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Mutilating bodies: the Muslim Brotherhood's gift to Egyptian women
Via Open Democracy, by Mariz Tadros--excerpt; read on.
Voting in the Egyptian presidential election is underway and what better way to win over votes of the poor than through offering badly needed low cost services and free goods. The Muslim Brotherhood, who have a track record in community outreach through services and goods, have added a new service for Egyptians: circumcising girls for a nominal fee. The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision as it is popularly called, involves the removal of the clitoris and part of the labia minora under the pretext that this will protect a girl's chastity. FGM, although practiced for thousands of years, has been on the decline in the past decade thanks to a socially sensitive and nationwide campaign to show that FGM is neither religiously prescribed, nor linked to a woman's moral behaviour. Thanks to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, the progress made in eliciting positive social change on curbing the practice now risks being reversed.
In the village of Abou Aziz, Minya, a young person phoned the child rights hotline to report that female circumcision was going to be offered by the passing mobile health clinic. The governor of Minya investigated the matter and warned that since the child rights law criminalizes the practice of FGM, legal action would be taken against the Freedom and Justice party if their health clinic undertook such illegal activity. The Muslim Brotherhood's response was to deny that their mobile health clinic had ever offered such a service and to claim that the Brothers are being vilified by a hostile press who are spreading rumours that have no basis in reality.
Magdy Helmy, a long time activist against FGM, said that the Ministry of Health's department in Minya informed him that they had spoken to the villagers who denied that girls were being circumcised, and that the Freedom and Justice party leaders also denied ever providing such a service for the people. The matter was closed on the basis of lack of evidence. While a handful of newspapers and media outlets did express their outrage, by and large, there was a media blackout on the matter. Many concluded that since the villagers denied girls were being circumcised and the Brothers said that this was never one of their clinic's services, then surely the news was inaccurate.
However, I have obtained the flyer that the Freedom and Justice party posted on the streets in the village of Abou Aziz. While the Freedom and Justice party denied that female circumcision was ever offered by the clinic, the information on the flyers suggests otherwise. The flyer which has the party's logo on it says "The Freedom and Justice party in Abou Aziz is honoured to organize the yearly health clinic which covers all specialisations for a nominal fee of LE 5 for a check up on Friday the 20/4/2012 at the Islamic Institute after Friday prayers". This was followed by a list of specialists including surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, dentistry, dermatology etc. At the bottom of the list is a note saying "We receive cases for circumcision for males and females for LE30 a case". What is significant about this flyer is the reference to male and female circumcision as if the practices were similar, and the fact that these are treated as medical cases, "operations" to be performed by members of a medical team.
It is unclear whether the mobile health clinic did actually go ahead with circumcising the girls. Since the introduction of the law criminalizing the practice in 2008, the villagers have been circumcising their daughters secretly with the help of a nurse who visited once a year, in secret, and circumcised the girls in groups. Hence, it is unlikely that the villagers would readily admit to the clinic offering FGM as they have collectively been practicing it illegally for a long time. A resident of the Abou Aziz village - who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals - said that the flyer was posted everywhere in the village, but that immediately after the publicity the flyers disappeared.
In view of the political standing of the Muslim Brotherhood and their religious influence among many Egyptians, there is no denying that the impact of their promotion of FGM is deep and far reaching. Whether girls were circumcised or not on the 20th of April is not the point: what is at issue here is their propagation of a practice that has been proven to be detrimental to women's well being and bodily integrity. The Brotherhood's strategy to undermine the national campaign to end FGM is three-pronged. Firstly, they contest the notion that the practice is not religiously prescribed. Many of the Brothers (and Salafis) argue that while it is not mandatory, it is nevertheless mukarama (preferable, pleasing in the eyes of God). They also quote hadith (saying attributed to the Prophet) which stipulates that FGM should involve "cutting, but only lightly". Renowned Egyptian Islamist scholars such as Mohammed Emara and Mohammed Selim el Awa (the latter a presidential hopeful) have written and publicly endorsed the position that FGM is not an Islamic practice, and that there is nothing in Islamic jurisprudence to endorse it - most Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, do not practice FGM. However, among the Muslim Brotherhood rank and file there is no consensus on rejecting the practice. In 2006, when I asked former Supreme Guide Mahdi Akef what the current position of the Brotherhood was on the permissibility of female circumcision, he said the question was shallow and their position on FGM is inconsequential in the light of the grander, more pressing political matters afflicting Egypt today. Today Egypt is at a critical juncture in its history, more so than at any other time in the past forty years, and yet the issue is on the Muslim Brothers' agenda and is promoted through mobile health clinics.
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There are so many levels of emotion attached to the news of Aaron Hernandez's death.
Tragic is a word associated with Hernandez, who I would include among the most talented high school football players I have ever seen play. He had size, speed and he simply was unstoppable.
It was 11 years ago when I was assigned the story to do a feature on Hernandez for the Register's special section previewing the high school football season so I set up an interview with Hernandez and his mom in the parking lot of Bristol Central High School. What do I remember about that day?
For whatever reason, it was that I was running late. It is one of my pet peeves, if I say I'm going to be somewhere at 2, I will almost always arrive no later that 1:45. But on that day I was running behind schedule. I've been doing this for more than 30 years and if I counted the number of times I ran late, I would need only one hand and would have a couple of fingers left over. I remember how understanding they were once I did finally make my way there.
The interview went well and I wish I could post a link to the story I wrote on Hernandez but the online archives don't go back that far. The best I can do is provide a link to the story through another archive service.
It was a more innocent time. Hernandez was coming off a junior season when he set the Connecticut single-season mark for receiving yards (breaking Seymour's Dennis Rozum's 36-year-old mark).
Another brilliant season followed as a senior and I was part of the committee who picked Hernandez as the Register's State Player of the Year. Although there was plenty of competition as Bunnell's Steve Smith had an absolutely brilliant season, Ansonia's Alex Thomas was in the midst of a record-breaking career. Mike Golic Jr. was headed to Notre Dame and players like Dan Mulrooney of Holy Cross, future UConn players Erik Kuraczea and Marcus Campbell were first-team All-State picks as was current MLB catcher Curt Casali. However, Hernandez was clearly the player of the year. He still owns Connecticut high school career records for catches, receiving yards and TD receptions.
I had no idea then what the future had in store for Hernandez or any of the honorees. Certainly I never envisioned he would be sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder or that I would wake up to the news that he allegedly committed suicide in his jail cell.
I have conflicted emotions at the current time. I believe that was the only time I interviewed Hernandez so I can't provide a glimpse into his soul or say that I knew him particularly well but I am saddened by the carnage he left in his wake. I mourn for the families who crossed paths with Hernandez and the victim/victims who lost their lives. I feel for Hernandez's family who must deal with the death of their family member at the age of 27. I also wonder what could have been. I remember watching Hernandez play in high school and thinking that there's no way he won't end up in the NFL. He did just that. If he had followed his brother D.J. to UConn as it first looked like he would, I'd have to think his name would be all over the UConn football record book. Instead he played at Florida for three years before leaving a year early for the NFL. There's no telling how many Super Bowls winning teams he would have been a part of, how many catches he would have made had he been able to stay out of trouble off the field.
Instead, he is a tragic figure, somebody who was blessed with an incredible amount of talent for football but never could fully realize those gifts. It upsets me that there will be countless online remembrances of a convicted murdered but the passing of murder victims like Odin Lloyd don't draw nearly the same amount of attention. I'm as much to blame in this instance as anybody else.
It's easy to suggest that the loss of his father forever changed Hernandez's journey but he's certainly not the first person to lose a parent at such a young age. There are plenty of examples of people dealing with the loss of loved ones going onto lead successful and productive lives.
I remember interviewing UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma about Hernandez, who he coached in AAU, back in 2013.
Among the things Auriemma said on that day, I thought he summed up the life of Hernandez perfectly when he said, 'it is just sad, no matter how it comes out it is sad."


