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Heroin Shortages Drive Deadly Alternatives
Synringes used to inject desomorphine, found in a Russian drug den. Photo courtesy of the Federal Narcotics Service of Russia.
By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon
When European heroin use dipped in the early 2000s, politicians and analysts hailed the news as evidence of their success. New law enforcement initiatives, aided by bad growing weather in Afghanistan, had reduced the supply of heroin to Europe, thus limiting its use.
Unfortunately, that achievement had a serious down side: the heroin drought sparked an increase in the use of synthetic opiates – and those alternatives sometimes have more dangerous side effects and sky-high overdose rates.
Experts have described the decline in heroin availability as "a slide, a squeeze and a shock," because it came in three phases of increasing speed. A gradual decline in the early 2000s owed mostly to the Taliban's ban on opium production in 2001. The more substantial squeeze that followed was a result of bad weather and floods in Afghanistan, as well as regional instability during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the dramatic "shock" to the supply came just two to three years ago, as cross-country law enforcement operations began netting huge seizures. The United Kingdom's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), for instance, teamed up with Turkish authorities to seize over 2000kg of heroin in 2009-2010 alone. Those seizures cut off much of the flow from Turkey, which supplies illicit drugs to =large swathes of Europe.
Filling the Heroin Gap, Country by Country
Responses to the drought varied by country, with drug users in each developing their own preferences for heroin alternatives, according to reports from the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA.) In Norway, users turned to buprenorphine, a semi-synthetic often used to treat heroin addiction, but intoxicating and addictive in higher doses. In Hungary, cathinones gained popularity. That substance – an ingredient in the drug mixes known as "bath salts" in the U.S. – is part stimulant, part opioid. Slovakia, too, went for uppers – there, methamphetamine use surged. In Bulgaria, a mysterious substance known as "white heroin" cropped up; reports vary regarding its makeup.
Buprenorphine also swept the country of Georgia, which previously never had much of a heroin problem.
Lasha – whose name has been changed to protect his identity – first tried the drug when he was 15, on the 2007 Georgian New Year. He easily scored the drug through older acquaintances he had met the day before, and his new friends crushed up a tablet of Subutex, a name brand of buprenorphine, and injected him with it
Photo credit: the Federal Narcotics Service of Russia.
Lasha's first high was a nightmare. "Every five minutes I got sick and it didn't stop until the morning. I had nothing in my stomach and some strange liquid was coming out," he said. "I thought I would die."
But two days later, he did it again. ''The same thing happened,'' Lasha said. ''I was going crazy... I wanted to feel the real pleasure that was felt by my friends. I wanted some more.'' So a week later, Lasha injected the drug a third time.
''I felt it at last. The warmth came from my feet up to my head," he said. "I was God. I was cool. I could do everything possible and impossible.'' By the time the high wore off, Lasha was hooked. ''It finished and again I felt like a nobody,'' he said. ''I immediately missed that feeling and wanted to inject once more...I became the classic junkie."
Thousands of users befell the same fate in Georgia, where a third of the drug users who now seek treatment are addicted to synthetic opioids. Georgian drugs reforms in 2007 cracked down on traditional narcotics but did nothing to stem the misuse of perscription drugs. "It was effective for catching drug dealers, but drug users found an alternative way -- artificial drugs," explained Georgian drug counselor and anthropologist Tamaz Mchedlidze.
In Estonia, the synthetic drug problem is even more pronounced. There, three-fourths of detox and treatment patients are addicted to fentanyl, which is that country's synthetic heroin alternative of choice.
A Potent Danger, and the Danger of Potency
Fentanyl is a prescription anesthetic that was developed to manage chronic pain. Many users buy this drug illegally and inject it, but often it is prescribed and then abused; at least one drug counselor in the United States, where fentanyl is prescribed in adhesive patches for pain management, has documented patients eating those patches to attain a narcotic high.
Estonia is a special case, and the use of fentanyl there has been described as endemic in injecting drug user populations, having become the most commonly used intravenus opioid over the past decade. When Estonia's heroin users began converting to fentanyl, the country's mortality rate shot up; it is now the highest in the European Union, with 105 fatal overdoses in 2011.
Kristina Joost of Estonia's Convictus, a non-profit organization that supports addiction recovery, said that the fentanyl phenomenon has proven extremely hard to address, partly due to the speed with which the drug entered the country. The drug problem was non-existent until the fall of the USSR, Joost said, but in the 1990s, when the borders opened, fentanyl flowed in from Russia. "In the last 20 years we had to learn everything about this problem, and we are still fighting the fire," Joost said.
One of the Convictus outreach workers and a former addict himself, Andrei, who declined to give his last name, explained the sweeping effect the drug has had on Estonia. "When fentanyl came to the market, people who tried it never used heroin after - they automatically switched to fentanyl," he said.
While Estonia has seen the most marked and continuous fentanyl use, outbreaks have also been reported in Bulgaria and Slovakia in recent years, coinciding with acute heroin shortages in both countries. Even Sweden, Finland, and Germany have documented increases in fentanyl use and mortality, according to the EMCDDA – but only in certain areas. Fentanyl use tends to be geographically localized and for the most part occurs in 'pockets,' the agency notes, likely because its lethal reputation gives its spread "built-in brakes." That is to say, once news of its overdose victims gets out in a given area, potential new users take pains to stay away.
Drugs like fentanyl are particularly deadly because they are many times stronger than heroin, and the strength of each batch can vary significantly. With a potency so high, slight miscalculations by the dealers cutting the drug could spark a rash of fatal overdoses. Also, because the synthetic alternatives are often adulterated with several substances, their use can lead to other health problems like abscesses at the injection site.
Homemade Highs
That's even more true for the homemade alternatives users cook up when they get desperate. When Lasha and his friends' supply of Subutex ran dry, they found their own ''chemist,'' who had learned how to make a drug they called 'Vinti'
"It was a killer mixture, but it didn't stop us,'' Lasha said. ''We had a big bowl and everyone had his own vein catheter. We took the syringes and everyone had to take their dose from the shared bowl. One of us had Hepatitis C, but I didn't care. I wanted the drug. If I worried about the disease, I wouldn't be able to feel like the others, and I couldn't miss the chance.''
Like many homemade drugs, this one was more addictive than its prototype – and more harmful. ''We had to sit around the bowl and inject once an hour in order not to get sober,'' Lasha said. "But after using this drug a while, I felt like my teeth were breaking and the rest of my body was dying.''
The symptoms are even worse for desomorphine (or "Krokodil"), the homemade synthetic heroin alternative that caught on in parts of Russia and Georgia. "When there was an opium shortage affecting the Russian Federation in 2010 and 2011, heroin users switched to Krokodil, which had devastating consequences," said United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime expert Thomas Pietschmann in a December interview with OCCRP.
Krokodil users cook codeine – which can be found in many over-the-counter medicines in Russia – with iodine and other household ingredients to create a powerful homemade high. But the result is so deadly the average life span of a user is under a year. The drug gets its name from the appearance of its addicts; their flesh rots from the inside out, leaving the skin as scaly as a crocodile's.
"It can totally destroy the nervous system," said Georgia's Tamaz Mchedlidze, who explained that in Georgia the Krokodil recipe also includes liquid toilet cleaner, and gasoline. The latter is a controversial ingredient, Mchedlidze noted; "some junkies insist on using Wissol gasoline, while others say you should use Rompetrol," he said, referring to two brand names of gasoline.
"A Krok-user's life becomes only preparing the drug, injecting it and then thinking about tomorrow's dose," Mchedlidze said. " If you're still alive after six months, you're lucky."
Krokodil is one of several homemade drugs that grew out of the shift toward synthetic opiates, once users realized they could get similar highs without prescriptions by using everyday supplies and over-the-counter drugs.
"There should have been some regulation in pharmacies, because it was immediately well recognized which medicines are used for artificial drugs," Mchedlidze said. "But nobody banned them; instead, their prices were raised in drug stores."
Nicolas Clark, medical officer for the World Health Organization, stressed that the switch was usually not a matter of choice, but one of necessity; even when heroin was available, its price had skyrocketed due to the shortage. "It is unlikely anyone who is using Krokodil is doing so in preference to heroin," Dr. Clark said.
Pietschmann said that now that the opium shortage is over, "whether Krokodil will remain popular remains to be seen." But some say the shortage may recur in the coming months. In June, the UNODC's Executive Director Yuri Fedotov said the organization anticipated another diseased poppy crop in 2012, which would indicate another opium shortage in 2013. (The plant takes 8 months to cultivate.) Pietschmann acknowledged that yields will decline again this year due to disease, but said it likely won't be by enough to spark a serious heroin shortage. The areas of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan have expanded, and that will probably be enough to offset the weak crop, he said.
Mujtaba Ali and Ekuna Lolua contributed reporting.
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«Девятки» () — психологический триллер / драма 2007 года, написана и поставлена Джоном Огастом. Главные роли исполнили Райан Рейнольдс, Хоуп Дэвис, Мелисса Маккарти и Эль Фэннинг.

