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While we wait for the Golden Globes, here is a round up of the various interviews that have taken place at the events in the last few days. If I missed any feel free to post in the comments!
[TV Tangos TCA Transcript [MAJOR SEASON 2 SPOILERS]]
Question: Cait, do you prefer the fashions of Paris or Scotland?
Caitriona Balfe: I think Terry [Dresbach, costumer designer and wife to Ronald D. Moore] will agree with me that I don't know if we'd called the Scottish clothes necessarily fashions. They're very practical clothes. It was a palette that was very muted and fabrics that were very practical and sort of earthy. But once we went to Paris, I think Terry was given this incredible freedom to make the most incredible beautiful pieces, so we have very rich fabrics, gorgeous colors, and it just looks amazing. It's so sumptuous.
Question: Sam, because you've moved from the Highlands to France, has the style of fighting changed at all?
Sam Heughan: Wow. I would say that the danger in Paris and Versailles is less physical with the swords and weaponry. It's more politics and backstabbing and poison. It's more hidden. There's a lot more politics at work and a lot more danger, so it's a different kind of world. But we certainly do go back to Scotland where we go back to the mud and blood and gore. So there's something for everyone.
Question: Sam, Jamie went through so much at the end of last season. How much is all that he went through with Randall with him? And how much is it still with you since I know those scenes were not easy to shoot?
Sam Heughan: Yes. It certainly played out in Season 2, but it's not the primary focus of the season. Obviously we go to Paris on this mission, and we're there for a reason. But Jamie's definitely still affected by the trauma. I think time is a great healer, but ultimately, he puts his whole body and soul into this mission about changing history, and then there is a great revelation that kind of cures him -- or brings him out of himself -- which I can't really tell you what that is, but it certainly brings back the old Jamie.
Whether or not that still lives with me, yes, I guess. I think myself and Caitriona, we both love any scenes that are kind of quite dramatic that we can really get our teeth into, that we can really stretch ourselves, our acting ability. I thoroughly enjoyed those episodes and look forward to more challenges.
Question: Caitriona and Sam, the idea of shifting to different eras is pretty exciting. If you could visit any era, what would it be?
Caitriona Balfe: I think I always used to say New York in the '20s, but I would also love to go to Egypt at the height of the pharaohs. I think that would be very...
Sam Heughan: We've discussed how you would make a great Cleopatra.
Caitriona Balfe: I would like to be Cleopatra, yes.
Sam Heughan: We should remake a movie. Starz remake CLEOPATRA.
Ronald D. Moore: Better plumbing in New York probably.
Caitriona Balfe: Probably, yeah.
Sam Heughan: I've always been obsessed with the King Arthur legends, and I don't really know what period that would be. Yeah. I'd love to discover the source of King Arthur, I guess.
Question: Would you be King Arthur?
Sam Heughan: Absolutely. But then maybe Mordred's a more interesting character.
Question: This show has launched both of you into the public eye in a different way. How do you two navigate that success, and what's sort of the double-edged sword of being known?
Caitriona Balfe: I'm not sure really what the navigation is. We have this amazing opportunity to work on a show that we love, and that's been the greatest gift. Obviously you do have more recognition, and I think that the great positive things of that are Sam and I both now have a voice where we can do positive things with that. We both have charities that we support, and I think we both love that side of things. I think also -- I can only speak for myself -- I haven't really had a negative side to that yet, and I hope I won't. I think if you're the type of person who sort of lives your life kind of privately, you can still more or less do that. You know, obviously when we're at the clubs at 4am falling out, that changes things. [Laughter.]
Sam Heughan: Happens a lot.
Caitriona Balfe: So far it's all been positive.
Sam Heughan: Yeah. Pretty [much] exactly what Caitriona said. We do have that ability to support charities and have done so, and I think that's definitely the positive side to this industry.
Question: Diana, this is a really bold step to do the things you're doing, going back and forth and having her decide, and Jamie finally understanding and so forth. Did you always know you were going to go in this direction? What was the thinking that went behind having to go back and try to change things.
Diana Gabaldon: I don't plan the books out ahead of time, and I don't write in a straight line either. I write where I see things happening. Consequently, as I got the first book sort of coming together, I had already found a literary agent, and so as I got it coming together, I told him, I said, "I can see that there's more to this story, but I thought I should stop while I can still lift it." He said, "Great." So when he went to sell the book, I said, "You can tell them there's more." He said, "She says there's more." And they said, "Well, trilogies are very popular. Do you think she could write three?" Being a very good agent, he said, "I'm sure she could." So I had a three-book contract. So I had all the room in the world to do anything I wanted. So I sort of jumped off a cliff, and that's been working pretty well for me so far, so I just keep doing that.
Question: You have all these people who say, "Oh, you can't mess with timelines and you can't do this and can't do that." None of that bothers you? You're able to push ahead? You're able to make up your own rules as far as what can be changed and what can't be and so on?
Diana Gabaldon: Yeah. Well, you always do that if you are dealing with time travel in any serious literary way. Anybody who does time travel stuff, unless it's just the costume drama, she's going back and wearing fancy clothes, but she's going to be a 20th century person and show everybody the error of their ways -- this is not what I do. Anyway, if you do it in any serious way, you do, in fact, figure out how a time works, one way or the other. In fact, I am honored to say that I was invited to write up the Gabaldon theory of time travel for the "Journal of Transfigural Mathematics" in Berlin, which I did, if you want to see that. I can tell you what the nuts and bolts are, but it's a little long for this venue.
Question: Caitriona, it looks like from that clip [that was shown before the panel started] that we're going to see the time traveling this time. How will her experiences with Black Jack affect her relationship with Frank this season in her present? Does time traveling cause any jet lag?
Caitriona Balfe: You know, no jet lag. A little disorientation.
Sam Heughan: Like a little hangover.
Caitriona Balfe: Just a little hangover kind of thing. I think as much when Claire first encounters Black Jack and she can't fail but to see Frank in him and believe that somewhere there is that connection, I think when she goes back, there is also that reverse thing where every time she looks at Frank, she can't help but see Black Jack. There's many layers of why that relationship is difficult when she goes back. She's definitely not the same woman that left. But, yeah. I think it definitely has an effect.
Question: Can you all talk a little bit more about the pregnancy this year? How does it impact the story? Different times have different ideas about what pregnant women can and can't do. Will that play in?
Ronald D. Moore: It definitely plays into the storyline, and that particular issue does come up at a certain point. It's hard to get into anything specific without really getting into spoiler territory. But Claire's pregnancy is a threat. It's there from the first episode since they arrive in Paris, and we continue it throughout the story and how it affects their relationship and her own role in the plot to disrupt the Jacobite rebellion and so on.
Question: Congratulations on the Golden Globes. Are you trying to write Tobias Menzies [who earned a nomination for his portrayal of Black Jack/Frank in the category for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television]? Is Frank a little more in it?
