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16 Conclusions on England 3-0 Senegal: Bellingham, Foden, Southgate, Pickford… Mbappe
Date published: Monday 5th December 2022 11:40 - Matthew Stead
Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden are phenomenal. Gareth Southgate is a tournament specialist. But England were not perfect and Kylian Mbappe won't be worried.
Do indulge in some player ratings whenever you're ready.
1) England have never scored more goals at a major tournament than the 12 they have managed so far in Qatar. The only other time they have scored as many times at a World Cup or European Championships was at Russia 2018; Euro 2020 is level with the 1966 World Cup in third with 11 goals.
England have never had as many different scorers at one major tournament (8). They had never been the best-performing team in a World Cup group stage. They have equalled their biggest ever World Cup knockout stage win. They have equalled their record tally of victories against countries from different confederations in a single tournament. England have never had a manager with more victories at major tournaments, nor wins in knockout games.
England fans, at the very least of this generation and a couple prior, have never had it so good. Those calls for Southgate to leave mid-tournament or be forcibly removed because of a drab, functional draw with the United States seem even more ludicrous in hindsight than they did at the time. This is an optimised tournament team under the guidance of an ideal tournament manager. There is no-one who could have done a better job up to this point and it is difficult to envisage a coach who could pick up from here and improve things instantly. Thank you, Daily Telegraph.
2) His team selection was once more condemned before the inevitable vindication. It might ordinarily be fair to question a manager whose solitary change from the previous game involves rotating – or DROPPING, as one outlet had it – a player who scored two goals in a 3-0 win. But Southgate has perfected the art of squad tournament management and has earned enough faith for every England line-up not to be scrutinised within seconds of it being announced.
Having said that, the France quarter-final fume will be fun.
There has been an unfathomable rise in the number of suggestions that Harry Kane should be benched; he played, scored and was vital in the creation of another goal. Jordan Henderson retained his place and was excellent. Phil Foden and Bukayo Saka were picked from what Southgate himself described as "an embarrassment of riches" in forward positions – the Raheem Sterling call was taken out of the manager's hands – and both rose to the occasion.
From the trust in Harry Maguire, the persistence in playing four at the back and the use of the oft-discussed 'finishers' as substitutes in a squad that has given every fit and available member minutes aside from two back-up keepers and two players called Conor, Southgate has made difficult decisions – often in the face of undue and sometimes personal attacks – but almost always the right ones.
3) Even on those occasions Southgate has faltered at this tournament, the England manager has turned it into a positive. The speed with which he acknowledged and corrected a potential error in leaving Foden out of the second group game is entirely out of character with his perception as someone who places rigid, unbreakable faith in his favourites.
And again, although the lamentable Sterling situation was out of Southgate's control, it is unlikely the Manchester City forward would have featured against Senegal. He has now missed almost as many minutes of this tournament (221) than he did at Euro 2020 and the 2018 World Cup combined (222).
Having a 26-man squad has helped but Southgate has lost one player he supposedly could not do without, while another has been forced to leave the camp and at least one more has been absent through injury. Every potential bump in the road has been handled impeccably.
4) Southgate referenced the "direct" nature of Senegal's approach before the game and they were described in all quarters as "athletic" so often that you started to suspect they would be available on an unmissable £1 a month subscription deal for a limited time only.
But England were entirely incapable of preventing or avoiding a threat they had identified and presumably spent a great deal of time preparing for. They were curiously wasteful and careless in possession and all three of Senegal's best first-half openings could be traced back to England mistakes on the ball.
Boulaye Dia was almost put through after Foden's pass was intercepted. Dia and Ismaila Sarr had efforts seconds after cutting out Maguire's attempted ball through the lines. Dia forced an excellent save from Jordan Pickford from Saka's sloppiness in possession.
John Stones and Declan Rice were also guilty of giving the ball away as England noticeably struggled against an aggressive press. That previously imperious partnership between Stones and Maguire looked remarkably less sturdy without protection from midfield and on the back foot against fast forwards. But it's not like France have any of them so they should be fine.
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5) The most egregious of those mistakes on the ball seemed at first sight to be the Maguire one. England had only just regained possession after a sustained period of Senegal pressure, only for the Manchester United centre-half to hammer a first-time pass straight into the feet of Krepin Diatta. His cross found Dia but Stones blocked – leading to forlorn complaints of handball – before Sarr fired over as Pickford advanced.
It will be further ammunition for Maguire's critics but the reward if the pass had been accurate justified the risk; Jude Bellingham was free on the left and would have been in a two-versus-two attack alongside Kane against Kalidou Koulibaly and Abdou Diallo, who themselves wilted against quick and direct attacks all evening.
That does not absolve Maguire of blame for his poor execution of the pass – and the slow, ineffective reaction after it backfired – but it did rather neatly sum up the difficulty of a role he tends to play excellently, and why Southgate trusts him to pull it off more often than not.
6) It should also be noted that Maguire and Stones, awful as they were for a solid quarter of an hour or so on the ball in the first half, were given precious few passing options by a static midfield. Senegal closed off all lanes to Rice and England were made to look painfully bereft of ideas as a result.
Kyle Walker did not help. He offered nothing in possession and was robbed by Sarr to launch a Senegal counter at one point, with the referee strangely deciding against booking the right-back after he brought the Watford forward down. It was particularly worrying considering all the recent talk of using him to combat Kylian Mbappe. Kieran Trippier could be worth a recall for match sharpness and fitness alone.
Their tempo was dreadful and it was only when England started to change things up, bypassing the midfield more often with long balls while injecting some urgency into their play, that the momentum swung back.
7) The brilliance of Bellingham helped England emerge from a storm they had barely weathered. It was his bursting run from midfield which Kane, dropping deep to phenomenal effect, found to unlock a Senegal defence that may have been inadvertently lulled into a false sense of security.
Bellingham's cut-back to find the lurking Henderson was excellent but it was the second time the Borussia Dortmund midfielder had advanced into that left-wing space to create an England opening. His cross in the ninth minute was nudged to unconvincing safety by Edouard Mendy as England started well before fading.
Bellingham's ability to not only recognise those vacant areas to attack, but to prove so decisive when he does so, is special and invaluable, particularly in a game like this.
8) Henderson's supporting run and finish was brilliant. He earned the standing ovation provided upon his late substitution with a performance significantly improved from his showing against Wales. That man knows his way around a knockout game.
Kane's influence on the opening goal also added yet more evidence to the already overwhelming stack which suggests he is probably right to keep dropping deep to pull the strings.
But perhaps the key was Foden's deft backheel to the Tottenham striker. Luke Shaw played a short ball to the 22-year-old, who was under immense pressure on the touchline and facing his own goal. But that clever flick felt like the first time an England player didn't take a touch before deciding what to do. It disrupted Senegal's shape, rhythm and press and sparked a more instinctive passage of play from England – which is always when they are at their best.
9) The tracking from Pathe Ciss was Pathe Tic. He stuttered a couple of times, seemingly and bizarrely uncertain as to whether he should follow the run of Bellingham, before slowing down into a jog as he realised it was far too late and the horse had already bolted.
