In 1962 I was in my last year at the Perse school, Cambridge, trying inadequately to get into university to study classics, when Eddie O'Hara came to teach there, his first job. His Liverpudlian accent and his love of rock'n'roll were exciting and exotic, but more important for me was his ability to help us change our attitudes to learning and to surprise us by respecting us. He made the difference. I still quote his immaculate (and rhyming) Latin translations of lines from hit songs of the day such as "Only ever has to give me/Love forever and forever" – Nil habet quod mihi det quam/Caritatem sempiternam – from She's a Woman by the Beatles.
Eddie O'Hara's son, Terry, recently came across three foolscap sheets among his late father's personal effects, containing the 17 song lyrics Eddie translated into Latin to inspire his classics students, including Pete, at The Perse School, Cambridge over 50 years ago. Among them are 13 titles recorded by The Beatles, including 10 Lennon-McCartney compositions.
These translations are remarkable for the way they've preserved the spirit of the Beatles' (and others') songs, while scanning and rhyming perfectly in accurate Latin. Terry has kindly given us permission to publish them on Pete's website, so... here they are: Carmina Popularia, Blattarum et aliorum, by Caligula. As well as my transcriptions of the lyrics on the page, I have provided a high resolution copy of the originals, which can be downloaded as a PDF file.
I was on the point of completing the page layout, when I came across a YouTube video by author Keith Massey, which includes the song Amore A Me Tibi (With Love From Me To You), in Eddie's Latin version. I've included this in our page.


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Perm Museum XXI
17,000 square meters
Eric McNevin, Jose Herrasti, Maria Fernanda Bento, Fausto Nunes
PERM MUSEUM XXI represents a historic architectural moment for the Russian city of Perm, a long-time military city that sits at the western foot of the Caucasus Mountains on the line that separates European from Asian Russia. The new museum represents the advent of a contemporary perspective for Perm, and a rejection of its insular, military dominated history. The closed city will become the open city, and the construction of the new museum will mark that important transition.
A fundamental change in the City's purpose suggests a new civic energy, and the museum building will carry that new optimism.
The site faces the old City to the south, and the Kama River to the north. Between the museum site and the river, train tracks run parallel to the site. North of the tracks is a river front park and promenade. Several prominent historic buildings are within walking and viewing distance of the proposed building area. The cathedral, the theatre, and the central library areas are due south; the river bank, the port, the train and the park at the river's edge, and the Popova Street Bridge over the Kama are visible and accessible to the north.
From almost every vantage point in Perm, the visual experience of the City will include the new Perm Museum.
The proposed new building makes two iconic gestures: one, the building as a bridge over the land; two, the building as an extension of the land that reaches skyward.
The Museum site is conceived as a public park within which the new building is sited. To the south the City. To the north the Kama River. In between the Museum in the park. And not in the park: the Museum is conceived as an extension of the park with terraces, walks, and landscaped roof decks that unite the building with the landscape.
The land is reconfigured to provide two excavated "Canyons for Art", one east, one west of the centrally located entry lobby and forecourt of the museum. Pedestrians proceeding east and west on the Okulova Street Walk or arriving at Okulova from the Popova Promenade – the proposed south-north pedestrian route to the site -- can pass on either side of the public lobby, and descend northward, under the building that bridges the excavations, into the "Art Canyons". These canyon passageways lead under the building, down a series of art display terraces, then under the tracks, and down to the river's edge. So it is possible to view art in the park along the river without entering the building.
There are five primary program elements in the building organization. To the west, built into the excavated site, is the "West Bridge Block" that spans the West Art Canyon; in the center is the Entry Lobby and Forecourt; to the east is the "East Bridge Block" that spans the East Art Canyon. Above the two Bridge Blocks are the two Sky Blocks.
The lobby is enclosed entirely with glass, with entry desk, stairs and elevators to various events and levels. On the lobby roof is an earth- mound, an extension of the reconfigured land just off the lobby roof. The lobby is open to city, river, and sky views, and is designed to accommodate a range of changeable exhibits.
Off the lobby to the west are the library and bookstore; to the east is the restaurant. Restaurant, bookstore, library, and lobby have views to the north: to the bridge, the park, the river edge, and the port. The east and west ends of the bridge blocks on the first level contain service and storage with adjoining truck and service loading access.
The museum administration is located on a mezzanine floor directly above the entry level, looking over the lobby and the Kama River.
Guests move by stair or elevator from the lobby up to level two, containing the contemporary collection in the West Block and the regional collection in the East Block. Alternatively, guests can pass through the lobby, down stairs, and outside to the terraced exhibit area, and down to the river bank. At either end of the bridge blocks on level two, glass doors open to gardens for exhibits and public or private gatherings. The landscaped gardens are contiguous with the surrounding park, so the museum roof gardens extend the park site.
An interior bridge spans the lobby, allowing guests to move back and forth from regional to contemporary collections, to view the lobby exhibits below, or to look out on the landscaped exhibit mound on the lobby roof.
On the second, third, and fourth levels the East and West Bridge Blocks are joined by the east and west "Sky Blocks". The bridge blocks run parallel to the proposed Okulova Street Walk, and perpendicular to the proposed Popova Street Promenade that will form the major new urban connections from the City to the Museum river site. The two Sky Blocks connect with the bridges at the east and west ends, and then rises vertically, as they incline to the north, to include particular vistas from the Museum to the city, and the city to the Museum.
Within the East Sky Block are a series of large stepping floor platforms. The inclined block has a terraced interior, providing a variety of spacious venues for the museum's classical collection, and at the top, a special vantage point, affording City views to the south and west.
The West Sky Block contains similar platforms that hold the education department and children's gallery, a stepped theatre seating area with a stage at the base of the steps, and a gathering space at the top, affording city views to the east and south. An exterior stair leads up and out of the block to a roof deck, exhibition area, and café, again integrating the conception of exhibitions with the external use of the building. Both the theatre and café are accessible to the public whether the other galleries are open or closed.
The structure of the proposed museum combines concrete and steel. The exterior finish is red sandstone. The interior floors are concrete, the walls, red sandstone and white cement plaster, and the interior partitions that hold the art are to be made of glass.

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New tests recently performed by DM Petroleum Operations Company with the FPI Mag® Flow Meter from McCrometer continue to confirm the flow meter's accurate performance and reliability on two rugged Texas brine disposal lines supporting the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The first FPI Mag Flow Meters were originally selected for conducting periodic tests on the brine lines in 1996, and the latest generation of FPI Mag meter validates the dependable performance first experienced over 17 years ago.
With a capacity of 727 million barrels, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the world's largest stockpile of government-owned emergency crude oil.
Established after the 1973-74 oil embargo, the SPR provides the nation with a powerful response option should a disruption in oil supplies threaten the U.S. economy. It is also the critical component for the United States to meet its International Energy Agency obligation to maintain emergency oil stocks and it provides a national defense fuel reserve.


Teachers and amateur radio operators have been using satellites for education since the first OSCAR launch in 196L The recent high power OSCAR satellites are in use every day in classrooms around the world by teachers with amateur radio licenses. Central Florida hams are assembling Phase 3-D, the next generation amateur radio satellite. Phase 3-D will offer many new opportunities for education due to an earth-viewing camera experiment, and higher power which will permit schools to use the satellite with much less hardware. Locally the Phase 3-D integration team is looking for educational groups to participate in the assembly and testing of the spacecraft. We are hoping to offer students from the middle-school to university level hands-on experience with spacecraft manufacturing and testing.