Ronald D. Moore: Frank's a great character. And he was such a fundamental part of the genesis of the story. Claire's drive to return to him was such a strong thread all throughout the first season. It's just a rich and interesting character. Tobias is a great actor, so it was a very organic process, being in the writers' room working on a story, and it just kind of folded itself into certain elements as we broke the season.
Question: Tell us about the new French actors. What's it like working with them, and do you all speak French?
Sam Heughan: I would say that we speak varying degrees of French. We have some fantastic new characters coming in. The French actors poured in just a new dynamic, a new world, and there's new enemies, new allies. We have Dominique Pinon. We've got Stanley Weber.
Caitriona Balfe: Lionel Lingelser, Andrew Gower, Frances de la Tour, Romann Berrux.
Sam Heughan: We have this young boy, Romann Berrux, who plays Fergus. He brings this great dimension to Claire and Jamie. He sort of becomes their surrogate son, and it's really nice to see Jaime and Claire play father and mother -- and sort of play this family. It brings another entity and dynamic to the whole relationship.
Question: Sam, could you talk about what you like about Jamie, what you admire about him? If you were sitting across from him at a table, what would you want to ask him?
Sam Heughan: I've been very surprised by Season 2. Season 1 was about discovery and about a young man sort of growing up and finding his place in the world and in a relationship. And Season 2 has been about discovering a side of the character that I didn't know was there -- that he's playing someone else. He's being quite deceptive. He's learning to be deceitful, and he does it very well. Jamie is very capable and good at most things. But there's a side to him that I didn't know, and also, he's still obviously traumatized or struggling with what happened to him. So there's not a darkness, but there's a side to him that I didn't know existed. And what do I admire about him, I think you asked? I guess his humor and his buoyancy. His natural ability to keep going no matter what's wrong. And I guess, also, his just absolute dedication to Claire is admirable and inspiring.
Question: What would you ask him?
Sam Heughan: Is he a natural ginger? [Laughter.] Or does he dye his hair once a month?
Question: Caitriona, what about Claire?
Caitriona Balfe: In similar respects similar to Sam, for Claire last season was a very reactionary season. There was just events that sort of happened one after another, and she was in survival mode, so she was just really reacting from one thing to the next. The difference with this season is that there's been time to sort of be in one place and contemplate. I feel like things are sitting with her a lot more, and she has time to consider her place and how she feels. It's been a really amazing discovery in that way, and I feel that in a lot of respects I've gotten to know her a lot more. But we have such, hopefully, a long journey to go with these characters that I'm really looking forward to playing the next phases. People who know the books know that Brianna comes in, and how that is to be a mother and all of these things.
I really admire her resilience and her intelligence, and I would love to just ask her about what her thoughts are being in all these different places and times and how she sees humanity -- and having that conversation with her and about her drive for her career and all those things. I think it would be a very interesting dinner. It would be a very drunk dinner, possibly.
[Globe and Mail w/ Cait]
The woman is Irish, as am I. Her accent is there, but soft. Unlike mine, which isn't really there until drink is taken and then is strong, especially when strong views are expressed.
I have strong views on Outlander. The romantic fiction conventions upended in it, the damsel-in-distress made savvy and soundly competent. It's a powerful excursion into heady themes of love, love of country, sex, sadism and atonement. Outlander, off the radar for many critics, has three Golden Globe nominations, including Best Drama, which is deeply gratifying to the millions who watch and admire it in countless countries around the world.
The Irish woman is Caitriona Balfe, who plays Claire, the canny heroine thrown back in time from the 1940s to the tumult of Scotland in 1743. She is nominated for a Golden Globe on Sunday for Actress in a Drama.
Balfe, age 34, is tall and dark-haired. She sits across from me briefly amused by the fuss the publicist makes about what chair Balfe should sit in. I tell her I won't keep her long. "Ah, don't worry," she says, the rhythm of speech of County Monaghan, where she was born, surfacing in those few words.
She fixes her eyes on me. She looks at me coolly. I know the look. I grew up surrounded by such Irish women, aloof eyes and a stormy heart. Warmth under it, though, the poetry of amusement and passion. She's the perfect Claire for Outlander.
I ask her what Claire is and what she represents, but do it sideways. Once, I wrote that Claire is a true super-heroine. Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the Outlander books, wrote to me to say, "Mr. Doyle, she's not a super-heroine, she's just a very competent woman."
Balfe says this is true. "To be a super-heroine means having superpowers. Claire has no special power, she is intelligent and able to adapt to situations that befall her. She is a woman of the 1940s, when the war meant that women had jobs they had not been entrusted with before, and able to leave the home. She's seen a lot, was a nurse in wartime, and she's strong in any situation."
I ask if any of the history, in which Outlander is steeped, surprised her. "What surprised me was how advanced they were in the eighteenth century. We think technology has changed everything, made us sophisticated, but people are remarkable in their ingenuity. Sometimes when we think of our ancestors and what they went through, we assume they had a different emotional make-up or thought process, to handle things. But they didn't. Family structure and family dynamic hasn't changed. Love hasn't changed."
"I was surprised by some the details and events of Scottish history. I grew up not knowing about it. In Ireland we learn a lot about Irish and European history, not about Scotland. Its history is astonishing; it's bloody and full of heartbreak. You just can't help but be moved by it."
Does her Irish background inform her work as Claire? "Everything that I absorbed through my life informs my work. But obviously being a Celt and spending much of my childhood in the countryside, when we started filming in Scotland it felt like a homecoming. Sam [Sam Heughan, who plays Jamie, her lover and then husband in 18th century Scotland] and I have talked about this. Sometimes, you simply have to look at the landscape, to be in it, to feel a kinship with the history. Claire is an Englishwoman who finds her home and heart in Scotland."
My time with Balfe together is brief so it's necessary ask bluntly about the Golden Globe nominations and what it means for her and for Outlander?
Another one of those very direct, cool looks as she answers, but with a billow of amusement: "For me, it's kind of wild," she says, laughing gently. "Before this I had five or six acting credits to my name. Two of which I didn't even speak in. It's a personal milestone, you might say. It puts me in a place when I have more opportunity, and it comes from this wonderful opportunity."
"For the show, for everyone involved from the crew in Scotland to Diana, to everyone, it brings more attention, something Outlander deserves."
We finish, but there is a lovely, illuminating postscript. We get up to leave and she says, "Your accent? Where in Ireland are you from?" And I tell her, "Born in Tipperary, lived in Leitrim [which is close to Monaghan], grew up in Dublin."
She beams. "Oh, Leitrim! Poor, lovely Leitrim." And she adds, "I grew up in Monaghan." As if I wouldn't know that.
