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The parable of the ten virgins
Matt. 25:1-13
1 "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom.
2 Five of them were foolish and five were sensible.
3 When the foolish took their lamps, they didn't take oil with them.
4 But the sensible ones took oil in their flasks with their lamps.
5 Since the groom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
6 In the middle of the night there was a shout: 'Here's the groom! Come out to meet him.'
7 Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.
8 But the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'
9 The sensible ones answered, 'No, there won't be enough for us and for you. Go instead to those who sell, and buy oil for yourselves.'
10 When they had gone to buy some, the groom arrived. Then those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
11 Later the rest of the virgins also came and said, 'Master, master, open up for us!'
12 But he replied, 'I assure you: I do not know you!'
13 Therefore be alert, because you don't know either the day or the hour."
The context
Jesus is on the Mount of Olives with his disciples, responding to their questions about the future destruction of the Temple and the end of the age. Just before this, in Matthew 23, Jesus pronounces woes on the Jewish leaders for their hypocrisy. Then, leaving the Temple and crossing over the Kidron Valley, He tells His disciples that the Temple, a glistening monument to Jewish nationalism (but a stale house of worship where He was rejected as Messiah), would soon be demolished. Shocked by this prediction, His disciples ask him in Matt. 24:3, "When will these things happen (the destruction of the Temple)? And what is the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Jesus responds in the rest of Matthew 24-25 in what is known as the Olivet Discourse. The parable of the 10 virgins comes in the middle of this message.
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Parable of the wedding banquet
Matt. 22:1-14:
1 Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:
2 "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
3 He sent out his slaves to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn't want to come.
4 Again, he sent out other slaves, and said, 'Tell those who are invited: Look, I've prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet. '
5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business.
6 And the others seized his slaves, treated them outrageously and killed them.
7 The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.
8 Then he told his slaves, 'The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
9 Therefore, go to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.'
10 So those slaves went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests.
11 But when the king came in to view the guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed for a wedding.
12 So he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.
13 Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
14 For many are invited, but few are chosen."
(A similar parable is found in Luke 14:16-24.)
The context
Jesus has made His triumphant entry into Jerusalem and cleansed the Temple complex, driving out those who are buying and selling. He has received the praise of children and cursed the barren fig tree. He has answered the Pharisees' challenges to His authority and provided the parables of the two sons and the vineyard owner to illustrate the Jewish leaders' hardness of heart. Stung by Jesus' rebuke, they look for a way to arrest Him.
Now, as chapter 22 begins and Jesus' crucifixion draws near, He remains in the Temple in the presence of the Pharisees and tells the parable of the wedding banquet.
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The earth was harvested – Revelation 14:15-16
Previously: One like the Son of Man – Revelation 14:14
The scripture
Rev. 14:15 – Another angel came out of the sanctuary, crying out in a loud voice to the One who was seated on the cloud, "Use your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16 So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. (HCSB)
The earth was harvested
John picks up the narrative in verses 15-16: "Another angel came out of the sanctuary, crying out in a loud voice to the One who was seated on the cloud, 'Use your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth is ripe.' So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested."
The harvest in these verses, though not stated explicitly, refers to wheat or barley. The word for ripe (Gr.: xeraino) describes dried heads of grain and is different than the word used of ripened grapes in verse 18.
The phrase "another angel" does not imply that the "One like the Son of Man" is an angel. John simply is continuing his observation from the point of the three angels in verses 6-13. This angel comes out of the sanctuary and heads straight for the One holding the sickle. He bears a message from God the Father, who is seated on His throne in the heavenly Holy of Holies (Rev. 6:9; 8:3; 11:19). The message is simple: The time to reap has come; the earth is ripe for harvest. The One seated on the cloud asks no questions, nor does He hesitate. He swings His sickle over the earth, and it is harvested.
No doubt this is a harvest of people on the earth. But who are they? Commentators differ in their understanding of this passage. Some believe this is the harvest of the just, coming before the harvest of the unbelievers (vv. 17-20); it is distinct just as the wheat harvest is distinct from the harvest of grapes. Others, however, argue that scripture normally speaks only of unbelievers being cut down. Therefore, both the One like the Son of Man and the angel with the sickle are engaged in destroying the wicked; one harvest, two perspectives.
The dead who die in the Lord – Revelation 14:13
Previously: This demands the perseverance of the saints – Revelation 14:12
The scripture
Rev. 14:13 – Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: The dead who die in the Lord from now on are blessed." "Yes," says the Spirit, "let them rest from their labors, for their works follow them!" (HCSB)
The dead who die in the Lord
This section ends with a voice from heaven saying, "Write: The dead who die in the Lord from now on are blessed." This is followed by the Holy Spirit, who speaks, "Yes, let them rest from their labor, for their works follow them!"
Certainly, those who "die in the Lord" are blessed. Their names have been written in the Lamb's book of life. The angels have rejoiced at their entrance into the kingdom. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for them in His Father's house and will return to resurrect and glorify them. They will live forever with Jesus in the new heavens and new earth. Meanwhile, at the moment of death, they are absent from the body and present with the Lord. And they will be wherever Jesus is forever and ever. These are blessings for which every believer may rejoice for they are gifts of God's grace, secured through the finished work of His Son.
But what does the phrase "from now on" mean? It cannot mean that those who previously have died in the Lord are lesser citizens of the kingdom or are denied the full benefits of eternal life. Nor can it mean that God withholds His promises from particular saints just because they lived in a different chapter of human history. Rather, the voice from heaven seems to be assuring those who remain faithful to the Lord during a time of extreme persecution that in death they are spared further suffering. Even more important, they are reminded that "their works follow them," meaning they will be richly compensated in eternity for what they willingly sacrificed in time.
They sang a new song – Revelation 14:3
Previously: I heard a sound from heaven – Revelation 14:2
The scripture
Rev. 14:3 –They sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. (HCSB)
They sang a new song
John records in verse 3, "They sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth." Is this the same "new song" that the elders sing in chapter 5? And why are its melody and words limited to the 144,000?
Some commentators argue that the song here is different from the elders' song in Revelation 5 because no one can learn it except the 144,000. Others contend it is the same song, which the elders, who represent both Old and New Covenant believers in Revelation 5, are able to teach the 144,000 in Revelation 14.
We are given the words to the elders' song in Revelation 5: "You [the Lamb] are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals; because You were slaughtered, and You redeemed [people] for God by Your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation. You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth" (Rev. 5:9-10). Perhaps these are the same words of the "new song" in Revelation 14, which those redeemed from the earth sing before heaven's throne.
In any case, it appears this "new song" is a song of redemption, and the reason it's confined to the 144,000 is because they are redeemed people. Unbelievers cannot legitimately sing this song because they have not experienced the salvation purchased with Christ's blood. They may mouth the words, but their lip-synching will never exalt them to heavenly portals or entitle them to join the heavenly choir of equally vile sinners who have been wonderfully transformed by the blood of the Lamb.


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"You want to be a librarian?" That is the reaction I often got when telling friends and colleagues that I was following a successful career as an entomologist with the study of librarianship. The implication seemed to be that I was abandoning science in favor of learning the Dewey Decimal System. Really?
