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The UK's Europe Day celebrations - coming together to show peace and unity with a series of events around the country.
Website under construction - full version launching soon!
Europe Day in The UK
Welcome to the portal for the UK's celebration of Europe Day, an annual event celebrating the peace and unity of EU countries.
In 2017, several local groups came together to host events marking Europe Day around the country. In 2018, the initiative has been adopted on a national level by a number of key partners and we have created this portal as a way to promote it.
Let's make the week of May 9th the biggest network of Europe Day celebrations that has ever been seen in the UK.
Latest Updates
21 March 2018
We are pleased to announce that the theme for this year will be surrounding the 70th anniversary of the Congress of The Hague, which was the first post-war iniative for European integration. Stay tuned for further details about how this will integrate into the initiative.
We are also pleased to announce that European Movement UK have come on board as supporters of the iniative.
02 March 2018
Our full website is still under construction, and is expected to launch next week along with the announcement of more national partners. However, we are now ready to launch the campaign nationaly through Britain for Europe.
That means that we are also ready to take submissions of events from groups around the country. If you are interested in joining the initiative, and hosting an event to celebrate Europe Day, then click the "Get involved" link above for more information.
26 February 2018
Scientists for EU have come on board as a supporter of our Europe Day initiative. They are an amazing group who do great things, and we are pleased to have them on board.
We are in discussion with several other key groups and individuals, both in the UK and around the EU, and will hopefully be able to make more announcments soon with the full launch of the initiative following shortly after.
24 February 2018
Our Europe Day initiative was presented for discussion at today's national meeting of Britain for Europe groups. It was extremely well received, and it has been adopted as a national initiative by Britain for Europe.
19 February 2018
We are pleased to announce that the initiative is returning for the second year in 2018, and that our flagship event will once again take place on Blackheath on Sunday May 13th.
If you are intertested in hosting a picnic in your area on May 13th, or another event to mark Europe Day during that week, please get in contact by clicking the "Get involved" link above.


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These are the findings of the first-ever region-wise analysis of power distribution loss in the state. Distribution loss occurs owing to old meters, old cables as well as power theft. The total distribution loss in Tamil Nadu is estimated to be 12.91%. With the changing of old meters with digital ones, the loss is likely to reduce in the coming years.
Trichy region comprises Cauvery delta region and Karur district.
"Farmers' connections in delta districts don't have meters and most of them use higher horse power pumps. For example, if a farmer has been permitted to use a 5 horse power pump, he would be using a 10 horse power pump. The extra power used is accounted for as distribution loss," a senior Tangedco official told TOI.
Tangedco estimates that farm power connections could be the main reason for Trichy region topping the distribution loss chart.
In urban areas, the loss is owing to old cables and meters.
"We have a target to lower the distribution loss in urban areas to single digit percentage, but in rural areas we hope to bring it down to 4%," said the official. In urban areas, apart from digital meters, the discom will also set up modern sub-stations to reduce distribution loss.
"Though the investment to set up modern sub-stations like gas insulated switchgear (GIS) is high, such infrastructure needs less land and it will also lower distribution loss. Such sub-stations will be set up at least in urban areas where acquiring land is a problem," said the official.
Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC), in its tariff report, has asked Tangedco to differentiate between power theft and transmission loss.
Unless this is done, the distribution loss trajectory may not reflect the ground reality.

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2. Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts dramatically improve your productivity in Excel. This lesson explains the two types of keyboard shortcuts in Excel and how to use them.
Keyboard shortcuts in the ribbon
- These shortcuts automatically access commands in the ribbon
- To start, simply press ALT and then type the letter under the desired tab
Other keyboard shortcuts
- These shortcuts do not access the ribbon and must be committed to memory
- Some are common to Word and PowerPoint (e.g. CTRL + C to copy)
- Others are specific to Excel (e.g. CTRL + PgDn to move worksheet)
When using Excel, we typically spend our time typing numbers and text, and typically keep two hands on the keyboard almost all of the time.
As a result, reaching for the mouse repeatedly to access commands on the ribbon becomes very time-consuming.
A much better alternative is to use keyboard shortcuts to access these commands.
Although they require some practice at the start, keyboard shortcuts will make you much faster at Excel over time.
There are broadly two types of keyboard shortcuts in Excel: shortcuts that directly access the ribbon commands and then shortcuts that don't.
To access shortcuts in the ribbon, we simply press the Alt key and this displays a series of letters underneath each tab.
Let's press H for the Home tab.
And this immediately provides me with all the shortcut commands for this tab.
So for example, if I wanted to convert the number 12 into the percentage format, I would just press P and this gives me 1200%.
If I press Alt + A instead of Alt + H, you can see that the shortcuts appear for this tab as well.
Ribbon shortcuts are very helpful because all you need to remember is one key: Alt, and Excel will tell you the rest of the keys to press to execute the shortcut.
The second set of keyboard shortcuts which do not access the ribbon are probably used more often, but they do require you to commit them to memory.
Some of these shortcuts you might be familiar with from other programs.
For example, Ctrl + B to bold text, Ctrl +C to copy, and Ctrl + V to paste.
Others, such as Ctrl + Pgdown to move to the next sheet are specific to Excel.
To help you remember these shortcuts, I'll include every new shortcut I use in the lesson in the show notes underneath the video.
Although I try to use shortcuts as much as possible, there are some occasions, for example when I'm selecting a text color, where I find the mouse easier to use.
If you can learn to limit your use of the mouse to these few instances, you'll become much more productive at navigating and manipulating data in Excel.


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Comfort food shows no sign of slowing down in New York, and nothing epitomizes the trend more than an entire restaurant dedicated to mac and cheese. (In fact, our fair city boasts two such establishments.) Macbar, the all-yellow carb-peddling annex to Delicatessen, is a temple to baked cheesy pasta. Its chef, Michael Ferraro, shares the recipe for his Margarita Mac, incorporating not tequila and Triple Sec (in honor of National Margarita Day, which is today), but rather tomatoes, fresh basil, and whole milk mozzarella.
"Delicatessen and Macbar's menus are based off of international comfort food, and pizza is one of my all time favorite comfort food dishes," says Ferraro. "This recipe showcases my favorite pizza toppings incorporated into a mac and cheese recipe."
Margarita Mac
1/4 lb. butter
4 oz. all-purpose flour
1 qt. whole milk
1/4 qt. heavy cream
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
7 oz. mascarpone cheese
3/4 lb. fontina cheese
3 oz. grated whole milk mozzarella
2 fresh red beefsteak tomatoes (peeled and seeded, diced small)
1 bunch fresh basil
1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
1 sprig fresh oregano
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced
1 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
2 lb. cooked elbow macaroni (al dente, cooked in salted boiling water)
In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the butter and flour, and cook for 5 minutes. Add the milk and heavy cream, and bring to a simmer for 10 minutes. Turn the heat down to low, and slowly add the mascarpone and fontina, all the while whisking until the cheese is melted. Remove from heat, and season with cayenne, salt, and pepper.
In a bowl, add the cooked pasta, cheese sauce, garlic, basil, oregano, pepper flakes, cayenne pepper, and tomatoes, reserving a small amount for the garnish. Mix the contents until the pasta is completely coated. Pour the pasta into a two-inch-deep baking pan, and cover with a thick layer of mozzarella. Bake at 400 degrees F until the top is golden brown.
Garnish with the rest of the diced tomato, tossed in olive oil and a touch of salt and fresh basil.
