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Fight Music
"Art will save us," Dr. Tang told me as we drank coffee and played chess at a Berkeley Starbucks. She suddenly stopped, her hand still holding her rook a few centimeters above the board. She shook her salt and pepper hair, took a deep breath and smiled. "Let me rephrase. Art will not save is, Shawn. But it will make the bullshit easier to deal with. It will inspire us to do good work. It will gives us new eyes through which to see." Checkmate. As Dr. Tang got up to leave, she told me one last thing. "As usual, the art that will get us through is music."
I wanted to dispute this. I wanted to talk about the political dimensions of aerosol art, street theater, cyphers of emcees (like this still happens) — but in my experience, she was totally right. Almost all of my prosocial politics have come from music. Music has been there for me when so many others chose not to, or I didn't allow them to. Music has been as much a part of my life and growth as geek culture.

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Each month my inner nerd comes out, and I bore my group with an e-mail containing the most interesting EM papers I have read in those 30 days. I figured I would start sharing those summaries here as well, starting at the beginning of 2015. These are obviously very brief, informal summaries. I always suggest reading the paper for yourself. Now to catch up, starting with January 2015…
Beta-blockers might be useful in refractory V.Fib.
Driver BE et al. 2014. Use of esmolol after failure of standardcardiopulmonary resuscitation to treat patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation. Resus 85(10):1337-41. PMID: 25033747
Not a definitive paper (it was retrospective) but raises a treatment that I have never used, or seen used, but have heard talked about a lot recently. In patients with refractory V.fib/ electrical storm, we don't usually reach for anti-hypertensives, but beta blockers might be a good idea. Use of esmolol in these patients was associated with more ROSC and more neurologically in-tact survival.
Bottom line: Esmolol 500mcg/kg bolus over 1 min then start at 50mcg/kg/min.
Patients with a listed penicillin allergy get more C.Diff, MRSA, VRE
Macy E, Contreras R. 2014. Health care use and serious infection prevalence associated with penicillin "allergy" in hospitalized patients: A cohort study. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 133(3):790-6. PMID: 24188976
This was a large retrospective cohort study of 51,000 patients in California. Patients with a listed penicillin allergy received more clinda, vanco, and quinolones. They also had 23% more C.Diff, 14% more MRSA, and 30% more VRE (relative numbers) as compared to their matched, non penicillin allergic patients.
Bottom line: It might be worth digging more into those penicillin allergies.
Tranexamic acid topically stops epistaxis
Zahed R et al. 2013. A new and rapid method for epistaxis treatment using injectable form of tranexamic acid topically: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Emerg Med. 31(9):1389-92. PMID: 23911102
A good sized RCT (216 patients) compared usual packing to 500mg (5ml) of TXA on a cotton ball in the anterior nose. This worked quickly (bleeding was stopped at 10 min in 70% of the TXA group compared to only 30% of ant pack group) and lasted (no significant difference in 24 hour rebleed rate between groups, but only 5% in TXA versus 10% in ant pack group had rebleeds). Patients preferred the TXA to packing (what a surprise). Biggest problem with the paper: unable to blind (and I am pretty sure that less than 70% of my anterior packings are still bleeding at 10 minutes.)
Bottom line: Worth trying, as I wouldn't want to go home with an anterior pack (but my personal experience with this isn't nearly as positive)
Let's stay on topic: CRASH 2: TXA reduces mortality in trauma
Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2010; 376: 23-32. PMID: 20554319
I didn't actually read this this month, but it is a landmark paper, so why not review. I was originally skeptical, but we probably should be doing this until we know better. Summary: Huge RCT (over 20,000 patients) of adult trauma patients the doc thought was at risk of significant bleeding, got 1 gram of TXA over 10min and then another over 8 hours. They showed an absolute decrease in mortality of 1.5% or an NNT of 68. Why was I skeptical – the majority of these patients were in a very rural setting, without access to trauma surgeons (some sites did not even have a fax machine for the randomization procedure) so this may not apply in Canada, and TXA was supposed to work by decreasing bleeding, but it didn't. However – I am starting this think this might apply to us. We don't have a trauma surgeon and a lot of time might pass during transfer, so maybe we are more like rural Africa than I originally thought. I would caution however – they conclude that there were no side effects from TXA. However, when looking for side effects the setting might really matter. If a patient in rural Africa gets a DVT or a PE, how easy do you think it is to get the test to prove it? Therefore, this study could easily have missed blood clots in patients sent back to their villages.
Bottom line: Probably all trauma patients sick enough to transfer should get TXA 1 gram IV.
Anti-emetics don't work in adults?
Egerton-Warburton et al. 2014. Antiemetic Use for Nausea and Vomiting in Adult Emergency Department Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Ondansetron, Metoclopramide, and Placebo. Annals of Emergency Medicine 64(5): 526-32. PMID: 24818542
This was a prospective, double blind, RCT of 270 patients from Australia comparing zofran versus maxeran versus placebo. And you guessed it, much like everything we do: our treatments don't work. Or, more accurately, placebo and both the drugs decreased nausea scores by about 2.5 out of 10. More side effects with maxeran. Two problems: 1) Dose – zofran only 4mg, but we often given more; maxeran – they gave 20mg – which might explain the side effects. 2) They only measured outcomes at 30 minutes – maybe anti-emetics help at 2 or 3 hours? However, it was a good RCT and treatment was no better than placebo.
Bottom line: Maybe we slightly overuse these medications?
AEDs may have some major problems
Calle PA et al. 2015. Inaccurate treatment decisions of automated external defibrillators used by emergency medical services personnel: Incidence, cause and impact on outcome.Resuscitation (Ahead of print) PMID: 25556589
This one worries me, but I am not sure what to do about it. For 135 consecutive patients (837 total cardiac rhythms) these authors retrospectively looked at the rhythm strip and compared it to what the AED actually did. Out of 148 rhythms that should have been shocked, the AED missed 23 (16%) mostly due to artifact or fine v.fib. It also shocked when it should not have, although with no obvious harm, 4% of the time. (I can't remember the model of the AED – maybe some are better or worse?)
Bottom line: AEDs might miss shock-able rhythms 16% of the time!!!
Apneic oxygenation decreases desaturations during intubation
Wimalasena Y et al. 2014. Desaturation rates during rapid sequence intubation by an Australian helicopter emergency service. Annals of Emergency Medicine. (Online ahead of print) PMID: 25536868
This was one of the papers I spoke about at grand rounds. Not high quality, being a retrospective before and after study. Essentially, this pre-hospital/ retrieval helicopter EMS service in Australia added the use of a nasal canula to their protocol for all intubations. Historically, 22.6% of patients had some desat. With nasal oxygen 16.5% had some desat.
Bottom Line: Essentially no cost, and a NNT of 16 to prevent a desat. Blow some Os up their nose.
Mortality decreases when all the best cardiologists are out of the country
Jena AB et al. 2014. Mortality and Treatment Patterns Among Patients Hospitalized With Acute Cardiovascular Conditions During Dates of National Cardiology Meetings. JAMA Intern Med. PMID: 25531231
This article is relatively useless from a science standpoint – but I love the relatively absurd conclusions. It is a retrospective chart review where they looked at the cardiac outcomes for patients admitted during national cardiology meetings (and therefore when all the "top" cardiologists and cardiac surgeons were away). Many fewer procedures were done and MORTALITY WENT DOWN.
Bottom line: Have your heart attack when the leading cardiologists are all out of town.
