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View Poll Results: How should Japanese deal with foreigners ?
They should assume that they can't understand Japanese and use gestures
They should first ask them whether they can speak Japanese (either in Japanese or in English)
92 63.45%
They should address them in Japanese and only use gestures or speak more slowly if the person doesn't understand
Thread: Should all Japanese directly address foreigners in Japanese ?
Feb 21, 2005, 12:26 #51
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永島さん、その三つの選択肢を和訳してみます。
選択一:
日本人は外国人が日本語が分からないと仮定し、ジェス チャーを使うべきだ。
選択二:
日本人は最初から外国人に「日本語が分かりますか」( 英語でも日本語でもいい)と尋ねべきだ。
選択三:
日本人は外国人に日本語で話すべきで、その外国人が分 からない場合だけにジェスチャーを使ったりもっとゆっくり話したりすべきだ。
これで分かるといいですね。もし私の和訳は足りなかっ たら、誰かがもっと適当な和訳をしてください。
[Edit] It just hit me that I should explain what just happened here. The above is my attempt at translating the poll options for Hiroyuki Nagashima, because the translation software didn't do such a good job. I didn't mean to leave anyone out; sorry to those who may have felt that way.
Last edited by Glenn; Feb 21, 2005 at 13:29.
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I guess I am in agreement with the idea of politely asking first if someone can speak Japanese or not. It seems like the most logical thing to do.
I know that Americans, in general, tend to have this image of being the ignorant citizens who go around asking non-"American" appearing persons whether or not they can speak English, which can come off easily as an insult. However, (assuming the person is not trying to be a jerk) it is just a matter of clarifying the possible level of communication between the persons involved.
I don't thing that it is a matter of insult, but finding out a vital piece of information for accurate and respectful communication.
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Hiroyuki Nagashima
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"Lexico san" "Glenn san" Arigatou gozai mashita .
I'm sorry to have troubled you.
I feel a feeling of resistance to "choice 2".
I seem to talk with a person inferior to oneself.
It is rude for a stranger.
With the foreigner who worked together in an office, I talked as common language by broken English and computer language.
My curiosity seems to have interrupted you.
I'm sorry.
Danshaku
Originally Posted by SkippyDaStudent85
Because it has all the hallmarks of politeness to most Americans, asking first may seem to be the rational compromise. The practical problem is imagining a real-life situation where it would actually be very useful, unless your Japanese partner thinks they may have just enough English to be of help or they assume the foreigner knows more than they are attempting, out of fear or discomfort....If you are just talking about receiving change or asking for a sack at a convenient store, I don't think most people have a problem with gestures for those sorts of minor transactions.
akeenan
谷塚 日本
it annoys me when a japanese person expects you cant speak japanese and then continues to speak english when you answer in japanese... sometimes with some people its like a showdown of languages .
Chukchi Salmon
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No trouble at all, Hiroyuki Nagashima-san!
Thanks for participating, actually.
Your participation is probably the most important one we have.
Originally Posted by Hiroyuki Nagashima
I don't know the actual details, so this is my impression only.
Please correct me if I guessed wrong.
I am assuming that you speak Japanese as you mother tongue, and the foreigner is proficient in English.
1. As professionals, you and your foreign coworker needed to communicate.
2. When deciding upon a common language, you had two choices.
3. The two choices were Japanese and English.
4. You and the foreigner weighed both languages by comparing your English proficiency and the foreigner's Japanese proficiency.
5. It turned out that your English was better than the foreigner's Japanese.
6. The two of you agreed to speak English rather than Japanese because it would help work proceed more efficiently.
Did I guess correctly?
I would like to ask you these questions.
It may be common knowledge for the Japanese, but foreigners can only guess.
If you can give your ideas, then it will help greatly to understand and hopefully solve the issue raised by this poll.
People of all cultures have their own way of dealing with guests.
I understand that the Japanese are also educated to be polite to guests.
In your opinion, how is the Japanese way of hopitality different from other countries' hospitality?
Since this can be a broad topic, let us concern ourselves with only these two simple situations.
"When the guest/stranger is Japanese."
1. Is using simple, polite gesture, together with polite words, considered acceptable in Japanese culture in general?
"A Japanese person meets a foreigner (US citizen, American, European, African, Asian, Australian) as total stangers on the street or in a shop."
2. What is the standard way for a Japanese person to greet the stranger who looks like a foreigner?
What are the first things to say/do to the foreigner?
3. Do many Japanese think that speaking Japanese to a foreigner is impolite?
4. Do many Japanese think that asking a foreigner's Japanese ability is rude?
5. Is it emabrassing for a Japanese to say, "I cannot speak English."
6. Do many Japanese think that a foreigner will be embarassed to say, "I cannot speak Japanese" ?
7. Do many Japanese wish to practice English with an English speaking person?
8. Do many Japanese think that the Japanese language is unique, and difficult to learn for Japanese themselves? (speech, reading, writing, etc.)
9. Do many Japanese think that a foreigner (Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasian,) speaking Japanese is bad, unusual, surprising, suspicious, or intimidating?
10. Is complementing on someone's skill in anything (including language) considered okay when you it many times?
11. Is complementing someone many times ever considered rude or sarcastic?
I'm sorry I'm asking you so many questions.
I hope you can answer some questions, even just a few.
I hope to understand Japanese culture better with your answers.
EDIT: I failed to include one important question.
12. Do many Japanese know that many foreigners speak at least some Japanese, and would very much like to practice their Japanese ?
These foreigners have come a long way to learn more about Japan including its language. Some of them can get very upset when Japanese hospitality takes away that chance (very expensive, too) by speaking English with a Japanese person. (Sorry to say this. But this seems to be the main motivation of this topic.)
Last edited by lexico; Feb 22, 2005 at 10:28.
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Originally Posted by akeenan
That irritates me as well....if I have enough confidence I just continue in Japanese and if the native speaker is pretending not to understand the simplest phrases I put on my best sarcastic tone and querry them -- what about this can possibly be so confusing ? hopefully all without deliberately leaving them feeling too stupid in their own language.
Originally Posted by Elizabeth
what about this can possibly be so confusing ? hopefully all without deliberately making them feel too stupid in their own language.
The little humor with which you exposed the imposter's little lie sounds quite effective and without malice; what an intelligent and honorable solution of face saving and still getting what you want!
No, it isn't the most logical thing to do. Think about it a bit.
I've never lived in Japan, but learned how to see this fine point since I got here.
epigene
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Hello, everyone!
I was thinking of digesting what is being discussed here first before ever posting, but it's hard for me to follow everything (lack of time and my low-vision problem). So, here goes:
I chose #2 immediately, just thinking what I would do meeting a stranger who externally appears to be foreign, in some street in downtown Tokyo.
I have lived most of my life in Japan and in living where I live (western Tokyo) and working at home, I almost never meet Westerners. Only those I meet are people I know through work (an environment where everyone is expected to be able to speak at least Japanese and English--so I speak either language and no one minds) and tourists with their eyes glued to maps, standing in the streets of Shinjuku. (I really wonder where I can meet people like Maciamo-san and Pachipro-san!!)
I grew up seeing Americans (GIs) who never learned anything more than a few phrases in Japanese after several years or even decades of living in Japan and Japanese so hung up on their inferiority of not being able to speak English. When I saw Westerners speaking Japanese on TV (like Jeff Berkland (spelling??) and Thane Camus), I was in awe. I'm really happy to see the growing number of Japanese-speaking foreigners but never had the opportunity to meet them.
Well, I made acquaintance in the past with some married to Japanese, but their Japanese capabilities were limited. So, I ended up speaking English to avoid misunderstandings. I also felt that they would feel their limitations in communicating in Japanese and become embarrassed.
So, my choice is based on my past experiences. (Sorry for the disorganized ramblings.)
This is interesting, so I'll give my own answers, too.
Depends on what gestures you're talking about.
I don't know what's standard, but a short greeting in Japanese followed by observation of reaction of the foreign person. Personally, I think reaction on the part of the Japanese depends on how the person feels about his/her English language ability. Most people have no confidence and react strangely, even from my point of view--such as speaking in Japanese only, leaving the location altogether to seek help, etc. I think the people living in the "shitamachi" area are more tolerant and confident of themselves, regardless of English skill level, and will speak to a foreigner in Japanese regardless of whether the person understands them or not.
No. The need to speak English to a foreign-looking person is imprinted in the minds of the Japanese through education, with teachers imparting this belief.
Depends on how you met the person, I guess.
Yes, embarrassing, but they do it to escape what they think is humiliation of not being able to speak English.