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Duke Energy to pay $102 million for spilling coal ash
Staff writer ▼ | February 23, 2015
Federal prosecutors charged Duke Energy on Friday with violating the Clean Water Act for spilling coal ash from its power plants into North Carolina rivers.
The company said it had reached an agreement with the government to pay more than $102 million to resolve the case.
The federal investigation stems a massive coal ash spill on February 2, 2014 after a storm water pipe under an ash basin at the Dan River Coal Plan failed, releasing 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. Ash coated the river for more than 70 miles. Investigators also looked at other Duke plants around the state.
Duke Energy said the agreement, if approved by a judge, would close an investigation and resolve nine misdemeanor Clean Water Act violations tied to the spill and unauthorized discharges at the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C., maintenance problems at the Cape Fear Steam Electric Plant, and unauthorized discharges at steam stations and plans in Mt. Holly, Goldsboro and Asheville.
The agreement also requires Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress to pay $68.2 million in fines and restitution and $34 million for community service and mitigation.
"We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event," CEO Lynn Good said in a statement. ■
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Ryan Gosling is in negotiations to star in the Blade Runner sequel
With Harrison Ford already signed on to reprise his role from the original, it seems that Alcon Entertainment are beginning to find his co-stars, and they're aiming high.
There's been no word on what character Gosling could play, or anything to do with the storyline, but we'd be all up for a Ford vs Gosling on-screen fight, so we're rooting for him to be a villain. The film is set decades after the original, so Ford might be a little old to go all Airforce One, but it's Sci-Fi, I'm sure they can come up with a reasonable excuse to make it happen.
The sequel is to be directed by Denis Villeneuve(Prisoners, Enemy), and produced by Ridley Scott. The script is being penned by the original's co-screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, and Michael Green. Unfortunately that's just about all we really know about the film so far.
Shooting begins next summer, so we have plenty of time to be taken in by rumours before anything is confirmed, or before we get our eyes on the thing, but we can't wait.
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How a Gift Registry Is Being Used to Build Relationships and Strengthen Communities
by Edna Rienzi | January 12, 2016
When the Center for a New American Dream first launched SoKind Registry a few years ago, we knew our audience would use it in new and creative ways that would surprise and inspire us. And you have.
We've told you about Bloorcourt Sponsors, the group of neighbors in Toronto who wanted to sponsor a Syrian refugee family. They used SoKind to request all the items needed to outfit a new home, including furniture, clothing, transit passes, and $50,000 in cash—the equivalent of a year's salary. And, through this incredible effort, this group of neighbors who previously had little-to-no contact with each other has created a sense of community and shared purpose. A win-win for everyone involved.
Many people are also using SoKind to create support systems for friends or family suffering from illness. One family whose daughter is undergoing chemotherapy has registered for secondhand books, craft supplies, and Lego sets to help keep her entertained during her long hospital stays. Another family has registered for gas gift cards and homemade meals. Andrea Newell, a cancer survivor, has created the cancer treatment registry that she wished she could have had during her treatment. Her registry includes rides to chemo, secondhand books and magazines, playdates for her kids, and a day off for her husband.
Schools are using SoKind to create classroom wishlists. We've seen teachers register for everything from secondhand staplers and board games to gift cards for school supply stores. In addition to material goods, teachers can use SoKind to request gifts of time and experience. A teacher could request that someone sign up to sort bookshelves or help prepare art projects. These gifts would be far more useful than another "best teacher" mug or keepsake ornament. For more information on the logistics of setting up a classroom wishlist along with a sample wishlist, head over here.
Nonprofits are taking advantage of SoKind to create easy-to-use donation lists. Several groups running homeless shelters are registering for food, secondhand clothing, toiletries, furniture, as well as monetary donations. A group called Pop-Up Play used SoKind to help organize its first annual City-Wide Day of Play Festival in Philadelphia. They registered for event tents, social media support, help with the design of marketing materials, a photographer, and more. A sample nonprofit wishlist can be found here.
SoKind is a great tool for making a big impact in your larger community. But it can also strengthen your personal relationships as well. When Michelle and Jedd Chang finished their two-year stint as Peace Corps volunteers in Jamaica, they used SoKind to offer their friends and family concrete and non-financial ways to reconnect with them and support them in their transition back home. On their registry, they asked their loved ones to support their career transition by finding them on LinkedIn and "endorsing" and "recommending" them. Michelle asked for a bicycle loan. They asked for airline miles so that they could visit friends and family they hadn't seen in over two years. You can learn more about Michelle and Jedd's registry on SoKind's blog.
Do you feel inspired to use SoKind to make a positive change in your community or in your life? We would love to hear your ideas! And, if you've used SoKind Registry already, we would love to hear your story as well. Please email us at newdream@newdream.org.


Sup, makers! Nathan, with the OML dream team and @loopnthreads, here to talk about branding.
I went through a few phases when it came to my branding and style. I know I couldn't have been the only one who wanted some foundation on their branding and giving themselves an identity. So when the shine didn't shine anymore, it was time to rebuff.
Let's talk about when your brand needs a makeover, the importance of your name, continuity, evolution of your business and yourself, and expanding to a new audience. Ready? Ok let's talk.
I started here with one important word: quality. Quality is just about everything to me when my hands are involved. It's not quantity, but quality. Do you know how many people or groups have done something first but never really executed? What about the ones that didn't do it first, but did it right. They've made an impression on you that you'll never forget. Something you can connect with emotionally, and feel you have invested into something you can trust. That's what quality means to me.
I went back to the basics and focused on the details of things when it came to my design and logo. Simple things like, font, color, aesthetic, minimalism, and the actual meaning of Loop'n Threads. Loop is pretty obvious of course, but just in case you didn't know, that represented the yarn related aspect of my brand. The knitting, crocheting, patterns, and all fiber-esque things. Threads is the more broad part of my brand name. Threads has been used as an urban slang term to refer to a person's clothing or fashion. When it comes to fashion, that doesn't necessarily mean clothing, but something you find fashionable, which can be just about anything. I want what I make to be timeless. Fashion is definitely timeless, because parts of it can be so distinctive.
When I first started crocheting and knitting, I called myself The Hands On Club. Terrible name when I think about it now. It felt right at the time because it stood for the hands on aspect of knitting and crocheting. Makers are definitely hands on. The name also sounded like there was more than one person in the group. A club? It's just me. I wanted something future-proof and true to who I am.
I wanted to cut down what I was doing as a maker and focus on how well I was doing it. I wanted to clear up what Loop'n Threads meant. I wanted people to look at my body of work and see that it was mine before they even saw the tag. I started to cut out all the distractions and attitude of Mr. and Mrs. "Me Too". Okay, that worked for you, but let me find out what works for me.
I've always been into moody and minimal themes. When you see my logo you definitely see it as being minimal. There are no other colors or pictures with my logo. Nothing else to distract you. A black canvas with Roboto white font and two lines that don't meet. I thought it added a mysterious touch.
I believe you can see continuity from my packaging to my finished product. One side of the flyer that comes with every order is a picture of me (and eventually others) modeling my finished pieces. Cropped down and centered with white borders. The white helps represent a center of focus and minimalism. If you've seen my Instagram account, then you'll see the similarity. It also reminds me of Polaroids in a way. I guess that's a nod to my passion for photography.
Even though history repeats itself, we as humans evolve. With that, so should your brand. You don't want to overwhelm yourself with too many options, but you certainly want some kind of variety. That's what I learned over time and started to put my creative attitude in other areas. That's where my pressed flower work came in. It also showed my target audience I had other talents, and it opened up their imagination as much as it did mine.
I don't want to just appeal to people who love knitting and crocheting. I have a passion for photography itself too. If you haven't noticed, my photography style may be a bit different than what you see from other knitters and crocheters. That's because I want to combine two of my passions. Still ever-growing, I want to be able to appeal to lovers of photography as well.
At the end of the day, just look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, who am I? What do I represent as a person? What is it exactly that I want to get across? Identify yourself. Let them see you in your work. Take it one step at a time. Know that branding or rebranding requires a serious commitment to your culture, audience, and self.
Nathan is OML dream teamer and shop owner of Loop N Threads. He feels he would be wrong to say he found knitting; it's more like knitting found him. Nathan always had a creative and wild imagination for making things, and now he rarely puts his needles or hook down. Manipulating yarn has introduced him to many great things. It has also helped him connect with the past, being that his great grandmother was a knitter and crafter of many things. He is starting to realize the world is limitless with creativity.
Thanks for this insight! The entire process of branding and what really speaks to all that I want to convey has been more than overwhelming! You've given me some good food for thought...I see that I have some re-working to do...thanks again for the tips!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. It was definitely a journey for me. It still is actually. There are some small details I still want to accomplish to cover overall unity, but I am a lot more happier with where I am.
I'm so glad it helped you. I just figure that if I was there then I could share my personal experience as well. Forever learning.
I love how you have put thought and intention behind every decision that you made in designing your brand. Everything was done for a reason and it really comes through just the way you said...in the font, the colours that you chose, the photis you take.
Good work! Amd great Post Mate!
Thank you very much! That means a lot. Overall I am very happy with what I was able to present to myself and others. I feel confident and comfortable with it all now. I think personally I find small details adding up to something bigger fascinating. It was only right to do the same thing for myself.


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Italian researchers reported in July that ankle range of motion and muscle performance are significantly impaired in patients with diabetes, and not just in those who also suffer from peripheral neuropathy.
The findings suggest that other variables in addition to neuropathy—including body mass index, deconditioning, or neurological or orthopedic comorbidities—may be contributing to impaired ankle biomechanics in patients with diabetes. Previous studies of diabetic peripheral neuropathy patients have suggested that poor ankle musculature and ROM in that population contribute to the risk of plantar ulcers.