I was taken aback by how little my science colleagues knew about what librarians really do. However, I was undaunted by their skepticism about my new pursuit — because I knew better. I viewed becoming a librarian as a logical career progression, not a complete overhaul. After all, I had relied on information resources throughout my science career. Becoming a librarian was as an opportunity to continue to draw on my science expertise, but apply it in a new academic setting.
Blending competencies
I often reflected on what I liked about my entomology career apart from the subject matter itself. I recognized that I enjoy locating, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, reporting and sharing information. My success as an entomologist had largely depended upon my ability to locate relevant and useful information to support scientific inquiry and decision-making. What better way was there to embrace those interests than to help other scientists locate, access and manage the information they needed to advance their scholarship?
As a scientist, I was already well versed in critical thinking, problem solving, the research process, data collection and analysis, scientific publishing and various workplace people skills. My library science training added knowledge about cataloging and metadata, managing electronic resources, social media and emerging technologies, and library issues and trends.
My previous experience as a scientist — conducting research, applying research results to solving science-based issues, managing data collection and analysis, and communicating and publishing scientific information — helps me relate to other scientists in my new role as a librarian. However, gaining credibility across disciplines and being seen as a partner takes time. It involves displaying subject matter knowledge (enhanced by library science skills) and understanding, anticipating and meeting needs of researchers.
Scientists are trained to be lifelong learners and independent thinkers. Given that, it should not be all that surprising that researchers tend not to think of librarians as key sources of help when they become stumped by a problem or question. They more naturally turn to their colleagues and disciplinary network for input. Librarians who become part of that scholarly community can be seen as valuable collaborators in furthering scientific inquiry.
Staying current
As a scientist, I appreciated hearing about new reports of scholarly thinking related to issues I was investigating. Success in scientific research involves keeping pace with new developments. Scientists need to peruse the scientific literature for emerging ideas, critically evaluate content, integrate and build on (or refute) prior knowledge, and identify gaps in existing knowledge for further inquiry. These are competencies paralleling what librarians aim to teach in information literacy sessions. To help researchers acquire the information they need, librarians need to keep pace with new sources of information and changing technologies affecting scholarly communication, and consider how evolving information literacy concepts can best be conveyed.
Scholarship process
My firsthand experience with the scholarly publication and peer review process, particularly as a published scientist, helps me address related questions while acting in a librarian role. Publication to disseminate creative ideas and new discoveries and engagement in scholarly communication are primary goals of research, to advance our understanding of the world around us. Researchers are challenged to keep current with the broad environment of scholarly communications.
Librarians can help scientists navigate within the constantly changing and increasingly complex and technical environment of scholarly communications. While researchers are primarily focused on disciplinary content, librarians assume expertise in the varied forms of research products. Librarians can explain differences in publishing models (e.g., open access, source types), the place of digital repositories in providing greater access and use of information (e.g., datasets, multimedia products, curriculum materials, gray literature and other scholarly outputs) and complex interconnections of copyright, author rights and licensing. The role of librarian stretches into helping people become responsible, ethical and informed producers and users of information and data.
Productivity pressures
My experience as a scientist underpins my interest in supporting delivery of newer research consultant types of library services. Researchers are under pressure to demonstrate productivity and value in their scholarship record. Offering and promoting research-focused library services can help scientists become more efficient and effective in their work flows. Librarians can help researchers become better information searchers and connect them with productivity and collaboration tools and approaches. Being a consultant for data management planning, citation management systems, and publication venues can facilitate knowledge creation. Encouraging use of author pages and publication metrics can help scientists demonstrate their worth.
Scientist as librarian
I am often asked where I came from before starting work in my current librarian position. Sometimes, I have responded that I used to be an entomologist. But someone corrected me, stating "You are still an entomologist." How true — I am both an entomologist and a librarian. My experience as an entomologist makes me a better librarian in ways too numerous to elaborate. Assisting other scientists with their information needs, in turn, continues to feed my scientific curiosity and desire for lifelong learning. Combining scientific subject expertise with librarian knowledge and skills facilitates the research process for them and for me.


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Honeycrisp Apple Tart
- 5 tbsp unsalted butter, divided
- 1 sheet ready-made puff pastry dough, thawed
- 3 c Honeycrisp Apples, very thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 c caramel sauce
- 1-2 scoops vanilla ice cream
Preheat oven to 375°F. Melt 4 tbsp butter in saucepan over low heat; set aside. Grease sheet pan with remaining 1 tbsp butter. On a floured surface, unroll dough, cut into six equal squares, and transfer squares to sheet pan. Cover each square with apple slices, attractively overlapping, to blanket all but pastry edges. Using a basting brush or spoon, paint fruit with melted butter, then sprinkle each square with sugar and cinnamon. Place in preheated oven and bake 20-25 minutes, or until pastry is golden and fruit is tender. Serve with a drizzle of warmed caramel sauce and a scoop of ice cream.
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The South African Book Fair is a platform for inclusive celebration of books and literature. It is a celebration firstly of a culture of reading, and secondly a culture of writing. The latter can only flow from the former.
By a culture of reading I mean an environment where we have embraced the habit of reading in our personal lives and are intensely engaged with the written word in its diverse forms. Reading becomes a culture when it has been internalised into a way of life, and has become a popular form of family entertainment.
Proficiency in reading and writing does not necessarily amount to reading as a cultural practice. There are many South Africans who have not read a single book since leaving high school or university 10 years ago. They have the ability, but do not care to use it because reading is not part of their way of life.
A culture of reading produces an engaged and motivated reader who is not reading for utilitarian purposes; for instance, to pass an exam, to prepare and present a report to the boss or to a prospective client, to secure employment, and a myriad other situations that may compel us to read. We are talking here of reading for pleasure, for edification, for entertainment, and for fulfilment.
A culture of reading can be cultivated at any age, though like all habits, good and bad, it is best instilled early in childhood.
This is difficult for many South Africans. The national survey into the reading and book-reading behaviour of adult South Africans 2016 commissioned by the South African Book Development Council found that 60% of our people are living in households without a single book.
It notes the obvious, that poorer households with lower levels of education are less likely to have books in their homes. Only 5% of adults with children in their home read to their children.
South African children from the more comfortable classes – a small percentage of the population – have the fortune of being born into a reading culture. They are more likely than not to adopt it for themselves and advance it.
I was fortunate to grow up surrounded by books, my father being a teacher of literature, but later a lawyer. My passion for reading began with comic books, a genre that I continue to devour with relish to this day. There was no intrusion of television those days, so reading became the predominant family entertainment. The first full-length adult book that I read when I was eight or nine was Ingqumbo Yeminyanya, an isiXhosa novel by AC Jordan. Later, Sesotho novels by such authors as JJ Machobane, Thomas Mofolo and the Khaketlas shaped my literary worldview with their breathtaking treatment of the landscape, the importance of setting, the romance and nostalgia of place, the domaine perdu.
It therefore saddens me that, today, literature in indigenous African languages is so marginalised that we can only conceive of a culture of reading in English. This is not because books in indigenous languages do not exist. Every year new books are published in most of the languages of South Africa, in addition to the classics in languages such as isiXhosa, Sesotho and isiZulu that have had a literary tradition dating from the 1800s.
