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I've travelled by train several times in the last few weeks and each time have acquired a free copy of Metro. I knew that there were different editions for major cities, but didn't realise that it is an international paper.
A great feature is that, as well as a 'global search', there is an 'advanced search' facility, allowing you to search for a specific theme, in a specific country, region and/or time frame.
I'm off to read the article about Bryan Adams on page 12 of today's Edición Nacional from Spain.


Ryan Vaughan, '06 BS '08 PharmD (PHARM) started the UC Berkeley Executive MBA program in summer 2018. It is the #4 ranked Executive MBA program in the world. Ryan's career goal is to help modernize healthcare in the United States.
Mark William Russell '88 MS would like to announce his arrival to Duane Morris LLP as Special Counsel in New York. He focuses on patent prosecution and strategic counseling in the chemical areas, specializing in pharmaceuticals.
Kelley (Leahy) Hill '80 (CAHNR) '94 MS is the Head of Global Medical Writing at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company focused on serving patients with rare and ultra-rare disorders. Her early career included 17 years as the Manager of Biology Lab Services at UConn Storrs. After completion of an MS in Pharm/Tox, she shifted career focus to bench research and drug development project management in several biotech and pharma companies that has matured to her current role, leading clinical writing efforts to support drug development from first-in-human to life cycle management of marketed products. She is an active member of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, and also supports the Open Door food bank that serves Cape Ann (Massachusetts) communities.
Pam Sardo, Pharm.D '81 (PHR) currently employed as Senior Health Outcomes Liaison with Avanir Pharmaceuticals, volunteered after hurricane Harvey as a dispensing pharmacist in the NRG Center in Houston where 3000 displaced Texans were living. The make-shift pharmacy was staffed 24 hours a day and was stocked with donated medications mostly supplied from independent pharmacies. Emergency triage setting with volunteer physicians, nurses and pharmacists were providing patient care to address many acute care needs. Extremely rewarding experience.
Stefanie (Pratola) Ferreri '97 (PHR), was recently promoted to Clinical Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill, NC. She is also the current president of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and recently received the National Community Pharmacists Association Leadership Award. She lives in Durham, N.C. with her husband, Eric Ferreri '95 (CLAS), and their 9-year-old twins.
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Having impressed by the Bose SoundLink Mini, I took in the Bose SoundDock Series III for a review. While this is not a new model, the purple colour is a new limited edition release in Singapore which will appeal to colour lovers.
The SoundDock Series III supports iOS devices with Lightning connector. The dock can flex a few degrees, so you can dock and undock your iPhone or iPad without damaging the connector. It also comes with a Aux line-In connector for playing back via 3.5mm audio cable. Its remote control lets you change tracks and playlist, adjust volume, play/pause music from your iOS devices. If your iPhone casing is too thick, the dock might not work.
The SoundDock has a sound characteristic of clear highs, recessed mids, and unexaggerated lows. You could still hear the nicely defined bass and subwoofer (unlike most portable speakers), but at high volumes, they get drowned by the crisp tweeter. This dock would sound great with music genres like jazz, instrumental, light pop. Heavy rock or loud techno probably won't go well. Despite the shy bass, the overall tonal quality is excellent. Highs are not distorted and bass is well formed.
The SoundDock doesn't come with any EQ presets or audio effects. Not that I need it, but it would be good to have for quick EQ when playing different tracks.
With today's improved wireless audio technology, I'm not sure if hard docks still makes sense, as it would be rather cumbersome to use the iPhone while docked to check your social feeds, reply messages, or answer calls. The SoundDock would be more useful if it supports USB data pass-through so that your device can sync to your computer while docked.
The Bose SoundDock Series III is now available in Singapore electronic retail stores at S$529.
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Sentence count:44+1 Only show simple sentencesPosted:2019-05-15Updated:2019-05-15
Similar words: choice, of choice, by choice, pro-choice, free-choice, choiceness, public choice, have no choice.
1. I will take French for choice.
2. At lunchtime, MPs are spoilt for choice in 26 restaurants and bars.
3. I should take this one for choice.
4. As the Empire player you are spoiled for choice.
5. Spoilt for choice A government's plans are sometimes implemented with little or no regard for an individual's family plans.
6. In the West Country, buyers are spoilt for choice.
7. People staying in Les Menuires are spoilt for choice when deciding which direction to take for the day's skiing.
8. We are spoilt for choice with insulins.
9. This would allow some room for choice, but would not detract from the fundamental notion of a centrally planned service.
10. The remaining scope for choice surrounds the selection of an active node for development.
11. Often, we seem to be spoiled for choice and hampered, even paralysed, by our fear of the unknown.
12. Nobody walks on a slope like this for choice, only sheep, and they don't let sheep graze this lot.
13. They restrict opportunities for choice, experiment and innovation, which are as much needed in education as in any other field.
14. Perhaps I have no more opportunity for choice as the same as the others.
15. Adopt opaque materials, for using,(http://Sentencedict.com) many colors for choice.
16. How do I get back the Women's Alliance for Choice?
17. There's so much good theatre and cinema in London, really one is spoilt for choice.
18. Anyway, the upshot of it all was that they were not actually spoilt for choice as to locations.
19. There isn't a hotel restaurant, but when it comes to eating out in Stuttgart you're spoilt for choice.
20. The AK47 was a highly prized souvenir and frequently traded by frontline troops to those in the rear for choice booty.
21. The Population Council also announced it had set up a new company, Advances for Choice, to sell the drug.
22. If, like me, you prefer the sporting life, then you are spoilt for choice here.
23. There was such a vast variety of decorated bowls and jugs and plates that she was spoilt for choice.
24. Obviously this typology has immense implications for educational methods, for communication generally, and for choice of marriage partner.
25. And as soon as you start selling cards you will be spoilt for choice as their representatives start beating a pathway to your door.
26. Available in white, green, red, black or mustard, you're spoilt for choice.
27. With so much within easy reach, we were clearly spoilt for choice and decided to sleep on it.
28. London has just hosted the annual Frieze Art Fair, which has become synonymous with the big-spending rich and super-rich as they pay astronomic sums for choice paintings and sculptures.
29. Unfortunately, public policies do not always allow much room for choice.
30. Pop big buckle, we had many wood look colorway for choice or make your own color.
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UK embarks on new era of spaceflight with launch of ground-breaking regulatory council
New Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council to give advice on regulations for UK space.
inaugural meeting of the Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council
committee convenes to ensure UK regulations support future UK space launches
regulations passed this summer enable launches to take off from home soil as early as next year
The UK continues its leadership in the new era of spaceflight as Transport Minister Trudy Harrison announces today (25 November 2021) a ground-breaking partnership to shape the UK's world-leading regulations.
The newly formed Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council, comprised of government members, industry experts and the Space Flight Regulator, will carry out vital work over the coming year to ensure the UK maintains the most progressive spaceflight regulations across the globe.
The current regulations were passed this summer, providing the framework to regulate the UK space industry and enable launches to take off from home soil.
They unlocked a potential £4 billion of market opportunities over the next decade, creating thousands of jobs and benefitting communities across the UK.
The launch of this legislation put the UK in the position of being the first country in Europe to launch spacecraft and satellites from home.
Committee members, from organisations including Virgin Orbit and UK Space, gathered today to attend the inaugural council meeting, marking a blast-off moment in the UK's efforts to develop a world-leading space sector.
Members will provide advice and recommendations to government, ensuring the UK has the right regulatory environment to support a future of UK space launches.
Transport Minister Trudy Harrison said:
This important step shows our commitment to developing the UK space sector as we aim to become a global spaceflight leader.