I ask her if all Monaghan people are devotees of Patrick Kavanagh, the great Irish poet from that area, and who write so much about it. "Kavanagh!" she exclaims. "I grew up with Kavanagh drummed into me." And then she recites: "O stony grey soil of Monaghan/The laugh from my love you thieved/You took the gay child of my passion/And gave me your clod-conceived."
She's beating out the rhythm with her foot, her head thrown back, delight on her face. The publicist is agog, wondering what the hell I've just done to Caitriona Balfe. But I know. I grew up surrounded by such women.
Balfe shakes my hand. I thank her. She laughs. Her eyes are merry now. I liked her a lot, as I knew I would.
[Showbiz Junkies w/ Sam]
Sam Heughan can be forgiven for not remembering what day it is and what city he's visiting after traveling through a handful of countries between December 18, 2015 and Starz' Outlander press event at the Television Critics Association gathering in Los Angeles, CA on January 8th. Grabbing a few minutes with the talented Scottish actor who's won over a legion of fans with his performance as Jamie Fraser in the critically acclaimed, award-winning series, Heughan tried to recall all of the time zones he's recently passed through. "I can't even tell you," said Heughan, laughing. "Yeah, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, America…"
Fortunately, Heughan's a fitness fanatic who can handle traveling, but he joked about the toll it's taken on his body. Asked if he'll be wearing new back prosthetics in season two, Heughan said, "I think I need a new body, to be honest. Back prosthetics? Actually we're using the same ones, the same company."
Speaking of keeping in shape, fans of Outlander have joined with Heughan in Bear Strength's My Peak Challenge launched during season one of the series. The goal of My Peak Challenge is to support and motivate people into both reaching peak fitness levels as well as achieving personal goals, all while raising funds for charity. Bloodwise (formerly The Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research organization) is the charity nearest and dearest to Heughan's heart, and through My Peak Challenge and the support of Outlander fans worldwide, including a special Peak Posse group that auctions off one-of-a-kind Outlander-inspired baskets full of autographed memorable and other items to support the cause, the first fundraising campaign was a huge success.
The second My Peak Challenge has just launched and Heughan promises those who take up the challenge again (or for the first time) have a lot to look forward to in 2016. "We've created a 60-day workout fitness routine that's going to be like daily videos and nutrition advice," said Heughan.
Asked if he'd like to get his Outlander co-star Caitriona Balfe involved, Heughan said he'd absolutely love to.
As for his own personal bucket list of physical challenges, Heughan said he'd put climbing Everest at the top of that list. "That would be awesome. I don't think I'll ever get up there, but I'm going to be climbing Kilimanjaro this year."
Keeping our talk completely season two spoiler-free, Heughan discussed the most talked about scenes from season one: the prison rape scenes involving his character and Tobias Menzies as Black Jack Randall. "It was very tough. It was pretty intense. I really wanted to do it justice. It was filmed over about a two week period. They were pretty long days because of the prosthetics, the mud, the blood, and the gore. It was about four hours in the morning of makeup and in the evening a couple of hours to take it off. But I think to Tobias and I really went for it. We rehearsed the scenes well with the director and the writers. We were just fortunate that they were such great scenes to play."
"I knew we were making something pretty graphic and pretty intense, but it's in the book. You've got to understand why Jamie is affected and what happens to him. The whole physical side, Jamie can deal with that. But it's the mental thing, the sort of the loss of his will and betraying Claire as well is certainly something that's hard for Jamie to live with. People's reaction to it? That's what we want. We wanted people to be shocked by it and to be shocked by what Black Jack Randall has done to him," said Heughan.
[E! Video Interviews]
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[TVLine [MAJOR SEASON 2 SPOILERS]]
Outlander is changing locales to lavish Paris in Season 2 (premiering in April), but the horrors Claire and Jamie suffered back in Scotland will follow them to their new home.
Jamie is "definitely still affected by the trauma" of his rape at the hands of Black Jack Randall, star Sam Heughan said Friday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena. However, "It's not the primary focus of the season," the actor noted.
"Time is a great healer, and ultimately, [Jamie] puts his whole body and soul into this mission about changing history," Heughan previewed. "And there is a great revelation that cures him, or brings him out of himself. I can't tell you what that is, but it certainly brings back the old Jamie."
The couple's plot to subvert the Jacobite rebellion will also reveal a new side of Jamie that even his portrayer didn't know about. "He's playing someone else. He's being quite deceptive… and he does it very well," Heughan said. "[I admire] his humor and buoyancy and his natural ability to keep going, no matter what's wrong."
Meanwhile, Claire's pregnancy presents challenges of its own in Season 2, especially in how it affects her role in their efforts to stop the uprising. But that will hardly be the biggest issue for Mrs. Fraser, who finds herself — major spoiler alert! — reunited with her 1940s husband during the season.
"There is that reverse thing where every time she looks at Frank, she can't help but see Black Jack," Caitriona Balfe said. "There's many layers of why that relationship is difficult when she goes back. She's definitely not the same woman that left."
Added Balfe: "[Season 1] was a very reactionary season… She was in survival mode. The difference with this season is there's been time to be in one place and contemplate. Things are sitting with her a lot more, and she has time to consider her place and how she feels."
Author Diana Gabaldon, on whose novels the Starz series is based, earned some laughs when she inadvertently took a jab at pal George R. R. Martin. The Game of Thrones scribe recently confirmed his next novel would not be ready in time for the HBO drama's sixth season; Martin blamed travel and other distractions for the delay.
"Unlike George, I write no matter where I am or what else I am doing," she said.
[Access Hollywood Video Interview]
Sam, Cait, Ron, & Diana Discuss Golden Globes, Are Cute
[Gold Derby Video Interviews]
[E! Video Interviews from BAFTA Tea]
Cait Talks Her Excitement for Golden Globes
[ET Canada Periscope Interviews]
When the first season of Outlander wrapped last year, fans were left wondering about the future for Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan), whose plot lines included unexpected pregnancy and a near-death experience, respectively. The show's second season will arrive in April, bringing with it the answers to all our burning questions. So when we ran into Balfe and Heughan at BAFTA's pre-Golden Globes tea we begged for some teasers to hold us over until spring.
"It's completely different than season one," Heughan said. "We're in Paris, so there's a completely different look to the show. The costumes look fantastic. It's very ostentatious. The allies and the enemies are very different. There's less people with swords and shields and more back-stabbings and politics."
"The costumes have gone full couture," Balfe added. "It's beautiful silks and satins and the colors are so amazing, whereas last year it was wools and muted. Claire has just told Jamie that she's pregnant, which is a huge thing in her life. She thought that she couldn't have children, so this is something that's a major change in her for the whole next season. She's also trying to help Jamie recover from the trauma at the end of season one. She's taken on this mission, as it were, to try and change the course of history. So it's not like things have just slotted back to the way it used to be. There's a lot going on within their marriage. It really tests them and tests how strong their bond is. But, as we always know, they persevere."