A better aproach to PEA
Littmann L et al. 2014. A simplified and structured teaching tool for the evaluation and management of pulseless electrical activity. Medical Principles and Practice. 23:1-6. PMID: 23949188 Free full text: http://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/354195
The standard epinephrine and push treatment is actually associated with worse outcomes in PEA. To that end, most guidelines say that in PEA the essential action is to determine the underlying cause. But the Hs and Ts are hard to remember during a code, and also don't tell you which cause is the most likely. This new algorithm does through 3 simple steps: 1) QRS wide or narrow? 2) Ultrasound to find cause (Or use clinical judgement) 3) Empiric treatment based on the first 2. This is not one where my summary will suffice – its a 4 page paper and its free. I strongly suggest taking 20 minutes and reading it through. (Or, you can read the First10EM blog post: The simplified approach to PEA)
Bottom line: There is a better way to approach PEA
Cheesy Joke of the Month
A man awoke in the recovery room after a bad car accident. He screamed for his doctor: "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!!"
The doctor replied: "I know you can't – I've cut off your arms."
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., June 18, 2010 — A large group of scientists, including Jay Pasachoff, Bryce Babcock, and Steven Souza at Williams College, reveal the character of one of the most distant objects in the solar system in a scientific paper to appear in the June 17 issue of the journal Nature. In observing the object named 2002 TX300 October 9, 2009, as it passed in front of a distant star, they could tell what its surface is like and its size.
For several years, Pasachoff, Babcock, and Souza have worked with James Elliot and Michael Person of MIT and Amanda Gulbis of the South African Astronomical Observatory in studying Pluto. With careful measurements of a star's brightness as Pluto hides or occults it, they have shown that Pluto's atmosphere was slightly warming or expanding. A main goal is to find out how its atmosphere is now changing, especially with a NASA spacecraft to Pluto en route.
After successful observations of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, the MIT-Williams team expanded its horizons. Measurements by others of the orbits of several objects discovered beyond Neptune and Pluto had revealed that the object 2002 TX300 was to pass in front of a star; the stars are all so far away that the shadow of the object in starlight on the Earth is the same diameter as that of the object itself. Since predictions of the shadow path had uncertainties of perhaps thousands of miles, the MIT-Williams team set up a network of 21 telescopes from as far north as the western United States mainland and as far south as Mt. John in New Zealand.
On October 9, three important measurements were made with telescopes operated or arranged by Pasachoff, Babcock, and Souza, aided by Williams student Katie DuPré '10, who joined Babcock on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
The best observations came from a telescope of two meters diameter of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network located at an altitude of 10,000 feet at Haleakala Crater on Maui, Hawaii. Pasachoff coordinated these observations with Wayne Rosing and his colleagues there. The Nature article includes a graph of these observations along with those from the Big Island of Hawaii and from Oahu. The team's success satisfies a long-term goal of Elliot, who used the occultation method to discover the rings of Uranus decades ago and continues to champion the method.
After analysis by Elliot, Person, and colleagues at MIT, the conclusion was clear: 2002 TX300 (also known as 55636 in the numbering scheme of asteroids and other small bodies in the solar system) was much smaller than had first been thought. Its radius is about 89 miles, with an uncertainty of only three miles (143 kilometers with an uncertainty of only five kilometers). Since it is so small, it must be reflective and covered with ice to appear as bright as it does.
The joint article in Nature, with 41 coauthors that included the observers from all the telescopes, is titled "An Old World with a Fresh Surface."
The calculations show that 2002 TX300 is the shiniest object known in the solar system, reflecting 88 percent of the sunlight that hits it.
The measurement confirms that it is one of several fragments knocked off Haumea – one of the three known dwarf planets beyond Pluto – by a collision. (Pasachoff worked during 2008-09 on sabbatical at the California Institute of Technology with Michael Brown, the discoverer of Haumea and many of the other objects in that realm, in trying to use similar techniques to study Haumea and one of its moons as they occulted each other.)
The Nature article describes other calculations that show that the collision that split Haumea occurred about a billion years ago. That age raises the question as to how such a young, icy surface arose on such an old object.
Some of the observations meant to study 2002 TX300 used a camera system, designed in a collaboration of Babcock and Souza with MIT colleagues, known as POETS, for Portable Occultation, Eclipse, and Transit System. A grant from NASA provided three POETS each for Williams and MIT. The recent observations were supported by a grant to Williams from NASA's Planetary Astronomy Division.
Williams College is consistently ranked one of the nation's top liberal arts colleges. Its Hopkins Observatory is the oldest extant astronomical observatory in the United States. The college's 2,000 students are taught by a faculty noted for the quality of their undergraduate teaching. The achievement of academic goals includes active participation of students with faculty in research. Admission decisions are made regardless of a student's financial ability, and the college provides grants and other assistance to meet the demonstrated needs of all who are admitted. Founded in 1793, it is the second oldest institution of higher learning in Massachusetts. The college is located in Williamstown, Mass. To visit the college on the Internet: http://www.williams.edu


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Last December my Colourpop order finally arrived. It took more than 4 weeks to arrive at my doorstep, but once it did I immediately started testing. The products I was most curious about were their liquid lipsticks. I had heard great things, especially about the Ultra Satin Lip and so I bought 3 to try out. The shades I got aren't your everyday shades, but that's because I already own those. How did I fare with my 3 Colourpop Ultra Satin liquid lipsticks?
Colourpop Ultra Satin Lip liquid lipstick Femme, Toolips, Hutch
Colourpop Ultra Satin liquid lipsticks are hyped up for a reason. Not only does the brand do some unique colors that not many other brands do. They are also very affordable. At $6 a piece at their regular price, these are some of the most affordable liquid lipsticks on the market. And I even got them at a discount during the Black Friday sale, so I paid no more than $5 each. A great deal or a hyped up faff?
The Colors
The biggest challenge in placing an order with Colourpop is selecting the shades. Not only do they have many, they are an online only brand, which makes it so much harder to pick the colors you'd like. I knew I wanted to go for a lighter shade, a medium shade and some type of red. Since I already own a good nude, classic red and good medium tones in the rest of my liquid lipstick collection, I went with shades that fit the bill, but weren't necessarily standard.
Femme is described as a muted dirty lilac. Purple lips is something I definitely am liking for a more edgy look. With a simple eye look this grey toned purple could possibly be that product to add some extra oomph into a look. This was very true to color between the tube, swatch and on the lip.
Described as a deepened plum brown, I wasn't sure what to expect from this. It looks like a good brown with a berry undertone on the website but the color I received wasn't much like it. It was a lot warmer than I had expected. Personally, I would describe this as a reddish toned brown.
I love a good dark red in the winter time, but they can be tricky if you have a fair skin tone. If they are too dark, they instantly look black and that is not a good look. I was hoping this would be dark but not overly so. Described as a deep blackened violet, again I have to disagree. It looks a lot more red than purple to me.
The Product
The Ultra Satin Lip aren't supposed to be too liquidy: more moussy and easier to apply. The applicator on this product makes it even easier. It is small which allows you to be precise and not draw outside the line. Where some liquid lipstick applicators are overflowing with product, this applicator has exactly the right amount for one lip application.
Femme – Toolips – Hutch
I already showed you these swatches before and I hope you can see what I mean with my color descriptions. Not only are Toolips and Hutch of a slightly different tone than I had expected them to be, they also dry up darker than they look in the tube. Hutch seems sheer here, but you can go over it when applied to the lips to ensure a fully opaque application. Femme is the most consistent of the three.
