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Least to Most: Bruce – The Ghost of Tom Joad
December 15, 2016 December 15, 2016 / Tony
"Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
No home, no job, no peace, no rest"
I'm starting to think that the poor reception that greeted Human Touch and Lucky Town kinda knocked Bruce's confidence a little heavier than he'd let on. Going by the fact that, at the time, he was still actively fighting depression and going through a lot of personal changes, it's not that big a surprise. One could imagine that, were he feeling more resilient mentally he may have said "nuts" to the negative reviews, gone back to the woodshed and kicked it up a notch. Instead, during the period between the end of what's now called 'The Other Band' and the start of the E Street Reunion tours precious little of what Springsteen wrote saw the light of day (pun intended).
Now to me – and I hope others – this is a real burr because what recorded material from 1994 onwards has reached the eager ears of listeners is gold and does show that the man was more than capable of saying "nuts" and going back to work. There's an entire album's worth (close to two*) of material that was shelved and will likely never be released. There's been some hints as to what it contains – like the E Street reworking of 'Waiting on the End of the World' – but it's likely to remain unheard save a (much prayed for) Tracks 2**emerging and all you need to is cast a look at the material Bruce did release from that era, all with a certain understated charm, to know why we're missing out: 'Streets of Philadelphia', 'Secret Garden', 'Blood Brothers' (the latter two written during a run of inspiration ahead of and during the E Street reunion for Greatest Hits), 'Missing', 'Lift Me Up', 'Dead Man Walking', even 'Without You' has a joyful charm, 'Nothing Man' originated during this period… and then there's this thing he wrote called 'The Ghost of Tom Joad'.
'The Ghost of Tom Joad' was written around the time of Greatest Hits and Bruce even took the band through a few takes but, much like elusive 'Electric Nebraska Sessions', it wasn't right. So, instead of the presumed course after that compilation's reunion, Bruce took a sharp left: he assembled a group of songs about the American South West and, for the most part, embellished them with little more than his voice and some delicate guitar patterns weaving through the odd keyboard drone (something that started with 'One Step Up' and featured heavily in his 90s output to good effect).
And what a group of songs they are***. More restrained and narrow focused than his earlier solo (masterpiece) Nebraska, these songs actively incorporated silence and hushed phrasing (so much so that the tour that followed was often referred to as the 'Shut the Fuck Up' tour) to create memorable and affecting stories that lingered. Listening back to this one I'd forgotten just how powerful some of these are, take the tale in 'Sinaloa Cowboys' as an example:
Here the stories are perfectly succinct and the delicate touches of instrumentation mean that in their simplicity they achieve what the over-worked attempts of Devils & Dust failed to: stories with bite with music as a subtle backdrop rather than focus.
There are four songs on The Ghost of Tom Joad, title track included, for which Bruce assembled a small backing band – including Gary Tallent and Danny Federici – to add a little colour to the sonic palette and these serve as beautiful counterpoint to the otherwise stark, bitter-sweet beauty of songs like 'The Line'. 'Straight Time' and 'Dry Lightning' may not linger as much as, say, the powerfully stark 'Highway 29' which could slot right at home on Nebraska, but the title track and 'Youngstown' are both essential Bruce songs.
'Youngstown' has become such a torch-burning, electrically recast centre-point of E Street band shows since the Reunion tour that it's easy to forget just how strong the original is:
The other reason Ghost of Tom Joad is an essential part of Springsteen's catalogue is that it finds him rediscovering his voice. Not the hushed tones of the vocals but the no-linger inward focus. This was Bruce looking for inspiration outside of the men vs women themes he'd used for the previous three (released, that is) albums, but looking at the struggles of others – as he says; ""the songs on it added up to a reaffirmation of the best of what I do. The record was something new, but was also a reference point to the things I tried to stand for and still wanted to be about as a songwriter.""
Received to slighter commercial success but pretty strong reviews with Rolling Stone reckoning it "among the bravest work that anyone has given us this decade" (and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album), it perhaps receives a harsher view in retrospect from some corners than it deserves. Some criticisms fired at this album focus around the hushed, minimal delivery or the lack of fire and brimstone given to the recorded versions of songs like 'Ghost of Tom Joad' and 'Youngstown' compared to their now live rendering but, if you ask me, they're missing the point. The songs on this album (something of a concept album in that respect) all focus on the- as his own website puts it – " poverty, immigration and the brittle troubles of Americans and Mexicans in the Southwest." The desert can be a cold, bleak place with vast empty spaces. The Ghost of the Tom Joad, sonically, is the sound of these oft-broken characters staring into that space after a day in the cruel, blinding light of its heat with acceptance / surrender of the inevitable. It's not a time for boot, stomping rock and, in the brittle, fragility of its delivery of these stories Ghost of Tom Joad remains an understated and captivating masterpiece.
Highlights: 'Ghost of Tom Joad', 'Youngstown', 'Highway 29', 'Sinaloa Cowboys', 'The Line', 'Galveston Bay'.
Not so highlights: The exclusion of 'Brothers Under The Bridge' which could've elevated this album to virtually unimpeachable. But then everybody needs a 'Blind Wille McTell'.
*Depending on how much different side-men know: Bruce has spoken about an album of more relationship songs in the minimal 'Streets of Philadelphia' style, Shane Fontayne has given interviews that hint at yet another. Could just be crossed wires, could be another well of unheard material. He was certainly clocking up recording sessions during this period.
** At the time of Tracks 75% of Bruce's material was unreleased. Even the number of songs settled on for Tracks was then culled from 100 to 66. What was on those extra two discs? Surely more than went on to make up The Promise and The Ties That Bind?
***Here, again, though he wrote some 22 songs. There's tales of two albums' worth of songs – one with the band backing – being recorded. Some would pop up on tour, some never to be sung again. FFS.
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Why do you think there is material that will never be released? What would stop them from another 'Tracks?'
I'm listening to this album right now. I have no idea if there's any connection but there's a spiffy old Dustin Hoffman movie called "Straight Time' with him as a con getting out of prison. Not a major film but one that I thought was pretty good.
And I feel compelled to note that you were, shall we say, unhappy with Rolling Stone the other day, quoting them here. Inescapable journal, eh? 😀
Yeah they are kinda inescapable. Still, back in '95 I think they were still fairly balanced and a little less starry-eyed with Bruce (if memory serves they weren't too complimentary about the same year's Greatest Hits album).
Other than a few artists like, say, Dylan, I don't get an overriding sense of a philosophy towards any one of them. Seems to depend on the reviewer. And they change over time. They notoriously, relentlessly trashed Zep's first couple of albums. And I am now holding in my hand RS's tribute to Zep. To RS's credit, they admit that they used to hate them then, one supposes, eventually saw the light. And when RS does a Top 100 guitarist list? Look out. Brings the fan boys out in droves and not in a good way.
