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Superchief Gallery NY
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Posted on:July 29, 2017
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There are new oppurtunities to get involved at Superchief Gallery NY
We are now open to the public 6 days a week, and the opportunites to get involved and spend time with the art community are plentiful.
If you are a social media genuis, graphic designer brain, art administratior skilled at art install, or just want to put your time and energy towards what we have going on, please reach out to email@example.com with GALLERY HELP as the subject.
All skill levels and availabilty are welcome- it's about teaching & learning & doing this whole thing together!
Comes with free meals, and free tickets to events for you and your friends.
Check out our Facebook & Instagram pages for a glipmse of what goes on in this space of ours!


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Justin Beiber is reportedly engaged to Hailey Baldwin…and his father, Jeremy, has somewhat confirmed this!
Justin's dad, Jeremy, has now somewhat confirmed this by posting a photo of Justin staring into the sunset today, with the caption, "@justinbieber proud is an understatement! Excited for the next chapter!"
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Surprisingly for a nation with profound political interests, America lacks much in the way of true political satire.
For dryness and wit, we turn to Gore Vidal's peerless essays. But the Sage of Ravello is, for all his gifts as a polemicist, less satirist than amused observer of the scene. Vaughan Meader and David Fry are mere memories now, and Norman Lear has more or less hung up his TV producer hat for good. Satire — some of it brilliant — reigns on the Internet, but is by the very nature of the medium, largely hidden.
Larry Gelbart writes the most caustic and darkly hilarious satire around (Power Failure and Mastergate for the stage, Weapons of Mass Distraction for cable) but he's a minority of one. If not for Jon Stewart and the inspired gang of put-on artists who concoct "The Daily Show," trenchant political humor in this country would be, for all intents and purposes, as dead as Mort Sahl's career.
Potent musical satire is even rarer. Mark Russell's middlebrow musings, once a PBS mainstay, were never especially incisive. And our most gifted, biting purveyor of the form, Tom Lehrer, hasn't written a new song in years.
Which leads us to — or leaves us with — the Capitol Steps, which performed two sold-out shows Jan. 31st for N.C. State University Center Stage.
A quintet of former political staffers, the group (Kevin Corbett, Brian Ash, Brad Van Grack, Nancy Dollar, and Janet Gordon) has, rather astonishingly, cut 23 discs of lukewarm song parodies — one for each year of its existence — and the troupe's concerts are aired, with a certain numbing regularity, on NPR. While the material is occasionally amusing, most of it is drear: piddling send-ups of the most obvious targets. It certainly has its followers, though, many of whom packed Stewart Theatre last weekend — mainly, I would guess, to have their prejudices reinforced.
I'll elucidate. The Steps' introductory medley was a rapid series of takes on the Democratic candidates. Lieberman was represented by "The Candy Man" ("The Lieberman Can"), John Kerry with "Kerry Baby," and Wesley Clark with a Gilbert and Sullivan parody ("I am the very model of positions that are general"). If this is your notion of stinging political wit, you might also have enjoyed John Edwards being skewered via an "I Feel Pretty" knock-off, for which I can see no logical point. I'm not aware that Edwards has made an issue of his own good looks. And if not, why parody them?
The capper was "Cheer Up, Howard Dean," a thigh-slapper performed by a pair of Steps masquerading as two of the Queer Eye squad. As the number devolved into a shameless series of limp-wristed faggot jokes and the audience hooted its approval, I felt myself sinking into my seat. It was going to be that kind of an evening.
A shame, too, because this ugly bit was immediately followed by one of the evening's few truly inspired moments; as the cast bulled its way through a parody of "Shout," the sleeves of Dean's shirt unrolled themselves into a handy straight-jacket in which the manic candidate was quickly enwrapped. That is pointed, specific, and funny. But the number's impact — on me at least — was diminished by the residual loathing I felt for its predecessor.
There were a few other good moments. Saddam Hussein, talking via cell-phone with the President, asked that ubiquitously annoying question, "Can you hear me now?" George W. Bush was cited watching "what he called an Al Passino movie." Intrusive telemarketers were roasted to the tune of "Some Enchanted Evening" ("Ev'ry single evening/MCI will call you"), John Ashcroft morphed into the Phantom of the Opera ("The loonies of the right") and Dick Cheney made his appearance in a hilariously opaque baldhead wig.
But what were we to make of an extended Bill and Hillary duet explicating Mrs. Clinton's exasperation with her husband's philandering when it ended with the line "She'll see that I'm spayed"? Males aren't spayed, they're neutered — or aren't the Steps aware of the difference? Similarly, a knee-jerk skit on the perceived cowardice and anti-Americanism of the French ignored the truth of the matter for the sake of cheap laughs at the expense of one of our most generous and longest-standing allies. First "Freedom Fries," and now this. And can the most scathing possible satire of Donald Rumsfeld really be no more than a toothless re-setting of an old Beach Boys song ("Help Rwanda")?
The Steps' funniest bit was, interestingly, its least overtly political: Brad Van Grack's marvelously loopy backwards-talking ramble on celebrity scandal, "Lirty Dies." Much of it was silly, some of it merely clever, and good parts of it were utterly without a point, but all of it made us laugh. And we laughed, I think, not so much at any particular, pointed wit as at the sheer, intoxicating daffiness of the sounds. It's a schtick, but at least it provided genuine amusement. The Capitol Steps could use more of that.
Second Opinion: Classical Voice of North Carolina critic Jeffrey Rossman's review: http://www.cvnc.org/Archives022004.html#CS.
N.C. State University Center Stage: http://www.ncsu.edu/centerstage. Capitol Steps: http://www.capsteps.com/. Lirty Dies (samples of backwards talking routines by the Capitol Steps): http://www.capsteps.com/lirty/.


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I'm struggling a bit right now with my latest novel. Part of my trouble is research related. I haven't been able to compile some of the knowledge I need to really build one particular male character. And part of my trouble is that one of my POV characters is a 16 year old girl. I feel like the story needs her input on a personal level, but writing from this POV has me scared. I have about as much in common with a sixteen year old girl as a grizzly bear does with parakeet.
Generally, I have an easier time writing female characters than male but up until now they have always been adult females. I'm not real sure why this particular girl scares me so. maybe my trepidations stems back to my own adolescence when nothing could strike fear into me like a teenage girl. Now don't get me wrong, back then that fear was mixed in with a healthy dose of puberty driven lust and a sense of wonderment, but they scared me just the same. Well the girls as well as their fathers.
I certainly don't profess to know all the inner working of any female mind, but I still feel comfortable writing from the point of view of an adult woman. I have recruited a few different girls in the age group and with permission from their parents I am going to start asking them questions to try and get a better sense of what their world is like, but to be honest even that scenario has be a bit antsy. I guess there are some fears that you never get over. Give a turbulence filled airplane ride, a basket full of spiders and snakes, but whatever you do ... don't make me talk to a sixteen year old girl.


