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The ultimate break-up album: why making The Visitors destroyed ABBA
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Whatever else John Cleese expected when touching down in Barbados for a brief holiday in January 1980, he probably didn't predict that he would end up seated across a dining table from Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA. He was no doubt even more surprised at how the rendezvous proceeded to play out.
The two-headed pop powerhouse behind what was then the biggest hit machine on the planet, Ulvaeus and Andersson were in the Caribbean for a 10-day brainstorming session. They'd swapped the Swedish winter for a luxurious stay at an old plantation complex previously occupied by their idol, Paul McCartney. There they toiled on what would become their seventh album, Super Trouper.
By chance Cleese, at that point riding high from Fawlty Towers, was also in Barbados with his daughter. The latter was – along with a fair chunk of the population of the planet earth – a huge fan of ABBA, then in their hit-making prime (the group are in the news once again having just announced two comeback singles and a "hologram" tour). So when Björn and Benny wondered if the Cleeses were interesting in joining them for dinner they readily agreed.
But the ABBA duo had more than small talk in mind. After half a decade of non-stop success, cracks were beginning to show. The previous year Björn had announced his divorce from Agnetha Fältskog, the band's blonde talisman. The break-up had been amicable they insisted – yet the public sundering of their relationship was inevitably perceived as damaging to the quartet's family-friendly image.
Further upheaval was to follow. Though the world did not yet know it, the clock was ticking on Benny Andersson's marriage to ABBA's other singer, Anni-Frid Lyngstad – from whom he would separate that November, having fallen in love with a friend of Fältskog's.
Yet personal melodrama was the last thing on the minds of Björn and Benny when they approached Cleese. The songwriters were beginning to turn sour on life as chart slayers and in Cleese they saw an unlikely escape route.
Since winning the Eurovision with Waterloo in 1974, ABBA had conquered every pop market on the planet – with the significant exception of the United States. America's indifference had been made painfully clear during an exhausting 1979 tour of North America, highlights of which included playing to a half empty 17,000 capacity arena in Minneapolis (chosen on the basis that the large Nordic diaspora would be sympathetic to four Scandinavians in sparkly jumpsuits).
In short they'd achieved all they reasonably felt they could and were fed up tilting at the windmill that a US breakthrough represented. They had an idea, however – a stage musical about friends kicking back together on New Year's Day and reflecting on all had happened through the previous 12 months. They'd hashed out the title song, Happy New Year, on the flight out from Stockholm. Would Cleese be interested on coming on aboard as a writer?
Cleese had never laid awake at night dreaming of an ABBA collaboration and demurred on the spot; his lack of enthusiasm was unmistakable. Shrugging off the rejection, Benny and Björn called for the bill and soon afterwards jetted back to Sweden and the waiting Fältskog and Lyngstad. They would duly record Super Trouper, another global hit (aside from in the US, of course) entrenching their position as the world's favourite pop group.
Yet the frustrations that had led Benny and Björn to approach a British comedian best known at that time for playing a catastrophic hotel manager did not abate. They would continue to bedevil ABBA even as the personal chasms among the band members grew wider – though there was never a falling out between the songwriting core of Ulvaeus and Andersson – and finally became too yawning to gloss over.
It all came to a head during the making of the band's eight and final album, 1981's The Visitors. Despite their reputation as purveyors of perky pop, darkness had long swirled within Abba's music. The Winner Takes it All – Björn's dissection of marital failure sang by his recently divorced wife Fältskog – for instance still rates as one of the most devastating break-up songs of all time.
The Visitors was bleak even by those standards. The fact was announced by the chilly cover image – the heating had considerately packed in the day of the shoot – of the four Abba members in a function room at their Polar studio complex in Stockholm, each seated apart and looking worlds removed from their band-mates.
"You had the feeling that 'this won't last very much longer,'" Polar employee Berka Bergkvist told Carl Magnus Palm in Bright Lights, Dark Shadows, his 2002 chronicling of ABBA's rise and decline. "I remember talking with Björn about it, and he said, 'We might not go on working with this forever. We've emptied ourselves of everything we've got to give.'"
One problem was that Björn and Benny were – as their approach to Cleese had suggested – jaundiced with life on the chart treadmill. They wanted to write musicals – or indeed, do anything other than churn out ABBA records.
"Our wildest dreams have become reality," Benny had told Josepie magazine in 1980, 12 months before starting on The Visitors. "We have nothing left to prove. We have more than enough money to spend the rest of our lives in retirement."
Rumours of an ABBA break-up had been in the air even before they went into the studio for The Visitors. Their hard-charging manager Stig Anderson – no relation to Benny – had acknowledged as much when the sessions for the album went on longer than anticipated and the Scandinavian media, which tracked ABBA's fortunes with a breathlessness that would give today's gossip blogs pause, wondered allowed if, in this record, ABBA had finally met their waterloo.
"Benny and Björn are adamant about coming up with new compositions that are not a copy of something they have already done before," he said to Josepie in a separate interview in late 1980. "After everything they've done already, that's definitely not an easy task. And it becomes more difficult with every album. Björn and Benny are worried about that too."
One unfortunate complication was the fact that Polar had recently been upgraded to an all-digital facility. This in theory should have made for an easier recording process. In fact, the band pined for the warmth of analogue and found the new environment clipped and soulless.
ABBA in Paris, 1980
ABBA in Paris, 1980 Credit: APESTEGUY/SICCOLI
You could hear it in the music. From the chilly cover shot to austere ballads such as Like An Angel Passing Through My Room and Slipping Through My Fingers (Björn's lament for the fact that the two children he'd had with Fältskog were growing up without him), The Visitors was ABBA's long dark night of the soul record.