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Пути актёра, сценариста ТВ-шоу, участвующего в реалити-проекте, и известного разработчика видеоигр сплелись самым загадочным и мистическим образом. Их жизни и жизни их близких оказались связаны таинственным числом «девять»…

Интересные факты
 Дом, где останавливается Гэри и живёт Гэвин, в реальности является домом режиссёра Джона Огаста.
 Слоган фильма. «Y9u never kn9w when y9ur number is up».

В ролях
 Райан Рейнольдс — 9 / Гэри актёр / Гевин сценарист / Габриэл дизайнер компьютерных игр.
 Мелисса Маккарти — Маргарет агент Гэри / Мелисса актриса  / Мэри жена Габриэла.
 Хоуп Дэвис — 9 / Сара соседка Гэри / Сьюзен исполнительный продюсер / Сиерра таинственная женщина.
 Эль Фэннинг — Ноэль.
 Бен Фальконе — сам себя.
 Дэвид Денман — 9 / полицейский / взволнованный человек.
 Октавия Спенсер — 9 / проститутка.

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Фильмы-драмы США
Фильмы США в жанре фэнтези

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Hagie Manufacturing Company, located in Clarion, IA, optimizes customer growth by providing the most innovative crop protection solutions in the agriculture industry. After introducing the world's first self-propelled sprayer in 1947, Hagie Manufacturing Company has continued to be a pioneer in the industry with innovations such as front-mounted booms, hydrostatic drives and hydraulically-adjustable booms. They've built a foundation with on family owned traditions and values around employees, customers and innovation inspiring sustained growth and success. Through this, they design and manufacture the most eye-catching agriculture equipment you've seen, using KeyShot to present early project visuals and concepts throughout the design process. We talk with Super Senior Industrial Designer, Bryan Young, about what they do and how KeyShot has helped.
What does the design team at Hagie encompass?
The Industrial Design team is fairly new to Hagie, being created within the past couple of years. I am responsible for managing and leading a small design team responsible for all exterior, interior and component design of the entire Hagie lineup of agriculture vehicle products.
What are some project highlights?
In our short amount of time, a project highlight has been establishing the Hagie VBL, or Visual Brand Language. This is being rolled out with the redesign of the current model range and additional models to come. This can be seen in our volume seller, the newly redesigned STS line that was launched in 2013. Another project highlight I am proud of is the Black Widow show machine we are showing throughout the 2014-2015 farm show season. The usage of KeyShot was a huge factor in getting the approval to do this project. One in which I actually generated the KeyShot renderings. This type of project was something the company never did before in the 65+ year history, so having realistic images convinced senior management for project approval. Other project highlights are yet to come as my team and I are currently hard at work on them. Stay tuned.
What would you say is unique about the design process at Hagie?
The process is still evolving, so I am creating how the design process is integrated into the overall product development cycle. What is unique is having a CEO that is aware of the ROI that design brings and is open to design. My career before joining Hagie was in automotive, both OEM and supplier studios. So taking what I've observed at other studios and applying it hear is great. One example is at the start of a project during the theme generation stage I open it to the entire design staff. Whoever generates the hot theme is who we go with. This is unique because some studios will only have designers generating ideas. I find a competitive environment generates the best ideas.
Where in the process is KeyShot used?
Depending on the project requirements, KeyShot can be exclusively used in the beginning of the process. Example being the Black Widow show machine. KeyShot was the sole source of generating themes for that project. I require my team to use KeyShot throughout the design process. Since it's hard for many of our non-creatives to envision concepts, KeyShot helps immensely.
Before KeyShot any concepts or ideas required physically making them to see how they looked. Being able to visualize ideas and concepts in KeyShot has saved countless dollars for us and has allowed Industrial Design to show a multitude of ideas with minimum investment. I can't tell you how much time, money and effort KeyShot has saved. It has allowed Industrial Design to generate concepts that our Product Development team has seen and actually integrating in products.
What is one piece of advice or KeyShot tip you would pass along to other designers?
My advice to other designers and design leaders is pretty simple. Use it. That's it. No fuss no muss. I don't consider an expert in it, but for me managing a design team, it is easy to learn and integrate within the digital design process, that I use it as often as I can.
How has the KeyShot paid training program improved your understanding and use of the software?
The paid training program greatly increased my design team's understanding of KeyShot. The benefit of having training on-site was huge. Having the trainers see and drive our products, see the challenges we face and having face to face contact with our IT team was huge. You can't get that by having off-site training. I would encourage any design teams to take advantage of the on-site training.


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Sing to Heal: Using the Voice to Uplift Mind and Body
Nov 27, 2020 09:30AM ● By Marlaina Donato
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According to growing research, singing along to a favorite musical or joining a local choir can be good for our health. From college students to patients with Parkinson's disease, everyone can benefit, regardless of talent. Singing naturally fosters endorphins, amps up immunity levels and lowers the stress hormone cortisol. A study by the UK University of East Anglia published in 2017 in The BMJ's Medical Humanities shows that group singing—along with the positivity of social interaction—supports and improves mental health in people with depression and anxiety. Singing for the Brain, a program created by The Alzheimer's Society, has been shown to improve memory, mood and the ability to socialize for people with dementia.
"I feel singing can be significant to mental well-being and healing from an injury or cancer, while in recovery from substance abuse, or to help cope with trauma. Additional benefits may include pain management," says Tamera Anderson-Hanna, a licensed mental health counselor and the owner of Wellness, Therapy & Yoga, in Miami.
Breathing into Self-Expression
"When we sing, we dive straight into a conscious bodily experience that brings us into immediate connection with our bodies. Singing, especially repetitive singing where we can start to regulate a breath cycle and elongate it, gets us deeply oxygenated," says Daisy Press, a professional singer and vocal teacher in New York City.
There's no right or wrong way to reap the benefits of music. A few years into her professional career, Press took a group lesson with a North Indian raga teacher and experienced a deep inner shift. "I was allowed to enjoy the feeling of singing that one note and my mind turned off. I felt the intonation itself in my body—in waves, shapes and colors. Intonation itself became a real living energy that felt essentially good, restorative and healing."
Lea Longo, a Montreal-based meditation mindfulness coach and musician, concurs. "Singing has been my way to relax, not only my mind, but my body, as well. It uses the breath, a vital tool for health. It's my go-to place to feel better. I just sing when I need a boost, and it works for me."
Resonance, Mantra and Humming
"The voice can be considered a healing tool for the fact that it is directly related to resonance in the body," explains Longo. "We can think of our voice as a tuning fork to 'tune' ourselves and use it as a way to heal internally through the vibrations and sounds we produce." Using sound is a subtle energy therapy that can help heal emotional or physical distress, he says.
Mantra, the recitation of specific words or traditionally sacred chants, is not a religion, but simply a method to quell mental chatter. "Mantras are vibrational tools that can be practiced by any faith or spiritual practice."
In her work, Anderson-Hanna makes the mantra personal. "I often teach individuals how to create their own mantra and how to challenge their thinking using positive affirmations. The mantra I teach is most often a personal reflection of 'I am' statements they can aspire to, versus negative or defeating thoughts."
Humming, another way to open the voice for healing, is the least intimidating for many people, but packs a powerful punch. "Out of all the many healing sounds I've worked with, I find that humming is the most effective because it is so inclusive—everyone can hum. Physiologically, humming reduces heart rate, respiration and blood pressure. Many different beneficial hormones and chemicals are released, including endorphins, oxytocin, melatonin and nitric oxide," says Jonathan Goldman, co-author of The Humming Effect and director of the Sound Healers Association, in Boulder, Colorado. "The importance of nitric oxide is coming more into light since it is a vasodilator and has anti-viral qualities." In addition, humming stimulates the vagus nerve, which reduces inflammation and enhances immunity.
Whether we sing children to sleep at night or learn to sing jazz, using our voices can be good medicine. Goldman reminds us, "There are so many different ways that sound can positively shift and change us."
Marlaina Donato is a recording artist and author.
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In-Print, Healing Ways National Content Feature Music December 2020

