Twitter has officially launched its "retweet with comment" feature, allowing users to feature other tweets in their own posts without using up any of their 140 characters.
It is used by clicking on the retweet button, and choosing the "quote tweet" option from the pop-up. That will then slide the tweet into the post as a "card", showing a small version of it in the stream and not using up any of the valuable 140 characters.
The same feature will happen if users link to a post within a tweet, with the service swapping out the link and replacing it with a card. That will also notify users that their posts have been linked to - getting rid of an often-used way of subtweeting, or talking about tweets without actually making reference to the person or tweet involved.
But it could also mean that users get more credit for their original posts, rather th8an having tweets taken and "ma8nu8ally retweeted". the independent by users who add information at the beginning of the post. Some expressed hope on Twitter that the new feature will reduce the prevalence of posts that exist mostly to get credit for certain tweets that have been re-shared.
The new feature can be accessed within Twitter's apps for iOS and web, and is expected to roll out to other mobile apps soon.
The feature had already rolled out to many users, after Twitter began testing it in summer. But it was officially unveiled by the company this morning, in a tweet.
The feature can only quote one layer of tweets. If someone links to a tweet that itself has a tweet in, users will have to click through to the post to see the original card.


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Jim McGillivray presented another honour for teaching contributions
Jim McGillivray (left) and Henry Paluch with the special banner recognizing McGillivray's 21 years of service to St. Andrew's College.
Jim McGillivray, the famous piper and frequent contributor to pipes|drums, has received another honour for his services to teaching piping over his long career with the presentation of a bass drone banner from St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario.
The banner is in recognition of his 21 years as the director of the piping and drumming program at the the 124-year old private school just north of the city of Toronto. It was presented by Henry Paluch, the current pipe-major of the school's pipe band, a pupil of McGillivray's and a rising star on the Ontario solo circuit.
McGillivray tied the banner to Paluch's bass drone by McGillivray at the school's annual Cadet Inspection and will be displayed "in perpetuity" along with several other honourary drone banners when the band performs on parade.
"I just wanted to give a heartfelt thank-you to you all for Saturday's kind words and surprise presentation of a drone banner in my honour," McGillivray said sat the ceremony. "Each of our drone banners has meaning for our band and our program. They also have meaning for me as an instructor and band leader who values the importance of quality, tradition, and a connection with the past. The banner presented Saturday adds a whole new level of meaning for me and a new level of pride in the Pipes & Drums and in this school."
McGillivray was previously recognized when the school named a new building specifically for teaching piping and drumming after him. He's still involved as a part-time teacher at the school. He handed the director position to Matt MacIsaac in 2019.
MacIsaac also now leads the St. Andrew's College Association Pipe Band, of which McGillivray is a member. The competition band plans to make its debut at the Georgetown Highland Games in Georgetown, Ontario, on June 11th.
McGillivray added, "I was quite moved by this gesture and the thought behind it. I will not forget that moment."
Jim McGillivray is one of the most successful pipers ever. In addition to capturing major awards like the Clasp at the Northern Meeting, both Highland Society of London Gold Medals, and the MSR at the Glenfiddich, he has produced several best-selling tutor books and composed several of the most-played pipe tunes in modern history. He owns and operates McGillivray Piping and Pipetunes.ca.
New competition band for Ontario; McGillivray gives way to MacIsaac
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Ones to watch in 2011: A new year of cultural highs
From a Da Vinci blockbuster to Frankenstein on stage, and from Scorsese in 3D to The Streets on tour, we select the best of the arts in 2011
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Films by Geoffrey Macnab
The Coen brothers tackle the Charles Portis novel that yielded John Wayne one of his most famous roles. Jeff Bridges is not as large of girth as Wayne, and his dialogue delivery verges on the inaudible but his Rooster Cogburn is still wonderful: part Falstaff, part the Dude and part one-eyed gunslinger.
Released 11 February
Dardenne brothers – untitled
Belgian maestros the Dardenne brothers have won the Palme D'Or in Cannes twice but, in Britain at least, remain seriously under-appreciated. Their latest promises to be a real heartbreaker. It's about an 11-year-old boy who has been placed in a home by his neglectful father, who has promised to come back for him. The father never calls. In the end, Cyril runs away to the apartment where they once lived. Like Ken Loach, the brothers rarely use well-known actors. However, Cecile De France, the fast-rising Belgian actress, headlines the cast here.
No release date but likely to be unveiled in Cannes in May
Lars von Trier is touting his latest film as a disaster pic. It's about two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg) with very different personalities who react in opposing ways to the prospect of Armageddon. "No more happy endings," Von Trier has proclaimed... not that many of his previous films have had happy endings.
Released 1 July
A decade ago, the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay was seen as the great new hope of British cinema. She hasn't directed a feature since Morvern Callar in 2002 but hopes are very high for her comeback film, an adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel. Tilda Swinton plays Eva, the mother trying to work out just what pushed her son Kevin into an act of horrendous violence.
Released 2 September
Fans of John le Carré's book, and of the brilliant TV drama starring Alec Guinness as the spy George Smiley, will be very intrigued to see how Tomas Alfredson's new movie version measures up. Alfredson won huge plaudits for his direction of the Swedish vampire pic Let the Right One In. Now, the Swedish director is dealing with quintessentially British subject matter. If he puts a foot wrong, the legions of Smiley fans are bound to howl.
Released 16 September
Hugo Cabret
Martin Scorsese's first foray into 3D film-making is about an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. It is also an invocation of the life of the silent cinema pioneer and magician Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley). The boy becomes friends with Méliès, who in his old age is living in poverty. A project with such a strong fantasy element as this seems a radical departure for the director; on the other hand, Cabret should give Scorsese an opportunity to make a film in the same escapist and extravagant mode as the works of Powell and Pressburger he so admires.
Released December
The Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has recruited Sean Penn to star in this drama following a wealthy rock star on a quest to track down the Nazi war criminal who tormented his father during the Second World War. European movies with Hollywood stars have proved a mixed bag – but Bertolucci elicited a superb performance from Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris.
Release TBC
A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg may be best known for body horror, but the Canadian is delving into the world of psychoanalysis with this film about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, adapted from Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure. Viggo Mortensen plays Freud while Michael Fassbender is Jung. Keira Knightley is the patient and later psychoanalyst whose intimacy with Jung provokes tension between him and Freud.
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Hergé's tufty-headed Belgian reporter is played by Jamie Bell in Steven Spielberg's film version of some of his adventures. It's a film with a very strong British involvement. Alongside Bell, Andy Serkis is cast as Captain Haddock, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the Thompson twins, there's a role for Daniel Craig, and the writers number two British talents (Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish) and one Scottish (Steven Moffat) heavyweight.
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The Moth Diaries
Mary Harron (American Psycho) has written and directed this adaptation of Rachel Klein's vampire novel. The film, starring English model-turned-actress Lily Cole and Sarah Bolger, promises to be a cross between a supernatural gothic chiller and a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl faced with her emerging sexuality. As Twilight has shown, teen vampire films have huge allure at the box-office. If it works, The Moth Diaries could start a cult all of its own.
Visual arts by Laura Mclean-Ferris
The films of the young Israeli-born artist create a kind of lo-fi poetry with their mixture of existential dialogue, bad acting and theatrical symbolism. Occasionally, she manages to create an emotional atmosphere with her films that is moving and hard to describe.
David Roberts Art Foundation, London (www.davidrobertsartfoundation.com) 14 January to 12 March; Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (www.pilarcorrias.com) 14 January to 10 February
Modern British Sculpture
It's definitely time for a rethink about British sculpture over the last century, and the Royal Academy has taken it on. Empire, landscape, history and the influences of other countries will be explored in a major exhibition linking Barbara Hepworth, Richard Long and Damien Hirst.
Royal Academy, London (www.royalacademy.org.uk) 22 January to 7 April
Jack Goldstein/Anne Collier
Two unrelated but complementary exhibitions from the excellent Nottingham Contemporary, featuring two masters of appropriated imagery. The late New York artist Jack Goldstein is extremely influential among artists for his performances and videos, and Anne Collier's photographs have a seductive psychological quality.
Nottingham Contemporary (www.nottinghamcontemporary.org) 22 January to 27 March
John Stezaker is one of Britain's most important artists. In collaged images of classic movie stars, sometimes with cliffs or waterfalls for faces, he investigates the seductive power that images have over us, and makes this power appear by turns threatening, magical and melancholy.
Whitechapel Gallery, London (www.whitechapelgallery.org) 29 January to 18 March
Susan Hiller is interested in our ability to represent or imagine strange phenomena: the occult, the paranormal and the ghostly. Psi Girls, her otherworldly video installation featuring examples of young women with telekinetic powers from cinema, is included in this retrospective.
