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ملکہ ترنم
Noor Jehan
نور جہاں
Noor Jehan in 1980s
|Background information
|Native name
|نور جہاں
|Birth name
|اللہ رَکھی وسائی Allah Rakhi Wasai
|Also known as
23 September 1925
Kasur, Punjab, British India
|23 December 2000
(aged 75)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
|Years active
|Pride of Performance Award Recipient
Noor Jehan was recipient of the Pride of Performance Award 1965[1]
|Islamic Republic of Pakistan
|Presented by
|Muhammad Ayub Khan
Noor Jehan[2][3] (Urdu: نور جہاں, born Allah Rakhi Wasai; 21 September 1925 – 23 December 2000), better known by her honorific title Malika-e-Tarannum (Urdu: ملکہ ترنم), was a Pakistani singer and actress who worked first in British India and then in Pakistan. Her career spanned more than six decades (1930s–1990s). She was renowned as one of the greatest and most influential singers of all time especially throughout South Asia and was given the honorific title of Malika-e-Tarannum (the queen of melody) in Pakistan.[3] She had a great command of Hindustani classical music as well as other genera of music.
Born into a family with music traditions, Noor Jehan was pushed by her parents to follow in their musical footsteps and become a singer, but she was more interested in acting in films. She recorded over 18,000 songs in various languages of India and Pakistan including Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and also in Persian. Along with Ahmed Rushdi, she holds the record for having given voice to the largest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema. She is also thought to be one of the most prolific singers of all time, alongside her protégé: renowned Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. She is also considered to be the first female Pakistani film director.
Noor Jehan was awarded the Pakistan President's Award by Ayub Khan (general) in 1965 for her acting and singing capabilities, especially for passionately singing patriotic songs during Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Moreover, she also received some of the highest Pakistani civilian awards "Tamgha-e-Imtiaz" and "Sitara-e-Imtiaz".
Noor Jehan received the Life Time Achievement Award twice, once in 1987, and again in 2002, after her death.
Early life[edit]
Noor Jehan was born into a Punjabi Muslim family in Kasur, Punjab, British India[4] and was one of the eleven children of Madad Ali and Fateh Bibi.[5][6]
Her career in India[edit]
Noor Jehan began to sing at the age of five and showed a keen interest in a range of styles, including traditional folk and popular theatre. Realising her potential for singing, her mother sent her to receive early training in classical singing under Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. He instructed her in the traditions of the Patiala Gharana of Hindustani classical music and the classical forms of thumri, dhrupad, and khayal.
At the age of nine, Noor Jehan drew the attention of Punjabi musician Ghulam Ahmed Chishti,[7] who would later introduce her to the stage in Lahore. He composed some ghazals, na`ats and folk songs for her to perform, although she was more keen on breaking into acting or playback singing. Once her vocational training finished, Jehan pursued a career in singing alongside her sister in Lahore, and would usually take part in the live song and dance performances prior to screenings of films in cinemas.[8]
Theatre owner Diwan Sardari Lal took the small girl to Calcutta in early 1930s and the entire family moved to Calcutta in hopes of developing the movie careers of Allah Wasai and her older sisters, Eiden Bai and Haider Bandi. Mukhtar Begum encouraged the sisters to join film companies and recommended them to various producers. She also recommended them to her husband, Agha Hashar Kashmiri, who owned a maidan theatre (a tented theatre to accommodate large audiences). It was here that Wasai received the stage name Baby Noor Jehan. Her older sisters were offered jobs with one of the Seth Sukh Karnani companies, Indira Movietone and they went on to be known as the Punjab Mail.[5]
In 1935, K.D. Mehra directed the Punjabi movie Pind di Kuri in which Noor Jehan acted along with her sisters and sang the Punjabi song "Langh aja patan chanaan da o yaar", which became her earliest hit. She then acted in a film called Missar Ka Sitara (1936) by the same company and sang in it for music composer Damodar Sharma. Jehan also played the child role of Heer in the film Heer-Sayyal (1937). One of her popular songs from that period "Shala jawaniyan maney" is from Dalsukh Pancholi's Punjabi film Gul Bakawli (1939). All these Punjabi movies were made in Calcutta. After a few years in Calcutta, Jehan returned to Lahore in 1938. In 1939, renowned music director Ghulam Haider composed songs for Jehan which led to her early popularity, and he thus became her early mentor.
In 1942, she played the main lead opposite Pran in Khandaan (1942). It was her first role as an adult, and the film was a major success. The success of Khandaan saw her shifting to Bombay, with director Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. She shared melodies with Shanta Apte in Duhai (1943). It was in this film that Jehan lent her voice for the second time, to another actress named Husn Bano. She married Rizvi later the same year.[9]
Acting career in Pakistan[edit]
In 1947, Rizvi and Jehan decided to move to Pakistan. They left Bombay and settled in Karachi with their family.[10]
Three years after settling in Pakistan, Jehan starred in her first Pakistani film Chan Wey (1951), opposite Santosh Kumar, which was also her first Pakistani film as a heroine and playback singer. Shaukat Hussain Rizvi and Noor Jehan directed this film together, making Jehan Pakistan's first female director. Jehan's second film in Pakistan was Dopatta (1952) which was Produced by Aslam Lodhi, Directed by Sibtain Fazli and assisted by A. H. Rana as Production Manager. Dopatta turned out to be an even bigger success than Chan Wey (1951).
During 1953 and 1954, Jehan and Rizvi had problems and got divorced due to personal differences. She kept custody of the three children from their marriage. In 1959, she married another film actor, Ejaz Durrani, nine years her junior.[9]
Durrani pressured her to give up acting,[9] and her last film as an actress/singer was Mirza Ghalib (1961). This contributed to the strengthening of her iconic stature. She gained another audience for herself. Her rendition of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's "Mujh se pehli si mohabbat mere mehboob na maang" is a unique example of tarranum, reciting poetry as a song with superb music of Rasheed Attre in the Pakistani film Qaidi (1962). Jehan last acted in Baaji in 1963, though not in a leading role.
Jehan bade farewell to film acting in 1963 after a career of 33 years (1930–1963). The pressure of being a mother of six children and the demands of being a wife to another fellow film actor, forced her to give up her career. Jehan made 14 films in Pakistan, ten in Urdu and four in Punjabi as a film actress.
As playback singer[edit]
After quitting acting she took up playback singing. She made her debut exclusively as a playback singer in 1960 with the film Salma. Her first initial playback singing for a Pakistani film was for the 1951 film Chann Wey, for which she was the film director herself. She received many awards, including the Pride of Performance in 1965 by the Pakistani Government. She sang a large number of duets with Ahmed Rushdi, Mehdi Hassan, Masood Rana, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Mujeeb Aalam.
She had a great understanding and friendship with many great singers of Asia, for example with Alam Lohar and many more. Jehan made great efforts to attend the "Mehfils" (live concerts) of Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Roshan Ara Begum. Lata Mangeshkar commented on Jehan's vocal range, that Jehan could sing as low and as high as she wanted, and that the quality of her voice always remained the same. Singing was, for Jehan, not effortless but an emotionally and physically draining exercise.[11] In the 1990s, Jehan also sang for then débutante actresses Neeli and Reema. For this very reason, Sabiha Khanum affectionately called her Sadabahar (evergreen). Her popularity was further boosted with her patriotic songs during the 1965 war between Pakistan and India.
In 1971 Madam Noor Jehan visited Tokyo for the World Song Festival as a representative from Pakistan.
