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Children's summer artwork destroyed as vandals trash Homerton Grove Adventure Playground
PUBLISHED: 14:34 12 September 2019 | UPDATED: 14:41 12 September 2019
Children's artwork was smashed to pieces when vandals trashed an adventure playground in Homerton three times in a matter of days.
Police were called after Homerton Grove Adventure Playground was broken into repeatedly earlier this month.
Equipment was smashed up and work created by children over the summer holidays was left in pieces on the floor.
The playground is one of three run by Hackney Play Association. Director Nicola Butler told the Gazette: "We are gutted, but we've had some really nice support from kids and parents, so we would like to thank those people.
"We had two or three break-ins over the course of a week at the end of August and beginning of September.
"They broke into all of our storage containers with arts and crafts and gardening materials in them. We have been able to repair stuff and we have tidied up now."
Bosses posted about the break-in on Twitter, and one of the people to respond was Diane Abbott.
The MP said: "This is so sad. How can people be so mindlessly cruel and destructive?"
Hackney mayor Phil Glanville also spoke out, saying: "This is terrible news, a much loved space that serves all Hackney young people."
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October 9
Ten strategies for dealing with shyness
According to British singer-songwriter Morrissey 'shyness is nice'. When shyness leaves you feeling breathless, voiceless and even friendless, though, it can be anything but nice. Shyness often manifests as social anxiety, and as Morrissey sings in his song Ask Me, it can stop you from doing the things you want to do in your life.
After spending more than four decades wrangling with my own shyness, I wrote a book called 'Shy: a memoir' (Text Publishing) in which I investigated the causes and symptoms of this inherited personality trait. I discovered that shy people often feel anxious about social encounters because we fear other people's judgment – specifically, their negative evaluation. We torment ourselves with self-critical thoughts like "I look out of place", "I sound stupid" and "I'm making a fool of myself".
Our fear can manifest as a bunch of distressing physical symptoms, including sweating, trembling, hyperventilating and blushing. Shy folk feel self-conscious in the company of people we don't know well and will cross the street to avoid having to speak to acquaintances. In the long term social anxiety can also mess with the digestive system. All that churning sometimes causes IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).
The good news is that shy people are often those with the most empathy. We spend a lot of time thinking about what other people are thinking, and that can sometimes be a good thing. Many shy people go into the caring professions, like nursing, teaching and counseling.
So how can we best deal with the downsides of shyness and take advantage of the upsides?
Based on the research I did for 'Shy: a memoir' I've come up with a list of ten practical strategies for coping with shyness:
1) Use self-talk to reduce your discomfort. Remind yourself that 50% of the people around you are probably ALSO feeling shy. You are not alone in dealing with these feelings. Try to separate your mind from your body's symptoms. Eg. tell yourself 'oh there go those butterflies in my stomach again, they'll disappear soon'.
2) Plan ahead. Prepare for social events that you feel nervous about. Spend some time trying to remember the names of the people who might be there. Perhaps find 'safe' friends who are also going to the event. Use self-talk to remind yourself that you won't be able to control all aspects of this social interaction. Be prepared to deal with a level of uncertainty.
3) Help others at social events. Try to spot some other shy people and help them out by approaching them. This takes the focus off your own discomfort and gives you a focus to help you take the attention off yourself. Assume the burden of initiating the conversation by asking others questions about themselves.
4) Try exposure therapy. Give yourself regular small challenges in dealing with your shyness, to give yourself confidence (but keep them small to begin with because if you have bad experiences they might reinforce your fears). Then reward yourself for being brave in the face of your anxiety.
5) Organise or join social activities in ways that suit you It can help to arrange or go along to events that are regular or semi-regular (eg. book clubs, clothes swaps, meet-ups, classes, tree-planting) where you know who'll be there, and where there is an activity as the main focus of the event. This gives you something to talk about that you all have in common, as opposed to free-form socializing, which can be full of uncertainty.
6) Confide your shyness to others rather than hide it. This can have a cathartic effect and reduce your sense of aloneness and/or shame.
7) Adopt a 'persona'. In your professional capacity or your parenting capacity, for example, you can tell yourself that YOU are not being judged because you represent something bigger and more important than you (your place of employment, your useful work role, your role as a carer).
8) Keep a diary of your journey to management of your shyness/social anxiety. Note your progress and your challenges. Reflect on what you are going through.
9) Use social media to reach out, but be wary of the downsides. Monitor its effect on you and take breaks when you need to. Assess the positives and negatives (eg. FOMO).
10) Try other anxiety management strategies. Consider meditation, yoga, physical exercise, deep breathing and other forms of relaxation therapy. You can also seek professional counseling. Psychologists are trained to help people with social anxiety and can offer CBT and reassurance. You could also consider joining an anxiety support group at ARCVic (the Anxiety Recovery Centre). http://www.arcvic.org.au
This article was first published in The Guardian in October 2017.
October 3
Exotica – new concert from the Westgarth Ensemble
Exotica: Songs from Another Time, Another Place
The Westgarth Ensemble explores the exotic as seen through the eyes of composers from the Baroque through to the 20th century. Experience the biblical lands as depicted in songs by Handel, feel the allure of the East as presented in operas by Puccini and Delibes, and travel back in time to the new world of Rameau's 'noble savages'.
A recent visit to the Islamic Museum of Australia inspired the Westgarth Ensemble to investigate how western composers have exploited the romance of distant lands to add a frisson of the exotic to their music and drama.
