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Fit for Purpose: Hong Kong's New Sports Expo Excites Healthy Interest
- Photo: On a mission to make fitness sexy: FitForFem takes to the stage at the Sports and Leisure Expo
- Photo: One for the kids: The ever-popular bouldering wall.
- Photo: One for the dads: The less popular pool football.
- Photo: Mental exercises: Even the brain got at workout at Hong Kong's inaugural Sports and Leisure Expo.
The inaugural HKTDC Hong Kong Sports and Leisure Expo proved a success with attendees and exhibitors alike, with many welcoming the chance to turn the spotlight on to Asia's fast-growing market for healthy living and fitness.
The Hong Kong Sports and Leisure Expo made its debut riding on the coattails of one of the city's longest-established events – the Hong Kong Book Fair. Although, this year at least, it lacked the scale and promotional heft of its HKTDC stable mate, it certainly wasn't short on ambition. In fact, the feeling across the show floor was that the 2017 event may well just be the precursor to something far bigger and much grander.
Across the course of the five-day event, some 90 exhibitors and 130 brands from a variety of countries and territories, including Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland, Japan and South Korea, were all on hand. All of them were understandably keen to showcase their latest offerings within the sports and leisure sector, whether they were innovative new products or refreshingly different services.
While the younger attendees queued to take on the challenge of the Just Climb 3.9-metre bouldering wall, their responsible adults took the opportunity to refine their golf swing or indulge in a little pool table soccer or shuffleboard. Should all this have proved to be too strenuous, there was also the opportunity to catch your breath at one of the show's 40 on-site events, which included interviews with local sporting celebrities and catwalk displays of active wear apparel.
For many attendees, the launch of the event was a timely one. While Hong Kong is not necessarily best known for medalling at international track and field events, neither is it permanently residing on the subs' bench, alongside such legendary sporting no-hopers as Mali and Monaco. It was, after all, an Olympic Games host city back in 2008 and can also boast of being the home of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, arguably the world's most profitable sporting organisation.
In order to address any perceived shortcomings with regard its citizens' overall fitness and well-being, the city's powers that be have made promoting sport a priority since the turn of the millennium. One keen participant in this government-backed initiative is Tracy Lai, Sports Programmes and Communications Manager for the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong – Jockey Club Mapperthon Community Action Project, a charity dedicated to introducing people to the benefits of a more sporting lifestyle.
Expanding on the project's aims, she said: "Our overall drive idea is to promote sport for life. We believe that, ideally, participating in sport should become a habit. In order to achieve this, we identify an appropriate community and then start working with members of that community across a broad age range, encouraging them all to take up sports.
"One of most successful initiatives has been Sportovation, a programme that incentivises participants into burning off calories in exchange for cash. If any young person, for instance, burns of 1,000 kilocalories of energy as part of a training regime, this could then be converted into, say, HK$40, which could be spent as they see fit on daily necessities, stationery or toys. We also encourage the use of fitness-tracker wristbands as a way for programme participants to evaluate their performance and achievements."
As proof of the programme's effectiveness, a number of Mapperthon graduates staged one of the expo's livelier performances, with several teams competing in a taspont tournament, a high-impact Japanese take on traditional tennis. Should such energetic pastimes fail to appeal, elsewhere at the event a relatively low-impact activity could be found, one suitable for participants of all ages – callisthenics.
Originating in the 19th century, callisthenics' blend of rhythmic stretching and flexing exercise has won a new audience of late as one of the key elements of a street workout, a communal keep-fit activity that first emerged in New York several years ago. One of the modern masters of callisthenics is Mok Ho Yin, who was at the expo to guide his street workout team through a demo of the required techniques in the Sports Arena.
Summarising the appeal of his chosen training technique, Mok, who is regularly called upon to demonstrate the discipline in places as far afield as Dubai and Thailand, said: "The beauty of callisthenics is that practitioners don't have to go to the gym and pay expensive membership fees in order to stay in shape."
Among the most high-profile exhibitors at this maiden event was the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG), the 57-year-old charity that is now the city's largest youth-services organisation. Over in the central area of the Grand Hall, the charity staged a demonstration of just a few of the activities it offers, including cross-fit trials, canoe challenges and a kinetic bike generator challenge.
Assessing the opportunities that Hong Kong's newest expo opens up, Terrence Zee, a Sports Manager with the HKFYG, said: "This has been the perfect platform for us to showcase our work. It has also been a golden opportunity to provide information about our sports and leisure programmes to many residents of the city."
While government organisations altruistically seeking to make Hong Kong a sportier city proved to be a big feature of the expo, there were also plenty of businesses in attendance, all of them intent on making a healthy profit from the fitness sector. On such exhibitor was ACP Medics, a Kowloon-based supplier of rehabilitation and remedial products, including knee and hand joint exercisers, fitness equipment and vibrating massage tools.
Outlining why the company had chosen to attend the expo, Sales Manager Anthony Choy said: "We're here to seed interest in our products and we've already connected with several local sports enthusiasts and buyers.
"Overall, given it's the first such expo, it has exceeded our expectations. For the future, I hope it retains its local focus and doesn't get hijacked by the international mega-brands."
Choy, though, was in something of a minority, with the majority of exhibitors keen to see the event expand and attract the key players from around the world. Voicing the sentiments of many, Ken Chu, a Director of Nutri Muscle Lab, a nutritional supplements distributor based in Hong Kong's Central district, said: "Compared with the West, Hong Kong is only just catching on to the benefits of sport. It's a growing market, though, and clearly has huge potential. So, as far as I am concerned, the bigger this expo gets the better."
Chu's view that Hong Kong is getting ever sportier was shared by Crystal Ng, Founder and Chief Fitness Coach of FitForFem, a Hong Kong-based supplier of women's gym outfits and health-improvement programmes. Citing her own experience as evidence, she said: "Active wear has now become pretty much a fashion statement in this city. For my part, once I've finished working out, I just slip on a pair of high heels and I'm good to go.
"In line with that, it would be good to see this event expand and bring in some of the bigger brands – Nike and Adidas, as well as the major gym-equipment suppliers. In the end it would benefit everyone, expanding the market and putting the spotlight on the sporting-goods sector."
Understandably, expansion was also on the mind of the event's organisers, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Addressing the plans already in place for the 2018 follow-up event, Sam Ho, an Assistant Media and Public Affairs Manager with the Council, said: "We certainly hope that the expo will grow, attracting an increasing number of exhibitors and brands from Hong Kong and all around the world."
The 2017 HKTDC Hong Kong Sports and Leisure Expo took place from 21-25 July 2017 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Jules Quartly, Special Correspondent, Hong Kong


