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An improved synthesis of the A–E ring segment of ciguatoxin CTX3C is described. The E ring segment was synthesized by the intramolecular reaction of allylic stannane and aldehyde with high stereoselectivity. Construction of the A–E ring framework was performed by using the intramolecular allylation of α-acetoxy ether followed by ring-closing metathesis.
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their heterostructures have been considered as suitable materials for photodegradation of organic pollutants in water treatment. In this work, a series of UiO-66/CuxS composites with different CuxS contents were prepared by using 3-mercaptopropionic acid as a surface-functionalizing agent to anchor CuxS nanoparticles onto UiO-66 surface. The as-synthesized UiO-66/CuxS composites were characterized by using XRD, SEM, TEM, XPS, UV-Vis, PL and the possible growth mechanism of the heterostructure composites was proposed. The UiO-66/CuxS composites were successfully used as photocatalysts for the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) under visible-light irradiation. Noticeably, the photocatalytic efficiency of UiO-66/CuxS composites could be tuned by changing Cu/Zr molar ratios. The enhanced photocatalytic activity could be attributed to the synergistic effect between CuxS nanoparticles and UiO-66 frameworks materials. This study provided useful information for the preparation of MOF/semiconductor heterostructure photocatalysts via the surface functionalization method.
The decay rate constants of benzhydrylium ions generated by laser irradiation in acetonitrile have been determined photometrically. The decay of the stable carbocation with an electron-releasing substituent was decelerated with addition of LiClO4, being attributed to the decrease of the recombination of the cations with the counter anions. On the contrary, the decay of the highly reactive carbocation was accelerated, indicating the occurrence of the reaction with perchlorate anion. The second-order rate constants (k2) for the reactions of benzhydrylium ions with methanol, ethanol, i-propanol, t-butanol, and water were determined in acetonitrile in the presence of 3 mM LiClO4 for benzhydrylium ions less electrophilic than 3,5-dimethyl-4′-chlorobenzhydrylium ion and in the absence of LiClO4 for the remaining reactive benzhydrylium ions. Their logarithms were linearly correlated with the electrophilicity parameters (E) in Mayr's equation, log k2 = sN(E + N). Based on the correlations the nucleophilicity parameters (N) were evaluated for these nucleophiles in acetonitrile, MeOH, 6.86; EtOH, 7.13; i-PrOH, 6.82; t-BuOH, 5.35; H2O, 5.79. The low nucleophilicity of t-butanol regardless of its high gas-phase basicity representing the inherent nature in molecular structure suggests the importance of steric environment at the transition state of the combination of benzhydrylium ions with nucleophiles.
Buckybowls, which are represented by sumanene and corannulene, have attracted considerable attention for their unique bowl structures and interesting physicochemical properties. However, still few heteroatom-doped buckybowls have been reported to date. Here we show the successful synthesis of triazasumanene, an isoelectronic heteroanalogue of sumanene, which possesses a deeper bowl with stable bowl chirality and unique helical columnar packing in the crystal as an enantiopure form. In contrast, the crystal packing of the racemate shows a unidirectional columnar structure, which resembles that of the pristine sumanene. Doping of nitrogen atoms into the periphery of the sumanene framework also leads to perturbations of the electronic structure as shown by a significant decrease of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level and the optical band gap in comparison to all-carbon sumanene. The pyridine ring of triazasumanene shows unusual susceptibility towards acidic hydrolysis due to the highly strained curved structure.
Supramolecular fluorescent gelators containing a tris(β-diketonato) complex are synthesized by using gelation-driving chelates, and their gelation abilities are studied with 15 solvents. Thin-layer films are prepared on quartz plates from the solutions and they are studied as chemosensors for amines. Fluorescence-quenching of the thin-layer films upon exposure to saturated primary and secondary amine vapors is monitored to evaluate the abilities of the chemosensors to detect amines. The morphologies of the thin-layer films are observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and discussed in relation to their fluorescence-quenching. The fluorescence-quenching efficiencies upon exposure to saturated primary and secondary amines depend on the basicity and bulkiness of the amines rather than the vapor pressure. The fluorescence-quenching is caused by decomposition of a complex through nucleophilic addition of primary or secondary amines to its carbonyl group. The detection of tertiary amines is performed by monitoring the fluorescence emission from the thin-layer films, which are composed of a ligand and EuCl3. The emergence of fluorescence originates from the formation of fluorescent Eu3+-containing gelator, in which dehydrochloric acid by tertiary amines is a trigger for the complexation.
A polyhedral Zn-based MOF [Zn (B-BDC) (Dpy)] •H2O (B-BDC = 3, 5-Dicarboxyphenylboronic acid, Dpy = 4, 4′-Bipyridine) (CCDC: 1559247), named Zn-BDC, has been initially designed and constructed via hydrothermal method. Then, its crystal structure, morphology and thermal properties were confirmed by using a series of characterization methods. Furthermore, composite materials, denoted as Zn-BDC-T (T = pyrolysis temperature), were synthesized by directly calcining Zn-BDC under N2 atmosphere at different temperatures. Herein, Zn-BDC-800 was recognized as N-doped Zn3B2O6 composite according to characterization results. When the Zn-BDC-800 was used as electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries, it exhibited a maximum discharge specific capacity of 295.6 mAhg−1 at the current density of 50 mAg−1 and its coulombic efficiency still remained at 99% after 100 cycles. Thus, this N-doped Zn3B2O6 polyhedral composite derived from Zn-MOF has broad development prospects in the field of SIBs.
Entangled structures in actinide-organic hybrid materials featured by intertwining between isolated motifs show promising potential in the application of different fields, such as radionuclide separation, radiation detection, photocatalysis and smart materials. Since how the individual motifs are entangled in combination of molecular structures of the structural units and topology of the individual motifs contributes most to the properties of actinide entangled materials, it is of significance to summarize and analyze these entanglements with diverse topologies. For this contribution, we will summarize all the entanglements in the reported actinide-organic entangled structures by classifying them according to the diverse catalogues of individual motifs and entangled patterns between them, among which are included all these intriguing types of entanglement in different seperate sections: 1) polyrotaxanes; 2) parallel interpenetration (INT) and polycatenation (P-CAT and I-CAT); and 3) Borromean ring (BR). This work is aimed at figuring out some clues on design principles of actinide-organic entangled structures, the underlying rules of ordered entanglement and driving forces behind from our perspective so as to provide some valuable principles guiding the assembly process of entangled structures for reference and help to achieve the controlled syntheses of actinide compounds of interest in the future.
The attachment of 3H-naphthopyran to a three-dimensional network of polysiloxane elastomer was carried out by hydrosilylation reactions using 3H-9-(5-hexenyloxy)naphthopyran. The photochemical coloration and subsequent thermal decoloration behaviors of polysiloxane-bound 3H-naphthopyran molecules were examined by comparing their properties with those of a model 9-hexyloxy-3H-naphthopyran compound doped in a polysiloxane film, a PMMA film, and in solutions. The decoloration reaction rate of polysiloxane-bound naphthopyran was basically the same as that in the polysiloxane-doped system and in solutions. However, the polysiloxane-bound system is superior to the doped system due to: (1) more concentrated incorporation of naphthopyran molecules in the polysiloxane film; (2) less degradation of naphthopyran molecules during film preparation; and (3) less temperature dependence in the thermal decoloration rate.
The physical properties of organometallic ionic liquids containing cationic ruthenium sandwich complexes {[Ru(C5H5)(C6H5R)]X; R = OCH(C4H9)2, OCH(C2H5)(C6H13); X = N(SO2CF3)2, N(SO2F)2} are dependent on the substituents. To obtain detailed information about the motional states and configurations of the constituent ions of these ionic liquids, we performed one-dimensional (1D) heteronuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (HOESY) NMR experiments and the standard relaxation rate (1/T1 and 1/T2) measurements. We determined the intermolecular cross-relaxation rates between some cation blocks and the anion in each ionic liquid by analyzing the experimental data based on the extended Solomon differential equations. As a result, we were able to estimate several intermolecular distances between the cations and anions in the ionic liquids. This is the first time that NMR has been applied to the determination of the intermolecular cross-relaxation rates and the estimation of intermolecular distances of highly viscous ionic liquids consisting of heteronuclear multiple-spin systems without the support of any X-ray data. The viscosities of these ionic liquids depended largely on the motional correlation times of the cations rather than on the intermolecular distances between the cations and anions.
Originally designed trans-chelating diphosphine ligands with moderate flexibility that allows trans- to cis-isomerization and bidentate to monodentate complex form were developed. The novel ligand shows high ligand acceleration effect (LAE) for Heck reaction. The catalyst loading was decreased to 0.0001 mol%, and the turnover number (TON) reached 970,000. The catalytic cycle was evaluated by DFT calculations. The calculations revealed the following: 1) the insertion step in monodentate pathway was the rate-determining step, 2) the high LAE effect of the novel ligand was due to a facile change of conformation from trans to cis form and flexibility to avoid steric repulsion between substrate and catalyst in the insertion step as well.
