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Old-School Harmonica or New-School?
November 8, 2009 November 30, 2013 Elwood	11 Comments	interview, Joe Filisko, modern blues harmonica, traditional blues harp
After chatting to Joe Filisko, Elwood the Apprentice wonders if blues harmonica really needs a war of the clones
Those of you who've been paying attention will see that I recently posted a (rather overdue) Q&A with Chicago harmonica master Joe Filisko. In a very short conversation in a very noisy pub, which I'll admit was not conducive to nuanced debate, he contended that harmonica should stay rooted in tradition: "One might argue," he said, "that the harmonica sounds best played as it was played in the Fifties. And if it sounds best, then why not do it?"
Now, it ain't easy arguing about harmonica with Joe Filisko. He's nice about it, but one can hardly forget that a single horn-like blast from his Marine Band could reduce poor Elwood into nothing more than a pair of smoking Hush Puppies.
But I gotta say that Filisko's traditionalism is just something I can't quite swallow.
It's true that learning at the feet of the masters is something every player needs to do. And for the foreseeable future I am mostly content to do that. But if all of us followed Filisko's path, the future of blues music would be no future at all. There's a difference between recognising tradition and doting on the past. [And let's not forget that if blues harmonica is like a language – as Joe says – that language is in constant flux, evolving every moment of every day.]
But I have two things to say about Filisko that I hope will let both parties (master and apprentice) retire from the debate with face saved. The first is that he's a ridiculously nice guy. Adam Gussow called him "the saint" of blues harmonica, and in the course of my journalistic endeavours, I found three separate pieces of evidence to support this hypothesis:
a) Without being asked, he gave out a freebie Filisko & Noden CD to a guy who'd clearly spent all his money on beer (…okay, it was me);
b) After the show, he happily doled out some incisive technical advice to an amateur harp player (still me);
c) During our conversation, some ungainly moron knocked over Filisko's beer and he shrugged it off like it was nothing. (The moron, who asked not to be named, may or may not have been me).
The second is that, whether or not we agree with Filisko, we need him. From John Lee Williamson and Sonny Terry, to DeFord Bailey fox chases and the chord-heavy Cajun waltzes of Isom Fontenot, he breathes life into every lick and inflection. I have to admit – with each whoop and warble, Filisko isn't merely copying those geezers; he's channelling them. A world without Joe Filisko could be a world where blues harmonica had forgotten its heritage – like an acorn that had forgotten it was part of an oak tree.
In blues music, the term 'keeper of the flame' is as hackneyed as most of the guys who get labeled with it. Many are imitators, impersonators, impressionists – takers of the flame. But journey back to the ancient origins of that phrase, when our ancestors' sacred fires were kept alive by the stewardship of a chosen few, and then you'll understand Joe Filisko. Keeper of the flame.
Elwood is the guest blogger for The Harp Surgery's Apprenticeship Series. Thanks to Jon Vaughan of Customharps.co.uk for recording the latter half of the interview. And thanks to Joe for being a sport about the spilt beer. As a fellow apprentice told me, if you'd been Sonny Boy you woulda cut me.
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11 thoughts on "Old-School Harmonica or New-School?"
Justin Ward
Overblows are a case in point. There are those who consider the use of OBs in blues harp a travesty, which to me is ridiculous. If Little Walter had known about OBs he'd have mastered and used them, and nobody would object now. Not that I'm suggesting we should all play blues like Howard Levy, even if we could:)
ElwoodPost author
Good points, Justin. If you haven't seen it yet, there's a pretty good debate on this at the Modern Blues Harmonica forum.
bluesharpfiend
I can see it now. One day in the future, we'll be sitting in our holographic computer projection booths on Mars, reading Elwood's rant about how the new breed of harmonica players with their triple sideways nuclear overunderblows just can't hold a candle to those old dudes of the early 21st century, like Levy and Gussow and Ricci, and reminiscing about the good old days, when the blues was the blues.
Fiend, those triple sideways nuclear overunderblows are all for show. "If James Cotton didn't need them, never do we."
Yes, Joe Filisko is a "warrior monk" of the blues harmonica. A few years back, he persuaded me to switch to tongue blocking. I listened, unlearned and relearned how to play, giving myself a lot of "pain" while doing so. A few years later, I realize that he opened a whole new world for me. There has been no looking back, ever since.
Sunnyside… I'm currently undergoing the same painful process. I'll never be 100 percent tongue-blocked – nor would I want to be – but it's well worth the heartache already.
hugh feeley
Well, too me it is the learning……………..us old schooler we went to see, talk, hang out with, to catch not only the HOW but, what being a harmonica player was all about. I liked the life, the originality, love the harmonica, enjoy tuning and adjusting my harps and love opening my old school style with over blows, alternate tunings and playing different styles. What chaffs my arse, is the modern generations ignorance OF THERE OWN IGNORANCE. Harmonica takes a long time. Keep your OPINIONS TO YOUR SELF!!!! One dimwit said on a you tube video I played on with the ,Blue Ryder Trio, I don't remember the song, but I couldn't be playing the notes-because I was moving around to much. You could get an ass wippen in my day, for that kinda nonsense. Until you can do it live shut your pie hole and LISTEN!!! Sitting in your room with your computer and your slow down recorder and BUYING your mics all ready set up, and your harps all set up, and ur harmonica uniform, and quotin blla blla blla and stuff. The Harmonica life is a tough road to walk. All the how to learning…..don't you realize, mosta the good stuff I learned from, harmonica players, privately and most of the other stuff by LISTENING, and asking the human being-Hey, that's cool , how did you do that? But, times change, I say go get them any way that works. Blues harmonica, has to have FEELING. Copying patterns, in positions, with out Originality or Feeling, aint not, never will be, playing blues on the harmonica.
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Well, looks like you have been having fun since the days of wahling out a the pizza place in camp springs. O and happy birthday coming up I have one to
Hey Bob. Well, what u doing on a harmonica page? Happy birthday. Hard to believe we're still alive, hahaha. Peace and Love.
John Thaden
Hugh, heard you a coupla times in the late '80s 'round DC and you were monster. When it was me asking you how you did what you did, you were very generous. What you said was spend lots of my woodshedding time on mic and amp, and tongue-block just about everything. You shared how, after a long night, the high note bends could start kickin your butt. Just a big thanks from a long-ago listener.
Harp Surgery is one of the best harmonica sites on the internet: consistently both informative and entertaining. I visit it regularly. Great job!
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Lost Illusions review: A sexy and entertaining costume drama
By Jason Struss June 10, 2022
In the busy world of Lost Illusions, corruption reigns supreme. Cities are cesspools of crime and debauchery. Fake news circulates like a virus, destroying lives and chipping away at the fragile democratic state. The high cost of living makes everyone scramble for their daily bread, sacrificing whatever ideals they have left just to survive. Nothing is for free, and everything, and everyone, has a price.
A hero's rise and fall
A vibrant past, with ties to the present
A sumptuous package
No, this isn't a movie about the state of things in 2022, but rather an adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's 19th-century novel that is just as relevant today as it was back then. That's due, of course, to Balzac's genius, but also to director Xavier Giannoli, who has made one of the year's best movies by infusing an urgency to what could have been a dreary, stuffy affair. This film moves, and unlike most bloated costume pics, it's interested in chronicling the gradual rot of the men and women beneath the heavy period makeup and fancy clothing.
Lost Illusions begins in the French provincial town of Angoulême, where Lucien Chardon works as a lowly assistant at a printer's shop. Gifted with the ability to write poetry and charm the ladies, he quickly seduces the married Madame Louise de Bargeton, who is richer and hails from the upper class. Soon, they run away to Paris together in the vain hope of continuing their love affair away from disapproving eyes.
They are spectacularly wrong. Parisian society is more rigid and unforgiving and, as seen in a masterful sequence set at the Paris Opera, a stray handkerchief or a friendly wave could spell doom for anyone wanting to be accepted into high society. With the Madame reluctantly choosing the comforts of her class over love, Lucien is cast off; broke, desperate, and alone.