Ciss was again susceptible for the second goal, trying to control a bouncing ball with his chest but having his pocket picked by Bellingham once again. The Rayo Vallecano midfielder was one of three players Senegal substituted at half-time and it was not a moment too soon.
10) Bellingham's work for Kane's goal was remarkable. He snapped into Ciss to steal the ball away, at which point England had the disadvantage in a three-on-five counter-attacking situation. Bellingham advanced, drawing Youssouf Sabaly out before gliding past him and taking out two other players either side, then dragged Diallo out of position to leave Foden and Kane with a two-on-one scenario in their favour.
A lesser player would have rushed the first pass or run into traffic, acting too quickly or too late, bringing a promising break to an instant end. But Bellingham pinpointed the most effective route and guided England there masterfully.
Foden and Kane still had work to do; the former's first-time pass eliminated Koulibaly from the equation and the latter finished clinically. But Bellingham was destroyer, dribbler and architect at 19 in a World Cup knockout game, a composed, two-footed rampaging ballerina, thinking and acting quicker than everyone else on the pitch. He is already one of the best midfielders on the planet and will only improve.
11) But it should be said that Bellingham's best moment was quite clearly when the cameras cut to him telling the referee to f**k off for giving a vaguely contentious throw-in to Senegal close to the halfway line after about 10 minutes. It didn't quite match the touchline profanities which the BBC picked up after an unsuccessful press in the game against Wales, but it epitomised his elite mentality – or his Stourbridge vocabulary.
12) Senegal's tactics had been exemplary and it should not be overlooked that England really did struggle at times. But their individual quality is such that even winning a battle of systems might not necessarily be enough to beat them. The tie was very much alive after about half an hour but done by half-time.
England have had sensational talent and ability in their squads before but these players feel different – uninhibited and confident.
The game might have been even more difficult had Sadio Mane, Idrissa Gueye and Cheikhou Kouyate been available for Senegal, yet there is plenty to be said for England's propensity to suffer before properly stretching their legs.
13) England's third goal continued the theme of supreme technique and decision-making. Neat interplay down the left resulted in Foden breaking clear and squaring for Saka to finish intelligently.
Senegal's defending was atrocious but that move underlined how Foden is being deployed correctly despite recent claims he should be moved more central. No other winger in the squad can do what he does: riding the challenge of Sabaly effortlessly before delivering a glorious final ball into Saka.
The temptation with technically exceptional England players seems to be to move them into an area where they can see more of the ball. Trent Alexander-Arnold is the primary case in point, even with full-backs more dominant and important in possession than ever. But both he and Foden are already precisely where they are at their most effective – and one of them is finally translating their club form to the international scene.
14) It is obviously not true but it feels as though Luke Shaw has been involved in every goal England have scored at the last two major tournaments. He helped knit the third goal together with crisp, sharp passing and has become such a reliable outlet at both ends down the left.
Plenty will scoff at the statistic but only Lionel Messi (34) and Aurelien Tchouameni (25) had played more progressive passes at the World Cup than Shaw (22) heading into this game. In a different world it would be Trippier or Ben Chilwell on that side of England's defence but credit to Jose Mourinho's brain for reviving his career to such a degree that he has become one of his club and country's most important players.
15) None of this would have been possible without that Pickford save from Dia at 0-0. It was a relatively unorthodox stop and there should be no speculation as to just why his left wrist is so strong, but that was an absolutely imperative moment and a probable turning point. England might well have collapsed had they conceded then, such was the pressure Senegal were exerting.
It also seems as though he got a crucial touch on the Sarr shot which came from Maguire's first-half mistake, despite a goal kick being awarded. Eight clean sheets in his last 11 major tournament games for England is a preposterous record and it is worth remembering The Clamour was once for Nick Pope to start ahead of him. Not a chance: Pickford is probably level with Kane in the Southgate trust stakes.
16) That was only England's fourth World Cup win on ITV, and their second knockout stage win in normal time televised by the broadcaster after the 3-0 victory over Denmark in the last 16 in 2002. There is not a single curse Southgate cannot break. He really is The One.
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Alastair Beddow finds the results from this year's MPF/PM Forum and Meridian West benchmarking study show that although pressures on marketers are intensifying, they are better positioned than ever to effectively address the challenges ahead.
It is a risky business making predictions. That's especially true when those predictions are recorded irrevocably in print for anybody to cross-check one year later. Writing about what lies ahead for marketers in pm at the beginning of 2013, I concluded that firms would have to deploy their marketing and business development resources more efficiently if they wanted to deepen relationships with clients. It certainly was a volatile past 12 months, which witnessed many firms address marketing fundamentals, with a particular focus on engaging with clients in new ways.
This time around innovation will be as equally important as efficiency. Marketers will have an even greater impact on the success (or failure) of their respective firms over the coming year. The core challenge identified last year – namely, clients demanding greater consistency of service, more added-value offerings, and better commercial insight from their advisory firms, but wanting to pay less – has not gone away. If anything, it will continue to intensify over the next 12 months. The result is that marketers will need to work harder to really differentiate why their firm should be first choice for both existing clients and new prospects. This will entail a greater focus on innovating the way marketers do their job.
As their firms seek to reap the benefit of the upturn in economic activity, marketers should expect to play a greater role in capturing a share of this growth. This more optimistic attitude is reflected in a large increase in the number of marketers who say they are responsible for leading the development of new products and services for their firm: 60% now say they are highly involved in this activity, up from 45% last year.
To launch new products and services effectively, marketers will need to keep their finger on the pulse of changing market dynamics and client demands. It is no coincidence, therefore, that the numbers of marketing professionals involved in researching client needs has increased from 47% last year to 62% this year. This represents a positive shift. However, genuine innovations will only come when this insight is successfully synthesised, communicated and acted upon across the firm. Professional firms are sitting on a wealth of data: a key priority for marketers in 2014 should be how to translate this data into fundamental changes that improve the client experience.
Research, however, is no substitute for client conversations. Worryingly, only half (51%) of marketers surveyed say they are regularly involved in attending events with clients present, down from 63% last year. This suggests marketers have switched their priorities from being out speaking with client to sitting behind their desk focusing on internal management. It is important to keep an ear to the ground in 2014; regularly engaging with clients – at seminars, through client feedback and at informal networking events – is the best way to get under the skin of client needs.
A piece of good news: marketing leaders expect to see an increase in marketing budgets and headcount over the coming year. Average marketing spend is expected to be 2.3% of total revenue, up from 2.1% a year ago. This suggests that many marketers are succeeding in convincing their colleagues of the importance of investing in business development activity for the firm to drive sustainable growth.
This means that overall marketing budgets are on the up. On average, firms anticipate a 3.1% rise in overall marketing budgets over the next 12 months. This is a welcome improvement on the 0.7% increase expected when we asked the same question last year. One in five (21%) anticipate their marketing budget will increase by 6% or more. Only one of the 38 firms we interviewed expects an overall decrease.
The knock-on impact of this rise will be a modest increase in headcount, which is predicted to rise, on average, by 2.2%, up from 0.2% last year. Marketers anticipate this increase in headcount will be accounted for by a similar 2.4% increase in average expenditure on marketing salaries.
