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Could blood plasma therapy help treat COVID-19? Where's the evidence?
[MC – June 15, 2020] COVID-19 is everywhere and has so far caused more than 430,000 deaths across the globe. While the quest for safe and effective treatment and vaccine development continues, there have been discussions and questions around the effectiveness of plasma therapy as well.
When it comes to Convalescent plasma therapy, it has been around since the late 19th century. It is not a new treatment and has been used in the treatment of infectious diseases. It was first used to treat diphtheria in the 1890s and is credited as having saved over 45,000 lives annually in an era when antibiotics were not yet discovered. More recently, it was used to treat patients in the 2014 – 2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
EARLY FINDINGS FROM USA:
Although promising, convalescent plasma has not yet been shown to be safe as a treatment for COVID-19. In a study published on medrxiv, the experience from the first 5000 patients with COVID-19 transfused with convalescent plasma provides no signal of toxicity beyond what is expected from plasma use in severely ill patients. According to this study that was published from the US, despite early and encouraging safety signals, there are several risks of COVID-19 convalescent plasma transfusion in critically-ill patients that warrant attention. The paper suggests that research should shift focus toward determining the efficacy of convalescent plasma.
Researchers advise is that the new results should be interpreted with caution because they have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal or thoroughly reviewed by independent scientists.
WORLD'S LARGEST CLINICAL TRIAL IN CANADA:
Canada is conducting the world's largest clinical trial for the plasma-based treatment of COVID-19. The trial is estimated to be completed in three months and will involve more than 1,000 patients.
The trial involves approximately 50 institutions across Canada with the participation of researchers from the Université de Montreal, McMaster University and the University of Toronto among others. The project called CONCOR, is trying to figure out if plasma from previous COVID-19 patients could provide antibodies to help current patients fight the disease more effectively.
CONCOR-1: A Randomized, Open-Label Trial of CONvalescent Plasma for Hospitalized Adults With Acute COVID-19 Respiratory Illness
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) is leading the Canadian effort and has partnered with international researchers and experts in Australia, Germany, France, Italy, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.
According to CBS, in addition to meeting Canada's current plasma donor eligibility criteria, to participate, convalescent plasma donors must be:
Previously confirmed positive for COVID-19 by a laboratory test
Younger than 67 years old
Fully recovered from the virus and symptom-free for at least 28 days.
GROUNDBREAKING BLOOD PLASMA TRIAL – UK
NHS Blood and Transplant has asked some people who recovered from Covid-19 to donate blood so they can potentially assess the therapy in trials. More than 6,500 people registered their interest in the plasma donation programme, which is being led by NHS Blood and Transplant on behalf of the government.
Plasma collection has begun through the convalescent plasma programme, and trial transfusions will follow. The transfusions are being done through the REMAP-CAP trial and the RECOVERY trial.
REMAP-CAP uses a novel and innovative adaptive trial design to evaluate a number of treatment options simultaneously and efficiently. This design is able to adapt in the event of pandemics and increases the likelihood that patients will receive the treatment that is most likely to be effective for them.
We are rapidly building our capability to collect plasma so that we can quickly move into supplying hospitals at scale, should the trial demonstrate patient benefit , Dr. Gail Miflin – Chief Medical Officer, NHS Blood and Transplant
COCHRANE ANALYSIS:
Cochrane provides high-quality, relevant, up-to-date systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence to inform health decision making. Cochrane searched major medical databases for clinical studies on treatment with convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID-19. Studies could be conducted anywhere in the world and include participants of any age, gender or ethnicity, with mild, moderate or severe COVID-19.
Cochrane analysis provides the following conclusion:
We are very uncertain whether plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 is an effective treatment for people with COVID-19. The completed studies we found were poor quality and their results could be related to the natural progression of the disease, other treatments that the participants received, or to convalescent plasma. However, our searches found 48 ongoing studies: 47 evaluating convalescent plasma and 1 evaluating hyperimmune immunoglobulin, of which 22 are randomised.
SOUTH ASIAN AND UAE PERSPECTIVES:
In India: The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) is currently studying its efficacy.
According to the Head of ICMR Aparna Mukherjee: There are no scientific evidence that it works. Only randomized controlled trials can ascertain whether a particular drug works in a particular disease or not. There are no randomized controlled trials on Convalescent Plasma. ICMR is doing a randomized controlled trial to find out whether it works in the Indian context or not.
When asked, how doctors should decide on administering plasma therapy? The head of ICMR responded by saying, "they should do it only as part of clinical trial." she stated further in an interview with Huffington Post India.
In Pakistan, in mid-May, Pakistan's National Institute of Blood Diseases (NIBD) confirmed that the first coronavirus patient who had been treated with plasma therapy had recovered.
The Pakistan Society of Hematology (PSH) has issued a policy statement on June 14, 2020 regarding the use of convalescent plasma in COVID-19. This comes in the wake of massive social media campaigns where people have been requesting for plasma donors and encouraging COVID-19 survivors to come forward.
In the policy statement, Dr. Parvez Ahmed, President of PSH, is requesting health department and regulatory bodies in Pakistan to steps to stop the illegal and potentially harmful plasma trade. The statement concludes by emphasizing the need to apprise healthcare professionals and the general public about the potential harm from unnecessary use of convalescent plasma.
In an update today on June 15, 2020, the Government of Pakistan has released a detailed document describing the protocols relating to convalescent plasma therapy (CP). The guidelines clearly state that CP is still an experimental therapy it can only be safely used under controlled settings as part of the research protocol. The guidelines document is posted here.
The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced in May, the launch of three clinics to collect convalescent plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients, revealing that one patient can donate three dosages, which can save 2-3 lives. Dr. Younis Kazim, CEO of the Dubai Healthcare Corporation at DHA stressed the importance of convalescent plasma therapy as it can speed the recovery of patients by 85 to 90%. He added that the authority established these clinics to collect the largest number of donations to treat coronavirus patients. He explained that once a person recovers from the virus they develop antibodies that will stay in their blood to fight the same virus. Dr. Kazim concluded by stating that the authority will also be introducing stem cell therapy to its treatment protocols in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Centre after receiving the needed approvals, completing the trial period successfully and the laws and precautionary guidelines needed are introduced.
In the meantime, COVID-19 is resulting in a massive surge in daily cases being reported. Brazil, USA, India, Russia and Pakistan are the top 5 countries reporting a rising number of cases.
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega microcomputer seeks crowd funds
December 2, 2014 | 12:58
Tags: #microcomputer #retro-computing #sinclair #sir-clive-sinclair #uncle-clive #vintage-computing #zx-spectrum #zx-spectrum-vega
Companies: #retro-computers-limited #sinclair-research
More than two decades after its official discontinuation, Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX Spectrum is to return to the market in the form of a crowd-funded limited-edition gaming-centric model dubbed the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega.
The brainchild of Retro Computers Limited, a Luton-based start-up in which Sinclair Research - Sir Clive's company and the creator of the original ZX Spectrum as well as its predecessors the ZX81, ZX80 and MK14 - is a share-holder, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega has been engineered by The ZX Spectrum ULA: How to Design a Microcomputer author Chris Smith to use modern components - in particular, a redesign of the Ferranti Uncommitted Logic Array (ULA) which powered the original Spectrum and which has long been out of production - which offer complete software compatibility with the original hardware. The result: a modern device capable of playing all the games released for the Spectrum throughout the 80s, early 90s and - thanks to a thriving hobbyist community - even today.
As is increasing common for start-ups, Retro Computers has turned to crowd-funding to ramp up its efforts. Following the creation of a single prototype, build using a 3D-printed case featuring a cut-down gaming-centric keyboard, the company has launched an Indiegogo campaign seeking £100,000 - but accepting less via the 'Flexible Funding' option - to create the first 1,000 units and to cover its running and marketing costs. Each unit comes with a claimed thousand-strong library of fully licensed games. The royalty fees for these games, set at 10 per cent of each Spectrum Vega's selling price, will be donated to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the company has announced.
Whether or not Retro Computers succeeds in its crowd-funding campaign, the company must certainly be applauded for its ability to cut through red tape: as well as the backing of Uncle Clive himself, the company has succeeded in gaining permission from Sky In-Home Service Limited, a sub-division of broadcasting giant BSkyB, to use the Sinclair ZX Spectrum intellectual property in a commercial product - IP which was acquired by Amstrad in the 80s before making its way to Sky.
The campaign, run by Paul Andrews and David Levy, is looking for £100,000 to fund production and marketing. The first 1,000 Limited Edition ZX Spectrum Vega units will be provided to Indiegogo backers exclusively at a cost of £100 each; following that, the regular edition will sell for an as-yet unannounced price said to be 'well below £100' via the company's website. More information is available on the Indiegogo page.
Industrial designer Rick Dickinson passes away
Sinclair's in-house designer remembered fondly.
ZX Spectrum Next rips through its crowdfunding goal
Serious specs for a micro classic.
Retro Computers unveils ZX Spectrum Vega+ hand-held
Slightly better value this time around.

