"What Your Ability to Handle Horror Movies Says About You," The Cut, June 14, 2018.
"Immunity dog: the canine with magical powers protecting Twitter users from death," New Statesman, August 31, 2017.
"Why I Wrote This Article on Malcolm Gladwell's Keyboard," New York Times, June 2, 2017.
"Exorcising the Cubs' curse and the psychology of baseball superstitions," Associated Press, October 7, 2016.
"Why Americans are some of the world's worst savers," Marketwatch.com, April 14, 2016.
"Want to get pregnant? Sit here." Ozy.com, December 4, 2015.
"America's Top Superstitions — And Where They Come From" Yahoo! Health, October 21, 2015.
"Charlie, Charlie, are you there?" Why teens are summoning demons, explained." Vox, June 5, 2015.
"The Odd Superstition Behind Birthmarks" The Atlantic, April 8, 2015.
"Why that 'Facebook copyright' hoax will never, ever die" The Washington Post, January 6, 2015.
"The Enduring Scariness of the Mad Scientist" The Atlantic, October 29, 2014.
"Why You Believe In Ghosts, Even Though You Know Better" Huffington Post, October 30, 2014.
"Why are Americans Going Broke? A New GoBankingRates.com Investigation Dives into U.S Consumer Spending" PRWeb.com, June 26, 2013.
"Are You Superstitious?" Chronicle, WCBV TV, Boston, October 7, 2016.
"Political Superstitions On Electoral Day" HuffPost Live, November 6, 2012.
"Origins of Friday the 13th Fears" CBS Sunday Morning, January 13, 2012.
"Americans" Reliance on Credit Leads Many Into Debt" PBS NewsHour, August 18, 2008.
Triskaidekaphobia and Superstitions, The Show About Science, April 3, 2016.
"Friday The 13th: Are You Superstitious?" The Joy Cardin Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, December 13, 2013.
"Science and Pseudoscience," NPR"s Science Friday, August 29, 2003.


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Die OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d'Armement; deutsch Gemeinsame Organisation für Rüstungskooperation) ist eine internationale Organisation, die zum Management von gemeinsamen Rüstungsvorhaben gegründet wurde. Der Hauptsitz befindet sich in Bonn. Es werden weitere Büros in Paris, Madrid, Sevilla, Hallbergmoos (bei München), Rom, La Spezia und Castellammare di Stabia unterhalten. Zurzeit beschäftigt die OCCAR etwa 360 Mitarbeiter (2023). OCCAR-EA Direktor ist seit dem 1. Februar 2023 Joachim Sucker (Deutschland).

Geschichte

OCCAR wurde am 12. November 1996 durch eine Vereinbarung der Verteidigungsminister Italiens, Frankreichs, Deutschlands und des Vereinigten Königreichs gegründet. Belgien und Spanien traten 2003 beziehungsweise 2005 bei.

Durch Ratifizierung des OCCAR-Übereinkommen ("Convention") durch alle Mitgliedstaaten am 28. Januar 2001 erlangte die OCCAR eigene Rechtspersönlichkeit.

Regelwerk
Andere europäische Staaten können der OCCAR beitreten, wenn sie mindestens an einem OCCAR-Programm substanziell beteiligt sind und die OCCAR Convention ratifizieren.

Staaten haben auch die Möglichkeit, an einem Programm teilzunehmen, ohne Mitgliedstaat der OCCAR zu sein. Aktuell nehmen die Niederlande, die Türkei, Schweden, Finnland, Polen, Litauen und Luxemburg an verschiedenen Programmen teil.

Das Board of Supervisors ("BoS"/Aufsichtsrat) ist das höchste Entscheidungsorgan der OCCAR als Gesamtorganisation und wird durch die Verteidigungsministerien der Mitgliedstaaten besetzt. Die einzelnen Programme werden durch programmspezifische "Programme Boards" (strategische Entscheidungen) und "Programme Committees" (operative Entscheidungen) beaufsichtigt. Die "OCCAR Executive Administration" (OCCAR-EA) ist die ausführende Behörde, welche die Programme entsprechend der Entscheidungen der Aufsichtsorgane managt. Die OCCAR-EA wird vom OCCAR Direktor ("Director") geleitet und besteht aus dem Zentralbüro ("Central Office"), das grundlegende und unterstützende Aufgaben wahrnimmt und den spezifischen Programmabteilungen ("Programme Divisions"). Kleinere Projekte können auch vom Central Office geleitet werden ("Programme Management Cells").

Beteiligte Staaten (Auftraggeber)

Mitgliedstaaten
  (2003)
  (1996)
  (1996)
  (1996)
  (2005)
  (1996)

Programmstaaten
 Australien

Partner Organisationen
 European Defence Agency (EDA)
 NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA)

Programme
Folgende Programme werden derzeit von der OCCAR gemanagt:

Weblinks
 www.occar.int (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Organisation (Politik)
Organisation (Militär)
Internationale Organisation (Bonn)
Gegründet 1996

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Recurring conflict and political instability have shattered the lives of families and communities across Iraq and hindered stability and growth across the nation. A staggering 4.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 1.4 million people who are internally displaced inside Iraq. For those who have been forced to leave their homes to seek shelter in abandoned buildings, displacement camps and makeshift shelters, the situation on the ground is particularly dire. Damaged and neglected water and sanitation systems allow illnesses such as diarrhoea to spread, with a particularly harmful effect on children. As hospitals struggle to cope, a lack of medicines and supplies mean that many people cannot access the care they so desperately need.
Without access to clean safe water, education, health services and a stable income, millions of people are living in poverty, facing poor health and an uncertain future.
For people across Iraq, life is incredibly challenging:
23% of Iraqis live on less than $2.20 (£1.60) a day (UNDP, 2021)
Almost 3.2 million school-aged children in Iraq do not attend school (UNICEF, 2021)
Around 45% of young people (aged 15-24) are not in education or employment (UNDP, 2021)
4 out of 10 people do not have access to a safe source of drinking water (UNDP, 2021)
Islamic Relief in Iraq
Islamic Relief is working in solidarity with communities across Iraq to save lives and build brighter futures.
We provide essential nutritional and non-food items to serve newly displaced communities. We have also worked with local schools and health centres supplying medical equipment to local hospitals since 1997.
Receiving Ramadan food aid.
Upon opening our permanent office in Baghdad in 2003, we've continued to work alongside local communities to provide immediate assistance such as emergency food supplies and health equipment, as well as offering additional health, and psychological support.
With the ongoing conflict in Iraq, we have been working tirelessly with other humanitarian agencies, including UNICEF and the UN's World Food Programme, to provide assistance to people across a wide area in Anbar, Baghdad, Dohok, Karkuk, Ninewa, Saleheddin and around Erbil.
We support thousands of displaced people, including refugees from the Syrian and Palestinian conflicts, who have fled their homes to seek safety in Iraq.
We've rehabilitated several schools and health centres and also distribute Qurbani and Ramadan food assistance, benefiting thousands of Iraqi families and providing food aid and educational support for several orphans through one-to-one sponsorship.

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Having a recent Macbook or Windows laptop is cool, but not having an SD-card slot is not cool. That's where this StarTech.com gadget comes in!
Aah, the beautiful new Macbook Pro with 4 USB C-ports… Wait? How do I plug in a regular USB? And where does my SD-card go?? Oh that's right. You need to buy an extra dock so you can use all your regular devices… Because USB C.
If you have Mac, there might be times that you want to run Windows applications and games that for whatever reason aren't available on your OS. There are a ton of ways to do this, all of them are pretty involved, especially if you don't know much about computers beyond turning it on and working a few programs. CrossOver is the software that lets you run Windows software on your Mac.
Do you have to constantly change your password for security reasons are tired of having to remember it all on your own? Well good news! The GateKeeper is the little gadget that locks and unlocks your computer automatically so you don't have to worry about security breaches.
There are apps for everything. Have you ever wished there was an app for something that you were into but couldn't find? Ever thought about building one but you don't have any coding skills to speak of? Semble is the service that wants to help you bring your app dreams to life.
Lightpack – relieve the strain on your eyes from your monitor with . . . light?
Whenever you're looking at a screen, that's sort of the "main event" but why not expand the screen to its surroundings? With Lightpack, you can add a cool backlit effect to your TV or computer monitor.
Projectors are super handy. They turn anything into a screen. Increasingly as we are accessing the world more through our phones and laptops, having a projector to take a private viewing into friends and family time will help make life easier. The Pyle Smart Mini Portable Projector turns your phone into a viewing station and all you need is a wall.
The world is your playground and with Joylabz Makey Makey, the world can also be your keyboard. This set lets you turn every day objects into your controller for your computing needs.
Using a mouse is so 2014. Now it's time move on into the world of hands free control of your computer. No more tangled wires. The Leap Motion allows you to use your computer without the use of a mouse.
All computers come with lock screens but outside of office environments most people probably don't use them. The Sesame2 acts as an automatic lock for your Mac keeping your work safe so you don't have to worry about it.
My kids hand me endless amounts of artwork that I just can't throw away. Right now the amount of wax covered paper in my office is definitely some kind of fire hazard. The ScanSnap iX100 Mobile Scanner can have this mess cleaned up in a matter of hours (yep, there's a lot).
My kids hand me endless amounts of artwork that I just can't throw away. Right now the amount of wax covered paper in my office is definitely some kind of fire hazard. The ScanSnap iX100 Mobile Scanner can have this mess cleaned up in a matter of hours (yep, there's a lot).