Tate Britain, London (www.tate.org.uk) 1 February to 15 May
Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York, 1970s
Gordon Matta-Clark cut a building in half, Trisha Brown choreographed a piece performed on rooftops and Laurie Anderson played the violin wearing ice skates frozen in a block of ice. A poverty-stricken New York City was the fabric from which these three artists made their work.
Barbican, London (www.barbican.org.uk) 3 March to 22 May
Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens
A major new gallery for sunny Margate, designed by David Chipperfield, opens in 2011. The opening group exhibition is based around a little-known painting by J M W Turner, depicting a dramatic volcanic eruption that he never witnessed, so as to investigate the ability of the imagination to envision the unknowable and the fantastic.
Turner Contemporary, Margate (www.turnercontemporary.org) 16 April to 4 September
Gerhard Richter: Panorama
The first major retrospective in London of the German artist Gerhard Richter, who resuscitated painting with photorealism, blurs, squeegees and unparalleled history paintings. Expect this to be a truly substantial exhibition.
Tate Modern, London (www.tate.org.uk) 6 October to 8 January 2012
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
Although this will surely spell enormous queues, it will be for good reason: it promises to be the most complete display of Da Vinci's paintings ever held, and includes the recently restored The Virgin of the Rocks. Full of subtle wonders, this will be a blockbuster if ever there was one.
National Gallery, London (www.nationalgallery.org.uk) 9 November to 5 February 2012
Dulwich Picture Gallery's 200th Anniversary Year
A fantastic year of celebrations for England's first public gallery. Dulwich will borrow paintings from the Prado, the Ufizi, the Met and more to exhibit one masterpiece every month: from Vermeer to Velázquez. An exhibition pairing Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin promises to be revelatory.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk)
Television by Tom Sutcliffe
Famous and Fearless
Eight celebrities compete in a live two-hour show in a variety of "urban action sports", including BMX and monster truck-racing, target abseiling and street luge. Chris Evans and Clare Balding present. Expect a lot of shouting and the odd hospitalisation.
2 January, Channel 4
The Sinking of the Laconia
The overdue return of one of Britain's best television writers, Alan Bleasdale, with a two-part drama about the sinking of a British troop ship – and the decision of the U-boat commander who sank it to ignore his standing orders and rescue the crew.
6 & 7 January, BBC2
Navel-gazing comedy series starring Matt LeBlanc as himself, about a British sitcom-writing team (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig) and the humiliations they endure when the show is remade for American television. Written by David Crane (Friends) and co-produced with Showtime in America, it sounds like a recipe for disaster but is actually very funny.
Starts 10 January, BBC2
10 O'Clock Live
David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne team up to produce a live, topical "comedy and current affairs" show. Think Newsnight with a steady laugh-track. Adrian Chiles is doing something similar for ITV in That Sunday Night Show but this is probably the one to watch.
Starts 20 January, Channel 4
Four-part Peter Kosminsky drama in which an 18-year old Londoner visits Israel with a friend, and investigates her grandfather's experience as part of the British peace-keeping force in Palestine just after the war. Kosminsky's reputation as a director who heads to the hottest part of the battlefield is likely to be further consolidated.
February, Channel 4
Marchlands
Five-part ITV ghost story, based around three different families who successively occupy the same house – in the Sixties, the Eighties and the present day – all of them touched by the mysterious death of the daughter of the first family.
February, ITV1
Twelve families compete to win a house in a rural village; the community itself votes on who gets to stay. The rural escape seems to be a theme: BBC2 is offering A Farmer's Life for Me, in which nine couples compete to win a smallholding rent free for a year.
If you've lost touch with your family because you wanted to, look out. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present a series which sets out to reunite divided families. "Heart-warming, emotional and life-affirming," says McCall – surely warning enough. But it's created by Wall to Wall, who made Who Do You Think You Are?, so it might work.
TBC, ITV1
Faulks on Fiction
A four-part series about the history of the British novel, presented by Sebastian Faulks and avoiding the timeline approach by considering the genre through four of its archetypal characters: the Hero, the Lover, the Snob and the Villain.
TBC, BBC2
How TV Ruined Your Life
A six-part series from Charlie Brooker, exploring the fairground mirror British television holds up to reality, and how misguided it can be to treat the images you see on screen as a decent likeness.
Wonderland: Suburbia in Therapy
The film-maker Zac Beattie and the animator Jonathan Hodgson collaborate to take us inside the process of relationship counselling, fitting documentary sound to animated images. "Creature Discomforts", you could say.
Classic & opera by Edward Seckerson
Infernal Dance – Inside the World of Bela Bartok: Philharmonia Orchestra/Salonen
Bartok's music was the great driving force in 20th-century music. It sprang from the land, through the songs and dance rhythms of grass-roots Hungary, and powered its way into the urban landscape of the composer's exile in the US. The Miraculous Mandarin ballet opens this year-long retrospective.
Royal Festival Hall, London (www.philharmonia.co.uk) 27 & 28 January
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel
A chance to hear at first hand the work that is so stirring up La-La-Land. Dudamel's first London concerts with the LA Philharmonic would seem to have been programmed to draw comparisons with the young Leonard Bernstein: Bernstein, Beethoven and Mahler will separate the musician from the publicity.
Barbican, London (www.barbican. org.uk) 27 & 28 January
Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Gardner
English National Opera's brilliant young music director stands before the high altar of one of the great works of the English choral repertoire. Gerontius' life/death struggle is both intimate and communal in the best sense.
Royal Festival Hall, London (www.southbankcentre.co.uk) 26 March
Wagner – Die Meistersinger: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Only the second Wagner opera ever to be presented at Glyndebourne launches the 2011 season in style. David McVicar directs and Vladimir Jurowski conducts the heart-warming tale of romance and songsmiths in old Nuremberg.
Glyndebourne, Lewes (www.glyndebourne.com) 21 May to 28 Augustin rep
Verdi – Simon Boccanegra: English National Opera
The award-winning young Russian director/designer Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose sensational Bolshoi staging of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin was one of the best things to hit London in 2010, makes his ENO debut in Verdi's mature masterpiece. Edward Gardner conducts this tale of public feuding and private grieving, set against a turbulent backdrop of civil war.
London Coliseum (www.eno.org) 8 June to 9 July in rep
Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez & the Berlin Staatskapelle/ Daniel Barenboim in Recital
A summit meeting of two old musical sages at the Royal Festival Hall on the unlikely terrain of two oft-maligned romantic blockbusters: the Liszt Piano Concertos. And yet the wisdom of pairing Wagner with his most influential contemporary will doubtless yield a deeper satisfaction. The year's hottest ticket at Wigmore Hall comes two days later, as Barenboim takes on Liszt again, this time solo (and as yet unannounced) and as up close and personal as the concertos are swaggeringly public.
Royal Festival Hall, London (www.southbankcentre.co.uk) 13 June; Wigmore Hall, London (www.wigmore-hall.org.uk) 15 June
Nico Muhly – Two Boys: English National Opera
Nico Muhly and Craig Lucas' unsettling, topical new opera feels like a far more intriguing prospect than the much-publicised world premiere at the Royal Opera, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Richard Thomas's Anna Nicole. Teenage suicide by internet could hardly be more relevant right now, and composer Muhly is a sharp young communicator across a wide audience.
London Coliseum (www.eno.org) 24 June to 8 July in rep
Pop gigs by Andy Gill
With his forthcoming Computers and Blues album announced as Mike Skinner's last, The Streets' UK tour in February and March should be a celebratory affair with nary a dry eye in the house, mate, as he bids farewell and embarks on alternative career paths in the worlds of film and books.
18 February to 12 March
The most intriguing R&B prospect of early 2011 is surely the tour by Janelle Monae, the singer/ musician/dancer who previously worked with OutKast. Not the least fascinating aspect of the show will be how Monae manages to present the extraordinary range of styles on The ArchAndroid – from folk and glam to jazz and classical – within a single performance.
24 February to 1 March
Once barren of commercial success, the Bury-hailing rock band finally reach their goal with an arena tour. The layered melodies of their Mercury-winning The Seldom Seen Kid will sit alongside new songs set for release album scheduled for next year.
15 to 29 March
Those who answer the "Oasis or Blur?" Britpop war question with "Pulp" will revel in the news that the band are reuniting to headline Wireless festival at Hyde Park. Unlike many so-called reunions, this is the first Pulp show in 15 years – despite Jarvis Cocker's protestation that "Hell would have to freeze over first" – to involve all original members.