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If you are unsure why your carpet seems a little dingy, or a little smelly, despite the fact that you vacuum all of the time and you care about keeping it clean, then this might help. There are certain things that you should never do to your carpets, and most people do not even know what these things are until the damage is done. If you are interested in having a great rug for years to come, be sure to avoid doing any of the following things to your carpet.
Do not use those cheap carpet cleaning products ever again!
It makes sense, especially for frugal spenders that want to use their cash wisely, to spend less on cleaning products. The only problem is that most of the cheap cleaning products out there will not get your carpet clean. What makes matters worse is that these products cause problems for your carpet like residue, leftover stains, smearing and discolored carpets. This is not to say that you cannot try to save yourself some money by doing a DIY carpet cleaning job, but if you do so, you need to use the high-level products that the professionals are using. Do not ruin your carpets in an attempt to make them better. Avoid the cheap cleaners at the grocery store, and invest in the real deal.
Do not scrub that rug!
One of the toughest things to unlearn when cleaning a carpet or a rug is the scrubbing motion. For years, you have been taught that putting in that extra elbow grease and scrubbing a little harder will get whatever surface you are cleaning cleared off. With rugs and carpets, scrubbing the stain after you put on powder or stain remover smears the dirt and drives it deeper into the fiber of the carpets creating a smudging effect. When you clean a carpet, you want to put the cleaner on the stain, let it settle for a few minutes, and then blot the stained area until it is clean and the cleaner is dry. Always use a clean rag to dab your carpets to make sure that you have the best results. The most important thing to remember, do not scrub!
Never forget the importance of weekly vacuuming.
It may sound silly to say, but sometimes people forget that the best way to keep a carpet clean all year long and avoid it getting especially dirty, smelly, or matted, is reliable vacuuming. Vacuuming is a process that you should go through once a week to keep your carpets clean and in good shape. That means full coverage vacuuming too. You need to move all of the furniture that is covering parts of your carpet and make sure that everything is covered by the vacuum cleaner. Remembering to do this is an important part of proper carpet care.


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Q: stoping the SwipeMenuLIstView to Swipe i am using Swipe menu list View from the Githu
https://github.com/baoyongzhang/SwipeMenuListView
According to my project requirement i need to stop some list View to Swipe
for example i want to stop the list item on the postion 5
how i would do that
mListView.setOnSwipeListener(new SwipeMenuListView.OnSwipeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onSwipeStart(int position) {
            if (positon == 5) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "you are not Allow to Swipe", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            }
        }

        @Override
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        }
    });

A: You can create a private instance of the listener and than set it to the mListView if a condition is met and if you want to not allow the swiping to be active you can simply set the onSwipeListener to null like this:
private SwipeMenuListView.OnSwipeListener swipeListener = new     SwipeMenuListView.OnSwipeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onSwipeStart(int i) {

    }

    @Override
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    }
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if (condtion) {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "you are not Allow to    Swipe", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
           //disable swiping
           mListView.setOnSwipeListener(null);

        }else{
          //allow swiping
          mListView.setOnSwipeListener(swipeListener);
        }

A: you can use BaseSwipListAdapter and change condition according your requirments.
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public boolean getSwipEnableByPosition(int position) {
    if(position==5){
        return false;
    }
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It's difficult to tell now, but their bellies are starting to get a little fuller.
what do the baby deer eat?