A novel, peripherally extended sterically demanding primary alkyl group based on the triptycene (Trp) framework, Trp*CH2, was designed and synthesized via a convenient one-pot reaction using the Friedel-Crafts alkylation of the corresponding TrpCH2 precursor. The introduction of the Trp*CH2 groups onto a Si=Si double bond allowed isolating the first stable tetraalkyldisilene that contains primary alkyl groups.
A silyl-tethered dihydride iron complex was synthesized by photolysis of a monohydride iron complex bearing a pendant hydrosilyl group. The coordination mode of the two hydrides and the tethered silyl ligand was investigated by 1H NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Despite the Si–H interactions, the prepared complex readily eliminated molecular hydrogen upon heating or addition of L-type ligands, namely, pyridine or CO, to afford new silyl-tethered complexes. Notably, the pyridine complex exhibited alcohol dehydrogenation activity.
The development of a two-step synthesis for β-hydroxy-α,α-disubstituted amino acid derivatives from cyclic orthoamide is reported. The first step is the orthoamide-type Overman rearrangement of an α,β-unsaturated ester to give a sterically hindered α,α-disubstituted amidoester. The α,β-unsaturated ester is known to be a challenging substrate in the conventional Overman rearrangement due to the competitive aza-Michael reaction. However, suppression of the aza-Michael reaction is realized by two factors; 1) the high reaction temperature, and 2) an alkyl substituent at the α-position. The second step is stereodivergent intramolecular SN2′ reaction for the installation of a hydroxy group at the β-position. Either syn- or anti-type SN2′ reaction is possible by simply changing the reaction conditions. The developed method can provide all four possible stereoisomers of the β-hydroxy-α,α-disubstituted amino acid, and is successfully applied to the total synthesis of sphingofungin F.
Dimethylsila-14-crown-5 (DMS14C5) and dimethylsila-17-crown-6 (DMS17C6) macrocyclic polyethers have been intercalated into montmorillonite layered silicates containing Li+, Na+ or K+ cations as exchangeable cations. XRD and FTIR spectroscopy offer information on the disposition of the macrocycle in the interlayer and accommodation of cations within the cavity of the polyoxyethylene ligand. 13C and 23Na solid-state NMR spectroscopy provides information about the replacement of water molecules from the hydration shell of interlayer cations by the macrocyclic ligand and confirms differences in the interactions depending on the nature of the ligand. The resulting montmorillonite intercalation materials were tested as active phase of PVC electrodes for the development of potentiometric sensors, in a preliminary attempt to evaluate their electrochemical response towards alkali-metal ions in solution.
Herein, Cu2[2-mpinh (2-methylpyridinecarboxaldehyde isonicotinohydrazide)2Cl2(H2O)]n or [Cu2(2-mpinh)2Cl2(H2O)]n was first fabricated through a chemical method, and subsequently, POAP/[Cu2(2-mpinh)2Cl2(H2O)]n hybrid films were prepared using electro-polymerization of POAP, carried out in the presence of the as-prepared [Cu2(2-mpinh)2Cl2(H2O)]n nanoparticles, to apply as the active electrode in an electrochemical supercapacitor application. Not only surface analyses but also electrochemical techniques, including cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge–discharge experiments along with electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, were conducted to characterize the prepared [Cu2(2-mpinh)2Cl2(H2O)]n composite films and examine the performance of the system, respectively. In this study, novel nanocomposite materials are presented for electrochemical redox capacitors possessing the merits of high active surface area and high stability in an aqueous electrolyte, as well as ease of fabrication.
Not only amphiphiles but also non-amphiphilic or π–conjugated molecules, if rationally designed, have been found to self-assemble in liquid media to form discrete tubular architectures with well-defined dimensions. This review covers most of the molecular building blocks that spontaneously produce organic nanotubes (ONTs) through self-assembly. Starting with the comparison of synthetic procedures and physical properties between the ONTs and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the author discusses the classification of formation mechanism for the self-assembled ONTs. Then, membrane- or sheet-based, nanoring- or nanotoroid-based, stacking-based, and supramolecular stacking-based pathways of the self-assembly are described in relation to the presence or absence of intermediate structures. Concerning the membrane- or sheet-based mechanism, the molecular design and functionalities of each building block, and the dimensions of obtained ONTs are discussed in terms of the self-assembling features of amino acids, bile acids, carbohydrates, nucleotides, photoresponsive amphiphiles, functional dyes, fused aromatics, carbon allotropes, heterocycles, peptide derivatives, and other related molecules. Naphthalenediimide, porphyrins, and azobenzene amphiphiles are introduced to feature the ONT formation mediated by nanoring or nanotoroid structures. Cyclic peptides, polymer cyclic peptides, and peptide helices are then described as building blocks that result in the stacking-based self-assembly of the ONTs. Trimesic acids, pyrimido pyrimidine, ferrocene aromatics, and bent-shaped or cyclic aromatic amphiphiles are also discussed from the viewpoint of supramolecular stacking into the ONTs. Finally, currently important but critical issues for further development of the ONTs toward practical applications are described.
To elucidate the relationship between prototropic tautomerism and the cold crystallization phenomenon, o-hydroxy aryl Schiff base compounds derived from three different toluidine isomers were examined. Comparing their thermal behavior, we confirmed that cold crystallization occurred to give a different crystalline phase compared to the initial state. To elucidate the mechanisms of the cold crystallization of the materials, their thermal, structural, and energetic properties were investigated. The DFT calculation of the molecules in their OH- and NH-forms suggested that the NH-form has higher molecular flexibility, which may prevent normal crystallization upon cooling, compared to the OH-form. Spectroscopic analyses implied that the molecules are present as a mixture of the OH- and NH-forms, and that they efficiently crystallize when a preferable OH/NH ratio is achieved. For this molecular system, we concluded that the equilibrium between NH- and OH-forms controls the supercooling of the liquid as well as nucleation and crystal growth.
The asymmetric amination of epoxides is an effective method to synthesize chiral β-aminoalcohols and their components as pharmaceuticals. We have developed a new catalyst system for the asymmetric amination of 1,2-epoxycyclohexane with cyclopropylamine. We have also found that water-soluble soy polysaccharide (Soyafibe S-DN) functions as a catalyst. This catalytic reaction proceeded under mild conditions in hydrous toluene at 37–40 °C. (1R,2R)-2-(cyclopropylamino)cyclohexan-1-ol was obtained at 64% enantiomeric excess (ee) by the asymmetric amination of 1,2-epoxycyclohexane with cyclopropylamine using this catalyst system; it was also made at >99% ee by purification as the fumarate salt. The catalytic activity of this soluble soy polysaccharide remained unchanged, even when treated with a protease, but its activity disappeared when treated with a sugar chain degrading enzyme. These results indicate that the polysaccharide rather than the protein acts as the catalyst for this reaction. Thus, we have discovered for the first time that polysaccharides can act as asymmetric catalysts for the amination of 1,2-epoxycyclohexane.
Dialkyl(potassio)silyl radical 6a[K(18-crown-6)] and dialkylsilylene radical anion 6b[K([2.2.2]cryptand)] were synthesized by the one-electron reduction of dialkylsilylene 5 and characterized by X-ray diffractional analysis and EPR spectroscopy. The structural change from 5 to 6b upon the one-electron reduction can be explained by reduced σ(Si–C) → 3p(Siα) orbital interactions.
The urge towards a precise control over structure and function of supramolecular polymers has recently aroused interest in temporally controlled supramolecular polymerization. The field is divided into two; living and transient supramolecular polymerization. The former deals with structural control such as length and dispersity, analogous to living polymerization in conventional polymers. The latter requires a temporally controlled switching of a structural/functional state in a supramolecular polymer. Such a control has been inspired by nature that has a precise control over spatial and temporal regimes. In this account, we describe the necessity and challenges in achieving temporal control over supramolecular polymerization. We have reviewed important reports that have attempted to obtain living and transient supramolecular polymerization. Although there has been significant advancement, the field is still in infancy due to lack of generalized schemes and designs, and we have thus discussed our perspective towards the future directions to obtain general design and next level complex supramolecular materials with spatio-temporal control.
First order or pseudo-first order reactions involving reversible linear chain and cyclic reaction networks are considered here for obtaining the respective characteristic polynomials (CPs) in analytical forms as well as the recursion relations among the CP coefficients. The zeros of the CP concerned are the decay constants that are useful in expressing the concentrations of the chemical species involved in the chemical reaction network at any instant of time. Illustrations are given for obtaining the CP coefficients of a few such graphs and some consequences thereof are presented. Facile computer programming can be made with these recursion relations for generating such polynomials.
Significant advances in the development of CDC reactions have been made in recent years. However, metal-free CDC reaction remains comparatively under-developed. In view that a variety of readily available, cheap and environmentally friendly bromine reagents have been employed in bromination or oxidation in organic synthesis, we would like to summarize and discuss in this review examples of bromine-mediated CDC reactions, delineating significant and promising applications of these reagents in metal-free functionalization of C-H bonds.