The Odisha government today increased bus fares across all categories under the automatic fare adjustment mechanism. The fares of ordinary and express buses were hiked by 1 paise per km and that of deluxe and AC deluxe buses by 2 paise per km.
As per a notification issued by the state Commerce and Transport department, the fare for ordinary buses will now be 60 paise per km as against 59 paise per km and the fare for express buses has been increased to 63 paise from 62 paise per km.
Similarly, deluxe category buses will now charge 84 paise per km as against 82 paise earlier and passengers travelling in AC Deluxe buses will have to shell out Rs 1.05 instead of the existing Rs 1.03 paise per km.
According to the automatic mechanism for revision of fares implemented by the Odisha government, the fare for ordinary and express buses would be hiked by one paise per km if the price of diesel is hiked by Rs 2 per litre. The fare of ordinary and express buses will be reduced by one paise per km if the price of diesel is reduced by Rs 2 per litre.
Similarly, fare for deluxe and AC deluxe buses would be hiked by two paise per km if the price of diesel is increased by Rs 2 per litre. The fare for deluxe and AC deluxe buses would be reduced by two paise per km if the price of diesel is reduced by Rs 2 per litre.


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The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food....
Leon Botstein will conduct the landmark production of Richard Strauss's opera Die Liebe der Danae opening Bard Music Festival July 29 (photo courtesy of Bard College)
If music be the food of educational excellence, play on Maestro Botstein. Give me excess of Richard Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae at Bard Summerscape 2011.
That strain again Maestro, it had a dying fall. It came o'er my ear like the sweet sound of newly arriving Bard freshman eager to experience this spectacular operatic production (comedy, romance and drama set against Strauss's brilliant orchestral score), whilst relishing other rich works of literature and honing their writing skills in this, their first fantastical college orientation.
Enough, no more of this brevity.
Let us speak of even greater things with the innovative educator and president of Bard College, Leon Botstein: a man who understands the juxtaposition of art and education better than any; a pioneer in linking American higher education with public secondary schools; a principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra; a conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; a founder and artistic director of the world renowned Bard Music Festival; but perhaps most intriguing of all, a man who earlier this year described himself on the Colbert report as "well brought up."
What kind of educational system will permit a country to have the human skills needed to compete globally?
The educational skills that will enable a nation to compete in the economy of the 21st century include the capacity (1) to reason using the language of argument, analysis, and interpretation, (2) to observe and recall the visual and auditory experience of daily life and formulate it in unusual and perceptive ways, (3) to understand the character and conduct of science, including computation, (4) to perceive beauty independent of fashion and popular taste, and (5) to construct and critique historical claims so as to fashion a notion of history.
These skills can be developed in a nation's population fairly and throughout all social classes only through a public system that permits competition and diversity. The expectations of all children in a nation should be the same, as should the opportunities. In an equitable, democratic system of education that reconciles excellence with equity, the outcomes will, however, not be uniform. But all will benefit from high expectations.
What is your view of standardized testing?
Standardized testing is an instrument of convenience for politicians. Its use for educators is as an indication of aggregate effectiveness. Its results are useless to the individual test taker. In the United States, standardized testing is a cruel disease perpetrated by policy makers and educators alike that separates learning from testing. The nation needs a new generation of testing instruments. Testing is crucial to achievement in the classroom. Tests must be frequent, designed by teachers, and involve immediate responses to the test taker sufficiently rapid as to make testing useful to learning. We need to understand the mistakes we make as we make them in order to learn from them. Current standardized testing in the United States does not meet that crucial criterion.
If generalization is possible, what elements are missing from the preponderance of the current systems?
The current system of education fails most decisively in its inability to sustain the natural curiosity of children. This is most evident in the failure of the American system to teach science. Every child is curious about the natural world, but schooling dampens that enthusiasm by exposing children to teaching based in ignorance and the idea that science is about facts and formulas. Curiosity and love of learning fail to be nurtured in our system of formal schooling. Therefore, ambition and desire for individual achievement are inevitably thwarted.
What is the state of emotional well-being among U. S. students?
One of the consequences frequently overlooked when we contemplate the failure of our education system is its effect on individuals whom the system has failed, which represents at least 50% of the population. Not only are their prospects for employment damaged, but they are also understandably and legitimately angry. Their anger is based in the correct inference that they have been shortchanged. Even the most steadfastly anti-intellectual and poorly educated individual retains his or her pride. Such individuals know that they live in a society increasingly dependent on counter-intuitive knowledge and skills that they do not have, rendering them vulnerable to widespread unemployment and underemployment. This recognition breeds resentment and rage as well as other symptoms of acute emotional distress. Resentment and frustration find an outlet in a politics of intolerance marked by allegiance to irrational beliefs that threaten our constitutional foundations of freedom and dissent. The failure of the educational system will be most visible in the growth of this form of reactionary politics that is little more than an expression of fear about what the future holds.
Soprano Maegan Miller headlines as Danae in Die Liebe der Danae at the 22nd Bard Music Festival (photo courtesy of Bard College)
Does your definition of educational excellence take into account the quality of life of individuals and of a society, including its artistic and cultural achievements?
The overall ambition of the Obama administration has been entirely admirable. Given the political opposition to public education that defines much of the policy conversation in the Republican Party, it is hard to muster enthusiasm for any criticism of Obama. One might wish for less emphasis on testing and charter schools. But if there is one area in which American policy makers on both sides of the political divide have consistently failed to consider, it is the significance of the arts and the importance of cultivating in children and young adults not only aesthetic sensibilities but also skills in the arts.
The immense pressure in economic terms on all public services, including education, has led to the belief that the essentials in education do not include the arts. The arts have long been regarded as supplemental and discretionary to the rigorous study of mathematics, science, English, and history. It is ironic that in order to cultivate achievement and ambition in mathematics and science, for example, one has to find ways to develop a variety of skills and habits that correlate, with striking regularity, to the impact of serious education in the arts. This impact includes discipline, the capacity for sustained independent work, the cultivation of memory, the use of the imagination, and the ability to conceptualize and to take risks and intuitive leaps.
Last but not least, the arts sharpen one's powers of observation and perception. Far from being decorative, the arts are crucial to the development of the parallel cognitive abilities associated with doing science and becoming competitive in the workplace. This is the reason why so many of the nations with whom we compare poorly in the learning of mathematics and science -- Japan, Korea, China, and Finland -- all happen to have highly developed and effective programs of arts education that reach the entire population. The overwhelming preponderance of data regarding the correlation between learning and instruction in the arts concerns music -- singing and playing instruments in a manner that requires familiarity with negotiating musical notation. But the same argument extends to the visual arts, especially in the age of the computer. The whole concept of design in terms of computer software, and in industrial design, for example, implies, properly so, an aesthetic component.
Indispensible in the educational definition of the arts is a recognition of the evolution over time of cultural taste. Understanding one's own culture and society as well as those of others is crucial to perceiving opportunity. This capacity for perception seems to be indispensible, for example, to the analysis of markets and needs in any economy.
The challenge facing educators is enormous. The streak of anti-intellectualism in American life that has been a factor in our politics since the 19th century, has not at all diminished. The success of America in the 20th century gave it a premature sense of its superiority and entitlement. For the nation to regroup, develop a sense of common purpose, and compete, a renewed commitment to public universal education is indispensible. It is the one public good to which all should be able to agree. Our common heritage and future are at stake. No individual or elite group can hope to escape the dire economic and political consequences of the continued deterioration of our educational standards and achievements. A broad-based renewal of public education is an indispensible condition of America's survival as a productive and free society with an enviable standard of living for all.
World Wisdom
The expectations of all children in a nation should be the same, as should the opportunities.
In the United States, standardized testing is a cruel disease perpetrated by policy makers and educators alike, that separates learning from testing.
If there is one area in which American policy makers on both sides of the political divide have consistently failed to consider, it is the significance of the arts and the importance of cultivating in children and young adults not only aesthetic sensibilities but also skills in the arts.
No individual or elite group can hope to escape the dire economic and political consequences of the continued deterioration of our educational standards and achievements. A broad-based renewal of public education is an indispensible condition of America's survival as a productive and free society with an enviable standard of living for all.
Dr. Leon Botstein and C. M. Rubin
In The Global Search for Education, join C. M. Rubin and globally renowned thought leaders including Sir Michael Barber (UK), Dr. Leon Botstein (US), Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond (US), Dr. Madhav Chavan (India), Professor Michael Fullan (Canada), Professor Howard Gardner (US), Professor Yvonne Hellman (The Netherlands), Professor Kristin Helstad (Norway), Professor Rose Hipkins (New Zealand), Professor Cornelia Hoogland (Canada), Mme. Chantal Kaufmann (Belgium), Professor Dominique Lafontaine (Belgium), Professor Hugh Lauder (UK), Professor Ben Levin (Canada), Professor Barry McGaw (Australia), Professor R. Natarajan (India), Sridhar Rajagopalan (India), Sir Ken Robinson (UK), Professor Pasi Sahlberg (Finland), Andreas Schleicher (PISA, OECD), Dr. David Shaffer (US), Dr. Kirsten Sivesind (Norway), Chancellor Stephen Spahn (US), Yves Theze (Lycee Francais US), Professor Charles Ungerleider (Canada), Professor Tony Wagner (US), Professor Dylan Wiliam (UK), Professor Theo Wubbels (The Netherlands), Professor Michael Young (UK), and Professor Minxuan Zhang (China) as they explore the big picture education questions that all nations face today.
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Some Favorite Summertime New Yorker Covers
July 6, 2019 michael News
This hot and humid long 4th of July weekend makes me think of specific favorite summertime New Yorker covers. The choices are good and plenty when one decides to select a few favorites from the magazine's 94 years; for every one shown here, there are at least five more that fall into the fave category — these half dozen are but a fraction of the magazine's superb summertime covers.
It's perhaps worth noting that each of the artists below contributed both cartoons and covers to The New Yorker. They all hail from the pre-Tina Brown days when more than 60% of the magazine's covers were contributed by its cartoonists (a reasonable guess would be that the % now of the magazine's cartoonists contributing covers is somewhere in the low single digits).
This August 4th 1945 Mary Petty cover has always been a first thought when summer arrives. The simple quiet moment Ms. Petty gives us during a particularly horrendous moment in history has always fascinated me. This scan doesn't do justice to Ms. Petty's watercolors.
Whenever I think of summertime and beaches I think of this Ludwig Bemelmans July 13, 1946 cover. Most will think of Mr. Bemelmans and immediately recall his Madeline books, but his contribution of 32 New Yorker covers was substantial
Here's a beauty by Anatol Kovarsky from August 2, 1969. If you look through Mr. Kovarsky's New Yorker covers you'll see he often returned to aerial views. I've always found it amusing that he focused here on the parking lot, with the beach and ocean as supporting players.
Charles Addams's cover shown below was published the very next week after Mr. Kovarsky's. It reminds me of the summers during the years I lived in Manhattan, especially the days I headed up to The New Yorker's office to drop off my weekly batch of cartoons. The city never seemed hotter, the sidewalks never stickier, the non-air conditioned subway cars never sootier, than on those trips between my apartment in Greenwich Village and 25 West 43rd Street.
There are so many wonderful New Yorker baseball covers, but this one by Garrett Price is a particular favorite.
Finally, this spectacular July 4th 1953 cover by Alajalov.
Here are the Spill's A-Z entries for each of the above artists.
Mary Petty Born, Hampton, New Jersey, April 29, 1899. Died, Paramus, New Jersey, March, 1976. New Yorker work: October 22, 1927 – March 19, 1966. Collection: This Petty Place ( Knopf, 1945) with a Preface by James Thurber.
Ludwig Bemelmans Born, April 27, 1898. Died, October 1, 1962. New Yorker work: contributed six cartoons and thirty-two covers as well written pieces in a New Yorker career that began in October of 1937 and lasted until August 1962. He achieved lasting fame with his Madeline childrens books.
Anatol Kovarsky (photo: NYC, 2013. By Liza Donnelly) Born, Moscow. Died, June 1, 2016, NYC. Collection: Kovarsky's World (Knopf, 1956) New Yorker work: 1947 -1969. Link to Ink Spill's 2013 piece, "Anatol Kovarsky at 94: Still Drawing After All These Years"
