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In class, we have spent the past several weeks unpacking a typical yoga class so you can determine how to create your own practice.
This summer, join me as we explore the parts of the body and the methods we can use for bringing relieve to imbalances so you can age more pain-free.
On and off the mat, I thank you for sharing this practice with me…using simple yoga principles to find a better way to be in this world.


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Well, I was randomly surfing the net and found this lovely portrait.
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Villa Nanda is in unbeatable location. You'll have the shops, bars and restaurants as well as Waikiki Beach virtually on your doorstep. What's more the world famous Corralejo Sand Dunes and spectacular beach of Grandes Playas are only 10 minutes' drive away. The villa is contemporary and stylishly decorated, plus has its own private pool - ideal for a relaxing holiday. Air conditioning/heating in the bedrooms, pool heating and WiFi are included.
A contemporary villa with a private pool in the heart of Corralejo - you couldn't ask for more.
The outside area is great for soaking up the Canarian sun. There is a private swimming pool, a shaded terrace with a table and chairs and brick BBQ - all vital ingredients for an enjoyable holiday. At the side of the villa there are games tables for everyone to enjoy.
From the road, the gates open onto the pool area and the front door is to the side of the villa.
The lounge/dining room is bright and spacious and has access to the pool area. There is comfortable seating, a flat screen TV and a dining table and chairs. The well-equipped contemporary kitchen is adjacent and has access to the utility room.
There is a twin bedroom with an en suite shower room on the ground floor. The remaining bedrooms - a double and a twin - are located on the first floor. Both bedrooms share the facilities of the separate bathroom and have access to the shared terrace. The double bedroom also has a private terrace too.
Villa Nanda is in residential area with restaurants and supermarkets just a stone's throw away. The beach of Waikiki is 5 minutes on foot and Galera Beach is 5 minutes further. What's more the spectacular Corralejo Sand Dunes and breathtaking beach of Grandes Playa are both 10 minutes' drive away. You can even take a ferry from the harbour to Playa Blanca and visit Europe's first underwater museum. Villa Nanda is semi-detached with Villa Jenny and our Villas Ola, Sirena, Pino and Juliana are nearby.
There are shops a few minutes' walk from the villa. If you're after some retail therapy, then 2 shopping centres - Las Palmeras and El Campanario - await you. Here you can find high street fashion, designer shops and cafes. There is the local market on Tuesdays and Fridays - great for bargains! Best to get there early as it gets very popular.
The bars and restaurants are virtually on your doorstep where you can enjoy lunch at one of the tapas bars which have typical local food from the island and cater for everyone's taste. Or by night enjoy the live music venues and eateries near Waikiki Beach with views out to the ocean. At Corralejo Harbour you will find good quality local restaurants.
Waikiki Beach is the closest to Villa Nanda, 5 minutes' walk away. There is the sandy beach of Galera a little bit further away and of course the stunning beach of Grandes Playas, 10 minutes' drive away. You will be spoilt for choice as Fuerteventura claims to have the best beaches in the Canary Islands!
Acua Waterpark in Corralejo offers a variety of water slides and tubes or you may choose to venture in to the wave pool or the lazy river! You can even try your hand at crazy golf which is also located at the Acua Waterpark.
El Cotillo is a little fishing village and is dedicated to the virgin of good travel (Virgin de Buen Viaje) and these words can be seen painted on the cliffs in the old harbour. This is truly the surfing and windsurfing Mecca of the island. These monster waves have even been known to sink some of the small fishing boats that are moored there. Many experienced surfers head to the beaches of El Cotillo and those between El Cotillo and Corralejo because of these conditions.
The Mirador de Lobos Golf Resort in Corralejo is the closest one to Villa Nanda. Alternatively, there are other golf courses in Caleta de Fuste located on the East Coast just after the airport.
You can try the go-karting track in the capital Puerto del Rosario. Smaller karts are also available for children. Or, try water sports such as windsurfing, snorkelling, kayaking and catamaran sailing.
Villa Nanda is not available to book for season as it is sold out. Take a look here at the Fuerteventura villas that are currently on sale.
Fabulous villa, great location. Everything you needed.
Our second time at this villa and we love it because of its central location. Lovely modern villa 2 min walk to centre and 5 min walk to beach, yet quiet and private. Would highly recommend!
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very clean,plenty of kitchen items etc and exactly what we expect when we pick it,no complaints at all.
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I spent the first 30 years of my career as a sports photographer. I was co-team photographer of the San Jose Sharks for 28 years and worked with Sports Illustrated for 7 years. I also worked for Upper Deck and then Fleer for 14 years.
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Chris Hayes was a little-known player who came up to the Giants from the minors for a cup of coffee. He just happened to make a good image in a home plate collision with Colorado Rockies catcher Kirt Manwaring (a former Giant).
Chris Jones - San Francisco Giants - Candlestick Park - 1998
Chris Jones makes a miraculous catch for the San Francisco Giants while colliding into Alex Diaz in a game at Candlestick.
John Jaha - Milwaukee Brewers - Compadre Stadium - Chandler, Arizona - Spring Training Photo Day - February - 1998
John Jaha was another cool dude. He played 10 years in the majors with Milwaukee and Oakland. He and I always got along and it was fun spending the last three years of his career in Oakland photographing many of his home games. He finished with a career .263 batting average and hit 141 home runs.


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Playing with the tradition pepper and egg sandwich.
WHEN is a twist on something so different that it doesn't resemble the original at all? This might be one of those times.
When Lenten observances demand a meatless meal, the pepper and egg sandwich is a favourite for its fat strips of sautéed green bell pepper nestled into mounds of fluffy scrambled eggs, all tucked into a crusty roll. Some would add giardiniera for heat and a tart contrast to the sandwich's richness, but there's not much reason to toy with it.
This sandwich is like the original only in that it has an egg and a bell pepper and there's bread. I played with each ingredient, then added a few for more fat, savouriness and freshness.
If you like a runny yolk, you could make this a knife-and-fork sandwich, or just embrace the messiness. I like focaccia here, but if you don't have a good source, another crusty bread, maybe a kaiser roll or ciabatta, would work well. One thing the sandwich lacks is some acid. But giardiniera seems, in my mind, a bad fit. To bring in some acid, I'd toss together a vinegar-dressed slaw to serve alongside.
And then say penance for messing with a classic.
Slice the focaccia in half horizontally. Spread the inside of the top half with olive spread. Place the roasted pepper on bottom half; top with the fried egg, then the cheese. Sprinkle with plenty of rocket leaves. Close with the top half of the focaccia.


