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FF What was your first memory of playing the drums?
NB We were staying at my aunt and uncle's house in Pennsylvania, and my cousin, who I think is 7 or 8 years older than me was a drummer, and had a drumset, and, I always remembered everytime going over there, I'd always want to get on that thing and beat it and I thought that was so cool, so, he taught me my first drum beat there.
FF How old were you at the time?
NB I was 10, or 11.
FF So, you were automatically drawn to the drums?
NB Yeah, once I saw him play, I was like, "That's really cool." And I just wanted to learn how to do that.
FF Whenever you were visiting there, you would get on the drums?
NB Exactly.
FF So, what did you do in the meantime? Because, a lot of kids ask me, "How do I get my first drumset?", or, "How do I get started playing on a drumset?", and I actually recommend, you know, if you have a friend who has drums, use their drums. So, what was the next step?
NB What I did, I think my cousin kind of encouraged me... I got one of those Remo drumpads, for Christmas, along with a pair of drumsticks...
FF Still 10 years old?
NB Yeah, I just kinda started doing that, and then I decided I want to get in the school band, so, the summer after that Christmas, I guess it was, we found a guy, and I started taking lessons. During the summer, the guy kinda operated like, you'd go an hour a day for 5 days, that's how he did it during the summer, because he did different kind of scheduling then I guess... and it was like a crash course in drumming, so you'd kind of know what you were doing when you go join the concert band, or whatever. So I did that, and I had my drumpad and drumsticks... pretty much my only drumset experience I had was when I was at the place taking lessons.
FF But, you were motivated to sit there with a pad? At that age?
NB Yeah, yeah, I was kind of trying... I can't remember exactly what I was doing on it, you know? But, I was kinda fascinated by it, and that was the only thing I had, and I think I'd maybe get a couple of Tupperwares or something, and have different targets to hit. So then, we ended up getting a hand-me-down drumset, from... my dad's a pastor, so, the church he works at, they had this really old, crappy... it was actually a Ludwig, like an old Ludwig, silver sparkle, totally faded... the hardware was total shit...
FF Which people would give their right arm for these days...
NB Exactly. So... it didn't have bottom heads, and I got that and put it together, I had some crazy rig, I think I had a wood thing for a cymbal stand, I made my own cymbal stand out of wood... and then I had a drumset, and my parents were always cool about letting me play. I had to stop at, like, 8 every night, but, I had my own kit to bang around.
FF This is one of the things I tell kids is that, if you're lazy about it, and you're not driven to it, then maybe it's not for you. And I know that may sound harsh, but everybody I've spoken to so far was driven to it. Including myself. So, I mean, I'm just fascinated that you went straight to the pad at that age... you know, a kid of 10 or 11 is going to want a drumset or else, maybe, forget about it. So, that's cool. So, your goal at this point was to get into the concert band, at the school, and you're 11 now?
NB I think by the time I got my drumkit, it was into the first year that I was in concert band.
FF And, what were you playing in concert band?
NB Mostly snare drum and bass drum.
FF So, you were a rudiment guy?
NB Yeah... yeah, and it was really basic, you know? It was actually kinda funny, because, I would come up with a beat, just playing on the pad (starts playing a rhythm on his legs), and I thought that was a cool beat that I had come up with... and then, I think one of the first songs I had to learn on snare drum was... that was the snare drum beat. And I didn't understand the whole, 'leading with your right hand thing', because I was kind of doing it backwards.
FF You're righty.
NB Yeah. Well, actually, I write with my left hand, but I drum right-handed.
FF Do you ever play beats with your left hand leading?
NB I can't. I don't have the coordination for that. (laughs)
FF I'm still working on that. You know that book, Stick Control? (George Stone) I've been working out of that book, and that's got some real... to bring your left hand up to your right hand.
NB That'd be good, man.
FF Oh, it's a bitch.
NB My left hand feels like a lame duck.
FF Oh God, I hate how spazzy my left hand feels sometimes.
NB Yeah.
FF So, I started getting into Stevie Ray Vaughn's drummer (Chris Layton), and a lot of blues drummers and stuff, and they're all shuffling with their left hand. And I'm like, "I wanna do that." (laughs) So, I'm really working at that. Ok, so, concert band at age 11, 12, whatever. Playing snare drum. And then, were you listening to music for pleasure at that point?
NB Yeah. The first tape I ever owned... I didn't even really own it, I had a friend make me a tape of it was, I think, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits. I had heard Purple Haze on the radio when we were on a road trip with my family, and I was like, "Who IS that?", and I was totally blown away... just by that opening guitar lick. So, my friend made a tape of the CD for me, and I listened to that until it stopped working, basically.
FF Did you play along with it?
NB No. At that point, Mitch Mitchell was so over my head, I couldn't even fathom what he was doing. It was kinda right after I picked up the drums, so, that beat in Purple Haze, I was still doing the 2 & 4, the 2 & 4 with the snare, and the 1 & the 3 with the kick, I was still doing that kind of stuff, so, all that stuff he was doing was way over my head, but I definitely was trying to absorb it.
FF The old masters. What year were you getting into Hendrix? Ish?
NB Probably would have been... '93?
FF Very cool. You can do a lot worse than Mitch Mitchell. Ok, so then, what was your first wanting to get into a band situation? Am I leaving out a big chunk or anything?
NB Um... No. I was in jazz band too. The jazz band traveled for probably a couple months after the school year started, so, I tried out for that, and... got in, but, you know... 7th grade jazz band, it isn't any amazing feat to get into that. But I had to get there before school. 6:30, it was like an extra period before school. I did that, and I was, you know... I was still taking lessons once a week, so that was kinda helping me out with the basics. And then, I got to a certain point, my first teacher was moving, and he referred me to another guy, who was really into Latin drumming, and tried to really impose that on me, and it was just too over my head. And, first thing he said to me, when I got there was, "You're holding your sticks wrong." I was kind of doing this (shows matched grip) I guess I was doing thumbs-up, and he was like, "No, that's wrong, you're playing wrong." And he made me kind of (rotates thumbs down) made me learn to do it like that, so, I stayed with him for a little bit, but I kind of got sick of it. I wasn't really enjoying what I was being taught.
FF That can be discouraging.
NB So, then, after that, I started just teaching myself, playing with CDs and... I think one of the first band drummers I got into was Chad Smith, on Blood Sugar Sex Magic, that was the first drummer I was really drawn to, and kind of tried to emulate. I got into Bonham in high school, mid high school... The Chad thing was still 8th grade, 9th grade. I never really considered it an option, being in a band, because I don't think my parents ever necessarily encouraged that to be an option. It was more like, "You have to go to college, and get a normal job.", but, I had buddies that I'd just play with, we had, I think, in middle school, I had a friend that bought a Fender Strat, and I had a friend that played the bass, and we were absolutely awful...
FF What did you play? What kind of songs?
NB We tried writing our own songs, but, I think we were pretty bad. (laughs) We'd just meet at my house, and nothing ever really came of it, we just sort of jammed together. And, I was also involved in, uh... I don't like to broadcast this, but, I was the drummer for the youth group, too, and we'd meet once a week, and...
