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BEREA — The Browns' front office overhaul is now complete.
Cleveland announced the hiring of Ray Farmer as its assistant general manager Tuesday, along with the shift of Michael Lombardi from vice president of player personnel to general manager.
Farmer, 38, spent the past seven seasons as the Chiefs' director of pro personnel and also had a four-year run as a pro scout with the Falcons. He will help Lombardi manage the pro and college scouting departments.
"We had the opportunity to meet with Ray in our initial search for a general manager, and came away extremely impressed," Cleveland CEO Joe Banner said.
"Ray is highly regarded in league circles as an outstanding evaluator of talent. We are very fortunate that we were able to add someone of Ray's caliber to our personnel staff."
In order to hire Farmer away from Kansas City — where he was under contract — the Browns had to offer him a promotion, according to NFL rules. They did so by changing Lombardi's title, making Farmer's new position one step above his previous job.
Lombardi, a former NFL Network analyst, has been serving as Cleveland's de facto GM since being hired Jan. 18, but Banner and owner Jimmy Haslam III repeatedly said they were open to adding one more person to their front office.
Not only did Farmer wow them with his 11 years of NFL experience, his previous relationship with longtime Eagles executive Banner worked in his favor.
Farmer, who was a standout safety at Duke, was a fourth-round pick by Philadelphia in the 1996 NFL Draft, playing three seasons at linebacker with the Eagles before a knee injury ended his career after 32 games and 16 starts.
"I have known Ray since he played with us in Philadelphia and I've followed his career," Banner said. "I've always had him in mind as somebody that I potentially would bring into an organization I was part of, and the situation presented itself. We've actually been working on this for a little while, and were finally able to execute it."
Banner added that new Browns coach Rob Chudzinski will continue to work directly under him, not report to Lombardi or Farmer on the football operations side.
Farmer was a four-year letterman with the Blue Devils, where he was a two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection. He blocked an NCAA-record eight extra points while at Duke, where he also worked as an academic coordinator for football following his retirement from the NFL.
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On being one of the boys on My Name Is Earl: "I'm so one of the boys on the show! Lord, yes. Why stop the fun? I had a child; I didn't die. [Costars] Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are like my brothers. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have gotten through my pregnancy. They're both fathers, and they were very understanding. When I got pregnant, they already knew I was a spitfire, so they were all a little afraid. I had my emotional moments. But no crazy yelling or anything like that."
On her chatty son Dezi's favorite expressions: "[Jaime imitates Dezi by smacking her forehead] 'Oh, maaaannnn.' He got that from Dora the Explorer. Mommy was his first word – which I loved. He got Dada soon after. For a while he spoke more Spanish than English because Eric is Cuban. There's lots of 'aqui, aqui' and 'comida, Mami,' when he wants to eat. He can count to 10 in English. In Spanish, though, he really likes the word cinco. He'll say, 'Uno, dos, tres, quatro,' then 'cinco, cinco, cinco.' He's a really smart kid, really animated, lots of personality."
On parenting post-breakup: "I have full custody, but when he's in town, Eric comes and sees Dezi every day. Dezi's too young right now to go overnight. But Eric's very much a part of his life; he's a great father. We make sure that no matter what happens, Dezi is okay and protected and knows that Mom and Daddy love him. We've never argued in front of him. We don't raise our voices around him. "
On how motherhood has changed her: "I'm in such a good place now. My amazing little boy is the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I know what it is to be unconditionally loved. I have somebody who is always excited to see me when I get home, who can't wait to give me a hug and a kiss, who doesn't judge me and loves me no matter what I look like. I'm never alone. Now I think before I speak. I think before I dress. I want to do and be the way any son would want his mother to do and be. I want to give him somebody to be proud of."
On Mommy guilt: "I was so ready for him and just couldn't wait to be a mother. [She pauses] I could have waited for the guilt I feel. I never said I wanted to be an at-home mom, and I don't think I could be with my child 24 hours a day, but I don't enjoy the guilt I feel when I leave him to go to work."
On going to her friends for parenting tips: "Absolutely. We all do that with each other. And it's nice to have girls' night every so often, where you can vent about how you were driving in traffic and your child threw up all over the back seat and there was no way of pulling over and there was screaming and crying…. It's nice to be able to vent to the people who understand and relate to you."
Look for Jaime on the big screen as her new film, I Love You, Man hits theaters this weekend.


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Nick Cohen's article ("Remember, Mr Cameron, it's better to give", Comment) demonstrates how David Cameron's big society has ended up pitching worthy causes against each other to battle for what's left of a very diminished pot.
We shouldn't be arguing about whether we need libraries or domestic violence services. We need both. But the Tory-Lib Dem coalition has decided to cut deep and cut fast, leaving Islington with £52m slashed from our budget over the coming year. We've been hit harder than any other London borough and, like all our services, our libraries have themselves had to find more than £330,000 in savings. I'm proud we've been able to achieve this without closing any of them.
The decision to take so much money away so quickly doesn't just have an impact on council services – it also hurts our partners in the voluntary sector. We haven't, and won't, abandon victims of domestic abuse. Solace Women's Aid is just one of a number of organisations we fund to provide domestic and sexual violence advocacy work and they will continue to receive £110,000 from the council over the coming year.
But we have to deal with the reality of a Tory-Lib Dem government that professes to want a big society while taking away the money that helps to fund it. It is this we should be united in opposing.
Cllr Catherine West
Leader, Islington Council
London N1
Nick Cohen's excellent critique of the big society certainly had a resonance for me.
Mr Cohen talks about charitable giving to "starving families in the Sahal, but not lonely pensioners in the UK inner cities".
For 16 years, I have managed a charity for lonely pensioners in inner-city Leeds and never has it been so difficult to raise funds for our increasingly essential work. While winning a contract to deliver services and activities for the city council, they didn't even give us enough to employ one member of staff, let alone the essential running costs to keep our charity afloat.
I continue to beg a £1,000 here and a £1,000 there from charitable trusts in London. Mr Cohen talks about some cities giving free office and room space to help charities. For my charity, we will have to pay rent and room hire charges this year, for the first time, after the city council arranged an asset transfer of our community centre to another voluntary group which must make it pay.
Mr Cameron would do well to look at good little (cost-effective) charities like mine and make funds available to help us to keep going. If he doesn't, there will be many more vulnerable people, including the elderly, set adrift with no support whatsoever.
Cherril Cliff
Manager, Caring Together in Woodhouse and Little London
It concerns me when vital services are provided by charities and the government then wipes its hands of those responsibilities. Charities, almost by definition, are uncertain things – when volunteers or funds dwindle, so do the service they provide. There is a baseline of service that we cannot afford to let evaporate and that means a formal structure of support and finance.
Tony Banham
Hong Kong
I enjoyed Nick Cohen's article but take one exception to one thing – his misuse of "charity begins at home" when he said: "Charity no longer begins at home."
The old saying does not mean that our generosity must always start at home. It means that home is the place where we should learn about generous hospitality, generous giving to others, even sacrificial giving. We understand little of the latter in this country – you need to go to Burma to see that.
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[2 December 2004]
Just who the hell is UNKLE anyway?