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A new age is dawning. For big companies, the oncoming era will require new skill sets, technologies, alignments and business models. It will force them to globally reinvent and restructure entire systems of production, management and governance.
It will require intelligent transformation.
According to industry analyst IDC, annual spending on digital transformation initiatives in the Middle East, Turkey, and Afrika (META) region is predicted to surpass $38 billion by 2021 (R 532,190,000,000,0), accelerated by the large-scale adoption of third-platform technologies such as cloud, big data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Virtual Reality, etc.
"For big companies, the oncoming era will require new skill sets, technologies, alignments and business models."
The year 2019 will bring an evolution of change. Here are top trends for empowering intelligent transformation as well as how I think large organisations can put themselves in a position to thrive in the new landscape.
These are complicated times for the enterprise. The feedback that we get from large customers who deploy our technology (Lenovo) is this: the products must naturally be compelling but the ecosystem into which they settle is everything.
Hardware offerings are best when combined with that technology provider's data and deeper insights.
You might call it Smart IoT.
Companies who show leadership on this front and subscribe to this more sophisticated and broad approach will be the ones who lead the intelligent transformation. The rest will be left behind.
Devices will surely still play a central role in the connected world but it's safe to say some aspects of your connected life will go into the ether. Consider what already exists and what might come next: A voice-driven smart speaker on a kitchen counter-top, a Smart Display that acts as a family's household hub, Useful health trackers embedded directly into your body. The sky's the limit in terms of how we might leverage these new technologies to improve the lives of people.
One good example of a broader application is Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) technology, which helps people manage networks from a single source. Our interest in this runs deep, from helping companies ward off hackers to helping first responders react more quickly in crisis situations.
Another application is Narrow AI (as opposed to the general AI we see in movies), which enables computers to perform highly specialized tasks extremely well. One way we are using Narrow AI is in health care. We created an AI solution that helps health professionals better detect liver tumors and increases general success rates for cancer diagnoses.
Whether or not you know it, the pieces for intelligent transformation are falling into place on a global scale as I type this. Smart devices are ubiquitous. Infrastructure is in place. Networks are accelerating.
5G connectivity is really what will make all the other trends mentioned here scalable.
5G, which is 10 times faster than 4G, deserves special mention for the way it is expected to revolutionize networks. 5G download speeds will transform how people engage with the world overnight. This breakthrough will help mainstream things like driverless cars, smart wearable gadgets, gaming, home security and industrial intelligence.
For businesses to take advantage of these trends next year and the years after that, they will need to invest in infrastructure that is open yet secure, flexible, and delivers speed and reliability.


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My question is related to calculating position. Scale the INNER IMAGE in FRONT END then i need to find the relative position on same in BACKGROUND PROCESS. If any one experience in it please share here like an equation or something.

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Question : When i scale the INNER IMAGE in FRONT END. That is 75x75 to 100x100, then we have the x and y position of that. And i need to calculate the exact position in BACKGROUND PROCESS. It's for scale that image programatically.

A: After INNER IMAGE scale you will have x and y position for it, now convert it to %.
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On 16 March 2013, The Learners Chorus presented the Asian premiere of Missa Rigensis, an a cappella mass by Latvian composer Uģis Prauliņš, written in 2002 for the Riga Cathedral Boys Choir. Back then, we performed the piece at the School Hall of Sheng Kung Hui Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School in Wan Chai, in our concert titled "Masters for the Choir". Mr. Prauliņš graciously wrote us a little note for that occasion.
Five years has since passed and the choir has grown. Our numbers has certainly increased. In the Masters for the Choir concert we sang as a group of 38, including just 6 tenors, barely scraping by considering the mass calls for 3 part divisi for tenors at some point! Now we will be performing as a group of over 80 singers. The venue will be more favourable. Instead of a school hall with thin windows and clunky central air-conditioning, we will be performing at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall with better acoustics. Most importantly, true to the Learners name, we have been learning and improving.
So, on 30 September 2018, we will again be performing Missa Rigensis, hopefully to better bring out the nuances of Mr. Prauliņš' great work, which combines the traditional polyphonic masses with modern harmonies and rhythmic devices.
Of course, Missa Rigensis will only be one of the pieces to be performed in our upcoming concert. Come hear us sing this beautiful mass along with Gounod's St Cecilia Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in our upcoming concert on September 30 at HK City Hall Concert Hall!
Proceeds, after deducting necessary expenses, will be donated to Hong Kong Christian Council's School Building Project in Myanmar to build the Kyawt Ogh Village School.
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– thus was Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms dedicated.
The Symphony was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for their 50th anniversary project, for a sweet US$6,000 (in 1930 dollars. Adjusting for inflation that would be roughly $90,500 in current US dollars, or just north of $710,000 HK dollars). Naturally, if you have paid such a large sum to have a piece written, you must be premiering it, right?
Not quite. Stravinsky has stipulated into the contract that if the BSO didn't premiere the piece by late November 1930, it would be premiered by a European orchestra instead – and that's exactly what happened. Rather unfortunately for the BSO, Koussevitzky, music director of the orchestra who suggested the commission and who was scheduled to premiere the piece, fell ill and was unable to conduct the originally scheduled premiere.
The Symphony of Psalms, now one of Stravinsky's best known works, was therefore premiered in Brussels by the Société Philharmonique de Bruxelles under the baton of conductor Ernest Ansermet, followed by the BSO and Koussevitzky just a few days afterwards.
Of course, there is way more to the Symphony of Psalms than this messy premiere situation. Come hear us perform this very interesting symphony along with Gounod's St Cecilia Mass and Praulins' Missa Rigensis in our upcoming concert on September 30 at HK City Hall Concert Hall!
How can a composer evoke in music the sense of wonder, bewilderment and excitement one feels when they first see in person the elusive Aurora Borealis – the Northern Lights? Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds did so by combining an ancient Latvian folk song imagining Kavi soldiers battling away in the skies with the diaries of explorers explorers Charles Francis Hall (1821-1871) and Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930).
As the explorer rushed up the stairs and swung open the door, the music burst into constantly moving and shimmering melodies just as the awe inspiring Northern Lights light up the sky. Between bouts of excitement the music calms down somewhat and the glasses return, now with the addition of chimes as the explorer muse on the beauty of the scene. Eventually tranquility returns, again with the Latvian text – "Cik naksnīnas pret ziemeli / Redzēj' kāvus karojam" as the music gradually fades out and floats away like the elusive northern lights.
Symphony No.2 Lobgesang. It is easy to misunderstand that this is Mendelssohn's second symphony, subtitled Lobgesang. This was not the case. If we look at when Mendelssohn's symphonies were composed – No.3 Scottish was done in 1829-1842. No.4 Italian in 1833 and revised in 1834. Lobgesang? 1840. By timing alone Lobgesang couldn't have been the 2nd symphony. What happened then?
Turns out that when Mendelssohn published his Scottish Symphony, he published it as No.3. Perhaps "No.2" was reserved for the Italian Symphony that eventually became his No.4 when it was published after the composer's death. No.2 was left empty until an editor of the Mendelssohn complete edition entered Lobgesang as No.2. In the latest editions, however, it is no longer "Symphony No.2" – but it is already known as such!
Anyway, what's in a name? Be it Symphony No.2 or Lobgesang, this is 70 minutes of pure vocal and orchestral bliss. Come hear us perform this monumental work in the upcoming Learners concert on September 23, 2017!
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package com.mana.innovative.scheduler.service.impl;

