text:
<?php

/**
 * Displays the bad behavior 'hit' log
 */
function template_badbehavior_log()
{
	global $context, $settings, $scripturl, $txt;

	echo '
		<form class="generic_list_wrapper" action="', $scripturl, '?action=admin;area=logs;sa=badbehaviorlog', $context['sort_direction'] == 'down' ? ';desc' : '', ';start=', $context['start'], $context['has_filter'] ? $context['filter']['href'] : '', '" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8">

				 ', $txt['badbehaviorlog_log'], '

			', template_pagesection(), '

';

	if ($context['has_filter'])
		echo '

						  ', $txt['badbehaviorlog_applying_filter'], ': ', $context['filter']['entity'], ' ', $context['filter']['value']['html'], '  [', $txt['badbehaviorlog_clear_filter'], ']

';

	// The checkall box
	echo '

						', $txt['check_all'], '
						<input type="checkbox" id="check_all_1" onclick="invertAll(this, this.form, \'delete[]\'); this.form.check_all_2.checked = this.checked;" class="input_check" />

';

	// No log entries, then show a message
	if (count($context['bb_entries']) == 0)
		echo '

					', $txt['badbehaviorlog_no_entries_found'], '

';

	// We have some log entries, maybe even some spammers
	$i = 0;
	foreach ($context['bb_entries'] as $entries)
	{
		$i++;
		echo '

							', $entries['member']['link'], '

							', $entries['time'], '

							', $entries['member']['ip'], '

';

		if ($entries['member']['session'] !== '')
			echo '
							', $entries['member']['session'], '
';

		echo '
							', $txt['badbehaviorlog_error_valid_response'], ': ', $entries['valid']['response'], '

							', $txt['badbehaviorlog_error_valid_log'], ': ', $entries['valid']['log'], '

							', $entries['request_uri']['html'], '

							', $entries['user_agent']['html'], '

							 ', $txt['badbehaviorlog_details'], '
', $entries['http_headers']['html'], '

						<input type="checkbox" name="delete[]" value="', $entries['id'], '" class="input_check" />

';
	}

	echo '

						', $txt['check_all'], '
						<input type="checkbox" id="check_all_2" onclick="invertAll(this, this.form, \'delete[]\'); this.form.check_all_1.checked = this.checked;" class="input_check" />

';

	template_pagesection();

	echo '

					<input type="submit" name="removeSelection" value="' . $txt['badbehaviorlog_remove_selection'] . '" onclick="return confirm(\'' . $txt['badbehaviorlog_remove_selection_confirm'] . '\');" class="button_submit" />
					<input type="submit" name="delall" value="', $context['has_filter'] ? $txt['badbehaviorlog_remove_filtered_results'] : $txt['remove_all'], '" onclick="return confirm(\'', $context['has_filter'] ? $txt['badbehaviorlog_remove_filtered_results_confirm'] : $txt['badbehaviorlog_sure_remove'], '\');" class="button_submit" />

';

	if ($context['sort_direction'] == 'down')
		echo '
			<input type="hidden" name="desc" value="1" />';

	echo '
			<input type="hidden" name="', $context['session_var'], '" value="', $context['session_id'], '" />
			<input type="hidden" name="', $context['admin-bbl_token_var'], '" value="', $context['admin-bbl_token'], '" />
		</form>';
}

/**
 * Template to add an IP to the BB whitelist
 */
function template_callback_badbehavior_add_ip()
{
	global $txt, $context, $scripturl, $settings;

	// Whitelist by IP
	echo '

		', $txt['badbehavior_ip_wl'], '

',
				$txt['badbehavior_wl_comment'], '

',
				$txt['badbehavior_ip_wl_desc'], '

';

	// Show any existing IP's that are on the whitelist
	foreach ($context['badbehavior_ip_wl'] as $key => $data)
	{
		$comment = isset($context['badbehavior_ip_wl_desc'][$key]) ? $context['badbehavior_ip_wl_desc'][$key] : '';
		echo '

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_ip_wl_desc[', $key, ']" value="', $comment, '" class="input_text" />

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_ip_wl[', $key, ']" value="', $data, '" class="input_text" />

';
	}

	// If we have none, then lets show a blank one.
	if (empty($context['badbehavior_ip_wl']))
	{
		echo '

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_ip_wl_desc[]" class="input_text" />

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_ip_wl[]" class="input_text float" />

';
	}

	// And a link so they can add more
	echo '

', $txt['badbehavior_ip_wl_add'], '

';
}

/**
 * Template to add an URL to the BB whitelist
 */
function template_callback_badbehavior_add_url()
{
	global $txt, $context, $scripturl, $settings;

	// whitelist by URL
	echo '

		', $txt['badbehavior_url_wl'], '

',
				$txt['badbehavior_wl_comment'], '

',
				$txt['badbehavior_url_wl_desc'], '

';

	// Show any existing URLs that are on the whitelist
	foreach ($context['badbehavior_url_wl'] as $key => $data)
	{
		$comment = isset($context['badbehavior_url_wl_desc'][$key]) ? $context['badbehavior_url_wl_desc'][$key] : '';
		echo '

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_url_wl_desc[', $key, ']" value="', $comment, '" class="input_text" />

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_url_wl[', $key, ']" value="', $data, '" class="input_text" />

';
	}

	// If we have none, then lets show a blank one.
	if (empty($context['badbehavior_url_wl']))
	{
		echo '

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_url_wl_desc[]" class="input_text" />

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_url_wl[]" class="input_text" />

';
	}

	// And a link so they can add more
	echo '

', $txt['badbehavior_url_wl_add'], '

';
}

/**
 * Template to add an User Agent to the BB whitelist, use with CAUTION as this
 * will allow a user to bypass the checks
 */
function template_callback_badbehavior_add_useragent()
{
	global $txt, $context, $scripturl, $settings;

	// whitelist by User Agent String
	echo '

		', $txt['badbehavior_useragent_wl'], '

',
				$txt['badbehavior_wl_comment'], '

',
				$txt['badbehavior_useragent_wl_desc'], '

';

	// Show any existing useragent's that are on the whitelist
	foreach ($context['badbehavior_useragent_wl'] as $key => $data)
	{
		$comment = isset($context['badbehavior_useragent_wl_desc'][$key]) ? $context['badbehavior_useragent_wl_desc'][$key] : '';
		echo '

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_useragent_wl_desc[', $key, ']" value="', $comment, '" class="input_text" />

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_useragent_wl[', $key, ']" value="', $data, '" class="input_text" />

';
	}

	// If we have none, then lets show a blank one.
	if (empty($context['badbehavior_useragent_wl']))
		echo '

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_useragent_wl_desc[]" class="input_text" />

				<input type="text" name="badbehavior_useragent_wl[]" class="input_text" />

';

	// And a link so they can add more
	echo '

', $txt['badbehavior_useragent_wl_add'], '

';
}

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MISHAWAKA, Ind. (CIRCA via WSBT) -- How much do you love Lucky Charms cereal? Next question: How much do you love alcohol?
Put them together and you've got the all-new magical IPA called "Saturday Morning."
Virginia-based beer company Smartmouth untapped the new beer Saturday.
The company said on Instagram: "This Saturday (3/2) is the release of Saturday Morning, our newest IPA with marshmallows. Brewed with house toasted marshmallows and cereal marshmallows in the mash, hopped with Galaxy and Calypso, and dry hopped a whole lot more. This IPA is sure to set you back with nostalgia, on the couch, turning on the best cartoons for a Saturday morning."
Unfortunately, it's only available in Virginia, and it's already becoming hard to find. Huge lines for the Saturday debut made a dent to the availability of the already small-batch brew.
"Well before all of the media attention we brewed this one as a limited release, a small batch," Smartmouth explained. "Had we known it would have gone viral, we certainly would have made a lot more!"
The beer already has 170 ratings on Untappd, garnering a 3.84-star average on a 1-5 scale.