Related: Battle of the Dishes: Mac-and-Cheese Specialist Smackdown


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12 January 2019
I remember feeling the panic set in around my second or third year of college. I was an majoring in art with a concentration in photography and trying to cram in a minor in business. Interesting combo, no? What could I do for a living to make a decent amount of money and fast?
I certainly had no intention of being a starving artist. I decided to print some business cards and start shooting portraits and weddings. Luckily, there were the first few brave folks who saw my work and gave me a chance. The first weddings I shot on my own and soon I realized it was not a one-woman job!!
I begged my college classmate Sarah to help me shoot weddings. She was quiet and seemed wise beyond her years, just like me. She was the perfect match. Who would have thought we could keep going for 15 years? We've experienced a lot over the years – the migration from film to digital, changing gown styles and even laws that finally allowed same-sex unions(yay!)
Sarah and I have recently decided to stop shooting weddings. It was a hard decision for the both of us to make because we so enjoyed doing it. It was fun meeting everyone and it was especially moving to be so close to people during one of their most intimate occasions. It can be really beautiful watching two people exchange vows. It takes a lot of guts to get up on the altar and profess your love in front of a crowd. It was certainly a challenge for this introvert. But after gazing into your partner's eyes, one might forget about the crowd. That is always one of my favorite moments to shoot. Many people don't realize how hard wedding photography is. Allow me to give you some insight on the topic.
If you think the prices for wedding photographers is high, most of the time you are wrong. Out of all the wedding vendors, photographers suffer the most pressure. We are the only vendor with a product the couple will keep forever, so it has to be good!! It is a long day (8-12 hours at least) running around with 15-25 pounds of equipment on your back and around your neck. It is an immense amount of pressure to get great shots of not only the bride, groom and their families, but the cake, the table decorations and of course, the dress. Did I mention this is always on the weekend? Try working a full time job then spending your whole weekend driving around from place to place, unpacking & repacking your equipment then of course uploading and editing all the images. To this day, I still don't know how we did it. I guess being young helps!!
I cannot recall reading anywhere, wedding photographers proclaiming how much work wedding photography actually is. I love a challenge but this has certainly been one of the hardest I have ever signed up for. Couples and their families invest a lot of time and money into an event that will last one day. It needs to be perfect. But when something goes wrong, emotions are released rapidly and most times we are in the line of fire. We've had to console crying and scared brides and make the tough decision to stay quiet or make a statement when someone in the bridal party is acting out of turn. Surprisingly most people listen to us. We are the calmest vendors whose intention is only to capture memories, so they trust our judgement. Quite an honor.
I am glad we are coming to a close now. It seems like the right time in our lives. One of the last weddings we (well, Sarah) did was mine. And I don't mean to sound bias, but it was Sarah's best work. I say that because I loved every picture. Sarah knows me, my husband and knows exactly what we like. We are a product of the same art school and we are the same kind of soul, so of course she would capture our day perfectly.
We will miss it all – the ridiculously high heeled shoes, the insane amount of bobby pins and hairspray, the tears, the laughter and hugs at the end of the night for job well done. One of our favorite accolades is "we never saw you all day." We were there, you were just so busy in love that you didn't even notice.
Below are some of my favorites over the years. You can tell I lean more toward black & white. There is something so classic and forgiving about it. Photography is about capturing one moment, but color can make it so busy. Black and white can break it down into something even more simple – PURE LOVE.
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Dip at Dan's
When: July 30 at 11 a.m.
Where: Dan Burgess' home in Downers Grove.
What: One board of Diplomacy, plus all the usual accoutrements--craft beer, networked conference rooms, Dan. Do we really have to sell this to you?
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Grand prize is $10,000, 2nd is $2,500 (Laser cutter anyone?).
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Recommended Reading
- Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions – Dr. Gerald May
- Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction – The National Institute on Drug Abuse (View / Download for free at http://www.drugabuse.gov/scienceofaddiction/)
Boundaries & Limits (Codependency):
- Boundaries -When to Say YES When to Say NO To Take Control of Your Life – Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
- Co-dependent No More – Melodie Beattie
- Against the Wind – Finishing Well in a World of Compromise – K.P. Yohannan
- If You Want to Walk on Water, You Have to Get Out of the Boat – John Ortberg
Family Wealth:
- Family Wealth: Keeping it in the Family – How Family Members and Their Financial Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations – James E. Hughes, Jr.
- Preparing Heirs: Five Steps to a Successful Transition of Family Wealth and Values – Roy Williams & Vic Preisser
Financial Health:
- Money Harmony: Resolving Money Conflicts in Your Life and Relationships – Olivia Mellan
- The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life – David Krueger, M.D. with John David Mann
- Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life – George Kinder
- To Buy or Not To Buy: Why We Overshop and How To Stop – Dr. April Lane Benson
- Your Money Counts – Howard Dayton
- How to Forgive Ourselves — Totally: Begin Again by Breaking Free from Past Mistakes – R. T. Kendall
- Total Forgiveness – R.T. Kendall
- The Ragamuffin Gospel – Brennan Manning
Inner Healing:
- Transforming the Inner Man: God's Powerful Principles for Inner Healing and Lasting Life Change – John and Paula Sandford
- The Transformation of the Inner Man – John and Paula Sandford (This version is more in-depth than the one listed above.)
Life Skills:
- 9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life – Dr. Henry Cloud
- Battlefield of the Mind – Joyce Meyer
Marriage – Preparation & Enhancement:
- Love & W ar – John and Stasi Eldredge
- Night Light: A Devotional for Couples – Dr. James and Shirley Dobson
- Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy – Gary Thomas
- Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Marry – Leslie Parrott and Les Parrott III
- Your Money & Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich – Jason Zweig
- Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives – Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- Boundaries with Teens: When to Say Yes. How to Say No. – John Townsend
- Grace-based Parenting – Tim Kimmel
- Parenting with Love and Logic – Foster Cline and Jim Fay
Personal Growth:
- How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth – Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
- Life's Healing Choices: Freedom From Your Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits – John Baker
Relationship Enrichment:
- The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate – Dr. Gary Chapman
Relationship Skills:
- Boundaries in Marriage – Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
- People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts – Robert Bolton
- Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't – Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
Financial Therapy:
- 20/20 Segment on Financial Therapy: click here to watch.
Community Support Groups offer accountability and a place to share experience, strength, and hope.
- Spenders Anonymous (SA): www.spenders.org
- Debters Anonymous (DA): www.debtorsanonymous.org
- Gambler's Anonymous (GA): www.gamblersanonymous.org
- Celebrate Recovery (CR): www.celebraterecovery.com
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): www.aa.org
- Al-Anon / Alateen (Codependency): www.al-anon.org
- Narcotics Anonymous (NA): www.na.org
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RLGN 498 : Individual Study Topics
A study in an area of interest under the direction of a staff member. This study may involve research, laboratory or library work. May be repeated for a total of 2 credits.
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For enthusiasts of cocktail culture, Meat Market Palm Beach's signature drinks list covers perusal-worthy ground—from the classics to the trendy and what's now with proprietary flourishes—but later this week, one aperitif is likely to command a record number of sales or, at least, bar-habitués' inquiries.
That's because the aperitif, the berry-tinged and sparkling wine-spiked "Raspberry Beret," also is the title of a popular song by the late pop-music phenomenon, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Prince—and a tribute to him takes place Thursday at Meat Market, 191 Bradley Place.
The cocktail-time "Tribute to Prince" at Meat Market serves as a preview party to the Armory Art Center's Jan. 26 winter fundraiser (that event will feature art, music, fashion, cocktails and dinner by the bite) called "Purple Reign," another Prince tribute.