Charles Addams Born in Westfield, New Jersey, January 7, 1912. Died September 29, 1988, New York City. New Yorker work: 1932 – 1988 * the New Yorker has published his work posthumously. One of the giants of The New Yorker's stable of artists. Key cartoon collections: While all of Addams' collections are worthwhile, here are three that are particular favorites; Homebodies (Simon & Schuster, 1954), The Groaning Board (Simon & Schuster, 1964), Creature Comforts (Simon & Schuster, 1981). In 1991 Knopf published The World of Chas Addams, a retrospective collection. Visit the Addams Foundation website for far more information : http://www.charlesaddams.com/
Garrett Price ( Photo Source: Esquire Cartoon Album, 1957) Born, 1897, Bucyrus, Kansas. Died, April, 1979, Norwalk, Conn. Collection: Drawing Room Only / A Book of Cartoons (Coward -McCann, 1946). New Yorker work: 1925 -1974.
Constantin Alajalov Born Constantin Aladjalov, 1900, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia. Died Oct., 1987, Amenia, New York. New Yorker work: 1926 -1960. Perhaps best known for his New Yorker covers ( he also supplied cover art to other publications). Key collection: Conversation Pieces (The Studio Publications Inc., 1942) w/ commentary by Janet Flanner. A profile from The Saturday Evening Post.
A Kovarsky Scarf; Checking In On A New Yorker State Of Mind; Video Interview Of Interest: Edward Koren; Event Of Interest In Chicago: Ken Krimstein's "Three Escapes Of Hannah Arendt"; Today's New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Brendan Loper
February 15, 2019 michael News
A detail from Attempted Bloggery
Attempted Bloggery looks at an Anatol Kovarsky scarf (perhaps the beginning of a cartoon clothing and accessories series?). Read here!
Mr. Kovarsky's entry on the Spill's A-Z:
Anatol Kovarsky (photo above, NYC, 2013. By Liza Donnelly) Born, Moscow. Died, June 1, 2016, NYC. Collection: Kovarsky's World (Knopf, 1956) New Yorker work: 1947 -1969. Link to Ink Spill's 2013 piece, "Anatol Kovarsky at 94: Still Drawing After All These Years"
Checking In On A New Yorker State Of Mind
With the Westminster Dog Show champion recently named, what better time to head over to A New Yorker State of Mind's fascinating post covering the above issue of February 8, 1930. The cover artist: TheodoreHaupt.
Video Interview of Interest: Edward Koren
From PBS Vermont, this video interview with Edward Koren, first aired April 13, 2003.
Mr. Koren began contributing to The New Yorker in 1962. Link here to his website.
Event of Interest in Chicago: Ken Krimstein's "Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt"
Opening in March, an exhibit of work from Ken Krimstein's excellent Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt. All the info here.
Mr. Krimstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2000. Link here to his website.
Today's Daily Cartoon
Trump today, of course. Brendan Loper handles the national emergency. Mr. Loper began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016.
"The Brightest Thought of Many Bright Minds": The 1940 New Yorker Album
From the inside flap copy of this album: "The brightest thought of many bright minds"…well, heck, I'm not going to argue with that. Published by Random House in 1939, and using Peter Arno's New Yorker cover from January 1938, this is the last of the Albums produced before the Unites States entered WWII. The cover depicts a Cafe Society moment, an Arno specialty that faded as the war years began.
The flap copy shown below tells the story of what to expect, cartoon quality-wise (and "Spot" drawings–wise). These are the founding mothers & fathers of the New Yorker single panel. In just a few years, and throughout the 1940s, they'd be joined by a number of additional giants of the field, including Steinberg, Frank Modell, Sam Cobean, Dana Fradon, Anatol Kovarsky, Roberta MacDonald, Mischa Richter, and Charles Saxon. This album also, in a way, marks the end of the earlier incarnation of the magazine's art department and the beginning of the editorship of James Geraghty. His hiring in 1939 led to the organization of the art department into an actual department, with an editor (Geraghty) devoted to the artists (all the artists: cartoonists, cover artists, spot artists). That model stayed intact under Mr. Geraghty, and then his successor, Lee Lorenz, until Tina Brown split the art department in 1993, creating the titles, Cartoon Editor (Mr. Lorenz's new title), and Art Editor (Francoise Mouly was hired and given that title, with the responsibility of overseeing the cover art).
Being a Thurberite I can't help but mentioning that two of my all-time favorite Thurber drawings (actually, I love all of his drawings) are included in this volume:
"Ooooo, guesties!" (shown in this link, upper right of the page).
"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"
There is no introduction to this album, nor any flap copy other than that shown above. The production is top-shelf, with heavy paper and a flawless lay-out. This album is easily found on Abebooks.com for very little. The back cover, shown below, is given over to a drawing by the great Helen Hokinson.
"A Source of Very Special Delight" — The New Yorker Album of Sports & Games; An Ink Spill Super Bowl Tradition
February 4, 2018 michael News
Just in time for two giant sports happenings: the Super Bowl, and the Winter Olympics: The New Yorker Album of Sports & Games. At the bottom of today's post an Ink Spill Super Bowl Sunday tradition with a football-related drawing of mine from some time back.
It only took sixteen years following the first themed New Yorker album of drawings (that would be The War Album, published in 1942) for a second to appear. Deftly designed by Carmine Peppe (spelled "Carmin" in this album for some reason), who William Shawn described as "the one make-up editor in the world who could provide [Harold Ross] with the chaste and lovely pages that would properly set off whatever we published." I love how Mr. Peppe placed Rea Irvin's Tilley all over the place, on the front and on the back cover. He knew an icon when he saw one.
Curiously, although there are plenty of cartoons about sports featured in both Summer & Winter Olympics, there is not one cartoon specifically related to the Olympics. No matter. No one can fault an album delivering large doses of work by, among many others, Mary Petty, Charles Addams, Thurber, Steinberg, Steig, Helen Hokinson, Anatol Kovarsky, Peter Arno, Barbara Shermund, George Price, and Charles Saxon. Looking through you'll see at least two themes rarely seen in the magazine these days: mountain climbing and moose hunting (although Charles Addams' drawing of a moose driving a car down a mountain road with a hunter tied to the front fender could surely appear now). There are an awful lot of drawings about mountain climbing — I guess everyone took a shot at those back then.
From the inside flap copy (there is no Introduction):
"Almost anyone who has ever been involved in sports and games, either as a participant or from the sidelines, will find this collection a source of very special delight"
For those wanting to add this album to their collection, it's easy to find. I just went over to AbeBooks.com and found a copy with its dust jacket for about four bucks. Deal!
And here, continuing an Ink Spill Super Bowl Sunday tradition, is a drawing of mine that appeared in the October 16, 2006 issue of The New Yorker.
The Tilley Watch Online; Photos from the Kovarsky Opening; "Not OK" Cartoonists in Westchester
January 13, 2018 michael News
Among the magazine's Daily cartoons this week: Kim Warp's weary winter weather drawing; Brendan Loper's tweeter-in-chief cartoon; Lars Kenseth's take on this week's unusual White House media moment, and Peter Kuper's Trumpian map of the world.
Over on Daily Shouts, these were the contributing New Yorker cartoonists: Ellis Rosen and Liana Finck
Photos From the Kovarsky Opening at The Society of Illustrators
A packed house last night at the Society of Illustrators Opening Reception for Kovarsky's World: Covers and Cartoons From the New Yorker. Here's an array of photos (all by Liza Donnelly, with one exception: the photo of Liza Donnelly and her husband– that's courtesy of Gina Kovarsky)
Above: a wall of Kovarskys.
Below: Anatol Kovarsky's daughter, Gina, and Mr. Kovarsky's wife, Lucille Patton; Ellen Lind and John Lind. Gina Kovarsky and John Lind co-curated the exhibit.
Below: New Yorker cartoonists Sam Gross and Felipe Galindo
Below: New Yorker cartoonists Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin
Below: Sam Gross and New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein
Below: Writer/illustrator Mo Willems, Columbia University's Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Karen Green, and John Lind
A closing thought on the exhibit, which runs til March 3 of this year:
This is a terrific show. The energy bouncing off Mr. Kovarsky's work on the walls is inspiring. After looking at all of the covers and drawings I went back and spent more time looking at Mr. Kovarsky's very first cartoon for the New Yorker. It was published in the issue of March 1, 1947; here's how it appeared:
I've always had a special affection for first New Yorker drawings. It is, as they say, a moment. Every cartoonist remembers the details surrounding their first published drawing. The unspoken mini-drama surrounding the first is that no one knows, of course, whether there'll be a second (see the Spill's One Clubbers on the A-Z). In Mr. Kovarsky's case there was a second, and then there were hundreds more — close to 300 in fact. If that wasn't something impressive in itself, he also contributed 40 covers. And all this work was done in the relatively short time span of twenty-two years (according to Gina Kovarsky: "In the 1970s, Kovarsky shifted his main focus from cartooning to fine art…"). It will not come as a surprise to anyone seeing this exhibit how Kovarsky accomplished so much in a mere two decades. It is as if he never set his pen or his brush down for a moment. Kovarsky's world seemed to be abuzz 24/7. How lucky for us all.
"Not OK" Cartoonists in Westchester
From Westchester Magazine, January 12, 2018, "You Can Meet New Yorker Cartoonists…"
Here's a capsule description from the article:
"Not OK" — Great Cartoons That Weren't Good Enough is a collection of works by previous New Yorker-published cartoonists that fit exactly that bill. Curated by artist and Brooklynite David Ostow, this series has come to Westchester for a month-long showing following the completion of its original gallery run in Bushwick.
Today's Daily Cartoon, The Weekend Daily Shouts Cartoonist, And The Fave Photo OF The Day
The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of January 27, 2020; David Salle Incorporates Peter Arno Drawings
The Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 13-17, 2020; A Note About Next Week's New Yorker
New Yorker Cartoon Calendar Man, Jerry McCanna
David Preston's Three New Yorker Covers; Today's Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
The Wednesday Spill… Video Of Interest: Liana Finck; Today's Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Fave Photo Of The Day: A Dozen New Yorker Cartoonists At Lunch; Today's Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday's); Today's Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Roz Chast & Patricia Marx's 2020 Book Tour Schedule
The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of January 20, 2020
The Weekend Spill: Article Of Interest: Art Young; Blitt's Kvetchbook; The Tilley Watch Online, January 6-10, 2020
Video Of Interest: Dem Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Captions New Yorker Cartoons; A Case For Pencils Spotlights Rich Sparks; Today's Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday's)
John Stringer on The New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo; Today's Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday's); Today's Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Blitt's Kvetchbook; New Yorker Cartoonist Newbies 2019
michael on Last Batch Of Cartoons Of The Year Temporary Blues; Today's Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Brendan on Last Batch Of Cartoons Of The Year Temporary Blues; Today's Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
william h glover on The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of November 25, 2019; Today's Daily Cartoon & Daily Shouts Cartoonists
michael on New New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt.2: Edward Steed
Eleanor Ossian on New New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt.2: Edward Steed
Benjamin L Clark on George Booth's New Yorker Golden Anniversary!
Paul on Esquire Lets Cartoon Editor Go; A New Yorker State Of Mind Two-Fer With Soglow, Arno, Thurber & More; Today's Daily Cartoonist: Kendra Allenby
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One-quarter fear MI5 will try to prevent Yes vote
By David Leask
ONE in four Scots believes M15 is working with the UK Government to prevent independence, a new poll reveals.
The study, which many will see as a measure of public distrust in Westminster, found nearly as many thought next week's vote will be rigged.
The findings - from the same pollster, YouGov, that reported the lead for Yes at the weekend - were commissioned by news site Buzzfeed as it explored hostility to the British state north of the border.
It found substantial minorities suspected skulduggery by the UK Government. A total of 26 per cent said it was "probably true" that "MI5 is working with the UK Government to try and stop independence" with 55 per cent thinking this proposition was "probably false".
Another 19 per cent agreed that it was "likely the referendum will be rigged". Those polled were split evenly when it was put to them that the UK was covering up an oil find in the North Sea.
Buzzfeed's UK political editor Jim Waterson suggested the questions after hearing Jim Murphy, the Labour MP, heckled about Clair Ridge, the field west of Shetland widely tipped in the mainstream media to yield substantial resources but the subject of feverish internet rumours of a cover-up.
Mr Waterson said: "I wondered whether people believed the things I had heard on the streets. I expected 15-20 per cent to cite the Clair Ridge 'secret', not 42 per cent.
"As with the idea of the active involvement of MI5, it all seems symptomatic of a total lack of trust in anything Westminster is doing rather than an actual assessment."
Jim Sillars, the former SNP deputy leader, has long believed that UK security services have taken a watching brief over the SNP, although he too sees the poll results as indicating a lack of trust in UK institutions.
Mr Sillars said: "I have been very surprised at the number of people who have said to me 'They will fiddle the ballot', I don't believe that.
"We have always had well-conducted elections in Scotland. What people have really said is, 'We don't trust the British state'.
"Of course MI5 is involved. Their job is to preserve and protect the British State and we are saying we want to change that state.
"MI5 will have penetrated Yes Scotland, they will have penetrated the SNP and they will have penetrated the Radical Independence Campaign. That is how they operate. They did the same with the Communist Party."
A spokesman for Better Together said: "People in Scotland know that this decision is much bigger than ridiculous conspiracy theories that circulate on social media."
YouGov put the questions to 1,084 adults over three days early this month.