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Watchdog groups demand investigation into Cuomo's spending
A quartet of good government groups called Thursday for an investigation into disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's suspected use of campaign funds to employ his official spokesman since resigning amid a sexual harassment scandal.
In a letter to the state Board of Elections, the groups said Cuomo appeared to be violating state Election Law by tapping his $18 million-plus political war chest to pay former communications director Rich Azzopardi to continue serving as his mouthpiece.
The law mandates that campaign cash "shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position," according to the letter signed by Common Cause/NY, the state League of Women Voters, the New York Public Interest Research Group and Reinvent Albany.
"News articles point out the former governor has no current plans to run for office and it indisputable that he does not currently hold office," the letter says.
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo violated New York Election Laws by using funds to pay communications director Rich Azzopardi.
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"Therefore, under the express provisions of [the law], former Governor Cuomo cannot legally pay the salary of a spokesman out of his campaign funds."
Azzopardi was making $163,000 a year when he was taken off the state payroll the day before Cuomo announced his resignation.
John Kaehny, of Reinvent Albany added: "A campaign contribution becomes more and more like bribery if a candidate can spend it on whatever personal whim they have and in Cuomo's case that may be punishing and terrorizing people he doesn't like."
Rich Azzopardi was making $163,000 a year before he was fired the day before Cuomo resigned.
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"Azzopardi was Cuomo's attack dog in charge of defaming and denigrating the women who came forward with the sexual harassment allegations," Kaehny said.
"There's no reason to think he is going to suddenly change his ways. He exists to serve Cuomo's most belligerent and aggressive mood."
Lawyer John Ciampoli, an expert in state election law, said the act of converting campaign funds for personal use is punishable as a misdemeanor, which carries a maximum one-year jail sentence.
But it more than $1,000 is involved, cases can be prosecuted as felony grand larceny under the state Penal Law, he said.
In an email, Azzopardi said, "I'm on board to help answer press inquires related to the Governor's time in office and ongoing legal reviews — which is permissible."
He didn't elaborate and Cuomo's defense lawyer, Rita Glavin, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
A spokesperson for the Board of Elections declined to comment.
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Council heard a comprehensive presentation on city plans when storms approach. Staff explained that winter preps actually happen throughout the year, with consistent drain and grate cleanings. The Public Works department acquired a new brine mixer for use city-wide in the last year. Staff members are also reworking snow routes and maximizing work with new roads in the city.
Staff heard an overview of the proposed Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) ordinance. The presentation included survey results from nearly 450 residents. The proposed ordinance would exclude some historical areas from construction or installation of ADUs. Council unanimously approved a motion to affirm the rejection of the ordinance, ending the issue for now. Council directed staff to explore options for flexibility depending on neighborhood in the future.
Council heard presentations and public comment regarding the 4,700 unit development named "Daybreak." It would be located in Southeast Reno. The applicant explained that previous environmental concerns and flood mitigation have been addressed. Council did not approve the request for the amendments on the project.
Council heard a presentation about possible changes to the City of Reno municipal code related to mandatory arrest warrants. The proposed code change would empower judges to have discretion for issuing warrants. That would include missed court appearances and other circumstances.
Council was presented with the results of the scientific and online polling results conducted earlier this year. The survey found that there is overall satisfaction with the current service and franchise agreement. 95% of residents participate in the recycling program, but both businesses and residents said that the cost of service was their highest concern.


Lola is a 1 year old Boxer x Staffie.
Lola has lived with 2 other dogs but was getting picked on, we have not been able to cat test her.
She has lived with young children but being a typical puppy gets carried away while playing so would be better with older ones.
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The ultimate LEGO ® Star Wars Millennium Falcon has landed! With 7,500 elements, Han Solo's super-fast Corellian ship is crammed with the coolest details and fun features.
Han Solo is a notorious smuggler and his ship, the Millennium Falcon, is his key to evading the large bounty placed on his head. The LEGO Millennium Falcon showcases the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy in stunning detail.


So this morning my toe had changed from the dark purple of yesterday to a redish plum colored with about half the swelling. It's truely a site to see. Unfortunatly I didn't get day 1 pics. I do have day 2 pics but they are still in the camera so and I'm sure the world doesn't wanna see my toe anyway. Today I took Brandt to his new student orientation to get him ready for his first day of the new school. He seems pretty calm and collected about it all but I know better.


A global report on educational performance shows Australian 15-year-olds are getting worse at maths, science and reading.
About half a million students from 72 countries took part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015, including more than 14,000 Australian children.
Australia was significantly outperformed by nine countries, ranking just below New Zealand, well below Japan and Canada, and just above the United Kingdom and Germany.
Dr Sue Thompson from the Australian Council for Education Research collected the Australian data and said local academic performance was in "absolute decline".
"The proportion of high achievers is decreasing and the proportion of low achievers is increasing," she said.
"Basically what's happening there is everything's sliding backwards if you like — our strong kids aren't as strong as they were and our weak kids are actually weaker than they were."
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said the country could not afford to "continue to slip behind".
"Our children are no longer learning at the same rates through their school education as they used to and that is obviously unacceptable to governments, as it would be to parents, teachers and everybody across Australia," he said.
The Australian Capital Territory topped the rankings with Western Australia not far behind.
Only the Northern Territory and Tasmanian students ranked below the average of the 35 OECD countries including places like Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.
While all school sectors in Australia have marked declining results since 2003, private and Catholic institutions continue to outperform the public schools.
"This is not surprising," Australian Education Union's deputy federal president Maurie Mulheron said.
"The Gonski review said this is exactly what would happen."
Rather than leaping to conclusions about a failing education system, we need to look at what the data tells us.
"[The Gonski review] said that if we did not act as a nation to redress the imbalance between advantaged and disadvantaged students then we would slip down in international ranking," he said.
The gap between rich and poor schools were what the Gonski model was supposed to fix, Opposition education spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek said.
"Our results have become worse as our education system has become more inequitable," she said.
Mr Birmingham said school funding had gone up to record levels "yet performance has gone backwards".
"It really is time to end the politicking about money," he said.
PISA examines whether immigrant students get the same education as students born locally.
Australia had some possibly surprising results, with Australian-born students faring worse than their first-generation counterparts who had at least one parent born overseas.


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Gingrich predicts most of Obama's legacy will 'disappear within a year'
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Newt Gingrich has warned that the majority of President Obama's legacy will soon be wiped out by the Trump administration.
The former House speaker made the remarks on Fox News Wednesday after he was shown a clip of Obama's recent NPR interview where he advised Trump to go through Congress to pass policies rather than rely on executive powers because, in his words, "it's harder to undo."
Gingrich commented by saying, "What you're watching is a man who realizes all of a sudden that like 90 percent of his legacy's gonna disappear because he didn't do the hard work of passing legislation. He didn't reach out to work with the other side which, by the way, is also a warning to Trump..."
Gingrich then said, "Starting the opening day when Trump begins to repeal all these executive orders, it's gonna be like one of those balloons that deflates...and down to a core to 10 or 15 percent of what he originally did. The rest is all gonna disappear within a year."
During a speech he gave in October, Trump, stated, in fact, that one of his first 100-day priorities as president would be to "...cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama."
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Rothery House is circled by a classic Australian veranda and shaded by a magnificent old Lynden tree.
It is right in the centre of the town only metres from shops, local pubs and restaurants. Rothery House is a heritage listed property which has been perfectly restored with great attention to historic detail, with a few thoughtful modern upgrades to give you all the comforts of home.
The living area is spacious, yet cosy with an open fire. The kitchen is modern but with rustic wooden bench-tops and professional series kitchen appliances. Includes dishwasher, electric kettle and all the cookware necessary to make a gourmet meal. There is two bathrooms, the main bathroom includes a very large shower and luxurious bathtub. Four bedrooms tucked away, each bed with high quality double cushion covered mattresses and fitted with electric blankets. You honestly will not want to leave your bed.
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I work in a large healthcare facility. Working from home/remotely is becoming a new concept for our organization. Wondering if anyone has policies/guidelines they would be willing to share with me, so we can look what other healthcare organizations are doing. Thank you!