Getting the right experts round a table to ensure our regulations remain fit for purpose is absolutely vital and this council will help us do just that as we aim to launch our first space missions from next year.
The new council will be responsible for keeping the regulations under review and providing recommendations to government on any changes which may be required as the sector continues to develop at pace in the UK.


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I have been absent of late, despite recovering from a Chronic Fatigue relapse, which in itself is triumph enough, feeling healthy, picking up the strands of life I still want, dumping others – it's a salutary task – highly recommended. So as a reward, the universe delivered my mother's psychiatric records. Not all of them, but some of them, enough for me to reconstruct my childhood memories.
My mother, Virginia Elizabeth Hooker Nickson, was treated for 17 years by one of more evil psychiatrists the world has produced, and that is saying something. Ewan Cameron, the son of a Scots minister was not only ambitious but aimed his considerable talents at Great Man status. He longed for the Nobel and was head of the American Psychiatric Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the World Psychiatric Association and the World Psychological Association. His brutal techniques which inflicted unimaginable pain on mental patients, were instituted worldwide. He stood astride the world of psychiatry from 1946, when he evaluated whether Rudolf Hess was sane enough to stand trial at the Nuremberg Tribunal. His life ended early, thank God, in 1967 when he died mountain climbing with his son. Who knows what further damage he could have caused.
He was friends with Allan Dulles, founder of the OSS, and the CIA and with Dulles's support and friendship bent his mind to discovering whether brainwashing was possible. The specter of American POWs coming home spouting Marx and Lenin struck fear deep into the hearts of men who run the world, and they decided to fight back.
Their reach was unlimited. They experimented on orphans, on prisoners, on the developmentally challenged and they experimented on my mother.
She miscarried her first child and was admitted to the Allan Memorial, Canada's premier mental hospital with anxiety. She was treated through the use of insulin to produce a coma, or what they called "sleep therapy". She was released after two weeks and had weekly psychotherapy sessions with Ewan Cameron for nine months.
There are no notes on this therapy, nor what they discussed, nor the results. It certainly wasn't a cure. Eight years later, she was back and this time, he diagnosed her as a paranoid schizophrenic. This was a common tactic at the Allan. Diagnosing women as schizophrenic allowed the hospital staff leeway in the dozens of experimental techniques they were testing. I read her intake interview. Today she would be diagnosed as having a mild schizoaffective disorder, triggered by exhaustion.
They tried to drill holes in her skull and insert wires to manipulate the parts of her brain they felt were faulty. She managed to escape and went home. She was brought back. She tried to escape two more times and was stopped. She was given sodium amytal and speed at the same time (utterly forbidden) and interviewed under massive doses of those drugs. She was given Sparine, a drug so dangerous if you type it into google, they practically come and arrest you. Why? Because it collapses your immune system. Cameron in his notes referred to her as "this girl", and said on July 17th after her third escape attempt, "this girl is much sicker than we thought. We are going to have to keep her for longer".
First day at McMaster
I am going to cut this here because it actually gets worse and I am not ready to look at it. I leave you with these facts. My mother at the age of 37, had delivered three healthy children, had come first in her class in economics at McMaster University, joined the Navy, rose to Lieutenant. During her time in the Navy, she served as secretary to and courier for the Anglo-Canadian-American Atomic Bomb Project – the largest secret project in human history.
This is not a job given to unstable women. The testing was extensive. After the war, she became an editor on Montreal's Saturday paper. She was an accomplished classical pianist and a competitive amateur golfer.
But never mind all that, "this girl" was a prime hunk of meat for the monsters at the Allan Memorial. May they rot in hell for thousands of years.
Author ElizabethPosted on September 21, 2019 September 22, 2019 Tags Allan Dulles, brainwashing, CIA, Dr. Ewan Cameron, MKULTRA, the Allan Memorial HospitalLeave a comment on Rolling in the Deep
MKULTRA, Mind Control, and My Momma
I signed onto a class-action lawsuit last week, for the first time in my life, unusual because I am fiercely independent and prefer to just out-live the slings and arrows. Proud too, I guess because there have been many insults if I think about them – which I can't because my spiritual discipline demands that I not only forgive you, but I forget you ever existed. (This works btw). But this one, this is different, it damaged not only me but my mother, my father, my two brothers, our children, our grandchildren and proved a constantly repeated and terrifying chord, somewhat like the entrance of the villain, during that part of our childhood where you have virtually no defenses to speak of.
MKULTRA was a CIA program created after American Korean War prisoners came home praising Communism. The freaking morons at the CIA decided to create their own brainwashing programs, and lo and behold, they found a willing experimenter up in the wilds of Canada, who actually ran a massive mental hospital in an Italianate villa built to receive Kings and princes, once filled with treasure, and ballrooms and the entire panoply of Asian art, minor Old Masters, and heavy gilt-framed portraits of forgotten great men and their wives. It was a spectacular place in which to destroy minds, lending to the force of the psychiatrist, Ewan Cameron, the trappings of earthly and spiritual power. The Canadian government signed on, happily contributing far more research grant money than the Americans. No one, NOT ONE PATIENT gave consent to being an experimental subject.
It was a spectacular place in which to destroy minds, lending to the force of the psychiatrist, Ewan Cameron, the trappings of earthly and spiritual power.
This is what they did, short form. They took a patient, like my mother, who suffered from post-partum psychosis, triggered by the death of her first baby, and broke her back to infant status by administering massive amounts of shock treatments. Whereupon, she was fitted with a football helmet into which speakers had been placed, and she was played statements about herself over and over and over again, sometimes 500,000 times, stating how unworthy and useless she was. Often using her own voice taped during therapy sessions, when the psychiatrist would elicit her worst feelings about herself.
Then, they would administer LSD. How splendid would that have been? Completely broken and then LSD!!!! Again the football helmet, strapped down and this time, positive affirmations up to 500,000 times.
How likely would you have been able to manage the rest of your life? Cameron only experimented on mildly ill patients, alcoholics, those with post-partum syndrome, depression. He broke people and then returned them back to their families, whereupon we would attempt to assume care, NOT KNOWING what had happened.
In my family that meant a constant level of support and care and worry of the kind one would administer to a dying pet. If the pet was dying for fifty years. When my father died, I left the world I was working in – Paris, London and New York – and came home to take care of her. My father had told me, in no uncertain terms, that when he died, she would de-compensate unless I stood up and assumed his role.
This suit has international and historical significance because it speaks to the power of government. No government should ever experiment on its citizens. We ARE the boss. The precedent must be set and the lesson must not only be learned but seen to be learned.
If there was a way to personally ruin the people who made those decisions, I would counsel it. Regrettably, they are dead. No government official ever suffers the consequences of his decisions. They slither off into pensioned obscurity. Cameron died a few years after retiring, still grasping shreds of his former glory.
There have been modest pay-outs in the past to patients, but no apology from the University, the hospital, the Canadian government or the U.S. government. No admission of fault, despite the egregious ruination of thousands of innocent lives. No compensation even approaching real recompense. Time to move into the modern age, guys. The new populism means we win. Every single time. Or you lose.
Author ElizabethPosted on April 20, 2019 April 20, 2019 Tags mind control, MKULTRA, the Allan Memorial Hospital1 Comment on MKULTRA, Mind Control, and My Momma


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Allen v. Scholastic Inc.
USDC S.D. New York January 6, 2011
Court grants defendant publisher's motion to dismiss copyright infringement claim filed by author of book about wizards, holding there is no substantial similarity between plaintiff's book and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Adrian Jacobs wrote a book called The Adventures of Willy the Wizard – No. 1 Livid Land, which was published in the UK in 1987. Livid Land is a 16-page illustrated children's book about an adult wizard who wins a competition with the assistance of apprentices and elves.
