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Jonathan's practice embraces commercial, company, and technology and construction disputes (including procurement), with a particular emphasis on matters with a technical or scientific element. He has appeared as sole counsel in multi-day trials and heavy applications in the High Court; has regularly appeared in arbitrations and adjudications and upon the enforcement of resulting awards, both at home and abroad; and has served as part of a counsel team in several multi-week trials, both in the English High Court and in the Commercial Court of the British Virgin Islands.
Year of Call: 2007 (England); 2013 (British Virgin Islands)
Jonathan has appeared in several arbitrations and adjudications, as sole counsel and junior counsel in a larger team, covering various commercial, construction and sports matters.
Jonathan also appears regularly on arbitration and adjudication related business in the High Court, such as applications for stays, injunctions, challenges to awards, and enforcement of awards (including the enforcement of foreign awards under the New York Convention).
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Jonathan has been instructed by various national and international banking organisations on a variety of matters, including disputes on guarantees and indemnities, bills of exchange, hire purchase agreements, mortgages, and hedge fund disputes. Jonathan has been published in The Hedge Fund Journal.
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Various applications for urgent injunctive relief; junior counsel in a five-week trial (BVI Commercial Court) concerning the misappropriation of the $75m proceeds of a sale of oil assets in Eastern Europe.
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Jonathan regularly conducts trials, applications and appeals on a variety of commercial and contractual matters, and has acted for numerous blue chip companies (many of the larger British and international banks and insurers, BT, National Grid, BskyB, the BBC). Jonathan has gained a vast experience across the range of commercial disputes, having practised at the English bar since 2007, as well as in employed practice in the British Virgin Islands for two years, where he conducted substantial international litigation of significant value.
Recently appeared in Amey v Cumbria County Council ([2016] EWHC 2856 (TCC)), a four-month trial in the TCC
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Broad experience of shareholder disputes, including international matters; unfair prejudice, just and equitable winding up; ex parte injunctions for freezing orders and appointment of receivers.
Jonathan has been instructed in relation to all manner of subrogated recovery actions resulting from fire, flood, cable and pipeline strikes, construction accidents, death in care, shipping etc. Regularly advises on policy coverage.
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Jonathan spent two years (2013-2015) at one of the leading offshore law firms, as in-house counsel in the British Virgin Islands. He developed expertise in private international law across a range of cross-border disputes, with an emphasis on shareholder and fraud work. He acted for the liquidators and provisional liquidators of, amongst other things, international hotel chains and airlines; appeared weekly in the BVI Commercial Court as sole counsel, often on heavy applications, and appeared regularly in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (including the successful appeal on a significant BVI case on forum non conveniens).
Other experience: freezing injunctions, anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunctions, forum challenges, arbitral enforcement under the New York Convention, cross-border receiverships, and fund disputes.
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Jonathan has derived experience of contracting and procurement processes through his technology and construction practice, including in relation to various term maintenance contracts between local authorities and private providers.
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Experience includes representing (as junior counsel) a top four Premier League club in relation to a dispute with its sponsor; a dispute between boxing promoters concerning television rights and licensing fees; a professional negligence action by a professional footballer against a solicitor regarding the handling of a sports injury claim; acting for a top four club in relation to the enforcement of the Premier League ground regulations on conduct inside the stadium; litigation concerning the jerseys of two Championship clubs.
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Amey LG Ltd v Cumbria County Council - [2016] EWHC 2856 (TCC)
Company A v Company B (arbitration business) - [2017] EWHC 2319 (QB)
A One Distributon Ltd v Rotronic Instruments (UK) Ltd - [2017] EWHC 1813 (TCC)
Dynniq UK Ltd v Lancashire County Council - [2017] EWHC 3173 (TCC)
Keystone v Parr – [2018] EWHC 1509 (Ch)
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An increasing proportion of Jonathan's practice is concerned with tech law. Jonathan has a first-class degree in Artificial Intelligence and a good knowledge of a variety of computing languages and frameworks. He regularly acts in IT and tech disputes concerning defects, software licensing, and confidential information.
