Spring-Ford sports teams take the court, pool, mat, and ice.
Junior basketball player Michael Fitzgerald goes up for a lay-up against Perkiomen Valley this year.
Saxon Vargo (left) and Gavin Tarity skate up the ice for Spring-Ford.
At Spring-Ford, it is no secret that athletics are constantly successful. Year in and year out, students know their school will always provide a competitive team in all programs. Winter sports have certainly made an impact on the atmosphere surrounding Spring-Ford athletics.
Senior Noah Baker has reached a tremendous milestone in reaching 1,000 career points for the Rams (18-9). Baker accomplished this when topping off a wonderful senior night in a huge 63-33 win over the Perkiomen Valley Vikings. Baker has put up double-digit numbers in majority of games for the Rams with the assistance from senior guard Ryan Hagan, who has set up many of his opportunities. Both Baker and Hagan are giving the fans much to cheer about with their entertaining performances. Most recently, the Rams came out victorious in a crucial game against Council Rock North in the first round of district playoffs, fell to Pennridge in the second round, and kept their season going with a win against Central Bucks West in the consolation bracket.
Unsurprisingly, the Spring-Ford girls basketball team (21-2) has once again displayed their dominance. Led by senior guard Cassie Marte, the Rams jumped off to a hot start winning all three of their first few games. Alongside Marte, sophomore Lucy Olsen's unreal talent has grabbed a great amount of attention and proved she is definitely one to watch for in the future. The Rams look to recreate the historic run they experienced years ago while enjoying a 15-game win streak to close out the season. They have already grabbed yet another PAC championship this season in defeating the Methacton Warriors, 55-41, in the PAC final. Recently, Spring-Ford earned the fourth seed in the District One 6A tournament, winning over Haverford to reach the quarterfinals.
Although boys and girls basketball has tremendous hype this year, Spring-Ford swimming has quietly set some records. With a win from both boys and girls teams against Pope John Paul II, the boys team also came out victorious when beating Owen J. Roberts for the first time in school history. This feat has been accomplished with heavy contributions from junior 200-yard Individual Medley/500 freestyler Luke McKenna as well as sophomore standout Brendan Baganski, who competes in 50-and 100-yard freestyle. Despite their defeat against Owen J. Roberts, the girls program looks overwhelmingly promising being guided by 100-yard butterfly/200 IM contestant Katie Parker as well as Emma Thomas competing in 100-yard backstroke/200 IM. During the closing end of the season, the Rams shined in the PAC champions meet. McKenna and Thomas both won their respective 500-free events as well as the 20-free relay (Sam Ricci, Brendan Baganski, Sean Laing, and Corey Laing). Overall, the season was a success as the boys team ended with a record of 8-2 while the girls team went 6-4.
Zach Needles (145, 22-13), Dirk Nugent (152, 24-13), Shane Reynolds (113, 27-10), Quinn Tobin (27-6), Chase Smith (170, 17-8), and heavyweight Sean Brogan (23-18) lead a group of Rams eyeing a long trip during the district and state individual tournaments. Smith and McGill are former state tournament qualifiers. The Rams just won the District 1 North tournament and advanced nine wrestlers to the regional championships.
The Rams skated to a 8-8 record in the Liberty North division of the ICSHL. Joey Temoyan led with 16 goals while Saxon Vargo tallied 12. James Kisela (13), Brenden DeSantis (11), Temoyan (11) and Will German (10) led the team in assists. Drew Clifford had a solid season in net.


These experiments and demonstrations can enhance your study of the science of sound. When comparing results you should only change one thing at a time to make it fair.
How can we demonstrate that sound is created when an object moves and the air around it vibrates creating sound waves?
Blow up a balloon. Place it against your ear. Ask a friend to press their lips on the balloon and speak. You can hear and feel the vibrations through the balloon.
Use clear plastic wrap and cover the top of a bowl. Secure the plastic with tape and make sure the top stays tight. Place a spoonful of uncooked rice or puffed rice cereal in the center of the plastic wrap.
Turn on a radio close to the bowl and observe what happens.
Bang on a pan and observe.
Set a cell phone to have a musical ring tone. Put the cell phone in the bowl before covering the bowl. Then call the cell phone and observe what happens when the music plays.
Place your hand firmly midway on your throat. Say "Ahhhhh" for as long as you can and feel the vibrations.
Can sound travel through solids? How is sound different when heard through solids?
Ask someone to talk softly on one side of a door while you stand on the other side. Can you hear them talking better when just standing there or if when putting your ear up to the door?
Use two pieces of string and tie each string to one end of the base of a wire hanger. Wrap the other ends of the string around the ends of your index fingers. Place your fingers gently to your ears, bend over letting the hanger swing and bang the hanger on a chair or table. Then try it without the string to your ears. What do you observe? Next, try a spoon or another object.
Can sounds travel through liquids? How is sound different when heard through air or water?
Use a plastic water or soda bottle. Cut off the base of the bottle. Fill a tub or basin about 3/4 full with water. Place the plastic bottle in the water. Put your ear to the top of the bottle. Using two rocks, ask your friend to knock the rocks together under water. Now repeat the experiment above the water. What do you observe?
What makes sounds high or low?
What makes sounds soft or loud?
Adding more energy makes a louder sound. Use a drum and your hand, a plastic bowl and wooden spoon or even your own voice. Try starting out with just a little force: pat the drum softly, hit the bowl gently or whisper if using your voice. Then gradually increase the force and see how loud the sound becomes.
Thomas, Isabel. Experiments with Sound. Heinemann Raintree, 2015.