Even the solitary hit, One of Us – written by Benny about his break-up from Anni-Frid and of course sang by her – exudes an uncharacteristic chill. In the background meanwhile swirled the spectre of the Cold War and the very real fear that Sweden would be on front line if the missiles came raining down.
Fans will defend The Visitors as an artistic leap forward for ABBA. But the truth is that it's an unenthusiastic hodgepodge. The glum shadow of the East-West divide informed the title track – which addressed the treatment of Soviet dissidents (it was promptly banned in the USSR).
There are occasional attempts to cut loose but these, too, fail to land. Head Over Heels spins a slapdash tale of a middle-aged high society woman on a spending spree. In a disorientingly different vein, Soldiers is a dour condemnation of the military industrial complex and about as much fun as you'd imagine an ABBA condemnation of the military industrial complex to be.
Benny and Björn's creative frustrations were, however, nothing compared to what their bandmates were experiencing. If Björn had come through the 1979 breakdown of his marriage seemingly unscathed – he had started seeing his future wife, Lena Källersjö , less than a month after the separation was formalised – his ex was doing less well.
Always shy, the sensitive Fältskog had buckled under the pressure to break ABBA in the United States. On that infamous 1979 US tour she'd wept almost every day, grieving for the time spent away from her daughter and son in Sweden.
"I've gone through an extremely painful depression," she told Privé magazine in 1981. "The thought that I had to continue on my own, drove me crazy. Björn always took care of everything because we were very young when we got together and all of a sudden I had to stand on my own two feet. And it did affect me, when he met Lena. But when he remarried, I cried. It hurt. It hurt a lot and it was so weird that he had found someone else so soon."
Benny and and Anni-Frid Lyngstad had also broken-up by the time The Visitors sessions were underway. Benny had come home from the studio one day and told his partner of nine years that he wanted a divorce – because he had fallen in love with someone else.
As with Björn and Agnetha, their disentanglement was sold as no big deal. If anything, it was suggested, it might help the longevity of
That was not the impression gleaned by a reporter who visited Polar during the recording of The Visitors. The strain of separating had, it was suggested, turned the previously outgoing Andersson into something of a nervous wreck.
"There's a clear tension between the [Benny and Anni-Frid]," wrote the correspondent from Privé. "There's nothing left of the fun and joyous atmosphere of the old days. Benny is very nervous. It's clear that he has suffered the most….During the conversation with Benny, one gets the impression that it's getting ever more difficult for him to find the motivation that's needed to continue with the group."
"Financially speaking, we no longer have any worries," Benny had said to the interviewer. "And our dreams of becoming superstars have exceeded our wildest imagination. We love our musical creations and as long as we do that, we will keep on going. We will quit when we think it isn't fun anymore. What we are doing now, is not a skilful job. I know that we sell a lot of records, and that we make an enormous amount of money, but in fact it doesn't mean anything."
Nor were relations smooth between the two female singers. Both strong personalities, they'd always clashed. With and Björn and Benny now openly struggling to put their heart into ABBA, tensions between the vocalists grew more divisive.
"That always happens when people are together.," said Agnetha. "I am a fiery type of person who easily flies off the handle. But I easily get over it as well. Anni-Frid on the other hand has a thick skin, she can take a lot, until she boils over. But when we fall out, then we really do."
The lack of enthusiasm was mutual. " We are not a machine, but four ordinary people who have got ahead by working very hard and in the meantime are bringing joy to other people." said Anni-Frid. "The moments that I'm fed up with it are getting more frequent."
The Visitors topped the charts in the UK and Germany (and naturally stiffed at 29 in the United States). But it yielded just that one hit – the downtempo One of Us – and failed to build on the momentum of predecessors Super Trouper and Voulez-Vous. Not that any of the band seemed concerned.
In November 1981 – a fortnight before the release of The Visitors – Björn and Benny were to be found enthusiastically bending the era of West End impresario Tim Rice. Picking up the Cold War theme of the album, the three agreed to collaborate on a stage musical that would utilise a board game as a metaphor for the East-West divide. Three years later Chess debuted on the West End – and ABBA would be history.
"Suddenly the musical dream had become just that bit more real to them," writes Palm in Bright Lights, Dark Shadows. "It wasn't just some vague inclination they were going to explore some day when they had the time. In Rice they had an eager partner waiting for them to commit to the task. This did nothing to strengthen Björn and Benny's resolve to go on working with ABBA."
Agnetha and Anni-Frid were also counting down to the end. The latter recorded an LP with Phil Collins (who appeared to immediately regret his involvement and succeeded in having his vocals scrubbed from a track selected as a single). Fältskog, for her part, did what she had dreamed off throughout ABBA's glory days: living simply in Sweden with her children, far from the crowds and the hubbub.
"I have tons of wonderful memories but I wouldn't have the energy to do it all again," Agnetha said shortly after the release of The Visitors. "I am 33 years old now, I want to concentrate on things that are far more valuable than success."
Though a formal split was never announced, ABBA faded away – leaving behind nothing but the memory of their cheesy stage outfits, some Alan Partridge gags and one of the greatest pop repertoires ever committed to tape.
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Ian Tarrant says:
Excellent article, thanks!
I don't believe Phil Collins absolved himself from 'Frida's' solo album, and you can hear Phil's backing vocals on the single released from the album, 'Something's Going On'….
Great track by the way!!
William overly says:
I would agree ABBA was not as well received in America as in Europe. America at the time was immersed in the disco sound, largely as the
aftermath of the film SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.
But DANCING QUEEN was a huge number one hit in the US (not even mentioned in the article).
Also, Agnetha had a fear of flying which
curtailed their American exposure. So
there were some reasons for their
slow popularity. Plus, their promotion
program was somewhat diminished.


