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Proteinuria this month, babies' poo, bedwetting and a bit more on paediatric hypertension. Please do leave comments below.
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Malaria this month, sexual exploitation, sepsis, prolonged jaundice and DDH. Do leave comments below:
Potted background, assessment and management of vitamin D deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency in children with thanks to Dr Jini Haldar, paediatric registrar at Whipps Cross University Hospital.
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient needed for healthy bones, and to control the amount of calcium in our blood. There is recent evidence that it may prevent many other diseases. There are many different recommendations for the prevention, detection and treatment of Vitamin D deficiency in the UK. The one outlined below is what we tend to do at Whipps Cross Hospital.
The Department of Health and the Chief Medical Officers recommend a dose of 7-8.5 micrograms (approx. 300 units) for all children from six months to five years of age. This is the dose that the NHS 'Healthy Start' vitamin drops provide. The British Paediatric and Adolescent Bone Group's recommendation is that exclusively breastfed infants receive Vitamin D supplements from soon after birth. Adverse effects of Vitamin D overdose are rare but care should be taken with multivitamin preparations as Vitamin A toxicity is a concern. Multivitamin preparations often contain a surprisingly low dose of Vitamin D.
Indications for measurement of vitamin D
1. Symptoms and signs of rickets/osteomalacia
- Progressive bowing deformity of legs
- Waddling gait
- Abnormal knock knee deformity (intermalleolar distance > 5 cm)
- Swelling of wrists and costochondral junctions (rachitic rosary)
- Prolonged bone pain (>3 months duration)
2. Symptoms and signs of muscle weakness
- Cardiomyopathy in an infant
- Delayed walking
- Difficulty climbing stairs
3. Abnormal bone profile or x-rays
- Low plasma calcium or phosphate
- Raised alkaline phosphatase
- Osteopenia or changes of rickets on x-ray
- Pathological fractures
4. Disorders impacting on vitamin D metabolism
- Chronic renal failure
- Chronic liver disease
- Malabsorption syndromes, for example, cystic fibrosis, Crohn's disease, coeliac disease
- Older anticonvulsants, for example, phenobarbitone, phenytoin, carbamazepine
5. Children with bone disease in whom correcting vitamin D deficiency prior to specific treatment would be indicated:
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis
- Osteoporosis secondary to glucocorticoids, inflammatory disorders, immobility
Symptoms and signs in children of vitamin D deficiency
1. Infants: Seizures, tetany and cardiomyopathy
2. Children: Aches and pains: myopathy causing delayed walking; rickets with bowed legs, knock knees, poor growth and muscle weakness
3. Adolescents: Aches and pains, muscle weakness, bone changes of rickets or osteomalacia
Risk factors for reduced vitamin D levels include:
- Dark/pigmented skin colour e.g. black, Asian populations
- Routine use of sun protection factor 15 and above as this blocks 99% of vitamin D synthesis
- Reduced skin exposure e.g. for cultural reasons (clothing)
- Latitude (In the UK, there is no radiation of appropriate wavelength between October and March)
- Chronic ill health with prolonged hospital admissions e.g. oncology patients
- Children and adolescents with disabilities which limit the time they spend outside
- Institutionalised individuals
- Photosensitive skin conditions
- Reduced vitamin D intake
- Maternal vitamin D deficiency
- Infants that are exclusively breast fed
- Dietary habits – low intake of foods containing vitamin D
- Abnormal vitamin D metabolism, abnormal gut function, malabsorption or short bowel syndrome
- Chronic liver or renal disease
Management depends on the patient's characteristics:
A. No risk factors
No investigations, lifestyle advice* and consider prevention of risk factors
B. Risk Factors Only
1. Children under the age of 5 years: Lifestyle advice* and vitamin D supplementation.
Purchase OTC or via Healthy Start
Under 1 year: 200 units vitamin D once daily
1 – 4 years: 400 units vitamin D once daily
2. Children 5 years and over – offer lifestyle advice*
C. Risk Factors AND Symptoms, Signs
Lifestyle advice*
- Renal function, Calcium, Phosphate, Magnesium (infants), alkaline phosphatase,
- 25-OH Vitamin D levels, Urea and electrolytes, parathyroid hormone
Children can be managed in Primary Care as long as:
- No significant renal impairment
- Normal calcium (If <2.1 mmol/l in infants, refer as there is a risk of seizures)
If further assessment is required consider referral to specialist. **
Patient's family is likely to have similar risk of Vitamin D deficiency – consider investigation ant treatment if necessary.
*Life style advice
1. Sunlight
Exposure of face, arms and legs for 5-10 mins (15-25 mins if dark pigmented skin) would provide good source of Vitamin D. In the UK April to September between 11am and 3pm will provide the best source of UVB. Application of sunscreen will reduce the Vitamin D synthesis by >95%. Advise to avoid sunscreen for the first 20-30 minutes of sunlight exposure. Persons wearing traditional black clothing can be advised to have sunlight exposure of face, arms and legs in the privacy of their garden.
2. Diet
Vitamin D can be obtained from dietary sources (salmon, mackerel, tuna, egg yolk), fortified foods (cow, soy or rice milk) and supplements. There are no plant sources that provide a significant amount of Vitamin D naturally.
**Criteria for referral
- Criteria for management in primary care not met
- Deficiency established with absence of known risk factors
- Atypical biochemistry (persistent hypophosphatemia, elevated creatinine)
- Failure to reduce alkaline phosphatase levels within 3 months
- Family history (parent, siblings) with severe rickets
- Infants under one month with calcium <2.1mmmol/l at diagnosis as risk of seizure. (Check vitamin D level of mothers in this group immediately and treat, particularly if breast feeding.)
- If compliance issues are anticipated or encountered during treatment.
- Satisfactory levels of vitamin D not achieved after initial treatment.
Vitamin D levels, effects on health and management of deficiency
|< 25 nmol/l (10micrograms/l)
|Deficient. Associated with rickets, osteomalacia
|Treat with high dose vitamin D
Lifestyle advice AND vitamin D (ideally cholecalciferol)
• 0 – 6 months: 3,000 units daily
• 6 months – 12 yrs: 6,000 units daily
• 12 – 18 yrs: 10,000 units daily
|vitamin D 25 – 50 nmol/l (10 – 20micrograms/l
|Insufficient and associated with disease risk
|Over the counter (OTC) Vitamin D supplementation (and maintenance therapy following treatment for deficiency) should be sufficient.
• Lifestyle advice and vitamin D supplementation
< 6 months: 200 – 400 units daily (200 units may be inadequate for breastfed babies)
Over 6 months – 18 years: 400 – 800 units daily
|50 – 75 nmol/l (20 – 30micrograms/l)
|Healthy Lifestyle advice
|> 75 nmol/l (30 micrograms/l)
|Optimal Healthy
Course length is 8 – 12 weeks followed by maintenance therapy.
Checking of levels again
As Vitamin D has a relatively long half-life levels will take approximately 6 months to reach a steady state after a loading dose or on maintenance therapy. Check serum calcium levels at 3 months and 6 months, and 25 – OHD repeat at 6 months. Review the need for maintenance treatment. NB: the Barts Health management protocol uses lower treatment doses for a minimum of 3 months and then there is no need for repeat blood tests in the majority of cases of children satisfying the criteria for management in primary care.
