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Jonn Del Toro Richardson: As a guitarist I have to concentrate on myself and not on others
22 August 2018, 8:00
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Milan Tesař
From 30 August to 10 September the blues guitarist from Texas Jonn Del Toro Richardson will be touring the Czech Republic. One of his performances will take place in South Moravia – 2 September in the Strážničan House of Culture in Strážnice. Further concerts will take place for example on 30 August in Valašské Meziříčí, and 7 and 10 September in Ostrava. Jonn Del Toro Richardson has so far released only one solo album (a second is in preparation for 2019), but as a much sought after studio and concert guitarist he has worked with many of the top blues performers.
You have worked with many important figures from American blues. For example you accompany the pianist Pinetop Perkins on the album The Last of the Mississippi Delta Blues, which was awarded a Grammy. What specifically was important in your cooperation with Perkins?
The most important thing Pinetop taught me was that in a concert I must always fully concentrate on my performance. I first worked with him as leader of the group with which Diunna Greenleaf sang. At that time I was responsible for all the technical details of the performance and my head was full of how to make it all go well. I concentrated on the performances of the other musicians more than on my own. Along came Pinetop, he sat at the piano, played the first note and a light came on for me. I had in front of me all the music I had to play and I became aware that as a guitarist I had to concentrate primarily on my own performance. At that moment he looked over at me and smiled. That was our first joint concert.
Pinetop Perkins died in 2011 when he was unbelievably 97 and he continued to play actively until virtually the end …
Yes, our last joint appearance took place some six to eight months before his death. We played with Willie Big Eyes Smith on harmonica, Hubert Sumlin on guitar, Bob Stroger on bass and Pinetop on keyboards. I can't remember the drummer but he was a master. After the first part of the concert I had the impression that Pinetop was not feeling well and that he would not manage the second half. I told the audience when I introduced the band the he was indisposed and that after the break he would not be playing with us. Only when we came back on stage after the break, Pinetop was sitting at the keyboard ready for the next part. He taught me that I always have to be prepared, And that someone is never so ill that they cannot finish a concert.
Another interesting cooperation was with the mandolin player Rich DelGross. Is it demanding to combine mandolin and guitar as the main instruments in the blues genre?
Working with Rich was great fun. He is the best blues mandolin player in the United States, and in my view in the world. I like the mandolin in country and in folk, it is one of my favourite instruments and it has great possibilities in blues. Combining mandolin or mandola with the guitar was no great problem. In some songs I used a capotasto, and in places we had to agree on the right tuning, but generally working together was truly enriching. It also helped me in my beginnings as a composer. It was also a creative partnership – Rich wrote his songs and I mine, and then we put them together.
On the other hand Otis Taylor is a top blues player on the banjo, who shows new possibilities of this instrument on his albums. You have also worked with him.
Yes and I also learned a lot when playing with Otis Taylor. The so-called trance blues which he plays is an amazing experience – really powerful music. The line-up in which we performed, that is guitar, banjo and bass, was new for me. Playing with us on bass was Otis' daughter Cassie Taylor, who is also a wonderful player. Her bass also plays the role of as bass drum, while Otis' banjo also works as a snare. And I was supposed to play the melody above them, but I preferred to favour only the groove and here and there some kind of solo.
How did you put together an accompanying group on your first solo album Tengo Blues?
My solo disc Tengo Blues was produced by Anson Funderburgh. He put together for me a wonderful band – Nick Connoly plays on keyboards, Nathan Rowe on bass and Wes Star on drums. They are great studio musicians – Wes is a legendary drummer and Nathan is a versatile bass player who plays double bass and bass guitar on my album. And Nick has worked with everyone and has a tremendous musical knowledge. The wind section Texas Horns also plays or us on the album. I like wind instruments and knew I wanted to have them on the album, but I did not realise that they would play such an important role. However, while we were recording in many songs we said that the winds could be included. In the end you can hear them in seven pieces out of thirteen, which is more than half of the album. I come from Houston in Texas and wind instruments are an inseparable part of the music scene there.
How did your Texas, or more specifically Houston, scene arise?