Plaintiff, as trustee of Jacobs's estate, filed a copyright infringement claim against Scholastic, publisher of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in the popular series about wizards written by J.K. Rowling. Goblet of Fire is 734 pages long and chronicles Harry's participation in a tournament between rival magic schools when he is fourteen years old.
Scholastic moved to dismiss the complaint, asserting that there is no substantial similarity between the two works. The court agreed.
The court conducted the "ordinary observer" test which asks whether "an average lay observer would recognize the alleged copy as having been appropriated from the copyrighted work." The court explained that where the allegedly infringing work contains both protectible and non-protectible elements, the usual "ordinary observer" test becomes more discerning, and requires the court to attempt to extract the unprotectible elements from consideration and ask whether the protectible elements, standing alone, are substantially similar.
For purposes of the motion to dismiss, the defendant conceded that the plaintiff has a valid copyright in Livid Land and that actual copying occurred. "The operative question is thus whether a substantial similarity exists between Goblet of Fire and the protectible elements of Livid Land."
Applying the "ordinary observer test" to the protectible elements in each book, the court compared the total concept and feel, theme, characters, plot, sequence, pace and setting of the works. The court held that, because the works at issue are primarily created for children, the total concept and feel of the works - rather than their plot and character development - is the most important factor for purposes of establishing copyright infringement. According to the court, "the contrast between the total concept and feel of the works is so stark that any serious comparison of the two strains credulity."
The court described Livid Land as "a series of fragmented and often tangential scenes, each of which summarily recounts Willy's various exploits without any supporting detail, contextual explanation, or suspenseful build-up." By contrast, it described the Goblet of Fire as a "a cumulative work, in which one scene builds upon and transitions to another. The storyline is highly developed and complex, and captures the attention of both children and adults for long periods of time. . . . The text is rich in imagery, emotive and suspenseful. Sophisticated literary devices, such as foreshadowing, are frequently employed."
The court went on to compare theme, characters, plot, sequence, pace and setting of the works, and concluded that there is no substantial similarity between any of these elements.
Regarding theme, the court stated that "Livid Land is entirely devoid of a moral message or intellectual depth. It does not present any overarching message or character development. . . . The characters never face any difficult choices, or experience any type of conflict." By contrast, the court found that Goblet of Fire "has a highly developed moral core, and conveys overarching messages through its plot. Indeed, the book's characters are frequently subject to ethical scrutiny. The choices that they make are often difficult and marked by clear trade-offs, which are explored and elaborated upon."
Regarding character, the court said that "it is unlikely that a rudimentary character like Willy can be infringed upon at all. Livid Land provides only a few details about Willy, such as where he lives and what he does, but does not imbue him with a discernible personality or distinguishable appearance. . . . Willy is but a bland and interchangeable medium through which a story is told, instead of a purposeful and deliberate actor. Because Willy's character does not display any creativity, it does not constitute protectible expression."
Regarding plot and sequence, both works tell the story of a wizard competition. Both works also involve a protagonist wizard who takes part in and ultimately wins a competition. However the court discerned "no similarities beyond this level of abstraction."
The court concluded that there is no substantial similarity between the total concept and feel, theme, characters, plot, sequence, pace and setting of the works, and granted the defendant's motion to dismiss.


Oxford dictionary defines a team as a group of players forming one side in a competitive game. In sports, a team is comprised of several different people that each hold a unique position. Each position requires a specific set of skills and carries out a specific function during the game. The same can be said for the way a team functions within a business.
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Especially in a small business setting, having a high-performing team is absolutely critical to the overall success of the company. But how do you get to this high level of performance? Getting the right people with the right skill sets on board is definitely important - but it's also about creating cohesion. When your employees are happy and able to work well together, they also tend to be more creative and productive.
Builds Trust: Mutual trust fostered by team-building activities can allow your employees to depend more on one another and be more productive and efficient as a result.
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300& þe jolef Japheth watz gendered þe þryd.
304Is fallen forþwyth My face, & forþer hit I þenk.
306Þe gore þerof Me hatz greued & þe glette nwyed.
308Boþe ledez & londe & alle þat lyf habbez.
310A cofer closed of tres, clanlych planed.
313& alle þe endentur dryuen daube withouten.
322Boþe boske[n]z & bourez & wel bounden penez.
326I schal wast with My wrath þat wons vpon vrþe.
332I schal saue of monnez saulez, & swelt þose oþer.
336For to saue Me þe sede of alle ser kyndez.
342In dry3dred & daunger þat durst do non oþer.
344Þenn con Dry3ttyn hym dele dry3ly þyse wordez.
345'Now Noe,' quoþ oure Lorde, 'art þou al redy?
352& when 3e arn staued, styfly stekez yow þerinne.
360Er al wer stawed & stoken as þe steuen wolde.
362& alle woned in þe whichche, þe wylde & þe tame.
366Þe mukel lauande loghe to þe lyfte rered.
370Ouerwaltez vche a wod & þe wyde feldez.
372Alle þat deth mo3t dry3e drowned þerinne.
376Hurled into vch hous, hent þat þer dowelled.
380& heterly to þe hy3e hyllez þay [h]aled on faste.
384& vche a dale so depe þat demmed at þe brynkez.
386& þeron flokked þe folke, for ferde of þe wrake.
390Rwly wyth a loud rurd rored for drede.
396& alle His pyte departed fro peple þat He hated.
398Þen vche a segge se3wel þat synk hym byhoued.
402For to ende alle at onez & for euer twynne.
406Ouer þe hy3est hylle þat hurkled on erþe.
412Þer alle ledez in lome lenged druye.
414Kest to kythez vncouþe þe clowdez ful nere.
421Bot flote forthe with þe flyt of þe felle wyndez.
424Nyf oure Lorde hade ben her lodezmon hem had lumpen harde.
430Vche hille watz þer hidde with y[þ]ez ful graye.
438Þenne lasned þe llak þat large watz are.
441Þenne lasned þe lo3lowkande togeder.
443As þat lyftande lome luged aboute.
447On þe mounte of Mararach of Armene hilles.
448Þat oþerwayez on Ebrv hit hat þe Thanes.
452Þat þe burne bynne borde byhelde þe bare erþe.
456He watz colored as þe cole, corbyal vntrwe.
458Halez hy3e vpon hy3t to herken tyþyngez.
464How þe cheuetayn hym charged þat þe kyst 3emed.
468Banned hym ful bytterly with bestes alle samen.
473Bryng bodworde to bot blysse to vus alle.
478Ho vmbekestez þe coste & þe kyst sechez.
480Noe nymmes hir anon & naytly hir stauez.
484Tyl hit watz ny3e at þe na3t, & Noe þen sechez.
486On stamyn ho stod & stylle hym abydez.
490& þe sa3tlyng of Hymself with þo sely bestez.
492& much comfort in þat cofer þat watz clay-daubed.
496How þat watterez wern woned & þe worlde dryed.
498Tyl þay had tyþyng fro þe Tolke þat tyned hem þerinne.
500Bede hem drawe to þe dor: delyuer hem He wolde.
504Þroly þrublande in þronge, þrowen ful þykke.
508Þat watz comly & clene: God kepez non oþer.
518Al is þe mynde of þe man to malyce enclyned.
520As dysstrye al for manez synne, dayez of þis erþe.
522Multyplyez on þis molde, & menske yow bytyde.
528Þerwyth He blessez vch a best, & byta3t hem þis erþe.