So how will a potentially inflation-beating rise in overall marketing budgets be best put to use? It is clear that marketers view strategy as an increasingly important part of their role. More than half (58%) list 'strategist' among the top three attributes necessary to successfully execute their role. The strategic marketer in 2014 looks set to spend more time at the top table, helping the firm to deliver corporate objectives.
This view is reflected in marketers' selfassessment of their performance. When asked about their contribution to the client experience, marketers rate themselves most highly for strategic initiatives aimed at projecting a positive impression of the firm to the market. Activities such as defining the firm's brand or delivering the impression of being well-managed are rated highly.
However, contribution to tactical or operationally-focused activities is identified as a weakness by marketers. Activities such as organising account planning, measuring client satisfaction and linking reward to individual contribution are rated less positively. These areas represent significant opportunities to innovate: technology is facilitating innovations in capturing and analysing client feedback, and many firms are exploring new ways of capturing prequalified leads online to squeeze more value from their online footprint.
What is holding marketers back?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, when asked what prevents them making the changes they want to see in 2014, marketers cite common bugbears such as lack of resources, low fee-earner engagement or inadequate systems and processes. Lack of leadership is another key barrier cited by many. But leadership by whom? Surely 2014 is as good a time as any for senior marketers to seize the initiative and demonstrate leadership: proactively becoming the voice of the client will help drive greater client-focused initiatives and behaviours across the firm.
Barriers such as lack of time and resource are not insurmountable. The most astute marketers will spend 2014 focusing on the areas that will have the greatest impact: thinking about breakthrough rather than incremental change; considering the impact of greater innovation on client relationships; and persuading the partnership to embrace new ways or working. Easier said than done, but the marketers up for the challenge are likely to make the most headway.
Market analytics: Keeping up to speed with changing market dynamics, client demands and sector issues will become more important than ever to retain competitive edge. Don't neglect face-to-face time with clients as a means of keeping abreast of trends.
Collaboration: Collaborating with internal and external audiences will be more important than ever to get client initiatives off the ground. This will include greater collaboration with marketers from non-competing firms. Those who do well on this front will be the ones who spend time building their network.
Technology: Using technology will become even more central to the role of marketers: your clients expect it, and have invested in sophisticated technology themselves. Failure to embrace technological innovations may result in losing ground to disruptive competitors.
The findings from this year's MPF/PM Forum and Meridian West benchmark are based on responses from Heads of Marketing at 38 professional firms.
Alastair Beddow is a senior consultant at Meridian West. He works with professional services and financial services firms to develop and implement client-centric strategies and world-leading thought leadership campaigns. Contact abeddow@meridianwest.co.uk.


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Annie Leibovitz Shoots the Obamas
Posted in Annie Leibovitz, Barack and Michelle Obama, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of women, famous photographers, First Family photos, history, Michelle Obama's fashion sense, Mrs. O, Obama family photo, photography, President Barack Obama, the Green Room, the White House on October 26, 2009| 2 Comments »
The Obama Family, the first official White House portrait shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz, Sept. 1, 2009
The White House has released the first official – and wonderful! – family portrait of President Barack Obama and his family. The photograph, taken by famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, was shot in the Green Room of the White House on September 1, 2009. It shows a happy First Family, from left to right, the President, his younger daughter Natasha (Sasha), wife Michelle, and older daughter Malia Ann.
The Lovely Michelle Obama
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The Lincoln Assassination: Uncle Sam's Menagerie
Posted in Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, PEOPLE, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War history, David Herold, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Edman Spangler, George Atzerodt, history, Jefferson Davis, John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Paine, Lincoln Assassination and Death, Lincoln Bicentennial, Lincoln conspirators, Mary Elizabeth Surratt, Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel Arnold, the Civil War, the Confederacy, Uncle Sam's Menagerie, Yankee Doodle on February 23, 2009| 3 Comments »
Uncle Sam's Menagerie
Issued in the wake of Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, the political cartoon, "Uncle Sam's Menagerie," conveys the Northern hostility toward the conspirators, whom the public associated with former president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis. Uncle Sam stands before a cage in which a hyena with the bonneted head of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), president of the Confederacy, claws at a skull. Davis' neck is in a noose, which will begin to tighten as a man at right turns the crank of a gallows. The bonnet on Davis' head alludes to the embarrassing circumstances of his recent capture. As the Civil War drew to a close, Davis fled Richmond with his cabinet in early April 1865 and began a trek southward with federal troops in hot pursuit. While still weighing the merits of forming a government in exile, Davis was captured by Union soldiers near Irwinville, Georgia, in early May 1865. Whether by accident or design, Davis was wearing his wife's dark gray short-sleeved cloak and black shawl when captured.
Below the caricature of Davis as a cross-dressing hyena, a man grinds out the song "Yankee Doodle" on a hand organ. Above, the Lincoln conspirators are portrayed as "Gallow's Bird's," with their heads in nooses. From left to right they are: Michael O'Laughlin, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Paine, Mary Elizabeth Surratt, Samuel Arnold, Edman Spangler, and Dr. Samuel Mudd. At left, Uncle Sam points his stick at a skull "Booth," on which sits a black crow. John Wilkes Booth was killed during a government raid on his hideout on April 26, 1865.
The Haunted Hotel
Posted in PEOPLE, tagged history, Paranormal Experiences, the Lodge at Cloudcroft on January 30, 2009| 6 Comments »
Jacob Marley's Ghost from A Christmas Carol by Dickens
Now I get to tell my ghost story. It happened in July of 1999. I remember the date exactly because my daughter Katie's birthday is July 27. She, my husband, Tom, and I were taking a summer road trip up through El Paso to Santa Fe. Katie had her eleventh birthday while we were away and she wasn't happy to be so far from home. She had wanted a birthday party back in Austin with her friends.
On our way up to Santa Fe, I had booked us a night at a famous and historic mountain inn in a little town in south central New Mexico, Cloudcroft. My uncle Max was once a forest ranger there. Nine thousand feet above sea level in the Sacramento Mountains and surrounded by 200,00 acres of the Lincoln National Forest, the Lodge also boasts a nine-hole golf course, a four-star restaurant, and a ghost named Rebecca – but I didn't know the last part until the day of our arrival.
Established over a hundred years ago, The Lodge is very impressive – elegant, yet cozy. Inside and out, it looked just as you would expect a mountain inn to look. The lobby featured a stuffed and angry brown bear reared up on his back legs, a fireplace with a bright and shiny copper roof, and the head of a buck mounted on the wall. The decor was both Victorian and Southwestern with heavy dark wood furniture, thick pile carpet, and leather couches.
Guests are warmly welcomed. The reception area had a huge basket of red apples. I wanted one. I was carrying some green Granny Smith apples already in what Tom and Katie called my Mary Poppins bag. If you've seen the movie, "Mary Poppins," you know what I'm describing. It's a bottomless carpet bag. Anyway, the Granny Smith apples in my bag were for Tom but I don't really like them. They're too tart. I like red ones better and so does Katie. So I reached into the hospitality basket and helped myself to three or four red apples. I tucked them into my Mary Poppins bag. I tucked them down deep into the bottom below the magazines and books so they wouldn't spill out and zipped the bag shut.
