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Rosh HaShanah – B'Nai Noach: We Are the Children of Noach
afriedma / From our Rabbi, Rabbi Kort /
Do you think Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday?i Yes, we are sitting here in the sanctuary. Tomorrow we'll skip work, and miss school, separating ourselves from the non-Jewish world. But unlike other holidays we celebrate as a Jewish community such as Passover, Purim and Hanukkah which talk about our particular history as a Jewish people, Rosh Hashanah celebrates the creation of the world. And more specifically, today is the day that God finished creating the world. Today, Adam, the first person was created. Rosh Hashanah encapsulates a tension that exists in our tradition between universalism and particularism. In this way, Rosh Hashanah is not a Jewish holiday; rather, Rosh Hashanah is our Jewish way to celebrate humanity.
Our particular Jewish stories about the birth of humanity focus on the idea that we are all siblings and that no one is superior to the other. According to a Midrash, God decided to create the world from two people, Adam and Eve. God did this so that everybody would know that we have common ancestors, and nobody would feel superior to another. If the point wasn't clear enough, ten generations after Adam and Eve, after violence and corruption take over the world and God feels the need to start over, once again, God creates the entire world from just two people, Noah and Naamah.
Our tradition's emphasis that we are all from the same source and no one should feel superior to the other seems so simple. But humanity struggles with this concept. It hard not to be carried away by a wave of hopelessness when looking at the way our human family treats one another.
We, as an American Jewish community, felt this struggle over the past year like never before. Seventeen members of our Jewish family were murdered in Pittsburgh and Poway, simply because they were Jewish. We are by no means the only community targeted by supremacists. Just last month, 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas by a young man authorities suspect of harboring a violent hatred for immigrants and Latinos. And these are only the most extreme examples of the manifestation of hate in our country. Thousands of hate crimes happen annually in the United States, in which people are targeted for the way they look, the religion they practice, the people they love and the languages they speak.
Another Midrash imagines God minting human beings from the same mold: "A human being mints many coins from the same mold, and they are all identical. But the holy one, blessed be God, strikes us all from the mold of the first human and each one of us is unique."ii In this version of creation, our human tendency to favor the identical is described, but it is our differences that are Divine.
Our people have been the target of hate and supremacy for thousands of years of our history. While the displays of supremacy against our people remain the same, we see positive change in the communal response to these acts of hate. Bari Weiss, columnist and editor at the New York Times, had a personal connection to Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg. It is her childhood synagogue where she became a bat mitzvah. In her new book, How to Fight Antisemitism, Weiss highlights what she calls the "Pittsburgh Principle" as a seed of hope in our fight against antisemitism.
In many ways the massacre that occurred in Pittsburgh was different than other attacks on our people. Our neighbors, citizens on the street were not cheering it on. The response to Pittsburgh was, by the vast majority of our neighbors, solidarity. Weiss shares "the fact that the Pittsburgh Gazette printed the Kaddish on the front page of the paper that is just an unbelievable anomaly in Jewish history." For Weiss this is an incredible bright spot and "one we should be talking about and elevating so other people can emulate it." Neighbors over the world are standing with us in solidarity against antisemitism.
This past May, in response to a rise of antisemitic incidents in Germany, the German tabloid, Bild printed a cut-out of a kippah on the front page that said, "cut this out and wear in solidarity with the Jews." "Wear it, so that your friends and neighbors can see it. Explain to your children what the kippah is," wrote editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt. "Post a photograph with the kippah on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Go out onto the streets with it."
These responses are important. It is not a call from our neighbors to conform in order for acceptance. It is an honoring of our right to particular customs like kaddish and kippot. At the same time that our neighbors are recognizing our particularities, they are also connecting to us on a universal level. Our neighbors in Pittsburgh and Germany and Snohomish County have showed with their actions and statements of solidarity that: "an attack on the Jewish community was an attack on them, too."
Antisemitism is one of many forms of supremacy. For Ibram X. Kendi, one of the leading antiracist voices in America, the struggle to see every human being as a sibling is core to fighting racism. This summer, Kendi published a book, an approachable piece, that has been getting a lot of attention, called How to Be an Antiracist. Kendi embraces an idea similar to our concept of teshuvah, repentance: individuals have the ability to change and transform their behavior. An important takeaway from How to Be an Antiracist is a focus on behavior as opposed to labeling. In order to believe we can fight racism, bigotry, and hate (including antisemitism) we must believe that individuals have the ability to change. Kendi teaches that it is counterproductive to view "racist is a fixed category." He shared in a recent interview "[if] it's a tattoo, [if] it's a label. Of course they're going to say, 'I'm not a racist, I'm not a bad person.' But racist is describing what you're saying in the moment."
In Jewish tradition, we usually think of B'Nai Noach, the children of Noah, in reference to people who are not Jewish. It was Noah who God chose, with Naamah and their family, to repopulate the world after the flood. We too are connected to Noah. He is our grandfather, albeit a thousand generations removed.
Noah is a controversial figure in our Jewish tradition. The Torah describes Noah in three ways: Noah "walked with God," was "blameless in his generation" and "was righteous." But our Sages ask 'why wasn't Noah more like Abraham?' When God was about to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham argued with God. In contrast, Noah dutifully followed God's instruction and did not express concern for those around him who God would destroy. The Zohar, our preeminent mystical teaching, believes that Noah did not question God because he was out to save himself and family. The contradictions of the character Noah resonate with me. On the one hand, we all have the ability to be righteous and walk with God, on the on hand, we all have a tendency towards self-interest.
In the story of Noah, after the flood, God establishes a covenant with him and sets the rainbow as a sign of this covenant and says: "When I bring clouds over the earth, and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between Me and you and every living creature among all flesh, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh."iii Contemporary Rabbi and scholar Noah Arnow teaches "a rainbow is the refraction of light through water drops, breaking up the white light so that we can see the various colors in its visible spectrum. A rainbow allows us to see something that we cannot usually see. And we see a rainbow at the liminal moment when the rain has ended but the air is still damp with moisture, when we can sense both the rain and the sun, both danger and opportunity."
Rabbi Arnow emphasizes that the rainbow is meant to remind us that the world we live in is not black and white, but many shades of color, of nuance. Similarly, Ibram X. Kendi teaches that people are neither racist nor not racist. Rather, we are all B'Nai Noach. We are all a nuanced combination of righteous and self-interested.
Just as our local leadership and interfaith neighbors stood with us this past fall, in order to truly embrace our tradition's value that no one is superior to the other, we as a Jewish community must stand in solidarity with our neighbors against all forms of bigotry and supremacy. We too must struggle to see every human being as a sibling. We too must struggle with our own bias. We too must feel that an attack on our marginalized neighbors, is like an attack on our own Jewish community.
How do we balance our particular needs as a community with the desire to see ourselves as a part of a universal family? How can we be both a welcoming community and a secure community? How can we work to address our own communal needs and concern ourselves with supporting all who are vulnerable in our greater community? These are the essential questions we are invited to wrestle with on this Rosh Hashanah, this particular Jewish holiday that celebrates our shared humanity.
i Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, "Melekh al Ko Ha'aretz." In All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days. Ed. Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, 2014.
ii Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a
iii Genesis 9:14-15
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Working as a model for over 11 years, Natalia Kalinowski has one of those faces you're sure to recognise – having been tapped for campaigns by the likes of big name brands including French Connection, Louis Vuitton, David Jones, and Ralph Lauren. And as to be expected with someone championing this list of job credentials, it's not just a pretty face that Natalia is sporting – with an enviable figure to match.
While sticking to a wellness routine can be hard with a job that requires constant travel, we were keen to chat to Natalia about what food and exercise regimes we can expect from her on a regular day. "Traveling is very common in my everyday life, so having a routine is difficult," the model influencer explains. "When I travel, I always make sure I hit the gym and swimming pool (not only for cocktails by the pool, but also to get a few laps in before my day starts).
Wake up and have a glass of warm water with lemon to start my metabolism. I personally hate hitting the gym (F45) in the morning, so instead I have two strong black coffees with a spoon of honey before heading out for a walk.
I drink a lot of water during the day and I don't drink any juices or anything else.
Or I make an omelet with mushrooms, onion, capsicum, tomatoes and a little bacon.
