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Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje
SAM SOLECKI
Published by: University of Toronto Press
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Ragas of Longing
InRagas of Longing, Sam Solecki offers the first book-length study of Michael Ondaatje's poetry and its place in his body of work. Relating the poetry to various poetic traditions from classical Tamil to postmodern, Solecki presents a chronological critical reading of Ondaatje's six volumes of poems. Among the study's concerns are the relationship between the poet's life and work, his poetic debts and development, his theory of poetry, and his central themes. Also present are close readings of Ondaatje's monographs on Leonard Cohen and Edwin Muir, the Scots' poet and critic.
Solecki suggests that Ondaatje's poetry can be seen as constituting a relatively unified personal canon that has evolved with each book building on its predecessor while simultaneously preparing the groundwork for the following volume. The author argues that Ondaatje's writing has a narrative unity and trajectory - a figure in the carpet - determined by crucial events in his life, especially the early breakup of his family and his subsequent exile from his father and place of birth. The result is a body of major poetry whose vision is post-Christian, postmodern and, despite an often humourous tone, fundamentally tragic.
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Introduction: ′the slight silver key′
(pp. 3-24)
According to the proverb, each book has its history. This one began or, perhaps more accurately, took on momentum because of what might be called two non-events: the relative lack of attention to poetry in the special Ondaatje issue ofEssays on Canadian Writing(Summer 1994) and, four years later, the relative silence in 1998 in Canada and abroad surrounding the publication ofHandwriting, to my mind one of the decade′s most original books of English poetry. Given the warm critical reception of the early poetry and the international success ofThe English Patientas novel and film, I find...
The Dainty Monsters: The Poetry of Myth and Evasion
(pp. 25-54)
Like its successor,the man with seven toes,The Dainty Monstersis an impressive apprentice work. Though none of the poems are of the standard of Ondaatje′s best later work (′We′re at the graveyard,′ ′White Dwarfs,′ ′Light,′ ′The Cinnamon Peeler,′ ′To a Sad Daughter′), and while ′the language Ondaatje uses is the language of conventional late-twentieth-century discourse′ (J.E. Chamberlin),² one can′t miss the presence of a technically adroit new voice with a supple range, an often violent verbal expressiveness, and a fully realized imaginative world. Also impressive, especially in a poet with an MA in English, is the relative absence...
Ondaatje′s long association with Coach House Press put him in touch with poets at the cutting edge of contemporary poetics as well as with book designers such as Stan Bevington who made him attentive to every aspect of book production. His sensitivity to the book as an aesthetic artefact is evident in his comment, in an interview in 1984, that ′it′s so important to me how a book looks – the quality of the paper, the way the words look on the page, the cover. I really feel that the writer is responsible for this as well as for the...
the man with seven toes: Point Blank
After the publication ofThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid(1970),the man with seven toes(1969) became something of a critical orphan in Ondaatje′s corpus. This outcome is unfortunate because this long sequence, though minor, is a problematic apprentice work, interesting in its own right, and a pivotal transitional book in his development. Its continuity with the books that surround it is obvious from some of the poet′s signature characteristics, though it reveals less of a felt autobiographical pressure. Ondaatje mentions in an interview that withthe man with seven toes′there was a jump from the self...
If because of some natural or historical disaster, only Ondaatje′s titles survived, the future could follow the curve of his poetic development by reading them in sequence. Their survival would also be enough to hint that he was a magician with titles. Though he hasn′t read Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the titles of his books and poems show him in fundamental agreement with the German writer′s comment that ′a title should not be a recipe. The less it reveals about the contents, the better it is.′¹ Adorno paraphrases this as saying that ′the work′s substance should on no account, on pain...
Rat Jelly: ′right to the end of an experience′
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IfThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid(1969) established Ondaatje as a writer to watch,Rat Jelly(1973) confirmed the promise he had shown inThe Dainty Monsters(1967) as a lyric poet. Its finest lyrics demonstrate not only the figurative flair, wit, and surreal imagination of his early work but an ambition in theme as well as a poise and maturity only hinted at a decade earlier. The first two sections of this closely organized collection – ′Families′ and ′Live Bait′ – develop situations and concerns similar to those in the earlier lyrics, but often display a range...
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With the exception ofthe man with seven toes, all Ondaatje′s books of poetry have epigraphs introducing the volume, the individual sections, or the poems. And while he rarely revises his lyrics – ′Billboards′ and ′Spider Blues′ are important exceptions – he has changed book and section epigraphs when reprinting selections fromThe Dainty MonstersandRat JellyinThere′s a Trick with a Knife I′m Learning to DoandThe Cinnamon Peeler. Because epigraphs are so common in Ondaatje – even his master′s thesis has two – we tend to forget while reading him that, once we get past...
There′s a Trick with a Knife I′m Learning to Do: Transition
There′s a Trick with a Knife I′m Learning to Do: Poems 1963–1978² contains both old work and new; it summarizes where Ondaatje has been – the title alone is an effective trope for the old – and in its Sri Lankan poems announces the shift in his poetics that will make possible the poems inRunning in the FamilyandHandwriting. There are few surprises among the selections fromThe Dainty MonstersandRat Jelly; of the ones included, I have never been impressed with ′Breaking Green′ or ′Sullivan and the iguana,′ neither of which strikes me as fine...
I predicted in an over-exuberant essay written nearly twenty years ago, ′Two generations from now all postmodernist fiction/writing will be read as autobiography.′¹ What I think I meant was that Ondaatje′s work seemed to me to be shaping itself into a coherent, often self-reflecting narrative which, among other things, could be read as a sometimes oblique, sometimes direct commentary on his life in a way that the work of, say, Margaret Atwood couldn′t. From the perspective of the millennium, this reading seems to me even truer than it did then. As I have argued, Ondaatje′s vision of life, though it...
Secular Love: It Runs in the Family
Few readers would claim that the poetry Ondaatje published beforeSecular Love(1984) has much in common with confessional writing. If anything, most of his earlier work stands opposed to that school′s constitutive assumptions, and even when his lyrics are personal, they are rarely intimate. The speaker in most of them seems to be Ondaatje, but he′s rarely interested in dealing directly with his most personal and most problematic emotions and situations: the voice is too laconic, the tone too detached, and the attitude to the self is ironic, on occasion even self-mocking. Yet we often sense that the artifice...
CANON II
One of the more interesting moments in Ondaatje′s interview with Eleanor Wachtel occurs in the following exchange:
ew: You don′t write much about Canada, except for your last novel and some of your poetry. Does that say something about your sense of self here?
mo: I think I write quite a lot about Canada. I don′t write essays or portraits of Canada, but a lot of what I felt about the country went intoIn the Skin of a Lion, and most of my poetry is about the landscape around me, the people and emotions around me. I don′t sense...
Handwriting: The Poetry of Return
Fourteen years separateSecular LoveandHandwriting, and it would be difficult to name two volumes of poetry published in succession by the same author that differ as obviously and as much as these do.Handwritingshows that Ondaatje has wrestled with his early figuratively congested style to produce lyrics that are as spare, short, and lapidary as Sanskrit love poems or the Sigiri Graffiti. The difference is as dramatic as that between early and late Montale or Merwin. WhereSecular Lovehas obvious affinities with the tradition of poetry in English, its successor alludes, from the opaque title of...
LAST WORD: ONDAATJE ON POETRY
[The Dainty Monsters] wasn′t written in that order, much more mixed up. Tho ′Peter′ was, if I remember, the last poem written. The poem in that book which I wrote first was either ′Sows′ or ′Song to Hitchcock and Wilkinson.′ The section and the order of the poems was something very carefully structured when I was getting the book together. That was and still is very important to me. (20)
The recent fashion of drawing journalistic morals out of literature is I think done by people who don′t love literature or who are not capable of allowing its full scope...
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Een ritueel is een opeenvolging van handelingen in een bepaalde volgorde en op een welbepaalde plaats.