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This summer Saint Catherines turns 25 and to mark the occasion we are hosting a weekend conference at the end of June called LEGACY. You can read more about the conference and our guest speakers here.
Come and join us at 7:30pm on June 23rd to celebrate with us through Worship, storytelling, teaching and prayer for the city.

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Dan Chameroy gets his just desserts in Company.
COMPANY by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth (Theatre 20). At the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). Runs to July 13. $30-$89. 416-368-3110, theatre20.com. See listing. Rating: NNN
Company contains some of Stephen Sondheim's sharpest and cleverest songs, but Theatre 20's revival of the 1970 musical is a blunted, stop-and-start affair.
Part of the problem is George Furth's episodic book, which finds commitment-phobe Robert (Dan Chameroy), prompted by his 35th birthday, interacting with his married friends - who all want him paired off though they're unhappy themselves - and three single women also looking for love.
The scenes feel a lot like sketches, and dated ones at that. Plus, there's often a disconnect between what we're hearing and seeing.
The costumes are contemporary, but the lyrics reference antiquated things like phone services. Being single at 35 isn't a such a big deal today, and neither is being gay - although an awkward moment between Robert and one of his married friends suggests otherwise.
Director Garry Griffin does little to make the piece coherent. It doesn't help that many of the actors playing long-term couples lack chemistry together. Ken MacDonald's set suggests a cocktail lounge where the actors, when not in the spotlight, watch from tables. This adds nothing to the show.
And the potentially intriguing idea of having Robert take photos of his friends - so he can witness their so-called marital bliss? - is brought up by Griffin early, then abandoned.
Thankfully, most of the musical scenes shine. Carly Street handles the huge demands of the patter song Getting Married Today - about a woman with cold feet on her wedding day - with jaw-dropping accuracy and believable comic hysteria.
And Louise Pitre's delivery of The Ladies Who Lunch - about an aging society woman who drinks and judges everyone around her - is a little four-minute play: with each phrase, her character sinks deeper into drunkenness and self-loathing.
Pitre plays the scene after that famous song brilliantly, too, staring down Robert with inebriation and lust.
At the centre, the strong-voiced Chameroy grasps Sondheim's cynical sentiments, but isn't always convincing as the third wheel in his married friends' lives. Griffin stages some of his numbers awkwardly: having him sing one to an empty seat or begin another crouched on the floor.
Musical director Scott Christian does a fine job with the complex score - re-orchestrated for five musicians - but while it's nice to have the performers sing without mics, at times it's hard to hear them, especially in group numbers.
This strong company deserves to be heard.


