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The Central Bank of Cyprus ( ), is the central bank of the Republic of Cyprus, located in Nicosia. It was established in 1963. Its current Governor is Constantinos Herodotou The bank issued Cypriot pound banknotes and coins prior to 2008, when Cyprus adopted the euro.

History

The Central Bank of Cyprus has its origins in the British Colonial Government of Cyprus, which established a Cyprus Currency Board in 1927. This followed on from the unilateral annexation of Cyprus by the British Empire in 1914, the Treaty of Lausanne, establishing the legality in international law of this British takeover, in 1923, and the full establishment of a colonial system of government in Cyprus, with the creation of a Legislative Council, in 1926.

The role of the Chairman of the Currency Board was held by the Accountant General, also known as the Auditor General, of the Government of Cyprus. The Board could issue notes and coins, initially denominated in the Cypriot pound, shillings and piastres, and later, following decimalization, in Cyprus pounds and mils. However, the local currency was pegged at one Cyprus pound to one pound sterling meaning ultimate fiscal control still rested with the Bank of England in London and the Government of the United Kingdom. This link was maintained by the requirement that for every Cyprus pound issued by the Currency Board in Cyprus, one pound sterling issued by the Bank of England had to be deposited by the Government of Cyprus with the Crown Agents in London.

With independence from Britain in 1960, Article 118 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus, which came into force on the island on 1 April 1960, gave the President and Vice-President of Cyprus the right to establish a new central bank, called in the Constitution the 'Issuing Bank' and appoint its Governor. Article 119 sets out the responsibilities of the Governor and the Issuing Bank, Article 120 states that the Governor of the Issuing Bank shall abide by future relevant laws enacted by the Republic of Cyprus, and Article 121 gives the Government of the Republic of Cyprus the right to convert the Issuing Bank into a Central Bank if it wishes. In effect, the Issuing Bank was a continuation of the former colonial Currency Board within the framework of the Constitution of the new Republic, but the Constitution gave the right to the Republic to convert it into a Central Bank if it chose to do so. A decision to do this was taken in 1963, and the Issuing Bank was replaced that year by the Central Bank of Cyprus.

Following the accession of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Union in 2004, the Central Bank of Cyprus became a member of the Eurozone group of central banks in 2008, when the island converted from using the Cyprus pound to the euro currency.

Role of the Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus

The Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus is the highest official in the Central Bank of Cyprus and is appointed by the President of the Republic. The position was established in 1963 when the Central Bank of Cyprus was established. The convention is for the Governor to serve a term of five years, but this is renewable.

The Governor has the responsibility of chairing the meetings of the Central Bank's Governing Council and Board of Directors. He or she had the responsibility for setting the Central Bank's policy in relation to the Cypriot economy, but this responsibility passed to the President of the European Central Bank on 1 January 2008, which is also the date that Cyprus changed over to the euro from the Cypriot pound. The Governor is a member of the Governing Board of the European Central Bank.

List of the Central Bank of Cyprus Governors
 Constantinos Herodotou (April 2019 – current)
 Chrystalla Georghadji (April 2014 – 2019)
 Panicos O. Demetriades (May 2012 – April 2014)
 Athanasios Orphanides (May 2007 – May 2012)
 Christodoulos Christodoulou (May 2002 – May 2007)
 Afxentis Afxentiou (May 1982 – April 2002)
 Christakis Stephani (October 1965 – April 1982)
 Charis Gavrielides (July 1963 – October 1965)
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See also

 Cypriot pound
 Economy of Cyprus
 List of banks in Cyprus

References

External links

Financial regulatory authorities of Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus
Banks of Cyprus
1963 establishments in Cyprus
Banks established in 1963