Come with us on a musical tour through history and geography with Exotica.
When: Sunday October 15, 2:00pm
Where: Bardin Centre
Christ Church Anglican Church
8 Glenlyon Rd, Brunswick
Who: The Westgarth Ensemble
Claire McDonald (Soprano)
Katrena Mitchell (Soprano)
Sian Prior (Soprano)
Kerrie Bolton (Mezzo soprano)
with Gregory Smith (Piano)
Admission: $25 ($20 concession) – bookings here.
Background: The members of the Westgarth Ensemble have been singing together since 1997. Graduates of the Victorian College of the Arts Opera Studio, they have all worked for a range of Australian opera companies and ensembles. In recent years they have been presenting themed vocal concerts in venues around Victoria. In 2015 they performed 'Who Wears the Pants' followed in 2016 by 'Supernatural' at the Armadale Uniting Church and St Paul's Cathedral.
September 11
Clownfish and humbug
Clownfish to the left of me, goatfish to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle of a stunning coral reef which may not survive.
I'm snorkelling off Lady Elliott Island, a coral cay at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. Below are handbag-sized clams with luminescent green lips and black sea slugs frosted with sugary sand. Every imaginable dance move is going on around me – flicking, swaying, shimmying, darting – a hyperactive ballet troupe, except the dancers are all fish.
Come to think of it, this reef has all the art forms covered: the Rembrandt blue starfish, the Ballets Russes damselfish, the Stravinsky-esque percussion of a million tiny mouths nibbling on coral.
Even football gets a look-in. I nickname a little black and white guy the Collingwoodfish (it's actually called a humbug). Later I will discover there is another one (I kid you not) called the Chinese footballer cod.
Back on the beach I watch a woman from our tour group trying to cajole her young son into snorkelling. He's shaking his head and whimpering. There's scratchy sand in his fins. "Don't you realise," I want to whisper urgently to him, "this could be your last chance!"
Mass bleaching has affected two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in the last couple of years, killing huge quantities of coral. Climate change is a major factor. The southern part, including Lady Elliott Island, has sustained less damage than the north. But a local ranger tells us there was worrying bleaching here last summer, halted only by the cooler currents that came with Cyclone Debbie.
Later our group bobs above the coral in a glass-bottomed boat. The boy who wouldn't go snorkelling leans over the glass, spotting the fish and turtles mooching below us. With the encouragement of the ranger he pulls his goggles on and slides into the water.
Half an hour later the boy hauls himself back onto the boat, teeth chattering, eyes wide with the shock of pleasure. 'I saw a manta ray!' he tells us. 'And Nemo!'
The Germans probably have a word for the grief you feel when you've not yet lost something, but suspect you soon will. As we fly back to the mainland over the endless blue, there are whales to the left of us, dolphins to the right. Here we are, stuck in the middle of paradise, and we're running out of time.
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This column was first published by Fairfax on September 10th 2017.
August 7
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Dear reader, your feedback is valuable to us, so would you mind completing a quick survey about this column? Need an incentive? You could be in the running for yet ANOTHER survey next time you read my column!
The world's gone survey mad. I go to a symphony concert: the next morning there's an email asking me to complete a questionnaire about my 'experience'. I stop to buy some petrol; that evening the petrol station makes contact, wanting me to 'tell them about my visit'. My campervan is serviced; by the time I get home they're on the blower asking if I'm happy with the job. Worst of all, my friend is sent a complicated feedback form from the funeral home within hours of burying his father.
I'm no cleanskin when it comes to this madness. At the university I am required to hand out a long form after a short course so my students can immediately assess my 'performance' as a writing teacher.
Some things can't be assessed by an instant survey. An Australian Youth Orchestra concert I attended recently would require a lengthy essay to express the thoughts and feelings that overwhelmed me in those two hours. Some of those feelings will take months to process.
Is this where we're heading? 'Dear Sister, please complete this short questionnaire to advise whether our phone conversation about your holiday plans has fully met your expectations. You could be in the running for a free hug from me when next we meet in person.'
I understand the theory. Feedback can lead to improvements (that's why I complain about bad service.) Customer feedback surveys give consumers more power. But it's all getting a bit silly. And remember, wages growth is stagnant. Maybe if we paid people better, the quality of service they provided would improve.
More importantly, by responding to all this knee-jerk instant feedback we run the risk of removing anything discomforting or edgy from what's on offer, especially when it comes to culture. We live in an era of digitally-enabled grumpiness. Irritable online responses are the rule, not the exception. But if we modify everything to avoid provoking discomfort, we may end up with experiences that are only ever inoffensive and bland.
So don't bother rating this column. Go watch some paint dry. I guarantee it will be more fun.
(This column was first published in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald in August 2017)
July 21
Forthcoming writing and shyness workshops
'Wrangling Your Shyness' at The School of Life (Melbourne) – Saturday 2nd September
- A one-day course designed to help you understand and grapple with the symptoms of shyness/social anxiety.
'Writing as Therapy' at The School of Life (Melbourne) – Thursday 14th September
- A three hour workshop introducing you to some of the therapeutic benefits of writing.
'Creative Non Fiction Writing' at RMIT University – from Monday 11th September
- A six week course (one night a week) introducing to some of the forms and techniques you can use to write 'creatively' about reality.
'Feature Writing' at RMIT University – from Wednesday October 4th
- A six week course (one night a week) introducing you to the kinds of journalistic articles you can write and pitch as a freelancer.