No, I think the number of Japanese-speaking foreigners is not large enough for the Japanese in general to think that there are in fact foreigners who speak Japanese well.
Yes, VERY, VERY MUCH!!
Many say so, but that claim is for self-justification (the other side of not being able to speak English) and theories on linguistic uniqueness propounded in the past.
Yes, it's still unusual and surprising.
Once is enough! But, people (especially the elderly) who are really impressed would say it many tiimes.
Depends on the situation, as mentioned in #10. I think most don't have malicious intentions--only sense of inferiority, backwardness, and lack of awareness that Westerners, especially Europeans, have toward the cultures and languages around the world.
Maybe I'm not typically Japanese, but I think I speak for many Japanese (at least the ones I know).
Originally Posted by epigene
I think this is funny, because I thought the same thing of myself (replace "Japanese" with "American") after reading Cultural Divide between US and Europe, and a few other threads similar to that one. Maybe none of us here on this forum are typical any nationality.
Originally Posted by lexico
There were two cases in my work.
The case that a foreigner does not understand Japanese.
When I send an email, I can use translation software.
I came so that an engineer heard explanation about a tool of Y2K from Taiwanese IBM when I did work of Y2K.
Because they cannot speak Japanese, they engaged a student of Sophia University as Japanese interpretation.
However, she gets impossible to tell an engineer my explanation because she did not understand a computer term.
I quoted a language of a computer and explained it to them.
I felt it then.
Even if English is proficient, it is useless when there is not knowledge of a technical term.
By the way, the student who asked for interpretation was a Japanese, but Japanese was strange.
The case which worked with the foreigner who spoke Japanese.
He completed a Japanese training course of Tokyo University.
In addition, he graduated from an American university.
He understood English and Japanese and a native language with a Malaysian.
I managed a system of joint enterprise of an American oil-related company and a Japanese company.
Japanese accounting person in charge and he often caused a trouble.
The computer system used an American thing
The accounting person in charge makes a request him by system improvement so that this system is different from the Japanese accounting.
However, most firstly he refuses it.
He explains a reason of refusal to the accounting person in charge next.
The reason is because work of system improvement of a factory is given priority to.
The accounting person in charge is angry.
Talks are done among him with the accounting person in charge with me.
There was often such a case.
The accounting person in charge did not gradually ask him for work.
If the accounting person in charge did this request to me.
I answer it in this way.
Now system improvement of a factory is given priority to.
I confirm whether improvement of an accounting system needs it immediately.
I confirm whether there are not other measures when I cannot do accounting system improvement.
In this case I understood that a problem could be settled by doing a revision on documents.
I do a promise to accept a request of the accounting promptly after system improvement of a factory was finished.
Firstly, in the case of a Japanese, I do not say "NO".
It is a premise to respect a viewpoint of a partner.
Pachipro
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Please don't be sorry your input is wanted and is just as important as anyone else's. I give you much credit for trying to communicate in English on this topic. Thank You.
(I really wonder where I can meet people like Maciamo-san and Pachipro-san!!)
Thank you for your input on this topic. Your answers are very informative and most important coming from a Japanese person. Concerning the above quote, I'm a little unclear as to what kind of people are you referring to? I think I have made it quite clear in my posts that I am in disagreement with Maciamo concerning the kinds of Japanese people he meets and the kind of Japanese people I have met over the years in Japan.
The way he says the Japanese treat him when he speaks Japanese and the way they treat me when I speak Japanese are quite the opposite in that I have not experienced some the things he has.
While my experiences in speaking and dealing with Japanese have been pleasent, his has not been so pleasent and we sort of disagree on the reasons.
If you're talking about the Japanese who sometimes do not "hear" us when we are speaking Japanese or the Japanese who ask us many times if we like sushi, can use chopsticks, etc., then you are correct. However, it happens all the time to many of us on this forum. Maciamo and I also disagree on our reactions to these questions and such.
I am leaving for Japan tomorrow morning for a 12 day visit and will be interacting with the Japanese on an almost daily basis from shopping, eating out, meeting friends, playing pachinko and pachislo etc. and will be extra diligent this trip to notice the reactions of the Japanese when I interact with them in Japanese.
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Hey hey, I have done that too.
I think most don't have malicious intentions--only sense of inferiority, backwardness, and lack of awareness that Westerners, especially Europeans, have toward the cultures and languages around the world.
I am in complete agreement with you on this. In your opinion, epigene-san, what do you think would be the best way for the Japanese to overcome this? Must it start at the government level down through the schools? A public awareness campaign supported by the government? Or do you think it will ever change?
Are most Japanese even AWARE of some of the problems and frustrations experienced by foreigners in Japan and expressed on this forum?
For me, I don't think it will ever change without some input from the government first. The problems and frustrations expressed by some on this forum have been around since my first visit to Japan 30 years ago and not much has changed since. As far as I am concerned, it wouldn't bother me one bit if it never did change except maybe for the discrimination experienced when looking for a place to live. Either way I still love Japan!
Your experience tells me that real language situations are much more complicated than simple small-talk, especially in professional settings.
The case that a foreigner does not understand Japanese...Because they cannot speak Japanese, they engaged a student of Sophia University as Japanese interpretation.
I understand that technical jargon has nothing to do with proficiency in conversational language whether English or Japanese.
Without a basic and clear understanding in the specialized field, an otherwise fluent speaker of English or Japanese cannot perform as usual.
In this case your technical knowledge proved far superior to the language skills of the interpreter.
the student who asked for interpretation was a Japanese, but Japanese was strange.
If the Japanese interpreter were not trained spedifically for technical interpretation, then it is understandable that the English translation might not not have been accurate enough at natural speed, or even impossible.
Or could the interpreter have been a foreign-born Japanese who returned to Japan rather late to acquire full fluency?
Or was the highly techincal nature of the task overwhelming for a college student?
Again your experience goes to show that language proficiency (of lack of it) is not the real problem in work situations.
More than language itself, but a general understanding of "communication between humans" seems to hold the key to successful communication.
Although it is difficult to generalize, your two examples offer very good material and insights to help understand our problem, which can involve quite complex situations.
I wonder if the communication skills that you have excercised are something learnable, and whether many Japanese persons share those skills.
Are they (the Japanese) taught these (the communication skills) in school, or during on-job training?
Originally Posted by Pachipro
Concerning the above quote, I'm a little unclear as to what kind of people are you referring to? I think I have made it quite clear in my posts that I am in disagreement with Maciamo concerning the kinds of Japanese people he meets and the kind of Japanese people I have met over the years in Japan.
I think Epigene meant that she didn't know where to meet foreigners who speak well Japanese like us, not the kind of Japanese I or you were referring to.
I think the people living in the "shitamachi" area are more tolerant and confident of themselves, regardless of English skill level, and will speak to a foreigner in Japanese regardless of whether the person understands them or not.
Well, I live in Tokyo's shitamachi (so East Tokyo), and that is where I have had the most problems with people making gestures and feigning not to understand (they were almost all above 50 years old, though, but there are lots of older people in shitamachi). But it's true that it is also mostly in shitamachi that some yakuza-looking guys start shouting strange things when I quietly walk in the street (very un-Japanese !), although that only happened 3 times in 3 years.
jt_
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When I saw Westerners speaking Japanese on TV (like Jeff Berkland (spelling??) and Thane Camus), I was in awe. I'm really happy to see the growing number of Japanese-speaking foreigners but never had the opportunity to meet them.
This may be a bit off-topic, but I just wanted to comment that in Thane Camus's case, he (at least to my knowledge -- I might be wrong about this) spent a significant portion of his childhood in Japan and went to elementary school (and middle school too?) in Japan, so he's basically a native speaker, and thus really shouldn't be lumped in with Westerners who have _learned_ Japanese as a second language.
What surprises me is when some Japanese people, even after hearing this, continue to be impressed at how well he speaks Japanese ("He sounds just like a Japanese person!"). To me, this sheds some light on the attitude that some (not all) Japanese have towards their language. It's as if the fact that he is ethnically Caucasian should somehow preclude him from being able to speak Japanese like a Japanese person, when in actuality, of course, a person of any nationality/ethnic background who grows up speaking a certain language(/languages) from childhood will typically grow up to be a native speaker of that language(/languages).
It's just kind of interesting to note, as nobody (or almost nobody) in the United States (and most other English-speaking countries, no doubt, but I'm only qualified to talk about the US) would be surprised to see, for example an Asian-looking person speaking English like an American. Hell, for all they know, the person might very well be (and most likely probably is) American.