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Timmy the Tugboat was in a pickle - Your flash fiction submissions
In April, we invited RNLI supporters in lockdown to flex their creative muscles and write some flash fiction – a very short story – inspired by a seaside many were not allowed to visit. Here are some of your stories.
An Oakley class lifeboat
Carol Dixon writes: 'Here is a story that I told my grandchildren when they were small, mentioning their granda who was an RNLI fleet mechanic in the 1980s on the North East coast. Sadly I have lost the illustrations by my granddaughter (who is now 14). We often talked about the lifeboats with them and took them to see the one of the Oakley class lifeboats Donald had worked on (now in a museum!) when they visited. When they took the photos to their school (which is in the middle of the countryside) the school decided to adopt the RNLI as their charity for the year. The grandchildren are now too old for my stories, but I hope you might enjoy it.'
Lucy Lifeboat Saves the Day
Timmy the Tugboat was in a pickle. He'd been asked by the harbour master to assist a big ship outside the sea wall but he couldn't. He was too big to fit between the harbour wall and the rocks.
'Don't worry,' said his friend Lucy Lifeboat. 'I'll get my crew and they'll soon sort it.' But as she went to start up there was a big problem. 'Cough cough cough!' There was a strange grinding noise. 'Aarhh!' she croaked to Mike the Mechanic. 'What are we going to do? I can't go on a rescue like this.'
Mike scratched his head. 'Well I've tried everything,' he said in a puzzled voice. Luckily, Don the Area Fleet Mechanic was visiting the lifeboat station that day. 'Let me have a look,' he said and fiddled about in Lucy's engine room. 'Right, that should do it.' And so it did.
In no time at all the coxswain and crew were off out of the harbour and set off for the big ship at high speed. They managed to attach a towline and began easing the larger boat off the rocks towards the waiting tugboat, and soon Timmy was able to take over.
Later that evening, after Lucy had her wash down and Timmy was safely moored near the lifeboat station, the two friends talked over their adventurous day.
'Thanks for all your help, Lucy,' said Timmy. 'If it hadn't been for you that big ship might never have got back safely.'
'It wasn't just me,' Lucy replied. 'It takes lots of people to help - from the fundraisers to the frontline crew and not forgetting the fleet mechanics and area staff, the coastguard and those on the phones. We couldn't do it on our own.'
'I suppose you're right,' said Timmy. 'It takes everyone working together to keep our coastline safe.' And with that comforting thought they both settled down to sleep.
'It's OK for you, Timmy,' Lucy murmured. 'I only hope nobody's pager goes off in the night!'
Shore Line
By Kim O'Flynn
It is a weekday, in August, and I am standing up to my knees in a sea which sucks and drags at my legs so violently and continuously that, were I older and warier, I might be frightened.
However, I am an 8-year-old little girl who generally obeys rules and who always does as her teachers tell her – except these are the summer holidays and many rules, and all teacherly supervision, have been removed. My parents too, sitting higher up the beach, are preoccupied with the tantrums of my younger sister and brother and because of this brief hiatus of supervision, without realising it, I am now free to make what could be a life-or-death decision.
I clutch the means of my possible doom, an alluringly bright red inflatable. I have sole control now of this (often) disputed possession and regardless of the warning flags slapping in the wind gusts, regardless of the high grey waves, regardless of the fact that no one else is in the water, I intend to launch myself off, for a solitary sail.
And I would have - except that my father, pounding and sliding down the beach, bellowing my name as he runs, his face a petrified mask, has reached me, and, to my indignation, I am being swung off my raft back onto the sand; my precious inflatable, discarded, almost immediately floating out of reach.
Back with my mother and father and two snivelling siblings, I sob and watch for a time our red raft walk the waves, far out to sea - without me.
In Karma Waters: A (True) Short Story for the RNLI
By Ross and Sue Hunter
A challenge: define earthly paradise better than a 2-day cruise to Komodo Island, meeting the famous dragons, snorkelling around the coral, up close and personal with manta rays and in good company, not to mention a spot of sun and several local Bintang (Star) beers. A quality boat with our own cabin booked. What could go wrong?
We embarked at Labuan Bajo Port, western Flores, Indonesia, and filled our luxury cabin, a 2x2x2m cosy cube without windows, and a/c in the form of a compact fan. Modest, but all ours.
Up on deck to meet the other two dozen intrepid explorers. Granted, the boat was no luxury liner, and we only ever spotted a single life vest, but, hey, these clear calm turquoise South China Seas are not the Minches.
Off we set, in great spirits, and soon popped down to OUR cabin for sun tan lotion, to find … another couple very much in residence, and our kit dumped in the galley. Possession being nine tenths of the law, and with deck class under the awning overbooked already, we were floating homeless.
Not much could be done. We enjoyed the day, the visits, the swimming, the photo ops, and best of all the sympathy of the troops for our stoic patience. Come nightfall, no miracle solutions, and we had to sleep al fresco on the poop deck.
Even before dawn, it was clear our cabin usurpers had sweltered, as the fan had failed, and the big team had shared exothermic sunburn under their rubbery lid and curtains. We had enjoyed the best sleep of all, under the equatorial Milky Way. Day 2's stalking the dinosaur dragons, sampling the pink sands and posing for the album photos was all the sweeter for having had a great kip, blessed by karma.
Photo: Ross and Sue Hunter
The morning after the most peaceful night's sleep: on deck under the stars
A Step into the Unknown
By Maria Yewdall
Anyone who knows me of old would never have imagined me donning scuba diving gear, and stepping off a dive boat into the warm crystal waters of the Caribbean.
Well, neither would I a few years ago; the very thought of it would have filled me with dread. But that's exactly what I did after taking a 1-day PADI course. I was staying on the island of Utila, which is just off the coast of Honduras, Central America, and I took the course at one of the many dive schools on the island.
I had only ever snorkelled once before, but I thought that I would like to try scuba diving, if only once. I felt that it was a case of now or never!
I had an instructor close by at all times, and I have to say that the whole experience was just amazing. The fish swimming around me, the colours of the coral, and the plant life swaying in the gentle current. Even the sound of my own breathing, which was the only sound that I could hear.
I almost can't believe that I did it, and that I managed to challenge one of my greatest fears.
Maybe we should all challenge our fears at some time in our lives. After all, we might really enjoy it, and if we don't do it, then we'll never know!
Bembridge Memories
By Wayne Rowley
So, I think I was about 2 years old, maybe earlier and now I am just to turn 40! Eeeeek where have all the years gone! My flash fiction is a short story reminiscing over my childhood adventures every summer in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.
I holidayed every summer with my nan and her brother, my Great Uncle Mick. His real name Brian, my christened middle name also. Every year I looked forward to this special time away with two of the most important people to ever have been allowed into my life.
We stayed in Bembridge, Lane End, to be specific. Our holiday accommodation was owned by Ivan and Mary Kersley; they owned a large area on the beach front, two holiday apartments, a cottage, a café and holiday ice cream and beach toys shop and a large plot where there stood about 100 beach huts.
Every summer we would all meet for our 2-week holidays: friends, friends of friends and family friends who had an affinity with the IoW for many generations. This was magical; to meet up every year and completely start immediately where you had left off a year gone.
Mary ran the café, always red faced and rushing around, serving the most delicious Bembridge Crab Salads.
Ivan would serve in the ice cream shop and help you spend your pocket money on summer toys, souvenirs and 1980s postcards! There were always two types: scenic ones and ones that were very rude with ladies and gents wearing tiny swimming costumes and making crude jokes within the scenes on the cards.
Ivan was also the head launch man of the Bembridge lifeboat; this is where my passion for the sea, boats and the RNLI began.
Ivan would take me at the drop of a hat to every launch that accrued during my holiday; the moment the flare shot into the sky we would run and run as fast as we could, day or night, down the pier, into the boathouse and prepare for the crew men to blast in, don their lifeboat wears, and jump aboard.
The boat's horn would blast and then WACK Ivan would hit the hammer with such force to unlock the pin holding the lifeboat in the house, and we would then watch it roar down the slipway and into the Solent.
Thank you so much to Carol, Kim, Ross, Sue, Maria and Wayne for sharing your work, your inspiration and your treasured memories.
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Autor: James Joyce
Sprecher: Jim Norton, Marcella Riordan
Kategorien: English - Classics, British Literature
Sprecher: Jim Norton,Marcella Riordan
Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day - June 16, 1904 - in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing - and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer's Odyssey, internal thoughts - Joyce's famous stream of consciousness - give physical reality extra color and perspective. Though Ulysses is widely regarded as a "difficult" novel, this fresh and lively reading shows its comic genius as well as its great moments of poignance, making it more accessible than ever before.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
Public Domain (P)1994 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.
Autor: Virginia Woolf
Sprecher: Nicole Kidman
To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman ( Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.
Swann's Way
Autor: Marcel Proust
Sprecher: Neville Jason
Swann's Way is the first of seven volumes in Remembrance of Things Past. It sets the scene with the narrator's memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake, the madeleine, accompanied by a cup of lime-flowered tea. It is an unmatched portrait of fin-de-siècle France.
Sprecher: Burghart Klaußner, Matthias Brandt, Wolfram Koch
18 Kapitel hat der Roman, in dem wir einen Tag lang den Anzeigenakquisiteur Leopold Bloom durch Dublin begleiten. Ein ums andere Mal tauchen wir mit den...
ich bin überfordert
Von Franke Am hilfreichsten 01.02.2018
Autor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sprecher: Constantine Gregory
A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty-stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act: the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it.
Middlemarch
Autor: George Eliot
Sprecher: Juliet Stevenson
Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon's mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
Von Marcus Speh Am hilfreichsten 31.01.2012
Autor: Alexandre Dumas
Sprecher: Bill Homewood
On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the isolated and terrifying Chateau d'If near Marseille, he meticulously plans his brilliant escape and extraordinary revenge.
Von Rebecca Am hilfreichsten 18.10.2014
Autor: Vladimir Nabokov
Sprecher: Jeremy Irons
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.
English language mastered at length
Von paul Am hilfreichsten 13.05.2016
Robinson Crusoe (AmazonClassics Edition)
Autor: Daniel Defoe
Sprecher: Steve West
When mariner Robinson Crusoe sails from London to the African coast to Brazil, his unpredictable voyage takes a catastrophic course. The lone survivor of a shipwreck, he washes ashore on an Atlantic island. Resourceful and determined to contend with providence and nature, he finds his sovereignty empowering. Through the years he builds a civilization as a solitary man. Then he discovers a stranger's footprint in the sand.
Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
Autor: Joseph Conrad
Sprecher: Kenneth Branagh
A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.
Wonderful narration
Von Martin Bäcker Am hilfreichsten 28.03.2011
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Sprecher: Colin Farrell
This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative "stream of consciousness" writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.
A Classic Irish Masterpiece
Von Katharina Am hilfreichsten 05.12.2019
Sprecher: Richard Armitage
Between his work on the 2014 Audible Audiobook of the Year, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, and his performance of Classic Love Poems, narrator Richard Armitage ( The Hobbit, Hannibal) has quickly become a listener favorite. Now, in this defining performance of Charles Dickens' classic David Copperfield, Armitage lends his unique voice and interpretation, truly inhabiting each character and bringing real energy to the life of one of Dickens' most famous characters.
Von Watson Am hilfreichsten 06.07.2016
The Sun Also Rises
Autor: Ernest Hemingway
Sprecher: William Hurt
The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the story introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. Follow the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of the 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates.
Autor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sprecher: Jake Gyllenhaal
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal ( Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. There, he has a firsthand view of Gatsby's lavish West Egg parties - and of his undying love....
The Great American Dream
Von Ulrike Am hilfreichsten 11.09.2019
Autor: John Steinbeck
Sprecher: John Chancer
Shocking and controversial when it was first published, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land.
Bewegender Geschichtsunterricht
Von Roland Am hilfreichsten 27.04.2011
The Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Drama Collection
Five Full-Cast Productions
Autor: Oscar Wilde
Sprecher: Miriam Margolyes, Judi Dench, Diana Rigg, und andere
Originalaufnahme
A sparkling collection of the major works of the ever-adored Oscar Wilde, with incredible casts including Judi Dench, Martin Clunes, Michael Sheen, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McDiarmid, Joely Richardson, Penelope Keith, Martin Jarvis, Diana Rigg, Simon Russell Beale, Sheila Hancock, Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry.
Autor: H. G. Wells
Sprecher: Norman Gilligan
Norman Gilligan provides just the right amount of British accent narrating The Time Machine, a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.
Sprecher: Donald Sutherland
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss.
Eine kurze Geschichte über die Natur der Dinge
Autor: Leo Tolstoy
Sprecher: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.
Krapp's Last Tape, Not I, That Time, & A Piece of Monologue
The Third Policeman


Thank you for your service. I'm way behind you; we weren't married until 1 July 1956. I hope you have many more happy years together. God Bless. GHG!
Since then, Little Rock, Tulsa, Maumelle, Beaumont TX, Galveston TX, Pearland TX, NLR, Springdale, Fort Smith since 2010. May not be here much longer though.
I am a donor and have been to Fayetteville at least 15 times to see football and basketball games.
Born Benton, Saline County. Left Arkansas in 58, no jobs at the time in Ark.
Lived, El Paso Tx, Long Island NY and the Atlanta area since late 67.
Been in Tennessee since. Never found my way back. Hope to get to a Fayetteville game next year.
How Did You become a Hog fan?
I live in Joy, AR but have a Searcy address. I enjoy having room to let my kids and grandkids play outside without neighbors complaining! It also nice to have my garden and fruit trees.
I spent my younger years moving in the Army and spent time in some nice places in Europe and some not so pleasant places in the Middle East.
I have done all the moving and traveling I want or need to and will spend my retirement helping at church and playing with my kids and grandchildren. And of course following my Hogs!


