There are better states for poker players than Wisconsin. That's the easiest way to put it. They don't appear to like online gambling or home poker games, which only leaves a couple of casinos throughout the state to play poker in. So many residents of Wisconsin will be forced to travel, or, play (illegally) online at one of the many American poker sites. Read on to see exactly what your options are.
Is Online Poker Legal in Wisconsin?
Wisconsin doesn't have any laws regarding internet or online gambling. However, their general gambling statute appears to make online poker illegal.
However, their laws do mention commercial online gaming. The details for that are below.
What About Home Poker Games?
Wisconsin's laws say nothing about social gambling or home poker games. So as a default you could refer to their gambling statute referenced above.
The host of the social game could also face charges that fall under the gambling place statute.
(a) A gambling place is any building or tent, any vehicle (whether self-propelled or not) or any room within any of them, one of whose principal uses is any of the following: making and settling bets; receiving, holding, recording or forwarding bets or offers to bet; conducting lotteries; or playing gambling machines.
(b) Evidence that the place has a general reputation as a gambling place or that, at or about the time in question, it was frequently visited by persons known to be professional gamblers or known as frequenters of gambling places is admissible on the issue of whether it is a gambling place.
Of course, these statutes mention the gambling place as being known or frequently used for gambling. So that could potentially be a loophole. However, since no other social gaming laws exist, I'm not sure how big a loophole that really is.
Do Casinos in Wisconsin Offer Poker?
You can play poker (or any other table game) at a couple of the (6) Ho-Chunk Casinos. A handful of the remaining 16 casinos in the state spread poker games, too.
We receive a lot of questions about the gambling laws in Wisconsin. You can read those questions and our responses below.
Will online poker be regulated in Wisconsin?
Wisconsin already has regulations in place for operating an online casino within the state. It's not legal.
(6) WIRE COMMUNICATION FACILITY .
"Wire communication facility" means any and all instrumentalities, personnel and services, and among other things the receipt, forwarding or delivery of communications used or useful in the transmission of writings, signs, pictures and sounds of all kinds by means of wire, cable, microwave or other like connection between the points of origin and reception of such transmission.
(g) For gain, uses a wire communication facility for the transmission or receipt of information assisting in the placing of a bet or offer to bet on any sporting event or contest, or for the transmission of a wire communication which entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result of a bet or offer to bet.
If we find any news updates about the gambling laws and situations in Wisconsin, we'll post them here.
5/15 - Wisconsin Attorney General Files Suit to Shut Down Poker Room - One of the Ho-Chunk casinos was charged with running an electronic poker game, arguing that it's a game of skill against other players and not the house.
Is there an online poker room that accepts players from Wisconsin?
Yes, residents of Wisconsin will be able to sign-up to Bovada, Sportsbetting.ag and Sportsbetting Poker, or any other poker site that accepts US players.
What other forms of regulated gambling is offered in Wisconsin?
Wisconsin offers a state lottery and para-mutual racing.
When it comes to charitable gambling, Wisconsin permits qualified organizations to conduct bingo and raffles under certain conditions. The Wisconsin Department of Administration oversees such gambling.
Where can I read more about Wisconsin poker laws?
Here are some interesting facts about gambling and Wisconsin.
All the casinos in the state are owned by Native American tribes. While allowed to offer poker games, only a couple of the casinos do.
Easily the most well-known poker player from Wisconsin, and arguably ever to walk the earth, is Phil Hellmuth. You'll hear him referred to as the 'poker brat' because of his temper tantrums at the table. Despite his crybaby ways, he's won 13 WSOP bracelets to date.
Any sales promotion that gave away something of value via chance (such as Monopoly at McDonald's or any drawing) was constitutionally prohibited in Wisconsin prior to 1965.
Pinball machines that award replays were illegal in Wisconsin until 1979.


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PROGRESSIVE INSIGHT
Organisational Structure for Progressive Firms
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Hierarchy, a great model for manufacturing companies and other businesses, is a poor fit with talent-driven organizations such as professional service firms. How should a professional service firm organize to achieve its strategic goals in today's business environment?
In a partnership, there is the belief that "we're all in this together, no matter what." This sense of shared destiny historically has been the source of power for partnerships.
The partnership structure proved useful to professional service firms because it fostered alignment between the professionals and the organization and strategy of the firm. It achieved this complex alignment, almost unconsciously, and it could do so for two reasons – strong peer relationships and the participatory processes of partnerships.
Today, growth, globalization, and changes in ownership are undermining the historic partnership structure and challenging the partnership spirit.
Professional service firms must make decisions about their structure and governance that reinforce as much as possible the two essential attributes that partnership has always created: strong peer relationships and participatory processes.
Partnership of Peers
Talent-driven progressive firms, limit the height of their organizational pyramids and try to create a flatter structure that reinforces the sense of governing through a partnership of peers.
Peers are not necessarily equals: Some partners hold larger ownership stakes than others, or deliver more outstanding performance year to year, or provide better counsel to their partners and junior staff. But despite these differences, the mindset is basically democratic – "we're all partners here."
So for all the healthy competition among partners, in the best firms there is an equally healthy measure of collaboration and cooperation in the interest of the firm.
The Power of Participation
The notion of participation, of actively involving senior stars who don't occupy formal management positions (as well as those who do) in key decisions is firmly ingrained in the governance process. Senior stars expect to be consulted on decisions that affect them personally. If they are not, they will voice their dissatisfaction or show it by moving toward the door.
Therefore, by necessity, the governance of professional organizations must be more inclusive and participatory than traditional companies.
There is a dark side to participation. Broad participation in decision-making and consensus building slows decisions down. It can also make it difficult to reach a definitive conclusion when so many players are involved in the decision process.
Also, participation can diffuse responsibility. If everyone is in charge, no one's in charge. In professional service firms where leaders are overly deferential to their partners' views, the decision-making process often seizes up.
More than Structure & Governance
Organizational decisions that reinforce peer relationships and participation can help a firm nurture the alignment between its stars and objectives, but they are useless without the basic underlying belief in the principles of partnership.
How can firms maintain this belief and commitment to partnership when so many forces are at work eroding them? Ultimately, the answer lies in culture.
What is it about the organization of professionals that allows some firms to adapt to marketplace turmoil and prosper, while others lose share and gradually decline? Why do some firms seem to thrive on change while others melt down?
In professional service organizations, leaders must focus on micromanaging the culture, not micromanaging the stars. Culture is not about a firm's dress code, it is NOT about how you or your partners feel. It is never completely codified in a formal rulebook or policy manual.
Culture encompasses beliefs about everything that goes on in a firm. It is a set of invisible guideposts that defines and shapes how people behave. A firm's cultural beliefs guide the decisions that are made and develop the way the firm responds to internal and external threats.
The Cultural Core
Culture is an organization's greatest competitive advantage; it cannot be copied. Each firm has a different culture, five core beliefs that characterize the way that senior stars think about their organization and their own relationship to it.
"Belief in partnership" means that senior stars are the owners of the firm and regardless of the legal form of ownership; it must be governed as a partnership. Consensus must be built among partners before major decisions about strategy are made. The firm's success is the result of the efforts of the group as a whole.
The work of serving clients is performed by constantly changing teams of professionals. A firm's belief in extraordinary teams mitigates the tension among stars as they strive for personal success while simultaneously serving clients well together.
Young stars learn that they must work together to succeed. Being an effective team member is what counts; that's how you succeed personally.
Belief in community is the proposition that at the end of the day we're all part of one firm, and we are expected to work together and help each other. The belief in community keeps everyone working together, regardless of specialty, level of experience, or geographic location. It includes everyone, not just partners or senior stars.
This belief keeps in check the tension that naturally develops as people identify with the goals of their particular part of the firm (i.e., their practice area or office).
Stars/Clients
Progressive firms believe that stars and clients are equally important. You can't have satisfied clients without stars, and you also can't have stars without satisfied clients.
The belief that both are equally important enables firm managers to work for a balance in meeting conflicting demands between clients and stars. If the firm is to succeed, both constituencies must be proactively managed, and each must think ultimately it occupies the number one spot.
Perpetuity
The core belief in perpetuity refers to the shared understanding, at the senior level, that you and your peers are building a firm that will transcend generations.
That you're not only "in this together" with your current fellow partners, but also that part of your job is to help create a firm that will endure so future partners can succeed. It's the long view, and it drives people to behave selflessly in ways that support the firm.
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WC CLI Overview
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With the current version of WooCommerce, the 2.5, the developers added the support for WC CLI, which means that you can manage your WooCommerce store from the command-line.
If you are familiar with WP-CLI, you know what I'm talking about. If not, keep reading and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
WP and WC CLI
WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.
This is the description of WP-CLI on its website. WC CLI is exactly the same, but it works with WooCommerce only.
By using it, you can manage your store. You can do many thing, like managing products, orders, coupons, customers, etc… all from your terminal.
If you are a Linux or OS X user, you will probably love this, unfortunately Windows users never use the command-line that much, so maybe you do not know how powerful can be this feature.
Here is an example of what it can do.