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Local Tavern Caters to Students
Matt Schlagheck
Billie's Skyline Tavern and Restaurant has been a popular meeting place for Northern Kentucky University students since 1968.
Cliff Guddorf built the house in 1939 as a modest home for his family. Shortly after, he added a bar and began serving drinks and food.
According to Dave Sandhaus, Guddorf's grandson, the pub has an appropriate name because the front porch allows people to see the Cincinnati skyline.
"I can remember sitting on the front porch, grandpa with a beer and me with a soda, and we'd just sit and talk while viewing the skyline," Dave said.
Dave was 5 years old, in 1953, when he started helping his grandfather. His main jobs were to keep the beer and food refrigerated and to mow the lawn.
Johnny and "Whitey" Studer were two neighbors of the pub.
"I've been coming to this bar for many years," Johnny said. "The heart of the college was my dad's farm, so we got to know Cliff well. He was really something."
Guddorf passed away in 1968, and the pub went to his daughter Billie Sandhaus. The bar's official name changed from Skyline Tavern to Billie's Skyline Tavern..
Billie kept the neighborhood crowd coming back by continuing her father's offerings of traditional down-home comfort food and cold beer. But Billie brought her own touch to the pub with entertainment and a great atmosphere, according to Dave.
Tom Kleinshmedt, current general manager to the pub, said the diversity of its patrons was what attracted him as a student, and diversity makes it what it is today.
Johnny said he believes that the students and the university have only helped the bar flourish.
Billie ran the pub for 38 years until she passed away on Aug. 1, 2006, leaving the ownership to Dave.
"Mom was a very special person," Dave said. "She was the one who really established the tavern as a prominent and popular fixture and [made it] what it is today."
Billie's Skyline Tavern and Restaurant has come under recent threat. Kentucky Department of Highways' construction plan to create a roundabout where the pub now lies has caused some concern to Billie's.
According to a press release from the Kentucky Department of Highways, the project has come to an agreement with local businesses to prohibit construction from obstructing business and from asking them to relocate.
"The project … includes rerouting University Drive on the NKU campus to intersect with Johns Hill Road. The intersection will be a roundabout design," said Nancy Wood, public information officer for the Kentucky Department of Highways.
The agreement cost the pub its backyard and some parking spaces, but Dave will still be able to keep the doors open.
"Students and the neighborhood will still be coming for years to come," Dave said.
Mattingly Brothers Garage: A growing organization for art prospects
BFA students showcase their work in senior exhibitions
NKU's Baptist Campus Ministry to host pancake event for all students on Monday
Finding accessibility throughout SOTA
Playboi Carti Brings King Vamp Tour to BB&T Arena
New director of galleries and outreach to provide new perspective on art to NKU
Organization helps Disney fans find a place of community on campus
Emerging Choreographer's Showcase produced by NKU students
'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' opens in the Corbett Theatre
VIDEO: Teaching Kitchen at NKU


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Callum chosen to be included in Hyundai Customer Racing Junior Driver program!
28 Jan Callum chosen to be included in Hyundai Customer Racing Junior Driver program!
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Hyundai Motorsport will be expanding their Customer Racing Junior Driver program in 2020 with the addition of rally drivers for the first time. Irish International Driver of the Year, Callum Devine, will be one of five drivers who have been selected based on their previous results, as well as the ability to work with engineers and their professional approach to rallying.
Hyundai Motorsport Team Principal Andrea Adamo said: "The Customer Racing Junior Driver initiative proved highly successful last year in circuit racing, so it was only natural to expand the program into rallying for 2020. We have five incredibly talented young guys, who have already shown pace in their careers. The group is a good mix of those who already have experience with R5 cars, and those who are relatively new to the category. The five drivers we have selected will be able to learn from each other, as much as from our engineers. With the support afforded by the Junior Driver program, and the new performance upgrades included in the i20 R5 '20, I am sure they will be able to continue their excellent progress towards the pinnacle of the sport in the World Rally Championship."
Callum, a former Billy Coleman Award winner and a member of the Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy, claimed an impressive podium finish on his debut in a Hyundai on Rally Hungary last year, the final round of the European Rally Championship. Spurred on by that performance, Devine aims to compete in the fill European Rally Championship in 2020 in a Hyundai i20 R5 run by PCRS.
Speaking on this morning's announcement Callum said: "This is an amazing opportunity and will certainly help with our European Championship ambitions. It's also great recognition of the Billy Coleman Award and the MI Rally Academy. To have even been considered for inclusion is amazing but to have been one of the five chosen is a real honour. I'm really looking forward to it."
Callum, who is 25, will be joined by French driver Pierre-Louis Loubet, Norwegian driver Ole-Christian Veiby, Russian driver Nikolay Gryazin and Grégoire Munster from Luxembourg. All drivers will be able to take advantage of support from our Customer Racing engineers, aimed at developing their driving throughout the season. They will have the mentoring of our experienced WRC crews, and the opportunity for extra training to help them further their motorsport careers.
ERC, Hyundai Motorsport


The transaction technology specialist suffered falling sales and gave gloomy guidance for the full year.
It's been a long time since you could find traditional cash registers at most stores, but the history of NCR (NYSE:NCR) hasn't stopped it from keeping up with the times. The company once known as National Cash Register has become a key player in technology that enables transactions of all kinds, going up against rivals like PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Square (NYSE:SQ) in the mobile-payment arena. Coming into its fourth-quarter financial report, NCR had seen its stock struggle lately, and investors were braced for lower sales and flat earnings performance. Even though NCR posted solid numbers to finish 2015, its guidance for the coming year was less upbeat. Let's look more closely at the latest from NCR and what to expect in 2016 from the payment technology company.
NCR's fourth-quarter results were generally in line with what the company had expected to see. Revenue fell 5% to $1.68 billion, falling just short of the $1.70 billion consensus estimate among investors. On the bottom line, income from operations nearly quadrupled to $138 million, and NCR posted adjusted earnings of $0.92 per share, $0.05 greater than what most investors had expected.
Looking more closely at NCR's segment numbers, you can see dramatic differences in performance across different divisions. The hospitality arena saw revenue jump 10%, producing a 38% rise in operating income. On the other hand, the financial services business suffered a sales decline of 11%, and operating income fell 3%. Retail solutions and emerging industries were mixed, with flat revenue but growing profits from retail offsetting weakening bottom-line results from emerging industries.
The strong dollar also had an impact on NCR's numbers. Revenue would have been flat in constant-currency terms, pointing to 5 percentage points of dollar-related headwinds. The impact was even clearer on earnings, with a 9-percentage-point drop to total operating income.
CEO Bill Nuti summarized the opportunities and challenges that NCR had during the quarter. "In Retail Solutions ... we capitalized on an improving industry environment," Nuti said, "and in Hospitality ... we generated strong fourth-quarter and full-year software and cloud growth." The CEO noted that "Financial Services faced more difficult currency and geographic headwinds this year," but Nuti was especially happy with free cash flow growth and high-value software offerings.
NCR has high hopes for 2016. Nuti believes that the company can take advantage of its leadership position in the industry over newer entrants like PayPal and Square and "take advantage of the expected widespread increase in connected devices and continued shift in consumer transaction preferences."
What that means in terms of guidance, though, isn't as favorable as investors had hoped to see. NCR said that it expects first-quarter revenue of $1.44 billion to $1.45 billion, with adjusted earnings of $0.30 to $0.35 per share. Both of those figures are well short of expectations, especially compared to the current consensus forecast for $0.52 per share in earnings.
Similarly, full-year 2016 projections fell below even modest growth projections among investors. NCR guided investors toward revenue of $6.1 billion to $6.2 billion, and adjusted earnings of $2.72 to $2.82 per share. Those figures reflect the expected sale of NCR's interactive printer solutions business, but it still points to results that could be lower than 2015's year-end totals.
NCR shares didn't react immediately to the news, leaving prices unchanged in after-hours trading following the announcement. Given that PayPal and Square have also seen share-price challenges recently, NCR will need to produce better growth prospects than it's currently projecting in order to convince shareholders that it can keep up with its rivals and take full advantage of the rapid growth in the industry.


