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Posts from the 'Blurbs' Category
Hell on Earth
If there is a Hell on earth, the Austrian novelist Josef Winkler seems to be nominating his own country for that honor. Winkler's When the Time Comes is set in a small village in Carinthia in the south of Austria and the central figure in this novel is the bone burner, a man who fills "his satchel up with bones, especially in winter, when the farmers slaughtered their pigs and cows…"
All winter he kept the bones hidden from his dog in a niche in his goat pen. In spring, with the first thaw, before the draught horses were driven over the fields hitched to plows, the bone burner would rebuild his bone furnace. He would place the bone-filled clay vessel in a hole in the ground atop glowing coals, cover it with dirt and grass and let the bones simmer until they secreted the viscous pandapigl.
The pandapigl is then smeared with a crow's feather onto the bodies of the field horses to protect them from biting insects. In the mind of the anonymous narrator of When the Time Comes, the bone burner also adds the bones of the deceased members of the village into his pandapigl.
As the title implies, the abiding motif of the book is death – violent death, suicide, and, occasionally, death by "natural" causes. We read of death from drinking bleach, drowning, amputation, insanity, cancer, tuberculosis, heart attack, lung cancer, tractor accident, carbon monoxide poisoning, traffic accident, hanging, freezing, battle, and undoubtedly a few more ways that I failed to note.
The entire village seems adrift in time. With the exception of a half dozen mentions of a modern vehicle or television set and several references to World War II, everything in the book might be occurring in the middle ages. In a community "engulfed in spite, slander, and litigation," the villagers are filled with superstition, motivated by suspicion and religious intolerance, and embroiled in endless family quarrels. One group of old men, some of whom are veterans of the SS, annually reminisce on All Saint's Day about the old days when there were no "Turks or Yugos," no Jews or blacks, no vagrants or beggars, and no unemployment. "We need a little Hitler to bring back peace & quiet to the country. Someone needs to crack down!"
And yet, not everything is bleak and ugly. Winkler lovingly describes the rituals of childhood: decorating a Christmas tree, eating gooseberries and sweets, or getting a new book by Karl May (1842-1912), the German author of fanciful tales of far-away places like the American West.
After lighting the colored Christmas tree candles and the sparklers that hung in every corner the tree, throwing sparks over the branches and down onto the presents and deepening the pervading scent of spruce, they began to pray for their dead grandfather, and for their mother's three brothers who had fallen in the war, and tears drained from their eyes and snot from their noses, until their father, who led the prayers, began an Our Father and a Hail Mary for Aunt Waltraud, who had died two days before, still lay exposed in the Annabichler funeral home in Klagenfurt, and would not be buried until after Christmas. While the father, a little shortsighted, raised his trimmed eyebrows & wrinkled his forehead to read the nametags and pass out the presents, the children continued mourning Aunt Waltraud – she had come to visit one summer day & had brought the children their first ice creams, lemon, and vanilla, in an insulated box from her pastry shop. Their tears, tickling their cheeks & dripping down onto the boxes, softened the wrapping paper covering a flannel shirt, a pair of wool socks, or long underwear. Each one of them could take some sweets down from the Christmas tree, the children also gave the maid and the farmhand chocolate pine-cones and varicolored gelatin stars coated in sugar. Nor did Maximilian's sister neglect to give the stammering farmhand a chocolate half-moon and a pair of chocolate pliers. With their fingers, the children smoothed out the colored wrappings, printed with pine cones, chimney-sweeps, lucky clovers, rocking horses, frogs, and butterflies, and slid them as book marks into their storybooks and Karl May novels.
As this excerpt shows, Winkler's writing is delicious and exact and deeply rooted in the visible world. Winkler writes with the authority and conviction of an insider who once saw the world through a child's eye and who still might harbor thoughts of being capable of loving his fellow Austrians, but who simply no longer can. The hypocrisy he sees runs too deep. When the Time Comes is an indictment of a brutal and boorish society and an utter rejection of the cynicism of Catholicism, if not of all Christianity. The book is laced with quotations from two very different textual sources. The first set of quotations are ones that Winkler has apparently culled from Catholic songbooks. They represent some of the more bitter verses which serve as a reminder that sin, violence, and death are at the core of Catholicism ("She saw Jesus tied & pierced with a thousand wounds for the iniquity of man. She saw the son she had once nourished disgraced and abandoned, pale and thirsting on the cross."). The other set of quotations come from Baudelaire's poem "Les Litanies de Satan" (The Litanies of Satan) from Les Fleurs du Mal, a poem that, as Wikipedia nicely puts it, is a blasphemous "renunciation of religion, and Catholicism in particular."
In a review of When the Time Comes in The Guardian, Alberto Manguel briefly recounts a lunch he had with W.G. Sebald in 2000, during which he asked Sebald to recommend some Austrian writers. "Immediately he mentioned Josef Winkler, whose work he considered a counterweight to what he saw as Austria's moral infamy." Contra Mundum's publication of When the Time Comes, with a translation by Adrian West, has a blurb from Sebald planted on the back cover that originates in an essay published in 1990 on the Grazer Gruppe of writers, which includes Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke, and Gert Jonke, among others.
Josef Winkler's entire, monomaniac oeuvre…is actually an attempt to compensate for the experience of humiliation and moral violation by casting a malevolent eye on one's own origins.
The Case of the Posthumous Blurb
In the August 15, 2008 New York Times Book Review, Rachel Donadio wrote about the business of blurbing, that "tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith." Recently, Fourth Estate, a HarperCollins (UK) imprint, published a book by Philip Hoare called Leviathan – with an approving quote by W.G. Sebald. Since Sebald died in 2001, I was instantly curious.
Hoare has written on subjects as disparate as Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, and the Pet Shop Boys. In a profile of Hoare in The Telegraph, the unnamed writer says of Hoare that "reading WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn provided the intellectual authorisation to pursue the ghosts of himself through his writing – to translate his "inner text" more openly." On the HarperCollins website Hoare's Leviathan is described as "an extraordinary journey into the underwater world of the whale – to tie in with a BBC film-length documentary hosted also by the author," Below that is the Sebald quote:
'Philip Hoare's writing is quite untrammelled by convention and opens up astonishing views at every turn.' W.G. Sebald
The Sebald "blurb" is obviously not for Leviathan. Instead, HarperCollins describes it as "praise" for Hoare's earlier book, England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia, which first appeared in 2005, which is still four years after Sebald's death. So obviously, the sentence from Sebald was not truly "praise" for England's Lost Eden either.
One possible answer to the confusing posthumous blurb can be found in an obituary of Sebald written by Hoare and posted on the website of The Independent. There, while writing about "the sell-out talk given by W.G. Sebald on 24 September [2001] at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London – his last public event in England", Hoare mentions how his personal connection to Sebald came about.
Having published a somewhat obscure book on a military hospital earlier this year, I received a letter, out of the blue, in Sebald's elegant script (I later learnt that his dislike of computers ensured that all his work was done in longhand). In this, and subsequent letters, he expressed the kind of encouragement and complicity underlined when we met that September evening, as I followed him to his reception – he the last to arrive at his own party, surreptitiously drawing on a cigarette. Tall, precise, neat, he evinced professorial gravitas – yet when I had introduced myself, he greeted me with a tangible warmth, and promptly asked if I minded him stealing bits from my book.
The book that intrigued Sebald was Hoare's Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital published in 2001. At least one reviewer of Spike Island noted the kinship between that book and the writings of Sebald – Andy Beckett at The Guardian. A review by David Vincent on Amazon.co.uk suggests to me why Spike Island would have appealed to Sebald:
Hoare invests his tale with a gothic splendour, from the introductory history of the nearby Cistercian abbey that subsequently inspired operas, prints and tales, to his own pre-occupations, as a youth, with Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, David Bowie and then punk. At times he wears a brooding decadence on his sleeve like chevrons, as befits the author of Noel Coward and Wilde's Last Stand, but by bolstering his narrative with personal ballast, revealing intimate glimpses of growing up in a backwater, and the deaths of his brother and father, he also provides an evocation of the suburbs comparable to Edward Platt's Leadville. To a rewarding degree a reconciliation of Hoare with his origins and childhood environs, Spike Island speaks of the nature of fear and creeping memory, and lingers in the mind as hauntingly as the ghostly, shadowy presences it so movingly traces. David Vincent
So, it began to look to me as if the source for the Sebald quotes might have been contained in the letters he wrote to Hoare (suggesting that Hoare himself might have provided his publishers with the quotes). But as I kept probing, things got murky again. On the websites of several British booksellers (including Waterstone's and Foyles) I have located another quote attributed to Sebald on Spike Island and said to be from the Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year.
Spike Island is a book that has everything a passionate reader could possibly want – a subject that far transcends the trivial pursuits of contemporary writing, concerns both public and private, astonishing details, stylistic precision, a unique sense of time and place, and a great depth of vision. W.G.Sebald, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year
