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Critic Rating: (3.50/5)
A rib-tickling roaring rollicking randy comedy
Anees Bazmi has come out with a sure winner with Welcome. Released on Bakrid, I am certain that this sizzling comedy thriller will see the entire festive season including Christmas, New Year, Sankranthi, Shivarathri and Ugadi. Welcome reminded me of the thrilling musical comedy Mera Naam Johnny, starring Dev Anand and Hema Malini, directed by Vijay Anand and released in the 1970s.
It is one thing to make an idiotic slapstick comedy and an entirely different thing to make a genuine situational comedy and make it thrilling, with the audience rolling out of their seats with laughter and sit back taut with butterflies in their stomach, at the same time. Well, Anees Bazmi achieved this distinction with Welcome. Also, welcome to a new Bollywood trend: the multi-starrer comedy thriller, a new genre indeed.
Rajeev (Akshay Kumar) is an auction house in-charge, unmarried and the nephew of Dr Gungroo ( Paresh Rawal). The doctor is in search of suitable marriage alliances to Rajeev. As per the promise he made to his sister, the life partner of Rajiv ought to be from a family, whose members do not have any criminal record.
Sanjana (Katrina Kaif) is the sister of Uday Bhai ( Nana Patekar) and Majnu (Anil Kapoor), who are well known powerful Dons. They want to get their sister married off to a decent man from a respectable family, which does not have any criminal activity link.
One day, there is a fire accident in a Mall and Sanjana is trapped inside. Rajeev barges into the inferno to save her. Ultimately, it is Sanjana who saves Rajeev. Meanwhile, Majnu comes across Rajeev and decides that he is the right choice for his sister. He, along with brother Uday, intimidates Dr Gungroo into entering into an alliance with them, by marrying his nephew to his sister, The doctor agrees. Rajeev does not know that the prospective bride is Sanjana.
After coming to know the background of Uday and Sanjana, Gungroo wants to avoid that alliance. Fearing reprisals from the dons, Gungroo along with his wife and Rajeev go on a holiday to Dubai. By a cinematic coincidence, Majnu, Sanjana and her friends also arrive there. Rajeev and Sanjana have their second encounter during the April Fool Day competitions. They become close to each other. Gungroo encourages his nephew to marry Sanjana, so as to avoid the alliance with the Dons, without knowing that Sanjana is actually the sister of Uday and Majnu. With the entry of Big Boss RDX (Feroz Khan) things get more complicated. Is Ishika (Mallika Sherawat) a plant or a get away manthra? When the truth is known, everything is shattered. How Rajeev and Sanjana, now deeply in love, realize their goal of marrying each other, overcoming all odds and hurdles forms the rest of the narration.
Akshay Kumar , the Khiladi turned Joker, gave a sterling performance. The pick of the lot, of course, is Nana Patekar, who enthralls us with a multi-dimensional roe play, closely followed by Anil Kapoor. Veteran Paresh Rawal, as usual, gives a naturally stupendous performance. The surprise package is Feroz Khan. The veteran has not lost any of his thespian skills. Katrina Kaif is deliciously attractive and has ample opportunities to showcase her acting talents. Malika Sherawat is astounding in her role. All the other supporting cast delivered appropriate performances to enliven the entire proceedings.
The story, screenplay, editing and direction by Anees Bazmi are simply superlative. With only a few directorial ventures behind her back, she seems to have matured immaturely. The climax of the film is conceived in an extraordinary dimension and executed in a masterly fashion. It is both heart rendering and laugh rioting. The dialogues by Abbas Tiberwala are rib-tickling and rip-roaring.
The camera work is very classy. Art direction by Sabu Cyril is real and surrealistic at the same time. Music by Anand Raj Anand, Sajid-Wajid and Himesh Reshamiya is engrossing, exhilarating and heart-warming. Lyrics by Sameer are soulful and extremely meaningful. Choreography by Shail Bhaskar is amazingly simple, but vibrating complex emotions.
Deen Kumar
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Dr Emma-Jayne Graham
Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
School of Art His, Class St, Eng&CW, Mus
emma-jayne.graham
emma-jayne.graham@open.ac.uk
http://thevotivesproject.org/
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I graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2000 with a degree in Archaeology and Prehistory, swiftly followed by an MA in European Historical Archaeology and a PhD examining the burial of the urban poor in Roman Italy. After this I was Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome (2005-2006), during which I conducted further research into Roman mortuary customs with a project concerning the rite of os resectum. Subsequently I spent some time as a project officer with an archaeological consultancy, held an early career lectureship at Cardiff University (2007-2008), two teaching fellow positions in the School of Classics at the University of St. Andrews (2008-09 and 2010-2011) and a further teaching fellowship at the University of Leicester (2011-2012). I joined the Department of Classical Studies in September 2012.
My research is focused primarily on the archaeology of Roman Italy and the ways in which it informs us about the construction of ancient identities and experiences. Mortuary practices and the treatment of the human body lie at the heart of much of my earliest work and I have written several articles which explore themes such as personhood and manipulation of the corpse, funerary commemoration and memory, as well as sensory interactions with man-made and natural environments. I am particularly interested in how bodily experiences of the material world gave meaning to people's sense of self and how the body and its representation in material culture served as a locus for the construction and expression of these identities. I am currently working on a project which aims to address these issues by using a new materialist approach to explore the intersection of divergent experiences of the body in relation to material culture and religious practices.
Recent work has also taken me into the realm of ancient disability and bodily well-being, particularly mobility impairments, as well as infant health and ritual practice in early Roman Italy, including a project focused on terracotta votive offerings modelled in the form of infants wrapped in swaddling bands. You can listen to a discussion about these here. This has led to an interest in votive practice more generally, especially anatomical ex-votos. In June 2012 I organised a conference on this subject at the British School at Rome (Bodies of Evidence). With Jessica Hughes I also edit a website devoted to discussion of votive offerings of all types: The Votives Project: Gifts to the Gods from Antiquity to the Present and I am on the Steering Committee of The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion.
I recently contributed to a Classics Confidential podcast on Roman Memory and a British School at Rome 'Being Human 2018' event on 'Origins and Endings in Italian History', at which I talked about my research on Roman mortuary practices and the chnage from cremation to inhumation.
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who would like to work in any of these areas.
Draycott, J. and Graham, E-J. (eds). 2017. Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. London and New York, Routledge.
Devlin, Z.L. and Graham, E-J. (eds). 2015. Death Embodied: Archaeological Approaches to the Treatment of the Corpse. Oxford, Oxbow.
Carroll, M. and Graham, E-J. (eds). 2014. Infant health and death in Roman Italy and beyond. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary series 96.
Graham, E-J. 2006. Death, disposal and the destitute: The burial of the urban poor in Italy in the late Roman Republic and early Empire. BAR Int. Series 1565. Oxford, Archaeopress.
Articles and book chapters
Graham, E-J., Sulosky Weaver, C.L., and Chamberlain, A.T. 2019. 'Pars Pro Toto' and Personhood in Roman Cremation Ritual: New Bioarchaeological Evidence for the Rite of 'Os Resectum', Bioarchaeology International 2(4), pp. 240–254, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2018.1026
Graham, E-J. and Robson, J. 2018. Classics online at the Open University: teaching and learning with interactive resources. In A. Holmes-Henderson, St. Hunt and M. Musié (eds). Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities. London, Bloomsbury, pp. 217–229.
Graham, E-J. 2018. 'There buds the laurel': Nature, temporality, and the making of place in the cemeteries of Roman Italy. Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 1(1): 3, pp. 1–16, DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/traj.147 (Open Access).
Graham, E-J. 2017. Babes in arms? Sensory dissonance and the ambiguities of votive objects. In E. Betts (ed.). Senses of the empire: multisensory approaches to Roman culture. London and New York, Routledge, pp. 122–38.
Graham, E-J. 2017. Partible humans and permeable gods: enacting human-divine personhood in the sanctuaries of Hellenistic Italy. In J. Draycott and E-J. Graham (eds). Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. London and New York, Routledge, pp. 45–62.
Graham, E-J. and Draycott, J. 2017. Debating the anatomical votive. In J.Draycott and E-J. Graham (eds). Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. London and New York, Routledge, pp. 1–19.
Graham, E-J. 2017. Mobility impairment in the sanctuaries of early Roman Italy. In C. Laes (ed.). Disability in Antiquity (Rewriting Antiquities series). London and New York, Routledge, pp. 248–66.
Graham, E-J. 2016. Wombs and Tombs in the Roman World. Material Religion 12(2), pp. 251–254. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WVPxymHgCIZtdTZRqHnT/full
Graham, E-J and Hope, V.M. 2016. Funerary Practices. In A. Cooley (ed.). A Companion to Roman Italy. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 159–180.
Graham, E-J. 2015. Corporeal concerns: the role of the body in the transformation of Roman mortuary practices. In Z.L. Devlin and E-J. Graham (eds). Death Embodied: Archaeological Approaches to the Treatment of the Corpse. Oxford, Oxbow, pp. 41–62.
Graham, E-J. 2015. Embodying death in archaeology. In Z.L. Devlin and E-J. Graham (eds). Death Embodied: Archaeological Approaches to the Treatment of the Corpse. Oxford, Oxbow, pp. 1–17.
Graham, E-J. 2014. Infant votives and swaddling in Hellenistic Italy. In M. Carroll and E-J. Graham (eds). Infant health and death in Roman Italy and beyond. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary series 96, pp. 23–46.
Graham, E-J. 2013. The making of infants in Hellenistic and early Roman Italy: a votive perspective. World Archaeology 45.2, pp. 215–231.
Graham, E.-J. 2013. Disparate lives or disparate deaths? Post-mortem treatment of the body and the articulation of difference. In C. Laes, C. Goodey and M.L. Rose (eds). Disabilities in Roman antiquity. Disparate bodies 'a capite ad calcem'. Brill, Leiden, pp. 249–274.