This is the time I do all my running around with castings, meetings and emails.
Salad with chicken. I love rocket and spinach leaves with grilled chicken, olives, spring onion and avocado, with homemade dressing with olive oil and salt and pepper.
A black coffee with honey.
Some sort of protein with veggies or salad. I try eating red meat at least once a week and fish – even if I'm not the biggest fan of fish. I eat big a lots of veggies/salad which keeps me full throughout the whole day and night.
I go to my F45 training class each day – which I love!!
I don't eat anything big after training, usually just a piece of fruit or a smoothie.
Green Tea and a glass of hot/warm water with lemon. This is usually the time I go through emails on my phone and get things ready for the next day.


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Three cabinet ministers were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena a short while ago.
If sworn in one day its HUGE, if its doing separately, and silently then people will not aware the SIZE of the cabinet.
Main worry is 30% of them are not elected by people, they REJECTED.
For making MR worry, they pull out bad ones to run the SHOW.
Now country is in WORRY, for such BAD acts.


This term KS3 students have been learning about the Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). Students analysed famous artworks from Van Gogh including The Red Vineyards, The Starry Night and Sunflowers.
Students have studied his impasto style in detail and replicated his paintings during lessons. Students have ensured their own paintings have visible, short and thick brush strokes and are coloured using blue and yellow tones.
The stand out artist of this term has been Lee from Group 7, who has produced his own fantastic interpretation of 'Sunflowers'.


At J.J. Perkiomaki DMD PC, we strive to prevent oral health problems before they become time-consuming and costly complications. To achieve this goal, we recommend routine dental visits and professional cleanings at regular intervals. During your visit, we will perform a comprehensive exam to look for signs of tooth decay, gum disease, and any other dental disease. Dental X-rays, or radiographs, are usually an essential part of your comprehensive exam.
X-rays are broken down into two categories, intraoral and extraoral. Intraoral cavities are the most common and useful type of radiography in dentistry. This includes periapical, bite-wing, and occlusal x-rays.
These days, x-rays are safer than ever before. The x-rays we use in dental offices emit very low doses of radiation, and with the advent of digital x-rays, these doses are getting even smaller. In fact, the use of digital x-rays reduces radiation by as much as 80%. Other improvements in technology have also improved the safety of x-rays. This includes better film, film holders, lead shields, regular inspections, and limited use.
While routine x-rays can typically be postponed if you are pregnant, you may still need one if restorative treatment is necessary. Do not be apprehensive. According to the American College of Radiology, a single diagnostic x-ray does not have a radiation dose significant enough to cause adverse effects on a developing fetus. With the proper safety precautions, an x-ray during your pregnancy is considered safe.
If you are a parent, you may be wondering about dental x-rays for your child. Not only are dental x-rays safe for children, but they are also paramount, especially if your child is at greater risk for dental diseases. A dental x-ray can help us diagnose decay, pathology, and other abnormalities before they cause issues with their permanent teeth.
Children at lower risk for cavities and gum disease usually require less x-rays. However, routine appointments and professional cleanings are still an integral part of their oral health. If your child does need an x-ray, rest assured knowing they are safer than ever before.
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#include "protocols/RESTProtocol.h"
#include "protocols/RESTSender.h"
#include "protocols/RESTReceiver.h"
#include "HTTPIntegrationBase.h"
#include "HTTPHandlers.h"

class LightWeightC2Handler : public HeartbeatHandler {
 public:
  void handleHeartbeat(const rapidjson::Document& root, struct mg_connection *) override {
    if (calls_ == 0) {
      verifyJsonHasAgentManifest(root);
    } else {
      assert(root.HasMember("agentInfo"));
      assert(!root["agentInfo"].HasMember("agentManifest"));
    }
    calls_++;
  }
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};

class VerifyC2Heartbeat : public VerifyC2Base {
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  void testSetup() override {
    LogTestController::getInstance().setTrace<minifi::c2::C2Agent>();
    LogTestController::getInstance().setDebug<minifi::c2::RESTSender>();
    LogTestController::getInstance().setDebug<minifi::c2::RESTProtocol>();
    LogTestController::getInstance().setDebug<minifi::c2::RESTReceiver>();
    VerifyC2Base::testSetup();
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  void runAssertions() override {
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    assert(LogTestController::getInstance().contains("C2Agent] [debug] Stopping component invoke"));
    assert(LogTestController::getInstance().contains("C2Agent] [debug] Stopping component FlowController"));
  }

  void configureFullHeartbeat() override {
    configuration->set("nifi.c2.full.heartbeat", "true");
  }
};

class VerifyLightWeightC2Heartbeat : public VerifyC2Heartbeat {
public:
  void configureFullHeartbeat() override {
    configuration->set("nifi.c2.full.heartbeat", "false");
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};

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
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  {
    VerifyC2Heartbeat harness;
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    HeartbeatHandler responder;
    harness.setUrl(args.url, &responder);
    harness.run(args.test_file);
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  VerifyLightWeightC2Heartbeat harness;
  harness.setKeyDir(args.key_dir);
  LightWeightC2Handler responder;
  harness.setUrl(args.url, &responder);
  harness.run(args.test_file);

  return 0;
}

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Symptoms Referable To The Genito-Urinary Apparatus
This section is from the book "Malaria, Influenza And Dengue", by Julius Mennaberg and O. Leichtenstern. Also available from Amazon: Malaria, influenza and dengue.
As far as the frequency of renal disease is concerned, influenza does not occupy any particularly prominent position in comparison to other acute infectious diseases. The influenza bacteria and toxins are by no means so dangerous to the kidneys as, for instance, the toxins of scarlet fever, diphtheria, pneumonia, erysipelas, and smallpox.
All the statistics reveal an infrequency of acute nephritis, and this accords also with the reports of numerous experienced observers.
Von Leyden mentions in detail but one case which, on postmortem examination, was found to be a typical glomerulonephritis. Mosler, Strumpell, Drasche, and Pribram each report but one or two cases of acute hemorrhagic nephritis. Senator observed it "a few times."
In the German collective investigation only 4.5 per cent, of the observers mention the complication of "nephritis and albuminuria." The German army report mentions, among 55,263 patients, but 10 with "severe inflammation of the kidneys."
Anton (Wiirzburg) found nephritis in 2 per cent, and Gmeiner in 1 per cent, of the cases; Gutmann (Nuremberg) saw but four cases of "genuine acute nephritis" (1.5 per cent.) among 262 patients.
Among the 439 influenza patients in the pandemic, we saw "acute hemorrhagic nephritis" but twice. But even at that time we called attention in our influenza lectures to the fact that during the months after the termination of the epidemic remarkably many cases of nephritis were admitted, without any etiologic history other than an antecedent attack of influenza. Perhaps these were cases of a post influenzal nephritis analogous to those following scarlet fever, tonsillitis, and diphtheria.
Pathologic reports are naturally scanty (Wallis, Weichselbaum, Ribbert); they assign the nephritis partly to parenchymatous degeneration and partly to glomerular inflammation. Extensive necrotic processes were observed by Beneke and Kuskow; the latter also found numerous small purulent foci in the kidney, doubtlessly due to a secondary infection.
A transient, slight albuminuria, the so called "febrile" or congestive albuminuria, is observed when there are diffuse capillary bronchitis and cyanosis, with pneumonia as a complication, or large pleural effusions, and in cardiac weakness. Many believe that this transient albuminuria is also due to the influence of the toxins.
Manassein, Zdekauer, Hermann and Socoloff, Engel-Bey* emphasize the great frequency of albuminuria in influenza. Teissier claims to have seen it in one half of the cases, Grandes 23 times among 29 cases, and Senator 18 times among 52 cases-that is, in about one third of the cases. On the other hand, Anton could find a slight albuminuria in but 5 per cent, of the cases, and Krehl in 3.5 per cent. According to the Swedish physicians (collective investigation), albuminuria "but rarely and transiently" occurred. As the result of our own observations, we agree with the last mentioned authorities, who believe albuminuria in influenza to be of rare occurrence.
* Loc. ext., p. 47.
These diametrically opposed views regarding the frequency of albuminuria in influenza no doubt depend partly on the different methods employed for the detection of albumin.