Kenmerken
Rituelen zijn uitingen die in bepaalde omstandigheden herhaald worden. Deze uitingen kunnen bestaan uit enkele elementen maar ook uit een heel scala aan verschillende elementen.

De elementen waaruit rituelen kunnen bestaan zijn onder andere houding, mimiek, gebaar (mudra), dans, zang, woord, klanken, schreeuwen (joelen, jodelen), fluisteren, eten, vasten, drinken, slachten of zich verwonden (bijvoorbeeld door middel van flagellantie, tatoeage, verbranding, scarificatie, het aanbrengen van piercings, neus- en oorringen, circumcisie en vrouwenbesnijdenis). Het uiterlijk en het dragen (of de aanwezigheid) van bepaalde voorwerpen (in de vorm van vermomming, beschildering, het dragen van een masker, staf, wapen, hoofdtooi, kroon, mantel en andere attributen) speelt vaak een rol bij rituelen. In elk geval wordt een ritueel gekenmerkt door een herkenbaar patroon.

Wensen spelen een rol bij rituelen. Zo zijn er rituelen bij het doen van een wens, zoals het uitblazen van kaarsjes en het zingen van een lied bij een verjaardag. Ook het heffen van een glas en het klinken van kristal bij een heildronk zijn rituelen. Bepaalde gebeurtenissen vragen om rituelen, zoals het doen van een wens als men een vallende ster ziet of het verbranden van foto´s bij het eindigen van een relatie.

Rituelen lijken op vaste gewoontes. Ze hebben het echter in zich dat men meent er niet meer buiten te kunnen. Zo kan een blokje om voor het slapen gaan een vaste gewoonte zijn. Als men gaat denken dat men zonder dat blokje om niet goed zal kunnen slapen, dan wordt het een geritualiseerde gewoonte. Rituelen kunnen soms leiden tot automatismen, die ondoordacht worden gebezigd, zonder zich nog te realiseren waarom een bepaald ritueel nog wordt uitgevoerd. Een ritueel kan vaak een eigen leven gaan leiden, zonder dat nog ervaren wordt wat de oorspronkelijke betekenis van dat ritueel is geweest: te denken valt bijv. aan het aansteken van kaarsjes op straat na een ingrijpende gebeurtenis, zonder daarbij de oorspronkelijke kerkelijke achtergrond nog te ervaren.

Rituelen zijn heel belangrijk. Het vertrouwde karakter van het ritueel is van belang, zowel voor een individuele persoon, die zich erdoor op zijn/haar gemak voelt, als voor een samenleving, waarbinnen de (gedeelde) rituelen een bindmiddel tussen de personen zijn.

Rituelen hebben invloed op de psyche van de mens omdat ze vaak aansluiten bij het archetype volgens Jung. In de psychologie worden bepaalde vormen van compulsief gedrag ook rituelen genoemd.

In culturen
Een ritueel is inherent aan een bepaalde cultuur. In elke cultuur komen bepaalde rituelen voor. Vooral bij belangrijke fasen in het leven zoals geboorte, de overgang naar volwassenheid, huwelijk, religieuze en sociale verbintenissen en de dood. Maar ook als een persoon een nieuwe weg wil gaan en opnieuw wil beginnen. Zo werd vroeger de voordeur alleen gebruikt om een dode weg te dragen, zie ook doodweg.

Veel rituelen zijn tot stand gekomen in religieuze gemeenschappen. Ongeacht de specifieke verscheidenheid van sociale rituelen en hun diversiteit in tijd en ruimte, lijkt het bestaan van dergelijke praktijken universeel te zijn. Rituelen worden gekenmerkt door de nadruk op de vorm (de exacte uitvoering van een handeling is belangrijk), herhaling (het is pas een ritueel als het meermaals wordt opgevoerd) en symbolisme (rituele handelingen hebben symbolische betekenis).

In zijn eenvoudigste vorm kan een ritueel een bijna onmerkbaar knikken met het hoofd zijn. Als ander uiterste kan het een dagen- en nachtenlang durende, uitputtende gebeurtenis zijn waarbij afwisselend wordt gemediteerd en gevast op het ene moment en dan weer wordt overgegaan tot het gebruik van drugs (bijvoorbeeld alcohol, vliegenzwam, piment, soma, ibogaïne, ayahuasca en salvia divinorum), opzwepende dansen, seksuele uitspattingen, orgieën, zelfkastijding, zelfverminking en offeren aan de goden.

Hoewel de bekendste rituelen die uit kerkdiensten en orden zijn, is een ritueel niet per se godsdienstig. Niet-religieuze mensen kennen ook rituelen. Ook in bedrijven komen ze voor, bijvoorbeeld als iemand een jubileum heeft bereikt.

In de westerse religies kan als voorbeeld genomen worden de mis van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk met voorgeschreven gebeden, het knielen en staan en zitten op bepaalde momenten zoals bij een huwelijk, het opheffen van een kelk, het tonen van een stuk zuurdesembrood en het drinken van wijn en eten en zegenen van dat brood.

In Suriname vermengde de Afrikaanse voodoo zich met allerlei indianenrituelen, waaruit het huidige winti ontstond. Er zijn wereldwijd talloze mengvormen van rituelen die uit verschillende culturen zijn ontstaan, zoals bij Kwanzaa.

Rituele voorwerpen
Rituele voorwerpen worden vaak gezien als 'bezield': het zijn zogenaamde fetisjen.
 Totems
 Bepaalde wapens, zoals de kris, boline, athame en zwaard (denk aan 'iemand tot ridder slaan' met een zwaard)
 Bepaalde maskers (zoals de hannya) en andere hoofdbedekking (zoals een kroon, diadeem, tulband, infula of hoofdtooi, capite velato betekent in de Romeinse religie met ritueel bedekt hoofd)
 Bepaalde muziekinstrumenten (zoals de maraca's, snorrebot, sjofar, morin khuur, drum, trom, kulintang, klankschaal en gong - zie ook Gong-cultuur)
 Toverstaf, staf en andere attributen (zoals een spinrok, scepter en de vajra)
 Bepaalde ringen en andere sieraden
 Kleding en riemen, gordels en gespen, zoals een koningsmantel, gebedskleed of een cingulum
 Lampen (zoals een kaars, olielamp, lantaarn en een lampion)
 Voorwerpen zoals ovens, drinkhoornen, glazen, kommen, schalen, stoelen, kleden, badkuipen (zoals de perirrhanterion)
 Poppen en beelden (zoals de Stadsreus, Wicker Man of zoals gebruikt bij voodoo)
 Gebedsmolens
 Lichaamsdelen (menselijke en dierlijk), zoals een gekrompen hoofd

Rituele plaatsen

Er zijn veel verschillende soorten rituele plaatsen bekend over de wereld. In Europa zijn Kyöpelinvuori, Blockula, de Blocksberg en het Zwarte Woud bekend uit heksenprocessen.

In Ierland is Tara bekend, hier werden de Hoge Koningen gekroond.