All Tomorrow's Parties: I'll Be Your Mirror
A potentially explosive reunion takes place at an ATP two-dayer at Alexandra Palace, where Portishead head a line-up including the reunited Company Flow, the Brooklyn hip-hop trio of producer/rapper El-P and MCs Mr Len and Bigg Jus, famed for the intelligent ferocity of their rhymes and the abrasive density of El-P's backing tracks.
23 & 24 July
Pop albums by Andy Gill
The Phoenix Foundation: Buffalo
There's a soothing, amniotic warmth about the music of New Zealand's psychedelic popsters The Phoenix Foundation, their enigmatic lyrics delivered by the frontman, Samuel Flynn Scott, with a laconic, offhand charm that recalls Damon Albarn. Cheerily downbeat dream-pop for dark times in need of a little light.
10 January (Memphis Industries)
The Decemberists: The King Is Dead
The Decemberists have been patiently expanding their following with each album, 2009's song-cycle The Hazards of Love finally cracking the US Top 20. A more stripped-down affair reflecting the influence of Neil Young, R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen, The King Is Dead should hoist them to Arcade Fire mega-cult status.
17 January (Beggars Banquet)
White Noise Sound: White Noise Sound
The Swansea sextet White Noise Sound deal in a blissed-out trance-music floating in the ethereal space where psychedelia meets krautrock. Their self-titled debut has a calm, oceanic presence, in which waves of sound swell gradually to climaxes of opiated majesty.
17 January (Alive)
Gang of Four: Content
The most eagerly anticipated comeback of the year is the Gang of Four, whose Content bristles with the familiar declamatory discontent, set to their trademark brusque, jagged funk grooves. The "Ultimate" edition comes with sachets of band members' blood, a scratch-and-sniff booklet, and "Rotoscoped photographs of the band's emotions".
24 January (Groenland)
Bruno Mars: Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Following his 2010 single successes with B.o.B., Cee Lo Green and on his own "Just the Way You Are", Bruno Mars looks set to be 2011's pre-eminent R&B star. Doo-Wops & Hooligans reveals the Hawaiian singer-songwriter to be adept at reggae, rock and Jack Johnson-esque laidback island strummers.
24 January (Atlantic)
Riz MC: MICroscope
Working over the pulsing grooves of Lazersonic and dubstep of Redinho, "Muslim skateboarding Marxist" Riz brings deft observational skills to his rhymes, using a blend of humour and honesty to comment on street attitude, cultural trends and gentrification in tracks such as "People Like People" and the upcoming single "All in the Ghetto".
31 January (Confirm/Ignore)
Jonny: Jonny
Euros Childs used to sing with Welsh acid-folk whimsicalists Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and Norman Blake with Scottish pop classicists Teenage Fanclub. Working together as Jonny, their debut album brims with lissom melodies and arrangements bubbling with the deceptively innocent insouciance of mid-period Beatles.
31 January (Alsatian)
Sea of Bees: Songs for the Ravens
Sea of Bees is Julie Ann Baenziger, a singer-songwriter from Sacramento who defies all the "California girl" stereotypes. Blessed with an idiosyncratic voice of keening fragility, and a distinctive slant on confessional songwriting, she played most of the instruments on this debut herself, including marimba and slide-guitar.
7 February (Heavenly)
East River Pipe: We Live in Rented Rooms
Painstakingly overdubbed on his lo-fi home recorder, the gently bitter tales of lowlife dreams told by F M Cornog, aka East River Pipe, occupy much the same territory as Bukowski stories and Edward Hopper paintings: melancholy, neon-lit missives from the underbelly of the American Dream.
15 February (Merge)
Miles Kane: Miles Kane
Miles Kane's debut finds the other half of The Last Shadow Puppets delving deeper into the area where the simple sincerities of Sixties bubblegum and psych-pop influences are given a sophisticated modern makeover. Reportedly produced by Gruff Rhys and Dan the Automator.
25 April (Columbia)
Books by Boyd Tonkin
We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
If the coming year proves to be a time of sober reckoning and hard scrutiny of the recent past, then Linda Grant's new novel will help us keep the score. From London in the age of affluence to Warsaw and LA, its family story sets good times and bad within the frame of drastic change.
20 January (Virago)
The Immortalization Commission by John Gray
Call it a sign of harsh times, but pessimistic views of modern ideals will loom large during 2011. John Gray is our sharpest critic of utopian fantasies on both right and left. From science to shopping, politics to philosophy, he skewers the crazed but enduring dream of cheating time, age and death.
27 January (Allen Lane)
The Tenth Parallel by Eliza Griswold
How do you invent the travelogue in an age of porous frontiers and uneasy globalisation? Eliza Griswold leads the way in this globe-circling tour around a single belt of latitude. As she shows, on it – from Nigeria to Sudan, Malaysia to the Philippines – Muslim and Christian cultures coexist or (sometimes) clash.
3 February (Allen Lane)
The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas
Always a nimble dancer on the edge of history and fiction, the Spanish writer returns with a closely researched but always dramatic account of the failed coup in 1981 that almost vanquished his country's fragile post-Franco democracy.
7 February (Bloomsbury)
Great House by Nicole Krauss
No US novel of 2011 comes trailing higher expectations than this multi-layered journey into memory and history. Nazi-occupied Hungary, Pinochet's Chile, modern London and New York, connect via a web of debts, dreams and secrets. Krauss's book seems destined to win the affections of readers for whom Michael Ondaatje and Anne Michaels set the standard for tapestries of private and public lives.
24 February (Viking)
Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso
If not quite (as the publisher claims) "Lolita from Lolita's point of view", Margaux Fragoso's memoir, a subtly crafted account of her 15-year involvement as a child and adolescent with a middle-aged man, asks urgent questions about the traffic between memory and art.
31 March (Penguin)
Rome by Robert Hughes
From Barcelona to Australia, the peerless art critic has also proved to be a cultural historian of terrific zest and panache. His tour of the Eternal City promises another Hughes classic of barnstorming narration and sophisticated critique.
9 June (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
India's latest superstar follows up his Man Booker-winning The White Tiger with a novel of corruption and transformation in Bombay. Broader in its scope and richer in its cast, his second book looks set to contribute a major addition to the illustrious shelf of fiction from the "maximum city" on the Arabian Sea.
16 June (Atlantic)
Ghost Milk by Iain Sinclair
Trust Iain Sinclair, East End literary archaeologist, visionary vagabond and grandaddy of the "psychogeographers", to get his Olympic revenge in early. His wander around ruined and forsaken "grand projects" amounts to an elegy for the Stratford follies a year before the Games begin.
7 July (Hamish Hamilton)
Young Prince Philip by Philip Eade
From Rupert Murdoch's less than deferential publishing stable comes this potentially explosive life of the Corfu-born "PoG" (Prince of Greece) during his energetic European youth as the offspring of a colourful clan.
15 July (HarperCollins)
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
Enfant terrible-turned-2010 winner of the hallowed Prix Goncourt, Michel Houellebecq, has lost none of his mischievous disdain for the follies of France – and the modern world. Deadpan, droll, savage, his wandering narrative matches satire aimed at the media and tourism with an odd kind of murder mystery.
1 September (Heinemann)
Comedy by Julian Hall
Sarah Millican: Chatterbox
The loquacious Geordie lass justifiably made it on to the shortlist for the Edinburgh Comedy Award this year. This tour will also include the recording of her first DVD – a rare accolade for a female comedian, even in the context of the current Vesuvial flow of comedy releases.
Touring 29 January to 20 April (www.sarahmillican.co.uk)
Tim Key: The Slutcracker
The first full tour from the winner of the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award. A master of the understated persona, Tim Key unlocks his audience with clever poems, one-liners and seemingly spontaneous attacks of whimsy.
Touring 15 February to 23 March (www.theinvisibledot.com)
Doug Stanhope
That this cult US "angry comic" can now play a venue normally reserved for the Bishops and the Manfords of the comedy firmament is a testimony to the growth of comedy in all its forms, but also to the renewed appetite for Doug Stanhope's own brand of erratic ire.
Hammersmith Apollo, London (venues.meanfiddler. com/apollo/home) 2 April
John Cleese: Alimony Tour
In a continuing bid to kit himself out with a financial cushion after his wallet-busting divorce from Alice Faye Eichelberger, the ex-Python legend will be silly-walking all over the country next year.
Touring 3 May to 21 June (www.thejohncleese.com)
Last time he was in the UK, in 1998, Seinfeld had to see off competition from the World Cup final to fill two shows at the Palladium. This time around the coast is clear for him to fill the 02, a feat that is fast becoming a rite of passage for UK acts.
