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Sit Down! Listen to This!
The Roger Eagle story by Bill Sykes, published by Empire
Reviewed by Charlotte Starkey August 2012
Sit Down! Listen to This! by Bill Sykes is a fascinating book for many reasons. It is mesmeric for those born during the Second World War or thereabouts and who remember The Twisted Wheel in both its venues in Manchester and/or Eric's in Liverpool and for those who know 'Northern Soul' and its origins. It is a compilation of interviews, reminiscences with some of the friends and acquaintances of Roger Eagle, and with Roger Eagle's own account in interview. It tells a story of the music clubs of Manchester and Liverpool for well-nigh thirty years until Roger Eagle's death in 1999 at the age of fifty six. Specifically it is a story about Roger Eagle himself, placing him at the centre of the key musical developments in Manchester and Liverpool from the 60s to the late 80s: his amazing record collection, his influential contacts with musicians from Britain and America, the clubs in which he worked, which he came to run.
Some will still say that they have never heard of Roger Eagle but many have heard of The Stone Roses and the Hacienda. The Stone Roses were at The International (1988) when Roger Eagle had been brought in as part of the club. Tony Wilson missed out by not signing them; and Tony Wilson himself, when interviewed, admitted the Hacienda quite possibly would not have happened without his meeting with Roger Eagle in Liverpool. This account counterbalances two distortions to the story of music in the region: the significance given to the Beatles and what many consider to be the myth of Anthony H. Wilson (Tony Wilson).
For those unfamiliar with the name, Roger Eagle was born in Oxford in 1942. His formative musical years would have been, as for so many of us, to the sound of skiffle and Rock and Roll in the 50s from America and, of course, the blues. His mother worked for Oxford University Press. He remained in touch with her throughout until her death. He moved to Manchester in 1962 and decided to remain in the North West. He had a passion for what he obviously saw as 'serious' music, the music with its roots in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American traditions, ska, reggae, the blues. He began work as a DJ amassing an amazing record collection and seeking out the new, unusual, unheard sounds of American blues. He was not a musician in the conventional sense: he loved music and, first as a DJ and then as the powerhouse in various clubs, behind major bands, inspiring them, organising, supporting bands, he introduced young white audiences at The Twisted Wheel in Brazenose Street in Manchester (1963) to live performances by musicians such as Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson. He opened numerous clubs, possibly the most famous his two Twisted Wheels in Manchester and Eric's (1976) in Liverpool. He knew most of the key rock and roll, rhythm and blues, reggae and punk musicians of the time. He came to be perceived by many Afro-American musicians as a route through which black musicians could find a voice across the Atlantic for white audiences when, in America itself, their music and their lives were often contained and constrained within the rules of white supremacy.
It is relevant to note that, in parallel with this drive in Manchester, and not the subject of this book but already in exhibition at the People's History Museum in Manchester, there was the music of the African, Afro-Caribbean clubs in Manchester from the 1940s onwards (cf. Endnote 1). It was a vibrant, rich and complex vein of black music in the clubs dotted around Brooks' Bar, Alexandra Park and Hulme. From the 1940s onwards these clubs catered first for the African seamen that arrived by ship from Liverpool to Salford Docks, ex-service personnel who had served in the war, and then the immigrants of the 1950s and 1960s who came with government support to find work as the post-war demolition and new developments began: the PSV Club in Hulme variously owned and known as The Public Services Vehicle Club and then The Caribbean Club, The Reno Club in Moss Side, The Russell Club (to be leased by Tony Wilson in the 70s), The Nile Club on Princess Road. Intermarriage also meant that some English-born people had already heard the music of the Caribbean and Africa and the music was known through some vinyls brought over from America by servicemen stationed in the surrounding region.
None of this community figured in the growth of the music specifically encouraged by Roger Eagle; nor does it figure in this book about him. Certainly racism and segregation led to a ghetto atmosphere where clubs like Reno's and The Nile Club provided a 'safe' environment for a targeted immigrant clientele. Equally many 'white' clubbers chose to visit the mainly 'white' clubs for many years and the initial clientele for Eagle's clubs, as the book demonstrates, identified themselves as the 'Mods' of the 60s. In the Leicester Highfield area in the 1960s, immigrant Caribbean groups would gather on a warm weekend afternoon with the percussion, saxophones, clarinets and bass and make the most amazing music, only for the police sirens to send everyone indoors till the coast was clear again.
It is a strange twist to the whole story that, whilst black American musicians were visiting the white clubs of the North West, the Afro-Caribbean community settling in Britain with powerful and direct links to the roots of reggae and blues [Harlem Spirit – Dem a Sus (In the Moss), for instance, 1979 - a call against 'stop and search' tactics; the Mighty Diamonds at the PSV Club, 1988] did not find a voice or a venue for some years in the club world that Eagle's followers inhabited. Factory Records signed up only one reggae band – X-O-DUS (1979) through Tony Wilson. Their English Black Boys recording has a wonderful sense of tempo and rhythm with a title indicating the central preoccupation with living in a kind of exile. The Factory flyer changed the spelling to EXODUS.
A book such as this inevitably requires re-reading to appreciate fully the enormous amount of detail it contains. It is divided into sections which chart, through interviews around common topics in different chapters, the chronology of Eagle's work in the music scenes of Manchester and Liverpool from his early days notably at the original Twisted Wheel in Brazenose Street, Manchester, close to The Oasis Club on Lloyd Street. The reader is left to piece together the various narratives, memories and impressions to form a complete picture; and this makes the book all the more intriguing.
To appreciate what Eagle was attempting it is important to remember that this was a Manchester far removed from the slick developments of the Hacienda in later years. When Roger Eagle came to Manchester premises could be leased or obtained, ventures set up, relatively easily with the 'right' contacts. As late as the 1950s, when skiffle was king, Piccadilly was a mudbath and the frontage of the northern end of Deansgate opposite the Cathedral was a shell behind which bombed craters still menaced. The coffee house or bar with its jukebox was the magnet for rock and roll. As a young teenager one was warned not to venture to the back of Market Street (one did, of course). The coffee house was the stop-off point if one had the cash, near to the original Twisted Wheel in Brazenose Street, close to Oasis. In the evening The Twisted Wheel, when it opened in 1963, became a mecca. Soon after, Eagle's R&B Scene magazine/fanzine appeared – a nugget of musical history of those years.
Bill Sykes's book was launched on 17th July this year from the second Twisted Wheel reborn in July 2000 and now under threat of demolition (cf. Endnote 2 for update). Bill Sykes and old hands of The Twisted Wheel gave valuable accounts of their memories at the book launch. The place still has that unique chill dark cellar atmospherics when you enter, which gradually steam into sweaty beat as the evening wears on to the sound of vinyl. Still in operation with original vinyl pressings the club continues that tradition of R&B which formed the basis for Eagle when he opened it in Whitworth Street in 1965 after the closure of the Brazenose site.
The book captures well how drugs such as LSD and music fuelled one another during this epoch of the 60s both among musicians and the clubbers who enjoyed the music. It was a complex mix and the two created a sense of spontaneity, creativity and rebellion which so confused the procession of pundits in the media, particularly the BBC with assumed outraged interviewers by turns challenging musicians and giving voice to the eager-to-be-heard representatives of the churches, the police and the suburbs of middle England. These voices of a kind of moral rectitude were always going to founder on the wider corruption of politics itself. Yet, meanwhile, Roger Eagle's initiatives, separate and uninvolved with all this, drove forward a revolution in musical taste that will forever be his legacy in Britain to the music of the blues always outside the equally platitudinous sounds of commercialised pop.
The roll call of his root contacts is magnificent and this book recaptures the memories of those days with the great names he brought to Manchester: Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Lightnin' Hopkins, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Rudi Pompili (Bill Haley's band), Otis Spann, Screamin' Jay Hawkins – R&B and its derivatives, twentieth century music itself, cannot get bigger than a list that goes on – Carl Perkins, Spencer Davis, John Lee Hooker, famously Sonny Boy Williamson. Roger Eagle was in some ways the 'fixer', the one who made it happen here. These and more were filling venues across the country, of course, but in this book we are looking specifically at the impact in Manchester and the North West. Eagle was to manage Mick Hucknall when Hucknall was with The Frantic Elevators as Eric's in Liverpool closed. Hucknall, with his acknowledgement of Roger's role in his early career, moved on with Simply Red but Eagle was central in Hucknall's early experience.
Whilst the book explores the complex mix of music and drugs in the clubs, it does not include the politics which, in student bodies, merged into a heady cocktail of inspiration, creativity, revolt, assertion and sometimes self-destruction. Eagle's own clubs attracted some of the 60s 'Mods' and became a central base in Manchester for their fashions and friendships. In days when students lived away from home and still loved the sounds which Eagle was introducing, any form of transport, hitching, tramping, rebuilding old wrecks, would aid a wilder lifestyle opening up routes to other venues for the music centres as well. The throaty power of Triumph motorbikes or patched up 'bangers' filled with guitars, drums, banjos, records, books and sleeping bags contrasted sharply with the 'sewing machine' sound of the Lambretta: that was for those with attitude. It is a unique history of multiple often conflicting identities shaped around the musical traditions which were heard in Britain from the 1960s onwards and even before then.
The early years in Manchester and Liverpool covered by this book, and other cities elsewhere, are arguably the key years in the growth of Eagle's club world. It can appear as an exciting kaleidoscope of shapes, colours, sounds, relationships, connections and experiences all tinged with a purple glow and a strong beat. The narrative does not pretend to be a social commentary. It does not cover the terrible political realities outside the clubs beyond this book, in the civil rights marches of Ireland and America, war in Vietnam, destruction of communities and racism in Britain, in Manchester itself. In 1968 Dubcek's Czechoslovakia was invaded by Russia (a Yugoslav friend of mine, crazy on 'soul', was called home urgently); the Civil Rights Movement in America was galvanised by the assassination of Martin Luther King; Vietnam was increasingly criticised by the American public and in August the first Civil Rights March took place in Northern Ireland, just days before Soviet Russia invaded Czechoslovakia.
On 17th March 1968, the protests against American involvement in Vietnam led to the London Grosvenor Square riots outside the U.S. embassy and the battle with the police. Protesting buskers were not far away in the side streets with the songs of Bob Dylan, Ewan McColl, Donovan. On 13th May French workers joined students in revolt with the aim of bringing down De Gaulle's right wing government. There was, too, a tranche of music supporting the protests against the increased instability of the world with nuclear arsenals in some ways separate from the club world. All this is outside the scope of the book but part of the wider related picture of the age: the seemingly rebellious nature of the music, the return to roots, paralleled the questioning that was taking place in other spheres.
On the individual level, too, for some the atmosphere was an escape when lives otherwise were chaotic or simply felt to be mundane. Money did not wash around because the credit card hadn't been invented in the early days; often the bands that Roger Eagle played, the followers too, were skint. The 70s brought recession just as the descendants in Northern Soul filled Wigan Casino to seek another kind of escape, fifth formers in those days on speed some of them. Then, as digital sound kicked in, the music moguls once again took over, and what Eagle initiated in Manchester was left to reggae, hip hop, drum machines and the blues yet again to assert in the face of increasing commercialisation.
There will always be a danger of mythologizing the myths, embellishing the narratives, of this period. Other towns and cities had equally important clubs and similar connecting wider issues. The value of Eagle's musical antennae in the 1960s can be glimpsed if one looks at his lists of gigs and that of many another town and city where music was strong. This is another link in his story between the music clubs of the North West, the pirate radio stations and the wider connections into cities like London (Flamingo Club), Leicester and Brixton in the 1960s. Leicester had a rich music scene at a time of critical political, social and intellectual tension and power. Major names appeared in both cities: 1964, Long John Baldry (Twisted Wheel at an 'all nighter') then at Leicester, 1965 with the Hoochie Coochie Men; 1964, the Animals with Eric Burdon (Twisted Wheel) twice this same year, the second time with Sonny Boy Williamson on the same gig;1967 the Jimi Hendrix Experience (played at The Twisted Wheel in January, at Leicester University in February), Kaleidoscope, Traffic; 1968 Cream (Eric Clapton, part of Cream, who visited Roger Eagle at his Chorlton flat and knew Steve Winwood of Traffic, a Leicester-based set-up; Ginger Baker of Cream – totally hypnotic, a brilliant percussionist, steaming and shrouded in that wild red hair as he intensified the tempo), The Who, Barclay James Harvest, Led Zeppelin; and then the Rolling Stones both at the University (stoned, too) and then later in the 60s the De Montfort Hall next door. And who turned up at The Twisted Wheel? – the Rolling Stones ('bloody good backing band' according to Roger Eagle who had them at the Wheel, too), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (Leicester at Il Rondo then Eagle's Magic Village, 8th June, 1968). Geno Washington … another list of interconnections.
