A DRINK FOR RESPONSBILE DRINKERS. Absinthe is one of history's most notorious liqueurs - romanticised and maligned in equal measure. Sipped by artists and writers, namely Oscar Wilde, Monet, Picasso, and Van Gogh, for creative inspiration.
In 1915 the French Government, and subsequently other countries, banned Absinthe due to the main ingredient - Wormwood - believed to cause hallucinations. Today the liqueur is made with herbal extracts - the main one being "Aniseed" and the strength is no different to cask strength spirits and "Over-proof" rums.


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Pagurixus is een geslacht van kreeftachtigen uit de klasse van de Malacostraca (hogere kreeftachtigen).

Soorten
 Pagurixus acanthocarpus Komai & Okuno, 2009
 Pagurixus amsa Morgan, 1993
 Pagurixus anceps (Forest, 1954)
 Pagurixus annulus Komai & Poupin, 2013
 Pagurixus aurantiaca Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus boninensis (Melin, 1939)
 Pagurixus brachydactylus Komai & Osawa, 2006
 Pagurixus carinimanus Komai & Osawa, 2006
 Pagurixus cavicarpus Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus concolor Komai & Osawa, 2006
 Pagurixus crosnieri Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus dissimilis Osawa & Komai, 2007
 Pagurixus europa Komai & Poupin, 2013
 Pagurixus fasciatus Komai & Myorin, 2005
 Pagurixus festinus McLaughlin & Haig, 1984
 Pagurixus formosus Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus granulimanus Morgan, 1993
 Pagurixus haigae Komai & Osawa, 2007
 Pagurixus handrecki Gunn & Morgan, 1992
 Pagurixus hectori (Filhol, 1883)
 Pagurixus icelus Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus jerviensis McLaughlin & Haig, 1984
 Pagurixus kermadecensis de Saint Laurent & McLaughlin, 2000
 Pagurixus laevimanus (Ortmann, 1892)
 Pagurixus longipes Osawa, Fujita & Okuno, 2006
 Pagurixus maorus (Nobili, 1906)
 Pagurixus nanus Komai & Takada, 2006
 Pagurixus nomurai Komai & Asakura, 1995
 Pagurixus patiae Komai, 2006
 Pagurixus paulayi Komai & Osawa, 2006
 Pagurixus pilosus Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus pseliophorus Komai & Osawa, 2006
 Pagurixus pulcher Osawa, Fujita & Okuno, 2006
 Pagurixus purpureus Komai & Okuno, 2009
 Pagurixus ruber Komai & Osawa, 2006
 Pagurixus rubrovittatus Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus sculptus Komai, 2010
 Pagurixus stenops Morgan, 1993
 Pagurixus tweediei (Forest, 1956)

Paguridae

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We are almost 2 months away from Game Of Thrones Season 8 premiere and it's been some time since fans have been waiting for for the first trailer but it appears that the wait will be longer. Earlier this week fans were expecting the trailer to released during the Super Bowl but we just got a commercial that was a crossover between Game Of Thrones and Bud Light and now HBO has released 14 photos from Game Of Thrones Season 8.
It appears that we are getting closer to the first (and maybe final) trailer that we have been waiting for a long time but there are also some fans who feel that HBO shouldn't release a trailer to make sure that they get a pure season 8 experience without having even the slightest information about what might happen but we are sure that a trailer will be released soon and till that time we can enjoy these 14 photos that have been released by HBO.
Let's first take a quick look at the photos and we will be back with a detailed analysis very soon.
It's clear that most of the important cast members are back at Winterfell. We already know that the season will begin with Jon and Daenerys arriving at Winterfell and that means other characters will also be present at Winterfell with them.
So Ser Davos is now back at Winterfell.
And we will get to see Lord Varys arrving at Winterfell for the first time.
We don't know what Arya is looking at but she doesn't look pleased.
Sansa appears to be sitting in the Great Hall at Winterfell. We never know what's going on in her mind.
Bran Stark AKA the Three-Eyed Raven is sitting in his chamber and must be thinking how to tell Jon that Daenerys is his Aunt.
Samwell arrived in Winterfell in the 7th season and he must be really pleased to see Jon.
We can see Brienne in the Great Hall, surrounded by the Unsullied who have arrived at Winterfell for the first time.
Queen Daenerys seems to be pleased to be in Winterfell.
And where the Queen goes, the hand follows and Tyrion is finally back at Winterfell after the first season.
Jon is staring at someone at the courtyard in Winterfell or he might be worried thinking whether Sansa accepts Daenerys or not.
It appears that even Jaime Lannister has arrived in Winterfell but I can't say for sure.
That means Cersei is all alone in King's Landing with her minions. Her new gown looks stunning though!
Finally, we have a picture of Jon and Daenerys and it feels like they are somewhere beyond the Wall but winter has finally arrived and it's possible that they might be somewhere near Winterfell, waiting for the White Walkers to arrive.
What are your thoughts after seeing all these photos from Game Of Thrones Season 8?


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We are happy to welcome you and your friends or family to stay with us in between your tour across Sulawesi. Tentena has several attractions that worth to visit such as Saloupa Waterfall, latea cave, orchird garden, and many more. Come visit us and have a chat with tour guide association who can find just anything that can make your trip worthwhile.
Located in the banks of lake poso, you will have a good view of poso river and the life around the lake.
Yet it is not too far to get you around Tentena, just 5 mins walk across the bridge will take you to the traditional market and center of the village where you can find food, convenient store, ATM, tourist information, bus terminal, etc.
Feel free to contact us if you have any query regarding your trip across Sulawesi.


Cornerstone Community Church > Events > Annual Family Camp – Winning Christ!
Annual Family Camp – Winning Christ!
FULLY BOOKED! REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
Due to overwhelming response, there are no more rooms and day passes available for this year's family camp. If you're planning to book your own accommodation and do a walk-in registration, we're sorry to inform that we're unable to release any more day passes due to the limited seating capacity.
For more enquiries and info, drop us an email and we'll get in touch with you at the soonest.