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HomeBreaking news'Law Enforcement Agencies Should Fish Out People Who Make Hate Speech' – President Buhari
'Law Enforcement Agencies Should Fish Out People Who Make Hate Speech' – President Buhari
November 4, 2018 Joy Peace Breaking news
President Buhari has warned Nigerians elites to stop misleading the people through their unguarded utterances and hate speeches.
The president gave the warning at the 24th convocation ceremony of the University of Uyo on Saturday where he said universities as home of great thinkers, should give guidance to the communities to enable the people make informed decisions as the nation approached the 2019 general elections
The President, who was represented by the Director of Corporate Communications, National Universities Commission, Ibrahim Yakasai, said development and progress could not thrive in a hate-filled and divisive society.
He said that the Federal Government would not condone or tolerate incendiary remarks capable of causing fear and spread hatred among the people, from any person or group of persons. Buhari said that the Federal Government would continue to do its best to ensure security of lives and property in the country.
The President said, "At this point, I want to be very clear and equivocal, that the Federal Government will never condone or tolerate incendiary remarks from any person or group of persons, which are meant to harass, intimidate, cause fear and spread hate, no matter how highly placed such a person is.
Law enforcement agencies should fish out people who make inciting statements, instigate civil disobedience, broadcast hate speeches or stir strife, riot and rebellion and bring them to book. We should continue to live together as brothers and sisters."
The President called on the new graduates to look beyond leaders who had failed themselves and the nation but should choose their heroes from among those who believe in the progress of Nigeria and emulate those honest and hardworking in their professions.


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Q: PCB trace width can't meet the rated current
The rated current for VCC5_AC from AC adaptor is 2A. According to the calculation on http://circuitcalculator.com, the trace width for 2A should be 30.3mil.
However, as indicated above, the width of AC input pin of the BQ24030 is only around 12mil and I think it's useless to connect a wider trace to this pin, so the actual trace width of VCC5_AC connected to the pin is just 12mil.
My question is:
1. Does this mean the regulator cannot drain the rated current 2A?
2. If this is the case, is there any solution to solve this problem?

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Thanks to everyone's suggestion. I realize my mistakes are

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*The uncertainty about changing the trace length in the middle, even a short part, which is not very significant in this case;

*The misconfiguration of trace width calculation tools;
I've changed my layout as below which widen the power line

A: Some considerations:

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*pins and solder have a much larger sectional area than a PCB trace. So the pin and pad can handle much more current than a trace of the same width (even if they are made of lower conductivity materials).

*The estimated temperature rise assumes a relatively long trace. A short trace segment, that is sandwiched between large metal areas will dissipate heat much faster.

*A 10ºC temperature rise is rather conservative.

*You can rearrange adjacent traces to maximize the wide trace run to within a few millimeters of the pad.

But, is there any reason why you didn't use the datasheet's suggested layout as a guidance?

A: You did not consider that the temperature rise of a trace also has a dependency on trace length. (The calculator assumes a infinitely long trace).
Let's take a trace with total length of 1m with thickness of 30mils. This is rated with 2A with 10°C temperature rise. Now imagine a very tiny region/spot of that trace with length of 10mils where the 30mil trace with is reduced to 2mils. Of course this "spot" would increase the resistance a little and it would absorb a little more energy. But the trace would still be able to carry that 2A current with only 10°C temperature rise.
Also consider that an IC has internal bond wires that usually have very small wire diameters. But because they are very short, this is not a problem for the same reasons.

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According to the calculation on http://circuitcalculator.com, the trace width for 2A should be 30.3mil.

*With a 10 degree temperature rise.
Everything is a resistor, even board traces. The maximum current trough a resistor is defined by it's power rating, which is the maximum temperature. If you want more, you need to dissipate more heat.
This means that for the a typical board trace it can run 2 Amps with a 10 degree temperature rise for the specified width and thickness, but 15 mil for a 30 degree temperature rise.
You did not specify the thermal resistance in C/W. Which is also difficult to calculate.
The small trace of 12mil is connected on one side to the regulator part, and the other side a SMD component.
These are both parts that allow heat to be transferred away from the trace, increasing the current capacity of the trace.

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*Does this mean the regulator cannot drain the rated current 2A?

The regulator can do 2A without problems, so can this short trace.

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Thea Lee serves on the Advisory Committeeof Foreign Policy in Focus-AFL-CIO.
In 1992 Thea Lee was working for the Economic Policy Institute.
In 1996 Thea Lee, AFL-CIO, Assistant Director of Public Policy was one of the original 130 founders of Campaign for America's Future.
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There are currently 3 homes available in Euchee Lake with an average price of $230,433. For availability or more information about homes for sale in Euchee Lake call Tye Caldwell & Associates at 706-457-6TYE (893) .
Euchee Lake is located in Grovetown GA, Columbia County. There are currently 3 homes active and for sale inside the neighborhood with the average price being $230,433. The number of homes for sale in Euchee Lake is always changing so if you see a home you like and you would like to schedule a time to take a look please give me a call at 706-457-6TYE (893).


Miriam began dancing at the age of three with the Lee-Byrne Academy, under the instruction of her mother, Michelle Lee (A.D.C.R.G) and aunt, Rachel Byrne (T.C.R.G). She became a champion dancer from a very young age and is the current World Champion winning the title in April 2012. Miriam has also won several Leinster, Dublin, All England, All Scotland, All Ireland and Great Britain titles. She has performed with M&R Dance Events at corporate events in Ireland, Europe and America, regularly performing in the Disneyland Paris theme park for the St. Patrick's Day Festival. Miriam has performed in both the Opening Ceremony of the European Celtic Irish Dance Festival in Paris, and the American Celtic Irish Dance Festival in Orlando, Florida and has danced for a number of years in Jury's Irish Cabaret and also with the Tony Kenny Show on a Mediterranean Cruise Liner.
In September 2011, Miriam deferred her university degree to tour with Irish Celtic in France. Since then she has gone on to perform the lead role in Dance Masters for their German tour in January 2012. In February she was given the opportunity to perform in Breandán De Gallaí's new show – Roots of Ireland. Miriam has also been a member of Damhsa Irish Dance Company since 2010 and has traveled with them to Florida, Sweden and France and performs at numerous corporate events throughout Ireland. She is one of the original cast members of Irish Celtic regularly performing throughout France and is delighted to be back touring with the company in Europe.


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Reagents Targeting Neurodegenerative Diseases and Traumatic Brain Injury
Misfolding and aggregation of proteins, such as beta-amyloid (Aß), alpha-synuclein (a-syn), tau and TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), have been strongly correlated with early onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Parkinson's Disease (PD), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other dementias as well as traumatic brain injury (TBI). Detection of specific variants of these proteins, such as the toxic oligomeric protein forms, have great promise as sensitive and dynamic biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases and TBI.
Researchers at Arizona State University have synthesized recombinant antibody fragments (nanobodies) for the treatment and early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as AD, PD, ALS, FTD, ALS and traumatic brain injury (TBI)-mediated neurodegeneration. These nanobodies specifically target toxic oligomeric protein variants but do not bind monomeric, fibrillar or non-disease associated forms. These nanobodies can be used for detecting the protein variants present in blood, CSF and other biological samples.
These highly specific and selective nanobodies have great utility in diagnosing, staging, treating and imaging neurodegenerative diseases and TBI. Moreover, their very specific targeting minimizes unwanted side effects, and may provide for a safer long-term therapeutic.
Detection, staging and treatment of misfolded toxic oligomeric protein forms present in neurodegenerative diseases:
Aß, tau, TDP-43 & a-syn- Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, taupathies, FTD, ALS, TBI & other dementias
Assessment of neuronal damage & treatment strategies following TBI
Assess protein variants of Aß, tau, TDP-43 & a-syn at select times to identify the stage and severity of TBI
Creation of an effective personalized treatment plan targeting the proteins as early possible to alter disease progression and future damage
Picomolar sensitivity
Can readily distinguish between AD, PD, FTD, ALS, and cognitively normal samples and the stages of neurodegeneration
Can detect severity of TBI
Can be conjugated to an imaging agent
Can be used in immunoassays for early stage diagnoses
Specific to only the neurotoxic protein variants to minimize unwanted side effects
Targets an early cause, rather than treating symptoms
Well defined specificities and selectivities for selected protein forms to facilitate specific diagnoses
Early diagnoses - well before onset of disease or mild-cognitive impairment
For more information about the inventor(s) and their research, please see
Dr. Sierks' directory webpage
Dr. Sierks' laboratory webpage
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings Hidden Dimensions And The Quest For The Ultimate
By (author): Greene, Brian
Subject: SCIENCE / Cosmology
SCIENCE / General
SCIENCE / Physics / General
SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational
Publisher: WW Norton
Format: Book-paperback
Size: 8.26in x 5.50in x 1.07in
From The Publisher* Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter-from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas-is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy. The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.
Review Quote* Sets a standard that will be hard to beat. - George Johnson (The New York Times Book Review)
Compulsively readable. . . . Greene threatens to do for string theory what Stephen Hawking did for black holes. - New York
As rewarding as it gets . . . a thrilling ride through a lovely landscape. - Los Angeles Times
Biographical Note Brian Greene received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and lives in New York City.


