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Fury vs Joshua News Why Joshua vs Wilder didn't happen – Hearn
Why Joshua vs Wilder didn't happen – Hearn
Right now the biggest fight in boxing is an all-British showdown between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. But just over 12 months ago it was the thought of Joshua vs Deontay Wilder which had fight fans everywhere salivating.
Back then, in the early part of 2019, both Joshua (now 23-1) and Wilder (now 42-1-1) were both still undefeated and between them held all the major world heavyweight title belts. The dream of a blockbusting showdown to unify the titles loomed. large.
Fledgling streaming service DAZN – with whom Hearn's Matchroom has a $1billion eight-year deal – reportedly made Wilder a huge $100million offer in March 2019 – $20million to fight Dominic Breazeale followed by $40million for each fight of a double-header against Joshua.
But the offer was turned down and Joshua and Wilder have yet to meet inside a ring – maybe now they never will. Hearn, speaking to Chris Mannix on the SI Boxing Podcast, explained why he thinks the fight didn't happen.
"We've been back and forward about the Wilder negotiations for so long. But I've been in there. I was trying to speak to people on the phone, I was sending the e-mails, I had a couple of meetings with these people. I know deep down they didn't want that fight at that time. I'm not saying that Wilder was scared – Wilder might not even have known.
"But sometimes, you get the flavour where you think you're banging your head. There were times during that period sometimes I where I was sending like three, four, five emails a week or making a phone call – and I would not hear back. And then I'd see an article on Boxing Scene saying 'Hearn don't want the fight' and I'm thinking 'am I going mad here?'"
Hearn noted that in comparison with that ultimately failed venture, negotiations to get to a stage where Fury vs Joshua is even agreed in principle for a double-header in 2021 were much easier, explaining: "I think they were because genuinely both teams, both guys, want the fight."
He went on: "In this instance really what you had to overcome here is Team Fury is a big team with many different people involved, on the AJ side it's AJ and he's my boss – it's me, and it's his management team. But generally in terms of negotiations, you're dealing with me. But it doesn't matter how many people are on one team, if you want the fight you make the fight happen.
"And everybody I think just realises, especially coming through the pandemic, we have to do it. Whether you like it or not we've got to do it – we're idiots if we don't do it. And Fury wants it and Joshua wants it. And there's so much money in the fight – whether you're in it for greed or ego or legacy – it ticks every box. And that's why I'm very confident that even with a couple of hurdles to overcome, we will have it done."


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Negligence, OHS
Negligence claims relating to PTSD
Date: May 14, 2018Author: M. Eburn 2 Comments
It is well known that members of the emergency services are exposed to multiple traumatic events over their career and this makes them susceptible to psychological injury including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It might also be accepted that within these services that 'it's not in the culture to discuss your mental health with other … officers'. Admitting that one is having trouble coping may not only bring peer pressure, it may limit further career opportunities and even tenure in the job that may be central to a person's identity. The dilemma of having to take steps to care for a worker, and that means both their physical and mental health, whilst respecting an adult's right to privacy and to make their own health care decisions has been recognised by the courts, not necessarily to the employees benefit.
The most recent case is [Name omitted] v State of New South Wales [2018] NSWDC 119 that in turn relied on an earlier decision in Hegarty v Queensland Ambulance Service [2007] QCA 366.
The plaintiff was a police officer with NSW Police from 6 May 2003 until her discharge on 7 June 2012. We don't need to detail the events suffice to say that she attended many traumatic events that exposed her to scenes of death, injury and violence. She developed symptoms of psychiatric injury and took time off work and received workers compensation for time off.
Workers compensation is a no fault scheme. The claimant does not have to prove negligence but the amount of compensation payable is strictly limited by the relevant legislation. In 2014 she began an action against the State, on behalf of NSW Police, alleging her injuries were caused by or aggravated by negligence or a lack of reasonable care, by the Police. A claim for negligence can lead to more generous awards than workers compensation but does require proof of negligence.
In this case the plaintiff alleged that the Police Force was negligent [342] in that it failed to take '… active measures to avoid the risk of further psychological injury to the plaintiff …' The difficulty in saying that the police failed to take action such as that described, is that it requires the police force (or any employer) to know that action is required. The court referred to comments made by Keane JA of the Queensland Court of Appeal in Hegarty v Queensland Ambulance Service [2007] QCA 366. Keane JA (as he then was, he's now a judge on the High Court of Australia) said:
[41] … It must be said immediately that, while an employer owes the same duty to exercise reasonable care for the mental health of an employee as it has for the employees' physical well-being, special difficulties may attend the proof of cases of negligent infliction of psychiatric injury. In such cases, the risk of injury may be less apparent than in cases of physical injury. Whether risk is perceptible at all may in the end depend on the vagaries and ambiguities of human expression and comprehension. … Whether a response to a perceived risk is reasonably necessary to ameliorate that risk is also likely to be tendered with a greater degree of uncertainty; the taking of steps likely to reduce the risk of injury to mental health may be more debatable in terms of their likely efficacy than the mechanical alteration of the physical environment in which the employee works…
[43] The area of debate in the present case concerned the extent to which the defendant was duty-bound to ensure that its superior officers should intervene with individual ambulance officers in relation to possible signs of deterioration in their mental health. The private and personal nature of psychological illness, and the consequential difficulties which attend the discharge of an employee's duty in this respect, must be acknowledged as important considerations. The dignity of employees, and their entitlement to be free of harassment and intimidation, are also relevant to the content of the duty asserted by the plaintiff. Issues of some complexity arise in relation to when and how intervention by an employer to prevent mental illness should occur, and the likelihood that such intervention would be successful in ameliorating the plaintiff's problems.
[44] … The plaintiff's case means that the employee must be concerned, not only with non-performance by the employee as an employee, but also of possible episodes of unhappiness in the employee's private life. It is not self‑evidently necessary or desirable that employees' private lives should be subject to an employer's scrutiny.
[45] Issues didn't necessarily arise, however, as to their identification of a sufficient basis for the making of a suggestion by the defendant that the plaintiff seeks psychological assessment and treatment. The resolution of this issue is fraught with difficulties peculiar to cases of psychiatric injury. In cases of apprehended psychiatric injury, unlike cases concerned with the amelioration of physical risk in the workplace, important values of human dignity, autonomy and privacy are involved in the formulation of a reasonable system of identification of psychiatric problems which may warrant an employer's intervention in the making of a decision to intervene. The employee may not welcome intrusion by a supervisor, which suggests that the employee is manifesting signs of psychiatric problems to the extent that help should be sought, especially if those problems are having no adverse effect upon the employee's performance of his or her duties at work.
[46] Employees may well regard such an intrusion as an invasion of privacy. Employees may rightly regard such an intrusion as a gross impertinence by a fellow employee, even one who is in a supervisory position. An employee is known to be at risk of psychiatric injury, prospects of promotion may be adversely affected and questions may arise as to the entitlement, or even obligation, of the employer to terminate the employment. Employees who are ambitious, and eager for promotion, and whose signs of dysfunction might equally be signs of frustrated ambition, might rightly be deeply resentful of suggestions which reflect an adverse assessment of the employee's ability or performance and prospects of promotion. Such employees can be expected to pursue such remedies as may be available for their grievance over the intrusion. Dissatisfaction or resentments of this kind may give rise to industrial relations issues for the employer, as well as defamation issues for other employees. A conclusion that an employee has acted unreasonably in failing to recommend psychological assessment and treatment cannot be made without recognising that the employer's decision must be made in a social, economic and legal context which includes these considerations."
