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Jake Allen vs. Pekka Rinne
Goalies for Blues, Predators enter second round playing at elite level
by Kevin Woodley / NHL.com Correspondent
Goaltending plays an integral part in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, so much like many NHL goalie coaches do before a playoff series, NHL.com charted every goal scored against each goalie this season with the help of Double Blue Sports Analytics. Graphics showing where goals went in and shots were taken are nice, but the real value is tracking and analyzing the types of plays that led to them and whether they reveal strengths, weaknesses and tendencies that can be targeted.
Jake Allen of the St. Louis Blues and Pekka Rinne of the Nashville Predators begin the Western Conference Second Round on top of their respective games.
For Allen, it's a continuation of his play since the Blues changed coaches and defensive systems Feb. 1, finishing his season with a .938 save percentage after Mike Yeo replaced Ken Hitchcock. For Rinne, it's a continuation of a sizzling March and the end of a trend of alternating hot-and-cold months.
The goalie that maintains his strong play the longest is most likely to see his team advance.
[RELATED: Complete Blues-Predators series coverage]
Jake Allen, St. Louis Blues
Allen's strengths include patiently shifting into shots from his skates and impressive lateral mobility once he's down in the butterfly. Before the coaching change, which coincided with assistant general manager Martin Brodeur taking over as a goalie coach, Allen wasn't always square, getting caught off his angle on rushes and drifting backward on points shots. Since fixing those tendencies he's been one of the best in the NHL, including a .956 save percentage in five games against the Minnesota Wild in the first round of the playoffs.
GOAL TRENDS
Can't give him any time: Of the 25 goals along the ice on either side, which often are tap-ins, seven came after Yeo took over and changed the Blues' defensive system. Against the Wild it was easy to understand why. Though the Blues surrendered some great looks, especially early, they didn't give up a lot of uncontested shots, and Allen's exceptional edge work and movement from his knees means he doesn't need much extra time to get across the crease, almost always staying upright, balanced and square, even on the toughest chances.
Video: STL@MIN, Gm5: Allen stones Zucker with quick glove
Rebounds off the rush: Allen was getting caught flat, or parallel to the goal line, instead of squaring up on rush chances down the wing before working with Brodeur to rotate as these plays moved deeper in the zone. The old habit contributed to 18 against the grain, or cross-body far-side goals, but he easily handled high attempts by the Wild. A better bet now may be throwing shots off his far pad, with rebounds more likely to go back into the slot because of his new angle, or create lateral plays off these attacks, which almost led to an Eric Staal wraparound goal in Game 3 because Allen has a bigger rotation to make before pushing back across.
Glove love: Allen also switched his glove model around the same time the Blues changed coaches, moving to a deeper double-T pocket with skate laces that help take the spin off shots and retain pucks. Not that Allen's glove was a problem; of the 41 mid to high glove-side goals in the regular season, 34 involved a combination of screens (16), one-timers (nine), deflections (13) and lateral plays. Wild forward Charlie Coyle found out on a Game 1 rebound chance that Allen's glove is just fine. As he showed while getting across compact and in control to take Coyle's chance away, the high totals around the edges are a sign it takes a great shot to score because he isn't going to open a lot of holes.
Sightlines key: The old adage about taking the eyes away from a hot goalie ring true. After the Blues' coaching change, 37 percent of the goals against Allen involved a screen, well above the 23.3-percent average of the 2,100-plus goals tracked. The Wild scored twice in five playoff games with screens.
Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators
No goalie was better in the first round than Rinne. In addition to a .976 save percentage that topped all playoff starters and included one goal-against at even strength, Rinne had two assists during a sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks. Consistency has been an issue during recent seasons, but Rinne has tried to steady his game by reigning in some of his aggressive tendencies and using his 6-foot-5 frame a little more efficiently.
Quick plays, bad angles: Post play on sharp-angle shots led to one of three Chicago goals and created a couple dangerous scrambles. Rinne stays on his skates longer than many, which can leave him vulnerable to getting caught in transition on quick plays and pass outs. He gave up three goals behind the goal line during the regular season, 25 on low-high passes from near the goal line, and was beaten from bad angles seven times during the final three months of the season.
Dump it in high: Rinne's improved puck handling isn't just about aiding Nashville's offense. He's made a conscious effort to be more active as a way to stay engaged when he isn't as busy making saves. That includes going behind the net to try and corral dump-ins even when they are up on the glass, a no-no for most goalies because of the increased risk of bad bounces that end up in front of an empty net. It almost cost Rinne a shorthanded goal in Game 3 when a shot from the Chicago end ricocheted off the glass and forced him to make a diving stick save.
Catch him moving in tight: Rinne's more conservative approach helped reduce goals under his arms but he remains active side to side on plays down low. Though those explosive movements mean he's rarely out of a play, it also can open holes in his big frame. It contributed to 19 five-hole goals this season and increases the importance of quick shots, which accounted for 34 percent of his goals this season, especially during scrambles. It also helps explain a .779 save percentage on high-danger shots, according to Corsica.hockey, that was among the lowest for starters during the regular season before jumping to .900 in the first round.
Video: CHI@NSH, Gm4: Rinne turns away Panarin's long wrister


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China announces military exercise opposite Taiwan
BEIJING (AP) — China said it was conducting military exercises Saturday off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the U.S. House of Representatives to scrap possible plans to visit the island democracy, which Beijing claims as part of its territory.
The ruling Communist Party's military wing, the People's Liberation Army, was conducting "live-fire exercises" near the Pingtan islands off Fujian province from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., the official Xinhua News Agency said. The Maritime Safety Administration warned ships to avoid the area.
Such exercises usually involve artillery. The one-sentence announcement gave no indication whether Saturday's exercise also might include missiles, fighter planes or other weapons.
Pelosi, who would be the highest-ranking American elected official to visit Taiwan since 1997, has yet to confirm whether she will go. President Xi Jinping warned his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, in a phone call Thursday against "external interference" in Beijing's dealings with the island.
China says Taiwan has no right to conduct foreign relations. It sees visits by American officials as encouragement for the island to make its decades-old de facto independence official.
The Ministry of Defense warned Washington this week not to allow Pelosi, who is Biden's equal in rank as leader of one of three branches of government, to visit Taiwan. A spokesman said the PLA would take unspecified "strong measures" to stop pro-independence activity.
The PLA has flown growing numbers of fighter planes and bombers near Taiwan and has in the past fired missiles into shipping lanes to the island.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war that ended with a communist victory on the mainland.
The two governments say they are one country but disagree over which is entitled to national leadership. They have no official relations but are linked by billions of dollars in trade and investment.
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The score for each subject was the sum of the ratings for five items on the negative-symptom subscale of the PANSS: 1) blunted affect, 2) emotional withdrawal, 3) poor rapport, 4) passive/apathetic social withdrawal, and 5) lack of spontaneity and flow of conversation. Each item (symptom) is rated on a scale from 1 = absence of negative symptom to 7 = extreme negative symptom. The sum of the ratings for the five items range from 5 to 35, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms. The primary outcome measure is the mean of the sum of these ratings across subjects.
The score for each subject was the mean rating on the severity item. The score of the item ranged from 1 (normal) to 7 (among most severely ill).
Galantamine: Galantamine will be titrated to 24 mg/day over 2 weeks. Participants will receive 8 mg/day in two divided doses for 1 week, 16 mg/day in two divided doses for 1 week, and 24 mg/day in two divided doses beginning in Week 3. They will be maintained on 24 mg/day for the remainder of the study.
CDP-choline: CDP-choline will serve as the dietary source of choline. CDP-choline will be titrated to 2000 mg/day over 1 week. Subjects will receive 500 mg/day for 3 days; Thereafter, the dose of CDP-choline will be increased to 1,000 mg/day in two divided doses for 4 days. At the beginning of Week 2, participants will receive the maximum fixed dose of 2000 mg/day in two divided doses, which will be held constant through the end of Week 16.
Placebo: The schedule of dose titration of placebo galantamine and placebo CDP-choline will follow the schedule of active medication condition using matching placebos for each agent.
risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, and/or aripiprazole: All participants will continue to take their regular regimen of risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, and/or aripiprazole throughout the trial in addition to their assigned treatment.
Time (0, 4, 8, 12, 16 wks) x Treatment (Drug, Placebo) Effect: F(1, 33)=0.01.
The measure of verbal learning and memory is the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test. The score for each subject is the sum of the total number of words recalled correctly for Trials 1, 2, and 3. The measure is the mean of these scores at baseline, Week 8, and Week 16.
Time (0, 8, 16 weeks) x Group (Drug, Placebo) Effect: F(1, 32.8)=1.48..
Time (0, 8, 16, weeks) x Group (Drug, Placebo) Effect: F(1, 32.8)=1.48.
Time Frame Adverse events were collected weekly over 16 weeks for each participant.
Table presents adverse events by group that were at least moderate at any time point.
All AEs were assessed (systematic assessment) on a scale from 1 = absent to 4 = severe.
One placebo participant was hospitalized with cardiac symptoms. This SAE resolved.
Deutsch SI, Schwartz BL, Schooler NR, Rosse RB, Mastropaolo J, Gaskins B. First administration of cytidine diphosphocholine and galantamine in schizophrenia: a sustained alpha7 nicotinic agonist strategy. Clin Neuropharmacol. 2008 Jan-Feb;31(1):34-9. doi: 10.1097/wnf.0b013e31806462ba.
Deutsch SI, Rosse RB, Schwartz BL, Schooler NR, Gaskins BL, Long KD, Mastropaolo J. Effects of CDP-choline and the combination of CDP-choline and galantamine differ in an animal model of schizophrenia: development of a selective alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist strategy. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2008 Feb;18(2):147-51. Epub 2007 Jul 26.
Martin LF, Freedman R. Schizophrenia and the alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2007;78:225-46. Review.
Olincy A, Harris JG, Johnson LL, Pender V, Kongs S, Allensworth D, Ellis J, Zerbe GO, Leonard S, Stevens KE, Stevens JO, Martin L, Adler LE, Soti F, Kem WR, Freedman R. Proof-of-concept trial of an alpha7 nicotinic agonist in schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2006 Jun;63(6):630-8.


