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Oct. 3, 2022 — The bombshell before the bombshell
October 3, 2022 at 3:46 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Tomorrow night on ESPN, there is going to be a documentary called "Truth Be Told — The Fight For Women's Professional Soccer" that documents the problems that have beset the National Women's Soccer League over the last couple of years, with almost every team having had some sort of scandal involving coaches or front-office personnel committing verbal, mental, and even sexual abuse of players.
Today, a formal report to U.S. Soccer was released by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. In it, she finds that there were no checks, balances, or reporting mechanisms for these kinds of abuses either in the league or within the U.S. Soccer Federation. This allowed continual coercive behavior on the part of coaches who often found themselves moving around from team to team.
If this sounds familiar, it should. Reporting as early as 1999 in Sports Illustrated shows that youth sports coaches with predatory behavior often have no problems leaving one position after being caught, then quietly starting up elsewhere to abuse more children.
Only this time, these were adults in a professional league, one which has been growing exponentially in the last 10 years.
But while the NWSL was the focus of the investigation, the report cast fault on the culture of organizations in and around the sport. The report mentions that there were problems with the original WUSA in the early 2000s as well as the WPS league, which folded after the abusive Dan Borislow tenure over Washington Freedom/MagicJack FC.
The report also casts a dim eye on SafeSport, the administrative body charged with investigating cases of abuse on the part of coaches in Olympic and other sports. It calls SafeSport an under-resourced body which has been overwhelmed with thousands of notes and tips regarding abusive coaches, yet has a staff of 30. SafeSport is also seen as a body that tends to make overly-quick decisions on investigations and is liable to administratively close cases without making a public pronouncement on a person's guilt or innocence.
Having had a worm's-eye level of women's soccer as a writer, a volunteer PA announcer, and as the secretary of a supporters' group, I can tell you that the culture of imbalanced power in regards to women's soccer has been around since the start of the USISL's W-League in the mid-1990s.
Almost every coach in that league, and many of the front-office personnel, were male. A lot of them got their positions through deep pockets. One owner had a construction company; another had gotten rich off youth soccer camps. Another owned a pizza place, while one owner/coach was the franchisee of a local Motel 6, and got some of his employees to try to staff home games.
Soccer back then was very much a mom-and-pop operation. You found a coach through word of mouth, and the coach's reputation would either help or hurt through the way the team did over the course of the season. Players, who were not paid, had little or no standing. Sure, you had the likes of Kristine Lilly playing for the Delaware Genies or Mia Hamm making a single appearance for the Raleigh Flyers, but there was no union to speak for players who may have had grievances.
Indeed, an ethic of "be grateful you even have a league" would extend from the W-League into the WUSA, even as the league's $40 million in initial investment disappeared after one year. It also stretched into WPS, as the Borislow situation and an embarrassing scenario involving an alternate home field for the Western New York Flash that cast doubt on the long-term viability of the women's game in the States.
But when the NWSL started in 2012, the world of women's soccer was changing. Men's professional clubs started women's sides to boost their brands, pushing aside a number of clubs which had been stalwarts of the women's game such as Doncaster Ladies in England and Tyreso FF in Sweden.
You started seeing recognizable soccer brands such as Arsenal, Juventus, Club America, Barcelona, Paris-St. Germain, and Bayern Munich with women's teams. And you also saw, especially in North America, a flow of talent away from the NWSL. Players like Alex Morgan, Christen Press, Tobin Heath, Carli Lloyd, and Heather O'Reilly played in Europe rather than staying at home.
I found that very, very telling, especially when the term "professionalism" was used when discussing the preparation of the European teams during the course of a match week.
The contrast, it seemed to me, was damning testimony of the culture of the NWSL, It was a culture which was exposed for all to see last year with the firing of a number of coaches for cause.
In the report, coaches like Paul Riley, Rory Dames, and Christy Holly are accused of horrible crimes. But I want to focus on Holly's situation for a moment. Holly was the head coach of Racing Louisville. It was an expansion team for the 2021 season, but Holly's reign lasted less than a year.
You might think the front office of Racing Louisville would have been more than transparent, showing that Holly's behavior ran counter to a team culture that the front office of this brand new team was trying to build. But the report says that Racing Louisville was one of three NWSL clubs which were unwilling to cooperate with the Yates investigation.
The fact that it took less than a year for a club to agree to a code of silence in order to not cooperate with the investigation is shocking. To me, this kind of behavior is learned. It's not something which is part of human nature. It is, frankly, a product of a culture of power in women's soccer which sees players as little more than chattel.
While tomorrow night's documentary should cause a sensation amongst those who care about the women's game and women's sports in the United States, today's report is an even bigger bombshell. It seems to me that more people should pay attention to the findings.


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India enjoy promising start at Asian Athletics Championships 2017
Muhammed Anas, Rajiv Arokia and Amoj Jacob ease into the semi-finals of the men's 400 metres event.
IANS | Bhubaneswar | July 6, 2017 9:27 am
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India enjoyed a positive start to their campaign on the opening day of the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships here with Muhammed Anas, Rajiv Arokia and Amoj Jacob easing into the semi-finals of the men's 400 metres event.
The trio, however, displayed contrasting performances in their respective heats. Anas finished second in Heat 1 behind Sri Lanka's Dilip Ruwan. Arokia on the other hand, took the lead on the first bend and held the upper hand till the end.
Jacob had to struggle before finishing as the winner in his heat. The Indian was trailing the three lead runners going into the final stretch before staging a dramatic comeback to take pole position.
Meanwhile, Asian indoor championships bronze medallist Ahmed Mubarak of Oman was the winner of Heat 4.
In the men's 1500m, India's Ajay Kumar Saroj set the pace in Heat 1 and Siddharth Adhikary qualified from Heat 2 with a second-place finish behind 2014 Asian Games bronze medallist Jamal Hairane of Qatar.
In the women's 1500m, Chitra PU qualified for the semi-finals from Heat 2, while Monika Chaudhary crashed out after finishing in fourth place in Heat 1.
In the men's decathlon that kickstarted the proceedings, Japan's Kazuya Kawasaki took an early lead with the 100m sprint leg of the event.
India's Abhishek Shetty was playing catch-up in a strong field that includes Asian Championships silver medallist Guo Qi from China.
The men's high jump also got underway with China's Asian Games silver medallist Zhang Guowei and others setting a modest qualification standard of 2.10m.
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Sophia Danai Faces a Failed Marriage Head-On In 'Come Thru' Video: Premiere
Pain equals gain for Sophia Danai in her new single "Come Thru" and on her upcoming debut EP, Real Lies.
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Pain equals gain for Sophia Danai in her new single, "Come Thru" — whose video is premiering exclusively below — and on her upcoming debut EP, Real Lies.
The song, as well as others on the EP, take some inspiration from the Canadian singer-songwriter's failed marriage and its aftermath. The video, in fact, chronicles the demise of a relationship from sweetness to violence and even shows Danai breaking and burning the actual guitar she had on her honeymoon. "I have a lot of love for that guitar," Danai tells Billboard. "I bought it during the honeymoon from hell. I did totally write a lot of songs on that guitar and that guitar was very good to me, so I was like, 'Do I really want to break it?'
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"But it was also a symbol for me. That song is a release; It's a reckoning for myself. I thought if I was going to break a guitar (in the video) it shouldn't just be a random guitar from a thrift shop. It should mean something. That's what art is about."
Danai digs deep on "Come Thru" and throughout the rest of Real Lies, which comes out June 29. Recorded with producer Ryan Worsley and Danai's band in Port Coquitlam, B.C., the set is brimming with introspection and confession, a kind of musical stock-taking that's in line with Danai heroes such as Feist, Sade, Sia and Alanis Morissette — "women who have just spoken their truth and aren't afraid to be how they are and put it out there," she explains.
"I feel like I had to get to a point where I was OK with the mistakes I've made," Danai says, "and come to a place where I was truly thankful for them and grateful for the lessons I have learned and not be ashamed of them. I feel like I was ready to share them with other people and connect with other people through them. What they taught me was compassion — for myself and being able to understand a bit of what other people are walking through. You really get to know yourself through those challenges. You get to know where your values are, where your boundaries are, where the line in the sand is. This is me, flaws and all, and it's really liberating."
Though Danai starts all her songs on acoustic guitar, Real Lies sports a more electronic-based sound than she's attempted in the past. She credits Worsley, as well as keyboardist Jan Orsag and guitarist Michael Meroniuk, with helping her blend that direction with her melodic sensibilities and helping Danai "reboot" her vision. "I feel like this record is definitely a new direction for me," she says. "I think I got myself to a certain point before I made this record where I went really into myself and just focused on my craft and focused on my production skills and on my voice a lot. I discovered a whole new level of how I could express my story and really discovered that the more tools you have, the better that will be. I really found my power in that, and it was such a lesson for me — like, the more you hone your craft, you will attract the right people."
Danai will try to attract more ears for Real Lies during May, when she appears at Canadian Music Week in Toronto. Other plans are being put in motion now, though Danai, who's managing herself, is taking her time setting things up. "I'm doing this independently right now," she says. "I have a little team that I'm working with, and right now I'm taking it one step at a time, focusing on the release and making sure that everything gets out well. I've been waiting a long time for this, so I want to give it the very best shot I can."
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Michel Lévy (* 20. Februar 1821 in Phalsbourg (Lothringen); † 4. Mai 1875 in Paris) war ein französischer Buchhändler. Zusammen mit seinem Bruder Kalmus erschuf er das Verlagshaus Calmann-Lévy.