531Vche fysch to þe flod þat fynne couþe nayte.
540Þe fowre frekez of þe folde fongez þe empyre.
544In devoydynge þe vylanye þat venkquyst His þewez.
548Tyl any water in þe worlde to wasche þe fayly.
554As þe beryl bornyst byhouez be clene.
556Withouten maskle oþer mote, as margerye-perle.
560Quen fourferde alle þe flesch þat He formed hade.
562& efte þat He hem vndyd, hard hit Hym þo3t.
568Whyl of þe lenþe of þe londe lastez þe terme.
569Þat ilke skyl for no scaþe ascaped Hym neuer.
576Þat he his Saueour ne see with sy3t of his y3en.
580Þat schamez for no schrewedschyp, schent mot he worþe.
587Trave þou neuer þat tale, vntrwe þou hit fyndez.
590Þat hit ne þrawez to Hym þr[o] er he hit þo3t haue.
592Rypande of vche a ring þe reynyez & hert.
596& harde honysez þise oþer, & of His erde flemez.
600& þat watz schewed schortly by a scaþe onez.
605He watz schunt to þe schadow vnder schyre leuez.
608Hit is eþe to leue by þe last ende.
618& fast aboute schal I fare Your fette wer waschene.
632& he deruely at his dome dy3t hit bylyue.
638Syþen potage & polment in plater honest.
642Þat watz fayn of his frende, & his fest praysed.
644Mynystred mete byfore þo Men þat my3tes al weldez.
660Þat selue Sare, withouten sede into þat same tyme.
662Not trawande þe tale þat I þe to schewed.
663Hopez ho o3t may be harde My hondez to work?
668Þat for lot þat Þay laused ho la3ed neuer.
676For to tent Hym with tale & teche Hym þe gate.
686& vche blod in þat burne blessed schal worþe?
688& alle Myn atlyng to Abraham vnhaspe bilyue.
690& þe gult of Gomorre garez Me to wrath.
692[If] þay haf don as þe dyne dryuez on lofte.
696& fylter folyly in fere on femmalez wyse.
708Þat alle þe meschefez on mold mo3t hit not sleke.
710& henttez hem in heþyng an vsage vnclene.
714For hope of þe harde hate þat hy3t hatz oure Lorde.
716Schal synful & saklez suffer al on payne?
719& weye vpon þe worre half þat wrathed Þe neuer?
720Þat watz neuer Þy won þat wro3tez vus alle.
726& joyne to her juggement, her juise to haue?
7363if I mele a lyttel more þat mul am & askez.
746'Now sayned be Þou, Sauiour, so symple in Þy wrath!
748For to mele wyth such a Mayster as my3tez hatz alle.
7503if I forloyne as a fol Þy fraunchyse may serue.
762& I schal schape no more þo schalkkez to helpe.
766& þenne arest þe renk & ra3t no fyrre.
774Among þo mansed men þat han Þe much greued.
780Whyl þe Souerayn to Sodamas sende to spye.
786Þat watz ryal & ryche so watz þe renkes seluen.
791Of ble as þe brere-flour whereso þe bare scheweed.
793Wlonk whit watz her wede & wel hit hem semed.
800Þat 3e wolde ly3t at my loge & lenge þerinne.
808Hit watz hous inno3e to hem þe heuen vpon lofte.
810Þat þay hym graunted to go & gru3t no lenger.
812Þat [watz] ryally arayed, for he watz ryche euer.
816& þay wer semly & swete, & swyþe wel arayed.
827& als ho scelt hem in scorne þat wel her skyl knewen.
828Why watz ho, wrech, so wod? Ho wrathed oure Lorde.
832Þe trestes tylt to þe wo3e & þe table boþe.
836To vmbely3e Lothez hous þe ledez to take.
848Of þe brych þat vpbraydez þose broþelych wordez.
850So scharpe schame to hym schot, he schrank at þe hert.
852He doted neuer for no doel so depe in his mynde.
854& bowez forth fro þe bench into þe brode 3ates.
856Þat he ne passed þe port þe p[er]il to abide.
858Þat a clyket hit cle3t clos hym byhynde.
862Dotz away your derf dyn & derez neuer my gestes.
870To samen wyth þo semly þe solace is better.
876An outcomlyng, a carle? We kylle of þyn heued!
884& steken þe 3ates ston-harde wyth stalworth barrez.
888Bot nyteled þer alle þe ny3t for no3t at þe last.
892Of on þe vglokest vnhap þat euer on erd suffred.
894When merk of þe mydny3t mo3t no more last.
900For we laþe þe, sir Loth, þat þou þy lyf haue.
906Til 3e reche to a reset, rest 3e neuer.
913Þen laled Loth: 'Lorde, what is best?
916In þe brath of His breth þat brennez alle þinkez?
920Bot hi3ly heuened þi hele fro hem þat arn combred.
925'Lorde, loued He worþe,' quoþ Loth, 'vpon erþe!
927Here vtter on a rounde hil hit houez hit one.
936Þa3fast laþed hem Loth, þay le3en ful stylle.
940Þer so3t no mo to sauement of cities aþel fyue.
945& þay kayre ne con, & kenely flowen.
946Erly, er any heuen-glem, þay to a hil comen.
950Fro fawre half of þe folde flytande loude.
952Þat þe þik þunder-þrast þirled hem ofte.
960& ferly flayed þat folk þat in þose fees lenged.
966As lauce leuez of þe boke þat lepes in twynne.
968Al þo citees & her sydes sunkken to helle.
972Þerof clatered þe cloudes, þat Kryst my3t haf rawþe.
976Trynande ay a hy3e trot, þat torne neuer dorsten.
980Blusched byhynden her bak þat bale for to herkken.
984Al so salt as ani se, & so ho 3et standez.
988Þat so His seruauntes wolde see & saue of such woþe.
992Þat no3t saued watz bot Segor, þat sat on a lawe.
1000& alle lyst on hir lik þat arn on launde bestes.
1008Nov is hit plunged in a pit like of pich fylled.
1012When bry3t brennande brondez ar bet þeranvnder.
1014Þat foundered hatz so fayr a folk & þe folde sonkken.
1019Þat euer of synne & of smach smart is to fele.
1024& alle þe costez of kynde hit combrez vchone.
1028Schal neuer grene þeron growe, gresse ne wod nawþer.
1032& neuer dry3e no dethe to dayes of ende.
1040Þat fel fretes þe flesch & festred bones.
1048No worldez goud hit wythinne, bot wyndowande askes.
1051Þat oure Fader forferde for fylþe of þose ledes.
1056Clerrer counseyl, counseyl con I non, bot þat þou clene worþe.
1068Þat euer is polyced als playn as þe perle seluen.
1072Bot much clener watz hir corse, God kynned þerinne.
1077Ne non so glad vnder God as ho þat grone schulde.
1084Aboutte my lady watz lent quen ho delyuer were.
1088For non so clene of such a clos com neuer er þenne.
1092O3t þat watz vngoderly oþer ordure watz inne.
1097Alle called on þat Cortayse & claymed His grace.
1100Wel clanner þen any crafte cowþe devyse.
1108Þenne alle þe toles of Tolowse mo3t ty3t hit to kerue.
1110Hov schulde þou com to His kyth bot if þou clene were?
1112How schulde we se, þen may we say, þat Syre vpon throne?
1116& pure þe with penaunce tyl þou a perle worþe.
1118Þa3hym not derrest be demed to dele for penies.
1120Þat wynnes worschyp abof alle whyte stones?
1128Ho by kynde schal becom clerer þen are.
1132Wel bry3ter þen þe beryl oþer browden perles.