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Before we get to my thoughts on the program, I'll give you a look at what I've received this month and over the past year.
Final Thoughts - I've really enjoyed this program. Out of all the sampling programs out there, this one seems to have the most wrinkle-fighting, glow-inducing skincare. I've found many great items through Test Tube that I can't live without. My favorites are: Moroccanoil Glimmer Shine Spray, gummy vitamins, Kerstin Florian spf50 corrective cream, Moroccanoil Luminous Hairspray, Mally Volumizing Mascara, Lashfood & Lumene Sensitive Touch SOS cream.
I'm pretty set on skincare for the time being. That said, I'm not ready to give up getting treats in the post quite yet and I do love the New Beauty magazine. I will be switching my subscription over to the QVC side for awhile. The QVC tubes seem to get more on the cosmetics side, so that might be a better fit.
The next QVC test tube is on sale starting January 16th.
I'll let you know what I get when it arrives.
Have you tried the Test Tube? What did you think?
Looks like some great stuff! Have you gotten your QVC tube yet?


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Grail and National Health Service (NHS) England Complete Enrollment of 140,000 Participants in Largest Study of Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test
By: GRAIL, LLC via Business Wire
NHS-Galleri Trial is Evaluating Clinical Utility of GRAIL's Galleri®, a Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test, Alongside Current Standard of Care in England
NHS-Galleri Trial Prioritized Equitable Recruitment Approaches Designed to Achieve Representation of People from Minority Ethnic Backgrounds
GRAIL, LLC, a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, announced today that the NHS-Galleri trial successfully completed enrollment in just over 10 months. The trial, which is the largest-ever study of a multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test, has enrolled 140,000 healthy volunteers aged 50-77 from select regions throughout England who have not had a cancer diagnosis or undergone treatment for cancer in the last three years.
The NHS-Galleri trial is a randomized, controlled clinical trial being conducted in England alongside standard cancer screening with diagnostic follow-up in the NHS' clinical practice setting. Regions were selected to include areas of high cancer mortality, socioeconomic disparities, and ethnic diversity, using innovative methods to enroll a study population with participants traditionally less likely to take part in medical research. Participants visited one of 150 mobile clinics operating at locations around England and were recruited through activities including community group briefings, leaflet distribution in community settings, engagement through community champions, and targeted social media campaigns.
"Meeting the goal of enrolling 140,000 people is a significant achievement, allowing us to evaluate an unprecedented number of volunteers without symptoms of cancer and representing diverse socio-economic and ethnic populations," said Charles Swanton, MD, PhD, a cancer researcher and oncologist at University College London and the Francis Crick Institute, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, and co-chief investigator of the study. "Whilst the first year of the trial may pick up cancers that have existed for some time, the second and third years provide the best opportunity to explore the expected benefits of picking up new cancers at an early stage when treatment is generally more successful. By screening participants annually over three years, we will be able to explore how MCED tests can be used alongside existing NHS screening programs."
The study's aim is to determine if the Galleri test, alongside standard cancer screening, can find asymptomatic cancers at earlier stages than they are found in clinical care today. The study will assess absolute numbers of stage 3 and 4 cancers diagnosed following three annual Galleri tests. The first screen will aim to identify the prevalent cancers in the population, while the second and third screens will aim to identify cancers that have newly emerged.
"NHS-Galleri has set a new standard in the speed of set-up and recruitment to clinical trials," said Professor Peter Sasieni, Director of The Cancer Research UK & King's College London Cancer Prevention Trials Unit and one of the trial's lead investigators. "Previous trials of this magnitude would typically have taken five times as long. Accelerating research means that we will find out sooner whether new technology has a role in the control of cancer and, if it does, introducing it within the NHS quickly so that more people can benefit."
This trial supports the NHS Long Term Plan ambition to catch three quarters of cancers at an early stage, when they are less advanced, and treatment has a higher chance of being successful and potentially curative. Based on initial results, the NHS may roll out the test to an additional 1 million people.
"Today marks an important milestone in our long-term efforts to catch and treat cancer earlier," said Amanda Pritchard, chief executive at NHS. "We know that certain cancers are harder to detect and a late diagnosis can be devastating for patients and their families, and this trial means thousands could benefit from a diagnosis even before symptoms appear."
In a previous clinical study, the Galleri test demonstrated the ability to detect a shared signal from more than 50 types of cancer, many of which lack recommended screening tests today in the UK. Early clinical trials report that GRAIL's Galleri test has a false positive rate under 1% and can predict where a cancer signal originated with 89% accuracy.
"We are so grateful for the public's enthusiasm for this trial and to all those who have volunteered," said Sir Harpal Kumar, president at GRAIL Europe. "We are hopeful Galleri will work well alongside existing cancer screening in the UK, can provide clinicians with an accurate prediction of where the cancer is located in the body, and help the NHS reduce the number of cancers detected at a late stage."
The study is sponsored by GRAIL and is being run by The Cancer Research UK and King's College London Cancer Prevention Trials Unit (UK), in collaboration with eight cancer alliances in England. The study design of the trial was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Abstract #TPS6606) in June 2022.
About NHS-Galleri Trial
For the prospective, blinded, randomized controlled trial, study participants will provide a blood sample during three annual visits to a mobile health clinic—at baseline, year 1 and year 2. After the first visit, participants are randomized 1:1 into either the intervention or control arm. Participants in the intervention arm will have their blood tested by the Galleri test. Blood samples from subjects in the control arm will not be tested immediately, but will be stored for potential future testing. If a cancer signal is detected for those in the intervention arm, research staff will explain the result and schedule an appointment for follow-up tests at an NHS hospital local to the participant. All participants in the study will be followed for cancer and other related outcomes via NHS databases and will be reminded to continue to have guideline-recommended cancer screenings.
About GRAIL
GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC, is a subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) currently held separate from Illumina Inc. under the terms of the Interim Measures Order of the European Commission dated 29 October 2021.
For more information, visit grail.com.
About Galleri®
The earlier that cancer is detected, the higher the chance of successful outcomes. The Galleri multi-cancer early detection test can detect signals across more than 50 types of cancer, as defined by the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual, through a routine blood draw. When a cancer signal is detected, the Galleri test predicts the cancer signal origin, or where the cancer is located in the body, with high accuracy to help guide the next steps to diagnosis. The Galleri test requires a prescription from a licensed healthcare provider and should be used in addition to recommended cancer screenings such as mammography, colonoscopy, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, or cervical cancer screening. It is intended for use in people with an elevated risk of cancer, such as those aged 50 or older.
For more information about Galleri, visit galleri.com.
Important Galleri Safety Information
The Galleri test is recommended for use in adults with an elevated risk for cancer, such as those aged 50 or older. The Galleri test does not detect all cancers and should be used in addition to routine cancer screening tests recommended by a healthcare provider. Galleri is intended to detect cancer signals and predict where in the body the cancer signal is located. Use of Galleri is not recommended in individuals who are pregnant, 21 years old or younger, or undergoing active cancer treatment.
Results should be interpreted by a healthcare provider in the context of medical history, clinical signs and symptoms. A test result of "No Cancer Signal Detected" does not rule out cancer. A test result of "Cancer Signal Detected" requires confirmatory diagnostic evaluation by medically established procedures (e.g., imaging) to confirm cancer.
If cancer is not confirmed with further testing, it could mean that cancer is not present or testing was insufficient to detect cancer, including due to the cancer being located in a different part of the body. False-positive (a cancer signal detected when cancer is not present) and false-negative (a cancer signal not detected when cancer is present) test results do occur. Rx only.
Laboratory/Test Information
GRAIL's clinical laboratory is certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and accredited by the College of American Pathologists. The Galleri test was developed, and its performance characteristics were determined by GRAIL. The Galleri test has not been cleared or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. GRAIL's clinical laboratory is regulated under CLIA to perform high-complexity testing. The Galleri test is intended for clinical purposes.
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Methane in Mars
Print edition : July 24, 2015 T+ T-
The presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has been one of the exciting possibilities that explorations of Mars have tried to verify. An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the red planet.
The researchers examined samples from six meteorites of volcanic rock that originated on Mars. The meteorites contain gases in the same proportion and with the same isotopic composition as the Martian atmosphere. All six samples also contained methane, which was measured by crushing the rocks and running the emerging gas through a mass spectrometer. The team also examined two non-Martian meteorites, which contained lower amounts of methane.
The discovery hints at the possibility that methane could be used as a food source by rudimentary forms of life beneath the Martian surface. On the earth, microbes do this in a range of environments. The findings are likely to form the basis for astrobiologists in models and experiments aimed at understanding whether life could survive below the surface of Mars today.
The discovery was part of a joint research project led by the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, the University of Glasgow, Brock University in Ontario, and the University of Western Ontario.
"Recent and forthcoming missions by NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] and the European Space Agency (ESA), respectively, are looking at this," said University of Aberdeen professor John Parnell, who directed the research. "However, it is so far unclear where the methane comes from, and even whether it is really there."
The team now plans to expand its research by analysing additional meteorites. The team's approach may prove helpful in future Mars rover experiments, said Sean McMahon of Yale University.
"Even if Martian methane does not directly feed microbes, it may signal the presence of a warm, wet, chemically reactive environment where life could thrive," McMahon said.
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Margaret (Scott) Stuehmer
Jeannie Margaret was born on July 30, 1912 in Kinsella, Alberta. She was the youngest of three daughters born to John and Jeannie Scott, who were both from Edinburgh, Scotland. Jeannie Margaret was the only child born outside of Scotland on both sides of the family. Although she was named after her mother, she preferred to be called Margaret.
Margaret attended the Camrose Normal School for only one year to obtain her teaching certificate. After teaching at a few one-room schools, she accepted a job west of Millet at Porto Bello School in 1938, where she met her husband, John Stuehmer. John and Margaret were married on July 10, 1939.
John and Margaret had three children; Ronald, James, and Janet. The Stuehmer farm was a gathering place for family and friends, as John and Margaret were very social and hosted many parties. Margaret was an excellent cook and her meals were famous amongst family and friends.
After returning to teaching within the Millet area in 1953, Margaret dedicated 25 years of her life to the profession. During her retirement, Margaret became an avid volunteer for a variety of organizations, including the local Food Bank, Devonian Gardens, and Leduc Friends of the Library, which highlighted the versatility of her skills.
John and Margaret were married for 53 years until Margaret was widowed in 1992. They had 5 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
Margaret was a vibrant and active woman throughout her life. She considered herself a "lifelong learner" and encouraged those around to do the same. She continued to take university courses and engage in other learning activities right up until the time of her death in 2003. Her passions included flowers, art, music, Canadian history, and poetry.
Margaret Stuehmer was an amazing pioneer woman. She spent her life inspiring others by being an incredible wife, teacher, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend, and volunteer. She was a true Albertan and a proud Canadian woman.