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Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas, a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers.
Now, it's the early 90's. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.
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Self-guided campus tours.
A self-guided tour allows you to visit our Canterbury Campus outside of normal campus tours and open days, at a time convenient to you.
At present we cannot offer self-guided tours of our Canterbury campus.
We are monitoring the situation closely and are following the official advice from Public Health England and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as guidance from the Department for Education and Universities UK.
If you would like to take part in a self-guided tour, please make your way to the main reception in The Old Sessions House on the Canterbury Campus and collect a pack and self-guided tour brochure.
We recommend visiting during weekday office hours (9am to 5pm). Outside of these hours you may be unable to access several areas of the University.
It is not possible to arrange to meet staff from academic departments or view university accommodation during these visits. To do this, you will need to attend an open day or, once you have applied to the University and been offered a place, attend a visit day.
Please note that there is no parking available on campus. If you are planning to drive to the University, you should visit Canterbury City Council's online guide to parking in the city and its Park and Ride service.
Canterbury is supported by excellent transport links, including two train stations and a bus and coach terminal. To help visitors plan their visits, the University has created a downloadable PDF Guide to the Canterbury Campus and city centre.
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Electrochemical Performance of Diamond Thin-Film Electrodes from Different Commercial Sources
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The electrochemical properties of two commercial (Condias, Sumitomo) boron-doped diamond thin-film electrodes were compared with those of two types of boron-doped diamond thin film deposited in our laboratory (microcrystalline, nanocrystalline). Scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy were used to characterize the electrode morphology and microstructure, respectively. Cyclic voltammetry was used to study the electrochemical response, with five different redox systems serving as probes (Fe(CN)63-/4-, Ru(NH3)63+/2+, IrCl62-/3-, 4-methylcatechol, Fe3+/2+). The response for the different systems was quite reproducibile from electrode type to type and from film to film for electrodes of the same type. For all five redox systems, the forward reaction peak current varied linearly with the scan rate1/2 (ν), indicative of electrode reaction kinetics controlled by mass transport (semi-infinite linear diffusion) of the reactant. Apparent heterogeneous electron-transfer rate constants, k°app, for all five redox systems were determined from ΔEp−ν experimental data, according to the method described by Nicholson (Nicholson, R. S. Anal. Chem. 1965, 37, 1351.). The rate constants were also verified through digital simulation (DigiSim 3.03) of the voltammetric i−E curves at different scan rates. Good fits between the experimental and simulated voltammograms were found for scan rates up to 50 V/s. k°app values of 0.05−0.5 cm/s were observed for Fe(CN)63-/4-, Ru(NH3)63+/2+, and IrCl62-/3- without any extensive electrode pretreatment (e.g., polishing). Lower k°app values of 10-4−10-6 cm/s were found for 4-methylcatechol and Fe3+/2+. The voltammetric responses for Fe(CN)63-/4- and Ru(NH3)63+/2+ were also examined at all four electrode types at two different solution pH (1.90, 7.35). Since the hydrogen-terminated diamond surfaces contain few, if any, ionizable carbon−oxygen functionalities (e.g., carboxylic acid, pKa ∼4.5), the ΔEp, ipox, and ipred values for the two systems were, for the most part, unaffected by the solution pH. This is in contrast to the typical behavior of oxygenated, sp2 carbon electrodes, such as glassy carbon.
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Q: Hooke's Law is valid upto what limit? My textbook states:
" the extension produced in the wire is directly proportional to the load applied,within elastic limit."
But my Physics professor said that it is valid upto only proportionality limit.
My guess : It should be upto elastic limit as the body should not reform and behave as a plastic.

A: Your prof is correct: there are two distinct limits here dealing with two different concepts:

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*The proportionality limit, which defines the maximum stress / strain that an object can undergo before the relationship $\sigma \propto \epsilon$ ($\sigma$ is stress, $\epsilon$ is strain) becomes invalid. If you think about it, this notion needs to be further qualified to be fully meaningful: in general the relationship is nonlinear i.e. $\sigma = f(\epsilon)$ for some general nonlinear function $f$ that approximates to $\sigma=k\,\epsilon$ for small $\epsilon$. So, to be clear, one must define how much one deviates from linearity to define a limit: there is always some deviation. You might specify a "proportional to within 1%" limit, for example.

*The elastic limit, which defines the maximum stress / strain that an object can withstand and respond reversibly to stress in the sense that the body returns exactly to the same, zero-stress shape when the stress is released as it had before the application of stress and the body's stress / strain relationship stays the same upon the release of stress and its re-application. Strain beyond the elastic limit leads to a change of the body's zero-stress state shape.
To my knowledge, the limiting stress /strain in 2. is always greater than that in  1., sometimes considerably so. I'm not aware of any materials where 1. is greater than 2.; such behavior would be weird and interesting and perhaps someone else can answer whether it is possible (but that's another question).

A: I believe the definition section of the following wikipedia page will be of use:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_%28engineering%29
Your teacher is correct to say Hooke's law is only really valid up to the proportionality limit, and this is simply because Hooke's law is a proportionality law, i.e. Force (or stress) is proportional to extension (or strain). Beyond the proportionality limit, by definition the force and extension are no longer proportional and so Hooke's law is not entirely valid.
However, the elastic behaviour itself, where deformations are temporary, lasts up to the elastic limit. This does indeed mean there is a region where you obtain non-proportional elastic behaviour, between the proportionality and elastic limits. This non-linearity arises here because, in my best understanding, Hooke's law is simply an approximation that is accurate until you approach the limit of elasticity. For metals, like steel, this non-linear elastic region is usually small, and in some practical cases it is ignored altogether! However, materials like elastomers will have a much larger non-linear elastic limit.

A: In this context, elastic means that the force is proportional to the stretch.

A: Notice, let $\delta$ be the extension produced by applying a load say $F$ then Hooke's law in mathematical form is $$\delta\propto F\ \ \ \ or\ \ F=k\delta$$
where, $k$ is a constant

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*The linear relationship $F=k\delta$ (between the extension $\delta$ & the load applied $F$) holds good upto proportionality limit i.e. the extension is linearly proportional to the load applied

*From the point of proportionality limit to the point of elastic limit, the linear relationship $F=k\delta$ doesn't hold good i.e. the graph between load vs extension is nonlinear the extension $\delta$ is not directly proportional to the load $F$ although the material can reform.