So in my comments on the various albums, I think that you and I have been more or less in synch. Maybe I like one a little bit more than you do or vice versa. And so as a Bruce fan I say with some sadness that having listened to this snoozefest, it drops somewhere near the bottom. For me, every song sounded like every other song. I'm not looking for a 'Rosalita' but a 'Johnny 99' would have been nice. For me I don't care who the artist is or how much I like him or her. You've got to kick it with a little variety. And there's none here. When I (someday) buy the mega "everything Bruce ever recorded box set" maybe I'll pick one or two from here. But this album is so low-key it makes 'Nebraska' sound like Metallica. Not my cup of tea at all.
Know all I can think of is James Hetfield giving it some "MISTER state troopeeeerrr"
I think I'm in a minority in my enjoyment of this one. I didn't take to it at first but it really grew on me and I kept going back for different tracks.
Who knows? There's already plenty of Nebraska tribute stuff. As to this album, very much a first impression. I know that albums have to grow on you. My sense is that I would somewhat warm to it over time but probably never appreciably. I'm kinda glad I wasn't attending the Shut the Fuck Up tour. After two songs I'd definitely need me some 'Kitty's Back.'
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Youngstown is a big favourite of mine, right up there with Ghost. I agree that the storytelling is wonderful. I also agree with Jim that sonically the album is a little samey.
I hear he's got another solo album coming out next year that was inspired to some extent by the musical relationship between Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb. A sort of Devils and Dust with orchestral backing. Sounds intriguing and Landau has described it as expansive which strikes me as encouraging.
Yeah… I've heard the same though in a recent interview Bruce seemed a little less than 100% about it being released soon, it's already been put back a way in order to expand the E Street Tour.
Seems he gets an itch for a truly solo record every 10/11 years and they've become slightly more fleshed out sonically than the last. Will definitely be there on the pre-order button even if Rom Aniello is behind the buttons
Is Bruce ready for his Rick Rubin moment?
Given Bruce's mastery of dynamics, it's a wonder that he does have that samey thing happening. During his depressed period perhaps That's kinda how the album sounds to me.
I think it suits the subject matter. It reminds me of Guthrie and traditional American folk.
Guthrie played upbeat songs once in a while. This is a dirge.
BTW, one clarification here. I do not hate this album. If I ever do that massive "favorite personal Springsteen collection," I would definitely scavenge it for songs. In my head I can see borrowing a few from it, adding a few from another one or two, etc. Title – Desperate Times. :-0
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'Elon, There Are Rules': EU Says Twitter Must Comply With New Digital Services Act – Kenny Stancil
The European Union on Tuesday warned Elon Musk that Twitter, now owned by Tesla's chief executive, must comply with the bloc's new law that aims to halt the online spread of hate speech and other illicit content, or risk substantial fines or a continent-wide ban—possibly foreshadowing a global regulatory fight over the social media platform.
"If Twitter does not comply with our law, there are sanctions."
Less than 24 hours after Musk bought Twitter in a $44 billion deal, E.U. internal market commissioner Thierry Breton delivered a stark message to the world's richest man via the Financial Times.
"Elon, there are rules," said Breton. "You are welcome but these are our rules. It's not your rules which will apply here."
Breton's comments come just days after lawmakers in Brussels approved the Digital Services Act, a landmark piece of legislation that seeks to minimize the harmful effects associated with social media and e-commerce by requiring Big Tech firms to remove content and products deemed illegal by E.U. member states.
During a Tuesday news briefing, European Commission spokesperson Johannes Bahrke reminded Musk that "our Digital Services Act applies to all major platforms, to ensure their power over public debate is subject to democratically validated rules to better protect fundamental rights online."
When Musk took control of Twitter on Monday, he called free speech "the bedrock of a functioning democracy" and described the Silicon Valley-based app on which hundreds of millions of people rely for news as "the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated."
Journalist Anand Giridharadas countered that Musk is "doing is what plutocrats have been doing… branding themselves the solution to the very problem they are."
In his pitch to take over Twitter, Musk, a self-described "free speech absolutist" who has used the app to attack regulators and critics, vowed to weaken content moderation on the site. Republican lawmakers are hopeful that under Musk's ownership, Twitter could reinstate former President Donald Trump, who was banned for repeatedly violating the platform's rules governing hate speech and misinformation, culminating in the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
Breton, meanwhile, said that he wanted to give Musk a "reality check" before he loosened any of the platform's content moderation policies. If Twitter fails to comply with the Digital Services Act, the E.U. commissioner warned, it could be prohibited in Europe.
"Anyone who wants to benefit from this market will have to fulfill our rules," Breton told FT. "The board [of Twitter] will have to make sure that if it operates in Europe it will have to fulfill the obligations, including moderation, open algorithms, freedom of speech, transparency in rules, obligations to comply with our own rules for hate speech, revenge porn, [and] harassment."
"If [Twitter] does not comply with our law," he added, "there are sanctions—6% of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe."
As the newspaper reported:
The Digital Services Act forces the like of Twitter to disclose to regulators how they are tackling content such as disinformation and war propaganda. The groundbreaking rules are part of a bigger push by Brussels to curb the power of large online platforms, including Facebook and Google. Last month, the E.U. also unveiled the Digital Markets Act, aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech, including a ban on platforms promoting their own services ahead of rivals.
"Be it cars or social media, any company operating in Europe needs to comply with our rules—regardless of their shareholding," Breton tweeted on Tuesday.
"Mr. Musk knows this well," Breton added. "He is familiar with European rules on automotive, and will quickly adapt to the Digital Services Act."
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MANILA, Philippines – A Chinese national fashion design student drew flak on social media for throwing taho or beancurd pudding at a cop on duty inside the MRT station on Saturday morning (February 9).
Chinese Zhang Jaile seemed to have thrown a tantrum when PO1 William Cristobal barred her from entering the station and asked her to finish her food before she could do so.
It has been a policy in all stations of the Metro Rail Transit system to ban eating and drinking particularly inside the train.
Zhang was arrested right away and brought to Mandaluyong police station. She was charged with direct assault and disobedience to person in authority.
"It was my fault. I just got angry," Zhang said.
In reaction to the incident, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin downplayed the taho-throwing incident and called it a "non-issue trying to be one" as "it could happen anywhere".
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"We can recommend for her to consider as undesirable alien so that the Bureau of Immigration will process this maging basehan iyan kung i-deport iyan", Eleazar said.
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At the RSA Security Conference today ZoneLabs announced the public beta release of a 64-bit version of their popular free ZoneAlarm firewall.
At the RSA Security Conference Tuesday ZoneLabs announced the public beta release of a 64-bit version of their popular free ZoneAlarm firewall.
According to Zonelabs, this is "the first 64-bit Windows firewall available free to customers". When ZoneAlarm 64 becomes generally available "in the spring", 64-bit computing will get just a bit safer.
