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Optimizing Benefits While Reducing Risks of Iron in Malaria-endemic Areas
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Daily iron (ferrous sulfate, 2 mg/kg/day) or placebo syrup for first four months (112 days) of the 12-month (336-day) study. Children in the immediate iron group will receive iron syrup for the first three months (84 days) and placebo syrup for the fourth month. Children in the delayed iron group will receive placebo syrup for the first month (28 days) and iron syrup for the second, third, and fourth months.
Provision of sufficient iron for brain development in children living in malaria-endemic areas while also protecting them from infection is an unachieved public health goal for >10 years. The 2006 landmark study on malaria-endemic Pemba Island brought the complicated relationship between iron and malaria to the world stage by reporting universal prophylactic iron supplementation increases the risk of child hospitalization and death. Treating iron deficiency in children who have malaria is also an unsolved challenge. In sub-Saharan Africa, iron deficiency and malaria coexist, frequently causing a multifactorial anemia that is a primary cause of hospitalization and mortality in children <5 y. The current World Health Organization standard-of-care regimen of concurrent treatment with antimalarial medication and iron therapy has been unsuccessful, with frequent reports of subsequent infection, including malaria, persistent iron deficiency, and unresolved anemia.
One solution to effectively treat coexisting malaria and iron deficiency is to stagger interventions, treating malaria first and delaying iron. The inflammatory response against malaria induces high levels of the protein hepcidin, which reduces intestinal iron absorption and prohibits release of iron from reticulo-endothelial cells. Iron given orally during or shortly after a malaria episode is thus not well absorbed or distributed to red blood cells or the brain. Moreover, unabsorbed iron in the gut may promote the growth of pathogenic bacteria, potentially leading to subsequent infectious morbidity. A pilot study was recently completed in Ugandan children with malaria and iron deficiency that used iron stable isotopes to test whether iron given 28 days after (delayed group) or concurrently with (immediate group) antimalarial treatment was better incorporated into red blood cells (1R03HD074262). It was found that delayed iron was incorporated twice as well as immediate iron and that iron status at 56 days was similar between groups. An important finding was that children in the immediate group had a higher incidence of infections in the 56-day follow-up period. In this application, the team proposes a large-scale, randomized clinical trial with 12 months follow up powered to capture long-term differences in iron status, morbidity, and neurobehavioral development as a function of immediate or delayed iron following treatment for malaria and iron deficiency. The gut microbiome will be analyzed to elucidate a mechanism of any differences in incidence of infections.
One long-term goal is to develop safe and effective strategies for managing concurrent malaria and iron deficiency in children, with reduction of infections and optimization of neurobehavioral development representing successful outcomes. The objective of this application is to conduct a placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial to determine whether iron therapy begun with vs. 28 days after antimalarial treatment in Ugandan children 6-48 months with malaria and iron deficiency leads to better iron status, fewer infections, and better neurobehavioral development after 12 months. The central hypothesis is that better iron incorporation and lower incidence of infectious illness observed with delayed iron in our short-term, physiology-focused R03 study will translate into better long-term iron status, fewer episodes of infection, and better neurobehavioral outcomes after 12 months. The rationale is that this study will determine if staggering antimalarial treatment and iron therapy protects against immediate morbidity while also optimizing long-term neurobehavioral development. The Specific Aims are:
Aim 1: Establish the effect of immediate vs. delayed iron treatment on long-term iron status.
It is hypothesized that delayed iron will result in better iron status 6 and 12 months after treatment for malaria due to better initial iron absorption and utilization as compared to the immediate iron group.
Aim 2: Determine the effect of delayed iron treatment on the incidence of infectious illness.
It is hypothesized that the better absorbed delayed iron will result in fewer infections in the 6 and 12 months after treatment for malaria due, in part, to a less pathogenic intestinal microbiome profile.
Aim 3: Establish the effect of delayed iron treatment on neurobehavioral development.
It is hypothesized that delayed iron will result in better neurobehavioral outcomes (as assessed by standardized cognitive and behavioral tests) due to better iron absorption and utilization.
Anticipated Impact: Untreated iron deficiency may protect a child from malaria and other infections, but the consequent potentially permanent damage to the developing brain is an unacceptable alternative. Establishment of methods to effectively ensure brain iron health while protecting the child from infection will promote attainment of full cognitive and behavioral development for tens of millions of children worldwide suffering from malaria and iron deficiency.
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Iron, Dietary
Iron or iron compounds used in foods or as food. Dietary iron is important in oxygen transport and the synthesis of the iron-porphyrin proteins hemoglobin, myoglobin, cytochromes, and cytochrome oxidase. Insufficient amounts of dietary iron can lead to iron-deficiency anemia.
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Anemia, Hypochromic
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Iron Overload
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Iron Regulatory Protein 2
A multifunctional iron-sulfur protein that is both an iron regulatory protein and cytoplasmic form of aconitate hydratase. It binds to iron regulatory elements found on mRNAs involved in iron metabolism and regulates their translation. Its rate of degradation is increased in the presence of IRON.
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I didn't set out to have a lot of children. I never sat down with my husband and talked about exceeding the world's boundaries for what's normal in the world of having a family. I never dreamed of the perfect number… but it certainly didn't exceed societal norms of maybe three, perhaps four children. Responsibility dictates you stop when you aren't ridiculously outnumbered, before chaos reigns, before the chances of getting in a minivan become nil.
Now, it's funny to write that. I knew all of those things… perhaps even embraced them, before I'd given birth to even one of my children. Before I knew the joy of holding my child for the first time. Before I'd taught anyone how to hold a spoon, use a glass, pet a dog, figure out what addition and subtraction meant. Before I'd held my frightened child as they realized it was just a dream, taught them to read, taught them why Jesus had to die.
Then, I had my first child. Loving her more than life itself and forgetting the horrors of pregnancy and labor, I longed for another. Two sent me reeling, and I started to understand why two is plenty for many. But time passed, and again I longed to meet another child, a part of my husband and I, a blessing from God. We had a third, a fourth, a fifth. I started seeing how the world reacts to non-conformity. It's not always pleasant. Surely these children weren't ALL mine. Surely I didn't CHOOSE this. Our sixth quickly followed the fifth, we officially outgrew our normal sized minivan with our normal sized gas bill, and the questions began in earnest. Are you done NOW? Are you happy now that you got two boys in the mix? (Of course, that's why I chose this.) The lovely intrusion, don't you know what causes that? And the most awkward, are you supermom? Or my least favorite tactic… start asking my children any of the above questions.
So now, realizing I'm thoroughly enjoying mothering these children, that I love being there to see them learn new things, that I hate pregnancy but find the babies entirely worth my agony, and we've completely tipped the scales into not normal anyhow, we chose to have a seventh. I'm in the bitter end of another pregnancy, counting the weeks until I get to meet this little person. I don't know if we'll be done after that. I do know I'm so, so thankful I didn't stop at two or three, that I didn't conform to some unwritten rule about what's considered normal, that I didn't see my children as anything but blessings. Sinful children, in need of teaching and training and of a Savior, but such blessings, every one of them.
And what a blessing each of these children are. I can't imagine life without any one of them, and God has a plan for each of them.