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A Guide to Adult Figure Skating
Famous Skaters
Figure skating is not an activity just for the young
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by Jo Ann Schneider Farris
Jo Ann Schneider Farris was a silver medalist in junior ice dancing at the 1975 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships and is the author of two books on skating
Many people think figure skating is a sport only for young people. To be sure, many of the jumps and other techniques figure skaters learn in order to compete at an Olympic level take years to learn. Those who start ice skating while very young may have an advantage in mastering these skills.
But that doesn't mean there are no opportunities for adult figure skating, which even include participating in competitions. U.S. Figure Skating and the Ice Skating Institute both have a variety of options for adult figure skaters, and test and competition opportunities are available at the local, national and international levels.
So where do you compete if you came to figure skating a little later in life?
Adult Ice Skating Competitions
U.S. Figure Skating says its adult skating program offers opportunities for all skaters, "whether you are an adult who became a skater or a skater who became an adult."
First, you'll need to determine if you qualify for competitive skating. Sectional championships, which are the annual qualifying events for U.S. Adult Figure Skating championship competition are held all over the country every March. The US Figure Skating's Adult Championships are held in April. and draw hundreds of participants every year.
As with junior-level or Olympic skating, competitions for adults are divided by age and test level. There are competitions held across the different skating events, including free skating, solo and partner ice dancing, pair skating and artistic showcase events.
Special Skating Tests for Adult Figure Skaters
Adults who figure skate are always welcome to take standard figure skating tests. In addition, adult figure skaters in the U.S. can take proficiency figure skating tests that have been designed for those age 21 and over.
There are adult moves-in-the-field tests, adult free skating tests, adult free dance tests, and adult pair skating tests. The ice-dance tests are the same as the standard ice-dance tests, but the adult and masters (for skaters age 50 and over) ice-dance tests do not require skaters to solo dances. Special tests for adult skaters are part of the U.S, Figure Skating's Basic Skills program.
In the U.S. Figure Skating structure, the competition groups are divided by age.
Group I: 21-30 years
Group II: 31-40 years
Group III: 41-50 years
Group IV: 51-60 years
Group V: 61 and older
Adult Figure Skating Camps
For adult skaters who want to brush up on their skills or get back into action after a long hiatus, there are several ice skating camps around the country designed especially for adult skaters. And most skating rinks offer learn-to-skate classes for adult skaters.
For example, every August, adult figure skaters from all over the country congregate in Sun Valley, Idaho for a summer skating camp. Participants take part freestyle, ice dance, pair skating, choreography, coffee clubs and in group clinics. Private lessons are available and skaters also enjoy skating on both the indoor and outdoor ice sheets.
Another popular camp for adult figure skaters is Dorothy Hamill's Figure Skating Fantasy Camp. Participants join the 1976 Olympic gold medal winner on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts for six days for training and instruction.
Understanding Figure Skating Tests and Levels
Am I Too Old to Start Figure Skating?
Popular Summer Skating Programs and Camps for Figure Skaters
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How to Be the Best Figure Skater Possible
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Volunteers Collecting Donations for Flood Relief on Saturday
Posted 5:31 pm, March 29, 2019, by Laura Barczewski
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A group of central Iowa volunteers are collecting donations for flood victims on Saturday, and it all started after seeing the tragedy first hand.
"Coming home from helping clean up last Saturday, I came over a hill, and the best way to describe it was a lake with a bridge coming right out of the middle of it, it's extremely shocking visually. I saw a picture of the hotel we stayed at every year and the water was up to the gutters. It really hit home that this area is in dire need of some help," volunteer Nick Holliday said.
After viewing the tragedy, Holliday reached out on Facebook and a group of volunteers joined together to "Fill the Truck, Fight the Flood."
They are asking for donations of:
paper plates and bowls
unscented baby wipes
"It seems really insignificant to buy a pack of paper plates. I've had people call me and want to donate couches and TVs and stuff that they will need, but they can't handle that right now," Holliday said.
There are five drop off locations:
Midwest Wheel, 1436 E. Ovid Ave. Des Moines, IA 50316
Daugherty Auction, 416 Greene St. Adel, IA 50003
The Bus Barn Pub & Pizza, 1119 Thomas St. Redfield, IA 50233
Westside Bar & Grill, 127 S. Chestnut Ave. Earlham, IA 50072
BigDeal Suds, 612 S. Division St. Stuart, IA 50250
Midwest Wheel's staff said they felt compelled to help because their company serves people all over the state.
"This is our own backyard. Like I said, these customers and these people in these communities are very important to Midwest Wheel we want to do our part to help support them and get through this tragedy that's happening over there right now," Midwest Wheel's Field Manager Jason Rose said.
The Mills County donation coordinator told central Iowa volunteers that these items have been overlooked and are what they need most.
They are asking donors not to bring water.
"It's amazing to see how many people have come forward wanting to help. It's the other side of the state. Not everybody can load up and go over there and help, but this gives them an opportunity to help. And there's a high need for it, it's huge right now. They're still waiting on the water to go down completely so they can even assess what their life change is," Holliday said.
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"Свети Никола" или "Свети Николай" () е възрожденска православна църква в демирхисарското село Слепче, Северна Македония. Църквата е под управлението на Преспанско-Пелагонийската епархия на Македонска православна църква.

Църквата е централният храм на селото. Изградена е на основите на стара църква в 1864 година.

В архитектурно отношение е еднокорабна сграда с полукръгъл свод, петостранна апсида на изток и трем и женска църква на запад. От вътрешната страна на северната и южната стена има пиластри за укрепване, които са свързани с дъги. Зидарията е от полуобработен камък, прозорците, ъглите, венецът и апсидата са от дялан бигор, а вратите са от мрамор в плитък релеф. В двора има камбанария и той е заграден, като в него се влиза през масивна дървена врата.

В нея има полузапазен надпис с годината на зографисване – 1884. В надписа се чете името на Коста Анастасов - зограф рисувал в съседния Слепченски манастир, но може и да се отнася за майстор строител със същото име. Според друго четене името е на брат му Никола Анастасов.

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In the 1950s, a Lambretta pick-up truck like this was the ultimate luxury for a small business unable to afford a full-size van – most would have previously been using tradesmen's bicycles or tricycles. A Lambretta truck would have rivalled four-wheelers for performance and economy: 'The ideal, economical runabout for local deliveries by tradesmen; for transporting and carrying in small businesses' declared the adverts.
This example is in good running order. These photos and video were taken by my friend Alain at his house in France, after collecting it for me from the south of France. He will deliver it to me next month. One mudguard has been removed, and is in the rear box; I'll refit it before it's sold.
Founded in 1931, the Ferdinando Innocenti company in Milan, Italy produced steel tubes. At the end of the second World War in 1948 the company started to produce motor scooters which soon included sidecars that evolved further into 3-wheeled vehicles.
The first Lambretta 'motocarro' models (FB and FC) had their pick-up beds in front of the driver, which made steering difficult. The 125 FD, introduced in December 1952, was the first model with the box behind, and therefore a normal scooter front end. It was similar to the Model D scooter, though its front forks and dampers were stronger; the final drive was by means of prop shaft to the rear wheels.
The 150cc version was introduced in August 1955 in order to improve performance. It was also fitted with leaf springs, allowing a load capacity of 350kgs, and a spare wheel was fitted under the rear frame. This model, the FD Series 3, was manufactured until June 1959, and is the nicest to drive, with an amazing turning circle of 1.75m and many options for rear load-carrying. Sales in Great Britain continued into the 1960s, though it was not a practical option here due to the weather.
I have a soft spot for obscure commercial three-wheelers. As they were made purely for business purposes, they generally had a hard working life so less of them have survived. The FD Lambretta is particularly attractive as it's based on the Model D, which was the first Lambretta style to be introduced.
Later Lambretta three-wheelers became more 'car-like' and were used extensively in Asian countries, particularly as taxis.