02 Arena, London (www.kililive.com) 3 June
Alan Carr: Spexy Beast
While his TV ventures have had mixed fortunes and debatable charm, on the live stage Alan Carr is supremely accessible. His gossipy style flows more freely as he turns his hand from celebrity stories to more ordinary mores.
Touring 11 September to 6 November (www.alancarr.net)
Radio by Jane Thynne
The Genius of Mozart
The first 12 days of January will be an orgy of the nation's favourite composer as Radio 3 devotes its entire schedule to the works of Mozart. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will present a programme looking at her favourite Mozart arias and Sara Mohr-Pietsch will host Play Mozart For Me nightly, alongside recordings, documentaries, live performances and an acclaimed dramatisation of Mozart's life.
1 to 12 January, Radio 3
The Archers' 60th Anniversary
The world's longest-running serial drama turns 60 with record audiences of more than five million. In its time, royalty and celebrities have scrambled for guest roles, but frankly it's the regulars we love. (I'm looking at you, Brian). What with all the websites, books and online communities, The Archers is probably the first radio series to attain the status of parallel universe.
2 January, Radio 4
An entire day devoted to the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible with three documentaries in the week on the impact of the King James Bible on British culture and 28 readings, introduced by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Simon Schama and Will Self, and recorded by actors including Samuel West and Hugh Bonneville.
3 to 9 January, Radio 4
If you've missed head-hunting music from Papua New Guinea or Inuit throat singing you'll welcome the return of Andy Kershaw, who with Lucy Duran, will be seeking out the most esoteric of world music. The series accompanies BBC One's Human Planet, a new anthropological series, and promises everything from Madagascan sea shanties to Alpine yodelling.
From 13 January, Radio 3
The Early Breakfast Show
Vanessa Feltz will harness her formidable energy to host Sarah Kennedy's old slot on Radio 2 between 5-6.30am every weekday, before going on to host her Radio London morning show, and deputising for Jeremy Vine into the bargain. A shot in the arm for early risers, whether they want it or not, expect forthright views, intelligence, and relentless good cheer.
Vasily Grossman's 1959 novel, set around the Battle of Stalingrad and a German prison camp, is described by some as the greatest novel of the 20th century. Banned in the USSR, he died never having seen it published. The eight-hour dramatisation will fill every drama slot except for The Archers.
September, Radio 4
Dance by Zoë Anderson
American Ballet Theatre
A major company in a varied repertory, including the UK premieres of works by Alexei Ratmansky and Benjamin Millepied. The visit includes Balanchine's glorious Theme and Variations, Tudor's romantic drama Jardin aux Lilas and Paul Taylor's peppy Company B, danced to songs by the Andrews Sisters.
Sadler's Wells, London (0844 412 4300; www.sadlerswells.com) 1 to 6 February
At just 26, Molina is already a major flamenco star, with fierce authority and dazzling footwork. Her company's visit, with her latest show Cuando las Piedras Vuelen, is a highlight of the Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival.
Sadler's Wells, London (0844 412 4300; www.sadlerswells.com) 15 February
The Forsythe Company
William Forsythe is one of the world's most influential choreographers, famous for his wrenchingly athletic steps and postmodern games. I don't believe in outer space is a personal look at the nature of existence, set to a soundtrack by Thom Willems.
Sadler's Wells, London (0844 412 4300; www.sadlerswells.com) 22 & 23 February
Christopher Wheeldon's new work for the Royal Ballet adapts Lewis Carroll's famous tale, to a score by Joby Talbot. Wheeldon has dancers playing Wonderland characters and people from his heroine's real life: Edward Watson is both Carroll and the White Rabbit. The actor Simon Russell Beale will appear as the Duchess.
Royal Opera House, London (020 7304 4000; www.roh.org.uk) 2 to 15 March
The Most Incredible Thing
Electronic pop duo the Pet Shop Boys have always had an eye for art and performance. Now they've written their first ballet, based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale. The former Royal Ballet dancer Ivan Putrov will star, and choreography is by Javier de Frutos.
Sadler's Wells, London (0844 412 4300; www.sadlerswells.com) 17 to 26 March
2011 will be the year of the Alice ballet. Ashley Page's new version for Scottish Ballet starts with the heroine tumbling through a camera lens. Designs are by Antony McDonald, and Robert Moran contributes a new score.
Touring (www.scottishballet.co.uk) 12 April to 14 May
The Mariinsky Ballet
The artists formerly known as the Kirov return for a summer season. Highlights include Alexei Ratmansky's Anna Karenina, Balanchine's romantic Scotch Symphony and brilliant Ballet Imperial, Jerome Robbins' In the Night and an all-Fokine programme. The dancers will include Ekaterina Kondaurova, Uliana Lopatkina, Evgenia Obraztsova, Diana Vishneva, Vladimir Shklyarov and Igor Zelensky.
Royal Opera House, London (020 7304 4004; www.roh.org.uk) 25 July to 13 August
National Ballet of China
The Edinburgh Festival has an east/west theme this year, which will include a visit from the National Ballet of China dancing The Peony Pavilion, a sumptuously designed version of a classic Chinese love story.
Venues TBC, Edinburgh (www.eif.co.uk) 12 August to 4 September
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Cunningham, an icon of contemporary dance, died in 2009. His company will close after a farewell tour. Its final British dates will be part of London's Dance Umbrella festival – a last chance to see one of dance's great companies.
Venues TBC, London (www.danceumbrella.co.uk) Autumn
Theatre by Paul Taylor
David Hare Festival
Sheffield Theatres honour David Hare with an ambitious festival. Key works that range in date from the 1970s to the Noughties (Plenty, Racing Demon and – in its first major revival – the 2002 play The Breath of Life) will be presented simultaneously in all three auditoria by a top-flight team.
Sheffield Crucible and Lyceum Theatres (0112 249 6000; www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk) 3 February to 5 March
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller will alternate the roles of scientist and creature in this adaptation of Mary Shelley's urgently topical novel. After what he's jokily described as a 15-year "distraction" in film, the Oscar-winning Danny Boyle returns to his stage roots to direct.
National Theatre, London (0207 452 3000; www.nationaltheatre.org.uk) 5 February to 17 April
The Knot of the Heart
One of our most emotionally intelligent dramatists, David Eldridge returns to the Almeida (scene of his triumphant adaptation of Festen) with this play about a woman whose successful TV career and charmed life come unravelled through drugs. It stars Lisa Dillon (for whom it was written).
Almeida Theatre, London (0207 359 4404; www.almeida.co.uk) 10 March to 30 April
Spearheading the Terence Rattigan centenary celebrations, this rare production of Cause Célèbre stars Anne-Marie Duff as the real-life Alma Rattenbury, who went on trial with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. There will be several Rattigan revivals around the country, including In Praise of Love at Northampton's Royal and Derngate and The Deep Blue Sea at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.
Cause Célèbre: Old Vic, London (0844 871 628; www.oldvictheatre.com) 17 March to 11 June; In Praise of Love: Royal and Derngate (www.royalandderngate.co.uk) 1 to 23 April; The Deep Blue Sea: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds (www.wyp.org.uk) 18 February to 12 March
Betty Blue Eyes
Will Betty, the illegally reared pig, get to sing in the new musical version of A Private Function, the Alan Bennett movie about black market shenanigans in Austerity Britain? Cannily timed to open in the run-up to another Royal Wedding, the show will star Reece Shearsmith and Sarah Lancashire.
Novello Theatre, London (0844 482 5170) 19 March to 22 October
Deborah Warner makes her long-awaited return to the Barbican as associate with Sheridan's biting 1777 comedy about the vicious world of gossip. Anticipate surprises from a director renowned for blasting away the barnacles of tradition.
Barbican, London (020 7638 8891; www.barbican.org.uk) 11 May to 18 June
After their haunting collaboration on Water in 2007, the brilliant Filter Theatre Company re-team with David Farr for this devised piece using actors from the RSC ensemble. Following a British journalist to Moscow, it promises "a multi-sensory narrative about artists and their voices".
Hampstead Theatre, London (020 7722 8301; www.hampsteadtheatre.com) 12 to 28 May
Luise Miller
With successful West End transfers of Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, Michael Grandage has been a powerful advocate of the plays of Schiller. In his last season at the Donmar, he directs a rare revival of Luise Miller. Felicity Jones will star as the humbly born heroine lost in a world of greed and corruption.