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The origins of ear candling have not been firmly established. Some attribute the practice to the Hopi Native American tribe, but the Hopi Tribe quite vehemently deny that ear candling has anything to do with them, and request that people stop associating them with the practice. Apparently, the link originated with Biosun, the largest manufacturer of ear candles in Europe, whose website shows murals of the Hopi Tribe sharing candles. However, these murals are from the "Hopi Tower", a gift shop in the Grand Canyon that wasn't built until 1930 (source: this article).
Ear candles are hollow, conical candles made out of a mixture of paper and wax that are usually inserted into the ear canal as shown above, while the end is lit. People usually use a plate or towel around the candle to stop any drips on the outside of the candle from burning the ear or face (but what's to stop wax dripping down the inside of the candle?).
What Are Ear Candles Used For?
Ear candlers (or "thermo-auricular therapists" as they prefer to be known), insert a lit candle into a client's ear canal, and often give a face and/or scalp massage, and may also play relaxing music.
However, do ear candles live up to the hype? A basic knowledge of the anatomy of the ear will tell you that the outer ear (the part of the ear including the auricle, the ear canal and the eardrum) is separated from the middle ear, the Eustachian tube, and the nasopharynx by the eardrum. Unless you have a perforated ear drum, there's no way that an ear candle can have any physical effect on your nose, throat or sinuses, unless you inhale the smoke.
Actually, there is a chance that an ear candle may perforate your ear drum, as although most ear candlers use a plate or towel to protect your face from dripping wax, there's nothing to stop wax dripping down the hollow inside of the candle and severely burning your ear canal and /or eardrum. There are documented cases of ear injuries from ear candles, including a perforated ear drum (see this pubmed article). If you are going to use an ear candle (and we recommend that you don't), the candle should be held horizontally to avoid hot wax dripping into your ear or onto your face. As you can see, the flame can get quite high, so there's a danger that the flame may set your hair alight, especially if you use hairspray and have long hair.
I can't really comment on whether ear candles enhance "energy flow", or "aid clarity of thought". As noted above, it is simply impossible for ear candles to help the sinuses, nose or middle ear with conditions such as sinusitis, blocked nasal passages, snoring or glue ear. What about stress relief, relaxation, extracting ear wax, helping hearing loss or treating tinnitus?
Ear candlers are often simply massage therapists that have taken extra training to differentiate themselves from their competition. They will often play relaxing music and give clients a face and/or scalp massage, and this is most likely where the relaxation and stress relief component comes from. If you want to relax, I'd suggest you would be better off paying for a face, shoulder and scalp massage and you won't put yourself at risk of ear injury! In the long term, you would be better off practising Mindfulness Meditation.
Ear candlers believe that ear candles extract ear wax from the ear canal, reducing wax blockage and improving hearing as a result. The supposedly do this through the "chimney effect". It has, though, been scientifically proven that ear candles don't generate enough vacuum to remove ear wax. Actually, they don't generate any vacuum, and often deposit wax and soot on the ear drum of the recipient. You can find many videos on YouTube confirming this. Many videos on YouTube warn that ear candling is a hoax or that ear candling is dangerous! There are many effective treatments for wax blockage, hearing loss and tinnitus, and we recommend that you look for a qualified and registered ENT Consultant, Audiologist, Hearing Aid Dispenser or Specialist Ear Nurse to look after your ears.
If you suspect you have a hearing loss, it may just be wax. In this case, you can have the wax microsuctioned. A good microsuction clinic will be able to look inside your ears and confirm if you have wax or not - many clinics have an ear scan machine that enables you to see inside your own ear on a screen.
The ear examination is actually an important part of the procedure, and someone who knows the anatomy and pathology of the ear will be able to detect any problems that need further investigation. If there's wax, they can remove the wax, and afterwards they can do a 1-minute hearing check that will tell you if your hearing is normal, or if you have a slight loss.
There are three main medically-approved methods of ear wax removal: syringing, dry instrument removal, and micro suction.
Microsuction is the safest and most effective method of ear wax removal. It is suitable even if you have had ear surgery or a perforated ear drum. Some people may not like the noise, as it can be quite loud, but the noise levels generated in the ear canal have been clinically shown to be too low to cause damage to hearing. You can find out more about microsuction here.


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Papua New Guinea Cocoa and Coconut Research Institute
Phone: (675) 8521651/8521653
Email: srs.ccri@global.net.pg
Mr Tore Ovasuru
Kokonas Industri Koporisin (KIK)
Port Moresby, NCD
Phone: (675) 3211133 / 3211513 / 3212798
Email: tovasuru@kik.com.pg
Karkar Tall (KKT)
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International Coconut Gene Bank, Papua New Guinea
Presentation by Dr Eremas Tade during the 17th COGENT Steering Committee meeting.
Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is part of Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in a region defined since the early 19th century as Melanesia. It is one of the most diverse countries on Earth, with over 850 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies, out of a population just under 6 millions.
The PNG Cocoa and Coconut Research Institute established in 1986 is the research arm of the cocoa and coconut industries in the country. The Stewart Research Station of CCRI, located at Murunas in Madang Province, conducts breeding and evaluation studies, as well as agronomy and entomology research. CIRAD has played an important role in the establishment of this research centre providing staff, training, technical assistance and funding. In the 1970s, a number of exotic coconut populations were brought into PNG, initially as planting material. Local populations believe that large but fewer nuts involve less labour while still giving similar copra yield to that from palms with smaller but more numerous nuts.
In 1998, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) establishing the International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific (ICG-SP) in Papua New Guinea was signed between PNG and IPGRI/COGENT, with the FAO as trustee. The Stewart Research Station hosts the ICG-SP for the conservation, evaluation and use of important germplasm from the South Pacific region. Substantial progress has been made on the establishment of the ICG including land clearing, renovation of the embryo culture laboratory, training local staff, establishment of local and Dwarf accessions. There are currently 41 local Tall, six local Dwarfs and five exotic Dwarf populations in the ICG that are being characterized.
More info: Conserved coconut germplasm from Papua New Guinea (3.2MB); Part 2 (1.9MB)
Collaborative Activities between BIOVERSITY/COGENT and Papua New Guinea
1. Capacity Building
a) Technical assistance/expert advice
From 1994 to 2004, 10 specialists visited PNG on eight technical assistance missions including assessing the country's coconut R&D capability and assist the national programme in identifying common problems and opportunities for network collaboration; identifying a suitable site for the International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific (ICG-SP); evaluating embryo culture laboratories and training their staff; evaluating COGENT's germplasm collecting and conservation strategies; assessing the pest risk for the ICG; assisting in the installation of machineries; training in the production of coconut virgin oil, fiber-based products and coconut candies.
b) Training and human resources development
To date, two training activities have been conducted in Papua New Guinea on Production of coconut virgin oil, fiber-based products and coconut candies with 40 local researchers and community members participating.
In addition, six local coconut researchers have undergone staff development training sponsored by COGENT on topics such as the STANTECH; coconut collecting and conservation; coconut data analysis; computer use, documentation and data analysis; coconut embryo in vitro culture techniques; use of the microsatellite kit and dedicated statistical software; coconut cryopreservation; technical writing/ seminar presentation and proposal writing; Statistical Design and Germplasm x Environment Interaction Analysis Training Course; and Coconut embryo culture to improve collecting and safe movement of germplasm.
c)COGENT meetings/workshops
In 1998, one meeting and one workshop was held in PNG, including the 7th COGENT Steering Committee Meeting in Madang.
2. Research Projects
A total of 12 projects have been carried out in the country, with the PNG Cocoa and Coconut Institute as the implementing agency.
3. Financial Support and Funding
Donor funding support for projects in PNG amounts to US$111,189, mostly from ADB, APCC and DFID; while national government counterpart financing amounts to US$300,371.
4. Summary of Activities and Accomplishments, PNG


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Сомбернон () — кантон во Франции, находится в регионе Бургундия. Департамент кантона — Кот-д'Ор. Входит в состав округа Дижон. Население кантона на 2006 год составляло 6384 человека.

