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National Council of Churches in India: Bail granted to one of the 7 innocent convicts of Kandhamal.
Bail granted to one of the 7 innocent convicts of Kandhamal.
Great Victory for Kandhamal's Innocents - Christ is Risen!!!!
On March 22, the Odisha high court granted one-month bail to Gornath Chalanseth - one of the 7 innocent Christians - undergoing life imprisonment for Swami Laxmanananda's 'murder'. The bail order has come a day after I got a call from the National Human Rights Commission - 19 days into the signature campaign for the release of the innocent I launched in New Delhi at great risk.
Thanks for all those who have signed petition.
Remember each signature at www.release7innocents.com generates three instant emails to the Chief Justice of India, the President of India and the National Human Rights Commission Chairman. | {
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July 5 community calendar
Published 2:52 pm Wednesday, July 5, 2017
— Tai Chi for seniors (60 and older), 10 a.m. at James B. Allen Generations Center, 32 Meadow St. Classes are free. Call 744-3235 for more information.
— Clark County High School Class of 1948 meeting, 11:30 a.m., at JK's at Forest Grove.
— Winchester Kiwanis Club meeting, noon at Taste of China. Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue is the guest speaker.
— Kentucky Picture Show, 2 p.m. at Clark County Public Library.
FRIDAY, JULY 7
— Write Local meeting, 10 a.m. at Clark County Public Library.
— Winchester Clark County Farmers' Market, 8 a.m. to noon on Depot Street.
— Free yoga, 9 to 10 a.m. on the lawn at Clark County Public Library. Mats and instruction provided by the OM place.
— Fifth annual Freedom from Fractures bone health workshop, 10 a.m., at the James B. Allen Generations Center, 32 Meadow St. For adults older than 45 for education about bone health and fracture prevention. For more information, call Diana Sims at 744-3235. Free.
— Winchester GTE/Sylvania/Osram/UAW retirees meeting at Michaels in Irvine, 11:30 a.m. All Winchester Sylvania retirees and former employees are welcome.
— Clark County Writers Club meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Clark County Public Library.
— Winchester-Clark County Chamber of Commerce breakfast, 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Sekisui S-Lec America, 1200 Rolling Hills Lane.
— Tai Chi for seniors (60 and older), 10 a.m. at James B. Allen Generations Center, 32 Meadow St. Classes are free.
— Winchester Kiwanis Club meeting, noon at Taste of China.
— "Fix a Cat Campaign" meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Clark County Public Library. Learn about the TNR (trap-neuter-return) Program and basic facts about homeless cats. For more information, contact Dianna Reed at [email protected]
— Ribbon cutting and official branch re-opening, noon at Kentucky Bank Bypass Road branch.
— Moonlight Movie Nights showing of "SING," 7 p.m. at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, 2020 Rolling Hills Lane.
— NAMI Winchester-Clark County (National Alliance on Mental Illness) support/educational meeting, 7 p.m., McCready Hall, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 2410 Lexington Road. Anyone (including family members and friends) affected by mental illness is invited to attend meetings. For more information, call 749-3702.
— Moonlight Movie Nights showing of "Beauty & The Beast" 7 p.m. at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, 2020 Rolling Hills Lane.
Stay hydrated in the summer heat
By Jennifer Howard In talking with members of our local AARP chapter last week, I was quickly reminded that while... read more | {
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'Calm the Canines': Volunteers needed at Maricopa County Animal Care & Control shelters on New Year's Eve
By Carmen Blackwell
'Calm the Canines': Volunteers needed at Maricopa County Animal Care & Control shelters on New Year's Eve
While the city rings in the new year, volunteers are needed to help keep animals calm at the shelters at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control.
PHOENIX - While the city rings in the new year, volunteers are needed to help keep animals calm at the shelters at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control.
"People come in, families and they sit with the animals, they sing to the animals, they read to the animals," Jose Santiago said. "Sometimes, just pressing their hand against their kennel is enough to calm them down."
Loud sounds of celebration, like fireworks and loud music, make most animals go bonkers. Programs like "Calm the Canines" help to keep the shelter dogs both safe and relaxed.
The shelter is hoping that this will be love-at-first-sight for a lot of the families and volunteers that will be here later on tonight. They're even adding a little extra incentive.
"A lot of times after these events, we've seen people come back and want to volunteer," Santiago said. "They want to help out in any way and in a lot of cases they want to adopt."
So this year, the shelter is doing something different -- volunteer and maybe take a pup home.
"We're offering a voucher, so if you come in and hang out with your canine companion, you get a voucher that you can return and adopt that canine companion for 50% off," Santiago said.
For a couple of hours, tonight, volunteers will celebrate the new year with animals in need of a forever home.
Calming the Canines on New Year's Eve
Dec. 31, 11pm to Jan. 1, 12:30am
Maricopa County Animal Care & Control Centers
2500 S. 27th Ave., Phoenix, 85009
2630 E. Salado Parkway, Mesa, 85201
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We would not have a sea-faring economy without any local color. Faroth is unique of the local seas for the amount of dwarves near shore. While the local sea elves were stewarded by the minotaurs, the Forge Dwarves were stewarded by the ancient stone giant. With the defeat of the stone giant and the sacking of the main island, the forge dwarves mostly scattered back to the continent, but were not warmly greeted at Sing'jar, being belittled as water-loving hammer splashers. Eventually, a good number of the scattered forge dwarves settled on Darthil island, since they could make the mostly barren island home by burrowing into the the old pointed peaks of that granite island. They founded Nor'Darthil and Wor'Darthil after burring under Smopek peak and building Smopek casle between the Smopek and Worpek peaks. These are our Southern Forge Dwarves. They build in a variety of the trace metals found beneath the peaks, mining slowly, and mostly providing high quality sailing mechanicals for the islands.
Just off the north east limb of Darthil island, a rare cold water coral ring, Mao'Un'Il atol, is home to an ornery community of sea elves that refuse to align themselves with the minotaurs or the Faroth Trade Charter. Trade on the island is banned to Charter members as they are labeled heretics and black clerics of Vecna on the main island. The South Faroth Forge Dwarves pay them no mind, however, and leave them in peace, knowing the worth of being left alone.
To the east an hour's sailing in fair weather, we have Dracofang: island of the tallest granite peaks of the south Faroth chain of islands. There is one lonely pier on the island, but no houses, boats, huts or smoke. Large creatures can be seen flying about the Fang and Nail peaks of the island. People just leave it alone.
Northeast is Clayton island, as small as Dracofang, but much larger a port of call for honest seafolk. With more vegetation, the shortest peak, this island supports a community of sheepherds and potters that get along well with the fishing captains of Clayton port. Evota Lintara, Lady Mayor of Clayton, is a sage wood elf that appears to hold piracy of the other islands at bay.
An easy sail north east is Willow island, home of tough fishing captains and tougher crime bosses. Nelson Bay is a rough marina to walk about in: half orcs by the dozens wield sharp fishing knives cross the pier from their boats, gutting fish and dumping the offal directly into the marina. Chained goblins haul carts of fish and scarred sea elves with short swords prod prisoners into market carrying cargo on their backs.
The mayor of Nelson Bay is Bard Slomtip, Human, NE. Slomtip seems to know people before they even dock. He paces atop his balcony in the mornings with field glasses and calls for regular trade reports. He pays in gold for trade advice and while no one witnesses it, gambles behind closed doors at each of the bars in the bay, a different bar each night. A room is reserved just for him at each establishment.
In sight of all the islands is proud Shadow Peak of South Faroth island. Large enough to foster three towns, the long ridge Shadow Peak divides the northern Perval Bay from the southern Bibbon Bay. Hidden just south of Bibbon Bay is Shadow Cove, sporting a single pier and a huts of a transient pirate community no one keeps track of, but is ruled by Boss Junton Grimjaw, LE.
Perval Bay is a troubled place: the mayor of north Perval, Crown Gobjaw, a thickly muscled half orc male, NE, is no friend to Lady Mayor Mighlia, a NE drow elf wizard that protects her pier with many spells. Haughtier than both is the very rich mayor of South Perval, Lord Lindon, LE, member FTC.
Bibbon Bay is a much simpler, nicer place, yet strict out of necessity. Mayor Priest Moyan, LG, member FTC, sets strict curfew and overnighters must attend morning service or be jailed in South Bibbon. To the north, Bibbon proper, Lady Mayor Cinnitta, member FTC, is a tall, thin elf and friend of gnomes, preferring to sell their clever wares to the mainland. Her warehouses are built into cliffs at the toes of Shadow Peak and protected by a grove of enchanted trees. No dwarven wares, or beer, is legal to sell in Bibbon, only elven and sea-elven food is legal to sell. Clever people trade many illegal things in Bibbon proper as a rogue's challenge, and hanging prison cages line the back streets as punishment for such offenders.
Clearly, there is absolutely nothing to do in the south Faroth islands!
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Chiropractic treatment is a manual therapy which consists of different joint manipulation or mobilisation techniques as well as soft tissue techniques.
Chiropractor palpates the joints in the spine and delivers a specific thrust in the segment which is not moving correctly this restores the correct motion and enables the surrounding muscles and nerves to function normally. The crack or pop sound which you may hear during the adjustment is a gas bubble released from the joint. The power and technique used is always modified depending on the patient.
In addition to the joint manipulations/mobilisations I use different soft tissue techniques such as trigger point and fascia therapy, kinesio taping and stretching techniques (PIR,MET). I also give individual advice to my patients on how to self-manage their problem and prevent re-occurrence. | {
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St. Paul deli owner puts finishing touches on…
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St. Paul deli owner puts finishing touches on her dream
Heather Ward behind the counter at her Acme Deli on St Clair in St Paul. Acme Deli is a small sandwich shop near the Macalester campus in St Paul on Wednesday morning February 12, 2014. (Pioneer Press: John Doman)
Jenny Wellner from St Paul via Jackson WI wraps a finished sub in foil for either pickup or delivery for the lunbch crowd. Acme Deli is a small sandwich shop near the Macalester campus in St Paul on Wednesday morning February 12, 2014. (Pioneer Press: John Doman)
Sandwich-makers Danny Schaefer from St Paul and Jenny Wellner from St paul rush to put sndwiches together for the lunch crowd. Acme Deli is a small sandwich shop near the Macalester campus in St Paul on Wednesday morning February 12, 2014. (Pioneer Press: John Doman)
By Nick Woltman | [email protected] | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: February 15, 2014 at 7:49 a.m. | UPDATED: November 3, 2015 at 4:10 a.m.
The sign above Acme Deli used to read, "Take-out. Delivery. A couple of tables."
And it was true — there were only two tables in the place. But that changed. It eventually grew to seating for 10.
Now, three years after buying the St. Paul sandwich shop, owner Heather Ward is putting the finishing touches on a renovation that will triple the seating in the 20-year-old restaurant.
Long a popular carry-out and delivery option for the students and faculty of nearby Macalester College, Ward is hoping to turn Acme into a sit-down destination.
"Before, it was so crowded," she said. "I knew I needed more space. There were times when you couldn't even get in. I think a lot of people were discouraged by that."
When she bought Acme in 2011, it occupied only the corner building at 1552 St. Clair Ave. But in December, Ward built a doorway in the wall between Acme and the building next door, turning it into a dining room. Ward leases both storefronts.
The new dining room was actually the restaurant's first home. Jon Greer opened Acme Deli at 1554 St. Clair in 1993.
Acme was the second deli Greer owned — he'd run Uncle Matt's Deli on Grand Avenue — before selling it to pursue a career in real estate. But real estate didn't work out, and he decided to get back into the restaurant business.
"I just kind of got the itch to start another deli," he said.
He rented 1554 St. Clair for less than $400 a month — roughly one-fifth of what he'd been paying on Grand.
But it was cramped.
"I'm a hole-in-the-wall kind of guy, and I had my own little hole in the wall," he said.
When the building next door opened up a few years later — about 50 percent larger — he decided to move.
"Moving next door — even though it was still a small space — was a huge step up for us," Greer said.
But by 2011, he and his wife had adopted their first child, a daughter from China. And they had recently signed adoption papers for their second, another daughter, from Ethiopia. The 50-hour-plus workweeks made it tough to be a dad.
Greer again found himself looking to get out of the restaurant game.
Meanwhile, up the street, Ward and her husband were running a restaurant called Carmelo's. In 2011, the couple divorced, and Ward's ex-husband bought her half of the business.
Just days later, she was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
Out of work and recovering from surgery to remove the cancer, Ward spent the next five months applying for jobs at other Twin Cities restaurants.
However, she found few restaurant owners were interested in hiring another former restaurant owner.
"Nobody wants to hire someone who has run a business," Ward said.
Frustrated, she decided her only option was to open a restaurant of her own. Greer, whom she had gotten to know over their 15 years as neighbors, suggested she just buy his.
They agreed she would spend six weeks working at the deli before making a decision.
"I wanted her to see what she was getting into," Greer said.
Ward has kept much of the business exactly as she found it when Greer handed her the keys.
"This was a business that had been going for more than 17 years," she said. "I hardly changed a thing on the menu. I added avocado spread. But that's it."
She also extended Acme's operating hours to include Saturdays.
But the one thing that always bothered her was the cramped dining space. She was able to squeeze a few more seats into the storefront — 10, in all — but she wanted more.
Although she is quick to concede that her regulars aren't coming in for the ambiance, she believed she was missing out on new customers who were dining elsewhere because they couldn't find a table.
In late 2012, she decided to annex 1554 St. Clair, which she had sub-leased to an antique shop. The shop closed in December of that year.
Renovation work began at 1554 in March 2013. But Ward also made some changes to the deli itself.
Over the Christmas holiday, she closed Acme for about a week to install the doorway between the two buildings and new, larger windows in the deli. In addition to letting in more sunlight, they opened up more floor space.
Business dropped off for a while, but now that the renovation is almost complete, it has returned to roughly what it had been before. And Ward is hoping that upward trend will continue.
Some small businesses might have trouble surviving a few weeks of downtime. But Acme had something going for it — location; specifically the proximity to hundreds of hungry college students.
Roughly 85 percent of Acme's orders takes are carry-out or delivery, Ward said. She expects that the increased seating — Acme can now accommodate about 30 customers — will shift that to half carry-out and half dine-in.
But dine-in business isn't the only revenue stream Ward is looking to grow. She's also hoping to snag more catering jobs.
In addition to the college crowd, a handful of local businesses regularly order boxed lunches for their staffs. She plans to leverage her status as a locally owned business to lure others.
She has even partnered with a couple of other businesses to get her name out. Her sandwiches are sold at several nearby coffee shops, such as Dunn Bros. and J&S Bean Factory.
"I don't make much money from it," she said. "But it's good advertising."
And Acme gets its bread from PJ Murphy's, a local bakery, every morning.
After the renovation is complete, likely sometime in March, she also plans to have locally produced art hanging on the walls.
Even if business stays more or less static, she still feels a sense of accomplishment for realizing her vision for the business.
"I'm proud of myself, because my vision for the place has kind of come true," Ward said. "But like I said, it's a work in progress."
Nick Woltman can be reached at 651-228-5189. Follow him on Twitter at @nickwoltman.
Nick Woltman
Nick Woltman reports on breaking news and blogs about local history. Before joining the staff of the Pioneer Press in 2013, he worked for the Bismarck Tribune in North Dakota. He lives with his wife and two cats in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul.
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Q: Address Sent in Text Message Opens Custom Mapping Application Correctly formatted addresses sent in text messages appear as links. When this link is clicked, how do I make it open my custom Android mapping app and automatically insert that address into my app's search box?
A: You are talking about deep linking. You need to register the types of links you want your app to respond to in the manifest file.
<activity
android:name="app.myActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="portrait">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<!-- Accepts URIs that begin with "example://gizmos"-->
<data
android:host="gizmos"
android:scheme="example" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data
android:host="www.example.com"
android:pathPrefix="/gizmos"
android:scheme="http" />
<!-- note that the leading "/" is required for pathPrefix-->
</intent-filter>
</activity>
You can even simulate a deep link from the ADB:
adb shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "example://gizmos"
adb shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "http://www.example.com/gizmos"
You can then read the URI data and put it anywhere you like, as long as this is in the activity that responds to the deep link:
Intent intent = getIntent();
String action = intent.getAction();
Uri data = intent.getData();
NOTE
WhatsApp is not a great place for deep links. I am still trying to figure out why.
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Albion boss Chris Hughton says his players will be up for the challenge of trying to pick up enough points to stay in the Premier League.
Although the Seagulls are seven points clear of the relegation zone, they have a tough final six matches beginning with Saturday's trip to rivals Crystal Palace.
Brighton drew 0-0 with the Eagles at the Amex in the league in November, before they won 2-1 in the FA Cup third round in January.
Hughton admits there's pressure goinng into the game but said: "The players will be up for it. I don't think there will be anybody that won't want to play in that game.
"It's a pressurised game because of the rivalry but it's another opportunity to get more points.
Hughton acknowledges Albion have a tough finish after they only drew 1-1 with Huddersfield on Saturday.
After collecting just one point from three league matches, he said: "As regards lifting the players, they will know the next game if anything becomes an even bigger game.
Is Wolves v Brighton on TV, what's the team news, what are the odds? | {
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How might you win over Richard Branson at Voom 2016?
Ahead of this year's Voom 2016 competition for SMEs in Ireland and the UK, vice-president of Virgin Media Business Ireland, Gavan Smyth, offers his tips for companies looking to apply, and how they might win over Richard Branson.
Previously known as Pitch to Rich, the Voom 2016 competition is for SMEs looking to upscale their ideas, with €1.2m (£1m) in prizes up for grabs, along with additional tips and mentoring from experienced professionals sourced through the business social network LinkedIn.
With Virgin Media having taken over the reins of UPC here in Ireland late last year, the competition has increased, with the likely addition of a number of Irish entries, some of which could make up the final 10 that will pitch their ideas to the company's founder and philanthropist, Richard Branson.
With hopes that a number of Irish companies can join British companies for the final pitching event on 28 June, the vice-president of Virgin Media Business Ireland, Gavan Smyth, has some tips for what types of companies might catch the attention of Branson.
"He did say recently that he's very interested in clean tech-type companies," he said. | {
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Sleepy Dancing, Skala Collective's second album, this time with participation of a vocalist and in slightly different stylistics than ever before.
Sound and style of the band, well-known from the previous album, have been transformed through more pop type filters which make new compositions more melodic and definitely less harsh than the previous ones. However space rock areas and rhythmic kraut massage are still easy to hear in that music.
Gee's vocals and lyrics have lent a sensual element of femininity. The whole, although comes from different music inspirations, forms a coherent album with occasionally a trance and hypnotic, sometimes even dance face. Skala Collective's musicians define their production as post-pop. | {
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26C and P51 Recordings have teamed up to create a full length DJ mix CD by Gridlok. The CD consists of 14 original drum and bass tracks produced by Gridlok, available together for the first time. Included are 4 previously unreleased tracks, plus collaborations with other drum and bass producers. | {
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A friend of mine has an underweight problem she has been fighting for a few months. She's been visiting a dietitian who subscribed a radically different diet. My friend was somewhat shaken by this new diet, because it would mean a dramatic change to her daily routine, her shopping and cooking habits and at some level her daily balance. After a few minutes of explaining to me, she broke down into tears, because of the burden of changes.
It occurred to me that she didn't have do this. She had a choice to not do the diet. Even better, she had the choice to do the diet at her own pace. I advised her to not mind the dietitian too much, but if she really wanted to do the diet, she should stay committed to it, and do it at a pace she felt comfortable. So no, no habits and routines need to be changed overnight. She could do it over a period of weeks or months. So long as she's gaining weight, it should be OK to take the time!
The next morning I got a call from her, that this simple hack made her feel like a burden has been lifted.
What we understood is that it's inadvisable to allow external pressures weigh on our ability and will. Often they may be incompatible. Adapt the external influences to suit our pace.
Photo credit to Huang Did, Flickr. | {
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When Ryan Fitzpatrick signed his one-year deal with the New York Jets, the quarterback position was solidified for Gang Green.
Geno Smith, who reacted to Fitzpatrick's return by stating he'd be auditioning for all 32 teams (and by tweeting Young Thug lyrics) suddenly finds himself in a bit of a competition with an unexpected foe: fellow backup quarterback Bryce Petty.
A clunker Friday night didn't help Smith's cause. Smith completed less than 50 percent of his attempts (6 of 13) for 47 yards and an interception that was quickly turned into six points by the Redskins.
Petty followed Smith at the start of the second half and proceeded to go 16-of-26 passing for 242 yards and two touchdowns. Level of competition notwithstanding, it was a stark contrast to the play of Smith, who's always (sometimes unfairly) been a lightning rod for criticism since becoming a Jet in 2013.
After coach Todd Bowles declared Smith as the team's No. 2 quarterback, and Petty as its third following a Week 1 win over Jacksonville, he wasn't as firm in the wake of a 22-18 loss to Washington Friday.
But is it possible for Petty to challenge Smith for the backup gig?
Petty had more playing time against what would be considered to be lesser opponents in the second half of a preseason contest. But he clearly won the "body of work" battle Friday. So is the backup quarterback position open?
"Every position is open," Bowles said.
Cue the backup quarterback controversy, which might only be possible in a place like New York. Don't even get us started on Christian Hackenberg's sideline exile. | {
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A documentary film by Eva and James Wine on Sweden's remarkable achievements in reducing carbon emissions for decades and now going fossil fuel free.
Climate change is an epic challenge. But with a mix of "climate altruism," innovative design, smart engineering and new economic opportunities, Sweden leads the world forward. From science to governance, business to nature, the Swedish story shows how their carbon emissions can be slashed while consistently growing and transforming their economy. What's the Swedish secret? Makes you wonder... If Swedes can go fossil fuel free, why can't we?
The film is presented in 14 short episodes, averaging 12 minutes. Watch one or two at a time, or binge!
Pay $7.99 or more for Makes You Wonder... .
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Makes You Wonder...–Prologue–"We're all in this together"
Makes You Wonder... -1- "The Swedish Secret?"
Makes You Wonder...-7-"Intrusions by Others"
Makes You Wonder...–12- "The Dumb Swede & The Magic of Allemansrätten"
Makes You Wonder...-Epilogue- "We are the Earth's"
The foundation for the film.
Part 1 sets up the journey and looks for the Swedish secret in tackling climate change.
Part 2 opens with an exploding "atom bomb" in Sweden thatt led to worldwide cooperation and the beginning of climate science.
Part 3 moves from weather to climate change through the story of a pivotal Swedish American scientist, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, with reflections from his scientist son.
Part 4 The baton from Rossby is passed to Bert Bolin who herds the whole world toward a climate treaty and a former student of his remembers his teacher.
In Part 5 Bolin passes the baton to a young agronomist to forge a whole new framework on how we must approach climate change: one for all, all for one.
Part 6: Hockey crazy Sweden does the unthinkable, they assert their own responsibility to get rid of fossil fuels.
Part 7: Sweden's environmental movement stems from the inspiration by an American scientist's book. Her insight also can also be found in an American law on the books that compels us to act on climate.
Part 8: Sweden's energy capital takes an American invention and is about to be fossil fuel free.
Part 9: What's Earth's climate gonna be in 100 years? Two choices and it could go either way.
A Stockholm neighborhood that went from industrial brownfield to a new eco-urban model, visited by people from 184 countries to learn how the Swedes do it.
Governance, business, culture...how do they do it...what makes Swedes tick?
The heart, soul and spirit of a remarkable society.
Epilogue: From a tough assessment of what's ahead for humanity, the paramount responsibility, to the hope in America's potential for change and a final transformative perspective - or two. | {
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At a hearing on December 13, 2016, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 in favor of the proposed Salinas Valley groundwater sustainability agency. At a separate meeting on December 13, the City of Salinas City Council also voted in favor of the proposed groundwater sustainability agency.
The California Department of Water Resources announced the Draft Approved Basin Boundary Modifications and the Basin Boundary Assessment Tool Map (these are both now available on DWR's web site).
In the Seaside / Corral de Tierra, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District applied for a change is to mirror the Seaside adjudicated boundaries. DWR approved this boundary change.
In the Paso Robles sub-basin, Monterey County pursued a jurisdictional boundary change at the county line. DWR did not approve the boundary change. This means that Monterey County and San Luis Obispo County will need to coordinate groundwater sustainability management for the Paso Robles sub-basin. If each county forms a groundwater sustainability agency within its county, the two agencies will coordinate their plans for groundwater management.
Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency indicated that they are willing to serve as the GSA for the portion of the Pajaro Valley Basin that is within their jurisdiction, which would leave the Potentially Un-Managed Area (PUMA) at the southern portion of the basin in flux. Discussions between MCWRA and DWR indicate that the northern boundary of the Pressure 180/400 sub-basin and Langley sub-basin boundaries were kept conterminous (i.e. sharing a boundary) with the southern boundary of the Pajaro Valley sub-basin; therefore, there is not a potentially un-managed area in the basin.