"We are very pleased to extend our product line to include firewall protection for 64-bit PCs," said Laura Yecies, general manager of Zone Labs and vice president at Check Point, in a statement. "A dual-layer firewall is the most essential piece of the security to protect against hackers and their nefarious schemes."
In many cases, a malware application written for 32-bit Windows just won't run under 64-bit Windows, but this is not a universal truth. ZoneLabs points out that the Sober worm affected machines running XP64, as did the more recent Blackworm virus. At present, viruses specific to the 64-bit platform exist as proofs of concept; it's only a matter of time before the appearance of functional 64-bit malware in the wild.
When Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (XP64) was released last spring, PC Magazine advised readers not to install it unless absolutely necessary, due in part to the lack of 64-bit security products.
As with any essential security product the beta test period is geared toward experts and those willing to test on a dedicated system not used for production work. ZoneLabs will continue to update the rest of their security line for 64-bit Windows throughout 2006.
Customers interested in participating in the ZoneAlarm preview beta should visit Zone Labs' beta site.


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Airlines may increasingly be forced to cut their loads of passengers, cargo or fuel in order to take off safely because warming air lessens the ability of airplane wings to generate lift, according to US researchers.
Worldwide, average temperatures are expected to climb some 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, researchers said.
But it is more prevalent heat waves that pose a larger threat to the airline industry, they said in a study published in the journal Climate Change.
Annual maximum daily temperatures at airports could rise by4 to 8 degrees Celsius by 2080, they found, leading to more costly delays in take-offs or cancellations.
During the hottest parts of the day, between 10 and 30 percent of fully loaded planes may have to dump weight in order to begin their journey.
The phenomenon could force the aviation industry to brace for thinner profit margins, the authors said.
A full 160-seat aircraft trying to safely take off in searing heat may, for instance, need to remove 13 passengers, the study said.
But the costs of delays or cancellations could also disrupt other sectors of the economy as they trickle down, they said.
"Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost," Ethan Coffel, the study's lead author and a researcher at Columbia University in New York City, said in a statement.
Airports likely to be most affected according to the researchers' appraisal of 19 major airports include New York's LaGuardia, due to short runways, and Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, because of scorching heat.
Projections found the least affected airports included New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, London's Heathrow and Paris's Charles de Gaulle.
Last month, major airlines were forced to delay or cancel dozens of flights out of Las Vegas and Phoenix airports, citing difficulty in operating aircraft amid a heat wave.
Previous research has found that changes in climate may increase turbulence on flights, the researchers said.
They said their study was the first such global analysis.


I hope you all do, too. But I hope it won't be much longer.
Sorry, Kim! I also said Nooooooo! when the artist told me she just wasn't ready yet.
The teaser chapter for DOOR INTO LIGHT is MUCH worse. That was just mean.


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Run the Loop at the Brownlee Centre
Emily Halsall
Entries are now open for the "Run the Loop at the Brownlee Centre" event
Come join us on the 24th May 2020 for our annual multi-distance running event at our fantastic Brownlee Centre at the University of Leeds.
Our unique event takes place on our closed-road 1-mile cycle circuit and offers runners a range of different events to enter – from a 5km to half marathon. You can race and run where current and next generation Olympic champions train!
The closed-road circuit provides a unique opportunity for participants looking to take part in their first road running race and for seasoned PB hunters.
All finishers will receive a goody bag and a celebratory prize. There will be male and female prizes for all distances, and hopefully a few PB's to be found along the way!
The event will support an international sports development programme, Gryphons Abroad – supported by the Bambisanani Partnership. A contribution from your race fee will go to the project which changes the lives of young people in South Africa, in particular through the purchase of bikes, bike equipment and educational materials.
You can find out more about this amazing programme here.
Date: Sunday 24th May 2020
Time: 10.30am start (First event off)
Venue: The Brownlee Centre – Bodington Playing Fields
Information and entry fees
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Sunday 24 May, 10:30 Half Marathon (13.1 miles). Age 17+ £24.00 affiliated, £26.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Sunday 24th May, 10.30 5 km. Age: 11+ £10.00 affiliated, £12.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Sunday 24th May, 10.30 10 km. Age: 15+ £17.00 affiliated, £19.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Natalie Haythornthwaite Inducted into Sporting Hall of Fame
Leeds University Alumna Natalie Haythornthwaite has been inducted into the University's Sporting Hall of Fame.
Natalie was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Sports Scholars Award Evening held on 14 November, an event which celebrates the successes of all of our scholars who have been awarded a scholarship for the upcoming year. Unfortunately Natalie was unable to attend the evening, but did send us a quick message from down under;
Natalie, who graduated from the University of Leeds in 2014 with a degree in Linguistics and Phonetics, is part of the history-making England Roses netball team who won the gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She has recently been selected again to be part of the England Roses squad who will travel to face the South Africa SPAR Proteas in a three-match test series in a few weeks' time. In addition, she won the bronze medal at the 2019 Netball World Cup and has over 40 England caps to her name.
Whilst studying at Leeds, Natalie was Vice-Captain of Superleague side The Yorkshire Jets and was named Superleague Player of the Year in 2015. After a brief spell at Manchester Thunder, Natalie joined the newly formed Wasps side and went on to win consecutive Superleague titles with them in 2017 and 2018.
Following success with Wasps, Natalie moved to Australia to play for the New South Wales Swifts in the prestigious Suncorp Super Netball and in September 2019 won the Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final. Natalie was part of the England Roses team which was named BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year in 2018 in recognition of their historic Commonwealth Games gold medal.
You can take a look at the full Sporting Hall of Fame by visiting The Edge. It's located alongside the sport scholarship board and you can read more about Natalie and all our other Hall of Fame recipients, who include:
Johnny Mowlem, Geography and Spanish 1998, Racing Car Driver
Rebecca Gallantree, Sports Science 2005, Great Britain diver.
Carol Isherwood OBE, History 1982 and PGCE Education 1984, Great Britain rugby union player and founder of the Rugby Football Union for Women.
Andrew Shovlin, Mechanical Engineering 1995 and PhD in Mechanical Engineering 1999, Formula 1 Chief race engineer.
Ray French MBE, General Studies 1961, England rugby union and rugby league player, rugby league commentator.
Giles Long MBE, Geology 1997, three time Paralympic swimming champion
Simon Mason, Economics 1994, Great Britain hockey player and vice president of England Hockey
Find out more about Natalie by following her on social media; @natsymone @nataliesymone.
University Celebrates our Sports Scholars
The University of Leeds Sports Scholars have been awarded their scholarships by the University's Vice-Chancellor Sir Alan Langlands at the annual sports scholars' evening.
Over 60 students studying a wide variety of courses, from Dentistry to Philosophy attended the special reception which celebrates their success. All scholars are supported by our Sports Scholarship Programme to help and guide them in achieving their goals to the highest of their ability, both within their sport and their academia.