Код INSEE кантона — 2135. Всего в кантон Сомбернон входят 28 коммун, из них главной коммуной является Сомбернон.

Коммуны кантона

 Аже — население 269 чел.
 Ансе — население 377 чел.
 Арсе — население 39 чел.
 Обиньи-ле-Сомбернон — население 121 чел.
 Барбире-сюр-Уш — население 267 чел.
 Бом-ла-Рош — население 121 чел.
 Блези-Ба — население 679 чел.
 Блези-О — население 115 чел.
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 Дре — население 51 чел.
 Эшанне — население 118 чел.
 Жергей — население 132 чел.
 Жиссе-сюр-Уш — население 364 чел.
 Гренан-ле-Сомбернон — население 170 чел.
 Гробуа-ан-Монтань — население 109 чел.
 Мален — население 679 чел.
 Мемон — население 196 чел.
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 Пралон — население 79 чел.
 Ремийи-ан-Монтань — население 128 чел.
 Сент-Анто — население 48 чел.
 Сент-Мари-сюр-Уш — население 623 чел.
 Сен-Жан-де-Бёф — население 101 чел.
 Сен-Виктор-сюр-Уш — население 223 чел.
 Савиньи-су-Мален — население 200 чел.
 Сомбернон — население 917 чел.
 Верре-су-Дре — население 46 чел.
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This unique wall hamsa by Michal Golan features a kaleidoscope of saturated color in an intricate line pattern. Evil eye detailing ensures complete protection of its owner's home. The hamsa is an ancient Middle Eastern amulet symbolizing the Hand of God. In all faiths it is a protective sign. It brings its owner happiness, luck, health, and good fortune. The evil eye dates back almost 3,000 years to ancient Greece and Rome and is one of the strongest symbolic images in the world. Displaying an evil eye is believed to provide protection against evil forces.


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The Honourable Dr. Lillian Dyck
Senator, Parliament of Canada
A member of the Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, and a first-generation Chinese Canadian, the Honourable Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck is well-known for her extensive work in the senate on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women. She is also known for pushing for equity in the education and employment of women and Aboriginals. She is the first female First Nations senator and first Canadian born Chinese senator. She earned her B.A. (Honours) and M.Sc. degrees in Biochemistry in 1968 and 1970, respectively and obtained a Ph.D. in Biological Psychiatry in 1981, all from the University of Saskatchewan. She was conferred a Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa by Cape Breton University in 2007. She has been recognized in a number of ways, such as A National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Science & Technology in 1999; A YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Science, Technology & the Environment in 2003 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019; and three eagle feathers (2005, 2019). Senator Dyck was a Full Professor in the Neuropsychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2005, she was summoned to the senate by the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin. She is the Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. Her priority areas are Aboriginals, Chinese Canadians, Women in Science, Engineering & Technology, Post-secondary education and the tragedy of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWGS). She speaks across Canada on these topics and others.


Queen Victoria was on the throne in the days when Arthur Charles Wilkin created his first 'Tiptree' preserves.
They were actually made in the long, low farm building which now houses the 'Tiptree' museum and Trewlands Farm remains a very special place in the history of Wilkin and Sons.
Today, 'Tiptree' products are available in over sixty countries around the world and Peter Wilkin, great-grandson of the founder, is chairman of the family business. Its employees are also the largest single shareholder and the family principles of Quality, Integrity and Independence are as valid today as ever.
You'll have your own reasons for wanting to pay us a visit, but it was Kenneth Grahame who famously said "Come along inside, we'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place".
We invite you to join us at any of the seven 'Tiptree' tea rooms, located at the jam factory in Tiptree, in the centre of Dedham, on the riverbank at Heybridge Basin, in the village of Writtle, in the traditional old market town of Saffron Walden, in the beautiful village of Finchingfield or our most recent tea room in the historic setting of Cressing Temple.
Each 'Tiptree' tea room has a character of its own and so that you can make your own choice, we've described them in a little more detail in the pages of this site. There is a common thread that runs through all of them and we'd like to describe that as good old-fashioned service, with care and respect. If we can make you comfortable with good quality service and food and drink, then say 'goodbye' in the knowledge that you'll be back soon, we'll have done our job.


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1. What are your specific duties at work?
I'm a medical representative (MR) mainly in charge of doctors in private practices in Itabashi ward, the northern part of Tokyo. Every day I visit doctors and provide safety and efficacy information on our products. Sometimes doctors ask us difficult questions, but I try to respond the best way I can so that I can build a strong and trusting relationship.
2. What is your motto for carrying out your duties?
When I hear from a doctor that a patient is getting better. That says it all. An MR rarely has the opportunity to meet patients directly. So, at such moments I feel confident in what I have done as an MR. It is especially at such moments that I am happy to have contributed to patients and that I really understand the meaning of hhc.
I've been engaging in my work keeping in mind that patients in large hospitals and small clinics endure the same suffering and difficulties. I'm going to continue to work with this belief far into the future. In addition, I want to expand my knowledge so that I can attend to every possible need of patients and doctors as well as talk with doctors about the total care of patients.


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Q: What does "junk-food-scoffing masses" mean? What does "junk-food-scoffing masses" mean? And what does "scoffing masses" mean here?

Europe is now the biggest market for organic food in the world, expanding by 25 percent a year over the past 10 years. So what is the attraction of organic food for some people? The really important thing is that organic sounds more 'natural'. Eating organic is a way of defining oneself as natural, good, caring, different from the junk-food-scoffing masses. As one journalist puts it: It feels closer to the source, the beginning, the start of things.'
Organic food: why?
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A: "scoffing" is not a modifier to "masses", rather it belongs to the "junk food" part of the sentence.
"Junk food scoffing", here, scoffing means to eat rapidly (the type where you swallow it without barely chewing).
Rewriting the sentence, "the group of people who greedily eat junk food"

A: As an addendum to the other answers (which are all correct in terms of the precise meaning of the phrase requested), it is worthy of note that the use of "masses" to describe groups of people is often derogatory, and the use of the term "junk food" as opposed to, say "snack food", further emphasizes that this phrase is intended to be derogatory.  Precisely what is being talked about derogatorily depends on the context, which is not provided (I wish it were), but anyway the point is that this phrasing is derogatory.