Yet I get this sense that there would be some (again, not all) Japanese who would have a hard time accepting that a Westerner -- even one who was born and raised in Japan -- could be a native speaker of Japanese. I have the feeling this would be somewhat (though perhaps not completely) mitigated if the person in question were half-Japanese.
Of course, I don't believe that this is because the Japanese people who would feel that way are consciously prejudiced or racist -- it's simply that ethnically Western individuals raised in Japan are extremely, extremely rare while there are countless numbers of ethnically Asian individuals raised in English-speaking countries. Still, it's a rather interesting phenomenon.
(Just to clarify: though this post is in response to epigene-san's post, I don't mean to suggest that she holds any of the opinions I make reference to here -- it was just her mention of Thane Camus that got me thinking about this)
I've also been patronized and encountered more discrimination in Shinjuku or Kamitakaido (where I stay) than Yanaka. Shitamachi people do tend to be older and practice a more relaxed lifestyle, so someone has always had time to show me around, discuss the cemetaries, point to the still standing Nagaya structures, generally showing great patience with my Japanese (which at last visit was still quite formative)....
Welcome to the thread, epigene-san!
Of all the interesting things that you said in your first post, I find the following especially worthy of attention.
I almost never meet Westerners. Only those I meet are people I know through work (an environment where everyone is expected to be able to speak at least Japanese and English--so I speak either language and no one minds) and tourists with their eyes glued to maps, standing in the streets of Shinjuku...
I grew up seeing Americans (GIs) who never learned anything more than a few phrases in Japanese after several years or even decades of living in Japan...
I made acquaintance in the past with some married to Japanese, but their Japanese capabilities were limited. So, I ended up speaking English to avoid misunderstandings. I also felt that they would feel their limitations in communicating in Japanese and become embarrassed.
Does everyone mean every Japanese, or both Japanese and foreigners?
From interacting with the few foreigners you'd met or seen thru work, those tourists in Shinjuku, the American GI's, and those married to Japanese, few of them spoke much Japanese, and none like Maciamo or PachiPro. (correct?)
If that was the case, the Japanese are not to be blamed for having the preconception that Japanese is indeed hard to learn, and that Westerners are genuinely handicapped when learning Japanese.
Now this is in comparison to the learned Japanese who were able to accomplish the highly difficult task of culturally assimilating most Western notions either as phonetic loans (normally written in katakana) or calques via classical kanji more than a hundred years ago.
Back then, the Japanese cultural elite learned everything they could about the West, including the Western languages.
But Westerners in general ignored the importance of learning Japanese. (true?)
Then who should be considered superior, just looking at the language situation ?
(historically, in the 1860's-1900's for example)
In other words, Westerners brought it upon themselves in a way; they inherited the sins of their forefathers !
Do you think this kind of explanation is far-fetched ?
But then, why didn't these Westerners not learn Japanese when they had the chance ???
Do you think Westerners at some point in time felt vastly superior to the Japanese (or Asians) in general, and because of it considered the Japanese tongue unworthy of learning ?
and Japanese so hung up on their inferiority of not being able to speak English.
Do you think this feeling of "inferiority" can also be the result of losing WWII ?
(in all the possible connotations of this negative history from the Japanese' view)
Is it possible that this "feeling inferior" came first, and then the "language block" came about as a result of it ?
Again, do you think I am overly stretching my imagination ?
Just wanted to ask you these troubling questions to get it off my chest.
EDIT: I agree with jt's observation because of the reasons I find probable in the above.
Originally Posted by jt
What surprises me is when some Japanese people, even after hearing this, continue to be impressed at how well he speaks Japanese ("He sounds just like a Japanese person!"). To me, this sheds some light on the attitude that some (not all) Japanese have towards their language. It's as if the fact that he is ethnically Caucasian should somehow preclude him from being able to speak Japanese like a Japanese person...
Yet I get this sense that there would be some (again, not all) Japanese who would have a hard time accepting that a Westerner -- even one who was born and raised in Japan -- could be a native speaker of Japanese...
Of course, I don't believe that this is because the Japanese people who would feel that way are consciously prejudiced or racist -- it's simply that ethnically Western individuals raised in Japan are extremely, extremely rare while there are countless numbers of ethnically Asian individuals raised in English-speaking countries.
The extreme rarity of a Westerner speaking fluent Japanese in the past may very well be the cause of the misconception in the minds of the Japanese as you say here.
Do you think Westerners at some point in time felt vastly superior to the Japanese or Asians in general, and because of it considered the Japanese tongue unworthy of learning ?
I think it's much more likely that they simply felt that they could get by without learning it. I mean, when you consider that most of them were living in military bases where they could get by speaking English all the time and had more contact with English speakers than Japanese speakers, and that most of them probably had no intention of remaining in Japan any longer than they had to, is it really that surprising that they wouldn't put forth the massive effort that would be required to achieve advanced proficiency in Japanese? I'm not saying that I agree with this line of thinking, but it certainly isn't completely bizarre to me -- especially if I try to put myself in the position of e.g. an American serviceman in Japan. I think saying that they necessarily felt "superior" to Japanese/Asians or found the language "unworthy of learning" is a bit too strong.
Originally Posted by jt_
I'm sorry. I've been excercising a bit of anachronism and extreme characterization here.
Now for clarity's sake, let us limit ourselves to the occupation period and thenafter. Your saying is that in the minds of the US sevicemen during that time, Japanese wasn't necessary and wasn't worth the effort of learning.
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Alfredo Sternheim (São Paulo,  - São Paulo, ) foi um diretor e roteirista brasileiro de cinema, além de jornalista e escritor.

Alfredo era filho de um alemão com uma marroquina, ambos judeus, que se exilaram no Brasil fugindo do nazismo. No início da carreira, foi assistente de diretores consagrados, como Walter Hugo Khouri.

Filmes
 Fêmeas que Topam Tudo (1987 - direção)
 Sexo Doido (1986 - direção)
 Sexo em Festa (1986 - direção)
 Borboletas e Garanhões (1985 - direção, roteiro e seleção musical)
 Sexo Livre (1985 - direção e roteiro)
 Sexo dos Anormais (1984 - direção e roteiro)
 Sexo em Grupo (1984 - direção, roteiro e seleção musical)
 Variações do Sexo Explícito (1984 - direção e roteiro)
 Sacanagem (1983 - direção e roteiro)
 Tensão e Desejo (1983 - direção, roteiro e seleção musical)
 Amor de Perversão (1982 - direção e roteiro)
 Brisas do Amor (1982 - direção, roteiro e seleção musical)
 As Vigaristas do Sexo (1982 - roteiro)
 As Prostitutas do Dr. Alberto (1981 - direção e roteiro)
 Violencia na Carne (1981 - direção, roteiro e seleção musical)
 Corpo Devasso (1980 - direção e roteiro)
 Herança dos Devassos (1979 - direção)
 Mulher Desejada (1978 - direção e roteiro)
 Lucíola, o Anjo Pecador (1975 - direção e roteiro)
 Pureza Proibida (1974 - direção e roteiro)
 Anjo Loiro (1973 - direção e roteiro)
 Aquelhas Mulheres (1973 - direção)
 Paixão na Praia (1971 - direção e roteiro)
 Noite Vazia (1964 - diretor assistente)
 A Ilha (1963) (1963 - diretor assistente)

Livros
 Cinema da Boca - Dicionário dos Diretores. Coleção Aplauso.  São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo, 2005 ISBN 8570604025
  Alfredo Sternheim - Um Insólito Destino (autobiografia). Coleção Aplauso.  São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo, 2009
 Luiz Carlos Lacerda – Prazer & Cinema. Coleção Aplauso.  São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo
 Máximo Barro – Talento e Altruísmo. Coleção Aplauso.  São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo
 Arlete Montenegro – Fé, Amor e Emoção . Coleção Aplauso.  São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo
 David Cardoso – Persistência e Paixão. Coleção Aplauso.  São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo
 Suely Franco – A Alegria de Representar .Coleção Aplauso.  São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo

Prêmios e indicações
 1974 - Vencedor do Troféu APCA  da Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte - Melhor roteiro: Anjo Loiro
 1975 - Indicado ao Kikito (Festival de Brasília) - Melhor filme: Pureza Proibida

Ligações externas
 Filmografia no IMDb
 Entrevista ao blog "Estranho Encontro"

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Renovating a bathroom isn't about tearing things down and putting in new materials. The smart way is to consider why something needs to be changed, evaluate what could make a difference and then consider options. A lot of bathroom renovations in Brockville now use innovative approaches to make these spaces special. Here are some of the top trends that have emerged recently.