When I came out to my parents there was this dance between us. I had just told them, essentially, that I had spent the better part of my life deliberately presenting another version of myself to them. I know from my own perspective, it was easy to forget that they might feel betrayed by this, confused, or at the very least like a stranger. As I think about it a year later, I ponder what my mother must have been thinking as the smoke swirled up from the cherry at the end of her cigarette.


Monica welcomes the opportunity to facilitate in-service workshops, retreats, reflection days, parish missions, renewal programs and faith celebration concerts.
As well as facilitating specific programs, Monica also provides consultation and support in liturgy and ritual for community celebrations, special events, assemblies and congregational chapters.
Monica Brown shares this ministry with Hilary Musgrave, from Ireland, who contributes through sacred clowning and shared facilitation. Together they are able to prepare programs to meet your group's specific needs and interests.
For more detailed information about Monica's programs please see the following page below.
To make a booking please contact your nearest Emmaus Office.
For information about Monica's current schedule and events please Click Here.
This program is based on Monica's highly acclaimed book, Embodying The God We Proclaim - Ministering As Jesus Did. It is designed to involve ministry teams, such as school staffs, parish and diocesan teams, in a creative evaluative process, enabling them to review and renew the ministry and communal life of their community.
Monica also offers this focus as a Keynote Address and has presented this in many National and International Conferences.
This workshop will explore the importance of meditation and ritual in the lives of our children and young people. It will actively engage participants in developing creative meditation and ritual with their students, through the use of scripture storytelling, imagery and music, together with active imagination, visualization and relaxation, which can draw the students into deep stillness and intimate prayer.
A special feature of this workshop will be a demonstration of the exciting new resource of the Emmaus Online Video Prayers & Meditations. Follow this link www.liturgyritualprayer.com for information about this wonderful new resource.
This workshop is a practical exploration of the use of creative process in breaking open the Word of God with children and youth. Through the integration of music, mime, clowning, scripture storytelling and other creative process, participants will be actively involved in developing creative ways to support and nurture the spirituality and faith development of their students.
The workshop will reflect on why we do what we do in our ministry, while demonstrating the practical "how to" in breaking open the Word in the lived experience of children and youth.
A down to earth, hands-on workshop, which will enthuse and inspire a new approach to faith formation and, at the same time, affirm and enrich participants in their own journey.
Inspired and guided by the Word of God and the wisdom of the New Cosmology, this program will offer a creative and prayerful space for personal reflection and enrichment.
Trusting God's graciousness in giving them a, "…heart to think with" (Ecc 17:5), participants will be supported through scripture imagery, reflection, music and ritual, to listen and attend to the stirring and yearnings of their heart, as they seek and search out the movement of God in their lives in these times.
Through the blending and weaving of music with scripture, imagery and ritual, this program will provide participants with an opportunity to reflect on their journey, in the awareness of the mystery and wisdom of the New Universe Story, and experience the holy ground of God's Presence in their own being and in all of creation.
Using music, imagery, ritual and sacred clowning, Monica and Hilary will provide an opportunity to reflect on Jesus as he invites us into a renewed appreciation of God's continual self-expression within the context of the New Cosmology. This retreat experience will invite participants to embrace the Sacred within their own being and to open themselves to the transforming vision of life that recognizes God, "as the mystery of human experience…" (Rahner) and the life-giving Presence of all creation.
In these celebrations, Monica integrates her music with mime, dance, scripture storytelling, imagery and ritual, leading participants in an intimate reflection and celebration of their experience of God and their spiritual journey.
Using music from her collection of children's songs, together with scripture storytelling, clowning and mime, Monica actively involves children in the celebration of their God. This is much more than a sing-a-long, but rather an interactive spirit-filled celebration of faith and life for children, with special emphasis on the dignity of who they are.
Faciltated by Hilary Musgrave and Monica Brown, this will draw participants, through creative reflection and ritual, story and imagery, music and song, into a deeper awareness and appreciation of Celtic spirituality. The weekend retreat offers a unique opportunity to touch The Celtic Heart Within... ourselves, our community and our landscape. We will provide, in true Celtic spirit, time for story and song, dance and stillness, silence and conversation, ritual and prayer.
Join Hilary and Monica as they take you to Glendalough, Newgrange, The Boyne Valley, The Hill of Tara, Jerpoint Abbey, Kildare Town, Kilkenny City and County Carlow, visiting ancient ruins and old burial sites, high crosses, holy wells, medieval cities and sacred places. Through music, song, story and myth, dance, mime, imagery and scripture-storytelling, Hilary and Monica will help you breathe in the depths, touch the sacredness and be drawn into the richness of the Celtic landscape and spiritual experience.