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Video evidence... when to disclose?
We recently had cause to appeal a decision of a District Judge preventing us from relying upon video footage (even though he had described it as "pure gold").
Our video evidence showed the claimant as unreliable (at best) but the medical evidence was not conclusive and the claimant's statement was out of date. We needed the claimant to "pin her colours to the mast" so she could not later argue that she had good and bad days. We were working on this as the trial date loomed closer.
We were disappointed at first instance that the District Judge decided we were trying to ambush the claimant when we were clearly not. We were vindicated on appeal and the evidence was allowed in, leading to the claimant discontinuing.
This claim illustrated the fact that each case will turn on its facts and that there may be good reasons why surveillance evidence is not disclosed until relatively late in the day. If there are good, plausible reasons, then following the test in Rall v Hume (2001), the video evidence should be allowed.
Employers liability for practical jokes in the workplace
The extent of vicarious liability has been tested by the courts again and this time in relation to employees engaging in horseplay and practical jokes.
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The concept of Assumption of Responsibility is on many stakeholders' minds at the moment following the Supreme Court decision in CN & GN v Poole.
Landlord and tenant inspections - getting the evidence right
In Rogerson v Bolsover District Council (2019) the Court of Appeal found against a local authority landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 following a finding of an inadequate inspection regime.
Applying QOCS protection in a claim for personal injury and something else
In The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Brown [2018], the High Court ruled that a Circuit Judge was wrong to automatically apply QOCS protection to a claim for misuse of data which also included a claim for personal injury.


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Michael Morell, the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is one of the leading national security professionals in the United States, with extensive experience in intelligence and foreign policy. He has been at the center of our nation's fight against terrorism, its work to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and its efforts to respond to trends that are altering the international landscape—including the rise of China, a revanchist Russia, and the cyber threat. Politico has called Michael the "Bob Gates of his generation."
During his 33-year career at CIA, Michael served as Deputy Director for over three years, a job in which he managed the Agency's day-to-day operations and analysis, represented the Agency at the White House and Congress, and maintained the Agency's relationships with intelligence services and foreign leaders around the world. Michael also served twice as Acting Director, leading CIA when Leon Panetta was named Secretary of Defense and again after David Petraeus left government.
Michael's senior assignments at CIA also included serving for two years as the Director of Intelligence, the Agency's top analyst, and for two years as Executive Director, the CIA's top administrator—man aging human resources, the budget, security, and information technology for an agency the size of a Fortune 200 firm.
Michael has been a witness to history on multiple occasions. He is the only person who was both with President Bush on September 11th, when al-Qaida burst into the American consciousness, and with President Obama on May 1st, when Bin Laden was brought to justice. Michael played a major role in the Bin Laden operation.
Michael was known inside CIA for his leadership. He inspired individuals and work units to perform beyond expectations. He mentored many Agency officers into the senior leadership ranks, including a significant number of women and minorities. When he departed CIA, thousands of officers wrote Michael notes of thanks.
Michael is the recipient of many awards. He received the Presidential Rank Award for exceptional performance – the nation's highest honor for civilian service. He also received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, CIA's highest award, for his role in the Bin Ladin operation. Michael is also the recipient of the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, and the Department of Defense Service Medal.
Today, Michael is involved in a wide range of activities. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; a member of the Board of Directors of Fortress Investment Group; Senior Counselor and Global Chairman of the Geopolitical Risk Practice at Washington's fastest growing consulting firm, Beacon Global Strategies; and an advisor to a large number of private sector entities. He is also the Chairman of the National Security Task Force at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Much of what Michael does today is tied to educating the country on national security. He is a Senior National Security Contributor for CBS News, the host of a CBS News popular podcast on national security called Intelligence Matters, an Expert Voice on Axios, and a Contributing Columnist for the Washington Post. He has lectured on national security at the University of Chicago, Stanford, Dartmouth, Harvard, West Point, and the Army War College. He a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council, a member of the Advisory Board to the University of Chicago's Project on Security and Threats, a member of the Advisory Board to the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, and a member of the Advisory Board to the Alliance for Securing Democracy program at the German-Marshall Fund.
He served as a member of President Obama's 2013 Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, and he was a member of the Atlantic Council's advisory group to its 2016 study on the future of the Middle East. He currently serves as a member on the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, a commission appointed by Congress to help it understand the nation's defense needs.
Michael is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Economic Association.
Michael is the author of the New York Times bestseller on CIA's nearly 20-year fight against al Qa`ida. The title of the book is "The Great War of Our Time: An Insider's Account of the CIA's Fight Against Terrorism – From al Qaida to ISIS." It was published in May 2015.
Michael is a native of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and he maintains close ties to northeast Ohio. His father and mother—who taught him hard work, the pursuit of excellence, and humility—were an autoworker and a homemaker. Michael is a first-generation college student, earning a B.A. summa cum laude in economics from the University of Akron. He also earned an M.A. in economics from Georgetown University.
Michael is involved with a number of charities. He is the Chairman of the America Working Forward Project at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and he serves on the Honorary Board of Directors at the International Spy Museum. Michael served on the Board of the CIA Officers Memorial Fund and on the Board of the National Intelligence University Foundation. He and his wife Mary Beth are fully committed to the first-grade class they sponsor at a DC Charter School.
Michael and Mary Beth have three children.
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RAGTIME ON RECORDS By Peter Filichia
All right, let's admit the mistake, apologize for it, and move on.
The new vinyl release of RAGTIME says on its spine "Original Soundtrack."
Some will say, "Well, what's wrong with that?"
It's a common misconception that ANY recording of a musical is a soundtrack.
Soundtrack albums come from movies, because films have a TRACK of SOUND.
A recording of a stage musical is a "cast album." That's the appropriate term to use for any release of the Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty masterpiece.
Actually, there WAS a soundtrack of RAGTIME, when it was a non-musical film in 1981. Randy Newman actually received two Oscar nominations: one for song, one for score.
But he and they have nothing to do with the musical that got Tonys for McNally, Ahrens and Flaherty at the close of the 1997-1998 season.
Ah, would that there was a soundtrack to their RAGTIME, for that would mean there'd been a film version. We can only hope till we reach that day.
(Jay Clark, one of the smartest casting gurus I know, suggests Amy Adams as Mother, Jake Gyllenhaal as Father, Skylar Astin as Brother, Sterling K. Brown as Coalhouse, Denee Benton as Sarah, Zach Braff as Tateh and Tyne Daly as Emma Goldman. Pretty smart, yes?)
As for this new album, the soundtrack mistake is all the more noticeable because this vinyl release is a three-record set with a spine that's more than a half-inch wide. Good news, though: if you turn the package around, you'll see the three separate records individually coddled in its own jacket. Here each spine states "Original Broadway Cast Recording."
So THAT'S the way we'll position the package in our collections.
RAGTIME is the latest addition to the growing roster of new vinyl. The sound is warmer, isn't it? But, as the cliché goes, that's not all.
When 12-inch long-playing records were supplanted by other formats, many mourned the loss of large expanses of pictures. That's rectified here by a 24-page booklet replete with dozens of photographs of the now-legendary 1998 production: Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald are well-represented; so is Marin Mazzie, a bittersweet reminder of how we lost her much too soon.
Although one essay is replicated from the original CD release, there are some new goodies. Douglas Lyons, who played the wronged Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in a 2017 5th Avenue Theatre production in Seattle, compared the experience with Mitchell in a generous three-page spread.
After you finish the booklet's first essay by Ahrens and Flaherty, you'd be well within your rights to assume that that's all they had to say. Not at all. The booklet concludes with their song-by-song analysis of all 38 selections. (This piece will also more than occasionally answer that famous question: "What comes first, the music or the lyrics?")
Even when Generation X'er Flaherty was just starting out in the 1980s, he was composing traditional-sounding theater music. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, when he was dealing with a period piece, he felt no need to write anachronistic rock for it. Other theater writers believe that we're now in an era where a segment of the population wants to hear rock, so rock must dictate the sound of their musical. Not Flaherty. He had to write for three different classes of people with three distinct sounds in a long-ago era.
So he gave us, among many others, the klezmer infused "A Shtetl Iz Amereke" for the Jewish immigrants, the stomping "Getting Ready Rag" for the Blacks and the stalwart "Journey On" for the WASPS. Flaherty got it all right – beautifully right, stirringly right, from each waltz to each piece of (of course) ragtime.
Goddard Lieberson, the guru of cast album producers, always hoped that the second side of a record would start with one of the show's strongest songs. Here the first song of the second record homages that goal: "Wheels of a Dream." Coalhouse has a steady job, a handsome new automobile, a reconciliation with Sarah whom he had mistakenly abandoned and a new son, too. He sees nothing but progress and prosperity, and she believes in him enough to agree. We revel in their happiness and want for them what the lovers want for themselves.
But as is the case in so many musicals, not long after everything seems idyllic, problems arise.
RAGTIME still provided Ahrens room to be optimistic, too. She created beautiful subtext in "Our Children," as Mother and the Baron (ne Tateh) sing about their kids bonding, when they're really bonding themselves. Also deft is "He Wanted to Say," a presentational song where Emma Goldman tells us what's on Brother's mind. It's a concept that would have impressed Bertolt Brecht (who didn't impress easily).
Ahrens also had to musicalize Mother, one of the greatest characters ever seen in a musical. (Credit to RAGTIME novelist E.L. Doctorow, too, of course.) No wonder that Marin Mazzie was so wonderful in the role; there was so much for her to play there.
Mother was gracious and strong in not trying to prevent her husband from taking his merry journey. The average 1906 woman of her station who discovers "a Negro child" in her backyard would snarl, "Oh, get this thing away from me!" Instead, she immediately feels pain for both the baby and Sarah. She stands up to the police who want to arrest Sarah and instead takes her into her home without worrying what the neighbors will think (in a time when everyone worried what the neighbors thought).
We see that Mother doesn't have a single prejudicial bone in her body, which is especially remarkable in an era when her peers had 206 of them. She always does the right and noble thing, no matter how many obstacles are in her way.
One of them is her husband, who upon his return rebukes her for "foolish female sentimentality." Mother stays silent but resolute while also showing that she's falling out of love with him.
This brings us to Ahrens' finest moment: "(We can never go) Back to Before," where Mother finally expresses what she's been feeling for a long time.
The musical version of RAGTIME was so highly anticipated that in 1996, a concept album (with much of the cast that would wind up on Broadway) was released. The one disc is still available (think of it as RAGTIME LITE), as is the two CD-set. This vinyl edition is now another way to reiterate that more than a quarter-century later, RAGTIME journeys on.
By the way, Ethan Mordden in his magnificent BEAUTIFUL MORNIN': THE BROADWAY MUSICAL IN THE 1940s – the one that Rod in AVENUE Q calls his favorite book – says that "album" is actually an incorrect term to use.
"Albums are books of collections, as for stamps or photographs," he wrote, telling of the era when a bunch of 78-rpm records (usually with one song per side) were gathered in a package. However, given that this new issue of RAGTIME has three records, we can genuinely call it an album.
But not a soundtrack.
Peter Filichia can be heard most weeks of the year on www.broadwayradio.com. His new book The Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes and Disagreements can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.