Verschillende vormen

 Aarti
 Absoute
 Actus
 Afkloppen
 Anda, het ritueel
 Autodafe
 Bainian
 Bloedarend
 Bloedlatingsritueel
 Bruidroof
 Căluşari
 Carnaval is oorspronkelijk een omkeringsritueel, zie ook Maslenitsa
 Cheoyongmu
 Danoje
 Dans van Rangda en Barong
 Dauwtrappen
 De handschoen gooien en oppakken (een openingsritueel, zie tweegevecht)
 Een kruis maken met as op het voorhoofd op Aswoensdag
 Equus october
 Fordicidia
 Ganggangsullae
 Ganstrekken
 Gelede
 Ghost Dance
 Groet (zoals een Zonnegroet, het schudden van een hand, de knik met het hoofd, het opsteken van of zwaaien met een hand, het omleggen van een lei, een buiging of je hoofddeksel afnemen)
 Gule Wamkulu
 Haka
 Handoplegging
 Het aanbrengen van Tā moko (een vorm van scarificatie)
 Het aanbrengen van bepaalde tatoeages
 Het geven van een geschenk, zoals een speculaaspop of zoorholt
 Het leggen van de eerste steen
 Het lopen met vuur (bijvoorbeeld fakkels, lampionnen), zoals bij Sint Maarten
 Het naakte vragenvuur
 Hieros gamos
 Hula
 Iets inschenken, een glas heffen en/of iets drinken, zoals bij toearegthee, kraamanijs of een theeceremonie
 Ijele-maskerade
 Incubatie (tempelslaap)
 Inwijdingsritueel
 Kagami Biraki
 Kamerschieten
 Kankurang
 Kathakali
 Kecak
 Koppensnellen
 Koppermaandag
 Kora
 Koshikijima no Toshidon
 Kukeri
 Kula
 Labuhan
 Limbo
 Mak Yong
 Makishi-maskerade* Meiboom, het planten
 Mensenoffer
 Metworstrennen
 Mevlevi-dhikr
 Mikwe
 Molimo-ritueel van de Mbuti
 Neptunusritueel, bij het oversteken van de evenaar
 Nestinarstvo
 Oku-noto no Aenokoto
 Ommegang
 Ontgroening
 Perang Poepoetan
 Play-offbaard
 Proosten
 Pyebaek
 Regendans
 Ridderslag
 Rite de passage
 Rituelen in het boeddhisme
 Sadhana
 Salat (islam)
 Sanké mon
 Sbek Thom, zowel het maken van de 'poppen' als het spel
 Seppuku
 Slametan
 Stiersprong, zie ook stierenvechten
 Strooien of gooien van goederen (zoals as, confetti, rijst, kruiden, pepernoten)
 Surinaamse doodsrituelen
 Taipingqingjiao
 Tayammum
 Twaalf druiven
 Urtiin Duu
 Verblijf in een zweethut
 Vimbuza
 Voorouderverering
 vrijmetselarij
 Vruchtbaarheidsrite
 Vuurlopen
 Waarzeggerij
 Wichelarij
 Winti-prei
 Woedoe
 Zoenoffer

Studie
Rituelen worden in verschillende sociale wetenschappen bestudeerd. De sociale psychologie is geïnteresseerd in de interactie met andere leden van de groep tijdens het ritueel. Psychoanalyse heeft betrekking op de psyche van individuen. In de ethologie wordt de evolutionaire aard van de rituelen benadrukt. De klinische psychologie bestudeert vooral de bizarre privérituelen van dwangpatiënten en het ritualisme in alledaagse activiteiten dat te zien is bij autisten In de psychotherapie worden rituelen soms toegepast om de cliënt te helpen bij de verwerking van verlies en andere gebeurtenissen.

Instandhouding
Er wordt gepoogd traditionele rituelen te behouden. Zo worden bepaalde rituelen beschermd door plaatsing op de Lijst van Meesterwerken van het Orale en Immateriële Erfgoed van de Mensheid van UNESCO.

Zie ook
 Bijgeloof
 Ceremonie
 Europees Trefpunt voor Wereldreligies
 Feesten en rituelen tijdens de lente
 Godsdienstig gedrag
 Het trieste der tropen
 Paringsdans
 Ritueelbegeleiding
 Ritueel slachten
 Rituelen (boek)
 Satanisch ritueel misbruik
 Tengzug Shrines
 Traditie
 Volkscultuur
 Zondebok

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Have I mentioned how much I LOVE the Olympics? I love it all. The athletes, the spectacle, the performances, the pomp and circumstance of it all have me tuning in day and night to watch everything from curling to speed skating to slope style skiing and everything in between.
It struck me the other day that some of what makes the Olympics such a fun and spectacular event are also what makes social media fun, as well. Think I'm exaggerating? Take a look.
You can get caught up in the glitz and glamour.
The costumes. The sequins. The extravagance. Maybe you're consumed with over-reported details, or the commercials over-hyping athletes, but at some point you realize that the most compelling stories or performances aren't the ones with the most glitz and glamour. Sound familiar? Too often social media gets wrapped up in a blanket of superficiality. It's not about the number of fans, followers or likes you have — it's about the substance. If you're too easily seduced by the glitz and the glamour, you'll miss the extraordinary experiences.
Mistakes happen. It's how you recover that matters.
Were you watching when men's figure skater Jeremy Abbot fell during his short-skate program and remained still, curled up on the ice? Did you think that his Olympics was over? If you changed the channel, you missed the most incredible comeback performance in which the crowd motivated Jeremy to get up, dust himself off and skate the rest of his program beautifully.
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When it's done right, it's magical.
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Home Competition India Spelling Bee 19-20; The National Champions 2019-20 Announced !!!
India Spelling Bee 19-20; The National Champions 2019-20 Announced !!!
Kolkata : The NATIONAL FINALE of the India Spelling Bee, 2019-20 edition, was held on December 20, 2020, through online mode. The contest saw an engrossing and keen contest among the contestants who were the Regional Champions of their respective regions. This was the culmination of the 2019-20 edition of India's own popular Spelling Bee, the spelling contest for school children. The contest had thousands of school students from more than 20 states of India competing at the school level, regional level and then the National Level.
The main points are :
CONTEST NAME : INDIA SPELLING BEE, India's own National level Spelling Bee
CATEGORY : SPELLING BEE for School Students
PARTICIPATION : Students from schools across India of Class 1 – 9
GROUPS : Children divided into 5 groups as per the age
MODE : ONLINE due to PANDEMIC
URL : https://indiaspellingbee.com
GIFTS & PRIZES : National Level winner of each Group is awarded Laptop, Medals and certificates. Runners-up get Medals, certificates and gifts.
ORGANISER SPEAK : The contest this year, had to be converted to the ONLINE MODE, mid-way due to the COVID19 pandemic. This was a challenge as SPELLING BEE generally involves pronunciation and calling out of words. However, we have done research and developed new methods and types of questions and rounds to be able to have the contest in the online mode, successfully. The school authorities, parents and students have responded wonderfully with full cooperation. In fact, this has opened up a new thought process and the future editions will see more such contests being held online. Special care was taken to ensure that there was full transparency and monitoring, all the while ensuring that no child suffered due to any issue of technology.
The quality of competition and performances of the students were of a very high standard and as good as any in the world.
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Stewart is currently exhibiting Face to Face 7 in the 5th Triennial Textile Art of Today exhibition.
Textile Art of Today is an international touring exhibition of contemporary professional textile art and its latest trends. The exhibition presents innovative works which cross the boundaries of traditional textiles.
The exhibition will open on the 1st February 2019 at the Tatra Gallery in Poprad, Slovakia.
Further information on the exhibition is available at textileartoftoday.com.
This entry was posted in Exhibitions on January 1, 2019 by Stewart Kelly.
Stewart will be exhibiting Face to Face 9 in the forthcoming 2018 Chaozhou International Embroidery Art Biennale at the International Conference Center of Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, China.
The exhibition begins on the 18th December.
This entry was posted in Exhibitions on December 16, 2018 by Stewart Kelly.
Stewart will be exhibiting Face to Face 9 in the forthcoming exhibition From Lausanne to Beijing, 10th International Fiber Art Biennale, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
The opening event will be held on the 15th October and the exhibition continues until 15th November 2018.
Further information on the exhibition and symposium is available at www.chinafiberart.com.
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Stewart will be exhibiting Face to Face 7 in the 5th Triennial Textile Art of Today exhibition.
The exhibition will open on the 8th September 2018 at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava, before touring to several venues in Europe into 2019.
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For over twenty years, Stewart has exhibited his work in the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, USA and China.
Stewart is a member of the European Textile Network and the Surface Design Association.
I am currently exhibiting 'Face to Face 7' in the '5th Triennial Textile Art of Today' exhibition. 'Textile Art of Today' is an international touring exhibition of contemporary professional textile art and its latest trends. The exhibition presents innovative works that cross the boundaries of traditional textiles. The exhibition will open on the 18th April 2019 at the Slovácke Museum in Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic. Further information on the exhibition is available at textileartoftoday.com.
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Mural #10
10M X 8M (30' X 16'), Waterwheel Crescent
Artist: Dan Sawatzky
Painted in 1983.
Using an oval format, this mural shows an interior depiction of the Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. store, circa 1917. The artist recreated the deep perspective of the colourfully-laden shelves from old photographs.
D.A. Gatus was the store manager. He is seen standing in the mid-ground. Ann Porter worked as a clerk, and is pictured on the left behind the counter.
The V L & M Co. Ltd. used one of the first known credit card systems in the store. The purchaser would pay for the goods with coupons. In turn, the store would receive credit for the same from the company, which would deduct the amount from their employee's pay cheque.
The name "Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Co. Ltd.", and its trademark, the letter "V" in a diamond, became known throughout the world.
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Айкикай Хомбу доджо е школата, в която основателят на айкидо Морихей Уешиба започва да преподава разработеното от него бойно изкуство през 1931.