I see it as my great good fortune that I come from Houston. It is a city with a long and rich history of music in various genres – blues, country, Latin American and jazz. Many great musicians have sought players from Houston. For example the members of B. B. King's group are from there. These people had the chance to work with him in the studio and then to travel all around the world. When they then returned home from touring, we grew up alongside them, alongside the best musicians in the world. Many of them have now departed, which is of course sad, but blues is still alive in Houston and doing well. And I am glad that I am part of that world and I had the luck that many of these giants helped me on my way. For example I had the chance to get to know Earl Gilliam shortly before he died. This was someone who had played with almost everyone – with Johnny Copeland, with Albertem Collins and with Albert King. Another who helped me a great deal was Jimmy Louisiana Dotson. As his nickname suggests he came from Louisiana and was the most capable blues guitarist who ever lived. From him I learned to work with chords and rhythm and also how to really listen.
You have received several important awards. In the course of the International Blues Challenge you received the Albert King Prize and for the album Tengo Blues you have a prestigious Blues Music Award in the category Best New Artist. How important are these prizes for you?
If you win some kind of prize it is in first place a great honour. Someone appreciates your work. In the given moment such an award means a great deal for me, but on the other hand I try not to take it too seriously. Even if I am truly grateful for each prize – and each is a surprise for me – the important thing is what I am doing now and not what worked for me in the past.
Currently you are to give several concerts here in the Czech Republic. What can the fans look forward to?
I can't wait to be in Europe again and to play for you. I have lots of original works from which I will be choosing. I try to make each concert different. I watch the audience and try to react in a way that they will like. It also depends on how I and my colleagues feel in the moment. I will be playing my own pieces but there will certainly also be some covers. But we will certainly have fun. Come and listen to us.
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The Olomouc Baroque Festival Opens with a Modern Premiere
Lukáš Pavlica
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Dominika Volfová
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Open letter from the Czech Association of Festivals to the Government of the Czech Republic and the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
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We met in Strážnice
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Marie Hvozdecká
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Petra Švandová
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Jerusalem Quartet with tender expressiveness
The Jerusalem Quartet is one of the world's leading quartet performers for many years and is currently one of the most cited chamber music ensembles. At the Concentus Moraviae festival, violinists Alexander Pavlovsky, Sergei Bresler, violist Ori Kam and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov performed in the Great Chateau of Mikulov Castle with a programme stretching in time from Joseph Haydn up to Béla Bartók. The concert was held under the auspices of the Israeli Ambassador to the Czech Republic, HE Daniel Meron. more
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Man does not live by classical music alone, as the Epoque Quartet, consisting of violinists David Pokorný, Vladimír Klánský, violist Vladimír Kroupa and cellist Vít Petrášek has been convincing us for twenty years already. For their Saturday concert, staged as part of the Concentus Moraviae festival, which took place in the foyer of the Pasáž theatre in Třebíč, the musicians also invited bass clarinettist Petr Valášek, pianist Karel Košárek and percussionist Oleg Sokolov. The programme of the evening consisted entirely of works by contemporary authors flirting in their compositions not only with musical minimalism, but also with jazz and other popular genres. more
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Leoš Janáček would celebrate his 165th birthday today
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Today Vaňkovka Fest Begins. Aneta Langerová, Dan Bárta, Lukáš Pavlásek and Others Will Be Performing
26 June 2019, 3:00
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Uprostřed festival begins today
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Kitty is back and in more trouble than ever in this ninth entry in New York Times bestselling author Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville series.
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Masood Azhar Designated Global Terrorist: Congress Files Complaint With Election Commission Against The UN
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Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party has written to Election Commission of India alleging that the United Nations has violated the Model Code of Conduct by designating Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.
What is now being viewed as Modi government's huge global diplomatic win is being considered as a massive poll violation by many, including the Congress. However, this time, instead of attacking the BJP, Congress has decided to file a complaint with EC against the UN itself!
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an influential leader. He has the capacity to get anything done through global institutions like the World Bank, IMF and now the United Nations! He is influencing the elections in BJP's favour," said Randeep Singh Surjewala.
Burkha Dutt, a terrorist sympathizer and a Pakistan favourite spoke out against the decision, as expected.
"It is clear that in its bid to win, BJP can do anything, even if it means catching terrorists or killing them off. This is atrocious and a total disregard of poll rules" she tweeted.