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OpenCorp are a Melbourne-based property developer and fund manager. Their current national portfolio exceeds $500 million in developments, including $360 million in the Brisbane market.
Director of Funds Matthew Lewison is responsible for the development and acquisition strategy of the company.
Before joining OpenCorp in 2010, Lewison held the role of General Manager (QLD) of publicly listed land development company, Peet Ltd, where he was responsible for a portfolio of residential projects exceeding $1 billion.
Matthew gives us some insight into his background and how he got into the industry.
What sparked your interest in property?
My father is a builder so from the age of 12 I used to go to his building sites and earn my pocket money cleaning the site on the weekends. From as early as I can remember he would have building plans around the house and laid out around the table, he was always looking at them. I liked to look at the plans with him and early on I thought I wanted to be an architect. However I was stronger at math than design, so that led me into engineering, and from engineering I got into project management and property development.
What drives you - has there been someone or something that has inspired your career?
When I was 19 I fell ill with Meningococcal. I went to hospital in the intensive care ward, and two men died in the first couple of nights. There was an old man there, Reg, who was terminally ill with bowel cancer. He'd been a prisoner of war, had his leg amputated without any anaesthetic, had heart attacks and strokes, however, every morning he'd wake up and tell me a joke and have a laugh.
Reg said to me that he heard what was happening to me and that he hoped I would pull through because I was a good kid and deserved to have the fulfilling life he'd had. For somebody who had had so many setbacks to be so happy with his life, it made me reassess what I felt was important and what my goals were.
It took a few years for this experience to sink in but I realised I was never going to measure my success by how much money I had in the bank, but by how many people who's lives I could affect. When Reg came back from war as an amputee he learnt everything he could about prosthesis. He learnt how to drive with a prosthetic limb and then started making prosthetic limbs to help other people.
He became very well known within the field in Australia and that was his wealth – the people he'd helped and the families who adored this guy. You could see how much he meant to them. That drives me and it translates into our business. We could have easily been a property developer but we made a conscious decision to allow other people to invest as well so we can help them. That's why our business has started to see the success it has – it's not just about us.
To constantly try to evolve and never say we've reached a level of success we're happy with. We're constantly trying to effect positive change. Having worked in big businesses and public companies you see that it's hard for them to change. Historically, today's big businesses weren't big businesses thirty years ago, and the ones that were no one knows of now – they've been absorbed into something else or gone. You have to constantly evolve to stay current, particularly in today's age of technology and the fast-paced evolution of buyers' needs.
What's the highlight of your job?
Writing profit cheques to our investors. Particularly as in our early fund we had a lot of friends and family investing. We still do, but we have many more outside clients now. The highlight is writing a cheque to a kid who has invested his life savings of $10, 000 and then giving him a $17, 000 cheque after 2 years. Or writing a cheque to somebody you know and care about, who has trusted you with his or her money. That's a great thing.
What project are you most proud to have been involved with and why?
One of the projects we did early on with OpenCorp, which was actually a really small project and not that exciting as far as developments go, was a really straightforward eight-townhouse project where we got hit with every possible issue. Ground conditions that were terrible, the market was flat, we had a builder that started to have issues with insurance, objections from adjoining owners, and the list went on. We got hit with so many things and we managed to overcome them and still deliver a 35% profit on the capital invested. It was within two years, and again to have overcome and delivered great a financial return, it made us quite proud. It also gave us great confidence as well.
Where do you think the property industry will be five years from now?
It's an interesting time in Australia. In Sydney and Melbourne, we have seen a real influx of population growth and unprecedented levels of foreign investment. This is obviously changing the landscape of these cities, with urban densification and apartment development. The increased density leads to improved amenity, and an increase in the area's desirability, creating perpetual improvement and change. We've seen that in Melbourne and Sydney and now we're seeing it in Brisbane and Perth – although they are around six or seven years behind where the others are now.