The texture is indeed more of a mousse rather than a liquid. The name Satin can be misleading though. On me, these lipstick simply dry down to a matte finish. There is a hint of shine left, so it's not that velvet matte, almost powdery type finish, but it's definitely more matter than a MAC Satin finish lipstick for instance.
Wear time on these is excellent. They stay on all day and wear off quite nicely for a liquid lipstick. You can reapply these a little bit too, but don't go over your lips too much, especially if your lips are already dry. Moreover, they feel very comfortable. These aren't as drying as some other liquid lipsticks and therefore they are definitely some of the best liquid lipsticks around.
The Looks
Naturally, I was excited to put these on my lips. As you can see all three colors opaque. Even Femme, which can be a difficult type of color for me to apply well as my lips are naturally fairly pigmented. Hutch shows up a little less opaque at the outer edge, but I quite like that look. It doesn't make the shade as stark.
Toolips looks completely different on me than on the model: there is not a hint of plum in that lipstick. But it's not the first time that's happened to me. NYX Stone Fox looked green on me, where it is supposed to be a dark grey. Just know that your skin tone and natural lip color can still alter the way these lipsticks look on you.
Full face, however, I think Toolips is the one that looks most flattering on me out of the three. I was surprised to see how this makes for a dark lip look, but with the right make up combination it actually looks quite stunning and provides a good contrast between my blonde hair and fair skin. Hutch is my second favorite. I just love an intense lip color like this and on my lips, that hint of purple promised by the Colourpop description is most definitely there. Femme is also a great colour, but with a grey knit on, it wasn't the best combo. I think that if my top were a black or navy, that this lipstick could be made the center piece of an entire overall look.
The Conclusion
Are these some of the best affordable liquid lipsticks on the market? Yes they are! Colourpop Ultra Satin Lip is a great product when it comes to its performance. The colors are great too as they really offer you something more unique. Even though the colours may not always translate from the tube to your lip or look anything like the swatches you can find online, they can still look amazing on. Just make sure you take that into account when you look into purchasing these.
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Gilbert Tied For Lead After Two Rounds of Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate
Oct. 22, 2012
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Chris Gilbert fired back-to-back rounds of 3-under 68 to match Blake Biddle of UNLV for the tournament lead, while Kansas men's golf shot a combined 570 (+2) to sit in fifth place after two rounds of the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate at New Mexico State Golf Course Monday.
Playing the event for the fourth time in his career, Gilbert eagled the 507-yard fourth hole in the opening round to fuel a day where the senior posted a tournament-best 5-under on the par-5s. Freshman Jackson Foth joined Gilbert in the top 10 after rounds of 71 and 70 tied him for ninth with a 36-hole aggregate of 141 (-1).
Gilbert, who has led the Jayhawks in each of the last three events, tied for the most birdies and eagles among all golfers with nine and one, respectively. Gilbert and Biddle (136) enter Tuesday's final round three shots ahead of a trio tied for third place at 139.
"He doesn't make a lot of mistakes," Kansas head coach Jamie Bermel said about the senior. "Typically, if he's made bogey the last couple of weeks, it's because he had the wrong club, not because he made a bad swing. Today, he made a couple bogeys, but one was into the wind, and he didn't have enough club. In the first round he made a bogey on No. 17 because he had too much club downwind. He's playing really well and putting it well. He was 6-under, and he had a lot more opportunities. If he'd had a few more putts fall, he could have got it to 10-under. He hit it that well today."
As a team, the Jayhawks used a 1-under 283 to tie for third place after 18 holes. Kansas posted a 287 (+4) in the second round to finish the day five shots out of the lead in fifth place. Sophomore Stan Gautier fired a 1-under 70 to tie for 10th after the morning round. Gautier ended the day tied for 23rd after a second-round 74 (+3). Senior Alex Gutesha's 74 and 75 rounded out the team score each round.
"We just couldn't get a good fourth score," said Bermel. "The same four guys counted in each round. Dylan (McClure) shot two 78s, which is kind of surprising because he's been pretty steady all year. This is a course that I thought he would play well on. I'm hoping we can get him in order for tomorrow because when you're only five back, anything can happen. For us to do something special tomorrow, we need to post four scores under par."
Foth broke par for the first time in his collegiate career with his second-round 70, while Gautier shot 26 pars in the first two rounds where he was not at his best.
"Jackson just simplifies things out there," said Bermel. "He doesn't do anything real fancy, but typically it's in the fairway and he gets it on the green. He hits it pretty hard, so he can take advantage of the par-5s as well. He seemed to birdie quite a few of those. Stan had a good first round. He played well all day. He wasn't feeling well and was kind of under the weather, but he hung in there for two rounds. I'm happy for him."
Kansas will conclude the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate and its fall season with a shotgun start for the final round Tuesday at 9:15 a.m. CT.


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"We did our best. Don't be dispirited!" said Vietnam U23's head coach Park Hang-seo, cheering up his young players after the team's 1-2 defeat to Uzbekistan in the final match of the Asian Football Confederation U23 Championship held in Changzhou, China, on Friday. Players started to run around the stadium waving their national flags, and Vietnamese fans responded with big applause.
Park led Vietnam's national football team, which only stands at 112th in FIFA rankings, to rise up to the final match and become the first Southeast Asian team to compete at the final, and is now hailed by the country as a "Vietnam's football wizard." Vietnamese media have taken note of Park's leadership skills that boosted the national team's competitiveness in a short period since October last year. "Park deeply motivated our players to become warriors," said Vietnam News.
On the day of the final, massive red waves were seen around the streets in Hanoi, similar to the way Korean soccer fans "Red Devils" had participated in street cheering during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Korea and Japan. Vietnamese media outlets have reported that supporters have gathered at squares or playgrounds to watch the match through large screens, waving Vietnamese flags and the photos of Manager Park.
With the strong support of fans back home, players courageously fought against Uzbekistan even in the heavy snow and the cold weather of minus 9 degrees Celsius. Though Uzbekistan scored the first goal into 8 minutes of the first half of the game, Vietnam's midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai was able to equalize from a free kick.
But Vietnam had to lose in overtime when Uzbekistan's Andrey Sidorov struck the winning goal in the final minute.
"We've unfortunately missed a victory, so I'd like to apologize to fans who have supported us," said Park. "Players gave it their best, and did the utmost to go beyond limits. They have given me a moment unforgettable in my life as a coach."


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5 thoughts for the living, coping with death
Death reminds EMTs of important messages to send the living.
By Michael Morse, EMS1 Columnist
I work on an ambulance where lives are lost every day. Some die peacefully, some from purposeful acts of violence and some from simple bad luck. Here are a few things I've learned by being present at the end.
1. The finality of sudden death is overwhelming, but not forever.
Sometimes there is no hope. The fight was over before you even knew it had begun. And the reactions to sudden death vary greatly. Some people refuse to believe, others break down in tears, and many shout in anger. Human connection is incredibly important in the aftermath of sudden death. All of the different emotions that arise are easier to bear when there are others to lean on. Support is all a person who just learned that somebody close has died has, and it is everything. The importance of not being alone cannot be overstated. At that moment nothing you can say will ease their grief, but you can listen, and absorb some of it for them.
2. The living need to know the truth.
People who are suffering from sudden loss need to find peace. It's important to them to know about the last moments of the person who is gone. Knowing what happened helps when the shock retreats and grief, guilt, and anger take over. Eventually, acceptance will come. It is better to know, and process what has been learned, than to imagine the worst.