Currently, it is not clear whether the Election Commission will consider Congress' complaint against the UN, as they have been turning a deaf ear to all kinds of poll violations in West Bengal too. More on this awaited.
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Researcher Presentation: Development of Thiols and Thiol Precursors in Different Hop Varieties During Hop Harvest and their Impact on Beer Flavor
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Speakers: Christina Schönberger
Thiols are highly aroma-active compounds derived from hops that can give very intense fruity flavor to predominantly dry-hopped beers. The occurrence of these thiols in hops was only discovered a couple of years ago and the data in this regard is scarce. The analysis of these compounds is very challenging, which also explains why the relevance of these compounds is only slowly becoming clear. In this project, we are looking into the development of these fruity thiols in different hop cultivars during the growing season in different growing locations. Certain varieties have a good amount of these fruity thiols in a free form that exhibit grapefruit, black current, and passion fruit flavors in beers dry-hopped with these varieties. The harvest date might be a possibility to obtain more of these flavors. We are also investigating how much of the precursor structures we find in the different hop cultivars. Several precursors have been identified and those basically carry the fruity thiols in a bound manner. Therefore, in the second part of this research we will look into possibilities to release these thiols from precursor structures with the help of certain active yeasts and/or enzymes in dry-hopping. We will also thoroughly investigate the sensory impact of these thiols in dry-hopped beers.
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I cannot recall ever living in a home where Turmeric was not a fixture in the spice cabinet. When I was growing up, my father was always experimenting with Indian dishes and he did not just rely on commercial curry powders and the like, but always had the 'makings' for his own spice blends on hand. Turmeric, being so ubiquitous in Indian cookery, was always in the kitchen cupboard and, today, I, too, am never without a ready supply.
Until recently, however, my only experience with this versatile spice was with the dried variety – both the whole dried rhizome, and the bright yellow powder that can be found in most grocery stores. I knew, of course, that it was possible to buy the rhizomes in their raw state, and, while I was dying for a chance to cook with the fresh article for years, it wasn't until I located some in a shop in Ottawa's Chinatown that I finally got the chance.
It would be hard to imagine Indian cookery without Turmeric. It is used in so many different types of dishes in that country that it would be almost impossible to compile a comprehensive list of them. The spice is also used extensively throughout southern Asia and the Middle East and, even though it won't often be found in the average kitchen in the west, most westerners will encounter it frequently as, not only is it a standard ingredient in most commercial curry powders, it is also widely used as a flavoring and coloring agents in many brands of mustard.


In a perfect world, we'd never have to plug in our handheld devices to recharge them. That gadget-reviving utopia is still a few years away, but in the meantime, Powermat offers the next-best thing with its Portable Mat and Home & Office Mat. Just place your worn-out gadget on the mat, and it starts rejuicing. Each mat can charge up to three devices using only one power outlet, eliminating that unsightly mess of cords cluttering your desktop or night table. You'll need to purchase Powermat receivers for each device (BlackBerrys, iPhone or iPod, Nintendo DS) or pick up the Powercube universal receiver, but it's worth it for a simple system that's one step closer to a completely wireless-recharging solution.


Unilever hosts first ever South Asia Partner to Win Supplier Summit in Mumbai.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012: Unilever hosted its first South Asia Partner to Win Supplier Summit in Mumbai following on from the annual global event held in London in May. The theme of this event was Sustainable Living and focused on the importance of Unilever's partnerships with its 109 key South Asia suppliers and the crucial role they play in delivering Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan.
Since its launch 18 months ago, the Partner to Win program has enabled Unilever to work more closely with their suppliers in co-creating new capabilities, sustainable practices and bigger and better innovations. This event is designed to collectively identify the shared goals and objectives required in order for Unilever and their suppliers to Partner to Win.
Following on from the event itself, Unilever hosted the 'Partner to Win Awards' dinner to celebrate and reward our South Asia suppliers who have made a significant contribution in the categories of Innovation, Sustainability, Business Integration, Service Excellence and Capacity and Capability Development.
Nitin Paranjpe, CEO and Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) said: "We in HUL look at our suppliers as business partners who help us to seamlessly drive end to end value delivery to our consumers. Partner to Win gives us the platform to forge strategic alliances that can help deliver superior consumer value in a win-win way".