FF What do you mean you don't like to broadcast it?
NB I dunno, I'm not ashamed of it, but I just don't really talk about it.
FF The funny thing is, there's like, a million different ways that guys came up. So anyway, you're playing with this guy with the Strat, and a bass player, and then, did you start getting better than those guys? How did you make the progression into better bands?
NB I dunno, I was kind of getting older, and I went to high school, and the HS worship team was a bigger deal, they wanted me to be in it my freshman year, and they were all seniors.
FF What's the worship team?
NB You just play praise songs, it's more contemporary.
FF Gospel songs.
NB Yeah, it's like a youth group meeting, not like, traditional gospel tunes.
FF There's some amazing musicianship in the Gospel scene.
NB Yeah, totally. So, I did that, and I was a freshman, playing with a lot of older guys, and I just stayed in that. One of the guys who was a year older than me, his name was Kenny Harris, he's actually in a band called the Films, and I think they're based out of here (New York), they just got signed to Warner Brothers, I think they're about to put out their first record, and he was in this band called Tinker's Punishment... now it's the Films. But, I played with him all throughout high school. He and I got along well. Actually, at one point, he asked me to come play for them, but I was already in Rose Hill Drive by that time.
FF So, you were in the worship team. where does Rose Hill Drive come in?
NB I think Jake and Daniel came to... I don't really know why... They came to one of those youth group things.
FF They were checkin' yer ass out.
NB (laughs) Yeah. this was my first impression meeting them... Jake came, and, at the end, when the youth group meeting was over, we just kind of jammed with Jake, and he was playing keys at the time, and me and Kenny and Jake and, I guess our bass player were jamming together and I thought Jake was like, amazing at the keyboard, but, that was the first time I met them. Then, shortly after that, one of my good buddies was drumming for them, he was kind of my drummer buddy I'd grown up with, and he started playing with them for a couple of years, so, I knew who they were, but they had never, you know, asked me to drum or anything. Then, at one point, I think Jake decided it wasn't working out with that guy, so, they asked me to come play with them.
FF Was it an audition, or they just said, "Come on?"
NB Nah, he just came up to me on my way walking into school one day and I think I was a junior in high school at that point, and, at that time, I started taking guitar lessons a little bit too, because I wanted to get into the guitar, and I was kind of, you know... I'd gotten decent at the drums, and kinda hit a plateau, and I didn't really have a bunch of guys to play with, so, I started picking up guitar because I thought it would be cool to be able to write my own music and... So, I did that for about a year before this, and Jake just came up and said, "Hey, you wanna come play with us, like, tomorrow afternoon?", and I said "Yeah, sure", thinking that they wanted me to play guitar. Because, my buddy is the drummer, you know, why would they want me to come play the drums? So, I show up and Joe the drummer's not there, so, I was like, "Ok, I'm playing drums." The first thing we did was, they showed me one of their songs, and, I learned it, and that was the first thing we did. We might have jammed around a little bit, I can't remember, but... I guess I picked up the song a lot faster than my buddy had, and, was doing cooler stuff, maybe. So, they asked me if I wanted to be their drummer, and I was like, "Yeah, sure."
FF What year was that?
NB I was a junior, so... '98.
FF So, you guys have been playing together for awhile, then.
NB Yeah, so, then they had to break the news to my buddy, and... that was kinda ugly.
FF He had been with them for awhile.
NB A couple of years, yeah. Or a year, maybe.
FF It can happen, man.
NB Yeah, I had a falling out with him for a while, and the we kind of reconciled a few years later. So that was my first... that was how I got hooked up with those guys, and, after that, the more I played with them, the less I liked school, and, by the time I graduated, I had a decision to make. My parents really wanted me to go to college.
FF You were now in Rose Hill for awhile.
NB Yeah, and I was thinking there could be a balance between the two, you know? You could still go to college and be in a band, but... The college that I got into, I didn't get into CU, where I was from, but it was about an hour away. So, I decided to go to community college, to kinda keep my parents happy... I made it thru half a semester.
FF You know what's deadly about all this? When you're young, people will tell you that you gotta have something to fall back on, and, guess what? If you have something to fall back on... you will.
NB I never thought about that, yeah.
FF I had musician friends that made sure they had a little something to fall back on, and... that's what they're doing today.
NB It got to a point where, I was about halfway into the first semester, and I was just hating it, and I stopped going to class, really. And, when I did go to class, I'd just... get stoned as hell by myself (laughs), and go in and just sit there. It came to the point where I was, like, "This is bullshit, I'm not happy here", you know? And the band wasn't doing anything super spectacular at that point, we were getting ourselves gigs when we could, and we were practicing pretty much every night, or 5 nights a week, and so... Yeah, I dropped out, decided to just get a job, and my parents weren't happy at all. So, they kinda let me live at home for awhile, and I was kinda pushing things, and then they were like, "You gotta pay rent.", and I was like, "I'm not paying rent to live in my parents house.", so, I moved out, actually ended up moving in with Jake and Daniel and their dad, because he was totally cool... I lived there for probably about a year, and it was kinda like the hang out, party house, because there was no real parental supervision compared to other kids our age.
FF But, instead of getting in trouble, you guys were practicing 5 days a week... that's great.
NB Yeah, we kept doing that for awhile, I was working 40 hours a week at a bread store, and practicing every night, and trying to get gigs on the weekends. And fortunately, we got hooked up with Brian and a booking agent, and then it got to the point where I couldn't hold my job anymore, basically. I'd say, "Hey, I'm gonna be gone next week for three weeks."... Because we got a tour book at the last minute, so... Eventually I just had to quit. I wasn't making money very much, but we were kinda subsisting off the band on the road.
FF When I got into my first real band, The Del-Lords, the rule was like, no day jobs. We actually had a rule, no day jobs. The first thing I said was, "How am I gonna keep a roof over my head?", and they said, "We're going to pay your rent. Whatever that is, we're going to find a way pay it." So, we borrowed from family and friends, we were starving.
NB Yeah.
FF So, let me wrap this up. What would you recommend to a kid that came to you and said, "How can I get started playing the drums?", what would you say?
NB I don't know, I'd say, just get whatever you can, you know... if it's in your means to get a drumset, then by all means, get a drumset. I think the most important thing is to listen to music as much as you can, listen to drummers as much as you can. And a drumpad. Put headphones on and play along to the music with the sticks on the pad, something like that. That's how I absorbed the most was, just putting on headphones and sitting on the drumset and trying to do exactly what they were doing... And at first you can't, you know, you can do a really simplified version of that, but you're still playing with them, you know? You're still in their groove. So, if you just get a pair of drumsticks... You don't even need a pad, you know? Play on a pillow, play on the floor. All you need are drumsticks and music.
FF Cool. Have a great show.
