When animal advocates want to measure how far we've come as a movement, I can think of no better barometer than the burgeoning field of animal law, which works to stop animal cruelty and suffering through legislation and litigation. Once considered a niche area of legal practice, animal law has expanded over the last 20 years to become one of the rising stars of jurisprudence. Consider, for example, that 10 years ago students interested in animal law had only a handful of schools to choose from. Today, there are more than 100 animal law classes being taught at colleges throughout the United States and Canada. Some of the biggest news concerning animal cruelty is coming out of the US Supreme Court, which earlier this month heard arguments regarding free speech and animal fighting videos ― it's the first case involving animal cruelty the high court has considered since 1993, when, by the way, only seven states had felony-level anti-cruelty laws; now 46 states do. Even China, where animal welfare is not given much value (the country is notorious for its widespread and indiscriminate killing of dogs, for example), recently drafted its first law to protect animals from abuse. And of course the high-profile Michael Vick dogfighting case did much to push the importance of animal law into the public discourse.
So it was a genuine privilege for me to speak at the 17th-annual animal law conference at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, last weekend. I was on a panel with Bob Roop of the Humane Society of the United States; Bob spoke about secondary trauma, which he described as the stress caregivers such as shelter workers experience, and I addressed the issue of activist burnout. The session attendees were very engaged in this topic, and it felt good to discuss such an important issue.
The rest of the time I got to take in what was, for the most part, a terrific event: great vegan food, excellent speakers, and a schedule that was extremely well organized. And, of course, you can't beat Portland, which ranks as one of the best vegan cities anywhere. In keeping with the theme of this year's sold-out event, "The Links," the conference explored animal law and its connection to other areas of the law and professional disciplines, philosophies, and social justice movements, including domestic violence, the environment, international trade, religion, and the media.
Scott Heiser, director of ALDF's Criminal Justice Program, offers tips for persuading prosecutors to pursue animal-cruelty cases.
I found three panel sessions to be particularly interesting. The first was "The People v. Animal Cruelty: Criminal Prosecutions," led by Scott Heiser, director of the Criminal Justice Program for ALDF, and Heidi Moawad, deputy district attorney for the Multnomah County, Oregon, district attorney's office. Heiser and Moawad, both highly experienced animal attorneys, offered advice for motivating district attorneys who are reluctant to prosecute animal abusers (e.g., go to the press, use social media), and they emphasized the link between cruelty to animals and other forms of violence. "People who abuse animals are five times more likely to commit a violent crime against humans," said Heiser. He noted that public opinion is very important to prosecutors, so writing letters to editors applauding their good work on behalf of animals makes a real difference. Moawad, meanwhile, stressed the need for citizens to report cases of animal abuse or neglect. "Get involved," she said. I appreciated that the panelists offered suggestions that anyone can do.
Finally, "Killing with Keystrokes: CITES, African Elephants & Internet Trade" featured Special Agent Ed Newcomer of the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Paul Todd of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Not surprisingly, the Internet has helped fuel trafficking in wildlife items, including animal skins, endangered butterflies, elephant tusks, and exotic birds. According to Todd, the US is responsible for two-thirds of the worldwide illegal trade, which represents at least $20 billion a year. Only illegal drugs and weapons are bigger markets, he said. Todd gave a great case study that showed how online auction site eBay has finally banned ivory sales in compliance with the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) treaty, an agreement among 172 nations meant to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Elephant parts account for 73 percent of the world's illegal trade in animals, said Todd, and a whopping 98 percent of that is ivory.
Newcomer, a former state prosecutor, draped several confiscated animal skins across a large table at the front of the room. The skin of a dog imported from China was particularly haunting; two almond-shaped holes where the eyes had been gave the skin an eerie, Halloween mask feel. The skin had been expertly dyed to resemble that of a leopard, and it lay between a genuine leopard skin and a tiger skin. Neatly folded beside the dog skin was a large swath of elephant hide, which was passed around the room. It felt surprisingly soft — though I've never touched an elephant ― and Newcomer explained the skin is often used for pillow cases. The Internet has had a devastating impact on wildlife, he explained, because it has created a demand in the market for illegal specimens. He used the online sale of an endangered Asian elephant head as an example. "Five people bid on something and one person wins. What do the other four people do? All of a sudden, they need to find themselves an Asian elephant head or some other body part!" Poachers and smugglers are using Skype and online newspaper posts to aid their crimes, but Newcomer said Craigslist is the worst. "It's the wild west of animal trafficking," he said.
I have one minor quibble with "The Links," and having considered this blog post for several days, I have to be candid. While the conference was motivating, informative, and very well executed, it featured one panel that was, in my opinion, a mistake — or at the very least, poorly handled. "The Role of Animals in Indigenous Cultures" was little more than a forum for justifying the exploitation of animals by Native American tribes and criticizing groups working to protect animals. Attendees sat dumbfounded as Native American activist Se-ah-dom Edmo and professor of law and tribal judge Robert Miller, a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, discussed why Native Americans have a right to kill animals for food and religious purposes. It was clear that the two panelists were as uncomfortable as their audience when no one laughed at their playful swipes at the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Though I recognize the value of understanding everyone's legal rights, I had to wonder what these clearly intelligent speakers thought they were accomplishing by addressing a roomful of animal advocates. I'm neither an attorney nor a law student, so perhaps the significance of this discussion was lost on me; however, during the lunch break that followed this panel, many attendees complained that such a presentation had no place at an animal rights gathering. This isn't the first time I've attended an AR conference that featured exploitation apologists, and my suggestion is that if such sessions are allowed, they should be moderated debates that allow ample audience participation. All questions at this panel had to be submitted in writing. A session arguing the need for killing animals and poking fun at activists only leaves attendees at these otherwise uplifting events feeling disempowered.
That criticism aside, the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) of Lewis & Clark Law School, which hosted the conference with the college's Center for Animal Law Studies, did an extraordinary job. The sessions moved like clockwork, speakers were well prepared, and the subject matter was highly relevant. Kudos to the unflappable Liberty Mulkani, who coordinated the three-day event with confidence and a smile. My sincere thanks to the conference organizers for inviting me to speak this year.


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A contractor could even fit in some client entertainment or take their family on a holiday, as long as the original trip is essential for the performance of their work duties and the contractor also sticks to HMRC's normal rules regarding business expenses.
"If a contractor normally based in London was heading off to Edinburgh to spend a Thursday and Friday at their client's office, and then added an extra day to maybe catch a rugby match on the Saturday, logic suggests that you'd add all the costs and, on a pro rata basis claim two thirds of the travel, accommodation and subsistence costs for business and a third for personal expenses," says Abbott.
However, he notes, because contractors are employees of their limited company or umbrella company, they can only claim the marginal cost of the expenses they incur, ie costs that would not have otherwise been incurred unless the contractor was performing business duties. Normally this works against contractors, but in this situation it works in their favour.
"A contractor would be incurring the cost of the flight and two days of hotel bills and subsistence for business purposes, so these expenses are 100% allowable," says Abbott. "The contractor would only have to reimburse their company for the additional hotel and subsistence costs incurred on day three.
If there is a genuine reason for a spouse to accompany a contractor on a business trip, for example if the spouse performs legitimate business duties that are needed on the trip, then it might also be possible to claim their travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses in full.