Given that symptoms of mental illness may be different too, and personal to the injured person, an employer cannot take steps if the employee does not disclose their issues. In this case, according to Mahony DCJ (at [378]) the plaintiff's claims relied:
…on the following failures of the defendant … once the plaintiff had been identified as an officer at risk, namely:
To follow the PMO and that of the police psychologist's advice in 2006 to ensure the plaintiff undertook a course of psychological counselling, and to appoint a mutually acceptable officer to mentor and monitor the plaintiff's welfare;
The failure in 2009 to follow up the [Local Area Command's] … own reporting system, and its standard operating procedure, having identified the plaintiff as an officer who had attended five or more critical incidents.
But the judge found (at [383]):
The plaintiff had lied to the PMO by understating her psychological problems, in order to get her appointments back. This was described as being "result driven". She also would not have gone to the EAP at this time, unless directed to do so, and there was no power to direct her to do so.
Further (at [386]) 'It was the plaintiff's decision to return to full-time duties …' though she did make 'a number of applications to transfer away from general duties, none of her applications were successful.' Finally under the procedures of the Local Area Command she was identified as a person at risk and she was contacted and made aware of assistance available to police through the Employee Assistance Program. The plaintiff advised that she was seeking independent assistance (see [388]) but despite making appointments for assistance, she did not keep them and did not advise any of her superiors that she was 'not in fact seeking counselling. Nor did she seek any medical treatment for her psychological problems until June 2011' ([389]).
The judge said (at [394]-[395] and [400]):
It is clear that the plaintiff did not make a candid disclosure as to the extent of her psychological problems to the PMO or to the police psychologist in 2006. I accept the submission made on her behalf that that was "result driven", namely, she wanted her appointments back and to return to full-time general duties work. Notwithstanding the recommendations made by both the psychologist and the PMO, the defendant was not aware of the full extent of her psychological condition at that time.
I also accept on the balance of probabilities, that from the plaintiff's perspective, and that of other low ranked officers in the Police Force, there was a stigma attached to disclosing mental health problems. Such disclosure could affect both prospects of promotion and relationships with other officers with whom they had to work. However, the plaintiff had disclosed psychological problems in her workers compensation application in 2006, her claim for closed period workers compensation had ultimately been accepted and she had subsequently been certified as fit to return to full duties by the PMO. At no time thereafter did she report psychological problems arising from her work as a police officer…
The plaintiff was aware at all times of the support services available, including the EAP, the peer support and Police Chaplain, but at no time sought out those services. Finally, when identified as an officer at risk in 2009 … the plaintiff responded that she was seeking counselling outside work. Once she transferred to the Exhibits Office in 2010, notwithstanding that she suffered an exacerbation of her symptoms on occasions, she was no longer required to attend traumatic incidents.
With regard to negligence and breach of duty of care, His Honour said (at [401]-[402]):
Having regard to that history, I find that it was a reasonable response throughout that period for the defendant to do nothing in relation to the alleged breach identified by the plaintiff, i.e. the failure to implement the recommendations made by the PMO and the police psychologist in 2006. … The defendant had no way of knowing in 2009 and 2010 that the plaintiff continued to suffer a psychological reaction to her exposure to traumatic incidents. The report of Dr Gertler in 2007 advised that her symptoms were diminishing, and when identified as being at risk in May 2009, the plaintiff responded by advising that she was receiving counselling outside of work. The defendant's system for identifying police officers at risk at that time was a reasonable response, and in the circumstances here, it could have done nothing more by way of response to that risk. Any "meeting" with the plaintiff would have provoked no further disclosure of her problems at work.
Further, the evidence established that the plaintiff was suffering personal problems outside of her workplace… For the supervising officers … to intervene in respect of those matters would give rise to the difficulties highlighted by Keane JA in Hegarty as set out above. The plaintiff has therefore failed to establish that the defendant has breached its duty of care to her, and there will be a verdict for the defendant…
I have been mindful of the need to report this case. The list of matters that the plaintiff attended are traumatic to read, let alone to attend. Whilst the report of the decision is public, reporting it here makes it even more public and brings it to the attention of people who may know the plaintiff. That, no doubt, could increase her trauma and injury. I have not mentioned her name, but it's not hard to find. It is however important for readers of this blog to be informed of relevant legal principles, and this case is relevant and identifies lessons other can learn from, or at least should be aware of.
Policing and emergency service work is work that most of the community could not and would not want to undertake. As Gummow and Hayne JJ said in New South Wales v Fahy [2007] HCA 20 at [27]:
Police officers are required to undertake tasks of a kind that few, if any, commercial employers could ask of their employees. Police officers must confront death, injury and destruction. It is they who must waken the sleeping household to tell them of the sudden death or serious injury of another. Ms Fahy herself spoke of incidents she had attended in three years of police service: a fatal plane crash, a fatal industrial accident, numerous fatal car accidents, overdoses and hangings. And as well as confronting the consequences of folly and accident, police officers must confront the wrongdoer bent upon harm to both the police and members of the public. It is tasks of these kinds that are encapsulated (s 6(2)(a), 3(b)) by the anodyne description of a function of the Police Service as being "the protection of persons from injury or death, and property from damage, whether arising from criminal acts or in any other way'. And it is tasks of these kinds that constitute the duties of a police officer and may be the subject of lawful orders to a police officer. To neglect or refuse either to obey those orders or to carry out those duties was a criminal offence. …But the [safe system of work] that was devised had to be one which did not detract from the effectuation of the statutory purposes and functions of the Police Service. Examination of the facts and arguments in this case will reveal that too little attention has hitherto been given to these considerations.
The work carries the risk of psychological injury and that risk cannot be reduced to zero. The work place of a police officer (or ambulance officer/paramedic or fire fighter) cannot be made safe. But all an agency such as NSW Police or Queensland Ambulance can do is put in place reasonable measures to respond to officers in need.
That response requires those officers to disclose their symptoms or to at least answer honestly when asked. Supervisors cannot compel people to take advantage of the support services offered and cannot intrude into people's personal lives to investigate their state of mental wellbeing. As was said in Hegarty:
Employees may well regard such an intrusion as an invasion of privacy. Employees may rightly regard such an intrusion as a gross impertinence by a fellow employee… Employees … might rightly be deeply resentful of suggestions which reflect an adverse assessment of the employee's ability or performance and prospects of promotion… A conclusion that an employee [sic; I think this should say 'employer'] has acted unreasonably in failing to recommend psychological assessment and treatment cannot be made without recognising that the employer's decision must be made in a social, economic and legal context which includes these considerations.
On behalf of the community I thank the officer the subject of this case, and Mr Hegarty for their service and recognise the terrible price they have paid for that service. But that price does not mean that their employer was negligent.