Jehan visited India in 1982 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Indian talkie movies, where she met Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in New Delhi and was received by Dilip Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar in Bombay. She met all her erstwhile heroes and costars, including Surendra, Pran, Suraiya, composer Naushad and others. The website Women on Record stated: "Noor Jehan injected a degree of passion into her singing unmatched by anyone else. But she left for Pakistan".[12]She received more than 13 Nigar Awards for Best Female Playback Singer.
Ustad Salamat Ali Khan said that "Allah Nay Un Ko Pur Asar Awaaz Di Hai Jiss Ki Waja Say Sur Ka Jadoo Jagta Hai Or Ganay Ka Asar Qaim Rehta Hai"
Madam Noor Jehan evovled the playback singing as Ustad Mehdi Hassan Khan has done to Ghazal and Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali has done to Qawwali.
Personal life[edit]
Noor Jehan married Shaukat Hussain Rizvi in 1942, the marriage ended in 1953 with divorce; the couple had three children, including their singer daughter Zil-e-Huma. She married Ejaz Durrani in 1959. The second marriage also produced three children but also ended in divorce in 1970.
Last years and death[edit]
Jehan suffered from chest pains in 1986 on a tour of North America and was diagnosed with angina pectoris after which she underwent bypass surgery. In 2000, Jehan was hospitalised in Karachi and suffered a heart attack. On 23 December 2000 (night of 27 Ramadan), Jehan died as a result of heart failure. Her funeral took place at Jamia Masjid Sultan, Karachi and was attended by over 400,000 people. She was buried at the Gizri Graveyard near the Saudi Consulate in Karachi.
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|Red Signal
|Khandan - Second Highest Grossing Indian Film of 1942
|Naukar - Fifth Highest Grossing Indian Film of 1943
|Lal Haveli
|Zeenat - Highest Grossing Indian Film of 1945
|Gaon Ki Gori - Second Highest Indian Grossing Film of 1945
|Badi Maa - Third Highest Grossing Indian Film of 1945
|Bhai Jaan
|Anmol Ghadi - Highest Grossing Indian Film of 1946 (with Surendra (actor))
|Maharana Pratap
|Mirza Sahibaan - Fourth Highest Grossing Indian Film of 1947
|Jugnu - Highest Grossing Indian Film of 1947 (with Dilip Kumar)
|Chan Wey - First Film in Pakistan, Biggest Hit of 1951
|Dopatta - Biggest Hit of 1952 in Pakistan
|Patey Khan
|Lakt-e-Jigar (released 17 February 1956)
|Intezar (released 12 May 1956)
|Nooran (released 30 May 1957)
|Choo mantar
|Anarkali (released 6 June 1958)
|Neend (released 16 October 1959)
|Koel (released 24 December 1959)
|Mirza Ghalib (released 24 November 1961)
- ^ Pride of Performance Awards (1960–1969)#1965
- ^ Firoze Rangoonwalla, Indian Filmography, publisher: J. Udeshi, Bombay, August 1970, passim.
- ^ a b Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002, pp. 166.
- ^ Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Noor Jehan Biography, [1], Retrieved 7 July 2015
- ^ a b "Noor Jahan Biography". Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2008., Retrieved 7 July 2015
- ^ http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=33048
- ^ [2], Chishti Biography, Retrieved 3 August 2015
- ^ [3], Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Retrieved 27 July 2015
- ^ a b c "Noor Jahan". Retrieved 31 May 2012.
- ^ http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/noor-jehan-6762.php
- ^ http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121102&page=24
- ^ [4], The Friday Times Weekly-Lahore, Pakistan. Noor Jehan article title, Madam Ji, Retrieved 27 July 2015
External links[edit]
- Noor Jehan Biography on IMDb, Retrieved 27 July 2015
- "ISLAMABAD: Rich tributes paid to Noor Jehan". Dawn. 24 December 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
- Ramzi, Shanaz (10 February 2002). "The Melody Queen lives on". Dawn. Archived from the original on 12 February 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
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- 2000 deaths
- People of British India
- 20th-century Pakistani actresses
- People from Kasur District
- Pakistani film actresses
- Pakistani ghazal singers
- Punjabi-language singers
- Pakistani film singers
- Pakistani female singers
- Pakistani film directors
- Recipients of the Pride of Performance
- Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz
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The subtitle "The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King" is ridiculous of course. I have a copy, which proves it was published. But never mind, it's sort of cute.
What an amazing book. I started reading it late last year after not having read Once and Future King for about 30 years, and it didn't quite make sense. So I re-read King and am now reading this book to finish the story.
Once again, Merlyn arrives to teach Arthur, but it is an aging King whom he sees bent over his war plans with tears on his face. Merlyn realizes that the King has forgotten the lessons of the Wart, as so many of us do when we become older and forget the beauty and joy that was sometimes in the world when we were younger. The idea of a single thing that could grab your attention to the exclusion of all else - this is a remembrance that Arthur finds when he is with the geese.
As polarized as this country is now, there are some who will object to T.H. White's thinly-veiled essays against war. The geese do not fight against their own kind just because": they see the world as one great big planet over which they fly and land when they need to. Different species share the same rock in the middle of the North Atlantic. By the same token, ants from different "tribes" will start the drumbeat and the propaganda for war the minute another ant arrives.
And of course, it is into misunderstanding and an ultimate war that Arthur faces as his reign comes to an end. He is heartbroken that his Round Table has come to its end: his best friend is exiled, his wife is trapped in the Tower of London, and his son wants to kill him. It is a tragic end to an otherwise beautiful story, and I am glad that White wrote these chapters and that they were finally published."
This is the fifth part of The Once and Future King that was never published with the rest of the novel. It picks up right at the end of The Once and Future King with King Arthur preparing to go to war against Mordred. Merlyn returns to him and takes him to a cave where the two men and several of the animals that Arthur learned from as a child discuss the nature of man, why men fight wars against other men, and how and if war can be eliminated.
This is my favorite of the five parts that make up White's King Arthur story. White raises a lot of philosophical questions, but the only answer he comes to is that there is still hope for mankind. I can see how it might come across as too preachy for some people, but I don't think it is because I see a lot of questions and very few answers. The novel is especially meaningful when you consider that it was written during and as a response to World War II.
Lovely. I might disagree wiþ some of White's moralising þru Merlyn & Arþur, but yet it is touchingly told.
T.H. White's Arthurian saga The Once And Future King has a troubled publication history. The final volume, The Book of Merlyn, was submitted to his publishers in 1941 but was rejected as part of a collected volume due to wartime paper rationing. Undeterred, White took two major sequences in it – in which Merlyn transforms Arthur into an ant and then a goose – and inserted them into the first book, The Sword in the Stone. The Book of Merlyn was thus unincluded in later collected editions of the series, until the manuscript was discovered amongst White's papers after his death in 1964. It was included in future collected editions from 1977 onwards, but – in order to present everything as accurately as possible – retains the ant and the goose sequences in The Sword in the Stone, while also later repeating them in The Book of Merlyn. (This is particularly notable because the goose sequence is probably the most famous and well-loved thing White ever wrote.)
It's a bit less confusing when you've read it all the way through, but the funny thing is that those sequences feel a lot more like they belong in the first book, when Arthur was a child being transformed into animals all the time as part of his education with Merlyn, rather than the final book, where Arthur is whisked away on the night before the great battle with Mordred to discuss human nature and warfare with Merlyn and his council of wise animals. The vast majority of The Book of Merlyn takes place in the badger's cosy underground den, which has the air of a cluttered library or gentleman's parlour, as White (through Merlyn) expounds his philosophy about the wretched, violent nature of man.
