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Arturo Rossato, född den 17 juni 1882 i Vicenza, död den 11 mars 1942 in Milano, var en italiensk journalist, dramatiker, lyriker och librettist.

Rossato var redaktör för tidningarna Popolo d'Italia och Secolo-Sera. Han författade komedier, delvis på venetiansk dialekt, av vilka Nina no far la stupida (1922) och La biondina in gondoleta (1926) – båda tillkomna i samarbete med Gian Capo – hade viss framgång. Hans operalibretti tonsattes av bland andra Riccardo Zandonai (Giulietta e Romeo, I cavalieri di Ekebù, La farsa amorosa), Franco Alfano (Madonna Imperia) och Francisco Mignone (L'innocente).

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Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Brashear, Regan
Last Updated: Sep-13-2017
Schilling, Carol
Primary Category: Performing Arts / Film, TV, Video — Secondary Category: Performing Arts / Film, TV, Video
Genre: Film
Chronic Illness/Chronic Disease
Medical Advances
The opening of the documentary Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement is meant to startle. A young woman (disabled performance artist Sue Austin) in a motorized wheelchair fitted with transparent plastic fins gracefully glides underwater around seascapes of coral and populations of tropical fish. The scene dislodges expectations about what wheelchairs can do and where they belong. It creates what for many are unlikely associations among disability, wonder, joy, freedom, and beauty. Watching Austin incites questions about what this languid and dreamy scene might have to do with human enhancement, which more predictably brings to mind dazzling mechanical, chemical, or genetic interventions that surpass the ordinariness of a wheelchair and extend human capacities. But this gentle scene opens the way for the film's conversations about the ethics and meanings of human enhancement that emphasize perspectives by people with disabilities.
Regan Brashear's film features interviews with and footage of people living with disabilities as they move in varied ways through their environments—home, workplace, airport, therapy lab, city street. Photographs, news footage, and performances by mixed-ability dance companies complement their stories. We also hear from a transhumanist, academicians, and activists. Together they express a wider range of views about human enhancement than seems possible in an hour-long film.
Often contrastive views are paired or clustered. For instance, double amputee Hugh Herr, Director of MIT's Biomechtronics Group, brags that his carbon-fiber and other prosthetic legs will outperform the biological legs of aging peers. His lab develops robotic limbs controlled by biofeedback, and he intends to end disability through mechanical technologies. Gregor Wolbring, a biochemist and bioethics scholar who was born without legs, regards himself as a version of normal and rejects being fixed. "I'm happy the way I am!" he exuberantly proclaims. Rather than strive for normalcy through restorative technology, Wolbring urges acceptance of imperfection.
Altogether, the interviewees raise questions about how to respond to differences among human bodies: focus on corrections toward achieving a concept of "normal"? accept diversity? extend human potential? The interviews call out underlying assumptions about disability that influence our answers. Do we assume that disability is an aberration that should be erased? A condition located in individual bodies? A condition brought about by unaccommodating social and built environments? Or, as disabled journalist John Hockenberry proposes, "a part of the human story"?
Fixed also asks what the social and ethical consequences of pursuing enhancements might be. Do they equalize opportunity? Do they misplace priorities by channeling attention and resources away from basic health care and ordinary, essential technologies, such as reliable, affordable wheelchairs? Are biological, chemical, and mechanical enhancements indispensible opportunities to extend human experience, as transhumanist James Hughes claims? Do we have an ethical responsibility to enhance, whether to correct or extend?
Hockenberry mentions that we already enhance. Think of eyeglasses, telescopes, hearing aids. People with disabilities, he points out, are typically the first adopters of technologies, such as computer-brain interfaces, that are destined for wider use. Archival film footage of warfare during this discussion reminds us what many of those uses have been. Should we worry, he asks, about using people with disabilities as research subjects? Or should we say with recently paralyzed Fernanda Castelo, who tests an exoskeleton that braces her body as it moves her forward: "Why not"?
Considering whether we should trust technology to create equality or treat each other equally in the presence of our differences, disability rights attorney Silvia Yee poses the film's most vital question: "Which is the world you want to live in?" While Fixed gives a fair hearing to disparate answers, the closing image is suggestive. A woman in a motorized wheelchair offers a lift to someone struggling to push a manual chair uphill. She invites him to grasp the back of hers and they roll forward together.
The Story of Beautiful Girl
Simon, Rachel
Last Updated: Aug-07-2017
McEntyre, Marilyn
African-American Experience
Cross-Cultural Issues
Doctor-Patient Relationship
Mental Retardation
Power Relations
Psycho-social Medicine
On a stormy night in 1968 a retired, widowed schoolteacher in rural Pennsylvania opens her door to find a young couple, she white, he African American, wrapped in blankets, drenched, and silent. Letting them in changes her life. They have escaped together from a nearby mental institution most locals simply call "The School." The young woman has recently given birth. When Martha lets them in, her life changes forever. Supervisors from "the School" show up at the door, the young man escapes, and the young woman, memorably beautiful, is taken back into custody. The only words she is able to speak out of what we learn has been a years-long silence are "Hide her." Thus she leaves her newborn baby to be raised by a stranger. The remaining chapters span more than forty years in the stories of these people, linked by fate and love and the brutalities of an unreformed system that incarcerated, neglected, and not infrequently abused people who were often misdiagnosed. Homan, the young man who loved Lynnie, the beautiful girl from the institution, was deaf, not retarded. Lynnie was simply "slow," but a gifted artist who recorded many of the events of her life in drawings she shared only with the one attendant who valued and loved her. Though her pregnancy resulted from being raped by a staff member, the deaf man longs to protect her and care for the baby. Years separate them; Homan eventually learns signing; Lynnie's sister befriends her and an exposé results in the closure of the institution. Over those years Lynnie and Homan witness much cultural change in treatment of people like them who were once systematically excluded. They find social identities that once would have been entirely unavailable to them. And eventually, after literal and figurative journeys of discovery, they rediscover each other.
In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer
Harrison, Teva
Last Updated: Jul-18-2017
Carter, III, Albert Howard
Primary Category: Literature / Nonfiction
Genre: Graphic Memoir
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In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer is an accurate and suggestive title. At 37, Teva Harrison was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer with metastases to her bones. She lives between hopes for new treatments allowing a useful life but also fears about debility—some already caused by her treatments—and death. An artist, she has created a hybrid of a graphic novel with comic-book style drawing on the left page and traditional prose facing on the right, with variations of this format now and then.
The imaginative world of the book ranges widely in mood, topic, and subject matter, and there is a helpful organization to group the material. Her Preface tells us how drawing helped her gain some power over "the bogeyman that is my cancer" (p. 1). In her Prologue, she tells of "living in the shadows," or "liminal spaces," but choosing to occupy these as best she can (p. 3).
Part One lays out the medical facts and dilemmas. The sections are Diagnosis, Treatment, and Side Effects. The author describes the turmoil of being sick with no clear cause, the emotional impact of the serious diagnosis on her and her family, also nausea, loss of fertility, dilemmas of pain management, and many side effects of treatment, including weight loss as well as sudden and torturous menopause.
Part Two explains her social status, her marriage, her "mixed-bag inheritance" (including high-risk Ashkenazi genes), and social aspects, including feeling invisible as a patient, accepting help from friends, being in a support group, and what does a likely "early demise" mean for her, an atheist?
Part Three explores the many emotions in sections for hope (using clinical trials, for example), gratitudes ("At least I'm wasting, not bloating"), wishes, fears, and "Managing Anxiety at Home" (pictures of yoga, gardening, long walks, house cleaning), self-blame, and—nonetheless—dreams. The final section "Incurable" names her current status: "In treatment for the rest of my life," but the facing picture shows her as a large powerful bird flying among dramatic clouds with the words "I mean what do I have to lose?" Her prose affirms: "Live like a tornado, when I can."
Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music
Rhodes, James
Last Updated: May-11-2017
Glass, Guy
Primary Category: Literature / Literature
Genre: Memoir
James Rhodes is a British classical concert pianist who is known for his iconoclastic, pop-inspired performing style. He is also an outspoken survivor of childhood sexual abuse who is equally frank about his struggles with severe mental illness. Rhodes's memoir Instrumental is a tribute to the healing power of music. Indeed, music quite literally saves the author's life; it is only when a friend smuggles an iPod loaded with Bach into his psych ward that Rhodes regains the will to live.
Rhodes does not mince words. We learn that he was violently raped by a gym teacher on a regular basis for five years from the age of five. Left with severe internal injuries that produce wracking pain, he requires multiple surgeries. He soon also develops dissociative symptoms, drug and alcohol addiction, self-injurious behaviors, and chronic suicidal ideation. Barely able to function, he endures many tumultuous years during which he abandons the piano. The author's subsequent journey from physical and emotional fragmentation to wholeness through music provides the substance of his book.
The preface to Instrumental is designated "Prelude," and the ensuing twenty chapters, labeled "tracks," all correspond to musical works. (All twenty tracks may be listened to, for free, on Spotify.) In addition, as if to assure the reader he is in good company, Rhodes offers psychological profiles of famous composers. We learn, for example, that Bruckner suffered from a morbid obsession with numbers, and that Schumann, after throwing himself in the Rhine, died in an asylum.
A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Mathiasen, Helle
A rare patient narrative from 1812 describes a mastectomy performed before the introduction of anesthesia. This letter from Frances d'Arblay (1752-1840) (née Frances [Fanny] Burney), addressed to her older sister, Esther, details her operation in Paris by one of Napoleon's surgeons.In her childhood and youth, Fanny Burney moved in the best London society; she was a friend of Dr. Johnson who admired her. She served five years at the court of George III and Queen Charlotte as Second Keeper of the Royal Robes (1786-1791). Fanny Burney married Adjutant-General in the army of Louis XVI Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste Piochard d'Arblay in 1793. He had fled to England after the Revolution. They lived in England and spent ten years in France (1802-1812).Burney's mastectomy took place 30 September 1811. The patient wrote about her experience nine months later. She chronicles the origin of her tumor and her pain. She is constantly watched by "The most sympathising of Partners" (128), her husband, who arranges for her to see a doctor. She warns her sister and nieces not to wait as long as she did. At first resisting out of fear, the patient agrees to see Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766-1842), First Surgeon to the Imperial Guard.He asks for her written consent to guide her treatment; her four doctors request her formal consent to the operation, and she makes arrangements to keep her son, Alex, and her husband, M. d'Arblay, away. Her husband arranges for linen and bandages, she makes her will, and writes farewell letters to her son and spouse. A doctor gives her a wine cordial, the only anesthetic she receives. Waiting for all the doctors to arrive causes her agony, but at three o'clock, "my room, without previous message, was entered by 7 Men in black" (136).She sees "the glitter of polished Steel" (138). The extreme pain of the surgery makes her scream; she feels the knife scraping her breastbone. The doctors lift her up to put her to bed "& I then saw my good Dr. Larry, pale nearly as myself, his face streaked with blood, & its expression depicting grief, apprehension, & almost horrour" (140).Her husband adds a few lines. These are followed by a medical report in French by Baron Larrey's 'Chief Pupil'. He states that the operation to remove the right breast at 3:45pm and that the patient showed "un Grand courage" (141). She lives another twenty-nine years. It is impossible to determine whether her tumor was malignant.
The Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt: Gender, Sexuality, and the Construction of Identity
Malmström, Maria
Last Updated: Feb-24-2017
Saleh, Mona
Genre: Ethnography
This is an ethnographic work written by a Swedish anthropologist who has lived in Cairo, Egypt for several years curating the cultural tropes that are woven into the lives of her traditional Egyptian subjects. Malmström sets the scene for her work by describing a 1994 incident wherein CNN broadcast live the female genital cutting of a young girl in Egypt. A secret practice made public, Malmström uses this event to springboard her commentary on how female genital cutting is practiced, experienced, and viewed among Egyptians.
Female genital cutting is defined as the partial or total removal of external female genitalia for non-medical (i.e. cultural) reasons. This is largely a practice carried out in Africa and some parts of the Middle East. Egypt has one of the highest global rates of female genital cutting, and the cutting usually occurs at the age of 9 years. Many reasons are cited for the cutting, and in Egypt it is done to decrease a woman's sex drive as well as to fit the standards of beauty (i.e. labia minora are considered unattractive). It had usually been performed by a traditional practitioner, but more recently, this human rights violation has been medicalized in Egypt and is often performed by doctors in an operating room using anesthesia. Even though Egyptian law and Muslim as well as Coptic Christian clerics have issued bans on female genital cutting, the practice continues in secrecy.
Malmström starts her book by saying that female genital cutting may actually be carried out in large part as Egyptian political protest against the West. She uses excerpts from interviews with women of different generations, social strata, and degree of devotion to Islam to describe their different experiences and opinions on topics that center around womanhood and the many components of womanhood in Egypt.
While the title suggests that Malmström will tackle female genital cutting head-on throughout this piece, she actually takes a more circuitous route. She spends several chapters describing other woman-centric issues to familiarize the reader with Egyptian culture. For instance, Malmström describes how sexuality is expected to be expressed at different points in life: in girlhood, adolescence, and after marriage. She focuses on how Egyptian women are expected to straddle many expectations regarding sexuality depending on the context: sexually receptive to the husband only, for instance, but not so much so that the husband struggles to satisfy her. One of the most telling quotes regarding the meaning of womanhood is,
"A woman should always be soft towards a man...She should never accuse her husband of anything or argue with him. A woman should be strong and never show her true feelings. A woman must be beautiful. A woman will win through beauty, softness, and through cooking....A woman should not show her sadness because of him [her husband], since she turns ugly, loses her health and eventually, her husband. She should be even softer towards him and give him everything in life" (p. 169).
Malmström delves into the centrality of cooking, pain, and endurance of suffering in the lives of traditional women and how these items, as well as being "cut" are seen as necessary to the satisfactory construction of Egyptian female identity. This exploration of many parts of womanhood in Egypt allows the reader to attempt to engage in a nuanced understanding of female genital cutting in the context of a broader, textured Egyptian culture.
Coxon, Lucinda; Redmayne, Eddie; Vikander, Alicia; Hooper, Tom
Last Updated: Nov-17-2016
Teagarden, J. Russell
Primary Category: Performing Arts / Film, TV, Video
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Issues
As the movie opens, the married artists Einar and Gerda Wegener are working out of their apartment in Copenhagen. The year is around 1908 and they have been married for just a few years. They do not have children as yet, but they have hopes that they would soon.
Einar is a painter of Scandinavian landscapes and Gerda is a figurative painter. When the model for a painting Gerda is working on fails to appear one day, she asks Einar to take the model's place. Einar would need to pose with the model's dress and assume a feminine posture. In posing as a woman, Einar's simmering desire to become a woman comes to a boil.
At first Gerda finds Einar's interest in posing as a woman an interesting diversion and as a means to have some fun at various social events. But, Einar becomes more and more serious about his interest in transitioning to a woman in more than just wardrobe and affect. As an early step in that direction, he takes on the name Lili Elbe and the pronoun "she." She gives up painting and becomes Gerda's primary model. Gerda's paintings become highly sought after with her new model.
Lili's quest to become a woman intensified over the subsequent years and extended to hoping to acquire a uterus so that she could give birth. With Gerda's help, Lili eventually finds a surgeon in Germany who is willing to perform a series of risky procedures that will make her into a woman. After the operations, Lili was transformed into the woman she wanted to be, but without the availability of anti-rejection drugs and antibiotics, she died in the hospital with Gerda at her side.