A: I'm English, and this phrase would need no explanation here, is at would be readily taken as a derogatory reference to the uncultured (typically lower class) masses of people who scoff (eat) junk food.

A: The phrase means "the large numbers of people who scoff junk food". In this case to scoff means to eat greedily or quickly.

A: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scoff
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scoff
According to the first few entries on both of the sources above, "scoff" means expression of scorn, derision, contempt, and similar meaning words.
As a native English speaker from the US, this is my first and only thought of what this word means.  I'd never heard of it meaning "to eat quickly" until this question's answers brought it up.
To my understanding, "junk-food-scoffing masses" would mean that there are many people who dislike junk food, probably along with anyone who eats a large portion of it.
Edit: Now that we have context, this answer is less meaningful.  Please don't down vote, because this was written before the OP edited their question.

A: "Scoffing" is really not the right word here. The original was probably a typo or misunderstanding for "scarfing". To scarf is to eat rapidly. To scoff is to express disbelief or derision.
So, the junk-food-scarfing masses would be those masses who rapidly eat junk food.


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Although the introduction of the popular UEFA Nations League and the improved, longer qualifying periods for both the European Championships and World Cup have seen the number of international friendlies decreased over the last few years there are often a host of intriguing match-ups every time the international break rolls around.
With managers being given less and less chance to try out new tactics and players in uncompetitive fixtures, these games often provide a fascinating insight into the mindset of a coach and his squad. What's more, they can pit some of the best players in the world against each other with football associations always looking to provide eye-catching opponents that can help boost the coffers.
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If there are international friendlies taking place in the coming days that you're looking for tips on then this is the place to come to! We try to produce a match preview for each international friendly at least involving one of the bigger teams from the international scene and as many altogether where possible.
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In pictures: Haiti anti-government protests
Opposition protesters have returned to the streets of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as the government vows to deepen the investigation into allegations of corruption and implement economic measures.
Demonstrators burnt tyres and set up barricades in some streets on Sunday. At least seven people have been killed in the country since the protests began earlier this month.
Image source, Reuters
Protesters are angry at soaring inflation and demand an independent investigation over claims that officials and former ministers misappropriated development funds from an oil deal signed between Caribbean countries and Venezuela, the PetroCaribe.
The alleged theft amounts to $2bn (£1.55bn), according to a court report.
The demonstrators have demanded the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, in power since 2017, who has also been accused of involvement in irregularities. But last week he rejected calls for his resignation, saying he would not leave the country in the "hands of armed gangs and drug traffickers".
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Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas and 60% of the population live on less than $2 (£1.56) a day, according to the World Bank.
The Caribbean nation was devastated by a powerful earthquake in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people. Then in 2016, Hurricane Michael hit, killing some 3,000 people and badly damaging the country's infrastructure. Thousands of residents were displaced.
In an address on Saturday, Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant announced measures including a 30% reduction in government's expenses and the removal of privileges - such as allowances for petrol, and telephones and trips abroad - for government officials.
He also vowed to continue with the investigation into the alleged irregularities involving PetroCaribe funds.
Thousands have joined the demonstrations that have plunged Haiti into political crisis and paralysed everyday life in the largest towns. New protests were expected this week and Mr Céant warned of the risk of a humanitarian crisis.
"The population suffers a lot, because blocked roads can't deliver water to drink, food, gasoline. It's almost impossible to have electricity."
Since the protests broke out on 7 February, several foreign governments, including the US and Canada, have urged citizens to avoid travel to Haiti and ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel.
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"COLETTE": Country girl/woman of the world
Dominic West, Keira Knightley
"COLETTE" My rating: B
It would be easy enough to pigeonhole "Colette" as a bit of feminist backlash against male privilege and arrogance.
After all, the real-life tale of Nobel Prize-winning author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette reads like a cautionary manifesto. Her earliest literary triumphs were published under the name of her husband; it wasn't until she broke sales records and began to resent her anonymity that she laid claim to her work (though it took a court battle).
Writer/director Wash Westmoreland ("Quinceanera," "Still Alice") and his collaborator Richard Glatzer focus their film on the marriage of young Sidonie (Keira Knightly) to roue-about-town Henry Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West), an older fellow who under the pen name Willy edits a variety of publications.
Henry is a womanizer, a big spender, an inveterate gambler, and he isn't above sticking his own name on the pieces he has struggling writers churn out for his magazines. He flirts constantly with women and bankruptcy, yet manages always to live way beyond his means.
As "Colette" begins our heroine is a country girl, pretty but untested in the ways of the big city. Henry, an army buddy of her father, visits frequently and initiates an affair with the teenager; ere long they're married and living in Paris where she gets a quick education in sex, society and her husband's brigandish approach to letters and commerce.
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At Henry/Willy's insistence, Sidonie writes a first-person novel about schoolgirl Claudine and her sexual awakening. On one level it's a collaboration…Henry supplies certain salacious plot points and tightens up his wife's prose, but most of the real writing comes from Sidonie and her own youthful memories.
Published under Willy's byline, Claudine a l'ecole becomes a smash. Soon Sidonie finds herself grinding out three sequels. When she doesn't feel like writing her husband locks her in until she produces a few pages.
At the same time Henry nudges her into exploring her sexuality with other women — he doesn't consider his wife's affair with another female as at all threatening. Sidonie's first big lesbian crush is with an American heiress (Eleanor Tomlinson)…though she feels betrayed when she discovers Henry is hitting that, too.
One of her most enduring relationships is with a cross-dressing noblewoman (Denise Gough), with whom she embarks on a stage career once she puts Henry behind her. By this time she's writing under her own name: Colette. (Among her latter works was Gigi, which spawned the popular film musical.)
"Colette" works because Knightley and West provide us with a nuanced portrait of a turn-of-the-century marriage, when women's roles were changing even as male dominance reigned supreme.
Henry might sound like an utter cad — in many respects he is — but West makes of him a most charming cad, the sort of fellow who's so entertaining that even his long-suffering wife can't help but forgive him (at least until she can't any more).
This is key, for if we can't appreciate Henry's boyish enthusiasms and live-while-the-living's-good attitude, we cannot appreciate why Sidonie spent a decade with him despite all the shenanigans. (The story told here has more than a few parallels with "Frida," Julie Taymor's remarkably insightful look at the marriage of painters Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo…not to mention the current Glen Close film "The Wife.")
Knightley, meanwhile, gets the growth role, going from bucolic innocent to worldly woman in a series of revealing scenes.