Graham, E-J. 2011. Memory and materiality: re-embodying the Roman funeral. In V. M. Hope and J. Huskinson (eds.). Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death. Oxford, Oxbow, pp. 21–39.
Graham, E-J. 2011. From fragments to ancestors: re-defining os resectum and its role in rituals of purification and commemoration in Republican Rome. In M. Carroll and J. Rempel (eds) Living through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World. Oxford, Oxbow, pp. 91–109.
Graham, E-J. 2009. Becoming persons, becoming ancestors: personhood, memory and the corpse in Roman rituals of social remembrance. Archaeological Dialogues 16(1), pp. 51–74.
Graham, E-J. 2006. Discarding the destitute: Ancient and modern attitudes towards burial practices and memory preservation amongst the lower classes of Rome. In B. Croxford et al. (eds). TRAC 2005. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Birmingham 2005. Oxford, Oxbow, pp. 57–71.
Graham, E-J. 2005. The Quick and the Dead in the extra-urban landscape: the Roman cemetery at Ostia/Portus as a lived environment. In J. Bruhn, B. Croxford and D. Grigoropoulos (eds). TRAC 2004. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Durham 2004. Oxford, Oxbow, pp. 133–143.
Graham, E-J. Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy. London and New York, Routledge (under contract).
Graham, E-J. Hand in hand: Rethinking anatomical votives as material things. In V. Gasparini, M. Patzelt, R. Raja, A-K. Rieger, J. Rüpke, E. Urciuoli (eds). Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics. Berlin, De Gruyter (Open Access).
Graham, E-J. Mobility impairment. In C. Laes (ed). A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity. Berg.
Graham, E-J. Feet of clay: movement, mobility and religious knowledge in the sanctuaries of ancient Italy. In E. Angliker and M. A. Fowler (eds). Archaeology of Ritual in the Ancient Mediterranean: Recent Finds and Interpretative Approaches. Liége, Kernos suppléments.
Graham, E-J. Pilgrimage, mobile behaviours and the creation of religious place in early Roman Latium. In J. Kuuliala and J. Rantala (eds). On the Road: Travels, Pilgrimages and Social Interaction. Routledge.
Graham, E-J. Death's ritual symbolic performance. In M. Erasmo (ed.). A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity. Berg.
See also Open Research Online for further details of Emma-Jayne Graham's research publications.
In addition to the history and archaeology of the Roman world I have experience of teaching a wide range of subjects, from Etruscan Italy to Viking Scandinavia and from Greek temples to early Christian art. At the Open University my teaching contributions include chairing and writing for A340 The Roman empire. This Level 3 module draws on archaeological, textual and epigraphic evidence to explore what the empire was and what it meant to 'be Roman' in different places and at different times. Recently I wrote about Roman childhood and the archaeology of the Acropolis for the new module A229 Exploring the Classical World and I was also closely involved in the development of the new MA in Classical Studies for which I wrote units on the Colosseum, zooarchaeology, working with inscriptions, the history of body studies, death and burial, disability and divine healing. I am interested in developing innovative forms of learning and assessment and completed a scholarship of assessment project looking at ways to re-design examinations. As Director of Level 1 Teaching (Arts) I was responsible for overseeing the initial stages of the remake of the Level 1 curriculum for the Arts programme, ready for launch in 2019, and am currently chairing and writing for the new Level 1 interdisciplinary module A112 Cultures.
Watch a brief video introduction to A340 The Roman empire.
I also recently developed a fun interactive educational game for Open Learn based on the emperor Hadrian's travels around the Roman empire during the second century CE.
'There Buds the Laurel': Nature, Temporality and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy (2018-05-23)
Graham, Emma-Jayne
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ), 1, Article 3(1)
"Pars Pro Toto" and Personhood in Roman Cremation Ritual: New Bioarchaeological Evidence for the Rite of "Os Resectum" (2018)
Graham, Emma-Jayne; Sulosky Weaver, Carrie L. and Chamberlain, Andrew T.
Bioarchaeology International, 2(4) (pp. 240-254)
[Book Review] Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World (2017-10-02)
Material Religion, 13(4) (pp. 532-534)
Wombs and Tombs in the Roman World (2016-06-22)
The votives project (2015-03)
Hughes, Jessica and Graham, Emma-Jayne
The making of infants in Hellenistic and early Roman Italy: a votive perspective (2013-06)
World Archaeology, 45(2) (pp. 215-231)
Becoming persons, becoming ancestors: personhood, memory and the corpse in Roman rituals of social remembrance (2009-06)
Archaeological Dialogues, 16(1) (pp. 51-74)
The Burial of the Urban Poor in Italy in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire (2006)
BAR international series
ISBN : 1841719951 | Publisher : Archaeopress | Published : Oxford
Pilgrimage, mobile behaviours and the creation of religious place in early Roman Latium (2019)
In: Kuuliala, Jenni and Rantala, Jussi eds. Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages ((In Press))
ISBN : 9780367137564 | Publisher : Routledge
Classics online at the Open University: teaching and learning with interactive resources (2018-08-09)
Robson, James and Graham, Emma-Jayne
In: Holmes-Henderson, Arlene; Hunt, Steven and Musié, Mai eds. Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities (pp. 217-299)
ISBN : 9781474295956 | Publisher : Bloomsbury | Published : London
Babes in arms? Sensory dissonance and the ambiguities of votive objects (2017-02-24)
In: Betts, Eleanor ed. Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture (pp. 120-136)
ISBN : 9781472446299 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon, Oxon
Partible humans and permeable gods: enacting human-divine personhood in the sanctuaries of Hellenistic Italy (2017)
In: Draycott, Jane and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds. Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. Medicine and the Body in Antiquity (pp. 45-62)
ISBN : 9781472450807 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London and New York
Introduction: Debating the anatomical votive (2017)
Graham, Emma-Jayne and Draycott, Jane
In: Draycott, Jane and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds. Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. Medicine and the Body in Antiquity (pp. 1-19)
Mobility impairment in the sanctuaries of early Roman Italy (2016-09-30)
In: Laes, Christian ed. Disability in Antiquity. Rewriting Antiquity (pp. 248-266)
Funerary Practices (2016-03)
Hope, Valerie M. and Graham, Emma-Jayne
In: Cooley, Alison E. ed. A Companion to Roman Italy. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World (pp. 159-180)
ISBN : 978-1-4443-3926-0 | Publisher : Wiley Blackwell | Published : Chichester, West Sussex
Funerary practices (2016-02-19)
Graham, Emma-Jayne and Hope, Valerie M.
ISBN : 9781444339260 | Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell | Published : Oxford
Corporeal concerns: the role of the body in the transformation of Roman mortuary practices (2015-05-31)
In: Devlin, Zoë L. and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds. Death Embodied: Archaeological Approaches to the Treatment of the Corpse. Studies in Funerary Archaeology (9) (pp. 41-62)
ISBN : 9781782979432 | Publisher : Oxbow | Published : Oxford
Embodying death in archaeology (2015-05-31)
In: Devlin, Zoe and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds. Death Embodied: Archaeological Approaches to the Treatment of the Corpse. Studies in Funerary Archaeology 9 (pp. 1-17)
ISBN : 9781782979432 | Publisher : Oxbow Books | Published : Oxford
Infant votives and swaddling in Hellenistic Italy (2014)
In: Carroll, Maureen and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds. Infant Health and Death in Roman Italy and Beyond. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series (96) (pp. 23-46)
ISBN : 9780991373000 | Publisher : Journal of Roman Archaeology | Published : Ann Arbor
Introduction: Infant health and death in Roman Italy and beyond (2014)
Graham, Emma-Jayne and Carroll, Maureen
In: Carroll, Maureen and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds. Infant health and death in Roman Italy and beyond. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series (96) (pp. 9-22)
ISBN : 978-0-9913730-0-0 | Publisher : Journal of Roman Archaeology | Published : Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Disparate lives or disparate deaths? Post-mortem treatment of the body and the articulation of difference (2013)
In: Laes, Christian; Goodey, Chris and Rose, M. Lynn eds. Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies 'A Capite ad Calcem' (pp. 249-274)
ISBN : 9789004251250 | Publisher : Brill | Published : Leiden
Memory and materiality: re-embodying the Roman funeral (2011)
In: Hope, Valerie and Huskinson, Janet eds. Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death (pp. 21-39)
ISBN : 978-1-84217-990-1 | Publisher : Oxbow | Published : Oxford
From fragments to ancestors: re-defining the role of os resectum in rituals of purification and commemoration in Republican Rome (2011)
In: Carroll, Maureen and Rempel, Jane eds. Living through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World. Studies in Funerary Archaeology (5) (pp. 91-109)
Discarding the destitute: ancient and modern attitudes towards burial practice and memory preservation amongst the lower classes of Rome (2006)
In: Croxford, Ben; Goodchild, Helen; Lucas, Jason and Nick, Ray eds. TRAC 2005: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Birmingham 2005 (pp. 57-71)
The quick and the dead in the extra-urban landscape: the Roman cemetery at Ostia/Portus as a lived environment (2005)
In: Bruhn, James; Croxford, Ben and Grigoropoulos, Dimitris eds. TRAC 2004: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham 2004 (pp. 133-143)
ISBN : 978-1-84217-173-8 | Publisher : Oxbow Books | Published : Oxford
Dining al fresco with the living and the dead in Roman Italy (2005)
In: Carroll, Maureen; Hadley, D. M. and Willmott, Hugh eds. Consuming Passions: Dining from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Revealing history (pp. 49-65)
ISBN : 978-0-7524-3445-2 | Publisher : Tempus | Published : Stroud
Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future (2016-12-12)
Draycott, Jane and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds.
Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
ISBN : 9781472450807 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London
Death Embodied: Archaeological Approaches to the Treatment of the Corpse (2015-05-31)
Devlin, Zoë L. and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds.
Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Infant Health and Death in Roman Italy and Beyond (2014-01-31)
Carroll, Maureen and Graham, Emma-Jayne eds.
Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series
Classical Studies Department
Hadrian: The Roamin' Emperor game
The Votives Project
The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion