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Daniela Gomes (born 1983) received the Ph.D. degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2012, in Materials Engineering, with the dissertation "Carbon dispersions in nanostructured metals". The degree was obtained with merit. Since 2013, she became a Post-doctoral researcher at the CENIMAT/i3N of FCT-UNL. The post-doctoral work is entitled "Design of new functional materials for electronics applications", which is financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through the scholarship 84215/2012. She is also working at the Nanofabrication lab at CENIMAT, which she is the main operator of the dual-beam SEM-FIB microscope. Since October of 2015, she became Assistant Professor at the Materials Science Department of FCT-UNL lecturing the courses of Micro and Nanotechnology seminars and dissertation initiation. She has focused her research mainly in electron microscopy and materials characterization. She is co-author of 50 peer-reviewed papers (h-index=8, as March 2016). She co-authored 1 book chapter, which was accepted and published soon. She participated on the EU project, CEOPS project with the grant agreement no: 309984. Her current research focuses are: Materials characterization; production and structural characterization of oxide-based thin films; oxide-based nanostructures, solution synthesis routes, microwave synthesis, photocatalysis, graphene, nanocomposites produced by ball milling; carbon modifications.
D. Nunes, T. Calmeiro, S. Nandy, J.V. Pinto, A. Pimentel, P. Barquinha, P.A. Carvalho, J. Walmsley, E. Fortunato, R. Martins, Charging effects and surface potential variations of Cu-based nanowires, Thin Solid Films, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2015.11.077.
D. Nunes, A. Pimentel, J.V. Pinto, T.R. Calmeiro, S. Nandy, P. Barquinha, P.A. Carvalho, E. Fortunato and R. Martins, Photocatalytic behavior of TiO2 films synthesized by microwave irradiation, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.cattod.2015.10.038.
D. Nunes, A. Pimentel, P. Barquinha, P.A. Carvalho, E. Fortunato, R. Martins, Cu2O polyhedral nanowires produced by microwave irradiation, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2 (2014) 6097–6103.
D. Nunes, M. Vilarigues, J.B. Correia, P.A. Carvalho Nickel-carbon nanocomposites: Synthesis, structural changes and strengthening mechanisms, Acta Materialia 60 (2012) 737–747.
D. Nunes, V. Livramento, R. Mateus, J.B. Correia, L.C Alves., M. Vilarigues, P.A. Carvalho, Processing copper-carbon nanocomposites by mechanical synthesis: Structural changes and thermal stabilization, Materials Science and Engineering A 528 (2011) 8610–8620.