SGMA initially established the basin boundaries as defined in Bulletin 118, a comprehensive report on California groundwater resources that is periodically updated by DWR. A provision of SGMA, Water Code 10722.2, established a process for local agencies to request that DWR modify those boundaries to improve coordination and promote statewide sustainable groundwater management. The Draft Approved Basin Boundary Modifications was developed through DWR's technical review of basin boundary modification requests and public comment made during the submission period, January 1, 2016 through March 31, 2016. Future basin boundary modification submission periods will likely be based on demand and coordinated with 5-year updates to Bulletin 118. | {
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Scientists 'find cause' of rare blood clots linked to Covid vaccines - and how to solve it
Researchers believe the rare blood clots are caused by "floating mutant proteins" (Photo: Getty Images)
Scientists claim to have identified the cause of rare blood clots which have been linked to some Covid-19 vaccines.
Concerns have been raised over the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, after some people developed blood clots after their jab, but German researchers have said the current jabs could be modified to make them safer for future patients.
What is causing the blood clots?
A research team at the Goethe University in Frankfurt claim, in a study not reviewed by experts, the rare blood clots are caused by "floating mutant proteins", which can occur when a vaccine sends the spike protein of the Sars-Cov-2 virus into the wrong part of a cell.
Lead scientist Rolf Marschalek said the issue lies with the adenovirus vectors, which both the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines use to send the spike protein into the body.
This method then sends the spike protein into the cell nucleus, rather than the cytosol fluid inside the cell. Once inside, parts of the spike protein then split apart creating mutant versions.
These mutations are unable to bind to the cell membrane, causing "floating mutant proteins" to be secreted by cells into the body instead.
Prof Marschalek believes these proteins are what could potentially trigger blood clots in a small number of people.
By comparison, researchers said that vaccines which use a different technology known as RNA (mRNA), including the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, only deliver the genetic material of the coronavirus spike protein to fluid found inside cells, rather than the nucleus.
The findings were published in a pre-print journal paper released on Thursday (27 May).
Can the problem be solved?
The blood clot problem has disrupted the rollout of both the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recommended against the AstraZeneca vaccine among people under the age of 40, while the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was halted in Europe last month, and was temporarily paused in the US in April.
The company has since resumed its rollout with a warning on its label.
Blood clots have been reported in just over 309 out of the 33 million people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, causing 56 deaths, while in Europe around 142 out of 16 million vaccinated people have experienced blood clots.
However Prof Marschalek believes the problem could be solved if vaccine developers can modify the sequence of the spike proteins to stop it splitting apart.
Speaking to the Financial Times, he said: "With the data we have in our hands we can tell the companies how to mutate these sequences, coding for the spike protein in a way that prevents unintended splice reactions."
Prof Marschalek said he had presented his lab's findings to the German government's Paul-Ehrlich Institute and to the country's advisory body on vaccination and immunisation.
In a statement, Johnson & Johnson said: "We are supporting continued research and analysis of this rare event as we work with medical experts and global health authorities.
"We look forward to reviewing and sharing data as it becomes available."
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Just to say enjoyed Blue on Sunday very much.
Thanks for doing justice to the lovely but I am sure very difficult 'Case for You" I love it.
where is the next public performance?
If we have a garden party this summer how much for a gig, near Funtington? | {
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It's that oh-so-special time of year again – when the days become longer, the weather becomes warmer, supposedly, and when families and winter-beaten college students take the opportunity to travel to far-off destinations in search of relaxation and fun in the sun.
Yes, this particular moment in time is Spring Break.
And as CBD becomes more accessible to the masses, there's no doubt about CBD becoming the popular choice to ease the stress and anxiety that come with extended periods of traveling — especially when flying. But can you fly with CBD?
Before you begin packing your bags to the brim with CBD products, here are some helpful answers to general questions about getting from point A to point B with your essential CBD.
According to the Transportation Security Administration, you should not do this.
Apparently, TSA views the possession of all marijuana and cannabis-based products as illegal; it doesn't matter if it's no THC, all-hemp CBD, or a medically-approved combination of the two – they prohibit all of it.
However, TSA has also stated that their job is to "detect potential threats…" and that they don't actively go searching for marijuana and other drugs, but they will refer to law enforcement officers if they happen to find similar substances in people's belongings.
Basically, attempt at your own risk – and keep in mind the rules TSA has in place for liquid containers, vape pens, and e-cigarettes.
There are other alternatives to trying to sneak CBD aboard a plane; you could take the CBD before arriving at the airport, purchase CBD at your destination if available, or set a timed delivery to your location.
If your spring break plans are taking you through state borders, you may want to consider a few moments and read up on any CBD laws from the states you're traveling through this time.
The recent 2018 Farm Bill federally legalized industrial hemp and hemp-derived products by removing them from the Controlled Substances Act – subsequently allowing interstate commerce or distribution between states.
However, this law only applies to the federal classification of industrial hemp – any part of the cannabis plant containing less than 0.3% THC. And state-level governments still have the authority to outlaw anything derived from cannabis if they choose.
It may not be such a big deal when traveling directly through non-stop.
However, if you're openly vaping CBD in a state that has rules different than the federal government, then you may find yourself in deep trouble, especially with state governments that continue to view all forms of cannabis as illegal.
Can I Travel Internationally With CBD Oil?
It's a magnificent, vast world out there – and if you're spending spring break in an exotic location beyond U.S. borders, then understand that different countries have different rules.
Some areas may allow hemp-based CBD, while others may prohibit any THC-heavy CBD, or won't permit any cannabis-derived products at all.
The accountability will naturally be on you to become familiar with any CBD or industrial hemp laws from foreign countries before making travel plans. With all its beneficial characteristics, CBD can be a useful travel companion – and with such a variety of CBD products available in the market — it'd be difficult not to find some form of CBD that will fit perfectly with your traveling needs. | {
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World above Head by Peter Marcias will have its first screening in Czech Republic thanks to Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, taking place in Prague from Nov 8th to 14th 2012, and in Brno from Nov 16th to 22nd 2012. Mezipatra, one of the most established queer film festivals from Eastern Europe, gets this year its 13rd edition.
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Welcome to Ward 5 Online: Mayor's Fitness Challenge kicks off on Saturday March 28th!
Mayor's Fitness Challenge kicks off on Saturday March 28th!
SOMERVILLE – Looking for a way to jump-start your spring and summer training? We've got the perfect opportunity! The 6th annual Somerville Mayor's Fitness Challenge kicks off on Sat., March 28 with a family-friendly event featuring fun physical activities, healthy food tasting, health and wellness information, and free Fitness Goody Bags for participants. The four-week challenge runs through April 25 and offers both a Team Fitness Challenge as well as a non-competitive "Lifestyle Pledge," with rewards for participants ranging from better health to discounts at local businesses.
· Skate with Joe! Join the Mayor at the Veterans Memorial Ice Rink on Thurs., April 2 at 7:30 p.m. for an hour of free and fun skating.
Individuals who join the team challenge will earn points for weight loss and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI), while those who take the Lifestyle Pledge will earn Wellcoin points by participating in events and programs and logging healthy eating choices throughout the challenge. Wellcoin is free and offers incentives through local businesses and restaurants in its Reward Center (for more information and to sign up, visit www.wellcoin.com).
Throughout the program, teams and individuals will earn discounts to local restaurants and businesses. All participants will receive extra points for attending validated events and programs, including fitness activities, City-sponsored events, and much more!
· Fitness Challenge Kickoff: Sat., March 28, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., SHS Field House, 81 Highland Ave.
· Skate with Mayor Joe: Thurs., April 2, 7:30 p.m., Veterans Memorial Ice Rink, 570 Somerville Ave.
· YMCA Healthy Kids Day: Sat., April 25, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., YMCA, 101 Highland Ave.
Get the scoop on how the Challenge works and updates on events and opportunities throughout the challenge at our new Mayor's Fitness Challenge website, which will be live by kickoff day: www.somervillema.gov/fitnesschallenge. | {
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Indie Wire Top 100 Horror Films: and some thoughts. 50-1
So earlier this week Indie Wire posted their top 100 horror movies of all time. Yesterday I posted in their choices from 100-51, with some random thoughts or comments on each of them from me.
Here's the list from 50 to number 1.
Tomorrow, a few overall thoughts, and my personal top 10…
Once again, all credit for choices goes to Indie Wire…
50. "Candyman" (Bernard Rose, 1992) Having read the short story it was based on, Candyman struck me at the time as being a fairly average Hollywood reworking. I liked the creepy incantation scenes, but otherwise have never really got the love for this flick.
49. "The Lodger" (John Brahm, 1944) Saw the Hitchcock silent – haven't seen this one.
48. "Carnival of Souls" (Herk Harvey, 1962) This level of nightmarish/ fever dream weirdness I get. Always struck me as an extended Twilight Zone style piece.
47. "Ganja & Hess" (Bill Gunn, 1973) Nope, another one completely unfamiliar with.
46. "It Follows" (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) One of the more recent re-considerations of horror traditions – in this case a twisting of the 'virgin as the last to die' slasher trope, I had high hopes for this one, and while it was perfectly okay, it didn't wow me the same as it did critics. It followed…but slowly. A brooding horror can be a great thing, but after a striking opening, I have to admit flashes of boredom throughout.
45. "The Blair Witch Project" (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999) One of the more devisive movies: even in the room I watched it in, one of us loved it, the other hated. I loved it – especially the ending, which I found bone chilling. One of those films I never felt the need to watch again though.
44. "The Brood" (David Cronenberg, 1979) Possibly Cronenberg's ultimate body horror – not as out-and-out weird as Videodrome (which suffered from massive cuts on its' UK release), and not as cheap as Shivers (although still obviously low brow). I thought The Brood was okay when I saw it as a teenager, but it wasn't until '83 and The Dead Zone I really started to 'enjoy' his work. Yeah, that does include Scanners.
43. "I Saw the Devil" (Kim Jee-Woon, 2011) Showing my ignorance of Korean horror now – another one I haven't got around to yet. Now placed on my watch list: a shame Netflix/ Amazon seem to hold so few international horror movies.
42. "Freaks" (Tod Browning, 1932) Another one I saw way, way too early. Probably one of the first, and lasting, movies that influenced me into loving 'horror'
41. "Possession" (Andrzej Zulawaki, 1981) Not seen: sounds interesting, placed on list. Loves me some Isabelle Adjani
40. "The Others" (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001) For me suffered from coming out so closely to Sixth Sign…but an atmospheric modern day gothic.
39. "The Devils" (Ken Russell, 1971) Much heard about, never seen. Mad old Ken…
38. "Black Sunday" (Mario Bava, 1960) Another classic I've heard much about, but never actually seen. My classics are quite spotty…
37. "Hausu" (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1977) Nope. Sounds quite batty though…
36. "Don't Look Now" (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) Grim, gruelling, at times wildly dated, but still one of the best endings in a horror movie, hell movie full stop, seen.
35. "Hangover Square" (John Brahm, 1945) A mark of changes in 'horror' I'm sure I remember this from a Sunday afternoon on the sittee viewing.
34. "The Devil's Backbone" (Guillermo Del Toro, 2001) More creepy than horrific I'd say – and what a triple bill the box set of this, Cronos, Pan's Labrynth is – I'm assuming at least one of those is still to come.
33. "Scream" (Wes Craven, 1996) Loved the beginning, love the meta aspects of it, and was always a fan of Wes Craven. If it ends up becoming the thing it's playing with, and whether that's a concious decision or merely a result of trying to be scary as well as funny is too big a question for my little brain to comprehend. I do know the sequels were universally shit though.
32. "Near Dark" (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987) A movie I bought on Blu Ray recently, but haven't watched yet: I must do though – to see if it's as good as I remember it to be. The silhouetted shots and Bill Paxton still stay in my mind from a first teen viewing.
31. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (Robert Wiene, 1920) The best version I saw was with a live organ accompaniment. Even survived excessive studying during German Expressionist terms during Film Studies degree..
30. "The Wicker Man" (Robin Hardy, 1973) Ah, the bees- not the bees…oh, not that one. Incredibly dated in many scenes, still chilling in the best of them.
29. "The Innocents" (Jack Clayton, 1961) Difficult to appreciate on seeing it today, given the influence it has had on so many films since: suffice to say, if you haven't seen it yet, you'll probably see where this is going from a country mile away, but the journey getting there is creepy as hell.
28. "Pulse" (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001) I lost this one in among the many Ringu types: I need to revisit.
27. "The Omen" (Richard Donner, 1976) Ah, I wasn't allowed to see the film when it was available on very early VHS, but I was allowed to read the books. Not sure what that says about my parents or me, but when I did finally get to see it, it lived up to my hope/ expectations from the books. Never did see the remake: and while I'm sure there is absolutely no need to I'm tempted: but will check out some of the many on this list I haven't seen yet before I do…
26. "Bride of Frankenstein" (James Whale, 1935) Also mentioned in my Universal Monsters post – is it better than the original Frankenstein? You know, I think it might be…
25. "Suspiria" (Dario Argento, 1977) I saw it, I thought it was weird as a fourteen year old. I frequently see it praised as genius. I need to watch it again.
24. "The Birds" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) Hmm, so how much of Hitchcock's work do we class as out-and-out 'horror'. I love The Birds, but it wouldn't make it into my top ten Hitch movies.
23. "I Walked With a Zombie" (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) I don't think I've ever seen the film, but boy have I seen the imagery over the years.
22. "Repulsion" (Roman Polanski, 1965) Yep, it's in there. And yep, it's still effective. Perhaps more so in today's age than it ever should have been.
21. "Carrie" (Brian De Palma, 1976) The importance of Carrie, both the book and the film, cannot be underestimated in their respective impacts on their medium. I have to say in all honesty though, that I think it's in the top three of King's weakest books, and the film always struck me as dated even when I first saw it around ten years after it was made…I know, sue me.
20. "The Fly" (David Cronenberg, 1986) If Nightmare on Elm Street was a game changer, then The Fly was the next quantum leap forward for me: Blyth Wallaw, balcony seat. Scary as shit. Loved it. Saw sequel, once…went back to original many times.
19. "Get Out" (Jordan Peele, 2017) Well, it deserves to be in here, no doubt. This high? Hmm. I enjoyed the hell out of it, pretty much all the way to the end, where it all got a little bit too Stepford Wives. I'll still watch anything Jordan Peele does though- whether it's acting or directing.
18. "The Silence of the Lambs" (Jonathan Demme, 1991) That was a long walk home after watching the midnight screening of SotL back in Reading. By the time Hannibal came out I was outright laughing at the pantomime of Lector, and ray Liotta eating his own brain, but the first…it still works, despite the million and one copycats/ rip-offs/ skits since.
17. "Nosferatu" (F. W. Murnau, 1922) Another one studied. Another one that's great with a live organ accompaniement if you can sort one out to come round to your house…
16. "Jaws" (Steven Spielberg, 1975) The original summer blockbuster. I've never really thought of Jaws as a horror movie. Still great though. Not the biggest Spielberg fan in the world, but one of my favourites of his.
15. "Cat People" (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) Saw this one after seeing the remake – it didn't have the graphic violence, the special effects or, Nastasia Kinski spending a lot of the time naked. Hence, at the time as a pervy/ gory young teen I thought it was boring. Nothing happens…in my now infinite wisdom, the pool scene is creeping suggestion at its best.
14. "28 Days Later" (Danny Boyle, 2002) A surprisingly high entry, but a good original take on the zombie flick – even if the word's never used.
13. "Audition" (Takashi Miike, 1999) Another one I've written elsewhere on this site. 3/4 masoginistic almost comedy and then…wow. Strong stuff.
12. "Dawn of the Dead" (George A. Romero, 1978) Probably my favourite zombie movie of all time. Very happy memories of watching this as a teenager obsessed with special effects make up.
11. "Deep Red" (Dario Argento, 1975) Bird with the Crystal Plumage or Tenebrae stand out as the key Argento films for me, although I appreciate this is considered by many as his masterpiece- it's been too long: I need to rewatch this.
10. "Night of the Living Dead" (George Romero, 1968) The term 'seminal' is over used (perhaps only by me), but this would qualify. As I say, of the original trilogy Dawn is my preferred choice, but the importance and influence of Night cannot be over-stressed.
9. "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979) So good Scott is still going back to the well with Prometheus and Covenant, but nothing has come close to it in his repertoire, and while its' debatable as to whether this or Aliens is the best of the entire franchise, I think it's unquestionable that this is the horror of the series.
8. "The Thing" (John Carpenter, 1982) Happy to see this one in there – love pretty much everything about this movie.
7. "Eyes Without a Face" (Georges Franju, 1960) Ummm, embarrassingly I don't think I've seen it.
6. "Psycho" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Of course it is! Survived many many lectures and studies, and still one of my all time favourites
5. "Halloween" (John Carpenter, 1978) As good as so many of the following rip offs were bad. Still going strong with the new one out this week.
4. "The Exorcist" (William Friedkin, 1973) Ok, am interested to see what comes above this now – and I can guess one…Personally wouldn't make my top ten, but undeniably important, and at times damned scary
3. "Rosemary's Baby" (Roman Polanski, 1968) Underwhelmed me on first viewing, but I was just way too young. In later years the paranoia, and the place it holds within Polanski's other works, makes it a slow nerve shredder -and what a final scene.
2. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (Tobe Hooper, 1974) Nasty, unpleasant to watch – in the best/ worst kind of way. None of the sheen or gloss of a modern horror movie, it's just invasive all the way through. Not a film I particuarly like to watch again and again, but does what it's supposed to.
1. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Sigh. Ok, it had to be, when it hadn't appeared by the top five, but…I like the Shining well enough. It has some good scenes, and it has a good mounting tension. But it also has some awful shots, some wonky dialogue, and I don't personally find it scary. At all. I'm afraid I'm firmly in the Stephen King camp in finding the book far more effective than the film. I know the critics love it, and there's certainly some interesting stuff there (see Room 237 for the theories), but best horror film ever? Nah. Don't get it.
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It's the new year, and everyone automatically tries to eat a little healthier. While it's easy to assume that healthy food is bland and boring, that's not the case at all, especially with this farro salad.
Farro is an ancient grain that's deliciously nutty. When cooked, it becomes tender with a chewy bite. It's one of my favorite grains to cook with. I add it to soups, green salads, or toss it with a vinaigrette and add vegetables like I'm doing here. I even sometimes sweeten it and eat it in the morning instead of oatmeal. No matter what you do with it, it's a versatile grain that should be eaten much more often.
For this dish, I let the farro cook while I prepare the rest of the components. The fennel bulbs are simply braised in stock until golden and tender. I roast some cherry tomatoes for a bright, sweet touch. A light lemon and oregano vinaigrette dresses the farro. I love eating this for lunch with a poached egg on top. Or I serve it alongside some sort of chicken, fish, or meat, and it becomes a satisfying side dish for a healthy dinner.
Combine the farro and liquid in a saucepan. Bring the liquid to a boil and then reduce to a simmer. Cover the saucepan and cook the farro until tender, about 30 minutes. Drain off any excess liquid and let the farro cool.
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Miley's back on the wagon y'all
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Gearing up for the Friday, November 27 release of her new album, Plastic Hearts, Miley Cyrus sat down with Zane Lowe to detail new music and some of her own struggles.
Miley got candid about her sobriety, revealing that she was already two weeks sober after having a bit of a relapse. "Well, I, like a lot of people, being completely honest, during the pandemic fell off [the wagon] …." she told Zane, adding that she "would never" pretend otherwise. "I fell off and I realized that I now am back on sobriety, two weeks sober, and I feel like I really accepted that time."
She went on to explain that "one of the things" that she's used when she's faltered with her sobriety in the past is, "don't get furious, get curious," Cyrus said. "So don't be mad at yourself, but ask yourself, What happened?"
Miley, who turned 28 on November 23, referred to her recent slip as a "f*** up," after having announced to Variety that she was six months sober back in June, telling the outlet she wanted more clarity to "polish up my craft."
The "Midnight Sky" songstress further noted that, "everyone has to do what is best for them," and that for her the problem isn't with drinking, it's with "the decisions I make once I go past that level of… Even into, I've just been wanting to wake up 100 percent, 100 percent of the time."
Cyrus, further admitted that while "it's never easy," she happens to be "very disciplined," and for that reason, "it's pretty easy for me to be sober or in and out of sobriety," Cyrus said. "Because it's like the day I don't want to f***ing do it anymore, I don't, the day that I do, I do. You know?"
One of Miley's main motivations to walk away from drugs and alcohol was specifically due to age, and being sober at the age of 27. A number of famous musicians have died before their 28th year of life, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain,and Amy Winehouse - just a few on the list that has since been dubbed as the "27 Club."
"Twenty-seven to me was a year that I really had to protect myself," she told Lowe. "That actually really made me want to get sober because we've lost so many icons at 27. It's a very pivotal time. You go into that next chapter or this is it for you. I just feel that some of the artists that almost couldn't handle their own power and their own energy and their own force. It's an energy. I, no matter what, was born with that."
While we don't disagree, we're happy Miley's back on track and officially 28. Check out her entire interview with Zane Lowe above.
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Q: Whats the difference between the following conditions in TypeScript? if (!value || value.length<1)
if (value.length<1)
What's the difference between the two conditions? Wouldn't it be same?
A: No, they are absolutely different.
!value
this checks for whether an item is present and it is not undefined, but ![] and also ![3] this is always false. basically it checks for presence.
and even [] is always true.
length
calculates the no of elements inside that array and it is purely applied to array.
for [] , value.length<1 this returns true.
A: If value is null or undefined, the second if will throw an error stating that you can't access length of null / undefined.
The first one prevents that, as it will only be accessing value.length if value is truthy. Otherwise, the first condition (!value) is satisfied, so the second one (value.length < 1) won't even be evaluated.
const arr1 = null;
const arr2 = [];
// Satisfies first condition:
if (!arr1 || arr1.length < 1) console.log('No values in arr1.');
// Satisfies second condition:
if (!arr2 || arr2.length < 1) console.log('No values in arr2.');
// Breaks:
if (arr1.length < 1) console.log('No values in arr1.');
Anyway, that's not specific to TS, it's just how vanilla JS works.
A: Quick way to understand is you cannot access length property of an undefined array. So the second if condition will throw an error akin to Cannot access property 'length' of undefined.
The first if condition however checks if the array is defined. So it won't throw any error.
Typescript contains a native way of doing this check using a "safe navigation operator" or optional chaining operator ?.. So in TS, you could simply do
if (value?.length < 1) { }
It is equivalent to JS
if ((value === null || value === void 0 ? void 0 : value.length) < 1) { }
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The Chelsea morning headlines as Rudiger responds to Spurs fans, Ziyech's aim, Fernandes penalty
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Rudiger hits out at Tottenham fans
Chelsea's 2-1 win over the Lilywhites at Stamford Bridge was the first time the two teams faced each other since December, where Antonio Rudiger was subject of alleged monkey chants from some of the home supporters.
During the first half of the game on Saturday, the 26-year-old was subjected to boos from some Spurs supporters when he was on the ball.
And in an honest post-match interview, the Blues defender said he was not surprised by such treatment.
"I'm very careful with this. I'm not in the investigations. I'm not a police officer," Rudiger said. "I just hope always people do their job right. But nothing happened and, to be honest, it was not a surprise.
"For me, it was not a surprise, because they always get away with it. Not always, sometimes they get punished but mostly they get away with it."
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Ziyech's Chelsea aim
Hakim Ziyech has spoken about his upcoming move to Chelsea.
The Blues had already confirmed earlier this month that a deal had been reached to sign the Morocco international in the summer in a move worth £33.5m.
Ziyech will become Frank Lampard's first signing at Chelsea, following the transfer ban last summer and the frustrations that the Blues endured during the recent January transfer window.
And speaking to the official Chelsea website, the playmaker admitted he is excited to join the Blues.
"I am delighted and proud to have signed for such a huge club as Chelsea. I am looking forward to next season and hope we can achieve great things together."
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Bruno Fernandes has explained his penalty technique, after being accused of copying Chelsea midfielder Jorginho.
Just before half-time during Manchester United's 3-0 win over Watford, Fernandes won the penalty after being fouled by Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster.
Picking himself up, the 25-year-old walked up the ball and performed a stutter and a skip, before side-footing the ball into the net with Foster already committed in the opposite direction.
The style was reminiscent of how Jorginho takes his penalties, and prompted some fans to compare the similarity.
Speaking after the game, the midfielder opened up on his run-up and hinted that fans can expect to see more of it in the future.
"It's the way I shoot a penalty, it's where I feel confident," he told BBC Sport. "I do not shoot just that way but it felt the best way today."
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Top-four warning
Sticking with the Red Devils, left-back Luke Shaw has issued a top-four warning to Chelsea and Frank Lampard.
Just three points separate the two teams in the Premier League table and after back-to-back victories, the United left-back is gunning for the Blues.
"We got what we needed and that was three points," Shaw told Sky Sports after the win. "Let's keep pushing.
Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw of Manchester United in action against Chelsea. (Image: 2020 Getty Images)
"The most important thing is we closed the gap to Chelsea.
"This club is known for playing in the big competitions. We all miss the Champions League nights so much, that is what we want next season.