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Weekly Dose of Dangle
Deer in Somebody's Headlights a Little to Your Left
Everything is falling apart at our house. It's been eleven years since we re-did the kitchen and the appliances are all going. We had the Sears guy out to look at the dishwasher and he charged us $149 to tell us it was shot. A plumber came out to look at the tankless water heater. Both need to be replaced. Recently we had to replace the toilet. There's a list of house repairs on our refrigerator as long as my arm and growing by the day. We put on a new roof recently, which cost a fortune, now we have to decide where to sink our money next. Sometimes I wish we had a characterless '80s tract home in Manteca. It's bad timing too because Hae's major client disappeared. I might have to get off my ass and make some money.
Life in California has been gorgeous though. We're having a spell of summer right in the middle of winter, in fact it's nicer now than it was anytime between last June through August. The flowers are starting to come up. Nature is confused. We've been out hiking and taking bike rides in the hills. There was mud everywhere and my bike tires are the smooth kind made for roads, so I was fishtailing all over and almost went off the steep cliff on the side of the trail. Oscar and Hae ride bikes the same way they ski, fast and fearless, while I pull up the rear being cautious, hands on the brakes, trying not to get killed. I don't want to make it sound like I'm exercising a lot or anything. I'm still ninety percent sedentary.
We went to Tilden Park on Sunday and afterwards took Oscar out to the place called Oscar's where he had a burger. Hae and I watched him eat. The semi-vegetarian lifestyle is suiting us fine. We're shedding pounds and looking fabulous.
Despite feeling great, or perhaps because of it, I skipped out on my deadline and ran a classic Troubletown cartoon this week. I don't do it often but once in a while it's necessary to take the week off.
It's been another week of making proposals and chasing a dollar like a rat on a wheel. All of the projects I have hanging out there are going to come through at once, I know it, and then I will be backed up and stressed out. But for now all I can do is wait. I also filmed my short graphic recorder promo video and chopped it up in iMovie. I guess one of these days I'll have to learn Final Cut Pro. I hate to learn new programs.
I got my webmaster, Pat Broderick, to make a few changes to the site which you may have noticed. We got rid of all the ads. I wasn't making any money off of them and they were always coming up as troubled youth boot camps, feminine hygiene products, or my books on sale for a penny. Screw that! We also got rid of the second page so now if you click on "More Cartoons" you get the archive viewer in a pop up window. Enable your pop-ups! I've also been going through my piles of old sketchbooks and pulling out my favorites for the Lloyd Dangle sketchbook, one of my most popular features. Please take a few minutes and click through. Also, keep sending in those donations! Troubletown still delivers more for your entertainment dollar than any other cartoon blog on the web.
Watched Man Inside, which managed to make a daring heist very boring. And Lives of Others which made living in East Germany during the Cold War look very creepy. That's the kind of country you leftist Marxist Frankfurt School Obama socialists want to turn America into! Bad, very bad!
New Sketches up!
Hey, if you're tired of reading about the Frankfurt School, check out my new sketches on the Lloyd Dangle Sketchbook.
A Real Fun Video About Graphic Recording
Fun Paranoid Video
Some of my critics are way into this stuff. It touches on SEIU, political correctness, the liberal academy, and all the stuff the right hates. Warning: the Frankfurt School and Saul Alinsky are eating your brains!
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Right Winger Violence
-- July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how "liberals" are "destroying America," walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.
-- October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.
-- December 2008: A pair of "Patriot" movement radicals -- the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted "to attack the political infrastructure" -- threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.
-- December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear "dirty bomb" in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.
-- January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.
-- February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.
-- April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.
-- April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama's purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.
-- May 2009: A "sovereign citizen" named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
-- June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.
-- February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one "domestic terrorism" too.)
-- March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.
-- March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.
-- May 2010: A "sovereign citizen" from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.
-- May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.
-- May 2010: Two "sovereign citizens" named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.
-- July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.
-- September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year--old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the "Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden" in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant. [Digby]
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Last week's cartoon was inspired by a line I read in the New York Times, probably by the useless Matt Bai, who said something to the effect that there are dangerous elements on both ends of the political spectrum. I immediately thought of my neighborhood because my town represents the extreme end of the political spectrum. It's arguably the most liberal county in the United States. When I look around at the "far left" I'm certain that there couldn't be a group of more soft and harmless people anywhere. Contrast that with the people who show up at tea party rallies with guns strapped to their legs and t-shirts with jokes like, "liberal hunting permit," and "water the tree of liberty." I'd say there's no equivalence between the two groups, and, hence, the cartoon. Anyway, that sparked a lot of discussion about guns here and on my Facebook page that's been fun to read but hasn't changed my mind. It's that same old, guns don't kill people, people do, argument the NRA must publish on the back of the membership cards. You could kill your spouse or brother-in-law with an ice pick but a gun is so much easier and more convenient. I also posted a porny sketch of a guy getting off on a gun as a sex fetish. Potential corporate clients are going to love that. "Let's not hire that sick Dangle character," they'll say.
I remember when, as an adolescent, I used to go to a rifle range, the ROTC range and the University of Michigan. My friend Mike Krebs and I were competitive in every sport, whiffle ball, bowling, tennis, billiards, you name it, so we decided to compete at shooting guns at targets. Of all the sports we played shooting guns was the most boring. It's probably more fun when you're firing a Glock or an Uzi that blasts the target into little bits, but we were shooting 22s, which just make little holes. The instructors and people there reminded me of the church youth groups I used to crash for the girls and pizza. I didn't like the atmosphere. The people were very upright and religious about their guns.
Speaking of Michigan, my friend Geoffie is still juggling his thirty projects and hounding me to go to work for him. Now he's going to make records (he has bands lined up) and movies (he's got twelve ideas that are fully formed, he just needs me to write them) in addition to the nightclub he's opening in Ann Arbor. He told me that of the top fifty ideas for economic development in Michigan the thirty-five best ones are his. A couple weeks ago he was trying to get me to go to Detroit for the auto show so that he could announce the launch of his media company (and take all the attention away from the new car models). This is a guy who spent a few nights recently sleeping in his car. I didn't go but he attended the show without me. First he went to a hip hop store and got all pimped out. Everybody was coming up to him and introducing themselves because he looked so cool. He says he's coming to California next week and that I should open up a few days to sit around and brainstorm with him.
Hae, our friend Irene, and I took Oscar to see a vault print of Walt Disney's Fantasia at the Paramount Theater Friday night. Oakland has become hip quite recently, so downtown was bustling, but we still found a parking place. I didn't see any guys with guns at all in the theater. Fantasia is pretty amazing and it runs the whole gamut from dinosaurs, to satan, to Walt Disney's peculiar ideas about sexuality. We also watched The American, kind of a lame hit man drama but with George Clooney's chiseled mug. Also watched the Scorsese documentary on Bob Dylan, No Way Home. It was way more fun than Nazis a Warning from History. We also took Oscar to see the Harlem Globetrotters. There were some fantastic stunts and a few yucks. Good for the kids.
My zodiac sign changed from Taurus to Aries. What is that going to do to my personality?
This Week's Cartoon: The New Civility
New NRA Statistic That's Good News
Four out of ten gun owners don't hunt or shoot them at all. Their guns are only a sexual fetish.
Glock Sales Surge in Aftermath!
Glock Pistol Sales Surge in Aftermath of Arizona Shootings - Bloomberg
This Week's Cartoon: Danger on Both Ends of the Political Spectrum
Hae said that this week's cartoon was the most depressing thing she's ever seen. I kind of thought so too after I did it, but it was a reaction to all those new year's top ten lists and year-in-review things. I decided to do one for the down and out. I thought it was a funny concept. I had to make it all up of course because I've been living comfortably, skiing and vacationing while you were huddled over your laptop in a doorway with a can of Sterno. MTK and Rosencrantz have been saying such things behind my back, how nice it must be to be a soft, old cartoonist. Well if it makes you feel any better the only way I can do it is by living beyond my means.
Anyway all that vacationing is behind me. It's 2011! The 'leven. I've got to clean the cobwebs out of my websites, rev up the promo machine, start shucking and jiving, tweeting every day, and being funny, funny, funny.
I sent out this year's Troubletown calendar expecting a lot of intense blowback, but so far––hardly anything. Maybe it's the silence of people unfriending me and unliking me. In case you haven't gotten one, sorry, it's an ass-a-month calendar dedicated to Sarah Palin. It's all about ass, tacky and tasteless, and I cringe every time I put a stamp on one. I hope you folks get the spirit of it, because it wasn't easy to find such sleaze. Give me your address if you want one.
Oscar is back in school. He's such a grumpy kid (wonder where he gets that from) that we instituted a rule: at dinner everybody has to say one positive thing that happened to them that day. Oscar and I both started out by saying things like, "Today didn't suck nearly as bad as I thought I would." I think I said, "I lost four pounds instead of gaining more weight like I usually do." Those aren't positive statements. One's therapist might ask why Oscar and I would answer the question that way? It reflects a certain world view. We're working on it together.
I finished some exceedingly complex proposals to make whiteboard animation videos that took me days. The projects ended up being so expensive once I added all the production costs that the clients immediately bailed. Another client has paid me in advance to do some cartoons. In advance? Who pays for things in advance? How am I possibly going to do the work now, without the carrot? I honestly don't know. I may take the money and disappear to Acapulco except it's not that much.
Hae and I are making an effort to clean ourselves up and stop eating so much meat and garbage and sucking down booze and try to ease ourselves into a vegetarian lifestyle. It's not one of those new year's resolution things, I hate those. This is something that started in December, stopping during the holiday bacchanal, and is continuing now with a new sense of purpose. I am going to miss the barbeque grill and chomping all those carcinogen-coated ribs I make all summer long. I may still do it once during the summer, a rack of baby back pork ribs with my amazing sauce. Otherwise, pure vegetarian.
Looking forward to seeing Matt Taibbi's article on John Boehner in Rolling Stone. I've been going down people's blogrolls to dig up some new sources of information, the old ones are getting stale. Saw Time Bandits, which I wanted to love but I thought it sucked. I fell asleep actually. What else? I watched part of Nazis A Warning from History. In the first episode the Nazis are just a fledgling movement, considered a joke, Hitler is considered a clown. It's exactly like the Tea Party.
Today's Sketch: Boehners
God, I'm going to have to draw him crying all the time so you'll be able to tell who it is!
My friend Warren Bernard, who works at the Library of Congress, sent me this Art Young cartoon from 1921. It works just as well today. Notice the heavy use of labels...there's one on every damn thing in the drawing!
This Week's Troubletown: Down and Out Year in Review
Our Tahoe vacation's over. I made it through three days of skiing without killing myself and we escaped before the latest huge snowstorm hit in the mountains. During all that skiing and falling my old injured knee never bothered me, then I slipped on some ice and jerked it so that it started hurting again. I've been icing it and limping.
Christmas was full of the usual sparkly joy. We put on an internet radio station playing syrupy Christmas tunes that ambianced the background. Oscar opened all his Chinese-made plastic toys and there was an ocean of wrapping paper left on the floor. Within an hour he was complaining that he was bored. Yes, we've spoiled the child.
We were back in Oakland for New Year's eve and had dinner at Carrie's house with her and her friends, Johnny and Lynn, who we re-met after a ten-year hiatus. We popped the corks and poured the wine down our gullets and talked about music and bands Hae and I had never heard of. We have an eight-year-old, so it's been at least eight years since we were hip to the music scene and even then we weren't really. From Carrie's apartment we could see the fireworks over San Francisco and the night was free of gunshots as far as we knew. We stood by the window without fear. I remember New Year's in the past where Hae and I would hit the deck and stay on the floor until the shooting stopped.
I drew a lot in my sketchbook during the vacation. I wasn't disengaged from the family though, which sometimes can be a problem when you draw too much. I built snowmen and played and cooked meals and did all that stuff. In the sketchbook I made lots of pictures of me skiing and falling on my ass in gruesome ways. I was trying to get one that was just right. Oscar asked if I ever drew anything but pictures of people getting hurt. He should talk, all his pictures are of bombs and guns and wars.
Hae, Auntie Soo, cousin Sarah and I all had our computers with us and we checked our email and Facebook constantly. Every time I read my email I learned from the Yahoo group of another break-in in the neighborhood. An attempted one happened on our block but was thwarted by some alert vigilantes. We had the visiting family of some other neighbors staying at our house and feeding Coco for part of the time we were gone so that may have deterred the burglars from hitting our place. We were happy to find that everything was intact when we got home.
The roads were slick and icy some of the time we were up in Tahoe and one day I drove up to an intersection where a type of giant snow-blowing truck was clearing snow. On the front was a set of rotating blades three or four feet tall that churn the snow up so it can be shot up into the air. When I hit the brakes we just slid. We were helplessly sliding straight toward those grinding blades. Luckily the snow-blower driver had control and made a quick maneuver so that we could slide right past. As the skiers say, we just about ate it, dude!
Anyway, it's good to be home. Soo and Sarah came back to Oakland with us, but they left today for LA. It'll be great to get Oscar back in school so that I can work and no longer have to entertain his spoiled ass. (I love him more than anything). I have some complicated proposals to write and of course I'm hoping to book some graphic recording gigs for January and February so I can get to work and make some bucks. I have to draw a Troubletown cartoon tomorrow and have zero idea of what I'm going to do. I'll spend the day reading news then get up at five tomorrow morning and crank it out.
Today's Sketch: Happy New Year, America