Thursday's event at Meat Market is 7-9 p.m. (if you plan to attend, you must RSVP by calling 833-8283 or by pre-registering here).
On tap for the Meat Market affair are happy-hour cocktails (variously priced) and complimentary hors d'oeuvres, plus, according to organizers, an appearance by live-action speed-painter Michael Israel.
In addition to Israel, several members of the Armory's board and "Purple Reign" host and junior committees are expected to attend (briefly or for the duration) Thursday's Prince tribute.
Anyone who attends Thursday's "Tribute to Prince" at Meat Market is invited to stay for dinner; 10 percent of all dinner proceeds are slated to benefit the Armory, 1700 Parker Ave., West Palm Beach.


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Glycemic Index, Insulin resistance and IGF-1
There is a link between hair loss and Insulin resistance, glucose intolerance and IGF-1.
The studies below show that men with vertex balding had increased (higher) levels of circulating Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) and decreased (lower) levels of circulating Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 (IGFBP-3).
J Am Acad Dermatol. 1999 Feb;40(2 Pt 1):200-3. "Hormones and hair patterning in men: a role for insulin-like growth factor 1?"
evaluated the function of "sex steroids", "sex hormone-binding globulin" (SHBG), and "insulin-like growth factor" (IGF-1) in determining hair-loss patterning in men. This study found that "for each 59 ng/mL increase in IGF-1, the odds of having vertex baldness doubled" and that "Testosterone, SHBG, and IGF-1 may be important in determining hair patterning in men."
J Am Acad Dermatol. 2000 Jun;42(6):1003-7. "Vertex balding, plasma insulin-like growth factor 1, and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3″ Found that "Older men with vertex balding have lower circulating levels of IGFBP-3 and higher levels of IGF-1 when controlling for IGFBP-3 level."
A link between IGF-1 and glucose intolerance / insulin resistance
Studies suggest that insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and IGF binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) could be important determinants of glucose homoeostasis. The study below indicates that low IGF-1 levels are associated with the development of insulin resistance and provides "further evidence for the possible protective role of IGF-I against development of glucose intolerance."
Lancet. 2002 May 18;359(9319):1740-5. "Circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I and development of glucose intolerance: a prospective observational study" "provide further evidence for the possible protective role of IGF-I against development of glucose intolerance."
Repeated elevations of insulin results in both insulin resistance and higher levels of insulin-like growth factor" (IGF-1), both linked to hair loss.
Further, a person with such chronic exposure to elevated insulin is at a higher risk of developing syndromes and dysfunctions including but not limited to heart disease, type 2 diabetes (glucose intolerance), syndrome X (metabolic syndrome), hypertension, obesity, polycystic ovarian syndrome in women and, yes, even schizophrenia (The British Journal of Psychiatry (2004) 185: 353-354.)
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High Glycemic Foods:
Our blood sugar rises normally when eating. Insulin is produced to convert sugar into fat (Triglycerides). However, ingesting high glycemic foods results in more insulin production, the chronic ingestion of high glycemic foods could lead to insulin resistance.
In summary:
Ingesting high glycemic foods -> chronic elevation of insulin -> lower levels of circulating Insulin like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3), higher levels of circulating Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1)
Actionable Takeaway:
1- Seek to lower levels of circulating Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) and increase levels of circulating Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 (IGFBP-3).
2- Reign in high blood sugar / insulin levels to prevent insulin resistance and a host of associated disorders.
3- Avoid chronic consumption of high GI foods to prevent insulin resistance.
Read more about Insulin Resistance (Insulin Resistance Article – Archived) here.
Updated: 5/24/2011
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Tags: Diabetes, Glucose Intolerance, High Glycemic, Hypertension, IGF-1, IGFBP-3, Insulin resistance, SHBG, Syndrome X


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Certified Protection Professional
The Certified Protection Professional programme has been in place since the mid-1970's. This certification has long been recognised as the leading qualification for security professionals throughout the world. Members seeking this qualification have been drawn from within the Armed Services, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Government Agencies, private and corporate bodies. The CPP® programme is designed to test the knowledge and skills of security professionals in the following domains:
- Security Principles and Practices
- Business Principles and Practices
- Investigations
- Personnel Security
- Physical Security
- Information Security
- Crisis Management
Applicants must meet one of the following requirements to be accepted as a CPP™ candidate:
Education: An earned bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited institution of higher education, and,
Work Experience: Seven (7) years of security experience, including at least three (3) years in responsible charge of a security function;
Work Experience: Nine (9) years of security experience, including at least three (3) years in responsible charge of a security function.
Eligibility requirements also include no prior conviction of any criminal offence that would reflect negatively on the security profession or on ASIS International and its certification programmes.
Definition of Terms
- "Experience" means that the individual has been personally engaged in security on a full-time basis, or as his or her primary duty. Included is:
- Experience as a security professional in the protection of assets, in the public or private sector, criminal justice system, government intelligence, or investigative agencies.
- Experience with companies, associations, government, or other organisations providing services or products, including consulting firms, provided the duties and responsibilities substantively relate to the design, evaluation, and application of systems, programmes, or equipment, or development and operation of services, for protection of assets in the private or public sectors.
- Experience as a full-time educator on the faculty of an accredited educational institution, provided the responsibilities for courses and other duties relate primarily to knowledge areas pertinent to the management and operation of protection of assets programs in the public or private sectors.
- "Practitioner" includes educators and individuals who are primarily responsible for the professional application of security principles and practices in the private or public sector.
- "Responsible Charge" means that charge exercised by an individual in a management position who makes decisions for the successful completion of objectives without reliance upon directions from a superior as to specific methods or techniques. However, an applicant need not have held a supervisory position, as long as the positions on which the application relies have specifically included responsibility for independent decisions or actions. If responsible charge is not based on supervisory responsibilities, then security programme management responsibilities and duties must be clearly shown. Generally, this excludes such positions as patrol officer or equivalent.
- "Security Function" shall mean the protection of assets; those security principles and practices employed to achieve freedom from physical and intellectual loss, unauthorised use, and danger or harm, in the private or public sector.
The applicant must not have been convicted of any criminal offence that would reflect negatively on the security profession, ASIS, and the CPP® programme.
Successful Completion of Exam
An examination is required for all applicants who meet the experience and/or education and responsible charge criteria. Candidates must pass the examination to achieve the CPP® designation.


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Compared with all the 'one hit wonders' in music, David Bowie has reinvented himself several times AND taken his audience with him. The parallel lessons in business innovation are that of changing what you do, keeping your customers AND gaining new ones. What can we learn about reinvention from David Bowie? Read on. Before we start, let's look at a Bowie classic – Life on Mars:
Bowie Business Lesson # 1. Find your focus
David Bowie began performing music when he was 13 years old, learning the saxophone while he was at High School and began playing in a number of mod bands. All these bands released singles, which were generally ignored, yet he continued performing. The following year, he released the music-hall styled 'Laughing Gnome.' Upon completing the record, he spent several weeks in a Buddhist monastery. Bloody good idea in my opinion, although I should be so lucky to have written this song in spite of its cheesiness!! Once he left the monastery, he formed a mime company – a non-obvious career move. This was short-lived, and he formed an experimental art group in 1969.