"We need to fight and earn it."
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Bayern Munich injury boost
Javi Martinez has returned to training ahead of the Bayern Munich's Champions League trip to Stamford Bridge.
The Blues host the Bundesliga leaders in the round of 16 tie on Tuesday night as both clubs look to take an advantage into the second leg at the Allianz Arena next month.
Martinez has missed the last six league games due to a torn muscle bundle, having last played in the in a 2-0 win over Wolfsburg back in December before the winter break.
But, a post on Bayern Munich's official social media channel confirms that the player is now back in training with his teammates.
Alongside a video of the team undergoing their preparations, Bayern simply posted: "Welcome back @Javi8martinez" with a waving emoji.
The Spaniard has made 17 appearances across all competitions so far this season.
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I do this after every Roast Dinner - it's a very British thing to do. It is lovingly called Bubble and Squeak.
I like the fact that they are never the same twice.
Whoa! That's quite the burger.
But where's the turkey? I kid. They look great!
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This year's World Cup is being hosted in Africa for the first time. Could a team from the continent win the tournament for the first time too?
Six of the 18 World Cup winners were the host nation, according to World Cup Odds, a betting Web site. This bodes well for South Africa which is hosting this time.
A more telling statistic may be the record of countries playing within their own continent. In 15 of the 18 World Cups that have been contested, the winner has been playing in their home continent, World Cup Odds says.
The three times the World Cup has been won by a team from outside of the host continent it has been won by Brazil. If this stat continues then either an African team will win the World Cup or Brazil will.
African sides have rarely progressed far in the tournament. However, the teams have improved during the past decade and several of the world's best players come from the continent, including Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) and Michael Essien (Ghana).
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Because the program that I am using add the name of the species to the ID.
I appreciate your answers, your scripts worked well for some kinds of sequences but not for all. The problem is that the headers of my sequences are not uniform. I have thirteen kinds of sequences (from different species = different headers). I want to extract the headers to get the CDS from another fasta file to carry out selection analysis. Therefore, I need that the headers can match with the headers of my CDS fasta file. For some reason, a previous analysis adds the name of the species to the original sequences headers.
Thank for providing the detailed examples. This is not a trivial task, because there is no clean pattern for the names you like to keep.
For some reason, a previous analysis adds the name of the species to the original sequences headers.
So you have a file with "original sequence headers"? How does they look like there?
However, the program that I used to detect orthologues can give me also all the proteins sequences that belong to each ortogroup or gene family. Therefore, I want to carry out some analysis using Hyphy program, but this program required CDS sequences to work. So I also have all the CDS for each species. I need to use the headers from all the sequences that belong to each gene family (from Orthofinder) in order to obtain the CDS.
you would need seqkit to linearize your fasta file.
Dear cpad0112, Could you help me with the questions that I pointed out below. Thank you.
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Launch of the "Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights" Report — TOMORROW at UCLA
Congratulations to UCLA Associate Professor, Bryonn Bain, for his recently published article in the UCLA Women's Law Journal titled, "Women Beyond Bars: A Post-Prison Interview with Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs." This article focuses on these two amazing women, Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs who Professor Bain met while teaching at the California Institution for Women (CIW). These women openly and honestly share their lived experiences before CIW, during CIW, and presently as returning citizens.
In addition, released this week is the Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights report which was developed with the CIW Think Tank and the UCLA Law School International Human Rights Clinic of which Professor Bain serves as Project Co-Director with Professor E. Tendayi Achiume. A brief description of the report shared on the UCLA Law website states that the purpose of this report is to focus on "the needs of formerly incarcerated women reentering Los Angeles communities" as well as serve as "a guide and set of recommendations for ensuring that reentering women have access to housing and employment." The report's executive summary is available HERE.
Please come out to support the launch of the Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights report at "Creating Liberation from Incarceration: Women Beyond Bars" on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm at UCLA's Kerckhoff Art Gallery. For more details about the event and to RSVP, click HERE.
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Factors That Influence the Acceptance of Corruption in Brazil
Alumni, Knowledge, Students
The demonstration against government and corruption in the The demonstration against government and corruption in the Esplanada dos Ministerios (Marcello Casal Jr / Agência Brasil) (http://www.coha.org/combatting-grand-corruption-in-brazil/)
By Sergio Guedes Reis, UCLA Master of Social Science '18
Citizens all over the world consistently rank corruption as one of the most important public issues of our time. For instance, global market research firm IPSOS polled 21 thousand people from 28 countries and found that 35 percent of respondents cited corruption as the most important problem facing the globe today. A close second was 'unemployment,' which was mentioned by 34 percent of respondents.
In Brazil, a large-scale criminal investigation initiated in 2014 has unveiled a multi-billion dollar money laundering and bribery scandal involving almost every political party, as well as some of the major engineering and contracting firms and state-controlled oil companies. The subsequent political crisis ultimately led not only to the ousting of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016, but also a severe decline in people's trust of institutions.
Interestingly, while narratives about the seemingly endemic nature of corruption in Brazil are widespread, polls suggest that actual levels of corruption may be much lower than the average rates found in other Latin American countries. That said, it is very hard to measure corruption, as it inherently happens under the radar. Taking this issue into account, watchdog organizations and survey companies usually look to gauge citizens' perceptions of ongoing rates of corruption in their countries, ask local experts for their views on that matter, or even interview contractors about their experiences negotiating with public officers.
So in what circumstances do people accept engagement in corrupt activities or believe that corruption is positive? And why do Brazilians believe that corruption is their #1 problem, when polls consistently show that only a small percentage of citizens claim that they have had to bribe a public official themselves?
Based on this paradox, I decided to investigate what factors influence the tolerance for corruption in Brazil. After all, if so many people think corruption is a big problem in Brazil and nonetheless only a few admit engaging in corrupt practices, then it becomes crucial to understand whether certain conditions provide more room for corruption to happen than others.
In order to do so, I used two of the most recent Latin American surveys on public opinion, the 2016 Latinobarometer and the 2017 Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) surveys.
Then, I defined 3 basic forms of tolerance for corruption:
1) When citizens say they accept "corrupt, but efficient governments"
2) When they state that "bribing is sometimes acceptable"
3) When they declare that they do not feel personally obliged to report a case of corruption
There are several interpretations to why corruption exists in a society. For example, authors argue that people who advocate for authoritarian values are more prone to accept corruption, because they believe that being compliant with democratic procedures does not solve one's own problems and thus people must take illegal, yet efficient action to achieve their goals. Others propose that low levels of trust (in other people and in institutions in general) are positively related to corruption, as discrediting others leads subjects to adopt more self-interested behavior to get things done.
I opted to test variables associated with these and other possible explanations in order to comprehend the issue at stake.
The most important findings I had were:
Depending on the type of tolerance towards corruption, a different set of factors was more strongly associated with it. Variables associated with authoritarian values and socio-economic and demographic attributes (such as low development, high income and inequality) were more correlated with acceptance of corrupt (but efficient) governments, justification of bribery, and low levels of trust with avoidance of reporting cases of corruption.
Individuals who trusted in people in general, had confidence in certain institutions or were well informed about them (the Parliament, political parties, and even groups from civil society) were also more prone to accept corruption.
Citizens who stated they believed in typical markers of the status quo (such as claims about the fairness in the distribution of income, the impartiality of the Judiciary branch or the existence of equality of opportunity among Brazilians) were also more likely to accept corruption.
Survey-based research can usually only capture subjects' opinions regarding a given topic, and not their actual practices. So, it is not possible to state that a moral agreement with corruption would imply acting corruptly in a real setting. Nonetheless, a pro-corrupt attitude may represent an open door for the occurrence of rule violations if the context allows. In the Brazilian case, the presence of structural factors (such as inequality and developmental levels) as predictors of tolerance towards corruption suggest this issue to have deep roots in the country's social fabric. It also indicates that anticorruption solutions need to be connected to welfare and redistribution policies if they are to become more efficient and effective.
Future research considering other countries, cultures and contexts may disentangle other factors and particular mechanisms through which corruption becomes an acceptable enterprise. For Brazil, at least, it seems that fostering democratic values, political accountability, social equality and education would offer a way out of the large-scale turmoil it currently faces.
Sergio Guedes Reis is a Federal Auditor at the Brazilian Ministry of Transparency and a 2018 graduate of UCLA's Master of Social Science (MaSS) program.
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Defending Voting Rights: A Civil Rights and Social Science Partnership in Action
Community Partners, Faculty, Knowledge, Solutions
By Chad Dunn, Brazil & Dunn, Attorneys at Law, and Matt Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
In 2013, Texas passed a restrictive voter identification law requiring any potential voter to show a government-issued photo ID before they could vote. However, Texas was subject to the preclearance provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), Section 5; and before the law could be put into place, Texas had to prove to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. that the law would not have a discriminatory effect on racial and ethnic minorities. Chad Dunn along with other attorneys, intervened in the case and offered evidence that the law would prevent Texans from voting and that minorities would be disproportionately impacted, a result that was intended by the number and nature of IDs Texas chose to allow. Texas lost that court case and the D.C. Court found the voter ID law did have a significant discriminatory effect and blocked Texas from implementing this law. That was when the Voting Rights Act had its full weight.
In 2014, in Shelby v. Holder the Supreme Court held that the Section 5 requirements that stopped Texas from discriminating against voters was outdated and they struck down the so-called Federal preclearance requirements in so far as Congress had applied it to various states and jurisdictions. Within minutes of the ruling, Texas reinstituted their voter ID law, which had already been found to be discriminatory.
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Without Section 5 and Texas intent on enforcing their discriminatory ID law, voting rights attorneys would need to step in and find individual plaintiffs to sue Texas under a different provision, Section 2 of the VRA. On June 28, 2014, Dunn and other nationally known civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit against Texas alleging that the voter ID law, had a discriminatory effect against blacks and Latinos, and more, that Texas passed this law with discriminatory intent. In an era without the Federal oversight protections of Section 5, it is now incumbent on civil rights advocacy groups and voting rights attorneys to bring individual lawsuits against voting procedures they believe are discriminatory; and to do this, they must rely on academic experts in history and the social sciences to prove, with thorough and methodical research and data analysis, that a voting rule or procedure discriminates against a specific racial or ethnic group. In the case of Texas, Mr. Dunn reached out to Professor Matt Barreto (Chicana/o Studies & Political Science) to provide a critical piece of the social science expertise documenting discriminatory effect.
Barreto collaborated with University of New Mexico Professor Gabriel Sanchez, to implement a large statewide survey of eligible voters across the state of Texas and determine what types of documents and identifications potential voters in Texas possessed. For would-be voters who did not have a proper photo ID, the survey probed if they had the necessary underlying documents needed to go an obtain an ID. Further, Barreto and Sanchez assessed the barriers placed in front of Texas citizens to get a photo ID, such as needing to take time off work, having to find someone to provide transportation, having to drive over 20 miles to the nearest driver's license office, or having to pay fees to track down their original birth certificate. In full, the social science research pointed to a clear pattern of discriminatory effect in which blacks and Latinos in Texas were statistically less likely to possess a photo ID, and statistically less likely to have the underlying documents necessary to obtain an ID. Further, due to extensive disparities in socioeconomic status, blacks and Latinos in Texas faced considerably more barriers than whites in being able to obtain an ID.
Dunn and Barreto have successfully worked on numerous Voting Rights cases and are now collaborating on a graduate level class at UCLA the includes masters, PhD and JD students. In this class, students learn the steps toward successful prosecution of voting cases from the perspective of the trial lawyer and the expert witness.
Chad Dunn of Brazil & Dunn, Attorneys at Law, consistently receives awards from legal publications for his extensive trial and litigation practice in Courts all over the country. From the United States Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court and virtually all trial and appellate courts below, Chad has the experience to prevail in the most difficult conditions and environments. He has handled complicated litigation in various states including Texas, Tennessee, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, North Carolina and Florida, and has tried numerous jury cases, trials to the bench and arbitrations.
Matt A. Barreto is Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA and the co-founder of the research and polling firm Latino Decisions. Time Magazine called Latino Decisions the "gold-standard in Latino American polling" and The Guardian wrote that Latino Decisions is "the leading Latino political opinion research group" in the United States. Barreto's research was recognized in the 30 Latinos key to the 2012 election by Politic365, listed in the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2012 by the European Politics Magazine LSDP, and was named one of the top 15 leading Latino pundits by Huffington Post which said Barreto was "the pollster that has his finger on the pulse of the Latino electorate." In 2015, Barreto was hired by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to run polling and focus groups on Latino voters.
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Students Participate in Collective Bargaining Exercise at UCLA
Faculty, Knowledge, Staff, Students
By Kent Wong
Director, UCLA Labor Center
The UCLA fall quarter course Introduction to Labor and Workplace Studies: Class, Race and Social Justice gave 240 students the opportunity to participate in a collective bargaining simulation, the largest such exercise in UCLA history. This is the second year the course has been offered and taught by Labor Center Director Kent Wong and Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Director Abel Valenzuela.
Each of the students was assigned either a union or a management bargaining team, and they prepared individually and in their teams for several weeks. The student negotiations focused on three issues: wages, class size, and the expansion of charter schools within Los Angeles. All three are real-life examples drawn from the current negotiations between the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and the Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD). The LAUSD is the second largest school district in the country, with twenty-five thousand teachers. In a recent vote, 98 percent of teachers supported strike authorization. UTLA and LAUSD are now exploring fact-finding and mediation, but a strike is a strong possibility.
Of the twenty pairs of student teams engaged in the collective bargaining exercise, the vast majority came to a successful resolution. While a few decided to strike or lock out the teachers, most compromised on wages, class size, and the expansion of charter schools. Students were thoughtful and persuasive in their presentations, and many expressed how much they had learned about the collective bargaining process and the role of unions in the workplace.
Introduction to Labor and Workplace Studies is the core course for the Labor Studies minor. In the coming year, the UCLA Labor Studies major will be launched, the first and only major of its kind in the nine-campus UC system.
The UCLA Labor Studies program offers students an in-depth understanding of a broad array of issues related to labor and the workplace and prepares students for a variety of careers in labor relations, human resource management, law, domestic and international government, worker organizing, and economic forecasting. The program currently enrolls approximately 150 students and facilitates over 200 student internship placements annually. By critically analyzing the theory and practice of current workplace issues, students develop a deep understanding of the relationship between their education and society and how they, as college graduates, can transform the nature of work.
Kent Wong is the director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches courses in labor studies and Asian American studies. He previously served as staff attorney for the Service Employees International Union. He was the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and of the United Association for Labor Education and currently is vice president of the California Federation of Teachers.
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LA Social Science Presents "Conversations with Changemakers" Featuring Bryonn Bain and Rosie Rios – Part 2
Alumni, Challenges, Faculty, Knowledge, Solutions, Staff
By Lara Drasin
Read Part 1 of this interview HERE.
Bryonn Bain is a UCLA professor jointly appointed in the African American Studies and World Arts and Cultures/Dance departments, as well as a prison activist, spoken word poet, hip-hop artist, actor and author. He is the founder and director of UCLA's Prison Education Program, which was launched in 2016 to create innovative courses that enable UCLA faculty and students to learn from, and alongside, participants incarcerated at the California Institute for Women (CIW) and Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall (BJN).
Rosie Rios is the administrative director of UCLA's Prison Education Program.
LD: Many of the concepts behind Theater of the Oppressed sound a lot like improv.
BB: Absolutely. The culture of "yes, and" is really about being solution oriented [by saying] "here we are, how are we going to make this work?" Being flexible and able to adapt in the correctional facilities is an essential skill. You cannot survive if you can't figure out a way to deal with constant change.
I taught courses at Rikers Island over a 10-year period. The city jail in LA has more people than any other city jail in the country – or the world – but Rikers Island is the largest penal colony. It's 10 jails on one island and there were between 14 and 15 thousand people incarcerated there when I first started teaching classes. I developed relationships with a lot of the folks inside and over that time, enough trust built up that I was able to work with them to do poetry, theater, and film classes.
They actually let me film Lyrics From Lockdown there. It was the last December of the Obama administration. Rikers Island rarely lets anyone film there, but we had been planning the shoot for nine months, and two weeks before we were going in to film, we got a call from the White House. The Obama administration invited Academy Award winner Tim Robbins and my crew to go there and bring the production. We were like, "That's great! That's amazing!! When?"
And they said December 17. That was the day we'd been planning to go to Rikers Island. So we turned down President Obama and the White House to go perform at Rikers Island. Of course, we showed up at Rikers and it was raining cats and dogs. We had a 20-person film crew covering their equipment with garbage bags so that it didn't get destroyed. And as we get to the wing where we were supposed to shoot, the correctional officers come out and tell us that they actually had a lockdown. They tear-gassed the wing where we were supposed to perform and weren't sure if we were going to be able to go through with the shoot.
In that moment, you can imagine the kinds of things I'm thinking to myself. But what are you going to do? "Yes and," right? So we figured out how to adapt to the situation to make it work. After seven hours, we were able to go in and do the show and bring a little bit of hope and, hopefully, a little bit of joy to our brothers who were there and could use some of that at that time.
"Some of those people behind bars are our most talented folks and brilliant minds. We cannot forget they locked up Mandela and Martin and Malcolm and Socrates." — Professor Bain
LD: How did the incarcerated students you were working with respond to being asked to write poetry?
BB: It's overwhelmingly positive. There is sometimes some initial hesitation, especially the younger you go, for a range of reasons. But two experiences crystallize what I find most valuable about those experiences.
One was the first time I taught in a juvenile facility that was not predominantly black and brown, which most of the facilities in New York and LA are. I was in the Clark County Detention Center in Ohio doing a residency with Wittenberg University. I asked if we could do something at the juvenile hall since it's right down the street and they let me bring in professors and students.
On a Monday, I performed there and hosted a workshop for mostly 15-year-old white boys. I'd never had a class like that, but I did my thing. They got really into it, so I decided to go back on Wednesday and do a poetry slam. There was this one student – named James, who was sentenced to 98 days at the facility and was scheduled to be released that Tuesday.
LD: He stayed for the slam?!
BB: He requested a 99th day so he could be in the slam on Wednesday — and then he won! So he left the next day a champion of language; of education; of poetry. He had a new relationship to literacy and his own sense of agency with the wind at his back.
Another situation that stayed with me is when we launched the NYU Prison Education program, the first for-credit program at NYU in 2013. We created an application process for all of our courses so they are taken very seriously. We asked every student, "Why do you want to participate in higher education while you're in prison?"
One young brother looked at me and said, "I need to pursue college in prison because prison is like Medusa. If you focus on it too much, it will turn you to stone. I need to focus my attention somewhere else." And that just gave me chills. All I could say was, "Please take my class!" That stays with me.
I think people in prison are some of the easiest folks to forget about. Part of the Prison Education Program's mission is to make sure we realize that we have folks who are valuable members of our families, our communities, our city and country who are incarcerated. And some of our greatest minds — our greatest geniuses — are incarcerated. Look at the statistics, and it's not even just 1 in 10, but as much as 1 in 3 or 4 of the folks in our communities are incarcerated, depending on which demographic you consider.
Some of those people behind bars are our most talented folks and brilliant minds. We cannot forget they locked up Mandela and Martin and Malcolm and Socrates.
Many in prison simply could not stay on the conveyor belt and do what everybody else did. Some folks made mistakes they should be able to learn from by being introduced to more humane interaction with others than prisons make possible. Others rebelled in a certain way, or just didn't fit into the mold or the system, or simply made bad choices.
We have countless folks locked up for the use or sale of substances state governments have either since legalized, or should decriminalize since the Center for Disease Control determined addiction is a disease. It should be treated as a public health and wellness issue — not a matter for criminal prosecution or punishment. You can't lock away addiction and the economies it generates and expect them to disappear. Prisons are an ineffective solution to this problem as they are most others. They only make it worse. There is a trillion-dollar, global pharmaceutical industry turning profits by engaging in the practice of medicating to treat trauma, illness, and addiction that we are locked up for every day in this country — and the U.S. is the number one importer of pharmaceutical drugs in the world.
Countless others still are wrongfully charged and awaiting trial for stretches of time so long they are undeniably cruel. And others, like my friend Nanon Williams in Texas, are convicted of a crime they did not commit. He was thrown on Death Row at 17 for a crime even a federal judge says he didn't commit, and has been behind bars surviving in cages for over 26 years.
So I think about the work we do not as for charity, but for change and transformation. It's for creating opportunities not just to teach folks who are incarcerated, but also to learn from folks who are incarcerated and ensure more voices are heard and involved in shaping the direction in which the nation and the world are moving. If we forget about these folks, we are losing out on the invaluable opportunity to actually participate in learning with and from them.
LD: I know that you work in facilities for both men and women, as well as boys and girls. What are the similarities and differences have you found in introducing your curricula in both male- and female-serving facilities?
BB: We should ask Rosie — she just came directly from teaching the girls inside today.
RR [Rosie Rios, UCLA's Prison Education Program Administrative Director]: At the juvenile hall, a lot of the girls are coming from very, very traumatic experiences. Today, we asked about their neighborhoods. We were talking about how our neighborhoods are at night. You hear the helicopters and hear gunshots and you're coming from this place of almost war, right? War between neighborhoods, and you have to survive.
The girls even wrote a letter to UCLA professors and students who are going to come into the facility saying, "Please understand where we're coming from. It's like we never got a chance to be kids. We never had a chance to really live. The only thing we know is how to survive."
And that applies to both boys and girls. But I think the girls just need a lot of care and more therapy. Their focus is also very different, because they're thinking about back home. A lot of them are mothers at a young age. So a lot of them are figuring out who they are, but also thinking about how they're going to care for their kids.
LD: When did you know you wanted to focus on prison education? When did you get involved with the arts, and how did that factor into your decision to go to law school?
BB: I was always a student activist and involved in organizing, but I actually went into a prison for the first time not as an activist, but as an artist. I was a teenager when I was invited to perform inside by a sister named Paula Medina (Black Paris Productions, Middletown, New York). My brothers, cousins and I had a crew — a hip-hop, spoken word poetry crew. We sang blues songs and performed all over New York. Paula was the head sister in charge who helped young artists to get a platform — and we wanted a platform. She said to us, "If you come perform in the prison with me for the holiday show, then I'll put you on!"
We didn't want to act nervous, but in 1989, we were like, "Are we going to be okay?" We had all the assumptions of everybody who's been fed misconceptions of what's in prisons through television and movies. But the experience was so amazing for us — it was transformative. We performed; we sang; we rapped; I spit poetry; we banged on the tables. Then we broke bread, and the brothers in there looked like our uncles, cousins and fathers. They were us. And once we saw that they were us, it changed how we understood and thought about the experience of incarceration.
We went back every year for the next decade or so and performed during the holidays. The brothers inside were so grateful that we didn't forget about them. A decade later in 1999, I had my own experience of being behind bars. And when it was NOT on a voluntary basis, I felt very differently about the situation. It makes a big difference when you have the privilege of going in and leaving at the end of the day.
So the shift in bringing activism into the prison space happened when I had my own experience with the NYPD and was locked up for a brief amount of time, but in several correctional facilities in New York City. My days inside can't compare to decades of trauma experienced behind bars — or the 44 years in solitary one of our elders from the Angola 3 survived, but it was enough to change my relationship to prisons forever.
I finished law school and suddenly had a different kind of access to these institutions because I had this very elite, very privileged education. And so my thinking was, "How can I be of service to the movement we need to end this prison crisis? How can I leverage my skills and talents, the media, and my access to educational institutions to be an agent of change? To share resources up on the hills that universities gather them on to folks who have been denied access, but would do so much good with them? How can I bring together those in these vastly different spaces who have so much to learn from each other? I felt that would transform not only the lives of incarcerated people, but also the lives of folks in the university space, and the communities most of us ultimately return to after our experiences in either (or in my case, both). Building bridges between these spaces of extreme privilege and extreme marginalization I have been thrown into is a direct result of my life experiences.
But I also had a professor, Kellis Parker, who came and got folks out of jail when we were politically active in college. He was a law professor, and as an undergrad, I would sneak into his lectures. After graduating top of his class at Howard Law, he was the first black law professor at an Ivy League school. Tenured at 26, Dr. Parker — or "Doc" as we called him — taught classes at Columbia Law School with his trombone, using jazz principles, and it blew my mind. He taught law using slave narratives to talk about how when the American legal system did not protect the rights of enslaved Africans, the Indigenous, or immigrant communities of people of color, we had to find ways to create a sense of right and wrong for ourselves. Black folks actually used our stories and storytelling as a powerful tool to understand how should we treat each other.
The infamously dehumanizing Dred Scott case told us that you cannot go into court and expect your rights to be respected over any white person's rights. So it was powerful for law students to get exposed to that. It was life changing for me to get exposed to that and his whole thinking about jazz as a metaphor for democracy and every voice being heard. At the same time, he helped me understand that improvisation is not just chaos. It's not "anything goes." It's learning how to adapt to an ever-changing environment and develop that muscle.