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FairOak Fishery was opened as a business by the previous owner in 1991 and has operated successfully for over 20 years. It is a still water trout fishery which includes three attractive lakes, two large and one small. The lakes are fed with a constant flow of spring water rising in Fedw Wood which overlooks the fishery.
Oak Lake, extending to approximately 1 acre (0.4 ha), a former Victorian lake, which was refurbished in 1990. The lake has depths of up to 20ft.
Beech Lake, extending to approximately 0.9 acres (0.36 ha), an attractive lake with depths up to 15ft.
Kingfisher Pool, a small pond which is used for beginners and children to learn to fish.
The lakes are stocked with a combination of rainbow and brown trout with a trickle stocking policy, utilising three holding tanks situated adjacent to the top lake. At present there is a natural stocking of brown trout up to 2.5lbs in weight.
One of our rules is to have a limited amount of rod numbers around the lakes per day (maximum of ten.) This is for safety purposes and to ensure you have a good day fishing. Anglers must be permit holders to be allowed to fish at our fishery. Our smallest pool is used for practicing/ training for our novice anglers. Lessons can be organised if booked well in advance. Booking is strongly recommended as anglers who turn up on the day may be turned away due to being fully booked.
The 2018 Season will start 1st March. For all enquires please call or email the fishery.
We now offer accommodation in our 'Lake view lodge' for £45 a night or £65, which will include one three fish ticket. A kettle, tea, coffee, sugar, milk, mugs, TV and DVD player are provided.
The fishery is situated just 2 miles from the village of Tintern but still lies in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Approximately 4.5 miles north of Chepstow and 12 miles south of Monmouth close to St. Arvans. Bristol 22 miles, Cardiff 36 miles, Gloucester 30 miles.


1. Cut a green apple into quarters.
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This makes one MASSIVE green juice coming in at about 100 calories (depending on size of apple.) Enjoy!!


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Q: How to convert a multi-page PDF to single-page TIFFs This thread asks for how to convert multi-page PDF to multi-page TIFF with Ghostscript;

*

*"Tools to convert multipage PDF to multipage TIFF"
However, I want to covert a multi page PDF to a number of single-page TIFFs: Each page in the PDF is expected to be converted to a single TIFF file. So the above answer does not exactly match what I need.
How can I achieve this?
I am using Windows XP.

A: Be sure to have a recent version of Ghostscript installed. Then you can run these commands:
gs                              \
  -o singlepage-tiffg4-%03d.tif \
  -sDEVICE=tiffg4               \
   multipage-input.pdf

and
gs                                \
  -o singlepage-tiff24nc-%03d.tif \
  -sDEVICE=tiff24nc               \
   multipage-input.pdf

and
gs                                \
  -o singlepage-tiff32nc-%03d.tif \
  -sDEVICE=tiff32nc               \
   multipage-input.pdf

The commands will generate you 3 sets of TIFF files. Each set contains singlepage TIFFs which carry names that contain an index numbers starting with 001:
ls -lt singlepage-tiff*.tif

 -rw-r--r--  1 kp  staff  161975 18 Feb 15:49 singlepage-tiffg4-001.tif
 -rw-r--r--  1 kp  staff  169294 18 Feb 15:49 singlepage-tiffg4-002.tif
 -rw-r--r--  1 kp  staff  167397 18 Feb 15:49 singlepage-tiffg4-003.tif
 -rw-r--r--  1 kp  staff  190052 18 Feb 15:49 singlepage-tiffg4-004.tif

If you have a lot of PDF pages per file, you can increase the number of digits/leading zeros to a higher number: use %05d to get a 5 digit numbering.
The three different commands generate different types of TIFF:

*

*The tiffg4 ones are grayscale TIFFs.
They use a resolution of 204dpi by 196dpi (as the TIFF G4 fax standard requires).

*The tiff24nc ones are in RGB color (with 8 bits per color component).
They use a resolution of 72dpi by 72dpi.