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Question: What Does Stereotactic Biopsy Mean?
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How much does a stereotactic breast biopsy cost?
Can you drive home after a breast biopsy?
Why do I need a stereotactic biopsy?
How long does a stereotactic biopsy take?
How long does it take to recover from a stereotactic breast biopsy?
What percentage of suspicious calcifications are malignant?
Does a stereotactic biopsy hurt?
Are clusters of microcalcifications almost always malignant?
Why do they biopsy breast calcifications?
In addition, the volume of tissue removed during a surgical procedure can cause contour deformity of the breast.
Because 70% to 80% of breast biopsies are performed for benign lesions, only the volume of tissue necessary to make the diagnosis of a benign process is needed by the pathologist..
During an ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy, the patient lies down while the doctor holds the ultrasound against the breast to direct the needle. On the other hand, during a stereotactic-guided core-needle biopsy, the doctor uses x-ray equipment and a computer to guide the needle.
Most stereotactic breast biopsies are done on an outpatient basis. Individuals remain awake throughout the procedure, which can take 30–60 minutes. People generally report little or no pain during the biopsy and no scarring of the breast after.
For patients with insurance, the out-of-pocket expense for an ultrasound-guided breast biopsy hovers around $500. Women without insurance could receive a $2,000 or more bill for services rendered. For practices and hospitals, the cost of the ultrasound machines could also slow market expansion.
You may need to stop taking these medicines before the biopsy. If you have a sedative or general anesthesia, make sure you have someone drive you home afterward. You will not be able to drive after the biopsy. Your healthcare provider may have other instructions for you based on your medical condition.
A stereotactic breast biopsy may be performed when a mammogram shows a breast abnormality such as: a suspicious mass. microcalcifications, which are a tiny cluster of small calcium deposits. a distortion in the structure of the breast tissue.
The entire stereotactic biopsy procedure should take approximately one hour for one area of concern. When and how would I get the results? The tissue specimens will be sent to our Pathology team for review. A diagnosis will be available within 3 to 4 working days.
Pain and Recovery The recovery time is likewise usually quick, though there might be some bleeding and/or bruising. Core needle biopsies usually result in more bruising than a breast fine needle biopsy. This can take up to several weeks to fully heal, though it should feel much better a lot sooner than that.
The rate of malignancy was 40.0% (543 of 1357) for cases with a single cluster of microcalcifications, 50% (112 of 224) for those with multiple clusters and 60.0% (303 of 505) for those with dispersed microcalcifications.
Stereotactic core needle biopsy is a simple procedure that may be performed in an outpatient imaging center. Compared with open surgical biopsy, the procedure is about one-third the cost. Generally, the procedure is not painful and the results are as accurate as when a tissue sample is removed surgically.
Although breast calcifications are usually noncancerous (benign), certain patterns of calcifications — such as tight clusters with irregular shapes and fine appearance — may indicate breast cancer or precancerous changes to breast tissue.
"Suspicious" calcifications may be benign or an early sign of cancer; therefore, your doctor may recommend that you have a biopsy. During a biopsy, a small amount of breast tissue containing the calcification is removed and sent to a laboratory to be examined for cancer cells.
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01/18 Sysco to Release Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Results on February 8
01/14 Morgan Stanley Cuts Price Target on Sysco to $85 From $90, Maintains Equalweight Rating
01/12 Sysco Ranked #1 Food and Drug Retailer in the JUST 100 Rankings for 2022
Sysco Announces Science-Based Climate Goal, Leads U.S. Foodservice Distribution Industry by Committing to Reduce Emissions by 2030
HOUSTON, Nov. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the leading global foodservice distribution company, announced today it has set an ambitious, industry-leading climate goal to reduce emissions across its global operations and the company's entire value chain.
Sysco's new science-based emissions reduction target aligns with the Paris Agreement and is an integral part of the company's roadmap to reducing its carbon footprint over the next decade. The company is pursuing validation of the goal by the Science-Based Targets initiative and aims to:
Reduce its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 27.5% by 2030, and
Ensure that suppliers covering 67% of Sysco's Scope 3 emissions establish science-based targets by 2026.
Sysco's Scope 1 and 2 reduction efforts will be achieved in part by electrifying 35% of the company's U.S. tractor fleet by 2030, equivalent to adding nearly 2,500 electric trucks to its fleet. In addition, the company will source 100% renewable electricity for its global operations by 2030.
Partnering with suppliers will be an essential element to achieving the company's bold 2026 Scope 3 target as they represent the largest emissions reduction opportunities. The company will leverage existing momentum, as nearly half of the targeted Scope 3 emissions relate to suppliers that have already committed to or set science-based targets.
"At Sysco, we recognize and take seriously our role as a global industry leader. We understand that taking action now on climate change is important to the future of our planet and have developed an actionable, achievable plan with a clear roadmap to meaningfully reduce emissions. Over time, we believe we will be able to do more and are motivated to further our work across the value chain to quicken the pace of innovation and provide a pathway for other companies to participate in climate action," said Neil Russell, Sysco's Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Chief Communications Officer, "To ensure we hold our selves accountable, our CSR strategy is now an integral part of our new business strategy, our Recipe for Growth, which is designed to advance our pace of leadership, further differentiate Sysco, create a sustainable competitive advantage and make a positive impact on the world."
More information about the new climate goal can be found in Sysco's 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, which documents the company's continued progress toward its 2025 CSR goals and fulfilling its purpose of "connecting the world to share food and care for one another." The report highlights Sysco's achievements in caring for people, sourcing products responsibly and protecting the planet. Highlights of the report include:
Donating over 27 million meals globally in FY2021, and over 50 million since the beginning of the pandemic, to help address hunger and food insecurity.
Announcing its Global Good Goal, which expands Sysco's charitable giving efforts to generate $500 million worth of good by 2025.
Achieving the company's sustainable seafood goals and expanding its future commitments to drive higher standards in the industry.
Partnering to launch a sustainable grazing initiative for over 1 million acres to help tackle climate change and promote biodiversity.
Expanded the company's Sustainable Agriculture Program to ten fresh crops, exceeding its goal of expanding to five fresh crops.
Successfully eliminating, in Sysco's Brakes UK location, the use of all black plastics throughout its product categories and reduced food waste 25 percent by redirecting food to nearby charities.
Users can access SASB and GRI indices on sysco.com. For more information and to view the 2021 CSR report, visit www.sysco.com/csr2021report.
About Sysco
Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 58,000 associates, the company operates 343 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 650,000 customer locations. For fiscal 2021 that ended July 3, 2021, the company generated sales of more than $51 billion. Information about our CSR program, including Sysco's 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility Report, can be found at www.sysco.com/csr2021report.
For more information, visit www.sysco.com or connect with Sysco on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SyscoFoods. For important news and information regarding Sysco, visit the Investor Relations section of the company's Internet home page at investors.sysco.com, which Sysco plans to use as a primary channel for publishing key information to its investors, some of which may contain material and previously non-public information. In addition, investors should continue to review our news releases and filings with the SEC. It is possible that the information we disclose through any of these channels of distribution could be deemed to be material information.
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I've only read the excellent More Women than Men so far, and I must get hold of this one, and Elders and Betters, too. I immediately fell for her rather difficult but very idiosyncratic style.
P.S., off-topic: About books on Venice, has anyone recommended Pure Venice, by Ackroyd, yet ?
This was my third ICB, so 17 to go! As for that Venice recommendation, no, it's a new one on me, so thanks for the tip.
They are! Once you get used to the dense prose, she's a delight – caustic but detached. Every sentence is a little stiletto.
In spite of the fact that ICB's name keeps cropping up amogst the bloggers and eaders I follow, I've yet to try one of her books. This sounds a little like All Passion Spent on steroids. Plenty of great scope for fiction amongst dysfunctional families.
Much spikier than VSW, and the prose is more intense, mannered and arch – in a good way. Like Oscar on steroids!
Yes, me too. She's a writer I've known of since forever, but I've never read her. Maybe she was on my parents' shelves?