3. There is peace at the end.
The final moments aren't like the movies. Rarely are they filled with dramatic screams, confessions or claims of undying love. When it is time to go, the mind and body simply shut down and retreat within. The official term is 'loss of consciousness', but I believe it is far more than that. Heartbeats weaken, breathing slows, struggling stops. When the heart stops, it ends. Even the most horrific circumstances that lead to a person's demise do not take away the serenity of the final moments. I have witnessed it, have been actively involved in life-saving efforts during it, and it never fails to amaze me how through the madness, CPR and other interventions designed to prolong life the mind, body and spirit are able to find peace during the final moments.
4. It's not fair, but it can't change.
You have lived with them. Shared your life and dreams with them. Laughed together. Planned your future together. But now, their last moments are shared with somebody else. There was an accident, and they're gone forever. Maybe you didn't kiss her goodbye, maybe you don't remember the last time you said "I love you," maybe you can't remember the last words he said to you. Life ends suddenly sometimes, and there is always something left unsaid. Always. The relationships we forge are our own doing, and it is we who decide who we spend our time with, no matter the length of it. The person you love may be gone, but while they were here, you said enough.
5. Grief is for the living.
At the end, the deceased felt no regrets, no anger, and no resentment. The person who died knew that you loved them, or once did. They were okay with what you had, and their last moments were not spent in anger. they were spent trying to live, even if for just a few more seconds, then accepting what we all have known all along; someday, it will end. There is never enough time. We trick ourselves into thinking we will live forever, and that the problems we face can be put aside until it is convenient to resolve them. The events that bring on sudden death may be horrific, but the dying is not.
In the end, there is no 'aha' moment. Those are saved for the living. Great things happen while we are alive; it is up to us to embrace them. Now is the time to find peace with ourselves, our relationships and our faith. If that elusive peace can be found, and held close, then even sudden death and the emotional upheaval that follows can be alleviated to some degree. We, the living, all of whom could die unexpectedly, owe it to those we might leave behind to find it.


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Getting searchers to click on your ad is really only half the battle, because you don't want to lose them as soon as they reach your landing page. This post from Search Engine Land shows how you can use Google Analytics bounce rate metrics to help identify the landing pages that are associated with your keywords, and optimize them.
As part of the "PPC Academy" series, Search Engine Land reminds us to utilize web analytics to get hints on how users are finding you and what keywords you should be using. Your website's own search engine could prove to be a goldmine for keywords.
Working on your list of keywords, new ads and all the optimizations in between? I think it's often easy to forget that you're actually having a dialogue with who you're marketing to. So be fun, original and even daring. Of course there are the top 10 lists of proven tips that guarantee your conversion rate… just add an exclamation point to your call to action! However if you'd like to run a real PPC campaign, one that's engaging, and covers new ground no one's ever thought of before, try speaking your customer's language.
Search Engine Watch has a fun-titled post this week called, Paid Search Freakonomics: Finding and Ostracizing Losers. The post looks at ways you can pick out the winners and losers in your campaigns. Some of the tip topics include: internal benchmarks, comparing to potential performance, asking what's changed, and spotting trends.


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Serene PS200 underPillowTM SleepSound System
Serene PS200 underPillowTM SleepSound System
A Sound Therapy device that will make your life more enjoyable with creative sound solutions that combine superior quality with the latest technology.
Part pillow speaker, part sound machine, the underPillow will help sooth your tinnitus and block out background noise to help you get a restful night's sleep.
The PS200 has a soft, ultra-thin design ideal for under-pillow use. High fidelity speakers deliver rich, full, balanced sound and built-in, pre-recorded soothing nature sounds help the overcome interference of tinnitus. You can download audio files up to 30 minutes long including white noise. Connect to your own audio devices and listen to music, TV, audiobooks, and more. Listen throughout the night or use the built-in, one-hour auto-stop timer (After about 30 minutes - the volume will be reduced by 60%, and after 45 minutes – reduced to 30%. The sound will turn off when the timer has expired.).
No need to worry about battery replacement with the included AC adapter.
- Ultra-thin design and hi-fi speakers deliver loud life-like stereo sound even through the densest of foam pillows
- Connects to cell phones MP3 players or sound therapy machines
- Store up to 30 minutes of your own sounds
- Selectable 60 minute timer gradually lowers volume
- Speakers 2 x2 W class D
- Maximum Loudness 98 dBSPL
- Frequency Response 80 Hz – 20KHZ
- AC powered (Input: 100-240 VAC, 50 / 60 Hz & Output: 5VDC 500mA)
- Size: 15.25" L x 7.5" W x 1. H"
- Weight: 5 oz.
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Pousada dos Quatro Cantos
This charming 120 year old house provides an ideal location for exploring Olinda and claims to be the first pousada in Brazil, having opened 25 years ago. Pousada dos Quatro Cantos offers simple but well equipped and spacious rooms (firm beds, comfy pillows, A/C, minibar, electric showers), friendly staff many of whom speak English, and the feel almost as if you are entering someone's home to welcome you to this lovely colonial town.
Breakfast is served in the dining room or outside on the terrace and includes traditional Brazilian food such as tapioca alongside more European staples. Individual art dots the walls and the reception area provides photography books to peruse. There is also a lovely little pool to cool off in the day's heat. The owner has a café and gallery opposite and an artisan shop on site and the whole set up is very much a family affair, with daughter and son both involved in local tourism. If you are there on a Friday be prepared for a live music extravaganza outside the door — the serenata at the crossroads — a fantastic experience of local life, if a little noisy!
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Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride, and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights
A book about the fight for queer rights, beautifully illustrated with bold and beautiful illustrations by pop artist Eve Lloyd Knight.
Around one o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, sparking days of intense rioting. What happened at Stonewall sent shockwaves around the world, and became a defining moment for the LGBTQ+ community.
From the impassioned speeches of bold activists Karl Ulrichs and Audre Lorde to the birth of Pride and queer pop culture, Rainbow Revolutions charts the dramatic rise of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and celebrates the courageous individuals who stood up and demanded recognition. With bold and beautiful illustrations by pop artist Eve Lloyd Knight.
Praise for Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride, and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights
"This stunning full-color celebration of LGBTQ history and pop culture is as enjoyable as it is educational. It opens with a vibrant table of contents, dotted with iconic moments in the LGBTQ social and political record and teasing a range of topics including parenting, the Stonewall Riots, Berlin cabarets, drag performances, and Pride events. A prologue expounds on the use of queer as an umbrella term to address a diverse community, whose nascent beginnings and transformation are detailed in a time line and other extensive back matter. Knight's illustrations, vibrant as the rainbow flag, pay homage to legends of pop art like Warhol, Haring, Hockney, Johns, and Rauschenberg. Each chapter contains a gorgeous spread with a bold pull quote spotlighting an actual chapter in LGBTQ history, making it so that even a quick skim will glean knowledge about the community's joys and painful challenges. The book humanizes the LGBTQ community, showing that this movement is about more than just sexual preference, and Lawson welcomes marginalized subcommunities, including a rather detailed explanation of the acronym and spectrum and addressing the realities of the struggle for liberation, the challenges of coming out, and the misunderstandings, bias, and homophobia that have shaped the community over centuries. Accessible and inspiring."