Only serum albumin and serum globulin are of clinical significance -that is, in indicating renal mischief; albumose and nucleo albumin, on the other hand, are not interesting, as these bodies in themselves may be. Fallacies may easily occur, as, for instance, in applying the boiling test with the addition of acetic acid (formation of soluble acid albumin) or by applying the cold nitric acid test (precipitation of nucleo albumin, which is mistaken for serum albumin). The ideal method for the clinical demonstration of albumin is not that which demonstrates the presence of any proteid body (serum albumin, serum globulin, albumose, nucleo albumin), but that which only shows serum albumin and serum globulin.
This is also the place to consider glycosuria and diabetes mellitus. The latter is frequently mentioned as a sequel of influenza (Rob. Saundby, Broadbent, Bouchard, Eichhorst, Rosenstein). Bossers quotes several cases from Dutch literature. A. Hennig claims to have observed diabetes frequently as a sequel of influenza. Fischl found transitory glycosuria often after the termination of the fever, and Frankhauser even states that he found sugar in the urine of all cases. Influenza may very likely have often caused the outbreak of a latent diabetes, and yet more frequently may a latent diabetes have become evident only from the fact that the attack of influenza led to an examination of the urine. [Schwarz saw glycosuria occur with post influenzal neuritis. Both symptoms improved together. Glycosuria may recur with a second attack of influenza and then persist.-Ed.]
The unfavorable influence of influenza upon an existing diabetes is emphasized by Kahler, Drasche and Fereol, and others. Especially dangerous to diabetics was diffuse capillary bronchitis or pneumonia.
Cystitis was observed occasionally after influenza, as after other acute infectious diseases. Cases of "retention of urine for several days" (Ehrenhaus, Bilhaut), of "vesical paralysis" (Swiss reports), of vesical spasm, cystodynia, enuresis nocturna, following influenza belong to the extensive domain of influenza neuroses.
Goldberg observed " complete and sudden recovery, after influenza, from a post gonorrheal cystitis that had existed for one and one half years." He thinks it possible that the influenza toxins eliminated in the urine may have exerted an inhibitory action upon the microbes of chronic cystitis. On the other hand, three patients of Trossat, with chronic catarrh of the bladder, had an acute attack as a consequence of the influenza.
As far as the chemic condition of the urine, apart from albuminuria, is concerned, there are but scanty and unimportant reports. No exact metabolic experiments were made during the influenza period. The rapid and important losses in weight mentioned above (p. 667), even in uncomplicated cases of influenza, point to deep seated metabolic disturbances.
The reports about the quantity of urine, its specific gravity, uric acid and urea ehmination, acidity, and the increase in phosphates, emphasized by many authors (Huchard, on the contrary, found them decreased), contain nothing worthy of detailed mention here. There is nothing unusual in the fact that, in a disease like influenza, which is frequently accompanied by high fever and profuse sweating, the quantity of urine may be so decreased that anuria lasting from twelve to sixteen hours may occasionally occur (Alison). Baumler found uro bilinuria in many cases, Alison frequently, and Hayem in all cases; Hayem considers this symptom characteristic of influenza. The tests for the detection of urobilin are now so delicate that urobilin can often be demonstrated in the urine of healthy individuals.
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"Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is written: "He did not come by water only, but by blood," and "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission." Now blood is required to give new life to the dead.
I tell you, He did not give only a small amount to satisfy this requirement. He was beaten and crushed and pierced until that blood flowed like a river for the sake of love. It was for love, not religion, that He died.


In Part Three of our new blog series…Dissecting the DSM-5…What it Means for Kids and Families we'll look at one of the most controversial diagnoses in the new diagnostic manual for mental disorders: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD).
One of the most common reasons parents bring their kids to a practice like ours is for help in managing severe anger outbursts. We do very thorough assessments when kids have problems with irritability and anger because there are so many potential conditions that can predispose them to or precipitate meltdowns associated with aggressive or potentially self-injurious behavior. It's not uncommon for us to see kids who have two or more conditions contributing to aggressive outbursts…in many instances, the treatment used to address aggression associated with one condition can precipitate aggression associated with a comorbid condition.
Over the last 15-20 years, kids with irritability as their predominant mood state along with protracted aggressive outbursts/meltdowns began receiving diagnoses of bipolar disorder at rates that alarmed many (myself included) in the mental health community…a 4,000% increase in prevalence of bipolar disorder over a ten year period!
Most kids receiving the bipolar disorder diagnosis didn't fit the traditional diagnostic criteria in terms of duration of mood episodes (a distinct period of elevated, expansive or irritable mood lasting at least a week).
Medications shown or thought to be effective for bipolar disorder in children and teens have been associated with the potential for very serious side effects…significant weight gain, elevation in lipid and cholesterol levels, diabetes or prediabetic conditions, elevated prolactin levels and tardive dyskinesia in the case of second-generation antipsychotics, renal and thyroid toxicity with lithium, and polycystic ovary disease and weight gain with sodium valproate. For more information, see this post on safety issues with antipsychotic medication.
Why was there such an uptick in the frequency with which the bipolar diagnosis was applied to children from the mid-1990s on?
For some time, there was a lack of consensus among researchers in the field as to the appropriate diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder in children and teens, or whether bipolar disorder presented differently in kids as opposed to adults.
Many clinicians were prone to misinterpret the research that was being published on pediatric bipolar disorder at the time from several very prestigious academic medical centers.
Lots of parents of kids with chronic irritability and aggression latched onto the diagnosis of bipolar disorder following the publication of a very influential book, The Bipolar Child.
In a reimbursement-driven mental health system in which treatment for most conditions is limited to brief psychiatric visits for medication management and weekly outpatient psychotherapy with clinicians of wildly inconsistent training backgrounds and experience, the bipolar diagnosis provided a rationalization for the use of medication that occasionally provided temporary relief from crisis situations for families of kids with serious mental illnesses in the absence of a better continuum of services for kids with chronic irritability and aggressive behavior.
Mood between temper outbursts is persistently negative (irritable, angry, and/or sad).
Negative mood is observable by others (e.g., parents, teachers, peers).
The kids with DMDD had serious mental illness…their functional impairment was typically as severe (if not more severe) than kids who met criteria for bipolar disorder in the DSM-IV.
Kids with DMDD exhibited measurable differences in neuroimaging studies and computer tasks measuring attention deployment in response to emotional stimuli frustration tolerance and cognitive flexibility.
Kids with DMDD were at greater risk for developing depressive disorders and anxiety disorders as they grew older…kids with bipolar disorder become adults with bipolar disorder.
Does your child have a hard time making up their mind when they need to choose between two or three things?
When somebody says or does something that bothers your child, do they have a hard time letting it go?
Does your child have a hard time transitioning from activities they like to do to activities they have to do?
The first national survey that asked parents about ADHD was completed in 1997. Since that time, there has been a clear upward trend in national estimates of parent-reported ADHD diagnoses. It is not possible to tell whether this increase represents a change in the number of children who have ADHD, or a change in the number of children who were diagnosed. Perhaps relatedly, the number of FDA-approved ADHD medications increased noticeably since the 1990s, after the introduction of long-acting formulations.
The late 1990s were the time when we began to see a big increase in the use of ADHD medication, especially longer-acting ADHD medications with effects extending beyond the bounds of the school day. The trend accelerated following FDA approval of Concerta in 2000, Adderall XR in 2001 and Strattera in 2002. One problem frequently seen with ADHD medication is that kids prone to obsessive, ruminative thinking and perseveration often become angry, moody, irritable and emotional in response to commonly used ADHD medications, especially at home where they don't have the same intensity of cognitive stimulation serving as a distraction from bothersome thoughts. I'd suggest that many of these kids are mislabeled with bipolar disorder when clinicians fail to recognize that their ADHD medication is exacerbating other traits…traits that contribute to anger outbursts and aggressive behavior in the short run and predispose kids to anxiety or depression as they get older.