Just an idea here of what may appear an almost seamless quality in hindsight to a reality that was sometimes a frantic, fragile thread that linked key blues influences across the country certainly and then across the Atlantic in both directions. Life was sometimes lived at breakneck speed thirty five hours a day but it did not matter.
The significance of Eagle, illustrated well in the book, is that he focused on this deep vein of new music emerging from, connecting with, the American blues in a relatively small Manchester club when often these musicians would often be performing to much larger audiences in major venues. It was the club ethos, Roger Eagle's enthusiasm, the eagerness of new young musicians and the commitment of the music lovers which attracted most of the major figures in the blues to Eagle's world. He established a port of call as distinct from the one-off venue and the book captures well how intently his followers listened to what he offered them – musicians included.
The media perception of a generation wrecked on LSD, purple hearts, heroin and early amphetamines belies the fact, however, that it would be possible to cite chronic older mescaline addicts one knew of at that time in other 'respectable' walks of life, including the odd clergyman. The book illustrates well that Eagle's drive was the music, that he was sometimes impatient with sorting the ambulances for clubbers crashed out on drugs. The psychedelic experience, often attributed to Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception (1954) grabbed the Beatles' business mind, good for the publicity when they met the Maharishi. The commercialised 'spirituality' of that venture ended with the break-up. Many did not read the other half of Huxley's experience, Heaven and Hell (1956) where the effects of the experience could lead in either direction. The music was fuelled by both perspectives, gave it a raw edge in the early days. Bill Sykes captures much of this atmosphere in interviews.
Nothing new in all this:- Francis Thompson, nineteenth century writer of The Hound of Heaven (publ. 1893), a powerful poem about a tortured youth's quest for salvation, lived in Manchester as a medical student and later became addicted to opium. Thomas de Quincey, another opium addict, was born just round the corner from the first Twisted Wheel in Cross Street (in 1785, mind you, so he didn't get a chance to visit the Wheel, but sometimes I would not have been surprised if he had walked through the door). It was possible to make random, telling connections in a drug-hazed atmosphere and end up talking with angels – or devils.
On a number of occasions throughout this book the connection that Anthony H. Wilson (his preferred name - more popularly known as Tony Wilson) had with Roger Eagle is raised. From my viewpoint, Manchester-born, same vintage as Roger Eagle in Oxford, Anthony Wilson was always a problematic figure, eight years younger, arriving at Cambridge University in 1968 when the 60s were almost over. The mix of music, politics and writing was already a heady cocktail. The Guardian obituary of Tony Wilson got it wrong by stating that Wilson arrived at Jesus College "when the revolution in drugs happened" (edition, Monday 13th August, 2007). It began way before then, in the early 60s, and a year, a month, a day, in that lifestyle was a lifetime experience. Wilson arrived late on the scene, relatively speaking.
Eagle began years before Wilson and created a much more potent music because, as Bill Sykes's book emphasises, Eagle remained true to his passion for R&B, 'hard' rhythm, especially as the accented upbeat shifted to the offbeat in reggae. Eagle remained in the background, an articulate influence promoting otherwise inaccessible pressings of American music. Wilson was often perceived to be more preoccupied with self-promotion through his media connections (Granada and the BBC). He had been educated a Catholic and seemed to manage badly the worldly 'success' which was sometimes preached as a sign of providential gifting.
The book hints at, sometimes reveals, the extent to which his most famous product, the Hacienda, is often judged to have failed because bad business, bad publicity, bad management and bad sound-systems came before the music. The Twisted Wheel was a club for music lovers; speculation follows that the Hacienda was perhaps more a stage for Tony Wilson targeting commercialised youngsters in their musical tastes in an unstable framework. Certainly the book has a potent account, substantiated in Wilson's own words, of how Wilson allegedly took Eagle's business plan away with him from a meeting in Liverpool and simply decided to go it alone with results that are now well-known. Many in Manchester and Roger Eagle's fans know a narrative which differs considerably from the popular widely held myth about Wilson perpetuated in the media.
A large chapter in the book explores Roger Eagle's enormous influence in Liverpool so close to, yet so many cultural leagues away from, the Cavern and the Merseybeat cult. The book explores how he encouraged, initiated and followed major bands from here – and the account of the closure of Eric's after a raid is harrowing. In many ways this epitomises how much Eagle lived on the edge, at the forefront of music, in his clubs so different from the 'clubbing' of today, on the verge of bankruptcy most of the time. Eagle is portrayed as a giant in the world of musical education for a generation in terms of bringing the best of ska, reggae and then punk. Yet again, however, another point made in the book reveals how much later Factory Records owed to the experience of watching, listening and noting how Roger Eagle was working at Eric's (p. 187). Jayne Casey lead singer of Big in Japan (and later artistic director of Liverpool's Capital of Culture) gives fascinating insights into the Wilson episodes with Roger Eagle.
Through the interviews in Bill Sykes's book with various women in Roger Eagle's world, we realise how much an often perceived male-dominated culture relied upon female vocalists, bands and fixers in their own right. Yet again the cross-connections between major bands associated with Eagle emerge – Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood also in Big in Japan at one stage. The music had an energy, force, dynamism unparalleled in the smooth, sugary melodic wash of commercial pop. There is Val Randall's hilarious account of being escorted for the first time to the Liverpool Stadium by a gentlemanly policeman who clearly knew Eagle, sparking her comment: 'God! Does everyone know this man?'
One could continue for ever with this story of a man, a time, a music that inspired so many and which, thankfully, has inspired this book. In time to come the book will become a document of a musical tradition, a time, a region, in its own right. It is also, in some ways, a work in progress, a source book for reading, browsing, re-reading, researching. It is well illustrated with photographs of Roger Eagle, of gigs and their line-ups. It has a valuable gigography at the end preceded by that obituary for Roger Eagle written by Bob Dickinson for The Guardian (Saturday, 15th May, 1999).
I'm reminded of the final lines of a book by Mezz Mezzrow, a brilliant clarinetist and saxophonist, among many other questionable things, with Bernard Wolfe as co-author, Really the Blues, first published in 1946 and republished coincidentally in 1999, the year when Roger Eagle died. Alan Ginsberg, on his own lifelong messianic 'trip', found it a major contribution to the blues story. It is the autobiographical account of a man, whose nickname 'Mezz' became synonymous with 'marijuana' because he sold so much dope. It is also the amazing story of American jazz, the blues and swing, the very material where Eagle began. It could be Roger Eagle's epitaph and that of a few others around him:
I sure never suspected I was living a saga and an odyssey, during all those frantic years. I thought I was just trying to keep my head above water, and feed my breadbasket now and then, and maybe chase a butterfly and a soapbubble or two. Now it turns out I was significant! Man, oh man, it looks like you got to watch every move you make. (Repr. Souvenir Press, London, 2009, p.335).
Well by now Eagle is significant; for some of us he always was. The book captures his genius, his sometime lonely life, the humour, the sadness of his final illness. He never sought the limelight – how scarce a human quality that now is. Every move he made as a DJ educated a generation of youngsters in the blues and its connecting rhythms; and this book by Bill Sykes is a fitting, timely tribute as well as an important contribution to the debate about Manchester, Liverpool and music. One just can't help liking a guy who smoked 40 cigarettes a day and worried that the air in Whaley Bridge could be polluted. These are the sad yet lovely touches with which the book is filled – as when, during his last period, he put a record on for KFM Radio during Saturday evening rush hour in Stockport of all places: 'Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow'. Brilliant!
1. Ghosts: Disappearing Histories, celebrating the Clubs of Moss Side and Hulme from the 50s to the 80s, 11th August to 4th November, 10 – 5, free admission, at the People's History Museum in association with Commonword. Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER
2. NOTE: the latest information I have on this is that a verbal undertaking has been made by the developers of the building on Whitworth Street to preserve "the building fabric, fixtures and fittings for the purpose of preservation" see http://www.soul-source.co.uk/_/articles/soul-news/the-twisted-wheel-campaign-r2533.
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Richard Denniss
Climate change often gets blamed on market failure, but government failure plays a pretty big role as well. Not only do Australian governments spend more than $11.6 billion per year subsidising fossil fuels, at the same time the Federal Government spends billions paying some landholders to grow more trees, state governments perversely continue to subsidise the logging of native forests. I'm not sure that's what people mean by the circular economy.
While successive governments have spent billions subsidising research into Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), the really inconvenient truth is the most effective CCS technology is the humble tree. It's low cost, low risk and ready to roll. Trees quite literally suck carbon dioxide out of the air and store it safely in their trunks and their roots. And as if that's not a cool invention, trees throw in water filtration and native species habitat 'services' for free. If Elon Musk had invented the tree, he'd be a trillionaire by now.
But despite all the talk of doing everything we can to tackle climate change in reality our state governments are still spending our money to subsidise the logging of native forests. Last year alone Victorian taxpayers spent $18m propping up state owned logging operations. Those subsidies are expected to balloon out to $192m in total by 2030. According to the publicly owned VicForests own business plan for 2015-16 'Timber harvesting operations in the East Gippsland Forest Management Area have not been profitable for VicForests for many years.' Tasmania and NSW forestry receive similarly eye-watering subsidies.
Most of the trees from native forests logging get turned into wood chips to make paper. But while there are lots of substitutes for native forest woodchips, there is no substitute for our remaining native forest habitats which are literally the only places on the earth countless species can live. And those same forests the only places on earth that can filter and purify the water that runs into the dams that provide most of our drinking water.
The former and current federal governments have committed up to $4.5 billion to encourage some farmers to 'avoid deforestation' and 'induce regeneration' of trees on their land. But while preventing further land clearing and encouraging better land management is a great idea, there is strong evidence that there's a lot less new trees in the landscape than the farmers and the government are claiming.
In Western NSW, for example, where around $300 million has been committed to paying farmers to 'avoid deforestation', the rate of land clearing has actually increased! One farmer who receives millions from the federal government for his efforts explained the parent paradox when he admitted to the ABC that he was using the money he got from 'avoiding deforestation' on one of his paddocks to clear more trees on a neighbouring block.
But while there is so much doubt about the integrity of the Morrison Governments so called Emission Reduction Fund that the new Minister, Chris Bowen, has announced a 6-month inquiry, there is absolutely no doubt that when chainsaws bring down 45-meters tall trees in poor native forests that enormous amounts of greenhouse gasses are released back into the atmosphere. Australia isn't investing in its best carbon capture technologies; it is literally destroying them.
Even if we didn't want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the idea that the federal government would pay some people to protect trees while the state governments pay others to destroy them would be absurd. But when all of the state governments concerned claim to be committed to achieving net-zero by 2050 the whole situation is simply farcical.
The Commonwealth's emission reduction fund was dreamed up by Tony Abbott's government, criticised by Malcolm Turnbull, but maintained for now by Labor due to the political toxicity of introducing a simple carbon price. But while the entire premise of the ERF is that market forces have a significant role to play in tackling climate change, supporting government subsidies to keep our native forest logging industry going is the antithesis of believing in the role of market forces.
But of course, Australia's native forests are not just the best 'carbon sinks' around. For example, the Victorian highlands purify more than $310m worth of drinking water, provide the only habitat in the world suitable for bush-stone curlews, bandicoots, spot-tailed quolls, regent honey-eaters, greater gliders and over third of Victoria's plant species. And, of course, have priceless importance for indigenous heritage and culture.
The economics of tackling climate change aren't complicated, we simply need to do less of the things that increase emissions and more of the things that reduce them. While a carbon tax is obviously a good idea, in the meantime we need to scrap the subsidies that encourage native forest logging and extracting even more fossil fuels. But while the economics aren't complicated, the politics and the policies favoured by the biggest polluters, always are. Scrapping subsidies for fossil fuels and native forest logging aren't the only things we need to do to make our planet safe, but no government can pretend to be serious about achieving net zero emissions.
Richard Denniss is Chief Economist at leading public policy think-tank the Australia Institute Twitter: @RDNS