Donmar Warehouse, London (0844 871 7624; www.donmarwarehouse.com) 8 June to 30 July
The inspiring National Theatre of Scotland has commissioned Andrew O'Hagan to adapt his penetrating meditation (part reportage, part memoir) on what it means to fall between the cracks of society and go "missing" in the modern world. John Tiffany, who was acclaimed for Black Watch, will direct.
National Theatre of Scotland (www.nts.org.uk) Autumn 2011
Michael Sheen is set to leave Blair and Frost far behind, as this electrically intelligent and dangerous classical actor makes his date with destiny and gives us what I predict will be one of the great Hamlets of our age. The excellent Ian Rickson directs from the fresh perspective of the new writing specialist.
Young Vic, London (www.youngvic.org) Autumn
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It´s better to avoid doing it on rush hour (6:30 a.m to 8:30 a.m and 4:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m) Hours of heavy traffic.
Lineal and mostly flat road, the difficulty level is set by each individual, there's no way of getting lost because after you go north-south on that road, getting to your destination will be a breeze. There are sidewalks throughout the whole road; since it's a main road connecting Medellin with Sabaneta and Envigado, the whole path is very secure because there's a vast amount of traffic around (people and cars).
Medellin's downtown is known by its huge commercial variety with lower prices, plus you get to get a closer look to the local cultural contrast. If you came to Medellin and didn't visit El Hueco, El Parque Botero, El Parque Bolívar, La Avenida Oriental, among others, is having done a half-visit to this city. If you're staying at a Poblado hotel, you may take the Avenida El Poblado going south-north to the San Diego's mall roundabout, then you have to look for a street called Palacé, keep going on the same direction south-north, that will take you downtown, keep going until reaching Medellin's heart.
There are two transversales: Superior and Inferior. They both give you access to Poblado's different hills, hills are, like their name state, perpendicular roads of mid-high level difficulty; but you'll have a different point of view of its neighborhoods when you go through them; they become interesting because they have small paths connecting into themselves. Although security has improved, it's better if you don't bring ant valuable objects.
As a tip, exercise for your memory and so you can learn how to move across El Poblado, (not a common thing on the locals), ty to remember the streets names and numbers. This will help you know the area better and you'll feel so proud to tell a cab driver which way to go, this will help you avoiding unnecessary turns.
You get to El Parque de La Bailarina by Calle 9 or 8, then you'll have two options: to the right where you'll see the Éxito supermarket or to the left by Patio Bonito's main church. Cross the little stream, go through Avenida Las Vegas, then you will see the Universidad Eafit, go across the big Aguacatala brigde, you'll pass by the Casa Teatro El Poblado, and a lot more places, making of this a great walk with different activities. You'll see another concept going a little further: Sabaneta.
Allow yourself to be surprised, go through an unknown road, it may take you to an unexpected or unknown place. But don't worry, you won't get lost thanks to the locals kindness!


Kathmandu, July 19: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was paid a courtesy call on by Ambassador of Qatar to Nepal Yousuf Bin Mohammad Al-hall on Wednesday.
In a meeting held at the Prime Minister's office, Singha Durbar, today, PM Deuba asked Qatar to improve relations with neighbouring countries through dialogue and discussion, shared PM's Foreign Affairs Adviser Dinesh Bhattarai.
On the occasion, PM Deuba had enquired about the security and welfare of around 400,000 Nepali workers in Qatar.


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The Anatomy of the External Jugular Vein
By Kristen Gasnick, PT, DPT
Kristen Gasnick, PT, DPT
Kristen Gasnick, PT, DPT, is a medical writer and a physical therapist at Holy Name Medical Center in New Jersey.
Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI
Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI, is a board-certified preventive cardiologist and lipidologist. Dr. Ali is also an award-winning writer.
The external jugular vein is a superficial vein of the neck that drains blood from the parotid gland, most of the scalp, and side of the face, then back to the heart. It also assists with blood flow down from the head when other major veins, like the internal jugular vein, are compressed or blocked. Complications affecting the external jugular vein are relatively rare.
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All veins carry deoxygenated blood from the organs, muscles, and other structures back to the heart. Veins typically have a lower blood pressure than arteries.
While their walls are thinner, veins are usually larger in diameter than arteries and hold about 80% of the body's total blood whereas arteries typically only circulate 20% of the blood.
The Anatomy of Jugular Veins
The walls of the external jugular vein consist of three layers:
The tunica adventitia, or the outermost layer of the vein, is the thickest layer composed of loose connective tissue that links to other tissues in the body
The tunica media, or the middle layer of the vein, is composed of collagen, elastic fibers, and smooth muscle
The tunica intima, or the innermost layer of the vein, is the thinnest layer of the vein's wall and is composed of an internal elastic membrane and connective tissue
The external jugular vein forms from the union of the posterior branch of the retromandibular vein and posterior auricular vein beneath the parotid gland at the area behind the angle of the mandible, or lower jaw bone, and beneath the auricle, or earlobe.
The external jugular vein travels from its origin at the angle of the mandible and crosses at a diagonal line across the sternocleidomastoid muscle of the neck. The external jugular vein ends at the middle of the clavicle, or collar bone, where it joins with the subclavian vein. It is a relatively superficial vein that is close to the skin surface under the platysma muscle of the neck.
While the internal jugular vein is a blood drainage pathway deep in the neck that is the main source of blood flow down from the head, blood drainage from the brain, head, and face can occur along multiple alternate routes, including the external jugular vein, to compensate if there is compression obstructing other channels.
The external jugular vein is a superficial pathway responsible for draining the blood supply from the parotid gland (the largest salivary gland), most of the scalp, and side of the face.
The external jugular vein joins the subclavian vein and internal jugular vein to form the brachiocephalic vein, which empties into the superior vena cava. The superior vena cava drains deoxygenated blood from the head, neck, and arms directly to the right atrium of the heart where it will be pumped to the lungs to become oxygenated again.
Blood Flow Through the Heart and Lungs
Complications affecting the external jugular vein are very rare, and very few conditions have been reported in medical studies. Although uncommon, malformations of the external jugular vein can occur and potential complications involving it include:
Aneurysm, or dilation of a blood vessel at least 1.5 times its normal diameter, occurs from weakening of the blood vessel walls. It occurs more commonly in arteries than in veins, and is a rare condition to occur in the external jugular vein with unknown origin. An external jugular vein aneurysm will produce swelling on the side of the neck that is usually painless and increases with coughing, straining, bending, or holding the breath. An aneurysm increases the risk of vein rupture and hemorrhage. Surgery can be performed to treat an external jugular vein aneurysm with excision and ligation, where the vein is removed and blood flow is blocked, or with exclusion and bypass, where the vein is closed off and blood flow is redirected elsewhere
Hemangioma, or a benign tumor made up of an excess growth of blood vessels, is extremely rare to occur at the external jugular vein with only 10 reported cases documented in published research. A hemangioma of the external jugular vein can produce a swollen lump on the side of the neck, but because a hemangioma is benign, no treatment is required. Surgical removal of an external jugular vein hemangioma can be performed for cosmetic purposes to improve the appearance of the neck
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de Oliveira JCP, Barreto FTR, Chimelli BCAR, de Oliveira LMP, Tavares RK, da Costa TFL, Souza DDBAE, Gutfilen B. External jugular vein hemangioma: case report. J Vasc Bras. 2019 Apr 17;18:e20180026. doi: 10.1590/1677-5449.180026
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Changes of empathy in medical college and medical school students: 1-year follow up study
Minha Hong1,2,
Won Hye Lee2,
Jae Hyun Park3,
Tai Young Yoon4,
Duk Soo Moon1,2,
Sang Min Lee1,2 &
Geon Ho Bahn1
This study aims to determine the correlation between medical education systems, medical college (MC) and medical school (MS), and empathy by investigating the changes in empathy among students with each additional year of medical education.
The subjects were MC and MS students who had participated in the same study the previous year. All participants completed the same self-report instruments: a questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics, and the Korean edition of the Student Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE-S-K), Among 334 students, the final analysis was conducted on the data provided by 113 MC and 120 MS students, excluding 101 with incomplete data.
The age and sex did not affect the changes in empathy. Though the JSE-S-K score of MS was significantly higher than that of MC in initial investigation, this study found no difference of empathy between MC and MS.
Empathy increased significantly after one year of medical education. The difference between two education systems, MC and MS, did not affect the changes in empathy.
It is important to determine the quality as well as the technical aspects of medical services. Empathy plays a key role in positive doctor-patient relationship and patient satisfaction, and contributes to optimal clinical outcomes [1, 2].