There has been a lot of Mediterranean-inspired design appearing in bathroom renovations across Brockville. This look, inspired by ancient countries like Portugal, Spain, and Morocco, effortlessly combines charming hand-painted detail with modern material to create something that feels timeless yet contemporary. Some bathrooms now use mosaic tiles, for example.
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The King's Speech – a MUST-SEE film we all need to support!
The much-touted film, The King's Speech, starring the multi-talented Collin Firth, supported by the equally superb Helena Bonham-Carter, opened in limited release in Los Angeles and New York this week.
The film tells us about the story of King George VI of Great Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ww-7OAdIzNk
One review tells us that this film: "Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war."
The film is being touted as a serious contender for the Oscar!
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Darin Croft's Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys
At last, a weighty, comprehensive, beautifully illustrated volume on the amazing extinct mammals of South America's geological past...
By Darren Naish on September 26, 2017
Credit: Indiana University Press, Darin Croft, Velizar Simeonovski
I hope that one of the reasons that regular readers come here (as in, to Tet Zoo) is the coverage I give (or aim to give, constraints being what they are) weird, obscure animals. Among the weird and obscure – and we're going to be talking about megafauna here, where nothing is really that obscure in the grand scheme of things – are the components of South America's Cenozoic tetrapod fauna. Mostly isolated for much of the Cenozoic, South America was home to a remarkable, endemic assemblage of big, herbivorous placental mammals, marsupial-like predators and omnivores, predatory flightless birds, diverse crocodyliforms and more.
A reasonable number of notoungulates, litopterns and other extinct South American mammals have been illustrated for my in-prep textbook: you can see them all at my patreon. Credit: Darren Naish
Where do you go if you want to learn about these amazing animals? They're all mentioned in passing in the several volumes on the extinct animals of the Cenozoic, plus there is of course a substantial technical literature. But when it comes to good, popular-level volumes that treat the subject in appropriate depth, the best has long been George Simpson's Splendid Isolation… and it was published in 1980 (Simpson 1980). That makes it ancient, or so my kids tell me.
Cover of Croft (2016). Credit: Indiana University Press
Recent months have seen the publication of a significant new volume on the same subject (I previously mentioned it here in November 2016), and yet again it's part of the Indiana University Press Life of the Past series. It's Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys, authored by Darin Croft and fantastically illustrated by Velizar Simeonovski. At a sturdy 304 pages, Horned Armadillos is of a satisfying size and I was excited to hear of its existence. In case it's not obvious, the title refers to select details of the South American mammal assemblage: several of the extinct armadillos known from the continent's fossil record famously have horns, and the monkeys we associate with South America can only have got to there by 'rafting' – that is, by arriving there following trans-oceanic travel on masses of floating vegetation.
Darin Croft at work in the field, in what looks like a spectacular location. Credit: Darin Croft
Darin Croft is an established name on extinct South American mammals, his excellent and careful work mostly focusing on metatherians and notoungulates (e.g., Flynn et al. 2002, 2005, Croft 2007, Croft & Anaya 2006), and he has long had a worthy reputation as a champion of South America's Cenozoic fossil mammals (Croft 1999). So, does this work – finally – deliver what we've craved for for so long? While obsessives might, of course, wish for an even longer book with even more content… YES: this is the book on extinct South American Cenozoic animals we've been waiting for. It does not disappoint and it does the subject proud. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
The remains of big extinct South American mammals are frequently spectacular and striking. In the image here, Darin Croft is holding the big tusk of an astrapothere. Credit: Darin Croft
Let's begin by talking about the visual side of things. The book is gorgeous. It's glossy, very well designed, full colour and high-resolution throughout. It's packed with illustrations, ranging from charts and maps to locality photos, specimen photos and, of course, a large number of fantastic life reconstructions. These are produced by rising star Velizar Simeonovski and deserve special comment. After all, good reconstructions of extinct South American Cenozoic animals are (comparatively) rare. Furthermore, some of the creatures are so weird that we struggle to understand what they might have looked like in life, and some – through no coincidence – have become textbook 'palaeoart memes' (go here for a long article on that subject), mostly because artists (and scientists alike) have no clear idea what's going on and simply copy that which went before.
Illustrations depicting the process involved in Simeonovski's bringing-to-life of the La Venta monkey Cebupithecia. If you're a massive extinct mammal nerd (err..) you'll recognise the skeleton as the one produced by Jeff Meldrum for his 1993 chapter in Daniel Gebo's Postcranial Adaptation in Nonhuman Primates. Credit: Darin Croft and Velizar Simeonovski
Simeonovski's images are photo-montages: really good, successful ones that blend the convincing-looking animals into the environment very well. And it's not just Macrauchenia, Toxodon and Thylacosmilus (the staples) that are depicted: there are fantastically good depictions of the notoungulates Colbertia, Otronia, Puelia, Santiagorothia, Trachytherus, Anayatherium, Hemihegetotherium, Chasicotherium, Typotheriopsis, Trigodon and Paedotherium, the porcupine Steiromys, the sparassodonts Paraborhyaena and Acyon, the meiolaniid turtle Niolamia, a great many sloths and so, so many others. Many have not been reconstructed before. Many are shown doing really interesting things. A Glyptodon group co-operate to rescue a baby from a jaguar, a Scelidotherium mother and baby rest in their maternity burrow, the polydolopimorphian Klohnia climbs through branches in an effort to flee an impending volcanic eruption, Prolagostomus issues an alarm whistle while fleeing the predatory Lycopsis.
In creating the images, Simeonovski and Croft co-operated, the images you see here showing how they used the proportions and shapes of skeletons to ensure accuracy, there of course being a reasonable amount of extrapolation and speculation as goes details of integument and colour.
An articulated skeleton of the sloth Pronothrotherium at the Field Museum in Chicago (it's about 1.2 m long) allowed for the creation of the life restoration you see here in translucent form. Credit: Darin Croft and Velizar Simeonovski
Naturally, some of the images work better than others: some of the animals look absolutely like real and believable animals, others are slightly less compelling. I've struggled to work out what it is that makes some 'slightly less compelling' than others; it might just be that some are weird enough that nothing can ever look right (example: Pyrotherium and the big astrapothere Granastrapotherium). Anyway, great stuff overall. Oh, and Macrauchenia is NOT ILLUSTRATED WITH A TRUNK, Croft's accompanying text explaining how nostril location and morphology in this animal is not really suggestive of a proboscis at all. I'm relieved to hear this; I agree and have said exactly the same thing in the relevant section of the textbook I'm working on.
The famous horned armadillo Peltephilus from the Miocene of Chile. This animal has been the subject of various amusing mistakes. Credit: Darin Croft and Velizar Simeonovski
As goes the way the book is arranged, 17 sections take us on a 'time tour' of the continent, each stop discussing a specific locality. These range from Tiupampa in Bolivia where famous Lower Paleocene sediments have yielded more than 20 mammal taxa, to the Pleistocene strata of Tarija (also in Bolivia) where around 60 mammal taxa have been found.
This chronological arrangement means that we get to see the continent's fauna evolve and become assembled over time. The small, vaguely opossum-like or rabbit-like generalists of the Paleogene are replaced by forms similar in size to tapirs, sheep and wolves, and eventually we have the spectacular, ridiculous giants of the Plio-Pleistocene: elephant-sized sloths, armadillo relatives as heavy as small cars, cats and horses from the north.
I really like the reconstructions of sparassodonts included in the book: this is wolverine-sized Acyon from the middle Miocene of Bolivia. These omnivorous or predatory metatherians might have looked something like big, long-faced opossums. Credit: Darin Croft and Velizar Simeonovski
Text on each locality covers something of the faunal composition, the conditions and environment of the time, the nature of the locality itself and often something about the history of scientific work carried out there. A select list of animals present at each locality is then discussed on a species by species basis, a block of text reviewing what we know and a 'Basic Information' section providing info on size, inferred ecology, evolutionary relationships and etymology. A Simeonovski life restoration and images of the relevant fossils are included too.
The bobcat-sized hegetotheriine notoungulate Hemihegetotherium from Miocene Bolivia, as reconstructed by Velizer Simeonovski. Credit: Darin Croft and Velizar Simeonovski
Those main blocks of text are great, combining thoughts on evolutionary history, ecology, behaviour and anatomy, and including numerous insight and much valuable and sensible commentary. If I've created the impression that this book is devoted only to mammals (which would be understandable given Croft's areas of special interest), it isn't: entries just like the mammal ones are included on a few birds (Andalgalornis and Argentavis) and on a few crocs and turtles. By far the bulk of focus is on mammals though, and you will get the fix you've been looking for on obscure notoungulates, litopterns, sparassodonts and so on. A dedication at the front of the book pledges it "To anyone who has ever wondered what a notoungulate looked like". I consider myself among this select group and can only say: thank you, Darin (and Velizar), thank you indeed.