I've been feeling the heaviness too. It's unavoidable.
Most of us here in the US are stuck with a president who we feel is highly unqualified in so many ways. Here we are, in this reality.
Some of us feeling optimistic, some of us terrified, some of us in real fear of having the lives we built ripped out from underneath us. Some of us angry, pissed, enraged. Some of us depressed, hiding under the covers yesterday, wishing the world away.
I didn't have the words yesterday, I didn't know what to say…except, sadly, wasn't surprised.
I'm not here to ask who you voted for. I'm not here to shame you or blame you. None of that matters now.
I'm here to give you permission. I'm here to say that whatever you are feeling is right where you need to be. Who am I to tell you – that if you are black or LGBTQ or Muslim or an immigrant or a woman or a single parent or a person with disabilities or anyone belonging to the many marginalized communities our president-elect has spoken so hatefully of – who am I to say how you should feel?
You can feel it ALL.
Anger, hurt, motivation, wanting to run and hide, wanting to stand up and fight, wanting to love more, wanting to love less. This is a deep and dark hurt that has blanketed this country.
Now is not the time to criticize others' reactions if they don't match yours. You can have a day or a week or a month or the next four years to feel this. It's your choice.
I understand the need for wanting to join hands and come together and fight this hate with love, I do, but some of us aren't there yet. Some of us are grieving. Some of us are truly scared and we need a moment to feel those things first, before we can gather strength.
I understand the need to rebel, to want to burn the whole system to the ground and begin from the ashes. I understand what it was like to wake up yesterday and explain hate to a child, in a way I never thought I would have to, to explain that people we love are hurting, to listen to my son say he needed to stay home from school because he could feel the sadness of it all.
It was too much for him. It felt too much for me. It feels too much for this whole country and likely other countries as well.
I've seen friends posting things on social media outlets only to be silenced by guilt or privilege.
Many people are tired. Bone deep tired of fighting, of expending energy explaining equality, or civil rights or what it feels like to be a person of color or a marginalized group in this country.
Now is not the time to silence others.
Now is a time for speaking. Now is a time to celebrate our freedom, the ones that can't be taken away by a president – elect.
Please, don't silence yourself, don't stifle your thoughts, even if they are pure fire, even if they are the sweetest intentions, even if your friends and your family or random strangers are telling you to stop whatever it is you are feeling. Your feelings are your right. Especially now, in a time when it feels as though many people's rights are not being heard.
Hope, anger, your words, your art, your right to express yourself, your ability to fight, your ability to connect with others who you may deem different than yourself, your choice to stay silent or your choice to speak out, your love, your sense of humanity, your faith in humanity, your knowledge that we, as a country, can still come together and heal in time.
He may have won four years and I'll admit, I'm scared, not for myself personally, but for all of us. The unknown is scary. The unknown isn't written yet.
So, rest, cry, scream, hold each other, write, paint, smash some dishes, kiss your children, gather in solidarity and use a collective voice or scream out your window. Do what you need to, what feels right to you in the moment.
Let's allow the space for grieving to take place. Don't rush your neighbor, don't tell people they need to stop feeling angry. Let's just be, for a moment, for a few days, let the loss of what feels enormous to many, many people sit, let it work its way out.
Let's try compassion and realize that right now, every reaction is valid, every feeling that belongs to another person is theirs and we don't have the right to tell others how they must process their grief.
Let's just recognize it and support our citizens who are hurting, in a way they feel they need to be supported.
It's not a time to divide ourselves further with hatred.
Anger and hatred are two very different things.


The phrase 'iron bowl' is little known to those outside China.
It used to refer to jobs at state-owned companies.
Once hired, you will never have to worry about being fired.
But that bowl was crushed under the massive restructuring plan China rolled out two decades ago.
As part of our special series "the Big Picture", CGTN's Han Bin reports on the struggles that these people face.


MEHL-MADRONA and co-workers, Department of Family Medicine, University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, lewis.mehl-madrona@usask.ca, have studied the impact of acupuncture and craniosacral therapy on asthma in adults.
Synergy has been proposed between modalities operating at different levels of action. Acupuncture and craniosacral therapy are two very different modalities for which synergy has been proposed. The aim of this study was to test for such synergy and to determine if complementary therapies would improve pulmonary function and quality of life for people suffering from asthma.
Subjects were randomly assignment to one of five groups: acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, acupuncture and craniosacral, attention control, and waiting list control. All received 12 sessions of equal length with pretreatment and posttreatment assessment of pulmonary function, asthma quality of life, depression, and anxiety. Medication use was also assessed.
Synergy was not demonstrated. When treatment was compared with the control group, statistically treatment was significantly better than the control group in improving asthma quality of life, whereas reducing medication use with pulmonary function test results remained the same. However, the combination of acupuncture and craniosacral treatment was not superior to each therapy alone. In fact, although all active patients received 12 treatment sessions, those who received all treatments from one practitioner had statistically significant reductions in anxiety when compared with those receiving the same number of treatments from multiple practitioners. No effects on depression were found.
Acupuncture and/or craniosacral therapy are potentially useful adjuncts to the conventional care of adults with asthma, but the combination of the two does not provide additional benefit over each therapy alone.
Mehl-Madrona L, Kligler B, Silverman S, Lynton H, Merrell W. The impact of acupuncture and craniosacral therapy interventions on clinical outcomes in adults with asthma. Explore-The Journal of Science & Healing 3 (1): 28-36, Jan-Feb 2007.
It seems disappointing to not find a synergistic effect of two different CAM modalities. However the really interesting result is that having continuous contact with one practitioner is beneficial. This is something that psychotherapists have always known, but it could provide significant learning for both the conventional and the complementary medical world!