I think this is a core piece of education that is missing in so many spaces today. We do not know what jobs, what world we're preparing students for 10 years from now — even five years from now. The world is changing way too fast. You used to make a five-year plan and follow through. Now you have to change your five-year plan from week to week. Well, we do know that whatever the challenges are that we're preparing students for down the road. They're going to need creativity. They're going to need adaptability. They're going to need those improv muscles to be in shape.
LD: Right. In order to create change, we have to first be able to imagine it. And we can't do that without encouraging everyone to be creative.
BB: We all have to find the artist within. Rosie and I just spent time in two prisons in the UK with two other UCLA students and several from Cal Poly Pomona. We spent days in workshops and building with staff, educators, and men incarcerated in the Brixton prison and the Whitemoor prison, where Cambridge University and the University of London just began offering courses. We are working to develop relationships with them like the ongoing exchange we have with the Center for the Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
One of the English educators who we brought here last year is Ken Robinson. He came here as part of Professor Pedro Noguera's conference on transforming schools. Robinson tells this revealing story about a young girl in England who was punished because she was misbehaving. She was seen as "badly behaved," so the teacher said, "Get out of my class!" and told her mother to take her to a doctor to get her checked out for a mental disorder of some kind. So her mother took her to a doctor who spoke with her for a while and then at a certain point said, "I'm going to sit outside and speak with your mother. We'll be right back." As he walks out of the room, he turns the radio on and as soon as the mother and the doctor walk out, the little girl stands up and starts dancing and moving to the music. She's in the zone. The doctor peeks through the blinds, sees her, and shows her mother.
When they go back in the room, of course the little girl sits down because she's like, "I got to be still now; there are adults in the room." The doctor says to the mother, "Your daughter is not sick. She's a dancer. She doesn't need a hospital. She needs a dance school! Take her to this dance school and come back in a couple of weeks." So they go to the dance school and a couple of weeks pass. They come back and the doctor says, "So how was it?" The girl says, "It was the most amazing place! It was filled with people just like me. People who had to move to think."
The little girl grew up and later became part of the Royal Ballet. She had a brilliant career as a dancer and then left to be one of the leading choreographers on Broadway for blockbuster hit shows like Cats. Had this little girl never been introduced to a doctor who could see her untapped potential — who believed in her capacity for genius — possibilities in her to do something beyond just "be a problem" (which is how she was written off initially) — she might have been seen as having ADHD. She might have been injected with psychotropic drugs, or given Ritalin, or otherwise misdiagnosed, just as I was when they didn't believe that I could actually be who I said I was when I was unjustly arrested.
She went on to make millions of dollars, bring joy to millions of people's lives, and by all measures, had a very successful career as an artist. And it was because of somebody who was not an artist, but still saw the value of her creativity and the value of imagining possibilities beyond those that had been imagined previously as within reach. I think that's the role of artists: the artists in each of us, and of the arts in the social sciences and law. My mentor's mentor, Paul Robeson, said "Artists are the gatekeepers of Truth." I believe challenging folks to use imagination — to see a world that's better than the one that we're living in, one in which we find the common humanity in all of us, that is the greater vision of the work we do.
LD: How do you decide to focus on systemic change versus focusing on maybe just making someone's day better? Do you even decide, or do you focus on both?
RR: It goes hand in hand, right? You can't just choose one over the other. But even our going into a class once a week or once a day is going to turn into a long-term change. We never know which of these (incarcerated) girls are future senators. She will be making systemic change. I think there's no one right place to start. Just start somewhere. It's hard to see it, but especially with such personal work, eventually you will see the change.
That's what keeps me going, too. I see it and I have so much hope for these girls. Knowing that they're not going to be in there for the rest of their lives. They're going to be changemakers. They already are.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
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The new 'billion-dollar problem' for platforms and publishers
By George Civeris
As social platforms like Facebook and Twitter get bigger, so do their problems. One of the most urgent challenges platforms now face is balancing the quality of content they host with their commitment to providing a platform for everyone: From solving the spread of misinformation, to addressing harassment and abuse, to taking down offensive or illegal content, social platforms are under pressure from the public to take action.
This is a complicated calculation, as content moderation involves untangling numerous issues: information integrity, veracity, content quality, and legality. But platforms' content moderation strategies—how they decide what stays up and what gets taken down—are enforced inconsistently, and are often opaque to the public whose conversations they shape. To top it off, users, platforms, and various governments all want something different, making it difficult to arrive at a consensus on what, exactly, moderation should look like.
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Last week, a group of technologists, journalists, legal experts, and academics gathered at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to discuss the ethics of content moderation. Hosted by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Annenberg Innovation Lab, "Controlling the Conversation: The Ethics of Social Platforms and Content Moderation" featured a series of discussions on the responsibilities of platforms and publishers in managing online conversations. Below are the takeaways.
One challenge for social media platforms is the sheer amount of content they must police. UCLA's Sarah Roberts, who has spent eight years studying social media and user-generated content, pointed out that many of the problems we're seeing now could have been avoided if social platforms had scaled more responsibly and transparently. Moderation of tricky content, she noted, should have been built into their products rather than treated as an afterthought. If moderation mostly happens in response to public outcry about particular pieces of content, platforms will always be playing a game of catch-up. Even as platforms have attempted to define community guidelines, their lack of transparency around what is taken down and why has only increased frustration. Users remain in the dark about the reasoning behind decisions to remove content or suspend accounts.
Curbing controversial content is often at odds with both the business incentives and the ideological roots of large platforms founded with free expression on the open Web in mind. However, the past year and a half has seen platforms publicly commit to combatting harassment, misinformation, and abuse, which one representative of a large tech firm told Roberts was a "billion-dollar problem." Just last week, Twitter's Jack Dorsey solicited recommendations from researchers on increasing "the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world," vowing to hold Twitter "publicly accountable toward progress." (This is not the first time Twitter has attempted to curb abusive content, and past efforts have seen mixed results.)
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One way platforms are attempting to identify and remove posts is through artificial intelligence. And while some form of automation is necessary for issues of this scale, as many of the attendees emphasized, AI should augment rather than replace the work of human moderators. Abhi Chaudhuri, a product manager for Google's Conversation.ai, a research project that aims to "improve conversations online," works with communities to understand their needs and build tools that curb hate speech and toxic content while promoting "diversity of opinions" and empathy. Chaudhuri's team helped moderators at The New York Times cluster similar comments in order to expedite the comment reviewing process.
Platforms, however, are just one part of the equation. Speakers at the conference proposed a variety of ways users, publishers, and governments can improve the quality of online conversations.
While Europe has led the charge on platform regulation (think of the "Right to Be Forgotten" and Germany's recent crackdown on hate speech), America continues to operate with the faith that, as Tow Director Emily Bell said, "the free market will protect a plurality of media voices and elevate the good over the bad." And as platforms continue to scale globally, they will need to come up with guidelines consistent with regulations that apply around the world, such as human rights laws.
As for publishers, the Coral Project's Andrew Losowsky warned that it is "dangerous for media companies to rely on third parties for direct communication with [their] audience" and recommended building commenting systems that do not rely on tools controlled by Facebook (something the Coral Project provides). As publishers look to alternative strategies for community management, a more radical option may involve models of collective ownership. Caroline Sinders, who researches online harassment at the Wikimedia Foundation, explained how Wikimedia provides users with volunteer and paid opportunities to work on community projects, giving them equity within a larger system. New platforms for journalism like Civil, built on the Etherium blockchain, offer journalists and audiences models for "open governance."
Finally, moderation workers should have a seat at the table. Moderators are located around the world; some work at offices in Silicon Valley, and others in call center environments in places like India and the Philippines. Their work tends to be low-pay, low-status, and mentally taxing, as moderators see the very worst of the internet. As The Atlantic's Anika Gupta said at the event, managers must design workflows that take all of this into account (so that the most difficult parts of the job are divided evenly) and provide appropriate mental health resources to prevent burnout.
The challenge for companies and governments, in the end, is to approach the issues raised by moderation thoughtfully and to make meaningful change without acting in haste.
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Hedge Fun
Over the past 15 years, Kenneth Griffin has quietly—even secretively—built one of the world's largest and most successful hedge funds. Now he and his wife, owners of a $60-million Cézanne, are rising stars on the city's culture and charity scenes.
By Robert Reed
Published Oct. 3, 2005
"There's a level of urgency," Griffin says of his ambition to turn Citadel into a global investment powerhouse. Photo: Paul Elledge
If you haven't yet heard about the local financial whiz Kenneth C. Griffin or his company, chances are you're not alone. Although Griffin and his Citadel Investment Group L.L.C., a hedge fund, are known within the rarefied universe of big money, they have remained mostly a mystery to the outside world.
That is beginning to change. Started by Griffin in 1990, Citadel now commands nearly $12 billion in assets, making it one of the world's largest hedge funds. Inside the company's headquarters at 131 South Dearborn Street, about 1,000 people labor long and hard to find unusual investments that yield large returns for clients and fat fees for Citadel. Aside from making gobs of cash, Griffin's goal is to turn Citadel into something increasingly rare in Chicago-an elite global financial powerhouse.
Yet Griffin's high aspirations contrast with his decidedly low professional profile-so low, in fact, he has gained a reputation as something of a recluse, even within Chicago's tight-knit corporate community, where everyone seems to know everyone else.
Griffin's penchant for secrecy is also ingrained in Citadel's culture-it's not a place where employees are encouraged to kibitz, move freely from floor to floor, or informally share information with one another. "They are on the cutting edge of proprietary trading and money management and are very careful to protect their secrets and keep their edge," says Joseph Nicholas, chief executive officer of HFR Asset Management, a rival Chicago hedge fund. For his part, Griffin, 37, makes no apologies for his firm's tightlipped ways, noting that the hedge fund business is highly competitive and that Citadel does not tip its hand to anyone. The more valuable a company's business methods are, the less it is "in favor of transparency," Griffin says.
Personally, however, Griffin, who made $240 million last year, according to Forbes, is inching into the spotlight as he and his wife, Anne Dias Griffin-who also runs a hedge fund-are becoming one of the area's rising power couples. Increasingly, they are taking the lead on charitable and philanthropic endeavors by dedicating their time and making large personal donations, mainly in support of high culture and education. The couple underwrote a Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance at Millennium Park scheduled for September 25th, and they're aggressively backing the University of Chicago's Center for Urban School Improvement, a program that seeks to develop an inner-city charter high school.
The Griffins are also serious art collectors. Kenneth Griffin's most attention-generating acquisition-said to be for $60.5 million-is his purchase of Paul Cézanne's Curtain, Jug and Fruit Bowl, which is on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago. (Griffin bought the painting in 1999 but declines to comment on the price. If accurate, the reported amount would be the highest ever paid for a Cézanne.)
"Over the years, I'm going to give a substantial amount of my net worth away," promises Griffin, who was ranked 363rd in Forbes's 2004 list of the 400 richest Americans, with wealth estimated at $825 million. But he is quick to point out that to support such largess his company must thrive and grow into a world-class investment vehicle.
Simply put, a hedge fund like Citadel is like a mutual fund, albeit for the very wealthy, usually only institutions and individuals who can ante up more than $1 million. Hedge fund operators tend to take on greater risk and seek higher rewards than the typical asset manager. They "hedge" their bets by quickly moving in and out of investment products-everything from stocks and bonds to currencies and crude oil-at best tallying up impressive returns along the way.
The growth in hedge funds has been spectacular: there are about 7,500 funds controlling nearly $1 trillion now, compared with 1,945 of them in 1994 holding $186 billion in assets, according to industry data. Hedge fund investors include the rich, college endowment funds, large institutional investors, and even other hedge funds.
Raised in Boca Raton, Griffin began successfully dabbling in trading bonds from his dorm room in the late 1980s while attending Harvard University (with an investment grubstake of $265,000 from his family and friends). Upon graduation, Griffin, the son of a building supplies executive, moved to Chicago to work for an investment house. But he was there only briefly before he started Citadel in November 1990 with $4.6 million from investors.
Since Citadel's inception, its annual investor return is 26 percent, after Citadel takes out its management fees, according to Bloomberg Markets magazine. Thus, a $100,000 investment made when the firm started would be worth $2.6 million now. (Citadel will not comment on its performance.) Last year, Bloomberg says, Citadel's rate of return was 11.6 percent after fees, considered a good performance for a fund as large as Citadel. The magazine says that Citadel takes 20 percent of the profits; Citadel contends its fee structure is in line with that of other hedge fund operators.
To say the privately owned Citadel plays it close to the vest is an understatement. Its Web site is spare and uninviting, sharing few specifics about the company; corporate signage on the outside of its 37-story office tower is modest at best. The same reserve permeates Citadel's corporate offices, whose walls are white and bare, reflecting none of Griffin's passion for vibrant Impressionist hues. Employees pass pleasantries in the halls and elevators, but tend to steer clear of asking mundane, shop-related questions like "What are you working on now?" Within the Citadel culture, such conversations are supposed to occur on the basis of what the CIA might call "a need to know."
Workdays lasting 12 to 14 hours-even for temporary employees-are the norm. The upper floors of the building, where Citadel's traders work, enjoy a panoramic view of Lake Michigan and the Loop. But with millions of dollars at risk at any given time, there's no window gazing. Traders sit at workstations intently eyeing data flashing on banks of small computer screens before them. They are expected to execute financial transactions in split seconds or risk losing their price advantage.
And when some Citadel workers talk about the weather, chances are it's more than mere conversation. The hedge fund employs a small team of meteorologists who work out of a computerized weather center-a space where even WGN-TV's meteorologist Tom Skilling would feel at home. That's unusual for a hedge fund, but it allows Citadel's traders to stay abreast of global weather patterns, which can affect the prices of commodities contracts.
Citadel's investment professionals are continually on the hunt for breakthrough ideas and computer applications from which the hedge fund can profit. Scattered throughout the offices are large white erasable boards, used by staffers to write computer code, map out business models, or just hash out problems. Citadel employs at least 70 Ph.D.'s in mathematics, physics, and other scientific or technical disciplines; they devise the mathematical formulas that drive the company's trading strategies.
It's a pretty good bet most people would not know what any of Citadel's white-board equations and jottings meant. But that doesn't stop a public-relations person from telling this reporter that anything seen on a white board during a tour of the headquarters is strictly off the record.
Despite all this cloak-and-dagger, Griffin is quick to respond to questions. Over the course of two interviews (one in person, the other by phone), his only "no comment" surfaces when he is asked to verify that he pulled down a $240-million salary last year and to comment on whether it is too much, considering the current shareholder and political backlash aimed at excessive pay packages for CEOs of publicly traded companies.
But Griffin doesn't back off from characterizations of Citadel's intense work environment. Nor does he shy away from the "What have you done for me lately?" management ethos that keeps Citadel's top executives and staff from becoming complacent. On the contrary: Griffin says his employees are competing with the East Coast's roughest and toughest rivals, and he doesn't want Chicago's less hectic pace and lifestyle to dull their competitive drive. "We're not going to get there by counting past accomplishments," Griffin says. "There's a level of urgency."
To move ahead, Griffin is focusing on some parallel missions. First, he's dead serious that in the years ahead, Citadel must break out of the hedge fund crowd to become an international "merchant bank," which can quickly pump capital into an assortment of investments, including stocks, commodities, companies, developing countries, and anything else that promises hefty returns. It will look for opportunities in areas that may frighten other investors and funds, Griffin says, noting that Citadel leaped into the churning energy commodities market right after the Enron debacle (hiring a number of former Enron traders) and is doing all right.
Another example of going places other investors avoid: he's looking for investment opportunities in Russia, despite concerns about widespread political and corporate corruption. Directing his remarks to Russia's prime minister, Mikhail Fradkov, at an investment conference in June, Griffin said: "The economic and political course pursued by the Russian authorities opens up fantastic possibilities for investing capital."
To take full advantage, Citadel-which also has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, and Tokyo-will need to get much larger, and that means attracting a deeper and wider pool of capital. Some financial industry observers say Griffin is looking to pump up his hedge fund into a $100-billion enterprise-a number he dismisses as "hyperbole." There is no target amount be-cause it's not about "how much money is raised, but what's earned," Griffin says. (Another way of attracting money is by turning Citadel into a publicly traded company, but that's a remote possibility, Griffin asserts.)
Still, no matter Citadel's ultimate size, it intends to add to its Chicago presence. It will be bolstering the ranks of its 1,000-person staff, bulking up on well-paid traders, technicians, computer code writers, and whatever support staff is necessary to make the place hum. "It's not just 1,000 jobs created in the last 15 years-it's unlimited careers," he says.
In continuing to grow, Citadel will expand the need for legal, accounting, and other corporate services the Chicago market can muster. Not a bad deal for the area, especially considering that Citadel perhaps already has made a greater impact on the community than, say, Boeing Co., which in 2001 was wooed by the city and state with an estimated $50-million grab bag of subsidies over nearly 20 years to move 400 headquarters jobs here from Seattle.
In addition, Griffin's expansion would help keep Chicago competitive within consolidating global financial markets. Already, stock exchanges are marrying, and many experts predict more consolidation, including mergers that could involve those stalwarts of the local futures scene: the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the regional Chicago Stock Exchange.
Citadel's big plans sound pretty good, provided they work. That's not a certainty, especially in the risk-heavy world of hedge funds, which some critics claim are secretive and virtually unregulated entities. Besides drowning its investors, a sinking hedge fund, if allowed to go unchecked, could seriously damage financial markets and the economy. It nearly happened in 1998 with the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that was thrown a life preserver in the form of a U.S. government–led bailout. A couple more of those and the consequences would be dire, say market experts and economists.
Recently, Standard & Poor's, the financial ratings agency, set off a warning flare. In a new report on hedge funds, it said big losses could hurt institutional investors (such as pension and college endowment funds), forcing banks and other lenders to pull back credit and slow the economy to a crawl.
"Hedge funds are still the Wild West of the financial services industry," says Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago-based securities attorney who specializes in shareholders' rights issues. "It's just a matter of time before something blows up."
Griffin disagrees. He sees dealing with volatility as part of a hedge fund manager's calling, and he contends that there are ample regulatory safeguards now to blunt excesses. Griffin points out that any hedge fund's dealings with a bank or financial institution, or any investment in nearly any kind of company or any country, is evaluated by some regulatory entity, domestic or international. "To call [the hedge fund business] unregulated is fanciful," he says. To keep regulators at bay, Citadel is supporting the effort by the national hedge fund trade group to beat back any new regulations. So far, the effort has been a success.
While reticent about his business affairs, Griffin is becoming more open about his and his wife's growing involvement in the city's cultural, civic, and social scenes. Once he gets going, Griffin becomes a charged civic booster, talking about the beauty and cultural allure of Chicago. He notes that while he was courting his wife, who lived in New York, they frequented the Art Institute and the Chicago Symphony (the two were married in 2003 and had a garden reception at Versailles). "Not saying I had to recruit her to Chicago," he says. "But [the cultural amenities] didn't hurt."
Both have developed reputations as art lovers. On top of the purchase of the Cézanne ("a magnificent work," Griffin exclaims), he has also acquired an Edgar Degas sculpture, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, Original in Wax. Both works are on display at the Art Institute, though the Griffin name is not. Each piece is listed as being on "anonymous loan." And Griffin plans to keep collecting. "In the years to come, there will be other works of interest to my wife and me," he says.
In recent years, Kenneth Griffin has joined the boards of the Art Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Spokes-persons for those institutions declined to talk about Griffin, citing policies of confidentiality for board members. Some fellow board members-who asked that their names not be used-said Griffin was still a relative unknown but was gaining respect as an astute and serious collector, not just another deep pocket to tap.
When not buying or discussing art, Griffin is plowing money and time into improving public education. He is a board member of the Chicago Public Education Fund, a venture capital fund that backs educational initiatives. (A spokesman for that group also declined to discuss Griffin.) Meanwhile, Anne Griffin is a recent addition to the board of Children's Memorial Hospital. (Mrs. Griffin did not return calls seeking an interview.)
It is uncertain just how much money the Griffins are pledging to give these days. The latest Illinois Charitable Organization Annual Report lists disbursements in 2003 by the Citadel Group Foundation-the hedge fund's charitable entity-totaling just $107,555 to a handful of child-oriented charities. But last year that foundation reportedly invested $1 million as part of a $15-million effort by the Chicago Public Education Fund to improve the quality of principals in the school system. Looking at a copy of the Citadel Group Foundation's 2003 state report, Griffin notes that it is just one philanthropic vehicle and is not the Griffins' "primary means of giving."
Socially, the couple are making a splash as well. A high-ranking fellow member of the local business community says the Griffins are attending more parties and events than ever before, a claim that prompts Kenneth Griffin to drop his guard just a little to note: "My wife and I always say that time spent with our friends comes first."
This article appears in the October 2005 issue of Chicago magazine. Subscribe to Chicago magazine.
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Europe must lead the way in open banking
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By Francesco Simoneschi
The EU has made no secret of the fact that it wants a European payment solution as an alternative to the US-based Visa and Mastercard.
Open banking can be that digitally-native alternative, the foundation for real-time cross-border payments in Europe.
But, to truly compete with cards, open banking needs banks to recognise it as a key driver of revenue, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
After five years of PSD2, we can look back to understand what worked, what did not work, and how to move forward.
Five years ago today, the EU created a framework for open banking. Through the revised Payment Services Directive (or PSD2), newly regulated fintechs were encouraged to inject innovation and competition into banking and payments.
Today, there are around 500 regulated open banking providers and millions of Europeans that have used their services.
This growth is significant, but uneven. People in Italy, for example, still have vastly different options and experiences using open banking compared with people in Sweden.
One reason could be the lack of investment in the application programming interface (API) infrastructure that open banking needs. Another reason could be the underlying payment infrastructure available in those countries.
The payment journey
An open banking payment can be broken down into two parts. The first part is initiation. This is everything an open banking provider does to integrate a bank transfer payment option into a merchant's checkout so that it appears as an option for the user when they press 'pay'.
This ranges from connecting to hundreds of banks via APIs, submitting payment instructions and managing the start of the consumer payment journey.
This is the part where fintechs have a lot of control, and where a great deal of innovation has happened. But this part is also dependent on well-performing banks' APIs and frictionless user journeys enabled by the bank.
Francesco Simoneschi, co-founder and CEO of TrueLayer
Where these are not available, open banking cannot flourish.
Banks should recognise that APIs are a new channel for providing services to their customers, and treat them as a product – just as they treat their online banking app.
The second part is settlement – the actual moving of money between accounts.
After a payment is initiated through an open banking provider, the settlement is done by the bank. And that is where Europe is lagging behind by not having instant payments as the default payments infrastructure.
When combined with real-time settlement, open banking allows merchants to get their funds instantly. This gives them the certainty that they can ship goods and it helps with their cash flow.
Banks' relationships with merchants and small-to-medium enterprises can be improved through enabling these new, more efficient open banking payments.
SEPA Instant, the EU's voluntary scheme for euro transfers, is available to a little more than half of Europeans today – although this varies between countries.
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The Fresh Canvas: Rey Vargas has a No. 1 contender and ghosts to fight at Carson's 'War Grounds'
By Lance Pugmire Jul 12, 2019 1
The man who 12 years ago helped start the tradition of the Southern California venue known as the "War Grounds" returns there Saturday night with a fighter he'll coax to not enhance the stadium's reputation.
In Mexico's calculating WBC super-bantamweight champion Rey Vargas (33-0, 22 KOs), veteran trainer Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain says he's not interested in making Vargas' title defense against Japan's top-rated contender Tomoki Kameda a trip back in time to the slugfests for the same belt staged between Beristain's former champion Rafael Marquez and Mexican countryman Israel Vazquez.
Marquez won the first and fourth bout of that series, claiming the March 2007 opener at the same Carson, California, venue – now known as Dignity Health Sports Park – where Vargas and Kameda (36-2, 20 KOs) will meet on DAZN (9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT).
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It's Red Bulls not Les Bleus for Henry
FRANCE striker Thierry Henry has called time on his international career after being unveiled as a New York Red Bulls player.
And the striker, 32, promised to be a better servant to Major League Soccer than David Beckham by staying "fully committed" to his club.
Henry, who won 123 caps and scored 51 goals, said he decided to retire from the national team before the World Cup, in which Les Bleus suffered a humiliating first-round exit.
"I couldn't announce it before because that's the not type of thing you announce before a World Cup," said the former Arsenal captain, who made his final France appearance in a 2-1 defeat to the tournament hosts.
"That was my last game against South Africa. Ironically, my first game for the national team was also against South Africa."
Henry, who is thought to have signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with the Red Bulls after being granted a free transfer by Barcelona, is the first global superstar to arrive in the MLS since Beckham in 2007.
But while the former England skipper has compromised his Californian commitments by keeping his international career alive, and attracted much criticism in the process, Henry has vowed to be more dedicated.
"I always want to be here [in New York] 100 per cent and am fully committed to this cause and the organisation," added the Gunners' all-time top scorer.
One of Henry's last acts in a France shirt was his most infamous – the handball in November's play-off that helped deny the Republic of Ireland a place at the World Cup – and he conceded he had not heard the last of it.