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Being a big fan of Disney's
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Savant
had high hopes for 1974's Island at the Top of the World. It promised the kind of fantasy
adventure I loved as a kid. Unfortunately, the early 70s were not big years for that sort of film.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad was
so lacking in old-fashioned movie magic that I didn't bother seeing Ray Harryhausen's last two
films in the theater. And after being told that Island was a dog, I stayed away from it, too.
Now able to catch up with it on DVD 30 years later, I find that I was advised correctly, as this
Jules Verne-ish adventure to the North Pole is jam-packed with uninteresting special effects in
service of a story that seems to have been reduced to nothing to save money. Not only is none of
the old magic there, the Disney company seems to have lost all contact with it.
Movies about giant dirigibles and voyages to far-off lands are always fun for big kids like Savant,
and it takes an unusual lack of imagination to dull him on the concept. The inferior special effects
design inIsland at the Top of the World is just the tip of the iceberg of its problems.
Even with the bad effects, the show might have been fine with better characters and more engaging actors.
In Search of the Castaways is not exactly perfection in the screenplay department but
Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills and several other stars bring it to life with their screen
personalities. None of them came cheaply, something I can't say about the cast of Island.
The bland David Hartman did much better as a host of Good Morning America than he
did acting; the script doesn't give his Norwegian-American scientist any center of interest. Donald
Sinden's one-note expedition leader is pushy and rude but not
entertaining, and Jacques Marin (The Train, Charade, Forbidden Games)
is a French stereotype equally underwritten. The film is desperate for a sense of humor.
three of them embark on the most unimpressive 'Voyage of Imagination' imaginable, just three men
in a (very small) tub, with no character backgrounds other than some verbal exposition. In
Journey to the Center of the Earth
the Edinburgh society and our heroes' place in it is well-defined; here we get a couple of coach
interiors, a foggy street and the 'news' that all of Professor Ivarsson's affairs have been set
aside so he can fly off to the northern regions.
The titular island borrows the idea from the
Tarzan movies that whales have
a secret burial ground, ignoring the fact that whaling became such a big industry around this time
that few whales had to worry about such arrangements. Our heroes find Astragard easily after a brief
stop-off at a trading post to basically kidnap Oomiak (Mako), the last person to see the lost son alive.
Then they find the ancient Norsemen living as they did ten centuries earlier, in what looks like
an Alpine Shangri-La. After a brief trial a chase begins, aided by the son's Norse girlfriend
Freyja (Agneta Eckemyr). All events bear the predictable marks of story-by-committee.
Special effects had in general deteriorated by the middle 70s, with terrible work in films like
Logan's Run and The Towering Inferno passed off as quality on a public that still
wasn't very aware of how such things were done. It would take the smash combo of Star Wars
Close Encounters in 1977 to forever
make static mattes and models on strings unacceptable. Disney had always kept their work at an
extremely high level of quality, but even though it is supervised by their top man Peter Ellenshaw,
Island at the Top of the World is a visual eyesore. Colorful, imaginative (to a degree)
but a mess.
I think the problem is concept. Almost everything we see in the movie is a matte painting, with
only the minimum of sets constructed when necessary, similar to this year's over-designed
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. 2
But the style of the paintings seems purposely
designed to resemble hasty magazine illustrations. They're inconsistent, with some looking more
realistic than others. What we see is a hodge-podge of flat artwork (sometimes with zooms)
where we can frequently see broad brushstrokes. There are so many mattes and paintings in the film,
that I'm tempted to conclude that the budget required the filmmakers to go with unfinished work
part of the time. Scenes like the whale graveyard (on dry land!) and the meeting hall of the Norsemen
look like rough test composites, not finished work. If there was a plan to stylize Astragard like
illustrations in a kiddie adventure book, it doesn't work. There are plenty of ordinary green
landscapes that look perfectly naturalistic. It doesn't help when the key mastershot of the Viking
citadel tilts down to reveal a horde of citizens standing perfectly still. For that matter, there
are plenty of shots where water doesn't move and a tremendous rope bridge stands rock-still when
a Viking escort marches over it. All the scenes are painted, of course. 1
The balloon Hyperion is interesting enough in design, and the views of it in flight are certainly
superior to the illusion-challenged fantasy airship in AIP's Master of the World twelve
years earlier. But many of the shots show the ship moving as static artwork on a static background,
and in most close shots support wires are visible, even when smoke and fog should make hiding them
an easy task. It doesn't help that the script has the ship flying at foolishly low altitudes and
navigating through narrow passageways (under an ice bridge, for instance) that no normal balloon
airship could be expected to traverse. "It's easier to maneuver flying low," the Captain says.
The show also suffers from storyboard-itis, as it's locked into sequences of shots that don't work
particularly well but can't be changed because, well, that would violate the storyboard. With 1,000
shot-panels tacked to a wall, it's easy to weed out all the difficult or expensive or inconvenient
material and fool oneself into thinking that the story structure hasn't been harmed.
Curiously, Island at the Top of the World bears comparison to Irwin Allen's much-maligned
remake of The Lost World from 1960, a film that really ought to be released in widescreen
DVD. Yes, the dinosaurs are lizards and purists blanche at the idea of Jill St. John carrying a
pink poodle into a prehistoric jungle, but Allen's film has a rich look that holds up stylistically
even when things get silly. Along with the shared poodle (which in the first film at least barks
at a dinosaur) there's a similar chase through a weird landscape. But the 1960 film takes us through
a Disney-like grotto of fanciful caves, bridges made from dinosaur skeletons and narrow ledges above
colorful lakes of molten lava. It's hokey but it has considerable visual interest. And when an
actor of Claude Rains' caliber stares fearfully off-camera at some special effect, there's at least
some conviction to the illusion.
Disney's DVD of Island at the Top of the World is an okay presentation of a mediocre
adventure movie. The enhanced image looks sharp and colorful in non-effects shots, leading Savant
to believe that the weakly colored and grainy effects scenes, were always so. Through much
of the film there are a couple of odd dimples in the lower half of the frame that don't seem to
be from any film element, unless the entire movie was run through an optical printer with a dirty
lens. It looks like a transfer problem but I can't pretend to have a particularly informed opinion
on the subject.
One plus for the movie is Maurice Jarre's music. The main theme isn't all that distinguished, but
the background score is quite handsome.
The extras include a 1974 behind the scenes featurette that has an animated section speculating how
the Vikings came to Astragard in the 10th century; perhaps this material was from a discarded feature
prologue. There's a 1968 pre-production trailer and teaser showing that the movie was planned at least
six years in advance. It proves that the post- Walt Disney organization did things the
corporate committee way, and had to get some kind of approval for projects from higher sources.
There are some trailers and TV spots, and an unrewarding selection of effects plates without mattes,
or added smoke and fire effects.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
The Island at the Top of the World rates:
Movie: Fair
Video: Fair
Sound: Good
Supplements: featurettes, trailers, raw dailies
Packaging: Keep case
Reviewed: October 9, 2004
1. The shot of the Viking
buildings looks identical in style to concept art for the previous year's Lost Horizon
remake. Stylistically, it looks as if every Island artist went off in their own
direction, unsupervised. Return
2. Sky Captain is similar to Island at the Top of the World.
If the Disney film were filled with picture-perfect images and shots crammed with hundreds of Vikings
and dozens of boats, it would still be the same dull story, overbalanced by out-of-control effects
work. Return
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Revision as of 15:50, 25 September 2012
Welcome to the website of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song. This network was founded in the Spring of 2007 at the initiative of Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford) and André Lardinois (Radboud University Nijmegen). It is now run by André Lardinois and Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University). Its main purpose is to share information and exchange ideas between scholars interested in the study of archaic and classical lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry.
The website is hosted by the Department of Classics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO, has kindly provided funds both for the setting up of this website and for meetings of the network in the first three years. The network is also supported by the National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands, OIKOS.
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5 Ways To Grow Your Mompreneur Business This Month Like A Pro
Hey beautiful creative mompreneur! Are you looking to grow your business like a pro and more consistently this month? I have some great tips and resources for you with this blog post so grab a fresh cup of coffee and let's dive right in together!
1. Create A Valuable Resource.
Gone are the days where simply announcing to the world that you are a mindset coach, Etsy shop owner, massage therapist or professional network marketer will attract much attention. Why? Because there are a million+ people online marketing that way so the messaging of "hey look at me and what I do!" is heavily watered down. Standing out requires more creativity than ever before and one of the best ways to up your content marketing game is to create information that solves a problem for others positioning you as a trusted go to resource v. the chick who is waving her arms in a crowd trying to get noticed.
• Think about a free eBook (I create mine in Word and save as a PDF that can be delivered via email when someone subscribes to my email list) that can solve an immediate problem for your audience
• Create worksheets to help your following get better organized
• Record a training to give value and inspire your audience. The Soundcloud app is a great resource for this and the content on your Soundcloud account can be synced with iTunes which means you have a little mini-podcast all your own. You can download the app to your phone, record and upload it to your Soundcloud account. From there is can be shared across social media and embedded into a blog post as an audio file. I follow some great mentors on Soundcloud.
• Create a coupon for new clients that can be downloaded from your website or delivered when they subscribe to your email list for a discount on products or services you offer.
With so much competition out there, consumers expect something of value before opening their wallets.
2. Leverage Multiple Social Media Platforms.
I am not a believer that you need to be seen and heard across the entire world wide web. Being a jack of all trades, master of none will have you spread too thin and feeling stressed out but you do need to have a presence on social media to build brand recognition and trust. Mastering 2-3 platforms is a good place to start. Which platforms? That depends on the type of business you have. A Facebook fan page so customers can leave reviews and you can run targeted ads is a good place to start and from there branch out based on what makes sense for your business.
As a branding strategist and social media manager, I run a service based business. Facebook, Instagram (Alex Tooby has a great FREE Instagram course), Pinterest and LinkedIn are the platforms that make the most sense for me right now to drive traffic to my content and services, especially Pinterest as a blogger and LinkedIn for B2B (business to business) connections.
If you are a brick and mortar, for example, Facebook and Instagram are probably your best bet to start with. If you are an online marketer Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube are great resources. Bottom line is to know the demographics of your customers. Where they are hanging out is where you need to be hanging out.
Some online marketing expert might be pushing that Snapchat is the latest and greatest tool but if your target audience is 40 year old women who love organic skin care, for example, Snapchat is probably not going to be the best tool for your business no matter what some guru says.
Know your business AND your audience.
3. Spend An Hour A Day Connecting With Potential Prospects and Customers.
Most business owners are making the crucial mistake of not having a well rounded marketing strategy. While writing a blog post and sharing it to your Facebook fan page is great, never forget the value that is found in one on one conversations and networking and when you create something of value, you can leverage that to reach out to potential prospects and customers.
I recently followed a new organic skin care line on Instagram and the next day received a personal private message from the company thanking me for following their Instagram account and offered me a 20% off code for my first order. Talk about customer service! That day I visited their website, placed and order and used my coupon. Their proactive approach in connecting with a new follower led to a sell in less than 24 hours.
To help get the word out and offer value when I first launched my coaching business, I went through my Facebook birthday notifications every morning to see who fit my target market, sent them a private message with birthday well wishes and offered them a free 20 minute coaching call (they had to book it in the next 30 days to create urgency). Some took me up on it, some didn't, some of the coaching calls resulted in new clients and some didn't but that was okay. The goal was to get the word out about my coaching services and offer something of value at the same time v. me just blasting their inbox with my excitement about my new coaching gig which most people don't honestly care about.
When my business partner Rebecca and I launched Socially Tailored Marketing, we created a questionnaire through Google Docs that potential clients interested in branding and social media services can fill out. Even if working with a client is not a good fit or we don't have availability to take on a new client, we still take the time to respond via email with some tips that can help them in their business because we love to give value and support other business owners.
So get creative! Think outside the box and spend an hour every day personally connecting with potential customers and prospects to offer something of value while spreading awareness about your business and brand.
4. Get Organized.
This may seem like a no-brainer but have a real honest conversation with yourself. Are you as organized as you could be? Are you making the most out of the time you have during the day in all areas of your life?
As a mom who is running a family and a business, its imperative that you be as organized as possible. Set goals, have a schedule, create a system. If you don't, your day will be running you, not the other way around leaving you frustrated, exhausted and not very productive. Try some different things until you find what works for you and aligns with your personality. Again, just because some guru says you need to use Evernote doesn't mean that is the right fit for you.
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I was on a training call one time centered around time management and as soon as they started talking about tracking my time, schedule and business notes into an Excel spreadsheet I immediately hopped off. There was no point in spending another second on that when I LOATHE Excel. I am always open to trying new things and learning how to be more efficient but Excel is not my jam, I don't care if Oprah says its the greatest thing ever, it doesn't work for me. Know yourself and your personality.
Stay aligned with who you are and give yourself permission to filter the massive amounts of information coming into your space daily. Find what works for you but get as organized as you can to save time and your sanity.
Ways to be more organized:
• Create a schedule for yourself for each day of the week. For example, on Monday I schedule out as much content as I can for the whole week. Wednesdays are set aside to write a new blog post. Thursday I grocery shop and run as may errands as I can so I am only out one day during the week. Monday through Thursday I prospect for new clients and do follow-ups. I do this in the morning before anything else to ensure it gets done because its the . I stay focused on working until noon or 1pm so I can unplug for family time, a yoga flow work out and reading. I will check messages one more time before bed and then its lights out no later than 10pm otherwise I am a cranky fun sucker the next day.
• Have one calendar/planner. Keep all of your appointments in one place.
• Use an invoicing/payment system like QuickBooks or Freshbooks to invoice clients, track payments, expenses and client notes. This makes tax time easier too.
• Use scheduling tools like an online calendar for clients to set appointments blocking out times that work with your schedule to avoid overbooking yourself.
• Use a social media scheduling tool like HooteSuite, Sprout Social, Schedugram, etc. to pre-plan your content.
5. Expand Your Reach.
While marketing on your own platforms is a great way to grow your influence and your business its also important to expand your reach and get in front of a larger audience. Find podcasters in your niche and ask if they are looking for guests to interview. Be prepared to share your story to inspire their listeners and to give a lot of tips and value during your interview.
Consider guest blogging to help reach new audiences. I have written content for The Mogul Mom, Grit & Virtue, WBWM.com and Liquido Active. Other sites like Rising Tide Society, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Inc., Tiny Buddha and mindbodygreen also accept guest blog posts.
Just ensure that the content you provide makes sense for their target audience and yours. You will be able to promote the blog post across your social media sites when it publishes further edifying your expertise.
If you have a product based business, team up with other brands and influencers to host a joint giveaway on Instagram. For example, if you are an Etsy shop owner who makes coffee cups geared towards christian women, you could team up with other mom business owners who have similar products like bible journaling packs or a t-shirt shop owner who makes spiritual graphic tees to host a give away combining your products.
You can search Instagram by hashtag and then reach out via private message inviting them to participate in a give-away. The key to this is to look for accounts with a decent following AND have good engagement. If you land on an account that has 10K followers but each post generates very few likes and comments their followers are likely not organic. You want to team up with people who have built a community with their following.
Get laser focused on applying these tips to your mompreneur owned business and get growing this month! Did you find these tips helpful? Leave me a comment would love to hear from you and I would be so honored for you to share it with your fellow creative mompreneurs. Success is definitely sweeter when shared xo
April Williams is the #CreativeMomista of two boys • Storyteller • Coffee Addict • Woman Warrior Of God • Texas Country Girl • Creative Expressive • A vintage soul passionate about living a simple life with a modern approach to business and branding