In medical education, empathy is considered to be an essential professional characteristic for clinicians [3]. One of the goals in a curriculum for medical education includes improvement of empathy [4]. There has been a number of studies reporting on changes in empathy and empathy-related factors after medical training experience [5–10]. Many of them [6–8]. reported that a student's empathy declined during medical school education and that one's attributes related to empathy, such as humanitarianism, enthusiasm and idealism, also decreased. According to a study on empathy of medical school students in the U.S. conducted with the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-Student Version (JSPE-S) [8], the empathy scores declined significantly during their 3rd year, which was their first full year of clinical experience. A study at Boston University School of Medicine [6] also found that empathy scores of the U.S. medical school students on the JSPE-S went down in their clinical years: the empathy scores increased during the year after school entrance, decreased slightly in the second year and decreased significantly in the third year (first clinical year). A further study conducted at Jefferson Medical College reported a similar finding; while empathy scores did not alter significantly during the first two years (preclinical years), they decreased during the 3rd year (first clinical year) and remained low until graduation [7].
However, a recent study on empathy performed with medical school students in Japan showed that the empathy increased between their first year and the end of training year [9]. A study on empathy of medical school students conducted at a Korean medical school also revealed that later years of training were associated with significantly better empathy [10]. One explanation for these different findings is that empathy increased as a result of differences in medical education system, but there has been insufficient number of studies to be confident that such a causal relationship exists.
The medical education system in Korea has gone through a period of transition. Most Korean medical colleges take a 6-year curriculum with 2-year of premedical course & 4-year medical course; the newly adopted medical schools take a 4-year curriculum, much similar to that of the US. There is no regulation on undergraduate major of MS students before entry into medicine. We call an existing 6-year medical curriculum as medical college (MC) and another new medical education system with a 4-year medical course as medical school (MS).
In 2-year of premedical course, medical college (MC) students take classes of basic sciences such as biology, cell biology, and comparative anatomy, and of introductions to psychology, oriental medicine, dental medicine, medicine, medical statistics, medical informatics, and behavioral science. The curriculum of 4-year of medical courses are almost the same in two systems, except that 1 or 2 classes about medical research and English are taken in medical school (MS).
In the initial investigation, the third-year students of both systems had significantly higher scores on the JSE-S-K than the first-year students and MS students had significantly higher scores on the JSE-S-K than MC students. The present study represented a follow-up to an initial investigation of comparing two medical education systems [10] and aimed to explore further the relationship between the medical education systems, of medical colleges (MC) and medical schools (MS), and empathy, by investigating the changes in the same groups of students after each year of medical education to determine whether the difference in empathy originally found between the two medical education systems was maintained one year later or not.
Subjects and data collection
The subjects were MC and MS students in the same medical course in the second, third and fourth year at Kyung Hee University in 2008, who had participated in the same questionnaire survey one year previously, in 2007 [10].
As was the case in the first questionnaire survey in 2007 [10], the students filled in the questionnaires just after the final examination of the second semester, in 2008. A total of 200 MC and 152 MS students were recruited for the first survey in 2007, but 57 students with incomplete answers were excluded, leaving the data of 155 MC and 137 MS students for the final analysis. The participants of this follow-up survey were 334 students, comprised of 187 MC and 147 MS students. After excluding those who provided incomplete data in the first survey (n = 57) and those in the follow-up survey who did not return their questionnaires (n = 31) or supplied incomplete data (n = 13), the final analysis for the current study was conducted on 113 MC and 120 MS students. The average age of MS students was significantly higher than that of MC students (27.0 ± 2.6 vs. 23.8 ± 1.7, p < 0.05), and the percentage of females of the participants was higher in MS students (62.5% vs 24.8%, p < 0.05). This study was approved by Institutional Review Board of Kyung Hee University Hospital.
Korean edition of the Student Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE-S-K) [11]
The JSE is a scale developed by Hojat et al. [12] to assess empathy of medical school students (JSE-S) and physicians and health professionals (JSE-HP). The JSE-S-K is a self-report rating scale consisting of 20 items covering 18 areas of emotion and two cognitive areas. Each question is answered on a seven-point Likert scale, and the maximum score is 140 with higher scores indicating higher empathy. The internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) of the JSE-S-K was reported to be 0.82 (p < 0.05), 0.85 (p < 0.05) and 0.73 (p < 0.05) for the total scale, and the emotion and cognition items, respectively [11].
Chi-square and Student's t tests were conducted to examine the differences in socio-demographic variables between MC and MS students. A mixed effect ANOVA was performed to investigate changes in JSE-S-K scores over one year by medical education system and year of study. A p-value of <0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance.
Sociodemographic characteristics and changes in empathy
Male and female students did not differ (p = 0.95) on changes in JSE-S-K scores between the first and second survey (Table 1). The correlation of the age of students with change in empathy was not significant (r = −0.045, p = 0.494).
Table 1 Comparison of changes of JSE-S-K scores by sex
Changes in empathy by year of training and medical education system
A mixed ANOVA was performed to examine changes in empathy scores over one year between grades and medical education systems. The main effect of time (F = 6.81, p = .01) was statistically significant, but none of the interaction effects were significant among within-subject variables. There were no significant differences among between-subject variables. These results shows that empathy scores significantly increased over the one-year period between 2007 and 2008 surveys regardless of year of training or medical education system (Table 2).
Table 2 Comparison of JSE-S-K scores between MC and MS
The present study found that changes in empathy were unrelated to gender. Similar findings were reported in the study by Lee et al. [10] on Korean medical school students and one by Hong et al. on Korean psychiatric residents [13]. The conflicting results compared to previous Japanese, American, and Italian studies [9, 14, 15] are considered to be come from cultural differences. Another effect of cultural differences is the mean scores of JSE-S. In this and previous studies of Korea [10], the mean JSE-S scores were 108.14 and 110.09, which were lower than that of the U.S., range of 109 to 123 [5, 7, 8]. It is assumed that the feeling and expression of empathy are culturally varied, and therefore essential further global studies to demonstrate.
There has been inadequate amount of attention paid to the literature on empathy development in medical education, leading to a lack of knowledge on how medical education may modulate empathy [16]. Further research is needed to examine this hypothesis.
This follow-up study, which was conducted one year after the initial study by Lee et al. [10] found that no significant score differences in JSE-S-K scores between the two education systems. This important finding is that empathy improved significantly after one year of medical education, regardless of the year of study and the medical education system.
After a thorough examination, it was suggested that a class entitled 'Physicians in society', taken for 3 years by both MC and MS students, might have a positive effect on empathy development. This class is worth one credit and is a required subject for one hour per week. The class deals with medical ethics, doctor-patient relationships, and communication; the course contents are thought to improve the students' attitudes towards patients, their understanding of ethics, and their capacity for empathy. Although their course content was not specifically related to medical practice, Fernández-Olano et al. [17] showed that a 25-hour workshop program involving training in general communication and empathy skills increased the JSPE scores of medical students and medical residents by 5.31 points. In review of 11 relevant studies, Colliver et al. [13] showed that the evidence does not warrant the strong, disturbing conclusion that empathy declines during medical education. Like the studies by Lee et al. [10] and Colliver et al. [13], this study found no negative effect of clinical experiences on empathy. Hong et al. [18] showed empathy in Korean psychiatric residents was higher in senior residents. Cultural or educational differences between the East and the West could be assumed to be the reason for these conflicting results, and the positive factors for improving empathy needed to be determined. Furthermore, the exact mechanism how the class 'Physicians in society', affects empathy should be determined in future studies comparing groups taking the class or not.
In addition, the finding that every student group did show an absolute change but only individual year (MC students 3rd to 4th ) had a statistically significant change in JSE-S-K scores may be interpreted in point of the effect size, Cohen's d value (Table 2) [19]. The MC student groups showed small effect sizes while the MS student groups did not reach meaningful level. In other words, the MC groups improved more than MS groups during a year of medical education while MS groups showed higher JSE-S-K scores than MC groups at initial investigation. Overall, a maturation effect resulting from age gap between two systems cannot be ruled out and should also be examined in further studies.
One of limitations of this study was that it was conducted at a single medical school and a single medical college rather than on a representative sample of national MC and MS students. In future studies, a more representative sample of students from regional or national schools of medicine is necessary. A second limitation is indirect measure of empathy by using JSE-S-K assessing beliefs or attitudes about the importance of empathy and emotion in medical practice. The specific relation of the JSE-S-K in real medical practice may be examined by complementary tools such as supervisor ratings or peer reviews in further research. The third limitation is that the participants of 2007 and 2008 studies were not exactly the same group as they completed the questionnaire anonymously. However, Tsimtsiou et al. [20] showed that no significant demographic differences were noted as the sample source was the same.