'Memory Vs Imagination in Memoir' at Writers Victoria – Saturday October 28th
- How do memoirist negotiate the tricky territory of the remembered vs the imagined past? A three -hour workshop packed full of practical advice for memoirists.
June 19
Symphony of Awkward
Thirteen times: that's how often I've packed up my personal diaries and carted them from one house to another over the years. That's a hell of a lot of cardboard boxes stuffed with notepads full of stuff about me. Why did I do it?
Recently I joined a small gathering of women who had volunteered to read out random excerpts from their youthful diaries. At the event dubbed 'The Symphony of Awkward' we fell about laughing as we paraded our unedited former selves in front of each other. How quickly embarrassment can mutate into hilarity when it is shared.
All through those thirteen house moves, I had resisted opening up my diaries to find out who Sian was twenty, thirty, even forty years ago. Delivering her private words out loud, I understood my resistance: she was horrible.
Not all of the time, of course. Sometimes she was wise and curious, helpful or funny. Clearly she saw herself as a future Author because she used terms like 'vignette' and 'narrative'. At other times she was arrogant, petulant, vain and condescending. Young Sian used phrases like 'bedraggled little thing' to describe people she had just met. She had a deep certainty about how the world should be and brooked no arguments. She was easily annoyed by small things, which she duly diarised in ridiculous detail. She was a hypocrite, publicly espousing one view and manifesting its opposite in her private writing.
Even whilst I was laughing at this opinionated young person, I felt slightly guilty for betraying my younger self. Her words were definitely NOT written for public consumption and she would have been mortified if she'd known her older self would humiliate her in this way. I felt compassion for her. She was even more critical of herself than of those she was observing around her.
Mostly, though, reading her words out loud at The Symphony of Awkward was deeply cathartic. I teach classes in 'writing as therapy', advising people to track their emotional lives in a daily journal. That way, they can get a sense of not just how far they've come, but also what they've managed to overcome.
I don't regret carting those boxes of diaries around for all those decades. They revealed some good news: I am less self-critical than young Sian was. Together, we've done okay.
(This column was published in the Sunday Age and the Sydney Morning Herald in June 2017)
May 14
Shadow Puppets
The traffic was terrible. But that was okay because I'd spontaneously taken the day off and driven to a bay beach. This is the sort of thing you can do when you work freelance and have no children. I swam out to the yellow buoy and back then lay in the sun reading a book set in Iceland. The author's name was Laxness (is there a term to describe the phenomenon of an author's name matching the activity their book encourages? Nominal behavioural synchronisia? There is now).
On page 17 of the book by Laxness there was a sentence that made me reach for my dark glasses to hide my leaking eyes: 'On such a day the sun is stronger than the past'.
On this particular day, that statement seemed to be true.
On the way back the peak-hour traffic was terrible but that was okay because now I was all salty and calm from my unscheduled daylong holiday. At the traffic lights I pulled up behind a little red car. Because of the angle of the sun the back seat passengers looked like shadow puppets swaying behind the rear window.
A head turned and I saw in profile a long sharp nose, almost a beak, a bird-woman with the blurry chin line of the elderly. Staring at that shadow-nose I saw the woman's arms reach out to hug a tiny form hidden behind a child's car seat. Her movements suddenly became jolly – that's the only way to describe it – a jolly kind of bouncing about in the back seat as those tiny arms poked out from behind the car seat and clutched at her.
When the two hugging forms separated, a third shadow form emerged from the gloom, peering backwards from the front passenger seat. The same long nose, the same jaw line, but tauter. The daughter of the mother and the mother of the child. Three generations of lucky beak-nosed shadow people all together in their red car, all feeling jolly in the peak hour traffic jam.
And in my van, behind the darkened glass of the windscreen, I took one hand off the steering wheel and put it on my breastbone and cupped the past where it hurt. I watched the light glinting off the rear windscreen in front of me and tried to remember just how strong the sun could be.
(This column was first published in the Sunday Age and Sydney Morning Herald on May 14th.)
April 17
Meeting Lucy
Am I guilty or not guilty? And do I really want to know?
Recently I was invited to give an evening talk about my memoir 'Shy'. At the end of the night a woman whose face seemed vaguely familiar approached me diffidently and said, 'I know you. Well, at least, I did.' The lines on her face mirrored my own, lines earned in five decades of ups and downs. 'I'm Lucy'. *
Behind that middle-aged face I could suddenly see an elfin girl from my years at a primary school in the sand belt suburbs of Melbourne. Lucy had been my friend and also my competitor, though she might not have realised it. She was one of the cleverest girls in the school, and the fastest female sprinter. She was incredibly popular for a few years, probably because of being clever and fast. And kind.
Then there was a turning. Something changed and I don't know what it was but suddenly Lucy was the most loathed girl in our year. I'm talking visceral 'Lord of the Flies' loathing.
Did I play a part? It's hard to recall. Later on I copped a bit of this stuff too from mocking boys and smirking girls. I learnt a lot about human behavior from those tidal surges of approval and disapproval in the primary school playground.
I have often thought of Lucy since then, and of her older sister who had cerebral palsy and was confined to a wheelchair. Back then kids had vicious names for people like Lucy's sister, names no one would dare to utter these days. Was Lucy's sister somehow the cause of the turning?
Or perhaps it was because, like me, Lucy was shy. Perhaps the trainee bullies in our little community sniffed out her fear and took their chance to topple this girl? And did I play a part?