If the spouse has no business reason to join the contractor, then once again marginal costs come into play and any additional travel, accommodation and subsistence costs incurred by the spouse cannot be legitimately claimed and must be reimbursed to the contractor's company.
On the family front, if the driver were taking the car on the journey to Edinburgh and the hotel did not charge extra for a family room, then the contractor could take both spouse and children on the trip and still claim 100% of travel and accommodation expenses.
"Contractors must also be able to prove that business is the principal reason for a trip and that it's not the other way round. This is particularly true of conferences and training events, which must be directly relevant. And," warns Abbott, contractors should certainly not invent a business reason just so they can claim the expenses of a holiday, as trips undertaken for tenuous reasons will be challenged by HMRC.
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Shell-i emerges as an artist prone to being described as distant, out of the ordinary and invoking mystery. A sea shell inspires her as a notion of infinity and elegant femininity. Her first EP, to be released on Berlin's legendary Motor Records, shows her in search of her style across different genres ranging from pop/rock to ska/alternative. Her vocals envelop purity and a touch of silver and is best described as an unquantifiable quality that transcends you to the other worlds around us. In her songs Shell-i expresses her love of humanity and deep immersion by inviting you into her personal world of feelings and creativity.
Shell-i aspires to translate her long-cherished passion for music and her personality through her songs in 3 languages. While working with a NY based arranger, they were able to compose the EP in English, Russian and French which came naturally following her life experiences. Shell-i aims to claim her style though a diversity of influences she was exposed to. At the moment the common theme of her music is expression of inner self, harmony within oneself and bond with eternal values of humanity.
Shell-i says: "The creation or me is like a deep well. The more you take from it, the more depth you see. That's the most exciting part, to go deeper and deeper. All of this happens in your imagination". Electronic remixes add to the diversity of styles presented in the EP.


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David Cooper Orton a.k.a. The Ortones
email david@cooper-orton.fsnet.co.uk
url http://www.davidcooperorton.co.uk
about David Cooper Orton is a guitarist and film composer from Penath, Vale of Glamorgan, UK
1 Where we're at 2017
Fore-lawn region - the nearest sofa
And then this - What I'm doing at the moment? Sounding like me as usual - somewhere between a never really existed folk music idyll, and the long wished-for sanctuary of ECM records. As ever, the comfort of melancholy, and an inability to find the point at which to stop. Bits of Nick Drake, John Abercrombie and some kora music eventually merged and melded into one multipart stream. Guitar and loopers (mainly Pigtronix Infinity) and Neunaber reverb. And a couple of decisive edits
Eels without voices
Originally the backing track for a piece I did with Huw the poet, which he trimmed quite agressively(!) in the final piece to better fit with his words, but as I liked it as a stand-alone piece, here it is in its slithering entirety. Born-out of experiments with a revived interest in the Eventide TimeFactor, looping the delay, rather than the looper itself, inserting random amounts of e-bow and guitar processed through the Digitech FreQout, with lashing of Neunaber reverb
Blade Stumbler
If I was doing the soundtrack to the remake of a beloved sci-fi classic, I might try something like this. It's all derived from guitar processed through my pedalboad, with some Catalinbread Bicycle Delay quite prominent in places, but beyond that - and some apparent octave-up ebow via a FreQout snatches in the hinter-distance - I'm not sure what's going on...
4 One Minute
a few notes dwelling on 60 seconds
First minute of improvised piece testing out a different setting of the M9 Particleverb. Some level changes and repositioning of elements in stereo field in post-production
19.05.2012: Nick Robinson (www.looping.me.uk)
Empty, brave and ehereal!
a minute of your time
My first thoughts on this project were to record all the clocks in our house ticking away for a minute, and see what sort of phase effects might occur. I didn't really like the results, so having completed the 5-7-12 piece, dug out the resonator guitar tuned in DADGAD and played along with one of the clocks keeping time...
It certainly resonated with me...
delayed in transit
Edited from a experimental jam which took place earlier in the week. Guitar and effects/loops, re-positioned in the stereo field during post-processing in Acid Pro
One of the things what I love about your playing is that you have the courage to keep your core tonality and so it becomes distinctly DCO - few players find their identity like that.
fife-severn-deuddeg
Self-obsession taken to new areas previously left untrampled...alternating bars of 5 and 7 beats, overlaid with the sum of the two: 12, as all this came to be at the moment procrastination switched to feverish activity - the weekend of my 57th birthday, on 12 May 2012. Numerlogicalitastic...
Great - you're 2 years older than me, so I still have time to learn how to play rhythms like this without my head exploding?
8 Domestic
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? I originally had plans to construct a complex sequence of comparisons between the various houses I've lived in over the years and what made them homes (or perhaps crucially didn't - places I never really settled etc) but then time drifted as it does and with the deadline looming, I used one of the tracks from my intended blues album as the background for a tour of our current home - very Viv Stanshall - how is a home more than the sum of our accumulated clutter and possessions? All the objects in some way contribute to a collected memory...or maybe I should restrain the urge to (over) explain...shut up and play the guitar...
06.05.2012: Rinus Van Alebeek (www.zeromoon.com/rinus/)
David's track is the perfect opener for domestic.Aguide that shows us around his house.His guitar playing translates colors and moods. It reminded me of seventies open air copncerts with clouds of marihuana perfume above the heads. There is something of Captian Beefheart's Moonbeams and Bluejeans in it.
27.01.2012: David Cooper Orton (www.davidcooperorton.co.uk)
thanks, Nick - no idea what I'd do without CT as an oulet!
An evocative and imaginative track. How do you do it so consistently DCO?
9 Harmonics
Chimes Of 3 Domes
Harmonics generated by electric guitar and then processed by Line 6 M9, primarily the Frequency Shifter/Ring Modulation settings, plus various delays and reverbs, with post-production re-pitching in Acid Pro 6. At various points, the random harmonics generated by a Fernandes sustainer guitar were added to the mix.
Nick - that's most generous - thank you. You keep on bringing these intriguing concepts to the CT table, it's always such a pleasure to explore the possibilities they suggest.
You have a disconcerting knack for producing my favourite track on almost every project you submit to. Once again, an intelligent, thoughtful and intriguing piece of music!
18.05.2011: Roger "ErocNet" Sundström (http://erocnet.bandcamp.com)
Could swear this track was a guitar and drum duo but I was wrong. Very nice texture and the harmonics is dancing like raindrops...
11.05.2011: raül bonell (raulbonell.tumblr.com)
a complex & elaborated o(ve)rtones arrangement. another favorite.
10 Counterpoint
Klangfarbenmelodie No. 1
A fascinating piece!
11 Reverb
Wet Behind The Ears
it's a duet between two guitars, one electric, the other electro-acoustic, both parts performed on the Parker Nite-Fly. Reverb effects are primarily supplied by the Line 6 M9, mainly the Octo and ParticleVerb, with some Chamber 'verb in places. The whole track then received some post-production additional 'verbing in AudioStudio to accent various moments of suspension and drama
03.08.2010: Rick Walker (www.youtube.com/looppool)
God, this is beautiful, David!
You really inspire me, man!
03.08.2010: Steve Moyes (stevemoyes.org.uk)
Really beautiful playing David. I have to agree with Raul that more of your music in the world would be a very good thing! But, of course, libraries are important too...