Identifying that a person is at risk or is suffering psychiatric injury requires consideration of matters of utmost privacy. If the employee does not take advantage of assistance that is on offer, or fails to disclose or worse, lies about their situation, there is little an employer can do. We can recognise that there are cultural barriers to such disclosure and that is something the employer should seek to negate (as they did here, see [178]). Given that it is not reasonable or possible to require an employer to 'ensure' that a person seeks assistance or takes advantage of that assistance.
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Andrew Marnie says:
Thank you for this article as a firefighter on a return to work program following a mental health injury that saw me take six months full time leave you have hit the nail on the head when you talk about culture.
In our service I believe that is changing however the pressure not to report is still there. My circumstances where such that I was keeping it quiet as I had applied for a promotion. It got the point where I received a trigger email and literally walked out of the office.
Even now eight months after I am circumspect about how much I tell to who. My direct supervisor has been fantastic but from time to time when talking to a small number of fellow works I wonder what they are thinking 'that I was weak, couldn't hack the pace', etc.
Also I think the think in your second last para should perhaps be thank.
Thanks for your comments and your service. Thank you also for picking up the typo; that's been corrected

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Ein Verlagsprogramm umfasst die Gesamtzahl der Produkte eines Verlags.

Der Programmleiter bzw. der Verleger verantworten dessen Planung; die Vertriebsabteilung und die kaufmännische Leitung haben häufig ein Mitspracherecht. Das Programm besteht in erster Linie aus den Neuerscheinungen (Frontlist) sowie im weiteren Sinne aus den bereits erschienenen Titeln (Backlist). Die Gestaltung eines Verlagsprogramms erfolgt über die Neuerscheinungen, die gewöhnlich ein bis drei Jahre im Voraus geplant werden. Bei Buchverlagen im deutschsprachigen Raum ist ein halbjährlicher Programmrhythmus mit Frühjahrs- und Herbstprogramm üblich. Für jedes Programm wird frühzeitig eine gedruckte oder online bereitgehaltene Programmvorschau für den Buchhandel produziert.

Das Verlagsprogramm ist das wichtigste Instrument zur Gestaltung des Verlagsprofils, das über mittel- und langfristige Zeiträume aufgebaut wird. Gegenüber Buchhandel und Presse erleichtert ein profiliertes Programm den Auftritt, da es im Vornherein eine Erwartungshaltung erzeugt. Zur besseren Verteilung der Aufmerksamkeit bei Buchhandel und Presse werden große Verlagsprogramme mittels Imprints unterteilt. Das Programmprofil strukturiert auch die Vorentscheidungen über neue Titel, die aufgenommen werden, weil sie in das Programm passen, oder abgelehnt, weil für einen vielversprechenden, aber programmfremden Titel ein zusätzlicher Werbeaufwand notwendig wäre.

Literatur
 Dietrich Kerlen: Der Verlag. Lehrbuch der Buchverlagswirtschaft. Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., Stuttgart, 14. Aufl. 2006, ISBN 978-3-7762-1206-8; darin das Kapitel "Programm und Lektorat", S. 69–106.

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With the volume of books published every year, many books are forgotten almost as soon as they are published. This week's column looks back at a handful of recent books that merit another look.
The day music died wasn't when Buddy Holly went down in that now infamous plane crash. The music stopped flowing and swerved into new directions on December 10, 1967, when Otis Redding died in a plane crash in the icy waters of a Wisconsin lake. During his short career, Redding built the reputation of a small Southern studio, Stax, generating a funky and distinct sound whose energy and heat and passion fueled the music of Rufus and Carla Thomas, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and the MGs, and Sam and Dave, among others.
Born the son of a preacher man in Macon, Georgia, Otis Redding discovered his love of rhythm and blues very young, and by the time he was a teenager, he was out singing in local clubs. A rousing storyteller, Ribowsky energetically chronicles Redding's rise from local singer to the King of Soul, as well as his marital difficulties, his personal insecurities and fears, and his reluctance to embrace the fame coming his way, often preferring to work his farm in Macon where he felt most comfortable. Along the way, Ribowsky skillfully weaves in the threads of the songs and albums that were making Redding's career, especially his 1965 hit "Respect," a song that illustrates the singer's fear of losing his marriage in the give-and-take of his rocky relationship with his wife, Zelma.
Ribowsky's fast-paced and entertaining book tells the tale of a man, a time, and a place where black and white musicians, in spite of the racial tensions swirling around them, came together simply by playing the sweet soul music that transcends any divisions.
While Otis Redding gave Stax its signature sound, Aretha Franklin recorded some of her best work at another Southern studio – FAME Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. There, she was famously backed by Duane Allman on "The Weight." In 1999, Franklin teamed with Grammy-award winning music writer David Ritz to pen a memoir, Aretha: From These Roots. When Franklin asked Ritz to collaborate on a second book, he told her that he'd like to review some of the earlier material in depth. Franklin didn't agree with him, and when he expressed his desire to write an independent biography, she wanted to approve it before it was published.
Written without Franklin's blessing, David Ritz's Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin (Little, Brown) draws on some of those early conversations with the singer and her friends and family to provide a revealing, frank, and straightforward account of the Queen of Soul's rapid climb to fame and her almost-as-rapid descent.
In exhaustive detail, Ritz doggedly chronicles Franklin's early heartbreak at age ten when her mother died, as well as the Soul Queen's early marriages. He helpfully traces the ups and downs of Franklin's career. Moving album-by-album, Ritz recounts Franklin's rise to the top of the soul charts in the late '60s, her fall from the throne in the early 1970, as she struggles to find her style in a disco era, her reinvention of herself with the song "Freeway to Love" in the 1980s, and her eventual self-isolation for almost 20 years after the deaths of her father, sisters, and brother. He follows along as she comes out of the shadows once again in 2008 to sing at President Obama's first inauguration and to release a new album in October 2014. Franklin's life is never pretty, and Respect is ultimately a poignant and disappointing tale of a singer who never reached the pinnacle for which she aimed.
The summer of 1964 was marked as much by rioting in the streets as dancin' in the street. President Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 had already cut deeply into the optimism, hope, and anticipation of the early '60s, and the subsequent escalation of the Vietnam War and racial strife in U.S. cities tore that quilt of dreams wide open during the following year. In the midst of this disappointment and strife, however, music brought people of diverse backgrounds together in ways that had never occurred previously and in ways that have seldom happened since.
In Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America (Riverhead), Mark Kurlanksy captures the power of music to bring people together, at least momentarily, in this evocative tale of a song and its enduring impact on American culture. Much as he did in his earlier acclaimed books (like Salt, 1968), Kurlanksy tells a rattling good story as he vividly recreates the birth of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas' "Dancin' in the Street," its immediate popularity, and its long musical afterlife.
When Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, and Mickey Stevenson wrote "Dancin' in the Street," Stevenson had his wife, Kim Weston, in mind as the singer. But, after they invited Reeves to come into the studio to sing the song, and when she laid down an energetic, moving first take, the trio knew this was her song. When it was released in August 1964, it started a slow climb to the top of the Billboard charts. At the end of this long, hot summer marked by urban riots and protests against the war, the song soon took on many meanings. For white audiences, "Dancin' in the Street" simply provided the soundtrack for their hedonistic spirit and was a good-time song. For black audiences, however, "Dancin' in the Street" was an anthem that celebrated the freedom from the social injustices of segregation. By October, 1964, the song had reached the number two spot on the Top 100 chart, confirming its popularity among all audiences.
Much as it provided the musical backdrop to the summer and fall of 1964, "Dancin' in the Street" continues to live in over 35 cover versions by very diverse artists. Kim Weston finally recorded her own take in 1997, and artists like Mick Jagger and David Bowie – who recorded what many have called the best cover ever made – Michael Bolton, the reggae group The Royals, and Joan Baez, among others, have tried their musical hands at covering it. Because the song is so intimately connected to the events of 1964 in Detroit and throughout America, none of these covers has equaled the power of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas' original.
In 1966, a young guitar player named Carlos Santana filled in one night in Bill Graham's famous Fillmore West with an impromptu group of musicians. the rest, as they say, is history. Three years later, Santana and his band mesmerized the crowd at Woodstock with their eleven-minute jam, "Soul Sacrifice." Soon after, the band released its first album, which contained the hit, "Evil Ways," and climbed to #4 on the Billboard charts. The climb to this pinnacle wasn't an easy one, as Santana reveals in his new memoir, The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light, which he co-wrote with Ashley Kahn and Hal Miller (Little, Brown). Although sometimes repetitious, flat-as-pavement, and uninspiring, Santana's story is nevertheless compelling, and he traces the moments from his childhood in his Mexican hometown of Autlán, his earliest gigs at the El Convoy bar in Tijuana, his palpable hunger and thirst as his mother moves her children to the city in search of their father, and his move to San Francisco as a teenager.
Although the life stories of popular musicians continue to fascinate us, we're just as intrigued and perplexed by the lyrics of popular songs. It's likely that few songs have been so scrutinized as the Beatles' songs, and in his new book The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs (Little, Brown), Hunter Davies not only probes the meanings of the Fab Four's songs but also gives us a full behind-the-scenes glimpse at the process of writing the music. For the band, songwriting was a process that could happen anywhere. Songs might begin as a scribble on the back of an envelope, on a napkin, or on hotel stationery. For example, "Help!," "was written to order for the film, and the words to the song are some of the clearest, least evasive that John Lennon had written to that point." In another instance, Davies points out that Lennon thought of the song, "And Your Bird Can Sing," as a "throwaway" and "fancy paper around an empty box." This stunning collection reproduces more than one hundred original handwritten manuscripts of the Beatles' songs.
The hallways of rock and roll history are littered with volumes that move mechanically through a year-by-year chronicle of important events and figures and songs. Noted cultural critic Greil Marcus (Mystery Train) wasn't interested in writing a typical history of rock and roll, however. His provocative The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten Songs, (Yale) re-tells the history of the music through an exploration of ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008. With his typical Gnostic style, he examines the ways that each song moves out of its own time, gathering meaning as it moves through time and is recorded by artists in completely new times and places. These songs often come to have meanings that even the song's creator could not have imagined. For example, he observes that the Teddy Bears' 1958 hit, "To Know Him is to Love Him," took 48 years to find its voice. "When Amy Winehouse sang it in 2006, her music curled around Phil Spector's [who wrote the song], his curled around her, until she found her way back to the beginning of his career, and redeemed it." Thus, Marcus' history captures the unruly nature of rock and roll.
The honky tonks on lower Broadway in Nashville have dashed as many dreams as they have fulfilled. In 120 black-and-white photographs from 1972 through 2011, photographer Henry Horenstein captures the grittiness of these dives and bars in which many careers are staged, as well as the high-glamour backstage of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1970s, in Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music (Norton). Horenstein documents the country music scene in and around Nashville with photos of stars such as Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb, and George Jones, as well as the fans that have stood behind them and propelled them from the small stage to superstardom. In fact, the fans are the real stars of the book, and Horenstein's photos jump off the page as the fans achingly and devotedly support their favorite musician. More than that, though, Horenstein's photos capture a way of life, a way of being in the world that transcends any simple formula. All of this is made possible only by a deeply physical connection to the music animating a fan's heart and soul.
In her admiring and humorous foreword to Marshall Chapman's unforgettable memoir, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller, novelist Lee Smith praises the way that Chapman excels at images that perfectly capture a time, place or way of life.
Ingeniously, Chapman tells the story of her life, and the story of the changing scene of the country music business from the 1970s into the late 1990s, by telling the stories behind 12 of her songs. Now, in They Came to Nashville (Vanderbilt University Press & The Country Music Foundation Press) Chapman invites 15 of her friends — including Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Mary Gauthier, Miranda Lambert, Bobby Bare, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and Willie Nelson — to tell their own tales about how they first heard about Nashville, how they ended up in Nashville, and why they stayed.
Reading these wide-ranging interviews is like sitting in on intimate conversations between old friends as they reminisce about good times and bad in a city where the promise of a music career inspires musicians to persevere doggedly to pursue their dreams.
They Came to Nashville is a fitting tribute to Music City, and it's enough to convince anyone that Marshall Chapman is a musician, singer-songwriter, and writer that you'll want to spend the rest of your life listening to and reading.


Katie Couric's future role on television is still not official though CBS Television Distribution announced it is the top company in the running to distribute Couric's proposed daytime talk show beginning fall 2012. Couric's contract as the anchor of CBS Evening News expires June 4 and before she begins a talk show hosting gig next year, Couric will maintain some on-air news presence by contributing to CBS' 60 Minutes, according to various reports. As part of Couric's contract with CBS, there is a clause attached giving CBS the option to match any offers she may receive before June 4. To date, NBC has indicated interest in distributing Couric's daytime talk show; Warner Bros. has also pitched to be the project distributor. Couric is further involved in developing a multi-platform production company with former NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker, who will serve as CEO and the talk show's executive producer.
Docu-series One Born Every Minute set inside the maternity ward at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio was picked up for a second season by Lifetime Television. The network granted ten new one-hour episodes of the series produced by Reveille. Since its debut on February 1, One Born Every Minute has averaged 831,000 total viewers in its Tuesday 10p time period. The series offers an in-depth look at the drama, humor and emotion of child birth.
BET and Nielsen report the season four finale of The Game on Tuesday night at 10p attracted 4.4 million viewers and also delivered a 3.30 coverage rating. Over its fourth run, The Game reached more than 17 million viewers since the season premiere on January 11.
Bravo is renewing five series offering second season renewals to Top Chef Just Desserts and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills; a third season pick up of Bethenny Ever After; and season four nods to The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Tabatha's Salon Takeover. Additionally, Bravo's Rocco's Dinner Party is set to launch this summer.
Longtime TV actors Hector Elizondo and Nancy Travis both cast in Tim Allen's yet-to-be-titled comedy pilot for ABC, reports EW. Travis nabbed the female lead playing Vanessa, Allen's smart and loving wife while Elizondo will play Allen's boss Ed. Twentieth Century Fox TV is producing the pilot.