Hi, I am confused, I do not know what to do. All my Tsh levels seem to be okay, or they say. My TPO is off the charts. somewhare around 300+. I have a nodule in my lower right lobe. I just had a FNA and the results read.
Macrophages present consistent with a follicular nodule.
I have looked up a few words like hurthle and rare macrapheges i do not like what i see. Does anybody have any experience with high antibodies with a solid nodule especially with the word hurthle in it.
I wish I could help more. I can tell you that you have come to the right posting board........everyone is very helpful here. Try to stay calm........Oleander.
How big is the nodule?
What did your doctor say? Have you been seeing a surgeon or an endo??
The hurthle cells are a red flag, not necessarily cancerous, but can sometimes be precancerous. Very often they are removed, because they spread a tiny bit faster than other types of cells.
There have been people over the years on this board that had hurthle cells, but on surgery, didn't, it turned out either to be nothing, or other types of more common thyroid cancer like pappillary.
It's very hard to read these things without a doctor, and when you do speak to the doctor, ask very detailed questions, I find the more you show an interest in the details, the more interested they are in telling you.
The surgery, if you find you do have to face it, is not a terrible one at all.
Dear Reece, Thanks for your post, I have seen an endo and an ENT doctor. I am afraid if i wait I might have cancer that they could not diagnose. In the report they put down it appears to be begnign huh "appears". Thats no reassurance to me. Its a solid follicular nodule with a few hurthle cells I dont have the report on me. But the way it reads just dosnt sound to assuring.
Hi, just read your post and I will give you my perspective from my experience.
I was diagnosed with a solid nodule in 2003, my labs were all "norma" except for my antibodies. as yours are, and was told to watch things.
Well, I had a very, very long period of illnesses, long story, and went for a second opinion.
This second dr looked at my ultrasound report, ordered a biopsy and my results were yours almost to a T! He told me still to watch things as told before and I came home and looked things up online............and took what I had found to a 3rd dr, this one I had been waiting to get into for 2 years.
He took one look at the report and told me my entire thyroid needed to come out. His suggestion was that ANYTHING with follicular cells, normal or not should go ahead and come out due to the chances of it turning into follicular cancer being quite substantial.
I followed up his advice with a high powered surgeon in the area ( both had previously been with Mayo clinic) and he too confirmed that the whole thyroid would best be removed to ensure I was not and did not deal with follicular cancer.
That being said I had my thyroid out in 2005, my 2 year anniversary is coming up in November and I have had no problems whatsoever from the surgery. I have a very aggressive dr who is very skilled in replacement.
I really suggest you get a second, third and forth opinion about this nodule.
Once my surgeon got in there, the nodule had actually grown down under my collar bone and in around my neck muscle, carotid artery and and right vocal chord, it was the consistency of bubble gum. I was SO relieved to have it out.
My surgeon said that my biopsy was 100% consistant with hashimoto's disease and that it is always best to get it removed before the massive destruction occurs.
best of luck, it is a long road to get these things addressed correctly, but worth the fight, ok?
Dear Karen, Thank you so much for your experienced information. I have been going back and forth as to what to do. I will go and get that second and third opinion. I too have not been feeling well do to numerous thing associated with autoimmune diseases. I have that feeling something isnt right and thats why I turned to you all wonderfull caring people. I am very nervous about the operation but I will go into boston to have it done if i must. Thank you Please do not mind if i contact you again you seem to be very experienced in these matters.
The worst part of the whole process for me was TRYING to get some answers for things! It is agonizing to be scared for your own health and can't get someone to give you a definitive response to your concerns. That is why it is so important to find a dr and surgeon who are well versed in this.
I used and endo, which most don't like, but mine is wonderful, and a deep, thoracic surgeon.
Make sure you point blank ask about a surgeon;s experience. If they act annoyed.........move on, obviously they have no regard for you as a patient! My surgeon was wonderful, showed me his whole career..........he had done thousands of thyroid and parathyroid surgeries, he had never had one complication. No vocal chord damage, and he was very experience with carotid artery surgery. I had been to an ENT but he was less than impressive and the gal on the board that was helping me told me to steer clear of ENT's if you can find a more highly skilled surgeon.
Best wishes and God's blessings to you.
Dear Tapergal, Thank you for your help. I am freaking out about surgery. I do need to find a good surgeon because im sure i will have it out. They are basically leaving up to me saying you can have this out or you can wait. They they go on telling me the risk like with the vocal cord. Then they tell me the margin off error from the needle biopsy. So i really need sometime to say this is what you need to do. I do not feel good and im wondering if some could be realated to this. Please sending me info if you have it.
For your encouragement Im really worried about surgery. I have to go back to ent in 6 weeks. I will get my second opion then or at this point just get the thing out.
Could they not see this on ultrasound or scan? Just curious.....what tests were done on you before going in to take this out.........how is your voice?
I had ultrasounds and biopsies to monitor the nodule and the ultra sound right before surgery did not show the extensiveness of the growth. The ultra sound does not penetrate through deep tissue or bone well and my surgeon was not surprised by what he found because he said more than not, the disease is much worse when the surgeon gets in there than any test can reveal.
He also said massive destruction can be occurring and your typical thyroid labs will never reveal how sick a person really is.
I was very lucky to find a surgeon who was so knowledgeable about how sick all this makes you instead of just looking at a lab sheet and using that to determine I was not that sick.
I had so many symptoms that I had no idea what was wrong with me that all went away after getting my thyroid out, it is kind of scary that so much can be going on in your body and dr's can not pinpoint that it is all your thyroid nodules that are really wrecking havoc on one.
About my voice, prior to surgery I was hoarse, laryngitis like, for about 6 months. This was because my thyroid had entangled around my left vocal chord. I woke up from surgery with my voice back, it was like it got "unpinched"..........even with a hoarse voice I had one set of drs telling me to monitor things but when I got into the right set of drs they had my thyroid out within 7 days.
The guy who thyroid grew down around his ribs is scary. I wonder too if he had an ultrasound maybe they just do not go down far enough when doing and ultra sound they seem to keep that local.


The following thoughts, "My God, it's Pat Summit," "Holy crap, she's walking toward me," "Did she just go out of her way to smile and say 'Hello' to me?!" all clustered in my brain and left me completely paralyzed for several seconds. I managed to eventually spit out a belated greeting, "Uh…hi" after you had already walked a good 10-15 feet past me.
I hate Tennessee almost as much as I do Auburn, maybe more on any given day. With that being said, I love UT women's basketball. It is a shame that one of the greatest basketball coaches in the history of the game(men or women's) is diagnosed with such a cruel disease. Coach Summitt, from everything I have heard about her, is a perfect example of everything that is good with college sports. She represents her sport with an honor and dignity that makes all of the SEC proud to be associated with her. It pains me to say it but, GO VOLS, with nothing but humbleness and love from a lifelong Bama supporter.
I've always respected Pat Summitt. One would be a fool not to. I've now gotten to the place where I actually like Pat Summitt, though, and when the too-soon day comes that she is no longer able to coach Tennessee basketball, it will be a terrible day for the entire basketball world.
May you stay at the head of the coaching world for a long time yet, Pat. God speed.
I could go on with similar quotes from other fan bases and former players, but it would largely be superfluous. Sure, there have been negative statements made about you in the past, but none from any respectable sources–these are the sentiments of the worst kind of Internet trolls. In the world of sports, nothing is easier than becoming a villain and nothing is more difficult than being widely respected. This is to say, it is easy to be hated for winning, but if you win while showing poise, grace, and passion, even your most heated rivals must respect you for winning "the right way." For this precise reason, you have become one of the most respected figures in all of sports, and it has nothing to do with wins and losses.
However, I would be remiss if I did not so much as mention your amazing accomplishments as a head coach. After 37 years of coaching, you have won consistently, reaching 1000 wins well before having 200 loses. You have 16 Conference Championships, and 8 National Championships to your name. Of course, you know all this.
Perhaps it is in human nature to take for granted what we have. While our football team went through long periods of struggles, and brief moments of great achievement, you have been our rock. The Lady Vols have won and won and won, and our place as a top seed in the national tournament seemed preordained, not the final result of a year of hard practices and grueling competition.
I know you don't want our sympathy, and you'll be the last to throw a pity party. I know you'll face this disease with the same fierce competitiveness that has kept you at the top of the coaching ranks all of these years. And sadly, I know that there will soon be a day when you are no longer roaming the hardwood with your name on it in Thompson-Boling Arena.
The one positive from this terrible diagnosis, if there is one, is that we can fully appreciate your accomplishments while you are still here. We can reflect on the positive impact you have had on East Tennessee and for the University. We can acknowledge the way you have elevated not just women's basketball, but all women's sports in America and internationally. You are one of the all-time greats, and we may never know how truly lucky we were that you called Tennessee home for all of these years.
Best of luck with the upcoming season, coach.
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Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm Baidu reported robust revenue growth for 2018 as the company applied AI technologies in more businesses.
Baidu took in 102.3 billion yuan (14.88 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue last year, up 28 percent year on year, while net income attributable to Baidu reached 27.6 billion yuan, surging 51 percent from 2017, according to the company's financial statement released Friday.
"2018 was a pivotal year for Baidu, as we worked on deploying AI technologies beyond search to feed, voice assistant, AI solutions and autonomous driving," said Baidu CEO Robin Li.
Daily active users of the company's flagship mobile app saw a 24-percent year-on-year expansion to reach 161 million by the end of 2018.
The company's DuerOS voice assistant had been installed on over 200 million devices by December 2018, up 45 percent sequentially.
Baidu for the first time disclosed quarterly revenue of its cloud business, which totaled 1.1 billion yuan in the fourth quarter of 2018, more than doubling the performance for Q4 2017.
Baidu CFO Herman Yu said Baidu's business is diversifying from mobile internet into the smart home, smart transportation, cloud and autonomous driving markets, which will require substantial investments that might bear fruit and accelerate Baidu's revenue growth in the coming years.
Baidu expected its Q1 2019 revenue to be between 23.5 billion yuan and 24.7 billion yuan, up 12 percent to 18 percent year on year.