Jonathan regularly appears in construction adjudications, arbitrations and in the TCC on all aspects of construction and engineering disputes. He has conducted multi-day trials in the TCC as sole counsel, and multi-week trials as junior counsel. He maintains a busy advisory practice.
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Keystone Healthcare Ltd & Anor v Parr & Others - [2018] EWHC 1509 (Ch)
M Davenport Builders Ltd v Greer & Anor - [2019] EWHC 318 (TCC)
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A booster club secretary sued the school's governing board, alleging that the directors and officers were negligent for failing to supervise the booster club manager who, she claimed, sexually harassed her. When the board submitted their legal bill to their carrier, they learned that no payments would be made until a settlement had been reached. Legal costs piled up until a settlement was reached, five years later. The prohibitive costs caused the organization to close its doors forever.
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M-Fire has completed E84 extended fire testing on 3ply NLT with 0 flame spread and 20 in smoke index. We also offer CLT builders mold and termite protection. Engineering values and air quality in tall wood structures need defending as steel buildings need rust defense. E119 is not enough to protect the effect of fire on these structures in turn putting undo risk of firefighters and tenants.
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Sampo Group's profit before taxes for the fourth quarter of 2018 amounted to EUR 451 million, compared to EUR 436 million in the comparison period. Full-year profit before taxes for 2018 amounted to EUR 2,094 million (2,482).
- Sampo Group's insurance business, once again, reported excellent results and the number of customers increased in all markets for the second year in a row. Sampo's Board of Directors propose that the dividend be increased for the tenth consecutive year, says Kari Stadigh, Group CEO and President.
If's combined ratio for 2018 was 85.2 per cent. Previous year, the combined ratio amounted to 85,3 per cent.
The Board proposes to the Annual General Meeting to be held on 9 April 2019 a dividend of EUR 2.85 per share. A dividend of EUR 2.60 per share was paid for year 2017. The proposed dividend payment amounts in total to EUR 1,583 million (1,444).
Sampo Group's total comprehensive income for the period, taking changes in the market value of assets, was EUR 1,034 million (2,146). The comparison figure contains a positive non-recurring item of EUR 706 million because of the change in Topdanmark's accounting treatment.
Earnings per share was EUR 3.04 (3.96). Mark-to-market earnings per share was EUR 1.70 (3.79).
Return on equity for the Group amounted to 7.5 per cent (17.1).
Net asset value per share was EUR 20.60 (25.37).
Profit before taxes for If segment increased to EUR 848 million (818).
Profit before taxes for Topdanmark segment was EUR 199 million (848). The comparison figure contains a positive non-recurring item of EUR 706 million because of the change in accounting treatment.
Sampo's share of Nordea's net profit amounted to EUR 625 million (616).
Profit before taxes for segment Mandatum rose to EUR 450 million (236). The profit includes the non-recurring contribution of EUR 197 related to co-operation agreement with Danske Bank.
If is expected to reach a combined ratio of 86 - 90 per cent in 2019.
Sampo Group's Full-year Financial Report 2018 and Supplementary Financial Information Package are available at www.sampo.com/result.
Sampo will today arrange a press conference at Restaurant Palace (10th floor), Eteläranta 10, Helsinki at 1:00 pm Finnish time. Languages used at the press conference are English and Finnish.
The press conference can also be followed as a live webcast at www.sampo.com/result. A recorded version will later be available at the same address.
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Fairy Tales of Ireland
P J Lynch, W B Yeats
A magical collection of twenty classic Irish fairy tales by one of Ireland's greatest writers, the Nobel Prize-winning W. B. Yeats - with intricate, traditional illustrations throughout by P. J. Lynch.
These short, carefully selected stories are told with humour and warmth, drawing on the glorious storytelling tradition of Ireland.