1138& wel hatter to hate þen hade þou no waschen.
1142As hit were rafte wyth vnry3t & robbed wyth þewes.
1146A dysche oþer a dobler, þat Dry3tyn onez serued.
1148So is He scoymus of scaþe þat scylful is euer.
1152In seruyse of þe Souerayn sumtyme byfore.
1156& robbed þe relygioun of relykes alle.
1160Watz disstryed wyth distres, & drawen to þe erþe.
1164In mukel meschefes mony, þat meruayl [is] to here.
1168To forfare þe falce in þe faythe trwe.
1170In Juda, þat justised þe Juyne kynges.
1174& lette ly3t bi þe lawe þat he watz lege tylle.
1184& stoffed wythinne with stout men to stalle hem þeroute.
1192Til two 3er ouertorned, 3et tok þay hit neuer.
1196Þen any dunt of þat douthe þat dowelled þeroute.
1200A fote fro þat forselet to forray no goudes.
1204& harde hurles þur3þe oste er enmies hit wyste.
1206Hi3e skelt watz þe askry þe skewes anvnder.
1210Cler claryoun crak cryed on lofte.
1214Tyl vche prynce hade his per put to þe grounde.
1220& speke spitously hem to, & spylt þerafter.
1224& þere in dongoun be don to dre3e þer his wyrdes.
12323et take Torkye hem wyth, her tene hade ben little.
1234Er he hade tuyred þis toun & torne hit to grounde.
1240& enteres in ful ernestly, in yre of his hert.
1244Þat on wyf hade ben worþe þe welgest fourre.
1252& al watz carfully kylde þat þay cach my3t.
1257To sytte in seruage & syte, þat sumtyme wer gentyle.
1260Þat sumtyme sete in her sale syres & burdes.
1268Wyth þe swayf of þe sworde þat swol3ed hem alle.
1274Bifore þ[e] sancta sanctorumþer selcouth watz ofte.
1280Þe vyoles & þe vesselment of vertuous stones.
1286Þat Salomon so mony a sadde 3er so3t to make.
1290Þe hous & þe anournementes he hy3tled togedere.
1292& syþen bet doun þe bur3& brend hit in askes.
1303With moni a modey moder-chylde mo þen innoghe.
1308& þe pryce of þe profetie prisoners maked.
1312Neuer 3et nas Nabugo_de_nozar er þenne.
1316Comen neuer out of kyth to Caldee reames.
1320For hade he let of hem ly3t, hym mo3t haf lumpen worse.
1324& als þe god of þe grounde watz grauen his name.
1328& ofte hit mekned his mynde, his maysterful werkkes.
1330Bi a haþel neuer so hy3e, he heldes to grounde.
1332For alle his empire so hi3e in erþe is he grauen.
1338Nabugo_de_nozar, þat watz his noble fader.
1340Bot honoured he not Hym þat in heuen wonies.
1345& þere he kneles & callez & clepes after help.
1348He cleches to a gret klubbe & knokkes hem to peces.
1352& mony a lemman, neuer þe later, þat ladis wer called.
1356Til þe Lorde of þe lyfte liste hit abate.
1360Bot if alle þe worlde wyt his wykked dedes.
1364& assemble at a set day at þe saudans fest.
1370To loke on his lemanes & ladis hem calle.
1372& mony a baroun ful bolde, to Babyloyn þe noble.
1376Þat to neuen þe noumbre to much nye were.
1384& þiker þrowen vmbeþour with ouerþwert palle.
1388& þe saudans sete sette in þe myddes.
1392So brod bilde in a bay þat blonkkes my3t renne.
1396Stepe stayred stones of his stoute throne.
1400& his clere concubynes in cloþes ful bry3t.
1412& al on blonkken bak bere hit on honde.
1416& bougounz busch batered so þikke.
1424& his bolde baronage aboute bi þe wo3es.
1440& couered mony a cupborde with cloþes ful quite.
1444Þe gay coroun of golde gered on lofte.
1452Þat wyth [s]o curious a crafte coruen watz wyly.
1455For to compas & kest to haf hem clene wro3t.
1460& fyled out of fygures of ferlyle schappes.
1477Vpon þat avter watz al aliche dresset.
1484As þay with wynge vpon wynde hade waged her fyþeres.
1488With mony a borlych best al of brende golde.
1492Expouned His speche spiritually to special prophetes.
1496Þat presyous in His presens wer proued sumwhyle.
1500Tyl he be dronkken as þe deuel, & dotes þer he syttes.
1504He wayned hem a warnyng þat wonder hem þo3t.
1507Baltazar in a brayd: 'Bede vus þerof!
1508We3e wyn in þis won! Wassayl!' he cryes.
1512& vche mon for his mayster machches alone.
1516As sonet out of sau[t]eray songe als myry.
1520As vchon hade hym inhelde he haled of þe cuppe.
1524Neuer steuen hem astel, so stoken [is] hor tonge.
1528Bot Hym þat alle goudes giues, þat God þay for3eten.
1536Pared on þe parget, purtrayed lettres.
1545& rasped on þe ro3wo3e runisch sauez.
1549Bt þe lettres bileued ful large vpon plaster.
1557What tyþyng ne tale tokened þo dra3tes.
1561Þat con dele wyth demerlayk & deuine lettres.
1581As þay had loked in þe leþer of my lyft bote.
1582Þenne cryes þe kyng & kerues his wedes.
1585So watz þe wy3e wytles he wed wel ner.
1586Ho herde hym chyde to þe chambre þat watz þe chef quene.
1590Glydes doun by þe grece & gos to þe kyng.
1592Wordes of worchyp wyth a wys speche.
1594Euer laste þy lyf in lenþe of dayes!
1598Þat hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes?
1600To open vch a hide þyng of aunteres vncowþe.
1602Of mony anger ful hote with his holy speche.
1608Of þe godelest goddez þat gaynes aywhere.
1614A prophete of þat prouince & pryce of þe worlde.
1620Þe burne byfore Baltazar watz bro3t in a whyle.
1628& þou vnhyles vch hidde þat Heuen-Kyng myntes.
1631For alle Calde clerkes han cowwardely fayled.
1642'Ryche kyng of þis rengne, rede þe oure Lorde!
1646& alle þe worlde in his wylle welde as hym lykes.
1650& quoso hym lyked to lay watz lo3ed bylyue.
1654Þat vche pouer past out of þat Prynce euen.
1660Þat þe power of þe hy3e Prynce he purely for3etes.
1663"I am god of þe grounde, to gye as me lykes.
1664As He þat hy3e is in heuen, His aungeles þat weldes.
1668Mo3t neuer my3t bot myn make such anoþer."
1676With wroþe wolfes to won & wyth wylde asses."
1680Fer into a fyr fryth þere frekes neuer comen.
1682Bot a best þat he be, a bol oþer an oxe.
1686Quyle seuen syþez were ouerseyed, someres I trawe.
1692Þer mony clyuy as clyde hit cly3t togeder.
1700& cowþe vche kyndam tokerue & keuer when Hym lyked.
1704Hit watz non oþer þen He þat hade al in honde.
1708& so 3eply watz 3arked & 3olden his state.
1720Made of stokkes & stonez þat neuer styry mo3t.
1724Þat rasped renyschly þe wo3e with þe ro3penne.
1728Þat þretes þe of þyn vnþryfte vpon þre wyse.
1732& fulfylled hit in fayth to þe fyrre ende".
1735& is funde ful fewe of hit fayth-dedes."
1744& a coler of cler golde kest vmbe his swyre.
1750To bo3after Baltazar in bor3e & in felde.