In spite of these deficiencies, this follow-up study improves upon the cross-sectional limitations of the initial study [10] by providing an evaluation of changes in empathy over a one-year period.
The main finding of this study was that empathy in medical students increased significantly after one year of medical education. The differences between gender, age and in particular, medical education systems did not affect the changes in empathy.
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Mark Levine of Huffington Post has written an in-depth look at "Iron Maiden: Flight 666", the forthcoming feature-length documentary film which follows the IRON MAIDEN bandmembers on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" in February and March of 2008 as they experienced the most ambitious and adventurous trek in rock history. An excerpt from the article follows below.
"You've never experienced 'The Trooper' or 'Run To The Hills' until you've heard IRON MAIDEN perform them in front of 15,000 screaming Muslim metalheads in Dubai. Or so I thought as I stood in the middle of an ecstatic crowd in the sands of the Dubai Desert Rock Festival a few miles outside of the city center in the middle of a crowd of fans who knew every word to every song the band played. So powerful was the sense of community and shared identity the band's music brought to the audience on a hot March evening in 2007 that many audience members were crying.
"Standing only a few hundred miles from Iraq, in a region that has experienced more than its share of colonialism, oppression, and meaningless violence, it seemed natural that the complex and ambivalent visions of war, death and imperialism that characterizes some of MAIDEN's most famous songs would be more resonant in the Middle East than almost any other place on earth.
"Last Thursday night I learned how myopic my vision of IRON MAIDEN's impact has been. I was lucky enough to be invited to attend a screening of the soon-to-be released documentary, 'Flight 666', produced by the team of Scott McFayden and Sam Dunn, who've seemingly singlehandedly brought the power of metal to the world's attention with their films 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey' and 'Global Metal'.
"'Flight 666' is not merely a concert film, although there is more than enough music to keep even the most ardent MAIDEN fan head banging throughout its two hours.
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Gloucestershire food producer launches new vegan lines onto GWR trains
By Matt Hall | 13th January 2020
Stroud-based Kitchen Garden Foods, the brains behind the Wolfys porridge brand, have secured a new listing with GWR trains for their vegan range.
Commercial director and joint owner, James Horwood said: "We have been supplying GWR for a number of years now, but this is the first time we have listed the vegan range on board.
"There was huge demand for more vegan breakfast options onboard trains and as our non-vegan range has been selling so well for years, it seemed like a logical move to encourage GWR to try a vegan offering.
"They agreed, and listed the Strawberries & Cream Porridge for breakfast, and Garlic & Herb couscous for lunch offering. The product launched towards the end of November and initial sales have been strong. In addition, feedback from GWR passengers on social media has been overwhelmingly positive!
"It's a great move by GWR and shows they're forward thinking and care about their customers desires"
James Moinet, operations director and joint owner added: "The number of people following a vegan diet has increased substantially in the last few years. Historically, vegan food has always been a bit bland and boring, and we're pleased to be changing that with our creamy and indulgent vegan porridge and flavoursome couscous pots!
"Every pot of our porridge contains a little pot of jam to swirl into the oats, and the couscous contains a pot of chutney or relish. You only need hot water, so its perfect served on board Great Western Railway."
Wolfys also supply a smaller-sized Wolfys on board the first class carriages on GWR trains.
James Horwood said: "If you travel first class, you'll be able to try our exclusive Golden Syrup Wolfys and we're currently working on a vegan pot for first class customers. You cannot get the Golden Syrup pot anywhere else."
Wolfys has seen excellent success since its conception with national listings including Waitrose, CO-OP, Booths, Ocado, GWR Trains, East Midlands Trains, Flybe (crew bags), Eurowings and hundreds of independent coffee shops and retailers.
Kitchen Garden Foods, who own and manufacturer the instant porridge & couscous pots in Gloucestershire was founded in 1989 and has seen fantastic growth in its Wolfys brand since the brands conception in 2013.
They employ around 24 staff at their production facilities in Stroud and have received over 100 awards for they do.
For more information, visit www.wolfys.co.uk, email admin@wolfys.co.uk or call 01453 759612.


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Canada's Supreme Court upholds religious freedom
by Peter Westmore
In a landmark decision with implications for the debate over religious freedom in Australia, Canada's highest court has ruled that the secularist government of Quebec denied religious freedom to a Catholic college, in relation to a mandatory course on Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC).
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The province's education ministry insisted that the Ethics and Religious Culture course had to be taught only from a secular perspective.
Loyola College, established by the Jesuits in the 1840s, applied for an exemption from this requirement, and proposed teaching the course from a Catholic perspective, which was respectful of other faiths and traditions.
The ministry refused to give the college an exemption, and insisted that the Catholic school comply with the government's position, despite the fact that the law establishing the course made provision for exemptions.
The college appealed, and the matter ended up in the Canadian Supreme Court.
The college was supported by a number of other Christian churches and faiths, including the Canadian Council of Churches, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the Christian Legal Fellowship, the World Sikh Organisation of Canada, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Montreal, and the Catholic Church.
Unanimous view
All seven of the Supreme Court judges held that the government of Quebec had denied the right of freedom of religion protected by Canadian law.
Three of them held that the province's action was unlawful and should be overruled completely.
The majority held that the matter should be referred back to the province to negotiate with the college.
The majority decision said: "The context in this case is state regulation of religious schools. This raises the question of how to balance robust protection for the values underlying religious freedom with the values of a secular state.
"The state has a legitimate interest in ensuring that students in all schools are capable, as adults, of conducting themselves with openness and respect as they confront cultural and religious differences. A vibrant, multicultural democracy depends on the capacity of its citizens to engage in thoughtful and inclusive forms of deliberation.
"But a secular state does not — and cannot — interfere with the beliefs or practices of a religious group unless they conflict with or harm overriding public interests. Nor can a secular state support or prefer the practices of one group over another.
"The pursuit of secular values means respecting the right to hold and manifest different religious beliefs. A secular state respects religious differences, it does not seek to extinguish them."
The judges added: "Loyola is a private Catholic institution. The collective aspects of religious freedom — in this case, the collective manifestation and transmission of Catholic beliefs — are a crucial part of its claim.
"The Minister's decision requires Loyola to teach Catholicism, the very faith that animates its character, from a neutral perspective.
"Although the state's purpose is secular, this amounts to requiring a Catholic institution to speak about its own religion in terms defined by the state rather than by its own understanding.
"This demonstrably interferes with the manner in which the members of an institution formed for the purpose of transmitting Catholicism can teach and learn about the Catholic faith.
"It also undermines the liberty of the members of the community who have chosen to give effect to the collective dimension of their religious beliefs by participating in a denominational school."
'Illusory'
The court pointed out that the program was intended to give flexibility to religious schools to implement the program in their own ways.
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"The department's own publications support the conclusion that the legislative and regulatory scheme is intended to operate in a way that respects the religious freedoms of individuals and groups in the school system.
"In a 2005 ministerial proposal, the Minister stated that '[r]especting the fundamental right to the freedom of conscience and religion is the basis of all ethics and religious education'."
The judges added, "By using as [the] starting point the premise that only a secular approach to teaching the ERC Program can suffice as equivalent, the protection contemplated by the exemption provision at issue was rendered illusory.
"The legislative and regulatory scheme is designed to be flexible and to permit private schools to deviate from the generic ERC Program, so long as its objectives are met.
"The Minister's definition of equivalency casts this intended flexibility in the narrowest of terms, and limits deviation to a degree beyond that which is necessary to ensure the objectives of the ERC Program are met. This led to a substantial infringement on Loyola's religious freedom."
"In the context of the present case, Loyola's teachers must be permitted to describe and explain Catholic doctrine and ethical beliefs from the Catholic perspective.
"Loyola's teachers must describe and explain the ethical beliefs and doctrines of other religions in an objective and respectful way.
"Loyola's teachers must maintain a respectful tone of debate, but where the context of the classroom discussion requires it, they may identify what Catholic beliefs are, why Catholics follow those beliefs, and the ways in which other ethical or doctrinal propositions do not accord with those beliefs."
The Supreme Court decision has galvanised the Christian community of Canada against militant secularists who are determined to drive Christianity out of the public square.
Parents' rights
In a comment on the case, Derek From, a lawyer with the Canadian Constitution Foundation, said: "Imagine from the perspective of a parent who has decided his or her child should get a private religious education.…
"Even though private school can be expensive, your religious beliefs are of fundamental personal importance, so you decided the expense and sacrifice [are] worth it.
"How would you react if the government forced your children to learn precisely that content which you were seeking to avoid by taking your child out of the public system?"
He added: "Displacing individual rights to achieve a state goal is hardly laudable.