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Bowling alley, bar shooting suspect arrested in Cupertino
CUPERTINO, Calif. (KGO) -- In the South Bay deputies arrested a suspect after a shooting at a bar and bowling alley in Cupertino.
Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies were called to Homestead Bowl and the X Bar around 10:30 p.m. Friday.
Witnesses say a fight broke out at a party for a local rapper then gunshots began.
"I ran through the hallway of the bowling alley. I was ducking underneath the place where they stage the balls and I went to go into the girl's bathroom when I heard gunshots on the other side of the lockers," said Jasmine Kochan, a witness.
Deputies say one person was shot in the leg.
They arrested a suspect in connection with the shooting and found two guns at the scene.
Police are now asking anyone with video or information about the incident to contact authorities.
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Some Galaxy S8 owners complaining about burnt-in pixels
Christian Zibreg ∙ May 1, 2017
Some owners of Samsung's nearly bezel-less Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus smartphones are complaining about burnt-in pixels in their AMOLED screens. According to web reports, the affected customers are seeing permanent discolorations in the lower part of Samsung's Infinity Display where the new virtual button resides, Korean outlet The Investor reported Monday.
Virtual Home button and Always On Display
The virtual Home button is shown on the screen permanently thanks to Samsung's Always On Display technology. Like plasma screens, AMOLEDs are prone to burnt-in pixels that may occur after prolonged exposure to static images.
The South Korean company has attempted to mitigate the problem in software, by slightly changing the position of the virtual Home button every now and then to avoid burnt pixels, Dutch website Galaxy Club reported last week.
Responding to a tweet from a Dutch user concerning this issue, a spokesperson for the South Korean conglomerate said its phones use a special "algorithm to prevent burn-ins."
"Whether the consumer's claim turns out to be true or not remains to be seen," the spokesperson added. "At the moment, we are not receiving reports of other cases."
A few Redditors have warned about potential burnt-in pixels with the Galaxy S8 models.
"When the phones are idle they show the same screen, then when you use the web browser you can see the burn in in the form of a rectangle. Is this a concern for everyday users?," one Redditor asked.
"Isn't there a much higher risk of screen burn in with the Always on Display and home button enabled?," another one jumped in. "It's one thing if they're in the same place when you turn on the screen, but now as the name suggests, it's always on."
It's also possible that the reported burn-in syndrome is actually image retention.
Red tint and unexpected restarts
Samsung's latest flagship phones have had their fair share of teething issues so far.
After folks began noticing a red tint on their Infinity Displays, Samsung said it had nothing to do with hardware. Blaming its own color management software, the company issued a software update that has removed the redish tint.
Last but not least, concerned Galaxy S8 owners took to social media to complain about their device abruptly restarting for no apparent reason. The malfunction had not been addressed on Samsung's part at the time of this writing.
Will iPhone 8 suffer from burnt-in pixels, too?
It will be interesting seeing how Apple approaches OLED burn-ins with iPhone 8, which is said to feature a 5.8-inch screen with a usable area measuring 5.1 to 5.2 inches diagonally and the rest reserved for a function area at the bottom.
If Apple places a virtual Home button in the function area along with other persistent shortcuts, as rumored, it too might need to employ software techniques to mitigate any burn-ins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7YI5fNbOyc
The latest Galaxies may be especially prone to burnt-in pixels due to Samsung's Always-On Display, which uses fewer colors when displaying simple info like the time and date.
Thankfully, this feature can be optimally disabled in settings so that could be something that people who are concerned about burnt-in pixels may consider doing.
Do you own a Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8 Plus?
If so, have you experienced any burnt-in pixels or red tint on your device's AMOLED screen yet? How about unexpected restarts or shutdowns? Tell us in comments.
Tags AMOLED Galaxy Galaxy S Galaxy S8 Galaxy S8 Plus Issue Samsung
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Formed by musicians with a passion for the Northwest outdoors, Jawbone Flats takes its name from the ghost town of the same name nestled deep in the Opal Creek Wilderness of Oregon. Since 2008 JBF has traveled throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Northern California playing an eclectic blend of original and cover songs drawing from the influences of bluegrass, country, alternative country, blues, and rock music led by five alternating lead singers backed by lush harmonies. Interlocking melodies from B-bender Telecaster and acoustic guitars, mandolin, harmonica, and pedal steel guitar are woven into the solid rhythmic fabric of fretless bass and drums to produce a wonderfully entertaining, irresistibly danceable, and downright "flatifying" sound.


We recently featured in a collaboration episode produced by the Strange Matters Podcast. This is a re-host of that episode on our channel, so if you joined us after listening to the episode, we're sorry sorry for wasting your storage space as you've already heard this one.
and of course, Knock Once For Yes!
We hope you enjoy all the stories and that you'll check out each of the contributors podcasts and a special thank you to Strange Matters for organising and editing the episode!


To know a place is not limited to walking around and taking a few photographs, it is about exploring, getting to know its people, its culture and its flavors! During the tour we will visit some secret places with almost 360 degree views towards the pacific ocean, the Barú volcano and the Talamanca mountain range. We will not forget the waterfall of San Ramón, the coffee arch and the bricks (natural formation to climb on rocks).
As for the flavors to be known we will surprise you with homemade jams made here with tropical fruits such as tree tomato, papaya, guanabana and much more. Artisan liqueurs of coffee, cocoa, passion fruit ... and the strawberries with cream !!!
Every day 8:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. or 12 m to 3:30 p.m.
This tour departs in two schedules, from your hotel it is recommended to go with shoes, comfortable clothes to enjoy the maximum of the route.


You may have seen other recovery and tow based systems before, but none of them are quite like Gazoop's premium dispatching system.
Only Gazoop's tow and recovery management system is regularly updated to include the latest and most beneficial GPS and Cloud-based technological breakthroughs available in the industry. Our towing dispatch system streamlines the user-end experience for clients and employees alike across the spectrum. What exactly does this mean? Well, we have an endless supply of useful features made especially for customers, drivers, dispatchers, and, of course, fleet owners.
A large number of vehicles which you can manage anywhere.
With Gazoop's Cloud dispatch system, not only will you be able to dispatch orders more efficiently to your drivers than ever before, but you'll also be able to completely control all aspects of your recovery business from almost any tablet, mobile, laptop, Mac computer, or PC.
Our live booking form works with Google Maps and Google Places to give customers the ability to easily select their pick-up location and pay using nearly any mobile, laptop, or desktop device.
As part of the Gazoop package, you'll be given your own customizable mobile app and webpage for customers to find you and use to book orders for recovery or towing, this means customers who may be lost can immediately find themselves and book with minimal hassle. Our software will even feature your brand's very own logo, colors, and splash screen for a professional presentation.
Provide a first class service with our Customer Mobile Applications for your Recovery and Tow Clients and Customers, whether corporate or home user, this will revolutionize your fleet operations with our fleet management software.
Unlike other tow dispatch systems, Gazoop's dispatch system uses GPS technology to convey accurate arrival times, distances, and calculate specific pricing based on your set rules to the customer for their maximum convenience.
Different privilege levels allows customers, drivers, and fleet owners track their bookings as well as download GPX files with audit trails of speed, GPS, and vehicle direction for use in any audit process.
Aside from providing your drivers with the best GPS directions that technology can provide through your popular navigation apps (Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps, TomTom), our towing and recovery dispatch management systems will actually choose the most appropriate driver for the job based on their real-time location and history.
If you would prefer to manually assign routes to your drivers, however, we have included this option as well. You can dictate when the driver starts each run and which driver it goes to.
Gazoop's towing dispatch system allows you to reach your drivers whenever you need them the most with our own instant messaging system. Unlike most other recovery management software, Gazoop features text-to-speech support so all of the text is read out loud as it is sent, keeping everyone safe. Additionally, automatic messages such as confirmations and receipts will be sent to customers upon booking for a professional appearance.
Our towing dispatch software breaks down your company's revenue all the way to individual clients and drivers while also showing you areas where you are losing money. Furthermore, the recovery dispatch system calculates future income and provides you with booking numbers, mileage reports, and other effective measurements needed to gauge your overall success.
Remotely adjusting drivers' pay rates, schedules, vehicles, employment status, and more is easier than ever.
You can set fares to charge per mile, minute, per pickup, and any other way to pay. In addition, you can create special fees for inclement weather or other exceptional one-time conditions.
You can create hundreds of zones across the world with just a few clicks, and subsequently create discounts, increase fees, and set other parameters for each zone while on-the-fly.
Want to create specific rules for certain customers, zones, or any other possible scenario? With Gazoop, all of the administrative options are fully customizable for your convenience.
Facing any issues? No problem, Gazoop offers a 24/7 technical support and a dedicated account manager to deal with all of your queries and concerns.
We are one of the few taxi dispatch systems to offer 24/7 call support teams. If your dispatcher team ever becomes overwhelmed, switch over to our Virtual Call Center for immediate relief.
By working with Google Maps, Google Places, FourSquare, UK Postcode Databases, and your own local POI database you manage, we are able to include a comprehensive database of the world's most popular locations as well as the most obscure (including hard-to-find local airports and bases) for you, your dispatchers, your customers, and our call center team to locate from.
Our fleet towing dispatch software remembers every customers previous address, biasing these addresses when creating a new booking, allowing them to quickly locate frequent spots without any hassle.
We are only naming but a fraction of our towing and recovery fleet dispatch software's features! Read our detailed list to view all of the tools that a Gazoop tow dispatch system puts at your disposal.
Our recovery and tow dispatch cloud system runs on the most optimized tow and recovery fleet dispatch software around, which is why so many towing services rely on the Gazoop name across the world. When you are ready to put all of these great features to use and maximize your business, check out our excellent price packages, or otherwise fill out our form to get started. Our live operators would absolutely love to show you how Gazoop is different from all of the many different recovery dispatch systems out there!