With enchanting portrayals of witches, fairies, giants, pixies, hobgoblins and people of the otherworld, plus a notes section that traces the fascinating origin of each story, this book provides the perfect introduction to Irish myths and legends for curious new readers and fans of Yeats alike.
There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers .
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin and was educated in Ireland and England. An Irish poet, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre - and in particular the founding of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. P. J. Lynch is one of the most talented illustrators working today. He has won many awards, including the Mother Goose Award, the Irish Bisto Award (twice) and the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice). He lives in Dublin.

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European Commission proposes cheaper cross-border payments
Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, in charge of the Euro
© European Commission
The European Commission announced yesterday a long overdue proposal to make cross-border payments in euro cheaper across the entire EU. Consumers and businesses in the euro area already have benefited from low fees for cross-border payments in euro since 2001. Under current rules, there is no difference for euro area residents or businesses if they carry out euro transactions in their own country or with another euro area Member State.
The proposal aims to extend this benefit to people and businesses in non-euro countries when they pay by bank transfer or travel abroad and make withdrawals from cash machines, putting an end to the high cost of intra-EU cross-border transactions in euros.
All intra-EU cross-border payments in euros outside the euro area will now be priced the same – with small or no fees – as domestic payments in the local official currency. The Commission writes that today's hefty fees are an obstacle to the Single Market, as they create barriers to cross-border activities.
The Commission also proposes brining more transparency and competition to currency conversion services when consumers are buying goods or services in a different currency than their own.
At the moment, consumers are usually not informed or aware of the cost of a transaction that involves a currency conversion. The proposal will therefore require that consumers are fully informed of the cost of a currency conversion before they make such payment (with their card abroad, be it a cash withdrawal at an ATM, a card payment at a point of sale or online).
In total 150 million consumers are expected to benefit from the proposal, besides those 360 million consumers in the euro zone who already benefit from it. Consumers and businesses are expected to save €1 billion.
The proposal will now be submitted to the European Parliament and Council, but no date was given for its adoption.


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Renaissance Art Map
Exploration: Candro Botticelly "Visual Poetry"
Devotional paintings
Secular patronage and works
Mythological paintings
How the Nymph became a Goddess
Botticelli: lyrical precision
Late works
Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy and Dravings
APPENDIX: Venus - The Evening Star
Venus: The Evening Star
The Goddess of Love and her mysterious origins
(by K. Reichold and B. Graf)
You might swear that the goddess (Venus) came out of the waves. Her right hand covering her breasts, she wants to enthral us. And wherever she plants her divine foot, flowers spring up to greet the skies.
Angelo Poliziano, The Realm of Venus, c. 1475
The origins of the gods have always been a mystery and the origin of Venus is a particularly difficult case. Malicious tongues say that she came from the countryside. Probably a successor to an ancient mother goddess, she was venerated in what is now Italy as the patroness of gardens and vegetable farming — especially on Veneralia, the feast day of Venus, April. In defence of her reputation, one should add that she lost her earthmess early on. Beginning in the fourth century BC she was equated in Rome with Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, who was the patroness of coquettish young women, of laughter and fun, and of sweet desire and clemency.
Aphrodite's origins are also rather uncertain, and the various legends about her birth contradict one another. These stones agree about one thing, that Aphrodite emerged from the sea. According to the early Greek poet Hesiod, who established the family tree of the Olympian gods, Aphrodite was born of the foam which billowed up around the genitals of her castrated father Uranus, which were cast into the sea by his son Saturn (Cronus), who was responsible for this violent act. Another legend tells us that Aphrodite was born in a bivalve shell. The Italian Humanist poet Angelo Poliziano (Politian), who was an advisor at the Medici court in Florence, elaborated on these ancient tales in his writings:
"And born within (the white
foam),
in rare and joyous acts
a maiden with a heavenly race
by playful zephyrs
is pushed to the shore.