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The "Ten biggest lies in aviation"
We are always on the look out for interesting stories from the aviation world and we came across one article, "The Ten biggest lies in aviation", which makes a lot of sense. In particular we thought "lie" 10 was interesting.
"A factory overhaul is better than a field (maintenance facility) overhaul, because only the factory offers a true "zero-timed" engine" While it's true that a factory rebuilt engine comes with a zero-time logbook while a field overhauled engine does not, it's not for the reason you may think.
When you have your engine overhauled by Airtime, or whomever, that engine retains most of its original parts, as well as its serial number, data plate, and engine logbook or other maintenance records. The overhauled engine you get back is legally the same engine you sent in, all cleaned up with lots of new parts.
On the other hand, when TCM or Lycoming receives a runout core from a customer, that engine loses its identity. The data plate is removed and destroyed. So are the logbooks. The case halves are cleaned up, inspected, and added to a big pile of reusable case halves. The crankshaft is cleaned up, inspected, and added to a big stack of reusable cranks. The same is true of camshafts, rods, accessory gears, and so forth. Those reusable parts become "anonymous" because they're no longer associated with any particular engine serial number.
Now, when TCM or Lycoming builds up a factory rebuilt engine (colloquially but incorrectly referred to as a "factory reman"), it pulls some "anonymous" case halves from one pile, an "anonymous" crankshaft from another pile, and so forth. When the engine is completely assembled, it gets a new data plate, a new serial number, and a new logbook.
The logbook starts out at zero time-in-service. Why zero? Because there's no other reasonable figure to put in the logbook. The case halves are certainly not zero-time, but there's no record of how much time they've accrued. The crankshaft may not be new, but there's no record of how much time is on the crank, either. And so on.
In short, the "zero-time" logbook that comes with a factory rebuilt engine in no way implies that the engine is "newer" or "better" than a field overhaul. All it implies is that the reused components in the engine are of unknown heritage...nobody knows how long they were in service prior to the time then were cleaned up, inspected, and reused in your engine!
This and the other 9 top ten lies in aviation from the article of the same name can be found by clicking here


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Remember that the readings from 'CommonLit' are still considered a part of the texts you can be tested on – it is your responsibility to print a copy of these readings out on your own time if you need a copy to review later (I HIGHLY RECOMMEND printing our digital readings out…you guys tend to have a harder time remembering the texts that you read online!).
Remember to continue to consider our essential questions for this unit as we move forward – you will be expected to write a reflection on one of these questions in your journal, and I will expect you to be able to reference the readings and make connections between them!
How did we become a 'nation'?
Which experiences in living in a new land nurture the individual and the community?
How does the land make a difference to experience?


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So the idea is that I host a static SPA (on Github Pages or something) and all required data are written to local storage. User can optionally register using some external service. Literally all I need is REST endpoints to read and write some data (less than 100kb). Ideally there should be SSO for Google, Facebook etc. Cheap enough for a hobby project.

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Planners reject bid to set up four industrial workshops in Hawick
Plans for four new industrial workshops on a site in Hawick have been rejected over concerns about their close proximity to homes.
Sunday, 12th March 2017, 11:11 am
Updated Friday, 24th March 2017, 10:58 am
The Carnarvon Street site in Hawick.
Hawick letting agent D&R Murray proposed to build the workshops at a vacant yard on land south east of Carnarvon Street, replacing several disused shipping containers currently standing there.
The plan was to lease them out to local traders.
However, council planners have rejected the bid due to the site's close proximity to residential properties, the potential for flooding there area and possible access and parking problems on the site.
In a report to councillors, Julie Hayward, the authority's lead planning officer, says: "The site is currently a vacant yard with a number of storage container units on site.
"The proposal is to remove the shipping containers and erect four industrial units within the site.
"There does not appear to be a history of industrial use on this site. Even if it was established planning use, the erection of four industrial units would constitute a significant intensification of that use.
"It has not been adequately demonstrated that there would be significant economic or employment benefits or that the proposed use can satisfactorily co-exist with adjoining uses.
"The proposal would constitute an overdevelopment of the site and has the potential to cause disturbance to local residents from noise, dust and odour due to the proximity of residential properties and scale and nature of the development."
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One thing you can say about 2018's markets—they sure weren't boring! As you can see in the following chart, volatility was the rule—not the exception—this past year, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (so far) showing a net gain of less than 700 points for the past 12 months.
The end of the year is always a good time for us to take stock of our finances, assessing how well we did during the year managing our income and expenses—and most importantly—how we can keep more of our money and give less to Uncle Sam. Consequently, these five tips for reducing your investment taxes are designed to help you do just that.
And this year, with all the volatility in the markets, you may have a few stocks dragging down your portfolio returns. But I hope you have many more that have given you some great gains. And if that's the case, my first recommendation below may help ease the pain of your losses.
Tax Harvesting. This strategy helps to offset your capital gains with capital losses when you do your investment taxes, a method to sell your losers to reduce the tax hit that is incurred when you sell your winners. If you have held onto a stock that just hasn't performed as you anticipated, or you want to rebalance your portfolio, now is the time to cut your losses and sell the losers, for a possible tax advantage.
Loss Carry-Forwards to Offset Ordinary Income. In the same vein, if you are holding a portfolio with several losing stocks, and the rest of your portfolio has given you some very nice gains, you may decide to "bite the bullet" and unload all the nonperformers. The IRS allows you to offset ordinary income by using up to $3,000 of your excess loss. And if you have more losses than $3,000, you may carry them forward in future years. But please remember the IRS wash sale rule, which requires that you wait 30 days after selling a losing stock before you can buy it back at the discounted price.
Don't Trade as Much. Every time you cash in a stock for a profit, you generate a capital gain. If you hold a stock for less than a year, you will be socked with a short-term gain, taxed as ordinary income. But if you keep it for longer than a year, your gain will be taxed at the lesser capital gains rate. With the new tax law for 2018, the capital gains tax remains the same, 0%, 15% or 20%. But the rates no longer depend on your tax bracket; the new law requires they be applied to different income thresholds, which, generally, keep rates at essentially the same levels for taxpayers.
Take Advantage of Tax-Deferred Accounts. As you are well aware, investing in tax-deferred accounts, such as a 401(k), 403(b), a SEP plan (for business owners) or an IRA allows you to stockpile your savings and defer payment of taxes on your dividends, interest or capital gains until you withdraw money from the account.
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What happens next to dereg Bill
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Post subject: What happens next to dereg Bill
1) What is report stage?
Report stage gives all members of the Lords a further opportunity to examine and make amendments (changes) to a bill.
It usually starts 14 days after committee stage has concluded and can be spread over several days (but is generally shorter than committee stage).
Before report stage takes place
Before report stage begins, amendments are gathered together and placed in order, then published in the 'marshalled list'. Updated lists are produced before the start of each day of committee stage.
What happens at report stage?
During report stage detailed examination of the bill continues. Any member of the Lords can take part and votes on any amendments may take place.
What happens after report stage?
After report stage, the bill is reprinted to include all the agreed amendments. The bill then moves to third reading, a further chance for the Lords to discuss and amend the bill as it nears conclusion.
If the bill is amended it is reprinted to include all the agreed amendments. The bill moves to third reading – the final chance for the Lords to amend the bill.
2) What is third reading?
Third reading in the Lords is the chance for members to 'tidy up' a bill, concentrating on making sure the eventual law is effective and workable – without loopholes.
Before third reading takes place
Before third reading, amendments (changes) are gathered together and placed in order, then published in the 'marshalled list'.
What happens at third reading?
Unlike the House of Commons, amendments can be made at third reading in the House of Lords, provided the issue has not been fully considered and voted on during either committee or report stage.
Amendments at third reading are often used to clarify specific parts of the bill and to allow the government to make good any promises of changes they made at earlier stages of the passage of a bill.
What happens after third reading?
If the bill started in the Lords, it goes to the House of Commons for its first reading. The Commons reprints the bill with the Lords amendments.
If the bill began in the Commons, it is sent back after third reading in the Lords for consideration of Lords amendments, or, if there have been no amendments in the Lords, is sent to the monarch for royal assent.
3) Each House considers the other's amendments
When a Bill has passed through third reading in both Houses it is returned to the first House (where it started) for the second House's amendments (proposals for change) to be considered.
Both Houses must agree on the exact wording of the Bill.
There is no set time period between the third reading of a Bill and consideration of any Commons or Lords amendments.
'Ping Pong'
If the Commons makes amendments to the Bill, the Lords must consider them and either agree or disagree to the amendments or make alternative proposals.
If the Lords disagrees with any Commons amendments, or makes alternative proposals, then the Bill is sent back to the Commons.
A Bill may go back and forth between each House ('Ping Pong') until both Houses reach agreement.
What happens after consideration of amendments?
Once the Commons and Lords agree on the final version of the Bill, it can receive Royal Assent and become an Act of Parliament (the proposals of the Bill now become law).
In exceptional cases, when the two Houses do not reach agreement, the Bill falls. If certain conditions are met, the Commons can use the Parliament Acts to pass the Bill, without the consent of the Lords, in the following session.
Post subject: Re: What happens next to dereg Bill
It soon becomes the Dereg Act.
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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
cheers for the heads up MCF


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2870 est le  album de Gérard Manset, paru en 1978.