*The tiff32nc ones are in CMYK color (with 8 bits per color).
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by Dixon Hill
In the last phase of the Special Forces Qualification Course I ran into an instructor who clearly didn't
like me because he was intimidated by my previous experience in Military Intelligence. In fact, the first words he ever said to me, after having met me about ten seconds before, were: "So you worked for Military Intelligence, huh? You probably think you're really smart. Don't you? Well, we'll see how far 'book smarts' get you through, where you're going. I think you're gonna be pretty surprised!"
I hadn't said a word to him before he said that to me; clearly he'd been reading my personnel folder.
After he walked away, the other members of my training A-Team asked me, "What did you do to tick that guy off?"
I shook my head. "Never saw him before in my life."
Roughly a month later, I was one of the 11 men he'd flunked out of Phase 3 (that's 11 out of the 13 guys on my training A-Team). With the exception of one sergeant, who quit in disgust, all of us went back through Phase 3, starting a few weeks later -- all over again -- and we all passed.
Because we had a very good company commander, Captain Juan O'Rama, all 11 of us were signed out on leave within 24 hours. When I returned, to start Phase 3 again, I found a brass Zippo lighter on my bunk, left there with a note from my buddy, Sergeant Ed Antonavich. The note explained that he had "kidnapped" my pillow (for very sensible reasons that will remain a mystery on this blog). The lighter was inscribed: Keep the faith, buddy!
What has this got to do with writing?
My life as a writer sometimes seems to come at me as a sort of wave-like experience. My success crests, washes over, and then I find myself in a trough, working to mount the next wave.
When it comes to the writing itself, I suppose this wave behavior works its way into a surfer's analogy: I paddle my board into the middle of a story trying to catch that big curling wave and ride it for as long as I can.
It strikes me that this is similar to a previous analogy I've posted here, one in which I pick an interesting freight train, with various and intriguing boxcars coupled to it, and hitch a ride, hoping that after I push-start the locomotive it will begin running along on its own steam, whisking me down the line with it.
I suppose the surfer analogy is the friendlier of the two, because changing course doesn't require tearing up the track and laying it back down in a different configuration.
Problem is: changing course in a story sometimes DOES require such drastic measures, so maybe the train analogy holds truer.
The wave theory of a writer's life, however -- MY writer's life, at least -- pertains to more than just the mechanics of writing. It also applies to successes and failures, as well as those times that are simply spent working, during which neither monetary nor critical success or failure are achieved; a writer is just busily working.
When this happens, a writer has to have a considerable amount of faith that the project in question is worthwhile, because s/he is usually getting no feedback from the publishing world, and sometimes not even from a critique group.
At such times I am strangely reminded of trials I went through in the army, trials which required an enormous expenditure of physical strength and endurance, often coupled with mental agility and determination if one were to succeed. Whether these trials were part of training, or simply a necessary component for mission accomplishment, the end result was usually the same: sagging head and shoulders, ragged breathing, tongue hanging out, and -- when salvation arrived! -- that blessed sense of a lightened load when we clambered aboard a chopper, or some other vehicle, and could slip the ruck straps from our shoulders.
For the writer, of course, there is no chopper to whisk one away to the land of security. The closest we come to that is the moment we receive a request for more pages, an acceptance, or a check in the mail.
There are other times, however, when a writer might receive a much-needed shot in the arm. That manuscript submitted nine or ten months ago, and forgotten about, suddenly catches an email nibble or bite. Or, as happened for me a few months ago, you open the mailbox to discover an unexpected check for royalties on work you did some time ago. The effect on a writer's psyche is not on par with being choppered home to relax, but it certainly helps when you're on the march with no relief in sight.
So, if you're currently in a long trough, working away at something, and the doubts are threatening to set-in, take heart and Keep the faith, Buddy! -- a shot in the arm, or literary chopper-equivalent is undoubtedly on the way.
A couple years after reaching my first A-Team, when I went through Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) school our instructors constantly exhorted us, if ever captured, to: Always look for the little victory each day brings!
POW's who survived long incarceration evidently shared this common trait: they always looked for the little occurrences that gave them a chance to laugh at, or at least think mocking thoughts of, their captors. Many made a field-expedient calendar and marked off each day, thinking: "One day closer to freedom and home," each morning or evening. Others took heart from managing to do small things that bucked-up the sagging spirits of a fellow prisoner(s). On rare occasion, a few even managed to sabotage enemy vehicles or equipment.
All these things are little victories. Personal victories. They didn't win any military war, but they did help POW's to survive long periods of hardship, doubt and fear.
The same holds true for writing. The little victories are there all around a writer: completing X hours that day, finishing a certain chapter -- any and all of the little signs that you're making progress, no matter how much you DON'T hear about it. If nothing else, a writer can always say, "One more day of writing down, one day closer to completion!"
So, my thoughts to those in the long trough:
Look for the little victories each day brings.
See you in two weeks,
P.S. How do I feel about having to repeat Phase 3 of the SFQC? Well . . . as I mentioned earlier, all of us who went back through it again, passed with flying colors. Additionally, the sergeant who flunked us wound up being put out of the army on grounds of mental instability, so I don't hold much of a grudge.
P.P.S. Please don't think I know anything about surfing. If I tried it, I'd probably end up looking like this guy!
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janice law 22 May, 2015 08:01
The arts are not for the faint hearted that's for sure, but as you point out, that's true of a lot of careers.
I think what makes a writers' life different from a lot of artists' is that we can't go around with an ms in our hands in restaurants, saying, "Hey, want to read a story?" or, sitting on the boardwalk, "Want me to write you a quick one?" Or at least, we probably shouldn't. We get enough questions about our mental health. So yeah, keep the faith!
Melodie Campbell 22 May, 2015 08:51
OH, those ups and downs! No wonder we writers get mentally sea-sick at times. Interesting post, David.
R.T. Lawton 22 May, 2015 11:27
Dix, that was an inspirational piece. I'm going to read parts of it to my two young grandsons who haven't yet had that much experience in dealing with failure to accomplish something they want. While it's easy for someone to tell you to get up, dust yourself off and get going again, it takes a special mindset to actually do that. Time to work on their mindset in advance, so they know there is an option other than quitting and taking the easy way out. So far, we have guided and encouraged them to succeed in their endeavors, so they haven't really hit the wall yet. However, as we all know, that day will come. And then, they have to make a choice.