The Lodge at Cloudcroft, NM
We were shown to our guest room which faced the front. It was tucked into a dormer which meant the inner walls – covered with a Victorian printed wallpaper – were sloping. Tom and I were to share a four-poster queen bed while Katie had a window seat sleeping arrangement. We parked our bags – I heaved the Mary Poppins bag up onto a tall antique chest of drawers – and then we all went outside to explore.
The grounds were magnificent. We wandered onto the golf course. There were apple trees with little red and green crabapples weighing down their branches. I was from South Texas and had never seen apples growing on trees before although I was forty-four years old that summer! We walked around in the cool, crisp mountain air. It soon grew dark and our legs were tired from so much climbing, so we went inside for dinner.
In the dining room aptly named "Rebecca'" after the "ghost," I had my first Spring Mix salad with raspberry vinaigrette. Back in Texas, we were still eating iceberg lettuce with Thousand Islands Dressing. The food and service were first class.
The hotel was really capitalizing on the ghost of Rebecca theme. A painting of Rebecca hung in the restaurant. I asked the waiter if the rumors of a ghost were true. He said he had never seen the ghost himself but the chef had had some really weird supernatural encounters. He went and got the chef for me. The chef said that, on more than one occasion, knives had flown through the air of his kitchen right toward him. He was convinced the ghost was responsible. I chuckled and went back to my food.
After dinner, the others went upstairs to the room but I wandered into the gift shop. I browsed among the books where I found The Ghostly Register, by Arthur Myers. Chapter 43: "The Ghost Who Makes Phone Calls," was devoted to the legend of Rebecca. The ghost they call Rebecca – no one has researched this – is believed to be the spirit of a chambermaid who was killed by her lumberjack lover when he found her in the arms of another in the early 1900s. Those who claim to have seen her wandering the halls of the Lodge describe her as a beautiful redhead who wears a long, flowing gown. Guests and employees have reported many unexplained happenings at the Lodge that they attribute to Rebecca – ashtrays that slide across tabletops unassisted, phones that ring yet no one is on the line, footsteps, and knockings on doors. She was often seen near Suite 101, the Governor's Room. I bought the book and left.
I decided to conduct my own investigation of the ghost. This "ghost of maid killed by jealous lover" legend is attached to many hotels and I was sceptical that Rebecca was more than that. I wandered into the hallway of Suite 101. I hung around a while but everything seemed perfectly normal – no ectoplasm there – so I went upstairs to join the others. I found both Katie and Tom piled up their individual beds with books. I decided to get ready for bed and then join them.
After I'd changed into my nightgown, taken off my make-up, and washed my face, I was ready to climb up in bed alongside Tom with a good book. It was then that I remembered the juicy red apples in my Mary Poppins bag. I wanted one. I walked over to the chest of drawers.
Tom and Katie weren't paying me any attention. They were still deeply absorbed in their reading. I grabbed my Mary Poppins bag and pulled it toward me. It was heavy. I got up on my tiptoes to peek inside the bag and tilted it toward me some so I'd see well enough to select a sweet red apple rather than one of Tom's sour green ones. I found a nice red one, then rooted around inside some more until I'd found my book. I then pushed everything back down again in the bag and shoved it back in place on the dresser. I didn't zip the bag shut this time, though; I left the mouth of it open.
I then turned and set my book on the bed, before padding off to the bathroom to wash my apple before eating it. I was surprised when I heard a couple of thuds behind me. Something had fallen on the floor. I turned to see two red apples rolling along the carpet behind me like bowling balls aimed right for my feet. I looked over at Tom first and then Katie but neither of them had moved a muscle. Nevertheless, it could have been a trick. I put my hands on my hips and asked, "Hey, who did that?"
"Who did what?" they both wanted to know.
"Threw those apples at me?" I pointed to the carpet where the two red apples now lay at rest.
"What are you talking about?" Katie asked. I told them what had happened, that I thought someone had thrown the apples at me.
They laughed. "Maybe you just left your bag open and they fell out," volunteered Tom, wanting to get back to his reading.
I knew that wasn't true. Those apples had definitely been hurled at me by someone or something, but I didn't speak of the incident again that night. I didn't want to scare Katie. Tom and Katie just resumed their reading and I joined them. When we turned out the lights, my heart beat hard in my chest, but I still didn't reveal how frightening it was to be in the dark in that room in that hotel. But the next day, when we were checking out to head to Santa Fe, I took the lead and cancelled our reservations for the return trip. I wasn't about to sleep another night under that roof. That place was definitely haunted. I didn't know how that chef could show up to work each day knowing that each day might be his last, that he'd spend it dodging knives – or apples.
Elke Sommer's Ghost Story
Posted in PEOPLE, tagged biographies of actresses, biographies of women, Elke Sommer, history, Hollywood, true life ghost story on January 29, 2009| 31 Comments »
I was thinking it was time for a good ghost story. I was tossing around some ideas in my head when I recalled something I'd seen on TV as a child. Of course we didn't have any Discovery Channel back then, but the program was definitely a documentary type. It featured haunted houses and the people who lived in them. I remember the narrator talked with a family who lived in a house in which a rocking chair rocked with no one sitting in it. That felt a little hokey so I wasn't spooked. It was when the narrator interviewed a person I recognized that I scooted to the edge of my seat.
Sommer and Sellers in "A Shot in the Dark" (1964)
It was the beautiful, blonde, and sexy Hollywood actress Elke Sommer (b.1940). She was familiar to me because she had played the voluptuous maid Maria opposite Peter Sellers in the second Pink Panther movie, "A Shot in the Dark" (1964), which ReadersDigest.com names as one of the top funniest 50 films of all times. If you haven't seen it, you should. Bumbling Inspector Clouseau (Sellers) trails after Maria whom he suspects of committing multiple murders, one of which is in a nudist camp.There's a hilarious scene of Maria and Clouseau fleeing through Paris naked.
Anyway, Elke and her husband Hollywood columnist and Bogart's best friend Joe Hyams (1923-2009) lived in Benedict Canyon in North Beverly Hills. They claimed that a ghost was living in their house. My husband Tom also remembers seeing the same show when he was young. "They (Elke and Joe) had a ghost in their dining room," he recalled. "The chairs would move around at night. They would put marks on the floor below the chairs before they went to bed, then, the next morning, they'd look, and the chairs wouldn't be standing on the marks anymore. The chairs would be all over the place."