Curiously, though, while The Telegraph website does have a listing that for their Books of the Year for 2001, there is no mention of Hoare's book, nor is Sebald a contributor to the list. I have failed to connect the dots here. So here are two queries for readers of Vertigo.
First, can anyone shed any light on the suggestion that Sebald nominated Hoare's Spike Island for the Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year in 2001 (or any other year, for that matter)?
Second, is there actually a Sebald quote printed on the dust jacket of any of Hoare's books? (If so, I'll want to get first editions for my Sebald collection.)
NOTE: just as I finished this post I saw that Attic Fantasist has written a couple of posts about Hoare and Sebald in the last few days. Look for two posts on August 29 and another on August 24, 2008
English, English Everywhere
The inspiration for this book came from reading W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, an atmospheric semi-fictional account of a walking tour throughout East Anglia, in which personal reflections, historical allusions, and traveller observations randomly combine into a mesmerizing novel about change, memory, oblivion, and survival…I was frequently reminded of the serendipitous nature of language study, when reading that book.
So begins By Hook or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English (London: HarperCollins, 2007) by the eminent linguist David Crystal. Crystal leads the reader on a much-too-fun-to-be-educational meander across the highways and byways of the UK (with a brief stopover in the US), letting us in on his thoughts as he ponders the use, mis-use and history of the English language. Like Sebald, Crystal moves seamlessly between a multitude of subjects and disciplines, including English history, famous film locations, the cult TV series The Prisoner, 19th century bridge building techniques, pub signs, the dialects of bee language, absent-mindedness, elocution, place names, Lewis Carroll – well, you get it. Booklovers will enjoy his visit to the great book town of Hay.
Because I am a compulsive deconstructionist of blurbs, I was grateful that Crystal clued me in on the origin of the term. According to him a publisher proposed (unsuccessfully, apparently) to make the 1907 book Are You a Bromide? more appealing by putting an image of an attractive female on the front cover. His name for this female? Miss Belinda Bromide. And speaking of blurbs, HarperCollins took the easy way out on By Hook or By Crook by plastering the back cover with blurbs to one of Crystal's earlier books.I suppose they were thinking that with blurbs by Philip Pullman and J.M. Coetzee, why work any harder?
I do hope HarperCollins decides to release By Hook or By Crook in the US, but I suggest adding a roadmap…
I had to make a decision after Trawsfynydd. Should I turn east and cut across through Bala toward Welshpool? Or should I keep going on the A-470 south through Dolgellau and on toward Builth Wells?
Time for a coin toss.
One other point of inspiration that Crystal seems to have absorbed from Sebald is the use of photographs. By Hook of By Crook is peppered with two dozen snapshots that add to the sensation that the reader is sitting in the passenger seat while Crystal steers and rattles on. Most of the time I didn't know or care where we were, but it was always a pleasure to be at Crystal's side.
W.G. Sebald on Depression
One of the ways that I find books I am looking for is to post want lists on sites such as Abebooks.com and Biblio.com.This generates daily emails to me with lists of books, most of which I don't want or already own.Every once in a while, however, one of these notification emails leads me somewhere completely new and unexpected.Earlier this week, for instance, Biblio.com sent me a list of books by or about W.G. Sebald that had just been added to their website by some of their many member booksellers.Halfway down the list was this brief and abbreviated bookseller's listing for a used paperback:
"Solomon, Andrew. Noonday Demon, The.London, United Kingdom: Vintage, 2002. 'As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the mute …"
What did this book have to do with Sebald? Clicking on the link took me to the offering by an Australian bookseller, where I learned that Sebald had provided a blurb for the "Advance Praise" page at the front of the book.
Andrew Solomon is a widely respected writer and novelist, whose work I had seen in the New York Times Magazine.His book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (NY: Scribner, 2001) won a 2001 National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist the following year.
The blurb provided by Sebald riffs on the title of Freud's 1930 book Civilization and its Discontents: "The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it."
– W.G. Sebald, author of The Emigrants
The title phrase, by the way, originates in Psalms 91:5-6 ("Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.") When Solomon mentions earlier ways by which depression was referred to, including melancholia, a possible link to Sebald came to mind.Since the appearance of The Emigrants in 1996, Sebald had been the one contemporary writer inextricably linked with the arcane term melancholia.(Note that the only work attributed to Sebald in this blurb is The Emigrants, even though he had published several other important works by 2001.)I can imagine that the mere use of the world melancholy triggered the connection to Sebald as a candidate to provide "advance praise" for Solomon's book.The two authors shared one other connection, as well: the Wylie Agency, a prominent New York and London literary agency.
"Intense, uncompromising" – Blurbs by Sebald
One of the challenges for a completist book collector like me has been to figure out how to keep collecting Sebald after I had every one of his books (or at least every one that I could afford). Some directions were obvious and thus I started adding books about Sebald, books that anthologized Sebald, magazines in which his work had appeared… But when I came across Norbert Gstrein's The English Years, I saw yet another subset within my Sebald collection – books with jacket blurbs written by Sebald. I thought that, if nothing else, these books might shed light on Sebald's reading tastes or on the network of literary friendships that often lead to requests for blurbs.
In Sebald's own case, I think book jacket blurbs played a critical role in helping expand international awareness of his writing. And it was all because of of one book review – Susan Sontag's "A Mind in Mourning" (Times Literary Supplement February 25, 2000) – and the resulting blurbs by Sontag that appeared on some of Sebald's subsequent editions in English.I know that I picked up my first book by Sebald because of her imprimatur on the cover.
Sebald's first published blurb seems to have been for Foreign Brides by Moscow-born journalist and author Elena Lappin, which was first published in London in a hard cover edition by Picador in 1999, to be closely followed that year followed by an American edition from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Both contained the somewhat ambivalent jacket blurb by Sebald: "A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy." When the British-based Lappin's next book The Nose came out in 2001, Picador simply trimmed down and recycled the crux of Sebald's earlier blurb on the front cover: "A fearless sense of comedy."
The next occasion for a blurb seems to have been for the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance (NY: New Directions, 2000). Appropriately, the two blurbs on the back cover are from Sebald and Susan Sontag.Sebald's blurb reads: "[The Melancholy of Resistance] is a book about a world into which the Leviathan has returned. The universality of its vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing." The book was first published in English as a paperback by Quartet in London in 1998, apparently with the same blurb by Sebald although I have not seen a copy myself.The connection between Sebald and Krasznahorkai was made by Sebald's friend the poet and translator George Szirtes (born 1948), who has written in the Hungarian Quarterly of his experiences translating The Melancholy of Resistance and other books from the original Hungarian: "Asked by Quartet as to who might provide a suitable endorsement of the book, I gave the name of W.G. Sebald, then forgot to mention it to the man himself; so when he rang up one day to announce he had received the typescript I was full of apologies. He was not at all put out: he thought it was a marvellous book and was pleased to provide a few sentences." (George Szirtes, "Foreign Laughter." Hungarian Quarterly XLVI, No. 180 Winter 2005.)
Most likely Sebald's last true blurb was written for Norbert Gstrein's novel The English Years, which was published shortly after Sebald died (London: Harvill, 2002). Sebald is quoted on the front cover of the dust jacket: "An exceptional work of prose fiction: carefully crafted, unpretentious, and accomplished at the same time." The connection between the Austrian writer (born 1961) Gstrein and Sebald may well have been the translator they shared during 2001, Anthea Bell.
With the rediscovery of the writings of the German Gert Ledig (1921-1999), instigated in part by Sebald's discussion of his "unjustly forgotten" books in On the Natural History of Destruction, blurbs by Sebald have become standard issue as Ledig's books are translated into English and released on both sides of the Atlantic. By comparison with his brief earlier blurbs, the quotation on the back cover of Gert Ledig's Payback is a generous fifty words or so in length. In this case, however, the blurb is actually a patchwork quotation carefully extracted (and ever so slightly massaged for clarity) from a three-page span of Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction (see pps. 94-6 in the Random House edition). In addition, the top of the book's front cover is emblazoned with the two word quote from Sebald: "Intense, uncompromising."Payback (London:Granta, 2003), issued as a paperback original, was the first English-language appearance of Ledig's Vergeltung (1956).
Ledig's The Stalin Organ, also released as a paperback original (Granta, 2004), reduced Sebald's contribution to two words – "Intense, uncompromising" – but left them dramatically at the top of the front cover. This was the first English translation of Ledig's Der Stalinorgel (1955).When the New York Review of Books released this in America in 2005, the title was changed to The Stalin Front and the publishers reverted to a lengthier, albeit significantly different, quotation from On the Natural History of Destruction – and once again the transcription from Sebald's original book into blurb was rather loosely but strategically massaged.
Undoubtedly there are more blurbs by Sebald to be found and more to come as publishers mine his critical writings and his fame.