The recreation of pre-WWI Paris is totally convincing,the atmosphere lush and the supporting performances excellent.
And this film only takes Colette up to about 1912…she would continue writing for another 30 years. Could a sequel be in the works?
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A headstrong, farmboy wants to get back what he loses when he unexpectantly lands in prison, only to discover what's on the outside…isn't what he wants at all.
Finn is sent to prison for a crime of mercy. Inside the prison, Finn meets M, a young, charismatic prisoner and the two form an immediate bond.
This restricted life grows complicated when Finn meets Tony, a violent, dangerous prisoner who, after a physical altercation between the two, becomes hellbent on taking what little freedom Finn still has.
Over the next few months, Finn will confront past traumas, reexamine his personal beliefs and attempt to decode his feelings towards M as well as reflecting on his personal struggle with faith.
Meanwhile, we follow Finn through endless prairies and deserted towns in flashbacks and dream sequences as he desperately tries to find the secret to his self revelations and attempts to come to grips with his spirituality and his physical imprisonment.
These contrasts between prison walls and open fields and eternal skies will punctuate Finn's mental state throughout the film and culminate in a grand Indigenous song and dance sequence planting a seed of uncertainty in Finn, leaving the audience to question their own beliefs as well as what it would take to change them.
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Amber Mark's 'Softly' Receives Dancehall Reimagining By Popcaan On New Remix
The release comes ahead of the singer and songwriter's debut album 'Three Dimensions Deep,' out January 28.
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Back in November, singer and songwriter Amber Mark shared the sultry single "Softly" as a small taste of her upcoming debut album Three Dimensions Deep, out January 28 via PMR/Interscope Records. With two weeks remaining before the project's arrival, the New York-based artist has shared a fresh remix of the track with Jamaican powerhouse Popcaan.
On the reimagined record, Popcaan aids an air of dancehall to "Softly," which previously received a remix from Nigerian DJ Cuppy in late December. Built around a sample of Craig David's "Rendezvous," the single places Mark's stellar vocals against a foundation of rhythmic bounce.
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Each Three Dimensions Deep single – "Softly," "Worth It," "Competition," "Foreign Things" – has made a point of showcasing the widespread landscape of sounds and influences Mark has stored in her musical arsenal. The record as a whole anchors itself to the notion of looking deeper into the universe in search of responses to life's seemingly unanswerable questions.
Speaking of the project, the singer says: "Three Dimensions Deep is a musical journey of what questions you begin to ask yourself when you start looking to the universe for answers. I can only go as deep as the third dimension as that's how we see the world, but what about when you start looking to the universe within for answers."
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Interview: Dawnbringer
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Meet Chris Black. From writing for Metal Maniacs in its heyday to running the Planet Metal label to playing in High Spirits, Superchrist, and Nachtmystium, Black is a pillar of the metal world. My favorite project of his, Dawnbringer, put out one of my favorite records this year, Nucleus. I interviewed him for the year-end feature on Nucleus in the January '11 issue of Decibel (#75, GWAR cover, order here). Below is the interview in full. Black dishes about recording Nucleus, pro wrestling, and the state of metal journalism today.
— Cosmo Lee
How do you feel about being named Decibel's 4th best album of the year?
It's flattering, I guess. Unexpected, for sure. We've been making Dawnbringer albums for 15 years now, and we've always had people who were very supportive and felt very connected to them from the start. But that number seems to be growing. In past years, that number hasn't included Decibel writers and people from Stereogum and stuff like that. So it's taken a little bit of adjusting to the response. Once the response first picked up, I was like, "Shit, what did we do wrong this time?" because this hasn't happened before. (Laughs) But we're getting used to it, and it's very cool.
Have you kept up on what people think of the album?
Yeah. Chris [Bruni] from Profound Lore has been sending me some review links, and I've done a couple of Google searches myself. Like I said, it's pretty surprising and unexpected, some of the things that people out there are saying about it, but it's very cool.
Are people getting it right or wrong?
I don't know if there's a right and a wrong to it, so much as there are a lot of people coming to the band for the first time and don't have the same context as some of those people who have been following what we do for longer. And it has always been surprising to me the different ways that people read this band. Last time I looked on Metal Archives, I think we were still [considered] a death metal band. Our first EP, which came out in 1996 - I would see it described as Norwegian-influenced black metal. And then a couple reviews later in some other magazine, it was described as psychedelic thrash metal. Our first full-length Unbleed in 1997 [was described as] "100% melodic Swedish death metal". And then somebody else would say, "This is like Manowar playing Emperor songs".
There's not a right and a wrong, but I continue to be surprised - in some cases pleasantly surprised, and in some cases a little more on the confused end of surprised - by the different ways that peeople are reacting to it, the different ways that people are trying to put it in some sort of context outside of itself, which I've never been comfortable with entirely. The albums are kind of within their own context in my mind. So to see people try to situate a particular Dawnbringer album within some sort of scene or state of some union - these are all arbitrary boundaries that people are setting up around it. That can be disconcerting to me, but it just comes with the territory. It's what journalists do, and I accept that.
I put it in the not-entirely-accurate context of retro metal. I don't think the record is a consciously retro one, but it might be an unconscious one in that you've been around, so those are the values you bring to the table.
That may be. I don't think the value system has really changed. Even if you go back and listen to what we were doing in the '90s, you can hear a lot of the same ethos in terms of the note choices [and] the role of guitar solos within the songs. It's difficult for me, because I have arguably the worst perspective as far as being objective and trying to see things for what they are. But I don't see there having been a whole lot of evolution for Dawnbringer. If it sounds more anything, it sounds more good because we recorded it with Sanford [Parker]. That to me is the single biggest difference. And that's a pretty basic one, really, when it comes down to it. Creatively, the people involved, the process - nothing's really changed.
How did you choose Sanford?
It was kind of lucky timing. When we were working on Addicts, the Nachtmystium record, back in January. I was actually at the studio and sat down and opened up my email, and there was a message from Profound Lore basically saying, "Hey, what's going on with Dawnbringer?" Would you be interested in doing a release together?" I basically said, "Hey, Sanford, what are you doing in June?" (Laughs) And he said, "I don't know, you tell me". So it was the right place at the right time, as far as jumping on that opportunity. Sanford's done a few projects for Profound Lore, so there was already a relationship there. Sanford and I had done a few projects together - Nachtmystium among them - so there was already a relationship there. I would have wanted to work with him regardless, but Profound Lore's involvement made it easy for that to happen.
Sanford's an interesting choice, since Dawnbringer's probably the most straight-up metal thing he's worked on.
I agree. Maybe you could put Gates of Slumber on that list. Maybe Bible of the Devil, although they're more of a rock 'n' roll band in my mind.
Did his background on the fringes of metal ever come into play during the sessions?
How do you mean?
Here's this guy who's producing psychedelic stuff, he's on this industrial tip, he's using keyboards. And here you are, playing metal with a capital M. Was there any interplay between the two dynamics?