"In fact, it's the blueprint for history's most atrocious violations of human rights. And if parents can't be trusted to make these decisions for their children, why should legislators be?
"These legislators assume they are the elites who know what's best. There are few more obvious examples of significant state interference with the parental rights, school choice and religious freedom of parents than the ERC course....
"Quebec's goals may seem innocuous to most of us, but the principle behind it is unsettling — that government knows best and has licence to mould upcoming generations into compliance, without regard to individual liberties."
He concluded by saying that the Supreme Court of Canada "has done its duty to Canadians by blocking Quebec's attempt to indoctrinate students, and allowing Loyola to maintain its Catholic perspective on significant portions of the ERC course materials".
Commenting on the court judgment, former Loyola principal Paul Donovan, who initiated the college's fight against the course, said: "The Ethics and Religious Culture program is a way to teach students to recognise the value of others and pursuit of the common good.
"These are laudable goals that we share and wish to inculcate in our students. However, we do not believe that religious values in the context of our school need to be suppressed to accomplish this."
In a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand, people and businesses owned by people holding sincere religious beliefs have been found guilty of breaching the rights of others who hold conflicting views.
In Australia, there are parallel attempts by the state to enforce its secular agenda on people with religious beliefs.
In Victoria, a religious organisation which owned a holiday-camp was found guilty of breaching the law when it declined to make its facilities available to a local government organisation supporting same-sex-attracted youth. There were numerous other holiday camps available at the time.
In Queensland, a motel's owners were found guilty of breaching the supposed human rights of a prostitute to run her business from its premises. The conviction was overturned on appeal.
Another example is the "Safe Schools" anti-bullying program, which is being promoted in both government and non-government schools. It supports the normalisation of homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual behaviour among schoolchildren.
Another is found in Section 8 of the Victorian Abortion Law Reform Act 2008, which requires doctors, nurses and pharmacists to participate in abortions, or to refer people to others who will perform the procedure, even if they have a medical or conscientious objection.
Peter Westmore is national president of the National Civic Council.


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A £370,000 carriageway resurfacing scheme on the A25 Newry Road, Newtownhamilton will start next Monday, February 25.
The resurfacing work will extend a distance of approximately 1.25 kilometres from Shambles Lane to Whiterock Road.
The scheme will deliver significant improvements to both the structural integrity and surface of the road.
Due to the nature of the scheme it will be necessary to operate a daily weekday road closure between the hours of 9am and 4.30pm from Monday, February 25 until Friday 15 March.
During these times a diversion will be in place via Newtown Road/Newry Road/Mountain Road/Crossmaglen Road/Newry Road/Silverbridge Road/New Road/Dundalk Street/Armagh Street/Markethill Road and vice versa. The road will be open to traffic in the evenings during the week and all day Saturday and Sunday.
In order to help ensure the safety of road users and road workers the public is asked to comply with all temporary traffic restrictions and to drive with care when travelling through, or in the vicinity of, the works.
The Department has programmed the work and traffic management arrangements to minimise any inconvenience, however, drivers should expect some delays and are advised to leave additional time when planning any journeys.
Work is expected to be completed by 15 March, however, this will be dependent on the progress of the scheme and on favourable weather conditions.
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This week, Hal, Danielle and Lindsey by Rob Van Dam. He's been a part of the wrestling industry since 1989. He's perhaps best known for his time in WWE where he beat John Cena for the WWE Title in 2005. Rob is also one of the founding members of the original ECW and is now a part of Impact Wrestling. We'll discuss Rob's career and what he's up to these days outside of the ring. Show notes
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Roman Reigns opened RAW with the announcement that he will be surrendering the Universal Championship since his leukemia has returned. This was the first time Roman had gone public with his diagnosis. His first encounter with the disease was 11 years ago.
Danielle and Hal discuss their reactions to the news, including why it affected them personally, their hopes for Roman's return and what this means for a Monday Night RAW and WWE that now has to move forward without their biggest full-time star.
Plus, the pair will discuss the lackluster build to Evolution. The booking has been slipshod and lackluster for the past several months. Outside of the novelty of a brand new women's only event, WWE hasn't done much to get people excited about this show. Add in the fact that it's happening so close to Crown Jewel, which won't include any women and will still air from Saudi Arabia, and it's hard to take the "women's evolution" seriously these days.
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Danielle put over Asuka and Naomi's fun moment in the Mixed Match Challenge.
Julian put over Samoa Joe's well wishes to Roman Reigns.
Hal put over Dean Ambrose's supporters after his heel turn.
Hosted by Danielle Radford and Hal Lublin.
Produced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun.
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This CLI script can stay running for days. How do i keep the mysql connection open? or before each mysql_query do i have to check if the connection is still open?
This is the error im getting:

MySQL Error: MySQL server has gone away

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I've never counted words or set goals, other than to write well and, ideally, to surprise even myself. I go days and days without writing sometimes, then write like crazy. That's how it works for me. If I can't you-know-what, I get off the pot for a while.
When I'm not writing, it's percolating. I hate it when the idea comes to me and I have no way of writing it down. You'd think by now I'd carry a small notepad and pen everywhere, but I'm too stupid to do that. Plus it doesn't work well in the shower.
Mozart worked best just before a deadline. (Contrary to the myths portrayed in the movie Amadeus and elsewhere, he did not always write effortlessly and abundantly.) He reportedly scratched out the overture to Don Giovanni the night before the first performance, with his wife keeping him awake with coffee and witty stories. (Though I wonder if this tale isn't made up. After all, Constanze telling witty stories?) Beethoven went on a dry streak that lasted from about 1809 to 1817. Not that I'd recommend this, but it shows even the best of us run out of fuel.
Katherine would calculate that she had never known her to write for more than ten minutes at a time. Ideas came to her chiefly when she was in motion. She liked to perambulate the room with a duster in her hand, with which she stopped to polish the backs of already lustrous books, musing and romancing as she did so. Suddenly the right phrase of the penetrating point of view would suggest itself, and she would drop her duster and write ecstatically for a few breathless moments; and then the mood would pass away, and the duster would be sought for, and the old books polished again. These spells of inspiration never burnt steadily, but flickered over the gigantic mass of the subject as capriciously as a will-o'-the-wisp, lighting now on this point, now on that.
I don't know if this describes Woolf's own way of working. In her diary, she states, "I find I write it by clinging as tight to fact as I can, & write perhaps 50 words a morning." Fifty words! A quota, yes, but not one most writers and aspiring writers would be happy with.
But I can say I've been there. Writing comes in drabs and spurts. I can't say I'll write a thousand words today. First of all, I have no idea when I hit a thousand words. It's not like a bell goes off. Second, I could count and write a thousand (or whatever number) words a day, but I wonder how many of those words would survive. If most of them are mowed down in the battle of revision, what's the point?
Usually when I write I multitask like crazy. I have several windows open on my computer. I'm online (to do frequent fact-checking). I know someone who makes sure she is disconnected from the Internet when she writes, as she considers it a distraction, and I recently read about Jonathan Frazen's rather severe method for writing—in a small rented room with almost no furniture and no distractions, with an old laptop that is not only not connected to the Internet, it cannot be. Franzen removed the wireless card and permanently blocked the Ethernet port by gluing a plug into it! That's going a little too far for my tastes, but whatever works, works.
However, word counts seem silly to me. I understand the necessity of making measurable progress, but it's not the number of words, but how good they are, that cheer or blacken my day. And some days I know a scene is going to be particularly tough, and it may take all day to get down a few thoughts. Other days the work is simple—exposition is often this way—and I bang out the pages.
Once I was writing, or rather re-writing, a scene from Entertaining Welsey Shaw. It required few changes from the previous draft. Most of it was just cut and paste, literally. Still, I felt deep inside it was not the killer scene it could be. It was a major moment that propelled us into act III, what screenwriter William Goldman would call "plot point two." After my cut-and-paste, which I don't really count as writing per se, I had a sudden jolt, and added two lines at the crucial point that weren't in the last draft. Those two lines changed the intentions of everyone at that moment, and made the interactions much more meaningful, even though they were just two very simple sentences, almost a throw-away. So technically I wrote just two sentences that day. But I consider it one of my best writing days ever.
† Note to Amazon: Just how many different Kindle versions of Night and Day do we need? Especially when Google Books has it online for free.
* Note to Virginia Woolf: Sorry, Ginny, but this novel was boring.
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" Plus it doesn't work well in the shower." A friend of mine keeps grease pencils (I think he uses that) in the shower to write with. It doesn't wash off from the water but still easy to remove. Then every so often he copies the stuff down and cleans it up. Works well for him.