UNKLE as a working 'group' has always been a loosely defined concept, one which in practice consists of a rotating cast of collaborators brought together by Mo' Wax Records founder, James Lavelle. Within electronic music circles, Lavelle is rightly considered one of the great tastemakers of the last decade. He is a man of unorthodox impulses, as one might gather about a man who first sets up a record label, and only years later decides to create music for the label himself. In it's original guise, UNKLE produced a series of EPs featuring Lavelle, Tim Galdsworthy and Japanese music producer Kudo. The debut album, Psyence Fiction, featured a shift in line-up, with beats supplied by DJ Shadow, and high-profile guest spots from Mike D (Beastie Boys), Thom Yorke (Radiohead) and Richard Ashcroft (The Verve). It never was clear-cut as to who comprised the collective.
So, who is UNKLE now? Well, tucked away in the liner notes of the inventive new release Never, Never, Land, there's a line which says "UNKLE is James Lavelle and Richard File". This seems about as misleading as ever. The extensive songwriting credits this time around include the names Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Ian Brown, 3D (Massive Attack), and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age). The acknowledgments page is a masterpiece of comic invention, one which further confuses the issue. Lavelle offers a "shout-out" to a hundred or so of his closest friends and workmates, before File acknowledges 35 pals and inspirations of his own. The kicker is "UNKLE thanks…", a list presumably compiled by all (two?) members of UNKLE. It's a list of Biblical proportions, or at the very least, a list that reads like a bible of the music industry. Don't these people believe in 'Thank You' cards? All of which is to say nothing of a further list of acknowledgements from producer Ant Genn (...and quite how Genn doesn't get to be a card carrying member of UNKLE is a mystery to me. The production on this album is spectacular, integral to its success). Next time, can't we all just get along without such encyclopedic props?
Anyway, the record itself is certainly one of the finer electronic music albums of the past year (you knew I'd get around to the music eventually, right?). Whether it should actually be considered an album of the past year, we'll leave for another day. It was originally released in England in October 2003.
The record opens with a haunting, yet blindingly straightforward sound sample taken from the work of British video artists, The Light Surgeons: "Life is changes… one second you got it made, next second you're down in the dumps… it goes back and forth your whole life…."
What follows is an often complex arrangement of sonic textures, played out though the ears and eyes of many, but most likely, through the guiding vision of one man. Lavelle himself has stated that if the album has a theme, it is an acknowledgement of the changes you go through growing up. It's an unlikely thread perhaps, but if the man says it's there, I'll take him at his word. That's because this isn't an album whose joys are to be found in lyrical content, but rather in sounds and ambience. The record is a direct descendant of trip-hop (for one thing, it's significantly influenced by film soundtracks), although it's fair to say that UNKLE lean much closer to the beat than to the trip. Often it resembles the dense claustrophobia of Massive Attack's 100th Window, so much so that I was surprised to find that 3D's contribution was limited to a single track, "Invasion".
But then, mysteries abound. The credits for "I Need Something Stronger" include: "Synth, kaos and effects—Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker." Perhaps it's unfair to imagine that Eno, whose credits regularly include the words "synth" and "effects", supplied these very things, while Cocker busied himself creating "kaos"? As a lyricist with Pulp, Cocker was often memorable, yet the shortcomings the band possessed always struck me as resulting from a lack of music invention. I have a difficult time imagining Cocker's place in the scheme of these particular things, though doubtless they occurred. Certainly though, this is one track that wouldn't seem out of place on late Massive Attack.
And yes, the production on the album is exquisite, projecting a clear, full sound and highlighting several propulsive bass lines. "Eye for an Eye", the first single, is at times almost too poppy—the chorus is overly ripe—yet the song manages to stay just on the right side of the commercial line, redeemed by the irresistible, driving bass.
Mani, formerly of The Stone Roses and latterly of Primal Scream, contributes bass on two separate tracks, most notably "Reign", which sees him re-united with ex-Roses frontman Ian Brown. As per usual, Brown's voice suggests all the symptoms of serious nasal congestion, yet miraculously he somehow makes it work. Oh, that dulcet Mancunian phrasing… after which Mani let's rip, breaking free with substantive flair.
One consistent criticism of Psyence Fiction was that it had the feel of a compilation. Perhaps because of this I had an early, similar sense with this record too. Yet having listened numerous times now, I no longer feel that's the case. In fact, the works presents a fairly unified front. "What Are You to Me?" feels out of place, as damp as a baby's soiled diaper, but you remove it from the frame and the album feels quite of a piece. It's fairly miraculous, given the variety of contributors.
Psyence Fiction was released to considerable anticipation on the back of DJ Shadow's Endtroducing…, but times have changed. Back then, there were those who thought that Shadow had re-written the book on hip-hop, and that that didn't prove to be the case is neither here nor there; it was still a masterly performance. Instead, Psyence Fiction was somehow a little disappointing on it's own terms, and since then electronic music has been forced further away from the mainstream. Seemingly it has reached a plateau from its more recent vast imaginative leaps. Yet while fashion has moved away from it of late, and as it slips back underground and re-groups amidst a cacophony of scarcely original post-punk revivalists, its encouraging to find work such as this that continues to excite and develop. Drop it in your I-pod, crank it up on the car stereo You'll find it fills the space quite nicely.
Published at: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/unkle-nevernever/


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The National Danish Schizophrenia Project
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|Behavioral: Psychosocial treatment/Psychodynamic treatment
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Primary Purpose: Screening
Time Perspective: Longitudinal
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|October 1997
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|July 2005
The study is a prospective, comparative, longitudinal study with an intervention period of a minimum of two years and a registration of data at baseline and 1, 2 and 5 years after inclusion. Three sub-cohorts with different treatment modalities were designed:
Treatment1: 119 patients were, in addition to TaU, offered SPP, i.e. a scheduled manualised supportive individual psychotherapy (1 session of 45 min. per week, for a period of 1-3 years) and/or group psychotherapy (1 session of 60 min. per week for a period of 1-3 years). Anti-psychotic medication was given in doses based on individual needs; Treatment 2: 139 patients were offered IT, i.e. a scheduled, two-year long programme consisting of assertive community treatment, psycho-educational multi-family treatment (a.m. McFarlane, consisting of 4-6 families including the patients, meeting 1½ hour every second week for 1½ year), social skills training (concerning medication, self-management, coping with symptoms, conversational skills, problem and conflict solving skills), and antipsychotic medication (low dose strategy). This project, OPUS, has been described in detail elsewhere
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years to 35 Years (Child, Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
consecutively referred patients, age 16-35 years, who suffered from a first-episode psychosis of the schizophrenic spectrum disorder (ICD-10, DF 20-29).
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- patients suffering from mental retardation or other organic brain damage, and patients who were not proficient enough in Danish due to their foreign origins.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00221585
|Psychiatric Hospitäl in Aarhus
|Risskov, Aarhus, Denmark, 8240
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|Bent Rosenbaum, DMSci
|Psychiatric Center Glostrup, Dernmark
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|September 16, 2005
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|November 6, 2006
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Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
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A man on trial on charges that he tied up, gagged and sexually assaulted two neighbors before one escaped from his Vista apartment last year told a jury Monday that he'd been struggling to stay sober, but "jumped" off the wagon in the face of work stress.