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Last week BikeBiz reported that Cyclescheme had made the shortlist of the one hundred fastest growing UK companies.
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In the first year of trading, turnover was £253,000. It's now nearly £25m a year. In one day in June, Cyclescheme sent out 800+ bike vouchers, more than the number of vouchers it sent out in the whole of its first year.
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Branson said: "The last year has been one of the toughest I remember in business; but the fear of the early part of 2009 has been replaced by optimism we will find a way through. This sense of optimism is reflected in the sterling performance of the Fast Track 100 companies who are expecting impressive continued growth this year."
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THE V&A will host a retrospective of the life and work of German photographer Horst P Horst this September entitled Horst: Photographer Of Style.
As one of the leading photographers of the 20th century, Horst's diverse archive spans the opulent salons of post-war Paris, the introduction of ready-to-wear to the extravagant studio set-ups of the Eighties and Nineties, and collaborations with fellow luminaries Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali along the way. As a result, the exhibition has been a long time in the making.
"In 2008, when we viewed the collection of the Horst estate, we were immediately struck by the quality and breadth of his output," Susanna Brown, curator of the exhibition, told us. "Horst ranks alongside Irving Penn and Richard Avedon as one of the 20th-century's master photographers. To my mind, he is an ideal V&A subject because the work resonates across the various V&A collections, covering not only fashion but also themes such as interior design, Surrealism, Hollywood film and theatre."
It was still no mean feat editing the expansive archive down however.
"With Martin Barnes, senior curator of photographs, I examined each one of the thousands of vintage prints and felt privileged to have been allowed access to the extensive Condé Nast Archives in New York, London and Paris," said Brown. "The Paris archive contains his earliest black and white pictures, from the Thirties, while New York houses thousands of later photographs and exquisite colour images. Some of Horst's images have become icons of photography so it was definitely hard to edit down, as he was so prolific during his 60-year career."
Horst's long relationship with Vogue is also well documented in the exhibition, which opens on September 6 and will run until January 4, 2015. See a preview of the images that will be on display here.
Summer Fashions, American Vogue, May 1941.
View of the ruins at the Palace of Persepolis, 1949.
Salvador Dali's costumes for ballet dancer Leonid Massines, 1939.
Corset by Detolle for Mainbocher, 1939.
Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1942.
Dress by Hattie Carnegie, 1939.
Dinner and headdress by Elsa Schiaparelli, 1947.
Muriel Maxwell on the cover of American Vogue, July 1939.


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package org.opensingular.app.commons.mail.service.email;

import org.opensingular.app.commons.mail.service.dto.Email;
import org.opensingular.lib.commons.base.SingularProperties;
import org.opensingular.lib.commons.util.Loggable;
import org.opensingular.schedule.IScheduleData;
import org.opensingular.schedule.IScheduledJob;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import java.util.Optional;

import static org.opensingular.lib.commons.base.SingularProperties.EMAIL_COD_MODULE;

public class EmailSenderScheduledJob implements IScheduledJob, Loggable {

    @Inject
    private EmailSender emailSender;

    @Inject
    private EmailPersistenceService emailPersistenceService;

    private IScheduleData scheduleData;

    private int emailsPerPage = 20;
    private String identifierModule;

    public EmailSenderScheduledJob(IScheduleData scheduleData) {
        super();
        this.scheduleData = scheduleData;
    }

    public EmailSenderScheduledJob(IScheduleData scheduleData, String identifierModule) {
        this(scheduleData);
        this.identifierModule = identifierModule;
    }

    @Override
    public IScheduleData getScheduleData() {
        return scheduleData;
    }

    @Override
    public Object run() {
        final int totalPendingRecipients = emailPersistenceService.countPendingRecipients();
        int pending = totalPendingRecipients;
        int page = 0, sent = 0;
        while (pending > 0) {
            String identifier = Optional.ofNullable(identifierModule).orElse(SingularProperties.get().getProperty(EMAIL_COD_MODULE));
            for (Email.Addressee addressee : emailPersistenceService.listPendingRecipients(page * emailsPerPage, emailsPerPage, identifier)) {
                if(emailSender.send(addressee)){
                    emailPersistenceService.markAsSent(addressee);
                    sent++;
                }
            }
            pending -= emailsPerPage;
            page++;
        }
        getLogger().info("{} sent from total of {}", sent, totalPendingRecipients);
        return sent + " sent from total of "+totalPendingRecipients;
    }

    public void setEmailsPerPage(int emailsPerPage) {
        this.emailsPerPage = emailsPerPage;
    }

    @Override
    public String getId() {
        return "EmailSender";
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "EmailSenderScheduledJob [getScheduleData()=" + getScheduleData() + ", getId()=" + getId() + "]";
    }

}

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La chiesa di San Bartolomeo è un edificio di culto cattolico della città di Como.

Storia
Il 14 ottobre 1163 un certo Giovanni Fica (o de'Ficani) donò alla Congregazione dei Crocigeri un appezzamento di terra, da destinare alla realizzazione di un ospitale e di una relativa chiesa. Sul terreno, situato nei pressi di uno dei ponti del Cosia, i frati Crocigeri costruirono così un complesso comprensivo della chiesa, di un monastero, e dell'ospedale di San Bartolomeo (con quest'ultimo che, nel 1481, divenne parte dell'ospedale Sant'Anna).

Il ponte, corrispondente all'odierno tratto di via Milano nel quale si innestano i viali Roosvelt e Giulio Cesare, non è più visibile a causa dei lavori di copertura del Cosia occorsi nel 1937. Secondo la Chiesa cattolica, il 25 marzo 1529, il ponte di San Bartolomeo fu teatro di un evento ritenuto prodigioso, secondo cui un crocifisso portato in processione dai frati Celestini della Chiesa cittadina dell'Annunciata avrebbe spezzato alcune catene che sbarravano l'accesso al ponte e, di conseguenza, impedivano il prosieguo del corteo verso le chiese di Santa Chiara e di San Rocco.

Il monastero di San Bartolomeo, soppresso nel 1653 con una bolla pontificia di Innocenzo X datata 15 ottobre 1652, divenne la canonica del parroco della vicina chiesa di San Sebastiano, edificio religioso del quale oggi restano solo alcuni resti ma che dal 1604 costituiva la parrocchiale di riferimento non solo per la chiesa di San Bartolomeo ma anche per tutti coloro che abitavano nella zona fuori da Porta Torre.

L'originaria chiesa di san Bartolomeo si trovava più a nord rispetto all'edificio attuale, che venne rifatto più volte nel corso dei secoli.

L'elevazione della chiesa di San Bartolomeo al rango di parrocchiale avvenne soltanto alla fine del Settecento. Tra il 1779 e il 1786, la chiesa venne ristrutturata su progetto di Antonio Nolfi. Successivi interventi avvennero intorno al 1899, con la costruzione del transetto, del tiburio e dell'area absidale.

Fino al terzo decennio del XX secolo, la facciata si presentava come una superficie liscia. L'attuale facciata, progettata da Giulio Valli a partire dal 1925, fu infatti costruita solo nel 1929, in concomitanza con il quattrocentesimo anniversario dall'evento legato alla rottura delle catene del ponte di San Bartolomeo. A cent'anni prima risale invece la realizzazione del campanile nelle sue forme odierne.

Nel corso del Novecento, a fianco della facciata fu collocato il portale granitico dell'ex-convento di Santa Chiara, monastero un tempo situato nella stessa via che passa davanti alla chiesa di San Bartolomeo. Originariamente dedicato a Santa Maria e San Pietro in Brolio, il convento - che oggi ospita una scuola superiore - nacque nel XIII secolo come un monastero di clarisse. Cinto da una muraglia e radicalmente ristrutturato nel XVI secolo, il convento di Santa Chiara fu soppresso nel 1782, durante le secolarizzazioni giuseppinistiche di fine Settecento. Dall'ex-convento provengono anche le colonne del piccolo chiostro realizzato alle spalle del portale in granito.

Descrizione

Esterni
Il lato destro della conserva una targa e un anello commemorativi del presunto miracolo del 1529.

Interni
Tra le opere pittoriche che ornano le pareti della chiesa spiccano l'imponente Cristo Pantocratore (XX secolo) del catino absidale e Il discorso della montagna che sovrasta una delle arcate dell'presbiterio.