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2019 SALT New Music Festival and Symposium
August 22, 2019, 7PM
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria, School of Music
Festival opening and CD-release event the timber of those times
In collaboration with the Canadian Music Center
Thursday, August 22, 8PM
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria
Concert of Ensemble Tsilumos
Gregory Vajda – FromTheLeftToTheRight (2019)
Ajtony Csaba – Gossamer 2 (Tsilumos – part, 2019)
Vykintas Baltakas – Saxopho(e)nix (2014)
Annesley Black – Earl Brown's Forgotten Piece in Moholy Nagy's Light-Space-Modulator
Friday, August 23, 4:30PM
starting from Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria
The mixing of the timber of those times.
Guided studio visit, demonstration and listening session in the CreaTe studio of UVic with Sound Engineer Kirk McNally.
Friday, August 23, 8PM
PhillipT. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria
Concert of Quasar Saxophone Quartet Montreal
Territoires sonores 1.
Rebecca Bruton – Mammalian Mother Tongues
Émilie Girard-Charest – Bestiaire
Jim O'Leary – Music for Saxophone Quartet
Ofer Pelz – I need to hear it first
Ajtony Csaba: Gossamer2 (Quasar-part, 2019)
Saturday, August 24, 10:30AM
Body, eyes and ears – new connections
Open Symposium and colloquium on current issues in New Music
Discussants: Wolf Edwards, Sabrina Schroeder, Mauricio Pauly, Ajtony Csaba
Chair: Dr. Adam Con
Saturday, August 24, 2:30PM
Concert of Modular music
Octet concert with participation of Quasar Saxophone Quartet, Tsilumos Ensemble, Liam Hockley and Kimia Koochakzadeh Yazdi
Ajtony Csaba: Gossamer2 (Octet-version with Quasar Saxophone Quartet and Ensemble Tsilumos 2019)
Jean-Marc Bouchard – Clair / Obscur (octet-version 2019)
Sabrina Schroeder – Stircrazer II (for Bass Clarinet)
Open Space Gallery, 510 Fort Street, 2nd floor, Victoria, BC V8W 1E6
New Works for Wind Instruments
Duo 1010 (Stephanie Bell, Flutes, Liam Hockley, Clarinets) and Kristen Cooke (Oboe, English Horn)
Max Murray (*1988) – Sötétség ad Meridiem (2019) for E-flat clarinet, oboe, and fixed media | First Canadian performance
Nina Šenk (*1982) – Srebrno (2014, rev. 2019) for flute and clarinet | First North American performance
Kimia Koochakzadeh Yazdi (*1997) – Change of Relativity(2019) for amplified solo bass clarinet
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) – BALANCE(2007) for bass clarinet, English horn, flute
Sunday, August 25, 10:00AM
The festival ensemble presents results of the composition and interpretation workshops.
Tsilumos Ensemble
The word Tsilumos combines the words Tsil (based on the Hebrew "Tsiltsul" or "ring") and Lux (Latin for "light"). Tsilumos is a new music ensemble based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Formed in 2011, the ensemble is co-directed by members David Shively, Ajtony Csaba, Marie-Chantal Leclair and Joanna Hood. The ensemble performs chamber music ranging from solos to large instrumental combinations. Its main objective is to give new and little-known Canadian and international works an optimal performance, regardless of technical and intellectual demands or compositional style. Since its inception the ensemble has brought high quality, challenging new music to the larger community of British Columbia, and festival audiences in Montreal and Curitiba (Brasil). In 2011, the ensemble in cooperation with Open Space, an artist-run cultural center in Victoria, created the Salt Festival for New Music and the SALT Festival Orchestra.
Quasar Saxophone Quartet Montreal
Known for their energy and bold innovation, the four members of Quasar – Marie-Chantal Leclair, Mathieu Leclair, André Leroux, Jean-Marc Bouchard – have been exploring the innumerable facets of musical creation since the group's founding in 1994. Their repertoire is vast in range, including chamber music, improvisation, musical theatre, and mixed music featuring live electronics. Five-time winners of the Québec Music Council's distinguished OPUS awards, Quasar presents an annual concert series in Montréal while performing extensively across Canada, the United States and Europe. The quartet reserves pride of place for a group of esteemed Canadian and International composers with whom it has formed lasting partnerships. It aims to contribute to the enrichment of our musical heritage and to provide a platform for new music experimentation, exploration and production. Quasar has proudly commissioned over one-hundred works over the course of its twenty years of activity. During that time, it has performed as a solo group with, among others, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Duo 1010 and Kristen Cooke
Vancouver/Victoria-based Duo 1010 (Stephanie Bell, flutes; Liam Hockley, clarinets) is joined by their frequent collaborator Kristen Cooke (oboe/English horn) to present a programme exploring new music for wind instruments. Duo 1010 was founded while Stephanie and Liam were students at the University of British Columbia. Both compelling and dedicated performers in their own rights, they take the major twentieth-century works for flute/clarinet duo as a starting point for their creative work. Their core mission is to expand the repertoire for their ensemble and foster musical experimentation across a broad spectrum of aesthetics through intensive collaborations with composers. Duo 1010 has been the Ensemble in Residence at the Simon Fraser University School of the Contemporary Arts and has given world and regional premieres of works by Ray Evanoff, Alex Mah, Eva-Maria Houben, and Daniel Brandes. Recent performances include KLANGRAUM (Düsseldorf), the Stockhausen-Konzerte und -Kurse Kürten, and A Place to Listen (Victoria). Oboist Kristen Cooke is a DMA candidate in performance at the University of British Columbia. She is a core member of the Fireside woodwind quintet and performs frequently with ensembles including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kamloops Symphony, and Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra. In 2017, she was named a BC Emerging Musician by the Royal Over-Seas League.
Liam Hockley
A versatile musician for whom "alternative or avant-garde approaches to his instrument are only part of the everyday tool kit" (Georgia Straight), Canadian clarinetist Liam Hockley is a dynamic performer of classical music and passionate advocate for new and experimental music. His repertoire encompasses not only the standard clarinet repertoire from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, but also the results of numerous collaborations with Canadian and international composers on innovative new works. Through his engagement with a broad range of practices and focus on collaborative work, Liam seeks to redefine the twenty-first century performer as an artist who questions established norms and practices in order to forge new aesthetic paths and connections. Liam has performed as a soloist or ensemble member on in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has been featured as an emerging artist in residence with the Music on Main concert series and the director of the Ensemble in Residence at the Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts for the 18/19 Academic Year. His performances have garnered him many accolades and awards, including an interpretation prize at the Stockhausen-Konzert und -Kurse Kürten. He also maintains an active schedule of performances as a freelancer with diverse ensembles in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. Liam holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance from the University of British Columbia. His dissertation, "Performing Complexity," developed a new analytical perspective to demonstrate how complexism's distinctive material and conceptual elements (which are often suggested as leaving the performer no room for interpretation or expression) engage with unique forms of performer agency. Liam also holds a Master's degree from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor's degree (with distinction) from the University Victoria. His teachers have included Cris Inguanti, François Houle, Patricia Kostek, Earl Thomas, and Christian Gossart.
Vykintas Baltakas (1972)
Vykintas Baltakas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1993, he moved to Karlsruhe, Germany, where he studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm and conducting with Andreas Weiss. From 1994 to 1997 he also worked with Peter Eötvös at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe and at the Hungarian composer's International Institute. It was his physical move to Germany that accompanied a rebellion or break from his Lithuanian heritage. As in most eastern European countries, folk art and culture are often intertwined into composer's music and aesthetics. He felt that Lithuanian music was missing impertinence. This physical and aesthetic break mixed with a modernist harmonic language, demanding virtuosity, and a healthy dose of impertinence was the result. Baltakas's view of both musical composition and conducting is one of reciprocity. He says that both as a composer or conductor "you can influence it, suggest ideas, give it direction, make decisions. You give impulses but you also receive impulses back from the music that you then process again and which then reflects back." Baltakas incorporates this idea of reciprocity into his music, creating lineages between his works.
Annesley Black (1979)
Annesley Black was born in Ottawa in 1979. She began her studies in electronic music and jazz guitar at Concordia University before continuing her musical education with major composers around the world such as Brian Cherney, York Höller, Hans-Ulrich Humpert, Mathias Spahlinger, Orm Finnendahl and Cornelius Schwehr. Her pieces have been performed internationally at various festivals and by notorious ensembles such as the Hessian Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal and Nouvel Ensemble Moderne de Montréal. She has received many distinctions for her work, including the Busoni-Foerderpreis der Akademie der Kuenste (2008), the Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (2009) and a portrait CD from Deutsche Musikrat in their series Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (2013). Black worked as a sound engineer for institutions such as EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR and ensemble recherche. She has collaborated with many choreographers, artists, film/media artists and theatre directors throughout the years and has been an active member of numerous rock bands such as The New International Standards (with members of Arcade Fire) and The Special Interest Group. Black is currently the vice-president of the German Society of Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM). She teaches theoretical and practical composition seminars at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and electroacoustic composition at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory.
Jean-Marc Bouchard (1964)
Jean-Marc Bouchard has dedicated himself to exploring new music as a performer, composer, improviser and an educator. A founding member of Quasar, he oversees artistic direction of the In Vivo improvisation series and has penned many compositions, including Le Cri des oiseaux fous, Jeux, L'éveil de la tortue and notably Les Cinq Orients (OPUS prize for Concert of the Year in 2010). As well as acting as saxophone instructor at the University of Montreal, he also directs their improvisation studio, open to composers and instruments from all areas of concentration.
Rebecca Bruton (1989)
Rebecca Bruton (MFA) is a Western Canadian composer, song maker and vocalist. Loosely characterizing her work as understated, surrealist folk music, Rebecca often involves sonic ideas that estheticize tuning discrepancies, auditory illusions and other acoustic phenomena alongside of simple and surprising melodic structures. Her music deals with subjects of land, loss, and desire. Rebecca's chamber compositions have been performed by Quatuor Bozzini (Montréal, CA), Quasar Quatuor de saxophones (Montréal, CA), Momenta Quartet (NYC), Array Music (Toronto), Continuum Ensemble (Toronto), and by her own bands. She has completed one feature-length film score (with Katie Streibel), for the critically acclaimed Circle of Steel (Kino Sum Productions 2018). As one half of the vocal performance duo Moss Moss Not Moss (with Canadian-Icelandic poet Angela Rawlings), Rebecca has also presented original work at Tectonics Festival Glasgow. She, with Australian sound artist Alexandra Spence, co-founded Tidal ~ Signal, a Vancouver-based festival dedicated to women and trans-identifying artists working in experimental music. Her songwork can be found under the pseudonym F L O O D. Rebecca lives in Banff, Alberta.