L'album
Sa pochette présente au centre un masque d'escrime - dont on devine, plus qu'on ne voit, le visage de Gérard Manset derrière celui-ci - sur fond panoramique de paysage urbain en noir et blanc en mode post-effondrement. Cette pochette est conçue par l'agence graphique Hipgnosis qui réalise entre autres les pochettes de Pink Floyd. Cette pochette a son importance car, telles des poupées russes, il faudra en sortir deux autres avant d'atteindre le disque vinyle proprement dit. Cet album ne paraitra jamais en version CD, uniquement en vinyle (excepté dans le coffret Mansetlandia contenant 19 CD). Tous les morceaux, à l'exception du titre Jésus, seront cependant repris dans diverses compilations.

Œuvre à part dans sa discographie, notamment pour contenir le titre éponyme 2870, sa deuxième composition la plus longue (14 min 03 s) (la plus longue se trouvant dans l'album La Mort d'Orion, dont le titre éponyme dure 24 min). Le morceau 2870 est à la fois le plus électrique et le plus résolument progressif. Ce morceau est unique dans la discographie de Manset, car ce n'est pas, à proprement parler, une chanson, mais un morceau de rock progressif à part entière, dans sa composition, son style, comme dans son esprit, avec de longs développements de guitares électriques et des arrangements spéciaux comme des bandes passées à l'envers. Ce morceau évoque à la fois un avenir lointain, dans plusieurs décennies, mais aussi relativement proche, dans notre millénaire ; et qui met en scène : "rien qu'un enfant triste, qui sait qu'il existe" mais qui ne voit que la mort comme perspective ; paraissant évoluer solitaire et orphelin, dans une mégalopole après effondrement, où il est question d"une ville en fer", d"un jardin désert", d"un escalier vide". Puis, plus loin d"une tour immense, le froid, le silence", il est aussi question de "cris de haine et de vengeance".

Cet album contient également le titre Le Pont qui est considéré, par certains rock-critiques, comme l'un de ses meilleurs . Ce titre comporte une étrangeté inhérente; en effet, plus on l'écoute et moins on sait de quoi il s'agit, ce qui, mêlée à sa qualité musicale, en fait une chanson inclassable tout autant qu'inlassable.

Cet album comporte de nombreux autres morceaux d'anthologie :
 Le titre Jésus est une chanson dont le thème est assez atypique dans la discographie de Gérard Manset (mis à part sa chanson Je suis Dieu mais qui, au fond, n'a rien à voir avec celle-ci). Le thème, faussement hippie, est, en fait, un réquisitoire déguisé en propos léger (Jésus, tu m'as bien compris... de travers). Le sujet cachant un thème musical, efficace, assez rock, dans la veine de la chanson Le Pont.

 Le titre Un homme, une femme est également un morceau efficace, toujours rock, avec un faux air de Supertramp de l'époque Breakfast in America mais dont il aurait voulu se détourner avec un final très électrique.

 Paradoxalement, les deux titres les plus représentatifs du style Manset, à savoir : Amis et Ton âme heureuse sont les chansons les plus discrètes de l'album et qui pourtant le complètent bien et s'avèrent, sur le long terme, probablement parmi les plus attachantes.

Liste des titres
 Jésus - 4:46
 Le pont - 5:31
 Un homme une femme - 4:21
 Amis - 4:02
 2870 - 14:03
 Ton âme heureuse - 3:59

Liste des musiciens
 Gérard Manset - chant, orchestration
 David Woodshill - guitare électrique
 Marc Peru - guitare électrique
 Didier Batard - basse
 François Auger - batterie
 Dominique Perrier - piano, claviers

Notes et références

liens externes
 Télérama: interview Gérard Manset 26/04/2014
 Télérama: Gérard Manset et l'album 2870 08/10/2015
 Le Monde : Gérard Manset "poète par nécessité" 30/05/2014

Album de Gérard Manset
Album musical sorti en 1978


If you wish to try and avoid chemical pesticides there is a simple alternative, soap and water. Just add 1 or 2 Tbsp (15 to 30 ml) of dish soap to a standard-size spray bottle filled with water. Shake well to combine, and spray the soapy solution on boxelder bugs as you see them. This solution in theory deteriorates their hardened skin exterior of the insect which results in dehydration. If trying this method make sure to spray the insect directly. Prevention is always more efficient, but this may be a great option for anyone sensitive to chemical pesticides.


What really makes a good vintage clothing store is variety. Of price, style, era and finery. We want to peruse chiffon formals from the 1950s and rock tees from the 1970s. We want a lot to choose from but not so much that we can't push back the racks to see what's there. Pandemonium's retro fashionistas Leslie Daum and Debbie Cardenas stock their charming pink house on Henderson Avenue with gently used clothing and accessories they've painstakingly inspected and deemed worthy of new owners. Need a patent leather handbag or a pair of Jackie O sunglasses? A sequined ball gown? A vintage leather jacket? Pandemonium probably has them. And these ladies keep prices so reasonable, you can shop early and often every season. Daum and Cardenas also have their own Pandemonium line of separates made from recycled tees and other vintage fabrics. Check out the Our Lady of Guadalupe circle skirts and just pray they have your size.