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Fly Fishing In Your Own Backyard
Smallmouth bass, walleye, northern pike, musky, yellow perch, brown trout, channel catfish, whitefish, steelhead - the list of fish in Michigan's waterways stretches to 28 species on the Department of Natural Resources website. Michigan is an international destination for anglers because of its world-class warm water fishing.
Right in our backyard, the Huron, Flint, Shiawassee and Kalamazoo Rivers offer great watersheds, along with the River Raisin that flows into Lake Erie. On any of these bodies of water you can drop a worm and a bobber into the water and pull something up, but the real angling experience is had with fly-fishing on these gorgeous waterways. Fishing season opens the last Saturday of April and anglers local and international can't wait to hit Michigan's rivers.
Nobody is more excited that Mike Schultz, co-owner of Schultz Outfitters in Ypsilanti, located right on the banks of the Huron River. Established in 2003, Schultz Outfitters is Southeastern Michigan's only full-time, four-season fly-fishing guide service. This winter they opened a fly shop on Cross Street, selling rods, reels, waders, fly lines and all types of gear, while also offering on-stream fly fishing lessons. Schultz Outfitters also arranges guided fly-fishing trips to exotic locales in Chile, Alaska and the Bahamas. Not a bad gig for fishing enthusiast Schultz.
The Popular Misconceptions About Fly Fishing
"I could be working months to save enough money to take just one of these trips," says Schultz, "but now I get to fish all day for a living. It's pretty sweet."
Schultz is built like a high school lacrosse coach, with a baseball cap snug on his head, a big smile and passion for fishing in his voice. He's quick to dispel some popular misconceptions about fly-fishing:
Fly fishing is hard...
"Fly fishing has never been easier. The equipment has never been better and I can have someone catching fish on a fly within an hour of a lesson."
Fly fishing is expensive...
"We've got a saying around here: Save Gas, Fish for Bass. With the price of gas right now, do you know how much it costs to gas up your truck, drive an hour or two, take the boat out on the lake, drive around for a few hours, load back up and go home? For what? Ten fish? We can wade out into any of the rivers nearby and catch 20 fish in an hour."
Fly fishing is only for trout...
"Anything you can catch conventionally you can catch with a fly. Smallmouth bass, walleye, pike, musky, we've caught them all on flies."
Schultz uses the metaphor of hunting to explain how fly-fishing relates to conventional fishing.
"We all start with a worm and a bobber catching bluegill," he says. "Conventional fishing is like conventional hunting with rifles. Fly-fishing is more like bow hunting - more involved and takes a little more concentration. Then there are those hunters who use primitive gear. That's like some of your hardcore fly fishermen."
The gear in Schultz Outfitters comes in a carnival of colors, from animal hair for flies dyed hot pink, chartreuse, and olive. Partridge feathers, Icelandic sheep wool, deer hair and lead eyes all the most flamboyant rainbow you've ever seen.
True aficionados customize their flies, experimenting with color and composition to make masterworks of angling resembling colorful fat horseflies or succulent mutant mosquitos. The father of one of my roommates in college would pull over on the side of the road when he saw a promising roadkill, looking for the perfect color and consistency of animal hair for his homemade flies.
Fly tying is an art. Part of the appeal of fly-fishing is the preparation.
Fly Fishing For The Soul
To listen to fans of the sport talk is to believe that fly fishing is a Zen-like art that calms the spirit and ease the mind. And there may actually be a real case to be made, given the emotional and physical therapy it can provide.
The concentration and attention to detail necessary to successfully land a fish is the reason fly fishing has become a popular treatment option for mental health professionals. Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing uses fly-fishing as a way to help with the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military personnel. Fly-fishing has also been used to help children with autism, teaching them concepts through the peace and rhythm of fly fishing.
Schultz also enjoys the educational aspect of fly fishing - taking someone from being a pure beginner to teaching them basic knot tying, rigging, casting and how to hook, land and release your catch. He's also a big fan of destination fishing. Schultz Outfitters offers fishing trip to the Upper Peninsula for trout, to Wisconsin for smallmouth and musky and to Alaska, not to mention full and half-day guided trips on the Huron, Flint, Shiawassee and Kalamazoo Rivers.