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English Literature » Contrast
Definition of Contrast
Contrast is a rhetorical device through which writers identify differences between two subjects, places, persons, things, or ideas. Simply, it is a type of opposition between two objects, highlighted to emphasize their differences.
Contrast comes from the Latin word, contra stare, meaning to stand against. Usually, though not always, writers use phrases and words to indicate a contrast such as but, yet, however, instead, in contrast, nevertheless, on the contrary, and unlike. for instance, E. B. White, in his novel Stuart Little, brings a contrast between Stuart and other babies, using the word unlike:
"Unlike most babies, Stuart could walk as soon as he was born."
Types of Contrast
Point-by-point Contrast – In this type of contrast, writers deal with a series of features of two subjects, and then present their contrast, discussing all points successively.
Subject-by-subject Contrast – In this type of contrast, a writer first discusses one subject thoroughly, and then moves on to another.
Examples of Contrast in Literature
Example #1: Eminent Men I Have Known, Unpopular Essays (By Bertrand Russell)
"To begin with the differences: Lenin was cruel, which Gladstone was not; Lenin had no respect for tradition, whereas Gladstone had a great deal; Lenin considered all means legitimate for securing the victory of his party, whereas for Gladstone politics was a game with certain rules that must be observed. All these differences, to my mind, are to the advantage of Gladstone, and accordingly Gladstone on the whole had beneficent effects, while Lenin's effects were disastrous."
In this example, Russell presents a point-by-point contrast between two persons, Vladimir Lenin – a Russian communist revolutionary, and William Gladstone – a British Liberal politician. By the end, the author expresses his favor for Gladstone over Lenin.
Example #2: Sonnet 130 (By William Shakespeare)
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
But no such roses see I in her cheeks …"
In the first five lines of this poem, Shakespeare employs a number of contrasts to lay emphasis on his beloved's qualities. He contrasts her with the sun, coral, snow, and wire. Simply, he wants to convey the idea that, while his woman is not extraordinary, she is substantial.
Example #3: A Tale of Two Cities (By Charles Dickens)
Charles Dickens, in the very first chapter of his novel A Tale of Two Cities, presents a sweeping background of events and forces, which shape the characters' lives later on. In the first paragraph, he begins to share a dual theme, as he compares and contrasts the ideas of "best" and "worst" of times, "light" and "darkness," and then "hope" and "despair."
These contrasting ideas reflect images of good and bad that would recur in situations and characters throughout the novel. Dickens makes contrast between two countries, England and France. Both countries experience very different and very similar situations simultaneously. The differences he compares are concepts of justice and spirituality in each country.
Example #4: Romeo and Juliet (By William Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is about contrasts of love and hate. This tragic play embodies these emotions in different ways, as we see a romance between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet, whereas their families are at war and hate each other. However, their love forbids this war.
Characters in this play also contrast each other. Romeo and Juliet, though both are lovers, are different too. Romeo is impulsive and dependent, while Juliet is organized, brave and practical. Montague's marriage is successful, while Capulet's is not. Along with a steady contrast in characters, we notice contrasts in mood, theme, and action of the play as well.
Function of Contrast
Writers address a number of features and characteristics of two subjects, persons, places, and events by contrasting them from one point to another. While the major purpose of contrast is to elucidate ideas and clear their meanings, readers can easily understand through this device what is going to happen next. Through opposite and contrasting ideas, writers make their arguments stronger, thus making them more memorable for readers due to emphasis placed on them. In addition, contrasting ideas shock the audience, heighten drama, and produce balanced structures in literary works.
God's Divine Justice in Dante's "Inferno"
Compare and contrast Aristotle's and Plato's conception
Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue": Literary Analysis
Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo as a Tragic Hero
Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue": Literary Analysis
Analysis of Hamlet's First Soliloquy