24 | January | 2012 | The Cineaste's Lament.
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Padraic Furlongs son asked me Saturday if I was going to the MTB race in Delphi so that was the first I heard of race Saturday morning.
Sundays weather was promised really wet and I didn't fancy a 3hr Sunday spin in those conditions, So I opted for the murkier wetter conditions of the MTB biking .
I borrowed Siobhan O' Malleys bike and headed off. I arrived and registered and just then the heavens opened "Jez what was I thinking"!
I headed out on a recce and soon realised I was mad in the head.
The route was modified from my last visit to Delphi the made it harder more technical. It was the 2nd round of the national league so I guess that's why.
We lined up and headed off, the girls were all together until I lost a shoe, that took a while to get myself sorted but when I did I took off didn't really have to think, just did it, which was a good thing.
I caught the girls on the climb but that was the way it would stay. We had 2 laps, 11km in total and it took an hour. So while it was different to the road it was a very enjoyable day out.
Thanks to Delphi resort, Connaught MTB biking and was a great race very well organised.


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How to Camp
How to Protect Yourself from Ticks
Learn how to protect against ticks from Heather Menicucci, author of Let's Get Primitive: The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping, in this Howcast video.
Unlike bears and snakes, which you probably won't encounter on most of your camping trips, you will come across ticks. Ticks are a serious issue. They carry Lyme disease or they can carry Lyme disease so you want to be prepared for if you do get bitten by a tick and you also want to be prepared and take precautions to make sure you don't get bitten by a tick.
Ticks are spiders. They're not bugs. They're actually arachnids and they come in different sizes, or there are different-sized ticks. Deer ticks, which are the ones that can carry Lyme disease are actually usually the size of a pinhead or smaller, but ticks can be as big as a pencil eraser.
The biggest thing you can do to prevent getting bitten by a tick is to cover up. So if you're going to be hiking or walking in any kind of tall brush, you want to make sure you're wearing pants. You should tuck your pants into your socks. If you're wearing shorts and it's summer, I would definitely wear tall socks. That's the way that ticks usually hitch a ride.
From there, ticks are going to look for dark, warm places on your body. Ticks end up in your armpits. They end up on your scalp, under your hair, on your belly. They're looking for a safe, warm place to live so you really should do regular and frequent tick checks. Check all those places religiously. If you've gone for a hike, at the end of the day, just make sure you're doing frequent tick checks.
If you find a tick, if it hasn't bitten you yet, you can just pick it and flick it off. If it's bitten you, that's where you have to be really careful. Because if you did get the tick with a tweezer, which is one of the most popular ways to remove a tick, if you tear the tick or break its body, if it's carrying a disease, the disease can actually enter your bloodstream. So if you're going to use a tweezer to pull a tick out, you want to make sure you get the whole body and you grasp the tick and twist it, and pull it out.
If you get bitten by a tick, you're not really going to know, most likely, if it's carrying Lyme disease. If it's a small tick, I would definitely go visit my doctor when I got back from my trip. Just make sure and see if you can get tested for Lyme disease. Lyme disease usually can present itself with the bulls eye style rash, but a lot of times it doesn't.
So you might get some other symptoms, feeling like you've got the flu. But I would say, even if I'm not getting symptoms, if I was bitten by a tick, I'd definitely go visit my doctor when I got back from the trip. But the biggest things that you can do are just to try to avoid getting bitten by a tick. That's cover up, do tick checks, and also a lot of people don't like bug spray, particularly bug spray with Deet in it.
Deet is the most powerful ingredient that wards away ticks. So if you're concerned about ticks, I would definitely get a bug spray and I would get one with Deet.
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At last night's Super Bowl, former GQ Style cover star Travis Scott (real name Jacques Berman Webster II) took his other monicker, "La Flame", seriously and burst onto the Atlanta stage in a flurry of flames. But it was his outfit that really created heat on stage, with a handful of the biggest streetwear names of this year.
Joining Maroon 5 on stage, Scott sported a signature look. First up was a piece of his own tour merch – an Astroworld logo cap. Thanks to Kanye West, whose own The Life Of Pablo line flew off virtual and pop-up shelves, tour merch now holds a steady place amongst hypebeasts (they're the people wearing the hottest trends FYI) and Scott was being his own best advert.
Next up he showed his support for Matthew Williams, through his Alyx x Nike mesh training top and Alyx leather trousers (à la Timothée Chalamet). Both Williams and Alyx are two of the names men serious about fashion need to know about. Williams is not only friends with Virgil Abloh and Heron Preston, but he also collaborated with Kim Jones over at Dior on consecutive seasons, producing a Christian Dior belt, cap and even beret clasps.
And speaking of French fashion houses, Scott was the first major figure to don a piece of Virgil Abloh's Autumn/Winter 2019 collection for Louis Vuitton. What did he go for? A larger than life, logo-tastic "Louie belt", which shows Abloh's personal streetwear inflection on the famed house.
To finish off? He proved the continuous value of a pair of Air Jordans, sending sneakerheads into a frenzy by slipping into a pair of as yet unreleased AJ 6 Cactus Jack kicks.


MG13 will take place at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden on July 1-7, 2012. Preregistration will take place Sunday, July 1, and the meeting will officially open Monday morning, July 2, when the Marcel Grossmann prizes will be awarded. During the six day conference a wide variety of topics will be discussed in the morning plenary sessions beginning with mathematical topics on Monday, quantum aspects of gravity on Tuesday, precision tests of general relativity on Wednesday, relativistic astrophysics on Thursday, cosmology and astroparticle physics on Friday and the latest scientific news and the history of physics Saturday. There will be five plenary lectures each morning and up to twenty parallel sessions in the four weekday afternoons excluding Wednesday, which is left free for a trip and the evening conference banquet. The plenary lectures will be held in the Aula Magna lecture hall and the parallel sessions at the AlbaNova University Center, both easily reachable by public transportation from the city center.
The local organizing committee is chaired by Prof. Kjell Rosquist. Together with the chairs of the International Organizing Committee, Prof. Remo Ruffini, and the International Coordinating Committee, Prof. Robert Jantzen, the first actions will be to announce a first draft of the plenary and parallel session programs including some chairpersons who have already volunteered, with others to be added later.
Major international sponsors, in addition to the Swedish universities, are IUPAP, ICRA and ICRANet, ICTP, TWAS, and all the universities and research centers participating in the joint Ph.D. program in relativistic Astrophysics: the IRAP PhD Erasmus Mundus program.
Early registration at 350€ will be available online December 15th 2011 through June 15th 2012, after which the registration fee will be 400€. The student fee is 150€.
New members have been added to the International Committees and the final version of the poster is now available for download at the meeting website.