The problem lies with book distribution rather than the book publishing sector. You may go to any of our major bookstore chains today, say Exclusive Books or CNA, and ask for the latest Sesotho novel by Nhlanhla Maake, a Setswana novel by Sabata-Mpho Mokae or an isiXhosa novel by Ncedile Saule, and the likelihood is that you will not find it in stock.
It is a catch-22 situation because the bookstores will tell you they don't stock such novels because no one buys them, but the readers will tell you they don't buy them because they are not in stock.
This is a cumulative result of the marginalisation of indigenous languages in South Africa today in all spheres of life. Our whole democracy is conducted mostly in English, a language understood and used by a minority of South Africans.
Millions who don't speak or read the language are left out. They cannot be full participants in our democracy when they are not informed participants.
Parliament itself pays only lip service to indigenous languages and privileges English, as honourable members childishly ridicule those who break the Queen's language in their shoddy speeches. One wonders why they don't present these speeches in their own languages as Afrikaner members proudly do. Infantile giggles and titters and howls become the order of the day. A grammatical mistake becomes a joke that will be repeated for that whole session. The message is clear: you do not belong in these august halls if you are not proficient in English.
Obviously, fluency in English is a measure of intelligence in our colonised minds. In this kind of environment where indigenous languages are disrespected and despised even by their own speakers we would not expect bookstores to stock books in them.
Cultures evolve; they are acquired and discarded as per need. I remember in my teens how it was fashionable to read James Hadley Chase and Peter Cheney. Every township youth of my generation read these authors. We exchanged books and competed on who had read the most titles. We awaited the release of a new title with eagerness. Even those who came from homes that had no culture of reading, the equivalents of today's 60 percenters living in households that do not have a single book, were not left out. To become part of the conversation you had to read these authors. Those teenagers grew up to be great readers of books – of literary fiction and non-fiction. Some of them became writers of note.
A lot of the young people who read my books do so because they saw peers posting their covers, Facebragging and humblebragging on Twitter about what they enjoyed or hated in them.
Books then become an important topic of discussion, and those who do not want to be left out read them as well so that they may be part of that "woke" and "lit" conversation. Others have formalised the cultivation of book-reading by establishing book clubs on Twitter. I am thinking here of such media personalities as Tebogo Ditshego with his @ReadaBookSA whose followers view book-reading as a badge of smartness and suavity. Indeed, their slogan is #IntellectualSwag.
Instead of the distrust and disdain of information technology shared by many quintessential book readers, we can marry the two.
An interesting programme that is performing wonders in cultivating a culture of reading is run by Palesa Morudi and her partners in Cape Town. Called Cover2Cover Books it was established in 2010 as a social enterprise to fill a gap in the publishing market – namely, the millions of teenagers living in South African townships not serviced with books.
Besides its conventional book publishing activities for young readers and the trade market, I am fascinated most by their harnessing popular technology through their FunDza Literacy Trust to grow a community of readers. Stories serialised on their mobisite are accessed via cellphones by more than 60 000 readers spread throughout South Africa. This is interactive reading as readers exchange views on the stories.
Later, some of this fiction is published as hardcopy books. Some of these readers write their own stories that are circulated in the same manner.
The programme does not only create new readers, but new writers as well. It is a nationwide book club mediated by ordinary, basic cellphones.
There are book clubs throughout South Africa, and the wonderful thing about them is that they were not imposed from the top by some official or government structure but emerge from the grassroots, initiated by community members themselves. Those of us who are writers are occasionally invited to such places as Qwaqwa or Butterworth whenever the book club is discussing our books and we happen to be available.
What will strike you about the informal reading circles and book clubs is that they are predominantly female. On rare occasions, you find one or two men here and there.
Perhaps we need research of our own here on why men don't join book clubs and what can be done to socialise them into a culture of reading. This is of utmost importance to me because I see it as the only way to teach men to be in touch with their emotions and to humanise them out of patriarchal values. It does not matter to me if they decide to form their own male book clubs if that is what makes them feel safe and comfortable, as long as they get to read books, especially fiction which inherently deals with interiorities, feelings and emotions in addition to critiquing social and political structures. After all women have found agency in spaces occupied by women. I have observed in many book clubs I have attended in South Africa that women, without being schooled in feminist theory or critical theory, automatically take a feminist perspective in their discussions, and formulate their own language of resistance in their interpretation of the books they read.
According to the South African Book Development study, the library tops the list of places where adult South Africans prefer to obtain their books. One in four adult South Africans visits the library. The study however is silent on the frequency of these visits. Is it one in four every week, every year, in their lifetime? Book buying is crucial, for it sustains the business of writing. But in a poor country like ours we need a library in every town, every township, every village. We need mobile libraries that will reach even the remotest of places.
Let me end by emphasising that cultures reproduce themselves. A reading culture once cultivated produces more readers and more readers produce more writers, who then in turn produce more readers. It all begins with a seed.
• This is a shortened version of author Zakes Mda's address at the opening of the South African Book Fair on September 8. Read the full speech here:
South African Book Fair Keynote Address by CityPress on Scribd


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Gold Canyon, Arizona
We've been in Gold Canyon for a few days now, and we're starting to figure it out a bit more.
I've taken a few pictures.
Here's a photo of the entrance to the club house.
There's a small nine hole golf course wrapped around the club House area. Golf carts roam the park and can be seen traveling down streets and state highways. Yes, highways…
Here are two close-ups of the clubhouse entrance.
I haven't taken an actual count, but I think about 75% of the resort is park models. The rest are motor homes and travel trailers.
Here is a typical park model of a resident who hasn't arrived yet. Note the covered golf cart and car protected from the harsh summer sun.And here's an occupied park model with patio furniture and southwestern yard art.
And here's Homer tucked in among other part-timers.
Getting around the park is getting easier, but you can see why it's a little confusing… Two streets are named the same. 🙂


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- 'A4' Study Links Beta-Amyloid to Early Alzheimer's
- Stay Social! Being Alone Can Increase Your Alzheimer's Risk
- Depression Increases the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
- Poor Sleep Tied to Rise in Alzheimer's Protein in Blood
- Air Pollution Tied to Alzheimer's Brain Changes
- The Tau of Alzheimer's
- Anemia Tied to Alzheimer's Risk
- 'Squeezed' Blood Vessels in the Brain May Contribute to Alzheimer's Onset
- A Reminder to Keep Taking Your Blood Pressure Medications
- Take Your Blood Pressure Meds. It May Reduce Your Alzheimer's Risk.
- Drug Company to Pursue Approval of Aducanumab, New Drug for Alzheimer's
- Drugs May Not Be the Best Choice for Easing the Agitation of Alzheimer's
- Alzheimer's Drug May Lead to Life-Threatening Muscle Disease
- Opioid Painkillers Increase Pneumonia Risk in People With Alzheimer's Disease
- Drug Companies Halt Trials of Aducanumab for Alzheimer's Disease
- Diabetes Treatments May Help Ward Off Alzheimer's Disease
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- Buyer Beware: Dietary Supplement's Won't Cure Alzheimer's Disease
- Brush, Floss and Visit the Dentist to Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
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- Deep Sleep May Help Protect the Brain Against Alzheimer's Onset
- Flu and Pneumonia Vaccines May Help Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease
- Fish as Brain Food, Combating the Effects of Pollution
- 5 Ways to Lower Your Alzheimer's Risk
- Modest Amounts of Fruits and Vegetables May Lower Your Alzheimer's Risk
- Processed Meat and Starchy Foods, Particularly in Combination, May Raise Dementia Risk
- Stay Social! Being Alone Can Increase Your Alzheimer's Risk
- A Daily Aspirin May Have Limited Brain Benefits
- A Blood Test for Alzheimer's? It May Be Coming
- The Ups and Downs of New Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease
- A Rare Genetic Mutation May Protect Against Alzheimer's
- Income Drops in Young Adulthood May Impair Brain Health
- Blood Test for Alzheimer's Grows Closer
- Are We Getting Closer to an Alzheimer's Vaccine?