NDA 2 GAT Answer Key 2018 – Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducted the NDA 2 Exam on September 09, 2018. Many unofficial youtube channels released the NDA 2 GAT Answer Key 2018. Now, candidates, who appeared in the exam can check the NDA 2 GAT Answer Key 2018 on this page. The official NDA 2 GAT Answer Key 2018 will be updated here as soon as UPSC publish them on upsc.gov.in. The aspirants can estimate their marks through NDA 2 GAT Answer Key 2018 and can predict their selection.
The NDA 2 2018 exam will be in offline mode. The candidates who will appear in the exam should check the schedule when they can access the NDA 2 GAT Answer Key 2018.
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As soon as the exam will over, we will provide the NDA 2 GAT Question Paper here. The candidates who are preparing for the next year NDA for them the question paper is too useful.
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exalted -- on the grounds that I've at least a vague idea what all the rest are.
Exalted is a roleplaying system and setting produced by White Wolf. In the grand tradition of Fantasy roleplaying the characters are Heroic people who have been Exalted by one of a small number of agencies (7 gods, "Gaia" or the Deathlords), gaining super-human powers in the process.
Thanks to a Great Curse laid down by the ancient creators of creation, though, these Exalts also have Great Flaws; and the most powerful of them were overthrown by the weaker (Terrestrial) Exalts some 1,500 years ago because of these flaws. These Solar Exalts are now hunted down and killed whenever they are discovered.