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Portrait Of Innovation
The late Paul Janssen—"Dr. Paul" to much of the world of pharmaceutical research—loved to ask, "What's new?" For him, it was no casual opening to small talk. The world cried out for medical cures and treatments, and Janssen recognized that only a tenacious pursuit of novel molecules with therapeutic promise would yield them. The chemists in his employ knew it, too: when he regularly posed his favorite question to them, it was both a cheerful query and a firm challenge to keep turning up new observations, new ideas, and new leads.
Thanks to that drive and the heights to which it pushed the company he headed, Janssen is widely considered the most prolific drug inventor of all time. He and the research teams he headed at Janssen Pharmaceutica (and the earlier versions of that company) are credited with discovering more than 80 new active compounds of interest. Some of those medications led to breakthroughs in psychiatric treatment, pain management and anesthesia, the treatment of parasitic and infectious diseases, and a host of other medical specialties. Five of those medications are on the current WHO list of essential medicines. At the time of his death in 2003, he held more than 100 patents and was a listed author on more than 850 scientific publications. He was the recipient of more than 80 medical prizes and held honorary doctorates and memberships in dozens of organizations.
"He respected courage as much as intelligence and experience," wrote Paul J. Lewi, a longtime colleague, with Adam Smith in a 2007 article about Janssen's approach to research for R&D Management. That courage Janssen inspired in others, they added, pushed them to "excelling beyond limits that they themselves had thought unattainable."
When Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen was born in 1926 in Turnhout, Belgium, his father, Constant, was a successful general practitioner who dreamed of being an entrepreneur. Shortly later, Constant struck a deal to import and distribute pharmaceuticals from Gedeon Richter, a Hungarian manufacturer, into Belgium, its colony in Congo, and the Netherlands. By 1934 he was operating the company as N.V. Produkten Richter, and in 1938 he gave up his medical practice to concentrate on the flourishing trade in vitamins, organ extracts, and other traditional medications.
His father's example undoubtedly shaped young Paul's eventual career choice, but a tragedy inspired it more. When Paul was in high school, his four-year-old sister died of tubercular meningitis—a condition that was almost untreatable in that essentially pre-antibiotic time. Her loss made him decide to devote his life to medical research, as he often later explained.
Despite the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, Janssen managed to enroll secretly at the Faculté Universitaire Notre Dame de la Paix in Namur, where he applied himself to learning chemistry, biology, and physics. He continued with medical studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1945. For six months in 1948 he traveled in the United States to tour current drug research facilities and to acquaint himself with then state-of-the-art procedures, then returned to Europe and the University of Ghent, from which he graduated with honors as a general medical practitioner in 1951.
Two years of obligatory military service then followed, during which Janssen still managed to work as an assistant in illustrious pharmacology laboratories at the University of Cologne and the University of Ghent.
In 1953, Janssen could have joined any number of research laboratories, but he was instead determined to start his own. A powerful idea had taken root in his thinking: that the chemical structures of compounds directly related to their physiological effects, and that by systematically modifying promising molecules one could efficiently find new, desirable synthetic drugs. The legendary Paul Ehrlich, the Nobel laureate inventor of treatments for syphilis and other diseases, had pioneered this medicinal chemistry approach decades previously but Janssen knew its promise had barely been scratched.
Returning to Turnhout, Janssen asked his father for a loan of 50,000 Belgian francs and workspace on the third floor of the family business. He and four assistants then set to work on a highly focused program of developing medically important drug compounds quickly, because Janssen recognized doing so would be a financial necessity if his new venture was to survive and remain independent.
Within a year, they had synthesized about 500 compounds; within three years, more than 1,100—an astonishing rate of productivity. The fifth compound they created, ambucetamide, proved to be highly effective as an antispasmodic for treating menstrual pain, and it became the first big winner for Janssen's young company when it hit the market in 1955. Other important drugs born from those early compounds included isopropamide, a treatment for peptic ulcers and gastrointestinal pain, the anti-diarrheal drug diphenoxylate, and the painkiller dextromoramide, all of which propelled Janssen's laboratory to fame.
By 1957, the success of Janssen's company—then called the N.V. Research Laboratorium Dr. C. Janssen—led him to expand and move it to the campus of a former military base in Beerse. There, Janssen realized two of his greatest and longest-lasting pharmaceutical contributions.
The first, created in 1958, was the neuroleptic haloperidol, which helped to revolutionize the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Through the first half of the 20th century, the prospects for people suffering from schizophrenia had altered little from the era of physical restraint in Victorian madhouses. The introduction of the drug chlorprozamine in the 1950s had helped to change that, but its heavy sedative effects were unsatisfactory for many. Janssen's haloperidol reduced the symptoms of psychosis without making patients drowsy. It eventually became the most commonly prescribed of the drugs called typical antipsychotics and is still used widely around the globe.
Anesthesia and the treatment of pain were similarly transformed by Janssen's development of fentanyl in 1960. Fentanyl is a fast-acting, short duration opioid roughly 100 times as potent as morphine but less likely to cause nausea, which makes it almost ideal as a surgical anesthetic. Because fentanyl can also be delivered to the body in a variety of ways, including a slow-release transdermal patch, it has become the most widely prescribed analgesic drug in the world for the treatment of moderate to severe pain, particularly chronic pain from cancer. Janssen oversaw the creation of many other successful analgesics in the fentanyl family, including the anesthetic sufentanil, which is 1,000 times as potent as morphine and particularly well-suited for lengthy surgeries.
Janssen's meteoric successes did not escape the attention of the wider pharmaceutical industry. A major turning point arrived in 1961, when Janssen agreed to sell his family's companies to Johnson & Johnson, with the guarantee that his research group would continue to operate independently as Janssen Pharmaceutica. That partnership helped feed the feverish productivity of Janssen's research enterprise, which continued unabated.
Janssen's colleagues, friends, and rivals have frequently speculated about the secret to his extraordinary productivity. Part of it, surely, was his devotion to Ehrlich's medicinal pharmaceutical approach and the systematic strategies he employed to explore the properties of new compounds. Pharmaceutical discovery may always depend on an element of luck, but Janssen understood how to improve the odds in his favor—and the importance of keeping his focus on genuinely therapeutic compounds, not just interesting chemistry. As Sir James Black of King's College London wrote in a personal appreciation of Janssen in 2005, "As far as I know, Dr. Paul never started a project without a conception in his head, a conception that not only specified a chemical starting place, a 'lead' molecule, with appropriate bioassays but also embodied foresight of how his invention would deliver clinical utility."
When reading, listening, and thinking about chemical concepts, Janssen frequently drew models of molecules by hand on scraps of paper; he believed that doing so helped him build a deeper understanding and intuition about the chemical structures. Sir John Black recalls, "I often watched him at meetings, when bored with the proceedings, finding solace inside his head as he doodled new chemical compounds!"
Still, Janssen was just one man, and the ascendance of Janssen Pharmaceutica came from the efforts of many researchers there. His management style was at least as important a part of his genius as his chemistry instincts were.
By all accounts, Janssen disliked ungainly hierarchies and bureaucratic inefficiency. He therefore favored a much more horizontal organizational chart for his research groups and encouraged the leaders of laboratories to operate independently and creatively. As for his own role, "I am the conductor of an orchestra," Janssen liked to say.
A conductor, yes—but Janssen was certainly not hands-off. He checked in with all his labs for frequent briefings, and those answering his ever-present "What's new?" knew to expect his attention and encouragement but also the weight of his firmly critical, constructive scrutiny.
Lewi and Smith noted that Janssen typically started his day with a briefing from the coordinator of research on the latest data from the labs, after which he toured from lab to lab to hear more about the most interesting results. Near the conclusion of each interview, Lewi and Smith wrote, "it was not unusual for a scientist to take a spoon or something and give a few brief taps on the tubes of the central heating system as a warning sign for those working further down the corridor: take care; be prepared; he's coming; don't get taken by surprise and see to it that you have 'something new' ready at hand."
As Theodore Stanley, Talmage D. Egan, and Hugo Van Aken explained in a 2008 article for Anesthesia & Analgesia: "Paul Janssen was unique in building the research of his company around his people, not the other way around. He gave all his coworkers the greatest possible latitude in their area of expertise, while he determined the general direction it would go. He acted firmly but also with great respect for the qualities of his associates. He had the talent of being able to stimulate and encourage them by continually nurturing their hopes."
Janssen drove himself to turn up new ideas no less relentlessly than he did his staff. Lewi and Smith recount that Janssen was constantly scanning pharmaceutical and chemistry journals, taking notes on what caught his attention and compiling these thoughts into an in-house newsletter. He also relentlessly followed up on his questions with colleagues around he world. "There was no place for scientists to hide and avoid exposure to the question 'What's new?'" Lewi and Smith recalled.
Throughout his lifetime, Janssen oversaw and directed the expansion of Janssen Pharmaceutica's product line and activities. New initiatives of special relevance to health in developing nations pursued treatments relevant to parasitology, mycology, and neurology. Departments for veterinary medicine and plant protection were added in 1964 and 1972 respectively. These efforts yielded a host of drugs for combating parasitic worms, molds, diarrhea, nausea, and psychoses. A global network of subsidiaries grew up around the world, including a history-making facility in the Shaanxi province of China in 1985, which was the first Western pharmaceutical factory to be established there.
The Shaanxi factory led serendipitously to Janssen making an important contribution to the preservation of Chinese culture. Not far from where the Janssen factory was being built, archaeologists were uncovering the now famous "army" of terracotta soldier statues that had been sculpted to guard the 2,200-year-old mausoleum of the emperor Qin Shi Huang. When Janssen visited the site a decade later, he saw that statues were newly infested with mold that thrived in the heat and humidity. Janssen brought samples of the mold back to his laboratory in Beerse, where his researchers identified the fungi and developed water-based chemical sprays for eliminating it from terracotta. Those treatments helped to save the terracotta army, and went on to help conserve other important historical artifacts throughout China.
In 1995, Janssen and Lewi co-founded the Center for Molecular Design, where they investigated and developed anti-HIV compounds including the diarylpyramidines. One of Janssen's most cherished hopes was to develop a successful treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, a highly elusive goal. That work came to fruition in 2012 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved bedaquiline, a compound developed by Janssen Pharmaceutica researchers, as part of a compound therapy for adult TB patients. Approval in the European Union followed two years later.
Paul Janssen did not live to see that success; he died unexpectedly at age 77 on November 11, 2003, during a visit to Rome. He was survived by his wife, Dora, their five children, and 13 grandchildren—but also by an unmatched record of achievement in pharmaceutical science. During his lifetime, Janssen's accomplishments earned him dozens of scientific and medical prizes and honorary degrees. In 1990 King Baudouin of Belgium elevated him to the peerage by conferring a barony on him.
The long list of drug treatments to his credit and the pharmaceutical research company that bears his name are both monuments to his singular genius. Yet the tribute that might best honor the innovative spirit of the man is the Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, which Johnson & Johnson founded in his memory in 2005 to "promote, recognize and reward creativity in biomedical research."
Black J. "A Personal Perspective on Dr. Paul Janssen," J. Med. Chem. 2005, 48:1687-1688. doi: 10.1021/jm040195b
Lewi PJ and Smith A. "Successful Pharmaceutical Discovery: Paul Janssen's Concept of Drug Research," R&D Management 2007, 37:355-361. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9310.2007.00481.x
Stanley TH, Egan TD, and Van Aken H. "A Tribute to Dr. Paul A. J. Janssen: Entrepreneur Extraordinaire, Innovative Scientist, and Significant Contributor to Anesthesiology," Anesth Analg. 2008 Feb,106(2):451-62. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181605add.
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A Lasting, Far Reaching Legacy
Dr. Paul Janssen (1926-2003) was one of the 20th century's most innovative and inspiring pharmaceutical researchers. With over 100 patents to his name, his work was responsible for many breakthroughs in several fields of disease, including pain management, psychiatry, infectious disease and gastroenterology. Dr. Paul was an exceptionally gifted and passionate scientist who revolutionized modern medicine and inspired a new generation of researchers. Read More
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Dr. Paul Janssen was one of the most productive pharmaceutical researchers of the 20th century. During his career Dr. Paul and his team were responsible for the discovery of over 80 drugs, including 25 antipsychotic medicines. He and his team made discoveries in many areas, including anesthesia and pain management, psychiatry, mycology and gastroenterology. Read More
Dr. Paul Janssen was a unique individual: A brilliant scientist in the lab and an outstanding businessman in the boardroom. As evidence of this, he received more than 70 scientific and professional awards, including: Read More