He soon meets Etienne Lousteau, a cynical journalist who takes a liking to Lucien and shows him the ins and outs of the newspaper industry, which is just beginning to thrive in France under new laws that encourage freedom of the press. These freedoms are exploited by Etienne and his peers, who use the power of the press to get what they want: Money, women, power, and above all, influence. With no title, no money, and a gift to write quickly and maliciously, Lucien soon becomes a leading figure in this toxic world and seeks to win back what he thinks is his rightful place next to Madame de Bargeton in high society.
There's much more in the film: Dirty politicians, pretty prostitutes, two doomed love stories, three nasty rivalries, a handful of shopping montages that would make Sofia Coppola blush, several courses of pineapple dishes (it's a running gag throughout the picture), and even a pet monkey. But one of the chief pleasures of the film is discovering this lost world that Giannoli has so expertly created. No other movie in recent memory has done as great of a job at recreating a specific time and place in the distant past: Paris in the 1820s. Yet the film isn't strangled by its sets or costumes; instead, they help shape a detailed portrait of a past society that has more parallels to 2022 than you'd think.
That's because Giannoli isn't just interested in doing a respectable adaptation of a routine costume drama. He locates the anger and breathlessness in Balzac's work, and makes it timeless. In one bravura sequence, Giannoli lays out the rules of Lucien's new profession, and how taking a simple bribe to publish a good (or bad) review of a book he hasn't read feeds into a corrupt ecosystem that involves not just the press but also the artists that create them, the distributors that circulate them, the marketers that exploit them, and the politicians that sponsor them. What Giannoli shows, with no heavy hand, is that this ecosystem isn't specific to Lucien's world; it's also how our system is set up as well. Through Lucien's tragic rise and fall, Giannoli draws parallels to the present, when fake news is used to decimate opponents and everyone seems willing to be bought by the highest bidder.
While the direction is the standout element of Lost Illusions, it's not the only thing that makes the movie great. The acting is uniformly excellent, with everyone having a great time either being virtuous or playing nasty. As Lucien, Benjamin Voisin delivers on the charismatic promise he showed in 2020's Summer of 85. Naïve yet shrewd, Voisin's Lucien is an innocent devoured by the wolves he desperately wants to join. As Lucien's friend-turned-foe Étienne, Vincent Lacoste possesses an oily charm that makes you understand why Lucien falls under his spell. As Lucien's two great loves, both Cécile de France (as Madame de Bargeton) and Salomé Dewaels (as Coralie) give depth and pathos to their Madonna and Whore archetypes. Best of all is Xavier Dolan's Nathan, whose mysterious, brooding presence is only fully realized in the film's devastating climax.
All of these actors embody a world convincingly re-created by the talented production designers, costume designers, and makeup artists, all of whom bring to life the Bourbon Restoration in France from 200 years ago and make it feel vital and lived-in. Christophe Beaucarne's cinematography frames everything with equal interest and precision, from the beatific provincial countryside of France to the dirty, rat-infested streets of Paris. The end result is a film that eschews the look and feel of the traditional costume picture as a pretty postcard. It's the story that matters here, and the worldbuilding is there to service Lucien's tragic tale of ambition and hubris.
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Lost Illusions clocks in at a hefty 141 minutes, but not a minute is wasted. Viewers who may be put off the by the length and subject matter can rest easy that the film is as funny, sexy, and entertaining as any movie set in the present day. That it also has a pointed commentary on the roles of media and politics in society, both high and low, is what makes the movie so memorable and, ultimately, affecting. What happened then is still happening now, only with less powdered wigs and monkeys.
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Field Report: Providence Health
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#ThisWeekinHealthIT a Field Report from Providence Health with CIO B.J. Moore.
Episode 243: Transcript – May 7, 2020
[0:00:04.5] BR: Welcome to This Week in Health IT where we amplify great thinking to propel healthcare forward. My name is Bill Russell, healthcare CIO coach and creator of This Week in Health IT, a set of podcasts, videos and collaboration events dedicated to developing the next generation of health leaders.
If you missed our live show, it is only available on our YouTube channel. What a fantastic conversation we had with Drex DeFord, David Muntz, Sue Schade, around what's next in health IT. You can view it on our website with our new menu item, appropriately named, Live. Or just jump over to the YouTube channel and while you're at it, you might as well subscribe to our YouTube channel and click on get notifications to get access to a bunch of content only available on our YouTube channel.
Live will be a new monthly feature only available on YouTube. How many times I say YouTube in that paragraph? Subscribe to YouTube, we're going to have some great stuff over there. This episode and every episode since we started the COVID-19 series have been sponsored by Sirius Healthcare. They reached out to me to see how we might partner during this time and that is how we've been able to support producing daily shows. Special thanks to Sirius for supporting the show's efforts during the crisis. Now, on to today's show.
[0:01:25.4] BR: Here we go, today another field report, this time with BJ Moore from Providence. Good afternoon BJ, welcome to the show.
[0:01:23.0] BJM: Hi Bill, good to meet with you again.
[0:01:25.4] BR: Yeah, I'm looking forward to this conversation. Last time we talked, we talked a lot about cloud, actually. Last time we talked, you were like, 30 days into the –
[0:01:34.9] BJM: Exactly that.
[0:01:35.7] BR: You're now a seasoned veteran that you could see with the –
[0:01:38.9] BJM: Yeah, I grew a beard, I've been here for 15 months, a little grey, yeah, it's been a good ride though.
[0:01:46.6] BR: Man, well listen, I know you don't have a lot of time and I appreciate the time that you're giving us. So let's just jump right into it. Through the crisis, we've been talking about this framework of react, stabilize, reimagine and I'd just like to walk through that with you. You know, give us an idea of the react phase at Providence, you were one of the first health systems with a COVID patient. What did it look like at that time and what were some of the things that you guys did?
[0:02:10.1] BJM: Yeah, we were the first patient. Patient zero came into our health system. We as you know, we're across seven states here along the western United States that first patient came into Washington, everything we did in the react phase was at a system level. Yeah, we did things with immediate respond to Washington but everything we did was you know, later to benefit California or Texas or Alaska, the way it's hit them and so, you know, we had a diagnostic capability.
Remote testing, tents to add capacity, capacity to allow workers to work from home, you know, maybe 10 or 15% of our workforce normally works from home, we had to surge that capacity to allow all of our caregivers to work from home. VPN, network infrastructure, new laptops, you know, testing processes like payroll that had never been run from home for the first time. The react phase was quite broad across the board from clinical tools, network and infrastructure and then working from home processes. Super happy how the health system responded and you know, knock on wood, felt like our response was good.
[0:03:27.7] BR: You guys, leading into this, you guys were doing big moves in the cloud, has a service models, those kind of things and I read some stuff early on you did a chatbots with Microsoft, you did – how did that work benefit Providence during the crisis.
[0:03:45.5] BJM: Yeah, first of all, it was work that we're lucky enough to start before the crisis, so we had three strategic pillars around simplify, modernize and innovate so a lot of these things were well underway. When we came into the crisis, we're able to pivot quickly. We mentioned the chat bot, that was super helpful, a lot of people got a website and triage their own symptoms and then it would make a recommendation, stay at home and monitor your symptoms to tele visit, go to an emergency department. Really took a huge load off of our caregivers and our emergency departments. A small piece of technology that really helped.
Probably the single biggest piece of technology we did in advance was moving to Teams. Microsoft Teams, their cloud product there. When I started 15 months ago, we had Link and Skype and WebeX and Teams. IF that would have been the situation, we came at COVID, it would have been disastrous. But most of our caregivers over 100,000 caregivers, were already on Teams so doing that remote work, being able to collaborate, really paid off. Yeah, those cloud of investments were doing before and we felt the benefit of t hose cloud investments as we – that with the COVID crisis.
[0:05:01.2] BR: Yeah, I've already gotten the coming out of this because I really want to – I'm ready to come out of it.
[0:05:07.3] BJM: You're optimistic Bill, I like it. We are coming out of this, we're starting to shift to the next phase.