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Joseph R. Lamping
If you knew Joe Lamping, he probably made you laugh with something he said or did because Joe never passed up the opportunity to make someone laugh. Joe, age 98, passed away peacefully at home in Robinson Township on Wednesday, January 29 surrounded by his loving family. Joseph R. Lamping Sr. was born September 25, 1921 to Gabriel and Rose (Stacherl) Lamping in Bulger, Pa and grew up on Spring Hill on the North Side. After serving in the Army in the European and Pacific Theaters of WWII, he returned home to marry Edna Posch. He and Edna were as much in love and inseparable in their 73rd year of marriage as they were as newlyweds. Joe was a newspaper man for much of his life; as a boy he delivered 100 daily papers up and down Spring Hill and then later worked for over 30 years at the Pittsburgh Press/Post Gazette as a stationary engineer. He and Edna have six children, Joseph Jr.(deceased), Rosemary (Tom) Jageman, Barbara Garrett (Simón) Boger, Lois (Jim) Nicholson, Edward (Susan) Lamping and Kathy (Mark) Dolak. He is survived by 17 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by a dear brother-in-law Frank Buchman. In addition to his son and parents, he is predeceased by siblings Albert, William, Helen Buchman, Robert, Mildred Lieberth, and Frank. He was a member of St. Malachy Church in Kennedy Township, Local 95 Stationary Engineers and SNPJ. Joe played button box with the Slovenian Heritage Association and performed for many years throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. His large family was the greatest joy and achievement of his life; his motto was WAF (We Are Family), and until his final days he enjoyed passing on his "true stories" to the youngest generation. His home was always filled with much laughter and love. Joe leaves his family a legacy of many funny stories that will evoke loving memories and laughter for years to come. Visitation will be Friday, February 14 from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at McDermott Funeral Home, Inc., 334 Forest Grove Rd., Kennedy Township. Joe's life will be celebrated at a funeral Mass at Archangel Gabriel Parish, St. Malachy Church on Saturday, February 15 at 1:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, you can make a contribution to any of the following veteran's organizations: Pittsburgh Fisher House (https://www.pittsburghfisherhouse.org), Homes For Our Troops (https://www.hfotusa.org) or Operation Second Chance (https://operationsecondchance.org).
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BBC News investigation into UNUM
There was an interesting short report on the BBC 10pm news on Tuesday evening (November 6) regarding an investigation they have been carrying out into the activities of the American insurance giant UNUM and the very close links that this company has established over the years with the DWP.
The story covered a number of threads which will be very familiar to people with ME/CFS who have been in dispute with this company.
In particular, legal actions that have taken place in the USA; the way UNUM are advising the DWP on benefit reform; and the new UNUM centre at Cardiff University.
Those who follow the ME APPG meetings will be aware of the fact that Dr Ian Gibson MP is taking a keen interest in the way that UNUM are involved in UK benefit reform. Dr Gibson made a brief appearance to talk about this aspect.
Nobody from the DWP was willing to appear on camera.
I'm not sure if a more detailed report is going to appear on another BBC programme – there is nothing, as yet, on the BBC news website but I am making enquiries.
There is some interesting reading on CBT etc in the UNUM 2007 Chief Medical Officer's report
Dr Charles Shepherd
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22% of Older Adults in Israel Experienced Financial Decline during Covid-19
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Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) is also known as West Coast hemlock, Pacific hemlock, British Columbia hemlock, hemlock-spruce, and western hemlock-fir. It grows along the Pacific coast of Oregon and Washington and in the northern Rocky Mountains north to Canada and Alaska. A relative of western hemlock, mountain hemlock (T. mertensiana) grows in mountainous country from central California to Alaska. It is treated as a separate species in assigning lumber properties.
The heartwood and sapwood of western hemlock are almost white with a purplish tinge. The sapwood, which is sometimes lighter in color than the heartwood, is generally not more than 2.5 cm (1 in.) wide. The wood often contains small, sound, black knots that are usually tight and dimensionally stable. Dark streaks are often found in the lumber; these are caused by hemlock bark maggots and generally do not reduce strength. Western hemlock is moderately light in weight and moderate in strength. It is also moderate in hardness, stiffness, and shock resistance. Shrinkage of western hemlock is moderately high, about the same as that of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). Green hemlock lumber contains considerably more water than does Douglas-fir and requires longer kiln-drying time. Mountain hemlock has approximately the same density as that of western hemlock but is somewhat lower in bending strength and stiffness.
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Don't get befuddled and stressed when hiring a wedding photographer. Stick to these important questions, make notes and you'll be equipped to make a great decision.
Have you taken photos of a wedding at my venue before?
Can I ask that certain pictures are taken?
Of course you should ask if there are specific photos you want. Talk to your photographer ahead of the day and have a list prepared for them of who, how and when you'd like the images taken. Don't make this list too long as you must trust the creative flair of your professional photographer to get the best combination of images for you. However, if a few shots would be dear to you, then definitely request them.
How many hours will you stay with us?
You want to be sure that your photographer will be with you long enough to get all the images you want captured. Check to see how many hours is included in a full day. Will you require their services before the ceremony to capture getting ready? Do you want them to stick around long enough to capture your first dance? Think about the timing and schedule of your day and how long you will need them to be on site with you.
Will there be an album included?
If an album is part of the deal, ask to see it to check you're happy with it. If there is no album, ask if they know of anything that they'd recommend. If your photographer offers to put an album together for you, ask to see previous examples so you can check that you're happy with their choice of style and the way the photos are displayed.
You need to know if there's a plan B should disaster strike and the photographer is unavailable through illness, for example. Established and professional photographers will have a contingency plan and a list of trusted photographers they can call on to cover their bookings should they be unavailable. If they don't have an answer or didge the question, tell them if they want your booking, you need them to have a back-up plan.
It's a good idea to speak to other couples who used the photographer and see if they would recommend them and if they were happy with the service provided. Visit the photographer's website to read testimonials and feedback.
Find out how you can turn what you love into a profession. Again, the connections you make by means of your internship or apprenticeship might be important as you pursue your profession in trend, and dealing with trade professionals will give you a possibility to choose up vital skills first-hand. A style designer conceives garment combinations of line, proportion, colour, and texture.
Style Designers on STYLE NET — the world's number one hub for trend. All state projections knowledge can be found at Information on this website allows projected employment growth for an occupation to be in contrast among states or to be in contrast within one state.
Female Vogue Designers far outnumber their male contemporaries amongst survey respondents. Check out 10 Most Famous Fashion Designers Of All Time. Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who loved a detailed relationship with Alaia for a few years, has credited the designer with helping launch her career and taking good care of her like a father when she met him in Paris at age 16.
Many style designers have a bachelor's degree in a associated field, akin to fashion design or style merchandising. You are a trend designer and you have to be sure that your models are one of the best and most beautiful ones. Previous to making a prototype, the designer will create a sketch of the clothing.
Due to the expansion that is happening in the design industry, everyone is yearning of becoming a fashion designer. For those aspiring of the business of fashion designer, possession of the top design process is what is required for them before venturing into the same. Before venturing into the business of fashion design, those aspiring into getting to it are required to possess top design process for them to succeed. For one to be said to be a good and dependable fashion designer, the mystery of design skills is not the thing needed, but much more is needed. The reason as to why clients prefer fashion designers is because they are known to develop new ideas well.When one is sourcing for the best fashion designer to hire, a variety of qualities should be considered to help them get the best who will assure them of quality and uniqueness.
Good communication is a quality that a good fashion designer should have. Good communication skills should be possessed by a fashion design to enhance effective communication with their clients informing them of what they should be expecting from their quality work. To enhance interest to their clients, the designers must be in a position to read the customers mind. Since foreigners might be interested in the business; the designers should be in a position to communicate fluently in English which is considered as a common language.
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The fashion designer should have the quality of being a team player. Being a team player means that the designer must be involved in the entire design process.A number of players are involved in garment designing for production to be complete. Involvement of the designer in the production process will make work easy; quality will be achieved thus success is gotten.
A good fashion designer is considered to have a sense of competition as a quality.To be the best in what they do, the designer should strive to be the best. To stand out their competitor, the designer must come up with quality, innovative ideas. Another important trait is that the designer should strive to be the best.A designer must be well conversant with their competitors for them to be the best.
Fashion designers sketch designs of clothes, footwear, and accessories. Newsbeat finds out how she and other rising British designers have managed it. Tell us what you concentrate on Fashion Designer. Likelihood is higher for experienced clothes designers, as vogue companies report issue discovering skilled employees to fill new positions.
Being life like means recognizing that it is pointless attempting to promote quite a lot of haute couture to individuals who only need career clothes in a semi-rural city whereas it's no good trying to promote bikini to the Inuit. Most designers travel a number of instances a 12 months to commerce and vogue shows to be taught concerning the latest trend developments.
Generally, the fashion designer will likely be expected to showcase the designs in a vogue show, to be able to current fashion ideas to artistic administrators, as well as consumers. A trend designer is somebody who loves to study style traits, sketch designs, select supplies, and have an element in all the manufacturing aspects of their designs.
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Discussion in 'Mapping Questions & Discussion' started by BigBros, Aug 28, 2014.
Click the 'camera' box in the 3D view and you can switch it to another view mode, such as '3D textured'. At the moment it's in wireframe view.
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or Sand(which runs about $4).
Start by measuring out your ingredients and put in the big mixing bucket or trough. Add about 1/2 gallon of the water and start mixing and add water to help mix the ingredients together. Peat Moss soaks up the water quickly so you will keep adding about 1/2 gallon at a time until the mixture starts to get like peanut butter. If you use sand, the hypertufa will be heavier and more like concrete mix. If you use the vermiculite, you will see the white specs in your mix and in the finished product which will make the project a bit lighter than concrete.
Hypertufa starts to dry up quickly so if you get too much water and it is too runny just let it sit and stir it every 5 minutes until you get it back to a thick batter like consistency. If that doesn't work, just add small amounts of Portland cement, Peat, and Vermiculite.
Spray your molds and shovel or use your GLOVED hand to scoop the hyertufa into the containers carefully patting the mixture to release any air bubbles and smooth it out. You will need to keep patting and pushing the hypertufa in the molds/containers especially if you are making a planter. I usually fill the large container first halfway then see how far in the 2nd smaller container goes and work the hypertufa so it fills any gaps between the large and small molds. Make sure to get the hypertufa compact to make a stronger project.
Make sure your surface is level and place the hypertufa projects in the shade for 18-24 hours before carefully removing the hypertufa from the molds. After removing and releasing the molds from your hypertufa, place the pieces in the shade to cure for the next 2 weeks. I would not step on any stepping stones for at least a month and do not let the hypertufa sit in the sun until is fully cured (dried).
If you are going to make a planter or trough with the hypertufa, you have to let the hypertufa cure for a month. Do not immediately plant in the trough and you may want to look up "leaching your hypertufa planter" on the internet if you are too anxious to plant it.
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Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers?
Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash
Stuart Jeffries
Tue 28 Jan 2014 12.51 EST First published on Tue 28 Jan 2014 12.51 EST
Howard Charles as Porthos in The Musketeers. Photograph: Larry Horricks/BBC
Studs in leather? Check. Swordplay? Check. Buckled swash? Check. Medieval cleavages? Check. Over-complicated facial hair? Check. Dead-eyed Peter Capaldi as Louis XIII's enforcer Cardinal Richelieu, that 17th-century prototype of Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It? Check.
There's so much diverting stuff in BBC1's current adaptation of The Musketeers that you might have missed perhaps its most intriguing aspect. One Telegraph reader didn't during their below-the-line rant against what they called a "dumbed down romp". "And," they sighed, mid-tirade, "there is the one obligatory part-black character to prove that multiculti [sic] political correctness outweighs historical accuracy."
What's the problem? That in the new adaptation, Porthos, traditionally a fat white comedy turn (think: Oliver Platt in the 1993 comedy The Three Musketeers) is a trim, sexy musketeer of colour played by Howard Charles.
But should Porthos be mixed-race? In one sense, sure, why not? If a black actor such as David Harewood, say, can play the (probably white) English nobleman Sir Harry Hotspur in the National Theatre production of Shakespeare's King Henry IV without critics whining about the historical accuracy (trickier in fact for a white actor to play Othello since the colour of the Moor's skin is inscribed deep in Shakespeare's verse), surely a mixed-race musketeer isn't a stretch.
But that isn't the issue. Rather, the casting of Porthos works as a homage to the parentage and race of Alexandre Dumas père, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo (and father of Alexandre Dumas fils, who wrote La Dame aux Camélias). Alexandre père's father (or, if you prefer, the père's père), General Alexandre (Alex) Dumas, was black Haitian, the son of an aristocratic French father, Marquis Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, and a freed slave, Marie-Cesette Dumas. And he was a general in Napoleon's grande armée.
Certainly, Howard Charles is aware of that ancestry. In a recent interview in the Cambridge News the actor said he had been inspired by reading The Black Count, Tom Reiss's recent book on the life of General Alexandre (Alex) Dumas. "He was a general, when I guess there weren't many brown people around in uniform, so I was really attracted to that element," said Charles. Alex's dad sold the boy as a slave to pay for his passage to France (that's remedial parenting classes for you, Marquis de la Pailleterie) before buying his freedom. Later, Alex rose through the ranks of the army to become a general before he was 30. He was so effective that that the Austrians called him Der schwarze Teufel ("the Black Devil"). During the French revolution fought with other black men in a unit called the African Legion.
But does any of this legitimise having a mixed-race Porthos? If it confounds the unwarranted presumption that he was white, then why not? What this casting does, helpfully, is challenge the increasingly implausible myth of a Europe that was altogether white before large-scale 20th-century immigration from former colonies. The "historical accuracy" that some people want from Sunday-night costume dramas may demand that Europe was whitewashed, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to follow suit.
We've been here before. I once wrote about claims that George III's consort Charlotte had African ancestry. We'd had theories – shattering to white supremacists, intriguing to the rest of us – that Beethoven was black, so why not a black queen of England? What was most striking to me in all this was that the US city named after her (Charlotte, North Carolina) had used these claims to help improve race relations. Perhaps Queen Charlotte's story could, I argued then, do the same over here. It hasn't, as you'll have noticed. That, I suspect, is why it's worth casting a mixed-race actor as Porthos – to shake some Europeans out of their racist delusions.
• This article was amended in 29 January 2014 to correct references to Charles's ethnicity from black to mixed-race
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-Viola de Valoroso and the Greek Champion GR.CH.DON PEDRO del Rosso Malpelo.
Viola is an excellent sample of a typical Cane Corso; It has acquired titles in expos (Morphology) and is only 1 CAC short in order to become Greek Champion. As it regards 'working expositions" Viola has successfully passed the exams (EBY-basic obedience). Her tough temperament and the style Viola possesses make her an amazing dog. She has a well-balanced character and is perfect with the kids.
GR.GR.DON PEDRO del ROSSO MALPELO obviously doesn't need additional references; a greek champion, has acquired multiple prizes in morphology expositions. In 'working expos" he has successfully passed the tests (EBY- basic obedience). His typical temperament along with his excellent character, result in a well-balanced dog. Don Pedro is the father of other greek champions (GR. CH. Ainia de Valoroso, GR. CH. Valia de Valoroso).
Note : By the time they are given, all puppies will be vaccinated and dewormed; their pedigree will be issued by KOE (Greek Canine organization – KOE).
-The Greek Champion GR.CH.AINIAS de Valoroso.
AINIAS' parents are both GREEK CHAMPIONS (GR.CH.DON PEDRO DEL ROSSO MALPELO X GR.CH.GI-QUIRIS), which have given excellent typical CANE CORSO samples in Greece. Their offsprings have acquired many titles in shows.
Pedigree ΚΟΕ(Kynological Association of Greece), microchip, Vaxins, dewarm.
The Greek Champion GR.CH.GI-QUIRIS was mated with COMPAGNO III, from Michelle Bocci's Kennel.
During my trip in the area of Manfredonia – Foggia – Puglia ( areas where the CANE CORSO race originated from) I tried to choose a stud which would fulfill high standards in working temperament, balanced character and typical Cane Corso morphology.
My agreement with the breeders there was that I would check the dog's temperament before I decided. That's how I ended up mating the champion of our kennel GR.CH.GI-QUIRIS with COMPAGNO III from the Italian Kennel of M.BOCCI.
This is one of the oldest Kennels in S.Italy. Mr.Bocci has been breeding Cane Corsos for more than 30 years and he is one of the pioneers in the race's breeding. He has unlimited knowledge as it regards breeding and selecting. In his kennel I found some excellent samples of Cane Corso (RUSTIC & Working type Dogs) offsprings of which we 'll soon present in Greece.
His personal dog, COMPAGNO III, is healthy, with great morphology, excellent bite and tremendous strength. It was the toughest dog I tested. It has excellent potential and balanced character.
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ELECTRONIC, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRACKING PURCHASE ORDER HISTORY
A computer-implemented method for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise. The method can include electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version has a date and number and the second version is a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version of the purchase order. The method also can include electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool. The user input identifies the first or second version by date, revision or amendment. The method also includes electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input.
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ALLEN, WILLIAM J
BROOKS KUSHMAN P.C./FGTL (SOUTHFIELD, MI, US)
1. A computer-implemented method for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise, the method comprising: electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order, each version having a date and number, the second version being a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version; electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool, the user input identifying the first or second version by date, revision or amendment; and electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising electronically formatting the first or second version as an independent, stand-alone document.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool including functionality to display the first and second versions simultaneously so as to allow the user to compare the first and second versions.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an attachment to the first or second version.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an altered attachment to the first or second version.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the number of the first version is a first revision number, the number of the second version is a second revision number, and the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to increase the first revision number to the second revision number based on a change to an attachment of the first version.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to receive, store, and retrieve specific versions of a purchase order.
8. A computer-implemented system for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise, the system including one or more computers, the one or more computers configured to: electronically receive and store at least a first and second version of a purchase order, each version having a date and number, the second version being a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version; electronically receive input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool, the input identifying the first or second version by date, revision or amendment; and electronically retrieve the first or second version based on the user input.
9. The system of claim 8 wherein the one or more computers are further configured to electronically format the first or second version as an independent, stand-alone document.
10. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool including functionality to display the first and second version simultaneously so as to allow the user to compare the first and second versions.
11. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an attachment to the first or second version.
12. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an altered attachment to the first or second version.
13. The system of claim 8 wherein the number of the first version is a first revision number, the number of the second version is a second revision number, and the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to increase the first revision number to the second revision number based on a change to an attachment of the first version.
14. The system of claim 8 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to receive, store, and retrieve specific versions of a purchase order.
15. A computer-implemented apparatus for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise, the apparatus comprising: means for electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order, each version having a date and number, the second version being a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version; means for electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool, the user input identifying the first or second version by date, number or amendment; and means for electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input.
16. The apparatus of claim 15 further comprising means for electronically formatting the first or second version as an independent, stand-alone document.
17. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the purchase order tracking tool including functionality to display the first and second versions simultaneously so as to allow the user to compare the first and second versions.
18. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an attachment to the first or second version.
19. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to display or print an altered attachment to the first or second version.
20. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the number of the first version is a first revision number, the number of the second version is a second revision number, and the purchase order tracking tool includes functionality to increase the first revision number to the second revision number based on a change to an attachment of the first version.
One aspect of the present invention generally relates to an electronic method and system of tracking purchase order history.
2. Background Art
International distributed enterprises, for example manufacturing enterprises, globally requisition suppliers for a tremendous amount of indirect and direct materials in the operation of their business. Indirect and direct materials can refer goods and/or services. Direct materials refer to those that are needed for the product, whereas indirect materials support production of the product. For example, in the automotive industry, direct materials can be fenders, engine parts, transmission parts, manufacturing labor, etc. On the other hand, indirect materials can be pencils, paper, building heating and cooling, administrative labor, etc.
Due to the multitude of global transactions relating to material purchases, distributed enterprises have used the power of computers to implement systems that have functionality to handle purchasing, i.e. to generate purchase orders, and to receive goods and services, and accounts payable, i.e. to generate invoices on behalf of suppliers, and to pay suppliers. These computer systems also offer functionality to generate, amend, and revise purchase orders. For example, the Oracle 11i procurement computer system, available from Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, Calif. 94065, has functionality to administrate purchase orders. However, the purchase order tracking functionality is unfit for many objectives of international distributed enterprises.
For example, this functionality is not robust enough to track purchase order history to detailed level necessary for tax auditing purposes. Moreover, the functionality does not adequately produce detailed information, for instance, terms and conditions, regarding purchase orders as they change over time for reporting and printing purposes. Further, certain amendments to purchase orders may not be reflected in the procurement system. As a further disadvantage, purchase order changes are sporadically reported to the supplier base for international distributed enterprises. For example, suppliers may receive notifications for only a portion of applied changes, leaving them unaware of other amendments that may need to be adjusted by the supplier.
In light of the foregoing, what is needed is a robust electronic method and system of purchase order tracking. Moreover, an electronic method and system is needed to give users, for example, buyers and suppliers, the ability to view, compare, and print purchase orders for any amendment/revision or date. Further, an electronic method and system of purchase order tracking is needed to allow users the ability to view purchase orders in an independent state, as the purchase order existed on a certain date.
One aspect of the present invention is a robust electronic method and system of purchase order tracking. Another aspect of the present invention is an electronic method and system of purchase order tracking including the ability to view, compare, and print purchase orders for any amendment, revision or date. Yet another aspect of the present invention is an electronic method and system of purchase order tracking that allows users the ability to view purchase orders in an independent state, as the order existed on a certain date.
According to a first embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise is disclosed. The method includes electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version of the purchase order has a date and version number. The second version is a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version of the purchase order. The method also includes electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool. The user input identifies the first or second version by date, revision or amendment. The method also includes electronically retrieving the first or second version based on the user input.
According to a second embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented system for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise is disclosed. The system can include one or more computers. The one or more computers can be configured to electronically receive and store at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version of the purchase order has a date and version number and the second version is a purchase order amendment or revision to the first version of the purchase order. The one or more computers can be further configured to electronically receive input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool. The input identifies the first or second version of the purchase order by date, revision or amendment. The one or more computers are further configured to electronically retrieve the first or second version of the purchase order based on the user input.
According to a third embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented apparatus for tracking purchase orders in a distributed enterprise. The apparatus includes a means for electronically receiving and storing at least a first and second version of a purchase order. Each version has a date or version number and the second version is a purchase order amendment or a revision to the first version of the purchase order. The apparatus also includes a means for electronically receiving input from a user through a purchase order tracking tool where the user input identifies the first or second version by date, number or amendment. The apparatus also includes a means for electronically retrieving the first or second version of the purchase order based on the user input.
The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention are readily apparent from the following detailed description of the best mode for carrying out the invention when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.
The features of the present invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The present invention, both as to its organization and manner of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood with reference to the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall system for implementing one or more embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an example of an electronic purchase order form that can be utilized with one or more embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing purchase documents based on date or revision number;
FIG. 4 is a GUI for displaying captured and archived changes made to a purchase order including an attachment; and
FIG. 5 is a GUI for searching, locating and viewing a purchase order version by entering a purchase order revision number or date.
As required, detailed embodiments of the present invention are disclosed herein. However, it is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention that may be embodied in various and alternative forms. Therefore, specific functional details described herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a representative basis for the claims and/or as a representative basis for teaching one of ordinary skill in the art to variously employ the present invention.
In certain embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented purchase order tracking tool is disclosed that enables users, for example, buyers, approvers, requisitioners, and suppliers to efficiently view and print purchasing documents, for example, purchase orders, including header and line details in an organized format, for example, identification of all changes made from a previous amendment of the purchasing document.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating overall system 10 for implementing one embodiment of the present invention. Overall system 10 includes purchaser server 12, which includes database 14 and tracking module 16. Database 14 may include information relating to purchase orders of a distributed enterprise. Tracking module 16 may include functionality to track the history of purchase order changes and amendments. Purchaser server 12 can also include a procurement module (not shown) having purchasing and accounts payable functionality. Purchaser server 12 transmits and receives data from purchaser user computer 28, which can format and display data pertaining to the purchase order tracking process.
Purchaser server 12 is also connected, via communication lines 18 and 20, through the Internet 22, to supplier server 24. Supplier server 24 transmits and receives data from supplier user computer 26, which can format and display data pertaining to the purchase order tracking process.
Servers 12 and 24, and user computers 26 and 28 can be interconnected to a network, for example, a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), through a variety of interfaces, including, but not limited to dial-in connections, cable modems, high-speed lines, and hybrids thereof. Firewalls can be connected in any communication path to protect certain parts of the network from hostile and unauthorized use.
According to the embodiment depicted in FIG. 1, servers 12 and 24, and user computers 22 and 24 support TCP/IP protocol which has input and access capabilities via two-way communication lines.
The communication lines included in computer system 10 can be an intranet-adaptable communication line, for example, a dedicated line, a satellite link, an Ethernet link, a public telephone network, a private telephone network, and hybrids thereof. The communication lines can also be intranet-adaptable. Examples of suitable communication lines include, but are not limited to, public telephone networks, public cable networks, and hybrids thereof.