Is Notre Dame Football about to get over the hump?
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Mr. William Warda (President of the Alliance for Iraqi Minorities AIM) participated in a meeting, on Sunday 21/08/2016 in Baghdad, with a number of human rights activists, academics and leaders; personnel who participated in the two meetings of Najaf held by the Afro-Asian network for a civil state under the slogan (the fourth republic), in addition to Erbil meeting which was allocated to follow up on the recommendations agreed upon during the meeting in Erbil.
Participants in the meeting in Baghdad on Sunday 21/08/2016 discussed the current conditions of the country and what should be done by the civil elites in order to confront the current issues among ambitions to reform the political sphere and stop corruption and the regional and sectarian quota system, while moving forward according to the concept of a national civil state. Everyone agreed that political reform cannot be achieved but through the reformation of the elections law, which will guarantee liberating elections from sectarian, regional and ethnic control, in addition to undertaking proper amendments to the partisan law in order to promote transparency, belonging and funding.
The participants also called to adjust the course of the elections supreme independent commission by amending its law in order to make it an honest democratic organizational body serving the electoral rights while remaining far from the influence of the large components which tried to impose its control and agendas.
The participants decided to form three groups which will prepare proper operational plans to undertake these missions while using the help of experts with knowledge about this subject.


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Home » Celebrities » Pantos greatest dame Christopher Biggins will always leave an empty seat for pal Barbara
As Christopher Biggins stepped out on to the stage for his annual pantomime performance there was a single empty seat in front of him. For many years, it was occupied by his old friend Barbara Windsor, who rarely missed an opportunity to watch the legendary panto dame in action, when she wasn't starring alongside him.
But after being diagnosed with dementia in 2014, the former EastEnders actress began to recognise him less and less and, by the time she died almost exactly a year ago, tragically she barely remembered who he was.
Yet he will never forget their friendship, hence the empty seat.
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Twelve months on, the star, who lives with his partner of 25 years, Neil Sinclair, in Hackney, east London, is still mourning her loss.
"I miss her terribly. I see her widower Scott quite a lot – he is doing well, all things considered – but it's a great loss to all of us," he says, his voice cracking with emotion.
nderful wful le – "She was a wonderful woman and it's an awful disease because people lose touch with everyone and everything. Tragically that happened with Barbara.
"To this day, I remember her as a very caring and generous person and we had so many laughs together and went on the best holidays.
"I'll never forget going to places like the Lake District and Venice. It was fantastic and wonderful.
"One of my last and favourite photos of her was when we went to Fischer's restaurant in Marylebone and we were laughing away, I knew her for so many years through the good times and the bad times."
The pair met performing in Old Time Music Hall in the Sixties and appeared in many shows, including Guys and Dolls, and panto together.
Having found fame in the Carry On films, Barbara became perhaps best known for her performance as Queen Vic landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, from 1994 to 2016.
The star died aged 83 following a six-year battle with Alzheimer's. In a sad twist, her funeral in January took place with limited guests amid coronavirus restrictions. Christopher was one of the 29 mourners – ironically the 30th person got Covid – along with Barbara's celebrity friends David Walliams, Matt Lucas and Ross Kemp, who played her onscreen son Grant Mitchell in EastEnders.
"It was a terribly sad day. There were just 29 of us because that morning one of the guests got Covid, can you believe it?"
Now he knows Downing Street is accused of hosting Christmas parties when numbers at funerals were limited and people were unable to bury dead relatives and friends, he is upset. "Of course to find that out has been awful; especially given the fact that we couldn't have a proper funeral for Barbara," he says.
"There were a handful of us and there were restricted views and it was a problem without a doubt, so I can understand why people are upset now. I am a lifelong Tory supporter and I feel they [the Tories] have shaken my faith and Boris has shaken my faith. I don't understand why he keeps telling lies and he doesn't seem to want to know the truth. That annoys me more than anything. If he was more honest, then it would be better."
Christopher remains sanguine, however, seeing the wider picture. "Quite frankly, I think there are more important things to look at. I really believe we should be sorting our country out rather than haggling over a party. It's a very strange and horrible situation we are all in," he continues. "What a terrible time to be Prime Minister, what with Brexit and Covid, he must have so many things to think about. I am not standing up for Boris or the Government but it's something the opposition has latched on to."
Even without the loss of Barbara, it has been a tough time for Christopher, who had open-heart surgery a year ago and also had his left knee replaced.
But it hasn't stopped him taking on the role of Dame Trott in this year's Jack and the Beanstalk – alongside TV presenter Kiera-Nicole Brennan from Channel 5's Milkshake and comedian Rikki Jay – at The Orchard Theatre in Dartford, Kent.
"I'm like the Bionic Man," he jokes. "I've had a new valve put into my heart and a new knee put in. It's not easy getting old! I've had issues with my heart for about six years. After panto, I need another procedure to put my heart back into a different beat. I have arrhythmia but, luckily, it's a small operation. Apparently it is more common than you think."
Christopher turned 73 on Thursday – not that you'd know it from his schedule.
"I had two shows on my birthday," he says. "Normally I'd have 18 costume changes but the producers cut that down this year to six and made it easier for me, which has been marvellous. I had my knee operation six months ago and I have been walking around the stage. I am not exactly doing cartwheels but I am getting around. After the operation, I had to do a lot of physio exercises to keep it flexible and my partner Neil has been absolutely wonderful in helping me out. It is so marvellous to be pain-free and it gets better every day. But I don't think I will be going on Strictly, although who knows if they eradicate panto dames!
"Then again if they do, that will be me over. I've been in panto for nearly 50 years. Hard to believe isn't it?"
Christopher – who has entertained audiences on film, TV, radio and stage for decades and went down a storm as the winner of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in 2007 – was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2010, making him reevaluate his lifestyle.
"I cut sugar out of my diet and gave up booze for years. I was on Metformin to keep my diabetes under control but now I don't have to have any injections. I might have the odd bar of chocolate and glass of champagne but I never go overboard. I honestly don't drink as much as I used to."
On Thursday, he can be seen on the BBC's reboot of The Weakest Link, hosted by Romesh Ranganathan.Taking part in the Christmas special alongside Kym Marsh, Gemma Collins, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Katie Bottley, Bonnie Langford, Olly Smith and Danny John-Jules, Christopher had a hoot. "Romesh was rather good and he wasn't too nasty," says the star, who recalls how harsh "Queen of Mean" Anne Robinson could be.
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Now Neil has retired from his role as a BA air steward, Christopher hopes they will be able to go on a trip in 2022. "He really needs a rest, he has been working so hard to look after me," he says, smiling.
"At Christmas, we usually go to visit my god-children in Oxford. But because I've got panto and I only have one day off, we are having a quiet Christmas on our own.
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As the CEO of Canada's biggest technology company by market value, Tobias Lütke is part of a new wave of Canadian business royalty. In late 2017 he even reached billionaire status.
His company, Shopify, is a unicorn-status Canadian e-commerce company Ottawa, Ontario providing the software for people to build and take control of their own online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. The company reported that it had more than 800,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries using its platform when 2019 began, with total gross merchandise volume exceeding $41.1 billion over 2018.
Like many successful Canadian businesspeople, Lütke's story doesn't come without its twists, turns, hiccups and scary moments.
Here's 15 interesting things you probably didn't know about Shopify's Tobias Lutke, courtesy of his interview on NPR's How I Built This with Guy Raz.
1) He struggled in school because he was dyslexic and likely had ADHD
Shopify was founded in 2004 by Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake after Lütke built an online store for Snowdevil, a snowboarding brand. But long before that, he had troubles in school growing up in Germany.
The reason? Various learning disabilities.
"I got diagnosed with all sort of disabilities and it was very hard for me to perform well in the tests. I don't think I ended up getting a full diagnoses of it, but now its pretty clear-cut that it was ADHD," said Lütke.
"Basically I was bored [in school]… If I don't understand the problem I'm trying to solve, it's very hard for me to learn a solution to a problem, and so it just didn't work well for me."
Lütke left school after grade 10 to join an apprenticeship program to learn how to become a software engineer.
2) His hero at his first job was this rebel coder guy named "Jürgen Starr"
Lütke's first job placement out of school was at a subsidiary of Siemens. His boss was a guy named Jürgen Starr who Lütke came to idolize.
"He would always come to work on his BMW motorcycle and he would have long hair and he wasn't wearing a suit like he was supposed to. Like a total rebel," said Lütke. "I immediately gravitated to him and his little group of rebels. They were working on really interesting things…and I wanted to be a part of their group," he said.
By his second year Lütke was getting paid to program all day.
"And I loved it."
3) He and his now wife Fiona executed a true distance relationship to perfection
Photo: Twitter.com/FionaMck
Lütke met his wife, Fiona, in Canada when he was on a snowboarding trip. They stayed in contact afterwards until she was graduating her bachelor's degree. She proposed to come back to live with him in Germany. Imagine telling that to the parents.
"I'm perpetually impressed by her parents," laughed Lütke. "They are the most wonderful people."
Fiona landed a job and the pair lived together for 10 months. At that point Fiona had to return to Ottawa to start a Master's program. Lütke followed her.
4) If not for a missing work permit, Lütke may never have created Shopify
Once he landed in Ottawa, Lütke was deep in talks with a local company to join them. When it came time to sign the papers, they realized they couldn't hire him without a work permit, which he didn't have. A family lawyer advised him that he couldn't work in Canada, but he could start his own company.
Since he liked snowboarding, he decided to start a snowboard business.
5) His wife's parents were basically the coolest, most supportive in-laws
So he's this German kid living with his girlfriend's mom and dad all the way in Canada. But it was all good. "They were amazingly supportive," said Lütke.
Photo: Bruce McKean / LinkedIn
"Here's the reality: I don't think I can live with anyone's parents. But I can live with them. They made it incredibly easy. They're just the most kind, genuine people and they played massive roles. [My mother-in-law] was a diplomat and she later did all the payroll and accounting at our office, and Bruce [McKean] ended up saving the company later. Entrepreneurship is messy and it's a journey… Everyone around you are coming along for the trip."
Bruce McKean is now one of the largest shareholders, with about a 4-per-cent stake that was worth about $388.5 million in 2017. Indeed, he wrote cheques for Shopify to meet its payroll when cash flow was tight.
6) He couldn't find software to build his first ecommerce website, so he built it himself
It was 2004 and Lütke wanted to get his online shop up and running within a week. He looked around at the options and… didn't find much.
"I was sitting in front of my computer absolutely stunned that we hadn't figured out how to build online store software yet," said Lütke. "There was no software that would make this easy, especially the credit card part."
Lütke wanted more than what modern website-building infrastructure could offer at the time. They would take a snowboard up a mountain and chronicle its day through blog content. He wanted to tell stories about every snowboard he sold.
"We had something in mind that wrapped good storytelling around products that people were excited about, trying to breakaway from the CS Catalog metaphor, but we were much too early."
Lütke and his partner Scott Lake each put $20,000 into the business but it wasn't really enough. So Lütke built the ecommerce website himself.
7) To do that, he learned Ruby by looking at the code
Lütke always loved the Ruby programming language, an open-source coding language with Japanese-only documentation at the time. He learned the language by looking at the code, creating and launching the Snowdevil website about 2.5 months later.
The way he talks about his love for the language is pretty special:
"I really really love the idea of constructing something in your brain, having this idea – it's a little bit like painting. You have an idea for something and the programming language ends up becoming the mechanism for translating this idea you have in your head onto a canvas.
If you have an amazing landscape but they give you crayons, it's possible to build a massive landscape with crayons, but it always be a crayons painting. So this was sort of in the way Java and others…they just didn't match up with the way my brain ended up constructing the relationships that make up software."
During those 2.5 months, Lütke spent 16 hours a day programming. "There was literally nothing more interesting in the world at this time," he said.
8) His first sale on Snowdevil was a magical experience
Lütke's first sale came soon after he developed the website from scratch. It came from a guy in Pennsylvania.
"Until then you're just someone who built something. When I meet Shopify customers I often ask them, 'Where were you when you got that first order?' And everyone can remember."