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Sense and Sensibility (version 2) by Jane Austen
Published 1800 -1900
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating "sense and sensibility" in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make "sense" by bringing with it enough assets and income to permit the couple to continue to live in happy, idle leisure, complete with servants and a prestigious address. Provided one can find such a match among the eligible persons of the opposite sex, one then hopes for "sensibility", or capacity for emotion, so that if love is not immediately to hand, it might come around later. And while these gentlemen and ladies make their hopeful pirouettes in the social eye, they must of course adhere to all the forms of civility.
Jane Austen writes of the family of a gentleman named Dashwood who dies and leaves most of his fortune to his son, with the understanding that he will "look out for" his mother and three sisters. When that son marries a grasping woman who convinces him that his sisters' funds are suitable to their needs and so require no contributions from his inherited fortune, the sisters are left to play the game of "Sense and Sensibility" in earnest.
But all's not fair in love. Carefully prepared "attachments" can and do go awry when gentlemen find other young women of greater fortunes than the Dashwood sisters. So, will they marry for love? Or money? Or perhaps, not at all? (Summary by Mark F. Smith)


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La giornata nazionale del braille è una ricorrenza istituita con la legge n. 126 del 3 agosto 2007. Si celebra annualmente il 21 febbraio, quale momento di sensibilizzazione dell'opinione pubblica nei confronti delle persone non vedenti, in coincidenza con la giornata mondiale della difesa dell'identità linguistica promossa dall'Unesco (l'organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'educazione, la scienza e la cultura). Infatti, questo sistema consente ai ciechi di accedere al patrimonio culturale scritto dell'umanità.