import com.mana.innovative.constants.DAOConstants;
import com.mana.innovative.dao.client.ItemDAO;
import com.mana.innovative.dao.client.ShopDAO;
import com.mana.innovative.dao.common.CustomEventDAO;
import com.mana.innovative.dao.response.DAOResponse;
import com.mana.innovative.domain.client.Item;
import com.mana.innovative.domain.client.Shop;
import com.mana.innovative.domain.common.email.CustomEvent;
import com.mana.innovative.dto.request.RequestParams;
import com.mana.innovative.scheduler.service.CustomDatabaseService;
import com.mana.innovative.utilities.date.DateCommons;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Isolation;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Propagation;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

import javax.annotation.Resource;
import java.util.Date;

@Service
public class CustomDatabaseServiceImpl < T, E > implements CustomDatabaseService< T, E > {

    /**
     * The constant logger.
     */
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger( CustomDatabaseServiceImpl.class );

    /**
     * The Item dAO.
     */
    @Resource
    private ItemDAO itemDAO;
    /**
     * The Shop dAO.
     */
    @Resource
    private ShopDAO shopDAO;

    /**
     * The Custom event dAO.
     */
    @Resource
    private CustomEventDAO customEventDAO;

    /**
     * Read data.
     *
     * @param e the e
     *
     * @return the t
     */
    @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" )
    @Override
    @Transactional( propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW, isolation = Isolation.DEFAULT )
    public T readData( final E e ) {

        String location = this.getClass( ).getCanonicalName( ) + "#readData()";
        logger.debug( "Starting " + location );
        RequestParams requestParams = new RequestParams( );
        requestParams.setIsError( true );
        DAOResponse< CustomEvent > customEventDAOResponse = null;
        try {
            if ( e instanceof Date ) {
                Date eventDate = ( Date ) e;
                Date eventStartTime = DateCommons.getStartDateTime( eventDate );
                Date eventEndTime = DateCommons.getEndDateTime( eventDate );
                customEventDAOResponse = customEventDAO.getEventsByDateRange( eventStartTime, eventEndTime,
                        requestParams );
            } else if ( e instanceof Long ) {
                Long eventId = ( Long ) e;
                customEventDAOResponse = customEventDAO.getEventById( eventId, requestParams );
            } else if ( e instanceof String ) {
                String eventName = ( String ) e;
                customEventDAOResponse = customEventDAO.getEventsByEventName( eventName, requestParams );
            } else if ( e == null ) {
                customEventDAOResponse = customEventDAO.getAllEvents( requestParams );
                logger.warn( " All events have been requested from database causing a stress in the system" );
            } else {
                logger.warn( "Invalid Object Property sent", e );
            }
        } catch ( Exception exception ) {
            logger.error( "Failed while trying to save into Database", exception );
        }
        logger.debug( "Finishing " + location );
        return ( T ) customEventDAOResponse;
    }

    /**
     * Create data.
     *
     * @param t the t
     *
     * @return the boolean
     */
    @Override
    @Transactional( propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW, isolation = Isolation.REPEATABLE_READ )
    public boolean createData( final T t ) {
        String location = this.getClass( ).getCanonicalName( ) + "#()";
        logger.debug( "Starting " + location );

        RequestParams requestParams = new RequestParams( );
        requestParams.setIsError( Boolean.TRUE );
        try {
            if ( t instanceof Item ) {
                Item item = ( Item ) t;
                itemDAO.createItem( item, requestParams );
            }
            if ( t instanceof Shop ) {
                Shop shop = ( Shop ) t;
                shopDAO.createShop( shop, requestParams );
            }
        } catch ( Exception exception ) {
            logger.error( "Failed while trying to save into Database", exception );
        }
        logger.debug( "Finishing " + location );
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Update data.
     *
     * @param e           the e
     * @param isScheduler the is scheduler
     *
     * @return the boolean
     */
    @Override
    @Transactional( propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW, isolation = Isolation.REPEATABLE_READ )
    public boolean updateData( final T e, boolean isScheduler ) {
        String location = this.getClass( ).getCanonicalName( ) + "#updateData()";
        logger.debug( "Starting " + location );

        DAOResponse< CustomEvent > customEventDAOResponse = new DAOResponse<>( );
        try {
            if ( e instanceof Date ) {
                Date eventDate = ( Date ) e;

                RequestParams requestParams = new RequestParams( );
                requestParams.setIsError( Boolean.TRUE );

                if ( isScheduler ) {
                    customEventDAOResponse = customEventDAO.disableEventSchedulerForDate( eventDate, requestParams );
                } else {
                    customEventDAOResponse = customEventDAO.enableEventSchedulerForDate( eventDate, requestParams );
                }
            } else {
                logger.warn( "Invalid Object Property sent", e );
            }
        } catch ( Exception exception ) {
            logger.error( "Failed while trying to save into Database", exception );
        }

        logger.debug( "Finishing " + location );
        return customEventDAOResponse.getCount( ) == DAOConstants.ONE;
    }
}


Cuxton Marina is based on the River Medway near Rochester in Kent between the M2 and M20 motorways and can be accessed easily from both.
– Turn right after the crossing and continue through the industrial estate, under the red height barrier. Cuxton Marina is on your left.


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It is not known if Lenvima 10 mg (lenvatinib 10 mg) is safe and effective in children.
The most common side effects of Lenvima 10 mg (lenvatinib 10 mg) in people treated for thyroid cancer include tiredness; joint and muscle pain; decreased appetite; weight loss; nausea; mouth sores; headache; vomiting; rash, redness, itching, or peeling of the skin on your hands and feet; stomach (abdomen) pain; and hoarseness.
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Lenvima 10 mg (lenvatinib 10 mg) may cause fertility problems in males and females. Talk to your health care provider if this is a concern for you.


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BAS > Science > Science and society > Our research impact > Sea-level rise – reducing uncertainty
Sea-level rise – reducing uncertainty
Also in Our research impact
Climate science – influencing policy
Ecosystems – valuing sustainability
Polarview – service for safer shipping
Space weather – resilience to natural hazards
BAS's leadership of UK, international and European sea-level research programmes is influencing UK and European sea defence policy and planning. Our research, funded by NERC and EU responds to the declared requirement of UK and overseas governments that the uncertainty in projections of future sea-level be reduced.
Collaboration and dialogue with stakeholders from UK and European parliamentary bodies and agencies, and with the science community, provides a robust foundation for sea-defence planning, coastal adaptation, and to support negotiations on the mitigation of climate change.
Our leadership of the Eu-funded Ice2sea programme brought together the EU's scientific and operational expertise from 24 leading institutions across Europe and beyond. The improved projections of the contribution of ice to sea-level rise produced by this major European-funded programme informed the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration is an ambitious scientific programme funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and other institutes will investigate whether Thwaites glacier may collapse in the next few decades or centuries, and how this could affect future global sea-level rise. New knowledge about the glacier's behaviour currently and in the past is critical for making better predictions of how the ocean and ice will respond to environmental change.
The five-year, £20 million programme is organised into eight large-scale projects, bringing together leading polar scientists aim to deliver answers to some of the big questions for scientists trying to predict global sea-level rise. Analysis of observations and measurements will create a greater understanding of the glacier and provide a major contribution to the ongoing urgent international scientific effort to help predict future global sea-level rise. The collaboration involves around 100 scientists from world-leading research institutes in both the US and UK alongside researchers from South Korea, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand and Finland, who will contribute to the various projects.
NERC – Societal Challenges
NERC Strategy
NERC Impact case studies
EU ice2sea programme