She travels on a sea-shell;
and it seems
that the heavens rejoice."
The zephyrs, blowing a strong wind, steer her "ship" towards the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where she is greeted by nymphs, who are "surprised by joy at the sight of her" and dress her in a cloak decorated with flowers — for even the goddess of love cannot remain nude forever. The Italian Renaissance painter Allesandro Filipepi, later known as Sandro Botticelli, may well have taken Poliziano's poem as the literary model for his painting The Birth of Venus. Probably commissioned by the Medici family, the painting depicts the goddess as the personification of Love. She is to lead the Florentines, who at the time were growing increasingly enthusiastic about Greek philosophy, back to its loftiest ideals: goodness, truth and beauty.
Today the planet Venus, sometimes called the Evening Star, is not the only reminder of how important the goddess once was. The fifth day of the week also bears her name: "Friday", and the German "Freitag", derive from the name of the Teuton goddess Freya, who was equated with Venus. Friday in Italian, venerdi, and in French, vendredi; respectively have retained much of the original sound of "Venus", and both mean "Venus Day".
Venus, Bacchus and Cupid.
Albani
Venus at her Toilet.
Venus and Adonis.
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Jasques
Venus and Cupid.
Batoni
Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan.
Venus , Mars and Cupid.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Venus , Mars and Vulcan.
Venus.


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Prognostic value of pulmonary ultrasound score combined with plasma miR-21-3p expression in patients with acute lung injury.
Renyang Liu, Guoxu Zhao, Qinyu Wang, Fangxiao Gong
Journal of clinical laboratory analysis 2022 Mar
gene and proteins
distress (1)
fibroblast growth factor (1)
mirn21 microrna, human (1)
prognosis (5)
target genes (1)
The aim of this study was to explore the value of the combination between lung ultrasound score (LUS) and the expression of plasma miR-21-3p in predicting the prognosis of patients with acute lung injury (ALI). A total of 136 ALI patients were divided into survival (n = 86) and death groups (n = 50), or into low/middle-risk (n = 77) and high-risk groups (n = 59) according to APACHE II scores. Bioinformatics was used to explore the mechanism of action of miR-21-3p in humans. Real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR was used to detect the expression of miR-21-3p in plasma, and LUS was recorded. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve and Pearson correlation were also used. The LUS and expression level of plasma miR-21-3p in the death and high-risk groups were significantly higher than those in the survival and low/middle-risk groups (p < 0.01 and p < 0.05). miR-21-3p expression leads to pulmonary fibrosis and promotes the deterioration of ALI patients by regulating fibroblast growth factor and other target genes. ROC curve analysis showed that the best cutoff values for LUS and plasma miR-21-3p expression were 18.60 points and 1.75, respectively. LUS score and miR-21-3p combined predicted the death of ALI patients with the largest area under the curve (0.907, 95% CI: 0.850-0.964), with sensitivity and specificity of 91.6% and 85.2%, respectively. The expression level of plasma miR-21-3p was positively correlated with LUS in the death group (r = 0.827, p < 0.01). LUS and expression level of miR-21-3p in plasma are correlated with the severity and prognosis of ALI patients, and their combination has a high value for the prognostic assessment of ALI patients. © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Renyang Liu, Guoxu Zhao, Qinyu Wang, Fangxiao Gong. Prognostic value of pulmonary ultrasound score combined with plasma miR-21-3p expression in patients with acute lung injury. Journal of clinical laboratory analysis. 2022 Mar;36(3):e24275
Acute Lung Injury
Respiratory Distress Syndrome
MIRN21 microRNA, human


Is our data really protected and how its been used the truth unveiled. Data has been the most important part of our life. We generate data consciously or unconsciously whether that's physical and non-physical irrespective of its manner of existence.
These data's are being used by most of us in several manners. Not so long there was an intense outrage and news as Facebook scandals mushrooms, Zuckerberg vows to 'step up'. The so-called Cambridge Analytics news, also, facebook suspending 200 applications for misusing the users data.