From MPs to NHS Clinical Directors, the great and the good all agree that SHINE's approach to Tier 3 obesity makes a significant difference to the lives and health of at risk children and young people. But as it stands SHINE Health Academy's positive impact could end in December. That's when our current funding ends as it stands.
The problem with funding our work is that no-one at local or government level appears to recognise or accept financial responsibility for Tier 3 work with children who have a BMI of over 99.6 centile. There is a false belief that there is no demand for such services and that children do not require this level of input. But the 200 families SHINE works with every year would suggest otherwise.
Three years ago we were successful with our Children in Need bid and avoided closure. If we do not receive future funding health professionals will no longer have access to our consultancy service, other providers who don't fit the criteria for access to Tier 2 services will be unable to refer more vulnerable obese children to us, parents will lose a pivotal support network – and most importantly young people will become lost in a system that does not fully understand the complex journey of a morbidly obese child.
If you're going to be affected by our potential closure, please let us know by emailing. Your voice might just save us.
We love Gok Wan here at SHINE. He's a fun and cool TV presenter whose shows make a real difference to people's self-confidence and body image. We've been lucky enough to work with him on previous projects including the documentary 'Too Fat Too Young' but his latest>Gok's Teens – is his best yet. How do we know? We're in it!
This summer, SHINE Managing Director Kath Sharman was one of ten specialist tutors invited to London to teach what was described as 'the biggest body confidence class ever'. Over a hundred pupils from around the country were taught on London's Westminster Green, the event filmed as part of a campaign to get 'Body Confidence' added as a weekly lesson in the National Curriculum for secondary schools.
Afterwards Kath joined Gok and the 'teens' involved in the documentary (including SHINE members Kyle and Jake) in the Houses of Parliament where they met with MPs to discuss the campaign. It was an exciting, challenging and emotional experience and one everyone involved will remember for a long time.
Gok's Teens airs in early 2012 as a three part series on Channel 4. We'll be talking about it more when it launches. Don't miss it!