Head of Sport, Suzanne Glavin said;
"It was a lovely celebration led again by our Vice Chancellor where we took the time as a University to recognise and applaud our most gifted and talented student sport scholars. We are grateful to all our partners from across the University, LUU and Alumni Office for their interest, support and advocacy for sport as an essential part of student experience. It is wonderful to hear more of the incredible success stories about our student athletes and what great ambassadors they are for our University."
This year the University has over 60 sports scholars studying a variety of subjects, ranging from Digital Media to Zoology. They compete at a range of competitions as individuals and also represent the University with their club teams, whilst working towards both their sporting goals and their academic studies.
In rowing Matt Brigham qualified for the Diamond League Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta and went on in the first round to beat Mahe Drysdale from New Zealand who is the course record holder and two-time Olympic champion in the single scull in the first round, described by one commentator as "the shock of the decade". Matt was also selected to represent England in a home international regatta, coming away with the gold in the double and silver in the quad sculls.
In triathlon Kate Waugh representing GBR won silver in September in the ITU World triathlon Grand Final in U23s Relay, Silver in the ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup, and Bronze in the triathlon World cup.
Our Sports Scholarship programme provides all of our athletes with a personalised package to support them during their time at Leeds. This includes a personal mentor to help ensure they are maintaining a healthy balance between their sporting career and their academic studies. In addition, they receive free access to The Edge to help with their fitness, health and wellbeing, plus a bespoke bursary to ensure they can manage the financial demands of performance sport.
Find out more about our Sport Scholarship programme online here.
Leeds Varsity 2019 Round Up
Beth Stanfield
Leeds Varsity 2019 – the annual inter-university sports Varsity between arch rivals University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University. It began in January with the cross country and culminated, as it does every year, with the Rugby Union finale held at Emerald Headingley Stadium, where over 10,000 students cheered on their teams from the stands.
It was a historic moment for both the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett's women's rugby union teams, as they played at Headingley Stadium for the first time.
Our team came out on top and beat Beckett 19-12 in a great game of rugby.
University of Leeds Club Captain Ashley Ross had this to say:
"The experience of playing our varsity match with such a huge crowd was incredible, and not one that any of us will forget! It's a special honour, especially for a university team, and it's especially significant for us as a women's team as we often struggle to get the same status as men's sport. It feels like a massive step forward for gender equality and women in sport – not just playing for our team but every other woman's team who hasn't had the same opportunity as men. Thanks very much to everyone who came to support us!"
The men's rugby union team unfortunately lost their game 25-16. However, they put on a brilliant, battling display they should be proud of.
Check out the Leeds Varsity 2019 highlights, thanks to LSTV here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYzcZz87RU
Other highlight fixtures included the openers, Netball 1sts and Women's Hockey 1sts. Both games ended in draws, 41-41 and 2-2 respectively. This showed just how close the competition would be and set the tone for the rest of the event.
In total, the University of Leeds registered 25 wins whilst Leeds Beckett had 33 wins. There were 3 draws on the day which meant the score ended 102-78 points in Beckett's favour. Ultimately this crowned them Leeds Varsity 2019 champions.
You can see a breakdown of all the results on the Leeds Varsity website.
Congratulations to our Gryphons!
A huge well done to all our Gryphons that took part and competed in the spirit of Varsity.
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Each will give a brief perspective on their experiences 'changing the game' of organisations in sport and business, followed by a panel discussion. The three speakers include:
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Women's Rugby Union Team Make History at Varsity
The Gryphons may not have retained their Varsity title, however Varsity 2019 shall go down in the history books; our women's Rugby Union 1st team played for the first time ever at Emerald Headingley Stadium.
Leeds Varsity is the annual inter-university sports Varsity between arch rivals University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University. It began in January with the cross country and culminated, as it does every year, with the Rugby Union finale held up at Emerald Headingley Stadium where over 10,000 students cheered on their team from the stands.
Unfortunately for the Gryphons, Leeds Beckett have taken the title for this year. Lydia Evans, LUU Activities Officer said:
"Despite the result, it's been a great day of sport for the Gryphons and every one of our athletes should feel proud to have represented their clubs."
However, it was a historic moment for the women's Rugby Union 1st team on Wednesday night, as they took to the pitch for the first time to compete against Leeds Beckett in front of the 10,000 strong crowd at Headingley Stadium. Ashley Ross, the women's captain said:
"The experience of playing our varsity match with such a huge crowd was incredible, and not one that any of us will forget! It's a special honour, especially for a university team, and it's especially significant for us as a women's team as we often struggle to get the same status as men's sport. It feels like a massive step forward for gender equality and women in sport – not just playing for our team but every other women's team who hasn't had the same opportunity as men. Even though Beckett are our rivals, it's a great achievement for them too. Winning was an amazing bonus on top of that! We'll all definitely be celebrating tonight! The opportunity to play in the stadium is one we have been working towards for such a long time now so to see it all come together has been incredible. Thanks very much to everyone who came to support us!"
Our Gryphons put on a stellar performance over 60 fixtures including athletics, handball, tennis and lacrosse. Suzanne Glavin, Head of Sport commented;
"I'm really proud of all our Gryphons who played their best whilst representing University of Leeds. It was especially exciting this year to see our women's rugby union club playing at Headingley with such great support from the student crowd."
A full list of the results can be found here, and keep an eye out on our social media channels for photos and videos from the day. See you all again in 2020.
First-Class Fixture at Sports Park Weetwood
On Sunday 31st March – Tuesday 2nd April, Sports Park Weetwood played host to the Leeds-Bradford MCCU vs Yorkshire cricket match. It was the first time that Weetwood had hosted a first-class fixture and there was a real sense of pride and excitement in the air.
The grounds looked fantastic, a result of all the staff's hard work in the week leading up to the event and although there was a chill in the air there was a great turn out of spectators enjoying a hot cup of coffee whilst watching the world class action.
The fixture was one of three 3-day matches against County teams for Leeds-Bradford MCCU. They began their season on the 26th March in a first-class fixture against Derbyshire and have since played Warwickshire at Edgbaston on 5th – 7th April.
It was a privilege for Weetwood to host such a high-profile event, a fantastic opportunity to highlight the MCCU programme and for any prospective students who may be interested in playing cricket at Leeds University to meet key members of the team.
Established in 2001, MCCUs are cricket academies which allow young aspiring cricketers to receive an unrivalled level of training and match-play whilst still furthering their education. They provide a pathway into 1st class county cricket and ultimately England with around a fifth of all English qualified players having been part of an MCCU centre of excellence.
A huge thank you to Richard Robinson and his grounds staff and Gawaine Mackenzie-Hogg and his operational team at Sports Park Weetwood who made the staging of this important fixture for our University such a success.