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We are so excited to be featured in the July 10, 2018 edition of Tampa Bay Business Journal
As Osteria preps to open in downtown Tampa, Nocturnal and Fabio Viviani are already cooking up a new concept for Fly Bar space
When Lanfranco Pescante was looking for a celebrity chef to join his new Italian restaurant in downtown Tampa, he thought immediately of Fabio Viviani.
He knew for certain he wanted a chef of Viviani's caliber on board — Pescante, who was born in Italy, says the best Italian food he's ever had stateside was at Viviani's Siena Tavern in Chicago.
What Pescante didn't know is that he and Viviani were already acquainted, having met years ago through mutual friends in Italy in the early aughts. Viviani is from Tuscany; Pescante is from Rome. And on a 2017 visit to Tampa, on a recommendation from a friend, Viviani visited Franklin Manor, which is owned by Pescante's Nocturnal Hospitality Group. When Pescante wrote to Viviani about Osteria, Viviani saw Franklin Manor in Pescante's email signature and was immediately intrigued.
"We didn't call each other for Christmas," Viviani said. "It was just through good friends and mutual friends, like you know the best friend of your cousin."
That long-ago connection has blossomed into a partnership between Viviani and Nocturnal, which is about to open Osteria, its first joint project, and already has other concepts under development. While Osteria is in the spotlight right now, Viviani and Nocturnal are set to close on their purchase of Fly Bar's real estate two days before Osteria's grand opening on Sept. 30. In the Fly Bar space, they plan to open Mole y Abuela, a Spanish tapas restaurant, in early 2019.
Osteria is on the ground floor of Nine15, a 23-story apartment tower across North Franklin Street from Franklin Manor. Fly Bar's building is a tenth of a mile north of Osteria and Franklin Manor, also on North Franklin Street.
Osteria and Mole y Abuela will bring even more life and vibrancy to North Franklin Street, which was all but dead when Nocturnal opened Franklin Manor there in 2016. Nocturnal is comprised of Pescante and business partner David Anderson, as well as several silent investors who vary by project.
As Tampa Heights develops with restaurants and revitalized single family homes, the North Franklin Street corridor is a key link between the central business district and the Heights' historic storefronts.
"We look at it as creating a neighborhood of entertainment," Pescante said.
Inside Osteria
Osteria will bring an "authentic, truly Italian approach" to food and hospitality, Viviani says.
"Our menu will truly be 75 percent as traditional as it gets, and then there will be components that are not," he said. "We are going to have great burgers, and some other ingredients that my mom probably wouldn't order, but [those dishes] will have the same craftsmanship.
"The goal here is to truly serve a great dining experience with the most Italian hospitality."
Authentic Italian hospitality, Viviani says, is one thing he absolutely won't compromise on. It's about a total experience, he says, and depends on servers' and hosts' emotional intelligence.
Pulling that off requires an intensive training program. Viviani has brought his team from Chicago to Tampa to train the Osteria crew, for five- and six-hour sessions that span two weeks.
"While the food is going to be a huge component of the success of Osteria, the hospitality component is just as important," he said. "It's about the ability to read the table and create a rapport with the customer."
Osteria will open with dinner service and expand to lunch and brunch service in three to four months, Pescante said. He envisions the restaurant as a place that's just as appropriate for a date night as it is for a business meeting.
It will also have a nightlife component, which is Nocturnal's specialty.
"That's what I don't do, the later night crowd," Viviani said. "I think this is why, from a business perspective, this is a match made in heaven. They are very good at bringing people to a party at whatever location they have. What I do is serve people before they go out and have fun, so it's a good match.
"We will serve a very large pool of people that have very, very different needs."


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This is an excerpt from Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books
(England, 1430)
The original source can be found at the University of Michigan's "Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse"
lij - Gyngaudre. Take the Lyuerys of Codlyngys, Haddok, Elys, or the Hake hed, or Freysshe Mylwell hedys, the Pouches, and the Lyuerys, an sethe hem in fayre Water; than take hem vp on a fayre bord, and mynce smal the pouches; than take gode freysshe brothe of Samoun, or Turbut, or of Elys, and cast the mynced pouches ther-to, and pouder Pepyr, and let boyle; than take the brothe, the pouches and the lyuerys wer sodoun in, in a stipe (Note: ? meaning) or on fayre brede, and draw thorw a straynoure, and than mynce the lyuer in fayre pecys; and whan the pouches haue boylid, an the licoure, caste the leuer ther-to, an let boyle a whyle: than caste ther-to the lyuerys, Wyne, Venegre, Safroun, Salt, and late it boyle a whyle, and serue forth that rennyng.
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Door County lawmaker seeks wetlands exemption for one lot. (Wisconsin State Journal, via the Chippewa Herald, 1/21/2014)
Nearly 20 years of denials.But since 1995, the state Department of Natural Resources has blocked construction on Tebon's lot, saying development could, among other things, endanger water quality in nearby Sturgeon Bay.
A bill before the state Legislature would reverse that and give Tebon permission to fill in the wetland and build the house, which he plans to sell. The parcel already has a curb and gutter and comes with a boat slip at the nearby marina.
Here's how I see it. The Wisconsin State Assembly is a 99-member body. Apparently, Rep. Bies (R-Sister Bay), who is retiring at the end of this term, could not convince any of his Assembly colleagues to sign on as co-sponsors of AB602. I'd be surprised if this bill went anywhere.
recent Kleefisch pay-to-play debacle.
And just for the record, here's a list of Cliff Tebon's relatively modest campaign contributions to Garey Bies. (Source: Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Follow the Money)


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The text that changed your life
Texting has been the rage for quite some time and has the power to do grand things. Our default is to interact with our phone with the side effect of face-to-face conversation heading to the abnormal. I may be too long-sighted to see that the effects of phone interactions will ultimately leave people very isolated and lonely. The sense of community will be ethereal rather than realized, we will have forgotten how to engage and our reliance on the machine will distance us from one another. I will encourage all of you toward eye-to-eye and face-to-face interactions which in turn give you an opportunity to show off your teeth.
In order to be fair, I am curious if texting has done better for you than for me. What positives have you seen from it?


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Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.
The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.sadao araki
When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.randal marlin
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.albert abraham michelson
From Persia to the Chinese Sea, 'from the icy regions of Siberia to the islands of Java and Borneo, from Oceania to Socotra, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales and her civilization.
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April 2, 2010 at 6pm to April 10, 2010 at 7pm – Biblioteca Elsa Morante L'impegno, il lavoro Omaggio a Giuseppe Di Vittorio Biblioteca Elsa Morante Via Adolfo Cozza, 7 Artisti:Ugo Attardi, Ennio Calabria, Bruno Caviola, Giancarlo Isola, Achille Perilli Bruno Pagliai, Gia… Organized by Gianni Crialesi | Type: painting, exhibition
April 16, 2010 at 6pm to April 23, 2010 at 7pm – Biblioteca Elsa Morante mostra integrata di ArteFotoGrafiaPerformanceReadings "SOGNI RUVIDI" "Dada Surrealismo Dada" inaugurazione venerdì 16 aprile 2010 ore 18,00 Biblioteca Elsa Morante Via adolfo cozza, 7 Lido di Roma 16… Organized by Livia Compagnoni e Tiziana Di Bartolomeo | Type: painting, and, photo, exhibition
May 27, 2010 from 7pm to 11pm – Le Salon d'Art May 24-June 13th **Opening Reception Thursday May 27th** 7-11pm Le Salon d'Art 90 Stanton Street btwn Orchird and Ludlow 2nd Ave Stop on F/V Essex St on F/J/M/Z Le Salon d'Art is proud to host El… Organized by Elke Reva Sudin | Type: gallery, opening, painting
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May 10, 2011 at 6pm to May 15, 2011 at 7pm – ouchi gallery Fumika Tanaka "all beings" RARESumi-e Live Painting!! Opening Reception 5/10/2011(Tue) 7-10pm Fumika Tanaka Bio: FUMIKA feel that man and the animal are similarly honorable. She is a vegetarian, an… Organized by Ouchi Gallery | Type: live, painting
May 12, 2011 at 7pm to May 15, 2011 at 10pm – Sapphire Lounge, LES UPDATE: The event was great! Thanks to everyone who was a part of it. See you all at the next meet-up! More pics here. Four nights of art exhibitions and live performances not to be missed — co… Organized by Brooklyn Art Project | Type: member, exhibition, /, meet-up, body, painting, collaborative, drawing
May 13, 2011 from 7pm to 10pm – Outpost New works by the prolific painter Ryan Ketchum. Exhibition this evening at the Outpost in Brooklyn 1014 Fulton St. Organized by Ryan Ketchum | Type: painting, exhibition
May 7, 2012 to June 1, 2012 – Ministry of Finance located on the esplanade of the ministries in Brasília, Brazil On May the 7th, 2012 at the Arts Tunnel from the Ministry of Finance located on the esplanade of the ministries in Brasília, Brazil, will open the exhibition: Essays and dialogues about the human fig… Organized by Curator: Luiz de Alcântara. Art Professor by the the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. | Type: individual, painting, exhibition.
November 3, 2015 from 7pm to 10pm – Ste105,170 Tillary St, Brooklyn 11202 kaal-richardson Bio After graduating from Hokkaido College of Art and Design, Kaal worked as an advertising photographer and art school lecturer. He is currently an independent photographer after est… Organized by Ouchi Gallery | Type: live, painting