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Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair #ChicagoWorldsFair
My family and I are lucky enough to live near a fabulous city, Chicago. We benefit from many things Chicago has to offer us and one of the greatest is the museums. My children love The Field Museum and pretty much have the layout memorized. However, we had yet to visit the The Field Museum's exhibit of Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair.
We are huge fans of fairs and considering Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair happened to have been the larget fair in Chicago like ever, we were super excited to see this exhibit. I downloaded the Field Museum Tours mobile app prior to leaving in order to provide my family with extra information about the exhibit and items found in the exhibit itself. The Field Museum Tours mobile app is free for the iPhone and Android. Once we arrived at the museum, I quickly connected to the "FieldMuseumWifi" for the best performace whilst visiting the museum that day.
Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair exhibit has more than 200 artifacts on display through September 7, 2014. My family and I were able to imagine what it would have been like to experience the excitement of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. This was one of the greatest events in the history of Chicago 120 years ago.
Once the 1893 World's Fair concluded, many of the exhibits were either sold or donated to the new Field Museum. We were able to see a small selection of these exhibits on our visit. The Field Museum was born out of the World's Fair. If there was not the Columbian Exposition 120 years ago, we would not be able to benefit from the museum's collection of 25 million specimens and artifacts today.
The World's Fair was held in Chicago's Jackson Park in 1893 for six months in 200 buildings on 600 acres. People from all over our nation and world traveled to experience what we now take for granted. The World's Fair brought ancient cultures, never seen technology, relics, taxidermy, instruments, mummies and other amazing exhibits to the visitors who had never experienced anything like this before.
The legacy of the Columbian Exposition of 1893 lives on at The Field Museum in the Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair exhibit. There is always new research to conduct, new exhibitions to view, and the continued importance of these amazing collections to be displayed for the public.
Wouldn't you just love to run through the basement halls of The Field Museum though? I sure would!
I was selected for this opportunity by Clever Girls Collective, however all content and opinions expressed here are my own. Some images provided by Museum and CCG and used with permission


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How to Create and Maintain a Cohesive Brand
This should be no different for you. Yes, you! The creative entrepreneur reading this post. One of the biggest mistakes, in my opinion, with small businesses, is that we think like small businesses do. This "small-biz mindset" can pigeon-hole not only our sales but our perception in the minds of consumers.
In the world of design, I am always thinking about how I can create brands that withstand the test of time. Brands that can speak for themselves. Brands that are impossible to forget. And doing this always remembering my No. 1 rule: Remain Cohesive.
How to create and maintain a cohesive brand is by far the most asked question I receive on a daily basis. I created the Four P's to a Cohesive Brand, as a guideline of MUST HAVES to begin to create a cohesive brand:
Purpose: The driving force behind creating amazing visuals that will have your ideal clients completely in awe with you, begins with your definition of why you are in business. Did you know that 1 in 3 businesses fail within their first year? It is my belief that this statistic is alarmingly high because business owners do not take the time to define the purpose for being in business; their sole motivation behind bringing their passion into the world. Only once you've set your intentions here, the visual cohesion can begin.
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Photography: If you ask me, photography is the reason my brand has elevated in the last seven months. High-quality images have allowed me to tell the story of my brand, without saying a word. When hiring a photographer, it's important to do your research to ensure that they are extremely capable of capturing the images you desire. Take a close look at their portfolio to make sure that your styles will compliment each other.
Platforms: The secret to all of this. Building a brand. The art of visual marketing. And attracting an audience…Is telling that story across the right platforms. Thinking about what platforms are right for your business – and focusing on those – will have tremendous benefits. Don't look at what your competitors are doing! Where they decide to promote their business(s) may not be where your target audience is. Narrowing down which platforms fit YOUR brand the best will not only save you a lot of time but also will give you more control over how you present your brand. Disclaimer: This requires some research ladies. I personally decided that Instagram and my website were my number one platform priorities. They both allow me to display my work, produce content to educate and present my business in a professional manner.
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Staff that have recently been made redundant at Computer Science Coporation (CSC) are furious after being told that they will be responsible for training up the new offshored employees that will replace their jobs.
CSC, which has also received plenty of criticism over the disastrous National Programme for IT, recently announced 750 redundancies as part of a restructuring programme, where 200 roles are being offshored to India and the Czech Republic.
However, the UK workers losing their jobs as a result of the work being exported overseas are now expected to 'transfer their knowledge' to the new workers to ensure a smooth transition.
Unite national officer, Ian Tonks, is demanding that CSC offer employees a fair package for their service to the company.
"Workers who are paying the ultimate price of their jobs, will be expected to help make themselves redundant by training others," he said.
"The company which claims to have $2billion in cash available in the bank is refusing to properly compensate the workers for this indignity. To make matters worse CSC want to confirm the redundancies for the majority of staff before asking them to 'handover' their responsibilities.
"This is totally unacceptable and the union is demanding that CSC negotiates a proper package for workers that recognises their contribution and loyalty. The company must also do everything to keep compulsory redundancies to an absolute minimum."
He added: "Unite has had enough of the constant rounds of redundancies and staff are going to resist. The union now expects CSC to do more for the highly skilled workers who have given years of loyalty."
CSC has said that it is handling the situation 'compassionately' and will look to compensate staff.
"As part of its ongoing transformation strategy, CSC continues to redesign its global operations with the objective of becoming a more nimble, accountable, efficient organisation to improve its service to clients," a CSC spokesperson said.
"The redesign has resulted in the loss of some jobs in locations throughout CSC's organisation, including the UK. We estimate that up to 750 employees will be impacted in the UK, all of whom will be supported professionally, compassionately and with assistance, where necessary, in their transition from CSC."
CSC added: "We continue to explore other opportunities within CSC to place our UK employees. A small number of CSC's UK employees are supporting the knowledge transfer for specific roles moving to other CSC locations, and they are being additionally compensated."


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Workout Motivation & My Confession of Being Fairly Lousy at Taking Care of My Body
In the past six years that I've had an autoimmune disease I've struggled to maintain a regular work-out regimen. Those of you who have chronic pain probably instantly understand why--it's hard to feel like moving a body that's often screaming in pain. But an inflammatory disease like mine that causes joint pain actually improves with activity instead of rest. It's a constant balance to maintain the rest my fatigued body needs with the exercise it needs to stay mobile and strong.
Confession: rest usually wins.
But the longer I am the sick, the more desperately I want to take care of my body. Over the years I've had several great 3-6 month spans where I do yoga 1-2x a day, go on walks weekly, and bike regularly. But with each new extended flare (when my disease attacks a bit more "loudly") I have to find renewed motivation to fight through pain to practice wellness.
I'm in one of those seasons now--where my body's been wrecking havoc for several months, making me spend more time on the couch than in the gym. Chronic illnesses like mine are seasonal in a sense--requiring constant flexibility with the ebbs and flows of pain. I can go from being pretty in-shape to rapidly losing muscle mass in a few pain-filled weeks of a bad flare-up. The vascillating nature of my physical health requires conscious and frequent adjustment and acceptance.
But I don't want to "accept" my pain so thoroughly that I forget to fight back.
I need to arm my body with the strength to stay mobile and active. So I'm back on the yoga mat and taking biking adventures around town as frequently as possible.
For those of us with chronic illness and pain, we have to carefully discern the state of our bodies. You and I have to become experts of our bodies--knowing when to push through mild or moderate pain and when to ride out a wave of fatigue. Even after 6 years of fighting AS I'm still learning this body-discernment.
But I'm determined to keep fighting, learning, and pushing the boundaries of my disease to have a full, active life.
Will you fight with me? Comment below on how you've had success or difficulty in taking care of your body with a chronic illness. And share with the button at the bottom of this post on Twitter or Facebook to keep raising awareness and connecting people in pain. We need each other to fight well! #chroniclife #chronicfighter