Raul - that is most gracious. Actually, it's been my experience during my "career" in libraries that they exist precisely so I *can* spend so much time on music. OK - maybe not all the time...
02.08.2010: raul bonell (raulbonell.blogspot.com)
excellence, is the word. libraries should not exist, so this man would be free to devote his life to music.
03.08.2010: Fabio A. (www.eterogeneo.com)
David, it's beautiful !
12 Quartet
Look You See You 1-5
dco - guitars (electric, semi-acoustic and electrocoustic) variously strummed, plucked, picked, e-bowed and Jellyfished). Constructed in Acid Pro 6; edited and recombinated in AudioStudio 8.
The piece was inspired by last year's 125th anniversary celebrations of the august academic organisation which permits me gainful employment in one of it's libraries.
125 is used for notation and tempo. Also notes derived from the letters of the geographic location - C A D E F - inform other tonal information. Chord structures were derived from these notes and numbers, hence a melodic structure CDG DEA GAD, a 7/4 pattern CA/D/FF
(transposed a 5th at one point for reasons of lax information management but retained for musicality), and amongst others, a chord sequence incorporating minor and major relative tones:
C Dm G - Am F Em - D Em A - Bm G F#m - G Am D - Em C Bm
And a finale in 9/8 based once more on the upward spiral of CDG DEA GAD speeded-up with a touch of time compression to achieve the 4 minute time frame.
thoughtful, inventive, typical DCO!
13 ReUse
Wintervallic Fabrique
Several attempts at home made instruments were stymied by my lack of practical skills, so the tried-and-tested standby of hitting things til it sounds ok came into play. Fortunately, we had quite a few bottles left empty after the seasonal festivities... These were combined with sounds from cardboard tubes now denuded of wrapping paper; empty Pringles tins; a reusable plastic tub (confectionary contents long since consumed); bits left over from Christmas crackers (including a comb) and possibly other now forgotten detritus, all recorded on a Zoom H2 mic/recorder, then pieced together in ACID Pro 6 and edited with SoundForge / AudioStudio. So there you have it - "Wintervallic Fabrique".
14 Generative
(source track for the generative mix on CT-Generative)
15 Nature
Still Raining Still Waving
In the UK this year it rained. Not perhaps all year, but seemingly most of it was moist. So this became the theme of what is a cyclical sound collage thing - starting with a light shower in Penarth (overlaid with various birdsongs etc), moving on to a downpour, shifting across to sounds from North Carolina and the stream running behind my cousin's log cabin, on past a waterfall also in NC, to the Atlantic Ocean hitting the beach at Manomet, just south of Boston MA, disappearing beneath the waves and reemerging to more rain in Penarth. All this interspersed with the dog that barked in the woods and more gulls than you can shake a stick at (believe me, I tried, they're not remotely concerned) - and a brief observation from Sharon Orton. Recorded variously on mini-disc, and video DVD, then processed and collaged via Acid Pro 6
16.10.2008: Adam J Wimbush (www.myspace.com/ascsoms)
amazing detail, just as the sounds are morphing into something other worldly a gull pulls me back to earth
16 Zodiac
I reckon the spirit of Steve Howe is also in evidence - that proggy influence we too often resist ;) Good work DCO!
09.08.2008: raul bonell
i deeply like david's guitar playing, but as an extra plus, you got tons of musicianship behind his composition. players do they job but creators matter a lot.
also amazing!
(the beginning reminds me of Hatfield & the North)
The Fruit Fly's Lament
"The Fruit Fly's lament: what Katy did's not just Cricket(s)" - David Cooper Orton
Three bugs - fruit fly, katydids and crickets.
I sourced these from the Bug Bytes website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/sp2UserFiles/person/3559/soundlibrary.html
Although they have been quite radically changed in the process of composition, the ideas for the somewhat melancholy melodies were suggested by a snippette of sound from a male fruit fly which couldn't itself be used, but provided the inspiration for this piece, such as it is.
Much editing and ACIDification occurred, and quite a few liberties taken, including re-tuning of samples etc.
30.08.2008: nick (www.looping.me.uk)
I always check your track first and am never disappointed. All praise to CT for inspiring tracks like this.
another wonderful track by DCO - what a nice little melody and magical atmosphere ! for some reason this tune reminds me of 1) the movie Liquid Sky and 2) of the first Henry Cow album
18 Acoustic II
Resonate Ozarkestrate
Ozark resonator guitar, up-turned wok lid, cymbals, edits, production, ACiDification etc. Guitar parts recorded to minidisc, transferred to computer, then chopped and changed into something approximating an orchestra of resonation. Final section constructed from a single string scrape which caught my attention.
14.03.2008: Dwoogie (http://www.avantgardening.pl)
A real beaut.
such a heartwarming sound ... love the scratchy end
19 Birds
Tails From Ornithologic Notions
The birds of Penarth, South Wales, recorded in local parks, gardens and streets, accompanied by passing observers, planes, cars, scaffolders and bottle banks.
Field recordings by DCO: September and October 2007. Selected, edited, repitched and mixed: November and December 2007. Essentially a vérité re-presentation of real-time recordings, overlapped and juxtaposed for a little additional narrative flavouring, and perhaps a sprinkling of non-diegetic inserts
Once again David, you've provided my favourite track of the project. Quite why you aren't rich and famous yet is beyond me ;)
20 Teisha is now banned
a teisha we all fall down
dco - guitars, voice, sonic manipulations, Acidification, loops etc; text selected from a sequence of spam messages received on June 22nd 2007 - any narrative flow is purely coincidental…
06.12.2007: Peter Gambles
I thought this track was a brilliantly woven tapestry which segues from one piece of music to another, each in a different style, interleaved with passages of spoken word, and with a gradual building up of subtle references to spam as a plague. I still cant work out how it all hangs together, but it does, exquisitely. Probably my favourite track on an excellent CD.
It's like a radio play ... amazing stuff David! More of this!
21 Caligari
What was I thinking of?
Chronologically recorded after I'd finished work on Act IV, I decided that - in the spirit of the project, I should attempt to conjure an entirely different piece of music, rather than reiterate themes established in Act IV. I also elected to use a completely different tonal palette - a Yamaha MU5 Tone Generator which had been gathering dust for several years.
The idea of commencing the piece with the sound of scratchy, crackling ancient media which would then blossom into the fully restored glory of the digital era was, admittedly, a thin conceit, but got things started. The dream-like (nightmarish?) mood of the whole film influenced the use of a slightly sinister music box theme, moving on through other instruments grouped with it on the sound module. In other scenes I went for a more light-hearted feel, whilst suggesting the protagonist's butterfly-like attention span by interrupting the flow with sounds from the street below.
The sound of Caligari himself was a synchronistic happenstance find whilst wondering around the high numbers of the sound module's midi mapping. "String noise", it's supposed to be - sounded sufficiently eerie for my requirements: in it went. Considerable pitch-shifting was used to suggest his mood swing(s), especially as he hatches his cunning plan.
Other thoughts - the fairground themes clashing from different stalls and sideshows, intersected with processional waltzes (now that I think of it, how would a mass of people march in 3/4?) have an undeniable Waitsian influence (of course, if that went un-noticed, it was a brilliant invention of my own devising). The ringing bell will return in Act IV in a less strident, more melancholic mode. That's all, folks...