That night after my book talk I held Lucy's hands and told her I remembered what she went through at our school, and this middle-aged woman wiped her eyes. It was forty years ago, half a lifetime, but lessons like that never leave you.
'We must have a cup of tea together,' I told her. 'Will you email me?'
She hasn't yet. And still I don't remember. What part did I play?
* Lucy's name has been changed to protect her privacy.
This column was first published in the Sunday Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, April 2017.
March 21
In praise of the listicle
My favourite new word is 'listicle'. A blend of list and article, a listicle orders the world for us into neat numbers: 'Five songs to sing in the shower' or 'Ten places to see before you die'. According to the New Yorker magazine, listicles are 'the signature form of our time'. So in an effort to sound young and hip, I offer you my latest listicle:
Three reasons I know I'm getting old.
1) I finally understand what the term 'bone tired' means. When I wake in the morning my bones feel like they've been out partying HARD while the rest of my body has been sleeping soundly. Walking downstairs for my morning coffee I hang onto the railing like an elderly on an escalator. While my brain is happy to be up before eight, my tired bones would rather sleep in till midday. Every now and then my tired bones are scanned by an expensive machine. The medicos shake their heads and declare 'wear and tear'. If my bones were tires they'd be un-roadworthy. I'm bone tired.
2) When I hear young people speaking they sound more American than Australian. I recall my grandfather complaining about this forty years ago. I also remember hearing Australian voices on the radio back then and thinking they sounded English. The Australian accent is constantly changing and how we speak dates us. No doubt when young people hear me on the radio my voice sounds quaint to them, a relic of the past.
3) When I open the folder that stores the recipes I've written down over the years, slips of brown paper fall out. Chemical analysis could tell us exactly which meals produced the food stains on those pieces of paper. But the fact that I originally wrote those recipes on white paper gives us all the information we need.
My grandmother wrote a lot of lists because she couldn't remember things. Her house was littered with pieces of paper in varying shades of white through to brown, all covered with neat lists of work to be done, bills to be paid, recipes to be tried.
Maybe the listicle is 'the signature form of our time' because we can't remember anything any more. A flood of digital information is drowning our memories, ageing us prematurely, and forcing us to resort to lists just to get through the day.
Now – what was this listicle about again?
(This column was first published in the Sydney Morning Herald, March 2017)
February 12
Magical thinking in Iceland
The older you get, the less often you feel astonished. The shock of the new recedes and instead you see patterns and repetitions in every experience. Music sounds like other music. Mountain views are less breath-taking if you have climbed a lot of mountains. Last year, though, I spent a week in a state of perpetual astonishment – and I discovered it does funny things to your brain.
My friend and I had decided to travel to Iceland for a walking trip. We flew into Reykjavik and spent the next seven days driving and hiking through scenes that looked like a series of excellent Dr Who planet-scapes.
We climbed shale-littered volcanic mountains, skirting gingerly around holes from which boiling mud spewed at unpredictable intervals. We bathed in thermally heated rivers, lolling like pampered sprites in the warm water. We drove through vast fields of congealed lava that looked like the bilious vomit of a giant. We crept out onto a rocky ledge and watched as mammoth ice blocks crumbled from a glacier's edge and floated downriver to the sea. Every day we found new sources of astonishment in the landscape.
Being perpetually astonished gives you a natural high, and being high leads to magical thinking. You start to believe you are the cause of every good thing that happens.
'The weather will be fine for whale-watching tonight', my friend predicted on a rainy day. It was. 'We're going to see puffins from the boat, for sure', I promised her. We did. 'Bjork will walk past us in Reykjavik,' I announced. The Icelandic pop star duly strolled past us sporting an orange leopard-print jumpsuit, and we were convinced we had caused this event.
We were in the right place. Iceland has a proud tradition of magical thinking. According to legend, when the Norse founder of Iceland first sighted land from his ship he threw some wooden pillars overboard, believing they would float ashore at the place the gods wanted him to settle. His poor servants were sent off to search the coast, finally tracking down the pillars three years later in the bay that became Reykjavik.
On the day my friend and I were due to leave Iceland the magic evaporated. Our lift to the airport never showed up, and we almost missed our flights. Six months on I still miss feeling astonished. We're already saving for a return trip.
(This column was published in the Sunday Age and Sydney Morning Herald on February 12th 2017)
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The Mahadev Temple is famous for the eight-day long annual festival. A traditionally ornamented elephant carries the image of both Shiva and Vishnu around the temple in a grand procession on the seventh evening, which is accompanied by the temple music ensembles and three other tuskers. The festival concludes with the Arattu on the final day. Another festival celebrated is the one-day Atham Thalapoli when five caparisoned elephants lead a procession of Thalapoli (devotees carrying offerings and oil lamps). A fireworks display marks the conclusion. In these days, needless to say, huge crowds flock to the shrine.