L'altare maggiore è dominato da un taberacolo marmoreo eseguito dalla bottega della famiglia di Tommaso Rodari.

Sul lato destro trova posto un Martirio di San Sebartiano, dipinto proveniente dalla vecchia chiesa di San Sebastiano e presumibilmente realizzato da Domenico Carpinoni. A Giulio Cesare Procaccini è invece attribuito il dipinto dellAssunta che si trova nella parete di destra, opera traslata dalla demolita chiesa di Santa Chiara. Jacopo Palma il Giovane sarebbe invece l'autore del dipinto che raffigura il martirio del santo titolare della chiesa, già pala d'altare dell'originaria chiesa di San Bartolomeo.

Uno degli altari (precisamente localizzato nel braccio sinistro del transetto) ospita una reliquia di Giovanni Battista Scalabrini.

Nei pressi dell'ingresso meridionale trova posto una pala raffigurante la Madonna in compagnia dei Santi Adalberto di Como, Gervasio e Protasio, opera attribuita ai pittori della famiglia Carpano (XVI-XVII secolo) e proveniente dalla chiesa di San Protaso. Questa chiesa, distrutta nel 1883, si trovava nell'attuale via Anzani, e costituiva il secondo tempio cristiano edificato nella città di Como. Sant'Adalberto è anche il soggetto dei dipinti disposti attorno a quest'ultima pala, in prossimità della quale trova posto anche una raffigurazione della Madonna con Bambino.'''''

Di particolare interesse storico è anche l'antico organo, tuttavia non funzionante.

In una delle cappelle laterali trova inoltre posto un Crocefisso Cinquecentesco.

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Diocesi di Como
 Parrocchie della diocesi di Como

Altri progetti

Chiese dedicate a san Bartolomeo apostolo
Bartolomeo
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On July 2008, Chad proposed to Brittany with a 5.2-carat ring, and the couple was married on July 3, 2010, the day after Chad's 25th birthday in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. Chad and Brittany have two kids: Chance Henne and Hunter Henne.
Chad was born on July 2, 1985, to father Sheldon Henne and mother, Suzanne Henne. He attended Wilson High School as a child and later joined the University of Michigan. Before his NFL draft, he played for the University team and was All-American Freshman Team Quarterback. In 2006, he was a Manning Award Finalist, Maxwell Award Semifinalist, Davey O'Brien Award semifinalist, and Walter Camp Award watch list member.
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Chad Henne is 38 years old, born July 2, 1985.
Chad Henne hails from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.
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Chad Henne net worth is $17 million as of 2023.
Chad Henne is married to his wife, Brittany Hartman.
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Life's Tips and Tricks: A Visit to the Famous Ben Thanh Night Market At Hoh Chi Min City!
A Visit to the Famous Ben Thanh Night Market At Hoh Chi Min City!
Tourists visiting Hoh Chi Min City would certainly pay a visit to the Ben Thanh Night Market. Actually the goods being sold here and at the Day Market are basically the same except that maybe you can get the goods here on a lesser price. The secret here is to haggle as they normally offer a 100% mark up on the real price of the good, same as what we did to the seller on the photo. We haggle much with her and she commented that we are "smart buyers"(lol).
We ordered grilled fish, shells cooked with tamarind sauce, and a dish which resembles the Philippines "Beef Steak Tagalog".
The taste of the foods are okay, we almost finished all but for me, a good dinner should be comprised of good foods, good ambiance, good service, relaxing environment where you can enjoy with your drinks and foods while having a good conversation with your family, colleagues or friends.
If you agree with me on this point, then I would say that dining in at Ben Thanh Night Market is not a good option for you. I wonder why so many people, locals and tourists patronize these eateries and restaurants. It's always crowded every time I go here. Hmmm... the selection for the foods is fine, it's complete and their best sellers are mostly the sea foods. But would you feel relaxed when you are very hungry already and it takes years for your foods to come? Oh well..I'm exaggerating it but really, the dish comes one by one and never serve the rice until you ask them. To my dismay, we ordered 3 rice and they give it to us one by one :( Not only that, will you enjoy the food when you witness a group of Europeans quarreling with the people running the restaurant because they waited for their foods more than an hour? You have to ask for everything that you need and before they bring it to you, you have to follow up more than 3 times.
Oh...and the best part is when you check your bill, so many hidden charges. We ordered coconut juice in it's shell and they charged us VND30K (around $1.5 or PHP66.00 ) where you can actually get it for less than a dollar in a decent restaurant. Well...it's not in the menu and I presumed that the price is just the same with the other better restaurants within the area. Next? the wet towels that they served you. They will never offer tissues and give you wet towels instead wrapped and sealed in a plastic. These small towels were actually re used towels and for using this, they will charge you VND10K per piece which is far far more expensive than the actual price of a brand new towel. Tsskk.....always taking advantage on the innocence of tourists.


Of the five states where supplementary governorship elections were held, only one has been decided as at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday.
Governor Simon Lalong of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was re-elected Plateau State governor. He scored 595,582 votes to defeat his closest rival, Jeremiah Useni of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 546,813 votes.
In Kano, where the elections were marred by violence and presence of armed thugs around polling units, the collation was postponed till 8 a.m. on Sunday. Before then, the PDP had condemned the supplementary election in Kano as a sham while the results coming in confirms their fears as the APC was leading in virtually all the affected areas including known strongholds of the PDP.
In Bauchi, while the results are ready and have been collated at the various polling units, the INEC returning officer chose to leave the state and keep the whole residents and Nigerians waiting. The PDP was in a comfortable lead from the results collated so far.
In Sokoto, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of the PDP walks a tightrope as his margin of lead before the supplementary election has been cut based on the results from yesterday's election. Only the result of one local government was still being awaited as of Sunday morning.
In Benue, the collation of results is set to continue at 10 a.m. Results from six local governments were still being awaited before the collation was suspended in the middle of the night. The PDP's strong margin of lead in Benue remains intact.