While the show's feverish fans revered the first season for many reasons, one favorite aspect has been its sensual, genuine portrayal of, which ELLE.com recently detailed as part of our Masters of On-Screen Sex series. And Heughan and Balfe understand the fuss: "I think people like them it's because it's quite honest," Heughan said. "It doesn't turn away from it. You get to see it. It's not a male's perspective, either. Claire is a very strong woman, and it's about her getting to know a young man and their relationship. I think it's quite interesting because you don't get to see a woman that has so much experience meeting a man who is a virgin."
But are we going to get more of those scenes in season two? Maybe not quite in the same way. "Well, now they're married," Heughan noted. "Claire is pregnant, and Jamie is suffering from the trauma of season one and what happened to him at the end. So their relationship is in a very strange place now. The honeymoon is kind of over. But that doesn't mean they won't get back there. They have a lot going on and they're working on their relationship. Their relationship is less innocent and young. It's now more grown up."
Not to worry too much, though: "They're a very passionate couple," Balfe added. "That will always be a part of their relationship."
[Yahoo Style]
Meanwhile, Outlander's Caitriona Balfe only had eyes for one guy. "There's one of my co-stars over there," the nominee cooed upon spotting her on-screen husband Sam Heughan. "Sam and I have been seeing each other all week and Tobias [Menzies] gets in tomorrow [Sunday] morning. We're going to have breakfast and I'll go and get glammed up and hopefully he'll go put on his pretty dress too and we'll meet at the Globes."
Balfe and Heughan — who've shared more than a few intimate moments on-camera — were naturally more covered up for this occasion, although Balfe maintains they're not completely nude during those infamous sex scenes. "[We wear] some really unflattering, dignity-shattering, stick-on paper underwear, which no one should ever have to ever wear. Obviously there's not a lot of space to hide things, but we do both wear some sort of underwear."
[ET Canada Video Interview w/ Sam]
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October 19-21, 2018We kick off our season of exuberant fetes and strong emotions with Martha Graham's masterwork Celebration. This signature piece is paired with Jacqulyn Buglisi's hauntingly beautiful Sospiri, performed by guest artists Virginie Mécène & Kevin Predmore.
November 30, December 1-2, 2018As the snowflakes begins to swirl, and icicles dot the winter landscape, Kanopy presents two treasured December stories through dance: Once Upon a Winter's Eve and The Norse Tree of Life (Yggdrasil). Don't miss these holiday gems!
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Daisy Surgey- Creative Threads- Daisy's class has recently merged with the Sewing class, so Wednesday mornings are now even more creative! Daisy grew up around sewing and the women in her family have all followed creative paths; her grandmother was an avid knitter and built up a knitting business from scratch, while her auntie works in the fashion industry and her mother is a curtain maker. But Daisy didn't really get a taste for sewing as a career until her early 20's. She studied Fashion Design and has experience in pattern cutting, design and garment construction. Daisy has always been very thrifty and loves the make-do-and-mend culture and repairing and transforming garments over buying new. After learning more about the fashion industry and how wasteful it is, instead of becoming a part of this, she decided to share the skills she had learnt and started her own business teaching sewing and up cycling crafts, to educate people about how they can make-do and waste less. She loves vintage clothing especially the shapes from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
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New York Lizards (6-0) at Charlotte Hounds (1-5)
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The Hounds take on Major League Lacrosse's only undefeated team Saturday night in the second game of a three-game homestand. … Charlotte is trying to play its way out of a major slump after last week's 19-13 loss to the Boston Cannons, the Hounds' fourth straight defeat. … The Lizards, who were off last week, have been unstoppable through the first half of the MLL season, but their past four wins have come by three or fewer goals. … New York is loaded offensively, with Rob Pannell (14 goals), Paul Rabil (14), Matt Gibson (13) and Tommy Palasek (10) scoring at least 10 goals this season. … Charlotte attacker Joey Sankey was named the league's rookie of the week after scoring five goals and assisting on three others in his MLL debut against the Cannons. … The Hounds take a battered lineup into this week's game against New York. While midfielder Jake Tripucka returns, defender Brett Schmidt (groin injury) is expected to miss his second game. In addition, defender Michael Ehrhardt, faceoff specialist Brendan Fowler and attacker Mike Sawyer all spent time with the trainer during last week's game. … An interesting matchup Saturday will be at the faceoff position between Fowler and the Lizards' Greg Gurenlian. Gurenlian is the league leader in faceoffs (79.7 percent, 110 of 138), while Fowler is third in the MLL (59.3 percent, 99 of 167).
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Did you know we're hiring? LiquidPlanner is looking for a Software Development Engineer, but instead of just posting a job ad online, we thought – what better way to advertise the position than to have one of our current developers tell you why he loves his job? We'll just let Mark take it from here:
Looking down at the calendar, I've been writing software professionally for 11 years now, the last of which being here at LiquidPlanner. I can honestly say that the past 365 days have been the most fulfilling of my career. Let me warn you now: this blog post is not about LiquidPlanner features, our new Android app, or project management – well, not directly anyway. Instead, I'm going to share with you four reasons why I love my job. Let's dive right in!
1. LiquidPlanner has a culture of shipping quality.
Our development team is currently working on its eighth sprint since I've been here. These sprints have evolved the product in visible ways, including an UI overhaul, a multitude of new features, and updated backend architectures.
As a developer at LiquidPlanner, I've hit the ground running from Day One. Through the magic of Git, I can see that within the past year, I have 1404 commits. Some of my favorite commits have involved implementing a background job queue with Resque and Redis, used on more than a few LiquidPlanner features.
The LiquidPlanner development team has a strong culture in test-driven development that helps make "hitting the ground running" effective. One aspect of this is our post-commit hook that runs the suite of all our automated functional and unit tests, which means running approximately 3500 tests, and 32,000 assertions on a shared server after every commit. When you break the build, everybody knows it. We're very cognizant of:
- Trying to NOT break the build (crazy, right?)
- Fixing it ASAP when things do go awry
The results of our tests are attached to our commits, and show up in the homepage of our LiquidPlanner workspace for all to see.
Besides the test automation, we eat our own dogfood, so to speak. We use LiquidPlanner to manage and collaborate on our own sprints. This not only helps shape an understanding of the product, but increases our chances of finding bugs before customers do. Before our releases get deployed, they've been baking on our own internal servers from the first day of the sprint. Everybody in the company – Development, Marketing, Sales, and Support – works off the internal build of the product, and tests it before it goes live.