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Just as the title suggests, "Midnight's Children" is about children born at the exact time of Indian independence i.e Midnight of August 15, 1947. One of them is our narrator Saleem Sinai whose birth, by virtue of its date and time, becomes directly co-related to the fate of newly independent India. He is thirty-one years old now and feels that time is running out for him as he believes that his body is going to disintegrate into pieces. Before this happens he wishes to pour out all the stories hidden in the deep recesses of his mind to his would-be wife Padma. Throughout the novel we see how various events in his life coincide with the turmoil faced by newly independent India and how both Saleem and the country handle these changes. The story is thus a fine blend of personal and political stories and perspectives intertwined with the slow unraveling of the suspense regarding Saleem's birth and its implications.s.
The novel is located in post independent India and its naïve attempts at dealing with the turmoil following colonization resulting in the fragmented psyche of the people. Published in 1981, the novel exhibits a sharp interplay between post-modern and post-colonial theory. As the novel's narrator Saleem proclaims himself to be dying of the same problem that can be seen of any country that has suddenly been pulled out of immaturity to maturity: he is, he says, "falling apart" just like the country was.
The narrator Saleem Sinai is very self aware of his role as a narrator and therefore often communicates directly to the readers. Also, the fact that he is narrating various stories to Padma, his would-be wife and listener, the self consciousness becomes more heightened. Padma becomes the reader's representative in the novel constantly interrupting and asking questions on our behalf. The style of writing is thus simple and spontaneous following the "stream of consciousness" pattern, giving the narration a sense of immediacy and desperation to finish the tale on the part of the narrator.
Midnight's Children represents an attempt by both Rushdie and Saleem to deconstruct history and rewrite it according to Saleem's own personal narrative. However, this trend emphasizes the novel's larger theme that there is no objective truth, there are various versions true and valid to the teller. The novel intermingles the personal with the political, the real with the fantastical, putting forth different lenses to view the same story with each one true and valid in its own right.
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|Data+ is a full-time ten week summer research experience that welcomes Duke undergraduate and masters students interested in exploring new data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges.
Students join small project teams (at most 3 undergrads and 1 masters per team), working alongside other teams in a communal environment. They learn how to marshal, analyze, and visualize data, while gaining broad exposure to the modern world of data science. The projects (see below) come from an extremely diverse set of subject areas. It is our hope that students will be able to both work deeply into their specific project and get a very broad picture of most of the skills needed for modern data science.
Participants will receive a $5,000 stipend, out of which they must arrange their own housing and travel . Funding and infrastructure support are provided by a wide range of departments, schools, and initiatives from across Duke University, as well as by outside industry and community partners. Participants may not accept employment or take classes during the program.
The program runs from May 22 until July 28, 2017. The application deadline is Feb. 20, 2017, but we will evaluate applications on a rolling basis, so please get your applications in as soon as you can!
You will find the projects planned for summer 2017 in the numbered list below. Click on the project names to learn more. Please indicate the number of the projects you choose when you apply; you may list up to three choices in ranked order of preference.
For some projects, human subjects research training may be required and will be provided in advance. With each project, we have attempted to list potential majors and/or interests that might be best suited for the project, but these should not be seen as requirements in any way! Quantitative STEM majors like mathematics, computer science, statistics, and electrical engineering are relevant to all.
1) Data Viz for Long-term Ecological Research and Curricula A team of students led by Biology Professor Emily Bernhardt will develop interactive R Shiny data visualization apps that will allow students and researchers to understand sixty years of ecological data collected at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Students will receive feedback from Gene Likens, co-founder of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study. Biology, Environmental Policy, Chemistry, all quantitative STEM.
2) Electricity Access in Developing Countries from Aerial Imagery A team of students led by researchers in the Energy Data Analytics Lab and the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative will develop means to evaluate electricity access in developing countries through machine learning techniques applied to aerial imagery data. Students will identify features of satellite imagery that can be used to demonstrate whether a community has access to electricity, create a reference dataset of key features, and apply machine learning methods to a large dataset. Partially sponsored by the Duke Energy Initiative. Environmental Science and Policy, and all quantitative STEM.
3) Mapping the Ocean Floor A team of students led by ECE Professor Martin Brooke will use ambitious data-processing strategies with the hope of providing a low-cost method of mapping the ocean floor. Most of the work will be done in MATLAB on simulated data generated by acoustic methods using different ocean floor models, but the approaches will also be validated using real SONAR data collected by the Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC. Partially funded by the Duke Marine Lab. Environmental Science and Policy, and all quantitative STEM.
4) Open Data for Tobacco Retailer Mapping A team of students will work with UNC Epidemiology researchers to understand how open source data can shed insight on the tobacco retailer environment. Using R and QGIS, students will prototype a process, involving web-scraping and Amazon Mturk, that will ideally result in a state or national level retailer dataset that health departments can use for retailer store audits and researchers can use for published studies. Students will have the opportunity to receive feedback from Counter Tools, a local non-profit connected to UNC tobacco researchers. Partially funded by Counter Tools. Pre-med, Public Health, Social Sciences, and all quantitative STEM.
5) Open Source Spatial Visualization for Public Health Intelligence A team of students will work on small-area health data mapping, in close collaboration with the Durham Neighborhood Compass, as well as with epidemiology researchers from UNC. Students will help transform health data into curated public health information within the Compass website. Working in R, the team will build tools for data visualization and processing, will learn how to craft public-ready narratives about health data, and will perform statistical analyses of the data. Sociology, Global Health, Pre-med, Public Health, Public Policy, as well as all quantitative STEM.
6) Space, Time, Statistics, Mathematics, and Marriage A team of students will work with Sanford professor Christina Gibson-Davis and Mathematics professor Paul Bendich to build statistical and mathematical tools that will help understand how the distributions of marital and non-marital births differ from each other, and how these differences have changed over time. Working mostly in Python and possibly also in R, students will use spatial-statistics techniques, as well as more cutting-edge mathematical approaches involving computational geometry and information theory, to generate metrics and then learn how to evaluate their social-scientific relevance. Partially funded by the Sanford School of Public Policy. Sociology, Global Health, Pre-med, Public Health, Public Policy, as well as all quantitative STEM.
7) Visualizing Suffering: Tracking Photojournalism and the Syrian Refugee Crisis A team of students led by English professor Astrid Giugni and doctoral candidate Jessica Hines will analyze the context and dissemination of images of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Students will use the Associated Press (AP) Images database - one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery - to identify key features of suffering within images, consider the distribution of images in the political context of news outlets, and create an interactive visualization of image dissemination. English, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Journalism, Visual Studies, all social sciences, and all quantitative STEM.
8) Nutrition Dependent Growth in the Laboratory Rat A team of students led by Duke Biology professor Frederik Nijhout, Northeast Ohio Medical University Anatomy and Neurobiology professor Rebecca German, and doctoral candidates Rick Gawne and Kenneth McKenna will study the impact of diet on organ and bone growth in developing laboratory rats. Working in MATLAB and JMP Pro, students will analyze x-ray images and body measurements to study the influence of protein content on growth, and develop a mathematical model that describes growth trade-off strategies rats display when fed a protein-deficient diet. Biology, Pre-med, and all quantitative STEM.