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When we create a job requisition from position org chart, the DefaultLanguage is not correct. It show "United States" when this must be Mexico.
But When we create from Families and Roles, the Default Language is correct.
For example, C is the expected default language in which we are expecing the job requistion to get created in.
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Abstract Expressionism, on show at the Royal Academy, London, until 2nd January 2017.
Abstract Expressionism emerged in the 1940s in the United States and remained a predominantly American phenomenon. Its main characteristic, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Art, is the "desire to convey powerful emotions through the sensuous qualities of paint, often on canvases of huge size." The Baroque movement of the 20th century, then? A Counter-Reformation against intellectual, social- and community-minded –isms, with all their rules and strictures, and a headlong, self-conscious race into the arms of feeling.
The genesis of the movement is well illustrated in the first room. Two early figurative works by Mark Rothko are hung on the right. Both date from 1936. One is his Self-portrait: the fat, red twisted lips and dark blind circles of eyes hidden by dark glasses strike a disreputable and sinister note. The other work is Interior, where a pair of ghostly white and faintly grotesque classicist sculptures flank a dark doorway populated by a huddle of brown-clad, white-faced, stricken-looking people. Normality and the conventional are shown distorted and turning ghoulish.
There is a scene in the film Funny Face where the character played by Audrey Hepburn, feeling angry and put upon by the character played by Fred Astaire, says: "Isn't it time you realised that dancing is nothing more than a form of expression or release? There's no need to be formal or cute about it. As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now. And I could certainly use a release." And then she dances. Wonderfully well. It is the only really good scene in the film.
Abstract Expressionism is like that. An emotional response to an external trigger. Dark times (world war, economic depression) cannot be argued away by reason, logic or objectivity. Objects turn ugly. What we can use is colour and gesture.
The exhibition rooms are crowded with visitors. The air hums with their whispered reactions. There is talk of "creative revelation" and of "traumatic experience". These are personal responses. The artworks themselves are personal responses. Here we are as an audience, being called on to respond personally to a series of personal responses. This is art as me-journalism. And when the artist's response succeeds in triggering a response of our own, either in reaction or in sympathy, the result is extraordinarily powerful. This is the ideal time to be looking again at these works, in an age so politically polarised that we can scarcely even sit at the same table as people who don't agree with us. We need Abstract Expressionism to save us from fetishes and propaganda.
But is self-expression anything more than simple self-indulgence? Yes, if the self-expresser is equipped with the vocabulary to interpret his or her feelings productively. All (or almost all) of the artists represented in this show are very well equipped, and their eloquence elicits a productive response. The solemn, Beaux Arts neoclassicism of the exhibition rooms is a perfect foil for this art.
The problem, though, is that too many feelings are being expressed. And too few walls are available to harbour all the wealth of feeling that is outpoured. The result is a clamorous hubbub. And there are very few places to sit down. But perhaps this is a quibble. You need to give yourself time. This is not a show to see in a hurry.
The work of Arshile Gorky had a formative influence on the AbEx movement and an entire room is dedicated to him. He does not use the medium of abstraction to express emotions or ideas; he is rooted in Surrealism and his paintings send audiences scrabbling for figurative interpretations. The exhibition points out Gorky's "knack for camouflaging forms so that their identities hover between the recognisable and the cryptic." This means that we are perpetually trying to see forms in all his works, forms that will provide the meaning and the interpretation, like looking for recognisable shapes in clouds. We do this with The Orators, which the wall text tells us is an "artfully obscured scene of figures around the funeral bier of Gorky's father." The figures are either obscured too artfully or not obscured enough. We spend too long intellectualising, trying to make them take comprehensible shape. If we aren't careful, we can talk a lot of rubbish about art like this. Fortunately AbEx didn't linger there.
For a while perhaps it looked as if it was going to. Willem de Kooning, in his figurative phase, makes us sit and watch while he wrestles with the age-old male dilemma: Women. Do you worship them or make fun of them? Thankfully he emerges from it to give us his best work (and the finest two pieces in the room dedicated to him): Villa Borghese (1960) and Untitled (1961), generous patches of lemon yellow, blue, green and pastel pink, which evoke sunshine and tranquillity. Franz Kline's violent black slashes across white backgrounds evoke cast-iron bridges, steelyards and gantries. They are like photography gone backwards into painting. One enjoys them in silence, they are all about atmosphere. So is Milton Resnick's beautiful, wintry Octave, which strikes the viewer like a grey day at Giverny.
Monet is not the only artist echoed and challenged by these painters. Picasso also looms large. And Jackson Pollock's Summertime 9A looks like a Mondrian pulled so tight that the black lines have stretched and buckled: released, they spring back into a knotted, rhythmic tangle, clotted with the yellow, red and blue areas of infill.
Age-old scriptural and mythological figures are abstractly explored by Barnett Newman: Adam, Eve, and Ulysses (1952). Tempting as it is in Ulysses to interpret the strongly divided planes of blue as representations of sea and sky, Newman has chosen to make his axis a vertical one. So we are left more with a mood and a feeling than an idea, and the result is restful. Vast landscapes are evoked by Clyfford Still. Ad Reinhardt puts a frame around black nothing to turn it into something, a thing to go on a wall, like a sort of anti-mirror, sucking all reflections in, giving nothing back.
And what about Rothko, who famously hoped to "ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch" who dined in the room where his Seagram murals were to hang? If they had ever been hung there, I doubt he would have succeeded. His Self-portrait or Interior would have appalled the sons of bitches. De Kooning's Woman II would have had them running for the door. Rothko's colour-field rectangles such as No. 4 (Untitled) couldn't possibly. Here is an artist who set out with such aggressive intent, aiming to "defeat" the walls with the plenitude of his art. Yet the result is tremendously relaxing and satisfying. It is daring but it is not terrible. The whole gamut of human emotion is there, but there is no dissonance. Each tableau speaks like a still small voice of calm. Expressionism, when it is figural, is grotesque. When it is abstract, it is not, however belligerent or morbid the emotions that engendered it. The Rothko paintings, in the central octagon, are as gorgeous and uplifting as any juxtaposition of tragedy and ecstasy in a Baroque canvas of sacred apotheosis. Where they triumph (and where other Abstract Expressionist artists fail) is that they leave you with nothing to say. You can only feel.
The scale of these works, in terms of the value of their content, is in almost every case equal to their size. The "sensuous qualities of paint" are also important. What strikes one forcibly is how old-fashioned the works are. There is no dilettantish daubing at play here. We are dealing with a masterly handling of the medium. What people are responding to is not just the call on their emotions but also the sheer skill of the artists. No one would ever look at one of these works and say, "I could paint that."
Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy, London, until 2nd January.
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1 Peter 1:4 says, "Let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious."
Laura embodies that verse. She has a peace about her, and she rests in the Lord in a way that makes her spirit gentle and quiet, at ease with herself and others. Laura ushers others into the presence of God--probably without even knowing it most of the time. Her strength is in her God, and He makes Himself known in and through her. Laura, thank you for sharing here. Thank you for your honesty and your vulnerability. Thank you for opening up your precious heart and letting us see the One you love and trust.
For the past almost two years now my husband and I have been trying to have a child. I have learned a lot throughout this season, and a lot of things I wish I never had to find out about. The one thing that I keep clinging to is the Lord's constant faithfulness.
My testimony has always been one of trusting in God's complete faithfulness and steadfastness. By his grace alone I have been able to walk with him from a young age. He has always proved himself to be constant, and full of love.
When I think back about how I walked into this season it is strange to me. I really walked into it all knowing it might be a little harder for us to conceive because of some medical issues, but almost being a little naive on thinking how long it might actually take. I remember thinking oh as long as I am pregnant by the summer that will be fine....and the summer came and went, and so did the fall.
After trying for a while I decided to speak with my doctor, and then got caught up in a season where we were looking into different medical options. Trying to see what might be able to help me. I don't have a ton of opinions on all the different options because I think the Lord has plans for each of us. It is more important to seek him and his plans no matter what path you choose, but when we walked through that season of listening to the doctor I remember thinking to myself... am I trying to just handle this on my own, or am I seek the Lord for guidance.
Each month was such an emotional roller coaster trying, and waiting to see what would happen. Then after a family vacation this past August my husband and I set outside, and talked about what the Lord was showing us through this season. It was so clear to me that the Lord was reminding me, "I am faithful, and I have plans for your family." We decided it was time for us to be still about it all, and trust in Jesus. He was so gently with me, and told me to wait on him, and his plans. That at this time I didn't need to keep seeking outside help, but I just need to walk with him, and listen to his instructions.
About a month after that I went on a trip to the Middle East, and we worked with refugees. It was amazing to see how the Lord was protecting, and providing for these people. Again his faithfulness and steadfastness were so evident. It blew me away, but at the same time when I really thought about it I was not surprised because I know my God's character, and he is compassionate, loving, and good.
One day on a home visit this little girl came up to me, and set in my lap for the whole visit. She was a beautiful little girl and during that moment the Lord just pressed in my mind these words, "You will have a child someday...keep your hope and trust in me." How sweet and personal God is to his children.
When I returned from the trip I knew it was time to see if I was pregnant or not that month. I honestly get so exhausted taking the pregnancy tests each time, and I kept putting it off that week. Finally, one morning I decided to ask the Lord for something specific while I was praying. I asked him to make it very clear to me if I needed to take a test, and if not that it would be time for the next month to start again. Later that afternoon I got my answer that it would be another month of trying. Although I was sad when it happened and tears were definitely shed, I was also blown away by how sweet my Father was to me that day. He answered me in the very same day, and showed his love, goodness, and faithfulness. My faith, hope and trust was increased that day, but the amazing thing is that my God never changed...I knew he would answer me!
I know that one day we will receive the gift we are waiting on, and I will be out of this difficult season, but my prayer throughout the whole thing is that I would not have despair or doubt. The Lord has blessed me with the most amazing family and friends to walk this season with, but most importantly he has reinforced his character to me. My God is FAITHFUL, CONSTANT, STEADY, LOVING, COMPASSIONATE, MERCIFUL, and GOOD! I want to look back on this season, and say that because of his grace upon me I remained faithful to him, and I clung tightly to his promises and truth. He deserves all the glory and praise, and I pray that my story would give him just that. It is sweet to rest in his presence.