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Music - Music Scholarships
Music Scholarships are awarded to students who pass an audition, and who are prepared to commit to a programme of advanced specialist training. Any student can apply for these scholarships, whether or not they are studying Music at A Level.
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Choral scholarships
This award is designed for students who have a particular aptitude for singing.
Successful applicants form the Academia Musica Choir and are provided with advanced choral training. You will have access to singing lessons, music theory classes and a book allowance for the purchase of vocal music.
The Academia Musica Choir have recently recorded two CDs with Priory Records, broadcast on the BBC and work with professional ensembles such as the English Symphony Orchestra and and choirs such as Selwyn College Choir, Cambridge.
The choir in Hereford Cathedral
The choir regularly perform concerts, recitals and evensongs throughout the year, including national and international venues. Most recently, they have visited Belgium, Germany and Ireland.
The training that students receive significantly develops the sight-singing and musicianship skills that are required in the profession and as freelance singers.
Instrumental scholarships
This award is designed for advanced instrumentalists (normally Grade 5+).
Orchestra rehearsal in the performance studio
Successful applicants receive advanced instrumental training and are involved in chamber music of all genres. You will also have access to music theory classes, and a book allowance for the purchase of instrumental music.
Previous scholars have worked with the English Symphony Orchestra and representatives from some of the best conservatiores.
The College launched the new instrumental programme in September 2017 and it is continually developing. In the first year, the scholars were able to form a string quartet and several wind ensembles. With the assistance of some of the choral scholars, there were also performances of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment.
Next year will see us branching out to enable us to put together rock and pop ensembles and jazz groups, so advanced players of all instruments and in all styles are encouraged to apply.
There is no full orchestra at the College, so students are strongly encouraged to get involved with Herefordshire Youth Orchestra and the other ensembles run by the Herefordshire Music Service.
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The Duchess of OrIeans, Princess Palatine – The Native man who foretold a death
Exploring group perception
The translation is very unfortunate because the word sauvage in French does not mean savage, it means a person of the wild, a native person.
Flammarion, C., Carroll, L, - Death and its mystery: before death
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The following is an extract from the correspondence of the Duchess of OrIeans, Princess Palatine. Here is this letter:
About ten years ago a French gentleman who had been a page to the Marshal d' Humieres, and who had married one of my ladies in waiting, brought with him to France a savage from Canada. One day while they were at table the savage, his face convulsed, began to weep. Longueil, as the gentleman was called, asked him what was the matter with him and if he was in pain. The savage only wept more bitterly. Longueil insisted and the savage said:
"Do not force me to tell you, for it is you it concerns, and not me."
'When he was urged more than ever, he ended by saying, "I saw from the window that your brother had been murdered in such a spot in Canada."
Longueil began to laugh and answered: "You have gone mad!"
The savage answered, "I am not at all mad; write down what I am telling you and you will see if I am mistaken." Longueil wrote it down, and six months later, when the ships arrived from Canada, he learned that his brother's death had occurred at the exact moment and in the very spot where the savage had seen it in a vision throughthe window. This is an entirely true tale.
Versailles, March 2, 7719.


Are Content Marketing and Native Advertising the Same Concept?
Content marketing is the same thing as native advertising, right?
There is a distinct difference between content marketing and native advertising. It's helpful to clearly define each of these concepts and how they interact with each other.
Content marketing involves two phases: content creation and content distribution. Content marketing is founded on creating organic (original) content, such as blog posts, white papers, eBooks, tech guides, research manuals, any type of content you can think of that both engages and educates the viewer.
Content marketing is most valuable through the strategic distribution of that same content to attract, engage, and convert prospective buyers into clients. (If you want a really good explanation of content marketing, check out Content Marketing Institute's What is Content Marketing?) Content marketing relies on foundational content specific to your brand or your brand interests that you can use to serve both current and prospective clients.
A lot of companies and entrepreneurs are just now starting to understand the power of content marketing. Content marketing isn't a new concept though. People have been using content of all mediums to attract people's attention all the way back to the time of ancient Rome. Content marketing is built on the premise of helping people find the answers they need, and then providing them with the right information to make a consumer-based decision (ex: "Buy our products.").
Native advertising is when marketers pay a third-party entity, like Google or Facebook, to promote a specific piece of content. As the names suggests, it's "pay to play," but the "native" part is where it gets interesting.
Native advertising is designed to blend into a third-party's website design and is usually highly targeted. A web banner is not native advertising because with one glance you can tell it's promoting another site, service, or company. A native ad looks, smells, and feels like it actually belongs on the third-party's site. You can get a great overview of native advertising here.
Now comes the question of the hour: can content marketing and native advertising play nice in the same sandbox? Absolutely!
Native advertising and content marketing are closely related. You may even refer to the same content through native advertising as you would in content marketing. The difference is that with native advertising you're paying for placement that intentionally blends in on another company's media.
Writing great content is crucial for building credibility and industry authority. Paid advertising, specifically native advertising, is a fantastic way to promote your business in ways that most naturally interact with a viewer.
Content marketing and native advertising: closely related but not the same concept. Each of them have unique roles in helping the right people find your business at the right time. Be sure you understand how one enhances the other.


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One-off Mustang built by Roush Performance and Ford Racing was auctioned off at the SAE Foundation's 25th anniversary celebration at Ford Field in Detroit, MI. The final bid for the car was $100,000, with the proceeds being donated to benefit the SAE Foundation's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education programs. The price tag is a relative bargain compared to other custom Mustangs that have recently been offered up for charity like the Blue Angels Mustang that sold for $400,000 at EAA AirVenure or the one-off School Bus Yellow 2012 Mustang Boss 302 that raised $300,000 for the Henry Ford Hospital last year.
The specially built Stage 3 Mustang features a custom silver paint job with blue and red graphics, a Roush tuned suspension, custom SVT GT500 track pack wheels, Roush custom body components and a customized Roush interior. Under the hood is an Aluminator long block from Ford Racing along with Roush's TVS2300 supercharger system good for 625 horsepower and 540 lb-ft torque.
This entry was written by by Novocaine (Ford Mustang) and posted here on Monday, May 21st, 2012 at 2:17 pm and is filed under Reviews. This article was not written by us, rather gathered using RSS feeds listed here. We take no credit for this article. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