VetIQ Serene-Um Calming Drops naturally de-stress and calm your cat or dog. It can be particularly useful for times when they are subjected to environmental changes such as fireworks, thunderstorms or where separation anxiety might occur. It can also be useful for dealing with bad behaviour as it relaxes and calms your pet without sedating them. VetIQ Serene-Um Calming Drops allow your pet to carry on as normal without the undesired behaviour, leading to a happier lifestyle for both of you.


To knock off the top dog in the league, you've got to come ready to play. That means not just preparing yourself mentally, but also priming your body to perform to its maximum capacity from start to finish.
For basketball players, a proper pre-game warm-up should increase core temperature and blood flow to the muscles and should include exercises that engage the hips, quads, hamstrings and calves.
These goals cannot be achieved through simple static stretches—i.e., holding a stretch for an extended period of time. Engaging the muscles must be done with active stretching—moving through a stretch to a full range of motion, holding the position for a brief count, then returning to start position—all performed in a controlled manner. "Flexibility isn't just increasing the range of motion; it's controlling a movement and being efficient with it," says Jason Biles, former strength coach for the Memphis Grizzlies.
Active stretching helps Zach Randolph, Mike Conley and the rest of the Grizzlies bring their A-game every time they step on the court.
To produce greater elasticity in the muscles, perform each active stretch for a specified rep count, usually six to 10. Biles says, "Active stretching is specific to movement on the court, where you may perform a movement quickly, get a quick stretch to it, and then return to your starting position."
Avoid a sluggish start to your game by going through an active stretching routine before your pre-game shootaround.
Here are four pre-game active stretches favored by the Grizzlies. Perform two sets of eight reps [both legs if applicable], holding each rep for two counts.