ICE District Properties Joint Venture is pleased to announce its latest construction milestone with the official topping-off of the commercial level of Stantec Tower, located on the corner of 102 Street and 103 Ave in Edmonton.
Today's event marks a long-standing tradition of celebrating the completion of a structural phase of the building. After 18 months of planning, the two-meter commercial level pour is now complete – a process requiring a 30-hour continuous pour.
Once complete, the much-anticipated high-rise will be the tallest building in western Canada, introducing another construction 'first' for Edmonton. Stantec Tower is the first in the city to incorporate an above ground transfer slab, stabilizing the building with 1,580,000 pounds of reinforced steel. With the enormity of the structure, the building also requires four-500,000-pound structural steel outriggers (trusses) to engage exterior columns for further stabilization. The tower is currently at half its height, and will stand 251 metres tall when complete.
Stantec Tower will be home to commercial development and mixed-use workplaces, multi-family residences and retail space. SKY Residences condominiums will stand atop the commercial level to complete the remaining 37 floors of the tower. SKY Residences is now open to the public for viewing at the ICE District Presentation Centre.
Expected completion of Stantec Tower is 2018 with Stantec Inc. to be one of the first residents in the building. SKY Residences will be ready for occupancy in 2019.
In addition to Stantec employees and SKY Residences' occupants, the tower is over 90 per cent leased and will be comprised of PwC, Dentons, DLA Piper and more.


TEL AVIV, Israel—BioLineRx, a drug development company specializing in oncology and immunology, recently released results of a study pairing its BL-8040 peptide with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) from Merck & Co. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) as a potential treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer. The results, reported at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) meeting recently, indicate that the COMBAT/KEYNOTE-202 study data show promising results in disease control and overall survival for patients in the trial.
According to principal investigator Dr. Manuel Hidalgo, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat.
BioLineRx scientists have been developing a novel short peptide called BL-8040 because of its efficacy as a high-affinity antagonist for CXCR4, the most widely expressed chemokine receptor in human cancers. Specifically, in pancreatic cancer, high CXCR4 expression levels correlate with poor prognosis, contributing to the promotion of tumor growth, invasion, survival, angiogenesis and metastasis. In previous clinical trials, BL-8040 successfully mobilized immune cells to induce direct tumor cell death. In addition, clinical findings have demonstrated the ability of BL-8040 to mediate infiltration of T cells into tumors that were previously immunologically "cold" and devoid of immune cell infiltrate.
Simultaneously, Merck & Co. was developing Keytruda, a successful immune checkpoint inhibitor that produces anticancer effects by increasing the activity of T cells through blockade of the interaction between the immune checkpoint receptor PD-1 on T-cells and its ligand PD-L1 on tumor cells. Pancreatic cancers have very little T cell infiltration, making them less susceptive to checkpoint blockade than other tumors that are infiltrated by T cells.
In January 2016, BioLineRx entered into an immunotherapy collaboration with Merck and initiated the COMBAT/ KEYNOTE-202 study to test the hypothesis that combining BL-8040 with immune checkpoint blockade would increase the responsiveness of pancreatic cancer patients to immunotherapy. The Phase 2a study launched with 37 patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The study data indicates that the combination therapy is safe and well tolerated, with demonstrated antitumor effects not seen using Keytruda alone.
The researchers are looking ahead to the next phase in testing, by adding chemotherapy to the combination. Chemotherapy has been shown to reduce overall tumor burden while inducing immunogenic cell death, leading to activation and expansion of new tumor-reactive T cells. This suggests adding it to this cocktail may have even better therapeutic value. Regulatory submissions required to conduct the additional arm of the study have been made, and its initiation is planned for the fourth quarter of 2018.
In other recent news, BioLineRx announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Biological Product Designation for AGI-134, the company's novel immunotherapy compound, which is currently in the early stages of a Phase 1/2a study in solid tumors.


Keith and Lance find themselves pushed together in a closet. Whatever shall they do?
Keith and Lance get a little...close in a tight space.
Lance feels restless laying in the hospital bed, he finds himself in Keith's room and they talk. Short and fluffy, set at the end of Season 7.


The first graders review stamping in this multimedia lesson. We talked about cityscapes, different kinds of architectural details on buildings, and looked at some buildings that are famous to our nearest big city, Atlanta. The students used great detail to create awesome cityscape drawings. These became the sketches for our stamping. To try something new out, we used a gluey mixture to add a variety of fun paper to our watercolor paper first. I loved how carefully some of our artists used the stamps to emulate their sketch. This was similar to how an architect uses his or her blueprint when creating their designs. Most of the classes ended the lesson with the super fun and funny book, Iggy Peck, Architect. Great job, artists!
Teachers out there: If I do this again, I think I will stick to only colored tissue paper. The patterned and origami paper made the overall thickness of the paper a little cumbersome to stamp neatly on. Just a suggestion!


Sonus Dept. has released Industry, a sound library for Kontakt featuring a vast sonic palette, from electronic and acoustic percussion to several synth sounds (pads, leads, basses, sampled acoustic instruments) and FX.
Industry aims to be an all rounder for the composition of cinematic, ambient and industrial tracks.
All the patches have a vast range of effects, some triggerable directly from the keyboard, including: filters, delay, reverb, phaser, compressor, distortions, spatial effects, chord builder, etc.
Everything was sampled or rendered at 24-bit.
Industry is available for €15 / $18 / £12 from the Sonus Dept. website.


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Steel Frontier
Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been miserable. Then a stranger, a man-of-few-words, comes to town. A quick-drawing gunslinger, he first joins the conquerors. As time passes, however, it rapidly becomes apparent that he really sides with the townsfolk, and when the time is right, he leads them into a violent uprising.
Director: Joe Hart, Paul G. Volk
Actors: Billy L. Sullivan, Bo Svenson, Brian Huckeba, Brion James, James C. Victor, Jim Cody Williams, Joe Lara, Kane Hodder, Robert O'Reilly, Stacie Foster
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In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of…
Country: Japan, UK
After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to normal teenage life…
Genre: Action, Crime, Science Fiction
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
Adam West and Burt Ward returns to their iconic roles of Batman and Robin. The film sees the superheroes going up against classic villains like The Joker, The Riddler, The…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Crime, Science Fiction
Silent Trigger
Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman…
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising
A resurrected Unicron has taken over the now-lifeless body of Megatron to seek vengeance on the Autobots and ultimately, the destruction of Cybertron.
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Escape from Mogadishu
Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
Class of 1999 II – The Substitute
In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
The Cold Light of Day
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
Country: USA, Spain
A getaway driver is attracted to a female neighbor whose husband owes money to a local gangster. As a result he is drawn deeper into a dangerous underworld.
Luck-Key
A reverse comedy that tells the story of a perfectionist assassin who falls and hits his head in a sauna, giving him amnesia. When a down-and-out actor switches locker keys…
Night Crossing
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Country: United Kingdom, West Germany, United States
Trailer: Steel Frontier