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Even professionals find that they need to enhance the quality of their videos from time to time, so it is a safe bet that you may need to as well. Although you may have little or no experience in doing so, the Movavi Video Editor will hand you everything you need to get it done.
When you're learning how to improve video quality with the Movavi Video Editor, you'll find that there are two main types of options you can use to do so including:
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Hey, Everyone!
We recently started a series on emotional and spiritual maturity called, "Life Abundant." This past Sunday, Andy preached a message about looking beneath the surface (sermon link) and we want to share three exercises adapted from the Emotionally Healthy Church book to help us process and apply what we're learning. Ready? Let's dive in!
Exercise 1: Finding the Patterns
Patterns in our lives and relationships are often a sign that we're acting out from deep places in our "iceberg," or parts of our lives that are often unseen and unknown to us. They usually reveal a "bug" in our emotional programming, something that plays out over and over again in our lives. If you or a close loved one notice a "pattern of unhealth" emerging in your life, that is usually a good sign that something's amiss in your internal wiring.
To help find your patterns, fill in the blanks below:
- "Most of the time, I feel as if I am ____." (e.g. invisible, unimportant, failing, guilty)
- "What often happens to me in relationships is ________." (e.g. people leave me, take advantage of me, betray me)
- "Why do others at work or school or church keep on _____me?" (e.g. ignoring, expecting unrealistic things of, criticizing)
- "When I am under stress, I often find myself _______." (e.g. fighting, angry, medicating myself, blaming others, losing myself in an unhealthy way)
- "When I think about the future, I feel _____." (e.g. depressed, anxious, lost, unsure)
Exercise 2: Asking the "Why" Questions
It takes the grace of God to get at the bottom of our iceberg. Thankfully, there are "disciplines of reflection" to help us walk in that grace. One of these is the "Why?" or "What's going on?" question. As we notice patterns in our feelings, situations, and relationships that emerge in our lives, God desires that we ask ourselves the "Why?" question in the safety of His presence.
Some questions to help you figure out, "What's Going On?"
Think about a recent situation in which you have felt some anger, frustration, fear, shame, bitterness, hate, grief, or jealousy. Use the questions below as a starting point to get at "What's going on?"
- Rage/anger: "How was I hurt?"
- Frustration: "What did I feel helpless about?"
- Shame: "What was I hiding?"
- Resentment: "What did I expect or hope for?"
- Depression: "What did I lose?"
- Jealousy: "Where did I feel inadequate?"
Exercise 3: Seeing Your Blind Spot
Think of a person in your life who loves Jesus, knows you well, and loves you. Invite them to speak into your life by sharing what they see in you. Ask them to share strengths you have that you're not aware of and also share honestly about some weakness or sin issues that you might not see.
We're praying that the Spirit would give us greater self-awareness that leads to a deeper love of God and others through the transforming power of the gospel!
In His grace,
The Restored Uptown Staff & Elders
p.s. if you have not taken the emotional maturity assessment yet, you can do so here!


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Niel Harper joined the Internet Society in April 2012. He is the Director, Next Generation Leaders and Fellowships.
Niel has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of telecoms management, cybersecurity, IT governance & strategy, ICT policy research & advisory services, and programme management.
His previous roles include Chief Information Officer at the Bermuda Commercial Bank where he led the organization's IT-enabled business transformation; Head of Telecommunications Engineering at CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank where he oversaw an end-to-end upgrade of the company's network infrastructure across 18 countries; Chief Internal Auditor at Sint Maarten Telecommunications Group where he developed the organization's enterprise risk management and internal audit methodologies; Manager, Network Operations at AT&T Wireless where he led the deployment and operationalization of 2.5G mobile networks; and Telecoms Engineering Technician with Cable & Wireless where he was a member of the team responsible for the launch of Caribsurf Internet Services, the first ISP in Barbados.
Niel holds a LLM in Internet Law & Policy from University of Strathclyde (UK), a MBA in Quality Management from the University of Leicester (UK) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Telecoms Regulation & Policy from the University of the West Indies (Trinidad & Tobago). He is an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) registered with the UK Engineering Council, a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and holds a number of industry certifications in cybersecurity, IT auditing, risk management, and business continuity management. He has also been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Niel is passionate about Internet Governance related activities, and is keen to work on developing the capabilities of emerging leaders in the Internet ecosystem.
Niel has been an NGL participant himself. He was selected for the 2011 English e-Learning class and was also one of our two Fellows to the OECD Technology Foresight Forum in 2011.
Niel is from Bridgetown, Barbados.
Image credit: © Jordi Ruiz Cirera/Panos
Niel Harper joined the Internet Society in April 2012. He is the Director, Next Generation Leaders and Fellowships.


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#AMTA16 is 2 weeks from today! Oh behalf of the local and national planning committees, we can't wait to welcome you to Sandusky, Ohio! Here are all the things you need to know as you plan, pack and prepare for #AMTA16!
The OFFICIAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM is here! Click the link or go to musictherapy.org/events and click the Conference Program (PDF Download) button under the conference logo. This is your one stop shop to access every event at conference.
JIM BRICKMAN!!! Have you heard?!?! The Grammy Nominated Pianist will be performing at Opening Session, Thursday, November 10th at 730pm. You won't want to miss this! He is a huge supporter of Music Therapy a great musician and song writer and very funny!
What to bring: Northeast Ohio is typically cool this time of year. Since conference will take place very close to Lake Erie, we recommend packing layers (cardigans, scarves, etc) and bringing a Fall jacket if you plan to venture off site as it does get as low as the 40's at night. If you plan to take advantage of the waterpark, pack your swimsuit, but no need to pack a towel as those are provided. There is a wonderland of indoor slides, pools, activities and a lazy river to enjoy in warmth! Also, consider bringing your device–Kalahari has FREE wifi everywhere and it's good. Lastly, bring some cash! Opening Night the Exhibit Hall will be jam packed with vendors and the Take-A-Chance Raffle, where you can win an array of awesome swag with all proceeds benefiting AMTA.
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How to get around: if you haven't figured out how to get around Sandusky or are still planning your travel arrangements from CLE Airport to Kalahari, be sure to check out the Travel page for information on rides all over the NE Ohio area.
Still interested in CMTE's? Check out all the CMTE Spotlight posts on this blog and consider adding one to your schedule!
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An interesting topic has been broached a few times in the past couple weeks.
Has the birth of Ava helped my healing process?
This is a really difficult question to answer. I have replied "yes" to those who have asked simply because I don't know how to adequately explain to them why I don't think it has.
Am I truly in love? Of course! Am I grateful that Avaleen is here and healthy and wakes me up with her cries at night? Absolutely! Has she healed the wound caused by the death of Rosalynn? No.
Yes, the empty arms and nursery are full, however, to say the birth of my second daughter has helped heal the wound of Rosie's death is like putting a band aide on an amputated leg and saying it is healed. Of course my life seems more full, but my first born is still gone, and with her, that piece of my heart will always be missing until we are reunited in heaven.
I have love in my heart enough for both of my girls, just like any mother with multiple children. I just pray that no one thinks that my rainbow "negates the ravages of the storm that preceded it". There is a family member missing still. Her presence will be missed at every holiday, every family function, and every milestone that Ava hits we will have missed the opportunity to watch Rosie hit the same milestones. No matter how many children we have, there will always be one less face missing from the family photos, one less sporting event to attend, one less graduation, and one less chance for Foster to walk his daughter down the isle.
If anything, this new rainbow journey we are on has reopened the wound WIDE. I have cried more in the past 2 weeks than I have the past 6 months over Rosalynn's passing. How screwed up is it that I had to bring Ava to the cemetery to "introduce" her to her older sister? I should have been introducing them here in our home when we brought Ava home from the NICU. However, the life of a Baby Loss Mother and her family will never be that of a "normal" family's. My daughter will be raised to "know" a sister she has never met, she will have books like "Someone came Before You" along with "Goodnight Moon", and she will attend balloon releases and Memorial Walks on October 15th.
So has Ava's birth healed any of the wound from Rosie? I guess the short answer is no.
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"EXASOL in my backpack" demonstrates significant development cost savings by running on-premise – and by using a smattering of LEGO too
EXASOL, Bracknell, UK, 6 September 2016 – In-memory analytic database vendor EXASOL, confirmed as the fastest by the TPC-H industry standards, and user of EXASOL technology, Atheon Analytics, today showcased the fastest ever commodity-hardware-based four-server analytics database cluster that can be dismantled and transported in a backpack. The simple setup uses off-the-shelf mini PCs and has a bespoke network switch rack made out of LEGO.
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Pictures from the 2017 Zone 5 Region 1 Regional Finals, March 11 and 12, 2017 held at Alfred Equestrian Center. Pictures have been divided by class. Click on the links below to go to see the pictures.
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The wonderful things you can find on the Internet! I am found of paper craft and found this really cool shop assembli.nl online. They have lots of different origami-type paper sculptures that you can fold and glue together. I decided to try it out and ordered The Fox!
The sculpture came really nicely packaged in a sturdy cardboard box. Inside were three large rolled up sheets of thick paper, a wooden ruler for making nice, sharp edges and a tube with a generous amount of glue.
It took about five hours to put it together, a couple of evenings of entertainment in other words. 🙂
The finished fox finally on the wall! It looks a bit like a 3D-modell from a computer game. 😉 The finished modell is 48x26x38 cm. In other words, large enough to be used instead of the creepy, old fox-trophy that you inherieted from your uncle Bucknuckle!
We hung the trophy here in the teenagers room. Nano seems a bit skeptical about the whole trophy-thing. 😉 But she can relax, we're going for the bear next time, over the coach in the living-room.