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all the science of LG in Oled but not without a hitch
At IFA 2022, we were able to approach the beast, the LG Oled Flex (LX3), a gaming monitor / television capable of folding or unfolding at will.
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For this year 2022, the IFA is celebrating its big comeback. As often, the Berlin show turned into a party on the screens, televisions as monitors. LG's stand, one of the biggest at the show (behind Samsung and its cube), occupying an entire hall on its own, had some of the most interesting products to see, such as 8K panels and a flexible monitor , the LG Oled Flex.
Quickly picked up on Forza Horizon 5using a Xbox Series X, the screen clearly has its little effect. We find all the qualities of consumer Oled panels from a LG C2 for example (up to the interface which is very close to it), but with the little twist of the 900 R curvature.
Disturbing navigation
The model we saw was not accompanied by its remote control, but in principle, it is provided. We had to manipulate it using a central button under the slab. This one offers five choices: press it, go left, right, up or down. A simple or long press does not trigger the same functions.
You can of course vary the curvature using a slider provided for this purpose, from 0 to 100% with aliasing every 5 points. While this interface element works well, I found it wasn't the most intuitive system around. Especially when accessing the classic WebOS interface. There, the directional cross is very limited. For example, there is no option to close the menu, which forces you to wait stupidly or restart your game with a huge HUD element.
To continue on the disturbing aspects of the product, despite its firmly anchored foot, it gives an impression of fragility when handling the slab to raise it for example. A priori it is only an impression due to the finesse of the device.
In-game printing
Beyond these minor observations, we were therefore able to play in a room full of noise and the first striking thing is that the speaker grille located at the base of the stand does its job well. I could hear perfectly well the sound of cars rumbling over Forza despite the music around me.
This promotes immersion, as does the curvature of the screen which allows you to enter more into the chosen video game universe. We can already see ourselves taking full advantage of this digital cocoon. Important precision, even at short distance, I did not have the feeling of seeing the pixels or detecting too many annoying reflections on the panel. This is also a good point, especially for Oled.
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Visitar: New Kid on the CRM Block
Tuesday Oct 24th 2006 by Gerry Blackwell
Here's a dash of irony for you. Visitar, a new customer relationship management company, is taking on SalesForce.com, the CRM leader, by providing outstanding customer service.
It's a sign of growing maturity in the software as a service (SaaS) market that second-generation offerings are emerging to grab market share from pioneers such as SalesForce.com, the on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) service. Visitar, a relative newcomer with a slightly different marketing strategy, some evolved functionality and — according to one customer we talked to — a vastly different commitment to customer service, aims to give SalesForce.com a run for its money.
Savage Syndications LLC, a small Lexington, Kentucky firm that offers outsourced sales lead generation services, switched from using SalesForce.com to Visitar's 360° Care viaVisitar about five months ago. Tim Savage, the firm's president and CEO, must be a dream come true for Visitar. Naturally enthusiastic and given to hyperbole — a classic sales guy in other words — Savage is more than happy to provide a glowing testimonial to the service he now relies on to run his business.
The big issue for Savage was customer service. When SalesForce.com went down for two hours one weekend, essentially putting him out of commission, Savage tried calling the company's help line with little success. Irate, he then called SalesForce.com executives but never received return calls."SalesForce.com has a product," Savage says. "Visitar has a service. If you have a problem with Visitar, there's always someone there you can ask for help. It's also ten times easier to use and, to a sales professional, it just feels right."
Savage Syndications works with sales managers in client companies. The firm's three partners (all Savage brothers) and two employees make cold calls from lists the client provides. Cold calling is the task inhouse sales people are most apt to jettison when they get busy servicing existing customers, Savage explains, but the activity is essential to a healthy sales operation. His firm picks up the slack, guaranteeing clients a fixed number of qualified leads each month. It even sets up appointments for the client's sales people and reports on follow-up activity.
Finding the right tool to manage this process was essential to the firm's success. Savage, a sales veteran, started off using PC-based contact management tools, then graduated to SalesForce.com. At the simplest level, these tools are about ensuring calls are made, leads followed up, appointments kept — and that the pipeline is always full. CRM goes further, making it easy to monitor and report on all activity for each client.
Subscribe Versus Buy
SaaS offerings such as SalesForce.com helped make enterprise-grade CRM tools affordable and easy for small companies that lack the tech expertise and financial resources to purchase and operate server-based products. With SaaS, the software runs on a host system at the other end of a high-speed Internet connection. People often need nothing more than a Web browser to operate the software.
There are three main advantages. Customers pay on a monthly or annual basis — so software becomes an operating rather than a capital expense. They also don't need their own servers to run the system, another saving. And they don't have to worry about keeping the software up to date. When the developer upgrades the program, all subscribers automatically benefit.
SaaS software allows some customization but typically not as much as server-based systems. On the plus side, it's usually simple enough for non-technical people to set up and configure. Savage's brother Geoff, the firm's chief marketing officer, set up the system for their firm with little assistance from Visitar. "If Geoff can do it, anyone can," he quips.
Better Features
While customer service may have been the overriding issue, Savage says Visitar's functionality is also better. He first started seriously considering Visitar because one client wanted him to be able to record phone conversations with prospects, something SalesForce.com could not do. Visitar has an integral call recording function. "That was huge to that client," Savage says. And his preference is that he and his clients use the same CRM tool, although it's not absolutely essential.
Savage also prefers the calendar functionality in Visitar. When he was using SalesForce.com, he often used the free online Google calendar software instead because even the Google tool came closer to giving him what he wanted. Part of the problem was that that it took some configuring and add-on modules to get the SalesForce.com calendar to show what Savage wanted to see — a concise display of all the scheduled or outstanding activity required in the next seven days.
"To have all those things there on the SalesForce.com [calendar display] — it was very cumbersome," he says.
Even the simple act of setting up an appointment is easier in Visitar than in SalesForce.com, Savage says, although he's hard pressed to explain in detail how. "In Visitar, when you set up an appointment, it's just click, click, click and it's done. It's a lot faster," he says.
Streamlined Calling
The big thing he likes about Visitar is the way it streamlines making phone calls using his phone system, which happens to be a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service from Vonage. With SalesForce.com, he had to highlight the telephone number on the screen, copy it to the Windows clipboard, then paste it into a Vonage software autodialer. If he wasn't using Vonage with its autodialer, he would have had to dial the number manually. Horrors!
Now he simply clicks on the number in the Visitar display and waits for Visitar to connect the call. It means he doesn't have to wait on the line, twiddling his thumbs, until the person at the other end answers. When the call is connected, his phone rings, he picks it up and the other party is there. "It makes the flow so much faster," he says. And the Visitar process makes it easier for him to multi-task while waiting for calls to connect.
This is in fact Visitar's key differentiator and advantage over competitors. Visitar actually places the calls over its own VoIP network. When a customer clicks a telephone number on the screen, that sends a message to the Visitar server where a softswitch — a software-based telephone switch — places a call to the user's number. It puts that call briefly on hold, places a call to the other party and then bridges the two together.
This means that, unlike SalesForce.com and some other offerings, the Visitar service works with whatever phone system the subscriber wants to use. Savage uses it sometimes to make calls from his cell phone, for example.
A Better Price
Since Visitar provides the call connection service as well as the CRM functionality, it would be reasonable if it were more expensive than SalesForce.com, which only provides CRM. But it's the reverse, Savage says. His firm pays about $65 a month per person for the service. He can't remember what he was paying SalesForce.com, but it was definitely more — "by far," he says.
Visitar also allows him and his clients to pay monthly rather than for a whole year up front. That makes it more affordable for some of his small business clients, Savage says.
The clincher, though, is the superior customer service. "[Visitar] seems to be willing to do everything it takes to make sure it's right," he says. "When you're in sales, if you can't move [because systems are down or data is unavailable], it's the most claustrophobic experience you can ever have. These guys have repeatedly made it right, even when it was just something we didn't understand about the system. 'No problem! Here's how you do it.' And they'd walk us through it."
He rejects the notion that Visitar is providing such good service now because it's small and trying to gain market share, or that service will suffer as the company gets bigger. The differences between the two companies' approaches are more fundamental, Savage says. Visitar seems intent on entering into long-term business relationships rather than just selling more products.
"They're passionate about it," he says of the Visitar management. "They're passionate about the honor of it."
You just can't buy testimonials like that. But even if you're inclined to discount some of Savage's enthusiastic partisanship, it's clear that Visitar is something worth investigating if you're a small business looking for an affordable CRM solution.
Based in London, Canada, Gerry Blackwell has been writing about information technology and telecommunications for a variety of print and online publications since the 1980s. Just for fun, he also authors features and columns on digital photography for Here's How, a spiffy Canadian consumer technology magazine.
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India's 6th largest city just ran out of water
Chennai's 4 main reservoirs are completely dry.
In southern India, the four main water reservoirs for the city of Chennai (once known as Madras) have reportedly run completely dry. Chennai is the sixth largest city in India.
"Only rain can save Chennai from this situation," a Chennai city official told BBC Tamil:
The acute water shortage has forced the city to scramble for urgent solutions, including drilling new boreholes.
Residents have had to stand in line for hours to get water from government tanks, and restaurants have closed due to the lack of water.
Officials are trying to find alternative sources of water, with the city's water department starting to identify and extract water from quarries.
But the big concern is the dry reservoirs and low groundwater levels.
BBC News: Chennai water crisis: City's reservoirs run dry
PHOTO: The city of Chennai, India, as seen in the early morning from the rooftop of the Hilton Chennai. Many of the Indian city's hotels and restaurants have limited services, some have shut down, as a result of the water crisis. [source: pxhere.com, CC Public Domain]
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Europe just suffered through the hottest June in recorded history
Here in Alberta, Canada, it's been a frigging miserable summer so far: cold, full of rain and precious little sun. For weeks, I've been mumbling under my breath, in tooth-grinding resentment, that I should have stayed in Mexico for the rest of the year. I'm not asking for much, just a few weeks of clear […]
Hailstorm carpets parts of Guadalajara in a 1.5m layer of ice
Yesterday, Guadalajara's 30'C heatwave broke suddenly when, at 1:50AM, the nighttime temperature suddenly plunged from 22C to 14C, causing small, sub-1cm hailstones to form and fall in great profusion, carpeting parts of the city in an 1.5m-thick layer of ice.
Beto O'Rourke just hired a "senior advisor" who used to lobby for Keystone XL, Seaworld and private prisons
Jeff Berman's got a new job! The former Obama/Clinton staffer is now Beto O'Rourke's senior advisor, having moved laterally from his post-Obama-campaign career working for the DC lobbyists Bryan Cave, where he lobbied on behalf of Seaworld, the Keystone XL pileline and the private prison industry.