2. We develop with great technologies in a pragmatic manner.
An exciting aspect about being a developer at a startup is that we wear many different hats. For the web app, we have our hands in Ruby, Rails, jQuery, PostgreSQL, Redis, and we run on Linux. Each dev has their strength as an individual, and we all write code that touches many of these different pieces. We even take turns acting as Operations Support, gaining exposure to tools like Nagios, Puppet, Munin and Monit. LiquidPlanner has an iOS app and a recently released Android app that both hit the LiquidPlanner API. Sidenote: I recently updated our LiquidPlanner rubygem that wraps our API, and you should take a 5 minute break and '$ gem install liquidplanner'. It's awesome!
We always consider the latest, greatest, and newest technologies, but these decisions are made in a pragmatic way. Just because it's a new and 'buzzworthy' technology does not necessarily always mean it's the best decision for us to fully embrace it. It's rewarding to observe and participate in these decisions.
3. LiquidPlanner has a great stakeholder culture.
LiquidPlanner has the best stakeholder culture that I've ever experienced.
Our meetings are few and far between compared to most companies I've worked at, and are tightly focused and concentrated (most of the time!). This is not a company of nodding heads. We all have disagreements at times, but because individuals are stakeholders, those differing points of view arise with the best interests at heart. Our discussions are in the context of making the product better, helping to keep many product concerns in check.
The devs here are recording video tutorials at night and on the weekend and committing code at a variety of times during the day and week – all because it's their passion. The focus is on the work, which is a great vibe to be around.
4. The LiquidPlanner app itself.
It's great working on an app that you care about and enjoy using daily. The product has true value for a lot of different positions in any organization, but as a developer, I love the visibility that LiquidPlanner provides. I can view schedules and my own tasks, and also what's headed my way in upcoming sprints. To be able to measure yourself in the short term and long term is incredibly motivating. Likewise, I can see what my co-workers are hacking on and gain context. I feel like I have a living record of my work that I can point to with useful connected collateral, as opposed to my previous life where I had to dig up e-mails AND refresh someone's memory about what's going on.
Our customers are a passionate user base and care deeply about the app they use daily. Needless to say that we get lots and lots of feedback. It may seem like a simple concept to listen to your users requests so you can deliver what they ask for while still staying true to your high level goals, but it can be challenging. Accomplishing this can be very gratifying.
That's a wrap! I hope I captured what I find rewarding about working as a software engineer at LiquidPlanner. If you're interested, we have a spot open for you on the development team! If you have any questions about anything, post a comment, email us, or send me a tweet.


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By Boris Fishman
A singularly gifted author makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and occasionally hilarious tale of a failed journalist requested to do the unthinkable: forge Holocaust-restitution claims for outdated Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.
Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, ''didn't endure within the distinct way'' he must have suffered to qualify for the reparations the German govt has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. yet endure he has—as a Jew within the battle, as a second-class citizen within the USSR, as an immigrant in the USA. So? Isn't his grandson a ''writer''?
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Great Buddhist temple, Kandy, Ceylon.
Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Photograph by Frederick Fiebig from an album of 70 handcoloured salt prints, with a view of the complex of the Temple of the Tooth Relic at Kandy in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The Dalada Maligawa or Palace of the Tooth is the most venerated shrine on the island and is reputed to contain the Tooth of Buddha, held within an inner sanctuary. Legend states that the tooth was snatched from the flames of the Buddha's funeral pyre in the 6th century BC. It was then smuggled into Sri Lanka for safe-keeping in the 4th century AD, hidden in the hair of a princess. As the most important Buddhist relic on the island, it was moved to various capitals by successive kings until finally enshrined in Kandy by King Vimaladharmasuriya in the 16th century. Little remains of the original shrine and the present structure mostly dates from the late 17th century. The view shows the octagonal building on the moat called the Pattirippuwa, which was built as a resthouse by the last king of Kandy, Vickrama Rajasinha (ruled 1798-1815). It now houses a library of palm-leaf manuscripts. Fiebig, of German origin, was active in Calcutta as an artist and lithographer in the 1840s. Little is known about his life, but turning to photography in the late 1840s he produced hundreds of photographs by the calotype process, frequently handcolouring them. His photographs of Ceylon, probably taken in 1852, are considered the earliest surviving photographic record of the island.


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I have been, or can be if you click on a link and make a purchase, compensated via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value for writing this post. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.
For this post on buying a new action camera for a holiday gift, I have been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.
Alaska is one large and wondrous state. Our family is so blessed to live up here and be able to explore different areas at our leisure. Capturing those memories on film is important to me and there are times when a regular camera just won't do.
Earlier this year, my husband headed off to our local Best Buy Store to pick up a GoPro and he's been loving what it can do. With the holidays just around the corner, it is the perfect time to grab the latest technology and start capturing memories which a regular camera just can't do. They have really enjoyed wearing it while hiking in the winter as it keeps you hands free for holding things like climbing poles while navigating the ice.
Why did he go to Best Buy? Best Buy is the home of the latest cameras and camcorders, including the full line of new GoPro cameras, plus a broad assortment of accessories. These make perfect holiday gifts for everyone, whether young or not so young, a tech novice to a gadget guru. GoPro's new line of cameras allow you to beautifully and authentically capture and share the experiences that bring purpose, adventure, and joy to your life. Beyond the selection and having someone in house to answer questions, he found them to have the BEST deal when he was ready to purchase.
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This is just a small sampling of what my husband and boys have taken while wearing the GoPro. My eldest son is working on an Alaskan montage, but it isn't quite ready to share.
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What to look for when buying property in Southsea
I was talking to a Landlord recently and they asked me for my opinion on what to look for when purchasing a Buy to Let property.
I was talking to a Landlord recently and they asked me for my opinion on what to look for when purchasing a Buy to Let property.
One piece of advice I was able to offer was that a good property should sell when you need to release funds. So, if you are a landlord considering buying a property to let out, you want to buy a property that is saleable.
You can work out how saleable the properties in a particular street are by comparing the number of house sales to the number of properties in that street. The higher the number, the more saleable the properties are.
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The Regional level of the Australia and New Zealand Division of The International Geography Bee consists of the Championships Qualifying Exam (CQE). For all age divisions, the rules are the same. The questions used are the same as well for each age division, though students are only ranked against other students in their same age division. The Exam has two separate version called Alpha and Beta.
Each Exam has 50 multiple-choice questions with 4 possible answers to each question, and students always have 20 minutes to compete. Students receive 2 points for a correct answer, 0 points for an answer left blank, and -1 point for an incorrect response.
The CQE is always offered at tournament sites for the International History Bee and Bowl's Australia and New Zealand regional tournaments, a list of which is available here. The Beta version of the CQE is always the version offered at each tournament site; time permitting, the Alpha version may be proctored for interested students as well, but this is not guaranteed. Students may also take either the Alpha or Beta version of the CQE at their place of study with either a homeschool instructor or teacher proctoring it. The CQE costs $10 if taken at an IHBB tournament site; if taken with a teacher or homeschool instructor proctoring it, it is free of charge. If you are interested in this option, please email email@example.com.