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Blood and Tragedy: The Sick Catharsis of Inside
by Ben McDonald
"How can one night go so terribly wrong?", is the unspoken question posed by many of the most frightening horror movies. The New French Extremity, a small but culturally significant canon of recent films characterized by extreme depictions of violence and sexuality, often expresses this anxiety more potently than any other horror tradition in cinema. Much of Gaspar Noé's work (Irreversible, Enter the Void, and Climax) conveys this idea, as does Alexandre Aja's clinical slasher High Tension and Pascal Laugier's remarkably bleak Martyrs. The terrifying implication of these films, that one's life is always at risk of profound pain and even death, forms much of the basis for their intensely nihilistic outlook and their eagerness to descend into the most severe depths of human suffering.
Inside (French title À l'intérieur), directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, takes this pessimistic soul of New French Extremity horror to heart and asserts it with shocking splashes of blood and ruthless elegance alike. While the film's uncompromising commitment to corporal anguish make it an uncomfortable and frankly exhausting viewing experience, such chilling savagery is also the precise reason why Inside is one of the scariest pieces of horror made in the 21st century.
In its opening scene, pregnant photographer Sarah (Alysson Paradis) loses her husband in a brutal car accident. Months later, she is awoken from restless nightmares of childbirth by a mysterious woman (Béatrice Dalle, identified only as "La Femme" in the credits) at her door, asking to use her telephone. When Sarah sensibly refuses, the woman threatens her by name; even more alarmingly, she somehow knows Sarah is a widow. After phoning the police and apparently scaring her off, Sarah goes back to sleep, only to be awoken by the same woman assaulting her with a large pair of scissors.
From there, Inside launches into an increasingly vicious game of cat-and-mouse. Sarah, locked in her bathroom, is almost completely defenseless against her attacker except for the crude shard of mirror she clutches with manic desperation. It doesn't take long for the violence to escalate into a bloodthirsty fever dream, but the fact that the film roots its initial source of fear in suspense is tremendously disarming. By the time it does reach the natural climax of its slaughter, the film has already assaulted its audience with levels of butchery so gratuitous that even the most sadistic of American torture porn flicks would shudder.
While the degree of bloodshed on display is certainly shocking in its own right, it's only truly horrifying because it's juxtaposed against such a familiar horror premise. By maliciously introducing itself under the guise of a conventional home invasion archetype, the film's sharp turn into the confoundingly cruel jolts you into hysteria with a startling whiplash. Furthermore, the sheer degree of carnage inflicted upon Sarah (not to mention the other unfortunate people to stumble into her house during its occupation) is so jarring that it borders on the surreal; a police officer that arrives late to the crime scene even remarks in disgusted disbelief that the house is "a warzone".
And indeed, what makes Inside so effectively scary is the way it leverages that physical body horror for an even stronger reaction of psychological stress. Not since I first watched Tobe Hooper's original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (a mostly bloodless work, despite its name and infamous reputation) have I witnessed a horror movie so viscerally linger on a note of pure adrenaline. Where Hooper's film earned its anxious ferocity with Eisensteinian montage and a horrific onslaught of screaming, Inside reaches a comparable conclusion with extreme gore. Wasting little time to stun you, the film exploits your initial state of disoriented nausea as a baseline from which to mount a further assault on the senses. It's a truly exhilarating experience, a dizzying rush of terror that leaves you utterly exhausted by the time it reaches its appalling finish line.
Even with so much excessive cruelty, Inside is not a completely exploitative film, and it earns its violence with a sense of poignant tragedy. The events that unfold are genuinely heartbreaking, both from Sarah's perspective and even from that of her sadistic assailant, whose own tragic motivations are revealed late in the film. Inside pulls no punches in its depiction of grief and trauma (both psychological and physical), even going so far as to frequently cut to a view from within Sarah's womb of the damage inflicted to her unborn baby. However emotionally manipulative the technique may be, these "womb shots" compound greatly to the film's already distressing subject matter, intensifying the immediate horror and rendering it an almost unbearably grim ordeal. The entanglement of tragedy and horror is pushed so far that death seems the only logical recourse for Sarah, and one of the most upsetting scenes in the film finds her impulsively attempting suicide. For the briefest of moments, death becomes a primal necessity for her, a means of escaping the never-ending horror engulfing her and her unborn child. When the line between nightmare and reality has been all but obliterated, who can blame her for preferring permanent nonexistence?
Ultimately, it's that nihilistic sensibility that makes Inside such a harrowing and unforgettable experience. Its final images are as terrible, nauseating, and iconically taboo as anything I've seen in horror, but it's their perverse whimper of victory for "La Femme" that makes their impression so haunting. Knowing all of this, one could be forgiven for never wanting to step within a mile of this grisly bloodbath. Assuming one is not genuinely sadistic, there is no "fun" to be had with Inside. Yet, for horror fans like myself, the film offers a powerful catharsis rarely found in the (generally speaking) more cautious American horror tradition. To those looking to add a bit of a kick to their screams, I can't recommend Inside highly enough. You certainly won't look at scissors the same way ever again.
TagsAlexandre Aja • Alexandre Bustillo • Alysson Paradis • Béatrice Dalle • Climax • Enter the Void • France • Gaspar Noé • High Tension • Inside • Irreversible • Julien Maury • Martyrs • Pascal Laugier • Sergei Eisenstein • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • Tobe Hooper
About Ben McDonald
An avid moviegoer his whole life, Ben started writing about film as a teenager with a paper on the music of Stanley Kubrick's work. His favorite directors include David Lynch, Claire Denis, and Lars von Trier. Ben attended the 71st and 72nd Cannes Film Festivals as part of the 'Three Days in Cannes' program.
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The chief purchasing officer of Lenovo explains how he helped to create the operational basis for its continuing evolution from a Chinese powerhouse into a global one.
The Chinese computer maker Lenovo's 2005 acquisition of IBM's personal-computer division heralded the birth of a global technology giant. Behind the scenes, however, the deal created a giant operational challenge for Qiao Song, Lenovo's senior vice president and chief procurement officer. Qiao Song, who has worked at the company since 1991, was asked to manage the rapid integration of two purchasing groups with different processes, management systems, and cultures. Moreover, three months before the deal was to close, Lenovo's board gave him an aggressive target: save the merged companies more than $150 million in direct-spending costs within 18 months.
Qiao Song's new team came together and exceeded that target. He also oversaw the successful creation of a general-procurement function responsible for managing expenditures in nonproduction-related areas (IBM had done so on Lenovo's behalf for a time following the merger). Together, these efforts helped to lay the operational foundations for Lenovo's continuing evolution from a Chinese powerhouse into a truly global one.
Recently, Qiao Song talked with James Hexter, a director in McKinsey's Beijing office, about the challenges of integrating the two purchasing units, his approach to managing talent in purchasing, and his views on the way the procurement function in the technology sector will change in coming years.
The Quarterly: What procurement challenges did Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC business present?
Qiao Song: Procurement was a big priority for both sides. Everyone realized that while other aspects of the new business might overlap for awhile, the amount of money at stake meant that purchasing needed to be the first team fully integrated by the new Lenovo. But the two original purchasing teams, IBM's and Lenovo's, were quite different. Everything was different, from processes to IT to management systems, key performance indicators, and cultures. Additionally, about three months before the deal was to close, I met with the board and received an aggressive target: I had about 18 months to bank $150 million in savings from direct materials and to achieve $300 million in annualized run-rate savings.
So the challenge was to do two things in parallel: to really understand the production costs involved for each side and to identify savings opportunities that we could work on immediately after the deal closed while also successfully integrating the purchasing team, getting the process management right, and so on. Additionally, I was tasked with creating a general-procurement unit to handle spending in nonproduction-related areas, such as airfare and office supplies.
The Quarterly: How did you begin to identify the cost-savings opportunities?
Qiao Song: During an acquisition, everything obviously has to happen according to strict legal requirements, and there are a lot of restrictions on doing cost comparisons. So first we established a "clean room," made up of selected people from Lenovo and IBM, where we could open up all the cost data from the two sides and analyze this in detail.
We looked at the numbers across three dimensions, starting with the low-hanging fruit in categories where we shared suppliers with IBM, allowing straightforward price arbitrage opportunities. The second step was to capture synergies from Lenovo's new, global scale across the categories where we would be significantly increasing our procurement volumes. This was another place where the savings were relatively straightforward to get.
The third layer was direct-materials optimization. The idea was to look at all the products of the new company and to use a set of tools to analyze the cost structure of each part. Then we worked with our design team to decide whether we could choose better designs to replace the older ones or whether we could rationalize excessive specifications that customers aren't willing to pay money for. In many cases, this involves very subtle specification changes to things that customers can't see and don't necessarily value—reducing the thickness of an internal component to reduce costs, for example. This process also allowed us to standardize across our product range, which in turn enabled us to offer fewer suppliers higher volumes and therefore to get lower prices.
Once we had broken down our targets in this way, we looked at each commodity—for example, motherboards or hard drives—to determine which approach would yield the greatest impact. This meant that soon after the deal closed, we had a very clear picture of what savings we needed to get, the approach we were going to take, and the time that would be required.
The Quarterly: How did you approach the task of integrating the two purchasing groups?
Qiao Song: First of all, each side had to fully understand what the other was doing. And to be honest, Lenovo's procurement people had no experience with IBM's processes or culture and vice versa. Everyone had a lot to learn. Therefore, we needed to create a very open-minded environment, with extremely candid discussions, so we could pick and choose the best practices from each side. That was our operating principle. Of course, at the same time, we were researching industry benchmarks to have something to compare ourselves against.
The Quarterly: How were the two purchasing cultures different?
Qiao Song: I think it was really a reflection of the differences between the two company cultures overall. Both had significant strengths—and each was good in its own way—but those strengths came from very different places. Lenovo, for example, has a very entrepreneurial culture, but we perhaps had less of an orientation around tightly defined processes and structure than IBM did. IBM is very analytically oriented, very systematic, and we needed more of that in order for the new Lenovo to get to the next level.
The Quarterly: Can you give an example?
Qiao Song: Take the qualification cycle, where you define the parameters for a given component. IBM, I would say, was at one extreme, in that everything took a long time. Too long, I'd argue. To qualify a hard-disk drive, for example, took perhaps nine months, when the life cycle of the product itself is about one year. Lenovo was much faster—maybe three or four weeks. While our old approach may have worked when we were a much smaller company, we recognized that our rapid increase in size meant we would need additional structure and more stringent processes in order to handle greater volumes. We could no longer afford to be as informal about such things.
At the same time, there were situations where the best way forward was to use a process largely based on the one used by Lenovo. For example, IBM's approach to direct-materials costs was essentially to set cost baselines once a year and then to drive down suppliers' prices over the following year, using that baseline as the starting point. By contrast, Lenovo adjusted its baselines much more frequently to get the savings from fluctuating parts costs. In the end, we didn't think an annual system would get the best results given the size of the new company.
Finding the balance between the extremes was very important, and the process of picking and choosing took a lot of effort. Early on, this really stretched everyone to the limit.
The Quarterly: Given the stress involved, how did you ensure that the group came together as a team?
Qiao Song: Again, I think that balance was the key. I wanted to make sure the new group had time to integrate culturally and to learn from each other. In many cases of M&A integration, one company imposes totally new approaches from the very beginning, and I think this kind of revolutionary change can be very risky with respect to talent. You risk losing both good people and good ideas.
It's perhaps natural in a merger that one of the first things either side thinks about is who should be replaced. But this is the wrong way to think. It is better, in my view, not to force difficult people decisions too quickly. We had several people—including a fairly senior one—who initially had difficulties adapting to the new culture we were creating and weren't necessarily performing well as a result. But we were gentle with them and gave them time, and today those same people are still with us and performing very well.
However, we were extremely tough on the results. When the deal closed, we began reviews every two weeks for each individual commodity. We required team members to report on their progress toward getting the savings we'd targeted, as well as the progress of their team's development. I think this balance between being tough on performance but gentle with people really helped the two teams become one team. In fact, during the period before the deal closed we found that both sides, deep down, were very similar in that both have the same willingness and eagerness to win—and this helped us create a shared vision. This was very important because from day one of the new company, we needed to be running smoothly and without interruption.
The Quarterly: You've mentioned the mandate to create a new unit, for general procurement, focused on nonproduction-related spending. How did you approach that task?
Qiao Song: IBM didn't transfer its general-procurement unit—the group with responsibility for all the money spent on things that support production indirectly, such as office supplies or airfare—to us as part of the deal. IBM provided us with a transition service as part of a preferred-supplier agreement, and this gave us time to create a general-procurement unit to support our international operations.
Doing this presented challenges. For one thing, many of the spending categories in this area—for example, airfare—are very personal to people, so there is often much more resistance to changes than would be true of costs directly related to production. And a category like airfare was now, with our new global reach, much more complicated than it was when we were just a Chinese company. What's more, IBM's general-procurement spending was many multiples of Lenovo's, so we were concerned that we wouldn't get such good terms with suppliers. Finally, Lenovo runs a very tight budget, so we had limited resources to establish the team. For example, IBM had more than 1,000 people handling general procurement, whereas I had fewer than 30. And of course, we had extremely rigorous targets: we were asked to achieve $17 million in savings in the first year.
The Quarterly: How did you overcome these challenges?
Qiao Song: We chose our own people to manage this, people with credibility within the organization. We could have gone out and hired experts, but I think having insider experience proved to be very important. At the same time, we wanted to overcome any potential sensitivity by demonstrating the facts about how large the savings opportunities were in these nonproduction areas. So our general approach was to go after commodities that were somewhat sensitive—airfare, for example—but where a lot of money was at stake, so we could demonstrate the savings quickly and get a consensus, with our executive team, to fully support what we were doing.
There was one moment fairly early on that stands out. The team was on the phone with a senior executive, and everyone was really getting into issues such as changing from this or that airline, and there was a sense of caution. Are we going to do this or not? Will we lose support if we push too hard? And the executive said, "Let's settle this; I'm calling the CEO." And less than an hour later, the executive called back with the CEO's unwavering approval. Such support was crucial—particularly since in general procurement, one of your key levers is compliance. The biggest source of leakage is people getting around the rules and doing their own thing. We found that reinforcing travel policies represented a sizable opportunity—perhaps one-third of the savings.
Of course, there's also commercial leverage. By doing detailed studies of our usage patterns and understanding our demand, we were able to work with vendors to lower costs on the commercial side. Interestingly, we discovered that the scale differences—our size relative to IBM's—weren't as much of a factor with vendors as we'd anticipated. We had the minimum scale required to apply powerful techniques.
The Quarterly: How did you do against the targets?
Qiao Song: We exceeded them. On the general-procurement side, by the eighth month we'd reached an agreement with the CFO that everything was in place to exceed the target, although we needed the remaining four months to actually accrue the full savings. On the direct-materials side, we also exceeded our targets.
The Quarterly: Were there nonfinancial benefits as well?
Qiao Song: Absolutely, particularly on the materials side. Looking back, I think that during this period, we brought the design team and the procurement team much closer together. This led to important changes in our decision-making processes—changes that have had a real impact. Early on, honestly, everyone was a little skeptical about whether top executives would support some of the bigger changes we would have to make. But the facts, assembled jointly by the design and procurement teams, helped us achieve some real breakthroughs that added significant momentum to the effort.
The Quarterly: What skills are required to succeed in Lenovo's procurement unit?
Qiao Song: People must have an excellent understanding of the industry and of the particular commodity that they manage—whether it's LCD panels or plastics—and of course they must have very good negotiation skills. They must also have sharp instincts. In the PC industry, you sometimes need to make purchasing decisions very quickly, and there isn't time to do an in-depth analysis. You just need to act.
To help develop these skills, we look for ways to bring our procurement people together so they can learn from one other. For example, we don't handle our commodity-sourcing strategies on a commodity-by-commodity basis but instead bring the executives who manage commodities together so that they can get ideas from colleagues to apply to their own situations.
The Quarterly: How do you see the procurement function changing in your sector over the next few years?
Qiao Song: The global high-tech industry has very good growth potential. Winning new customers and gaining global market share will, I think, require many new products. Companies will have to differentiate their products in new ways—especially on the outside, in the look and feel of the product, as opposed to the inside, where there are fewer and fewer differences between competitors' offerings. Coming to terms with the additional complexity and product diversity therefore will be the central challenge for procurement in the technology sector in the next few years.
Another challenge is speed in the supply chain. Customers want everything to be faster and faster, and this creates challenges for supply continuity. This is an area I'm working on now—to become even faster in our international operations. Speed is very much the tradition of Lenovo. If you cannot run faster than your competitor, you will die.
James Hexter is a director in McKinsey's Beijing office.