Понастоящем е седалище на Aikikai Foundation и на всички организации, практикуващи стила айкикай. Първоначално се нарича Кобукан доджо. Новата сграда е построена през 1967.

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Ali Fazal who has charmed everyone with his look and role in his upcoming Hollywood movie Victoria and Abdul is undergoing a transformation for his upcoming video-on-demand show, Mirzapur. The actor is gearing up to get tougher for his role in this show produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under Excel banner.
Ali will be seen playing an intense character of a gangster and it requires him to get a strong and rough physical appearance. He has been working a lot to build his body according to the character's requirement. He continued to workout throughout his international tour while he attended premieres for Victoria and Abdul around the world. The team has started shooting for the same in Benaras.
Mirzapur is a crime drama directed by Karan Anshuman and produced under Excel Banner.
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We are heading to the 6th edition of Farete the meeting where companies meet eachother.
This is a great chance to make business and get the other know you.
Competitoor will be there giving a workshop ok Wednesday 6th from 17.15 to 18.00, room number 4. You don't want to miss it so make sure you subscribe to the workshop here!
All the previous edition did get a great response with lots of partecipants. The last one hosted 15.000 people and 600 exhibitors. It is expected more from the edition of this year!
The first edition of Farete marked Confindustria Emilia, will be at Bologna Fiere.


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New Drug Shows Potential to Treat the Resistanat Strain of Malaria
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A new drug, Ganaplacide can clear malaria infection including strains that are resistant to the currently commonly used Artemisinin- based Therapies -ACTs, a new study done in seven malaria endemic countries including Uganda has shown.
According to a statement by Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company that manufactures the widely used antimalarial drug Coartem, the new drug which was given to phase two study participants in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Uganda and India is planned to be used as a once daily dose.
The study was conducted in two parts enrolling more than 500 patients with acute uncomplicated malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum infection. After successful evaluation of the treatment in 349 patients older than 12 years in Part A of the study, Part B enrolled 175 patients under 12 years of age.
In all studies they compared outcomes of the drug against the widely used combinations as the study control arm.
In children with acute uncomplicated malaria, response to treatment with Ganaplacide was similar to the rate observed in patients who received artemether-lumefantrine control therapy where more than 80% effectiveness was recorded.
Ganaplacide also demonstrated similar median parasite-clearing times compared to the control therapy and the solid dispersion formulation was also generally well tolerated in the children.
"The world needs a diversified pipeline of anti-malarial medicines, especially as we are faced with emerging resistance to current treatments," said Sujata Vaidyanathan, Head Global Health Development Unit, Novartis said in a statement accompanying the results.
"These results are definitely good news, but much more work remains. In a world where a child dies of malaria every two minutes we must continue to accelerate the progress in the development of new tools to save lives."
However, these results come shortly after a recent publication of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine found decreased sensitivity to artemisinin in Uganda, a year after the publication of similar research in Rwanda.
These ACTs were first introduced in 1999 when drugs like quinine and chloroquine which were on the government's antimalarial drug policy had started not only being ineffective in treating the disease but also had a host of side effects such as hearing loss and body itching among others.
Now, experts say with recent research pointing to resistance to the ACTs, there's an increasingly urgent need to develop a new non-artemisinin class of anti-malarials to avoid a return to the high levels of childhood mortality last seen in the 1990s where prevalence rates for Uganda were in the highs of 40%. Currently malaria prevalence rate is estimated at 9%.
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Outdoor rooms are the best place to spend time on cool evenings during summer, whether alone or with company. When daytime temperatures soar, it's a relief to look forward to more refreshing air when the sun goes down. Proper lighting is a priority, though, when you're spending more nights outside on the patio or deck.
When looks matter, decorative outdoor lamps are the ideal choice for providing lighting in your outdoor spaces because they are safer than indoor lamps. With weighted bases, weather resistant materials, and weather-proof grounded cords and plugs, outdoor lamps are perfect for use on decks, patios, and in outdoor rooms. Their stylish designs complement indoor as well as outdoor decor, though, so they can be used effectively and beautifully in interior spaces, too, if desired.
Taking advantage of the cooler evening temperatures this summer can be more meaningful when enough light is available to do more than just sit and relax. Enjoy a book, work on a hand crafting activity, or share smiling conversation with family and friends. Shedding a little light opens up more possibilities for your outdoor spaces.