- Why More Women Than Men Have Alzheimer's Disease
- Scientists get a 'total surprise' and a promising new clue for how to cure Alzheimer's
- Some 44 Million People Have Alzheimer's Worldwide
- Nearly 14 Million Americans Will Have Alzheimer's Disease by 2060
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- Lucretia V. Holden promoted to Executive Director at the Fisher Center
- The Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation Earns Coveted 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator for the 8th Consecutive Year
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The Hospital Problem in Nursing Homes
February 7, 2012
People with late-stage Alzheimer's must often be cared for in a nursing home. But a new study shows that many nursing home residents with dementia are needlessly moved to the hospital when infections and other medical problems arise, a move that can be particularly stressful for anyone with Alzheimer's disease.
The new findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that nearly one in five residents of nursing homes with advanced dementia were moved to the hospital or another facility during the last 90 days of their lives. In some cases, the patient was moved in the final three days of his or her life, even when such care may not be lifesaving.
"Such patterns of transitions are burdensome, particularly since the overwhelming majority of family members state the main goal of care is comfort," said study co-author Dr. Joan Teno, professor of health policy and practice at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a palliative care physician. "Similar outcomes could be achieved by keeping these patients in the nursing home setting."
The authors, among them health economists, note that inefficient financial incentives play a role in the frequent moves. Patients who have been in the hospital for three days, for example, are paid for at a higher rate by government programs than those who remain in the nursing home.
A change in surroundings can be particularly upsetting for anyone with Alzheimer's disease. New settings can make confusion and disorientation worse for anyone with dementia. Such moves also raise the risk for medical errors, since new doctors and other health care staff are often not familiar with the particular needs of the patient.
Different policies and ideas about end-of-life care in different parts of the country can also lead to wide variations in how often someone with late-stage dementia is moved, the study found. The likelihood of a move varied from just one in 50 nursing home residents in Alaska to more than one in three patients in Louisiana. Blacks and Hispanics were also more likely than whites to experience burdensome transitions.
The researchers reviewed data from more than 474,000 seniors with advanced Alzheimer's and related problems who were living in nursing homes during their final months of life. More than 90,000 residents experienced at least one burdensome transition. These included a move during the final three days of life, returning to a different nursing home than the one they lived in before they went to the hospital, or multiple hospitalizations in the last 90 days of life.
In many cases, problems like pneumonia, urinary tract infections or dehydration that prompted the moves could have been easily treated within the nursing home, the researchers found. Other procedures included feeding tube insertions and treatments for bed sores.
Medical crises are difficult and stressful for patients and families, particularly in the final stages of dementia. And some medical care can be lifesaving. But the authors call for better coordination between health care staff and a realignment of payment systems "to make sure that people are getting the right care in the right place at the right time."
Families, too, can get involved with end-of-life care through measures like advance directives and "do not hospitalize" orders for loved ones in nursing homes. That way, nursing home staff can alert family members about impending moves and have a discussion about options with the family.
By ALZinfo.org, The Alzheimer's Information Site. Reviewed by William J. Netzer, Ph.D., Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at The Rockefeller University.
Pedro Gozalo, Joan M. Teno, Susan L. Mitchell, et al: "End-of-Life Transitions Among Residents With Cognitive Issues." New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 365, Sept. 11, 2011, pages 1212-1221.


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The chancellor of the University of California, Davis, who was placed on administrative leave amid allegations that she used university money to eliminate negative online search results about the institution, resigned on Tuesday after an investigation found that she had violated several university policies.
The chancellor, Linda P. B. Katehi, courted controversy over a series of purported actions, including the use of university funds to suppress the search results after a 2011 episode in which campus police officers used pepper spray against seated protesters, many of them students.
When Ms. Katehi was placed on administrative leave in April, Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California system and a former secretary of Homeland Security, said that the university was investigating the truthfulness of Ms. Katehi's accounts of her involvement with social media contracts, as well as questions about the campus's employment and compensation of some of her immediate family members.
"The investigation is now concluded, and it found numerous instances where Chancellor Katehi was not candid either with me, the press, or the public; that she exercised poor judgment; and violated multiple university policies," Ms. Napolitano said in a statement on Tuesday.
Under the terms of her contract, Ms. Katehi, who was named chancellor in August 2009, will become a full-time faculty member.
Ms. Katehi and her lawyer argued that the investigation's findings largely exonerated her of the most serious accusations.
"I am grateful that there are no material findings regarding nepotism, conflicts, financial mismanagement or personal gain, and that I may continue to work hard within the academic mission knowing that my integrity has been exonerated on these issues," Ms. Katehi wrote in a letter of resignation.
The report concluded that Ms. Katehi had "not exercised improper influence over or offered favorable treatment to" her son and daughter-in-law, both of whom work for the university. It did find, however, that her statements with regard to hiring a social media consultant after the 2011 episode "were misleading at best or untruthful at worst."
"To say she has problems with conduct, candor and judgment is an understatement," a university spokeswoman, Dianne Klein, said in an email.
This year, The Sacramento Bee reported that the university had paid consultants at least $175,000 to remove negative online postings in the wake of the 2011 pepper spray episode. That revelation prompted several state lawmakers and Ms. Napolitano to urge Ms. Katehi to resign. She was placed on leave after ignoring those requests, Ms. Napolitano said Tuesday.
The university plans to immediately conduct a national search for Ms. Katehi's replacement.


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One of the most beloved creatures in wild Florida has to be the manatee. We're lucky to have manatees in St. Augustine waters, and have assembled some frequently asked questions (FAQs) so that you can learn more about them. Will we see manatees on our tour? Manatees are migratory and are rather solitary – they…Details


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Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball place 3rd at MRISA in Thailand November 2018
This year, in addition to winning our local HAC tournament, the Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball team had the opportunity to play in a Varsity tournament hosted by UNIS Hanoi. That experience proved invaluable as we traveled to Thailand for the MRISA Varsity tournament where six teams played three days of high intensity volleyball. This year's team was made up of Co-Captains Ezell Wambua and Audrey Hanson, Mai Linh Neefjes, Ha Ngo, Linh Trang (LT) Do, Victoria Moro de Mendoza, Mia Kritenbrink, Elaine Dang, Mai An Nguyen, Natalie Krubnerova, Didi Bullard, Kitty Tran, and My Nguyen.
Our Phoenix came out strong, winning four of five matches solidly. Their knowledge of the game and commitment to each other kept us in every game with close scores and exciting rallies. Our defense, led by liberos Elaine and Mai An, and powers Mai Linh and Natalie, worked tirelessly to produce an accurate pass to the setter to start a strong offensive play.