Lehrer, Riva
Lam, Gretl
Primary Category: Visual Arts / Painting/Drawing
Genre: Painting
Humor and Illness/Disability
A woman stands nude with her back to the viewer. Her arms are raised, hands interlaced behind her neck. Her back is deformed and scarred, but her body, depicted in warm flesh tones, looks solid and capable. She stands uncomfortably but patiently, as if she is waiting for a medical exam in a doctor's office, or as if she is inviting the audience to look and learn.
A skeleton is superimposed anatomically over the lower half of the woman's body, including her lower spine, pelvis, and femurs. A round form surrounds the lower spine which looks abnormal. In the blue background is a skeleton of a horse. The horse is angled away from the audience, such that we see its rear and tail most prominently. But its head is turned to look backwards, so that its empty eye sockets appear to be peering at the woman and at the audience.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
Last Updated: Apr-19-2016
Ratzan, Richard M.
War and Medicine
This book represents the 1915 American edition of Brooke's collected poems and is introduced by George Edward Woodberry, an American critic of poetry. A table of contents of titles follows the introduction. Ninety-four poems - all rhymed and almost all of them formal - are thematically arranged on 163 pages.
Thirty six are sonnets. Most of the poems are brief, under two pages in length, and deal with love or ardor (59), death or aging (43), or various combinations of love/ardor and death/aging (33). Only three treat subjects one could call primarily medical or related to medicine: "Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body" (p. 59), "Paralysis" (p.73) and "Channel Passage" ( p. 90). However, the threads of death, aging, the limitations of one's physicality and loneliness - no strangers to medical humanities courses - are ubiquitous.
His famous sonnet sequence of five poems composed while a soldier in WWI occurs halfway through the book under the grouping "1914." Following the poems is a biographical note by poet Margaret Lavington. There is a photogravure frontispiece dated 1914 with a reproduction of the poet's autograph beneath. The book has no index.
Performance and the Medical Body
Bouchard, Gianna; Mermikides, Alex
Last Updated: Mar-23-2016
Primary Category: Literature / Plays
Genre: Essay
Art of Medicine
This is a collection of essays by (mostly British) artists, performers, and academics on the intersection between medicine and theater. It appears in a series entitled "Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues" put out by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. The introduction makes it clear there are many points of convergence beyond the scope of this volume, such as how medicine is depicted in plays and therapeutic uses of theater (e.g. drama therapy). The focus here, then, is on "the ways in which the body is understood, displayed and represented in performance" (p. 11). And the "medical body" of the title refers to one that is 'acted upon' by illness or disability and/or by the diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the medical profession" (Ibid).
The book is divided into three sections: "Performing the Medical," "Performing Patients," and "Performing Body Parts." The first section includes an essay by Roger Kneebone, a surgeon, who explores the parallels between his field and theatrical performance. Kneebone has devised simulations that enable laypersons to get a sense of what it is like to participate in surgery. In his view, this encourages cross-fertilization of ideas. For example, his collaboration with a jazz pianist has demonstrated to him that musical improvisation, in its spontaneity, is somewhat like emergency surgery. And his work with a choreographer led to the development of a dance piece depicting the movements of a surgical team during a procedure.
In the second section we read about Brian Lobel, a theater artist who has used his experience with testicular cancer to create a solo performance piece entitled "BALL." This not only allowed Lobel to "regain a sense of mastery over the illness experience" (p. 88), but has also earned him a niche within the theater community. Lobel now works with other cancer sufferers helping them develop their own narratives in a project called "Fun with Cancer Patients."
The final section of the book includes a description of "Under Glass," a forty-minute performance piece consisting of eight specimen jars each containing a solo performer, said to be "at once museum exhibit, gallery and medical laboratory" (p. 141), which also provides the book's front cover image. "Under Glass" was devised by Clod Ensemble, whose Performing Medicine project is known for its teaching programs in numerous London medical schools. Meant to provoke discourse about the public display of specimens, it brings to mind the Victorian "freak show" as well as the more recent controversial touring Body Worlds exhibition of plastinated cadavers and body parts.
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I really think that Scotland should stay as part of the United Kingdom.
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I live in murcia, so I don't know much about Molina, but everybody here in the school is very friendly.
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Authorities report ghost sightings in Dublin's Connolly Station
Ghosts have reportedly been seen at Ireland's Connolly Station in Dublin, leading to some Irish ghost hunters cl...
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Ghosts have reportedly been seen at Ireland's Connolly Station in Dublin, leading to some Irish ghost hunters claiming they have received multiple reports of strange happenings at the busy train station in the city center.
Perhaps it's not so strange as it sounds, as many commuters found it easy to believe people had died waiting for tardy trains.
Paranormalist Tim Kelly told the Herald that he wants to hear reports from commuters who may have witnessed something strange or startling.
"We've heard that there is poltergeist activity in Connolly Station," Tim told the Herald. "We want to find out what this is all about because it could be huge."
It could be huge, but at the moment it's completely unsubstantiated. Even the plucky Ghost Busters admit they have yet to approach CIE (the Irish train service) and the operators of the station to obtain permission to investigate. But they say they're more than prepared.
"It would take an hour and a half to set up. We have thermal imaging cameras, cutting-edge stuff," Kelly explained. "We go in like the American teams - it's a very technical approach. We'll have four or five cameras on the night," Kelly said.
"Sometimes the human ear can't pick up the voices and they are only audible once recorded on the audio recorders and reviewed," Tim added.


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Flagship green business park for Bristol hits high point
A host of key stakeholders celebrated a major milestone in the development of Bristol's flagship new eco-friendly business park, which will be a showcase development for the city as European Green Capital in 2015.
The Assistant Mayor, Cllr Mark Bradshaw, and all those who had been involved in getting the project off the ground visited Filwood Green Business Park this week to mark the official topping out of the much-anticipated development, which is due to be completed by February 2015.
The green business park will provide 40,000 sq ft of workshop and office space accommodation for businesses and is expected to support 350 jobs, as well as further cementing Bristol's already strong reputation for sustainability after earning the first ever BREEAM 'Outstanding' rating for an industrial building in the South West.
The ceremony follows a recent official handover between Copenhagen and Bristol, the seventh city to receive the European Green Capital award since the initiative was launched in 2008. The honour rewards cities which are seen to be making efforts to improve the urban environment and create healthier and more sustainable living areas.
Project managers from Bristol-based contractors Midas Construction welcomed delegates to the £11.6million Filwood site for a tour to see progress on the build before the official topping out ceremony, a traditional event in building that marks the last tile or beam placed on top of a building. In this case the highest point includes a sedum green roof and extensive photovoltaic panels.
Cllr Mark Bradshaw, Assistant Mayor for Place at Bristol City Council said:
"Filwood Green Business Park is a crucial £11.67 million investment from the Council, the Local Enterprise Partnership and the European Union. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to making this project happen including the HCA and Midas Group. This is an important milestone for South Bristol in moving closer to delivering a modern, state of the art and highly sustainable resource for the community and will complement other local facilities. This is great progress as we approach Bristol's year as European Green Capital with this BREEAM Outstanding building opening in early 2015."
"Filwood Green Business Park will support local businesses, particularly start-up enterprises and also those looking to invest in South Bristol. I want this to be a hub for enterprise, innovation and job creation in South Bristol, where a third of Bristolians live and where there are still major challenges around health, jobs, skills and access. The building will offer 40,000 sq. ft. of space in a mix of workshops, offices, incubation space and hot desks."
"I encourage businesses that are interested in taking space at the Filwood Green Business Park to get in touch with the team or visit the website to find out more information."
Gary Milliner, Director of architects Stride Treglown Limited, said:
"Stride Treglown has developed the design of Filwood Green Business Park in partnership with Bristol City Council, the local community and the Homes and Communities Agency to provide much needed flexible, interactive and sustainable workspaces for South Bristol."