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Judge Napolitano seems to be always spouting doomsday scenarios about Trump. Should anyone take him seriously?
Judge Andrew Napolitano is at it again.
His outlook on Pres. Trump is dim and gloomy. I've been watching Judge Nap for the last year or so, after his return to Fox News' suspension, and his entire demeanor has change where he has decided to start any discussion about Pres. Trump with a negative vibe.
It's not that he hates Trump, he doesn't offer a way out or any advice that seems remotely helpful.
I am not saying that's his job. You can be respectful bipartisan if you choose to get the bad with the good, but this guy needs help. Whether or not someone has his loved ones up for ransom or someone stole his favorite teddy bear, there has been something awry for a while now.
Napolitano and Varney went on to talk about the implications of the case, especially since political observers know that Trump strongly dislikes Bezos and has been friendly with Pecker for a long time. Napolitano acknowledged this even as he said he's seen "no evidence" to prove the Bezos-Pecker dispute connects to Trump.
After assessing that the allegation against AMI is blackmail and not "extortion," Napolitano said the company could still be in trouble if their conduct violates the plea agreement Pecker signed for the Cohen case.
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William Shakespeare's works are well-known, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters. Reading Shakespeare on your own can also appear somewhat daunting, even though his plays are full of emotion, philosophy and good fun! To access this fun in bringing the Bard's language to life, the Shakespeare Reading Group was founded in October 2014. Every Thursday, we meet to read the plays together - occasionally taking the chance to enact a scene or two. In addition to the play text, we also discuss Elizabethan and Jacobean socio-political theory, philosophy and life in general.
If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and comfortable shoes. In the summer semester 2019, we are going to read Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost and meet in U2/00.26 on Thursday at 6 p.m. sharp.