Numerous news popped out and also it was an unfortunate incident to happen. A well organized and esteemed company missed out the important aspect of privacy of data. Protection of users data is the most crucial part for any organization even for the individuals who contribute to that vast and bulk data. Concerning how those data can be used.
But is it only Facebook, that we have to blame? or is it just that, it came out surprisingly and people noticed it and became aware and realized the issue? Unaware of the fact that there're others too who utilize and sell your private data to third parties.
It's not that there're few, but almost all. Here is a small example of how user data and behavior is used by other third parties. MI Phones, India's one of the largest market share holder of dual sim smartphone how they utilize your data.
Another example of well-esteemed company Motorola how they utilize your data.
Surprised, but it's the bitter truth of the existing market. Your data is continuously being monitored and collected by your service provider and then the cycle goes on. Even the tech giant Google is also a part of it. However, they provide the option to opt out which is yet unknown to the users.
From using devices to using applications all are interconnected. Also, we must understand this one thing, it's not a bad thing, it's good, that datas are being shared and it will eventually help the advertisers and companies which in return will benefit us.
But the concern arises, to what extent they can? And is the data being used by the genuine body? Is it being misutilized for personal achievement?
The famous case of Cambridge Analytica, of how Trump used the data to win the U.S election is a classic example of misusing of data. However, we must understand this basic fundamental element that the responsibilities and right sustainabilities of those datas. Which should be followed by every organization and also for an individual.
So, we must not blame Facebook for the same, it has been the most important aspect of the market and our life and has been evolving since then. Yes, there are flaws that need to be addressed and Facebook accepted that worked on it and still continues to do it.
But it's not just Facebook, but all your direct service providers are involved in it. But interestingly we must appreciate Apple for not being in this league of user data sharing with third parties. Apple strictly condemns it and respects its users data.
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Over the Fourth of July weekend, Americans filled airports and highways nearly as much as on holidays before the pandemic. For many people, the busy travel weekend will be followed by a return to the office and other activities out of the house. This ongoing transition period raises many important questions, including: What will happen with all the pets?
The past 18 months have been filled with reports of surging adoption rates and lengthening breeder waiting lists as Americans sought out furry companions during lockdown. Business has also been booming for pet-oriented startups. Sales on Chewy, the Amazon of pet food and supplies, rose 51 percent in Q4, according to its most recent earnings report. Barkbox, which sells personalized boxes of dog toys and treats, reported 264,000 new monthly subscribers in Q4—a 72 percent increase year-over-year. Pawsh, an app that matches dog owners with groomers, saw a 125 percent growth in customers between March and June of last year; two-thirds of new users were first-time pet owners. "Adopting a dog became a trend during the pandemic," says Pawsh cofounder Karthik Naralasetty.
"Our hypothesis is that the group that waited for a pandemic to adopt the pet may be more frequent travelers, or people who work longer hours, which might be why they didn't have a pet prior," says Aaron Easterly, the CEO of pet startup Rover. If those people start to take vacations again, or work longer hours back in an office, they may be entering a new chapter of their lives as pet owners, with new challenges—requiring new solutions, potentially offered by startups. Rover, an app for finding dog walkers and sitters, says it experienced its biggest month ever in May, booking more than $45 million in services. (While some have worried about unprepared pet owners giving their dogs away, animal welfare groups told The New York Times there hasn't been such a spike.)
Pet care was already a $100 billion industry in the US before the pandemic. A recent report from Morgan Stanley estimates that number could triple in the next decade, marking a sharp uptick in growth. "We think the US pet industry has reached an inflection point," one analyst wrote, and they're not alone. Investors from venture capital and private equity are out sniffing for the next big thing, whether it's luxury items like gourmet dog food or more basic necessities like grooming services. In 2020, VC interest in pet-focused startups grew 29.5 percent from the year before, and it doesn't appear to be slowing down.