Not really. Sanford's role on this album was definitely more on the technical side, whereas with the Nachtmystium records, he's giving a lot more input creatively. Which isn't to say that there was no input from him in that area on this album, because there was. But his biggest idea that he brought to the table was, "Let's make you guys sound good". (Laughs)
And I thought that was a great idea, because the previous album was literally recorded in my closet. Actually, not all of it - I recorded the drums in my friend's basement. And then we did the rest. I had my little recording rig set up in my closet, because in the apartment that I was in at the time, that was the only place I could secure it from my cats, who are hungry for cords and wires. And if you've heard it, it's not exactly a state-of-the-art studio production.
So [working with Sanford] was a huge opportunity. We don't have that kind of psychedelic saturation, that layering of different sounds and different textures that he's known for. But I think it's a Sanford job nonetheless. He likes loud drums, and there's definitely loud drums. Everything's pushing up towards the red, which is distinctive of a lot of the records that he's done. There's not as many layers, so the layers that are there, we can really crank into the foreground, which I think works really well for the album.
Did the album turn out the way that you envisioned?
For the most part, yes. There were a few things that changed along the way. Actually, there were a lot of things that changed along the way. But then new expectations kind of built around that. The album originally was going to be a palindrome. The whole album was going to go forwards and then backwards. That was really the biggest thing that we changed course on along the way. But really with any album, you kind of have to, at a certain point, take yourself out of it, and - it sounds like a cliché - you have to let the songs breathe and let the songs evolve into what they want to be and what they're going to be. You really have to kill yourself at a certain point in the process, or you're just going to ruin it.
With the musical palindrome, were you actually writing notes down on paper, and then reversing the order?
Yeah. I always write on paper for Dawnbringer. Again, there's exceptions, but, yeah. The first three songs on the album - those were written with the intention of later appearing in backwards form at the end of the album. I got through most of "So Much for Sleep" and a little bit of "You Know Me" before I realized that, again, here I was with my heady, progressive, high-art concept standing in the way of what the songs really wanted to be.
Why did you want there to be a palindrome?
I thought it would be really, really cool. I like to have guides when I'm writing, because I write for so many different bands. I need to put some parameters to work within. Even if they end up changing during the process, which they often do, I need to start within some sort of boundaries to have any early progress at all. [The palindrome was] an idea I had had for many years. I thought that would be a really cool form for the album to have. And then we had a lyrical concept that was associated with this, and even an art concept ready to go. But, again, it just didn't pan out. (Laughs) We had the little miniature remnant of that idea at the end of the album, which I think was a good compromise because some of the musicians involved were pretty bummed out that we weren't following through with the headier, high-art, progressive album design.
Did you ever do that thing where you play a guitar solo and then flip the tape over so it plays in reverse?
For the song "Pendulum", we actually did it the hard away. We wrote out everything on paper backwards and then played it. We didn't do anything in the computer. That guitar solo is a thing of wonder for that reason. (Laughs) Nothing was done digitally. That's all human playing that you hear.
"Pendulum"
The lyrics of Nucleus primarily deal with mental states. Thematically the album exists in its own world, not reacting to the outside world. Is this something that you intended?
Yes. I've been asked a couple times recently whether I would call Dawnbringer my most personal project. And the short answer is maybe. The real answer is no, it's not, but it's definitely the most introverted. Like you said, there's a lot of exploring different mental states. That is by design.
Do you have a specific mission that you want to accomplish with Dawnbringer?
Overall, I don't know. Back when I was 15 or 16 when I started it, I think the mission was to be the greatest band of all time, and to be the savior of American heavy metal - which is very much a 16 year-old's ambition or delusion. Nowadays, Dawnbringer is kind of a respite from everything else that I'm doing. The boundaries are looser. There's a playfulness that I can get away with, especially musically. I can try a lot of different things that may not be compatible with other threads that I have going on.
As far as there actually being an objective personally, no - I just want to make a good record that I want to listen to. That's really what's been guiding my creative process my whole life: "I think there should be a record that sounds like this. And there's not, so I'm going to make it". Simple as that. So if there's any guiding principle to Dawnbringer - as cheeky or obvious as that may sound - it's "it didn't exist, and I wanted to hear it, so I made it".
What exactly do you want to hear?
(Pauses) What do I want to hear? (Pauses) Good heavy metal.
So 16 year-old you wanted to be the savior of metal, which implied that metal needed saving. Do you still feel that way now?
Oh, geez. In some ways, I do. I don't know that that wording would still be accurate. Maybe I just want to uphold what I see as the essential truths of heavy metal, which are that you can have a guitar solo in every song, it's OK for people to understand the words, albums are more important than shows... I'm going off the top of my head, so that may be all I have at the moment. (Laughs) In a more theoretical [sense], I definitely prefer the Aeolian scale over the other variations of the minor scale, things like that. I could go on about that stuff. I have certain subjective preferences for the elements of a song that I strive to uphold and exploit.
Why are albums more important than shows?
Because albums last forever, and concerts are ephemeral. The [album] experience can be just as intense. For me, growing up, I was exposed to albums. I grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, where in my generation, I was one of maybe three or four people that were into metal at the time. So metal was very much a private experience. I came to know music by having Bathory on my headphones when I was falling asleep at night. It was not a collectively experienced phenomenon for me. Perhaps largely because of that, I have always been more creatively focused on album making than touring or performing shows.
Again, the reverse is probably true for a lot of bands. There are bands whose music is a collective experience. Manowar - there's a band who, to really understand where they're coming from and what they're doing and why they're so good at it, and why they've really endured - you kind of need to experience it in a hall without any wimps and posers around. It's not a private experience.
To get back to Dawnbringer, Dawnbringer is something you experience by yourself. I think that's very much in keeping with and perhaps attributed to the way I became connected to heavy metal in the first place, which was by myself.
Does it bother you, then, if I tell friends about Dawnbringer?
No, not at all. Once it's out of my hands, it's up to everybody else how [to determine] they're going to experience it, how they're going to utilize it, and what it's going to represent to them. No, that doesn't bother me at all. If I wanted to completely control it, I wouldn't release it. Once you put it out there, it takes on its own life, and there's nothing you can do about that.
What do you think of the album now?
It's grown on me. Considering this band's history, we recorded it extremely quickly. As a result, when we were done, I was still in the mode of wanting to change things. This is true, really, with every album. There's always those thousand little things - or, if you're lucky - hundred little things - that you'd go back and do differently. But by the time I was at the beginning of that stage, it was already weeks too late. The album was already sitting on Profound Lore's desk, and there was nothing I could do. So the postpartum stage was a little intense this time around. But I've learned from making albums that all you can do is get past it and try to watch out for those things the next time around.
Do you get why people have responded so enthusiastically to it?