Why vote no to AV?
In my earlier posts on the alternative vote (AV) in advance of the forthcoming referendum, I have focused on the positive case for the reform, and considered some of the practical consequences. Now it's time to consider some of the arguments being put forward by people advising us to vote No, in support of first-past-the-post (FPTP).
The leading argument from the No camp, to judge by the reporting on the BBC, is that AV undermines the principle of one person one vote. Partly this argument is used simply to confuse matters, alongside the idea that AV is complicated. But the more serious point is that idea that people who vote for candidates who are eliminated get another go, so it seems like they get a bonus. Meanwhile, as my local Conservative leaflet puts it: "This means that supporters of the major parties, the Conservative Party and the Labour party, will not have their votes counted more than once". This is a candy floss argument that disappears if you try to think about it. AV is in effect a succession of run-off elections, with the loser of each election being eliminated between each round. The voters of the top two parties are counted in every vote, without their votes needing to be transferred. Far from being disadvantaged, they are setting the agenda.
But this argument leads to a more subtle one. Voters of the eliminated candidates influence the outcome, and these voters are less deserving. This is endlessly backed up by a quote from Winston Churchill that AV would give power to "the most worthless votes for the most worthless candidates." A group of prominent historians were somehow persuaded sign a letter to The Times in support of the No vote, that managed to put this quote alongside the argument that AV undermined "one man, one vote". We can summarize this juxtaposition so: "FPTP means one man, one vote as long as you are not worthless." Supporters of AV argue that it is precisely the principle of one person, one vote that means that we must count the views of people who initially back less popular candidates. Even if they support the BNP. Far too much has been said about the BNP in this debate already; the BNP does not support AV for reasons that I talked about in my last post on AV.
But Mr O'Neill also fields a much stronger, if less tangible, argument for FPTP, which comes close to the real reason why most ordinary No voters are going that way. FPTP is simple, direct and dramatic. The voter focuses his or her mind on making a single, dramatic choice. The votes are counted and the election resolved in a very clear process. This strengthens the bond between the system and the ordinary voter. AV is by no means a complicated system, but it does reduce the immediacy and drama of the process. Is this enough to tolerate the problems of FPTP, with the power it gives to unaccountable party machines? I say no. And if it was, I would replace FPTP with a system of run-offs, like they use in France and Italy, which have the best of both worlds, but are much more expensive.
Which leaves me with the real reason that major party establishment types want a No vote. FPTP makes it very hard for rebels in their own ranks to challenge the officially selected candidate, for fear of letting the opposition in. AV makes it much easier for party rebels. Candidate selection processes are subject to heavy influence from party hierarchies and give the established order real power over our political system. Now, ask yourself, is that a good reason why ordinary voters should vote No? Ed Milliband is very brave to see through this to wish for a more democratic political process, and support the Yes campaign. He is consistently under-estimated by the politicos that dominate what passes for political debate in Britain. It will be good for the country if he wins this vote.
Posted on April 14, 2011 Author MatthewCategories Politics UKTags AV, AV referendum, Brendan O'Neill, Ed Milliband, FPTP, No to AV, Spiked, Yes to AV2 Comments on Why vote no to AV?
Referendum Day approaches and the polls are tightening. The public at large has yet to show much interest, but the referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) is an important event in our political history. Yet nobody can be surprised that the quality of public debate is abysmal. If the arguments put forward by the Yes campaign, desperate not to lose people in technical detail, look a little weak, those of the No campaign seem like a calculated assault on our intelligence. The campaign is being fought on emotions: natural British conservatism pitted against the feeling that our current system is part of a stitch-up perpetrated by the political establishment on the people. I hope this post lifts the level of debate a fraction.
Not that I want to deny the importance of emotions in making decisions like this. I will start with mine. My views about proportional representation (PR) have fluctuated a bit over time; but my views on AV, from the beginning political consciousness in the 1970s, have always been in favour. First past the post (FPTP) is an outrage; a primitive system that belongs to the age of rotten boroughs and not a modern democracy. AV is an elegant answer to its most egregious features, and the one that is most appropriate to the British culture.
We start with the system of single member constituencies. This is embedded deeply into the British political culture, though I do not regard it as sacred. This carries with it the idea that an MP represents her whole constituency, not just the party and voters that put her there. This is indeed what most MPs claim to think. But if the election is contested by more than two candidates with broad appeal then the process rapidly degenerates into farce and the winner can be elected on quite a small minority of votes. You need a degree in game theory to make your you are voting for the right candidate. This is so obviously wrong that in most elections for an executive office, where you choose one candidate from a diverse field, the system has been abandoned, if it was ever used – from small societies up to presidents of countries, and even Mayoral elections in the UK. The job of an MP is a serious job, and surely exactly the same logic applies to them as to the London Mayor or the Leader of the Conservative Party.
And that should be enough. But the consequential results of the system don't make it any better. As this video using animals explains, the system soon resolves into a two party system. Any candidate who wants to challenge the party machine and stand against the official candidate usually fails, and worse, lets in the candidate from the opposing party. So a lot of the process of democratic choice is handled by two party machines which do not have a strong incentive to be democratic themselves, for example in the way they select candidates. Of course, if you are a party machine politician you are inclined to think that this is a wonderful political system, but it is fundamentally undemocratic. It is quite clear from the declining combined vote share of the Labour and Conservative parties that the British are losing confidence in the two party system.
So what is the solution? PR is popular, but brings with it plenty of problems of its own which are not directly relevant to the debate. If you support PR the risk of voting No is that a No result is likely to kill the question of electoral reform for generations. The Americans have developed a system of primary elections, which have the effect of undermining the party machines and making them more democratic. It has the major virtue of making all safe seats competitive. The odd Tory proposes it for the UK. A second alternative is to stage run-off elections in seats where there is no overall winner – the French system. Both these systems require a second full-scale public election. They both have the advantage of simplicity: electors make a single choice at each election – the most attractive aspect of FPTP. But two elections mean doubling up the cost, and campaigning costs in the US system are astronomical, giving rich candidates a big advantage. And they both seem un-British. They require a more prolonged period political campaigning. The British like the drama of a competitive General Election (such as last year), but quickly tire of the electoral process. And anyway, neither system is being offered to us in the referendum.
Which leaves AV. This is a built-in run-off system, requiring voters to think ahead about how they would vote if there was a run-off. It loses the simplicity and immediacy of the single decision, but the whole process is decided in a single, easily comprehensible process in a day. How quickly the British would take to it is less clear (we can guarantee that the political parties' campaigns will try to confuse the picture rather then help explain it), but they would get used to it eventually. It has settled down well enough in Australia, a country that has a very similar attitude to politics to Britain, though its effects there are difficult to disentangle from those of compulsory voting. Incidentally, the suggestion made by David Cameron that polls show that Australians would prefer to move back to FPTP does not stand up to close examination. What many Australians in fact dislike is being forced to mark a preference against all candidates for their vote to be valid – and we are not proposing that in the UK. In Australia AV has not undermined the two party system, as it happens, but it has surely made the two main parties more sensitive to the risks of breakaway groups and so more democratic themselves. Australia's parliamentarians are a quirky, spiky lot – the sort of people to hold an executive to account, even if it is often not a pretty sight. All in all AV is a beautiful British compromise and I will be voting for it.
I will look at other arguments in the AV debate in later posts. This one is long enough!