In the middle of the night, Elke and Joe would wake up to what sounded like a dinner party going on downstairs in the dining room, hearing voices, chairs scooting, glasses tinkling, and silverware clanging. Yet they would go downstairs and no one would be there. Elke said, "Things would move all the time and it would be very noisy and (it was) the usual poltergeist nonsense, you know." (1) The ghost was described as being a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt. (2)
After battling the spirits with no relief, they called in some help, contacting the Parapsychological Institute at UCLA. When Life photographer Allan Grant arrived at the house to take some pictures, he was a sceptic – but not so when he left. He said:
Something happened that spooked me. On one roll of film that I shot in a particular room where they first spotted the ghost there were about four or five frames of film that were progressively fogged down to the end of the frame, giving it a ghostlike appearance, especially (of) Joe Hyams, who was in the shot. When that was processed and I took a look at it, I thought, there's no way that would happen…in the center of a roll…something else had happened that I couldn't explain and I've spent years as a photographer and that had never happened to me before….Something did happen in that house. (1)
The haunting continued. A mysterious fire erupted one night. Fortunately, Joe and Elke were able to get out through a window. Shortly thereafter, they moved out of the house permanently. (1) Joe Hyams wrote a book about it called The Day I Gave Up the Ghost. Evidently, though, the ghost didn't give up. The "severely haunted house" at 2633 Benedict Canyon "was bought and sold more than seventeen times since Sommers vacated it, and many have reported ghostly phenomena." (3)
(1) youtube interview: "Actress Elke Sommer with a Poltergeist."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLasAUl-eI
(2) California Paranormal Travel Guide.
http://www.haunted-places.com/californ.htm
(3) Ghosts of Hollywood: Celebrities Who Have Seen Ghosts. http://paranormal.about.com/cs/trueghoststories/a/aa022304_3.htm
Dina Vierny, Artist's Muse (1920-2009)
Posted in Dina Vierny, muse, PEOPLE, tagged Aristide Maillol, Art, biography of women, Dina Vierny, history, muses on January 28, 2009| 3 Comments »
Dina Vierny in January 1944 with the sculptor Aristide Maillol.
I came across this fascinating obituary by William Grimes in yesterday's New York Times:
"Dina Vierny, the model whose ample flesh and soft curves inspired the sculptor Aristide Maillol, rejuvenating his career, and who eventually founded a museum dedicated to his work, died on Jan. 20 in Paris. She was 89.
Her death was announced by the Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, which she founded in 1995.
In the same period when she was modeling, Ms. Vierny, who had joined the Resistance early on during World War II, led refugees from Nazism across the Pyrenees into Spain as part of an American organization operating out of Marseille.
Ms. Vierny was a 15-year-old lycée student in Paris when she met Maillol, in the mid-1930s. The architect Jean-Claude Dondel, a friend of her father's, decided that she would make the perfect model for the artist, who was 73 and in the professional doldrums.
"Mademoiselle, it is said that you look like a Maillol and a Renoir," Maillol wrote to her. "I'd be satisfied with a Renoir."
For the next 10 years, until his death in a car accident in 1944, Ms. Vierny was Maillol's muse, posing for monumental works of sculpture that belied her modest height of 5 feet 2 inches. By mutual agreement, the relationship was strictly artistic.
Maillol threw himself into his sculpture with renewed energy and, at Ms. Vierny's urging, began painting again. After his death, she worked tirelessly to promote his art and enhance his reputation, eventually creating the Maillol Museum and donating 18 sculptures to the French government on the condition that they be placed in the Jardin des Tuileries. She later added two more.
Ms. Vierny was born in Kishinev, in what is now Moldova, in 1919 and was taken by her parents to France when she was a child. Her father, who played the piano at movie houses, made a modest living while opening his home to an entertaining collection of artists and writers.
Ms. Vierny, who was intent on studying physics and chemistry, took to the role of artist's muse reluctantly at first, posing during school vacations and glancing sideways at her schoolbooks on a nearby stand. The generous modeling fees and Maillol's sense of fun won her over.
For the first two years, though, she kept her clothes on, not out of modesty — she and her friends belonged to a nudist club — but because of Maillol's timidity. She herself later proposed that he try some nude studies. "Since he never asked, I figured he would never have the courage," she told National Public Radio last year.
The Mountain," one of Maillol's depictions of Ms. Vierny
Her Rubenesque figure and jet-black hair indeed made her, as Dondel had predicted, "a living Maillol," memorialized in works like "The Seated Bather," "The Mountain," "Air," "The River," and "Harmony," his last, unfinished sculpture. Maillol also turned to her as a subject for drawings and painted portraits, like "Dina With a Scarf," now in the Maillol Museum.
In 1939, Maillol took refuge at his home in Banyuls-sur-Mer, at the foot of the eastern Pyrenees. There, Ms. Vierny, who had already begun working for a Resistance group in Paris, was approached by the Harvard-educated classicist Varian Fry, whose organization in Marseille helped smuggle refugees from occupied France into Spain. Unbeknownst to Maillol, she began working as a guide, identifiable to her fleeing charges by her red dress. The work was doubly dangerous because she was Jewish.
Ms. Vierny soon began dozing off at her posing sessions. The story came out, and Maillol, a native of the region, showed her secret shortcuts, smugglers' routes and goat paths to use. After several months of working for the Comité Fry, Ms. Vierny was arrested by the French police, who seized her correspondence with her friends in the Surrealist movement but failed to notice stacks of forged passports in her room.
A lawyer hired by Maillol won her acquittal at trial, and to keep her out of harm's way the artist sent her to pose for Matisse in Nice. "I am sending you the subject of my work," Maillol told Matisse, "whom you will reduce to a line."
Matisse did several drawings and proposed an ambitious painting that he called a "Matisse Olympia," after the famous painting by Manet. When Maillol heard that the project would take at least six months, he hastily recalled her to Banyuls.
She also posed for Dufy and for Bonnard, who used her as the model for "Somber Nude."
In 1943, Ms. Vierny was again arrested, this time by the Gestapo, in Paris. She was released after six months in prison when Maillol appealed to Arno Breker, Hitler's favorite sculptor.
After the war, Ms. Vierny opened an art gallery in Paris, where she exhibited Maillol's work, as well as that of others. After traveling to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, she began collecting and showing work by dissident artists like Ilya Kabakov and Erik Bulatov.
A passionate and unpredictable collector, Ms. Vierny accumulated no fewer than 90 antique carriages, including the omnibus that Toulouse-Lautrec used to pick up his friends and the carriage used by Chateaubriand when he was ambassador to Italy.
In the early 1970s, Ms. Vierny decided to start a Maillol museum. She began buying up apartments on the Rue de Grenelle in Paris, selling off her collection of 654 dolls along the way. In 1995 she opened the Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, whose permanent collection also includes work by Degas, Kandinsky, Picasso, Duchamp and assorted naïve artists, yet another of Ms. Vierny's enthusiasms.
It was at the museum that Ms. Vierny lived the rest of her life. She is survived by her two sons, Olivier Lorquin, the director of the Maillol Museum, and the art historian Bertrand Lorquin, its curator. The Maillol connection continues after her death. It may even have preceded her birth.
"One day, I was climbing up an almond tree and Maillol turned to my father," Ms. Vierny told The Independent of London in 1996. "He said to him, 'You made her, but it was I who invented her.' And he really did believe that he had invented me. He said that he had been drawing my features for 20 years before my birth."
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Q: Difference between reverberation and echo? And the factors affecting both of them (unique as well as common)? Is reverberation caused by echo? Is echo the thing that we hear inside of our rooms? Or is it reverberation?
Once such definition states that -

Reverberation is the persistence of sound after the sound source has been stopped. It results from a large number of reflected waves which can be perceived by the brain as a continuous sound. On the other hand, an echo occurs when a pulse of sound can be heard twice.