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Jacob Polley is a poet and writer. His poetry collections are The Brink (Picador 2003), Little Gods (Picador 2006), and The Havocs (Picador 2012), and his debut novel Talk of The Town was published in 2010.
Jacob has been twice shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and in 2004 he was named as one of the Next Generation Poets. A fourth collection Jackself is due from Picador this November.
Hi Jacob. Thanks for taking the time to chat. You collaborated with composer Luke Carver Goss to create a ballad opera called Ballads of Blood. Can you tell us a bit more about the project and what challenges you faced putting together this material compared to the poetry you normally write which is intended to be read on the page?
The London Sinfonietta instigated the project in 2012/13, as part of their Blue Touch Paper scheme, which puts composers together with non-composers to collaborate on something.
For me, poems always hover between the page and the air, between silent reading and heard speech, so it wasn't a giant leap to begin to intend the words to be sung. Luke and I were trying to write an opera around a ballad of mine, 'Langley Lane', and someone – was it Cecil Sharp? – once said that you can't call it a ballad unless it has a tune, which was a challenge: I wanted a tune for my ballad, and I wanted it to not be my ballad any more but to meet the tune and be carried wherever it might.
We didn't quite get where we wanted to with all this, but the process of instigation and experimentation was extremely useful and interesting, and Luke wrote some beautiful music, giving 'Langley Lane' a haunting setting.
Your poem 'East Sands, Salt Prints' pays homage to David Brewster, the 19th century Scottish scientist and inventor. I understand you incorporated and adapted material from a survey Brewster published in 1843 about photography. I'm curious how much you feel using this method influenced and steered the direction of the poem compared to if you had sat down and written it from scratch without referring to this source text?
I was looking for a way to engage with the history of photography in St Andrews, as well as with certain specific early photographs, and there's an excitement to Brewster's survey of early photography – which he calls 'photogenic drawing' – that was irresistible.
There was also something fitting about representing early photography by re-presenting some of his text, just as the early photographers were framing and re-presenting parts of St Andrews – the ruins of the cathedral, the rocks of the coast.
The processes of early photography were so interesting, all the enquiring into materials, the way light was, well, seen in a new light, and Brewster was leading this process of enquiry.
You participated in New Boots and Pantisocracies last year where poets engaged with the current political landscape. Your own poem took a personal approach and describes a parent explaining a flower to a child. There are poems in your last collection – 'Manifesto for the Makeshift', 'The News', 'The Havocs' – which work on a similar level of engaging with the political realm in a more oblique way. I'm curious if you think this technique is how poetry can and should best tackle such a thorny subject?
Sidling up seems the approach I was born to. Though weirdly, I often assume I'm approaching something as directly as it can possibly be approached. That's writing a poem, I guess: a process of absolutely forthright indirectness.
You've mentioned in the past your novel Talk of the Town began as an experiment to see if you could follow an idea beyond the confines of the single page you were so used to dealing with in poetry writing. Do you foresee yourself writing another novel in the future and, having gone through the process of writing one previously, do you think you would invariably approach it in a different way second time around?
I have no idea. I haven't been gripped by the urgency to write another piece of long fiction, but I might be in the future. I also started to teach full time the year after the novel was published, so all the energy that I might have used to plough down thousands of words of a new novel went into trying to work out what on earth I was doing when I was teaching, marking, designing courses etc.
But everything, for me, is an experiment, so if I wrote another novel it would inevitably be approached differently – it would have to be or I wouldn't have the energy to write it. Performing the experiment is what creates the reaction that generates the energy I need to stick at anything, so establishing the conditions of the experiment becomes what my approach – what my life! – is all about.
Are there any dates in the poetry diary you have enjoyed this year or are looking forward to?
I've got a weird new book of poems, Jackself, out in November. I'm also collaborating with the musician and sound designer, John Alder, to set many of the poems in this forthcoming book to music and 'do them' as some kind of recording and performance, so that's exciting, and great fun.
I also recently taught for Arvon at Lumb Bank for a week last month, which I always love doing.
Finally, can you tell us a little about the poem you've submitted to Poetry Spotlight?
It's from Jackself, which unlike my previous books is a book of poems with a story and characters moving through it. The main characters are Jackself and his friend, Jeremy Wren, and here they are in 'Cheapjack'…
as an elephant has memory
so Jeremy Wren has merchandise
in his pocket, an order book,
a Biro behind his ear, and in his palm
a matchbox from which he offers
Jackself the patter, eight-legged
and shrivelled like a dead
wrap your tongue round this,
he says, and sell a man
a second shadow
isn't it an old spider,
Jackself says you have to learn to overlook
your own eyes,
Wren says, otherwise
you'll never live the life you might
he slides shut the little drawer
and stows the matchbox back in his jacket
that night
Jackself lies awake,
his commercial inhibitions coming undone
in the dark and hiss of the rain
and next day at school he's barking the corridor
in a sandwich board that proclaims
a belt of Eden serpent's skin
a fairy's skull, a stone age stone
a map of sleep, a stick of rock
from Pompeii's only sweetie shop
a pick n mix of famous stains
a hanged man's jerk, a traffic cone
a bedbug from the riverbed
an ominous pencil, a furry mint
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Seattle author Neal Stephenson's newly published science-fiction novel, "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.," serves as the launch pad for a newly released literary app as well.
The free Bound app, available for iOS with an Android version coming soon, features a serial that's spun off from the time-traveling characters created by Stephenson and his co-author, historical novelist Nicole Galland.
"The D.O.D.O. Files" is billed as an extension of the book, with episodes written by Jamie Ortiz and David N. Ishimaru. The first two episodes are available for free reading or listening, and fresh content will be added on a weekly basis.
In addition to the episodes, which take the form of emails as well as narratives, users can download excerpts from the fictional Department of Diachronic Operations' human resources handbook, including DODO's sexual harassment policy. (One of the banned behaviors is the "wearing of overly large codpieces or making reference to such codpieces.")
There's been lots of anticipation about the latest from Stephenson and Galland, in part because of the great reception that greeted "SevenEves," Stephenson's previous novel about the moon's destruction and its millennia-long aftermath.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (and, ahem, yours truly) gave "SevenEves" a thumbs-up, and film director Ron Howard is working on a screen adaptation.
Stephenson is also the author behind "Snow Crash," "The Diamond Age," "Anathem," "Cryptonomicon," the Baroque Cycle and other weighty novels.
"The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." goes in a direction that's totally different from "SevenEves," which fit firmly into the hard science-fiction genre. This time around, Stephenson and Galland create a universe in which DODO agents travel back in time to revive a bygone world of magic – and meddle just a bit with history.
"The D.O.D.O. Files" focus on a parallel organization, DCOIN (Diachronic Counterintelligence), which is trying to keep history on an even keel.
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"We created Bound because as mobile games industry veterans, we saw that there remains a huge opportunity for fiction writers to provide a reading experience that suits the lifestyle and preferences of the mobile generation," co-founder and CEO Matthew Hannus said in a news release. "Bound provides an interactive experience for fans that grows over time, and offers creators a way to strengthen their relationships to their readers."
Other projects in the works include an original series from writer-linguist Nick Farmer, set in a far future where genetic engineering has firmly taken hold; and a set of stories spun off from "Exiles of Embermark," Gunslinger Studios' combat role-playing game.
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Vadim Vaskovsky states, "I experiment all the time. That is why I change themes and styles as often as I change a place of living. Asia dazzles me with its saturation. Black Sea coast reminds me of the ancient myths. Cuba makes my lines dancing. Newfoundland landscape teaches me moderation and silence. Where will we be when summer's gone?".
Born in 1973, he spent his childhood in Central Asia, Russia, and Ukraine. Since graduating from the Grekov Art College (Odessa, Ukraine) in 1989, his work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications.
After moving to Canada in 2002, he has been working as both a commercial and a fine artist whose client list includes Cat, Merrell, NHL, NBA, Global TV, Rogers, Koch Entertainment, Strategy Magazine, Sposa Magazine, Impact Mobile. Vaskovsky's canvases can be found in private collections in Europe, Canada and the United States.
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Yes, Khiladi Kumar of the Bollywood all set to share the screen with Tamil superstar Rajinikanth in the sequel of sci-fi film "Robot" (Enthiran 2.0). Enthiran 2.0 is considered as a moat awaiting film of the year, which is the sequel of Enthiran or Robot. The action Khiladi Akshay Kumar has made his first debut in Tamil Filmdom and he replaced Arnold Schwarzenegger in Rajnikanth's much-anticipated sequel, Robot 2 (Enthiran 2).
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Dr. Philip Lloyd
Dr. Philip Lloyd, UN IPCC co-coordinating lead author, [Nuclear Physicist!] and Chemical Engineer, and author of more than 150 [189] refereed publications. "The quantity of CO2 we produce is insignificant in terms of the natural circulation between air, water and soil. I am doing a detailed assessment of the UN IPCC reports and the Summaries for Policy Makers, identifying the way in which the Summaries have distorted the science." Google natural CO2 vs man-made CO2 for the real facts.
Philip Lloyd's Professional details- Honorary Research Fellow: Energy Research Centre: University of Cape Town, Cape Town; Fellow: SA Acad of Engineering ; Chair: VAF: Chemical & Allied Industries Association; Fellow: SA Chemical Institute (SACI);
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Building, Construction and Engineering-The Energy Institute covers a wide range of energy issues, from global climate change through industrial energy efficiency to how do the poor cook. It operates at the post-graduate level only.
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Technical report | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | 2005 Co-ordinating lead author on technical aspect of energy not climate science.
To belittle a distinguished scientist by including him with men/women of lesser qualifications is to detract from a growing base objective scientific knowledge, eg not produced by those whose sustenance is dependent on perpetuating the myth of manmade global, is indicative of those who cannot or will not discuss the subject on facts. They would rather believe Al Gore who is bent on making billions on a carbon exchange, than Dr. Lloyd. Lemmings beware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is hardly demonizing….we leave that to the Heartland Institute, set up by the Koch Brothers who compared Climate Change scientists to Charles Manson and other Mass Murders.
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Author : Bishop Julius Okarike
Verse Of The Day : He asked, "Where have you laid him?" They replied, "Lord, come and see."
Jesus wept. John 11 : 34 , 35
LISTEN : In life, everyone cries at one point or the other. Crying is not a demonstration of weakness, but a confirmation that you have a heart (feelings and emotions). Most often we cry out to express our pains within. Our hearts bleed when we are in trouble and hurting. (Psalms 42 : 3 – 5). Satan through sin has made life miserable for humanity. He has pierced our souls with troubles and sorrow, making everyone "a bleeding soul." However, whatever we are going through Jesus Christ had gone through all that. In our verse of the day, Jesus wept in Bethany at the tomb of His bosom friend Lazarus, because He was deeply hurt by the regrettable destiny (death) sin has chosen for humanity. He wept because of the heartbreak that Satan is putting people through against the original plans of God. The heart of God bleeds when we miss the way; God is hurt when we take a path that will lead to destruction. (Genesis 6 : 6). Death came and spread to everyone because Adam and Eve made the wrong decision. Thankfully, Jesus Christ overturned that verdict through His death. However, humanity has since then sustained the power of that wrong decision by refusing to obey the living God. They have rejected God. Beloved, when God is rejected ignorance and destruction will prevail. But when He is accepted, His power is released to fight and overcome sin and Satan. Beloved, return to God. Jesus wept for you to rejoice. So, follow Him and your weeping will be turned to laughter. Be wise!
Having read today's devotional, what is expected of you?
1. Weep no more, instead, be strong and cast your troubles to God.
2. No matter what, do not reject God, instead, accept Him and be saved.
3. Do not allow your circumstances to make your life miserable, rather, put your trust in God.
4. Resist Satan and all he has to offer in the name of "pleasure and enjoyment."
Daily Prayer : Everlasting Father, I know that Jesus Christ suffered and died for me to be saved. Therefore, help me to overcome sin and receive a glorious reward, amen.
Daily Task : Beloved, return to God. Jesus wept for you to rejoice. So, follow Him and your weeping will be turned to laughter.
Daily Reflection : When God is rejected, ignorance and destruction will prevail. But when He is accepted, His power is released to overcome sin and Satan.
Daily Quote : "The heart of God bleeds when we miss the way. God is hurt when we take the path that leads to destruction."
Daily Faith Confession : Today, I acknowledged that Satan temporarily messed up God's good plans for humanity, but Jesus Christ permanently remedied the situation. Therefore, I will serve God as long as I live, in Jesus' name, amen.
Daily Prophetic Declaration : You will make a difference. Today I prophesy to you, may God deliver you from heartbreak. May He save and restore your peace today, in Jesus' name, amen.
Today In History : June 3. 1923 In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote.
Stunning Fact : Did you know rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population?
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Bible Verse : Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. Psalms 145 : 3
LISTEN: The glory of God is unmatchable. His greatness has no compare. God created the world by His word, wisdom and power. (Proverbs 3 : 19 ; Jeremiah 10 : 12). Hence, He is to be praised with all we have, and with utmost capacities. Beloved, who else is to be praised if not God? His greatness has no end. His greatness is unsearchable; that is, the greatness of His nature, and the perfections of it; these are past finding out; and so are His ways and works, and the riches of His grace. Our God is great and worthy to be the object of our praise, day and night (Psalms 145:1-3). Those who know God's greatness should meditate upon it and proclaim it to others. The whole earth is full of God's greatness and goodness towards humanity. Not only is God great, but He is full of goodness, showing covenant faithfulness to His people and gracious love to people everywhere. Therefore, those who have tasted His love should show their gratitude by praising Him and telling others of His mighty works. In this way, they will help spread His rule to the lives of others. Today, all creation, and in particular we (His people), should bring Him unending praise for all his goodness and greatness. Remember, when we deny God His praise, He will surely deny us His blessings. Be wise!
1. Pray and bless God for His mercies, direction and protection.
2. Confess your sin to God and ask for forgiveness and mercy.
3. Ask God for grace to acknowledge His greatness and praise Him for who He is.
4. Pray and destroy all satanic plans against your life.
May God open your eyes to His greatness. I prophesy to you, may God bless you with greatness and glory as long as you live, in Jesus' name, amen.
God bless you. See you tomorrow.