Understanding T.H. White goes a long way towards understanding The Once and Future King, and my edition has an afterword discussing how the book came about. White was an unhappy man for much of his life: an alcoholic, a closeted homosexual, and a pacifist in a time of just war. When World War II was looming in 1939, he relocated himself to neutral Ireland and spent the rest of the war there as a conscientious objector. At this stage The Sword in the Stone had already been published, but it's clear that the outbreak of WWII greatly influenced the rest of the series. "I have suddenly discovered that… the central theme to Morte d'Arthur is to find an antidote to war," White wrote to his publisher. The Book of Merlyn expresses this more clearly than any other volume in the series; along with The Sword in the Stone, it effectively bookends the series, as Merlyn compares mankind to various animals – only now, with Arthur as an adult, he is no longer teaching him but rather discussing an intractable problem with him, to the king's increasing weariness and despair.
The Book of Merlyn ultimately presents no conclusion on the matter, no coherent moral or philosophy, because White himself didn't have one. He was a confused man, a man full of doubt, a man aghast at the horrors of the world, a man who tried to make sense of it all as best he could. He was a writer, in other words, who moulded his love of Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur into his own unique, funny, beautiful epic, a meditation on the failures and foibles of the human race.
I liked The Book of Merlyn a lot; it's probably my favourite out of the series. Despite a current of nihilism and despair, White brought back all the elements that made The Sword in the Stone such a success, and the result is a sweet and affecting tale of a man who tried to do his best. I didn't always enjoy The Once and Future King, but The Book of Merlyn is a strong conclusion which serves the series well. And as for the series overall? I may not have always liked it, I may have been bored and frustrated with it at times, but I can nonetheless appreciate it objectively as a powerful and important work of English fantasy.
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Twenty-year financing plan totals $4.7 million after interest; financial projection shows profit
Clint Riese and Mary Bailey
Forest Lake Times
District 831 officials hope to close the school district's purchase of the Forest Lake Area Athletic Association Sports Center next week, in the wake of the facility hitting the market at a sheriff's foreclosure sale Thursday, Nov. 21.
The district has been looking into buying the ice arena since being approached by FLAAA in December 2011 and moved close to doing so last week after the School Board on Nov. 7 signed off on three resolutions relating to the deal.
With the closing looking unlikely to occur before the sheriff's sale, the district will be looking to buy the 5-year-old complex from the new owner, Business Manager Larry Martini said. Often, banks holding a mortgage will foreclose on a property, then buy it back for the amount left on the mortgage and sell it to a different party. Martini said the banks with the sports center mortgage have agreed to offer the facility to the district at the same terms the district negotiated with FLAAA.
"Everyone has agreed that if our process takes longer, they wouldn't change the terms of the sale price," he said.
Those terms involve a lease purchase agreement whereby the district would pay a set amount over 20 years, at which time it could obtain the building's title for a nominal fee. The purchase price would be $3.3 million, but the district would pay $4.7 counting interest and fees. Of that total, $300,000 would be paid up front from the district's general fund.
The district's financing agent, Springsted Inc., is marketing securities known as certificates of participation to investors who would hold the facility's title. Proceeds generated would finance the transaction, but they will not be available until January, Martini said. One of the School Board's resolutions on Nov. 7 authorized Martini and Superintendent Linda Madsen to use existing general funds to facilitate the closing as soon as possible. This would allow the district to take advantage of the facility's most profitable season. The proceeds of the certificate sale would be used to replenish the general fund.
Martini compared the lease purchase process to an individual buying a motorcycle for $5,000. The buyer could use $5,000 of his own cash and drain his account, or he could finance it at a favorable interest rate without taking on the risk of depleting his cash at hand. Either way, it's still his bike, Martini said.
The interest rate for the arena purchase would likely be between 3 and 4 percent, Martini said. Providing a down payment will likely contribute to lowering the rate, while a state law giving the district an annual option to walk away from the deal will likely raise it.
A lease purchase agreement and related paperwork could come up for School Board approval Dec. 5.
"All that should happen," Martini said of the financing plan. "Now, that's in a perfect and normal world, and I think we're close to that, but if nobody wants to lend us money at 4 percent, if they'll only lend us money at 6 or 7 percent, then we may have to rethink this."
Arena management
The district's most current pro forma estimates annual revenue of $686,300. Rental fees account for $600,000 of this total. The district has paid about $100,000 in annual rental fees to FLAAA, as the sports center is home ice for the Ranger hockey teams. These payments would continue, Martini said, though the district would essentially be billing itself. No ice arena lease levy is contemplated in the financials. In fact, the district would eliminate the current arena levy of about $75,000.
Annual expenses are estimated at $367,300. Most of this price will go to salaries and benefits, utilities and maintenance. Of an estimated $319,000 in operating income, the annual lease purchase payment will take up approximately $208,000, leaving an annual cushion of about $110,000.
Martini called the calculations conservative, noting they were based on revenues produced by FLAAA. The school district is better positioned to run the facility, Martini said, due to efficiencies in areas such as maintenance, marketing and accounting. Current rates for ice time are likely below market, he said.
"We're hoping to grow it. If we just use what they did, that's a conservative estimate," Martini said. "Let's say we get a junior hockey team and we get more figure skating than currently, well, that would be additional rental income. … I don't see this as a proposition that has a trajectory of decline. I see it as a trajectory of opportunity."
In a worst-case scenario, the school could exercise the annual option to walk away from the agreement without owing anything. To do so, it would be required to demonstrate significant financial hardship.
"I think it probably would be a pretty severe situation for us to ever go in the red here," Martini said.
In a best-case scenario, the district could pay extra in its annual payments and take ownership of the facility in less than 20 years.
"We would definitely foresee keeping it up, doing maintenance and repairs so the building's useful life would be beyond 20 years."
Martini is exploring the possibility of replacing the fabric bubble over the facility's multipurpose fieldhouse with a permanent enclosure. Footings for concrete walls already exist, he noted.
Arena manager Brian Christianson has been on the school district's payroll since June. FLAAA is reimbursing the district for Christianson's salary and benefits. Martini said he is comfortable with the arrangement because he was allowed to provide input in the hiring process, and Christianson would stay on in that role for the district. The purchase would create two other full-time openings, both of which are accounted for in the pro forma.
The financing proposal the district had approved by the Minnesota Department of Education highlighted additional benefits of the district's involvement with the facility. The district would have priority scheduling and would expand its Community Education programming. Also, the arena would be made more accessible to the public through increased open skating times.
Other effects
It will be up to auditors to determine whether the purchase would be counted as net debt for the district, Martini said. If so, it would not affect the district's ability to pursue a significant levy for facility improvements that it is contemplating for 2014. School districts have debt limits, but even a levy in the range of $140 million would bring District 831 to only a quarter of its debt capacity, Martini said.
On the other hand, the purchase would count in the calculations the state uses to determine qualification for the Alternative Facilities Revenue Bond and Levy program. The district made an unsuccessful bid to the state Legislature this year for inclusion to that program, which allows districts with significant capital needs to levy for improvements without needing voter approval. The district falls short of automatically qualifying for the program because it does not have enough total square footage of property. Purchasing the arena would bring the district's square-footage within 5 percent of meeting the requirement.
The city and school district would enter into a ground lease for the property. The district agreed it would complete unmet parking lot improvements required of FLAAA.
An appraisal from 2012 valued the facility and the property at $8.3 million. The arena was built for $5 million in 2008.


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Police chief: 64 Cleveland officers broke rules in shooting – CNN.com
Until you wear a badge, you just cannot understand what it is truly like . . . Our subject story tells us of an unfortunate incident back in 2012 that left two people dead and a whole police department worried about who did what and why. This was an unfortunate incident that was handled poorly and subsequently turned a bad situation into an even worse situation. The end result is 74 of 277 officers on duty at the time of the incident are subject to disciplinary action.