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An echo is a single reflection of a sound wave off a distance surface. Reverberation is the reflection of sound waves created by the superposition of such echoes.

I am also interested in knowing about what affects echo and reverberation. Like distance for echo must be around 16-17 m, right? But reverberations don't work that way right - as long as the sounds bounces off the walls? What about temperature? Surface of the reflected wall? Density of the medium? Humidity? Is that the same for reverberation as well?

A: An echo is the reflection of sound off a hard object, that your ears perceive as a single (or possibly multiple) repeat(s) of the original sound after a transit time delay.
Reverberation is the same thing, except that there are so many different reflections occurring at almost the same time that all the individual echoes blend together and you do not perceive them as discrete, individual echoes.
Echoes occur usually outside, from something like a rock cliff or wall, where the echo leaves the scene and doesn't come back. Reverberation usually occurs indoors, where the initial echo bounces off a different wall, then hits another wall, then hits the ceiling, then the floor, and so on.
Both echo and reverberation can easily be simulated electromechanically (as in spring reverb, plate reverb and tape echo devices) or purely electronically, using analog or (more commonly) digital delay lines.

A: Reverberation is the superposition of several echoes that takes place in an enclosed space. While an echo generally comprises of a primary reflection, reverberation has reflections of effectively infinite order. Of course, perceptually, we don't really notice infinite order reflections because the energy of the higher order reflections decay rapidly, due to absorption of sound by air and materials on the walls. Reverberation consists of sparsely distributed early reflections, followed by very dense echoes whose energy decays exponentially with time. In fact, this 'late reverb' is Gaussian in nature. Sabine did some fundamental work on deriving the energy profile of sound decay in enclosed spaces (Read the section 'Sound in Enclosed Spaces').


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You'll be thinking of all of the possible ways to surprise your partner, to make up for how you've treated them over the past few days.
It's likely that others will even notice that you've changed since you'll show your feelings through a series of gestures and thoughtful gifts that are unusual for you.
The weekend is coming up quickly, and with its arrival, some of the tasks at hand suddenly seem easier to you.
You might feel a false sense of relief if you count the hours until you get off work. But, this will probably just make you more nervous and as anxious as you may be, this won't make the hands on the clock turn faster.
Being on edge won't help you a bit. You'll find that it's difficult for you to concentrate, and this could cause you to make a mistake.
You keep going through highs and lows. You got back on track a while ago now, you should take the time to bring things up to the next level and make your circuit into a stable route that you can navigate with ease.
If someone started running without ever having exercised before, it'd be normal for them to need to stop every once in a while and not feel ready for the pressure of a race. However, as time goes by, holding yourself back becomes more of an obstacle than a way to pick up speed.


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The Microfinance Growth Fund has provided financing to 400,000 micro-entrepreneurs in 13 countries since 2010, a milestone which marks a significant contribution to the rise in supply of finance in the Latin and Central American region after the 2008 financial crisis.
The Microfinance Growth Fund (MiGroF), managed by Swiss-based impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance, was created in March 2010 to restore the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin and Central America following the 2008 international financial crisis, and to increase the supply of finance for micro, small and medium businesses. The Fund's investors included the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), IDB Invest (members of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Group), US-based Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Citibanamex, CAF Development Bank of Latin America, Norwegian Microfinance Initiative, Accion International, as well as other private sector investors. BlueOrchard was selected as the fund manager out of 17 applicants bidding for this mandate.
"The social impact enabled by MiGroF is another key milestone in our continued effort to reduce poverty and share prosperity across the emerging world. We are very proud to have achieved both considerable social impact and attractive financial returns for the fund's investors," said Peter A. Fanconi, BlueOrchard's Chairman of the Board.
"It is encouraging to see how this effort --spearheaded by the FOMIN and IDB Invest in the aftermath of the financial crisis-- was able to achieve its objectives of providing liquidity and funds for growth to facilitate lending to micro and small enterprises throughout Latin America, boosting economic growth and increasing employment in many countries of the region," said Tomas Miller of the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund.
"MiGroF's commitment to the microfinance industry in Latin America, at times when the sector experienced liquidity challenges, has been remarkable. We are delighted to report that the fund's original objectives to expand access to finance in the region have exceeded expectations", said Bob Annibale, Global Director of Citi Inclusive Finance and MiGroF's Chairman of the Board.
BlueOrchard is a leading global impact investment manager. The firm is dedicated to fostering inclusive and climate-smart growth, while providing attractive returns for investors. BlueOrchard was founded in 2001, by initiative of the UN, as the world's first commercial manager of microfinance debt investments. Today, BlueOrchard provides investors around the world with premium investment solutions, including credit, private equity, and sustainable infrastructure. Being an expert in innovative blended finance mandates, the firm is a trusted partner of leading global development finance institutions. With a major global presence and offices on four continents, BlueOrchard has invested to date more than USD 4,7bn across 70 emerging and frontier markets, enabling tangible social impact. BlueOrchard is a licensed Swiss asset manager authorized by FINMA. Its Luxembourg entity is a licensed alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) authorized by CSSF. For additional information, please visit: www.blueorchard.com.


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Nitrous acid formation in a snow-free wintertime polluted rural area
Catalina Tsai1, Max Spolaor1, Santo Fedele Colosimo1, Olga Pikelnaya1,2, Ross Cheung1, Eric Williams3, Jessica B. Gilman3, Brian M. Lerner3,a, Robert J. Zamora3, Carsten Warneke3, James M. Roberts3, Ravan Ahmadov3, Joost de Gouw4, Timothy Bates5, Patricia K. Quinn5, and Jochen Stutz1 Catalina Tsai et al. Catalina Tsai1, Max Spolaor1, Santo Fedele Colosimo1, Olga Pikelnaya1,2, Ross Cheung1, Eric Williams3, Jessica B. Gilman3, Brian M. Lerner3,a, Robert J. Zamora3, Carsten Warneke3, James M. Roberts3, Ravan Ahmadov3, Joost de Gouw4, Timothy Bates5, Patricia K. Quinn5, and Jochen Stutz1
1Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2now at South-Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, USA
3Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
4Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
5Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, WA, USA
anow at: Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA
Correspondence: Jochen Stutz (jochen@atmos.ucla.edu)
Received: 10 Jul 2017 – Discussion started: 04 Aug 2017 – Revised: 17 Nov 2017 – Accepted: 05 Dec 2017 – Published: 12 Feb 2018
Abstract. Nitrous acid (HONO) photolysis is an important source of hydroxyl radicals (OH) in the lower atmosphere, in particular in winter when other OH sources are less efficient. The nighttime formation of HONO and its photolysis in the early morning have long been recognized as an important contributor to the OH budget in polluted environments. Over the past few decades it has become clear that the formation of HONO during the day is an even larger contributor to the OH budget and additionally provides a pathway to recycle NOx. Despite the recognition of this unidentified HONO daytime source, the precise chemical mechanism remains elusive. A number of mechanisms have been proposed, including gas-phase, aerosol, and ground surface processes, to explain the elevated levels of daytime HONO. To identify the likely HONO formation mechanisms in a wintertime polluted rural environment we present LP-DOAS observations of HONO, NO2, and O3 on three absorption paths that cover altitude intervals from 2 to 31, 45, and 68 m above ground level (a.g.l.) during the UBWOS 2012 experiment in the Uintah Basin, Utah, USA. Daytime HONO mixing ratios in the 2–31 m height interval were, on average, 78 ppt, which is lower than HONO levels measured in most polluted urban environments with similar NO2 mixing ratios of 1–2 ppb. HONO surface fluxes at 19 m a.g.l., calculated using the HONO gradients from the LP-DOAS and measured eddy diffusivity coefficient, show clear upward fluxes. The hourly average vertical HONO flux during sunny days followed solar irradiance, with a maximum of (4.9 ± 0.2)  ×  1010 molec. cm−2 s−1 at noontime. A photostationary state analysis of the HONO budget shows that the surface flux closes the HONO budget, accounting for 63 ± 32 % of the unidentified HONO daytime source throughout the day and 90 ± 30 % near noontime. This is also supported by 1-D chemistry and transport model calculations that include the measured surface flux, thus clearly identifying chemistry at the ground as the missing daytime HONO source in this environment. Comparison between HONO surface flux, solar radiation, NO2 and HNO3 mixing ratios, and results from 1-D model runs suggest that, under high NOx conditions, HONO formation mechanisms related to solar radiation and NO2 mixing ratios, such as photo-enhanced conversion of NO2 on the ground, are most likely the source of daytime HONO. Under moderate to low NO2 conditions, photolysis of HNO3 on the ground seems to be the main source of HONO.