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When you're the biggest bad on the battlefield, cutting up an eye is a necessary sacrifice to really get that point across. Already lost one? Too bad. Check out this knife.
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The other day, someone asked me how I felt about taking on horses with lots of issues while I was running a horse rescue charity and it's not the first time I've been asked, so I thought I'd take the chance to write about it here.
One of the most difficult things about rescuing horses is that at some point, you'll be asked to make life and death decisions. Which horse do you save? Which horse do you pass over?
When faced with requests to save a horse that is on death row, I took every situation very seriously and always did my best, even if that meant all I could do was to post the information online and hope someone else picked the horse up.
Every horse I heard about lodged itself into my psyche and I continued to think about it for weeks and months and maybe years afterwards… always wondering. What happened? (Even now, two years after the charity ended, I still wonder what happened to some of those horses.)
The next difficult question to deal with was how much money would we, or could we, invest into a horse? If we had one horse that needed thousands of dollars to rehabilitate, then weren't we taking money away from other horses in need? Is it fair? Does one horse's right to a new life outweigh the rights of many others?
Ultimately, the question people are asking is how much is a life worth?
I realised very early on that we couldn't play the numbers game. That is, it wasn't not necessarily 'better' to save one hundred horses than it was to save ten. Why? Because there are too many horses in Australia. No matter how many we saved, there were hundreds of thousands more waiting to take their place at the slaughterhouse. Since we couldn't beat the numbers (quantity), we had to make sure that the horses we could save received the very best (quality) in order to improve their lives.
I used to be a teacher. And at one point, we had several new students come to the school. These students had special needs and were being integrated into mainstream schooling. The school was required to make many modifications to buildings, costing many thousands of dollars. Many parents and teachers were upset by this, saying that it was unfair. It was then that I heard a new definition of equality:
"Equality doesn't mean that every person is treated the same. Equality means that every person receives whatever they need in order to have the same opportunities in life."
So I adopted that definition. Was it fair to spend thousands of dollars rehabilitating one horse? Yes, if it meant that horse got whatever it needed in order to have the same opportunity to find its loving forever home. How much is a life worth? Whatever it takes.
I felt that it wasn't up to me to place judgement on a horse that was in a world of emotional and psychological pain and say that it wasn't "worth" spending the money to rehabilitate it. I believe that all life is valuable; all life is equal.
And if I did put a value on a horse's life, that would make me a horse dealer, which I am definitely not.
So I always want to make sure that the horses lucky enough to come into my care receive whatever they need in order to go back out into the world, stronger, wiser, healthier and healed. It's the best I can do.


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Its amazing having to look at the different buildings and listening to the history of Amsterdam. What you surely gonna see & here is like this ...
I AMsterdam
I amsterdam
I amsterdarned!
The amazing roof tops steps-like, bell-shaped, the church like architecture. The canals, ooh the canals, there is a point you see 7 of them in a row! Amsterdamers pack their cars at the banks of the Amstel river, you get to see different vehicles of all models, right from the latest to the old, sizes from the world's best car makers; Benz, peugort, BMW etc. There is a rail which goes up just about a 1/4-way the size of a car tyre meant to stop the drivers from running their vehicles into the river but the amazing fact is that there is at least a car in the water every week!!
I got to say the boat-ride in Amsterdam is really a great thing for everybody to do if you ever visit. Do not worry if you don't know how to swim, i did not either, but we didn't have any problems at all. Except i got some crazy bunch of guys who ran into the back of our boat. Do not know whether they were drank or just crazy. Its like everybody can ride his or her boat on the river, just as you remember to keep right when sailing.
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Since no one wants to hear me whine about the wait. And since I can't talk about the wait with out whining, (even the good things, like booking our plane tickets!) I am going to talk about something completely diffrent.
There has been a lot of talk around the mom blog universe about cutting your self some slack, ridding your self of the guilt, and just letting it be. Maybe I was born with no guilt gene, maybe it was because I came from a big family and kids are mostly second nature to me, but I have an amazing balance in my life. I have a real me, that is not associated with motherhood, I have pride and confidence in my mothering and I have a pretty great relationship with my husband as well. I am pretty sure I have all these things because of my one (not so)secret weapon.
I cheat.
Shhhh don't tell social services. I am a corner cutting, time saving, slacker, cheat. If there is a faster way to do it I do. My OCD husband calls it lazy. Maybe that is the true motivator, but who cares as long as the job gets (sort of) done. And here is the kicker ladies, I am proud of my cheating, the more corners I can cut the happier I am. The following are tips on how you can cheat and love it too. :)
Oviously if you can do more than one thing at a time you are two steps ahead. As moms this is something we are doing all the time, but there maybe more ways you can carry this skill forward. Here are some of my favourite ways to multitask.
- Pole Dancing Fitness. Okay when you are done being shocked stop giggling and hear me out. Pole dancing is great exercise, it works every muscle in your body ever lifted yourself upside down into the splits? I have. It's fun and it's hard to do, so it's weight lifting and cardio together. Also it's small classes with only girls, I get a dose of girly girl time at each class, oh the things we talk about. Are you blushing yet? Also for me all that fun dancing around to sexy music usually makes me friskier than usual and that will help keep my relationship happy. This one hour class makes it my #1 multitasker because it gets four jobs done, all of which I have a real hard time getting done or finding time and energy for. This is a weekly escape that keeps mama happy, and that of course in turn keeps the whole family unit happy.
- Slowcookers. Since your crock pot cooks all by it's self you can be doing any thing and still be cooking. Now when I said I cheat, one thing I don't like to cheat on is the food I feed my family. I like to home cook for them. But my definition of home cooking is pretty wide. I love pre-made sauces and keep a fridge stocked with them, I just pour some on frozen chicken toss it in the oven, microwave some rice and frozen veggies and voila, diner, home made. Here are some slow cooker tips to make an easy way to cook even easier. Any of those recipes that call for you to cook your meat or noodles before you put them in the slow cooker are really missing the whole point. I have successfully not cooked those things first in all those recipes by simply adding more liquid and/or increasing the cooking time or heat. I just wing it, and it usually works, maybe it's not as great as the original, but I'd never know because I am not going to take the time to do work my slow cooker should be doing for me! Ever. Another great tip is to toss in your meat frozen, if you have to leave it unattended for more than 6 hours I would recommend that, it keeps your meat more tender and the ice melts and keeps your sauce from drying out too much.
- Communal bath/showers. We shall see how this works with multiple kids, but I love to just toss the toddler in the shower with me. I have been doing this since he was tiny, he would sit in the bumbo while I had my shower. We still bath together too. Now you may be thinking, but my shower is my time, I don't want to share. I agree, and that is why I only wash the kids once a week. Okay I told you not to tell the social workers! They get a sponge bath all the time, I love baby wipes. I just only do the all out sudsy dunk'em type weekly. I swear my kid is not gross because of it, and his skin does not dry out. They are also such a novelty to him I use them as the biggest bribe and he will happily splash for a good hour, while I listen to my ipod.


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Of the 10 branded drugs in chronic pain treatment, Loxonin had the highest usage rate at 89%, followed by Lyrica (80%) and Celecox (65%). For the rate of product awareness, the top 2 drugs were the same drugs from the result of usage rate above, however Voltaren had high awareness rate and ranked as the third. (See graph below). The 4 main products were expected to increase their usage rate in the future; the most expected drug was Tramcet, and followed by Lyrica. Also, 20% of the respondents have plans to start using a new product within the next six months.
- Target samples: N=497 with internal medicine doctors, rheumatology/ connective tissue disease specialists, general surgeons and orthopedic surgeons
- Study period: May ~ June 2014
- Studied products: Voltaren, Loxonin, Osteluc, Hypen, Lorcam, Mobic, Celecox, Tramal, Tramcet, Lyrica
- Studied items: average monthly number of patients and prescriptions, product awareness and usage rates, product satisfaction, the reasons for use, future usage expectations (short-term), intentions of switching, rate of not switching to generic products, and reasons for adopting new products


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After years of promising that G.hn would win the operators over in China, HomeGrid has proudly announced G.hn products are available on, from HomeGrid's blog post, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon and eBay.
It is going to be a very long ramp up for G.hn without the market education provided by operators or brick-and-mortar retail stores.
How the mighty have fallen-or some such. I think I will take some green-tea and watch the rain for awhile.
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This beautiful chair I spotted over at GBGP and I must say...swoon!
I would absolutely go crazy for 6 of these, I would put my own seat cover on them for a bit of swagger (probably a black with a thin white trim, or even a fabulous jewel toned velvet). Oh, the fun I would have with them. sigh!