But, speaking as a "realist" in regards to Law Enforcement, if you have never worked behind a badge you have not a clue what the job entails. Cops do not report to work each day planning to have to shoot or kill someone. They do not get dressed each day with intent to commit questionable acts leading to the harm of citizens. They report each day with the intent that they are going to do "good" for the community they serve and at the end of their shift go home to their loved ones feeling like they have done their job and done it well.
Well the truth be told, cops are human. They feel all the emotions, respond to stress, and make mistakes just like all the rest of us. And, when you take a major city filled with "dirt bags" and "assholes" that are in your face from the beginning of your shift until you clock out for the day, it is easy for the wrong things to happen.
Think of it this way . . . When you last got arrested or got approached by a cop for a possible wrong-doing committed by you, did you
- Argue, lie, or run?
- Resist or fight the officer?
- Or did you admit to what you did and cooperate with the officers action whether it be citation or arrest?
I do not care what you did. My point is how much crap did the officer have to put up with to do his job because of you? Now multiply how you acted by about 16 because a cop in a major city probably has to deal with a minimum of at least 2 "assholes" per hour. ( You know, I really need to watch my language. And I would, were there a better descriptive in my vocabulary. ) By the end of the average officer's shift he has probably had to wrestle, chase, and defend himself at least once that he knew about, and numerous times that he had no idea he was in jeopardy. Let it suffice to say, most days are pretty intense for most officers. Couple the preceding with the officer probably having to witness the evils that man does to each other on a daily basis and most cops end their shift lucky to end their shift.
Now add the public that is constantly trying to mess with you in one way or another and an Administration that will use you as their "fall" guy anytime they feel like it, and you wonder why anyone would be stupid enough to wear a badge in the first place. I seriously believe that anyone stupid enough to wear a badge today has to be stupid enough to believe they can make a difference or do something like save the life of someone that would actually appreciate it. Sorry Officer, you do not stand a chance at doing anything but making it through your day. Why? Because we the citizen's of your community do not give a "rat's ass" about anything you do, unless we can find fault with it.
The first thing you have to understand as a citizen is there is no such thing as a law to protect the public. Laws that claim to be such are made when somebody figures out how to make financial gain from the law being made.
The second thing you need understand is he who has the money gets away with the crime. If you want to get away with a crime you need to have enough money to hire the Attorney that can get you out of the crimes you get charged with.
The third thing necessary to recognize, is the Courts are full of people full of themselves that believe they hold the power over good and evil. The don't. Most often the Court screws the public to fleece their pockets either to fill the County coffers or demonstrate numbers that say they are doing something wonderful from the bench.
The last thing you need recognize is most of us could not walk down the street in many neighborhoods without the cops trying to do the job they do. Even those of us stupid enough to attempt doing so would likely not live to pass from one block to the next. Today, being a cop sucks. It is not a job. It is not an adventure. It is nothing more than being stupid enough to play "risk" with your life, hoping to make it home without someone turning your day to "shit" because we the "public" have allowed it to become this way.


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Proceed with understanding.
Read the entry on S-I Joint Dysfunction.
Afterward, go to http://somatics.com/page7-S-I.htm
S-I joint pain teaches patience, persistence, and diligence, as you do what it takes to recover your comfort and freedom of movement.
Be patient -- methodical -- gentle with yourself.
* Who This Program is For
* About the Program, Comforting Your S-I Joints
* How to Follow The Program
* Access to the Exercises
* What to Expect
* Units of the Program
- groin pain that has persisted despite therapy for tight psoas muscles
- testicular pain or vulvar pain
- bladder pain
- deep pain in the pelvis
- a gripping sensation at the bottom of the abdomen
- deep pain at the waist in back, on one side
- pain around the rim of the pelvis
- pain deep in one hip joint
- a feeling like a tight wire going down the low back and into the pelvis
- pain, numbness, or "lightning like" shooting/burning pain at the side or front of the thighs or in the pelvis
The general approach of therapy is to regard the cause of a symptom as being at the location of the symptom. With the symptoms named above, when they occur in combination, that's not the case. The cause is elsewhere -- in this case, from the sacrum being twisted with one sacro-iliac joint being jammed, and sometimes (more rarely) both sacro-iliac joints. The symptoms consist of radiating pain, nerve pain, muscular pain, and unnatural patterns of compression, all of which come from the twisted sacrum.
Addressing symptoms as if their cause is at their location is generally unsuccessful; the successful approach involves correcting the position of the sacrum. Manipulation of the sacrum is a case of "addressing the symptom at its location" and is a limited benefit. Normalizing the muscular and weight-bearing forces that keep the sacrum twisted causes a sacrum to straighten and to resume its healthy mobility. As the sacrum straightens, symptoms decrease and disappear.
If you find an exercise painful enough to make you cringe, you're not ready for it. Skip it, for now and continue through the rest of the program. As you cycle through the program, the other exercises will prepare you so that you are comfortable enough to do the previously painful exercise without cringing. Never force; cultivate.
You continue to do the program as long as you feel a trend of improvement or until you've gotten the full result. You will feel changes in movement and balance almost from the beginning. If you don't feel improvements from a given exercise in one or two practice sessions, either you don't particularly need that exercise, you need preparation from the other exercises, or you were doing it differently than as described in the instructions. Coaching helps.
This program came into existence from correcting my own S-I joint dysfunction. I had deep pain in back at waist level, deep "gluteal" (buttock) pain (which wasn't muscle pain, but referred nerve pain), sciatica-like pain in my right calf (which wasn't typical sciatica, but came from a jammed sacrum), and other symptoms that I describe in my entry on S-I Joint Pain / Pelvic Distress Syndrome. I was like a poster-child for S-I joint pain. Few people I have worked with have had symptoms worse than mine.
The strategy of the program is to remove forces that simultaneously twist and compress the sacrum or twist the ilium (side-hip bone) in relation to the sacrum. Muscular contractions in many locations occur in response to a twisted sacrum and hold the sacrum in or return it to a twisted position, hence the number of exercises that address different locations in you.
I started with Gentle Spine Waves -- done with respect for my own tolerance, never making myself cringe either from pain or from fear of pain. Gradually, I discovered additional movement patterns that addressed other aspects of the problem; sometimes, I substituted different movement patterns when I felt they worked better -- so, the program evolved.
First note: It's best to do this program last-thing in the day, so sleep is next. You'll sleep better and tissue growth that occurs at night will be in the better pattern brought about by the exercises.
This program consists of somatic education exercises done in a specific order. You don't do all the exercises in one sweep (which is why I divide the instruction into sections of practice); you do the exercises in entire sections, as described, below.
Each exercise sets changes in motion that progress for some time after practice. Some decompress your S-I joints, so the other exercises can work; some self-correct your coordination, so the forces that position your sacrum change direction; some flush up existing problems so you can correct them as you cycle through the program; and some integrate and consolidate the improvements that have occurred.
As in a recipe, no one ingredient constitutes the entire recipe, no one ingredient produces the result, and there are steps of preparation. Each somatic education exercise may be viewed as an ingredient and the program, as the recipe.
You do the exercises in sections for the number of practice days stated at each section, except if you find it necessary to skip an exercise due to pain, as stated above.
You begin each practice session with Unit 1, Part 1 and finish each practice session with Unit 1, Part 2.