Serum 25 OHD after 3 months treatment Action
|Recommend OTC prophylaxis and lifestyle advice
|as required
|50 – 80 nmol/mL
|Continue with current treatment dose
|reassess in 3 months
|< 50 nmol/mL
|Increase dose or, in case of non-adherence/concern refer to secondary care.
It is essential to check the child has a sufficient dietary calcium intake and that a maintenance vitamin D dose follows the treatment dose and is continued long term.
Some recommend a clinical review a month after treatment starts, asking to see all vitamin and drug bottles. A blood test can be repeated then, if it is not clear that sufficient vitamin has been taken.
Current advice for children who have had symptomatic Vitamin D deficiency is that they continue a maintenance prevention dose at least until they stop growing. Dosing regimens vary and clinical evidence is weak in this area. The RCPCH has called for research to be conducted. The RCPCH advice on vitamin D is at http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/system/files/protected/page/vitdguidancedraftspreads%20FINAL%20for%20website.pdf
January 2015, late but useful!
January 2015 newsletter is being published late with apologies. The newsletter is circulated prior to publication to be checked by my 8 paediatric consultant colleagues and any guest authors. I neglected to attach the newsletter to my initial email, a fact pointed out to me on the 31st January….. Now checked and ready to go.
Andrew Lock has put together a really helpful guide to viral exanthems with trustworthy links to proper images, Vicky Agunloye is back this month with an invaluable guide to the healthcare professional's assessment of a crying baby (and his/her mother). Tom Waterfield has looked at the usefulness of saline nebs in bronchiolitis, there are some more "do not do" recommendations from NICE and a link to Suffolk's guideline on managing anaphylaxis and its follow up from primary care. Do leave comments below:
June newsletter
June's newsletter has been uploaded. Migraine presentation in adults and children v. tension headaches, baby slings and a bit on acne. Do leave comments below.
July 2013 PDF
Neglect and emotional abuse is the safeguarding topic this month. ED advice on the management of minor head injuries, a report from BPSU in hypocalcaemic fits secondary to vitamin D deficiency, the new UK immunisation poster and a bit on crying babies. Hope you find it all helpful. Comments welcome below
February 2013 uploaded!
A timely reminder of an albeit old guideline on otitis media this month, continuation of our minor injuries series and introduction to a new series on sleep disorders. Also a link to a new Whipps "1st afebrile fit" guideline and a bit of background on hypospadias.
With thanks to Dr Nikolina Kyprianou for this article and to Mr Devesh Misra, consultant paediatric urologist at the Royal London Hospital, for checking it.
Hypospadias is a congenital abnormality where the male urethral opening is displaced ventrally. It may be displaced anywhere within the glans, the shaft of the penis, the scrotum, or the perineum. It results from failure of the urethral folds to close during fetal development and it is often associated with abnormal penile curvature (chordee) due to disrupted development of the penile shaft. Males with severe uncorrected forms of hypospadias may have difficulties in controlling their urinary stream which may require urination in a sitting position. They can also have erectile dysfunction and infertility (due to impaired semen delivery).
The location of the urethral meatus classifies the hypospadias and its severity.
Figure 1. Different types of hypospadias
3 classes of severity:
- 1st degree: urethral opening within the glans/subcoronal (50% of cases)
- 2nd degree: urethral opening on the penile shaft (20% of cases)
- 3rd degree: urethral opening within the scrotum or perineum (30% of cases)
Hypospadias results due to disruption of the androgenic stimulation that is required for the normal male external genitalia to develop. Environmental factors have been found to be associated with hypospadias suggesting a multifactorial aetiology. These include:
- Advanced maternal age
- Pre-existing maternal diabetes mellitus
- Gestational age before 37 weeks
- History of paternal hypospadias
- Exposure to smoking and pesticides
Hypospadias is one of the most common congenital abnormalities with an incidence from 0.3 to 0.7% in live male births. It is more common in the Caucasian population and in those of Jewish and Italian descent.
The diagnosis is usually made during the newborn examination. Physical findings include:
- The appearance of two urethral openings: the first one will be in the normal position at the end of the glans, which will be a blind ending urethral pit. The second is the abnormally located true urethral meatus.
- Abnormal foreskin due to its incomplete closure around the glans leading to the appearance of a dorsal hooded prepuce.
- Abnormal penile curvature (chordee).
In 6% of cases the foreskin is normal and the urethral abnormality only becomes evident during/after circumcision when the glans of the penis is visualised.
Isolated hypospadias: this is only rarely associated with upper genitourinary tract abnormalities and therefore there is no need to
routinely perform imaging studies of the tract.
Cryptorchidism and hypospadias: these patients have an increased risk of disorders of sex development. Cryptorchidism is present in 10% of
patients with hypospadias and is higher in patients with proximal hypospadias (eg. scrotal or perineal urethral meatus). Proximal hypospadias on its own is also associated with disorders of sex development. These patients should be referred to a specialist so that they can have the following investigations:
- Pelvic USS to evaluate internal genitalia.
- Karyotype analysis.
- Serum electrolytes as a screen for salt-wasting forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
Hypospadias with other organ system anomalies eg. Congenital cardiac disease, imperforate anus, limb malformations, or cleft lip. These patients require renal and bladder USS because they are at risk of upper tract abnormalities. They should be referred to a specialist who will also perform genetic testing.
Parents should be advised not to circumcise their baby in order to preserve the foreskin and optimise later surgical choices. These patients need to be referred to the local paediatric urologist who will determine the severity of the hypospadias and the need and timing for surgical correction.
The goal of surgery is to create a straight penis by repairing any curvature (orthoplasty), to create a urethra with its meatus at the tip of the penis (urethroplasty), to reform the glans into a more natural conical configuration (glansplasty), to achieve cosmetically acceptable penile skin coverage, and to create a normal-appearing scrotum. Surgery is usually performed within the first year of life because early correction is associated with improved wound
healing, reduced rate of complications and improved emotional and psychological result. The repair is usually planned as a single-stage procedure, but in infants with severe hypospadias a two-stage repair may be necessary.
With the use of modern instruments, sutures and antibiotics and by performing the procedure at a younger age, the repair of hypospadias has been successful.
For a useful leaflet for parents please follow link and download the PDF document: http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Hypospadias.htm
Baskin LS, Erol A, Li YW, Cunha GR. Anatomical studies of hypospadias. J Urol 1998; 160:1108.
Baskin LS, Ebbers MB. Hypospadias: anatomy, etiology, and technique. J Pediatr Surg 2006; 41:463.
Carlson WH, Kisely SR, MacLellan DL. Maternal and fetal risk factors associated with severity of hypospadias: a comparison of mild and severe cases. J Pediatr Urol 2009; 5:283.
Brouwers MM, Feitz WF, Roelofs LA, et al. Risk factors for hypospadias. Eur J Pediatr 2007; 166:671.
June 2012 PDF
June's PDF digest is ready for consumption. Both APLS and NICE have lost paraldehyde from their status epilepticus algorithms, a link to Working Together and an article on sticky eyes v. conjunctivitis. Blood pressure centile charts and a plug for the London Deanery's communication skills courses. Do leave comments below.
The Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service (PPIMHS)
The PPIMHS teams are made up of perinatal psychiatrists, community mental health practitioners and psychotherapists/psychologists and they accept referrals from Health Visitors, GPs, midwives, Children's Centres workers or other health professionals and self-referrals. Click here for their referral form. They may signpost elsewhere after the initial consultation if appropriate or they will offer the parent/carer and infant/child 9-12 sessions to work on the parent-infant relationship and/or psychiatric support as required.
Groups particularly at risk of having problems with bonding include families with ex-premature babies who have spent a significant amount of time on the Special Care Baby Unit, those where the baby has feeding issues or is difficult to soothe, those where breastfeeding failed to establish and those where there was a traumatic birth or difficult conception and/or pregnancy. Many of the parents on their case load have a personal history of disturbed attachments and are keen not to let history repeat itself. A recent audit showed that 41% of their mothers had some sort of mental health diagnosis which means that 59% did not. Click here for an information leaflet about their service that you might like to give to your patients.
Mums with postnatal depression or post-partum psychosis should be referred directly to PPIMHS. Parents struggling with a crying baby or fussy toddler but with no bonding issues should be referred to their health visitor. The PPIMHS team is a tier 3 (specialised) service concentrating primarily on the parent-infant relationship and perinatal mental health.
Symptoms in the baby that might suggest a bonding problem:
extreme clingy behaviours, fussy, difficult to soothe, abnormal self-soothing behaviours (eg. head-banging, hair-pulling, scratching), excessive sleep problems, extreme feeding problems, lack of verbal and non-verbal communication, stiff or floppy posture, extreme fearfulness or watchfulness, lack of interest in the world, no comfort sought from parents, avoids eye contact with parents, smiles very little.
Symptoms in the parent:
high anxiety and panic about the baby, excessive A and E or GP presentations, feeling frightened of harming the baby, lack of separation between parent and baby, baby never put down, excessive sterilising of bottles and toys, detached feelings about the baby, no pride in their development, anger about baby as if baby intends to upset the parent, feelings of failure as a parent, inability to cope.
There is some evidence around this issue and around maternal stress during pregnancy and the effect of high maternal cortisol levels on the foetus' developing brain. I have asked the Waltham Forest PPIMHS psychologists to write a bit about that and correct anything I have written about their service!


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Today was our last class of a 20-week session at Birkdale, and the kids were full of energy as usual. I brought the Chinese gong, and had each child try hitting the centre of it to practice hand-eye coordination. We also practiced taking turns and sharing with the ball and our "special number of the day". The kids were ecstatic with their recorder and hand clacker gifts at the end of the class.
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This week was a little bittersweet at Redwood: we hadn't seen one another for two weeks, but it was also our final session together (for now, at least). We didn't let that drag us down, and our time was filled with the wonderful enthusiasm I've come to expect from this group! We sang through a selection of our favourite songs, and our jam became a full-blown dance party. The most anticipated part of our class, though, was the parachute! It's become the absolute favourite here. In the end there were hugs and smiles: who could ask for anything more?
So Long, Farewell!
Since there were no requests for favourite songs for our last session, we decided to sing our "Greatest Hits", starting with the peekaboo Open Them, Shut Them. We moved right into I Wake Up My Hands, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum, and Bath Time, and the older kids did a great job identifying body parts and singing along with these now-familiar words. We moved into an animal trio, starting with Sleeping Bunnies and Listen to the Water, before we stood up to march around the room with The Ants Go Marching. As someone who studied music theory as a kid, I felt like I absolutely had to sing one more major scale with the group, but luckily our Circle Scales let us sing our do-re-mi's while moving in and out of a circle – a great way to feel the music as you sing! I treated the kids to an extended jam time with the more mellow Three Little Birds, and Jamaica Farewell, before rocking out with the parachute to the Sly and the Family Stone classic, Dance to the Music (which these kids did with gusto). After we sang our goodbyes, the kids got to play the guitar one last time and we exchanged many a high-five. The end of a session is always difficult, but I felt good knowing that the kids and moms at Robertson House would keep singing all the songs they learned during our time together, even without me there!
It was nice to be reunited with my Birkdale moms, staff and kids again, after two consecutive weeks of not seeing them. They were very excited to be singing and dancing again with me, and had lots of energy, so I kept them up and dancing for a good part of the class. We also explored the rainbow rope and practiced songs such as Roly Poly (practicing opposites) and Row Row Row Your Boat (practicing working as a team and moving body forwards and back in rhythm).
A Gregarious Goodbye (for now)
The progress was palpable for the final class of the session at the Plaza. Not only were the kids participating in all of the songs, keeping rhythm and remembering the lyrics, but they were also anticipating and requesting songs throughout the class! The parents were also more engaged this week than they have ever been. I didn't even need to encourage them to sing! As usual, my guitar remained an object of fascination (and occasional distraction) throughout the class, but hopefully the clappers and recorders that the kids received at the end of class will keep them musically stimulated and encourage their (already incredible) sense of rhythm and melody. I'm definitely going to miss this group, but both parents and shelter workers expressed a desire for Rainbow Songs Foundation to return, so hopefully it won't be long before we're singing together again.
Thunderous Movement!
It was a sweltering June day, but it seemed like the kids at Robertson House barely even noticed as they were just joyful balls of energy for our penultimate class of the session! We did a few Rainbow Songs classics to get warmed up – I Wake Up My Hands, Roly Poly, and Hands Together, Hands Apart. It's so delightful to see how much these kids have grown and changed over the four months we've been together, and how they've mastered some of our staple songs. After getting the giggles out with Sleeping Bunnies and Little Green Frog, the theme of the week was transportation with How Now, Brown Cow. That allowed us to kick our legs like a bicycle, move forward and back like we were in a rowboat, and then chug around the circle to conclude with two train songs: Down By The Station, and I've Been Workin' On The Railroad. We even had an encore transportation song with Wheels on the Bus, which these kids have also mastered. Since we're at the start of the summer thunderstorm season, we brought out the thunder tubes to welcome the dramatic rainfall. The kids loved moving the thunder tubes around the room, hearing how they sounded in different areas and with different intensities of shaking. Our jam time was equally joyful, courtesy of two of Raffi's biggest hits: Baby Beluga, and To Everyone in All the World. I'll certainly be sad to wrap things up next week but I have no doubt these kids will continue making music without me!
Sharing, Helping, and Dancing!
I'm always overjoyed by the enthusiasm of the kids at the Plaza Hotel! Though initially the enthusiasm had the tendency to get chaotic, we've settled into a very nice class dynamic. The kids are anticipating which songs are going to come next (it seems like Sticky, Sticky, Bubblegum can't come quickly enough, as they start asking for it from the beginning of class), and helping newcomers with actions and hand motions. This week had some of the best sharing I've seen at the Plaza, with everyone patiently waiting their turn to play with the Ting-Shaw bells, and nobody fighting over instruments in the jam bag (which the kids love bringing out and packing up). There were a number of older siblings this week, which meant we were able to have a nice big parachute jam, and the kids were bouncing with even more energy than normal. It was a delight!