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The Data Information Knowledge Wisdom Hierarchy
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
(Eliot, 1934)
The 'Data Information Knowledge Wisdom Hierarchy' is an epistemological system usually associated with Russell Ackoff (Ackoff, 1989) although elements of it are prefigured in the work of Milan Zeleny (1987), and in more poetic form in T.S. Eliot (above) and in the lyrics of a song by Frank Zappa[1].
To introduce this model, a brief description of what is meant by the 'Data Information Knowledge Wisdom Hierarchy' is in order. As indicated in the name, the model organises the range of epistemological phenomena into four categories, these are:
- Data – this indicates the set of individual facts, figures, sensory impressions, etc. Data is regarded as essentially meaningless, although it is the raw material from which meaning is derived.
- Information – is regarded as data which has undergone some kind of organisation. Data sets may be divided into categories according to some criteria; individual data items may be linked together according to some salient feature.
- Knowledge – this is, essentially, information which has been internalised by the person such that they might put it to use. An important feature of knowledge is that, whereas information and data may reside in texts, objects, and events, knowledge acquisition, ownership, and transfer can only be effected by human agents.
- Wisdom – this is seen as the possession of knowledge such that one is able not only to observe patterns of information within data and make intelligent connections between different patterns, but also to feel the principles which underlie the patterns themselves. Wisdom allows one to see these various patterns in their contexts and to be able to remain independent of immersion in that context oneself.
What I want to argue is that this model draws on certain key metaphors. These are partially spatial metaphors which, I will argue, map coherently onto those outlined in my previous analysis of 'tacit' and 'explicit' knowledge in the work of Michael Polanyi (and indeed to the less formal ideas of 'objective' and 'subjective' knowledge). In addition though, a close reading of the Data Information Knowledge Wisdom distinctions reveals a set of metaphors drawn not only from the properties of space but also to the properties of objects, specifically the substantial properties of hardness and softness, lightness and heaviness, liquidity, granularity, and evanescence.
Data is understood primarily as a physical resource, and the metaphorical form of this resource has a number of properties which distinguish it from information and knowledge. Firstly it is conceptualised as a large number of individual, separate, atomistic, entities, like an aggregate of small stones, or a pile of leaves blown by the wind. Items of data have an ontological irreducibility which prevents their being understood as composites themselves; just as when one is collecting pebbles from the beach one would not think to increase one's collection by splitting each pebble in half, so individual datum cannot be divided. Data is also understood as pre-existing any efforts to effect its collection; we conceive it as simply 'out there' waiting for some kind of exploratory practice to discover it. Such entities might be 'collected', 'mined', 'gathered', or 'stored'; on the other hand, because items of data are unconnected to every other item, they might also easily be lost, fall away from one another, disaggregate, or slip through the cracks.
[1] The 1979 song 'Packard's Goose' by Frank Zappa, on the Album 'Joe's Garage Act II and III contains the lines: Information is not knowledge/Knowledge is not wisdom/Wisdom is not truth/Truth is not beauty/Beauty is not love/Love is not music/and Music is THE BEST.(Tower Records, 1979).
ACKOFF, R. L. (1989) From Data to Wisdom. Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, 16, 3-9.
ELIOT, T. S. (1934) The Rock, Faber & Faber.
ZELENY, M. (1987) Management Support Systems: Towards Integrated Knowledge Management. Human Systems Management, 7, 59-70.
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this is an important hierarchy, and a really interesting issue,
what I would add to wisdom is irony or ironic distance,
plus the ability to recognize how meaning is contingent on a (tacit) sense of coherence! and understanding how this coherence is structured, and how different people relate to the same phenomena through different "coherences",
so "understanding" is I think more than knowledge, it's more of a wisdom, because
it involves the readiness and willingness to abandon ones own manner of looking at the world to accommodate to others' coherences, yes, this also brings to mind schema theory, which is barely related but the sequence of successful adaptation is I think similar to the process of understanding other people's attitudes toward phenomena, this is: accretation tuning and restructuring, but
ok, now I stop 🙂
great post,
thanks for your work,
as always,
on second thought, (I'll try and not be "bewildering" here)
if we deal with data-info-knowledge-wisdom in spatial terms
I think it makes sense to say that this continuum
is going from an external to an internal domain,
and this might be abstract to say, but I believe that
knowledge that is amalgamated with other knowledges, which is wisdom,
is a process when external affordances are internalized,
which means that the way we relate to ideas (not objects)
could be understood as reflecting "conceptual affordances",
my attitude toward a social norm, for instance, could be seen as evincing
the conceptual affordances that that specific notion elicits in me,
and so to realize the proportions of saliences I accord to ideas
has a kind of spatial sense to it,
when I manage to understand a demanding essay, for instance,
I kind of "see" or suddenly understand a spatially explicit schema
that underlies the logic of the text, I see the emphases and the hierarchy of distinctions…
I hope this makes sense,


