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Many patients come to me with questions about what they should expect in the days and months following heart surgery. Overall, no two heart patient experiences will be the same, but there is general information you should be aware of when recovering from surgery.
"I've noticed a loss or change in my sense of taste after heart surgery. Is this normal?"
This is likely due to a combination of factors, including:
- Your age
- Length of the bypass procedure
- Tubing used for the bypass machines
- Your response to the anesthesia
- Your response to the cardiac medications, many of which may be new to you
The good news is that if you've experienced a loss or change in your sense of taste after heart surgery, it usually resolves itself within several weeks. It is rare for this to occur and be a permanent issue.
Remember, it is important for heart patients to maintain a nutritional food plan following surgery as their body heals. Food should be low in sodium and low to moderate in fat. It's also important to eat enough protein to heal after surgery. Foods that are high in protein and low in salt, saturated fat and trans fats include fresh skinless chicken (not injected with salt or broth), fresh or frozen fish, lean beef, pork or lamb, skim milk and fat-free yogurt. Cultured foods like yogurt also contain "probiotics," which help restart your digestive tract after your operation. Continue reading


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Intel, Htc, Apple, Honeywell: Intellectual Property
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Intel Corp.?s 1.06 billion-euro fine for using rebates to block rivals is based on an utterly hopeless? and untenable case by European Union regulators, company lawyers told an EU appeals court.
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What is this thing called "happiness", that can seem so elusive at times?
Happiness is something we all want, but it is something that is hard to define and quantify. Many people confuse happiness with pleasure, fun and enjoyment.
Is Happiness Unrealistic?
Some believe that it is unrealistic to even talk about a pursuit of happiness and that it is pop psychology or something that should be left to the Dalai Lama – and not something for professional psychologists to get involved in.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Happiness, or being happy, is merely being in a state of good mental health and wellbeing. While it is unrealistic to "be happy" all of the time, people can learn to understand their sense of self, what happiness means to them, what brings them happiness and how to go about living their life in ways that aligns with their needs for happiness.
I first began utilising the concept of "happiness" some 17 years ago when starting out in private practice, drawing from Buddhist philosophy and principles that propose that happiness is something to be worked on every day of our lives; but it is work that we should enjoy doing.
Like a Garden …
A good analogy is a garden. For a garden to be productive, it must be attended to from the time the soil is prepared, planting the seed, tending to the seedling, nurturing the mature plant, and of course harvesting the crop; the fruit of our labour!
Attending to the happiness in our lives is like the garden. The more effort we put in, the greater the rewards will be. There will be setbacks, and so work needs to be done to predict potential problems as accurately as possible, and to have alternatives and contingencies in place. Developing resourcefulness and resilience go hand in hand with happiness development.
Happiness and Sense of Self
There is a strong link between happiness and our sense of self. Over time we are constantly changing and adapting to the world around us, and as we change so does our sense of self and our needs for happiness. It is very common for all of us to "lose" our sense of self over time; very few people take the time to review their sense of self in relation to the present. We live in times of constant and rapid change, and as humans we change as we interact with the world. As we change we must review our sense of self and our needs for happiness.
In therapy, I work with my clients to identify their changed needs for happiness, and assist in the development of a personal strategic plan for happiness, based on the current sense of self.
Author: Greg Turner, B App Sc, Grad Dip App Sc (App Psych), Cert GMH, MAPS.
Brisbane Psychologist Greg Turner is a national leader in the field of transcultural mental health, after spending over a decade in senior positions at the Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre. He sees his role as a facilitator to enable clients to recover their psychological strength, grow as human beings, and become equipped with strategies to deal with life's problems as they present into the future.
To make an appointment with Brisbane Psychologist Greg Turner, try Online Booking – Mt Gravatt or call (07) 3088 5422.


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Energy Star is a joint program between the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Energy that helps consumers identify energy efficient products to save money and the environment.
Visit the Energy Star website for more information on energy efficient products and practices.
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TreePeople is a nonprofit environmental group that brings together the power of trees, people and technology to create sustainable cities. TreePeople was formed in the 70's and continues to serve as an outstanding example on how local communities can come together protect cities from environmental degradation and global warming.
Find out how your city can make a difference by visiting the TreePeople website.
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The Sierra Club is the oldest, most established grassroots environmental protection organization in the United States and is constantly working to protect communities, wild places and the planet. Sierra Club was founded by legendary environmentalist John Muir who can be found on the back of the California quarter.
The Sierra Club is committed to:
A safe and healthy community in which to live
Smart energy solutions to combat global warming
An enduring legacy for America's wild places
Find out more by visiting the Sierra Club web page.
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EcoSearch is a nonprofit search engine that supports the environment by donating to green charities. EcoSearch helps spread the word about environmental organizations all over the world and is committed to preserving the environment and making a difference.
EcoSearch currently donates to the following environmental charities and the list continues to grow.
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Have a charity that is not listed? EcoSearch wants you to email them of other charities to support.
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The US Forest Service Agency was created in 1905 as part of the Department of Agriculture and is in charge of protecting all public lands within national parks and grasslands.
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Greenpeace works to prevent environmental destruction through a peaceful, non-violent manner to raise awareness and spark public debate. Greenpeace was born in 1971 in an effort to discourage nuclear testing and has since grown into an international organization with offices in over 30 countries.
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After 30 years, "Star Wars" continues to inspire a strong devotion in its fan base. We've seen epic "Star Wars" rants before, like the legendary, cut-for-time appearance Patton Oswalt made on "Parks and Rec."
But in this "Conan" "Scraps" clip (bits that don't make it to air), producer Jordan Schlansky improvises a six-minute explanation of why "Star Wars" is so wonderful, and ultimately better than "Star Trek." It's amazing.
As Schlansky finishes his speech, Conan and the crew can do nothing but applaud, to which Conan adds, "You're fired. Get the f**k out."
For the record, we're not taking sides. Don't kill the messenger.
Help us tell more of the stories that matter from voices that too often remain unheard.


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Small, Local Cardiac Rehab Centres Equally Effective
2015 17 Nov
According to new research from the University of York, smaller and more localised cardiac rehabilitation (CR) centres are as effective as larger ones. The study is funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and is published in Open Heart . This is the first study of its kind and was conducted by researchers in the Cardiovascular Health Research... Read more


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I am 27. I live in the city. I love to cook. Due to my recent past, I have found myself eating alone more often. At first, eating alone was really difficult. Instead of enjoying meals and nourishing my body I was mitigating my hunger. I found it hard to make the time to sit like a civilized person and experience the taste and textures of my meal. Rather, I would shovel down a big bowl of something that was thrown together in minutes. I changed the way I approached my meals. At one time a chore, I now consider eating alone to be an art form.
My method of cooking is inspired by a book called The Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler. Her approach to cooking is simple. With some good olive oil and fresh ingredients, creating tasty dishes can be easy, no recipe necessary. I was born with the skill of knowing how many glugs of oil to put in the pan, how many shakes of salt to sprinkle, and how to apply heat to food to make it better (instead of killing it). My goal is to instruct anyone to do the same in the context of eating alone.
I recommend this blog to the recently heart broken, to the college student, to the post work loner, or to any one that needs help putting some random items in their fridge together for a healthy, comforting meal.