As a versatile conductor, composer and researcher, with a flair for captivating the attention, emotions and intellect of audiences, Ajtony Csaba is a thought-provoking and imaginative artist. Csaba graduated with distinction from the conducting program of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and further studied with Peter Eötvös and Lucas Vis. As a conductor, Csaba strives for musical communication that overarches physical and conceptual borders. He is currently the music director and conductor of the UVic Symphony Orchestra in Victoria, BC, Canada and the conductor of the Central European Chamber Orchestra (mikamo) in Vienna. Csaba has been a frequent guest at the Darmstadt New Music Festival, SiMN (Curitiba, Brazil), Wien Modern and the Transparent Sound Festival in Budapest. He plays a vital part in the global contemporary music community with his imaginative curating in such positions as co-director of the SALT New Music Festival in Victoria (Canada) and artistic director of the NewSpiritMusic concert series in Budapest. As a composer, Csaba is known for his balanced use of extended and historical techniques and a genuine interest in glissando. He has won several prizes for composition in Hungary, Austria, Canada, and German, and his music has been regularly performed in concert houses and festivals around the world.
Émilie Girard-Charest (1987)
Émilie is a cellist, composer, and improvisor. She has numerous recordings to her credit and has taken part in festivals across North and South America and Europe. Émilie regularly collaborates with theater, dance and performance productions. Émilie is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in cello (under Denis Brott) and in composition (under Michel Gonneville). She also holds a Master CoPeCo (Contemporary Performance and Composition) degree from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and is currently enrolled as a doctoral student under the direction of Philippe Hurel and Laurent Pottier at Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon, where she is developing an ergonomic notation of microtonality for the cello. She was the recipient of the Career Development Award from the Fondation du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 2014. In 2015, she was awarded the Prix d'Europe de Composition Fernand-Lindsay.
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi (1997)
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi (b. 1997 Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian/Canadian composer based in Vancouver, Canada. Working with instrumental and electroacoustic media, she has actively collaborated on projects written for dance performance and film in addition to concert pieces. She seeks to incorporate into her music her experiences of the cultural contexts she has been living in so far. She was recently commissioned by Western Front to write for their 8.2 octophonic sound system and has just finished her artist residency at Media Arts Committee. Koochakzadeh-Yazdi has recently joined the New Music on the Point program as participant composer and will be attending EQ:Evolution of the String Quartet at Banff Centre along with wasteLAnd's 2019 Summer Academy in July and August also as participant composer. She is currently studying composition at Simon Fraser University with Sabrina Schroeder, Owen Underhill and Mauricio Pauly.
Max Murray (1988)
Following music composition, performance, and theory studies [Dániel Biró, David Clenman, Eugene Dowling, Colin Tilney, Gary Karr, Louis Ranger, Gordon Mumma] in his hometown of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Max Murray completed parallel graduate degrees in performance and composition at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik 'Hanns Eisler' [Thomas Keller, William Forman], and the Leipzig Hochschule für Musik und Theater 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.' As a tubist he has worked across classical and contemporary repertoire [guest of the Staatskapelle Berlin, SWR Experimental Studio, guest of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Academy, Axel Dörner], appearing in festivals including Märzmusik [Berlin], Borealis [Bergen], and Musica Nova [Helsinki], and receiving invitations for residencies as an interpreter in the composition departments of Stanford, and Huddersfield Universities. In 2014/15 Max Murray was a visiting fellow in the music department of Harvard University, where he is currently a PhD candidate in music composition [Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku].
Jim O'Leary (1971)
Jim O'Leary is a composer from Windsor, Newfoundland. After completing his studies in percussion performance, Jim turned his attention to composition, studying in Sweden with composer Jan Sandström. After working in Stockholm for several years, he returned to academia, obtaining his MPhil at Cambridge and his Ph. D from Queens University, Belfast. Jim was Composer-in-Residence with the PEI Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2013. His current artistic project concerns the Beothuk, the extinct indigenous people of Newfoundland. Jim currently lives in Charlottetown, PEI.
Ofer Pelz (1978)
Ofer is a composer, improvisor, and sound artist, born in Haifa, Israel and currently residing in Montreal. He composes music for diverse combinations of instruments and electroacoustic media. He, with Preston Beebe, is the co-founder of Whim Ensemble. Ofer's music explores the concept he defines as "unstable repetition" – repetitive fragments which always vary from repetition to repetition, all the while trying to keep a perceivable tension. His work ahs been recognized by the reception of many international prizes, including two ACUM awards and the Ernst Von Siemens Grant. His music is played regularly at festivals and he has collaborated with several dance choreographers, including French choreographer François Raffinot. Ofer received a Masters with excellence in composition and music theory from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Following that, he pursued studies in instrumental and electroacoustic composition at the Conservatory of Blanc-Mesnil with Thierry Blondeau and Gilles Racot, as well as at the Paris Conservatory and at IRCAM. He completed his doctorate in music at the Université de Montréal with Ana Sokolovic and Caroline Traube in April 2018.
Sabrina Schroeder (1979)
Composer-performer Sabrina Schroeder (Canada) integrates tactile transducers, live processing, and self-built mechanics into performance that digs into heavy sound spaces that are as much about body-feel as they are about audible sound. Recent/current projects include residencies at Civitella Ranieri (Umbria, Italy) and the Experimentalstudio des SWR (Freiburg, Germany), with new commissions for ICE Ensemble (New York/Chicago), JACK Quartet (New York), Architek Percussion (Toronto), No Hay Banda (Montreal), and a collaborative project with theatre creator Jenna Harris and Thin Edge Collective (Toronto). Schroeder has been on the faculty of iEAR (Integrated Electronic Arts) department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York), the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester UK), the Banff Summer Music Programs (Banff, Canada). She is currently the 2019-2021 Composer in Residence at Music on Main (Vancouver, Canada) and Assistant Professor of Composition at Simon Fraser University's interdisciplinary School for the Contemporary Arts.
Nina Šenk (1982)
Nina Šenk graduated in composition from the Ljubljana Academy of Music under Prof. Pavel Mihelčič. She continued her postgraduate studies in composition in Dresden under the mentorship of Prof. Lothar Voigtländer and obtained her master's degree in the class of Prof. Matthias Pintscher at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich in 2008. She is a recipient of many awards, including the European award for the best composition at the Young Euro Classic festival for her Violin Concerto in 2004, the Academy of Music Prešeren Award and the first prize at the Weimar Spring Festival of Contemporary Music for her composition Movimento fluido in 2008. In the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons, Nina Šenk was a Composer in Residence of the Staatstheater Cottbus Orchestra in Germany. In 2010, the Rector of the University of Ljubljana awarded her a special recognition for artistic work in the area of musical composition and performance as well as architecture. In 2017, she was awarded the Prešeren Fund Prize for her creative work in the previous two years. Nina Šenk's works have been performed at numerous important international festivals and in many other concerts around the world with various orchestras and ensembles.
Gregory Vajda (1973)
Born in Budapest, Gregory Vajda studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under Professor Ervin Lukács. He also studied conducting and composition with well-known composer and conductor, Peter Eötvös. In March 2018, Mr. Vajda was awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Award. This prestigious award, founded by the wife of the great composer and pianist Béla Bartók, celebrates the musical achievements of Hungarians. In addition to being a gifted composer, Mr. Vajda has become one of the most sought-after conductors on the international scene. He is currently the music director of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra. After concluding his 3-year tenure as Principal Conductor he was named Principal Guest Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony in 2014. Mr. Vajda is Music Director of the Portland Festival Symphony and Artistic Director of the International Armel Opera Festival. He is also a frequent guest lecturer and professor of the conducting and composition master classes of the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation.
Wolf Edwards
Wolf Edwards (b. Montreal, Quebec) began his formal musical training at the Victoria Conservatory of Music (1994-1996) before transferring to the University of Victoria (1996-2000) where he completed an undergraduate degree in music composition and theory. To further his education Edwards relocated to Montreal, Quebec, from 2000-2002, where he attended private studies with Olivier Messaien's former student, and legendary Canadian composer, Gilles Tremblay. In 2002 Wolf was granted a two-year University of Victoria Fellowship enabling him to complete the degree of Master of Music in 2004. Further studies included Acanthes Summer Academy, in Metz, France, 2005 where he studied with composers Pascal Dusapin (France), Wolfgang Rhim (Germany), and Hilda Peredes (Mexico). Wolf also enrolled at the prestigious Schloss Solitude Academy, in Stuttgart, Germany, 2007 where he attended private lessons with composers Chaya Czernowin (Israel), Stephen KazuoTakasugi (U.S.A), and Ole Lutzow Holm (Norway/Sweden). Following his attendance at the Schloss Solitude, Wolf continued private studies in musical composition with Chaya Czernowin from 2007-2009. Wolf Edwards currently teaches at the University of Victoria as a session professor of composition and theory. He has participated, lectured, and had music performed at international festivals, and events, throughout North America and Continental Europe. His works have been performed and/or commissioned several orchestras and ensembles.
Mauricio Pauly
Mauricio Pauly's practice combines composition for hybrid instrumental/electronic ensembles, sound design, and live performance. As an active cross-disciplinary collaborator, his work includes numerous projects with writers, designers, programmers and theatre-makers. His music has been featured by festivals that include Ultima Festival (Norway, 2011), Warsaw Autumn (Poland, 2013), Darmstadt International Summer Courses (Germany, 2010/12/14/16), Images Sonores Festival (Belgium, 2015), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (Austria, 2016) and Open Ears Festival (Canada 2018). Recent collaborations include live-performed music and sound design for Athina Rachel Tsangari's production of Wedekind's LULU in a sold-out 10-show run at the 2017 Salzburg Festival. FREAM AD WALL, written in collaboration with programmer and 3D animator, Gabriel Montagné, was performed by Line Upon Line Percussion as a 3-show premiere in Austin, TX and will tour Europe and the UK in Fall 2019. A collection of music, print-works and texts created with American experimental novelist Renee Gladman and Argentinian composer Santiago Díez-Fischer will be released on New Focus Recordings (New York, 2020). Pauly spent the summer of 2018 as an awarded Artist Fellow at Civitella Ranieri (Umbria, Italy). In 2017 he was Composer-in-Residence at Villa Romana (Florence, Italy) undertaking a two-part creation and performance residency. He spent 2014-2015 as a full-year Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Boston, USA). Pauly is the artistic director of UK-based ensemble, Distractfold, awarded the Kranichstein Musik Prize in performance by the Darmstadt International Music Institute (2016) and with whom he produced BBC3's Cut & Splice Festival (2017). The group has been ensemble-in-residence at Stanford, Harvard, McGill and Huddersfield Universities and will be in residence at Columbia University in 2020. Pauly is a senior lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK (2007-current) as well as at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, UK (2011-current) where he teaches collaborative practice and time-based design. Since 2018, he has been a Limited-Term Assistant Professor at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, Canada. He has given workshops and masterclasses at McGill University, New York University, Brussels Royal Conservatory, Bath Spa University and Huddersfield University among others. His home and studio have been based in Vancouver, Canada, since 2017.