[0:05:12.8] BR: You know, what becomes top of mind for this CIO from a priority standpoint. Have we thrown our plans for 2020 out and we're going to rewrite them at this point?
[0:05:21.9] BJM: Yeah, I guess a couple of things. Yeah, there is a number of programs that we stopped turning the COVID crisis, wanted the teams to be able to really focus on some things. Some of those things were kind of opportunistic, you know, to turn most things often. We won't turn those back on. Some of those programs that have a life of their own and this crisis is a lot of – to stop those, that's good.
You know, we had some strategic priorities that we are already working on like moving to the cloud, you know, standardizing on Epic, moving to Oracle cloud, we'll continue those investments. They're probably the new thing that's coming out of COVID is what are the assets we built during this crisis and how do we ride that wave, telehealth being a good example, in a two week period, we had grown our telehealth business by a thousand times.
We added 7,000 providers in a single week. How do we take that muscle, that capability that we didn't have before COVID and really water that, foster that, continue to grow it? Yeah, we'll stick with our long term strategic initiatives and then we're starting to add in these new initiatives, telehealth being a simple example to really carry the momentum that we have on COVID.
[0:06:39.6] BR: Yeah, it is going to be interesting though the telehealth example and actually everybody has that hockey stick just across the country because you had to see patients and there were other patients besides COVID patients. Do you feel like the atmosphere has changed dramatically? So I have talked to some people who said if you talked to physicians three months ago about doing telehealth, you would get – you would have some that were adopters and they were absolutely all in.
But then you had a whole bunch that were like, "Don't even talk to me about it. There is payment, there is no —" Do you find those conversations to be changing or do you think that maybe not the conversation itself but do you think they're going to change? Do you think the — people's willingness to do some of these things if the payment models with that being the assumption doing payment models could be taken care of appropriately that we are going to see virtual and telehealth get admitted into the entire care experience?
[0:07:45.7] BJM: Yeah and I would add there was a caregiver resistance but there's frankly patient resistance, right? I have always gone in to see the doctor, "I have always been face to face and I continue to do that." So my optimism says yes. I think we are going to carry that optimism. I think the analogy I've been using, I feel like in the six weeks that we've gone through this crisis we've done a year's worth of progress and a year's worth of work.
I think we maintain that. I think patients getting used to telehealth consults, our caregivers used to giving those. I think that momentum will stick there, assuming that the payer model supports that. I absolutely think that comes out of it and you know these remote work things as well. Ironically, we were talking about Teams. We have deployed it to a 100,000 people. Our adoption was low and however are we going to increase adoption and we had this big training plans.
While with COVID people train themselves, now people are heavy users and I think people will stick with the heavy user. So what I am trying to say is I think there is some muscle that's been built through this crisis and I think it is permanent muscle that will be maintained in the health systems and the way we deliver our healthcare here in the US.
[0:09:01.9] BR: Were you surprised at the level of productivity that we have been able to attain in a work from home environment and do you really anticipate that to continue? I think it is going to be hard to ask people to come back into the office.
[0:09:14.2] BJM: I think it's a bit of both. I've been pleasantly surprised, I had somebody asked why I noticed a difference between people that are young in career and later in career and adoption of this technology, it is interesting after a day everybody, the technology has become seamless whether you're 40th year in your career or you're in your 4th day in your career. So now I think those habits will be resilient.
I am hearing the opposite. I am an introvert myself like working from home seems like a dream but I am actually hearing the opposite, which is I am productive from home. I love these productivity tools but I can't wait to get back in the office. I can't wait to interact with my peers and fellow caregivers. So I think it is going to be mixed. I think the use of these tools will stick. I think being productive from home or a coffee shop or wherever you are will stick. But I think humans need to interact and have that face to face and have that personal time. I think people are going to want to come back in the office and they're looking forward to that.
[0:10:20.2] BR: Yeah, so last question. Well you know as we because I think we're up against our time here. Coming out of this, there's going to be just a ton of projects, right? So we had our multi-year plan and you had your multi-year plan and then there is going to be a whole host of new projects that come up about as a result of this. How are you going to prioritize those and how are you going to knit those together?
[0:10:45.5] BJM: Yeah, I think it needs to be a balance of those long term plans. I mentioned Epic consolidation getting on to single EHR, getting on an Oracle cloud. Those are 18, 24 month investments. We will continue to do those and that won't change. But when we evaluate new projects, it is going to be what supports these new emerging health delivery. What are technologies are going to enable us if they are or when there is a second wave of COVID that are going to allow us to respond to that?
What are things that are going to help us generate revenue in this post COVID world? What are things going to be able to allow us to cut costs? And things that have really short paybacks, right? Six months is really what we are looking at. Anything more than six months we just can't entertain at this point in time. And so the good news is there is a ton of revenue opportunities. There is a ton of new opportunities from a business perspective.
So I have a lot of new projects coming our way. It is what can we handle as a health system from a change perspective, from an IT perspective and obviously from a funding perspective but I feel optimistic. I think we will come out of this stronger even though it is things feel pretty low right now I think we'll come out of it stronger for sure.
[0:12:05.2] BR: Well, BJ, I want to thank you for your time. I do want to have you on again here in the not so distant future because I want to go back into this. I love the conversation we had a year ago then we said we are going to visit again and talk about how that process went. Because there is an awful lot to it of moving to the cloud, how's it going and those kinds of things and maybe we'll do that as a live episode I think that would be great.
[0:12:28.1] BJM: Absolutely, I am looking forward to that. Thanks for the opportunity to share the message Bill, I appreciate it.
[0:12:32.3] BR: Thank you, take care.
[0:12:33.8] BR: That is all for this week. Special thanks to our sponsors, VMware, StarBridge Advisors, Galen Healthcare, Health Lyrics, Sirius Healthcare and Pro Talent Advisors for choosing to invest in developing the next generation of health leaders. If you want to support the fastest growing podcast in the health IT space, the best way to do that is to share with a peer. Send them an email, let them know that you value and you're getting value out of the show and also, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel while you're at it.
Please check back often as we continue to drop shows until we get through this pandemic together. Thanks for listening. That is all for now.
May 7, 2020: For this coronavirus field report we are joined by BJ Moore from Providence, where he is the Executive Vice President and CIO. BJ takes us through the initial phases of the pandemic at Providence and lays out the all-important reaction phase for the company. The early steps taken in this crisis have been so crucial and Providence is a great example of how a proactive approach can pay off. BJ also explains the processes that were already underway before the crisis hit, namely the development of a chatbot and the implementation of Microsoft Teams. In BJ's opinions these steps have really aided the center and its patients. We discuss priorities and what BJ is focussing on as a CIO before diving into our favorite topic of telehealth and the strides that have been made in the last two months. BJ weighs in on the idea of work-from-home, commenting on the sentiment he has noticed from the staff at Providence around the issue. For all this and more, listen in with us today on This Week in Health IT!
The reaction phase at Providence and early steps in response to COVID patients.
How moving to Microsoft Teams and the development of a chatbot has served Providence.
CIO priorities moving forward; using the momentum offered by the pandemic response.
The admission of virtual and telehealth and the permanent effects to healthcare delivery.
Thoughts on the work-from-home model after the crisis and returning to the office.
New projects for health systems and looking at the best technologies for the future.