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Dr. Zeng received his B.S. (1989), M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) at First Military Medical University (Guangzhou, China). He continued his academic research at Second Military Medical University as a postdoctoral fellow, assistant professor and associate professor from 1998 through 2005 (Shanghai, China). After that, he worked as an associate professor (2005-2006) at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and as a visiting scholar (2006-2007) at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (CA, La Jolla). In 2007, Dr. Zeng moved to Xiamen University (XMU) to set up his own laboratory as a Professor and acting director of Cancer Center at Institutes for Biomedical Research.From 2011 till now, Dr. Zeng is Professor and Deputy Dean of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (XMU). He has published papers on top journals, including Cancer Res, Cancer Cell, Oncogene, FASEB J, PLoS ONE, Carcinogenesis, J Biol Chem, Anal Chem and Expert Opin Ther Targets. He is also a co-inventor of eight issued patents and a peer reviewer of Cancer Res, Carcinogenesis, Biochem Pharm, BMC Cancer, Genomics Proteomics and Bioinformatics, and Acta Pharmacol Sin. In recent years, he was awarded for more than ten research grants, including funding from National 863 Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC/RGC project, Science and Technology Project of Fujian Province, Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, joint R&D projects.
The lab focuses on nuclear hormone receptors (NHR), a superfamily that includes receptors for steroid hormones, vitamins and fatty acid derivatives. NHRs are attractive molecular targets for drug development because they regulate many essential biological processes and they have unique ligand binding pockets for binding small molecules.Understanding of their molecular mechanism of action in cancer cells is essential for developing rational approaches for new strategies and agents for cancer prevention and treatment.Based on the unique molecular and cell-based systems, the group has successfully isolated and characterizedseveral promising leads from traditional Chinese herbal medicine and animal drugs including those can target at Nur77/Bcl-2/Bax death signalling, RARγ- and tRXRa-dependent PI3K/ AKT survival pathways, and the cross-talk between Wnt/β-catenin and Nur77 signallings. Further optimization of the lead structures based on their molecular mechanism has also been conducted. The research work has been published on top journals including Cancer Cell, Cancer Res, Oncogene, FASEB J and Carcinogenesis, some of which have also been highlighted by Nature China (Nature Publishing Group) and Expert in Biology.
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Selected Publications:(last 5 years)
Wang GH, Jiang FQ, Duan YH, Zeng ZP, Chen F, Dai Y, Chen J, Liu JX, Liu J, Zhou H, Chen HF, Zeng JZ, Su Y, Yao XS, Zhang XK. Targeting truncated retinoid X receptor-α by CF31 induces TNF-α-dependent apoptosis. Cancer Research 2013, 73(1), 307-318 (SCI impact factor: 8.234).
Zhang S, Zhu S, Yang L, ZhengY, Gao M, Wang S, Zeng JZ, Yan X. High-Throughput Multiparameter Analysis of Individual Mitochondria. Anal Chem 2012, 84 (15), 6421–6428 (SCI impact factor: 5.856).
Lu N, Liu JX, Liu J, Zhang C, Jiang F, Wu H, Chen L, Zeng WJ, Cao X, Yan T, Wang G, Zhou H, Lin B, Yan X, Zhang XK, Zeng JZ. Antagonist Effect of Triptolide on AKT Activation by Truncated Retinoid X Receptor-alpha. PLoS ONE April 2012 | Volume 7 | Issue 4 | e35722(SCI impact factor: 4.092)
Wu H, Lin Y, Li W, Sun Z, Gao W, Zhang H, Xie L, Jiang F, Qin B, Yan T, Chen L, Zhao Y, Cao X, Wu Y, Lin B, Zhou H, Wong AS, Zhang XK, Zeng JZ. Regulation of Nur77 expression by β-catenin and its mitogenic effect in colon cancer cells. FASEB J 2011; 25:192-205 (SCI impact factor: 5.712).
Yan TD, Wu H, Zhang HP, Lu N, Ye P, Yu FH, Zhou H, Li WG, Cao X, Lin YY, He JY, Gao WW, Zhao Y, Xie L, Zhang XK, and Zeng JZ. Oncogenic Potential of Retinoic Acid Receptor-gamma in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Res 2010,70(6):2285-2295 (SCI impact factor: 8.234).
Liu J, Zhou W, Li SS, Sun Z, Lin B, Lang YY, He JY, Cao X, Yan T, Wang L, Lu J, Han YH, Cao Y, Zhang XK, and Zeng JZ. Modulation of orphan nuclear receptor Nur77-mediated apoptotic pathway by acetylshikonin and analogs. Cancer Res, 2008, 68(21):8871–8880 (SCI impact factor: 8.234).
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9.45pm Seats and Candidates: Lib Dem parliamentary candidate defects to the Conservatives
6pm ToryDiary exclusive: Being Mayor is "almost certainly my last big job in British politics"
5.30pm ToryDiary: Jeremy Middleton elected chairman of the National Conservative Convention
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11.30am ToryDiary: David Cameron reaffirms his desire to have MPs from Northern Ireland in a Conservative Government
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"David Cameron will tomorrow promise a revolution in the way that central government operates if he becomes Prime Minister, so that the state delivers "more for less" in Britain's "age of austerity". Addressing his party's spring conference in Cheltenham, the Tory leader will call for a "change of culture" so that the public sector takes its share of the burden, in order to bring down the record borrowing figures revealed in this week's Budget." – The Independent
…and put an end to politicians' "snouts in the trough" practices…
"David Cameron will pledge to 'change the culture of government' and end the 'snouts in the trough' practices that have dragged Parliament into disrepute. The Tory leader will promise voters to do away with the publicity-seeking and greed that has gripped ministers and MPs under Labour. In a speech designed to set the tone he hopes to strike in power, Mr Cameron will tell the Tory spring conference in Cheltenham tomorrow that ministers must work to save taxpayers' money, rather than dreaming up new schemes to spend it." – Daily Mail
…as he expresses his desire to scrap 50p tax
"David Cameron yesterday said he wants to scrap Labour's 50p supertax on the rich — but it will take time. Chancellor Alistair Darling unveiled the new tax on everyone who earns over £150,000 in the Budget. Tory leader Mr Cameron said he wanted to tackle other taxes first. He added: "We don't like the 50p, but it's got to get in the queue of taxes we want to get rid of." – The Sun
> Yesterday's ToryDiary: David Cameron agrees public has a right to know Tory spending plans… but is the party waiting on the IMF to order austerity?
