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BOURNEMOUTH (Reuters) - Britain's anti-European Union United Kingdom Independence Party elected deputy chairman Diane James its new leader on Friday (Sept 16) to replace Brexit talisman Nigel Farage, who stepped down after helping to win the referendum on EU membership in June.
Ms James, currently a member of the European Parliament, was announced as the party's new head at its annual conference in the southern English coastal town of Bournemouth after a ballot of UKIP's 40,000 members. "We are the political change movement of the United Kingdom," Ms James said, pledging to makes sure Britain acted on the referendum result and left the EU.
A former business analyst with a long career the healthcare sector, Ms James has pledged to ensure the government delivers an exit from the EU that meets the demands of UKIP voters: namely tighter immigration controls and more free trade.
But she will inherit a party riven with factional disputes and struggling to define a clear identity after achieving its No. 1 goal of triggering Britain's exit from the EU.
Mr Farage used his final speech as leader on Friday to demand that his successor pushes for a "hard" EU exit that meets the demands of his party's voters.
The party has suffered a series of bitter rows over its future direction since the Brexit vote and, with its main star Farage stepping down, faces a struggle to retain its influence over voters.
Making his valedictory address at the UKIP annual conference in the southern English resort of Bournemouth, Mr Farage said his party had "changed the centre of gravity" of British politics. But he warned that his successor must not let the government water down the terms of Britain's EU exit.
"We can be very proud of the fact that we won the war but we now must win the peace," he told a crowd of cheering activists. "The only mechanism to put pressure on the government to keep the debate live and to make sure that those 17.4 million people (who voted 'Leave') get what they voted for is for UKIP to be healthy and for UKIP to be strong."
His speech drew rapturous applause from supporters crowded into the conference hall to see the party's star performer.
It set out three criteria by which the success of the government's Brexit negotiations should be judged: whether Britain is outside the single market and free from European regulation, whether it has control of fishing rights in its territorial waters, and whether it has got rid of EU passports.
After the referendum result, Mr Farage said he would step down as leader, and has since lent his experience of leading a popular political uprising to United States presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign.
"I intend this autumn to travel around some other European capitals to try and help independents and democracy movements in those countries too," he said.
Commentators say the UKIP has become so synonymous with Mr Farage, who first led the party from 2006 until and 2009 then took over the reins again the following year, that his departure leaves a huge gap that will be hard to fill.
A close ally of Mr Farage defected to the ruling Conservative Party on the eve of the conference, saying that Prime Minister Theresa May had delivered on key elements of the UKIP manifesto since taking office in July, and that droves of UKIP supporters were doing the same.
Nevertheless, UKIP remains a potent force in British politics.
Led by the charismatic Mr Farage, who successfully tapped into a powerful anti-establishment mood among voters, the party won nearly four million votes at a general election in 2015 and played a key role in persuading Britons to vote to leave the EU.


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Mashable reports, "Good news everyone: The jaguar who attacked a woman taking a selfie will live."
On Sunday, March 11, the internet was in an uproar over the story of a woman who circumvented barriers at Phoenix, Arizona's, Wildlife World Zoo
to take a photo of herself with a fabulous black jaguar. Recognizing a goodly portion of protein for the taking, the jaguar sank her claws into the woman's bicep and attempted to draw it into the enclosure.
A quick-thinking onlooker distracted the feline by tossing a water bottle into the enclosure, and soon the Rural Metro Fire Department had the victim on the way to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. That night, the zoo posted:
"We regret to inform that this evening, before closing, there was an incident reported involving a guest who crossed over the barrier to get a photo, according to eye witnesses. The visitor sustained non-life threatening injuries to their arm from one of our female jaguars. At the request of the family, paramedics were called. At no time was the animal out of its enclosure. the incident is being fully investigated."
As word spread of the incident, animal lovers and foes of injustice took to social media in defense of the jaguar. A typical response was, "Lady got what she deserved. If you put the jaguar down, I'll NEVER go there again."
Getting on top of the issue, Wildlife Zoo director Mickey Ollson told ABC15 this is the second time the jaguar has attacked a parkgoer who crossed the barrier, but he also said the attack was "not the animal's fault," and she (would) not be euthanized."
Speaking for a grateful Twitterverse, and by extension, the planet, tweeter Mama Goose celebrated, "Thank God, I was ready to fly there and freak out lol."


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Our very own collaboration with Goose Island that is brewed exclusively for Bottleneck restaurants; this light-bodied pale ale showcases the unique Huell Melon hops that give this beer a sweet melon aroma
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This extra pale ale has juicy notes of mango, pineapple and citrusy lemon
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This IPA is made with tangerine purée, which brings crisp bitterness to the citrus flavor
Hazy IPA with fruit juice notes
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Roasted taste is present with no hops in the flavor or aroma; low carbonation and an extra-thick head
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Dark and delicious with a full body – NITRO pour
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Fruit-style cider with a slight sweetness and hints of citrus, apple and blueberry
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Medley of cinnamon, pecan and vanilla added to a traditional hard apple cider
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This barrel-aged wild saison is tart, dry, and refreshing
Optimizing the flavor of fresh raspberries, this berry-red masterpiece is the perfect blend of sweet, tart and refreshing
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This seems like it should be a really easy one, but I'm having trouble finding a clear reference or explanation for it.
According to Wikipedia, line level has a peak around 0.5V, but I can't tell if that's GND to 0.5V, or -0.5V to 0.5V, or something else entirely. Which is it? (EDIT: Nevermind, it's now clear that it's the second case. Here's a scope capture linked from the Wikipedia page.)
The reason is that for switching ICs (mux, pot, etc), you need to have a V+..V- which exceeds the range of the analog signal, eg from MCP42XXX datasheet p15:
For linear operation, the analog input and output signals must be in the range of VSS to VDD for the potentiometer...
Since the line level audio goes below GND, I assume I need a charge pump or virtual ground arrangement to use an IC such as the MCP42XXX. Is this so? Which is the recommended approach?