9) Quantifying Rare Diseases in Duke Health System A team of students led by School of Nursing professor and health informaticist Rachel Richesson, faculty from the Social Science Research Institute and the School of Medicine, and advisors from the National Library of Medicine, will leverage electronic medical record (EMR) data to quantify the number of rare diseases treated at Duke University Health System (DUHS) and to estimate the number and characteristics of patients affected by these conditions. Students will identify the spectrum of rare diseases encountered by DUHS over the past 8 years, analyze the healthcare utilization impact of groups of conditions, patient demographics, or clinical profiles, and develop predictive models and visualizations for identifying individual rare conditions in the EMR. Biology, Biostatistics, pre-med, Global Health, Social Sciences, Economics, and all quantitative STEM.
10) Quantifying Phenotypic Evolution during Tumor Growth A team of students led by Duke mathematician Marc Ryser and University of Southern California Pathology professor Darryl Shibata will characterize phenotypic evolution during the growth of human colorectal tumors. Students will perform an in-depth investigation of phenotypic conservation at multiple functional levels in epigenomic methylation data, identify biologically relevant pathways that are preferentially conserved during growth, and may have the opportunity to develop a clinically impactful epigenomic classifier for tumor aggressiveness and patient outcome. Biology, Biostatistics, Genomics, pre-med, and all quantitative STEM.
11) Validating a Topic Model that Predicts Pancreatic Cancer from Latent Structures in the Electronic Medical Record A team of students led by Biomedical Engineering professor Lisa Satterwhite will further the work of a 2016 Data+ team in predictive modeling of pancreatic cancer from electronic medical record (EMR) data. Students will apply and refine previous statistical models predicting pancreatic cancer focusing on patients with new onset diabetes - a top priority risk population for the Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker Consortium of the National Cancer Institute. Students may also have the opportunity to develop new predictive models for gastrointestinal cancers. Biology, Biostatistics, pre-med, and all quantitative STEM.
12) Visualizing Real Time Data from Mobile Health Technologies A team of students led by School of Nursing professor and health informatician Ryan Shaw will create visualizations of time series mobile health data in diabetes patients. Using Tableau and working with real patient data, students will create patient-facing and provider-facing visualizations for accelerometer, glucometer, weight, medication adherence, laboratory test, and patient demographics data. Students will have the opportunity to speak with actual patients who might use these interfaces, and may have the opportunity to use these data to build predictive models to inform care decisions. Biology, Biostatistics, pre-med, and all quantitative STEM.
13) Ghost Bikes A team of students will work with Cultural Anthropology and Global Health professor Harris Solomon to understand cycling-related injuries and deaths in Durham. Using resources from the Durham Neighborhood Compass, students will analyze traffic and commuter patterns, as well as socioeconomic data such as education and housing. They will attempt to draw associations between these data and cycling accidents. Partially sponsored by an NSF CAREER Award and by the Franklin Humanities Institute Health Humanities Lab. Global Health, Cultural Anthropology, Public Policy, Public Health, Social Sciences, all quantitative STEM.
14) Building a Duke SLED (Duke Surgery Longitudinal Education Database) A team of students led by Dr. Shanna Sprinkle of Duke Surgery will combine success metrics of Duke Surgery residents from a set of databases and create a user interface for residency program directors and possibly residents themselves to view and better understand residency program performance. Using MySQL or Oracle, students will access and aggregate an incredible amount of information about Duke general surgery residents including operative case logs, exam scores, and research publications. Education, Pre-med, Biostatistics, and all quantitative STEM.
15) Comparing Exploration of Majors A team of students will initiate a study exploring the trajectories Duke students choose throughout the Undergraduate curriculum. Working closely with officers from Mathematics and Global Health, the team will analyze de-identified data about the histories of students in each major, report on key patterns and correlations, and build interactive network visualization devices that display common and interesting trajectories students have taken through each major. Depending on data availability, students may also be able to undertake a much broader analysis across many other majors at Duke.
16) Quantified Feminism and the Bechdel Test Using data curated by fivethirtyeight.com, a team of students will analyze the relationship betweenb movies that pass/fail the test and various economic and aesthetic factors like the film's genre and budget. Students will also attempt to modify these criteria to quantify the representations of African-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ populations. There will be an opportunity to move beyond the simple two-character test, creating network analyses of character relationships via Gephi. Humanities, Social Sciences, and all quantitative STEM
17) Controlled Substance Monitoring Visualization A team of students led by Dr. Rebecca Schroeder of Duke Anesthesiology will create an analytics and visualization tool to leverage pharmacy information management data to identify controlled substance accounting patterns among anesthesia providers consistent with an elevated risk of diversion for personal or alternate use. Using Tableau, students will create a visual interface for de-identified controlled substance administration data from Duke anesthesiology, and apply mathematical and statistics approaches to detect discrepancies between drugs issued and drugs administered, changes in patterns of drug issuance, and unusual administration patterns. Biology, Biostatistics, Psychology, pre-med, and all quantitative STEM.
18) Classification of Vascular Anomalies A team of students led by Duke Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Wilkins Aquino and Duke Vascular Surgeon Leila Mureebe will apply machine learning algorithms to Continuous Wave Doppler (CWD) ultrasound data to classify vasculature of patients with trauma and acute limb ischemia (ALI). Using MATLAB, students will compare various machine learning algorithms for differentiating patients as healthy or unhealthy based on sound data acquired using hand-held Doppler probes, and extend an existing graphical user interface to incorporate training and testing with different algorithms and intuitive visualizations for clinicians.
19) Mental Health Interventions by Durham Police A team of students lead by Duke Institute for Brain Sciences faculty Nicole Schramm-Sapyta will provide analytical consulting support to the Durham Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Collaborative, a county-wide effort to provide law enforcement and other first responders with specialized training in mental illness and crisis intervention techniques. Working with 911 call data and de-identified incident reports from the Durham Police Department, the team will suggest ways to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the effectiveness of the CIT unit, suggest potential improvements in offered services, and provide advice about future data gathering practices.
20) MyHealth Teams Data Exploration and Visualization A team of students led by Biostatistics and Bioinformatics professor Jessie Tenenbaum will curate and visualize self-reported patient medication data from a social health community site. Students will create a visualization tool showing medication use over time, enabling insights regarding prescription prevalence of different drugs, alternative drugs, and prescription variability over time. Students may also have the opportunity to develop predictive models for response to medication.
21) Alumni Gifts and Data Analysis Building off the work of a 2016 Data+ team, students will investigate commonalities and distinctions in alumni gifts, and attempt to understand and predict motivations for gifts of different types. They will also construct mathematical models to evaluate different strategies for alumni engagement. Students will have the opportunity to consult with the Prospect Research, Management and Analytics team in the development office. Sponsored by Alumni Affairs and Development at Duke. Economics, Psychology, all quantitative STEM.
22) Digital Rejuvenation of Medieval Paintings A team of students led by Mathematics professor Ingrid Daubechies will explore the feasibility of building an app that museum visitors could use to virtually rejuvenate paintings in museums. The app would require photographs taken by the user in the museum, as well as high resolution images provided by the museum website. The app would allow user-assisted image manipulation and interaction with curators and/or conservators at the museum, and provide a platform to which users would upload intermediate results. This project is inspired by the experience of the Duke Bass Connections team that developed the virtual rejuvenation of the Ghissi altarpiece, presently on display at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Art History, Visual Studies, Social Sciences, all quantitative STEM.