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Dowagiac Daily News
By: John Eby
Chicago Dixielanders Playing at Wood Fire
A longstanding Chicago jazz staple, the world-renowned Salty Dogs will bring their old-school, traditional jazz sound to Michiana with a concert at Wood Fire Italian Trattoria in Dowagiac on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m.
A favorite of jazz audiences throughout the country and around the world, the Salty Dogs have performed at some of the biggest jazz festivals and will be a familiar name to Michiana jazz lovers as they have played the Elkhart Jazz Festival for several years.
"The Dogs" started as a college jazz group in 1947 at Purdue University and honed their skills performing for Hoosier audiences when Indiana was part of the performing and recording circuit for the great musicians of that time: Hoagy Charmichael, King Oliver, Bix Biederbecke and Louis Armstrong all recorded in Richmond, Ind., with many of their sidemen settling in Chicago.
The Salty Dogs left Purdue in the 1960s to start playing professionally in venues throughout the country, leaving a small contingent of Purdue students to carry on the college group.
Today, many of the same original musicians carry on The Dogs' tradition and the band has been acclaimed as one of the foremost traditional jazz bands in the world.
In the 1950s and '60s, many of those great musicians mentioned above played side-by-side with the Salty Dogs.
Among them, the late Chicago tenor saxophonist, Franz Jackson, who recorded the album "Yellow Fire" with The Dogs in 1990.
The third annual Franz Jackson Jazz Celebration honors Jackson, a former Dowagiac resident, for his lifelong contribution to the music world.
Jackson, who passed away at the age of 95 in May 2008, started his professional career at the age of 16 with boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons and played with virtually every renowned jazz great, including Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Noone, Earl Hines, Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne.
His resume boasted credits as a repeat command performer for the King of Sweden, a 2005 American Heritage Jazz Series Honoree as one of the Greatest Living Jazz Tenor Saxophonists, an appearance on "The Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor and an interview by Studs Terkel for Steppenwolf Theater's TRAFFIC series on improvised music.
In 2006, he received a nomination for the National Endowment For The Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship and was the recipient of the Jazz Institute of Chicago Walter Dyett Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jackson continued his career until shortly before his death, appearing at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in May, 2007. In November 2007, Jackson's 95th birthday was celebrated in Dowagiac with a nearly three-hour-long gala concert featuring two dozen musicians from across the country.
The event raised more than $7,000 which was donated to four non-profit organizations focused on arts education, preservation and promotion.
Sponsored by Sunny 101.5, Wood Fire Italian Trattoria and Encore School of The Arts, concert tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children 14 and under.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.franzjackson.com or by calling the Wood Fire at (269) 782-0007.
Visit www.franzjackson.com or www.woodfiredining.com for more information.


John Henry was walking off the stage after a television interview during his team's first full-squad workout of the spring when the Boston owner was confronted by a lifelong Red Sox fan holding a bright red sign with white letters.
"All we ask is that you make us proud again to be a Boston Red Sox fan," the sign read.
"We're trying," Henry told her.
From banning alcohol in the clubhouse to apologizing to a wronged player and planning to be "more present" this season, the Red Sox ownership group called the 2012 season "a new chapter." The last one was a doozy, one that included a stunning collapse on the field and embarrassing conduct in the clubhouse that brought about sweeping changes to the front office and managerial staff and sullied the team's image with its devoted fan base.
Team president Larry Lucchino and chairman Tom Werner addressed the team yesterday before the workout, hoping to turn the page on last season, once and for all. Henry was present for the meeting but did not speak to the team.
"I would say we feel collectively that we have something to prove in 2012," Lucchino said.
The Red Sox blew a nine-game lead in the AL East over the final month of last season and afterward reports swirled of starting pitchers drinking beer and eating fried chicken in the clubhouse on their days off rather than cheering their teammates on from the dugout, prompting ownership to get more involved in the day-to-day operations of the club.
New manager Bobby Valentine has banned alcohol in the clubhouse and the owners have taken on a higher profile with the team this winter.
"We said that we accept our share of the responsibility for perhaps not having a more open-door policy," Werner said. "I think we'll be more present this year. ... This is a new chapter. We've accepted some collective and individual responsibility."
General manager Theo Epstein and manager Terry Francona, the tandem that led the long-suffering franchise to two World Series titles, did not return, replaced by Ben Cherington and Valentine, and the Red Sox were not their typical aggressive selves in free agency over the offseason after spending hundreds of millions on Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzales last winter.
Francona raised eyebrows after he parted ways with the Red Sox when he said he couldn't get Henry on the phone to talk about it. Henry said Francona never left a voice message, and he contacted the manager recently to "clear the air."
"We had a long conversation a few days ago when I found out he was trying to get in touch with me and it was a great conversation, one that we should have had prior to this," Henry said.
Henry has been hounded by nervous Red Sox fans throughout New England who worry that he has turned all of his focus, and financial muscle, toward Liverpool, the famed English soccer team that was purchased by the Red Sox parent company last year.
"It's difficult because I'm not here today. I'm somewhere else," Henry deadpanned, poking fun at those who say he isn't around the Red Sox enough. "If I were here today, I'd say this is about baseball. Today is about baseball. With us, every day is about baseball. We have other things, too. But every day, pretty much, I think we speak 365 days a year, maybe 364. But virtually every day there's something related to baseball."
All three tried to dispel the notion that the team is cutting costs, with Henry vehemently stating that the Red Sox have the second-highest payroll in baseball. Lucchino called the team's $190 million payroll "a gigantically large commitment because there's a gigantically large commitment to winning in this organization. And if we haven't proven that to you in 10 years, then shame on us."
Cherington will have to be mindful of the luxury tax, Henry said. He also hinted that there should be a change in mentality back to the ownership group's earlier days.
"When we first came in, I think there was a fear that we were going to have a small-market mentality," Henry said. "But I think that was an advantage. It's an advantage to have a big payroll and a small-market mentality. I think we have to be more careful with how we spend our money. There's a lot to consider with baseball economics going forward."
Henry also said that he planned to apologize to Crawford for saying on a Boston radio show that he personally opposed signing the outfielder to a seven-year, $142 million contract.
"I think that I should have never made those comments," Henry said. "It was an off-the-cuff remark I shouldn't have made and so when I see him I'm going to apologize to him for it."
Crawford said later in the afternoon that he still had not spoken with Henry, but he welcomed the outreach.
"I was a little disappointed by (Henry's remark)," Crawford said. "There were so many bad things going on at that time. That definitely didn't make things better for me."
Finally, Henry said the dispute with the Chicago Cubs over compensation for Epstein was a result of miscommunication with Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. The Red Sox wound up getting reliever Chris Carpenter in return.
"We probably had a misunderstanding, at least as far as expectation," Henry said. "There was no real agreement. The best way to explain it is we probably had different expectations based on first conversations as to what was transpiring."