Edit: I discovered the answer to the first part of my question, but the second part remains relevant.


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For waistline measurement, people would only silently remember the result by heart or just record it after griping on the scale mark by hand, but those practices usually cause confused memory, and result in several measurements due to big errors.
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EU VAT Compliance for Digital Products
If you have customers in the EU, it's important to keep EU VAT legislation in mind, regardless of where your business is located (Why's this?). Here we'll review compliance as it applies to digital products.
In Settings > Tax rates you'll see all the EU tax rates you're applying to your invoices. (Non-EU businesses will not automatically see EU tax rates. Quaderno will send you a notification based on your sales so you know when could be expected to register there.)
In this article:
VAT Registration
You can register for VAT or VAT MOSS with your local revenue or tax authority in your jurisdiction if you are based within the EU. We also have a list of partner accountants that could help with this.
We make it as easy as we can for you to comply with VATMOSS, but, as with registering for VAT and filing your tax return, there are some things Quaderno can't do for you. Quaderno does not offer VAT registration services.
If you are based outside of the EU, then you must register with an EU member state for VAT MOSS purposes. Here's an example of how to get started: How to Submit an Irish VAT MOSS Return as a Non-EU Business
EU VAT Compliance
In order to be EU VAT compliant with Quaderno and our payment gateway integrations, you have to set the following fields:
Customer's name
Customer's billing country
IP address on charges and subscriptions
Quaderno will track these sources of evidence for your customer's location and let you know if at least two of them are non-contradictory, meaning that we can be reasonably sure that we know where the customer is.
For EU companies: If your business stays below €10,000 in cross-border sales of digital goods per year, throughout the EU, then you can charge the VAT rate of your home country on all those cross-border sales. As soon as you surpass the €10,000 threshold, you should declare VAT through MOSS and apply your the VAT rate of your customer's country.
For non-EU companies: You should register in VAT MOSS.
VAT MOSS means that if you're selling digital products to an EU citizen then VAT is charged at the purchaser's (your customer) country rate instead of the seller's (yours).
VAT MOSS applies to digital products being sold to consumers only, so it does not apply if you are selling to other businesses.
It also does not apply to physical products like t-shirts, or to online courses that include a live element like a webinar, but it does apply for any digital files like images, text, e-books, music, etc, and for services like website supply or hosting, software updates and the like. It even applies to online courses that do not include a live component.
VAT MOSS was brought in in January 2015 in order to prevent large companies like Amazon from routing sales through low-VAT countries like Luxembourg to avoid paying proper sales tax, but it obviously makes life a lot harder for smaller companies and sole traders - exactly the kinds of people Quaderno is trying to help.
The good news is that we at Quaderno are all over this, and will automatically apply the correct sales tax to your invoices as long as you can supply us with the location evidence we need - which most payment gateways allow you to set up easily. For more information on VAT MOSS, check out our EU VAT guide.
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From there, select EU VAT MOSS. Click on the "..." icon in the top right, and select Export as CSV.
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New EU VAT regulations make it easier for you to stay compliant if you're a small business with less than €100,000 in cross-border sales in the EU as you only need to collect one piece of customer location evidence.
In this scenario, the types of qualifying evidence you can collect with Quaderno are:
- IP address of the device used by the customer or any method of geolocation
- Payment method country (e.g. thet BIN/INN for a credit card)
As soon as you pass the €100,000 mark for one calendar year, you must begin collecting two non-contradictory pieces of customer location evidence. In this case, the types of qualifying evidence you can collect with Quaderno are:
- IP address of the device used by the customer
- Payment method country (e.g. thet BIN/INN for a credit card)
- Billing address provided by the customer
Quaderno will accept this information from the payment processors we integrate with (check the articles at the bottom of this page to learn about sending us things like IP address), as well as through our API, for custom calls. We'll also take into account the customer address info that you provide for the Quaderno customer record.
If we do not have two pieces of non-conflicting location evidence, we will alert you of this for the invoice in question, so that you can ask your customer for extra evidence.
In these cases, you should contact your customer right away and ask them for further proof of address.
What should you ask your customer to send? Here are some items that work:
- A bank statement that includes an address in the right country
- Other utility bills (like electricity, gas, or internet)
- An official document of where the business registered, for B2B buyers
- The country code of the customer's phone number, either mobile or landline
Once you've received the extra location evidence, you can edit the customer's location evidence directly in the app.


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Monday, 12 April 2010
Dumb Down Doodles and the Swiss Watch.
Essentially, at each election, our governments pendulate between Labor union bullies and Coalition big business apologists, with cross bench seat warmers fighting for relevance.
We are fed a media dumb doodle of spin, lies and sensationalism when we need facts.
A week out from a close election, our media was more concerned with Mike Rann's ex fuckee than his record as State Premier! Much more entertaining than dry issues like Murray-Darling water management.
Last week McKimm drew our attention to the Swiss Parliamentary system, where all parties share government and Cabinet posts are divided up in proportion to the number of seats won. Reportedly, that delivers a high level of understanding of the issues and absence of misleading invective.
Adversarial political debate, what we hear from Canberra, is a mixture of ignorance, ego, disinformation and lies that keep the waters muddied and the punters confused. With truth difficult to find, no party feels secure enough to confront really difficult issues like people smuggling and climate change. Wriggle room has gone. We need truth and decisive action, so what to do?
In Tasmania, seats are split between Libs 10, Lab 10 and Greens 5. No party has enough people to fill all cabinet posts, so with the Governor telling Bartlett to grow up and work with the Greens, even ex-premier Paul Lennon suggested the Greens should get a cabinet post. As I write, ABC news announced the Greens may be offered two ministries. An experiment worth watching, maybe with wider implications.
More here: http://tasmaniantimes.com/
P.S. Seems Lennon has forgotten the Greens want a corruption inquiry into his alleged improper relationship with Gunns! Then again, he probably feels safe with both Lib and Lab luminaries on the Gunns board! Bumper sticker seen in Hobart: 'Tasmania, the State of Corruption'. Ouch!