— Booklist (Starred Review)
"This overview of the history of LGBTQ activism starts with the well-known Stonewall riots, then moves back in time to explain more than 20 turning points in Western culture from the 19th century to the present. Each spread details a significant person or event, while also emphasizing the ways activists rely on the work of those who came before them. These connections are further cemented in the time line in the back matter; also included are a glossary and an index. Accompanied by Knight's bold and inspiring artwork, the text covers well-known topics and those that are sometimes overlooked, including the contributions of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), trans activists, and women. Despite the brevity of each section, Lawson avoids oversimplification and uses a direct writing style that invites readers to learn from historical tragedies (the Holocaust, the AIDS crisis, and the deaths of Harvey Milk and Alan Turing). Lawson offers a perfect balance between celebrating the community's achievements and inspiring young leaders to keep fighting for justice. VERDICT: This beautiful, well-written book provides a sense of historical continuity, remembrance, and stability. Highly recommended for all collections."
— School Library Journal (Starred Review)
"This book's subtitle sums up the content neatly. To provide context for queer rights today, Lawson traces the history of LGBTQ oppression and resistance, from Victorian-era Germany to the Holocaust to Stonewall and beyond. Topics covered include the AIDS crisis and ACT UP, the New York ballroom scene, Pride celebrations, trans rights, marriage and family equality, queer representation in sports and popular culture, and more. This accessible account offers a wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of LBGTQ activism. Knight's stylized and stylish illustrations introduce each four-page section. Back matter includes a timeline highlighting significant world events from 1867 to 2018, a glossary, and an index."
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The entertainment industry is not simply restricted to what they broadcast on the televisions. If you think it simply means acting and directing, you might just go wrong here. Now that you are reading this blog today, we assume that you love the entertainment industry and want to make a career in it. As much as it seems glamorous and fancy, the industry has endless career prospects that you can look into. If you are someone who wants to know what all options you may have to stay connected with the industry you love, here we have a few options for you. The industry has endless career prospects for aspirants. Interestingly, most of them are rewarding jobs and are creative in nature. Find the right jobs on Jobsora.
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For people who are looking for careers that give them the freedom to be creative, they will find endless options in the very industry. Now students can be connected to many industries all at the same time. The median salary of these professionals is approximately $46,000 and can go up to $100,000 or even more per year. Now that you know that you can earn a handsome salary being a part of this industry, here are the options that you can look into-
- Makeup Artist– Believe us or not, this is certainly one of the well-known areas of work. If you have a knack to be perfect and think this is one of the areas that interest you, here is what you can do. If you think learning the art that interests you the most is that difficult, let us get this straight. It is no rocket science and as much as you think you need years and years of experience to get into this, well that is not the case. If you are truly passionate about your profession, you can pursue a course and be a part of the entertainment industry.
- Screenwriters- Screenwriters are generally responsible for creating great screenplays. It could be done for documentaries, movies, series, serials, or for TV originals. They closely work with the development team to create a product and look after the end-to-end process of the same. They can sometimes even work on creating screenplays for stories that are based on novels or true incidents.
- Camera Operator- We believe that this self-explanatory term speaks about the industry in volumes. However, even when it looks too simple to handle and shoot the perfect scenes, it demands a lot of patience and hard work. To shoot the raw video in the perfect conditions is one difficult task. They generally work with a team since the area requires a team to create the perfect story together. With the right knowledge and professional training, one can master the very field easily.
- Costume Designer- Once again, the terms clarify what exactly the industry deals in. However, the truly glamorous world of fashion is involved in technical work along. The costume designer also works with the production team and screenwriters to understand the requirements of the setting. It is according to that they design and bring costumes that reflect the setting of the ongoing scene. It can further depend upon numerous factors like the behavior of the character, their traits, ongoing trends, and the setting.
- Actors and Artists- The most famous role is of actors that perform a specified role. From junior artists to the widely known superstars, all fall in this category. The salaries entirely depend on what and how the character performs and their experiences. You can easily find a Job artist in the UK.
Now that you are very well familiar with the most popular areas of work in the entertainment industry, you can be a part of one of them. If you want to take a step towards this career, it is best to speak with an expert.
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Imagine a rusted ship / submarine at the bottom of the ocean but still with wonderful things happening around it.. :
So for this card I created a take on the industrial metal technique that I love so much and added plenty of rust. I wanted the feel of a sunken, abandoned port hole..not sure I pulled it off but I am pleased with the rusty effect at least .
I created a rusty porthole for the delicate seahorses to swim in...using distress powders and idea-ology fasteners.
I added some dyed seam binding to tie in the soft blue seahorses and a muse token , dabbed with distress paint.
Some gears and cogs....they get everywhere you know!
And there you have my nautical make , there is plenty of time to play along as the challenge lasts all month and all the details can be found here .
The supplies I have used are listed below and any questions drop me a line and I will try and help .


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|Armstrong CW, van den Hove (2008) The formation of policy for protection of cold-water coral off the coast of Norway. Marine Policy 32 (1):66-73
|Hall-Spencer JM, Allain V, Fossa JH (2002) Trawling damage to Northeast Atlantic ancient coral reefs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 269: 507-511
|Fosså JH, Mortensen PB, Furevik DM (2002) The deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa in Norwegian waters: distribution and fishery impacts. Hydrobiologia 471:1-12


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Kitch becomes Collective member!
We are proud to be new members of The Collective Chichester! A community founded by Helen Hoile and Abby Smith and built on a shared ethos and approach to life: collaboration, friendship and warmth. Supported by five ambassadors, all local, friendly and successful. Who, if you become a member, will share their stories to encourage and empower.
"The Collective is an inclusive community for local, like-minded individuals and businesses looking to meet, mingle, inspire and be inspired."
The Collective believe in surrounding yourself with friendly, supportive and caring people. They believe that this will result in a successful business and a healthy mind. We totally agree! Having people to talk to allows you to consider different views around a certain subject. Being able to think about something from multiple angles will only benefit you and your business. We also strive to be these people by helping others with their businesses and offering advice. Most importantly we love meeting new people as well as building stronger relationships with the people we already know.
Every month The Collective hold 'coffee catch-ups' and 'monthly mingles' so that everyone can get to know each other and share their knowledge. These will all be taking place at independent brands and coffee shops. Finding a 'community' that believes in local and independent brands like we do, made becoming a member an easy choice.
We are excited to be the 'Expert' at their first upcoming Monthly Mingle. Join us on 22nd August at Drapers Yard where we'll be handing out social media tips in a speed dating setting. Buzzers at the ready!
In the meantime, check out our handy Digital Download to get you thinking about how you can use social for your business.
For those that are unsure of what you might receive by becoming a member, The Collective have released taster tickets for their August mingle to see what it's all about. They are only releasing 30 at £25 each so get in there quick! If you love what the Collective offers, the £25 is redeemable against your annual individual or business membership. Win win.
We look forward to meeting new faces through The Collective and watching the community grow.
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It's time to liven up the inside of your property, and there's no one better in the area that could do it than us. We are conveniently located near the Oakley area and are ready to brighten up your space. No project is too big or small for our crew, and that's why we offer compressive interior painting services for our customers. Whether it's painting the entire inside of your house, refreshing a basement or painting trim and crown molding, you'll be in good hands when we take care of the project.
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The kind of Mezuzah that welcomes guests to your home. Pewter with hand painted details and sweet little flower accents.
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|Joining lines
|Anchoring a line
|Making a loop
|Stopper knots
|Shortening a line
Version 2 (3/2000).