1752& alle þe folk þerof fayn þat fol3ed hym tylle.
1756Er dalt were þat ilk dome þat Danyel deuysed.
1761Þor3þe lyst of þe lyfte, bi þe lo3medoes.
1764Þen foundez vch a fela3schyp fyrre at forþ na3tes.
1766Reche þe rest as hym lyst: he ros neuer þerafter.
1769Now ar þay sodenly assembled at þe self tyme.
1770Of hem wyst no wy3e þat in þat won dowelled.
1774Þat now hatz spyed a space to spoyle Caldeez.
1778Stelen stylly þe toun er any steuen rysed.
1784Ascry scarred on þe scue, þat scomfyted mony.
1786Vche hous heyred watz withinne a hondewhyle.
1790Feryed out bi þe fete & fowle dispysed.
1792Now is a dogge also dere þat in a dych lygges.
1796Wyth alle þe barounz þeraboute, þat bowed hym after.
1799Þe ornementes of Goddez hous þat holy were maked.
1804To loke on oure lofly Lorde late bitydes.
1810& þose þat seme arn & swete schyn se His face.
1812Þat we may serue in His sy3t, þer solace neuer blynnez.
British Library Cotton Nero A.x, art. 3, ca.1375?-1400?


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The Geometry of Grief: A Mathematician on How Fractals Can Help Us Fathom Loss and Reorient to the Ongoingness of Life
"What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious," Lisel Mueller wrote in her stunning poem about what gives meaning to our mortal lives as she neared, but never quite reached, the triumph of having lived a century — a bittersweet triumph, for to live at all, however long or short, is an unbidden bargain to lose everything you hold precious: every love and every life, including your own. Loss is the price of life — a price we never chose to pay any more than we chose to be born, and yet a price not merely worth paying but beyond questions of worth and why.
One corollary is that, both in the evolutionary sense and in the existential, every loss reveals what we are made of. But every loss also reveals what it is made of, which is more loss: Each loss takes a piece of us — a piece soft and alive — and leaves in its place something cold and heavy; each subsequent loss becomes the magnet that draws out those old leaden pieces, pulls them out from the reliquary of scar tissue where we have been keeping them in order to live, makes them rip through our being afresh. And yet the shrapnel pieces that surface are smaller and softer-edged than when they first entered through the open wound of raw bereavement, smoothed and contracted by the ongoingness of life.
In this sense, grief if fractal, each new instance containing within itself a set of self-similar sub-griefs — miniatures of the same emotional structure, rendered smaller in salience by time and tenacity, those twin inevitabilities of aliveness.
The Mandelbrot set. (Illustration by Wolfgang Beyer.)
How the fractal nature of grief is both the key to understanding it and the doorway to moving through it is what mathematician Michael Frame explores in his unusual book Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life (public library). After twenty years of working with the visionary father of fractals and another twenty years of teaching fractal geometry at Yale, Frame draws on a lifetime of loss and a lifetime of delicate attention to the details of aliveness we call beauty to interleave memoir and mathematics in an uncommon tapestry of thought, twining Borges and quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology and Islamic art, music and multiverse theory.
Because every sound theorem rests upon precise formulation, Frame offers a basic definition:
Grief is a response to an irreversible loss… To generate grief rather than sadness, the thing lost must carry great emotional weight, and it must pull back the veil that covers a transcendent aspect of the world. Breathe out to push the fog away from a brilliant pinpoint of light.
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This trifecta of irreversibility, emotional heft, and transcendence anchors Frame's model of grief and his map for navigating the landscape of loss not as a journey of recovery but as one of readjustment — of reconstituting our model of the world within, which governs our entire experience of the world without. Because the two basic building blocks of our world-model — inner and outer — are attention and narrative, readjustment to life after loss requires deliberate wielding of both. Frame writes:
All moments of our lives are immensely rich, with many — perhaps infinitely many — variables we could notice.
We can view our lives as trajectories, parameterized by time, through story space.
We can never simultaneously view all of the possible variables; rather, we focus on a few variables at a time, restricting our attention to a low-dimensional subspace of story space.
Our trajectories through these subspaces are the stories we tell ourselves about our lives; they are how we make sense of our lives, but always they miss some elements of our experiences.
Irreversible loss appears as a discontinuity, a jump, in our path through story space.
By focusing on certain subspaces, by projecting our trajectories into these spaces, we can reduce the apparent magnitude of the jumps, and consequently find a way to confront the emotional loss and perhaps reduce its impact.
The most gladdening thing about grief parallels the most gladdening thing about science: However meticulous our projections and our models of reality may be, however triumphant in their conquest of knowledge, they are not only perennially incomplete but could be — and, throughout the history of our species, have often been — fundamentally wrong. Science, like life itself, rests upon the abstract art of otherwise — things could be other than what they appear to be, other than what we assume them to be: stranger, more slippery, more possible. Frame writes:
Geometry is a way to organize our models of the world, its shapes and dynamics. But isn't this all contingent, balanced on a knife's edge? Could our models have turned out very differently? If the fractal geometry of Mandelbrot had been discovered before the geometry of Euclid, would manufacture be the same? If you think the question is far-fetched, consider the iterated branching of our pulmonary, circulatory, and nervous systems, or the recursive folding of our DNA, or the large surface area and small volume of our lungs and our digestive tract. Evolution has discovered and uses fractal geometry. If people had looked more closely at the geometry of nature, rather than emulating the "celestial perfection" imposed by the church's interpretation of the works of Euclid and Aristotle, our constructions could be very different now.
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To be fair, the rare few did look and did see different constructions of reality — the Hungarian teenager who, two hundred years ago, subverted Euclid and equipped Einstein with the building blocks of relativity; the sickly German mathematician who, four hundred years ago, subverted the celestial interpretations of the church to give us the revolutionary laws of planetary motion while defending his mother in a witchcraft trial.
Frame writes:
Unless there were only one geometry, only one story — only one world — we should not expect the same categories to grid our views of the universe… Could the world be different than we think? Is it different? Must it be only one thing, or can it be many? If we view the world in one way, does this forever bar us from all others?
Art from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe by Thomas Wright, 1750. (Available as a print, as a face mask, and as stationery cards.)
Pointing to a resounding "no" in the many-worlds model of quantum mechanics — a model in which "every observation of every particle splits the universe into branches, one in which each measurement outcome occurs, and communication between these branches is impossible" — he adds:
Once they are recognized, these patterns cannot go unnoticed. They change forever how the image of the world unfolds in our minds, change forever the categories of the models we build.
This recognition-as-model-revision, Frame intimates, is also the way to view and live through grief — an exercise in continual dilation of perspective, so that life can be seen from more and more angles besides the acuteness of loss, noticing more and more of what is there, what remains and what grows in the wake of the lost; an exercise in remembering, again and again, that healing is subtle and unpredictable, unfolding in tiny, quiet, immeasurable increments that eventually add up to profound changes of measurable difference.
Returning to the consolation of fractals — the mathematical language composing chaos theory — Frame writes:
Small changes may not cause large differences, but small changes, invisible because of our inability to measure exactly, can mask our ability to predict whether, when, and where large differences can occur. Chaos is about the breakdown of our ability to forecast for more than a short time.
One of Wilson Bentley's pioneering 19th-century photographs of snowflakes, one of nature's fractal masterpieces.
What most readily unblinds us to that vital smallness comprising the grandeur of change and aliveness is a willful attentiveness to beauty — so often the antipode to the brutality of life, so often the portal to aliveness in the face of death, always the supreme testament to pioneering psychologist and philosopher William James's insight that our experience is what we choose to attend to.