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Very perceptive (as usual). We lived in Tassie for many years and I've often been fascinated by the political (and other) goings-on there.ReplyDelete
Of course, the relatively small size of the place makes it unique in many ways. I worked in the Ed Dept's central office, for example, and several times a year I could easily swing around to visit all regions within a very few days, and it was never difficult to find out what was really going on in different schools.
Similarly, relations between party members of all persuasions are probably often closer than in other places. This can be both an advantage and a disadvantage, I imagine. (Who's slept with whose spouse often figured in quite a few exchanges that elsewhere might never get down to that personal level!)
And I never quite fathomed the intricacies of the Hare-Clark system for distribution of preferential votes, but was always assured this gave a fairer result in elections - and enabled the Greens to do better in that State than elsewhere. Still, they're a long way from the Swiss model you refer to.
Too bad we can't identify what it is that has produced aberrations such as the Swiss and Scandinavian models of government and social systems. Could it be the milk of contented cows?
- Anonymous12 April 2010 at 2:40 pm
Definitely worth keeping a watch on. Another great title - 'dumb down doodles' - ha!ReplyDelete
Okay, I may know nothing of doodles, other than this is what some drawings become -- and it rhythms with noodles. But in good dumb down fashion, let me proceed anyway.ReplyDelete
Formerly in 'Arson About' you mention: "Young people, I hesitate to call them Hippies, moved out of the city in an attempt to create a life for themselves [in the bush] ... small enough to feel manageable." Next post, 'Dumb Down …", you mention the media's lack of enthusiasm for investigating and reporting completely on some issues.
Does overlapping your two recent posts reveal a truth about the media and their customers? Do many people seek a small manageable life and therefore demand that the media supply them only the information that they want to have in their life's scope?
It is great to have your blog and stories to drop in on for all the value your writing provides. Reaching back again here to your previous post: Another 'Fire Captain' of a similar type protecting public lives and property is Smokey the Bear. He says, "Only you can prevent forest fires" while probably never even meeting Jimmy Roberts -- and sir, he has become recognized as an American icon. Doesn't seem equitable
Yes, I've worked in television enough to know that even news items are chosen for entertainment over erudition! One standout exception is our government funded ABC, advertisement free and (we trust) unbiased.ReplyDelete
But it has relatively low ratings. Most media goes for the mass market, so we have a huge percentage of people who are never exposed to the issues and think, with some justification, 'if it was all that important, we would be told!' Of course, media is a business first and educator rarely. They know dumb and dumber escapism it where the money is. Understandable but tragic.
"Humanity is the first species ever, with the ability to predict its own extinction, has the technology to prevent it, but lacks the wisdom to do so."
Recognise the quote?
The way things seem to be going, it won't be long before most State level governance is forcibly outsourced ("annexed" is such an ugly, emotive word) to the Feds.ReplyDelete
There won't be as much competition, then.
With apologies to Howard supporters (I supported 'Honest John' first first time around, until he withdrew funding for renewable energy research from UNSW), once in power he revealed racist neo facist tendencies and I went off him a bit. But it was gagging of the CSIRO on climate change and the core promise line that lost me completely. Jotted this down at the time.ReplyDelete
Honest John.
He swore he would keep evil from us
Terrorists, Greenies and bombers.
But then made Australia
The Climate Change failure,
And said, "It was not a core promise!"
Now, Madam, as you point out, (and the notion of no state governments is supported by a sizable chunk), imagine having that whole layer removed and JH given free reign (sic)! George Bush with afterburners!
I have looked into the face of Howard, unfettered and completely ummitigated... and seen Hell.ReplyDelete
I'm not necessarily a proponent of culling State Government, merely an observer:
The States lumber around like a mob of wooly mammoths, about to go extinct. A lethal combination of their own stupidity and poor judgement (Qld) and corruption (NSW) - to highlight but a few failings - has left them teetering on the edge of the abyss. The Feds, with their developed forebrains and cunning opposable thumbs, are more than happy to push them to their doom.
Madam, I love you whatever your gender! Ha ha!ReplyDelete
Mr Ray! I do declare I'm all woman. But devotion, however equivocal is always acceptable.ReplyDelete
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To be like Jesus is to be a person willing to put others before yourself, to seek wisdom, and to care about how you interact with all people you come across in life. Here are some ways to be more like Jesus.
1Know who Jesus is and what he did. Read the Bible to learn more about him. Acts 20:32 says that the Word of God is able to build you up.
2Love him. Radiate that love with others. Jesus said in John 13:34-35 that people would know us if we had the agape love of God and demonstrate it to the world.
- Have the right heart. Proverbs 4:23, "Above all things keep your heart for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 3:5, "Trust in the Lord with all your Heart and rely not on your own understanding."
3Care for other people. Treat others as you would like to be treated (Golden rule of Jesus in Matthew 7:12); think beyond yourself. Jesus forgave Peter even though Peter betrayed Jesus. Peter betrayed Jesus but Jesus would never betray Peter.
4Be learned and wise. Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and favor with both God and Man (Luke 2:52).
5Be humble. After Jesus washed His disciples feet, He said, "An example I have given you, that you should do likewise (John 13:15).
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- Be prepared to say sorry when you get something wrong.
