was thrilled in 1991 by the Mozart Bicentennial?
That's something I like to think about a lot. I have to say that on every level it has. I will never forget in 1991, when Phillips released the complete Mozart edition, which I was obsessed with buying. I never got it, of course, because it was way too expensive. But there were a number of decisive recordings that entered my life around that time. I got John Eliot Gardiner's recording of the Mozart Requiem. The set of Mozart piano concertos with Malcolm Bilson. And the other thing I got around that time was one of the recordings of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; I can't remember which one. I just thought What would it be like to live in Europe and work with these people, and actually have conversations with these greats of the field? Somehow all of this happened so quickly. You can't imagine! I won this competition in 2001, which was very nice. Then, all of a sudden, you realize that the early-music community, as sort of famous as it is, is incredibly tightly knit and small. You start to all of a sudden be involved with projects with the best orchestras and wonderful conductors. And sometimes one has to really pinch oneself because it's a lot very soon.
At this point, what's the most gratifying aspect of this life that you've chosen for yourself?
Of course, it's being on stage and it's the thrill of applause and all that. And it's visiting wonderful venues and cities, and really experiencing the world for all it has to offer. But it's the little things that count. … I did a lied recital in Germany a few weeks ago, with Mark Padmore, and we did a Schuman and Schubert program, and Beethoven songs as well. You know, this is really territory that people are used to hearing on the Steinway with modern lied singers. And people came up to me to say, "I was so worried about hearing the Schuman played on the fortepiano, but it was really absolutely delightful and full of color and unexpected nuance."
You find some people are really on your wavelength with every issue. Other people have differences of opinion on small levels of details, which is always very enlightening, and makes for better music making.
It's those moments where you realize that there are always new discoveries to be made in the field, albeit small, but it gives one a sense of being involved in some kind of refreshment, as it were, and that's what drew me so vividly and so deeply to the world of early music in the first place. This idea that there are still secrets to be learned, and a feeling of amazement and wonder of how extraordinary this material is. Even when one is really depressed and tired from a 5 o'clock in the morning flight, that keeps one going.
Do you think you're bringing new ideas to old music?
I think that's a pretty grand claim. I was very determined from the outset, with the Harmonia Mundi recording series of concerts, to paint the [Mozart] piano music in a different light. One, perhaps, with a little more flesh and blood; a little bit more inspired by the kind of excitement and drama that you associate with any of the big operas. I've been incredibly lucky that the press has really responded in that way. In small ways, I'd say, I agree with you. But, I wanted to be involved in early music because I was beguiled and completely won over by the combination of scholarship and performance that results in such excitement, basically.
There are always new discoveries to be made in the field, but it gives one a sense of being involved in some kind of refreshment, and that's what drew me so vividly and so deeply to the world of early music.
What attracted you to come to the Berkeley Exhibition and perform the pieces?
In the case of the orchestral program, it was very clear that it was going to be the harpsichord concerts of J.S. Bach. So I offered the big D-minor [BWV] 1052, which is really the most serious and path-breaking of the solo concertos. The original proposal, indeed, was for Nick [McGegan] and myself to play a double harpsichord concerto of J.S. Bach. I know in the last 48 hours we've had to change the program and that means, in fact, I'll be playing a solo harpsichord concerto of C.P. Bach, instead, to end the program. It's a really well-designed program that shows off some of the best music of the Bach sons and father Bach. You could hardly go wrong with that!
This is your major West Coast debut. Is it a harbinger of more frequent visits out this way?
This will be the first major early-music event I've done there. It's so funny how these things go in waves. I hadn't played on the West Coast at all, really. Now there's Berkeley coming up next month, and then recitals in Vancouver and Seattle again, and a return engagement with the Seattle Symphony. So there's a lot more which I'm totally delighted about. It's a part of the world that I'm dying to explore more and, I think, also a place where early music is still taken incredibly seriously. And some of the finest instruments in America are on the West Coast, as well.
I was beguiled and completely won over by the combination of scholarship and performance that I find to be true of all these people that results in such excitement.
What are your major recording projects this year?
I've just come back from [recording] a disc of Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart songs with Mark Padmore, which we finished last week here in London [Harmonia Mundi USA]. My next solo project with Harmonia Mundi will be in December when we record the last volumes, 8 and 9, of the complete works of solo keyboard by Mozart. It's been five years, pretty much, of continuous solo Mozart, and so that will be really the end of a major era for me.