Upper Hutt-based writer Cat Connor is the author of a technology-based thriller series starring FBI Agent Ellie Conway that is now also available in paperback form from Amazon.com.
Connor's first two Ellie Conway novels, KILLERBYTE and TERRORBYTE were originally published as e-books, and both have received some very good reviews and featured in the Top Ten bestsellers on the Mobipocket website. So for you international readers of Crime Watch, Cat Connor is one of the Kiwi authors whose books you can actually get hold of, relatively easily. I'm looking forward to reading them myself.
It looks like a great book. I'll have to check it out.


The "Indian Motocycle Co." was founded as the Hendee Manufacturing Company by George M. Hendee and Carl Oscar Hedström. Both Hendee and Hedström were former bicycle racers who teamed up to produce a motorcycle with a 1.75 bhp, single cylinder engine in Hendee's home town of Springfield. The bike was successful and sales increased dramatically during the next decade.
1901, Prototype and two production units successfully designed, built and tested. Work began on these in previous years. 1902, First Indian motorcycles, featuring innovative belt-drives and streamlined styling, sold to public. 1903 Indian co-founder and chief engineer Oscar Hedstrom sets world motorcycle speed record (56mph).
In 1904, the so-called diamond framed Indian Single, whose engine was built by the Aurora Firm in Illinois, was made available in the deep red color that would become Indian's trademark. By now, the production was up to over 500 bikes annually and would rise to its best ever 32,000 in 1913.
In 1907, Indian built its first V-twin, and in following years made a strong showing in racing and record-breaking. One of the firm's most famous riders was Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, who set many long-distance records. In 1914, he rode an Indian across America, from San Diego to New York, in a record 11 days, 12 hours and ten minutes. Baker's mount in subsequent years was the Powerplus, a side-valve V-Twin, which was introduced in 1916. Its 61ci (1000 cc), 42 degree V-twin engine was more powerful and quieter than previous designs, giving a top speed of 60 mph (96 km/h). The Powerplus was highly successful, both as a roadster and as the basis for racing bikes. It remained in production with few changes until 1924.
Competition success played a big part in Indian's rapid growth and spurred technical innovation, as well. One of the American firm's best early results came in the Isle of Man TT in 1911, when Indian riders Godfrey, Franklin and Moorehouse finished first, second and third. Indian star Jake De Rosier set several speed records both in America and at Brooklands in England, and won an estimated 900 races on dirt and board track racing. He left Indian for Excelsior and died in 1913, aged 33, of injuries sustained in a board track race crash with Charles "Fearless" Balke, who later became Indian's top rider. Work at the Indian factory was stopped while De Rosier's funeral procession passed.
Oscar Hedstrom left Indian in 1913 after disagreements with the Board of Directors regarding dubious practices to inflate the company's stock values. George Hendee resigned in 1916.