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Ana Soto, MD
Dr. Soto's research interests span the following areas: a) control of cell proliferation, b) fetal origins of adult disease, particularly the role of endocrine disruptors on carcinogenesis and obesity, c) role of stroma/epithelial interactions on organogenesis and carcinogenesis and d) role of biomechanics on morphogenesis. The latter is being developed together with Professor Helen Byrne (U. Oxford, UK), Dr. Kurt Saetzler (U. Ulster, UK) and Professor Carlos Sonnenschein using a Systems Biology/mathematical modeling approach. Together with Professor Sonnenschein, she co-authored a book entitled "The Society of Cells" (Taylor and Francis, 1999) in which they posited that the default state of cells in all organisms is proliferation and motility, and proposed the Tissue Organization Field Theory of Carcinogenesis, in which cancer is viewed as development gone awry. Dr. Soto also works on epistemological issues arising from the study of complex biological phenomena and on theoretical biology. As the incumbent Blaise Pascal Chair of Biology 2013 together with Prof. Longo (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France), Prof. Miquel (U. Toulouse, France), Dr. Mossio (IHPST), Dr. Montevil (IPHST), Dr. Pochville (U. Pittsburg), Dr. Perret (ENS) and Prof. Sonnenschein she is working on a theory of organisms and on observables of biological organization. Together with Profs. Miquel and Sonnenschein, she is working on biological causality, emergence and entanglement of organization levels.
Carlos Sonnenschein, MD
In addition to his long tenure as a Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein is Corresponding member at the Centre Cavaillès, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster, UK. For over four decades, Dr. Sonnenschein's research interests have centered on a) the control of cell proliferation by estrogens and androgens, b) the impact of endocrine disruptors on organogenesis and the reproductive function and c) carcinogenesis during early development and adult life and, specifically, on the role of stroma/epithelial interactions on rat and human mammary carcinogenesis.
At the beginning of the 1970s, Dr. Sonnenschein established and characterized the first estrogen-target cell lines that later on significantly impacted current understanding of the estrogenic control of these target cells and that of cells from multicellular organisms, at large. In the late 1980's, Ana M. Soto and Sonnenschein identified estrogenic substances in plastics and developed two in vitro bioassays capable of reliably identify xenoestrogens and androgens agonists and antagonists (E-SCREEN and A-SCREEN, respectively) that are used worldwide to detect the presence of natural and man-made estrogenic and anti-androgenic compounds. Both researchers have served in national and international advisory panels that deal with diverse aspects of environmental sciences. Together with Patricia Hunt (Washington State University), Drs Sonnenschein and Soto shared the 2012 Jacoh Heskel Gabbay Price awarded by Brandeis University in recognition of their contributions in Medicine and Biotechnology.
In 1999, Drs Sonnenschein and Soto co-authored a book entitled THE SOCIETY OF CELLS (Bios-Springer-Verlag) in which they critically evaluated the status of research in the fields of control of cell proliferation and carcinogenesis. The major conclusions reached by their analysis in the book were that a) the default state of all cells in both unicellular and multicellular organisms is proliferation, and that b) sporadic cancers (over 95% of clinical cases) are anchored at the tissue level of biological organization. These are the core premises of their theory of carcinogenesis and metastases, i.e., the tissue organization field theory (TOFT). Based on evidence they and others have collected, the TOFT is increasingly accepted by the cancer research and secular communities as reflected in scholarly and lay publications.
During the last 10 years, the Sonnenschein/Soto laboratory has developed the only 3D model of the human breast that responds to the three mammotropic hormones. In addition, they also developed experimental models to study the biophysical determinants of morphogenesis. Undoubtedly, Dr. Sonnenschein is having fun posing candid questions and finding answers to them. He maintains an active traveling schedule to national and international destinations to give seminars and lectures at colleges, universities and research institutes in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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Cheryl Michaelson, Lab Manager
The Great Overseer.
Lucia Speroni, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow
During my PhD research at the National University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I studied the role of tissue environment in tumor malignancy. While I was working on my PhD thesis, I noticed that the same tumor cell line would originate different tumors depending on the tissue context. That is, a cell behaves the way it does because of its context. The complexity of tumor development has kept me intrigued ever since. Another aspect that caught my attention during my PhD research was the limitations of the majority of the models used to study carcinogenesis. I set out to investigate this issue and proposed an alternative to the standard subcutaneous disease model. This new model better mimicked the human pathology in three relevant aspects: tumor phenotype, survival rate and the fact that the host presented with metastasis.
I came to the Soto and Sonnenschein laboratory looking for a place where questioning the status quo of cancer theories was welcomed. Here I could pursue the study of carcinogenesis in accordance to what I had observed during my PhD work. Cancer is a matter of tissue organization. My interest in physiologically-relevant models for the study of carcinogenesis motivated me to develop the first hormone-responsive 3D culture model of the human breast tissue that uses an established human breast epithelial cell line. In this model, the main mammotrophic hormones induce breast epithelial cells to form structures similar to those observed in vivo, and it therefore provides a physiologically relevant context for the study of the effects of natural hormones and compounds such as anti-estrogens, which are relevant for the treatment of breast cancer. Additionally, the model enables for the first time, the study of the link between mechanical forces and hormone action on breast morphogenesis in vitro.
A main line of research in the laboratory is the relationship between perinatal exposure to environmental chemicals and breast cancer development. Thousands of new chemicals are synthesized each year worldwide and are indiscriminately introduced in our midst. Of those, more than 80,000 chemicals are registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). They are present in plastics, detergents and other household and consumer products. Identification of those chemicals that are breast carcinogens is a necessary step in order to develop a public health policy aimed at decreasing exposures to protect women and men from developing breast cancer. In my current project I am developing an ex vivo culture model of the fetal mammary gland were the action of hormonally-active chemicals could be tested and therefore potential breast carcinogens could be identified.