Our middles contributed to our defense then transitioned quickly to offense. Our setters and hitters were strategic with their hits and tips, and were solid on defense as well.
Congratulations to the girls for their commitment to the team all season and for representing UNIS Hanoi proudly as we took 3rd place at the MRISA Varsity tournament!
This was an exciting season of volleyball. Players showed consistent dedication to the sport by showing up early on Wednesday mornings, coming to optional Saturday practices, and building extra volleyball workouts into their own personal fitness routines; all while maintaining their academic and service commitments. It was my absolute pleasure to work with this group of athletes. Thank you to the parents for allowing your daughters to spend so much time developing their play. We are looking forward to next year.
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DMTN (previously known as Dalmatian) has released the video and photo teasers for member Donglim.
It looks like new agency and name were not the only changes that DMTN made. Member Youngwon has now decided to perform under his real name – Donglim.
The boys decided to leave MC Mong's agency back in November, 2012 and they recently signed a contract with 2Works Entertainment.
DMTN has already released teasers for Daniel, Inati, Simon and Jeesu.
Their new song will be released in early February.
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PDF document and interactive MATLAB script named ss2d_opt.m that can be used to analyze and optimize two-dimensional, heliocentric solar sail trajectories between the orbits of Earth and Venus and between the Earth and Mars. In this script, the heliocentric planet orbits are assumed to be circular and coplanar. The optimal steering angles for minimum transfer time are modeled as piecewise-linear variations as suggested in "Near Minimum-Time Trajectories for Solar Sails", by Michiel Otten and Colin R. McInnes, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 24, No. 3.
The optimization of these steering angles is performed using the SNOPT nonlinear programming (NLP) algorithm.
This MATLAB script solves the problem of transferring from the Earth's orbit and arriving at the orbit of either Venus or Mars with the proper distance and velocity. It does not attempt to solve the rendezvous problem between the actual or ephemeris locations of each planet. The ss2d_opt script provides both numerical and graphical information about the trajectory analysis.
David Eagle (2020). Solar Sail Trajectory Analysis with MATLAB (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42073-solar-sail-trajectory-analysis-with-matlab), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
hi, I tried this program but there's an error stating " Undefine function or variable for 'julian' "..could please help on this ? Thanks
it is very useful, i am studying about the dynamic of solar sail spacecraft. Thanks a lot!
Updated to use the 64 bit version of SNOPT. Estimates departure and arrival calendar dates for Earth-to-Mars missions. PDF document also updated to reflect these changes.
Added main script (ss2d_opt_64bit.m) that uses the March 17, 2014 version of SNOPT.
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At present, the courses "Occupational Safety card" (GREEN CARD) are conducted ONLINE, in the mode of a Webinar (read more HERE )
Occupational Safety Card (Työturvallisuuskortti) entitles to perform work at the enterprises and organisations in Finland and Sweden requiring knowledge of safety standards.
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Researchers, students, and community members filled our Stonewall Conference Room last week for ISGMH's first Affiliate Showcase featuring a panel of five affiliate faculty members: Dr. Lisa Hirschhorn, Dr. Amy Johnson, Dr. Judy Moskowitz, Sarah Penzell, and Nathan Waller. Featuring short presentations and a panel-based discussion, this showcase highlighted the diverse and innovative sexual and gender minority work being conducted by ISGMH affiliate faculty members.
The event began with short presentations from each panel member. Dr. Hirschhorn spoke of her work on her IKNOW project exploring knowledge, attitudes, and experience with PrEP among Chicago women; Dr. Johnson presented on the CURE HIV project, which aims to understand attitudes and perceptions of HIV cure research; Dr. Moskowitz shared her work on the IRISS Study, a positive emotion intervention for people newly diagnosed with HIV; and Sarah Penzell and Nathan Waller presented on BeHeard, a voice and communication program for transgender and gender nonconforming youth. Each presentation emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary research in the promotion of SGM health and wellness.
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Every year, unexpected events happen that can often disrupt a student's education. When they do, GradGuard's tuition insurance program can help verify that each student has been given the opportunity to protect themselves from a preventable financial loss.
The most recent data of surveyed institutions report that 84% of schools do not provide 100% refunds. Indeed, if your institution does not provide 100% refunds, then you are likely aware that the withdrawal can be devastating for a student and their family.
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SecureAge Technology, the company behind SecureAPlus, has been working on optimizing its AI-powered anti-malware engine, SecureAge APEX, since it's inclusion in the SecureAPlus Beta late last year.
VirusTotal, a service owned by Chronicle (a subsidiary of the Alphabet Inc.), is a publicly available online resource that aggregates anti-malware solutions scan results to help check whether a file is malicious or safe.
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With generous support from patients, families, friends, major donors, and sponsors, the FSHD Society will keep working to accelerate research leading to treatments. We have earned your trust. The FSHD Society earned eleven consecutive 4-star awards from Charity Navigator, placing us among the highest-performing U.S. charities. We believe that the best way to serve the FSHD community is to accelerate promising research and foster an environment for scientific collaboration.
There are many ways you can support our work:
Thank you for your generous support!
To make a gift by phone, please call us at: 781-301-7301.
To make a gift by check, please download and complete our Offline Donation Form and mail to:
FSHD Society
450 Bedford Street
Lexington, MA 02420
To make a gift by credit card, please click the button below!
Did you know many companies offer a matching gift program to encourage philanthropy among their employees? And that some companies will even match to spouses, retirees, and board members?
By simply completing the matching gift form from your employer, you may be able to double, or even triple, the impact of your gift!
Find out if your company will match your gift HERE
If you do not find your employer listed, please check with your company's Human Resources department to see if your company offers a matching gift program. Many companies allow you to submit the form on their website. Otherwise, you may mail the completed form to the FSHD Society, and we'll handle the rest:
FSHD Society
450 Bedford Street
Lexington, MA 02420 USA
It's easy to donate stocks, bonds and mutual fund shares to support the FSHD Society, and it may provide you with significant tax benefits!
If you would like more information on gifts of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, please contact the FSHD Society office at (781) 301-6058 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Gifts of $2,500 or more are acknowledged in the FSHD Society Annual Donor Impact Report, unless you request anonymity.
How to Make a Gift of Stock
The following information will help you and/or your broker process the transaction. Thank you in advance for your generous support.
FSHD Society's Wells Fargo brokerage account information is as follows:
Patricia Mitchell
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Donors can transfer eligible securities to Wells Fargo through the Depository Trust Company (DTC). Donors should give their delivering brokerage firm the following instructions:
• Wells Fargo's DTC number: 0141
• The Wells Fargo account number: 6497-7965
• The FSHD Society's Federal I.D.: 52-1762747
Please have your broker notify Lisa Schimmel, CFO at 781-301-6058 or email@example.com prior to transfer. The broker should notify Lisa of the name of the stock, the number of shares, and your name.
Gift date and valuation are determined per IRS regulations. The official gift date is the date the shares arrive in the FSHD Society account. The value of the stock is the average of the high and the low.
Gifts to the FSHD Society through employer-sponsored charitable campaigns make a powerful difference in the Society's efforts to find treatments for patients, to improve their quality of life, and to help provide hope for a cure through the promise of research.