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SAN FRANCISCO — For decades, visitors to Alcatraz Island had trouble deciphering the faded red graffiti on the old prison's rusted water tower.
Then last month, the National Park Service unveiled a rebuilt water tower with bold red letters reading, "Peace and Freedom. Welcome. Home of the Free Indian Land." The freshly painted inscription is an exact replica of graffiti left during the 19 months when Native American activists commandeered the wind-scoured island four decades ago and claimed it as their own.
"Normally, the federal government is not in the business of preserving graffiti," said Alexandra Picavet, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service, who said that to her knowledge this was the only example of restored, modern-day graffiti. "The water tower was the occupation's most outwardly focused message to the world and it is an important part of the island's history," she said.
In the early morning of Nov. 20, 1969, some 80 Native Americans sailed to Alcatraz and set up camp. They would stay on the craggy outcropping until federal marshals removed them on June 11, 1971. The group's demands included establishing a Native American university and cultural center.
"We will purchase said Alcatraz Island for $24 in glass beads and red cloth, a precedent set by the white man's purchase of a similar island about 300 years ago," read their proclamation. That other island was, of course, Manhattan, bought from Native Americans by the Dutch in 1626.
Soon after their arrival, the group found buckets of terra-cotta-colored paint, believed to be left over from the nearby Golden Gate Bridge. Some took to spelling out declarations of native sovereignty and painting raised red fists on the island's dilapidated prison buildings, including the water tower.
The park service spent most of a year and $1.5 million restoring the 250,000-gallon tank and 103-foot steel tower. The task included carefully matching the graffiti's paint and inviting Native Americans to participate in tracing over the final block letters. Park service employees say that in the month since the project's completion they have noticed a significant rise in the number of tourists who see the graffiti and ask questions about it.
Still, most of the 1.4 million visitors who come to the island each year come for the intrigue of the federal prison years. From 1934 to 1963, the prison held some of the nation's most notorious criminals, including the mob boss James (Whitey) Bulger, George (Machine Gun) Kelly, and the "Birdman of Alcatraz," Robert Stroud. "Most people don't know anything about our history here," said Eloy Martinez, 72, a member of the Southern Ute tribe. "They just come over here to get their pictures taken next to Al Capone's cell."
For more than a year, Mr. Martinez, his wife, Lesee, an Apache, and his 4-year-old son lived in a cell overlooking the island's dock. Now retired and living in Oakland, Mr. Martinez regularly boards a boat to Alcatraz to wander the grounds, point out the graffiti and answer tourists' questions.
For its part, the National Park Service, which took over stewardship of the island in 1972, has made considerable efforts to preserve evidence of the Native American takeover. Last year, the park installed a permanent multimedia exhibition of photographs and videos from the occupation.
"The occupation of Alcatraz launched an unparalleled wave of modern day American Indian activism," said Troy Johnson, professor of American Indian studies at California State University, Long Beach, and author of several books about those 19 months on Alcatraz.
In the decade after the takeover, Native American activists occupied more than 70 other locations, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington. "The occupiers awoke the government and the American people to native issues in this country," said Mr. Johnson.
The takeover also served to connect young Native American activists from dozens of tribes.
"I'm an urban Indian not a reservation Indian," said Sacheen Littlefeather, 66, who spent time on Alcatraz during the spring of 1971. "I learned so much about cultural traditions being on that island with Indian people from all over the country."
Ms. Littlefeather joined a group of Native American college students who, on weekends, would haul in fresh water and food on a resupply boat called the Clearwater, purchased with money donated by the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Every year, Native Americans from across the country — including many of the original occupiers — still gather on Alcatraz for sunrise ceremonies on Thanksgiving and Columbus Day. But Mr. Martinez likes to be on the island on ordinary days too, when thousands of tourists disembark with iPhones aloft and cameras slung across their chests.
Mostly, he talks about history. But sometimes, he cannot help but tell passers-by that many Native Americans still face crippling poverty, high unemployment and a lack of resources and opportunities, just as they did in 1969.
"Truthfully," said Mr. Martinez. "I thought more would have changed by now."