Bowie Business Lesson # 2. Get the right people
As necessity is the mother of invention, Bowie needed to finance the art group, so he signed a record deal. His first album featured 'Space Oddity,' which became a major hit single in the Britain. He began miming at T.REX concerts, eventually touring with Marc Bolan's, bassist / producer Tony Visconti and guitarist Mick Ronson. The band quickly fell apart, yet Bowie and Ronson continued to work together. The next album, 'The Man who Sold the World' did not gain much attention. Following the release of 'Hunky Dory,' featuring Ronson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman, Bowie developed his most famous incarnation, 'Ziggy Stardust'. Bowie quickly followed Ziggy with 'Aladdin Sane'. Not only did he record a new album that year, but he also produced Lou Reed's 'Transformer,' the Stooge's 'Raw Power' and Mott the Hoople's 'All the Young Dudes,' for which he also wrote the title track. Lest we forget this great song:
Bowie Business Lesson # 3. Re-engineer the Business
Bowie unexpectedly announced his retirement from live performances during his final show in 1973. He retreated from the spotlight to work on a musical adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, transforming the work into 'Diamond Dogs.' The album was released to generally poor reviews, yet it generated the hit single 'Rebel Rebel.' Bowie supported the album with an American tour. As the tour progressed, Bowie became fascinated with soul music. He subsequently refashioned his group into a Philly soul band and revamped his image in sophisticated, stylish fashions. The change took fans by surprise. 'Young Americans,' released in 1975, was the culmination of Bowie's soul obsession, and it became his first major crossover hit, peaking in the American Top Ten and generating his first U.S. number one hit in 'Fame,' a song he co-wrote with John Lennon and guitarist Carlos Alomar.
Bowie Business Lesson # 4. Challenge industry sacred cows
Once in Berlin, Bowie began painting, as well as studying art. He also developed a fascination with German electronic music, which Brian Eno helped him fulfil on their first album together, 'Low.' Released early in 1977, Low was a startling mixture of electronics, pop and avant-garde technique. It received mixed reviews, but was one of the most influential albums of the late '70s, as was its follow-up, 'Heroes':
We'll continue this blog through several other ch, ch, ch, changes in Bowie's career. Feel free to post your views on what Bowie's contribution to innovation and reinvention has been.
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In Conversation: Callaway, Maltby, and Shire
Interview by Kristy Geslain December 6, 2016
In Conversation: Callaway, Maltby, and Shire
December 6, 2016
In anticipation of the February 15 show The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway Sings Maltby & Shire, Broadway legends Liz Callaway, Richard Maltby, and David Shire recently sat down with Kristy Geslain to talk about auditions, collaborations, and what makes a song stand the test of time.
Liz Callaway: I was just in the neighborhood and I thought, I want to talk to my friends, Richard Maltby and David Shire. Two men who discovered me and I owe my career to and my marriage and my entire life to.
Richard Maltby: And I'm totally responsible for everything that Liz just gave me credit for.
David Shire: Liz is our muse.
Kristy Geslain: Tell us a little bit about where your friendship began.
DS: Richard saw her first.
RM: We were having auditions for a show called Gallery that was going to be done at the Public Theater. What were you, 19 years old?
LC: I think I was 19 or 20.
RM: This young girl came in and she had been in rehearsal so she wasn't dressed up for an audition. She was, in fact, dressed down for an audition.
LC: I was a rebel back then.
RM: And she said, "I'm going to sing 'Be a Lion,'" which is a song that just keeps going up and going up and just keeps going. And as the song went up, her voice went up, no break. Perfect, perfect, perfect intonation, perfect storytelling. I was sitting next to our musical director, Bill Elliot. I grabbed his knee. I sort of went, "Oh, my God" as this voice just opened up. At that time, we were writing a show called Baby and we didn't have our young girl, Lizzie, and I said, "There she is." She basically had the part that minute. I don't think she knew that. We didn't tell her that for a while, but she had the part right at that moment.
LC: You did tell me actually. You came up to me and said something about how "You are just right for this show I'm writing with my partner about a pregnant teenager." And I kind of filed that away: "That's nice." I've always said it's good to go to any audition you can because you never know who you're going to meet.
RM: What was your perception of that day?
LC: Actually, I talk about this in the show I'm doing for Songbook. I was in rehearsal for Merrily We Roll Along and I went to this audition just because I thought it would be good experience, but I already had a job. And so I didn't really think anything of it. I don't remember what I wore but I do remember that I was a late bloomer when I was starting out.
RM: I think you had coveralls and sneakers.
LC: Coveralls! Like overalls? I guess I did have a pair of overalls once.
"Be a Lion" was my big audition song. It was the only song I would sing. And then I actually got cast in Gallery, and I had to decide what to do. Hal Prince said he would put me in the chorus and I could understudy the female lead if I stayed, and I had to make this big decision whether to do Gallery or Merrily and I ultimately decided to do Merrily. I thought you were going to be so mad at me but obviously you got over it, and then I did a show at the King Cole Room at the St. Regis of Frank Loesser.
DS: That's when I first saw you. Richard had been raving about this girl so much so that I thought she couldn't exist and be that good, and he took me.
LC: And I knew who you were because I was a huge fan of Starting Here, Starting Now so I was like, "Oh, my God, Maltby and Shire." And I went up to you and we talked and that's when I offered if you needed someone to sing your songs, like, just wanted to hear a female voice with your songs, I just offered to help. Sincerely trying to be helpful.
DS: You had no idea how helpful you were going to be.
LC: So I started coming over to your apartment and we would work. I remember doing "Story Goes On" and "Ladies Singing Their Song."
"When David says she's our muse, she's our muse. No one interprets the material the way that she does and nobody gets inside the songs."
RM: We should probably say that it wasn't just that a nice, talented person came in and we liked her. This extraordinary voice, this extraordinary kind of lyric limpidness of a voice, the complete clarity of words on top of this glorious sound—and she's a kid. We wanted somebody who believably was in college and you usually cast 26-year-olds, you know, but she was the right age. As we worked, the astonishment at how completely natural and right she was just grew and grew and grew.
When David says she's our muse, she's our muse. No one interprets the material the way that she does and nobody gets inside the songs. We write character songs. We write songs that are about people talking in real life and that's what she does. She has this brilliant voice that separates the verbal part from the singing part. The voice is always supported but the words are as clear as if there was simply dialogue going on. And she plays the dialogue. So for a lyricist, it's from heaven, this gift.
DS: Ain't bad for a composer, either.
LC: But also from an actor's point of view, you have this rich material. I always say a good song is not hard to sing. It's just not. And I loved doing Baby. I have to say that it spoiled me because when the show closed—I do feel like it was the perfect part for me because I wasn't an ingénue, I just was me, and so was the character Lizzie and so was the way you wrote for her. I loved doing it then.
Now years later, looking at your songs and looking at them as someone—this is how many years later? Thirty some years later. I've had a life and I've lived and there's so much there in the songs, both music and lyrics.
It's so rich, and very different from any kind of concert I've done before. I've done a lot of solo shows and cabarets and concerts; this, to me, straddles a theater piece. It's a hybrid of a concert, but there's something theatrical about it and it's because of the kinds of songs that you write.
DS: The amazing thing is that even when you were 19, hadn't been married, hadn't had a child, you did the part completely believably when you had lived none of that. And then 25, 30 years later when you sang "A Story Goes On" at some benefit, after marriage and a child you said either to Richard or me, "You know, now I know what that song is about."
LC: I still sing "Story Goes On." I've sung it for a lot of different reasons and different events and it's a universal song. It's not just about what it was when we did Baby. That also is something—if a song has legs like that and can be sung. I'm always going to sing "Story Goes On." Of course I sing it a half step lower now, but it is a very special song.
DS: It's become our signature song.