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The Little Prince (Book Jacket & Cover)
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Design Concept : Journey & Memories
Sunset denotes an 'end for a new beginning' – an act of giving up something in return for another which is more valuable, as the famous saying goes "what goes around comes around". In relationships, when one serves the other, e.g. by giving up his time, a sense of belonging is established. The idea of reciprocity is perpetually suggested throughout the relationships in Little Prince story, i.e. the relationships between Little Prince and his rose, the fox, and the narrator. The use of gradient portrays the moment when the sun sets and illuminates. In the story, sunset is also regarded as a special reminiscence of Little Prince's rose.
Renewal / Constant Flux
Changing river: "You cannot step twice into the same stream." "The current of flowing river does not cease, and yet the water is not the same water as before." Borrowing from the concept of changing river, stream of water together with sunset is used as a metaphor for impermanence (constant flux) as both are natural and ante-predicative. In the story, many encounters––repeatedly shown––formed a pattern of, rather than a perfect, an imperfect cycle or a flux. Each time Little Prince came into contact with a character, he learned and, thus, grew. For instance, by the end of the journey, he, who was confused about his rose, gained more knowledge and perspectives of his rose. The flowing water also evokes the 'water well' moment, which Little Prince deemed as a song and a token of remembrance.
The Little Prince, first published in 1943, is a novella, the most famous work of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It is the fourth most-translated book in the world. It's a poetic tale in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. Though ostensibly styled as a children's book, The Little Prince makes several observations about life and human nature. (Source: Wikipedia)


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Jeremy Lawlor OM scooped a top honour at Glamorgan County Cricket Club's end-of-season awards.
The ex-Monmouth School for Boys' ace was named Glamorgan's Second team Player of the Year on Friday 28th September.
He received the award from Glamorgan second team coach Steve Watkin and Alastair Wilson, events director at Orchard.
Jeremy hit centuries against Somerset and Middlesex to force his way into Glamorgan's first team.
The Old Monmothian then snapped up 3-59 against Sussex at Hove in the County Championship to highlight his all-round ability