"There are more pets than there are kids in places like San Francisco," says David Cane, a VP at Wag, a dog-walking app. Those cities could be a breeding ground for other business opportunities, like employer-provided pet care. Wag is now in talks to offer dog-walking and dog-sitting as a corporate perk "with some organizations in the Bay Area that employ thousands of people," says Cane, who declined to name specific companies because the deals are not finalized.
It's not just the growing number of pet owners that's attractive to investors; it's also the relationship those owners have to their pets. For many people, pets have become another member of the family. "It's evolved more to this parental relationship," says Easterly. "Pet owners stress about finding the right training techniques, whether dog food with grain is good or bad. A lot of the stresses you see with parenting human children, you now see in the pet industry." Especially for first-time pet-owners, those stresses can be soothed with new products and services. The amount households spend on pet care has been steadily rising since well before the pandemic, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Fun fact: On this day (March 30th) in 1974, John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulders" reached number 1 spot on pop charts!
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October 1984 | Opinion October 1, 1984 W. McNeil Lowry Leave a comment
Purging the Citadel
The lessons of recent history teach us that the arts will only survive if they are in the hands of artists.
By W. McNeil Lowry
Those who came of age in the '60s and '70s have seen both the most rapid and the widest expansion of theatre institutions in our history. What is more interesting is that the youngest in this field are—or at least seem to be—unaware of that phenomenon. They take the burgeoning of audiences, the proliferation of companies and groups, for granted. They are of course right to start from where they are, from their own generational vantage point.
But there are reasons for keeping the evolution clear in our minds, and the reasons are perhaps critical. Unless we understand the sweep of the past 25 years, we shall not easily identify the roots of some of the most acute issues threatening performing arts groups. For many of them are the direct results of the rapid growth of institutions, in some part perhaps the penalty of success.
If we think of institutions in their maturity, what are the differences over the past generation?
Twenty-five years ago artistic directors and actors were more or less on the same side, if I may put it that way. If there were ever a referee involved, it was Equity, and only sporadically. If there was a manager who was more than part time, he or she was the right hand of the artistic director rather than of the board. It was the creative head—the artistic director—who both expressed and symbolized the short- and long-range goals of the group.
The sources of financial support beyond the box office were fewer in number, chiefly private individual patrons and the private foundations just beginning to act more nationally in the arts. This was both bad and good; good only because it was easier for patrons and foundations to respond directly to the artistic personality. Already, perhaps, a few private patrons reacted because they wanted "good theatre" in their city, but most hopefully wanted a particular company to be good and match its professed aims with developing standards.
The proliferation of the '60s and '70s, we are all aware, had manifold effects on theatre. What I should like to observe is that the most telling of these were experienced through seismic shifts or even tremors in the structure of companies. Though institutional crises often seemed to be crises in funding, or at least to begin that way, they were actually crises in governance and motivation. (Parenthetically, if our subject were dance, symphony, the art museum, we would find this equally true.)
I suppose it is in most general terms positive that membership on the board of a theatre group has come to confer prestige, either in one community or more nationally. This obviously is another sign of a changed national climate for the arts. But what climate it is changing to we may not yet have fully encountered. Already, however, we have often seen dilution of leadership within the enterprise, sometimes to the clear deterioration of standards.
The use of performing arts trusteeships for personal status might be affordable in and of itself. It is when interlocked with other more tangible changes—economic, social, political—that governance and motivation become the central problems, the authority of the artistic director abridged, and new tensions felt between the artists and the company. One of these changes of course was the advent of governmental support. The National Endowment for the Arts may never have approached the categorical and long-range commitments made by the Ford Foundation to many key groups, but in its dispersal of financial resources, the Endowment was unparalleled.