I think so, but I'm not entirely sure. I don't know. I think it came out of left field for a lot of people. I think a lot of people hadn't been exposed to the band, and our particular brand of heavy metal energy may be a little foreign to people. But then the consequence of that is that it sounds fresh. It's something that sounds new. It's not one of 20 albums that sound like that. It's distinctive in a way that maybe a lot of albums aren't. That's really worked against us in the past. But the singularity of Dawnbringer maybe is finally working to our advantage, but I'm not sure.
It's funny that you're not sure, because you used to be a metal journalist. It would have been your job to be sure. Is it weird now to be the interviewee instead of the interviewer?
No. I'm comfortable with that. I still prefer to do [interviews] over email so I can edit. I'm kind of a compulsive editor, even when I'm just emailing to say, "Hey, let's get together for dinner over the weekend". What's weird for me is to read completely unrelated interviews [with other metal musicians]. People are speaking a language that I don't really understand. The way that metal journalism as a whole has evolved, especially now that web-based journalism has really taken over - that's what's weird to me. I tend to avoid it.
Do you think writing for the web is different than writing for print?
I don't see why it has to be, but, yes, it seems like it is. It seems like a lot of it's tossed off more quickly. Nothing's independent anymore. Everything's connected to this and that.
Back when the WWF was still the WWF in the late '90s, and Vince McMahon's brand was the underdog - the Monday Night Wars, that's what I'm talking about. They were the underdog. It wasn't very long before they were back on top. They were the better show. They were more entertaining, which is obviously what they were going for. But quickly from there, the wrestlers started appearing in ravioli commercials. Instead of the original music they were writing for the wrestlers... they actually had a guy whose job it was to write The Stone Cold Steve Austin Song and the Mankind Song and shit like that. It was always changing a little bit, and it was kind of cool. It was all part of their production values. But then they started becoming a little more successful, and they had to tie everything into everything else, whether it's ravioli commercials or how such-and-such doesn't have his own music, he has a fucking Staind song, and you've got to listen to this Staind song if you're trying to watch wrestling.
(Laughs)
And I think a lot of online journalism is the same way. There's always these interconnections. Part of it's the advertising that is on the screen with whatever you're trying to read. I understand how that works. But it's all very distracting from the matter at hand. And the fact that you can embed media within [online content] - obviously in a magazine, you can't have a YouTube video on a page, you can't have a sound sample that plays right at you as you're reading - that's kind of cool that you can do that. But, again, it's very distracting. It doesn't promote a sense of independence that you really need to hang on to if you're talking about art.
"The Devil"
I remember you grumbling about the fact that we talk about burgers on our site.
Yeah, that's a little weird. If I didn't know anything about Black Oak Arkansas, I could read [our review of the Black Oak Arkansas burger] and still not know anything about Black Oak Arkansas.
How would you suggest that I improve the site?
I wouldn't. I think your site is what it is, and is very good at what it is. But if I wanted to go somewhere to read something a little more - how do I want to put this? Your site is perfect for what it is. Decibel is perfect for what it is. [But] I don't want to read about what happened in Genghis Tron's tour van, you know what I mean? I just don't care. I'd rather read about what somebody's who's listened to their album 10 times has to say about what's good about it. It's just all too fast. There's too many anecdotes, too many in-jokes. I don't know. I'm not saying it's all garbage, don't get me wrong. I haven't adjusted to it yet - put it that way. I have not adjusted to seeing hamburger reviews next to my metal content.
Who would you hold up, then, past or present, as paragons of good metal journalism?
Metal Maniacs while Jeff Wagner was there. Oh, yeah! I remember when he got the call for that job. He was Relapse's publicist, and we were already friendly then. He said, "I'm gonna turn [Metal Maniacs] into the biggest fanzine of all time". And I said, "I'll help you". And sure enough, that's really what he did. There was an energy among the people there. There was just an energy and an honesty to it. And we were into metal. We were into hamburgers, too, but we weren't into talking about the hamburgers in the metal magazine because we were already fighting for an extra page for somebody's 2000-word review of Voivod's Negatron. You know what I mean? It was just full-on metal.
Who else? There's a cool zine out now from Finland called Qvadrivivm. That's very wordy, the way Finnish zines can be. But it's got a kind of seriousness that I like. I do like seriousness. I'm a pretty serious person, really.
I was part of [Metal Maniacs], so it's easy for me to say. But I think that late '90s Metal Maniacs period was really, in my mind, a model of the way things ought to be done. Anything before that, I couldn't say. Metal Forces and all those magazines were before my time. That's not something I was exposed to. I was very bummed out [about Metal Maniacs' demise]. Even up 'til the end, Metal Maniacs was hanging on. I did not like that they started featuring 60 bands per issue instead of 10 or 15 that the editors really believed in and really thought were worth it. But that's just the way things are trending now.
That's probably just advertising. You cover more bands, you get more advertisers.
How is that not a form of corruption, then?
That's the economics. If I ran a magazine, and it covered one band per issue, even if I were the best metal writer in the world, no one would advertise in it.
The situation with Metal Maniacs was unique at that time, because there really were no other print magazines that were specialized for underground metal. Just the very existence of Metal Maniacs during that time was enough to attract advertising. Believe me, they did not make concessions based on ad dollars. It may not have benefited the long-term health of the magazine; I don't know. But they ran a pretty tight ship, as far as payola and conflicts of interest [went].
Would you ever write about metal again?
No, I don't think so. I've said what I had to say. Besides that, it's a question of time. I don't know if you know the magazine Isten from Finland - I've done a few things on and off for them, but they're also a very on-and-off enterprise themselves, so I don't think of it as a regular thing. It's just when our ships pass in the night.
It's interesting that you value the album so much. While running my site, I've noticed that album reviews get the least hits.
I'm sure that's true.
And that pains me, because I grew up with albums, too. That's still the way I listen to music. But if I run loads of album reviews on my site, that might sink the ship, so to speak.
It's disappointing to hear, but I'm also not surprised. It's something that's been said many times about many phenomena - before the Internet, things were different. Before the Internet, if you wanted to hear something, you had to buy it or find a friend of yours who had bought it and get it from them. That's why album reviews, I think, have lost their value. Nowadays the people who still do buy music are the same people who can get on the Internet, hear a few songs, and make their own mind up. Are they giving it the same analysis that a journalist from the past would have given it before writing a review? I don't know. Probably not. In the end, does it matter? Probably not, because they're going to decide with their dollar whether it's any good or not. So the outcome is the same.
But I'm not one who stands high up on a metal cathedral and pisses down on the Internet. I wouldn't be able to make a living the way I am without the Internet. I wouldn't have been able to have the musicians I wanted on the Dawnbringer album without the Internet, because we wouldn't have been able to communicate and collaborate as easily. I love the Internet. I use it every day, more or less constantly in a variety of ways. But it has enabled a lot of changes that are for some people are hard to accept. But you can't take it back. You can't go back to the way it was. I might as well take advantage of what I can and ignore the rest, and good luck to everybody.
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