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The second that you complain about an eBay seller who's taken money but hasn't delivered the goods, an investigation team gets in gear. The Resolution Center is where you can go to file a formal complaint when you run into trouble with a transaction.
The first step is to get in touch with the seller and see if he or she will work things out with you. You can e-mail your seller through eBay's Message Center, or call the person directly.
When you're in a transaction with someone, eBay will give you that person's registered phone number. Go to Advanced Search and in the Members area, select Find Contact information. After you input the other person's eBay ID and the item number, eBay e-mails you the person's phone number.
In the Purchase History area, click the link to take you to the items you've purchased.
Scroll down the page to find the item in question and choose Resolve a Problem from the pull-down menu at the far right.
The Resolution Center's Resolve a Problem form appears.
Choose the problem you're having in your transaction and click Continue.
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If needed, enter the item number.
Tell eBay how you paid for this item.
If you paid by PayPal, you are sent to the Resolution page.
Review your case details and then click Open Case.
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To file a claim with eBay, you must initiate the complaint process no sooner than 7 days and no later than 45 days after the close of the listing.
Be careful not to jump the gun and register a complaint too soon. Wait about 2 weeks before you register your complaint about an Item Not Received (an item lost in the mail can often take as long as 30 days to arrive); double-check first to make sure that your e-mail is working and that you have the correct contact information of the person with whom you're having difficulties. After all, neither eBay nor your ISP is infallible.
After you register a complaint, eBay informs the other party that you're making a claim. eBay says that it will try to contact both parties and help reach a resolution. Registering the complaint is not the same thing as filing an insurance complaint. Registering starts the process; filing for a refund comes after a grace period if the situation isn't resolved.
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'Digimon' Joins Hatsune Miku For Collab in New Poster
By Nick Valdez - March 8, 2019 05:51 pm EST
Digimon fans recently were treated to a teaser trailer for its upcoming 20th Anniversary film, and along with a new poster teasing its release, the franchise also shared a surprising collaboration with the vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku.
Drawn by Atsuya Uki, who designed the characters for Digimon Adventure tri, the visual presents a compelling world in which Miku becomes a Digi-Destined. You can see it below thanks to @Yuyucow on Twitter.
Atsuya Uki's visual for the Digimon x Hatsune Miku collab is absolutely gorgeous but I sure did a double take when they revealed it alongside the anniversary movie PR pic.twitter.com/hMxwSElJ8W
— kViN (@Yuyucow) March 5, 2019
Revealed in conjunction with many of the recent anniversary reveals the visual carries a bunch of little touches. Not only does Miku fly through the sky with Agumon, much like many of the posters for the Digimon Adventure tri films, she also has a Digivice and a pair of goggles. Not only do goggles represent a major theme in the franchise, as each goggle wearing protagonist carries on the spirit of the predecessort series, but there's also a smaller sly reference to the films themselves.
The opening theme song of the six Digimon Adventure tri films was "Butter-fly," as performed by Koji Wada, and that's why the visual is line with a ton of beautiful butterflies. As for the new film, there's currently not much known about the project itself.
The new film will feature the original Digimon Adventure children aged into their 20s, and each of the Japanese voice cast members has been confirmed to return. The film is scheduled for a release in Spring 2020, and will be bringing back Seki Hiromi, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, and Kenji Watanabe from the original Digimon anime to serve as Supervisor, Character Designer, and Digimon Designer respectively.
The Digimon series was originally conceived by Bandai, Toei Animation, and WiZ in 1997 as a way to capitalize on the virtual pet craze sparked by Tamagotchi. The franchise focus on its titular "Digital Monsters," monsters that live in a parallel, digital world that came from mankind's technology. The franchise had its first anime adaptation, Digimon Adventure, which focuses on a group of children known as the DigiDestined (or "Chosen Children" in Japan) that are transported to the world of Digimon and have to fight the various evil digital beasts that roam the land.
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Each component of Margaret Mead's compelling formula for changing the world is an essential element. Her command to "never doubt" tells skeptics that they are wrong–you really can change the world—and also underscores the transformative power that belief plays for those who have successfully sought to change the world. History, has demonstrated that small teams of thoughtful committed people have achieved extraordinary things. The Civil Rights Movement began as a series of small groups carrying out small actions, such as sitting down at a segregated lunch counter. India's historic independence from Great Britain began as a series of small strategic actions from a dedicated few. Habitat for Humanity began with a few people building houses for the poor in a small town in Georgia and has since built more than 175,000 houses in countries around the world.
A "small group" underscores the remarkable power of teamwork to transform, to inspire, and to succeed. Teams can accomplish amazing and seemingly impossible things because they have the ability to generate new energies. Just as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts–because the whole includes the connections between each part–high achieving teams generate more energy, will, passion, and ideas than the sum of what their individual members could muster alone.
But the critical component for success is "commitment." Those who succeed in world-changing activities have an unwavering, passionate, almost irrational commitment to their cause.
Any of us can choose to use this formula, to find a cause we are passionately committed to, to recruit a team as passionate as ourselves, to generate ideas and strategies, and to stay the course, to be committed, fundamentally committed, until success is achieved.
About the Artist: After graduating from Brown University in 2008, Ginmann Bai moved to Boston, MA and joined the City Year marketing team. This piece uses type as art form to express how something small can produce enormous change. Only after reading from top to bottom does the viewer realize that it is meant to be read from the bottom up. In the same way, we often see the larger, more noticeable aspects of change, only to realize later that those changes began from a single point.


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Cosmic Kiss (baiser cosmique) est le nom de la mission spatiale de l'astronaute allemand Matthias Maurer. Celui-ci séjournera à bord de la station spatiale internationale (ISS) dans le cadre de l'expédition 66, de novembre 2021 à avril 2022.

Symboles
Il est courant que les astronautes de l'ESA aient une devise individuelle pour leur mission. Matthias Maurer dont c'est le premier vol spatial a choisi ce nom comme une « déclaration d'amour pour l'espace ». Dans le mot kiss figure l'abréviation ISS.

L'emblème de la mission s'inspire du disque céleste de Nebra, disque de bronze datant de -1600 av. J.-C. trouvé en Allemagne en 1999, qui serait la plus ancienne représentation astronomique découverte à ce jour.

Le groupe musical allemand BigCityBeats a créé en 2021 un morceau instrumental, Space Symphony, qui est la bande-son officielle de cette mission.

Mission

Préparation
En juillet 2015, Matthias Maurer a été intégré officiellement au corps européen des astronautes (classe d'astronautes 2009) par l'Agence spatiale européenne (ESA).

Durant l'été 2020, il s'est entraîné avec Thomas Pesquet au Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Il devait être son remplaçant pour la mission Alpha.

Le 14 décembre 2020, il a été annoncé qu'il partirait dans l'espace dans le cadre de l'expédition 66 de l'ISS pour un séjour de longue durée d'environ six mois. Il s'agit du premier vol spatial de Maurer et du deuxième au cours duquel un astronaute de l'ESA se rendra à l'ISS à bord d'un Crew Dragon. Il succède à Thomas Pesquet.

Décollage
Après plusieurs reports dus aux conditions météorologiques, la mission SpaceX Crew-3 a été lancée avec succès vers l'ISS le 11 novembre 2021, avec à bord, trois astronautes américains Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, et l'européen Matthias Maurer.