George Osborne: The Budget has unravelled quicker than any in living memory
"Just two days ago, the chancellor said his figures for this quarter would be similar to the last quarter – in fact they are worse. This is worrying as it means the recession will be deeper and people will suffer more. This budget has unravelled quicker then any in living memory as we discover a secret tax bombshell, hidden spending cuts and fantasy forecasts on which the government's whole plan for recovery is based." – George Osborne quoted in The Guardian
The Tories face a dilemma over what to say about how to deal with the public debt…
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…but Matthew Parris has a suggestion
"To the question "What are you going to cut?", Mr Cameron's implicit answer should be: "You tell me. No, really: you tell me. We Conservatives have the steel to do this, and you know we must. Now let's talk openly, without scaremongering or posturing, about how and what and when." – Matthew Parris writing in The Times
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Francis Maude attacks Government's £4 billion management consultancy bill
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a time when Whitehall needs to tighten its belt because of the nation's
ruined public finances, Labour ministers are burning £4billion of
taxpayers' money on consultants to tell them what to do. This is another sign of a government that has completely lost its way." – Shadow Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude quoted in the Daily Mail
Lawrence Robertson is less than happy at Brown's proposals on MPs' allowances
"A senior Tory MP has attacked Gordon Brown's plans to overhaul expenses because he does not want to become 'poorer'. Shadow Northern Ireland minister Laurence Robertson, who has claimed nearly £1million in expenses since 2001, insisted that MPs should be properly compensated for working long hours away from home… The former businessman stressed that he did 'not intend to become personally poorer' at this stage of his career."- Daily Mail
Damian Green condemns Government over Gurkha decision…
"Gurkha veterans accused the Government of betrayal yesterday after the Home Office issued new rules that would allow only a small number of the former soldiers to settle in Britain…. "The Government is trying to evade the effects of a very clear court judgment," Damian Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, said. "This is an insult to the Gurkhas." – The Times
> Yesterday's ToryDiary
…as his Home Office mole is sacked
"A civil servant arrested for leaking Home Office documents to Conservative MP Damian Green has been dismissed. Christopher Galley, who had signed the Official Secrets Act, was sacked from the Immigration Nationality Directorate for gross professional misconduct. Mr Galley and Mr Green were told last week they would not be charged, after a five-month inquiry." – BBC
The Independent profiles some of the rising stars who have been selected as Conservative candidates – The Independent
Is the vice girl claiming Tory clients a fantasist? – Daily Mail
Boris Johnson: The Tory John the Baptist?
"Meet the Tory John the Baptist. If you happen to be in Cheltenham this evening and see a man in a leathern girdle and sandals leading a group of ecstatic Conservatives, say hello to Boris Johnson, who today presents himself as a mop-haired pathfinder showing his flock the way to the promised land of power. The London Mayor will be the star turn at the Tory spring conference where, after a Budget week that has overturned political assumptions and revived old ideologies, he will deploy a right wing message of lower costs and fierce opposition to higher taxes." – Benedict Brogan interviews Boris Johnson in the Daily Telegraph
> Last night's ToryDiary: Boris "despises" Cameron says The Times
Charles Moore: As we approach the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's government, we must remember the lessons she taught
"In the course of her time as prime minister, she more than halved the top rate of income tax, and cut the standard rate by a quarter. She was perfectly capable of putting up taxes out of immediate necessity (in 1979, she all but doubled VAT), but always the direction was clear… In all three elections from 1997, Labour promised not to raise the top (or the standard) rate. It was because of Mrs Thatcher's success that this was so." – Charles Moore writing in the Daily Telegraph
Giles Coren: Me, I've always been a Labour man. Until now.
"I did Any Questions on Radio 4 last week. I bombed pretty badly because I don't know anything about anything, but I had a lovely three-hour car ride back to London with the Tory party chairman, Eric Pickles. We turn out to have a shared love of westerns, except that Pickles has real depth of knowledge as well. And a bit of northern soul, too. A big, decent, modest sort of a man, with real hinterland. Whereas Caroline Flint, the Labour minister on the panel, seemed little more than a malfunctioning fembot." – Giles Coren writing in The Times
George Osborne among the mourners at Clement Freud's funeral – Daily Telegraph
Channel 4 Dispatches on Boris prompted over 100 complaints – Broadcast Now
Tony Blair reportedly believes 50p tax to be a "terrible mistake" – Daily Telegraph
Blairite ex-spin doctor Lance Price writes: "Will the last person to leave Gordon Brown's Britain turn out the lights?" – Daily Telegraph
Iceland to hold parliamentary election – BBC
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I know it often sounds awkward when you're watching a movie that you already know, or with actors you know, and hear different voices and - most of all I think - different inflection and emphasis, but in the same way it seems to be the best way to hear the real language, accents, pronunciation, way of saying and so on when you can't talk with natives.
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I was quite stunned when I heard the dubbed 'Dr House' voice for the very first time since I knew it for so long in English. But I never had problems to watch a film or show in my language first and then in the original (like English) later on.