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Protests disrupt opening of Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade
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Opening ceremonies at Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade (World University Games) were temporarily disrupted on Saturday by protesters who blocked the student athletes from participating in the event's Parade of Nations.
The protesters were demonstrating against reforms in Taiwan's pension system for government employees and teachers.
Taiwanese media reported that most of the 7,700 athletes invited to the games did not get the chance to march, as Police feared navigating through crowds of protesters would not be safe.
Reports advised that only teams of nations with names starting with the first two letters of the alphabet were able to enter the stadium before protesters blocked the entrance.
Countries such as Argentina and Brazil were represented by their entire teams in the procession, but most nations were only represented by a single flag-bearer.
The Taipei city government and the island's ruling Democratic Progressive Party issued statements condemning the protesters' actions.
Athletes who could not join the parade were later able to enter the stadium later in the opening ceremonies.
While it has sent athletes to compete in the event, China boycotted the opening ceremony in the latest reflection of deteriorating relations between the two nations.
The biennial Summer Universiade, dubbed the 'Little Olympics', is the largest ever sporting event hosted by Taiwan but it has also highlighted tensions with Beijing and the island's struggle for international recognition.
Image: Protests meant athletes could not enter the stadium during the Parade of Nations. Courtesy Taipei 2017
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En gastroenterología y en hepatología, el síndrome de Budd-Chiari (trombosis de las venas suprahepáticas) es un trastorno raro, generalmente causado por coágulos de sangre que obstruyen, parcial o completamente, las grandes venas que drenan el hígado.