"As a BREEAM Outstanding building, it demonstrates its green credentials with the use of photovoltaics, A+ Rated materials and planted roofs externally, however, its sustainable ethos runs deep."
"Designed to achieve a 40 per cent CO2 reduction, saving the equivalent of 276 double decker buses of carbon annually, this is a building that invests in Bristol's future."
"Our designers are proud to see the building topped out and look forward to tenants and visitors breathing life into the new building in 2015, the year Bristol hosts Europe's Green Capital."
Derek Quinn, Executive Director at Midas Construction, said:
"Our commitment to Bristol City Council was to not only to build the South West's greenest business park, but to be a sustainable and green contractor throughout the development itself."
"This has included sourcing as much of the local labour and contractors as we could. Companies such as M H Massey, and Dancourt Group are some of our biggest supply-chain partner contractors and they are based only a stone's throw from the site, so many of their guys are able to walk to work."
"We have also delivered a lot of training and development programmes and seen three local boys complete an apprenticeship scheme with us during the build."
This development forms part of wider plans to regenerate Filwood Park, which is being led by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and also includes a provision for new public park and up to 150 new and affordable homes. The HCA has supported the business park by making the land available to the council, securing outline planning permission to develop the wider Filwood Park site and providing key infrastructure including a new access road and services.
David Warburton, HCA head of area said:
"This is a vitally important project for south Bristol which will raise the bar for the standard of development that will follow it at Filwood Park."
"It also demonstrates in a vivid way what can be achieved when resources and public land are combined and partners work together to turn a shared vision into reality. The jobs and new development at this business park have made a big difference to the city."
Midas Construction, part of The Midas Group, began work in February 2014 on the business park in Knowle West. The development is part of Bristol City Council's wider plans to regenerate South Bristol, providing opportunities for enterprise and employment in the growing green sector. The business park has a strong environmental ethos, and was recognised as one of the highest scoring buildings as a finalist in the 2014 BREEAM People's Choice Award.
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The Clarets youth team continued their storming start to the season with a 1-0 win at Accrington Stanley.
A second half goal from defender Scott Wilson, pictured above, proved decisive to hand Michael Duff's U18 side a third wins in the first of their EFL YA Northern Cup group matches.
It was the visitors who started on the front foot as Mark Howarth linked up with RJ Pingling, both of whom were involved in the Development Squad's victory on Monday in the Premier League Cup at Turf Moor.
Howarth laid a pass off to Pingling who saw his effort just wide of goal.
It was then Tinashe Chawana's turn to test the Accrington defence as he weaved in and out of the box before seeing his effort cleared from Hussain Mohahmed.
Accrington came close to breaking the deadlock on the half hour mark as attacker Luke Moran broke through on goal, taking on Kwasinkosi Mpofu before seeing his shot denied by Accrington-born stopper Marcel Wusiewicz.
Burnley first real chance of the game came when Chakwana took advantage of Stanley defender Jack Burgess' back pass to the goalkeeper, however Mohahmed again cleared the lines for the home side.
Just before the break it looked as if the Clarets took the lead as Tyler Shrimpton's corner was latched onto by Scott Wilson, however his header kissed the post as it fizzed wide.
After the break it was Accrington who came out raring to make the difference, as Moran found wing back Adam Cooper just outside the box for an effort that flew just over the bar.
The Clarets, though, grabbed the winner just past the hour mark though as Olatunde Bayode worked brilliantly, taking on Cooper from a corner before cutting inside the box and squaring the ball for Wilson to smash home.
Accrington looked to reply late on as Joe Rathbone saw his effort 25 yards out fly wide of Wusiewicz's goal.


I said I'd do this near the end of the year. And it's the end of the year. I'd have done this a little later, but let's face it. I haven't posted anything in a really long time(I apologize, I haven't felt like it, and I have been trying. But when you got writer's block what can you do?) and I'm probably not going to until the new year, maybe February(Watch, I'm gonna post this and tomorrow I'm going to wake up and write four or five things.
Anyway, over the year or so I've been blogging, and you guys have been reading, I've gotten a writing quote every time I posted a story or something(Up until recently, maybe they ran out of quotes, maybe they found it troublesome to do it, I don't know, but I really liked it and felt like it helped to inspire writers to keep on writing. But that's my opinion). And I've been collecting a few of them. And I thought at the end of every year why not share some of the inspiration I got to make me a better writer to some of my readers? Keep in mind these are quotes, I will include who said/wrote them first as well, and I did copy them correct if you're wondering.


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How much do you know about tobacco, aside from the fact that cigarettes are stuffed with dried, finely cut tobacco leaves? Ever been curious about the tobacco plant and its history? If you're interested in learning more about the tobacco plant and its roots, no pun intended, here are some quick facts you should know.
⦁ Tobacco is classified under the nightshade family of plants, many of which are considered poisonous to humans. Nightshades are typically rich in alkaloids, which are natural pesticides and are used by nightshade plants as a defense mechanism against getting eaten. One such alkaloid is nicotine, which is a highly addictive drug for humans.
⦁ There are many types of tobacco plant. Two of these, Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica, are used in the production of tobacco products such as cigars and cigarettes. Nicotiana Tabacum is the most commonly used variety of tobacco today.
⦁ North America is the homeland of the tobacco plant. Other species in genus Nicotiana can be found all over the world. It's even been discovered that, prior to the advent of modern tobacco, Australian aborigines consumed a certain type of tobacco that's native to the Australian continent.
⦁ Tobacco is an old, old crop. Historians believe that the tobacco plant was first cultivated and domesticated several millennia ago. What started as wild growth in South America eventually spread to North America, where certain varieties of the plant have been domesticated as early as 1000 – 1400 BC. Diggers in northeastern Peru actually recently found fossilized tobacco dating back to the Pleistocene Era, 2.5 million years ago.
⦁ The tobacco plant once enjoyed sacred status for ancient civilizations in the Americas. As early as then, peoples from North America and South America were aware of tobacco's abilities to alter a person's mental state, so the tobacco plant was widely used in important ceremonies. Tobacco was often consumed with other substances to enhance its narcotic effect.
⦁ Ancient Native Americans consumed tobacco plants in more ways than modern humans can conceive. Of course, ancient Native Americans smoked its leaves, but they also ground the plant up and snorted the powder up their noses. Tobacco plants were mixed with liquids and imbibed. Tobacco-laced enemas were also common then.
⦁ Aside from being used as a hallucinogenic substance, tobacco also served as a rudimentary form of medicine. The skin was rubbed with tobacco juice or exposed to tobacco smoke to prevent insect bites. Tobacco's other medicinal qualities have been widely recorded. Tobacco smoke or tobacco juice was also used to protect other plants from pests.
⦁ Upon reaching the New World in 1492, Christopher Columbus was given tobacco leaves, among other gifts. Columbus was not aware of the value of tobacco leaves, but Europeans eventually became acquainted with the many uses of tobacco.
⦁ Rodrigo de Jerez, a man who sailed with Columbus, was the first European to learn the art of smoking tobacco leaves and he was held captive for seven years for his newfound knowledge. Jerez had seen the natives in the act of smoking the leaves, and, when he started smoking back home in Spain, the Spanish grew frightened of him. They believed that only the devil could expel smoke from his mouth. So the infamous Spanish Inquisition captured Jerez and held him captive for seven years.
⦁ Tobacco plants started sprouting in Santo Domingo by 1531, and active farming of the plants became widespread. In fact, Nicotiana tabacum was specifically brought to Cuba and Santo Domingo for cultivation.
⦁ Tobacco reached French shores in 1556, and this kick-started the spread of the tobacco plant throughout Europe. Tobacco was acclaimed for its supposed medicinal properties, and the plant enjoyed particularly high popularity in Spain. French Queen Catherine de Medici used tobacco to relieve the pain brought by migraines. English sailors had started to smoke tobacco, too.