Nell'ambito di tale giornata, le amministrazioni pubbliche e gli altri organismi operanti nel settore sociale possono promuovere idonee iniziative di sensibilizzazione e solidarietà, nonché studi, convegni, incontri e dibattiti presso le scuole e i principali mass-media, per richiamare l'attenzione e l'informazione sull'importanza che il sistema braille riveste nella vita delle persone non vedenti e di quanti sono coinvolti direttamente o indirettamente nelle loro vicende, al fine di sviluppare politiche pubbliche e comportamenti privati che allarghino le possibilità di reale inclusione sociale e di accesso alla cultura e all'informazione per tutti coloro che soffrono di minorazioni visive.

La ricorrenza è considerata solennità civile e non determina riduzione dell'orario di lavoro negli uffici pubblici, né, qualora cada nei giorni feriali, costituisce giorno di vacanza o comporta riduzione di orario per le scuole di ogni ordine e grado.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Festività nazionali in Italia
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Q: Bounding the tail of a stretched exponential series
Let there be constants $\alpha>0$ and  $0<\beta<1$. I want to show that, for $n$ sufficiently large
$$\sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha m^\beta}\leq c(n) e^{-\alpha n^\beta}$$
where $c(n)$ is a polinomial.

Context: We know that the tail of a exponentially decaying series decays with the same rate, that is:
$$\sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha m} = e^{-\alpha n}\sum_{m=0}^\infty e^{-\alpha m} = e^{-\alpha n}\left(\tfrac{1}{1-e^{-\alpha}}\right)= Ce^{-\alpha n}.$$
Our series is "stretched" exponential because we're working with $a_n = e^{-an^\beta}$ with $\beta<1$. That makes the terms of our series decay slower than exponentially.
According to my supervisor I can't find a constant $C$ so that $\sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha m^\beta}\leq Ce^{-\alpha n^\beta}$, but I can find a polinomial that does the job.
So, here's my attempt so far

$\sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha m^\beta} = e^{-\alpha n^\beta} \sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha (m^\beta-n^\beta)}$. Suffice to show that exists $\gamma>0$ such that, for n sufficiently large, $$\sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha(m^\beta-n^\beta)}\leq n^\gamma$$
that would imply that exists an $n_0\geq 1$ such that $$\gamma\geq \frac{\log\left(\sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha(m^\beta-n^\beta)}\right)}{\log(n)}\; \mbox{ for }n \geq n_0.$$
But, how can I show the sequence $a_n = \tfrac{\log(\sum_{m=n}^\infty e^{-\alpha(m^\beta-n^\beta)})}{\log(n)}$ is bounded?

I also attempted to bound the series by an integral to no avail. According to my supervisor I should be able to show this simply by working with the series "brute and simple". Is it actually easy and I'm not seeing it or my supervisor is saying this is easy when it's actually not? (wouldn't be the first time, and I appreciate him for it)
Any help is appreciated.

A: Working with the integral comparison argument should be a simple way to show the mentioned bound: One has
$$\sum_{k=n}^\infty \exp(-\alpha k^\beta) \leq + \exp(-\alpha n^\beta) + \int_{n}^\infty \exp(-\alpha x^\beta) \, \mathrm{d} x.$$
Now make the change of variables $x^\beta = y$ to get
$$\int_n^\infty \exp(-\alpha x^\beta) \, \mathrm{d} x = \beta^{-1} \int_{n^\beta}^\infty y^{1/\beta-1} \exp(-\alpha y) dy.$$
If $\beta >1$, then (assuming $n \geq 1$) we get
$$\int_{n^\beta}^\infty y^{1/\beta-1} \exp(-\alpha y) dy \leq \int_{n^\beta}^\infty \exp(-\alpha y) dy = \frac{\exp(-\alpha n^\beta)}{\alpha}.$$
If $\beta \in (0,1]$, we introduce $m := \lceil 1/\beta \rceil$ (ceiling function) and find
\begin{equation}
\int_{n^\beta}^\infty y^{1/\beta-1} \exp(-\alpha y) dy \leq \int_{n^\beta}^\infty y^m \exp(-\alpha y) dy = C_{\alpha,m}(n^\beta) \exp(-\alpha n^\beta ),
\end{equation}
where $C_{\alpha,m}$ is a polynomial of degree $m$. (This follows by partial integration.) Since $m \beta \leq 1$, one has $C_{\alpha,\beta}(n^\beta) \ll_{\alpha,\beta} n$. And, yes, you cannot replace this polynomial by a constant (at least in the cases $\beta < 1$), because one has
$$\sum_{k=n}^\infty \exp(-\alpha k^\beta) \geq \int_n^\infty \exp(-\alpha x^\beta) \, dx.$$
Similiar arumgents as above would give a lower bound of similiar kind.

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BGC0001601, gassericin-S biosynthetic gene cluster from Lactobacillus gasseri. Locus 1. Partial MIBiG entry.
gassericin-S (BGC0001601). Gene Cluster 1. Biosynthetic class = RiPP. GenBank LC389591, positions 1-1143. Click on genes for more information.


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Warlords III: Darklords Rising — официальное дополнение к компьютерной игре Warlords III от австралийской компании SSG. Игровой процесс версии игры 1.02 сильно отличается как от Reign Of Heroes, так и от версии 1.0 из-за большой работы по перебалансировке и возможности внедрения пользовательских модификаций.

В эту игру до сих пор играют онлайн и PBEM, а также существуют сообщества игроков. В отличие от Reign Of Heroes, Darklords Rising можно запустить в Windows XP и Windows Vista.

Игровой процесс

В дополнении был переработан игровой баланс и исправлены ошибки оригинальной игры. Появилось множество новых умений героев и юнитов, такие как некромантия (воскрешение из мертвых), телепортация и другие. Были добавленые новые постройки — казармы и сторожевые башни.

В дополнению к стандартному режиму игры, основанному на захвате городов появились новые — такие как Capture the Flag и Battle of the Titans.

Одним из самых значимых нововведений стал редактор уровней.

Редактор карт
Игра снабжена мощным, но относительно простым в освоении редактором карт, с помощью которого можно создавать собственные сценарии и кампании, а также редактировать абсолютно все параметры местности, городов, сайтов, армий и прочего.

В игре присутствует очень гибкий генератор случайных карт, которым и пользуются в большинстве случаев для игры онлайн или по электронной почте.

Модификации
Модификациями в Darklords Rising называют дополнительные наборы армий и героев, которые создают сами игроки. Наибольшей популярностью пользуются Stormheim Units и K4 Heroes, которые уже стали негласным стандартом для PBEM и онлайн-игр. Для онлайн-игр сейчас все чаще используются X-Heroes и TT units. Также, широко известен набор армий и героев Molotov Cocktail, созданный игроком из России.

Сообщество игроков

Несмотря на то, что со времени выхода игры прошло более десяти лет, люди со всего мира продолжают играть в неё, среди фанатов игры проводятся турниры и многопользовательские игры (до 8 участников) - некоторые игроки предпочитают такие игры стандартным "один-на-один". Наиболее активны игроки из США и Германии. Русские (русскоговорящие) игроки, общепризнанно самые сильные в игре по Email, после закрытия сайта Warlords Universal из жизни сообщества практически выпали.

Комментарий создателя Warlords Universal:
И это очень жаль конечно! Свидетельствую как аффтар и создатель сайта Warlords Universal (Мастер, если кто ещё помнит). Сайт закрылся по не зависящим от меня причинам. И хотя у меня сейчас немного свободного времени, но есть план возродить WU как часть портала авторских материалов. На поддержку турниров времени не будет конечно, но Лигу WU попробуем возродить.

В ноябре 2011 года были завершены основные работы над сайтом новой лиги - LastCitadel.ru, создаваемым игроком под ником Molotov. Так же, как и когда-то на Warlords Universal, существует система рейтинга игроков по результатам проведенных игр, имеется возможность отправлять и получать вызовы и рапортовать о поражении. В настоящее время, ведется работа по расширению функционала и наполнению контентом.