Kaoko - A journey, not destination!
Feel bad having done the ride with Zonkie and Forty to Namibia and only reading the report now and registering on the site. It was indeed a trip of a lifetime and could not have done it with better traveling companions. Off road riding is all about fitness and confidence especially in the tricky bits. my advice to anyone attempting this kind of trip (5424 k's in 12 days) is that you make being fit a part of your preparation and that you test your equipment before you go. Forty and I discovered that a top heavy 300kg GS can be a hand full and bloody hard to pick up. This was attested by two tiny Italian tourist who were at hand to pick me after a trip south in heavy powder sand. You should have seen the respect in their faces after I roared off on a bike they both together could not pick up without my assitance. As with the trip name, this was a journey and not a destination and I would suggest either more days or less k's. We roared past so many beautiful places without taking them in chasing far away destinations to stay over. Also every book you read says don't travel in the heat of the day. This is the time to siesta. It's a trip I will do again. If you are lost and need to find yourself, the chances are you are in Namibia. Go there and see for yourself.
Life is a journey not a destination, enjoy the ride.
Welcome Hydr8. What I can remember when thinking back on this trip was not the scenery, heat, dust or Oom Willie se pad, but the company and how they made it one of the most outstanding trips I ever been on. I thought that personalities will change (as had happened to me many times before) souring the trip. You never are ready when this happens. But lo and behold, I spend 12 days with the most amazing brothers I know. I was embarrassed at one stage for although me and my boet are very close, we would never have made it. You two are wonderful and it is a pity that I only got to know people like you so late in life. Respect to you and embossed memories.
Thanks Wino for the welcome and Zonkie for the very kind words given to old Forty and myself. A critical part of the trip is to choose the right partners as when it gets tough the last thing you want to have is personality issues. A lot of tension can be avoided by carefully planning and agreeing to the route and also agreeing up front on the contingencies if ever required. I have to agree with Zonkie in that the people who went made the trip as enjoyable as it is. People become characters when you know them and you can trust a character you know. Next year will be even better!
Re: Kaoko - A journey, not destination!
The kaokoveld must be one of the most beautiful places in the world. I love it there. I would love to do a ride like this one.
QuicksilverE, having just last week relooked at some of the maps we used to plan this trip, looking at all the photos we took, Zonkelnut, Hydr8 and my own, I tend to see other places on the trip which we did not stop and take photos of.
I am off to Malawi end of the month to live there for 3 years (Contract) and when I return, I will definitely be returning to Namibia for another go at this trip, this time I will take twice as long and take in the sites more. The saying, "Slower is better" springs to mind.
Hope you do get to go.
Thanks for the report. We know the area quite well and have travelled with 4x4's so respect as i know this is not an easy ride, even by car.
excellent photos could of shared some when u guys had a fall. but well done. that place is always a lekker place to ride.
Great pics! Wonder what it looks like today?
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Onouvevwo: Emerging Quarter-miler Inspired by Brume
Nigeria's only track and field medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Ese Brume, is a source of inspiration to Nigerians even before achieving success on Tuesday.
Ella Onouvevwo, a 400m runner who is only in SS3, sees Brume as her sporting idol.
Just like many sportsmen and women who have come out of Delta State, Onouvevwo was discovered while representing her school — Etigbo Secondary School, Ughelli.
A successful outing with her school propelled her to more success on the national stage, winning a gold medal at the 2019 National Youth Games in Ilorin.
"I started athletics in 2019 after I represented my school at an invitation relay at Government College, Ughelli, where we placed second. Then my coach called me and said we should start training," she told PUNCH Sports Extra.
"After that, I went to the 2019 National Youth Games in Ilorin, where I won the gold medal at the 4x400m mixed relay.
"I went into athletics because it was just a part of me. I just started doing it right from primary school, I just love running.
"I like Ese Brume because of her strength, she is a strong woman and always does her best while competing.
"I was very happy and excited and I will love to achieve the much she has achieved in sports,"
Success at the youth stage has further propelled the youngster to national prominence.
At the Athletics Federation of Nigeria All-Comers Meet in Akure in January, Onouvevwo ran a new Personal Best of 56.18secs to win heat 4 of the women's 400m.
She hopes to continue to combine her academics with sports, with the desire to be an accountant and gain global prominence, representing Nigeria at the Olympics.
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Veterans Courts Try to Keep PTSD Victims Out of Jail
Mary Susan Littlepage,
Zachariah Parzych, 23, spent eight months in Iraq checking areas for weapons and serving in combat. When he returned home to Orange County, California, his life started to change.
One night he woke up thinking he was stabbing someone's neck. "Me and my wife were sleeping one night and I almost broke her leg because I was thinking I was snapping some guy's neck and basically what happened was that I was drinking to the point where I fell asleep," he said. "But because of me being drunk, I didn't really know – it was harder to tell what reality I was in, and also the post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] of having traumatic experiences in the military kinda had me stuck in that mind frame where I literally thought I was over there. I literally thought this dude was trying to stab me with the knife, so I was trying to kill, stab his neck, but it ended up being her leg."
His wife woke him up, and he got in the shower with his clothes on because he thought there was blood all over him, and that reminded him of having blood all over his mouth and eyes in Iraq. "It kinda brought that back," he said.
Also, he said, "After I got out of the military, I didn't really understand how severe my medical problems were" because he suffered from PTSD and traumatic brain injury (TBI).
At first, he stayed in a military mental ward for two weeks. "That's not long enough time to diagnose me or treat me for the problems that I found out I have," he said with a laugh. He was still suffering, and he had a short temper and got involved in some impulsive behavior. "There was a moment when I was drinking at my house because I was kind of self-medicating," he said, and a police officer came to the home because of a disturbance complaint.
Parzych assaulted the police officer, and he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and battery, among other violent charges. He was facing five years at minimum in jail.
He spent 11 days in jail, missing his 4-year-old and 1-year-old sons. Parzych pleaded guilty so that he could attend Veterans Court, which offers treatment-based sentences and drops charges upon completion of a therapy program.
As more veterans return from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD, substance abuse issues and other problems, there's a new movement that advocates treatment over punishment for veterans who have committed crimes and who are suffering from mental health conditions such as PTSD.
More than 20 Veterans Courts around the country are treating defendants for underlying problems to try to curb future criminal activity.
The first Veterans Court began in Buffalo, New York, two years ago. So far, the court there has had 23 veterans complete the program and none of them has been convicted of new crimes.
Fast-forward to six months into the Veterans Court program in Orange County. Parzych has stopped drinking alcohol. He goes to two meetings a day three or four times a week and to doctor appointments regularly. He also meets up at church and at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with other veterans, trying to help them with their problems and get them also to stop drinking.
When Parzych says "I feel blessed" and "I'm glad to be who I am," you can pick up the positive energy in his voice over the telephone. He said the Veterans Court has "been working really good" and that "I've been sober ever since I started Veterans Court." And he said he has been learning "tips and tools on how to deal with people."
Since he stopped drinking, Parzych said, he feels "less trapped in my head" and "I feel 100 percent better. I feel whole again." He added, "There's a lot more to life than alcohol."
Drinking used to keep him busy. "Now that I'm not drinking, I'm not waking up at 1 in the afternoon or stupid hours," he said.
From participating in Veterans Court, Parzych said he has done a lot of soul-searching, and he said, "I was able to see how my values were screwed up" and "I understand why I was drinking."
He said he had a hard time with family relationships because his mom was murdered in front of him when he was eight years old "and that kind of aggravated a lot of stuff when I was in combat." Also, stopping drinking helped him to want to respect women more, particularly his wife.
Stopping drinking motivates Parzych to get other veterans, including some new veterans in Veterans Court, to curb their drinking. And in time, other veterans often tell him, "Wow, you're right, dude."
Orange County, California, Veterans Court Judge Wendy Lindley had a participant in one of her other programs who happened to be a veteran with PTSD, and he committed suicide. That made her recognize that there needs to be more services and in-depth treatment for veterans, and that's what motivated her to help launch the Veterans Court in Orange County.
Laura Morfin, collaborative courts coordinator for Veterans Court in Orange County, said parents often tell the group that runs the court, "Thank you for giving me my son back" after veterans progress in the program.
The goals of the Orange County Veterans Court are to protect the public, reduce participant contacts with the criminal justice system, reduce costs associated with criminal case processing and rearrest, and introduce participants to an ongoing process of recovery designed to help them become stable, employed and substance-free while continuing mental health care through community/peer counseling groups or the Veterans Administration.
Veterans Court in Orange County, which has been operating since November 2008, aims to provide an inter-agency, collaborative treatment strategy for veterans in the criminal justice system who suffer from PTSD, psychological or substance abuse problems as a result of having served in combat. Judge Lindley, an advocate for rehabilitation, presides over the Veterans Court, which is in a community courts building in Santa Ana that's kind of like a satellite court or a one-stop shop for programs for Veterans Court participants. County workers and nonprofits share office space there.
People involved in social services and legal aid stop by, and a full-time outreach social worker from the Department of Veterans Affairs are part of the team that treats veterans in Orange County. A public defender, district attorney and representatives from a health care agency also are part of the team.
The 18-month program in Orange County has four phases: After participants enter a guilty plea, they receive treatment plan development, ongoing treatment, stabilizing/mentoring and a transition to graduation. Throughout the program, participants must have no positive drug or alcohol tests. They also must attend program activities and report regularly to the VA coordinator and probation officer.
Most participants in the program are recent veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans are monitored closely, and they are required to be employed, looking for work or be in college.
To participate in the Orange County program, veterans must have served in combat and must live in Orange County. Those who have previous diagnoses for PTSD and TBI make a stronger case for participation, and every Tuesday the team meets with the judge to talk about possible participants.
Types of cases handled in the program include misdemeanors and some felonies. Cases not handled include charges of serious assault, sexual assault and selling drugs. Domestic violence charges are tricky to handle because sometimes there is underlying PTSD, but sometimes there isn't a connection between the two, so a lot of research must be done to see if there is a true domestic violence case, Morfin said.
Veterans in the program range from 22 years old to 64 years old. Diagnoses include PTSD, TBI, bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia and more.
Along with requirements for graduation, veterans are expected to help mentor new veterans in the program, and Laura Morfin said the county hopes to formalize the mentoring component of the program.
Veterans' courts around the country handle misdemeanor cases, like DUIs and drug possession, as well as felonies, such as assaults and violent crimes. Some courts require that veterans plead guilty before they can get treatment and later get their records expunged after treatment, but other courts don't require veterans to plead guilty before treatment. Also, some require that a veteran not have a dishonorable discharge from the military.
Sometimes veterans aren't so sure they need therapy, but Parzych recently tried to prepare a guy who is going to enter the Marines for combat; he said he told him that, "When he gets back [from Iraq], he won't understand it right now, but when the day comes, before it's too late for him or he ruins his career, seek medical attention right when he gets back from Iraq and go to counseling."
He said it was good that the guy was already attending AA meetings, but that not drinking in the military is a challenge: "Once he gets in the military, I know he's gonna be drinking again, and he understands that, too, because to be in the military and not drink – you have better chances at winning the U.S.A. lotto, you know, only one person wins," he said with a laugh. "You have a better chance at winning that than staying sober in the military."
Besides attending AA meetings, Parzych also goes to what he calls "doctor meetings" where he and other veterans gather at the VA hospital for group therapy and to learn things such as what can happen to them if they drink alcohol and take antidepressants together. He said that he has learned that alcohol is a downer, and "It takes the 'anti' out of antidepressants." It also "can bring out the bipolar in somebody when you're coming down from alcohol" and contribute to depression, he said. "It's a vicious cycle."
He also regularly attends meetings for a PTSD group at the VA, where he has been learning that PTSD symptoms worsen when PTSD is paired with alcohol. PTSD can make you want to drink, he said, but "when you're drinking a lot, drinking can make the PSTD symptoms a lot worse."
Although there aren't any graduates in the Orange County Veterans Court program yet, there are 30 participants in the program. Still, Morfin is positive about the program. If all goes well and the veterans doing well continue to do well, some veterans will graduate at the end of April, Morfin said.
Most veterans are well-disciplined once they are back on track, Morfin said. "Once they receive all the support from the different entities and they're back on track, they do very well and they excel because that's kind of what they're used to once they are redirected and their medication has been adjusted," she said.
In Colorado Springs, Colorado, El Paso County officials have Veteran Trauma Court, Colorado's first Veterans Court. It links eligible US military veterans involved with the criminal justice system to treatment services that will support their recovery from a range of trauma disorders connected to their military service. The court is based on the model of mental health courts, which provide treatment to eligible offenders while diverting them from expensive jail or prison placements.
El Paso County District Attorney Dan May oversees the county's Veterans Court, which opened in December 2009. Earlier that year his office participated in a discussion about having a Veterans Court. "In about October (2009) we started doing plea bargains for Veterans Court before the court actually opened in my office," May said. "So, my office started using the resources in October. The court actually opened in December (2009)." And the Veterans Court has been running ever since.
"My ultimate goal is public safety," May said. "We've found that our veterans are coming back with TBI or PTSD – a guy with a closed head injury from explosions, and PTSD most people are familiar with. When we would normally handle a case and you would get a conviction, you'd put him on probation and maybe an anger management class, and it really wasn't getting to their underlying issues, and it wasn't getting to public safety because sometimes their crimes would escalate.
"With the Veterans Court, we can put them into the court and we can do the normal things and we could also bring a treatment through the Veterans' Administration to actually treat the TBI, treat the PTSD so that when they get off probation, we've done a lot of the things we've normally done, but we've also done a lot of things that are particular for their injuries and their harm."
Veterans Court is for people who are going to be put on probation, and it's voluntary. May and a judge have to agree that it will be a good fit and that the veteran could be successful in the program.
"If (the veterans) get into it, we give them a mentor who is in contact with them a lot," May said. "They have to come into court quite a few times where we're closely monitoring their progress. We're getting them therapy, watching their therapy, making them do their restitution, making them comply with probation, and public service is required. They're monitored much more closely and have a lot more to do, but if they're successful, they'll be much better people, and we'll have a much safer community."
Although May said the Veterans Court reviews cases with some forms of violence, most veterans are there for property crimes.
"We're willing to look at some violence, but we're being very cautious when we're in that area," he said.
He said that murder cases aren't appropriate for Veterans Court, but "low-level domestic abuse," such as shoving someone, is.
So far, 27 veterans have started participating in the El Paso County Veterans Court, and almost all are felony cases.
"It's too early to have any graduates of the Veterans Court," May said, "so right now we're measuring success by the different stages that they progress through."
May said he wants to treat veterans with respect and the Veterans Court does that.
"We have a lot of military people in the area, a lot of our soldiers fighting for our freedom," he said, "so we certainly understand the price of freedom and this allows us to treat our returning soldiers and veterans with honor and dignity but at the same time recognize that they've done a crime that needs to be addressed appropriately and to take care for their needs."
Amy Fairweather is an expert in veterans' issues and is director of the Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, a clearinghouse of more than 45 agencies serving a myriad of needs associated with deployment in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. She also is director of the Iraq Veteran Project for Swords to Plowshares, a community-based, not-for-profit organization that provides counseling and case management, employment and training, housing and legal assistance to homeless and low-income veterans in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond.
"We're very, very, very much in support of Veterans Courts," Fairweather said. She said the idea that if people are channeled to resources and treatment – instead of going to the criminal justice system and going to jail – is positive because in jail, veterans wouldn't get the treatment that they need to tend to PTSD, TBI and substance abuse so that they can get to the source of their problems."
Swords to Plowshares offers in Treasure Island, California, transitional supportive housing, and Fairweather said that she has seen many people succeed with that because it offers treatment rather than simple jail sentences. She said you can teach veterans ways to get on with life by teaching them coping mechanisms and correcting their behavioral problems so they won't be getting into criminal activity and cycling in and out of jail. "If they go to jail, all of their problems are just exacerbated," she said.
Mary Susan Littlepage