That is one sweet picture-to-text ratio :) Randomly chosen pages from Horned Armadillos. Credit: Darren Naish
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys finishes with a series of appendices that list – in full – the mammals known from the 17 localities covered in the book, and a list of references is also provided for each. All tremendously useful.
I've written about South America's fossil Cenozoic fauna on several occasions - here are some of the key cast members - but there's still so much more I aim to do. Credit: Darren Naish
In short, this is a fantastically worthy, beautiful and scholarly book that will appeal to the technically minded specialist, the interested non-scientist, and to anyone in between – anyone interested in weird extinct beasts, that is. It is by far the best and most satisfying book-sized work that looks at South America's extinct fauna so far, and it is unique in its depth of coverage and quality of content. I encourage you to get hold of a copy yourself.
Darin A. Croft. 2016. Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys. The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-253-02084-0. Here on amazon. Here on amazon.co.uk.
For previous Tet Zoo articles on South America's Cenozoic fauna, see…
Move over Theropoda, Sebecosuchia rules (very much in need of updating/revisiting)
Stupidly large snakes, the story so far (big Cenozoic fossil snakes, but pre-Titanoboa)
Dude, where's my astrapothere?
Purussaurs: monster caimans of the Miocene
Snorki the giant's friends and relatives (more astrapotheres)
What was that skull? (introduction to glyptodonts)
2007: a good year for terror birds and mega-ducks
Raven, the claw-handed bird, last of the phorusrhacids
Giant fossil matamata turtles (matamatas part V)
Marsupial 'dogs', 'bears', 'sabre-tooths' and 'weasels' of island South America: meet the borhyaenoids
Obscure fossil mammals of island South America: Thomashuxleya and the other isotemnids
The anatomy of sloths
Refs--
Croft, D. A. 1999. Placentals: endemic South American ungulates. In Encyclopedia of Paleontology, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (London), pp. 890-906.
Croft, D. A. 2007. The Middle Miocene (Laventian) Quebrada Honda fauna, southern Bolivia and a description of its notoungulates. Palaeontology 50, 277-303.
Croft, D. A. & Anaya, F. 2006. A new middle Miocene hegetotheriid (Notoungulata: Typotheria) and a phylogeny of the Hegetotheriidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 387-399.
Flynn, J. J., Croft, D. A., Charrier, R., Hérial, G. & Wyss, A. R. 2002. The first Cenozoic mammal fauna from the Chilean Altiplano. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22, 200-206.
Flynn, J. J. Croft, D. A., Charrier, R., Wyss, A. R., Hérail, G. & García, M. 2005. New Mesotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Typotheria), geochronology and tectonics of the Caragua area, northernmost Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19, 55-74.
Simpson, G. G. 1980. Splendid Isolation: the Curious History of South American Mammals. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
Darren Naish is a science writer, technical editor and palaeozoologist (affiliated with the University of Southampton, UK). He mostly works on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs but has an avid interest in all things tetrapod. His publications can be downloaded at darrennaish.wordpress.com. He has been blogging at Tetrapod Zoology since 2006. Check out the Tet Zoo podcast at tetzoo.com!
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To look at a Georgia O'Keeffe painting is to see America. Throughout her career, from her first show in 1916 to the late 1970s, the indomitable artist was concerned with what it meant to paint her country – and she became captivated by the wide plains, rocky outcrops and bold blue skies of New Mexico, her adopted home.


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Campbell Bewley Profits Treble In 2012
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Irish coffee company Campbell Bewley trebled its profit in 2012 to €1.5 million after recording strong revenue growth at its British and US divisions. Latest accounts for Campbell Bewley Group show...
Irish coffee company Campbell Bewley trebled its profit in 2012 to €1.5 million after recording strong revenue growth at its British and US divisions.
Latest accounts for Campbell Bewley Group show that the company increased sales by 14.2% to €97.5 million.
Its UK revenues almost doubled to €10.5 million, because of the full-year impact of its acquisition of the Darlington's business in September 2011.
In the Republic, revenues rose by 6.4% to €37.5 million while turnover from the US and other markets increased by 11.5% to €49.5 million.
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Curiculum vitae
Name: NIRIT LEV, M.D.
Identification No. 024538738
Faculty Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Home Address 124/8 Uziel St., Ramat Gan, Israel
Tel: 03-5717625, 052-4373986
E-mail: lev.nirit@gmail.com
Date of Birth 25/1/1970, Israel
Marital Status Married + 2
Zahal Military service: Intelligence, 1988-1990
A. Education:
2004-present PhD in Neuroscience, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Supervisors: Prof. Eldad Melamed and Dr. Daniel Offen.
PhD thesis: "Molecular and biochemical mechanisms in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease"
1998-2004 Residency in Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Campus Beilinson, Petah-Tikva, Israel
2002 Laboratory of Neuroscience, FMRC, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University (Advisor: Dr Daniel Offen)
1998 Laboratory of Neuroscience, Weizman Institute of Science (Advisor: Prof. Z Vogel)
1990- 1997 Bachelor of Medicine and M.D., Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1997 M.D. Thesis: "The prognostic significance of chest CT findings during diagnosis of Hodgkin disease" (Advisors: Dr. S Apter, Prof. Ben Basat)
B. Academic and clinical experience:
2004-present Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
2004 Specialist Diploma in Neurology
2004 Instructor of Neurology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
1998-2004 Residency in the Department of Neurology, Rabin medical center, Campus Beilinson, Petah-Tiqva, Israel.
2000-2004 Tutor of medical students in the clerkship of Neurology, Rabin Medical center, Campus Beilinson, Petah-Tiqva, Israel.
1992-1996 Instructor and tutor of pre-clinical courses, New York program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
1992 Anatomy instructor, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
C. Academic awards:
1987- Award for excellence for high school achievements
1989- Award for excellence during the military service, Intelligence, Zahal
1991- Dean award for outstanding academic achievements, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
1991- The Anatomy award for excellence, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
1992- Rector award for high academic achievements, Tel Aviv University
1993- The "Kneset" (the Israeli parliament) award for outstanding academic achievements
1994- Dean award for high academic achievements, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
1995- Dean award for high academic achievements, first of class for pre-clinical studies, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
1997- Dean award for outstanding academic achievements, first of her class in the medical school, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
1998- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) diploma, Suma Cum Laude
2000- Outstanding resident award, Rabin Medical Center, Campus Beilinson, Petah-Tikva, Israel
2003- Excellence in the Neurological Internship Exam
2004- The young investigator award – The 20th annual meeting of the Israel society of oxigen toxicity and free radical research, 12 December 2004.
D. Social activities:
1980-1987 Guide and active in the "Scouts"
1985-1986 Volunteer in "Magen David Adom"
1991-1992 "Education for health", voluntary work with underprivileged youth
1992-1996 Volunteer in the "International Education Foundation" (ISEF)
1996- Henri Glasberg award for voluntary work in the community, Tel Aviv University
E. Membership in professional societies:
1999- present Israel Neurological association
2005-present Israel Society for Neuroscience
F. Active participation in scientific meetings:
The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 1999.
The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 1999.
The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, November 2000.
European Neurological Society, Paris, France, April 2001.
10th Congress of the International Headache Society and the American Association for the study of Headache Scientific Meeting, New York, USA, June 2001.
The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Israel, November 2001.
The 7th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Miami, USA, November 2002.
Israel Society for Neuroscience 11th Annual Meeting and INMHA of Canada/ISFN Joint Symposium, Eilat, Israel, December 2002.
Israel Society for Neuroscience 13th Annual Meeting, Eilat, Israel, November 2004.
The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 2004.
The 20th annual meeting of the Israel society of oxigen toxicity and free radical research, Jerusalem, Israel, December 2004.
ADPD 2005, Sorento Italy, March 2005.
Israel Society for Neuroscience 14th Annual Meeting, Eilat, Israel, December 2005.
The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 2005.
The 21th annual meeting of the Israel society of oxigen toxicity and free radical research, Beer Sheva, Israel, January 2006.
The 58th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, San Diego, California, USA, April 2006.
G. Publications:
B.1. Original articles:
N Lev, S Maimon, ZH Rappaport, E Melamed, Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae – a diagnostic challenge. Isr Med Assoc J 2001;3(7):492-496.