With excellent outdoor sports provision and a focus on customer service excellence, Sports Park Weetwood is rapidly becoming the venue of choice for many sporting fixtures and performance training camps. Good luck to our Head of Cricket Andrew Lawson and our academy student players for the rest of the season.
Despite losing, the Leeds-Bradford MCCU team competed well against one of the strongest county teams in English cricket and we wish them the best of luck for the rest of the season.
Brownlee Centre Festival of Running
Entry for the event has now closed as all places have been filled.
Come join us on the 3 of March 2019 for a fun festival of running, for all ages and abilities, at our fantastic Brownlee Centre at the University of Leeds.
Our unique event takes place on our closed-road 1-mile cycle circuit and offers runners a multitude of different events to enter – from a 1 mile race all the way to 20 laps of our circuit in the 20 mile event. You can race and run where current and next generation Olympic champions train!
On the day, there will be music and performances to provide the fun festival atmosphere. There will also be a marketplace with food and drink available, as well as pop-up shops for all your running needs. The closed-road circuit provides a unique opportunity for those PB hunters and those preparing for a spring marathon.
The event also caters for those who wish to do something a little shorter with races at 5 and 10km. You can even take it steady with a 1-mile race and spend more time cheering on competitors and unwinding.
All finishers will receive a goody bag and a commemorative medal. There will be prizes in all distances, and hopefully a few PB's to be found along the way!
The event will also support an international sports development programme, Gryphons Abroad – supported by the Bambisanani Partnership. A contribution from your race fee will go to the project which changes the lives of young people in South Africa, in particular through the purchase of bikes, bike equipment and educational materials.
Date: Sunday 3rd March
Time: 11am start (First event off)
Sunday 3rd March, 11:00 1 Mile. Age: 4+ (children must run with a parent/guardian) £8.00 affiliated, £10.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Sunday 3rd March, 11:15 5 km. Age: 11+ £10.00 affiliated, £12.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Sunday 3rd March, 11:15 10 km. Age: 15+ £17.00 affiliated, £19.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Sunday 3rd March, 12:30 Half Marathon. Age: 17+ £22.00 affiliated, £24.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Sunday 3rd March, 12:30 20 Miles. Age: 17+ £27.00 affiliated, £29.00 non-affiliated Enter here
Alumni Sports Day
Alumni sports day is back and bigger than ever before with over 20 clubs joining us for our annual friendly day of competition.
Loved your time at Leeds? Want to relive your university days? Then dust off your old kit and catch up with old teammates as we invite you to return to Leeds for a day of fixtures against our current Gryphons on Saturday 5th May.
We're delighted to thank Endsleigh who for the second year running are the official supporters of the Alumni Sports Day 2018.
The fixtures confirmed for this year are:
University Campus:
Team Venue Pitch Time
Badminton Gryphon 3 courts 2-5pm
Basketball Mens Edge Hall 1B 2-4pm
Basketball Womens Edge Hall 1B 12-2pm
Fencing Edge Hall 1A 2-6pm
Handball Edge Hall 1 4-6pm
Korfball Gryphon All 12-2pm
Netball Edge Hall 1A 10-12pm
Netball Development Edge Hall 1A 11-2pm
Squash Gryphon Squash Courts 1:30-4:30pm
Table Tennis Cromer Terrace Cromer 1pm-4pm
Volleyball Edge Gryphon 2-5pm
Sports Park Weetwood:
American Football TBC TBC TBC
Football Men's Weetwood Soccer 1 4pm
Football Women's Weetwood Soccer 1 2pm
Hockey Men Weetwood SD1 4pm
Ultimate Frisbee Weetwood 3G 1-3pm
Lacrosse Men Weetwood 3G 4.30-6pm
Lacrosse Women Weetwood 3G 3-4.30pm
Rugby Womens Weetwood Rugby 1 1pm
Cricket Women Weetwood Cricket 2 2pm
Swimming & Waterpolo will take place on Sunday 6th May in The Edge pool from 3.45 – 5.15pm. An alumni rowing event will also be taking place on May 12th.
With over 20 sports involved, there's plenty to see on the day. Fixtures are based either on University campus or up at Sports Park Weetwood so please feel free to spectate on the day.
Alumni can get involved by heading here to find out more and sign up.
Students, please sign up here in order to get your free alumni sports day t-shirt.
Alumni, please be sure to register upon your arrival. Here you'll be able to collect your free t-shirt to remember the day.
There are refreshments available to purchase on site up at Sports Park Weetwood. Plus there are a number of cafe's/shops in close vicinity for those based on Campus.
Photo taking is encouraged, we'd love to see your team snaps! Join in the conversation either on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and use the #sportsday18.
BUCS Girls Can
Since it's launch in 2015, This Girl Can has swept the nation encouraging and empowering women to get physically active. Each academic year British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) coordinate a special week of female-focused action, engaging with universities across the country.
That's why as part of the 'BUCS Girls Can' week, we're highlighting all the fantastic things you can get have a go at. Have a look at whats on offer below.
Zumball
A fun, fitness session with a difference. Combining strength exercises and body weight conditioning with a ball to provide a predominantly core and upper body workout. Who knew there was so much you could do with a ball!
When? Monday 20th November 16:00 – 17:00
Where? Cromer Terrace
Cost? £3 Book here
An introduction to weight training, tailored specifically for women only. It will aim to cover the basics of weight training, building confidence to then build in the techniques and exercises into your own training sessions.
When? Tuesday 21st November, 17:30 – 18:30
Where? The Edge, S&C Room
Woodhouse Workout
Led by our friendly, inspirational instructor Teejay Jones, Woodhouse Workout takes advantage of the beautiful Woodhouse Moor park right on our doorstep. It combines cardio and resistance training through fun pair work, games and team building.
When? Wednesday 22nd November, 12:15 – 13:00
Where? Woodhouse Moor, meet at Cromer Terrace
Yoga Flow, Align Your Spine
A combination of pure movement and vinyasa flow yoga. Open to anyone who wants to learn more about how to use their body correctly. Moving to music to release tension, increase flexibility and build strength.
When? Friday 24th November, 16:00 – 17:00
We'll also be featuring one of our very own Leeds Gryphons Women's teams as our #onetowatch on BUCS Wednesday so tune in to the @Leeds_Sport twitter account to catch the live action!


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L'Opéra-Mouffe
How does one avoid sounding sexist when discussing a great female artist like Agnès Varda and her work against the swirlingly relativistic backdrop of current gender theory? It seems moronic to ignore her gender, or her artistic attitude towards femininity and womanhood. She is no man with a movie camera, even when we allow for the fact that she often did collaborate with male cinematographers: for example, Sacha Vierny filled this role on her 1958 film, L'Opéra-Mouffe. In this striking essay film, Varda's sympathetic sense of people and their environment makes Dziga Vertov look like a brilliant scientist driven by the power of his rather inhumane constructivist abilities.