⦁ Sir Francis Drake brought the Nicotinia tabacum plant to the Americas in 1573. Tobacco cultivation boomed with the invention of the clay pipe and its introduction to England. It wasn't long before the American tobacco trade was born, and, in 1615, the first American tobacco crop was sold to England.
⦁ Tobacco was once used as currency. It was highly valuable, especially for the early European settlers, which considered the tobacco plant a cash crop. Many colonies were supported by the commerce of the tobacco plant.
⦁ The American Revolutionary War was said to have been encouraged by tobacco growers fighting restrictions on tobacco commerce. Oddly, tobacco sales also played a large part in funding the said war.
⦁ Tobacco is as popular now as it was then. Since its discovery, the cultivation and harvest of tobacco has greatly grown. In fact, tobacco is the most widely produced domesticated crop in the world, not counting food crops.


We have all heard the saying that debt is a never ending spiral but it doesn't have to be. If you really committed to paying off debt and staying out of debt, it is possible with a change in lifestyle, spending habits, willingness to sacrifice and a lot of discipline. Many years ago, our family was strapped down in credit card debt and car payments. When we realized it was time to make a change and get our finances under control, the process of doing so was easier than you would think.
If you find yourself buried in debt and only making minimum payments, hoping that magically your principal balance will decrease, I promise you it will not. Making the minimum payments on credit card debt only satisfies the interest payments and doesn't get you any closer to paying off debt. Worse yet, if you continue to use that card for purchases, you will never be able to pay it off – it's designed that way.
If you truly want to pay off your debt, it requires a serious lifestyle change. You will be forced to take a hard look at your lifestyle and evaluate your wants versus needs. This may hit you like a ton of bricks, but that super tv package with all the sports channels and and all premium programming is not a need – it's a want. Spending $200 a month to have your nails done and perfectly tanned skin in January, you guessed it, it's a want. Buying 4 cafe lattes in the morning at your local Starbucks – a want.
When we talk about the high cost of living today and complain that it's impossible to save any money, that's not really the case. We just have the ability to spend way outside of our means through credit cards and loans and we enjoy the luxuries that spending other people's money can bring. But truth be told, it brings a lot more stress into our lives and yes, an abundance of debt that is spiraling out of control.
A change in lifestyle can bring serious rewards. Sometimes you just have to take a hard step backwards and look at what you are doing. If you are able to do that, you will be surprised at how good it feels to start living responsibly and reaping the rewards of being in control of your life.
When my husband and I decided it was time to take control of our finances, and our future, we first had to take a hard look at reality. We cut out cable, stopped eating out at restaurants, buying coffee at the gas station, and spending frivolously on gifts and unnecessary shopping. My husband cut out the cost of gas and parking by taking the bus to work. We worked out a schedule to share two household cars instead of three. We made Christmas gifts for our kids instead of buying high priced toys and games. We stopped buying the fundraising crap that our neighbors' kids were constantly selling. And most of all, we stopped using our credit cards and started living within our means.
Believe it or not, we were able to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt and car payments in just over a year. Our credit scores rose significantly, our debt to income ratio soared to excellence, and an unexpected thing happened – we became closer as a family. We started spending more family time together and less family time "spending". Our preteen children at the time benefited greatly by gaining an appreciation for the things that we did have and our relationships improved by sitting down to home-cooked meals instead of running through the drive thru. Once we successful in paying off debt, I was able to resign from my job and become a stay-at-mom since we no longer had the abundance of debt payments to make every month.
Next week, I will be posting an article on paying off debt in a calculated manner. You will be amazed at how easy it is to see the light at the end of the debt tunnel. I recommend you take the week to start evaluating what your needs versus wants really are. You may find your "wants" list will change from the overpriced new purse or sports car to a quiet night with the family, enjoying a slow roasted, home cooked dinner without the distraction of the television.
Check back next week for a step-by-step plan for reducing your debt or better yet, you may find yourself on the path a more sustainable lifestyle and a better understand of needs versus wants before you know it.


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Wimbledon bans Russian and Belarussian players from 2022 championships
April 21, 2022 May 11, 2022 Posted in Sport
Ciaran O'Mahony
The All England Club (AEC) has officially banned Russian and Belarussian tennis players from competing in the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the AEC has described the ban as a "sad", but necessary stand against the country's "illegal actions" abroad.
The participation of the likes of Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Victoria Azarenka, has been in doubt ever since UK Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston stated that they would need to provide "assurances that they are not supporters of Vladimir Putin", before a House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee in March.
World No. 2 Medvedev, was one of the favourites to win the Championships. Photo: Matthew Stockman via Getty Images.
The AEC has now gone a step further, banning them outright in a bid to "limit Russia's global influence through the strongest means possible," as outlined in a statement released yesterday.
"In the circumstances of such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with the Championships," it said.
"It is therefore our intention, with deep regret, to decline entries from Russian and Belarusian players to The Championships 2022."
Men's Tennis' Governing Body, the ATP, has condemned the decision, describing it as discrimination that will set a harmful precedent.
"We believe that today's unilateral decision by Wimbledon and the LTA to exclude players from Russia and Belarus from this year's British grass-court swing is unfair and has the potential to set a damaging precedent for the game," the ATP said.
"Discrimination based on nationality also constitutes a violation of our agreement with Wimbledon that states that player entry is based solely on ATP rankings."
The ATP has indicated that it is exploring any potential means of overturning the ban.
"Any course of action in response to this decision will now be assessed in consultation with our board and member councils."
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has also stated that it is "very disappointed in today's announcement by the AELTC and the LTA to ban individual athletes who are from Russia and Belarus from competing in the upcoming UK grass court events.
"A fundamental principal of the WTA is that individual athletes may participate in professional tennis events based on merit and without any form of discrimination. That principle is expressly set forth in our rules and has been agreed to by both AELTC and LTA. Prohibitions against discrimination are also clearly expressed in their own rules and the Grand Slam rules," says the WTA.
"The WTA has consistently stated, individual athletes should not be penalized or prevented from competing due to where they are from, or the decisions made by the governments of their countries. Discrimination, and the decision to focus such discrimination against athletes competing on their own as individuals, is neither fair nor justified."
The Russian/Belarussian ban has drawn significant criticism on social media, with Novak Djokovic, Martina Navratilova and the Belarussian Tennis Federation (BTF), also criticising the AEC's actions.
The BTF, in particular, is said to be aggressively pursuing international legal action to overturn the ban.
"Such destructive actions in no way contribute to the resolution of conflicts, but only incite hatred and intolerance on a national basis," the BTF said in a statement.
"Throughout the history of tennis, armed conflicts have occurred in the world – in Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Yugoslavia and other countries – but never until now have tournament organisers suspended athletes from the United States, Great Britain and other countries.
"Illegal decisions of international tennis organisations in relation to our athletes undermine the reputation of these organisations."
Despite the criticism and potential legal ramifications, Chairman of the All England Club, Ian Hewitt, said "we recognise that this is hard on the individuals affected, and it is with sadness that they will suffer for the actions of the leaders of the Russian regime.
"We have very carefully considered the alternative measures that might be taken within the UK Government guidance but, given the high profile environment of The Championships, the importance of not allowing sport to be used to promote the Russian regime and our broader concerns for public and player (including family) safety, we do not believe it is viable to proceed on any other basis at The Championships."
While they will not be able to compete at Tennis' biggest event, Russian and Belarussian players will still be permitted to compete at both ATP and WTA events, under a neutral flag, throughout the year.
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Recently I've been hearing more about other creatives' side projects. A side project is a small, usually personal, project one takes on in spare time. Among designers and developers this is becoming more and more popular.