The following knots and hitches have proven useful to the author for various purposes in kite flying. Some are better than others in terms of their holding ability, ease of tying and untying, and overall strength. A knot or hitch has two characteristics in terms of its potential effectiveness--strength and slippage, both of which are important for deciding which knot to use for a given purpose.
|Square (reef) knot. One of the best known knots for tying together two lines of equal diameter. Notice the symmetry--both free ends are on the same side of knot. It's a relatively weak knot--breaking strength is only 45% of rated line strength. It should not be used where lines will be under strong tension, as it has a tendency to slip. For high-tension knots, the sheet bend, surgeon's knot, or fisherman's knot are recommended (see below).
|Thief knot. It resembles the square knot (above), but notice that the two free ends are on opposite sides of the knot. This knot slips easily; it should be avoided for kite flying.
|Granny knot. Similar to the square knot (above), but notice the different overlap pattern. This knot slips easily; it should be avoided for kite flying.
|Sheet bend. An excellent knot for joining two lines of equal or unequal diameter. The knot has moderate strength and is highly resistant to slippage. It is recommended in preference to the square knot. Note both free ends should be on the same side of the knot.
|Double sheet (Becket) bend. Like the sheet bend, but with an extra turn around the standing loop. An excellent means to join slippery lines of unequal diameter.
|Surgeon's knot. Tied in a manner like the square knot, but with an extra wrap on both sides. This knot has moderate strength and high resistance to slippage. Often used for kite bridles, it is recommended for joining lines of equal diameter.
|Fisherman's (English) knot. The knot is shown here before tightening. Each line is tied in an overhand knot around the other line, a simple procedure (see below).
|Fisherman's (English) knot. This example shows the knot pulled tight. The fisherman's knot is one of the strongest and most resistant to slippage of all knots for tying two lines together.
Attaching a line to an anchor
|Lark's head (cow hitch). A simple knot created by passing the line through a loop around the anchor. This knot is used to tie a ring into a line (see below). The lark's head is easy to tie, moderately strong and resistant to slippage. It's also quick to untie.
|Lark's head (cow hitch). Place a loop of line through a ring and spread the loop. Next work the loop down around the ring and pull tight to create the lark's head (see above).
|Cat's paw. This knot is like the lark's head but with an additional twist in the loop, which gives it more resistance to slippage compared to the lark's head. The cat's paw is a useful knot, but it's somewhat more difficult to tie.
|Two half hitches. Half hitches are simple, strong, and easy to tie. The knot has moderate resistance to slippage. Knot breaking strength is 75% of rated line strength.
|Anchor (fisherman's) bend. Two half hitches in which the first half hitch is locked by a round turn. This has become the author's favorite means to attach kite flying line to snaps and rings. Knot breaking strength is 70% of rated line strength.
|Clove hitch. A simple knot, but one that is prone to slip with synthetic line on a smooth anchor. Because the line does not bend back on itself, this hitch is quite strong--breaking strength is 75% of rated line strength. It's also easy to tie.
|Clove hitch--extended. Additional wraps around the anchor increase the frictional resistance to slippage.
|Clove plus two half hitches. This compound knot combines the characteristics of the clove and half hitch into a knot that is quite strong and highly resistant to slippage. This combination can be used for attaching the flying line to the kite bridle and for other critical connections.
|Cleat tie down. Proper cleat tie down involves overlapping the line in a figure eight pattern. Note the free end (lower right) is tucked under itself on the final wrap to lock the line.
Knots to make a loop
|Bowline. A strong knot for making a loop that will not slip is the bowline. It's breaking strength is about 60% of the line's rated strength.
|Bowline with two turns. The bowline has many variations. This variant, with an extra turn, is recommended for slippery kite line.
|Bowline with a half hitch. Another variation of the bowline in which the free end is tied in a half hitch to lock the knot.
|Slip (running) knot. As the name implies this loop is designed to slip tight around an object. It's an easy way to attach a line to an anchor, but not as strong at the hitches shown above.
|Fisherman's eye (loop). The eye is shown here before tightening. It's made by tying two overhand knots around the line, a simple procedure (see below).
|Fisherman's eye. The knot is shown here after tightening. This loop is strong and will not slip; it is recommended for kite flying.
|Alpine butterfly (noose). Here's a quick way to tie a non-slip loop in the middle of a line. It could serve in place of a lark's head and ring for making an attachment point in the middle of a kite flying line.
Knots to stop a line
|Overhand knot. By far the simplist way to make a stopper at the end of a line. The small size of the knot limits its function as a stopper, and it is relatively weak--about 45% of rated line strength.
|Figure eight (end) knot. A better stopper than the overhand knot, as it makes a larger mass at the end of a line. The figure eight knot has moderate strength--about 50% of rated line strength.
|Stevedore's knot. Similar to the figure eight knot, but with an extra turn. A still better stopper, because of the large mass the knot makes in the line. This stopper is recommended for kite flying.
Knots to shorten a line
|Sheep shank. The line is doubled back on itself, then looped over each end of the doubled section. This is a temporary knot that holds well under tension, but releases easily when the tension is removed. It is not recommended for conditions of heavy line stress, as it can pull apart. Knot breaking strength is 45% of rated line strength.
|Knotted (man o' war) sheep shank. An attractive variation of the sheep shank. The central knot makes this structure more resistant to slippage.
|Chain knot. For compact storage of line the chain knot is recommended. It starts with a slip knot (right side); the free end then is pulled through the loop, and the operation is repeated to form the chain. This is a good way to handle the lines of a Picavet suspension for tangle-free storage.
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Take a musical journey through some of the 90s finest moments in film music including The Piano by Michael Nyman and John Williams' Schindler List and Saving Private Ryan.
Think Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and your mind probably wanders instantly to the sound of Bryan Adams singing 'Everything I Do'. The song was co-written by one Michael Kamen, and went on to dominate the UK charts for weeks and weeks. Kamen also composed a brilliant instrumental score for this incredibly fun adventure from director Kevin Reynolds. Kamen had previously written music for other films with a fantastical streak including The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam's Brazil, and Highlander. He also went on to compose the score for Disney's version of The Three Musketeers in 1993.
One of John Barry's finest ever moments came in Kevin Costner's 1991 epic Dances with Wolves. Barry's sweeping string sounds suited the epic nature of the story's Sioux-soaked skylines perfectly. As well as the main John Dunbar Theme, the 'Love Theme' is eloquent and ever so slightly haunting; while the music used to accompany 'Two Socks' (the 'star' wolf) is both shifting and beautiful. The film cleaned up at awards season, particularly at the Oscars where it picked up seven gongs including for Best Picture and Best Director. John Barry himself got a piece of the action, winning the Oscar for Best Original Score, He also went on to win the 1992 Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television.", and was nominated for a BAFTA the same year.
Although he didn't write "Bonny winter's noo awa", the central theme to The Piano, Michael Nyman did write the film's brilliant score. With such classics as "The Heart Asks Pleasure First", "Big My Secret", "The Mood That Passes Through You" and "Silver Fingered Fling", Michael Nyman created one of the defining moments of film music in the 90s. The minimalist composer's soundtrack to Jane Campion's acclaimed film has gone multi-platinum since its release, and won him an Ivor Novello Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and American Film Institute award.
It's fair to say that most folk would probably think of Unchained Melody when they think of Ghost. The 1955 hit appears in the this 1990 romantic fantasy in both a modern instrumental version and, in the case of the famous clay-happy scene, the 1965 recording by The Righteous Brothers. But Maurice Jarre's full orchestral score is one of the greatest of his career. It almost won an Oscar as well, but unfortunately it happened to be nominated the same year that John Barry had reached a career-high himself with Dances With Wolves.