A gregarious goodbye
Our final class at Ernestine was delayed a bit following dinner, but had the usual attendance and the same amount of happy engagement from the kids. We were able to fit in a lot more songs this time around, because it took less time to get everyone sitting in a circle and participating. I took requests, from which the overwhelming consensus on the class favourite was Sleeping Bunnies (in fact, one of the parents requested that we do it a second time, during the parachute). Unfortunately, it's hard to say goodbye, especially when it seems like the kids are just starting to be comfortable with the songs in a group setting, but hopefully there will be a little more music in their lives in general now (and they can continue to practice their rhythm with their clappers, which made for some fun high fives at the end of class). I'll definitely miss this group!
Sharing is Caring!
We had a bit of a hectic start this week, as the ongoing renovations at Robertson House meant that our usual room was unavailable. Thankfully, RH's wonderful staff helped me make a space in the Family Centre. Teeming with toys, books, and activities, I knew this may be a bit of a challenge for easily distracted 2-year-olds, but we did our best to power through!
Since we had an infant in the class, we started with a peekaboo song, Open Them, Shut Them, which the older kids enjoyed, too. We practiced the names of our body parts with I Wake Up My Hands and Head and Shoulders, with the older kids helping the younger ones as the song got faster and more challenging. We moved on to some animal songs with the stomp-heavy Elephants are Marching, followed by Listen to the Water, Old McDonald, and Little Green Frog. I pose this question: is there anything more fun than being encouraged to squish up your eyes and stick out your tongue in pursuit of the perfect frog face?
Since the kids were eager to play with the Family Centre toys, we had an extra-long jam time, which we used as an opportunity to practice sharing. With only six kids and dozens of instruments, there were certainly plenty to go around, but with the great variety of instruments to choose from, it's easy to want to play that instrument – the one another kid is using. Sharing really is just like any other skill that a toddler has to practice in order to master, so I was really proud of kids and moms alike for pushing through the tears to a place where the kids started to get the hang of taking turns – sharing is caring!
New faces
In contrast to last week's smaller group, the Genoa room was packed on Friday. There were a few brand new faces, which made for a great "hello" song, as it was a good chance for some of the new kids to be introduced to their peers and get some of their jitters out as they were encouraged to participate by some of the more seasoned kids. There were a lot of bouncing and movement songs this week (I rearranged the order of things to accommodate some restless jumpers who didn't want to sit). By the end of the movement, some kids were even remarking that they wanted to sit down and do a capella songs, which is usually one of the biggest struggles of class. This group loves the instruments in the bag, but jam time can tend to get a bit unruly and there was a little bit of fighting over instruments, which dropped the focus for the latter part of the class. However, when it came time to put things away and sing the goodbye song, everyone was sitting close and attentively, though more than a few kids tried to play my guitar as I was playing. I think next week I'll come a bit earlier and let them strum the guitar before class so they don't interrupt during songs.


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October 24, 2002
Mark Lyman had a simple concept in mind when he founded the International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art nine years ago: Make fine, functional art available to the public. While highbrow types might have wondered whether there was enough of an audience for such an ambitious project, Lyman was confident.
"People hear the word 'art' and they sometimes think it has to be something hanging in a gallery," says Lyman. "But art is everywhere, and someone who has never taken an art class can appreciate or criticize a piece just as concisely as a person who makes a living as an artist."
The ninth annual art festival kicks off tonight at the cavernous Navy Pier, where the works of about 1,000 artists from 85 galleries will be on display and available for purchase. Six foreign countries are represented–the most in SOFA's history.
"We're very excited that the international component has increased, especially after last year when so many artists had a difficult time getting here after 9/11," he says. "There's a wide range of media in this year's show and people will find some great treasures, like some of the one-of-a-kind furniture pieces. People have the opportunity to purchase the artists' specific pieces right there, or they could commission them to make something custom that fits the dimensions or colors of what they want."
Of course, not everything at SOFA is meant to be functional. Some of the highlights include Japanese artist Tsuguo Yanai's large-scale paper heads of such pop-culture notables as Charlie Chaplin, Mother Teresa, Pablo Picasso, John Lennon, Andy Warhol and Albert Einstein. The striking paper sculptures are muted in color and bear a striking resemblance to their subjects.
Another must-see is Dale Chihuly's exhibit. The world-renowned glass artist has enjoyed enormous success with his "Chihuly in the Park" installation at Garfield Park Conservatory, which has been extended through the run of SOFA Chicago. For this year's SOFA, Chihuly fills a boat's hull with blown glass. The nautical theme is in honor of Navy Pier.
Martin Blank, who has worked with Chihuly, will be one of the artists at the Corning Museum of Glass display showing spectators how the gorgeous, delicate designs are crafted.
Lyman expects this year's attendance to better last year's 27,000–which was down 3,000 attendees from 2000, due in large part to the events of Sept. 11. "There's a very positive spirit at this year's SOFA," says Lyman.
"There are certainly art connoisseurs who purchase high-level pieces here. But it's also where a lot of people just beginning to collect look around and get a feel for what they like."
Lyman concludes that just as the work speaks to the artist's individuality, so too does a buyer's selection speak to his.
His 'Heart' is in his art
Tommy Simpson knew it was time to move away from Chicago when art collectors from home traveled to New York to buy his art.
"I was literally around the corner from them," says Simpson, who grew up in Dundee. "Chicago is a wonderful place and I love it, but there are three times as many galleries in New York in addition to auction houses. I found that most of my business was out there, so I moved out East. I wanted to be within striking distance of the big monster." Simpson's work will be on display at the Leo Kaplan Modern booth at SOFA. His piece de resistance is a lush 30-foot by 40-foot vibrant, colorful creation titled "Garden of the Heart."
"It has about 160 pieces in it," says Simpson, 63, who has participated in SOFA since its inception nine years ago. "It isn't pushing any envelopes, but it's something fun that I think people will enjoy looking at."
And sitting on.
"Yes, I have no pretensions that you can't sit on my art," he says, laughing. "It's a fun garden based on a Persian model. I like to show that artists can do things that don't have to be put on a pedestal at a gallery."
You may be able to sit on it, but taking it home may be a little more iffy. It's priced at $300,000.
But then, as Simpson notes, "Somebody bought the London Bridge, so it's possible! The likelihood is slim that someone will pay that much money for the entire piece, but eventually people may buy the various pieces that make it up."
Besides creating functional art for SOFA, Simpson specializes in paintings, sculptures, handmade books and jewelry. (The book Two Looks to Home: The Art of Tommy Simpson, published by Bulfinch Press, features a wide range of the artist's work.) Over the years, he has seen all kinds of artists' creations–some more interesting than others.
"In the 1960s, if you didn't do abstract expressionism it wasn't art," he says. "Now if you do it, people scratch their heads. But they also pass off a loaf of bread painted blue with knives stuck in it as art. It's not a bad thing, necessarily. It gets people's juices going and talking about it, but people tend to see it once and not want to see it again."
Not that he hasn't dabbled in the avant-garde himself.
"I did one show where I put ducks in the pond," Simpson says. "I put a big pile of straw in the front lobby and filled it full of manure. So the museum had ducks quacking and smelled like manure."
Yes, but was that art?
"I considered it fun," he says, laughing. "The art part would be a long discussion. It lacked a certain amount of craftsmanship, but the nature of the idea was certainly different. Sometimes the idea is what's important to people rather than the skill involved or the beauty. There is a lot less craft in art today. I'm sort of old school. I love something that's done really well."
Thank goodness for that. A manure-filled Navy Pier wouldn't be nearly as enticing as his pristine garden.