The reading given to this by boards of directors changed many signals and many motivations, particularly after the possibility of challenge grants appeared. And the first shoots of corporate support visible in the '70s contributed to additional strains on relations within a performing arts company and on its governance. Public funds in the arts made the arts look more like other agencies in the community perhaps. And if corporations were ever to share significantly in contributed income to theatre (even to date they have been fairly slow to do so),
then the manager might be more than equal to the artistic director, and the businessman on the board superior to both.
At the very least, in contrast to the scene in the '60s, the manager has become the right hand not of the artistic director but of the board. In a few instances, as in some museums and many orchestras, a paid lay president is brought into the structure with a strong delegation from the board over both management and art. Artistic directors are in that event consultants to the president, in the illusion that in times when fundraising is a full-time pursuit and chancy, the business of theatre is business.
I do not want to suggest that we can never tamper with relationships between the board and the artistic leadership. But never can this be done without anticipating carefully the consequences, the many cans of worms that can be opened, the clash of self-serving positions. All these take both an artistic and emotional toll. Slowly you may discover that the institution exists only for itself, that even artistic directors and actors begin to lose contact with it, can no longer feel where it is or whether it has a focus.
Somewhere in the analysis of this shifting scene, there arises the obvious question of whether the business or corporate leaders in the community are really the best acquisitions for the board. In the '40s and '50s, few of these had been strongly recruited, unless as thousand-dollar annual givers to a symphony or opera company. Trustees were chiefly private patrons or professional men in the community, people with some education or exposure in the arts, who understood, as President Kennedy said he did, that "far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of a nation, art is very close to the center of a nation's purpose."
I assure you I am not anti-business in my commitment to strengthening artistic and academic resources. Indeed, I have to confess, because there are many who could testify to it, that I often worked personally, one-on-one, to help convince individual businessmen to commit themselves to the goals of a significant performing company. My only defense is that at the time the individual businessman professed to be responding to one artistic personality and a collective of performers sharing a personal vision.
The onslaught of the Reagan Administration on the motivation for government participation in the pluralistic support mechanism for the arts has been more injurious than that Administration's largely unsuccessful efforts to halve the level of government arts budgets. When Rep. Sidney Yates and his allies in Congress frustrated the budgetary slashes, the Administration created a special commission to push voluntarism, chiefly by corporate officers or their staffs, as a substitute for official support. Thus the illusion that business is the business of theatre is superseded by the delusion that voluntarism is for free when in truth everybody's business becomes nobody's. In this country, founded and nurtured on the dualism of public and private, official and voluntary, "not-for-profit" has perversely been twisted into a pejorative. In the '70s, looking at the conflicts over governance, we felt a growing fear that the tail might begin to wag the dog. But as a museum director said recently, already too often the tail is the dog.
It is all too reminiscent of a far earlier time when actors and directors were thought of as feckless artistic types indulging themselves so long as someone else paid the freight, when one of the most influential trustees of a large and commanding institution asked Alan Schneider one night: "What do you people do in real life?"
There are always new problems. Frequently they arise on top of or out of our greatest achievements. There may well be a time for shaking down in the next 10 years. But I shall risk the prediction that the struggle for survival will not be largely financial. Survival will go to those willing to bring the most focus to bear. If there is a Gresham's law in money, that bad money drives out good, there is not one in art or in ideas. Bad theatre does not drive out good; it ends only by exposing itself.
My proposal is that however bitter and disruptive the toll, creative leaders in theatre reassert control of their own institutions, purging the citadel of its enemies, whether they be inside or outside the gates; yes, even of those who come making promises and bearing gifts.
W. McNeil Lowry, who died in 1993, worked at the Ford Foundation from 1953–74, serving from 1964 till his retirement as its vice president for the humanities and the arts. Lincoln Kirstein, a co-founder of the New York City Ballet, called him "the single most influential patron of the performing arts that the American democratic system has produced." For this article, adapted from remarks delivered at a Dance/USA national conference in San Francisco, the author substituted "theatre" for "dance" in an argument which Lowry believed applied equally to both fields.