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Sanofi-aventis Plans Biopharmaceutical Investment
Patricia Van Arnum
ePT--the Electronic Newsletter of Pharmaceutical Technology
Sanofi-aventis introduced this week its Biolaunch project at its Vitry-sur-Seine, France, pharmaceutical production site.
Sanofi-aventis introduced this week its Biolaunch project at its Vitry-sur-Seine, France, pharmaceutical production site. The nearly EUR 200-million ($266 million) investment will be used to provide the company with its first cell-culture platform to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Sanofi-aventis plans to have the project completed by 2012 and to transfer current chemical activities at the Vitry-sur-Seine site by 2011. The Biolaunch project is part of a long-term approach by the company to invest in biotechnology. It is part of plan to convert the Vitry-sur-Seine site into a biotechnology facility that includes research, development, and production activities.
Investment in China
In other news, sanofi-aventis also announced that it will relocate its current manufacturing facility in downtown Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, and build a new site in the Binjiang New Development Zone in Hangzhou. The company is investing approximately EUR 31 million ($41 million).
The new 44,775-m2 site is scheduled to be completed by 2012 and have an expanded capacity of 160 million packs. The current plant produces and packs the company's major cardiovascular and anticancer products, including Plavix, Aprovel/Co-Aprovel, Taxotere, and Eloxatin.
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Botox is a fast, painless and a very effective treatment method in the battle against wrinkles. It effectively replaces classical surgical methods such as face-lifting of the upper and middle third of the face.
Botox is not poisonous, but a purified protein derived from the bacteria Clostridium Botulinum, which after a long-term clinical trial was approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in 2002 as a treatment for a wrinkles.
The effect of botox is based on the fact that the neuro-muscular synapse prevents the transmission of nerve impulses from nerve fibers, leading to the inhibition of muscle contractions. This results in muscle relaxation and improved wrinkle appearance.
It is most commonly used to remove wrinkles between the eyes ("frown lines"), forehead wrinkles and wrinkles around the eyes ("crows feet").
Treatment should not be performed if there is an infection at the injection site, in cases of allergies to certain substances or if you have a neuro-muscular disorder (myasthenia gravis or Eaton Lambert syndrome).
Concurrent administration of botox with aminoglycoside antibiotics, spectinomycin, or other drugs that disrupt neuromuscular transmission is not recommended. Botox treatment is also not recommended during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
The treatment itself is pleasant and takes about 30 minutes including all preparations. Prior to the botox treatment, a topical anesthetic numbing cream is applied to the injection area and left for 15 minutes.
Results take about 10 days to be visible. The effects of botox will be noticeable for an average of 4 to 6 months, and after several treatments the effect may last longer. At least 3 months needs to pass in between treatments.
At DCM we only use the highest quality products – Vistabel by Allergan, which comes in 100 unit and 50 unit ("baby botox") vials.
Possible side effects include hematomas (bruises) at the injection sites, which pass after a few days and are easily covered with mineral-based powders immediately after treatment.
After treatment, no alcohol should be consumed and exercise should be avoided for the next 24 hours. The treated area should not be touched nor should any cosmetic treatments be performed for a week. After botox treatment, it is not recommended to lie down (lying down position) for4 hours and sleeping on your back is also recommended. Saunas and tanning beds should be avoided for the next couple of days.
For detailed instructions or answers to your questions on botox, contact our dental clinic.
PRP is a safe method for achieving a fresh appearance and skin regeneration using materials that you will certainly not have an adverse reaction to. A patient's own blood, or a purified and enriched part of the blood – plasma that is rich in platelets, stem cells and growth factors is used.
The goal of the procedure is to provide skin regeneration, greater elasticity, beautiful tonus and volume with natural materials (your blood). This procedure is intended for anyone who wants to naturally bring back a few years without using aggressive methods.
By injecting PRP, we give our own organism the opportunity to stimulate a series of consecutive reactions with the goal of regeneration: the creation of a new collagen, the stimulation of the differentiation and proliferation of stem cells, regaining volume, creating new blood vessels and accelerating metabolism, which brings more oxygen and the skin becomes brighter and appears more rested.
The first results become visible after ten days in the form of a more fresh appearance, while after twenty days the regeneration process begins where growth factors start the process of creating a new collagen and elastin.
No serious adverse events have been reported. Since your own blood is used there are no allergic reactions or transmission of diseases. Short-term swelling (due to injections) may occur and last a few days, the same with small hematomas (bruises) that can easily be covered with foundation. Most patients immediately return to their daily activities.
The duration of PRP results is individual – between 12 and 16 months. In order to extend the duration and the maximum effect, follow up treatments for "maintenance" are recommended every 6 to 12 months.
Individuals who want to freshen up their face in a completely natural way, and finally get a well-rested appearance and complexion!
Individuals who do not want aggressive rejuvenation methods or artificial materials!


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Iraqis turn to drugs to escape reality
On Saddun Street in central Baghdad, there is a pharmacist who does not like to sell his products.
Tranquilizer pills are among the drugs being abused
"Dozens of people come every day to buy tranquilliser pills, but we know now which ones are addicted and we refuse to sell to them," he said, adding that many of the addicts are criminals and thieves.
The pharmacy is located next to the Battawin neighbourhood, notorious for its drug and alcohol problem.
"One of them threatened me with a gun and stole my car," said a neighbour of the pharmacist.
But Iraq's rising drug problem is not limited to select neighbourhoods, as young people are increasingly seeking solace in prescription drugs to escape a world of violence, unemployment and despair.
"It is a dangerous plague that has to be confronted immediately, before it becomes uncontrollable," said Dr Adnan Fawzi, assistant to the director of the Ministry of Health's national programme to combat drug addiction.
Finding an escape
Heroin and cocaine use, according to Fawzi, is actually fairly rare, due to the high prices of these drugs.
"The unbearable conditions of daily life, whether in society or in my family, pushed me to find an escape"
Ali, 18, an addict
Instead, people are using pills that are "available for nothing in pharmacies", he said.
Dr Ali Rashid of the Ibn Rushd hospital, who specialises in psychiatry and drug addiction, explains that these pills, like illegal drugs, marginalise their users in a conservative society.
For Ali, 18, his pills allow him to forget his problems. "I float along in another world," he said.
"The unbearable conditions of daily life, whether in society or in my family, pushed me to find an escape," he added.
Families and educational institutions have a major portion of the responsibility to prevent this problem, maintains social worker Nagham Wannass.
In one area, over1000 homeless,
mostly children, are affected
In the troubled neighbourhood of Battawin, this problem affects "more than 1000 homeless, most of them children" said an official in the Ministry of Interior, who declined to be identified.
In addition to drugs, they often abuse alcohol and sniff glue, he added.
The Health Ministry, whose hospitals are already swamped with victims of the daily violence, is trying to grapple with this problem and has sent large numbers of doctors and specialists abroad to receive training.
Border concerns
In November, the ministry organised a conference entitled: For An Iraq Free Of Drugs, and participants called on the authorities to tighten control of the borders, particularly with Iran, to halt the flow of drugs.
A conference of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in Vienna back in May noted how smugglers were taking advantage of the internal chaos in Iraq to route Afghani-produced heroin through Iraq and into Europe.
Right now, however, the drugs are getting into people's hands through the legal means of pharmacies.
The national anti-drug commission, headed by the Minister of Health Abd al-Mutalib Muhammad Ali, has called for new rules regulating the sale of prescription drugs.
The commission, which includes representatives of the education, labour and interior ministries, has also launched an awareness campaign.
All over Baghdad, walls are plastered with anti-drug posters, showing a man in rags slumped against a wall, while lying at his feet another shoots up with a syringe.


You don't often hear greens complaining that the climate crisis gets too much attention. But a group of British-based NGOs and environmentally minded politicians who gathered for a debate in London yesterday, ahead of next month's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, seemed worried about just that: an overload of global warming talk at the expense of other issues in the run up to arguably the most important development conference in 20 years.
A more holistic approach to sustainable development needs to be rediscovered, he said – one that recognises the enormous number of interlinking issues at its heart: water, energy, resource constraint, biodiversity and more.
Chair of the session, the broadcaster Jon Snow, said the UK green community itself was failing to delineate the issues in ways people could understand: "One of the problems is that people are no longer clear what we are talking about…Sustainable development has not broken through in the way climate change has."
Listening in, I thought a lot of this made sense – except for one thing. People in Britain don't seem to be talking about climate change all that much either. Rather than being obsessed with a single topic, we seem to have lost interest in all of it. That's a much more worrying place to be.
On a side note, while he had many sensible things to say, Martin Horwood also urged the audience to be inspired by the vision of Dongtan, the Chinese eco-city once intended for the coast near Shanghai. Someone should tell him that a) Dongtan never got built b) it was a dubious idea in the first place given the ecological sensitivity of the wetlands intended to host it and c) it never had the political backing from the centre necessary to push it through. If that's the vision that's going to save us, we might as well give up now.