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Four in ten social services users have as much as social contact as they want
News, 11 July 2014
Among adults who receive social services, 44% say that they have as much social contact as they want with people they like. The figures are part of a collection of statistics on social care in England in three provisional reports published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) recently.
This is the first year that a measure on social contact for adult users of social care and carers has been included in the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF). ASCOF is a set of indicators defined by the Department of Health to benchmark the performance of local councils on their delivery of adult social care.
HSCIC Chief Executive Andy Williams said: "The wealth of information contained in the reports we are publishing today provides useful insight into the lives and experiences of the members of our communities who rely on social services. These statistics will be of use not just to people who plan, provide or use services, but also more widely to all those who take an interest in the vital support that social services can provide to some of the most vulnerable in society."
Alongside the provisional ASCOF data, the HSCIC has released data on social care activity (including details of the numbers of adults being assessed for and receiving social services) and the results of an annual survey assessing how far users of social services are satisfied with the support they receive. Key 2013-14 statistics from the three reports include:
Among adults receiving social services, 44% said they had as much social contact as they wanted with people they like, for 34% the amount of social contact was adequate, 16% had some but not enough, and 6% felt socially isolated
The percentage of people using social care who receive self-directed support increased to 62% in 2013-14, from 56% in 2012-13, 43% in 2011-12 and 29% in 2010-11 (earliest available ASCOF data)
The number of people receiving social services in 2013-14 was 1,267,000, down 5% on 2012-13 (1,328,000) and 29%t on 2008-9 (1,782,000)
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Hello I'm new, husband diagnosed with Plasmacytoma.
I believe Plasmacytoma is quite rare & I'm looking to see if anyone has anything they can share on this cancer so I am better able to support him.
Hi there, am I right in assuming this is Solitary plasmacytoma and not the kind associated with myeloma.
Thank you for your response, Solitary plasmacytoma is all that has been confirmed at this point, to have bone marrow biopsy in due course to confirm if Myeloma there also.
what ever it turns out to be there is lots to be hopeful about. Treatment for solitary plasmacytoma is very productive and myeloma therapies are at a all time high in terms of outcomes. Either way it will be a challenging time but perfectly doable and family support has a big part to play in the whole process. If you have any questions I am happy to answer them if I can. I have myeloma and have finished my treatment and understand the emotional side of coping with a blood cancer.
Thank you Johnty, This is still all so new I don't think I even know the questions yet, but when I do it's nice to know there is someone whose been there. Glad you have finished your treatment.
Ok, add me as a friend if you want to and get back to me when your ready.
Hi Blue4 and a second welcome to the Online Community but so sorry to why you have found us.
This is such a hard time for your husband, you and the rest of the family but talking with people on the same path can help a lot.
Although I lived with blood cancer for over 20 years each cancer journey can be rather different. You may want to follow this LINK to our Myeloma Forum as this may be a good place to connect with people who understand the path you are on.
Just join the group and hit the 'Start a Discussion' tab and introduce yourself to the group. Remember to go to the right on the home page and indicate how you want to receive email notifications when someone answers your posts.
We also have these forums where you can connect with others supporting family and friends through their cancer journey: Carers Forum and Friends and Family Forum.
Always around to help out.
Thank you for your reply, just finding my feet in this journey, so I'm sure the info you gave me will be really useful.


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Nick Rayder is a man of many talents and disciplines, drawing from his vast experiences and challenges throughout his lifetime. He offers this thought, some of it paraphrased from Thomas Merton, to all who would seek a more joyous existence, "Appreciate that life is not a problem to solve but a gift to be opened. And remember to do some art. Art enables us to be ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." Born in New Jersey, New York was a major influence in his young years, but not solely because he only had to be 18 to drink in N.Y. His high school "gang of guys" would go into the Big Apple have a three-foot pizza and raise hell, he recalls.
While he was still in high school, Nick's grandparents sent him to barber college in New York's Bowery to enable him to have an employable skill. "My high school academics were very poor and I ended up flunking out," he says, but he put his barber license to use, working with his maternal Italian uncles who were all barbers. While he was in the Bowery, Nick spent a lot of time interviewing Bowery bums, many of whom, he determined, were very intelligent. "All the derelicts drank Sneaky Pete, a chemical drink that would sneak up on you and make you feel good. They'd beg on the streets, they'd clean your car windows, and I couldn't understand how they ended up sleeping on the streets, or why they ended up ruining their lives," he says, and it intrigued him. "I became interested in psychology."
Watching his friends graduate from high school traumatized him, and afterwards, Nick was encouraged by both his sister and a teacher to continue his education. He made up the high school class he flunked and enrolled into Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. "I was good in art in college. Every day I was going to the Catholic church to pray for help. College was a transformation both educationally and spiritually. I learned how to learn and had good mentors," Nick says. He became an honor student, graduating with a degree in psychology and art in 1962. After graduation, he and a friend decided to do an extensive road trip, traveling 11,000 miles in 21 days, through Canada, to the west coast and back to New Jersey.
Having seen the Canadian Rockies, Nick set out to experience the Colorado Rocky Mountains and enrolled at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He negotiated a research assistantship which paid his way. "I loved it there. We'd raft the Poudre. We were neophytes on the power of nature," he laughs, "and the river, its beauty, was an eyeopener for me." Nick received his Masters in Industrial Psychology in 1965, all the while, his art work was blossoming as well.
At that time in 1965, Nick recalls meeting a wonderful student, Janet Sneddon, who would later become his wife. "I was allowed to date her after an interview process by her grandmother," he smiles. "We decided to continue our education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley." Nick enrolled in a program to become a dean of students, called Student Personnel, inspired by all the mentors he was influenced and helped by. He later changed his major to Evaluation, Measurement and Research Methodology, a stats program that dealt with measuring achievement in students and educational programs, a natural for Nick who confesses that he had a talent in mathematics. He earned a PhD in 1969, which was also the same year he married Janet.
Nick became an assistant professor at Michigan State University, teaching research and sociometric scaling, while also developing a student evaluation of professors program. While he was there, Nick took on the 4H program for inner city kids. "It was a real turnaround in my life working with these children," which he did for two years.
When a position for director of evaluation for early childhood education became available at the Far West Laboratory in Berkeley, California, they picked up and moved west. "It was a lab to improve the quality of early childhood education, developing good Head Start programs," he explains. Throughout all this, to keep some sense of balance in his life, Nick continued doing his artwork, and also created a cartoon book.
"My artwork became second nature," he recalls, as he was traveling across the country, working to reduce the gap between African American kids and white kids, going to different sites, like inner cities, helping to improve the implementation of good educational programs and alternative ways to measure child achievement. Nick also taught stats at UC Berkeley and was later asked to join the faculty in the Math department. Nick was appointed a joint fellowship with the Stanford Research Institute. He spent 15 years in Berkeley before work and life slammed him with a reality check.
Nick confesses that he was a burned-out workaholic by 1982. He was diagnosed with MS and became incapacitated, which he felt was a result of the stress of work and, "Not attending to my health, losing any spiritual component of my life and the importance of my family. I was out there trying to save the inner cities and out there singing Kumbaya with those parents."
He and Janet divorced in 1983. "It all happened at once, it became intense, the burnout, the MS recurring, I was in bad shape and very depressed. I needed something to shake me out of it. I was really involved in trying to change things but I couldn't cope with it, and I thought I was going to die," he says. "I had to do something to get out from under the stress. I was trying to do too much and be someone I wasn't. I was trying to change things that couldn't be changed." When he finally decided to seek help, Nick found a holistic medical program in the San Francisco Bay Area, and began extensive counseling along with changing his health patterns, taking vitamins and homeopathic treatments. He moved out of Berkeley to Crested Butte.
He had visited Crested Butte in 1980 since Janet's parents were in Gunnison. "It was suggested that I not go to CB because there were too many hippies there," but in reality he discovered, "I found people just like me." He learned of AMAX and its proposed mine. "One part of me is always making an effort to help out disenfranchised groups of people or programs that would improve our lives," he took on the AMAX fight, raising over $15,000 to pay lawyer Wes Light to keep AMAX in the courts until the price of Molybdenum dropped, "Which stopped them temporarily."
Nick bought a house in town and he started getting healthier and feeling better. He even began chopping his own wood. He had traveled to the monastery in Snowmass, where he found mentors who helped him with his life and editing his book on life planning, The Leap of Faith, the Dance of Change, co-authored by Sandy Fails, which is based on the writings of Thomas Merton, who, he tells, was a maverick priest. In his sojourn back to health and spirituality, Nick returned to the Catholic church, where he paired up with Frank Orazum, "He became my spiritual father," and later, Nick became a Eucharistic minister at the church. "I had immersed myself in Crested Butte, volunteering to drive the senior van, getting to know all the seniors and all their stories. They became my family." He volunteered for Adaptive Sports. "One of the most dramatic experiences was going up on the lift blindfolded," he says.
Nick taught some classes in early childhood at Western State College (WSC, now Western Colorado University) and applied his consulting skills for various organizations. He was the consultant facilitator of the group who came up with a new mission statement for WSC.
Around 1986, Nick tells, "Edward Callaway asked me to conduct a survey to look at whether it was viable to have a high school in CB, since the students were being bussed to Gunnison." He hired Mike Miller help him do the survey, and instead of just presenting a report of the data to the school board, they decided to do a survey theater. "I would present the data against and Mike would present in favor of, like a court-like setting. It was an innovative way to present the data and they voted unanimously to build the school."
In 2009, Nick came up with a new idea to help locals in need. "I would bring coffee to the Mexican men sitting outside of Ace Hardware," which led Jim Miller and Nick to design a program to help them get clothing and shoes. That was the birth of Saint Mary's Garage, the unique "thrift shop" staffed by volunteers and where everything is free. "The new owners who bought the building on 6th Street, gave it to us to use. We had to clean it up a lot. It was a small closet, but it blossomed and the women's group at the church took it on. Other congregations began volunteering and sending over clothes and it became part of the ethic and fabric of CB, of sharing and taking care of each other. We have so much there that we outsource the items to other communities, in Denver, Grand Junction and other parts of the world. We've had clothing taken to Pakistan and India," he says.
Currently, Nick is working on his autobiography, and all of his publications can be downloaded for free from his website nicholasrayder.com. "Crested Butte is a beautiful place to be. It's an important part of my life and it will always be. I have old friends and now new friends, all wonderful, incredible people."
When asked what Crested Butte should do in this time of big changes, he says, "Embrace the newcomers, encourage them and show them of how to become part of the Crested Butte ethic of caring for our kids and helping each other. And I want to encourage people to just keep going."
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Home American History Was Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator?
Was Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator?
Abraham Lincoln is often called the Great Emancipator. Recent findings, however, suggest that he may not have been as interested in ending slavery as believed.
Following his 1865 assassination, President Abraham Lincoln became a martyr. Over the years he has been portrayed in history books as an anti-slavery crusader. New historical evidence, however, seems to suggest otherwise. In death Lincoln became the "Great Emancipator," but it has become obvious that this is a role he refused to play in life. As for Lincoln's interest in the slavery issue, this may have actually been a political agenda as opposed to a moral one.
This fact has caused Lincoln to be villified by some modern historians. Finally, many historians and prominent political figures have concluded that Lincoln does deserve some credit for at least introducing the issue of slavery to the American public.
Abraham Lincoln: Racist? For 100 years after Lincoln's death, African Americans widely regarded him as a sort of paternalistic redeemer figure. Then, modern historians began publicizing the truth: Lincoln was actually just as racist as other whites of his time. One incident that these historians cite as evidence of this claim is Lincoln's post-Civil War visit to the fallen Confederate capital– Richmond, Virginia. Here, blacks knelt at Lincoln's feet. Lincoln was appalled by this and told them to desist.
As for Lincoln's supposedly racist views, it has been widely documented that Lincoln advocated the return of newly freed slaves to Africa. Lincoln also openly stated that the primary goal of the Civil War was to preserve the Union, not end slavery. Thus, Lincoln was concerned with slavery for political rather than moral reasons. These revelations were often used by Lincoln's critics as a means of portraying him as complicit in creating his own false mythology for personal gain.
The Current President Weighs in on Lincoln's Legacy
Today, there is a more nuanced view of Lincoln. While historians have concluded that he was no radical, he nevertheless broached the issue of slavery. This is the view held by prominent African Americans as well. In a 2005 TIME essay, then-Illinois senator Barack Obama wrote:"I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator."
By the same token, Obama goes on to applaud Lincoln's "moral compass" and his courage for tackling the slavery issue head-on as opposed to leaving it to future generations to deal with. In other words, now-President Obama, like many other Americans, believes that even though Lincoln did not intend to completely end slavery, he deserves credit for raising the public's awareness of the issue.
Various Authors. "Emancipation– 1862-63," excerpted from Abraham Lincoln: An Illustrated History of His Life and Times, p. 95. New York: TIME Books, Time Inc., 2009.