Defendant Jeremy Stutzman said his two neighbors offered to smoke methamphetamine with him, and "I must have spent a good minute and a half looking at it."
"I took that hit ---- and the next thing I know, half of California law enforcement is looking for me," he testified, referring to accusations that he spent most of that night on the run.
Stutzman is expected to be back on the stand Tuesday to give his version of what happened last Memorial Day between him and the two young women who lived upstairs from him.
At the time of the alleged attack, Stutzman, 34, was already an ex-convict and registered sex offender, following a similar-sounding 2000 assault on a young woman whose husband was a military man on deployment, according to court records.
In this most recent case, Stutzman is charged with rape and other forced sex acts, as well as kidnapping and other charges.
His two accusers, roommates at the time, testified last week that after one of them escaped and ran for help ---- with restraints still on her ankles ---- Stutzman kidnapped the other woman and held her overnight.
During his two hours on the stand Monday afternoon, Stutzman gave rambling testimony. Only as court wrapped up for the day did he reach testimony about what happened between him and the first of the two accusers.
Stutzman testified that he and the woman made out, then contemplated whether to get more physical without getting into trouble, because he was engaged and she was supposed to be spending time with her roommate, he said.
But that woman testified last week that Stutzman put a hunting knife to her neck, tied her to a chair and then sliced her clothing off. Under threat that she would be killed, she testified, the woman acquiesced to his demand that she call and invite her roommate downstairs.
On Monday morning, before Stutzman took the stand, a number of witnesses testified in his defense, painting him as a man who was on the straight and narrow after his time in prison.
Stutzman wiped tears from his eyes as one woman from the Escondido church Stutzman attended said he had become "like a brother to me" and was "just doing really well in his life."
Stutzman faces 300 years in prison if convicted on all counts.


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The foundation of Melrose Abbey generally dates from 1136, when David I. of Scotland, among his many similar erections, built a church here. But Melrose, as a seat of religion, boasts a much earlier origin. It was one of those churches, or more properly missionary stations, which the fathers of Ireland and of Iona spread over Britain and the continent. It was in fact a portion of that pure and beautiful British church which existed prior to the Roman hierarchy in these islands, and of which the professors presented in their primitive habits and primitive doctrines so apostolic a character. .
In 1136 the pious David raised a new and much superior abbey, about two miles westward of the original site, but on the same south bank of the Tweed, and established in it the Cistercians. He conferred on them extensive lands and privileges; the lands of Melrose, Eldun, and Dernwie; the lands and wood of Gattonside, with the fishings of the Tweed along the whole extent of those lands; with the right of pasturage and pannage in his forests of Selkirk and Traguair, and in the forest between the Gala and the Leeder, with wood from those forests for building and burning. In 1192 Jocelin, Bishop of Glasgow, granted to the monks of Melrose the church of Hassindean, with its lands, tithes, and other emoluments, "for the maintenance of the poor and of pilgrims coming to the house of Melrose." From this cause the old tower of Hassindean was called "Monks' Tower," and the farm adjoining the church is still called "Monks' Croft." In fact, the Abbey of Melrose was a sort of inn, not only to the poor, but to some of the greatest men of the time. The Scottish kings from time to time, and wealthy subjects too, added fresh grants; so that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Abbey had accumulated vast possessions and immunities; had many ten-ants, great husbandmen, with many granges and numerous herds. It had much other property in Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Selkirkshire, and Berwickshire.
But the abbey church which David built was not that of which we have now the remains. The whole place was repeatedly burned down by the English invaders. In 1215 the rebellious barons of King John of England swore fealty to Alexander II. of Scotland, at the altar of Melrose. Edward I., in 1295-6, when at Berwick, granted the monks of Melrose restitution of the lands of which they had been deprived; but in 1332 Edward II. burned down the abbey and killed the abbot William de Peeblis and several of his monks. Robert I., of Scotland. in 1326 or four years afterward, gave L2,000 sterling to rebuild it; and Edward II., of England, came from New Castle at Christmas, 1341, and held his yule in the abbey, and made restitution of the lands and other property which his father had seized during the late war. In 1378 Richard II. granted a protection to the abbot and his lands ; but in 1385 he burned down Melrose and other religious houses on his expedition into Scotland.
Robert Bruce, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, granted a revenue to restore the abbey; and betwixt this period and the Reformation arose the splendid structure, the ruins of which yet charm every eye. It is in the highest style of the decorated order, every portion is full of work of the most exquisite character, occasionally mingled with the perpendicular. They are the only ruins of the church which remain, and they present the finest specimen of Gothic architecture and sculpture that Scotland possesses. One of Scotland's most discriminating writers says, "To say that Melrose is beautiful, is to say nothing. It is exquisitely-splendidly lovely. It is an object possest of infinite grace and unmeasurable charm; it is fine in its general aspect, and in its minutest details. It is a studya glory." The church is two hundred and eighty-seven feet in length, and at the greatest breadth one hundred and fifty-seven feet. The west is wholly ruined; but the great eastern window remains, and one above the southern door, which are extremely fine. The pillars that remain to support the roof are of singular grace, and wherever you turn you behold objects that rivet the attention by their richness of sculpture, tho often only in fragments. The only wonder is that so much has escaped the numberless assaults of enemies.
During the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, the abbey was continually suffering from their inroads, in which the spirit of vengeance against the Scots who resisted their schemes of aggression was mixed strongly with that of enmity to Popery. In the year 1545, it was twice burned and ransacked by the English, first under Sir Ralph Eyre and Sir Bryan Layton, and again by the Earl of Hertford. At the Reformation, when all its lands and immunities were invested in the Crown, they were valued at £1,758 Scots, besides large contributions in kind. Among them, in addition to much corn were one hundred and five stones of butter, ten dozens of capons, twenty-six dozens of poultry, three hundred and seventy-sit more fowl, three hundred and forty loads of peats, etc. Queen Mary granted Melrose and its lands and tithes to Bothwell, but they were forfeited on his attainder. They then passed to a Douglas, and afterward to Sir James Ramsay, who rescued James VI. in the conspiracy of Gowrie; then to Sir Thomas Hamilton in 1619, who was made Earl of Melrose, and afterward Earl of Haddington.
About a century ago they became the property of the family of Buccleuch, in which they remain. The Douglas built himself a house out of the ruins, which may still be seen about fifty yards to the north of the church. The ruins are pre-served with great care, and are shown by a family which is at once intelligent and courteous. The person going round, most generally, points out the shattered remains of thirteen figures at the great eastern window, in their niches, said to have been those of our Savior and his Apostles. They were broken to pieces by a fanatic weaver of Gattonside. A head is also pointed out, said to be that of Michael Scott, the magician, who exerted his power so wonderfully, according to tradition, in this neighborhood, as to split the Eildon hill into three parts.