Objectifs
Selon l'ESA, Matthias Maurer supervisera plus de 35 expériences européennes et internationales, notamment sur des questions médicales et de science des matériaux. Certaines de ces expériences ont pour objectif de préparer des voyages habités sur la Lune et Mars.

Notes et références

Station spatiale internationale
Agence spatiale européenne

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All marketers are under increasing pressure to produce a data-driven event by using data to justify their spend as well as prove their ROI to the business. In their annual CMO spend survey, Gartner has reported that marketing budgets have stabilized after years of growth to sit at just over 11% of company revenue. This means each area of marketing is under additional scrutiny from executive teams to demonstrate that their budget is being spent effectively. With live events occupying 24% of marketing budgets on average, expect fierce competition to keep this spend moving forward.
In this blog, we'll explore what event marketers need to do utilize their event data.
For some areas of marketing, like digital marketing, calculating the value and ROI of their spend is an easier task with a plethora of data available from a variety of sources and touchpoints. For event marketers, it's not as straightforward. Harvard Business Review found that only 23% of event managers reported that they can calculate the ROI of their events.
Historically, event data has been challenging to aggregate across the event lifecycle. From registration data, marketing automation promotions, lead scanning, meeting management and more, it has been hard to get data into a single tool and make it actionable. More and more leading event marketers are now using tools like RainFocus and Data Stream by Eventbase to consolidate their event data across the event lifecycle and make it actionable by syncing it back to their CRM and marketing automation tools.
For event marketers who are able to get their data together, the results are well worthwhile. With data from across the event lifecycle, marketers are better able to understand their attendee journeys from both a marketing and sales perspective. Knowing when to send out registration emails and how to engage high-value attendees with sales pre and post conference are just some of the advantages of getting event data in order.
Do your sponsors and exhibitors know their value?
In addition to providing value for event organizers, getting data in order can increase value to exhibitors and sponsors at your events. Event Manager Blog has reported that 53% of event organizers are struggling to find event sponsors and that sponsorship retention rates are stagnating or decreasing for 90% of events. Being able to show your event sponsors concrete numbers from prior years can increase the likelihood of them signing on – and returning year after year.
New wearable event technologies, like beacon-in-a-badge technology are providing event organizers with an unprecedented amount of data to deliver on the demands of their sponsors and exhibitors. Wearable beacons place a small beacon in each attendee badge and collect onsite data, like dwell time at exhibitor booths or in sessions. With this information in hand, event marketers can prove to their sponsors and exhibitors that their investment is worthwhile and create a more data-driven event.
Beacon-in-a-badge technology also opens up new data possibilities for event marketers. They can see who attended which sessions and measure the popularity of specific tracks, sessions and keynotes. This helps them to better create personalized experiences at events with a deeper understanding of what each audience segment enjoys.
As pressure continues to mount for event marketers to show their ROI, we'll see more and more enterprises get their event data in order to show not just leads generated or registration numbers, but converted pipeline and associated revenue.


What's The Ugliest Steering Wheel?
The steering wheel is probably what drivers look at most, besides the road itself. It sits right there in front of you, and is the most important part of the car if you consider that without it, you can't really do anything. It's too bad, then, some of them are flops. What do you think is the ugliest steering wheel?
You would think that with all the importance that steering wheel holds, designers would spend quite a bit of time styling them just so. Sometimes they get it right, as you showed when we asked you what the most beautiful steering wheels are. Sometimes they get it dreadfully wrong, though, like on the fourth-generation Chevrolet Camaro.
The wheel in the Camaro was a two-spoke affair, and it looks like they just ripped it out of a van. The rim is skinny and covered in cheap leather, leaving your hands sticky to the touch before it all shines away, and the center is just big block of plastic. Gross.
Surely that's not the ugliest wheel of all time though. Which steering wheel do you think should be buried and never seen again?