En general, la causa de la aparición del síndrome de Budd-Chiari no se conoce. En algunos casos existe algún proceso que aumenta la probabilidad de aparición de coágulos de sangre, como por ejemplo el embarazo o la drepanocitosis. Se ha asociado a la administración de estrógenos, y a la administración de quimioterapia para el tratamiento del cáncer y en enfermedades asociadas a un estado de hipercoagulabilidad de la sangre.

Cuadro clínico
Los síntomas del síndrome de Budd-Chiari pueden comenzar repentinamente y ser devastadores, pero, en general, se presentan gradualmente. El hígado se llena de sangre y se vuelve doloroso. El líquido se filtra desde la superficie del hígado aumentado de volumen hacia la cavidad abdominal. Puede producirse dolor abdominal y una leve ictericia. La acumulación de sangre en el hígado aumenta la presión en la vena porta, aunque las consecuencias de esto, tales como las hemorragias de las varices en el esófago, pueden tardar semanas o meses en aparecer.

Al cabo de varios meses, suelen presentarse ictericia, fiebre y otros síntomas de insuficiencia hepática. A veces los coágulos se agrandan tanto que obstruyen la parte inferior de la vena cava inferior. Esta oclusión causa un aumento considerable de volumen de las piernas y del abdomen.

Diagnóstico
Los síntomas característicos son las claves principales para el diagnóstico. Las radiografías de las venas, tras una inyección de una sustancia radiopaca, permiten determinar la ubicación precisa de la oclusión. Las imágenes obtenidas con resonancia magnética (RM) pueden también contribuir a establecer el diagnóstico. Una biopsia del hígado (en la que una muestra de tejido hepático se extrae con una aguja para su examen al microscopio) y una ecografía pueden ayudar a distinguir el síndrome de Budd-Chiari de otras enfermedades similares.

En la mayoría de los casos los tests sanguíneos que se utilizan para evaluar la función hepática son normales o se encuentran poco alterados, por lo que estas pruebas de laboratorio no son útiles para establecer el diagnóstico.

Tratamiento
Si la vena se ha estrechado y no está obstruida, se pueden usar fármacos anticoagulantes (que evitan los coágulos) o trombolíticos (que disuelven los coágulos). En algunos casos, se puede realizar una cirugía para conectar la vena porta con la vena cava; de este modo se descomprime la vena porta. El trasplante de hígado puede ser el tratamiento más eficaz. La experiencia demuestra que los tratamientos quirúrgicos aumentan el índice de supervivencia (83 %) en comparación con los tratamientos conservadores (28 %).

Epónimo
Fue nombrada por George Budd y por  Hans Chiari.

Referencias

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Q: Trying to access data from more than one table in a java servlet click here for the code
I have already wasted over a week now experimenting with this and am now looking for help from others... when i execute the query on a single table to get the email id, i get the result but when the query is searching through more than one table it doesn't change the value of my string t (there is no error displayed probably logical)..but the query works fine when i run it in oracle sql developer.
my initial query that works is:
SELECT EMPEMAIL
  from EMP_DATA
  where EMPID=2000;

and query that runs fine in sql dev but not in the servlet(maybe its running fine as there is no error but no change in String t in the code..please check the image) is:
SELECT EMPEMAIL
  from EMP_DATA
  inner join PO on EMP_DATA.EMPID = PO.STAFFID
  where PO.EXP < CURRENT_DATE;