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Irish Term Sheet jargon explained
A Term Sheet is a nonbinding agreement summarising the key deal terms of the funding round. It's one of the main negotiating tools between founders and investors.
This article explains the core deal terms that are negotiated that will define your round.
These deal terms can shift power in favour of either the investor or founder, so the art of Term Sheet negotiation is getting the balance right to safeguard everyone's interests but do so in a way that your round closes quickly and efficiently (we've seen rounds still open for months, with founders and investors haggling over some totally trivial deal term – that's not the way to scale your business).
The Term Sheet serves as a summary of the more details investment agreements (the Shareholders Agreement and Constitution) in the funding round. And while it's not legally binding, all investors will typically agree and sign the Term Sheet first, before the remaining agreements are generated.
Although there is a huge range of permutations the deal terms could take, at SeedLegals we've seen hundreds negotiated, with the outcomes falling into clearly defined norms – and below you'll see what's happening in the vast majority of funding rounds.
You can easily create your term sheet on the SeedLegals platform. Sign up free or book a call with a member of the team to learn more.
1. The valuation
The company valuation is simply how much equity is being given away in exchange for the investment amount. Deciding the valuation of an early stage company is often seen to be more of an art than a science, especially if the company is pre-traction or pre-revenue.
At SeedLegals we've decoded the factors that underpin early stage startup valuations, creating a quick cheat sheet to decide whether a valuation is in line with similar companies.
Our data shows that the mode amount of equity given away each round is 15%, and given that startups will usually raise enough to last the company for a 12-18 month runway, valuation can be extrapolated, and it's within the norm if it falls within the following brackets (pre-money valuation):
Idea stage: €300k – €500k
Prototype: €300k – €500k
Launched: €500k-€1m
Traction: €1m-€2m
Revenue: €1m-€3m
Scale: €3m+
Check out our more detailed article on how to value your startup.
2. Pre-emption rights
At every funding round, existing shareholders are diluted and the percentage of the company they own is reduced. This is because new shares have to be issued to give to new investors. To avoid being diluted, current shareholders may have the right to invest in the company and purchase additional shares prior to shares being made available to external shareholders. The right for them to do this is called a preemption right, and it's contractualized in the term sheet.
Pro tip: Investors are almost always granted preemption rights in early stage funding rounds.
3. Drag, Tag & Co-Sale Rights
These are rights of majority and minority shareholders in different scenarios. Usually in early stage rounds, the investors are minority shareholders, with the founders owning most of the equity – so these are rights designed to represent potentially competing interests.
Drag-along: This provision is designed for when an offer is made to buy the company. If a specified percentage of shareholders want to go ahead, then all shareholders will be forced to sell at that price.
The rationale for this provision is that buyers will be usually looking to buy the company as a whole, and drag along rights helps the company in their dealings with potential buyers by ensuring it is not held hostage by a few shareholders who refuse to sell.
A typical drag along is 75% – so three quarters of shareholders needed (by voting right) to sell the business on behalf of all shareholders.
Tag-along: Inversely, the Tag-along clause protects minority shareholders. In the event of an exit share sale by a majority shareholder, Tag-along extends the sales right to other shareholders, so that they can also sell their shares at the same price as the majority shareholder if they want.
Almost all experienced investors will expect to see these rights in the term sheet.
4. Investor Consent
Investor consent is one of the most contested items on the term sheet.
Since founders are usually the majority shareholders after early stage funding rounds, they generally have free rein to run the company with little external control. However, given that investors have put a large amount of money into the company, Investor Consent gives investors the right to veto certain key decisions.
These decisions include payments and salaries over a certain amount, taking on debts for the company – but they can extend to almost all elements of the company's business.
In the term sheet, it's also decided which investors will have Investor Consent e.g. the new investors, the existing investors (and this also might change depending on the class of share they are subscribing to).
Pro tip: Investor consent is extremely rare in friends and family funding rounds. Conversely it's extremely rare to have no investor consent provisions in angel / VC rounds.
5. Board members
Investors will often ask for a board seat, known as an Investor Director position. Founders need to decide whether or not to allocate investors a seat on the board or not, our data shows that founders end up giving Investor Director positions much more often than they initially planned to.
There are a number of factors that usually influence the appointment of an investor to the board, including whether all shareholders are represented and the value add of the investor's experience to the board's proceedings.
Angels:
After an angel round investors will normally have a significant shareholding in the company, and they more often than not will be an ally of the founder. However, if a founder is only giving away a small amount of equity and the chosen director will not provide a lot of value add – then it would not be advisable having them on the board at this time.
Funds and VCs:
Funds and VCs invest larger amounts and want to have more control over a company's decisions and typically demand a board seat. They have a duty of care towards their investors' money – so seek to both mitigate risk and ensure maximum return on investment.
Good VCs are experienced – so their expertise is often a welcome addition to the board and are generally aligned with the company – so with this power they can sometimes decide to steer the company in a different direction.
As with all investors – it's like getting married with no means of divorce – so founders need to do their homework and the more they put into the company, the higher their demands are going to be.
6. Board approvals
Whereas the day-to-day running of the company is left to the CEO and Executive team, for some decisions the board's approval is needed. In very early stage companies, the board is usually only comprised of the founders and the approval is by default. But in the case that the board is comprised of external people, the term sheet is where it's outlined what range of activities will need board approval.
Pro tip: Board approval sits below investor consent, so a situation could arise where items are approved by the board, but potentially vetoed by investors with investor consent rights.
7. Preference Shares & Liquidation Preference
There are two main types of share in a startup: Ordinary shares and preference shares.
Simplifying massively the ordinary shares are – well – ordinary. They don't get special treatment compared with other share types.
Preference shares are treated differently. The two main preferential rights they receive are liquidation preferences and anti-dilution.
A liquidation preference is all about what happens to the proceeds of a startup – be it through an exit sale or a winding up of the company.
If all shareholders own ordinary shares, the total amount raised from the sale is paid back equally to all shareholders, proportional to the number of shares they own.
However, if there are shareholders with preference shares, those investors get their money back first before the ordinary shareholders get paid – and sometimes even get twice or three times the amount they invested before any other shareholders see any proceeds.
Anti-dilution is protection against being diluted by new funding rounds. The most common anti-dilution provisions are around the company raising at a lower valuation for their next round – so their investment value remains the same and as a result their actual % in the company increases.
8. Founder Loans
Founders often put their own money into their business in the early days, as a founder (or director) loan. This is money that can repaid to the founder.
This forms part of the term sheet, which also specifies under which condition it will be repaid. There are several ways of it being treated – repaid now – or from the company's free cash flow, converting into shares in the round are two such examples.
It can be difficult for a founder to convince an investor to repay their money – but as this money comes tax free – it makes sense for it to form part of the founders payments through the business.
9. Instant Investment
Instant Investment is a structure pioneered by SeedLegals which enables founders to accept a portion of their target raise now, and top up later using the same agreements.
This means that founders can get funds in now and not wait until all of their investors are lined up in the round – as some can join the party later.
A majority of founders on SeedLegals enable this in the Term Sheet to allow them flexibility with their fundraising going forward. It's important for a founder to negotiate with investors the total amount of potential new investment, and for how long a founder can top up using the facility for.
10. Warranties: Liability Caps & Floors
When you complete a funding round you are making certain guarantees to your investors – for example that the cap table is correct, the business isn't being sued – that it owns all of its own IP etc.
The Warranties come in if a founder breaks the terms in the investment agreement or fails to disclose some of those things above that might affect an investors willingness to invest.
What is a Warranties liability cap?
A cap is usually set per founder which basically outlines how much they would personally be liable for. It's customary to cap the liability of the founders to 1x their annual salary – though if the founder isn't being paid anything yet – then a fixed figure comes in – on SeedLegals normally around £20,000.
What is a Warranties liability floor?
A floor is the opposite of a cap. The cap limits your maximum liability, the floor is the level below which a claim is ignored. For example, if the floor is set to £10,000 and the investors want to make a claim against the company for £5,000, it would be considered too small to bother with, and dropped.
If you'd like to discuss the terms of your upcoming funding round, hit the chat bubble to talk to our team of experts or book a call with a member of the team.


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Estimates & Work Orders
How to create a Quarterly Work Order Series
Create a recurring appointment that automatically schedules every quarter
From the customer's location page, click the Create a new... button and select Work Order
On the Billing tab add the service description, adjust the price, if necessary, etc.
On the Schedule tab, select the tech.
Select the frequency Quarterly.
Select the week of the service, in this example the service will be the second week the quarter.
Select the day of the week, in this example the service will be on Tuesday.
The Select Day(s) must match First Service Date. Otherwise, you'll have two appointments the first month. In this example, October 8, 2019, is the second Tuesday.
Enter the Duration and Start Time.
Click the Save button and you have a series created in that customer's Work Orders tab. This example shows a quarterly series starting on the second Tuesday of every quarter.
The system generates a year's worth of appointments. As the newest appointments are completed the system appends the end of the list with additional appointments so you never have to remember to create more services.
See these articles for creating other Work Order frequencies:
How to create an Annual Work Order Series
How to create a Seasonal Work Order Series
How to create a Semi-Annual Work Order Series
How to create a Tri-Annual Work Order Series
How to create a Bi-Monthly Work Order Series
How to create a Monthly Work Order Series
How to create a Weekly Work Order Series
How to create a Daily Work Order Series


Generally these arise from containment of tension in the system.
Anxiety and insecurity, perfectionist strivings or the avoidance of issues and suppression or the displacement of aggression commonly trigger these behaviours. Self harm is at the extreme end of this spectrum and has a much more complex structure.
Many conditions involve deep processes which adapt ordinary behaviours to release tensions. The particular form the habit adopts often arises from suggestion taken on in unnoticed ways. Undue attention & pressure from others to desist often merely amplify the pattern.
Nail-biting, stammering or hair-pulling may be caused by anxiety or anger - or something entirely different. Teeth-Grinding (or Bruxism) or Jaw Clenching or TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular Jaw Syndrome ) like bed-wetting often happen at night and - cause persistent & painful aches.
Effective treatment depends on careful analysis of the underlying problem structure.
Incompetent attempts to eliminate the symptoms generate resistance; failure to remedy underlying psychological or systemic problems results in no change or worsening of the condition. Symptoms may be displaced and re-emerge in other forms.
Really competent Ericksonian practitioners working very cleanly and systematically - can use deep-state work effectively with people who are too fragile, vulnerable or too deeply defended to allow cause or process to be identified in detail.
Working this way demands great imagination, clear & systematic procedure - and courage. This level of competence is rare.
Generally you can tell after brief conversation with a therapist whether their thinking is clear and elegant enough for you to be confident in their ability.