Tracking module 16 can have computer-readable instructions executable to provide abilities and features to the users of computer system 10. These abilities and features may be implemented through a purchase order tracking tool interface between the users and tracking module 16. Non-limiting examples of users include requisitioners, purchasers, buyers and suppliers working in a distributed enterprise environment.
Aspects of this invention contemplate the tracking of the history of purchase orders. FIG. 2 is an example of GUI 30 that can be utilized along with embodiments of the present invention. GUI 30 primarily functions as an electronic purchase order, and is a portion of the Oracle 11i procurement computer system. This system can be modified so that the user can select the "Actions" pull down menu 32, and then the "Order History PO" list item 34 to access portions of the purchase order tracking tool interface.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability for users to view, compare, and/or print order details, including identification of changes made from the previous amendment or revision. In certain embodiments, "amendment" can refer to a revision generated in a computer-implemented procurement system. For data captured in a history archive or database of the procurement system, an amendment or revision number can be generated for each specific change.
Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view, compare (e.g. changes made from a previously approved order version), and print a specific order amendment as when it was revised and approved.
Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view and print an original order version as when it was first generated and approved.
Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view and print a merged order document. In certain embodiments, merged order document refers to the appearance of an order in its last approved revised state plus all approved line level amendments in one version. The user has the ability to access one document summarizing all line details, including, but not limited to, those lines that are cancelled, closed, or any other action taken on the order that results in a line disappearing from a viewable state. In certain embodiments, for lines that are authorized via a purchase order summary control feature, a date can be displayed indicating when the action took place.
Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to view, compare, and print an order document regardless of its header status, for example, approved, canceled, approved and closed.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view purchasing documents based on previous and current revisions. FIG. 3 is a graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing purchasing documents based on revision or amendment. GUI 40 can be hosted by server 12 and/or 24 and displayed on user computer 22 and/or 24, respectively. The user is prompted to enter a revision number 42 or a date 44, for example, on a separate pop-up window (not shown). Upon pressing the "View PO" (FIG. 5) button on the pop-up window, the relevant version of the purchase order document can be displayed on GUI 40.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to print purchasing documents based on previous and current revisions. In certain embodiments, user can select "File" pull down menu 46 and print list item (not shown) to print purchase orders reflected by previous and current revisions, as depicted in FIG. 3.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to compare purchasing documents between revisions.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view merged documents, including, but not limited to, current open lines on a purchase order, and/or previously cancelled or closed lines. For example, order lines or shipments which were closed or canceled in any future or current revision, can be picked up as active lines in the past dated revision.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view contents of attachments from previous versions of purchasing documents. FIG. 4 is a GUI 50 so for displaying captured and archived attachments.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to show contents of added, deleted or adjusted attachments. The purchase order tracking tool can capture and/or archive attachment changes (additions, deletions or adjustments) within each revision over time throughout the history of the order.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to increase the revision number of a document when modifying an attachment.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to increase revision numbers of documents when adding, deleting or adjusting an attachment.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to increase revisions of documents when changing any field changeable on a purchase order summary for headers or lines.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view document revisions by revision number or date. In addition the user can simultaneously determine whether to view a version of an order containing only changes or a picture of the entire order as it appears after the changes were applied and approved to the purchase order. FIG. 5 is a GUI 60 for entering a purchase order revision number 62 or a date 64. Entry of the date can be aided by selecting calendar icon 66, which displays a calendar for user reference. The user can view the purchase order retrieved by amendment (by selecting radio button 70) or the entire revised purchase order by selecting radio button 72). Once the appropriate data is entered and view PO button 68 is clicked, the appropriate purchase order history is retrieved and displayed (for example, as depicted in FIG. 3). In certain embodiments, it is mandatory to specify at least one parameter in GUI 60. If the date is provided, the purchase order history tool can automatically determine an active revision of a document at the provided input date. In certain embodiments, the date refers to the date the purchase order was approved, and not when it was revised. This may be relevant if the purchase order is revised on the date and approved on a later date.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to view the original version (revision #0), the latest approved version (revision #x) or any revisions and/or amendments made in between (revision # greater than 0 and less than x). The selecting and viewing of revisions by number can be facilitated through the use of a number of click buttons.
The purchase order tracking tool interface can provide the ability to automatically print attachments. The purchase order tracking tool interface includes the functionality to capture and archive attachment changes made to a purchase order. The user can query, view and print any version of the order, including the attachments as they appear for each revision of the order. The user can click on an attachment icon to display a list of the attachments to a purchase order. The user can select an attachment to display it. Once displayed, the user can print the attachment if desired. GUI 40 of FIG. 3 includes icon 46 of a paperclip with a piece of paper. This icon 46 signifies that there is an attachment for this version of the purchase order. By clicking on the paperclip icon 46, a list of attachments is displayed in a separate window or the same window. The user can select an icon associated with one of the attachments to display it and then print it if desired.
The purchase order tracking tool can include a snapshot form of a purchase order and amendments applied over the life of the purchase order.
The purchase order tracking tool can track changes made to a purchase order even if the change did not originally generate amendments or was not captured in history using an existing procurement software application, for example attachments (e.g. soft copy documents, web site URLs, product free form text notes) and control actions, e.g. closing or canceling an order or order line. Furthermore, purchase order changes applied within a certain build can trigger the creation and submittal of a notification to suppliers.
Another aspect of the present invention includes the ability to generate, identify, and capture amendments in history for the following adjustments, in no particular order:
(1) Any change to attachments seen by suppliers at a header or line level. In certain amendments, this capability applies only to attachments that are displayed to suppliers, for example, those with a category of "To Supplier" or "Miscellaneous." Otherwise, the attachments are captured internally for viewing and do not require an amendment generation.
(2) Control changes from purchase order (PO) summary, for example, cancel PO, close PO, cancel PO line, close PO line, and re-open actions at the header and line level.
(3) Non-production order header amendment effective date.
In certain embodiments, the users can access the functionality of certain aspects of the present invention from a purchase order form. In other words, the buyer or supplier can call up a purchasing document before querying for a specific amendment version. Non-limiting examples of queries include PO summary, purchase orders form, and the PO tab in the Supplier Portal.
Once the buyer is at the desired order document version, users have the ability to view and print the order details by entering and/or querying one or more of the following criteria:
(a) revision number or (b) date.
The user has the ability to select a click button from a form, for example, a GUI, which allows the user to efficiently display the latest approved version. In certain embodiments, it is not a requirement to run a query.
The user has the ability to select from a list of documents in a form that allows the user to print attachments specific to any version of the order.
When viewing the order only, the user has the ability to identify what elements have changed from the previously generated revision approved by the purchasing department.
The approved amendments can be displayed based on a given date or for a particular amendment version, including attachments, clauses, comments, and/or other fields on the purchase order.
An amendment can be generated when the non-production blanket purchase agreement effective dates (start and expiration dates) are adjusted.
The before mentioned aspects can be applied to all order types, for example, production and non-production. Non-limiting examples of standard non-production orders include release orders and spot buy standard purchase orders and non-limiting examples of standard production orders may include tool orders and lump sum orders. Non-limiting examples of blanket non-production orders include BPAs, catalog, converted or manually created by the buyer and non-limiting examples of blanket production purchase orders.
While the best mode for carrying out the invention has been described in detail, those familiar with the art to which this invention relates will recognize various alternative designs and embodiments for practicing the invention as defined by the following claims.
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Hubballi: The leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Jagadish Shettar said in Hubballi on Wednesday, that National BJP President Amit Shah would embark on another poll tour of Karnataka from April 12.
Karnataka goes to Assembly polls on May 12. Poll results will be announced on May 15.
Shettar said that Shah would arrive in Hubballi on Wednesday night. He will visit the Siddaroodha mutt at 9.40 am on Thursday, and seek the blessings of the seer.
Shah will then visit the late Kannada poet and Jnanapith awardee Da Ra Bendre's memorial and pay his respects.
He will then visit the Murugha mutt and seek the blessings of the seer there.
Shettar said that BJP chief will then take part in the fistful of rice (Mushti Dhanya) valedictory programme at Abbigeri, Gadag taluk.
From thereon, Shah will head towards the Puttaraja Gavai Ashram at Gadag and also to Veeranarayana temple.
On Thursday evening, Shah will visit the Mooru Savira mutt and seek the blessings if the seer.
Shah will then participate in roadshows on the important streets of Hubballi.
He will hold a meeting with farmers at Hebulli village, Dharwad taluk and have and interaction with Hubballi industrialists the same evening.
He will also meet party workers and discuss strategies and execution of the campaign.
Shah will participate in a protest before the deputy commissioner's office on Thursday. | {
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From Gail's Artisan Bakery Cookbook, this blackberry and apple tray bake is perfect for guests. Serve warm with extra thick cream or indulgent vanilla custard.
This is a dead easy tray-bake. Served warm, it makes for the perfect autumn dessert, accompanied by cream, custard or thick yoghurt, plus extra fresh berries or compote. Keep the fruit seasonal and mix it up to suit your tastes - summer berries, peach and blueberry, rhubarb and strawberry, pear and stem ginger. If you find the fruit you choose has a tendency to sink to the bottom as the cake cooks, next time, toss it very lightly in flour and shake off any excess in a sieve or colander before stirring into the batter.
You will need a deep pudding dish about 20cm x 30cm.
Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3. Butter and flour a deep pudding dish about 20cm x 30cm. Toss the slices of apples in the lemon juice to prevent them from browning.
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Beat the eggs with the sugar in a bowl until well combined, then pour on the warm cream mixture, stirring all the time. Fold in the flour with a large metal spoon, then stir through the berries and slices of apple. Pour everything into the baking dish. Bake for about 40 minutes, by which point it should be puffed up, lightly golden and very slightly crisp at the edges. A skewer pushed into the centre should come out clean - take care not to over-bake this or it will lose its lightness. | {
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Ultimately it may cause me to move on to a different browser because I administer several servers with self-signed certificates and I have to go through this multiple times a day. Firefox allows these decisions to be remembered but in a different issue, it go so slow for me I had to switch to Opera.
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Not stopping the practice but ending it – quite literally – a single instance of Time Out.
But first, a quick review of beginnings.
Time Out is best started by counting. My favorite method by far is Dr. Thomas Phelan's 1,2,3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12, a method wherein parents count – that's one, that's two, that's three – instances of non-compliance (including back-talk and negative persistence). At three, kids are sent to Time Out. Dr. Phelan's method is clear, straightforward, effective. If you haven't read his book, please do; it is worth every penny.
Time Out doesn't begin until your child is relatively settled.
He doesn't have to be absolutely silent, but no yelling or hurling pillows against walls. The rule is this: Time Out starts when you are quiet.
There are various rubrics for figuring out how long to keep children in Time Out – 1 minute per year of age; your child's age +2; 5 minutes regardless of age.
In truth, the amount of time doesn't matter – children don't have a finely tuned internal clock so a minute here or there isn't going to register.
Parents are in charge of sending children to Time Out, and parents should be in charge of ending it.
Don't respond to call-outs "Mom! Can I come out now?!" By the way, you can re-count this, calling up, "That's one" if your child calls out for release), and don't tell your child she can come out when she's ready.
Set the precedent early on that you will inform your child when Time Out is over, or set a timer to do so. If your child chooses to stay in her room longer, that's fine.
There is no need to review what your child did wrong or why she was sent to Time Out. Whatever started your counting, the reason she ended up in Time Out will always – 100% of the time – be that she didn't stop when you said, "That's two."
Kids push our buttons in lots of ways; that's part of being a child. "That's one" is the signal to stop. Once you start counting, learning to stop is what matters.
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For hurtful actions, wait until later, then talk with your child about the various ways we express remorse: saying "I'm sorry," doing something nice for the person we hurt, being helpful or kind, working hard to not make the same mistake again.
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CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - The Carolina Panthers went through their first on the field workout this week Wednesday morning getting ready for their Sunday showdown against the Redskins in the nation's capital.
Despite it being rainy, the Cats Head Coach Ron Rivera said he felt like his team got in a good practice making the most of the weather and field conditions.
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Meanwhile tight end Greg Olsen was back on the field from his foot injury suffered earlier this season.
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A number of well-known island musical organizations will come together to perform at the Clarence Waipa Memorial Scholarship Concert on Sunday, May 5 at 2 p.m. in the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center (PAC). The concert will feature music Waipa arranged or performed with numerous choral organizations during his lifetime.
Herbert Mahelona, music director at Kamehameha High School, Kea'au, and Michael Springer, UH Hilo graduate and a protégé of Waipa, have prepared special musical arrangements of repertoire taken from classical music, Hawaiian standards, and tunes that were standard fare for Waipa's singers.
An orchestra of local musicians has been formed for the concert, with vocalists from the University Chorus and the UH Hilo Kapili Choir, under the direction of Amy Horst, and the Kamehameha High School chorus, directed by Mahelona. The Kamehameha Alumni Choir, also under Mahelona's leadership, opened its doors to singers from St. Joseph High, Sing Out Hilo, and the Seventh Day Adventist Choir to round out the ensemble numbers on the program.
Waipa, who passed away in 2011, hailed from Keaukaha, and graduated from California State University in Los Angeles. He returned to Hilo in 1967 to teach music, art, theatre and Hawaiian history at St. Joseph High for over 30 years. During his lifetime, he trained many of the musicians who are working in choral music on the island of Hawai'i. The concert was created to ensure other generations would be enriched by Waipa's musical legacy.
All tickets are open seating, priced at $12 General, $10 Senior, and $7 UH Hilo/HawCC faculty, staff, alumni, students, and children 17 and under. Tickets are available at the PAC Box Office, Tuesday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or by calling 974-7310.
All proceeds from the concert will go toward Performing Arts scholarships at UH Hilo. Those wishing to make donations to the scholarship fund can do so by contributing to the UH Foundation, Performing Arts Center Scholarship Fund. For more information, contact Jackie Pualani Johnson at [email protected]. | {
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Designer Babies Aren't That Scary | Vol. 3 / No. 5.3
December 2, 2015 RFB
"Playing God" with "Designer Babies" | Photo: Stephen Allport, CC BY-SA 2.0
Starting yesterday, and running through to tomorrow, a group of scientists from around the world are meeting in Washington, DC to discuss the future of genome editing — more specifically, its ethics.
There are some legitimate concerns being raised about the imperfection of the technology and the potential for harm — as a recent Chinese study on nonviable human embryos proved, the technology isn't ready to be used on humans, as it could lead to some pretty immediate and unfortunate side-effects. The last thing anyone wants is for doctors and scientists to fix the genetic instigator of one disease while accidentally creating another. These things will get ironed out in time, but managing how we arrive there is the main scope of the talks.
But it seems that you can't have this conversation without someone, somewhere, using the words "designer babies." Like anti-GMO activists, I find that a lot of people who use the term are too caught up in rhetoric ("playing God," anyone?) to stop and ask the actual question: assuming the technology does eventually advance to the point where we can safely make specific changes with understood and predictable outcomes, what exactly is wrong with "designing" our children?
Writing over at Scientific American, Professor Jonathan D. Moreno, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, brings up a few salient points while trying to determine "where to draw the line on gene-editing technology," which I will respond to as a way of working things out. I invite you to follow along.
The first point I'd like to discuss is about humanity's relationship to the natural world: "are we prepared," Moreno asks, "to modify our genetic heritage with all the implications for humanity's relationship to the rest of the natural world?"
In response, I would offer that genetic engineering engenders no substantive difference to our relationship with the natural world that isn't already in place. That is to say, even if we thought it were a moral good to maintain a "natural" relationship with the world — something I don't plan to argue for or against just now — we are already so far beyond that point that we cannot go back without serious repercussions (or perhaps at all). Technology has been our means of self-guided evolution: we have expanded our brains through the technologies of reading and writing and computing, we have expanded our physical abilities with tools and machines and chemistry. A single process, Haber-Bosch, has allowed humanity's ranks to swell billions over and above what the "natural" world can support. If you dropped an average western suburbanite into "nature" and expected him or her to survive unaided, he or she would very likely die. In the event of some awful calamity it would be humanity's ability to alter nature — not its "natural" relationship with it — that would save it.
On the other hand, genetic editing of humans could be used to improve our relationship with the "natural" world (as natural as it remains, anyway), at least insofar as it might allow us to live more healthily and more efficiently. Imagine a human that builds more muscle with less dietary protein (an ecologically expensive to produce commodity with or without livestock). Imagine a human that requires less water to maintain its biological functions. Imagine a human that could gain a portion of its daily energy requirements through photosynthesis. Never mind that we may need to engineer a special kind of human that can survive prolonged periods of exposure to ionizing radiation and low gravity if we are to become a truly multi-planet species.
Another point he brings up is the line between "therapy" and "enhancement," a line which I believe is largely imaginary: "Especially in the case of the human germline," he writes, referring to changes which can be passed on through normal reproduction, "one principle worth defending is that between therapy and enhancement. Even if population-wide disease prevention is sometimes acceptable, attempts to otherwise "improve" the human race should be banned.
He gives no rationale for this, so I can only guess at the reasoning behind it. I doubt it's because of the immaturity of the science; the reference to "population-wide disease prevention" hints at a future where the technology is indeed that accurate and predictable in its outcomes. It could be due to the idea of the so-called "law" of unintended consequences, or perhaps the precautionary principle that leads Dr. Nafeez Ahmed and analysts like him to overstate the risks of GM crops — these posit scenarios in which monolithic genetic modifications at some point become single points of catastrophic failure (Ahmed's "ruin") for the entire human species.
However (the unlikelihood of altering the human genome across all populations in such a similar way as to introduce a massive single point of failure aside), if we are imagining a world in which this technology is so advanced as to end diseases in an entire population, it isn't hard to also imagine a world in which this same technology can be reversed. Accidentally introduce a genetic trait that leads to a new disease? Undo that work and undo the disease.
I'm certainly not advocating rushing into trials of human modification, but I can certainly imagine a day when the weight of scientific evidence will shift in favour of its application, as it has in GM food production, and we will be left with nothing but this imaginary line between therapy and enhancement which vanishes under close scrutiny.
Because what is the difference between the two? Surely you can come up with examples of each that you are certain of — perhaps like pornography you just "know it when you see it" — but what about the middle cases? Humans get cancer, some more than others — is editing someone's genome to reduce that chance therapy or enhancement, especially if it reduces their chances of cancer below some global average? Humans get old and become less able to perform tasks which maintain their quality of life — is editing someone's genome to maintain their quality of life in old age therapy or enhancement, especially if it enhances their age beyond some kind of global mean? We require humans to perform dangerous tasks, like work with radioactive materials — is editing someone's genome to increase their resilience to ionizing radiation therapy or enhancement, especially if it's a job that requires doing?
What counts as an "improvement" and what counts as "disease prevention" in the future may very well have to do with your socioeconomic status, employment sector, and, more likely than either of those, your particular cultural mores. I think any "lines over which we must not cross" are inevitably doomed to either fail or create injustice.
But would you ban genetic cancer prevention because one day someone might discriminate against someone else?
The movie Gattaca addresses some of the potential problems with elective genetic alterations — namely the potential for discrimination against those who have not elected (for possibly non-elective reasons) to have changes made, though like all good dystopian fiction, it overstates things to make a point. Employers might indeed discriminate against potential long-term employees with a high genetic risk of illness; this, of course, as the movie predicts, would be illegal, but perhaps some employers would skirt the laws the way they skirt non-discrimination laws in existence today. Perhaps they would try, as in the movie, to use genetics as a predictor of success. But, given the inability of genetics to accurately predict effectiveness at one's job, I fail to see the difference between this kind of discrimination and any other.
(And before you start talking more about the movie, remember that the reason he wasn't allowed to fly was because they either (a) illogically used his genetic data to determine his health instead of the fact that he could meet all the physical requirements, or (b) had good scientific reason not to let him go on a space mission to the outer solar system and he did it anyway putting everyone else on the crew at risk. I like the movie, too, but as I said, it overstates things to make a point.)
At this point I realize I have neglected to make mention of purely "cosmetic" changes — those so often associated with the "designer baby" straw-man. But even in this case I must admit to finding little reason to ban them. Assuming it is a safe, targeted procedure, which will only make the intended changes — hair, eye, or skin colour, for instance — I fail to see a potential harm that is not already present in society. While it is true that social pressures could force people into making changes, the same is already true: breast augmentation, hair replacement, tummy tucks, pseudo-science diet pills, and more all exist today. Cynical though it may seem, humans will either continue to find reasons to form in-groups and out-groups, to band together to oppress each other, or they'll find a way to get past each others' differences; if the goal is to reduce social injustice by reducing difference among humans, I'm afraid that ship has long since sailed.
Thankfully, we're a long, long way from elective eye colour alteration being a safe and routine procedure. For many years yet, even the most unambiguously positive alterations — fixing a person's genetic propensity for breast cancer, for instance — will be out of reach of a reasonable risk-to-benefit ratio. If you ask me, the "line" should, for now, be simply drawn just short of editing the germ line of viable embryos — at least until we can do so while knowing that the actual consequences precisely match the intended ones.
The technology will advance in fits and starts, and cultural mores will either advance or arrest its progress. It's a good thing they're meeting to talk about it, but they're going to be on much more solid ground if they limit their conversations (and conclusions) to what will or won't cause medical harm, at least for now.
Because in the end, I'm predicting that "designer babies" won't be that scary at all.
Richard Ford Burley is a writer and doctoral candidate at Boston College, as well as an editor at Ledger, the first academic journal devoted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In his spare time he writes about science, skepticism, feminism, and futurism here at This Week In Tomorrow.
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I've replaced him with Aguero. As I write this according to the excellent price change site FPL statistics Kane is 52% on the way to a drop and Aguero 91% on to a rise. I would be surrised if Aguero des go up but no point in taking a chance so I've made the transfer.
It now means I've got £2.5m in the bank and I'm not really sure how I'm going to use it. Anyway that's a task for tomorrow.
Depending on how you're playing it.. I can't see Sterling starting against Palace while Sane should be a lock to start that game.
Top of my mini has Aguero and Mane, so I need a differential strategy.
I have same team as you Geek but laca for Aguero, Dunk instead of TAA. Camarasa for Sterling for dgw35, then Dunk to Robertson for gw36 to captain him.
What's your team before and after WC value Geek?
Out if interest what's the idea behind the double Southampton bench? As I assume the plan is to BB after this gameweek but if you're not even rising playing any of them against Wolves at home surely the BB against Newcastle away is a pointless?
WC Activated: I've gone with Murray for this double gameweek to bring in Deeney for GW35? Not many opting for Murray – do many think he will have gametime risk?
Also punt on Ramsey – showing form – good differential? DGW in 35 but not featuring in many posted teams?
@Badhoon – Ramsey played full 90 min recently probably due to the fact that Torreira was suspended and Xhaka injured.
Will he play full 90 every game now? Not so sure. Plus Arsenal has 4/6 away games and with their away form it is really risky. | {
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Fact is, about 1 in 5 sexually active girls ages 15 to 19 gets pregnant each year. In 1999 alone, 860,000 American girls became pregnant. The vast majority of adolescent pregnancies are unplanned and unwanted (Dolgin & Rice 2005, p. 111). Alarming as it is, teenage girls have a higher possibility of choosing abortion because of their "unpreparedness" to become a parent.
Abortion became a social issue as a landmark case of Roe vs. Wade (1973) moved the question of the legality of abortion from the state to the federal level. Debates regarding abortion have been split into two opposing views: pro-choice and pro-life. The pro-choice supporters are individuals who favor a woman's reproductive rights, including the right to choose to have an abortion. On the other side are the pro-life advocates, who may oppose abortion for any reason or who may only accept abortion in extreme circumstances, as when the mother's life would be threatened by carrying a pregnancy to term (McGee & Merz, 2005).
The right to life is the most basic and most important. Scientific advancement has shown that a fetus is a unique individual human being. It is not just a mass of cells or a parasite growing within the womb that has to be removed. It is not a disease that must be discarded or eliminated. The issue on abortion revolves around a human life capable of feeling and fleeing from danger. Based on this undeniable fact the right to life applies and must be weighed in against all other considerations (Sprengel, 1999).
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Dolgin, Kim Gale and Rice, F. Philip. The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture, 11th ed. New York: Prentice-Hall – Pearson Education Company, 2005.
McGee, G., and Merz, J. F. Abortion. Microsoft® Encarta® 2005 [CD-ROM]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation.
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Sun., February 17, 2019 1:04 p.m. | Sunday, February 17, 2019 1:04 p.m.
In this file photo of Nov. 2, 2006, cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant are reflected in the Susquehanna River in this time exposure photograph in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government.
In this May 22, 2017, file photo shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government.
In this May 22, 2017 file photo shown is the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government.
This March 30, 1979, file photo shows a cooling tower of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., as it looms behind an abandoned playground. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Four decades after Three Mile Island became shorthand for America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, financial rescues of nuclear power plants are stirring the highest levels of government.