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Zatti,
A charitable answer to accompany those who suffer.
Don Zatti, on the right, in the operating room with Dr. Domingo Harostegui. 1936.
Inmigrant
Salesian
Artemide Zatti's professional profile, which began with a promise, was rooted in his trust in Providence and developed once he recovered from illness. The phrase "I believed, I promised, I was healed," the motto of his canonization, shows the total dedication Zatti had for his sick brothers and sisters, the poorest and neediest.
He carried out this commitment daily until his death in the San Jose Hospital, founded by the first Salesians to arrive in Patagonia, and he reiterated it during each and every home visit, urgent or otherwise, that he made to the sick who needed him.
On his bicycle, in his administrator's office, in the operating room, in the courtyard during recreation with his poor "relatives," in the hospital wards he visited every day, he was always a nurse; a holy nurse dedicated to healing and relieving, bringing the best medicine: the cheerful and optimistic presence of empathy.
A person and a team that do good
It was faith that drove Artemide Zatti to tireless but reasoned activity. His religious consecration had introduced him directly and completely into the care of the poor, the sick, and those in need of health and God's merciful consolation.
Mr. Zatti worked in the world of health care alongside doctors, nurses, health care personnel, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, and the many people who collaborated with him in supporting the San José Hospital, the first in Argentine Patagonia, in Viedma in the first half of the 20th century.
The tuberculosis he contracted at the age of 20 was not an obstacle to persevering in his professional choice. He found in the figure of the Salesian coadjutor brother the style of commitment to work directly with the poor. His religious consecration, lived out in his profession as a nurse, was the combination of his life dedicated to God and his brothers and sisters. Naturally, this manifested itself in a peculiar, unique, and unrepeatable personality. Artemide Zatti was a good person who worked directly with the poor, doing good.
"Relative of all the poor"
Direct contact with the poor was aimed at health, that is, to soothe pain, to bear suffering, to accompany the last moments of their lives, to offer a smile in the face of the irreversible, to lend a hand with hope. For this reason, Zatti became a "presence-medicine": he healed directly with his pleasant presence.
His main biographer, Salesian Raul Entraigas, made an original discovery. He identified in the phrase of a countryman the synthesis of Artemis Zatti's life: he seems to be "the relative of all the poor." Zatti sees Jesus Himself in the orphans, the sick, and the natives. And he treated them with such closeness, appreciation, and love that they all seemed to be his family members.
With his bicycle, the preferred means of transportation for these tasks, he rode around and through the streets of Viedma. A beautiful response written in a letter to his niece Maria Elisa Zatti, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, expresses the following:
"Thank God I am in good health, and I have been given the opportunity to go about the city with syringes, thermometer, songs, etc. I hope you are also in good health but don't go around like your uncle."
Training to help
Seeing the needs of the village, Zatti perfected his profession. Gradually he became in charge of the hospital, studied and validated his knowledge with the State when asked. Doctors who worked with Artemis, such as Drs. Molinari and Sussini, testify that Zatti possessed a great deal of medical knowledge, the result not only of his experience but also of his studies.
Fr. De Roia adds, "As far as his cultural and professional training is concerned, I remember seeing books and publications on Medicine and, asking him once when he read them; he told me he did so in the evening or during the afternoon rest of the patients, once he had finished all his duties at the Hospital."
There is in this regard a document, "Professional Credentials," issued by the Secretariat of Public Health of Argentina complete with a professional nursing matriculation number 07253. These were the studies he had done at the National University of La Plata in 1948, at the age of 67. Added to this was an earlier certification, in 1917, as a "graduate" in Pharmacy studies.
His way of life led him to a commitment in which he met directly with the poor, the sick, and the needy. That is why the nursing profession had an added value: his presence was a witness of God's goodness. This simple way of looking at reality may help to better understand Zatti's life, paying special attention to the term "directly."
In this perspective we find what is most genuine about Zatti, highlighting what is called "religious life" or "consecration." This is why Artemis is a holy Salesian. He is a holy nurse. This is the legacy he left to everyone. And this is the challenge he throws to everyone and invites them to take up.
With his health recovered, Zatti entered the Salesian Congregation as a coadjutor brother. He begins to take care of the pharmacy of the San José hospital, the only one in Viedma.
After the death of Fr. Evasio Garrone, director of the hospital, Zatti remains in charge of the pharmacy and the hospital, the first in Patagonia. He worked there for forty years.
He obtained the title of "Graduate in Pharmacy" at the University of La Plata.
The hospital building is demolished. Patients and professionals move with Zatti to the "San Isidro" agricultural school.
Zatti obtains the registration of Nursing at the University of La Plata.
Originally published in the Salesian Bulletin of Argentina.
José Sobrero, sdb
Salesian. Brother. Argentinian.
Secretary and in charge of the Historical Archive of the North Argentina province. Missionary in Angola for fifteen years. Member of ACSSA-A.


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The Spinning Magnet
The Spinning Magnet tells the history of the magnetic North and South Poles and warns that a reverse in polarity could be catastrophic for life on Earth as we know it.
Alanna Mitchell
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The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It will be a very bad day for modern civilization.
Award-winning science journalist Alanna Mitchell tells in The Spinning Magnet the fascinating history of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electromagnetism.
But the recent finding that the Earth's magnetic force field is decaying 10 times faster than previously thought, portending an imminent pole reversal, ultimately gives this story a spinetingling urgency. When the poles switch, a process that takes many years, the Earth is unprotected from solar radiation storms that would, among other things, wipe out all electromagnetic technology. No satellites, no Internet, no smart phones — maybe no power grid at all. (From Penguin Canada)


Defending a Dissertation: What Is Crucial For The Support?
Writing a dissertation is only half the battle. Academia requires that you defend it. The research you have conducted, the conclusions that you have reached, and the way you got to the finishing point are all things that can be part of that defense. Everyone has to go through this to get the terminal degree. It is not that difficult as long as you are prepared for what is going to happen.
No, This Is Not the Last Opportunity to Embarrass You. Students can be pretty cynical and believe that this is the last chance their advisors and professors have to give them some grief. The real purpose of the defense is to demonstrate your knowledge of the topic you worked on. Academia has a vested interest in seeing the only knowledgeable people obtain the advanced degrees. An oral defense generates that assurance.
Practice, Practice, Practice. This defense has to be taken seriously and you should prepare for it. This is more than just going over the content and your research. You should ask a few friends to question you about your work. One particular means of preparation is "hit me with your best shot". In other words, ask your practice examiners to think of the most difficult question and pose it to you. This can also help you deal with any awkward situation where you may not have a strong answer.
Stick Your Content. You're required to only defend what you have written. There is no reason for you to volunteer information outside of your thesis. That can only generate questions for which you may not have reliable answers.
Everyone Gets Nervous. You are not the first one to get the jitters when it comes to a dissertation defense. Stay calm and understand that your examiners appreciate your being a little bit apprehensive. No one is out to deliberately give you a hard time.
Remember that academia has a desire to see to it that the basic knowledge is advanced, and that competent people are representing the field of study. Your oral defense shows that the research is not a hobby but a very serious effort. You can think of the defense as your first step in the journey of an academic career. You may be teaching from a class or you may be doing investigation into mountains of data and material. Wherever the road leads the terminal degree opens the gate to the path. The dissertation defense is a means by which you show your peers that you are ready for the future.