RM: But I must say what you did with the whole evening [as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook 2016], and what you did with that song, is you related it to your own life, and when I say that Liz is our muse—we've written everything for Liz. What she did that was so eye opening, for me at any rate, was she took the songs out of the context of the shows that they came from and suddenly these songs took on a completely different life. It was as if, in many cases, I had never heard them before. I was hearing lines coming alive that I had sort of taken for granted or even forgot were there.
LC: I have to give a lot of credit to David Loud who did the arrangements and played piano for this. The instrumentation is piano, cello, and percussion. I'd never done that before so it was a very different sound. I met David before he became a musical director and arranger and conductor. He was in Merrily with me and he was in the chorus. He understudied Lonnie Price and I understudied Annie Morrison, so we've known each other for years. He is a real theater person, and we would get together and sometimes we'd just talk through the lyrics. So it came from that—finding a personal connection and finding not everything is about me, so sometimes you break the wall and other times you don't. It was incredibly gratifying to do. It was 18 songs, and I had never run through the show completely until I did it. I lived very dangerously. It worked. It came together.
RM: What you said was exactly right. It took on the quality of a play. So while it was a cabaret evening with a singer at a mic and a few musicians, somewhere about 20 minutes into it you realize that you had changed, that you weren't in the presence of that. Something magical was happening.
I've been to a lot of cabaret evenings and I've put a lot of them together, but that particular kind of magic trick doesn't happen very often and it became something bigger than just a collection of songs. David and I write about life, and putting those songs together with a personal connection brought them alive in a theatrical way. This event, I can tell you, is not like any other concerts that I know of. Something magical happens in it, and it sure as hell thrilled me.
We would've been very happy with an evening of one song after another performed very nicely by a really nice performer. That would've been great. We would've been thrilled. We would've given her big kisses at the end and we would have genuinely been delighted. That's not what happened.
LC: It's funny. I think it surprised all of us because when it was all over, I was like, "Oh, wow."
RM: You know what, it was a universal reaction in the room, too. The audience went through exactly that same process. They were having a good time, perfectly happy to be there and then by the time it was over, it was sort of, "Oh, my God, I've had an experience." You go to these never knowing what you're going to get, and every now and then something extraordinary happens, and this was one. And everybody felt that. You could tell by the way people came up. It wasn't just congratulations. It was, "Oh, my God. Congratulations."
LC: I really feel like in a funny way, my motive for doing this was partly for you guys. I just kind of wanted to thank you, and also just for fun. So I didn't go, "I'm going to do a show and I'm going to make this important thing." It wasn't about that.
DS: After we saw it we thought, "Why didn't we invite half the world?" We started thinking of all the people who weren't there to see it who we would've wanted to, both just personally and for business reasons, too. We thought we should've invited record producers, we should've invited Off-Broadway producers.
LC: It's fun. I'm so looking forward to getting to do it again. There's so much more I can explore and get into with these songs, because they're like little plays, a lot of them. So I'm thrilled to get to do it again. I want the world to hear your songs. I mean, the world does know your music but there's also a whole other generation. I think it's really important for people to discover songs they don't know about because as I'm learning now, music is more important than ever. Right now. It is.
RM: It really is. Music holds the world together.
DS: And disrupts it. You often say that the first sign of a revolution starts with music.
RM: Music is the most dangerous thing in the whole world. All of the great revolutions were signaled by a big major change in music before that. Plato said that music should be banned because it's the most incendiary thing and it gets the young riled up.
KG: You've had such a long and storied career, when you look at it now and when you go to a show like Liz's, what would you say is your place within the American songbook?
RM: Well, I know mine. I'm a footnote in Steve Sondheim's autobiography.
DS: I feel the same way.
LC: There are a lot of people who would like to be a footnote.
RM: The nature of the American songbook is it would be unthinkable to have had an American songbook in the '30s or even in the '40s because that was popular music and there was no sense of retrospective. Those extraordinary things that were written, we can now spot as sort of eras. We can suddenly see the entirety of Jerome Kern's work.
We can see the entirety of the songs that came out in the '60s. One brilliant new structured hit every week. We can now begin to see things over time. So the songbook is exactly that. You suddenly look at the history of American song, which is absolutely astonishing, and see the component parts of it. There's this songbook and that songbook. It's a necessary and extraordinary way of holding onto what was and is a central part of America's cultural development.
DS: And we couldn't be prouder, I should add, to be part of that. That's really thrilling.
LC: That's one of the reasons I wanted to do my show of their music. Most theater lovers—music lovers—know your music or know some of it, but there's a lot of your music they don't know. That's where I feel like you deserve to be there and it's really nice that Lincoln Center's American Songbook recognizes that. I think they really respect all three of us, but I am representing your music.
KG: So what's next on the agenda for all three of you?
RM: We have a new musical called Sousatzka. It's an adaptation of a movie called Madame Sousatzka that starred Shirley MacLaine in the mid-90s and a novel that preceded it. It stars Vicky Clark and Montego Glover and Judy Kaye. And David is doing a musical at the Long Wharf.
DS: With Adam Gopnik.
RM: And we're going to do a reading of a show that we've been talking about for a long time called The Country Wife, which is an adaptation of the Restoration comedy. Meanwhile, we're still tinkering with a show called Waterfall that we did in California last year. So we are busy little boys.
DS: I wish we were boys. We are really busy senior citizens.
LC: I have a lot of concertizing around the country. I really hope to do this show around. I've been talking to a few people about doing it in London and doing it in Australia and perhaps around the country, too. I think this needs to be an album. And I've got a few other things up my sleeve as well.
I love my freelance life and I love doing concerts and cabaret and various things. I really miss doing theater. And I really want to do a play or a musical. So when you're done with all those shows, maybe you can write something for me, a play to do. A play with music.
DS: Told you, we write everything for you.
LC: I would like that.
Kristy Geslain is Producer, Lincoln Center Media Productions.


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The Compromised University
Let's face it. There is nothing hallowed per se about the university. Like any human institution, it can profane its founding principles and grow corrupt and oppressive. As many have pointed out, the prestigious German universities of the 1930s, for example, were sloughs of degraded scholarship and outright propaganda mills, softening up their students' minds for the preposterous theories of National Socialism. Even a presumably master philosopher and teacher like Martin Heidegger, appointed rector of the University of Freiburg, used his considerable intellectual powers and prestige to further the Nazi supremacist dogma. For Heidegger, the function of the university was to provide what he called, in his rector's address, "service to knowledge" as an obligation to the National Socialist state.
What Heidegger had in mind, obviously, was not service to knowledge but service to an ideological parti pris masking as knowledge, really a form of epistemological closure. One must always remember that the university may as easily become an engine of indoctrination as a generator of intellectual vitality or a transmitter of genuine knowledge. We must remain skeptical of slogans and professed ideals such as the shibboleth of "academic freedom," which can be misused as a cover for illiberal thought and slavish conformity to a ruling ideology. As such, the university can become a ramada for some of the most extremist elements, faculty activists, and incompetent "intellectual workers" in a given society, as Roger Kimball has painstakingly shown in his groundbreaking Tenured Radicals.
This is no doubt why our left-leaning academia seems to have entered upon what David Horowitz has called, in his book of that title, an "unholy alliance" with various Islamic organizations. It hosts aggressive Muslim Student Unions, features Israel Apartheid Weeks, is prone to America-bashing, accepts funding from dubious Islamic sources, and is generally unwilling to confront the practice of Islamic terror and stealth jihad as strategies of warfare. For the university is partial to its own form of intellectual jihad in the ongoing culture wars, the theory and practice of which it considers legitimate. In my own country, the University of Toronto was the originator of the scandalous Israel Apartheid Week hatefest and has currently accepted and posted a blatantly anti-Semitic master's thesis. York University is notorious for Jew-bashing, much like the University of California at Irvine, and has just hosted the infamous Hamas supporter and pro-Islamist agitator George Galloway. According to Richard Cravatts of Boston University, York is a "cesspool of anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian activism," but his depiction pretty well applies across the academic board.