Using WC CLI for Development
Let's say that I'm creating a new website for a customer. I have a list of products to add in a CSV format.
If I do not use WP and WC CLI I have to:
Manually download and install WordPress (10 minutes)
Install and activate plugins and theme (5 minutes)
Create every single product manually, or importing them with a plugin (can be days)
If I use WP and WC CLI instead:
Download and install WordPress via command-line (2 minutes)
Install and activate plugins and theme via command-line (2 minutes)
Create products via command-line (can't be calculated exactly, but not days)
As you can see, creating a website via command-line is faster than doing it manually. Why?
Well, a computer is surely faster than a human.
With a total of 3 commands (if well written), you can create a website in 10 minutes, with all the products included.
Another example, I want to delete all the orders in my staging site. If I do not use WC CLI I have to:
Go to WooCommerce > Orders
Select all the orders in the first page
Bulk delete them
Repeat the steps 2 and 3 until all the orders are deleted
If I use WC CLI instead:
Open the terminal
Run a command
Also in this example, not only you need fewer steps to delete all the orders, but also less time. Deleting an order via command-line takes about 1 second, so deleting 60 orders will take about 1 minute. Deleting them manually will take definitely more, depending on how fast you and your website are.
Also, you need to stay at your computer and keep deleting orders. With a command in the terminal instead, once you run it, you can go out and get a coffee, take a nap, whatever you want, you don't need to stay at your computer, the command-line will do all the work alone.
Can I Use WC CLI on Any Website?
No, you can't.
You need to have access to the command-line and not all hosting give you access to that. Only some do, like SiteGround, or if you are on a VPS or a dedicated server. They call it Shell access or SSH. By connecting via SSH, you connect to the command-line of your website, and from there you can run commands. Also, WP-CLI has to be installed since WC CLI is built upon it.
If you are developing locally, you can install WP-CLI by yourself and use it, but on a hosting this is not always allowed, so check with your hosting if you have SSH access and if you can use WP-CLI with it.
This is just an overview of what WC CLI is and what it can do. I'll write other posts about it, showing you how to do things. In the meantime, why don't you take a look at the documentation?
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Shaun Bythell's "The Diary of a Bookseller"
This week my guilty pleasure has been reading Shaun Bythell's The Diary of a Bookseller. I am so engrossed in Bythell's diary that I have put off finishing a work project. Bythell owns Scotland's largest second-hand bookstore, The Bookshop, in Wigtown, which is designated a National Book Town and the home of the Wigtown Book Festival. His diary entries are short, curmudgeonly, and witty, and I am absorbed by this insider's view of bookselling.
We'd all love to own a bookstore, or so we think, but the business isn't always easy. Bythell identifies with George Orwell, who wrote in his essay, "Bookshop Memories," about the difficulties of working in a bookstore. Indeed, Orwell may be the inspiration for much of this book. Orwell enjoyed some parts of the job, but was glad on the whole to have left. Bythell stays, but understands Orwell.
Bythell begins the book with an epigraph from Orwell. Then he writes,
Orwell's reluctance to commit to bookselling is understandable. There is a stereotype of the impatient, intolerant, antisocial proprietor –played so perfectly by Dylan Moran in Black Books –and it seems (on the whole) to be true.There are exceptions of course, and many booksellers do not conform to this type. Sadly, I do. It was not always thus, though, and before buying the shop I recall being quite amenable and friendly. The constant barrage of dull questions, the parlous finances of the business, the incessant arguments with staff and the unending, exhausting, haggling customers have reduced me to this. Would I change any of it? No.
Bythell makes a bare living, mostly from the store rather than online sales, which I find encouraging, but he lives above his shop, as so many used bookstore owners do. The difference between Bythell and the (obviously) older semi-Luddite booksellers of my acquaintance? Bythell has Facebook, where he writes about customer behavior. One day, he hears a woman whisper to her friend to shut up or they'd get written up. His amusing descriptions of eccentric customers are riveting: the chatty customers, the smelly (some of whom have great taste in books), the hagglers, and, finally, the happy bibliophiles who spend money.
I enjoy reading about his eccentric part-time employee, Nicky, a Jehovah's witness who seldom follows his instructions and sometimes shelves Charles Darwin in the fiction section. Driving to estates to assess the worth of a personal library sounded fun, until I learned it often means buying not just the books you can sell but the whole lot.
But perhaps he is most interesting about the changes in bookselling in the 21st century. In the UK Amazon is always the enemy–perhaps we have a bigger variety of online sellers here– and online bookselling has changed the business. The huge used booksellers with no overhead can sell in bulk very cheaply, so the prices have come down for everyone. And the ratings can be erratic. We've heard about writers' frustrations with online ratings, but I never thought much about booksellers (because I never rate them).
Bythell writes,
Today an Amazon customer emailed about a book called Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? His complaint: 'I have not received my book yet. Please resolve this matter. So far I did not write any review about your service.' This thinly veiled threat is increasingly common, thanks to Amazon feedback, and unscrupulous customers have been known to use it to negotiate partial and even full refunds when they have received the book they ordered.
I feel a bit like Janus: I see both sides of the online selling problem. As a non-driver in the Midwest, online shopping has been a blessing for me, because it saves me hours of bicycling or changing buses to go to malls that don't have what I want. Like most of us, I've flirted with eBay and have sold a few books online. Usually it's fine, but we sold a brand-new pristine Penguin hardcover edition of Middlemarch, which I couldn't read because the print was too small for me! It was never read, in perfect shape. The buyer wrote angrily that the book was beaten-up and scribbled in. Really? By whom? we wondered. We gave him a refund, and we did ask him to return it, but clearly that isn't going to happen. So he got a free book. Was it worth it?
And is that why I'm not a bookseller?
I'm a happy reader and book buyer, though, and that's what matters.
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What Was Published in 1968? Frederick Exley's "A Fan's Notes" & John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar"
The internet is sometimes Dadaistic. Take the 1968 Club. Sponsored by Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings, this whimsical group of readers is spending a week ( Oct. 30-Nov. 5) reading and posting about books published in 1968.
The task sounds simple–until you discover that none of your favorite writers published that year. Turns out Margaret Drabble, Peter Handke, Kawabata, Lynne Reid Banks, A. S. Byatt, Clifford D. Simak, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Marguerite Duras, Merle Miller, Richard Yates, and Sue Kaufman published books in 1967 or 1969, but not in 1968. I looked up so many writers that it became a joke!
So what's a girl to do? I am re-posting bits from my blog about two neglected 1968 classics, Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes and John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar. Enjoy!
First up, Exley. In Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes, a fictional memoir published in 1968, the hero, also called Frederick Exley, cannot hold a job. Exley, an alcoholic, is in and out of mental hospitals, sponges off his parents, or lives at a bachelor friend's apartment where flamboyant, sad characters drop in all day, including an Italian who sometimes believes he is a hit man.
A Fan's Notes should have been Top of the List for our Mental Health Christmas. One year my cousin became manic from a steroid prescribed for an ear infection (a side effect). At the hospital she was not herself: she wore a bra over her sweater, sang Van Morrison's "Days Like This" at the top of her lungs, and demanded that we bring presents for her "new friends." And so we rather lamely distributed McDonald's milkshakes and old books in the common room.
If only we'd had A Fan's Notes.
Exley wittily delineates and skewers the customs and hypocrisy of the American middle class in a brilliant narrative akin to Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road and Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife. Depressed Exley turns down advertising jobs before he gets them, teaches off and on at a high school, and drives from Glacial Falls to Watertown every weekend to get drunk and watch Giants games.
He is amazed by the limitations of the English department chairman and teachers. One teacher informs Exley that he should not talk at meetings because "talking took time."
This is a great American novel, by a writer whose work is out of fashion.
You can read the rest of my post about it here!
Next up, John Brunner. I love John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar (1968), a post-modern science fiction classic. Set in 2010, it is a brilliant book, the story of a future dominated by a giant too-smart computer, geneticists' control of reproduction, and miserable citizens who hate their work. Women don't always have permanent homes: "shiggies" stay with men who pick them up, sometimes for a night, sometimes longer. "Dicties" (addicts) wander the streets, and "muckers" kill people at random.
The narrative is broken up by quotations from radical sociologist Chad Mulligan (who is rather like Marshall McLuhan) and TV blurbs from news and rumors on Scanalyzer.
Here is one of the definitions from Chad Mulligan's book, The Hipcrime Vocab:
Hipcrime: you committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope.
Here is an excerpt from Brunner's futuristic New York Times editorial:
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us. That's why we have genetic legislation.
The novel follows two main threads: Norman, an African-American executive in New York, is wretched and lonely. But eventually he is chosen to rule Benini, an African country whose president, Obami (I am not kidding!), is dying and wants to hand this small, peaceful country over to someone who can unite it with the West.
Donald's fate is much worse. He is a spy paid to read obscure journals and books to spot trends. Finally he is activated to be a killing machine and assassinate an Asian geneticist who has threatened the Western world by scientific discoveries.
I'm not going to write about this at length: it is a very complicated book. But if you like science fiction, you will be impressed by Brunner's writing. Some of it is very like our present.