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Bayview Park Hotel: Our Home For 9 Nights in Manila, Philippines
5:02:00 PM Bayview Park Hotel Manila Edit
For the nine (9) nights that we stayed in the National Capital Region from 24 January to 2 February 2016, we were billeted at the Bayview Park Hotel along Roxas Boulevard in the city of Manila, Philippines. Conveniently located at the capital of the Republic of the Philippines, Bayview Park Hotel was just the right hotel for us in terms of location. There were some good points, but we think that there were a lot of things that could have made our stay better.
Bayview Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines
Location and Contact Information
Street Address: 1118 Roxas Boulevard corner United Nations Avenue, Ermita District, Manila, Philippines
Website: www.bayviewparkhotel.com
Telephone Number: +63 02 526 1555
E-mail Address: bookings@bayviewparkhotel.com
There are hotel facilities that guests at the Bayview Park Hotel can enjoy for free. During our stay I worked out twice in their fitness gym at the roof deck. The gym has several cross-trainers, exercise bikes, a multi-exercise weight machine, threadmills, and dumbbells.
Gym at Bayview Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines
The roof deck also has a function room and a swimming pool. The pool's depth is only four (4) feet. It is open to patrons who are not checked in at the hotel for a fee of PhP 200.
Roof deck pool at Bayview Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines
Bayview Park Hotel has a full service restaurant at the ground floor. We got the chance to eat here twice. The first time was when we had snacks on the day we completed our medical exams. The second time was when we had lunch after our interview at the U.S. embassy.
Mocktails at Bayview Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines
On the afternoon of 26 January 2016, me and my brother was dead tired from all the waiting we did at St. Luke's Extension Clinic so we decided to cool down at the hotel's restaurant. I initially wanted to have the ube pastillas mocktail but it was out of stock so we ordered something else. We also ordered their clubhouse sandwich.
Clubhouse sandwich at Bayview Park Hotel in Manila, Philippines
After we were done with our interview at the U.S. Embassy on 1 February 2016, we ate lunch at the hotel's restaurant. Their buffet is usually served on breakfast only. That day, they were celebrating the coming of the Chinese New Year early and had a lunch buffet. Cost was PhP 600.
early Chinese New Year buffet
A photo posted by Thaddeau Engaling II (@thadzonline) on Feb 23, 2016 at 4:02am PST
Personal Verdict
Good Points
The best part of staying at the Bayview Park Hotel is its great location. It is right along Roxas Boulevard in the Ermita district of the Philippine capital city. From Luneta Park, it's two (2) blocks away. Bayview Park Hotel is a great place to watch the world-famous Manila Bay Sunset. The United States embassy is not far away too, just a stone's throw away. Other places of interest nearby include Inytramuros, several museums, libraries, churches, and other heritage sites.
Points for Improvement
Security Lapses
Security at Bayview Park Hotel is very lenient. They don't have metal detectors or K9 units. Nobody ever gets checked at the door. This was true even when they had a VIP guest at a time during our stay. Philippine presidential candidate Grace Poe was at the hotel but no special security arrangements were ever made. Some of our kins who visited us just walked past security and got to our room at the 9th floor without having been asked any questions.
Broken Facilities
Some facilities in our room were broken and we had to call the front desk and engineering a couple of times to get things fixed. The shower knob, the bath tub plug, and even the safety deposit box needed some fixing at times.
Shabby Housekeeping
Housekeeping at Bayview Park Hotel is just shabby. Several times we had to call them back because while they cleaned our room, they did not replenish our supplies of soap, bubble bath, shampoo, bottled water, tea, or coffee. Other times, we had to call them because they did not replace the dirty glasses and did not clean off the water heating equipment. Yet another time, we had to call them again to change our linens as we felt itchy all over with the linens that they put on that day.
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Mana Wahine readers: two unique volumes
January 17, 2020 January 17, 2020 LigiaLeave a comment
These two readers have developed from many requests to Leonie Pihama and LindaTuhiwai Smith "to provide references or support in the area of Mana Wahine, both as theory and as lived ways of being."
The two online readers have been produced by Te Kotahi Research Institute; supported by Ngā Pae o TeMāramatanga.
The scope of the two volumes are writings between 1987-2019, and the beautiful covers which were gifted by Robyn Kahukiwi represent ngā wāhine atua: Mahuika and Hineteiwaiwa.
Robyn Kahukiwa and Patricia Grace published the beautiful book He Wāhine Toa – and these two online readers bring other aspects to the power of women.
Please visit https://leoniepihama.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/mana-wahine-readers/ for the full description of the two volumes and thence to the digitised contents.
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Family history month: tracking William Jones and Keti Kautarewa: an expression of online manaakitanga
August 29, 2019 Ligia
In celebration of Ancestry in August, our family history month, our very own Māori specilist Ann Reweti wrote a very informative essay tracking a part of her whānau that have gone missing. You can see the essay below in full screen. Enjoy!
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ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Paul Diamond
May 2, 2019 April 23, 2019 Ligia
ComicFest is back for 2019! On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 to 4 of May at the National Library there will be panels, talks and workshops all day long for comic-lovers of all ages. You can also pick up a free comic from us on May the 4th and celebrate Free Comic Book Day, courtesy of GRAPHIC! For full programme click here and follow our updates on our Facebook event.
Today is the first day of ComicFest! To finish our special "5 minutes with…" feature we have Paul Diamon, the author of three books (A Fire in Your Belly, Huia 2003; Makereti: taking Māori to the World, Random House NZ 2007; and Savaged to Suit: Māori and Cartooning in New Zealand, Fraser Books 2018), and has also worked as an oral historian and broadcaster. From 2007 to 2009 Paul managed the Vietnam War Oral History Project for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. In 2017 Paul was awarded Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer's Residency to complete a book about Charles Mackay, a mayor of Whanganui who was killed in Berlin in 1929. Paul Diamond appears at ComicFest with the support of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive.
Q: What first got you interested in comics?
A: I was asked to write a book about the history of Māori and cartoons. This initially focused on editorial cartoons in newspapers, but the scope was broadened to include images of Māori in other places, such as comics and graphic novels.
Q: What is your average day like?
A: Ideally, made up of coffee, collections, cartoons, cycling and cursive creation.
Q: Can you tell us about a current or recent project you've worked on?
A: My book, Savaged to Suit: Māori and Cartooning in New Zealand, was launched by MP Louisa Wall at the National Library in September 2018.
Q: Do you have any traditions or rituals that help you when you get to work?
A: Not really, but preceding this, my cycle along the Wellington waterfront means it's difficult to arrive at work grumpy, even if I may be a bit puffed.
Q: Who/what is your biggest influence or inspiration?
A: Personally: my parents, Briar and Eddie Diamond, and my bicultural ancestry, which I wrote about in the acknowledgements section of Savaged to Suit.
An illustration inspiration: An exhibition I saw at the House of Illustration in London in 2016, Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics, was wonderful to experience and has stayed with me. The exhibition introduced me to artists and work I wasn't aware of, including Jacky Fleming and her marvellous book, The Trouble With Women as well as Barbara Yelin, see below. The exhibition was also a powerful reminder that just because work by different groups may not be obvious doesn't mean it's not out there. Which is why books and exhibitions play an important role in bringing collections to audiences and providing context to understand them.
Q: What or who are your favourite NZ comics or creators?
A: As part of my research it was great to find out more about the Māori who've worked at editorial cartoonists. It's not a very long list: Harry Dansey, Oriwa Haddon, Mark Tapsell, Noel Cook, James Waerea, Anthony Ellison, and Sharon Murdoch. I'm also a big admirer of Murray Webb's caricatures.
Q: What is your dream comic project?
A: A graphic novel about the story I'm going to be writing about in Berlin later this year, check it here. This is to do with the 1929 May Day riots in Berlin, in which Charles Mackay, a former mayor of Whanganui was shot. There are at least two graphic novels about the 1929 May Day riots: Babylon Berlin by Arne Jysch is a graphic novel adaptation of Volker Kutscher's novel, Der Nasse Fisch and Jason Lutes' Berlin series. Another inspiration for how to tell the story is Irmina, by Barbara Yelin, which I saw in the Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics exhibition in 2016. Subsequently, an English translation of Irmina was released, and I've been meaning to have a read. I loved the way Yelin combined images and text to bring alive a remarkable story and the history of the period leading up to the Second World War.
Q: What are you excited to share with ComicFest attendees? Just a taster!
A: I'm looking forward to yarning about how cartoons work. In my research I learned about how nothing in a cartoon is there by accident, but the layers of meaning are not always obvious. It'd also be good to talk about stereotyping in cartoons, as I've been reflecting on this in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Christchurch.
Q: If you were to enter our cosplay contest, who/what would you dress up as?
A: Not sure, but I might see if another of my inspirations, Varla Jean Merman aka Jeffery Roberson has any ideas!
You can find more about Paul online here.
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ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Dylan Horrocks
ComicFest starts tomorrow! Next up on our special feature "5 minutes with…" we have Dylan Horrocks, a cartoonist best known for his graphic novel Hicksville and his scripts for the Batgirl comic book series. His works are published by the University of Auckland student magazine Craccum, Australia's Fox Comics, the current affairs magazine New Zealand Listener from 1995 to 1997, the Canadian publishers Black Eye Comics and Drawn and Quarterly, and the American publishers Vertigo and Fantagraphics Books. He currently serialises new work online at Hicksville Comics.
A: My Dad has always been interested in comics, so I grew up in a house full of classics like Carl Barks' Donald Duck as well as underground, European, and experimental comix. He also taught film, and watching the movies he'd project on our living room wall made me realise you could use visual narrative to do anything.
A: I recently started teaching at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Design, so my days have become very busy. I'm often either in class or planning a class, or looking at students' work. Otherwise, I'm probably at my studio writing or drawing. To relax, I watch old movies, read (often history), or play table-top role-playing games with friends.
A: I'm working on a long non-fiction comic exploring the history and culture of Dungeons & Dragons. It's about world-building – the urge to create an imaginary reality so detailed it begins to feel almost real – and how the emergence of fantasy role-playing games 45 years ago introduced a new way to inhabit these fictional worlds. There are other, shorter, comics I've drawn recently, but that's the big one that's occupying my time.
A: One trick I learned a while back was to leave something unfinished at the end of each day. That way, when I sit down to start drawing or writing, I don't have to stare at a blank page; I can just pick up where I left off – and before I know it I'm back in the groove.
A: There are so many! Hergé's Tintin is a huge influence on my work. But one New Zealand cartoonist who's had a big impact on me for most of my life is Barry Linton, who died last year. He drew comics for more than 40 years, and left behind an extraordinary body of work. I hope someone gets it all back into print soon.
A: Again, there are too many to mention even a fraction! Strips was a New Zealand comics magazine published between 1977 & 1987. Barry Linton (who I mentioned above) was one of its founding artists, but there were so many great cartoonists in there: Colin Wilson (the main driving force for the first few years), Joe Wylie, Kevin Jenkinson, Laurence Clark. There are earlier comics I'm fascinated by, too, including the work of Eric Resetar, Harry Bennett, and Jack Raeburn (all of who were publishing locally in the 1940s and 1950s). These days New Zealand has a large and diverse comics scene, with many cartoonists whose work I find inspiring. And every week I find someone new who's putting out beautiful zines or webcomics. Each new discovery is like a treasure: an Instagram post or a page in a student's sketchbook.
A: I have a comic I daydream about now and then. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed half-asleep, or when I'm walking to work in the morning, I'll think about it. So far, all there is to show is a few words in my notebook. It may never happen. But I love that stage in a project, when everything's still open, possible, uncontained. When it really is still a dream….