The name of Melrose is clearly derived from the Ancient British, Melross, the projection of the meadow. Moel in Welsh and Maol in Irish signify something bald, naked, bare. Thus MoalRoss, in the language of the Irish monks who first built the church here, would signify the naked promontory. Moel in Welsh is now usually applied to a smooth mountain, as Moel-Siabod; and we find Ross continually showing its Celtic origin Where there is a promontory, as Ross on the Moray-frith, and Ross in Herefordshire from a winding of the Wye. But some old sculptor, on a stone still preserved in the village, has made a punning derivation for it, by carving a well, or mallet, and a rose over it. This stone was part of a wall of the old prison, long since pulled down.
The site of Melrose, like all monastic ones, is fine. The abbey stands on a broad level near the Tweed, but is surrounded by hills and fields full of beauty, and peopled with a thousand beings of romance, tradition, and poetry. South of the village rise the three peaks of the Eildon hill, bearing aloft the fame of Michael Scott and Thomas the Rhymer. On the banks of the Tweed, opposite to Melrose, lies Gattonside, buried in its gardens and orchards, and still retaining its faith in many a story of the supernatural; and about three miles westward, on the same bank of the river, stands Abbotsford, raised by a magician more mighty than Michael Scott. How is it possible to approach that haunted abode with-out meeting on the way the most wonderful troop of wild, and lofty, and beautiful beings that ever peopled earth or the realm of imagination? Scotch, English, Gallic, Indian, Syrian come forth to meet you. The Bruce, the Scottish Jameses, Coeur de Lion, Elizabeth, Leicester, Mary of Scots, James I. of England, Montrose, Claverhouse, Cumberland the Butcher. The Covenanters are ready to preach and fight anew, the Highland clans rise in aid of the Stuart. What women of dazzling beautyFlora M'Ivor, Rose Bradwardine, Rebecca the noble Jewess, Lucy Ashton, and Amy Robsart, the lovely Effie Deans, and her homely yet glorious sister Jenny, the bewitching Di Vernon, and Minna and Brenda Troil, of the northern isles, stand radiant amid a host of lesser beauties.
Then comes Rob Roy, the Robin Hood of the hills; then Balfour of Burley issues, a stalwart apparition, from his hiding-place, and of infinite humor and strangeness of aspect. Where is there a band like thisthe Baron of Bradwardine, Dominie Sampson, Meg Merrilies, Monkbarns, Edie Ochiltree, Old Mortality, Bailie Nicol Jar-vie, Andrew Fairservice, Caleb Balderston, Flibbertigibbet, Mona of the Fitful head, and that fine fellow the farmer of Liddesdale, with all his Peppers and Mustards raffling at his heels? But not even out of Melrose need you move a step to find the name of a faithful servant of Sir Walter. Tom Purdie lies in Melrose Abbey-Yard; and Scott himself had engraven on his tomb that he was "the Wood-forester of Abbotsford," probably the title which Tom gave himself. Those who visit Melrose will take a peep at the gravestone of Tom Purdie, who sleeps amid a long line of the dead, reaching from the days of Aidan to our own, as alive he filled a little niche in the regard of a master who has given to both high and low so many niches in the temple of immortality.


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Twenty-one years ago today Tom Hennessey exhorted 'CFS' patients to unite together on the anniversary of Florence Nightingales birth to celebrate International CFS Day. Like all good ideas this one caught on and was copied with the result that May 12th is now celebrated by people with Fibromyalgia, Lyme Disease and Gulf War Illness. This is all in keeping with Tom's original vision of a variety of similar disorders sharing core characteristics.
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The Asthma Control Rate Achieved by Budesonide/Formoterol in Clinical Practice in China
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This is a multi-centre, cross-sectional study planned to be conducted in China. The study aims to observe about 1500 asthma patients who have already received budesonide/formoterol combination treatment by physicians' determination and whose medications are aligned with the package insert of budesonide/formoterol approved in China.
|Other: without interventions
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|The Asthma Control Rate Achieved by Budesonide/Formoterol in Clinical Practice in China
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: Formoterol fumarate Budesonide Formoterol Arformoterol TartrateU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by AstraZeneca:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The rate of controlled and partly controlled asthma according to the definition of Global Initiative for Asthma [ Time Frame: one day ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- The rate of completely controlled and well controlled asthma according to Asthma Control Test's score [ Time Frame: one day ]
- The average frequency of reliever use in previous week [ Time Frame: one day ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Target subject population 1500
Asthma patients who have already received the treatment of budesonide/formoterol by physicians' determination and whose medications are aligned with the package insert of budesonide/formoterol approved in China
Other: without interventions
without interventions
Detailed Description:
The asthma control rate achieved by budesonide/formoterol in clinical practice in China.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Study Population
Asthma patients from clinic
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical diagnosis of asthma at least 6 months;
- Prescribed with budesonide/formoterol treatment at least 3 months before enrolled;
- Has used the same maintenance dose of budesonide/formoterol for at least 4 weeks before enrolled.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participation in any clinical study within 3 months;
- Have COPD history/suspicious COPD;
- ≥ 10 pack years of smoking history
- Used any other asthma maintenance medication accompanied with budesonide/formoterol within 3 months before enrolled
- With asthma exacerbation (defined as asthma symptom deterioration resulting oral/rectal/parenteral GCS medication or emergency room treatment or hospitalisation) within 4 weeks before enrolled
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01785901
|China, Beijing
|Research Site
|Beijing, Beijing, China
|China, Chongqing
|Research Site
|Chongqing, Chongqing, China
|China, Guangdong
|Research Site
|Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
|China, Heilongjiang
|Research Site
|Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
|China, Hunan
|Research Site
|Changsha, Hunan, China
|China, Inner Mongolia
|Research Site
|Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China
|China, Jiangsu
|Research Site
|Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
|China, Shandong
|Research Site
|Qingdao, Shandong, China
|China, Sichuan
|Research Site
|Chengdu, Sichuan, China
|China, Zhejiang
|Research site
|Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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|Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Additional Information:
Keywords provided by AstraZeneca:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01785901 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 5, 2013
|Last Updated:
|August 17, 2016
Keywords provided by AstraZeneca:
control rate
Non-Interventional study
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bronchial Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases
Formoterol Fumarate
Budesonide, Formoterol Fumarate Drug Combination
Bronchodilator Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Asthmatic Agents
Respiratory System Agents
Adrenergic beta-2 Receptor Agonists
Adrenergic beta-Agonists
Adrenergic Agonists
Adrenergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
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THROUGHOUT the month of May the Huckins Family appeal team, which is raising awareness of Lyme Disease, will be handing out leaflets at popular walking spots throughout the region, advising and educating unsuspecting members of the public about the dangers and unseen risks of walking in the woodland. Tomorrow (May 5) the awareness drive will include a refreshment station and cake stall at the summit of Roseberry Topping, near Graet Ayton. The team, who support and help fundraise for the Huckins family, from Redcar, are also organising a bingo night at the Cleveland Bay, Redcar on Friday May 16. For further information visit huckinsfamilyappeal.org.uk
CHINESE TREAT: Stockton's first evening market of the year heads to the Town Centre this week bringing with it sights, smells, tastes of the orient – and even a dragon boat. Stalls selling oriental gifts as well as Chinese arts and crafts will line Silver Street, just off the High Street. The market will take place on Thursday, May 8 from 6pm to 9pm. For more information about the range of specialist markets coming to Stockton this year visit www.stockton.gov.uk/specialistmarkets


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How could the BP2012 update compare Coco Crisp to Robin Yount!? that is a slap in the face to a hall of famer. Even Kenny Lofton deserves better than that, he had some superstar years in Cleveland. I realize it is playing style....