This meal will take no more than two minutes to prepare and maximum 15 minutes to bake. If your brain isn't working -- all the better, you don't need it to make Egg in a Little Pot. What you do need is a piece of bread, an egg, and some kind of filling stuff such as tomato sauce, ratatouille, goat cheese or even some stir fried vegetables like mushrooms, wilted spinach, roasted tomatoes. Be creative. You will also need a little oven proof ramekin and some garnish like chopped parsley, scallions, lemon zest, grated cheese, cured ham slices etc.
I use ratatouille today. I just fill the first inch of the ramekin with it and then crack the egg right on top, sprinkle some salt and pepper and pop it into an oven that has been preheated to 350 degrees. If you like your eggs runny, leave it in for 10 minutes, if you like them hard, 15 minutes. As long as the egg whites have turned white you are safe.
I use some sliced scallions, some grated comte (hard cheese similar to gruyere) and lemon zest as garnish and prepare them while my Egg in a Pot is baking. The last five minutes that the pot is in the oven, I throw some bread in to toast.
Once the whites are white, and your toast is toasty, pull it out and enjoy. I like to butter my toast and make little soldiers for dipping. It makes it a bit more fun. Pour a big cup of coffee and read the comics.
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When you see Miguel Duhamel on his factory Honda at Daytona this year, think of this bike. This is the one that started it all in America.
During the '60s, Honda was well-established in international racing, having won grand-prix championships with the likes of Jim Redman and Mike Hailwood. But Honda was notably absent from the American racing scene.
One man, Bob Hansen, was pivotal in changing all that.
Hansen was a Honda employee, but he also ran his own road-racing team, traditionally using Matchless G50 machines. In 1967, though, Hansen surprised everyone by arriving in Florida with a trio of CR450s to contest the Daytona 200.
The bikes were based on the company's CB450 street-bike engine, but factory involvement was evident in the liberal use of exotic parts. Magnesium carbs provided fuel to the high-compression 444cc vertical twin. Two small oil coolers were grafted into the sides of the fairing. And the front wheel had a factory-supplied 8-inch, four-leading-shoe drum brake.
All those trick parts translated into factory-style speed. One of Hansen's CR450s, piloted by Jimmy Odom, recorded a single-lap average speed of 134 mph around Daytona's 2½-mile oval, used for timed qualifying runs. Swede Savage, later known for his Indy-car exploits and untimely death at the Brickyard, turned in 132-mph laps on his machine. And despite losing his rear brake and tachometer during the race, Savage finished a creditable 10th.
But the best story surrounding this particular CR450 isn't just how it made history, but how it was preserved for history.
The CR entered only one other race that year—the Canadian Grand Prix—where it ran as high as third behind Hailwood and Agostini on their GP machines. Then it was relegated to storage at Honda's home in Gardena, California.
"I never thought I'd see it again," explains Hansen. "Back then, it was just another bike. I never thought it would be something. But years later, I guess you realize it was something after all."
So in 1980, Hansen, the man most responsible for the CR450's creation, purchased it from the company. With the help of restoration specialist Mark McGrew, the machine was returned to the condition it was in on the Daytona grid in 1967.


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1st Workshop of the Canadian Society for Virology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada
Département de Biochimie et Médecine Moléculaire, Université de Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
Centre de Recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM), Montréal, QC H2X 0A9, Canada
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Academic Editor: Eric O. Freed
Viruses 2017, 9(3), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/v9030054
Received: 12 March 2017 / Revised: 12 March 2017 / Accepted: 15 March 2017 / Published: 20 March 2017
(This article belongs to the Section Editorial)
AbstractThe 1st Workshop of the Canadian Society for Virology (CSV2016) was a Special Workshop of the 35th Annual Meeting for the American Society for Virology, held on 18 June 2016 on the beautiful Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. The workshop provided a forum for discussion of recent advances in the field, in an informal setting conducive to interaction with colleagues. CSV2016 featured two internationally-renowned Canadian keynote speakers who discussed translational virology research; American Society for Virology President Grant McFadden (then from University of Florida, now relocated to Arizona State University) who presented his studies of oncolytic poxviruses, while Matthew Miller (McMaster University) reviewed the prospects for a universal influenza vaccine. The workshop also featured a variety of trainee oral and poster presentations, and a panel discussion on the topic of the future of the CSV and virus research in Canada. View Full-Text
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Episode 332: Jabba's Palace Part 69
The Duo respond to the longest comment on their Jabba's Palace YouTube video. They learn a lot about what this guy thinks happened in Star Wars.
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Keith and Greg ditch structure to talk about whatever interests them and try to amuse each other. Whether it's bizarre news, pop culture, their lives, or the occasional flight of fancy – it's always fun and always entertaining. Every episode is a great place to start listening!


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Noel's Spiced Embutido
An embutido is, strictly speaking, a sausage (complete in its intestine-encased glory) - but in the Philippines it's become more like a steamed meatloaf. I adapted this recipe from a Filipino cookbook lying around the house. It's a little more spicier, but on hindsight it could also have been a little more sweeter by adding sultanas in the mix.
Noel's Spiced Embutido
1 cup of croutons
500g minced pork
2 hard boiled eggs
Chili powder
1. Run the croutons through a blender until fine (breadcrumb) consistency. Pour enough milk to just cover the crouton-crumbs.
2. Mix pork, crumbs and spices together well. Split into two portions.
3. Spread each portion on a piece of aluminum foil. Lay sliced hard-boiled egg on each portion, the roll foil to form a meatloaf cylinder.
4. Steam for 20 min. Served warm or cold. =D
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At 6.30am this morning Greg, Toby, Fernado and Manuel started to move the dirt onto the house. They made great progress. The D6 weighs 38,000lbs but when spread out over the area of its tracks is is nothing compared to the strength of the concrete which was tested at 7,100lbs per square inch after on ten days.
Inside the house it is already noticeably cooler. There is still a serious amount more dirt to go ontop of the house.
We missed all this as we had top work at the farmers market today!
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Ballyshannon man
injured in fall from ladder
Well-known Ballyshannon man Jim Kane was rushed to Sligo General Hospital on Saturday after a fall from a ladder.
Jim (pictured) was removing bunting from the Roundabout area of Ballyshannon which had been damaged with the storm during the week when the fall occurred.
He was removed to Sligo General Hospital after suffering serious head and limb injuries. The community of Ballyshannon wish Jim, who is one of the most tireless voluntary workers in the town, a speedy recovery


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Demo Day is back! The new Lighthouse Labs grads are about to start their careers as professional web developers, but first, they want to show you what they've learned to build in just 10 weeks.
You can expect pizza, refreshments, a chance to rub shoulders with an incredible network of developers and entrepreneurs, and an inside look at the skill set of our new graduates!
NOTE: As we do have a capacity limit, please register to ensure your entry.
6:00 - 6:30pm - Doors open, networking, food, beer!
6:30 - 7:30pm - Introductions from our Head Instructor followed by project presentations from each group.
7:30 - 8:00pm - Your chance to talk with each group of students individually! They will set up booths in our space where you can interact with their project directly and ask them whatever questions you may have!
8:00 pm - Based on the voting, the winner of the People's Choice Award is announced! The night is wrapped up....unless you want to join in on our unofficial after party.


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Photo unlocks little-known storyDate Released: Wed, 4 September 2013 08:59 +0200
An ancient photograph of long-dead relatives who fled Europe for South Africa in the 1850s, has inspired a Rhodes University language professor to write about life in the Eastern Cape and other parts of the country over the past 150 years.