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The longer you wear Yuki Tsumugi, its colors become deeper, and the silken luster more gracefully subtle. Durable and mellow to the touch, material made of this fine silk has the reputation as being the finest of kimono textiles.
Yuki Tsumugi is produced in a 20-kilometer (12.4-miles) stretched area along Kinu River, the river of crystal-clear water that forms the border of Ibaraki and Tochigi Prefectures in eastern Japan.
Floss silk (made from boiled cocoons that are washed and stretched in lukewarm water, then dried in the shade) is used as it is spun, without being twisted into thread. The extremely fine strands are too delicate for automatic looms, but are woven on unique manual looms. All processes are done by hand, starting with spinning from the floss-silk, creating a pattern on the thread and dying it deep blue, ending with the weaving itself. It can take several months to weave one tan (unit of kimono) (38 cm/15 in. by 10.6 m/11.6 yd.).
Yuki Tsumugi has a long history and is mentioned in the literature written in the Nara period (8th century). Among the famous local products presented by Hitachi no Kuni (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) in tribute to the Imperial Court was the forerunner of Tsumugi, and this is still preserved at Shosoin in Nara.
During the Muromachi period (14th to 16th centuries) the cloth was known as Hitachi silk, and became a famous regional product. The local lords of the Yuki family became patrons of the industry and presented the cloth to the Shogun of that period, thus the cloth came to be known as Yuki Tsumugi.
Since the beginning, a large number of creative refinements through the whole production process have been handed down through the ages. These days Yuki Tsumugi represent the Pongee of Japan. Yuki Tsumugi was designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1956, and as a Traditional Craft in 1977.