"Fly fishing takes you to beautiful places you may never have gone before," says Schultz. "Fishing is an excuse to go to ridiculously beautiful places like Chile, Montana and the Catskills, or even right here on the Huron or Raisin. Just you, the river, the sound of your rod and the fish."
Schultz Outfitters is also proud to host the Second Annual Huron River Single Fly Tournament on June 16. Pick your best fly and fish until you lose it. The event features prizes, raffles and auctions with proceeds benefiting the Huron River Watershed Council.
"Catching fish on a fly you tied yourself is more fulfilling than throwing in a line and a piece of lead and drinking a beer," says Schultz.
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Home › Releases › RICK SPRINGFIELD - Rocket Science
For all his accomplishments as an actor, a best-selling author and the subject of multiple docu-mentaries, Rick Springfield's first love has always been music, since the first time he picked up a guitar at the age of 12 in his native Australia. That passion for writing and performing songs, as well as playing guitar, comes through loud and clear on his new album, "Rocket Science".
"Rocket Science" features classic Springfield compositions like the crowd pumping "Light This Par-ty Up", the sensitive ballad "Let Me In", the anthemic "All Hands On Deck," the blues infused rocker "Miss Mayhem", on which he collaborated with indie artist Tad Kubler of the band The Hold Steady. Rick also wrote "Down" —in the middle of an ice storm on a stranded tour bus—with Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus.
Springfield says "Rocket Science is my 18th studio album. It swears a bit and doesn't respect au-thority but it does look after its invalid mother. It has some of the country elements I love but as much as I understand we should all be sucking up to Nashville, it's still a wide ranging pop/rock record. I hope u dig it!"
The new album, a pop/country blend fused with Springfield's signature songwriting and perfor-mance style, features much of Springfield's touring band joined by some guest players, and was mixed by veteran Justin Niebank, providing the album its tight feel. Other featured players include iconic guitarist and longtime Springfield collaborator Tim Pierce, plus longtime songwriting part-ner, Elton John bass player Matt Bissonette.
With 25 million albums sold, 17 U.S. top-40 hits, including "Don't Talk to Strangers", "An Affair of the Heart", "I've Done Everything for You", "Love Somebody", and "Human Touch", as well as a 1981 Grammy® Best Male Rock Vocal win for his No. 1 single hit "Jessie's Girl" behind him, Springfield has more to say with his latest new release, "Rocket Science".
Still playing nearly 100 live shows a year, Springfield's bond with his audience is the subject of the recent documentary An Affair of the Heart, winning special jury awards at both the Nashville and Florida Film Festivals. He also recently wrote and recorded a new song with Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters / Nirvana) as well as being a featured guest in Grohl's documentary about "Sound City," the fabled San Fernando Valley recording studio.
His 2010 autobiography, "Late, Late at Night…: A Memoir", for Simon & Schuster's Touchstone imprint, entered The New York Times best-seller list at No. 13, hitting the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly lists as well, with Rolling Stone recently naming it one of the Top 25 rock auto-biographies of all time.
Also, within the past year, Springfield played opposite Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep in Jonathan Demme's "Ricki & The Flash", plus a multi episode arc in the HBO series "True Detec-tive".
With "Rocket Science", Rick Springfield continues to do what he does best—applying his sardonic view to life as we live it today, offering a ray of hope in the midst of all the turmoil.
After all, its life, not rocket science.
Light This Party Up
That One
The Best Damn Thing
Miss Mayhem
Crowded Solitude
(I Wish I Had A) Concrete Heart
Earth To Angel
Guitars: Rick Springfield, George Nastos, George Bernhardt, Tim Pierce
Bass and Background Vocals: Matt Bissonette
Drums and percussion: Jorge Palacios
Additional Background Vocals: Robbie Wyckoff, RS and Windy Wagner
Background Gang Vocals: Chariya and Josh Bissonette, Brandon Mgee and Buddy the dog
Pedal Steel: John Jorgenson
Banjos, Mandolins and Additional Acoustic Guitar: George Doering
Keyboards: Jim Cox
Fiddle: Craig Eastman
Bass on Walkin' In: Lance Morrison
Additional Guitars: Dan Strain, Andreas Moe on Concrete Heart
Additional Violin and Ganjo: Steve Stokes
Additional Keyboards on Concrete Heart: Niclas Lundin
Organ on Walkin' In: Jeffrey Young
Mixed in Nashville by Justin Niebank
Michael Grant & The Assassins - Always The Villain
In the works since 2018, "Always The Villain" is Michael Grant & The Assassins debut album. Michael Grant & The Assassins play a diverse and exciting brand of hard rock music incorporating elements from alternative and metal. While exploring different textures, genres, and influences, band mastermind Michael Grant (who plays all instruments on the album) creates a sound that is intense, heavily melodic, and anthemic.