Artist "Anna Bonitatibus, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Corrado Rovaris"
Winner of The International Opera Awards (2015), for Semiramide – La Signora regale, and Best Female Voice Finalist IOA (2016), the Anti-Diva, as she likes to describe herself, Anna Bonitatibus is renowned for the noble passion with which she interprets titles between the most famous of 'teatro musicale', as well as the tireless commitment with which she promotes the divulgation of a rarer repertoire. She includes in her performed titles, over fifty operas, from Claudio Monteverdi's masterpieces to titles back to proscenium by Francesco Cavalli (Didone, Ercole amante, Calisto), crossing Händel's operatic production (Agrippina, Deidamia, Giulio Cesare, Orlando, Tamerlano, Tolomeo, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) and composers from the Neapolitan school, from Pergolesi to Cimarosa, until her beloved Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L'Italiana in Algeri, Le Comte Ory, Il Viaggio à Reims and Tancredi and furthermore Cantate, Masses and the rare and precious Péchés de Vieillesse by the 'pesarese'. As the embodiment of Cherubino from the Dapontian Le Nozze di Figaro, she has become one of the most acclaimed performers of Mozart. Then follows Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Mitridate Re di Ponto, La Clemenza di Tito, as well as sacred and profane repertoire by the Salzburgian composer.
Messa di Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi and Ginevra di Scozia by Simon Mayr appear among the recent debuts of the Italian Mezzosoprano who also feels a special affinity for the French repertoire: L'Enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel, Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz and Gounod as well as Les contes d'Hoffmann by Offenbach, Werther and Don Quichotte by Massenet. Recently Anna Bonitatibus participated in the Convegno Internazionale Rossini 2017, as interpreter of a special concert 'Rossini e gli altri. La Gran scena' produced by Fondazione Rossini di Pesaro.
From her first steps at Teatro alla Scala, to Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, to Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, to Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Staatsoper in Vienna, to Royal Opera House in London and to the most renowned international concert halls (from Russia to United States), Anna Bonitatibus has collaborated with the most acclaimed conductors and directors: Sir Charles Mackerras, Riccardo Muti, Sir Antonio Pappano, René Jacobs, William Christie, Ivor Bolton, Myung Whun Chung, Alan Curtis, Roberto Abbado and Luca Ronconi, Jerome Savary, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Dario Fo, David Alden, Sir Jonathan Miller, Kasper Holten, Emilio Sagi, Sven-Eric Bechtolf. Among the recent recordings in CD: L'Infedeltà costante dedicated to Haydn; Un Rendez-vous, a portrait of Gioachino Rossini's chamber music repertoire; Semiramide - La Signora regale, a musical itinerary from Porpora to García consecrated to the first Queen of Mesopotamia; La Tempesta, chamber Cantatas by the composer Marianna Martines, released for DHM/RCA/SONY and in DVD Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Hardy-RaiTrade, La Didone and Ercole amante by Cavalli (OpusArte) and Così fan tutte by Mozart (Arthaus). In streaming, Anna Bonitatibus recently appeared in La Clemenza di Tito (La Monnaie, Bruxelles) and L'Italiana in Algeri (Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna).
To be released in the following days, the new recording, 'en travesti', a recital that covers the parabola of 'breeches roles' composed for female voices, for BR Klassik; moreover, highlights between performances of the current season includes the Rossinian recital Un Rendez-vous and the debut in the role of Cecilio in Lucio Silla by Mozart at La Monnaie, Bruxelles, La clemenza di Tito in Warsaw, a return to Bayerische Staatsoper with La Calisto by Cavalli, Ottone by Händel in Moscow and the recitals dedicated to 'Lirica italiana da camera' at the Wigmore Hall in London.
And it is exactly the 'Lirica italiana da camera' (Arias, Melodies, Nocturnes, Ballads, Elegies, Short Poems Cantatas) protagonist of the recent project by Anna Bonitatibus: Consonarte – Vox in Musica, a publishing enterprise founded by the artist, that seeks to renew appreciation of a vast – often disregarded, even forgotten – musical patrimony that constitutes a splendid legacy of Italian musical history, and one not to be overlooked.


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Hi all, Finally back at it. Just like the main gear wells, an insert supports the tail wheel but does nothing to represent the correct gear well appearance. Here the main floor section has been installed. Notice that only the forward third, bulkhead and a small piece of the back actually make contact with the fuselage side. This bottom view shows how much of the floor doesn't touch the fuselage. Another angle shows the substantial gap that will have to be filled if you want to do an interior cutaway. From the top, in order to keep the floor flat, it goes under the center stud and over the after stud. A second floor section will be installed on an incline so that it is level when sitting in a 3-point position for loading freight. Some interior suggest that the forward bulkhead door is located in the center instead of offset behind the pilot's seat. Presumably this occurred on later (civil?) versions, the offset opening being found on the early military birds. Since my client wanted a military version, I built his that way. If you want to center it, first outline the bulkhead on a piece of .020 styrene. Then center the offset opening you'd cut in the original bulkhead and trace it on the new bulkhead. Now cut it out. There you have it. A centered door in a new bulkhead, ready to install. And finally a new centered door bulkhead/floor installed. This shot is for reference only since I will be replacing this bulkhead with my original bulkhead that was modified with an offset door.


The first images have emerged of how a new multi-million pound sports hall planned for Pittville School in Cheltenham could look.
A planning application has been submitted to the borough council by the school's headteacher, Richard Gilpin.
As well as building a new sports hall, the plan is to create a new 3G all-weather football pitch, which woud be floodlit. The scheme also involves having tennis courts, parking and landscaping and the demolition of two houses on the site in Albert Road.
A report in the application says the new plans replace those from 2015 which were approved but later proved to be unaffordable.
It says the four-court sports hall, which would include a fitness studio and gymnasium and be available for public use out of school hours, would be "significantly smaller" than had previously been planned.
The report explains why the new development is needed, saying: "Pittville School currently has poor changing facilities and a lack of indoor sports facilities. In addition to this, the school is over-subscribed."
There are details about what the hall will include, if it is allowed.
It will have separate changing and toilet facilities for staff and students, offices, equipment stores, a first aid room, vending area, a viewing gallery looking into the sports hall and an external viewing area - for watching games on the new all-weather pitch.
The cost of the scheme has not been included in the report but in January last year, when the school invited comments from the public on its proposal, it was said to have been about £5million.
Previously, it had been intended for the facility to be available for public and school use at the same time but this has changed under the new plans.
The report says: " In order to reduce costs and make the scheme viable, the footprint has been reduced and so separate systems are no longer possible. The sports hall now proposed is primarily school sports hall, and will only be available for community use out of school hours."
As well as submitting the planning application, the school is seeking consent from the Secretary of State for Education to dispose of 21,300m2 of playing field at its site.
It says this is "in order for the capital receipt raised to fund sporting and educational improvements at the school".
Any comments on that proposal need to be submitted to kpankhurst@pittville.gloucs.sch.uk by 10am on February 7 2019.
The school says all relevant comments will be submitted to the Department for Education as part of its application.


The Revox operating units Voxnet 218 inscribable are part of the System 55 switch range and feature a lacquered metal surface that can be designed with a special laser inscription. Pay attention to the line of sight in order to ensure readability.
These products are complete products. A subsequent change of the design surface without changing the electronics is not possible!
The Revox operating unit Voxnet 218 inscribable is technically identical to the Revox operating unit Voxnet 218 (Order no. 2228 ..).
For technical data please refer to the Gira catalogue.


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Turkish media says 50 French military officers are trapped at Ukraine's Azovstal Steel Plant
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Turkish Media: "50 French Military Officers Trapped at Ukraine's Azovstal Steel Plant;" May have FIRED Missiles that sunk Russia Flagship
Hal Turner,
Staggering information is coming out of Turkish media outlets today claiming that at least fifty (50) senior officers of the French military, are trapped underground at the Azovstal steel mill plant in Mariupol Ukraine, surrounded by Russian troops.
The media is claiming that this information was kept ultra-secret due to the then-upcoming French presidential elections, and had the French people known that those men were in Ukraine, actually supervising Ukrainian war efforts against Russia, the French presidential election would likely have gone to Marie LePen instead of re-electing Emmanuel Macron.
Even more shocking, information is coming out claiming the Russia missile cruiser Moskva, which suffered explosions – said to be from missile hits – may have been hit thanks to those French (NATO) officers.
Retired Colonel Richard Black, US Marine Corps, tells everyone via the video below, about these amazing and very troubling developments.
Here is the complete interview
Col. Richard Black: U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War
Read the full transcript here: https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/20…
Turkey is aware of 50 French officers blocked in Mariupol
There are at least 50 French officers in underground bunkers on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, Dogu Perincek, head of the Turkish Rodina party, told KP.RU, citing his own source of information.
– After the message from the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, about the liberation of Mariupol and that about 2 thousand Ukrainian servicemen are blocked in the shelters of the Azovstal plant, we declare that at least 50 French officers remain there, that They were not only participated in the military training of the militants of the national battalion "Azov", but also participated in the hostilities. France sent helicopters to evacuate them, two of which were shot down, killing two French intelligence officers, Perincek said.
According to him, French President Emmanuel Macron personally ordered his officers not to surrender and is hiding information from the French about his presence in Mariupol ahead of the second round of the presidential election, which will take place on April 24. .
– French officers will surrender or die. Macron is obliged to bring this information to the people of France. Why is he hiding her? According to what laws the French military were sent to Ukraine, why should they die there? Macron sent his officers to a foreign country in the name of the interests of the United States and NATO, which are ready to sacrifice not only the Ukrainian army, but also the French one. The French should know this before the elections. On the one hand, Macron drowned in hostility towards Russia, standing guard over NATO interests and sending the military to certain death, on the other hand, Le Pen, who advocates dialogue with Russia and is ready to withdraw to France of the military structure. of NATO, summed up the Turkish politician.
Europe, Russia, Ukraine, War and geopolitics
France, Hal Turner, Mariupol, Ukraine, World War 3
"Health officials are drafting a plan on how the country will cope if it is hit with a new Covid-19 variant"
UKRAINE WAR UPDATE with PEPE ESCOBAR and RICHARD MEDHURST