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I had a good chuckle when I read that Jake Odorizzi is 40 years old. You might want to check that.
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Just exactly what would Wily Mo Pena have to have done to get acknowledged by BP?
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Why is Joe Terdoslavich included when he was in the book?
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > This is a mess in a lot of Don Becker skeleton base drivers. Its much cleaner > if the last ring buffer slot is about to be used and the new alloc fails to > simply recycle the buffer and throw the received packet away. > > Several drivers simply require the ring remains full and they are a lot > cleaner > for it. If I understand it right, you want that the driver never passes one of its preallocated Rx buffers to the upper levels, so that the Rx ring is always of size RX_RING_SIZE. On receiving, it tries to allocate a new buffer; if it's OK it copies the the data to it and sends it up, if it fails it just ignores that so that the received data (already in the Rx ring buffer) is discarded. Don Becker's skeleton has a rx_copybreak scheme which allows this situation to happen now with a small modification. If you set rx_copybreak > 1512, it will always allocate a new buffer and memcpy the data to it; however, in the failing case, it goes through the other branch of 'if', as the 2 conditions (pkt_len < rx_copybreak and dev_alloc_skb =! NULL) are AND-ed - a split in two 'if' solves this problem. The reason for this AND is that if the new alloc fails, the Rx ring buffer (with data) is sent up and the re-filling of the Rx ring will (hopefully) get a new buffer. So, as I see it, your solution denies the delivery of received data in the few ring buffers in favor of keeping the already allocated memory. In both cases, in an OOM situation, the flow of data to upper levels will stop; so what is the advantage? Sincerely, Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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3. What shared items are accessible to an administrative user who connects via AFP or SMB? What about a standard user?
3. Administrators who connect to your Mac via AFP or SMB have access to any locally mounted volume.By default,standard users can only access their home folder and other users'Public folders.
4. What shared items are accessible to any user who connects via FTP?
4. Users who connect to your Mac via FTP have access based on the local file system ownership and permissions; by default they'll start in their home folders.
5. What password issues may arise related to the SMB service?
5. Passwords for the SMB service are not synced to users'normal account passwords. An administrative user will have to manually change the SMB passwords from the Sharing preference.
6. How do you provide Mac OS X web sharing services?
6. To enable the web sharing service select the checkbox next to Web Sharing in the Sharing preference.
7. What files are associated with the computer's website? What about an individual user's website?
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8. Mac OS X's client sharing services are: Screen Sharing,Remote Login,Remote Management,Remote Apple Events,and Xgrid Sharing.
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Attackers steal cancer patient's money, medication
The cancer riddling his body has eaten his strength, health and vocal chords. But 43-year-old Samuel Butler still musters anger.
Three men, wearing masks, walked up to his Fredericksburg door at about 6 p.m. Monday night. They stormed in and demanded money and pills. When he resisted, one of the suspects struck him in repeatedly in the chest with a metal baton.
"One had a gun, one beat me with a steel baton," he said.
After he collapsed to the ground, Butler emptied his pockets and handed over his rent money and precious pain medication. The thieves, however, left his other medications.
"There was no need for three men to beat him to get what he wanted they could have easily overpowered him without ever striking him," said Natalia Bledsoe, Fredericksburg Police spokesperson.
Kelley Sienkowski's husband saw the three men run from the house. Others in the quiet, leafy neighborhood are disgusted by the attack on such a vulnerable victim.
"They need to find 'em and take of them places for those people to be and it's not on the street," said Tom Chaffee, a neighbor.
As for Butler, the beating adds to his chronic agony. Since the stolen medications are narcotics, he is left with nothing to deaden his pain.
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Philadelphia will soon have a new fire commissioner.
Deputy Commissioner Derrick Sawyer will take over from Commissioner Lloyd Ayers who is retiring after 40 years on the job.
"To the members of the community, I vow to you you will continue to receive the same level of service during Commissioner Ayers tenure," said Sawyer. "To the members of the Philadelphia Fire Department, I vow to serve you with all my heart with all my might and with all my soul."
Mayor Michael Nutter said while appointing Sawyer to the job, he's making moves to diversify fire department leadership.
"Dianne Schweitzer who has served this city well and significantly for many many years is in fact the first female Deputy Commissioner of the Philadelphia Fire Department," Nutter said. "Yolanda Stallings is the first African-American female to serve in an executive chief position Peter Crespo is the first Latino or Hispanic to serve in the Executive Chief position."
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TAMPA — Because the Arena Football League's seedings in the American Conference playoffs were set, Saturday night's game between Tampa Bay and Orlando meant nothing.
And the Storm played like it.
It was the Predators who showed a lot of fight.
"We got our butt kicked," Storm coach Tim Marcum said. "And we provided the butt."
Tampa Bay (11-5) suffered its worst defeat of the year, 75-60 before a season-high 17,302 at the St. Pete Times Forum, in a game that saw two Orlando players tangle with fans in the stands during the first half.
With 11 seconds left in the second quarter, receiver Bobby Sippio, who played for the Storm in 2006, charged up the steps, followed by center Julius Wilson.
Wilson intended to give a ball to his father, but a fan knocked it from his hand and five to six fans rushed for the ball, knocking Wilson's father onto the steps, Orlando public relations director Adam Soucie said. Wilson threw a punch at a fan, and a fight broke out. Sippio's father was seated in the same area.
Both players were ejected, and at least 10 fans were escorted out. Sippio and Wilson, who likely face a league suspension, were interviewed by Tampa police. Storm media relations director Jim Robinson said no arrests were made for the fracas.
"There is no way that should ever happen," Marcum said. "Players cannot go in the stands for any reason."
In the latest installment of the so-called "War on I-4," Orlando (8-8) avenged a 62-50 loss to the Storm on May 28. Predators quarterback Nick Hill completed 19 of 26 passes for 284 yards and eight touchdowns, and former Storm receiver T.T. Toliver had nine catches for 123 yards and six touchdowns. Orlando scored on every offensive possession, and its 75 points were the most the Storm gave up this year.
"In every aspect of the game, we played about as poorly as you can," Marcum said.
The first quarter was one the Storm would like to forget as Orlando jumped ahead 28-7. Orlando turned two Storm turnovers — both Brett Dietz interceptions — into touchdowns. "Brett made some poor decisions in that first half," Marcum said.
A few records fell. Tampa Bay receiver DeAndrew Rubin set game franchise marks with 17 receptions and 245 yards. Dietz (32-for-49 for 398 yards, six touchdowns and three interceptions) broke Shane Stafford's season record for passing yards with 5,054.
Tampa Bay must regroup before traveling to Tulsa to open the American Conference playoffs Saturday. Tulsa beat the Storm 69-58 in the season opener.