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The Sagrada Familia is one of the most visited churches in Europe and by far the most famous site in Barcelona. Designed by Antoni Gaudi, this Basilica has been under construction since its conception—nearly one hundred years! Although incomplete, it is an incredibly intricate and beautiful church that also offers magnificent views of the city.
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- This Guidelines summary outlines the key points for primary care. Please refer to the full guideline for the complete set of recommendations
- A polio survivor may present with new weakness, pain, neuromuscular and/or general fatigue, respiratory difficulties or sleeplessness and they may or may not refer to prior polio
- As early symptoms such as fatigue are commonly experienced, polio survivors may live with increasing problems for a considerable time before seeking medical help
- Coping mechanisms used for years may no longer be effective
- New symptoms may reawaken the emotional distress experienced during the initial disease making discussion difficult for patients
History checklist
|Polio infection and treatment
Polio infection and treatment (if known)
Age at onset
Severity and progression
Respiratory impact in acute phase
Acute management
Age at best recovery
Maximum functional recovery
History since polio
Change in functional ability, degree, speed and nature of change
Present status
Recent changes in activity levels, employment, environment, nutritional status, general health and lifestyle
Symptoms checklist
|Full symptoms checklist—onset, duration, location, triggers
Fatigue—neuromuscular, mental and general (including endurance)
Pain—muscular, joint, soft tissue
Respiratory status
Dysphagia/swallowing status (including risk of aspiration pneumonia)
Sleep quality
Psychological well-being (anxiety, stress)
Mobility (including endurance)
Spinal or joint deformities (including history of change)
Bowel/urinary function
Activity level—to assess overuse (activity diary)
Falls history/frequency
Medication review (for adverse impact on symptoms)
Weight history
Smoking history
Daily activities function—self-care ability (including cooking, shopping), aids, appliances, and adaptations used
- Effective assessment needs a full history and symptom review, and should take into account their early experiences
- Chronic or new overuse of affected or unaffected areas can trigger or exacerbate post polio syndrome (PPS) symptoms; activity levels in paid or unpaid work, sports/fitness or daily life need to be assessed
- Fatigue, weakness, and pain can also be caused by other conditions which need to be excluded. The presentation may resemble other conditions risking misdiagnosis
- Commonly used assessment tools such as manual muscle testing can give a false impression of strength as one-off movements may be strong but PPS patients often show poor endurance over repeated movements or during sustained movements. These should be used alongside other methods such as variances from a well-documented baseline
- Respiratory insufficiency may develop insidiously, initially at night, in individuals who appeared previously unaffected, with symptoms such as unrefreshing sleep, frequent wakening, waking with headaches, daytime sleepiness, waking gasping or difficulties lying flat. Obstructive sleep apnoea is also common in PPS patients. These complications are most prevalent when there is an additional strain on the respiratory muscles such as respiratory infections, periods of immobility, surgery, pregnancy or obesity. Assessment for respiratory complications should be considered both for those with night-time symptoms or daytime effort-related shortness of breath
- Difficulty with swallowing is a potentially serious problem for polio survivors and those with PPS; if suspected referral to a Speech and Language Therapist is strongly recommended. This should advise that any tests involving observing muscle action need to involve several repetitions to assess the impact of abnormal neuromuscular fatigue. Patients should be assessed for risk of aspiration pneumonia
- Cold intolerance is common but underreported and can affect motor function and comfort
Management interventions
Strength of the evidence: +++=strongly recommended, ++=recommended for some, +=intervention may help; !=intervention may help with precautions
A multidisciplinary approach
- Strongly recommended, involving GPs, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, orthotists, and other allied health professionals with referral to specialist consultants as required (see referral criteria)
Energy management techniques
- Can alleviate the symptoms of neuromuscular and general fatigue, and reduce pain. Referral to a specialist physiotherapist or occupational therapist with experience in managing neurological conditions is recommended for assessment and training in these techniques
Pacing activity +++
- Effective in reducing neuromuscular fatigue and pain, and may improve performance for some
Energy conservation +++
- Adapting, simplifying and prioritising daily tasks can preserve energy and avoid neuromuscular fatigue and pain
Aids and appliances +++
- These can help in energy management. PPS patients may need encouragement to use aids, which may remind them of the original polio
Orthotics +++
- An orthotics review by an experienced specialist can help reduce overuse and misuse, and reduce energy cost of walking by optimising orthoses and footwear. Optimised orthotics may help reduce falls
Respiratory management +++
- For confirmed respiratory insufficiency, due to weak respiratory muscles or scoliosis, respiratory support in the form of non-invasive ventilation, normally bilevel positive pressure (BiPAP), usually only at night, is the recommended treatment. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is used for obstructive sleep apnoea. If secretion retention is an issue, a respiratory physiotherapist can advise on positions of treatment and also devices such as cough assist that might be useful in the case of a persistently weak cough
Exercise and physical activity ++!
- Once good energy management is established, these can be considered under the guidance of a specialist physiotherapist with experience in management of neurological conditions, to strengthen muscles where possible and help improve cardiovascular health. Caution: safe and effective exercise for people with PPS requires an individually tailored non-fatiguing, pain-free programme and careful monitoring to avoid overuse
Pharmacological management +
- As there is no medication proven to reverse the progress of PPS, pharmaceutical interventions are aimed at alleviating symptoms such as fatigue, pain and poor sleep. To date none have been proven to reduce the fatigue and neurological weakness of PPS. Some medications can alleviate pain and are used after energy management techniques have been tried
- Side-effects of some medications can worsen PPS symptoms such as increased weakness, fatigue, respiratory depression or muscle pain/cramps
- Anabolic steroids are not recommended to improve muscle bulk as the risks due to side-effects greatly outweigh the potential benefits. Metabolic stimulants such as L-carnitine and co-enzyme Q10 have been studied but not been proven to be effective
- The efficacy and safety of intravenous immunoglobulin is currently the subject of a multi-centre randomised controlled trial
- As with other chronic diseases, pneumococcal and influenza vaccinations are prudent to offer given the respiratory issues already outlined
Psychological therapies
- May be helpful in treating symptoms such as depression and anxiety. They may also enhance the efficacy of physical interventions by promoting behaviour change and improving the ability to cope with physical symptoms
Nutrition and weight management
- Dietary advice to optimise nutritional status may also support functional status. Weight loss may help reduce neuromuscular fatigue and pain, taking account of probable low proportion of lean mass and low mobility. Underweight may be due to poor diet, swallowing issues or difficulty shopping/cooking and may impact PPS symptoms. Caution: if advising exercise, see the advice on a safe effective programme in the full guideline
Other conditions
- Management also needs to include treatment of other conditions which occur more commonly in polio survivors such as osteoporosis and peripheral neuropathies. If a PPS patient smokes, smoking cessation advice and support can prevent worsening respiratory function and vascular complications
- As PPS is a progressive condition, regular review, ideally once a year, is essential to identify increasing muscle weakness, fatigue and/or pain and to adapt the individual's management programme accordingly
Criteria for referral to secondary care
- Development of new neurological symptoms
- Progression or deterioration of long-standing neurological symptoms
- Uncertainty regarding the diagnosis of PPS
- Advice about symptom management in PPS, especially where respiratory complications or dysphagia are suspected
- Need for advice on failure of treatment that was previously effective in PPS
- Need for specialist advice on orthotics, biomechanics and orthopaedic problems
Further information
- www.mapofmedicine.com
- www.patient.info/doctor/post-polio-syndrome
- www.europeanpolio.eu/healthcarepro_EFNS.php
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I've been thinking about the Halloween Hides & Creepy Caches (Reincarnated) Mega Event for much of the year.
I went to a kick-off event in Northampton on the same day as I had my own event at Stowe all the way back in April (see Stowe Series Release). I seem to remember back in April it was a bit cold and damp, much like HH&CC event day in October.