Snowdevil did well from a profit perspective, earning the cofounders a small amount of savings. Lütke's biggest challenge was keeping inventory in stock.
"The moment I got my first sale, from that point on I could never get that again," said Lütke. "But that was such a profound moment, and I wanted to spend my time on helping other people get that experience."
9) People immediately wanted to get their hands on the software he built
People loved the design of the Snowdevil website and pretty soon they began asking Lütke if he would license the software that built it.
"It was just different. It wasn't the normal grid. It told stories. It was clearly modern and web 2.0ey. And so people were saying, 'I would love to just build my business on that foundation,'" said Lütke.
All of this posed a legitimate question for the two founders of Snowdevil. Eventually they made the decision to pivot from a snowboard company to a software company. Goodbye Snowdevil. Hello Shopify.
"Scott and I said, 'Ok, skateboards or software?' It was pretty obvious that we should go with software."
10) Shopify's original CEO Scott Lake left the company in 2007
The software industry was headed in a direction in which most CEOs had highly technical backgrounds, but that wasn't the case while Lake was CEO of the company. Lütke said "I think he also realized that I would end up being the person who cared most about this company in the long run."
"I was hugely worried about it," said Lütke. "I was not convinced that I should have a CEO job. But someone told me that if a great VC invested in the company, they would have the network to find a great CEO. And so I was like, 'Okay, maybe I should talk to venture capitalists.'"
11) He was comically unprepared to pitch VCs
It was 2008 and Lütke headed to California to chat with investors. He had a couple appointments and no pitch deck.
After all, he only ever had dreams to build a 20-person company. He didn't need the money and he didn't think this was a venture. His biggest worry was the expense of flying out to Silicon Valley and spending a few days there.
Lütke crashed at a youth hostel in San Francisco, bought a bike on Craig's list and biked to the VC meetings.
"They probably were already thinking, 'Who is this?'" laughed Lütke.
But the investors perked up once they started asking questions. The VCs offered term sheets on the condition that Shopify move to California.
Since the company needed its new CEO, Lütke was introduced to several potential CEOs. "I wanted to play with technology. That's what I was good at. That was my identity"
Lütke returned to his team in Ottawa and ultimately declined the term sheets and the CEOs.
12) The global recession of 2008 highly benefitted Lütke and Shopify
"I thought we were toast," said Lütke. "I was ready to tell people that I can't meet payroll."
It was late 2008 and Shopify's money was running out. However, a lot of folks who lost their jobs in the recession had lots of ideas about starting their own online businesses. They did just that.
Lütke watched as the numbers climbed and accelerated in late 2008 and 2009. And in 2009 Shopify hit cash-flow neutral status for the first time.
13) Lütke was pretty bad as a first-time CEO
Tobias Lütke Shopify
"Not good," he said. "My team was very, very patient with me."
"The wonderful thing about computers is when you tell them what to do they'll keep doing it and they'll do it until you tell them to stop. It turns out humans are not like that," joked Lütke. "It was a very large learning curve"
The founder said he largely held the company back from what it should have become in 2009 due to him learning the job of CEO at his own pace. He intentionally slowed down the growth of the company.
Being a CEO was also a large amount of responsibility for the new leader.
By this point the company's revenue was over $1 million a year, but it had big expenses and a growing staff. People depended on Lütke and the pressure weighed heavy.
"It's a crushing responsibility. You're responsible for everyone who's there. People had families, kids. My family, it's not a wealthy family. People gave me money that they didn't really have," he said.
McKean, Lütke's father-in-law, gave him cash to meet payroll. As a government bureaucrat, McKean was basically putting his life savings into Lütke, the German kid that his daughter met at a ski mountain.
"Everybody was just unbelievable supportive because they somehow believed in this idea," said Lütke.
14) Shopify more than survived
(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Lütke focused on marketing and continued to see the numbers grow. He went back to Silicon Valley and raised $7 million from investors on a $25 million valuation.
All kinds of new businesses started popping up, and the investors pitched in another $15 million. The rest is pretty much history.
By the end of 2013, Shopify had over 80,000 customers and 300 employees. In 2013 the company would go on to raise $100 million and eventually IPO in 2017.
In 2014, Lütke and Fiona finally moved out of her parent's house.
15) Lutke has a secret Shopify shop that sells socks
Today there is more than 800,000 Shopify merchants, and most reading this post have likely bought something from a store powered by Shopify. Every 52 seconds on Shopify, someone has the experience of getting their first sale. It's where Lutke says they go from being a builder to being an entrepreneur.
In fact, Lütke has his own side-hustle. It sells socks, but he won't reveal what it's called.
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Mr. Sanders, along with a group of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by US tax dollars, took on this challenge and designed a chip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature fluctuations in our skin. Without having knowledge of the Bible(Mr. Sanders was not a believer at the time), these engineers spent one and a half million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip placed under the skin.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand(the two spots Revelation says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable locations for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The RFID chip is about seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, crime record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this microchip.
Mr. Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the "mark" spoken about in Revelation 13:16-18. The original Greek word for "mark" is "charagma," which means a "scratch or etching." It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is "chi xi stigma," with the last part, "stigma," also meaning "to stick or prick. Carl believes this is referring to the use of a hypodermic needle being poked into the human flesh to insert the microchip."
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would occur if the lithium contained within the RFID chip leaked into the body. The doctor responded by saying a terrible sore would appear in that location. This is what the book of Revelation says:
"And the first(Angel) went, and poured out his vial on the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image" (Revelation 16:2).
The Bible tells us we cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast, or the number of its name. This number is identified as 666. The Bible tells us to calculate the number 666.
In this world we are identified by numbers, whether it is our social security number, drivers license, or cards used to make payments. The number of the beast represents something like this, to identify us in a one world government system. This number will be contained within the chip to identify each and every one of us so we may buy or sell.
To see the hidden meaning behind calculating the number 666(6+6+6=18), and how it aligns with scipture perfectly,
Go to: https://biblefreedom.com/rfid-mark-revealed
The Bible warns us in the last days that a false prophet will rise up doing miracles to deceive many to take this mark. No matter the cost, do not take it!
With all these religions in the world, how can we be so sure the Bible got it right? The scientific data has established and continues to support that the universe once had a beginning in which space, time and matter were created. Many know this as the big bang.
"The non-biblical religions tell us that god or god's create within space and time that eternally exist. The Bible stands alone and says that time and space don't exist until God creates the universe." – Hugh Ross
Did you hear that the real Noah's Ark was discovered where the Bible told us it would be with the correct dimensions? As well as hard evidence for the destruction of Sodom Gomorrah and the Exodus account of the Red Sea crossing?
The Bible is the most translated and read book in the history of the world, full of predictive prophecies. Wouldn't you expect God's word to be so?
This information can all be found at https://biblefreedom.com
"And He(Jesus) said to me(Apostle John), "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts" (Revelation 21:6).
"Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water(the Holy Spirit) that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:13-14).
"Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' (John 3:5-6).
All religion is man-made. Man can create religion, but no one can create the Holy Spirit that comes from God out of Heaven. Jesus never told us to follow a religion or denomination:
"Then He(Jesus) said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me" (Luke 9:23).
You can receive the Spirit of God right now. If you are willing to humble yourself before the Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead on the third day; call out to God and ask Him to forgive your sins, to receive His Holy Spirit. If you are genuine, He is faithful and just to forgive, and He will give you a new heart, a renewing of the mind, restoring everything the devil has stolen from you; making you like a child again.
When we receive the Spirit of God, we become born from above, and His seed resides within us. We no longer make a practice of sin, but rather turn away from unrighteousness and receive the righteousness of Christ.
From that point onward, we must put all our hope and trust in Jesus, and grow to walk in His ways, not straying from the narrow path. For Jesus says,
"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty(One God), Who was(Jesus) and is(YHWH) and is to come(Jesus)!" (Revelation 4:8).
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Emotional abuse is not to be taken lightly. Yes, it's real, and yes, even someone as strong as me went through it. To me, it feels like emotional abuse leaves far deeper scars than physical does, though they are both awful forms of torture – especially to someone you supposedly love. So here's my story of emotional abuse, and my evolution from victim of emotional abuse to survivor.
Everyone knows about physical abuse. It's obvious. It's on the surface, and we can physically see it. But emotional abuse is harder to spot. My former partner practiced so much emotional abuse with me, and the sad part is I kind of realized it, even at the time. He would blame me for everything, shift his problems onto me, and make me feel crazy for doing the tiniest things. These are but a few factors in emotional abuse. Basically, if you're made to feel worthless and blamed for everything from someone who is supposed to love you – whether it be a lover, a family member, or a friend – you're probably experiencing emotional abuse.
How did it even begin?
The beginning was amazing. For three glorious weeks he was an absolute angel, doing everything for me. He whisked me off my feet and made me fall hopelessly in love. Of course, this is the beginning of emotional abuse. He wore a mask, and pretended to be someone he was not, in order to hook me in. It may not sound like emotional abuse to have someone constantly compliment you, pay for everything, and want to be so close with you from day one, but it's a tactic used by many to get you in their grips so the real fun can begin.
His mask began to fade around week three, and, though I didn't quite know it yet, the emotional abuse began. I thought everything was truly my fault; how on earth could I make this wonderful man so upset? I must have been acting badly. It must be me. These are the thoughts that raced through my head, and commonly do when one is going through emotional abuse. I had to walk on eggshells, and even then he'd get mad at me for not speaking. It wasn't like he spoke to me much either, though, unless to criticize and put me down. Where once he was so excited about my accomplishments, he no longer cared one bit. I was just whatever to him. Soon I would start to realize I was in an emotionally abusive relationship. But I loved him, and so I stayed.
Things went on like this for a couple of months. He would show signs of emotional abuse, and I would tolerate them, just hoping it would all get better. For I had met such a wonderful man, still I believed that, even though he was being emotionally abusive, the man I met must be under there. Maybe it was mostly my fault, I would think, despite knowing otherwise. Never did I hear a single apology from him, not even for the first time he pushed me. "You fell," he said when I brought it up.
He became enraged quite often. But one day he was no longer just emotionally abusive; no, he finally turned physical, and this time I listened to it. I knew if he did it once he'd do it again (and, in fact, had done it once before). When he pushed me to the ground, causing me to cut up my toes underneath the door, I immediately went to pack my things. As I was doing so, he threw me against the wall. Something in his mind still told him that because he hadn't hit me, it wasn't physical abuse. It was.
I gathered all of my things, and hurried out of the house. His friend – who witnessed it all – drove me to the highway, where I stuck out my thumb and hitchhiked to Two Creeks Campground in Minnesota to be around friends and far, far away from him. It was a rough couple of weeks to be honest with you. I was worse for wear, and still couldn't fathom how this man I had loved so much could be so hurtful – emotionally and physically – to me.
We never spoke again since that day, and I'm sure we never will (thankfully). His emotional and physical abuse were enough, and I was done. Eventually the cloud lifted, and I was able to keep on living happily without him. I no longer longed for him; rather, I was proud to have left so early on in the relationship. I thank him a million times over for the physical abuse, for I could never have left the emotional abuse on its own. Or, it at least would have taken me a long time and considerable strength.
I'm now strong and confident, assured that I can do anything if I could leave that emotionally abusive relationship. I am happier than ever before, with no desire for a man to make me happy. Nah, I can do that all on my own. I urge you, if you are the victim of emotional abuse, get out now. You will be better for it in the long run. And you can check out the Facebook group MaybeHeDoesntHitYou for much needed support. And hey, I'm always here to listen, too. Don't let yourself be a victim of emotional abuse any longer.