A fascinating mix of fact and fiction, which Xhosa expert Professor Russell Kaschula calls faction, the 12 short stories in his acclaimed Displaced provide a glimpse into his own gypsy roots and the deep Xhosa spiritual connection he developed growing up in the '60s and '70s on isolated farms in Stutterheim and Transkei.
Although physically white, Kaschula is an African who considers his own ancestors to include both his European family and the Xhosa family he has known ever since childhood. And, just like his great, great, great grandparents Matheus and Anna Kaschula — who fought for the English in the Crimean war and were later displaced to the British Cape colony to farm in a buffer zone with the amaXhosa — Kaschula and his parents Bob and Rita were themselves displaced from their farm near Engcobo when the Transkei bantustan was formed in 1976. "
It is this fruit-salad of continual human displacement that the book tries to unravel and explore," Kaschula said. During his research into his own Wendisch-German roots, Kaschula came across a haunting black and white photo of his aged ancestors that inspired him to dig deeper into his past.
Kaschula says the WendischGermans little-known interaction with the amaXhosa is what drove the book. "It is about finding commonality between two cultures which did not trust the English at that time, remembering that the Germans and Wends were placed next to the amaXhosa to act as a buffer zone between the English and the amaXhosa."
Picture Caption: DEEP ROOTS: Rhodes University professor Russell Kaschula looks at an ancient photograph of his long-dead relatives that inspired his acclaimed book of Eastern Cape short stories
Picture and Story by: DAVID MACGREGOR
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Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company in their July 2010 newsletter warned attorneys who settle cases in which the plaintiff may have been paid "conditional" medicare benefits, that the government has a lien against any funds received by the client. The problem is that they have been holding attorneys liable when the collect back the conditional benefits they paid before the lawyer obtained payment for the plaintiff. The Lawyers Mutual Ins. Company article suggests ways to protect yourself. Go to www.lmick.com and look for their newsletter for July 2010.
If you pay out funds to your client who has received medical benefits under Medicare or ERISA for the injury you just litigated to a settlement or final judgement and you didn't protect the feds [OR EMPLOYER] on the medical expenditures paid by Medicare or the ERISA employer then the feds [or your client's employer if it's ERISA] may come knockin' on your door. You'll be toast!!! They have a great lien law. Most of you already know this. Then this is a reminder to the cognoscenti.
This has been the law for a long time but the feds and employers are more fixed and serious as we head into the belly of the medical health beast these days.
As for ERISA employer health plans, get a copy of the client's ERISA health plan and read [and understand] it. Longaberger Co. v. Kolt, 586 F.3d 459 (6th Cir. 2009)


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30 seniors showcase their work at the Handwerker Gallery
Ithaca College students had a hands-on experience using their photography skills to benefit the Ithaca community as part of the Park Award for Photo Activism class, where students were paired with local nonprofit organizations.
This past June, three physics students at Ithaca College had the rare opportunity to work onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA.
Every year, IC students in the Composing in the Schools program work with students and teachers from area middle schools to produce a piece for the middle school musicians to perform.
Last semester, the chemistry department installed a single crystal X-ray diffractometer for students to use in the lab and for research. This state-of-the-art equipment will allow researchers to analyze the crystal structure and properties of cells and to fully determine the actual location of every tiny atom in a compound. By understanding the structure, the researcher can then make predictions about the properties and possible real-world applications of these materials.
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In the fight against breast cancer, early detection can be a powerful tool.
The earlier breast cancer is detected, the better the chances for survival. To facilitate early detection, the American Cancer Society recommends that women be aware of what's normal for their breasts, which might be best accomplished with regular breast self-exams. When performing self-exams, be keenly aware of these five potential problems, and report any you might find to your primary care provider as soon as possible.
1) A lump in the breast or underarm area. A hard knot, either on your breast tissue or underneath your arm, can be a symptom of breast cancer.
2) A change in the size or shape of the breast. Puberty and breastfeeding can change the shape of your breasts, but if one breast looks different than normal, it could be a sign of trouble. Breast or underarm swelling can also indicate a problem.
3) Abnormal conditions with the nipple. An itchy rash or sore, sudden discharge, and inversion of the nipple are all signs that should be reported to your physician right away.
4) Skin issues. Scaliness or thickening of the breast skin, as well as irritation or dimpling, should not be ignored.
5) Pain. Pain in a specific place that does not go away could be an indication of breast cancer.
In addition to looking out for any changes in your breasts, you should have an annual mammogram starting at age 40. For women of above-average risk due to family history or other factors, additional imaging tests—including ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)—can be used to detect or rule out breast cancer.
A primary care physician (PCP) can help you monitor your breast health and refer you to specialized care if needed. To find a PCP in our area, visit parkridgehealth.com/physicians.


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Yuimetal and Moametal interview – Hedoban Vol. 10
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A symbol of the 'Evolution of Metal'
(Scream and Dance)
(Scream and Dance)
Our 10 thousand character interview
'So, it true that are we really granting dreams to people?'
This is the first time for any of the 3 of you to appear in 'Hedoban' since 2 years ago.
Is that right?! For some reason or other it doesn't seem like to me DEATH!
That may be because we feature reports on your live shows in just about every issue (laughs). However, as for interviews goes that is how it stands. The first time the 3 of you were interviewed by us was about 3 years ago which means that you were both still 1st graders in Jr. High school!
Yuimetal and Moametal:
With that, I would like for you to look back on and reflect about the 2 years where we have not been able to interview you. These 2 years were a succession of stimulating and miraculous happenings and I am sure that for both of you those 2 years went by in a flash.
I do really feel that the 2 years passed by in the blink of an eye. There is absolutely no way that I can call that span of time as being 2 years. That is because each and every happening was so incredibly deep and rich in content. There were so many instances that I felt were so enjoyable and so many that were so difficult to deal with! While of course there were truly tough times, it is only the fun times that come back to me in my memory.
Do you mean to say that the fun times far outweigh the hard times?
There is no comparison DEATH!
How about Yuimetal?
It really did fly by in a flash…so many things, too many things happened in that 2 year span. I am amazed that all that happened occurred in just 2 years. That includes Yokohama Arena that took place just a little while ago, as well as Sonisphere… they all feel like something out of a dream and when I reflect back on things none of it has a sense of reality about it.
These 2 years felt like you were living in a dream, like your feet weren't touching the ground? Is that how it felt?
Hmm..yes, that sounds right. And so, when I was Yuimetal I was myself existing in a dream, and when I was in my temporary disguise I was my ordinary self. It was a traversing back and forth between the two states.
Is that the same for Moametal?
Yes, I think so. There were way too many rich and intense happenings to rightly be jam packed into a 2 year period of time (laughs). Kitsune-sama truly determined to barrage us with a ton of challenges and tests and so I think he (she?) is a bit malicious. (laughs)
I was so busy that it was became almost impossible to distinguish between dreamland and ordinary reality. If this is really happening in the real world then it is truly and amazing occurrence. I don't think there has ever been a band that has driven upwards and on at the speed we have.
Indeed. I doubt you would be able to find another band that has taken on the world stage at this kind of speed even if you searched the world over!
Yuimetal and Moametal:
While you felt as if all of this was happening inside a dream, in the realm of reality you have brought dreams to people all over the world, don't you think? Has this fact struck home with you? When you performed at the Rokumeikan there were only around 300 people in the audience. From thereon the number of fans coming to your shows rapidly increased until at the end of last year at Yokohama Arena BABYMETAL performed in front of 30 thousand fans in 2 days. The whole world is going crazy over BABYMETAL and there are enthusiastic fans who have been greatly moved by you. In your position as BABYMETAL you have granted a storm of dreams to people all over the world resulting in what is being called 'The BABYMETAL phenomena'. How do you feel about what is going on?