N Lev, Barhum Y, Melamed E, Offen D, Resistance of bax-deficient mice to MOG-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Neuroscience Lett 2004;359(3):139-42.
Y shoenfeld, S Lev, I blatt, M Blank M, J Font, P Von Landberg, N Lev, J Zaech, R Cervera, JC Piette, ML Bertolaccini, GR Hughes, P Youinou et al., Features associated with epilepsy in the antiphospholipid syndrome. J Rheumatol 2004;31(7):1344-8.
D Steiner, T Avidor-Reiss, E Schallmach, E Butovsky,N Lev, Z Vogel, Regulation of adenylate cyclase type VIII splice variants by acute and chronic Gi/o-coupled receptor activation. Biochem J. 2005;386(Pt 2):341-8.
D Shitrit, N Lev, Bar-Gil-Shitrit A, Kramer MR. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in transplant recipients. Transpl Int. 2005;17(11):658-65.
N Lev, S Lev, E Melamed, A Kuritzky, Heredity in menstrual migraine. Cephalalgia (submitted)
N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen. Proteasomal inhibition hypersensitizes differentiated neuroblastoma cells to oxidative damage. Neuroscience Lett 2006;399(1-2):27-32.
N Lev, D Ickowicz, Y Barhum, N Blondheim, E Melamed, D Offen. Experimental encephalomyelitis induces changes in DJ-1: implications for oxidative stress in Multiple Sclerosis. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling 2006 (accepted).
B.2.Case reports:
N Lev, S Michowiz, E Inbar, CI Coire, S Pitlik, E Melamed, Neurocysticercosis. Isr Med Assoc J 2002;4(1):65-66.
D Shitrit, N Lev, SI Shiran, G Izbicki, D Sofer, E Melamed, MR Kramer, Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a lung transplanted patient. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003;22:946-950.
B.3. Reviews:
N Lev, S Maimon, E Melamed, E Inbar, Z Rappaport, Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula. Harefua, 1999; 137(10):471-4.
N Lev, E Melamed, Sensory symptoms and pain in Parkinson disease. Harefua, 2000; 138(4):324-6.
N Lev, E Melamed, Heredity in Parkinson's disease: new findings. Isr Med Assoc J 2001; 3(6):435-8.
N Lev, Melamed E, Neurological complications in Down's syndrome. Harefua 2002;141(9):820-823. (Hebrew)
R Djaldetti R, N Lev, E Melamed, Neuroprotection in progressive brain disorders. Isr Med Assoc J 2003; 5(8): 576-80.
N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen, Apoptosis and Parkinson's disease, Prog Neuropsychopharmacol biol psychiatry, special topic: Apoptosis and Human Neurodegenerative diseases, 2003; 27(2): 245-50.
N Lev, D Roncevic, D Ickwicz, E Melamed, D Offen. The role of DJ-1 in Parkinson's disease. J Mol Neurosc, 2006 (accepted).
B.4. Chapters in books:
N Lev, D Offen, E Melamed. Toxic causes of Parkinson's disease. Handbook of Neurology. In "Handbook of Clinical Neurology: Parkinson's disease and related disorders", edited by W. C. Koller and E. Melamed 2006 (accepted).
N Lev, Y Gilgun-Sherki, D Offen, E Melamed. Oxidative stress in Multiple Sclerosis. The role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis: Current state. In "Oxidative stress and neurological disorders", edited by Prof. G.A.Qureshi Elsevier books. To be publisged in may 2006 (accepted).
D.2. Presentations at scientific meetings and conferences:
N Lev, S Maimon, E Melamed, Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula – a diagnostic challenge. The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 1999.
N Lev, D Steiner, T Avidor-Reiss, M Bayewitch, I Nevo, Z Vogel, Effect of acute and chronic Gi/o coupled receptor activation on the activity of tree splice variants of adenylyl cyclase type VIII. The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 1999.
N Lev, S Lev, A Kuritaky, E Melamed, Heredity in menstrual migraine. The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, November 2000.
N Lev, S Lev, E Melamed, A Kuritzky, Heredity in menstrual migraine. European Neurological Society, Paris, France, April 2001.
N Lev, S Lev, E Melamed, A Kuritzky, Heredity in menstrual migraine. 10th Congress of the International Headache Society and the American Association for the study of Headache Scientific Meeting, New York, USA, June 2001.
S Lev, N Lev, M Blank, Y Shoenfeld on behalf of the "Euro-APS study group" (20 European centers), Characteristics of epileptic patients in the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Israel, November 2001.
N Lev, E Melamed, R Djaldetti, The effect of yohimbine on falls in patients with Parkinson's disease and parkinsonian syndromes. The 7th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Miami, USA, November 2002.
N Lev, Barhum Y, Melamed E, Offen D, Resistance of bax-deficient mice to MOG-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. The Annual Israel Neurologic Association Meeting, Israel, November 2002.
N Lev, Y Barhum, E Melamed, D Offen. Resistance of bax-deficient mice to MOG-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Israel Society for Neuroscience 11th Annual Meeting and INMHA of Canada/ISFN Joint Symposium, Eilat, Israel, December 2002.
N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen. The role of proteasomal inhibition and oxidative stress in alpha-synuclein aggregates induction in dopaminergic neuronal cell lines. Israel Society for Neuroscience 13th Annual Meeting, Eilat, Israel, 28-30 November 2004.
N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen. The role of proteasomal inhibition and oxidative stress in alpha-synuclein aggregates induction in dopaminergic neuronal cell lines. The Annual Meeting of the Israel Neurology Association, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30 Nov-1 December, 2004.
N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen. Lewy body like aggregates induction by oxidative stress-an in vitro model for Parkinson's disease. The 20th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Oxygen Toxicity and Free Radical Research, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel December 12, 2004.
N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen. Proteasomal inhibition hypersensitizes differentiated neuroblastoma cells to oxidative damage. 7th International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases: Insights, Progress and Perspectives. Sorrento, Italy, March 9-13, 2005.
N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen. Proteasomal inhibition and oxidative stress induces alpha-synuclein aggregates in dopaminergic neuronal cell lines. The sixth research fair of the Sackler faculty of medicine, April 20, 2005.
D Ickwicz , N Lev, E Melamed, D Offen. Oxidative stress induces DJ-1 changes in dopaminergic cells. Israel Society for Neuroscience 14th Annual Meeting, Eilat, Israel, December 11-14, 2005.
N Lev, D Ickowicz, D Offen, E Melamed. The association of DJ-1 and oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. The Annual Meeting of the Israel Neurology Association, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 20-21, 2005.
N Lev, D Ickowicz, D Offen, E Melamed.Oxidative stress induced changes in DJ-1 and the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. The 21th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Oxygen Toxicity and Free Radical Research, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, January 1, 2006.
N Lev, D Ickowicz, D Offen, E Melamed. The Association of DJ-1 and Oxidative Stress in the Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease. The 58th American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, April 1-8, 2006, San Diego, California, USA.


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By The Citizen on May 21, 2020
When The Bachelor premiered in 2002, no one—not even ABC—knew if it would be successful in matchmaking handsome bachelors with their future wives. Almost two decades later, and the show's results have been hit and miss. So which Bachelor couples are still together? Fans may be surprised at the results.
The first season of The Bachelor premiered on March 25, 2002, with host Chris Harrison and entrepreneur Alex Michel as the lead. Since then, the series has produced two dozen seasons and launched spinoffs including The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise and The Bachelor Winter Games. (One of the most recent spinoffs, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart, which combined music with love, premiered in April 2020.)
There have been dozens of couples formed by The Bachelor franchise and there have been dozens of couples who have broken up from the series as well. Though the show continues to be a ratings success year after the year, we can't say the same for its couples. Ahead, we revisited the seasons of every Bachelor in TV history—from Juan Pablo Galavis to Peter Weber—to update you on their lives and if they're still together with the contestant they chose in the end.
Alex Michel (Season 1)
Image: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock.
Winner: Amanda Marsh
Alex, a New York City media executive and the first-ever Bachelorin 2002, didn't propose to his winner, Amanda, in the finale. After he gave her his final rose, Alex and Amanda vowed to continue their relationship after the show. However, after several months, the couple split. Alex's runner-up, Trisha Rehn, went on to become the first Bachelorette.
Aaron Buerge (Season 2)
Winner: Helene Eksterowicz
Aaron, a Missouri banker, proposed to his winner, Helene, in the season 2 finale in 2002. However, by the time the last episode made it to TV, their relationship was already over. Aaron went on to marry Angye McIntosh in August 2009. The couple share a daughter named Aven.