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About the Center
• The Sac and Fox Nation Juvenile Detention Center is located on twenty acres east of the Nation's Headquarters. The facility is built around a large central outside courtyard which is visible from many parts of the facility including administrative offices, the central dining area and the program area where school is conducted.
• The facility includes a six bed intake unit, two six bed secure units, two twelve bed units with mezzanine floors and one twenty-four bed unit with a mezzanine floor. All told, it is a sixty-six bed facility. It has a state of the art kitchen, a central dining area, a full gym, a library, classrooms, medical area and two conference rooms, a training room, and numerous offices. The outside courtyard has two talking circles and a full basketball court. There is also a "spiritual courtyard." The entire facility was built with the Sac and Fox Nation's culture in mind.
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* Square footage: 49,950 square feet
* Construction Costs: 7.2 million dollars
* Funding Sources: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior, and Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs.
* Rated Capacity: 6 intake beds, 60 single occupancy rooms


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Musicians Jack DeJohnette, Colin and Eric Jacobsen, Claire Lynch, Joanie Madden, Eugene Rodriguez, Tony Trischka, and Edward White are among the 54 awardees (including four collaboratives) working in the visual, performing, media, and literary arts to receive one of 50 USA Fellowships from United States Artists. The fellows were chosen "for the caliber and impact of their work" and will receive unrestricted grants of $50,000 each. Panels of experts in each artistic discipline selected the winning artists from among a total of 438 nominated applicants.
In the area of music, the recipients represent a stylistically diverse array of talent:
Jack DeJohnette, USA Ford Fellow, Willow, NY
Jack DeJohnette is a jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. After studying at the American Conservatory of Music, he began his career playing R&B, hard bop, and avant-garde music in Chicago with his own groups and with Roscoe Mitchell and John Coltrane. In 1966, DeJohnette moved to New York. He has collaborated with most major figures in jazz history, including Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, Charles Lloyd, Betty Carter, and Eddie Harris. In January 2012, DeJohnette received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship.
Colin Jacobsen and Eric Jacobsen, USA Cummings Fellows, Brooklyn, NY
Brothers Colin Jacobsen and Eric Jacobsen co-founded the music ensembles Brooklyn Rider and The Knights. Colin is a violinist who first played to critical acclaim at age fourteen with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic. His wide-ranging musical activities include performing with orchestras, such as those of Albany, Chicago, and San Francisco, and playing with dance and theater companies such as the New York City Ballet and the Mark Morris Dance Group. Eric is a conductor and cellist, as well as the music director of The Knights, an orchestra founded with the goal of bringing the camaraderie of chamber music to the orchestral stage. The Jacobsens are also touring members of the Silk Road Ensemble.
Claire Lynch, USA Walker Fellow, Hermitage, TN
Singer and songwriter Claire Lynch was a rare woman in the bluegrass field when she led the Front Porch String Band in the 1970s. When the group stopped touring in 1981, Lynch became an in-demand session vocalist and wrote songs that were recorded by Patty Loveless, The Seldom Scene, and Kathy Mattea, among others. She has sung back-up vocals with artists such as Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt. Lynch won the International Bluegrass Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year Award in 1997 and in 2010 for her work with the Claire Lynch Band, which she formed in 2005.
Joanie Madden, USA Friends Fellow, Yonkers, NY
Joanie Madden is a composer, flutist, and whistle player of traditional Irish music. After studying with Irish flute player Jack Coe, Madden became the first American to win the Senior All-Ireland Championship on the whistle and is the top-selling whistle player, having sold over 500,000 solo albums. Madden has also performed on over 160 albums with artists such as Pete Seeger and the Boston Pops. She is the leader of the award-winning Cherish The Ladies, an all-female Irish music and dance ensemble that began in 1985 and has since released 14 albums. The group has performed with Joan Baez, Vince Gill, and The Chieftains, among others, and has given more than 250 solo concerts.
Eugene Rodriguez, USA Oliver Fellow, Richmond, CA
Eugene Rodriguez has played a pioneering role in the revival of Mexican folk music in California. In 1989, Rodriguez formed the youth group Los Cenzontles as a way to teach traditional Mexican music and dance to area youth, and the band has toured nationwide and internationally. In 1994, Rodriguez produced the group's recording of Papa's Dream with Los Lobos and Lalo Guerrero, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children in 1995. Rodriguez has produced 20 CDs for Los Cenzontles, and he has also worked with musicians such as Ry Cooder and Linda Ronstadt, as well as Mexican and Mexican American folk masters.
Tony Trischka, USA Friends Fellow, Fairlawn, NJ
Celebrated and innovative banjo player Tony Trischka has inspired many other progressive players. Trischka started playing the banjo in 1963 and played with numerous bands until the 1980s, when he began recording with his band, Skyline, and worked on the soundtrack for Driving Miss Daisy. His 2007 album, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, featured appearances by Steve Martin, Earl Scruggs, and many other banjo luminaries, and received two International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards as well as a Grammy nomination. Trischka also received an IBMA award for Banjo Player of the Year.
Edward White, USA Lowe Fellow, Louisville, KY
Drummer Edward White studied master drum-making and playing with Danjuma Ighalo of Nigeria. In 1990, White founded the River City Drum Corps (RCDC), a cultural arts program that brings together traditional African drumming, drum making, and drum line performance and leadership for at-risk youth. The participants make their own "pipe drums" out of found materials, manage the RCDC, tour, and perform workshops in various communities. White has expanded the drum corps curriculum to Jefferson County public and Catholic schools and to other cities. He has received numerous awards, including the 2010 National Council of Negro Women's Courage Award.
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DALLAS – Firm co-founder and Partner Mike Boone has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2011 Law Firm Distinguished Leader Award by The American Lawyer, which annually honors an individual whose contributions to law and society have made positive impacts.
"We are pleased to congratulate Mike on this outstanding national honor," said Managing Partner Terry Conner. "He is truly deserving of this award, and we thank him for his dedication and service to Haynes and Boone and our clients. Mike embodies all traits of a true leader and sets the bar high for us when it comes to professional and community service."
Past winners of the Distinguished Leader Award include Ben Johnson III of Alston & Bird and Alfred Youngwood of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
"This is a great honor to receive in the legal profession, and I am very honored and appreciative to the American Lawyer staff for selecting me," said Mr. Boone. "This award speaks to our firm's success as a collective team. Our company culture is unlike any other, making it a very special place to work."
Under Mr. Boone's guidance and mentoring, the Haynes and Boone Corporate Practice Group has developed into a nationally respected resource for top Fortune 1000 firms. "We've nurtured a diverse team of corporate attorneys with deep knowledge and experience in all facets of business law," said Jan Sharry, a former head of the Corporate Finance Practice who serves on the firm's board of directors. "That's a big reason we have been named by Corporate Board Member magazine as the No. 1 corporate law firm in Dallas-Fort Worth."
In the last decade, Mr. Boone has served as a tireless private-sector advocate for Texas public schools. He served as president of the Highland Park School Board and has participated in the school finance debate as a respected voice for equity in school funding, demonstrating courage and leadership, often resisting popular opinion in the business community in favor of a practical, equitable solution.
In 2005, his firm led the fight for more equitable funding, filing suit on behalf of a coalition of 47 school districts that educate more than 1 million Texas schoolchildren. The Texas Supreme Court ultimately sided in favor of the school districts, ordering lawmakers to pass a new education funding system before the 2006-2007 school year.
For his lifelong service and commitment to Texas public education, Mr. Boone accepted the second annual "Friend of the Year" honor from the Friends of Texas Public Schools organization in 2006.
Mr. Boone's giving spirit has led to recognition as a recent inductee of the Junior Achievement Dallas Business Hall of Fame, as well as Distinguished Alumnus of Southern Methodist University and the Dedman School of Law. The Dallas Lawyers Auxiliary honored his long-standing dedication to volunteerism with the Justinian Award for Public Service. And Mr. Boone's history of applying consensus-building to solve community issues has led the Dallas Bar Association to name him recipient of the Jack Lowe Sr. Award for Community Leadership.
Other categories in The American Lawyer Awards program include lifetime achievement, top 20 firms and best legal department. Honorees will be featured in the September issue of The American Lawyer and at an Oct. 26 gala event at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York.
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