There is little point in debating art historian Norbert Lynton's self-evidently true claim that Vertov's theory and practice (as well as the visual dialectics of the more epically inclined Sergei Eisenstein and Abel Gance) made cinema appear the constructivist art par excellence (1). It is more to the point to stress that Varda came from a generation that rehabilitated mise en scène as a theory and as an ideal. As Louise Heck-Rabi and Rob Edelman point out: "the personification of objects; the artistic determination of cinematic composition; […] and the correlation of individual subjectivity to societal objectivity to depict socio-political issues, are denominators of Varda's films, which she writes, produces and directs" (2).
This being the case, L'Opéra-Mouffe is a fine sample of Varda's abiding formal, stylistic and thematic concerns. This is despite its brevity and the Jean Vigo-inspired lightness that shrugs off the weight of pretense common to such "arty" ventures. A pregnant woman gives us a guided tour of rue Mouffetard, one of Paris' more colourfully ethnic neighbourhoods. As Keith Reader has argued in stressing the iconic status of Paris as a location for the young cinematic firebrands of postwar French film:
The New Wave is usually seen as arrogantly Parisian, and operating within a very restricted conception of Paris at that (The Latin Quarter, Montparnasse, and the area around the Champs Élyssés). There is some measure of truth in this: Paris, being the world capital of cinematic discussion and study, attracted aspirant directors like a magnet, and it was natural that those who had studied or written about cinema there should also make their directorial debuts on locations in the crowded streets and boulevards. (3)
If Varda's presentation of the Parisian Latin Quarter's rue Mouffetard is far away from the average glossy tourist brochure, and even much of the "rest" of the nouvelle vague, it is further still removed from the abiding image of rural France on film; whether that rustic ideal be denounced as a cauldron of paranoia and recrimination, as in Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943), or filtered through fond memories as an essentially idyllic place populated by grumpy but tender-hearted old coots, as in Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (Claude Berri, 1967).
In L'Opéra-Mouffe, Varda shows us young couples whose love is in its wonderful first flush. Yet she does not shy away from also filming the derelicts and drunkards of the city. Both are presented without a hint of superiority and with little sentimentality. The film is divided into segments separated by handwritten intertitles; some of these headings are laconically accurate while others are poetically oblique. The whole film is a loose, largely silent work that weds an extremely sure-footed sense of place to a beautiful Georges Delerue score in a way that reaches back to the wonder of cinema's earliest beginnings, when everything was fresh and virginal: "There was at first a sort of instinctive repugnance to [the] construction of motion pictures around a unified and set plot" (4), wrote French film historians Maurice Bardèche and Robert Brasillach in 1938, after little more than a decade of talkies.
Susan Hayward's laconic description of Varda's style as one of "detached awareness" is apt if unsurprising when used to describe a professional photographer well-versed in the history and theory of art (5). What aesthetician and psychologist Edward Bullogh thought a crucial factor in art, "psychical distance" (6), became central to the overall scheme of modern art theory. It is the complete absence of rhetoric or preachy didacticism, rather than any narrowness of subject matter, that has most characterized Varda's film work from the very outset.
This applies equally to an airy and playful short like L'Opéra-Mouffe (where the boundaries between documentary topicality and the personal essay, informed by a deep love for the historical avant-garde and that artistic mode's infectious love for cinematic possibilities, counterpoint each other) as it does Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond, 1985), her most sombre film and, arguably, her masterwork. That mature road-movie is a deft amalgam of Rashomon-influenced relativity, cinéma vérité and Citizen Kane-like retrospection, shot with Bressionian austerity.
Born in Brussels, Varda studied literature and psychology at the Sorbonne, and art history at the Ecole du Louvre. Having found employment as a stage photographer in the early 1950s, she debuted with La Pointe Courte (1955). That film was edited by already up-and-coming Left Bank luminary Alain Resnais, whose own work as director seems joyless, to these eyes at least, when compared to Varda's intellectual curiosity and emotional warmth.
Varda went with Chris Marker to China as early as 1955; way back when Godard still loved Coca-Cola almost as much as he adored Nicholas Ray; that is, long before he discovered Marx and grew disenchanted with cinema. Such an idiosyncratic and anecdotal point is pivotal: Varda was a harbinger of the nouvelle vague at a time when the movie-mad "young turks" who gathered around André Bazin and Henri Langlois had not yet emerged from darkened screening rooms, or advanced beyond fiery, printed polemics against the cinéma de papa.
L'Opéra-Mouffe opens with shots of a pregnant filmmaker who has pointed the camera at herself. Varda herself supplies the voiceover in this opening segment. Here Varda provides the viewer with a fresh, distinctly feminine take on Man Ray's epoch-making aesthetic and the Duchampian conceptualism that underpins much of contemporary art. It is a documentary of sorts, with the voice of a woman rather than the voice of God. The film features no figures of power or authority. Absurdist elements ensure that its contrast with Griersonian ideals cannot be overstated. Furthermore, the film's unabashed nudity and youthful exuberance supports Norwegian literary historian Francis Bull's almost self-evidently true assertion: "Lyrical inclinations are usually strongest in the young; particularly when love awakens in the mind […] or when the woman sits by her child's crib" (7).
Georges Sadoul was an early, enthusiastic supporter of Varda, and praised her for "a highly personal vision of both people and life, a feeling for the eternal drama reflected in the most direct actuality […] and a gentle irony" (8). Within its brief running time of 17 minutes, L'Opéra-Mouffe possesses all these distinct and admirable qualities in abundance. Even if the epoch-making shorts of the place and period have been relegated to the status of footnotes to the nouvelle vague, they helped open the floodgates to a new, vibrant kind of cinema. First in France, then in other European countries, West and East of the Iron Curtain.
1. Norbert Lynton, The Story of Modern Art, 2nd ed., Phaidon Press, London, 1989, p. 110.
2. Louise Heck-Rabi and Rob Edelman, "Agnes Varda", The St. James Film Director's Encyclopedia, ed. Andrew Sarris, Inkwell Press, Detroit, 1998, pp. 524-27.
3. Keith Reader, Cultures on Celluloid, Quartet Books, London, 1981, pp. 139-40.
4. Maurice Bardèche and Robert Brasiliach, The History of Motion Pictures, trans. Iris Barry, W. W. Norton and Company and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, p. 23.
5. Susan Hayward, French National Cinema, 2nd ed., Routledge, London and New York, 2005, p. 253.
6. Edward Bullough, "Psychical Distance as a Factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle", British Journal of Psychology vol. 5, 1912: http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361_r9.html.
7. Francis Bull, Verdenslitteraturens historie, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo, 1947, p. 9. Translation by author from the Norwegian.
8. Georges Sadoul, Dictionary of Filmmakers, trans. and ed. Peter Morris, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1972, pp. 261-62.