A: That depends how much I get done between now and then.
A: I reckon Toby Morris and I could do a mean Captain Haddock and Tintin (now, if we can just find the right dog to play Snowy…).
You can find Dylan online in the following places:
Twitter: @dylanhorrocks
Website: hicksvillecomics.com
Instagram: @dylan.horrocks
ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Jem Yoshioka
April 29, 2019 April 18, 2019 Ligia
Next on the list is Jem Yoshioka, an illustrator and comic artist living in Wellington, New Zealand. Deftly weaving words and pictures together, Jem's comics tell evocative and emotional stories with themes of belonging, place, and heritage. Jem's current webcomic project is a soft science fiction romance between an android and a human called Circuits and Veins.
Jem Yoshioka appears at ComicFest with the support of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive.
A: I have always loved to tell stories and draw pictures, so in a way I feel like I was always on the path to comics. I read a lot as a kid and loved picture books fiercely.
A: I work a full time job in communications, so I spend my day getting to help tell people's stories and make sure things are understood by as many people as possible. I walk to and from work along the Wellington waterfront. I spend my evenings drawing, with breaks for dinner, chores, or whatever. It's a balance that has worked well for me, but I am careful to be mindful of my limits and not push myself too hard if I know I need a break. Lately I've been playing a lot of Tetris and Star dew Valley to recharge when I need to!
A: My webcomic Circuits and Veins is my current biggest project. I've been updating it since July, 2017 (coming up on two years, goodness!), and it's honestly such a rewarding project. Long form serialised webcomics are notoriously difficult to keep going, and some weeks are a lot harder than others.
A: I'm constantly listening to podcasts or watching YouTube. Podcasts have helped me so much to keep focused and motivated when I need to meet a deadline. Having my ears occupied helps keep my mind from straying away. I'm a big fan of Actual Play podcasts (listening to other people play table top roleplaying games), because it's like a form of collaborative storytelling. My favourites are Friends at the Table and The Adventure Zone. If you have recommendations, let me know! I'm always looking for new ones.
A: That's a tough one. Can I say my grandma, Taeko? She's led an amazing life, growing up in Hiroshima, Japan, witnessing the horrors of war as a young girl and teenager, meeting my granddad in Japan, and moving to New Zealand in the 50s, before you could even really find rice here, let alone the right kind of rice. Whenever I get stuck I think back on who she is, that she still has such a lightness and humour about her through everything. It makes me feel strong again. This has been something that has been coming through in my art since 2015, when I started writing autobiography comics exploring my connection to Japan and my Japanese heritage, which of course is all through her.
A: I love Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe, published on Webtoon. Rachel's my best friend and we've known each other for half our lives, so I'm a bit biased. Rachel is a master illustrator and her work is so expressive, emotive, and even now her sense of storytelling, drama and comedic timing all work together to make me gasp. What else could you want from a comic?
A: To be honest, I'm doing it! Making Circuits and Veins is honestly a dream, and I'm so happy that so many people love reading it. It does have an end though, and I'm also equally excited about my next story, which will be a fantasy story based on Japanese folk stories. I tried to launch it last year as Starstruck, but I wasn't completely happy with the execution, and splitting my time between two ongoing comic projects wasn't the smartest, so I've pulled it back to the drawing board. I chip away on concepts for it in between updating Circuits and Veins
A: I'm keen to talk about what it takes to update a regular serialised webcomic, and also about how to balance comics and non-comics life.
A: Marceline, from Adventure Time. She's got the best style.
You can find Jem online in the following places:
Instagram: @jemyoshioka
Twitter: @jemyoshioka
Blog/Website: jemshed.com
ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Alex Cara
We caught up with Alex Cara and asked her a couple questions for our "5 minutes with…". Alex Cara is a Christchurch-based comic artist. In addition to being featured in recent issues of Funtime Comics, her work has also been published in the Three Words anthology. She has completed a BFA in printmaking at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, and since graduating has developed and produced her own prints and comic projects, self-publishing the New Zealand historical short comic collection "Dreams of Here, Far from Home" in 2017. Her sketches and works-in-progress can be found at @alexcara.art on Instagram. Alex Cara appears at ComicFest with the support of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive.
A: I used to read the Beano and old English things like that when I was first learning to read, so that was pretty early exposure! I also had a volume of Krazy Kat and some very comic-like picture books that I loved, likeCaptain Abdul's Pirate School by Colin McNaughton. They all had good grotesque characters with lots of background details and jokes, as well as speech bubbles. I was able to read lots of different manga and graphic novels as a teen, but reading TamaraDrewe by Posy Simmonds made me really want to write and draw my own comics.
A: I feel like I've been caught up in a studying-slash-new-job whirlwind for a long time, but I self-published my own first book of comics and illustrations in 2017 ("Dreams of Here, Far from Home") and launched it at Chromacon. At the moment I'm looking at putting together a little book or pamphlet of drawings and am also working towards posting some short comics online.
A: A few different things; all my various niche book interests, especially writers like Denton Welch, Barbara Comyns and Colette. Real life and people-watching. Definitely old photographs and different types of graphic art like painting or illustration, and of course other comics; my current top favourite would be the Belgian comic artist Olivier Schrauwen, I love everything he's done.
A: It would be something where I can try lots of different art-styles, very ambitious and with interweaving themes and multiple time periods, etcetera… But I'm not high-powered enough to get very far with that kind of thing and need to build my way up from shorter works! I do often think about finding some obscure old public-domain novel or story to adapt as a comic, so maybe that.
A: Maybe the Groke from Moomins…
You can find Alex online in the following places:
Instagram: alexcara.art
Blog/Website: alexcaraart.bigcartel.com
ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Sarah Laing
We are pleased to have Sarah Laing for our next "5 minutes with…" feature. Sarah is a Wellington-based writer and illustrator who has had novels, short stories and the graphic memoir Mansfield and Me published. A collection of comics from the past ten years is forthcoming from VUP – Let Me Be Frank will be published late 2019. She also the co-editor of Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics and has illustrated a number of children's books.
A: My dad was a big comics fan – he'd grown up on the war comics you could buy at the dairy – so we always had comics lying around. Tintin, Asterix, Garfield, Charlie Brown. My cousins had a big stash of Disney comics and I particularly liked tales of Uncle Scrooge and his mountains of money. I also used to read Bogor in the Listener, and wrote some fanmail to him, with my own fanart of hedgehogs and snails. He offered me a job when I grew up – I wonder if that offer is still on the table?
A: Up until recently I've been finishing off my Let Me Be Frank manuscript – a collection of my comics over the past ten years, to be published by VUP in late 2019. I've got to be an almost fulltime cartoonist thanks to a CNZ grant. Almost fulltime, I say, as I have three kids and various part-time gigs, including mentoring creative writing students, and illustrating for a number of publications. Right now, since I have submitted my manuscipt, I am lookng for a proper job to pay my bills – feel free to hit me up!
A: My most recent project I talked about in the previous question, but I worked on a great project last year, in collaboration with Dr Giacomo Lichtner, the Italian Embassy and the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand – it was an adaptation of Denebedetti's account of the SS raid of the ghetto in Rome. You can read that comic here.
A: I waste an awful lot of time and feel incredibly guilty about it, and then sometimes I'm freakishly productive. I have to check Facebook, Instagram and Twitter each morning before I start work, and I also have to make myself coffee and a piece of toast and peanut butter. When I'm in my productive phase, I allow myself to draw badly and make mistakes, focussing instead on the shape of the story and actually completing it. The drawings may look terrible at the time, but when I go back to them, they have a looseness and a spontaneity that I like, and I often wonder if they are better than my final illustrations.
A: I have so many influences and inspirations! I am a huge fiction reader, so always have a novel on the go. I love all the women I follow on instagram and support on patreon, like Gabrielle Bell and Sarah Glidden, Mimi Pond Lisa Hanawalt, Summer Pierre, Glynnis Fawkes and of course the indominatible Jillian Tamaki. I am also a big music fan, and my latest discoveries include Nilüfer Yanya and Charlotte Adigéry. Nature, films, TV (Russian Doll! So good!), art, foreign cities, family, friends, random encounters… all of this feeds into the psychic soup I take ladles from to make my work.
A: Again, there are so many people I like and I always scared of making these lists for fear of missing someone off! I really love Sophie Watson's comics, and I'm excited about her larger project she's working on. Ross Murray's latest book, Rufus Marigold, is great – I'm looking forward to hearing him talk about it at ComicsFest. Giselle Clarkson makes hilarious, beautifully drawn comics, and I really admire Zoë Colling's autobio works. Indira Neville is hilarious and arresting, and Kirsten Slade is unmissable. Sam Orchard makes great comics about his life as a transman, which always hit the spot. The greats are still great – Dylan Horrocks, Ant Sang, Toby Morris – and I really love the irreverant lo-fi nature of Brent Willis's comics. Austen Milne is an up-and-coming cartoonist who I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of, and I wish I could see more of Meng Zhu's comics, who was in Three Words…. Arrgh, gotta stop now!
A: I have a few graphic novels bubbling away in my head… my dream involves being published by Drawn and Quarterly and being invited to all those American and Scandanavian comics festivals!
A: This time I'm here as a chair rather than a guest so I am excited to tease as much out of my panel, including Roger Langridge and Katie O'Neill, as possible!
A: Hmm, tough call. Tove Jansen? Rita Angus? Or maybe Vivienne Westwood. Or am I meant to be choosing a fictional character? In that case I'll go as Little My or Rachael in Bladerunner.
You can find Sarah online in the following places:
Instagram: @sarahelaing
Twitter: @sarahelaing
Blog/Website: sarahelaing.com
ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Roger Langridge
Our star artist, directly from the UK in this edition of the ComicFest, is next on our "5 minutes with…" feature. Meet Roger Langridge, a New Zealand-born comics writer, artist and letterer who lives in the UK. Notable works include The Muppet Show Comic Book, Thor: The Mighty Avenger and his own self-published Fred The Clown, which was nominated for Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz and Reuben awards. Roger Langridge appears at ComicFest with the support of Creative New Zealand.
A: I pretty much learned to read from Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics, which my mum used to buy for my brother and me to keep us quiet on long car journeys when we were very small. I had a sort of epiphany when I was around 6 or 7 years old, when our classroom art assignment was to draw a comic strip – most of the class drew three or four panels, but I covered both sides of the paper with these dense 16-panel comics. I'd found my thing.
A: I tend to get up early – if I have a writing job to do I'll put in an hour or two before the rest of the family wake up, otherwise I'll catch up on paperwork and correspondence. Then I'll have breakfast, get the kids off to school and start drawing – usually for the rest of the day, with a break for lunch and dinner. If I don't have an urgent deadline I occasionally watch TV in the evening with my family, otherwise it's back to the drawing board after dinner to make sure I hit the day's target.
A: Currently juggling a couple of things: I'm doing a serialised graphic novel for IDW's Full Bleed anthology featuring my Fred the Clown character – it's called Arizona Daisy, and it's a western of sorts, about the relationship between a man and his cow. I'm also working on another serial – it's for the anthology Meanwhile, published by Soaring Penguin, with a rural New Zealand setting. It's called Taniwha. I'm hoping to do some research for it while I'm in New Zealand. My pitch was "Hunt for the Wilder People meets Alice in Wonderland", which should either give you some idea of the tone I'm striving for or else utterly confuse everyone.
A: Ideally I like to start before I'm properly awake, to kind of trick myself into getting something done before I've had time to realise that's what I'm doing – there's a flow established by the time I've caught up with myself enough to realise what's going on.
Sometimes I'll play instrumental music (jazz or classical, usually) when I start – it's a way to help me focus and drown out any distractions. It has to be something without words, though. A human voice takes me right out of it.