Back to the plot, the plan was to get up to the event by 10, ready for opening time. I volunteered to take Wavvy and N12 with me – better to take a car full than to go alone. Saves the planet, keeps the cost down, and makes for more interesting stories………
Such as going to help Wavvy check his coordinates for the Milton Keynes Boundary Walk Golden Bonus, and not being able to find it, for instance. Can't say where it is, but it was on the way. Suffice to say we got to GZ on Wavvy's GPS and he had no recollection of the area. GZ on the iPhone was about 35 feet away, so we went there instead, and there was the cache, all shiny looking. Hmmm ! Must be something to do with triangulation of the cell towers or something. Anyway, one-nil to the iPhone.
N12 was well prepared when we arrived, despite saying she was expecting us at 10am – what's that about ? She's ready to go out an hour before we're turning up. An hour before I'm going out I'm normally still in bed, especially when Kas and the kids are away, like today. In fact, it's a bit of a miracle I was ready when Wavvy turned up, never mind an hour beforehand.
But meanwhile, back at the event, we made a relatively uninteresting drive of 35 miles or so up to Stanwick Lakes and miraculously found a parking spot right outside the building – someone was just leaving at 9.45am. So up we parked, and in we went, to meet up with a few familiar faces and a few rather scary characters. Well, it is a Halloween themed event. So we mooched about a bit waiting for the general "nod" from one of the organizers that the daytime caches were released. I picked up my spangly new glow-in-the-dark coin, and we went outside to gawp at the maps showing where everything was, then we heard rumour all was released and we were good to go. So we went.
I started by setting up the details for the WhereIGo released for the event, and we mooched into the first couple of zones, then we were off to the main business of the day. Not quite sure what we were expecting, but we ended up doing a 10 mile walk and picking up about 40 caches over a period of nearly 5 hours. Have to admit that it was a bit more than I anticipated for the first walk, but we can pride ourselves that we found everything we looked for. We did try our best with the two puzzles and also we tried to run about 3 multis at the same time, which proved interesting. But more of that later. Suffice to say that trying to complete one of those elimination grid, "Brian ate more sausages than the man who wore purple socks" logic puzzles is a bit tricky when you're trying to walk at the same time. Thankfully though, Wavvy, N12 and I had been joined by a couple of others, so we had a nice big team for the onslaught. As we walked around, it became rapidly evident that this wasn't going to be a day of solitude. For speed, we adopted the name of "Team Wizard" for our happy band, and within the first mile or so we were joined by Poshrule and a handful of others (or, more correctly, we joined them – as in, we caught up with them).
One highlight of the morning walk was passing the football ground. Only a highlight because it wasn't what I expected. What I expected (quite reasonably, I thought) was that the football ground in Irthlingborough would be the home of Rushden & Diamonds, what with them being originally formed from Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds. However, unbeknowst to me, R&D were chucked out of everything last year due to there being some issue with finances, and later they dissolved. So Nene Park is, in fact, the home of Kettering Town – a move made last year after their previous ground was repossessed. Obviously financial times are hard for small clubs in Northamptonshire .
Back to the plot though, and not long after here we parted from an increasingly large crowd and headed off around the north of the lakes and onto the 4 (ish) mile "northern" loop that the guys had set up. This took us up into the village of Little Addington and back. Just after the village I felt the need to take advantage of the solitude, as it were. However it was not the most lonely day of caching I ever had. In fact, I only just about had time to do the business before the next team turned up.
At the far end of the walk we came back into the Stanwick Lakes park and then across the other side. Somewhere along here, one of our number decided he wanted to go a bit "off-piste" and cut over a couple of fields to rejoin the old railway line and back to the cafe rather than follow the full route around. At this point in time, the route back had no further caches apart from one that requires some crawling through culverts, so on the face of it the decision looked OK. Once we got over the first field, though, we were wondering at the wisdom of climbing over electrified fences and backtracking around impassable swamps.
Once back at the old railway line we finished our morning (now mid-afternoon) with a pop at a cache in a very large bird hide. I would like to say we found it, but at the time there were about 35 people there (or more) crawling all over the place. This was made infinitely worse by an absolute torrent of wind and slushy, hail-filled rain. enough to cause an enormous cracking noise as a big chunk of a nearby tree snapped off, just avoiding a few people. At some point in the proceedings someone shouted "found it" and the deed was done. We're claiming a proper find, because it was one of the original "Team Wizard" that found it, although given the number of people it was probably just a matter of time. There was a nice Earthcache just along from here too. Can't beat an Earthcache.
And then back to the cafe for a well earned drink.
After which we had a further walk out to catch one of the multis we calculated on the way around, and a handful of others that we didn't pass on the first attempt – our loop took us away. So that was another couple of miles and another 5 caches before returning to the cafe to mooch around next to the now busy barbeque – a round of double cheeseburgers and a natter with a couple of American visitors ensued. Followed by more cheeseburgers / chicken burgers and some coke.
And then a quick walk out across the lakes to grab the WhereIGo with BingBongLong, who we bumped into in the car park.
And back to the cafe for a sit down – legs hurting somewhat.
In the cafe we met a few more friends and then prepped up for the evening event – this time we were named "Team Nightmare", and we consisted of Wavvy, N12, BingBongLong, EmmaW, Emma's mum and myself. Another 14 caches in the dark. Unsurprisingly these ran along all the bits of the park we hadn't been through already, as well as a few we had. Again I would like to say we found some of these, but in all honesty, they were found mainly by just walking towards any group of torches we saw, safe in the knowledge there was a cache in there somewhere. Why don't people dip torches in the same way we dip headlights in the car, by the way ? Couldn't see where I was going most of the time. But it was a good walk nevertheless, in good company.
When we walked past the bird hide again it seems the cache was no longer there, or at least, Emma couldn't find it. Busy day, maybe someone put it back in the wrong place. And then back to the car. In total I walked 15.7 miles during the day, which is a long way, I can tell you. You can see the route at here. Don't ask me to walk round again. I ache.
But that left us with a bit of a problem. No misses all day, which is good, however a rather disappointing total of 59. That's a big blouse of a number, that is. 59 just makes you want to say "why not one more then ?" 59 finds in a day is for rank amateurs. "Why not do one more then ?"
So we did one more. No walking, just a random Church Micro in Stanwick village. We drove a couple of loops in the car before finding a way into the car park that appears on satellite view, and we were rewarded with a parking spot about 10 yards from GZ. Someone else was also there doing "just one more".
59 in a day is a wimp's total. Whereas 60 ? 60 ? That's a proper day's caching, that is !
The cachemobile got us home safely enough. Wavvy's car was still outside my house, the guinea pigs were happy to see me (but slightly hungry) and in the morning I found N12's blood-stained knife in the back of my car. Oh ! And the plastic axe I bought off eBay to wear on my head was still on the dining table, where it had been all day.
The caches we found on the day were :
- 1612 Northampton Witch Trials
- Adder's Fork and Blind Worm's Sting
- Arachnophobia
- Assault & Battree
- Casper
- Church Micro 3064… Little Addington
- Church Micro 3065… Stanwick
- Double, double toil and trouble
- Eye of Newt & Toe of Frog
- Fangs Alot
- Fillet of a Fenny Snake
- Finger Lickin Good
- Fire burn and Cauldron bubble
- For a Charm of powerful trouble
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Get out of Jail Free
- Ghost Train
- Grave Danger!
- Gripper
- Guardian of the Swamp
- Halloween Humdinger
- Head over Heels
- HH&CC 2012 MEGA Event – Reincarnated
- Horrible Histories – Heritage Trail
- House of the Living Dead
- In the Cauldron boil and bake
- Like a Hell-broth boil and bubble
- Lizard's Leg and Howlet's Wing
- Malificent's Mum
- Marriage from Hell
- Monsters' Graveyard
- Octet
- Old man of the Woods
- Park n Cache #2
- Prince Charming
- Quit Bugging Me!
- Rattus Rattus
- Read em and Reap
- Rivers of Blood for HH&CC
- Sacraficial Stone
- Simon's Trail: Choo Choo
- Simon's Trail: Don't close the gate
- Simon's Trail: Don't fall off!
- Simon's Trail: Leaving Civilisation
- Simon's Trail: On and On
- Simon's Trail: Shotgun Wedding
- SkullKing Around
- Snake in the Grass
- Span B
- Stanwick Lakes – Hide & Seek
- The Dark Ages – Heritage Trail Pt2
- The Mad Axeman
- Tiki's Curse
- Trick or Treat?
- Twin Peaks
- Was That The Tree's A-Rustling?
- What Lies Beneath
- Where?
- Wool of Bat and Tounge of Dog