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GDPR 2021 – Compliance and Penalties; 3 Years Later
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a major piece of legislation adopted in 2018. It is designed to address the protection and responsible use of every European Union citizen's personal data. However, GDPR is not an EU-only regulation. It affects ANY business or individual handling the data of EU citizens, regardless of where that business or individual is based.
We were warned that the penalties for non-compliance could be stiff: Up to €20 million (about $24 Million USD) or 4 percent of annual global turnover, whichever is greater.
What Has GDPR Done Lately?
Over the last 3+ years, GDPR has received mixed reviews. It's often a slow process to bring a complaint because the companies involved may operate in many countries, but have their corporate headquarters in countries where litigation is exponentially more complex. To add to the delays, in most instances there is an opportunity for all other EU countries to join a complaint, extending the process and adding to the complexity of evidence gathering. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), was set up to promote cooperation between the EU's data protection regulators and acknowledge that the system isn't all it could be. In the April 8th, 2021 edition of WIRED Magazine an EDPB spokesperson was quoted, saying "Enforcing at a national level and at the same time resolving cross-border cases is time and resource intensive. Slowly, but steadily, we are seeing results". This claim is punctuated by the fact that there have been 254 final decisions from filed complaints.
Make no mistake, GDPR has teeth. A recent judgment against Amazon resulted in a fine of $788 million. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) just announced that WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is facing fines up to $267M for violating articles 5(1)(a); 12, 13 and 14 of the GDPR. While all judgements are immediately contested (and in most cases reduced), the fines are still very substantial.
The GDPR resembles the PCI DSS in that it aims for a comprehensive approach to data protection that goes well beyond the technical aspects, though the individual GDPR requirements aren't as technically detailed. GDPR's security tenets and objectives are the same as PCI DSS: to protect, secure and track use of specific types of data. Compliance with its requirements requires both implementing security best practices and modifying processes and human behavior to comply with those best practices, including timely analysis of anomalies.
GDPR requirements differ in other ways from the PCI DSS requirements:
They apply to many more types of personal data, including addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses and health-related data (and have different rules for handling certain data types).
They are much more prescriptive with respect to governance.
They place much more emphasis on allowable use of the data, including data subject consent and advance analysis of the potential privacy impact and available mitigations when introducing a new form of processing.
Like most regulations, GDPR has its own distinct terminology and set of definitions. In order to evaluate its impact on your organization, it is important that you understand key concepts such as "personal data", "data controller" and "processor". To help make sense of it, the definitions of interest include:
Personal data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
Controller: the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;
Processor: a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
Processing: any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Pseudonymisation: the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Filing system: any structured set of personal data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis.
See Article 4 of the GDPR for a complete set of definitions.
Meeting GDPR Compliance
Being a security technology company, we'd love to offer a cure-all solution that will effortlessly make an organization 100% secure and compliant. Each business, however, is unique. The best way to start is by identifying your assets and building a security strategy around those assets to mitigate risk. Proper identification of what needs to be protected is essential. Know what data you possess, where it resides, what you are protecting and why you are protecting it. GDPR compliance makes identifying your assets critically important. We discussed these processes in a previous article. Here are the brass tacks:.
A Step-By-Step Guide to HPE NonStop Compliance.
Article 32 of the GDPR states "the data controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk". Further, Article 32 requires "the data controller or data processor must take steps to ensure that any natural person with access to personal data does not process the data except on instruction of the controller, processor, European Union law, or member state law".
This means ensuring that proper authentication, access control, and identity management are in place to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk. These components are fundamental parts of a data security strategy and ensure that the appropriate protection layers are in place to mitigate the risk.
The authentication aspects of Article 32 can be addressed by deploying and appropriately configuring the following solution supplied with the HPE NonStop OS:
XYGATE User Authentication for extending Safeguard's authentication controls and integrating NonStop security with RSA tokens for Multi-Factor Authentication.
The access control technical aspects of Article 32 can be addressed by deploying and appropriately configuring the following optional product solution supplied through HPE.
XYGATE Access Control for Role Based Access Control and Keystroke Logging to capture command activity.
And the identity management technical aspects of Article 32 can be addressed by deploying and appropriately configuring third-party solutions available for HPE NonStop servers.
" Luckily, most of the solutions and tools required to address GDPR technical security requirements and demonstrate compliance are readily available."
Steve Tcherchian, CISSP, XYPRO Technology Corporation
Auditing and Alerting
Article 33 of the GDPR requires prompt breach notification: "In the case of a personal data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority. The processor shall notify the controller without undue delay after becoming aware of a personal data breach."
In order to be able to detect personal data security breaches, records of all activity that touch that data need to be collected and organized in a way that makes it as easy as possible to detect and report on all unauthorized access. For NonStop systems, this essentially means auditing everything associated with GDPR-defined personal data – or as much as possible to address the risk. Having security data available and solutions in place to report on the data will allow quick alerting and access to data and evidence to comply with this Article. Of course, you should act up front to minimize the potential for breaches as reflected in Article 32, and auditing other aspects of your security environment such as subsystem configuration changes is necessary for early detection of changes that might reduce the effectiveness of your security risk mitigation.
Auditing all NonStop security-related activity and events may seem easier said than done, especially when you have hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of events occurring daily throughout your environment. What you need is a really powerful software solution that allows you to track, filter, manage and report on all relevant NonStop security-related activity.
XYGATE Merged Audit merges multiple sources of NonStop audit data (for example, Safeguard, XYGATE, EMS, Measure, ACI BASE24®, IHSS Telco solution, SECOM, and SQLXPress) into a single NonStop repository. This merged and normalized data can be used to forward to security analysis platforms specifically for HPE NonStop data, alerting, reporting and integrating with enterprise Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions.
Auditing and Alerting technical aspects of Article 33 can be addressed by deploying and appropriately configuring the following solutions:
XYGATE Merged Audit for gathering, normalizing and centralizing security data.
Further Auditing and Alerting technical aspects of Article 33 can be addressed by deploying and appropriately configuring the following optional solution available for HPE NonStop servers:
XYGATE Compliance PRO for measuring compliance status against specific GDPR requirements.
To best address all Auditing and Alerting technical aspects of Article 33, a real-time security monitoring, alerting, data analysis and security intelligence solution is required and there are plenty available on the market.
Article 32 of the GDPR also references Security of processing: "The controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including… the pseudonymization and encryption of personal data;"
This part of the article essentially boils down to encryption and masking of personal data. Encryption is supported on the HPE NonStop at most layers – from network to data. Article 32 requires processors working with EU citizens' personal data to use it.
Pseudonymization is essentially tokenization or data masking. Tokenization does not transform data, but instead randomly maps a live data field to a functionally equivalent surrogate value (i.e., a "token") which replaces the real data. Since tokens do not represent actual data, they can be shared and stored without risk of data loss. To convert a token back to real data, a system (or application) needs to use the tokenization server which hosts the random mapping table to return the token to its original value. Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) can also be used here.
Compliance and Monitoring
Ensuring compliance is a critical aspect of any security program, and compliance monitoring solutions provide the means to systematically measure, manage and report on a complex and dynamic HPE NonStop security environment.
Let's assume that you've implemented your security strategy based on the recommendations in this article and
other security frameworks. You have established strong security procedures for your HPE NonStop system. The next step is to measure compliance against GDPR's requirements. XYGATE SecurityOne and Compliance PRO contain GDPR policies, allowing security professionals to measure and monitor their GDPR compliance. XYPRO has broken down the individual GDPR data security Articles and mapped them to NonStop technical controls to validate your security configuration and simplify your GDPR compliance activity.
Given the high-value business applications and processes that run on NonStop systems and the sensitive data that they store and process, you can see why many NonStop environments will be subjected to GDPR and how HPE's offerings as well as other third party security analytics solutions can help build a zero trust security strategy for proper data protection and monitoring of compliance.
May 2018 is more than 2 and a half years behind us and there is still a lot to do to bring both organizations and their systems into compliance. Luckily, most of the solutions and tools required to address GDPR technical security requirements and demonstrate compliance are readily available.
Hopefully, this article has given you the groundwork to rededicate your resources and what you need to focus on when it comes to GDPR and your HPE NonStop environment. The fines are significant enough to make every organization pay attention. If you need assistance with compliance readiness activity, please reach out to your account executive at HPE and they will be more than happy to help you.