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As high-tech as it is, Nokia's new "disruptive" N9 is, in one significant way, not very disruptive at all. Like the N8 before it, a whole slew of Android phones and of course Apple's locked-down iAppliance the N9 is yet another touch-screen monoblock handset that I personally can't stand.
The problem for me boils down to text entry. I'll let Steve Litchfield of The Phones Show explain:
Steve makes some great points here, though I myself prefer portrait qwertys over anything else. Point is, text entry for desktop, laptop and netbook computers has been more or less standardized because the five-row qwerty keyboard with optional numberpad and extra row of function keys works. Can you really say the same about on-screen software equivalents?
Last week Electricpig.co.uk made the rather bold claim that they had tested every single Android keyboard app in existence. I haven't tried all of them but the ones I have all suck. Even Swype, the go-to keypad app on my Nexus S, feels like skidding around on black ice when compared to the physical qwerty on my Motorola Spice.
The tablet-style slab is great for reading and other forms of consumption, but for text entry I'm of the continuing opinion that nothing beats a physical qwerty keypad. The continuing popularity of BlackBerries in my country will attest to this.
It's been great fun following the evolving design of mobile phones over the years, and while the industry may have decided on a standardized form factor I don't think the users have just yet. Am I right?


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Published: Monday 5th January 2015 by The News Editor
A six-year-old fighting for his life after he was pulled from the wreckage of a plane crash which killed his parents has been described as a "nice little boy".
George Tonkinson is being treated for the injuries he suffered when the light aircraft he was travelling in came down in woodland near Popham Airfield, Hampshire.
Lewis Tonkinson, 50, and Sally Tonkinson, 44, from Alcester in Warwickshire, were travelling from the Isle of Wight.
The family's large gated home, which includes 30 acres of woodland near a river by the rural village of Cookhill, Worcestershire, was quiet today.
Three cars were parked on the drive, including a Mercedes 4×4, which neighbours said Mrs Tonkinson often drove.
On the front lawn, visible from the road, lay two footballs, a set of junior goal nets and a child's wheelbarrow.
Many of the blinds were drawn and Christmas lights were off.
A female neighbour, who declined to be named, described the Tonkinsons as "a lovely couple" and their son as "a nice little boy".
On hearing the news of the deaths, she said it was an "unbelievable tragedy".
The neighbour said she often spoke to Mrs Tonkinson, who would be out walking her black labrador, adding that she also had an older daughter who did not live at the house.
She said she had known Mrs Tonkinson for several years as they got their hair and nails done at the same place, and said the couple had been going to the United States just before Christmas.
"She was going to America, she'd never been there before. She was very much in love," she said.
"She used to live in Solihull before moving here.
"She was a pretty girl, very vivacious, and had her hair and nails done regularly – she was very glamorous.
"She was just pleasant, happy, pretty, slim, tall, blonde hair, nice figure, lovely girl. Her little boy was pretty as well."
The neighbour added that the couple spent "a fortune" making the property and grounds "drop-dead gorgeous" since moving in a few years ago.
"She had everything to live for, this girl," she said.
The neighbour's husband said Mr Tonkinson could sometimes be spotted in the skies around their country home in a bright orange flying machine, which he described as similar to a powered paraglider.
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The following houses are shown: Michael Mitton's, Cleeves, Winter's, Robert Jordan's and Scottow's fortification. Letters on the map indicate locations of events and buildings; Prout's house, Hunnewell, Seldon, John Libby, John Mills, Roger Deering's wife, etc.
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The bitter cold cut through my insulated Interstellar Travel Age parka, hitting me with a gust of pain way worse than the overwrought prose of this sentence.
Starlin's Dreadstar Optioned For TV, Starlin Involved As Writer
Sam Becket Leaps To Syfy UK
While Quantum Leap is available on Netflix and other streaming services, the episode count is incomplete, and I've heard there are issues with the music rights even for the DVD releases. Like so many TV shows of its era, agreements were only made with reruns and maybe syndication in mind, and who watches TV by reruns…
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion SPOILERS AHEAD
So I just watched the pilot episode, Spark of Rebellion. Spoilery thoughts after the break!
Netflix UK's Doctor Who license set to expire
So if you use Netflix in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland and intended to getting around to watching some Doctor Who or Torchwood (among other BBC shows); you probably should know they might just pull the whole lot:https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?…
New Star Trek Renegades Trailer
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Hello there! I know I've said it before, but this time I am really going to try to blog every day here at least for the next 8 weeks. I can't promise it will be super interesting, but I've decided to enter a silly weight loss contest for the next 8 weeks with the top prize being a nice chunk of cash, so I'm thinking anything I can do to make the process easier will be helpful. Tomorrow is the first weigh in and I've just had a large cup of hot chocolate and a big chunk of pumpkin cake and I feel sick to my stomach! Seems like a good way to start a diet.
Another reason I want to start blogging again is because of a change in my personal life that I don't want to go into details about, but I'd like to make some changes in the ways I communicate. So, I'm thinking that means less Facebook, less G-chat, and more blogging and more face-to-face personal interaction with just a few friends, (instead of a little bit of time with lots of different people).
I also am going to try to be better about following other people's blogs, especially Susan, who I miss and haven't been following for far too long.
It occurs to me to add that for the past 10 weeks I've been training for a 10k and I need to take a break. It's been exhilarating running 15-25 miles a week and working on speed, but I'm achey and I want to take a bit of a break from running, but will probably get going again in a week or so, since the race is on Thanksgiving.


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Positioning, shape and use of this building relate to its site on a much frequented thoroughfare of a village. Similar to other small communities the scale of the buildings has changed drastically during the last decades. This place is characterized today by little demanding large buildings, between which older buildings have been encapsulated. Baumschlager Eberle Architekten have answered to these special conditions in a two folded manner: They continue the new scale, but they elevate their building with its unmistakable cubic organization and its design of the facade from the otherwise diffuse appearance of the street front. The front part of the building, oriented to the public, is occupied by the facilities of the bank, whereas the back part, oriented to the garden, contains apartments of different size and patterns.
The bank which was formerly housed in some nondescript store received an attractive architectural visiting card by the means of the new building, which is sited perpendicular to the road. The larch wood lattice works as a memorable sign, with its horizontally moving elements, which wrap consequently around the glass cube. The lattice serves not only the purpose of protection from sun and sight, but also lends the building a large degree of homogeneity. The flexible moving elements yield a simultaneously multilayered and attractive image of the facade. The wood lattice originals the changing play of light and shadow and thus shapes the interior spaces as well, especially the multi-functional hall on the fourth floor, which the bank rents to clients at its own cost. The orientation toward a service bank is already formulated on the first floor, where the open client area is designed in an almost living room manner – without the usual teller booths.
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Hans-Jörg Allgaier
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Avoiding trade charges 'key for Northern Ireland food industry'
Local food and drink companies have said they want to avoid punitive tariffs and keep border disruption to a minimum following Brexit.
A report from the Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association (Nifda) said that members were worried about the impact of the EU referendum and the effect Donald Trump's policies would have on global trade.
Nifda urged the Assembly and the Government to focus on issues facing the sector and make sure the industry was taken into consideration during looming trade negotiations.
In an introduction to the report, Nifda chairman Declan Billington - who is also head of animal feed company John Thompson - said members already operated as efficiently as possible and would not be able to accommodate food tariffs.