Moametal simply, in no way, can keep up with all of this…I am truly happy that people say things like that however. We personally continue to move without knowing in what manner we have grown and succeeded, nor where our final destination will be. When we are told that, 'you are granting dreams to people, you know', I get a renewed understanding of how things are. This makes me happy DEATH!
I am so happy to hear you put it like that, DEATH! So, it true that are we really granting dreams to people?
I think you are doing that in spades! You have done so in Europe and are granting dreams to a wide variety of people here in Japan. For us at 'Hedoban' you have given us a dream to extent that we have plowed ahead to follow you on your overseas tours.
It is all very difficult for me to imagine….none of this has struck home as being real to me.
Would this seem more real to you if it was seen as taking place inside a dream?
Yes, that sounds right (laughs). Looking from our perspective from the stage, we can see that the audience numbers are getting bigger. However, no matter how big the venues get, our desire to perform with a beginner's mind is something that never changes DEATH!
2015 December 12 to 13
World Tour 2015 in Japan
[The Final Chapter of Trilogy]
Yokohama Arena
'I was afraid if I looked down my tears would definitely drop down on the fans, so I sang looking upwards.'
That is fantastic, DEATH! From this point on I would like to ask you to look back on and reflect about the major events of the past 2 years. To begin with, the one closest in time to us now is last year's Yokohama Arena show. You do remember that show, correct? (laughs)
Yuimetal and Moametal:
Yes! (laughing)
First of all, how did it feel to ride in on a gondola making your entrance in front of the fans? Wasn't it scary?
No, it wasn't scary at all. I was surprised the first time I heard about it though (laughs). You know, there are many artists who fly around above the stage in their shows, right?
Yes, there are – above the stage as well as above the audience.
I was curious about what the scenery would like when we got to experience it ourselves. I was worried if I would be OK in such a high place, but I knew that the 3 of us could become as One on that Gondola! I felt an immense power coming up my back.
I was a bit uneasy about it at first, but once we actually rode out on it, it was pretty much just like a ride at an amusement park (laughs).
A bit like the feeling of having fun at an amusement park?
Yes, that's right (laughs). But, as you know, Yokohama Arena is a really big place! Riding on that gondola I was so delighted to be able to see so many fans. Then, later we sang 'The One' from that gondola DEATH!
That was the unveiling of that song, right?
Yes. And in spite of it being the first time to perform it, the fans all sang along with us! I was so moved by that that I was afraid if I looked down my tears would definitely drop down on the fans, so I sang looking upwards.
That's how you felt riding on that gondola….
Yes, and so….that really propelled the intensity of how emotional it was.
I wanted to laugh and wave my hands but the atmosphere of the doesn't really allow for those sorts of actions….. I was, however, able to clearly see the faces of the fans and everyone had smiles on their faces, you know. I was so happy to be able to so directly experience the feelings of the fans. I felt love from them.
From your vantage point riding in the gondola, were you able to hear the fans singing?
Oh, yes, we could hear them! We really wanted to wave our hands, right?
I was itching to do so! (laughs)
I so wanted to wave my hands and look down on the crowd but,…
'The One' is not a song that has that kind of atmosphere about it and so I held myself in check (laughs).
You debuted 2 new songs at Yokohama Arena- 'The One' and 'Karate', right? How did you you both feel about these songs the first time you heard them?
We first did the recording for 'Karate' of the parts of 'Seiya! Sessesse Sesse Seiya!' and 'Soiya! Sosso Sossoiya!' which made me think that this would prove to be a really interesting song. And, once we completed it I thought, 'Wow, this song is one that I really love!'. There is this ethical understanding in Karate that the martial arts 'begin with a bow <good manners>, and ends with a bow', right? I felt that this is also something that is absolutely essential in living our own lives as well.
You have really grown.
(laughs) When I first listened to 'Karate' I felt that this feeling is something that we must never lose sight of. In addition to that it also focuses on the importance of 'the fighting spirit'. If we perform this song at a live show I felt that there is nothing that the 3 of us have to be afraid of. When we perform this song I feel that I want to fight and continue on with this team.
Yuimetal, how do you feel about 'Karate'?
We first only heard the 'call out' sections of the song and so I thought that it might be a song designed to draw out the humorous side of BABYMETAL. But, once I heard the whole song in its entirety I felt it was a really cool song with an immensely deep core intent contained in it. And the lyrics are so incredibly straightforward, don't you think?
Yes, it is almost too straightforward and direct.
The choreography is also so amazingly cool. It is also packed with BABYMETAL-ish 'call outs' and yet it is a also a perfect song to fit with the aspect of BABYMETAL pioneering ahead in that pathless path that we are traveling down.
What I learned when it was decided that we would be performing a song called 'Karate' that made a deep impression on me was that in all of the Martial Arts it is only Karate that does not have a 'Ukemi' <protection, self protection, defense> aspect to it.
I see.
And so, I felt that it was a song that perfectly fits with the feeling of BABYMETAL of never looking back and of only charging ahead!
That is so true!
I think that also is an amazing part of it.
Karate is something that Japan has created, right? And so I think this song has a feel about it that is similar to 'Megitsune'.
It does have a Japanese <Harmonious> feel to it.
Yes, it does DEATH! I think the overseas fans will perceive it as being really fresh and new and I hope that with this song as well as with 'Megitsune' that we will be able to convey a sense of Japan <Harmony>.
2012 March 1 and 2
'Red Night Legend <Giant Neck Brace Festival>
~ Tenka Ichi Metal BudouKai Final~'
Black Night 'Legend <Doomsday> ~ The ritual of summoning>'
Going way back in time from Yokohama Arena we go back 2 years to the 2 days of
shows at the BudouKan. Do you remember that?
I remember it!
Really? (laughs)
I remember it fairly well (laughs)
(laughs) On the first day's show we had the happening with Yuimetal, right? What was Moametal's state of mind when that happened?
In my way of looking at things, the BudouKan served as a turning point…
'I switchover in my mind thinking, ' I will just have to dance for 2 now".
Do you mean it served as a turning point in the activities of BABYMETAL?
Yes. Up until that point we had never performed at such a big venue for 2 days of shows. And more than focusing on the choreography we actually prioritized our time remembering where to stand on the stage at certain times and were working hard to get used to the stage props and so I must admit I was uneasy about everything. So many things occurred on the first day that I was in a bit of panic wondering 'what should I do?'. I knew that we just had to get through the hardships somehow or other. I felt, well, if I get confused about things I should just make things work out by dancing!
Did you switchover to that kind of mindset the moment Yuimetal disappeared from the stage?
At that moment in 'Hedobangya!' I switchover in my mind thinking, ' I will just have to dance for 2 now'.
'Dance for 2' – that is a remark that will be etched in history. How were the BudouKan 2 days for you?
It was a tremendous thing to me. I mean, you know, the BudouKan is such an amazing venue. It is a venue that I knew about from the time I was a little girl. I never imagined that one day I would be able to perform on that stage where so many famous artists have performed, so when I heard that we would be playing at the BudouKan I was really surprised. I thought that because of its stature we would have to truly put on a show that would not be unbefitting.
Yuimetal, what was your mindset regarding the 2nd day show?