Fans of AMC's Mad Men will have to wait until early 2012 for the return of the series in its fifth installment. AMC in a statement yesterday has "officially authorized production of season 5 of Mad Men" though because of an ongoing contract disagreement with series creator Matthew Weiner the production schedule has been pushed back. For its first four seasons, Mad Men launched new episodes during the summer. Mad Men is produced by Lionsgate.
Lou Diamond Phillips tapped to host Military Channel's new movie franchise, An Officer and a Movie on Friday nights starting this week. Phillips will converse with retired and active duty officers who provide expert commentary about the battles depicted in the Hollywood films presented. This Friday at 8p, An Officer and a Movie kicks off with The Great Santini starring Robert Duvall and other movies highlighted include Kelly's Heroes, Hart's War, Windtalkers, Three Kings and The Dirty Dozen among others.
The curtain rises on new E! series The Dance Scene April 10 at 1030p featuring world-renown choreographer and creative director, Laurieann Gibson. Produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions, The Dance Scene showcases Gibson and her group of aspiring dancers and choreographers as they work with top-level performers and celebrities worldwide.
This fall, Discovery Fit & Health launches six new episodes of Dr. G: Medical Examiner as part of a new season. The series follows Jan "Dr. G" Garavaglia, based at the District 9 Medical Examiner's Office in Florida, as she delves into puzzling case files involving untimely deaths. Atlas Media produces the series for Discovery Fit & Health.
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Having a foyer entryway will give your home an incredibly spacious and luxurious look giving you a chance to welcome your visitors generously. Such an area may include a sitting area beside your nice and innovative staircases in addition to the coat hanging racks near the door. If you are looking for inspirations to design your entryway foyer, keep reading the article using your creativity and imagination.
As your entryway will frankly express your personality and inclinations, you should select the elements of your entryway foyer carefully. For example, you can place loungers or sectional sofas at the doorsright-handwith spiral or flights of stairssurrounded by black glass rails to give your foyer an interesting look.
If you have a dark wood front door decorated with frosted glass panels, you can install glossy white natural stone floor with white or creamy walls and plenty of functional and decorative lights to impress your visitors at the first glance.
The architectural columns will increase the decorative look and visual interest of your entryway foyer. Such columns will lead to the living area in an elegant way. Both of the square and round columns will blend perfectly with this area. For a warmer look, you can use a combination of wood and stone floor tiles and stairs with neutral colored walls and thick area rug at the center of the foyer.
For an elegant industrial look, you can design wood mosaic rotunda with industrial looking walls and ceiling. The floor to ceiling windows around your entryway foyer will enhance the natural and airy look of the place. If you can use this area as an open living space, you will spend marvelous times with your family members and guests. There are different ways to make use of such a foyer and attract your visitors' attention, but you should choose only what would fully represent your personality.


(1968- ) Barbados-born author, partly in Canada from late childhood, though she has continued to spend considerable time in Barbados. Her first novel, Redemption in Indigo (2010), is a fantasy Twice-Told from a West African folktale; the novel describes in wryly Feminist terms the attempts of an abandoned husband to restore the status quo; but his powerful wife has been granted by spirit figures a Magic wand known as the Chaos Stick (described in sf-like terms as a device to direct "quantum fluctuations" [see Equipoise]), and will, complicatedly, refuse his wish. At least one Trickster figure appears [for Twice-Told and Trickster see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. A sequel is projected.
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Quest for plunger surface velocity drives innovation in magnetic sensor - Extreme Telematics Corp.
Average plunger velocity historically has been calculated using the well depth and arrival time. This was used for both safety and optimization of plunger lift systems because it was the best we had. At ETC, we knew this was flawed because it did not account for the acceleration of the plunger that so often happens at surface. Unfortunately, the technology to measure plunger velocity didn't exist and the plunger arrival sensors at the time were nowhere near reliable enough to be of any help. We decided we would change that.
In 2010, the plunger arrival sensor consisted of a magnetic pickup, a piece of wire wound around a solid core. As a ferrous piece of metal passed by the coil, it would induce a current that was used to close a switch. The closing of the switch would allow some current to flow from the control system, alerting it that the plunger had arrived. While this helped, it certainly was not as reliable as it needed to be as the electromagnetic coil can often be susceptible to noise from other sources, especially lightning, leading to false detections. Conversely, a slow moving plunger could sneak by undetected because the current produced by the coil is related to the rate of change in the magnetic field. If the field changes too slowly, there isn't enough current to close the switch.
With this technology, we couldn't reliably get a plunger arrival detection, let alone count on using two or more of them to detect the velocity of the plunger as it travelled by. Even if we were able to get a reliable detection, we would then have to deal with errors introduced by different sensitivities (inconsistency in the winding of the wire), position error, and timing by the control system when reading the sensors.
We knew that before we could tackle the issue of measuring surface velocity, we would first have to change the technology in the plunger arrival sensor. That is exactly what we did. Instead of using an electromagnetic coil, we used a magnetic sensor that measured the magnetic field of the earth. This gave us a picture of what a plunger arrival looked like in the magnetic domain, allowed us to filter out the noise, adjust the sensitivity, and make decisions on when the arrival exactly occurred. The Cyclops was the very first smart, magnetic eye for your plunger well.
As we gathered data on various plunger types at various speeds, it became apparent how we would go about detecting the velocity.
Even though each plunger produced a different signature, there were common similarities such as how the waveform would either move positively or negatively and would then reverse direction. As long as the well components did not change position much, the signal would return back to the baseline that it started at. While we could have created a method to determine the velocity based on a single measurement point, it was likely that this would be inaccurate and may require more information about the plunger to give us a useable velocity.
We decided that using multiple sensors spaced out would give us a better way to detect velocity regardless of the style of plunger. With two or more magnetic sensors on the same circuit board, we were able to eliminate timing errors, differences in sensitivity, variable outputs from individual sensors, and timing issues from a control system. We had raw waveforms at our disposal and could make split second calculations to produce an instantaneous velocity as the plunger passed by.
While this may seem easy, it does get quite complicated when using more complex plungers. We had to devise a method that could take these more complex waveforms and pull out a reliable velocity. This led to our plunger velocity detection method that is currently patent pending.
With an initial design, a repeatable method, and a pending patent, we were ready to move towards building a production sensor that would show us something that no other sensor could, the instantaneous surface velocity of a plunger. Surface velocity is one of the most important parameters when it comes to operating a plunger well and with the creation of Sasquatch it is finally available to well operators. Check back in the coming weeks for a new blog on the development of Sasquatch and the various testing that went into it.


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In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans — a single injection of the protein FGF1 is enough to restore blood sugar levels to a healthy range for more than two days. The discovery could lead to a new generation of safer, more effective diabetes drugs. The team found that sustained treatment with the protein doesn't merely keep blood sugar under control, but also reverses insulin insensitivity, the underlying physiological cause of diabetes. Equally exciting, the newly developed treatment doesn't result in side effects common to most current diabetes treatments.