Оценки на игровых сайтах
 На сайте Gamespot.com игра получила  GameSpot Score 8.9 (Great).
 Warlords III: Dark Lords Rising  на сайте ign.com получила оценку 8.0 (Impressive). По оценкам игроков игра тоже получила, в среднем, 8.0.

Ссылки

Общие сайты
 Warlorders.com — Основной сайт игроков в Warlords
 Warlords.h1.ru — Русский фан-сайт игры
 LastCitadel.ru — Лига игроков в Warlords

Руководства и важные статьи
 Руководство рыцаря  — Подробное руководство по игре, написанное мастером лиги Warlords Universal
 Руководство рыцаря — Подробное руководство, автор которого известный игрок в Warlords, Granite Golem.
 How to get running on Windows XP — Решение известных проблем при запуске игры на Windows XP

Другие сайты
 Molotov Cocktail — Сайт набора армий от лорда Молотова

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10 Ways To Deal With Negative or Difficult People
Comments Off on 10 Ways To Deal With Negative or Difficult People Posted by docakilah on November 2, 2011
I love her to death, but it's draining to talk to her.
Every time I call this friend of mine, I know what I'm in for: a half-hour rant about everything that's difficult, miserable or unfair.
Sometimes she focuses on the people she feels have wronged her and other times she explores the general hopelessness of life. She never calls to see how I'm doing, and she rarely listens to what's going on in my life for more than a minute before shifting the focus back to herself.
I tell myself I call because I care, but sometimes I wonder if I have ulterior motives–to pump up my ego offering good advice, or even to feel better about my own reality.
I'm no saint, and if there's one thing I know well, we only do things repeatedly if we believe there's something in it for us. Even if that something is just to feel needed.
I thought about this the other day when a reader wrote to me with an interesting question: "How do you offer compassion to someone who doesn't seem to deserve it?"
While I believe everyone deserves compassion, I understand what we meant after reading more. She went on to describe her offensive, sexist, racist boss who emotionally exhausts everyone around him. He sounds a lot more hateful than my friend, who is, sadly, just terribly depressed.
But these people have one thing in common: boundless negative energy that ends up affecting everyone around them.
So today I started thinking about how we interact with negative or difficult people. People who seem chronically critical, belligerent, indignant, angry, or just plain rude.
When someone repeatedly drains everyone around them, how do you maintain a sense of compassion without getting sucked into their doom? And how do you act in a way that doesn't reinforce their negativity–and maybe even helps them?
1. Resist the urge to judge or assume.
It's hard to offer someone compassion when you assume you have them pegged. He's a jerk. She's a malcontent. He's an–insert other choice noun. Even if it seems unlikely someone will wake up one day and act differently we have to remember it is possible.
When you think negative thoughts, it comes out in your body language. Someone prone to negativity may feel all too tempted to mirror that. Try coming at them with the positive mindset you wish they had. Expect the best in them. You never know when you might be pleasantly surprised.
2. Dig deeper, but stay out of the hole.
It's always easier to offer someone compassion if you try to understand where they're coming from. But that can't completely justify bad behavior. If you show negative people you support their choice to behave badly, you give them no real incentive to make a change (which they may actually want deep down).
It may help to repeat this in your head when you deal with them: "I understand your pain. But I'm most helpful if I don't feed into it." This might help you approach them with both kindness and firmness so they don't bring you down with them.
3. Maintain a positive boundary.
Some people might tell you to visualize a bright white light around you to maintain a positive space when other people enter it with negativity. This doesn't actually work for me because I respond better to ideas in words than visualizations. So I tell myself this, "I can only control the positive space I create around myself."
Then when I interact with this person, I try to do two things, in this order of importance:
Protect the positive space around me. When their negativity is too strong to protect it, I need to walk away.
Help them feel more positive, not act more positive–which is more likely to create the desired result.
4. Disarm their negativity, even if just for now.
This goes back to the ideas I mentioned above. I know my depressed friend will rant about life's injustices as long as I let her. Part of me feels tempted to play amateur psychiatrist–get her talking, and then try to help her reframe situations into a more positive light.
Then I remind myself I can't change her whole way of being in one phone call. She has to want that. I also can't listen for hours on end, as I've done in the past. But I can listen compassionately for a short while and then help her focus on something positive right now, in this moment. I can ask about her upcoming birthday. I can remind her it's a beautiful day for a walk. Don't try to solve or fix them. Just aim to help them now.
5. Temper your emotional response.
Negative people often gravitate toward others who react strongly–people who easily offer compassionate or get outraged, or offended. I suspect this gives them a little light in the darkness of their inner world–a sense that they're not floating alone in their own anger or sadness.
People remember and learn from what you do more than what you say. If you feed into the situation with emotions, you'll teach them they can depend on you for a reaction. It's tough not to react because we're human, but it's worth practicing.
Once you've offered a compassionate ear for as long as you can, respond as calmly as possible with a simple line of fact. If you're dealing with a rude or angry person, you may want to change the subject to something unrelated: "Dancing with the Stars is on tonight. Planning to watch it?"
6. Question what you're getting out of it.
Like I mentioned above, we often get something out of relationships with negative people. Get real honest with yourself: have you fallen into a caretaker role because it makes you feel needed? Have you maintained the relationship so you can gossip about this person in a holier-than-thou way with others? Do you have some sort of stake in keeping the things the way they are?
Questioning yourself helps you change the way you respond–which is really all you can control. You can't make someone think, feel, or act differently. You can be as kind as possible or as combative as possible, and still not change reality for someone else. All you can control is whatyou think and do–and then do your best to help them without hurting yourself.
7. Remember the numbers.
Research shows that people with negative attitudes have significantly higher rates of stress and disease. Someone's mental state plays a huge role in their physical health. If someone's making life difficult for people around them, you can be sure they're doing worse for themselves.
What a sad reality. That someone has so much pain inside them they have to act out just to feel some sense of relief–even if that relief comes from getting a rise out of people. When you remember how much a difficult person is suffering, it's easier to stay focused on minimizing negativity, as opposed to defending yourself.
8. Don't take it personally–but know sometimes it is personal.
Conventional wisdom suggests that you should never take things personally when you deal with a negative person. I think it's a little more complicated than that. You can't write off everything someone says about you just because the person is insensitive or tactless. Even an abrasive person may have a valid point. Try to weigh their comments with a willingness to learn.
Accept that you don't deserve the excessive emotions in someone's tone, but weigh their ideas with a willingness to learn. Some of the most useful lessons I've learned came from people I wished weren't right.
9. Act instead of just reacting.
Oftentimes we wait until someone gets angry or depressed before we try to buoy their spirits. If you know someone who seems to deal with difficult thoughts or feelings often (as demonstrated in their behavior) don't wait for a situation to help them create positive feelings.
Give them a compliment for something they did well. Remind them of a moment when they were happy–as in "Remember when you scored that touchdown during the company picnic? That was awesome!" You're more apt to want to boost them up when they haven't brought you down. This may help mitigate that later, and also give them a little relief from their pain.
10. Maintain the right relationship based on reality as it is.
With my friend, I'm always wishing she could be more positive. I consistently put myself in situations where I feel bad because I want to help, because I want her to be happy. I've recently realized the best I can do is accept her as she is, let her know I believe in her ability to be happy, and then give her space to make the choice.
That means gently bringing our conversation to a close after I've made an effort to help. Or cutting short a night out if I've done all I can and it's draining me. Hopefully she'll want to change some day. Until then, all I can do is love her, while loving myself enough to take care of my needs. Which often means putting them first.
I've learned you can't always saved the world. But you can make the world a better place by working on yourself–by becoming self-aware, tapping into your compassion, and protecting your positive space. You may even help negative people by fostering a sense of peace within yourself that their negativity can't pierce.
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Happiness and Optimistic Attitudes Important in Preventing Breast Cancer
Want to lower your risk of getting breast cancer? Recent research in Israel published in the British journal BMC Cancer has given us one more thing to take note of.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after non-melanoma skin cancer, cancer of the breast is the next one which most commonly afflicts American women. In 2004 alone, over 185,000 women and more than 1,800 men were diagnosed with the disease, while almost 41,000 women and 362 men actually died because of breast cancer.
Overall, in that year, breast cancer was the number five killer of American women, while being their number two cancer killer. For Hispanic women, breast cancer was also the type of cancer which caused the most deaths.
These numbers do not make for good reading at all. What actually causes breast cancer, and what can we do to stave it off?
Possible Causes of Breast Cancer
Those who are familiar with natural health and healing will know that breast cancer, like all other forms of cancer, can be prevented and even treated using powerful dietary and lifestyle choices, such as consuming enough fiber, exercising regularly, as well as getting enough sunshine and vitamin D.
What is also clear is that breast cancer, again like all forms of cancer, is a multi-factorial disease which needs to be tackled from various angles.