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Tim's Top 10 movies for 2011
Here's my top movies list for 2011(pfft soo last year) and honestly as soon as I post it I'll probably want to revise it again. This is over 9000 times harder than my videogames list
anyway let us jam
A lot of films in the 2011 year were just pleasant surprises. Films that were sucker punches (but not Sucker Punch that movie was terrible haha jokes.. I kid) that hit me when I wasn't expecting it and those are sometimes the best films to watch.
I'm going to follow on how I did the videogames list and start with the runnerups in no particular order because they are not winners.
Runner ups
Definitely a sucker punching film that started the year off here. I was impressed with the cleverness of the story, the imagery, the ballet setting and my goodness actually fantastic acting by Natalie Portman. The film reminded me of the magnificent first film of the late Satoshi Kon, "Perfect Blue". It's not that far of a stretch that it would be so similar as Darren Aronofsky did buy the rights of Perfect Blue and he even directly referenced it in his film Requiem for a dream
True Gritt
I love this style of film from the Coen brothers, it's a lot like No country for old men. A slow burn film made up of little character moments. It was also fantastic to see their take on my favourite John Wayne movie. The Dude did a great job as Rooster Cogburn, Hailee Steinfeld was amazing and everyone else were such a wonderful collection of colourful characters.
Well here's my "WTF are you serious?" film but dang I really loved this one. I wonder if it is a 'hunger is the best spice' sort of film as there has been a lack of high concept scifi films but I really loved how the world worked. I loved how you had those clocks on your arm saying how much time you had to live. I loved that line about how you can tell someone has come from the slums because they are always running everywhere. I quite liked the ending about how if the system existed, although it seems cruel how the time was given out, it was necessary to run the world that way.
I would like to see a second film that actually deals with the fallout from this film. There were a few other cool concept things going on that I really dug as well and yeah Timberlake was pretty good in it. The muscle cars with the Jettson sound effects cracked me up though
Mannn this was fun. BEAUTIFULLY designed (eff what everyone else says) with such a great cast of unique individual characters (seriously every character in this movie could have their own spin off movie) and it just being a super fun animated adventure filled with reference to old cowboy movies. Oh and IT DOESN'T pussy out on making scenes tense that you fear for the characters.
That Rattlesnake dude was so scary and awesome he had me sliding down in my cinema seat.
Total surprise! Why? I really didn't like Kung Fu Panda 1 that film just rubbed me the wrong way but this film just fixed all my complaints about the first one. Mostly with how it fleshed out all the characters and had fantastically staged action moments that felt meaty. The story was also a lot more solid even though it still had that destiny crap (not that I'm against the idea of destiny it's just a boring film trope). Like I said this one was a surprise and it left me with a big grin.
Andy Serkis and the team of animators pulled this one off. They made the ape Caesar something real. You can see his mind ticking over and that's the magic here. I mean all the rest of the characters are pretty stock standard. It was nice how they worked in the other apes movie in the background but dammm Caesar carried that whole film. Oh Malfoy turned up to be a jerk and that was pretty entertaining as well (COMEUPPANCE!!!).
Oh SH**!!! This to me is the best super hero film ever made. It's just a brutal portrayal of real dude who decides to put on an outfit and fight crime. The comedy is fantastic, his catch phrase "Shut up Crime!" and those wonderful dream sequences oh and Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon are great as well. However it's the last part of the film that destroys me though. It drops the comedy for a powerful shocking effect where it becomes really honest to the characters and the situation and leaves you with something that is quite heartfelt and I'll use this word again, honest.
I'm pretty interested in how Tim Gunn (the films director/writer) has hooked up with Grasshopper/ Suda 51 (killer 7, no more heroes, Shadow of the Dammed) to make Lollipop Chainsaw
That game looks so effin crazy it's distracting me from my list.
This film for me is a fantastic concept film. Where they've taken a standard Hollwood action movie and just removed 98% of the dialogue and like what they did with Planet of the Apes they just added in moments of thought, characters just thinking. That to me is the joke, that they gave a braindead action film a thinking brain and hilariously it works. It totally helped that they styled it like a indie comic book and added an 80s sort of aesthetic to it which I'm quite fond of (my last personal film was all about this style) oh and Ryan Gosling is dreamy
(find some more Gosling "hey girl" here)
I wanted to put this as my film of the year just because this is one of those films I feel is just made for me. This is 2d animation at it's absolute greatest. When a car gets a burst of acceleration it buckles and kicks all over the screen then blasts off in leaving a giant trail of flames and smoke and with how it's drawn and animated you really feel it. It excites you and like a ninja you flip out. Takeshi Koike gives us wonderful exciting movement, beautiful stylised characters/world and most importantly he makes drawing look fun.
This was the one film I had been waiting for for 5+ years to watch and with all that build up and with my expectations at their absolute highest the film still managed to deliver to me what I wanted and more. I've watched this film a bunch of times and I think once I finish this list I'm going to pop it in and watch it again.
Best film of 2011
Ok here we go for my pick of 2011
I'm sorry I couldn't find a subtitled trailer so I'll begin with the synopsis
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is 'lucky' and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life
Now last year I got in an argument with some Pixar fanboys about how I felt the trailer for Brave felt like a step backwards from the beautiful animation that was in Tangled and they kept coming back with "nah you idiot they just want their animation to be more subtle and realistic" this just made me groan because if you have watched a film like Colorful you'd know what is subtle realistic looks like and this is what is so great about Colorful is its understated subtle realism.
These are real characters and my god you hate them and you feel sorry for them, you want to help them you and want to punch them in the face. It really involves you as a viewer and I'm sure that will split its audience into people who love this film and people that hate it with just as much passion.
It is the subtleties in their movements. Individual, unique and personalised to each character. There's not just one thing that defines them, they are complex and that makes them very human. You can see them saying one thing but you can tell that they're holding stuff back. Much like the acting they were trying to capture in LA Noire. The characters also grow and change throughout the film.
The pacing and filming is perfect, moments like the awkward dinner table conversations are drawn out breaking your heart and frustrating you. Also every word is of dialogue is well used and not wasted as well as its silence. Much like Drive and the Apes we see the characters think. The expert control by Keiichi Hara in this film is phenomenal.
For me Redline was the most fun and exciting movie of the year but this one edged it out to be my top film for 2011 by just emotionally scarring me haha. No I mean the ending is happy enough but it really knew how to push my buttons and to do that with animation mannn that humbles me as an animator.
Ok now it is time for some of the booo hisss films I saw
Worst film
Now I didn't mind the first Cars... well the romance between the cars weirded me out but that end race was exciting. Now this film was really boring and it's crazy because they were trying so hard (maybe too hard) to make it so fun and exciting. I hate using that word boring to describe a film but I became more interested in adjusting the settings on my phone (I watched this film at home doing this in a cinema is a stoneable offence) than what was going on. I found myself groaning and wondering how much longer the film was going to go on for. I was just watching this film by myself there was no reason I couldn't have stopped it and walked away but it's Pixar they don't make bad movies... EXCEPT THEY DID AND IT IS CALLED CARS 2.
It marks the end of their winning streak (well not in $'s they still killed it there) and adds a black dot to their name. They better come out swinging with Brave or we're going to have another Disney incident and a lot of unemployed animators.
Most disappointing
Here's 2 films that I had to mention because I had high hopes and they let me down
What a blurry misdirected mess of a film! The whole way through this film I kept hoping it was going to turn a corner, that it was going to get better. I reached the credits going "It's still good... there's still time.. maybe they'll pull a Wild Things and put the best parts in the credits" to which my partner put her hand on my shoulder and just said "It's over Tim... it's over". So disappointing
Let me start by saying it's my own fault for not liking this film. No one elses, my own dam fault. You see what I did before seeing this film...well a good few months before was that I had took it upon myself to read every single X-men (and X-factor/force/etc) comic from number 1 to the current issues. Now what worked in the film were actually moments and characterisations directly lifted from the comic what didn't work was the stupid hollywood bullshit. It was also an ugly cheap looking film, especially that end part on the beach. I think that was what I loved about Thor was it actually looked like it was made by a film maker not an episode director of Buffy (I've set my expectations low for you Whedon!).
I didn't hate X-Men First class (I felt compelled to draw that picture) I was just disappointed at the what it could have been when they had so much great material to work with.
Ok I don't like finishing on negatives so here's my just counting down the days
This just oozes style. I saw this trailer before Drive and by it's end I was standing up because I was so engrossed in this trailer. Next week WOOOO!
I'm drooling. I'm not kidding drool is coming out of my mouth. Look at it! It's effin gorgeous!
Effin Batman come on! I'm hoping Christopher Nolan finishes his Batman strong.
Wait what? I thought I said my expectations were low. Goddamit! Nick Fury turning up at the end of the other movies did hook me in and made me pretty excited for this. This film is the big gamble where they better have gone all in. The trailers look pretty great and the cast looks good together Whedon is no slouch when it comes to characters and story lets hope he brings in some spectacle
annnnd done EFF YESSSS!!!!
Labels: movies, Timothy Merks, Top Ten 2011
Edward J Grug III January 12, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Kung Fu Panda was number 16 or 17 on my worst list. Just knocked off. After loving the first movie, I couldn't have been more bored with this one.
I also though Rango was beautiful, but it was great at the start and the very end, and had a real lull in the middle (for me). It would be in the top five most beautiful films of the year for sure.
And I couldn't make it through Cars 2.
I saw Arriety last night and I loved it, but Jess and Campbell both didn't - What did you think. (I don't think it's the best Ghibil film, but I do think it's the best one in ten years - since Spirited Away came out).
I haven't seen Arriety yet. I do want to check it out. This is one of their trying to find someone to keep the Ghibli name going films. I think this is something of a curse that the directors may find themselves trying to make a Ghibli styled film and ending up with only a copy of a Ghibli film. I am looking forward to the film though.
Dee January 12, 2012 at 6:28 PM
I agree that Kung Fu Panda 2 was better than the first one, though I'm finding Jack Black's schtick increasingly tiresome.
Love True Grit. LOVE. The Coens just keep topping themselves. And I was surprised by how much I liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes, as I've never seen the other films and never had any desire to. I expected schlocky crap but it was quite a gripping thriller.
I've had Super downloaded for a while, must get around to watching that.
I think Blacks schtick works best when there's other characters just as interesting to bounce off of. If it is just him doing his thing yeah it doesn't really carry a movie
Super is either one you will love or hate it leaves no room for 'meh'
I've never seen anything on this list, but I REALLY want to see In Time and a few others. Drive look interesting and so does Black Swan.
Tim, did you ever see Southland Tales?
I have it and I've put it in the dvd player to check out but I've always been distracted by something. It's like my cursed film haha. I do want to watch it though despite the horrible reviews
Oh have you seen Gattaca? I think that's a better film than In Time (same director)It has the same low key scifi feel to it. It's a lot like Goddard's Alphaville. I also remembered after posting this In times hilarious groan worth puns/lines that they constantly drop throughout the movie. I purged that from my memory when I was compiling my favourites list haha
I have Gattacca but never watched it as well. I need to dig out the DVD from somewhere around here.
If you can make it through the Southland Tales trailer, or even the first 10 minutes of the film... and like what you see, then you'll probably enjoy it. It's definitely a love / hate, with a lot of hate, but one of my favorite films of all time. It feels like Richard Kelly's much weirder Pulp Fiction style film. Tons of characters in sprawling stories, and very, very long.
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GGF 2035
How Can We Plan For an Uncertain Future?
A Conversation with Johannes Gabriel
Recorded in May 2018
Global Futures is a podcast about global politics and how rising powers like China and India are changing it. We discuss foreign policy, economics, war and peace, and how the world is changing with experts from across the world.
What are the upcoming global challenges that demand our consideration in order to avoid surprises, mitigate risks, and make use of the opportunities they offer? In search of the answers, the 27 fellows of the Global Governance Futures 2030 program will meet over the course of 2018 and 2019 in four dialogue sessions to look ahead 10 years and think of ways to better address global challenges. To do so, the fellows will use a variety of strategic foresight instruments, including scenario planning and risk assessment.
In this episode of the Global Futures podcast Joel Sandhu from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) meets Johannes Gabriel, founder and director of Foresight Intelligence and GPPi non-resident fellow , to discuss scenario-planning and how it is used in the context of GGF program and elsewhere.
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I'm Serious About Moving New Jersey Forward
By Observer Content Studio • 10/23/17 4:12pm
The Bridgegate scandal: the busiest bridge in the world was shut down. Children stranded on school buses. People stuck in traffic for hours, late for work and missing job interviews. First responders needlessly delayed.
It was the worst of the Christie-Guadagno administration. Petty political ambition was put ahead of the public good.
Bridgegate symbolizes Chris Christie and Kim Guadagno's overarching failure to move our state forward. The sad fact is their biggest triumph was a traffic jam.
Worst of all, their failures shortchanged our future.
After 8 years, incomes are down, costs are up and our economy is crawling. New Jersey lags where we should lead. Families and seniors are paying a heavy price for the arrogance and incompetence of the Christie-Guadagno administration.
I'm running for governor to change the failed course we have followed and to stop the divisive dialogue we have endured over the past eight years. Together we'll build a stronger, fairer economy that works for every New Jersey family.
I've learned how to grow and create jobs, and I don't owe the insiders anything. I have a vision for New Jersey's future as a global leader in the innovation and infrastructure economies to create good jobs, backed by strong public schools, world-class colleges and universities, and underpinned by thoroughly modern infrastructure. Here's how I plan to build our economy and make New Jersey fair and strong again:
Fully fund our public schools to create more opportunity and provide real property tax relief,
Re-invest in our four year colleges to make them affordable and accessible while working towards free community college to prepare our workforce for a rapidly changing economy,
Ask the wealthiest New Jerseyans and big corporations to pay their fair share, thus protecting the middle class,
Invest in infrastructure to create new jobs at good wages,
Raise the minimum wage, mandate earned sick leave, expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, establish a Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, and finally ensure equal pay for equal work,
Fully fund women's health programs and Planned Parenthood,
Accept the reality of climate change and the threats to our environment through targeted investments in alternative wind and solar energy, and
Pass every common sense gun safety law vetoed by the Christie-Guadagno administration.
After eight failed years, Chris Christie and Kim Guadagno left New Jersey stuck.
I'm serious about moving New Jersey forward.
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What causes swelling in the lower extremities during 33rd week of pregnancy?
I have read your question carefully and understand your concern.
Firstly I'm glad to read that doctors have excluded preeclampsia ,but while your blood pressure have been a bit high you should be under the supervision of your follow-up doctor because high blood pressure affects growth of your baby.
Hence you should check your blood pressure more frequently and do ultrasound scans to see how your baby is growing-up .
Secondly, meanwhile pre-eclampsia is excluded, swelling of low extremities at 33 weeks of pregnancy is a normal process because it is caused due the compression of big lymphatic vessels by your baby.
Try not to stand -up for a long time and when you lay down keep your legs up and put a pillow under them.
thanks this is very helpful. I am keeping track of my BP daily and last 3 days it's been normal. however is it common to feel and see the swelling come on so rapidly that if I don't get some knee high compression socks on it goes into hands and face in less than 3 minutes my ears feel like I'm on an airplane and get light headed. today these spells have happened about 6 times while resting with feet up.
Firstly, it's a good thing that your BP is normal last three days, without any medication .
Secondly, you haven't have any proteinuria .
Hence hands, legs and facial swelling(edema) is due to pregnancy and no other reasons .
But you need to be closely monitored while you have had a slightly high blood pressure .