Here's a summary of the program:
The Tongue Mudra
The Tongue Mudra is an evolved form of an ancient yogic technique. It involves positioning the tongue and lower jaw in a particular way along with special breathing. This positioning creates internal feeling-connections that cause spontaneous self-corrections of tension, feeling, and posture. It may seem odd that positioning the tongue in some way can cause these effects, but cause them, it does -- and I have often felt the effects all the way into my sacrum, as changes of tension and position.
It's the first thing you should learn in the program.
You can do the exercises in this program without The Tongue Mudra and get the intended results, but they occur much more quickly if you use the Mudra during or immediately after practice. There is an exception: the somatic education exercises that involve the jaws (Module 2, Section F.2); it's rather impossible to do both at the same time, so you follow the exercise with The Tongue Mudra.
You determine your own sacral position before each practice session; people's sacrum changes position and you may want to make sure you are doing the exercises for the correct side. A video-tutorial provides instructions.
Unit 1: Preparation
You do Unit 1 (below) for seven practice sessions, or so -- until you have memorized the movements. Unit 1 is preparation for Unit 2 and you do an short version of Unit 1 (fewer repetitions) with each practice session of Unit 2. You finish each Unit 2 section with Unit 1 Part 2 and a brief walk to integrate the changes.
Unit 2: Self-Corrections and Integrations
You do Unit 2 (as instructed, below) in the "forward order" (A. through F.) and then in "reverse order" (F. through A.).
You do Unit 2 until you are feeling much better and have difficulty determining which side of your sacrum is jammed deeper. Only then do you proceed to Unit 3.
Unit 3: Polishing and Consolidating the Results
How Much to DoOnce you know the Unit 1 exercises, most practice sessions take about 1/2 to 3/4 hour; some take less, some take more. Working from the video tutorials takes longer; when you know the exercises, practice goes quicker.
For "time convenience", you may divide practice sessions into two practice sessions daily (morning and evening), with one exercise per practice session -- although for comfort I recommend you do both exercises in one practice session. You may also practice an entire section twice, daily, to speed progress. Adjust practice amount to tolerance; too little is better than too much. Too much, and the results of the exercise you did get too far ahead of the results from the others -- which may lead to a rebound effect or to unnecessary discomfort in the regions not yet done.
If you do Unit 2 exercises just before sleep, you may do Unit 1, Part 2 in the mornings.
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The Tongue Mudra
Done as instructed in the tutorial above, even by itself, The Tongue Mudra is very powerful at triggering self-adjustments to posture and movement.
The addition and maintenance of The Tongue Mudra when practicing these exercises increases their potency, making the self-corrections larger and occur more quickly.
Self-assessment is not optional. It's required in order to know on which side to do which exercise -- and that will probably change over your practice period. You assess yourself each time you do a practice session, and, if you are really meticulous, before and after each exercise.
If You Can't Confidently (and Competently) Assess YourselfGet a therapist to teach you how and to confirm your accuracy.
If you feel worse after practice, you may have mis-assessed yourself. However, remember that even if you did the correct side, soreness sometimes happens after practice. It may last a few hours before subsiding. If it doesn't subside within a day, do the exercise for your other side, next.
Determining Sacral Position
1. "Unit 1" (seven cycles, or so -- or until you have accurately memorized the movements and no new changes occur.)
2. "Abbreviated Unit 1" + "Unit 2"
(subject to personal coaching recommendations)
In "abbreviated Unit 1", you do two repetitions of each movement (instead of five), from memory.
You prepare for the Unit 2 exercises with Gentle Spine Waves PART 1 and finish the Unit 2 exercises with the exercises named, below, in "AFTER EVERY UNIT 2 or UNIT 3 PRACTICE SESSION".
3. "Unit 3": The Five-Pointed Star + Unit 1 PART 2
In YouTube tutorials, read the Description section before proceeding.
UNIT 1 | Unlocking the Situation
From the Unit 1 preparatory exercises, expect relaxation and lengthening of the spine and of the whole side worked, feel-able as you lie in repose after practice. Do not expect Unit 1 to relieve your symptoms by itself (although it does work for simple back pain); it prepares you so the other exercises can work. What you will feel is a lengthening of the "working" side and decompression of that side's S-I Joint -- preparation for what is to follow.
Follow the basic guideline: Do seven cycles, or so, through this unit, using the video tutorial until you remember the movements well enough to do them from memory. (A "cycle" is a practice session of all of the exercises in a section.) Continue Unit 1 until you cease to get new improvements of the kind stated FOR THOSE EXERCISES. Then, switch to Unit 2, as instructed, above.
Section A. Gentle Spine Waves
Gentle Spine Waves is an "unlocking" step that loosens your back tension so you can make other changes. The additional looseness makes it easier for things to shift to a new position.
Start with the deeper side up; this instruction will make sense once you've followed the video-tutorial, the first time.
When working Unit 2, you do Unit 1 as preparation for each Unit 2 section. You are unlocking the situation so the Unit 2 exercises work.
Section C. Gentle Spine Waves, PART 2
AFTER EVERY UNIT 2 or UNIT 3 PRACTICE SESSION
1. Gentle Spine Waves, PART 2 (two minutes or so)
2. Freeing Hamstrings, Standing Position (twelve-minute tutorial, two-to-three minutes to do when you know the exercise)
3. Standing Side-Sway (one minute)
4. a 10-20 minute walk to integrate the changes:
The Power Walks
- The Gyroscopic Walk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHav47M8KHg
- The Old Scottish Geezer's Walk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuW4kMTquoI
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UNIT 2 | Normalizing Movement
Do one section (A, B, C, D, E, or F) completely in any ONE practice session.
Do the sections in sequence and do the number of practice days indicated for each section before moving to the next. You may do more than one practice session per day to improve faster. However, if you get too sore, you may have done too much. Learn your capacity for change.
When you've worked through Section F, do the sections in reverse -- from F. to A.
Then, work from A. to F., again, reversing and reversing, until you feel much better.
If a movement, or getting into working position, is painful enough to make you cringe, you're not ready for it; skip to the next section of movements. You will return to the troublesome movement later, when you are more fit for it and can do it without cringing, i.e., comfortably (given your condition).
SECTION A | two (2) practice days
Section A exercises untwist the relationship between sacrum and its neighboring hip bones (the ilia). If one hip is tilted forward (anterior) and the other, back (posterior), this exercise gradually corrects the positioning.
If you have a feeling of "deep gripping" in your lower abdomen, these are the exercises that address it.
- relief from deep pelvic pain
- easier walking
A.1 - Walking into the Floor
Walking into the floor reaches the psoas muscles and hip joint flexors and affects the body core. The deeper-sacrum side, as referred to in the instructional video, is the working side.
SECTION B | three (3) practice days
A twist in the sacrum has muscular twisting actions that go all the way up the spine and into the hip joints. This section frees you from the twisting forces and equalizes the front-to-back balance of your pelvis.
- more space where your spine meets your sacrum
- relief from stress in your trunk
- decrease of sciatica-like symptoms
B.1 - 4-Way Walking Integration
The movements of walking connect the shoulders, pelvis and legs.
Having changed the resting position of your pelvis, we consolidate the change by balancing the front and back hip joint musculature with the following exercise.
On the rest of this page, you will find introductions to the exercises found in each section of this program.
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B.2 - Balancing the Front and Back Hip Joint Muscles
Move at a speed that helps you to cultivate sidelying balance throughout these movements.
- reduce compression where the low back meets the sacrum (lumbo-sacral junction)
- add fluidity to walking
- reduce the lumbar curve and improve flexibility
SECTION C | two (2) practice days
You've made some changes in sacral position, brought some comfort to your abdomen, and freed your trunk from twisting forces. Now, it's time to consolidate and stabilize the changes.