Well, since I had caused so many people to worry about me I felt that I had to perform in a way that would let them know that I was completely fine! And I went all out to do that.
Something that the 3 of us talk about amongst ourselves recently is the idea that we would like to perform the same set list that we used at the BudouKan once more time, DEATH!
Do you mean the 1st day or the 2nd day?
Yuimetal and Moametal:
The 1st day DEATH!
It was really tough at the time, but now that we have added power and stamina through our World tours we would like to see what kind of show we could put on now. When we performed for the first time, at the Rokumeikan, it was truly gruelling.
The Rokumeikan show was a tough one as well?
Yes. And that is why we would like to perform those 2 shows one more time DEATH!
2014 July 5
Sonisphere ~ Apollo Stage
Knebworth, UK
I personally would love to that someday.
So with the completion of the BudouKan shows you then prepare to travel to Europe. BABYMETAL, this band that has caused so many miracles to occur is about to open the curtains on their first World Tour which begins with Sonisphere. There were 50 to 60 thousands people in attendance at that time, right? This is of a scale that is even bigger than the Festivals you had theretofore experienced in Japan; weren't you nervous?
We couldn't see the crowd at first.
Yes, right, right.
'….experience of performing at Sonisphere has helped us overcome any hardships we have faced at other big venue shows after that.
We wanted to see what the audience looked like, and perhaps because we took a peak at a slanted angle from the side of the stage, it didn't seem like there were very many people gathered to our show. And so, we faced the stage with the uneasy feeling that there may not be any people there to watch us. But once we actually made our way onto the stage we saw that there were people stretching way back out of sight.
Yuimetal (cont):
What is more, this was our first overseas Metal Festival and I think it would be fair to say that the vast majority of the people there were seeing BABYMETAL for the first time, and this being the first time to perform on such a large stage, we were really nervous. But, as we progressed through the songs the crowd started raising their fists in excitement and even doing the Fox sign. Plus, when we finished they were screaming out, 'We want more!'.
Yes, we could clearly hear those screams for more.
We could really hear it! When I heard that I thought to myself, 'BABYMETAL's music has really reached these Metal fans!'. I was so happy to have gotten the strong realization that we had grabbed the hearts of these people. The deep realization has led to more confidence, and that experience of performing at Sonisphere has helped us overcome any hardships we have faced at other big venue shows after that.
So, looking back on things, do you consider Sonisphere to have been a turning point for BABYMETAL?
Yes, I think so. There is no doubt in my mind that it was a turning point! At first, the sense of trepidation outweighed the sense of having fun…..and we knew that this would be our first time doing an 'away from home' show and at an overseas Metal Festival.
But, you, the 3 girls of BABYMETAL are so ridiculously strong when it comes to 'away from home' performances, right?
You think so? (laughs)
No mistake about it!
That said, it is because of Sonisphere that we come to consider 'away from home' to equal 'fun'. Recently I have come to like our 'away from home' venue locations (laughs). It is incredibly fun to build up the fun and excitement and bring everyone along the BABYMETAL path, DEATH!
You mean, even playing the big venues turns to fun as you perform?
It is fun from the get-go.
You know, the Festivals are made up almost totally of people who don't know BABYMETAL. It is true that it is a task to convey the charm of BABYMETAL to new people starting from scratch, but it is precisely because of that there is a huge sense of achievement at that moment when we feel we have grabbed their heart. I really like Festivals as they are.
Regardless of whether they are overseas or domestic?
Yuimetal and Moametal:
Yes, DEATH!
2014 November 8
Back to the UK Tour 2014
O2 Academy Brixton, UK
'However, I had the best time of all in the unveiling of 'Road of Resistance".
Next, we have your 2nd solo live performance in London at the Brixton Academy. This was the debut of the song, 'Road of Resistance', right? In our interview with Kobametal in 'Hedoban Vol. 6', he said that Yuimetal had made a request to debut 'Road of Resistance' at Brixton Academy.
I may have said that (laughs).
(laughs) That song has now become a song that represents BABYMETAL. What was your impression of it the first time you listened to it?
First of all, let me say I am so incredibly happy that this song got made. The songs of BABYMETAL before this one had a humorous perspective about them in their lyrics, but this song contains a very hot, passionate message. And what is more, since it fits perfectly with the state that we are in at the moment, there is so much in the lyrics that we can totally relate to, DEATH! Yuimetal tends to put great emphasis on the lyrics of songs when I listen to music.
Does that go for both songs by BABYMETAL as well as other artists?
Yes. I focus on the lyrics when I listen to the songs of other people as well. I tend to feel, 'Ah, I like this song', in light of the lyrics. And because of that, out of all the BABYMETAL songs it is 'Road of Resistance' that I like the best DEATH! I really like songs that energize me with power. I also like the dance for this song, DEATH!
The dance is absolutely cool. What does Moametal think about 'Road of Resistance'.
It is a song that I like as well. I really like the unveiling of new songs.
Does that go for all songs?
Yes. The first time we debuted 'Doki Doki Morning' I was overwhelmed with fun and excitement looking ahead to performing it.
Do you remember that?
Of course I remember it! However, I had the best time of all in the unveiling of 'Road of Resistance'.
Did you think that even as you were dancing?
Yes, I felt that as we were dancing. With this being set up to be debuted as a new song overseas, and with more love of performing new songs from the outset, I was absolutely, totally overwhelmed with delight when so many of the fans sang along with us in spite of it being its first performance.
I was there at the show and the foreigners were really going all out singing along with you. We you surprised by that?
I was really surprised! I was ridiculously happy, DEATH!
Are you able to hear the fans when they sing 'Wow wow~'?
Of course, we can hear them. I take out my ear monitor to hear them.
Do you take it out on purpose?
Yes, I want to hear their singing voices (laughs).
You can even hear them singing with the ear monitor in.
Do the 2 of you get energy from that 'Wow wow~'?
Yes. And that goes especially for when we debuted it in England! The response of the fans was totally unexpected and off the charts. For example, we feel more at ease performing in Japan than overseas, right? England gives us a feeling that is close to that – it is a feeling of being able to perform without worry you could say. England feels like a second home to us.
Yuimetal (cont.)
And that is probably the reason why I said that hoped we would debut 'Road of Resistance' at our 2nd performance in England.
Just as Yuimetal just now said, England is a place where one feels at ease. You have traveled there about 4 times, right?
I think we have gone more times than that.
We go there quite often.
So, anyway, does England truly have the feeling of being your 2nd hometown?
Yuimetal and Moametal:
Part of that is probably due to the length of the time we have spent there as well.
We sometimes stay in London for a full week at a time, so I feel completely comfortable there (laughs).
2015 May 9
BABYMETAL World Tour 2015
Circo Volador, Mexico City, Mexico
Next, I hope we can talk about a show that out of the BABYMETAL shows that I have seen overseas made a strong impression on me personally-the Mexico show. You had already toured in Europe, but I believe this is the first time for you to play in Central America. What was your image of Mexico before going there?
I had no real image outside of the food, DEATH!
(laughs) You mean tacos?
Yes! (laughs)
I only knew Mexico for tacos. I had the image in my mind that it was a country where they only ate tacos all the time and so I wondered what kind of country it would actually be. When we actually went there I realized that it is situated at a very high altitude!
'We went and climbed a pyramid there in Mexico as part of our training'.
Did you feel a lack of oxygen when you were performing?