23) Understanding Duke Research Based on Large-Scale Faculty Publication Records Leveraging the Scholars@Duke database, which summarizes all publications of all Duke faculty for the last five years, a team of students will work with faculty and staff from the Duke Network Analysis Center and the Office of the Provost to identify and visualize intellectual communities that exist across the university. Using publication names, lists of authors, publication forums, dates of publication, and abstracts, students will have the opportunity to characterize and visualize the landscape of research topics at Duke and their interconnections through faculty publications. This project will help illustrate areas of research with deep strength, as well as more shallow areas of research potentially in need of further university investment.
24) Online Financial Behavior and the Internet of Things A team of students led by ECE professor and iiD director Robert Calderbank will spend ten weeks understanding how insights from "the internet of things" (IOT) can help shed light on analyses of financial decision-making. The team will use a large set of transactional, demographic, and behavioral data supplied by TD Bank, and will propose several potential sources of IOT data and the best approach to merge data sources, as well as propose use cases within the FI sector. There will be opportunities to discuss findings with TD Bank leadership. Economics, Psychology, Environmental Science, Sociology, all quantitative STEM.
25) Analytics for Faculty Success Despite a multitude of opinions about the state of academia, comprehensive studies of hiring, publication, and grant-receiving among academics have only recently begun to emerge. This project will use data on the career histories and academic accomplisments of faculty from across the United States to rigorously investigate the characteristics of successful faculty--measured in multiple ways--and thus contribute empirical knowledge to the debate on faculty success. Students will work with both internal and external stakeholders to develop written and analytical products that address these issues.


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Love Marina's ceramic! And your pot looks awesome with your plant!!
The brooch is sooo nice, so I want to participate!!!! Thanks for the chance to win this cuteness!
Alba (Spain)
What an adorable pot(s). Love the one you chose.
Gorgeous brooch to.
Thanks for sharing your holiday pics (I'm catching up!).
You are very generous. :)
well that's adorable :3
Josipa (Croatia)
Perfect! I love Marina's work...
Lucija (Croatia)
Beautiful bird, beautiful bird, please sit on my shoulder and whisper that you will be mine... :)
I have few pieces of Marina's incredible art...this one is so cute...want that one too ♡
So adorable! I am a HUGE fan of Marina's work, it is so lovely!! Thanks!
Greatings from Macedonia! I wonder if this brooch will make a turn around the world all the way to Skopje :))
Love, Ana Pop Stefanija
Oooow,love it :) hello from Serbia :)
Marija Stepanovic Dinic
awwwwww...her stuff is amazing....soooo cute. I have a thing for ceramics. Love little dishes to drop things into...rings etc.
Love her items! I hope when I get my own home buy things from etsy to make it look wonderful!
Saying Hi from Costa Rica! =)
Love your sweet rosy pot and cute brooch!
Love love love!
Carmela (Italy)
Next step will be for you to do a stamp with a 'Marina Marinski design' and for Marina to do another ceramic brooch with one of your 'stamp design'! That'll be an interesting suite in the trade :)
All the very best for the future!!
love. Love. LOVE the pot and thanx for the blog candy opp as the brooch is SWEET!
lovely little bird!! <3 Maja (Croatia)
That is such a pretty pot---your plant looks happy!
Thanks for the chance fore the brooch---so purty!
Oh how pretty it is!
What a pretty pot! And thanks for a chance to win that adorable brooch! I must check out her website, Jo x
This is just adorable! Thanks for sharing! Darling brooch!
It is sooooo awesome to visit here, always such beautiful work
Hello Jane,
I am sure I am not the only one wondering but I have to ask, when will you pick the person for this beautiful give away? You didn't say in your post... :/
I am sorry to be impatient, I am actually really curious :)
Many thanks again for the opportunity,
All the best wishes from London :)
Marine x


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Where can we get the educator discount for the certification exams?
ACA vs. ACE?
What are your thoughts on ACE /ACI (Adobe Certified Expert / Instructor) vs ACA (Adobe Certified Associate / Educator)?
The reason I ask is that I am a high school graphics teacher who LOVES Adobe Illustrator! I have my ACE in Adobe Illustrator CS5, CS6, and CC. I looked into becoming an ACI (Adobe Certified Instructor) but because of my full time high school teaching status I was told that I wasn't the right fit. I was told that I could get my Adobe Educator Certificate but I would have to take the ACA test(s). I have not taken any of the ACA tests yet as the ACA is an entry-level test and the ACE is the Expert test with years of experience. The experience of getting my ACE in Illustrator was extremely beneficial and I'm going to take my Photoshop ACE this summer. Does anyone have both their "Adobe Certified Instructor" and "Adobe Certified Associate Educator"? Again, I have not taken any of the ACA tests, I'm judging by the review material. Any thoughts or suggestions would be wonderful.


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Heazlewood Seeds was established over 30 years ago and operates from Whitemore in Northern Tasmania. This independent, family owned and operated business cleans, dries, treats and packages seed for both domestic and international markets.
From small beginnings, initially cleaning seed for local farmers, the business has grown over the years and now processes seed grown under contract to many of the leading seed production companies.
Heazlewood Seeds has experience in processing a wide range of pasture seeds, cereals and vegetable seeds. Over the years our focus has changed with industry growth and we currently specialise in the processing of ryegrass, clover and carrot seed.
Heazlewood Seeds strives to deliver a high quality product and maintains strong relationships with seed growers and seed production companies. Heazlewood Seeds is proud of the integral role we have played in the growth and development of the Tasmanian Pasture Seed Industry.


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|Camping at Maryborough Showgronds.
On Monday night we introduced ourselves to the Piazza, a licensed meeting place which holds 1200 people seated at tables of eight. Live music played, every night, from 7:30pm till late and you could dine on anything from Mexican fair to sweet pancakes depending on your fancy. We found the Warnbro Sound Wanderers crew and it was wonderful to see a familiar face again.
The AGM is a great place for bikers to hang out for a week. On Wednesday, while Devil (my F650GS) was still sleeping, I sneaked off to test ride the new BMW F700GS. I must admit that the new machine was a little lighter and more nimble under foot but I didn't tell Devil. When I arrived back at camp Devil was still sleeping and she knows nothing of my infidelities.
|Collection of Douglas motorcycles.
|Warnbro Sound Wanderers at dinner.
|Grand Parade Maryborough.
The week spent messing about with bikes had been so much fun that while we were packing up our tent my thoughts turned to the AGM in Alice Springs in 2014; tempted.
|Red Devil and me enjoying the Grand Parade Maryborough.


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Alchemical Energy Episode IV: The Guardians
Commander Chimaera: *Looks across room* Evening, guards...Good to see you. How is everyone doing? To stay in contact with each other, we will use the communication channel EM Event. If someone gets lost or stuck, reach out, and I will assist you. *smiles*
The Royal Guard is called to Arms in Serpent's Hold. The was the battle cry from all the town criers. Arriving early I watched as others arrived, getting seats up on the front rows so they could see and hear better when the Commander spoke.