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Suarez: his Barca career so far
12th November 2014 by rebeccaa
Seeing Luis Suarez sitting on the bench for Barcelona on Saturday would have made any Liverpool – or indeed Almeria fan – want to weep. That the Reds' best player of last season couldn't even make Barca's starting 11 was surely a worrying prospect for their opposition.
In a week of questionable team selections, it seems Suarez's omission from the starting line-up was surely just that. The Uruguayan contributed to the £150 million-plus worth of talent that Luis Enrique left languishing on the bench for that match – perhaps a complacent move given that Almeria had yet to win at the Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos this season.
But for the third successive match, the Catalan club were, by their own standards, totally deficient and taking the fluidity for which they are renowned. The impending international break will leave Luis Enrique searching for solutions to restore Barca's invincibility.
Had it not been for Suarez's second-half impact in setting up up Neymar and Jordi Alba's goals, Enrique's men would have succumbed to the unthinkable; losing three consecutive league games for the first time since 2003.
In a match where Messi mis-fired, Suarez's form was the only glimmer of positivity for the Blaugrana. Following a lengthy absence and race against time to regain vital match fitness, Suarez is now finding his feet. While he still remains without a goal to his name in a Barcelona shirt is irrelevant at this stage; his three assists in as many La Liga outings and his incisive play against Almeria in a game where Barcelona were out-played, will go some way to silencing the doubters. His quality was conspicuous and he has the backing of team-mates to become an indispensable component of the Nou Camp outfit. As his fitness returns, so will the goals.
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Henry R. Velkoff
Dr. Henry R. Velkoff, long-time AHS member and helicopter pioneer, died February 17, 1993. He was 71. At the time of his death, Dr.Velkoff was a contract research scientist for the US Army Advanced Research and Analysis Office, the job he had held since 1985. He was involved in advising US Army and NASA engineers on various rotary wing projects, and was conducting comprehensive investigation of the operational impact of rotorcraft produced downwash.
Dr. Velkoff was a member of the AHS since 1948, and served the Society in a variety of capacities, including Board member, Technical Director, Regional Vice President, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Helicopter Society, and the chairman office, the job he had held since 1985. He was involved in advising US Army and NASA engineers on various rotary wing projects, and was conducting comprehensive investigation of the operational impact of rotorcraft produced downwash.
He began his career in helicopters in 1944 when, as an Army private with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and two years of employment with NACA, he was assigned to the Rotor Development Unit, Propeller Laboratory, at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. He remained at Wright Field after the war and, as a government employee, conducted and directed R & D programs in composite materials, boundary layers, and tip-jet and turbo shaft engines as applied to the helicopter. He also earned both his Masters and PhD degrees from Ohio State University during this time.
Leaving Wright Field to join the faculty of Ohio State in 1963, Dr. Velkoff began his second career teaching turbo machinery, gas turbines, eat transfer, dynamics, fluid mechanics and magnetohyro dynamics, while directing Masters and PhD candidates in rotary wing topics such as boundary layer characterization, unsteady rotor flows, and new helicopter rotor concepts. Dr. Velkoff's personal field of study focused on the interaction between electrostatic fields and fluid flow. Upon his retirement from the faculty in 1987, he had published 35 papers on the subject.
In addition to his membership in the AHS, Dr. Velkoff was involved with many other organizations, including the AIAA, ASME, ESA, ASEE, and the ARET. He was elected to Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Pi Tau Sigma, and he received many government achievement and service awards. He served on special government boards and panels, including the DoD Heavy Lift Aircraft Panel, and the US Army Aviation System Command and US Air Force Scientific Advisory Boards.
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Kindred: Interview with musician Renee Stahl
Posted by Meagan Meehan | In the Media SpotLight | 0
"Kindred" is a new album by Renee Stahl that features an array of equally famous musical guests. The album is an exquisitely nuanced masterpiece of effervescent reflections, messages of kindness, empowerment, and community, and, above all, impeccable standards of singing and playing music. The album sparkles with contributions from such luminaries as 8-time GRAMMY winner Ziggy Marley, GRAMMY winner Lisa Loeb, GRAMMY winner Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Chris Stills. Also sharing their considerable talents are Jennifer Paskow, Renee's daughters Amelia and Isadora Dektor, and Jeremy Toback, her longtime collaborator in the beloved family duo Renee & Jeremy.
Renee Stahl notes that "Kindred" is a collection of songs that promote kindness, empowerment, and love. Renee is both a singer and a songwriter who is praised for the rich melodies, harmonies, and atmospheres that flourish in abundance on her records which she has been producing since 2015.
She recently discussed her work via an exclusive interview.
Renee Stahl is a talented musical artist.
Meagan Meehan (MM): How did you initially get interested in music and how come you focus on kid's music?
Renee Stahl (RS): I started singing at a very young age. My mother tells me I would walk around the house with a hairbrush while singing into the mirror. I was in different choirs while growing up in Ohio and my focus turned toward acting and musical theater. I began writing my own songs in my early 20's and that changed into music for children/families when I got pregnant. We like to call it music for children of all ages.
MM: How did you form your musical alliances and select your name?
RS: Most of the people I have asked to collaborate on both of the Renee and Friends are friends. I love the idea of joining together and community. It's especially important in this day when so much is and can be done alone.
MM: How did you go about breaking into the music scene?
RS: I just started singing in different venues and slowly started meeting people. I also sang back up with many people in their live shows and on their recordings.
I was involved with various song circles where we would meet and challenge ourselves to stop outside of our comfort zone and write songs.
MM: Your new album "Kindred" features many musical guests, so what were these collaborations like?
RS: It was wonderful and fun! I always tell people it's called "playing" music so you have to enjoy it otherwise why do it? I loved working with all of the musicians and cowriters on this CD. I am really excited as both of my daughters are on this CD.
MM: What inspired the songs on this new album and have you any special favorites?
RS: I wanted to write about themes that are currently up in my life and many I know with children. For instance, kindness, empowerment, finding a place where you belong. I love them all.
MM: What can audiences expect from your shows?
RS: They can expect a wide variety of songs from both Renee & Friends and Renee & Jeremy -along with some cover songs. I am excited that some of the "friends" on the CD will be joining me in the shows as well.
MM: What experiences do you hope fans take away from this album?
RS: I truly hope this inspires people. My hope is always to moved people. Whether that's to tears or to empower someone to create their own art, whatever that may be.
MM: Is there anything else that you would like to mention?
RS: YES, I am thrilled that my daughters, Amelia and Isadora are on this new CD with me. It feels amazing that it has come around full circle. I hope this CD makes people feel connected and loved.
"Kindred" will be available at iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, and other digital retailers. To learn more, visit Renee's website, Facebook, and Instagram.
Renee Stahl creates music that inspires people of all ages.
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The Game Boy represented a bizarre transitional period for recurring video game franchises. It was as though after making a series of acclaimed games for the NES, after creating a series of games from scratch they then had to apply this new ruleset to deal with the Game Boy's hardware limitation. This was especially true with Mega Man, where the six NES games all followed the same pattern of game play but with the level design and the bosses changed (looking back on it it seems rather lazy). This meant that Capcom had to try and port their beloved series to the Game Boy with only one question on every one's minds. Would it work?
The game is a remake of the original with a couple of liberties taken. For one thing the original Mega Man was the only game in the NES series with six bosses, while the rest had eight. This version is even more thinned out because of the limitations with only four bosses: Elec Man, Cut Man, Fire Man and Ice Man. As you'd expect from a Mega Man game it's fairly difficult with the same memorisation based platforming that would later inspire its spiritual successors such as Super Meat Boy.
The game's graphics are almost identical to that of the NES original, slightly redrawn to better fit the hardware (mostly for the better). The music of the game is, once again, almost identical to that of the NES original. The biggest difference between this game and its predecessor is the level design. As a whole, holistically and in regards to the individual levels the game is shorter but it makes up for this in the difficulty.
The "choose your first level" mechanic of the original games made sure that there wasn't really any difficulty curve until the inevitable encounter with Dr. Wily. Capcom must have realised that because all the levels would have to be like this, and that there was so few them then the only thing that could be done to give the game any sense of longevity was to make it more difficult. This is reflected in the enemy placement more than any other area, where it takes the Mega Man tradition of placing an enemy over a jump where you hit him and fall to your peril and rings it out for all it's worth.
There isn't really much to say about Mega Man for the Game Boy mostly because of how short it is. It has some interesting stage designs and the bosses are classic Mega Man so it has that going for it. Mega Man for the Game Boy was Capcom attempting to bring over their biggest franchise to the Game Boy and for what we got, it could have been a lot worse. It could have been Mega Man II.