In Pennsylvania, nuclear power plant owners have been working for two years to build support for the kind of financial packages already approved by New York, New Jersey and Illinois. Meanwhile, those packages have sparked legal appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and a debate among federal energy regulators over protecting ratepayers from higher electricity prices.
Those loose ends are shadowing Pennsylvania as state lawmakers prepare to decide whether to help their state's nuclear power plants.
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The nation's aging and shrinking nuclear power fleet is being buffeted by a flood of natural gas plants entering competitive electricity markets, relatively flat post-recession electricity demand, and states putting more emphasis on renewable energy and efficiency.
The pursuit of state guarantees has spurred questions over why ratepayers should foot the cost to keep nuclear power plants open, and whether nuclear power provides an indispensable environmental benefit in the age of global warming.
The spotlight moved in 2017 to Pennsylvania, the nation's No. 2 nuclear power state.
That's when Three Mile Island's owner, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., announced it will close the plant that was the site of a terrifying partial meltdown in 1979 unless Pennsylvania comes to its financial rescue. It set this Sept. 30 as the closing date.
Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. also said it will shut down its Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in western Pennsylvania — as well as two nuclear plants in Ohio — within three years unless Pennsylvania steps up.
So far, no rescue has been written into legislation.
Rather, sympathetic lawmakers have issued a broadly worded memo saying they will introduce legislation to effectively give Pennsylvania's nuclear power plants the same preferential treatment as solar power, wind power and a handful of other niche energy sources received under a 2004 state law.
The owners of Pennsylvania's five nuclear power plants — primarily Exelon, FirstEnergy and Allentown-based Talen Energy — are backing that effort.
PJM Interconnection, which operates the electric grid covering Pennsylvania and the 65 million people from Illinois east to Washington, has said those four nuclear power plant closings — two in Pennsylvania and two in Ohio — won't affect the availability of electricity.
But, last summer, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in a 3-2 decision, ordered PJM to come up with a solution to protect the competitive market from what it described as a dangerous cascade of pressure on states to prop up otherwise viable power plants.
PJM pitched an idea in October that, if adopted, could create new dilemmas, particularly for nuclear power plant owners.
"At that point, do they come back to the state and ask for more? Maybe," said Glen Thomas, a Pennsylvania-based consultant who specializes in utility regulations. "Do they go out of business because they don't have enough revenue? Maybe. Does it suppress the market price for other generators? Definitely. It creates some problems for sure."
It's a long-shot that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up appeals in lawsuits challenging New York's and Illinois' nuclear power subsidies, say lawyers following the cases.
But FERC action still looms, and it's not clear when or how commissioners will respond.
Exelon said Pennsylvania must enact legislation by June 1 if it is to keep operating Three Mile Island, since fuel must be ordered months in advance.
Gov. Tom Wolf hasn't taken a position on rescuing Pennsylvania's nuclear power plants — although his administration suggests that keeping them operating would help slash Pennsylvania's greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades — and neither have top lawmakers.
Meanwhile, the fight is sweeping up labor unions, business associations, ratepayer advocates, the AARP, environmental groups, anti-nuclear power activists and Pennsylvania's considerable natural gas industry.
"FERC has created all this uncertainty," said Miles Farmer, an attorney for the Washington, D.C.-based Natural Resources Defense Council. "It's not clear how customers are going to be protected and it's very difficult for states to set up their programs when they're in the dark as to how the rules will work."
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Tōru Takemitsu
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Tōru Takemitsu (武満 徹, pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ̥ toːɾɯ]; 8 October 1930 – 20 February 1996) was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre.[1][2] He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation.[3]
武満
Hongō, Tokyo, Japan
20 February 1996(1996-02-20) (aged 65)
Minato, Tokyo, Japan
He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books.[3] He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kōbō (Experimental Workshop) in Japan, a group of avant-garde artists who distanced themselves from academia and whose collaborative work is often regarded among the most influential of the 20th century.[4][5]
His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as the leading 20th-century Japanese composer.[6] He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him.[7]
1.1 Youth
1.2 Early development and Jikken Kōbō
1.3 Influence of Cage; interest in traditional Japanese music
1.4 International status and the gradual shift in style
1.5 Later works: the sea of tonality
3.1 Influence of traditional Japanese music
3.2 Influence of Messiaen
3.3 Influence of Debussy
3.4 Motives
3.5 Musique concrète
3.6 Aleatory techniques
3.7 Film music
4 Legacy
7.1 Citations
BiographyEdit
YouthEdit
Takemitsu was born in Tokyo on 8 October 1930; a month later his family moved to Dalian in the Chinese province of Liaoning. In 1938 he returned to Japan to attend elementary school, but his education was cut short by military conscription in 1944.[2] Takemitsu described his experience of military service at such a young age, under the Japanese Nationalist government, as "... extremely bitter".[8] Takemitsu first became conscious of Western classical music during his term of military service, in the form of a popular French Song ("Parlez-moi d'amour") which he listened to with colleagues in secret, played on a gramophone with a makeshift needle fashioned from bamboo.[8][9]
During the post-war U.S. occupation of Japan, Takemitsu worked for the U.S. Armed Forces, but was ill for a long period. Hospitalised and bed-ridden, he took the opportunity to listen to as much Western music as he could on the U.S. Armed Forces network. While deeply affected by these experiences of Western music, he simultaneously felt a need to distance himself from the traditional music of his native Japan. He explained much later, in a lecture at the New York International Festival of the Arts, that for him Japanese traditional music "always recalled the bitter memories of war".[8]
Despite his lack of musical training, and taking inspiration from what little Western music he had heard, Takemitsu began to compose in earnest at the age of 16: "... I began [writing] music attracted to music itself as one human being. Being in music I found my raison d'être as a man. After the war, music was the only thing. Choosing to be in music clarified my identity."[10] Though he studied briefly with Yasuji Kiyose beginning in 1948, Takemitsu remained largely self-taught throughout his musical career.[2]
Early development and Jikken KōbōEdit
In 1948, Takemitsu conceived the idea of electronic music technology, or in his own words, to "bring noise into tempered musical tones inside a busy small tube." During the 1950s, Takemitsu had learned that in 1948 "a French [engineer] Pierre Schaeffer invented the method(s) of musique concrète based on the same idea as mine. I was pleased with this coincidence."[11][12]
In 1951, Takemitsu was a founding member of the anti-academic Jikken Kōbō (実験工房, "experimental workshop"): an artistic group established for multidisciplinary collaboration on mixed-media projects, who sought to avoid Japanese artistic tradition.[13] The performances and works undertaken by the group introduced several contemporary Western composers to Japanese audiences.[2][14] During this period he wrote Saegirarenai Kyūsoku I ("Uninterrupted Rest I", 1952: a piano work, without a regular rhythmic pulse or barlines); and by 1955 Takemitsu had begun to use electronic tape-recording techniques in such works as Relief Statique (1955) and Vocalism A·I (1956).[2] Takemitsu also studied in the early 1950s with the composer Fumio Hayasaka, perhaps best known for the scores he wrote for films by Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa, the latter of whom Takemitsu would collaborate with decades later.
In the late 1950s chance brought Takemitsu international attention: his Requiem for string orchestra (1957), written as an homage to Hayasaka, was heard by Igor Stravinsky in 1958 during his visit to Japan. (The NHK had organised opportunities for Stravinsky to listen to some of the latest Japanese music; when Takemitsu's work was put on by mistake, Stravinsky insisted on hearing it to the end.) At a press conference later, Stravinsky expressed his admiration for the work, praising its "sincerity" and "passionate" writing.[15] Stravinsky subsequently invited Takemitsu to lunch; and for Takemitsu this was an "unforgettable" experience.[16] After Stravinsky returned to the U.S., Takemitsu soon received a commission for a new work from the Koussevitsky Foundation which, he assumed, had come as a suggestion from Stravinsky to Aaron Copland.[16] For this he composed Dorian Horizon, (1966), which was premièred by the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Copland.[16]
Influence of Cage; interest in traditional Japanese musicEdit
During his time with Jikken Kōbō, Takemitsu came into contact with the experimental work of John Cage; but when the composer Toshi Ichiyanagi returned from his studies in America in 1961, he gave the first Japanese performance of Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. This left a "deep impression" on Takemitsu: he recalled the impact of hearing the work when writing an obituary for Cage, 31 years later.[17] This encouraged Takemitsu in his use of indeterminate procedures and graphic-score notation, for example in the graphic scores of Ring (1961), Corona for pianist(s) and Corona II for string(s) (both 1962). In these works each performer is presented with cards printed with coloured circular patterns which are freely arranged by the performer to create "the score".[18]
Although the immediate influence of Cage's procedures did not last in Takemitsu's music—Coral Island, for example for soprano and orchestra (1962) shows significant departures from indeterminate procedures partly as a result of Takemitsu's renewed interest in the music of Anton Webern—certain similarities between Cage's philosophies and Takemitsu's thought remained. For example, Cage's emphasis on timbres within individual sound-events, and his notion of silence "as plenum rather than vacuum", can be aligned with Takemitsu's interest in ma.[19] Furthermore, Cage's interest in Zen practice (through his contact with Zen scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki) seems to have resulted in a renewed interest in the East in general, and ultimately alerted Takemitsu to the potential for incorporating elements drawn from Japanese traditional music into his composition:
I must express my deep and sincere gratitude to John Cage. The reason for this is that in my own life, in my own development, for a long period I struggled to avoid being "Japanese", to avoid "Japanese" qualities. It was largely through my contact with John Cage that I came to recognize the value of my own tradition.[8]
For Takemitsu, as he explained later in a lecture in 1988, one performance of Japanese traditional music stood out:
One day I chanced to see a performance of the Bunraku puppet theater and was very surprised by it. It was in the tone quality, the timbre, of the futazao shamisen, the wide-necked shamisen used in Bunraku, that I first recognized the splendor of traditional Japanese music. I was very moved by it and I wondered why my attention had never been captured before by this Japanese music.[8]
Thereafter, he resolved to study all types of traditional Japanese music, paying special attention to the differences between the two very different musical traditions, in a diligent attempt to "bring forth the sensibilities of Japanese music that had always been within [him]".[8] This was no easy task, since in the years following the war traditional music was largely overlooked and ignored: only one or two "masters" continued to keep their art alive, often meeting with public indifference. In conservatoria across the country, even students of traditional instruments were always required to learn the piano.[20]
Takemitsu, 1961
From the early 1960s, Takemitsu began to make use of traditional Japanese instruments in his music, and even took up playing the biwa—an instrument he used in his score for the film Seppuku (1962).[2] In 1967, Takemitsu received a commission from the New York Philharmonic, to commemorate the orchestra's 125th anniversary, for which he wrote November Steps for biwa, shakuhachi, and orchestra. Initially, Takemitsu had great difficulty in uniting these instruments from such different musical cultures in one work.[8] Eclipse for biwa and shakuhachi (1966) illustrates Takemitsu's attempts to find a viable notational system for these instruments, which in normal circumstances neither sound together nor are used in works notated in any system of Western staff notation.[21]
The first performance of November Steps was given in 1967, under Seiji Ozawa. Despite the trials of writing such an ambitious work, Takemitsu maintained "that making the attempt was very worthwhile because what resulted somehow liberated music from a certain stagnation and brought to music something distinctly new and different".[8] The work was distributed widely in the West when it was coupled as the fourth side of an LP release of Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony.[22]
In 1972, Takemitsu, accompanied by Iannis Xenakis, Betsy Jolas, and others, heard Balinese gamelan music in Bali. The experience influenced the composer on a largely philosophical and theological level. For those accompanying Takemitsu on the expedition (most of whom were French musicians), who "... could not keep their composure as I did before this music: it was too foreign for them to be able to assess the resulting discrepancies with their logic", the experience was without precedent. For Takemitsu, however, by now quite familiar with his own native musical tradition, there was a relationship between "the sounds of the gamelan, the tone of the kapachi, the unique scales and rhythms by which they are formed, and Japanese traditional music which had shaped such a large part of my sensitivity".[23] In his solo piano work For Away (written for Roger Woodward in 1973), a single, complex line is distributed between the pianist's hands, which reflects the interlocking patterns between the metallophones of a gamelan orchestra.[24]
A year later, Takemitsu returned to the instrumental combination of shakuhachi, biwa, and orchestra, in the less well known work Autumn (1973). The significance of this work is revealed in its far greater integration of the traditional Japanese instruments into the orchestral discourse; whereas in November Steps, the two contrasting instrumental ensembles perform largely in alternation, with only a few moments of contact. Takemitsu expressed this change in attitude:
But now my attitude is getting to be a little different, I think. Now my concern is mostly to find out what there is in common ... Autumn was written after November Steps. I really wanted to do something which I hadn't done in November Steps, not to blend the instruments, but to integrate them.[25]
International status and the gradual shift in styleEdit
By 1970, Takemitsu's reputation as a leading member of avant-garde community was well established, and during his involvement with Expo '70 in Osaka, he was at last able to meet more of his Western colleagues, including Karlheinz Stockhausen. Also, during a contemporary music festival in April 1970, produced by the Japanese composer himself ("Iron and Steel Pavilion"), Takemitsu met among the participants Lukas Foss, Peter Sculthorpe, and Vinko Globokar. Later that year, as part of a commission from Paul Sacher and the Zurich Collegium Musicum, Takemitsu incorporated into his Eucalypts I parts for international performers: flautist Aurèle Nicolet, oboist Heinz Holliger, and harpist Ursula Holliger.[26]
Critical examination of the complex instrumental works written during this period for the new generation of "contemporary soloists" reveals the level of his high-profile engagement with the Western avant-garde, in works such as Voice for solo flute (1971), Waves for clarinet, horn, two trombones and bass drum (1976), Quatrain for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and orchestra (1977). Experiments and works that incorporated traditional Japanese musical ideas and language continued to appear in his output, and an increased interest in the traditional Japanese garden began to reflect itself in works such as In an Autumn Garden [ja] for gagaku orchestra (1973), and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden for orchestra (1977).[27]
Throughout this apogee of avant-garde work, Takemitsu's musical style seems to have undergone a series of stylistic changes. Comparison of Green (for orchestra, 1967) and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977) quickly reveals the seeds of this change. The latter was composed according to a pre-compositional scheme, in which pentatonic modes were superimposed over one central pentatonic scale (the so-called "black-key pentatonic") around a central sustained central pitch (F-sharp), and an approach that is highly indicative of the sort of "pantonal" and modal pitch material seen gradually emerging in his works throughout the 1970s.[28] The former, Green (or November Steps II) written 10 years earlier, is heavily influenced by Debussy,[29][30] and is, in spite of its very dissonant language (including momentary quarter-tone clusters), largely constructed through a complex web of modal forms. These modal forms are largely audible, particularly in the momentary repose toward the end of the work.[31] Thus in these works, it is possible to see both a continuity of approach, and the emergence of a simpler harmonic language that was to characterise the work of his later period.
His friend and colleague Jō Kondō said, "If his later works sound different from earlier pieces, it is due to his gradual refining of his basic style rather than any real alteration of it."[32]
Later works: the sea of tonalityEdit
In a Tokyo lecture given in 1984, Takemitsu identified a melodic motive in his Far Calls. Coming Far! (for violin and orchestra, 1980) that would recur throughout his later works:
I wanted to plan a tonal "sea". Here the "sea" is E-flat [Es in German nomenclature]-E-A, a three-note ascending motive consisting of a half step and perfect fourth. [... In Far Calls] this is extended upward from A with two major thirds and one minor third ... Using these patterns I set the "sea of tonality" from which many pantonal chords flow.[33]
Takemitsu's words here highlight his changing stylistic trends from the late 1970s into the 1980s, which have been described as "an increased use of diatonic material [... with] references to tertian harmony and jazz voicing", which do not, however, project a sense of "large-scale tonality".[34] Many of the works from this period have titles that include a reference to water: Toward the Sea (1981), Rain Tree and Rain Coming (1982), riverrun and I Hear the Water Dreaming (1987). Takemitsu wrote in his notes for the score of Rain Coming that "... the complete collection [is] entitled "Waterscape" ... it was the composer's intention to create a series of works, which like their subject, pass through various metamorphoses, culminating in a sea of tonality."[35] Throughout these works, the S-E-A motive (discussed further below) features prominently, and points to an increased emphasis on the melodic element in Takemitsu's music that began during this later period.
His 1981 work for orchestra named Dreamtime was inspired by a visit to Groote Eylandt, off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia, to witness a large gathering of Australian indigenous dancers, singers and story tellers. He was there at the invitation of the choreographer Jiří Kylián.[36]
Pedal notes played an increasingly prominent role in Takemitsu's music during this period, as in A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden. In Dream/Window, (orchestra, 1985) a pedal D serves as anchor point, holding together statements of a striking four-note motivic gesture which recurs in various instrumental and rhythmic guises throughout. Very occasionally, fully fledged references to diatonic tonality can be found, often in harmonic allusions to early- and pre-20th-century composers—for example, Folios for guitar (1974), which quotes from J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion, and Family Tree for narrator and orchestra (1984), which invokes the musical language of Maurice Ravel and American popular song.[2] (He revered the St Matthew Passion, and would play through it on the piano before commencing a new work, as a form of "purificatory ritual".[37])
By this time, Takemitsu's incorporation of traditional Japanese (and other Eastern) musical traditions with his Western style had become much more integrated. Takemitsu commented, "There is no doubt ... the various countries and cultures of the world have begun a journey toward the geographic and historic unity of all peoples ... The old and new exist within me with equal weight."[38]
Toward the end of his life, Takemitsu had planned to complete an opera, a collaboration with the novelist Barry Gifford and the director Daniel Schmid, commissioned by the Opéra National de Lyon in France. He was in the process of publishing a plan of its musical and dramatic structure with Kenzaburō Ōe, but he was prevented from completing it by his death at 65.[39][40] He died of pneumonia on 20 February 1996, while undergoing treatment for bladder cancer.
Personal lifeEdit
He was married to Asaka Takemitsu (formerly Wakayama) for 42 years. She first met Toru in 1951, cared for him when he was suffering from tuberculosis in his early twenties, then married him in 1954. They had one child, a daughter named Maki. Asaka attended most premieres of his music and published a memoir of their life together in 2010.[41]
See also: List of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu
Composers whom Takemitsu cited as influential in his early work include Claude Debussy, Anton Webern, Edgard Varèse, Arnold Schoenberg, and Olivier Messiaen.[42] Messiaen in particular was introduced to him by fellow composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, and remained a lifelong influence.[2] Although Takemitsu's wartime experiences of nationalism initially discouraged him from cultivating an interest in traditional Japanese music, he showed an early interest in "... the Japanese Garden in color spacing and form ...". The formal garden of the kaiyu-shiki interested him in particular.[8][43]
He expressed his unusual stance toward compositional theory early on, his lack of respect for the "trite rules of music, rules that are ... stifled by formulas and calculations"; for Takemitsu it was of far greater importance that "sounds have the freedom to breathe. ... Just as one cannot plan his life, neither can he plan music".[44]
Takemitsu's sensitivity to instrumental and orchestral timbre can be heard throughout his work, and is often made apparent by the unusual instrumental combinations he specified. This is evident in works such as November Steps, that combine traditional Japanese instruments, shakuhachi and biwa, with a conventional Western orchestra. It may also be discerned in his works for ensembles that make no use of traditional instruments, for example Quotation of Dream (1991), Archipelago S., for 21 players (1993), and Arc I & II (1963–66/1976). In these works, the more conventional orchestral forces are divided into unconventional "groups". Even where these instrumental combinations were determined by the particular ensemble commissioning the work, "Takemitsu's genius for instrumentation (and genius it was, in my view) ...", in the words of Oliver Knussen, "... creates the illusion that the instrumental restrictions are self-imposed".[45]
Influence of traditional Japanese musicEdit
Example 1. Bar 10 of Masque I, Continu, for two flutes (1959). An early example of Takemitsu's incorporation of traditional Japanese music in his writing, shown in the unusually notated quarter-tone pitch bend above.
Takemitsu summarized his initial aversion to Japanese (and all non-Western) traditional musical forms in his own words: "There may be folk music with strength and beauty, but I cannot be completely honest in this kind of music. I want a more active relationship to the present. (Folk music in a 'contemporary style' is nothing but a deception)."[46] His dislike for the musical traditions of Japan in particular were intensified by his experiences of the war, during which Japanese music became associated with militaristic and nationalistic cultural ideals.[47]
Nevertheless, Takemitsu incorporated some idiomatic elements of Japanese music in his very earliest works, perhaps unconsciously. One unpublished set of pieces, Kakehi ("Conduit"), written at the age of seventeen, incorporates the ryō, ritsu and insen scales throughout. When Takemitsu discovered that these "nationalist" elements had somehow found their way into his music, he was so alarmed that he later destroyed the works.[48] Further examples can be seen for example in the quarter-tone glissandi of Masques I (for two flutes, 1959), which mirror the characteristic pitch bends of the shakuhachi, and for which he devised his own unique notation: a held note is tied to an enharmonic spelling of the same pitch class, with a portamento direction across the tie.[49]
Example 2. Opening bars of Litany—In Memory of Michael Vyner, i Adagio, for solo piano (1950/1989). Another early example of Takemitsu's incorporation of traditional Japanese music in his writing, shown here in the use of the Japanese in scale in the upper melodic line of the right hand part.
Other Japanese characteristics, including the further use of traditional pentatonic scales, continued to crop up elsewhere in his early works. In the opening bars of Litany, for Michael Vyner, a reconstruction from memory by Takemitsu of Lento in Due Movimenti (1950; the original score was lost), pentatonicism is clearly visible in the upper voice, which opens the work on an unaccompanied anacrusis.[50] The pitches of the opening melody combine to form the constituent notes of the ascending form of the Japanese in scale.
When, from the early 1960s,[2] Takemitsu began to "consciously apprehend" the sounds of traditional Japanese music, he found that his creative process, "the logic of my compositional thought[,] was torn apart", and nevertheless, "hogaku [traditional Japanese music ...] seized my heart and refuses to release it".[51] In particular, Takemitsu perceived that, for example, the sound of a single stroke of the biwa or single pitch breathed through the shakuhachi, could "so transport our reason because they are of extreme complexity ... already complete in themselves". This fascination with the sounds produced in traditional Japanese music brought Takemitsu to his idea of ma (usually translated as the space between two objects),[52] which ultimately informed his understanding of the intense quality of traditional Japanese music as a whole:
Just one sound can be complete in itself, for its complexity lies in the formulation of ma, an unquantifiable metaphysical space (duration) of dynamically tensed absence of sound. For example, in the performance of nō, the ma of sound and silence does not have an organic relation for the purpose of artistic expression. Rather, these two elements contrast sharply with one another in an immaterial balance.[53]
In 1970, Takemitsu received a commission from the National Theatre of Japan to write a work for the gagaku ensemble of the Imperial Household; this was fulfilled in 1973, when he completed Shuteiga ("In an Autumn Garden", although he later incorporated the work, as the fourth movement, into his 50-minute-long "In an Autumn Garden—Complete Version").[54] As well as being "... the furthest removed from the West of any work he had written",[55] While it introduces certain Western musical ideas to the Japanese court ensemble, the work represents the deepest of Takemitsu's investigations into Japanese musical tradition, the lasting effects of which are clearly reflected in his works for conventional Western ensemble formats that followed.[56]
Example 3. Standard chords produced by the shō, mouth organ of the traditional Japanese court ensemble, gagaku
In Garden Rain (1974, for brass ensemble), the limited and pitch-specific harmonic vocabulary of the Japanese mouth organ, the shō (see ex. 3), and its specific timbres, are clearly emulated in Takemitsu's writing for brass instruments; even similarities of performance practice can be seen, (the players are often required to hold notes to the limit of their breath capacity).[57] In A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden, the characteristic timbres of the shō and its chords (several of which are simultaneous soundings of traditional Japanese pentatonic scales) are emulated in the opening held chords of the wind instruments (the first chord is in fact an exact transposition of the shō's chord, Jū (i); see ex. 3); meanwhile a solo oboe is assigned a melodic line that is similarly reminiscent of the lines played by the hichiriki in gagaku ensembles.[58]
Influence of MessiaenEdit
Example 4. Comparison of ex.94 from Olivier Messiaen's Technique de mon langage musical and one of the principal motives from Takemitsu's Quatrain (1975)[59]
The influence of Olivier Messiaen on Takemitsu was already apparent in some of Takemitsu's earliest published works. By the time he composed Lento in Due Movimenti, (1950), Takemitsu had already come into possession of a copy of Messiaen's 8 Préludes (through Toshi Ichiyanagi), and the influence of Messiaen is clearly visible in the work, in the use of modes, the suspension of regular metre, and sensitivity to timbre.[2][60] Throughout his career, Takemitsu often made use of modes from which he derived his musical material, both melodic and harmonic among which Messiaen's modes of limited transposition to appear with some frequency.[61] In particular, the use of the octatonic, (mode II, or the 8–28 collection), and mode VI (8–25) is particularly common. However, Takemitsu pointed out that he had used the octatonic collection in his music before ever coming across it in Messiaen's music.[62]
In 1975, Takemitsu met Messiaen in New York, and during "what was to be a one-hour 'lesson' [but which] lasted three hours ... Messiaen played his Quartet for the End of Time for Takemitsu at the piano",[62] which, Takemitsu recalled, was like listening to an orchestral performance.[63] Takemitsu responded to this with his homage to the French composer, Quatrain, for which he asked Messiaen's permission to use the same instrumental combination for the main quartet, cello, violin, clarinet and piano (which is accompanied by orchestra).[64][62] As well as the obvious similarity of instrumentation, Takemitsu employs several melodic figures that appear to "mimic" certain musical examples given by Messiaen in his Technique de mon langage musical, (see ex. 4).[59] In 1977, Takemitsu reworked Quatrain for quartet alone, without orchestra, and titled the new work Quatrain II.