He added, however, that a number of opportunities could arise from the EU vote.
"Successful resolution is not exclusively dependent upon the outcome of trade negotiations with Europe, but also on how we reposition our industry to service the food market both in the UK and globally," he insisted.
The report, produced by business advisory firm Deloitte, also stressed the interdependence of the Northern Ireland food sector with the Republic.
Around 25% of the Northern Ireland milk pool and 36% of its lamb is processed in the Republic, it explained.
Mr Billington added: "We are currently facing a period of great uncertainty following the Brexit referendum vote and more recently the result of the US election, which is likely to impact on inward investment and future trade agreements with the US."
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Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from when the family lived in the region of Parkhurst or wood in the park. Pentycross is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
Pentycross Early Origins
Herefordshire where Sir Osbern Pentecost (died 1054), a Norman knight who followed Edward the Confessor to England built the castle at Ewyas, one of the first Motte and Bailey structures in England. He like many other Normans was banished from England so he secured safe passage to Scotland in 1052 but was later killed at the Battle of Dunsinane.
Pentycross Spelling Variations
Pentycross Spelling Variations
Spelling variations in names were a common occurrence before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, even the literate spelled their names differently as the English language incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other European languages. Many variations of the name Pentycross have been found, including Parkhurst, Pankhurst and others.
Pentycross Early History
Pentycross Early History
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Pentycross Early Notables (pre 1700)
Pentycross Early Notables (pre 1700)
Notables of this surname at this time include: Emily Pankhurst, Suffragette; John Parkhurst (c. 1511-1574), an English Marian exile and later Bishop of Norwich in 1560; Sir Robert Parkhurst (c.1569-1636), an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of...
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The Great Migration
Families began migrating abroad in enormous numbers because of the political and religious discontent in England. Often faced with persecution and starvation in England, the possibilities of the New World attracted many English people. Although the ocean trips took many lives, those who did get to North America were instrumental in building the necessary groundwork for what would become for new powerful nations. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America bore the name Pentycross, or a variant listed above: Anthony Parkhurst settled in Virginia in 1635; George Parkhurst settled in New England in 1630; John Parkhurst settled in Maryland in 1774.
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I remember this video late or early in the morning depending on how you look at 3am. San Juan Puerto Rico at my tia's house near the sea. The tropical air moist and salty. This video imprinted itself into my mind. I haven't seen it in a long time; I think it was a defining moment in my life.


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U92 fm's nightly entertainment-talk show, The BrewRATS, held their second "Anime Night" last night, with well-known cosplayer Alodia Gosengfiao and the cosplay photographer Jay Tablante featured as guest.
After the success of the first "Anime Night" special, held last August 18, the radio show The BrewRATS has held another "Anime Night" last night with guest Jay Tablante, who had been a part of the first Anime Night, and Alodia Gosiengfiao.
The special presentation of the programme had aired with no commercial breaks.
But before the "Anime Night" started, Alodia was interviewed by Ramon Bautista and Tado. They have discussed How did Alodia started in the Philippine cosplay scene, and How thing run when she and Ashley, her sister, cosplay the characters. They have also discussed the things that she liked, from Video Games to Anime.
And when the special has started, together with Angel Rivero (co-host of the show, and "Erning" of Strangebrew) and Jay, they had started discussing Anime-related stuffs, though their common interests was Video Games.
The three had discussed video game titles, such as Halo: Reach, Final Fantasy, Initial D, and Kingdom Hearts. They also discussed the fictional character Chocobo of the Final Fantasy series, though it was odd that nobody has brought up the issue of renaming the Chocobos to "Horsebirds" by Square Enix on Final Fantasy XIV.
Jay, who can be considered as an anime expert, discussed the facts about anime programmes that will be played on the playlist.
The have discussed that Rurouni Kenshin (also known as Samurai X), besides that fictional characters, was an accurate portrayal of the Tokugawa era.
And they also have discussed the featured artists on every Macross series.
Unlike the first special, which has totally caught everyone off-guard, every single Filipino anime fan who have listened on the radio show has flooded the Facebook wall of both The BrewRATS and Angel Rivero, U92 fm Hotline, and also on their YM account, vieing for their music requests to be played on the radio and their greetings to be said on-air.
Some greetings has been said, and some has been said by Alodia herself, and requests, particularly K-ON!, YuYu Hakusho songs, has been played on the radio.
Here are the list of songs that had been played on the special:
Played from 9:15pm:
01. "Egao ga Sukidakara" by Sawada Shoko (Akazukin Chacha ED1)
02. "Sobakasu" by Judy & Mary (Rurouni Kenshin OP2)
03. "Lonely in Gorgeous" by Tommy february6 (Paradise Kiss OP)
04. "Konya wa Hurricane (There's a Hurricane Tonight)" by Kinuko Oomori (Bubblegum Crisis OVA OP1)
05. "Abracadra" by Brown Eyed Girls (K-Pop Song)
Played from 10:00pm onwards:
06. "Space Boy" by Dave Rodgers (Initial D: Special Stage OST)
07. "Hide & Seek" by Namie Amuro
08. "Try Again" by Fire Bomber (Macross 7 OST)
09. "Simple & Clean (English version)" by Utaka Hikaru (Kingdom Hearts OST)
10. "Rise" by Origa (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OP2)
11. "Don't Say Lazy!" by Yoko Hikasa with Aki Toyosaki, Satomi Satou and Minako Kotobuki (K-ON! ED)
12. "Days" by FLOW (Eureka Seven OP1)
13. "Tate! Toushou Daimos (Stand Up! General Daimos)" by Isao Sasaki, Columbia Yurikago-kai and Koorogi '73 (Tosho Daimos OP1)
14. "Cagayake! Girls" by Aki Toyosaki with Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Satou, Minako Kotobuki and Ayana Taketatsu (K-ON! OP)
15. "Hohoemi no Bakudan" by Matsuko Mawatari (YuYu Hakusho OP)
16. "No Boy, No Cry" by Stance Punks (Naruto OP6)
Alodia has picked Numbers 03, 05, 07, 09, 10 to be played, and Jay has requested for "Space Boy" (Number 06) to be played.
Indeed, It was another successful "Anime Night" special for The BrewRATS, since their social networking sites has been flooded, and some people are even requesting for Alodia to return on Radio. While most people request for this "special" to be weekly. And if there will be another "Anime Night" on The BrewRATS, who knows, but it was surely an interesting night for everyone.
You can download the entire broadcast of The BrewRATS last September 21, which includes the "Anime Night" special, by Clicking HERE. Special thanks to http://isanta.tumblr.com for the recording.