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Michel Lévy war der jüngste Sohn des jüdischen lothringischen Hausierers Simon Lévy, der mit seinen Kindern 1826 nach Paris übersiedelte. Als 14-Jähriger verließ Michel das Konservatorium und beteiligte sich an der Gründung eines Handels mit Theaterstücken und einer Leihbibliothek, die sein Vater Simon und seine Brüder Kalmus (französisiert Calmann; * 1819; † 1891) und Nathan in der Rue Marie-Stuart im 2. Arrondissement von Paris eröffneten. Bald wurde Michel die Seele dieses Unternehmens. Als knapp 20-Jähriger gab er erstmals ein Büchlein heraus, nämlich das von Théophile Gautier stammende Libretto zum Ballett Giselle.

1841 gründete Michel Lévy eine Buchhandlung in der Passage du Grand-Cerf. Diese nahm einen solchen Aufschwung, dass er bereits 1845 eine Filiale in der Rue Vivienne gründen konnte, deren Auslage sich um einen Teil des Gebäudes der Nationalbibliothek entlangzog. In diesem Jahr beteiligte er seine beiden Brüder  Calmann und Nathan Lévy, doch schied Letzterer 1850 wieder aus. Das Geschäft in der Rue Vivienne wurde zu einem Sammelpunkt literarischer Persönlichkeiten. 1871 fand eine abermalige Verlegung des stets an Bedeutung gewinnenden Geschäfts, und zwar nach der Rue Auber, statt.

Die Brüder Lévy, an deren Spitze Michel stand, waren die Verleger von Werken herausragender französischer Schriftsteller ihrer Zeit, so von jenen von Alexandre Dumas des Älteren und dessen Sohn Alexandre Dumas des Jüngeren, ferner von jenen von Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Jules Janin, Octave Feuillet, Théophile Gautier, Edgar Quinet u. a. Von wissenschaftlichen Werken waren es François Guizots historische Schriften, Jules Michelets und Ernest Renans berühmte Bücher u. a., die aus ihrem Verlag hervorgingen.  Auch ausländischen zeitgenössischen Schriftstellern wandten die Brüder Lévy ihre Aufmerksamkeit zu, und namentlich sind es Heinrich Heine, Hendrik Conscience, Thomas Macaulay und William Makepeace Thackeray, deren Kenntnis sie dem französischen Publikum durch gute Übersetzungen vermittelten.

Michel Lévy war der Schöpfer der billigen Ein-Franc-Bände, und die von ihm 1856 begründete und nach ihm benannte Collection Michel Lévy zählte bei seinem Tod bereits 1500 Nummern. Er erwarb sich durch diese große Verdienste um die Verbreitung guter und billiger Literatur in Frankreich. Auch gab er u. a. die Bibliothèque dramatique und das Théâtre contemporain illustré sowie Zeitschriften wie L'Entracte und L'Univers illustré heraus. 1873 wurde er in die Ehrenlegion aufgenommen. Als er am 4. Mai 1875 plötzlich im Alter von 54 Jahren in Paris starb, hinterließ er ein Vermögen von mehreren Millionen Francs. Er wurde auf dem Friedhof Père Lachaise bestattet. Nach seinem Tod ging sein Geschäft in den Besitz seines Bruders Calmann Lévy über.

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 August Theodor Goebel: Lévy (Michel), in: Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, 2. Sektion, 43. Teil (1889), S. 304 f.

Weblinks
 "La fulgurante saga familiale des frères Levy, inventeurs de l'édition moderne", Noémie Grynberg, Israel Magazine, 2010