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Matsqui Ag Repair Joins JCB's Canadian Dealer Network
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Matsqui Ag Repair, located in Abbotsford, B.C., has joined JCB's dealer network as Matsqui JCB. The company now offers a variety of JCB's agricultural equipment including wheel loaders, rough terrain forklifts, Fastrac high speed tractors, mini excavators, Loadall telescopic handlers, skid steers and compact track loaders.
Matsqui Ag Repair has been involved in the agricultural community throughout Abbotsford and Fraser Valley for over 25 years. The company was established in 1989 as a full-service maintenance and repair shop for farm equipment and has grown and evolved considerably over the years, including incorporating equipment sales into its business plan. Today, the company provides new and used farm equipment as well as a full-service shop for all maintenance and repair needs. Other lines include Deutz-Fahr, McCormick and Kioti tractors, Kuhn and McHale machines.
"Over the years, the agricultural industry has changed significantly, and we've adapted," said David Kruk, president of Matsqui JCB. "However, one thing that hasn't changed is our commitment to providing the highest quality service and farm equipment possible to our customers. Partnering with JCB will ensure we continue to offer our customers the most innovative, reliable equipment available in the years to come."
Matsqui JCB has adopted JCB's overall look and brand, and the dealership will be advertising and marketing to further communicate the availability of JCB equipment in the Abbotsford and Fraser Valley regions of British Columbia.
"Matsqui Ag Repair has provided outstanding parts and equipment service to its customers for nearly three decades," said Richard Fox Mars, JCB North America's president of Agriculture. "We look forward to helping them continue that tradition of excellence as they promote the JCB brand."
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JCB is a privately-owned, global company that manufactures over 300 different machines from 22 plants on four continents including the United Kingdom, India, Brazil and the United States. Equipment lines offered include: backhoe loaders, Loadall telescopic handlers, excavators, wheel loaders, articulated dump trucks, rough terrain forklifts, compact excavators, skid steer loaders, compact track loaders, compaction equipment and the unique Fastrac tractor. For more information, visit www.jcbna.com.
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South Africa Safari - Who are Safari Rangers?
Safari Rangers is a husband & wife team, who have a total passion for anything safari, so years ago, after visiting all the wildlife reserves in South Africa; started operating unique overland, fly-in and fly-drive safari tours; to the Kruger National Park and the Sabi Sand Reserve; the most rewarding wildlife reserves to visit in South Africa.
Although residing in the UK at present, thanks to the internet, Safari Rangers is still providing it's safaris in South Africa, by utilising local ground operators and will continue to offer same safaris, on returning to South Africa in 2012.
Safari Rangers safaris provide all nationalities across all age groups, made up of single travellers, couples, families, 4x4 enthusiasts and private groups; with genuine South African safaris, synonymous with excellent service, fantastic wildlife viewing, quality cuisine and professional ranger guiding: resulting in EVERYONE receiving a truly memorable South African safari.
1) On telling you how going on safari with Safari Rangers really is. We feel you should know as much as possible about how our safari tours are carried out in Kruger National Park & Sabi Sand Reserve; so we endeavour to keep our website factual and informative at all times.
2) Making sure our prices are kept realistic and competitive for what WE provide compared to our competitors, by ensuring our range of 'everything is included' safari products are indeed kept 'value for money' at all times and do include for everything.
3) Our total commitment to making every client's safari an exciting, enjoyable, once in a lifetime experience, talked about for years, for you to return to enjoy another safari.
We've been providing complete safaris for the last 11 years, to areas that we know back home, areas that we also return to time & time again, each time we return to South Africa to visit family. That's got to be saying something about that we offer!
ATOL - Managed by the Civil Aviation Authority, ATOL is the UK Government's licensing and financial protection scheme for air holidays and flights sold by tour operators and travel organisers in the UK. As Safari Rangers do not sell packaged holidays or offer international flights, it's not necessary being a member of ATOL.
SATOUR - South African Tourism no longer registers tour operators or grades tour guides. It's now a government body responsible for marketing South Africa as a holiday destination. Any tour operator who promotes being registered with SATOUR is behind the times.