ALODIA-sama rocks!
too bad i've missed the episode T^T
i was playing grandchase that night
pero grateful ako na may nagrecord
dapat inayos yung recording kasi yung ibang part same lang yung nasa loob sayang yung dont say lazy natapos malapit na sa end ng song
di nila alam na pinapalabas ang gundam 00 sa tv5
dapat inayos yung recording kasi yung ibang part same lang yung nasa loob sayang yung dont say lazy natapos malapit na sa end ng song
pero grateful ako na may nagrecord
do you got some from the info from http://www.brewratslive.co.nr? sila unang unang naglabas ng info e 11:45pm pa lang ng sept 21 mero na
I have listened to them as well. Though I admit that I have used them as a guide on the songs that had been played, I had corrected some of the info they have posted, particularly the song title, artist and on what anime programme they came from.
mali-mali naman info sa brewratslive. panget pa ng layout nung blog nya haha
yeah yeah… and that's the reason why I had corrected it on our article.
oh my!!!!! i miss it deym naman
nice! 😀 can't wait! thanks! Hope there will be another Anime Night! 🙂
Hope there would be an another one.
lucky to have alodia before the brewrats ends its contract at u92cooltobeu.
though i wonder if they will be renewed, since they have a chance to work on their sister TV station, TV5…
r u talking abt the lupet brewrats ep? guesting lang naman yun eh, di pa regular. at saka hindi na bagay kung ire-renew pa kasi magrereformat na yung joey hindi na siya pop station.
yes, i know… but imagine this, due to popular demand on Lupet's FB Page, plus they are working on TV5's sister radio station… U92 (owned by NBC, controlled by AYC). Why not?
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Mandated Loan Forgiveness
Lenders aren't stupid and they have memories. It is incredibly difficult now for middle America to get mortgages thanks to Obama Administration loan foregiveness policies. Why? Because lenders know that politicians can, at their pleasure, rip up the contracts and deny the lenders the payments they are entitled to.
So, why lend to the class of Americans that the Obama Administration seems to want to provide loan foregiveness for? No reason I can think of. The next group that will find themselves out of luck when seeking loans will be students, especially the demographic now escaping their obligations thanks to the President.
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- Samantha Brooke said...
I find this extremely disconcerting, especially when I see friends share enthusiasm about student loan forgiveness without thinking about its consequences. Furthermore, at a fundamental level, [MANY] people need financial discipline. If you can't afford something (and I'm NOT talking about necessities such as food, a place to live, etc.), don't buy it. Don't take out a loan. Don't live beyond your means. If that means not buying the latest iPad or drinking at a bar on the weekend, so be it. I was fortunate enough to have my parents provide for me as an undergraduate (school and living). Their generosity didn't prevent me from holding a part-time job to save for the future (against their wishes). After graduation, I spent two years working as a consultant/project manager to save for a down payment on a house and graduate school. Two years of financial discipline and part-time employment as a consultant will allow me to pay graduate school in full, living expenses AND still have a modest down payment for a condo after school. Now, what is the incentive to pay 32K in tuition in full? A little patience and discipline goes a long way and many in our society are lacking it.
- July 25, 2012 at 6:53 PM
- Samantha Brooke said...
Just to clarify - I'm not saying never take out a loan, but be smart about it and budget appropriately. I have several best friends who had to pay their way through undergrad and have worked their BUTT off to pay everything off within a few years of graduation (making below 30k).
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The Static Jacks: EU Tour Feb 2012 (w/ The Wombats, Grouplove, Howler)
January 17th, 2012 • News
We're extremely excited to announce that The Static Jacks will tour the UK next month, following on from their introductory shows at the end of November.
The run includes three dates supporting The Wombats, which will make TSJ the first LFC Records band to play at the O2 Academy in Brixton, and one with fellow countrymen Grouplove in Brighton. We can also reveal that the band will be supporting Howler at Paris' Fleche d'Or on Wednesday 8 Feb, and will be appearing at Berlin's Magnet venue on Sat 11 Feb.
The band are on the road to promote their debut full-length, "If You're Young", which is out through Fearless Records on 5 March. The double A-sided 7″ vinyl of "Into The Sun" / "Mercy, Hallelujah" (which we put out late last year) will be on sale on the tour, or you can pick one up before it all kicks off, from our shop.
Check out a the band finishing their set at Koko in November with "Into The Sun":
Article source: http://laissezfaireclub.com/2012/01/the-static-jacks-uk-our-feb-2012/
LessThan3 Heartbeat Presents: The Chaotic Good
LessThan3 Heartbeat Presents: The Chaotic Good
LessThan3′s Heartbeat Podcast featured an exclusive mix by The Chaotic Good. You can get the mix here and view the track listing as well. Enjoy!
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Introducing: Pete Hickman And The Divers
January 15th, 2012 • Introducing
One thing we love about the internet is the ability to find a great bands from all over the world every day, without the hassle of even putting shoes on. Sure, there's a hell of a lot of mediocrity out there, but amongst the plethora of acts trying their darnedest to get heard, the law of averages suggests there'll be diamond in the rough every now and again.
And it's very exciting when something comes out of the speakers that isn't total drivel. You know, actual songs. Ones that don't try to do too much, and possess some great instrumentation and a juicy chorus. Most of the time, it's all we ask for. You'd be surprised at the number of bands who shy away from this formula.
Anyway, step forward Pete Hickman And The Divers – our latest discovery fitting the above criteria. They're a London four piece who take us on a massive nostalgia trip back to our early teenage years with their blend of US alt rock that was popular in the early to mid-nineties. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Dinosaur Jr – that sort of thing. Bands whose albums you probably bought on the day of release, before super-glueing their badge onto your backpack.
The band haven't done an awful lot so far, apart from some rudimentary London gigging, but they've just posted a studio video of them playing a track of called "A Little Better", which might open the door to bigger and better things. We think it's superb, and can't wait to hear more where it came from.
Article source: http://laissezfaireclub.com/2012/01/introducing-pete-hickman-and-the-divers/
Introducing: Monogold
January 14th, 2012 • Introducing
Another day, another Brooklyn band: Monogold are the latest three piece from the NYC borough starting to make a noise loud and exciting enough to be heard outside of their hometown. From what we can see, they've been doing the rounds at various local venues (and Willaimsburg rooftops) for a year or two, lending support to the likes of YACHT and Bear Hands along the way.
Just now, they've been picked up by the ever-on-it Charlie Ashcroft at Amazing Radio, who's giving initial UK spins to their "Spirit Or Something" track on the station's "Audition" show, which is lifted from their 2011 full length "The Softest Glow", available via their Bandcamp page.
The aforementioned track is four minutes of psychedelic, tropical infused indie-pop that recalls the colourful, free spirited experimentalism of bands like Animal Collective, Yeasayer, MGMT or The Go! Team. It's also a track that we imagine would go down an absolute storm live. We're picturing crazed, face-painted fans and plenty of dancing, and as such are eagerly awaiting the announcement of some UK dates.
Spirit Or Something by monogoldmusic
MP3: Monogold – Spirit or Something
Article source: http://laissezfaireclub.com/2012/01/introducing-monogold/
An Aphex Twin Remix??? Yes He Did!
An Aphex Twin Remix??? Yes He Did!
The Chaotic Good's creative juices were flowing when he remixed Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker." The remix is available for free download here.
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Konch still seeks guarantee
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Charlton's Paul Konchesky is still seeking guarantees about his future.Paul Konchesky is happy to remain at Charlton after coming off the transfer list, but will reassess his situation if he cannot force himself into a starting place.
Konchesky spent three months at Tottenham after falling out of favour in 2003, but Addicks manager Alan Curbishley insisted recently that he figured in his plans.
Konchesky is pleased to have his future settled for the time being, but still wants assurances over a first team place.
"As far as I am concerned I am still at Charlton and nothing will change until the end of the season," Konchesky told the Evening Standard.