"We want to move this to people by developing a new generation of FGF1 variants that solely affect glucose and not cell growth. If we can find the perfect variation, I think we will have on our hands a very new, very effective tool for glucose control." says Ronald M. Evans, director of Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and corresponding author of the paper.
The team found that sustained treatment with the protein doesn't merely keep blood sugar under control, but also reverses insulin insensitivity, the underlying physiological cause of diabetes. Equally exciting, the newly developed treatment doesn't result in side effects common to most current diabetes treatments.
"Controlling glucose is a dominant problem in our society," says Ronald M. Evans, director of Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and corresponding author of the paper. "And FGF1 offers a new method to control glucose in a powerful and unexpected way."
Type 2 diabetes, which can be brought on by excess weight and inactivity, has skyrocketed over the past few decades in the United States and around the world. Almost 30 million Americans are estimated to have the disease, where glucose builds up in the bloodstream because not enough sugar-carting insulin is produced or because cells have become insulin-resistant, ignoring signals to absorb sugar. As a chronic disease, diabetes can cause serious health problems and has no specific cure. Rather it is managed — with varying levels of success — through a combination of diet, exercise and pharmaceuticals.
Diabetes drugs currently on the market aim to boost insulin levels and reverse insulin resistance by changing expression levels of genes to lower glucose levels in the blood. But drugs, such as Byetta, which increase the body's production of insulin, can cause glucose levels to dip too low and lead to life-threatening hypoglycemia, as well as other side effects.
In 2012, Evans and his colleagues discovered that a long-ignored growth factor had a hidden function: it helps the body respond to insulin. Unexpectedly, mice lacking the growth factor, called FGF1, quickly develop diabetes when placed on a high-fat diet, a finding suggesting that FGF1 played a key role in managing blood glucose levels. This led the researchers to wonder whether providing extra FGF1 to diabetic mice could affect symptoms of the disease.
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Evans' team injected doses of FGF1 into obese mice with diabetes to assess the protein's potential impact on metabolism. Researchers were stunned by what happened: they found that with a single dose, blood sugar levels quickly dropped to normal levels in all the diabetic mice.
"Many previous studies that injected FGF1 showed no effect on healthy mice," says Michael Downes, a senior staff scientist and co-corresponding author of the new work. "However, when we injected it into a diabetic mouse, we saw a dramatic improvement in glucose."
The researchers found that the FGF1 treatment had a number of advantages over the diabetes drug Actos, which is associated with side effects ranging from unwanted weight gain to dangerous heart and liver problems. Importantly, FGF1 — even at high doses — did not trigger these side effects or cause glucose levels to drop to dangerously low levels, a risk factor associated with many glucose-lowering agents. Instead, the injections restored the body's own ability to naturally regulate insulin and blood sugar levels, keeping glucose amounts within a safe range — effectively reversing the core symptoms of diabetes.
"With FGF1, we really haven't seen hypoglycemia or other common side effects," says Salk postdoctoral research fellow Jae Myoung Suh, a member of Evans' lab and first author of the new paper. "It may be that FGF1 leads to a more 'normal' type of response compared to other drugs because it metabolizes quickly in the body and targets certain cell types."
The mechanism of FGF1 still isn't fully understood — nor is the mechanism of insulin resistance — but Evans' group discovered that the protein's ability to stimulate growth is independent of its effect on glucose, bringing the protein a step closer to therapeutic use.
"There are many questions that emerge from this work and the avenues for investigating FGF1 in diabetes and metabolism are now wide open," Evans says. Pinning down the signaling pathways and receptors that FGF1 interacts with is one of the first questions he'd like to address. He's also planning human trials of FGF1 with collaborators, but it will take time to fine-tune the protein into a therapeutic drug.
"We want to move this to people by developing a new generation of FGF1 variants that solely affect glucose and not cell growth," he says. "If we can find the perfect variation, I think we will have on our hands a very new, very effective tool for glucose control."
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Jae Myoung Suh, Johan W. Jonker, Maryam Ahmadian, Regina Goetz, Denise Lackey, Olivia Osborn, Zhifeng Huang, Weilin Liu, Eiji Yoshihara, Theo H. van Dijk, Rick Havinga, Weiwei Fan, Yun-Qiang Yin, Ruth T. Yu, Christopher Liddle, Annette R. Atkins, Jerrold M. Olefsky, Moosa Mohammadi, Michael Downes, Ronald M. Evans. Endocrinization of FGF1 produces a neomorphic and potent insulin sensitizer. Nature, 2014; DOI: 10.1038/nature13540
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ZAGREB, Aug 22, 2020 - The Homeland Movement party said in a statement on Saturday that it supports scientific research of and obligatory education about the crimes of 20th century totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
The opposition party issued the statement on the occasion of the European day of remembrance for victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, August 23, which, it said, is observed in a number of EU countries.
As stressed in the European Parliament resolution of 19 September 2019 on the importance of remembrance for the future of Europe, Europe's tragic past should continue to serve as moral and political inspiration to deal with the challenges of the present.
Communism and Fascism great evils of 20th century
"The totalitarian ideologies Communism and Fascism were a great evil of the 20th century. There is still no sufficient knowledge of the extent of crimes, notably of Yugoslav Communism, in Croatia because mass graves with the remains of our people continue to be discovered. Nobody has answered for those crimes and that is why researchers who investigate Communist crimes should be fully supported in further research," the party said.
"Unfortunately, it took too long for a Zagreb square bearing the name of the Communist dictator to be renamed, which was a civilisational disgrace," the party said.
Nazis and Communists were allies until the German invasion of the Soviet Union, while Communists in Croatia were against Western forces from the start of World War II and they consistently denied the Croat people the right to an independent state until the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union, the party said.
It called for marking the European day of remembrance for victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes during the school year, just as some EU member states mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day during the school year.
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The constitutional protections, as well as the Bail Reform Act (a federal statute), give a defendant the right to request lower bail when the amount initially set by the court is too high to pay.
The Supreme Court has noted that bail and the refusal to set bail also implicate the right to due process found in the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. As a result, the Supreme Court has held that a judge must provide a "compelling governmental interest" for keeping a defendant in jail pending trial (in other words, refusing to set bail). (United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 754-55 (1987).)
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The constitutional protections, as well as the Bail Reform Act (a federal statute), give a defendant the right to request lower bail when the amount initially set by the court is too high to pay. A defendant can request a hearing to seek a bail reduction.
At the hearing, the defendant can argue that the initial bail set by the court is so high that it is effectively a denial of bail and amounts to pretrial detention in jail, even though the defendant is not a flight risk or a threat to the public. (18 USC § 3142 (c)(2).) Although the court must take this argument into consideration, it is not required to set bail at a level that the defendant can easily pay. Courts can set bail high enough "to induce a defendant to go to great lengths to raise the funds without violating" the constitution or the Bail Reform Act. (U.S. v. Szot, 768 F.2d 159 (7thCir., 1985).) As long as the court's actual motive is not to just force the defendant to rot in jail awaiting trial, the court can set bail at any level it can justify.