As Horowitz indicates, the academic left's growing rapprochement with the metastasizing Islamic movement is the latest sign of its abdication from founding principles and the betrayal of its mandate. This is one of the most troubling aspects of the so-called "liberal" university as we have come to know it, which offers an unseemly and unreciprocated hospitality to Islamic themes, curricula, and organizations. Indeed, the humanities departments of many, if not most, major Western universities, with their revisionist professoriate and craven administrations, differ little from their Islamic counterparts. True, the science and technology departments will generally tell a different story, as reflected in the disproportion in scientific achievements between Western and Islamic universities. Nonetheless, our universities, in the words of the Manhattan Institute's Abigail Thernstrom, are becoming "islands of repression in a sea of freedom."
It seems undeniable that many universities appear to be in the business of pimping for the Arabs, considering all the Saudi money (as well as "donations" and "gifts" from other Muslim nations) gushing into university programs and endowments. Harvard and Georgetown accepting millions of dollars from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is only one instance of a massive Arab subsidization scheme that began more than a generation ago, thus creating, as Campus Watch Associate Fellow Asaf Romirowsky writes, "bastions of noncritical, pro-Islamic scholarship within academia."


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January 17, 2020
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Hero's Spirit
- "White Wolf" redirects here. For the recurring enemy in The Legend of Zelda series, see White Wolfos.
|Hero's Spirit
|Other media
The Hero's Spirit,[2] also known as the Ancient Hero and the Hero's Shade,[3][4] is a recurring character in The Legend of Zelda series. The Hero's Spirit is a skeletal specter who can assume the form of the White Wolf.[5][note 1]
Twilight Princess
The Hero's Spirit is the Hero of Time from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, filled with regrets from being unable to pass on the "lessons of his life to those who came after him" after he was sent back in time to his childhood. He also lamented the fact that he was not remembered as a hero. In order to ease his regrets and finally pass on his knowledge, he teaches the seven Hidden Skills to his descendant, the Link from Twilight Princess.[1][8] In Hyrule, he appears as the White Wolf, who can be summoned by finding a Howling Stone, with the exception of the first time he is encountered, in which he appears to Link directly. Once a Howling Stone is found, the song has to be howled along with the Spirit. He then tells Link to take "sword in hand" and find him,[9] implying that Link had to return to human form before searching for the Wolf. The White Wolf will then appear on Link's Map indicating his current location. When Link confronts the Wolf, it leaps through Link, transporting him into another world.[10] The Wolf then transforms into a ghostly knight, the Hero's Spirit, who then teaches Link one of the seven Hidden Skills.
In the other world, the Hero's Spirit's form has bluish skin and a pallid, decaying appearance, with a skeletal face. His left eye glows red, while his right eye is missing. He carries a rusting Sword and Shield and wears armor, which is covered with leaves in sections. He carries a scabbard belted to his waist. From the back, his armor appears to be filled with a ghostly mist, rather than flesh, and his torso is not connected to his legs. Like the humanoid form of the Hero's Spirit, the White Wolf's left eye glows red, while the right eye is missing.
Other Appearances
My Nintendo Picross: Twilight Princess
The Hero's Shade appears as puzzles in both the Picross and Mega Picross series of puzzles in My Nintendo Picross: Twilight Princess. In the Picross series, the Hero's Shade is the 35th puzzle, serving as a 15×15 grid. In the Mega Picross series, the Hero's Shade is the 26th puzzle, also as a 15×15 grid.
|Names in Other Regions
|骸骨の戦士 (Gaikotsu no Senshi)
金色の狼 (Kin'iro no Ōkami)
勇者の亡霊 (Yūsha no Bōrei)
|Skeleton Warrior
Golden Wolf
Hero's Spirit
|Goldener Wolf
|Golden Wolf
Lupo dorato
Golden wolf
|El Espíritu del Héroe
Lobo Dorado
|The Spirit of the Hero
Golden Wolf
- ↑ The White Wolf is also known as the Golden Wolf in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — The Official Nintendo Player's Guide by Nintendo of America Inc. and the Spirit Wolf in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — PRIMA Official Game Guide by Prima Games.[6][7] However, as these names contradict its name in Encyclopedia, they are not considered canon.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Link, the descendant of the Hero of Time: [...] The spirit of Link's ancestor, the Hero of Time, teaches him his secrets. Ever since returning to the Child Era, the swordsman has lamented the fact that he was not remembered as a hero. This is the reason he passes down the proof of his courage and his secret techniques to the Link of this era, addressing him as "son"." (Hyrule Historia (Dark Horse Books) pg. 118)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Encyclopedia (Dark Horse Books) pg. 103
- ↑ "Ancient Hero
The ghost of the hero who teaches Link his secrets. Some theorize that the fact that he holds his sword in his left hand indicates he is actually Link from Ocarina of Time." (Hyrule Historia (Dark Horse Books) pg. 179)
- ↑ "A spirit covered in armor, the Hero's Shade lives in a visionary world and teaches the art of weapon-play to you." (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Official Game Guide (Prima Games) pg. 67)
- ↑ Encyclopedia (Dark Horse Books) pg. 277
- ↑ The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — The Official Nintendo Player's Guide by Nintendo of America Inc. pg. 192
- ↑ The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — PRIMA Official Game Guide by Prima Games pg. 447
- ↑ "Although I accepted life as the hero, I could not convey the lessons of that life to those that came after. At last, I have eased my regrets." — Hero's Spirit (Twilight Princess)
- ↑ "Let teachings of old pass to you... Take sword in hand and find me." — White Wolf (Twilight Princess)
- ↑ "In that case, return to your world and train yourself further. When you are prepared, come visit me again." — Hero's Spirit (Twilight Princess)


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Book Review: The Signore
Title: The Signore
Author: Kunio Tsuji Translated by Stephen Snyder
Publisher: Kodansha International
Pages: 197
Year: 1989
Original Japanese Title: Azuchi Okanki
Stars out of five: *****
If you are a Nobunaga fan or a Sengoku Jidai junkie, then The Signore is the book for you. Even though the book is fiction, it does provide details that Nobunaga's life was a lonely while unifying the Japan. I have to admit, I cried while reading this magnificent book. Here is the excerpt from the inside book jacket.
"Like the colorful, rapidly changing scenes of an old Japanese picture scroll, the events of this historical novel unfold in a series of unforgettable glimpses of misery and magnificence, cruelty and compassion.
Caught up in the late sixteenth-century struggle to unify Japan, a group of Portuguese missionaries react with curiosity, bewilderment, and admiration to the contradictions of this foreign land. Through the remote countryside and the streets of the capital, their dark-robed figures move amidst a shifting throng of fierce samurais, scheming Buddhist monks, wealthy merchants, and humble working folk. Their ultimate concern is with the common people; but the uncertainties of the age make the protection of the mighty essential. It is this need that brings them into contact with the enigmatic central figure of the story: the young lord Oda Nobunaga, who is obsessed with the task of imposing unity on a seething mass of rival forces. Ruthless, inquisitive, artistic, irreligious, he typifies the essential solitude of the man who seeks supreme power. Yet his relationship with the foreigners seems, paradoxically, to satisfy not only his thirst for knowledge-- of guns, of the other lands, of the universe-- but also a need for the human contact that his role makes impossible with his fellow countrymen. This strange relationship reaches a peak when Nobunaga has a splendid Catholic mission erected only a stone's throw from the magnificent castle that is the symbol of his hegemony. But the brilliance of the novel's climax is shattered at a single stroke by Nobunaga's sudden death. Thus, in its ending, this work-- so thought provoking in its picture of the meeting of the cultures--also seems to invite the reader to find beauty in the cruelty and impermanence of existence itself."