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Sancar, Aziz (b. September 8, 1946, Savur, Mardin), physician and scientist, winner of the 2007 Vehbi Koç Award for health sciences. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for their studies in DNA repair.
Describing his parents as, "illiterate, yet who always placed great importance on education, and had full confidence that their children had the capacity to excel as long as they were educated", Prof. Sancar finished the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine in 1969, and went to the USA to carry out research in biochemistry in 1971. He completed his doctorate in molecular biology at the University of Texas in Dallas in 1977 and started working at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1982. He currently serves as Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina.
Author of over three hundred scientific papers, Prof. Sancar's work on DNA repair and regulation of the circadian clock has gained recognition worldwide. His study of the molecular mechanisms of DNA repair defined the "nucleotide excision repair" (NER) pathway used in the repair of all types of DNA damage. His work on the circadian clock demonstrated that mammals use a protein he named cryptochrome to regulate their daily cycles.
In 2007, he won the Vehbi Koç Award for "his extraordinary scientific qualities and outstanding contribution to human health". Prof. Sancar has also won several other awards, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Photobiology Research Award, and the TÜBİTAK Science Award.
He has been selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), and a member of the American Microbiology Academy (2005), US National Academy of Sciences (2005) and Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) (2006). In 2017, the Turkish Health Institutes Directorate created the Aziz Sancar Science, Service and Incentive Awards.