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Best known as the original vocalist and founding member of the platinum rock band RATT, Stephen Pearcy has been working hard to complete his highly anticipated fourth solo album, while at the same time keeping busy performing shows across the U.S.
King Company - Queen of Hearts
King Company was formed in early 2014 when Drummer Mirka "Leka" Rantanen (Raskasta joulua, Warmen, ex-Thunderstone, ex-Kotipelto, etc) had already been thinking about forming a new hard rock / melodic metal band for a long time.
Orianthi - O
Platinum-selling recording artist and world class guitarist, Orianthi has signed an exclusive record deal with the legendary independent rock label, Frontiers Music Srl who will handle the release of her upcoming new album, "O" globally. This will be Orianthi's first new studio album in seven years and her first new music as a solo artist in six years.
HOUSE OF LORDS - Saint of the Lost Souls
"Saint Of The Lost Souls" is House Of Lords' tenth studio album, following up the highly successful "Indestructible". House Of Lords continues to get even stronger with each release.
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Yale Immunobiologist Receives Prestigious Award
Ruslan Medzhitov Ruslan Medzhitov, professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, will receive the American Association of Immunologists-BD Biosciences Investigator Award as an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology.
Ruslan Medzhitov, professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, will receive the American Association of Immunologists-BD Biosciences Investigator Award as an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology.
The award will be presented at the organization's annual meeting in Boston May 12-16 for his research that centers on molecular mechanisms of innate immune recognition. In particular, Medzhitov is interested in the recently identified family of Toll-like receptors, which play an essential role in innate immune recognition in both mammals and insects.
His laboratory also is investigating control of adaptive immune responses by innate immune recognition, and mechanisms of autoimmunity and allergy. Excessive inflammation, or inflammation in the absence of infection, may lead to a variety of pathological sates, including autoimmunity and allergy. Medzhitov and his colleagues are studying the cellular and molecular basis of inflammatory disorders that are caused by the dysfunctions of the innate immune system.
Since 1994, the American Association of Immunologists has recognized an early career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology. This award has been co-sponsored since 1998 by BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) Biosciences.


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Interview: Meg Pokrass, co-editor Best Microfiction 2019
Flash Frontier: Tell us about the genesis of the project.
Meg Pokrass: I was thrilled to have 2 stories included in a recent Norton Reader, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018). Over at New Flash Fiction Review, the magazine I founded and manage, I decided to create an interview series with the authors in New Micro about their chosen stories, how they came into being. In the process of publishing those interviews, which are being written by wonderful interviewers such as Steven John, Tommy Dean and Sandra Arnold, I became even more fascinated with the microfiction form.
But I've always had a passion for very short pieces. This form is what I mostly focus on in my own writing. Most of my stories fall between 150 – 500 words. It's my 'sweet-spot'. I started to believe that a yearly anthology devoted to this form exclusively, pulling from all of the exceptional new work coming out these days from online zines (and there is so much of it) would be very exciting!
The clincher for me was when I asked Gary Fincke if he'd partner up with me on this (were I to do it) and he said he would. Someone with Gary's years of experience and the literary heft Gary brings to us as an acclaimed author of many collections, former director of a great writing program, and beloved writing teacher was just what I needed to seal the deal. And then the amazing Dan Chaon agreed to guest edit our first anthology. So everything lined up just right. On top of that, Pelekinesis Press said they'd like to be our home for this. So, as you can imagine, it really took on a life of its own.
FF: How did you go about reading and selecting for this new volume?
MP: Gary Fincke and I expected it to be tough sledding the first year as so few magazine editors knew of us. So we depended on wonderful, dedicated team of scouts as well as the submissions we received from magazines who found out about us over the year. It became a great combination of scout-found pieces and submissions. We've noticed that magazines don't always nominate stories that we ourselves would have chosen. Of course, there are a limited number of nominations for each publication.