Dr. Adam Con
Dr. Adam Jonathan Con is a conductor, a visionary, a respected teacher of choral conducting and Tai Chi Chuan, and a leader in the advocacy of music education. A native of Vancouver and a third generation Chinese Canadian, his holistic approach to choral music through a unique blend of kinesthetic whole body movement and Eastern philosophy continues to inspire singers of all ages in mind, body and spirit. His motto is "Music is more than notes in motion; music is notes in Emotion." Dr. Con is a tenured Associate Professor of Music at University of Victoria. His duties at School of Music include conducting the UVic Chorus, teaching Elementary Music Methods, Music Education Foundations, Choral Conducting, Choral Organization, Rehearsal Techniques and Literature, Middle and Elementary School choir methods, and supervising music education students. Dr. Con earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education (Secondary Instrumental and Choral) and a Master's Degree in Music Education (Elementary) from the University of British Columbia. At Florida State University, he earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Music Education (Choral Conducting Emphasis) studying with Rodney Eichenberger, Andre Thomas, Clifford Madsen and Judy Bowers. In addition, Dr. Con is a certified Orff Schulwerk specialist and has extensive study experience as an Alexander Technique practitioner. In high demand both as a guest conductor and choral conducting teacher, Dr. Con has been invited to present and conduct at many prestigious events. His talent and ability to work with all levels of musical experience is grounded in 15 years of diverse K-12 public school music teaching which includes Orff, Kodály, and Dalcroze based general music, French immersion music, middle and secondary school choral, vocal jazz, concert band and jazz band. His professional conducting experiences include numerous All-State and honor choirs, civic orchestras, professional musical theatre, community choirs, concert bands, and 39 years as a church choir director and organist. He currently serves as the University of Victoria Convocation organist.
Kirk McNally
Kirk McNally is a sound engineer who specializes in popular and classical music recording, and new music performances using electronics. His professional resume includes studio work in Toronto and Vancouver, working with numerous national and international recording artists. His work as a balance/electronics engineer for new music performances has been heard in performances across Canada; in Tel Aviv, Israel; Graz, Austria; New York, United States; and as part of the Fromm Concert series at Harvard University. He joined the School of Music at the University of Victoria in 2006 to support a new combined program in Music and Computer Science. In 2016, he was appointed as assistant professor of Music Technology for the School, and is the current program administrator for the undergraduate combined major program and the graduate program in Music Technology. His research and creative work has been supported by: the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), the Canada Council for the Arts, the University of Victoria's Learning and Teaching Centre, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. His current research explores the multitude of ways that recording engineers and producers communicate with musicians, both verbally and through their use of technology to manipulate sound, in order to better understand how they create the music we know and love in our everyday lives.
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A high concentration of cationic peptides destroying the integrity of a bacterial membrane
The antibiotic is a cornerstone of today's medical treatment, but with the increasing rate of bacteria that are steadily growing impervious to these chemical treatments, should we consider the other options as valid alternatives? [1]. Starting in the 1920's with the discovery of penicillin, a surge of antibiotic discovery enveloped the scientific world as scientists efficiently developed new and effective treatments [2]. With such widespread use of antibiotics, bacteria inevitably developed resistance to new chemicals. Up until the 1980's, scientists were able to combat these adaptations, but innovation slowed immensely due to scientific, economic, and political limitations [2]. Antibiotic-resistance has grown exponentially ever since [2]. Utilization of cationic peptides, bacteriophages, and probiotics are three effective and innovative forms of therapy that society must capitalize on in light of antibiotics' inevitable decline [1].
The use of cationic peptides is one very effective option in dealing with bacterial infection. These short peptides consisting of fifteen to fifty amino acids function by distorting the membranes and even directly attacking major components within the cytoplasm [4]. A cationic peptide first compromises the outer membrane in bacteria by displacing magnesium ions; this process makes the cell negatively-charged [5]. The cationic peptide attracts the now negatively-charged membrane, and in the process distorts the membrane and permeates across [5]. Next, the polymer becomes parallel to the membrane and folds into the membrane-bound structures [5]. This positioning allows the peptide to create channels that push impurities into the bacterium, break down the membrane's integrity completely, or even attack specific compounds within the cell [4].
A major benefit of peptide technology is the specificity with which these chemicals operate when combined with one another. The success of peptide specificity is evident in experiments with rabbits' joints, wherein specific bacteria that cause various forms of synovitis (inflammation of joint lining) were eradicated when the two peptides HAP-1 and (KLAK)2 were introduced [6]. Also cationic peptides derived from existing tumor suppressor genes like p16 have been shown to limit tumor growth in lab-rat models when they are merged with atennapedia peptides, proteins that control the formation of bodily structures [6].
The cost of peptide technology is currently what prevents this innovation from cementing itself as a reliable alternative [4]. Cationic peptides do cost a considerable amount of money to synthesize and utilize, but over time, with new research and innovations in the field, the price of this alternative will surely decrease much in the same way antibiotics did after their inception [1].
Another potential alternative to antibiotic treatment is the employment of probiotics. Essentially, probiotics are friendly bacteria that benefit the host [3]. Just a few of the many benefits that probiotics provide are promoting the absorption and production of vitamins and enabling efficient inflammatory responses [8]. Lactobacillus acidophilus is a common probiotic already present the bodies of yogurt consumers; the power and duration of the benefits of consuming yogurt are well documented and demonstrate that probiotics are an efficient and non-toxic method for promoting good health and preventing disease [8].
Studies have revealed that intentionally injecting probiotics into a biological system produces results that are exponentially larger and rival the protection offered by antibiotics [7]. In an aquaculture study in Nigeria, when various strains of probiotics were injected into organisms, the microbes produced inhibitors that destroyed pathogens and crowded out invading bacteria as well [8]. Probiotics take resources from pathogens and provide protection, all the while promoting growth throughout the entire body, especially the intestinal tract. Probiotics effectively address the concern of antibiotic resistance as pathogen adaptation is ineffective; various trials indicate that overtime, the invading bacteria in the organism was unable to change and respond to the living probiotics [1]. They are also cost-effective due to their availability in the environment [1]. Unlike antibiotics, which sometimes require toxins to eradicate bacteria, probiotics provide sustained treatment over a long period of time and without the use of any toxic elements [7]. In the near future, probiotics can be seen as a viable source for treatment against malignant bacteria so long as research in the field develops to encompass more beneficial strains.
While probiotics take a more indirect approach to eradicating disease, bacteriophage therapy poses a more straightforward solution that also has the potential to become more widespread in due time [9]. Bacteriophage therapy uses specific viruses that infect bacteria directly. These phage particles are narrow spectrum agents —that is, they possess the mechanism to infect specific strains of bacteria through their inherent properties, as well as to manipulate DNA [3]. Phages enter a cell, reproduce within the bacterium, and eventually accumulate and burst the cell open [9].
The study of phage therapy began around the same time as antibiotics in the 1930's and 40's. Early experiments suggested that antibiotics were more reliable and consistent when compared to phage therapy's results [10]. As time progressed, bacteriophage therapy became a prime example of how time allocated to research can yield amazing new findings and innovation [10]. Present findings demonstrate many benefits of bacteriophage therapy that antibiotics simply do not possess. Bacteriophage therapy is very cost effective as phages are everywhere in the environment and simple to obtain. The viruses only destroy specific targets — much like peptides — yet do not harm the beneficiary bacteria or microorganisms [9]. Also, phage therapy is long-lasting, as the virus is able to remain inside the organism and destroy invaiding bacteria over an extended period of time [1]. Bacteriophage therapy can pose some problems if viruses are not purified properly, but if research is increased and thoroughness is maintained, this treatment will become a new standard as antibiotics' prevalence deteriorates [10].
The societal implications of these new forms of therapy are essential to understanding the need to resort to innovative alternatives. "At a time when the frequency of infections caused by antibiotic- resistant bacteria is rising sharply, the pool of antibiotics in development by drug companies is drying up," states Michael A. Schmidt, a professor at Columbia University Medical Center [11]. The FDA has only approved an average of 3 antibiotics per year from 1988 to 1992 and this number has fallen to one approval per year since 2003. The lack of new antibiotics during the time that they are needed the most is due to the shift in focus of these pharmaceutical companies. They are focusing on large markets in the drug industry that correlate with chronic conditions (diabetes, depression, arthritis) that will make them a large sum of money from the necessary long-term therapy [11]. Alternatives for antibiotics should be the focus of the drug companies as the threat of antibiotic-resistance is growing exponentially each day.
The uses of peptides, probiotics, and bacteriophages are three very realistic methods that have the potential to be leaders in the race for new disease treatments, if enough time is allocated for their development. Their efficiency and realistic cost are reasons why these alternatives should be the focus of modern medicine's focus. The same invigoration and passion for discovery that was present during the foundation of antibiotic research is very much needed today if society is ever going to battle the problem of finding new forms of therapy to replace the ill-fated antibiotics [2]. A new era of treatments is on the horizon and must be ushered from experimental procedures to societal standards to preserve the future of the globe's healthcare system [3].
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Q: Keep integer value when re looping i am having a problem within my for loop. I am currently using node js with ibm db2.
var code = conn.querySync('SELECT DISTINCT "Commodity_Code" FROM TRADES WHERE "Commodity" LIKE \'%\' || ? || \'%\' AND "Aggregate_Level"=4', [productLevelFour]);