A local Fortune Teller ask if I wish to have a card reading, thinking it would not hurt to maybe get a glimpse of a possible future I accept.
From her reading a picture formed in my mind, The Void Dragon! Quickly using my spell book I traveled to the City of Moonglow, rushing to the Governor Office I saw that he was awake, but would not speak to me, so once more I cast a spell and traveled back to the War room on SH. There the Commander had just taken a place to the front of the Guards, I made sure to announce that the Void Dragon was awake. He glances at me and a small nod assured me that he had heard my words.
Some of this may have been informed... But for those that were unable to attend the Kings meeting earlier this month. We have seen no trace of the alchemical antimatter anywhere in our realm. The King and I thank you all for your bravery and service.
This is good news, indeed. The threat is out there the fight is not over. We may have protected our realm from the darkness, but we must stop it from destroying others
We are stronger than it. And it is our duty to destroy it. The King has learned that in order to face the darkness, itself, we must gain access to the dark forest, dark lake, and dark temple.
Where we can collect antimatter to create a spell powerful enough to destroy the darkness. Each of these areas is guarded by a powerful elemental. There is a forest, lake, and temple guardian that must be defeated in our realm.
Once they are defeated, we can gain access to the protected areas of the dark void. The problem is, we don't know where to find the guardians.
Charlie Murphy: Commander I have a question
Commander Chimaera: Yes, Charlie?
Charlie Murphy: what is the Dark Void?
Commander Chimaera: It is the area in between realms, it steals our light and destroys the living. The guardians are hiding around Britannia
But the void dragon whom has become our ally. Believes we can bribe the inhabitants of the void to reveal where the guardians are hiding.
And it has offered to help us return to the darkness... I suggest we speak with the void dragon and figure out how to bribe the dark creatures. Is everyone ready? Let's go speak with the void dragon. Let's try to communicate with it
You see: Void Dragon *Awake*
Void Dragon *Awake*: The void is strong, and the rift remains open. You must travel to the Darkness... To truly defeat the darkness, you must defeat the Guardians found in this realm...To find the guardians, you must bribe the Spiders in the void...The spiders feed off of light. Bring a lantern with you to offer. Tell me when you're Ready
Many were carrying Lanterns already and spoke up letting the Dragon know they were ready. Others quickly left to buy one.
Commander Chimaera: When you have your lanterns, tell the void dragon that you're ready to enter
Drakelord: I am ready to enter
Void Dragon *Awake*: When you're ready to enter the darkness, close your eyes and tell me "my eyes are closed"
Commander Chimaera: Speak what the dragon says near the portal
Deep within the City of Darkness the Spiders seek light of any source and several were willing to give information.
The Dark Stablemaster: Delicious Light! The forest guardian you seek can be found on an island near a town called Yew
It was not long to have all the information we needed to seek out these Dark Guardians.
Commander Chimaera: But they are greedy... They want more than just light from lanterns. Have we uncovered where any of the guardians are? The alchemist spider said one is tricking us! The lake guardian is by justice. So we have a lake by Justice, an island by Trinsic... And an island by Yew? Let's go to the forest guardian first in Yew! Let's try to find the forest guardian first in Yew! The only Island I can think of is where the old jail is! Search the island
We soon located a Dark Rift near the northern coastline of the island. Here we met our first Guardian.
Next, we moved to the lake near the shrine Justice, here we found the second one. Once more there was a battle, much like the battle in Yew.
Our last battle took place on an island off of deep waters. Most know of this island as Portal island. This was the quick's kill this evening as the island guards jump the guardian before we had a chance.
Thus the battle with the Guardians was finished we all returned to the War room where the commander said his piece before releasing us, then our EM return to give us further information regarding a special event for the next day, I shall post on that in another article till then I close this post.
Thus ends this report.
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Pagid Brake PadsIf you're heading to the track and looking for a track-ready pad, Pagid Race Pads are a great choice. Porsche uses Pagid pads for many of the race-ready models, so this seemed like a fitting addition to our site. These pads are recommended for track use only, some pads are not compatible with the factory brake pad sensors, so make sure you inspect the pads on a regular basis. These are not factory Porsche parts, these are Pagid pads in Pagid packaging. Not compatible with Ceramic Brakes (PCCB).
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Now at a new location on Glenwood Street in Garden City, The Beardsmith (the barber shop dubbed "your total beard solution") is home to Idaho's first and only Schorem-trained specialist, offering the old-school straight razor barbering first taught in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. An added plus at The Beardsmith: every trim comes with a free beer or shot of whiskey to put hair on your chest as they take it off your head. thebeardsmith.com
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La Cal 2 Pro
It installs between the rear brake and the brake bridge.
It securely holds and displays your frame number.
Made of 16 gauge corrosion resistant stainless steel. Made to endure many racing seasons.
9.9 grams
Finish: Black with brushed stainless steel
Kit includes:
One K3 La Cal 2 frame number holder
One 4mm socket head bolt
One #8 nylon lock nut
Instructions for installing the La Cal 2 Pro
Spare parts:
For replacement nuts and bolts use the Next Gen Spare Nut Pack.
Tip: A word of caution when placing your bike on a roof rack with frame number attached.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his final radio address for 2015 with an unusual message: persons with disabilities have special powers in their limbs. Instead of using the word "viklaang" (handicapped), he asked Indians to call them"divyaang"" (divine bodies). "I really liked this word a lot. Dear citizens, can we use it in common parlance," he said.
"I dream of a day," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in 2007 , "while retaining our respective national identities, one can have breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul. That is how I want our grandchildren to live."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did what Singh could not. On Christmas Day, Modi stunned the world by casually announcing on Twitter that he was heading to Lahore to meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on his birthday. It was his first trip to Pakistan, and the the first time an Indian prime minister visited the country in over a decade.
It seems that Modi is embracing the Vajpayee-Manmohan way of dealing with Pakistan, instead of how hardline security hawks would like. Why this visit could be a game changer: stealth diplomacy is the new normal.
While the details of the tete-a-tete between Sharif and Modi were not officially disclosed, the first concrete outcome of his visit is a meeting between the foreign secretary's of both countries in Islamabad on Jan. 15.
It is India's turn to play host, but Islamabad was reportedly chosen so that Pakistan's foreign secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhary could avoid meeting All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders. Interactions between Pakistani officials and Kashmiri separatists has forced the Modi government to cancel the calls twice since May 2014.
Dear SRK, I have decided to write a letter and share it with the world, apologising for letting you down. You see, I am a proud Shah Rukh fan and an Indian and I have not stood by you in the last three days.
I know the last three days have hurt you. I can't imagine what it must feel like, to be questioned and have your image tarnished after 25 years of entertaining millions of Indians. And to have your "Indianness" questioned at the drop of a hat is simply unimaginable.