Nicole Acevedo, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow
I received my doctorate in Molecular and Integrative Physiology from the University of Michigan School Of Medicine and worked as a clinical embryologist prior to returning to academic research at Tufts University School of Medicine. As a postdoc in the Soto-Sonnenschein lab, I investigate how perinatal exposure to human-relevant internal doses of the xenoestrogen bisphenol A (BPA) is associated with the induction of mammary gland lesions and malignant tumors. I am currently assessing mammary gland endpoints for the Consortium Linking Academic and Regulatory Insights on the Toxicity of BPA (CLARITY-BPA) program, a cooperative agreement between the NIEHS-supported grantees, NTP, and FDA staff at the National Center for Toxicological Research. This collaboration seeks to integrate the strengths of academic and regulatory research approaches to identify best practices for hazard assessment of environmental chemical contaminants for informing chemical risk assessment. During my tenure here at Tufts, I was also fortunate enough to expand my experiential knowledge in science policy and communication as a policy fellow for the Reach the Decision Makers Fellowship Program (UCSF-PRHE). I collaborated with a multidisciplinary group of scientists, clinicians, and community health advocates to examine the current state of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and to provide our recommendations directly to the Agency. This experience reinforced my conviction that there is a definite need for bridging the knowledge gap between academic scientists and both the regulatory agencies responsible for making and implementing policy, as well as the communities at large that are directly affected by these policies. Aside from trying to save the planet, I spend most of my 'downtime' exploring the world, doing yoga or mildly obsessing over goats.
Genya Urimoto, MD, Research Associate
I came to this lab from Japan in June 2014. Originally an anaesthesiologist by profession, I am currently studying the Tissue Organization Field Theory of carcinogenesis as proposed by Drs. Soto and Sonnenschein. At the same time, I am also studying the effects of BPA on uterus in mice, especially the impact of prenatal exposure to this chemical. I am currently getting adjusted to my life here in the US and improving my English language skills by watching TED videos and listening to Sting, my favorite musician. The most embarrassing thing so far is that sometimes, jokes have to be explained to me after people have finished laughing at them.
Zhe Wang, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow
I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology from Henan Normal University, China. After completing my PhD at Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, I continuously worked as a postdoc at the same institute in Beijing, China. In 2013, I was awarded a scholarship from the China Postdoctoral Council for my research at Tufts University School of Medicine for two years. My research interests encompass nanotoxicity, environmental endocrine disruptors, and mammary gland development, specifically investigating the effects of fiber organization on epithelial tubulogenesis and understanding the interactions between stroma and epithelium in 3D cultures.
Michael Sweeney, Graduate Student
I started my career in biological research studying cardiac development in zebrafish. Using transgenic animals expressing cardiac-specific fluorescence we were able to watch, in real time, as cells "became" heart cells, beating before their incorporation into a functioning heart organ. From these observations, I was first made aware of the emergent properties of tissues. Following my developmental work, I moved into cancer research, despite my initial hesitations about entering what I considered to be a crowded field. Our focus was on the role of mutations in the re-working of signal transduction pathways in vitro with the expectation that better understanding would lead to pharmaceutical targets. However, time and time again, these targets were virtually irrelevant in intact animals, never mind in clinical settings. Ignoring these set backs, I felt as hopeful as my co-workers that the end of cancer was coming soon. I started graduate school specifically to continue cancer research and address some of the confusion I had about the field, assuming that the tumor and it's genetics contained all the answers. After hearing about the theories of Drs. Soto and Sonnenschein I began to appreciate cancer as a disease of the tissue, more complex than I could have imagined previously. I now study how some strains of rats are resistant to mammary carcinogenesis, approaching it from a tissue-wide perspective, with special attention on how epithelial populations act as a read out of stromal-mediated carcinogenesis. When not in lab I enjoy being outdoors, cooking, hydroponic gardening, and working on my car.
Nafis Hasan, Graduate Student
Growing up, I played "science" with my older brother with bunch of test tubes, beakers and flasks and a broken microscope. My scientist career was restricted to an academic setting as I grew up. The idea of genetic engineering titillated me since it made believe the sci-fi novels I voraciously read. I moved to the US from Bangladesh in 2007 to attend Lafayette College, from where I graduated in 2011 with a BS in Biology. In college and after, it was actually cancer that won my heart with its all-engulfing nature and multifarious, almost mysterious, origin. The tumor microenvironment, a microcosm of biological complexity with its varied display of genetic mutations, cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, multiple cell types, all working in a chaotic pattern to maintain and promote cancerous growth, fascinated me in my post-grad tenure as a research technician in a breast cancer metastasis lab. However, my questions about cancer's origins mainly went unanswered as the standard idea of mutations causing cancer did not fill in the gaps. I entered graduate school in the hopes that I would be able to explore this question in greater detail. Life presents opportunities in unexpected manners – it was over a beer at a casual event that I became acquainted with Drs. Soto and Sonnenschein's novel theory on carcinogenesis. I was hooked and after further reading, I am able to understand why the orthodox approach to studying cancer has yielded such poor long-term results. In the Soto/Sonnenschein laboratory, I have been further educated in the intriguing nature of the mammary gland, a tissue that resembles the cyclical patterns observed in Nature itself; my tenure in this lab has also taught me the "dying" art of philosophy of science and the ability of critical thinking. My current project involves studying the effects of vitamin D in mammary gland development using the lab's novel hormone-sensitive 3D model. Besides all things science, my other passions include biking, camping, cooking, reading, writing, travelling, trying new things and part-time activism. I believe that Curiosity never killed the cat; the cat just couldn't handle the truth.
Skylar Klager, Research Technician
I studied Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology while an undergraduate at Duke University. Following graduation in 2013, I joined the Soto/Sonnenschein team as a research technician. During my time in the lab, my interests in modern chemical exposures, including BPA, PBDEs, pthalates and other endocrine disruptors, have not only deepened, but have been cultivated by the scholarly and collaborative character of the group. Carlos once said that perhaps the best solution to breast cancer is not in treatment, but in prevention. This statement made me realize the importance of environmental factors in public health. In the fall of 2015, I will begin a master's program in Environmental Epidemiology and Risk Assessment at Harvard School of Public Health.
Maël Montévil, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow/Collaborator
The core of my work is in theoretical biology. I'm identifying differences in the principles and methodologies used to understand physical phenomena and the ones that biology requires and that I aim to contribute specifying. I obtained my Phd under the supervision of Giuseppe Longo in LIENS, École Normale Supérieure and doctoral school Frontières du vivant, in Paris V, Descartes. This work was centered on the differences between physics and biology and proposed several original concepts for biology. Then, I became a postdoctoral associate in Tufts University, dept. of Anatomy and cell biology, Soto and Sonnenschein Lab, where I contributed both at the level of morphometric methods and on theoretical ideas. I have been a postdoctoral fellow at IHPST, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, on a grant from DIM-ISC of the île-de-France region where I worked with Matteo Mossio on the concept of biological organization and its circularity. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at MSC, Paris Diderot, funded by the Labex "Who AM I?" where I work with Stéphane Douady on biological variability.