Of what was I thinking?
Many times over the years, people have told me your music sounds like it should be the soundtrack to some weird sci-fi film, and sometimes, this was even meant as a compliment. So I really wanted to do something good for this project - just what my music had been waiting for, so it might seem.
I had a bit of luck - I won a copy of Acid Pro 6 from those nice people at AcidPlanet/Sony just as I was thinking about how to sync my sounds with the images from the film, and without it, I'd probably have been stuck.
The composing was done, often as not, by improvising along with the film, scene by scene, and then editing and recomposing and cut'n'pasting like crazy, and then getting right down to a pains-taking process of lining up the notes to the action. Most of this was generated by guitar, ebow, reverb, delays, loops (Digitech JamMan in real time, then edited with Sonic Forge). I planned not to use naturalistic Foley sounds at first, but some gradually crept in, including the funeral bells (chiming 13), and the creaking doors.
My son, Michael, added some drums at appropriate points, and hopefully, viewers will jump out of their respective skins at just *that* precise moment.
The bit which sounds like someone's finger tapping on one end of a guitar lead plugged-in to a large reverb unit is indeed just that. I wish I could say that the lengthy glissandi sections were recorded on strings stretched from one end of my kitchen to the other, or better yet, a Long String Instrument, but it's just multi-tracked, spirit of Gong, screwdriver-on-guitar-string with added processing. The chase sequence, as scored by the Gang of Four - who can resist?
And after all that I got the levels wrong, so the quiet bits should probably be turned-up - but watch out for the crescendos. What more can I say? I've already said too much...
23 Papermusic
Paper Bach raider
dco: ACID Pro 6.0 manipulations of sounds produced by paper (including The Guardian Travel pages to make the sound go just that extra bit further), card, sand paper (3M P180 & P120), various cardboard tubes, and a home-made papier mache replica of a Green Bay Packers football helmet. Minor noise reduction to reduce cheap-mic-induced hiss (wherever possible); elsewise, no effects or processing utilized.
06.04.2007: joyce saler (none)
This was the first track that i heard and it is most reminiscent of living in the bush, the back waters of Kerala or other jungle settings. here the spheres are alive with winged creatures gathering food, moving broad leaved foliage, hamock dreamers, and weavers of palm fibers.
thank you for this rhythmic solitude.
joyce saler
kitchen sing-song
st. pancras palimpsest
spanning decades, across the ages
My attempt to produce a traditional version of film music -
a main theme which is reinterpreted in a variety of ways throughout the film to enhance/underpin/contrast with the prevailing mood of the images at any point in the film.
Possibly there are insufficient variations on this theme to fully uphold the thesis, but that's the theory, at least.
The main melody is some 30 years old; one for which I've been attempting to find a home in all that time.
It was almost included in a documentary about arctic exploration,
but the main protagonist fell-out with the production company at the point of departure, so that film was never made.
Nor indeed is there yet a film for the music in its current form.
You'll need to indulge me quite a but here, but:
keeping in mind the idea of long distance journeying that was the subject of the abandoned film that was not to be; having myself reached the milestone age of 50 this year (and as a Thursday Child, I have far to go), and in search of a motif, I became drawn to the idea of "spanning the ages", and - albeit a somewhat thin conceit - started taking a series of images of the Severn Bridge which crosses between Wales and England as I drove across it twice a week, enroute to London from Penarth. Rather than a "movie", these pictures form a slow-dissolve montage of the bridge in changing light and weather conditions.
Or will do, if I ever get around to completing it!
DCO - guitars, ebows, sustainer guitar, sound manipulations, loops
27 Where We're At
Finally, my own primary instrument (the guitar) comes to the forefront. And this song has a melody, which is refreshing. The reverse work is a nice touch...OH, and a bass solo (or guitar an octave down?). Magnificant! A real player? Flesh and blood on the fretboard? One can only hope. :)
28 Location Volume 2
Location, location location - As one door shuts...
London, Croydon, Surrey, England and Penarth, South Wales
Manipulations of sounds recorded in and around central and south
London, Croydon, Surrey, and South Norwood in England; and Penarth in south Wales. Recorded on mini-disc, then chopped and changed in ACID pH1 on a PC. July/August 2001.
As additional information - although the actual construction of the track took place in July &August 2001, most of the sounds were recorded during the previous several months, in which time we as a family moved house twice, although I managed to move three times for reasons I've yet to determine. Anyway, doors shutting and opening became something of a motif, virtually and on the recordings. The conversation at the beginning actually took place - I didn't stage it - and seemed too obvious not to include. There's also the voice of an estate agent telling me all the keys to our present property are available for collection ("I say all the keys - the keys to get in"), and the piped music of the ice cream van - good humour wagon? - that circles around and around Penarth all summer, driving me to distraction. Plus London's Babel-like panoply of voices, accents and languages, all melded together on the public transport network, of trains, trams and the Tube. The last section uses all of these to reconstruct the
sound of the UK dance scene - arguably the dominant sound of summer over here. Or may I just made that up, not sure...
29 Percussion
Corners, well-rowed
David Cooper Orton - resonant domestic surfaces and appliances, kitchen `accoutrements' (eg: up-turned wok lid), wooden banisters and chairs, drum kit, computerised restructuring of these using Sonic Foundry Acid pH1
Michael Orton: drum kit, prepared drums, assorted percussive intercessions
Basically, Michael and I spent an afternoon wandering around our house at that time in Cornerswell Road, striking any immobile objects (resonant or otherwise) we encountered, until we had a fair number of sounds. I then recorded Michael playing some drum patterns, and edited-out some loops. We also did a sort of free form, Chris Cutler-style "waving sticks at the kit" duet which forms the last minute or so of the piece.
All of this was then sliced and diced in Acid pH1 on the family PC.
30 Acoustic
The Ortones are:
David Cooper Orton - acoustic guitars, slide guitars, ebowed guitars, wooden wind chimes, ACIDification
Michael Orton: drum kit
Michael's Christmas present unleashed upon the world. Early random thrashing around his kit was interrupted by moments of lucid beat-keeping and pattern weaving, which I edited into loops and over which I wove some six-string meanderings of my own. The neighbours got the blues even if we didn't, I'll be bound.
In Galleries, Whisper...
guitar, ebow, voice, loops, processing, edit etc.
The title is inspired, in part, by a visit with my son to the Whispering Gallery at St. Paul's Cathedral in London and looking out across the Thames at Tate Modern, the art museum housed in the former power station, a building which my father had pointed-out to me many years ago from his office window on Queen Victoria Street. Cycle and re-cycle.
Oblique Strategies random selection: Remember quiet evenings
32 Bluezette
Blue Loops for the Indigo Inclined
Last Night I Saw Frisell
Premonitions of Precipitation [it's hissing, cats and dogs]
Tuesday, 10 PM
Raul and David - a piece of research and development, a work in progress, perhaps. In the spirit of the chain tape idea, as the next recipient after Raul, I borrowed some of his work and swathed it in ebows and guitars, with some extra percussion, and ACIDified the whole melange.


I wish I still had my ………?
My hubby drives me insane saying 'I wish I still had my …….so and so car.
So I have decided to write about this on this blog.