Note that students qualify for the Australia and New Zealand Championships by finishing in the top half of students in their age division who take their respective version of the CQE at any given tournament site. They can also qualify for the IGB World Championships by finishing in the top 25% of students at their site. If there is an odd number of students, or if two students tie for the last spot, we "round up" so that 4 students out of 7 would qualify, for example, unless there was a tie for 4th place, in which case 5 (or more, if more than two students tied for 4th) would qualify. Students can also qualify by finishing in the top half among all students in Australia and New Zealand who take the CQE within their age division for any given exam and for the IGB World Championships by finishing in the top 25% of all students in a division who take a given exam. These median scores are calculated for Alpha and Beta Sets for all students who have taken an Exam once all regional tournaments have been held. Note that any student qualifying for the IGB World Championships needs to also score a minimum of a 30, however (regardless of age division and whether their score was in the top 25% at their site or throughout Australia and New Zealand).
Registration is not required for students to take the CQE at an IHBB Australia and New Zealand tournament site – they may simply show up at the tournament site and take the Exam there (be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of the scheduled lunch break, or at the Doors Open time if it is an after school event on a weekday)
To take the CQE at a student's school or with a homeschool instructor, please email firstname.lastname@example.com for further instructions.
Students who take an exam at their school or with a homeschool proctor may only qualify on the basis of finishing in the top half among all students on that version of the Exam (students who take the Exam at a tournament site can also qualify as mentioned, by being in the top half of students in their age division on an Exam at that site).
An official sample version of the CQE is available here together with its answer key. For further practice resources, see the past Exams on the US Geography Olympiad website here. Note that these Exams have more of a focus on the geography of the USA than we will have on the CQE in New Zealand and Australia. Roughly 20% of the questions on the CQE will focus on the geography of Australia and New Zealand; the other questions will focus on the geography of other parts of the world.


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Standing Big Toe Pose – Yoga for Martial Arts Flexibility & Balance
This page provides details for the Standing Big Toe Pose (or Standing Hand to To Big Toe Pose). This Yoga exercise is used by martial arts students in order to work on their balance. It is also a great exercise to stretch your hamstrings & groin and work on your leg strength.
If you have trouble with your balance, you can try a very similar exercise called the Lying Down Hamstring Stretch where you lie on the ground and raise your leg. In Yoga, this exercise is called the Reclining Big Toe Pose.
All stretches and exercises should be supervised by a trained instructor in order to prevent injuries and to ensure the proper technique is utilized. For additional martial arts stretches targeting other areas of the body, please visit the main Martial Arts Stretches or Yoga for Martial Arts sections.
Instructional Video for the Standing Big Toe Pose


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Part 1 of this two-part series considers the different methods of determining eye dominance and its relevance in practice.
Just as with having a dominant hand with which to write, or a preferred foot for kicking a ball, the concept of having a dominant eye has been around for a very long time. Rosenbach (1903) is credited with being the first author to refer to eye dominance.1 He claimed that most individuals have a dominant eye, even when the vision of the two eyes is equal. Interestingly, he found that if there was an inter-ocular difference in vision, the eye with the better vision was not necessarily the dominant eye, and this view has been confirmed in more recent research by Pointer.2 Pointer also showed that an individual's handedness is not predictive of their eye dominance.3
The concept of dominance is very familiar to optometry students who need to learn to conduct retinoscopy, direct ophthalmoscopy and other monocular techniques with equal proficiency regardless of whether the right or left eye is being used. However, eye dominance is also widely known among the general public, especially by those who have occasion to use a monocular instrument, for example, a microscope or those who have participated in activities for work or pleasure when one eye needs to be selected over the other, such as in shooting or archery.
There are many claims in non-peer reviewed sources that knowing which eye is 'dominant' is important because it has practical relevance for how well we perform tasks in the real world. For tasks that necessitate viewing with only one eye, these claims are easy to appreciate. For example: "For accurate and reliable shooting it is important to ensure that the eye which is over the rib of the gun is fixed on the target."4
However, other claims from the shooting fraternity are perhaps more open to question, for example, that: "In young men, eye dominance may not stabilise until the teens" and that: "There are also very significant sex differences ... Unlike men, few women have or develop eye dominance corresponding to their handedness. Indeed, few women are absolutely dominant in either eye. They usually have indeterminate eye dominance…"5
Interestingly, claims about the importance of eye dominance also stretch to tasks undertaken when both eyes are open. In such scenarios, it is less obvious how having a dominant eye can affect performance or how taking account which eye is 'dominant' could help to improve performance. Take for example, cricket – here is an extract from a book titled The Art and Science of Cricket by the late Bob Woolmer.6 In the section on stance for batting, Woolmer states: "…Just as you have a dominant hand, you also have a dominant eye, one that transmits visual signals to the brain more quickly and effectively than the other. This means that if you bat right-handed, and your right eye is dominant, a side-on stance means that your dominant eye is having to squint away to the left over the bridge of your nose, or at least look down a line that is slightly outside that of the ball. Opening up the stance, so that there is a more direct line of sight from your right eye to the bowler's hand, can give you a better picture of the delivery. The same applies to left-eye dominant left-handers."
The purported significance of eye dominance in sport is reflected in the information provided by some practitioners on their websites. Here is an example from the US: "Understanding which eye dominates may help an athlete adopt better strategies for improving athletic performance. Most athletes know they are either right-handed or left-handed, and they adjust body movements accordingly. But they may not realise that their dominant eye may process visual information more fully and accurately than their non-dominant eye. As an example, knowing which eye dominates can help an athlete achieve better head and eye positioning to interpret fast action in sports such as basketball or baseball. Some athletes are cross-dominant, meaning that a right-handed person is left-eye dominant or a left-handed person is right-eye dominant; this can be an advantage in some sports, but potentially a serious disadvantage in sports such as archery and target shooting where one side of the body is used to both aim and shoot."7
Of course, for practitioners and their patients, the significance of eye dominance can extend well beyond the sphere of sport. In particular, as indicated by Pointer, "an indication of the laterality of ocular dominance informs the clinical decision-making process when considering certain ophthalmic refractive and surgical interventions."8 The most common such clinical scenario is the likelihood of adaptation to monovision correction, where one eye is corrected for distance vision and its fellow is in focus for viewing at near.
The purpose of this article is to examine what the peer-reviewed literature says in relation to the measurement and significance of eye dominance. We are concerned here with the significance of eye dominance in visual normals, that is when the visual acuity is equal (or very nearly equal) and normal, or near normal, in the two eyes. Since the areas that have received most attention in relation to eye dominance are sport and ophthalmic refractive/surgical intervention, these are the areas that are concentrated upon here. Firstly, however, it is necessary to highlight potentially confusing terminology in this domain.