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The always important question of productivity takes center stage this week, along with the retail, housing and industrial sectors.
The quarterly productivity and costs report will be published Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. New York time. As the chart above shows, productivity peaked in 2002, hit a lower high in 2011, and thereafter fell into a narrow range in the cellar. Economists consider productivity to be the source of growth.
The chart of productivity below shows just how dramatic the long-term change has been. We are back in the 1970s, and traders of a certain age know all too well what that meant back in the day: Massive job losses, the dismantling of the American industrial sector, stagflation. Not a happy chart.
So economists for sure and many traders as well will be paying attention when the report is released.
The sector reports will be concentrated on Wednesday and Thursay.
Expect retail sales on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m., concurrently with productivity, and industrial production 45 minutes later at 9:15 a.m. Housing starts will be published on Thursday at 8:30 a.m.
Building permits for new private homes from housing starts at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
The index of consumer expectations from the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey at 10 a.m. Friday.
The index of leading indicators, although not itself a leading indicator, is built from them and provides a useful "we are here" marker for the eonomy.
Tuesday: Import and export prices at 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday: Productivity and costs, retail sales and the Empire State manufacturing survey of conditions in New York, each at 8:30 a.m., industrial production at 9:15 a.m., business inventories and the Home Builders housing market index, each at 10 a.m., petroleum inventories at 10:30 a.m. and the Treasury international capital report at 4 p.m.
Thursday: Jobless claims, housing starts and the Philadelphia Federal Reserve business outlook survey of conditions in the mid-Atlantic region, each at 8:30 a.m., and the M2 money supply at 4:30 p.m.
Friday: Consumer sentiment and leading indicators, each at 10 a.m.
I also keep an eye on the Baltic Dry Index, updated daily, and the 5-year implied inflation rate which is the difference between the yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes and 10-year Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS).


As the weather turns cooler, it's time to wrap up another successful season of vegetable gardening, or is it? Traditionally, this involves harvesting and preserving the remainder of the vegetables by early September and preparing the space for a long winter's nap. In addition to the typical harvest activities, why not try saving the seeds from this year's bounty or extending the growing season into winter?
When favorite flowers go to seed or while crafting a homegrown jack-o'-lantern, you can collect the seeds and dry them on newspaper. After the seeds are completely dry (very important to avoid spoilage), store them in airtight glass jars and place them in the refrigerator for maximum temperature consistency. Depending on the seed type, stored seeds can last for years, but the goal here is storing them to plant in next year's garden.
While fall's cooler weather can damage some vegetables, others actually thrive. Frost damage occurs when the water in plant cells freezes, expands, and bursts the cell walls of cold-sensitive plants such as beans, melons, tomatoes, and peppers – requiring final harvesting in late summer. Vegetables such as peas and radicchio can handle a light frost, while broccoli, broccoli rabe, beets, carrots, leeks, lettuce, kale, and Swiss chard can withstand a hard frost. The backs of seed packets generally indicate the frost-tolerance of vegetable varieties.
To truly capitalize on extending the growing season with frost-tolerant varieties, count backward from the desired harvest date to know when to direct-sow, and add two weeks since the cooler weather can slow growth. For example, the Bolero variety of carrot from Johnny's Seeds matures in 75 days, plus the additional two weeks equals 89 days. If the goal is to harvest November 22, the seeds should be sown by August 22. Carrots and beets are excellent choices to harvest late due to their tendency to get sweeter as the nights get cooler. Since sugar water freezes at a lower temperature than water, the sugary cells of carrots and beets prevent the cell walls from bursting, and the slower growth facilitates the sweetening process.
For Linda Whitlock, Michigan State University Extension horticulture educator, Thanksgiving dinner always includes carrots freshly picked from her garden using a cold weather gardening tip from her father. "I mound up a 'cold storage' of 10- to 12-inches of leaves over the carrots and leave a little bit of the green showing," explains Whitlock, adding that she harvests as late as January. Straw, wood mulch, or pine needles can be used instead of leaves to warm the soil and create a microclimate that extends the growing season.
For late fall and winter gardening, consider installing a cold frame – a bottomless box made with either untreated wood sides and a clear glass top, or an all-glass box (which requires southern exposure and a windbreak that does not shade the box). Cold frames create a microclimate that absorbs the sun's energy and germinates seeds in temperatures as low as 50 degrees. Frost-tolerant vegetables can be grown in a cold frame in late fall and continue through winter with careful monitoring to be sure moisture is even, and that sunny spells don't burn the plants.
To prepare the garden soil in fall for the following spring, Whitlock suggests leaving legumes in place, as they return nitrogen into the soil. Tomato and pepper plants should be removed due to their susceptibility to fungal issues and the likelihood of the spores overwintering. For this reason, any wooden stakes should be left outside over the winter to reduce spores. Whitlock suggests stripping all garden vegetation to bare soil if there were serious disease or insect issues; otherwise, covering the soil with leaves or planting a cover crop for "green manure" is best.
With a little know-how, fall gardening practices help to improve next year's yield while extending the joys of gardening, especially when Thanksgiving dinner includes a serving of freshly picked homegrown vegetables. Just cook and serve – nature already added the sweetness.


With the True SSO (single sign-on) feature, after users log in to VMware Identity Manager using a smart card or RSA SecurID or RADIUS authentication, users are not required to also enter Active Directory credentials in order to use a virtual desktop or published desktop or application.
When connecting to a virtual desktop or published application, users can select to use either the native Horizon Client or HTML Access.
You can use the system health dashboard in Horizon Administrator to quickly see problems that might affect the operation of the True SSO feature.


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Paul Edward Hayes (born 20 September 1983) is an English former professional footballer who lasted played for  club Haverhill Rovers.

As a player he was a forward who made more than 500 appearances for 11 clubs in all three divisions of the English Football League most notably for Scunthorpe United, Barnsley and Wycombe Wanderers. He also played professionally for Norwich City, Huddersfield Town, Charlton Athletic, Preston North End, Brentford, Crawley Town, Plymouth Argyle and Newport County. He played his latter career in non-League football for Hemel Hempstead Town, AFC Sudbury, Romford, Meridian VP, Faversham Town, Chatham Town and Haverhill Rovers. Hayes has held sporting director roles at non-League clubs Chatham Town and Bowers & Pitsea.

Playing career

Norwich City
Hayes started his footballing career as a schoolboy with Norwich City, whom he joined as a 13-year-old. Hayes' first involvement with the first team came in pre-season prior to Norwich's 2001–02 First Division campaign, in which he scored in friendlies against Wroxham, Colchester United and Premier League club Arsenal. He was an unused substitute during the final two matches of the regular season. He failed to feature during Norwich's unsuccessful playoff campaign. Hayes failed to feature at all during the early part of the 2002–03 season and became frustrated at his lack of first team opportunities, with forwards Iwan Roberts, Paul McVeigh, David Nielsen, Alex Notman, Zema Abbey and Ian Henderson ahead of him in the pecking order. He spent periods on trial at Third Division clubs Torquay United and Scunthorpe United and had his Norwich academy contract cancelled on 3 December 2002.