Do you have a car that you wish you had kept? I will be starting with the numerous car's that Paul (hubby) wishes he had not let go (despite many of them rusting away on the driveway). If you have a story about a car you wish you still had- then please email me and we will put it on here.
Alan intends to completely restore the car-and has spent over £3,500 on MG parts. At the end of this month his friend will start the vital welding of the car.
It will be interesting to watch this restoration in progress-we will keep a close eye on this and keep you informed.
A friend said he knew of an almost new car coming available. He said it would be a good buy, and that he knew the background of the vehicle. He explained that the owner was being transferred to Hong Kong with his Company and wished to sell the car. He had taken it to the local garage and was insulted with the amount of money they offered, knowing full well they would put it on the forecourt and add £2,000 – £2,500 to the price. He was willing to sell at the price the garage offered. It was a small BMW 3 series, 1800 automatic, absolutely immaculate and lovely.
It was more than we had anticipated paying, but after a sleepless night, we decided it was a good proposition. So we bought it.
The only time we had a problem with it, was when our younger son borrowed it. He had only been gone five minutes when the telephone rang to say he'd had an accident. Fortunately, all he had done was attempted to change the radio station whilst driving and hit a tree!
I was delighted with the car which I owned for the next 18 years. One very careful lady owner!
We then decided it was time to change her as it was getting more difficult to get her through the MOT. Our friend, who had his own garage, stated he could not guarantee how much longer he could get it to the standard required.
Friends had a seventeen-year-old daughter who was learning to drive. We offered them the car, and explained that at her age the insurance would not come cheap, and although it did have a 12 month MOT, who knew what the next year would bring! They were not perturbed and said they would be delighted to have the car.
However, when Sarah passed her test, and they checked out the insurance cost, and soon realised that a new driver and BMW was not a viable option. They asked if we would mind if they sold the car and we said 'not at all'.
They advertised, a man rang and asked if it was black, the answer being no- it was deep blue – he wanted black. However 2 weeks later he phoned back and asked 'was it a dark blue' and was told 'yes'. He came and bought her for £200 which we told our friends to put towards Sarah's new car.
Sometime later, I was watching Inspector Lynley on TV and shouted 'that's my car' as this beautiful dark blue BMW came round the corner- still looking immaculate. It supposedly crashed, but when we saw the picture of a car on its side, with the wheels still spinning round (which did not belong to my car) I firmly believe they thought it was too good to crash!!! But whatever happened, she went out with a bang-and in true style.


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Thanks to Facebook Groups, you can now sell clothes online, promote your newest products, and attract customers with promotions and exclusive discounts!
If you have decided to sell clothes online, it is time to make a plan and decide where to sell all of your clothes. Whether it is new or used clothes, handmade clothes, vintage clothes, or expensive designer clothing, you can promote your products and sell them online to customers from all over the world.
You might be probably wondering What's the best way to sell clothes online? Well, nowadays it is by using your ecommerce website (you can easily build your own online store by using ecommerce websites builders like Shopify) or by using the social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and others.
The photos captured with your smartphone are fine, however, you need to make sure you can present the whole item. We recommend you to take your photos outside in order for you to get the best lighting. In case you have to shoot indoors, make sure to use proper light and flash. Also, get rid of additional clutter in the photo as this may distract the buyer. We also recommend you to most more than one image to show off the product.
We suppose you already know that you need to write a good description but you don't have an idea of how important the description is. Describe the products you sell in a detailed and positive way. There are a few things that you must include in your description such as the number of items you sell, the condition of the product, price, age of product (this is especially important if you are selling old clothes), and dimensions.
Online purchasers appreciate honesty more than everything. In case you are selling used clothing online, you will lose credibility if you don't tell the truth. If the dress has a stain, let people know about it.
You will never sell your clothes if the price is too high. It is also important to be flexible with the prices. In some cases, you might need to adjust the price for the product to sell. In this competitive business world, everybody wants a deal.
Most groups on Facebook have rules so if you want to sell without a problem, we recommend you to follow the rules or else you might get banned from a group. The Facebook groups will govern what types of products you can sell and how to choose a buyer. If you follow the rules, you will sell more products on Facebook.
In order for you to make your life easier, we recommend you to first create a Shopify store and then connect to Facebook and sell your products to billions of Facebook users. Building your own Shopify store takes a few minutes and you can integrate your store with the Facebook business page in 3-4 clicks. In a matter of minutes, you will have a fully integrated Facebook store. The customers can easily browse your items and collections using the Shop Section on your Facebook Page.
The Facebook shop has been designed with mobile shoppers in mind. It is easy to set up. You can just add your products to Facebook, enter product details, photos, and the inventory will automatically sync as soon as you update your Shopify store.
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THE GENESIS OF FOOD AND FOOD SUBSTITUTES
According to the Encarta World English Dictionary the following definition is provided:
food n
material that provides living things with the nutrients they need for energy and growth.
substances, or a particular substance, providing nourishment for people or animals, especially in solid as opposed to liquid form.
something that sustains or stimulates the mind or soul.
According to an article in the Encarta Encyclopedia:
Food, anything eaten to satisfy appetite and to meet physiological needs for growth, to maintain all body processes, and to supply energy to maintain body temperature and activity. Because foods differ markedly in the amount of the nutrients they contain, they are classified on the basis of their composition and the source from which they are derived
Food Processing and Preservation, branch of manufacturing that transforms raw animal, vegetable, or marine materials into tasty, nutritious, and safe food products. The industry has its roots in ancient times, as humans have always needed to obtain food and store a portion for later use. Prehistoric humans may have dried fruits in the sun and stored meat in cold areas, such as caves. The modern food processing and preservation industry was born in 1809, when French chef and inventor Nicolas Appert, searching for a better way to provide food for Napoleon's army, devised a method for sterilizing food in tightly sealed glass bottles.
Today a wide variety of methods are available to maintain and enhance the appearance and taste of food. Food processing and preservation methods also create products that are convenient for consumers, such as products that are ready to eat or require minimal preparation and cooking. Combining these methods with modern distribution networks makes seasonal crops available year-round in grocery stores all over the world.
Lifestar commentary: In the Food Processing and Preservation paragraph above there occurs an error in critical thinking regarding man's ability to "transform" food as the result of a manufacturing process into something "nutritious." Food is not a random blend of chemicals but a complex life form. Man cannot improve on natures wise design but only denature it, thereby eliminating to various degrees, what was originally available for the body to use according to its own needs. The resulting deficiency denies the body's necessity to access most if not all of the complex life form nature provides as food. What was originally considered a naturally raw food becomes a food by product or food substitute. The result is a partial to complete lack of quality originally available before the Food Processing and Preservation began. The result can be a minor to major form of malfunctioning of the body we historically refer to as disease.
PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION METHODS
Food processing encompasses all the steps that food goes through from the time it is harvested to the time it arrives on supermarket shelves. At simplest, processing may involve only picking, sorting, and washing fruits and vegetables before they are sent to market. Some processing methods convert raw materials into a different form or change the nature of the product, as in the manufacture of sugar from sugar beets, oil from corn or olives, or cheese from milk. Processing may also involve an extremely complex set of techniques and ingredients to create ready-to-eat convenience foods.