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"That's half of what I wanted," he said. "The other half – and I still want this – is for them to apologize to all the White male trades workers who had to watch the video."
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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Coca Cola gets into fashion #CokeThreads
Beverage brand, Coca-Cola teamed up with four local designers, Sol Sol, Maylee, SGOD and Rich Mnisi to create Coke Threads, a quartet of signature collections influenced by uniquely South African experiences and the Coca-Cola taste for adventure.
Using the brand's iconic design elements, the designers have been successful in creating a Coca-Cola inspired fashion range.
At the launch hosted by Scoop Makhithini in Braamfontein on Friday afternoon, they showcased the Coke Threads, a collection curated and tested against the best of local and international trends-merging with the best and bubbliest of Coca-Cola's iconic aesthetic and attitude.
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The campaign is a multi-sensory and multi-platform experience that brings to life collaborative creations in a fresh and impactful way.
Over the next few months, you can expect to see the limited edition Coke Threads collection online. Check out Twitter @CocaCola_ZA , on the gram @cocacolaza or @cocacolasouthafrica on Facebook for more information.


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29 Nov The Magic Formula For Attracting Luxury Customers
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Luxury customers are an advantage to any business. Luxury customers expect to pay a higher fee per purchase in exchange for the quality they receive. Therefore, building a luxury customer base means your business doesn't have to focus as much on generating a high volume of sales. By focusing on the luxury niche, you can take away some of the stress that comes with trying to generate that high volume. Instead, you'll spend more time doing what you love without being on the constant hunt for an even greater number of customers. If you're thinking about targeting this niche, here is the magic formula for attracting luxury customers.
Build Your Reputation
The first step in attracting luxury customers is to build your reputation as a luxury brand. In today's world, this means stepping up your online presence. Make sure that your website, portfolio, and social media feeds reflect the niche and clientele you're looking to target. This means staying on top of trends in the luxury industry and sharing content that focuses on high-end brands.
If you're a photographer, borrow as many luxury products you can and photograph them for your portfolio. Some luxury brands may lend products out to photographers for the exposure they get, but you may also need to canvas your friends and family to let you borrow some of their pieces. In addition, look for opportunities to get media accreditation for your city's fashion week or local luxury pop up events. This will give you the opportunity to photograph those luxury items for your portfolio, plus it offers the chance for you to network with potential clients in your target niche.
Target Broad Demographics
Luxury customers are different from some other target markets because they span broad demographics. A granddaughter is just as likely to purchase Chanel perfume as both her mother and grandmother. To succeed in the luxury market, you need to target a wide range of clientele. Since luxury customers are a comparatively small niche, this broad targeting is particularly important. To make sure you don't leave out any potential customer, your branding and marketing must be timeless and classic enough to appeal to a wide range of ages and customer types. The luxury brands that really succeed and endure for decades are the ones that have managed to capture that multi-generational market.
Consider Influencer Endorsements
Testimonials and endorsements are a great way to build your reputation in the luxury niche and to introduce your brand to potential new clients. There are countless bloggers and YouTubers out there with millions of followers who focus specifically on the luxury market. These trusted influencers have a lot of sway with their followers and are known for their discerning taste when it comes to luxury purchases. Getting a recommendation from one of these luxury gurus can skyrocket both your reputation and your online exposure.
To collaborate with a luxury influencer, consider offering them a free service or product sample so that they can speak to their followers with genuine authority on your business. Most influencers won't consider working with a brand unless they can honestly endorse a product or service with the confidence of personal experience.
Offer Loyalty Rewards
Luxury customers want to feel that they are part of something unique or exclusive. Part of what makes luxury products so attractive to customers is their relative scarcity. The exclusive feeling of owning a rare or difficult to obtain product can extend to other aspects of your business to keep those customers feeling special. Offer a loyalty program or special members-only perks to make those luxury customers feel they are getting an exclusive experience when they bring you their business.
Building a solid customer base in the luxury nice can take time, but once you do, you'll find that these are some of the most loyal customers around. Targeting luxury clients allows you to bring in more revenue per sale and can help you avoid the hustle of chasing down high volume sales.


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Just one month after being named Ohio State's new head coach, Ryan Day has already eliminated any doubts about his ability to recruit top talent to play for the Buckeyes.
In his first 31 days on the job as Ohio State's new lead recruiter, Day locked up two players who were ranked among the top five overall prospects in their respective recruiting classes.
Day's first big coup on the recruiting trail came on the first day of the early signing period, Dec. 19 – just 15 days after Ohio State announced that he would succeed Urban Meyer as head coach – when five-star defensive end Zach Harrison, the No. 4 overall recruit in the class of 2019, announced that he would sign with the Buckeyes over Michigan and Penn State.
A product of Olentangy Orange High School in Lewis Center and this year's top prospect from the state of Ohio, Harrison was the Buckeyes' top target for the 2019 recruiting cycle from the beginning, yet there was always speculation that Harrison might ultimately spurn the hometown school in favor of getting away. At the time Meyer retired, with just two weeks to go until the early signing period, it remained as unclear as ever where Harrison was leaning.
Because Harrison kept his recruitment notoriously quiet, it's hard to know whether he actually leaned toward Ohio State all along or if a late push from Day and the Buckeyes changed his mind. Either way, Day knew he had to make landing Harrison a priority as soon as he became head coach, and he ultimately closed the deal to sign one of the nation's most coveted prospects.
"It was really important to sit down in the home and talk to the family about the direction of the program, and having some communication just on some of the leadership changes obviously that comes with the change in the head coach," Day said on Dec. 19. "And that communication stayed all the way until last night."