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Maybe it'll be the electric vehicles that you need a special license to drive that will end up making the biggest difference in cleaning up the air.
Case in point is an announcement from Volvo Trucks that it will begin testing eight multi-configuration battery Class 8 electric demonstration units using technology currently found in the Volvo FE Electric (pictured) in California in 2019. The company will deploy 15 more "precommercial and commercial units" throughout California's South Coast Air Basin as part of the project, which Volvo says will reduce 3,020 tons of greenhouse gases a year.
Commercial sales of these big EVs will happen in North America starting in 2020. Volvo Trucks will start selling the FE Electric in Europe in 2019.
Called Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions), the 2019 test is happening through a partnership between the Volvo Group, California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), and 14 others, including EV charging partners. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) awarded SCAQMD $44.8 million for the LIGHTS program through the California Climate Investments. In a statement, the president of Volvo Trucks, Claes Nilsson, called Volvo LIGHTS, "Yet another important step towards our vision zero emissions."
Given the 16 partners in the project, it makes sense that this is about more than just the zero-emission trucks. The official announcement says that a "variety of smart technologies will be used – including remote diagnostics, geofencing, and the company's web-based service management platform," in order to keep these trucks on the road as much as possible. Non-truck battery-electric equipment, non-proprietary chargers, and solar energy production equipment will also be used, Volvo says.
The president of Volvo Trucks North America, Peter Voorhoeve, said in a statement that, "This is an excellent opportunity to show the end-to-end potential of electrification. From solar energy harvesting at our customer locations, to electric vehicle uptime services, to potential second uses for batteries, this project will provide invaluable experience and data for the whole value chain."
Volvo has already started testing autonomous trucks in the U.S., like this convoy that took to the hills of North Carolina and is all in on electric trucks.


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I'm working with a personal trainer for my upcoming wedding, and last night he asked me about my eating habits. The conversation went something like this:
Me: I know how to eat well, I just don't do it every day because I'm an asshole. I'm lazy and hate meal planning and am so tired at the end of the day that I just can't do it.
Him: You're not an asshole. You are just spread so thin that you don't have enough willpower left at the end of the day. You can't allocate any more of that willpower to your eating habits because it's already gone.
Whoa. How. True. I focus so hard on my professional goals, my freelance goals, my personal relationships, and my social life that my own body gets the short end of the stick. This is nothing new. But is it possible to have it all? Or am I three weeks away from publishing a "Taking a Break" blog post?
Over the weekend I had so many freelance project deadlines, plus I really wanted to complete the photoshop e-course I had purchased in September. That meant I didn't do any laundry and didn't clean the apartment. It wasn't a priority, even though a messy apartment is not fun. So on Monday I hired a cleaning lady for 3 hours to come and take that off my plate. I'm at the point in my life where outsourcing makes sense so I have more time to do the things I love or need to do. And I've decided that there's no shame in that.
Thinking about the events of this past weekend has made me realize where my priorities lie. My biggest focus this month has been outsourcing and learning. Last weekend: I wanted to learn photoshop, so I outsourced some cleaning. A lot of people will look down on that. I don't have kids, how can I possibly be too busy for basic domestic work? If you're one of those people who is thinking that right now then stop reading my blog, b*tch ;). I'm not super woman and I accept that. I can't do it all, so I'm okay with outsourcing basic administrative work so I can continue learning, improving, and growing my marketable skills.
So what do I value the most? So how do I make time for these things? What has to be pushed on the back burner for now? What can I take off of my plate?
True to form, I listed things out in order to be better sort through my thoughts and organize my ideas. Before I knew it, it helped me really figure some sh*t out:
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- We Heart Branding Re-Launch on 11/1
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My Freelance On Going Projects:
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My Personal On Going Projects:
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- Planning the honeymoon
- Pilates Teacher Training
What I Want and Value:
Things I Can Outsource In Order to Meet All Deadlines
+ Obtain What I Want and Value:
Things I Can't Outsource That Need More Attention:
I don't want to burn out, and I want to be able to have it all. By outsourcing some things I'm hoping I can concentrate on obtaining a strong healthy body and getting enough sleep. I'm hoping that by delegating some of my more mundane tasks I can reallocate some of my energy to myself. And if I have some energy left over, continue to read and take all those e-courses.
And when I inevitably am unable to complete everything I aimed to do I need to be kinder to myself. Have a softer inner monologue. I can do anything, just not everything. Hey, that sounds familiar.