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Mitglied der Ehrenlegion
Franzose
Geboren 1821
Gestorben 1875
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw Announced
Posted Sep 3, 2018 @ 1:04 CDT | Stock Ticker(s): TYO:7974
Double Damage Games Announces Follow-up Prequel to Smash Indie Hit Rebel Galaxy
(Seattle, WA) - August 31, 2018-Independent developer Double Damage Games today announcesRebel Galaxy Outlaw, a blue-collar space combat adventure packed with outlaws, explosions, gleefully unrealistic spaceflight, and a hell of a soundtrack.Rebel Galaxy Outlawis a sort-of-prequel to 2015'sRebel Galaxy, this time dropping you right into the cockpit and doubling down on the roadhouse vibe of the previous game.Rebel Galaxy Outlawfeatures high-octane space combat, over 20 hours of subspace radio, side activities like billiards and dice poker, plenty of sketchy characters to meet, and sketchier jobs to take on. Nobody's saving the universe around here - they'd settle for saving a couple of credits. It's aiming to launch Q1 2019 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.
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A long, long time ago, perhaps as much as two thousand years, there was a rich man, and he had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other very much, and they had no children, though they wished greatly for some, and the wife prayed for one day and night. Now, in the courtyard in front of their house stood a juniper tree; and one day in winter the wife was standing beneath it, and paring an apple, and as she pared it she cut her finger, and the blood fell upon the snow.
"Ah," said the woman, sighing deeply, and looking down at the blood, "if only I could have a child as red as blood, and as white as snow!"
And as she said these words, her heart suddenly grew light, and she felt sure she should have her wish. So she went back to the house, and when a month had passed the snow was gone; in two months everything was green; in three months the flowers sprang out of the earth; in four months the trees were in full leaf, and the branches were thickly entwined; the little birds began to sing, so that the woods echoed, and the blossoms fell from the trees; when the fifth month had passed the wife stood under the juniper tree, and it smelt so sweet that her heart leaped within her, and she fell on her knees for joy; and when the sixth month had gone, the fruit was thick and fine, and she remained still; and the seventh month she gathered the berries and ate them eagerly, and was sick and sorrowful; and when the eighth month had passed she called to her husband, and said, weeping, "If I die, bury me under the juniper tree."
Then she was comforted and happy until the ninth month had passed, and then she bore a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she saw it her joy was so great that she died.
Her husband buried her under the juniper tree, and he wept sore; time passed, and he became less sad; and after he had grieved a little more he left off, and then he took another wife.
His second wife bore him a daughter, and his first wife's child was a son, as red as blood and as white as snow. Whenever the wife looked at her daughter she felt great love for her, but whenever she looked at the little boy, evil thoughts came into her heart, of how she could get all her husband's money for her daughter, and how the boy stood in the way; and so she took great hatred to him, and drove him from one corner to another, and gave him a buffet here and cuff there, so that the poor child was always in disgrace; when he came back after school hours there was no peace for him.
Once, when the wife went into the room upstairs, her little daughter followed her, and said, "Mother, give me an apple."
"Yes, my child," said the mother, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, and the chest had a great heavy lid with a strong iron lock.
"Mother," said the little girl, "shall not my brother have one too?" That was what the mother expected; and she said, "Yes, when he comes back from school."
And when she saw from the window that he was coming, an evil thought crossed her mind, and she snatched the apple, and took it from her little daughter, saying, "You shall not have it before your brother."
Then she threw the apple into the chest, and shut the lid. Then the little boy came in at the door, and she said to him in a kind tone, but with evil looks, "My son, will you have an apple?"
"Mother," said the boy, "how terrible you look! Yes, give me an apple!"
Then she spoke as kindly as before, holding up the cover of the chest, "Come here and take out one for yourself."
And as the boy was stooping over the open chest, crash went the lid down, so that his head flew off among the red apples. But then the woman felt great terror, and wondered how she could escape the blame. And she went to the chest of drawers in her bedroom and took a white handkerchief out of the nearest drawer, and fitting the head to the neck, she bound them with a handkerchief, so that nothing should be seen, and set him on a chair before the door with the apple in his hand.
Then came little Marjory into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing before the fire stirring a pot of hot water.
"Mother," said Marjory, "my brother is sitting before the door and he has an apple in his hand, and looks very pale; I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me; it seems very strange." "Go again to him," said the mother, "and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear."
So Marjory went again and said, "Brother, give me the apple."
But as he took no notice, she gave him a box on the ear, and his head fell off, at which she was greatly terrified, and began to cry and scream, and ran to her mother, and said, "Oh mother! I have knocked my brothers head off!" and cried and screamed, and would not cease.
"Oh Marjory!" said her mother, "what have you done? But keep quiet, that no one may see there is anything the matter; it can't be helped now; we will put him out of the way safely."
When the father came home and sat down to table, he said, "Where is my son?" But the mother was filling a great dish full of black broth, and Marjory was crying bitterly, for she could not refrain. Then the father said again, "Where is my son?" "Oh," said the mother, "he is gone into the country to his great-uncle's to stay for a little while." "What should he go for?" said the father, "and without bidding me good-bye, too!" "Oh, he wanted to go so much, and he asked me to let him stay there six weeks; he will be well taken care of." "Dear me," said the father, "I am quite sad about it; it was not right of him to go without bidding me good-bye."
With that he began to eat, saying, "Marjory, what are you crying for? Your brother will come back some time."
After a while he said, "Well, wife, the food is very good; give me some more."
And the more he ate the more he wanted, until he had eaten it all up, and he threw the bones under the table. Then Marjory went to her chest of drawers, and took one of her best handkerchiefs from the bottom drawer, and picked up all the bones from under the table and tied them up in her handkerchief, and went out at the door crying bitterly. She laid them in the green grass under the juniper tree, and immediately her heart grew light again, and she wept no more.
Then the juniper tree began to wave to and fro, and the boughs drew together and then parted, just like a clapping of hands for joy; then a cloud rose from the tree, and in the midst of the cloud there burned a fire, and out of the fire a beautiful bird arose, and, singing most sweetly, soared high into the air; and when he had flown away, the juniper tree remained as it was before, but the handkerchief full of bones was gone. Marjory felt quite glad and light-hearted, just as if her brother were still alive. So she went back merrily into the house and had her dinner.
The bird, when it flew away, perched on the roof of a goldsmith's house, and began to sing,
"It was my mother who murdered me;
It was my father who ate of me;
It was my sister Marjory
Who all my bones in pieces found;
Them in a handkerchief she bound,
And laid them under the juniper tree.
Kywitt, kywitt, kywitt, I cry,
Oh what a beautiful bird am I!"
The goldsmith was sitting in his shop making a golden chain, and when he heard the bird, who was sitting on his roof and singing, he started up to go and look, and as he passed over his threshold he lost one of his slippers; and he went into the middle of the street with a slipper on one foot and only a sock on the other; with his apron on, and the gold chain in one hand and the pincers in the other; and so he stood in the sunshine looking up at the bird.
"Bird," said he, "how beautifully you sing; do sing that piece over again." "No," said the bird, "I do not sing for nothing twice; if you will give me that gold chain I will sing again." "Very well," said the goldsmith, "here is the gold chain; now do as you said."
Down came the bird and took the gold chain in his right claw, perched in front of the goldsmith, and sang,
Who all my hones in pieces found;
Kywitt, kywitt, kywitt, I cry.
Then the bird flew to a shoemaker's, and perched on his roof, and sang,
When the shoemaker heard, he ran out of his door in his shirt sleeves and looked up at the roof of his house, holding his hand to shade his eyes from the sun. "Bird," said he, "how beautifully you sing!" Then he called in at his door, "Wife, come out directly; here is a bird singing beautifully. Just listen."
Then he called his daughter, all his children, and acquaintance, both young men and maidens, and they came up the street and gazed on the bird, and saw how beautiful it was with red and green feathers, and round its throat was as it were gold, and its eyes twinkled in its head like stars.
"Bird," said the shoemaker, "do sing that piece over again." "No," said the bird, "I may not sing for nothing twice; you must give me something." "Wife," said the man, "go into the shop; on the top shelf stands a pair of red shoes; bring them here." .So the wife went and brought the shoes. "Now bird," said the man, "sing us that piece again."
And the bird came down and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew up again to the roof, and sang,
Them in a handkerchief she bound.
And when he had finished he flew away, with the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left claw, and he flew till he reached a mill, and the mill went "clip-clap, clip-clap, clip-clap." And in the mill sat twenty miller's-men hewing a millstone – "hick-hack, hick- hack, hick-hack," while the mill was going "clip-clap, clip-clap, clip-clap." And the bird perched on a linden tree that stood in front of the mill, and sang,
Here one of the men looked up.
Then two more looked up and listened.
Here four more looked up.
Now there were only eight left hewing.
Now only five.
Now only one.
At length the last one left off, and he only heard the end. "Bird," said he, "how beautifully you sing; let me hear it all. Sing that again!" "No," said the bird, "I may not sing it twice for nothing; if you will give me the millstone I will sing it again." "Indeed," said the man, "if it belonged to me alone you should have it." "All right," said the others, "if he sings again he shall have it."
Then the bird came down, and all the twenty millers heaved up the stone with poles – "yo! heave-ho! Yo! heave-ho!" and the bird stuck his head through the hole in the middle, and with the mill- stone round his neck he flew up to the tree and sang,
And when he had finished, he spread his wings, having in the right claw the chain, and in the left claw the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew away to his father's house.
In the parlor sat the father, the mother, and Marjory at the table; the father said, "How light-hearted and cheerful I feel." "Nay," said the mother, "I feel very low, just as if a great storm were coming."
But Marjory sat weeping; and the bird came flying, and perched on the roof.
"Oh," said the father, "I feel so joyful, and the sun is shining so bright; it is as if I were going to meet with an old friend." "Nay," said the wife, "I am terrified, my teeth chatter, and there is fire in my veins," and she tore open her dress to get air; and Marjory sat in a corner and wept, with her plate before her, until it was quite full of tears. Then the bird perched on the juniper tree, and sang,
And the mother stopped her ears and hid her eyes, and would neither see nor hear; nevertheless, the noise of a fearful storm was in her ears, and in her eyes a quivering and burning as of lightning.
"Oh, mother!" said the father, "there is a beautiful bird singing so finely, and the sun shines, and everything smells as sweet as cinnamon."
"It was my sister Marjory" Marjory hid her face in her lap and wept, and the father said, "I must go out to see the bird." "Oh do not go!" said the wife, "I feel as if the house were on fire."
But the man went out and looked at the bird.
With that the bird let fall the gold chain upon his father's neck, and it fitted him exactly. So he went indoors and said, "Look what a beautiful chain the bird has given me!"
Then his wife was so terrified that she fell down on the floor, and her cap came off. Then the bird began again to sing,
"Oh," groaned the mother, "that I were a thousand fathoms under ground, so as not to be obliged to hear it."
Then the woman lay as if she were dead.
"Oh," said Marjory, "I will go out, too, and see if the bird will give me anything." And so she went.
Then he threw the shoes down to her.
And poor Marjory all at once felt happy and joyful, and put on her red shoes, and danced and jumped for joy. "Oh dear," said she, "I felt so sad before I went outside, and now my heart is so light! He is a charming bird to have given me a pair of red shoes."
But the mother's hair stood on end, and looked like flame, and she said, "Even if the world is coming to an end, I must go out for a little relief."
Just as she came outside the door, crash went the millstone on her head, and crushed her flat. The father and daughter rushed out, and saw smoke and flames of fire rise up; but when that had gone by, there stood the little brother; and he took his father and Marjory by the hand, and they felt very happy and content, and went indoors, and sat at the table, and had their dinner.