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Is Going Mobile the Future of Board Games?
Board games are big business in 2015, but could greater incorporation of digital gameplay elements make them even better? Yes, obviously.
by Matt Porter
Apr 13 2015, 3:10pm
Monopoly is one of many board games available for your tablet (seen here on iPad)
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective first came out in 1981, and I've finally got my hands on it. It's a board game in which you move around London, gathering clues in order to solve a series of crimes. There aren't any silly "Roll a six to ask the butcher what he saw!" mechanics. You're given all the information you need over the course of a case, and you have to make the deductions yourself. It's about as close as you can come to being Sherlock without donning a deerstalker, kidnapping Martin Freeman, and dragging him around in order to talk to homeless people.
The only problem is that it's long been pretty rare. In the past, searches on Amazon have revealed used copies for upwards of $150, and I was never crazy enough to buy one of those. However, listings appeared for new copies on April 1, of all days—but a joke it was not. Some websites limited purchases to two per customer, knowing how much people would want this game. At the time of writing there are seven copies left on Amazon UK, so good luck. (And as of publication, it's out of stock.)
I was left wondering if there was a better way. What if Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective were converted into a video game? Then people could download it whenever they liked. Recently I've been playing board games that have come across to mobile formats to see how well they work. Would a game like Ticket to Ride, a classic and a must have for any board gamer, hold up on a little screen? I was unsure at first, but the short answer is: yes.
Of course, mobile adaptations of board games are never going to replace the real thing—just like the modern role playing video game hasn't replaced tabletop Dungeons & Dragons. (In fact, a new edition was released just last year.) However, video games like Neverwinter Nights, drawing heavily from the lore and rule-sets of D&D, do have advantages over the cardboard version. For example, giving players an actual, moving representation of what's going on in the game. It could be argued that D&D is supposed to be about using your imagination, and that you are massively restricted within the confines of a video game. But it absolutely appeals to a certain audience.
The pros and cons of video game versions of board games are pretty obvious. Mobility is a big factor. You can fulfill your dream of playing Monopoly while sitting on the toilet, if you like. I don't know why you'd want to (by which I mean, play Monopoly at all), but the option is there. Even just being able to play on your sofa without having to set up a board and a bunch of pieces is a bonus.
But then, that's also a con. Part of the magic of board gaming is setting up the pieces, rolling dice, moving things around and having a very tactile experience. This is lost when everything is condensed onto a screen. Lots of board games have nice, weighty dice which have exciting things other than just boring old numbers on. These types of game won't be part of the mobile revolution.
This is how 'Ticket to Ride' looks on an iPad
I've played a few games of the mobile version of Elder Sign, and it just doesn't have the same oomph as the "real-life" version. The majority of the game is based on rolling a number of custom dice in order to fulfill requirements laid out by a mission. The dice have three sides dedicated to "research," and then one each for "lore," "peril," and finally "terror." If you don't fulfill the requirements of a mission, you roll again, but lose a dice. It becomes more and more tense as you see your chances dwindling before your eyes, with the impending eternal reign of an Elder One looming over you.
On mobile, it's just kind of damp. Instead of an Elder One, I was worried about the impending death of my phone battery. You're effectively pressing a random picture generator button each turn, and you never get that situation where the dice seems to roll over onto the side you need in slow motion, right at the last second. Games with these custom dice, or ones with a whole bunch of pieces (war games in particular) don't have the same effect on mobile.
However, in the mobile version of Elder Sign you do get a series of handy tutorial videos built into the app, which is a lot better than reading through pages of a dense instruction manual. This is part of another aspect in favor of mobile board gaming: They are fantastic for introducing new players to the more physical originals. Why scare your friends away with piles of plastic figures and weird dice they've never seen before, when you can have them play through a quick game in 20 minutes on a device they understand?
It also avoids situations where the more aggressive member of your playing group slams the table too hard and trains go flying everywhere.
Ticket to Ride is simply brilliant on mobile. You collect colored cards in order to lay down tracks so you can complete the routes marked on your ticket cards. It's super simple and fast moving, and across a table a game can be completed in about an hour or so. On mobile, you can complete a full game in a fraction of that, in as little as ten minutes, which is great. There won't be any confusion about any of the rules. Scoring is done automatically, a godsend because there's always a moment in the "real" game where someone goes, "Wait, I think I should have more points." And you're told when you complete a ticket—playing with pieces, there's always someone who thinks they've completed one, but they've actually missed a vital route.
Getting to lay down the lovely miniature trains is missing from the mobile version, naturally, but this doesn't really take anything away from it. It also avoids situations where the more aggressive member of your playing group slams the table too hard and trains go flying everywhere, making scoring impossible.
Price is another big one. The standard version of Ticket to Ride costs around $45 on Amazon, and then if you want any expansions you'll have to fork over a bunch more cash. This is fairly cheap as far as board games go, too, as you'll often find pay more. On your phone you'll only be paying about $7 for Ticket to Ride, and a couple of extra bucks for each expansion. With manufacturing costs massively reduced, the price comes crashing down—a good thing when the palpable pieces aren't wholly essential to the game experience.
The 'XCOM' board game
Board gaming should be a social experience, and playing alone on your phone won't help that. But many of these board game adaptations have online modes, or even pass and play functionality if you've got a few friends in the same room (preferably not the bathroom for this one). While these multiplayer modes aren't ideal, and need some tweaking, particularly in the online matchmaking department, it is nice to have the option. As I said, video game versions won't replace the real life versions, ideally—they'll merely supplement them.
In fact, there are now digital supplements to some board games. The XCOM board game has one player using an app on their tablet for the entirety of the game. This player is the team's coordinator, managing tasks in real time in the face of an alien invasion. Board game purists may turn their noses up at a digital element, but there is no denying that the app adds something that would be hard, or even impossible for a normal board game to achieve.
As a lover of both video and board games, I'm keen to see more crossovers like XCOM—or even just further ports of the best board games to mobile. The addition of digital elements has opened up endless possibilities for designers previously restricted by having to work with real world objects, made of plastic and paper. I'm excited to see what the smartest minds can come up with next. You know who else has a smart mind? Sherlock Holmes. Best get on the pre-order list, pronto.
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Four years less a month ago, as hard as it is to believe, Sidney Crosby scored the Golden Goal to cap off, for us Canadians anyway, the greatest Olympic experience of our lives.
They like to say every Canadian, all 35 million of us, watched that game. That is of course an exaggeration. I know for a fact that at least one Canadian didn't see the game. It was my dad.
My dad was doing some contract work with the CN crews in Northern British Columbia. He pretty much spent the entire Olympics at work, outside in the wet, cold winter. I can't remember exactly what he was doing, but I don't think it was a train wreck, so it wasn't a life and death task exactly. I remember being mad because the crew opted to work that Sunday and then take a week off. Why couldn't they have just taken that day off, too? The biggest hockey game in a generation was being played that day. This was not something to be missed.
My dad did miss the game. He missed a lot of hockey games over the years. He missed a lot of other far more important events, too.
But now he is retired. And tonight I'm going to watch the 2010 Olympic gold medal game with my dad. Just like it should have been four years ago.
I promise I will do my best to not spoil the ending.


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In case of translation-vibration transfers, there can be an increase or decrease in kinetic energy.
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Paul Krugman laments the inability of our political representatives to act on our first best options while enacting second best, read doomed to fail, stone kicking exercises instead.
"But here we are, with anything resembling first-best macroeconomic policy ruled out by political prejudice, and the distortions we're trying to correct are huge — one global depression can ruin your whole day. So we have quantitative easing, which is of uncertain effectiveness, probably distorts financial markets at least a bit, and gets trashed all the time by people stressing its real or presumed faults; someone like me is then put in the position of having to defend a policy I would never have chosen if there seemed to be a viable alternative......Which makes me ask myself the question: Do people like me spend too much time being limited by what is presumed to be politically practical? Should we devote more time to trying to widen the range of options, to pointing out that we really would be much better off if we threw off the fetters of conventional deficit fears, the 2 percent inflation target, and the extremely ill-advised euro project?"
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Hefaistión (Ἡφαιστίων; asi 356 př. n. l. – 324 př. n. l.), syn Amyntora, byl starověký makedonský šlechtic a generál v armádě Alexandra Velikého. Byl "zdaleka nejmilejší ze všech králových přátel; byl vychován s Alexandrem a sdílel všechna jeho tajemství." Tento vztah trval po celý jejich život, a byl srovnáván druhými lidmi i jimi samými se vztahem Achilla a Patrokla.