More later on The Signore which will include Nobunaga's appearance and a description of Gifu during Nobunaga's era.
Tenka no tame!
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Grassley? 'Stubborn'; Leahy? 'Prickly If Ignored'
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) is "stubborn." Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) can be "prickly if ignored." And the late Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania likes personal attention.
That's all according to a June 1993 memo written by Ron Klain, a former associate counsel to President Bill Clinton.


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Markus Fierz
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Markus Fierz
1937 in Copenhagen
|20 June 2006 (aged 94)
|Known for
|Spin–statistics theorem
|Menga Biber
|Max Planck Medal (1979)
Albert Einstein Medal (1989)
|Scientific career
|ETH Zurich in Zürich
University of Basel in Basel
|Doctoral advisor
|Gregor Wentzel
|Other academic advisors
|Wolfgang Pauli
|Doctoral students
|Klaus Hepp, Peter Minkowski
|Wolfgang Pauli
|Jürg Fröhlich
Markus Eduard Fierz (20 June 1912 – 20 June 2006) was a Swiss physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin–statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work.
Fierz's father Hans Eduard Fierz was a chemist with Geigy and later a professor at ETH Zurich, his mother was Linda Fierz-David. Fierz studied at the Realgymnasium in Zurich. In 1931 he began his studies in Göttingen, where he listened to the lectures of such luminaries as Hermann Weyl. In 1933 he returned to Zurich and studied physics at ETH under Wolfgang Pauli and Gregor Wentzel. In 1936 he earned a doctoral degree with his thesis on the infrared catastrophe in quantum electrodynamics.[1] Afterward he went to Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig and in 1936 became an assistant to Wolfgang Pauli in Zurich. For his habilitation degree in 1939 he treated in his thesis relativistic fields with arbitrary spins (with and without mass)[2] and proved the Spin-statistics theorem for free fields.[3] For quantum electrodynamics the work was extended.[4] The work on relativistic fields with arbitrary spins was later important in supergravity. In 1940 he became Privatdozent in Basel and 1943 assistant professor. From 1944 to 1959 he was a professor for theoretical physics in Basel. In 1950 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he met Res Jost. In 1959 he led the theoretical physics department at CERN in Geneva for one year and in 1960 he became the successor of his teacher Pauli at ETH. In 1977 he retired there as an emeritus professor. Fierz also worked on gravitational theory but published only one paper on the subject.
In 1940 he married Menga Biber; they became acquainted through making music (he played the violin). Their marriage produced two sons.
- Fierz, M. (1939), "Über die relativistische Theorie kräftefreier Teilchen mit beliebigem Spin", Helv. Phys. Acta (in German), 12 (1): 3–37, doi:10.5169/seals-110930(pdf download available)
- Fierz, M.; Pauli, W. (1939), "On relativistic wave equations for particles of arbitrary spin in an electromagnetic field", Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 173 (953): 211–232, Bibcode:1939RSPSA.173..211F, doi:10.1098/rspa.1939.0140
- M. Fierz, 'Zur Theorie der Multipolstrahlung', Helv. Phys. Acta 22 (1949) 489
- M. Fierz, Helv. Phys. Acta 29 (1956) 128
- M. Fierz, 'Spinors', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Relativistic Theories of Gravitation, London, July 1965, H. Bondi ed., Kings College, University of London, 1965
- M. Fierz, 'Warum gibt es keine magnetischen Ladungen?', Helv. Phys. Acta 37 (1964) 663
- M. Fierz, 'Die unitären Darstellungen der homogenen Lorentzgruppe', in Preludes in theoretical physics, in honor of V. F. Weisskopf, A. de-Shalit, H. Feshbach and L. van Hove (eds.), North Holland, Amsterdam, 1966
- M. Fierz, Vorlesungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Mechanik. Springer 1972
- ^ Bloch & Nordsieck 1937 Fierz could not convince Heisenberg of the existence of the divergences.
- ^ Fierz 1939
- ^ Pauli 1940 In 1940, Pauli gave a complete proof.
- ^ Fierz & Pauli 1939
- Bloch, F.; Nordsieck, A. (1937), "Note on the Radiation Field of the Electron", Phys. Rev., 52 (54): 54–59, Bibcode:1937PhRv...52...54B, doi:10.1103/PhysRev.52.54
- Pauli, W. (1940), "The Connection Between Spin and Statistics", Phys. Rev., 58 (716): 716–722, Bibcode:1940PhRv...58..716P, doi:10.1103/PhysRev.58.716
- "Marcus E. Fierz: director of Theoretical Studies". CERN Courier. 1 (4): 2. November 1959.
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The London-based Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) has announced the nomination of two among four documentaries entered by Sky News Arabia for the 11th edition of its awards.
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'Here to Help' a huge success
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RTA hosts global project management forum
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Fashion, he has sights set on Hollywood's elite. And he is well on his way. Following the success of the TV series The Killing plays Joel Kinnaman are now starring in the sci-fi roller Robocop.
DV had an intimate interview with one of Sweden's hottest actors. Here he talks about life in America, the future and reveals some details about his love life…
Joel Kinnaman is certainly Sweden's hottest actor. But his career almost came to an end even before it had begun. He just collapsed. Weak and wounded. Just as he would be the operator who took the stage. When he would prove himself before the eyes that were set to rate him.
– I went to Stage School in Malmö and I had a blackout. I would do a scene in four minutes and everything was gone. I did not get a word out of me. It was among the most shit I have ever experienced.
It was not the first time. But the first time before a judging audience had that job to decide his future. Whether he was good or not. It had previously happened in private.
– Like when I would tell funny stories to friends. Suddenly I lost confidence and fell to the abysmal level that I did not get a word out of me. I mean, in the midst of a funny story it occurred to. It was incredibly uncomfortable.
When it happened on the Stage School in Malmö, he drew a painful conclusion.
– I can not continue with acting. It felt so, I was ready to give it up.
Fully understandable. A man who becomes paralyzed like a rabbit caught in the headlights of speeding traffic and loses the power of speech when it's his job to act in a scene might want to throw his career in the bin.
– But I knew: there was nothing more important in my life than acting. I had already fought so incredibly hard for it and entered the Stage School on the fourth attempt. So instead of being put down and become, say, the guy at the deli counter at Ica exposing himself to cognitive shock therapy, confronting their own fears in 180.
– I chose to use a monologue that was an hour and a half long. A piece that is actually written for two people and includes 16 roles: Howie the Rookie. I made it a dozen times, and on Stage School, and at the Gothenburg City Theatre. It was make it or break it.
He managed it. With a vengeance.
– I learned the whole text in three weeks and when I performed the work, I stumbled not in words only once. I challenged the fear of the absolute worst thing I could think of – won. Since then it has never come back.
He won the war against himself. The victory is an endorsement of his life.
– In 2009 I got my first job, to make Raskolnikov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in Backa Theatre in Gothenburg, an incredible challenge for a newly qualified actor to be on stage continuously for three hours and forty minutes, I felt not as a big challenge. An extreme travel, yes, but I had already done the monologue. I had already done the scariest and confronted my deepest fears.