The time of day of your surgery could have long-term impacts on your health. That's according to researchers who looked at the way circadian rhythm — the body's internal clock — affects the outcomes of a patient recovering from a complex heart procedure.
Patients who underwent open-heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replacement. In the subsequent 500 days after surgery, researchers found, those patients who had surgery after noon had half the risk of a major cardiac event — for instance myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, or death — as those who had surgeries before then.
The team also conducted a randomized controlled trial of 88 different patients who got the same surgery, half in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. They found that afternoon surgeries resulted in lower levels of myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury — tissue damage that occurs when blood flows again through the repaired portion of the heart — than did morning surgeries. Experts say that sort of heart tissue injury can lead to higher risk of short- and long-term mortality. Results were published Thursday in the Lancet.
University of Lille-France professor David Montaigne, the study's lead author, suggested that the study's findings indicate that scheduling changes could decrease injury or death.
The findings are the latest in a growing body of evidence suggesting that time of day plays an important role in how well various medical treatments work. Studies show that the efficacy of some vaccines and cancer treatments may be affected by the time of day when a therapy is administered or medicine is taken. For example, research has found that patients who received a seasonal flu vaccination before 11 a.m. produced more antibodies than those who had one after 3 p.m.
In this case, the study authors said, differences in gene expression over the course of a day may cause a person's heart to heal more quickly in the afternoon than in the morning.
The researchers isolated heart tissue samples from a subgroup of 30 patients from the randomized controlled trial. In laboratory tests, tissue from afternoon surgeries more quickly regained its ability to contract when researchers imitated the process of the heart refilling with blood as surgery concludes. Additionally, researchers found that nearly 300 genes showed variation in their expression in heart tissue over the course of a day — a possible basis for the tissue's change in behavior.
Finally, scientists wanted to test whether they could trick heart muscle into healing in an afternoon fashion regardless of time of day. To do this, they chose a gene that differed greatly in circadian expression — higher in the morning, much lower in the afternoon — called Rev-Erbα. They studied what happened in mouse hearts when they artificially removed that gene, either by editing it out of the genome or by giving mice a drug to block its effects. And researchers found that, indeed, mice given the drug, or with the gene removed, could recover from morning surgery (mice mornings being nighttime, since they are nocturnal) with fewer side effects than usual.
Developing drugs that modulate genes like Rev-Erbα could therefore help protect human hearts during surgery.
"One could imagine, quite rapidly, a pharmacological approach that could basically wipe out the effects between morning and afternoon," said University of Lille-France professor Bart Staels, one of the study's authors.
As to the question, though, of whether patients should change the timing of their own surgeries, the experts offered diverging opinions. "Even before we have drugs available to regulate the circadian clock, one might propose that high-risk patients should preferentially be operated on in the afternoon," Dr. Thomas Bochaton and Dr. Michel Ovize, both French cardiologists, wrote in an editorial released alongside the study Thursday.
The biological clock controls the circadian rhythm of peripheral tissue function, heart included. It would have been interesting if the research group had included the individual chronotype as a potential factor in their analyses. Perhaps the owls are more vulnerable to tissue damage after morning surgery.
A retired operating room nurse I know seems more concerned about the date. New surgical teams are usually formed, I think she said, in June or July. If you can postpone surgery until after they get some experience working together, you'll have a better outcome. Somebody should do a study of that.
I am very frustrated by your articles that present percentages that might affect the population at large, but mean very little for how to treat individual patients.
Will patients now be asked if they are am or pm people before scheduling surgeries??
… or surgeons are not morning persons!