Hefaistión udělal skvělou vojenskou kariéru. Byl členem Alexandrovy osobní stráže, pak velel jízdní gardě a byl během Alexandrovy desetileté kampaně v Asii pověřen mnoha dalšími úkoly včetně diplomatických misí, přemostění velkých řek, obléhání a zakládání nových osad. Kromě toho, že byl vojákem, inženýrem a diplomatem, si dopisoval s filosofy Aristotelem a Xenokratem a aktivně podporoval Alexandra v jeho pokusech o integraci Řeků a Peršanů. Alexandr ho formálně učinil druhým nejmocnějším mužem říše, když ho jmenoval chiliarchou. Navíc ho přijal do královské rodiny, když mu dal za ženu Drypetis, sestru své vlastní druhé manželky Stateiry; obě ženy byly dcerami perského vládce Dareia III. Když Hefaistión náhle zemřel v Ekbataně ve věku třicet dva let, byl Alexandr nesmírně zarmoucen. Požádal orákulum v Síwě, aby udělilo Hefaistiónovi status božstva, a tak Hefaistióna uctívali jako Božského hrdinu. Hefaistión byl zpopelněn a jeho popel přenesen do Babylóna.  V době své vlastní smrti, o pouhých osm měsíců později, Alexandr stále plánoval monumenty na uctění Hefaistiónovy památky.

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"Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth" is the the 1973 Stax debut and the only album released by The 24-Carat Black until a lost album, "Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday", was finally released 35 years later. "Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth" is an underground soul classic, a cohesive 8 song concept album about the hardship of black urban life, produced and arranged by classically trained Detroit song writer Dale Warren, who was an orchestrator and arranger on the Isaac Hayes' albums Hot Buttered Soul, The Isaac Hayes Movement and ...To Be Continued among others. This album has been a hit among many samplers for decades including being used on these songs: Jay-Z - "Can I Live Pt 2", Dr. Dre - "Nas Is Coming", Eric B - "In The Ghetto", Digable Planets - "Cool Like Dat" and Naughty by Nature - "Poverty's Paradise". 180 gram vinyl.
Joy Of A Toy is the debut solo album from the bassist and principal songwriter of the Soft Machine, originally released in 1969. With Ayers playing an impressive list of instruments and bandmate Robert Wyatt on drums for most of the songs, many of the tracks recall early Soft Machine, and feature Ayers prog-pop songwriting sensibilities in full force. Reissued on limited edition opaque yellow vinyl in a deluxe tip-on jacket, gatefold sleeve.
Originally released on John Faheys Takoma Records in 1965, The Seal Of The Blue Lotus is the debut album from American guitar soli legend Robbie Basho. In college Basho immersed himself in the study of Asian art and culture, even changing his last name to that of the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, and his music shows a much greater Eastern influence than contemporaries like John Fahey and Peter Lang. Basho was particularly entranced by the raga form which is apparent in classics like "Dravidian Sunday" from this album. A guitar soli masterwork.
The seminal debut album from the quintessential American power pop band originally released in 1972 is now reissued on 180 gram vinyl. "#1 Record" features the classic line up of Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens. LP includes faithfully restored sleeve and label art including UV coating for the cover which duplicates the original Ardent album release.
The second album from the quintessential American power pop band originally released in 1974 is now reissued on 180 gram vinyl. "Radio City" features the Big Star line up of Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens. LP includes faithfully restored sleeve and label art.
"Talking To The People" is the debut release from the Detroit group Black Nasty that was originally issued on Stax-Enterprise Records in 1973. The album features socially conscious songs that reflected the reality of black urban life in the early 1970s. Fans of early Funkadelic will find much to their liking with this funk-soul-rock underground classic. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl with tip on jackets by 4 Men With Beards.
Originally released in 1972, Lo Borges' solo debut is a stunning piece of post-bossa nova Brazilian pop music. Combining influences ranging from soul, jazz, pop, psychedelic, and bossa nova with brilliant musicianship and wild arrangements, Lo Borges, is one of the finest Brazilian records of the 1970s, if not ever. Borges emerged out of the Clube de Esquina musical collective, from the state of Minas Gerais, along with Milton Nascimento, a movement that rivaled the brilliance of the more well known Tropicalismo. Includes poster.
Originally a commercial failure when released in 1970, this album of jazz, avant-garde elements and folk rock has since become a sought after cult classic.
"The Academy In Peril" by former Velvet Underground member John Cale was originally released in 1972. The album is an exploration of his influences and training in classical music and features mainly instrumental compositions including two tracks that feature the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Cale balances the rock-classical fusion on the record with touches of humor while the music is beautiful and subtle showing Cales skills at composing and arranging. Contributors include Ron Wood on guitar, Del Newman on drums and "Legs" Larry Smith of The Bonzo Dog Band. Cover art and design by Andy Warhol. 180 gram vinyl reissue in a die-cut custom gatefold jacket.
Guy Clark's debut from 1975 is one of the all time classic country singer-songwriter records. By the time of its release the Texas native had been shopping his tunes in Nashville for a few years and the songs from Old No. 1 were already well aged and often covered. Regardless, though Clark considers himself more a songwriter than a recording artist, nobody holds a candle to these performances. From the rollicking Texas swing of opener "Rita Ballou" to the finger picked heartbreak of closer "Let Him Roll" there is not a stinker to be found. Features help from Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell and a young Steve Earle. Reissued on blue vinyl LP.
Agharta was recorded at the Osaka Festival Hall on February 1, 1975 and originally released on double LP only in Japan. Featuring one of Miles Davis' strongest line-ups from his electric period, Agharta is a smoking set of jazz-funk fusion, featuring blistering live interpretations of some of his finest compositions. Davis recorded another fantastic double LP, Pangaea on the same day proving him to be an unrivaled talent in both creativity and output. 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket.
180 gram gatefold 2LP. Originally released in 1971, LIve-Evil is one of Davis' most extraordinary records. Here, on a double album comprised of both live and studio recordings, the electric sound that Davis first unveiled the year previous emerges as a fully formed and powerful beast. Featuring one of his finest bands, which included John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Gary Bartz, Jack DeJohnette, and Brazilian percussionist Airto, LIve-Evil is a stunning exploration of the outer limits of Jazz, and one of the most influential records of the '70s. Absolutely essential.
Recorded on the same day as Agharta, Pangaea's 2 LPs of material are culled from the evening performances at Osaka's Festival Hall. Featuring just 2 songs, both clocking in at over 40 minutes, Pangaea shows Miles' band really stretching itself to the limit. Live electric jazz-fusion from the undisputed master of the genre. 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket.
The second Durutti Column album, originally released on Factory Records in 1981, marked the departure of producer Martin Hannett (Joy Division, Buzzcocks) and the addition of drummer Bruce Mitchell, who would remain a longtime collaborator with chief member, guitarist Vini Reilly. LC is as powerful as the debut, a fantastic collection of guitar excursions that transcend genre. This is also the first album to feature Reilly's speak-sing vocal style on a number of songs (including The Missing Boy" a tribute to the recently deceased leader of Joy Division, Ian Curtis). Another stellar album.
Despite the title, this is the debut album from Manchester's Durutti Column, originally released on the legendary Factory Records label in 1980. This album is a collaboration between guitarist, and the only permanent member of the band, Vini Reilly and producer/keyboard player Martin Hannett (Joy Division, Buzzcocks). Though lumped in with the post-punk movement, The Durutti Column's debut is hardly reminiscent of what that term brings to mind. The Return Of The Durutti Column is a collection of guitar based instrumentals melding rock, folk, classical, electronica and the avant-garde. Absolutely stunning.
Originally released in 1964, Dance of Death offers a glimpse of an artist in transformation. More than half the album's titles draw from the traditional blues and country repertoire Fahey had spent his teen years and young adulthood collecting, listening to, and learning to play, yet the recordings proved once and for all that his interests lay in musical transfigurations rather than preservation - Fahey was not afraid to use these old tunes as raw material.ON GREEN VINYL.
Originally released in 1967. Days Have Gone By continues Fahey's interest in soundscapes, sound effects and experimental music mixed in with more traditional guitar playing of his earlier musical style. ON GOLD VINYL.
Death Chants is John Fahey's second album, following the brilliantly apocryphal Blind Joe Death. As massive as that earlier work was, it represented only a tentative first step towards the fields of hodologic splendor that our hero would go on to create. Death Chants represents a much more fully realized syncretism of the modernist and primitive poles between which Fahey wobbled. It is also the first album he deigned to release entirely under his own name and the one with which he truly began to cast a shadow across the blandly-lit landscape of the world's subconscious.ON BLUE VINYL.
Originally released in 1966. Fahey's never recorded an album that was more thoroughly of its moment. From the groovy flute and twangy sitar accompaniment to the backwards guitar, this Birthday Party is a charmingly trippy 60s time capsule. But it isn't a two dimensional one. The album gains immense depth from the tension between his sweeping, fingerpicked melodies and discordant string-battery. It's the audible battle between yearned for rose colored luminescence and ankle blistering hellhound darkness that enables this record to transcend its hippie dreaminess.ON ORANGE VINYL.
180 gram 6 LP BOX SET. The Transcendental Waterfall - Guitar Excursions 1963-1967 is a 6-LP box set drawing from John Fahey's best, and most influential, period. Included in the set are Blind Joe Death, Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes, The Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites, The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party, The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, and Days Have Gone By, all reissued on 180 gram vinyl with deluxe tip-on jackets. Also included are a t-shirt, poster, and a postcard, all of which are housed in a deluxe box with stunning graphic design. An amazing package featuring some of the most important guitar solo recordings of the 20th century. Limited to 2000 numbered copies!
The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death is John Fahey's classic fifth album from the mid-1960s and is one of his most influential. This album has an amazing variety of styles, moods, and influences, and John has a compositional and playing style that is totally unique.ON PURPLE VINYL.
For several years major labels had been issuing records in both mono and stereo formats. By 1967 Takoma was doing well enough financially to justify the recording of Fahey's first and second albums for the burgeoning stereo market. Thus Vol.1: Blind Joe Death, as the record would be titled henceforth, was recorded for the third time and it is probably this release that most people are familiar with today. For the new version Fahey recorded all but one song on the album. He recorded one new track for the reissue: "I'm Gonna Do All I Can for My Lord." His new take of the Episcopal hymn "In Christ There Is No East or West" would become the most well-known and oft-played song on the album. ON CLEAR VINYL.
The 1979 release Jumpin' In The Night was the third and final album by the Flamin' Groovies on Sire Records. Continuing in the power pop vein of Shake Some Action and Now but with a bit more muscle and edge this album caps off the 70s in style with great original songs such as the title track and "First Plane Home", plus choice covers including Warren Zevon's "Werewolves Of London", Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and The Byrds "5D". Reissued on 180 gram vinyl by 4 Men With Beards.
Flamin Groovies Now released in 1978 and produced by Dave Edmunds, put the Groovies back on the map as the band won fervent praise on both sides of the Atlantic for their follow up to Shake Some Action. They apply their fiery British Invasion-inspired sound to the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black, the Byrds' Feel a Whole Lot Better, the Beatles' There's a Place, and a bunch of original tunes. On 180 gram vinyl.
Shake Some Action was the fifth released in 1976 by the San Francisco band Flamin Groovies. Recorded in Great Britain and produced by Dave Edmunds, Shake Some Action marked a departure for the group from the blues based / garage rock sound of the earlier records to a more power pop / British invasion direction. This was due to the departure of lead singer Roy Loney, the ascendance of guitarist Cyril Jordan, and the fact that the band moved to England in 1972 and was building a large following there. A certified power pop classic brought to you by 4 Men With Beards on RED VINYL.