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iamamiwhoami will perform on Sunday, July 21, 2013, from 16:55 to 17:45 on BBC Radio 6 Music Stage.
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Awarded the 'Best Tease of the Past 12 Months' by BBC Radio 6 Music last year, iamamiwhoami is an audio-visual project led by Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee that emanates from their own YouTube channel. The project merges electronic dream pop and film together with a compelling storyline like nothing you will have seen before. The 2011 winner of a Swedish Grammy award for 'Innovator of the Year', iamamiwhoami's first release came in typically mysterious fashion in 2009 when handpicked music bloggers received an anonymous email linking to an instrumental music video on YouTube video, the first of six. With rumours spreading about who was behind it all, the videos spread like wildfire across the internet and Jonna's involvement was eventually confirmed in 2011 after a series of follow up videos entitled 'bounty'. The following year, iamamiwhoami started posting videos in the 'kin' series, the songs from which were later collected in a physical album, with the 'bounty' album following this June. Now Jonna steps out of the videos to bring her iamamiwhoami project to life on stage. Don't miss it.
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For The Love Of Dallas
March 31, 2015 By Tessa McKenzie
On April, 2 1978 Dallas premiered to the world. It was originally scheduled to be a five part mini series about a man and woman from two rivalry families— Romeo and Juliet kind of love story. After the mini became a success, producers moved forward in making another season.The show slowly picked up an audience as it's popularity grew. These new seasons were 25-26 episodes per season. The formula that the writers, producers, and actors had created was a phenomenon. The fans were intrigued by the backstabbing, family struggles, and affairs. Viewers were glued to their televisions every Friday night to see what was next for the Ewings at Southfork Ranch. The show's writers created just the right mix of struggles of love and hate, greed and compassion, and wealth and power. The multiple storylines kept the viewers, and more and more viewers kept the ratings rising. With every season the show grew in popularity. This fact was very apparent after the 1980 cliffhanger, "Who Shot J.R." aired. Everyone wanted to know who was the culprit. The big, rich, oil family known as the Ewings had struck it big!
Dallas was translated into 67 languages in over 90 countries. Even Queen Elizabeth herself asked Larry Hagman who shot his character on the show! It was an international success. The show had global appeal that everyone wanted to be a part of. It was a melodramatic pleasure that made the viewers feel as if they were living this rich wealthy lifestyle right along side of the Ewings. The international audience was definitely key to the success of Dallas. Dallas was a turning point in global television history because of its international appeal.
When TNT decided to do a reboot of the show, fans were ecstatic! The internet blew up with stories of the famous show being revived. Old and new fans eagerly awaited the arrival of the rebooted Dallas! The shows creators slowly released the cast of the show. Once Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, and Linda Gray confirmed their parts on the new show, the old fans went crazy. Next the "new cast" was announced, and the younger fans were drawn into the mix. As a fan of the original Dallas, I must say that I was skeptical at first. How were they going to pull this off? Will the new show be as good as the old one?
To all you would-be Dallas fans out over the Globe, you would have and will again too love Dallas! Head writer of Dallas 2.0, Cynthia Cidre balanced the old Dallas with the new one with great aplomb. It was almost as if she had written for the old Dallas back in the 80's! We at LTAS applaud her for that. She honored the old actors and fans by writing story for actors that stayed true to character.
Some have wondered how the Dallas reboot survived the death of iconic character, JR Ewing, played by Larry Hagman. We at LTAS say it was the same way it survived the death of another iconic character in the 80s, Jim Davis who played Jock Ewing. Again, by staying true to character. And honoring Dallas' history by giving the 20-year-love-story between JR and Sue Ellen the respectful closure it deserved, so heartbreakingly played by Linda Gray, who truly deserved an Emmy for her portrayal of Sue Ellen.
When the Dallas reboot was, well, rebooted, with John Ross and Christopher, it was as if we hadn't missed an episode in 20 years—in no small part due to the eye candy that John Ross and Christopher had grown into. Bobby was still the patriarch of the Ewing family, ever the peacemaker. The Barnes/Ewings feud hadn't lost it's power and was more exciting than ever! Here in the U.S. we were left with a nail-biting cliffhanger when Dallas 2.0 left the airwaves.
To non-U.S.-resident-readers: for the love of Dallas, we ask you to unite with us and bring back Dallas. Warner Brothers now owns the rights to Dallas, so we must put pressure on the to return Dallas to its original home, CBS and to your countries out there. If you don't speak or write English, write to CBS and Warner Brothers in your language—the top executives at CBS have translators!
I was pleasantly surprised overall at how well the reboot turned out. The head writer of the TNT reboot, Cynthia Cidre, did an excellent job at bringing in new viewers and tying in old facts to make the show a success. Unfortunately after the 3rd season of the Dallas reboot, (readers, we refer you to our previous blog on the Dallas reboot) TNT cancelled it. So many fans were devastated and rallied behind the show. #SaveDallas became a common hashtag on Twitter every single day. There are still tweets, Facebook posts, and petitions to #SaveDallas all over the Internet. Dallas fans remember: Don't give up, keep posting, and long live Dallas!
Cynthia Cidre, in one of her many brilliant moves, honored the original Dallas and two of its most beloved characters by having Jock and Miss Ellie's portraits hanging in South Fork. Now its time for Dallas fans to honor those characters' memories as well by bringing Dallas home!
When we all, U.S. fans and fans the world over unite and bring Dallas back, Dynasty will follow, and eventually, so will so many of our beloved Daytime soaps, starting with All My Children and One Life to Live on ABC!
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Dallas Fans:
Here is a link to a CBS feedback form (choose other not listed): http://www.cbs.com/feedback/
Warner Bros Bring back Dallas home to CBS.
http://www.warnerbros.com/studio/news/press-contacts
They try to make you choose what you're messaging them about from a list of their current shows, but I'm pretty sure you can not choose any. Or choose a random one, and then in the body of your message write about Dallas!
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Molecular Neuroscience Group
Shining Light on Neurodegeneration
Prof. Gabriele Kaminski Schierle
is head of the Molecular Neuroscience Group, co-director of the Cambridge Infinitus Research Institute (CIRCE), and director of the new Cambridge MPhil in Biotechnology. Gabi studied Biology at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland and did her Ph.D. in Medicine on Neural Transplantation in Parkinson's disease at Lund University, Sweden. She has since set-up a centre in the application of modern biophysical methods for the study of mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases
Dr Ana Fernandez-Villegas
joined the group in 2017. She studied Chemistry and she did her Ph.D. in immunology on tropical diseases at the University of Granada (Spain). In the molecular neuroscience group, she looks at the aggregation of α-synuclein and underlying mechanisms. The main focus of her work it to elucidate the role of α-synuclein using primary dopaminergic neurons.
Dr Meng Lu
received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge where he studied synthetic biology and cell engineering. He joined the Molecular Neuroscience Group in 2016. The main topic of Meng's research is applying super-resolution imaging, mainly SIM, to investigate the dynamics of intracellular macromolecules, such as protein aggregates, and interaction of organelles.
Dr Bismoy Mazumder
joined as a post-doc for CIRCE project in 2019 after finishing his PhD in Cell and Molecular biology from University of Nottingham. The main research area of Bismoy's project in Cambridge is to analyse the biological activity of natural compounds. The major focus of the project is to understand the molecular regulators of protein homeostasis in cells to provide potential strategies for the treatment of liver diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and brain development.
Dr Nino Läubli
joined the group in June 2021. He studied mechanical engineering and did his Ph.D. in acoustofluidics at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland). The main topic of Nino's research is the use of microfluidic devices and acoustic manipulation for the study of neurodegenerative diseases in model organisms.
Ernestine Hui
Ernestine Hui is a Graphene CDT PhD student with a background in Materials Science and Engineering. Her project is to develop a graphene-based brain on a chip platform to study neurodegeneration.
Sagnik Middya
obtained his B. Tech in Electronics and Electrical Engineering (with a Biotechnology minor) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India in 2017. After his graduation he worked on developing biosensors for point of care diagnosis of diseases (e.g. pancreatitis). He joined the Sensors CDT in 2018 and is currently pursuing a PhD. He presently works on transparent microelctrode arrays for electrophysiology and imaging.
Marius Brockhoff
Marius has a background in Physics and completed a M.Phil. in Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a third-year PhD student and he is working on electrophysiologically investigating the neuron-type specific pathology of Tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Naunehal Singh Matharu
Naunehal is a PhD student with a background in neuroscience. His research is focused on TDP-43 aggregation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis cell models. He is also based at the Centre for Misfolding Diseases under the supervision of Prof. Tuomas Knowles.
Yuqing Feng
Yuqing is a second-year PhD student with a background in chemistry. After completing the MPhil in Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, she is currently studying the physiological role of alpha-synuclein in neurons and the pathological role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease.
Belquis Haider
Belquis is a first-year PhD student with a mechanical engineering background (BSc American University in Cairo, 2019) and a European photonics technologies background (Aix-Marseille and Tampere Universities, 2020/1). The focus of her research is on developing a microfluidic platform to study neurodegenerative disease integrating optogenetics, microelectrode arrays, and organoids.
Stefany Kissovsky
Stefany received her BEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, from the University of Southampton in 2020. She then completed MRes in Sensor Technologies at the University of Cambridge. She is currently a first-year PhD student, studying the role of brain cholesterol in neurodegenerative diseases by fabricating biosensors from organic electrochemical transistors.
Sofia Kapsiani
Sofia is a PhD student between the group and AstraZeneca. Her background is in chemistry and bioinformatics and her PhD involves investigating cellular responses to drug exposure.
Rohan Krajeski
Rohan joined the unit in 2022 as a PhD student. His work focuses on using human brain organoids to study Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurological disease that affects the neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement.
Jakob Träuble
Jakob graduated with a BSc in Physics from LMU Munich. After completing the MPhil in Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, he is now using machine learning to study neuronal activity and brain elasticity.
Alexandra Grba
Alexandra graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College London in the summer of 2022 and recently joined the MNG group as an MPhil by Research student. Her project involves the use of Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) to probe the intracellular effects of Tau.
Chyi Wei Chung completed her Ph.D. on live intracellular spatio-temporal temperature sensing to determine the energy flow and cost of amyloid aggregation in 2022.
Dr. Amberley Stephens joined the group from 2014-2022 as a Post-Doc to study monomeric α-synuclein under different environmental conditions, in particular α-synuclein's interaction with water, ions and synaptic vesicles, and how these interactions can affect aggregation propensity.
Maria Zacharopoulou completed her Ph.D. focusing on α-synuclein aggregation under different environmental conditions. She worked with Hydrogen/Deuterium-exchange Mass Spectrometry to determine how the sub-molecular structure and dynamics of monomeric α-synuclein impact aggregation.
Molly Davis is a masters student with the NanoDTC: she did her undergrad in Material Science and Engineering at Swansea University. Her project was working on inhibiting biofilm formation by targeting bacterial amyloids with small molecules.
Brandon Spencer Lockey studied biological natural sciences at Cambridge and did his 4th year in systems biology, where he was doing a project modelling the effect of cholesterol on Parkinson's disease using hybrid functional petri nets.
Madeleine Richer studied part III systems biology in Cambridge and was working on a project to computationally model the biological network involved in Alzheimer's disease.
Sara Wagner Valladoid completed her Ph.D. funded by the BBSRC doctoral training partnership program. Her research is focused on investigating the formation of aggregates in aging and neurodegeneration using fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy.
Stas Makarchuk joined the group in 2019. He studied Biophysics and did his Ph.D. in cancer cell mechanics at the University of Strasbourg (France). In the molecular neuroscience group, he studied localisations of alpha-synuclein proteins in the synapse by using super-resolution microscopy techniques and electrophysiology
Shianne Chhangur was an MPhil student with a background in Biochemistry. In the molecular neuroscience group, she applied STORM microscopy to investigate the localisations of alpha-synuclein proteins with calcium channels and SNARE complexes.
Miranda Robbins was a Sensor CDT Ph.D. student. She has a background in Molecular Biology and Neuroscience. With MedImmune, she investigated whether tau trafficking can be inhibited, with a particular focus on synaptic mechanisms.
Philippa Hooper did her Ph.D. working in collaboration with the Cambridge Graphene Centre. She developed devices with transparent graphene electrodes to combine electrophysiological measurements of neuronal activity with fluorescence imaging.
Jhalique Jane Fojas worked on developing an integrated microfluidic-nanosensor system for neuro-functional imaging and neurotransmission detection. This novel platform will be used to understand the pathological mechanism of common neurological diseases through protein misfolding and molecular transport studies.
Dr. Ajay Mishra joined this group in December 2016 as Head of Biology for CIRCE (Cambridge Infinitus Research Centre). His goal at CIRCE was to investigate the molecular regulation underlying cellular stress in aging and neurodegeneration.
Dr. Colin Hockings received his Ph.D. at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, studying how the Bcl-2 family of proteins regulate cell death. In the molecular neuroscience group, he examined the propagation of tau, with special attention to how glial cells are involved.
Dr. Janin Lautenschläger joined the group 2015 after finishing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Jena University Hospital (Germany). She looked at the aggregation of α-synuclein and underlying mechanisms. The main focus of her work was to elucidate how mitochondrial dysfunction and α-synuclein aggregation are cross-linked, in primary dopaminergic neurons.
Marlene Schmidt was a master's student of the Neuronal iPSC Group from the Philipps-University Marburg in Germany. She used advanced microscopy to address Tau-related questions in isogenic cell lines from Apolipoprotein E 4/4 (ApoE; the major genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD)) AD-patients.
Liliia Bahrova was doing the final semester of a MONABIPHOT masters program (Molecular nano- and bio-photonics for telecommunications and biotechnologies). She was working on revealing the role of Alpha-synuclein in the process of synaptic vesicle exocytosis with neuronal cells using expansion microscopy combined with SIM.
Dr. Nadya Nespovitaya joined the group in 2014. Initially, she was trained as a biochemist and during her PhD at ETH Zurich studying reversible functional aggregation of neuropeptides and hormones she became interested in physical chemistry and biophysics of protein aggregation. In the group, Nadya worked on mechanisms of amyloid templating by means of dSTORM and STED/AFM correlated microscopy.
Dr. Ya Zhou started in the group in December 2015 as a joint Postdoc with Prof. Gillian Bates from UCL Huntington's Disease Centre. She has a PhD in Neuroscience from King's College London. She was working on the underlying mechanism of seeding and polymerization of Huntingtin.
Dr. Suil Collins was a Ph.D. student funded by the BBSRC doctorate training partnership program. She was working on the identification and development of small molecules capable of inhibiting the aggregation of amyloidogenic proteins, in collaboration with the groups of Prof David Spring and Dr Florian Hollfelder.
Na Yu joined the group at 2013 funded by EPSRC. Na's Ph.D. research was focused on developing microfluidic devices to investigate protein aggregation in Alzheimer's disease using super-resolution. Na was working with Claire on the propagation of Tau.
Dr. Kevin Feeney is a molecular biologist who uses cell models to study biological systems such as the circadian clock. He worked on the role of metals in the cell and how it functions as a link between aging, circadian timekeeping and the development of neurological diseases.
Dr. Claire Michel started in the group in 2010. She has pioneered the study of exogenous Tau propagation from cell to cell.
Genevieve Simpson started in the group in Oct 2015 as a Master's student. She has a BSc in Neuroscience and worked with fluorescent proteins to monitor the movement of tau within primary hippocampal neurons, subsequently aiming to visualise its movement across the synapse.
Samantha Beck joined the group as a research assistant after passing her Master's degree. She was in charge of cell cultures and interacted closely with team members to conduct biological experiments.
Dr. Dorothea Pinotsi joined the group in 2012, she is a trained physicist and works at the interface between biology and physics. She pioneered the intrinsic fluorescence on amyloid proteins and on α-synuclein strain formation.