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10th Biennale de Lyon, 2009
* 1971 Constantine, Algeria. Lives in Paris, France, and New York, USA.
more info & photos
Bani Abidi
* 1971 Karachi, Pakistan. Lives there and in New Delhi, India.
* 1960 São Paulo, Brazil. Lives in Rome, Italy.
* 1976 Batman, Turkey. Lives in Paris, France.
Collective, created in 1995.
Liesbeth Bik: * 1959 Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Jos van der Pol: * 1961 Arnhem, The Netherlands.
They live in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Sylvie Blocher
* 1953 Morschwiller-le-Bas, France. Lives in Saint-Denis, France.
* 1926 New York, USA. + 2008 Cologne, Germany.
Alan Bulfin
* Ireland; lives there.
* 1956 Lisbon, Portugal; lives there.
Sophie Dejode & Bertrand Lacombe
Sophie Dejode: * 1976 Amiens, France.
Bertrand Lacombe: * 1974 Annecy, France.
They live in Lyon, France, and Berlin, Germany.
* 1940 Washington, Arkansas, USA. Lives in Rome, Italy.
Latifa Echakhch
* 1974 El Khnansa, Morocco. Lives in Martigny, Switzerland.
* 1970 Tangiers, Morocco. Lives there and in Paris, France.
Thierry Fontaine
* 1969 Saint-Pierre, Réunion (French). Lives in Paris, France, and Nouméa, New Caledonia (French).
* 1965 Valladolid, Spain. Lives in Brussels, Belgium.
Laura Genz and the CSP75
* 1975. Lives in Paris, France.
* 1976 Mumbai, India; lives there.
Ha Za Vu Zu
Collective created in 2005. Based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Helen Evans: * 1972 United Kingdom.
Heiko Hansen: * 1970 Germany.
They live in Paris, France.
Oliver Herring
* 1964 Heidelberg, Germany. Lives in Brooklyn/New York, USA.
Huang Yongping
* 1954 Xiamen, China. Lives in Paris, France.
Takahiro Iwasaki
* 1975 Hiroshima, Japan; lives there.
Jompet Kuswidananto
* 1976 Yogyakarta, Indonesia; lives there.
Leopold Kessler
* 1976 Munich, Germany. Lives in Vienna, Austria.
* 1971 London, United Kingdom; lives there.
Lee Mingwei
* 1964 Taiwan. Lives in New York and Berkeley, USA.
* 1953 Hamilton, Canada. Lives in London, United Kingdom.
Michael Lin
* 1964 Tokyo, Japan. Lives in Shanghai, China.
* 1964 Guangzhou, China. Lives there and in New York, USA.
Liu Qingyuan & Yah
* 1972 Chongqing, China. Lives in Guangzhou, China.
* 1966 San Francisco, USA; lives there.
Robert Milin
* 1951 Brest, France. Lives in Dijon, France.
* 1978 Bogotá, Colombia. Lives in New York, USA.
* 1972 Nairobi, Kenya. Lives in New York, USA.
Ceren Oykut
* 1978 Istanbul, Turkey; lives there.
Adrian Paci
* 1969 Shkoder, Albania. Lives in Milan, Italy.
* 1961 Sibiu, Romania. Lives in Bucharest, Romania.
* 1970 Knittelfeld, Austria. Lives in Vienna, Austria.
* 1972 Mexico City, Mexico; lives there.
Rigo 23
* 1966 Madeira, Portugal. Lives in San Francisco, USA.
* 1938 Istanbul, Turkey. Lives in Paris, France.
Katerina Seda
* 1979 Brno, Czech Republic. Lives in Prague, Czech Republic.
Société Réaliste
Ferenc Grof: * 1972 Pecs, Hungary.
Jean-Baptiste Naudy: * 1982 Paris, France.
Sarah Sze
* 1969 Boston, USA. Lives in New York, USA.
T.A.M.A.
Collective, created in 1998 by Lucy Orta, Maria Papadimitriou and Gabi Scardi.
Torolab
Collective, founded in 1995 by Raúl Cárdenas Osuna:
* 1969 Mazatlán, Mexico. Lives in Tijuana, Mexico.
Tsang Kinwah
* 1976 Guangdong, China. Lives in Hong Kong, China.
UN NOUS
With Antonio Gallego, José-María González, Roberto Martínez, Patrick Pinon.
Eulàlia Valldosera
* 1963 Vilafranca del Penedes, Spain. Lives in Barcelona, Spain.
* 1928 Ixelles, Belgium. Lives in Paris, France.
Wong Hoy Cheong
* 1960 Penang, Malaysia. Lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Xijing Men
Chen Shaoxiong: * 1962 Shantou, China. Lives in Guangzhou, China. more info & photos
Tsuyoshi Ozawa: * 1965 Tokyo, Japan; lives there. more info & photos
Gimhongsok: * 1964 Seoul, Korea; lives there. more info & photos
Yang Jiechang
* 1956 Foshan, China. Lives in Paris, France, and Heidelberg, Germany.
Collective created in 2002.
Zheng Guogu: * 1970 Yangjiang, China. more info & photos
Chen Zaiyan: * 1971 Yangchun, China.
Sun Qinglin: * 1970 Yangjiang, China.
They live in Yangjiang, China.
L'École du Magasin
The inescapable experience of transition: A curatorial project by session 18 of the École du Magasin (a curatorial training school in Grenoble), comprising Elodie Dufour (France), Marianna Hovhannisyan (Armenia), Yun In Kim (Korea), Marlene Perronet (France), Diane Pigeau (France), Tolga Taluy (Turkey).
10th Biennale de Lyon
16 September 2009 -