To paraphrase an old blues man, some works of art are meant to signify, others to sanctify. The late photographic work of the virtually obscure French Surrealist Pierre Molinier seems to embrace both modalities. In the end, his work is perhaps more interesting considered as a form of psychosexual reparation mediated through Surrealist dogma.


This 3-bedroom apartment is located on Via Cerva in the Historic Center. The 120 m² apartment has a living and dining room, a kitchen, 2 bathrooms and 3 double bedrooms.
This apartment is superbly located, close to the the Duomo Metro station and Catherdral, and a number of shops, restaurants and other useful amenities.
The Duomo metro station is an 11-minute walk away and serves the number 1 and 3 lines.


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Q: TagLib: Box header specified a size of {0} bytes but only {1} bytes left in the file I'm using TagLib to read the ID3 data from MP4 and MP3 files. Generally it's working very well but I have one file that won't show the information.
When debugging I see I have a corruption with the reason: Box header specified a size of {0} bytes but only {1} bytes left in the file.
Could someone explain what this means and if it's something I can fix? Is the file just corrupt?
The code I am using to read the tag is:
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open))
{
    var file = File.Create(new StreamFileAbstraction(filePath, fileStream, fileStream));
    var isCorrupt = file.CorruptionReasons != null && file.CorruptionReasons.Any();
    var title = isCorrupt ? Path.GetFileName(filePath) : file.Tag.Title;
    var track = isCorrupt ? 0 : file.Tag.Track;

    //Removed for brevity
}

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Following on from England's comfortable victory against Sweden yesterday, I am happy to announce that the Musters bar will be open on Wednesday night for the semi final. All are welcome to enjoy the (hopefully) free-flowing attacking football that the Three Lions are almost sure to produce. (Or alternatively a walk around the bowls green if penalties are looming is also a possibility.) The club will be open from 6 – see you there!


James is an English actor who is based in London. Notable credits include rehearsed reading Litus with Cervantes Theatre and Chaskis Theatre, short film You Should Know Better (dir. Thanos Topouzis), Rewilding with The Embers Collective, Oliver Guy in short film You Should Know Better and Malvolio in Twelfth Night with the Young Shakespeare Company.
James trained in Acting at Rose Bruford College, graduating in 2016.


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Pterolophia grossepuncticollis är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Stefan von Breuning 1974. Pterolophia grossepuncticollis ingår i släktet Pterolophia och familjen långhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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One child plays the role of the "stop light," facing away from a line of other children. The stop light faces away says, "green light". The other kids can move in until the stoplight says, "red light!" and turns around. If any of the others is still moving when the stop light turns around, they're out.
Get everyone out and you win.
We leave behind the games when we go into the real world, but when you file for bankruptcy this particular bit of entertainment comes back in the form of the automatic stay.
Except that it's not so much fun this time around.
Simply put, the automatic stay forces everyone to take the minute you file for bankruptcy. No more phone calls, no cards, no letters, no birthday cards, no lawsuits, no foreclosures. It's as if the stop light has turned to red.
In this bankruptcy version of the game, there are a few key players. Each one of the types of actions that are stopped by the automatic stay plays a role, so you should know about them.
Lawsuits For Pre-Bankruptcy Debts: The automatic stay prevents people from beginning or continuing any judicial, administrative, or other action or proceeding to recover a claim that arose before the case was commenced.
Enforcement Of Judgments From Before The Case: When you file for bankruptcy you are protected from the enforcement, against you or any of your property (think about houses and cars in particular), of a judgment obtained before the case was filed.
Repossession And Foreclosure: The automatic stay prevents a creditor from taking any act to obtain possession of property or to exercise control over property.
Post-Bankruptcy Liens On Your Property: Once your bankruptcy case is filed, no creditor can take any act to create, perfect, or enforce any lien against the property you owned as of the time your case was filed.
Collections For Pre-Bankruptcy Debts: The automatic stay prevents creditors from suing you, but also from taking any act to collect, assess, or recover a claim against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case.
Protection From The Tax Court: If you've got any corporate debts for past due taxes, the automatic stay prevents then commencement or continuation of a proceeding before the United States Tax Court concerning a tax liability of a debtor that is a corporation for a taxable period the bankruptcy court may determine or concerning the tax liability of a debtor who is an individual for a taxable period ending before the date of the filing of the case.
There are limits to how and when the stay is enforced, just as there are rules in any game. And perhaps it's a bit cheeky to liken this as a game at all, but there's something to it, I think: your creditors have rights and responsibilities, and so do you.
When you're neck-deep in debt and trying to figure out which end is up, there's something about being able to rely on your childhood memories to make sense of it all. And once you fit it into your world view it's a lot easier to get through it and see out the other end.