Scunthorpe United
Hayes signed a youth contract with Third Division club Scunthorpe United in December 2002. He scored his first goal for the club on his second appearance, with Scunthorpe's fourth goal in a 4–1 win over Southend United on 25 January 2003. On 19 March 2003, Hayes signed a professional contract with Scunthorpe. He scored eight goals in 20 games during the 2002–03 season, though the campaign ended with a heartbreaking playoff semi-final defeat to Lincoln City. Hayes became a regular starter the following season, making 45 appearances and scoring seven goals as Scunthorpe narrowly avoided relegation to the Conference.

Hayes scored 19 goals during the 2004–05 season to help Scunthorpe gain automatic promotion to League One. Hayes was in red hot form during October and November 2004, scoring 10 goals in as many games. A highlight of his season was scoring the opener against Premier League club Chelsea in an FA Cup Third Round at Stamford Bridge on 8 January 2005, though Chelsea eventually ran out 3–1 winners. Hayes departed Glanford Park on 2 June 2005, having scored 34 goals in 116 appearances for the club.

Barnsley
Hayes joined League One club Barnsley on 2 June 2005 and made 56 appearances and scored 13 goals during the 2005–06 season. He scored the opener in the 2006 League One play-off final against Swansea City and a 2–2 scoreline at the end of extra time saw the game go to penalties, with Hayes converting his spot kick to help Barnsley to a 4–3 shootout win and promotion to the Championship.

Hayes made 33 appearances for Barnsley during the 2006–07 season and scored five goals, which included a spell of four goals in six games early in the season. After falling behind Hungarian forward duo István Ferenczi and Péter Rajczi during the second half of the season, Hayes joined League One club Huddersfield Town on a one-month loan on 23 February 2007. On 10 March, he scored his only goal for the club in a 2–0 home victory over local neighbours Bradford City. Having joined with a view to a permanent move, he failed to win a contract or a loan extension and returned to Barnsley on 18 March, after scoring one goal in four appearances for Huddersfield Town. Hayes departed Oakwell on 13 June 2007 and made 89 appearances and scored 18 goals during two seasons with the club.

Return to Scunthorpe United
Hayes returned to Scunthorpe United (now playing in the Championship) on a three-year contract on 13 June 2007, for a fee which was later settled by tribunal. He made 42 appearances during the 2007–08 season, but a run of five goals in the last three games of the season couldn't save the Iron from relegation to League One. Hayes found his form again during the 2008–09 season, making 57 appearances and scoring 19 goals and helped the Iron to the Football League Trophy Final and to promotion to the Championship via the playoffs.

Hayes had a solid 2009–10 season in the Championship, making 51 appearances and scoring 13 goals, which included a goal against Manchester City in a 4–2 FA Cup fourth round defeat on 24 January 2010. A contract dispute saw Hayes attract attention from former club Norwich City late in the season, but he left Glanford Park on 10 May 2010. Hayes made 150 appearances and scored 40 goals in his second spell with Scunthorpe United and was voted the club's 2009–10 Player of the Year.

Preston North End
On 10 May 2010, Hayes signed a three-year contract at Championship club Preston North End on a free transfer. He made 26 appearances and scored four goals for the financially-stricken club during the 2010–11 season. On 28 October 2010, Hayes returned to Barnsley on emergency loan until 1 January 2011, as a makeweight in the deal to extend Iain Hume's loan at Preston North End. He made seven appearances without scoring and returned to Deepdale when his loan expired. Personal problems and relegation to League One led Hayes to terminate his contract on 17 June 2011.

Charlton Athletic
On 21 June 2011, it was announced that Hayes was a third of a triple signing completed by League One club Charlton Athletic. He scored his first goal for Charlton in a 2–1 away win over Notts County on 13 August 2011. After the arrival and immediate impact of Yann Kermorgant, opportunities became limited for Hayes. On 24 February 2012, Hayes and Charlton Athletic teammate Gary Doherty joined League One club Wycombe Wanderers on loan until the end of the 2011–12 season. He scored six goals in six appearances and was recalled by Charlton Athletic on 23 March. He made 22 appearances and scored three goals during the 2011–12 season as Charlton won the League One title and secured promotion to the Championship. Hayes was made available for transfer by manager Chris Powell prior to the beginning of the 2012–13 season and departed the club on 20 August 2012.

Brentford
On 20 August 2012, Hayes signed a three-year contract with League One club Brentford on a free transfer. He made his debut as a substitute against Yeovil Town on 21 August 2012 and missed a penalty in a 3–1 defeat. He finally scored his first goals for the club with a brace in a 2–2 draw with Hartlepool United on 27 October, but after scoring just four further goals over the following five months, he joined League One club Crawley Town on one-month loan on 11 March 2013, which was later extended until the end of the season. He scored two goals in 11 appearances and returned to Brentford on 30 April. Hayes played a part in each of the Bees' three League One playoff matches, but the club missed out on promotion to the Championship after a 2–1 playoff final defeat to Yeovil Town.

Despite scoring three goals during the 2013–14 pre-season, Hayes was frozen out once the regular season started and was made available for loan by manager Uwe Rösler. He made his only appearance of the season in a 3–2 League Cup first round victory over hometown club Dagenham & Redbridge on 6 August. Hayes joined League Two club Plymouth Argyle on a one-month loan on 4 October 2013. He failed to score in six appearances for the Pilgrims and returned to Brentford when his loan expired. Hayes had his contract terminated on 3 December 2013 and made 33 appearances and scored six goals during 15 months at Griffin Park.

Scunthorpe United (third spell)
Hayes signed for Scunthorpe (now in League Two) for a third time in his career on 17 December 2013, on a contract running until the end of the 2013–14 season. He scored four goals in 16 appearances and helped the Iron to promotion to League One with a second-place finish. Hayes was released at the end of the season. Across his three spells with Scunthorpe United, Hayes made 282 appearances and scored 78 goals.

Return to Wycombe Wanderers
On 15 May 2014, Hayes returned to League Two club Wycombe Wanderers on a two-year contract. In just over three seasons with the Chairboys, he scored 27 goals in 120 appearances and helped the club to the 2015 League Two play-off final, which was lost on penalties to Southend United. Hayes left Wycombe by mutual consent on 29 August 2017 and across his two spells with the club, he made 126 appearances and scored 33 goals.

Hemel Hempstead Town
On 22 September 2017, Hayes dropped out of the EFL for the first team in his career to join National League South club Hemel Hempstead Town. Despite joining the club in a bid to regain his fitness, he failed to win a call into a squad before departing three weeks later.

Newport County
On 17 October 2017, Hayes returned to the Football League to join League Two club Newport County on a contract running until the end of the 2017–18 season. Due to registration regulations, Hayes was not be able to make his Exiles debut until after 3 January 2018. Hayes finished the season with 14 appearances, three goals and was released when his contract expired.

Return to non-League football
On 9 August 2018, Hayes dropped back into non-League football to join Isthmian League North Division club AFC Sudbury on a two-year contract. He scored 12 goals in 34 appearances during the 2018–19 season and retired in June 2019. In mid-November 2019, Hayes returned to football as a player with Isthmian League North Division club Romford. After one appearance, he transferred to Southern Counties East League First Division club Meridian VP, with whom he remained until 7 January 2020, when he transferred to Isthmian League South East Division club Faversham Town. Hayes made 10 appearances before joining Southern Counties East League Premier Division club Chatham Town in a player-sporting director capacity March 2020. He made three appearances and scored one goal across the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. Concurrent with his director of football role at Isthmian League Premier Division club Bowers & Pitsea, Hayes made three cup appearances during the first half of the 2022–23 season. On 6 January 2023, he joined Eastern Counties League Premier Division club Haverhill Rovers and made five appearances before departing the club in mid-February 2023.

Backroom career
Hayes served Southern Counties East League Premier Division club Chatham Town as sporting director between 2020 and 2022. On 1 May 2022, Hayes was appointed director of football at Isthmian League Premier Division club Bowers & Pitsea. He departed the role in January 2023.

Personal life
Born in Dagenham, Essex, Hayes grew up in East London and went to Barclay Junior School in Leyton, where he captained the school football team from the age of seven. He later attended Norlington School for Boys and The Bromfords School in Wickford, Essex. His older brother, Martin, is a football manager and former player and his son Noah was a member of the Charlton Athletic Academy. After retiring from football, Hayes began a career as an agent and launched Aspiro Lifestyle Management.