Once a defendant informs the court, through a bail reduction request or otherwise, that she cannot afford the bail set, the court must specify the reason(s) that the amount set is "an indispensable" condition of release from jail. (U.S. v. Montececon-Zayas, 949 F.2d 548 (1st Cir. 1991).) The court must set out its rationale in writing. (Fed. Rule of App. Proced. 9.)
The Supreme Court has noted that bail and the refusal to set bail also implicate the right to due process found in the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
Just as the defendant has the right to seek a lower bail, the prosecution can request that the court set a higher level of bail based on the risk that the defendant will flee from the jurisdiction or inflict harm upon a victim or other members of the public. (18 USC § 3142 (f).) And, the court may hold a hearing to inquire into the source of bail funds that it suspects may be illegal (proceeds from drug sales, for example). Bail is only one of the conditions that a court may impose in order to grant release of a defendant from jail pending trial. Other conditions include travel restrictions, relinquishing a passport, drug testing, electronic monitoring devices (ankle bracelets), house arrest, supervision and reporting during release, and others.
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On the Court with Tribal Tennis
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Tribal Tennis has been a key part of our extra-curricular programme for many years. Catering for KS1 and KS2 pupils, the club focuses on developing technique, preparing for competitions and learning new skills. Advanced coaching methods improve children's tactical and technical tennis knowledge, whilst incorporating fun and exciting games along the way. The team at Tribal Tennis aim to inspire a higher level of learning from the children by challenging them to build their skills in new and exciting ways.
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Trixi started playing tennis at her local tennis club in Enfield at the age of four. It was here that her love for the sport began, and she has never wanted to leave the court since! Trixi has continued playing tennis, progressing through the ranks, competing and captaining the women's first team at Roehampton University. In 2012, she began working at summer camps for her local club, where she worked with children of all different ages and abilities, before progressing to an assistant coach role.
Trixi joined Teddy and Tribal Tennis as a coach in 2019, seeing this as a great opportunity to develop her coaching skills. She has shared her passion for the sport, as well as her 'winning ways', with the children she teaches – you can see her club medal for this year's Ladies Singles in the photo below.
"I've loved playing tennis ever since I can remember, and I know that passion developed highly due to the coaching I received back then. Now I am in a great position to teach the future generation of tennis players and bring about that same passion." – Trixi
Mark has been a keen sportsman since the age of nine, showing a great enthusiasm for all sports through his junior years, including climbing, badminton and rugby. He now has the 'tennis bug' and will not put down his racket!
Mark began coaching during his time at sixth form, and then during his studies: Sport Psychology & Coaching Sciences at Bournemouth University, where he gained further insight into his own coaching philosophy. Mark started as a Teddy Tennis coach back in 2015, and has since gained experience teaching KS1 and KS2 at Tribal Tennis, seeing this as another challenge to develop his skillset as a coach.
"I believe that delivering enjoyable and educational sessions go hand in hand, when facilitating a child's growth and development." – Mark
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The moment we've all been waiting patiently for is finally here and PASS Data Community Summit registration is now open! We're excited to be opening the doors to the Microsoft data platform community and announcing our lineup of speakers and sessions. Our conference program has been carefully curated to ensure that attendees get the training and resources they need to achieve their goals, wherever they are in their data careers.
I'd like to thank our volunteer program committee, along with Kathi Kellenberger, Marcella McKeown, and Grant Fritchey for their time and dedication in selecting a program that was representative of our diverse data community. PASS Data Community Summit 2021 features over 200 sessions, presented by more than 200 of the industry's top experts from around the world.
There will be more speakers announced over the coming weeks, so please keep an eye on the Summit Speaker page from time to time for the most up-to-date list.
We're also pleased to welcome Microsoft as this year's conference Premier Sponsor. Microsoft has supported the data community since the first-ever Summit and we're looking forward to continuing this relationship. The Microsoft team will be a fundamental part of our program through educational sessions, product deep-dives and announcements, Microsoft-focused workshops, and keynotes unique to Summit.
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We look forward to sharing more details around our events, networking, and speaker panels in the lead up to the conference.
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One of the things I'm most excited about this year is that PASS Data Community Summit is free to attend. This is the first time Summit has been made available as a free event, and it's an opportunity for data pros around the world to enjoy world-class content at no expense. If you haven't attended an event like Summit, this is your chance to experience the training, networking, and support the data community has to offer.
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Prometheus Bound (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης, Promētheús Desmṓtēs) is an Ancient Greek tragedy. In antiquity, it was attributed to Aeschylus, but now is considered by some scholars to be the work of another hand, and perhaps one as late as c. 430 BC. Despite these doubts about its authorship, the play's designation as Aeschylean has remained conventional. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, a Titan who defies the gods and gives fire to mankind, acts for which he is subjected to perpetual punishment.
Prometheus Bound was the first work in a trilogy that also included the plays Prometheus Lyomenos (Prometheus Unbound) and Prometheus Pyrphoros (Prometheus the Fire-Bearer), neither of which has survived. Since the final two dramas of the trilogy have been lost, it is difficult to determine the author's original intention for the work as a whole. This problem is intensified since the date of the trilogy is unknown. A reference (lines 363-372) to the eruption of Mount Aetna in 479 suggests that Prometheus Bound may date from later than this event. Aside from that, however, scholars cannot agree whether the play was written early or late in Aeschylus' career or even whether it is a genuine work of Aeschylus.
The play is composed almost entirely of speeches and contains little action since its protagonist is chained and immobile throughout. At the beginning, Kratos (Strength), Bia (violence), and the smith-god Hephaestus chain the Titan Prometheus to a mountain in the Caucasus, with Hephaestus alone expressing reluctance and pity, and then departing. According to the author, Prometheus is being punished not only for stealing fire, but also for thwarting Zeus's plan to obliterate the human race. This punishment is especially galling since Prometheus was instrumental in Zeus's victory in the Titanomachy.
A chorus of Oceanids appear and attempt to comfort Prometheus by conversing with him. Prometheus cryptically tells them that he knows of a potential marriage that would lead to Zeus's downfall. Oceanus, the Titan father of the Oceanids, commiserates with Prometheus and urges him to make peace with Zeus. Prometheus tells the chorus that the gift of fire to mankind was not his only benefaction; in the so-called Catalogue of the Arts (447-506), he reveals that he taught men all the civilizing arts, such as writing, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, architecture, and agriculture.
The treatment of the myth of Prometheus in Prometheus Bound is a radical departure from the earlier accounts found in Hesiod's Theogony (511–616) and Works and Days (42–105). Hesiod essentially portrays the Titan as a lowly trickster and semi-comic foil to Zeus's authority. Zeus's anger toward Prometheus is in turn responsible for mortal man's having to provide for himself; before, all of man's needs had been provided by the gods. Prometheus' theft of fire also prompts the arrival of the first woman, Pandora, and her jar of evils. Pandora is entirely absent from Prometheus Bound, and Prometheus becomes a human benefactor and divine king-maker, rather than an object of blame for human suffering.