It's a big year for Curaçao: The Caribbean island not only became its own autonomous country (within the Kingdom of the Netherlands) in October, it's also now a breeze to reach from the Tri-State area.
In December, Continental launched a twice-weekly nonstop flight from Newark. Although the carrier already offered seasonal weekly flights to Curaçao, East Coast travelers can now book these nonstop jaunts year round, every Wednesday and Saturday (flights are scheduled to leave EWR at 8:50am and take off from CUR at 3:40pm).
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FAKE NEWS FACT CHECK: Iceland | Guten Morgen Berlin!
November 18, 2017 - Guten Morgen Berlin!
A few weeks ago, I wrote a travel blog post all about Iceland, giddy with the prospect of going there but with very little actual knowledge about the place. Then I actually went to Iceland, did the holiday thing, came back, organised a Cold-War-themed spy mission team building activity (don't ask), and now here we are. Time for a debrief to see what I got right in my first article and what was fake news.
You know all those songs by urban beatnik folk musicians like Simon and Garfunkel about the solemn grace and tragic resignation of vagrants on the streets of Brooklyn, as they gaze into the palms of their gloved hands bracing themselves for another long, cold night? This is the experience of spending the night at Luton Airport. Which was unfortunately necessary since I missed my flight and had to camp in London Luton to get the next flight to Iceland. And the delirium caused by fourteen hours of being bunched into extremely uncomfortable chairs prevented me from noting whether or not pickled fish was available at baggage reclaim, so I can only assume it was indeed.
The architecture in Reykjavik is a strange and disorderly mishmash of sleek, modern buildings and pragmatic cuboids with various levels of decorativeness. It feels a lot like Oxford in many ways, but far more urban and with very many houses clad in colourful painted corrugated iron sheeting that simultaneously looks harbour-industrial and country-cute.
None of this is true. First of all, I did not see a single unit of woods in the wilderness. Icelandic wilderness means huge, stark plains, covered in a crumble of dark volcanic rock which itself is covered with a carpet of thick, tweedy moss. Enormous rock formations punctuate the martian expanses and are randomly strewn with waterfalls and dark caves. There is no wildlife; no birds, no deer, no glittery white foxes. There are no park rangers; the national parks are simply unimaginably colossal areas of some of the most staggering, unreal geology on the planet. Unkempt, uncurated, uninhabited.
Unfortunately at the time of my holiday there were no actively erupting volcanoes blooping hot lava around the place but I did get to visit several extremely active geysers that blew my mind (is that a pun? Like, because geysers explode? Not sure, leaving it in just in case). The best and biggest one fires a massive blast of hot water 70 metres into the sky every ten minutes (even an inanimate natural phenomenon is more punctual than National Rail) which is as exciting as fireworks to watch. If you can't see a geyser on your Iceland trip there is, apparently, a 'geyser simulator' on the outskirts of Reyjkavik, which I assume is just some guy regularly turning a top on and off while some other guy points a shower head out of a hole in the ground. Just go the the geyser everyone, it's so coooool. Also the word 'geyser' comes from the place 'Geysir' where the big geyser is so now you can use that fun fact at a pub quiz sometime.
Sadly we did not go to see the fjords on our road trip so I have decided this is definitely true.
The northern lights. What a gyp. First of all, I had to endure all manner of sass from my German friends leading up to the trip because the German word for the phenomenon is 'Polarlicht', and they all thought that I thought that Iceland is IN THE NORTH POLE and then they would pat me on the head and gently laugh about my folly while condescendingly offering me a children's juicebox.
Secondly, they didn't happen for a single night while we were there. You want to see them so badly, and you stare at the black night sky willing your retinas to register the faintest soft ribbon of green light. And then, of course, because you have spent so long looking at a dark empty void your vision starts to swim and you think maybe you did see some green out there but no. You didn't. Put your binoculars away and get the f*** inside because it's f***ing freezing holy monkey christ.
I am delighted to announce that this part is NOT FAKE NEWS. Icelandic cakes are DOPE, BROSEPH. The bakeries in Reykjavik are so fantastic it makes you want to launch a Band-Aid style charity single in sympathy with gluten intolerant people. Iceland has a traditional meringue cake which, as far as I could ascertain, is simply a gargantuan mound of meringue and whipped cream combined with chunks of anything else you like as long as long as you serve each portion as an amorphous, delicious crag the size of a buffalo's head.
There's also a special kind of Icelandic donut which is the shape of two overlapping diamonds and is completely bland but redeemed by its jazzy form. Eating out in Iceland is usually great, sometimes terrific and always so expensive it makes you emit an involuntary yelping noise every time you look at the menu.
The most traditional national dish is lamb stew, which makes sense because Icelandic sheep are majestic creatures with satisfied facial expressions and wool that is visibly luxurious. Their meat and wool is probably the only thing that keeps the Icelandic population going through the insanely cold, blustery winters.
The most traditional national drink is hahaha are you kidding a glass of wine costs 14 euros let's just get a bottle of gin in duty-free and swig that under the table.