Yes, I did. We rehearsed at a venue we had rented out before the show and it was quite tough there as well. We went and climbed a pyramid there in Mexico as part of our training.
You went to the pyramid not for sightseeing, but rather for training purposes?
That's right, DEATH! It was in order to get used to the high altitude.
Yuimetal, what did you think of the response of the fans?
I can't really say as I don't have much of a memory of the live show. The altitude was so high at that show that I was just focusing with all my might on performing each song one at a time.
I was there and the fans were singing out 'Ole, ole ~' like they were cheering on a soccer game, right?
They were singing like that!
The atmosphere of the venue was that of like being in a soccer stadium. Also, following the ending of the show the fans didn't go home even though you had exited the stage. They just kept riding the excitement.
I was so incredibly happy!
When they would they would spot a Japanese they would ask, 'can I take your picture?'.
Yuimetal and Moametal:
Wow, really?
It was like a non-ending Festival.
2015 May 29
Olympiapark, Munchen, Germany
2015 May 30
Rock Im Revier
Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
After this there were 2 Festivals – Roc Kavaria and Rock Im Revier. Do you remember them?
The German Festivals, DEATH!
That's right. Munich and Dortmund. Many of the super famous overseas Metal bands like Metallica and Limp Bizkit were also appearing at these shows. When you see these overseas bands perform do you get interested in their music and go on to listen to them?
Yes. When I heard Limp Bizkit's 'My Generation' I immediately thought to myself that I had heard it somewhere before. (laughs)
'For us, 'Metallica-san IS Metal', you know.'
We do an homage to them, but the first time I heard them perform it, it made me feel like they were doing an homage to us (laughs).
And so, I think the German Festivals were fantastically fun, DEATH! I was able to go around and see a lot of different performances.
What impressions does Yuimetal have of the German Festivals?
I was also deeply impressed by Limp Bizkit, but it is the presence of Metallica, in the end, that has really impressed me.
They are that big to you?!
Yes, DEATH! The first Metal band that we met was Metallica-san, you see. For us, 'Metallica-san IS Metal', you know. When I saw them perform I thought they were so cool. When we actually met them in person backstage they were so friendly and kind, and it was this gap that really attracted them to me. They have that 'Star quality' in spades.
You also saw them at the Reading&Leeds Festival.
Yes, we saw them there as well! I don't think I have ever had a case of goose bumps like I got when I saw them!
You got goose bumps watching the Metallica performance?
We were able to watch the show from the side stage. I was so amazing to experience that volume of sound at such close proximity and the guitar and vocals were just so cool. They even glanced our way when they exited the stage. I wonder if they remembered us. That feeling of having been recognized also made me very happy, DEATH!
The reason you were able to feel that Metallica is so cool is proof that the spirit of Metal has completely taken up home inside you, I think.
When we first saw them we just thought of them as some middle aged foreigner men.
That's right (laughs)
What was the moment when you changed into thinking they were cool?
When we met them at Summer Sonic I was just of the impression that foreigner are friendly, but when I saw them actually performing a live show I thought, 'Are these really the same people?' – the gap was that big. When we saw them live the other day….their ability to grab ahold of the audience was totally amazing – something almost otherworldly. We are not even close to that level yet, DEATH!
Is Metallica an existence that is something like a target for you?
We have always and continue to say that our aim 'is to be the only one' and I believe we have absorbed a great deal from Metallica-san, DEATH!
Rather than treating them as a target I would say that we want to absorb all we can from them, take that and change it into 'our own style of Metal'.
Wow, you have come a long way in 2 years to be able to speak like that….
Yuimetal and Moametal:
2015 September 16 to October 16
World Tour 2015 in Japan
'I had so wanted to do a Japan Tour for long that I was so excited leading up to it.'
After you returned from Europe you began your first Japan Tour. In every interview you were saying, 'we would like to do a Japan Tour', and so this must have been something the 2 of you were looking forward to for a long time, right?
I was very happy!
It was a lot of fun!
A while back you said that you wanted to go to Kyuushuu, didn't you?
Yes, she was saying that!
Do you remember?
I do remember that! Honestly, I only have fun memories about everything to do with the Japan Tour. Out of last year's World Tour the part that I feel was ridiculously fun was the Japan Tour part. You know, when you do a World Tour it is not so easy for Japanese fans to make it to the shows, right? That is why I had felt that I wanted us to do a Japan Tour from quite a while ago. So I was happy that that came true, and I was so amazed and surprised that the way the fans get into and work with the shows can differ so much from location to location even within Japan.
Wow, you picked up on that!?
Yes…at the Oosaka show and elsewhere.
Also the 1st day differs from the 2nd day at the same venue.
I too felt that it is amazing how much the 1st day can differ from the 2nd day at the same venue.
I was fortunate enough to see both shows in Oosaka and in Sapporo. The Sapporo show was also an incredible one.
Sapporo was also very hot.
Yuimetal was strongly impressed by every show in the Japan Tour. I had so wanted to do a Japan Tour for long that I was so excited leading up to it. I was so delighted to find, upon actually arriving at the venues, so many people who were waiting to see us perform. The bonds of unity between us and the staff were also really strengthened by traveling around Japan together.
That is so true!
It was nice to shorter distances to travel and I was so incredibly happy to finally meet Japanese fans with whom we were not able to meet before. There are still so many places I want to go to, DEATH! It is of course important to travel overseas and spread the BABYMETAL 'Ring' ever farther, but the Japan Tour made me realize more strongly than before the need to first bring Japan together as One before we travel around the world.
About Su-metal
'More than seeing her as an elder sister, I really see her as a comrade in the fight.'
I want to ask you this precisely because Su-metal is not here. How do you think Su-metal has changed during the past 2-years?
Hmmm… that makes me think. You know, we are together for so long, all the time so we really feel like a family. We really are together close to it being everyday.
With things as they are, we are comrades on arms, DEATH!
More than seeing her as an elder sister, I really see her as a comrade in the fight. In BABYMETAL there is no one who is not needed, and no who can be replaced. I love Su-metal's voice so much that I can say with absolute certainty that we could never have come as far as we have if it wasn't for Su-metal's singing voice. I think Su-metal in her own way went through many hardships and worries these past 2 years. I am sure that many things came up with her voice and a multitude of other things. But, she never brought those out in the open to others and so there are times that I get hit with emotions when I see her performing on stage, having fun and playing around with us. I come close to tears every time I think of how, in spite of, I am sure, dealing with many tough things, she is there to lead us on.
Su-metal is a such an incredibly important figure to me….and just as Moametal said, she never allows any hardships she is going through to come out in the open. There are so many things that I feel that make me think she worked so incredibly hard to overcome difficulties, including things on the vocal side. When I hear her singing voice come through the ear monitor, I think, 'I need to work harder. Since Su-metal is giving it her best like this, I too can do much more'. I get power and energy from her during the live shows as well, when we make eye contact on the stage I get an immense peace of mind. I am sure she will continue to grow as a totally reliable person.
What song (s) do you particularly like on Metal Resistance?
'My favorite song is most definitely, 'Road of Resistance'.
This is my last question for you. Could you both tell me what songs you particularly recommend?
That is a tough one….(laughs).
OK, so, shall I go first?
My favorite song is most definitely, 'Road of Resistance'.
There no way you will sway on that one, right?
Right. The next in line would be, 'The One' if I embed it with expectations on how it may develop as a song. This song perfectly ties into the BABYMETAL of the current moment, as do the lyrics. But, I think that as we continue to travel around on Tours this song will, over time, develop into its final completed form.