Still - and since we're in the language lab here - I'd liked my country to stop dubbing films. I'm very aware that I'm privileged to have a quite good knowledge of different languages, but the same time I believe many other people had too, if we just didn't translate everything. Even if you don't know the language at all, reading subtitles isn't that of a exhausting experience. It's not so much that I think that the original language always is "better" or more "perfect" (in fact I think dubbing studios do a pretty great job these days), but I believe keeping films original would lower some language borders. It works great in countries like Denmark, Sweden or Norway.
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It's more annoying when movies which are made in Anglophone countries with English speaking casts are dubbed in the US. The most notable example which springs to mind is Mad Max. (Leaving aside the fact that the dialogue wasn't a central attraction.)
I think The Castle got the same treatment. I know for sure that the dialogue was changed so that Americans wouldn't be confronted with challenging issues like rissoles.
The only real problem with dubbing I have is sometimes they use the worst voices. Night Watch was particularly bad. In cases like that I'd prefer sub-titles.
That said the dubbing in Das Boot was excellent.
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What...wait they use to dub movies from english to...english? I mean BE to AE? That doesn't make sense to me, I used to think that native english speaker were able to understand english spoken with any kind of accent, well maybe I misunderstood your post...
And I don't totally agree with gertiekeddle, yes watching subbed movies and tv shows would lower the language borders but it would be better to have a choice, like on a dvd, to hear the dubbed version or enable subtitles (or anything, indeed).
Just think about kids: we're fast reading subs, but they are not, and they also start watching tv before they learn to read, so they need the dubbed versions.
And then, it's useful to learn languages
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Native English speakers are generally able to understand each other but there are extreme accents and dialects.
If I remember the mini-series Looking After Jo-Jo was subtitled everywhere outside of Scotland where it was made.
A patriot is someone who wants the best for his country, including the best laws and the best ideals. It's something other people should call you -- you shouldn't call yourself that. People who call themselves patriots are usually liars. -- Donald Woods
You got what anybody gets . . . You got a lifetime. -- Death of the Endless
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Um, that's not so cool, I like to hear the different accents from the natives, i.e. I watched the english tv series "Him & Her" months ago, and it was cool to listen to how they pronounced words, in a way so different from the "english" I am used to.
Like mate pronounced "mite" (I spent 2 episodes thinking they all were called Mike, lol).
If they would have dubbed it into american english/accent it would have been just stupid, to me.
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I hate watching dubbed movies. It's okay if it's a cartoon, but if it's with real actors (there's probably a word for it, but I don't know it), it's just annoying, the voices can be all wrong, and the translation of lines is often pretty much rubbish. Also, it looks weird when what someone says doesn't match the way their mouth moves even remotely.
I live in Norway, and I'm so happy foreign movies are usually subtitled instead of dubbed here. They do dub children's movies though (Harry Potter 1-3, for example, are dubbed, and oh, the horror of being forced to watch them with Norwegian sound), which is logical - children are seldom very good in other languages than their mother tongue, and they either can't read or don't read fast enough for subtitles. The problem is, there are (apparently) very few people doing voice-acting here, because it's usually the same people in every movie (also cartoons). It's so weird hearing Bagheera, Piglet and Rabbit, Goofy, Puumba, and the Cookie Monster's voice coming out of Hagrid's mouth.
Another thing that's bothered me a lot in dubbed movies is, that there are so few characters who get voices with dialects from other areas of Norway than around Oslo. There is so much more of Norway than just that tiny part (although it has most inhabitants, I believe, but I may be wrong), and so many fun and interesting and beautiful dialects. There have been some dialect-varied movies, and a few more recently, but not enough, IMO.
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On the issue of English to English dubbing due to accents, Hercules in New York (1970) is hilarious. It was Arnold Schwarzenegger's feature film debut, and they dubbed over his Austrian accent with the voice of a guy who had a thick American accent.
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I always had subs when watching Korean and Japanese dramas and movies. It wasn't until I started watching anime that there were all these ones with dubs....
Anyway, I much prefer subtitles. I like hear the original sound and the actor's actual voices. I've actually caught on to a lot of Korean and Japanese phrases and quite a bit of their lingo, at a very fun level. I simply like to listen to and appreciate foreign languages. Dubs often don't seem to fit well, though more often in animes they are alright.
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In regards to The Castle - I assume that rissole was changed to either hamburger or meatloaf?
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A patriot is someone who wants the best for his country, including the best laws and the best ideals. It's something other people should call you -- you shouldn't call yourself that. People who call themselves patriots are usually liars. -- Donald Woods
You got what anybody gets . . . You got a lifetime. -- Death of the Endless
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Yeah, I agree that sometimes the dubbing could be really awkward, but the point was about watching movies and tv shows in the language you are learning, not in your own XD.
Since I guess you are most native english speakers, and the majority of movies are american, this seems to be a way to hear people speaking in a different language when you can't talk with natives, at least to me.
I just discovered that Arnold Schwarzenegger has an Austrian accent, I never thought about that before lol.
I used to date a Norwegian girl for a while, her accent wasn't that bad.
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I actually only ever knew Schwarzenegger talking German, so it was quite funny for me to hear him speaking English once.