As a result, the way I've been approaching kids who meet the criteria for DMDD is to become significantly more conservative in the use of medications for ADHD and anxiety in the absence of research that informs how we might most effectively treat them. I'll encourage parents to pursue cognitive-behavioral therapy to help with the rigid, obsessive thinking that frequently leads to protracted meltdowns. I'll suggest more environmental or educational accommodations to try to decrease the need for ADHD medication that often exacerbates irritability. In my experience, I've found that many kids who meet the criteria for DMDD are very sensitive to behavioral activation from the serotonin-specific antidepressants that are approved to treat anxiety, depression and obsessive thinking in children and teens, resulting in the need to start with very low doses and monitor carefully for increases in restlessness, agitation or aggression.
"In fact, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder was added to DSM-5 to address the considerable concern about the appropriate classification and treatment of children who present with chronic, persistent irritability relative to children who present with classic (i.e., episodic) bipolar disorder.
Other critics, including Dr. David Axelson have valid points in suggesting we lack sufficient scientific data to support a new diagnosis, and observing the criteria for DMDD lack good inter-rater reliability.
On the whole, I think we have more than enough data to recognize that there is a very large subset of kids who are inappropriately being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and unnecessarily exposed to medication treatments associated with substantial health risk. Because of biases introduced through differences in training and experience, the consistency with which clinicians would accurately apply any new criteria involving irritability and mood in children would be low, regardless of the breadth and depth of the scientific data supporting the new condition. Adding diagnostic criteria to the DSM-5 for DMDD is a significant plus for kids if the new guidelines help clinicians to be more thoughtful in evaluating and treating kids with moodiness and irritability.
Here's a download from the American Psychiatric Association on DMDD.
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Great article, Steve! As an educator, I agree with all you said. I would add from my personal viewpoint that this age of "relaxed parenting" with no boundaries, personal accountability or structure actually contributes to the anxiety level in many children.
who might otherwise be "diagnosed" by a clinician not looking for environmental causes, just a "quick fix"…(but wait, it was you and Leslie who taught ME about decreasing anxiety by creating this type of environment for MY kid…lol).
As always your thoughts/reflections especially on DMDD are based on careful consideration of the research and supported by your extensive clinical experience with children and their families. I desperately miss being able to consult and collaborate with you in the care of kids. I am practicing now in Charlottesville VA and so often wish I could just refer some of my patients to your kind and competent care.
Nice to hear from you! I hope Larry is enjoying his well-deserved retirement in Charlottesville. I wouldn't mind having you back in Northeast Ohio…it's becoming more and more of a challenge to find mental health professionals who are excellent with kids.
Amazing. Our doctor recently brought this diagnosis up at an appointment as something we will be potentially looking at for my son. I've been looking for information on it, and now I have it. We've been struggling for three years, trying to figure out what's going on and what to do and this has given me a lot of insight. Thank you so much for this.
I found this to be very insightful.
Being a parent of an early onset bipolar child (11yr old son), I do agree that it is very difficult to "tease" out all the symptoms and behaviors. So many disorders overlap; it really requires very strong assessment skills and experience, which from our experience, I feel a large percentage of child pdocs just don't have w/this disease. It took 8 very long painful years of seeking help from developmental pediatricians, neurologists, and several well known pdocs here in the Dallas area, and our son being flipped in to mania w/full blown psychosis after being put on 2.5mg of Lexapro for 5 days, for us to finally "peg" what was going on w/our son. Being a trauma nurse myself, it has been incredible to see how this disease has changed since that initial 10 wk nightmare episode…. our son has had 3 full blown manic episodes w/psychosis in one year and when he is in a "good" state, he cycles like "clock work" every morning/late afternoon that literally stops 30min after he gets his . 0625mg dose of Risperdal. We do have him w/ped bipolar specialist( Kirti Saxena at Texas Childrens Hospital down in Houston) in conjunction w/ a pdoc at Childrens here in Dallas. With all this being said, it is just as devastating for this disease to be "missed" (maybe worse because of the potential long term effects the antidepressants and stimulants can have on the coarse of this disease) in the 1% of children who are afflicted w/this aweful disease.
Unfortunately, the recommended medication for DMDD kids is Risperidone, which undermines your argument.
There is no FDA-approved medication treatment for DMDD at this time. Who claims that the "recommended medication" for DMDD is risperidone?
My son is getting ready to start Lamictal. He will start one a day for the first week then we up it to twice a day. Has anyone had any luck with this medicine?


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This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this Nation. Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the national interest.
In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the Nation. Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.
In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.
But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served, and there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged.
I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so. But the interests of the Nation must always come before any personal considerations.
From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders, I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the Nation would require.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interest of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.
To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home.
Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.
As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next 2 1/2 years. But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford, I know, as I told the Nation when I nominated him for that office 10 months ago, that the leadership of America will be in good hands.
In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow and, therefore, of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.
As he assumes that responsibility, he will deserve the help and the support of all of us. As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this Nation, to put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us, and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.
I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong, and some were wrong, they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the Nation.
To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, to many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be eternally grateful for your support.
And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us, in the final analysis, have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.
So, let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.
I shall leave this office with regret at not completing my term, but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past 5 1/2 years. These years have been a momentous time in the history of our Nation and the world. They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that represent the shared efforts of the Administration, the Congress, and the people.
But the challenges ahead are equally great, and they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congress and the people working in cooperation with the new Administration.
We have ended America's longest war, but in the work of securing a lasting peace in the world, the goals ahead are even more far-reaching and more difficult. We must complete a structure of peace so that it will be said of this generation, our generation of Americans, by the people of all nations, not only that we ended one war but that we prevented future wars.
We have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
We must now ensure that the one quarter of the world's people who live in the People's Republic of China will be and remain not our enemies but our friends.
In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends. We must continue to build on that friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave.
Together with the Soviet Union we have made the crucial breakthroughs that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms. But we must set as our goal not just limiting but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons so that they cannot destroy civilization and so that the threat of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people.
We have opened the new relation with the Soviet Union. We must continue to develop and expand that new relationship so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation.
Around the world, in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East, there are millions of people who live in terrible poverty, even starvation. We must keep as our goal turning away from production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can at last look forward in their children's time, if not in our own time, to having the necessities for a decent life.
Here in America, we are fortunate that most of our people have not only the blessings of liberty but also the means to live full and good and, by the world's standards, even abundant lives. We must press on, however, toward a goal of not only more and better jobs but of full opportunity for every American and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve, prosperity without inflation.
For more than a quarter of a century in public life I have shared in the turbulent history of this era. I have fought for what I believed in. I have tried to the best of my ability to discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me.
Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, "whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."
I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body, I shall continue in that spirit. I shall continue to work for the great causes to which I have been dedicated throughout my years as a Congressman, a Senator, a Vice President, and President, the cause of peace not just for America but among all nations, prosperity, justice, and opportunity for all of our people.
There is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted for as long as I live.
When I first took the oath of office as President 5 1/2 years ago, I made this sacred commitment, to "consecrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations."
I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge. As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war.
This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency. This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.
To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American. In leaving it, I do so with this prayer: May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.
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So what can we learn from Nate Silver's mistakes?
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales
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You may have been closely following the UK's General Election. It became particularly interesting for statisticians back in March, when Nate Silver announced that his team would be forecasting the election results [1]. Silver became famous with his 2008 predictions in the US, where he accurately predicted Barack Obama's victory. He did it hours before exit polls could, by using a statistical model he devised in March of the same year [2]. He's been forecasting American elections since then, with mostly positive results.
Yet this time, he was entering, literally, into foreign territory. Nate Silver was now forecasting an election with a different political and party system. How did he do? Well, you already know the answer, since these may very well be one of his most publicized results. His model failed to predict the number of seats each party would win, by a wide margin. The day before the election, FiveThirtyEight forecast that the Conservatives would get 278 seats, Labour would get 267, the SNP 53 and the Liberal Democrats 27. It was way off. The actual final results were 330 seats for the Conservatives, 232 for Labour, 56 for the SNP and just 8 for the Liberal Democrats [3].
Many explanations have been written regarding why these forecasts failed. But before discussing Silver's explanations, along with some of my hypothesis, it is worth to take a look at FiveThirtyEight's model, since it is a clever exercise of statistical analysis. It shouldn't be so easily dismissed, as his methods have been proven useful in some other latitudes.