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the science of rainbows
Summer's over, but birds are still chirping, and the Sun is still shining! She is majoring in English with a double minor in physics and computer science. Sarah Wells is a rising senior at Clark University and hails from Montpelier, Vermont. You definitely can't see it during the rainstorm because clouds block most of the light. ), which are also present in white light. There you have it, magic revealed as science in disguise! First of all, the size of a rainbow can tell scientists if there are chemicals in the atmosphere. Light doesn't always move at c. In air, or in space, this is how fast we measure light to move, but when light passes through other materials like water or glass (known as mediums), the speed can change and slow down. The process of rainbow formation has been explained in steps for your easy and better comprehension. The best time to see a rainbow is just after a rainstorm has ended! The resulting color bands form a circle around the point opposite the sun (the antisolar point) and that light is reflected back at an angle toward the sun. Even though it's usually faint there's always a second rainbow just above the first. We can disregard the non-visible light for now and come back to that another time. Summer's over, but birds are still chirping, and the Sun is still shining! You can even do what I did: set up the prism by your bedroom window and wake up each morning to your own personal rainbow. It was a rainy summer here in Washington, DC, but with rain comes prime conditions for one of nature's greatest shows: rainbows! 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We need both water droplets and sunlight for the spectacle to take place. The Science of Rainbows. Rainbows are easy and fun to create. Written specifically for Christian homeschoolers, The Rainbow has a softcover student textbook, a huge lab set, the Teacher's Helper (teacher guide), and a lab book. It catches our eye, signifies the calm after the storm, and can lead us to the pot of gold according to an old legend.Since it's likely we don't see a rainbow every day, we're astounded by the size, shape, and intricacy that creates such a beautiful image in the sky. You also can't see it long after a rainstorm, because then all of the water vapor in the air has evaporated. Sunlight reflected by the moon can produce a lunar rainbow, or moonbow. The Formation of Rainbows. In other words, the white light scatters into all seven different colors! We say visible to differentiate between other kinds of light that we can't see, for example ultraviolet or infrared (yup, that's light too! The course is unusual because the text is intended to be used for two years. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. Weird & Wacky, Copyright © 2020 HowStuffWorks, a division of InfoSpace Holdings, LLC, a System1 Company. In this article, we'll find out how rain and the sun align to … You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website. They occur when light rays interact across small water droplets of similar size. It's just basic optics! These visible colors all have unique characteristics known as wavelengths. • Greenler, Robert (1980). So light moves fast; in fact, it's the fastest anything can possibly move—the cosmic speed limit! All light (in a vacuum) moves at something called c, or the speed of light, which is equal to 3 x 108 meters per second. The rainbow is one of the world's most magical meteorological phenomenons. ISBN 978-0-19-521833-6. The Science of Rainbows (no rating) 0 customer reviews. 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Going from red through violet the wavelength goes from greatest to smallest. Here's where it gets interesting though. A Rainbow All Around Me by Pinkney. Notice that the colors will be inverted from the original rainbow; that's because these light rays have undergone a second reflection inside the droplet! The second thing we need to know about light before we get to rainbows is that the light we experience from the Sun is something known as white light.
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Q: PyQt: multiple labels on same line I'm trying to make a simple layout component where I have a text followed by counter. Ideally it would look like the first example in following picture but instead it looks like second example:

Numbers are variables which depends on user selections or progress, thus I have own variables for those in my code and whole line is built of four distinct QLabel widgets: one for text, one for each counter and one for slash. But for some reason those labels takes a lot of space, I've set the background color of first label to red to illustrate the problem.
How I should implement this so that I get the result of first example but I can individually control those counters? I've tried to change margins, size policy etc. but nothing seems to work correctly.
Here is current implementation:
    progress_line = QHBoxLayout()
    label = QLabel('Example label:')
    progress_line.addWidget(label)
    progress_line.addWidget(self.progress_count_current)
    progress_line.addWidget(QLabel('/'))
    progress_line.addWidget(self.progress_count_total)

    # Add to other layout
    parent.addLayout(progress_line)

A: I can't see what is the problem in your code since you didn't show all of it, I don't know what kind of object is "self.progress_count_current" and "self.progress_count_total". But I have this small example that seems to do what you need. Have a try and see if it works.
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QHBoxLayout
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QLabel
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget

class Widget(QWidget):

    def __init__(self):
        super(Widget, self).__init__()

        self.h_layout = QHBoxLayout()
        self.setLayout(self.h_layout)

        self.label = QLabel('Example label:')
        self.current_value = '1'
        self.total_value = '3'

        self.label_current = QLabel(self.current_value)
        self.slash_label = QLabel('/')
        self.label_total = QLabel(self.total_value)

        self.h_layout.addWidget(self.label)
        self.h_layout.addWidget(self.label_current)
        self.h_layout.addWidget(self.slash_label)
        self.h_layout.addWidget(self.label_total)

if __name__=="__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    mw = Widget()
    mw.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())


If you manage your membership by categories such as juniors or seniors, or your classes by age for example, you can now use the table search functionality to separate those who need to change category or class from within the Paysubsonline.com system. This is currently available under Members > All groups. For more information on these click here.
To start a search, you simply click on the 'New Search +' button that is at the top of the table. This will then give you an option to select the field you wish to use in your search. All fields on your form will be selectable as well as some of the system fields that can be used in an export from the Export members information section such as PSO member reference number or Pre-approval status.
There will also be the option to ask the search to include additional criteria using the 'And/Or' function and then press the + sign, when you are done, click search.
So, for example, you may want to see all those who are youth members but filter out everyone under/over a certain age. To run a search for all the people over 10 as of the 1st January 'AND' under 18, the search will then filter down the members who fall between 10 and 18.
You can then select these members and use the copy/move functionality to only those brought back in the search or sort them by age by clicking on the Age column (or any column you wish to sort by).
To delete a search, simply press on the delete button at the end of the search column to remove it. If you remove all search criteria, then this will load the full list of members again.