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Friday, 20 March 2015
Eighteen months ago – as a new government – we faced the very difficult issue of dealing with Labor's absolute failure to maintain the integrity of Australia's borders over the preceding six years.
The legacy of that failure was detention centres packed with illegal maritime arrivals, indeed centres that were straining under the weight of the sheer number of people.
Australians elected the Coalition to deal with the considerable and numerous problems Labor had created and that is what we are doing.
When serious allegations relating to the conditions and circumstances at the Regional Processing Centre in Nauru were made, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection commissioned an independent review by former Integrity Commissioner Mr Philip Moss.
Mr Moss's report was delivered to the departmental Secretary early last month. It outlines some very disturbing matters including drug dealing, sexual assault and rape.
I do not intend to comment on the individual issues as many remain the subject of investigation or ongoing review by the Nauruan Police, the Department, the service providers at the Nauru RPC and the Australian Federal Police.
But let me state emphatically, that as Minister I have zero tolerance for any form of criminal activity. Sexual assault, particularly involving minors is personally abhorrent to me.
The concerning issues outlined by Mr Moss are not isolated to the detention centres – unfortunately they occur daily in our own society.
Our response to these problems in the detention centres is - as it would be in that wider society. Serious allegations of wrongdoing must be adequately assessed and reported for appropriate investigation.
Mr Moss has made 19 recommendations. The Department has accepted and responded to all of those recommendations.
Secretary Pezzullo assures me there is a clear implementation plan and the Department is already working with the Government of Nauru and the RPC service providers to implement that response.
Over and above the Moss recommendations, I have advised the Department of further strategies to be taken. The Secretary is working on these matters and will provide more information in the near future.
In conclusion, this Government inherited complex problems. It has worked and is working to solve them. The number of people in detention has fallen significantly and is being reduced by the day.
In 2007 there were just four illegal maritime arrivals in detention in Australia – none of them children.
There would be none in detention today – if Labor had not opened the borders to people smugglers.
There would be none in detention today – if people had not paid people smugglers to bring them to Australia illegally.
There are now strong policies in place that have stemmed the flow of illegal arrivals. As a Government and as a nation we must remain resolute and vigilant.
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It's been a great year, and to celebrate, I have collected all of the answers to the question "What makes a great romance?" that I have received from people I've interviewed on this blog over the last year. 'Cuz every time I interview someone, I ask them that. I say it's just for kicks, but really, I ask because I don't know.
So sit back and enjoy, and please, share your answers as well!
September Adams: There are several important – well, non-negotiable – requirements for a good romance. One is sexual fusion between the main characters. And yeah, I mean fusion in a scientific way. Another requirement is forced proximity. I read that in a romance novel how-to once, so I can't claim that one for my own. The last requirement is a fair amount of romantic/sexual adjectives. And when I say fair, I actually mean excessive. I saw a great list once in a "How to Write Erotica" book and it's been the closest thing to a Bible I've ever owned.
Katey Hawthorne: Characters who don't suck. There are so many awesome ways to work a romance angle, but I seriously think the thing that makes a story great is a character I want to see win. With romance it's sort of double-important because it's so closely focused on the emotions of the people in question. If they're annoying--as in too perfect or too blah--I just want to throw things and stomp around.
MC Blackman: For me, the same foundational things that hook me into any good work of fiction: interesting characters that I care about enough to spend several hours of my life with, and who I think about when I'm not with them. Smart, fundamentally solid writing is essential. Also, a compelling story. Sorry, but sex isn't enough to sustain my attention. I'm that reader who skims through the sex to get back to the story (I still read all of the words, but faster). If the writing or the story feels amateurish, too contrived, too clever, too formulaic, too shallow, too gratuitous, or too overwrought, I'm out.
My Mom: Unbelievably naive and idealistic people who crush each other's dreams, let each other down, then continue to love each other anyway.
Lisa Henry (This is her never-before-published answer because I, um, just realized that while she did send me this answer back in July, I forgot to include it in her interview. Sorry, Lisa!): The first thing you need is characters that people will give a damn about. Then you have to make them give a damn about each other. With me, it's all about the flawed characters. I like to read about, and write, characters who grow and become better people because of love. In fiction there are actually more rules than in real life. This means that in romance characters really have to earn their Happy Ever Afters. And I'm a huge fan of that. I love it!
Kay Berrisford: A good romance should be slightly frustrating, but in the best possible way. Okay, so what do I mean by that? Basically, when you're reading a good romance, you're so desperate for the two MCs to sort things out and get together that you want to turn over the pages quicker than you can read. Apart from you don't want to turn over those pages and rush it, because you're loving the story and you want to spend as much time as possible in these people's company. So a really good romance is always a book you can't put down. You need to read it in a single session or dash back as soon as possible. It really gets under your skin.
As for the exact ingredients e.g. setting, level of conflict, that's all subjective as far as I'm concerned. Personally, I like a high level of conflict between the MCS—lovers to enemies is a trope I adore—and an interesting or high concept setting (preferably fantasy or historical). And, of course, I love ANGST, ANGST, ANGST, TORTURE, TORTURE, ANGST. But none of this is essential like the above, just my taste.
Huge thanks to everyone who sat in the hot seat over the last year! Thank you for answering this question for me.


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I've been tagged by Tiffany @ The Chi-Athlete. Thanks Tiffany.
The Rules:
- Thank and link to the person who nominated you.
- List the rules and display the award.
- Share seven facts about yourself.
- Nominate 15 other blogs you enjoy, then comment on their posts to let them know that you have nominated them.
I have been blogging for a while so if you read my blog, you probably know everything about me already but if you are new, here are
Seven Things About Me:
1. I started running in April 2008 at the age of 55!! Since then I have run 124 races. In January 2011, I ran my first of 9 half marathons.
2. Second to running is my love for tennis. I started playing seriously about 15 years ago. The best thing about tennis is the friends that I have made. Now we do lots of things together that doesn't even involve playing tennis.
3. My first profession was that of a French teacher. I did that for 22 years. I spent my junior year of college in Nice, France. I love anything and everything French – art (Monet), music (Celine Dion), food (pain au chocolat), drinks (kir), cafe au lait, Les Miz, etc.
4. I play mah jongg once a week with a great group of ladies. My favorite game, however, is still Scrabble.
5. I love to travel. I would do it more if I had the time and the money. I have been to most countries in Europe (except Ireland) & Israel, Greece & Russia. China and an African safari are on my bucket list as well as Alaska.
6. I'm a computer geek. Luckily I went back to school and got another Masters and I have been working as an Instructional Technologist for the past 16 yrs. Digital photography is my passion. I never leave the house without a camera.
7. Finally, Dec 29, 2011 was one of the worst days in my life. I fell avoiding an ice patch while out running and broke my ankle in several places. I had a plate and 8 screws put in. It was a very long recovery. The doctor said that I may play tennis again but probably would not be able to run. But I proved him wrong!! I started running after 5 months and starting playing tennis after 8 months.
Here are some "inspiring" bloggers (in no particular order):
- 14 in 2014
- Age Groups Rock
- Barking Mad about Running
- Run this Apple
- Runs with Pugs
- Slowly Tri-ing
- Shut up and Run
- My Journey to Fit
- MCM Mama
- Mom Running from Cancer
- 111 La La Lane
- Pam Robbins Runs
- Road Runner Girl
- Run the Great Wide Somewhere
- We Run Disney
Happy Running! Please tag yourself if you are reading this post & I haven't tagged you.