Following his work on the TV drama Prime Suspect, composer Stephen Welbeck scored an Oscar win and a BAFTA nomination for his score for Shakespeare in Love. The Oscar was one of many awards received by John Madden's Elizabethan romantic-comedy, which although taking a few artistic licences with the Shakespeare's story, featured a host of characters based on real people and also borrowed many elements from The Bard's plays. Appropriately enough, composer Stephen Welbeck actually started out as a budding thespian before turning his hand to writing music!
Shakespeare in Love had played around with the conventions of the Elizabethan period, but no one altered the world of Shakespeare to the same dramatic effect as Baz Luhrmann did with the Bard's most popular tragedy. Shifting the action from 16th century Italy to the fictional "Verona Beach", Florida, and casting Leonardo Di Caprio and Clare Danes in the leading roles, Luhrmann blasted Romeo and Juliet in to the present day with a fast, dynamic MTV-style makeover. At the centre of all this was an incredible soundtrack that mixed modern pop hits with a swooping score by Luhrmann's long-term collaborator Craig Armstrong, which earned him a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello.
Another Kevin Costner vehicle, Waterworld was a hugely expensive and embarrassingly flop. The film was plagued with problems from the beginning and the soundtrack wasn't immune. Mark Isham's original score was deemed too introspective for this watery futuristic would-be blockbuster, and James Newton Howard was drafted in at the last minute to write an emergency soundtrack. Bigger and brasher, Howard's score was far more in keeping with Hollywood blockbusters, with the high-energy numbers neatly interspersed with slower, atmospheric pieces like "The Bubble". Don't let the film it accompanied put you off listening to this moving soundtrack.
Arguably Mel Gibson's finest hour, Braveheart is the epic tale of 13th century Scottish warrior William Wallace (Gibson) who led his nation against the English enemy. James Horner's soundtrack, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra was one of the stars of the film. Inspired by the setting, Horner's score is laced with traditional Celtic (Horner used Irish bag pipes) and Scottish music that, in contrast to the violent, testosterone fuelled story, gives these haunting pieces a melodic, softer, gentler, more romantic feel.
Jane Austen's tale of the Dashwood sisters', forced into reduced circumstances by the death of their father and some very unfemale friendly 18th century property laws, search for love was scripted by Emma Thompson who also starred as Eleanor in the film. The Patrick Doyle's score is every bit as charming and delightful as the film, with the composer setting music to poems that date from the 17th century. Jane Eaglen took over vocal duties for standout track 'Weep You No More Sad Fountains', originally sung by Kate Winslet as Marianne in the film on this Oscar and BAFTA nominated album.
Steven Spielberg's heart-wrenching film, adapted from Thomas Kennelly's Schindler's Ark, tells the story of heroic businessman Oskar Schindler who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland with some very clever paperwork. John Williams' gorgeous score gave this already hugely moving film, an even greater emotional intensity. Overcome by the movie, Williams originally turned down Spielberg's request to score the film, telling the direction that he'd "need a better composer than I am for this film" but was swayed by Spielberg brilliant comeback: "I know. But they're all dead!" William plays the piano on the opening Theme from Schindler's List, but it's Itzhak Perlman's violin performance that makes gives this haunting, beautiful piece of music such emotional impact. The soundtrack earned Williams his fifth Oscar for Best Original Score.
When John Williams and Steven Spielberg get together the results are only ever stirring, sweep and epic, and Saving Private Ryan was no exception. This second world-war based film followed Tom Hanks as Captain John H. Miller who leads his men on a mission to find the only surviving Ryan brother, James Francis played by Matt Damon. Williams' score, played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, actually took a bit more of a backseat in Saving Private Ryan than in his previous collaborations with Spielberg, with the director allowing the sounds of war to provide the soundtrack for a lot of the film. But Williams' is there for the big moments; his "Hymn to the Fallen" is a typical Williams stirring accompaniment to the closing credits. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television and was nominated for an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe.
Robert Redford's story of unfilled rural romance told the story of Tom Booker (Redford), a man whose gift of being able to 'talk' to horses leads him to helping an injured girl and her horse, only to find himself falling in love with the girl's mother. Thomas Nyman's score skilfully merged orchestra, guitar and folk to conjure up images of vast prairies but underpinned with a sense of sadness and longing. Nyman wasn't actually Redford's first choice; John Barry, no stranger to soundtracking sweeping epics, wrote the original score, but Redford rejected his romantic orchestral work. Barry later released the unused music on his live album 'The Beyondness of Things."
Stories of space travel need heroic soundtracks, and James Horner's poignant, almost understated, score was the perfect accompaniment to this story of Apollo 13's failed mission to the moon. Director Ron Howard used 1960s pop songs alongside Horner's understatedly patriot score that encapsulated the American spirit of adventure. The 1995 Oscar-nominated album also features solos by vocalist Annie Lennox and Tim Morrison on the trumpet.
This Sam Mendes directed, Kevin Spacey-starring 90s satire on the 'American Dream' followed office worker Lester Burnham (Spacey) as he becomes infatuated with the beautiful teenager next door. Thomas Newman's eclectic, minimalist, spacious score was the perfect accompaniment to this cynical, clever film and helped lift that 'rose petal scene' to ironic heights. Like the movie, the soundtrack was a critical and popular success, but missed out on an Oscar – a disappointment Newman found difficult to hide on the night.
Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, this film may have had an American playing one of Jane Austen's most iconic characters, but the score was all down to a Brit - Rachel Portman. Expressive and playful, Portman's score captured the sweetness and mischievous of the main character as she charmingly, if frustratingly, meddles in her small group of acquaintances. Portman caught the feel and wit of romantic period music and the personality of Austen with oboes and clarinets taking the melodies and violins and cellos creating the light-hearted atmosphere.
The sequel to 1989's Batman film saw a great many changes; out was Tim Burton and Michael Keaton; in was Joel Schumacher and Jim Carey. Out, also, was composer Danny Elfman who was replaced by the divisive Elliot Goldenthal. Inspired by the hero versus badie theme, Goldenthalt's score lost much of Elfman's tragic undertones, and, in line with the film, gave a knowing wink to the original camp fun of the original 1960s series. But Goldenthal lost none of the drama with his score inspired by children humming along to their action figure enactments. The album was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995.
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial story of an older man's infatuation with a 12-year-old girl continues to fascinate cinema-goers, but Adrian Lyne's 1997 film, starring Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert was still controversial, although largely with those who didn't think Kubrick's 60s film could be better. The soundtrack was far less controversial - scored by Italian composer Ennio Morricone who used his trademark mournful strings and choral elements to create an atmosphere of obsessive, claustrophobic longing.
This swashbuckling tale of Zorro, the masked vigilante played by Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas and starring Catherine Zeta-Jones was a sexy, action packed blockbuster underpinned by James Horner's sizzling soundtrack. Far removed from his Titanic soundtrack, Horner's lively score has a distinct spicy Latin feel, flavoured with flamenco sounds, exuberant foot stomping and castanets perfectly encapsulated on opening track 'The Plaza of Execution'.


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By John E. Luke, Technical EditorS t r e t c h:Active vs.