Food preservation refers specifically to the processing techniques that are used to keep food from spoiling. Spoilage is any change that makes food unfit for consumption, and includes chemical and physical changes, such as bruising and browning; infestation by insects or other pests; or growth of microorganisms, such as bacteria, yeast, and molds.
Some food preservation techniques destroy enzymes, proteins that are present in all raw foods, which are responsible for the chemical and physical changes that naturally occur after harvesting. Food preservation techniques also help eliminate the moisture or temperature conditions that are favorable for the growth of microorganisms. As they multiply and grow, microorganisms are capable of causing food-born illness. They also break down foods, producing unpleasant changes in taste, texture, and appearance—changes that we recognize as spoilage. Although people have known about spoilage and some preservation methods to prevent it for centuries, it was only in 1857 that French chemist Louis Pasteur demonstrated the role of microorganisms in the process.
Food Additives:
Food Additives are chemicals that are added to food in small amounts. Direct additives are added deliberately during processing to make food look and taste better, maintain or improve nutritive value, maintain freshness, and help in processing or preparation. Some additives help preserve food by preventing or slowing chemical changes and the growth of microorganisms in food. As many as 3000 substances are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as direct additives. An additional 10,000 substances are present in foods as indirect additives. These substances enter food incidentally during handling or from processing equipment or packaging.
Food additives have been used for thousands of years. The salts and other chemicals used in curing are additives, and before the advent of canning and mechanical refrigeration, chemical additives were the only means of preservation available. Additives were not limited to use as preservatives, however. People in ancient Rome added certain chemicals to wine and cooked vegetables to improve the color of these foods. Other examples of additives that have been used since ancient times include yeast and baking powder used as leavening in baked goods.
In the 20th century, advances in the knowledge of chemistry have greatly expanded the number of additives that are used in foods. Such recent additions to the ranks of food additives include artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and saccharin; fat replacements, such as Simplesse; and colors, such as FD&C yellow No. 5, which is used in beverages, ice cream, cereals, and other foods.
The development of new chemical additives has also played an enormous role in the growth of convenience foods. Additives that help ensure the quality of convenience foods include anti-caking agents, such as calcium silicate and magnesium stearate, to prevent lumps in dry mixes; humectants, such as glycerol, propylene glycol, and sorbitol, to help retain moisture in breads and cakes; emulsifiers, such as egg yolk, lecithin, and monoglycerides, which bind oil and water to improve the uniformity and smoothness of foods; and stabilizers and thickeners, such as guar gum, carrageenan, and gelatin.
As the use of food additives has grown, so has public concern about the type and amount of these additives and their potential to cause cancer or other illnesses in human beings. Some studies have suggested that saccharin, nitrites, and other additives may cause cancer, but these results remain controversial. At the same time, some additives may actually provide a health benefit. For example, the vitamins used to fortify foods such as bread and milk are additives."
As you can see from the article, the commonly held belief is that man made chemicals improve the food. Actually the chemicals are for improving the perceived value of the food by manipulating the color, texture, flavor and shelf life during processing which inevitably reduces the nutritional value, and in some cases eliminating the value completely, leaving a nutritional deficit in its place.
Only Nature knows how to create food. What Nature creates has existence. Man can't create food but knows how to denature food, and invent food substitutes. The human body knows the difference. Inventions are not creations of Nature but of the human mind. Metaphorically speaking, the meal is not the menu and mankind has proven, not only its ability to invent menus but to also substitute them for the meal. In most technologically advanced countries, the result has been the proliferation of countless new "diseases" and at the same time extending life span, while also extending the duration of pharmaceutical drug use. Pharmaceutically, a most perfect product is one that you put a person on as a baby and keep them on it for a lifetime.
A basic tenet in manufacturing anything is the quality of raw material you start with, determines the quality of the finished product, and with the human body the results produced by food denaturing and food substitutions becomes obvious. When you look at how food is typically produced and then look at how it is processed for shelf life and modified for taste enhancement, you already know what your preference is. Do you prefer something created by nature or invented by man?
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Looking Blue for Twitter Blue
By Nathan Ryer on December 6, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )
Up until recently, Twitter has used a blue checkmark system to indicate "active, notable, and authentic" accounts. This system has been repackaged as Twitter Blue following Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter– the new system allows users to pay to have a blue verification check mark next to their name. Accounts that receive the new blue checkmark will not undergo review to confirm that they are active, notable, and authentic." This has allowed users to reach further than ever before. Some users have been using this feature to create parody accounts of larger accounts. Some of these users are strategically taking the name of other accounts such as Chiquita or Eli Lily. Once they assume the name and create a Twitter handle close to that of the company or a real individual,, they also change the profile picture to that of the targeted person/company. These users have been posting and sending out tweets, acting as these accounts.
Image from Rafael Shimunov on Twitter.com
Those posts didn't come without effect. The most notable fallout of these was seen when one user paid $7.99 to get the verification mark next to the handle of their account which assumed the identity of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. The tweet under the handle @EliLillyandCO read, "We are excited to announce insulin is free now." Following this tweet the real account, @LillyPad, Tweeted "We apologize to those who have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account." This chain of events caused the company stock LLY to plummet, falling from $368 per share to $348 per share, a decrease of almost 5%. While that percent may not sound like much, at this scale it cost the company millions of dollars within a matter of minutes. In the wake of these events, a social media storm erupted over the fact Eli Lilly's company stock crashed following promising free insulin. Given the company's recent controversy over insulin prices, the internet weighed in on the fact that it is counterintuitive that medical stocks crash when something is done to help the general public–in this case–distribute free insulin.
The fake tweets have impacted Twitter as well. After Eli Lilly was targeted by these parody accounts the company has made the decision to pull advertising from Twitter. They are not the only ones to do so, many other companies have decided to pull advertising from Twitter in an effort to prevent their own accounts from suffering the same fate as Eli Lilly. According to the Wall Street Journal, "By Friday morning, Eli Lilly executives had ordered a halt to all Twitter ad campaigns — a potentially serious blow, given that the $330 billion company controls the kind of massive advertising budget that Musk says the company needs to avoid bankruptcy. They also paused their Twitter publishing plan for all corporate accounts around the world."
Images from Twitter.com
Twitter Blue may be raising $8 per month from end users, however it is seemingly costing Twitter millions of dollars in ad revenue due to companies pulling out of the platform. This response from companies has led Elon Musk to halt Twitter Blue altogether. Twitter announced that until the parody accounts can be monitored and controlled in a way that will not be damaging to Twitter or its advertisers, the service will be placed on an indefinite hold. Twitter blue has however returned to some users such as major corporations, but accounts such as celebrities have not received their "official" labels back yet.


The chart shows the underlying distribution of phospho-peptide motifs in a PhosphoScan® LC-MS/MS experiment using 581 nonredundant Lys-C/tryptic peptides generated from 293T cells treated with Calyculin A #9902 (10 nM, 30 min) and immunoprecipitated with PTMScan® Phospho-Ser/Thr Motif [pS/T] Immunoaffinity Beads.
The Motif Logo was generated from a PhosphoScan® LC-MS/MS experiment using 581 nonredundant Lys-C/tryptic peptides generated from 293T cells treated with Calyculin A #9902 (10 nM, 30 min) and immunoprecipitated using PTMScan® Phospho-Ser/Thr Motif [pS/T] Immunoaffinity Beads. The Motif Logo demonstrates the relative abundance of amino acids in a given position within this data set.