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Technology changes since the 90s has innovated the way we work. During the 90s information was communicated to clients from a public relations agency differently than it is today. Technology has been the spark of change ever. The way that someone surfs the internet now is different from the way the internet was used in the late 90s. Today people can send information by email or use their phones to send an email. During the 90s public relations professionals sent information through fax machines. Not only did they have to fax information, they had to request the fax machine at a certain time in order to send news releases to press.
On PR Daily Scott Signore shared ways that professional work has changed since the 90s. Signore gives great insight on how using technology for professional work has progressed.
The Internet was, say, rudimentary at best.
While professionals were even lucky to have the internet during the 90s there was a lot of text to read and few visuals. Obviously, much different than it is today. Web pages took a while to load versus today: now it takes about three seconds for a web page to become active to use.
During the 90s email was available, but people rarely used their email accounts. People would send out emails and read them, but after the message was read the email would never be seen again. Clients stressed the issue that an agency having an email account was not a reliable resource. Also, clients were not comfortable using the email account if there was any account set up. Throughout the 90s telephones were the main form of communication to reach out to clients and press.
Faxing happened with good regularity.
During the 90s professionals had an allotted time slot to send information to clients. There was a fax list that professionals used in order to contact the press or the client. Also, when professionals faxed information to any organization a cover letter was necessary.
Voicemail was a way of life.
Throughout the 90s people would leave voicemails for clients in order to receive a response in an efficient manner. The professional would leave a recorded message that could be potentially picked up by another party. Now there are various forms of communication that corporations use in order to contact clients.
Stuffing press kits was a BIG part of the gig.
While creating press kits for the clients, agencies would stuff boxes with dividers between each news release. If there was an error found the information in the box had to be taken out and re-stuffed again. Press kits during the 90s were heavy and most of the information in the kit was mainly paper.
While in the past the majority of communication was one-way, now people connect with audiences through social media, providing for two-way communication. During the duration of the 90s third parties looked at key messages to interpret and translate the message(s) before going forward to present the information to the client.
The information that Signore provides is a great source of information about how organizations were able to communicate with their client(s) during the 90s, which has changed dramatically compared to today's modes of communication.
For more information about Scott Signore's insight on how public relation professionals communicated with clients in the 90s check out the article http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/14276.aspx#.
What is your main form of communication with client(s) in today's world?
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Ford EcoSport will be launching in Brazil tomorrow and this will be the next generation car that will also be arriving in India. It is said that Ford is hurrying up to launch the Ecosport in India and if these reports come out to be true, expect its launch in India soon. Brazil is the homeland of the new Ford SUV and India is its dream destination. Soon after the launch of the Ecosport in Brazil, the American car maker will be bringing the SUV to India and it could be before Diwali as well. Notably, it was expected that it will be launching in India early next year but soon after the recent Renault Duster launch, the Ecosport launch date has been preponed. The Ecosport expected to be priced at Rs 8.5 lakh is now anticipated to have a price tag somewhat similar to the Duster so that it can be an instant hit just as the French car is.
Notably, the Ecosport has created much abuzz since its unveil at the Auto Expo held in New Delhi this year and since then the auto industry has been tracking every move of it worldwide and jubilates at every hint at India launch. As per the information, the Ecosport will be launched in Brazil in petrol only models powered by 1.6 L engine. The transmission will be of five speeds. Meanwhile, the Ford SUV that is expected to arrive in India will be powered by a diesel engine option as well and it is the diesel Ecosport that is expected to create its own space in the SUV segment.
Petrol SUVs are seldom preferred in the entry level SUV segment and thus the diesel powered SUV sell like hotcakes. Meanwhile, the Indian model of this SUV will be under four meters in length and will have a lower price tag following the excise duty rebates to which it will qualify following its size. To be based on the Ford Fiesta platform, the Ecosport will be targeting Renault Duster and to be launched Maruti XA Alpha.
I don't like much of this car looks..


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André De Shields Hosts 2022 Theater Hall of Fame Ceremony, Honoring Christine Ebersole, Lynn
Leslie Uggams and Ted Chapin Honored at York Theatre Company's Oscar Hammerstein Gala
2nd Annual Antonyo Awards Postponed
Leslie Uggams Named Recipient of 2022 Oscar Hammerstein Award
Christine Ebersole, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Mandy Patinkin, More Among 2022 Theater
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Over the past three years, ARAS has been forming a vision for our future. After the successful launching of ARAS Online and the publication of the world-wide bestselling The Book of Symbols, we began asking ourselves "What next?" How will we grow ARAS in the future and present it to a world wide audience while maintaining our core commitment to the development of an archive and institution that explores symbolic imagery from all cultures and all eras? Cultural and archetypal commentary distinguishes ARAS from other online sources of images that flood the internet without any context for understanding and perspective. In depth context of symbolic imagery with cross-cultural connections is at the heart of our mission. Some years ago, I heard that the future of internet content would be "curated content"—content that has been carefully edited, selected, and vetted. ARAS has been in the forefront of "curated content" and will remain one of the few sites that actually lives up to that standard.
We came up with two primary areas for the focus of our vision for the future: "Growing the Archive Itself" and "Growing ARAS in the World". In this Welcome I want to report on the creation of the ARAS International Advisory Board which represents a significant step in our effort to fulfill that part of our vision focused on "Growing ARAS in the World". After the core of ARAS came to the United States from original presentations of art exhibits created to illustrate analytical psychology and its relation to other disciplines at the Eranos Lectures in Ascona Switzerland in the 1930's, most of its research and development was centered in the United States. ARAS continued to explore symbolic imagery from mythology, religion, art history, archaeology and other sources from around the world, but was now fundamentally a US enterprise. The creation of the world wide Internet changed our reach and potential enormously. We were relatively early in the creation of ARAS Online at the turn of this century and we are now in a position to further develop our reach by engaging world wide scholars in our effort. With that in mind, we have created an International Advisory Board with the purpose of bringing new material to us from around the world and in helping us better relate to and reach out to a world made both smaller and larger by the reach of the Internet. Here are the first members of our newly created International Advisory Board whom we welcome and thank for joining with us in "Growing ARAS in the World."
Australia: Craig San Roque
Brazil: Andrea Fiuza Hunt
China: Heyong Shen
Denmark: Aksel Haaning
France: Christian Gaillard
Great Britian: Jules Cashford
India: Kusum Dhar Prabhu
Israel: Janice Shapiro
Peru: Patricia Llosa
United States: John Beebe
Taiwan: Shiuya Sara Liuh
Venezuela: Axel Capriles
Zombies: A Brief Natural History
by Lee Weiser, PhD
Lee Weiser takes us by the hand in an exploration of a symbolic image that has seized popular imaginations from around the world for a long time. The newest zombie craze is only the latest in a long standing preoccupation with the archetypal notion of the living dead. The living dead are alive and well in the collective psyche of our times. I first heard this presentation at an International Association of Jungian Scholars conference in Phoenix. Lee Weiser presented with humor and fascination her study of this phenomenon and I was gripped by how alive and timely her presentation was. As students of archetypal, symbolic imagery, every aspect of the human psyche is a potential source of unexpected discovery and vitality, including that which we might think of as "camp" or "low brow". Clearly, zombies are "low brow", not "high brow"—in fact they are reduced to primitive drives and instincts without the capacity for higher thought other than
how to perpetuate and increase their own. At times, that sounds like the human species itself. This paper offers us the opportunity to explore the zombie phenomenon as an archetype.
-Tom Singer
Books, newspapers, TV, websites, radio shows, social networks, and the Center for Disease Control have now managed to alert the entire country to the threat of a possible zombie apocalypse. Instead of creating mass panic, reports of the walking dead have evolved into immeasurably popular sources of entertainment and zombies themselves have displayed an amazing versatility as metaphors for such diverse elements as the evils of racism, consumerism, conformity, and vivisection; the Viet Nam war; social apathy; loss of individuality and identity; fascism; industrial dystopia, ecological disasters; immigration, diseases, plagues, and pandemics; spiritual bankruptcy; and the TEOTWAWKI (what "preppers" call "the end of the world as we know it"). Something about these moaning, brain-dead beings who move in swarms but don't move right, act right, talk right, eat right, or behave right has captured the collective cultural imagination and generated endless speculation about their condition and the condition of the world in which they lumber.
It might seem at first glance that these popular but unrealistic rotting roamers are just a recent product of postmodern subtexts, but a longer look unearths the fact that written accounts of reanimated corpses have been turning up since people first pushed wedge shapes into clay tablets. When the Sumerian goddess, Ishtar, didn't get her way, she threw an epic fit of anger and threatened to release the dead from the Netherworld to consume the living (ca. 911-612 B.C.E.). The Hebrew prophet, Ezekiel, stood by as a witness while his Sovereign Lord raised an entire army from dry bones that had been lying scattered in a valley (Ezekiel, 31, 1-14). From Osiris to Dionysus, Balder to Quetzalcoatl, mythology from around the world is rife with the motif of dying gods and goddesses who come back to life.
Read Zombies: A Brief Natural History in its entirety.
Wrestling with Azazel--Jung and Modern Art, A Critical Appraisal
by Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD
A version of this paper was originally presented at the Art and Psyche in the City 2012 conference sponsored by ARAS.
During the years, a constant stream of artists have been coming to ARAS to do research or simply to be inspired. This is one of the many expressions of how Jung and his theories of archetypal imagery have attracted artists and continue to do so. The enthusiastic reception of The Red Book by artists shows another example of Jung's influence. As this article points out, it may seem perplexing to look at Jung's own struggle with modern art where his concern about artists is that they are becoming disconnected from spiritual roots and inflated in their cultural consciousness. Jung is upset that modern artists portray chaos, ugliness and fragmentation rather than images that would bring wholeness. This seminal article suggests that Jung does not recognize that the unintelligibility itself in modern art points to the symbol as the best expression of something that is not yet known or understood. Instead, modern art is seen by Jung as an aimless, fragmented undertaking and he emphatically, even dogmatically distinguished the efforts of modern artists from depth analysis. However, artists' continuing fascination with Jung may show them in the end to be fellow wrestlers with inner daimons attempting on their own, without prior models, to truly enter the unconscious to bring back symbols of transformation.
In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate:
A flame to melt—a wind to freeze;
Sad patience—joyous energies;
Humility—yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity—reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel—Art.
"I am only prejudiced against all forms of modern art. It is mostly morbid and evil." (C.G. Jung Letters volume 1, Letter to Esther Harding 7/8/47, p. 469.)
Ever since I read this statement I was perplexed by Jung's vehemence. Writing two years after the catastrophe of WWII, with the understanding of evil as an autonomous substance (and not just a privatio boni), Jung piles morbidity and evil on modern art. Why such an intense reaction? This paper is my attempt at imagining an answer.
The above quote is by no means isolated. Jung found morbidity in James Joyce's Ulysses, stating that "even a layman would have no difficulty in tracing analogies between [it] and the schizophrenic mentality." (CW15, p. 116) He considered art of Pablo Picasso as belonging to the type of schizophrenic art. (CW15, p. 137)
Read Wrestling with Azazel--Jung and Modern Art, A Critical Appraisal in its entirety.
by Ellen Liberatori
Dear Friends, Fellow Writers, and Poets,
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted a poem for the last "Invite to Write", inspired by the image of "Circus," which you can read here. I continue to be moved to places of wonder and delight with your submissions.
This time we publish a poem along with this wonderful painting that served as its inspiration in true Ekphrasis tradition. It was written by Eldon Beck and the title of his poem also gave the name for the theme of this edition, "Unknown Road to Somewhere". I hope you will feel as excited as we are and send your new poems inspired by this image to poetry@aras.org by August 15, 2015.
Unknown Road to Somewhere
Who can break from the mist and travel
through nature with me...
Joseph Stroud
Lure of the unknown compels I travel the road
that rises then dips into the void of a foggy nowhere
Frosted pastures wait for sharp plows, locust trees
in black bareness edge the lane, thin branches arch,
a twiggy gateway to hazy mysteries. Here I lean
into the breeze, caress gnarled bark, hear blackbirds
chatter in the hornbeam hedgerows. But the lonely
road entices, this gateway demands I discard
contentment and dive into the stew where edges
vanish, pride debates humility, sorrow weaves
her tapestry frayed by torn threads
-Eldon Beck
September 1 and 6-13, 2015
Pre- and Post- Art and Psyche in Sicily Conference Tours led by Dr. Douglas Kenning. September 1 - Ascent of Etna. September 6-13 - Myths and Stories of Ancient and Medieval Sicily. Click here for more information. Deadline for registration is July 15th.
Art and Psyche in Sicily Conference: An international conference organized by the Art and Psyche Working Group. Grand Hotel Minareto, Siracusa, Italy. September 2-6, 2015. Click here for more information.
Friends of ARAS Presents: Martha's Mandala. September 25, 7pm at ARAS (28 East 39th Street, New York, NY) Martha Oliver-Smith will tell the story of her grandmother, an artist in the early 20th century and her struggle with expectations of women in her time.