Anna van der Breggen time trialled to silver at the Worlds ITT Championships in Bergen, Norway on Tuesday. This is the second silver medal Van der Breggen earned for a world championships individual time trial, after the 2015 ITT Worlds in Richmond, USA. The Olympic road champion stopped the clock at 29:02:51, just 12 seconds short of the winning time by compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten (Orica-Scott), who needed 28:50:35 to complete the 21.1-kilometre course.
"My ride went pretty well, especially the first part," Van der Breggen said. "But I did feel that it was hard to keep up the power on the downhill. And that's exactly where Annemiek won the race."
Van der Breggen was the second rider off the start ramp and was off to a flying start. American rider Lauren Stephens was the rider who had started before her and a good time trialist herself. But at the first intermediate time check, 3 kilometres into the race, Van der Breggen had already taken 26 seconds on Stephens. At the second time split, her advantage had grown to 30 seconds and at the third, which was located on the cobbled sector, it was already 56 seconds. Van der Breggen eventually crossed the line only 23 seconds behind Stephens, which meant her time was 1'07" faster than Stephens.
Although none of the riders who had rolled off the start ramp behind Van der Breggen was able to challenge her time at one of the intermediate splits, Van der Breggen wasn't sure after the finish that her ride would earn her a medal.
"I wasn't certain that I had finished in the top three," Van der Breggen said. "The uphill section was wet, because of the rain, and the corner before the climb was wet too. You were able to power through that corner when it wasn't wet, but that wasn't possible now. That was frustrating."
Halfway through the day two of Van der Breggen's main rivals took to the start. Chloe Dygert and Annemiek van Vleuten started their individual time trials with a minute-and-a-half interval, while Van der Breggen cooled down on the rollers before heading for the hot seat.
Dygert quickly appeared to be no threat for Van der Breggen, but Van Vleuten was only 0,77 second slower at the first intermediate split. At the second time check, atop the climb, Van der Breggen still held the fastest time, by almost four seconds. It was thought that Van Vleuten's advantage lay on the climb, but eventually it was the section between the second and third intermediate splits where Van Vleuten won the race.
"[The downhill] is a completely different way of delivering power," Van der Breggen explained. "It's also about aerodynamics, your position on the bike and still being able to get power into the pedals. That was difficult here."
Van Vleuten had taken 12 seconds off Van der Breggen's time at the third time split and didn't lose any more time on her way to the finish line, moving into the hot seat and moving Van der Breggen into the silver medal position.
The last riders to take to the start were Katrin Garfoot (Orica-Scott), Ellen van Dijk (Team Sunweb) and defending world champion Amber Neben (Team Virtu), the only riders expected to be able to challenge the winning time. But halfway through the race, it was clear no one would be able to beat Van Vleuten's time - or Van der Breggen's time. The only change to the eventual podium was Garfoot taking bronze, leaving Dygert with fourth place.
"Of course it's nice to win silver, but I had really hoped to win," Van der Breggen concluded. "I'm super happy that it's Annemiek who won, but for me it's just disappointing. I already had a Worlds ITT silver medal. And I think this was my best time trial of the season. So, if you're this close, you just want to take home the gold medal."
Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team had two riders at the start of today's World ITT Championships. Canadian time trial champion Karol-Ann Canuel also raced against the clock on the 21.1-kilometre course, finishing 21st. Both riders will start in the Worlds road race on Saturday too.


This is with 3 coats, I could have gotten away with two if my natural nails were longer. Topped with two coats of Julep Freedom Polymer Top Coat which dries quite quickly and leaves my nails oh so shiny!
If you have any tips or tricks on functioning with longer nails, I'd love to hear them!


Made from Pine, a warm stain brings to life the beautiful natural character of the timber. Extra storage in the bedroom is a must, and with three drawers, the Cronulla bedside provides plenty of space to keep everything organised. Complete the look with the rest of the Cronulla Range.


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How Silver Spring, Maryland, Outgrew Its Parking Lots
Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, has grown while reducing the demand for parking. Photo: Dan Reed for GGwash
In healthy urban areas, people always complain that there's not enough parking. And they still do that in Silver Spring, Maryland, says Dan Reed at Greater Greater Washington.
But they're wrong. The city's downtown parking supply is only about 58 percent occupied on an average day. Even as the city has grown, more parking is sitting unused thanks to the efforts of local leaders. Here's how they did it:
In 2011, [Tom] Brown led a team at Nelson\Nygaard, where I now work, that recommended ways Montgomery County could better use its parking to promote and strengthen its downtowns.
Montgomery County's downtowns have lots of empty parking spots. Image: Dan Reed
Montgomery County has had its own municipal parking authority since the 1940s. A 1952 spread in the Washington Post's "Silver Spring Advertiser" section boasted, "Look at all the parking space!" in downtown. But downtown Silver Spring couldn't match the sea of free parking at new suburban malls like Wheaton Plaza, and it began to languish.
When Silver Spring started competing on place, not parking, it started to take off as an urban destination for the entire region. And a funny thing happened: as more homes and offices and shops were built around the Metro station, filling downtown's gaps and vacant lots, the demand for parking actually decreased.
According to the Montgomery County Department of Transportation, the demand for parking in Silver Spring actually peaked in the early 1980s, when it had fewer residents and jobs. Today, a majority of downtown residents get to work without a car. Over 40% of downtown's 9500 parking spaces are vacant all the time.
Realizing that its parking policies needed to reflect how people actually got around in its downtowns, county officials asked Nelson\Nygaard to offer suggestions. The resulting Montgomery County Parking Policy Study recommended reducing or eliminating parking requirements in urban areas, since there was already a glut of parking spaces, and finding ways to direct drivers to underused lots and garages.
Officials are starting to take the advice. Last year, the county passed a new zoning code that still mandates parking in new developments near transit stations, but requires far fewer spaces than it does for more suburban, car-dependent areas. That will conserve land and reduce building costs, as structured parking garages are very expensive to build lowering the barrier for potential residents and businesses who want to come here.
Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation has introduced demand-based pricing in Bethesda, setting higher rates for on-street parking spaces and lowering them in garages to encourage drivers to park there instead. This frees up on-street spaces for drivers staying for brief periods; reduces circling for a space, which causes congestion; and sends a message to drivers that they'll be able to find a space.
Elsewhere on the Network today: Better Institutions looks at how transportation spending has come to account for a bigger share of U.S. household budgets over time. Systemic Failure scoffs at the transportation priorities laid out by Republicans in the House of Representatives. And Strong Towns says there's a downside to justifying transportation investments based on time savings.
From Strip Mall to Neighborhood
Just how much potential is embedded in the local strip mall with its acres of surface parking? A project in Montgomery County, Maryland, provides a great example of how to transform car-oriented suburban development into a walkable place with a mix of uses. Dan Reed has been tracking the progress of Pike + Rose, a […]
America's Sorriest Bus Stop: Silver Spring vs. Boston
The competition to be named America's Sorriest Bus Stop started out with 16 ghastly contenders, and your votes have whittled the field down to four disasters for transit riders. Yesterday voting began in the first semi-final match — Kansas City is currently ahead of Broomfield for a spot in the championship round, and with the polls open until midnight it could go […]
After Near-Death Experiences, Maryland's Purple Line Light Rail Breaks Ground
By Angie Schmitt	| Aug 29, 2017
The decades-long saga of the Maryland Purple Line reached a happy milestone yesterday.
What's the Best Way to Tax Parking?
Taxing parking, the way Pittsburgh does, can make downtowns livelier and encourage a healthier mix of transportation options. Of course, implementing these policies can get tricky. A recent report from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute [PDF] delves into the issue and sorts out the best way to go about it. At his blog, Transport Providence, James Kennedy considers […]
Montgomery County's Ambitious Bus Rapid Transit Plan Becoming Less So
When Montgomery County, Maryland, set out to develop a bus rapid transit system about five years ago — they went big. The proposal that surfaced last year called for 10 routes totaling 92 miles, much of it built to a high standard with buses traveling in dedicated lanes. It could be a model for communities […]
This Tiny Roadside Refuge in Silver Spring Is Your Sorriest Bus Stop, America
The people have spoken, and the winner of Streetsblog's 2016 Sorriest Bus Stop in America tournament is this beauty on Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland. In terms of pure danger, it's hard to top this tiny refuge next to a state highway with no crossing to protect pedestrians from speeding traffic. The last match in the 16-entry tourney was a bit of […]


We followed Route 132, relishing the food, communities and backdrop of where the land meets the sea. Our final stretch was the part of Gaspé known as Chaleur Bay, a nod to the largest bay in the Gulf of St, Lawrence, known for its microclimate and warm waters.
It was in this part of Gaspé, in the small community of Paspébiac, that the region's trade of cod fishing was founded. At the waterfront Banc-de-Pêche de Paspébiac National Historic Site, almost a dozen restored historic buildings tell the story of the cod fishing, salting and packing industry that once made this coastline the largest cod trading business in the world.
Blacksmith working at Banc de Peche.
"It all began here in 1776," explained our guide, "when the Robin family came from the Jersey Islands and established a cod processing empire. In 1838 the three Le Boutillier brothers set up another business to dry and process cod and soon both companies were shipping across North America, Europe and the Caribbean.
At its peak in the mid 19th century, the Robin and Le Boutillier companies had established vast commercial holdings, with activity that opened up fishing villages all along the Gaspé. There were about 1,400 barges fishing at the time, each hauling a daily catch of about 600 cod, all placed outdoors on racks and dried by the sun. The industry employed 2,000 people, including entire families from children to grandparents.
The restored buildings were part of the Le Boutillier holdings (the Robin buildings were destroyed by fire) and include a storage barn, the general store, the shipbuilding shop, the blacksmith shop and the cooperage. Many of the carpenters were recruited right out of school on the Channel Islands, bringing with them their rich Jersey traditions of shipbuilding.
There are many spots along Route 132 to buy fresh fish but right behind the museum we discovered the dockside poissonniere, the fish shop, with fresh scallops, shrimp and lobster at bargain prices.
The Chaleur Bay region continues the Gaspé traditions of good meals created from ingredients grown and crafted locally. It would have been easy to zip along the roadway and miss Ferme Bourdages – a strawberry farm and micro-winery – and what a mistake that would have been. The 7th-generation Acadian family has been farming this land for two centuries and have taken their crops and wine know-how to create rhubarb wine, strawberry wine and their aged Francois Digestif, made of strawberries fortified with apple brandy. The shop shelves are filled with the full range of wines, fresh baked goods, local preserves and maple syrup.
Our final stop in Gaspé spoke to our geeky side. There are few places in Canada that capture the imagination like Parc national de Miguasha, a Quebec park and UNESCO World Heritage site, celebrated in the field of palaeontology.
Miguasha represents a window to understanding life during the Devonian Period (419-359 million years ago), a period known as the Age of Fishes, a crucial evolutionary time when an animal with a vertebral column was preparing to crawl out of the water and onto dry land. It was before dinosaurs, before reptiles, even before mosquitoes.
The fossils discovered along the shoreline show lobe-finned fishes with fin structures similar to early limbs, establishing the link between humans and fishes. In 2010 a world famous discovery unearthed a complete fossil – the only one known – of Elpistostege watsoni, a 380-million-year-old fish and the largest fossil fish discovered at Miguasha in 130 years of research.
During the Devonian period, the continental plates that made up Europe and America collided together to form a single continent, giving birth to the Appalachians. Much later, the two continents would separate again, creating the wide Atlantic Ocean. It was a warm, soupy equatorial estuary, the perfect conditions for what has become one of the world's most famous fossil beds.
Although ever-changing, the Gaspé's traditions and heritage survive. We started our road trip adventure looking for a Canadian destination with stunning vistas, great camping, tasty local dishes and friendly people. Gaspé delivered, and we will be back again.