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Not all patients who complain of lower eyelid dark circles are suitable for surgical improvement, usually in the form of a lower eyelid blepharoplasty. The use of tear trough injections offers some patients a less invasive alternative treatment for their problem. It is not suitable, however, for patients who have very loose skin in the lower eyelids or very pronounced eye bags. Such patients require surgery.
Although the use of soft tissue fillers in other areas of the face is well established and associated with high patient satisfaction, their use for the management of dark circles is proven to be the most exciting new application for fillers.
The treatment comprises a series of micro-injections along the line of the hollow. The area is then gently massaged to ensure even distribution of the gel. The treatment is undertaken as an office procedure that offers immediate cosmetic results, and a very short recovery period. The duration of the effect lasts approximately 9-12 months. The treatment is usually pain-free, although some patients are aware of a mild discomfort during the gentle massage required to create a smooth contour during the treatment. The use of fillers also does not remove the option of surgery at a later stage. It can also be used for patients who have previously undergone cosmetic eyelid surgery and have some residual hollowing of the lower eyelids.
Occasional contour irregularities can occur. These are managed with massage. If a patient is unhappy with the result, the filler can be easily and rapidly dissolved using hyaluronidase. Bruising and mild swelling may occur, but these usually resolve within a week. In order to reduce the risk of bruising it is advisable to discontinue the use of Aspirin or any anti-inflammatory medicines e.g. Ibuprofen, Diclofenac, Voltarol, at least a week before treatment provided it is medically safe to do so.
A consultation is important to ascertain a patient's suitability for this treatment. In the hands of an experienced doctor, the risks and potential complications are very small but these must be considered carefully following a discussion at a consultation before proceeding with the treatment.


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Susan Ebrahimi (* 30. Januar in Saarbrücken) ist eine in Deutschland lebende Liedtexterin und Schlagersängerin mit persisch-österreichischen Wurzeln.

Leben
Geboren und aufgewachsen in Saarbrücken, wo sie heute noch wohnt, hat Ebrahimi einen iranischen Vater (Mahmud Ebrahimi-Nejad (* 1939)) und eine österreichische Mutter. Ihr Vater, Abkömmling einer persischen Adelsfamilie, wurde im Jahre 1960 zu einem Medizinstudium nach Deutschland entsandt. Dort lernte er seine spätere österreichische Frau kennen. Ebrahimi bezeichnet sich als eine persische Prinzessin.