Attentiveness to beauty is the instrument of transcendence — that essential facet of Frame's geometry of grief and readjustment. In consonance with Willa Cather's lovely insistence that "unless you can see the beauty all around you everywhere, and enjoy it, you can never comprehend art" — or life — he writes:
Beauty is a bridge between grief and geometry.
Beauty and grief are next-door neighbors, or maybe grief is beauty in a dark mirror… To see beauty is to glimpse something deeper; to grieve is to glimpse a loss whose consequences we will not unpack for years, and maybe never. The beauty of geometry likewise involves great emotional weight, irreversibly alters our perceptions, and is transcendent. For we don't see all of geometry, only a hint, a shadow of something much deeper.
The Dreaming Horses by Franz Marc, 1913. (Available as a print and as stationery cards.)
In one of the book's tenderest moments, illustrating this sidewise gleam at the depths, Frame shares a short lyrical essay he composed after his mother's death, in response to a creative prompt from a student compiling meditations on gravity:
Gravity holds my feet on the ground. Gravity keeps the earth traveling around the sun, the sun dancing around the galaxy, the galaxy threading through the Local Group, and on and on.
Gravity pulls rain out of the sky. And snowflakes. And leaves in autumn. And tears from my eyes when I knew you really are gone. Where did you go?
The distance between here and there is the answer to the wrong question.
I thought gravity pulled my mind into the past, stuck in memories. But now I know I can't trust memories. Some are invented, all are edited. The whole web of who I am — what I've seen and done, what skills I've found — is nothing but fog.
Gravity pulls me to the future, bits of me falling off along the way. Each of us disappears into the mist of the possible. In our minds, time is gravity's other side.
Complement Frame's Geometry of Grief with Emily Dickinson (who believed that "best witchcraft is geometry") on the dual spell of love and loss, Hannah Arendt on the antidote to the irreversibility of life, Derek Jarman on gardening as a means of growing though grief, and Nick Cave on loss as a portal to aliveness, then revisit the story of how Benoit Mandelbrot's discovery of fractals illuminated the hidden order behind chaos.
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Franz Hackl junior (* 1967 in Schwaz) ist ein österreichischer Jazzmusiker (Trompete) und Musikinstrumentenbauer.

Hackl, dessen Vater klassischer Trompeter und Instrumentenbauer ist, lernte vom Vater nicht nur, wie man Trompete spielt, sondern auch, wie man sie baut. Bereits mit 14 Jahren wurde er Solotrompeter bei den Original Tiroler Kaiserjägern, mit denen er mehrfach in Nordamerika auf Tournee war. Als Jugendlicher lernte er im lokalen Jazzcafe den Jazz kennen und holte sich Tipps von Musikern wie Randy Brecker oder Tiger Okoshi. Nach der Lehre als Instrumentenbauer studierte er Philosophie und Musikwissenschaften, um dann an der Jazzabteilung des Konservatoriums in Wien zu lernen und im Vienna Art Orchestra aufzutreten (Tango from Obango). Schließlich zog er nach New York, wo er seine Ausbildung bei Lew Soloff verfeinerte und mit der Gruppe Sound Liberation um Gene Pritsker und in Projekten von John Clark oder David Taylor spielte. Mit Paul Zauner gründete er 1992 die Band ITSLYF, in der zwischen 1992 und 1997 auch Thomas Kugi, Gottfried Stöger, David Gilmore, Kenny Davis, Rodney Holmes und Pavan Kumar auf weltweite Tourneen gingen und das Album Hep Caolin veröffentlichten. Mit seinem IDO Quartet (mit Adam Holzman, Kim Plainfield und James Genus) interpretiert er Tiroler Volksweisen in der Art des Fusionjazz. Weiterhin ist er auf Alben von Corin Curschellas oder Peter Herbert zu hören.

Seit 1993 veranstaltet er alljährlich in Schwaz das Outreach Festival & Academy. Weiterhin werden in seiner Werkstätte Trompeten gebaut, die auch auf eigenen Erfindungen beruhen.

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Forever 21 isn't just your one-stop shop for an affordable LBD anymore; its beauty section is also a hidden treasure trove of face masks, makeup brushes, and matte lip crayons. Now, the store is making shopping beauty even easier by opening up stand-alone boutiques called Riley Rose. The first Riley Rose store is set to open in Los Angeles on September 30. The website, rileyrose.com, will launch in November, followed by 12 stores throughout the U.S. before the end of this year.
Esther and Linda Chang—the daughters of Forever 21's founders Jin Sook and Do Won Chang—are the force behind Riley Rose. They wanted to create a space tailored to Millennial and Gen Z shoppers looking for cult brands. Riley Rose will be stocked with makeup, skincare, tools, home decor, sweets, and more.
"My sister and I dreamt up our ideal one-stop shop' where we could discover and play with new products and trends with our friends, in the most inclusive store environment," said Linda Chang in a statement.
From what we can tell from previews, the store appears to be imagined in a Millennial, bubblegum pink theme. Riley Rose will also feature interactive touch screens and luxe vanities (or selfie stations), and will carry brands like Stila Cosmetics and R+Co plus K-beauty favorites like Tonymoly and Too Cool For School.
The first Riley Rose boutique will open in California's Glendale Galleria on September 30.


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DataPro Rates A-Z Petroleum "BBB" Stable Outlook
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DataPro, the technology-driven credit rating agency (CRA), in its latest report released at the weekend, assigned A-Z Petroleum Products Limited long-term rating "BBB" with a Stable outlook for the year 2022/2023.
The rating, according to Kehinde Rasheed, DataPro's Client Services Manager, "indicates slight risk and shows fair financial strength, operating performance and business profile when compared to the standard established by DataPro.
"This company, in our opinion, has the ability to meet its ongoing obligations, but its financial strength is vulnerable to adverse changes in economic conditions," DataPro said, assuring that its committee approved the rating after assessing A-Z's financial performance, capitalisation, asset utility, corporate governance, risk factors, as well as operational and regulatory environment.
A-Z, it added, has continuously increased its revenue over the last five years, and that the 2020 financial year revenue rose by 8%, while Gross Profit Margin improved from 13% (year '19) to 15% (year 2020).
The Rating also factored the significant market share of A-Z in three of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, in addition to such other considerations as the company's experienced management team and its very good financial performance.
A-Z Petroleum Products Limited had a Short-Term Rating of "A2," which indicates a fair credit quality and adequate capacity for timely payment of financial commitments.
DataPro noted that the rating carries a maximum shelf life of 12 calendar months, in line with international best practice.
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After the video, the following words are from the final chapter of Brennan Manning's book, Ruthless Trust.
I spent Christmas Eve in the Bowery of New York City in 1970. During the day I worked with a Catholic Worker team that tended to the hungry and homeless. After helping serve an evening meal to perhaps eighty or ninety people, I was invited upstairs to visit with Dorothy Day, the 73 year old founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Crocheting in a battered old rocker, she welcomed me warmly and said, "Brennan, I'm sure that you are familiar with Peter Claver."
"Yes, ma'am," I replied. "Back around the 1640s he had a ministry to blacks who had been commandeered into the slave trade, often beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Claver burned out his short life, like a modern-day paramedic, alleviating their suffering or providing them care and spiritual comfort when they died."
This wizened old woman who cried the gospel with her life said, "One night Peter recruited a couple of volunteers to help minister to a dying man whose suppurating flesh had been eaten away because of years in chains. When the volunteers saw the oozing flesh and smelled the putrid odor, they ran panic-stricken from the room. Peter cried out, "You musn't go. You can't leave him --- it is Christ."