Here is TIME'S COVER FOR 1968, not a very happy time in history. And Exley's and Brunner's books reflect that.
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Michael Redhill's "Bellevue Square"
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Ron Charles once jokingly used this adage (at least I think it was Charles) to describe Canadian literature. And it certainly dovetails with my belief that we Americans don't know CanLit because it is almost impossible to find new Canadian books in the U.S.
So this weekend I checked out the shortlist for Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize. And I picked up a copy of Michael Redhill's Bellevue Square, because the narrator, Jean, owns a bookstore. Yes, that's all it takes!
The question is, does she own a bookstore?
On the surface, life is going well: Jean's husband, an ex-cop, made a fortune investing in legalized marijuana companies, so they moved to Toronto and she opened a bookstore.
And her bookstore sounds like a fun place to hang out.
I have a bookshop called Bookshop. I do subtlety in other areas of my life. I've been here for two years now, but it's sped by. I have about twenty regulars, and I'm on a first-name basis with them, but Mr. Ronan insists on calling me Mrs. Mason. His credit card discloses only his first initial, G. I have a running joke: every time I see the initial I take a stab at what it stands for. I run his card and take one guess. We both think it's funny, but he's also shy and I think it embarrasses him, which is one of the reasons I do it. I'm trying to bring him out of himself.
Then one day, while she is shelving books, everything changes. Mr. Ronan, one of her best customers, insists he saw her at the Kensington market 15 minutes ago, wearing a different outfit and with short hair. He attacks her, and tries to pull off what he thinks is a long-haired "wig." Stunned that the hair is real, he says she must have a twin. (She does not.) He apologizes, leaves, and never returns.
Shortly thereafter, another woman, Katerina, who works at the Kensington market, mistakes her for her doppelganger. So Jean takes to hanging out in Bellevue Park, across from the market, so she can catch a glimpse of her double.
And when she finally meets her double, a woman named Ingrid Fox, a mystery writer who writes under the name Inger Ash Wolfe, Ingrid insists that she is the real one, and that Jean is a symptom of the brain tumor that is killing her.
I raced through this Dostoieveskian novel about doubles, by far the fastest-paced book I've read this year. The concept is brilliant, but does it deserve the award? I enjoyed it enormously, but the style is unassuming–perhaps a little too unassuming. Do we want verbal fireworks? Probably.
I recommend it because it's a great read!
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Robertson Davies's "The Rebel Angels"
The Canadian novelist Robertson Davies is one of the best writers of the 20th century, and, though it may not be true that he is neglected, American bookstores seldom carry his books anymore. And that's a pity: he is in the class, I think, of Anthony Powell. Davies's books are still in-print, but have not yet been published as e-books. Does electronic accessibility determine a writer's reputation these days?
Like many Americans, I fell in love with the Deptford trilogy years ago, and then eagerly read his other books. This month, when I felt like celebrating the fall with an academic novel, I found my copy of The Rebel Angels, the first in the brilliant Cornish trilogy. (N.B. I wonder if I was conflating the season of fall with the fall of the rebel angels, with whom one of the narrators, Maria, identifies her favorite professors.)
Davies' scholarly characters comically discuss alchemy, tarot cards, theology, and Rabelais. At the fictional Canadian College of St. John and the Holy Ghost (nicknamed "Spook"), Maria Magdalena Theotky, who is one of the two narrators of the novel and a graduate student specializing in Rabelais, is desperately in love with her mentor/dissertation advisor, Clement Hollier, a gorgeous, absent-minded scholar who is researching "filth studies" (don't ask!) in the Middle Ages. Maria has not heard from Hollier since they impulsively had sex on the couch in his office before summer vacation, but the new semester is starting, and she plans to tell him the latest gossip: Parlabane is back.
Who exactly is Parlabane? Everybody is talking about him. This robust novel opens with Davies' rapidfire dialogue.
"Parlabane is back.
"Hadn't you heard? Parlabane is back."
Hollier explains to Maria that his old friend Parlabane was a brilliant student who never fulfilled his potential, went rogue, fell in love with a gorgeous man, failed at many jobs, briefly joined a monastery, and then asked Hollier (and others, it turns out!) to send him money so he could return to Toronto.
Maria's first meeting with Parlabane happens in the outer room in Hollier's office, which is her work space.
I was rearranging my papers and things on the table in the outer room after lunch and there was a soft tap at the door and in came someone who was surely Parlabane. I knew everyone else in St. John's who might have turned up in such a guise; he was wearing a cassock, or a monkish robe, that had just a hint of fancy dress about it that marked it as Anglican rather than Roman. But he wasn't one of the Divinity professors at St. John's.
Maria and Parlabane struggle for ascendancy in Hollis's outer office: Parlabane sleeps on the couch, stinks up the room (he never washes), borrows money from her, and goes through her papers when she is out. But Maria is determined not to go back to her carrel in the library, and is not as conventional and biddable as she at first seems. It turns out Maria has a secret life: her wealthy businessman father left the family very well-off, her mother is a gypsy and has an illegal business restoring violins smuggled in from the U.S., and Maria lives at home, sleeping on the couch (rather like Parlabane), even though she has money to leave, because she does not want to hurt her mother's feelings. And her mother has more-or-less gone native since her husband's death: she wears layers of gypsy skirts and cleans herself with oil rather than soap.
The second narrator is Simon Darcourt, an Anglican priest and professor, who is writing a sort of Aubrey's Brief Lives about the college–and the gossip he picks up is fascinating. He is by far the kindest man in the book, and the only one who could really be called "good." And then, at dinner at Maria's house, Simon falls in love with Maria.
As in A. S. Byatt's Possession, scholars scramble for rare manuscripts. Who will get his hands on a rare document by Rabelias? Arthur Cornish, a wealthy collector of paintings, music, and manuscripts, has died and left behind many treasures. The executors of the estate are all professors at Spook: Hollis, Simon, and Urky McVarish, a rival Renaissance scholar,. When Rabelais's documents disappear, all know Urky took it. But what can they do? He denies it.
Actually, what happens is very exciting and unexpected. Good against evil, turning into evil, evil against evil, and does evil ever save the good? God knows! But there are lots of parallels between characters, even when they are opposites.
I loved The Rebel Angels, and enjoyed it more than I did the first time, though I also liked it then. Over time, I seem to have have gleaned a little more information about alchemy and medieval philosophy. This remarkable novel has aged very well, and is very amusing. Davies is always erudite, but I had forgotten how very comical he is. A great book!
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Bibliobits: Arnold Bennett's "Anna of the Five Towns" & Jeanette Watson on Hand-Selling Books
Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns (1902) is one of those wonderful early twentieth-century novels that carry on the Victorian tradition of telling rip-roaring stories with superb social insights. Perhaps this classic is not in the canon–It's hard to keep up with the evaluation of Bennett–but it is one of the best business novels of the twentieth century. Bennett reminds me slightly of George Gissing, another writer who chronicles the tension between love and money. And Bennett's portrait of the heroine Anna Tellwright, a miser's daughter who has never handled more money than is needed to do the marketing, is sharply-observed and sympathetic.
In this brilliant novel about religion, money, and love, Bennett interweaves these conflicting elements with the dramatic shaping of scenes: some disdain his minute descriptions of everything from a maid's apron to an inventory of furniture in the Tellwrights' house, but every detail matters and contributes to the drama.
In the opening chapter, we do not immediately meet Anna; instead, Bennett sketches a scene in which the most important characters in her life wait for her outside the Sunday school. Her younger half-sister, twelve-year-old Agnes, has just burst out of the Sunday school, happy because she has won a book, a Sunday School prize. And handsome Henry Mynors, a popular businessman who is the morning superintendent of the Sunday school, teases Agnes about her prize while he waits for Anna.
'I'm sure you don't deserve that prize. Let me see if it isn't too good for you.' Mynors smiled playfully down upon Agnes Tellwright as he idly turned the leaves of the book which she handed to him. 'Now, do you deserve it? Tell me honestly.'
She scrutinised those sparkling and vehement black eyes with the fearless calm of infancy. 'Yes, I do,' she answered in her high, thin voice, having at length decided within herself that Mr. Mynors was joking.
Most of the main characters are involved with the Methodist Sunday school in one way or another. Accompanying Mynor is Willie Price, secretary of the men's Bible class, a bashful young man whose father, the head of the Sunday school, rents a run-down factory from Anna and Agnes' father, Ephraim Tellwright–and they are in financial trouble. And then there is Mrs. Sutton, the cheerful wife of an eminent businessman who runs the sewing society and other charitable groups.
When Anna emerges, she is perfectly poised. It is the confident Mynors who walks her home, while Willie fades away. Anna suspects that Mynors is infatuated with her, but she isn't quite sure, because she has never had a friend, let alone a boyfriend. Her father is a miser, and she is his housekeeper. They live in poverty, though he is one of the richest men in town. She is so used to eking out pennies that she only half-realizes her father's wealth.
On her 21st birthday, her father calls her into his office: she inherits 50,000 pounds from her mother, who died 20 years ago. Her father's idea, of course, is to use her as a puppet for financial transactions. Ironically, she owns the run-down factory Willie Price and his father rent from them, and since they are behind on the rent, he forces Anna to go collect it.