Cells are lysed in a urea-containing buffer, cellular proteins are digested by proteases, and the resulting peptides are purified by reversed-phase solid-phase extraction. Peptides are then subjected to immunoaffinity purification using a PTMScan® Motif Antibody conjugated to protein A agarose beads. Unbound peptides are removed through washing, and the captured PTM-containing peptides are eluted with dilute acid. Reversed-phase purification is performed on microtips to desalt and separate peptides from antibody prior to concentrating the enriched peptides for LC-MS/MS analysis. CST recommends the use of PTMScan® IAP Buffer #9993 included in the kit. A detailed protocol and Limited Use License allowing the use of the patented PTMScan® method are included with the kit.
As an integral part of the machinery of cellular function, proteins undergo regulation by a variety of post-translational modifications. One of the most prevalent and widely studied PTMs is Serine/Threonine phosphorylation. A few prominent kinases targeting a handful of substrate consensus motifs account for a majority of the tens of thousands of known and predicted sites on more than 13,000 human proteins (1-3). Cell Signaling Technology has developed phospho-Ser/Thr motif antibodies for proteomic profiling of kinase substrates. These include, among others, substrates of Akt, AMPK, MAPK, CDK, PKA, PKC, and CKII.


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Q: How are the weight matrices in self-attention learned? Learning the weights of logistic regression using gradient descent is quite intuitive. The input $x$ is multiplied with the weight $w$ to produce $y$, and we know the true target $\hat{y}$. Therefore, during backpropagation, we tweak the value of $w$ so that the next $y$ is closer to $\hat{y}$.
A self-attention module has a query, key, and value matrices trained with the same target. How are these respective weights learned during gradient descent?

A: As Tim said in a comment, it works exactly the same way as the other parameters are learned using backprop.

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One of the requirements to be invested each year is to read part of the Bible (Weekly Devotional Guide). The purpose of this isn't to pile on more classwork as some people in the past have thought, but rather to help develop a habit of daily spending time reading from the Bible. This can be done individually or families may choose to use this reading during daily family worship time. If the Pathfinder is doing the reading on their own we know that some struggle to read. I have put links to all of the Bible reading on the Pathfinder Connection website (this is the conference website). You can click on the text and it will take you to that text, by clicking on the sound icon , the text will be read to you. You can read along with the person reading the verses.
So if you'd like to get a head start during the summer or if you still need to finish so that you can be invested for last year now is a good time to do it.
You will still need to journal about the three questions for each weeks verses. This can be on a plain piece of paper.
What did I learn about God?
How can I apply this to my life today?


A Million Steps is now available in bookstores throughout several regions of the world.
On April 1st 2009, Lebanese mother of three, Hana El-Hibri, and five team members set out on a month-long trek to walk the length of Lebanon. On their journey, they encountered torrential rivers, thunderous storms and blazing sunshine. They crossed deep gorges, massive snowfields and idyllic meadows. They came across goats, wild dogs and dozens of colorful local characters who treated them to the hospitality, cuisine and folklore of the Lebanese mountains.
A Million Steps is the diary she kept of the 29 days she and her fellow hikers walked the newly established Lebanon Mountain Trail. It is a story about one woman's journey of fulfillment and of her companions, all of whom care passionately about conservation, heritage and Lebanon's endangered natural beauty. Hana's heartfelt words and Norbert Schiller's stunning images, give us snapshots of a Lebanon that is rarely seen.


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Israelis among the healthiest eaters — study
Israel ranks 9th out of 187 countries in dietary quality, according to a new Lancet medical journal survey
By David Shamah	25 February 2015, 6:09 pm 10 Edit
Fresh fruits (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
A new study in this month's The Lancet Global Health Journal places the diet of the average Israeli among the healthiest in the world.
The study, which looked at dietary habits — both good and bad — of adults in 187 countries, placed Israel in ninth place overall.
The study, led by Dr Fumiaki Imamura of the University of Cambridge, is the first ever to assess diet quality in such a large number of countries at one time, covering 4.5 billion people.
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In Israel, as in nearly all countries in the world, diet improved with age, with adults in their 50s and 60s eating the most healthy foods, while eschewing the unhealthiest. However, younger Israelis tend to indulge in more junk food than they should.
In a separate metric measuring consumption of less healthy foods, Israelis rated about average, in the middle of the chart, instead of close to the top, as they did for their consumption of healthy foods
Healthier people were reported to eat such foods as grains, beans and legumes, milk, dietary fiber, omega-3 rich fish and fruits, while eating less unhealthy food, including processed meats, sugar-sweetened soft drinks, and foods with high levels of sodium and trans-fat (a category that includes most processed snacks).
Researchers did not conduct their own poll, but used a wide range of data sources, including nationally representative dietary surveys, local surveys and UN reports. They also adjusted for total energy intake to evaluate quality, as far as possible, independently from quantity.
The healthy diet measured by Imamura and his team is actually quite similar to the vaunted Mediterranean diet, which is generally high in protein and omega acids. Other Mediterranean countries — Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Lebanon — also scored high in the study for healthy diets.
Israelis, according to researchers, eat less saturated fat than most Westerners do, and generally have among the lowest rates of cholesterol in the world.
Little butter is consumed in Israel, but large quantities of soybean, corn and safflower oil are, noted the report. This translates, researchers estimate, to a "linoleic acid intake of about 11 percent of calories and a ratio of linoleic to alpha linolenic acid [the most readily available plant-based omega-3 fatty acid] in the Israeli diet of about 26:1."
According to Israeli researchers Daniel Yam, Abraham Eliraz and Elliot Berry, Israeli Jews may be regarded as a population-based dietary experiment of the effect of a high omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid diet.
The countries with the worst diets included the United States and Canada, most of central and northern Europe, Russia, India and China – which, the authors said, was no surprise, given the prevalence of the "fast food culture".
But, perhaps surprisingly, it was the countries of central Africa that scored the highest – with Chad having the healthiest diet, followed by other Africa countries including Sierra Leone, Mali, The Gambia, Uganda, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal.
The reason for that, according to the report is that Africans do not have the money to buy highly processed foods that Westerners do, and subsist on a simpler diet – which, as it turns out, is healthier.
"By 2020, projections indicate that non-communicable diseases will account for 75% of all deaths. Improving diet has a crucial role to play in reducing this burden," Imamura said. "Our findings have implications for governments and international bodies worldwide. Policy actions in multiple domains are essential to help people achieve optimal diets to control the obesity epidemic and reduce non-communicable diseases in all regions of the world."
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Sunnymont-Westside is a Nursery School. We like the term "nursery school" better than "preschool" because nursery school IS school for young children, not practice for "real school" later.
Sunnymont-Westside is a developmental, child-centered program. People often ask "Is your school a developmental program, or an academic program?" The answer is that Sunnymont-Westside is a developmental program where children receive a great academic foundation.
Scientists studying brain function have confirmed what our hearts have always told us: children learn best through hands-on experience, when their curiosity is piqued, when they feel safe and loved, and when they are having fun. In other words, children learn best when they are at play. So, a developmental program honors what we know about how children develop and learn best. We believe that the best way for parents and teachers to support learning is to provide materials, opportunities, and adult guidance to children as they eagerly explore the world in search of new learning.