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A winter storm can't change the fact that spring is well on its way to the Northland.
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I sailed quite fine in the yesterday´s racing. We had super nice Slalom conditions. Flat water and steady winds around 20 knots. Placed twice on the 21 st position, but was very close to make a 17th. I will keep on going today. It looks lighter, which can be good for me. I love to sail on my Isonic 122.


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Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel get confused by tech in new Super Bowl ad
By Kwame Opam / @kwameopam
Via SB Nation | Source BMW USA (YouTube)
Jan 26, 2015, 8:00 PM UTC |
Beloved TV anchors Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel have been stumped by consumer technology for the last 21 years. Remember way back in 1994 when the pair expressed how weird the internet was? Wasn't that fun? Fun enough for NBC to fire the guy who posted the video online? Right. Well, BMW had more fun than NBC on that score, and decided to celebrate how far we've come in its new Super Bowl spot for the BMW i3 — and how Couric and Gumbel are still pretty clueless about the future. (Never mind the fact that Couric is now the Global Anchor of Yahoo! News. Media is weird.) All told, the two play their parts like good sports, even if there's no such thing as a windbine. Personally, I'm confused at the idea of Katie Couric twerking to Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue". I mean, go her, but still.
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Guy Berryman is an alternative rock bassist, musician, record producer, antique, photographer, and multi-instrumentalist. He plays Bass guitar, Keyboard instrument, Guitar, Mandolin, Drum kit, Trumpet, Percussion instrument, Yangqin, and Vocals. He was most prominent from 1995 to present. Guy was given the name Guy Rupert Berryman on April 12th, 1978 in Kirkcaldy.
Michael Berryman is an actor. His most notable accomplishments were from 1975 to present. Michael was given the name Michael John Berryman on September 4th, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
John Berryman was a writer. His most notable accomplishments were from 1942 to 1972. John was given the name John Allyn Smith, Jr. on October 25th, 1914 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. He left this life on January 7th, 1972.
Sir Frank Horton Berryman was a royal visits to australia and royal agricultural society of new south wales. Frank was born on April 11th, 1894 in Geelong. He breathed his last breath on May 28th, 1981.
Dorothée Berryman is a jazz actor and singing. Dorothée was born on April 28th, 1948 in Quebec City.
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The map shows the absolute popularity of the name Berryman as a last name in each of the states. See other popular names in Kentucky, Texas, or Virginia.
How Popular is the name Berryman? Berryman is the 72,855th most popular name of all time. As a last name Berryman was the 4,717th most popular name in 2010.
How many people with the first name Berryman have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 11 babies born with the first name Berryman in the United States.
What year were 5 or more babies first named Berryman? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1921 when it was given as a first name to 6 new born babies.
When was Berryman first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Berryman is Monday, October 9th, 1876.
What year had the most people named Berryman born? The highest recorded use of the first name Berryman was in 1921 with a total of 6 babies.
Weird things about the name Berryman: Your name in reverse order is Namyrreb. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Ramnybre. How do you pronounce that?
How many people have the last name Berryman? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 7,517 people with the last name Berryman.
How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Berryman? If you manage to meet 100,000 people in your life, chances are that 3 of them will have Berryman as their last name.


WESTON, Fla. - A team of doctors at the Cleveland Clinic Florida are working to address the causes of chronic cough and offer patients relief.
For two years, David Hintzke battled a chronic cough.
"It was affecting my sleep, affecting my wife," said Hintzke. "I was at the point where I was heading - they did tests on me and the tests told them, if this continues, you're going to the hospital."
Hintzke found relief at the Cleveland Clinic Florida's cough clinic.
"There are people who've seen many times in the urgent care and seen their physician for cough and they've done a chest x-ray and a cat scan and we don't see anything and they have received multiple courses of antibiotics and those are the patients we see in our clinic here," said Dr. Gustavo Ferrer.
The clinic brings together a variety of experts to assess and treat the patient.
"The whole intention is in a short period of time, we try to make a diagnosis for those patient," said Ferrer.
The most common cause of a chronic cough is smoking. Acid reflux, sinus problems, and blood pressure medications can also lead to a chronic cough.
"So when we put it all together, we can get proper treatment," said Ferrer.
Doctors prescribed the occasional use of nasal spray for Hintzke.
"I had no idea. I'm glad I went. They made a big difference," he said.
Research shows that diets high in fruit fiber and flavonoids may help prevent some types of chronic cough.
Designated cough clinics have an 85 to 90 percent success rate in identifying the cause of a chronic cough and relieving it with proper treatment.