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First, a word of warning . . .
I don't want to get too scientific here, but there are a few things you should know before you sink your teeth into this book. I've tried to keep it simple enough that anyone twelve and up could read and understand it. Werewolves were everywhere in Europe in the late sixteenth century. Go to a party, there would be a werewolf. Go to work, you're probably working next to a werewolf. Bump into a stranger on the street—werewolf!
They were slowly killed off in Europe as the true nature of a werewolf is a terribly hard thing to control. Eventually you get that urge to eat someone. And let's face it; eating people is just rude.
Now here's the scary bit, the bit that concerns you. While werewolves ceased to be a part of the world, they didn't necessarily leave it. On the contrary, humans evolved to repress the werewolf gene out of the fear they would be decapitated, shot with a silver bullet, burned alive, or a terrifying combination of all three. What this means is that every single human being is still carrying the werewolf gene. You, right now, sitting right where you are, have the werewolf gene swimming around somewhere inside of you.
Genes are strings of DNA. DNA makes you who you are. You have that werewolf gene inside you. It's just not active. Not yet.
To fully activate that werewolf gene, you'd have to be bitten by another werewolf, someone who turns into a giant wolf-like creature when there's a full moon. So fear not! As long as no one has bitten you recently, you're likely okay.
So why this warning? You're probably thinking there's no chance I'll turn into a werewolf because I haven't been bitten. That is absolutely true. However, while it's impossible to turn into a werewolf unless you're bitten, it is very possible to awaken that sleeping werewolf gene by learning too much about them. This book will teach you a lot about those hairy creatures of the night, so I want you to be extra careful while reading it.
- You find yourself looking at other humans and thinking lunch.
- You start to notice smells you never smelled before.
- You growl at people instead of talking to them.
- Your nails begin to grow at an alarming rate.
- You scratch your head in public using your leg.
- You greet your friends at the bus stop by sniffing their butts.
- You begin to grow hair in all the wrong places.
Did you read this and think that's nothing but a bunch of ridiculous mumbo jumbo? Well, why not find out for yourself . . . pick up a copy and see how it affects you. I dare you! No, I double dare you!
Andrew Buckley attended the Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television program. After pitching and developing several screenplay projects for film and television, he worked in marketing and public relations, before becoming a professional copy and content writer. During this time Andrew began writing his first adult novel, DEATH, THE DEVIL AND THE GOLDFISH, followed closely by his second novel, STILTSKIN. He also writes a spy thriller series under the pen name 'Jane D Everly'.
Andrew also co-hosts a geek movie podcast, is working on several new novels, and has a stunning amount of other ideas. He now lives happily in the Okanagan Valley, BC with three kids, one cat, one needy dog, one beautiful wife, and a multitude of characters that live comfortably inside of his mind.
What has he done? What's happening to him? And what on Earth is that smell? For Colin Strauss, puberty stinks. Blackouts, hallucinations, and lapses in memory are the perils of growing up werewolf. Worse than that, Colin worries he might have had something to do with the recent attacks on the townspeople. He may have eaten a person. It doesn't matter that it's someone he doesn't particularly like. What kind of boy goes around eating people? Foolishly, all Colin can think about is how Becca Emerson finally kissed him for the first time. Yep, hormones are afoot. Yikes! But girls will have to wait. Collin better get himself under control before someone else ends up hurt or worse . . . dead.
Based on your criteria, I think I'm safe from werewolfdom. However, I'm going to be vigilant from now on. Thanks for the heads up!