"My wife Angye and our two younger daughters live in Springfield, Missouri. Our oldest daughter lives in Kansas City. This has definitely been a busy year for us!" Aaron's told Us Weekly.. "We just finished building our home and merged our family owned bank with Legacy Bank and Trust here in Springfield. We have been incredibly blessed. I continue to remain out of the 'spotlight' and continue to focus on my career and family life. I appreciate and cherish the memories I have from my days on The Bachelor. Subsequently, I have had the opportunity to take part in some things I wouldn't have gotten to do otherwise."
Andrew Firestone (Season 3)
Image: Dan Steinberg/BEI/Shutterstock.
Winner: Jen Schefft
Andrew, the heir of the Firestone and Rubber Company, was the third Bachelor. He proposed to his winner, Jen, in the finale, but several months after the season aired, the couple ended their relationship. In 2008, Andrew went on to marry Ivana Bozilovic, who he shares three kids with.
"All is good here. Ivana and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary this past summer. Somehow she is still putting up with me! All the kiddo's are doing great, Brooks, 9, Anja, 7, and Shane, 4, keep us busy running around to soccer/ballet/gymnastics/music/etc!" he's told Us Weekly. "Work is going really well and the company I co-founded, StonePark Capital, is completing construction on our 5th hotel in San Luis Obispo, California, to open in January of 2019. I have bit more grey hair, I work harder for my bikini body, my wife and kids started a rumor that I snore at night..but I don't think I have been happier in my life."
Bob Guiney (Season 4)
Winner: Estella Gardinier
Bob, a GSN host and the fourth Bachelor, was the first Bachelor to come from a season of The Bachelorette. Bob competed on The Bachelorette season 1 with Trista and came in fifth place. On his Bachelor finale, Bob didn't propose to Estella, but he gave her a promise ring as a vow that they would continue to date. The split soon after the season finale aired. Bob went on to marry All My Children actress Rebecca Budig, but the two split in 2010 after six years of marriage. He then married Jessica Canyon in 2016, and the two welcomed a baby son in December 2018.
"I'm living in Seattle with my wife and new son Grayson, who is taking up all my time these days, which I love!" Bob's told Us Weekly. "I still do ton of hosting for different live events and I go back and forth to New York twice a month to be on the Today show. I love it–they've very supportive of me and I love how much they make so fun of me. Life is gong very well. Thanks to the show, I've had such amazing opportunities come my way."
Jesse Palmer (Season 5)
Image: James Yee/AP/Shutterstock.
Winner: Jessica Bowlin
Jesse, a former NFL star and a TV host, didn't propose to his winner, Jessica, but the two did continue to date after his season until their split a few weeks after the finale aired. Jesse went on to date model Emely Fardo in 2017 and proposed to her in the summer of 2019. "I've been so enamored, so in love with this woman and it only has grown. I'm head over heels for her," he told the Daily Mail at time.
Byron Velvick (Season 6)
Image: Peter Brooker/Shutterstock.
Winner: Mary Delgado
Byron. a champion fisherman, and real estate agent Jay Overbye competed to be the season 6 Bachelor. In the end, the woen voted for Byron to be the Bachelor. He proposed to his winner, Mary, in the finale, and the two went on to date for five years before their separation in December 2009. In March 2015, Byron married Belinda Velvick, with whom he shares daughter Kamber.
Charlie O'Connell (Season 7)
Image: Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock.
Winner: Sarah Brice
Charlie, an actor and older brother of Jerry O'Connell, didn't propose to his winner, Sarah, in the finale, but he did continue to date her until their split in January 2007. After the breakup, Charlie reunited with his runner-up, Krisily Kennedy, before their split in March 2007. He went on to marry former Playboy Playmate Anna Sophia Berglund in May 2018.
Travis Lane Stork (Season 8)
Winner: Sarah Stone
Travis, a host on The Doctors, didn't propose to Sarah in the finale, but the two continued to date until their split after the show. Travis went on to marry Charlotte Brown in 2012 before the couple ended their marriage in 2015. He then starting dating Parris Bell in 2016. The couple married in August 2019 and announced their pregnancy in January 2020.
Lorenzo Borghese (Season 9)
Image: Charles Sykes/Shutterstock.
Winner: Jennifer Wilson
Lorenzo, an entrepreneur and a member of the Borghese family, gave his final rose to Jennifer in 2006. Though he didn't prpose, the two went on to date for a few months before their breakup in January 2007. Lorenzo then reunited with his runner-up, Sadie Murray, but the pair's relationship also fizzled out after a few months.
Andrew Baldwin (Season 10)
Image: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock.
Winner: Tessa Horst
Andrew, a US Naval officer, proposed to Tessa in the season 10 finale. However, a month after the finale aired, the couple had already ended their engagement. They continued to see each other until their official breakup a few years later.
One month after the season 10 finale of The Bachelor aired in 2007, Andrew and Tessa Horst called off their engagement but continued to see each other. Months later, the twosome split for good. Andrew told Us Weekly in the past that he's single and lives in San Diego.. "I'm a commander in the U.S. Navy, a family physician and Director of Medical Readiness for U.S. Pacific Fleet. Life has been great since the show ended. I've been focused on my medical career, and service to country," he said. "I earned my MPH from Johns Hopkins, deployed to Persian Gulf, and am delivering babies, climbing mountains and learning to fly planes."
Brad Womack (Season 11)
Image: Edward Herrera/Abc-Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock.
Winner: No one
Brad's first time as the Bachelor was on season 11. He didn't propose to either DeAnna Pappas or Jenni Croft in the finale.
Matt Grant (Season 12)
Image: Abc-Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock.
Winner: Shayne Lamas
Matt, the first British Bachelor, proposed to Shayne in the season 12 finale. (The series was nicknamed Bachelor: London Calling.) However, Matt and Shayne ended their engagement a few months after the show's finale. In December 2018, Matt married Rebecca Moring in England.
Jason Mesnick (Season 13)
Winner: Melissa Rycroft
Jason, the runner-up on season 4 of The Bachelorette, proposed to Melissa on the season 13 finale. However, in the "After the Final Rose" episode, Jason revealed that he changed his mind and wanted to be with his runner-up, Molly Malaney. Jason and Molly married in a televised wedding in February 2010, and the two share a daughter named Riley together. Jason, who lives with his family in Seattle, has a son named Ty from his previous marriage.
Jake Pavelka (Season 14)
Winner: Vienna Girardi
Jake, a pilot, is regarded as one of the most hated Bachelors. He proposed to his winner, Vienna, in the season 14 finale. The two went on to date for several months after the show's final episode in March 2010. However, by June of that year, the two had split amir rumors that Jake had cheated on Vienna. The two returned to The Bachelor stage in summer 2010, where they opened up about their ugly breakup. In 2018, Jake dated a woman named Tiffany.
Image: Karen Neal/Abc-Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock.
Winner: Emily Maynard
Brad, an entrepreneur and bar owner, returned for a second round as the Bachelor in season 15. This time, he proposed to Emily Maynard. However, the couple split soon after the season ended in May 2011. He went on to date another Bachelor Nation member, AshLee Frazier, in 2013, but as of 2019, it seems like Brad is still single. Emily, on the other hand, went on to become the season 8 Bachelorette.
Ben Flajnik (Season 16)
Image: Broadimage/Shutterstock.
Winner: Courtney Robertson
Ben proposed to his winner, Courtney, on the season 16 finale of The Bachelor. While the show aired, the two broke up. They reunited in time for the finale before their official breakup in October 2012. Ben lives in San Francisco and appears to be single as of 2019. There are also rumors he dated Kris Jenner.
Sean Lowe (Season 17)
Image: Todd Williamson/Invision/AP/Shutterstock.
Winner: Catherine Giudici
Sean, the first born-again virgin to be The Bachelor, proposed to Catherine in the season 17 finale. The two wed in a televised wedding in January 2014. Sean and Catherine share three kids: sons Samuel and Isaiah and daughter Mia. "I've always wanted a daddy's girl and now I've got her. Mia is healthy, Mama is doing great, and God is so good!" Sean wrote on Instagram on December 23, 2019.
Juan Pablo Galavis (Season 18)
Winner: Nikki Ferrell
Juan Pablo, a professional soccer player, didn't propose to his winner, Nikki, the season 18 finale. The two dated for several months until their split in 2014. In August 2017, the Venezuelan Bachelor, who has a daughter from a previous relationship, married Osmariel Villalobos.