The term ocular dominance is often used to describe a preference for one eye over its fellow. However, 'ocular dominance' also appears in neurophysiology to describe the fact that neurons in the visual cortex are typically not equally responsive when stimulated via the right and left eyes. Thus, a neuron may be binocular (capable of firing when stimulated by either eye, as is the case with the vast majority of neurons in the visual cortex) but be much more responsive when stimulated via say, the right eye. Cells with similar ocular dominance profiles are arranged in so-called ocular dominance columns in the primary visual cortex.9 On the surface, this form of ocular dominance appears to have no connection with the concept of eye dominance that practitioners establish, for example, in monovision correction. However, recent studies suggest that this may in fact be incorrect. In other words, 'ocular dominance' of the neurophysiological and optometric types may in fact be linked; this will be considered in more detail in Part 2 of this series.
Other terms that are used to refer to the preference for one eye over its fellow for certain tasks include: 'eye dominance,' 'sighting dominance,' 'sensory dominance' and 'ocular prevalence.' The latter three terms can be considered as different forms of eye dominance.8
Sighting dominance refers to the eye that is used in forced monocular situations, such as when using a monocular microscope or when conducting retinoscopy. There are many different ways in which sighting dominance can be established.10 One is to point, using your index finger, to a distance target and establish, by closing each eye in turn, which of the two eyes is lined up with the target. Since the hand used for pointing could influence which eye emerges as 'dominant', the two hands should be intertwined, allowing the index fingers of both hands to point at the distant target (see Figure 1: Pointing test to determine sighting dominance showing: left – right eye dominance; middle – left eye dominance; right top – 'central' eye dominance). Another method is called the 'hole-in-the-card' and involves holding a rectangular card containing a small hole, typically around 3cm diameter at arm's length and viewing a distant target, although near targets may also be viewed (see Figure 2: Hole-in-the-card method for determining sighting eye dominance. Here the left eye is dominant). As the patient views the target, the practitioner covers each eye of the patient in turn to discover which eye is viewing the target through the hole. Variations on this test include viewing a distant target while holding a hollow cylinder at arms-length with both hands, or making the aperture to look through using the patient's hands. Another version of this test is to have the patient hold a Jackson cross-cylinder at arms-length (see Figure 3: Sighting eye dominance tested using the Jackson Crossed-Cylinder. Here the right eye is dominant). A number of authors have objected to the use of tests for sighting dominance where the patient is forced to choose one eye over the other, for example in the sighting test that involves the use of a cylinder or the hole-in-the-card.11,12 Instead, pointing tests are preferred as binocular vision is maintained13 and because the test can diagnose 'central eye dominance' where neither eye emerges as dominant (see Figure 1).11,12 The possible significance of central eye dominance is discussed in relation to sport in Part 2 (to be published in OT August 2016).
Since some individuals appear to have no strong preference and are considered 'equi-dominant', the advice is normally to run sighting tests on three occasions to establish if the same eye emerges as being dominant on each repeat. If the outcome is two-to-one (that is, one eye appears as dominant on two of the three tests, with the fellow eye appearing dominant on the other test), the implication is that there may be no strong dominance. The advantage of sighting tests is that they require visuomotor actions (vision in combination with the movement of a part of the body), just as in the real world, which might mean that the results they give may have greater significance outside the testing room.
A second means for examining eye dominance involves the use of tests that measure the balance of sensory input between the eyes. There are tests of sensory eye dominance. As opposed to a straightforward classification of an individual as right-eye or left-eye dominant, some of the tests in this category allow the strength of the dominance of one eye over its fellow to be quantified.10 Most of these tests use binocular-rivalry or stereo-disparate targets (see Figure 4: Binocular rivalry as a test of eye dominance. Mutually perpendicular gratings, which also differ in colour, are presented to the two eyes. At any one instant, most report perceiving one grating colour/orientation only, though there may be brief periods when the two gratings appear superimposed. As time passes, the precept changes from that registered via the right eye to that registered by the left eye. Sensory dominance is present if one eye's percept reaches awareness doe longer periods by comparison with that of the fellow eye. Image courtesy of Samantha Strong).
Binocular rivalry is thought to provide a particularly useful means for studying how sensory processing gives rise to eye dominance because it involves a changing percept without any change in the visual stimulus.14 Kommerell and colleagues distinguish between ocular dominance and ocular prevalence as follows: "Ocular dominance manifests itself in tests that contain stereo-objects with a disparity beyond Panum's area, for example, in pointing a finger. These tests force subjects to decide in favour of one or the other eye. In contrast, ocular prevalence is determined using stereo-targets imaged within Panum's areas. These tests allow a graded quantification of the balance between the eyes."15 Thus with this terminology, 'ocular dominance' tests are tests of sighting dominance, and 'ocular prevalence' tests are tests of sensory dominance. Kommerell et al tests of sensory dominance include the Freiburg Ocular Prevalence Test in which stereo-disparate targets have to be aligned, and the Haase Stereo-balance Test which requires an estimation of the horizontal distance between stationary, stereo-disparate objects. These tests are much more commonly used in Europe. Another way to investigate sensory eye dominance is to introduce monocular blur, for example, using a +1.00DS or +1.50DS trial case lens and ask the patient to indicate whether they are less comfortable with the right eye blurred or the left eye blurred. This clinical evaluation is used in prospective monovision patients and will be discussed further in Part 2.
Agreement between tests
Most 'sensory eye dominance' and 'sighting dominance' tests are quick and straightforward to administer, and require little or no additional clinical equipment. However, it is of interest to know if there is consistency in the same individual between the results of these different test types? If not, a number of questions immediately present themselves:
- Which test type reveals the true dominance?
- Within sensory eye dominance and sighting dominance tests, are results consistent in individuals?
- If there is poor consistency between test results in individuals, could it be the case that the concept of having a dominant eye is in some way flawed and in need of revision?
We will now consider the first two of these questions, the answers to which will have significant implications for the final question, and we will return to that question at the end of the article. A number of studies have examined the agreement between the results of sensory eye dominance and sighting dominance tests. The test-retest reliability and the effect of testing distance has also been studied.16 Rice and colleagues found excellent test-retest reliability for each of the eye dominance tests they examined.16 They used the 'hole-in-the-card' test for assessing sighting dominance when viewing was at distance and at near, and interestingly, they found that the results of eye dominance testing frequently depended upon the testing distance. They found that the results of eye dominance testing frequently depend upon the testing distance.