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Independent Research Firm Names Bright.md the Leader in Virtual Care Solutions for Digital Health
PR Newswire June 10, 2019
Independent research firm says Bright.md "leads the pack with automated clinician experience, interoperability and analytics"
PORTLAND, Ore., June 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright.md has been named the Leader in the new report, The Forrester New Wave™: Virtual Care Solutions For Digital Health, Q2 2019.
For the report, Forrester evaluated 13 providers using 10 criteria based on the current offering and strategy. Of those providers, Bright.md stands alone in the Leaders category.
In the evaluation, SmartExam—Bright.md's delivery automation solution for non-video, direct-to-patient telehealth—received a "differentiated" rating, the highest possible score, in eight of 10 criteria: configuration, scheduling and routing, patient experience, clinician experience, interoperability, performance analytics, vision, road map and market approach.
In the report, Forrester said that "[v]irtual care solutions must address patient experience and access to care without creating further administrative burden for clinicians." According to the report:
"Bright.md suits providers' ecosystems and automates the documentation process — alleviating administrative burden for clinicians, leading to faster implementation and wider adoption of the platform."
"SmartExam automates 90% of the clinical process based on data from the provider's electronic health record (EHR) and from the patient via text-enabled chat. It autogenerates documentation for review, which the EHR consumes as discrete data."
Bright.md received a differentiated rating in the patient experience and clinician experience criteria. Said one Bright.md reference Forrester interviewed as part of the evaluation process, "The NPS [Net Promoter Score] scores are very high, and we will likely double our visit volume in 2020."
SmartExam powers leading healthcare systems' virtual convenience care offerings, enabling them to deliver high-quality care that delights patients and providers—anytime, from anywhere, and without video. SmartExam, creates "wow" moments by enabling physicians to deliver care in under two minutes, allowing patients to get care quickly regardless of their location from a trusted provider, and helping health systems create loyal patients in a competitive direct-to-consumer marketplace.
"We're delighted to be recognized by Forrester as the leader in this evaluation," said Dr. Ray Costantini, CEO and co-founder of Bright.md. "Our team has a passion for helping healthcare systems radically innovate care delivery, and it's extremely rewarding to see, in our opinion, that dedication and hard work recognized."
According to the report, SmartExam is a best fit for healthcare organizations looking to enable existing networks of clinicians. The report said of Bright.md, "A strong road map and quick ROI (within the first year for a client reference) make the vendor appealing."
To read the entire Forrester report, click here.
About Bright.md
Founded in 2014 and based in Portland, Ore., Bright.md is a leading healthcare automation company dedicated to modernizing direct-to-patient telehealth for healthcare systems with its AI-powered virtual-care platform, SmartExam. Bright.md partners with premier healthcare organizations in North America, including three of the top five not-for-profit health systems in the United States, to help them deliver high quality care, when and how patients want it. These partners offer SmartExam to more than 10 million patients who are seeking convenient urgent and primary care online. A Gartner Cool Vendor in Healthcare and the preferred choice of AVIA's Virtual Access cohort, Bright.md is venture-backed by B Capital Group, Seven Peaks Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Oregon Angel Fund and the Stanford-StartX Fund. For more information, visit Bright.md.
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Are you one of those people who has "good" things that are only for special occasions? Good plates, good clothing, good bedding, whatever it might be.
Why are you saving it? Now, I realize you might be saving the china for a special occasion because it's a hassle to clean and expensive if it breaks. But what about the other things?
I realized that I have a number of things that I only use for special occasions. I have a set of beautiful, not super-expensive wine glasses that I only use when I have guests. Why not treat myself and use them when I'm just having a glass of wine after work? If it breaks, it breaks. But they aren't doing me any good sitting in a cabinet.
The thing that spurred this post is a gorgeous fountain pen my dad gave me for my college graduation. Many years ago. It's a lovely, mid-range fountain pen that writes beautifully. I love it.
I'm so worried about losing it or someone stealing it that it just sits in its box in a drawer in my apartment. I never even use it at home, because it seems silly to use a fountain pen to write my grocery list.
The other day, in a meeting, I noticed one of the members of upper management using a really nice fountain pen to take notes, which reminded me that I also own a nice fountain pen and never use it. And ever since, I've been using it at work. I don't leave it at work – it travels with me in my work bag. But I'm actually getting some use out of it and really enjoying it.
Sure, I might lose it. Someone might steal it (and face my wrath). And I would be disappointed. But it's not irreplaceable, and besides, what's it worth to me taking up space in a drawer? What am I saving it for? Some things are meant to be used, not hidden away.
What are you "saving" that you should be using?
Yes! Love this post – so true, we use some of our best items once every other year and instead should be appreciating them more. For those I can't seem to dothis with, I end up selling them so hopefully others can use them…so I'm proud to say I don't have any fancy things not being put to use 🙂 and that is killer u use a fountain pen! Haha…you rock.
I can so identify with the fountain pen! I have one myself and you have just inspired me to go and get it and start using it. Tomorrow may never come, like that rainy day!