Recent research at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel has given us one more piece of the jigsaw – it seems that happiness and optimistic attitudes may reduce one's risk of contracting the disease. On the flip side, adverse life events may increase one's susceptibility to it.
Details of the Study
For the study, 622 women aged between 25 and 45 were asked about their life experiences, and researchers then assessed their levels of optimism, happiness, anxiety and depression before diagnosis. This information was then used to draw a link between life events, psychological distress and the occurrence of breast cancer. Of the participants, 255 were breast cancer patients, while the other 367 had never had cancer.
According to Professor Ronit Peled, the leader of the study, its findings "showed a clear link between outlook and risk of breast cancer, with optimists 25 percent less likely to have developed the disease".
On the other hand, women who had been through two or more traumatic events in their lives had a 62 percent higher risk of contracting the disease.
The Emotion-Health Connection
Generally speaking, there have been other studies which have drawn a link between positive mental and emotional states and better health. For example, some studies have shown that positive emotions cause the body to produce more immune cells, while negative ones have the effect of suppressing one's immune system.
But exactly and specifically how attitudes contribute to health, is something which we cannot say we know very well. One theory is that the body's immune system is influenced by brain chemistry, which is in turn affected by one's emotional experiences.
"The mechanism in which the central nervous, hormonal and immune systems interact and how behaviour and external events modulate these three systems is not fully understood," said Peled. "The relationship between happiness and health should be examined in future studies and relevant preventative initiatives should be developed."
One thing we do know, though, is that emotions such as happiness, stress, anger, anxiety and fear affect the human at a biochemical level. In other words, when our emotions change, our bodies also become chemically different.
What Next For Us
One thing that must be noted about the study is that the women were in fact interviewed after their cancer diagnosis, could very well affect their recollection of their emotional state in the past. When a person is going through a crisis, it would perhaps be a natural tendency to view events in the past more negatively.
Despite this, and although the "how" is still uncertain, Peled is convinced that the link between emotional events and health exists. He feels that "we can carefully say that experiencing more than one severe and/or mild to moderate life event is a risk factor for breast cancer among young women. On the other hand, a general feeling of happiness and optimism can play a protective role".
According to him, young women who have gone through a number of adverse life events should be identified as being 'at-risk' for breast cancer and then be treated as necessary.
Most of us wish to find a specific solution for every health problem. The truth is, many degenerative diseases, and most certainly cancer, have their roots in multiple causes. That being the case, many factors would contribute to one's risk profile, and a multi-pronged approach in preventing and dealing with the disease is almost always necessary.
What we now know, being happy and optimistic forms are an important part of such an approach.
And if you have been through some tough events in life, you may want to seek some help to address unresolved issues, either through professional counseling or otherwise. Leaving these issues lingering would just be adding more ammunition to the potential cancer time bomb.
Article by: Reuben Chow
For more tips on relieving emotional stress or depression please visit our Emotional Wellness Page or click on this link http://www.celestialhealing.net/emotional_stress_therapy.htm
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Fat Butts May Be Healthy
Having junk in your trunk is healthier than a spare tire around the gut, new research suggests. The extra padding on the backside and thighs could even help to protect against disease.
The results come from a review that summarizes various studies on the health effects of different fat stores in the body, particularly around the hips and thighs.
"The fact that body fat's distribution is quite important for your health has been known for some time now," said lead researcher Konstantinos Manolopoulos of the University of Oxford in England. But this new article summarizes a body of research showing that such hip and thigh fat can help to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease. The review also suggests a mechanism for conveying those benefits.
The next step is to figure out how our bodies decide where to store fat, say, in the stomach versus the butt. "Once this is understood then one could think about therapeutic approaches to make use of that," Manolopoulos told LiveScience. "Maybe to make use [of it] in a preventive way by redistributing the fat."
Manolopoulos and his colleagues detail their findings this week in the International Journal of Obesity.
Fat not created equal
When looking through the studies, the researchers found that not all fat is created equal.
Stomach fat is considered more metabolically active than lower body fat. While that may sound good, as this fat breaks down easily, the result is a release of substances called cytokines, which have been linked to cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes. In fact, research on mice reported in 2008 revealed that belly fat boosts inflammation and is linked with hardening of the arteries – known to increase the risk of heart attacks.
But scientists think lower body fat, like that around the hips and thighs, produces beneficial hormones that protect against these diseases, though more research is needed to firm up this expectation.
In addition, this lower body fat also traps fatty acids. While this long-term storage can make it tricky to slim down your butt and thighs, it's healthier for you if some fat stays put.
"If fatty acids are not stored in fat but are stored in other organs like the liver or the arteries this makes you prone to develop diabetes and heart disease," Manolopoulos said. He added, "One moment on the lips, forever on the hips. It really is exactly this phenomenon; the fat that goes there stays there," on the hips and thighs.
Evidence of healthy butt fat
He says the most compelling evidence for the link comes from population studies showing the more fat individuals have in this hind area the less likely they are to develop diabetes and heart disease later in life.
Other evidence includes instances of Cushing's syndrome, in which patients lose their hip and thigh fat while gaining stomach fat. These patients are known to have an increased risk for diabetes and heart disease.
The scientists aren't sure how the body decides where to store fat, but it's partially genetic.
That genetic force can be seen in the gender differences in how fat gets stored, with women having much more of the healthy, lower body fat than men. And females have a much lower risk for heart disease, Manolopoulos said.
"As long as you are female and your hormones are female hormones you are protected from cardiovascular disease," Manolopoulos said. "The moment you go into menopause and your hormones change, you lose your typical female appearance and you gain stomach fat and at the same time your risk for heart disease and diabetes becomes comparable to men of the same age."
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Recently I was working on a very complex user control with lots of child controls on it and wanted to be able to override the handling of the keydown event in a single place (the main user control).
I added the keydown event to my user control and noticed that it never got fired. This seemed to be because the child controls were handling them instead and not passing them to the main control.
On a form, you can set Form.KeyPreview to True which will allow the form to receive key events before they are passed to the control that has focus. Unfortunately, this is not available on user controls.
Some searching on the Internet revealed that the ProcessKeyPreview event which when overridden in a user control will allow you to trap the keyboard messages before the child controls get them.
Unfortunately the ProcessKeyPreview is not very friendly and passes you the Windows messages. This means you need to know the message number, handle repeating keys, handle control keys, etc.
I did a bit of reflecting on the framework and found that it's actually pretty easy to turn the messages into standard keydown and keyup events which makes it much easier to code.
I thought someone may find it useful.
To use the code, simply paste it into your control. Then you just need to decide whether you need Keydown and/or keyup events and implement them as you see fit.
// Remove any WM_CHAR type messages if supresskeypress is true.
/// before a child control can get it.
Note that the ProcessKeyPreview can return true or false to indicate whether the keypress has been handled. However, if you are not handling it you should defer to the base ProcessKeyPreview method.
This is exactly what I needed... thanks!
With this solution, it catches for the arrow-keys (left/right/top/bottom) only the KeyUpEvent and not the KeyDownEvent.
In the Form-class, is this the solution.
//In the main form just use the built-in KeyDown event instead of creating a new custom event.
This is helpful and useful; thank you for posting it.
What about Form.KeyPreview = true?
And just use either the KeyUp or KeyDown event on the hosting form?
Re: What about Form.KeyPreview = true?
I'm not shure (usually I do VB), but isn't it less complicated this way?
When I tried this with a RichtextBox on Form2, the "a" - key passed through to the rtb, although beeing trapped.
Basically I "borrowed" part of the code from ProcessKeyEventArgs in the .Net Control class and left it the same to ensure I'd get exactly the same result, you rightly point out that the code could be cut down.
My main reason for posting was to show how you can turn a ProcessKeyPreview event into a KeyDown event fairly easily. When I was trying to work out how to handle the windows messages I couldn't find a good example on the internet which handled control keys etc and a lot of them seemed pretty specific and/or convoluted. I thought using a normal KeyDown made life a lot easier.
In my case I have a user control which is being used as an COM control embedded in an html page (don't ask!), and the code did what I needed. To be honest I haven't tested this with a normal form.
I think the problem with key still getting passed through is that as well as keyup and keydown messages, you also get a WM_CHAR, WM_SYSCHAR or WM_IME_CHAR message inbetween the Keydown and Keyup messages. This message has to be ignored as well - which I missed. I've addded code so that if you set e.SuppressKeyPress in the KeyDown event the keystroke should be thrown away.