FF: How has your own view of flash fiction changed since you began writing it yourself?
MP: I'm not sure it has. If anything, I'm writing a bit less, which worries me. I think the tasks of editing and reading have been a bit distracting, and I hope to figure out ways to remedy this in the future.
FF: Do you think reading and editing works by other writers impacts you as a writer?
MP: Well, it gets me hugely excited about different ways to approach story! Microfiction can seem simple, but it's deceptively complex. I love what Margaret Atwood says about fiction: "There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too."
All that is true, there are usually layers that make the story-telling interesting. But what seems to matter most is the heart inside a story, like a generator or a heater.
FF: And, finally, how about a funny story from you, for this issue of Flash Frontier?
Curse of the Scorpion
Mom was in menopause, but with her scorpion-claw potholders on, she could still do anything with style. She'd sashay out of the kitchen and dance a bit—while baking cornbread or banana pudding—and introduce herself to the few boys I had over.
She was growing a tail, but she wasn't mean. She'd yell, "I am not fierce!" which was embarrassing, but it only meant she was adjusting to her screwy hormones.
Really only one boy still visited me at home. Terry. I liked his sharpened features and the way his nose bent to the right. We were in deep. "Thickly hormonal," Mom called it.
Sometimes she'd scowl at Terry and me and slam a few doors. I warned him about how, some days, she curled up on the kitchen floor to do mathematical calculations which involved both heat and sun.
Terry wasn't worried. He pronounced Mom "elegant and other-worldly," suspected a ghost had stung her in some way. I cried because it sounded so true, but he said he had read that it was nearly epidemic with menopausal mothers. No need to worry or make a big deal of it.
"Though it can be a bit confusing," he said.
"But she's got so much energy with those claw holders on. Right?"
I explained that she bought them from a kitchen store downtown the week after Dad went off to Brazil to live with Luna, our au pair. Terry hadn't known about this until I told him, and I, until I voiced it, had not admitted it to myself.
Terry told me to stop worrying. She still made banana Margaritas, didn't she? For him, in fact. Every day. He enjoyed resting near her, feeling the sun on his face. Sometimes, he'd hide behind the stove or wear mom's bedroom slippers.
But mom's curving tail…. It kept growing. She'd safety-pin it down inside her extra-large jeans. Sometimes it would ooze out through a pocket, as if looking for something to sting, or to love.
Meg Pokrass is the author of five flash fiction collections, most recently Alligators At Night (Ad Hoc Fiction 2018) and a novella-in-flash from the Rose Metal Press. Her work has been recently anthologized in two Norton Anthology Readers, Best Small Fictions, 2018 (guest-edited by Aimee Bender) and has appeared in 350 literary magazines both online and in print. Meg's new collection of microfiction, The Sadness of Night Bugs, and a new novella-in-flash, The Smell of Good Luck are due out in 2019. She currently serves as Flash Challenge Editor at Mslexia Magazine, Festival Curator for Flash Fiction Festival, U.K. (Bristol), Co-Editor of Best Microfiction, 2019 and Founding/Managing Editor of New Flash Fiction Review.
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David Cameron has received a boost with an opinion poll by The Sunday Telegraph's ICM showing the Conservatives once again on course for a majority at the general election.
The new survey sees the Tories hitting the key measure of 40 per cent with Labour 11 points behind on 29 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 19 per cent.
The findings – which come after several polls with closer margins suggested the election would result in a "hung parliament" – signal that Mr Cameron's party will obtain a majority of between 20 and 25 seats.
However, there is some comfort for Gordon Brown in that Labour's vote has gone up significantly from the previous Sunday Telegraph/ICM poll in late October. Labour is up four points since then, with the Tories and the Liberal Democrats both down two points.
The last few weeks have seen a string of surveys showing the Conservatives below 40 per cent and Labour on above 30 per cent – a considerable narrowing of the gap between the parties after a summer and autumn which saw Tory leads well into double figures.
Why can't David Cameron seal the deal?
Last week, at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Brown claimed that Tory tax policy had been "dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton", the school attended by Mr Cameron and other leading Conservatives.