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Is Emma Watson Following in Angelina Jolie's Footsteps ?
By Dyanne Weiss on September 19, 2014 No Comment
British actress Emma Watson traveled to Uruguay this week as a UN Goodwill Ambassador, following the lead of Angelina Jolie and others who have strived to use their fame to make a difference in the world. Watson was appointed a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador this summer.
Watson's U.N. role is advocating for gender equality and empowerment of women. Jolie has focused her efforts on helping refugees and displaced populations worldwide.
The trip to Uruguay was the first U.N. role Watson, 24, undertook since her a appointment two months ago. The actress visited the country's Parliament in Montevideo on Wednesday for an event organized by women's groups to push legislators to support increasing the number of female elected officials. Watson delivered a 4,000-signature petition that called for increased political participation for women to the lawmakers, many of whom brought children or grandchildren that are Harry Potter fans.
Watson reported that she was "immensely touched" by the reception she received in Uruguay, where hundreds of young people waiting to greet her. "Women's rights are personal to me, especially on political participation and leadership," she said. Watson emphasized that "women must have a say in matters that affect their countries, communities and families. After all, they are half of the population, so women's equal participation in decision-making is a question of justice and democracy," she noted.
While this was Watson's first U.N. Ambassador trip, she has previously visited Bangladesh and Zambia for humanitarian efforts. She also served as an ambassador for Camfed International, a movement promoting efforts to educate girls in rural Africa.
Since becoming a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ambassador in 2001, Jolie has been on more than 40 trips out into remote regions of the world to talk with displaced people and use her fame to shine a light on the plight of the millions out there displaced by war, famine, natural disasters and other issues. In April 2012, Jolie was appointed Special Envoy of UNHCR António Guterres and took on a greater role in dealing with meal crises that force people from their homes.
Angelina Jolie has also personally donated more than $5 million to UNHCR. The funds have helped build schools in Kenya, Afghanistan and other locations as well as supporting other initiatives to help the displaced.
Since the early 1950s, the U.N. has asked prominent personalities from a variety of fields to be Goodwill Ambassadors or celebrity advocates working on behalf of U.N. initiatives. Other current U.N. Women's Ambassadors include actress Nicole Kidman and Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol from Thailand.
When asked to serve, Watson said it was truly humbling and promised that she would not take the responsibility lightly. "Women's rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can't imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role," she said
Emma Watson clearly wants to be following in Angelina Jolie's footsteps in using her fame to help others. Thankfully, I have this platform and I'm able to shine a light on these issues, " she said, acknowledging that they "are really important to me and this is what I want to continue to do and what I believe in passionately."
By Dyanne Weiss
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I've been laughing for no reason, my psychosis has been getting worse. I feel like a psychopath. I've etched the words, " he's watching" on my arm. He IS watching me. My whole life. I'm so terrified right now. He's been waking me up at night. I can't tell anyone. My concentration has gone down the drain. The hallucinations drown that out. They only want me to notice them. They influence my decisions now because I'm useless and not normal like my mom says. Can anyone talk maybe? That might help. Any advise on what I should do?
I set up an appointment with my psychiatrist but that's not until Monday. My mom doesn't know how bad it is.
Can't you talk to her about it ? or someone else close to you?
Location: In the middle of a dark forest.
I can talk, if you need someone. Hold on for now. I know that it's hard, even if I never had hallucinations, I know how it feels to not be able to get something out of my mind or ignore it, and you need to hold on, even if it's terrible, until you get professional help. I'm here if you need someone.
Will I ever save this day, will it ever change?