Here's how FiveThirtyEight's UK model works. First, they gather information regarding the polls in the UK. Most of those are national polls, since they tend to be the most common, usually commissioned by the media. By averaging those polls, usually weighting them based on sample size, previous pollster accuracy, etc. you get one first prediction. The second step involves analyzing the correlation between polling and actual electoral outcomes, based on previous elections. That way the polls are now weighted based on their estimated prediction ability [4]. After that, we get an estimated national voting share for each party, based on all the work we did with the national polls.
The next step involves translating that into seats, meaning that we need to extrapolate those national numbers to constituency level predictions. Luckily, for these elections, the analysts had enough constituency level polls to work with, thanks to the generous contribution of Michael Ashcroft, a Conservative in the House of Lords who had been personally commissioning constituency polls for over a year [4]. By working with these surveys, just as they did with the national polls (though with much less historical data), they could obtain an estimated voting share for each party at the level of constituencies. You can then use that information to predict the number of seats each party would win. The analysis team didn't have enough information for every single constituency, so they used a mixed regression model [5] to complete their gaps. As a final step, they adjusted constituency level estimations, to make sure the voting share matched the one estimated through the national polls. After that, they had a prediction for elections in all constituencies, which yielded their final forecast.
Notice that this model is quite similar to the one FiveThirtyEight used in previous elections, a model that has produced accurate forecasts before [6]. The main difference would be the amount of information available, which would result in an increased number of corrections/adjustments. Also, it is worth remembering that Nate Silver is not alone in the business of predicting elections. Some other scientists have devised their very own models and statistical schemes to predict future elections, mostly with good outcomes [7].
So, what went wrong? Why was Silver's model so off in the UK? Well, first of all, most of Nate Silver's work has been devoted to American politics, yet UK elections are a totally different beast. From the number of parties to the political system itself, many of the lessons learned in the US could not (or should not) be applied in British territory. I assume many of the usual adjustments Silver made to polling data or historical results, couldn't be as thorough this time.
The modeling team also discussed some possible reasons for the mistakes. Their model predicted quite an inaccurate national vote share. Now, if you remember, the national voting numbers were estimated based on results from the national polls, yet those were not quite reliable as it seems. The polling average had Labour and the Conservatives with an even voting share on the night before the election. This was not just the average of the polls, it was the consensus. Nearly every pollster's final poll placed the two parties within 1% point of each other. On the final results, the margin was above 6% [3]. The reason why the polls were so off is another topic entirely, worth discussing in itself. In the meantime, let's just say that polling is quite a difficult endeavor - I've done it quite a few times myself to know it. Electoral polling involves not only technical knowledge on statistics, politics and complex survey analysis, it also demands you to have sufficient information that is current and reliable enough in order to build a good sampling frame, to ensure an appropriate sample selection and to aid fieldwork operations. Additionally, a poll estimate should consider factors such as weighting, non-response adjustments, under coverage and even voter turnout - all this whilst working within an extremely tight schedule and budget. Most of the times a poll does not give you the best available estimate, but the best affordable one.
Besides all the caveats and details you have to consider to make a good poll, there's another detail that is usually overlooked, even when it can dramatically change estimations. That is wording. Believe it or not, how you phrase a question in a poll can drastically affect the results you get [8]. There has been much research in the area, though it is more didactic to learn from FiveThirtyEight's case. As previously explained, the model gathered information from constituency-level polls. These particular polls included two variations of the usual voting intention question. The first one, used the typical and commonly used wording: "If there was a general election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?" A second variation included a more complicated one: "Thinking specifically about your own parliamentary constituency at the next general election and the candidates who are likely to stand for election to Westminster there, which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency?" For reasons that don't go beyond "indirect evidence", Nate Silver's team decided to use the second variation in their analysis. That second wording is not only longer, but also confusing: it uses longer words and it is harder to read. Research on questionnaire design would oppose to such wording [8]. According to FiveThirtyEight's blog post, just by using the first, simpler wording, their model would have produced a more accurate prediction - still not great, but noticeably better than their published forecast [3]. To be fair, Nate Silver and his colleagues later defended their choice, claiming that, under some metrics, the second version of the question was indeed better, even if it yielded a worse prediction [9]. I'd be skeptical about this, but the fact remains that the simple words used in the questionnaire had such an impact in the forecast. This should be a remainder for all researchers: wording is crucial in social surveys.
Many could dismiss forecasting efforts as a waste of time, particularly after such a disastrous outcome. But please, do not forget that scientific literature in the political landscape is still shaping up and these exercises are an invaluable collection of knowledge. In the end, Nate Silver's forecasts are a scientific enterprise. Even if the predictions are awfully incorrect, it shed a light in some of the methodological flaws polls and political studies have. We have learned from his mistakes that wording is important in a questionnaire and that more care should be put in the design of voting polls. Even if FiveThirtyEight could not accurately forecast each of the seats, we should applaud them for trying, failing and allowing us to learn with them along the way.
[1] Silver, Nate et al. We are forecasting the U.K. General Election. - FiveThirtyEight Website (March, 2015)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/uk-election-forecast/
[2] Clifford, Stephanie. Finding Fame With a Prescient Call for Obama – The New York Times Website (November 9, 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10silver.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
[3] Lauderdale, Ben. What We Got Wrong In Our 2015 U.K. General Election Model. - FiveThirtyEight Website (May, 2015) http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-we-got-wrong-in-our-2015-uk-general-election-model/
[4] Lauderdale, Ben. How Our U.K. Election Forecasting Model Works. – FiveThirtyEight Website (March, 2015)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-our-uk-election-forecasting-model-works/
[5] Multilevel model - Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel_model
[6] Silver, Nate. FiveThirtyEight's Senate Forecast. – FiveThirtyEight's Politics (US Nov, 2014)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/senate-forecast/
[7] Grajales, Carlos. Media look to statisticians to increase readership. - StatisticsViews Website (November, 2014)
http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/news/6931591/Media-look-to-statisticians-to-increase-readership.html
[8] Grajales, Carlos. Singing surveys and Jedi knights: How not to ask questions. – Significance Magazine (Aug 2013) DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00682.x
[9] Lauderdale, Ben. What Else We Got Wrong In Our 2015 U.K. General Election Model. - FiveThirtyEight Website (May, 2015)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-else-we-got-wrong-in-our-u-k-election-model/
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Ravens GM On Lamar Jackson Contract Extension: 'We're Willing To Try'
by Sam Amico March 9, 2021, 11:18 am updated March 9, 2021, 11:28 am 2 Comments
From the Things That Aren't Shocking Department comes the news that the Baltimore Ravens are hoping to lock up dazzling quarterback Lamar Jackson to a long-term contract.
But right now, the sides aren't close to a deal, Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta admitted to reporters.
"Lamar and I have had a couple of talks," DeCosta said. "We did spend some time together a few weeks ago and that went really well. We haven't really gotten into the actual contract proposals, negotiations, things like that. It was more of a general conversation about a lot of different things — the team, Lamar, just how we were going to go about a negotiation like this. There's definitely some different moving parts that make this different than a lot of other negotiations we've done."
"Lamar and I have had a couple talks."
"We're confident and committed to trying to get a long-term deal done."
GM Eric DeCosta discusses a potential long-term contract extension with QB Lamar Jackson. pic.twitter.com/bSezr2vzAJ
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) March 9, 2021
DeCosta added that when the time is right, the Ravens like their chances of an extension for Jackson.
"I think from our perspective it hasn't changed from what I said postseason, which is Lamar is a really important part of the team. He's a leader. He's an outstanding player," DeCosta said. "He's a foundational type of guy for this organization. I really think he loves the organization."
Jackson has already won an NFL MVP during his three seasons. Overall, he has compiled a 31-10 record. With Jackson, the Ravens are a regular threat to reach the Super Bowl.
"I think he's very appreciative of the organization and our stance in different things, and we're confident and committed to try and get a long-term deal done," DeCosta said. "Hopefully, we can get that done at some point in the near future. It may take a little time, but we're willing to try."
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Hey Sam,
Lamar's still on his rookie contract; the kind that all rookies (except the top 5 or 6 draft picks) go through as far as money. No doubt he's a special talent, but Baltimore hasn't even won their AFC North division title yet with him, so I hope he's getting good advice from people/family he trusts. And "family" may not always be the best with advice lol. Two and a half years as a starter, and more and more film for D coordinators to chew on. I think this next season will be telling…and John Harbaugh and his OC didn't exactly distinguish themselves this past post-season either.