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The number of Indians who have joined the Islamic State now stands at 25. Till August, the number of Indians in the IS stood at 17. Six of them are reportedly dead. The Internet has been the only mode of recruitment, so far.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that only Indian Muslim families stop their children from joining ISIS.
Why can't we be like leaders in Europe, who meet each other for casual get-togethers and chats?" Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during their meeting on Christmas, while agreeing to maintain contact at the highest level and not to let adverse incidents disrupt their talks.
Noida has altered work hours of offices, shops, timings of schools and weekly holidays to bring down vehicular pollution. For instance, sectors 10, 62, 64, 87 will have a holiday on Saturday while sectors 1, 3, 15, 16, 57,68, 80, 90, Baroli, Nithari, Morana will have their weekly holiday on Monday. Read details of the new measures here.
Responding to BJP general secretary Ram Madhav's remark on how the RSS believes in Akhand Bharat with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh reuniting, the BJP said that the party and the government believe that India and Pakistan are two sovereign nations.
Off The Front Page
Cigarette consumption in India is falling steadily even as the number of women smokers is rising, making it home to the second largest number of female smokersafter the United States. According to the latest official data on cigarette consumption, the consumption in 2014-15 was 93.2 billion sticks — 10 billion less than in 2012-13.
After Priya Parashar tweeted about alleged misbehaviour by a train staffer, the Railway Police Force came swiftly to the rescue. "I asked him why he was providingcheap packaged water in place of Rail Neer. In response, he snatched the cheap water bottle from my hand deliberately and shouted at me. I was shocked," she said.
At the next station, RPF personnel took the staff member and imposed a fine on him. "Thanks #MinistryofRailway for the prompt response," she tweeted.
Contrary to the media narrative on crore-plus offers at the IITs, the median salaries offered to new graduates are far more modest, according to internal data on placements. The handful of students who get offers for jobs overseas which tip the payscales over Rs.1 crore skew the average IIT graduate's starting salary.
The video of a Pakistani journalist's reaction – "Tauba, Tauba" – to the entry of over 100 Indians, accompanying Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Lahore, has gone viral. The reporter was extremely agitated that the Indians were not carrying valid visas.
Research shows that the biggest barriers to connecting people are affordability and awareness of the internet. Many people can't afford to start using the internet. But even if they could, they don't necessarily know how it can change their lives.
Over the last year Facebook has worked with mobile operators, app developers and civil society to overcome these barriers in India and more than 30 other countries. We launched Free Basics, a set of basic internet services for things like education, healthcare, jobs and communication that people can use without paying for data, writes Mark Zuckerburg in The Times of India.
Among all the questions we've raised about Free Basics, if there was one that I would pick to ask Mark Zuckerberg, it would be this: Why has Facebook chosen the current model for Free Basics, which gives users a selection of around a hundred sites (including a personal blog and a real estate company homepage), while rejecting the option of giving the poor free access to the open, plural and diverse web?, writesNikhil Pahwa in The Times of India.
In many ways, Arun Jaitley is the Manmohan Singh of the BJP. No evidence has thus far emerged that, in his long tenure as DDCA president, Jaitley financially benefited from the various scams the association is now accused of. Yet all around him, men in the DDCA were on the make, on the take, writes Ramachandra Guha in The Indian Express.
In the Hindustan Times, Manas Chakravarty writes: The day Dawood Ibrahim gave his retirement speech.
"Dear thugs, hoodlums, crooks, shady generals, politicos and Arab princes….I turn 60 today. You all know how passionately I loved my work. Nothing delighted me more than dreaming up an extortion racket, masterminding a kidnapping, devising a strategy for smuggling drugs. Unfortunately, with age, the passion has dimmed. Kidnapping has become a chore, murder a bore, drugs a snore."


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AUSTIN - Sports Authority has filed for bankruptcy and will close dozens of stores nationwide, including its only Austin location.
As many as 140 stores total—many of them in Texas—could be shuttered, the sporting goods chain said. Sports Authority currently has 463 stores.
The Austin store is at 9600 S. I-35 in the Southpark Meadows shopping center.
The 42,010-sf store, which has a lease that runs through January 2019, is already being marketed.
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'Tis the season, which means for me and my fellow Hebrews, it's movie time. As of this writing I got about three hours to decide what I want to see. Part of me is considering downloading The Interview, just to see what all the fuss is about, but I'm also pretty sure that's it's not going to be a good movie and I really don't want to blow my annual Christmas Eve movie watching experience.
Right now I'm choosing between The Hobbit, Birdman (Jeff Pearlman's Christmas Ever recommendation) and Top-Five. I'll decide later. But as I was thinking about this over the past few days, I was reminded of a previous Christmas Eve movie going experience of mine, one that, dare I say, might be the single most Jewish movie experience (not counting actual Jewish films) anyone has ever had outside of Israel.
First off, the location: the movie theater in Lincoln Square, perhaps the most Jewish movie theater in the land. Now Manhattan's Upper West Side might not be home to as many Jews as a place like, say, Borough park. But most of the Jews who live there don't really see movies (and yes, I'm generalizing here), whereas the Jews on the Upper West kinda-sorta live for "cinema." There are genres of film (hello, Woody Allen) that are seemingly made just for this audience. And where does this group usually go to see a movie? Yep, Lincoln Square.
So that's where I was. And as if that wasn't enough, the movie I was seeing was Munich (plus one Jew Point!), a film about the eleven Israeli Olympian who were killed by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. It was directed by Steven Spielberg (plus another Jew Point!). And remember, I'm in the Lincoln Square theater (one more Jew Point!). As we say on Passover, dayenu.
And then the previews started. Eventually one came on about some sort of ancient civilization. It was called Apocalypto. I don't remember much from the trailer but I certainly remember the reaction — boos, as loud as the ones you hear Jets fans make at MetLife Stadium when Bill Belichick is announced — once the following words popped up on the screen:
All that was missing was a Mel Brooks joke.


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Vera Lynn & The Swingtime Sweethearts
A new song featuring Dame Vera Lynn and 1940s singing duo, The Swingtime Sweethearts, is hoping to raise much needed funds for two well deserving charities.
The song, written by Grahame Maclean and Tony Halligan, is called "Not Forgotten" and features a heartfelt plea from the Forces Sweetheart, urging us all to remember the sacrifices made by our brave servicemen and women, from past and present conflicts.
Not Forgotten is released on December 3rd 2009, and will be launched at the Annual NFA Christmas Party at St.James' Palace London.
All proceeds from the song are being divided between the Not Forgotten Association for Ex-Service and Currently-Serving War Disabled, and The Dame Vera Lynn Trust for Children With Cerebral Palsy.
The Swingtime Sweethearts, who have been entertaining veterans all over the country for the last 3 years, said "This project would not have materialised, had it not been for the kind generosity of all those involved. Their willingness to give their time and talents with such good hearts, has been overwhelming and we are all very grateful."
About The Charities
The NFA provides disabled exServicemen and women with entertainment in the form of concerts, televisions, outings, holidays and garden parties.
They also provide televisions and licenses for people with restricted mobility, enable veterans to make pilgrimages to the battlefields to remember fallen comrades and help young veterans of more recent conflicts to compete in sports for the disabled.