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Creating Connections East: spaces available for event on 10th June
Benjamin Meunier24 May 2019
Creating Connections East: UK 2070 Commission on Inequalities
Monday 10 June 2019 15:00 – 17:00
Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, E2 6HG
Creating Connections is a regular networking event bringing people together from UCL with representatives of community organisations, charities, residents' groups, social enterprises and statutory organisations. For our next event, we're teaming up with the UK2070 Commission, an independent inquiry into social and economic inequality in the UK. We warmly invite you to join us.
We've still got some spaces available – find out more and sign up at studentsunionucl.org/volunteering/about/creating-connections/creating-connections-east
And if you know anyone else at UCL who might be interested, please do feel free to pass on this invitation.
Local talent & skills: Come and talk to people interested in: how to nurture local skills, ensuring local talent is part of the economic future, support for vocational training, how universities can support local job markets, how we can help people overcome barriers to entering the workforce.
New technology: Come and talk to people interested in: how new technology can create new jobs, how the Voluntary and Community sector can benefit from new technology, how schools can prepare young people for technological change, how data science can be utilised by communities, what opportunities are there in clean tech?
Local cultural and sporting sectors: Come and talk to people interested in: how to engage under-represented groups in the cultural and sporting activities; what role universities have in the cultural and sporting sectors; the role of culture and sport in economic development.
Supporting projects for the future: Come and talk to people interested in: What types of projects would transform east London for long term success? What services and activities should local decision-makers focus on? What would success look like in east London?
This is a short networking event for people interested in these issues – a starting point for finding like-minded people you might want to collaborate with. It's intended for experts, beginners and everyone in between. It's not a conference and there won't be long plenary speeches or workshops!
Light refreshments will be provided.
Find out more and register at:
studentsunionucl.org/volunteering/about/creating-connections/creating-connections-east
If you've any questions or comments about the event, contact John Braime at Students' Union Volunteering Service (j.braime@ucl.ac.uk) , Briony Fleming in UCL's Public Engagement Unit (b.fleming@ucl.ac.uk) or Lucy Natarajan from UCL / UK 2070 (lucy.natarajan@ucl.ac.uk)
Creating Connections East is organised by UCL's Public Engagement Unit, Students' Union UCL's Volunteering Service and The UK2070 Commission
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Tags: Creating Connections, UCL East
Estates strategy consultation forum opens to UCL community
Benjamin Meunier5 April 2019
An online consultation forum has been launched by UCL Estates for staff and students to share their ideas and thoughts on UCL's current estate and their views on opportunities and investment priorities for its future development.
The consultation will feed into a refreshed strategy for the university's estate, which UCL Estates is preparing to align the next phase of UCL's physical development with UCL 2034. The strategy will consider UCL's buildings and physical estate, the impact of UCL East and other satellite locations and the opportunities for growth.
Among the comments and discussions posted so far include the need to for the strategy to ensure UCL sites outside of its Bloomsbury campus feel part of the UCL family and a suggestion for innovative bike storage on campus.
Visit the forum and share your views.
NB: After entering your UCL email address you will be sent your individual access link, which you can bookmark. You will be automatically logged in for a period of 30 days after which you will need to revisit the original email link.
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Tags: UCL East
UCL East: consultation
Two consultation exercises relating to UCL East are currently underway, and Library Services colleagues are invited to take part in both:
Help shape the website for UCL East
The UCL East programme is currently creating a new website, which will have the majority of the content that you can see on the site now, as well as the latest information about UCL East and an updated look and feel.
To make sure that the new website is relevant and helpful – and has all the information that you would like to know – the team would love to hear your views on our current site, how it can be developed and any suggestions for the future.
To give your thoughts and feedback, take a look around the current site and complete this survey – there are nine short questions, and it will only take a few minutes to complete.
Find out about the plans for the first building at UCL East
Pool Street West makes up part of the first phase of UCL East and will feature student accommodation, academic, retail, community and engagement uses for UCL students and staff and the public. The building will feature a London Memory Archive, a partnership between Culture Lab and Library Services which will include digitization facilities, an oral history recording booth and exhibition space. There will also be a Library to support the students and staff based on the new campus, which we are working to develop in tandem with ISD Student & Registry Services to provide joined-up services to students on site.
Public consultation meetings have been scheduled for the first UCL East building on Pool Street will take place on 17-20th May. Times, dates and locations are provided below.
Pool Street West – Road Show Exhibition Details
Wednesday 17 May, 11am – 2pm
UCL Bloomsbury | South Quad In front of the Print Room Café
Thursday 18 May, 11am – 2pm
UCL Bloomsbury | Main Quad South Side, in front of the Wilkins Building
Friday 19 May, 11am – 2pm
Stratford Broadway In the public space adjacent to St John's
Saturday 20 May, 11am – 2pm
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park At Waterworks Place, adjacent to the play fountain
If you are planning to attend the events in Stratford, further information can be found in this leaflet: stage1-roadshow-events-flyer.
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Creating Connections East 5 – now open for booking
Benjamin Meunier20 January 2017
Colleagues from Library Services are warmly invited to attend the next Creating Connections event, where a number of topics will be discussed ranging from mental health support to safeguarding vulnerable people and the role of the library and of the university in the wider community. Full details below.
Creating Connections East 5 Wednesday March 8th from 3pm – 5pm.
Stratford Library, The Grove, E15 1EL (10 minute walk from Stratford Underground / Train Station)
Register at uclu.org/creating-connections
Creating Connections East is a networking event that brings together staff and postgraduate students from University College London and the University of East London with representatives from community organisations, charities, residents' groups, social enterprises and statutory organisations. The afternoon is a mixture of themed discussions in small groups with more informal networking; the aim is to find areas of common interest and encourage collaborative working.
Previous events have had a good turn out and we're now onto our fifth edition. We are trying out holding the event in the afternoon this time. We hope this will make it more accessible and attract some new people.
If you work or are a postgrad student at UCL and UEL and are interested in making links with community organisations from East London and beyond – please come along.
If you work for a community organisation, or are a member of one, and would like to explore ways you might work with people from UCL and UEL – this event is for you too!
Safeguarding women
The event will be held on International Women's Day, so come and meet people interested in how we can safeguard women and girls in our communities (forced marriage, domestic abuse, female genital mutilation, amongst other issues)
How can we best support people with mental health issues in our communities? What non-clinical support services are there? What support do charities need to run non-clinical support services? And how can university research on mental health help? What role can social prescribing play in mental health support?
Libraries in the community
Come and meet people interested in libraries as community hubs; creative ways in which libraries can be used; university libraries and public engagement; use of libraries for community research.
The university in the community
With UCL building a new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and with UEL's long legacy of working in East London, let's discuss how we can best work with the local community. What kind of projects would be beneficial? What do you expect from partnership and project working with a university? How can UCL and UEL break down barriers and make ourselves more accessible to the community?
Involving men in volunteering and engagement
Women tend to volunteer and get involved in engagement projects more than men. Come and meet people interested in redressing the balance. How can we encourage more men to get involved? What is it that prevents men from volunteering and doing engagement? How can we make it easier for them, break down barriers and challenge perceptions?
Come and meet people interested in supporting refugees and migrants. How can we support recent immigrants to access health services? What are the best ways to involve them in local decision making? How can we deal with the need for housing? How can we improve educational provision for young immigrants?
Note that the event is a short networking event for people interested in these issues – a starting point for finding like-minded people you might want to collaborate with. It's intended for experts, beginners and everyone in between. It's not a conference and there won't be long plenary speeches or workshops!
If you've any questions or comments about the event, contact Kim Townsend at UCL Public Engagement Unit, Joe Crook at UEL Volunteering, or Jyoti Singh at Newham Council
Creating Connections East is organised by UCL's Public Engagement Unit, UCLU's Volunteering Services Unit, University of East London, and London Borough of Newham.
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UCL Special Collections opens new reading room in the Wilkins building
Benjamin Meunier23 November 2016
On Monday 21st November 2016, a group of Library Services staff and supporters including UCL academics and Professional Services staff celebrated the formal opening of a new reading room which will allow wider access to UCL's rare books, manuscripts and archive materials for research and public engagement, supporting UCL's distinctive Connected Curriculum.
Dr Paul Ayris said a few words to mark the opening of the reading room, sited at the heart of UCL. Paul highlighted that the project had delivered a high-spec space which UCL could be proud of. The opening marks a new phase in the history of UCL Special Collections, which started largely as a set of collections donated by the widows of early professors at UCL. Developments are afoot to establish permanent new bases for the treasures held in Special Collections, with a collaborative venture in partnership with Senate House Library and members of the federal university, as well as expansion facilities in future phases of UCL East. Paul congratulated all those involved in establishing the new reading room, and the party toasted the future of UCL Special Collections.
As described in a recent tweet, the site where UCL Special Collections' new reading room is located was once a playground for University College School pupils…
What's in our Special Collections?
UCL's collections of manuscripts, archives and rare books date back as far as the 4th century AD and cover a vast range of subject areas, notably: London, Social History, Latin America, Jewish Collections and the Orwell Archive – which is the most comprehensive body of source material for Orwell studies anywhere in the world.
You can find printed booked and journals in Explore.
Search archives and manuscripts at UCL Archives.
Many items from the collections have been digitised and are available to view on our Digital Collections web pages.
Named collections are listed in the alphabetical directory.
A selection of Special Collections treasures were on show at the event.
Some of the earliest donations to the Library include the 4,000 books given by Jeremy Bentham in 1833.
We recently discovered the manuscript of a poem by Byron inscribed into Samuel Rogers' The Pleasures of Memory (London, 1810).
The first major manuscript gift, a magnificent 13th-century illuminated Latin Bible, was presented by William Steere in 1859.
Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's widow, chose UCL Library Services to house the precious manuscripts and notebooks of the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.
The new reading room is located in the South Junction and is open weekdays from 09.00-17.00 with appointments to consult material between 10.00 and 16.00. The room can hold up to 8 readers at any one time.
Filed under Communication, Outreach and Open Science, Research Support, Student Experience, Sustainable estate, User experience, Widening Participation & Public Engagement
Tags: research support, UCL 2034, UCL East, UCL Special Collections
UCL East Housewarming event
utnvbsc25 May 2016
Last week, I attended a workshop in West Ham hosted by UCL's public engagement team. The aim was to bring together groups from a range of stakeholders to begin discussing what the museum and engagement space should look like at UCL East. There were lots of people from PACE (Public and Cultural Engagement) – especially from the UCL Museums. I was joined by colleagues Tabitha Tuckett and Peter Field in representing UCL Library Services. The first thing we learnt is that it is imperative that engagement with the local community begins well before the building space itself is constructed – and this demonstrated to me how UCL East is so much more than just a building.
A point of discussion which exercised us for quite some time was how to ensure we create a space which can accommodate a disparate range of users. It was felt that a range of suitable spaces for debate and dialog was important in enabling connections between researchers and residents in Newham Borough to be created. Also, that whilst many specific activities might be catered for on the site (e.g. swimming), people would also want a place to congregate, network, and socialise and find information. What better place than a UCL Library Hub for such a venue?
As the new KPA Outreach representative for UCL Library Services, this was a great opportunity to meet colleagues in PACE and learn more about what UCL is trying to achieve with this project. It was great to be able to contribute ideas which will help place the library at the centre of this.
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Tags: Olympicopolis, public engagement, UCL East, UCL hub, UCL Museums
Sarah Custard30 June 2015
In April 2015, UCL entered into a partnership with the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) to deliver UCL East, a new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP).
Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research), is now the project champion and work is underway to refine the academic vision for UCL East. You can find out information about the types of cross-disciplinary initiatives as well as public engagement and collaboration projects at the recently updated UCL East staff intranet page.
UCL Library Services continue to be involved in discussions with academic colleagues in UCL and also with partners in east London, as we develop the concepts shared in this blog.
If you are interested in getting involved or would like to share your ideas, please contact Ben Meunier (benjamin.meunier@ucl.ac.uk).
Benjamin Meunier
Assistant Director, Public Services
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LDA Design appointed to develop a master plan for new UCL East campus
UCL announced today the appointment of LDA Design to prepare a masterplan for the new campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0515/110515-UCL-East-master-plan
The team also includes Nicholas Hare Architects, who are currently working on the New Student Centre in Bloomsbury.
Filed under General, Space Management, Widening Participation & Public Engagement
Creating Connections East
Benjamin Meunier30 April 2015
I participated yesterday in the third "Creating Connections East" event, organised jointly by UCL, UCLU and UEL at Stratford Public Library. There were students and colleagues from UCL (Public & Cultural Engagement, Institute of Education (their Pro-Director Academic was on my group), DIS and other academic departments), UEL and local authorities and groups. I was facilitating one of the group discussions – our table theme was "Libraries and Communities" which provided some valuable early insights to help develop the vision for our future public academic library at UCL East.
Topics from my outline presentation of the UCL plans (based on my previous post) which resonated particularly with the group were:
Providing exhibition space for local artists as well as UCL Special Collections and Museums. Residents and London Borough of Newham participants noted a particular shortage of exhibition space in the area, and this would be of great interest. Some local groups have recently bid, and unfortunately failed, to gain funding to create a cultural/exhibition area in the borough. I described the excellent "Treasures from the east" project from 2012 (looking farther east than Stratford), which UCL Special Collections' Tabitha Tuckett and Gill Furlong were heavily involved in. This was hailed, particularly by colleagues from local councils, as a type of project which there is great appetite for in East London.
Engaging with local communities from the earliest stages of design to get input. There is a sense amongst residents that the Olympic Park is "for posh people", so special effort is required to attract East Londoners from less affluent households. The team at Stratford Public Library is starting work on this with their users, for instance with tours of the Olympic Park. But this is certainly an area which requires more work and we discussed some ideas to try and ensure that we truly are accessible to the communities.
Initiating a programme of outreach to local schools and community centres. The experience of one particular charity based in Newham was that people are territorial, and it would be essential to start creating links between UCL and the communities. Another suggestion was to host guided visits of UCL for interested students/pupils (and possibly their parents)
Using the library as a base for "Citizen science" projects with space to enable these. One local organisation provides facilities for bio-hacking and other sorts of hacking (ranging from coding to carpentry). Given UCL's plans to base Design research and education on the new campus, could this be a facility UCL could host close to the Library?
The Wellcome Library was noted as an example of great practice, as a "fantastic interactive space".
At UEL, TimeBank and SkillBanks have been set up, where members donate time or skills in exchange for sharing their own time/skills with others.
A particular challenge identified was how to find routes into local communities? Other than faith, language/literacy and education were identified as relevant to all community groups. In the group I was leading, there were plenty of examples of successful initiatives where organisations support local communities: the public library runs language classes, one local organisation offers workshops in e-Literacy (to create websites) and another uses drama and the arts to help increase the confidence of disadvantaged young people. By partnering with local organisations, we could form a broad information literacy programme, incorporating our own expertise in identifying and making accessible resources to support research and education.
It was an enjoyable evening, very well organised by colleagues in PACE and UCLU. I thoroughly recommend it for any library colleagues who are interested in plans to develop our presence in East London or in outreach generally, as a place to talk to a wide-ranging group of people and to discover opportunities for new initiatives. To find out more, visit the Creating Connections webpage.
If you have any ideas or comments, please post them below!
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Work life balance approval checklist
Appraisal Window December 2020 to March 2021
The Pro-Vice-Provost's View
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Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
od Funkhouser, C. T. z vydavateľstva Amazon USA 2007
získate 2,76 bodov
Autor: Funkhouser, C. T.
Vydavateľstvo: Amazon USA
Typ tovaru: Brožovaná väzba
Kúpou tohto produktu získate 2,76 bodov
Viac o knihe Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995 (Funkhouser, C. T.)
For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners and the ways that they have used technology to foster a new aesthetic. Focusing primarily on programs and experiments produced before the emergence of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, C. T. Funkhouser analyzes numerous landmark works of digital poetry to illustrate that the foundations of today's most advanced works are rooted in the rudimentary generative, visual, and interlinked productions of the genre's prehistoric period. Since 1959, computers have been used to produce several types of poetic output, including randomly generated writings, graphical works (static, animated, and video formats), and hypertext and hypermedia. Funkhouser demonstrates how hardware, programming, and software have been used to compose a range of new digital poetic forms. Several dozen historical examples, drawn from all of the predominant approaches to digital poetry, are discussed, highlighting the transformational and multi-faceted aspects of poetic composition now available to authors. This account includes many works, in English and other languages, which have never before been presented in an English-language publication. In exploring pioneering works of digital poetry, Funkhouser demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse. As a history of early digital poetry and a record of an era that has passed, this study aspires both to influence poets working today and to highlight what the future of digital poetry may hold.