Appalled by the conditions of the factory, Anna empathizes with the Prices. They simply do not have the money. I would like to say that Anna rebels and manages the money herself, but that of course would not be like life. Gradually, with the help of Mrs. Sutton, who includes her in the women's social circles and invites her on a vacation, and her relationship with Mynor, she learns about money and manages to break free. But her way to freedom is not entirely satisfactory…
Really, you'll have to read it!
IF YOU WERE A BOOKSELLER, WHAT BOOKS WOULD YOU HAND-SELL? Jeanette Watson, owner of Books & Co in New York from 1977 to 1997 and the author of a memoir, It's My Party, writes at the Literary Hub about her favorite books to hand-sell during her bookstore days. Among them is one of my favorites, Easy Travel to Other Planets by Ted Mooney. I thought I was the only person on the planet who had read this.
This amazing book is about a female researcher who has a love affair with the dolphin she is studying. The love scenes are amazingly erotic and made me long for my own dolphin! Would that be considered adultery? Maybe married people could do this without guilt? We sold many copies of this too.
Watson also inspires me to want to read Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters. She writes,
My customers also had an influence on my reading. I remember John Guare telling me to read The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki. "It's the Gone With the Wind of Japanese literature," he said: a line I borrowed when I suggested the fabulous book to others.
A fabulous list!
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Patricia Wentworth's "The Chinese Shawl" & Hooked on Booktube's #Victobia
I absolutely love Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver mystery series. Years ago when I took the train from Chicago to New York (you can imagine the length of the journey), I escaped into these well-written mysteries with great pleasure.
If you're a fan of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, you'll like Miss Silver: I actually prefer her. That's because Wentworth is a deeper writer than Christie. ( Well, I think it's true, even if you don't agree.) For those who don't know Wentworth's work, Miss Silver is an ex-governess turned private investigator. Like Miss Marple, she is always knitting, and seems so innocuous that people trust her.
I recently whiled away a rainy day with The Chinese Shawl, the fifth book in the Miss Silver series, published in 1943. The best thing about it? It is more than a mystery. In the first 100 pages (the murder doesn't take place till page 106), she fascinatingly portrays a group of socialites dominated by a beautiful, cruel actress, Tanis Fane. Tanis is a man-eater who steals other women's men, and then rejects them. Yes, she's a stereotype, but we've all known the type.
A young man tries to explain Tanis' character to her country cousin, Laura, who has just turned 21 and come up to London. Tanis, whom Laura has never met, has invited her to a party.
"You just wait. She specializes in other girls' boyfriends."
"It sounds revolting."
"Not a bit of it–it's all done with kindness. I've watched her at it for years. She's kind to the girl, and she's kind to the chap, and she goes on being kind to him till the girl gets crowded out, and then after a bit she gets bored and he gets crowded out too. She doesn't want any of them for keeps, you know. She just wants half a dozen of them trailing round, licking her boots and paying for taxis, and ready to cut each others' throats. She enjoys that part a lot."
As you can imagine, Laura is an innocent. She finds Tanis glamorous. At the party, one of Tanis's ex-boyfriends, Carey Desborough, falls in love with Laura at first sight. But when Tanis sees he wants Laura, she isn't inclined to let him go. And things become more complicated when Laura and the others are invited to a house party at The Priory, the Fane family estate, which Laura recently inherited. Agnes has rented it for years and wants to buy it. But does Laura want to sell?
From the beginning you know Tanis will be murdered. It's that kind of book. But she has so many enemies. They're all suspects, as you can imagine, and Miss Silver figures it out by reading character as well as the clues. The police officer is one of her ex-charges!
Completely absorbing! and there are 32 of them in the series.
NOT LONG AGO I WROTE ABOUT HOW SILLY I FIND BOOKTUBE. Well, you will be happy to know that I found one channel I like, Books and Things by Katie Lumsden. And I very much enjoyed her video on "Underrated Victorian Authors," in which she talks about some of my favorites, like George Gissing and Margaret Oliphant, as well as two I haven't read, Geraldine Jewsbury and Amy Elizabeth Dilwyn.
In general, I do find Booktube trite, but her "vlog" is enthusiastic and smart.
And do let me know if there are other good Booktube channels, because I have otherwise struck out!
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Over the Wall! & Diana Tutton's "Guard Your Daughters"
Global warming has come on so fast, so inexorably. The color of the leaves has changed very late this year.
My cousin Megan and I sat in the courtyard of a closed mental hospital and admired the foliage.
You may wonder, Why?
The view from outside the courtyard.
Megan has long wanted to do a photoshoot in this courtyard. During a hospitalization several years ago, the highlight of her days was taking breaks in the courtyard with the smokers. She is not a smoker: she stood outside and breathed fresh air. And one afternoon a nurse mesmerized them with the tale of a patient who went "over the wall," i.e, the fence, and never returned.
Doesn't it sound like McMurphy in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest? When McMurphy disappears, the patients think he broke out of the hospital. Actually, he was given a lobotomy for being rebellious and not conforming to Nurse Ratchett's rules. And so Chief, the American-Indian narrator, is the one who breaks out.
The door from the courtyard to the hospital wing.
Well, we hope everybody gets over the wall like Chief. But we were surprised to discover the GATE to the courtyard WAS ACTUALLY OPEN. We sat on the ground and mused on the strange world of mental health.
We took pictures of each other pretending to go over the wall. Yes, it was hilarious, because we're out of shape.
ONE OF THE FALL SELECTIONS of PERSEPHONE BOOKS IS Diana Tutton's 1953 novel, Guard Your Daughters. In 2012 I wrote the following at my old blog:
Stuck-in-a-Book, an energetic blogger who has revived interest in many neglected women's classics, has created a craze for Diana Tutton's out-of-print novel, Guard Your Daughters.
After he compared it to Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, I ordered a used copy from Abebooks. I finished Tutton's charming novel yesterday, and enjoyed the similarities to Smith's classic. Like the narrator of I Capture the Caslte, Cassandra Mortmain, and her sister Rose, Diana Tutton's narrator Morgan Harvey and her sisters live in the country and know no men. Unlike the Mortmains, whose eccentric stepmother would love to help them meet men, the Harveys' mother gets hysterical over the prospect of their leaving home and marrying. Their self-absorbed father, a successful mystery writer, supports his wife and ignores his daughters' needs.
It is certainly fascinating for readers interested in trends in women's novels in the '40s and '50s. Alas, Tutton's style is less graceful than Smith's, and she lacks her gift for shaping dramatic scenes and witty dialogue. (Smith was also a playwright,) Still, I would like to take a second look at Guard Your Daughters, and it's a pity I sold it. I'll have to wait for the Persephone to come out in the U.S.
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Rosamond Lehmann's "A Note in Music"
Rosamond Lehmann's A Note in Music, published in 1930, is the best novel I've ever read about being in one's thirties. Lehmann has a bleak take on women's lives: there you are, married, bored, an infertile woman or a busy mother, reading novels, repeating the same monotonous tasks every day, and will you ever accomplish anything?
Lehmann does not exactly describe my experience, but as I read this stark novel I recognized the characters of Grace Fairfax and Norah MacKay. They live in a bleak northern city, with grim weather and very little culture. The two were lively and happy when they became friends 10 years ago, after moving with their husbands to the unnamed northern city, but their friendship has never progressed, and their marriages have deteriorated.
Life is so hard for Grace that we frantically want to help her. She is in her mid-thirties and very depressed. She despises her husband Tom, a good-natured, if rather Babbitt-like businessman, who uses words like "gentleman" and "civil." She spends her days reading novels while the maid, Annie, does the housework. She longs to go back to the country where she grew up, and truly suffers over the lack of greenery and plants. And, tragically, she gave birth to a stillborn baby. And her puppy died. She imagines a fortuneteller saying to her, "This is a most curious case. There is nothing here: nothing in your past, nothing in your future. As for character–lazy–greedy–secretive–without will or purpose."
Norah is a more cheerful, active woman, the mother of two sons, and a joiner of committees. But her husband, Gerald, a university professor, is very difficult, and she must assess his moods constantly. (He seems to be clinically depressed.) Sometimes she can calm him down, other times not.Certaintly this is not the marriage she wanted, but the man she'd loved died in the war. (And from the sound of it, he was just as difficult as Gerry.)
What happens to these women? A young Oxford-educated man, Hugh Miller, comes to town to work in Tom's office. He is so charming, so attractive, so seemingly happy, that both Grace and Norah quietly fall in love with him. Partly it is because he is younger: he reminds them of their lost hopes. He has traveled and lived all over the world, and he does not have to stay in this town. And when his sister Clare, an old friend of Norah, comes for a visit, they all spend a magical day in the country.
Hugh is not as carefree as he seems: he is homosexual, and his lover, Oliver, dumped him. I feel compassion for these women falling in love with a kind, courteous, lively gay man. They have so little experience: it never occurs to them. But what they see as Hugh's happiness helps them in their own marriages. Grace and Norah may never be happy, but they begin to look at their marriages differently.