Does that include involvement from the fans?
Yes, it does. I think it is still incomplete. The same goes for 'Road of Resistance'. When we unveiled it in England it was not yet complete and it was the larger than expected sing along by the fans that allowed it to make such a good start. By the time we played it at Yokohama Arena this song had come along with us through so many experiences which is what has made it the song it is now, I feel. The song, 'The One' that we first performed at Yokohama Arena will, I think, be the song that we most want to 'power up' in this coming Tour.
Yuimetal (cont.)
I hope that it will become packed with lots of memories so that by the time we perform it at the Tokyo Dome it will be a totally different animal on a bigger scale than it was at Yokohama Arena and will serve as a song that we can all sing and become One together with. Together with the expectations I have for it, I would like to recommend this song.
OK, Moametal.
I would choose 'Meta! Meta Tarou'. I feel that this album itself is amazingly interesting. The pervious album represented BABYMETAL as it was, while this album has us challenging many aspects of 'what BABYMETAL considers Metal to be'.
It really is packed with various types of Metal.
Yes. For example, 'Sis. Anger' is a song that takes on Black Metal as only BLACK BABYMETAL can do, but out of all the songs, it is 'Meta! Meta Tarou' that really stands out, I feel.
It is true that once you hear it you will never forget it (laughs).
I think it is a song that you can't forget. And also, like the 'Wow, wow~' of 'Road of Resistance' , this song also is one that everyone can sing along together on and the choreography is also something that everyone can join in on.
The choreography is already completed for it?
It is ready! It is really simple, so I hope you will dance to it! I want all of us to dance together, DEATH!
I can't begin to imagine what the choreography will be like. (laughs)
I think you will be surprised (laughs). Recently there has been an increase in the number of fans of the same generation as BABYMETAL and hope to extend our 'Ring' out to include more, DEATH!


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FA Cup: Nick Blackman's strike earns Reading a 1-0 win at Huddersfield
Last Updated: 03/01/15 9:13pm
Nick Blackman's strike earned Reading a 1-0 victory at Huddersfield Town in their FA Cup third-round clash on Saturday.
Oliver Norwood, a £1.2million buy from Town in August, threaded the ball through for substitute Blackman to drill Reading into the fourth round and settle a largely disappointing game.
The first shot at goal did not arrive until first-half stoppage-time - and Norwood blasted high and wide from 35 yards. Until then the game was a dour affair dominated by Reading's delaying and spoiling tactics.
Frontman James Vaughan, reportedly a transfer target for Barclays Premier League Burnley, nearly sparked the game into life on 28 minutes - but Alex Pearce cleared his long punt forward just as Nahki Wells was about to pounce in the six-yard area.
The best action came in the 40th minute when Vaughan tussled with Royals keeper Mikkel Andersen for a free-kick. Tommy Smith was fouled by Hal Robson-Kanu and when Conor Coady's cleared set-piece was lofted back into the box by Jonathan Hogg the pair clashed. The ball ran loose and was eventually cleared - but referee Philip Gibbs had already given a foul against Vaughan.
Reading's Jamie Mackie was substituted at half-time with the threat of a red card hanging over the on-loan Nottingham Forest striker, who was booked in the 16th minute for a foul on Harry Bunn and then warned by referee Phil Gibbs for a late lunge on Hogg in the 36th minute. The Scotland cap pushed his luck further by appearing to argue with the referee as the teams went off at half-time.
There was little increase in urgency after the break, although Vaughan did his best to inspire things when he headed over from close range on the hour following Jack Robinson's cross from the left.
Wells and substitute Sean Scannell went close after Mackie's replacement, Blackman, had made the decisive breakthrough with the first shot on target of the match.
Bunn's surge into the box in the 76th minute was ended by Chris Gunter but Gibbs ruled no penalty. The Royals' players surrounded Bunn and Wells had to pull the youngster away from the confrontation.
Wells then hit the near post side-netting with a cheeky flick from Coady's low corner from the left, before a frustrated Hogg was sent off in stoppage-time after a melee. Danny Williams committed a foul and walked off with the ball, Hogg tried to get it off him and the pair appeared to trade blows, with Williams booked and Hogg picking up a second yellow.
That proved to be the last action of a poor match which marked Steve Clarke's second win as Reading boss.


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Kaare Klint worked as apprentice with his father, Peder Vilhelm Klint. The two architects (Peder Vilhelm Klint and Carl Petersen) designed the Grundvigs Church in Copenhagen.
Klint learned about the tradition of Danish workmanship realism also seen in works by Abildgaard and Bindesboell.
In order to produce correctly proportioned furniture, Kaare Klint had great interest in the human body and movements. In 1923 he was employed by the Academy of Fine Arts in the furniture department, where he in 1924 was appointed professor in architecture.
Through his own furniture design and his lectures, Kaare Klint had significant influence on generations on Danish furniture designers. He helped shape big Danish furniture designers such as Børge Mogensen, Poul Kjærholm and Ole Wanscher. Quality materials and workmanship were important factors for Klint in the making and design of furniture. He never approved the Bauhaus functionalism and Jugend style furniture was, according to Klint, awkward and too dominating.
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Trade Courts Update for Week of August 3, 2016/
United States Court of International Trade
Denying Plaintiff's Claim Regarding the User Defined Rule and Entering Declaratory Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff on Count II of Amended Complaint
In Fed Met Resources Corporation v. United States, Court No. 14-297, Slip Op. 16-75 (August 1, 2016), plaintiff Fedmet Resources Corporation ("Fedmet"), a U.S. importer, challenged an internal directive of U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("Customs" or "CBP") that targeted only Fedmet. Designated by Customs as a "user defined rule," or "UDR," the directive instructed Customs port directors on bonding to secure potential antidumping and countervailing duties on entries of a class of imported merchandise, magnesia carbon bricks ("MCBs"), entered by Fedmet during the period from September 6, 2014 to September 30, 2015. However, because the UDR expired according to its own terms soon after the briefing was completed on Fedmet's motion and because there were no remaining entries upon which the UDR can be applied, the court concluded that plaintiff's claim challenging the UDR was moot and denied the motion for judgment on the agency record.
In regards to plaintiff's Count II of the second amended complaint, the court issued in Fedmet I an order declaring unlawful CBP's decision to require a 260.24% bond on Entry No. 336-3105573-3. However, since plaintiff has not made a showing that relief in the form of an affirmative injunction directing Customs to admit the merchandise on the entry without the posting of a single transaction bond was necessary, the court simply granted declaratory relief.
Remand Results Sustained
In Husteel Co., Ltd., Nexteel Co., Ltd. and Hyundai Hysco v. United States et al., Consol. Court No. 14-215, Slip Op.16-76 (August 2, 2016), the court reviewed the U.S. Department of Commerce's ("Commerce") Final Redetermination Pursuant to Court Remand("Remand Results"). The Remand Results concern the final determination in the antidumping ("AD") duty investigation of oil country tubular goods ("OCTG") from the Republic of Korea ("Korea"), covering the period of investigation ("POI") between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013. The court remanded this matter to Commerce to reconsider or provide further explanation of its mandatoryrespondent selection and its calculation of the constructed value profit margin ("CV Profit") used in determining the AD duty margin for the selected mandatory respondents, NEXTEEL Co., Ltd. ("NEXTEEL"), and Hyundai HYSCO ("HYSCO").