L'Opéra-Mouffe (1958 France 17 mins)
Prod Co: CinéTamaris Prod, Dir, Scr: Agnès Varda Phot: Sacha Vierny Ed: Janine Verneau Mus: Georges Delerue
Cast: Dorothée Blank, Antoine Boursellier, André Rousselet, Jean Tasso, José Varela, Monika Weber
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Inge Fossen is a Norwegian writer with an MA in Film Studies from Lillehammer University College, Norway (2009), and an MA in Art History from Uppsala University, Sweden, (2010). His key interest is the intersection between journalism and academic criticism.
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Recently dumped by his girlfriend for another man, working in a job he hates, things could be better for Peter. One night, while he is alone in his apartment, there is a knock at the door. His life will never be the same again.


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Google Apps allows for the use of inbound mail gateway servers which admins can leverage to process their inbound mail in different ways―such as archiving it or filtering out spam―before passing it onto the Google Apps mail server for delivery.
Today's launch adds more flexibility for Apps admins when using inbound mail gateway servers:
Multiple upstream server systems – to accommodate more complex network architectures, customers can now have multiple server systems upstream from Gmail.
Message tagging – an upstream system can now tag messages as spam in the header, which Gmail will honor, allowing for full delegation of spam filtering to a third party solution if desired.
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Two and a half years ago, Hikma Pharmaceuticals(LSE: HIK) was a darling of the stock market. The stock had risen around 300% over three years driven by robust growth in earnings.
The multinational pharmaceutical firm concentrates on developing, manufacturing and marketing branded and non-branded generic and in-licensed products. But the wheels came off the growth momentum, and between 2015 and 2017, Hikma posted shrinking earnings. The market punished the stock by marking it down almost 60% from its peak and it now languishes close to 1,124p.
However, I think it could be time to revisit Hikma and today's announcement makes interesting reading. The company's wholly-owned US subsidiary West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Corp. has launched Pantoprazole Sodium for Injection, which treats gastroesophageal reflux disease. Hikma reckons that, according to market insight company IMS Health, US sales of Pantoprazole Sodium for Injection were around $104m for the year to August.
Chief executive of the Injectables division, Riad Mechlaoui, said the launch of the product will help reduce shortages in the US market, so it looks like the launch could be a shrewd move by the company with the potential to kick-start renewed growth. More product launches look set to follow in due course. Mr Mechlaoui tells us that Hikma is executing its Injectables pipeline and using the additional capacity it has been adding to its Portuguese facility to support future growth.
City analysts following Hikma expect earnings to reverse the decline of recent years by putting on 10% during 2018. Meanwhile, the share price remains depressed and I think it could be worth examining the investment opportunity right now.
The immediate outlook for earnings is more or less flat for FTSE 100 giant AstraZeneca(LSE: AZN). City analysts are expecting a 1% lift during 2018, but that's better than the patent-expiry-induced falls we've seen over the past few years. Yet despite the challenges, AstraZeneca has seen around earnings, the share price has climbed inexorably higher, which could be a function of the perception among many investors that the firm is something of a defensive safe haven in uncertain economic times.
The directors have managed to keep the dividend flat over the recent troubled period, and even today, after a more than 70% rise in the share price over the last five years, today's 5,011p throws up a forward dividend yield of 4.3%, which isn't to be sniffed at. I think many have been collecting the dividend payment while waiting for the firm's development pipeline to launch the company into a new phase of growth, which strikes me as a fair tactic.
I think Hikma Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca could make a decent pairing in my portfolio right now, but the Motley Fool analysts have focused in on another FTSE 250 firm set to deliver for investors.
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A report this year by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD) indicates adoption of adaptive trials should increase significantly in the next few years, particularly for exploratory phase trials. This echoes strong positive signals this year from regulatory agencies, which included potential priority review status for IND applications whose clinical studies employ adaptive design.
The Tufts CSDD report found that simple adaptive designs, such as futility stops and sample size re-estimation, could save sponsor organisations $100m to $200m annually. In a session previewing the findings with forty executives from large pharmaceutical companies, the majority agreed that futility analysis should become standard practice in all phase II and phase III studies.
In earlier stages, more sophisticated adaptive designs serve to acquire clearer, more valuable information that improves decision-making. For example, poor dose selection in phase II is frequently cited as one of the top causes of late-stage clinical trial failure. While the observed relationship between dose and efficacy for many drugs is often non-linear, the majority of phase II trials reported on ClinicalTrials.gov in the ten years between 2002 and 2011 involved only two or three doses. Acquiring information about additional doses refines understanding of what are often complex dose–response relationships, helping ensure the dose carried forward to phase III trials has the best chance of success. Adaptive designs allow the inclusion of many additional doses, in some cases six or more, without the untenable expansion of the number of patients as would be required in a traditional trial. The strategic application of adaptive design to not just reduce costs, but also fundamentally increase the likelihood of success in later clinical development is essential for both large pharmaceutical companies struggling with portfolio productivity as well as biotechs that need to secure either new investment or a commercial deal to be able to grow.
The Tufts CSDD report also addresses the positive supportive position adopted by regulatory agencies that recognise the use of adaptive design in exploratory phase development is a key step in addressing late phase product attrition. Getting the dose right at phase II has become a rallying cry across the industry from both regulators and pharma/biotech leaders and the past year has seen greater clarity on the use of adaptive designs from regulatory agencies.
Very recently the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a qualification opinion on a novel statistical methodology for dose finding trials which employs adaptive modelling to optimise the analysis of dose-response relationships in exploratory development. The application of this methodology has the potential to improve dose selection and help pharma/biotech make better investment decisions in early phase clinical development.
In addition this year, the FDA added another major incentive for drug companies to consider the use of adaptive methodology. Companies submitting an IND application can now potentially benefit from priority review status if their phase II and phase III trials deploy adaptive design. The decision by the FDA to encourage the use of adaptive trials is explained in the manual of policies and procedures (MAPP) aimed at IND applicants.
Why the emphasis on adaptive trials? The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) acknowledges that it simply does not have the current resources required to satisfy the timelines either put in place by the FDA or established by federal regulations. As such, it has prioritised phase II/III adaptive trial designs as well as other types of study. The changes to the IND MAPP should attract significant attention from drug companies planning their clinical strategies for new products.
Also late last year, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) published data showing that the agency had now approved over 120 adaptive design trials indicating that the use of adaptive design is not limited to drug development, and also has application in the medical device sector.
Adaptive trial design continues to make headway with both the FDA and EMA recognising the benefits that this methodology can bring to drug and medical device development.


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The first-phase polling in Odisha, held in four parliamentary constituencies and 28 Assembly segments, witnessed a voter turnout of 73.76 per cent, said an election official on Friday.
The figure was announced by Chief Election Officer Surendra Kumar.