Did you know that disorganization, lack of resources and scope creep are among the top reasons why your projects fail? Regardless of whether you are a member of the design community or a different field altogether you probably already know that project management is vital to the success of your projects.
Web designers and developers are usually seen working together on various projects. Designers end up following a path of creating pixels, while developers pick up the frontend and backend coding techniques. If you find yourself leaning towards either side then it's worthwhile to follow whichever path interests you the most.
But it's also important for some people to have a balance between these two facets. In this article I want to share some ideas for balancing your own skillset between coding and designing interfaces. These topics mostly pertain to building websites but you could also consider these ideas for app & software developers, too.
Every website needs some form of marketing to initially garner a responsive audience. You want participating users on your website to offer feedback, utilize all your services, and put your website to good use. But there are so many techniques inside the umbrella of Internet marketing – which ones produce the best results?
I have found that social media is one method which offers a gateway directly into people's desktops. Everybody uses at least some popular Internet figure whether it's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or any other brand name website. These networks are also marketing tools for gauging the popularity of your content. In this article I want to share a few techniques you can use to push your website viral on many of these larger social media outlets.
Getting started as a web designer requires weeks or even months of practice and dedication. There are so many unique aspects in designing graphics for the web, you may often feel out of place. But one step towards feeling more comfortable as a designer is to advance your own development skills.
Having the ability to design PSDs and then code the design into a site layout is a huge benefit. You won't need to rely on another web developer to work out your HTML5/CSS3. Plus right after designing a website layout in Photoshop you'll be able to bring that work to life. It's truly a skillset that requires time – but ultimately it will improve your knowledge and control on the web.


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HomeFeaturedAnalysisIncreased focus on national security spells tighter controls for energy deals
Increased focus on national security spells tighter controls for energy deals
By Damien Ryan, Brodies LLP
18 December 2020 Editor Analysis, Featured 0
The new National Security and Investment Bill will cover oil and gas infrastructure, energy distribution and transmission networks, energy suppliers, interconnectors, electricity generators, and firms involved in the production and supply of petroleum-based fuels (illustration: Brodies LLP)
The UK Government has recently introduced a National Security and Investment Bill to Parliament, which will empower the Government to block M&A and investment activity that could create a national security risk. This has potentially significant implications for the energy sector, as it may limit the scope of who can invest in UK sector companies, resources and infrastructure.
Even if deals are not blocked, some investors may be discouraged by the extra time, cost and potential uncertainty around obtaining Government clearance.
Mandatory notification
The Bill has two main limbs. First, it will introduce an obligation to notify certain deals to the Government prior to completion. Second, it will empower the Government to "call-in" and scrutinise any other deal that appears to pose a national security risk, up to 5 years after it has completed.
The mandatory notification obligation applies where an investor acquires:
15%, 25%, 50% or 75% of the shares or voting rights (with a separate obligation arising each time one of those thresholds is crossed); or
the ability to pass or block any class of resolution, in a business operating in one of 17 key sectors.
One of those sectors is energy, and the Government is consulting on the precise activities that will attract the obligation. Its current proposals would cover oil and gas infrastructure, energy distribution and transmission networks, energy suppliers, interconnectors, electricity generators, and firms involved in the production and supply of petroleum-based fuels.
If a notifiable deal closes without approval it will be void, and the firms involved will be liable to civil penalties of up to 5% of turnover (or GBP 10 million, if higher) or an unlimited criminal fine. Individuals responsible for closing without notifying could face imprisonment of up to 5 years and/or an unlimited fine.
The Government estimates that it will receive between 1,000 and 1,830 mandatory notifications per year, and the energy sector can expect to make up its fair share of those.
The second new power under the Bill will allow the Government to "call-in" a deal that it suspects could pose a threat to national security, and potentially block it, unwind it or impose conditions on it. This power applies to the acquisition of shares or voting rights (as per the above thresholds, other than the lowest 15% threshold) in either a company or an asset. The latter includes land, IP rights and commercial know-how. Essentially, these broad definitions will allow the Government to call in almost any type of deal where a national security risk might be identified.
The Bill does not define potential risks to national security, but it is accompanied by a statement of policy intent that refers to:
"target risk" (i.e., concerning the nature of the target, such as a key gas pipeline or nuclear power station);
"trigger event risk" (e.g., if a deal could give a hostile actor leverage over the UK); and
"acquirer risk" (i.e., the identity of the acquiring business or entity itself would cause concerns).
The Government must exercise the power within 6 months of becoming aware of the transaction, whether because the parties involved have notified the Government voluntarily (before or after completion) or because it appears in the media. If the deal is not made public, the Government will be able to intervene and potentially unwind it up to 5 years post-completion. This extremely long window ensures no transactions slip through the net. Investors are likely to err on the side of caution for some time given the adverse consequences of a completed deal being unwound, in which case the Government can expect to receive a large number of voluntary notifications.
As an anti-avoidance measure, the Government's call-in power will apply retrospectively to deals completed from 12 November 2020, with the 6-month and 5-year periods running from when the Bill takes effect (which should be at some point in 2021). Deals completing from that date will therefore have to do so at risk, as the facility to secure advance clearance from the Government is not yet in place.
Avoid disruption
This move by the UK Government will impose a strict and wide-ranging new regime that has the potential to cause significant disruption to deals and investments. It is essential that investors, sellers and advisers are aware of the risks involved, including for any deal completed after 12 November 2020, and plan their transactions accordingly.
Damien Ryan is a senior associate at Brodies LLP, specialising in competition law.
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British electronic band Blancmange first broke through in the early 80s with their mix of synthesizers and surrealism, fused in ground-breaking singles such as 'Feel Me', 'Living On The Ceiling', 'Blind Vision' and 'Don't Tell Me'. The epic synthpop of 'Waves' and a cover of Abba's 'The Day Before You Came' illustrated a band who were always willing to change and adapt new styles within their electronic framework.
After working on their own projects and film music, they returned in 2011 to great acclaim with their fourth studio release, "Blanc Burn". The "Semi Detached" album followed in 2015 and Blancmange's first ever instrumental album, "Nil By Mouth" and "Commuter 23" arrived in 2016.
The inspiration continued with Blancmange's 2017 album "Unfurnished Rooms". Tonight, the latest album 'Wanderlust' is launched.
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North Carolina State Court Grants TRO Against Unlicensed Auto Lenders for Excessive Rates
State AGs
On May 2, 2016, the North Carolina Attorney General ("AG") announced that a state court judge temporarily banned online auto lenders from engaging in allegedly deceptive lending practices, including charging unlawful fees.
The North Carolina AG filed suit against the unlicensed lenders for allegedly charging excessive interest rates and engaging in illegal repossessions in violation of state law. The companies offered customers vehicle title loans, which are small loans secured by a consumer's car title. According the North Carolina AG's motion, the company made loans ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 to at least 700 consumers with average interest rates of 257%. These loans are capped by law at 30% for licensed lenders and 16% for unlicensed lenders, like defendants. Many of these loans included a final balloon payment tacked on at the end of a consumer's first 11 monthly payments—an amount which was even larger than the original loan amount. And when consumers could not make these payments, the defendant would repossess cars with little to no warning, using a GPS tracker it had borrowers install in their cars.


Dr. Chiaviello joined UHD in 1999, and teaches environmental writing, writing for the media, and history and theory courses in rhetoric. He earned the PhD in rhetoric and professional communication in 1998 at New Mexico State University, writing a dissertation that analyzed the rhetoric of the environmental conflict over private livestock grazing on the public lands of the American West. Chiaviello previously earned the MA in mass communications at the University of Denver, the AB in liberal arts at Oberlin College, and an AA at Kauai Community College in Lihue, Hawaii.