Sunnymont-Westside supports the growth of the "whole child." A first grader can't learn to write if she can't learn to hold the pencil or listen to the directions or share a desk with another child or quit worrying she'll fail. Each area of learning is interwoven with every other, and a child who will be successful in school and in life is skilled in many areas. Sunnymont-Westside works to strengthen all areas of children's growth.
Sunnymont-Westside is a diverse community.
We are proud to have many religions, cultures, and unique individuals in our membership, and feel that living in the Santa Clara Valley provides an excellent opportunity to teach our children to honor diversity from an early age. We encourage families to bring in their native languages and share them with our children, to bring in their customs, foods, celebrations, and values. We share with our children that some of our families are vegetarians and some are not, some people celebrate this holiday and some people do not, some families have a mom and a dad, some have grandparents, some have babies, some have two moms, some have pets, etc.
Sunnymont-Westside is a close-knit community.
While we are diverse, we share common core beliefs about children and community that bring us close together. Our parents go out of their way to help each other in and out of school. Families go on group camping trips, watch each other's children, and support each other through the trials of parenthood and life together.
Sunnymont-Westside is a "positive discipline" approach to guiding children.
At Sunnymont-Westside, discipline and guidance are considered part of the curriculum. Social learning is probably the most important aspect of nursery school. It is natural for children to make mistakes as they learn to get along with others (adults still do!). Children misbehave because they are trying to get their needs met and have picked a poor method. Our job as adults is to help children understand these needs, and find and practice better methods for meeting them. Time out or other punishments don't give children an opportunity to learn, and they do leave children feeling defensive, and less ready to listen to our adult wisdom. Discipline at Sunnymont-Westside is gentle and supportive. Limits are clearly enforced by loving adults who explain why they intervened (You wanted that car! And I can't let you grab.) and help a child to learn alternatives. (Let's let him know you're waiting for a turn when he's done, and I'll help you wait.) Kids learn that an adult's most important job is to keep everyone safe, bodies and hearts' and that we will keep each of them safe while they are learning to keep others safe.


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Effortless: The 2022 Genesis G80 AWD 3.5T Sport Prestige
About that headline. Saying the name of the car "2022 Genesis G80 AWD 3.5T Sport Prestige" is the most effort that you'll ever associate with this car. Okay, maybe working to make the payments, but still.
And effortlessness is the biggest impression I have of the car. It describes what it's like to drive, how easily it generates a remarkable amount of speed and power and how quickly Genesis itself (the luxury arm of Hyundai) has pulled up alongside Lexus on the list of Asian luxury cars worth serious consideration.
Under the hood, it's a 375-horsepower 3.5-liter turbo V6 with 391 pounds per foot of torque. An eight-speed automatic handles the gear changes. There's an electronically controlled suspension and selectable drive modes. Sixty miles an hour happens from a standing start in 4.9 seconds, and the EPA's fuel economy average is 17 miles per gallon city, 26 highway.
The base price of the 2022 Genesis G80 AWD 3.5T Sport Prestige is $63,700. That's not a shockingly low number in and of itself, but this is that level of power, all-wheel drive and the top trim level, so...not bad at all. And the standard equipment list is exhaustive. Just some highlights: a full suite of active safety features, 19-inch sport wheels, LED quad headlights, LED rear combination lamps, a panoramic sunroof, leather seating surfaces, 12-way power front seats that are heated and ventilated (the rears are heated), sport aluminum trim, a leatherette wrapped and stitched upper instrument panel, adjustable ambient lighting, three-zone climate control, premium navigation with a 14.5-inch HD screen, and a 21-speaker Lexicon premium audio system.
In fact, the only option on our test car, apart from the $575 Cavendish Red paint, was the Prestige Package. For $6,800, you get summer performance tires, 20-inch sport wheels, Nappa leather seating surfaces, microfiber suede headliner and pillars, rear parking collision avoidance assist, a head-up display, a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, forward attention warning, electronically controlled suspension with sport tuning, rear wheel steering, active noise control and carbon fiber trim.
Fold in $1,095 for inland freight and handling and the as-tested price of the 2022 Genesis G80 AWD 3.5T Sport Prestige is $72,170---which would be very difficult to match or beat with a comparable vehicle---although the G80 2.5T I reviewed almost a year ago gets pretty close to the performance numbers, makes do with a little less luxe and comes in 20 grand less. Consider the two bookends of a range of impressive ways you can have the Genesis G80.
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Home ASP Loudcloud Targets the Enterprise
Loudcloud Targets the Enterprise
By Kevin Newcomb | April 18, 2001
"The five-year cocktail party is over, and there are a lot of companies out there with a hangover," Loudcloud president, CEO and co-founder Ben Horowitz announced Tuesday.
Horowitz was speaking to a crowd of reporters, analysts, and partners at a press event in New York announcing Loudcloud's new strategy to take on enterprise customers, unveiling its Opsware 2i technology, which allows Loudcloud to operate inside a customer's own datacenter, its Integration Smart Cloud service and partnerships with consultants Accenture and iFormation.
The theme of the cocktail party was time-to-market, characterized by excess – excess people, excess capacity and excess projects, Horowitz said. But rather than painting a bleak picture and leaving it at that, Horowitz outlined a three-step road to recovery – prioritize projects, focus on what's strategic to the business, and optimize existing resources.
"Companies need to say, 'If it doesn't make or save us money in the short term, we're not going to do it.' When they do that, they usually find that eight out of 10 saved are Internet projects," Horowitz said. When a company focuses, they see that they don't want to have their people becoming experts at Storage Area Networks or other non-core business functions and when they look to optimize, they see that they may have redundant operations running multiple internet efforts that would save them money if they could consolidate and share resources, he said.
This course of action would be led, of course, by Loudcloud, beginning with its Opsware 2i technology.
Opsware 2i is the latest version of Loudcloud's Opsware Automation Technology, and the first version able to be installed inside a customer's own datacenter. Previous versions work inside Loudcloud's leased datacenter space housed at Exodus, Equinix and AT&T. By eliminating the costs of migrating servers to Loudcloud's datacenters, Horowitz said that the company has expanded its potential customer base tenfold.
Opsware automation technology captures and manages via software the thousands of pieces of information, decisions and processes required to deploy, manage and grow an Internet infrastructure. This technology automates and streamlines formerly manual tasks, offering Loudcloud customers quality, scale and speed in their Internet operations.
Opsware 2i technology will work through a combination of software and services. When a customer signs up for Opsware 2i technology, Loudcloud deploys an Opsware "core" inside the customer's data center. This is the software automation engine that Loudcloud will operate to deploy, manage, maintain, and scale the customer's Internet business. Once installed, Opsware technology interfaces with specific pieces of the customer's software and networking infrastructure. From there, Loudcloud engineers are able to deploy, manage, monitor, and dynamically scale the Internet site through the Loudcloud Network Operations Center.
Through its partnerships with Accenture and iFormation Group, Loudcloud is making it easier for Fortune 1000 companies to choose the Opsware 2i solution, Horowitz said. "Accenture is the single best company to go into a Fortune 1000 company and optimize what they're doing. iFormation is about optimizing existing assets that are different than the business they're in – if they're looking to transform their business, the iFormation/Loudcloud combination is the answer," he said.