Lehmann's writing, and her frank, vivid portraits of the characters, make this book a gem. Here is a passage about Grace's longing for the country.
The country haunted her still, she said to herself: not a day passed without bringing some picture remembered or imagined. Dawn and sunset were not in these skies, behind the slate roofs and red brick chimneys of the residential quarter–but in her mind's eye, over country spaces; and spring and autumn still made her sick for home. How many times had she not thought of the summer evening when a bird had sung in the poor lilac tree in the front patch?… But that would never happen again, as the trams came to the end of the avenue.
As a person who struggles with northern weather and sunless days–thank God I left the north!–I do understand this homesickness and longing for nature. And I am just grateful that Grace finally gets a breath of air.
A great book! Odd how modern this seems, even though today more women are in the workforce.
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Are Introductions Necessary?
Brad Leithauser's introduction to Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter is a classic.
Do you read introductions to books? Some are absorbing, some very dull. Yes, I read them after I finish the book, unless I want specific information about the author's life or to read a bit about a historic period.
The blogger Karen of Booker Talk recently wrote a fascinating article on introductions, inspired by Elisa Gabbert's essay in the Paris Review, "On the Pleasures of Front Matter." Elisa Gabbert has an interesting take on introductions: she sometimes prefers them to the books. She writes, "…I'm a promiscuous and impatient reader, so one of my literary guilty pleasures is reading the introductions to great books and not the books themselves."
lt seems odd, doesn't it? I'm more of a book person than an introduction person. Gabbert admits she has not finished the Tao Te Ching or An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, but she has read the introductions multiple times.
I understand what she means about introductions to nonfiction, especially biographies. Quite often an author of a biography will summarize the book in the introduction. And if the lazy reader also peruses the final chapter, another summing up, he /she can pretend to have read the book. I don't recommend it.
For years I skipped introductions. You don't always need them, though scholars need the work, and may they always have it. These days I find them very useful for reading poetry, though I do prefer books about the poets: Gilbert Highet's 1957 classic, Poets in a Landscape, captures the atmosphere and influence of place on the Roman poets better than any fusty introduction.
Politics by osmosis.
As for novels, you don't always need introductions. I happily galloped through Susanna Rowson, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Hawthorne, Melville, Trollope, Dickens, George Meredith, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc., etc. without so much as a glance at the introductions. By osmosis I knew about the Brontes' seemingly narrow life at Haworth, which they illuminated and showed the importance of by their insightful writing. I knew that E. M. Forster was gay, and that Virginia Woolf committed suicide. As for politics in Trollope's Palliser series, and the factory conditions described in Bronte's Shirley and Gaskell's North and South and Mary Barton, I picked up enough to follow the novel. It's like learning a language: the more you read, the more you pick up.
In recent years, I have read many introductions to Penguins and Oxfords, partly because I have more leisure. What do I like in an introduction? I prefer liveliness, but scholars do not always have that quality. The novelist Brad Leithauser's introduction to the Deluxe Penguin edition of Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter is one of the best. He interweaves personal anecdotes with the traditional historical background and literary criticism.
In the first two paragraphs he writes,
My first foray into the world of Kristin Lavransdatter, the Nobel Laureate's celebrated trilogy of novels set in fourteenth-century Norway, turned out to be a reading experience like no other. I'm thinking here less of the books themselves (though these were an unexpected delight, a convincing twentieth-century of medieval Norway) than of the personal encounters the books fostered.
The trilogy runs over one thousand pages in the old three-in-one Knopf hardcover I'd picked up secondhand, and I chose to read it slowly, for weeks on end, lugging the hefty, handsome volume everywhere I went. One of its themes is the stubborn power of magic–the bewitching allure of pagan practices in a society that had officially but not wholeheartedly embraced Christianity–and the trilogy did seem to work magical effects: it drew elderly women to me.
This is the kind of charming introduction you can read over and over.
One day I found an unusually well-written and engrossing introduction, and when I skipped back to the title page, thought, No wonder. It was Margaret Drabble.
Do you skip introductions or read them? And What is your favorite kind of introduction?
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Alice Hoffman's "The Rules of Magic"
"It was an ending and a beginning, for the month itself was like a gate. October began as a golden hour and ended with Samhain, the day when the worlds of the living and the dead opened to each other. There was no choice but to walk through the gate of time. Franny had already packed up her suitcase and carried the Grimoire with her. The book, and all it contained, was now theirs."
—The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman's first novel, Property of, was a cult classic: in this dreamy novel, an unnamed narrator describes her doomed love for the leader of a street gang. Since her debut in 1977, Hoffman has written 30 novels, three collections of short stories, and eight Y.A. and children's books. I have always been a fan of her poetic style, wild fairy-tale-ish take on life, and delicate use of magic realism.
Witch stories are appropriate in October, and Hoffman's beguiling new novel, The Rules of Magic, traces the struggles of the modern Owens family against their heritage as witches. Billed as a prequel to Hoffman's 1995 novel, Practical Magic, it can be read as a standalone. And indeed it was so long ago that I read Practical Magic that I consider it a sequel to The Rules of Magic.
The lyrical narrative of The Rules of Magic, set mostly in the 1960s, grows out of an intricate plot. There is a dark curse on the descendants of Maria Owens, who was charged as witch in Massachusetts in 1620 (and who, in her diary, warned her descendants against love). The curse means the Owenses cannot love without inadvertently hurting their lovers. Three hundred years later, Susanna Owens of New York believes she has beaten the curse by marrying a man she likes but doesn't love. She denies her three children, Franny, Jet, and Vincent, their heritage of witchcraft, and does not even allow them to read about magic.
During a summer in Massachusetts with their Aunt Isabelle, who embraces witchcraft and herbal remedies, they begin to learn about their family and are at last allowed to read magic books. Birds fly to Franny of their own volition. A crow becomes her familiar. Two boys fall in love with beautiful Jet, a fan of Emily Dickinson, and kill themselves over unrequited love . You can imagine the effect on this poetic girl, who escapes into reading. As for the youngest sibling, Vincent, he studies spells from a Grimoire and makes mischief: he proudly casts a spell that scares finches away. Franny is unimpressed: she points out that a cat can scare finches without magic.
It is a landmark summer, but back in New York the Owens' lives become more complicated. Dare they fall in love? Dare they practice magic? They all have the sight, and are anxious. Franny is in love with a childhood friend, but refuses to let him get too close. Jet conducts a dangerous romance: in Massachusetts , shortly before she left, she fell in love with Levi Willard, the son of a very conservative minister, who forbids Levi to see her, and who has continued a centuries-old feud with the Oweneses. And even Vincent, who becomes an alcoholic, finally finds his way out of a drunken haze to fall in love with a man. But there are obstacles in every path of love, and one tragedy is so poignant I'm still haunted.
The characters are so vivid, and real, and sad, and the pace is so fast that I flew through the book. How would they manage their lives? Would they beat the curse?
Hoffman's exquisite writing is a gift to readers. Here is a passage about Franny's study of her aunt's herbal remedies for customers.
Franny had taken to sitting on the back staircase to eavesdrop. She'd bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt's remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for a restful sleep, black mustard seed to repel nightmares, remedies that used essential oils of almond or apricot or myrrh from thorn trees in the desert. Two eggs, which must never be eaten, set under a bed to clean a tainted atmosphere. Vinegar as a cleansing bath. Garlic, salt, and rosemary, the ancient spell to cast away evil.
The Rules of Magic is entertaining and poignant, and now I want to go on to Practical Magic. If you haven't read the book, you may have seen the movie with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. I only vaguely remember it, but I look forward to rereading.
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2016 Canada Gairdner Awards Honour CRISPR-Cas Researchers and HIV/AIDS Leaders
Gairdner Foundation
TORONTO, March 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
The Gairdner Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Canada Gairdner Awards, recognizing some of the most significant medical discoveries from around the world. This year the awards center on two defining themes including the revolutionary Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technique for gene editing and for work in the HIV/AIDS field within Canada and internationally.
Among the world's most esteemed medical research prizes, the awards distinguish Canada as a leader in science and provide a $100,000 (CDN) prize to each scientist which they can spend as they wish. The Canada Gairdner Awards promote a stronger culture of research and innovation across the country, inspiring the next generation of researchers with the programs that bring current and past laureates to Canada to speak at 22 universities.
The selections for the Canada Gairdner International Awards, recognizing five individuals from various fields for seminal discoveries or contributions to biomedical science, are below. This year, the Gairdner Foundation has given its Canada Gairdner International Awards to leaders from the CRISPR-Cas field breaking it into two awards for: the adaptive immunity discovery and the development of CRISPR-Cas as a usable genome editing tool. There are a number of outstanding scientists who have made a significant impact on the CRISPR field and the Gairdner Foundation's adjudication committees have chosen to recognize five of those leaders by dedicating all five of our 2016 Canada Gairdner International Awards to the following scientists.