How to cite. Tsai, C., Spolaor, M., Colosimo, S. F., Pikelnaya, O., Cheung, R., Williams, E., Gilman, J. B., Lerner, B. M., Zamora, R. J., Warneke, C., Roberts, J. M., Ahmadov, R., de Gouw, J., Bates, T., Quinn, P. K., and Stutz, J.: Nitrous acid formation in a snow-free wintertime polluted rural area, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1977–1996, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1977-2018, 2018.
Nitrous acid (HONO) photolysis is an important source of hydroxyl radicals (OH). Vertical HONO fluxes, observed in the snow-free, wintertime Uintah Basin, Utah, USA, show that chemical formation of HONO on the ground closes the HONO budget. Under high NOx conditions, HONO formation is most likely due to photo-enhanced conversion of NO2 on the ground. Under moderate to low NO2 conditions, photolysis of HNO3 on the ground seems to be the most likely source of HONO.
Nitrous acid (HONO) photolysis is an important source of hydroxyl radicals (OH). Vertical HONO...


Wireless surveillance cameras are a handy way to watch over the places that don't justify an Ethernet connection.
As with the Axis 206W reviewed by Techworld a few weeks back, the IP Cam is one of a growing band of cheap network surveillance cameras that have the added feature of wireless 802.11g operation.
The wireless feature is more that a gimmick as it allows the camera to be put more or less anywhere, unconstrained by the need for a data port. This sounds like a small issue but the places that need watching over – a reception waiting area for instance – aren't always the places cables are run to so it adds worthwhile convenience.
Such cameras are ostensibly aimed at small businesses on the assumption that these sorts of companies won't invest in conventional CCTV systems, but there is no reason why they can't be used in any size of business.
Other than wireless, the main attraction of the IP Cam is its ability to motion sense – something that required a software upgrade on the Axis 206W. It can be left pointing at a scene and will do one of a number of things, depending on how it has been configured, if it senses movement in its field of view. Most simply, it sounds an audible alarm if it detects motion (this can be adjusted for sensitivity). Alternatively, it will send the administrator an email with an attached screen dump and record the scene to hard disk for later review. If you want, it will do all of these.
Scheduled recording is also possible, useful if the secured location only needs watching at certain times of the day. The subsequent files can run up to 50 GB in size or a set space can be specified that is re-recorded over once the space has been consumed. One thing is pretty obvious: this system isn't the one to choose if you need to review security footage months later because the volumes of video data would fill too much space.
The supplied Windows IP View software can be used to configure and manage up to four cameras at one time; ActiveX and Java support means the video stream can be accessed from any web browser once the unit has been configured with a static IP address.
The IP Cam's rugged build quality promises longevity, as does the sturdy tilt-and-swivel steel base. Two features we liked: the focus can be set precisely by turning a focusing ring on the camera (some cameras come with a fixed focus) and the mounting thread on the top of the unit makes it possible to suspend it from a ceiling.
The camera itself is a pretty ordinary "sub-megapixel" colour CMOS design, and can manage up to 20 fps at a 320 x 240 resolution or 6 fps at 640x480. It allows 5 levels of image compression depending the level of network traffic reduction is desired. The image quality is pretty good once contrast and brightness have been adjusted for the local environment. It has its own integrated web server and CPU but this has only a half megabyte frame buffer.
Although it's easy to set up, the software is a little rough around the edges. It's not clear why the camera loads two utilities (IP View and Setup Wizard) under different groups in the Windows XP start bar for instance. You also need to read quite deeply into the supplied electronic manual to work out some of the unit's features when they would be better signposted in the quick-start manual.
Overall, we liked this product. It isn't designed to be used in a highly systematic way or as part of a large system, but can handle informal surveillance with minimal fuss. It's cheap, easy to set up and manage, and should prove reliable. It will impose some demand on a smallish network or LAN segment but nothing to worry about. Whether products such as this actually protect company assets depends on the way they're used but the deterrent effect of seeing one (make sure the power and link light stay on) should be more than enough to justify its use.
Before you buy this class of product ask yourself whether you really need something more sophisticated. Most will want the ability to use and manage multiple cameras as well as being able to pan and zoom, possibly record video streams, and motion sensing is also useful. Some products have offered weak image quality so look for not much less than 1 megapixel resolution. Finally, before you get in deep also think about the impact of using multiple cameras on network performance and treat manufacturer's optimistic estimates of this with caution.


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Governor donates ambulance to Lui hospital
By Bullen Bala Alexander
Western Equatoria State governor has donated one ambulance to Lui hospital in Mundri East County to boost referral of the patients in the area to hospital.
Earlier this week, Alfred Futuyo Karaba the Western Equatoria State governor inspected Lui Hospital, the only hospital that the three counties of greater Mundri have long depended since the creation of these counties.
Shortly after inspecting the hospital, governor Futuyo revealed that the hospital was facing numerous challenges that were explained to him by the administration of the hospital citing that he witnessed it too.
"We all understand that our hospital in the state is facing a lot of challenges but what I have seen here that need to be addressed as an urgent issue is the issue of transport "ambulance" to help the communities of the area to be transported to hospital in case of critical times," he said.
"As I speak now, this hospital deserves another ambulance and on behalf of my government, I am giving Lui hospital one ambulance because this big hospital cannot rely on only one ambulance and what I witnessed is that people are many in the hospital and many patients are struggling to reach the hospital since their places are far so this can help such people," governor Futuyo reiterated.