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Moving forward on immigration Denver Post Editorial
Lawmakers must consider the nation's economic well-being, not just try to secure the Latino vote.
Moving forward on immigration Denver Post Editorial
Lawmakers must consider the nation's economic well-being, not just try to secure the Latino vote.
Reform is within reach (Phoenix) Arizona Republic Editorial
An opening. A sweet spot. A chance.
The postelection glow or the harsh light of reality illuminates the way forward on immigration reform.
Congress and President Barack Obama should not waste this opportunity. ...
Immigration reform now Everett (Wash.) Daily Herald Editorial
... Kick-em-out applause lines won't ameliorate a crisis that threads together employment, public safety, health, agriculture, entitlement spending and social justice. It's governing season. Comprehensive immigration reform is the only tenable solution. ...
Even Granite Staters ought to welcome immigration reforms Keene (N.H.) Sentinel Editorial
... It's hard to imagine what the GOP could have done to demonstrate that it was finished with nativism. From endorsing state laws that allow police to go after anyone who merely looks foreign to ruling out pathways to citizenship for any of the 12 million immigrants in the country illegally, the Republican party clearly was out of touch. ...
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... Most Latinos are fundamentally conservative, in the sense of traditional values; the various Hispanic communities are church- and family-oriented. And Latinos are not afraid of hard work. In short, they would seem to be a natural fit for the GOP.
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Scott Hairston: Hits second homer of the season against Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa. Hairston is hitting .389 against left-handed pitchers (14-for-36) with three homers, 10 RBI, an .806 slugging percentage and a .463 on-base percentage.
Cla Meredith: Serves up grand slam to Chris Iannetta, the first hitter he faced Monday night. Seven of the eight runners Meredith has inherited this season have scored (including three Monday) and five of the 10 first hitters he's faced have reached base.
0-for-16 – David Eckstein's numbers when hitting No. 1 in the order.
2 – Career grand slams by Rockies catcher Chris Iannetta, both against the Padres.
25 – Consecutive games Adrian Gonzalez had reached base before Monday night's 0-for-4 game with three strikeouts.
28 – Strikeouts by Gonzalez in 96 at-bats.
For those who croaked doom and gloom about what awaited the 2009 Padres, Monday night probably was a slice of what they had in mind. Only 14,717 fans showed up, the smallest crowd in Petco Park history by nearly 4,000, and they saw the team suffer its sixth consecutive defeat, 9-6 to the Rockies.
Chris Iannetta's grand slam off Padres reliever Cla Meredith erased a 6-5 lead with one out in the seventh, sending San Diego toward its 12th defeat in the past 14 games.
"We're going through a hard time right now," said Padres catcher Henry Blanco, "but guys have the right attitude. That's the most important thing. We're not down on ourselves. We're trying as hard as anybody can to get out of it."
The trick for the Padres (11-15) Monday night was to figure out how to get Scott Hairston to the plate every inning. Hairston had three hits, the rest of the team one.
With two outs in the fifth, his three-run homer off Jorge De La Rosa put the Padres ahead 6-5. Hairston also had an RBI single with two outs in the third, capping a flurry of three unearned runs set up by De La Rosa's throwing error down the right-field line.
"It's been awhile since I've felt this comfortable," said Hairston, who is batting .389 against left-handers this season with three home runs among those 14 hits. "I feel pretty good. Sooner or later a few other guys will get dialed in, too. We're not too happy with the outcomes of the games, especially the one-run games. But we are happy with the effort. Every team goes through this. It's way too early to panic."
Upon replacing Edwin Moreno with the bases loaded, the sidewinder Meredith tried to induce a ground ball with a 2-2 sinkerball to Iannetta. "It was inside but a little bit up," Blanco said.
The result was a liner to the second deck beyond left field, the first grand slam Meredith has allowed in his 208 career outings as a Padre. "Iannetta's good and he's got some power," Blanco said of the young catcher, who in his previous game against the Padres, on Wednesday in Denver, hit a 448-foot homer off Kevin Correia.
Monday night, Correia's worst start in five as a Padre led manager Bud Black to summon reliever Edward Mujica with one out in the third, the Rockies ahead 4-3 and runners on second and third. Ryan Spilborghs, the first hitter to face Mujica, hit a 240-foot sacrifice fly to left fielder Chase Headley, charging a fifth run against Correia.
Correia allowed nine of 15 hitters to reach base after the first. A borderline strike call on his 10th pitch of an at-bat to Iannetta, got him out of a jam in the third, but only after two more runs had scored.
Not tendered a contract by the Giants last season, Correia became the presumptive No. 4 starter the day he signed a minor league contract with the Padres, who were slashing payroll and once again had a dearth of prospects ready to compete for a starting job. The Padres a year ago were using veteran starters such as Greg Maddux and Randy Wolf in Correia's spot in the rotation.
The Giants considered Correia better suited to relieve, and Black said in spring training that if Correia is to evolve into a reliable starter, he needs to develop his change-up and improve his feel for pitching. Judging by his average of 19 pitches per inning, Correia still has work to do in those areas. He threw 79 pitches Monday night.
"My stuff is good; it's frustrating," he said Monday night. "I feel like I pretty much get two strikes on every batter."
Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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(NEW YORK) — Guard Rodney Hood is leaving Mississippi State and transferring to Duke.
Hood decided to transfer because his coach at Mississippi State, Rick Stansbury, retired in March.
Hood will have to sit out next season due to NCAA transfer rules, but he will still have three years of eligibility left when he attends Duke.
During his freshman season, Hood averaged 10.3 points, 4.8 boards and two assists per game.
Duke beat out Memphis, Ohio State and Florida State to land the talented guard.
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SJD's Elastic Wasteland
Tomorrow sees the release of Elastic Wasteland, the new album by SJD. Auckland-based Sean James Donnelly has used the SJD moniker across the last decade and a half to house his solo and band work; music that traverses electronica and downbeat, pop and rock - a little bit electro, a little bit retro, postmodern pop songs that showcase time spent listening deeply across the spectrum.
Donnelly has worked with Don McGlashan and was a crucial element of Neil Finn's Pajama Club band/project. He formed The Bellbirds with McGlashan, Victoria Kelly and Sandy Mill and, as SJD, he's released a small handful of immaculate, beautiful albums - songs that could make you weep, that make you proud to know them.
There was Lost Soul Music in 2001. That was the first album to get people talking. It arrived as part of the bedsit-electronica scene. It was 2004's Southern Lights that really impressed though. Particularly the song Superman You're Crying. That was the start of the journey in a way. (It was the entry point for a lot of people.)
Songs from a Dictaphone arrived in 2007. By now it was obvious that every time Donnelly released an album he would reinvent himself as a songwriter, performer and producer, while never turning his back on his musical past. Songs from a Dictaphone is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the truly great albums to come from this country. A unique talent reinventing himself - it's packed with superb songs, it brims and bristles with ideas. It still sounds exciting. It's an album I regularly return to (one I've arguably never left). And then, a year on, Dayglo Spectres managed to offer another version of SJD, something just a bit different again; a slight twist on the recipe and a continuation.