On hearing of Messiaen's death in 1992, Takemitsu was interviewed by telephone, and still in shock, "blurted out, 'His death leaves a crisis in contemporary music!'" Then later, in an obituary written for the French composer in the same year, Takemitsu further expressed his sense of loss at Messiaen's death: "Truly, he was my spiritual mentor ... Among the many things I learned from his music, the concept and experience of color and the form of time will be unforgettable."[63] The composition Rain Tree Sketch II, which was to be Takemitsu's final piano piece, was also written that year and subtitled "In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen".
Influence of DebussyEdit
Takemitsu frequently expressed his indebtedness to Claude Debussy, referring to the French composer as his "great mentor".[65] As Arnold Whittall puts it:
Given the enthusiasm for the exotic and the Orient in these [Debussy and Messiaen] and other French composers, it is understandable that Takemitsu should have been attracted to the expressive and formal qualities of music in which flexibility of rhythm and richness of harmony count for so much.[66]
For Takemitsu, Debussy's "greatest contribution was his unique orchestration which emphasizes colour, light and shadow ... the orchestration of Debussy has many musical focuses." He was fully aware of Debussy's own interest in Japanese art, (the cover of the first edition of La mer, for example, was famously adorned by Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa).[67] For Takemitsu, this interest in Japanese culture, combined with his unique personality, and perhaps most importantly, his lineage as a composer of the French musical tradition running from Rameau and Lully through Berlioz in which colour is given special attention, gave Debussy his unique style and sense of orchestration.[68]
During the composition of Green (November Steps II, for orchestra, 1967: "steeped in the sound-color world of the orchestral music of Claude Debussy")[69] Takemitsu said he had taken the scores of Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and Jeux to the mountain villa where both this work and November Steps I were composed. For Oliver Knussen, "the final appearance of the main theme irresistibly prompts the thought that Takemitsu may, quite unconsciously, have been attempting a latter-day Japanese Après-midi d'un Faune".[70] Details of orchestration in Green, such as the prominent use of antique cymbals, and tremolandi harmonies in the strings, clearly point to the influence of Takemitsu's compositional mentor, and of these works in particular.[71]
In Quotation of Dream (1991), direct quotations from Debussy's La Mer and Takemitsu's earlier works relating to the sea are incorporated into the musical flow ("stylistic jolts were not intended"), depicting the landscape outside the Japanese garden of his own music.[72]
MotivesEdit
Several recurring musical motives can be heard in Takemitsu's works. In particular the pitch motive E♭–E–A can be heard in many of his later works, whose titles refer to water in some form (Toward the Sea, 1981; Rain Tree Sketch, 1982; I Hear the Water Dreaming, 1987).
Example 5. Various examples of Takemitsu's S–E–A motive, derived from the German spelling of the notes E♭, E, A ("Es–E–A")
When spelt in German (Es–E–A), the motive can be seen as a musical "transliteration" of the word "sea". Takemitsu used this motive (usually transposed) to indicate the presence of water in his "musical landscapes", even in works whose titles do not directly refer to water, such as A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977; see ex. 5).[73]
Musique concrèteEdit
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During Takemitsu's years as a member of the Jikken Kōbō, he experimented with compositions of musique concrète (and a very limited amount of electronic music, the most notable example being Stanza II for harp and tape written later in 1972).[74] In Water Music (1960), Takemitsu's source material consisted entirely of sounds produced by droplets of water. His manipulation of these sounds, through the use of highly percussive envelopes, often results in a resemblance to traditional Japanese instruments, such as the tsuzumi and nō ensembles.[75]
Aleatory techniquesEdit
One aspect of John Cage's compositional procedure that Takemitsu continued to use throughout his career, was the use of indeterminacy, in which performers are given a degree of choice in what to perform. As mentioned previously, this was particularly used in works such as November Steps, in which musicians playing traditional Japanese instruments were able to play in an orchestral setting with a certain degree of improvisational freedom.[21]
A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden
However, he also employed a technique that is sometimes called "aleatory counterpoint"[76] in his well-known orchestral work A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (1977, at [J] in the score),[77] and in the score of Arc II: i Textures (1964) for piano and orchestra, in which sections of the orchestra are divided into groups, and required to repeat short passages of music at will. In these passages the overall sequence of events is, however, controlled by the conductor, who is instructed about the approximate durations for each section, and who indicates to the orchestra when to move from one section to next. The technique is commonly found in the work of Witold Lutosławski, who pioneered it in his Jeux vénitiens.[76]
Film musicEdit
Takemitsu's contribution to film music was considerable; in under 40 years he composed music for over 100 films,[78] some of which were written for purely financial reasons (such as those written for Noboru Nakamura). However, as the composer attained financial independence, he grew more selective, often reading whole scripts before agreeing to compose the music, and later surveying the action on set, "breathing the atmosphere" whilst conceiving his musical ideas.[79]
One notable consideration in Takemitsu's composition for film was his careful use of silence (also important in many of his concert works), which often immediately intensifies the events on screen, and prevents any monotony through a continuous musical accompaniment. For the first battle scene of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, Takemitsu provided an extended passage of intense elegiac quality that halts at the sound of a single gunshot, leaving the audience with the pure "sounds of battle: cries screams and neighing horses".[80]
Takemitsu attached the greatest importance to the director's conception of the film; in an interview with Max Tessier, he explained that, "everything depends on the film itself ... I try to concentrate as much as possible on the subject, so that I can express what the director feels himself. I try to extend his feelings with my music."[81]
LegacyEdit
In a memorial issue of Contemporary Music Review, Jō Kondō wrote, "Needless to say, Takemitsu is among the most important composers in Japanese music history. He was also the first Japanese composer fully recognized in the west, and remained the guiding light for the younger generations of Japanese composers."[32]
Composer Peter Lieberson shared the following in his program note to The Ocean that has no East and West, written in memory of Takemitsu: "I spent the most time with Toru in Tokyo when I was invited to be a guest composer at his Music Today Festival in 1987. Peter Serkin and composer Oliver Knussen were also there, as was cellist Fred Sherry. Though he was the senior of our group by many years, Toru stayed up with us every night and literally drank us under the table. I was confirmed in my impression of Toru as a person who lived his life like a traditional Zen poet."[82]
On the death of his friend, the pianist Roger Woodward composed "In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu" for unaccompanied violoncello. Woodward [83] recalled concerts with Takemitsu in Australia, the Decca Studios and Roundhouse, London and at the 1976 ' Music Today' Festival, with Kinshi Tsuruta and Katsuya Yokoyama; Takemitu's dedication of "For Away", "Corona" (London Version) and "Undisturbed Rest" and of the inspirational leadership he provided Woodward's generation: " From all composers with whom I ever worked it was Toru Takemitsu who understood the inner workings of music and sound on a level unmatched by anyone else. His profound humility concealed an immense knowledge of Occidental and Oriental cultures which greatly extended historical contributions of Debussy and Messiaen."
In the foreword to a selection of Takemitsu's writings in English, conductor Seiji Ozawa writes: "I am very proud of my friend Toru Takemitsu. He is the first Japanese composer to write for a world audience and achieve international recognition."[84]
Awards and honoursEdit
Takemitsu won awards for composition, both in Japan and abroad,[85][86][87] including the Prix Italia for his orchestral work Tableau noir in 1958, the Otaka Prize in 1976 and 1981, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award in 1987 (for the film score Ran) and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1994 (for Fantasma/Cantos).[2] In Japan, he received the Film Awards of the Japanese Academy for outstanding achievement in music, for soundtracks to the following films:
1979 Empire of Passion (愛の亡霊)
1985 Fire Festival (film)
1986 Ran (乱)
1990 Rikyu (利休)
1996 Sharaku (写楽)
He was also invited to attend numerous international festivals throughout his career, and presented lectures and talks at academic institutions across the world. He was made an honorary member of the Akademie der Künste of the DDR in 1979, and the American Institute of Arts and Letters in 1985. He was admitted to the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1985, and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1986. He was the recipient of the 22nd Suntory Music Award (1990). Posthumously, Takemitsu received an Honorary Doctorate from Columbia University early in 1996 and was awarded the fourth Glenn Gould Prize in fall 1996.
The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, intended to "encourage a younger generation of composers who will shape the coming age through their new musical works", is named after him.[7]
WritingsEdit
Takemitsu, Tōru (1995). Confronting Silence. Fallen Leaf Press. ISBN 0-914913-36-0.
Takemitsu, Tōru, with Cronin, Tania and Tann, Hilary, "Afterword", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer, 1989), 205–214, (subscription access) JSTOR 833411
Takemitsu, Tōru, (trans. Adachi, Sumi with Reynolds, Roger), "Mirrors", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 30, no. 1 (Winter, 1992), 36–80, (subscription access) JSTOR 833284
Takemitsu, Tōru, (trans. Hugh de Ferranti) "One Sound", Contemporary Music Review, vol. 8, part 2, (Harwood, 1994), 3–4, (subscription access) doi:10.1080/07494469400640021
Takemitsu, Tōru, "Contemporary Music in Japan", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer, 1989), 198–204 (subscription access) JSTOR 833410
CitationsEdit
^ McKenzie, Don, "Review: [Untitled] Reviewed Work(s): To the Edge of Dream, for Guitar and Orchestra", Notes, 2nd Ser., vol. 46, no. 1. (Music Library Association, September 1989), 230.
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^ a b Coburn, Steven. "Toru Takemitsu, Artist Biography". AllMusic.
^ Erickson, Matthew (11 December 2015). "The riotous inventiveness of Takehisa Kosugi". Frieze (176).
^ Kaneda, Miki (20 December 2007). "Electroacoustic Music in Japan: The Persistence of the DIY Model". University of California at Berkeley. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
^ "Takemitsu, Toru", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, eds. Michael Kennedy and Joyce Bourne Kennedy, (Oxford, 2013), Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press (subscription access).
^ a b "Toru Takemitsu Composition Award". Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation.
^ a b c d e f g h i Takemitsu, Tōru, "Contemporary Music in Japan", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 2, (Summer 1989), 3.
^ Kanazawa, Masakata (2001). "Japan, §IX, 2(i): Music in the period of Westernization: Western music and Japan up to 1945". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
^ Quoted in Ohtake 1993, 3.
^ Fujii, Koichi (2004). "Chronology of early electroacoustic music in Japan: What types of source materials are available?". Organised Sound. Cambridge University Press. 9 (1): 63–77 [64–66]. doi:10.1017/S1355771804000093. S2CID 62553919.
^ Thom Holmes (2008), "Early Electronic Music in Japan", Electronic and experimental music: technology, music, and culture (3rd ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 106, ISBN 978-0-415-95781-6, retrieved 4 June 2011
^ Schlüren, Christoph, "Review: Peter Burt, 'The Music of Toru Takemitsu' (Cambridge 2001)", Tempo no. 57, (Cambridge, 2003), 65.
^ "Takemitsu, Toru", Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music, ed. Michael Kennedy (Oxford 2004), 722, ISBN 978-0-19-860884-4.
^ Burt, 71.
^ a b c Takemitsu, Tōru [with Tania Cronin and Hilary Tann], "Afterword", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 1989), 205–207.
^ See Burt, 96 and Takemitsu, "Afterword", 212.
^ Smaldone, Edward, "Japanese and Western Confluences in Large-Scale Pitch Organization of Tōru Takemitsu's November Steps and Autumn", Perspectives of New Music, vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer, 1989), 217.
^ a b Burt, 112.
^ Burt, 111.
^ Takemitsu, Mirrors, 69–70.
^ Burt, 128–129.
^ Takemitsu, "Afterword", 210.
^ Burt, 133 and 160
^ Takemitsu, "Notes on November Steps", Confronting Silence, 83
^ Anderson, Julian, liner notes to Toru Takemitsu, Arc/Green, performed by London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen/Rolf Hind, SINF CD3-2006.
^ Burt, 118–124
^ a b Kondō, Jō "Introduction: Tōru Takemitsu as I remember him", Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 21, Iss. 4, (December 2002), 1–3.
^ Takemitsu, "Dream and Number", Confronting Silence, 112.
^ Koozin 2002, 22.
^ Preface to score of Rain Coming (1982), quoted in Burt, 176.
^ jirikylian.com; Retrieved 6 April 2013]
^ Burt, p. 153
^ Takemitsu, "Mirror and Egg", Confronting Silence, 91 and 96.
^ Kozinn, Allan. "Toru Takemitsu, 65, Introspective Composer Whose Music Evokes East and West, Is Dead", The New York Times. New York City, 21 February 1996.
^ Untranslated. Tōru Takemitsu and Kenzaburo Oe, Opera wo tsukuru, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1990.
^ "A Memoir of Tōru Takemitsu By Asaka Takemitsu".
^ Koozin 1991, 124.
^ Anderson, i
^ Takemitsu, "Nature and Music", Confronting Silence, 5.
^ Knussen, Oliver, Liner notes to Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream, performed by Paul Crossley/Peter Serkin/London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen, Deutsche Grammophon: Echo 20/21 453 495–2.
^ Burt, 31 and 272.
^ Takemitsu, Tōru, "One Sound", Contemporary Music Review vol. 8, part 2,, trans. Hugh de Ferranti, (Harwood, 1994), 3–4.
^ Day, Andrea, "Ma", Buildings & Cities in Japanese History, Columbia University Website, accessed 31 May 2007 [1]
^ Takemitsu, "One Sound", 4.
^ Poirer, Alain, Tōru Takemitsu, (Paris, 1996), 67–68.
^ Burt, 167 and Nuss, Steven, "Looking Forward, looking back: Influences of the Gagaku Tradition in the Music of Toru Takemitsu", Music of Japan Today: Tradition and Innovation, (lecture transcribed by E. Michael Richards, 1992) "Steven Nuss 1992". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 2 June 2007. .
^ a b Burt, 155–156.
^ See for example Burt, 34.
^ a b c Koozin 1991, 125.
^ a b Takemitsu, Tōru, "The Passing of Nono, Feldman and Messiaen", Confronting Silence—Selected Writings, trans./ed. Yoshiko Kakudo and Glen Glasgow, (Berkeley, 1995), 139–141.
^ Burt, 154
^ Takemitsu, Confronting Silence, 36–38.
^ Whittall, Arnold, Liner notes to Takemitsu: Garden Rain, performed by Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Deutsche Grammophon: Echo 20/21 Series 00289 477 5382.
^ Durand Cie Edition 1905: see Lesure, François (2001). "Debussy, Claude, §6: Debussy and currents of ideas". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
^ Takemitsu, Tōru, "Dream and Number", Confronting Silence, 110.
^ Frank, Andrew, "Review: Orchestral and Instrumental Music: Tōru Takemitsu: Green", Notes, 2nd ser., vol. 33, no. 4 (June 1977), 934.
^ Quoted in Anderson, i.
^ Knussen, 5–6.
^ See Burt, 45.
^ a b Rae, Charles Bodman (2001). "Lutosławski, Witold, §5: Stylistic maturity, 1960–79". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
^ Takemitsu, Tōru, A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden, (Editions Salabert, 1977), 20.
^ Richie, Donald, "Notes on the Film Music of Takemitsu Tōru", Contemporary Music Review, vol. 21, iss. 4, 5–16 (London, 2002), 5.
^ Richie, 5.
^ Tessier, Max, "Takemitsu: Interview". Cinejap, (Paris, 1978), 1.
^ "Peter Lieberson: The Ocean that has No West and No East (1997)" (program notes). Wise Music Group.
^ Woodward, 322-333,586.
^ Takemitsu, Tōru, "Foreword", Confronting Silence, (California, 1995), vii
^ Wilson, Charles, "Review: Peter Burt, The Music of Toru Takemitsu", Music Analysis, 23/i (Oxford: 2004), 130.
^ Burton, Anthony, "Takemitsu, Tōru", The Oxford Companion to Music, ed. Alison Latham, (Oxford University Press, 2011), Oxford Reference Online, (subscription access).
Burt, Peter (2001). The Music of Toru Takemitsu. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-78220-1.
Koozin, Timothy (Winter 1991). "Octatonicism in Recent Solo Piano Works of Tōru Takemitsu". Perspectives of New Music. 29 (1): 124–140. doi:10.2307/833071. JSTOR 833071.
Koozin, Timothy (2002). "Traversing distances: Pitch organization, gesture and imagery in the late works of T l ru Takemitsu". Contemporary Music Review. 21 (4): 17–34. doi:10.1080/07494460216671. ISSN 0749-4467. S2CID 194056784.
Ohtake, Noriko (1993). Creative sources for the Music of Toru Takemitsu. Scolar Press. ISBN 0-85967-954-3.
Kreidy, Ziad (2009). Takemitsu à l'écoute de l'inaudible. L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-07763-8.
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Robinson, Elizabeth A. (May 2011). Voice, itinerant, and air: a performance and analytical guide to the solo flute works of Toru Takemitstype=Dortor of Arts (PDF) (Thesis). Ball State University.
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Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works
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Die Halbmarathon-Weltmeisterschaften 1992 wurden am 20. September 1992 im Rahmen des Great North Runs ausgetragen. Es war die Premiere der offiziell als IAAF World Half Marathon Championships bezeichneten Wettkämpfe, die seitdem im jährlichen Turnus, ab 2010 im zweijährlichen Turnus, stattfinden.
Während die Teamwertung, für die Ergebnisse der jeweils besten drei Läufer bzw. Läuferinnen eines Landes addiert werden, auch heute Teil der Veranstaltung ist, fand das Rennen der männlichen Junioren nur in den ersten beiden Jahren statt.
Die Strecke war ein Punkt-zu-Punkt-Kurs zwischen den Städten Newcastle upon Tyne und South Shields mit einem Netto-Gefälle von 30,5 Höhenmetern.
Ergebnisse
Einzelwertung Männer
Teilnehmer aus Deutschland: Steffen Dittmann (Platz 44, 1:03:34), Kurt Stenzel (Platz 56, 1:04:24), Axel Kripschock (Platz 66, 1:04:45), Rainer Wachenbrunner (Platz 76, 1:05:24)
Teamwertung Männer
Die deutsche Mannschaft belegte den 13. Platz.
Einzelwertung Frauen
Weitere Teilnehmerinnen aus Deutschland: Kerstin Preßler (Platz 34, 1:13:00), Gabriela Wolf (Platz 41, 1:13:28), Andrea Fleischer (Platz 59, 1:15:17). Teilnehmerinnen aus der Schweiz: Isabella Moretti (Platz 55, 1:14:25), Nelly Glauser (Platz 64, 1:15:58).
Teamwertung Frauen
Die deutsche Mannschaft belegte den siebten Platz.
Einzelwertung Junioren
Teilnehmer aus Deutschland: Dirk Berger (Platz 14, 1:09:18), Christoph Melcher (Platz 18, 1:10:41), Jan Diekow (Platz 20, 1:13:11), Dirk Schinkoreit (Platz 21, 1:13:51), Tobias Lindenmayer (Platz 23, 1:14:15)
Teamwertung Junioren
Die deutsche Mannschaft belegte den vierten Platz.
Weblinks
IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 1999
1992
Leichtathletikveranstaltung 1992
Laufveranstaltung im Vereinigten Königreich
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With the first day of summer fast approaching, you may want to make plans to visit Universal Theme Park this year. The park has announced the official opening of its star attraction, Jurassic World – The Ride for this summer season. The details so far are inadequate, so we are pleased to announce that Universal Studios Hollywood has released a slew of news updates on the upcoming ride that we will be digesting today.
The course they created goes from the cinema screen to the cinema theme park. His course aims to immerse the guest in carefully designed surroundings featuring the famous Jurassic dinos, including new favorite favorites created exclusively by Jurassic World Movie for Universal Movies and Amblin Entertainment.
The new ride brings the huge scale of theme park movies using the incredible brains of Universal Creative. The Oscar-winning special effects visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm, Ltd., are about to make the trip, so you know it will be a good thing.
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The ride will have a story as you go through the experience in a Jurassic World . we saw in the movies. In the new attraction, expect to see new dinosaurs sheltered in a lush prehistoric backdrop, powered by a revolutionary technology specifically built to work with this incredible attraction. Jurassic World – The Ride will be a totally immersive experience, welcoming you to the actual world created by the workshop of the Jurassic World . movies. When you board the ride, you'll be greeted by a stone landscaping, alongside iconic contemporary pillars illuminated by flashing flames, proudly displaying the brand's logo of the franchise in their trademark script.
You will not be bored in queue either. Universal is setting up a series of monitors that will broadcast short films about dinos living here more than 65 million years ago. While waiting to see them, you can learn more about the creatures presented in this exciting new course.
After braving the line, you will have to brave the ride. You will be put on rafts specially designed to navigate through dense and lush vegetation. The scenes you will encounter contain dangerous dinosaurs doing things at arm's length from you. There will also be some really big docile dinos on the stage. The Stegosaurus and Parasaurolophus, to name a few, will feed as usual when their quiet lives will be transformed rapidly when predatory carnivores, Velocirapator and Dilophosaurus, begin to wreak havoc while trying to destroy the biggest animals to feed.
Do not forget the T-Rex. He was the unequivocal star of all the favorite movies of the fans. T-Rex will make an appearance in the new carousel when he arrives to face another giant dinosaur. The raft on which you will find will then flow in a dangerous waterfall of 24 meters. The waterfall is designed to be your only means of evacuation, so you have no choice but to take the plunge.
A new Sophisticated Raptor Encounter will be located next to the merry-go-round, where Blue, Velociraptor, the beloved and the deadliest, and some of his friends will engage you directly. My heart is already beating faster. In addition to the arena and the attraction of the raptors, there will be a space Dino Play for children where they can learn about the dinosaurs through excavations on site including giant dinosaur fossils . This news comes directly from Universal Studios.
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Small-town lawyer Taylour Dixxon meets Sarah Cockrell Baines, a New Jersey socialite and millionairess, and their budding friendship begins with promise. However, soon after they meet, Sarah is arrested for the murder of her husband.
When Taylour volunteers to defend Sarah, she has no idea that her struggling solo law practice in the sleepy, fictional, small town of Marlinsville, Texas, will be turned upside down. From a lovable, adolescent nephew who moves in with her, to a hired assassin who is determined to hide the truth, and a handsome Texas Ranger who becomes the object of affection in a love triangle between the two friends, Taylour's life will never be the same.
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Looking leaner and grayer than he did before his arrest in October on 43 counts of racketeering, mail fraud, and other charges, McLaughlin sat in silence alongside his attorney, Michael Armstrong, who said he still needed more time to sift through the records. "The mountain is still there, we are still working on it," Armstrong told U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas who set a new March 1st court date to assess the case's status. "We'll see then if the mountain has been conquered," said Karas. Assistant U.S. attorney Daniel Braun, who is prosecuting the government's case did not object to the delay.
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Overtime or the time that an employee has worked beyond the regular 40 hour work week is a necessity in some cases and maybe a miss-management of time in others. Whatever be the case, it is highly essential that businesses are able to manage this over time in a proper way so that they can reduce any unnecessary cost and manage the bottom line more effectively. Proper planning, as well as scheduling, can help in reducing the need for any employee to work more hours than what is expected of him/her.
Good overtime management will help to define as well as configure the overtime settings with a minimum and maximum overtime hours, calculation of weekly off over time as well as holiday overtime hours. It also helps the person who has the privilege to approve or disapprove the overtime to do a study of the total overtime hours done by an employee and ensure that it is in line with the rules and regulations set by the company's handbook. In addition to this, overtime management software can also help the company by providing a compromised overtime report that will give the complete details of work hours, weekly off hours, OT, holiday OT hours, etc.
The implementation of overtime management can be done as per the location or as per the department.
Overtime Management for a Particular Location: This is the type of overtime management software that you need to use if you have offices in different locations. There will one particular person in each location who are made responsible for the management of the overtime approvals in that particular location. In such cases, the overtime request of any employee working in that particular location will be sent to that respective individual and approval will be at his/her discretion.
Overtime Management for a Particular Department: In this type of overtime management software, the overtime approvals are sent to the department heads irrespective of which location the employee will be working at. It is very useful in businesses which have multiple branches and are able to leverage the employees and move them to other branches as per the work requirement.
Overtime Management for Location & Department: This is a combination of both the types mentioned above. When there is an overtime approval request, then it is initially sent to the Head of a particular branch and later they send it to the respective department head who can approve it based on the business need and/or requirement.
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