In an interview for The Politics Show on BBC 1 tomorrow Mr Cameron hits back: "If Gordon Brown and [Lord] Mandelson and the rest, if they want to fight a class war, fine, go for it. It doesn't work.
"It's a petty, spiteful, stupid thing to do but if that's what they want to do, you know, go ahead.
ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1001 adults aged 18+ by telephone on 2nd-3rd December 2009. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults.


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Previously, data warehouse security was tightly coupled to source system security (AIS, HRMS, etc.) and was controlled by source system owners. This meant that users could work in the data warehouse only with the same security that they had in the source system. To allow for expanded analytics, we decided to de-couple security from the source systems with a new approach – Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and Row Level Security (RLS), both of which are implemented within the data warehouse itself.
RBAC: Role Based Access Control
RBAC stands for "Role-based access control". In this model, each role has its own set of permissions and each user is assigned to one or more roles as appropriate. Workday operates with the RBAC model as well.
The new RBAC roles in the data warehouse will allow users to run advanced analytics and to view dashboards that aggregate data from multiple applications, even if they do not have access to the source applications. For example, someone may not have an account in Research Management System (RMS), but if they were assigned a Research role in the data warehouse, they could view the number of proposals submitted in RMS when viewing data or reports in the data warehouse.
How do we expand security for analysis while still protecting confidential data?
In order to protect confidential data, we are employing additional layers of security called domain control and regulatory control.
Domain control
When you log into Cognos, you will see only what is available for the domain you belong to. Cross-domain reporting is only possible for those with roles that grant access to more than one domain.
Regulatory control
Certain "slices" of data will be further secured with regulatory controls. Some examples of these might be FMLA, HIPAA, and student grades. Data Governance will make the final decisions as to what gets placed under regulatory control.
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RLS: Row Level Security
RLS can be viewed as an additional security layer on top of RBAC, which restricts users to be able to see only a certain "slice" of a sensitive dataset.
Compensation data in the data warehouse has been classified by the Office of Data Governance as sensitive, and access to the Compensation data for reporting/analytics is to be restricted at the data consumers' own school level. Access is granted by request only.
Access to Compensation data is requested using the School Compensation access request form. Approval from the appropriate department supervisor and data administrator for this domain is required. The domain approver for compensation data is HR Data Administrator – Legail Chandler. Once completed, the signed form should be submitted to the Data Management service team, which will then grant the appropriate access.
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Is a love of nature in your genes?
3rd November 2021 – By Aaruthy Suthahar
Identical twins are consistently more similar to each other in their concern for nature, environmental movement activism, and personal conservation behaviour than non-identical twins, suggesting there are genetic influences on these traits.
The study, led by a team from the University of Singapore, found that all three characteristics were somewhat heritable, and the genetic correlations were high among them.
This highlights that the genetic foundation of concern for nature, protecting the environment, and conservation behaviour partially overlap. The genetic correlations amongst the traits could help explain why people who show more concern for nature generally make pro-environmental decisions.
Although results from the study revealed that genetic effects can have a contribution to sustainable behaviours, the researchers explain in their paper that external factors such as education and making conservation behaviours more convenient remain key to encouraging more people towards sustainability.
The researchers used data from the TwinsUK cohort to look at the external and genetic influences that drive individual differences via an online survey on concern for nature, environments, and personal conservation behaviours. They analysed responses from 1,165 twin pairs who participated in the study. The survey results of identical twins were then compared with those of non-identical, who share fewer genes.
One limitation of the study however is that it only surveyed TwinsUK members and at one time-point. Our understanding of a person's evolving concern for nature and pro-environmental behaviour can be improved by conducting long-term repeated measurements (e.g., looking from child to adult stage of life). Future research studies could therefore carry out repeated measures with a more diverse group of participants to address this.
As the earth is undergoing an environmental crisis due to the negative impacts made on nature by humans, several policies have been proposed in an attempt towards a more sustainable future. The researchers highlighted in their paper that such recommendations have often been disregarded, due to the lack of public support and concern about the crisis. Therefore, a better understanding of people's support or lack thereof for pro-environmental policies is essential if we want to achieve environmental sustainability.
Chang et el. 2021. Genetic Contribution to Concern for Nature and Proenvironmental Behavior. BioScience
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