Workplace Giving
Gifts to the FSHD Society through employer-sponsored charitable campaigns make a powerful difference in the Society's efforts to find treatments for patients, to improve their quality of life, and to help provide hope for a cure through the promise of research.
- The Combined Federal Campaign: The mission of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is to support and promote philanthropy through a program that is employee focused, cost efficient, and effective in providing all federal employees the opportunity to improve the quality of life for all. Federal employees and military personnel can donate to the FSHD Society, through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). Please consider making a contribution to the FSHD Society through the CFC. The CFC is operated by the United States Government Office of Personnel Management. For more information about the CFC, please visit the OPM website. The FSHD Society CFC code is #10239.
- The United Way: Many donors support the FSHD Society through the United Way campaign in their workplace. If you would like to participate in your United Way campaign and help the Society at the same time, contact your company's Human Resources office to learn about the Society's eligibility. Often we will need to submit information to the local United Way, and we will be pleased to do that.
- State employee campaigns: The FSHD Society is a registered charity in all 50 states. We can submit a state campaign application upon request, for state government employees who wish to give through a workplace campaign. Deadlines for applications are usually around February 20, so please make your request well before the deadline.
- Other Corporate Charitable Campaigns: If your company sponsors or leads other workplace giving campaigns, please consider inquiring about how the FSHD Society might participate.
If you have ever wished that you could do more to help in the fight against FSHD, we invite you to consider including the FSHD Society in your Will or Estate Plan.
There are many forms that such a planned gift can take, from gifts of appreciated securities to trusts that can pay income to you or a loved one. We would like to draw special attention to the following options:
- A Bequest From Your Will or Living Trust costs nothing now, yet is a flexible and easy way to make a gift larger than you may ever have imagined possible. You can designate a specific dollar amount, asset, or percentage of your estate. Often, a codicil to your existing documents is all that is needed.
- Did you know that qualified retirement accounts, when passed to someone other than a spouse, are among the highest taxed assets in your estate? For this reason alone, many donors choose to make a Beneficiary Designation. In addition to retirement plan assets, you can designate the FSHD Society to receive a percentage of a life insurance policy, savings account, or certificate of deposit—simply by updating a form.
Learn more and sign up by downloading these forms:
To honor their lifetime commitments and to encourage others to step forward in making their own plans, we welcome donors who provide for the Society through their estate as members of the FSHD Society Legacy Circle. If you have already included the Society in your plans, please let us know by using the Contact Us Form. Doing so will allow us to thank and recognize you for your gift intention, and your example may inspire others.
To recognize your commitment and leadership we will send you a beautiful FSHD Society Legacy Circle lapel pin.
Before making any changes to your plans, we urge you to consult your financial and legal advisors. If you have questions, please contact Heidi Roy at (781) 301-6060 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Give painlessly by using the AmazonSmile portal every time you shop on Amazon. Just register the FSHD Society as your charity of choice, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase to the Society. Spread the word by handing out an information card about this program. Download the card here.
On GoodShop.com, you can support the FSHD Society wherever you shop anywhere online using their "fetch" tool! They will donate a percentage of what you purchase at no cost to you. Check it out: GOODSHOP.
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text: Mobility Pentium D on display in Tokyo's Akihabara district Paul Kallender @itworldca Published: May 24th, 2005Intel Corp.'s forthcoming Pentium D, the company's first dual-core processor for desktop PCs, was already on display in a small electronics shop in Tokyo on Tuesday.Computer Plaza Zoa, in the city's Akihabara electronics district, had been demonstrating the Pentium D working on a motherboard with an i945 chipset, but on Tuesday the hardware was sitting idle on the shop's second floor.A shop assistant, who declined to be named, refused to say when the processor would go on sale or for how much. "I can't say anything. Intel told us so," the salesman said.Dual-core processors are gaining widespread attention because of their expected performance gains over single-core processors. With two processor cores on a single piece of silicon, it's possible to more speedily perform two jobs simultaneously, such as video editing and burning optical disks, because the cores can handle the tasks independently.Intel has told the store not to divulge any information about the processor and motherboard, but it has allowed the chip and motherboard to remain on display, said Masatoshi Mizuno , a spokesman for Intel KK, the Japanese unit of the chip company."Shops like Zoa can show the Pentium D and motherboard, but we asked them not to display any other unannounced information. This is normal practice," he said.Intel is scheduled to launch the processor before the end of this month. It will promote the chip at Taiwan's Computex trade show, which runs from May 31 to June 4.Arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will launch the first dual-core version of its Athlon 64 desktop processor, called the AMD Athlon 64 X2, at the show.The Pentium D is Intel's second dual-core processor. The first, the Pentium Extreme Edition 840, also called the Pentium EE, has been shipping in volume since April. Mobility display, electronics


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Facebook. You either love it, hate it, or haven't tried it. I decided to try it out by starting a "Friends of Emerald Isle" Page on June 14, 2009.. The purpose was to publish information, photos, etc. for those that have an interest in Emerald Isle but aren't able to spend as much time here as they wish. That includes second home owners, visitors, and actually anyone that thinks Emerald isle is a great place to live, work, or play.
I always kind of figured that Facebook was for the younger crowd, but it seems to appeal to all age groups. As of June 26, there are 167 Fans of "Friends of Emerald Isle". By the time this article is published in mid-late July, I am hoping for about 400 Fans. Facebook Pages provide statistical information to the Administrator (me) and I have been surprised at how many people have looked at the page that are over 50 years of age. There seem to be a good number of people of all ages that use Facebook and have an appreciation for Emerald Isle.
During the first week, I posted pictures of the beach, pictures of the journey entering Emerald Isle starting with the lake in Trenton, a series of pictures of sand sculptures that have been built on the beach, pictures of travel writers visiting the area, and several other Posts.
The beauty of Facebook is that the Fans also get to post comments and pictures about Emerald Isle. Some of the comments so far have been "I still feel like it isn't summer if I don't get to Emerald Isle. We stay for at least a week every summer.", "Emerald Isle. The Best Beaches. The Best People makes for The Best Life ever.", "Can't wait to come back to Emerald Isle!! The whole family will be there the week of August 22 and we are all excited!", "The best beach on the east coast.", "THE PLACE TO BE !!!!!!", and "Eight more days until we arrive in EI".
If you have a good picture or a good short story to tell, be sure to post it to the "Friends of Emerald Isle" Page. Emerald Isle has always been a very friendly place and this is one more way that we can share our friendships with others that have a common interest in Emerald Isle.
On another note, there is a group in town that maintains the flower area near Town Hall on Bogue Banks Water Company property. They can always use more help, so give me call (252-354-2916) if you are interested and I can put you in touch with the right person. An hour a month or more would be very much appreciated.


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The Person Who Hit Me Doesnt Have Insurance Now What
Car accidents can cause a litany of problems other than just a damaged vehicle. Not only will you have to determine who was at fault, but you will have to deal with insurance companies and their adjusters.
But what do you do if the other driver doesn't have insurance?
Is there any way to recover compensation for the losses you have sustained?
Can you sue the other driver instead of their insurance company?
If you are in a car accident where the other driver has no or too little insurance, you may still be able to recover compensation to pay for your losses.