The following exercises
- release tensions that keep you from twisting, freely
- integrate the movements of twisting with the movement patterns of walking.
C.1 - Nose in the HoleC.2 - The Twists that Untwist (from Get Free from that Back Pain)
In these movements, always stop short of any sense of stretch, in the twisting movements. Your range of twisting movements will increase without any sense of stretch.
In these movements, always stop short of any sense of stretch, in the twisting movements. Your range of twisting movements will increase without any sense of stretch.
The Twists that Untwist frees and integrates you in the walking pattern.
SECTION D | one (1) practice day
The movements of the Reciprocity exercise (Section D.1) stir things up. The movements of The Wheels of Synchrony (Section D.2) quiet things down.
Rotational or turning movements of the pelvis in relation to those of the shoulders are central to balanced and free walking; when the hip of one side moves forward, its shoulder is supposed to move backward; when the hip of one side moves backward, its shoulder is supposed to move forward. It's twisting and untwisting that goes through the trunk.
When the sacrum is twisted, you feel a "grip" in the muscles of the spine at the waist.
The movements of this section free those movements and help untwist the sacrum.
IMPORTANT: Assess your sacral position before each practice session. To do these movements in the wrong direction may lead to added discomfort. If you do the movements in the wrong direction, the remedy is to do them in the correct direction. Even if you do them in the wrong direction, discomfort will fade in a couple of hours and you will have gotten some benefit.
Do the seated assessment procedure shown in the video-tutorial, below. Visually observe, as well as feel, which leg is easier to move forward and backward. To go only by feel may give you inaccurate information, so assess visually, as well as by feel. The two should coincide. Generally, whichever side of the sacrum is deeper (jammed forward), that leg and hip are more difficult to move forward.
Both action patterns of this section appear, here:
D.1 - Reciprocity (Coordinated Twisting Movements for the Pelvis and Shoulders)
- relieve the "grip" of muscles at the waist
- straighten the S-I joints and square the pelvis
- untwist trunk
- reveal where you're still stuck
STARTING POSITION: Lying on the DEEPER side (MORE DIFFICULT to move the deeper side hip FORWARD). You move your hip in the easier direction, as determined by the sitting functional appraisal, above.
Pay full attention to the sensations of movement. After doing the movement a few times, you may sense enough to notice where in the movement it gets "sticky". If/when you locate such a "sticky" position or more painful place, move to the center of the "stickiness" (or discomfort) and slowly relax completely. Begin the movement anew from that position and, EACH TIME, look for the first "sticky" or more painful place you encounter and relax in that position.
D.2 - The Wheels of Synchrony (coordinating the pelvis and shoulders)
- improving comfort after doing Reciprocity
- smoother, easier walking
- better linkage of your shoulders and pelvis
FREE: See video, above.
SECTION E | two (2) practice days
It's integration time. You've made changes through your pelvis, spine, and shoulders. Now, you put the changes together.
This is an extensive and thoroughgoing exercise that produces dramatic improvements in movement, balance, and comfort.
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E.1 - Straight and Bent Leg Integration
- grace, comfort and power in walking
- better ground contact standing and walking
- better balance
- less effort, walking
- comfort through your trunk
E.2 - Three-Way Twist
INTRODUCTIONFREE: http://youtu.be/oFbXc0P4fas
This quick exercise connects the results of Straight and Bent Leg Integration through the groin, ribs and neck.
- comfort
- easier walking
SECTION F | two (2) practice days
The corresponding location to where the sacrum meets the spine is, in the neck, where the upper neck meets the head. Trouble in one location produces trouble in the other by reflexive connections that control muscle tension. We deal with both, in this section.
Trunk Integration puts you together at a greater depth in your pelvis and frees you from stiffness in your upper back, shoulders and neck.
F.2 - Freeing and Coordinating the Jaws
Jaw tension and position affect head position, chest tension, and breathing.
You do The Tongue Mudra for 2-5 minutes immediately after. Sitting and lying down produce different and complementary results.
- more erect stature
- easier breathing
- reduction of emotional stress
- decompression of sacrum
FREE: This link goes first to the introduction; click the link at the end for the tutorial.
UNIT 3 | Integration Movements
After some cumulative/lasting improvement, or when your sacrum seems close to centered or changes position frequently, do the UNIT 3 Centering moves instead of UNIT 2.
By now, you are much more comfortable and mobile. You may notice at some point that it's difficult to determine which side of your sacrum is deeper or which side moves more easily. This difficulty is not from lack of skill in self-assessment (which you have practiced to proficiency), but from your sacrum being so centered that it's hard to tell which side may be deeper. That's when you start UNIT 3. (NOTE: If symptoms return, you need more UNIT 2.)
You've made dramatic changes in yourself -- untwisted your sacrum, gotten yourself comfortable, put yourself together, you feel stronger and move more easily than you may ever have, before.The exercises in this section integrate your legs, pelvis and trunk in movements consistent with free and balanced movements of your sacrum in sitting, standing, and walking.
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Let's look at some some gorgeous bedrooms. We got our first taste of snow yesterday which immediately makes me want to start nesting for the season - starting with the bedroom . . . .
the top and bottom quilts are calling (screaming) my name. makes me wish i could afford an amazing quilt!
Wow, those rooms are spectacular! I LOVE the headboard on the first! How unique!
I could cozy up in any of those bedrooms. I love the last headboard.
Love the bright colors on that one with the big 4-poster but the taupe/white combo one is the direction I'm headed with ours...
I want to snuggle under all of those bedspreads/quilts (especially the first and the green one -- umm, I forgot to count what number the green one was...haha)!!
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Luca Turin (born 20 November 1953 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a biophysicist with a long-standing interest in the sense of smell.
Vibration theory of olfactionEdit
Since 1996 Turin has been the leading proponent of the vibration theory of olfaction, which proposes that the vibrational spectroscopic properties of molecules can be an important determinant of their associated smells, rather than just the specific "lock and key" ligand binding proposed by the orthodox shape theory of olfaction. Turin suggested that a plausible mechanism for such a molecular spectroscope could be inelastic electron tunneling.
A major prediction of Turin's theory is the isotope effect: that the normal and deuterated versions of a compound should smell different due to unique vibration frequencies, despite having the same shape. A 2001 study by Haffenden et al. showed humans able to distinguish benzaldehyde from its deuterated version.[1]
However, experimental tests published in Nature Neuroscience in 2004 by Keller and Vosshall failed to support this prediction, with human subjects unable to distinguish acetophenone and its deuterated counterpart.[2] The study was accompanied by an editorial, which considered the work of Keller and Vosshall to be "refutation of a theory that, while provocative, has almost no credence in scientific circles." It continued, "The only reason for the authors to do the study, or for Nature Neuroscience to publish it, is the extraordinary -- and inappropriate -- degree of publicity that the theory has received from uncritical journalists."[3] The journal also published a review of The Emperor of Scent, calling Chandler Burr's book about Turin and his theory "giddy and overwrought."[4]
Philosopher of science Miriam Solomon of Temple University, who reviewed Turin's own book in Science,[5] has suggested that Nature Neuroscience may have been defensive about the positive publicity surrounding Turin's theory because Nature, the parent journal, rejected Turin's original article.[6] (Turin's research paper was published instead in Senses.)[7] Nevertheless, two years after publishing the Vosshall paper and the accompanying editorial, the news website of Nature published an article about a study that supported Turin's theory: "A controversial theory of how we smell, which claims that our fine sense of odour depends on quantum mechanics, has been given the thumbs up by a team of physicists."[8]
In addition, tests with animals have shown fish and insects able to distinguish isotopes by smell.[9][10] Biophysical simulations published in Physical Review Letters in 2007 suggest that Turin's proposal is viable from a physics standpoint.[11]
The vibration theory received possible support from a 2004 paper published in the journal Organic Biomolecular Chemistry by Takane and Mitchell, which shows that odor descriptions in the olfaction literature correlate more strongly with vibrational frequency than with molecular shape.[12] However, the authors state "Our view is that the relationship between vibrational frequencies and odour is not causal (as in Turin's theory), but may come about indirectly as a consequence of similar molecules having similar properties." The method may be seen as an approach within the field of Cheminformatics, in which a variety of approaches are used to predict the function of molecules from their characteristics, not all of which imply a causal link between the input (here, vibrational frequencies) and output (here, odour prediction).