Are you a 90's kid? This Friday the 26th May there is going to be a celebration of 90's music, featuring everything from rock, pop, rap, to nu-metal. It will include the music of Rage Against the Machine, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Deftones, Radiohead, Korn, Beastie Boys, Garbage, and Metallica.
For fans of 90's music, there will be something everyone can enjoy! The selection of music is representative of a time when alternative music broke into the mainstream, and it was visceral and real.
Listeners of Triple J in the 90's will be sure to remember all of these bands, and the good times had while listening to their awesome music. It's not often that you get a chance to see such a variety of 90's hits in one place at one time.
I'm sure you remember the Rage Against the Machine hit "Killing in the Name", the Faith No More hit "Easy" (actually a Lionel Richie cover), the countless hits by Red Hot Chili Peppers (including "Californication"), the Smashing Pumpkins hit "Tonight, Tonight" (amongst many others), the Pearl Jam hit "Jeremy", the Alice in Chains hit "Man in the Box", the Deftones hit "My Own Summer (Shove It)", the Radiohead hit "Paranoid Android", the Korn hit "Got the Life", the Beastie Boys hit "Sabotage", the Garbage hit "Stupid Girl", and the Metallica hit "Enter Sandman" (though we're sure you will be familiar with dozens of others).
The show will be at Canberra's The Basement (2 Cohen St, Belconnen), and it's only $28.60. You can find tickets at Moshtix. For all you lovers of 90's music, I suggest you get along, as there's nothing better than a night out packed with live renditions of the greatest hits of your youth.


it is my first post here!
To say right away, I am no jūdōka, but practice Karate and research its history, so I do not know much about the actual techniques in Jūdō. I am interested in Budō and Jūdō history however, particularly in Mifune Kyūzō 三船久蔵 as of now.
On top of that is an abundance of articles and all sorts of contributions to magazines and journals.
The most famous book in English is "Canon of Judo" I believe, apart from that the rest seems hardly to be translated at all. Can anyone of the history experts tell me a reasons for this? Is it just not worth from a business perspective or is the Kōdōkan up for something? Mifune has a good reputation in Jūdō, hasn't he?
Maybe the question seems weird but I was surprised that virtually nothing about him is available in English or any Western language.
While I am at it, does anyone have suggestions for good books on Jūdō history? German, English, Japanese - it doesn't matter.
Below are photos of young Kyuzo Mifune from Mifune Judan Museum.
betterjudo.com - wrote: The next morning, we went back to the Mifune Judan Museum. Sensei Hisamatsu was waiting for us. He arranged free entrance for our group, which I thought was very kind of him to do. There is much to see in the museum; his gi, formal clothing, calligraphy, awards, certificates, etc. Three different video clips of Mifune, each around six minutes long, can be viewed. What truly amazed me, however, was two photos of Mifune. Everyone knows that Mifune was small; maybe 5'1'' and 110lb. I was shocked when I realized within that small frame was the musculature of a body builder. See for yourself.
Taken when Mifune was 24 years old.
Small, not puny! Mifune is on the left.
Mifune also wrote a 5 volume, comprehensive book-set on judo - "Judo Koza 1-5" (Matsumoto, 1955). Not available in English.
pipi wrote: While I am at it, does anyone have suggestions for good books on Jūdō history? German, English, Japanese - it doesn't matter.
One book that you may like is : "The Fighting Spirit of Japan: The Esoteric Study of the Martial Arts and Way of Life in Japan" by E. J. Harrison.
This is no scholarly work, but E. J. Harrison lived a long time in Japan, practiced a lot of Judo, and was a student of Mifune, amongst others.
Have no falsehood in mind.
Ruluctance or deceit are not conducive to the inner harmony required by Judo practice.
Learn to act wholeheartedly, without hesitation. Show reverance toward the practice of Judo, by keeping your mind in it.
The center of gravity follows the movement of the body. The center of gravity is the most important element in maintaining stablility. If it is lost, the body is naturally unbalanced. Thus, fix your mind so that your body is always in balance.
Minimize the use of strength with the quickest movement of body. Acknowledge that what is called stillness and motion is nothing but an endlessly repeated process.
Mastery of Judo cannot be accomplished in a short time. Since skills depend on mental and physical application, constant training is essential.
If you become self-centered, you will build a wall around yourself and lose your freedom. If you can humble yourself in preparation for an event you will surely be better able to judge and understand it. In a match, you will be able to detect the weak point of your opponent and easily put him/her under control.
To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first.
Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind.
In other words a player should do his utmost and nothing less.
写真館 Photos - http://www.kuukinage.com/syasin.html - photos of some personal Mifune's objects - calligraphies, suits, judogi, certificates for 10.,8.,7.,6.dan etc.
There is plenty of info about Mifune sensei on the internet. Some of it is even true.
Many prewar judo technical books would likely not sell well today. In fact, few judo books sell well period.
Yes, Mifune sensei has the reputation as one of the greatest judo technicians in history.
Do you read Japanese at a fairly high level?
In English I highly recommend Brian Watson's Judo Memoirs of Kano Jigoro to start. Every judoka should have it.


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Vita
Suo padre, Jacob Notter, originario di Mels, nei pressi di Sargans in Svizzera, si sposò a Toul nel 1721 e vi si stabilì, dopo aver servito come soldato nel reggimento di Esly; divenne lo svizzero della cattedrale, con il nome francesizzato di Jacques Nôtre.

Inizialmente ministrante della cattedrale, Jean-Baptiste Nôtre ricevette molto probabilmente le prime lezioni di organo dagli organisti Noirel e Martelet. Nel 1754 i canonici gli assegnarono una borsa di studio per formarsi sei mesi a Parigi con Guillaume-Antoine Calvière (1695-1755), uno degli organisti della cappella reale e titolare alla Cattedrale di Notre-Dame. Al suo ritorno, lo nominarono organista della Cattedrale di Toul, che disponeva di un magnifico strumento costruito da Nicolas Dupont fra il 1751 e il 1755.

Fu chiamato a valutare gli organi dell'abbazia cistercense di Notre-Dame di Beaupré (1775), della chiesa abbaziale dei santi Pietro e Paolo di Neuwiller-lès-Saverne (1778), dell'abbazia di san Vincenzo di Metz (1779) e della cattedrale di Nancy (1787, 1789).

Nel 1793 fu incaricato di fare la stima degli organi di tutte le chiese di Toul diventate beni nazionali. Anche se la Rivoluzione sospese per un certo tempo le sue attività, rimase organista della cattedrale fino alla morte.

Nel 1757 aveva sposato a Nancy Françoise Mangin, figlia di un locandiere, con la quale ebbe cinque figli. La loro figlia Marguerite Nôtre (1759-1837) fu organista della parrocchia di san Giacomo di Lunéville.

Il suo Livre d'orgue
Conservato presso la biblioteca municipale di Châlons-en-Champagne (manoscritto 941), fra le musica proveniente dall'organista Jean Baptiste Charbonnier (1764-1859) e intitolato Livres de piesses d'orgue par l'organiste de Toul, la raccolta di pezzi di Nôtre contiene nove suite di otto brevi composizioni, ordinate secondo i toni ecclesiastici, e che potrebbero essere dei versetti per il Magnificat:

 [Primo tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Trio. Basse de trompette. Récit. Duo. Grand jeux. Grand jeux.
 [Secondo tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Trio. Cornet. Basse de trompette. Grand jeu. Récit de cromhorne. Grand jeux.
 [Terzo tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Trio. Récit. Cornet. Trio. Grand jeux. Grand jeux.
 [Quarto tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Trio. Récit. Cornet. Duo. Grand jeux. Grand jeux.
 [Quinto tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Récit. Clairinette. Basse de trompette. Trio. Grand jeux. Grand jeux.
 [Sesto tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Clairinette. Duo. Trio. Basse de trompette. Grand jeux. Grand jeux.
 [Settimo tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Récit. Trompette. Trio. Basse de trompette. Grand jeux. Grand jeux.
 [Ottavo tono]: Plein jeux. Fugue grave. Duo. Trio. Clairinette. Cornet. Récit. Grand jeux. Grand jeux.

Inserendosi nella grande tradizione francese dei livre d'orgue liturgici, la raccolta di Nôtre riflette bene le evoluzioni del gusto nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo, in particolare l'influenza della musica tedesca per fortepiano: i pezzi sono infatti scritti senza pedale obbligato e possono essere suonati anche su altri strumenti a tastiera.

Bibliografia
Jean-Baptiste Nôtre, Livre d'orgue…, a cura di Jean-Luc Gester, introduzione di Jean-Luc Gester e Damien Vaisse, Hombourg-Haut, Institut Théodore Gouvy, 2003
 Gustave Clanché, La musique, le chœur, le bas-chœur de la cathédrale de Toul (documents historiques), Toul, 1936.
 Olivier Douchain, «Les organistes laïques du diocèse de Toul aux siècles XVIIe et XVIIIe», Recherches sur la musique française classique, tomo 20, 1981, pagg 77-181, tomo 21, 1983, pagg. 43-117 e tomo 22, 1984, pagg. 164‑218.
 Jean-Luc Gester, Damien Vaisse, «Jean-Baptiste Nôtre, organiste de Toul, et son Livre d'orgue», Études touloises, nº 109, 2004, p. 29-39; articolo ripubblicato con qualche aggiunta in La Tribune de l'orgue. Revue suisse romande, tomo 57/1, 2005, pagg. 10-23.

Discografia
 Jean-Baptiste Nôtre, Le Livre d'Orgue, Pascal Vigneron all'organo Schwenkedel (1963) della cattedrale di Toul e all'organo storico di Charles Cachet (1720) di Domgermain - ref. Quantum QM 7064 (2012).

Voci correlate
Scuola organistica francese

Collegamenti esterni

 Biblioteca di Châlons-en Champagne
 Amazon France ascolto di estratti.

Organisti classici

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