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Principal and teacher awardees each receive a well-deserved $10,000 grant CHICAGO, IL – Today, the Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS) announced the winners of its 2019 Charter Excellence Awards. Each year since 2011, exceptional principals, teachers, students, and advocates receive the Charter Excellence Award in recognition of their contributions to the continuing success of Illinois'…
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INCS Statement on the CTU and CPS Side Letter on Charters
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INCS Response to CTU Strike
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Floats, mariachi bands, and dancing filled the streets of the Little Village neighborhood on September 8 as part of the Mexican Independence Day Parade to commemorate the country's independence from Spain. Members of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS) and charter school community, including dozens of students, parents, and leaders from ACERO Schools, HSA…
From Detention to College Graduation, Charter Public School Alum Commits to Paying it Forward
When billionaire investor Robert F. Smith announced that he would pay off $40 million in student loan debt for the entire Morehouse College Class of 2019, Jamel D. Chambers was seated two rows from the stage and yet he missed the announcement. Jolted to attention by the jumping and screaming from his classmates, Chambers stood…
Pritzker signs commission bill; appeal authority transferred to ISBE
As expected, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed SB 1226 into law, which will phase out the Illinois State Charter School Commission over the next year and transition its powers to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). INCS is deeply grateful for the extraordinary work of the Commission. INCS has been fighting to protect…
Charter public school students grow and sell healthy produce for Chicago's Southwest Side
Every Friday in July, about 30 students in Chicago's Southwest side rallied together to sell broccoli, squash, carrots and other fresh vegetables and natural products to area residents. The budding entrepreneurs from the Academy of Global Citizenship's summer program withstood the summer heat to ensure residents enjoy a healthy treat. "It's been good because on…
Charter school dean advocates for mental health care for students and families
Pointing to a picture of a recent graduate, La Norra Dennis' eyes light up as she smiles. "That's one of our students," she explained with evident pride. "He's doing really well. He was recently promoted at his job." That student is one of many that bring a smile to Dennis' face. As a dean on…
INCS Applauds Governor Pritzker's Signing of Charter School Bill
The Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS) applauds Governor J.B. Pritzker's recent decision to sign HB 3659 into law. This new law requires all board members of Illinois' charter public schools to complete annual board training and ensures parental voice by requiring that at least one member of a charter public school's governing board be…
Charter School Students Innovate for the Future
For more than 20 years, charter public schools in Illinois have led the way in preparing students to meet the demands of an ever-changing society. View this video to learn how charter schools enable students to engage in real-world learning and participate in the innovation impacting the world around us. Whether it is integrating the…
10 Back-To-School Tips for Parents
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Charter public school opens performing arts center for Chicago's Austin community
For nearly 50 years, an auditorium in a closed Chicago high school sat silent and unused. Envisioning its potential, a Chicago charter public school brought the building back to life with a meticulous restoration complete with state-of-the-art technology and features. Catalyst Circle Rock, a charter public school in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, and the Ravinia Festival…
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Southland College Prep, a charter public school in the south suburbs of Chicago, recently announced that its entire senior class was accepted to colleges across the nation including Yale, MIT, Cornell, and Northwestern. The Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS) followed up with the school's Director of College Admissions to learn more about its winning…
Sustainable Learning Laboratory on Chicago's Southwest Side to Receive $31M Allocation from State Capital Plan
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CICS Principal Lindsey Robinson Receives National Recognition
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Distinguished or marked by caution; heedful, wary, careful, circumspect: said of persons, their conduct, and acts.
cavernous
1. Characterized by or containing cavities.
2. Resulting from the presence of cavities; characteristic of cavitation; cavernous voice sounds.
3. Filled with caverns.
4. Resembling a cavern; such as, in depth, vastness.
5. Like or suggestive of a cavern, especially in being large, dark, deep, and hollow.
5. In anatomy, that which is filled with cavities or hollow areas; porous.
circumlocutious (adjective), more circumlocutious, most circumlocutious
Characteristic of being roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.
clamorous (adjective), more clamorous, most clamorous
Referring to loud and persistent cries or shouts; noisy, vociferous: When little Maurice woke up from his nap and couldn't find his mother because she was working outside in the backyard, he made some clamorous screams which brought her back into the house to calm him down. © ALL rights are reserved.
commodious (adjective), more commodious, most commodious
1. Pleasantly spacious or large and roomy: Some movie theaters now have more commodious seats for viewers with better padding and wider spaces.
2. Generous or large in area or extent: Ellen and Ted were so happy to be able to move into a commodious apartment with four rooms after living in a modest, simple, and tiny place for more than a year.
3. Etymology: "beneficial, convenient", from Medieval Latin commodiosus, "convenient, useful", from Latin commodus, "proper, fit, appropriate, convenient, satisfactory"; from com-, "together, together with" + modus, "measure, manner". © ALL rights are reserved.
conscientious (adjective), more conscientious, most conscientious
A reference to what a person has performed or someone who is obedient and loyal to his or her sense of what is right and proper: Doug was very conscientious about completing his homework everyday after school because he definitely wanted to please his parents and his teachers. © ALL rights are reserved.
conscious (adjective), more conscious, most conscious
1. A reference to sharing in the knowledge of, having cognizance of, being a witness to; mentally alive or awake.
2. Relating to having internal perception or consciousness.
3. Conveying an awareness of what one is doing or intending to do: The teacher has a purpose and intention to relate understanding information for students in his class.
4. Etymology: from Latin conscius, "knowing, aware"; from conscire; from Latin scire, "to know"; probably a loan-translation of Greek syneidos.
conspicuous (adjective), more conspicuous, most conspicuous
1. Easily or clearly visible or very noticeable: People noticed the conspicuous modifications in the redesigned city hall.
2. Attracting attention because of being unusual or remarkable: The real estate agent placed the "For Sale" sign in a very conspicuous position so no one could miss seeing it.
The new store in town has been a conspicuous success with more sales than any of the others that are like it.
contagious (adjective), more contagious, most contagious
1. Conveying that which spreads easily and likely to make another person or people sick: Certain diseases can be very infectious, or contagious, like measles, mumps, or chickenpox, spreading to others by touching or being in the air.
2. Pertaining to something which causes or is likely to cause the same reaction or emotion in several people; transmittable: Willie's contagious behavior of friendliness was usually conveyed to other people whenever they met him. © ALL rights are reserved.
contemptuous (kuhn TEMP choo uhs) (adjective), more contemptuous, most contemptuous
1. Descriptive of deep hatred or negative feelings expressed by a person toward something or someone else; scornful: Paulette's contemptuous tone of voice was dripping with unkindness and disrespect for the neighbor who would not keep his yard clean.
2. Pertaining to how a person feels, expresses, or demonstrates a strong dislike or utter lack of respect for somebody or something: Alexandra thinks it is utter nonsense for anyone to make such contemptuous remarks about that fine actor. © ALL rights are reserved.
continuous (noun) (not comparable)
1. A function or curve; extending without pausing or any having any irregularities.
2. Pertaining to something that goes on without changing, stopping, or being interrupted by space or time: "There were several days of continuous rain and winds in Sharon's part of the country."
3. Having no gaps, holes, or breaks.
copious (adjective), more copious, most copious
1. Referring to something that exists in excessively large amounts; overly abundant: Henry had the bad habit of eating copious amounts of food.
2. Characteristic of having or producing a large quantity: The farmers in Tom's area had a copious harvest of corn last year.
3. Pertaining to the exhibition or significant numbers of something; such as, of thoughts or words: Lynn made a copious and effusive speech at her farewell celebration thanking and praising all the different people that had made her work as a teacher a success.
4. Etymology: from Latin copiosus, "plentiful"; from copia, "abundance, profusion, plenty"; from com-, "with" + ops, opis, "power, wealth, resources". © ALL rights are reserved.
covetous (adjective), more covetous, most covetous
1. Excessively and culpably desirous of the possessions of another person or people: When Bernard drove his expensive car into his driveway, he noticed that his neighbors were giving him covetous looks.
2. Marked by an extreme desire to acquire or possess something: Karen had covetous aspirations to get a university degree which would qualify her for a profitable career as a company executive. © ALL rights are reserved.
curious (adjective), more curious, most curious