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Alana Levandoski
Sunday Song and Rumination
So Far to Go - Sitting with No Answers
There is a scene in the film Wild, based on the book by Cheryl Strayed, where the protagonist finally reaches the beginning of the Pacific Crest Trail after a very confusing time of loss and addiction. She takes some steps on the path, and very soon after those steps, she looks behind her, and then forward, realizing how far she's come to get to this point, but still how far she has to go.
I too took a pilgrimage once. After devastating blow, after devastating blow, I found myself in the refuge of a Benedictine monastery, next to a monastic library, finally reading all the books I had forbidden myself to read before that time. I told myself, 'because they weren't theologically astute enough', but really it was because I was afraid of what they might open up for me. That the dam built on the flood of my own true soul would burst, and there would be no telling what would be left of the "me" guarding that soul.
On the grounds of that monastery is a very old tree by the river. And although I was surrounded by good grandmother energy with the all the sisters, I was trying to be a "good steward of my pain", as Fred Buechner wrote, I think in his book, Telling Secrets. So after I was finished working on the grounds, I would climb that old grandmother tree, and let her hold me as I wept. She was very tender and had the natural and wise capacity to absorb my suffering and hand it back out to the Infinite. It was like her roots were drinking from the river, to absorb my austerity, and let it flush away into the great Wholeness that could bear it.
While at the monastery, as I struggled to make sense of all that was happening, I also began to make plans to take a journey by myself, from Newfoundland to New Orleans, looking for music that came more from life than from the industry of music, along the way.
Partly this pilgrimage was a way to reconstruct some semblance of an identity. But it was also a way to move the story forward. It was also a way to feel at "home", because I had spent many years on the road by that point, that it was sometimes more home than home was in those years.
In some ways, looking back, it really was my own internal ancestral wisdom telling me it was time to become a grown up. But there was no one around that could name what I needed. A ritual. An initiatory ceremony, with elders that could sit with me in that liminal space with no answers. And in other ways, it was the distance I needed to give myself permission to name my own trauma and not to feel like I was letting people down no matter how guilty some people made me feel.
I had a very small amount of money, got in my 1996 Passat Wagon with a questionable transmission, and left Winnipeg one day, with really no farewell, and drove 4,222kms to reach my beginning destination at Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland. From there, I slowly continued south, for the next 6 months, all the way to Louisiana. Along the way I was the minstrel on a tall ship for two weeks, I worked on a farm, helped to scrape and paint a farmhouse, and played music with many people from all walks of life. I was in the heart of the Mississippi Delta at juke joints in the middle of the night. I slept in my car most of the time, or on beaches, or off the beaten path in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Identifying wholeheartedly with the Orphan archetype, so I could eventually come to parent her, like we all must do.
Inside, I could feel almost nothing. Looking back, I think it is because I was tired of feeling too much. Slowly but surely, I was healing, although at the time, it looked like confusion on steroids. I wonder sometimes how many of us would heal more deeply if we were given the gift of it all falling apart. To sit in the belly of the whale with all but a few left you might call 'friend'. To give yourself the freedom to make mistakes, and fumble your way through.
This reflection is not going to culminate with an answer. It is not going to wrap up neatly. The song for today is about those times in life when there are no answers, but we find our footing one day at a time, in the process of healing and growing and letting go.
I'll end with the spoken word in the song from James Finley:
There comes a time in this process, where a person comes to realize that it was just as bad, or maybe worse than they thought it would be, to go through all this. But they also know that they've come to a point where there's no turning back. They also know that they can't force their way to closure on their own terms. And therefore, I'm betwixt and between two worlds. I'm so grateful I'm no longer as confused and thoroughly lost in the suffering as I used to be, but oh how I wish, that glimmer of freedom that I see could be realized. It's a time where I need to be patient and prudently courageous, and let myself transform one day at a time. This is where I really learn to trust that I'm on a path, not of my own making, and I'm being transformed in this.
Thomas Merton once prayed to God, "Oh how far I have to go to come to rest in you, in whom I've already arrived. I only wish it were over. I only wish it were begun."
Michelle Gonzales
I'm here for this.
Thank you for this gift today! ❤
Sonia Rudd
Thank you for this Alana. I had a similar experience 20 years ago. It was tragic to learn that some in the Christian community just can't cope with someone who goes off piste for a while. I so needed that 'falling upward' experience to come to a deeper walk with God. Thank you so much for your using your gifts so freely. My husband and myself help out at a retreat centre in England called Lee Abbey and I use your songs in the morning worship. Many are deeply touched. I'm 74 and there's still so far to go, Blessings Sonia
Leslie Orthober
Thank you so very much for this beautiful reflection.
I remember vividly the loss and pain and joy and growth in our lives 50+ years ago. Still on this amazing journey and I rejoice that you are a blessing in my journey.
Jeanne Luther
Thank you Alana for the depth of your reflection...both in words and song. I can relate to so much of what you said, as my journey, too, has been a pilgrimage of learning, growing and deepening. But I recognize and sometimes lament that there's still so far to go.
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Diane Gilliam-Weeks
I love the reflection Alana! I'm at the beginning of chemo for breast cancer. During the dark three days post infusion I remembered how far I'd come...on the third day the sun started to come out. Lots of love. Diane
Diane- I just saw this. Oh my goodness.
Thanks for sharing this precious time in your life. Healing and peace, sister.
lynne kemp
Hi Alana, Just what I needed to read today. I just left a cum laude induction for my daughter, where a woman with her PhD spoke about how big of an accomplishment it was to get it, and how it really made her grow. Her speech in juxtaposition with your writing above...they seem so opposite. Her story is what the world tells us is important, everyday. Something in me tells me that your story is the "real" story, the ultimate "success". It saddened me a little that all those young people listened to her and really believe that their life is all about reaching that goal (success), never giving up on it, and how it will define you. None of that is really true. Blessings to you.
Hi Lynn!
Thanks for sharing. I have mixed feelings about the academy as well. I respect it for developing critical thinking skills and perhaps for specialization, but I'm cut from a cloth that sees the devastation caused by the enforced, compulsory education of the indigenous people of Canada. In a recent interview with ElderStan Mckay, I was struck by how it wasn't just residential schools that destroyed the way of life, but when the children and women had to stay back from the winter homes (trap lines) because it was against the law for them to not be in school. It's a mixed up thing for me- because I see much of it as preparation for 9-5 living in service of Empire. And I think about Joseph Campbell's line of climbing the ladder only to realize that it's up against the wrong wall. I have to look at it with both/and eyes but struggle with the emphasis nonetheless.
Alana Levandoski is a song and chant writer, recording artist and music producer, in the Christian tradition, who lives with her family on a regenerative farm on the Canadian prairies.
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Deskeo is continuing its development in the Central Business District with a new lease from a private lessor. The flexible office specialist now offers more than 10,000 sqm of office space in the 8th arrondissement.
In a Haussmann-style building, a stone's throw from the Champs-Elysées roundabout, the space is spread over three floors. Deskeo will offer office space on the 1st, 3rd and 5th floors. The areas have high ceilings, large windows and glass partitions, for optimum light. Each floor will be fitted out and personalised for its future occupant, who will benefit from Deskeo's turnkey offer, from the choice of furniture and decoration to the management of the works and daily maintenance of the spaces. This building is already available for reservation for an installation planned for the beginning of 2021.
Benjamin Teboul, co-founder of Deskeo: "Our forecasts of the last few months are now coming true. We had anticipated a growing demand for the product we offer and even more so for surfaces of less than 1,000 sq. m., the democratisation of teleworking and the lack of visibility of users have been determining factors. With the health crisis, companies are increasingly favouring central locations and are now looking for smaller and more flexible spaces. After signing a 1,000 sq. m. building on rue Georges Mandel (Paris 16th) in September, we are pursuing our development strategy to offer an ever-growing portfolio of space. This new lease meets the specifications of emerging demand, with three floors perfectly suited to our turnkey offer. Although we have recently installed larger companies such as Frichti (300 employees) or OpenClassrooms (200 employees), companies with 20 to 100 employees are natural candidates for our flexible office offer, which combines the advantages of coworking (flexibility, services) and traditional leasing (personalisation, confidentiality)."
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Scores Arrested in Nationwide Protests Against Police-Involved Shootings
Published at 10:15 am on July 10, 2016
Protests and demonstrations continued nationwide Saturday following the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, by police in Baton Rouge on Tuesday and the death of Philando Castile, 32, on Wednesday night in a St. Paul, Minnesota suburb, cities which both saw heated protests on Saturday.
Scores of protesters were arrested after shutting down main arteries in a number of U.S. cities, with some demonstrations morphing into violent confrontations with police.
President Barack Obama called Sunday for greater tolerance, respect and understanding from police officers toward the people they take an oath to protect as well as from individuals who think the police are too heavy handed and intolerant, particularly toward people of color.
"I'd like all sides to listen to each other," Obama said as he answered a reporter's question after meeting with Spain's acting prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, during his shortened first visit to Spain as president.
It was the fourth straight day that Obama has commented on a series of distressing events back home.
State police spokesman Doug Cain says about a dozen people were arrested Sunday night in Baton Rouge, which has seen a long weekend of protests against the police killing of a black man last week.
Charges were not immediately clear.
A crowd of about 200 protesters shouted "No justice, no peace!" as officers in helmets and other tactical gear watched from the other side of a street near Interstate 110.
About a block away, dozens of law enforcement officers and nearly 30 police vehicles assembled near an underpass, shutting down Government Street.
On Saturday, prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and three reporters were among 99 people arrested during demonstrations in Baton Rouge.
Mckesson, who live-streamed his arrest on Periscope, was walking alongside Airline Highway when he was detained.
A police officer appears to tell Mckesson, who was walking on the shoulder of the road, that he'd been "flagged" for walking on the highway, NBC News reported.
"You with them loud shoes, I see you on the road. If I get close to you you're going to jail. You better keep walking."
Protesters were demonstrating against the shooting death Tuesday of 37-year-old Alton Sterling.
Mckesson was released early Sunday morning. He and fellow protesters were charged with "simple obstruction of highway commerce," according to court records from East Baton Rouge Parish Jail.
Police used smoke bombs to clear demonstrators blocking Interstate 94 in St. Paul during a protest sparked by the recent police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
The smoke was used just after midnight Saturday when about 200 protesters were in the roadway as police in riot gear slowly moved in.
Authorities say 21 St. Paul officers and six state troopers sustained non-serious injuries when hit by rocks, firecrackers and bottles thrown by protesters. More than 100 people were arrested in Saint Paul, police said.
A leader on a loudspeaker urged the group to march to the governor's mansion, where protesters have gathered since the fatal police shooting Wednesday night of Philando Castile. The 32-year-old black man was shot during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul.
Hundreds of people have marched in New York City for the third consecutive day to protest police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The protesters chanted "Black lives matter" and "No justice, no peace" as they marched through Manhattan on Saturday. As many as 1,000 people joined the protest, but many left when it started raining.
Police officers marched alongside the protesters and tried to keep them on the sidewalk. A police spokesman said there were at least 20 arrests.
Protester Cynthia Howell said she is not against the police but she wants to see accountability.
Howell is a niece of Alberta Spruill, who died of a heart attack in 2003 after police threw a concussion grenade into her Harlem apartment.
Howell said officers who do "reckless, dangerous things" must be held accountable.
And further upstate in Rochester, 74 people were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct during a protest on July 9 and 10.
Angry protesters in Philadelphia marched to two police precincts in the northern part of the city, facing off with police officers who kept calm as demonstrators shouted slogans and sometimes taunted them.
Hundreds of people took part in Saturday's six-hour march, which attracted a multiracial, multi-ethnic crowd upset over the fatal shooting of black men. They sought to shut down police activity and traffic in the precincts as part of what they proclaimed a "weekend of rage."
Protesters yelled expletives at police standing outside the district building, NBC affiliate WCAU reported. Police said no arrests were made in connection to Saturday's protests.
"The police kill people, they're killing us and I think yelling at the police is a way to get out some of our aggression," said Ariel Taylor, one of the protesters.
In Pittsburgh Saturday, several hundred people broke off from the city's 200th anniversary parade to protest recent police shootings across the country. Some were affiliated with Black Lives Matter.
They marched from Point State Park on Saturday afternoon to the county courthouse.
Several hundred protesters took to the streets of San Francisco, blocking several roads and ramps to get on and off the Bay Bridge.
The California Highway Patrol closed access to the bridge at least two times Saturday afternoon when protesters took over freeway ramps, causing traffic to back up.
The group began marching from the city's Hall of Justice to the downtown shopping area, causing a temporary shutdown of a popular mall as the crowd gathered there to chant slogans and make speeches.
In central California, several hundred protesters blocked several intersections as they marched against police brutality in central Fresno. Officers in riot gear blocked an on-ramp to keep the protesters from entering State Route 41.
In Chicago, hundreds of protesters attempted to shut down the Taste of Chicago food festival in an event dubbed "No Justice, No Revenue," according to the event's Facebook description.
"The Taste of Chicago Shutdown" took place around 5 p.m. ET, with many of the demonstrators staging a die-in.
Protesters continued to march through downtown Chicago, staging sit-ins and blocking traffic at multiple locations near Grant Park and Millennium Park. Police said 14 people were arrested.
Hundreds of people marched in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale as part of the Black Lives Matter movement in demonstrations that ended peacefully.
Protesters in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday chanted "No justice, no peace" and "Hands up, don't shoot." At one point the protest stopped outside a Broward County jail and prisoners banged on windows in support.
The demonstrations came after police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and the deadly sniper attack on police officers in Dallas.
A Palm Beach Post reporter tweeted a photo of a protester shaking a police officer's hand as the West Palm Beach protest disbursed.
A third protest was planned in Miami on Saturday evening.
More than 150 people gathered in downtown Newport in support of the Black Lives Matter movement after a week of violence across the nation.
The Providence Journal reports the group marched on Saturday afternoon to call for changes after the police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota this week.
Speakers urged the crowd to get involved in grassroots efforts to improve law enforcement across the country.
Seneca Pender of Middletown organized the rally. He told the crowd that the senseless killings of black people "have to stop."
Pender also thanked law enforcement officers who provided security at the rally in Newport and denounced the deadly attack Thursday on police officers at a Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas that left five officers dead.
Black Lives Matter supporters said they plan to continue a sit-in in Denver in response to the police shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana through Tuesday for a total of 135 hours. That's an hour for each of the black people they say have been killed by police across the country this year.
The gathering, across from the City and County Building, began Thursday afternoon, several hours before police officers were killed in Dallas.
People have been dropping off food and water for those camped out on chairs and blankets in Civic Center Park.
Protesters who support the Black Lives Matter movement rallied in Salt Lake City, with some saying they grieved both the losses of the black men in Louisiana and Minnesota and fallen Dallas police officers.
"The answer to guns is not more guns," said Deyvid Morales, who directed the protest Saturday, told the Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/29vvYAl.) "The answer to stop this violence is to peacefully talk things out, to come together as a community. ... We just want peace."
Two black women and one Latina spoke at the rally, expressing fear for loved ones and themselves in dealings with police.
"It's terrifying to be the mother of a black child," Jessica Lee said. "Speaking from personal experience, it is terrifying to know that next year my son is going to be out driving, so I constantly have to grill him on things — what to say, what not to say."
The protesters included Carl Moore of Orem. He did a dance in traditional Native American clothing. The dance was a tribute to the human race, he said.
"When I see this 'All Lives Matter,' what it does is it dilutes the situation," Moore said. "What we're doing right now is Black Lives Matter."