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Department of Veterans' Affairs Annual Report 2018–19
The Veterans' Affairs portfolio is responsible for providing a range of programs of care, compensation, income support and commemoration for the veteran and Defence communities and their families.
Portfolio minister
The portfolio is administered by the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel.
The Hon Darren Chester MP was appointed to the position of Minister for Veterans' Affairs on 5 March 2018. Subsequently, the Minister was appointed to the position of Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel on 29 May 2019.
Department and statutory commissions
This annual report covers the work of three entities in the Veterans' Affairs portfolio:
Department of Veterans' Affairs—the primary agency responsible for developing and delivering programs and services that assist the veterans and their families, in accordance with the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (VEA), the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 (MRCA), the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988 (DRCA), the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 and the War Graves Act 1980.
Repatriation Commission—the policy body responsible for the administration of the VEA and its range of compensation and income support pensions, allowances and other health care services.
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission (MRCC)—the policy body responsible for the administration of the MRCA and the DRCA (as they relate to current and future ADF members and their families). The assistance provided under these Acts includes permanent impairment payments, incapacity payments, and health care and rehabilitation programs.
The Repatriation Commission and the MRCC have broad powers that enable them to carry out their functions and duties. The commissions also have specific powers to enter into contracts, deal with real or personal property, undertake building works and engage persons to perform services. The commissions have no staff of their own; staff who assist the commissions in performing their roles are provided by the Secretary of DVA.
DVA is responsible for providing financial support in the form of pensions, allowances, benefits and treatment to veterans and their families, but this activity is overseen by the commissions. The commissions also assist in determining policy, identifying anomalies, considering whether matters should be appealed, advising the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel and the Parliament, liaising with the veteran community, and collaborating with Defence, Comcare and other Commonwealth agencies.
Under the VEA, the Secretary of DVA may be appointed as the President of the Repatriation Commission. By convention, the Secretary of DVA is appointed to this statutory role to ensure that the functions and objectives of the commissions align with those of DVA. Because the Secretary is the President of the Repatriation Commission, the Secretary is also the Chair of the MRCC.
The Deputy President of the Repatriation Commission performs several roles for the commissions and DVA. First, as a full-time member of the Repatriation Commission, the Deputy President participates in and contributes to all Repatriation Commission meetings. Under the provisions of the MRCA, the Deputy President is also a member of the MRCC. In addition, the Deputy President assists the Secretary in managing the department.
The Services Member, also known as the Repatriation Commissioner, is appointed by the Governor-General (on advice from the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel). As Services Member, the Repatriation Commissioner has special responsibility for representing the views of that community in the commission's considerations. By convention the Commissioner is also appointed as a member of the MRCC.
The Repatriation Commissioner is a member of the executive management team of DVA and has a key role in managing veteran engagement.
Other portfolio entities
Several independent entities provide specialist oversight to assist in administering veterans' entitlements, while the Australian War Memorial plays a unique role in assisting Australians to remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society. More information on these separate entities, including annual reports on performance, is available from their websites.
Repatriation Medical Authority
The Repatriation Medical Authority (RMA) is an independent statutory authority. Its role is to determine Statements of Principles (SOPs) for any disease, injury or death that could be related to military service, based on sound medical–scientific evidence. SOPs are binding on decision-makers or review bodies determining liability for compensation under the VEA or MRCA. More information about the RMA and the SOPs is available at www.rma.gov.au.
Specialist Medical Review Council
The Specialist Medical Review Council reviews the RMA's decisions on SOPs and directs or recommends that the RMA amend the SOPs. The council consists of eminent medical practitioners and medical scientists appointed as councillors by the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel. The convenor of the council selects these specialists based on their expertise in the injury or disease relevant to the SOPs being reviewed. More information about current and past reviews is available at www.smrc.gov.au.
Veterans' Review Board
The Veterans' Review Board reviews certain decisions made under the VEA and the MRCA. More information on the board is available at www.vrb.gov.au.
The Australian War Memorial maintains and develops the national memorial to Australians who have died in wars or warlike operations. It also develops, maintains and exhibits a national collection of historical material; and conducts and fosters research on Australian military history. More information on the Australian War Memorial is available at www.awm.gov.au.
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Secretary's review
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Snapshot of the veteran community
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Invictus Games: Unconquered
Repatriation Commission Annual Report
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission Annual Report
Anzac Centenary period concludes
DVA Annual Report
Understanding and honouring female veterans and veterans' families
Compensation and support
Veterans are good for business and good for the community
Launch of refreshed Open Arms—Veterans & Families Counselling service
Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre refurbishment
Annual performance statements
Report of financial performance
Management and accountability
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Statement of Financial Position
Statement of Changes in Equity
Administered Schedule of Comprehensive Income
Administered Schedule of Assets and Liabilities
Administered Reconciliation Schedule
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Notes to and forming part of the financial statements
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Appendix A: Client overview
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Appendix C: Resource summary tables
Appendix D: Claims, service and liability provision statistics
Appendix E: Data Matching Program
Appendix F: Advertising and market research
Appendix G: Carer recognition
Appendix H: Work health and safety
Appendix I: Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance
Appendix J: Corrections to previous annual report
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Reasons for HCV non-treatment in underserved African Americans: implications for treatment with new therapeutics.
The members of the UCSF Liver Center are committed to understanding the biology of the liver and alleviating suffering from liver diseases. These physicians and scientists represent 13 separate departments at UCSF, who use the Center community to accelerate their research progress, enrich their knowledge base, forge collaborations and integrate basic biology with clinical medicine. The Center supports these efforts by hosting scientific seminars, operating core facilities and awarding seed grants for innovative research projects.