Im Alter von 9 Jahren beginnend, absolvierte sie eine französische Klosterschule und danach in Deutschland eine Ausbildung zur Graphikerin. Aus dieser Zeit resultieren ihre Kenntnisse der französischen Sprache. Nach ihrer Ausbildung eröffnete Ebrahimi ihr eigenes Graphik- und Design-Studio. Durch eine Begegnung mit dem Komponisten und Musikproduzenten Willy Klüter kam sie zur Musik. Ende Juni 2009 trat sie in der Sendung ZDF-Fernsehgarten auf und im September 2009 war sie in der MDR-Sendung von Uta Bresan Die Show im Zoo zu sehen. Aus dem Congress Centrum Suhl übertrug der MDR im November 2010 in der Sendung Schlager des Jahres 2010 einen Auftritt Ebrahimis und im Dezember des gleichen Jahres in seiner Show Alle Jahre wieder … "Prominente Weihnachtsmänner" packen aus einen weiteren.

Inzwischen hat Ebrahimi Texte für Klüter und Uwe Haselsteiner geschrieben. 2011 gründete Ebrahimi ihren eigenen Verlag namens Blue Lemuria Music und ein Jahr später 2012 mit Klondike-Records ihr Plattenlabel. Einige ihrer Titel erzielten bereits Erstplatzierungen in den deutschen Airplaycharts, viele wurden auf dem Schlager-Onlinemagazin smago! (siehe hierzu smago! Award) rezensiert.

2016 veröffentlichte sie mit Grün ihr sechstes Studioalbum. Neben Willy Klüter schrieben für Grün auch Stefan Zauner und Uwe Busse jeweils einen Song. Grün wurde im April 2016 bei Antenne Brandenburg in der Sendung Sonntagsvergnügen und beim Sender hr4 in der 21. KW/2016 als "Album der Woche" präsentiert. Zudem war sie nach der Veröffentlichung des Albums bei den SWR4-Programmsendern Baden-Württemberg und Rheinland-Pfalz zu Gast. Auch der Hörfunksender BRF2 des Belgischen Rundfunks berichtete in der Reihe Künstlertreff im Juli 2016. Ebenfalls im Juli 2016 war ihr eine Folge der Gute-Laune-TV-Reihe Schlager XXL gewidmet.

Ebrahimi ist geschieden und Mutter eines Sohnes und einer Tochter.

Diskografie

Alben
 2010: Federleicht (Da Records / Da Music)
 2011: Zauberhaft (Da Records / Da Music)
 2011: Wunderherzen (Da Records / Da Music)
 2013: Das perfekte Gefühl (Da Records / Da Music)
 2013: D'ici et d'ailleurs (Palm Records)
 2014: Grün (Solis Music)
 2019 Du Bist Einmalig (Klondike Records & Song)

DVDs
 2016: Das Beste – Die schönsten Videos inkl. Interviews (Solis Music)

Singles und Kompilationsbeiträge
Zudem veröffentlichte sie zahlreiche Promo-Singles, die meisten davon bei Da Records. Einige ihrer Songs erschienen als Kompilationsbeiträge auf Schlagersämplern der Reihen Bääärenstark!!! (Sony Music Entertainment) und Doppelt gut (DA Music). 2009 erschien Der Traum vom Fliegen auf Stars Singen Alexandra (Edel Records). Auf Bernhard Brink Präsentiert: Die Schlager Des Jahres Folge 16 (2011; Koch Universal Music) erschien ihr Song Wer Hoffnung hat, hat alles. Zu Die Deutsche Schlagerparade 1/2011 (Sonocord) trug sie Viva la danse bei, auf Die Schlager Hitparade – Winter (2016; Da Music) erschien Winter in Venedig und auf Der deutsche Schlager Sommer 2016 (Telamo) ein "extended dance remix" von Du bist wie Gold. Außer ihre eigenen Texte schrieb sie Songtexte für Vivian Lindt, Christian Anders, Jens Wagner, Xandra Hag und Axel Becker. Im Sommer 2017 erschien die Single Überleben (Solis Music), im Frühjahr 2018 Keiner kann das so wie du (Klondike Records & Songs) und Anfang 2019 Wer Träume hat ist nie allein (Klondike Songs / Ed. Blue Marlin) zusammen mit Daria Ebrahimi.

Ehrungen
 2010 wurde die Orchideenneuzüchtung "Cattleya Susan Ebrahimi" nach ihr benannt (Registrant: Rainer Janke).

Weblinks

 Susan Ebrahimi Homepage

 Susan Ebrahimi bei hitparade.ch

Einzelnachweise

Schlagersänger
Musiker (Deutschland)
Person (Saarbrücken)
Deutscher
Österreicher
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
Frau


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Letter uses fictitious church burning to elicit donations
Ken Alltucker — Jun 26th, 1996
* Exploiting a string of church arson fires in the South, an apparently fraudulent letter sought funds to rebuild a Silverdale Lutheran church that never existed.
By Ken Alltucker
Sun Staff
Police are investigating as fraud a letter that has been sent to homes in Kitsap and King counties asking for money to help rebuild a razed Silverdale Lutheran church.
"Three weeks ago our Lutheran church was burned to the ground by an arsonist," said the letter, signed by U.S. Lutheran Church Pastor Ray Lund. "This has been a very sad situation for us."
According to Silverdale Fire District 1 Bat. Chief Randy Billick, there have been no church fires in the county.
And there is no U.S. Lutheran Church in Silverdale, or anywhere, according to Silverdale Lutheran Church Rev. Alan Berg. Berg has never heard of Pastor Ray Lund.
"It's apparent they are playing off the tragedy in the South," said Berg, referring to the more than 40 arson fires in predominately black churches. "In my mind, it's extremely unfortunate that people use human tragedy to make a profit on."
Berg said his church has received several queries from citizens asking about the letter's validity. The letter, which asked that money to be sent to a Silverdale post office box, is littered with misspellings and inconsistencies, but Berg worries that some people might be persuaded to contribute funds.
The letter reads: "If you can find it in your heart and God leads you, we would be deeply grateful for any financial donation you can send, any amount is helpful."
The "church," according to the letter, consists of normal church services and outreach to children's hospital, dying children, nursing-home visitations, homeless-people projects, single mothers, fighting abortions, preaching to homeless people, prison visitation and jail evangelism.
Berg said it appears the letter's author tried to appeal to a variety of interests.
Berg said Kitsap County sheriff's deputies are investigating the letter's origin. Postal inspectors are also investigating the letter.
LUTHERAN BROTHERHOOD: A method to their money
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SILVERDALE LUTHERAN: Busy church grew from homespun roots
* Fifty years after it began, Silverdale Lutheran Church has a baptized membership of more than 1,000. Some say it all started with a borrowed cup of buttermilk. That was in 1905, when two Norwegian immigrant women decided to start the "Lutheran Ladies Aid of Central ... [Read More...]
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Poser pastor collared for prescription con
* A Poulsbo man who dresses like a pastor has tried to raise money for a burned church that never existed, police say. By Ken Alltucker Sun Staff Prosecutors expect to charge a Poulsbo man, who claims to be the pastor of a Lutheran ... [Read More...]
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Q: How to add 'created_at' and 'updated_at' columns? I need to add 'updated_at' and 'created_at' columns to some already existing table in MySQL database. I've added those colums using MySQL Workbench, but what query should I use to make them work properly? Thanks in advance ;)

A: According to the reference manual* you can use the DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP clauses in column definitions:

With both DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  the column has the current timestamp for its default value and is
  automatically updated to the current timestamp.

whereas:

With a DEFAULT clause but no ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP clause, the
  column has the given default value and is not automatically updated to
  the current timestamp.

So, for example, you could use:
CREATE TABLE t1 (
  created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ,
  updated_at DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
);

To add the columns to an already existing table you can use:
ALTER TABLE t1
ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
ADD COLUMN updated_at DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

Note: Link provided refers to MySQL 8.0. The syntax is the same for previous versions as well. There is some difference though for versions prior to 5.6.5. Just quoting from the manual again:

As of MySQL 5.6.5, TIMESTAMP and DATETIME columns can be automatically
  initializated and updated to the current date and time (that is, the
  current timestamp). Before 5.6.5, this is true only for TIMESTAMP, and
  for at most one TIMESTAMP column per table.

A: Try to use a Trigger. As example, when creating a new entry, the trigger will be activated and will execute, like an event in c# or an Action listener in Java!
With them, you can update that new entry with a creation date, or an edited date when you manipulated an entry. See this Documentation on how to use MySql Triggers on w3resource.