The parents of Charlie Gard, whose battle to get their critically ill baby experimental treatment stirred international sympathy and controversy, have dropped their legal effort.
London: The parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard have ended their legal fight against a hospital's decision to take him off life support.
And a judge has said it is in the baby's best interests he now be allowed to die.
"This is one of the hardest things that we will ever have to say and we are about to do the hardest thing that we'll ever have to do – which is to let our beautiful little Charlie go," mother Connie Yates said on Monday.
She said the 11-month-old, whose case has attracted worldwide attention including from the Pope and US President Donald Trump, would not live to see his first birthday.
Ms Yates said Charlie would have had a real chance of getting better if he had received treatment earlier.
But the hospital denied this, saying the child had suffered irreversible brain damage from seizures that began last year.
"Time has run out for Charlie," the parents' lawyer Grant Armstrong told England's High Court in London on Monday. "It is too late. The damage has been done … it is no longer in Charlie's best interests to pursue this course of treatment."
Tests last week confirmed "the parents' worst nightmare", Mr Armstrong said. Charlie will soon be moved from life support into palliative care.
"Dark days lie ahead for [Charlie's] parents," Mr Armstrong said. "They wish to treasure their remaining time with Charlie, however short."
Ms Yates, in a statement she read to the court and Chris Gard read again outside, said their child had a "real, genuine chance at life ... the potential to be a normal healthy little boy" if he had been treated earlier.
"A whole lot of time has been wasted ... our poor boy has been left to lie in hospital for months without treatment, whilst lengthy court battles have been fought," she said. "Charlie has been left with his illness to deteriorate devastatingly to the point of no return.
"We will now have to live with the what-ifs that will haunt us for the rest of our lives.
"We have decided that it's no longer in Charlie's best interests to pursue treatment and we will let our son go and be with the angels.
"His spirit will live on for eternity ... to Charlie we say we love you so much ... we are so sorry that we couldn't save you. Sweet dreams baby, sleep tight our beautiful little boy."
The parents had raised £1.3 million ($2.1 million) to get Charlie to the US for an experimental treatment they believed could have helped their child. Two weeks ago an expert told the court there was a 10 per cent chance it would work.
The couple took their fight through English and European courts, trying to get permission to take their son to America.
"[The parents] believe they ought to have been trusted with the decision," Mr Armstrong told the court. "Charlie has waited patiently for his right to receive treatment. Due to the delay that chance has been lost."
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) judged that treatment would have been futile and Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity.
Charlie has a rare, fatal genetic disorder and, scans last week again confirmed, severe brain damage. In April the High Court ruled he should be allowed to die. The hospital brought the case back to court after the parents claimed there was new evidence about possible treatment.
But the tests last week, including an examination by the American specialist who had offered the treatment, confirmed that Charlie had extensive and irreversible damage to his body and brain, the court was told.
The parents were told the test results, which were reviewed by several experts, on Friday.
GOSH's representative in court said "the hearts of hospital and staff go out to Charlie and his father and his mother".
In a "position statement" handed to the court, GOSH said "the agony, desolation and bravery of [the parents'] decision command GOSH's utmost respect".
"While GOSH has striven to work with them throughout, Charlie's needs have taken priority.
"Charlie's parents have fought long and hard for what they have been led to believe was a treatment that would give him a chance to be the Charlie he was before the effects of his illness became apparent.
"They feel now, and perhaps will feel for some long time to come, that if only GOSH had treated Charlie months ago, they would have been spared the impossible decision they make now."
But from the moment of his diagnosis, Charlie's prognosis was "known to be bleak", the hospital said.
The proposed experimental treatment, called NBT, had never been tried on any human or animal with Charlie's condition, they said.
Seizures that began before Christmas caused irreversible neurological damage and "any chance that NBT might have had of benefiting Charlie had departed", leading to the decision in February to withdraw life support.
"All aspects of the clinical picture and all of Charlie's observations indicated that his brain was irreversibly damaged and that NBT was futile," the hospital said.
"NBT may well assist others in the future, [but] it cannot and could not have assisted Charlie."
High Court Judge Sir Nicholas Francis said "no parent could have done more for their child [and] none of us can begin to understand their agony", before confirming he would not change the orders he made in April.
"The parents now have to face the reality that it is in Charlie's best interests to die."
He said the court had been guided by the principle that the child's welfare was its paramount consideration.
Justice Francis also paid tribute to the medical experts and hospital staff involved in the case, saying it was a "disgrace" that they had been subjected to abuse.
On the weekend the hospital said there had been a "disgraceful tide of hostility" aimed at their staff, who had been abused in the street and online.
Thousands of abusive messages and even death threats had been sent to doctors and nurses at GOSH, and police were called in to find the culprits.


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El nervio supraescapular es una rama del tronco superior del plexo braquial, que se forma por la unión de las raíces C5 y C6. Entrega inervación a los músculos supraespinoso e infraespinoso.

El nervio transcurre posterior al vientre inferior del omohioideo y entra en la fosa supraespinosa, pasando por la escotadura de la escápula, por debajo del ligamento transverso superior de la escápula. Atraviesa la fosa supraespinosa, por profundo al músculo supraespinoso, rodea el borde lateral de la espina de la escápula, y termina en el músculo infraespinoso.
Además de proporcionar ramas a los músculos supra e infraespinoso, el nervio supraescapular entrega pequeñas ramas al ligamento coracoclavicular y a la articulación del hombro.

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Véase también
Arteria supraescapular

Referencias

Nervios del miembro superior

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The children were all stymied. "Children obey your parents"? We talked about some better possibilities.
Again, the answers came, but they were slow. It was interesting to me that although they have many verses of God's Word memorized, they aren't as skilled seeing the connection between "real life" and the Bible as I would expect. Especially since we talk about certain verses like "Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another" on a daily basis.
After a short lull, my David (!) asked for more questions like this, and I asked some more.
What should I read if I am discouraged?
What should I read if my brother or sister is mean to me?
I tried to ask questions that related to verses that I knew were fresh in their minds. It was fun, and I want to do it again.
What I learned was that I need to do better at getting my children to draw on their knowledge. I am too quick to give the answers, give the verses, throughout my days. It was a good reminder that I need to cut back on lectures. I think I can at least ask a few questions before I give the answers, don't you think?


The Reason rack has long been graced with tons of creative instruments and effects, but version 9 brings a new category of device to Propellerhead's virtual studio. Player Devices don't create or process sound - instead, they handle note data, transforming shabby, uninteresting sequences of notes into inspiring, musically satisfying results.
You get three devices to take your piano roll exploits to the next level: Note Echo, Dual Arpeggio, and Scales & Chords. Each is dropped into the rack, placed before an instrument device, where it intercepts the note data that would otherwise have arrived from Reason's sequencer.
Like all of Reason's other gizmos, Player Devices are deep and powerful, so here are seven indispensable techniques to help you get the most out of them. For more Reason 9 tutorials, grab the March edition of Computer Music.
Scales & Chords can also be used to make sure your music stays in key. If you activate the Filter Notes switch, any notes that don't belong in the key you've selected on the left won't be let through. If you leave the switch off, any bum notes will get through in a modified form, tuned downwards to the scale you've selected.
You may just be using it as a simple note repeater, but Note Echo is a far more flexible device than you might first think. Mastering it is a case of knowing two things.
First, you can deactivate any echo in the sequence by switching off the light below it, including the first light - the input note.
Second, you can reduce Step Length to 0, and make every single echo in the sequence play at the same time. So, to create chords or instant harmonies using Note Echo, turn up Repeats and change the Pitch to +1, deactivate any notes you don't want, and whack the Step Length down to 0 so that they're all playing at the same time.
You can also use the humble Note Echo as an instant MIDI transposer. Start by setting Repeats to 1, deactivate the original note, set the Step Length to 0, and just play with the Pitch parameter for instant note shifts. This is also a really easy thing to automate.
Scales & Chords can be used to monitor incoming MIDI information. Just switch the scale to Chromatic and make sure everything else is switched off. Now you can check the keyboard in the Chords section of the Device to see exactly what's happening. This is especially useful if you've got a complicated series of MIDI plugins messing with your notes.
You can use Direct Record to record the MIDI output of any Player Device, or just click Send to Track to have the data instantly printed. Send to Track will only generate MIDI data between your Left and Right loop locators, so you can just print an echo, chord, arpeggio or anything else to the sequencer for a particular section of your track.
Most Player Devices parameters can be automated or linked to MIDI controls to make life easier – but some are more useful than others. We think the best automation comes from the Scale selector, the Note Echo Pitch control, and the Arp on/off switch. Alt-click these controls and flip them on and off in the sequencer between sections to instantly liven up a track.
Using Dual Arpeggiator's Random direction setting is a fast ticket to a quick melody. All the notes will be the same length, but the notes themselves will be random selections from the input notes. To take it further, switch both Arpeggiators' Directions to Random and set them off at different rates.