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Noir At The Bar New Orelans
Peter Rosovsky gets sworn at a lot.
The best part? He deserves it.
Peter started Noir at the Bar in Philadelphia, back in the long-ago days of 2008. His original idea was more along the lines of a traditional author Q&A, with writers like Duane Swierzynski, Dennis Tafoya, and Sandra Ruttan. Then two dirty lowdown hoodlums, Scott Phillips and Jed Ayers, stole the name and took it to St. Louis. Two new customs started there; the events began to have multiple authors reading, and the hosts started opening each show by swearing at Peter Rosovsky.
Eric Beetner and Stephen Blackmore then pretended to ask for permission to take Noir at the Bar to L.A. Todd Robinson just waded right in to the brawl and took the event to New York. He's like that, is our Todd. Just ask John Travolta.
If you're reading this, chances are you've heard of Noir at the Bar. Possibly even been to one. Chapters have sprung up across America and into Canada. In 2015 Russel D. McLean and I brought the name across the Atlantic, with three events in Glasgow. There have been chapters in Newcastle, Belfast, Carlisle, and Harrogate. Nobody in London has stepped up to the plate yet, but I think that's because they're all chicken.
You can find most of this information already. Keith Rawson put together a great oral history over at Litreactor, and there are no shortage of interviews and blog posts in which we've all talked about our fun little thing. So if none of this is new, what can I say that you've not heard before?
For me, the greatest thing about being part of this community is seeing the work people do for others. If you can name a Noir at the Bar host, then you're also thinking of someone who goes out of their way to create a platform for other writers. Eric Beetner and Stephen Blackmore gave me my first live event as an author, and I'm not alone. You won't have to go far at the Bouchercon bar to find authors –at all stages of the career- who want to thank Eric, Stephen, Todd, or any of the other hosts, for giving them a leg up along the way. It's that very spirit that made Russel and I want to bring the party to the UK, and that leads to my second favourite thing.
As a host I get to see the authors who take time out to help someone else on the bill. I watch Denise Mina encouraging a nervous new reader. I see Johnny Shaw talking authors through how to deliver a great joke. I love putting on an author who has never read before, and in the space of a five-minute reading see them go from, 'I'm too scared to do this,' to, 'when can I do it again?'
This whole damn-fool operation has grown into a great part of the crime fiction community since 2008, and it's all Peter Rosovsky's fault.
Okay. So why am I rambling at you today?
Well, another bit of history is that Bouchercon played host to Noir at the Bar for the first time in Cleveland, 2012. There has been some kind of noir-ish bar-ish presence at the convention every year since. Most have been hosted by Eric and Stephen, and last year Eryk Pruitt hit it out of the park with the bill he put together in Raleigh.
This is the fifth year in a row that we're bringing the show to Bouchercon, and so we've decided to do something special. We're giving you not one, but two doses of the noir stuff.
First up, at 4.30 on the Wednesday, Eric will be hosting Noir at the Bar: Bouchercon. This is the speed round event, similar to Albany and Long Beach. Each author (including your not-so-humble narrator) will get sixty seconds to hook you in with a short reading. At the end of the show, we will also be giving away free books.
You then have a few hours to relax and settle in before our second event, for which you are all cordially invited to join us at The Voodoo Lounge, 718 N Rampart Street, from 9pm onwards for Noir Bar After Dark. The evening show will be more of a traditional affair, with five minute readings from authors including Christa Faust, Johnny Shaw, Todd Robinson, and Renee Asher Pickup.
I mean, sure, you could be somewhere else, but why would you want to do that?
Link: An oral history of Noir at the Bar https://litreactor.com/columns/noir-at-the-bar-an-oral-history


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Chinese donut balls, raisin bread, bloody mary, Coors light beer. Complimentary
United Club, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
This was the first time I've seen Chinese donut balls at a United Club. They definitely weren't authentic – they were really just regular donut balls, but at least they tried to be fancy with the nomenclature, lol!


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EAM – gosh! It kinda sad, imagine all the stylists who made a name themselves cause of EAM, the photographers, the make-up artists! The messengers…it's a fucking MESS…people don't just leave like that! What happened to second chances! Now we're left with African woman…which I'm pretty sure photocopies some of it's pages! NKT!
Some young girls wanted to skin me a few weeks back – when I said James Smart had a face for radio…well jana he was co-anchoring with Peninah – Learning English – Karibe, and my pals who are very good at rating faces gave him a FF! Fucked Face hehe
Are the people calling on Kiss 100's Rush Hour for REAL?? Wooow! I thought I had issues but wapi! Sijui one guy's aunt wants a piece of him eeeek…some random mboch talking about how she's giving her goods to the man of the house and his SON!
NTV kwani there was a buy one get one free offer on those silly Filipino soaps! Ama it's just wanking material for Victor?? Have you noticed there are some actors who are in all of them!!
KISS tv!! Where to start…please STOP repeating stuff aki please…and DNG errr NO COMMENT…and Classic TV needs to get a life, we know you want to Tafrija all the time, but can you at least vet video quality!
First of all, not everyone is easy on the eyes!! So a few days back I was kinda shocked to hear a certain lady who is DEFINITELY not easy on the eyes complaining about her man! Woman, you're lucky that fool looks past your obvious facial weakness!