He said that his government was giving the ambulance to help the communities of greater Mundri refer the patients to Lui Hospital since it is a well-organized hospital in the area. It will help the vulnerable people access medical services easily.
Futuyo further revealed the purpose of his visit to the Eastern counties where he stated the main objective of continuing to unite the people who had been split into four states before the reversion to Western Equatoria State promising them that peace will prevail.
"What brought me here is to tell people that peace has come and that there was a separation of states so I am here to unite our people and also to say that there will be no tribalism. My leadership does not allow tribal lines," the governor said.
Futuyo called on everyone in the state to give chance to peace in the country adding that it is only through unity, working together that the country will be able develop.
Meanwhile, Tabitha Tatuma the Lui Hospital administrator who is also the women representative of Lui Payam appreciated the governor for the donation of the ambulance to the hospital.
"What we have seen from our governor is really something great and it will always be remembered, we are happy for the donation and we hope that we will continue to work together to achieve people's dream," Tatuma appreciated.
For his part, Jackson Garawa, a community leader in Lui Payam congratulated the governor for donating an ambulance to Lui hospital saying it was something that many governors failed to do in the history of Western Equatoria State.
"I appreciate the idea of the ambulance because I see the challenges that we have in the hospital because when someone is sick when the old ambulance has broken down, we send only boda-bodas to bring the patientsm," Garawa said.
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Tim Nielsen, Australia's coach, has launched a lengthy defence of the fourth-day tactics that have landed Ricky Ponting in the firing line from a wide range of commentators and former players. At stumps on Sunday, before much of the criticism had occurred, Nielsen said he did not for a moment believe Ponting had failed to push hard to win the match.
Nielsen has had more than two days to reflect on Australia's decision to use part-time slow bowlers after tea on Sunday, at a time when a quick end to India's innings could have given Australia a gettable chase. In his blog on Cricket Australia's website, Nielsen wrote on Tuesday that he felt compelled to defend Ponting.
"Ricky had to take a number of things into consideration and having the prospect of a suspension for slow over rate hanging over his head was only part of it," Nielsen wrote. "It's all well and good to now say that he should have kept bowling the quicks at any cost but the question I ask is what sort of leadership is that as a captain of Australia? Is it all right to break the rules as long as you win without worrying about the consequences?"
Some of the harshest comments on Sunday came from Allan Border, the former captain and a current Cricket Australia director, who said on air: "I'm glad Ricky can't read my mind right now because he's not going to like it." Nielsen said he was particularly disappointed that much of the criticism had come from inside Australian cricket's "family".
"Whether it be commentators, past Test captains or board members that make those comments, they help shape popular opinion and it really does make it hard for the bloke who is out there trying to make decisions on the run." Nielsen was keen to point out that Ponting had stuck with his most successful bowler, the offspinner Jason Krejza, and the plan was to let Krejza attack while tying down the runs at the other end.
"Unfortunately it's not like our fast bowlers had taken wickets on call throughout the series," Nielsen said. "When Jason is bowling, and his figures suggest he is giving up four, five, six runs an over at different times, it's really hard to keep the game from getting away when you're giving up runs from both ends.
"We bowled our first selected spinner for the tour in Cameron White, who had done a good job of restricting the run-rate during the first three Tests while taking very timely wickets (dismissing Sachin Tendulkar twice). Unfortunately, this time it wasn't successful, but if it had been I think those in the media would be singing Ricky's praises."
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What are the precautions to be taken about exercise and diet and what are the medicines to be taken?
• Jobueno is right on the money. After my heart attack and stent placement in September , a friend gave me Dr Esselstyn's book "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease". We have been following the diet since then. Lost 16 pounds and cholesterol went down to 152 before I took any statins. Doctor wants to put another stent where they say i have a 80% blockage. I have refused since i am not having any symptoms. BP is low, did 15 minutes on the Nuclear stress test, my HR went to 180. Only quit because my knees we hurting. I think my biggest fault was olive oil and cheese.
• If you are feeling well and healthy, there should be no reason you could. Many patients are back to work in a couple days. Of course, this cannot be taken as medical advice and, if you have any questions like this, you should really ask your cardiologist.
• I have stented in LCX 10 days ago. Sir can I drive a car or scooter?
• Shanthiah -- As for exercise, check out our Forum Topic on Exercise After Stenting. Although it is important that you check with your cardiologist first before starting any exercise program, just to make sure you are exerting yourself within your safety zone. Your medications seem standard, although the fact that your blood pressure is normal may be due to the Micardis. In terms of diet, it's good to stay away from obvious fatty foods, junk foods, etc. and to keep your weight normal.
• I am 43. Had one stent in PCI RCA on December 10, 2010. What are the precautions to be taken about exercise and diet. Can i run little bit (jogging) instead of walking and also can i do hard exercise like before stented . Right now I am using medicine Aspirin Protect 100mg, Micardis 40gm, Plavix, vastarel MR 35mg and Niblet. I do not have high BP and diabetes. Please advise.
• Ashok -- make sure to strictly follow your cardiologist's prescriptions, especially the anti-clotting medications (aspirin and Plavix or Ticlid). There are probably others that he/she has prescribed to lower cholesterol, etc. As for exercise, you should discuss this with your cardiologist who has the specific information about you and your clinical status. Keep us informed as to your progress.
• I am 52. Had one stent in RCA on February 11, 2009. What are the precautions to be taken about exercise and diet and what are the medicines to be taken. I do not have high BP and diabetes.


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Jury awards man $1 million for machine accident
A civil jury has awarded $1 million to a Long Beach, Calif., man who lost two fingers in a workplace accident five years ago, reports the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
The 22-year-old man won his lawsuit against his former employer, D&G Manufacturing Co. in the San Pedro Superior Court.
The victim had been on the job for about a month when he was instructed to work on a metal cutting machine, which was activated by a hydraulic foot pedal, according to the report.
According to his lawsuit, however, he was not informed that the machine's safety guards had been removed. The safety guards, attorneys said, were designed to keep fingers away from the machine's blades.
Two of his fingers were crushed and severed when the foot pedal was inadvertently activated, said one of his attorneys.
"The jury determined that the employer acted with a conscious disregard for worker safety by removing the safety guard," the attorney said in a written statement.
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What's Your Pleasure is Jessie Ware's fourth studio album, her first since 2017's Glasshouse. Jessie describes it as: "a two-year labour of love with the dream team," including collaborators such as Shungudzo Kuyimba, Kindness, Clarence Coffee Jr., Metronomy and former Badbadnotgood sound whiz Matthew Tavares.
Her fourth studio album is a collection of sophisticated, hard-bodied pop funk that capitalizes on a love of 70s, 80s and 90s club culture coupled with Jessie's vocals and the intuitive production of long-time friend James Ford culminates in a sound that feels instantly compelling.
Jessie has succeeded in audaciously mulching several decades of party music into an album so relentless it doubles as a playlist. With four BRIT-nominations plus a Mercury Prize nomination and three top-ten albums under her belt, Jessie has proven her status as one of the UK's most influential artists.
Her return with the dancefloor ready 'What's Your Pleasure?' feels like an artist in control while capturing the essence of nostalgia to keep the spirit of club music and the dancefloor alive.
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