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Bahamas Flavour
Bahamas Blog – Bahamas Specialist – Bahamas Travel and News.
The Islands of The Bahamas
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Plaiting Tradition Continues in Long Island
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Paradise Plates – 30 September 2017, The Grand Ballroom, Atlantis Paradise Island.
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No need to guess why this island was given its name. It is not only long, but it is also narrow; no more than 4 miles at its widest point with a population of 3,024 people in an area of 596 sq. km (230 sq. miles).
Long Island is bisected by the Tropic of Cancer and is a tale of two coasts. To the east, the Atlantic rears up and smashes onto the jagged rocks, while to the west the waves gently lap upon golden shores.
The third island discovered by Christopher Columbus, Long Island is hilly with limestone caves deserted beneath the sea. Agriculture is still very much a part of life here. Many Long Islanders engage in pot-hole farming, which involves planting in fertile holes in the limestone where good top soil collects. From these an abundance of peas, corn, pineapples and bananas are grown. Raising sheep, goats and pigs also provides a living for the inhabitants. Long Island is famous for its vegetables and cattles and supplies most of the islands with its farm goods.
There are lots of sites and historical points on Long Island and fantastic boutique hotels which are steps away from the beach offering panoramic views of the coastline. Diving is a favourite past time on Long Island which is home to some of the oldest dive operations in The Bahamas. Long Island is known for Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest recorded blue hole in The Bahamas (more than 600 feet).
The beach at Cape Santa Maria is a big draw for tourists, and is recognized by guests and travel writers alike as one of the best beaches in the world. Apart from the abundance of sea life Long Island has to offer, it is a quiet, quaint, picture perfect island, with friendly locals and great hospitality.
Behold the Beauty of The Bahamas
Hope Town Harbour Lodge Abaco
Hurricane Dorian Relief Efforts
The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism & Aviation and Industry Partners, Promote The Bahamas in Mexico
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The Bahamas Participates in the Airline Networking Conference, London
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English and Irish: variant spelling of Salmon.
Where is the Sammon family from?
You can see how Sammon families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Sammon family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Sammon families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1840 there were 4 Sammon families living in Georgia. This was about 36% of all the recorded Sammon's in the USA. Georgia had the highest population of Sammon families in 1840.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Sammon surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Sammon ancestors do for a living?
In 1880, a less common occupation for the Sammon family was Labourer. Laborer, Farmer and Keeping House were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Sammon. The most common Sammon occupation in the USA was Laborer. 22% of Sammon's were Laborers.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Sammon ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
What Sammon family records will you find?
There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Sammon. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Sammon census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Sammon. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the USA, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
There are 1,000 military records available for the last name Sammon. For the veterans among your Sammon ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions.
You've only scratched the surface of Sammon family history.
What is the average Sammon lifespan?
Between 1945 and 2004, in the United States, Sammon life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1954, and highest in 1999. The average life expectancy for Sammon in 1945 was 52, and 67 in 2004.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Sammon ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.


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Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 3 May 1967. The result was a victory for Park Chung-hee, who won 51.4% of the vote. Voter turnout was 83.6%.

Nominations

Military
The Democratic Republican Party National Convention was held on 2 February, and President Park Chung-hee was nominated as its presidential candidate without a vote.

Civilian
In May 1965, the two largest opposition parties in the parliament, former president Yun Posun's Civil Rule Party (CRP) and stateswoman Park Soon-cheon's Democratic Party (DP), joined to create the People's Party (PP), forming a united opposition against President Park Chung-hee's military dictatorship.

In 1966, however, the radical wing of the People's Party, led by Yun, left the party, later forming the New Korea Party (NKP) in 1966. The NKP and nominated Yun for president for the 1967 presidential election. The remaining members of the People's Party, the moderates led by Park Sang-cheon, nominated former president of Korea University Yu Jin-oh.

Fearing that running two candidates to represent the civilian field might result in helping Park win easily, the two parties decided to join forces and created the New Democratic Party (NDP) on 7 February, agreeing to nominate Yun as its candidate.

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References

1967 elections in South Korea
Presidential elections in South Korea


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IBM applies to patent drone security blockchain system
The application is the latest in a long list of patents the computing giant has applied for in recent years
Big DataBlockchainChief Data Officer
Caitlin Stanway-Williams
IBM has applied to patent a system that would use distributed ledger technology as a solution for drone privacy and security concerns.
The blockchain ledger would be used to store data associated with unmanned aerial vehicle flights, in particular when a security risk is suspected, the patent application outlined.
"The chain can be considered a chronicle of a UAV's path through time," the patent explained. "When a transaction is conducted, the corresponding UAV parameters are sent to one or more of the computing nodes in the system for validation. The one or more computing nodes establish a validity of the transaction and generate a new block. Once the new block has been calculated, it can be appended to the stakeholder's UAV blockchain."
It added: "Among many other advantages, the use of a blockchain infrastructure helps in identifying misbehaving UAVs by multiple parties and such activities are recorded in an immutable ledger."
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With the system, blocks could include a number of different data points that all relate to a drone's flight patterns, such as location, model number or any erratic behavior that's been logged.
The blockchain would also include variable block times that would change in response to environmental triggers.
CNN gave the example: "If a recreational drone flies too close to a restricted flight zone, it may trigger a risk flag, increasing the network's block time to provide airspace controllers with increased data on the UAV and, if applicable, its operator."
"Conversely, a drone carrying emergency medical supplies may be granted special permission to operate in restricted airspace since regulators can discern from blockchain data that it has the authorization to do so," CNN added.
The computing giant has recently shown a keen interest in becoming a key player in the blockchain industry as it was revealed that it has claimed second place in the most blockchain patents globally. In first place was Chinese technology firm Alibaba.
Last month, MarketsandMarkets revealed that the blockchain market is set to be worth $7.6bn by 2022.
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