A: I think my holy triumvirate would be E.C. Segar, Carl Barks and Kurtzman & Elder.
A: From before I moved to the UK: I adored Barry Linton's comics; I was so sorry to hear he'd passed away. I've followed Dylan Horrocks' stuff since his university days. Karl Wills does some amazing work. Trace Hodgson's comics need some sort of collection.
More recently: I like the bits I've seen from Ned Wenlock & Sarah Laing. Jared Lane's stuff is very accomplished. Ant Sang is a world-class cartoonist. Ben Stenbeck gets better and better all the time. There's always a ton of great work coming out of New Zealand, it definitely punches above its weight in terms of the talent it produces. I'm missing loads of people. I'm a bit out of the loop these days so I'm hoping to educate myself on who's current or up-and-coming while I'm visiting.
A: I'd really like to try my hand at a daily strip for a sustained period – some absurdist character-based thing with a Goon Show sort of feel to it. To do it well at my current rate of production it would totally have to be a full-time job, though, so either I need to find a way to draw a lot faster or find some way to get paid for it.
A: I've been asked to do a workshop about using formal constraints as a creative instigator, so there's that! Should be fun for people who want to get involved. I'll try to keep it silly.
A: Maybe I could be the back end of Barney Google's horse, Spark Plug?
You can find Roger online in the following places:
Twitter: @hotelfred
Blog/Website: hotelfred.com
ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Sharon Murdoch
Meet Sharon Murdoch, a political cartoonist with Stuff Media. Her cartoon series Munro, about an orange cat, also appears in Stuff's daily newspapers. Murdoch won Canon Media Awards Cartoonist of the Year in 2016 and 2017, and Voyager Media Awards Cartoonist of the Year in 2018 (formerly the Canon Media Awards). Two collections of Sharon's work have been published – one on her political work written by Dr Melinda Johnston, and another of her Munro cat cartoons, which came out in late 2018. Of political cartooning, Sharon says she can't think of another job she would rather do. Even on a bad day.
A: After I finished Design School I lived with Trace Hodgson, who at the time was a political cartoonist for The Listener, so cartoons were a normal part of the day, and he had lots of comics around – mainly underground. Later I worked with a Xhosa Women's Community Development group in South Africa, and we used comic strips as a way to communicate information about AIDS prevention and early childhood development. I also helped put together a kids paper for the Evening Post newspaper, called Presto. Gradually I started doing political stuff. And so it went…
A: On days I have to do a political cartoon I turn on the radio as soon as I wake up and listen to RNZ and trawl through news sites. If I'm lucky my partner will bring me a cup of tea – which may be straight kindness, or may be because he likes the kitchen to himself. Our cats Munro and LaLuna usually clamp me to the bed, so it takes a bit of manouvering to extricate myself. I walk into town and have another cup of tea at a cafe while I read the newspaper, and rough out ideas. Then some more walking is usually involved while I try to sort out what the characters are saying. Most days I draw at my desk in the Stuff newsroom. It's a great place to be, because there's more tea, and I get to hear what's happening about the place.
I usually work till around 6.30 or so, and then I walk home again. If I have other projects on, I try to do them on the weekends, or if I'm on a deadline I'll work in the evening, but I find as I've gotten older working in the evening is more exhausting than it used to be, and also takes time away from being with my partner, my teenaged daughter, the two cats and the dog, Iris.
A: My regular political cartoons for Stuff newspapers and Stuff.co.nz. A book of my cat cartoons, Munro, came out late last year, and I've been drawing penguins for South Cider cider cans. At the moment I'm doing drawings for a book by Mike White about dogs.
A: Lots of tea. Lots of walking. A favourite dip pen handle that I got off Trademe – it's quite old and has it's own reservoir, and Hunt and Brause nibs. The sketchbooks I use are from Japan City. When I found out that Japan City was closing I went in and bought about 50 of them. I use one a month, so I figure when I run out of those sketchbooks my cartooning career will be over. If not before.
A: JJ Grandville, Lynda Barry, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Chris Blain, Mervyn Peake, Mathieu Sapin, Ben Shahn, Wanda G'ag, Kate Beaton.
A: Something with animals.
A: Excitement about drawing stories, whether that's single panels or pages.
A: Dressing as myself is challenge enough.
You can follow Sharon on Twitter @domesticanimcal
ComicFest 2019 – 5 minutes with Jesse Barratt
Next on our special "5 minutes with…" feature we have Jesse Barratt. He is a Senior Artist at Weta Workshop's gaming studio and was instrumental in shipping Weta Workshop's first and multi-award nominated title Dr. Grordbort's Invaders for the Magic Leap One. Jesse's talents were used to develop the 3D aspect of Dr. Grordbort's Invaders including the creation of spaces and objects, and increasing immersion within the world of Mixed Reality.
Jesse Barratt appears at ComicFest with the support of Weta.
A: Art, definitely the Art. my older brother, Brad, used to buy comics all the time – he'd buy half a dozen or so a fortnight so we had plenty in the house when I was young. Much to my mum's worry, I would sit for hours at a time, pouring over the images in comics such as Hellraiser, Tales from the Crypt, Ironman, Wolverine and Hellboy.
A: I wake up early and go to bed late so my days are long. Most days I work around the 10 hour mark. Once you add portfolio work and life's other commitments, my sleep schedule is usually shortened to the 5-6 hour mark. Healthy eating and exercise becomes important to an artist at that point. Who knows what could happen otherwise – your hands might drop off!
At Weta Workshop, I usually start my day around 7:30am, make a nice coffee in the staff kitchen and begin reading my emails and talk to a few people. This helps me prioritize my workload for the day. Once I've got the utmost deadlines out the way, I get stuck into a day's worth of development. On any given day, this could consist of modeling, texturing, etc. at Weta Workshop every day is varied and interesting.
A: Last year Weta Workshop released its first mixed reality game, Dr Grordbort's Invaders set in the retro-science fiction universe of rayguns, rocket ships and deadly robot miscreants. This was also my first time working in mixed reality and it came with a host of new and exciting challenges. I certainly learnt a lot from the project. Now I continue to work within this inspiring new medium – it's a little different from traditional comic book drawing and I relish the work.
A: I think the only tradition I have regarding helping me at work is to just really focus. People speak about "focus" like this mystical or difficult to obtain phantom. But I think that focus is more about building it over time. I usually just say to myself, Ok, from 9am to lunch I don't get off this seat and I work. As creative people, I think we all get distracted easier than others. But by being prepared and organised you can really force yourself to shoot some goals.
A: Honestly? It's the people around me. People like our Lead Artist, Stephen Lambert, our Game Director, Greg Broadmore, and the rest of the amazing team at Weta Workshop's gaming division. These people inspire me on a daily basis.
A: Have to shout out to the best boss I've had and one of the most amazing artists on the planet, whether he thinks that or not, Greg Broadmore. Incredible. Check out his stuff.
A: I'd actually love to work in a style like Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Something dark and gritty, terrifying and beautiful.
A: I'll be giving attendees at ComicFest a look into the weird world of an artist's mind. I'll be showing and discussing how we analyse imagery and extract the information we use to recreate or spark inspiration. Using the world of Dr.Grordbort's and Greg's comic book work I'll introduce the audience to principles such as line, color, form and more.
A: My go to is John Bender from the Breakfast Club because I can rock a denim jacket. But for comic fest it's a tie between Jareth the Goblin King from Labyrinth or a yellow banana.
You can find Jesse online at jetty218.artstation.com
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The plattform remains stable, but Im struggling with a problem since the moment we started to work on it and is related with the PDI behavour on some Oracle SQL queries. The problem is documented here: https://forums.pentaho.com/threads/53201-KETTLE-and-Oracle-s-NLS_DATE_FORMAT/
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I need to change the odbc jar file on /lib folder of PDI folders (change odbc10.jar to odbc6.jar) and I dont know how to do it. It can't be as simple as delete the wrong file and put the new one. I suppose that somewhere on PDI configuration there must be a setting pointing to the wrong odbc10.jar and I must set it with the name of the new driver that PDI must use (odbc6.jar). I'm not sure if this setting is neccesary or not. As I'm not admin on this server, I can´t on my own, change the file and test it, I need to open a IT Ticket and ask for the right department to do it and I dont wan't anyone loose their time with wrong instructions.
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The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun (review)
University of Texas Press
Volume 41, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2010
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The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun
Leslie Hall (bio)
The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun. 2008. One CD (51:26). Performed by the Traditional Arabic Music Ensemble. Produced by George Dimitri Sawa. Ontario Arts Council/Conseil des Arts de l'Ontario. English notes by George Sawa. Distributed by CDBaby.com. ISBN 978-0-9809661-0-7.
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, George Sawa has lived in Toronto since 1970, where he completed his PhD in historical ethnomusicology. He is known for his qanun(78-string zither) performances of Egyptian folk, classical, and dance music, as well as his scholarly publications on Arabic musical practice, including his book Music Performance Practice in the Early Abbasid Era 132-320 AH/750-932 AD(1989). The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanunis one of five recordings nominated for a 2009 Canadian Juno Award in the World Music Album of the Yearcategory. [End Page 215]The accompanying 15-page booklet has photographs of the musicians and their instruments, informative notes about the repertoire and performers, and details of rhythmic patterns and melodic modes. Both the recording and booklet are important resources for musicians, scholars, dancers, and music libraries.
Performing with George Sawa, percussionist Suzanne Meyers-Sawa shows her skill and flexibility on various tambourines and drums, particularly darabukka(goblet-shaped drum), while Raymond Sarweh adds rhythmic embellishment on the riqq(tambourine). The chamber ensemble allows the listener to appreciate the unique timbres of the instruments, and is particularly welcome among numerous recordings by large Middle Eastern ensembles filled with western violins, cellos, and electric guitars.
Originally, the qanun had gut strings and the performer used finger positions to achieve diff erent microtones. In the early 20th century, small metal stops ( mandalsor orabs) were added to create fixed microtones. For this recording, George Sawa, aided by a Canadian harpsichord maker, removed the mandals which had been added to a 19th-century Egyptian qanun. After experimenting with various types of strings, he also decided to re-string the instrument using high-quality harp strings. The lack of mandals means that the tuning is flexible and not limited by a European-inspired tempered quarter-tone tuning system; however, one must then have the skill to produce correct-sounding microtones. Sawa, a versatile performer, teacher, and scholar, has that ability. His unique qanun has a flexibility and warm, mellow sound that is quite different from modern instruments.
Most of the repertoire on the recording is lively dance music, primarily from the late 19th and early 20th century, including "Dance of the Noble Ladies" and "Ceremonial Entrance of the Professional Dancers," both from the early 20th century. Other dance pieces include a group of Egyptian Sufi dances and a set of anonymous dances and improvisations compiled as a "Tribute to Mohammad Ali Street Composers." These latter works are mainly in three modes or makam—Rast, Huzam, and Suznak—partly in keeping with the original concept of the fasil(suite) in a single mode, and partly for ease of tuning and recording, as the instrument needs time to settle between tunings. The focus on three makam allows the listener to gain a better understanding and appreciation of these modes.
The fast dance works contrast with the slower tempos of three instrumental preludes ( peshrevs) from the 1700 collection by Dimitri Cantemir, a Moldavian prince who lived in Istanbul as a royal hostage from 1687 to 1691 and 1693 to 1710. The peshrevs are all in Rast makam, with the third and seventh lowered by one comma. In the recurring refrains of the peshrevs and in several improvisations ( taksim), Sawa shows his skill in ornamentation and variation, highly valued artistic devices in Middle Eastern musical and visual arts. Some of the [End Page 216]taksim are freestyle, whereas others are in rhythmic cycles such as 8/4 or 4/4, the latter inspired by a 1928 recording.
In summary, this recording is both creative and scholarly, with an intriguing mixture of Ottoman and Arabic repertoire and tuning. George Sawa is an exceptional performer with a unique perspective that combines the contemporary and historical. For those wishing to learn about Middle Eastern music, or for those already...