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Durant fined $15,000 for profanity during interview
NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant has been fined $15,000 for using profane language during an interview after the Brooklyn Nets' 114-108 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. The NBA announced the fine on Friday, saying Durant declined to participate in an interview with the league about the incident. The star forward had 28 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets in the loss. Brooklyn has played five games in the past week because of COVID-19-related schedule adjustments, going 2-3 in those contests.


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Norm Rubenstein is widely regarded as one of the legal industry's most experienced and innovative strategists. A former chief marketing officer for three global law firms and an inaugural inductee into the Legal Marketing Association's Hall of Fame, he collaborates with law firm leaders to increase client and market share, create and launch effective branding initiatives, and assess and enhance marketing organizations and investments.
Norm's clients are the beneficiaries of over three decades of cumulative management and marketing experience. Before becoming the CMO of Orrick, where his work was honored with the Spherion Marketing Director of the Year Award, he headed Norm Rubenstein Marketing & Communications LLC, and taught for five years at the University of Virginia. Among other professional highlights, Norm served as chief marketing officer for Shaw Pittman and for McKenna & Cuneo, and for ten years led the editorial and marketing divisions of Edison Electric Institute, one of the nation's largest trade associations.
Norm has served as the Legal Marketing Association's national president, as well as president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Tulane University and completed his doctoral course work at the University of Virginia. Norm is a member of the College of Law Practice Management and writes extensively on legal marketing and management topics. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
At the end of 2017, Norm completed eight years of service, including a year as chair, on the Board of The Pro Bono Project, a New Orleans-based 501c3 that matches lawyers with underserved citizens with pro bono civil legal needs. During his tenure with The Project, Norm was honored with the New Orleans Bar Association's Liberty Bell Award. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine, the first dedicated teaching kitchen to be implemented at a medical school, which promotes knowledge about the intersection of food and good health.
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Terry Carr, the initial volume in a series of sixteen. It was one of two follow-up volumes to the previous year's World's Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Carr in collaboration with Donald A. Wollheim for Ace Books, the other being Wollheim's The 1972 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha. The Carr title was first published in paperback as The Best Science Fiction of the Year by Ballantine Books in July 1972. It was reissued by Ballantine in April 1976 as The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1, in keeping with the numerical designations of subsequent volumes in the series.