Turin was born in 1953 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Italian Argentine parents. He lives in Somerville, MA.
Education and employmentEdit
Turin earned his Ph.D. in physiology at University College London. From 1982 until 1988, he worked in France as a researcher for the CNRS at the Villefranche Marine Station near Nice. He was then employed at the Pasteur Institute from 1988 until 1990.
After leaving the CNRS, Turin first held a visiting research position at the National Institutes of Health in North Carolina[13] before moving back to London, where he became a lecturer in biophysics at University College London. In 2001 Turin was hired as CTO of start-up company Flexitral, based in Chantilly, Virginia, to pursue rational odorant design based on his theories. In April 2010 he described this role in the past tense,[14] and the company's domain name appears to have been surrendered.[15]
As of 2010, Turin is currently at MIT, working on a project to develop an electronic nose based in part on his theories, financed by DARPA.[14] From April 2011 on, he will be working at the Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Centre in Vari, Greece.
Role in the case of Henri KornEdit
Turin's role in reporting a high-profile instance of scientific fraud was reported in 2007 in both Nature and Le Nouvel Observateur.
In 1988, Turin began work at the lab led by neuroscience researcher Henri Korn at the Pasteur Institute. There, Turin and his colleague Nicole Ropert reported to their superiors that they believed some of Korn's research on neurotransmitters was based on fabricated results.[16] After Turin made a formal request that the CNRS investigate the allegations, he was told to find work outside of France; Ropert was also asked to leave.[17][18]
Korn was awarded the prestigious Richard Lounsbery Award in 1992 and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. and the French Academy of Sciences.[19] Then in 2007, re-analysis of Korn's data by Jacques Ninio in the Journal of Neurophysiology showed serious anomalies that suggested the results were indeed fabricated.[16]
Publications and media coverageEdit
Turin is the author of the book The Secret of Scent (2006), which details the history and science of his theory of olfaction, and an acclaimed critical guide to perfume, Parfums: Le Guide, with two editions published in French in 1992 and 1994. He is also the subject of the 2002 book The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr,[13] as well as of the 1995 BBC Horizon documentary "A Code in the Nose."
Since 2003, Turin has also written a regular column on perfume, "Duftnote," for NZZ Folio, the German-language monthly magazine of Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The column is also published in English on the magazine's website.[20] He also publishes a regular (every second week) column in the Feuilleton of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung under the title Wie sich jetzt herausgestellt hat or in English: "As it turns out".
In 2008, Viking Press published Perfumes: The Guide by Turin and Tania Sanchez. The book comprises 1,500 critical reviews of individual fragrances, plus introductory essays about the art, science, and history of perfume.
Books Edit
- Turin, Luca (1992). Parfums. Le guide (french).
- Turin, Luca (2006). The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell, New York: Ecco.
- Turin, Luca; Tania Sanchez (2008). Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, Penguin.
References Edit
- ↑ Haffenden, L. J. W., V. A. Yaylayan, J. Fortin (2001). Investigation of vibrational theory of olfaction with variously labelled benzaldehydes. Food Chemistry 73 (1): 67–72. see also [1]
- ↑ Keller, Andreas, Leslie B. Vosshall (2004). A psychophysical test of the vibration theory of olfaction. Nature Neuroscience 7 (4): 337–338.
- ↑ (2004) Testing a radical theory. Nature Neuroscience 7 (4): 315–315.
- ↑ Gilbert, Avery (2003). The Emperor's new theory. Nature Neuroscience 6 (4): 335–335.
- ↑ Solomon, Miriam (2006). HISTORY OF SCIENCE: On Smell and Scientific Practice. Science 313 (5788): 763–764.
- ↑ Solomon, Miriam. "Norms of Epistemic Diversity." Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, pp 23-36, 3.1 (2006) [2]
- ↑ Turin, Luca (1996). A Spectroscopic Mechanism for Primary Olfactory Reception. Chemical Senses 21 (6): 773–791.
- ↑ includeonly>"Rogue Theory of Smell Gets a Boost" (– Scholar search), 2006-12-07. [dead link]
- ↑ Havens, Barry R. (1995). Food Flavors: Generation, Analysis and Process Influence, 497–524, Elsevier Science.
- ↑ Hara, J (1977). Olfactory discrimination between glycine and deuterated glycine by fish. Experientia 33 (5): 618–619.
- ↑ Brookes, Jennifer C., Filio Hartoutsiou, Andrew P. Horsfield, and A. Marshall Stoneham (2007-01-16). Could Humans Recognize Odor by Phonon Assisted Tunneling?. Physical Review Letters 98 (038101): 038101.
- ↑ Takane, Shin-ya, John B. O. Mitchell (2004). A structure-–odour relationship study using EVA descriptors and hierarchical clustering. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2 (22): 3250–3255.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Burr, Chandler (2002). The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses, New York: Random House.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Nina Sinatra, The science of smell, The Tech, MIT, 23 April 2010
- ↑ Archive of www.flexitral.com, via archive.org. Accessed 21 May 2010
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Butler, Declan (2007-09-13). Long-held theory is in danger of losing its nerve. Nature 449 (7159): 124–125.
- ↑ de Pracontal, Michel (2007-09-27). Fraude à l'Institut Pasteur ? Savants au bord de la crise de nerfs. Le Nouvel Observateur (2238): 110.
- ↑ "Je leur ai expliqué la situation. J'ai dit que le devoir d'un scientifique était d'établir la vérité et que je m'étais trouvé dans un laboratoire dont le directeur agissait comme un faussaire. On m'a répondu que j'avais cinq jours pour me trouver un autre poste, de préférence hors de France !" (Luca Turin, as quoted by Michel de Pracontal in Le Nouvel Observateur)
- ↑ de Pracontal, Michel (2007-09-27). Fraude à l'Institut Pasteur ? Savants au bord de la crise de nerfs. Le Nouvel Observateur (2238): 108.
- ↑ NZZ-Folio, Duftnote (english version)
External links Edit
- The official website for Perfumes: The A-Z Guide contains a short biographical note and links to articles by Luca Turin.
- Luca Turin stopped updating Perfume Notes, his blog in January 2006.
- TED Talk video of Turin explaining the "Science of Scent"
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To know Ruth was to love her. Ruth Marie Aust Harrell, 75, passed away December 27, 2009. She was born in Pulaski, VA on May 7, 1934 to Charles A. Aust, Sr. and Trula Craig Aust, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her sister Lucy Jane Aust Duncan, and brother, Charles A. Aust. Jr. She is survived by a daughter, Donna Marie Harrell Jackson, Greensboro, NC; two grandchildren, Shaylyn Jackson, Dublin, VA and Shane Jackson, Apex, NC; and two great granddaughters, Lexi Crigger, Dublin, VA and Kylie Wren Lindamood, Dublin, VA. She is also survived by sisters, Mildred "Duckie" Aust Keller and JoAnn Aust Asbury, husband Roger, and several nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.