In the 2014 polls, the turnout in Odisha was 74.67 per cent.
Female voters outnumbered the male voters this time round. While male voting was recorded 73.09 per cent, the female voter turnout was 74.43 per cent.
The elections were in for Kalahandi, Koraput, Nabarangpur and Berhampur parliamentary constituencies and 28 Assembly seats, which fall under the Lok Sabha seats, said Kumar.
Nabarangpur registered highest voter turnout of 78.89 per cent followed by Kalahandi 75.82 per cent, Koraput 74.77 per cent and Berhampur 65.57 per cent.
In the Assembly constituencies, Kotpad registered the highest voting of 86.83 per cent and the lowest was recorded in Berhampur -- 56.34 per cent.
The fate of 26 Lok Sabha aspirants and 191 Assembly candidates are now sealed in the electronic voting machines.
Kumar has also recommended re-polling in two booths -- Malkangiri and Berhampur.
Voting was conducted till 9 p.m in some booths, he added.


15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
The first recorded miracle our Saviour turned water to wine. Yahushua also served the disciples wine at the Last Supper.
1Ti 5:23 (http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=1Ti&c=5&v=23&t=KJV#23)Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Welcome to the board, enjoy!!!
20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6:19,20.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;Ephesians 5:17,18.
most people say drinking is a sin. is there a verse to back this up?
Drunkenness is the sin…not drinking.
Drunkenness is one of the deeds of the flesh, not the fruit of the Spirit.


It's all in celebration of a Halloweeen party Saturday night in Chicago, headlined by Josh Davis (BitShifter). Party ringleader Liz joins Josh on behalf of subVariant to represent the IDM-glitch-minimal-tech-house side of things, and Mr. Automatic (Front 312) and Onefiftyone (Chicago Workshop) will be joining in. If you're in Chicago, this looks like the place to spend your Saturday. If, like me, you're not, well, we have some music and videos for you to bring the party home.


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Pediatric Neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis is a set of complex disorders in which tumors, mostly benign (noncancerous), grow from nerve tissue. Because these disorders can affect many parts of the body, comprehensive care with access to a range of pediatric experts is especially important. At OHSU Doernbecher, we give your child:
Coordinated care from diagnosis through treatment and monitoring.
A full range of pediatric specialists — including neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists and many others — all in one place.
Advanced expertise in treating neurofibromatosis and the diverse conditions that sometimes go along with it, including hydrocephalus, epilepsy, scoliosis, heart problems and learning disabilities.
Understanding neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis comes in distinct genetic types and can range from relatively mild to severe. A primary feature is development of tumors, or neurofibromas, in nerve tissue of the skin and organs.
Neurofibromatosis tends to worsen over time, but individual cases are highly variable and unpredictable. These disorders also run in families, though in about half of cases, the underlying genetic mutation occurs spontaneously.
Neurofibromatosis Type 1
This is the most common type, affecting as many as one in 3,000 Americans. Many children with this disorder, also called NF1, have manageable symptoms, normal intelligence and normal life expectancy.
Symptoms are frequently present at birth but can also appear in early childhood. They include:
Neurofibromas that eventually can range from small nodules to large tumors on or under the skin or deep inside the body
Light brown spots on the skin (often called café-au-lait spots)
Freckles in the armpit or groin area
Growths on the eye's iris
An optic nerve glioma — a tumor on the nerve that transmits visual information from the eye to the brain
Bone abnormalities in the spine, skull or shin
About half of children with NF1 have learning disabilities. Patients tend to be shorter than average with larger-than-average heads. They are also more likely than other children to have conditions such as epilepsy, hydrocephalus, headaches, high blood pressure and defects in the heart or blood vessels. In a small portion of cases — though rarely in children — neurofibromas develop into cancer.
In a subtype called segmental or mosaic neurofibromatosis, patients have symptoms such as nodules in only one part of the body.
This type affects about one in 25,000 and is typically diagnosed in young adulthood, from ages 18 to 22.
In NF2, benign, slow-growing tumors form on nerves connected to the brain that play a role in hearing and balance. These tumors, called schwannomas because they develop in the Schwann cells that form nerve coverings, can damage hearing and cause other problems by pressing on brain tissue.
NF2 patients are at higher risk of developing certain other brain and spinal cord tumors. They can also develop cataracts at a young age as well as nerve problems such as numbness and weakness in hands or feet.
Schwannomatosis
This type is very rare and typically affects adults older than 30. It's characterized by schwannomas that occur anywhere in the body except one of the nerves affected by NF2. The tumors can cause varying degrees of pain. Some patients also have nerve problems such as numbness, tingling or weakness in fingers and toes.
Doernbecher Children's Hospital is nationally ranked for excellence in neurology, neurosurgery and oncology. We offer teams of specialists who work together to treat and manage your child's neurofibromatosis and any related conditions. Our services and expertise include:
Advanced imaging: Our neuroradiologists have expertise in the unique needs of children. They have the latest imaging technology for diagnosing and monitoring neurofibromatosis and related conditions.
World-class neurologists and neurosurgeons: Our pediatric neurologists and neurosurgeons collaborate on treating complex conditions. Should a tumor require removal, our neurosurgeons offer advanced skills in the latest surgical techniques and imaging, plus expertise in treating related conditions such as hydrocephalus and scoliosis.
Oncology expertise: Our team includes dedicated pediatric neuro-oncologists and nurses with deep expertise in treating brain and spinal cord tumors.
Other services: Doernbecher Children's Hospital also has pediatric experts for related conditions and concerns, including:
One of the nation's few pediatric spine clinics, with combined services in neurosurgery and orthopaedics
Genetics services including counseling for parents concerned about passing on neurofibromatosis
A team of pediatric heart care experts
Oregon's only Pediatric Epilepsy Center for children who develop a seizure disorder
Experts in neuropsychology for assessing and treating learning deficits
Pediatric experts in vision and hearing
Neurofibromatosis Information Page and Neurofibromatosis Fact Sheet, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Neurofibromatosis Type 1, National Organization for Rare Disorders
Children's Tumor Foundation, an advocacy group with information and support
Neurofibromatosis Network, another advocacy group with information and support
The Neuro Foundation, a London-based organization with information such as a glossary and research reports
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"Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday criticized President George W. Bush's administration for failing in Iraq, saying their was no evidence of much-needed political or diplomatic progress." More.
I suppose it depends on how you define 'military victory', right Bill?
That is most likely beyond your abilities since you are not even sure what the meaning of 'is' is.
For over two hundred years, it has been an unwritten code that former Presidents are not to comment on the sitting President's policies, either foreign or domestic. Why has that long-standing tradition suddenly been swept away in the name of politics? I don't recall President Bush Sr. making any public comments regarding how President Clinton handled either his personal affairs or the Clinton Administration policies.
But Jimma' Cawta and William Jefferson Clinton changed all that.