There is evidence that Prometheus Bound was the first play in a trilogy conventionally called the Prometheia, but the other two plays, Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, survive only in fragments. In Prometheus Unbound, Heracles frees Prometheus from his chains and kills the eagle that had been sent daily to eat the Titan's perpetually regenerating liver. Perhaps foreshadowing his eventual reconciliation with Prometheus, we learn that Zeus has released the other Titans whom he imprisoned at the conclusion of the Titanomachy. In Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, the Titan finally warns Zeus not to lie with the sea nymph Thetis, for she is fated to give birth to a son greater than the father. Not wishing to be overthrown, Zeus would later marry Thetis off to the mortal Peleus; the product of that union will be Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War. Grateful for the warning, Zeus finally reconciles with Prometheus.
Scholars at the Great Library of Alexandria unanimously deemed Aeschylus to be the author of Prometheus Bound. Since the 19th century, however, several scholars have doubted Aeschylus' authorship of the drama. These doubts initially took the form of the so-called "Zeus Problem," or the argument that the playwright who demonstrated such piety toward Zeus in The Suppliants and Agamemnon could not have been the same playwright who, in Prometheus Bound, inveighs against Zeus for violent tyranny. Some who object to this argument put forward the theory of a Zeus who (like the Furies in the Oresteia) "evolves" throughout the trilogy; these people argue that it is possible Zeus is meant to be reminiscent of a tyrant only in Prometheus Bound, and that in the conclusion of the full trilogy, Aeschylus' Zeus could have become more comparable with the just and honorable Zeus found in the works of Hesiod.
Increasingly, arguments for and against the attribution to Aeschylus have been based on metrical-stylistic grounds: the play's diction, the use of so-called Eigenwoerter, the use of recitative anapests in the meter, etc. Using such criteria in 1977, Mark Griffith made a case against the attribution. C. J. Herington, however, repeatedly argued for it. Since Griffith's landmark study, confidence in Aeschylean authorship has steadily eroded. Influential scholars such as M. L. West, and Alan Sommerstein, have made arguments against authenticity. West has argued that the Prometheus Bound and its trilogy are at least partially and probably wholly the work of Aeschylus' son, Euphorion, who was also a playwright. Those who trust in the verdict of antiquity and still favor Aeschylean authorship have dated the play anywhere from the 480s to 456 BC. The matter may never be settled to the satisfaction of all. As Griffith himself, who argues against authenticity, puts it: "We cannot hope for certainty one way or the other."
The argument of Herington and others for authenticity has largely centered upon the fact that Prometheus Bound was one play in a trilogy, so that discussion of its attribution in isolation is inappropriate. Of all Aeschylus' works (nearly ninety plays by some accounts), only seven survive, and only the Oresteia trilogy survives complete.
The play cannot date later than 430 BC, because Prometheus Unbound (part of the same trilogy as Prometheus Bound) was parodied in Cratinus' Ploutoi (429 BC). Prometheus Bound itself was parodied in Cratinus' Seriphioi (c. 423) and Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC).
Prometheus Bound enjoyed a measure of popularity in antiquity. Aeschylus was very popular in Athens decades after his death, as Aristophanes' The Frogs (405 BC) makes clear. Allusions to the play are evident in his The Birds of 414 BC, and in the tragedian Euripides' fragmentary Andromeda, dated to 412 BC. If Aeschylean authorship is assumed, then these allusions several decades after the play's first performance speak to the enduring popularity of Prometheus Bound. Moreover, a performance of the play itself (rather than a depiction of the generic myth) appears on fragments of a Greek vase dated c. 370–360 BC.
In the early 19th century, the Romantic writers came to identify with the defiant Prometheus. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote a poem on the theme, as did Lord Byron. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a play, Prometheus Unbound, which used some of the materials of the play as a vehicle for Shelley's own vision.
39: τὸ συγγενές τοι δεινὸν ἥ θ' ὁμιλία (tò syngenés toi deinòn hḗ th' homilía ), "Kinship and companionship are terrible things."
78: ὅμοια μορφῇ γλῶσσά σου γηρύεται (hómoia morphē̂i glō̂ssá sou gērýetai), "Your speech and your appearance – both alike."
90: κυμάτων ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα (kymátōn anḗrithmon gélasma), "uncountable laughter of the waves"
250: τυφλὰς ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐλπίδας κατῴκισα (typhlàs en autoîs elpídas katṓikisa), "I established in them blind hopes."
387: σαφῶς μ'ἐς οἶκον σὸς λόγος στέλλει πάλιν (saphō̂s m'es oîkon sòs lógos stéllei pálin), "Your speech returns me clearly home."
In February 1979 Theatro Technis, London, performed Prometheus Bound in the Philip Vellacott Penguin translation with George Eugeniou directing and Angelique Rockas and Koraltan Ahmed in the roles of Io and Prometheus respectively. Set in Greece of the 1970s – it was 'an indictment of the Greek junta and its repercussions to harrowing effect', Jim Hiley of Time Out.
A translation of the play by Joel Agee, commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the CalArts Center for New Performance, and Trans Arts, was first performed from 29 August to 28 September 2013 at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Classical Theater. It was directed by Travis Preston, composed by Ellen Reid and Vinny Golia, and choreographed by Mira Kingsley. The production employed a huge, steel wheel in place of the barren cliff.
In April 2015 MacMillan Films, in the United States, staged Prometheus Bound for camera using Peter Arnott's translation with James Thomas directing, Tanya Rodina as Io, and Casey McIntyre as the Chorus Leader. The production used a real skene building whose roof was the landing and dance platform for the Chorus of Oceanids.
^ See "The Authencity Debate" section of this entry.
^ "AESCHYLUS, PROMETHEUS BOUND - Theoi Classical Texts Library". www.theoi.com.
^ See, e.g., Lamberton 1988, 90-104.
^ For a summary of the "Zeus Problem" and the theory of an evolving Zeus, see Conacher 1980.
^ See, as examples, Griffith 1977, 157-72; Ireland 1977, 189-210; Hubbard 1991, 439-60.
^ For example, Herington 1970.
^ Jim Hiley (February 1979). "Prometheus Bound". Time Out – via Internet Archive.
^ Æschylus, Prometheus Bound (tr. Joel Agee; New York, N. Y.: New York Review Books, 2014), notation on the copyright page.
^ "Getty and CalArts Center for New Performance Join to Present Prometheus Bound in Annual Outdoor Theater Production at the Getty Villa," Getty.edu, (23 April 2013).
^ Deborah Behrens, "Preston's Prometheus Bound Brings Poetic Revolution to Getty Villa," @THIS STAGE magazine (5 September 2013).
Conacher, D.J. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: a Literary Commentary. Toronto, 1980.
DeVries, K. "The Prometheis in Vase Painting and on Stage." Nomodeiktes: Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald. Eds R.M. Rosen and J. Farrell. Ann Arbor, 1993. 517-23.
Griffith, Mark. The Authenticity of the Prometheus Bound. Cambridge, 1977.
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Hubbard, T.K. "Recitative Anapests and the Authenticity of Prometheus Bound." American Journal of Philology 112.4 (1991): 439-460.
Ireland, S. "Sentence Structure in Aeschylus and the Position of the Prometheus in the Corpus Aeschyleum." Philologus 121 (1977): 189-210.
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