The first two Canada Gairdner International Awards are given to two researchers who are being awarded "for establishing and characterizing CRISPR-Cas bacterial immune defense system"
Dr. Rodolphe Barrangou, Associate Professor, Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences; Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Scholar in Probiotics Research
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Dr. Philippe Horvath, Senior Scientist, DuPont, Dangé-Saint-Romain, France
The work: Dr. Barrangou and Dr. Horvath's research focused on understanding the genetic basis for health-promoting and technological properties of beneficial bacteria used in food fermentations. Along with colleagues, they established that CRISPR-Cas systems provide adaptive immunity against viruses in bacteria where it recognizes foreign DNA and uses a special molecular scalpel to target and destroy it. They also showed that CRISPR arrays capture viral DNA for natural vaccination against bacteriophages; and demonstrated that cas genes are implicated in sequence-specific targeting and cleavage of DNA.
The impact: Their discovery established CRISPR-Cas as the adaptive immune system of bacteria and has made dramatic impact on the science community, setting the stage for a new research area. This inspired others to investigate CRISPR further. The key advantages of CRISPR over other gene-editing systems are its ability to be quick, precise, efficient and relatively inexpensive. And, as the scientific community has shown over the past few years it is transferable to many types of living organisms. The list of possible applications includes: genome editing, antibacterial and antimicrobial production, food safety, food production and plant breeding.
The next three Canada Gairdner International Awards are being awarded "for development of CRISPR-CAS as a genome editing tool for eukaryotic cells." The three laureates are as follows:
Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Scientific member of the Max Planck Society, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany; Professor, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences; Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley; Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkley, California, USA
The work: In 2012 Dr. Charpentier and Dr. Doudna published the description of a revolutionary new genome editing technology that uses an engineered single-guide RNA together with the DNA-cleaving enzyme Cas9 to readily manipulate the genomic DNA of individual cells. The CRISPR-Cas9 technology has given biologists the equivalent of a molecular surgery kit for routinely disabling, activating or altering genes with high efficiency and precision. Their collective work has led to the breakthrough discovery of DNA cleavage by Cas9, a dual RNA-guided enzyme whose ability to cut double-stranded DNA can be programmed by changing the guide RNA sequence. Recognizing that such an activity could be employed as a molecular tool for precision genome engineering in various kinds of cells, their teams redesigned the natural dual-RNA guide as a single-guide RNA (sgRNA), creating an easy-to-use two component system.
The impact: This technology is transforming the fields of molecular genetics, genomics, agriculture and environmental biology. RNA-guided Cas9 complexes are effective genome engineering agents in animals, plants, fungi and bacteria. The CRISPR-Cas9 technology is being used in thousands of laboratories around the world to advance biological research by engineering cells and organisms in precise ways.
Dr. Feng Zhang, Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; W. M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation
The work: Dr. Zhang and his team pioneered the development of the microbial CRISPR-Cas system as a genome editing tools for function in eukaryotic cells. They demonstrated that Cas9 can be used to make modifications at multiple sites in the genome in both human and mouse cells, and that the cuts made by Cas9 can be repaired through the incorporation of a new stretch of DNA. Following this initial work, Dr. Zhang and colleagues developed a number of applications for studying biology and disease based on the CRISPR-Cas technology and discovered additional Cas enzymes with unique properties that further expand the genome editing toolbox.
Impact: These CRISPR-Cas genome editing tools are significantly easier and cheaper to use than previous approaches for gene editing, and they are being used by tens of thousands of scientists around the world to accelerate their research. Ultimately, CRISPR-Cas technologies may prove to be a powerful therapeutic for treating human diseases by editing out harmful mutations.
The John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award recognizes an individual who is responsible for a scientific advancement that has made a significant impact on health in the developing world. The Gairdner Foundation Board of Directors along with CIHR have changed the award name (effective March 23, 2016) to the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award to recognize the contributions of Dr. John Dirks, President and Scientific Director of the Gairdner Foundation. Dr. Dirks is responsible for the development of the award along with building an international adjudication committee and building its brand as a world-renowned global health award.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Awarded "for his many pioneering contributions to our understanding of HIV infections and his extraordinary leadership in bringing successful treatment to the developing world"
The work: Dr. Fauci has made critical contributions to the understanding of how HIV destroys the body's immune defenses. His defining research on the mechanisms of HIV disease along with his work on developing and testing drug therapies have been highly influential in establishing the scientific basis for effective HIV therapies and prevention modalities for patients living with HIV/AIDS.
The impact: As testament to his extraordinary research accomplishments, Dr. Fauci was ranked in a 2015 analysis of Google Scholar citations as the 14th most highly cited researcher of all time, dead or alive, in any field. In addition to his own individual contributions to science, Dr. Fauci has served as Director of the USA National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for 32 years. In this role he has been a major driving force and thought leader in the biomedical research response to infectious diseases that have devastated many regions of the developing world. He has been a key figure in marshalling U.S. government support for and directing research that led to the development of the antiretroviral drug combinations that have transformed the lives of HIV-infected individuals, providing many with an essentially normal life expectancy. One of Dr. Fauci's most important accomplishments was his role as the principal architect of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which over the past 13 years has been responsible for saving the lives of millions of HIV-infected individuals and preventing millions of HIV infections through the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan African.
The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, given to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science throughout his/her career, is awarded to:
Dr. Frank Plummer, Special Advisor to the Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada; Distinguished Professor, Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Resistance and Susceptibility to Infections (2001-2014)
Awarded "for his groundbreaking research in Africa in understanding HIV transmission and his leadership at the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory with pivotal roles in SARS, influenza and Ebola epidemics"
The work: In the 1980s, HIV/AIDS was largely viewed as a homosexual disease. Throughout the 1980s, Dr. Frank Plummer conducted research, facilitated by the University of Manitoba, on a large cohort of Nairobi sex workers which found that two thirds of them had HIV/AIDS, which was astonishing at the time. He also showed that about ten percent of these sex workers remain HIV uninfected despite multiple exposures. This identification of natural resistance to HIV has guided vaccine development strategies. He further went on to conduct work on mechanisms of resistance to HIV, risk factors for heterosexual transmission of HIV, mother-to-child transmission of HIV and developed public health strategies for control of sexually transmitted infections. Further research showed that many groups in addition to these female sex workers are immune to HIV. Over the next 16 years, Dr. Plummer remained in Nairobi, and this led to a series of investigations, international collaborations and some very important discoveries about the susceptibility to HIV infection and transmissibility.
The impact: His original and sustained contributions in this field have led to innovative strategies for HIV prevention at an internationally recognized level, and are being used around the world to prevent many thousands of HIV infections. Dr. Plummer, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba, is a pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher thanks to not only his ground-breaking work but also his leadership as Scientific Director General at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg leading their response to numerous outbreaks including his support and contributions to the development of the Ebola vaccine programs in Canada, SARS treatment in 2003 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza outbreak.
The Canada Gairdner Awards will be presented at a dinner in Toronto on October 27th, 2016 as part of the Gairdner National and Student Outreach Programs, a two week lecture series given by Canada Gairdner Award winners at more than 22 universities from St John's to Vancouver. The National Program reaches students across the country, making the superstars of science accessible and inspiring the next generation of researchers. "The Canada Gairdner Awards distinguish Canada as a leader in biomedical research, raising the profile of science both nationally and on the world stage," said Dr. John Dirks, President and Scientific Director, Gairdner Foundation. "This year's International winners are an exceptional example of the future of gene editing which is taking the research world by storm."
Dr. Dirks is retiring from the Gairdner Foundation on May 4, 2016 when Dr. Janet Rossant (Chief of Research Emeritus, The Hospital for Sick Children; Senior Scientist, University of Toronto) will begin as President and Scientific Director. Dr. Dirks has been President and Scientific Director since 1993 and during his time the profile of the Foundation has grown extensively. He internationalized the adjudication committees and expanded the Gairdner National and Student Outreach Programs to include the 22 universities across Canada. In 2008, Dr. Dirks successfully spearheaded a request to the Government of Canada to support and rename the Gairdner Awards through a grant of $20 million which enhanced the value of the awards from $30,000 to $100,000 each.
The Gairdner Foundation: Making Science Matter
The Canada Gairdner Awards were created in 1959 to recognize and reward the achievements of medical researchers whose work contributes significantly to improving the quality of human life. They are Canada's only globally known and respected international science awards, and Gairdner is the only national organization that consistently brings the world's best biomedical researchers to Canada to share their ideas and work with scientists across the country. In so doing, it enlarges networks and enhances Canada's international reputation, while providing a realistic and unbiased benchmark for Canada's leading scientists. All winners are chosen by an international adjudication committee and all choices are deemed final.
Sommer Wedlock, Director of Communications, Gairdner Foundation, sommer@gairdner.org , Main: +1-416-596-9996 ext.202, Cell: +1-647-293-6785
SOURCE Gairdner Foundation


The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report by UNESCO congratulates Germany for its policies in recognizing migrants and refugees' prior qualifications and skills. The recognition of foreign professional qualifications increases the probability of immigrant employment by 45 percentage points and the hourly wage by 40%. A million migrants a year visit the website 'Recognition in Germany', which offers advice on the recognition procedure in 9 languages. The information on foreign vocational training systems and professional qualifications in the BQ-Portal is accessed annually by over 180,000 website visitors, primarily assessment authorities, companies and experts.