After that swift follow-up, after two great albums back to back, Sean took a break. He resurfaced last year, working alongside Finn, helping to coax the best music Neil Finn had made in a decade. Hearing Donnelly's contributions to Pajama Club made me hope and wish for a new SJD album.
Well tomorrow is the day. Elastic Wasteland is available. And it's another new level for Sean and his music. It's dark and sombre but it has so much in the way of heart. This time the band is gone, it's back to Donnelly solo - but as with Songs from a Dictaphone and Dayglo Spectres it's an album of pop turned on its ear; an album so full of ideas as to be almost overwhelming - a spiritual experience, music to connect with, to almost instantly form a bond with. It's another beautiful record.
I've been fortunate to have a copy of the album for a few weeks now - and I've been playing it every day. I've been spreading the word where and when (including now, obviously). And it occurs to me, writing this, that with Elastic Wasteland, Donnelly has created a trilogy of albums - from Dictaphone through Dayglo to Wasteland - that could stand up against any trilogy of albums released in this part of the world; that stand head and shoulders above almost any other possible contenders.
The opening track, The Lizard Kings, has been available as a free download for a while now. It does in some way set the tone - but it can't communicate the full depth of the album; you would never want one track to sum up everything you have to say across a set of songs. That much would seem obvious, I know. But what is truly remarkable, in listening to Wasteland, is how Donnelly manages to serve so many masters (and evoke a few); how truly genre-less this music is, not just in the magpie-like pickings from an ear-to-the-ground Donnelly, but how likely it is that this album could appeal then to so many different listener groups.
The instrumental hip-hop of Flying Lotus, and the soaring vocal work of Active Child, the postmodern, after-midnight slurred-soul crooning of James Blake and the business-casual charms of pre- and post-party LCD Soundsystem - fans of any/all of those could feel satiated with this album. Donnelly has always had a feeling of the classic songwriter about him too - Songs from a Dictaphone referenced Leonard Cohen (perhaps updating him for the laptop age) and there are icy and eerie moods across the songs of Wasteland. But the album is never bleak - it's often joyous because there's an expressive singer giving so much from his soul. There's a pervasive feeling of hope. Optimism.
I'm speaking in the moment, obviously; I've been so completely tied up by this album, I have not had to wrestle with it, I wouldn't have stood a chance - I was knocked over on the first listen. It won me over almost instantly but continues to offer something new with each listen. I'm pretty sure this is Sean James Donnelly's masterpiece. And I feel comfortable and confident saying that.
And in saying this: he will not let you down.
Every time Sean releases an album he makes his new masterpiece.
Elastic Wasteland is a singer/songwriter album, it has Krautrock elements, there's something here for the bloggers who post up the latest trends and fads and styles - production boffins looking for beats to appreciate then pinch. Elastic Wasteland is a comedown for party-goers returning home in the wee smalls, it's a set of snapshots from a man on top of his game but playing as though he's very unsure of his craft. A guy who has put in the 10,000 hours but knows he needs to keep going. And it's an album of dance music for the head and heart more so than for the feet. It's a beautiful haze of an album; dreamed-up pop music that deserves your time and attention.
I'm convinced it's an album for everyone.
But I do know it's been the album for me lately. A new favourite. A new Album of the Year contender.
My favourite new element this time around is Sean's aping of Robert Wyatt. I can hear that he's been listening to Wyatt - it's never more clear than on the new album's second song, Make Love Ask Questions Later, but it's also there, in traces, on These Are the Names and Lena. And it's a wonderful addition to the canon of voices that Donnelly conjures.
As I said here already, the album has been streaming this week thanks to the Herald. So head there for a last-minute/day-before fix. Then buy the album. Give Sean and Round Trip Mars some money. These are the good guys; people giving us great music for the right reasons.
So are you keen to check out Elastic Wasteland? Or have you heard it already? Are you an SJD fan? What are your thoughts on the new sounds found on Elastic Wasteland?
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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, answering questions in Council of Europe, belittled European Union, especially France claiming "Turkey is all Greek to you."
When asked by a French MP about the freedom of speech and minorities in Turkey, Erdogan said French should be concerned about the lack of freedom of religion in France: "But it is your problem, not ours. So you deal with your problems and let Turkish people decide about the problems here. But I invite you to come and see for yourself. You don't know anything about Turkey and you talk based on things you hear from other sources. Turkey is all Greek to you. You are kicking Roma out of your country and you still find in yourselves to criticize us."
Another MP asked Erdogan about the conditions of Armenians and other minorities in Turkey. Erdogan said there are 70,000 illegal Armenian immigrants in Turkey. He threatened to send them home if Europe continue to lack understanding about Turkey. He added that Christians in Turkey have equal rights like anybody else and free to do whatever they want.
Upon another question Erdogan said he finds assimilation to be a crime against humanity. And Turks living in the EU should not be assimilated but their cultural flavor to be preserved. He did not mention Turkey's assimilation efforts against Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Georgians and many other ethnic minorities for over a hundred years.
When asked about arrests of journalists in Turkey, Erdogan said the matter is in courts and legislation is not responsible by the actions of judiciary. But he added the books that caused the arrests of the journalists are on the Internet and people can see for themselves what is written in them. He said: "You will see that they were conspiring for a coup d'etat and that's why they were arrested, not because of anything they wrote." He did not answer a question about the length of trials in Turkish judiciary system.
Critics say that his speech did not target the Council of Europe MP's but rather the Turkish public opinion. Turks react very well when their leaders belittle Western Countries which are seen as the reason for all evil in the country. Incoming elections are due in June in Turkey and election propaganda have already heated up in the country despite the fact that most polls predict AKP will keep its majority in the Parliament after the elections.
UPDATE: 6:05 pm
Upon PM's request the Council of Europe will send an envoy to investigate media freedom in Turkey. In today's meeting PM has challenged the Council members for their ignorance on matters Turkish such as freedom of press and treatment of Christian minorities.
Mehmet (6 years ago)
Most of the writings in this text are false or misinterpreted and written by some racist person for sure. I invite him/her to listen Erdogan's speech once more carefully with his/her ears not with any other part of his/her body. And Erdogan doesn't need to show off anything to anybody, he is a world leader and for sure will get majority of the votes without any afford. And the way he talks is the way how some EU members can understand.


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Since Graduating from Yale University with a BA in Psychology and Philosophy, Jessica has enjoyed a successful career as an actress. Her numerous television credits include a starring role in the daytime drama 'One Life to Live,' for which she received an Emmy award nomination as Best Actress, and a six-year stint on the Emmy-winning 'Judging Amy.' Jessica's additional credits include recurring roles on the hit HBO series 'Big Love,' TNT's acclaimed 'Saving Grace' starring Holly Hunter, Alan Ball's 'True Blood,' and the Emmy-winning HBO comedy series 'Dream On.' Jessica's feature film credits include the hit comedy 'Wild Hogs,' Steven Shainberg's 'Secretary,' and 'Batman Forever' for director Joel Schumacher. In addition, Jessica has also made her mark as Mrs. Evans in the sequels, 'High School Musical' 2 and 3 for director Kenny Ortega.