Her Majesty The Queen graciously allows the Association to hold a summer Garden Party in the gardens of Buckingham Palace each year and a Christmas Party for more than 1500 War Pensioners in the State Apartments of St James's Palace.
The DVLT School for Parents works in partnership with parents to educate young children with cerebral palsy or associated motor learning difficulties and allied learning needs. It is currently supporting around 60 families.
The Trust relies entirely on voluntary donations to meet the annual £450,000 running costs.
Those involved include:
NorthStar Music
The Central Band Of The Royal British Legion
Angel Studios
The Challock Primary School Choir
West End Kids
Extra musicians who have contributed their time:
Pete Willmott
Ben Laver
Henry Gorman
Richard Young
John Elleson-Hartley
Digital promotion distribution is by Adstream DMDS.
"In my lifetime, our world has been shaped by two all consuming wars. World War I was dubbed the war to end all wars, and World War II was the most destructive war in history.
"It seems that hardly a year, or even a day, has gone by where we have not been involved in some form of conflict. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends.
"I have witnessed the pain, anguish, and sacrifice, that is made by so many people; be it families and loved ones at home or our young men and women on active service in the jungles of Bhurma or in the arid landscape of Afganistan.
"The children of the past have paved the way for the children of the future and we should always remember the sacrifices made by others for us in the past. We have given the gift of memories, happy, sad, reflective, the joy of a child, the despair of losing someone you love.
"So our legacy is to remember, and for children of future generations to remember."
Dame Vera Lynn (October 2009)


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Sumo is known throughout the world as one of the most unique and exciting full-contact sports in existence. Sumo wrestling is a match of two large men facing off in a circular ring (dohyō). The man who can force the other out of the circle is the victor. A wrestler can also win by making his opponent touch the ground with any part of his body other than the bottoms of his feet. Japan, the country that created the sport of sumo wrestling, is the only country that supports professional matches. Sumo is considered by most to be one of the gendai budo (modern Japanese martial art), but the long history of the sport means that that classification is not correct.
Sumo includes many elements of ritual including the use of salt for purification. This comes from the time when sumo was practiced as part of Japan's Shinto religion. A sumo wrestler leads a highly-regimented life that is ruled by the Sumo Association's laws. It is required for most of the wrestlers to live a communal existence with their fellow fighters. The heya (sumo training stables) is a place that respects the strict traditions of the sport and controls most aspects of the wrestlers' daily lives, including their meals and clothing.
Sumo has six divisions. These divisions are makuuchi, which can include forty-two wrestlers, juryo, which can include twenty-eight wrestlers, makushita, which includes one hundred and twenty members, sandanme, which has two hundred wrestlers, jonidan, which includes two hundred and thirty wrestlers, and jonokuchi, which has eighty wrestlers. Each wrestler enters the professional sport in the lowest division, which is jonokuchi, and works his way up from division to division. The wrestlers who make up the highest two divisions are called sekitori. The wrestlers Of the lower divisions are called rikishi.
Fans of the sport pay the most attention to the makuuchi division. It also has the heircharchy that is the most complex. Most of the wrestlers are called maegashira. They are a rated, with number one being the best and number seventeen being the worst. There are three champion ranks that are above the prestige of the maegashira. These are known as the sanyaku. From the highest to the lowest, these champion ranks are the komusubi, the sekiwake, and the ōzeki. The very top rank is yokozuna. These are the grand champions. They are expected to win the top tournament titles. Naturally, it is very difficult to make it into the Yokozuna. The criteria for a member of the ōzeki to be considered to join the yokozuna is winning two consecutive championship titles or to achieve some sort of equivalent performance. The Grand Sumo Tournaments (honbasho) are the only matches that are used to determine distinctions. Exhibition matches have absolutely no bearing on how a wrestler is ranked.
The amazing exhibition of physical power and the unique dedication to ancient ritual make sumo a very interesting and exciting sport to watch, whether on television or in person.


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Artist Henning Koppel is well known for his lifelong collaboration with Georg Jensen, which began in 1946, when he was 27 years old. Koppel's flowing sculptural forms helped create the modern Scandinavian design aesthetic that we know today.
The shape of the BUBI lamp was inspired while Koppel was sketching a hat worn by his grandson. Featuring a curved chrome top and an acylic diffuser, the light shows graceful lines similar to Koppel's famous fish dish. This classic danish light designed in 1972, was was re-released by Pandul in 2010.


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Study finds rogue waves are fact, not myth
A German scientist says deadly "rogue waves" of 100 feet or higher are more common than thought.
Such enormous waves -- some taller than a 10-story building -- have, in the past, been considered sea tales, together with sightings of mermaids and sea monsters, The New York Times reported. Scientists say such waves might have been responsible for the mysterious sinking of dozens of large ships and the loss of many lives.
Wolfgang Rosenthal, a German scientist who helped the Paris-based European Space Agency pioneer the study of rogue waves by radar satellite, told the Times he estimates that, at any given moment, 10 of the giant waves are churning through the world's oceans -- especially in regions having powerful currents: the Agulhas off South Africa, the Kuroshio off Japan, and the Gulf Stream off the eastern United States.
Rosenthal says the proliferation of radar satellites should make it possible to better understand rogue waves and, perhaps, predict their occurrence.
"There will be warnings, maybe in 10 years," he told the Times. "It should be possible."
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Leighton Meester is Missoni's new face and will appear in the label's ads during the spring/summer 2011 campaign. The first photos have been revealed with Leighton joining the Missoni "Family & Friends" special campaign.
It seems that the "Gossip Girl" star, Leighton Meester appears
in the Missoni spring/summer 2011 campaign in a very girly, playful
ad, riding a rocking-horse.
Besides the beautiful American actress, this unique campaign called "Family & Friends" features Missoni family members Tai and Rosita, Vittorio, Luca and Angela, Margherita, Francesco, Teresa, Ottavio, Marco and Jennifer, but also friends and different celebrities such as Camilla Al Fayed, Andrea and Charlotte Dellal, Jaquetta Wheeler, and famous artist Sir Peter Blake.
In the Missoni "Family & Friends" campaign we can also see socialites Tatiana Santo Domingo and Eugenie Niarchos, Browns founder Joan Burstein, and models Jasmine Guinness and Jade Parfitt.
Speaking about this campaign, Angela Missoni told "Vogue" Itala
that "we were inspired by 'St.Pepper Lovely Hearts Club Band', by
that record cover conceived by the great British pop artist Peter
Blake. A work that, in my opinion, perfectly summarizes the spirit
of our collection, its playful shapes, 'cut out' and silhouetted
against space. I have therefore asked the great artist to realize a
big collage of portraits for our campaign. And, to my great joy, he
Rumors about the actress' collaboration with the famous brand started in the moment when Meester was spotted wearing Missoni regularly. The spring/summer 2011 campaign was shot by Juergen Teller and in one of the photos Leighton appears on a rocking-horse having a playful attitude and smiling. Moreover, a video directed by Mel Bles was released in which the family and friends are the main characters.