var commodity_code;
var data;
var resString = "";
for(let i = 0; i < code.length; i++) {
    commodity_code = code[i]['Commodity_Code'];
    data = conn.querySync('SELECT DISTINCT "Commodity_Code", "Commodity" FROM TRADES WHERE "Commodity_Code" LIKE \'\' || ? || \'__\' ', [commodity_code]);

     for(let j = 0; j < data.length; j++) {
         resString += j+1 + "." + " " + data[j]['Commodity'] + "\n";
     }
 }

In the code above, i want to keep the j value when re-looping in the first for loop. For example, if code.length = 2, the loops will start and var data will be saved in the resString with j at 1. The loop will then restart to complete the next loop but j restarts at 1. I want the value of j to continue from the previous iteration.
Any of you have an idea to fix this problem? Thank you.

A: Every time the line for(let j = 0; j < data.length; j++) { is executed, a new variable named j with the initial value of 0 is created.
If you want to re-use the same variable, you need to define it outside the context of the loop, so that you don't create a new variable named j each time the inner loop is executed.
let j = 0;

for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
    console.log('outer loop');
    for (; j < 10; j++) {
        console.log('inner loop');
    }
    console.log(`i is ${i}, j is ${j}`);
}

A: This line resets j to zero every time it is encountered
for(let j = 0; j < data.length; j++) {

If you want to avoid resetting j, change it to
for(; j < data.length; j++) {

You will want to initialise j at the start.
So your code becomes
var code = conn.querySync('SELECT DISTINCT "Commodity_Code" FROM TRADES WHERE "Commodity" LIKE \'%\' || ? || \'%\' AND "Aggregate_Level"=4', [productLevelFour]);

var commodity_code;
var data;
var resString = "";
var j = 0; // <=== j is set here
for(let i = 0; i < code.length; i++) {
    commodity_code = code[i]['Commodity_Code'];
    data = conn.querySync('SELECT DISTINCT "Commodity_Code", "Commodity" FROM TRADES WHERE "Commodity_Code" LIKE \'\' || ? || \'__\' ', [commodity_code]);

     for(; j < data.length; j++) { // <=== j isn't reset here
         resString += j+1 + "." + " " + data[j]['Commodity'] + "\n";
     }
 }

A: As I assume you only want the numbering to be continuous, but still want all of your data to be included in the result, I don't think it is enough to just let j increment without resetting to 0. If you do that, and the outer loop has more than one iteration, you will not have all data in the output.
You could build your result first as an array, and leave the string formatting for the end:
var code = conn.querySync('SELECT DISTINCT "Commodity_Code" FROM TRADES WHERE "Commodity" LIKE \'%\' || ? || \'%\' AND "Aggregate_Level"=4', [productLevelFour]);

var result = []; // <--- array
for(let {Commodity_Code} of  code) { // Not required, but nice way of looping
    let data = conn.querySync('SELECT DISTINCT "Commodity_Code", "Commodity" FROM TRADES WHERE "Commodity_Code" LIKE \'\' || ? || \'__\' ', [Commodity_Code]);
    // just push the commodity field to that array for later processing
    result.push(...data.map(({Commotity}) => Commodity));
}

// Now format the results
var resString = result.map((commodity, j) => j+1 + ". " + commodity).join("\n");