Ohio State defensive line coach Larry Johnson led the way on Harrison's recruitment from start to finish, so he's the one who probably deserves the most credit for convincing Harrison to become a Buckeye. Ultimately, though, Day had just two weeks as head coach to build trust with Harrison and his family and sell them on his vision for the program before Harrison made his final decision and signed his name on the dotted line – and Day got the job done.
Day also landed two additional signees, four-star linebacker Tommy Eichenberg and three-star defensive tackle Jaden McKenzie, before the end of the early signing period. He landed a commitment from four-star wide receiver Gee Scott Jr., the No. 70 overall recruit in the class of 2020, on Christmas.
Then, on Friday, Day reeled in what might have been his biggest win on the recruiting trail yet, when Georgia quarterback Justin Fields – the No. 2 overall recruit among all prospects in the class of 2018 – announced he is transferring to Ohio State.
While it's unclear how much influence Day had in Harrison's decision to come to Ohio State, or whether the ball was already rolling in that direction when Day was named head coach, there's no question that Day played the leading role in Fields' decision to become a Buckeye.
That all started with the work Day did in his previous role as Ohio State's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, in which he helped Dwayne Haskins – a friend of Fields – become a Heisman Trophy finalist and a likely future first-round NFL draft pick in his first (and probably only) season as Ohio State's starting quarterback.
With a good word from Haskins – as well as Quincy Avery, a quarterback coach who has trained both Fields and Haskins – Fields set his sights on becoming a Buckeye after deciding to transfer from Georgia last month, and Day was once again able to close the deal, in time for Fields to enroll at Ohio State before the spring semester begins on Monday.
If I had a son who played Quarterback I would 100% want him to play for Ryan Day...— Quincy Avery (@Quincy_Avery) December 4, 2018
Fields is the highest-rated recruit that Ohio State has ever landed, and he has the potential to be the Buckeyes' next star quarterback, which they could be looking for this season if Haskins opts to enter the 2019 NFL draft.
Day still has a lot to prove as he begins his first year as a head coach at any level. The Buckeyes still have a few spots to fill in their 2019 recruiting class, particularly on the offensive line, so Day needs to finish strong – all the while assembling his coaching staff – and land a few commitments before National Signing Day on Feb. 6.
Then, he'll need to prepare for the program for spring practice – which could now feature a fierce quarterback competition between Fields, Tate Martell and Matthew Baldwin – and lead the development of the Buckeyes' roster through the offseason.
Come September, of course, Day will be judged on whether he can win games at the same rate as Meyer, who won more than 90 percent (83-of-92) of his games as Ohio State's head coach.
Recruiting, though, is the lifeblood of a college football program; just ask Meyer, who constantly preached the importance of recruiting during his seven seasons as the Buckeyes' head coach, and who says that will need to be Day's top priority, as well, to be successful.
"This recruiting gig, that's all laser lights have to be on that, 100 percent," Meyer said on Dec. 4. "And I know he's, first of all, he's a great recruiter. And I think the way that things are set up here, there can be full-time energy on that and not some other stuff."
By landing two truly elite recruits in just one month, Day has already proven that he can compete with college football's best of the best in one of the most important areas of building a successful program.
If he can continue to recruit at that level, Day will have the pieces he needs to keep Ohio State among college football's elite and compete for the conference and national titles that the Buckeyes and their fans expect.


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Production wraps on Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Director Kevin Smith took to Twitter this morning to reveal that production has wrapped on the upcoming Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
"IT IS ACCOMPLISHED!" The filmmaker wrote on Twitter. "Last night, after a 21 day shoot (the same number of days in which we shot CLERKS some 26 years ago), we wrapped my Askewniverse magnum opus #JayAndSilentBobReboot! Thank you to my New Orleans crew, my cast and especially Jay Mewes for his stellar performance!"
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Smith and Jason Mewes are reprising their title roles alongside other stars (and new faces) from the original film. Jay (Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) were first introduced 25 years ago in Smith's directorial debut, Clerks, and continued to appear in Smith's cinematic canon including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks II, as well as the animated film Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie. The new movie will take jabs at reboots, remakes, and sequels while simultaneously being all three at the same time.
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Saban Films is planning to release the sequel theatrically. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group acquired all foreign rights to the movie. Jordan Monsanto of Smodco is producing alongside Liz Destro for Destro Film.


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More than its war on terrorism or even its relationship with Russia, it is America's relationship with China and the Asia-Pacific more broadly that will define the future world order. This dynamic and vast region holds the most strategic threats and possibilities to US foreign policy and hence understanding American activities in the region is crucial to understanding current and future international relations.
This article presents Nikolaj K. Andersen's master's thesis A Balancing Act: Assessing and Explaining US' Asia-Pacific Strategy which investigates President Obamas so-called "Pivot" or "Rebalance" to Asia. The thesis was submitted for the master's program in International Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark in August 2016.
The thesis in its entirety can be accessed here.
Nikolaj K. Andersen is the founder and editor of Global Readers' Club. He has previously worked as a lecturer for TALERØRET, been on the Political and Economic Team at the Danish Embassy in Tokyo, and done translation on a freelance basis. He holds an MA in International Studies and a BA in History of Ideas from Aarhus University.
A persistent theme of the Obama administration's foreign policy has been an increased focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Labelled the "rebalance to Asia" in 2011, the stated intention has been to improve American ties with the region in diplomatic, economic and security terms. The initiative has been the subject of much discussion which can for the most part be condensed into two questions. First, has the rebalance actually materialized in any significant way? And second, is the rebalance best explained as a liberal project to support cooperation and international institutions or is it really America's attempt to counter the rise of China through a power balancing strategy?