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All geared up to ride a spring tide up channel in the much improved weather expected later this week, we ended up dining on board in the yard. The cruise is off for the moment.
A trickle of salt water was running down just forward of where the rudder stock goes through the hull.
It was unclear in semi darkness, after wriggling through a hatch with a torch, where exactly the water was coming from, but best guess was a small crack in the rudder stock housing.
We did the sensible thing, and hauled the boat out again for further investigation. The leak is in an area that sees lots of stress from the rudder, so we need to have a good look inside and out to find out whether it is a symptom of something serious. We have booked a fibreglass specialist to come and investigate.
This has happened once before with Spring Fever, when we launched at Ardoran near Oban in the west of Scotland in 2012. Then it was a corroded and jammed heads outlet seacock,which had to be replaced.
Always an embarrassing and rather expensive thing to happen. In Ardoran we should have checked the seacock more carefully before launch, but this time there was no way of knowing until the boat was afloat. We noticed a tiny trickle of a few litres a month last year, could not locate the source and assumed it was something like a slightly worn rudder bearing. The boat flexes when set ashore on its keel and that could have opened up whatever small leak was there before.
Author PDRPosted on Sep 2, 2020 Sep 2, 2020 Categories Diary, Technical postsTags cruising, fitting out, Oban, rudderstock, seacock, skin fittingLeave a comment on September – the in and out cruise
This is the story of the first year of our two-year round Britain cruise in Spring Fever, a retired racing boat on a mission to go slowly (like us). A previous round Britain in 2007-8 in an earlier boat, Pepper of Brixham, had left us hungry to see more of the beautiful West of Scotland, where we had time to spend only a month sailing.We decided to go anti-clockwise, up the East Coast and down the West, rather than the clockwise route we used last time, and to use the Caledonian Canal rather than Cape Wrath and the Orkneys, which we visited in 2008. The account of our passage back from Scotland down the West Coast of Ireland in 2013 was written as a daily blog (follow this link to see all the posts) but this first part of the cruise is a single account, a photo album with words.
A cheerful start – Robin off Beachy Head
We left Cowes on 11 April 2012 for what always seems a bit of a trudge to the Thames Estuary, though with the right timing there are about 11 hours of favourable tide on the way from Beachy Head to Ramsgate, which cheers things up. After leaving Brighton, for an hour or two we were much entertained by a stray Robin's search for a safe haven on the boat. He eventually found such a good hiding place – it was a mystery where – that we didn't see him again until he flew off while we were entering the Deben in Suffolk more than a day later. He had hitched a 130 mile ride.
Follow this link to read the the rest of the story of our cruise up the East Coast and through the Caledonian Canal.
Author PDRPosted on Sep 18, 2012 Apr 5, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags Arbroath, Ardoran, Banff, Caledonian Canal, Deben, Eyemouth, Inverness, Oban, Round Britain, Tobermory, WhitbyLeave a comment on Round Britain 2012-13: Cowes, Whitby, Inverness, Oban
Round Britain in Pepper 2007-8
Goodbye, Kehaar. In 2001 we decided we were spending too much money and time on the boat we had owned for ten years, and sold her. Wouldn't it be much more sensible to charter other peoples' boats in nice places, and get on with our lives the rest of the time without obsessing about equipment and cruises?
Pepper of Brixham
For several years it worked. Hello, Seychelles, Adriatic (several times), Greece and other destinations. However, William began to investigate the idea of buying a small boat and sailing round Britain in his gap year, so naturally I helped him narrow down the choice and began to visit boatyards with him to look at ideas, with a Contessa 26 the favourite. We looked at several.
It was the beginning of a slippery slope back to boat ownership. Will changed his plans and went off round the world using other means of transport; I kept on visiting boatyards, egged on by a small inside voice telling me that it would be good to have a healthy outdoors project in the run up to retirement, and sailing round Britain could fit the bill – my own sort of gap year. The upshot was that in 2005 we bought Pepper, a Verl 900, a 30 footer with an unusually large amount of room down below for a boat from 1978, and a surprisingly good turn of speed for her top-heavy looks.
She had a new engine and Furlex, and the hull had just been resprayed professionally, but otherwise she needed a big refit, which we spread over two years, until we had new rigging, electronics, sails, ground tackle, and a host of the other odds and ends that need renewing on every boat of this generation. The plan was to go slowly, fitting a round Britain cruise into other schedules by doing it in stages, exploring as we went, and finding places to leave Pepper whenever necessary, including a winter at Oban in Argyll.
Follow this link to read about the round Britain cruise in 2007 and this link to read about the second year from Oban to the Orkneys and back down the east coast.
Author PDRPosted on Sep 1, 2012 Mar 4, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags Arklow, Balklycastle, Callanish, Cruising Association, Edinburgh Festival, Grimsby, Hebrides, Islay, Kehaar, Lindisfarne, Oban, Orkneys, Pepper of Brixham, Rathlin, Round Britain, Shotley Marina, Stromness, Titchmarsh Marina, WhitbyLeave a comment on Round Britain in Pepper 2007-8


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CONASTA 66 was held in Hobart from 9-12 July 2017. Thank you to all those who helped make our conference the success it was.
Below are some of the presentations presented at the conference.
CONASTA 65 was held in Brisbane from 3-6 July 2016. Thank you to all of our sponsors, exhibitors and delegates who attended, and helped to make our conference the success it was.
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It was towards the end of the Monsoon season when I arrived in Nepal in mid-August. This is the time of the year when mountains are in peak green, saturated with season's moisture, all lives are thriving.
My volunteer assignment in Nepal for the USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer Program with Winrock International was to provide a 10-day long training workshop on crop modeling applications to university faculty to add capacity in collegiate research and teaching. My host university was the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) of the Tribhuvan University, located in Sundarbazar of Lamjung District, a remote campus located about 100 km northwest of Kathmandu, but a 6 hour or so journey by car on a winding two-lane mountain road that bumps through many layers of ridges and valleys, sharing traffic with long distance buses, trucks, livestock, and local people carrying fresh animal fodder around their foreheads. Every direction we turned terraced rice paddy fields were in sight, high on the hill slopes or down by the rivers at valley bottoms, as long as the monsoon rain is here, rice is everywhere humans can reach!
My workshop had about 25 participants with backgrounds in soil science, agronomy, horticulture, plant pathology, and agricultural economics. The majority of them work and live locally on the IAAS campus, but a few participants travelled a day from sister campuses to Sundarbazar to attend the workshop. I was glad to see this much interest in crop model applications that include crop growth and yield simulation, crop management effects on yield, and weather variability and climate change on yield dynamics, to list a few. Furthermore, crop models are also very effective teaching tools that help students understand the interactions between plant, soil and atmosphere, connecting principles in crop physiology, biophysics, agro-climatology, and other disciplines. I greatly enjoyed working with my class for their proactivity in discussing their real-world problems and willingness in helping each other when diverse levels of progress appeared at times during the hands-on exercises.
It is a valuable and unforgettable experience to travel and work in Nepal, it is such a beautiful and unique country, and I appreciate the Winrock F2F program and my host university IAAS for making it possible. I hope my class continues to make progress in using the crop model applications, either having a better understanding of how they work, or applying them in their research or teaching.