This International Women's Day 2017 the campaign theme is #BeBoldForChange – a call for us to forge a better, gender inclusive working world.
The Global Development Institute's Professor Stephanie Barrientos has been researching the sustainability of global value chains including cocoa, fresh vegetables, fruit, flowers and garments for over 15 years. Her research played a positive role in addressing global inequalities and supporting initiatives to empower women workers. Some of her recommendations were used as the basis for the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership which later evolved into today's Cocoa Life scheme.
So why are we looking at Stephanie's work on International Women's Day 2017?
At lower value chain tiers many workers's incomes are below a living wage. Women workers often experience verbal and sexual harassment from male supervisors.
Downward pressure on costs and increased requirements for flexibility placed on suppliers reinforces precarious working practices.
Research has shown paid work in global value chains increases women's economic independence and voice. However, proactive strategies are needed to promote greater gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
Recently Stephanie gave presentations at SOAS University of London and University of Warwick on 'Retail Shift: Transforming Work and Gender in Global Value Chains'. She advanced a gendered analysis of global (re)production networks (GrPNs), drawing on global value chain analysis, labour geographies and feminist political economy.
Drawing on case studies on women's work in cocoa, fruit, flowers and garments, her research shows outcomes for women can be mixed. Those caught in 'low road' cheap labour value chains experience poor conditions and low wages. Those engaged in 'high road' value chains requiring greater skill and productivity are more likely to enjoy better conditions and rights.
Stephanie's research provides insights into social upgrading and downgrading (better or worse conditions and rights), and how these play out for different workers. It examines to what extent engaging in global value chains reinforces gender inequalities or opens up channels for promoting gender equality and women's economic empowerment.
Civil society campaigns can help to leverage improvements in working conditions and gender equality. This occurred in the Kenyan flower industry over the past decade.
Company moves to increase quality and productivity, and rising concerns over the future resilience of their supply chains can help drive improvements. This is now occurring in cocoa-chocolate value chains following industry predictions of a million ton cocoa shortage by 2020.
Government regulation needs to be more proactive in ensuring better labour conditions and rights for all workers (permanent and casual). This must include ensuring workers earn a living wage and smallholder farmers a living income.
In conclusion Stephanie argues that changing retail procurement practices and changing patterns of consumption in developed and emerging economies are transforming gendered patterns of work. Downward pressure on costs, quality standards, civil society campaigns and increased requirements for skilled labour are resulting in complex gender dynamics.
Effective governance and proactive strategies by all actors (public, private and social), is critical to promoting greater gender equality in global retail value chains and supporting women's economic empowerment.