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A meandering trail of bread crumbs leads me from one of those Re-title feeds where small galleries pitch their wares desperately – in this case Beers Lambert – eventually to Mortimer. Beers Lambert? No I'd never heard of them either, Baldwin Street EC1, off Grays Inn Road. Let's face it - galleries can be anywhere these days. Anyway, Beers push young Romanian painter Dan Voinea as part of a supposed trend led by Adrian Ghenie, Michaël Borremans and Justin Mortimer, they see as a variant on realism, bafflingly. Voinea's stuff is certainly in the wake of Ghenie – maybe a bit more focus on the figure, a bit less moody settings and tasteful scrapes and drags with the palette knife or squeegee. But there's the same melodramatic striving for impact, the same bizarre confrontations, the same slick mix of techniques. These guys!
I don't see Borremans as quite with this programme, although the dark mood and old master chops are shared. But he's way more deadpan. Actually Natalie Frank strikes me as closer to the others, but I guess she gets confined to Bushwick city limits. She skips the palette knife/squeegee thing – or maybe I missed it. Or maybe she should try, if only for marketing. She could call herself something like Natalie Lugosi, pretend to some Transylvanian heritage… just throwing these things out there. If Jacques Ranciere had said it you'd go along. The fact that Ghenie's prices at auction have just gone through the roof has a lot to do with all this manoeuvring of course. It should throw some attention Voinea's way, Beers will certainly be hoping as much. The Romanian push is sort of interesting. Voinea is Bucharest trained – not part of the Cluj scene like Ghenie and associates. Marius Bercea has got the landscape side covered – again, mostly with scumble. Others like Savu and Canti have other goals. But there's quite a bit of action coming out of Romania one way or another, whereas Ukraine and Hungary say, much less so. I'm open for conspiracy theories. Anyone?
And then there's Justin Mortimer. No, really Justin Mortimer. No, he's not related to Emily, so far as I can tell. If I was aware of him at all it was for modish society portraits, a while ago. I think he may have won a BP Prize at some point (?) Anyway his switch to scenes of atrocity and ominous medical/scientific routines somehow slipped right by me. That's what you get for watching the periphery too much – you miss things in the mainstream. So I've been poking around, trying to work out how you get from portraits of the Queen to war as we know it. Then I found out Justin works up sketches and photo sources in Photoshop and reviews the progress of his paintings there and he began to sound like me! Imagine! Justin Othersuperstar! Except my stuff doesn't come out like his, for some reason. That's because you're not as good! You're weak Cap! Weak! You don't have that precious Slado-masochistic training and a finely attuned British sense of understatement and repression! That instinct to deny and apologise even before properly witnessing. You can't teach that. You should have stuck with painting backdrops for Neighbours and illustrating for Playboy, you burnt-out sad and cynical old hack! Which reminds me, it must be about time I phoned home again. Actually the difference probably has more to do with what we find as sources. And Justin's Photoshop files are actually pretty basic. I bet he's not even using CS6!
Next I watched a You Tube of Justin doing a presentation at Haunch of Venison. Too bad Haunch has quit the primaries market now – Ghenie showed there and Justin is probably bummed by the whole thing. Maybe he can go back to Blain|Southern, they seem understanding folk. I don't see Beers as an option though - sorry Kurt. Anyway Justin is obviously a practiced public speaker – see the way he works the crowd – the looks, the turns. Note those hand gestures, the smooth, self-deprecating patter. That's not me. Somehow I just can't do the hand gestures. I know TV reporters are schooled in all this body language stuff as well these days but it just makes me feel like a member of the cast of Thunderbirds. "Yuss M'lady…" My hands belong in my pockets. Of course Mortimer comes across as a bit of a wally (hands up those who sniggered at that scruffy scarf or whatever it is slung around his throat?). But at least there's no wide-eyed staring aimlessly at the ceiling with mouth agape until your girlfriend discreetly nudges your foot with her umbrella from the front row and you snap out of it with a "…Sorry what was the question again?" or "Is it my round?" It's always my round. You've really got to have your answers prepared in advance – and you've got to remember them. That's what I mainly take away from this. But seriously, Mortimer's suave, rather arch manner – just like his paintings – don't quite persuade. He's a nice chap really, but he's not about to get real here.
Two issues are worth considering. The first is the fragmented approach to realism, whether as technique or subject matter, the second is the role of narrative or what used to be called anecdotal painting. These come up in Mortimer's talk, but not in any focussed or rigorous way. Talks are no good for this kind of thing anyway. That's where us tongue-tied, staircase wit types come in – recollections in tranquillity and all that. Mortimer likes the collaging in Photoshop but then he's got to somehow make them painterly and fresh in the finished work and the strain, particularly in the larger works, grates for me. They still look like painted collages. Clunk. Dashingly painted collages, but you know, collages… The question is how much are you prepared to adjust with the paintbrush to the collage? For Justin it comes down to just a few edges and textures, basically, maybe a compositional tweak or two. Things like foreshortening, proportion, modelling to figure and lighting to setting get imported more or less as is. They're what give the painting its affiliation with realism > photography. It's interesting in as much as he plays around with the masking or outlines in Photoshop, with the continuity or contiguity of objects (there are a great many more options in Photoshop, of course…), but it doesn't quite slide into painterly options from there. The two are a bit too tidy, a bit wary of each other. I'm fine with starting from photography for painting; I just don't think too much of it should be there at the end. And once you think about how to get painterly, I don't see that you can take options for drawing, modelling and so on, off the table – if the painting is to be spontaneous and persuasive. It's the old problem of planning and executing really. Realism be damned I say.
These things dog Ghenie and Voinea as well, but I don't think they even have the flexibility of Photoshop reworking of sources. I could be wrong. They're more into bald gaps and massive impasto as some kind of counterpoint to photo sourced content, old school finesse. But the problem is much the same. There's this one, Dog or Devil 3 or something from 2010; this seems a better mix. But even here there's not a lot of flow. It's very stop and start and maybe just a bit too busy, too much a compendium of technique. These guys are drunk on technique. I've got Mortimer ahead on points for restraint here, more of a feel for process. The other problem is that nuclear cloud in the background with the deft drag in sepia across it. Clunk. Iconography here chaps is fatally under-ironic, over-reaching and just a tad naive. This brings us to the second issue. Mortimer talks about wanting to tell stories - Ghenie is intent on big issues, 'Important Painting'. They both look to Bacon – as does Frank. They love the tantalising anecdote to Bacon, the story half told or glimpsed but they can't quite leave it there. The whole point of Bacon's approach is that you can't take it anywhere else, you can't know the back story or the consequences, you always just have what you have. The picture never gets any clearer, without becoming a picture of something else. It's an existentialist 50s thing and I think in the 21st century the kids don't really get it. They get the technique, the excitement, and they think they should be able to take that somewhere else. But as soon as you do it loses its magic and falls apart. It becomes just an illustrator's tool. You can't give those frantic glimpses some bigger, more literary or historic theme, it just empties them.
So all the precarious balancing of photorealism against painterly gesture or technique, all the peeping around drips and drags at coy snippets of gossip, ends up looking like a pantomime. It's a sort of hollow version of painting. I think a better option would be to just flaunt the sources – go at intertextuality full on. Never mind the elusive newsreel or obscure historical sources – I say go for Dr Who and Star Wars, Brad and Angela, Obama and Osama, Fukashima and the oil spills. Really tie in with all the most engrossing stories and let them find their own slippage, ambivalence and failure of technique. I agree the narrative issue is important. It is something painting needs to rethink. But I'm not convinced scary leads the way.