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Imagine: You're at the table and you're on the verge of winning the deciding frame and the match.
You're profusely sweating and the nerves are building up inside as your cue arm shakes.
And, then, suddenly, you butcher the easiest of shots and the break comes to an end.
You hold your head in your hands devastated because you failed to win the frame and your opponent then calmly clears up and nicks the frame and match.
It's these types of pressure situations that leave some players even Top ones confused.
They say to themselves, "why am I making endless tons in practice routines, but can't get over the line in a match?"
Now, top snooker coach David Horrix has penned a book which he believes deals with that problem bridging the gap between the practice and match table.
It's called the Super Maximum Snooker Training System.
He's taken 155 routines some simple like the line-up, and turned them on their head to provide players with a journal of progress.
This book is not just 155 snooker routines all crammed into one book, it's a snooker practice diary with real challenges.
Challenges that you will face in real tournament situations Under Pressure.
You start charting your progress from the first routine and by the end of the book, provided you have practiced and followed the instructions, you will have improved.
Horrix writes at the start of the book that players often are misconceived by their progress because on some routines such as the line-up routine, a routine which is one of the oldest in snooker, they are playing with no pressure and can knock in big breaks feeling great believing they are playing their best snooker.
He coaches in the Menstone Club in Yorkshire and has coached several juniors and top female players using similar drills and techniques.
But players generally aren't really testing the limits of their capabilities, and putting themselves under the sort of pressure that comes in matches, and that's one reason why they end up falling to bits in tournament play.
Horrix uses the types of drills found in the book in his lessons, and added in a chat online: "As a coach I mix the exercises up but each one is a significant challenge.
That's what pro/top players want/need."
He writes in the actual book: "It's very important for players to establish their true level of play in relationship to the top players."
He goes on: "This true level of play differs greatly from a player's perceived level of play and can be established by some analytical work following a series of exercises."
Break-building opportunities present them self all over the table, and, so, therefore, you have to take advantage of a break-building opportunity when it comes along.
These exercises will enable you to see when a break is on and to take that opportunity to score - under pressure.
Horrix said further: "Even pros use line-ups with no real pressure and it's a big mistake. All the exercises have pressure and that really improves your game."
There's 155 challenges in the book ranging from simple to more advanced routines, so, let's take a look at one and how it works.
For example, in one routine, a top player's average break for that routine might be say, 90. Your task is to beat your own average and maybe even the top player's average.
On one particular routine in the book, you have 20 attempts to get the highest break you can from a set position. That's the pressure. The target to beat your highest score in 20 attempts.
You must record your attempts and the score on each one.
Horrix says in the book there is more need for players to be able to cope with the mental aspect of the game - i.e, pressure, and believes these drills in the book will help to bridge that gap between practice and match play.
He says underneath one routine that if your average is less than 10 to start off with, don't worry, "it's not where you start it's where you finish that matters."
This book is more for the intermediate to advanced player than the real beginner - although anyone can benefit from these style of drills.
It's unique because most books in snooker just give you lots of routines to play, with no real direction or challenge in them, and they don't test your ability to perform under pressure.
Horrix believes that even professionals would benefit from this as well and help to up their game even more- especially if some struggle with getting over the winning line and dealing with pressure in matches on key breaks.
Download the book by visiting Horrix's website Complete Snooker and also view his other books aimed at all abilities.


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Today's Text Question of the Day was "What's the dumbest thing you believed as a kid?" And Connie, Fish, and Steve's responses were all things that their older brother's told them. Turns out that they all had older brothers that were kinda jerks. Connie's brother convinced her that he was dying and that she had to flip him over for him to survive. Fish's brother made up a height requirement to ride on the back of his motorcycle so he couldn't ride it. And Steve's brother convinced him that his BB gun couldn't shoot through a cardboard box so Steve sat in the bow and got shot.