How does that feel for you? It will clearly be a benchmark in your professional career. Is there an emotional attachment to this, as well?
Deeply. I'm excited for it to be nearing its conclusion, but I'm also a bit heartbroken, actually. Every volume has taught me, and the producers, so much about this music. I didn't realize how much depth was in it, in a certain way. There's such a magical feeling to be kind of immersed in a language and a style for such a long time. It's so freeing. It's like playing Bach cantatas all year, or something like that. You just learn so much about the expectation, about the hidden meaning, about how to read between the lines in this music, and you only can really do that if you spend a lot of time with it.
So I will be pretty sad, come December. Happy/sad. You know, it's kind of like a tear in your eye because you're happy but also sad at the same time.
If you had two Mozart works to send in a time capsule to Mars, what would they be?
Wow! … Here's what I'd say: I'd say [The Marriage of] Figaro would have to be one of them. I think Figaro is one of those pieces where, somehow, the stars just aligned in the most magical way. And you have perfection of form, genre, characterization, musical material, pacing — everything. I just think Figaro is really one of the most extraordinary pieces of the entire 18th century.
But I think, perhaps, if I had to say right now, the other piece I would send would be the C-major piano concerto, K. 503, No. 25. … I think, given the vast quantity of piano concertos that he wrote, and how consistently brilliant they are, I'd have to say one piano concerto would be on the list. And right now, for some reason, K. 503 is the piece that is just beyond words. It's magnificent. It's rarely played, for some reason. And it's close to Figaro, in a sense; he's about to write the Prague Symphony. He's in this time of incredible good fortune, and happiness in a way, and his writing, as a result, is just some of the richest and most assured of his career.
There's such a magical feeling to be kind of immersed in a language and a style for such a long time. It's so freeing.
Are you choosing those two pieces based on their qualities as musical works? Or are these two pieces close to your heart? Or, is it more, if we're going to save two pieces of Mozart for the world, that this is what you'd like people to know existed once on this planet?
It's so hard to divulge one's feelings. Figaro was the first Mozart opera that I really got to know. I got to know it from a video disc of John Eliot Gardiner's performance of the piece, and then became completely obsessed with it. It's hard to maintain objectivity. You're absolutely right. But, funnily enough, in reading the scholarly material about the piece, it's very clear that the way people have responded to it … that there's something kind of latently perfect about the piece that even the layperson can appreciate. [It's] this startling way in which Mozart draws characters in that piece, especially the female characters. I think it's something that people respond to, even if they've never seen a Mozart opera. So, in the case of Figaro, I will definitely say that I've known that piece for a long time, and it's been a favorite of mine for ages but it's hard for me not to admit some real subjectivity in choosing it.
In the case of the piano concerto, that's a piece I never knew very well until, really, a few years ago. I've never actually played it. It's a piece I've studied but I've not performed in public. It's one of these pieces that you get to know more and more, and you just realize it's sort of a hidden gem.
So, I guess, maybe with those two choices it's both things: It's both a piece of indisputable genius that everyone knows and loves for all the right reasons but that, when it's scrutinized, it's also clear that it is [a piece] of artistic quality that is given to the simplest person and the greatest scholar.
The [concerto K.] 503 is really a piece that deserves to be known better and truly is one of the greatest pieces of its time. It might take some people by surprise, given the choice of Mozart piano concertos that we have, and what someone might offer, but I feel really strongly about it. And I look forward to playing it sometime next year.


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Legal Question in Technology Law in Kentucky
If a minor was sending you text messages and emails repeatedly saying they were watching you and that to never be alone etc, what kind of trouble would they be in?
Asked on 3/26/11, 1:53 am
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Andrea Welker Welker Law Office
Not a lot of trouble, but they could be charged with misdemeanor harassment.
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Conservative Republicans in our nation's capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when Tea Partiers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They've basically shut Congress down. Their refusal to compromise is working just as they hoped: No jobs agenda. No budget. No grand bargain on the deficit. No background checks on guns. Nothing on climate change. No tax reform. No hike in the minimum wage. Nothing so far on immigration reform.
It's as if an entire branch of the federal government — the branch that's supposed to deal directly with the nation's problems, not just execute the law or interpret the law but make the law — has gone out of business, leaving behind only a so-called "sequester" that's cutting deeper and deeper into education, infrastructure, programs for the nation's poor, and national defense.
Until the mainstream media start calling out these America-hating filth for the traitors that they are, nothing is going to change.