Nikolaj K. Andersen's master's thesis explores the rebalance and engages the above questions. The first objective of the thesis is to provide an empirical assessment of the Obama administration's rebalance to Asia, hence investigating the substantiality of the strategy. Finding that the rebalance has indeed been a significant change in US foreign policy, Andersen moves on to theoretically explain the strategy behind the rebalance by drawing on the theories of offensive neorealism and structural neoliberalism.
Chapter I makes a number of introductory remarks on the object of study and methodology, highlighting both the explanatory purpose and case centrism of the study as well as how theory testing is used as a means to this end. Chapter II lays out the diplomatic, economic and security aspects of the rebalance, focusing particularly on US engagement in Asia-Pacific multilaterals, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the posture and activities of US forces in the region. The chapter concludes that significant developments have taken place.
Chapter III lays out the neorealist and neoliberal theories and derives hypotheses from them. These form the basis for the analysis in chapter IV which revisits the empirical developments and investigate which theory provided the more accurate set of expectations. This chapter concludes that the hypotheses of both theories enjoy broad support and that the US seems to be pursuing a both neorealist and neoliberal strategy.
To explain how the rebalance can be both a neorealist and neoliberal strategy chapter V engages in a theory synthesis. The argument is made that the US is indeed working to create a liberal international order built on multilateral institutions, cooperation and rule-based behavior but that in order to reach that liberal goal the US must follow a neorealist strategy of offshore balancing since China remains the largest threat to the liberal order. This means that the US will in for foreseeable future seek to keep China contained until a point where the liberal order is so deeply rooted and internationally supported that China will have no interest in attempting to overturn it. In short, the US is pursuing liberal goals but must rely on realist means for the time being. The chapter is concluded with some possible objections to and critiques of the theory synthesis which are addressed in turn.
Chapter VI concludes the thesis with a summary of its findings and arguments. Andersen then presents a list of both empirical and theoretical questions that deserve further research and could contribute to our understanding of the Asia-Pacific and the developments of the regional order there.
Some of the central themes of this thesis are the concept of international order, the strategies of hegemons facing a possible power transition, the similarities and differences between neorealist and neoliberal theories, and the effect of international institutions on the behavior of states. Furthermore, it engages some empirical phenomena which have received insufficient attention within international relations studies, such as the concept of asset-specificity in military capabilities, the role of regional free-trade agreements such as the TPP and the notion of capacity building assistance as a way of discouraging bandwagoning among smaller states.
The subject of this thesis is central in both empirical and theoretical terms. Empirically, it is the interaction between the US and China which will be the most important great power relationship in the foreseeable future. Analyzing the American rebalance tells us much about which strategy is guiding Washington's approach to China and the region as a whole. Furthermore, the development of the US-China relationship will in all likelihood necessitate further theoretical studies of different forms of regional order, power transitions and great power relations. Bridging the gap between neorealist and neoliberal theories, as the synthesis does, could prove paramount for a holistic theoretical understanding of these great power dynamics


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'into…' was developed by Ensemble Modern and the Siemens Arts Program, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. It was an ambitious project that tried to cast the essence of four different cities in music. Does each city have a different sound? Can sound alone grasp the feeling of a city?
Sixteen composers spent a month discovering these four cities: Istanbul (Turkey), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) and Pearl River Delta (China).
It was my curiosity that prompted me to choose for Dubai. Historically, Lithuania didn't have much contact with this part of the world.
Once a small settlement of fishermen and pearl divers, Dubai has transformed into a fast-paced go-getting metropolis. What struck me most was the advanced state of technology or architecture and the multicultural society. Over 85 per cent of the population consists of guest workers from Asia, the U.S.A., and Europe.
That is why I quickly abandoned my idea to zoom in on Arabic tradition, but focused instead on a different kind of authenticity. Intuitively I felt that the mercantile aspect of this society – the shopping mall, bazaar – is what links them to tradition more than the historical buildings in the old town that seem to signify little more than tourist attractions.
Instead of searching for ethnic music, I picked up a microphone and started recording the real city: people talking in underground tunnels, construction cranes, shopping malls, boats, local publicity and even my hotel TV set.
If such a profession existed, I would have described my work in those weeks as sound archeology. I was harvesting huge amount of sound: rattling and squeaking objects, humming machines, sounds of people and the things they bring with them, local and exotic.
Dubai felt to me as a recycled city: ideas, objects, people recollected from different places of the world, who built this place anew. I tried to do the same thing in my piece, transforming and rearranging the recorded material to create something new.
Electronics play an important part as I started reworking them into instrumented parts only later. This forced me to rethink the relationship between electronics and instrumentation. Transcribing recorded sounds for instruments was one thing. Putting these two sound sources together was another.
Mixing the – harmonically and sonorically impure – audio material with acoustic instrumentation, which has the polished quality of classical instruments, was quit thrilling. The resulting sonoric tension I believe is quit unique for Lift to Dubai but it depends entirely on a well-balanced performance as neither of these two sources should be prioritised or get more volume. In order to achieve the temporal flexibility and precision during the performance many of the sounds are triggered using a sampler.
Most of the technical files for this piece were produced at the Experimentalstudio des SWR (Freiburg), with the assistance of Thomas Hummel. For my transformations of audio I also used some of the studio's 'historical' electronic instruments.
The title of the piece refers to the lift of the Burj Al Arab Hotel. During our stay we visited this magnificent sail-shaped hotel, the third tallest in the world. It stands on an artificial island and offers great view of the city and the see. As we were riding the open glass lift all the way to the top, people came and went, interrupting and at the same time adding to the event.
I was recording the whole thing and later used the sound files as a metaphor for my way of discovering this city. I tried to build a bigger picture, using sound fragments like mosaic tiles, like the various stops and corresponding perspectives offered to us in this fast ascending lift.
Truthful to the place where it originated, I made sure the piece was interrupted with a publicity break … Anyone who has ever visited Dubai would understand this choice.
Towards the end, the piece becomes increasingly complex, accumulating musical material as it develops, gradually deconstructing the sound, only to become white noise.
I tried to grasp the essence of the city.
Vykintas Baltakas September 2014


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