Prior to taking up college teaching in 1987, Chiaviello was a business public relations representative in Boston and Cincinnati working with high-technology industries, including telecom, aerospace, and satellite communications. He served as an Army journalist and photographer during the Vietnam War, with the US Army's 1st Signal Brigade in Saigon and An Khe, Vietnam, after which he edited the post newspaper at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. Chiaviello attended college on the GI Bill and has been active in professional writing for many years, having published a wide variety of nonfiction articles.
His doctoral studies include a dissertation on the rhetoric of the environmental debate, focusing on public lands, as well as a number of courses in rhetorical theory, social theory, and geography to support my specialty. His master's degree is in mass communications, focusing on writing, specifically writing for film (screenplays, treatments). He has taught freshman English and other basic English courses at a number of institutions as well as courses in technical writing and journalism, literature and rhetoric. He teaches ethics and rhetorical theory in the graduate program at UHD and have published in both fields. Prior to entering academia in 1999, he spent 20 years in a variety of professional positions closely related to writing, public relations, media, community relations, public speaking, and so on. His credentials include the doctorate in English, MA in mass comm., bachelor's degree from one of the top private liberal arts colleges in the country, as well as both teaching and attendance at several community colleges in highly diverse communities. He has certificates in military journalism and Spanish translation. His scholarly research interests and creative endeavors include the writings and life of English novelist Graham Greene, environmental rhetoric and ethics, the Sagebrush Rebellion in its several incarnations, as well as environmental issues generally, currently focusing on resource overconsumption, population growth, and climate change. He has received two grants for teaching projects, two student awards, and two decorations for service to the state of New Jersey.
Research interests include travel writing and the environment, while a continuing, long-term project involves the formulation of an "ecological ethics" – an emerging form of environmental ethics based on the scientific principles of ecology.
Dr. Chiaviello published a seminal article on this concept in the Chinese journal, Tamkang Review in 2006, and has co-authored environmental and geographical encyclopedia articles with his writing students.
A recent project was a 2009 presentation at an interdisciplinary conference in Berlin, Germany, on the British author Graham Greene and his travels in Mexico.


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I've been using Reason since 6.5, currently running 7.1. Haven't had the urge to upgrade to 8 yet. I've been looking at the Recycle program lately. My question is this, is Recycle really necessary for Reason now? What benefits does it have, that can not be done in reason?
Slicing up is more detailed. But, i do all my slicing in Reason self now. Dont feel the need to move into ReCycle anymore.
Recycle can find the tempo of something easy.
Cool let us know what you think.
you have to be able to count and know time signatures of the source audio.
The demo version will only let you play with the loops in it. Unfortunately, it's not enough to make me want to spend my money on the program. I would like to able to use the samples I want to get the full feel of the program. It does have some benefits. But in the end I think it can all be accomplished in the Reason program. Therefore I'll be keeping my $200.
you can draw in your own slice points tho?
we don't ask so you don't have to tell.


Think regular Geistesblitz has gotten too easy? Try the advanced version, Geistesblitz 11:55 (Geistesblitz 5 to 12) . Now the game uses 9 shapes instead of 5 and each card features 3 items instead of just 2. The game also introduces a variety of optional advanced rules that spice up game play.


I was unexpectedly called away last night, due to a family illness, and didn't have anything prepared for the blog post today or tomorrow, so I'm going to do a couple of blog tricks for when you have nothing to show...a Movie Placebo and a card review! You knew that all along right? Or did I just fill you in on one or two of bloggers' favourite tricks?
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Diabetes, a danger that is still underestimated
The diabetes avalanche is rolling and what is Germany doing? So far so little, say experts. There is a lot happening at the same time in different places, little is evaluated, and a lot is lost in the maelstrom of individual interests.
What types of diabetes are there?
An unhealthy lifestyle with poor nutrition and lack of exercise, resulting in a person being overweight, is the cause of many common diseases. The German Federal Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Consumer Protection and the German Ministry of Health have initiated the national "IN FORM" initiative. From 2008 until 2010, 15 million euros a year are to be dedicated to the objective of improving the nutrition and physical fitness in Germany in the long term.
The figures are clear
The figures differ in different sources, but all of them point to an "epidemic" © NAFDM
Is a national effort really necessary? Do experts tend to panic-monger? The figures are clear: The metabolic disease known as diabetes has reached the proportions of a worldwide epidemic. It not only endangers human health, but also social structures and national economies. According to the International Diabetes Foundation (IDF), 3.8 million people died in 2007 as a result of diabetes.
The United Nations lists diabetes as the first non-infectious disease on the list of worldwide dangers to human health. The chronic disease no longer only affects first world countries; China and India have also published alarming figures. Estimates predict approximately 300 million diabetes cases worldwide by 2025.
80 percent of the costs of medical treatment occur in the richest countries, the remaining 20 percent are spent in second and third world countries. It is worth noting that in the near future 80 percent of all diabetes patients will live in second and third world countries. Overall, the cost of diabetes treatment is rising faster than the world population.
A prosperity disease threatens prosperity
singleimage.big_view Diabetes and resulting sicknesses are increasingly becoming a danger for national economies, in the opinion of the International Diabetes Foundation.
Diabetes and resulting sicknesses are increasingly becoming a danger for national economies, in the opinion of the International Diabetes Foundation. © IDF
Up until 2015, three percent of global economic performance will be lost as a result of prosperity diseases if the investment into measures to prevent chronic diseases does not considerably increase (Price Waterhouse Coopers: Working towards wellness. Accelerating the prevention of chronic disease, 2007, p. 10). In the European Union (EU) the number of diabetes sufferers is increasing all the time. The prevalence rate for adults (20 to 79 years) rose from 7.6 to 8.6 percent between 2003 and 2006, accounting for 31 million affected people. Germany has the largest number (11.8) of diabetics. Only now is Europe working on European standards for diabetes prevention (IMAGE: Development and Implementation of a European Guideline and Training Standards for Diabetes Prevention).
Diabetes type 2: the most expensive chronic disease
In 2006 in Germany, more than seven million people had to undergo diabetes mellitus treatment, most of them type 2 diabetics who are forced to take more and more insulin. Diabetes type 2 is the most expensive chronic disease, costing the German health insurance companies 18 billion euros per year; other sources even talk of up to 60 billion (Prof. Hans Hauner), when the indirect costs are included.
The deadly quartet
Accompanying and secondary diseases is what makes diabetes so dangerous. © Takeda
Fifty percent of all cardiac infarctions and strokes are the result of diabetes, along with 30,000 amputations. These diseases are accompanying and secondary diseases, and this is what makes diabetes so dangerous. High blood pressure, elevated blood fat levels and being overweight are what medical experts refer to as "metabolic syndrome", which is known in popular lore as the "deadly quartet". The diseases resulting from diabetes not only damage the vessels of the heart, brain and legs, but also those of the kidneys and eyes.
The situation might become even worse as a growing number of young adults, including children and adolescents are becoming victims of diabetes. In addition, there is a direct correlation between the rising number of overweight people (and here Germany also has the highest number in Europe) and diabetes. 20 percent of all European children are overweight, and it is estimated that this number is increasing by 400,000 every year.
One detected case equals one that is undetected
But this is only half the truth. Experts believe that one third of all German citizens faces diabetes mellitus. Diabetes type 2 is the major problem and accounts for more than 90 percent of all cases. About five to ten percent of people suffer from diabetes type 1. Diabetes type 2 develops gradually over the years and often remains undetected. Many people are diabetics without knowing it.
Studies have shown that the cost increases linearly with the diagnosis of diabetes. The highest costs arise from resultant vascular diseases such as cardiac infarction and stroke. Experts see the prevention of complications through optimised treatment and diabetes as the best means to prevent the rampant rise in costs.
Promoting health rather than treating diseases
In order to avoid the cost trap, experts are hoping that there will be a paradigm change – away from the principles of disease-centred treatment towards the principles of health promotion. However, the cost-benefit analysis of the health economists has an "undesired side effect": successful prevention increases lifespan and hence also the lifelong costs arising from age-related diseases.