The Professional Qualifications Assessment Act, also known as the Recognition Act, came into effect on 1 April 2012, in order to facilitate the assessment and recognition of foreign professional qualifications. People with foreign professional qualifications can have their qualifications evaluated by an assessment authority (e.g. chamber of trade or industry), irrespective of residence status or citizenship. As part of the recognition process, the applicant's foreign qualification is compared to the corresponding German qualification in order to determine their equivalence.
If an applicant cannot provide the necessary documentation of his or her professional qualifications obtained abroad, or if the evidence is incomplete, the qualification analysis can be conducted. The qualification analysis will look at the applicant's skills, abilities and knowledge with regard to the profession they wish to work in. This may be done through specialised discussions or work samples, for example. The results will be documented in a qualification report and will form part of the equivalence assessment. Between June 2015 and December 2016, around 20,000 refugees took part in recognition consultations.


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In All Things
Pope Pens Letter to Gay Catholics
Kevin Clarke October 09, 2013
Pope Francis is continuing his informal outreach to gay and lesbian Catholics (hat tip, Daily Dish), and, despite his apparent comfort with modern social media and its dizzying gadgetry, he is apparently still happy to make use of old-school communication tools. Pope Francis turned to pen and paper to respond to a letter from a group of gay and lesbian Italian Catholics sent in June, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica (Note: this account in English relies on a Google translation; it may be imperfect). The group had written to Pope Francis in a personal appeal to to be recognized as people and not as a "category." A leader of the impromptu committee said as gay Catholics they had in the past written to other members of the church leadership in Italy and had always before been rewarded with silence.
In their letter, a group of gay and lesbian Catholics organized into the group, Kairos of Florence, asked for openness and dialogue, noting that closure to discussion "always feeds homophobia." The members were shocked to receive a personal response to their appeal from Pope Francis. One leader of the group told La Repubblica "no one had ever even given a nod of response" before. The Kairos group said they also received a letter from the Vatican Secretariat of State, which informed them that Pope Francis "really enjoyed" their letter to him and the way it was written, calling it an act of "spontaneous confidence."
One Kairos leader said Pope Francis had also assured the group of his blessing, something they could not before have imagined happening. The members of Kairos have decided to keep the rest of the message of both letters private.
La Repubblica's Maria Cristina Carratu writes that the pope receives a mountain of mail each day, sent by people hoping to make a personal connection with Pope Francis, thus bypassing the "obstacle" the Roman Curia. Carratu speculates that this "message in a bottle" from Kairos of Florence, or one like it from other gay and lesbian Catholics may have reached the pope and inspired his "breakthrough" on the church's treatment of gay and lesbian Catholics.
Jim McCrea
Kairos would be doing a great favor to the rest of us who are gay and/or lesbian by publishing the private content of both letters, be that content good, bad or indifferent. Nothing is gained by hiding these things.
John Steinson
No one could reasonably believe the Pope would ever approve of the homosexual lifestyle which might explain keeping the letter private.
Tom Wilson
(Yawn). How many times must it be repeated that the Church does not consider same-sex attraction a sin; it is homosexual acts that are sinful. God doesn't ask us to change that which we feel; but we must change our sinful behavior, which, by the way, includes sinful heterosexual acts, as well. Based on the recent successes of the global homosexual lobby, a mere 3% of the population, in the legalization of sodomy and so-called gay marriage, it is apparent that they are a well-financed and powerful lobby that even the Pope cannot ignore. Having chosen to blame all of their woes on the Church and unafraid to attack it in the courts, the Pope is smart to call attention to the Church's true teaching on the matter to counter the mischaracterization of the Church's position that the media has disseminated with little opposition. People with same-sex attraction are welcome in the Church. And if they seek God's grace and resolve to not participate in the sinful acts of the flesh, they can (gasp!) participate in Communion. I wonder how many people with same-sex attraction actually know that.
Patty Flynn
Tom, I am a Catholic mother of a gay son. He is very bright and well read. He understands, as do I and my family, that the Church does not consider same-sex attraction a sin. The catechism states that this attraction is disordered. This is a heavy burden for us to carry, that this attraction he was born with and thus is part of his nature, is in and of itself disordered. It is not helpful to have a tone that includes sarcasm. It creates a barrier between us Catholics and disrupts respectful dialogue with hurting families. It makes our burden even heavier. If you sincerely want to know how many people with same sex attraction know the catechism on this topic, it would be much more helpful for you to have a loving dialogue than to post a message with this tone. Perhaps this is what Pope Francis is modeling and we all should be more open to loving dialogue rather than sarcasm from a distance. Thank you for your time and understanding. May God bless us all with a desire to love, listen to and care for each other.
Michael Cobbold
"In their letter, a group of gay and lesbian Catholics organized into the group, Kairos of Florence, asked for openness and dialogue, noting that closure to discussion "always feeds homophobia." The members were shocked to receive a personal response to their appeal from Pope Francis." Excellent - that's much better than neglecting people so that they give up on the Church. How are the Church authorities going to know how to act, if they simply ignore, or misdescribe, or demonise, gay people ? And how are gay people going to avoid doing likewise to the Church, if it seems distant or uncaring, or sounds insulting ? A lot of harm has been done by misunderstanding of the Church's language. This really does seem like a step forward - and not before time. "A leader of the impromptu committee said as gay Catholics they had in the past written to other members of the church leadership in Italy and had always before been rewarded with silence." ## If true, that sounds very unlike the Good Shepherd, Who goes out looking for the one lost sheep - Christian practice seems often ( or even usually) to be, to stay with the 99 that are not lost. Sad, really.
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Q: C++ cannot find stdafx.h My program was working fine until I decided to rename one of the directories in where I have my projects. I tried changing the name back to the original but now it's giving me problems where it can't find .h files when their obviously still there in the project explorer. The first one it tells me is that it cannot find stdafx.h

A: I gave up and just spent the last 30min copying an old version and replacing the old version with the newer code files. Visual Studio should have some type of feature to rescan your project to make sure the directories line up with the current directories.

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Nissan has unveiled pathbreaking research that will allow vehicles to interpret signals from the driver's brain, thus redefining the interaction of people with their cars.
Called Brain-to-Vehicle, or B2V technology, the new innovation will speed up reaction times for drivers and will help cars to adapt to make driving more enjoyable.
Nissan will showcase the potential of this exclusive technology at the CES 2018 that is scheduled to be held shortly in Las Vegas. B2V is the latest component of Nissan Intelligent Mobility, the Japanese auto manufacturer's vision for transforming how cars are driven, powered and integrated into society.
Prediction: This involves sensing signs that the driver's brain is ready to initiate actions like turning the steering wheel or pushing the accelerator pedal and helping driver assist technologies to implement the action more quickly. This element can improve reaction times and enhance manual driving.
Detection: This involves sensing and evaluating driver discomfort with the aid of artificial intelligence, and taking corrective measures to change the driving configuration or driving style when in autonomous mode.
Other possible uses for the technology include adjusting the vehicle's internal environment, said Dr. Lucian Gheorghe, senior innovation researcher at the Nissan Research Center in Japan, who's leading the B2V research. One example is the use of augmented reality to adjust what the driver sees and to create a more relaxing environment.
Nissan's B2V technology is the first such system in the world. For the implementation of this technology, the driver needs to wear a device that measures brain wave activity, which is then analyzed by autonomous systems. The system then takes actions a tiny bit faster than the motorist would by anticipating intended movement.
Nissan will use a driving simulator to demonstrate some elements of the technology at CES, and Gheorghe will be on hand to answer questions.


Born in Verona in 1971, Elena Pisanelli discovers early her passion for the world of beauty and in particular for hair sector.
Currently Technical Manager of Organic Way, she begins her career as collaborator in salons and continues in Milan as Colour Technician for Schwarzkopf Professional in Henkel S.p.a. furnishing technician advisors and trainings during colour seminars. She was also a technician support to different International groups as Trevor Sorbie, Rainbow Room and Sun Rizz.
After different years she begins to work in Bologna as Manager of the Technical Centre of Beautyge Spa for Revlon Professional Products to train the Technical Team and to prepare format for hair seminars, where she participated as trainer. Sunny, positive and friendly she loves to put herself on the line and to work in Team, she has good communicative skills and for this reason among the others she coordinates a Team of 7 Freelance. Thanks to her long experience acquired in this sector, Elena has released interviews for ESTETICA Magazine about coloration themes.
Born in South France in 1981and raised among a hairdresser family, Aurélie soon discovered the world of fashion and hairstyle. At 17, she began to work as hairdresser for fashion magazines for several brands, such as Pacific Motion and Longboard.
In 2002 she opened her first hair salon and continued several collaboration with photographers for magazines, brands and catwalk shows. In 2007 she joined the Redkenteam as a trainer. This gave her the opportunity to partecipate in stunning trainee courses with Sam Villa and Kris Sorbie.
Recently she has created a new concept of hair salon dedicated to the Oway universe and from 2018 she representsthe brand in France and in the world as Oway International Master trainer.