"I am contracted here for another two years. Nothing happened in January and everything is settled now for another six months.
"If the club do not wish to sell me in the summer then I will be happy.
"But any player wants to be on the field. I am playing well at the moment and I want to be starting games."


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Have you looked at your Twitter feed lately? Marketing is exploding everywhere! The social media landscape is loud and noisy, filled with competing brands and messages. Wading into the fracas can be daunting and discouraging. To stand out from the crowd, your organization is going to need to think differently, speak in an authentic voice, and embrace creativity.
Today we have a curated list of article that will inspire you to free your inner creative genius. Browse away!
What Is Creativity's Value–In Marketing, In Business?
Via forbes.com Recently, there has been discussion around the exodus of senior creative talent from ad agencies and other companies due to perceived lack of fun. My view? Business is not about creative self-actualization for its own sake.
Creativity in Marketing
Via slideshare.net Every marketer and adverting agency have one great creative idea. This presentation highlights the creativity and execution of great Integrated Marketing Communications campaigns. The execution of Every marketer and adverting agency have one great creative idea.
Make Your Content Marketing Processes More Creative: 5 Actionable Tips
Via contentmarketinginstitute.com Foster a culture of creativity in your organization Any serious content marketer likely has lingering doubts that their attempts to be more creative just boil down to finding a fancier way to say things that have already been said a thousand times. In terms of process, specifically, establishing a culture open to creativity may entail taking people out of the processes.
Marketers Talk About How They Cultivate Creativity
Via adage.com Are the best brand creative ideas today rooted in digital? There certainly is a tremendous amount of creativity being articulated digitally, but I don't really believe its creative because it is digital. In fact, I believe it is probably much easier to get to a creative place within the digital environment today.
Why is Creativity Important in Marketing?
Via unashamedlycreative.com.au Admittedly, there are self indulgent idiots within the marketing industry who have given creativity a bad name by making campaigns that are heavy on the abstract and light on the message. However I do believe most customers, clients and people can spot the difference between wanktivity and creativity. Look at what happens when IKEA hands their outdoor advertising over their Banksy to hack.
5 Unique Ways to Boost Your Marketing Creativity
Via ww.deluxe.com Relying on the tried-and-true strategies help, but things like developing a compelling offer and sharing it with your target audience are fundamentals every marketer worth his or her salt knows them. If you really want to set yourself apart with direct-mail campaigns that earn outstanding response rates and digital marketing campaigns that go viral, you need to be creative. Youve tried all your great ideas now what?
3 Reasons Creativity Is Marketing On Steroids
Via inc.com Ask yourself: what does creativity mean to you? According to the CreativeLive Creative Jobs Report, 36% of employed Americans want to leave their current position for a job that offers them the chance to be more creative–many are even willing to take a pay cut to do so. For many, creativity is a total abstract notion.
Refuel Your Creativity
Via churchmarketingsucks.com We all feel like at times we hit the wall creatively. Creativity is a muscle and it takes exercise to keep it fit and running at its highest levels. There is a myriad of ways to get refueled creatively and each person has different go-to techniques to fill their tank.


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The Portuguese over the centuries have proven to be masters of discovery, whether it be famous capes, islands or continents.
So the nation�s capital of Lisbon seems a fitting venue for the launch of a new BMW the car maker claims unearths a brand new vehicle segment.
The BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo is a car designed to offer space, comfort and practicality in one elegant package that morphs the characteristics of a luxury sedan, 4WD and a grand tourer.
Our first experience of the new GT is from the back seat, where a wheelbase and tracks identical to the 7-Series provide vast legroom and width, and a tall roofline provides the headroom similar to the company�s high-riding X5 softroader.
In its optional two-seat configuration, the outer pews are separated by a permanent leather centre console with hidden storage. The seats can be reclined electrically in the light and airy cabin that benefits from an elongated daylight opening and huge optional panoramic sunroof.
Being a BMW, of course, there�s no more important seat than the one in front of the steering wheel.
The GT�s so-called �semi command� seating position is immediately noticeable. You sit higher than you would in a sedan, but you�re also lower than you would be in one of BMW�s 4WDs. All-round visibility is certainly good even if you�re not sitting above all traffic.
BMW claims there are buyers who want this �perfect, level entry� because they don�t want to sink low into a sedan but are also put off the likes of the X3 and X5 as they don�t want to climb into a cabin.
Driving the GT is also a sedan/soft-roader hybrid experience.
There�s a touch more body roll from a centre of gravity higher than a sedan, which ranges from pronounced to well controlled as you work through the various settings of the standard Dynamic Drive system that alters the steering, throttle and transmission � and dampers if you have the optional Adaptive Drive fitted to our launch test cars.
Normal is a fine default setting, though Sport and Sport Plus are the most effective for keeping the GT at its most composed through corners while also delivering weightier steering and more eager throttle response.
Even in Normal mode, however, the GT tips into corners with conviction, with plenty of grip provided by wide tyres (including 275mm rubber at the rear). The brakes are also reassuringly strong and progressive.
And they come in handy for a vehicle that weighs about two tonnes.
Two exemplary six-cylinder engines, however, ensure that moving all that mass is never a problem. (A 300kW V8 model will also be available in Australia.)
A 3.0-litre turbo diesel will power the entry-level 5-Series GT that will cost about $140,000 to $150,000 when it goes on sale locally next March.
Squash the throttle pedal and the 530d gathers momentum in a linear, fuss-free manner, complemented by a new super-slick eight-speed automatic gearbox that delivers swift and seamless gearchanges.
The auto seems an even better match with the new 3.0-litre turbo petrol six despite having to work with less torque � 400Nm rather than the 530d�s 540Nm.
The 535i�s engine � a successor to the highly regarded twin-turbo employed in the likes of the 135i and 335i but now featuring more advanced valve technology and just one (slightly larger) turbo � produces it peak torque from a staggeringly low 1200rpm all the way to 5000rpm. Peak power of 225kW kicks in just 800 revs later, ensuring the engine feels responsive and punchy right through its rev range.
The 535i is certainly the more dramatic engine of the two, if not quiet as the diesel when cruising � though hard acceleration is rewarded with a deeper, more menacing growl from the engine bay.
Crucially, both torque-laden engines provide the GT with the kind of effortless progress befitting of a car wearing a grand touring badge.
The GT will also provide an appropriately loping gait on freeways when the dampers are set to Comfort or Normal modes.
While Australian bitumen will provide a tougher test of the GT�s suspension than the range of roads covered during the international launch in Portugal, the first variant of the next-generation 5-Series (the sedan debuts in 2010) promises excellent ride refinement.
Practicality is also a strong suit. BMW was pipped to the dual-stage tailgate concept by Skoda�s Superb sedan, but its system is equally effective � and less fiddly to operate.
Press one button and the cargo area can be accessed like a conventional bootlid opening; press another button further across and the whole tailgate rises electrically like a liftback design.
Capacity is 440 litres with the fore-aft adjustable rear seats in their rearmost position. This increases to 590 litres with the seats moved forward, while using levers to fold both the rear seats and a split-fold partition expands luggage space to 1700 litres.
The impeccably crafted interior even provides more assorted storage compartments than typically associated with modern BMWs � including a push-out drawer in the centre stack that is one of the few differentiations between the dashes of the GT and 7-Series.


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