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5 Best Apps for English Language Learners
Here are the best English apps that teachers and students can use for learning English and to build English skills anytime, anywhere on their mobile devices.
Schools and Universites can offer these English apps to students in addition to their current curriculum. Most of the language learning tools are available on web and mobile which students can use anytime and anywhere. Schools and Universities can build on what students have learnt in class and assign tasks to them to complete outside of class.
Learning a language has a multitude of benefits including making us smarter, building our multitasking skills, improving our memory, and making us more perceptive. There's no better way to connect with foreign cultures than by speaking the language. When learning a new language, you want to have both a tool to help you with basic words and grammar, and a way to improve your conversation skills with a real speaker.
You can find the other best language learning apps if you're a beginner starting with the basics or looking to practice your reading, writing, and speaking of various languages.
Other popular app lists includes Free Apps for Kids, Apps for Education.
Duolingo - Learn Languages for Free
( Android - Free , iPad - Free	)
Duolingo is world's most popular English language learning app today and highly recommended for English beginners. The gamified learning system of the app helps you learn English quickly by spending twenty minutes a day. Duolingo structures your lessons that teaches you about seven new words based on a topic and skill points being awarded for completing the lessons.
Duolingo lessons adapt to the users learning style. Exercises are tailored to help the users learn and review vocabulary effectively. Duolingo is an excellent English learning app that helps cover a lot of material for English learners of all levels.
Many teachers and even entire governments around the world already view Duolingo as the perfect blended learning companion for their classrooms. Duolingo lessons give each student personalized feedback and practice, preparing them to get the most out of classroom instruction.
Over 200 million people around the world use Duolingo to help them learn languages. The fun, game-like lessons keep students motivated and excited about language.
Learn Languages busuu
Busuu is one of the best English language apps available today and highly recommended for learning English at beginner level. Designed by linguists, busuu combines human interaction and AI-powered teaching to help you learn a language faster.
busuu provides courses in 12 languages on its mobile app to more than 90 million learners worldwide. Through this community, learners can connect with native speakers and get instant feedback on their speaking and writing exercises.
Busuu's lessons cover the typical reading, writing, speaking, spelling, and generating language you expect in any language-learning course. Especially for beginners, it helps to know what you will learn today, what you are expected to have learned by now, and what you will learn next. Structure also allows for good scaffolding, meaning you learn by building on what you already know, rather than being exposed to random and unconnected lessons in grammar, vocabulary, and so forth.
With Busuu, you can talk with native English speakers to practice your English speaking and can also provide feedback to people learning English languages or get feedback from more advanced English learners.
The busuu team regularly measures the effectiveness of busuu's language learning methodology. In 2016, they conducted an independent study with a research team from City University of New York and the University of South Carolina to measure the learning outcomes of our product. The study found that 22 hours of busuu is equivalent to one college semester of language learning.
LingQ - Language Learning
LingQ is an interactive, language-learning app that progressively guides the user through language study in real-world, immersive contexts. LingQ app has over 1000's of hours of English Audio Lessons with matching transcripts.
Beginners can learn new English vocabulary in context or review using their SRS (Spaced Repetition System). You will be able to import your own content and convert it instantly into interactive English lessons. YouTube videos, books, songs, and more, conveniently managed in one place, synced across devices.
The app centres on purposefully-designed and authentic texts and podcasts, which the users can read and/or listen to at their own pace and according to their own ability level. Considering the user's ability level, key words are made to stand out and referenced to an in-app lexicon sourced from online dictionaries. The variety of languages on offer is quite impressive, ranging from Spanish, French, Italian, German, English, Chinese, to 25 others.
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Improve English: Word Games
For those who are learning English as an additional language, Improve English: Word Games will provide a steady progression of understanding. It teaches new vocabulary and offers plenty of ways in which to practise.
Improve English: Word Games helps with learning new words, concepts, and phrases and also provides many opportunities to practise. It is designed for those who have established a basic grasp of English and who are wanting to improve their ability.
The app's courses provide tuition by gradually feeding the user new words, new phrases - including idioms, and providing clarity in areas of common confusion. It employs a combination of content selected and guided by language learning experts with an algorithmic approach to monitoring and developing the user's experience within the app.
These courses use a card-style format that presents the word or phrase and its definition to the user. Each one also has space for users to add their own notes. When the learner feels that the word is secure, they can select 'got it' and take it out of their learning pack.
The practice games that accompany the courses are populated with excellent content. As with most educational games, they're never going to stand up against pure entertainment apps but they're more stimulating than just working through written exercises. They are also very useful. Where the questions are multiple choice, all of the answers are viable phrases or combinations of words but only one fits the given definition.
The pro version of this app has a wealth of good quality content that will expand a user's vocabulary and provide excellent practice. Its tracking will be useful for students to see their progress and for teachers to monitor and use to inform any future support that may be needed.
Learn English with Babbel
Babbel focuses more on helping English language learners acquire the basic conversational skills. Babbel is a great language app that has a strong focus on vocabulary. Babbel also lets users learn to understand a language by completing and repeating phrases. The app has four different approaches - Sound Recognition, Picture Recognition, Spelling and Fill in the blanks. Babbel definitely focuses on the quality of your learning rather than the quantity. Babbel also uses a custom goal system that allows users to set benchmarks as they learn a language and to monitor their progress as well. If your goal is to learn new vocabulary effectively, then Babbel is the app for you!
Lessons are divided into real-world topics — you'll learn how to introduce yourself, order food, and make travel arrangements, so that each word and phrase you use can serve a logistical purpose. This, Babbel says, is to ensure that students can start having real, meaningful conversations as soon as possible.
Many English learners find learning new words to be one of the most difficult things about the language. Babbel uses the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to divide lessons by level of difficulty.
Babbel is a language app that promises to help users expand their linguistic horizons by learning up to 14 different languages.
Sentence Master Pro
( Android - Free , iPad - £11.99	)
Sentence Master Pro is a fantastic language app aimed at helping young people improve their language abilities. Through focussing on the building of sentences and employing aspects of gamification, the app encourages users to challenge themselves in a game environment to match words together to form a sentence. The way the game works is to give the user a number of words and for them to then unscramble and form into a full sentence within a time limit with the added challenge of losing time when an incorrect answer is chosen.
One of the most appealing aspects of the app is the fact that it can used by a number of different people with different abilities in the English language. For instance, it works really well as an app for younger children who already have a certain level of proficiency in reading and writing to improve their understanding, but older users can also access the app on a different level especially if they have English as an additional language and are wanting to improve their proficiency too. It could also be used for more top level students too who again want to continue to enrich their own abilities. With a whole section of the app dedicated to Proverbs and Sayings, it could even be used by an adult wanting to give themselves a bit of a challenge!
Learn Languages: Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone is designed very differently than most language apps that are on the marketplace today. In other words, it's trying to teach us English the way we'd learn it if we were children starting to learn the language. It has exercises designed to help you learn basic words. Each language has a variety of lessons that Rosetta Stone has been using for years to teach people. It's a good way to go if you're looking for a tried and true method.
Within the platform, you'll see that all words, phrases and audios are in English. It's that immersive of an experience! On top of its learning component, it also has a platform where you can schedule lessons with a live tutor every other lesson. So if you enjoy practicing English by talking to native speakers, this might be a great bonus feature.
Speech recognition within the platform has also been praised because it has been designed to specifically recognise pronunciation of non-native speakers. I'm sure you can relate – but when we're learning a new language in the beginning, there are a lot of words we know but end up pronouncing in a weird accent, which can result in a raised eyebrow or a frown from native speakers. The enhanced speech recognition really helps offset this.
LearnEnglish Grammar (UK ed.)
Learn English Grammar is an interactive app that is designed to help improve your grammar. If you really like to improve your English grammar in a detailed way, it is an excellent English learning app that helps cover 12 grammar topics with 20 activities per topic for English learners of all levels
Qlango: Learn Languages Easily
Qlango is a language learning app that enables you to learn your chosen foreign language from scratch or as a revision tool, making use of a compelling range of activities. It makes use of an impressive variety of European language pairs, in multiple combinations.
Qlango boasts a truly comprehensive selection of language pairs and unceremoniously hits the ground running with its language-learning content. The concept behind the app sees the user at once immersed in the target language and tackling the various activities, to see themselves climb the community league table or to earn some much coveted 'peanuts'. Discover and improve your knowledge of English, Slovenian, German, Serbian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Russian, French, Croatian, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Albanian, Dutch, Romanian, Turkish, Portuguese, Greek, Lithuanian, Czech, Hungarian, Bulgarian or Finnish with Qlango.
Beelinguapp: Learn Languages
Beelinguapp is an excellent language-learning app, with a generous free version, that focuses on reading and reading comprehension specifically. Not many language apps do that. It's a wonderful companion app to supplement a class or other more in-depth online language-learning program
Beelinguapp is storytelling software that allows the user to consecutively read a mirrored text, but in two separate languages at the same time. The app also serves as an audiobook and uses what it calls 'karaoke reading' to allow any user to follow the audio in the text on both sides. The stories are available in 10 languages, varying between fairy tales, news, science papers and novels.
ELSA Speak - Accent Reduction
(Android - Free, iPad - Free)
ELSA teaches you to speak English fluently. ELSA is the world's best English speaking app that helps you speak English like an American, using advanced speech recognition technology.
ELSA teaches you how to pronounce common idioms, American expressions, daily conversation in English, and even cheesy pick up lines. Our proven curriculum is designed by world-class pronunciation coaches. The fastest way to improve is to practice speaking English on ELSA for 10 minutes, every day.
Speak English Conversation
The app helps you to improve your English by practicing and recording your conversations and then listen to how you sound. English Speaking Practice app is the beginner version of the series.
To become a fluent English speaker, you must study and master reading, listening, and speaking. In TalkEnglish app, the lessons are structured to give you practice in all three areas at the same time.
If you are looking for the best English speaking apps that will get you talking in quick time, then apps like Elsa Speak, Fluentu, English Speaking Practice will help you to learn and improve your English pronunciation and conversation skills.
The variety of languages these apps offer is quite impressive, ranging from Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, German and so on. If you'd like to find more apps right away for your specific language, we've got you covered:
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Magnolia, Minnesota, is known for its cold winters, and there's nothing worse on a frigid night to discover that you've locked yourself out of your house. With the possibility of temperatures as low as -33 degrees, finding yourself in a lockout situation creates frustration, panic, and inconvenience as you wait for a locksmith to arrive. With Vivint Smart Home, you'll never be locked out in the cold again. We offer a line of smart locks that can be controlled through the Vivint Smart Home Cloud platform, meaning that you can lock and unlock your doors from the Vivint Smart Home app on your mobile device.Don't have a smartphone or tablet with you? No problem; the built-in keypad enables you to put in a code, eliminating the need for carrying a physical key. Wondering what else Vivint Smart Home provides?
Whether you're moving into a new home, or you want to teach your old home some new tricks, you can get state-of-the-art smart home technology. In fact, we can retrofit our smart home systems into nearly any type of Magnolia home, no matter the age or design. Thanks to our commitment to convenience and affordability, it's easier than ever to upgrade your home to a smart home. We provide a free one-on-one consultation so that you get the smart home of your dreams, customizing your system to fit the needs of your house. Vivint Smart Home Pros will perform a free full-service, professional installation for Magnolia residents (regularly $199), so you can enjoy the safety and security of this amazing smart home system right away. Isn't it time your family took advantage of the many advantages of having a Vivint Smart Home system? Call now to learn more about the Vivint Smart Home system in Magnolia, Minnesota.