As for the mandatory respondents, the court sustained Commerce's findings since NEXTEEL and HYSCO were the largest producers by volume of OCTG, and ILJIN Steel Co. was an insignificant producer of total OCTG imports from Korea during the period of investigation ("POI").
As for the calculation of the CV Profit, the court sustained Commerce's margin based on data from TMK IPSCO's and Tenaris S.A. (both large multinational producers of OCTG). Because the other producers did not show that they produced any significant portion of OCTG or because the information showed net losses, Commerce's decision not to rely on other data in its CV Profit calculation was sustained. Moreover, the court sustained Commerce's findings non-OCTG and OCTG were not of the same general category to use information from other producers' data regarding non-OCTG. Finally, in regards to the profit cap, the court deferred to Commerce's selection of best information available, averaging profits earned by Tenaris and TMK.
For all these reasons, the court sustained Commerce's findings in its Remand Results.
Court Denied Plaintiff's Motion to Amend its Complaint
In Rienzi & Son, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 07-56, Slip Op. 16-77 (August 2, 2016), the court denied plaintiff's motion to amend the complaint when the motion to file such pleadings was filed after discovery deadlines and beyond scheduling order deadlines. Pursuant to an amended scheduling order, parties were required to complete fact discovery by June 10, 2016. On June 29, 2016, some 18 months after the deadline for motions regarding the pleadings elapsed and almost three weeks after the close of discovery, Rienzi filed this Motion to Amend. Because such an amendment would prejudice defendant by requiring the opening of discovery and plaintiff provided no reasoning for its delay in filing the amended pleading, the court denied plaintiff's motion.


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Criticism can be difficult to endure, our initial reaction might even be to retaliate or dismiss the critic as wrong, negative or deliberately hurtful.
We have been taught that it is important to stand up for ourselves and not feel victim to other people's negativity; but we also know that it can be important in these instances to try and understand where the criticism is coming from and perhaps even learn from it.
Fortunately there are ways we can learn to better endure criticism. Dr Susan Krauss Whitbourne, has put together some strategies for dealing with criticism and avoiding damaging relationships or your own self-esteem in the process.
"1. Resist the temptation to criticize back. It's all too easy when you've been attacked (or think you've been attacked) to lash out at your attacker. It's the old children's comeback: "Are, too!" In the playground, such retorts are not only commonplace but perhaps even adaptive. However, in the realm of grownups, by answering a criticism with a criticism, also called atu quoque, you only end up looking as if the critical shoe fits you just fine.
Making the problem worse is the fact that people tend to respond to the initial critical comments by feeling offended so they escalate their comeback, exacerbating the conflict even more. For example, your romantic partner complains that you don't seem to return phone calls or texts very regularly, and you respond by pointing out your partner's clinginess. Not only are you invalidating your partner's observation, but you're also ratcheting up the level of the argument by criticizing your partner's personality rather than behavior. What started out as perhaps a reasonable request now becomes the basis for a critical free-for-all.
2. Avoid projecting your insecurities onto the criticism. When we hear criticism from others, we sometimes amplify its magnitude by interjecting our own insecurities into the picture. The process is similar to the defense mechanism of projection, in which you transfer your own anxieties onto those around you, reading far more ominous meanings into their words than they intended. You might feel unhappy with the state of your home at the moment, recognizing that some solid closet cleaning is in order. It's late on a Friday afternoon when a neighbor stops by to chat. You notice that she seems to be taking in the scene with a bit of a furrowed brow. She remarks that she's looking forward to the weekend and having a chance to catch up on her spring cleaning. Immediately, you jump to the conclusion that she's accusing you of being a slob. If it weren't for the guilt creeping around the edges of your consciousness about the sorry state of your bedroom (which she might not even be able to see at the moment), the comment would go by unnoticed. With your insecurities primed, however, you'll see the otherwise innocent comment as a condemnation of your housekeeping abilities. From there on, the interaction will almost invariably go downhill.
In this scenario, nothing critical was even uttered by your neighbor. What about if someone actually does share a critical observation about you, with you? In this case you are being criticized, not imagining it. Again, however, unless the criticism is an attempt to bring you to your knees in tears, projection can put you at risk of over-reacting. A co-worker may be offering what he believes to be helpful criticism and has even given the matter careful deliberation. However, because it touches a sensitive nerve, you find yourself unable to hear the positive tone in your co-worker's voice, or even his attempt to embed it in an otherwise supportive remark. People often do try to soften their criticism with counter-balancing statements ("I really liked the way you did X, but Y could've used some improvement"). A good personal critic uses the "criticism sandwich." You place the critical statement between two positive statements so that the person you're trying to help with your comment is better able to hear it. Many of us are savvy to this strategy, however, and ignore the top and bottom of the sandwich, only hearing the problematic middle section. By overcoming the tendency to use projection, you'll be better able to focus on the positive elements of this type of communication.
3. Try to understand where it's coming from. It's possible that you're not the one projecting at all, but that your critical partner is the one struggling with feelings of inadequacy. For some people, criticizing others is the only way they can feel good about themselves. Threatened by your happiness and well-being, they try to throw you off your game by incessantly pointing out your inadequacies. It may be hard to fend off these attacks, especially if (as I noted above) they are particularly well-placed barbs that tap into your insecurities. If you value your relationship with this person, or if you have no choice but to be around that person, then you'll have to figure out a way to reframe these interactions. Seeing their need to criticize as stemming from their weaknesses will help you protect not only your self-esteem, but could also potentially help this person overcome the need to criticize. Without feeding into their need to feel superior, you can offer them a kind word or two that can help alleviate their anxiety. Point out their strengths, and they'll be better able to acknowledge yours.
4. Ask whether there's truth to the criticism. So far, the general assumption I've made is that the critic is being overly critical, even if that critic is you. What if there's something about you that could truly benefit from improvement? Perhaps you've been wearing the same (now-filthy) sneakers or comfortable shoes every day, all day, from the workplace to the backyard. They're looking pretty tattered at the edges and although they may be fine for a walk in the park on a muddy day, have no place in the home or office. A friend offers you the criticism sandwich, noting that it's great that you like to wear comfortable shoes outside but you might want to consider keeping a spare pair for indoor use and that (here's the top of the sandwich) you look great in the sweater you're wearing today. Instead of reacting with outrage at the thought that this person has the audacity to attack your taste in footwear, you might take a quick peek at your feet and see if perhaps the comment bears taking seriously. In fact, if you really thought about it, you might come to appreciate this person's bravery in bringing up such an awkward topic.
5. Try to resolve destructive criticism in constructive ways. The criticism sandwich is only one way to provide criticism in a supportive context. In "constructive" criticism, you focus on the behavior, not the person; "destructive" criticism aims to eviscerate its target, and it can truly erode relationships. In a study of 118 married couples, University of Notre Dame psychologists Kristina Peterson and David Smith found that couples who expressed destructive criticism toward each other, as judged by observers, felt higher levels of perceived criticism than when their interactions showed higher levels of constructive criticism. This study supports the idea that destructive criticism contributes disproportionately to a couple's perception of general discord in the relationship. In marriages, high levels of perceived criticism are what go on to erode both the relationship and each individual partner's mental health.
In any relationship, if you sense that criticism is taking a destructive turn, it's time to take a step back, put the brakes on, and look rationally at who's being criticized, for what, and why. By taking as objective an approach as possible, you can help support both your and your partner's feelings of self-worth."
By Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. 2014
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