When the moon orbits around the earth on its 28.5 days journey it passes through all of the Zodiac signs. Each of them represents energetic qualities and come more into our awareness by the moons passing. Each sign has its specific energetic qualities and indicates certain weather conditions and the rise of ebb and flow. These natural cycles have been there since the moon once got loose and separated from the earth, most scientist thinks that this happened through a major impact. Since then, the moon takes it rounds around the earth and influences life on this little planet with its gravitational and magnetic forces. Without the moon there would be no life here on earth as we know it.
While the moon travels along the earth on its "monthly" cycle we also do undergo certain changes in our lives. Mood Swings, emotional up and downs but also our physical body makes it self heard. Because we are and our daily lives are affected by the energetic changes of the moons cycle. Scientists say that our bodies are made of up to 60% water, this would explain why the moons activity does influence our emotions and physical bodies so much. On some days we do feel this influence more than on others, this depends on which zodiac sign is highlighted by the moon.
When the moon is accompanied by Sagittarius we often experience quite positive outlooks on life. We are more concerned about the future than about the past or the present moment. During these days there is a lot of exciting energy available which could lead to a "Let's do this" attitude. That can lead you very much forward or into a "Lets over do this". These days are great to finally get new projects going and it will be more easy to find someone who will join us in our excitement for new adventures.
Our curiosity is heightened and more likely don't waste time with boring details. A practical step a step approach seems to be quite challenging when you just aim at the goal.
We will be very much concerned about what else we can achieve and how should our future actually look like? It is not like a Capricorn day on which we might be ambitious and work very hard towards our goals while we do one step at a time. Furthermore Sagittarius who is already in the race when others seems to be just get ready yet. A really good day therefore to introduce new ideas to people. And if you need a bit of a boost to make necessary changes in your working environment, Sagittarius Moon Days do give you the pioneering spirit.
When the Moon passes through Sagittarius some of us feel the heavens quite near. And really if we are able to concentrate our intentions just for a moment, and think of the higher good, we will come into the limelight of heavenly blessings. Somehow from somewhere, it might be fate or destiny things tend to bring us to the right places and together with the right people. Brilliant ideas of intuition and insight as well as the ambition to work towards a higher ideal than ourselves are very prominent. It is about striving and thriving, nothing more and nothing less.
The only way is forward and we can feel that very much when the Moon passes through Sagittarius. Unfortunately during those days it can happen that we lose track of all those people who are not as quick as we are. The fire of Enthusiasm is burning but doesn't enlighten everybody at the same time or in the same pace.
Patience is definitely not something Sagittarius energy is blessed with. So very often Sagittarius energy can push us forward – but maybe we need to learn to walk a part of the path alone, till the others catch up.
We can feel a stronger desire to travel to exotic places when moon passes through Sagittarius this is also because our sense for adventure is very much highlighted. We should be mindful, not to make too quick decisions that could overload our budget. The energy of anticipation is most definitely the Sagittarius driving force and he/she knows exactly that this is what gets you going in life. But at the end of the month – what is all the fire if it finally burnt you out or your house down? Therefore make wise decisions.
Setting positive intentions for the future, finding ideas and goals that are worth working, this is what Moon in Sagittarius hast to offer. And if you ask for god – he will answer you.
It is not such a good day to actually sign important contracts that to do with a lot of money or the law. Better to double-check these documents so we don't miss out on important details. We should try to get a cool head if the fire of enthusiasm does burn too fast or too hot. Taking time to recharge our batteries in nature can work wonders.
We could get slightly obsessed about certain ideas and to others we can appear like a missionary. This is a bit of a downfall of Sagittarius days, we tend to mostly see ourselves and all the great ideas we got in mind. It is hard to be patient with all those who think differently and we definitely got no time whatsoever to spend it with negative people.
There are no boundaries for Moon in Sagittarius days, and if there are any, we will overcome them with pure excitement. Often Moon in Sagittarius days can lead to restlessness or nervous tension due over excitement and too much stimulation. It is important to focus ourselves again, take a deep breath and know that the fire of anticipation is great but won't last forever. So we will need find ways to keep our personal days interesting and adventurous if we make the best of Moon in Sagittarius days.
The Veins and thighs are more sensitive during this moon phase and should be considered when thinking about going to the gym. Sagittarius in Moon Days are not good days for a hiking trip especially the untrained hiker will feel it very much tho.
Problems with the sciatic nerve, the hips or intestine might show up and should be treated with gentle and care.
Why not go and see a reflexologist, a chiropractor, a Rolfer or other sport medicine people to give you a massage in these areas that are affected and work on them.
Keeping in mind that moon phases do highlight body parts and they can become more painful if there is an actual problem. But also the healing benefits and abilities are great under certain moon phases and can lead to exceptional results in treating pain, illness and disease.
If you want to de-stress, go for a swim in the sea, lake, river or swimming pool.
If you suffer from varicose veins it is very beneficial that you apply certain cremes during these days and absolutely stay away from any operation in this area.
For you inner health it is a great day to eat fruits and protein and watch you sugar intake, your body will thank you for that.
I do send out a monthly newsletter, every New Moon, with interesting stuff about the moon cycle and the zodiac, seasonal advice on your health, powerful tips for you to improve your life. It is called the New-Moon-Letter.
Please make sure that you are receiving these monthly emails, so you get reconnected to living in harmony with nature and its cycles.
Julie Jurgan is a medium, healer and Soulactivist. She offers One-to-One Sessions ( Readings & Meditations) via Skype and in person. Her healing sessions are available in person as well as via distance. Her healing sessions are powerful and transforming.