Since the beginning, I have purposely hung the license plate without a bracket, due to my original shyness of branding. As time went on, I eventually opened up and became more accepting of having logos on the car. In a selective manner, of course. After coming across an OEM part number for a Mazdaspeed license plate bracket, I finally decided to make things a little bit less bland.
For just a license plate bracket, it was surprisingly well thought out. The plate came with small spacers, fastener caps, and a strip of foam. I added a few more strips of neoprene foam myself to enhance the solidness of the mounting. I also stuck the foam strips to the bumper, rather than to the back of the plate. This way, if any dirt or contaminants gets between the foam, it won't be marring the bumper's paint. The plastic fastener caps that were included did not close well, so I bought a different set from good ol' eBay.
Moving to the front, I filled the molded bracket with an "RX-7" half-plate. I remember I bought a couple of these half-plates a few years ago from an RX7Club member that was making and selling them. Since he stopped producing the plates, it left a void… that is until recently. A seller named AZPerformance brought these plates back into the market and sells them on Etsy. I purchased a steel version and then asked him if he could make me one in aluminum, which he was nice enough to oblige.
All of the plates are high quality with good paintwork and edges. Since I also applied neoprene strip padding to the front bumper's bracket area, this made the recess of the mounting holes more pronounced. And unfortunately, due to the lighter nature of the aluminum, a concave dimple can be seen around the bolts when tightened down. I'm sure it can be alleviated with the right spacers, but I decided to take the marginal weight penalty and revert back to the steel version.
Installed with the eBay special fastener caps, and stainless steel button head screws underneath.
Since I was ordering the Mazdaspeed bracket from a Mazda dealer anyway, I added in another relatively obscure item… a chrome e-brake button from a Miata. This is a metal counterpart that fits perfectly.
Taking care of the minor details always gives me great satisfaction. Even better when the install takes literally 2 minutes.
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Thomas Bjørn appointed to the Board of the European Tour
Thomas Bjørn, the most successful Danish golfer in history and the victorious European Ryder Cup Captain at Le Golf National in 2018, has been appointed to the Board of the European Tour as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
The 49-year old – nominated to the position by the Tour's Tournament Committee – will bring important current player perspective to the Board, with 2020 being the Dane's 25th consecutive season as a European Tour professional, having made his first appearance in 1996.
During that time he also served as Chairman of the Tournament Committee itself for a decade from 2007 to 2016, before stepping aside to concentrate on the build-up to his Ryder Cup Captaincy triumph in France.
A staunch supporter of European golf and the European Tour throughout his career, Bjørn's time as Tournament Committee Chairman coincided with some of the most significant changes to the European Tour in its 48-year history.
The first one came in 2009 with the instigation of the Race to Dubai, a year-long campaign which replaced the old Order of Merit and which crowned Europe's Number One golfer at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai.
Following that, together with Chairman David Williams who took up the post in 2014 and Chief Executive Keith Pelley who was appointed a year later, Bjørn and the Tournament Committee oversaw the establishment of the Rolex Series, the premium event category on the Tour's International Schedule.
Speaking of his appointment Bjørn said: "I am delighted and honoured to be invited to join the Board of the European Tour. I have lived and breathed the European Tour for the past 25 years and, in that time, I have always strived to do the best I could to progress both the Tour itself and its membership. The same will be the case on the Board and I am looking forward to getting to work as soon as possible."
Chairman David Williams said: "I'm delighted to welcome Thomas to our European Tour Board. His stellar golfing career is well documented, including his 2018 experience as a winning Ryder Cup Captain. He has always had our Members' interests at heart, and he will continue to do so on our Board."
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Graduated from the Challenge Tour where he finished number one on the Rankings in 1995
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Gulp! Former Kluge estate in Palm Beach generated $2.6 million in tax bills during 5 years on market
Just sold by Columbia University for $39 million, the estate of the late John W. Kluge in Palm Beach was co-listed nearly five years ago for $59 million. During that time, its total property-tax bills topped $2.6 million, records show.
No one ever said it was cheap to sell a house, and that's especially true in Palm Beach. A vacant property generates plenty of bills — including property taxes — while it's on the market.
Columbia University certainly experienced that firsthand with the estate its board of trustees sold last week for $39 million at 89 Middle Road. During the nearly five years it took to find a buyer for the 4.3-acre compound, the late billionaire John W. Kluge's estate generated property tax bills totaling more than $2.6 million.
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Kluge pledged the estate to Columbia in 2007, about three years before his death at 95 in September 2010. It was part of a record-setting $400 million gift, much of which he earmarked for scholarships.
In May 2011, the university announced the oceanfront estate – with its two historic homes and three outbuildings — was for sale at $59 million. The property finally found a buyer last week, when seasonal Palm Beacher and developer Peter Wood paid $20 million less than the asking price, which had never wavered. Brown Harris Stevens agent John O. Pickett III handled the buyer's side of the deal.
The total tax bills for the vacant property during its time on the market ranged from $449,940 in 2011 to $629,420 for 2015.
In the same period, the taxable value assigned to the estate based on data from the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's office rose from about $23.93 million to $32.27 million.
The tax bills offer a concise look at key years of the Great Recession, which slammed into Palm Beach like a hurricane in late 2008 – and the subsequent recovery period, in which property values again began to climb.
For 2009 and 2010, when Kluge was still alive, his estate's tax bills totaled $423,075 and $450,363, respectively. Those bills also reflected a $50,000 homestead exemption, which capped the percentage of annual tax increases. The exemption disappeared after Kluge's death.
Even without the homestead cap, by 2012 the dampening effect of the recession was reflected in the bill, with many taxing authorities having reined in their rates: The amount owed on the estate fell by $4,543 from the previous year. Recovery was on its way, however, with 2013's bill arriving with a total payable of $511,592. The next year's bill was even higher, at $568,718.
The total amount Columbia actually paid, however, was less than that initially billed each year, thanks to early-payment discounts. For tax years 2011 through 2015, the bills' grand total was $2.605 million, but the amount paid was $2.507 million, according to the Palm Beach County Tax Collector's website.
Property taxes were just one of the bills that had to be paid while the estate sat empty. The buildings, after all, still had to be air-conditioned and maintained, and the extensive grounds required water and grooming.
The property was co-listed for sale by agents Carol Digges and Carole Hogan of Brown Harris Stevens and Dana Koch and Paulette Koch of the Corcoran Group. No one involved will discuss why the asking price never dropped or why the property was sold with its "unity of title" intact – especially when subdividing the estate's multiple parcels might have helped it sell more quickly.
Kluge made his fortune through his Metromedia communications empire. When he bequeathed his Palm Beach property to Columbia, he used a life estate through which he retained control of the property from early 2008 until his death. He lived at the estate with his wife, Maria Tussi Kuttner.
When his overall pledge to his alma mater was announced, by the way, it set a record for the largest gift ever devoted to student aid at a single U.S. institution of higher education.
And while the Palm Beach estate's recent tax bills weren't record-setters, they testify to the fact that that in Palm Beach, buying property — and then owning it for years — seldom comes cheap.
Darrell Hofheinz writes about real estate and edits Home & Loggia. He welcomes news items about Palm Beach real estate for this column. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com call 820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz.
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text: --- breaks: false --- $$ \def\Fp{\mathbb{F}_p} \def\FF{\Fp^{\scriptscriptstyle{(<n)}}[X]} \def\com{\mathbf{com}} \def\range#1{[{#1}]} $$ # A Simple Range Proof From Polynomial Commitments ### Dan Boneh, Ben Fisch, Ariel Gabizon, and Zac Williamson --- Let's construct a simple zero knowledge range proof from a hiding polynomial commitment scheme (PCS). ### The setup Let $p$ be a prime, where $p > 2^n$ for some $n$. We want a commitment scheme for elements in $\Fp$ that allows a prover to efficiently convince a verifier that a committed quantity $z \in \Fp$ is in the range $0 \leq z < 2^n$. We show that for a committed $z \in \Fp$, the prover can provide an HVZK proof to convince the verifier that $0 \leq z < 2^n$ by committing to **two** polynomials of degree $(n+1)$, and running the polynomial evaluation protocol **three** times. Therefore: - For the pairing-based polynomial commitment scheme of Kate, Zaverucha and Goldberg, this gives a range proof of length $O_\lambda(1)$ that can be verified in time $O_\lambda(1)$, with a trusted setup and an updatable SRS of size $O_\lambda(n)$. - For the DARK polynomial commitment scheme of Bünz, Fisch, and Szepieniec, this gives a range proof of length $O_\lambda(\log n)$ that can be verified in time $O_\lambda(\log n)$, with no trusted setup. - For comparison, recall that Bulletproofs give a range proof with no trusted setup of length $O_\lambda(\log n)$ that can be verified in time $O_\lambda(n)$. In what follows we use $\FF$ to denote polynomials in $\Fp[X]$ of degree less than $n$. We assume that $n$ divides $p-1$ so that there is an element $\omega \in \Fp$ of order $n$. Let $H = \{1,\omega,\omega^2,\ldots,\omega^{n-1}\}$. ### The commitment scheme Suppose that we have available a hiding and binding PCS for polynomials in $\FF$. Moreover, we assume that the polynomial evaluation protocol is HVZK. To commit to an element $z \in \Fp$, choose an arbitrary polynomial $f \in \FF$ such that $f(1) = z$. Taking $f$ as the constant polynomial $f(X) = z$ is sufficient. The commitment to $z$ is the polynomial commitment $\com_f$ to $f$. If the PCS is additive, then the commitment scheme is additively homomorphic: given commitments to $z_1$ and $z_2$ in $\Fp$, anyone can construct a commitment to $z_1+z_2$. ### Range proof for the range $[0,2^n)$ Let $\com_f$ be a commitment to $z \in \Fp$ so that $f(1) = z$, as above. Let $z_0, \ldots, z_{n-1} \in \{0,1\}$ be the binary digits of $z$, so that $z = \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} 2^{i} \cdot z_i$. Now, given $\com_f$, the prover proves that $0 \leq z < 2^n$, by constructing a degree-$(n-1)$ polynomial $g \in \FF$ such that $$ g(\omega^{n-1}) = z_{n-1} \quad\text{and}\quad \text{$g(\omega^{i}) = 2 g(\omega^{i+1}) + z_{i}\ $ for all $i=n-2,\ldots,0$.} $$ Observe that $g(1) = g(\omega^0) = \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} 2^{i} \cdot z_i = z$. Now the prover needs to prove three things: 1. $\ \ g(1) = f(1)$, 2. $\ \ g(\omega^{n-1}) \in \{0,1\}$,   and 3. $\ \ g(X) - 2 g(X \omega) \in \{0,1\}$   for all $x \in H \setminus \{\omega^{n-1}\}$. Condition (1) proves that $g(1) = z$; Conditions (2) and (3) prove that $z_0, \ldots, z_{n-1}$ are all in $\{0,1\}$ and are the binary digital of $z$. Together, these conditions prove that $0 \leq z < 2^n$, as required. To prove Conditions (1)-(3), the prover sends to the verifier a polynomial commitment to $g$. It then proves to the verifier that the following polynomials evaluate to zero for all $x \in H$: $$ \begin{align*} w_1(X) & = (g - f) \cdot \textstyle{\left(\frac{X^{n}-1}{X-1}\right)} , \\[2mm] w_2(X) & = g \cdot (1 - g) \cdot \textstyle{\left(\frac{X^{n}-1}{X-\omega^{n-1}}\right)} , \quad\text{and} \\[2mm] w_3(X) & = \big[g(X) - 2 g(X \omega)\big] \cdot \big[1 - g(X) + 2 g(X \omega)\big] \cdot (X - \omega^{n-1}). \end{align*} $$ This can be done efficiently using a batch opening technique described in [this paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/081). The verifier sends a radom $\tau \in \Fp$ to the prover, and the prover computes the quotient polynomial $$q(X) = (w_1 + \tau w_2 + \tau^2 w_3) / (X^{n}-1).$$ The prover sends a polynomial commitment to $q$ to the verifier, and then proves that the polynomial $$ w(X) = w_1 + \tau w_2 + \tau^2 w_3 - q \cdot (X^{n}-1) $$ is the zero polynomial. To do so, the verifier sends a random $\rho \in \Fp$ to the prover, and together they run the evaluation protocol three times: once for $g(\rho)$, once for $g(\rho \omega)$, and once for evaluating $\hat{w}(\rho)$, where $\hat{w}(X) = f(X) \cdot \left(\frac{\rho^n - 1}{\rho-1}\right) + q(X) \cdot (\rho^n-1)$. This $\hat{w}$ is a linear combination of $f$ and $q$, and therefore the verifier can construct a commitment to $\hat{w}$ using the additiving property of the PCS. The three evaluations, $g(\rho)$, $\hat{w}(\rho)$, and $g(\rho \omega)$, along with $\rho$ and $\tau$, are sufficient to evaluate $w(\rho)$ and confirm that the result is zero. This proves, with high probability, that $w$ is the zero polynomial. There is one remaining issue, which is that revealing $g(\rho)$, $\hat{w}(\rho)$, and $g(\rho \omega)$ is not zero-knowledge. The fix is simple: the prover constructs $g$ as a degree $n+1$ polynomial by interpolating $g$ to a random value at two more points $\omega', \omega''$ outside $H$. That is, $g$ is defined in exactly the same way on all points in $H$, but $g(\omega') = \alpha$ and $g(\omega'') = \beta$ for random $\alpha, \beta \in \Fp$ and $\omega, \omega' \not \in H$. Since $g$ has the same values over all points in $H$, this has no effect on the relations checked above. This is zero-knowledge because $g(\rho)$ and $g(\rho \omega)$ can now be simulated as independent random values in $\Fp$. Moreover, the value of $\hat{w}(\rho)$ is completely determined by the fact that $w(\rho) = 0$, and can therefore also be simulated. Note that we need to restrict the choice of $\rho$ to $(\Fp \setminus H)$ to ensure that the simulation is valid. This entire process makes two polynomial commitments, to $g$ and $q$, and uses the polynomial evaluation protocol three times to evaluate $g(\rho)$, $\hat{w}(\rho)$, and $g(\rho \omega)$. We note that, if needed, it is possible to reduce the degree of $g$ by writing $z$ in a base greater than 2. ### Other constructions The [Bulletproofs paper](https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066.pdf) (Section 4.1) shows how to implement a range proof using an inner-product argument. The DARK paper shows how to implemement an inner-product argument using a polynomial commitment scheme. Combining the two gives another way to construct a range proof from a polynomial commitment scheme with similar properties as the range proof described above. Interestingly, the resulting protocol is quite different. ### Implementation/related work This scheme initially appeared as a component of [Turbo Plonk](https://github.com/AztecProtocol/barretenberg/blob/master/src/barretenberg/waffle/proof_system/widgets/turbo_range_widget.cpp) by Ariel Gabizon and Zac Williamson