Jessica is also a founding member of the Plymouth Theatre Company in Los Angeles and on staff of the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica, where she directs and produces, Spark off Rose, a monthly storytelling evening.


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Trung Nguyen Coffee Group inaugurated one of its five modern Asian coffee plants in the northern province of Bac Giang on March 28.
The facility was built at Quang Chau Industrial Zone in Viet Yen district at a total cost of VND2,200 billion.
In the first phase, the plant, with planned design capacity of 100 tonnes per day, will focus on processing and packaging G7 brand instant coffee for domestic use and for export to China, the Republic of Korea and Japan.
In the second phase, the group will continue to invest in processing technology in order to achieve maximum efficiency in output and quality, meeting the growth of exports.
Construction of the plant is part of Trung Nguyen Coffee Group's project to build a system of the most modern coffee plants in Asia.
The project aims to generate 5-6 million jobs and $20 billion in revenue for Vietnamese coffee industry over the next 15 years.
Currently, Trung Nguyen group's G7 coffee holds 75.8 per cent of the market in northern Vietnam. It is also exported to over 50 countries over the world and sold in leading supermarket chains in the US, the Republic of Korea and China.
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As of this moment we still have National City banks on every other corner and my statements r coming from National city. I have not seen 1 change since pnc made that purchase. Actually it's a PNC and a National City bank right across the street from each other a few blocks from my house.
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It seems after almost 2 years of credit fixing I still make mistake. hhehee.
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Bridging Structure and Agency: Processes of Institutional Change
The tension between (social) order and change, or, alternatively formulated, between structure and agency, has a long history in the social sciences (e.g. Verburg 1991). The discussion has substantial philosophical overtones. In this article we recount the history of the discussion. We both acknowledge the more recent admonition that the agent may have been given short shrift in previous eras (Davis 2003), but at the same time argue that one should not negate the reality of social structure or institutions (Hodgson 1999, 2004). In this article we argue, however, that these recent contributions, from the fields of economics, sociology, political science and management, do not provide a much needed account of how the tension between structure and agency may be resolved conceptually. Accounts seem to emphasize either structure or agency, and fail to capture their interrelationships. We submit that that the process of institutionalization does resolve the tension conceptually, focusing on the role of the agent in reproducing institutional setting, but also in instigating institutional change. We provide a theoretical account of the conditions under which institutions change, and the likely direction of such change. In doing so we emphasize the relation between socio-cultural values subscribed to in a society or community and institutional settings and practices (Dolfsma 2004). As institutions should be conceptualized to have both structural as well as 'cultural' aspects (Neale 1987), in many but not all cases irrevocably related, agents can re-interpret or re-define a given institutional structure in the light of a differing perspective, giving rise to tensions felt and possilbly setting in motion a process of institutional change.
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Trust us, we here at Oyster get it more than most people -- going on vacation is freakin' awesome. Vacations are all about fun, relaxation, and the "what happens here stays here" vibe, and when you're on a vacay, it feels like nothing can get ya down. But some hotel websites go a little too far and market their properties by showing "guests" in absolutely euphoric (and unrealistic) states. To the point where we're pretty sure that that kind of happy can only be reached if you've been dabbling in some recreational, er, "fun." And depending on the destination, maybe you have been. But still, when we're deciding where to stay for our winter getaway, we usually don't base it on how happy the "guests" on the website seem to be. Nonetheless, those photos can be pretty entertaining so we rounded up some of our favorites -- check 'em out!
1. Happiest Feet on Earth
"We're on vacation, it's 6:30 A.M., and the kids are up and full of energy -- fabulous! Sleep is overrated." (Hard Rock Hotel Vallarta, Nuevo Vallarta)
2. We LOVE Sitting on a Boat in the Sand
"Oh, you have to pay extra to take the hobie cat out? Let's just stay onshore then, hun -- sitting on it is just as fun!" (Secrets Wild Orchid Montego Bay, Jamaica)
3. At Least They Can Laugh about It
"Wait, so we're totally lost in the woods?! That's hilarious!" (Cardiff Hotel and Spa, Jamaica)
4. Gettin' the Party Started
"If this is wrong, I don't wanna be right!" (Temptation Resort Spa Cancun)
5. When Sushi Seems, Well, Fishy
"Sushi at a dated Las Vegas hotel? I'm in!" (New York New York Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas)
6. The Secret to a Happy Marriage
"No, you're the funniest person in Cancun!" (Hotel Riu Cancun)
7. The One-Percent Visits the D.R.
"Being a member of the Premium Club is just the tops! Isn't it, dear?" (Barcelo Bavaro Palace Deluxe, Dominican Republic)
8. Big Bird Crashes Breakfast
"Don't be silly, Big Bird. You're not interrupting our romantic breakfast at all!" (Beaches Negril Resort & Spa, Jamaica)
9. That's a Deep Dish
"THAT'S what Chicago pizza looks like?!" (Hotel Palomar Chicago)
10. Illegal Cruisin'
"I hate to ruin the moment, but y'all know I can't legally start driving until you buckle up, right?" (Hotel Wailea, Hawaii)
11. And Some More Illegal Cruisin'
"You're right! Fishing is so much more fun when the boat is stolen!" (The Ridge Luxury Villas at Playa Grande, Los Cabos)
12. The Things We'll Do for a Perfect Christmas Card Photo
"I know it feels funny being in a bathing suit in front of a green screen, honey, but the picture is going to be fabulous." (Secrets Wild Orchid Montego Bay, Jamaica)
13. Smiling through the Pain
"I took out a second mortgage to bet on this one, babe, but no pressure!" (New York New York Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas)
14. What's More Fun Than Fishing?!
"I've never been so excited for my hands to smell like fish!" (Fowl Cay Resort, Bahamas)
15. Shady Lady
"That woman in the black dress isn't smiling big enough. Something's not right..." (Hotel Riu Cancun)
16. Gazing into the Distance -- at Nothing
"What are we supposed to be looking at?" "I have no idea -- just keep smiling." (Barcelo Bavaro Palace Deluxe)
17. Make 'Em Laugh
"Uh, did I just say something really funny?" (Hotel Palomar Chicago)


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The NATA Open Round entries have all been turned in. I ended up providing voice work for three of the entries.
Blume by Hikarian
A young elven girl questions a long held tradition, and ends up redefining a holiday. I play the narrator and young girl.
Let's Invent a Holiday by sandwich-eater
I punny short with a twist ending. I have two lines as the "Chick" character.
Say Sneeze by Brewster
This probably has the most sneezes I've seen in an animation. I provided some random sneezes. Perhaps you can here my squeaks in the sneeze chorus.
Be sure to check out the NATA Open Round webpage to see the rest of the entries. There were 46 total and there is some pretty awesome stuff to watch! Best of luck to everyone for this round's judging!
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2013-05-03 13:22:54
good luck with your voice work
Thank you!
2013-05-05 16:55:57
Good voice work on everything you made.
So many voice you have there.
Thank you! It's fun to bring original characters to life.
2013-05-05 16:56:04
Good voice work on everything you made.
So many voice you have there.
2013-05-05 16:56:05
Good voice work on everything you made.
So many voice you have there.
2013-08-14 19:42:20
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