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Film Review – David Lynch: The Art Life
Andy Murray July 14, 2017 Arts, Cinema, Northern Electric, Northern Soul writes... Comments Off on Film Review – David Lynch: The Art Life
It's suddenly become a very interesting time to be a David Lynch fan again.
His last feature film, Inland Empire, was released more than ten years ago, back in 2006. Though it had much to recommend it, there was perhaps a sense of creative batteries starting to run dry. In subsequent years, Lynch seemed to have lost interest in filmmaking altogether, and instead focused his attention on other disciplines – painting, making music, designing furniture and tirelessly promoting Transcendental Meditation. Lord, but cinema missed him.
There's still no sign of a new feature film, but Lynch has directed and co-written a belated third series of Twin Peaks, episodes of which are currently airing weekly. Running at a total of around 20 hours, the series is almost as long as his entire cinematic output combined. It's something like a second career for him. There were understandable concerns as to whether Lynch would still have it after such a long lay-off. Thankfully, the series so far has been mind-fryingly good: the work of a pure, uncompromising artist.
That's the figure that's portrayed in this new documentary, David Lynch: The Art Life. The title is perfect. Essentially what we see is Lynch, now 71, going about his daily routine: smoking, swearing, operating power tools and making art in his home studio. It's not unlike watching your Grandad pottering about in his shed, assuming that your Grandad made Blue Velvet back in the day.
Director Jon Nguyen has recorded a whole series of conversations with Lynch about his childhood, youth and journey to filmmaking. The result, at heart, is a feature-length interview. The interviews are all off-camera, though. The accompanying visuals are mostly of Lynch at work, lingering long on his fascinating face, now resembling Samuel Beckett after a few hearty meals and some laughs. It's also peppered with a haul of private film footage, photographs and his finished artworks. All told, this creates something like a window into Lynch's soul, or at least as close as we're likely to get.
Lynch can be a tricky figure who appears to be a lot more open than he actually is. His bone-dry sense of humour can obscure things, too. In a BBC Scene by Scene interview in 1999, Lynch told Mark Cousins in all earnestness that he believes every film has a key scene where everything is crystalised, which he calls 'the eye of the duck'. He absolutely meant it, though. These days Lynch is a lot looser and more straight-ahead, and he can even be seen here playing with his little daughter Lula. For the Lynch faithful, these peaks behind the scenes will be thrilling. It's a slightly limited intimacy, though. At other times his youthful recollections tails off entirely, and while the film resembles a curious sort of 'day in the life', his wife, actress Emily Stofle, is nowhere to be seen. You feel that Lynch only lets us in precisely as far as he wants us to and keeps his secrets as he sees fit.
Of course, there's a real risk of the documentary ending up as somehow merely sub-Lynchian. Thankfully, it's all cannily done and manages to create some admirable moments of stillness and beauty, without ever losing sight of the fact that Lynch is the true artist. Only an occasional flourish of the score, something Lynch knows exactly how to deploy, comes across as clumsy or ill-judged. The pace is perhaps on the over-languid side at times, though, and arguably there's nothing in the conversations that really pushes or challenges Lynch. He remains a deeply controversial filmmaker for some, but answering up to his critics is just not really the name of the game here. It's his own impressionistic account of his working life, an oblique kind of character study, which will surely appeal directly to his existing admirers rather than looking to win him any new ones.
On paper, this could possibly have ended up as something like a generous DVD extra, but for all of its occasional flaws, it's far more satisfying and accomplished than that. The story it tells stops right after the making of Lynch's first full-length film, Eraserhead, and there's no mention of Twin Peaks either old or new. Curiously, though, it is a timely piece. As Twin Peaks viewers will know, the new series strays into territory that's more like his early short films than anything he's made since. It's a delight to have Lynch back, and The Art Life makes a feature of the fact that he's just good value and a remarkable figure to spend time with.
By Andy Murray, Film Editor
David Lynch: The Art Life is showing at HOME from July 14, 2017. For more information, click here. For details of showings across the country, check local listings.
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