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Birmingham Health District
Dangers of Smoking
Ready to Quit?
What you need to know about Birmingham's Health District and smoke-free ordinance
Several health-focused organizations comprise Birmingham's Health District that endeavors to establish an area where health and wellness are promoted in many ways.
The Health District has launched with an initial program to encourage a smoke-free environment supported by a City of Birmingham ordinance to promote health and wellness of patients, employees, students and visitors in the area.
All sidewalks, streets, bus stops, curbs, gutters, parks and outdoor public areas in the Health District are designated smoke-free as of Dec. 1, 2019.
According to the U.S. Surgeon General, there is no risk-free amount of exposure to second-hand smoke.
The Health District was established to improve walkability and decrease exposure to secondhand smoke in these areas where health is the focus.
The Health District includes serval health-focused organizations on Birmingham's Southside, spanning roughly from 12th Avenue South to 4th Avenue South, and 8th Street South to 22nd Street South. Organizations that requested a health district from the City of Birmingham to support their non-smoking policies include Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Children's of Alabama, City of Birmingham, Cooper Green Mercy Health Services, Jefferson County Department of Health, Southern Research and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Each organization will share details of its tobacco and smoking policies and the Health District with the audiences it serves. Some organizations will offer limited designated smoking areas in the district where information and resources (e.g., nicotine replacement therapy, 1-800-QUIT-NOW promotion) to help people not smoke may be present.
"The entities within the Health District are leaders in promoting wellness through education, research and healthcare that help the residents of Birmingham, Jefferson County and beyond live better lives. I am grateful for the leadership of these organizations, and I join the Birmingham City Council in full support."
– BIRMINGHAM MAYOR RANDALL WOODFIN


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Tickford racing partners with bendix on the #55 supercheap auto racing mustang
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With the start of the V8 Supercars season kicking off next week at the Superloop Adelaide 500, Bendix are pound to be displayed proudly on the No. 55 Supercheap Auto Ford Mustang driven by Chaz Mostert. A strong partnership that will span the 2019 season.
"We at Bendix are extremely proud to partner with Supercheap Auto Racing in the upcoming Supercars season," said George Kyriakopoulos, CEO of Bendix. "We have thoroughly enjoyed our relationship with Supercheap Auto, and it is very exciting to be a part of this extremely professional racing team".
"Bendix offers a braking product that allows you to 'put your foot down with confidence™ and there is no doubt that Chaz will be doing a lot of that as he heads for the podium in 2019" George said.
Now in their 22nd year of involvement in the V8 Supercars Championship, Supercheap Auto Managing Director Chris Wilesmith is also pleased with the partnership that aligns Australia's leading automotive friction material manufacturer with Australia's premier motorsport category.
"We are delighted to bring Bendix aboard the Supercheap Auto Racing Ford for the 2019 season," Wilesmith said. "Bendix is a tremendous partner of Supercheap Auto, and of course produces high-performance braking products. It is only natural to pair them with the high-performance industry of auto racing, particularly Tickford Racing and the Supercars Championship."
Mostert enters the 2019 season optimistic, having finished the previous campaign with a string of top five and top ten finishes, including a dominating win on the streets of Gold Coast in October.
"Supercheap Auto has so many great trade partners who have supported us the past several years, and its great to add Bendix to the fold. They're very excited to be a part of the team, and really we appreciate that enthusiasm. It's been a good start to the year, and hopefully we'll share plenty of success together in 2019."
Tickford Racing recently attended the preseason test at Phillip Island on February 14th with its four team-prepared Mustang Supercars, ahead of the 2019 season opening Adelaide 500, February 28 – March 3.
Team Principal and CEO of Tickford Racing, Tim Edwards is confident the team will show their strength in 2019 and is keen to get the season underway, "Obviously everyone's looking forward to the new season with the Mustang making its race debut, so it's a great time to add a valued brand to the team in Bendix. It's been a very busy offseason, but the goal is that makes for a very successful racing season with Supercheap Auto Racing."
About Bendix
FMP Group (Australia) Pty. Ltd., the makers of Bendix, are Australia's largest automotive friction material manufacturer, Bendix provides a number of products designed to efficiently stop a variety of automotive vehicles. From pads and discs to sensors and cleaners, Bendix products give the consumer all they need to "Put Your Foot Down with Confidence™."
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Indian Band 'Girish N The Chronicles' At Suncane Skale Music Competition
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Gangtok based rocked band 'Girish 'n the Chronicles', has become the first Indian band to compete in Suncane Skale a music festival in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. The festival is celebrated every year during the summer.
The five member band, which is now in New Delhi, will participate in this three day festival, starting on 7th July 2010. They are preparing for the prestigious competition and clearing the visa and other travel formalities.
The 'Girish 'n the Chronicles' band will be performing on the final day of the festival on 9th July. The three days of the music festival are categorized in three divisions- 7th July will be 'the night of the "Prince awards', 8th is for 'unknown singers' and the final day i. e. 9th July will be 'the Grand Finale'.
Girish Pradhan is the lead vocalist of the band, who also plays the guitar. Noel Karthak Lepcha can be seen on the bass guitar, Nagen Mangarati on drums, Yogesh Pradhan on keyboards as well as guitar and Suraj Karki is the lead guitarist. Ronald Pradhan is managing the band.
Dr. Janice Darbari, the Honorary Consul General of Montenegro Consulate General Office, sent a letter to inform 'Girish 'n the Chronicles' that they are the first band from India to be invited for this competition round of Montenegro festival. This opportunity has also given a musical recognition to the state Sikkim.
The Honorary Consul Generalof Montenegro in India has informed that the three day festival receives more than 200 hours of live air on Radio and television in Montenegro, which is watched in more than 50 countries of Europe and throughout the world.
The Consulate of Montenegro conducted a nationwide talent hunt in Guwahati a few months back in association with the Eastern Zonal Cultural Committee. The 'Girish 'n the Chronicles' band's 'Angel' won the talent hunt and thus got selected. The number was penned by Girish and arranged by his brother Yogesh. The organizers were very much impressed by the composition and invited the band to compose a fresh song for their performance in Montenegro.
The band is very confident of doing well in Montenegro. Hope they get a good recognition in the international market and come back home after being a success!
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Philippe Pigeard est un musicien français, membre du groupe Tanger.

Musique

 Tanger, LP 1997, Mercury, Polygram.
 La Mémoire insoluble, LP 1998, Mercury, Polygram.
 Tanger, ville ouverte, EP live 1999, Sono GT.
 Le détroit, LP 2000, Mercury Universal.
 Le plan du film, BO du film de Orlan, 2001, Al Dante.
 L'Amour fol, LP 2003, Mercury Universal.
 Il est toujours 20 heures dans le monde moderne, LP 2008, Motors / Dreyfus Music.

Littérature

 Les tourments d'azur, poésie, l'Inconsistance, 1995
 Lignes de mâcle, poésie, l'Inconsistance, 1998
 Bouts d'essai, OLNI, Gags, 2001
 Les Commissures de l'Interzone, poésie, Derrière La salle de bains, 2008
 La Piqûre, poésie, Derrière La salle de bains, 2009
 Fugue, poésie, Derrière La salle de bains, 2009
Vertigo, Derrière la salle de bains, 2013
En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud, Derrière la salle de bains, 2014

Performances / Arts plastiques / Chorégraphie
 Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu, action /performance en hommage à Artaud à l'église de Saint-Germain-des-prés, 1997.
 Crash landing, danse, chorégraphie de Meg Stuart, théâtre de la Ville 1998.
 Le plan du film, performance avec Orlan, Fondation Cartier, 1999.
 Bleeding Stones, danse, chorégraphie de Nasser Martin-Gousset, ménagerie de verre, 2000.

Musicien français


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This image is from a threadless t-shirt, retconning a story onto Pac-Man. I love it. It reminds me of the amazing covers for 8-bit games that bore almost no relation to the actual game1, but were just there to set the mood and provide the tiniest bit of context for the gameplay.