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Fermento Fleischmann é uma marca de levedura vendida para o consumidor e mercados industriais nos Estados Unidos e Canadá. Encontra-se disponível numa série de formas diferentes, cada um com a sua própria propriedade específica. O fermento biológico seco Fleischmann é mais conhecido de seus produtos de levedura, devido à sua vida útil prolongada em comparação com fermento fresco. É propriedade da Associated British Foods.

A empresa foi fundada por Charles Louis Fleischmann, seu irmão Maximiliano, e Gaff James em Riverside, Ohio, em 1868.

Em 1929, a empresa foi incorporada pela Standard Brands por J.P. Morgan, e nesse mesmo ano a empresa iniciou o patrocínio de programas de variedades musicais de rádio, The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour, estrelado por Rudy Vallée.

A Standard Brands fundiu-se com a Nabisco Brands, Inc. em 1981. Em 1986, a RJR Nabisco vendeu a Fleischmann para a empresa australiana Burns Philp. A Burns Philp vendeu seu negócio de fermento para a Associated British Foods em 2004.

Atuação no Brasil
A história da Fleischmann no Brasil começa em 1931 quando Getúlio Vargas assina um decreto de lei autorizando o funcionamento da empresa no país. No ano seguinte, é inaugurada a primeira fábrica da Fleischmann no país em Petrópolis, dando também, inicio às vendas do fermento biológico fresco. A partir de 1991, a empresa diversifica a sua produção, passando não só a produzir fermentos, como também margarinas, misturas para pães e bolos, e produtos para confeitaria em geral.

A AB Brasil é uma empresa do grupo ABF - Associated British Foods. Com faturamento anual de U$ 22 bilhões, a ABF vem a ser o quarto maior grupo produtor de alimentos da Europa. O grupo ABF, controlado e dirigido pela família Weston desde 1882, emprega 118 mil funcionários em um total de 47 países.

Tendo adquirido a AB Brasil em 2004, o grupo ABF produz hoje no país mais de 120 mil toneladas de ingredientes alimentícios por ano. No Brasil somos 900 funcionários e nossas fábricas e escritórios estão nas cidades de São Paulo, Jundiaí, Sorocaba e Pederneiras.

Presidentes
Charles Louis Fleischmann, 1868 até 1897
Julius Fleischmann, 1897 até 1925
Maximilian C. Fleischmann, 1925 até 1929

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Fermento Royal
Dr. Oetker

Ligações Externas
 Site oficial da Fleischmann no Brasil
 Site oficial (consumidores)
 Site oficial (industrial)

Empresas fundadas em 1868
Marcas de produtos alimentícios
Marcas dos Estados Unidos
Marcas da Associated British Foods
Agentes de fermentação


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Six generations of the Fay family have served the Worcester area since 1870. Today the firm is operated by William J. Fay, and his son William J. Fay II. The Fay family strives to provide the highest level of ethical professional and personal service to the families we serve.
In 1992 the Fay family opened a second funeral home, located in the center of West Boylston. Since that time, the West Boylston facility has been completely renovated and is continuously being improved. In 2003 the Fay family merged with longtime friends the Lundins. Walter and Robert Lundin have owned and operated the Lindquist Lundin Funeral Home for more than 30 years and the home has served the Worcester area since 1899. We continue to maintain the same professional service, that they have provided for many years.
In February 2005, we were excited to announce a merger with Philip W. Callahan and the Callahan Brothers Funeral Home. As part of the merger plan, Fay Brothers closed its current operation at 9 Hammond Street and consolidated its services at 61 Myrtle Street in Worcester, the present-day site of Callahan Brothers.
In May of 2014, The Caswell King Funeral Home located at 474 Grove Street in Worcester joined with the Fay Family and relocated their business to our Main Worcester Office. The Funeral Home was renamed Callahan, Fay & Caswell Funeral Home, 61 Myrtle Street Worcester.
The Fay Funeral Homes are constantly seeking improvements that will provide families with funerals that are as comforting and memorable as possible. We are committed to providing compassionate, personal service and are sensitive to the diverse needs of individuals. We provide many different funeral options, allowing each family to create a meaningful way to remember their loved one. Throughout the years, we have developed a high level of sensitivity to the religious, ethnic and economic circumstances of all the families we serve. Thank you again for visiting our site! Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have regarding our funeral services.