Lack of comparable data in Europe
Despite alarming epidemiological figures – there are no national registers, data or clear definitions. According to the IDF, diabetes is underestimated on both the national and the European level. It is estimated that diabetes accounts for about one tenth of all health costs. Precise, comparable data are lacking. In addition, health policy is "frustratingly slow" to react (IDF). Less than 50 percent of all EU member states have a national diabetes plan or any kind of concerted action: It seems very uncertain whether Germany will put such a plan into action in 2010 (see above).
Drugs against diabetes: many products in the pipeline
The debate in medical science circles as to whether these diseases originate from one cause, are potentially only of academic importance. If the "deadly quartet" has one single cause, the current state of knowledge holds that it must be related to insulin resistance.
The hopes of finding a single drug for treating diabetes and the diseases associated with it have been dashed – whether it be this glitazone, ACE inhibitors or the "poly pill" (see Scott M. Grundy, Advancing drug therapy of the metabolic syndrome, in: Nature Reviews, Drug Discovery, Vol. 8. May 2009, p. 341). Scientific compliance studies will need to show whether the medical efficiency of a tablet can be increased by combining several substances in one.
Ten drugs in phase III clinical development
Of around 2,500 R&D projects (clinical phases I to III) being undertaken by small and medium-sized biotechnology companies in Europe, 64 projects deal with diabetes (Novumed Life Science Consulting). The big pharmaceutical companies are also working on the development of anti-diabetes drugs. It is estimated that approximately eleven diabetes drugs will be approved by 2012. This estimate is confirmed by the research-based pharmaceuticals producers (VFA Bio), according to whom ten drugs are in phase III, 20 in phase II and 15 in phase I of clinical development.
Boehringer Ingelheim hopes to enter the market in 2010
The family-run company Boehringer Ingelheim is expanding its diabetes activities at its research site in Biberach. The company hopes to launch linagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) inhibitor, in 2010. This substance, which belongs to a new substance class, inhibits the degradation of the hormone glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) through the enzyme DPP4. GLP-1 induces the release of insulin in the beta cells.
In addition to linagliptin, Boehringer Ingelheim has two SGLT inhibitors in the pipeline, a licensed one and one from own R&D. In addition, the company is also expanding its activities to indications that have something in common with diabetes – being overweight, dyslipidemia and arteriosclerosis.
It is generally agreed that medical treatment should be only initiated if changing one's lifestyle does not lead to the expected results. Critics say that most anti-diabetes drugs are based on studies carried out by the manufacturers themselves. Long-term monitoring and data on patient satisfaction with the therapy are rare as are monitoring and data on patient adherence to courses of therapy.
Prevention is better than treatment
More sport, better nutrition, reduction of the time spent in front of TV and PC – the recipe for diabetes prevention sounds simple but is somewhat more difficult in practice. Although individuals that are at risk of developing diabetes might be able to sustainably change their behaviour and adapt their lifestyle to health-promoting activities and prevention, society has different demands that act in different ways across the board: agriculture, education, sport, nutrition, consumer protection, health, entertainment, market economy, transport and traffic, environment and media. Different objectives have to fit together in a constructive way and this is a clear indication that there must be a strong concerted effort to reverse the current situation in order to be able to override conflicting individual interests.
In principle, ideal for prevention
Diabetes type 2 is ideal for primary prevention. People who are physically fairly active can, even without losing a lot of weight, activate their metabolism and reduce insulin resistance. International studies have shown that six out of ten people affected were able to successfully prevent or postpone the onset of diabetes when they changed their lifestyle in the early stages of the disease. This has been shown in high-risk people (defective glucose tolerance and elevated fasting glucose levels).
For cost reasons, experts consider that closely and continuously monitored lifestyle change is the most appropriate means for population-wide prevention. So far it is difficult to tell who benefits noticeably from lifestyle interventions and who doesn't. Initial studies, also undertaken in Tübingen (TULIP) show that a prognosis is possible.
Gaps in diagnosis and treatment
Clinical studies have shown that multifactorial therapies and optimal blood glucose level adjustments considerably improve the prognosis of diabetes sufferers. The treatment of diabetes sufferers has improved dramatically over the last few years; but there are still some shortfalls – in particular with regard to old people, migrants, socially disadvantaged persons, pregnant women with gestation diabetes, people with rare diabetes types, small children with diabetes, diabetic adolescents during puberty. The treatment results in Germany are moderate. Germany comes 19th in a European-wide comparison (Euro Consumer Diabetes Index 2008).
Diabetes type 1 is easy to predict
Diabetes type 1 is often genetic, and has a long preclinical phase. Therefore the progression and outcome of diabetes type 1 can easily be predicted. The autoantibodies of ß-cell antigens and genetic markers (HLA) of this organ-specific autoimmune disease can be measured. Experts hope that the destruction of beta cells can be modulated in the medium to long term and will enable the primary prevention of diabetes.
Diagnostics is sometimes made difficult through inadequate measurement methods, blood samples or by only measuring the fasting plasma glucose level. The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is regarded as the gold standard, in particular in the early phase of the disease. But this test is only reimbursed by the insurance companies when patients have elevated fasting plasma glucose values. There are many treatment gaps, including the lack of regular check-ups or high-risk patient screening.
Differential diagnostics can still be improved
The differential diagnosis of diabetes can also be improved. Diabetes is very heterogenic and many mixed types are known. Experts are hopeful about molecular biology tests that are able to determine the type of diabetes and the degree of insulin secretion disturbance and insulin resistance with greater accuracy.
European research is slowly becoming standardised
Experts believe that a better understanding of the causes and pathogenesis of diabetes types and their complications depends on the further development of individualised prevention, diagnostics and therapy. Since 2008, the EU commission has been supporting coordinated research funding with DIAMAP – Roadmap for Diabetes Research in Europe, which has enabled medical associations and drug manufacturers to develop a European-wide research strategy within the next two years.
Huge demand in all research areas
In Germany, there is huge demand for insights from basic research, epidemiological research and bedside research. The situation in Germany is characterised by the fact that research funding is not given jointly by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Research. But nevertheless, the TU Dresden is the first university with a European chair for diabetes prevention and treatment, sponsored by the insulin manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis.
Analysing the complex interactions
Approaches that take into account the complex interaction between sensitivity genes and the environment, the psychosocial context, food and physical activity are, according to the current state of knowledge, of key importance. A lot of hope is placed on progress made in imaging, measurement sensor technology, the use of adult stem cells and the regeneration of insulin-producing cells.
Walter Pytlik
Is a syndrome of disrupted metabolism, characterised by elevated blood sugar levels (chronic hyperglycaemia). The disease leads to high blood glucose levels due to defects in either insulin secretion or insulin action in the blood, or both defects combined.
An autoimmune disease characterised by the loss of insulin-producing beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, resulting in a deficiency of insulin. According to the current state of research, type 1 diabetes risk is known to depend upon a genetic predisposition and several genes are believed to be involved in the manifestation of this disease. Diabetes mellitus type 1 is lethal unless treated with exogeneous insulin (which is mainly produced artificially).
Diabetes mellitus type 2 is by far the most common type of diabetes (nine out of ten diabetics suffer from diabetes type 2). The disease is caused by insulin resistance. The insulin that is present cannot exert its action at the cell membranes. The pancreas tries to compensate by producing higher quantities of insulin. This does not work in the long term and the insulin produced can no longer control the blood sugar level.
Diabetes is regarded as a typical disease of an affluent society and can either be prevented or the onset can be delayed by a change in lifestyle. The disease has many causes, and it is believed that more than a dozen genes are involved. Adiposity is another risk factor for developing diabetes. Diabetes type 2 is regarded as a model for the complex interplay of genes, environmental factors, psychosocial environment, nutrition and exercise.
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