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Inside Story of India's Anti Satellite Test By DRDO | #MissionShakti
Shailesh Kumar, National Defence New Delhi, 27 March 2019 Today, on March 27, 2019 India conducted Mission Shakti, an anti-satellite missile test, from the Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Island launch complex.This was a technological mission carried out by DRDO. The satellite used in the mission was one of India's existing satellites operating in lower orbit. The test was... Read More


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In "Baptized in Fire" Cole Kissam contemplates the self through religion and music.
In "Solitude", Lu Yuan uses images of nature to explore the solitude of the self.
Two Poems By Asha Marie
In "Dinner" and "Blue," Asha Marie uses powerful imagery to explore family and the self.
Lily Sickles provides the reader a rush of images and movements centered around the word "Akimbo."
Listen, when I say
Chester Wilson writes a series of unusual images that captivate the reader.
Two Poems by Elena Rielinger
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Van Donsel's pieces explores grand American imagery and poetry itself.
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This poem, by Farah Ghafoor, explores synthetics in processes and personality.


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The title "ecologies of change" might seem paradoxical to some; to others even tautological. Is ecology synonymous with the lasting and unchanging and thus in urgent need of preservation, to be defended against human interventions and technological change? Or is change inherent to ecologies and thus an ecological mode of thinking puts forward a dynamic, procedural and open way to conceptualise the world? Homeostasis, or the self-regulation of nature presupposes a concept of nature as separate from culture. Thus nature always already is a discursive construct, onto which ideals of regulation and (self) control are projected. There is no easy or singular answer to the question of what media ecology is. The contributions in this issue of spheres touch upon this plurality and are concerned with the concept of (media) ecologies in diverse ways. (more…)
This paper is a revised translation of: Barbara Glowczewski, Résister au Désastre: Entre Épuisement et Création", in Barbara Glowczewski and Alexandre Soucaille (eds.), Désastres, Paris, L'Herne, 2011, pp. 23–40. Notes and references have been updated and adapted to English publications.
"Climate change poses the question of a human community, of a we; it points to a figure of universality that escapes our capacity to experience the world. This universality stems rather from the shared sense of a catastrophe. It calls for a global approach of politics, but without the myth of global identity, for, unlike the Hegelian universe, it cannot comprise particularities. We could temporarily refer to it as a 'negative universal history'".1Cp. Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History: Four Theses", Critical Inquiry 35(2), 2009, pp. 197–222.
|Cp. Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History: Four Theses", Critical Inquiry 35(2), 2009, pp. 197–222.
Anthropologist of micropolitical hope, Barbara Glowczewski, is among the vanguard of key global Guattarian thinkers. Deploying Guattari's three registers of ecosophy to understand the foliatedness of disaster in the anthropocene, she provides a range of examples, from artists' responses to crises and neoliberal betrayals, collective intelligence marshalled against the violence of privatisation, experimentations leading to micro-social innovations challenging the criminalisation of asylum seekers, and political actions against the endo-colonialist policies of settler states. Eschewing victimal discourses traded like stocks by big media, she eviscerates the dehumanising logic of humanitarian care in the form of 'assistancialism' and as some Aboriginals know it, 'sit down money'. Glowczewski's unique voice speaks from her fieldwork among the Warlpiri in Australia, which began in the late 1970s, and her interpretations of dreaming as a kind of becoming caught the eye of Guattari in the late 1980s. Aboriginal individuals and families attempted to mount convincing cases for land titles against a state not above dirty tricks, like destroying ministry archives in the Department of Indigenous Affairs that made holes in the historical records, making claim-building more difficult.1Cp. Lauren Marsh and Steve Kinnane, "Ghost Files: The Missing Files of the Department of Indigenous Affairs Archives", Studies in Western Australian History 23, 2003, pp. 111–27; The authors note: "It is of course one thing to formulate statistics on the high numbers of files destroyed. It is quite another thing to assess the collateral damage to the overall content of the archives […]. That these ghost files would have been useful ...continue This forms part of her criticism of state interventions and bureaucracies against the background of what the Birmingham school cultural studies theorists, referring to youth subcultures, once called 'resistance through rituals'. (more…)
|Cp. Lauren Marsh and Steve Kinnane, "Ghost Files: The Missing Files of the Department of Indigenous Affairs Archives", Studies in Western Australian History 23, 2003, pp. 111–27; The authors note: "It is of course one thing to formulate statistics on the high numbers of files destroyed. It is quite another thing to assess the collateral damage to the overall content of the archives […]. That these ghost files would have been useful determinations of Native Title, because the files that remain form the back-bone of evidential records for expert witness reports, is plain to see."
Renegotiating Data Ecologies through Trees, Soil, and Pigs' Lungs
This article investigates examples of artistic practices that all somehow deal with establishing relations to the world and environment around us in an age of pervasive technological mediation which runs parallel with increasing threats of pollution and climate change – partly generated exactly by our consumption and dependence on technology. Digital interfaces and ubiquitous networks of data streams are constantly filtering our experience of the world, and this often takes place as habitual and hidden processes. Counter to this non-reflective relation between the world and technology, a number of contemporary artists are working critically with re-defining how we engage with data and digital technologies in different ways. In this article, the theme of ecological modes of engagement is discussed through three art works/projects which address one of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene, namely our measurable, environmental impact upon the world, as well as our possibilities for connecting, in atypical ways, with the signals and currents that run through the heavily technologized atmospheres of our city spaces. (more…)
Ecologies of Disclosure: On Aesthetic Compositions of Technics and Life
"Renegotiating data ecologies through trees, soil, and pigs' lungs," by Thomas Bjørnsten and Jan Løhmann Stephensen, models an anthropocenic epistemology suitable to our present-day scientific and environmental situations. Their analysis of three artworks that integrate earthly compounds, organisms, and information technologies offers a preliminary aesthetic program for coming to terms with our contemporary and composite world picture and contributes to a recent surge of interest in ecocritical aesthetics.1Ursula Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008; the special issue on ecocriticism of Qui Parle 19, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2011; Henry Sussman (ed.), Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 2, Ann Arbor, Open Humanities Press, 2012; Tom Cohen (ed.), Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, Ann Arbor, Open ...continue
2Rosalind Krauss, "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism", October 1, Spring 1976, p. 57. The first of the three works considered by Bjørnsten and Løhmann is The Environmental Sentinel (2014–2016) by Frances Whitehead. (more…)
|Ursula Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008; the special issue on ecocriticism of Qui Parle 19, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2011; Henry Sussman (ed.), Impasses of the Post-Global: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 2, Ann Arbor, Open Humanities Press, 2012; Tom Cohen (ed.), Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1, Ann Arbor, Open Humanities Press, 2012; Nicholas Mirzoeff, "Visualizing the Anthropocene", in Public Culture, 26 (2), 2014, pp. 213–232; and Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (eds.), Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies, London, Open Humanities Press, 2015.
|Rosalind Krauss, "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism", October 1, Spring 1976, p. 57.
The Dominant, the Residual and the Emergent in Archival Imagination
Just as the explosion of information in the 18th century brought about by the print and industrial revolution necessitated the emergence of dictionaries and encyclopedias to make sense of the capacious and chaotic world of information and knowledge, we seem to be witness to a comparato ible moment in the early decades of the 21st century with the proliferation of archival initiatives. The career of encyclopedias were never totally exhausted by their status as epistemological enterprises and they often spilled into narrative domains, emerging as new ways of curating knowledge as narrative. The growth of encyclopedias could be read as symptomatic of seismic shifts in the world of knowledge and our uncertain place in it. They were narrative forms that attempted to manage the deluge and impose a logic of sense through classification and the imposition of order.1For a historical over and its relevance to the 21st century see Mike Featherstone and Couze Venn, "Problematizing Global Knowledge and the New Encyclopaedia Project", Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2–3), pp. 1–20. We see a parallel in our contemporary era with the rise of archival impulses, situated at the intersection of vastly democratized technologies of storage, retrieval and classification on the one hand, and the befuddlement that we experience by the rate of their growth and the amount of information, which defies a conventional organizational logic.2The decentralization of means of archiving is simultaneously accompanied by massive projects of centralized archives of daily life, often owned and controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook. (more…)
|For a historical over and its relevance to the 21st century see Mike Featherstone and Couze Venn, "Problematizing Global Knowledge and the New Encyclopaedia Project", Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2–3), pp. 1–20.
|The decentralization of means of archiving is simultaneously accompanied by massive projects of centralized archives of daily life, often owned and controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook.
The Contingent and the Predictive – A Response to Lawrence Liang
Contingency describes a state in which change exceeds our ability to systematize or narrate it. When Liang calls for its foregrounding in the archive it seems important to add that our experience of contingency in the archive is altered by software in a number of ways: Firstly, our production of video is increasingly shadowed by the production of metadata.1Increasingly brands like Arri and BlackMagic make metadata part of a video camera's menu. Production workflows rely on these 'sidecar files' to order the massive amount of footage. Secondly, in the distribution of video, what appears contingent is increasingly a function of predictive analytic software (those that use previous user patterns to predict future ones). In the presence of these protocols it falls to the autonomous archive to provide a space for a counter aesthetic to emerge. Below I want to extend Liang's discussion of the contingent by looking at how it plays out in two recent archival films. Out of this comparison the contemporary archive emerges as a space to re-imagine the relationship between the collective and the algorithmic, recovering the contingent from the predictive. (more…)
|Increasingly brands like Arri and BlackMagic make metadata part of a video camera's menu. Production workflows rely on these 'sidecar files' to order the massive amount of footage.
30 years after Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, 18 years after Sadie Plant's Zeros and Ones, 14 years after VNS Matrix's Cyberfeminist manifesto, 9 years after VNS Matrix's Bitch Mutant manifesto, 14 years after the CCRU escaped institutional lockdown, 182 years after Ada Lovelace, Enchantress of Numbers met the Difference Engine, 31 years after Molly Millions, Steppin' Razor was ectogenetically birthed into the sprawl, 20 years since Sandy Stone donated a body part to Linda Dement's Cyberflesh Girlmonster and made the machines restless, 10 centuries since Hildegarde von Bingen, the Sibyl of the Rhine, sang the songs of the blood in (more…)
Commenting on a performance appears to be difficult without referring to the form and kind of art that is expressed. Still, I think it is possible to deal with this performance by approaching the question of what kind of critique is embedded and expressed in it. (more…)
Noise and Error in Contemporary Technoculture – An Interview with Peter Krapp
The following article is an interview with Peter Krapp (UCI), which was conducted due to his participation as a lecturer in the 16th Week of Image. Peter Krapp is a Full Professor in the Department of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to Irvine, Krapp taught at the University of Minnesota and at Bard College. He has also been a Visiting Professor in South Africa, Taiwan, Brazil and across the United States. His lectures and seminars cover a diversity of topics, such as secrecy, archives, computer games, digital culture, media theory and media arts. He edited and organized two books, Medium Cool (2002) and The Handbook Language-Culture-Communication (2013), and is the author of Déjà Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (2004) and Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011). In his most recent book, Krapp maps a variety of glitches, bugs and lags that swarm the aesthetics of digital culture. At the heart of this work, he re-examines information theory and the history of design to address the creative expressions related to noisy phenomena in current forms of human-computer interaction. On our questioning, we approach Krapp to discuss themes such as the ergonomic principles which play a central role in graphical user interfaces infrastructural development, the aestheticization of error in digital culture, and the unstable relationship between noise ratio and technological conditions in digital music production. (more…)
Visual, Ergonomic, and Fragmentary – Krapp's Vision of the Digital
Previously published in Portuguese, this particular interview with Peter Krapp was an attempt of presenting some of the author's fundamental ideas to the Brazilian public, in a country where his work remains less known. Although the archeological discussion offered by him (and by many other important writers) is enjoying a favourable repercussion in Brazil, a significant amount of the communication researchers there are still unaware of the terms of this debate. Expecting to fill this gap, Eduardo Luersen and Guilherme Maschke introduce the diverse set of problems that Krapp's work explores by paying special attention to his book Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture. (more…)
Making Change1See: http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/common-media-lab/making-change/. is a research project that questions traditional understandings of change – where change is employed in the name of power, reduced to a 'spectacle' by global media and goes largely unquestioned in the public discourse. Making Change aims to build more adequate frameworks to address the idea of change in the context of common knowledge, networked media and information societies. It calls for a critical understanding of change that allows us to recognize new forms, functions and methods of change practices, with an emphasis on multi-modal applications of media and strategic digital technology interventions in public spaces. To collect these experiences, short, intensive "production sprints" were conducted to instigate conversations, interviews and on-the-ground action with different groups and communities in emerging network societies. The purpose of the project is to identify these processes as part of the Global South discourse, and create prototypes for a knowledge commons that facilitates the creation, exchange and integration of knowledge that affects and initiates processes of social and political change in the region. (more…)
Review of: Jussi Parikka, A Geology of Media, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
It is one of the persistent topoi in Western literature and art, the Katabasis, the descent into the underworld. Frequently haunting the individual subconscious as a low-intensity poetic figure for the finitude of life, it has, throughout history, grown into a complex and fascinating chronotope of its own, carrying multiple traces of nature and culture. From Homer's Hades to the infernal visions of Dante, to modernized descents into the belly of the earth in German Romanticism or the stories of Jules Verne to pataphysically-inflected and politically-charged accounts by writers such as Christian Bök or Reza Negarestani today – this geo-imaginary is a strange zone of different times and spaces. That it has an acute reality, with a world-changing force, is necessary to remember, too. (more…)
Review of: Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy. The Many Faces of Anonymous, London/New York, Verso, 2014.
In her book Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy. The many faces of Anonymous, Gabriella Coleman tells the story of how an "entity calling itself Anonymous" [1], starting as an "ungovernable trolling pandemonium" [3], has become what she pictures as "one of the most politically active, morally fascinating, and subversively salient activist groups operating today" [51]. As the first anthropologist to touch this complex phenomenon, she successfully characterizes its socio-technological interdependency, multiplicity and flexibility. Her great accomplishment is having conveyed a structure of something that seems to be changing constantly. Coleman describes the structure of Anonymous as a 'vivid maze'. The scaffold of the labyrinth is built up chapter by chapter. The paths are entangled with current technological, social, political, local and global conditions. Each journey through the maze is different. Coleman walks along several interconnected and diverging paths without losing orientation – even if it feels like "an infinite machine operating a tight recursive loop wherein mazes generated maze-generating mazes". [9] Against a totalitarian understanding of research and knowledge, Coleman follows the tradition of Friedrich Nietzsche: She doesn't claim to define what Anonymous 'really' is or was, instead she writes her own 'travel report' about her experiences of over six years of intensive ethnographical fieldwork. (more…)


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Aventum Partners acted as an adviser to family-owned TukkuHeino and management owners on all aspects of the sale of Heinon Tukku to Kesko.
Heinon Tukku is among the leading foodservice wholesale operators in Finland with strong presence in the greater Helsinki region. The roots of Heinon Tukku date back 120 years. Today Heinon Tukku serves thousands of customers from its delivery locations in Espoo and Kuopio and cash & carry locations in Helsinki and Vantaa and has approximately 450 employees. In addition to Heinon Tukku wholesale business, the group includes Kalavapriikki, a specialist in Fish processing.
Heinon Tukku together with Kalavapriikki Oy and the delivery and cash & carry outlet properties in Espoo, Helsinki, Kuopio and Vantaa was sold to Kesko, the third biggest retail operator in the Northern Europe. The combined net sales of Heinon Tukku and Kalavapriikki amounted to €264 million and comparable pro forma operating profit to €10 million, considering the impact of properties sold. The transaction was signed in May 2019 and completion is subject to approval by the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority. The transaction is expected to be completed during 2019.
For further information regarding the transaction contact:
Heikki Palmroth
+358 40 555 4737