Since our dubbing system is quite advanced, I really can't complain about the quality. (Although it is weird to see a random actor talking with the voice of "Bruce Willis" in some totally different movie). I watched some English movies with Russian dubbing once what is quite more odd since a single Russian speaker often mostly 'reads' the lines over the full film - not exactly to the movement of the lips, but just as if reading a book. That imo neither helps improving language skills (you hear the original voices still, but they're not very good to understand), nor the enjoyment to watch a film.
Cox, that's a good point too: I enjoy watching Danish TV where I get Swedish or English films in original, but with Danish subs. I also enjoyed to watch HP in German once, but with Estonian dubs. Both of it helps when you try to improve your language skills, but still doesn't fully destroy the movie.
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I don't want to live in a world
where the strong rules and the weak cower.
Harry Dresden.
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Oh, I just remembered! Once, during the "Star Wars Phenomenon" class that I took as an elective at USC, we were watching The Empire Strikes Back (2nd in the original Star Wars trilogy), and they were only able to get a French dub for the last reel* of the movie, even with George Lucas backing the class, and they didn't warn us about it before we started watching -- one moment they were all speaking English, and the next thing we knew, C3PO was suddenly speaking French into the intercom as they were escaping from Cloud City! It was very entertaining, to say the least. We got to hear Darth Vader saying "Non, je suis ton père."
[Of course, Darth Vader was dubbed in the original movies, too. He's much more frightening with James Earl Jones's voice, than with the voice of the actor that plays him on the screen.]
*the class was conducted in an actual movie theater, so we watched most of our movies=s as 35mm film projections
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I started to watch a new tv series yesterday, I'm having problems with the accent (Baltimore area) but just when there are black people talking (and that means for most of the time XD).
I don't understand why but it seems that black people - born and raised in the US I mean - talk with a different accent, like I dunno, a particular accent, and I'm just able to read subtitles without being aware of what they are actually saying.
I don't know if it's a Baltimore thing, but I don't have the same problem with the other guys, even though their accent it's not one of the easiest to understand.
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Thank you
"Partly down to US history" down to, I didn't know this expression, does this means "the reason is", like "it's down to culture" = "the reason of this is cultural"?
But I read that this Black English, is common to Southern American English, so this means that the southern accent it's kinda similar?
So the peple living in Texas or Alabama, use to talk like that? I mean the white people. You know, the so-called *cough cough-rednecks-cough*.
I remember some girls from the south of the US (I don't remember exactly where), and yes they used to talk with a particular accent, but it was also different from this.
I don't mean to be racist or stuff, it's just about people talking in different ways.
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Anyway I watched the 2nd episode yesterday and I think I'm starting to getting used to it.
It remains quite difficult to follow anyway, I guess it will take me a lot of practice.
Sorry Pox Voldius but where are you from? I thought you were american but it's a little bit early in the morning in the USA now...
EDIT. Um, well, I checked and it's 9 am in New York, that's not as early as I thought...so where are you from?
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DISGUSTED former neighbours of a Satanist sex offender who abused young boys say they are relieved he is back in jail.
Residents on quiet Sunnybrow Avenue, in Billingham, battled to have Gary Dover-Afflick, 47, removed from their neighbourhood.
Dover-Afflick - whose vanishing act once triggered a nationwide manhunt - settled there after completing a jail sentence for blackmail, supplying drugs and indecent assault on vulnerable boys aged between nine and 14.
But today, the sadistic, Fagin-style sex offender - who gave rootless youngsters shelter in squats and flats, before giving them drugs, lecturing them about Satanism and keeping them in line with beatings and sexual assaults - is awaiting a lengthy jail sentence.
His latest court appearance, which revealed he was now of no fixed address, came after he pleaded guilty to flouting a court order meant to protect the public.
Grandmother and hospital chef Margaret Adam, 60, was involved in public meetings with the police in order to try to have Dover-Afflick removed from Sunnybrow Avenue late last year and earlier this year.
His presence prompted Facebook and leafleting campaigns to have him removed.
Mrs Adam said: "We were just disgusted by it, but the police just couldn't do anything. It was just disgusting. The children actually stopped playing in the street. It was terrible.
"We went to meetings at the library with the police and we got nowhere, absolutely nowhere. We were trying to get him out."
Mrs Adam, whose youngest grandchild is five, added she was relieved Dover-Afflick was back behind bars, as earlier this year residents were concerned children had stopped visiting a local sweet shop over their parents' fears they would come face to face with him.
Another resident, who didn't want to be named, said: "We are quite happy he is back behind bars and I'm sure all the people with children around here are as well. It's a relief."
Anita Joblin, 37, a factory supervisor who lives on Sunnybrow Avenue, said: "We did go to the police because we have nieces and nephews and we had them coming over one weekend.
"Once the police told us everything was OK, there was no danger, we were happy with that. We trusted the police."
Dover-Afflick was originally jailed for 14 years at Bristol Crown Court in 1997. He went missing in 2007 after he was released from HMP Garth in Preston, Lancashire, and failed to turn up at a Leeds police station.
He was later arrested for breaching his notification requirements as a sex offender.
This year Dover-Afflick was arrested on Teesside. He appeared at Teesside Crown Court on Thursday for more breaches of the notification order.
He had already denied a charge of failing to comply with notification requirements as a sex offender, after he was accused of failing to notify the authorities of a change of address on May 29.
But he pleaded guilty to failing to register a change of name on June 7.
It was claimed he identified himself to a PC on Norton Road, Stockton, as Gary Johnson - an alias he had not registered with the police.
The denied charge was left to lie on court file. Dover-Afflick was remanded in custody until sentencing on September 28.


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