Ruth served as Clerk of Pulaski Town Council for sixteen years and was renowned for her knowledge of the workings and laws of the town, as well as her good nature and dry wit. She was a member of the International Institute of Municipal Clerks and the Virginia Municipal Clerks Association. She was granted Honorary Citizenship in the City of Virginia Beach, VA several times. Prior to serving the Town of Pulaski she was executive secretary to the plant managers of Klopman Mills for 25 years, and she completed advanced business classes at New River Community College. A long-time member of Aldersgate United Methodist, she sang in the choir until her health prevented her participation. She was a member of the Fine Arts Center and the YMCA Cardiac Rehab Center. An avid reader, Ruth loved swimming and playing with her grandchildren. As an amateur archeologist, Ruth collected rocks, minerals, and fossils and one of her fondest memories was of exploring ancient ruins in Greece.
A celebration of her life will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, December 30, 2009, at Aldersgate United Methodist Church with Reverend John Grimm officiating. The family will receive friends following the service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Women's Resource Center, 1217 Grove Avenue, Radford, VA 24141-4711 or to Aldersgate United Methodist Church Music Fund, 1946 Medallion Drive, Pulaski, VA 24301. Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home, Pulaski, VA.
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Wives of retired soldiers would soon embark on a naked demonstration at the Burma Camp in Accra to protest against delays in the payment of their husbands' pensions, according to information reaching Daily Guide.
As part of the comprehensive policy, retired service personnel on state pension and all workers on government payroll were directed to undertake biometric registration before their pensions and salaries could be paid.
Daily Guide learnt that the retired soldiers' wives decided to go naked because even though their husbands had registered in the United Kingdom since April, this year, the pensions were not released by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
Sources close to the soldiers' wives indicate that since their husbands were outside the country the pension constituted their only means of livelihood. The director of the Ghana Armed Forces Public Relations Directorate, Col. Mbawine Atintande urged the women to exercise restraint and allow the processes of paying their husbands to proceed.
He told Daily Guide in an interview that the biometric registration of the retired service personnel formed part of government's comprehensive programme to capture all those on government payroll.
Col. Atintande further explained that government had directed Ghana's Embassies abroad to register all retired service personal who enjoy government pensions. According to him, there was an initial problem regarding what type of machine to select for the exercise but this was later sorted out and the Ministry of Finance directed the Embassies to do the registration.
The Ministry of Defence, he indicated, facilitated the process of getting the Embassies to register the retied soldiers who are on government payroll, explaining that those who were dismissed from the service were not entitled to anything. Col. Atintande indicated that though he was not certain that all the Embassies had compiled their lists of retired service personnel, Ghana's High Commission in UK had submitted their list to the Ministry of Finance for the necessary action to be taken.
He was hopeful the remaining embassies would take the necessary steps to address the problems.
It is left with the Ministry of Finance to do what it has to do for people to get their money. It is not about six months or eight months," Col. Atintande pointed out.
He said time was not an issue and requested the wives of the retired soldiers to find out if their husbands had registered.
"When you register, so many things will have to happen before you get your pay", Col. Atintande stated.


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Penelope Adds a Goya to List of Award Season Honors
Penelope Cruz hopped from the Rome set of Nine to Madrid, where she walked the green carpet at last night's Goya Awards alongside her sister Monica and Benicio del Toro. Benicio took home the Best Actor statue for Che, and Penelope was crowned Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona. She's no stranger to the podium at the Goyas, but she was still deeply touched by the honor. Penelope didn't stick around Europe long — she made it to LA to attend today's Oscars luncheon. She recently opened up about her nomination, saying,
It's not a lie that it is an honor to be nominated, and if I don't win, I won't be any less honored, but . . . look, ask anyone who is nominated. No matter what you think you feel about awards, when you're there, sitting in that seat, with those people, all dressed up — of course you want to win!
She's facing stiff competition on Feb. 22, but she just got some extra practice yesterday delivering an acceptance speech.
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Me and a friend are leaving the Scandinavian tundra for a month in July to experience life on the west coast. I would be very grateful for any tips, advice and must-sees while we're there.
We're planning on spending a few days in San Fran, head up to Reno and Salt Lake City, then down to Vegas, the Grand Canyon, San Diego (in time for Comicon) and back to San Fran.
Classic 'merican customs such as a visit to the gun range, triple by-pass burger and winning back our entire travel budget on the craps table in Vegas are already scheduled, but is there anything you gentlemen think that two visiting guys in their mid-twenties have to do/see in the region?
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Frisco: Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Park including the Japanese Gardens, Japantown for sushi, the beach, maybe Alcatraz.
Monterey Bay Aquarium and maybe diving.
According to my wife, visiting vineyards (but that may be old hat to a European!).
DON'T call The City "Frisco". Frisco is in Colorado and Texas, NOT California.
BTW, Dragnet was wrong, Los Angeles is not "The City."
Venice Beach.
Yosemite is not to be missed!
Thanks for all the tips! Yes, Burning Man was on my list, but unfortunately I was too late to register for tickets. Yosemite is a given, and we're thinking of visiting Death Valley too.
I'm interested in visiting one of the atomic bomb test sites also, but alas we were too late again when we drew up our plans. City Lights in Berkeley sounds interesting, one of my friends is a big fan of Ginsberg.
As a Bay Area native, let me point out rookie tourist mistakes:
*Not dressing for the weather. There was a 30-degree (F) spread in the temperature when I was out and about on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge Saturday. It's almost always windy and foggy on the Golden Gate Bridge itself.
*"San Fran" and "Frisco." It's "ess-eff" (SF) or "The City."
*Please read carefully about US tipping. Not in SF itself, but everywhere else, waiters make less than minimum wage and depend on tips.
In Japantown, my husband and I recommend On The Bridge for what they actually eat in Japan. (service is slow) Don't go to Benihana's.
I assume you've looked at a map and know it's 4 hours by highway from SF to Yosemite with no stops or traffic, SF to Los Angeles ("ell-ay") is more than 6 hours, etc.
"How do you tell a San Franciscan in the tropics? He's the one who always brings a sweater to the beach."
Rebekah's absolutely correct. The Bay Area has very distinct micro-climates, and five or ten miles, sometimes just crossing a hill or a bridge, will result in huge temperature swings.
More tips: If you're landing at SFO and then spending a few days in The City, don't pick up your car until you're heading onto the interstates. If you're staying within SF itself, you'll pay $30 or more for parking each day (up to $70 for valets at the hotels). Also, if you rent a car at the airport, you'll pay an extra 11% tax, plus an extra $20 airport fee. Rent a car from a place that doesn't have an airport counter or airport shuttle. I know Enterprise and Hertz have offices in The City itself, not just at the airport.
To get from SFO to downtown, take BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), the light rail system. The main tourist sites are at Powell Station. It's about 30 minutes from the airport to Powell.
I do not know this business specifically but Nevada is supposed to have a number of gun rental ranges like: http://nevadamachinegun.com/ or http://www.yelp.com/biz/safe-shot-indoor-range-reno If you are more interested in cowboying up try contacting these folks: http://www.sassnet.com/clubs/Clubs_list.php?state=Nevada There is also: http://aircombat.com/ Airsoft and paintball are easy to find.
You might want to call first to verify that they have ammunition.
Do you have US friends to meet up with for this road trip?
Triple bypass burgers and worse food will not be too difficult to find. You might notice a significant difference in the price of meat and alcohol. Enjoy but don't drive if you drink. Other US foods to try include, bison, chili, cheesecake, steaks, baked potatoes, catfish, jambalaya, and a casino buffet.
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