To get back to Mortimer's puzzling development – it's interesting his website only shows examples of his work back to 2007. I'm assuming this is around the time of the swift transition. It leaves what -around 15 years of his career out? It may be he's planning to put it all in eventually, but it does kind of heighten the suspicion that he's not entirely comfortable with the switch either. I can understand that, it's a bit like going through a divorce. He acknowledges somewhere that meeting with Ghenie was decisive, although in the video that sounds like it follows on from his break. There is another video that shows earlier works (from 2000), also based on Photoshopping sources. But it is almost a second career, such a change of tone and attitude, structure and theme. You do wonder about decisive events in the artist's life. I tend to think the Ghenie connection comes as a massive confirmation for him rather than a revelation. Behind both Ghenie and Mortimer I suspect is the example of Rauch in the noughties – especially the scientific/military crossovers in themes. But of course it's Rauch without that austere linear discipline, that oh so dry German wit. If he prompted a wave of history painting, this is what we're really looking at with Ghenie et al, with new improved ingredient - hysteria.
When I look at things like Family Dollar (2009) by Mortimer, I do wonder why he didn't get taken up by Saatchi. This is so sensational you'd think it would be a perfect match. But then Saatchi shied away from Rauch (as far as I can tell) and I'm not sure about his Romanian holdings. Could be he remembers Mortimer from the portraits and senses something false here, could be he's just over shock and awe. Then again Saatchi changes his mind, so he may yet discreetly acquire works at "over market prices", as he likes to boast. There was a piece in The Observer that laughably claimed Mortimer was working in 'genre' painting, as understood for 17th century Dutch painting like Vermeer or Terborch, as scenes of quotidian or domestic activity. I don't know about author James Cahill's background, but scenes of mass burials, disembowelments and bizarre medical procedures aren't quite so familiar down my way. No, I think Mortimer is fairly and squarely aiming at history painting – in the broader sense of Istoria – or the illustration of vital legend or myth as much as factual chronicle. It was probably little slips like that cost Cahill first place in the Anthony Burgess Prize. I wonder if something similar won't happen with Mortimer's career?


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Ahead of Underoath's Rebirth Tour, we caught up with lead vocalist, Spencer Chamberlain to talk about the significance of the tour, the 10th anniversary of their album Define The Great Line and why you should not miss them live this May.
I'm sure I can speak for a lot of fans when I say we're just as excited as you are about the Rebirth Tour. The tour, of course, came after the reunion, so what prompted the idea of getting back together?
"I think when you spend as much time together with anyone as we did as a band - working 300 days a year from the age of seventeen - you'll get to a point where it feels like you need to walk away from it and that's what half the band wanted to do at the time. We were exhausted from touring ten months a year, making a record every two years and having no time off. We did that for over a decade and people were worn out, they missed their homes and they wanted to have families. At the time we thought we were doing the right thing, but over time, we realised maybe we should've taken a hiatus instead of walking away from it.
Eventually, we started hanging out and jokingly said, 'hey, we should play Define The Great Line front to back, because it's about to turn ten'. That then turned into a more serious conversation and two days into practice we thought we may as well just get the band back together, because it's really stupid that we're not doing this.
We thought it would be really messed up if we only played one show and not a whole tour and by the time we finished the US leg of Rebirth, we decided to take the tour across the world before we did anything else. Mostly because we didn't play farewell shows anywhere besides twelve cities in America and we wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to see us this time around, because this really is a special tour. Playing these two records back to back is something we'll never do again and I think it's just a great experience."
Absolutely and I actually wanted to touch on the fact that you'll be playing Define The Great Line along with another special album, They're Only Chasing Safety. Why those two records together?
"Another joke, actually! Grant, our bass player, made a joke about how we should go out to play We're Only Chasing Safety too, because we missed that anniversary when we were too busy being mad at each other and one of us said 'I'll do it if you do it'.
It's not an easy task to pull off and it was a little intimidating, because it's a lot of songs to play, but we all agreed to do it. In Underoath, we're always going to try and outdo ourselves as well as each other - it's kind of our inner band motivation, we're constantly pushing each other."
Of course, but judging by the content on your social media, you guys seem to be having a fantastic time. What's it like being back on the road together?
"It feels very natural to me, it feels right - it felt so wrong walking away from the band. Our farewell tour sold out 24 hours after we announced it and it was the same with the reunion tour, selling out six months ahead of the actual tour, so there are a lot of people who care about this band.
We put a lot of hard work into it, we always have and we always will and I think we just hit a roadblock for a while. We weren't running our business the right way, so we didn't know what made sense for the band. I think playing on stage with these guys again makes sense, because it's what we've been doing since we were teenagers – it really didn't make sense NOT be doing it."
Just going back to the fact that you guys sold out the US leg of the tour, was it everything you hoped it would be in terms of how the fans responded?
"It was so much more than we even imagined it would be – it was crazy and we never experienced anything like it. People were really excited to have us back and you could see it.
The crowds at the US shows were so loud and half the audience were people who had never ever seen us before.
At every show, we'd ask how many first timers there were and half the crowd would raise their hands. That's really awesome for us. Especially when I think about it as someone who's gone to shows and played music their entire life; there are a lot of bands that I didn't get to see before they broke up or someone died – sometimes they even broke up before I was born - but if they were still playing now, I would definitely go."
Well, speaking for the UK fans, we're all excited to have you. You last played O2 Academy Glasgow in 2010. What do you enjoy most about playing here?
"The UK has always been so good to us. I haven't been back since 2014 when I toured with my solo project [Sleepwave] for three days. So it's been a while, but I'm so excited to get over to Europe and the UK and really enjoy it.
For me, it's even just fun waking up in a different country, walking around and seeing what each city has to offer. To be somewhere you're not super comfortable - you don't know where the right places to eat are or where to find the good coffee, so you just go and explore. I think that's another fun element of being in the UK and obviously the shows are always exciting to play."
When you guys first announced the tour, you were still uncertain of what that meant for the future of Underoath. Is it a bit more definitive now, or are you still just taking it day by day?
"The band is 100% a band. We're not just doing Rebirth and going away. Despite not usually doing support tours, we actually just finished one in the US [The American Nightmare Tour with Bring Me The Horizon and Beartooth] and we've got a lot planned.
This is not the last time we'll be in the UK, but I would really recommend going to the shows, because we won't be doing something like this again. Although we'll always be playing songs from this album, I think it's really special seeing these records just the way they are.
If you've ever seen Underoath, you've never seen us like this. There's chemistry and everyone has that excitement and passion to be on stage again, so there's a whole new element to the band."
We can't wait! Is there anything you'd like to say to your fans in the UK?
"Just that we're looking forward to being in the UK and we appreciate everyone who's had a part in getting this band back together. All the comments online about how our fans missed the band and wanted us to come back, was a huge deciding factor in getting us back together.
Our fans are so die-hard and they never stopped talking about the band, which helped us to actually sit down and talk and even consider playing together again. We can never thank them all enough for it."