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More Americans rate the economy "poor" and say it is "getting worse"
PRINCETON, NJ -- After improving slightly earlier this month, Gallup's Economic Confidence Index declined over the past two weeks to its current -33, matching the average for all of July.
The July confidence numbers are the lowest of the year so far; thus, even with the slight uptick in early August, confidence remains below the levels seen during much of 2010 and below its depressed levels of a year ago.
Forty-eight percent of Americans rated current economic conditions as "poor" during the week ending Aug. 22 -- approaching the highest levels of the year. This is marginally worse than the early August reading, is in line with the full July average of 47%, and is marginally worse than at this time in 2009.
During recent weeks, slightly more consumers told Gallup they think economic conditions are "getting worse" than thought that was the case earlier this month. These expectations for the economy basically match the average for all of July and are worse than those consumers held at this time a year ago.
Gallup's economic confidence data show consumer confidence giving up its modest gains of late July and early August during recent weeks. These declines in consumer confidence are not surprising given the downturn on Wall Street, all the talk of an economic slowdown, and the growing fears of a double-dip recession.
In turn, the decline in Gallup's Economic Confidence Index suggests that Friday's Consumer Sentiment report is likely to show a decline from its earlier estimate for August -- but still exhibit a modest improvement compared with the average for all of July. As a result, Friday's report for the month may already be somewhat out of date even as it is released.
Gallup's underemployment measure suggests there has been little or no recent improvement in the job market, while Gallup's consumer spending measure shows essentially no improvement from a year ago. The stagnation in these measures, along with the decline in consumer confidence, seems consistent with another weak back-to-school season. Of course, the nation's retailers can still hope that many consumers are simply delaying their purchases until the last minute because of the current weak economy, not deciding to forgo them altogether.
Regardless, probably the most troubling aspect of the current economic confidence data is that they show no improvement from a year ago. In fact, Americans are slightly less optimistic about the future direction of the economy today than they were at this time in 2009. This is not good news for retailers or for incumbents facing re-election this November.
If you smoke or are overweight and are looking for a job, getting hired may present a unique problem. Twenty-four percent of Americans say they would be "less likely" to hire someone who smokes, and 19% say the same about a person who is overweight.


Once the list of the first rush of improvements is defined (you can find mine in the previous post) it is time to get the hands dirty, proposing visual solutions and skim those to choose the one which fits best.
Show "out of stock info" in the thumbnail of products.
Show "pick up in-store only" or "home delivery only" info in thumbnail and detail page of products.
Add interactive stock availability check typing name of a store, city or address).
Change the names of the categories in more self-explicative ones.
I tried to visualize those, analyzing the position of all the elements on the website, the existing structure (it is necessary to consider this too in order to create something consistent with the surrounding) and the overall info communication style.
Then I spent the rest of the time sketching different solutions which could eventually be useful for my user personas.
Following, find the quick studies of the functionality.
I added two icons (one for "pick up in-store" and the other for "home delivery") that are meant to show immediately to the users what type of service they can get from the specific article (Annette would be delighted to know this info, so she could filter the articles she might buy without move from her home).
The rest of the info structure is maintained as the original.
As well as for the thumbnails, you find the same info about the type of the service also in the detail page.
Then, instead of force the users on pressing the "Reserve this item" button before they understand the stock availability of a specific store, I create an interactive form which allow them to check the stock of their favorite store and the others next to it to decide where to collect the product (of course this option is available only for "pick up in-store" products).
Once the user types down the name of the store, the address or the City name, the system shows a list of stores where it is possible to collect the item.
Honestly, I wasn't so happy about this last design: I find the list widget a little bit confusing and repetitive (as you can see from the image the reserve button would be repeated for each row).
As first I decide to add the locator button (the same one you can find on Google Maps) to make easy for users to discover stores close to them at that specific moment.
Then, I decide to convert the list in something more interactive, so I choose the map system.
It is a standard, so almost everybody knows how to use it and also if it is not true for somebody, it is still very intuitive.
It makes easy to discover new stores that customers might not know.
Then I quickly visualized how I wanted it to appear, putting everything together.
The final result is pretty convincing: moving from the general list of products to the detail page there is a common thread which informs the users about the type of service they can expect when buying the specific product.
Lastly to be done: organize and change the names of the categories, in order to create a system easy to navigate reducing useless extra clicks and where every section is explicative by its own.
As you can see, apart from a few categories (home appliances and toys), the sections are less split in depth, so that it is possible to find products with fewer clicks.
Then, it was time to prototype; online there are plenty of instruments that can help on prototyping a solution for your digital product, but for this project, I decided to use Invision.
This is an online platform which allows loading raster images and makes these interactive thanks to a series of very handy tools that can simulate web animation and detects the movement of the mouse (for laptops) or the finger (for mobile).
So, with several screenshots I took from my mobile, I create a new series of images using Photoshop and adding the graphic element previously designed in the wireframes.
Annette can finally skim the products she can buy knowing before what of those are available to be delivered at home.
Barbara can build her trust with the firm because she knows everything she needs to complete her purchase (no ambiguous info).
Philip can navigate without fail and quickly to the product he is interested in and can understand immediately about the stock availability of his area.
Next in queue is the final step of this process: User Testing Sessions.
I will go through the actual website of Argos.ie mobile and then I will ask my users to complete the same tasks with my prototype, and we will see if the redesign is so great as I think it is!
Find everything in my next article: "UXing Argos.ie mobile: Users Testing".


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Rub some oil around a 1kg/2lb loaf tin or line it with parchment.
Weigh the flour into a large mixing bowl.
Put the yogurt, water (and lemon juice if used) and two spoons of the oil into another bowl and stir to mix.
Cover the bowls and leave them in a warm place for 30 minutes and pre-heat the oven.
Stir the yogurt mix into the flour to form a soft dough.
Drizzle the last spoon of oil over the dough. Tip the bowl back and forth or side to side moving the dough so that it becomes lightly covered in oil and loosens from the bowl.
Put the bread into the hot oven, close the door immediately then reduce the temperature to the lower heat at 200°C, Fan 180°C, 400°F, Gas 6.


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BBQ next week – The club's annual summer BBQ will take place on Saturday 21st June. Tickets (£10) are available from the clubrooms or at Micky McCrory's newsagent, John Street. The BBQ will also coincide with the visit of the Barrow Rangers club from Kilkenny for the All-Ireland Feile na nGael. Everyone is encouraged to show their support for the BBQ which is now a key event in the club's social calendar.
Feile meeting – Anyone available to help over the weekend of the Feile is invited to a meeting in the clubrooms this evening (Thurs) at 7pm. Any business or individual who would like to make a donation towards new team attire and equipment for the U14 Feile team is asked to contact either Ciaran McDaid 07729 378421 or Dominic McClements 07725351643 asap.
All County League – On the field of action, the seniors lost to Killyclogher last Sunday while the Reservers picked up vital points in a good win. This Saturday the Reserves are in championship action against Coalisland at Healy Park at 7.30pm.
U21s – The U21s also commenced their championship campaign on Wednesday with an impressive win over Carrickmore and are also home to Errigal Ciaran next Tuesday at 7.30pm.
Youth coaching – Camogie and U12 boys football coaching continues on Friday evening at the usual times while the U10 boys have football and hurling coaching on Saturday morning at 10am in St. Patrick's Park.
U8 blitz – The U8 boys have a football blitz in Killyclogher on Saturday at 10.30am. Parents to leave boys off at Ballinamullan by 10am.
Special meeting – All paid up Club Members are invited to attend a Special General Meeting to be held in the Clubroom at Healy Park on Monday 23rd June at 8pm. The meeting is required to make minor amendments to the Club's constitution.
Charity dance – There will be a fund raising dance in the clubrooms this Saturday evening in aid of Barry McAleer who is ill in an Australian Hospital. Dancing to Folklore 9pm-12.30am. Tickets available at Micky McCrory's Newsagent John Street, Omagh, or contact Peter Bennett 028 8224 3899.


We are hosting our first book club in the His Kingdom Come community. Beginning tomorrow we will read The Creative Call by Janice Elsheimer. We will read a chapter a week and share our thoughts and art for each chapter in a special book club group on the HKC website. If you are not already a member of HKC it is free to join the community and the book club.
In conjunction with the book club one of our members, Narda Poe, has created a coloring book of the Bible verses used at the beginning of each chapter.
The book comes in the form of a downloadable PDF which means you can choose the type of paper you would like to print it on. It's available to purchase in the HKC shop for just $9.00. Color with crayons, colored pencils or even watercolor paints! It's well worth buying even if you're not doing the book club. And it's not too late to join the book club.
"Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world..."To whom much is given, from him much will be required.' (Luke 12:48) If God has given us the gift of creativity, 'much is required' in the way of our using it to his glory.
Right now I am just trying to read along and appreciate everyone else's artwork, but I do like what Narda has made for us and am considering coloring them in digitally.


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Zest the lemon into a pot. Peel the salsify and grate into a mixing bowl, squeezing in the juice of the lemon to cover it as it is grated. Beat in the eggs and add the flour and lemon zest. Seasonwith black pepper.
In a separate bowl, combine the goat's cheese with the herbs. Roll into 14 balls. Coat each in approximately two tablespoons of the salsify mixture to make spheres the size of golf balls. Place on a plate and chill for 20 mins.
In a large saucepan, pour the oil in to halfway up. Heat until sizzling on a medium to high heat, then fry the balls for 4 mins, until golden. Drain on kitchen paper, then serve immediately as a canapé.
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