If you want to win a SB ditch this dude these runner types never win the big one check it out the league is on to him any who
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If I get cover art in before I make the mix (which isn't usually the case), it can influence the direction it takes. Case in point: Jimbo Matison sent me the artwork for this week a good 10 days ago and you can't really put on a bunch of wispy indiepop songs with a cover like this so I decided Summer Fridays 4.9 would be the rocker of the bunch. Also, I kinda had to either include The Clash or Bobby Fuller Four. The former woulda made more sense, sonically, but I chose the latter and think it works. There's also a fair amount of early-'00s rawk on here (is that Electric Six you spy?… yes it is) and less than a usual number of brand new tracks. But there's probably more bands on here that people know than what I usually do. It may not go to 11, but 4.9 is pretty damn loud. I'm very happy with this one.
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1. Iron Virgin – Rebels Rule
2. Urge Overkill – Rock n' Roll Submarine
3. The Adverts – One Chord Wonders
4. Diamond Nights – Saturday Fantastic
5. Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
6. Electric Six – Naked Pictures of Your Mother
7. Bobby Fuller Four – I Fought the Law
8. The Vaccines – Norgaard
9. Bratmobile – The Real Janelle
10. The Darkness – Growing on Me
11. Mudhoney – Let it Slide
12. Pixies – Space (I Believe In)
13. Led Zeppelin – Dancing Days
14. JEFF the Brotherhood – Mellow Out
15. Agent Orange – Pipeline
16. The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Karmageddon
17. The Koobas – Royston Rose
18. Jilted John – Jilted John
19. The Damned – Anti-Pope
20. McLusky – To Hell with Good Intentions
Those about to rock, we salute you. Those about to shuffle, a pox upon your kingdom! Liner notes after the jump.
This Scottish glam band lasted all of two singles from what I can gather but what a stomper the second one, "Rebels Rule," is. Most people were introduced to this as the opening track on the essential 2002 compilation Velvet Tinmine which you should procure by any means necessary. "Some people say we're too young to rule but we'll show them wrong!"
It was a real surprise to see a new UO record in 2011, a decade and a half after Exit the Dragon flopped (and nearly killed them). Even more a surprise, Rock n' Roll Submarine finds them in fine, over-the-top rocking form… albeit battle-scarred.
The Adverts have good punk sneer… you can really hear it the singing. Even in the playing. They were angry, they were young… truly a group where their ability to play didn't so much matter as their conviction.
This Brooklyn band fizzled out by the time their debut album was released but their first EP (almost all which ended up on the album) was pretty rad new wave hard rock. Singer Morgan Phalen had that "it" factor a frontman needed. It was so much fun when they reformed last year for a one-off show at Brooklyn Bowl.
We're trolling through the early '00s here, the hard rock years, and few bands brought that swagger better than QOTSA. I was never a massive fan of these guys, but this track from Songs for the Deaf is a is a scorcher.
I probably listened to Electric Six and The Darkness more in 2003 than any other bands which probably lowered my indie cred a bit but both records still hold up. I still think E6 are an underrated, misunderstood band… but Fire is the stone-cold classic. Dig the final notes of this one, ripped straight from "The Magnificent Seven."
Yeah I chose the BFF original over the Clash, it rocks in its own clean way. The trilly goatboy vocals at times don't bother me either (I like that he clearly goes out of tune yelping at one point). The production is great, and I think it works just fine, especially leading into…
…this brief track by one of the more head-scratchingly overhyped UK bands of recent memory. The Vaccines are just fine catchy guitar pop, but nothing more. This one' s got pep, though, and over before you know it.
I had to put at least one female voice on the mix, so here's '90s riot grrls Bratmobile with one of my favorite songs of theirs from near the end of the band's career. There is backstory to this Janelle person but it's pretty indie-side baseball.
There is no guilt in the pleasure I derive from The Darkness' debut, Permission to Land, which is pretty much a perfect album, all hits (in my mind at least). My darkness t-shirt is one of my more treasured items of clothing. No, really! "Growing on Me"e rules just as a rocker, and works as a love song…but then when you learn that its a love song to a genital wart… how can you not love that, even if it's gross. The video is amazing. Oh yeah… THEY'RE BACK!
I didn't really do the whole grunge thing in the '90s but Mudhoney were above it, just some monster riffs, killer drumming, and Mark Arm's caterwauling. From one of the greatest Sub Pop albums ever, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. A true rager.
The final Pixies album, Trompe le Monde, gets a bad rap I think. It's loud, it's wild, it's weird….and really good. This one has the classic "Jefrey with one F Jefrey" chant, plus Black Francis singing the Perry Mason theme.
Believe it or not I'm a fairly big Zeppelin fan and spent many a Summer afternoon listening to Houses of the Holy on my walkman while mowing the lawn. (I would have the Smiths or REM on the other side.) It's probably my favorite album of theirs, I even like "The Crunge." But this is the best.
I'm sure Jake and Jamin do mellow out, but it's not while on stage where they are a smoke machine-fueled nonstop assault. Jamin is one of my favorite drummers of the moment, and Jake has no shortage of licks. Go see 'em if you can, and be on the lookout for their stuff!
Agent Orange's cover of the Chantays surf rock classic became a staple in its own right. I own the Posh Boy version of the "Everything Turns Grey" single which has this as the b-side.
This is the de rigur new track on their best-of compilation Golden Greats which is a good as introduction to these prolific Swedes. And a summer song to boot. Go see them live when they come to a city near you.
From Liverpool and they were even managed for a time by Brian Epstein but The Koobas never became a commercial success. Like the Beatles, they became more psychedelic as the '60s went on
If this sounds exceedingly British, it's because it is. Jilted John was a character created by comedian Graham Fellows and this single — produced by Martin Hannett! — went to UK #4.If you know and hate someone named Gordon (especially if they stole your girl Julie), this song's for you.
A super-deep cut from 1979's Machine Gun Ettiquite. I'm sure the lyrics were controversial at the time, but I like it mainly for the melody and energy, two things the Damned (my favorite punk band) always had in spades.
Sing it! We could use a McLusky back right about now (Future of the Left is not quite the same). I just wanna quote this whole song. "We take more drugs than a traveling funk band!"
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FireSim generates SoC models by transforming RTL emitted by a Chisel generator, such as the Rocket SoC generator. Subject to conditions outlined in Restrictions on Target-RTL, if it can be generated by Chisel, it can be simulated in FireSim.
The RTL must not contain multiple clock domains.
The RTL must not contain multi-cycle paths.
The RTL must not contain black boxes, with the exception of Rocket Chip's async reset register.
Asynchronous reset must only be implemented using Rocket Chip's black box async reset. These are replaced with synchronously reset registers using a FIRRTL transformation.
FireSim provides multiple projects , each for a different type of target. Each project has it's own chisel generator that invokes MIDAS, its own driver sources, and a makefrag that plugs into the Make-based build system that resides in sim/.
firesim (Default): rocket chip-based targets. These include targets with either BOOM or rocket pipelines, and should be your starting point if you're building an SoC with the Rocket Chip generator.
midasexamples: the MIDAS example designs, a set of simple chisel circuits like GCD, that demonstrate how to use MIDAS. These are useful test cases for bringing up new MIDAS features.
fasedtests: designs to do integration testing of FASED memory-system timing models.
│                └─Makefrag # Defines target-specific make variables and recipes.
This project can generate four different target-design classes (set with the make variable DESIGN, see sim/src/main/scala/firesim/Targets.scala). Like any other Rocket Chip-derived generator, a different parameterization is selected with a Chisel configuration (make variable TARGET_CONFIG, see sim/src/main/scala/firesim/TargetConfigs.scala). Since I/O and DRAM models are not generated by Rocket Chip but by MIDAS, their parameterization is captured in a second Chisel configuration (make variable PLATFORM_CONFIG, see sim/src/main/scala/firesim/SimConfigs.scala).
We give examples of generating different targets using these three variables in the sections that follow.
Three design classes use Rocket scalar in-order pipelines.
Two design classes use BOOM (Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine) superscalar out-of-order pipelines.