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10 Things Nationality Shouldn't Matter To Non-Korean Kpop Idols
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Korean music industry is being filled with some of Kpop stars who are not actually from Korea. In the well-mannered country of the East, gifted non-Korean idols have long been part of Kpop groups. The challenging idol girls and boys from overseas would love to perform on stage and they dream of becoming a Kpop idols like G-Dragon, Girls' Generation, Super Junior, and EXO. In order to achieve their dream, someone had to learn languages, cultures and food and someone even had to be brave by coming to Korea and being apart from their family. And more than just learning the language, through a long period of training, they will get to learn a new culture, too.
Now, the foreigner members of many idol groups are giving the group a pinch of diversity and making issues as their talents. If you ever plan on auditioning for SM, JYP, YG or any other major label, these non-Korean stars are superbsample of what you should be.
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Nationality : Canada
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Nationality : Thailand
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Nationality : Taiwan-U.S
In Kpop, the cute/girly/innocent image is BIG, like most girl group members who debut, most have that kind of concept. But Amber is different. She has a tomboy personality and appearance, if she was a girly girl they, f(x) , wouldn't stand out at all in the Korean music industry.
5. Fei (MissA)
Fei was born April 27, 1987 in Haikou, Hainan, China. She's able to speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and minimal English. Things seem fine at first, Fei said that actually the hardest thing in learning Korean is remembering the words and said that it's really frustrating. But she has risen to that challenge and shown great courage and maturity.
6. Sorn (CLC)
Thai member Sorn won the first season of K-Pop Star Hunt in 2011, after which she subsequently became a trainee under Cube Entertainment. Her beauty is rather unique, and that in general she's just stunning and it allows her visual to make her stand out like each member in the group.
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7. Yuta (SR15B)
Nationality : Japan
Already well known as a member of SM Rookies(SR15B), Yuta became a newest member of JTBC's "Abnormal Summit." Not much else has been revealed about Yuta, but he will be a great choice of SM Entertainment – easy on the eye, not too controversial, with an appealing message.
← SR15B Profile
8. Sana (TWICE)
JYP's new girl group member SANA gains attention for her particular personalities via MNET's SIXTEEN. Yes that's why fans love Sana. She had a 4d personality, is friendly with all the girls, has a positive personality, and is loveable. Plus she's funny and is a great performer.
← TWICE Profile
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9. Shannon
Nationality : Korea-UK
Have you heard her song before? Shannon's husky voice kinda reminds me of IU. After wrapping up her appearance through the JTBC's Hidden Singer 2, she could be finally make its debut. Since her debut, she have tried various genres such as commercial model, sitcom and drama actor and game show panelist.
10. Vernon (SEVENTEEN)
Nationality : Korea-U.S
Vernon got a lot of criticisms on Show Me The Money 4 but only his rapping deserves criticisms. However, the Leonardo DiCaprio look-alike had recently gained explosive popularity for his stunning and charismatic stage presence. Above all things, the ideal boy seems to have healthy mentality.
← SEVENTEEN Profile
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Rick Moody (the Wingdale Community Singers) Talks George Michael's Symphsonica
Here's a passage from Susan Sontag's essay of 1964 called "Notes on Camp." Have you reread "Notes on Camp" recently? It's well worth doing so, now...
By Rick Moody | March 28, 2014
Talkhouse Contributing Writer Rick Moody is a member of the Wingdale Community Singers. He is also the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a collection of essays called On Celestial Music. Since 2009, he has written music criticism at the Rumpus.
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Here's a passage from Susan Sontag's essay of 1964 called "Notes on Camp." Have you reread "Notes on Camp" recently? It's well worth doing so, now and again, when its point of view, for whatever reasons, is briefly obscured by the fulminations out at the repressive end of the American political spectrum:
A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration… For myself, I plead the goal of self-edification, and the goad of a sharp conflict in my own sensibility. I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it. To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.
How might Sontag's approach to what she calls Camp (which we might now call, more sympathetically, in a far more aesthetically permissive moment, gay culture), inform any investigation of Symphonica, the new and not terribly "good" album by George Michael? Let us proceed to inquire further.
As Sontag foregrounds her own relationship to Camp, by insisting on both her attraction and repellence, let me explore on my own relationship to the music of George Michael. I will say, as I'm sure many would who were not British teenage girls in the mid '80s, that I thought upon first encountering Wham! (Michael's first musical calling card) that they were among the hardest-to-take musical acts I'd heard up to that time. They were to rock & roll what Olestra was to salty snack foods. "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" came out the same year as Zen Arcade (Hüsker Dü) and My War (Black Flag) and Let It Be (the Replacements), and during this period I was not listening to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go." I would rather have been interrogated by the secret police. The dissolution of Wham! and the end of its fluffy narcissisms (the brand that launched a thousand boy bands), did not register as a cultural crisis for me, and while I loved certain tracks from the early George Michael solo career ("Faith" is a really good song!), I always kind of hated the guy, even if I recognized, grudgingly, that he had a technically great voice.
Everything changed, for me, with George Michael's first arrest for cruising in 1998. I mean, I assumed, as probably most culturally aware people did, that George Michael was gay, but that there was some resistance to being out, perhaps for career reasons (he has said he was worried about his mom's reaction), and this did not distinguish him, at least not in my book. While the constraints and miseries of the closet have produced some great music, music made out of frustration and pain (Zen Arcade itself, arguably), an opening outward into candor and forthrightness is always when the music starts to be complete. "Bohemian Rhapsody," by Queen, as others have asserted, can be read as an allegory of queer self-acceptance, and its exceedingly florid middle section is about as operatic and Campy as rock & roll gets. The cruising George Michael had the decision to come out of the closet taken away from him, which is too bad (you don't need me to tell you: the struggle within the self to come out is important), but after the arrest there is no mistaking who George Michael is, and as far as I'm concerned he is much the more interesting singer in this out context. But, more compellingly, Michael's forthrightness, after 1998, makes his earlier work more consonant with the contours of gay culture and Camp. "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" is extremely campy, it has its tongue in cheek, and when you embrace all the Wham-is-gay rumors and say yes to them (even if Andrew Ridgeley is as straight as a football star), suddenly that song is a lot more palatable, even funny and sly.