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17TH ANNUAL SEASON OF THEATER
FRIDAY, May 3 at 8:00PM
SATURDAY, May 4 at 3:00PM
by Helena D. Lewis
After her mother's unexpected death, a devoted daughter struggles to adjust to her newfound matriarchal duties. An intimate, dramatic, and humorous look at love and life from a "menopause baby," who embraces her inherent dysfunction to care for her eccentric 82 year-old father and Smokey, the affable family dog.
WEDNESDAY, April 24 at 8:00PM
THE DELAY
by Ledia Xhoga
While commuting to work, Peter meets a stranger who seems to know everything about him. Can this mysterious encounter be exactly what he needs?
THURSDAY, April 25 at 8:00PM
RIDIN' SHOTGUN
by Juan Ramirez, Jr.
Two friends go through an emotional journey as they contemplate avenging the murder of one of their sisters.
SATURDAY, April 27 at 8:00PM
THE QUIET ZONE
by Augusto Federico Amador
A middle-aged recluse, living in West Virginia, is confronted by the consequences of being an absent mother when her estranged daughter suddenly arrives. The Quiet Zone is a story about loss and rediscovered motherhood.
WEDNESDAY, May 1 at 8:00PM
by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
A man that lost everything in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is about to attack the people of the government that left them forgotten. The only thing standing between him and this heinous act? His cousin and an echo dot.
SOMETHING TRUE
by David Beardsley
Two young lovers on the cusp of a momentous decision navigate the tricky waters of intimacy.
IN THE NAME OF US
by Ruoxin Xu
Four Chinese young women, who live in four different countries, suddenly realize the influence that their names give them while individually experiencing some important moments in their life.
THURSDAY, May 9 at 8:00PM
IN THE PALACE OF THE PLANET KING
by Edwin Rivera-Arias
Two streeted-down been-around men and a crawling mute find themselves locked away in a bleak and sinister institution they can't puzzle out. Soon enough it dawns on them that the game's been fixed at jump street. In other words, they might be doomed to a life sentence and-- wouldn't you know it?-- there ain't a parole board in sight . . .
FRIDAY, May 10 at 8:00PM
STORY AND HER
by Josh Drimmer
A middle-aged seducer has a story to tell, a story about the only woman who ever interested him as much as himself. A story that is gonna hurt to tell, especially since she's not around.
BLACK & UGLY AS EVER
by Porsha Olayiwola
A one-person choreopoem that explores what it means to move through reality as a queer, fat, dark-skinned woman.
FRIDAY, April 26 at 8:00PM
GAMBLED EGGS
by Victoria Moy
Two sisters "hatch" a plan and take a gamble of their own to save their family from ruin when their father's gambling debts brings a henchman to their door.
FLINTED
by Emma McFarland
Flinted focuses on the issue of Flint, Michigan's drinking water.
by Rollin Jewett
A foreign refugee with a frightful agenda confronts an American looking to have a good time in Amsterdam.
by J. Lois Diamond
A poet is heading to Paris to read her work when she is detained in the Tehran airport. Despite being 82 and almost blind, she is interrogated throughout the night. Will her principles prove to be stronger than her fears?
LOVE/FANTASY
by Tommy Jamerson
A story of four harrowing accounts of sexual assault and survival told through the perspectives of Cory and Anna, two friends attempting to write a play touching on the current #MeToo movement.
CALL-AND-RESPONSE
by Marcus Scott
Call-And-Response explores race relations in America, white male privilege, dog-whistle politics, swatting and police brutality.
RAGHEAD
by Tom Coash
A New York City firefighter and a woman wearing an Islamic veil go on a blind date. Will sparks fly?
SATURDAY, May 11 at 8:00PM
by Steven A. Bulter, Jr.
An exploration of the lives of women who have been affected by the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements.
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