Dorothy nodded, indicating that our visit was over, and asked my blessing. I kissed her hand and then, shaking in my shoes, walked out the door.
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
In a world where the only plea is "not guilty," what possibility is there of an honest encounter with Jesus, "who died for our sins"? We can only pretend that we are sinners, and thus only pretend that we are forgiven.
To knife through our pretense, cowardice, and evasions, to see the truth about ourselves and the true state of our souls before God --- this requires enormous courage and ruthless trust in the merciful love of the redeeming God. Put simply, sin must be acknowledged and confessed before there can be forgiveness and real transformation.
As we enter the third millennium, ruthless trust is the courageous confidence that despite suffering and evil, terrorism and domestic conflict, God's plan in Jesus Christ cannot fail. The ensuing years will bring slow but steady progress in Kingdom values, and the day will dawn when the lion will lie down with the lamb; East will learn the language of the West (and vice versa); blacks, whites, Asians, and Hispanics will truly communicate; our cities of garbage, apathy, and despair will experience the sunshine of a better life; and all men and women will rejoice in the Spirit that makes us one in Christ the Lord.
We do not have to do anything, except let your unworthy, ungrateful selves be loved as we are. Trust happens! You will trust him to the degree that you know you are loved by him.
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise. In spite of all disconcerting appearances, we stare down death without nervousness and anticipate resurrection solely because Jesus has said, "You have my word on it."
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TikTok Claims It Has The Ability To Influence What Content Becomes Viral
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Several Americans working for TikTok have been given the green light to handle video traffic, the company has said.
The purpose of this authorization, as stated by TikTok, is to expose developing artists or producers to the TikTok community. Following a Forbes article that claimed some videos on TikTok's "For You" page were embedded using a "hit" button, the company issued the following comment.
The idea is, obviously, to get people to watch more videos and sidestep the algorithms that have to choose which ones to include in FYP.
Content may be reopened by swiping left.
Jamie Favazza, a representative for TikTok, has said that the heat button's purpose is not to boost views. However, you should spread the word about the video if you want to broaden your content's appeal. Avoid having your FYP pages fill up in just two or three ways by spreading out your content evenly.
According to Favazza, just 0.002% of the movies on the For You page are triggered by this hot button, therefore it's safe to assume that the majority of users are ignoring it. This contradicts the findings of a Forbes article that just 1-2% of all daily videos come from these buttons.
The optimized video will then be shown as an example of an algorithm-determined, generic video, similar to a sponsored post but without the advertising label.
TikTok has been promising this type of functionality to marketers for years, including politicians and businesspeople that want to utilize TikTok to promote their companies.
When it comes to attracting these kinds of marketers, TikTok isn't the first social media platform to use prankster tactics. For example, Facebook may be misleading marketers by presenting artificially high post engagement rates.
But the actions of TikTok might irritate the people who made it. To the extent that TikTok can influence how popular a video becomes, it controls everything. According to Forbes, there have been occasions when staff with access to the column button have promoted forbidden videos, including those of friends, coworkers, and even their own accounts.
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Lords reform
On Lords reform, David Cameron is playing a canny game
Andrew Gimson
Hot-headed rebels accuse Cameron of treating them with contempt – but has he just been stringing the Lib Dems along?
'Some of the rebels regard Cameron and George Osborne as a pair of petulant, arrogant, bad-tempered, wannabe Flashmans'. Photograph: Stephen Lock/Rex Features
It was said of Wordsworth: "Two voices are there: one is of the deep … And one is of an old half-witted sheep."
This morning, after the biggest Tory rebellion of the postwar era, there are two views of David Cameron: some Tories continue to regard him as a skilful and far-sighted leader, while others dismiss him as an arrogant little shit who has lost control of his own party and is not even a proper Conservative.
At the risk of boring you, allow me to give you the "Cameron as statesman" line first, for it is in danger of being overlooked. His supporters argue that Cameron had to back House of Lords reform for the sake of the coalition. Some of these loyalists were among the 91 Tory backbenchers who voted against reform. They observe that there is no harm in the House of Commons flexing its muscles. They also maintain that Cameron does not himself want a reform that – leaving aside questions of high principle, and looking only at partisan advantage – would have the severe drawback of leaving the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power in the upper house.
Cameron has successfully strung the Lib Dems along, and backing Lords reform until it runs into impossible difficulties is part of this. The prime minister has made it impossible for his coalition partners to wriggle out of their commitments, including their commitment to support a redrawing of parliamentary boundaries that will benefit the Tories. The Lib Dems cannot now walk out and precipitate a general election at which most of them would lose their seats. Cameron will instead keep them hanging on until most of them lose their seats in 2015. Meanwhile the coalition can get on with the vital task of restoring the national finances, reforming welfare etc. Cameron himself is a true Tory whose heart is in the right place. He is playing a weak hand with the skill and nerve of a brilliant bridge player. That is the case for the defence.
The case for the prosecution is that Cameron's authority is ebbing away, more and more of his backbenchers reckon it is fine to defy his wishes, and he handled the question of Lords reform with atrocious incompetence. Some of the rebels say that about a month ago the prime minister gave the impression that Lords reform was no big deal, only to try to get heavy as the vote drew near. This left the Tory whips in an impossible position: their own leader had undermined them.
Some of the rebels regard Cameron and George Osborne as a pair of petulant, arrogant, bad-tempered, wannabe Flashmans. Flashman, it should be remembered, succeeded in every enterprise to which he put his hand after being thrown out of private school. Cameron's spat on Tuesday night with Jesse Norman plays to this picture of him as a man who treats his own followers with contempt. Some of those followers believe that if Boris Johnson were ever to become Tory leader, he would treat them with much greater consideration. They accuse Cameron of vandalising the British constitution in order to gain three more years for himself in Downing Street.
The more hot-headed of the rebels want Cameron to tell the Lib Dems that Lords reform is now dead. But Cameron is not hot-headed. He is a cool politician who is playing a much longer game.
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As strong supporters of cryptocurrencies and blockchain overall, we are glad to hear this. And as it always happens with each record broken by Bitcoin, there are a few old questions that have to be addressed again.
Is the bubble one step closer to bursting?
Many naysayers are already predicting a future massive downfall. Bitcoin cannot possibly grow so much for so long, something has to stop it eventually. The security question comes back into the discussion, and one may ask himself – whether this time some of those doomsday predictions may come true.
Worries regarding security and anonymity of the cryptocurrencies were here since the very dawn of the market. However, since 2013, Bitcoin has already proven to be an incredibly lucrative and safe form of investment. Even now in 2017, when we have seen a few price drops, Bitcoin market quickly recovered and continues its explosive growth.
Less popular cryptocurrencies are also benefiting from the Bitcoin craze. Ethereum's price, for example, has jumped up by over 10% just a day prior to the Bitcoin's record. Partially the huge investment flood comes from the crypto-backed startup world, which provides almost unregulated opportunities for investors. Billions of dollars were dumped into cryptocurrencies since the beginning of 2017, and according to the Chicago Tribune, even some famous US politicians are amongst Bitcoin boosters.
On the other hand, it's also true that adoption of cryptocurrency by retailers and other businesses stays fairly limited. This, of course, begs the question: how much of the growth in value Bitcoin owes to greedy investors and speculations? And, no doubt, there are many shady companies and scams on the crypto market. However, all of the major Bitcoin scandals were so far connected either with the crashes of exchangers or personal negligence of account managers.
Bitcoin blockchain, in of itself, has never been hacked, unlike banks and private trusts. Cryptocurrencies are the future of the world financial system. The only question is, how long Bitcoin will stay the king of the mountain?