Both the set as a whole and Joel Kinna's portrayal of itself was awarded. In that way it is. Success on success. As a JW in fast cash, as Frank Wagner in six Johan Falk movies, as Stephen Holder of the TV series The Killing.
And there's more. Career cannon is loaded with lead in a reinterpretation of the classic Robocop (recording starts 10 September) and in fast cash II (premieres August 17).
– Jens Lapidus has been very generous with allowing films to be its own universe. His second book, Never fucka up, is in fact an independent continuation of the first book where JW is not even included. Fast cash II does straight off a sequel to the first film and takes up the thread where it left off, says Joel Kinnaman.
It would be easy to lose their footing. But Joel is stable. Not because of the applause and cheering. Such things may quickly die out. A flop can be enough. But precisely because of how he has overcome his fears.
– I have done so on several critical occasions when I hit the self-confidence loss, solved it by challenging myself even harder. I've built my confidence through practical work that I can be proud of, that I can go back to and draw strength from.
So when he gets lots of praise, he may feel: I'm worth it!
– Yes, actually. And I can feel it for real. I put so much effort into what I do.
Joel Kinnaman is obviously a well man. Each question is answered in detail on a selected Stockholmian. Yes, more than Stockholmian, he's from the South and it is heard.
– I grew up in Sofia. On the right side of the ditch.
At the national Swedish: I grew up east of Götgatan in Sofia church in Södermalm.
The detailed and thoughtful answers is really not just about himself and his career. When I ask if he could see Sweden clearer in light of that he now spends his time in the U.S. I am told a number that might have been held by an animated Olof Palme.
– I'll pay half as much in taxes over there compared to when I work at home. I mess with my American friends about it and says: Taxes in the United States must be raised. So they say: Yes, but the sideboard 25 percent of your income to charity then. But it works not so, they must be forced to do so. It stings. I would be pissed as hell when I paid, but I know what I get back: a better society.
It's called security and social welfare. Solidarity.
– It really is the best thing about Sweden. People have not the feeling for each other over there. I mean, there are people in the U.S. who come from poor backgrounds and have become rich, yes, but there are exceptional people. When others fail to allow it: Pull up! But that does not change a society of isolated individuals succeed. A society can only be changed through reforms at the macro level. It's that simple. Social Classes in the U.S. is cemented, there is very little movement between them. It's so gloomy. Just take a thing like that schools are financed through property taxes. In poor areas there are no real estate to take off …
Here at home he wants to see the Reinfeldt government to fall and be happy already yesterday.
– I am a Social Democrat. But I like the Left Party, Jonas Sjöstedt, too. Unlike Lars Ohly. It took him four years to say: I am not a communist. Troubled stupid. He just wanted to flirt with some elements in his party. Then you are more interested in a position of power than to change society. There, I lost all respect for him.
It is required that you talk about the private for Joel Kinnaman to be reticent. While he seems to like to talk about it. There's something about the smile. At the beginning of the interview he said: "I live nowhere in the U.S.." I'm not really up there and take up the thread again.
– But you must live somewhere?
– I live with a close friend in LA.
– A woman?
There came the smile.
Read the rest of the interview with Joel Kinnaman in the new issue of Ladies' World.
Source: Ladies World, translation with Google translator
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Photoshoots > 2012 – Ladies World (Sweden), thanks to Melanie Jo
Magazine Scans > Ladies World (Sweden) – July 2012, thanks to The Stråle Dome


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On busy mornings, a grab and go breakfast is a must. These muffins are my go-to. High in protein, low in fat and full of fruits and vegetables, they should taste, well, like healthy muffins. Meaning sawdust.
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WW PP 3; Calories 131; Total Fat 2.1; Trans Fat 0.0g; Cholesterol 14mg; Sodium 282mg; Total Carbohydrates 23.9g; Dietary Fiber 2.1g; Sugars 5.8g; Protein 4.6g
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Farida Karimova graduated from EU Munich in 2014 with an MBA in Human Resources Management. Now she's gainfully employed as training coordinator with IBM Russia. In her own words, Karimova tells us about her EU experience and how she pursues her passions.
My life has been going very well since I've graduated from EU. Why, you might ask? There have been a series of interconnected moments. I graduated from EU and gained a competitive advantage in the German job market; I passed an interview and was hired by a great company, Henkel, for a nine-month internship; Then I was hired for the full-time position of training coordinator at IBM Russia.
A real business experience
My third semester at EU was the brightest and most challenging. Ironically, I made it challenging. Here's how: towards the end of the second semester, everyone was choosing the major they wanted to focus on, no one chose the human resources management major. No one except for me. There were other majors with full groups of students, however, I was persistent (I still am), and stood my ground. I had made up mind.
I ended up having individual classes for the whole semester with three amazing professors, who had a solid background and experience in human resources.
They were the best, they made me realize, that with a little push, I too could be on top of things. They gave me enough autonomy to learn how to be well organized and how to manage my time, and most importantly, they shared their real-life professional experiences with me.
The internship
Shortly after my last semester, I moved to Hamburg and joined Henkel. I joined as a training and education intern. The team welcomed me with such warmth, that my adaptation period was very smooth. Before Henkel, my work experience had been in other countries. It felt challenging and exciting at the same time to start working in a new environment. My curious and proactive personality encouraged me to do every task I could get my hands on, not only those tasks I was assigned to do. I did presentations for management meetings, various reports, I participated very actively in the organization of events and seminars. My outstanding communications skills (which I polished in EU also), helped me to get along with a team and build strong and trustworthy relationships with them.
When I moved back to Russia and joined IBM, I began a whole new journey again. I had never worked in a multinational organization in Russia before, which also was a very different atmosphere. The IBM Kazan center had just started operating when I joined them. We were only 50 employees and we had to build everything from scratch. Among many other tasks, I am responsible for the development of training plans for the waves of employees who have been joining the company since 2014. I organize English-language classes, I perform MS PowerPoint trainings, I do translations (English-Russian, Russian-English) and write a weekly blog for our Global IBM Community.
Doing what you love
I would like to share my favorite task at IBM, which is writing the weekly blog. Writing has been my favorite task ever since I was a kid, and I am lucky that I am able to perform tasks that I truly love. Every Friday I choose, or am suggested, a topic for the blog. So far, there have been various topics: cultural and business related, our top performers, competitions which we have in the center, our clients' visits and many others. I would like to share the most recent blog, which was dedicated to our centers top performers:
I came across an article in Harvard Review Magazine with a rather controversial topic "Employees are not your greatest asset". Immediately I was interested to know more about the topic, since there were so many articles were the most famous leaders stated that employees are their greatest asset. Further into the article it all started to make perfect sense, because the point an article was making was that the greatest asset is how you empower your employees. I linked this thought to our center, and realized that this is how it is done in our IBM Kazan center. This is a still a young organization, with more than 300 employees, people who had joined us have different backgrounds and experience, yet at this point, we could proudly say "we are doing well". Our big team was empowered to do great work and achieve company objectives! They were given technology, content, guidance and goals, and here we are 2 years later with more than 300 employees and satisfied clients! Having said all that, I would like to point out our empowered and hard-working employees, who got Top Performers Award for Q2! Thank you colleague for being here and making us all very proud!
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I was lucky to join a new center which is still growing. There's going to be more clients, hence new tasks, opportunities, challenges and more topics to write about. I would like to send a message to all EU students and graduates:
"Be proactive, curious, patient and persistent, ask a lot of questions, and do not be afraid to try new things because this is the only way that you will manage to find a job that you will look forward to every morning."
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