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While I have been researching Eastern European market socialism, with its breakthroughs and logjams, have not posted so much recently. But there are some interesting recent developments.
First, despite all the hype about Huawei in small corners of the world, business is booming with company sales improving more than 25 percent compared to last year. Its new phone, the Mate 30, simply challenges you to do without the nefarious dealings of Google. For some time now, I have not been using any of the Google items, so this is good news. Further, Germany has decided that Huawei poses no risks whatsover, and indeed that it helpfully prevents US spying, so the company that has most global patents in 5G will be integral to Germany's development.
On a related note, despite all the uncertainties of the global situation and with a new wave of US-driven nationalistic protectionism, the Chinese economy is moving ahead solidly. Chinese experts have have been predicting a gradual slowing of growth for some time, as China makes a transition from high volume to high quality, and with a focus on ecological civilisation (shengtai wenming). Then again, 6 to 6.5 percent growth now in China is equivalent to 15 percent 10 years ago, and it is way above standard levels elsewhere.


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Rancid's Tim Armstrong has teamed up with Fender Guitars to release the Fender Hellcat Acoustic Guitar. To promote the signature instrument, Armstrong has released a video of an acoustic performance of the Rancid song "Black Lung". The song originally appeared on Rancid's 1998 album Life Won't Wait… and you can check out the performance below.
Rancid released their eighth studio album, …Honor Is All We Know, 0n October 27, 2014.
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When women are in business
By Mirela Sula
As women entrepreneurs we all need to break the isolation and understand that we are not alone. We need rising the map of successful entrepreneurship, follow it and invite others to join us. When women are in business they can join forces to drive change, and be the channel of positive transformation. But for this we first need to understand that our business has a purpose and our purpose will be reached only by growing our business and to succeed in our entrepreneurship journey. Achieving financial success will allow us to do good in the world and help more people who need us.
But how we can we learn what to do to get there? Financial success happens when we are able to combine money, know-how, mentorship and networking. All of these elements are important and we need to develop these steps going beyond our limited belief, beyond our ideas, our start-up or small business. We need a complex set of skills to move our innovative ideas into the market and to ensure we succeed. Therefore networking is always a catalyst to encourage us tap into our hidden sources and reach the maximum.
The environment that we live in is highly competitive. The economic environment means that scaling up businesses demands special skills from entrepreneurs, who are obliged to secure finance as quickly as possible. Yet that alone is not sufficient to create global success stories. The entrepreneur needs not just finance, but the best support, knowledge and strategies to build and expand.
But how can we manage this?
We have all the experience and the expertise to guide you with step by step map to be sure and reassured that you are following the right path to grow.
For us at Global Woman it is very important to see as many women as we can to grow and gain their financial success.
For us at Global Woman.co it is very important to see as many women as we can to grow and gain their financial success. We really care about women who have the inner capacity to give more as we believe that the more women we help, the more positive impact we can bring to the world, which needs us more than ever right now.
We believe that we as women have the power to create this impact. As Einstein used to say "The intent of the experimenter influences the outcome of the experiment", so knowing that everything influences everything, we stand up to create our waves of influence.
Join us on 3rd February at Amba Hotel Marble Arch
to be the channel of change through empowering yourself and to invest for a better life and a better world.
We will also have a panel session with businesswomen who will share their experiences and challenges while growing their business. At this great location and venue you will have the opportunity not only to learn and to network but also to enjoy a day like no other, a day that will bring positive change to your life, business and future.


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Today is a double feature! Remember that RMK Halloween Hunt I was doing? This lovely dress is one of the prizes! Unfortunately the hunt ends today and the prizes are random. Of course, you can hop over to Violent Seduction and get one of the other colorways. While you are bouncing around, stop by G Field and pick up this year's and last year's gift. Both my bow and my stockings are from the latter. My adorable jewelry is from Noodles at the Tricky Treats Gatcha Village, which also ends today. My nails are also free from Nailed It! for Halloween. The shoes and the blouse are both staples in my wardrobe and at G Field. Looks like you have a lot of shopping to do today!
Dress: Nosferatu – Lavender – Violent Seduction – RMK Halloween Hunt Prize
Blouse: Charlotte – white – G Field – $260L (tinted lavender)
Hairbow: Halloween Bat Ribbon 2012 – G Field – FREE
Jewelry: Batty – G Field – $25L/play @ Tricky Treats Gatcha Village
Stockings : Halloween Bat Tights 2012 – G Field– FREE
Shoes: Bow Strap Shoes "Kate" – black – G Field – $180L (bows tinted lavender)
Hair: Dolly – LightBlondes03Fade – Truth – $250L
Hands: Mesh Hands – Casual – SLink – $450L
Nails: Halloween 2013 Set – Nailed It! – Free
Lashes: "Falsies" Eyelash – Mon Chéri – $299L
Eyes: Jaded Eyes – Dusk – large bright – Poetic Eyes – $100L
Freckles: Face & Body Freckles – Oh!Liv – $100L
Skin: Neva skin – Europa 05 A – Glam Affair
Pose: FLF fem 6-10 – 6 – !bang poses


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The meaty texture of the eggplant, the sweetness of the red peppers and the brininess of the capers create a dish full of flavor that could easily be served as a tasty side.
How to Make It
Preheat broiler.
Pierce eggplant several times with a fork; place on a foil-lined baking sheet. Broil 30 minutes or until blackened, turning frequently. Cool eggplant slightly; peel and chop.
Cut bell pepper in half lengthwise; discard seeds and membranes. Place pepper halves, skin sides up, on a foil-lined baking sheet; flatten with hand. Broil 15 minutes or until blackened. Place in a zip-top plastic bag; seal. Let stand 15 minutes. Peel and chop.
Combine eggplant, bell pepper, onion, and remaining ingredients in a medium bowl; toss well.
Chef's Notes
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What Is Gluten?
Having lived in New York my entire life, it's difficult to overstate the enjoyment of eating a good bagel or a slice of pizza; it's something that can't be replicated in other places. Some say it's the water here that makes the dough taste the way it does, but it's the special texture that makes or breaks these baked treats. While I can give a lot of credit to tradition and location, there's something else in the dough that's actually doing a large amount of the work to make it chewy and soft. It's a protein known as gluten.
If you've been keeping up with your food and diet trends, you've probably seen or heard recipes and diets all revolving around being gluten-free. With all the buzz about it, you're also probably wondering what gluten is and where it comes from. (Warning: There will be science ahead.)
Gluten is a protein composite found in species of grains that include wheat, rye, and barley. It's created by washing wheat flour until all the starch is removed, leaving only the gluten. Gliadin and glutelin, the proteins that combine to form gluten, are what make up around 80 percent of the protein that is found in wheat seeds. When these proteins come together, they create something similar to a network of webs, which is where gluten gets its elasticity.
What does all this mean exactly? Basically, when gluten is added in baking, it creates a stretchy web that stabilizes the shape and strength of the dough (gluten's name comes from the Latin for "glue"). The more you knead the dough, the stronger the gluten web gets, which is where bagels and pizza crusts get their chewiness. It also holds in carbon dioxide bubbles created from leavening agents like sugar or yeast, allowing the dough to rise. White, wheat, and rye breads all use gluten in their productions.
Gluten isn't relegated to baked goods only. Popular in Chinese cooking, wheat gluten has been used primarily as a substitution for meats, for vegetarians adherent to Buddhism. The gluten is fried, steamed, or baked in the same manner duck or pork would be, creating famous dishes like mock duck. In Western culture, it's eaten for its macrobiotic qualities, and sold under its Japanese name, seitan.
As I mentioned before, you're most likely familiar with gluten from the large amount of gluten-free diets you've seen. Adopting one of these diets isn't just to be healthy or trendy; people with celiac disease are sensitive to gluten and can become very ill if they consume any. It would be unfortunate to have to constrict yourself to only a few grains without gluten, such as quinoa or buckwheat; thankfully, there are plenty of recipes out there that allow you to eat common foods with a gluten-free twist. From spaghetti carbonara to banana-walnut chocolate chip muffins, there are ways to eat what you like without limiting your options.
Gluten is an important and prevelant ingredient in much of the culinary world, but thanks to clever chefs, there are gluten-free alternatives to almost anything you could want. If it's not an issue for you, gluten will give your favorite baked delights their wonderful textures, and act as one of the fundamentals of basic baking. Give it a thought, and enjoy that bagel!