"The best part [of married life] is having someone you count on, Osmariel has been great in my life, she understands my job and supports it 100 percent," he's told Us Weekly. "Also she has became a great stepmom for Camila. [I] can't wait to have two more [children]. Osmariel says she wants three, but not sure if I'm going to be able to please her on that, I will be too old by the time she wants the third one."
Chris Soules (Season 19)
Image: Mediapunch/Shutterstock.
Winner: Whitney Bischoff
Chris, a farmer from Iowa, proposed to Whitney on the season 19 finale, but two months after the finale aired in 2015, the two had already ended their relationship. Chris, who was involved in a car crash that led to a man's death in April 2017, opened up to Us Weekly in December 2019 about where he is in his life after he was ordered to pay $2.5 million and sentenced to two years in prison for the death. "I feel good where I'm at right now," he said at the time. "It's been not easy on anyone. I'm just happy that I'm able to live another day and work and do my thing and be able to do better things for the people around me."
Ben Higgins (Season 20)
Winner: Lauren Bushnell
Ben proposed to his winner, Lauren, in the season 20 finale in 2016. The couple went on to star in their own Freeform series, Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After?, but by May 2017, the two announced that they had ended their engagement. Ben, who went on to compete in 2017's Bachelor: Winter Games, proposed to his girlfriend, Jessica Clarke, in March 2020.
Nick Viall (Season 21)
Image: Rob Latour/Shutterstock.
Winner: Vanessa Grimaldi
Nick, who had competed on two seasons of The Bachelorette and one season of Bachelor in Paradise, proposed to Vanessa in the season 21 finale in 2017. However, by August 2017, the two had already split. In December 2018, Nick told Us Weekly that he has no timeline for when he'll find love. "It's one of those things—you date, you see what happens," he said at the time. "I still hope to meet someone someday. That could be tomorrow, that could be in five years."
Arie Luyendyk Jr. (Season 22)
Winner: Becca Kufrin
Arie, a runner-up on Emily Maynard's season of The Bachelorette and a professional racecar, proposed to Becca in the season 22 finale. However, while the show was airing, Arie reconnected with his runner-up, Lauren Burnham. In the middle of the season, he broke up with Becca. Their emotional split was shown in the "After the Final Rose" episode of that season. Arie and Lauren went on to marry in Hawaii in January 2019. In May 2019, the two welcomed a daughter named Alessi.
Colton Underwood (Season 23)
Winner: Cassie Randolph
Colton, a former NFL player and a finalist on Becca's season of The Bachelorette, was the first virgin Bachelor. A couple episodes before the season 13 finale, Cassie, Colton's eventual final pick, told him that he couldn't see a relationship with him and left the show. Colton went on to break up with his other finalists, Tayshia Adams and Hannah Godwin, to pursue a relationship with Cassie. In the end, Cassie took him back, though the two still aren't engaged.
Peter Weber (Season 24)
Image: AFF-USA/Shutterstock.
Winner: Hannah Ann Sluss
Peter, a pilot and a finalist on Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette, proposed to Hannah Ann Sluss in the season 24 finale. A few months into his engagement, Peter confessed to Hannah Ann that he still had feelings for his runner-up, Madison Prewett, who quit the show before the finale. After Peter and Hannah broke up, the pilot pursued a relationship with Madison and the two came out as a couple on the "After the Final Rose" episode. However, a few days after the finale in 2020, the couple announced that they had split. Weeks later, Peter confirmed that he was in a relationship with Kelley Flanagan, who was sent home in the final five of his Bachelor season.
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You really have to start writing the book when it is in beta or it will get old very soon. This book is a 'primer' not a reference. This book is a must read for anyone deploying Business Objects It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. In these cases you are left to your own devices. Depending on your upgrade strategy, you might want to delay your investment.
Product Description This book is a must read for anyone deploying BusinessObjects. What I have enjoyed so much about this book is that while the new functions are covered she has also taken the time to explain differences in the the new version for those of use who have used the product and want to know what happened to the bomain. Best practices are found throughout the book. I'm surprised how much things have stayed the same. The kind of situations you will likely encounter if you want to create reports for a real business, are not handled.
What is missing: Cindi clearly states in her introduction that her book does not cover Crystal Reports, Performance Management, DataIntegrator, or Live Office. It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. Now there are elegant solutions if the data is properly organized. This particular edition is in a Paperback format. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
The other section that I was happy to see was on the fundementals of creating a universe - keep it simple and keep it focused! This book is a must read for anyone deploying BusinessObjects. This is the commercial book I would have liked to have written except I dropped out to raise my infant son. This is a good book for you if you are tentative about working with computers and don't expect to do intermediate or advanced work with Business Objects. There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence. Please anybody reply and let me know if the book is available in the market or not. Cindi does a great job explaining how to use many of the modules she focuses on the core products but she opens the book with valuable advice on managing Business Objects across your company.
Cindi prefers putting most of the Intelligence in the universe WebIntelligence with its formulas is covered in depth. It was published by McGraw-Hill Education and has a total of 672 pages in the book. Where I work we have purchased several copies of this book. Is the hard copy of this books available in market? Yes of course a lot of bells and whistles been added but the basic 'bone structure' appears to have not changed. Doesn't Cindi Howson have the coolest job ever? There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence.
If you are new to Business Objects and need a good understanding of what Business objects does and can do then this is an excellent book. It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. Looking for a fun sport? And didn't it need it! I saw a thred with the same question which was posted in the forum one year back. I can see that a lot of work went into this book and it does a pretty good job of explaining Business Objects at a high level. Once again Cindi has done a great job explaining Business Intelligence and how to create a successful implementation. It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. Cindi howsons guide to business objects xi release 2 is a must have addition to any business object developers war chest she has explained in easy to follow terminology how to use functions and why to use functions.
There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence. Yes of course a lot of bells and whistles been added but the basic 'bone structure' appears to have not changed. Business Objects is touted as being a user-friendly program but frequently their own documentation is lacking. This is the commercial book I would have liked to have written except I dropped out to raise my infant son. I very sincerely hope this client stays on R3. It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. This very readable book is for the entire organization get all your project managers a copy everyone can learn and appreciate what it takes to deploy and deliver meaningful reporting.
It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. You can contact her at cindihowson askcindi. You'll learn how to create an implementation strategy that fits your business goals, define and manage users, and integrate your reports into Web and Windows applications. My French is not bad, but I still prefer English. Businessobjects xi release 2 book start by marking businessobjects xi release 2 the complete reference as want to read want to read saving cindi howson 323 rating details 22 ratings 2 reviews publishers note products purchased from third party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality. Howson bridges the gap neatly and comprehensively.
She has worked closely with Business Objects foreword by B. I was surprised at the book's breadth, and impressed with the arwork, charts, and visual aids that supplemented the text. Businessobjects xi release 2 the complete reference osborne complete reference series series by cindi howson read online or download in secure pdf or secure epub format. Doesn't go into tremendous detail on how to do some of the more complicated concepts of Business Objects but is more than enough to get you started. Would this still be a wise investment, or would it only befuddle me? Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. It's great to see that Designer and Desktop Intelligence are fully covered.


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Sme: NBÚ looking into Kozolka's security clearance
The National Security Authority (NBÚ) is looking into the security clearance of Jaroslav Kozolka, a special prosecutor who allegedly worked as a secret service (ŠtB) agent under the communist regime.
Kozolka was a military counter-intelligence agent according to the service's archives, the Sme daily wrote on September 3, which by law makes him a security risk who should not have access to classified information. After the communist regime ended, Kozolka worked as a military prosecutor dealing with several sensitive cases, like the recent scandals surrounding the military intelligence agency and the politicised case of Hedviga Malinová (now Žáková).
The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) refused to inform Sme about whether Kozolka has access to classified information, as "this is matter of work schedule which cannot be disclosed by the GPO". Sme, however, wrote that it has information that Kozolka does not work on cases involving classified information.
NBÚ head Jozef Magala admitted to having discussed the matter with new General Prosecutor Jaromír Čižnár, but refused to reveal more details due to classified information. He said that the "security clearance of prosecutor Kozolka is now in the state of being checked". The GPO also confirmed for the daily that his clearance is "being checked".
(Source: Sme)
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Q: Icons with gradient colors Is there any way I can add gradient colors to Icons in react-native / expo?
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A: Tried this variant using MaskedView and LinearGradient packages https://github.com/react-native-linear-gradient/react-native-linear-gradient/issues/198#issuecomment-590821900. I use this snippet with Icon from native-base and this solution works perfectly for me.
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      <MaskedView
        style={{ flex: 1, flexDirection: 'row', height: size }}
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