Most studies comparing eye dominance assessed using sensory- and sighting-test types have found that little agreement exists between the results.17,18 For example, Pointer found agreement between the eye that was 'dominant' using 'sensory' and 'sighting' test types in only 50% of their participants – that is, a level of agreement that is no better than would be expected by chance.8 Ooi and He also concluded that sensory eye dominance couldn't be equated with motor eye dominance as revealed by sighting tests.19 As early as 1943, Cripes found that sighting tests often gave results which depended upon the test type and the same is true, possibly even more so, in sensory eye dominance tests. For example, Suttle and colleagues found that the agreement between sighting and sensory dominance test results show poor agreement, and that sensory dominance is not a significant element of vision in most individuals with normal vision.20 In contrast, only a small number of studies have found a correlation between sighting dominance and sensory dominance test results.21,22 Kommerell et al found that there was agreement in 75% of the individuals between the eye that was 'dominant' according to the ocular dominance (sighting) and ocular prevalence tests, although the sample size was small (20 participants).15
The reasons for the between-study differences in findings are far from obvious but, on the balance of evidence at the present time, it seems safe to conclude that sensory and sighting dominance test results show poor agreement, that even within one test type (sensory or sighting) the eye which emerges as 'dominant' is often not consistent, and that at least part of this variability between test results may be due to the test distance. Laby and Kirschen recommend that, if the evaluation is to be accurate, only tests of eye dominance that allow for the maintenance of binocular vision should be used.23 Indeed, Johansson and colleagues suggest the "plausible occurrence of forms of eye dominance under binocular viewing conditions."24
Thus it appears that many factors (some internal to the patient but numerous additional factors relating to the test, including the test-type, viewing distance and conditions of testing) influence the results obtained in eye dominance tests. Add to this the finding that eye dominance may not be absolute but more graded and we have a complicated picture. Until more is known about the significance of the various internal and external factors, and the issue of graded dominance, the value of eye dominance test results will probably remain extremely limited.
Is right eye dominance more common?
Despite differences in results when different tests are used, studies of sighting dominance generally find right-eye-dominance to be much more common than left-eye-dominance. For example, Chia and colleagues reported 58% and 30% were right and left eye dominant, respectively, with the hole-in-the-card test, with the remaining 12% having no eye preference.25 Another study found left-eye and right-eye sighting dominance in 32% and 68% of participants.26 In tests of sensory eye dominance, the incidence of right- and left-eye dominance appears to be much more balanced.19
Factors known to affect which eye emerges as 'dominant' include the test type is sighting or sensory, and also whether the test allows a diagnosis of central dominance (see Figure 1). In Part 2 of this series, we will see that the gaze angle and hand used during testing can also influence dominance. Although the test-retest variability on any one test may be low, the results in any one individual may be highly variable as either eye can be 'dominant' in different circumstances. Thus, the concept of having a single, unchanging dominant eye may be flawed. Studies that compared test results using a range of different test have found that no clear ocular dominance exists in most individuals.10 Instead, there is frequently an alternating balance between the eyes in visual normals. This could explain the great variability both between and within different kinds of tests. Overall, these findings raise the question as to what, if anything is the clinical significance of eye dominance.
About the author
Professsor Brendan Barrett is professor of visual development at the University of Bradford where he is the module leader for Refraction and Refractive Error and also teaches on the binocular vision module. He is currently an external examiner for the undergraduate ophthalmic dispensing programme at Glasgow Caledonian University and the undergraduate programme at Aston University. His research interests include amblyopia, vision and sport, and vision and reading.
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I have long had an interest in dominance as I shoot a shootgun ie binocular vision but needing a dominant eye. Anecdotally I have found at three metres that there is a much higher rate of matched dominance than reported in the article in men and that women have a much greater rate of crossed dominance. I also find that left handed people are much less likely to be matched.
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Study Finds Over Half of Hip-Hop Deaths Due to Murder
While there are still many unsolved details surrounding Tupac Shakur's murder in 1996, a new study has found that the late California rapper is part of a bigger statistic regarding the deaths of hip-hop artists.
Dianna Theadora Kenny, a professor of psychology and music at the University of Sydney, studied the deaths of 13,000 music artists across all genres to find whether or not there is a link between an artist's cause of death and the musical genre he or she is associated with. After conducting her research, she found that more than 50 percent of deaths in the hip-hop and rap genres were due to homicide.
"Murder accounted for 6.0 percent of deaths across the sample, but was the cause of 51 percent of deaths in rap musicians and 51.5 percent of deaths for hip hop musicians, to date," Kenny wrote in her article entitled, "Music to die for: how genre affects popular musicians' life expectancy." "This could be due to these genres' strong associations with drug-related crime and gang culture."
Despite these distressing stats, she doesn't mean that hip-hop and rap, which she puts in two different categories in the study, are two of the more dangerous genres of music. Her intentions are to point out what led to many of these artists' deaths and what the patterns are. For instance, R&B artists' predominant cause of death is related to heart health issues while more folk and jazz musicians died of cancer.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Kenny said, "It's a cautionary tale to some degree. People who go into rap music or hip hop or punk, they're in a much more occupational hazard profession compared to war. We don't lose half our army in a battle."
You can read more about the full study here.
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The above video is a performance by Demitra Papadanis of a portion of Sarah Grimke's reflection on the "Pastoral Letter of the General Association". The full text can be viewed here.
On June 28, 1937 Massachusetts Congregational ministers gathered and produced what was referred to as "The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts". The full text can be viewed here.
This letter was written in response to growing agitation within the churches in regard to slavery and asserted that:
3 All that we would say at present with regard to these subjects, is this: They should not be forced on any church as matter for debate, at the hazard of alienation and division.
7.1 Your minister is ordained of God to be your teacher, and is commanded to feed that flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overseer.
7.2 If there are certain topics upon which he does not preach with the frequency or in the manner that would please you, it is a violation of sacred and important to encourage a stranger to present them.
And in regards to women taking active roles in the abolitionist movement:
9.5 We appreciate the unostentatious prayers and efforts of woman, in advancing the cause of religion at home and abroad:–in Sabbath schools, in leading religious inquirers to their pastor for instruction, and in all such associated effort as becomes the modesty of her sex; and earnestly hope that she may abound more and more in these labours of piety and love.
9.6 But when she assumes the place and tone of a man as a public reformer, our care and protection of her seem unnecessary, we put ourselves in self defence against her, she yields the power which God has given her for protection, and her character becomes unnatural.
9.7 If the vine, whose strength and beauty is to lean upon the trellis work and half conceal its clusters, thinks to assume the independence and the overshadowing nature of the elm, it will not only cease to bear fruit, but fall in shame and dishonour into the dust.


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CFDb August 2014 Newsletter
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CFDb Interviews David Chattam ~ Actor
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I TRULY believe that my acting career was a gift from God. In 2001, I was working my nine-to-five job in the Information Technology department of a company in Brentwood, TN. One morning a co-worker of mine by the name of Chris Elliott comes in an tells me that he was listening to the radio on his way to work and heard that a movie was in the process of being filmed in Nashville and that men were needed to fill roles in this movie. The movie was the DreamWorks feature "The Last Castle" which was set in a military prison, and they were looking for ethnic men to fill extra roles as prisoners.
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