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Can an Employer Legally Let Someone Go Who Is on Workers' Comp?
While workers' compensation is a right that is extended to any employee that is hurt while on the job, there is often a question as to whether or not this right applies for illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants are typically hired as undocumented workers and therefore do not fill out the normal process and paperwork required of other employees. This is illegal for companies to do, under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, however when companies do it anyways, it creates awkward scenarios with regards to workers' compensation.
When it comes to workers' comp for undocumented employees, the individual State law dictates how it is handled. In some states, including Florida, undocumented workers are still eligible to receive workers' compensation if they are injured while on the job. In others however, they are not eligible because they are not designated as employees and therefore do not receive the same benefits.
Undocumented workers are more often than not immediately terminated after they are found out to be illegal immigrants, which unfortunately also disqualifies them for workers' compensation benefits. However, there are exceptions to this, namely if they had legal documents to work, but then those documents expired. Since they were official employees for a certain amount of time, they are thereby eligible for workers' comp from the employer at any time. Again, the nature of this situation does depend on the State law.
If you or someone you know is in the midst of a workers' comp claim and believe that you are unjustly treated or have your claim denied, you may have grounds for a lawsuit to win workers' compensation benefits. At the Franco Firm, we are well-versed in workers' compensation law and can help you win your case with ease. To schedule a free consultation with us today, please call (813) 872-0929.