Stretch fabrics offer creative investment opportunities when developed to consumers
tastes.On numerous occasions, observers of the textile scene and Textile World have taken
serious issue with the industry for not investing in new technologies to provide an insulative
separation from the murderous increase in imports, particularly from the Far East. Although the
concept of stretch is not a new subject, particularly for our knitter compatriots, it still is a
series of technologies that offer niche opportunities for the creative, investing manufacturer. In
a curiously interesting way, while a current discussion of stretch fabrics and fibers provides
another opportunity to carp on product development investment, it more importantly offers a chance
to examine the marketplace and suggest directions for stretch products for several coming
years.Stretch HistoryHistorically, with the notable exceptions of knit fabrics and several stretch
woven fabrics denim particularly stretch has meant the inclusion of spandex in fabric construction
to add the third dimension of extensibility and recovery. Historically, this added dimension also
contained the concept of power, body control and body performance enhancement. At the height of the
Baby Boom exercise fury of the 1990s,
TW looked at stretch fibers and fabrics and concluded that substantial growth awaited
fabric manufacturers capable of incorporating stretch, primarily spandex, in traditional sportswear
and formalwear fabrics
(See Silent Spring, ATI, June 1998). The Baby Boomer, primarily into running and walking,
tennis, swimming and biking, was pushed by his/her ego and children to preserve the physical beauty
and muscle tone gained through the pain of exercise but squandered behind a desk in an endless
pursuit of sufficient wealth to afford the time and the accoutrements of planned exercise. In
stretch history of the late 1990s, TW concluded that spandex growth was barely more difficult than
building a production facility and hanging out a shingle. Alas, such was not to be the case, and TW
admitted in a follow-up article that it too had been mesmerized by the attractiveness of
spandex-containing garments and had overstated market growth potential
(See Spandex Revisited, TI, May 2001). The recession was coming, and TW had discounted
consumer purchases of more expensive garments. What was missed, however, was the consumer
resistance to substantially higher prices for spandex-containing articles, compounded by continuing
workplace dress code changes to even more casual apparel. Mid-1990s signs of a return to more
formal office dress codes evaporated, and premium stretch took a back seat to practical, but
non-stretch, function The best example of this is the continuing sales decline of womens hosiery
and pantyhose. The Baby Boomer wife/professional appears satisfied that she can present an
attractive well-toned body without the assistance of power garments, including hosiery and
pantyhose. Against these substantial consumer projections, TW published a table of spandex usage,
which is presented again here
(See Table 1).
It is obvious from some current preliminary research that sales fell short of the year 2000
outlook and continue to this day to underperform the estimated 2005 level. Little was it realized
that the consumer was plotting against the industry and her scheme would finally be exposed in
recent data from the Mount Prospect, Ill.-based National Sporting Goods Association, which
regularly tracks participation in sports activities. Table 2 presents data for the top 10
activities in 2002.Combining these statistics with one more set opens a new picture of the future
for stretch. Several recent domestic and international studies have outlined the age demographics
of sports participants
(See Table 3).Aye, and there lies the rub. Just as the worldwide fiber industry is
completing its spandex fiber-building binge, raising capacity well beyond even the optimistic
estimates of several years ago, the Baby Boomer the fuel for the exercise revolution is changing
sports and doing less. What is to become of the myriad of sports-specific garments prepared for the
exercise-addicted Boomer It appears that a new direction is needed.
Comfort StretchThe new direction is comfort stretch, not active stretch. The Baby Boomer
generation, currently ranging in age from 38 to 56, dominates the 45-to-54 age category, is leaving
the 35-to-44 year-old category, and is slowly sneaking into the 55-to-64 category. The absolute
numbers of the Baby Boomer generation soon will start to decline, and sports participation by the
remaining members will slide from 74 to 80 percent, to under 70 percent. Sports-specific apparel is
less in demand.As people age, they tend to add weight. This, despite the obvious cardiac
implications, is good news for stretch. In addition to the new business brought to exercise salons,
diet programs and doctors, heavier Baby Boomers will need to re-wardrobe, and that new clothing
will contain elements of stretch. Unfortunately, as people gain weight, so also do they change
their seated appearance, stretching and sagging more widely. Since woven fabrics generally are cut
longitudinally for slacks, filling stretch is used to compensate for the horizontal extension of
their avoirdupois, keeping them comfortable as they strain against the constraints of garment leg
construction. Less movement, less exercise, less posturing in active-sport-specific clothing all
point to comfort, not power and action.In their constant attempts to reduce the cost of active
fabrics, US textile manufacturers have searched for ways to reduce the price of spandex or have
searched for substitute materials less expensive than spandex. Until recently, Wilmington,
Del.-based INVISTA Inc., then DuPont, was able to keep a floor under price movements in domestic
spandex through a combination of consumer brand loyalty and active, pointed product development for
Lycra® in activewear applications. Three forces, however, have conspired to weaken the companys
position. First, domestic competitors ramped up production, weak producers were absorbed by
stronger organizations, and excess production flowed into the market. Simultaneously, foreign
producers, largely from Korea but increasingly producing in many parts of the world, flooded US
shores with relatively good-quality, cheap spandex, attacking DuPonts traditional price levels and
offering manufacturers opportunities to try spandex constructions with marginal cost additions.
Mills experimented with low levels of spandex in many applications without seriously increasing
greige fabric costs (finishing costs were another matter, beyond the scope of this analysis).
Knitters added small percentages of spandex to lightweight blouse fabrics, and weavers added even
smaller amounts to the filling in light to heavyweight twills for slacks and outerwear garments.
The basic spandex structure provided basic stretch and power characteristics to the fabric. So far,
so good, but now it was the consumers turn. She, now slightly older, changed her buying and
exercise habits and searched less for power and exercise garments and more for comfort garments.
Several ancient technologies stepped forward, including textured polyester and textured nylon, each
finding its own niche, generally chosen by fabric economics rather than aesthetics. DuPont changed
the rules around the Lycra brand, allowing it to be used on DuPont-approved constructions
containing spandex, nylon or polyester from DuPont. The logic was simple use a DuPont product, meet
certain performance standards and label it Lycra, probably the strongest brand in the companys
stable. It is not certain how the market accepted change, but corruption of a historically strong
marketing brand is a move to be questioned.Spandex manufacturers tried to lower prices to compete,
never really meeting the self-flagellating price levels to which polyester or nylon textured fibers
would sink. Meanwhile, Dow Chemical, Midland, Mich., is trying an alternative route with DOW XLA, a
polyolefin-based melt-spun monofilament fiber that has been granted its own subclass, lastol. Dow
makes no pretense of competing with Lycra or other spandex materials but, rather, claims the fiber
will provide soft stretch performance and require little or no heat-setting to stabilize heavy
recovery. This probably is the best definition of comfort stretch that has been offered.
The Future Of StretchComfort stretch is here to stay. As a matter of fact, comfort stretch
will/should become a regular offering from US knitters and weavers. The consumer is downsizing her
tastes and lifestyle to more easygoing levels, and, while exercise still is important, it slowly is
decreasing in consumer attractiveness. As the population ages, the consumer looks to garments that
enhance her figure in different venues in smaller, more subtle ways.Comfort stretch is a natural
for the textile industry. Spandex insertion in knitted fabrics is relatively easy, without specific
machines needed. Contrarily, weavers need extra-wide looms to accommodate the spandex and produce
the 60- to 70-inch finished widths needed for cutting slacks. Comfort stretch, without the need for
narrow greige widths to develop power and recovery that must be stretched out and controlled by
heat-setting, can be made commercially using existing equipment. An industry struggling to survive
certainly doesnt have access to or want to spend the capital to install new looms in the hope that
spandex wins the comfort stretch race. Rather, existing mill equipment both knit and woven can be
adapted with little effort to produce, as Dow says, soft stretch performance. Recent political
campaigns have urged the voter to follow the money. Textiles need to follow the consumer to comfort
stretch. Active stretch will never go away, but comfort stretch will replace substantial portions
of the market as the consumer replaces active with easy.
December 2003