Career statistics

Honours
Scunthorpe United
 EFL League One play-offs: 2009
 EFL League Two second-place promotion: 2004–05, 2013–14

Barnsley
 EFL League One play-offs: 2006

Charlton Athletic
 EFL League One: 2011–12

Individual
 Scunthorpe United Player of the Year: 2009–10

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Dagenham
English footballers
Association football forwards
Norwich City F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Barnsley F.C. players
Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players
Preston North End F.C. players
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Wycombe Wanderers F.C. players
Brentford F.C. players
Crawley Town F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Newport County A.F.C. players
English Football League players
A.F.C. Sudbury players
Isthmian League players
Romford F.C. players
Faversham Town F.C. players
Chatham Town F.C. players
Haverhill Rovers F.C. players
Eastern Counties Football League players
Bowers & Pitsea F.C. players


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La saison 1933 du Championnat d'Argentine de football est la  professionnelle de la première division argentine. Le championnat rassemble les 18 meilleures équipes du pays au sein d'une poule unique, où chaque club rencontre tous ses adversaires deux fois, à domicile et à l'extérieur. Le championnat passe de 18 à 14 clubs la saison prochaine, les six derniers du classement sont donc relégués et deux clubs de seconde division sont promus.

C'est le club de San Lorenzo de Almagro qui termine en tête du championnat et remporte le  de champion d'Argentine de son histoire.

Les 18 clubs participants

 Boca Juniors
 San Lorenzo de Almagro
 Estudiantes (La Plata)
 River Plate
 Racing Club
 Independiente
 Chacarita Juniors
 Huracán
 Velez Sarsfield
 Ferro Carril Oeste
 Argentinos Juniors
 Gimnasia y Esgrima (La Plata)
 Platense
 Quilmes
 Talleres (Remedios de Escalada)
 Tigre
 Lanús
 Atlanta

Compétition

Classement
Le classement est établi en utilisant le barème suivant :
 Victoire : 2 points
 Match nul : 1 point
 Défaite, forfait ou abandon : 0 point

Matchs

Bilan de la saison

Voir aussi

Références

Liens internes
 Championnat d'Argentine de football

Liens externes
  Résultats et classements complets sur RSSSF

Championnat d'Argentine de football
Argentine
1933 en Argentine


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Warning from Space Blu-ray Review
Blu-ray Release: October 13, 2020
Audio: Japanese and English 1.0 LPCM
Subtitles: English, English SDH
Run Time: 86:40 (Japanese version)/86:02 (American version)
Director: Kôji Shima
As Japan is rocked by mysterious sightings of UFOs over Tokyo and large, one-eyed aliens attempting contact, scientists collaborate to investigate the unexpected rise in extraterrestrial activity. Unbeknownst to them, one of the aliens has already assumed human form and is about to deliver a very important message that could be humanity's last hope for survival. (From Arrow's official synopsis)
Post-WWII, the American public was wracked by the fear that the Cold War brewing between them and the Soviet Union would heat up and the consequences would be nothing short of the end of the world. The threat of nuclear annihilation gave rise to a series of escapist films that still very obviously dealt in allegories that lay beneath the fear. These films acted as a catharsis for theatrical patrons and their messages were often cloaked in innocuous Science Fiction tropes. Monsters, such as the giant ants of Gordon Douglas' Them (1954), became stand-ins for the bomb and ruthless alien invaders became stand-ins for Communist aggressors. But neither the US nor the USSR, for that matter, had directly experienced the effects of a nuclear explosion. These movies were based on the fear of what could happen, while Japanese audiences filed into cinemas with memories of what had happened. Japan's fears were made flesh with Ishirō Honda's Godzilla (Japanese: Gojira, 1954), leading to the international giant monster phenomenon known as kaiju movies and essentially birthing the Japanese science fiction market.
Daiei Studios would eventually cash-in directly on Honda's new kaiju formula with the Gamera series, which ran parallel to Toho's Godzilla movies, but on much smaller budgets. Before kaiju was a formula, the idea was that Godzilla had proven that the world had an appetite for Japanese science fiction. Daiei first opted for the slick option when they produced Kôji Shima's Warning from Space (Japanese: Uchujin Tokyo ni arawaru; aka: Spacemen Appear in Tokyo and The Mysterious Satellite, 1956) – a full color sci-fi drama with a thoughtful message and creature designs from respected avant-garde artist Tarō Okamoto. In the nearly 70 years since its release, its reputation in North America has become clouded by new generations of viewers seeing it as yet another "so bad it's good" '50s B-movie, but its genuine artistry puts it near or on the level with acknowledged genre classics, such as Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) or Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Furthermore, its deliberate pacing, nuclear phobia malaise, and studious cinematography don't really jibe with the goofy antics of typical Mystery Science Theater 3000 fodder. Gentaro Nakajima and Hideo Oguni's (Oguni's frequent collaborations with Akira Kurosawa seem to be the one thing that gives the movie legitimacy in critical circles) script isn't as bleak as real-life atomic bomb dramas, like Hideo Sekigawa's Hiroshima (1953) or Shōhei Imamura's Black Rain (1989), but it takes its existential crises with a similar seriousness that makes it difficult to giggle at its dated special effects and costumes (their intended parallels are nuclear war, but it turns out this 66-year-old film about the surface of the earth approaching a boil also works as a disaster movie about climate change).
Like Godzilla, Warning from Space took an American movie tradition that was growing into a stale parody of itself, alien invasion movies (as opposed to the eco-horror creatures that inspired Godzilla), and infused it with Japanese sensibilities, making it both a familiar and exotic artifact. While owing plenty to the early kaiju films' nuclear phobia, Warning from Space borrows pieces of its plot from The Day the Earth Stood Still, an anti-war parable that presents advanced alien species not as conquering monsters, but as advanced civilizations wearily warning humans against their violent impulses (obviously, the starfish aliens are inherently sillier than the entirely anthropomorphic Klaatu, but the similarities still stand). It also adopts the same dramatic disaster movie ideas that informed Warning from Space's pure kaiju brethren, though Shima's film owes more to the pulverized planetoids of Rudolph Maté's When Worlds Collide (1951) than the man-eating ants of Them!. Even the inherently Japanese pop cinema imagery – Tarō Okamoto's starfish creatures, Shigeo Mano's Art Deco set design, and Kimio Watanabe's dazzling cinematography – appear to be derived from non-Japanese films, such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis (the alpha & omega of Expressionist and Deco science fiction), Byron Haskin's lavishly colorful The War of the Worlds (1953), and, once again, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Being largely available in the public domain stateside, Daiei's catalog has been the victim of cheap and fast VHS and DVD releases. The most readily available version of Warning from Space came via Alpha Video, who also released endless versions of the Gamera movies during the early days of DVD. Needless to say, Arrow's new 1080p, 1.37:1 Blu-ray is a massive upgrade over any budget SD disc. This disc includes two slightly different versions of the film – the original Japanese release and the US edit. A high definition transfer of the Japanese cut was supplied directly to Arrow from Kadokawa Pictures, then additional clean-up was done. Arrow warns in the included booklet that "some photochemical issues remain, such as occasional density fluctuation and flicker." The US cut was reconstructed using the HD transfer and 35mm internegative elements, mainly English language inserts/credits, while using an SD master as a guide.
The film was shot and processed using a supposed proprietary process called Daieicolor, which minimal research tells me is basically Eastman Color. It's not as vivid as, say, a big budget, three-strip Technicolor movie, but Watanabe uses the limitations to his advantage by contrasting the naturalistic hues of locations with the vivid primary hues of fantastical forces (these are mostly illustrated by bright reds). Grain appears natural, though variations in color condition and continuity do tend to be most obvious in yellow or brown blotches within the grain. There are some rough splice changes throughout and these make up most of the density fluctuations and brightness flickers that Arrow warns of in the booklet (some of the most prevalent flicker seems to be an intended lighting effect). Black levels are strong, creating plenty of contrast without crushing details.
Depending on which version of the movie you're watching, you've got either a 1.0 mono Japanese or 1.0 mono English track, each presented in uncompressed LPCM. The Japanese dub was, again, handed to Arrow from Kadokawa, while the English dub was reconstructed from the original optical tracks. Since Arrow is sort of considering the American cut an extra, I spent most of my time with the Japanese track. There are hints of fuzz and hiss, but the majority of the aural issues are typical for a movie of this age. The monaural field is a bit crowded when multiple voices and effects overlap or Seitarô Ômori's score kicks into high gear, and there is a distinct difference between the dialogue shot on set and the ADR. The former is quieter and occasionally echoey, while the latter is cleaner, but less natural. The English dub is softer overall and sounds pretty compressed to my ears, despite also being a LPCM mix.
Selected scenes commentary with Stuart Galbraith IV – Galbraith, the author of Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!: The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films (Feral House, 1996), discusses the making of the film, explores the cast & crew's work histories, and offers a pretty thorough history of early, post-WWII Japanese science fiction. The track ends at 1:04:39, at which point the viewer is taken back to the main menu.
Teaser and theatrical trailer
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