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Top Tips To Help You Care For Your Cat
Cats are very loving and fun animals. To keep your cat happy and active, give them a new game or toy.You don't always have to spend money to enjoy some playtime with your cat. Use these ideas and you will have better days ahead.
Make sure that your cat is always groomed. Cats should have to be brushed or combed on a regular basis. This will keep them maintain a clean and healthy coat. It will also helps to reduce their shedding and can cut down on hairballs.
Cats can get into all sorts of small spaces. A breakaway style collar will literally "break away" if pulled on too tight. This could save your cat if it gets caught in some branches.
It may prove quite a challenge to make your cat from coming on your counters. Cats enjoy high places so they can see what is happening around the house. You can control this tendency a bit by making high places for your cat to hang out.
You may be able to find a better deal on your cat's prescription online instead of purchasing them from the veterinarian. In an emergency, however, for instance. But, if your cat is on a regular medication, you will be able to save up to half the price if you buy online.
Be very careful when leaving your cat with a kitten. Children under five years old should not be left alone with a pet. They don't know what harm they can potentially do to kittens. As they grow, they can show maturity with handling a little pet.
Don't think that you can teach a cat to use its litter box is supposed to be used. This is something that the cat does on its own and it usually is not learned fro another. Don't try to force your cat into the litter box by rubbing their paws or you will traumatize them.
Brush your cat at regular basis.This will reduce the fur well oiled and the skin healthy. It can also remove loose hair. This helps to stop hairballs from building up in your cat's stomach.
Frequent urination outside the litter box may warrant a trip to your vet's office. Cats sometimes behave like this type of behavior when they have a urinary infection or other medical problem. Some cheap antibiotics can clear up a potentially dangerous illness.
Think about the extra work before you take home a long-haired cat. The hair looks good, but it will require a lot of maintenance.Don't adopt a cat unless you're sure you can handle the extra cleaning. Long-haired cats are also often have hairballs.
Take your cat for checkups and vaccinations often to make sure he or she is healthy. Your cat needs these periodic checks and parasites.
Place sticky tape on your furniture. This style tape will prevent your cat stop scratching the furniture. You can find special tape specifically designed for this use in many pet stores.
Cats can get the same illnesses as you can. You will probably be able to tell if your cat and make sure they are in good health. Your vet can often rule out the possibility of an illness and give your cat preventive shots.
If you worry about the cat you have getting fleas, fleas or rabies, you should keep him inside. Even though it is possible these issues could affect indoors cats as well, outside is where it is most likely to occur.
Don't offer table scraps to your cat. The additives in human food is cooked and the ingredients involved makes for it not agree with your cats' digestive system. However, as long as you follow the instructions for feeding on your choice of cat food, he is getting the correct nutrition.
Do you love playing with your cat? Cats will love at least some of these tips provided here. Help your cat enjoy a long, healthy life with these tips.


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After exploring Villamagna, we drove over to hilltop Volterra – just 12 kms away.
A Bentley/Rolls Royce Royce rally is taking place and these specimens were parked in the main piazza
This one must be mine – my initials!!!
I don't think this would get up heir hill in the winter!


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Russian Federation to host Healthy Cities conference
On 14–16 June 2012, the Russian Federation will host the fourth Annual Business and Technical Conference of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network and the Network of European National Healthy Cities Networks.
The Conference will take place in Saint Petersburg, focusing on the theme "Health and well-being: from an early start in life to healthy ageing". The aim of the Conference will be to provide participants with the opportunity to share action, tools and solutions that work for a life-course approach. Activities during the three-day event will include panel debates, workshops, case studies and city visits.


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Even those who are against the State of Israel have no problem with living in the Land of Israel. Is there anything (in Torah, Halacha) that would prevent a group of Jews from coming to Eretz Yisrael and establishing a government to provide services for the people living in the Land?
I'm essentially asking what's the problem with today's state if all it does is provide government services like other countries, protect the people that live there, etc. Does it matter that they are Jewish?