MIDAS's memory-timing model generator, FASED, can elaborate a space of different DRAM model instances: we give some typical ones here. These targets use the Makefile-defined defaults of DESIGN=FireSim TARGET_CONFIG=FireSimRocketChipConfig.
To generate MIDAS example targets, set the make variable TARGET_PROJECT=midasexamples. so that the right project makefrag is sourced.
This project generates target designs capable of driving considerably more bandwidth to an AXI4-memory slave than current FireSim-targets. Used used to do integration and stress testing of FASED instances.
Generate a synthesizable AXI4Fuzzer (based off of Rocket Chip's TL fuzzer), driving a DDR3 FR-FCFS-based FASED instance.
As above, but with a fuzzer configue to drive 10 million transactions through the instance.


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Surprise! Trump Triggered Liberals With This Remark About Elizabeth Warren
February 11, 2019 /0 Comments/in Featured, News, Weekly /by News Editor
By Townhall. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Saturday officially launched her 2020 presidential campaign. President Donald Trump took to Twitter to comment on the latest Democratic challenger to enter the race.
Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019
Clearly, Trump's tweet was meant to be read with sarcasm. Warren is the one who got herself in this mess. . .
Of course, liberals were triggered by what Trump said. Apparently referencing the Trail of Tears (because, you know, Warren is likely to be crying on the campaign trail) is suddenly racist, insensitive and down right disgusting.
Donald Trump is referencing the Trail of Tears, in which Andrew Jackson forced 16,000 Native Americans to relocate on foot through freezing temperatures. 2,000-8,000 died along the way. https://t.co/0f6OLDMZ0V
— Anastasia Golovashkina (@golovashkina) February 9, 2019
There is no way that Donald Trump, who talks about how much he loves Andrew Jackson all the time, does not know about the Trail of Tears. There is no other interpretation of this tweet that I understand. He is making a joke about genocide against Native Americans. https://t.co/71DuX0mhy0
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) February 9, 2019
Ralph Northam wore blackface decades ago and we have a non stop media and political debate for days. Donald Trump jokes about the genocide of Native Americans and it'll be forgotten within hours if it even registers in the first place. Such is the asymmetric state of US politics. https://t.co/hLK4dUjLl3
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 9, 2019
Elizabeth Warren, like many white people from Oklahoma, held onto this family tale that she was part Native American. She apologized.
Trump idolizes Andrew Jackson, is destroying native land and just made a joke about the Trail of Tears. https://t.co/3mzljx5Fdg
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) February 9, 2019
(Read more from "Surprise! Trump Triggered Liberals With This Remark About Elizabeth Warren" HERE)
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From Newsweek:
Donald Trump Jr. followed his father's foosteps and used disparaging references to Native Americans in order to insult Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's recent 2020 presidential campaign announcement.
The president's 41-year-old namesake took to Twitter and Instagram to tout his dad's latest "Pocahontas" comment directed toward Warren's past claim to minimal Native American heritage. The elder Trump was already being denounced by Native American groups last month for mocking Warren with Wounded Knee and Little Big Horn comments they said "descecrated" the memory of their ancestors. But Trump Jr. doubled down on the culturally insensitive negavitity by lauding a Twitter joke about "genocide" and calling it "SAVAGE!!!"
The term is frequently used in online banter to indicate a particularly nasty comment, but historically was used by white Americans and European settlers to refer to Native Americans.
Trump needles new presidential candidate Warren on Native American claims
By Fox 5 News. President Trump wasted little time Saturday before needling newly declared presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren over her controversial efforts to align herself with Native Americans.
Warren, Democratic Massachusetts senator, officially announced her candidacy on Saturday in Lawrence. Touting a progressive agenda, she didn't refer to recent controversies over her longstanding claims about having a Native American heritage.
No matter. Within hours, Trump made it clear he was happy to reference the issue himself, even if she wouldn't. He did so on Twitter, where he made light of Warren and threw down a campaign gauntlet. (Read more from "Trump needles new presidential candidate Warren on Native American claims" HERE)
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REVIEW – The Iron Giant
November 16, 2016 CJ Stewart	Leave a comment
Directed by: Brad Bird
Produced by: Allison Abbate, Des McAnuff
Screenplay by: Tim McCanlies
Story by: Brad Bird
Edited by: Darren T. Holmes
Cinematography by: Steven Wilzbach
Music by: Michael Kamen
Starring: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick, Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Christopher McDonald, John Mahoney, Vin Diesel, James Gammon, M. Emmet Walsh, Cloris Leachman
Based on the novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
Disney may have reigned at the box office in the 1990s, but by the end of the decade, the quality of their non-Pixar-produced films was undoubtedly beginning to slip, and so it's no real wonder that other studios – particularly DreamWorks – were taking notice and trying to take a bite out of their share of the box office. Despite having the backing of a major studio behind it, however, Warner Bros. Animation struggled to find its footing with theatrical releases during this era. Space Jam, the studio's first in-house feature film production, was a considerable success, but it relied upon familiar Looney Tunes characters and Michael Jordan (and an already existing and popular advertising campaign for shoes that already merged the two brands) to basically have the film market itself. Later films wouldn't be able to use that crutch, however, and anemic advertising strategies for films like Quest for Camelot, Osmosis Jones, and even Looney Tunes: Back in Action – which no longer had the brand popularity and the basketball star to rely upon – did little to drum up ticket sales, and none of the films achieved the critical acclaim to even make them legit cult classics. There was, of course, one film released in between all this, however, that, despite the botched advertising (some of which, for some reason, used Scorpion's "Rock You Like a Hurricane") and underperformance, did manage to eventually make a name for itself not just as a cult classic, but as truly one of the most underappreciated animated film classics. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: Allison Abbate, animation, Brad Bird, choice, Christopher McDonald, Cloris Leachman, Cold War, comedy, Communism, cult classic, Darren T. Holmes, death, Des McAnuff, destiny, destruction, Eli Marienthal, family film, fate, fear, friendship, guns, hand drawn, Harry Connick Jr., heroism, James Gammon, Jennifer Aniston, John Mahoney, killing, M. Emmet Walsh, masterpiece, Michael Kamen, nuclear war, paranoia, period piece, Russia, sci-fi, space, space race, Sputnik, Steven Wilzbach, Ted Hughes, The Iron Man, TIm McCanlies, unlikely friendships, USSR, Vin Diesel, war, Warner Animation, Warner Bros., weapon, weapon of mass destruction
THEATRICAL REVIEW: Swiss Army Man
July 8, 2016 CJ Stewart	1 comment
Directed by: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan – as "Daniels"
Produced by: Eval Rimmon, Lauren Mann, Lawrence Inglee, Jonathan Wang, Miranda Bailey, Amanda Marshall
Written by: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Edited by: Matthew Hannam
Cinematography by: Larkin Seiple
Music by: Andy Hull, Robert McDowell
Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
I've never been so moved by a movie with this many farts since… well, probably ever…. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: absurd, adventure, Amanda Marshall, Andy Hull, beautiful, bizarre, comedy, corpse, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Scheinert, Daniels, death, depression, Eval Rimmon, existential, expectations, fart, friendship, happiness, Jonathan Wang, Larkin Seiple, Lauren Mann, Lawrence Inglee, life, loneliness, love, magical, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Matthew Hannam, mental illness, Miranda Bailey, moving, odd, off beat, original, outrageous, Paul Dano, poop, Robert McDowell, romance, strange, suicide, tools, unlikely friendships, weird
REVIEW: Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
October 28, 2015 CJ Stewart	3 comments
Directed by: Tomas Alfredson
Produced by: Carl Molinder, John Nordling
Screenplay by: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Edited by: Tomas Alfredson, Daniel Jonsäter
Cinematography by: Hoyte van Hoytema
Music by: Johan Söderqvist
Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Ika Nord, Peter Carlberg, Karin Bergquist, Mikael Rahm, Henrik Dahl, Patrik Rydmark, Rasmus Luthander, Mikael Erhardsson, Johan Sömnes, Elif Ceylan (voice)
Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Movies about troubled youths and movies about vampires are pretty easy to come by, but mix the two together, and you're more often than not going to end up with something that draws more comparisons to Twilight than an actual horror film. Back in 2008, however, Swedish director Tomas Alfredson partnered up with author John Ajvide Lindqvist to adapt Lindqvist's acclaimed novel Låt den rätte komma in into a film that managed to shed any pretenses of sexy romanticism and juicy interpersonal drama and maintained a level of maturity and somber, dreadful sorrow that's far more appropriate to both subgenres of storytelling – this, despite the fact that the film's protagonists were far younger than either one of Twilight's glittering nitwits. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: adaptation, Foreign Language Film, bullying, Carl Molinder, coming of age, companionship, cult classic, curses, Daniel Jonsäter, Elif Ceylan, foreign language, friendship, gothic, Halloween, Halloween Movie Month, Henrik Dahl, horror, Hoyte van Hoytema, Ika Nord, Johan Söderqvist, Johan Sömnes, John Ajvide Lindqvist, John Nordling, Karin Bergquist, Kåre Hedebrant, life, Lina Leandersson, loneliness, Mikael Erhardsson, Mikael Rahm, neglect, Patrik Rydmark, pedophilia, Per Ragnar, Peter Carlberg, Rasmus Luthander, romance, scary, scary movie, Scary Movie Month, Sweden, Swedish, Tomas Alfredson, tragedy, tragic, unlikely friendships, vampire, vampirism, youth
THEATRICAL REVIEW: Guardians of the Galaxy
August 13, 2014 CJ Stewart	3 comments
Directed by: James Gunn
Produced by: Kevin Feige
Written by: James Gunn, Nicole Perlman
Edited by: Craig Wood, Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne
Cinematography by: Ben Davis
Music by: Tyler Bates
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, Djimon Honsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Peter Serafinowicz, Laura Haddock
Based on the comic book by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
I've come to the conclusion that there's no stopping the superhero hype train, and, to be honest, I'm quite happy with what's come about ever since the X-Men and Blade franchises revived the concept and The Dark Knight Trilogy raised the bar and made these movies into this prestige thing (no pun intended) that seemingly everyone from B-list has-beens to A-list Oscar winners were hyped to be a part of, these types of films have really come along way, and despite some embarrassing lows (Green Lantern, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), most of what has come out has been mightily enjoyable – particularly from Marvel Studios, who has managed to turn several B-list superheroes into some of the most engaging and entertaining action heroes of all time. Now, apparently, it's time for the C-listers to have their chance in the spotlight, as Marvel has gone deep for their latest film, Guardians of the Galaxy. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: 3D, action, adventure, Andy Lanning, Awesome, Awesome Mix, Ben Davis, Benicio del Toro, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, comic book, comic books, cosmic, Craig Wood, criminal, Dan Abnett, Dave Bautista, Djimon Honsou, Drax, entertaining, excellent, exciting, fantasy, Fred Raskin, friendship, fun, Gamora, Glenn Close, Groot, Guardians of the Galaxy, home, Hughes Winborne, I am Groot, James Gunn, John C. Reilly, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Kevin Feige, Laura Haddock, Lee Pace, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, Michael Rooker, Nicole Perlman, Nova Corps, Nova Prime, Peter Quill, Peter Serafinowicz, Rocket Raccoon, Ronan the Accuser, sci-fi, space, Star-Lord, superhero, superheroes, team, team up, Thanos, Tyler Bates, unlikely friendships, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldaña
REVIEW: Zombieland
October 3, 2013 CJ Stewart	2 comments
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Produced by: Gavin Polone
Written by: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Edited by: Peter Amundson, Alan Baumgarten
Cinematography by: Michael Bonvillain
Music by: David Sardy
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, [redacted]
As a sort of American counterpart to the immortal and Halloween annual favorite of mine, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland is surprisingly not very derivative of its then-5-year-old cousin from across the Atlantic and managed to carve out its own little niche of fandom (though there are undoubtedly overlaps between the two films). Whereas Shaun (now possibly the most referenced title on this blog) sought to contrast everyday life and troubles amidst the interruption of a zombie apocalypse, Zombieland is rather more about the adaptation to a new way of life post-apocalypse. Rather than take a bleak outlook, however, the film acknowledges that, much like in real life, the horrors and tragedies of the world are often offset by the little things that, more or less, make up for all the crap. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: Abigail Breslin, Alan Baumgarten, apocalypse, Bill Murray, bright side, comedy, David Sardy, disease, Emma Stone, family, friends, Gavin Polone, horror, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Bonvillain, monster, outbreak, Paul Wernick, Peter Amundson, Rhett Reese, Ruben Fleischer, scary, scary movie, The Road, theme park, undead, unlikely friendships, virus, Woody Harrelson, zombie, zombies
Review: "Hesher"
December 1, 2011 CJ Stewart	3 comments
Directed by: Spencer Susser
Produced by: Natalie Portman, Spencer Susser, Morgan Susser, Lucy Cooper, Johnny Lin, Scott Prisand, Win Sheridan
Written by: Spencer Susser & David Michôd (screenplay), Brian Charles Frank (story)
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Devin Brochu, Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman, Piper Laurie
Music by: Francois Tetaz, Metallica & Motorhead (incidental music)
Year: 2010 (Sundance), 2011 (wide)
I'm going to admit to something: I really don't know what this movie was going for. It's as conflicted as its titular character is, and that's not really a compliment. I admit that I went into Hesher not really knowing what to expect. I knew there was going to be a dark sense of humor throughout undercutting a surprising amount of drama, but what I didn't expect was the strange, almost pointless reason for its being – again, kind of like Hesher himself. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: comedy, death, Devin Brochu, Drama, dramedy, family, grief, heavy metal, Hesher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, metalhead, Metallica, Motorhead, Natalie Portman, Piper Laurie, Rainn Wilson, Spencer Susser, unlikely friendships
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POP-UP Duets
(fragments of love)
Janis Claxton Dance
4 - 28 Aug | 15.30
at Hawthornden Gallery, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
(4 - 5 Aug Previews, 10 - 14 Aug, 17 - 21 Aug, 24 - 28 Aug)
at Dance Base on 10 & 14 August
50 mins | U | Free (non-ticketed)
Award-winners Janis Claxton (choreographer) and Pippa Murphy (composer) join forces with four world-class dancers for a series of short, contemporary dance duets choreographed specifically for public spaces.
Based around the theme of love, POP-UP Duets draws on Claxton's signature trademark of bringing high quality dance to public spaces (Chaos & Contingency, Enclosure Humans).
Working in partnership with the National Museum of Scotland, the duets will be performed throughout the museum during the month of August.
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POP-UP Duets will also be 'popping up' at Dance Base on 10 and 14 August.


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ADACHI MUSEUM OF ART
An alluring art museum with a traditional Japanese garden, continually ranked as the best in Japan
Yasugi Station, JR San'in Line
Form Yasugi Station, take the free shuttle bus for around 20 minutes.
320 Furukawa-cho, Yasugi-shi, Shimane
April to September / 9:00-17:30, October to March / 9:00-17:00
(The annex closes every few months for exhibit maintenance.)
Adults / 2,300 yen, University Students / 1,800 yen, High School Students / 1,000 yen, Elementary or Junior High School Students / 500 yen
Great Stuff to See and Do!
Envelop yourself in a world of beauty
(c) The Dry Landscape Garden
The Adachi Museum of Art is popular both domestically and overseas. Visitors can experience the beauty of the four seasons through the Japanese garden and enjoy the charm of Japanese artworks. The garden's features change throughout the four seasons and harmonize with the surrounding mountains, creating natural works of art.
The garden covers 165,000 square meters and includes a traditional dry landscape garden, a white gravel and pine garden, and much more. It has been ranked as the number one Japanese garden for 17 consecutive years since 2003 by The Journal of Japanese Gardening, a US magazine that focuses on Japanese gardens.
The most extraordinary Yokoyama Taikan collection in Japan
Yokoyama Taikan "Mt. Fuji" (1932)
Yokoyama Taikan "Autumn Leaves" (1931)
The Adachi Museum of Art contains around 2,000 works of art such as modern Japanese paintings and ceramics. Among these works, there is an impressive collection of around 120 pieces by Yokoyama Taikan. These are the museum's pride and joy, boasting one of the largest quantity and best quality in Japan. It could be called the Taikan Art Museum! The artworks on display are changed every season, impressing the visitors each time.
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