Apologies for no post yesterday. As I think i've said before, Thursday is my tennis club night and it was a perfect evening weather-wise. I'm still waiting for that moment when everything clicks in my game; my serve was dreadful last night (i've never served so many double faults into the net!) but my volleys and backhand were decent. I'm still reliving the moment when I hit a backhand return winner… if you saw my backhand at the start of the summer, you'd understand my joy! Here are Friday's Set Points as the tournaments in Nottingham and Rosmalen had their quarter-finals, or at least tried.
Nottingham has had a surprisingly clean run with the weather so far but that all came crashing down on Friday as rain wreaked havoc with the schedule. Just eight games were completed with Alison Riske leading Anett Kontaveit, 5-3 *40-40 in the first quarter-final of the day.
This sets up a rocking Saturday schedule. However, heavy showers are anticipated for the late evening so it could be another rough end to the tournament after last year's edition stretched to a Monday final. Furthermore, there's a couple of players still in the Nottingham draws who are on the schedule for Birmingham qualifying tomorrow… it's getting messy! I was thinking about going to Birmingham for qualifying tomorrow but the weather looks potentially dicey.
Rosmalen had no such problems with the weather and has an intriguing duo of semi-finals to look forward to on Saturday. First up will be an all-American affair (11am local time) between CoCo Vandeweghe and Madison Brengle. Vandeweghe continued her saunter through the Rosmalen draw with a comfortable victory over Evgeniya Rodina. The American player won the title in the Netherlands back in 2014 (her only WTA career title) and is looking the most likely player to triumph again.
The second semi will feature BFFs, Belinda Bencic and Kristina Mladenovic. Both have been impressive this week; Bencic is playing her first tournament since Charleston and has come through some tough matches. Her quarter-final win over fellow Swiss, Viktorija Golubic was her first straight sets win, but still took over two hours in two tiebreak sets.
Mladenovic arrived in the Netherlands with barely any time to prepare for the grass after winning the Roland Garros women's doubles title with Caroline Garcia. Her super run in Paris (also reaching R3 in singles too) seems to have reignited her year as she beat surprise package, Elise Mertens, in the quarter-finals. After a dire start to the year, Mladenovic is enjoying her best run of the year so far.
Bencic and Mladenovic played each other in Rosmalen last year where Bencic squeaked out a victory, 7-6(4) 6-7(7) 7-5 in two hours and 51 minutes. This seemed to be the tournament last year where their friendship really blossomed. I'd fancy another very tight match… Bencic just?
Moving back a day to Wednesday, this was a fabulous point in the Konta-Zheng match in Nottingham.
It was such a shame to hear that Konta had an injury but it sounds like it won't derail her grass court season.
For anyone heading to Queens next week for the ATP tournament, there's a website and app called JustPark which allows you to reserve cheap parking. JustPark has plenty of cut-price parking spaces near Queen's and fans can reserve their space in advance here.
I'm delighted to say I have a discount code for tennis fans to use… using the promo discount code MOOSTENNIS20 at the payment page will get you 20% off. I hope this might be useful to anyone going to the tournament next week!
For UK tennis fans, the BBC announced on Wednesday that the original Today at Wimbledon highlights show (which they reverted to after a week of the dreadful new format last year) will be back for 2016. I'm relieved to hear that Clare Balding is back as the host!
June 10, 2016 in Nottingham, s'Hertogenbosch, Set Points, WTA.
The abusive tweets etc that tennis players get spoils the enjoyment of twitter for many people. Heather Watson said last year that she had received death threats which were mainly from gamblers who had lost money on her matches and Belinda got an abusive message yesterday which was reported by some of her fans including myself and it seems that it was from a gambler also and I have noticed that she has not been on twitter since. I do bet on sports but not on tennis and do not understand the mentality of these people and it seems that trolls and bad gamblers are a growing problem on twitter.
Anyway I think that Belinda should just win her match and I am hoping that Madison Brengle can win her match. The forecast for next week is not promising until later on so Birmingham looks likely to have a lot of weather delays unfortunately.
I'm a gambler, and have never attacked a player on twitter,facebook, or any platform. Those that do are typically in over their heads and probably lost their rent money on a match or game. They are losers at life, and have to take it out on someone else for their downfall. I don't feel that telling a player they played awful or something to that sort should result in punishment, but any threat of physical harm should be met with severe punishment.


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Enamoured: 80 Years of Revlon
By Lisa Niven-Phillips 13 November 2012
IN 1932, not only was Elizabeth Taylor born and the first Venice Film Festival held - Charles Revson founded his pioneering cosmetics brand, Revlon. This month sees the opening of an exhibition celebrating 80 years of the iconic brand, featuring fine art, installations and pieces sourced from the Revlon archives.
"I am totally excited to be involved in the exhibition. Revlon has such a wonderfully interesting heritage so it's great that I have the opportunity to be involved in the telling of its story to the rest of the industry and public alike," Revlon UK nail ambassador Jenny Longworth told us. "Revlon has been integral to the nail industry's evolution in particular, so it is even more special for myself to be involved. I will be creating bespoke nail designs for the event and also a DIY version so people can take a piece of the exhibition home on their fingertips. I am also working on [some of the installations], pushing the boundaries of nails through the medium of art."
Enamoured: 80 Years of Revlon will run from November 30 to December 2 at the London Film Museum, Covent Garden, 45 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BN. Entry is free. Find out more at www.facebook.com/RevlonUK.
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We rarely make big life decisions without feeling some anxiety. For example, think back to deciding – if applicable – where and what you wanted to study as an undergraduate, whether and where to go to grad/law/med school, where you wanted to work, what house or car you wanted to purchase, and whom you wanted to marry.
Did you ever do so with a sense of utter calm? Doubtful. And did you ever do so without seeking counsel from an expert, friend, parent, or other loved one? Also doubtful (unless you are supremely self-confident).
This means that when we make important decisions, we frequently seek advice from other people, and we also frequently experience anxiety. But how does the anxiety affect seeking and taking advice when making a decision?
Gino and colleagues investigated this question in a recent paper. They argue that anxiety hurts people's confidence in their ability to make a good decision, and in turn motivates people to seek and rely on advice from others. Said another way, when feeling anxious, you stop trusting yourself, and start trusting anyone who will offer you advice.
Gino and colleagues define anxiety as a feeling of distress and/or arousal in reaction to new situations that have the chance to end poorly, and they use "anxiety" as a blanket term subsuming fear, worry, tension, nervousness, stress, and apprehension.
Importantly, anxiety within a decision-making situation can be induced either by the decision at hand (like where to invest your money or whether to move in with someone) or by a prior stimulus or experience unrelated to the decision (like an anxiety-inducing movie or a terrifying car ride).
Anxiety as an emotional state is deeply unpleasant and high in arousal (meaning it's the opposite of a calm state), and tends to elicit feelings of uncertainty, unpredictability, and a lack of control. Feeling that something is unpredictable and out of control motivates people to reduce those aversive feelings, by preferring options that reduce risk and uncertainty (for instance, preferring to make a decision rather than leave it hanging).
Anxiety also makes us feel less able to achieve specific, desired goals, by hurting our self-efficacy and self-confidence – in other words, leading us to see ourselves as unable to make good decisions. So we're motivated when anxious to reduce our uncertainty and increase our control, but don't believe we can do it ourselves. And this conundrum leads us to gather advice from others.
So what's the problem with anxiously seeking advice?
Great, so we're a social species, and we seek input from others when we feel we can't make a decision on our own – seems entirely reasonable. But this could become really harmful when we unwittingly take bad advice. Unfortunately, anxiety may also increase our tendency to do this.
As an example, consider two people who exemplify the findings of Gino and colleagues: (calm) Cate and (nervous) Nelly. Both Cate and Nelly are trying to make estimates of how much money they should offer for a house, with the assistance of their real estate agents.
Cate just came from a relaxing spa massage, is confident while making her judgment, and is sensitive (like most people are) to the quality of advice she receives from her agent while making her offer estimate. In contrast, Nelly, who just watched a terrifying horror movie, feels very anxious while making her estimate.
Nelly's anxiety will make her unconfident in her own judgment, leading her to seek out and follow advice from her agent to a greater extent than Cate, to perceive her agent's advice as higher in quality than Cate, and also to see a wider range of possible offers from her agent as reasonable, relative to Cate.
So while Cate is still savvy to the caliber of advice she's offered, Nelly's ability to tell good advice from bad has been eroded by her anxiety, and she is now accepting of a broad range of recommendations, some of which are actually bad (and probably motivated by the agent's conflict of interest – if she offers more, the agent will make a higher commission). Cate will be more likely to recognize the conflict of interest that may be present, and to adequately discount advice from such a source, relative to Nelly.
But is any bad mood enough to make people take bad advice? No: angry Annie, who's meeting with her agent right after some serious road raging, will actually be less receptive to advice from her agent than Cate (and obviously, Nelly). Anxiety is thus unique (from anger, at least) in its effects on advice dynamics.
Anxiety increases our tendency to seek out and follow advice. But anxiety also makes us see advice as generally higher in quality, and makes us less able to tell when advice is shoddy or coming from a source with a conflict of interest. This happens because anxiety reduces our self-confidence in our ability to make a decision independently.
All this is not to say you should never seek advice! Having trusted friends offer advice in times of strife can surely help us feel better and make better decisions. Just be wary of making big decisions while you feel anxious. Don't let a harrowing drive to the car dealership turn into a new BMW you didn't know you wanted.
Have you ever taken advice while feeling anxious and regretted your decision later?
Do the people in your life seem particularly wise when you're worried about something?