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On June 6, 1889, at 2:45 p.m., a man named John E. Back inadvertently started a fire in the basement of a downtown building at the southwest corner of Madison Street and Front Street (later renamed 1st Avenue). By prompting new development and construction, this fire, remembered as the Great Fire, ironically transformed Seattle from a town to a city.
By the following morning, the fire had burned down 29 square city blocks of wooden buildings and about 10 brick buildings, including practically the entire business district, all but four of the city's wharves, and its railroad terminals. Somehow no one died, but it was reported that a million rats were consumed in the flames.
The fire started in Clairmont and Company cabinet shop, located in the basement of the wooden Pontius building at 922 Front Street at the southwest corner of its intersection with Madison Street. Five men were working in the cabinet shop including John E. Back, age 24, described as a "short, thick-set blonde of mediocre intelligence." Back arrived in the United States from Sweden in 1887 and moved to Seattle in October 1888.
Great Balls of Fire
Back is referred to as "Berg" in the following first-hand account by a Mr. Kittermaster, a Clairmont employee, published in the June 21 and 22, 1889, editions of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
"There were five of us in the room. Mr. Kirchener, Charley Stoll, an old Swede named Berg [sic, John E. Back], a young Swede from New York and myself [Mr. Kittermaster]. At the first alarm I was about forty feet away with my back toward the stove. As I turned to look back it [a glue pot on a stove] was blazing right up, and I saw Berg seize a pail of water to throw upon it. I shouted for him not to do it, but the ignorant Swede seemed excited and danced about with the pail before he dashed the water. I rushed to a corner to get my coat, intending to throw it over the burning glue and keep the air out; but the instant water touched the material everything in the shop was in a blaze and the smoke was so dense that I had difficulty to get out."
The following day John E. Back was located and interviewed by a Post-Intelligencer reporter. He stated that while working in the cabinet shop:
"I cut some balls of glue and put them in the glue pot on the stove … [and] went to work about twenty-five feet away, near the front door. After a while somebody said 'Look at the glue.' Another fellow, a Findlander from New York, then took a piece of board and laid it on to smother the glue, but the board caught fire. Then I run and took the pot of water to smother the fire and poured it over the pot of glue, which was blazing up high. When I throw the water on, the glue flew all over the shop into the shavings and everything take fire."
Apparently, shortly after the interview, John Back left Seattle.
A Horrible Black Smudge
The fire destroyed buildings in the following areas: From King Street N to Yesler Way and James Street west of 4th Avenue S to Yesler Way (later renamed 3rd Avenue S) and 3rd Avenue; From Yesler Way and James Street north to Spring Street west of 2nd Avenue; University Street north to Spring Street west of Front Street (later renamed 1st Avenue). British poet Rudyard Kipling happened to be touring Puget Sound at the time, and arrived in Seattle by steamer shortly after the fire. He described the remains as "a horrible black smudge, as though a Hand had come down and rubbed the place smooth. I know now what being wiped out means."
The day after the fire, there was a citizen's meeting that voiced the nearly unanimous sentiment that in the business district streets should be widened and "fireproof" brick buildings be required. Mayor Robert Moran and the city council concurred, but took two weeks to work out the details and approve an ordinance. Building commenced immediately, and the buildings were made of brick and stone. One month after the fire, voters approved funding for a city-owned water system, which would ultimately tap the Cedar River.
Within a year Seattle's population jumped from 25,000 to 43,000. A city was born.


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October 21 Sunday
Diane Delrosario's ride on the Mass Central Rail Trail thru Rutland ,Ma. with side trips to the Heifer International Farm and the Rutland cemetary where we caught our hostess, Delro, portraying the spirit of a Rutlander who died in the 1800's. Photos by Mary Ann Siron.Read More


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My colleagues and I are involved in an evidence-based Cochrane Review of the use of antibiotic and antiseptic prophylaxis in hip or knee replacement to prevent infections. These types of infections cost the U.S. health care system more than $1 billion a year in unnecessary treatment. What we have found most interesting in our research is the lack of evidence that antibiotic and antiseptic prophylaxis is even effective.
As a brief history, the use of preoperative antibiotics administered within an hour of surgery has been found to be effective in reducing infection rates during surgery. If antibiotics are administered outside this time window or not administered at all, however, infection rates go up exponentially. This was discovered back in 1992, in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This evidence has been subsequently applied to all types of surgery including primary knee and hip replacements.
Specific to these joint replacements, evidence of efficacy isn't due to lack of trying. We have identified 27 randomized controlled trials on the use of antibiotic or antiseptic prophylaxis since 1973. However, the issues with these studies are that most of them were performed more than 20 years ago. Since then, patient demographics have changed in a meaningful way—with a higher incidence of obese and diabetic patients undergoing these types of procedures.
The orthopedic community in the United States does not have a good handle on whether the current antibiotic prophylaxis regimens work as they should in these types of patients. Add to this a more active and longer-lived patient population, and the risks for infection increase. As well, antibiotic resistant bacteria are becoming increasingly prevalent with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficule (C diff), creating issues in treatment and significant comorbidities, including death.
We need more up-to-date studies examining these issues.
A lack of evidence in antibiotic prophylaxis is not an isolated issue. As has been mentioned in an oft-cited review by the Institute of Medicine, "Knowing What Works in Health Care, A Roadmap for the Nation," published in 2008, clinicians use a concept called "mindlines" in deciding what to do. Mindlines involve the use of tacit, internal guidelines derived from one own's experience or the experience of colleagues in deciding what is best for the patient. Unfortunately, this type of medicine is typically not the best way to practice the craft.
Another issue in practicing good medicine is a lack of understanding of rigorous study design and statistics. Better study design might be a very good course for clinicians in a medical school curriculum. It certainly occurs in developed countries outside the U.S.
What we need in the U.S. are up-to-date analyses and training. Until these occur, issues such as infections after knee and hip replacements will continue at a higher rate than the research needed to prevent them.


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Health department looking for input on childhood obesity
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COLUMBIA - A subcommittee for the prevention of childhood obesity held a public forum Wednesday. The subcommittee is part of the Missouri Children's Services Commission. The goal of Wednesday's forum was to get advice and opinions from the public about childhood obesity.
Columbia/Boone County Department of Health and Human Services Community Relations Supervisor Michelle Riefe said the committee has been traveling the state to gather different ideas about the prevention of childhood obesity. So far, the subcommittee has been to Springfield, Columbia, and plans to travel to Kansas City next week.
"They're just asking for some policy ideas and other different ideas that they can bring to the capital, to see what we can do to create a healthier environment," said Riefe. "It's really just a brainstorming session to see what people need and what people want."
Columbia parent Erin Harris has two children, ages 8 and 12. She attended Wednesday's forum because she thinks childhood obesity is an important issue.
"With the growing trend of childhood obesity, I think that we need to take some action, and a more proactive approach to it, and not just a reactive or trying to treat symptoms [approach]," Harris said.
In her home, Harris and her husband have tried to teach their children healthy habits.
"We try to have lots of fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator, lots of healthy snacks. We encourage lots of water, and not so many sweetened beverages," Harris said. "My husband and I try to set good role modeling. It's hard to do, but we try."
Harris attended the forum Wednesday because she is interested in hearing some of the state's plan for fighting this problem.
"I'm hoping to learn more about the new techniques, as far as some of the new approaches, and even the new marketing campaign that's coming out," Harris said.
Some of the approaches the committee has already come up with and discussed include the following;
• Update Missouri child care center and home licensing rules to align with the latest research on childhood obesity
• Require implementation of the Coordinated School Health model elements related to nutrition, physical activity, and physical education as part of a district accreditation by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Establish a designated fund for supporting schools with the implementation of wellness and prevention strategies.
• Establish a Commission for Childhood Obesity, supported by the Missouri Department of Health and senior services to coordinate resources across the state and improve link between screening and treatment services.
• Establish a network of Centers of Excellence across Missouri to provide evidence-based, multi-component weight reduction programs.
Columbia's a new campaign against childhood obesity titled "1-2-3-4-5-Fit-Tastic" was also introduced at the forum. The city adopted the campaign from Kansas City and will now partner with Kansas City moving forward.
"It addresses childhood obesity, and what we're trying to do is promote some healthy messages, healthy eating, and healthy physical activity messages," Riefe said. "Also, it encourages healthy weight assessments."
Harris said from what she has heard of the new campaign, this is something her kids would respond to at home.
"It's a lot of animated art, lots of fun posters, and some good messages," Harris said. "I think it would be something they could read, take notes from and try."
The subcommittee's next step is to incorporate the ideas and feedback it receives from these forums and then finalize a report to give to the state.