To put it another way: there is a way through (and "Through" is the title of the first track of Symphonica) the work of George Michael that excludes or suppresses his queer identity, but to this reviewer such an approach misconstrues the work, even the work that was produced when he was still closeted. In this view, George Michael's voyage, given how much shit he took from all corners, was totally heroic. Yes, my argument is that George Michael has become heroic in the new millennium. And all those guys who bitched about Wham! or who carped at Freddie Mercury for his mustache, or who disliked Elton John's Victim of Love because it was too Studio 54, those guys should be ashamed of themselves. George Michael lived with the hatred when it was hard to be a gay singer of popular music at the top of the charts, he lived with pain and, one assumes, self-recrimination (he has said as much), and if all those Listen Without Prejudice pleas to be understood as a human being were not as earned as, say, the respect we would grant a singer who was openly out (Laura Nyro in the '80s), they are genuine pleas nonetheless. Elton John descended into a swirl of drug addiction in the '80s to deal with the pressure of a like kind of negative public attention, and Freddie Mercury died without admitting to his bisexuality, and David Bowie appeared to cross back over the fence. You can say George Michael should have come out sooner, from a historical perspective, but you're not the one who had to live in his skin.
Times have changed. George Michael now admits to cruising, has even suggested that cruising has been part of gay life as long as there has been gay life (which is a truth devoutly worth repeating, as with the sentence There have always been gay men in the Catholic church hierarchy), and he is trying to cut down on the pot-smoking so that it's only seven or eight spliffs a day, rather than 25. He gives a lot to charity, and is especially sensitive to charities devoted to combating HIV. I admit that I find the cruising, pot-smoking George Michael admirable, thorny, adult, and complex, and these are all fine qualities for an artist.
But what about Symphonica?
If you read some of the recent reviews of Symphonica, which is a "live" recording from a recent George Michael tour and the last document produced by the legendary Phil Ramone (the great adult contemporary stylist who worked with Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, James Taylor, and many, many others) and features an abundance of covers and a few originals, all of them already recorded in one form or another by Michael himself over the years, you will note that the prevailing opinion is not one of approbation. There is precious little about this recording that is new. The sound is burnished within an inch of its life with orchestral filigrees, and there are occasional attempts to simulate a jazz band. Now and again, there are some contemporary electronic rhythms and sounds, and bits, here and there, of the old rock & roll ensemble. In certain moments, one hears a guitar. The song selection hews toward things that could perhaps be standards, like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," and "Wild Is the Wind," and, I suppose, "Roxanne."
Michael's voice is perfectly calibrated to the contemporary pop strains of The Voice or American Idol, all performance, all virtuosity, and is much inflected with his influences — David Bowie, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Bryan Ferry, et al. — and I notice an interesting feature that is most a la mode, Michael leans into open notes (without vibrato) in ways that feel a lot like the hovering robotic quality of Auto-tuning. I assume that he doesn't need any software to support his rather astoundingly confident singing voice, but the icy, reserved, technical excellence of his approach here sounds like software (as if they mixed the recordings with digital reverb or studio enhancements), and that is part of his thing now. George Michael is the guy who plays at being a world-class pop star, who performs the Vegas version of a pop star, as though it were all a simulation (which it all is), and who makes it look both exceedingly easy, and a burden that he doesn't want to bother with anymore. (How come no more originals, George? Is it that hard to write a song these days?)
And that's where Sontag's essay becomes relevant to these notes (and n.b. how Sontag's essay proceeds the Stonewall riots by four years, but seems to anticipate some of what those riots set in motion). There is something profoundly repellent about Symphonica (whose title, I assume, means to conjoin symphonic and erotica, which, in the pop world, would seem to be the quintessence of an oxymoronic neologism, unless it also means to conflate electronica as well, in which case the icy perfection of the recordings is doubly apparent in the title). Even the corporate masters at Hollister wouldn't play this album in their franchises. It's too punctilious, too given over to excesses of sentimentality that still somehow feel miserly and non-purgative and stiff. The song selection is too bizarre. (Where, for example, are Michael songs like "I Want Your Sex," whose bold, hilarious provocations are his most indelible and unmistakable successes?) Michael's conservatory devotion to pre-rock material is too idiosyncratic and show-biz. Indeed, the ideal listening environment for this album would be a Madison Avenue nail salon, or perhaps the lobby of one of the higher-end Vegas hotels. You should listen to it on a heart-shaped bed. It's more like Celine Dion than it is like Tina Turner, more like Marie Osmond than it is like Liza Minnelli, more like Paul Anka than it is like Bryan Ferry.
And, in fact, it's odd even to listen to this album. It should probably be seen, not heard, because if there's one thing George Michael has, it is charm, and where the voice cannot sell the songs, the charm sometimes can. The insistence on selling this product as though it's an audio document, when really it's about simulation of performance, the style of performance, not the arrangements, or the studio varnish on the live recordings, is of a piece with Michael's refusal to participate in his own videos, back when he was first on Sony Records, of a piece with his refusal to allow himself to be fetishized as an object, even though he makes such a great object. Michael, it seems, would rather cruise than be cruised.
All of which, for me, makes this a fascinating document, despite the great difficulty one feels for it as a recording. Symphonica is a chilly, no-hair-out-of-place, excessive symphonic pop album in which a multi-multi-millionaire, one of the most successful pop vocalists of his era, records "Brother Can You Spare a Dime." And "Roxanne" and "Wild Is the Wind." (In latter case, it should be noted, he has to try to exceed the greatness of the Nina Simone recording, which he will never be able to accomplish.) In which an artist of exceedingly catchy dance-pop never once performs in that genre. In which almost every song has its complex and reluctant lyrical aperçu about pop music itself, as in: "It's hard to love, there's so much to hate…" ("Praying For Time").
Indeed, in some fundamental way Symphonica seems to dislike pop music in a substantial way.
There's no drag in Symphonica, there is no Campy incestuous melodrama about it, there are no jokes. In fact, the insistence on the absence of anything even remotely humorous about Symphonica is part of how you know that there is something paradoxical and comical at its core. The joke, in Symphonica, is the structured absence, the truth at the center of its lie. The imperceptible joke at its center is, perhaps, this performance of pop stardom as opposed to pop stardom itself, which performance usually looks more garish and inflammatory than this. But in this case the performance is the refusal to give you anything anticipated, like, in its way, Ministry flipping the bird at Arista Records, or Tom Verlaine demanding to be released from Elektra, or like Prince assuming the glyph in order to get out of his contract.
Camp is counternarrative. And counter-intuitive. Camp is against the prevailing construct of what love is in pop song. What you say is organic is to be resisted in the Camp version of the thing. And if you think there's something to resist in Symphonica, that just means that it is working on you in just the way it should.
George Michael, in his third decade of making records, is long past that historical moment in which he wanted to behave like a pop star for you. But it may also be that he is finally existing in a historical epoch — the one in which gay people can marry, and in which an entire generation, the millennial generation, is overwhelming comfortable with gay culture, and in which, I predict, there will soon be a gay season of The Bachelor — an epoch perfectly suited to his complicated and astringent relationship to the popular song. All he has to do is be willing to sing "I Want Your Sex."
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