Claudio was born in Rome in 1978 and was able to approach the profession of hairdressing in 1998, attending the Academy for hairdressers IAL in Rome and graduated with honors.
From 2000 to 2004 the first full-time employment, where with the team he gained experience in the fashion industry as a hairdresser. From 2004 to 2010 he attended the Demeral Training Center of Vicenza.
In 2012, after a careful research, he created the ZZAC! Brand which tries to grow with passion every day.
In 2016 he has the opportunity with Oway to be able to undertake a path from trainer, an experience in which he discovered a different side of his job that arouse him day after day. From 2017 he becomes Oway International Master Trainer.
Emiliano Pontani has been a hairdresser for 25 years. Jovial character, determination, professionalism and reliability are the main character qualities.
The profession began in 1993 in Rome. Thanks to seriousness and commitment, he has a rapid professional growth, until becoming a salon owner in 2006. He constantly trains with international stylists and academies.
In the early 2000s he work as a stylist with the company TIGI. A deep knowledge of technical field led him to become Country Manager for Farouk System USA in 2005.
In 2014 he met Oway, after a long and careful research. He start a new training path under the guidance of valuable professionals. Once he reached a good level of knowledge, he began to work as a coach, until he became a trainer qualified to hold courses as a manager. Now he plays the role of Oway International Master Trainer.
Diego started his professional career as a cook, then he discovered a passion for the hairdressing profession by chance. He starts in the Gandini Academy and after a few years he becomes part of the team.
He has done many stylistic experiences in Italy and abroad and also attends a make-up course, training that allows him to work in the entertainment world.
In 2017 he launches the brand Mognon Parrucchieri and creates a salon specialized in putting customers in a position to wear a style that expresses their uniqueness.
Then he chose the Oway brand because it reflected his values and his ethics, starting different training path. In 2017 he becomes Oway International Master Trainer.
Francesc Sànchez Egea is from Catalunia, near Barcelona. In addition to specific training to become a hairdresser, Francesc attends courses in economics, administration and sales, to be a step ahead of his colleagues.
In 1998 he became a product technician for Helene Curtis and from there he began his career as a trainer. It does it for several companies in the sector, Spanish and international too: Alfaparf, Lakme, Kanebo, Paul Mitchell and Davines. In 2017 he met Oway and, thanks to his qualities and his large experience, he soon became supervisor for the Oway training in Catalunia and Tenerife and Oway International Master Trainer.
Gitte has been a Hairdresser for more that 25 years. She has two salons in Denmark and she has been working with hairsolor without ammonia for the last 20 years.
She has taking courses at Tony and Guy, Westrow Academy and many more.
In 2015 Gitte fell in love with Oway and has been working with Oway since.
From 2015 she began to teach in Denmark as Local Trainer and in 2018 she became an Oway International Master Trainer.
Jurgita in 2004 finished hairdressing school and started career as a hairdresser. All the life she is looking forward how to improve her knowledge in hairdressing/cutting technologies. She is always interested in different coloring technologies.
2011 – Power Point Haidressing Technical Courses / 2013 – Matrix coloristic curses /2015 – Bogomolov image school in Ryga.
Every year she was participating in different cutting, coloring courses. As longer she was working as hairdresser more and more attention she has dedicated for products with witch she works.
In 2015 she started working with OWAY products. After few month of working with the products she became trainer for OWAY.
Linda has worked as a hairdresser at Auster Academy in Oslo for more than 20 year's, 12 year's as a manager.
She has worked as a consultant towards several companies doing shows, theoretical and practical curses.
She has worked as a consultant for Icon Hairspa for 18 years and for Oway for 10 years. In 2018 she becomes Oway International Master Trainer.
He began his professional career in 2004 in Livorno and then he perfected himself in hairdressing sector during an experience in London between 2006 and 2010 where, in addition to working in the salons as Senior Stylist, he led together with the owner of the salon Cutting and Color Training Seminars lasting 2 days for Rover Hair. In these courses Matteo was mainly involved in teaching the theory and techniques of color world.
In 2010 he returned in Italy in Florence for a new project to be the "Antica Tintoria" Salon Manager, of which he would become the owner 6 years later.
In 2013 he met the fantastic world of Oway and in 2017 his Salon is chosen among the best 50 Oway Salons in the world. Also in 2017, together with its partners, he opens the second salon in Florence and begins he path of Local Trainer Oway. From 2018 he becomes Oway International Master Trainer.
Sebastian comes from Poland and he is a Nolan Hair Oway owner.
He is an hairdresser from 20 years and since 10 years works as a trainer with a lot of global brands.
Sebastian takes part in competitions, where he often takes his place on the podium. In 2018 he become a finalist of the television program "Master Cut in Poland". He willingly participates in programs on similiar topics. Nolan Hair salon cooperates with a wide range of designers at fashion shows. Also, Sebastian cooperates with "Miss Polonia" and takes a place in the jury. Sebastian's passions are fashion and hairdressing shows - often it inspires him to new hairstyles. In hairdressing his greatest love are coloring and creating new trends.
Sebastian has been cooperating with the Oway brand since 2018 and he is the Artistic Director of the Oway Brand in Poland.
Since 2018 he's an international OW trainer.
Svetlana Kukenska is the owner of the first Green Salon OW in Varna, Bulgaria. It was twenty years ago when she decided to take his passion and hobby to a different level and obtained his license as an hairstylist and a cosmetologist. Twelve years ago she opened his own salon, Bellessa, and after a lengthy research she decided to incorporate the Rolland brand and Oway products into his business.
She has been lucky to attend Rolland academy and develop his craft as a hairstylist with the help of many talented Rolland teachers and professionals. In 2013 she has participated and placed as a finalist at the Eco-talents competition.
Since 2017 she is an Oway International Master Trainer.
Born in Paris, with a family background from both Belgium and Germany, Valerie grew up within a French culture before beginning a life of travel, which took her throughout Europe, Africa, the United States, Australia and finally back to Belgium.
Valerie loves any opportunity to personalize a style and colour palette for each individual guest who enters her world. Her passion for colour is as strong today as it was when she first began. She will listen to you and support you through a change of style and colour with a sympathetic appreciation for every individual's needs. Her gentle and kind nature will seduce you and take you to another world.
Her concept reflected genuinely Oway's, and so with a vision of raising the hairdressing industry, by inspiring, educating, sharing passion and creations; she started to train and educate hair salons with Oway.
Hailing from Paris, Yohann Peres soon began to approach the world of hairdressers with schools and masters in his hometown and around Europe. For this reason, in addition to French, which is his mother tongue, he has a perfect competence of English, Portuguese and some skill of Spanish.
He currently lives in Lisbon, where he is the owner of SoWhat - Organic Hair concept Oway salon.
In his career, as in addition to manager, creative director and top Hairstyle of several salons in Portugal and in the world, he was L'Oreal Professionel Ambassador & Trainer and All Star American Crew Ambassador in Portugal.
After having known and appreciated the Oway world and chosen his philosophy, in 2017 he officially became Oway International Master Trainer.


Dr Elizabeth Jeong is the Dental Prosthetist at Gold Coast Dentures by Design. She was born in New Zealand but grew up in Australia. Elizabeth has a passion for improving her patients' quality of life through their smile and restoring function when it is lost.
After completing her Postgraduate Diploma at Griffith, Elizabeth worked at Queensland Health as a Dental Prosthetist and at Apex Dental Laboratory as a dental technician.
Dr Jeong enjoys both the patient and the technical side of her job but finds it most rewarding when her patients see their treatment outcome. Touching experiences such as patients crying tears of joy after inserting a denture and being able to smile again reinforce Elizabeth to strive for excellence every day.
In her free time, Elizabeth enjoys playing board games, watching movies, reading fantasy novels, and playing with her puppies.
Elizabeth studied locally at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. She completed her Bachelor of Oral Health in Dental Technology in 2014. Elizabeth then decided to do a Postgraduate Diploma of Dental Technology in Prosthetics at Griffith. Dr Jeong received the Griffith Award for Excellence in three consecutive years from 2014 to 2016.


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Where does Deleted Device usage go?
I searched the forum for an answer to my questions and apologize if it has already been answered.
When one deletes a device, does the energy it used go into the 'other' category? If not, where does it go?
I'm curios how it may affect the trend data.
Seems like it should just go back into Other. No other logical bucket to put it in.
If I deleted a device by mistake can I restore it somehow? Or will the device just get re discovered in the future?
There is no mechanism to restore a device. It should be re-detected however.


The Guardbridge Community garden is full of surprises! Not least an apple tree with an actual name label still attached.
The Cambusnethan Pippin apple tree was struggling along, despite it's main leader branch having been snapped, the encroachment of a very vigorous poplar sucker system, and plenty of neglect, it was still staked and gamely trying to grow towards the light.
A little googling later and we discovered that the Cambusnethan pippin is a very old variety (pre 1750) from the Clyde Valley. The fruit is dual purpose (can be eaten as a desert or cooking apple) and can be stored.
As a partial tip-bearer it will produce fruit mainly on the ends of branches (but with a few on spurs on the branches) of last year's growth.