This Hidcote hypericum, commonly called St. John's Wort or Aaron's Beard was given to us by my mother-in-law about 20 years ago. We never knew how much bees like it until recently, when we started keeping bees…but like it they do. I often stop to watch them in a frenzy hurriedly climbing over and through the anthers. Hidcote hypericum grows in a bush unlike the Hypericum Calycinum, Creeping St. John's Wort, that grows along the ground.
These two bees got into a disagreement over who gets to work the flower. I didn't see it until I played the video on the laptop. The bee on the left was working the blossom first. I slowed down the action on the video so you could see it better.
Bee sideswipes an innocent insect on side of crocus.


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Sascha Segan Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Verizon's new LTE network is a great bet for road warriors, but it's so far too expensive to change the mobile Internet game.
Verizon Wireless 4G LTE
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Super fast. A global standard. Solid coverage in 38 metro areas.
Tight data caps. Only currently available on two USB modems. No Mac support.
Verizon's new LTE network is a great bet for road warriors, but it's so far too expensive to change the mobile Internet game.
Device Choices
Right now Verizon has the slimmest device choices of the major 4G networks: just two USB sticks, neither of which are officially compatible with Macs. The LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 both cost $99.99 with a two-year contract, or $249.99 without.
We'll have full, comparative reviews of those products soon, but they're both definitely first-generation devices. They're chunky, they lack the useful external antenna ports and MicroSD card readers you see on other modems, and they take up to two minutes to hand off between 3G and 4G networks when you reach the edge of a 4G coverage area.
Things aren't going to stay this way for long, though: LTE hotspots are coming. Verizon plans to introduce several LTE phones and tablets at January's CES trade show, and the first LTE phones will probably appear on shelves by May.
Sprint and T-Mobile both have more device choices. Sprint has a broad range of WiMAX devices including smartphones and hotspots. T-Mobile's position is trickier, because the carrier's two 4G phones can't hit the maximum speed of its HSPA+ network, but T-Mobile assured me more phones and tablets will be coming in 2011.
Verizon's service plans aren't bad for 3G, but they're really limited and expensive for 4G. With its fast access, LTE encourages you to use a lot of data. Various uses that would take too long, or seem too cumbersome on 3G are effortless on LTE. Downloading large files and streaming full-screen video worked perfectly in my tests.
This means if you're using LTE more than occasionally, you'll be sure to run into Verizon's 5GB (for $50/month) and 10GB (for $80/month) data caps quickly. Verizon sends users four different text messages when they're approaching their caps, so the carrier isn't trying to fool you into going over. If you do go over, however, each additional GB will cost you $10.
At Verizon's stated average speed of 8.5Mbps, you can soak up 5GB in an hour and 18 minutes. Or you could kill your 5GB by watching four movies on Netflix. Clearwire, the most established 4G provider, says its average user goes through 7GB/month; some European LTE providers have quoted 15GB of average usage per month. Verizon would charge a whopping $130/month for that much data.
Sprint's unlimited 4G plans are much more liberal, and more realistic for heavy users. Clearwire's Rover unit also offers unlimited WiMAX prepaid for $50/month.
Verizon's LTE is the fastest mobile broadband available today by far. For business mobile broadband users who need to access critical data on the go, it's the best bet. The current generation of modems, while a bit clunky, is acceptable and should provide good performance.
This network doesn't offer much to consumers yet, though. Unlike Sprint, Verizon isn't yet seeking to create new uses or break into new markets. We'll see if that changes in 2011, but for now average consumers have more options (and will have more fun) with Sprint's WiMAX system.
Bottom Line: Verizon's new LTE network is a great bet for road warriors, but it's so far too expensive to change the mobile Internet game.
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If you could take them individually, the voices inside your head when you stand over a golf ball might be saying all the right things.
There's a better way. There has to be.
1 Swing Thought (www.1swingthought.com) wants to point you down the path to spiritual enlightenment, one golf swing at a time. It's Zen, but better than that it's practical.
1 Swing Thought, in product form, is a sticker that is applied to the top of the clubhead on a driver, fairway wood or hybrid with one of several sayings or visuals that help you think good thoughts on the course.
The stickers are waterproof, easy to apply and remove, and not easily dislodged by a headcover sliding on and off. They work on your choice of dark-colored clubheads or white.
In fact, for Smith, 53, a marketing consultant by trade, the new white driver heads hitting the market looked like nothing so much as miniature blank billboards … that golfers see as much as 14 times a round.
The first sticker Smith produced was "Swing Eaasssyy," and it's still the most popular. As momentum slowly builds for his concept, he says, other ideas for sticker phrases are flowing in.
My golf teacher says he could tinker with my swing mechanics forever and it wouldn't mean anything until I learn to keep my head still over the ball, 'til I stop swaying side to side, 'til I maintain my spine angle through the swing.
For me to get there, then, the best sticker is the simplest. It might be the purest and most common sports mantra of all: Keep your eyes on the ball.
For golfer brains that process pictures better than text, 1 Swing Thought offers stickers depicting proper swing path, or alignment to the target, or keeping the head trained on the ball through impact.
I haven't played much with the "Eyes on the ball" stickers on my driver and hybrids, but I like them already. I did keep my head on the ball more often through impact, and stood up out of my posture a few less times. Most of all, it helped me think less in general, which is never a bad thing.
Writings about the mental/mystical/spiritual side of golf all seem to focus on a mind uncluttered by too much synaptic activity. It maybe doesn't even matter what's in your brain, just that the number of conscious thoughts is a low number … like maybe one.


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