The book collects eleven novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Carr. Most of the stories were previously published in 1971 in the magazines If, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Playboy, and the anthologies Infinity Two, New Dimensions 1, Four Futures, New Worlds Quarterly 2, Universe 1, and Quark/4.

Contents
"Introduction" (Terry Carr)
"Occam's Scalpel" (Theodore Sturgeon)
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" (Poul Anderson)
"In Entropy's Jaws" (Robert Silverberg)
"The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" (Philip José Farmer)
"A Meeting With Medusa" (Arthur C. Clarke)
"The Frayed String on the Stretched Forefinger of Time" (Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
"How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?" (Alexei Panshin)
"No Direction Home" (Norman Spinrad)
"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
"All the Last Wars at Once" (George Alec Effinger)
"The Fourth Profession" (Larry Niven)

Awards
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" won the 1971 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and placed first in the 1972 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction.

"A Meeting with Medusa" won the 1972 Nebula Award for Best Novella, was nominated for the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and placed second in the 1972 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction.

"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" was nominated for the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and placed 14th in the 1972 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction.

"All the Last Wars at Once" was nominated for the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and placed second in the 1972 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction.

"The Fourth Profession" was nominated for the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

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Terry Thompson was the Zanesville man who unleashed his private collection of exotic animals on the city before taking his own life, causing a living nightmare for residents and authorities that played out over the airwaves all across the nation.
That's not how Joe Schreibvogel, president of the United States Zoological Association, sees it. He thinks Thompson was murdered to further the state's efforts to ban exotic animal ownership.
Video below, via Ohio Capital Blog. The fun starts at the 3 minute mark. We take it as seriously as this guy takes his hair. What would Tuesday morning be without a whackadoodle conspiracy theory, after all?


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This week, Avram Piltch continues his coverage of the Windows 10 launch. While last week he talked about whether you should upgrade any why, this week he discusses what you should do now that you have Windows 10 running. In particular, how can you change some of the settings that default to something you might not want. This is must-have information for anyone running Windows 10.
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With over ten years of audio engineering experience, Nick's addition to PLuGHiTz Corporation is best served when he is behind the mixing board every Sunday night to produce the audio side of F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Piltch Point and PLuGHiTz Live Night Cap. While mixing live every week, his previous radio show hosting experience gives him the ability to co-host as well, giving each show a unique flare with his slightly off-center, yet still realistic take on all things tech. An integral part of the show, you can find Nick always enveloped in coming up with new (and sometimes crazy) ideas and content for the show and you can always expect the most direct opinion on the stories that he feels need to be shared with the world. During the few hours where Nick isn't sleeping or working on ways to improve the company, he spends his free time going to hockey and football games and playing the latest titles on Xbox 360. Email him for his gamertag and add him today for a fun escape from the normal monotony and annoyance that the Xbox LIVE gaming community can sometimes be!
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Q: ts.plot() not plotting Time Series data against custom x-axis I am having issues with trying to plot some Time Series data; namely, trying to plot the date (increments in months) against a real number (which represents price).
I can plot the data with just plot(months, mydata) with no issue, but its in a scatter plot format.
However, when I try the same with ts.plot i.e. tsplot(months, mydata), I get the following error:
Error in .cbind.ts(list(...), .makeNamesTs(...), dframe = dframe, union = TRUE) : no time series supplied
I tried to bypass this by doing tsplot(ts(months, mydata)), but with this I get a straight linear line (which I know isn't correct).
I have made sure that both months and mydata have the same length
EDIT: What I mean by custom x-axis
I need the data to be in monthly increments (specifically from 03/1998 to 02/2018) - so I ran the following in R:
d <- seq(as.Date("1998-03-01"), as.Date("2018-02-01"), "day")
months <- seq(min(d), max(d), "month")

Now that I have attained the monthly increments, I need the above variable, months, to act as the x-axis for the Time Series plot (perhaps more accurately, the time index).

A: With package zoo you can do the following.
library(zoo)

z <- zoo(mydata, order.by = months)

labs <- seq(min(index(z)), max(index(z)), length.out = 10)
plot(z, xaxt = "n")
axis(1, at = labs, labels = format(labs, "%m/%Y"))

Data creation code.
set.seed(1234)

d <- seq(as.Date("1998-03-01"), as.Date("2018-02-01"), "day")
months <- seq(min(d), max(d), "month")

n <- length(months)
mydata <- cumsum(rnorm(n))

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Q: Android: mkdir not working I want to create MyFolder directory , but cannot to do it, tried different way, but no one working;
In Androidmanifest.xml i have:
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="my.package" >
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
    <uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.BILLING" />

    <application
    <!---.....-->
</manifest>

static class:
public static String FILES_DIR = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + "MyFolder";

Code:
File dir = new File(Constants.FILES_DIR);
if (!dir.exists()) {
    dir.mkdir();
    Log.i("my tag", "isDirectory + " + dir.toString() + " | " + dir.exists() + " | " + dir.mkdir());
    dir = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath(), "MyFolder");
    Log.i("my tag", "isDirectory + " + dir.toString() + " | " + dir.exists() + " | " + dir.mkdir());
    dir = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_MUSIC), "MyFolder/");
    Log.i("my tag", "isDirectory + " + dir.toString() + " | " + dir.exists() + " | " + dir.mkdir());

    Log.i("my tag", "Status + " + Environment.getExternalStorageState());
    if (!dir.isDirectory()) return false;
}

And logcat:
    05-09 14:40:15.131    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ isDirectory + /storage/emulated/0/myFolder | false | false
05-09 14:40:15.131    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ isDirectory + /storage/emulated/0/myFolder | false | false
05-09 14:40:15.136    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ isDirectory + /storage/emulated/0/Music/myFolder | false | false
05-09 14:40:15.136    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ Status + mounted
05-09 14:40:17.261    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ isDirectory + /storage/emulated/0/myFolder | false | false
05-09 14:40:17.261    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ isDirectory + /storage/emulated/0/myFolder | false | false
05-09 14:40:17.261    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ isDirectory + /storage/emulated/0/Music/myFolder | false | false
05-09 14:40:17.266    1453-1453/my.package I/my tag﹕ Status + mounted

I also tried mkdirs();, path with slash and without, Google it..and finally I'm desperate
When i manually crate folder and tried to save file into, i recieve permission error - open failed: EACCES (Permission denied)

A: In one of my open source projects i use the following class to get the SD Card directory. This is just a simple helper and it should be easy to modify it for any other SD Card directory, or special directory.
/**
 * http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/files.html
 *
 * @param albumName
 * @return
 */
public static File getAlbumStorageDir(String albumName) {
    // Get the directory for the user's public pictures directory.
    File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES), albumName);
    if (!file.mkdirs()) {
        //This is also the case if the directory already existed
        Log.i("wall-splash", "Directory not created");
    }
    return file;
}

As of creating a file i have the following code:
File dir = Utils.getAlbumStorageDir("wall-splash")
//create the file
File file = new File(dir, fileName);
if (!file.exists()) {
    file.createNewFile();
}

What is the device you are testing on? Does it have external storage? Any custom rom?

Try to reboot your device, to make sure nothing is blocked from a previous try.